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Identifier	Subject	Date	Office	Classification	Tags
06VIENNA746	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL VOINOVICH'S VISIT TO VIENNA, [...] (SBU) Austrian-U.S. relations have a solid basis in the common values of democracy and civil rights, and Austria's international activities contribute to our shared vision of a world of peace, freedom, democracy and prosperity. Austria holds the rotating Presidency of the EU Council for the [...]	2006-03-10 14:30:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AU

06VIENNA758	EU FOREIGN MINISTERS: HAMAS MUST AGREE TO QUARTET [...] Summary: At their regular informal "Gymnich" meeting on March 10-11, EU foreign ministers confirmed existing EU policy toward Hamas, insisting it must meet the conditions established by the Quartet. They also discussed continuing efforts to strengthen the dialogue between the EU and the Isla [...]	2006-03-13 13:59:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL IS FR AU
06VIENNA761	EU FOREIGN MINISTERS CALL FOR CONTINUED IRAN [...] Summary: EU leaders used the the informal "Gymnich" meeting of EU foreign ministers on March 10-11 to call for continued international consensus as Iran and its nuclear program is referred to the UN Security Council -- as well as to express hope that a diplomatic solution was still possible. [...]	2006-03-13 17:07:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL FR IR EUN AU
06VIENNA764	MARCH 2-3 U.S.- EU SENIOR LEVEL TALKS ON JUSTICE, [...] (SBU) Summary. The Senior Level U.S.-EU Informal Meeting on Justice, Freedom, and Security (JLS) was held in Vienna March 2 and 3, and covered the full range of JLS issues on migration, borders and visas, counter-terrorism and security, and law enforcement cooperation. Among the key outcom [...]	2006-03-14 08:36:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER EUN KCRM SNAR EFIN ETTC AU
06VIENNA778	EU INFORMAL MINISTERIAL IN SALZBURG: [...] Speaking at the informal "Gymnich" meeting of the EU foreign ministers in Salzburg on March 10-11, European External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner commented that Belarus was a country "at a crossroads," with the elections a crucial test for democracy. If the elections are fre [...]	2006-03-15 10:48:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UP BO EUN AU
06VIENNA785	AUSTRIA ON REACTION TO BELARUS ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: During a March 14 meeting, MFA Belarus expert Josef Litschauer said Austria would issue a "presidential statement" on the Belarusian elections an hour after the ODIHR press conference (which will take place at 2:00 pm Minsk time on March 20). Litschauer said there was no EU con [...]	2006-03-15 13:52:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PGOV BO AU EUN
06VIENNA788	DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA -- MARCH 20 EU FOREIGN [...] (SBU) EconPolCouns delivered reftel demarche on March 14 to Austrian MFA European Correspondent Andreas Riecken. Riecken made the following substantive comments 2. (C) MEPP -- In light of the day's developments in Gaza, there might be more discussion of the situation in the Middle East. [...]	2006-03-15 15:05:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ETRD AU EUN
06VIENNA832	DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA ON RELEASE OF IRANIAN PRISONER [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-20 13:19:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SOCI IR EUN AU
06VIENNA833	HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN SYRIA: AUSTRIAN RESPONSE [...] (C) Pol Unit Chief conveyed reftel points on March 17 to MFA DAS-equivalent for Middle East affairs Wolfgang Lapuh. Lapuh said the timing of the demarche was excellent. The MFA had received an EU report (note: presumably either from the EU Commission or Council Secretariat) detailing the sam [...]	2006-03-20 14:38:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SY AU EUN
06VIENNA857	UPDATE ON ACTIVITIES OF THE UN OFFICE OF THE [...] (U) The following is information gathered by the US liaison officer to the UN Office of the Special Envoy for Kosovo negotiations (UNOSEK) in Vienna. 2. (SBU) Summary: In addition to the second round of talks on decentralization in Vienna on 17 March, the UN Office of the Special Envoy for [...]	2006-03-21 16:04:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM SR YI AU UNMIK
06VIENNA864	IIC: GOA HAS INITIATED PRE-TRIAL INVESTIGATIONS [...] Stefan Benner from the Ministry of Justice's Department for Criminal Matters told us March 21 that the Viennese Public Prosecutor's Office had initiated pre-trial investigations against Austrian companies, which Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) reports mentioned as possible suspects of fra [...]	2006-03-22 15:31:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV IZ AU KFIN
06VIENNA867	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH AGRICULTURE MINISTER [...] (SBU) During Ambassador McCaw's March 6 introductory call on Austrian Minister of Agriculture and Environment Josef Proell, Proell called for additional progress on NAMA and services in the WTO negotiations, before the EU would make concessions on agricultural market access. Proell touted th [...]	2006-03-23 10:28:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD WTO TBIO KFLU AU
06VIENNA892	DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA ON BELARUS TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS [...] (SBU) EconPolCouns delivered ref (a) demarche on March 24 to Josef Litschauer, the MFA's DAS-level Director for Eastern Europe. (Note: Political Director Thomas Mayr-Harting was not in Vienna. Ambassador will press these points on March 27 and 28 in meetings with the Chancellor's Diplomatic [...]	2006-03-24 13:59:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CVIS BO AU EUN
06VIENNA893	KOSOVO STATUS: SERBS AND KOSOVARS DRAW REDLINES ON [...] (U) The following is information gathered by the US liaison officer to the UN Office of the Special Envoy for Kosovo negotiations (UNOSEK) in Vienna. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) In a March 17 meeting, top Serbian negotiators acknowledged to UN Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari that Kosovo's " [...]	2006-03-24 16:06:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM SR YI AU UNMIK
06VIENNA92	SYLVESTER HAGUE CASE: FIRST MEETING WITH AUSTRIAN [...] SUMMARY: PER REFTEL, CONGEN MET WITH THE NEW DIRECTOR OF THE AUSTRIAN CENTRAL AUTHORITY (ACA),JUDGE ROBERT FUCIK (FOO-CHIK) ON JANUARY 11, 2006. THE LENGTHY DISCUSSION COVERED BOTH GENERAL ISSUES AND THE CURRENT SYLVESTER ACCESS CASE FILED UNDER THE HAGUE CONVENTION. FUCIK WAS REASSURINGLY [...]	2006-01-12 09:08:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	KOCI CASC AU
06VIENNA940	TURKISH LOBBYING EFFORTS IN AUSTRIA HAVE MINIMAL [...] (SBU) As requested in reftel, Post has researched Turkish lobbying campaigns in Austria aimed at improving Turkey's image in the EU. We found little evidence of any lobbying campaigns with enough profile to move public opinion significantly -- especially when compared to the virulently anti-T [...]	2006-03-30 10:56:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL TU EUN AU
06VIENNA956	U.S.-EU TROIKA ON NONPROLIFERATION, ARMS CONTROL [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION: ISN Acting DAS Andrew Semmel and Acting Permanent Representative to Geneva Conference on Disarmament Thomas Cynkin met representatives of the Austrian EU Presidency, the future Finnish Presidency, the European Commission's delegation to IAEA, and the EU Council Secretariat [...]	2006-03-31 12:00:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL PTER MARR MNUC ETTC EFIN KNNP EUN
06VIENNA976	Bank's Problems Shake Austrian Political Scene [...] Austria's fourth largest banking group, BAWAG P.S.K. (BAWAG),already reeling from questionable loans to the bankrupt U.S. futures and commodities brokerage firm Refco, has admitted it incurred (hitherto concealed) losses of Euro one billion in 2000. The losses stemmed from high risk specula [...]	2006-04-03 13:14:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN PGOV ELAB AU
06VIENTIANE1141	A SAD ANNIVERSARY: WHERE ARE THE 26 CHILDREN AS WE [...] (U) This message contains an action request for the Department. Please see paragraph 16. 2. (C) Summary: The case of the 26 missing children has been unresolved since December 2005. Since then, there have been rumors that the children may have been secretly deported back to Thailand or ev [...]	2006-11-28 08:03:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM KWMN LA PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG TH
06VIENTIANE1232	REPRESENTATIVE MCCOLLUM MEETS VICE FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Representative Betty McCollum of Minnesota, in her first visit to Laos, pressed Vice Foreign Minister Phongsavath to accept more of a role for NGOs, to take advantage of international respect for the ICRC by allowing it to monitor the situation of the Hmong within Laos, to resolve [...]	2006-12-29 05:40:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID LA OREP PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG TH
06VIENTIANE1234	REPRESENTATIVE MCCOLLUM MEETS LAO VICE PRIME [...] (C) Summary: Representative Betty McCollum pressed Deputy Prime Minister Somsavat Lengsavad for more cooperation on dealing with unexploded ordnance, education, and health care and effectively used her attendance at Christmas Mass to indicate the importance of freedom of religion to the United [...]	2006-12-29 05:49:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID LA OREP PGOV PHUM PREF PREL SMIG TH
06VIENTIANE302	THE LAO COMMUNIST PARTY'S GAME PLAN [...] (C) Summary: The Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) -- the ruling Communist Party -- has absolute confidence in its ability to govern Laos well into the future. The Party believes that it is responsible for economic gains over the past decade, not comprehending that much of that progress w [...]	2006-03-30 09:28:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV SOCI LA
06VIENTIANE311	CHRISTIANITY IN THE LAO CONTEXT [...] (C) Summary. In a late February visit, DRL/IRF analyst Dr. Clarissa Adamson met with religious leaders and government officials to press for greater religious freedom and the release of four religious prisoners. Noting the slow pace of progress in Laos, Bishop Khamse of Vientiane,s Catholic [...]	2006-04-03 09:09:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI KIRF LA
06VIENTIANE312	LAOS' NEW PARTY SECRETARY-GENERAL CHOUMMALY [...] (C) The 8th Party Congress of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) elected Choummaly Sayasone as its new Secretary-General on March 21. Choummaly has been a fixture in the Central Committee for more than two decades, but remains one of the least-known of the senior leaders. A long-tim [...]	2006-04-03 09:53:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL LA
06VIENTIANE316	AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL INFO ON LOCATION OF MISSING [...] (C) Amnesty International analyst Brittis Edman (please protect),in Thailand recently to gather details about the deportation and subsequent disappearance of the 27 Hmong, called us from Bangkok March 30 to report on her visit to Petchaboon province, where she met with family members of the c [...]	2006-04-03 10:50:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF KCRM TH LA
06VIENTIANE321	MORE DETAILS ON LOCATION OF MISSING HMONG CHILDREN [...] (C) Embassy spoke to two sources today who provided additional details about the location of the missing group of 27 Hmong deported from Thailand (reftel). Although there are inconsistencies between the two reports, together they lead us to believe that the 22 girls in the group are likely stil [...]	2006-04-04 10:39:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PHUM PREL KCRM TH LA
06VIENTIANE332	AVIAN INFLUENZA: LAO WEEKLY REPORT NO.27 [...] (U) During the visit of Dr. Nabarro, FAO Representative Leena Kirjavainen on behalf of Lao Agriculture Minister Siene announced to the donors that Dr. Webster's group had found the H5N1 virus in some Vientiane ducks. Although the Minister has not heard this directly from Dr. Webster, he said [...]	2006-04-07 09:57:00	Embassy Vientiane	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO ECON SOCI PREL LA KFLU
06VIENTIANE335	SCENESETTER FOR DAS ERIC JOHN'S VISIT TO LAOS [...] (C) You are visiting Laos at a time when Lao-U.S. relations are at their lowest ebb since 1999, when two Lao-Americans disappeared on the border between Laos and Thailand. The Lao government's detention of 27 Hmong deported from Thailand in December has much to do with the strain, but there a [...]	2006-04-10 04:25:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LA
06VIENTIANE360	REPORTS OF MASSACRE OF HMONG CIVILIANS IN NORTHERN [...] (U) Suggested press guidance is provided at the end of this cable. 2. (C) Two separate Hmong sources have provided details of an alleged attack by Lao People's Army (LPA) forces against an insurgent group in northern Vientiane Province in which 26 people, almost all women and children, were [...]	2006-04-20 09:25:00	Embassy Vientiane	SECRET	PINR PINS PHUM PREL LA
06VIENTIANE364	AVIAN INFLUENZA: LAO WEEKLY REPORT APRIL 21 [...] (SBU) AI in Ducks: New information from Dr. Webster provided in a summary of a manuscript being submitted to "Nature" indicates that the number of H5N1 infected ducks his project documented in Laos exceeded 30. These findings resulted from a joint project between St. Jude Hospital and that [...]	2006-04-21 06:29:00	Embassy Vientiane	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO ECON SOCI PREL LA
06VIENTIANE367	LAO MFA REACTS TO MASSACRE REPORT [...] (C) This morning PolOff passed on to MFA's Human Rights Unit details from unclassified sources of the reported massacre of 26 Hmong civilians April 6 in northern Vientiane province (reftel). We encouraged the Lao government to take the reports seriously, emphasizing that they came from a numbe [...]	2006-04-21 08:42:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PHUM PREF PREL LA
06VIENTIANE386	DAS ERIC JOHN VISIT: PREDICTABLY, LAO MFA DENIES [...] (C) During his April 25-26 visit to Vientiane for ASEAN-related meetings, DAS Eric John met with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Somsavat Lengsavad, who categorically denied Laos faced any human rights problems in the areas of religious freedom or treatment of the ethnic Hmong minor [...]	2006-04-27 10:03:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF PREL TH LA
06VIENTIANE390	AS HMONG INSURGENT NUMBERS DECLINE, GOL UPS THE [...] (C) Since early March, Lao People's Army (LPA) forces have conducted a dry season mopping-up operation against remnant insurgents, leading to numerous civilian casualties. Sustained military pressure in Bolikhamsai province has decimated insurgents there, with hundreds of mostly women and chil [...]	2006-04-28 08:57:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PHUM PREF PREL LA
06VIENTIANE396	LAO GOVERNMENT REPORT ON INTERVIEW WITH 22 HMONG [...] (C) Embassy has come by a copy of a Lao government report on the interrogation of 22 female members of the group of 27 Hmong deported from Thailand in December. Because of its style and content, we believe the document to be authentic. The hand-written report provides brief biographical backgr [...]	2006-05-02 09:16:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PHUM PREF PREL KIRF TH LA
06VIENTIANE400	AVIAN INFLUENZA: LAO WEEKLY REPORT MAY 3 [...] (SBU) Possible Human Case: We have heard from the Australians of a possible human AI case in Houaphan Province (near Vietnam). Embassy's CDC representative is checking with the UN agencies and GOL on this. 2. (SBU) Announcing AI in ducks: The GOL finally notified the OIE of Dr. Webster' [...]	2006-05-03 09:14:00	Embassy Vientiane	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO ECON SOCI PREL KFLU LA
06VIENTIANE405	THE EU AND THE WAGES OF FECKLESS AID IN LAOS [...] (C) Summary: Feckless aid has long provided a life-line to the Lao government, despite its failure to meet conditions set for certain projects and its regular violations of human rights. Major donors such as the Japanese look set to continue to bankroll the regime unconditionally, and the EU [...]	2006-05-04 09:42:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON PGOV PHUM LA
06VIENTIANE413	AMBASSADOR RAISES HMONG MASSACRE WITH VIENTIANE [...] (C) Amnesty International has issued a statement condemning the April 6 killing by Lao soldiers of Hmong civilians in northern Vientiane province (ref A). Ambassador called on Vientiane province's Governor May 4 to discuss the killing; the Governor professed ignorance of the event but at least [...]	2006-05-05 09:48:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PHUM PREF PREL LA
06VIENTIANE434	THREAT TO DEPORT LAO HMONG GROUP FROM PETCHABOON [...] (C) Summary: Several sources reported to us over the weekend that Thai authorities had arrested a group of 24 Lao citizen ethnic Hmong in Petchaboon province on May 11 and had threatened to deport them to Laos. According to these sources the Hmong were "remote people" who had fled Laos as a r [...]	2006-05-15 10:13:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PHUM PREL KIRF TH LA
06VIENTIANE443	PROSPECTS FOR A JOINT DEMARCHE ON MISSING HMONG [...] (C) The "like-minded" Embassies in Vientiane have agreed that a joint demarche to the Lao government on the missing Hmong children should be the next step in ongoing efforts to secure the release of the group. The decision whether to deliver the demarche will depend on the outcome of ongoing [...]	2006-05-17 10:07:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF PREL KIRF TH LA
06VIENTIANE492	LAO PRESS CONFERENCE ON HMONG MASSACRE DIRECTLY [...] (C) In a hastily organized press conference this afternoon, MFA's Press Spokesman called allegations of a massacre of Hmong civilians April 6 (reftels) a fabrication, and directly accused the Ambassador of having "threatened a high-ranking government official" during the course of an (actually [...]	2006-06-01 11:18:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PHUM PREL LA
06VIENTIANE496	PLANS FOR JOINT DEMARCHE ON MISSING HMONG CHILDREN [...] (U) This is an action cable. Please see para 11. Summary ------- 2. (C) With no sign of the Lao intending to release the 26 Hmong children held since December, the "like-minded" group in Vientiane plans to jointly demarche the Lao government as soon as modalities can be arranged, perhaps a [...]	2006-06-02 04:47:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF TH LA
06VIENTIANE509	ROK EMBASSY ASKED TO APPROACH GOL ON 10 DPRK [...] (C) Summary: The ROK Foreign Ministry has asked its Embassy in Vientiane to approach the GoL to seek a "humanitarian" solution for 10 DPRK citizens currently imprisoned in Luang Prabang province. The ROK Embassy intends to raise the case of these 10 with the Deputy Foreign Minister, but -- lik [...]	2006-06-06 09:08:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF PREL KN LA
06VIENTIANE512	LAO MFA ON TIP REPORT FOR LAOS [...] (C) Ambassador briefed MFA's Europe-Americas Department Director-General Southam Sakhonnhinhom today on the TIP report for Laos, conveying the talking points and Action Plan contained in refs A and B. 2. (C) Southam, who had already read the TIP Report for Laos and ref talking points we had [...]	2006-06-06 09:42:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PREL KTIP LA
06VIENTIANE519	SURRENDER, FLIGHT OR DEATH -- THE HMONG "REMOTE [...] (C) Summary: More than 600 Hmong "remote people" have turned themselves in to Lao authorities since mid-2005, but the GoL has not permitted international access to any of their resettlement areas; their welfare and condition are unknown. Other Hmong have gone to Thailand, accounting in part fo [...]	2006-06-07 09:51:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PHUM PREF PREL LA
06VIENTIANE526	NATIONAL ASSEMBLY "ELECTS" A NEW PRESIDENT AND [...] (C) Summary: In its inaugural session June 8, the newly-elected National Assembly selected a new President, Vice President and Prime Minister and approved the Prime Minister's cabinet. Party Secretary Choummaly Sayasone takes over as President of Laos, while former PM Bounnyang Vorachit has be [...]	2006-06-08 10:21:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PREL LA
06VIENTIANE542	LATEST DEVELOPMENTS ON JOINT DEMARCHE ON HMONG [...] (C) The like-minded missions and UN will seek to deliver their joint demarche on the missing Hmong children by the end of June, with the UN playing the coordinating role. The group awaits the outcome of a UN coordination meeting to be held tomorrow to determine the timing of the demarche. The [...]	2006-06-14 09:31:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF PREL KIRF LA
06VIENTIANE544	LAO MFA COMMENTS ON NAM/G-77 UN REFORM [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-15 04:27:00	Embassy Vientiane	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT AORC UNGA PREL LA
06VIENTIANE561	MURDER OF HMONG MAN IN SAISOMBOUN -- ANOTHER CASE [...] (C) Summary: The murder of a Hmong farmer outside of Muang Cha, the capital of the former Saisomboun Special Zone, on June 8 appears to have been an example of local police eliminating a perceived security threat. Unusually, the government has gone out of its way to report that the motive for [...]	2006-06-22 07:54:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL LA
06VIENTIANE565	REAFFIRMING THE "SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP," NEW LAO [...] (C) Summary: In his first major act since taking office Jun 8 (reftel),newly-selected President Choummaly Sayasone traveled to Vietnam June 19-22, meeting with the senior Vietnamese leadership. Almost immediately after his return to Laos, the President will turn around to travel to Beijing. T [...]	2006-06-23 01:34:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CH VM LA
06VIENTIANE636	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH LAO WOMEN'S UNION [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador met with newly-elected Lao Women's Union (LWU) President Sisay Leudetmounsone July 6 to discuss Embassy cooperation with the LWU across a range of issues. The LWU has played a prominent role on TIP issues, and Ambassador used the occasion to explain Laos' recent Tier [...]	2006-07-07 06:33:00	Embassy Vientiane	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR KWMN LA
06VIENTIANE646	LAO PRESIDENT PAYS HOMAGE TO CHINA [...] (C) During his June 27-July 2 visit to China, Lao President Choummaly met with the senior Chinese leadership and signed an agreement for a low-interest loan for 280 million Yuan (about $35 million) that we understand will be used in part to fund the purchase of construction equipment. The Chin [...]	2006-07-10 09:15:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL LA
06VIENTIANE655	LAO REFUSE JOINT DEMARCHE, LIKE-MINDED GROUP LOOKS [...] (C) The Lao Foreign Minister has refused to receive a joint demarche on the missing children, the GoL saying the President's June 22 letter to the UN Secretary General provided the government's final word on the matter. The UN's Department of Political Affairs (DPA) was not pleased with that r [...]	2006-07-13 09:26:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF PREL KIRF TH LA
06VIENTIANE660	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES MISSING CHILDREN WITH MFA [...] (C) As a follow-up to the July 13 like-minded group meeting on the missing children (reftel),this morning Ambassador met with MFA Europe-Americans Department DG Southam Sakhonnhinyom to convey our continued concern about the children's situation. Ambassador first reminded Southam of the case [...]	2006-07-14 04:37:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF KIRF PREL TH LA
06VIENTIANE670	GOL PURSUES REMAINING INSURGENTS [...] (C) Summary: In spite of the onset of the rainy season, Lao military forces are pressing remaining insurgent pockets, especially in Bolikhamsai province. Those groups left in the forest are dispersed in the remotest areas, suffering from possible starvation as LPA forces cut them off from food [...]	2006-07-18 07:56:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF PINS PREL LA
06VIENTIANE674	TAKE ALL THE TREES, PUT 'EM IN TREE MUSEUM: [...] (U) Summary: Laos' hardwood forests are rapidly being depleted ravaged by timber interests from three adjacent economies, with Japan and China as the largest final destination markets. The GoL does not have the capability or the will to manage the country's natural resources responsibly. So-ca [...]	2006-07-19 06:56:00	Embassy Vientiane	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENIV ETRD PGOV LA
06VIENTIANE696	PROBABLE OUTBREAK OF AVIAN FLU IN LAOS [...] Post has received information from FAO regarding a probable outbreak of Avian Influenza in Dong Bang Village, Xaythang District, about 20 kilometers north of Vientiane City, in Vientiane Province. The outbreak was reported to FAO and WHO on July 14, but information was withheld from the wider [...]	2006-07-25 08:11:00	Embassy Vientiane	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO ECON KFLU PREL SOCI LA
06VIENTIANE757	LAOS WEEKLY AVIAN INFLUENZA REPORT [...] Summary: The GoL says it has succeeded in controlling AI - the kind of statement that suggests that they do not fully appreciate the seriousness of the situation. Public reporting on AI has improved somewhat, due to GoL nervousness about recent outbreaks, but the fact is the response was too li [...]	2006-08-11 07:48:00	Embassy Vientiane	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO ECON SOCI PREL KFLU LA
06VIENTIANE894	CASE OF 26 MISSING HMONG CHILDREN STILL OF CONCERN [...] (C) This cable requests the Department pass an action request to Embassy Luxembourg; please see paragraph 14. It also has kudos for USUN and Embassy Sweden which we request the Department pass on; please see paragraph 15. 2. (C) Summary: &Like-minded8 senior diplomats met to discuss the c [...]	2006-09-14 10:42:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM KWMN LA PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG UNDP
06VILNIUS1008	EU DECISION HELPS REFINERY DEAL BUT SIGNIFICANT [...] (C) Summary: Poland's PKN Orlen has overcome the main legal obstacle hindering its purchase of Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta oil refinery (MN) -- approval of the EU's competition authority -- but other hurdles remain. The investigation into the October 12 fire will not conclude before February 1 [...]	2006-11-09 13:14:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL LH RS PL
06VILNIUS103	LITHUANIA: 2005/2006 ALLIED CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE [...] The following is the response for Lithuania for the 2005 and 2006 Report on Allied Contributions to the Common Defense. Unless otherwise stated, average exchange rate used throughout the report is: 1 USD = 2.775 Lita. ------------------ General Assessment ------------------ 2. (U) L [...]	2006-02-02 08:28:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP PREL LH
06VILNIUS1037	LITHUANIAN FM MEETS WITH RUSSIAN FOREIGN, [...] (C) Summary. Lithuanian FM Vaitiekunas's discussions November 14 with Russia's Foreign and Transport Ministers in Moscow focused on positive areas of cooperation, like Kaliningrad policy and the EU-Russia PCA, as well as touchier subjects such as energy supply and neighborhood policy. Vaitiek [...]	2006-11-17 14:57:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN ENRG RS LH
06VILNIUS1038	LITHUANIAN PM VISITS MOLDOVA, DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary. The GOL strongly supports efforts to develop an EU peace Consolidation Mission for Moldova, but MFA officials do not believe that consensus is possible in the EU. End Summary. Consensus lacking for EU PCM Mission in Moldova --------------------------------------------- --- [...]	2006-11-17 15:05:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LH RS MD
06VILNIUS1050	LITHUANIAN FOREIGN POLICY GURU LANDS ON HIS FEET [...] (C) SUMMARY: Albinas Januska was appointed advisor to Prime Minister Kirkilas on November 20, ending weeks of speculation following his abrupt resignation as Undersecretary at MFA (reftel). Although he remains under a cloud of allegations, Januska appears likely to weather the storm. We ex [...]	2006-11-22 14:39:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV LH
06VILNIUS1072	STRANDED TRUCKERS PONDER EU "OPEN MARKET" [...] (SBU) Summary: The long lines of trucks that began appearing November 20 at all four border crossing points where commercial traffic can enter Latvia from Lithuania have now largely disappeared, but the episode has affected Lithuanian-Latvian relations. Lithuania formally complained to the Eu [...]	2006-12-01 13:59:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELTN PREL LH LG EUN RS BO
06VILNIUS11	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL SENSENBRENNER [...] Congressman Sensenbrenner, on behalf of Ambassador Stephen Mull and our colleagues at the U.S. Mission in Vilnius, thank you for traveling to Lithuania. Your visit here will provide an opportunity to show gratitude to Lithuania for its staunch and unwavering support in the U.S.-led Global War [...]	2006-01-06 05:06:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL OVIP PL LH
06VILNIUS1111	SALE OF LITHUANIA'S REFINERY NEARS COMPLETION [...] (C) Summary: The official closing of the sale of Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta (MN) oil refinery to Poland's PKN Orlen should occur on December 15. The GOL will receive nearly USD 852 million and Yukos International USD 1.5 billion for its majority stake. MN will also fire six high-level manage [...]	2006-12-14 14:18:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL LH RS PL VE NL
06VILNIUS1119	DEFENSE MINISTER TALKS ABOUT AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ [...] (C) Summary. Lithuanian Defense Minister Juozas Olekas told the Ambassador that the GOL is still considering sending Special Operations Forces (SOF) to Afghanistan during their December 13 meeting. He also expressed interest in U.S. plans in Iraq, where Lithuania has troops, emphasized the i [...]	2006-12-18 10:56:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL LH AF
06VILNIUS121	FALSE ALARM: NO BIRD FLU IN LITHUANIA [...] Reports of a possible case of avian influenza in Lithuania's port city of Klaipeda have proved false. The Ministry of Health initially feared that the disease may have caused the death of an Indian sailor, who died on February 6 while his ship was docked in the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda. E [...]	2006-02-07 14:07:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO SOCI PGOV LH
06VILNIUS129	LITHUANIA: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2006 [...] The following paragraphs represent a corrected version of our Investment Climate Statement for 2006. We have also submitted via e-mail (per reftel instructions) a copy of this report in MS Word format to DOS/EB/IFD/OIA (Hatcher) and DOS/EB/IFD/OIA (Brown). 2. Begin text of report: 2006 [...]	2006-02-09 08:00:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	LH NOTAG
06VILNIUS136	IRAN PROTESTS LITHUANIA'S REPRINTING OF MUHAMMAD [...] (SBU) The Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs received a diplomatic note from Iran on February 9 protesting the publication in the Lithuanian press of cartoons featuring the Prophet Muhammad. On February 8, Lithuania's infamous daily "Respublika," which has repeatedly printed hateful cartoo [...]	2006-02-10 16:33:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PHUM IR LH
06VILNIUS148	LITHUANIA BRIEFED ON REPORTING IRAN TO THE UN [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-13 15:38:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL KNNP AORC IR LH
06VILNIUS157	CONSULAR WORKING GROUP DISCUSSES PROGRESS ON LITHUANIA'S [...] The joint GOL-Embassy Consular Working Group (CWG) met at Embassy request on February 8, 2006. Attendees included the Foreign Ministry's Consular Department Director Vaidotas Verba, Deputy Director Petras Anusas, and Consular Attache Marijus Petrusonis, as well as the Consul, both Vice Consuls [...]	2006-02-15 08:11:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	CMGT CVIS PREL LH
06VILNIUS198	LITHUANIA 2006 ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: Lithuania is a source, transit, and destination country for trafficking in persons (TIP). The government of Lithuania (GOL) estimates that between 1,000 and 1,200 women leave Lithuania every year to engage in prostitution, basing their calculations on 2003 Europol data. There [...]	2006-02-27 15:44:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF LH
06VILNIUS204	LITHUANIANS LIKE USA BUT GWOT SUPPORT IS TEPID; POLL HELPS [...] SUMMARY: An Embassy-commissioned poll funded by EUR/PPD showed that a strong majority of Lithuanians continue to view the United States favorably. The survey also showed a positive correlation between knowing an American and having a positive image of the United States. Not all the news was [...]	2006-02-28 12:50:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO CVIS PREL LH
06VILNIUS223	LITHUANIA'S AI PREPAREDNESS: IS FOUR PERCENT ENOUGH? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOL continues to plan for the arrival of avian influenza (AI) virus in Lithuania, but budgetary constraints may hinder preparations, particularly the acquisition of antiviral medication. The Government issued orders requiring owners to sequester domestic birds indoors and p [...]	2006-03-03 11:39:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO AMED EAGR SOCI PGOV KFLU LH
06VILNIUS228	BALTIC STATES AGREE ON A NEW NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IN [...] (U) SUMMARY: The prime ministers of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania declared their support February 27 for a common Baltic and EU energy policy and elaborated objectives for long-term Baltic energy cooperation. The common energy policy the PMs endorsed anticipates construction of a new nuclear [...]	2006-03-03 16:11:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG ECON EINV BEXP LH EN LG
06VILNIUS36	LITHUANIA SUPPORTS REPORTING IRAN TO THE UN [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-13 14:41:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KNNP AORC LH
06VILNIUS376	LITHUANIAN COALITION LOSES ITS MAJORITY, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: A member of Lithuania's ruling coalition, Kazys Bobelis, withdrew from his party April 20, depriving the coalition government of a clear majority in the Parliament. This move comes nine days after the parliament removed its speaker, prompting the speaker's Nw Union (Social Liber [...]	2006-04-20 15:39:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV LH
06VILNIUS42	CODEL SENSENBRENNER DISCUSSES VISA WAIVER PROGRAM [...] Summary: Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, discussed Lithuania's Visa Waiver Program (VWP) prospects and expressed U.S. appreciation for Lithuania's support in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in meetings with President Adamkus and other senior off [...]	2006-01-18 13:40:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL CVIS OVIP LH
06VILNIUS422	LITHUANIA DISPUTES PIRACY STATS, BUT EAGER TO IMPROVE IPR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: We informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Ministry of Culture on April 28 that this year's Special 301 Review again put Lithuania on the Watch List. Our Ministry of Culture contact questioned the sources of information the Review's authors used, but added that the G [...]	2006-05-09 10:40:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KIPR LH
06VILNIUS429	LITHUANIA: CAN'T YET CONFIRM SUPPORT FOR SMALLPOX [...] (SBU) We spoke with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and the Ministry of Health (MOH) on the importance of maintaining the U.S./Russian smallpox repositories in light of the upcoming May 22-27 discussions on the smallpox resolution at the World Health Assembly (WHA). The head of the MOH' [...]	2006-05-10 14:25:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL AORC TBIO LH
06VILNIUS431	LABOR PARTY SPLITS, COALITION KEEPS IT TOGETHER [...] (C) Eight members of parliament, including the newly elected Speaker, withdrew from the Labor Party May 2 and 3, formed a new parliamentary group, and promised to support the ruling coalition of which they are no longer officially members. Over four hundred Labor Party members followed the pa [...]	2006-05-10 14:38:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV LH
06VILNIUS45	LITHUANIA: 2005/2006 ALLIED CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE [...] The following is the response for Lithuania for the 2005 and 2006 Report on Allied Contributions to the Common Defense. Unless otherwise stated, average exchange rate used throughout the report is: 1 USD = 2.775 Lita. ------------------ General Assessment ------------------ 2. (U) L [...]	2006-01-30 09:32:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP PREL LH
06VILNIUS459	POLISH COMPANY SURGING IN BID TO BUY LITHUANIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Polish energy company PKN Orlen has emerged as the frontrunner to secure a controlling interest in Lithuania's oil refinery, according to a reliable government source. Court challenges in the United States and Netherlands continue and may yet derail the sale of the refinery. [...]	2006-05-18 14:09:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET PREL PGOV ETRD NL RS LH
06VILNIUS470	LITHUANIA'S RULING COALITION ENCOUNTERS MORE TROUBLE [...] (SBU) Lithuania's three-party governing coalition is defending itself against yet another challenge to its rule, even as a new party is maneuvering to join. New Parliament Speaker Viktoras Muntianas is leading the new Civil Democracy Party bid for coalition membership, demanding a cabinet seat [...]	2006-05-23 07:30:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV LH
06VILNIUS487	(C) LITHUANIA'S ISAF PRT (C-RE6-00473) [...] (C) This cable responds to reftel's questions about host country's Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT) in Afghanistan. -------------------------------- GOL COMMITTED TO AFGHANISTAN PRT -------------------------------- 2. (C) The GOL remains committed to leading the PRT in Ghor Provin [...]	2006-05-26 11:25:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	AF PINR MASS MOPS PTER LH
06VILNIUS511	INTERIM GOVERNMENT TAKES POWER IN LITHUANIA [...] (C) Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas handed a letter of resignation to the President Valdas Adamkus on June 1, following the May 31 withdrawal of the Labor Party and its five ministers from the ruling coalition (reftel). Brazauskas's Cabinet remains in place on an interim basis wi [...]	2006-06-02 13:58:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV LH
06VILNIUS512	PARLIAMENT APPROVES AGREEMENT TO SELL LITHUANIA'S [...] (C) Lithuania's parliament on June 1 approved the sale of Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta (MN) oil refinery to the Polish oil company PKN Orlen. Next, the EU's competition authority must approve the deal, a process that could take months. With the question of the next owners now answered, MN will [...]	2006-06-02 14:12:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ENRG ECON EPET PREL PGOV LT RS
06VILNIUS520	2006 TIP REPORT DELIVERED [...] (SBU) We delivered Lithuania's 2006 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) narrative and tier ranking to Lina Gubreviciute of the MFA's Americas Section on June 5. Gubreviciute thanked us for the courtesy copy and reiterated Lithuania's commitment to combat trafficking in persons. She said that Lithu [...]	2006-06-06 12:57:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL LH
06VILNIUS522	GAERC: GOL TO RAISE EURO, ENLARGEMENT [...] (C) We delivered reftel points to Tomas Gulbinas, Head of the MFA's Common Foreign Policy and Security Division, June 6. Gulbinas told us that the June 12 GAERC would concentrate less on external affairs and more on "future of Europe" questions. Lithuania plans to intervene, he said, to enc [...]	2006-06-06 13:19:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	UN KPAL PREL LH
06VILNIUS523	(C) PM BRAZAUSKAS'S PRE-RESIGNATION FAREWELL [...] (C) Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas, during the Ambassador's May 30 farewell call, outlined his five-year plan to increase defense spending and affirmed his commitment to Jewish property restitution. The Ambassador noted the GOL's tremendous contribution to the Global war On Ter [...]	2006-06-06 14:13:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ENRG EINV KNAR LH RS
06VILNIUS526	LITHUANIA: RAINBOW COALITION PROVES ELUSIVE [...] (C) Lithuania's Social Democratic and Conservative Parties are working to form a ruling coalition, either separately or together, in the wake of the June 1 collapse of the Government of Lithuania (refs a and b). The President, favoring a rainbow coalition government, continues to consult with [...]	2006-06-07 13:51:00	Embassy Vilnius	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINR LH
06VILNIUS533	LITHUANIA: NO CHANGES TO INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] We are aware of no reportable instances of expropriation or nationalization of the assets or property of U.S. persons in Lithuania. We recommend that the Lithuania section of the 2006 Report of US Citizen Expropriation Claims adopt the same language as the 2005 report: -- The United States [...]	2006-06-09 09:37:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV KIDE LH
06VILNIUS584	JEWISH CEMETERY IN VILNIUS - OVERVIEW AND UPDATE [...] (SBU) The newest front in Lithuania's struggle to come to terms with its troubled past is a Jewish cemetery that Russian Czars closed in 1830 and which they and the Soviets largely destroyed. The site, known as the Snipiskes cemetery, has attracted the fervent interest of the Committee for th [...]	2006-06-21 14:14:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KNAR LH
06VILNIUS591	LITHUANIA RESPONSIVE TO TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Our interlocutors here positively appraised the 2006 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report and reftel points. The report,s recommendations have already inspired the GOL to implement measures to improve anti-trafficking efforts. The GOL is also working on a comprehensive strateg [...]	2006-06-23 09:20:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM KWMN PHUM PREL PGOV SMIG LH
06VILNIUS610	LITHUANIAN PRESIDENT NOMINATES DEFENSE MINISTER AS [...] (SBU) Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus nominated acting Defense Minister Gediminas Kirkilas for the post of Prime Minister June 28. The parliament held hearings on the nomination June 29 and will vote on Kirkilas's candidacy as early as July 4. The Social Democrats and Conservatives appea [...]	2006-06-29 14:42:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR LH
06VILNIUS620	PARLIAMENT OVERWHELMINGLY APPROVES KIRKILAS AS PRIME [...] (SBU) Lithuania's parliament overwhelmingly approved Acting Defense Minister Gediminas Kirkilas for the post of Prime Minister on July 4. The Social Democrat must submit the government's program and his proposed cabinet to the parliament by July 19, but may do so sooner. Zigmantas Balcytis wi [...]	2006-07-05 11:12:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV LH
06VILNIUS623	PRESIDENT, PRIME MINISTER CONDEMN JEWISH CEMETERY VANDALISM [...] (U) Vandals tore down 22 monuments at a Jewish cemetery in Vilnius on June 24. President Valdas Adamkus, acting Prime Minister Zigmantas Balcytis, and Vilnius City mayor Arturas Zuokas publicly condemned the desecration and urged local law enforcement to find and punish the perpetrators. The [...]	2006-07-05 13:08:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KNAR PHUM PGOV LH
06VILNIUS637	LITHUANIA SEEKS TO LINK UP WITH POLISH AND SWEDISH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Plans to link Lithuania to the electricity grids of Poland and Sweden are moving forward, according to several well-placed sources. These links would complement the nearly complete Estonia-Finland power bridge and hook the Baltics into Western Europe's electricity grid for the fi [...]	2006-07-07 11:39:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON PREL PGOV LH PL SW

06VILNIUS645	LITHUANIAN OIL REFINERY CONTINUES SEARCH FOR CRUDE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Well-placed GOL officials told us July 10 that Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta oil refinery (MN) was on the brink of signing a contract with TNK-BP to bring a shipment of crude from Primorsk via tanker to MN's Baltic Sea terminal. MN's general manager (protect) says that MN is still [...]	2006-07-11 13:55:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PREL ECON LH RU
06VILNIUS675	LITHUANIA'S 14TH GOVERNMENT TAKES OFFICE AS [...] (SBU) Lithuania's parliament approved Prime Minister- designate Gediminas Kirkilas's government program and cabinet July 18 by a vote of 59 to 49. Support came from the coalition of 53 MPs with additional support from three Labor members and three Homeland Union (conservative) members in the [...]	2006-07-18 13:12:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR LH
06VILNIUS682	U.S.-LITHUANIA BILATERAL WORKING GROUP DISCUSSES [...] (SBU) Summary: During the annual Bilateral Working Group (BWG) meetings between the USG and Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in Vilnius July 12-13, all three Baltic delegations carried a unified message on Baltic cooperation and Baltic air policing. In both the multilateral and bilateral fora, [...]	2006-07-19 13:21:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR MOPS AF LH
06VILNIUS727	LITHUANIA'S CHOICE: FIGHT OR SURRENDER ITS [...] (S) SUMMARY: Lithuania and its Mazeikiu Nafta (MN) oil refinery need to decide how to proceed, now that an "accident" has resulted in a complete cutoff in the refinery's pipeline-delivered supply of Russian crude. State Department Advisor Steve Hellman framed this issue for the Lithuanians d [...]	2006-08-04 15:12:00	Embassy Vilnius	SECRET	ENRG ECON PREL LH XG VE LY
06VILNIUS739	LITHUANIA SEEKING TO EXPAND SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) The GOL recently sponsored a pair of visits between Afghanistan and Lithuania aimed at shoring up support in both countries for its Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Ghor Province, Afghanistan. Ghor's Governor and a delegation of Afghan parliamentarians came to Vilnius for meetings [...]	2006-08-09 09:05:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL LH AF
06VILNIUS760	INVESTMENT PROSPECTING IN MAZAR-E-SHARIF, AFGHANISTAN: ONE [...] SUMMARY: An executive from one of Lithuania's largest companies visited Afghanistan in July to scout for business and investment opportunities. Part of a larger GOL delegation, he split from the group for a few days to visit a fertilizer factory in Mazar-e-Sharif that his company had assisted [...]	2006-08-11 12:30:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV PREL ETRD LH AF
06VILNIUS762	LITHUANIAN PM PUSHES UKRAINE'S YANUKOVICH ON EU, [...] (C) Lithuania's Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas interrupted his holidays August 10 to sell NATO, EU and WTO integration to Ukraine's newly appointed PM Victor Yanukovich. MFA officials present for the meeting called Yanukovich's "open" reaction to their points on EU and, especially, NATO in [...]	2006-08-11 14:17:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LH UP
06VILNIUS801	MAZEIKIU NAFTA REFINERY LEARNING TO LIVE WITHOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta (MN) oil refinery is operating at full capacity, despite the recent cutoff of its most economic source of crude, via pipeline from Russia (refs A and B). MN is currently using its Baltic Sea terminal at Butinge to offload its entire crude supply from t [...]	2006-08-25 14:16:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON PREL XG VE
06VILNIUS803	LITHUANIA WILL STICK TO EU GUIDANCE ON RICE [...] (C) Zenonas Stanevicius, Deputy Director of the State Food and Veterinary Service (SFVS),told us August 25 that Lithuania will adhere strictly to any EU guidelines regarding genetically engineered products, including rice. He said that U.S.-produced rice amounted to slightly less then one pe [...]	2006-08-28 12:30:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON ETRD TBIO KPAO LH
06VILNIUS813	LITHUANIA'S LABOR PARTY: UNDER NEW LEADERSHIP? [...] (C) Summary: The Labor Party, recently fallen from power amid scandal, elected former Economy Minister Kestutis Dauksys its new leader August 26. Dauksys called for changes to the way Labor runs itself, but continued publicly to link the party to its disgraced former leader. It seems clear [...]	2006-08-31 14:37:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV LH
06VILNIUS814	SUBJECT LINE [...] (S) Lithuanian officials do not believe that Belarusian authorities were behind the death of Lithuanian diplomat Vytautas Pociunas. Pociunas, who worked as a security advisor to the Lithuanian consulate in Grodno, was found dead following a fall from the ninth-story window of an Inturist hote [...]	2006-09-01 13:46:00	Embassy Vilnius	SECRET	PREL BO LH
06VILNIUS815	(S) GOL WITHHOLDING JUDGEMENT ON DEATH OF [...] (S) Lithuanian officials do not believe that Belarusian authorities were behind the death of Lithuanian diplomat Vytautas Pociunas. Pociunas, who worked as a security advisor to the Lithuanian consulate in Grodno, was found dead following a fall from the ninth-story window of an Inturist hote [...]	2006-09-01 14:10:00	Embassy Vilnius	SECRET	PREL BO LH
06VILNIUS84	GOL ACKNOWLEDGES U.S. ASSISTANCE TO AFGHANISTAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-26 13:47:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL PGOV AF LH
06VILNIUS891	RUMORS CONTINUE TO SWIRL ABOUT THE FATE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Rumors about the fate of Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta (MN) oil refinery continue to circulate. Most of them appear false. A front-page article in Lithuania's largest newspaper proclaiming that MN was "sliding again into Moscow's hands" was a near-total fabrication, according to o [...]	2006-09-26 14:55:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL KZ VE LH
06VILNIUS902	LITHUANIA SEIZES GENETICALLY MODIFIED RICE [...] (U) Local press reported September 28 that Lithuanian officials had seized 880 kg of U.S.-exported rice, part of a shipment that the EU identified as containing genetically modified (GM) rice. This shipment arrived in Belgium and was then broken up and sent to other EU countries, including Lit [...]	2006-09-28 13:47:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON LH
06VILNIUS909	UPDATE ON SNIPISKES CEMETERY [...] (C) Post continues to seek a solution to the controversy over possible new development of the old Jewish cemetery site in the Snipiskes area of Vilnius (ref A). In recent months, a new governing coalition and stepped-up efforts by the city's mayor to develop the site have led the Embassy to l [...]	2006-10-04 08:23:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	SCUL PREL LH
06VILNIUS922	LITHUANIAN FOREIGN POLICY GURU QUITS AMID PRESS [...] (C) Summary. The surprise resignation on September 29 of one of Lithuania's most influential foreign policy figures has shaken the Foreign Ministry. MFA Undersecretary Albinas Januska, long considered the Ministry's most influential official, has close ties to Lithuania's security services an [...]	2006-10-06 12:42:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV LH
06VILNIUS939	LARGE FIRE BLAZES AT LITHUANIA'S OIL REFINERY [...] (U) Local press reported on October 12 that a fire had broken out at Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta oil refinery (MN) at approximately 1430 local time. The report said that the fire was "very big" and that it could be seen from several kilometers away. The report also said, however, that only on [...]	2006-10-12 14:12:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL LH RS
06VILNIUS944	PROSECUTORS AND GOL WILL INVESTIGATE CAUSE OF [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-13 12:48:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL LH RS PL
06VILNIUS945	PLANS FOR SNIPISKES CEMETERY - A CHANCE FOR [...] (C) Summary: The GOL's working group on the Snipiskes cemetery recently finished its work and submitted its conclusions to the Prime Minister. At the group's recommendation, the Prime Minister issued a decree calling for the establishment of a committee of experts to research the boundaries [...]	2006-10-13 13:42:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	SCUL PREL LH
06VILNIUS946	LITHUANIA OUTLINES BELARUS POLICY, ASSISTANCE [...] (C) Summary. Lithuanian activism in support of reform in Belarus continues. In EU structures, Lithuania argues for an exception for Belarus to the anticipated 60-euro Schengen visa fee, encourages smarter spending of Commission money to support democratic forces in Belarus, and will possibly [...]	2006-10-13 15:02:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LH BO
06VILNIUS952	LITHUANIAN FM ADVOCATES PATIENCE TO GEORGIA, MAKES [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania's Foreign Minister Vaitiekunas visited Georgia October 12 to pitch the Georgians on a strategy of de-escalation in order to garner international support for their positions in territorial conflicts while easing current tensions with Russia. Vaitiekunas relied on his tr [...]	2006-10-18 13:41:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LH GG EUN
06VILNIUS98	AMBASSADOR STRESSES CIVIL SOCIETY AND TOLERANCE IN PANEVEZYS [...] SUMMARY: Ambassador Mull traveled to Panevezys, Lithuanias fifth largest city, on January 19 to congratulate local officials on their successful efforts to combat crime, lower unemployment, and develop local industry. At the same time, the Ambassador expressed concern over the emigration of t [...]	2006-02-02 08:12:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO PGOV LH
06VILNIUS982	LITHUANIA RECEIVES LETTERS OF SUPPORT ON ENERGY [...] (C) During his October 24 meeting with the Ambassador (reftel),MFA Political Director Zygimantas Pavilionis mentioned two recent letters addressing energy issues: an October 19 letter from EC President Barroso to President Adamkus and a September 25 letter from EC Energy Commissioner Piebalgs [...]	2006-10-31 11:57:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG EUN LH RS
06VILNIUS988	BLUE LANTERN PRE-LICENSE CHECK 05-1007717: HELISOTA AND [...] (U) This report contains business-sensitive information. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) We visited the premises of Helisota Ltd. on October 16 and met with the company's Director General (Josif Legenzov),Production Manager (Vaclovas Kliunka),Director of International Sales (Anatoli [...]	2006-11-03 11:05:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KOMC LH UK EZ
06WARSAW1011	POLAND - Letter Delivered on Health Ministry Price [...] (SBU) DCM, accompanied by Econoff, called on Deputy Health Minister Boleslaw Piecha and delivered a letter from Ambassador Ashe to Health Minister Zbigniew Religa (see para 7). At issue is the May 18 announcement by the Ministry of Health to cut prices for imported pharmaceuticals, ostensibly [...]	2006-06-01 05:41:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EINV KIPR PL
06WARSAW107	POLAND: SENIOR ADVISOR FOR AGRICULTURAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Senior Advisor for Agricultural Biotechnology Madelyn Spirnak visited Warsaw on November 29 and 30, 2005 to discuss the USG position on genetically modified organisms (GMO's),with GOP officials, members of the academic community, and the media. While the current GOP and much [...]	2006-01-25 13:36:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SENV ETRD EAGR KSCA ECIN PL
06WARSAW1142	SENIOR DOS AGRICULTURAL BIOTECH ADVISOR SPIRNAK'S [...] (SBU) Summary. Madelyn Spirnak, State Department Senior Advisor for Agricultural Biotechnology, attended meetings in Warsaw on May 22 and 23, and in Krakow on May 24, 2006. Her visit came at a crucial time in the new GOP's legislative assault on agricultural biotechnology. In March the GOP [...]	2006-06-12 09:36:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO ECON EAGR ETRD PL
06WARSAW1161	POLAND'S ECOFUND: CRISIS OR MISUNDERSTANDING? [...] (SBU) Action request for State, EB/IFD/OMA and OES/ENV, paragraph 10. 2. (SBU) Summary. Internal disputes at Ecofund discussed in Ref A have grown worse, threatening to disrupt the operations of the Fund. At the heart of the matter is the role that the Polish Treasury Ministry is play [...]	2006-06-13 14:28:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID SENV KSCA PL
06WARSAW1167	POLAND: UPDATE ON ENERGY SECURITY [...] (C) The Government of Poland continues to pursue its goal of diversifying energy resources. On May 31, the Cabinet of Ministers approved a resolution prioritizing construction of a gas pipeline from Norway, liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal, and extension of the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline [...]	2006-06-13 14:39:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET GG PO PREL RS SA SL UR AJ EZ
06WARSAW1169	ARE THE KACZYNSKIS WOBBLY ON DEMOCRACY? [...] (C) Summary: One month into the political marriage of convenience which delivered a long-sought parliamentary majority, the Kaczynski brothers are moving forward with their agenda to beat back the last vestiges of Polish Communism by means that their critics charge are anti-democratic. Thei [...]	2006-06-14 09:21:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PL PREL
06WARSAW1172	POLAND WILL SUPPORT MDA, CONTEMPLATING ADDITIONAL [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-14 13:06:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL PHUM ICRC PL
06WARSAW131	ASSISTANT SECRETARIES FRIED AND FLORY MEETING WITH [...] (C) State Department Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Dan Fried, and Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy Peter Flory, accompanied by Ambassador, EUR DAS Mark Pekala, NSC Senior Director Damon Wilson, and Polcouns, met January 25 with Prime Mi [...]	2006-01-27 14:57:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG MASS MARR EINV PL
06WARSAW1341	POLAND: WEIGHING IN ON PHARM PRICE CUTS [...] (U) This contains an action request (see paragraph 6). 2. (C) The Ministry of Health,s decision to impose a 13 percent cut in the official price for imported pharmaceutical products was implemented on July 1, 2006. The draft regulations to impose the price cuts were published on the Minist [...]	2006-07-03 14:56:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PL WTO
06WARSAW148	U.S.-POLAND STRATEGIC DIALOGUE II - ENERGY SECURITY [...] (C) Begin Summary. Septel reports on security and defense issues discussed by EUR A/S Dan Fried and ASD/ISP Peter Flory at the Third U.S.-Polish Strategic Dialogue (SD) January 25 in Warsaw and provides a list of the principal U.S. and Polish participants. This cable reports on the Energy [...]	2006-01-31 18:29:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON PGOV PREL PL UP RS NO AJ TX
06WARSAW1489	ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE POLISH GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: Poland's ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) is stung by criticism that it is anti-Semitic, gutting Holocaust education, and too slow to act on long delayed private property restitution, but does not have a strategy to deal with these problems. PiS points to its heretofore good [...]	2006-07-20 14:03:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KNAR PL
06WARSAW1514	THE (LAST?) BATTLE FOR PUBLIC MEDIA IN POLAND [...] (U) Journalists and media observers continue to bemoan the perceived loss of independence for public media. While Polish Public media has ebbed and flowed with majority politics since 1989 never has the division between politicians and media been drawn in such sharp relief. The dust is settl [...]	2006-07-25 14:17:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO PL
06WARSAW1523	THE (LAST?) BATTLE FOR PUBLIC MEDIA IN POLAND [...] (SBU) Journalists and media observers continue to bemoan the perceived loss of independence for public media. While Polish Public media has ebbed and flowed with majority politics since 1989 never has the division between politicians and media been drawn in such sharp relief. The dust is set [...]	2006-07-26 13:09:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO PL
06WARSAW1551	LEBANON - TAPPING INTO POLAND'S POTENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to senior officials in the MFA and the presidential chancellery, the Polish government is prepared to contribute to the planned stabilization force in Lebanon. In addition, the GOP wants very much to participate in future meetings of the Lebanon Core Group, particularly [...]	2006-07-28 14:18:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR EAID LE PL
06WARSAW1570	OPERATION PROMISED LAND - ITALIANS AND POLES TAKE [...] Summary: On July 18, Polish and Italian police made simultaneous arrests of 25 individuals allegedly involved in the trafficking and forced labor of an estimated 1000 Polish citizens in the Apulia region of southern Italy. PolOff and LegAtt met with the Polish police officers involved in the [...]	2006-08-02 08:49:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KJUS KCRM PGOV PL
06WARSAW1574	LEBANON - POLISH VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF RESCHEDULED [...] (C) SUMMARY. Polish U/S Komorowski's delegation has returned to Warsaw and will not be able to attend the rescheduled Lebanon force meeting on August 3, but senior Polish leaders remain committed to significant participation in the process. The MFA believes that the August 1 GAERC discussion [...]	2006-08-02 13:07:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO LE PL
06WARSAW1580	CASTRO SUCCESSION: POLAND SUGGESTS A "FRESH START" [...] (C) SUMMARY. The GOP has not yet developed a policy on Castro succession, but Henryk Szlajfer, the senior MFA official dealing with Cuba, suggested that the best approach would be to "set aside" the existing record on Cuba and make a fresh start at reaching a trans-Atlantic consensus with the [...]	2006-08-03 09:47:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PHUM CU PL EU
06WARSAW1592	DEPARTMENT ENERGY ADVISER HELLMAN'S ENERGY [...] (C) Economics Ministry State Secretary Piotr Naimski told visiting State Department Energy Advisor Steve Hellman August 1 that Poland is very concerned by the cut-off of Russian oil shipments to Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta refinery due to alleged 'accidents and technical difficulties.' The Pole [...]	2006-08-04 08:59:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET LH PL PREL
06WARSAW1600	POLISH ROADS: ROOT PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS FOR [...] (SBU) Poland's highway system remains practically non-existent. Though Prime Ministers Marcinkiewicz and Kaczynski have both made highway building centerpieces of their initial public addresses, systemic problems remain. Despite the availability of EU reimbursement funds, sources within the [...]	2006-08-04 13:43:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EWWT ELTN EU PL
06WARSAW1610	NEW HEAD OF CHANCELLERY A LOYAL KACZYNSKI [...] (C) SUMMARY. 43-year-old Aleksander Szczyglo is a Lech Kaczynski protege and one of the President's closest confidantes. Szczyglo's appointment as Head of the Presidential Chancellery will assure a loyal staff operation, but may not necessarily affect policy formulation. Though a member of t [...]	2006-08-07 13:24:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL PL
06WARSAW1630	NEW HEAD OF CHANCELLERY A LOYAL KACZYNSKI [...] (C) SUMMARY. 43-year-old Aleksander Szczyglo is a Lech Kaczynski protege and one of the President's closest confidantes. Szczyglo's appointment as Head of the Presidential Chancellery will assure a loyal staff operation, but may not necessarily affect policy formulation. Though a member of t [...]	2006-08-07 15:09:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL PL
06WARSAW1632	Poland: Frank Mermoud's Visit [...] (SBU) Frank Mermoud, Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs, visited Warsaw July 14 to urge the Polish government to change its position on the 13% reduction in reimbursement prices for imported drugs that became effective July Â [...]	2006-08-08 06:51:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON ENRG PREL PL
06WARSAW1679	POLAND: GOVERNMENT PLAN TO CARVE CHANNEL ON POLISH [...] (U) Summary. Reftel describes the intermittent quarrels between the GOP and the Kaliningrad authorities and Moscow over ship access to the Baltisk Strait, which is the only point of entry into the Vistula Bay, and is located in Russian territory. As a result, the Polish city of Elblag and [...]	2006-08-11 14:55:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EWWT SENV PREL RS PL
06WARSAW1683	Emigration Tightens Poland's Labor Markets: "Will the Last [...] That Poles are leaving Poland in search of jobs and higher wages in other countries is nothing new. For Poland this is merely dj vu, yet another wave of emigration, another generation of young Poles leaving the country in search of better opportunities elsewhere. Past migrations of Poles hav [...]	2006-08-12 10:06:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS ELAB SOCI PREL SMIG PL XG XH
06WARSAW1684	UNSCR 1701: POLAND GRATIFIED AT UNIFIED POSITION [...] (U) Charge shared Ref A points on UNSCR 1701 with Acting Foreign Minister Pawel Kowal, who stated that MFA U/S Witold Waszczykowski was in the process of drafting a public statement on the resolution. Waszczykowski told Charge separately that the MFA statement would welcome the passage of UNS [...]	2006-08-12 14:24:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MOPS UN UNSC IS LE
06WARSAW176	U.S.-POLAND STRATEGIC DIALOGUE III: EU FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: Septel reports on security and defense issues discussed by EUR A/S Dan Fried and ASD/ISP Peter Flory at the Third U.S.-Polish Strategic Dialogue (SD) January 25 in Warsaw and provides a list of the principal U.S. and Polish participants. This cable covers the SD sessions on East [...]	2006-02-03 15:03:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PL UP BO RU
06WARSAW1798	NEW DEPUTY DEFMINS: MACIEREWICZ STIRS UP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Newly appointed MOD U/S Antoni Macierewicz, responsible for transformation of the military intelligence services (REF A),has triggered an uproar by accusing "most former Polish foreign ministers" of being Soviet agents. PM Kaczynski who forced the appointment over DefMin Sikorsk [...]	2006-08-26 05:00:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PL
06WARSAW180	POLAND'S COMMENTS ON RUSSIA-UKRAINE GAS [...] (U) This cable contains an action request - see para 2. Summary and Action Request -------------------------- 2. (C) Poland's Ministry of Economy and MFA expressed support for the U.S. proposal on an approach to Ukraine but seek clarification on several questions. Poland requests fu [...]	2006-02-03 17:26:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON PINR PREL UP RS PO AU EU CZ
06WARSAW203	POLES NOTE DETERIORATION OF ATMOSPHERE IN TEHRAN, [...] (C) Summary: Polish Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Witold Waszczykowski, told us that his attitude toward Iran had "completely changed" during his January 30-31 visit to Iran. He now believes Tehran is determined to acquire nuclear weapons. In a separate read-out MFA Director [...]	2006-02-09 09:03:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP PL IR AORC
06WARSAW2057	(C) MISSILE DEFENSE AND POLAND: REQUEST FOR AN [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 7. 2. (C) As reported reftel, public debate in Poland over Missile Defense is intensifying even as the Polish government prepares itself for an expected U.S. offer on MD. A critical element of both processes is the perceived reaction and/or th [...]	2006-09-21 15:27:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR PL
06WARSAW2063	SO LEADER LEPPER FORCED OUT OF GOVERNMENT AMID [...] (SBU) Summary: Polish PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski on the evening of September 19 forced out his Agriculture Minister, Andrzej Lepper, in a surprise move that has many speculating that early elections will be called for November. Kaczynski gave as an explanation only that Lepper had been a disrupti [...]	2006-09-22 13:59:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PROG PL
06WARSAW2064	POLAND: SECOND ROUND OF PRICE REDUCTIONS FOR [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified/NOT for internet distribution 2. (SBU) At a September 15 meeting, Piotr Blaszczyk, the Acting Director of the Drug Policy and Pharmacy Department of the Polish Ministry of Health, issued a second round of price cuts to 27 pharmaceutical companies. The price [...]	2006-09-22 15:38:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR ECON PL
06WARSAW207	POLAND: 2005/2006 ALLIED CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Over the last two years, Poland has been a staunch ally of the United States. According to the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces, Poland spent about 1,213,151,800 Zloty ($370,994,434) and committed 4,122 troops to Iraq-coalition and NATO operations in 2005. In 2004, Polan [...]	2006-02-09 12:54:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MCAP PM KS KU QA SA US PL TC NATO
06WARSAW2115	TURBULENT POLITICAL SCENE CONTINUES AS PM [...] (C) Summary: Poland's seemingly endless political turbulence continues to follow twists and turns that lead to constant speculation and disagreement about whether there will be early elections, whether Law and Justice (PiS) can form a new majority, and whether the opposition can cobble toget [...]	2006-09-29 15:30:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PL
06WARSAW2159	A/S FRIED'S MEETINGS WITH FM FOTYGA, MFA AND MOD [...] (C) Summary: (C) A/S Fried met September 8 with MFA and MOD officials to discuss a range of bilateral issues, and was hosted at dinner later that evening by Foreign Minister Fotyga. An extensive part of both conversations focused on Ukraine, and how to encourage the Ukrainian government to c [...]	2006-10-05 14:58:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON OVIP
06WARSAW2188	RUSSIAN FM LAVROV IN POLAND: A SOFT TOUCH, EXCEPT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Russian FM Sergei Lavrov met October 5 with President Lech Kaczynski, PM Jarek Kaczynski and FM Anna Fotyga during a one-day visit to Warsaw. According to senior officials from the MFA and presidential chancellery, the overall tone of the visit was positive, although little was a [...]	2006-10-12 15:51:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR PL RS GG IR
06WARSAW231	POLISH FOREIGN MINISTER MELLER TO RESIGN [...] (SBU) Polish Foreign Minister Stefan Meller all but confirmed during a February 13 press conference that he intends to resign his post, citing frustration over his diminishing authority over Polish foreign policy. Meller denied press speculation that he might step down for health or family rea [...]	2006-02-14 11:52:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PL
06WARSAW2312	MFA DEMORALIZED AND WEAKENED UNDER FM FOTYGA [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Lech Kaczynski's tight grip on foreign policy has squeezed out his own Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) with a corresponding loss of effectiveness in European institutions and overall quality in Polish foreign policy. The politicization of top and mid-level positions, [...]	2006-11-02 16:16:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PL
06WARSAW2323	READOUT OF CENTCOM,S IRAQ CONFERENCE IN WARSAW 3-5 [...] (U) SUMMARY. CENTCOM,s Coalition conference in Warsaw 3-5 Oct 2006 successfully gathered both military and civilian participants from current and prospective Coalition countries to provide an overview of Coalition planning for the next 12-18 months. All presentations and some keynote speeches [...]	2006-11-03 15:23:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS IZ PL
06WARSAW2354	AFGHANISTAN: POLISH PRESIDENT FORMALLY APPROVES [...] (C) During a previously scheduled meeting November 7, FM Fotyga informed Ambassador that President Kaczynski had formally approved the deployment of approximately additional Polish troops to Afghanistan in 2007. As reported reftel, DefMin Radek Sikorski announced in Washington that Poland wou [...]	2006-11-08 13:32:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PL AF
06WARSAW2372	POLISH OPPOSITION RUNNING STRONG IN URBAN AREAS [...] In the final days before Poles vote in local and regional elections, opposition candidates are poised to capture a majority of Polish cities and are running ahead of the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) in regional assemblies (sejmiks). With multiple candidates running in most mayoral races [...]	2006-11-09 15:48:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PL
06WARSAW2390	POLAND BLOCKS GAERC ON LAUNCHING NEW PCA [...] (C) SUMMARY. FM Fotyga announced at the November 13 GAERC that Poland would continue its opposition to the EU opening negotiations for a new Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) with Russia in advance of the November 24 EU-Russia Summit, absent Russian ratification of the European Energ [...]	2006-11-14 15:36:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG ETRD EAGR PL EU
06WARSAW240	Poland's Stabilization Pact - What it means for the [...] (SBU) On February 2, the ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party signed a stabilization pact with two opposition parties - Self Defense (SO) and the League of Polish Families (LPR). The pact includes a list of bills the parties agree to support, and a shorter list of those they will d [...]	2006-02-15 10:18:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PREL PL
06WARSAW2415	TOUGH TIMES FOR THE LEAGUE OF POLISH FAMILIES [...] (C) Summary. Only six months after joining the ruling Polish government coalition, the ultra-Catholic League of Polish Families (LPR) was the big loser in last weekend's regional elections, and faces an uncertain future. Party leader Roman Giertych has been a lightning rod for criticism, an [...]	2006-11-17 15:00:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PL
06WARSAW2420	POLAND: PKN ORLEN PRESIDENT WEATHERS A STORM [...] (C) Summary: PKN Orlen President Igor Chalupec has been under intense scrutiny over the past few months by the Polish government and press. Monthly press reports speculate that he will be replaced. Recent press articles include detailed accounts and biographies on potential replacements. C [...]	2006-11-20 12:36:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PO LI PREL
06WARSAW2511	POLAND: GOVERNMENT STEPS UP EFFORTS VS. FORCED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In the months since stories broke of Poles trafficked to Spain and Italy for forced labor (Reftel) the Polish government has stepped up efforts in the fight against human trafficking. The Polish National Police (PNP) has supplemented the five person Central Anti-Trafficking Uni [...]	2006-12-06 15:45:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KJUS KCRM PGOV IT PL SP SW UK
06WARSAW2542	POLAND'S RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON UNGA EMERGENCY [...] (C) PolExt Chief delivered reftel points December 1 to Beata Baranska, Political Affairs Chief in the MFA UN Department. Baranska responded that Poland shares the U.S. view that any resolution on a Register of Damages should be entirely consistent with the report of the UNSYG. The GOP concu [...]	2006-12-08 15:42:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA PL
06WARSAW2609	POLISH COALITION FINDS FACE-SAVING EXITS FROM [...] (C) Summary: Poland's ruling coalition continues to lurch along, after two weeks of political distraction spurred by revelations of a sex scandal in Samoobrona (SO) and renewed accusation of neo-Nazi activity by the League of Polish Families (LPR) youth wing. While both junior partners foun [...]	2006-12-19 15:20:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PL
06WARSAW2636	S/CT CRUMPTON HEARS POLISH PERSPECTIVES OF THE GWOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate meetings on December 13, Deputy Foreign Minister, Witold Waszczykowski, and Chief of the National Security Bureau, Wladyslaw Stasiak, conveyed their thoughts on counterterrorism to Ambassador Henry Crumpton, State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism. In his si [...]	2006-12-22 09:52:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PL
06WARSAW2653	SPOT REPORT: SLUBICE, POLISH BORDER TOWN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Poloff went to Slubice, which sits on the Polish-German border, to investigate labor disputes and a longstanding issue concerning the town's Jewish cemetery. Despite its location in a special economic zone, unemployment hovers near 30%, higher than the surrounding province. One [...]	2006-12-29 11:56:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL ELAB PL
06WARSAW2654	SPOT REPORT: SLUBICE, POLISH BORDER TOWN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Poloff went to Slubice, which sits on the Polish-German border, to investigate labor disputes and a longstanding issue concerning the town's Jewish cemetery. Despite its location in a special economic zone, unemployment hovers near 30%, higher than the surrounding province. One [...]	2006-12-29 11:56:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL ELAB PL
06WARSAW2655	SPOT REPORT: SLUBICE, POLISH BORDER TOWN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Poloff went to Slubice, which sits on the Polish-German border, to investigate labor disputes and a longstanding issue concerning the town's Jewish cemetery. Despite its location in a special economic zone, unemployment hovers near 30%, higher than the surrounding province. One [...]	2006-12-29 11:56:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL ELAB PL
06WARSAW269	POLISH FM MELLER TO REMAIN UNTIL A SUCCESSOR CAN [...] (C) The Polish president and prime minister declined to act on Foreign Minister Stefan Meller's reported resignation, offering instead some general words of support and indications that Meller's concerns about his position (notably his absence from the National Security Council) will be addres [...]	2006-02-17 15:31:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PL
06WARSAW280	POLAND: Embassy Warsaw Special 301 Input [...] (SBU) Despite lingering problems in enforcement and, particularly, in judicial adjudication of optical disc (OD) piracy cases, there has been slow, but nonetheless steady, progress in Poland's handling of IPR violations, warranting maintenance of Poland's position on the Watch List. And while [...]	2006-02-22 12:51:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR PL
06WARSAW308	POLAND: Comment on Pharma's Special 301 Input [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for distribution outside USG. 2. (SBU) Pharma's call for Priority Foreign Country (PFC) status for Poland is understandable. The industry has indeed faced many challenges in dealing with the Polish government prior to accession, and some of these issues [...]	2006-02-24 15:47:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR PL
06WARSAW325	UKRAINIAN PRIME MINISTER FAILS TO CLARIFY GAS [...] (C) Energy issues dominated the discussions during the February 16-17 visit to Poland by Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov and the separate February 21 visit by Anatolij Kinach, Secretary of the Ukrainian Office of National Security and Defense. According to the MFA, however, the Po [...]	2006-02-27 14:47:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EPET ENRG PL UP
06WARSAW339	POLAND: SIXTH ANNUAL (2006) TRAFFICKING IN [...] (SBU) Following are responses keyed to questions in paragraphs 21-25 of REFTEL. Embassy point of contact is Political Officer Katharine Read (telephone: 48-22- 504-2676, fax 48-22-504-2613, e-mail ReadKM@state.gov). POLOFF (FO-03) spent 45 hours collecting data and compiling report; one polit [...]	2006-03-01 06:42:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF KWMN PL KRCM
06WARSAW347	POLAND AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE: CROSS AGENCY [...] (SBU) Summary. Econoffs recently discussed GOP contingency preparations for an outbreak of avian influenza (AI) with the Polish Ministry of Health. Polish Health Ministry officials believe that AI is still primarily a threat to Polish agriculture, but stressed that the GOP has planned thoro [...]	2006-03-01 15:47:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU TBIO SENV ECON EAGR PREL PL
06WARSAW348	POLAND WILL PROPOSE POSTPONEMENT OF EIB LOAN TO [...] (C) Begin Summary. Poland's MFA reported that it will recommend postponing a final decision on the EIB loan to the Syrian government until after a report on Syria's cooperation on the Rafiq Hariri assasination is provided to the UNSC in late March. Poland is uncertain that the postponement [...]	2006-03-01 16:19:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETRD PREL PGOV SY PL
06WARSAW353	POLISH PRESIDENT CAUTIONS YUSHCHENKO ON GAS DEAL [...] (C) In the course of his February 28-March 1 visit to Ukraine, Polish President Lech Kaczynski delivered a strong message to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on the January gas deal with Russia, expressing concern about the consequences of the agreement for Ukraine's economy and its abili [...]	2006-03-02 13:47:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG PGOV UP PL
06WARSAW358	POLAND: SIXTH ANNUAL (2006) TRAFFICKING IN [...] (SBU) Following are responses keyed to questions in paragraphs 21-25 of REFTEL. Embassy point of contact is Political Officer Katharine Read (telephone: 48-22- 504-2676, fax 48-22-504-2613, e-mail ReadKM@state.gov). POLOFF (FO-03) spent 45 hours collecting data and compiling report; one polit [...]	2006-03-03 06:47:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF KWMN PL KRCM
06WARSAW363	POLAND: Netia (Now P4) Chooses Chinese Firm for 3G [...] (U) According to a recent Netia/P4 press release, Chinese telecoms equipment vendor Huawei won a contract to build third-generation (3G) infrastructure. P4, formerly known as Netia, won a license last year for a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) license. UMTS services are des [...]	2006-03-03 09:41:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED	ECPS EINT EINV PL
06WARSAW380	POLAND'S PROPOSED EUROPEAN ENERGY SECURITY TREATY [...] (C) Poland continues to consult with EU partners on its proposed European Energy Security Treaty. Deputy Minister of Economy Naimski requests a meeting with Under Secretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns March 20 or 21 to discuss mechanisms in the NATO Treaty that can be transferred to [...]	2006-03-03 16:25:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL PL
06WARSAW381	INFIGHTING CONTINUES AMONG STABILIZATION PACT [...] (SBU) Summary: While the Stabilization Pact signed February 2 between Poland's governing Law and Justice Party (PiS) the League of Polish Families (LPR) and Self Defense (SO) helped stave off early elections, it has not stopped political battling among the partners, nor guaranteed the smooth [...]	2006-03-03 16:26:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PL
06WARSAW487	POLISH PRESIDENT KACZYNSKI'S FIRST VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary: Polish government and German embassy officials judged Polish President Lech Kaczynski's March 8-9 visit to Berlin (his first-ever visit to Germany, "besides the Frankfurt airport," as he put it) a success, although low expectations and an evident sense of relief that it had not go [...]	2006-03-16 13:32:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG PHUM GM PL
06WARSAW497	POLISH DEFENSE TRANSFORMATION AT A STRATEGIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite its position as a minority government and ongoing domestic political battles, the Marcinkiewicz government is beginning to define the future strategic direction of the Polish military. In the coming months, the parliament will consider bills that would radically reorganiz [...]	2006-03-17 09:54:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MCAP PREL MARR MASS PL
06WARSAW504	POLAND MOVES TO ACCELERATES MILITARY MODERNIZATION [...] SUMMARY: Polish President Lech Kaczynski and Defense Minister (DefMin) Sikorski announced their shared intention to accelerate modernization of the Polish military at a press conference following the annual meeting of Defense Ministry and Armed Forces leadership on March 13. Their plan include [...]	2006-03-17 14:29:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV MCAP PREL MARR MASS PL
06WARSAW518	IN FRUSTRATION, POLISH GOVERNING PARTY CALLS FOR [...] (SBU) Declaring "no other way out" of Poland's ongoing political stalemate, governing Law and Justice (PiS) leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski announced March 18 that his party will seek to dissolve parliament and hold new elections in May, prior to Pope Benedict XVI's scheduled visit to Poland at the [...]	2006-03-20 16:02:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PL
06WARSAW53	POLISH BUDGET ROW HIGHLIGHTS GOVERNING PARTY'S [...] (SBU) Poland's Law and Justice (PiS) minority government set off an uproar January 11 among opposition parliamentary groups, including those supporting the government, when it backed off from scheduling a budget vote this weekend, reviving suspicions that PiS plans to use a budget delay to cal [...]	2006-01-12 15:43:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PL
06WARSAW579	POLAND: EU INTEGRATION OFFICE LUMBERS ON [...] (C) According to Director for Analyses and Strategies, Piotr Serafin (protect) at the Office of the Committee for European Integration (UKIE),integration of the Office,s functions into the Foreign Ministry is &going nowhere.8 With this third and latest attempt at disbanding UKIE in almost as [...]	2006-03-28 13:48:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PL
06WARSAW634	POLAND: GOP PREPARES FOR FATF EVALUATION [...] (SBU) Contacts at Poland's Ministry of Finance reported to Econoff that the Ministry is preparing for a Financial Action Task Force evalution that will occur in May. Ministry of Finance contacts stated that they expect results to be issued within six months of the visit, and that the Ministr [...]	2006-04-05 14:46:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN KCRM PTER PREL PL
06WARSAW7	Poland's new Treasury Minister Resigns amid [...] (SBU) Begin Summary. On the evening of January 3, Prime Minister Marcinkiewicz accepted the resignation of Treasury Minister Andrzej Mikosz. Mikosz's resignation was forced by an article published in the daily "Rzeczpospolita" detailing a loan worth US $300,000 which Mikosz's wife gave to a [...]	2006-01-04 15:22:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PREL PL
06WARSAW953	POLISH PRESIDENT'S MEETINGS WITH UKRAINIAN, GERMAN [...] (C) Summary: The Ukrainian and German presidents paid reciprocal visits to Polish President Lech Kaczynski in mid-May, marking the importance of those bilateral relationships and the slow warming of personal contacts between the apprehensive Polish leader and his colleagues next door. With Yu [...]	2006-05-23 10:16:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GM UP PL
06WELLINGTON10	PARLIAMENT'S COMMITTEE RESTRUCTURING REDUCES [...] (SBU) Summary: As a result of the National Party's strong showing in New Zealand's September elections, the ruling Labour Party's MPs face far stronger opposition in Parliament's select committees, which review proposed legislation. There are signs that National is trying to make life espe [...]	2006-01-08 18:43:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL NZ
06WELLINGTON1000	MUCK AND POWELL- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Richard Muck, Agricultural Engineer and Joseph Powell, Soil Scientist, USDA/ARS/MWA/Madison, WI to visit New Zealand from January 2-16, 2007 to visit dairy and sheep farms. 2. Embassy requests contact details (along with emails addresses) of Mr. Muc [...]	2006-12-18 03:37:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ

06WELLINGTON1002	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FRANCISCA LIEM, FEBRUARY [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to EPA Official Francisca Liem to travel to Auckland, New Zealand from February 20 - March 3, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to chair the Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) working group meeting in Auckland. 2. (U) Embassy understands t [...]	2006-12-18 03:45:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA SENV KSCA TPHY EPA NZ
06WELLINGTON1003	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JONATHAN VERVILLE, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Official Jonathan Verville to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from December 27, 2006 - February 15, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to transit New Zealand en route to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, w [...]	2006-12-18 20:24:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TSPA NZ
06WELLINGTON1007	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FBI A/SC JORGE [...] (SBU) Embassy Wellington welcomes Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Acting Section Chief (A/SC) Jorge L. Martinez, Unit Chief (UC) Raymond T. Goergen, and Supervisory Special Agent (SSA),Cyber Division, to New Zealand February 27, 2007 to March 1, 2007. The purpose of the trip is to atten [...]	2006-12-19 21:29:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC FBI NZ XB XU AS
06WELLINGTON1009	NEW ZEALAND - PRENOTIFICATION INFORMATION DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-21 03:17:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER NZ
06WELLINGTON1012	NEW ZEALAND STAFFDEL COUNTRY CLEARANCE, ON OR ABOUT [...] (SBU) Embassy warmly welcomes the Senate Staff Member delegation visit to New Zealand from on/about January 1 through 12, 2007. New Zealand country clearance is granted to the following delegation members: Mr. Allen Cutler, Mr. Goodloe Sutton, Ms. Augusta Wilson, Mr. Jeremy Weirich, Ms. Marg [...]	2006-12-21 23:18:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN AS NZ
06WELLINGTON1014	ALIAGA AND KLAG- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Julie Aliaga, NAPPO Coordinator and Narcy Klag, Deputy Director, Plant Protection and Quarantine, APHIS, USDA to visit New Zealand from February 16-25, 2007 to attend Annual Quad Meeting. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistan [...]	2006-12-26 22:11:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON1022	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR PAULINO GARZA, DECEMBER [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Official Paulino Garza to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from December 27, 2006 - February 15, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to transit New Zealand en route to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, where [...]	2006-12-29 01:39:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TSPA NZ
06WELLINGTON1023	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR BAILEY + 8, JANUARY 9 - [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to USGS Biologists Larissa Bailey, Kenneth Burnham, William Kendall, Catherine Langtimm, James Nichols, Joel Schmutz, Theodore Simons, Computer Scientist James Hines, and Mathematical Statistician William Link to travel to Dunedin, New Zealan [...]	2006-12-29 01:54:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA KSCA TPHY NZ
06WELLINGTON1024	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MICHAEL CONROY, JANUARY [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to USGS Biologist Michael Conroy to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from January 8 - April 10, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to attend the European Union for Bird Ringing 2007 Conference and then to stay as a collaborating visiting sc [...]	2006-12-29 01:57:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA KSCA TPHY NZ
06WELLINGTON11	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Mark Finney, Charles McHugh and Robert Seli of USDA/FS to visit Christchurch from January 10 to 21, 2006 to attend a fire spread modeling working seminar. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistance required. 3. Point of cont [...]	2006-01-08 20:48:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON112	AVIAN INFLUENZA: POST CONTINGENCY PLANNING AND TRIPWIRES [...] In response to reftel, Embassy Country Team met to discuss New Zealand Government (GNZ) preparations against Avian Influenza pandemic. 2. Llywelyn Graeme will input tripwire data into the Tripwire Reporting and Integrated Planning System (TRIPS). 3. New Zealand's Ministry of Health (M [...]	2006-02-13 00:49:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC CASC AMED KFLO AEMR
06WELLINGTON114	TSUNEZUMI- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Ronald Tsunezumi, Preclearance Coordinator, Riverdale, Maryland, to visit New Zealand from March 13 through April 28, 2006 to inspect Apple and Pear Preclearance Program. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistance required. [...]	2006-02-13 03:05:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON115	BROWN- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Rose Brown, Preclearance Coordinator, Riverdale, Maryland, to visit New Zealand from February 23 through July 28, 2006 to inspect Apple and Pear Preclearance Program. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistance required. 3. P [...]	2006-02-13 03:06:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON12	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STAFFDEL [...] (SBU) Embassy warmly welcomes the delegation led by Mr. Mike Ringler, Professional Staff Member (PSM) House Appropriations Committee (HAC) to visit New Zealand from January 10 - 22, 2006. New Zealand country clearance is granted to the following delegation members: Mr. Mike Ringler, Ms. Ann [...]	2006-01-08 22:21:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN NZ
06WELLINGTON124	HUTTENLOCKER AND DUNCAN- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Robert Huttenlocker, Director, Compliance Review Staff and Ms. Jennifer Duncan, Compliance Review Specialist to visit Wellington, New Zealand from March 12-15, 2006 to conduct an on-site review of OAA's GA and AMP expenditures and general office administrat [...]	2006-02-16 02:40:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON126	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CHARLENE ANDRADE, MARCH [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Biologist Charlene Andrade to travel to Dunedin, Invercargill, Stewart Island, and the Bluff Rakiuratiti Islands, New Zealand from March 15 - 26, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to attend project meetings [...]	2006-02-16 03:27:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA SENV TBIO NZ
06WELLINGTON128	NATIONAL CONTEMPLATES CHANGE ON NUCLEAR BAN STANCE [...] (C) Summary: The opposition National Party is considering changing its policy regarding New Zealand's anti-nuclear ban, hoping to thereby remove one of Labour's strongest weapons against National. Senior Party officials have explained to us behind the scenes that the modification would only cl [...]	2006-02-17 05:15:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV NZ
06WELLINGTON130	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR RICHARD ZEPP, FEBRUARY [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to EPA Senior Research Scientist, Deputy Director, Office of Research and Development Richard ZEPP to travel to Alexandra and Hamilton, New Zealand from February 22 - March 7, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to give scientific presentatio [...]	2006-02-21 02:12:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA SENV KSCA TPHY UNEP EPA NZ
06WELLINGTON132	NEW ZEALAND CLEARANCE FOR ECA/A/E/EAP, BYRON H. (TIM) [...] (SBU) EMBASSY WELCOMES AND GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO BYRON H. (TIM) MARSHALL, SENIOR PROGRAM OFFICER, EAP FULBRIGHT BRANCH, TO TRAVEL TO WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND, FROM MARCH 3 TO 9, 2006. THE PURPOSE OF THE VISIT IS TO HAVE DISCUSSIONS WITH COLLEAGUES AT POST AND FULBRIGHT STAFF MEMBERS REGARD [...]	2006-02-21 05:03:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT KPAO OEXC SCUL NZ
06WELLINGTON133	SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF GENERAL ABIZAID TO NEW [...] (C) Mission New Zealand warmly welcomes your visit on 23-25 January. The Government has just returned from its lengthy Christmas and summer holiday period and has real anxiety that it is vulnerable to opposition attacks in a number of areas, including foreign and defense policies and the Gov [...]	2006-02-21 21:02:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV NZ
06WELLINGTON134	OGAN AND METZ- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Robert Ogan and Minica Metz, Investigators, Office of Regulatory Affairs, FDA, HHS to visit New Zealand from March 4-25, 2006 to conduct regulatory inspections of New Zealand dairy producers and meet with New Zealand food safety authorities. 2. Embassy [...]	2006-02-22 03:17:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON142	FRAZIO and FORSLINE- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Gennaro Fazio, Geneticist and Philip Forsline, Horticulturist, USDA/ARS/Geneva/NY and Ralph Scorza, Horticulturist, USDA/ARS/Geneva/NY to visit New Zealand from March 3-28, 2006 to attend conferences on Hort Research Plant Breeding Facilitiy and McGrath Nur [...]	2006-02-24 01:52:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON143	BALDO AND SWIETLIK- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Angela Baldo, Computational Biologist, Geneva, NY and Dariusz Swietlik, Plant Pathologist, Kearneysville, USDA/ARS to visit New Zealand from March 3-28, 2006 to attend Third International Conference to Rosaceae Genomics, Genetics and Breeding; post-conferen [...]	2006-02-24 01:53:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON144	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MAUREEN BLANCHARD, MARCH [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Margaret BLANCHARD - Program Manager/Analyst, Policy and Programs Division, Office of International Affairs, Customs, to travel to Wellington, Auckland, and Christchurch New Zealand from March 3-14, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to a [...]	2006-02-24 02:24:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC ETRD AMGT NZ
06WELLINGTON145	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MAUREEN BLANCHARD, MARCH [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Margaret BLANCHARD - Program Manager/Analyst, Policy and Programs Division, Office of International Affairs, Customs, to travel to Wellington, Auckland, and Christchurch New Zealand from March 3-14, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to a [...]	2006-02-24 02:24:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC ETRD AMGT NZ
06WELLINGTON148	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR KAYE LEE, MARCH 9 - 11, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to State Department China Desk Officer Kaye Lee to travel to Queenstown, New Zealand from March 9-11, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to accompany EAP Senior Advisor James Keith to Halibut Group meetings. 2. (U) Embassy understands [...]	2006-02-27 01:36:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ECON PREL CH NZ
06WELLINGTON155	CDR CENTCOM VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND [...] (C) Summary: General Abizaid's February 23-25 visit to New Zealand came one month after Admiral Fallon's visit amid high media interest in the bilateral relationship. The General met with Prime Minister Clark, Defense Minister Goff and Foreign Minister Winston Peters, as well as with Chief of [...]	2006-02-28 01:37:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC NZ
06WELLINGTON157	EAP/ANP DIRECTOR KRAWITZ'S FEBRUARY MEETINGS IN [...] (C) Summary: Discussions during ANP Director Krawitz's February 8-11 visit to New Zealand addressed PRC activities in the Pacific, Pacific Island issues, regional stability, counter-terrorism, Antarctica, U.S.-New Zealand relations, bilateral military ties, and launch of a new U.S.-New Zealan [...]	2006-02-28 04:06:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NZ
06WELLINGTON160	TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS - NEW ZEALAND 3/2006 [...] (SBU) Following are responses for the Trafficking in Person report for New Zealand, keyed to reftel: Begin responses: 21. Overview of a country's activities to eliminate trafficking in persons: A. New Zealand has been a country of destination for internationally trafficked women in th [...]	2006-03-01 03:47:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB NZ
06WELLINGTON163	VOLK- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Gayle Volk, Plant Physiologist, USDA/ARS/NPA to visit Napier, New Zealand from March 12-26, 2006 to attend and make presentation at the Third International Rosaceae Genomics Conference. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistanc [...]	2006-03-01 19:57:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON168	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOJ ANN O'BRIEN, MARCH [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Ms. Ann O'Brien, Department of Justice Antitrust Division Official to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from March 11 - April 2, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Commerce Commission of New Zealand's Investigation Review. [...]	2006-03-02 04:04:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ECON ETRD KIPR NZ
06WELLINGTON169	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ICE/KEITH THOMSON, MARCH [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Assistant Commissioner, Office of International Affairs, Keith Thomson to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from March 6 - 10, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the New Zealand Customs Symposium and bilateral meetings w [...]	2006-03-02 04:07:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC ETRD AMGT NZ
06WELLINGTON171	COTE- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Charles Cote, Investigator, Office of Regional Operations, Office of Regulatory Affairs, Food and Drug Administration to visit Wellington, New Zealand from March 12-15, 2006 to take a regulatory/inspection-Environmental Science and Research, Kenepuru Scienc [...]	2006-03-03 02:39:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON176	NEW ZEALAND REPORTS ON DPRK FLAG OF CONVENIENCE [...] (S/REL NZ) A representative of Maritime Mutual Insurance Association NZ (MMIA) has told a New Zealand official that the company no longer insures North Korean vessels. The representative believes that the North Korean ships that had been insured by MMIA are now being insured by the South of E [...]	2006-03-05 21:45:00	Embassy Wellington	SECRET	KNNP MNUC PARM PREL EWWT PHSA KNAR NZ
06WELLINGTON178	SPOMER- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Duane Spomer, Food Defense Advisor, Compliance and Analysis Programs, Agricultural Marketing Service, Office of Regulatory Affairs, Food and Drug Administration to visit Wellington, New Zealand from March 22 to April 2, 2006 to attend the 7th Session of the [...]	2006-03-06 21:11:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON18	SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF ADM [...] (C) Mission New Zealand warmly welcomes your visits on January 15-19 (PACAF) and January 16-22 (PACOM). New Zealand officials are also eager to meet with you. You will be arriving in New Zealand towards the end of the summer holiday period. With Parliament out of session until mid-February [...]	2006-01-10 02:36:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV NZ
06WELLINGTON180	BELL AND SIMON - NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Richard Bell, Horticulturist and Charles Simon, Geneticist, USDA/ARS/NAA/Kearneysville to visit New Zealand from March 10 to march 27, 2006 to attend pre-conference Training Workshop on Rosaceae Bio-Informatics and Genomic Technologies of the 3rd Genomics C [...]	2006-03-07 01:33:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON181	CORRECTED COPY - SPOMER- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Duane Spomer, Food Defense Advisor, Compliance and Analysis Programs, Agricultural Marketing Service to visit Queenstown, New Zealand from March 22 to April 2, 2006 to attend the 7th Session of the Codex Committee on milk and milk products. 2. Embassy un [...]	2006-03-07 01:34:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON194	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR SUSAN ANTHONY AND JOHN [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Attorneys Susan Anthony and John Rodriguez to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from March 24 - 31, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (IC [...]	2006-03-10 03:41:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ETRD ECON KIPR NZ
06WELLINGTON197	RIDAY- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Riday Heathcliffe, Geneticist, USDA/ARS/MWA/Madison to visit New Zealand from April 17-26, 2006 to present paper at the 13th Australasian Plant Breeding Conference, and visit agriculture research facilities and establish collaborations in clover research. [...]	2006-03-12 21:57:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON198	JANG- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Eric Jang, Research Entomologist, USDA/ARS/PWA, Hilo to visit Christchurch, New Zealand from March 27 through April 2, 2006 to further ARS cooperative research initiative with the HortResearch and New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture. 2. Embassy understan [...]	2006-03-12 21:57:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON201	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MARK HOLLIDAY, NOAA, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Mark Holliday to travel to Auckland from March 13-14; Wellington from March 15-16 and March 19-20; and Christchurch from March 17-18. The purpose of this visit is to meet with NZ Government and industry representatives on implementation o [...]	2006-03-13 03:57:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TPHY KSCA EFIS CS BEXP NZ
06WELLINGTON207	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NATHAN G. MCDOWELL, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Nathan McDowell to travel to Christchurch and Rotorua, New Zealand, from March 24 to April 10, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to collaborate with top scientist in New Zealand (and the world) on the subject of atmospheric carbon dioxid [...]	2006-03-14 23:22:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ENRG NZ
06WELLINGTON208	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR SUZANNE SENE AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration's Senior Policy Advisor Suzanne R. Sene and Senior Advisor Meredith Attwell to travel to Wellington, New Zealand, from March 20 - April 1, 2006. The pu [...]	2006-03-14 23:23:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
06WELLINGTON21	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR RICHARD [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Geological Survey Research Hydrologist Richard Alexander to travel to Hamilton, New Zealand from February 1 - March 7, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to collaborate with the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research ( [...]	2006-01-10 22:36:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV NZ
06WELLINGTON218	NEW ZEALAND'S RESPONSE TO IIC FINDINGS [...] The New Zealand government has investigated two companies named in the Independent Inquiry Committee's interim report released October 27, 2005, on allegations of illegal fund transfers to Iraq. The government investigation found no evidence of such transfers by the two companies. In addition, [...]	2006-03-21 04:19:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KFIN PGOV NZ
06WELLINGTON22	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR BRUCE MOLNIA, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Geological Survey Research Geologist Bruce Molnia to travel to Twizel, New Zealand from February 3 - 11, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to attend the workshop on Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) and present papers [...]	2006-01-10 22:37:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV NZ
06WELLINGTON220	POSSIBLE FUTURE LABOUR PARTY LEADER RESIGNS FROM CABINET [...] (SBU) New Zealand's political landscape has been shaken by the resignation from Cabinet of David Parker, a talented Labour MP viewed as a potential future party leader, only five months after he was first elevated from the backbenches. The resignation followed magazine allegations that Parker [...]	2006-03-22 19:27:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV NZ
06WELLINGTON221	COOK ISLANDS HIGH COMMISSIONER SACKED FOR PLOTTING [...] (SBU) On March 3, citing involvement in a plot to topple him from Government, Cook Islands Prime Minister Jim Marurai sacked Dr. Robert Woonton as High Commissioner to New Zealand. Marurai succeeded Woonton as Prime Minister in December 2004, and Woonton became High Commissioner as a politica [...]	2006-03-22 19:29:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PBIO NZ
06WELLINGTON222	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR RICHARD CALNAN AND NANCY [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to USGS Chief International Program Unit Richard Calnan and International Program Specialist Nancy Zeigler to travel to Wellington, New Zealand, from March 30-April 8, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to attend and to participate in the 200 [...]	2006-03-22 23:39:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TPHY NZ
06WELLINGTON232	CODEX COMMITTEE ON MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS - NEW ZEALAND [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Duane Spomer, Associate Administrator, Standards and Grading, Dairy Program, AMS/USDA; John Sheehan, Director, Division of Dairy and Egg Safety, Office of Plant and Dairy Foods and Beverages, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FDA; Syed A Ali, [...]	2006-03-27 03:07:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON234	APPROACH TO NEW ZEALAND ON ISRAEL/JUSCANZ [...] (C) Summary: As requested reftel, Ambassador McCormick and the Australian and Canadian High Commissioners called on Foreign Minister Peters to urge that New Zealand support Israeli membership in the Geneva JUSCANZ group. Peters promised to discuss the issue with Prime Minister Clark, and we [...]	2006-03-27 05:31:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM NZ
06WELLINGTON243	PANELLA - NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Leonard Panella, geneticist USDA/ARS/NPA to visit Christchurch and Palmerston North, New Zealand from April 15-26, 2006 to attend Australasian Plant Breeding Conference and to visit Collaborative visit to Grassland Research Centre in Palmerston North. 2. [...]	2006-03-28 23:10:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON244	ADMINISTRATOR DAY, DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Administrator Lloyd Day, Agricultural Marketing Service; Deputy Administrator Barry Carpenter, Livestock and Seed Program; and Justin Ransom, Agricultural marketing Specialist, Livestock and Seed Program, USDA/AMS to visit New Zealand from April 30 to May 4 [...]	2006-03-28 23:10:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON254	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DHS/NNTRAV JAMES THOMAS [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to James Thomas to travel to Wellington and Christchurch, New Zealand, from April 6 - 15, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to participate and consult at the University of Canterbury Consortium and to meet with government funding agencies i [...]	2006-04-03 22:27:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
06WELLINGTON260	THE NUCLEAR BAN AND NEW ZEALAND'S IDENTITY [...] (C) Summary: For reasons of history and politics, New Zealand's anti-nuclear legislation has become a core part of the nation's psyche. The ban arose just as the country was forging its post-colonial identity, and has become as integral to many Kiwis as the Constitution is to us. Although w [...]	2006-04-05 03:55:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV NZ
06WELLINGTON266	MCGOWAN AND MILLER-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Paul McGowan, Director of Preclearance Programs, USDA/APHIS/Maryland, and Keith Miller, Assistant Director, Quarantine Policy Analysis and Support Staff (QPAS),Riverdale, Maryland, to visit New Zealand from April 17 to April 21, 2006. The purpose of the vi [...]	2006-04-10 02:15:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON268	LABOUR'S NEW TALENT DEFICIT. [...] (SBU) Summary: After two full terms in power, PM Clark has failed to effectively rejuvenate her Labour Party's ranks. Labour's lack of recognizable next generation leadership could be a real handicap over the short to-medium term, especially as the opposition National Party has a number of cap [...]	2006-04-10 19:11:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV NZ
06WELLINGTON27	NEW ZEALAND: PLEDGING FOR AFGHANISTAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-11 23:09:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL PGOV AF NZ
06WELLINGTON285	R/V NATHANIEL B. PALMER, FILE [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-13 03:13:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ
06WELLINGTON286	A/S HILL'S MEETINGS WITH PM CLARK AND FM PETERS [...] (C) Summary: During separate March 20 meetings with Prime Minister Clark and Foreign Minister Peters in Wellington, EAP Assistant Secretary Christopher R. Hill encouraged the United States and New Zealand to work together in areas such as the Pacific Islands and Afghanistan. Prime Minister [...]	2006-04-13 03:26:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL XB NZ
06WELLINGTON293	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NSF OFFICIAL DR. JILLIAN [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Jillian Pate, NSF Program Director, Office of Budget, Finance, and Award Management, to travel to Auckland, Nelson, and Christchurch, New Zealand, from April 20 - 26, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to meet with Helicopters New Zea [...]	2006-04-18 03:58:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
06WELLINGTON3	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ROBERT D. [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NOAA Research Physicist Robert D. Evans to travel to Lauder Station, New Zealand from February 17 - 24, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to install the Dobson Ozone Spectrophotometers at Lauder Station. 2. (U) Embassy understands th [...]	2006-01-04 01:17:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV AS NZ
06WELLINGTON311	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR PENNY J ANDERSON, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Penny Anderson, TSAR, to travel to Wellington and Auckland, New Zealand, from May 16 - 23, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to conduct meetings and familiarization visit to Auckland Airport. 2. (U) Embassy understands that support r [...]	2006-04-25 22:08:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
06WELLINGTON321	Proposal for Digital Video Conference with an American [...] Post requests a U.S. specialist in alternative natural and sustainable energy sources for a digital video conference on (US date) Friday July 7 (NZ date: Saturday July 8). Time to be confirmed depending on location of the speaker. This DVC would form a major event in the Dunedin International S [...]	2006-04-26 23:05:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP NZ OEXC SCUL KPAO
06WELLINGTON326	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DHS/TSA SPECIALISTS ADAM [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Adam Michael Shanedling and Suzanne Ventura, DHS/TSA, to travel to Rarotonga, Cook Islands, from June 22-28, 2006, with a transit in Auckland, New Zealand, on June 28, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to conduct airport and air carrier [...]	2006-04-28 00:07:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KHLS EAIR ASEC PTER OTRA NZ
06WELLINGTON331	ONCE AGAIN, NEW ZEALAND REGULATOR SUPPORTS CUT IN [...] The New Zealand Commerce Commission for the second time has issued a recommendation to reduce the high fees that mobile phone companies charge to terminate calls on their networks. Before acting on the recommendation, the Communications Minister has allowed three more weeks for public submiss [...]	2006-05-01 05:24:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	ECPS ECON ETRD NZ
06WELLINGTON341	NEW ZEALAND IVs EMERGE AS MEDIA LEADERS [...] BEGIN SUMMARY: While some New Zealand participants in the IV program remain in their same influential roles, others have had diverse experiences, including being offered employment by Al Jazeera, becoming the host of a radio show, and being promoted to management. Until recently we were able to [...]	2006-05-03 04:53:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA KIRC OIIP MNUC KPAO KMDR OPRC NZ
06WELLINGTON342	NEW ZEALAND REPORTS LITTLE TO NO EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE [...] New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) reports there have been no casualties and little to no property damage in the capital of Nuku'alofa and the outer islands. MFAT says the Tongan National Emergency-Disaster Office reports no casualties and little to no property damage [...]	2006-05-04 00:32:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TN NZ
06WELLINGTON349	NEW ZEALAND RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR DONATION FOR [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-07 23:41:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV PREL AF NZ
06WELLINGTON35	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR WILLIAM SECOR, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Research Microbiologist, NCID, CDC, HHS William Secor to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from February 5 - 17, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to work with Victoria University Assistant Professor Dr. Anne LaFlamme on the developmen [...]	2006-01-12 19:40:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
06WELLINGTON350	R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer, FILE NO. 2004-044 [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-08 01:59:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ
06WELLINGTON351	SORCERER II, FILE NO. 2004-044 [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-08 02:02:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ
06WELLINGTON354	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TSAR PENNY ANDERSON TO [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Penny J. Anderson, TSAR Sydney, to travel to Rarotonga, Cook Islands, from June 6-10, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to conduct meetings and a familiarization visit to Rarotonga Airport. 2. (SBU) Embassy point of contact is Economi [...]	2006-05-09 01:04:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KHLS EAIR ASEC PTER OTRA NZ
06WELLINGTON362	NEW ZEALAND: SMALLPOX DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (U) On May 9, Poloff conveyed reftel points to Wendy Edgar, Acting Manager, International Sector Policy Directorate, Ministry of Health; and Rebecca Lineham, Policy Officer, Americas Division, and Charles Kingston, Policy Officer, United Nations, Human Rights and Commonwealth Division, Ministr [...]	2006-05-10 05:27:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL AORC TBIO WHO NZ
06WELLINGTON369	NEW ZEALAND RESPONSE TO SMALLPOX DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) On May 9, Poloff conveyed Ref A points to Wendy Edgar, Acting Manager, International Sector Policy Directorate, Ministry of Health (see Ref B). In Edgar's response May 12, she reported that GNZ's "stance on variola virus is largely consistent with the U.S. position. We will be support [...]	2006-05-12 04:34:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL AORC TBIO WHO NZ
06WELLINGTON372	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA PERSONNEL MOHEIT AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Federal Aviation Administration Safety Inspectors Larry D. Moheit and Renato A. Lutz to travel to Christchurch and Auckland, New Zealand from June 10 - 22, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to inspect a U.S. certified repair station. [...]	2006-05-15 04:34:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA EAIR ASEC NZ
06WELLINGTON379	GNZ REMAINS COOL TO ISRAELI JUSCANZ PARTICIPATION [...] (C) As noted Ref A, Ambassador McCormick and his Australian and Canadian counterparts met with Minister Peters in late May to urge that New Zealand support Israeli membership in the Geneva JUSCANZ group. This followed representations by other Embassy officers at lower levels. Minister Peters [...]	2006-05-16 23:27:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM NZ
06WELLINGTON389	MORE ON FM PETER'S E-MAIL OUTBURST: AN ANTI-GOFF [...] (C) Summary: Chris Trotter, New Zealand's leading left-wing political analyst believes the recent attack by New Zealand First leader and Foreign Minister Winston Peters on National Party Leader Don Brash was actually aimed at Trade and Defense Minister Phil Goff. In a recent article in the "I [...]	2006-05-19 05:45:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV NZ
06WELLINGTON390	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR KEVIN PAINTER TO GO TO THE COOK [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NOAA Official Kevin Painter, to travel to Rarotonga, Cook Islands, from May 18-25, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to testify as a witness for the government in the Adelita vs. Cook Islands Case. 2. (SBU) Embassy point of contact is [...]	2006-05-22 05:10:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TPHY KSCA EFIS CW NZ
06WELLINGTON394	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DAVID P. WISEGARVER, MAY [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NOAA Official David P. Wisegarver to travel to Tauranga, New Zealand from May 25 - June 16, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the CO2 project cruise aboard the R/V Cap Victor. 2. (U) Embassy understands that country [...]	2006-05-24 03:32:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV NZ
06WELLINGTON40	DRUG INDUSTRY SEES POSSIBLE SALVE TO ITS PAIN IN [...] (SBU) The pharmaceutical industry in New Zealand is enjoying a dose of optimism about the prospect of changes to the government's drug-purchasing system, which has crimped the industry for the past 12 years. The government has promised a review of the system that controls the range and price [...]	2006-01-13 05:15:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON ETRD NZ
06WELLINGTON403	CLEARANCE GRANTED TO R/V NATHANIEL B. [...] Embassy is in receipt of a diplomatic note from the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade dated 22 May, 2006, granting clearance to the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer. The dip note outlines conditions of clearance. 2. The text of the dip note is as follows. Begin text: The Min [...]	2006-05-24 23:53:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ
06WELLINGTON406	NZ UPDATE ON THE SOLOMONS [...] (C) Summary: GNZ officials report that a May 19 meeting between New Zealand Foreign Minister Peters, Australian Foreign Minister Downer, and Solomon Island officials was "difficult." However, the Solomons PM was much more conciliatory during a separate meeting with Peters on May 23. Most Sol [...]	2006-05-26 00:50:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NZ
06WELLINGTON41	LANGE'S LAST LAUGH [...] (C) Former NZ Prime Minister David Lange's private papers included a copy of the highly classified 1985-86 Government Communications Security Bureau annual report detailing its activities, including cooperation with the U.S. National Security Agency. According to an article in the January 15 [...]	2006-01-16 23:41:00	Embassy Wellington	SECRET	PINR PREL NZ
06WELLINGTON415	JACKSON-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Mark Jackson, Microbiologist, USDA, ARS, MWA, Peoria, IL to visit Hamilton, New Zealand from June 3-23, 2006 to attend the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research meeting and present seminar. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is [...]	2006-05-31 01:46:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON417	DEMARCHE TO NEW ZEALAND ON POLIO ERADICATION AND [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-31 04:18:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA TBIO NZ WHO UNICEF
06WELLINGTON42	ACT PARTY'S DECLINE COULD SPELL NEAR-TERM END OF [...] (SBU) The expected resignation of the long-serving president of the ACT party could knock the center right out of New Zealand politics, at least over the short term. The president's recent statements suggesting her party should become a think tank instead illustrates the depths to which ACT h [...]	2006-01-17 04:29:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV NZ
06WELLINGTON429	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JULIA POWELL, SEPTEMBER [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NOAA Physical Scientist Julia Powell to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from on or about September 9-23, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to attend the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) Transfer Standard Maintenance and Ap [...]	2006-06-06 03:32:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
06WELLINGTON43	NEW ZEALAND CLEARANCE FOR RIRO PAMELA DRAGOVICH [...] (SBU) EMBASSY WELCOMES AND GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO PAMELA DRAGOVICH, REGIONAL INFORMATION RESOURCE OFFICER (RIRO),TO TRAVEL TO WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND, FROM JANUARY 30 TO FEBRUARY 5, 2006. THE PURPOSE OF THE VISIT IS TO TRAIN THE NEW REFERENCE LIBRARIAN AND ADVISE ON RESOURCES AND PROGR [...]	2006-01-18 00:14:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA KIRC OIIP KPAO NZ
06WELLINGTON430	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR LORI L. AQUILINO, JUNE [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to FAA Official Lori L. Aquilino to travel to Auckland, New Zealand from June 23-24, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to stay in Auckland overnight en route to Vanuatu. 2. (U) Embassy understands that country clearance is the only ass [...]	2006-06-06 04:35:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA EAIR ASEC NZ
06WELLINGTON431	Proposal for U.S. Speaker Dr. Anthony Cordesman [...] Dr. Anthony Cordesman is the Burke Chair of Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Co-Director of the Center's Middle East Program, Washington D.C., to visit Wellington, early September, 2006. 2. Post requests Dr. Cordesman for five days of speaking engagements [...]	2006-06-06 19:19:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP
06WELLINGTON434	EVANS-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Robert Evans, Agricultural Engineer, USDA, ARS, NPA, Sidney, MT to visit Auckland, New Zealand from June 22 to July 3, 2006 to attend and speak at seminars to be held by kiwifruit growers. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assista [...]	2006-06-07 01:43:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON446	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR KAREN MCKEE, JULY 23-30, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to USGS Ecologist Karen McKee to travel to Hamilton, New Zealand from July 23-30, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to continue research on mangrove forests. 2. (U) Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistance requ [...]	2006-06-09 04:31:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TPHY KSCA NZ
06WELLINGTON449	THINLY STRETCHED NEW ZEALAND MILITARY AIMS HIGH, [...] (C) Summary: The New Zealand Defense Force (NZDF) is being rebuilt after decades of neglect. The Labour Government, ideologically drawn to a peace-keeping role for the NZDF, has nonetheless proved willing to deploy small expeditionary forces around the world. Given that the entire military [...]	2006-06-12 05:58:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PMIL NZ
06WELLINGTON451	INITIATING A DIALOGUE: NEW ZEALAND ACTIONS IN THE [...] (C) Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) officials say New Zealand's main areas of concern in the Pacific are governance, economic stability and security. New Zealand is revising its approach to and strengthening engagement with Pacific Island countries (PICs),and is coordinating more [...]	2006-06-13 00:04:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NZ
06WELLINGTON456	2006 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES: NEW ZEALAND [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-15 04:09:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV CASC KIDE OPIC PGOV NZ
06WELLINGTON457	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DR. KULKARNI, JULY 2 - [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Ashok Kulkarni, Senior Investigator, National Institute of Health, to travel to Dunedin, New Zealand from July 2-5, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to present two seminars at the University of Otago. 2. (U) Embassy understands [...]	2006-06-15 04:10:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA KSCA TBIO AS NZ
06WELLINGTON459	NEW ZEALAND TAKING LOOK AT WTO GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT [...] (U) Summary: Urged by members of the New Zealand business community, the New Zealand government has agreed to review its decision not to join the WTO Government Procurement Agreement. However, government officials expect the review to show that the government's costs of complying with the agre [...]	2006-06-15 23:54:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD PGOV PREL NZ
06WELLINGTON461	NOMINATING REGIONAL IVP CANDIDATES IN SUPPORT OF [...] (SBU) A recent sub-PCC in Washington explored ways to enhance USG work in the Pacific Islands. U.S. influence in the Pacific is greatly constrained by a lack of public diplomacy resources, including very limited exchange opportunities. U.S. policies on global terrorism, good governance, the d [...]	2006-06-16 03:20:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL OEXC SCUL KPAO NZ XV

06WELLINGTON463	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JERRY MULLINS, JULY 17 - [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to USGS Physical Scientist Jerry Mullins to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from July 17 - 21, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to discuss ongoing cooperative Antarctic research with the New Zealand Surveyor General, the New Zealand Geog [...]	2006-06-18 22:36:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA KSCA TPHY NZ
06WELLINGTON464	R/V KAIMIKAI-O-KANALOA, FILE NO. 2005-007 AND 2005-008 [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-19 00:10:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ
06WELLINGTON470	PRESENCE OF 9/11 HIJACKER CRONY IN NEW ZEALAND [...] (SBU) The New Zealand Government announced on June 11 that it had two weeks earlier deported Rayed Mohammed Abdullah Ali, a Saudi national of Yemeni background. When Ali had lived in the United States some years ago, he studied flying and roomed in Phoenix with 9/11 hijacker Hani Hanjour, wh [...]	2006-06-20 22:51:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PTER NZ
06WELLINGTON472	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR THOMAS DOYLE AND KEN [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Ecologists Thomas Doyle and Ken Krauss to travel to Hamilton, New Zealand from July 16 - 20, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to meet with New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research to [...]	2006-06-21 01:37:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TPHY KSCA NZ
06WELLINGTON478	"THERE GOES THE NEIGBORHOOD": NZ MEDIA SURVEY REGIONAL [...] SUMMARY: The following is a digest of recent regional security reports in the New Zealand media. This cable gives a synopsis of media reporting on sixteen countries in the region, their outline of New Zealand contributions to each of those countries, and/or their assessment of each country's f [...]	2006-06-22 05:17:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA KIRC OIIP KPAO KMDR OPRC NZ
06WELLINGTON479	"THERE GOES THE NEIGBORHOOD": NZ MEDIA SURVEY REGIONAL [...] SUMMARY: The following is a digest of recent regional security reports in the New Zealand media. This cable gives a synopsis of media reporting on sixteen countries in the region, their outline of New Zealand contributions to each of those countries, and/or their assessment of each country's f [...]	2006-06-22 05:30:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA KIRC OIIP KPAO KMDR OPRC NZ
06WELLINGTON480	MEDIA REPORT OFFICIAL ADVICE ON VIABILITY OF NUCLEAR ENERGY [...] SUMMARY: On June 15, 2006, Radio New Zealand aired a report on the viability of nuclear energy in New Zealand after using the Official Information Act to obtain government papers prepared for the Minister of Energy. Two sets of official advice on possible future use of nuclear energy in New [...]	2006-06-22 21:50:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO KMDR OPRC MNUC PREL NZ
06WELLINGTON481	NEW ZEALAND REVIEWING MEDICINES POLICY [...] (SBU) Summary: The New Zealand government has launched a review of its long-term medicines strategy, aiming to identify ways to improve the drug-purchasing system that controls the range and price of most prescription medicines in the country. The review follows more than a year of escalatin [...]	2006-06-22 23:45:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON NZ
06WELLINGTON484	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CHERYL HALLAM, JULY 1-5, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Geological Survey Scientist Emeritus Cheryl Hallam to travel to Palmerston North, New Zealand from July 1 - 5, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to meet with collaborators to coordinate data and web service developments in digital g [...]	2006-06-26 04:20:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TPHY KSCA NZ
06WELLINGTON486	FM PETERS' COMMENTS ON THE US-NZ RELATIONSHIP: NZ MEDIA [...] SUMMARY: In recent comments Foreign Minister Peters has made to the NZ media he describes America as a "wonderful country" and says he is "glad that America leads the free world." Minister Peters says he hopes the bilateral relationship can be improved, but he cautions New Zealanders against [...]	2006-06-26 06:53:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO KMDR OPRC PREL NZ
06WELLINGTON489	NZ ON UN REFORM AND THE BUDGET CAP [...] (C) On June 27, the DCM discussed reftel draft reform resolution with Joan Mosley, Director of the UN Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Mosley said she had already received and studied carefully the US-Australia-Japan paper. GNZ agrees completely with the paper's intent [...]	2006-06-28 06:50:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV UNGA NZ
06WELLINGTON491	R/V KAIMIKAI-O-KANALOA, FILE NO. 2005-009 AND 2005-010 [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-29 04:55:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ
06WELLINGTON500	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DR. JILLIAN PATE, JULY [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to National Science Foundation (NSF) Official Dr. Jillian Pate to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from July 16 - 21, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to attend ANZES Post Award and Program Management Review Conference. 2. (U) Emba [...]	2006-07-03 03:21:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TPHY NSF NZ
06WELLINGTON512	PM CLARK'S MARKS INDEPENDENCE DAY: NZ MEDIA REPORTS [...] SUMMARY: At the Embassy's July 4 reception, Prime Minister Clark's gave a speech that described the bilateral relationship as "of fundamental importance to our country and one which we greatly value". She stressed our shared values and expressed her desire for the relationship to "continue to [...]	2006-07-07 03:03:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO KMDR OPRC PREL NZ
06WELLINGTON526	FOREIGN MINISTER PETERS' TRIP TO WASHINGTON [...] (C) Summary: During his July visit to Washington, NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters hopes to focus discussion away from the nuclear issue and towards positive areas of bilateral cooperation. Peters, who has from the start of his tenure openly called for improved US-NZ relations, will quiet [...]	2006-07-10 04:55:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV NZ
06WELLINGTON533	DEPARTING NZ MINISTER ASSUMES NEW TRADE ROLE [...] (SBU) Labour Cabinet Minister Jim Sutton has announced his retirement from politics to become a Trade Ambassador for New Zealand and Chair of Landcorp. His departure from Parliament will not alter the balance of power as he will be replaced by the next person on the Labour Party List, lawyer Ch [...]	2006-07-11 22:55:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV NZ
06WELLINGTON534	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR THOMAS MCGEE, AUGUST [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NASA Official Thomas McGee to travel to Queenstown, New Zealand from August 4-12, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to have consultations on Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC) Lidar. 2. (U) Embassy u [...]	2006-07-12 03:14:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TSPA NZ
06WELLINGTON535	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR BARRY HIRSHORN, JULY [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NOAA National Weather Service Geophysicist Barry Hirshorn to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from July 21-24 and July 30 - August 13. The purpose of this visit is to interact with and share on the handling and deriving of products from s [...]	2006-07-12 03:24:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TPHY KSCA AS NZ
06WELLINGTON545	Request for a DVC on Civic Education [...] A spokesperson from the Center for Civic Education 5146 Douglas Fir Road Calabasas, CA 91302 Ph: 818-591-9321 Email: wright@civiced.org ; projectcitizen@civiced.org 2. A spokesperson from the National Alliance for Civic Education (NACE) Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy Maryl [...]	2006-07-13 22:26:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP NZ
06WELLINGTON55	NEW ZEALAND NOMINATION FOR FSN POLITICAL [...] Embassy Wellington submits the following nomination for the FSN Staff Political Training Course to be held in Washington from April 3 - 14, 2006. 2. Name: Craig Brian Greaves Grade: 9 Step 2. Length of Service: Start date - May 16, 2005. English language ability: level 4 (native spea [...]	2006-01-20 01:33:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	AFSI AFSN PGOV PREL NZ
06WELLINGTON567	CHRISTIAN DELLIS-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Christian Dellis, Export Specialist, PPQS/APHIS/USDA to visit Wellington, New Zealand from July 23-29, 2006 to meet with New Zealand officials to attempt to finalize UN/CEFACT documents. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistan [...]	2006-07-21 05:11:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON568	THOMAS GEARY-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Thomas Geary, Animal Scientist, USDA/ARS/NPA to visit Wellington, New Zealand from August 9-18, 2006 to attend and make presentation at the 17 International Ruminant Reproduction Symposium. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assist [...]	2006-07-21 05:12:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON57	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR BICE ESCORTED REMOVAL TO [...] (SBU) Embassy Wellington welcomes ICE escorts Barry Miller and Michael Franchek to Auckland, New Zealand from March 2-3, 2006. The purpose of the trip is to transit New Zealand to escort deportee Tominiko Masifilo, A079365804, to Tonga. 2. (U) Embassy will arrange any in-briefing officials [...]	2006-01-20 12:54:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC
06WELLINGTON575	COOK ISLANDS: QUEEN'S REPRESENTATIVE DISSOLVES [...] (U) On July 24, the Queen's Representative dissolved the Cook Islands Parliament and called for a snap election. The move came ahead of a vote of no confidence in the Cabinet. A new election must be held within ninety days. End summary. 2. (SBU) The Queen's Representative, HE Sir Frederic [...]	2006-07-26 05:00:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL CW NZ XV
06WELLINGTON576	DENNIS GLICK -NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dennis Glick, Facility and Equipment Review Specialist, Dairy Program, Agriculture Marketing Service, USDA to visit Hamilton, New Zealand from August 8-15, 2006 to conduct equipment review of dairy equipment. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance [...]	2006-07-26 05:03:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON589	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EDWARD KROMER TO GO TO THE COOK [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Geological Survey Field Engineer Edward Kromer to travel to Rarotonga, Cook Islands, from August 19-24, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to perform technical discussions regarding the installation of a global seismic network statio [...]	2006-07-28 03:01:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TPHY KSCA CW NZ
06WELLINGTON59	Bio Data for 2006 International Visitor Haydon [...] Post nominates Haydon Dewes for RP Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists, April 3-21, 2006. 2. Haydon Dewes has Full Country Team Approval. 3. START FIXED-FORMAT TEXT: : The following data is in a fixed format which enables : automated processing in Washington and should not be : edi [...]	2006-01-24 18:47:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC SCUL KPAO NZ
06WELLINGTON590	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ELIZABETH MALONE AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Department of Energy Officials Elizabeth L. Malone and James A. Edmonds to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from October 8-15, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the Fourth Lead Author Meeting of the Intergovernmenta [...]	2006-07-28 03:10:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ENRG NZ
06WELLINGTON591	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ELIZABETH LUMAN, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to HHS/CDC Epidemiologist Elizabeth Luman to travel to Auckland, New Zealand from September 2-10, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to meet with an expert technical group to discuss strengthening childhood immunizations and to present "Vari [...]	2006-07-28 05:35:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA KSCA RP NZ
06WELLINGTON595	R/V NATHANIEL B. PALMER, FILE NO. 2004-139 [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-01 04:35:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ
06WELLINGTON598	REPORT ON LABOUR MP SCANDAL SETS OFF MAELSTROM [...] (C) A report on a scandal involving Labour MP Taito Philip Field threatens to become another thorn in the Government's side. The report cleared Field of the main allegation but raised serious questions about his behavior as a MP. The opposition National Party claims that this and other questi [...]	2006-08-01 19:16:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NZ
06WELLINGTON599	GNZ VIEWS ON TONGA'S POLITICAL REFORM FOLLOWING [...] (C) With a vocal domestic population of 40,000 ethnic Tongans, the GNZ has monitored with interest the deaths of Tongan Prince Tu'ipelehake and Princess Kaimana in a July 5 car accident in the United States. GNZ views the death of the Prince as a blow to the political reform process in Tonga. [...]	2006-08-01 19:17:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NZ TN
06WELLINGTON603	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MICHELLE REYNOLDS, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Research Wildlife Biologist Michelle Reynolds to travel to Invercargill, New Zealand from August 22 - September 6, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to provide technical assistance with data collection and p [...]	2006-08-03 00:09:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TPHY KSCA NZ
06WELLINGTON62	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HUA-LU PAN, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Weather Service Official Hua-Lu Pan to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from February 12 - 20, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to attend the annual meeting of the members of th [...]	2006-01-25 02:22:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TPHY KSCA NZ
06WELLINGTON625	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EAP DAS GLYN DAVIES, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to EAP DAS Glyn Davies to travel to Wellington and Auckland, New Zealand from August 17 - 19, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to meet with Embassy and Consulate staff and New Zealand government officials. 2. (U) Embassy has provided m [...]	2006-08-11 05:35:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OVIP OTRA PREL AS NZ
06WELLINGTON628	KINDIGER -NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Bryan Kindiger, Geneticist, USDA/ARS to visit Palmerston North, New Zealand from August 25 through September 4, 2006 to visit Agresearch Grasslands Research Center to present overview of research projects; tour facilities and nursery; discuss possible coope [...]	2006-08-14 01:54:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON63	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR KEVIN OBERG, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Geological Survey Hydrologist Kevin Oberg to travel to Rotorua and Christchurch, New Zealand from February 24 - March 24, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to provide two training sessions on the use of hydroacoustic instruments in [...]	2006-01-25 04:41:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TPHY KSCA NZ
06WELLINGTON630	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TERRY MELTON, AUGUST 18, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NSF Official Terry Melton to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from August 18, 2006 to February 20, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to transit Christchurch en route to Antarctica for annual deployment to serve as the NSF Station Mana [...]	2006-08-14 03:33:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TPHY NSF NZ
06WELLINGTON632	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR KEVIN T. CHAMNESS AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to FAA Personnel Kevin T. Chamness and David Michel Maynard to travel to Auckland, New Zealand from August 28 - September 1, 2006. The purpose of this visit is meet with the Informal South Pacific Air Traffic Services Coordination Group (ISP [...]	2006-08-14 04:14:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA EAIR ASEC NZ
06WELLINGTON633	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TIMOTHY J. COUTTS, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Department of Energy official Timothy J. Coutts to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from August 26 - November 2, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to perform research at Canterbury University. 2. (U) Embassy understands that coun [...]	2006-08-14 05:40:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ENRG TRGY NZ
06WELLINGTON636	R/V KAIMIKAI-O-KANALOA, FILE NO. 2005-010 [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-15 02:37:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ
06WELLINGTON652	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CONSTANTINOS TSOURIS, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Department of Energy official Constantinos (Costas) Tsouris to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from September 24 - 30, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to co-chair a conference and present a paper entitled "Electrosorption of Ions fr [...]	2006-08-21 03:53:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ENRG NZ
06WELLINGTON660	GORDH AND FIESELMANN -NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Daniel Fieselmann and Dr. Gordon Gorth, Plant Protection and Quarantine, APHIS, Raleigh, NC to visit Wellington, New Zealand from September 8-11, 2006 to meet with New Zealand contacts of the Quadrilateral scientific exchange. 2. Embassy understands that [...]	2006-08-22 02:54:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON661	VANDEMARK -NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to George Vandemark, Research Geneticist, USDA/ARS/PWA/Washington to visit Queenstown, New Zealand from September 1-9, 2006 to Speak at the Australasian soilborne disease symposium. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistance requir [...]	2006-08-22 02:55:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON665	KIWIS OFFER HELP ON NORTH KOREA [...] (C/NF) Summary: New Zealand officials say there is no direct trade between New Zealand and DPRK but they will advise GNZ entities to be on the lookout for trade and financial activities related to North Korea's ballistic missile programs. New Zealand does not have the means to identify susp [...]	2006-08-24 05:07:00	Embassy Wellington	SECRET//NOFORN	KNNP KPAO PARM PREL MNUC PTER
06WELLINGTON669	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ANP DIRECTOR C. STEVEN [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to ANP Director C. Steven McGann and Economic Officer Alisa Wong to travel to New Zealand from September 9 - 14, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to meet with embassy and consulate staff and also New Zealand government officials. 2. ( [...]	2006-08-28 03:25:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA PGOV PREL AS FJ NZ
06WELLINGTON670	NEW ZEALAND RE-THINKS CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (SBU) Summary: While many Kiwis view the United States and Australia as the big bad wolves of global climate change, NZ officials are quietly turning the country's policies away from the Kyoto Agreement and towards longer-term energy and climate change strategies. The officials are motivated by [...]	2006-08-28 03:33:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ENRG NZ XV
06WELLINGTON68	MEDIA REACTION- ADMIRAL FALLON'S NZ VISIT [...] SUMMARY: After a recent meeting with New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, Admiral Fallon's clear but non- confrontational style was particularly well-suited to delivering a US perspective to the New Zealand media. END SUMMARY. 2. The New Zealand media/public was left in no doubt that th [...]	2006-01-26 02:34:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO NZ
06WELLINGTON690	SCANDALS APLENTY, BUT TALK OF LABOUR'S DEMISE IS [...] (SBU) Labour's recent political problems have been compounded by new accusations of election campaign spending abuse. Meanwhile, new evidence of inappropriate behavior by an already disgraced Labour MP may finally force Labour's leadership to kick him out of the party, impairing the Government' [...]	2006-09-01 03:45:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV NZ
06WELLINGTON7	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR RANDAL KOSTER, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Official Randal Koster to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from February 11-17, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Clivar Working Group on Seasonal to Interannual Prediction (WFSIP) panel [...]	2006-01-05 23:34:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TSPA NZ
06WELLINGTON701	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DAVID M. DICKERSON AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Census Bureau staff members David M. Dickerson and Dale C. Dickerson to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from October 14 - 22, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Third International Trade Statistics Conference. 2. [...]	2006-09-06 02:18:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
06WELLINGTON706	EDWARDS -NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Gavin Edwards, APHIS, International Services, US Embassy Canberra to visit Wellington, New Zealand from September 10-17, 2006 to meet with New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and ForestryQs officials. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the [...]	2006-09-07 04:21:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON71	NEW ZEALAND CLEARANCE FOR EAP/PD COUNTRY [...] (SBU) EMBASSY WELCOMES AND GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO ANNE GRIMES, EAP/PD COUNTRY COORDINATOR, TO TRAVEL TO WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND, MARCH 2-7, 2006, FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY CONSULTATIONS. 2. (U) EMBASSY HAS BOOKED MS. GRIMES AT THE DUXTON HOTEL. DETAILS FOLLOW: DUXTON HOTEL, AUCKLAND [...]	2006-01-27 00:47:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA KPAO NZ
06WELLINGTON717	GNZ SHOULD IMPROVE U.S. TIES, SAYS FORMER NZ [...] (C) New Zealand's former Ambassador to the United States, John Wood, told an inflential local international affairs organization that New Zealand should take the initiative to improve US-NZ ties. Wood cited GNZ officials' anti-US election campaign rhetoric as a low point in the relationship. [...]	2006-09-11 05:23:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NZ
06WELLINGTON718	BACKIEL -NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Adela Backiel, Directo, Sustainable Development, Office of the Chief Economist to Visit Rotorua, Christchurch, Kaikora and Wellington, New Zealand from Octber 12-18, 2006 to participate in the International Landcare Conference. 2. Embassy understands tha [...]	2006-09-11 22:17:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON721	NATIONAL LEADER'S EXTRAMARITAL AFFAIR THREATENS [...] (SBU) National Party leader Don Brash has taken a leave of absence following revelations that he has been having an affair for two years with a member of the conservative Business Roundtable. During the fractious 2005 general election campaign, Brash had been accused of taking large contribu [...]	2006-09-13 06:06:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL NZ
06WELLINGTON723	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ALEXANDER LASKIN, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Department of Energy official Alexander Laskin to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from December 9-14, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to participate in a workshop where he will present scientific work conducted in EMSL/PNNL to demo [...]	2006-09-14 03:09:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA ENRG NZ
06WELLINGTON724	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TSA OFFICIAL JEANETTE L. [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Assistant Federal Security Director - Inspections Jeanette L. Bean to travel to Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand from September 15-30, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to participate in an International Civil Aviation Organization (I [...]	2006-09-14 04:09:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA EAIR ASEC PTER KHLS NZ
06WELLINGTON725	DON BRASH NOT DOWN FOR THE COUNT - YET [...] (C) National Party MPs insist they will stand by embattled leader Don Brash amidst controversy over his private life (REF A) and will continue to focus on the party's political agenda. Despite the party's bravado, a prominent conservative political analyst believes that Brash's leadership has [...]	2006-09-14 19:00:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV NZ
06WELLINGTON729	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TYLER COPLEN, OCTOBER [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to USGS Research Chemist Tyler Coplen to travel to Dunedin, New Zealand from October 5-21, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to give a class on the use of the USGS laboratory information management system for light stable isotopes at the Un [...]	2006-09-18 01:34:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
06WELLINGTON732	EAP/ANP DIRECTOR MCGANN'S MEETINGS WITH GNZ: [...] (C) Summary: During September 13 meetings in Wellington, GNZ officials told EAP/ANP Director Steven McGann that PM Clark and NZ Ministers support greater US-NZ cooperation. McGann and his counterparts agreed that meetings over the coming months between both sides' leaders and senior officials [...]	2006-09-19 01:26:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR ETRD NZ US
06WELLINGTON736	GNZ THINKING ON ANTARCTIC COMMEMORATIONS, LOGISTICS [...] (SBU) GNZ officials welcome USG participation in and support for January events hosted by PM Clark to commemorate the International Polar year and the 50th anniversary of US-NZ cooperation in Antarctica. New Zealand may also host events in-country for official USG visitors, including those una [...]	2006-09-19 19:18:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SENV OTRA NZ US
06WELLINGTON737	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR KEN ANDRASKO AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to EPA Officials Ken Andrasko and Francisco Delachesnaye to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from October 6-15, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report: F [...]	2006-09-19 22:58:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA SENV KSCA TPHY NZ
06WELLINGTON752	CALLAWAY AND EDRINGTON -NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Todd Callaway, Microbiologist and Thomas Edrington, Animal Scientist, USDA/ARS, to visit Wellington, Auckland, New Zealand from October 12-19, 2006 to visit Meat and Wool New Zealand to discuss collaborative research. 2. Embassy understands that country [...]	2006-09-26 04:56:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON756	LABOUR LOSES SUPPORT AMID POISONOUS BODY POLITIC [...] (SBU) PM Helen Clark's withering attack on National Party leader Dr. Don Brash has sent National surging ahead in latest NZ political polls. Late last week, Clark called for a halt to smears on MPs' personal lives and, in the next sentence, called Brash "corrosive and cancerous". National claim [...]	2006-09-27 00:59:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV NZ
06WELLINGTON764	CALLAWAY AND EDRINGTON QREVISED NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Todd Callaway, Microbiologist and Thomas Edrington, Animal Scientist, USDA/ARS, to visit Wellington, Auckland, New Zealand from October 21-26, 2006 to visit Meat and Wool New Zealand to discuss collaborative research. 2. Embassy understands that country [...]	2006-09-29 01:11:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON767	TEXTILES AND APPAREL SECTOR NEW ZEALAND: UPDATED [...] New Zealand (NZ) is recognized as a global leader in the production of sheep wool. With the exception of wool, this country's textile requirements are dominated by imports. New Zealand sheep wool is the variety that is used mainly in interior textiles such as carpets, upholstery, furnishings, [...]	2006-09-29 05:09:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	KTEX ECON ETRD
06WELLINGTON771	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EPA OFFICIAL STEVEN [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to EPA Economist Steven Rose to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from October 6-15, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report: Fourth Lead Author Meeting. 2. ( [...]	2006-10-02 01:31:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA SENV KSCA TPHY NZ
06WELLINGTON772	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DR. RONALD S. JARMIN, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Census Bureau Staff Member Dr. Ronald S. Jarmin to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from October 3 - 10, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to participate in a peer review group at Statistics New Zealand. 2. (U) Embassy underst [...]	2006-10-02 01:45:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA AU NZ
06WELLINGTON773	DELAY IN USG APPROVAL OF NEW ZEALAND'S A-4 PLANE SALE A [...] (SBU) This message contains an action request at para 8. 2. (C) Summary: The New Zealand Defence Force is evaluating how the further delay or cancellation of the GNZ's proposed sale of its last air combat planes to a private U.S. buyer could impact defense planning. NZDF will probably [...]	2006-10-02 03:32:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON MOPS NZ
06WELLINGTON776	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ROBERT PIERCE, OCTOBER [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to USGS Scientist Robert Pierce to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from October 29 - November 10, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to attend meetings and give presentations to Land Information New Zealand on building and managing a geosp [...]	2006-10-04 22:28:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TPHY KSCA NZ
06WELLINGTON779	HOFFMAN Q NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Wesley Hoffman, Ag Engineer, USDA/ARS/SPA/College Station/Texas, to visit Hamilton, Rotorua and Napier, New Zealand from October 11-17, 2006 to attend the New Zealand Agricultural Aviation Association Annual Conference and present papers. 2. Embassy und [...]	2006-10-05 19:59:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON789	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR SHELDON R. TIESZEN, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Office of Defense Programs employee Sheldon R. Tieszen to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from October 13 - 20, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to represent Sandia [...]	2006-10-10 04:52:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ENRG TRGY KNNP NZ
06WELLINGTON790	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR GARY LEE SEPULVADO, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Gary Lee Sepulvado to travel to Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand from October 22-27, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to facilitate CSID Project/Initiative handover to designated PPD Coordinator. 2. (U) Embassy understands that [...]	2006-10-10 04:54:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
06WELLINGTON792	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ROGER MORIN, NOVEMBER 2, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Research Geophysicist Roger Morin to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand, en route to and from McMurdo Station, Antarctica from November 2, 2006 to January 11, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to participat [...]	2006-10-10 04:56:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TPHY KSCA NZ
06WELLINGTON797	Request for DVC with Editor and Publisher of the Cook [...] PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Post requests a DVC with Charlie Cook, which will look at the outcome of the 2006 midterm elections and how they affect the Presidency, US foreign policy, and US policy in New Zealand in particular. 2. Preferred Activity Date, Fiscal Year, and Quarter: This is an FY07 [...]	2006-10-11 02:15:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP SCUL
06WELLINGTON8	SCENESETTER FOR YOUR VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND [...] (C) Mission New Zealand warmly welcomes your visit on January 12-3. New Zealand officials are also eager to meet with you. You will be arriving in New Zealand towards the end of the summer holiday period. With Parliament out of session until mid-February and many families on holiday, thing [...]	2006-01-05 23:58:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV NZ
06WELLINGTON801	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR UNDER SECRETARY TIMOTHY [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Timothy Adams, Under Secretary for International Affairs, Treasury Department, to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from October 15 - 16, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to meet with New Zealand Government Officials and business leader [...]	2006-10-12 01:35:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OVIP OTRA PREL NZ
06WELLINGTON81	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR IAN WRIGHT, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy Official Ian G. Wright to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from February 25 - March 1, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to attend and participate in a technical workshop on materials [...]	2006-01-31 22:08:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ENRG TRGY KSCA AS NZ
06WELLINGTON810	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ROBERT MARTIN LEVIN, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to VA Medical Center Research Pharmacologist Robert Martin Levin to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from November 19 - December 2, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to present Department of Veterans' Affairs sponsored research at the Int [...]	2006-10-16 21:51:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
06WELLINGTON811	KIWI MUSLIMS: HEADING TOWARD INTEGRATION OR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: New Zealand's small but active Muslim community points to a member of parliament, regular appearances on national television by community leaders, ready access to the Prime Minister and her cabinet, and joint statements with Jewish organizations as hallmarks of movement into [...]	2006-10-17 02:34:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS SMIG PGOV PREL PTER NZ KISL
06WELLINGTON815	NZ WORRIES FRICTIONS COULD DERAIL PACIFIC ISLAND [...] (C) Summary: New Zealand is working behind the scenes to help ensure that frictions over the Solomon Islands and other regional issues do not derail the October 23-26 Pacific Island Forum (PIF) meetings. PMs Clark and Howard are scheduled to discuss their goals for the meeting by telephone [...]	2006-10-18 04:58:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NZ XV XU
06WELLINGTON821	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR U.S. DELEGATION TO [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to the following U.S. Delegation members to APECTEL 34: Steven Olson, Anita Dey, Johindar Dhillon, Liesyl Franz, Ashley Heineman, George Tannahill, and Alan Vincent to travel to Auckland, New Zealand from October 22 - 28, 2006. The purpose [...]	2006-10-19 03:08:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
06WELLINGTON825	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR THOMAS DAMOUR AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to FAA Officials Thomas Damour and William Henry to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from December 6-16, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to represent the FAA at the joint FAA/CAA New Zealand MIP Meeting. 2. (U) Embassy understands th [...]	2006-10-23 20:25:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA EAIR ASEC NZ
06WELLINGTON826	KIWI MUSLIMS: WAHHABIS IN THEIR MIDST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: New Zealand Muslims are getting increased attention from broader society as the community faces internal divisions, Wahhabi influence from overseas groups, and discrimination. Alleged Wahhabi activities have been at the heart of some publicized schisms involving mosque admin [...]	2006-10-24 02:32:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PINS PTER PREL KISL SMIG NZ
06WELLINGTON830	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR RAYMOND WOODRUFF, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Geological Survey Supervisory Hydrologist Raymond Woodruff to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from November 12 - December 10, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to transit New Zealand to and from McMurdo Station, Antarctica, where [...]	2006-10-25 02:01:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TPHY KSCA NZ
06WELLINGTON831	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR BRUCE C. GARRETT AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to DOE Personnel Bruce C. Garrett and Sotiris S. Xantheas to travel to Auckland, Christchurch, and Rotorua, New Zealand from on or about December 1-17, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to attend the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry Confe [...]	2006-10-25 02:03:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
06WELLINGTON833	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FRANCES REID AND ALISA [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to MCC Managing Director for Europe, Asia, and the Pacific, Ms. Frances Reid, and EAP/ANP Desk Officer Ms. Alisa Wong to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from November 2-4, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to meet with multilateral and bi [...]	2006-10-25 02:10:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA EFIN EAID AS FJ NZ
06WELLINGTON834	UNSCR 1718: NEW ZEALAND SEEKS GUIDANCE AS IT [...] (SBU) This message contains an action request, at paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary: In 15 recent speeches, NZ leaders have condemned North Korea's nuclear test and urged the DPRK to return to the six-party talks. The leaders are also pushing their ministries to implement UNSCR 1718 as soon as [...]	2006-10-25 17:33:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PREL PARM NZ KN
06WELLINGTON836	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NICHOLE LEBOEUF, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NOAA Official Nichole Leboeuf to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from November 9-20, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to attend the 2nd Meeting of the Parties for the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels. 2. [...]	2006-10-27 01:31:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TPHY KSCA EFIS BEXP AS NZ
06WELLINGTON84	ZHU - NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Yanmin Zhu, Research Molecular Biologist, USDA/ARS/PWA, Wenatchee, Washington to visit Napier and Auckland from March 14 through 24, 2006 to attend Third International Rosaceae Genomics Conference. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the onl [...]	2006-02-01 03:26:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON840	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TUHIN KIMAR CHAUDHURI, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Tuhin Kumar Chaudhuri, Ph.D. Chief, Nuclear Medicine Service, VA Medical Center, to travel to Christchurch and Queenstown, New Zealand from November 9-15, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to present scientific papers to the Universi [...]	2006-10-30 03:31:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA AS NZ
06WELLINGTON844	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STEPHANIE PREJEAN, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to USGS Research Geophysicist Stephanie Prejean to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from November 23 - December 7, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Active Fluid Flow and Deformation/New Zealand Plate Boundary Workshop and pr [...]	2006-10-31 01:40:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TPHY KSCA NZ
06WELLINGTON853	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DONALD PETTIT, NOVEMBER [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NASA Johnson Space Center Official Donald Pettit to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from November 13, 2006 - January 30, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to transit New Zealand en route to Antarctica, where he will participate in th [...]	2006-11-01 21:54:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TSPA NZ
06WELLINGTON864	NEW ZEALAND - DEMARCHE ON OPPOSING THE CUBA EMBARGO [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-03 00:01:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL UNGA UN CU NZ
06WELLINGTON866	NEW ZEALAND'S READ-OUT FROM PACIFIC ISLAND FORUM [...] (C) Summary: GNZ reports that initial concerns that the Pacific Island Forum (PIF) would be derailed over tensions between Solomon Island and Australia regarding the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomons (RAMSI) were resolved by private dialogue among Leaders during retreat. The sessions betw [...]	2006-11-03 01:16:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NZ XV XU
06WELLINGTON867	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR BRUCE BUDOWLE, DECEMBER [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Bruce Budowle, FBI Laboratory Division, to travel to Auckland, New Zealand from December 3 - 13, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to participate and present in meetings on microbial forensic and human identification hosted by the In [...]	2006-11-03 01:58:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC NZ
06WELLINGTON875	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MICHAEL COMBERIATE AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Officials Michael Comberiate and Kurt Rush to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from December 14, 2006 - January 14, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to transit New Zealand en route to Antarctica for t [...]	2006-11-06 02:54:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TSPA NZ
06WELLINGTON878	NEW ZEALAND - 2007 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT [...] Following is post's input for 2007 National Trade Estimate Report on New Zealand per request reftel. We assume that Washington agencies will provide updated trade and investment data. 2. Begin text of NTE submission: --------------- IMPORT POLICIES --------------- In general, tariff [...]	2006-11-07 01:56:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON EFIN NZ
06WELLINGTON879	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR RICHARD H. KARNEY, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Department of Energy Official Richard H. Karney to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from November 10-18, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to meet with New Zealand officials to discuss Energystar and to attend and represent the U.S. on [...]	2006-11-07 02:02:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ENRG NZ

06WELLINGTON88	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ANDREA [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Director of the Office of International Affairs Andrea Corcoran to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from February 6 - 9, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to attend an International Organizatio [...]	2006-02-02 03:04:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
06WELLINGTON882	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR KIM RIVERA, NOVEMBER [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NOAA Official Kim Rivera to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from November 12-30, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to attend the 2nd Meeting of Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels. 2. (U) Embassy understands [...]	2006-11-08 22:09:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TPHY KSCA EFIS BEXP CW NZ
06WELLINGTON884	NEW ZEALAND - APEC FOOD DEFENSE WORKSHOP SUMMARY [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-08 22:45:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO PTER APECO EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON89	NZ DISARMAMENT MINISTER SUPPORTS DECISION ON IRAN [...] (U) On February 1, New Zealand Disarmament and Arms Control Minister Phil Goff issued a public statement in support of the IAEA extraordinary meeting decision to report Iran's nuclear program to the UN Security Council. Goff, who is also New Zealand's Defense Minister, highlighted the concern [...]	2006-02-02 04:26:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL PGOV KNNP IR NZ
06WELLINGTON891	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Office of Defense Programs officials Grant SANDER, Jeffrey BACH, Douglas BICKEL, Jeffrey BRADLEY, Martin THOMPSON, and alternates Timothy BIELEK, Philip KAHLE, Michael PEDRONCELLI, and Mich [...]	2006-11-13 20:48:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ENRG TRGY KNNP NZ
06WELLINGTON896	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TERRY LOWE, DECEMBER 8 - [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NNSA Official Terry C. Lowe to travel to Hamilton, New Zealand from December 8 - 16, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to present a paper on fatigue of nanostructured metals and alloys at the Fourth International Conference on Advanced M [...]	2006-11-14 23:18:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ENRG TRGY KNNP NZ
06WELLINGTON901	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR GLORIA CARBAUGH, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NOAA Official Gloria Carbaugh to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand between November 21 and December 8, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to transit New Zealand en route to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, where traveler will calibrate inst [...]	2006-11-16 03:57:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV AY NZ
06WELLINGTON902	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR KENNETH JONES, NOVEMBER [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NASA Langley Research Center Official Kenneth Jones to travel to Auckland, New Zealand from November 29 - 30, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to attend and present at the Air New Zealand meeting. 2. (U) Embassy understands that cou [...]	2006-11-16 03:59:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TSPA AS NZ
06WELLINGTON909	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MARK SIROKY, NOVEMBER 22 [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Mark B. Siroky, chief of Urology, VA Medical Center to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from November 22 - December 3, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to attend the 36th Annual Meeting of the International Continence Society. 2. [...]	2006-11-20 02:44:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
06WELLINGTON91	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR BICE ESCORTED REMOVAL TO [...] (SBU) Embassy Wellington welcomes ICE escorts Ruben Rocka and Manuel Paramo to Auckland, New Zealand from Feb 12-13, 2006. The purpose of the trip is to escort deportee Lauren Kiredeor Flint: A072998965. 2. (U) Embassy will arrange any in-briefing officials feel is necessary. 3. (SBU) E [...]	2006-02-02 12:10:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC
06WELLINGTON910	NEW ZEALAND ACTIVE IN TONGA AND FIJI [...] (C) Summary. Alan Williams, Deputy Director at New ZealandQs Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade, told the DCM November 20 that the current crisis in Tonga resulted from economic and political problems that have been developing over many months, but appeared to have abated. The Tongan Gover [...]	2006-11-20 20:52:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC PREL NZ TN
06WELLINGTON918	U.S. REPORT ON EFFORTS TOWARD IMPLEMENTATION OF [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 21 New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) shared a draft copy of New Zealand's report to the UN Security Council detailing their implementation plan for UNSCR 1718 (repeated at para 2 below). GNZ lawyers continue to work on sanction regulations an [...]	2006-11-21 20:46:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP PARM PREL NZ
06WELLINGTON92	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ROEL CAMPOS, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Officers Roel Campos, Commissioner, Ethiopis Tafara, Director, and Scott Taub, Deputy Chief Accountant, to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from February 6 - 9, 2006 (Campos and Tafara) and Februar [...]	2006-02-02 22:38:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA EFIN NZ
06WELLINGTON921	R/V MELVILLE MARINE RESEARCH CLEARANCE REQUEST, FILE NO. [...] The following notifications will be provided to the Fisheries Communication Centre (FCC): (i) 24 hours prior notice of entry of the vessel to the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone (NZEEZ),including date and estimated time of arrival and position of entry to the nearest arc; (ii) 24 hour [...]	2006-11-22 00:16:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	KRVC TPHY EWWT CW NZ
06WELLINGTON927	NEW ZEALAND: AUCKLAND STADIUM DEBATE HIGHLIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary. Aucklanders are locked in an emotional debate over where to build a stadium to host the 2011 Rugby World Cup. The debate has highlighted the divided nature of decision-making in New Zealand largest city, as well as Auckland's uneasy relationship with the rest of the country. [...]	2006-11-24 02:46:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV NZ
06WELLINGTON928	OPPOSITION LEADER BRASH RESIGNS; KEY TIPPED TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: New Zealand's main opposition party leader, Dr. Don Brash, has resigned after weeks of speculation over his leadership. Dogged by a series of gaffes and missteps that raised questions over his political judgment, Brash announced that the National Party will caucus on Monday to pi [...]	2006-11-24 03:10:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL NZ
06WELLINGTON930	TONGANS IN NEW ZEALAND APPALLED BY VIOLENCE BUT [...] (C) Summary. A prominent member of the Tongan community in Auckland reports that, while local Tongans were shocked by last Thursday's violence in Nuku'alofa, it has not dissuaded them of the need for democratic reform. Local Tongans put much of the blame for the violence not on the pro-democ [...]	2006-11-26 18:32:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TN NZ
06WELLINGTON933	RITCHIE Q NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Martin Ritchie, Statistician, US Forest Service, to visit Christchurch, New Zealand from December 1-March 31, 2007 to attend forest service sabbatical. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistance required. 3. Point of conta [...]	2006-11-27 00:45:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON935	JOHN KEY ELECTED NEW OPPOSITION LEADER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: John Key has won the leadership of New Zealand's main opposition party, the National Party. In an uncontested election, Key replaced Dr. Don Brash who resigned last week after three turbulent years at the helm. National also elected a new Deputy Leader and Finance spokesman: t [...]	2006-11-27 18:30:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV NZ
06WELLINGTON942	HARMS, SEYBOLD- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Cathy Seybold, and Deborah Harms, Soil Scientists, Nebraska to visit Christchurch, New Zealand from January 10-23, 2007 to collect data from and carry out maintenance on soil climate stations. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only as [...]	2006-11-29 03:59:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
06WELLINGTON948	R/V KA'IMIMOANA, FILE NO. 2005-109 [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-30 03:39:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ
06WELLINGTON949	R/V NATHANIEL B. PALMER, FILE NO. 2006-032 [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-30 05:36:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ
06WELLINGTON950	R/V KILO MOANA, FILE NO. 2004-096 [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-30 05:40:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ
06WELLINGTON953	NEW NATIONAL LEADER WANTS CLOSER TIES TO U.S. BUT [...] (C) Summary: The opposition National Party's new leader, John Key, says that although he favors closer relations between the United States and New Zealand, he believes his country should maintain its nuclear-free policy. Key is clearly trying to remove the nuclear issue from the political ag [...]	2006-11-30 08:25:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NZ
06WELLINGTON959	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EUGENE KESELMAN, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Department of Commerce NOAA, National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) Official Eugene Keselman to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from December 5 - 22, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to support the [...]	2006-12-03 23:30:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA KSCA TSPA NZ
06WELLINGTON96	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EAP/ANP [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to EAP/ANP Director Howard Krawitz to travel to Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand from February 8-11, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to meet with Embassy staff and New Zealand government officials. 2. (U) Embassy has provided hot [...]	2006-02-07 04:03:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA PREL FJ NZ
06WELLINGTON979	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR S.T. AUTREY, FEBRUARY 11 [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Department of Energy Official S.T. Autrey to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from February 11-24, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to speak at the Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology Symposium and work in the laboratory with Dr. Mar [...]	2006-12-13 02:29:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ENRG NZ
06WELLINGTON981	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JUSTIN GUAY, JANUARY 28 [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to HHS/FDA Scientific Reviewer Justin Guay to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from January 28 - February 2, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to be the FDA liaison for the International Standards Organization Anesthesia and Respiratory [...]	2006-12-13 02:32:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA KSCA TBIO NZ
06WELLINGTON982	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DR. LUCINDA LEE, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to National Science Foundation Official Dr. Lucinda Lee to travel to Auckland, New Zealand from February 18 - March 1, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to attend the International Conference on Sustainability Engineering and Science. 2 [...]	2006-12-13 02:34:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TPHY NSF NZ
06WELLINGTON983	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR GREGORY KUVER AND TODD [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Transportation Security Administration Specialists Gregory Kuver and Todd Oleson to travel to Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand from January 13-22, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to perform airport visits and air carrier station se [...]	2006-12-13 03:30:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA KHLS EAIR ASEC PTER TC NZ
06WELLINGTON984	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR AMBASSADOR BROWNFIELD [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Ambassador to Venezuela William R. Brownfield and Ambassador to the Philippines Kristie A. Kenney to travel to Wanaka, New Zealand from December 26, 2006 - January 12, 2007. The purpose of this visit is personal travel. 2. (U) Embass [...]	2006-12-13 03:32:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
06WELLINGTON992	NEW ZEALAND: 2006 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-15 04:59:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC NZ
06YAOUNDE1811	TOUGH LOVE IN CAMEROON'S ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN [...] (SBU) Summary. Corruption, specifically the Government's faithfulness to its anti-corruption promises, continues to take center stage in Cameroon. Indeed, this was Anti-corruption Week in Cameroon, as the Prime Minister launched a high-profile seminar on how to implment the UN Anti-Corrupt [...]	2006-12-08 11:31:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	KCOR PREL PGOV EFIN CM
06YAOUNDE1840	CAMEROON: EXTRAORDINARY LEGISLATIVE SESSION ON [...] (U) As expected (reftel),the President of the National Assembly issued an order December 13 convoking an extraordinary session of the National Assembly to begin December 14, immediately upon the conclusion of the regular session. According to the order, the National Assembly will consider fo [...]	2006-12-14 09:55:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV CM
06YAOUNDE1883	CAMEROON: CORRUPTION TRIAL EMBROILS FIRST LADY, [...] (C) Summary. Defense attorneys in the FEICOM corruption trial created tumult in the courtroom and a splash in the headlines when they demanded, on December 19, that the court hear testimony from First Lady Chantal Biya and other Cameroonian notables who feature prominently in the list of il [...]	2006-12-21 13:22:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	KCOR ECON PGOV EFIN KMCA CM PINR
06YAOUNDE928	CAMEROON HIT BY A SERIES OF STRIKES [...] (U) Cameroon has been hit by four strikes in the first two weeks of June, some of which are related. Employees of the national airline (CAMAIR),taxi drivers, Wackenhut security guards and university students have all walked out. While it is too soon to characterize this as a "wave," four i [...]	2006-06-16 06:36:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ELAB CM EAIR ASEC EFIN
06YEREVAN1046	HUNGER-STRIKING CONVICTS ATTEMPT SUICIDE AFTER [...] (U) Four men serving life sentences at Yerevan's Nubarashen detention facility tried to slit their wrists after a failed escape attempt. The escape attempt followed a hunger strike undertaken by the prisoners in protest of the prison conditions. A task force from the human rights ombudsman's [...]	2006-08-02 12:31:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM AM
06YEREVAN1062	BASE METALS LLC TO INVEST USD 20 MILLION IN NAGORNO [...] (U) Base Metals LLC., an Armenian-registered and Lichtenstein-based private company, announced plans to invest an additional USD 20 million in its copper and gold mining operations in the village of Drmbon in Nagorno Karabakh (NK). According to press reports, the company employs a majority of [...]	2006-08-04 12:48:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EMIN EINV AM
06YEREVAN1072	OPPOSITION PARTY ACCUSES GOAM OF HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Armenia's Heritage Party, an opposition party with a popular, outspoken leader but no seats in parliament, was evicted from its downtown offices in March 2006. Party officials told us they believed the government was behind the eviction, as well as other interference with their operations [...]	2006-08-08 03:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM AM
06YEREVAN1075	PRESIDENT'S OFFICE INSTITUTES CONTROL OVER [...] (C) A number of media analysts and press representatives have reported that the GOAM is exerting increasing control over the broadcast media, and that this pressure is being exercised directly by the Armenian President's office. These controls appear to include requirements that television st [...]	2006-08-08 07:08:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO PGOV PHUM AM
06YEREVAN1082	OPPOSITION DEFECTOR MAKES IT OFFICIAL [...] (SBU) Justice Bloc secretary Viktor Dallakian submitted his long-anticipated resignation from the bloc August 5. Dallakian told us earlier this year that he planned to accept business tycoon Gagik Tsarukyan's offer to lead Tsarukyan's Prosperous Armenia party (reftel). Dallakian has not yet [...]	2006-08-09 03:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
06YEREVAN1091	AMBASSADOR PUSHES PROSECUTOR GENERAL ON TRAFFICKING CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS [...] (C) Ambassador, DCM and Poloff met with Armenian Prosecutor General (PG) Aghvan Hovsepyan August 8 about allegations of investigative misconduct and abuse in connection with a human trafficking case. The underlying case involves three prostitutes who allege they were trafficked from Armenia to Turk [...]	2006-08-09 13:15:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KTIP KWMN KCRM PREL PGOV PHUM HSTC AM TU
06YEREVAN1101	APPARENT REPRISAL: TAX POLICE INSPECT ANTI-TIP NGO [...] (C) An anti-trafficking NGO reported a surprise visit from tax inspectors August 10, two days after the Ambassador pushed the Armenian Prosecutor General (PG) Aghvan Hovsepyan to investigate allegations of investigative corruption the "Hope and Help" NGO had raised with the Embassy (reftel). A [...]	2006-08-11 11:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV KWMN KCRM KTIP HSTC AM
06YEREVAN1123	AMBASSADOR SUPPORTS RESOLUTION 1701 IN ARMENIAN MEDIA [...] On August 14, the Ambassador gave an interview to Armenian Public TV to explain UN Security Council Resolution 1701 on Lebanon. The interview was aired without commentary on Public TV's evening news, the most-watched news programs in the country. During the interview, Ambassador Evans emphas [...]	2006-08-17 05:15:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL UN KPAO LE AM
06YEREVAN113	ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION TO AVIAN INFLUENZA [...] On January 25, a U.S. government inter-agency team visited Armenia as part of a multi-country trip to learn about the region's preparations to address avian influenza. During its visit to Armenia, part of the team held a press conference at the U.S. Embassy. Media coverage of the event was ex [...]	2006-01-26 13:43:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC AM KMDR KPAO KFLU
06YEREVAN1142	RISKING A WTO COMPLAINT TO CURRY FAVOR WITH [...] (C) The GOAM has announced that farmers with an annual turnover of less than AMD 8 million (USD 20,000) will remain exempt from value-added tax (VAT). This agreement appears to run counter to Armenia's WTO obligations and 2002 legislation requiring that farmers begin paying VAT as of January 1 [...]	2006-08-23 03:10:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD AM
06YEREVAN1148	JOURNALIST RETRACTS SOME ABUSE CHARGES...THE RIGHT ONES [...] (U) SUMMARY: A local journalist, Gagik Shamshian, beaten up in July (reftel) has retracted allegations that a local official's brother was involved. The retraction seems to have come under duress from local authorities, who have filed unrelated criminal charges against the journalist. END SUM [...]	2006-08-23 12:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM AM
06YEREVAN1161	PROSECUTOR GENERAL'S NEW ANTI-TIP NGO COMMITTEE [...] (C) On August 21, the Prosecutor General (PG) announced the formation of an NGO committee to assist it in its anti- TIP efforts. Anti-TIP NGO leaders generally feel the creation of such a team is a good idea, as long as it is allowed to function fully and does not become a tool for the PG to [...]	2006-08-25 12:32:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM HSTC AM
06YEREVAN1172	MURDER CASE POINTS UP CONTINUING HOMOPHOBIA IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The August 9 murder of an openly gay businessman has sparked fears in the Armenian gay community of a new round of police harassment. While some believe the societal attitudes have improved since the 2003 decriminalization of homosexual activity, credible reports persist that pol [...]	2006-08-29 12:25:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM AM
06YEREVAN1179	PASSING THE BAR: ARMENIA'S LAWYERS SWEAT THROUGH A RITE OF [...] (U) SUMMARY: Last weekend, in a hot, somewhat dilapidated university gym, 309 aspiring Armenian attorneys sat for a legal rite of passage, the bar exam. Armenia has not offered a licensing exam for advocates in over five years and has one of the lowest percentages of lawyers per capita in the [...]	2006-08-30 12:44:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV AM
06YEREVAN119	RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTER IN ARMENIA, NATURAL GAS [...] (C) Russian Defense Minister Sergey Ivanov arrived in Armenia January 26 for meetings with Armenian President Robert Kocharian, Defense Minister Serzh Sargsyan, and Chief of General Staff General Mikhael Harutiunyan. Speaking at Yerevan's Zvartnots Airport (extreme weather conditions postpone [...]	2006-01-27 13:32:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AM
06YEREVAN1204	SETTING THE STAGE FOR FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Election experts offer mixed views of ongoing efforts to improve key democratic institutions prior to the May 2007 parliamentary election. The challenges -- technical, bureaucratic and political -- are daunting. However there is room for cautious optimism that the GOAM is at lea [...]	2006-09-05 10:20:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KMCA KDEM AM
06YEREVAN1237	AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON PARLIAMENT SPEAKER [...] (C) Parliament Speaker Torosian told the Ambassador at a September 6 meeting that Armenia was committed to holding democratic elections in 2007 and 2008 and that work on revisions to the electoral code had nearly reached consensus, both among drafters and with international community advisers [...]	2006-09-08 10:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IR AM
06YEREVAN1249	DEFMIN SARGSIAN REVEIWS N-K, IRAN, AND ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sargsian lauded the growing bilateral defense relationship, before complaining about Azerbaijan's approach to the Nagorno-Karabakh negotiations. He said that Azerbaijan constantly revises its demands, and called for the Minsk Group Co-Chairs to demand greater consistency from the [...]	2006-09-11 09:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PREL PGOV MARR AM IR
06YEREVAN1264	THE POLITICAL BUZZ: A SNAPSHOT OF LOCAL ANALYST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Garik Tsarukyan's new "Prosperous Armenia" faction is the hottest political topic, with divided views over the extent to which this pro-government faction is independent of the ruling Republican Party. Local analysts are generally pessimistic about chances for fair parliamentar [...]	2006-09-13 06:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AM
06YEREVAN1265	FM OSKANIAN'S FAREWELL SENDOFF TOUCHES ALL THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Oskanian's farewell lunch for the Ambassador offered a review of current issues. Oskanian expressed relief and exasperation about the ability to reach consensus on how the NK/Occupied Territories fires issue would be managed at the UNGA. He worried over the Iranian nuclear [...]	2006-09-13 07:10:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PREL PGOV ETTC EAID SCUL OVIP KNNP UNGA AM IR
06YEREVAN1268	GEORGIA ARRESTS ARMENIANS FOR CROSSING SEPARATIST [...] (C) Since early August, numerous Armenian citizens have been arrested in Georgia for transiting the breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia without Georgian permission, which is illegal under Georgian law. Armenian media claim that 100 have been arrested. Armenian diplomats have co [...]	2006-09-13 12:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM GG RU
06YEREVAN127	RUSSIAN GAS HASN'T REACHED ARMENIA YET [...] (C) On January 29, Armenia cut gas to its thermal power plant in Hrazdan (which converts gas to electricity),reducing the country's average daily consumption to about 3.5 (down from 6.7) million cubic meters (mcm),enough to conserve about one more day of useful gas reserves. Banking on repo [...]	2006-01-30 14:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PREL RS GG AJ IR AM
06YEREVAN1286	IRANIAN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER LURES HIS ARMENIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Speaking alongside the visiting Iranian Mejlis Speaker, Armenian Parliament Speaker Torosian made remarks suggesting troubling new dimensions to the Armenian-Iran relationship, and implicitly supporting Iran's position in the current debate over Iran's nuclear program. We think T [...]	2006-09-14 12:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AM IR
06YEREVAN1342	BANK CONTENDING FOR MCC BUSINESS SUBJECT OF [...] (C) Armenian regulators and the IMF have both flagged concerns about possible wrongdoing and suspicious transactions at Converse Bank, a major local bank, which we understand is a short-listed candidate to handle MCC transactions. The Central Bank of Armenia's (CBA) financial intelligence chi [...]	2006-09-27 12:51:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EFIN ETRD EINV KTFN MCC AM
06YEREVAN1365	LOCAL ACTIVISTS SKEPTICAL FOREIGN ASSISTANCE WILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 26, donor organizations presented election assistance plans to a group of local NGO partners. The NGOs were pessimistic that technical assistance and training would make much difference to the conduct of the 2007 elections, believing the GOAM would pre-determine the [...]	2006-10-02 12:56:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID PHUM KDEM KPAO AM
06YEREVAN1368	ARMENIAN SURPRISE: PARLIAMENT BALKS AT [...] (SBU) Parliamentarians refused to rush a controversial government-proposed bill on media during an extraordinary session September 26 and 27. MPs were irritated both at the government's tactical high-handedness and at the draft's proposal to curtail broadcasts of parliament's activity. Media [...]	2006-10-03 04:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM AM
06YEREVAN1371	DFM KIRAKOSSIAN UNDERWHELMED BY TURKISH JOINT [...] (S) SUMMARY: DFM Kirakossian was unimpressed by Turkey's recent non-paper on joint commissions, viewing it as "a step backward" for Armenia's priorities. He resents Turkey's determination (as he sees it) to postpone any discussion on the broader issues of the current relationship until after [...]	2006-10-03 10:40:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PREL PGOV AM TU
06YEREVAN1396	ARMENIANS WORRIED ABOUT EFFECTS OF GEORGIA-RUSSIA [...] (C) Public statements from Armenian officials are generally calm and balanced, but acknowledge the effects on Armenia of the Russian blockade of Georgia. Privately, officials are more concerned, and more of them blame Georgia than Russia. PM Markarian told visiting DAS Matt Bryza on October [...]	2006-10-06 10:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RU AM
06YEREVAN1403	CHIRAC AVOIDS DEMOCRACY TALK, FOCUSES ON 1915 [...] (SBU) French President Jacques Chirac avoided tough democracy talk during his first visit to Armenia September 29 through October 1, preferring instead to focus on crowd-pleasers like "genocide" recognition. Chirac also told reporters that Nagorno Karabakh settlement talks should remain the p [...]	2006-10-06 13:05:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL FR AM
06YEREVAN1410	ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION TO OSCE MINSK GROUP VISIT [...] (SBU) The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs visited Armenia October 3-4 as part of a regional trip aimed at renewing contact between Armenia and Azerbaijan on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. On October 3, the co-chairs, together with Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman in Off [...]	2006-10-10 12:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC AM KMDR KPAO
06YEREVAN1419	ARMENIA NARROWLY AVOIDS A MAJOR MISSTEP IN PROPOSED LEGAL [...] (SBU) A recent attempt by the Armenian Ministry of Justice to propose judicial reforms in the chaotic area of expert witnesses came perilously close to making a bad situation worse in criminal, civil, and administrative legal proceedings. During the week of September 11-15, 2006, representativ [...]	2006-10-11 09:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SNAR KCRM KJUS AM
06YEREVAN1422	TV STATION DROPS INTERVIEW WITH OPPOSITION [...] (C) A regional television station run by members of a pro-governmental parliamentary group decided not to air an interview with the head of the opposition Orinats Yerkir party and former parliamentary speaker Artur Baghdasarian. The move demonstrates the low level of professionalism of the Arm [...]	2006-10-11 12:14:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KPAO AM
06YEREVAN1424	PUSHING ARMENIA TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST KONGRA GEL [...] (S) The Government of Armenia has taken little action to respond to USG requests to address concerns about the possible presence and activity of Kongra Gel in Armenia. A recent high-level push by visiting DAS Matt Bryza got a more positive response, but it is too soon to tell if the GOAM will [...]	2006-10-11 12:25:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PGOV PREL ASEC PTER AM
06YEREVAN1429	ROMANIAN PRESIDENT PUSHES EURO INTEGRATION DURING [...] (C) Romanian President Traian Basescu played the role of European statesman during his visit to Yerevan last week, using his meetings to push issues high on the agenda of most Western diplomatic missions in Armenia. Basescu's nuanced approach was a marked contrast to that of French President [...]	2006-10-12 10:32:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PGOV PREL RO AM
06YEREVAN1445	ARMENIAN REGIONAL NGOS MEETING WITH SOME SUCCESS [...] PAO and PAS Grants Manager recently visited several NGOs outside of Yerevan that had received support from the Democracy Commission, whose work encompassed anti-corruption (in public education),journalism, and human rights. Not only did we find dedicated people, young and old, staffing the o [...]	2006-10-13 11:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM EAID KPAO KDEM AM
06YEREVAN1457	SETTLING SCORES ON THE STREET IN ARMENIA [...] (U) Oligarchs and thugs have taken to settling scores on the street in greater numbers in the last few months, and high-profile assassinations and murder attempts are on the rise in Armenia. Though the crimes do not appear to be related, and in most cases the motives are unclear, the increase i [...]	2006-10-18 04:08:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
06YEREVAN147	ARMENIA COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY: [...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for January 2006. Major headlines include: -- Armenian Central Bank establishes a new Unified Financial Control Body; -- World Bank (WB) approves second Poverty Reduction Support Credit for Armenia; --Global [...]	2006-02-02 04:45:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KTDB BBSR BEXP AM
06YEREVAN1484	ASSESSING KURDISH MILITANCY IN ARMENIA -- SO FAR, [...] (S) PKK activities in Armenia seem thus far to be fairly low-level, though Armenia's Yezidi community -- an ethnic minority related to Kurds by blood and language -- may be receptive to PKK outreach. Among other things, we have heard reports that the PKK sends money to some Armenian Yezidi a [...]	2006-10-24 09:01:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PGOV PREL ASEC PTER PHUM AM
06YEREVAN150	WITH POWERLINES ENERGIZED, ARMENIAN ELECTRICITY [...] (C) The flow of natural gas from Russia through Georgia has continued at full capacity (9 million cubic meters daily) without interruption since January 31. The GOAM energized two power lines to Georgia (reftel) which have supplied an average of 125 megawatts since the thermal power unit in H [...]	2006-02-02 12:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PREL RS GG AJ IR AM
06YEREVAN1512	MEDIA REACTION TO A/S FRIED'S STATEMENTS ON FRENCH [...] (U) Armenian media broadly covered A/S Fried's October 20 remarks in Brussels on a bill approved by France's lower chamber of parliament that would criminalize denial of the "Armenian genocide." Major television stations and a number of newspapers and news agencies covered Fried's remarks, wit [...]	2006-10-27 11:01:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OPRC AM KMDR KPAO
06YEREVAN1514	SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-OCTOBER 2006 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: ODC conducted an End-Use Monitoring (EUM) inspection of Harris radios provided to ARM MOD in Southern Armenia with 92 percent accountability results. Expeditionary Medical Services (EMEDS) facility is being prepared for shipment to Armenia. FMF AM-B-BAA, A-1: Peacekeeping [...]	2006-10-27 12:13:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP KCFE XG AM
06YEREVAN1524	PROSECUTOR-GENERAL'S TIP-MISCONDUCT INVESTIGATION [...] (C) An internal probe of allegations of misconduct with human traffickers by two investigators in the Prosecutor General's (PG) Office is apparently over, and the investigators reportedly cleared of all charges. No results have been released publicly. Sources within the PG's Office and some [...]	2006-10-31 04:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KTIP KWMN KCRM HSTC AM
06YEREVAN1529	CONCERN BUT NOT PANIC: ARMENIAN BUSINESSES COPE WITH CLOSURE OF THE GEORGIA-RUSSIA BORDER [...] (SBU) While Armenian officials have voiced considerable concern about the economic impact of the Georgian-Russian border closing, the Armenian business community's response has been relatively mild and fatalistic. Some local exporters report a 30 percent increase in shipping costs to Russia, [...]	2006-10-31 12:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL EAGR AM KFRD
06YEREVAN1530	KOCHARIAN COMPLAINS TO EU AMBASSADORS ABOUT N-K [...] (C) In a meeting with EU Heads of Mission on October 27, President Kocharian was deeply pessimistic about chances for a settlement on Nagorno-Karabakh, resigned that Armenia would pay a greater cost for poor Russia-Georgia relations than either of the two parties, and expressed some frustratio [...]	2006-10-31 14:31:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL OSCE AM
06YEREVAN1537	GAZPROM MOVING TO TAKE CONTROL OF IRAN-ARMENIA [...] (C) Russian energy giant Gazprom strengthened its hold over the Armenian energy sector yesterday when it purchased all of the additional shares ArmRosGazprom (ARGP) issued to raise capital for the purchase of the Fifth Unit of the Hrazdan Thermal Power Plant (Hrazdan 5). With the share purcha [...]	2006-11-01 15:20:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL AM
06YEREVAN1539	TV STATIONS AIR AD CRITICIZING OPPOSITION LEADER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The opposition Orinats Yerkir Party has called for an official investigation into a television advertisement that it said unfairly denigrated the leader of its party, Artur Baghdasarian. According to the party, the advertisement is part of a "black PR" campaign that government o [...]	2006-11-02 08:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ECON KPAO AM
06YEREVAN1565	USOSCE AMBASSADOR FINLEY PUSHES FAIR ELECTIONS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Julie Finley, US Ambassador to the OSCE, visited Armenia October 17-19, and met a wide range of GOAM officials and non-governmental contacts. While they embraced her strong messages on free and fair elections, media freedom, trafficking in persons (TIP),and anti-corruption, offi [...]	2006-11-06 04:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE AM
06YEREVAN1586	FM OSKANIAN BLASTS GUL FOR MOSCOW COMMENTS ON [...] (C) FM Oskanian responded November 4 to Turkish FM Gul's remarks to RFE/RL on Turkish-Armenian relations. Oskanian's statement rebuked Turkey for ignoring President Kocharian's April 2005 response to PM Erdogan's historical commission proposal, and for Turkey's renewed insistence on the histo [...]	2006-11-08 13:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU AM
06YEREVAN1597	ARMENIA'S TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) Armenia has improved its record on four of the five interim assessment indicators provided to post by G/TIP. There have been no positive developments so far this year for the fifth indicator, "vigorously investigating and prosecuting officials for complicity in trafficking." However, we [...]	2006-11-14 06:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	HSTC KCRM KWMN PHUM PGOV PREL SMIG AM
06YEREVAN1602	FM OSKANIAN PRESENTS FOREIGN POLICY GOALS [...] (C) Armenian FM Vartan Oskanian presented a succinct outline of Armenian foreign and domestic policy priorities during the Wilton Park Conference on the South Caucasus held in Yerevan November 6 - 10. Oskanian elaborated on Armenia's foreign policy of "complementarity," identified economic li [...]	2006-11-14 11:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AJ TU AM
06YEREVAN1609	ARMENIA WILL SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE FOR ILC [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-15 07:22:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ILC UNGA AM
06YEREVAN1616	TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER [...] (S) The following information is provided in response to reftel. (a) TFCO: Anthony Godfrey, Charge d'Affairs Phone: (37410) 464-700 ext. 4599 Tie Line: 996 0000 UNCLASS E-Mail: GodfreyAF@state.gov SIPDIS CLASNET/SIPRNET: Godfreyaf@state.sgov.gov (b) Deputy TFCO: Elizabeth Pelletr [...]	2006-11-16 11:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER AM
06YEREVAN1626	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. REPORT ON UNSCR 1718 [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-20 13:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL KNNP KN AM
06YEREVAN1645	JAVAKHETI: AN ARMENIAN PERSPECTIVE [...] (C) Georgia,s predominantly Armenian Samstkhe-Javakheti (S-J) region periodically makes news in Armenia, colored by the local perception here that Georgians treat their Armenian minority shabbily. Armenian government officials have not generally complained on this theme, but others, including [...]	2006-11-27 13:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GG AM
06YEREVAN1646	OPPOSITION POLITICIAN CLAIMS GOVERNMENT BANNED HIM [...] (C) The leader of the opposition New Times Party, Aram Karapetian, has announced that the GOAM has banned television stations from providing him with airtime. A New Times spokesperson says no television station has aired a political interview with Karapetian since April 2005. Television stat [...]	2006-11-28 08:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM AM
06YEREVAN1667	RESULTS OF POST'S ANTI-TIP FULL-COURT PRESS [...] (C) A November 27 meeting with the Prosecutor General (PG) suggests our series of "straight talk" interventions with GOAM officials in late October and early November (ref B) may be bearing fruit. The PG was more forthcoming than in previous meetings, foreshadowing changes to the PG anti-TIP u [...]	2006-12-01 11:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	HSTC PHUM PGOV PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG AM
06YEREVAN1673	FM OSKANIAN UPBEAT ON N-K NEGOTIATIONS, WARNS [...] (C) In a December 1 briefing to Chiefs of Diplomatic Missions resident in Yerevan, FM Oskanian said that the November 28 meeting between Presidents Kocharian and Aliyev was "positive and productive." He went into limited detail about new elements which will be the basis of future discussions [...]	2006-12-04 11:42:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EPET UNGA AM
06YEREVAN1675	SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-OCTOBER 2006 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: ODC continues to develop the ARM Peacekeeping Brigade equipping plan for consideration in FY08. Expeditionary Medical Services (EMEDS) facility is beginning to arrive in Armenia. FMF AM-B-BAA Peacekeeping battalion equipment is also arriving. Awaiting FMF Harris radio reque [...]	2006-12-05 10:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP KCFE XG AM
06YEREVAN1685	NDI PRESIDENT'S VISIT SPEAKS TO ARMENIAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-06 14:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM AM
06YEREVAN1688	ARMENIAN NEWSPAPER PRESSES ALMOST STOP ROLLING [...] (U) Armenia's leading printing company announced on December 1 that it had run out of newsprint and would cease printing Armenian newspapers December 6. The company said it could no longer import paper due to Russia's closure of the Upper Lars checkpoint on the Georgian border, as well as the [...]	2006-12-07 12:21:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM OPRC KPAO AM
06YEREVAN169	EMBASSY YEREVAN EMPHASIZES STATE OF THE UNION [...] Embassy Yerevan took advantage of the public diplomacy opportunities provided by the President's State of the Union Address in a variety of events and formats. As a result, the Armenian media extensively covered the major foreign policy themes of the speech. Specifically, the Ambassador's F [...]	2006-02-06 13:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KPAO AM
06YEREVAN1694	ENERGY SECTOR OVERVIEW [...] (SBU) Since Armenia's severe energy crisis in the early 1990s, energy security and independence have been critical priorities for the government of Armenia (GOAM). This cable, drawn primarily from conversations with representatives from the Armenian Ministry of Energy and USAID energy project [...]	2006-12-08 13:29:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENRG AM
06YEREVAN1700	ARMENIA TV ARGUES ITS CASE [...] (SBU) MCC Country Director and PAO met with Armenia TV President Bagrat Sargsian and toured the company's facilities. Sargsian affirmed his belief in the TV channel's independence and promised to provide opposition candidates a platform to air their views in the lead-up to the May parliamenta [...]	2006-12-11 08:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM EAID KPAO KDEM AM
06YEREVAN1704	ARMENIA'S HEAD IN THE SAND ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) During a two-day conference on domestic violence in Yerevan, representatives of the police and the Prosecutor General's (PG) office variously denied the existence of the problem in Armenia, used flowery language to expound upon the strength of the Armenian family and vigorously opposed lo [...]	2006-12-11 13:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KWMN AM

06YEREVAN1705	ARMENIA'S PRESS REPORTS ON REFERENDUM IN "NKR" [...] (SBU) The Armenian media widely covered the constitutional referendum held December 10 in the "Nagorno Karabakh Republic." According to preliminary results, the constitution passed by 98.6 percent, with an 87 percent voter turnout. Newspapers complained at the international community's refus [...]	2006-12-11 14:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AM AJ
06YEREVAN1707	WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR REMAIN RARE IN ARMENIA [...] (SBU) In 2006, the Armenian government tightened some of its legislation pertaining to child labor. While there is still no explicit law against the worst forms of child labor, at the end of 2005 the government adopted a list of occupations considered too hazardous for children. The Labor Cod [...]	2006-12-12 09:48:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID AM
06YEREVAN171	RUSSIAN G-8 CTAG LEADERSHIP "JUST LIKE YOU" [...] (SBU) Russia kicked off its G-8 presidency year following instructions to head up local Counter-terrorism Action Group (CTAG) meetings in the pattern of earlier French and U.S. local leadership. Representatives of local G-8 embassies were invited to participate and, with the exception of the [...]	2006-02-06 13:51:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RS AM
06YEREVAN1711	NK WAR VETERAN ARRESTED FOR SEDITION, FACES [...] (C) On December 10, Armenian authorities detained Nagorno-Karabakh war hero Zhirair Sefilian on charges of plotting to overthrow the government by force. The Armenian National Security Service (NSS) arrested Sefilian and alleged co-conspirator Vardan Malkhasian while the offices and apartment [...]	2006-12-12 13:21:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AM
06YEREVAN1717	MCC INITIAL DISBURSEMENT RECEIVES WIDE-SPREAD PUBLICITY [...] (U) On December 12, MCC, MCA-Armenia, and the U.S. Embassy held a press conference and reception to announce that Armenia had completed the requirements necessary to receive an Initial Disbursement of approximately USD 1.4 million of the Millennium Challenge Compact's USD 236 million. The pres [...]	2006-12-14 06:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON OPRC AM KMDR KPAO
06YEREVAN1726	ARMENIA: 2006 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] SUMMARY: There have been no major terrorism-related developments in Armenia in 2006. Per reftel instruction, the following is an update of Armenia's 2005 Country Report on Terrorism. END SUMMARY. 2. With substantial U.S. assistance, Armenia continues to strengthen its capacity to counter th [...]	2006-12-18 13:05:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PTER ASEC AM
06YEREVAN174	"WHO'S WHO" IN ASSISTANCE FUNDING TO ARMENIA [...] International assistance has been the primary driver of development in Armenia since the country gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. In the early 1990s, Armenia suffered devastating losses in its industrial sector and severe deterioration of its public infrastructure. Initial [...]	2006-02-07 11:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG EFIN EAID PREL AM
06YEREVAN1742	AZERBAIJANI SOLDIER CAPTURED BY ARMENIAN TROOPS [...] (U) The Armenian press reports that an Azerbaijani soldier was captured by ethnic Armenian forces in Nagorno Karabakh (N-K) on the line of contact December 7, after he reportedly crossed into Armenian-controlled territory east of N-K, in the Aghdam District. It is unclear whether 19-year-old V [...]	2006-12-20 11:52:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AJ AM
06YEREVAN1748	POLITICAL BLOOD SPORT GOES COLLEGIATE [...] (U) Summary: The European Academy - a relatively new private college - has found itself at the center of a political skirmish. The Academy's Board of Trustees is chaired by former Parliament Speaker and current political wilderness-dweller Artur Baghdasarian. A recent court case brought aga [...]	2006-12-21 12:15:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO AM
06YEREVAN1750	CDA HOSTS HUMAN RIGHTS LUNCH [...] (C) Lively discussion at a Human Rights Day lunch hosted by the Charge d'Affaires December 20 demonstrated that, while Armenia's most vocal human rights advocates agree that the upcoming parliamentary elections will not be free and fair, they do not fear airing their most damning complaints in [...]	2006-12-21 13:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV APER KPAO AM
06YEREVAN1757	THREE LIFE PRISONERS FREED BY ARMENIA'S HIGHEST COURT [...] (U) In a very surprising move, Armenia's highest court overturned the conviction and sentences of three defendants in a controversial murder case December 22. Soldiers Razmik Sargsian, Musa Serobian and Araik Zalian had been serving life sentences for the 2003 murder of two fellow servicemen i [...]	2006-12-22 12:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM AM
06YEREVAN176	THE REAL STORY BEHIND ARMENIA'S 7.7 PERCENT [...] (SBU) According to the Armenian National Statistical Service, official unemployment at the end of 2005 was 7.7 percent. The official statistic is based on the number of Armenians collecting unemployment benefits. Many international organizations estimate that the true rate is closer to 25 per [...]	2006-02-07 11:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD ELAB AM
06YEREVAN189	ARMENIAN BODY POLITIC: FEARING A DEAL ON N-K [...] (C) Despite the fact that only a handful of people in the GOAM have any concrete information about the state of the discussions on Nagorno-Karabakh (N-K),the Armenian political class is clearly concerned that a deal might well be in the works. In contrast to senior government officials' publi [...]	2006-02-08 13:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AJ AM
06YEREVAN190	ARMENIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IAEA REPORTS IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-08 13:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM KNNP PREL IR EU AORC AM
06YEREVAN192	ARMENIA'S COMPETITION COMMISSION: GROWING [...] (SBU) Founded in 2001 to regulate monopolies and combat anti-competitive behavior, the Armenian Commission for the Protection of Economic Competition (the Commission) plays a limited role in managing the Armenian marketplace. The Commission's caseload and enforcement action increased signific [...]	2006-02-09 12:51:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL EAID ETRD AM
06YEREVAN208	AVIAN FLU UPDATE AND ACTION REQUEST [...] (SBU) An eleven-member Avian Influenza (AI) Interagency Team including representatives from USAID, USDA, HHS/CDC, DoD and State, traveled in Yerevan from January 24-26. The team, or elements thereof, met with the Ministers of Agriculture, Health and Education, with representatives from interna [...]	2006-02-10 13:22:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU TBIO SENV ECON PREL AM EAGR
06YEREVAN214	USG'S TIP REPORT: DRIVING ARMENIA'S ANTI-TIP [...] (SBU) On February 9 the State Inter-Agency Anti- Trafficking Commission met to discuss GOAM efforts on combating trafficking in persons (TIP) throughout 2005 in advance of the submission of the USG annual TIP Report. Members of the Commission representing state bodies (Ministry of Justice, Mi [...]	2006-02-13 12:34:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP HSTC
06YEREVAN227	FULL TEXT OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLY REPORT ON N-K [...] (SBU) The National Assembly's Committee on Foreign Relations released its report on the March 29-30, 2005 hearings on the "Nagorno Karabakh Problem: Settlement Ways" (original in English). Although at this late date the report itself is not likely to inform Armenian public opinion, its relea [...]	2006-02-14 12:20:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AJ AM
06YEREVAN230	ARMENIA: UNESCO CONVENTION ON CULTURAL [...] (C) The UNESCO convention is not likely to appear on the Armenian Parliament's legislative agenda in 2006. There has been little or no media attention or public debate specifically directed at ratification of the Convention, but perception in Armenia of UNESCO in general is quite negative. P [...]	2006-02-14 13:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD SCUL UNESCO AM
06YEREVAN231	IRANIAN FM LAUDS RELATIONS WITH ARMENIA, CALLS [...] (C) "We do not need permission to pursue a peaceful nuclear program," Iranian Foreign Minister Mottaki told reporters during a press conference at the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs February 14 in Yerevan. Mottaki arrived in Yerevan February 14 for a series of official meetings at Forei [...]	2006-02-14 14:05:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM ENRG KNNP PREL MARR RS AJ IR AM
06YEREVAN237	IS AN N-K SETTLEMENT DEAD? EVERYONE POINTING [...] (C) Official Yerevan remains careful not to close the door on the possibility of a settlement in the long-running Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, while opposition politicians and thinktankers appear almost gleeful in what is being widely reported as a breakdown in the talks at Rambouillet. Most im [...]	2006-02-15 14:32:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AJ AM
06YEREVAN238	ARMENIAN FM OSKANIAN REFLECTS ON RAMBOUILLET [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Oskanian was not as pessimistic about the results of Rambouillet as we had anticipated when we heard him reflect on the event and on his views of the way ahead February 15. Although agreement eluded the two presidents at Paris, it was Oskanian's view that many is [...]	2006-02-16 04:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AM AJ OSCE
06YEREVAN246	NA ELECTS HARUTYUNYAN OMBUDSMAN [...] (SBU) The National Assembly elected Armen Harutyunyan as Armenia's new Human Rights Ombudsman on February 17. As the president's candidate, his election was not in doubt, but the governing coalition and the president found they needed to expend more political capital than they had intended un [...]	2006-02-17 13:34:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM AM
06YEREVAN255	DEMOCRACY, MCA AND CORRUPTION FOCUS OF USATF [...] (SBU) Minister of Finance Vardan Khachatryan and Ambassador Evans co-chaired the mid-term review session of the U.S.-Armenia Task Force on Economic Cooperation (USATF) February 17. The USG raised issues linked to the Action Plan of the September 2005 USATF meeting held in Washington and reque [...]	2006-02-22 12:44:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PGOV AM
06YEREVAN267	PROSECUTOR GENERAL LAUNCHES INVESTIGATION OF [...] (SBU) On February 17, Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan created a commission to investigate allegations against his employees including the investigator of his Anti-Trafficking Unit, Aristakes Yeremyan (see paragraph 6). In a meeting with the DCM, Hovsepyan was notably upset about Armenia's [...]	2006-02-23 13:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PGOV PREL AM KTIP HSTC
06YEREVAN268	AVIAN FLU UPDATE: USG SUPPORT FOR IMPROVED [...] (SBU) Although there are still no reported cases of AI in Armenia, the government has begun to take steps to prepare. Motivation for the GOAM's new level of action has come not only from increasing AI reports from neighbors, but also from strong international community pressure, with the USG at [...]	2006-02-23 13:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU TBIO ECON SENV AM
06YEREVAN269	ARMENIA ENJOYS FOUR YEARS OF DOUBLE-DIGIT [...] (SBU) For the fourth year in a row, Armenia's gross domestic product (GDP) grew at a double-digit rate according to National Statistical Service data. (Note: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has consistently praised the National Statistical Service for the quality of its data. End Note. [...]	2006-02-23 14:30:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EAID AM
06YEREVAN274	GHUKASIAN CALLS FOR ARMENIA TO LEAVE THE [...] (C) Nagorno-Karabakh "president" Arkady Ghukasian called on Armenia to pursue negotiations with Azerbaijan only if N-K representatives were a part of the process. Although Armenian Foreign Minister Oskanian quickly moved to issue a clarification of Ghukasian's comments, the GOAM was clearly [...]	2006-02-24 11:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AJ AM
06YEREVAN280	ARMENIA'S NEW POLITICAL LANDSCAPE [...] (C) Although parliamentary and presidential elections are still more than a year away, Yerevan's political season is well and truly underway. Several well-known political and business figures have announced the formation of new political parties in early 2006, in effect revealing their ambiti [...]	2006-02-24 13:55:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AM
06YEREVAN281	KEEPING ARMENIA'S LIGHTS ON: PIPE DREAMS AND [...] (C) President Robert Kocharian is, by most accounts, Armenia's negotiator-in-chief on energy. He has personally formulated and, through a tight network of close advisors, controlled the implementation of the GOAM's strategically important and financially significant energy deals with Russia a [...]	2006-02-27 10:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PREL ASEC EAID ENRG KNNP GG AJ AM
06YEREVAN294	MORE ON RAMBOUILLET FROM KOCHARIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a private discussion February 28 with the Ambassador, President Kocharian did not rule out further talks on Nagorno-Karabakh, but dilated at some length on why he believed Rambouillet had been doomed to failure from the outset, and why he did not believe that Azeri President Al [...]	2006-03-01 11:08:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ AM PGOV PREL OSCE
06YEREVAN308	ARMENIA COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY: FEBRUARY [...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for February 2006. Major headlines include: -- GOAM approves a USD 240 million investment plan for Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Plant; -- Armentel plagued by customer lawsuits; -- EBRD issues 2006-2007 Strategy [...]	2006-03-02 05:23:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KTDB BEXP BTIO AM
06YEREVAN315	N-K: KOCHARIAN'S PRIME-TIME INTERVIEW [...] (SBU) In a rare, 45-minute television interview aired live on March 2, President Kocharian addressed Nagorno-Karabakh and OSCE-Minsk Group-led negotiations at Rambouillet in February. Looking fully at ease and in complete control of the scene, Kocharian answered questions from a carefully se [...]	2006-03-02 12:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AJ AM
06YEREVAN33	FORMER HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER GRANDSTANDING, [...] (SBU) Larisa Alaverdyan's tenure as Armenian Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) concluded January 5, under the terms of Armenia's newly amended constitution (reftel). On January 4, President Robert Kocharian created an ad hoc commission to oversee the HRD's administrative activities until Parl [...]	2006-01-10 11:55:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM AM
06YEREVAN330	ARMENIA FALLING SHORT ON AI DETECTION AND [...] (C) We are increasingly concerned that there are non-human cases of avian influenza (AI) in Armenia that have gone undetected and/or unreported. This cable details a series of incidents which collectively call into question the GOAM's willingness and ability to respond to reports of suspect c [...]	2006-03-06 13:40:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KFLU TBIO SENV ECON AM
06YEREVAN350	ACTION ALONG THE ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN BORDER [...] (C) Cease-fire violations along the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan have intensified over the last several weeks, according to news reports confirmed by Deputy Minister of Defense General-Lieutenant Artur Aghabekyan and Ministry of Foreign Affairs OSCE Desk Officer Head Varuzhan Nersissia [...]	2006-03-09 13:23:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PBTS PGOV PREL MARR AJ AM
06YEREVAN352	ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION ON DAS BRYZA VISIT [...] Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza visited Armenia on March 6-8. As part of his visit, Bryza held a press conference on March 7 that received broad coverage from the print and broadcast media. The press reported on Bryza's comments on energy security, Nagorno- Karabakh, the d [...]	2006-03-09 13:34:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC AM KMDR KPAO
06YEREVAN354	ARMENIA'S POVERTY RATE FALLS TO 34.6 [...] (SBU) According to the National Statistical Service (NSS),Armenia's poverty rate was 34.6 percent in 2004, down from 56.1 percent in 1998- 1999. The rate of extreme poverty in 2004 was 6.4 percent, down from 21 percent. These findings were based on an NSS survey supported by the World Bank [...]	2006-03-09 14:05:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ELAB EAID PHUM AM
06YEREVAN380	HIGH DEMAND FOR AGRICULTURAL LOANS [...] The Central Bank of Armenia (CBA) recently released the results of a survey of 635 farmers around the country aimed at estimating local demand for agricultural loans. The CBA estimated that, without considering profitability and collateral requirements, total demand for loans was approximat [...]	2006-03-16 13:44:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAGR EFIN EAID AM
06YEREVAN395	ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION ON FRIED VISIT [...] Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried, accompanied by Special Negotiator for Nagorno-Karabakh and Eurasian Conflicts Steven Mann, visited Armenia March 15-16. As part of his visit, Fried held a press conference on March 16 that received broad coverage from the print and broadcast media. [...]	2006-03-20 08:25:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC AM KMDR KPAO
06YEREVAN421	ARMENIA COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY: MARCH [...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for March 2006. Major headlines include: -- Microsoft opens a subsidiary in Armenia; -- GOAM approves new technopark in Gyumri; -- Germany issues Armenia a USD 9.7 million loan; -- Public Services Regulatory [...]	2006-03-26 07:24:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KTDB CCSR BEXP BTIO AM
06YEREVAN432	EUR A/S FRIED DISCUSSES N-K, ENERGY SECURITY AND [...] (C) During an informal dinner March 15 with a group of Armenian political leaders, visiting EUR Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried underlined the USG's policy that strong democracies were better equipped to solve the region's most pressing problems, especially the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and [...]	2006-03-27 09:25:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IR AM RU
06YEREVAN458	SHOOTING DISRUPTS MARCH 29 OSCE MONITORING MISSION [...] (C) OSCE Special Representative Andrzej Kasprzyk told CDA on March 31 that he called off a March 29 cease fire monitoring event because shots were fired in the vicinity and neither the "N-K" nor the Azeri side could account for their origin. A report signed by OSCE Special Representatives And [...]	2006-03-30 13:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS OSCE AJ AM
06YEREVAN473	PRESS ALLEGES "RELIGIOUS SECTS" COLLUDING WITH [...] (C) A short, vague, and unsigned article published April 4 in opposition weekly Iravunk, alleged that a "top police official" had information that "religious sects," in particular Mormons and Pentecostals, had established ties with "well known criminals" who protected the "sects' interests" pr [...]	2006-04-03 12:44:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KRCM AM
06YEREVAN489	ARMENIA'S NORTHWEST PROVINCE: DEAD END? [...] (C) Armenia's northwest Shirak province is bound by a closed border with Turkey to the west and the Samstkhe-Javakheti region of Georgia to the north. A 1988 earthquake centered in Shirak killed tens of thousands of people and leveled a significant portion of the region's infrastructure. Alm [...]	2006-04-05 12:39:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
06YEREVAN492	ARMENIA, RUSSIA REACH TENTATIVE DEAL ON ENERGY [...] (C) A tentative agreement reached April 5 between Armenia and Russia, would transfer ownership of key components of Armenia's dwindling energy infrastructure to Russia in exchange for Russian natural gas subsidies. Under terms of the agreement, Russia appears set to assume immediate control, [...]	2006-04-06 03:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP ENRG PARM PREL IR AM
06YEREVAN508	ARMENIA RUNNING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL--U.S. NOT [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-10 08:25:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KUNR PREL PHUM UNGA AM
06YEREVAN586	ARMENIA COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY: APRIL [...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for April 2006. Major headlines include: -- Greek Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE) to sell its 90 percent share in the Armenia Telephone Company (ArmenTel); -- GOAM sells Hrazdan Thermal Power Plant [...]	2006-04-27 12:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KTDB CCSR BEXP BTIO AM
06YEREVAN6	KOCHARIAN MENTIONS MCA, IRAN DURING ANNUAL NEW [...] (C) President Robert Kocharian's New Year's address, which is traditionally broadcast via all local television stations in Armenia on January 31, included a specific reference to the Millennium Challenge Account program. Kocharian said that thanks to the MCA program, Armenia would "see a brea [...]	2006-01-04 12:22:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
06YEREVAN602	ICRC: ARMENIA TO SUPPORT THIRD ADDITIONAL [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel points regarding the Third Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions to DFM Armen Baiburtian and MFA International Organizations Department Head Valery Mkrtumyan. Mkrtumyan told us that Armenia planned to sign the Protocol and to support changing the statutes of [...]	2006-04-28 13:14:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC PHUM PREF PREL AM SZ ICRC
06YEREVAN617	UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL - FOLLOW UP ON CANDIDACY [...] (C) In separate meetings on May 1 and 2, the Ambassador and DCM raised demarche points on Iran's candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council with Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian (May 1) and Deputy Foreign Minister Armen Baiburtian (May 2). Kirakossian told the Ambassador that Armenia [...]	2006-05-03 12:20:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KUNR PHUM UNHRC PREL IR AM
06YEREVAN623	TURKISH FM GUL EXPRESSES HIS CONDOLENCES TO FM [...] (U) The MFA Press Service announced May 4 that FM Oskanian had received a letter of condolences from Turkish FM Abdullah Gul. While the information did not yet make the Armenian papers, wire services carried a brief notice about the letter, quoting FM Gul as having written, "It was with deep [...]	2006-05-05 06:48:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AM TU
06YEREVAN631	ARMENIA'S ENERGY SITUATION: DEALING WITH DEVILS [...] (C) While official Armenia insists that the incomplete Iran-Armenia gas pipeline was not included in the recent Hrazdan 5 energy-for-infrastructure agreement with Russia (reftel),the specific details of the midnight deal remain unclear. In response to the Ambassador's inquiries during May 2 [...]	2006-05-05 13:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP ENRG PARM PREL IR RS AM
06YEREVAN64	ARMENIA CONSIDERING NEXT STEPS IN VIEW OF U.S. [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche on reporting Iran to the UNSC to Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian January 13. Although officially on leave, Kirakossian was well aware of recent developments, had seen the EU-3 FMs' statement already and undertook to consider how Arm [...]	2006-01-13 13:44:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC EU IR KNNP PARM PREL
06YEREVAN661	"PROSPEROUS ARMENIA" - OLIGARCH'S NEW PARTY [...] (C) The political grouping "Prosperous Armenia" is gathering steam and is expected to be one of the most important factors as the political season heats up. Its leader, the business tycoon Gagik Tsarukyan, has declared that his goal is to support financially a group of professional legislato [...]	2006-05-12 09:19:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV AM
06YEREVAN692	ARMENIA'S SYUNIK MARZ: NOT MUCH GROWTH AND LITTLE [...] (C) Armenia's southern Syunik region feels very little of the economic growth that is now so obvious in the capital. Separated from the rest of Armenia by mountains and connected by a two-lane road occasionally washed out by landslides, Syunik borders the Azerbaijani exclave Nakhichevan on the [...]	2006-05-19 13:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PREL AM IR
06YEREVAN710	NA RATIFIES MCC COMPACT; AMBASSADOR DELIVERS [...] (U) On May 24, the Armenian National Assembly ratified the GOAM's Compact with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) for USD 235.6 million. The vote was 77 to 0 in favor with 4 abstentions. The Compact was signed in Washington on March 27 by MCC Chief Executive Officer Ambassador John D [...]	2006-05-24 13:23:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
06YEREVAN715	ARMENIA AND IRAN: KOCHARIAN WISHES HE HAD A [...] (C) With U.S. concerns about Iran peaking, so are Armenia's concerns about how the U.S. and the international community will respond to Armenia's attempts to maintain a vestige of neighborly relations with its southern neighbor. As Armenia had only two open international borders, President Koc [...]	2006-05-25 13:10:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG KNNP IR AM
06YEREVAN74	KOCHARIAN WON'T CONDEMN REFERENDUM, STILL HOPES [...] (C) In a January 17 meeting with President Kocharian, the Ambassador pressed for a clearer GOAM acknowledgement of shortcomings in the November 27 constitutional referendum. The January 12 response to Millennium Challenge Corporation CEO Danilovich from FM Oskanian was a principled statement, [...]	2006-01-18 11:56:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PGOV PHUM AM
06YEREVAN747	ARMENIA PARLIAMENT ELECTS NEW SPEAKER, NO [...] (SBU) On June 1, the Armenian Parliament elected Tigran Torosyan to the post of Speaker of the National Assembly, which became vacant on May 29 (reftel A). Torosyan, a member of Armenia's Republican Party and the former Deputy Speaker, was the only candidate. The vote was 94-1, with two ballo [...]	2006-06-01 13:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV AM
06YEREVAN751	ARMENIANS CAUGHT IN HEADLIGHTS ON IRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador met with President Kocharian late June 1 to deliver ref A points on Iran, and with Deputy Foreign Minister Kirakossian the following day. Kocharian had no immediate reaction except to repeat his concerns about the heightening tensions over Iran's nuclear program, to la [...]	2006-06-02 10:45:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KNNP IR AM
06YEREVAN761	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: 2006 TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) DCM presented reftel points and the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report summary for Armenia to Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian and Valery Mkrtumyan, head of Armenia's interagency Anti-TIP Commission, during a June 5 meeting. Mkrtumyan said the Anti-TIP Commission would take ou [...]	2006-06-05 12:01:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN PREL PGOV SMIG AM
06YEREVAN819	TURKISH MP'S VISIT TO ARMENIA MARRED BY HEATED [...] (C) A member of the Turkish parliament made Armenian news June 13 when he got into a verbal scuffle with Armenian National Assembly Speaker Tigran Torosyan during a rare visit to Armenia. Twenty parliamentarians visited Armenia June 12-14 on an information-gathering trip managed by the NATO i [...]	2006-06-15 12:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PGOV PREL TU AM
06YEREVAN836	TIP RATING CATCHES KOCHARIAN'S ATTENTION [...] (C) Armenia's second consecutive ranking on the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Tier 2 Watchlist seems to have touched a nerve in the highest levels of Armenian government. During a June 20 meeting with the Ambassador, Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian confirmed news reports that Preside [...]	2006-06-21 09:59:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KTIP KWMN KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG AM
06YEREVAN838	YEREVAN-BATUMI TRAIN DEPARTS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN [...] A train departed Yerevan for the Georgian Black Sea resort town of Batumi on June 17, marking the first train service between the Armenian capital and the autonomous region of Adjara in 14 years. According to press reports quoting Georgian Minister of Economic Development Irakli Chogovadze, A [...]	2006-06-21 12:40:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL GG AM
06YEREVAN840	TOP ADVISER CLAIMS KOCHARIAN ORDERED TOUGHER [...] (C) Presidential National Security Adviser Garnik Isaghulyan told us June 21 that President Kocharian ordered law enforcement officials to toughen court verdicts for human traffickers and ensure that criminals are sentenced to the fullest extent of the law. This instruction was delivered at a [...]	2006-06-22 03:08:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KTIP KWMN KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG TU AE AM
06YEREVAN851	N-K DFM BLAMES FIRES ON AZERI TRACER BULLETS AS [...] (SBU) A top "Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" (NKR) official has refuted Azeri allegations that the Armenian military is starting fires in Azerbaijani settlements bordering N-K. NKR "Deputy Foreign Minister" Masis Mayilian told the press some of the fires were natural occurrences, but that Azeri tra [...]	2006-06-23 12:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AJ AM
06YEREVAN858	ARMENIAN PRESS BLASTS TURKISH RECEPTION OF [...] Armenian cultural and political leaders blasted the GOT in the press following an incident during which a group of about 50 protesters reportedly egged cars carrying Armenian religious dignitaries on their way to meet the leader of the Armenian Apostolic Church at the Istanbul airport. Accordi [...]	2006-06-26 10:59:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM TU AM
06YEREVAN875	GOAM INVESTIGATES CLAIMS OF MENTAL HOME ABUSE, [...] (C) Armenia's sensationalist press has reported allegations of human organ sales from a state-run mental facility in a western province of Armenia. While the prosecutor's investigation has not turned up evidence of organ sales, it did uncover widespread malnutrition, abuse and medical malprac [...]	2006-06-29 11:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AM
06YEREVAN895	ARMENIA RELEASES ANTI-TIP MANUALS FOR ITS OVERSEAS [...] At the release of a USG-funded anti-trafficking in persons manual for Armenian consular officials overseas, GOAM officials pledged to improve their track record in identifying and protecting trafficking victims and to strengthen Armenia's interagency Anti-TiP Commission. End Summary. 2. [...]	2006-07-03 06:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KTIP KWMN KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG AM
06YEREVAN900	GAZPROM AGAIN LAYS CLAIM TO IRAN-ARMENIA GAS [...] (C) Gazprom announced June 30 its intention to purchase the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline still under construction. The Armenian deputy energy minister told us the statement was just an expression of the company's desire to buy the pipeline, and thus was not news to the GOAM. This is not the fir [...]	2006-07-03 12:31:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG IR AM
06YEREVAN910	ARMENIA'S "LEAST COST" ENERGY FUTURE INCLUDES [...] (SBU) At a June 30 conference to plot out how Armenia's energy generation capability needs to change to match its projected demand, GOAM energy policy leaders and top USAID consultants presented persuasive arguments that Armenia must replace its aging nuclear power plant by 2015 with a new nuc [...]	2006-07-06 12:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG SENV PREL KNNP AM
06YEREVAN920	GOAM OFFICIALS WORRY GEORGIA-RUSSIA BORDER [...] (U) The July 7 closing of the Kazbegi-Verkhniy Lars checkpoint (reftel) between Russia and Georgia is worrying GOAM officials. GOAM Prime Minister Andranik Margarian told reporters the closure will become a serious problem for Yerevan, particularly in the agricultural sector. End Summary. [...]	2006-07-11 03:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
06YEREVAN922	OSCE: "NOTHING TO" AZERI CLAIMS OF ARMENIAN ARSON [...] (C) There is "nothing to" the claim that Armenians had set fires to destroy Azeri property in the occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh, according to Andrzej Kasprzyk, special representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office (CiO) on the Minsk Conference. The OSCE sent a monitoring gr [...]	2006-07-11 06:14:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AJ AM
06YEREVAN933	ARMENIAN MEDIA CONCERNED ABOUT TABLOID EDITOR'S [...] (C) The Armenian media is concerned about the arrest and pre-trial detention of the editor of Zhamanak Yerevan, Arman Babajanyan, on charges of document fraud and the evasion of military service. Babajanyan reportedly confessed to the charges that he forged documents between 1996 and 2002 to g [...]	2006-07-12 12:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL AM
06YEREVAN95	KOCHARIAN ON TAX AND CUSTOMS: "A CASTE OF PARASITES..." [...] (U) Despite acknowledging limited improvements, President Kocharian strongly criticized the State Customs Committee and State Tax Service for failing to coordinate and for reported cases of corruption and smuggling which continued to undermine revenue collection during a working meeting with He [...]	2006-01-23 12:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD AM
06YEREVAN960	ARMENIA DRAMATICALLY INCREASES PENALTIES FOR [...] (SBU) Recent changes in Armenia's Criminal Code significantly increase penalties for trafficking in persons (TIP),making them commensurate with penalties for crimes such as rape. The Prosecutor General initiated the amendments, which took effect July 16. The changes attempt to distinguish be [...]	2006-07-19 06:48:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM HTSC AM
06YEREVAN970	ARMENIAN REFUGEE POPULATION DWINDLES AS PEOPLE [...] (C) Armenia's refugee population has dwindled enormously since hundreds of thousands of ethnic Armenians fled across the border from Azerbaijan, according to U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) statistics. UNHCR Representative Peter Nicolaus told us preliminary results from the Armeni [...]	2006-07-19 11:55:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PGOV PHUM AJ AM
06YEREVAN971	PRESIDENTIAL SPOKESPERSON CLAIMS OPPOSITION HAS [...] (C) On July 4, Presidential Spokesperson Victor Soghomonian sent official letters to OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Miklos Haraszti and Head of the "Ago" monitoring group of the COE Council of Ministers Ambassador Roland Wegener refuting claims that opposition politicians are not [...]	2006-07-19 11:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM AM
06YEREVAN983	ARMENIAN JOURNALISM REMAINS A DANGEROUS PROFESSION [...] (SBU) Two recent incidents, although they are unrelated, highlight the fact that journalists in Armenia are subject to intimidation. Journalist Edik Baghdasaryan reported receiving e-mail threats following the publication of an article on his web site about oligarch Gagik Tsarukyan's new poli [...]	2006-07-21 12:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM AM
06YEREVAN998	GOAM HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE AT 61ST UNGA [...] (SBU) Post submits the following list of high-level GOAM attendees for the 61st UNGA per reftel instructions. MFA International Organizations Department Director Valery Mkrtumyan told us schedules remain tentative but that Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian will head the GOAM delegation. Post [...]	2006-07-25 13:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL OTRA OVIP UNGA AM
06ZAGREB1009	Economic picture mixed in Western Slavonia [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-25 11:52:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN HR
06ZAGREB1026	SLOVENE BORDER: GOC PUSHING FOR ARBITRATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: While the annual summer political rhetoric about Croatia-Slovenia border disputes is as predictable as the flood of tourists to the coast, this year GoC officials have increasingly indicated that international arbitration is the only solution they will accept. A mid [...]	2006-08-30 10:30:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SI HR REGIONAL ISSUES
06ZAGREB1079	ANNUAL SUMMER BORDER SPAT ENDS AMICABLY [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Croatian PM Sanader and Slovenian PM Jansa agreed September 2 to cooperate in a flood-control project on the banks of the Mura river, where uncertainty about precise border demarcation recently led to controversy. With both capitals returning to work after the summe [...]	2006-09-08 12:49:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL HR SI REGIONAL ISSUES
06ZAGREB1126	BORDER POLITICS TEST GOOD NEIGHBORS [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Ambassador raised the recent flare-up in Croatia's ongoing border dispute with Slovenia (reftels) on September 15 with MFA State Secretary Hidajet Biscevic, urging continued high-level communication with Ljubljana and a measured and non-confrontational approach to the [...]	2006-09-15 13:24:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SI HR REGIONAL ISSUES
06ZAGREB1199	MUTED ZAGREB REACTION TO BIH ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-03 13:45:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL HR BK
06ZAGREB1222	TRADE AGREEMENT COMPLIANCE AND [...] Embassy Zagreb has established a team at post as per reftel to monitor trade agreements and respond to foreign trade barrier complaints. Post notes that prior to this request to establish such a team, all relevant agencies were already collaborating in such activities. As presently structur [...]	2006-10-06 13:22:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD HR
06ZAGREB1232	CROATIA RESOLVES BILATERAL ISSUE WITH ITALY; STILL [...] (U) Removing a bilateral irritant and potential obstacle to EU membership, the GOC announced October 9 that it would acknowledge by exchange of diplomatic notes with Italy that Croatian citizens face no obstacles buying real estate in Italy, and it will extend the principle of reciprocity to I [...]	2006-10-11 12:52:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL HR IT REGIONAL ISSUES
06ZAGREB1260	FAR RIGHT POSITIONS ITSELF FOR 2007 ELECTIONS [...] (U) Summary and comment: The Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) has consolidated its status as a major right-wing political party and gained greater acceptability as a democratic political entity, although some statements made by its leaders occasionally echo its extreme nationalist past. Domestica [...]	2006-10-18 07:19:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES ELECTIONS
06ZAGREB1261	GOC CONTINUES ENERGETIC FIGHT AGAINST TRAFFICKING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: GOC officials and Croatian NGOs presented a coherent and well-structured approach to fighting trafficking in persons (TIP) to visiting G/TIP Foreign Affairs Officer Jennifer Donnelly in late September. Although NGOs praised the government's anti-trafficking laws, pol [...]	2006-10-18 07:20:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM KWMN PHUM PREL HR TRAFFICKING
06ZAGREB1314	CROATIAN PRESS COVERAGE OF PRIME MINISTER SANADER'S VISIT [...] Summary. Reporting on Croatian Prime Minister Sanader's visit to Washington was mainly positive in tone and grew more enthusiastic as the visit drew to an end, though a few commentaries wondered what concessions Croatia might have made to earn the top-level treatment that Sanader received in t [...]	2006-10-30 11:14:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO KMDR PGOV PREL HR
06ZAGREB1315	CROATIAN BORDER POLICE NAB 53 ALBANIANS AT SLOVENE [...] On October 24, Croatian border police discovered a group of 53 Albanian citizens, including 25 minors, trying to cross the Croatian-Slovene border hidden in a truck with Croatian license plates allegedly driven by a 27-year-old Croatian citizen. The Croatian and Slovenian press reported on the [...]	2006-10-30 12:01:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL HR KCRM TRAFFICKING
06ZAGREB132	ZAGREB FY-2004 CONSULAR PACKAGE NARRATIVE [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-01 12:21:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	CMGT HR
06ZAGREB1320	CROATIAN-SERBIAN BORDER DEMILITARIZED [...] Over ten years after the Dayton Agreement ended armed conflict between Croatia and Serbia, Serbian troops have withdrawn from the Croatian-Serbian state border and handed control over to the police at a ceremony attended by Croatian and Serbian military and diplomatic officials. The Chief of th [...]	2006-10-31 14:39:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL HR SR
06ZAGREB1322	CROATIAN COMMITMENT TO KOSOVO OUTREACH DURING [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: During his October 29-30 visit to Zagreb, Ambassador Wisner secured the GoC's commitment to actively assist in the region in promoting acceptance of Kosovo's future final status package. In meetings with Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, Foreign Minister Kolinda Grabar Kita [...]	2006-11-02 08:58:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UN UNMIK YI EU HR REGIONAL ISSUES
06ZAGREB1330	NGO REPORTS CROATIAN SOCIETY GRADUALLY OPENING BUT WORK [...] Croatian NGO iDEMO (the Institute for Democracy) on November 2 marked the publication of its Society Openness Index 2006 at a well-attended public presentation in Zagreb. Based on research by sociologists and other experts, as well as public opinion surveys, the Index examines six areas of so [...]	2006-11-03 14:52:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM HR
06ZAGREB1333	MINORITIES MAKE PROGRESS; MORE WORK TO BE DONE [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: A survey of minority legal and cultural rights conducted by a Croatian Serb NGO shows that Croatia has a good legal framework in place but that implementation, especially on the local level and in "war affected areas" lags behind the legal ideal. Presenting the findings o [...]	2006-11-06 06:26:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EAID PHUM HR
06ZAGREB1338	CROATIA INCSR 2006 - PART ONE [...] (U) Below please find per reftel request, part one of post's submission for the annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report. Part two on money laundering will be submitted septel. I. Summary Croatia is not a producer of narcotics. However, narcotics smuggling, particularly heroi [...]	2006-11-06 14:52:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PREL KJUS KCRM HR
06ZAGREB1352	INTERNATIONALS SEE GLAVAS AS JUDICIAL TEST CASE [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Observers in the international community are calling the war crimes investigation against MP Branimir Glavas (reftels) a test case of the maturity of the Croatian judiciary that will serve as an indicator of readiness for Euro-Atlantic integration. Glavas, now the sub [...]	2006-11-08 14:52:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KAWC HR WAR CRIMES
06ZAGREB1361	EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----05 October, Met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),Head of Department for International Cooperation and staff, at their request, to provide advice over a range of export control topics to include procedures for conducting licensing end user v [...]	2006-11-13 15:11:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI

06ZAGREB1362	SEAS RICKMAN SCENESETTER: ANTI-SEMITISM RARE, BUT SPLIT IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Overt anti-Semitic acts are rare in Croatia; the Government, NGOs and religious communities work together to promote tolerance as part of Croatia's recovery from ethnic conflict which ended eleven years ago. When members of the Jewish community were harassed in Zagre [...]	2006-11-13 15:11:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM HR
06ZAGREB1380	DEBATE ON GLAVAS DETENTION DIVIDES PARLIAMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Speaker of Parliament Vladimir Seks postponed a vote today that may have led to the release of MP Branimir Glavas from detention (reftels). The planned vote did not have PM Ivo Sanader's support and had sparked widespread public criticism. Glavas has been in detention [...]	2006-11-17 16:29:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KAWC HR WAR CRIMES
06ZAGREB140	CROATIAN GOVERNMENT TO PROPOSE ALLOWING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a January 31 meeting with the Ambassador, the Croatian Minister of Justice confirmed reports that the GOC will propose amending the 1996 Restitution Act, as already amended in 2002, to allow foreigners to file claims under the Act's provisions without the need for a bilateral [...]	2006-02-02 16:06:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC KIDE KTIA PHUM PREL HR
06ZAGREB1405	PARLIAMENT CONFIRMS GLAVAS DETENTION [...] Parliament voted November 22 to confirm a committee decision to strip MP Branimir Glavas of his immunity from detention, allowing the court to keep him in detention based both on the gravity of the alleged crimes and the protection of witnesses (reftels). Glavas could face up to a year of inv [...]	2006-11-22 14:24:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KAWC HR WAR CRIMES
06ZAGREB1415	CROATIA SHARPENS REGULATORY GUILLOTINE [...] Summary: The Croatian government has undertaken an ambitious regulatory reform campaign aimed at easing bureaucratic impediments for business and improving the investment climate. The program, supported by USAID, is known as the "regulatory guillotine." Its aim is to create an inventory of al [...]	2006-11-28 12:39:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EAID HR
06ZAGREB1423	GOC PRESENTS BOSNIAN CROAT PROPOSAL FOR BIH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: MFA State Secretary Hidajet Biscevic briefed Charge d'Affaires November 30 on a two-option proposal from Bosnian Croat leaders for modifications that would enable them to support the BiH constitutional reform plan. Charge cautioned against calls to reopen the reform [...]	2006-11-30 14:58:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BK HR REGIONAL ISSUES
06ZAGREB1425	CROATIAN ISLAMIC COMMUNITY MARKS 90 YEARS OF OFFICIAL [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: At a November 29 commemoration, Croatia's top political leadership paid tribute to the local Islamic community as an active and constructive participant in civil society, and acknowledged the importance of promoting tolerance and religious pluralism in Croatia. The Presi [...]	2006-12-01 07:18:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV HR
06ZAGREB1436	SETBACK IN GLAVAS INVESTIGATION [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Zagreb County Court investigative judge Zdenko Posavec decided December 2 to release MP Branimir Glavas from detention and suspend further investigative hearings into his suspected involvement in war crimes against Serb civilians in 1991 due to his deteriorated health afte [...]	2006-12-04 13:40:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KAWC HR WAR CRIMES
06ZAGREB145	ZAGREB QUARTERLY FRAUD SUMMARY FIRST [...] Bolstered by reforms in preparation for EU membership and the official start of EU accession talks in October 2005, Croatia's economy is steadily improving, unemployment rates are gradually declining, and fewer and fewer Croatians need to resort to fraud or malfeasance to travel abroad. Dev [...]	2006-02-06 11:55:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC HR
06ZAGREB1465	CROATIAN STORKS TURN UP DEAD IN SOMALIA [...] SUMMARY. Some 50 Croatian-tagged white storks were found dead in Somalia in November, causing a brief panic over the possibility they brought avian influenza (AI) to the village of Elbaraf. The director of the Poultry Center in Zagreb said it is unlikely the birds died of avian influenza, after [...]	2006-12-11 14:51:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO SENV ECON EAGR PREL CASC KFLU HR
06ZAGREB1482	EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----09 November, Met with Ministry of Finance (MOF),Customs Directorate, Operational and Customs Academy Department Heads at their request to tour the facility located on the grounds of the Ministry of Interior (MoI) Police Directorate Training compl [...]	2006-12-14 12:41:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI
06ZAGREB1485	CONVICTED ARMS SMUGGLER RENEWS ATTEMPTS TO SELL [...] (S) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Deputy State Prosecutor Josip Cule informed PolOff December 7 that Croatian intelligence service reports indicate Stjepan (aka Sinisa) Adrenik (reftels) has resumed his efforts to sell missile fire control software to Iran. Adrenik was convicted in September in the mu [...]	2006-12-14 15:40:00	Embassy Zagreb	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC IR HR ORGANIZED CRIME CORRUPTION
06ZAGREB1486	PAKISTAN NUCLEAR FACILITY: GOC SEEKS ADVICE ON [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. Please see para 4. 2. (C) Head of MFA's Department for International Security Sanja Bujas-Juraga requested USG guidance from PolOff December 15 regarding a pending export license application from Croatian nuclear scientists to offer technical training in "Sym [...]	2006-12-15 13:27:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM ETTC PREL PK HR ARMS CONTROL
06ZAGREB1490	MAINTAINING MOMENTUM AFTER THE CROATIAN PRIME [...] (U) Summary: Following up on their October 27 meeting, Ambassador and DCM met with Croatian FM Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic December 14 to review progress on outstanding issues and areas of cooperation. Discussions on CEFTA and BiH have been reported separately. Kosovo 2. (C) The Ambassado [...]	2006-12-15 14:12:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KIPR CASC CJAN EFIN EAIR EUN NATO
06ZAGREB1494	UPDATE OF WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR: CROATIA [...] Summary: Croatia has a strong institutional and legal framework for protecting the rights of minors and a good track record of taking action to prevent child labor. Problems are isolated and infrequent. Most reported abuses occur in the entertainment, hospitality, retail, industrial construct [...]	2006-12-19 14:23:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID HR
06ZAGREB1502	CROATIA - 2006 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] There are no known terrorist groups or organizations present in Croatia nor would it be a welcoming safe haven. Croatia continues to develop the professionalism and capability of both police and military units designated for terrorist response through programs provided by the United States and [...]	2006-12-21 09:59:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC HR
06ZAGREB1507	SCANDALS SHAKE THE MFA [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been rocked recently by a diplomatic scandal and possible cover-up. The case involves the arrest of the husband of an officer assigned to the consulate in Los Angeles for heroin possession in January 2005. The information alleged [...]	2006-12-21 14:18:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV HR
06ZAGREB1513	GOC SOLVES RETURNEE HOUSING DISPUTES [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. A December 7 Government meeting approved a resolution "process" for temporary occupants of refugee homes who made unsolicited investments to the properties and are seeking compensation from the refugee owners. Along with the OSCE, UNHCR, and EU, Post has pressed the [...]	2006-12-27 12:34:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PGOV HR
06ZAGREB168	Croatia's Refugee Programs Proceeding, Slowly [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. Continuing their monthly meetings on refugee return issues, the Ambassador and other principals from the international community (OSCE, UNHCR and EU) met with Minister for Trade, Transport and Development Bozidar Kalmeta February 6 to review progress. Perhaps the gr [...]	2006-02-09 13:39:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PGOV HR
06ZAGREB173	Croatia's Refugee Programs Proceeding, Slowly [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. Continuing their monthly meetings on refugee return issues, the Ambassador and other principals from the international community (OSCE, UNHCR and EU) met with Minister for Trade, Transport and Development Bozidar Kalmeta February 6 to review progress. Perhaps the g [...]	2006-02-10 10:23:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PGOV HR
06ZAGREB176	Croatian B1-B2 Visa Reciprocity Embassy Zagreb [...] See action request, paragraph eight. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Zagreb proposes increasing the current B1/B2 reciprocity of 60 months to 120 months for Croatian citizens. Post bases its recommendation on the steadily improving economy, post's low refusal rate (just over four percent) for [...]	2006-02-10 13:59:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CVIS PREL ASEC HR
06ZAGREB205	EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ---- During the two week period between 4 - 13 Jan, several meetings were held with the Deputy Head of MoI Border Police to discuss and coordinate scheduling of the Feb 2006 Coast Guard Assessment visit and discuss participation in both the DTRA [...]	2006-02-16 14:57:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO
06ZAGREB222	CROATIA: AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE: FEBRUARY [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-17 15:34:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO SENV ECON EAGR PREL HR
06ZAGREB243	CROATIA RESPONDS TO REQUEST FOR [...] Poloff delivered reftel points to North America Desk Deputy Director Ankica Vlasic on February 23. Later that same day, the MFA GOC issued the following statement as reported by the Croatian news agency HINA. Begin Quote: It is with regret that (the Ministry) has received news of a bomb at [...]	2006-02-24 12:41:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO PTER IZ HR
06ZAGREB278	SIX-MONTH DELAY OF JUDICIARY SCREENING [...] (SBU) EC representatives confirmed 28 February that "screening" of Croatian legislation and practice in preparation for adopting the Acquis chapters dealing with human rights and the judiciary would be postponed for six months to September 2006. Local press put an inflammatory spin on the new [...]	2006-03-01 15:08:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KDEM HR
06ZAGREB284	Declaration of European Muslims Well-Received in Croatia [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. On 24 February, Bosnian and Herzegovinian Grand Mufti Mustafa Ceric presented in Zagreb a Declaration of European Muslims. Hosted by the Zagreb Islamic Community, the presentation received widespread public attention as a message of tolerance, peace, and moderation. [...]	2006-03-02 15:59:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PTER PREL HR
06ZAGREB295	CROATIA-SLOVENIA BILATERAL ISSUES [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Croatia and Slovenia enjoy generally good bilateral relations. Nevertheless, unresolved issues concerning maritime boundaries and the land border, the jointly-owned Krsko nuclear power plant and Croatian deposits in the former Ljubljanska Banka are persistent irrita [...]	2006-03-03 16:24:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON HR SI
06ZAGREB296	CROATIA WELCOMES PSI PAPERS [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel papers on March 3 to Sanja Bujas-Juraga, Director for International Security Programs, MFA. Bujas-Juraga welcomed receiving the input prior to the Warsaw meeting and said she would review them carefully. 2. (SBU) Bujas-Juraga said that she would brief intereste [...]	2006-03-03 16:36:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KMFO MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL HR
06ZAGREB298	ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT [...] (SBU) Post is pleased to submit its Annual Anti- Trafficking in Persons Report. Last year, Croatia was ranked as a Tier 2 country and Post recommends retaining that ranking for this reporting period. The GOC is making a concerted effort to take a proactive stance against TIP. Towards that g [...]	2006-03-06 11:37:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB HR
06ZAGREB306	Tuna farming in Croatia: generating jobs [...] SUMMARY: Croatia enjoys a trade surplus in the fish and seafood products sector with total exports of $103 million in 2004. Of that, Croatia exported approximately 4000 tons of tuna worth $55 million, more than 50% of total fish exports. An estimated 500 jobs and additional 2000 jobs of ind [...]	2006-03-07 11:00:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR SENV ETRD HR
06ZAGREB311	CROATIA DETERMINED TO RESOLVE LINGERING ISSUES [...] (C) Summary and comment: MFA State Secretary Hido Biscevic briefed Ambassador March 1 on PM Sanader,s February 28 meetings in Tirana with Albanian and Macedonian officials, and laid out the GOC,s plans to resolve a number of lingering bilateral issues with Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) and Se [...]	2006-03-08 10:16:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL HR
06ZAGREB321	EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----6 Feb, met with the General Director and Department Head of the State Office for Nuclear Safety (SONS). The main focus of the meeting was to review responsibilities of the office (est. June 2005 per Art. 22 of the Nuclear Safety Act) and [...]	2006-03-09 14:36:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO
06ZAGREB356	NATO ROADSHOW HIGH-IMPACT VISIT TO ZAGREB [...] (C) U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO Ambassador Victoria Nuland and EUR P/DAS Kurt Volker led an interagency team on a high-impact visit to Zagreb March 7. In separate meetings with President Mesic, Prime Minister Sanader, and members of the Sabor (parliament) the delegation urged Croati [...]	2006-03-15 13:14:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL MARR HR
06ZAGREB366	ICJ CASES WEAVE DANGEROUS WEB [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: In light of recent local media reports on Bosnia and Herzegovina's case against Serbia and Montenegro before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and speculation regarding a possible future BiH case against Croatia, PolOff met March 15 with Professor Ivan Simonovi [...]	2006-03-17 15:27:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KAWC PREL PGOV BK SR HR
06ZAGREB388	(C) EMBASSY ZAGREB FORESTALLS MESIC VISIT TO CUBA [...] (C) Presidential advisor Budimir Loncar raised with the Ambassador March 14 the possibility of an April visit by President Mesic to Cuba. Croatian companies apparently hope to get new contracts servicing and replacing technical equipment sold to Cuba during the days of Yugoslavia, and the Pr [...]	2006-03-23 09:41:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL HR CU
06ZAGREB435	HDZ: PARTY CONGRESS HIGHLIGHTS EURO CREDENTIALS [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) used its 10th biennial party convention on April 1 in Vukovar to highlight its progress in bringing the country closer to Europe and EU membership. With leadership elections not due for another two years, this "reporting" congres [...]	2006-04-03 13:50:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV HR
06ZAGREB448	GOC'S REFUGEE PROGRAMS: PUTTING THEIR MONEY WHERE [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. Ambassador and Principals from the EU, UNHCR, and the OSCE convened with Minister Bozidar Kalmeta on 15 March to review the month's progress on refugee issues. The Minister provided the GOC's sizeable financial commitments, which total $350 million in 2006 - or one [...]	2006-04-06 14:56:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PGOV HR
06ZAGREB45	CROATIA: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2006 [...] SUMMARY: Only in recent years has Croatia begun to emerge as an attractive destination for investment. Croatia lagged behind many of the other countries of Central and Eastern Europe in attracting foreign investment following the fall of the Berlin Wall, partly as a result of the conflicts [...]	2006-01-13 12:53:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV OPIC
06ZAGREB469	EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----15 Mar, met with the MoF, Customs Directorate, Assistant Director General (anti-smuggling) and International Liaison Analyst to discuss interest in Port Security Training sponsored by DTRA. It was agreed to provide 20 Customs personnel for t [...]	2006-04-12 14:31:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI
06ZAGREB474	NO CROATIAN RESPONSE ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] Poloff delivered talking points from reftels to Darija Dretar, MFA Department of Human Rights. Ms. Dretar received the points with little comment and said she would share them with the UN Department. Post will report any substantive response. FRANK [...]	2006-04-13 11:58:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM UNGA KUNR HR
06ZAGREB525	Refugee Housing Scandal: No Investigative Progress [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. Over the past year the Croatian Office for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime (USKOK) made only marginal progress in investigating thousands of potential cases of illegal sales of ethnic Serb houses to the Croatian State Agency for Refugee Property (APN). Int [...]	2006-04-26 11:14:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PGOV HR
06ZAGREB538	CROATIA AGREES TO SEEK SERBIAN ENDORSEMENT OF PSI [...] (C) PolOffs delivered reftel points to Sanja Bujas-Juraga, Head of the Department for International Security, MFA on April 26. Bujas-Juraga agreed that Croatia could best approach Serbia for interest in endorsing the PSI principles. She said that she had received little traction in previous [...]	2006-04-27 11:03:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL KNNP HR
06ZAGREB542	CROATIA PROACTIVE ON ARMS CONTROL ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY and COMMENT: Over the past year (refs) the Government of Croatia has quietly but steadily built a track record of proactive cooperation and coordination with the USG on concrete arms control cases. Croatian industry has a long history of business ties to problematic Middle Eastern [...]	2006-04-27 14:05:00	Embassy Zagreb	SECRET	PARM ETTC PREL HR
06ZAGREB543	TRANSLATION OF COUNTRY REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] Per reftel, the 2005 Human Rights Report has been translated and posted on the Embassy Zagreb website. FRANK [...]	2006-04-27 14:40:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM ODIP PREL ELAB KDEM KPAO KSPR HR HUMAN
06ZAGREB560	GLAVAS: PROSECUTOR ASKS PARLIAMENT TO STRIP [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Chief State Prosecutor Mladen Bajic asked Parliament on April 25 to strip Osijek strongman Branimir Glavas of his immunity as an MP in order to indict him on charges of war crimes against ethnic Serb civilians in 1991 (reftels). Speaker of Parliament Vladimir Seks, wh [...]	2006-05-03 11:58:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KAWC HR WAR CRIMES
06ZAGREB665	CROATIA WELCOMES MONTENEGRIN REFERENDUM RESULT [...] (U) The initial reaction of GOC officials toward the Montenegrin independence referendum, as reported by the press, has been generally positive. In a May 25 Cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader issued a statement in support of the outcome of Montenegro's Referendum on Independence. Th [...]	2006-05-30 07:06:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL HR REGIONAL ISSUES
06ZAGREB680	INVESTIGATIVE JUDGE QUESTIONS LOCAL LEADER [...] Summary and comment: MP and local leader Branimir Glavas was interviewed June 1 by an investigative judge about 1991 war crimes in the city of Osijek. When Glavas and another suspect complete their statements, the investigative judge will decide on their criminal prosecution. Neither Glavas n [...]	2006-06-02 13:36:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM HR WAR CRIMES
06ZAGREB740	CROATIA AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE: JUNE 14 [...] (SUMMARY) WHILE THERE HAVE BEEN NO NEW REPORTS OF AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) IN CROATIA, SCIENTISTS AT THE CROATIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE'S POULTRY CENTER ARE USING A NEWLY PURCHASED REAL-TIME PCR MACHINE FOR ROUTINE TESTING OF WILD BIRDS. THE CENTER DIRECTOR SAID NOW CROATIA IS BETTER PREPARED IN CA [...]	2006-06-14 13:00:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO SENV ECON EAGR PREL CASC KFLU HR
06ZAGREB768	ANTI-SEMITISM ROUND TABLE HIGHLIGHTS RECENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Following several incidents targeting members of the Jewish community in early June, community leaders organized a round table on anti-Semitism in Croatia June 20. Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center Ephraim Zuroff, representatives of ethnic minorities, the Catho [...]	2006-06-26 10:10:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM HR
06ZAGREB780	SERBIAN PRESIDENT TADIC'S VISIT TO CROATIA: A [...] (U) Serbian President Boris Tadic visited Croatia on June 27, meeting with President Stjepan Mesic, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, and traveling with President Mesic to the town of Knin, where the two statesmen met with ethnic Serb returnees. While the visit was held in a highly positive atmosph [...]	2006-06-30 13:19:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV HR REGIONAL ISSUES
06ZAGREB807	AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON PRIME MINISTER - [...] (C) Summary: A Croatian public uncertain about the benefits of NATO membership, and as a &proud people8 sensitive to a potential snub, will not warm overwhelmingly to NATO membership until an invitation is clearly in the offing, PM Ivo Sanader told Ambassador Frank during a June 28 farewell [...]	2006-07-03 12:37:00	Embassy Zagreb	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL NATO MARR EINV HR
06ZAGREB808	VISAS VIPER: JUNE 2006 MONTHLY ACTIVITY REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-03 12:44:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	KVPR CVIS CMGT PINR PTER ASEC PREL HR
06ZAGREB815	NJ-BASED BARR LABS IN BIDDING WAR FOR [...] SUMMARY: NJ-BASED BARR LABS ANNOUNCED A 2.3 BILLION DOLLAR TAKEOVER BID FOR CROATIA'S PLIVA ON JUNE 28, MARKING THE LARGEST SINGLE FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN CROATIA AND SPARKING A BIDDING WAR WITH RIVAL SUITOR ACTAVIS PHARMACEUTICALS OF ICELAND. ALTHOUGH BOTH PLIVA'S CEO AND THE GOC HAVE PUBLI [...]	2006-07-06 07:24:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV HR
06ZAGREB821	NATO SYG SAYS ALL THE RIGHT THINGS IN ZAGREB [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: NATO SYG Hoop de Scheffer, in Zagreb for six hours July 6, met President Mesic and PM Sanader, and reassured the press about NATO's readiness for Croatian membership "as soon as Croatia is ready." The SYG's visit reinforced the GOC's efforts to educate its public about [...]	2006-07-07 09:53:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MARR NATO HR DEFENSE REFORM
06ZAGREB823	CROATIA SCENESETTER FOR A/S FRIED [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: During your July 9-10 stop in Dubrovnik for the conference "Completing Europe's Southern Dimension: The Values that Bind Us," you will witness firsthand the GoC's unshakable enthusiasm for promoting Euro-Atlantic integration. Still paddling on the wave of political op [...]	2006-07-07 11:49:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KAWC SIPDIS HR
06ZAGREB846	JUSTICE MINISTER - PROPERTY RESTITUTION ONE STEP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a July 12 introductory call on Justice Minister Ana Lovrin, Ambassador Bradtke stressed the importance the USG places on Croatia's continued judicial reforms and on creation of a fair and transparent process in dealing with property restitution claims from the time of the for [...]	2006-07-14 13:41:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KJUS CASC CJAN HR HUMAN RIGHTS
06ZAGREB884	GLAVAS: PROSECUTION SEEKS DETENTION OVER WITNESS [...] (U) Chief State Prosecutor Mladen Bajic requested on July 20 that the Zagreb County Court order the detention of MP Branimir Glavas to prevent him from intimidating witnesses in an ongoing war crimes investigation that implicates him in the torture and murder of Serb civilians in 1991 (reftels) [...]	2006-07-21 14:32:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KAWC HR WAR CRIMES
06ZAGREB898	NEW PAGE IN RELATIONS WITH SERBIA? [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: PM Ivo Sanader capped a recent surge in bilateral contact between Serbia and Croatia by opening the new Bajakovo-Batrovci border crossing with Serbian PM Kostunica on July 21 and traveling to Belgrade for meetings with both Kostunica and Serbian President Tadic. While [...]	2006-07-27 09:35:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KAWC SR HR REGIONAL ISSUES
06ZAGREB911	CROATIA SEEKS FUNDING TO CONTINUE AIDS- [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-31 04:56:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KHIV PHUM PGOV HR
06ZAGREB940	Croatia on top of flag state performance for [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-08 10:55:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ATRN ECON ELTN ETRD PREL PTER AFSI
06ZAGREB941	AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON: CROATIA MODEL FOR REGION IN [...] (C) Summary: During a July 31 visit to Zagreb, Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson welcomed Croatia's assistance on Serbia's Action Plan on ICTY cooperation and called on officials to continue their efforts to promote regional cooperation in addressing domestic war crim [...]	2006-08-08 11:58:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KAWC ICTY SR HR WAR CRIMES
06ZAGREB943	MARGETIC - CROATIANS ARREST JOURNALIST AT ICTY [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Croatian authorities arrested journalist Domagoj Margetic on August 4 for contempt of court at the request of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) after he published on his U.S.-based website a list of 102 protected witnesses from the tri [...]	2006-08-08 13:01:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KAWC KHJUS HR WAR CRIMES
06ZAGREB949	EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS ----17-18 JULY, CONDUCTED CONSULTATIONS IN WASHINGTON, DC WITH NP/ECC TO COORDINATE PLANNING OF 2006/2007, ASSISTANCE PLAN FOR CROATIA, SLOVAKIA, SLOVENIA AND PERIMETERS OF REQUESTED TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT TO HUNGARY. Croatia ----21 July, met wi [...]	2006-08-10 10:33:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI
06ZAGREB952	CROATIA SEEKS FUNDING TO CONTINUE AIDS- [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-10 13:32:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KHIV PHUM PGOV HR
07ABIDJAN1006	COTE D'IVOIRE: COMPAORE'S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE [...] (C) Summary. Boureima Badini, Special Representative of Ouagadougou Political Accord (OPA) Facilitator Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore, told Charge on September 27 that both President Gbagbo and Prime Minister Soro are committed to OPA implementation, but that there is a lack of trust [...]	2007-09-28 15:07:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IV UV
07ABIDJAN1018	COTE D IVOIRE 2007 AGOA ELIGIBILITY RECOMMENDATION [...] Below is the text of Post's Eligibility Recommendation Input as emailed to EEB Janet Potash and USTR Connie Hamilton October 2nd: Country: COTE D'IVOIRE Current AGOA Status: Ineligible, Benefits Withdrawn January 1, 2005 Country Background Summary: Cote d'Ivoire's economy has struggled [...]	2007-10-03 16:57:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD XA IV
07ABIDJAN1019	COTE D'IVOIRE: PM SPOKESMAN OPTIMISTIC, BUT [...] (C) Summary. Alain Lobognon, Spokesman for the Prime Minister, told Emboffs on October 2 that Interior Minister Desire Tagro is trying to stall the "audiences foraines" (tribunals that will issue birth certificates to those who never had them) process. According to Lobognon, the delay in the [...]	2007-10-03 17:24:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UN IV
07ABIDJAN1033	COTE D'IVOIRE: UN INVESTIGATION INTO ATTACK ON PM [...] (C) SUMMARY. A four-member UN team is visiting Cote d,Ivoire in response to President Gbagbo,s request to the Secretary General for an independent investigation into the SIPDIS June 29 attack on Prime Minister Soro,s plane in Bouake. The team, headed by Terseli Loial, is spending a week in [...]	2007-10-05 17:50:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UN IV
07ABIDJAN1036	IFIS, DONORS DISCUSS FISCAL GOVERNANCE AND [...] (C) Summary. International Financial Institutions (IFIs) staff convened top bilateral donors September 28 to discuss their negotiations with the Government of Cote d'Ivoire (GOCI) on fiscal controls and next steps. Cote d'Ivoire is staying current with the July 2007 arrears financing packa [...]	2007-10-07 10:27:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN IMF ECON PGOV PREL EMIN EAGR ENRG EPET
07ABIDJAN1042	"L'AFFAIRE FULTON" - THE UPSTATE NY CHOCOLATE [...] (C) Summary. A September 18 letter to World Bank President Zoellick alleging President Gbagbo and a quasi-governmental cocoa regulatory body have manipulated the purchase of a Fulton, New York chocolate factory for fraudulent purposes has generated substantial interest locally (reftel a). T [...]	2007-10-11 07:51:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON IBRD IMF EFIN EINV EAGR PGOV IV
07ABIDJAN1084	COTE D'IVOIRE ROLLS OUT PRELIMINARY COCOA-CHILD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Prime Minister's interministerial taskforce rolled out preliminary results of its industry-funded survey of child labor in the cocoa sector on Oct. 12. It found that 22 percent of children in the region are involved in cocoa production, and a majority of them are involved [...]	2007-10-24 14:34:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAGR PREL PGOV EAID ELAB EIND IV
07ABIDJAN1094	THE COUNTERFEIT DOLLAR AFFAIR - GBAGBO ENTOURAGE [...] (C) Summary. On October 11, police and prosecutors made public allegations that a counterfeit US dollar ring had been broken up in Abidjan. Three high-level officials close to the President were implicated by the accused owner of the premises in which the evidence had been found. The next [...]	2007-10-26 07:49:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL KCRM IV
07ABIDJAN1110	COTE D' IVOIRE SCENESETTER FOR D VISIT [...] (C) Embassy Abidjan warmly welcomes your visit to Cote d,Ivoire. You will be the highest ranking USG official to visit Abidjan since 2005 when AF Assistant Secretary Connie Newman visited to discuss the peace process. We believe your visit will be viewed as a sign of increased USG interest i [...]	2007-10-31 18:11:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IV
07ABIDJAN1112	COTE D'IVOIRE DEMARCHED ON GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-02 07:07:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL IV
07ABIDJAN1116	COTE D'IVOIRE DEMARCHED ON GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-02 15:56:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL IV
07ABIDJAN1132	EMBASSY ABIDJAN DELIVERS POINTS ON FAFT STATEMENT [...] (SBU) Emboff delivered translated talking points drawn from reftel para three to the MFA's Office of United Nations and International Organizations Affairs on November 8. MFA had no comments, but post will report any follow-on substantive host government reactions. NESBITT [...]	2007-11-08 18:48:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL MNUC ECON IV
07ABIDJAN1135	COTE D'IVOIRE: PM'S OFFICE TOUTS OPA PROGRESS AND [...] (U) Summary. The Prime Minister's spokesman, Meite Sindou, held a press conference November 6 to discuss the status of government efforts to move beyond the current crisis. The most interesting new bits of information he gave: the PM and the President make joint decisions; the President will m [...]	2007-11-09 11:01:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IV
07ABIDJAN1176	DOES LACK OF DONOR ASSISTANCE EXPLAIN SLOW [...] (C) Summary: During a number of recent public events, President Gbagbo and Prime Minister Soro have blamed slow implementation of the Ougadougou Peace Agrement (OPA) on a lack of international donor assistance. The Prime Minister and President both made this assertion in meetings with the [...]	2007-11-26 16:12:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EAID PGOV PREL IBRD IMF IV
07ABIDJAN1181	AUDIENCES FORAINES PROCEEDING CLUMSILY, BUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The audiences foraines process is proceeding clumsily but without violence. Less than a quarter of the planned tribunals have been deployed since the process was launched on September 25 and public awareness remains low. Political parties are closely monitoring the proceedings [...]	2007-11-27 17:43:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UN IV
07ABIDJAN1187	COTE D'IVOIRE: OPA IMPLEMENTATION AT CRITICAL STAGE [...] (C) Summary. Modalities to carry out the identification process were the main subject of the November 18-22 meeting of the OPA Evaluation and Monitoring Committee (CEA). The parties' positions were so irreconcilable that Interior Minister Tagro reportedly abandoned the meeting along with his d [...]	2007-11-28 18:46:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IV
07ABIDJAN120	COTE D'IVOIRE: PARAMEDICS END DEBILITATING STRIKE [...] (U) Cote d'Ivoire's "paramedics" (public health workers excluding doctors, who have pursued their own pay grievances independently) ended a 3-week old strike on January 29, following government commitments to give them two thirds of the pay increase they were demanding. This agreement, incre [...]	2007-02-01 11:51:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON PGOV IV
07ABIDJAN1208	GROWTH OF RESOURCE NATIONALISM - COTE D'IVOIRE [...] Summary. Because of its lucrative potential, Cote d'Ivoire's oil and gas sector is vulnerable to resource nationalism and signs of the government's willingess to abuse its position are evident. U.S. firm Devon Energy reports the parastatal PETROCI has attempted to strong-arm it into selling [...]	2007-12-07 15:06:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ECON PGOV IMF IV
07ABIDJAN1209	COTE D'IVOIRE: GOVERNMENT MEETING 2007 BUDGET [...] (C) Summary. A Joint International Monetary Fund, World Bank and African Development Bank team briefed the donor community on its initial findings on November 26. The assessment team was broadly complimentary of the government's efforts to remain within budget targets and to adopt more tra [...]	2007-12-07 17:55:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON EAID PREL PGOV IMF IBRD IV
07ABIDJAN1219	COTE D'IVOIRE'S UPDATE ON THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD [...] (U) Per reftel instructions, Post submits the following updated information on the elimination of the worst forms of child labor (WFCL) in Cote d'Ivoire. POC for this report is Economic Chief Ervin Massinga. A) Laws and Regulations Proscribing the Worst Forms of Child Labor --------- 2 [...]	2007-12-12 12:41:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI IV
07ABIDJAN1227	SCENESETTER FOR HARKIN CODEL JANUARY 7-9 VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Embassy Abidjan warmly welcomes your visit to Cote d'Ivoire. Yours will be the second recent visit of high-level U.S. government officials, following the November visit of Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte. We believe your visit will be viewed as a sign of increased USG intere [...]	2007-12-14 17:49:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR PREL PGOV EAID ELAB EIND IV
07ABIDJAN1236	PRESIDENT GBAGBO VISITS NEW FORCES STRONGHOLD; [...] (SBU) Summary: From November 28-30, President Gbagbo visited the north of Cote d'Ivoire for the first time since becoming head of state. Press reports were favorable and key Gbagbo aides noted that large crowds welcomed the President. The visit demonstrated that the general public is anxious f [...]	2007-12-18 16:44:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID ECON UN IV
07ABIDJAN1238	SCENESETTER FOR HARKIN CODEL JANUARY 7-9 VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Embassy Abidjan warmly welcomes your visit. Yours will be the first visit by a Congressional delegation to Cote d'Ivoire in many years. Senator Harkin and Representative Engle's roles in developing and implementing the international public/private accord (the "Harkin-Engle Protocol" [...]	2007-12-18 18:02:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR PREL PGOV EAID ELAB EIND IV
07ABIDJAN1241	SPECIAL REP BADINI OPTIMISTIC ABOUT OPA; FOCUS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador discussed recent developments with the Ouagadougou Political Accord with the Facilitator,s special representative, Boureima Badini, on December 14. Badini confirmed that the complementary accords were meant to keep pressure on the parties, but said he was satisfied tha [...]	2007-12-20 07:19:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID MARR IV
07ABIDJAN128	COTE D'IVOIRE: PEACE EFFORTS CONTINUE BUT REAL [...] (C) Summary. Peace efforts here continue but it is far from clear whether they will bear fruit. Burkina Faso President Compaore, as new Chairman of ECOWAS, has moved quickly to take on a central mediating role in the upcoming direct dialogue between President Gbagbo and rebel New Forces (FN) [...]	2007-02-05 15:13:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ASEC IV
07ABIDJAN135	COTE D'IVOIRE'S BANKING SECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The performance of Cote d'Ivoire's banking system in the government-controlled south has stabilized since the beginning of the political crisis in 2002. Profitability is relatively strong and the total asset base has recently grown modestly. However, these results mask a tr [...]	2007-02-06 13:17:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD IV
07ABIDJAN14	COTE D'IVOIRE 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] Summary: Cote d,Ivoire,s economy is projected to increase by 2 percent in 2007, slightly higher than 1.8 percent in 2006. The main contributors of the growth are higher export earnings from oil and refined products, cocoa revenues and proceeds from the telecommunications sector. Despite the [...]	2007-01-05 16:39:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	OPIC USTR KTDB ECON ETRD
07ABIDJAN141	COTE D'IVOIRE'S DIRECT DIALOGUE UNFOLDS; [...] Summary. Direct talks between the President's representatives and their New Forces counterparts kicked off in Ouagadougou on February 5. No substantive negotiations were held, but despite this, participants and observers were upbeat. Apparently an agenda for the much-anticipated direct Gba [...]	2007-02-07 14:41:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	IV PGOV PREL
07ABIDJAN162	DIRECT DIALOGUE WRESTLING WITH IDENTIFICATION ISSUE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Following last week's widely publicized kick off of direct talks between the President's representatives and their New Forces (FN) counterparts, this week the cracks are beginning to surface as the talks wrestle with the issue of identification. Although there have been some press [...]	2007-02-14 16:56:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UN ASEC IV
07ABIDJAN168	COTE D'IVOIRE: GBAGBO PROMISES TO INTEGRATE [...] (C) In a controversial but not entirely unexpected move, President Gbagbo announced February 13 that the 4000 "New Recruits" would be hired into the military. This move came after on February 1-2, New Recruits fired automatic weapons in the air in several towns in government-held territory to [...]	2007-02-15 11:31:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC PREL IV
07ABIDJAN175	COTE D'IVOIRE MINISTRY OF FINANCE DISCUSSES [...] EconOff spoke with the Ministry of Finance's Director of Cabinet Ahoutou about points raised in reftel. Ahoutou said the government of Cote d'Ivoire takes the matter seriously, and government agencies charged with enforcing limits on international cash transfers are well trained and vigilant. [...]	2007-02-16 15:54:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	KTFN EFIN ETTC PREL PTER
07ABIDJAN187	TFGV01: UNHCR CONFIRMS REFUGEES IN GUINEA CAMPS [...] (SBU) Prior to the current crisis in Guinea, UNHCR had predicted that large-scale population displacements would not result from civil disturbances in Guinea. However, the dynamics of the crisis have UNHCR officials on edge and they remain vigilant should the situation change. UNHCR offices [...]	2007-02-21 17:05:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL USAID GV LI CI
07ABIDJAN200	COTE D'IVOIRE: IDENTIFICATION PROCEEDING SLOWLY [...] (U) SUMMARY: The identification process continues to proceed at a snail's pace. Two courts in Abidjan are issuing both birth certificates and certificates of nationality despite the lack of political agreement on Prime Minister Banny's revised procedures which call for issuing these two docum [...]	2007-02-23 14:42:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UN IV
07ABIDJAN225	$190 MILLION SETTLEMENT BY TRAFIGURA OF TOXIC [...] (SBU) Summary. The widely-reported February 13 "amicable" settlement of $190 million between the government of Cote d'Ivoire and the Dutch-based oil trading firm Trafigura to end current and future litigation and criminal proceedings against the firm and its subsidiaries continues to reverb [...]	2007-03-01 12:01:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV IV
07ABIDJAN226	COTE D'IVOIRE: NO VISIBLE PROGRESS IN OUAGADOUGOU [...] (C) Summary. There are no signs of significant progress in the Gbagbo-proposed "direct talks" with rebel New Forces (FN) leader Soro that President Compaore of Burkina Faso is trying to mediate. There has been no face-to-face meeting between the two principals and even their representatives a [...]	2007-03-01 15:42:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC IV
07ABIDJAN227	COTE D'IVOIRE: 2007 TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) Since a September 2002 coup atempt that evolved into a civil war, Cote d'Ivoir has been partitioned in two with the governmentmaintaining control of the south and the rebel Nw Forces controlling the north. Tensions between he two sides have lessened through internationalmediation effort [...]	2007-03-02 07:35:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	KRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB

07ABIDJAN234	CHINESE INFLUENCE IN COTE D'IVOIRE - AN UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. China plays a passive role in the political scene in Cote d'Ivoire, and typically proffers the rhetoric of non-interference in national affairs with regards to the Ivorian political crisis. China is not a supplier of military hardware or training to either faction. China is [...]	2007-03-02 19:40:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EFIN XA IV
07ABIDJAN242	PEACE ACCORD IN OUAGADOUGOU - OBSERVERS, POLITICAL [...] (C) Confounding the expectations of many, (reftel b),President Compaore brokered an ambitious peace accord over the evening of Saturday, March 3rd. Signed by both President Gbagbo and Forces Nouvelles leader Soro in Ouaga, the agreement is both detailed and vague: attempting to overcome the [...]	2007-03-06 10:57:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON IV
07ABIDJAN263	MONITORING AND EVALUATION REPORT FOR CVT LIBERIA: [...] Summary: This monitoring and evaluation (M&E) report is based on Refugee Coordinator's (RefCoord) visits to the Center for Victims of Torture's (CVT) field offices in Liberia in October 2006 and January 2007. CVT is on target to meet its objectives in the PRM-funded program, "Promoting Com [...]	2007-03-12 17:13:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PHUM USAID UNHCR CI LI
07ABIDJAN293	COTE D'IVOIRE: UNHCR PREPARING FOR JUNE DEADLINE [...] Summary: The Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) for West Africa traveled with Lou Mazel, DCM Monrovia, and Mohamud Osman, USAID/FFP Dakar, from February 25 to March 3 to visit WFP and UNHCR offices in Cote d'Ivoire (Tabou, Guiglo) and Liberia (Harper) and to meet with refugees and [...]	2007-03-19 09:57:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PHUM EAID UNHCR SOCI LI IV
07ABIDJAN304	COTE D'IVOIRE PEACE AGREEMENT: ALL EYES STILL ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Political actors in Abidjan are still looking ahead to what round two of the Ouagadougou Peace Accord (OPA) will bring as NF leader Guillaume Soro and President Gbagbo negotiate the powers of the Prime Minister. In the meantime, Soro is under pressure to accept the Premiership. [...]	2007-03-22 07:26:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UN IV
07ABIDJAN305	COTE D'IVOIRE - MFA TO MOVE CAUTIOUSLY AGAINST [...] (C) Ivorian Ambassador Bernard Tanoh Boutchoue, Director of the Office of UN and International Organizations, called EmbOff March 21 to inform that the Minister of Foreign Affairs had agreed that the situations in both Sudan and Zimbabwe were shocking, and that Africa collectively must act. [...]	2007-03-22 10:46:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC KPKO PHUM ZI CT CD IV
07ABIDJAN333	NEW FORCES LEADER SORO TO BECOME PRIME MINISTER; [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 26 the ex-rebel movement New Forces (NF) announced that it has reached a deal with President Gbagbo's representatives in which NF leader Guillaume Soro will become Prime Minister. Some press reports and NF sources indicate that Gbagbo will issue a decree to this effect t [...]	2007-03-28 07:25:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNSC IV
07ABIDJAN361	COTE D'IVOIRE: SORO OFFICIALLY PRIME MINISTER [...] (SBU) Ex-rebel leader Guillaume Soro officially took over the Premiership Wednesday, April 4 at a ceremony at the Prime Minister's compound that included outgoing Prime Minister Banny and most of his cabinet. Soro, who had been named Prime Minister on March 29 by presidential decree, said th [...]	2007-04-06 14:03:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL UN IV
07ABIDJAN402	COTE D'IVOIRE: REPORT CARD FOR WEEK 2 OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY After using week one to get his cabinet installed, the respectful and friendly ceremony marking the beginning of the dissolution of the Zone of Confidence (ZOC) and the opening of the Joint Integrated Command Center (ICC) has been the highlight of week two of the Soro government. [...]	2007-04-20 17:26:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL UN IV
07ABIDJAN403	COTE D'IVOIRE: FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-20 17:30:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNSC UN IV
07ABIDJAN490	COTE D'IVOIRE GOV'T, UNHCR LAUNCH SURPRISE REQUEST [...] (SBU) On May 4, Foreign Minister Bakayoko, along with UNHCR country representative Saber Azam, convened a hastily planned meeting of principal UNHCR donor countries (including the European Union's country representative) to request additional funding to keep the Guiglo region's Nicla refugee [...]	2007-05-11 16:55:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL IV
07ABIDJAN544	COTE D'IVOIRE: REASSESSING THE UNOCI MISSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The evolving political and security climate in Cote d'Ivoire in light of the Ouagadougou Political Accord (OPA) and the increasing demands on the United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) mission pose the question: what should UNOCI's role be in this fragile security env [...]	2007-05-23 11:53:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO PGOV PREL UN IV
07ABIDJAN551	DISARMAMENT OF MILITIAS OFF TO SYMBOLIC START [...] (U) Ivoirian government officials organized a ceremony in the town of Guiglo on May 19 to mark the resumption of the disarmament and demobilization of militias (DDM) in the volatile west of the country. At the ceremony, attended by President Gbagbo, FANCI commander General Mangou, and Acting [...]	2007-05-24 14:13:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM KPKO PGOV IV
07ABIDJAN555	MONITORING AND EVALUATION REPORT FOR IRC COTE [...] Summary: The Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) for West Africa conducted a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) assessment of the International Rescue Committee's (IRC) PRM-funded project, "Durable Solutions for Liberian Refugees in Cote d'Ivoire" in February and May 2007. RefCoord wa [...]	2007-05-24 18:18:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PHUM IV
07ABIDJAN557	MONITORING AND EVALUATION REPORT FOR CCF LIBERIA: [...] Summary: The Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) for West Africa conducted a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) assessment of the PRM-funded NGO, Christian Children's Fund (CCF) during a visit to Liberia from May 4-11. RefCoord visited their offices in Monrovia and Zorzor and a CCF pr [...]	2007-05-25 16:42:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PHUM IV LI
07ABIDJAN560	COTE D'IVOIRE ELECTRICITY GENERATION FALTERS, [...] (SBU) Summary. Privately-owned national electricity distribution company CIE and the Ministry of Energy and Mines continue to squabble over who is to blame for shortfalls in investments needed to boost natural gas production to meet national and regional energy needs. CIE, owned by French f [...]	2007-05-29 13:19:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON IV PGOV PREL
07ABIDJAN566	MONITORING AND EVALUATION REPORT FOR SEARCH FOR [...] Summary: The Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) conducted a monitoring and evaluation assessment of the PRM-funded Search For Common Ground (SFCG) project, "Mass Information in Support of Liberian Refugee Repatriation and Reintegration." SFCG's activities seem well conceived and f [...]	2007-05-30 10:07:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PHUM IV LI
07ABIDJAN595	COTE D'IVOIRE DEMARCHED ON UNSCR 1747 (IRAN) [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-06 10:12:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP EFIN IR UNSC AORC ETRD TRGY IV
07ABIDJAN596	COTE D'IVOIRE DEMARCHED ON CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (U) Emboff demarched MFA Director of International Organizations and United Nations Affairs Ambassador Tanoh Boutchoue on June 3 using reftel talking points. The MFA will report back any official GOCI reaction. 2. (SBU) Speaking informally, Boutchoue warmly welcomed the President's init [...]	2007-06-06 10:48:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KGHG SENV ENRG ECON IV
07ABIDJAN600	THE ROCKY ROAD TO UNHCR'S JUNE 30 RETURN DEADLINE [...] (U) Summary: The Abijan-based Refugee Coordinator for West Africa (RefCoord),traveled by road from Monrovia to Abidjan from May 1 to May 17. RefCoord passed through Gbarnga, Voinjama, Macenta, Nzerekore, Danane, Duekoue/Guiglo, and Tabou during the trip. RefCoord visited a number of villa [...]	2007-06-07 09:35:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL PHUM IV LI GU
07ABIDJAN614	UNIVERSITY TEACHERS SUSPEND THEIR STRIKE, [...] (SBU) On May 30, the university professors and researchers from the "Coordination Nationale des Enseignants et Chercheurs" (CNEC) suspended their six-week old strike, ushering in the resumption of classes nationwide and ending the looming threat of an annulled school year (reftel). CNEC too [...]	2007-06-11 15:52:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV ELAB IV
07ABIDJAN615	OUAGA ACCORD AT 90 DAYS - ASSESSING ITS [...] (C) Summary. Since the signature of the Ouaga Accord on March 4, Cote d'Ivoire has seen both successes and shortcomings in its implementation. At the 90 day mark, several key tasks remain undone, while a number of others have been accomplished (even if incompletely). The overall report ca [...]	2007-06-12 11:38:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IV
07ABIDJAN621	MONITORING AND EVALUATION REPORT FOR THE AMERICAN [...] Summary: The Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) for West Africa traveled to Liberia from May 1-11 to conduct a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) assessment of the American Refugee Committee's (ARC) PRM-funded project, "Supporting Sustainable Return, Reintegration and Stabilization of [...]	2007-06-14 08:49:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PHUM IV LI
07ABIDJAN633	COMPAORE CHAIRS OUAGA ACCORD'S FIRST "PERMANENT [...] (C) Summary. OPA facilitator Compaore hosted the first Permanent Consultative Mechanism (CPC) on June 12, bringing together Gbagbo, Soro, Ouattara and Bedie. Members issued a brief, harmonious press statement that touched on key questions of DDR and dismantlement of the militias, as well a [...]	2007-06-18 18:59:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNSC IV
07ABIDJAN669	MONITORING AND EVALUATION REPORT FOR IRC LIBERIA: [...] Summary: The Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) for West Africa conducted a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) assessment of the International Rescue Committee's (IRC) PRM-funded project, "Integrated Protection and Assistance to Support the Reintegration of Displaced Liberian." RefCo [...]	2007-06-25 12:40:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PHUM IV LI
07ABIDJAN676	2007 COTE D'IVOIRE REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] (SBU) Embassy Abidjan is aware of no new investment disputes or expropriation claims involving U.S. persons against the Government of Cote d'Ivoire. 2. (SBU) Post is pleased to report the end of the sole outstanding investment dispute reported from Cote d'Ivoire, the Cora de Comstar matter [...]	2007-06-26 11:36:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV KIDE OPIC PGOV IV
07ABIDJAN677	MONITORING AND EVALUATION REPORT FOR IRC GUINEA: [...] Summary: The Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) for West Africa traveled to Guinea from May 11-14 to conduct a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) report of the International Rescue Committee's (IRC) PRM-funded project, "Facilitating Durable Solutions: Protection, Integration Assistanc [...]	2007-06-26 12:43:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PHUM IV GU
07ABIDJAN689	COTE D'IVOIRE, WB AND IMF STAFF CONCLUDE [...] (C) Summary. The World Bank and IMF, working in tandem, finalized a deal on June 27 that would provide financing packages for the post-conflict transition (WB) and emergency budget support (IMF) in exchange for the GoCI paying 50 percent of its WB arrears and adoption of strict fiscal contr [...]	2007-06-28 13:29:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL PGOV IMF IBRD IV
07ABIDJAN705	THREE KILLED BUT PRIME MINISTER SORO UNHURT AFTER [...] (C) Multiple sources confirm Prime Minister and New Forces leader Guillaume Soro is alive and well after an RPG attack on an airplane in which he was traveling at Bouake airport on the morning of June 29. ONUCI Acting SRSG Abu Moussa told us that, according to UN Air Ops personnel who witnesse [...]	2007-06-29 16:39:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PREL KPKO IV
07ABIDJAN719	WHO TRIED TO KILL SORO? THE SPECULATION IS WELL [...] (C) Summary. Since the June 29 attack on Prime Minister Soro, the rumor mill has gone into overdrive. The facts remain scarce, adding fuel to the unending speculation. The suspects are numerous, ranging from the most obvious (disaffected members of the Forces Nouvelles) to the absurd (ONU [...]	2007-07-03 11:01:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO IV
07ABIDJAN764	COTE D'IVOIRE'S GOVERNMENT DRIFTS AFTER ATTACK ON [...] (C) Summary. Since the March 29 attack on the aircraft carrying Prime Minister Soro, the peace process implementation has been at a near-standstill. Soro and his small team appear knocked off stride (although he could be "playing possum" and proceeding cautiously while recovering his footi [...]	2007-07-13 15:38:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IV
07ABIDJAN765	IMF PRESSURES COTE D'IVOIRE TO ABANDON JP MORGAN [...] (C) In a somewhat abrupt denouement to the monthlong negotiations around the debt securitization deal between JP Morgan and the Ivorian pension fund CNPS (reftel),the local IMF representative convinced the Minister of Finance Charles Diby during a July 10 videoconference to abandon the proje [...]	2007-07-16 12:50:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN IMF PGOV PREL IBRD IV
07ABIDJAN781	MOROCCAN CONTINGENT IN ONUCI ACCUSED OF SEXUAL [...] (C) The United Nations Operations in Cote d'Ivoire (ONUCI) made a surprise announcement on Friday, July 20 that the entire 732-strong Moroccan battalion would be confined to barracks due to a number of allegations of sexual misconduct with minors by Moroccan troops. The announcement did not [...]	2007-07-24 16:22:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO PREL UNSC IV
07ABIDJAN803	SORO, FORCES NOUVELLES STAY TIGHT-LIPPED ON [...] (C) Summary. Emboff traveled to Forces Nouvelles stronghold Bouake to meet with key aides to Prime Minister Soro concerning the investigation into who attacked Soro on June 29 (reftel D, C). Soro aide Cisse Sindou said the PM will not comment on who the authors of the attack were until an [...]	2007-08-01 07:47:00	Embassy Abidjan	SECRET	PGOV PREL IV
07ABIDJAN804	SORO, FORCES NOUVELLES STAY TIGHTLIPPED ON AUTHORS [...] (C) Summary. Emboff traveled to Forces Nouvelles stronghold Bouake to meet with key aides to Prime Minister Soro concerning the investigation into who attacked Soro on June 29 (reftel D, C). Soro aide Cisse Sindou said the PM will not comment on who the authors of the attack were until an [...]	2007-08-01 07:47:00	Embassy Abidjan	SECRET	PGOV PREL IV
07ABIDJAN810	DEMARCHE TO COTE D'IVOIRE ON U.S. CANDIDATE FOR [...] (SBU) Emboff demarched Ambassador Tanoh Boutchoue, MFA Director of International Organizations and UN Affairs on July 26 on action points in reftel. As Ambassador Swing and his work with MONUC are well-known in African diplomatic circles, Boutchoue was immediately personally disposed toward [...]	2007-08-01 16:55:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EUN PREF PREL SMIG
07ABIDJAN811	DEMARCHE TO COTE D'IVOIRE ON UNESCO HOLOCAUST [...] (SBU) Emboff demarched Ambassador Tanoh Boutchoue, MFA Director of International Organizations and UN Affairs on July 26 on action points in reftel and left a copy of the draft explanatory note and proposed resolution on text. Post will report any substantive Government of Cote d'Ivoire res [...]	2007-08-01 16:55:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	UNESCO IV
07ABIDJAN812	DEMARCHE TO COTE D'IVOIRE ON ROBUST [...] (SBU) July 26, Emboff demarched Ambassador Tanoh Boutchoue, MFA Director of International Organizations and UN Affairs, on action points mentioned in reftel, stressing the mandatory nature of a UNSC 1737 report and leaving a translated version of unclassified paragraph six points as a non-pa [...]	2007-08-01 16:56:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM IR IV
07ABIDJAN863	COTE D'IVOIRE: VISIT OF STAFFDELS SMITH AND CLACK [...] (C) Summary. Shannon Smith, Majority Professional Staff Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Mark Clack, Foreign Relations Staff Member for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, visited Cote d'Ivoire August 10-15. Smith and Clack conducted a review of programs under the Presi [...]	2007-08-17 09:33:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV KDEM IV
07ABIDJAN864	COTE D'IVOIRE: PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES IDENTIFICATION, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a televised address to the nation on August 6, the eve of Cote d'Ivoire's anniversary of independence, President Gbagbo announced the resumption of the public identification hearings ("audiences foraines"),pledged his commitment to fair, transparent and open elections, and cal [...]	2007-08-17 10:26:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IV KDEM
07ABIDJAN880	ASSESSING THE STRENGTH OF THE FORCES NOUVELLES, [...] (C) Summary. An Embassy team composed of Charge Vicki Huddleston and Econ Chief Ervin Massinga to the Bouake and Korhogo regions, both under Forces Nouvelles (FN) control, and spoke to United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (ONUCI),non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and Rassamblement [...]	2007-08-21 16:55:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPKO IV
07ABIDJAN895	ASSESSING THE POLITICAL IMPACT OF THE ONGOING [...] (C) Summary. World Food Program, UNited Nations Operations in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) and private business leaders in the "Greater West" region, which straddles the "Green Line" and encompasses the extreme western portion of the former "Zone of Confidence," concur that the situation remains v [...]	2007-08-24 12:01:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF EAID PREL PHUM IV
07ABIDJAN899	COTE D'IVOIRE: REQUESTED INFORMATION ON AG [...] (U) The 2006 industry reports for the following industries are published, and are available. Post will send via email the names of contacts, their telephone numbers and email addresses On August 24 to ITC analyst Yinug, as well as answers to particular analytic questions directed to Post. [...]	2007-08-24 16:36:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRD ETRD ASEC IV
07ABIDJAN925	COTTON, CASHEWS, TIMBER: MAINSTAYS OF THE ECONOMY [...] (SBU) Summary. Cotton, cashews and forest products are the mainstays of the economy in the North and West, but each sector is experiencing varying levels of difficulty. Cotton production is down by 40 percent since the division of the country in 2002, and both producers and ginning enterpris [...]	2007-09-04 07:20:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAGR PGOV EAID ETRD SENV IV
07ABIDJAN935	ELECTIONS PLANNING IN COTE D'IVOIRE: WHO'S IN [...] (C) Summary: The composition and responsibilities of the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI),the main body responsible for organizing elections in Cote d'Ivoire, has been highly politicized and subject to contentious infighting since the crisis erupted in 2002. The CEI is composed of memb [...]	2007-09-05 16:49:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM UN IV
07ABIDJAN962	COTE D'IVOIRE: FRANCE'S VIEW [...] (C) Summary. French Deputy Chief of Mission Sebastien Minot told Poloff September 11 that the differences in the positions of the Ivorian government and the Forces Nouvelles on disarmament and identification may be difficult to reconcile and could derail the Ouagadougou Political Accord (OPA) [...]	2007-09-13 16:41:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IV FR
07ABIDJAN969	COTE D'IVOIRE: PHYSICIANS STRIKE [...] Public sector physicians were on strike September 4-13, demanding a two-fold wage increase. Responding to pressure from the government and public, the leader of the doctors' union (Syndicat des Cadres Superieurs de la Sante de Cote d'Ivoire - SYNACASS/CI) announced an eight-day suspension of [...]	2007-09-14 17:18:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ELAB PGOV IV
07ABIDJAN995	COTE D'IVOIRE: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS BY OCTOBER [...] (SBU) Summary: Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) President Robert Mambe announced September 13 that Cote d'Ivoire will be ready for presidential elections by October 2008. Mambe has always asserted that it would take 10-12 months to complete the identification and voter registration pro [...]	2007-09-25 15:28:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UN IV
07ABUDHABI1015	JUNE 11 U.S.-UAE COUNTERPROLIFERATION TASK FORCE [...] (S) Summary: Department of State International Security and Nonproliferation/Counterproliferation Initiatives (ISN/CPI) Director Tony Foley led an interagency delegation to the June 11 US-UAE Counterproliferation Task Force (CTF) working groups meetings in Abu Dhabi to discuss questions relate [...]	2007-06-19 08:19:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PARM PGOV ETTC ETRD ECIN AE IR
07ABUDHABI102	SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: STATE OF THE UNION [...] Summary: The editorial in "Al-Khaleej" describes President Bush's State of the Union speech as a depiction of the quagmire United States is currently experiencing. It assertsd that the policy of the neoconservatives needs to change from unilateralism to multilateralism when dealing with inte [...]	2007-01-25 12:04:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR TC
07ABUDHABI1021	WILL UAE ENERGY NEEDS PROMPT IRAN-UAE GAS DEAL? [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Iran has expressed interest in improving energy cooperation with the UAE and has had "on again off again" discussions with the Emirate of Abu Dhabi about gas purchase agreements. However, Abu Dhabi authorities are skeptical about the reliability of the Iranians [...]	2007-06-20 10:12:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG PREL ECON IR AE
07ABUDHABI1104	UAE CENTRAL BANK STILL WILLING TO TRAIN IRAQ FIU [...] (U) On June 21, 2007 OFAC Attache and Treasury Representative Erin English met with Abdulrahim Al Awadi, Head of the Anti-Money Laundering and Suspicious Cases Unit (AMLSCU),the financial intelligence unit (FIU) of the UAE Central Bank. Mr. English, who was recently stationed in Baghdad, rep [...]	2007-07-01 12:06:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN PTER KTFN ETTC PREL ECON IZ AE
07ABUDHABI1119	FM SHEIKH ABDULLAH ON SYRIA, IRAQ, FOREIGN [...] (S) SUMMARY. Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah (AbZ) on July 2 to urge UAEG measures to stem the flow of foreign fighters into Iraq and to persuade the Syrian government to do more on this matter. AbZ undertook to engage Bashar al Assad on taking action against the travel o [...]	2007-07-03 11:32:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER KNNP MCAP PINS PARM CJAN ETRD ETTC KPAO
07ABUDHABI1127	ABU DHABI MOVING FORWARD ON SOVEREIGN BOND ISSUE [...] (C) Summary: Fitch and Standard & Poor's have both given the Emirate of Abu Dhabi the highest sovereign rating (AA) in the region. They have noted the emirate's strong financial situation, but have expressed concern about regional political risks and the general lack of fiscal transparency i [...]	2007-07-05 12:29:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EINV AE
07ABUDHABI1128	THREE U.S. COMPANIES SHORT LISTED FOR SOUR GAS [...] (C) We have been told that the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has invited four companies to re-bid on its on-shore sour gas development project: Occidental Petroleum, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, and Shell. BP was not invited to re-bid. According to ConocoPhillips Abu Dhabi President, [...]	2007-07-05 12:30:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EPET ENRG EINV PINR AE
07ABUDHABI1145	FOREIGN MINISTER ABDULLAH ON ABBAS VISIT; GCC MINISTERIALS [...] (C) Ambassador spoke via telephone with Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) Sunday afternoon, July 8, regarding the visit of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who had arrived the day before. AbZ reported that Abu Mazen was still in Abu Dhabi, and would be meeting with UAE Presi [...]	2007-07-09 09:32:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL KPAL KNUC IQ IR AE
07ABUDHABI1153	UAE REPORTS LOSS OF GEN III NVG [...] (S) The UAE's Special Operations Command informed the Embassy's U.S. Liaison Office on July 1, 2007 that a UAE solder in Afghanistan was missing along with his night vision device. We do not have a record of the NVG in question. It was not sold via FMS, but may have been sold via direct co [...]	2007-07-11 10:56:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	KOMC ETTC AE
07ABUDHABI1154	DEMOCRATIC REFORM STRATEGY FOR THE UAE: ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary: This message updates the Mission's first Democracy Strategy dated May 2005 (Ref A). Despite progress made over the last two years in the area of democratic reform )- including the country's first limited election of half of the advisory Federal National Council (FNC) -) the UAE [...]	2007-07-11 11:33:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	KDEM KMPI PGOV ELAB PHUM KPAO AE
07ABUDHABI1157	ECONOMY MINISTER SHEIKHA LUBNA ON IPR, TIFA PLUS [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 10, Ambassador and Econchief met with UAE Minister of Economy Sheikha Lubna Al-Qasimi to follow-up on the June 29 TIFA plus meeting in Washington. Sheikha Lubna told Ambassador that she thought that it was an "excellent meeting." She expressed interest in deepening the [...]	2007-07-11 13:21:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EAGR AE
07ABUDHABI1161	U.S.-UAE GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE AND JOINT MILITARY [...] (S) Summary: Since the May 2007 Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD),and earlier meetings of the Joint Military Committee (JMC) working groups and Air and Missile Defense working group, we have seen progress in our bilateral mil-to-mil and security relationship in the areas of defense cooperation and [...]	2007-07-12 09:07:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER PARM MOPS MASS KNNP IR AE
07ABUDHABI1179	MBR LOOKING AT DIAMOND CONTROLS [...] (S) During a July 15 meeting with UAE Vice President and Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum (MbR),Ambassador expressed appreciation for the UAE's and Dubai's early commitment to the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme (other topics reported septel). Ambassador asked MbR to [...]	2007-07-16 13:34:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	EMIN ETRD ETTC AE
07ABUDHABI1180	DUBAI RULER/UAE PM MOHAMMED BIN RASHID ON IRAQ, [...] (S) Summary: On July 15, Ambassador met with UAE Vice President, Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Dubai Ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum (MbR). MbR complained about the Iranian influence in Iraq and voiced his belief that the current situation in Iraq is a civil war which w [...]	2007-07-16 15:05:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MARR MOPS PARM EAID IR IZ LE AF PK SY
07ABUDHABI1214	SCENE SETTER - SECDEF GATES VISIT TO UAE [...] (S) Secretary Gates: Embassy Abu Dhabi looks forward to your upcoming visit to Abu Dhabi. Your principal interlocutor will be Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (MbZ),whom you met at the Pentagon on May 16. The U.S. [...]	2007-07-19 12:26:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PTER PARM MOPS MARR IR IZ AF LE AE
07ABUDHABI1238	ABZ ON GCC+2, UNGA, IRAN SANCTIONS [...] (C) Ambassador previewed the themes to be discussed at the upcoming July 31 GCC 2 Sharm el-Sheikh meeting with UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) on July 23 (ref A). AbZ asked for additional information on the issue of increased assistance for Iraq, wondering if the Iraq C [...]	2007-07-23 13:14:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PGOV UNGA IZ IR LE AE
07ABUDHABI1272	UAE NATIONAL TRAFFICKING COMMITTEE CHAIR ON UAE [...] (SBU) On July 29, Ambassador spoke with UAE Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs (and Chair of the UAE's Human Trafficking Committee) Anwar Gargash to follow-up on her June 21 session with him (reftel) and to inquire about reports of a new women's shelter opening in Dubai. Ga [...]	2007-07-30 06:37:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV ELAB AE
07ABUDHABI1274	MEDIA REACTION: US ARMS DEAL TO THE GULF /ASSISTANCE TO [...] SUMMARY: The U.S. arms deal with the Gulf and assistance to Israel were covered in all front pages of the UAE print media on 7/29. On 7/30, interest is quickly re-directed, however, to the Iraqi soccer win of the Asian Cup, which generates extensive coverage in all UAE print media. A cartoon [...]	2007-07-30 10:35:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR TC
07ABUDHABI1292	SCENE SETTER FOR VISIT TO UAE BY U/S BURNS AND U/S [...] (S) U/S Burns and U/S Levey: Embassy Abu Dhabi looks forward to your upcoming visit to the UAE. Your meetings with UAE's leaders come at a time when their attention is focused on U.S. policy in the Middle East and what this might mean to the UAE in the context of the violence in Iraq and Ira [...]	2007-08-01 13:04:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER PARM MOPS MARR IR LE AE
07ABUDHABI1293	UAE CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR ON IRANIAN BANK SEPAH, [...] (U) This contains business proprietary information. 2. (C) Summary: On August 1, Ambassador, accompanied by OFAC Attach and Econchief, met with UAE Central Bank Governor Sultan Nasser Al-Suwaidi. Al-Suwaidi confirmed that Iranian Bank Sepah's trade finance accounts with UAE banks remained [...]	2007-08-01 13:07:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PTER KTFN PREL IR AE
07ABUDHABI1294	ABU DHABI'S SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS -- THE TRILLION [...] (U) This cable contains business proprietary information. 2. (C/NF) Summary: The Emirate of Abu Dhabi is the largest and most powerful of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates, with over 90% of oil and gas reserves, and about 60% of GDP. In addition, it directly funds over half of [...]	2007-08-01 14:36:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EINV EFIN ECON PINR AE
07ABUDHABI141	UAE RED CRESCENT ON AID TO LEBANON AND AFGHANISTAN [...] (SBU) On January 30, Econoff spoke with Dr. Saleh Al Ta,ie, head of the Relief and Emergency Department at the UAE Red Crescent Authority (RCA) regarding the UAE,s recent aid to Lebanon and Afghanistan. Dr. Al Ta,ie said that the UAE,s $300 million pledge to Lebanon, announced at the Paris Co [...]	2007-01-30 12:59:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PHUM PREL AF LE AE
07ABUDHABI1413	MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ AND THE U.S. OCCUPATION; REPORT ON [...] SUMMARY: A UAE writer in "Al-Khaleej" opines that America has become bored as a result of its failure to accomplish its objectives in Iraq. "Al-Khaleej" does not believe that dragging other countries, such as Britain, the U.N. and recently France, into Iraq will help solve the Iraqi crisis an [...]	2007-08-23 13:53:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR TC
07ABUDHABI1445	BLOGGER JAILED FOR DEFAMATION OF LOCAL OFFICIAL [...] (U) An AFP story dated August 22 noted that an Arab human rights group (Cairo-based Arabic Network for Human Rights Information -- HRInfo) was decrying the one-year sentence against a website owner in the UAE, Mohammed Rashed al-Shehhi, on defamation charges, adding that al-Shehhi was also fin [...]	2007-08-29 13:49:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL AE
07ABUDHABI1453	UAE RESPONSE TO IRAQI LEADERS AGREEMENT [...] (C) Charge urged a supportive UAE public statement on the Iraqi Leaders Agreement with MFA Acting U/S Tariq Al Haidan on August 28, 29 and again on August 30. Al Haidan initially offered his frank opinion that it would be difficult ("Do we always have to make public statements?"),but after C [...]	2007-08-30 12:59:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU IZ AL XF AE
07ABUDHABI1458	FREEDOM AGENDA UPDATE FOR UAE [...] (SBU) Summary: The United Arab Emirates is a relatively progressive yet still conservative Muslim state with a large and diverse foreign population. The expansion of Western style freedoms is incremental. Embassy Abu Dhabi and ConGen Dubai regularly meet with UAEG officials and the broader [...]	2007-08-30 15:34:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KMPI KPAO SCUL XF AE
07ABUDHABI1479	SCENE SETTER FOR ADMIRAL FALLON'S SEPTEMBER VISIT [...] (S) Admiral Fallon, Embassy Abu Dhabi welcomes you for your second visit to the UAE as CENTCOM commander. As you are aware, deepening ties with the UAE is all about relationships, and the relationship that most matters on the military front is that with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zaye [...]	2007-09-05 13:59:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PTER PARM MOPS MARR IR IZ AF LE SY AE
07ABUDHABI1517	PUTIN PAYS A CALL ON UAE LEADERSHIP [...] (SBU) Russian President Vladimir Putin made a six-hour stop in Abu Dhabi September 10, on his return from the APEC Summit in Australia. The visit was the first by a Russian head of state since the UAE gained independence in 1971. Putin lunched with UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed and [...]	2007-09-11 13:35:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD RS AE
07ABUDHABI1539	MIXED PICTURE FROM ACTIVISTS ON UAE ANTI-TIP [...] (C) Summary: Recent conversations with Ansar Burney (head of a Pakistani trust who focuses on the camel jockey issue in the UAE) and Sharla Musabih (who runs a shelter for abused women in Dubai),highlight the complex nature of the TIP problem in the UAE, as well as positive yet limited offi [...]	2007-09-13 13:14:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KCRM ELAB UN AE
07ABUDHABI1542	UAE TIP ACTION PLAN SHARED WITH MFA [...] (SBU) PolChief discussed the TIP action plan with MFA Director for International Organizations Yacub al-Hosani September 11, having shared ref A points earlier in the week. Al-Hosani, who represents MFA on the new Committee for Combating Human Trafficking (ref B),said the Committee was prep [...]	2007-09-13 17:00:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM KCRM ELAB AE
07ABUDHABI1543	SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: PETRAEUS REPORT [...] SUMMARY: The testimony of General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker was widely followed and reported by local media, both print and broadcast. On the opinion/editorial side, Al-Khaleej viewed the General's report as an effort to avoid any decisions for the remainder of the President's term, and [...]	2007-09-16 05:47:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR TC
07ABUDHABI1555	UAE PRESS WELCOMES RELIGIOUS FREEDOM REPORT [...] (U) On September 17, most local English and Arabic dailies in the UAE cited the release of the 2007 U.S. International Religious Freedom (IRF) report prominently and in positive terms. Coverage generally highlighted the report's validation of UAE efforts to promote religious tolerance. The p [...]	2007-09-17 14:44:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV KPAO KIRF AE
07ABUDHABI1565	SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: US AND IRAQ [...] SUMMARY: An editorial in "Al-Khaleej" suggests that the objectives of America's war in Iraq will not be satisfied until the country is divided, its oil put under U.S. control and the entire region disrupted. A Kuwaiti writer in "Al-Ittihad" urges Gulf States to unite against what may happen [...]	2007-09-19 12:07:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR TC
07ABUDHABI1567	UAE DISMISSES ACADEMICS WITH PRESUMED ISLAMIST [...] (C) Summary: Reports of educators removed from the classroom for alleged "Islamist" tendencies are circulating in the UAE, with estimates of the number of those dismissed reaching as high as 92. One English teacher well known to the PA Section was told not to report to work when the new sem [...]	2007-09-20 05:51:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER SCUL AE
07ABUDHABI1656	SHEIKH KHALIFA EXPRESSES "KEEN SUPPORT" FOR LEBANESE [...] (SBU) On October 1 Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora met with UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan to discuss UAE support for Lebanon's stabilization, reconstruction, and security. Siniora's visit is part of a regional tour with a first stop in the UAE. Among topics discussed w [...]	2007-10-02 14:10:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAD LE AE
07ABUDHABI1687	AMABASSADOR LAGON'S VISIT TO UAE KEEPS SHARP FOCUS [...] (C) During a September 24 through 25 visit to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, Ambassador Mark Lagon, Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP),addressed USG concerns regarding UAEG's progress in combating trafficking in persons (TIP) with both Federal and Emirate level [...]	2007-10-10 05:33:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KCRM ELAB UN AE
07ABUDHABI1688	PACING THE UAE'S POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT [...] (C) Minister of State for Federal National Council (FNC) Affairs Anwar Gargash told a USG delegation (including Ambassador-at-large for Trafficking-in-Persons Lagon, NEA/ARP Director Steinfeld, Ambassador Sison, and Dubai Consul General Sutphin) that political development naturally lagged beh [...]	2007-10-10 05:47:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM KMPI AE
07ABUDHABI1699	SCENE SETTER FOR GENERAL PETRAEUS' OCTOBER VISIT TO UAE [...] (S) General Petraeus: Embassy Abu Dhabi and Consulate General Dubai welcome your visit to the UAE, where we look forward to supporting your media appearances and meetings with senior Emirati officials. Our most valuable senior interlocutor on defense issues and regional security is Abu Dhabi [...]	2007-10-10 14:16:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PTER PARM MOPS MARR IR IZ AF LE AE
07ABUDHABI1700	UAE SCENE SETTER FOR GENERAL WHITCOMB [...] (S) General Whitcomb: Embassy Abu Dhabi welcomes you for what we understand will be your final visit to the UAE in your current capacity. As you are aware, deepening ties with the UAE is all about relationships, and we appreciate the effort you have made to keep your UAE counterparts engaged [...]	2007-10-10 14:19:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PTER PARM MOPS MARR IR IZ AF LE AE
07ABUDHABI1776	UAE CENTRAL BANK AFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO MENA-FATF [...] (S//NF) Summary. On 23 October 2007, Treasury Attach Matthew Epstein and Econ Chief Oliver John met with UAE Central Bank official Abdulrahim al Awadi, head of the Anti-money Laundering and Suspicious Cases Unit. Treasury Attach and Econ Chief inquired about the ongoing MENA-FATF review of the [...]	2007-10-25 12:49:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	AE ECON IR KTFN PREL PTER
07ABUDHABI1820	UAE TIP COMMITTEE ISSUES REPORT AMID REQUESTS FOR TIP [...] (SBU) Summary: The UAEG provided Post a previously-promised report on its anti-TIP efforts, which emphasizes UAEG intent to combat trafficking while also acknowledging the long term challenges and trining needs of an effective program. Separately, he UAE has requested G/TIP training support [...]	2007-11-01 11:59:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KCRM ELAB UN AE
07ABUDHABI1840	2007-08 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-05 10:57:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR KCRM AE
07ABUDHABI185	UAE DRAFT EXPORT CONTROL LAW WITH MOJ [...] (C/NF) On February 5, Ministry of Economy Under Secretary Abdulla Al-Saleh (the number two to Minister of Economy Sheikha Lubna Al-Qasimi) told econchief that the draft export control law had been passed from the Ministry of Economy to the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry of Justice reviews [...]	2007-02-06 12:24:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ETTC PARM PREL KSTC AE
07ABUDHABI1852	FIRST LADY LAURA BUSH,S VISIT TO UAE SCORES PUBLIC [...] (U) In an historic October 21-23 visit to the United Arab Emirates, First Lady of the United States Laura Bush scored a public diplomacy victory while helping to launch the first nation-wide UAE campaign for breast cancer awareness. Mrs. Bush was hosted for a gala luncheon by the "Mother of t [...]	2007-11-06 13:14:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SCUL KMPI KDEM AE
07ABUDHABI1864	ASSESSMENT OF UAE TOOLS FOR USE AGAINST IRANIAN [...] (S/NF) Summary. In response to ref A, Embassy provides the following assessment of UAE tools that could be used against Iranian financial institutions. Responses are keyed to reftel, to the extent possible. End summary. Regulatory Regime ----------------- Â [...]	2007-11-08 04:40:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	EFIN ETTC KTFN KNNP AE
07ABUDHABI1865	UAE DRAFT 2008 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT [...] (U) The following is our draft text for the 2008 National Trade Estimate Report. As instructed, a word document has been e-mailed directly to USTR. Begin Text UNITED ARAB EMIRATES TRADE SUMMARY The U.S. goods trade surplus with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was $6.21 billion thro [...]	2007-11-08 07:16:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON EAGR AE
07ABUDHABI1869	KEEPING THE FOCUS ON FREEDOM -- UAE DEMOCRATIC [...] (C) Summary: This message reflects priorities in the U.S. Mission to the UAE's Democracy Strategy, originally designed in 2005 (ref J) and substantially updated in July, 2007 (ref F). It is designed to guide the practical application of resources, both programmatic and diplomatic, in pursui [...]	2007-11-08 13:48:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM KMPI PGOV ELAB PHUM KPAO AE
07ABUDHABI1881	ABU DHABI COMMERCIAL BANK REDUCING IRAN EXPOSURE; [...] (C) Summary. Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank sees dirham revaluation as inevitable. Subprime fallout starting to affect regional banks. CEO announces "no new Iran activity -- zero." End Summary. 2. (C) On 13 November 2007, Treasury Attach Matthew Epstein met with Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) [...]	2007-11-14 10:49:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	AE ECON IR KTFN PREL PTER
07ABUDHABI1891	INTERIM TIP ASSESSMENT: ABU DHABI [...] (SBU) Summary: This cable responds to ref A request for interim assessment of UAEG efforts toward advancement of TIP goals. As confirmed by Ambassador Lagon's September visit (ref D),the UAE seeks to gain respect for its compassionate treatment of foreign workers and build institutions to s [...]	2007-11-15 16:38:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PGOV KCRM KWMN SMIG ELAB UN AE
07ABUDHABI1899	ADIA APPROVES SWF TRILATERAL GROUP; NO DECISION [...] (C) Summary. Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) Managing Director Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed al Nahyan green lighted UAE's participation in a sovereign wealth fund (SWF) trilateral group proposed by Treasury U/S McCormick (ref). The proposed consultative group will include ADIA, the Government [...]	2007-11-19 12:16:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	AE ECON
07ABUDHABI1922	UAE ENERGY MINISTER ON OPEC AND OIL PRODUCTION [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador, accompanied by Econchief, met with UAE Energy Minister Mohammed bin Dha'en Al-Hamili on November 25. Al-Hamili argued that OPEC was not setting prices and that there was a USD 15-20 per barrel "political" premium on oil prices. He stated that price volatility complic [...]	2007-11-26 05:25:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON AE
07ABUDHABI1954	UAE REVIEW OF LIBERTAD ACT [...] (SBU) The UAE maintains diplomatic relations with Cuba, but neither country has an embassy present in the other country. The Cuban Embassy in Cairo handles diplomatic communications and -- according to the UAE MFA -- the UAE Ambassador in Brazil is accredited to Cuba. 2. (C) Embassy respon [...]	2007-11-30 13:15:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL CU AE

07ABUDHABI198	UAE LABOR UPDATES [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 5, Obaid Al-Zahmai Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry of Labor (MOL) and Yousif Al-Noor, Labor Advisor to the MOL told econoff that the MoL was working with the Dubai executive council on a specialized labor court to facilitate the hearing of labor disputes in [...]	2007-02-07 13:59:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI CVIS GTIP TC
07ABUDHABI1999	UAE Foreign Minister on Paris Donors' Conference, Iran, and [...] (C) In a one-on-one meeting with Ambassador December 13 afternoon, Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) covered regional issues, including support for the Palestinian Authority, the Iranian President's appearance at the recent GCC Summit, the NIE, and the need to encourage rapid Lebanese p [...]	2007-12-13 13:40:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG KPAL PARM MNUC KNNP IS IR AE
07ABUDHABI2002	UAE Human Rights Association fractures while former [...] (C) Four out of seven board members of the only human rights association in the UAE resigned December 4, putting into effect a public welfare law that forced closure of the Emirates Human Rights Association (EHRA). Disgruntled board members cited lack of transparency and intolerance for oppo [...]	2007-12-13 15:36:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ELAB KPMI PREL PGOV AE
07ABUDHABI203	UAE INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-08 10:57:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV USTR
07ABUDHABI22	MEDIA REACTION: EXECUTION OF SADDAM/NEW STRATEGIES IN [...] Summary: "Al-Khaleej" warns that Bush's new strategy for Iraq will likely only make the situation worse. A female UAE columnist in "Al-Bayan" discussed the reasons of Saddam's execution ignited fires of sectarianism between Sunnis and Shiites and laid the responsibility on the current Iraqi [...]	2007-01-08 10:47:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR TC
07ABUDHABI230	UAE INTERIOR MINISTER TROUBLED BY TIP REPORT [...] (C) Ambassador called on Interior Minister Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al-Nahayan on February 8 and requested his assistance in preparing for the 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report. Ambassador informed him of the reporting deadlines and requested his ministry's assistance in providing statistics reg [...]	2007-02-12 13:13:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ELAB KCRM KWMN SMIG AE
07ABUDHABI240	UAE Press Highlight FTA "Progress" [...] (SBU) On February 13, the UAEG issued a press release on the progress of the free trade agreement negotiations and on the intention to restart the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) Council that received extensive UAE press coverage. The UAEG's press release specifically did not m [...]	2007-02-13 12:48:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV PREL AE
07ABUDHABI245	TERRORIST FINANCE: HUMAN APPEAL INTERNATIONAL [...] (S) Summary. The USG has approached the UAEG since 2003 about concerns with Human Appeal International (HAI) with little progress. Despite assurances U/S Levey received in May 2006, HAI,s Dubai branch office still appears to be operational. Post has no objections to a designation but sugges [...]	2007-02-13 15:39:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	EFIN PTER KTFN ETTC PREL ECON AE
07ABUDHABI268	PSI: SHIPMENT OF U.S.-ORIGIN TEST EQUIPMENT TO SYRIA VIA [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-15 13:23:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP PARM PREL MNUC ETTC CA SY AE
07ABUDHABI275	UAE CREATES "COMMODITY CONTROL COMMITTEE" [...] (C) SUMMARY: On 14 February, the UAE provided a letter outlining the creation of a federal "Executive Committee on Commodity Control Procedures" to manage and oversee UAE export controls. The committee shares most of its objectives and many of its members with the existing Counterproliferatio [...]	2007-02-15 14:50:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETTC IR AE
07ABUDHABI298	EMBASSY ABU DHABI COMMENTS ON SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary: The UAE Government remains strongly committed to protecting intellectual property rights (IPR). The UAE continues to enforce copyright, trademark, and patent laws passed in 2002 to protect U.S. intellectual property, and remains committed to the 2002 agreement providing TRIPS-p [...]	2007-02-21 09:40:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR PREL ETRD AE
07ABUDHABI301	REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON PHILADELPHIA HURRICANE REBUILDING [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. 2. (U) On February 18, Post received a diplomatic note from the Embassy of the Republic of Kenya in Abu Dhabi inquiring about the legitimacy of the Philadelphia Hurricane Rebuilding Committee (Committee). The Kenyan Embassy reports that several Ken [...]	2007-02-21 13:24:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PHUM PREL KE AE
07ABUDHABI302	UAE ACTIONS ON 1737 ENFORCEMENT [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (C) On February 19, MFA Acting U/S Tariq Al-Haidan told Ambassador that Director Dubai General Department of State Security (and Chair of the UAE's non proliferation and commodity control committees) BG Mohammed Al-Qamzi had chaired a UN [...]	2007-02-21 13:34:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM ETTC PREL MNUC IR AE
07ABUDHABI324	UAE OFFICIALS SIGN AGREEMENT FOR $300 MILLION LOAN TO [...] (U) On February 20, 2007, the UAE signed an agreement to extend a $300 million "easy-term" loan to Lebanon, which the UAE pledged at the January 25 Paris donors' conference. According to local press reports, the loan will be repayable in 20 years at a 2.5 percent interest rate plus 0.5 percent [...]	2007-02-25 14:13:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PHUM LE AE
07ABUDHABI333	IAEA REPORT ON IRANIAN COMPLIANCE WITH UNSCR 1737 [...] (C) On February 25, DCM raised reftel points on Iran,s noncompliance with UNSCR 1737 with MFA Acting U/S Tariq Al Haidan, who gave strong assurances that the UAE Government is "all the way with you on this." Al Haidan said the UAE has repeatedly talked to the Iranians, but characterized their [...]	2007-02-26 13:12:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	KNNP IR AE
07ABUDHABI35	FM ABDULLAH VISITS TEHRAN [...] (C) Summary: During a January 9 visit to Tehran, Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (AbZ) met with Iranian President Ahmadinejad and Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki to discuss "regional cooperation and stability." AbZ told Ambassador that he made a "forceful" argument to [...]	2007-01-10 14:45:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP IR AE
07ABUDHABI368	UAE 2007 TIP REPORT [...] (U) Following is Post's submission of the 2007 Trafficking in Persons Report for the United Arab Emirates, covering the reporting period of April 2006 through March 2007. Responses under each section heading are keyed to the relevant sections of reftel paragraphs 27-30. Embassy TIP point o [...]	2007-03-05 15:27:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF ELAB KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC AE
07ABUDHABI383	UAE BREAKS-UP DRUG MONEY LAUNDERING RING [...] (C) In a move widely reported by the UAE press on February 26, Dubai police broke up an international money laundering ring using the UAE's financial system. Ahmed Al-Qamzi, Head of the Central Bank's Anti Money Laundering and Suspicious Cases Unit's International Division told econchief that [...]	2007-03-08 06:47:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR KCRM EFIN CASC AE
07ABUDHABI395	ANTI-BOYCOTT TEAM WORKS WITH UAEG OFFICIALS [...] (U) Summary: On March 5, Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) officials Edward Weant and Fred Davidson, Department of State official Danielle Monosson, and Econoff met with Ministry of Economy (MOE) officials Undersecretary Abdullah Al-Saleh and Legal Advisor Issa Baddo [...]	2007-03-08 13:51:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON KBCT AL IS AE
07ABUDHABI396	SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-08 14:07:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	IIP KMDR TC
07ABUDHABI421	MINSTER OF ECONOMY SEEKS U.S. ASSISTANCE TO [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-13 13:02:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC ETRD PREL PGOV PARM IR AE
07ABUDHABI422	MARCH 1 US-UAE COUNTERPROLIFERATION TASK FORCE [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-13 13:16:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PARM PGOV ETTC ETRD ECIN AE IR
07ABUDHABI430	UAE TO SEND AMBASSADOR TO US TO INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) On March 14, MFA senior America's desk officer Rowda Al-Otaiba contacted econchief to say that the UAE had changed its head of delegation to the March 16 ICI interim meeting. The head of delegation would be Ambassador Saqr Ghobash Saeed Ghobash UAE Ambassador to the U.S. rather than the U [...]	2007-03-14 12:10:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL IZ AE
07ABUDHABI458	UAE MOVING FORWARD ON GSD; DEFINING THE AGENDA [...] (C) Summary: Following the October 19, 2006 Gulf Security Dialogue session held in Abu Dhabi, Embassy has identified and clarified key areas of potential cooperation with the UAEG, particularly vis-a-vis the "existential threat" the UAE perceives from Iran. Future GSD discussions with the UAE [...]	2007-03-18 11:59:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER PARM MOPS MASS KNNP IR AE
07ABUDHABI473	TREASURY U/S LEVEY DISCUSSES UNSCR SANCTIONS ON [...] (S) Summary. On March 6, 2007 Treasury U/S Stuart Levey met with UAE Central Bank Governor Sultan Nasser al-Suweidi to discuss financial measures against Iran including UNSCR 1737 and recent USG actions against Bank Sepah and Bank Saderat. U/S Levey expressed concern that increasing European [...]	2007-03-20 07:39:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL KTFN ECON PTER IR AE
07ABUDHABI474	UAE AGREES IN PRINCIPLE TO VISIT BY USG ASSESSMENT [...] (S) Summary: The commander of UAE's Critical National Infrastructure Force told Ambassador and visiting Department Senior Coordinator for Critical Energy Infrastructure Policy that he -- in principle -- welcomed a visit from a U.S. assessment team. He said that the UAE was creating a unified [...]	2007-03-20 08:31:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	EPET ENRG EINV PTER KCIP AE
07ABUDHABI51	MEDIA REACTION: NEW STRATEGY FOR IRAQ; RICE'S TRIP TO [...] Summary: "Al-Khaleej" believes that the U.S. will continue its "colonial onslaught", in spite of the disasters that it has caused, as the price is only at the expense of Arabs. A columnist in "Al-Khaleej" views American foreign policy as very dangerous against the unity of Arab countries, wh [...]	2007-01-15 12:29:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR TC
07ABUDHABI513	UAEG CHANNELS EXTERNAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE THROUGH THE [...] (U) On March 14, 2007, semi-official Arabic daily Al Ittihad, reported that Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (MbR),UAE Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai issued a decree on February 27 to channel external humanitarian assistance by charities, local governments or other e [...]	2007-03-27 11:48:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PHUM KPAL IZ AF AE
07ABUDHABI524	UAE HOSTS 4TH INTERNATIONAL HAWALAS CONFERENCE [...] (U) Summary. On March 18 and 19, 2007, at the Fourth International Conference on Hawalas the UAE Central Bank (CB) stressed the importance to poor workers of hawalas, and the need to regulate without being overly burdensome and expensive. In the UAE there are 215 registered Hawaladars, each [...]	2007-03-28 12:58:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KTFN ECON PTER AE
07ABUDHABI53	URGING GULF ENGAGEMENT AT PARIS DONORS' CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) On several occasions, Ambassador has urged UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (AbZ) to have the UAE to demonstrate a high level of support for Lebanon both by sending a ministerial level delegation to the meeting and by providing a strong show of financial support f [...]	2007-01-16 12:14:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID PREL LE AE
07ABUDHABI54	POSSIBLE UNSCR 1737 (IRAN) ECONOMIC IMPACT ON UAE [...] (S/NF) Summary: Iran is one of the UAE's major trading partners, taking about 11 percent of the UAE's 2005 non-oil exports. Implementation of UNSCR 1737 is likely, therefore, to have some impact on the UAE trade. Thirty four percent of the UAE's exports to Iran fall into the category of mach [...]	2007-01-16 12:56:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM ETTC PREL MNUC IR AE
07ABUDHABI547	USG CONCERNS ABOUT IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1747 [...] (S) On April 1, Econchief discussed the UAE's implementation of UNSCR 1747 with regard to Bank Sepah with Ahmed Al-Qamzi, Head of the UAE Anti Money Laundering and Suspicious Cases Unit's (AMLSCU) International Division, and passed him information that we had on reported Bank Sepah corresponde [...]	2007-04-02 09:40:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	KNNP EFIN PARM IR AE
07ABUDHABI590	UAE CENTRAL BANK ACTIONS WITH REGARDS TO BANK SEPAH [...] (S//NF) On April 11, 2007 Ahmed Al-Qamzi, Head of the UAE Anti Money Laundering and Suspicious Cases Unit's (AMLSCU) International Division (protect) told OFAC Attach that UAE Banks had frozen &many accounts8 in response to the Central Bank's UNSCR 1747 search and freeze order. In particular, [...]	2007-04-11 11:20:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	EFIN KNNP PARM IR AE
07ABUDHABI599	UAE PRESIDENT DEFENDS LABOR SITUATION IN THE UAE [...] (U) Summary: On March 28, 2007, local Arabic and English language dailies, released an interview by the London-based Arabic daily Al Hayat with UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The interview discusses, among other issues, the situation of the expatriate labor force and the imb [...]	2007-04-12 11:52:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI GTIP AE
07ABUDHABI603	UAE INVITES CONGRESSIONAL STAFFERS TO ABU DHABI [...] In a first-of-its-kind effort to win friends on Capitol Hill, the UAE Embassy in Washington funded the travel of eight Congressional staffers, most of them Chiefs of Staff, four Republicans and four Democrats, to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, April 1-7. The visit was low-key but offered staffers the [...]	2007-04-12 12:23:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM OFDP OPRC OREP AE
07ABUDHABI620	FEDERAL NATIONAL COUNCIL (FNC) SPEAKER DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary: On April 12 Ambassador and PolOff called on the Speaker of the Federal National Council (FNC),Abdul Aziz Al-Ghurair, who is also the CEO of the largest private bank in the UAE, at his offices in Dubai. The Speaker described the UAE's path to democracy and full elections of the FN [...]	2007-04-16 10:49:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ETTC AE
07ABUDHABI69	UAE AVOIDS USING AIR ROUTES OVER DISPUTED UAE-IRANIAN [...] (C) Summary. In an apparent reaction to disagreements between the UAE and Iran regarding jurisdiction over air routes passing near the disputed island of Abu Musa, the UAEG has reportedly ceased using a major air corridor over the Gulf. The change adds pressure to an already congested air cor [...]	2007-01-18 13:17:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR PREL ECON IR AE
07ABUDHABI70	UAE AVOIDS USING AIR ROUTES OVER DISPUTED UAE-IRANIAN [...] (C) Summary. In an apparent reaction to disagreements between the UAE and Iran regarding jurisdiction over air routes passing near the disputed island of Abu Musa, the UAEG has reportedly ceased using a major air corridor over the Gulf. The change adds pressure to an already congested air cor [...]	2007-01-18 13:17:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR PREL ECON IR AE
07ABUDHABI701	HIGHLIGHTS OF UAE EXPORT CONTROL LAW [...] (U) Summary: The following cable represents post's informal assessment of highlights of the UAE's draft law on export and import controls. The law was approved on April 24, 2007 by the UAE's Federal National Council (FNC). The law, includes definitions and the following four chapters: chapte [...]	2007-04-26 13:26:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC PARM ETRD AE
07ABUDHABI702	CENTCOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL FALLON APRIL 24 MEETING [...] (S) Summary. On April 24 Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MbZ) hosted CENTCOM Commander Admiral William J. Fallon for an introductory lunch, in what was the Admiral's first visit to the UAE since assuming command [...]	2007-04-26 15:39:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PARM IZ IR AF PK SY LE IS AE
07ABUDHABI728	(S) SHIPMENT OF PROLIFERATION CONCERN- UAE RESPONSE [...] (S) Summary: On May 2, Econchief and DHS/ICE Dubai delivered reftel demarche to the MFA and to Dubai Customs. The MFA conveyed instructions to Dubai authorities to investigate. The ship arrived in Dubai the afternoon of May 2, but we do not yet have an estimated time of departure. The MFA ha [...]	2007-05-02 13:01:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PARM PREL MNUC IR CH AE
07ABUDHABI731	UAE RED CRESCENT HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TO AFRICA [...] SUMMARY: During January 1, 2006 to March 31, 2007, the UAE Red Crescent Society (RCS),the main quasi-government charity, provided USD 13.36 million in humanitarian assistance to Africa, according to official figures received from the RCS. This assistance included: miscellaneous relief USD 3.5 [...]	2007-05-03 07:27:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PHUM MOPS PREL XF SO IZ AF AE
07ABUDHABI734	M/V TEHRAN - UAE WANTS TO RETURN CONTAINER [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (S) Dubai Customs unloaded three containers from the M/V Iran Tehran the night of May 2 and is inspecting the containers. MFA Director for International Organizations Yacoub Al-Hosani (a member of the UAE Counterproliferation Task Force [...]	2007-05-03 10:39:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PARM PREL MNUC ETTC IR CH AE
07ABUDHABI761	SEPAH ASSETS UPDATE [...] (S) The UAE Central Bank issued a circular to all UAE banks to freeze assets under 1747 within four days of the UN resolution (Ref A). The UAE has not reported the total amount of assets frozen but the Central Bank Governor, Sultan bin Nasser al Suweidi, informed Treasury Assistant Secretary [...]	2007-05-09 13:18:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	EFIN KNNP IR PARM DA SW AE
07ABUDHABI780	IRANIAN PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD'S MAY 13-14 VISIT TO [...] (S) Summary. On May 13, UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan received Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with full ceremony in the first-ever visit to the UAE by an Iranian head of state. Meetings reportedly focused on increasing economic ties and cooperation on regional issues [...]	2007-05-14 14:01:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL KNNP IR IZ AE
07ABUDHABI818	EXERCISING STRONGER VIGILANCE AND RESTRAINT WHEN [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-20 07:58:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM AE
07ABUDHABI857	UAE RESPONSE TO URGENT REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE TO [...] (U) ACTION REQUEST -- See para 4. 2. (SBU) On May 23 we stressed the urgency of assistance to the LAF with both Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) and the Crown Prince's office. Ambassador spoke first with Col. (Ret.) Jack McGuinness, Military Advisor to Abu Dhabi Crown Prince/Dep [...]	2007-05-23 14:14:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MASS LE AE
07ABUDHABI868	MEDIA REACTION: WELCH'S VISIT TO LEBANON/AMNESTY [...] SUMMARY: The unsigned editorial in "Al-Khaleej" comments on the latest Amnesty International report which accuses the U.S. of human rights violations. A columnist in "Al-Khaleej" is critical of David Welch's visit to Lebanon, feeling it is meddling in sovereign Lebanese affairs. A Qatari int [...]	2007-05-24 10:24:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR TC
07ABUDHABI897	NEW WORLD BANK PRESIDENT - UAE THOUGHTS [...] (SBU) Econchief contacted MinFinance A/US for Revenue and Budget Khalid Al Bustani on May 30 to inform him that the President was expected to announce the nomination of Robert Zoellick as President of the World Bank and to stress Mr. Zoellick's strong qualifications for the position. Al-Bustan [...]	2007-05-30 12:29:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN IBRD AE
07ABUDHABI96	UAE DRAFT EXPORT CONTROL LAW OUT FOR COMMENT [...] (C/NF) In spite of longstanding U.S. urging, the UAEG still has no export control law. At the end of last year, UAE officials told us that they have an omnibus draft export-import law being finalized, which included a section on strategic trade controls. According to MinEcon Under Secretary [...]	2007-01-24 12:49:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ETTC PARM PREL KSTC AE
07ABUDHABI979	ABU DHABI CROWN PRINCE REACHES OUT ON CT PLANNING [...] (C) Summary. Senior advisors to Mohamed bin Zayed al Nahyan (MbZ),Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, met with Embassy representatives on two recent occasions to seek information related to USG capability and response to a terrorist incident in the UAE in [...]	2007-06-14 11:21:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC AE
07ABUJA1012	NIGERIA ELECTION AFTERMATH: FURTHER SUGGESTIONS [...] (C) As both international and domestic observers reported, the April elections took place in a political environment of manipulation, bribery, intimidation and outright fraud. Independent observers (including IRI and NDI) have been clear in their assessments of the shortcomings of the electi [...]	2007-05-22 15:41:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM NI
07ABUJA102	ECOWAS ELECTIONS ACTIVITIES [...] (U) Summary: ECOWAS has established an Electoral Assistance Unit within its Commission for Political Affairs, Defense, and Security. The unit is preparing to field assesment teams to seven presidential and legislative elections in the subregion in 2007, including Nigeria's April polls. Form [...]	2007-01-18 13:26:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA1057	IMAM ATTACKED BY WORSHIPPERS AT KADUNA MOSQUE [...] (U) BBC radio reported that the Imam at the Suleiman Bello Mosque in Kaduna, one of the city's prominent mosques, was attacked and beaten by worshippers at the Friday prayers on May 18. 2. (C) A contact from Kaduna who was at the mosque described the incident to PolCouns as politically [...]	2007-05-25 13:43:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA1091	NIGERIA: LABOR/CIVIL SOCIETY ACTIVITIES ON INAUGURATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A two-day nationwide strike to protest the outcome of the April elections had limited impact on the Nigerian political situation. While there were no street protests in Abuja, police in Lagos and Benin City disrupted rallies by members of the Labor and Civil Society Coalition ( [...]	2007-06-01 12:24:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM KLAB NI
07ABUJA112	CHIEFS OF MISSION ON ELECTIONS, DELTA SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY. On January 17, the Ambassador met with a small group of Chiefs of Mission (COMs) to discuss preparations and outlook for the April elections and the security situation in the Delta. All present agreed that preparation for a credible April election is deficient, though it was no [...]	2007-01-18 16:13:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA113	SPOT REPORT: DAILY TRUST DIRECTOR ARRESTED FOR [...] (U) Local media are reporting on January 17-18 that Mallam Muhammed Bello Ilyas Damagun was arraigned before a Federal High Court in Abuja on January 16 on charges of terrorism. He is a director of the company which publishes the Daily Trust Newspaper. He is alleged to run a terrorist organ [...]	2007-01-19 08:17:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET	PTER PHUM PGOV NI
07ABUJA1153	President Yar'Adua's First Appointments [...] Summary: President Yar'Adua made some of the first official appointments to his government on May 30. He announced that Ambassador Babagana Kingibe is the new Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF),while Major-General Abdullahi Mohammed retains the post of Chief of Staff and Ma [...]	2007-06-07 13:09:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR KJUS NI
07ABUJA1155	NIGERIA: LABOR LEADERS EXPLAIN POST-ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY. President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Adulwaheed Ibrahim Omar and President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) Peter Esele told Poloff they had made a conscious decision not to call their union members into the street following the April elections. The labor leaders soug [...]	2007-06-07 13:22:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL KDEM NI
07ABUJA1158	ECOWAS: PROGRESS ON AGRICULTURAL HARMONIZATION [...] Summary: Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) member states met on May 16-18 to discuss harmonization of sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) regulations for ECOWAS non- West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA). Participants agreed that the signed UEMOA regulation should be [...]	2007-06-08 10:52:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECIN ETRD EAGR ECON EAID NI ECOWAS
07ABUJA1162	AMBASSADORIAL MEETING WITH NSA MUKHTAR ON HOSTAGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to their request, Nigerian National Security Advisor General Abdullahi Mukhtar convened a meeting of Ambassadors from countries currently affected by hostage taking in the Niger Delta. He stressed that the GON knows the identities of the expatriates in captivity and [...]	2007-06-08 11:00:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET PGOV PTER NI
07ABUJA1163	NIGERIA INL PROJECT PROPOSAL: TRAINING RELATED TO REDUCING [...] Summary. Embassy Abuja submits this proposal to obtain funds from the 2007 IPR Enforcement Training Funds Program, per reftel A. Embassy Abuja proposes a training program in Nigeria for officials from the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC),the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commissi [...]	2007-06-08 11:01:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KIPR ETRD NI
07ABUJA122	NIGERIA: 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] (U) The following information is Nigeria's 2007 Investment Climate Statement. Overview -------- With an estimated population of 140 million, Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation. It offers investors a low-cost labor pool, abundant natural resources, and potentially the largest domest [...]	2007-01-19 10:20:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	KTDB EINV ETRD EFIN OPIC USTR NI
07ABUJA1238	PAY HIKE FOR YAR'ADUA, TOP GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS [...] The Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC),which monitors withdrawals from the Federation Account, recommends revenue sharing agreements across the three tiers of government, and recommends salaries and other allowances for public officials announced a new Consolidated [...]	2007-06-13 15:47:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA1252	SIXTH NIGERIAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OPEN FOR BUSINESS [...] (C) Summary: Nigeria's National Assembly, which began its sixth session on June 5, faces high turnover in its ranks. NASS leadership elections held to the People's Democratic Party's (PDP) geopolitical zoning formula, with Benue Senator David Mark elected as Senate President and Osun Represent [...]	2007-06-15 11:01:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA1262	NIGERIA: EX-IM BANK ABUJA VISIT [...] Summary. ExIm Bank officials visited Abuja June 11, 2007 to assess the banking sector and country risk. They visited the Ministry of Finance (MOF),Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN),Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),and the Debt Management Office (DMO). They had further meetings [...]	2007-06-18 08:49:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON PGOV NI
07ABUJA1263	NIGERIA: SEN. NELSON MEETS WITH OIL EXECS [...] (C) SUMMARY. During Senator Nelson's June 1 meeting with John Chaplin, Managing Director of ExxonMobil in Nigeria (EM) and Anne Pickard, Regional Executive Vice President for Shell Exploration and Production in Africa, the executives lamented that criminal gangs have slowed oil production and [...]	2007-06-18 09:05:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENGR EPET PREL PGOV PTER NI
07ABUJA1278	NIGERIA: LABOR TO COMMENCE NATIONAL STRIKE JUNE 20 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Representatives of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) announced on June 18 that they will call on member unions to initiate an indefinite national strike beginning at midnight on June 20. Talks between the GON and the union confederations ende [...]	2007-06-18 15:49:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ELAB NI
07ABUJA1302	NIGERIA: NATIONAL LABOR STRIKE -- SITREP #1 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) initiated a national labor strike at midnight on the morning on June 20. Oil companies report that essential personnel have reported for work and there is no impact as of yet on production. Airports closed in Abuj [...]	2007-06-20 13:46:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PGOV PHUM ENRG EAIR NI
07ABUJA1303	NIGERIA: NATIONAL LABOR STRIKE - SITREP #2 [...] (SBU) The national labor strike continues as of close of business June 20. NLC General Secretary John Odah told Poloff the NLC and GON will hold an informal meeting in the evening. NLC, TUC and the GON are scheduled to meet again formally at 10 AM on June 21. The strike will continue tomorr [...]	2007-06-20 16:04:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PGOV PHUM ENRG EIAR NI
07ABUJA131	NIGERIA ELECTION SNAPSHOTS #4 [...] (SBU) This cable is the fourth in a series of elections snapshots designed to provide a sense of the local environment in the run up to the elections planned for April 2007. In-depth information will continue to be reported in septels, with the snapshot format being used to convey interestin [...]	2007-01-23 14:36:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA1317	NIGERIA: NATIONAL LABOR STRIKE - SITREP #3 [...] (SBU) The national labor strike continues June 21 and it appears Nigeria is headed for a third day of striking. The meeting between labor leaders and the GON which was scheduled for 10 AM June 21 did not/not take place. According to NLC Deputy General Secretary Olaitan Oyerinde, it was clear [...]	2007-06-21 14:52:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ELAB PHUM PREL ENRG ASEC NI
07ABUJA1319	NIGERIA: STRIKE POSES CONCERN FOR GON AND LABOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. As the national labor strike finishes its second day, the GON appears to have dug in its heals on capitulating further to labor's demands. For its part, labor appears intransigent and may be changing its bottom line negotiating position (Ref. A). If so, the unions stand to lose [...]	2007-06-21 16:31:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB PREL PHUM ENRG ASEC NI
07ABUJA1320	NIGERIA STRUGGLES TO MEET AMISOM COMMITMENTS [...] (C//NF) SUMMARY: The Nigerian military battalion designated to serve in the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) is under-manned, under-equipped, and under-trained. The military leadership does not say, and probably does not know, when its troops will be AMISOM-ready. While the USG has s [...]	2007-06-21 16:41:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MOPS KPKO NI
07ABUJA1326	NIGERIA: NATIONAL LABOR STRIKE - SITREP #4 [...] SUMMARY. (SBU) As Nigeria enters Day Three of the national labor strike, fuel availability and transportation remain critical problems. Though the strike remains peaceful, road blocks (some set up by labor sympathizers and others by groups of hoodlums) have been reported in Jos, Gombe, Kano [...]	2007-06-22 13:41:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ELAB PREL PHUM ENRG ASEC NI
07ABUJA1342	NIGERIA: NATIONAL LABOR STRIKE - SITREP #5 [...] (SBU) Labor unions and the GON reached agreement late on June 23 (Day Four of the strike),with the strike officially ending at midnight that night. The agreement followed a reported intervention by President Yar'adua. In public statements immediately following the announcement of an agreeme [...]	2007-06-25 14:52:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ELAB PREL PHUM ENRG ASEC NI
07ABUJA1350	NORTHERN UNION PUSHES UNITY GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Secretary General of the Northern Union (NU) Dr. Ibrahim Lame met with PolOff on June 22 to discuss NU pressure on recent presidential aspirants Muhammadu Buhari (ANPP) and Atiku Abubakar (AC) to join a proposed government of national unity with President Umaru Yar'Adua. While no [...]	2007-06-26 13:59:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NI
07ABUJA1353	NIGERIA: CURRENT DEBT PROFILE AND FUTURE DEBT PLANS [...] Summary. On June 11, Econ and EXIM bank officers met with Nigeria's Debt Management Office (DMO). The Government of Nigeria's (GON) external debt as of March 2007 stood at $3.287 billion, of which 87% was held by multilateral institutions. Domestic debt totaled 1.87 trillion naira ($14.7 bi [...]	2007-06-26 15:33:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON PGOV NI
07ABUJA1367	NIGERIA: LABOR STRIKE HITS ECONOMY HARD [...] Summary. The four-day nationwide strike that ended on June 23 impacted the Nigerian economy negatively in diverse ways. Many businesses were completely paralyzed; important government and business operations were suspended; and most commerce via ports was shut down. With fuel unavailable fo [...]	2007-06-27 15:30:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ELAB NI
07ABUJA1376	NIGERIA: ELECTRICITY GENERATION UPDATE [...] Summary. Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Agency (NERC) was established in 2005 to regulate electricity generation, as a first step in unbundling, privatizing and attracting new investment in the power sector. Chronic electricity shortages have hindered social and economic growth in Nigeria. [...]	2007-06-29 08:35:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG ECON EINV NI
07ABUJA1434	NIGERIA: YAR'ADUA'S INITIAL ANTI-CORRUPTION RECORD [...] (C) SUMMARY. With just over one month in office, President Umaru Musa Yar'adua made history when he released his declaration of assets to the public, gaining praise for his transparency and setting a high marker for other public officials. However, other of his decisions raise the question o [...]	2007-07-06 08:04:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR NI
07ABUJA1435	NIGERIA'S VISION--AFRICA'S FINANCIAL CENTER [...] Summary. On June 18-20, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) unveiled it vision for Nigeria's financial future, presenting a report titled "FSS 2020, Building Africa's Center of Choice". The FSS 2020 vision refers to the potential for Nigeria to emerge as the top economy in Africa and the 20th la [...]	2007-07-06 10:35:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON PGOV NI
07ABUJA1438	NIGERIA'S VISION--AFRICA'S FINANCIAL CENTER [...] Summary. On June 18-20, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) unveiled it vision for Nigeria's financial future, presenting a report titled "FSS 2020, Building Africa's Center of Choice". The FSS 2020 vision refers to the potential for Nigeria to emerge as the top economy in Africa and the 20th la [...]	2007-07-06 11:39:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON PGOV NI
07ABUJA1440	NIGERIA: ELECTION TRIBUNALS (PART II) - [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The results of the April 14 gubernatorial elections are being contested in specially established state election tribunals (Ref. A). While most gubernatorial election tribunals have yet to convene, petitions from aggrieved candidates and parties, including the ruling People's D [...]	2007-07-06 13:22:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR KJUS KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA1442	BRIDGEBUILDING: NIGERIAN CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM [...] (C) SUMMARY: PolOffs met on June 29 with Dr. Josiah Fearon, Anglican Archbishop of Kaduna Diocese, to discuss his work in brokering Christian-Muslim dialogue in Nigeria. Fearon decried politicians' use of faith as a campaigning tool and assessed that most inter-faith animosities in Nigeria ar [...]	2007-07-06 13:45:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF NI
07ABUJA1447	GNU STALLING AFTER PDP INTRIGUES [...] (C) Summary: The Yar'Adua government's attempt to reconcile with opposition parties and create a "government of national unity" seems to be faltering. Although representatives of the ANPP, AC, and PPA met with the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) on June 26 and 27 to negotiate terms a [...]	2007-07-06 14:54:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA1467	NIGERIA: ELECTION TRIBUNALS (PART III) - [...] (C) SUMMARY: PolOff met with a legal advisor to Buhari and Atiku, former Kaduna High Court Justice Usman Mohammed (strictly protect) who provided insight into the legal strategies Buhari and Atiku's counsels are employing as they head to the Presidential Election Tribunal, currently underway [...]	2007-07-11 11:50:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA1468	NIGERIA: MINISTERIAL SCREENING BEGINS [...] SUMMARY: The Nigerian Senate postponed its screening of Ministerial nominees from July 10 to July 11 amidst controversy over some candidates. At least three of the 34 nominees submitted by President Umaru Musa Yar,Adua have had formal petitions filed against them, including Ojo Maduekwe, Dr. [...]	2007-07-11 11:50:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA1506	ILEA GABORONE - Law Enforcement Executive Development [...] The following 10 Nigerian personnel from the Nigeria Customs Service, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Nigeria Police Force, State Security Services and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission are nominated for attendance at the above referenced ILEA Training. Name - Chikan Eli [...]	2007-07-13 11:32:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR KCRM ASEC EAID NI
07ABUJA1507	SARAKI ASSERTS YAR'ADUA'S INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) Summary: Parts of the traditional ruling circle are signaling to President Yar,adua that he must distance himself from former President Obasanjo. Some of them appear to be positioning themselves to supplant the former President,s influence. Kwara Governor Saraki on July 10 pitched the [...]	2007-07-13 11:37:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NI
07ABUJA1508	NIGERIAN PEACEKEEPING INITIATIVES PARALYZED BY [...] (S//NF) SUMMARY: There has been little progress in recent months within the Government of Nigeria (GON) to expand its peacekeeping role in Darfur and Somalia under the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) and African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM). The GON has been without ministerial le [...]	2007-07-13 12:54:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET//NOFORN	MARR MASS PINR PREL NI
07ABUJA151	2007 BUDGET UPDATE [...] SUMMARY: On January 8, 2007, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) held a briefing discussing the 2007 budget. President Obasanjo submitted the budget to the National Assembly (NA) on October 11, 2006 and it was passed on December 20, 2006. The budget cycle for the GON is by calendar year and this i [...]	2007-01-24 10:28:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON NI
07ABUJA1535	EFCC ARRESTS FORMER GOVERNORS [...] (U) The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested four former governors on allegations of money laundering, diversion of public funds for private use, conspiracy to steal, and abuse of office. Former governors Orji Kalu of Abia State and Saminu Turaki of Jigawa State were [...]	2007-07-18 13:21:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KJUS KCOR NI
07ABUJA154	AMBASSADOR MEETS TWO PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS [...] (C) The Ambassador met earlier this week with Governor Attahiru Bafarawa of Sokoto and Governor Orji Kalu of Abia. Both governors are contesting for the presidency in 2007 on the tickets of smaller political parties. Both expressed continued optimism about their chances of success in April, [...]	2007-01-24 13:10:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI
07ABUJA1545	NIGERIA: AMBASSADOR'S END OF TOUR OBSERVATIONS [...] (C) Summary: In Africa, Nigeria has been indispensable to the U.S. It supplies a growing percentage of our oil and gas, is the site of our second largest investment on the continent (albeit almost solely in oil and gas),and, with up to one-quarter of the population of sub-Saharan Africa, it [...]	2007-07-20 06:21:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NI
07ABUJA1555	NORWEGIAN TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE IN OIL SECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Norway has an MOU with the Nigerian Government to provide technical assistance in the oil sector to make available Norway's experience and expertise as an oil producing nation in managing the resource for national benefit. The framework includes public/private institutional coo [...]	2007-07-20 12:29:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET EAID PHUM EITI NI
07ABUJA1558	ISLAMIC SCHOLAR GUNNED DOWN IN SOKOTO [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Nigerian press reported that Umaru Hamza Dan-Maishiya, a prominent Islamic scholar and imam, died from wounds sustained after three gunmen opened fire as evening prayers at the Shehu Usmanu Dan Fodio Mosque in Sokoto on July 18. Nigerian daily This Day reports that two susp [...]	2007-07-20 13:05:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR KISL NI
07ABUJA156	NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ON ELECTIONS, INEC [...] (C) At a January 23 reception, Chairman Hamisu Mu'azu Shira of the Nigerian House Committee on Electoral Matters told Poloffs the House is committed to smooth elections and a smooth transition of power this spring. Shira indicated he heard the Senate passed the first reading of a bill extendin [...]	2007-01-24 16:20:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA1575	NIGERIA: OIL COMPANIES SHARE CONCERNS WITH DOE A/S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Gas exploration is necessary to meet supply commitments for both export and domestic use and the Government of Nigeria (GON) should provide adequate fiscal terms for international oil companies (IOCs) to invest in gas development for domestic use, according to IOCs Total, Shell, [...]	2007-07-24 15:30:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET	ENRG EPET ECON PREL
07ABUJA1576	ILEA GABORONE - Small Arms Trafficking Course, August [...] The following 4 Nigerian personnel from the Nigeria Customs Service, Nigeria Police Force, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission are nominated for attendance at the above referenced ILEA Training. Name - Yunana Ayuba Dickson DOB - 02 December, 1971 Gender - Male Rank - [...]	2007-07-24 15:32:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR KCRM ASEC EAID NI

07ABUJA1593	CONFLICT CONTINUES ON BENUE-TARABA BORDER [...] Since renewed fighting began along the Benue-Taraba boundary five weeks ago, no fewer than twenty people have died and at least five villages have been razed. For decades the Tivs and Jukuns, the two ethnic groups residing along the border, have engaged in intermittent fighting and there is p [...]	2007-07-26 09:00:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREF NI
07ABUJA1607	NIGERIA: DOMESTIC ENERGY SECTOR IN TRANSITION [...] (U) SUMMARY: Nigeria's power sector was in transition and the World Bank was integrally involved in this process, according to World Bank (WB) Energy Specialist Waqar Haider. He identified three aspects to the transition: unbundling the Nigerian Electric Power Authority (NEPA); regulatory fun [...]	2007-07-26 14:11:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ECON EINV EAID NI
07ABUJA162	KANO GOVERNOR ON ELECTIONS, DELTA [...] (C) During a January 24 meeting with the Ambassador, Kano State Governor Ibrahim Shekarau expressed satisfaction with the voter registration exercise in his state. Despite a slow start due to lack of machines, the governor reported that as of last week, 3.2 million voters had been registered [...]	2007-01-25 15:10:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ECON NI
07ABUJA1625	NIGERIA: NEW MINISTERS ANNOUNCED [...] (SBU) President Umaru Musa Yar'adua administered the oath of office to his 39-member cabinet on July 26 at the presidential villa in Abuja. The President gave a stern warning that the Administration will not tolerate corruption and indiscipline in the public service. The ministers were offici [...]	2007-07-27 11:55:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL NI
07ABUJA1626	JULY 2007: NORTHERN NIGERIA POLITICAL TIDBITS [...] (U) This cable is a roundup of recent political developments across northern Nigeria. --------------------------------------------- GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION TRIBUNAL UPDATE --------------------------------------------- - 2. (SBU) As noted in Ref. A, election tribunals across the country ha [...]	2007-07-27 12:26:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM KISL KJUS NI
07ABUJA1630	SHIA LEADER ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH SUNNI [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 20, police and State Security Services (SSS) arrested and detained prominent Shia leader Kasimu Rimin Tawaye and several members of Sokoto's minority Shia community in connection with the July 18 killing of Sunni scholar Umaru Hamza Dan-Maishiya (reftel); neither Tawaye n [...]	2007-07-27 12:42:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KISL NI
07ABUJA164	NIGERIAN PARADOX - PETROL SHORTAGES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Long gasoline queues have become endemic in the past two months. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) insists that the product stock available is enough to serve the entire country and that pipeline vandalisms is causing the supply hiccups. Pipeline sabotage has [...]	2007-01-25 16:22:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EPET ENRG EINV PGOV NI PETROL
07ABUJA1659	NIGERIANS FAVOR DEMOCRATIC, UNIFIED NATION [...] SUMMARY. A vast majority (82 percent) of Nigerians prefer democratic rule over military or religious rule and 74 percent want Nigeria to remain unified. However, Nigerians almost unanimously agree that the government is not doing enough for the people of the Delta and almost half are not sa [...]	2007-08-03 08:59:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA1671	NORTHERN VIEWS ON YAR'ADUA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Influential northern Nigerians remain split over whether the May 29 inauguration of President Umaru Yar'Adua, a northern Hausa-Fulani Muslim from Katsina state, may portend a change of fortune for the North. His northern extraction is overshadowed for many by the manner in which [...]	2007-08-03 12:49:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM SOCI NI
07ABUJA1694	NIGERIA: ECON-RELATED NEW MINISTER BIOS [...] SUMMARY: The incoming Ministers come from a variety of backgrounds in keeping with Nigeria's ethnic diversity and several analysts have praised the appointments. President Yar'adua will act as Minister of Energy, following the footsteps of his predecessor. Questions remain on several Ministe [...]	2007-08-07 15:00:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV NI
07ABUJA1740	OFFICIALS MEET TO ADDRESS BENUE/TARABA BORDER [...] SUMMARY. An unidentified U.N. official was shot enroute to a peacekeeping meeting along the Benue / Taraba border on August 9. The meeting was called by Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswam in an effort to address the ongoing violence occurring between the ethnic tribes of Benue and Taraba S [...]	2007-08-14 10:35:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI
07ABUJA1741	ADMINISTRATION PLANS FOR EFCC UNCLEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Yar'Adua announced approval on August 6 of an Attorney General request to require the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent and Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) to seek the consent of and report to the Attorney General in their activitie [...]	2007-08-14 10:35:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR NI
07ABUJA1749	BUHARI LAWYER ON THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION TRIBUNAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Buhari's attorney Mike Ahamba (strictly protect) expressed displeasure at the pace of the Presidential Election Tribunal proceedings, averred that his case is solid, and maintained hope in the impartiality of the tribunal process. When the tribunal's substantive hearing begins in [...]	2007-08-14 15:57:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM KJUS NI
07ABUJA177	NIGERIA: NAMES OF INFLUENTIAL WOMEN [...] Per reftel request, names follow of the six most influential women in Nigerian government and civil society. 2. PROFESSOR DORA AKUNYILI: Director General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). Ms. Akunyili, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, is responsib [...]	2007-01-26 10:32:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PINR KWMN NI
07ABUJA1779	NIGERIA: NORTHERN ELITES TAKE OVER OIL SECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary. Northern elites have added another key position in the oil sector with the appointment of Engineer Abubakar Lawal Yar'adua as the Acting Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Critics question his competency noting that Lawal Yar'a [...]	2007-08-17 09:01:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ECON EPET PGOV NI
07ABUJA182	ELECTIONS PARTNERS -- KEEPING PREPARATIONS ON TRACK [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Ambassador met with representatives of IFES, the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and PACT Nigeria on January 25 to discuss ongoing elections preparations efforts. INEC continues to register large numbers of voters in the final weeks of the registration exercise, claiming [...]	2007-01-26 11:08:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA1826	A STRATEGY FOR GETTING NIGERIAN TROOPS TO SOMALIA [...] (C) As indicated by our reporting on this subject (Reftel),including Congressman Payne's meetings with FM Maduekwe and President Yar'Adua on August 20, Nigeria is not moving forward at any speed to designate, train or deploy a battalion for AMISOM. Part of the issue is, we believe, the lack [...]	2007-08-22 13:47:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NI
07ABUJA1828	NIGERIA: BANKING CONSOLIDATION SECOND WAVE [...] Summary. The second wave of banking consolidation is underway with a large portion of the banking community under-banked. By the end of 2007 at least 7 banks will have share capital in excess of $1 billion and ten with over $2 billion. Banks are raising additional capital in both the domest [...]	2007-08-23 09:25:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON PGOV NI
07ABUJA1832	NIGERIA: CHANGES IN BENUE STATE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Poverty, and the lack of electricity and education are still rampant throughout Benue State, but new Governor Gabriel Suswam claims he is going to change that. Rural development, education and capacity building are the priorities Suswam says he will focus on during his tenure. S [...]	2007-08-23 14:05:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA1834	EFCC CHAIR ON ADMINISTRATION'S ANTI-CORRUPTION [...] (C) SUMMARY. EFCC Chairman Ribadu told Charge on August 16 that Yar'Adua is committed to investigating corrupt former officials to send a message that no one is above the law. Despite GON support, however, Ribadu maintains that the EFCC is dependent on international donors to fulfill basic nee [...]	2007-08-23 15:15:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON KCOR KCRIM SNAR NI
07ABUJA1865	NIGERIA: NAIRA REDENOMINATION FLIP-FLOP [...] (SBU) Summary. The sudden suspension of the naira re-denomination policy by the Government of Nigeria (GON) demonstrates a lack of coordination and cohesion in President Umar Yar'adua's economic team. Such policy flip-flops affect Nigeria's credibility adversely in the international financial [...]	2007-08-29 06:43:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV PGOV NI
07ABUJA189	BUHARI ON OBJ, ALLIANCES [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 24, Deputy Chief of Mission and visiting AF/W Deputy Director Donald Heflin met with All Nigeria Peoples' Party (ANPP) presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari at his Kaduna residence. Buhari opined about the current Obasanjo-Atiku impasse, characterizing it as another [...]	2007-01-26 13:22:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA1907	NIGERIA: ROAD MAP TO ECONOMIC REFORMS [...] Summary. The Nigerian government (GON) has introduced new policies hoping to accelerate growth and sustain macroeconomic stability. The policies are in-line with the new administration's mantra of upholding the constitution and following rule of law, respect for due process, integrity, accoun [...]	2007-09-04 13:08:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV PGOV NI
07ABUJA1931	YAR'ADUA'S FIRST 100 DAYS - AN ASSESSMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. As President Yar'Adua's first 100 days in office draw to a close, his slow start organizing his government has substantively hampered his ability to formulate new policy. As a result, his record of accomplishments is thin, and the question of whether he is up to the task he face [...]	2007-09-06 10:41:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ECON KDEM NI
07ABUJA1932	NIGERIAN HOUSE SPEAKER EMBROILED IN SPENDING [...] (C) Summary: Patricia Etteh, the new Speaker of Nigeria's House of Representatives, has been implicated in a scandal involving unauthorized contracts allegedly totaling about USD 5 million to renovate her official residence and purchase several luxury cars. Etteh, who was elected Speaker larg [...]	2007-09-06 10:41:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KCOR NI
07ABUJA1948	GON CRITICIZES EMBASSIES FOR NOT GETTING OUT THE [...] (C) Summary. In a September 5 briefing for the Diplomatic Corps in Abuja, Foreign Minister Maduekwe and other senior officials described the GON's efforts to address the problems of the Niger Delta and improve the security situation there. The officials described the government's "holistic app [...]	2007-09-07 09:21:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA1949	BUHARI INSIDER ON ANPP INTRIGUES, POSSIBLE MASS [...] (C) SUMMARY: All-Nigeria People's Party (ANPP) presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari confidante retired Air Vice Marshal Mouktar Mohammed disclosed that Buhari's lingering distrust of the ANPP has been justified, in part, following the party's imminent withdrawal of its petition at the pres [...]	2007-09-07 09:36:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM KJUS NI
07ABUJA1954	THE FOURTH AND FINAL IMF REVIEW OF NIGERIA'S PSI [...] (SBU) Summary. In its fourth Nigeria review, the IMF will recommend a positive outcome and noted satisfaction with overall macroeconomic figures. The third review had a few benchmarks that were not met, one of which questioned a $200 million loan from the Chinese Export Import Bank. Data from [...]	2007-09-10 13:04:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ETRD ECON EPET PINR NI
07ABUJA1976	MOSOP PRESIDENT'S VIEWS ON THE DELTA [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a September 12 meeting, Ledum Mitee, President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) discussed his views on the situation in the Niger Delta with the Charge, PolCouns, and PolOff. Although the Nigerian military Joint Task Force's presence has lessened g [...]	2007-09-13 12:18:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA2020	NIGERIAN FOREIGN MINISTER'S WORLD VIEW [...] (C) Summary. Chief Ojo Maduekwe, the new Minister of Foreign Affairs for Nigeria, has a long history of involvement in politics, where he is a survivor, as well as some involvement with foreign relations. Since taking over the helm of the ministry in late July 2007, he has pontificated to the d [...]	2007-09-17 13:02:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR NI
07ABUJA2034	NIGERIAN VIEWS ON AFRICOM: WE'VE GOT OUR WORK CUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Articles in the September 14 and 17 editions of "This Day" quote unnamed Nigerian Defense establishment sources as being fundamentally opposed to AFRICOM. Privately, Embassy military contacts report far less hostility to the idea. Both the articles and Embassy contacts, however, [...]	2007-09-19 09:04:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA2035	NIGERIA: BLUE LANTERN RESPONSE FOR PRE-LICENSE [...] Poloff contacted Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Logisitcs Commander G.F. Abdul to inquire about the status of the reported sale of C-130 spare parts (reftel). Abdul said the NAF had not received C-130 spare parts in 2007. He further noted that while the NAF had received spare parts from United Te [...]	2007-09-19 09:07:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC NI
07ABUJA2059	NIGERIA: TEXTILE AND APPAREL PRODUCTION 2006 DATA [...] The following are statistical data for 2006 on textile and apparel production in Nigeria. At this time, 2007 data are unavailable: -- Total industrial production - $59.5 billion, comprising crude petroleum ($55 billion),mining and quarrying ($181 million),and manufacturing ($4.3 billion) [...]	2007-09-24 06:56:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON KTEX ELAB ENRG EPET NI
07ABUJA2077	VISIT TO NIGERIA'S NORTHEAST [...] (U) Summary. Charge d'Affaires Gribbin and entourage spent the week of September 17-22 visiting Borno, Bauchi and Gombe states to open an American Corner in Maiduguri, donate school books, host Iftaar dinners, meet governors, emirs and the local press. We were warmly received everywhere. Durin [...]	2007-09-27 12:16:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV NI
07ABUJA2082	EFCC-AG RIFT SPELLS TROUBLE FOR EFCC [...] (C) SUMMARY. Immediately following assurances by Secretary to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission SIPDIS (EFCC) Emmanuel Akomaye that the rift between the EFCC and the Attorney General (AG) is not a problem, Chief of the EFCC External Cooperation Unit Ibrahim Mohammed pulled Poloff [...]	2007-09-27 13:09:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KJUS NI
07ABUJA2096	PDP ASSEMBLY REPS URGE SPEAKER TO STEP DOWN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Chairmen of three House of Representatives Committees (all three representing the PDP) on September 27 told Poloffs they have urged House Speaker Patricia Etteh to step down voluntarily before she is removed from her position. The 9-man House Panel of Inquiry released its report [...]	2007-09-28 11:06:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM NI
07ABUJA2099	NIGERIA'S SPACE AGENCY WORKING WITH AMERICAN [...] (U) Summary: The National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) has a growing interest in working with U.S. companies. Emerging areas include possibility of antenna production in-country and telemedicine. The NASRDA Director General visited Embassy recently and received a tutorial o [...]	2007-09-28 12:09:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TSPA KSCA ETRD BEXP CVIS PGOV NI
07ABUJA2108	NIGERIA - 2008 AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW [...] (U) Country: Nigeria Current AGOA Status: Eligible 2. (U) Country Background Summary: Estimated population of 140 million. 2005 GNI was $74.2 billion; 2005 GNI per capita was $560 (World Bank 2006 Data). Nigeria continues to struggle to consolidate democracy during handover from civili [...]	2007-10-02 12:50:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD AGOA ECON NI
07ABUJA212	SHOOTOUT IN PORT HARCOURT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The shootout in Port Harcourt January 28 occurred as policemen detained the leader of a group known as the "Outlaws" at his church on Sunday morning. His detention was soon communicated to both the state commander of the Mobile Police and to the detainee's supporters. The ensu [...]	2007-02-01 15:25:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM KCRM NI
07ABUJA2127	NIGERIA: POLICY SUPPORT INSTRUMENT PART II [...] (SBU) The GON has prepared a policy document for President Yar'adua and the Economic Management Team's approval recommending that Nigeria agree to a second IMF Policy Support Instrument (PSI) covering 2008-2010. According to Tunde Lawal, Deputy Director of Growth and Real Sector Development at [...]	2007-10-03 14:07:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV PGOV NI
07ABUJA217	NIGERIA: SHELL PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION [...] (C) Shell Managing Director Ann Pickard telephoned the Ambassador on February 2 to report that the Shell Petroleum Development Corporation (SPDC) is bankrupt because of the failure of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to pay arrears that Shell believes it is owed from their j [...]	2007-02-02 13:30:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENERG ASEC PTER NI
07ABUJA2191	NIGERIA: INDUSTRY HURTING IN THE NORTH [...] (SBU) Summary. Northern business leaders were unanimous in voicing their displeasure with current economic conditions in the region. The supply of electricity is epileptic, requiring expensive generators run on expensive fuel to operate businesses. An energy expert provided a dire overview o [...]	2007-10-17 12:29:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG EPET PGOV PREL NI
07ABUJA2201	NIGERIA: NORTHERN POLITICAL TIDBITS FOR SEPT/OCT [...] (U) This cable is a roundup of recent political developments across northern Nigeria, including: -- Alleged Christian-Muslim Violence Erupts in Kano -- Sharia Court Bans Play Critical of Sharia Implementation -- Bauchi Governor Yuguda Probes Former Governor Mu'azu ------------------------- [...]	2007-10-18 13:24:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM SOCI NI
07ABUJA2203	NIGERIA'S LEADERSHIP INCUBATOR FALLS ON HARD TIMES [...] (U) Summary: Nigeria's National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) has produced three former Nigerian rulers, and scores of ministers, flag-grade officers, and high-level civil servants. Described in past USG reporting as the "cradle of the elite of the elite," NIPSS has played [...]	2007-10-18 13:38:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KPAO NI
07ABUJA2228	NIGERIA: KADUNA GOVERNOR DEFENDS ELECTIONS, [...] (SBU) Kaduna State Governor Muhammad Namadi Sambo (of the People's Democratic Party (PDP)) discussed with PolCouns on September 28 the April polls and provided insight into his agenda for his first term in office. While conceding that some local government areas in Kaduna state experienced el [...]	2007-10-19 14:56:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM NI
07ABUJA2229	NIGERIA: BUHARI CONFIDENT IN ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL [...] (C) All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP) presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, still believes that, given a fair judiciary with a just Chief Justice at its helm, the Presidential Electoral Tribunal will rule in Buhari's favor and overturn the April 21 election of President Umaru Yar'Adua. In [...]	2007-10-19 15:02:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM KJUS NI
07ABUJA2231	NIGERIA: SENATE PRESIDENT FACES SCANDAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Senate President David Mark (PDP - Benue state, and a member of former President Obasanjo's network of influence) has alleged that an aggrieved Senator is trying to oust him by spreading rumors that he renovated his official quarters to the tune of 400 million Naira (US$3.2 millio [...]	2007-10-19 16:37:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA2232	NIGERIA'S PDP - WHEN IS A PARTY NOT A PARTY? [...] (C) SUMMARY. The ruling Nigerian Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) cannot be viewed as a political party within the common western understanding. Like velveeta cheese, the labeling claims it is a party, but upon further inspection, it lacks key ingredients most political parties share. This i [...]	2007-10-19 16:50:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA2237	OUTBREAK OF VACCINE DERIVED POLIOVIRUS IN NIGERIA [...] Summary. An outbreak of at least 69 circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Virus (cVDPV) cases have been reported between 2006-7 mostly in Nigeria's northern states of Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Bauchi, and Jigawa due to low immunization of children under five years. Internationally, cVDPVs has been kn [...]	2007-10-22 10:08:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO EAID DEOC SOCI PGOV NI
07ABUJA2240	NIGERIA: BANK CAPITALIZATION - OVERHEATING, OR [...] (SBU) Summary: Nigeria's bank reforms, recapitalization, and consolidation in the sector have been positive and in line with other macroeconomic and financial reforms. Rapid capitalization has raised the issue of possible overheating if Nigeria's commercial banks rush to push available funds [...]	2007-10-22 16:31:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PGOV EINV PREL NI
07ABUJA2260	THE LEBANESE BUSINESS COMMUNITY IN NORTHERN NIGERIA [...] (SBU) Summary. The majority of the wealthy Lebanese business community left Nigeria during the military period and only remnants remain. Successive poorly planned and executed government policies, such as government subsidies and import bans, have hurt local industries. The Nigerian mining s [...]	2007-10-24 13:44:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EMIN ENRG PGOV NI
07ABUJA2284	NIGERIA: ELECTION OF YAR'ADUA SON-IN-LAW NULLIFIED [...] (SBU) The Kebbi State Electoral Tribunal nullified the election of Saidu Usman Dakingari (Peoples' Democratic Party, PDP) as Governor on October 21. Dakingari is President Yar'Adua's son-in-law (his third wife is Yar'Adua's second eldest daughter Zainab). The tribunal, headed by Justice Aodo [...]	2007-10-26 13:49:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA2286	NIGERIA: IBORI CASE HAMPERED BY EFCC-AG RIFT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Attorney General (AG) Michael Aondoakaa continues his attempts to derail the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) investigation into former Delta State Governor James Ibori. Failure of the AG's office to respond in a timely manner to a request from the U.K. Crown Pros [...]	2007-10-26 14:09:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA2295	NIGERIA: HOUSE SHENANIGANS CONTINUE [...] SUMMARY: Speaker of the House of Representatives, Patricia Etteh (Peoples Democratic Party, PDP - Osun State) continues her battle to remain in control of the House, despite the ongoing scandal over contract awards for the renovation of her and her deputy's official residences. Etteh is accuse [...]	2007-10-29 15:10:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA231	FEAR AND LOATHING AT THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: With three months to go before elections, members of the Nigerian National Assembly are increasingly anxious about elections. This sentiment in the Assembly is rooted in a widely held skepticism about the intentions of President Obasanjo, coupled with the belief that INEC is woe [...]	2007-02-05 13:34:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA2310	WHAT NEXT FOR HOUSE OF REPS? [...] (U) As reported reftel, Representative Patricia Etteh (PDP, Osun State) stepped down from her position as Speaker of the House on October 30, ending weeks of confusion and stalemate in the legislature. Both Etteh and Babangida Nguroje (PDP, Taraba),who also stepped down from the Deputy Spea [...]	2007-10-31 17:18:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA2320	NIGERIA: GOVT. PRACTICES - INFO COLLECTION, [...] (C) Below are responses to reftel information request on GON information collecting, screening and sharing. A. Watchlisting (C) The government of Nigeria (GON) maintains a watchlist which consists of binders with names and photographs of individuals of interest, coded by threat (terrorist [...]	2007-11-01 10:40:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	KVPR PTER PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC KHLS SNAR
07ABUJA233	ELECTION PARTNERS: SKEPTICISM OVER VOTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with representatives of IFES, the National Democratic Institute (NDI),the International Republican Institute (IRI) and PACT Nigeria on February 1 to discuss ongoing elections preparations efforts. Though INEC extended the voters registration exercise to Febru [...]	2007-02-05 15:28:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA2330	WATER- A CHERISHED COMMODITY IN NORTHERN NIGERIA [...] (SBU) Summary. The Hadelia Jama'are River Basin Development Authority (HJRBDA) covers over 45,000 square kilometers with the potential to irrigate 212,000 hectares in Kano, Bauch and Jigawa states. Agriculture is a big driver of Nigerian economic performance representing nearly 41% of GDP and [...]	2007-11-02 11:41:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR TBIO SENV PGOV SOCI NI
07ABUJA2351	NEW SPEAKER'S REPUTATION INSTILLS HOPE FOR HOUSE [...] (SBU) Nigerians anticipate a more dynamic, purposeful and result-oriented leadership in the House of Representatives following the recent election of Dimeji Saburi Bankole as the Speaker. In public statements, the new Speaker promised Nigerians quality legislation that will impact directly on [...]	2007-11-07 17:16:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NI
07ABUJA2369	NIGERIA 2008 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE [...] The following information is Nigeria's 2008 National Trade Estimate. Trade Summary ------------- 2. The U.S. goods trade deficit with Nigeria was $25.7 billion in 2006, an increase of $3.1 billion from $22.6 billion in 2005. U.S. goods exports in 2006 were $2.2 billion, up 37.6 percent [...]	2007-11-13 12:47:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON EFIN NI
07ABUJA2375	NIGERIAN SSS ARRESTS ALLEGED TERRORIST OPERATIVES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nigeria's domestic intelligence agency the State Security Service (SSS) officially acknowledged the arrests of militants with suspected terrorist links who possessed "explosive-making devices," confirming an earlier leaked, though not entirely accurate, press report. The announce [...]	2007-11-13 17:33:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV NI KDEM
07ABUJA2380	NIGERIANS INTERESTED IN INCREASED US INVESTMENT IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 12 the Deputy Secretary and A/S Frazer met with bankers, businessmen, government representatives from telecommunications, trade and commerce, and Deputy Economic Advisor to the President to discuss the current investment climate in Nigeria. The bankers were interes [...]	2007-11-15 08:44:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENRG EFIN PGOV PREL NI
07ABUJA2395	NIGERIA: DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH SPEAKER [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a November 13 meeting with the Deputy Secretary and AF A/S Frazer, Speaker of the House of SIPDIS Representatives, Dimeji Bankole (People's Democratic Party, PDP - Ogun State),said the members of the House are trying to build public confidence in the legislature by exam [...]	2007-11-16 08:06:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL NI
07ABUJA2403	NIGERIAN TIFA TEAM STILL DELIBERATING [...] Summary: Ministry of Commerce and Industry reps are looking forward to hosting the December TIFA Council meetings. The Ministry's budget precludes it from hosting more than one day of meetings on December 11. The reps need more time to review the draft schedule, agenda and work plan. Bans [...]	2007-11-19 06:25:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EFIN EINV NI
07ABUJA2415	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. VIEWS ON 15 NOV IAEA DG'S [...] Post delivered reftel demarche to Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director for International Organizations Charles A. Ononye. Mr. Ononye said he would pass the information on to their mission in Vienna, but encouraged the U.S. Representative to the IAEA in Vienna to also contact t [...]	2007-11-19 15:52:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV NI IO
07ABUJA2417	NIGERIA: 2008 BUDGET SHIFT TO INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (U) Summary: President Umar Musa Yar'adua presented to the National Assembly (NA) his 2008 federal government budget of $21.11 billion (2.47 trillion naira - exchange rate of 117 naira to one dollar) on November 8. The 2008 budget is a 6.5% increase from 2007 budget. The 2008 budget is nearl [...]	2007-11-19 15:59:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV ENRG PGOV NI
07ABUJA2422	ECOWAS COMMISSIONER TOURE ON AFRICOM [...] (C) During a November 20 meeting in which ECOWAS Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace, and Security Mahamane Toure told Poloff that the USG's approach to persuading African states to buy into Africom was wrong. Explaining his widely circulated comments following the November 7 ECOWAS Chie [...]	2007-11-21 15:00:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PMIL NI
07ABUJA2428	ABUJA SCENESETTER FOR AMB. YATES AND VICE ADMIRAL [...] (C) U.S. Mission Nigeria warmly welcomes your November 27-29 visit to Abuja. Your visit comes at a pivotal time in West Africa's engagement with Africom. Popular and official misunderstanding of the Africom concept, regional pride, and colonial baggage have made Nigeria and other regional c [...]	2007-11-21 16:56:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PMIL KPKO NI
07ABUJA2439	NIGERIA: SEEKS INCREASED COOPERATION DURING INL [...] (SBU) Summary. During INL Assitant Secretary (A/S) Thomas Schweich,s November 4-6 visit to Lagos and Abuja, Nigeria, GON Law Enforcement Officials expressed a strong interest in increasing bilateral cooperation and an equally strong desire for a strengthened relationship in order to tackle th [...]	2007-11-26 15:48:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KCRM KJUS ECON PGOV SNAR NI
07ABUJA2450	DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH NIGERIAN NATIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nigerian National Security Advisor Mukhtar welcomed Deputy Secretary Negroponte's November 12 visit as USG recognition of Nigeria's importance and the Yar'Adua government's efforts to correct problems associated with the April 2007 elections. Mukhtar described the GoN's efforts to [...]	2007-11-28 06:54:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PINR MASS EPET KPKO KCRIM NI
07ABUJA2464	NIGERIA: RULING PARTY CONVENTION DELAY - BUYING [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Assistant Director and Coordinator for Foreign Chapters Agape Kramer (strictly protect) told Poloff senior PDP leadership, including National Chairman Ahmadu Ali, are intent on implementing the recommendations of the Alex Ekwueme-led Reconcili [...]	2007-11-28 16:41:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA2476	NIGERIAN TERROR SUSPECTS DENIED BAIL, PLEAD NOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Five individuals charged with conspiracy to commit terrorist acts and possession of prohibited firearms and explosives, appeared in court, pled not guilty, and were denied bail. Two also face charges in connection with the attempted murder of one Bulama Mohammed Shuaibu. The trial [...]	2007-11-30 11:29:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINR NI
07ABUJA2481	BUHARI'S LAWYER REMAINS CONFIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mike Ahamba (strictly protect),lead counsel for General Buhari, remains confident that the presidential election will be annulled. He said INEC was "incredibly sloppy" and left a paper trail of fraudulent results sheets at all stages of vote tabulation. Ahamba believes that IN [...]	2007-11-30 13:46:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA2508	NIGERIA: INDUSTRY UNHAPPY WITH NCC DIRECTOR GENERAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Adebambo Adewopo, Director General of the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC),has received negative press reports in the local media and been subject to complaints from intellectual property (IP) rights experts regarding his tenure at the NCC. Some of the reports against him [...]	2007-12-06 11:36:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON KIPR PGOV NI
07ABUJA2513	CAMEROONIAN VICE PREMIER DISCUSSES BAKASSI WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 4 meeting, Cameroonian Vice Prime Minister Ali told Nigerian President Yar'Adua that the Nigerian Senate resolution condemning the ceding of Bakassi was an entirely internal affair, to which Cameroon would not react. Cameroonian High Commissioner told PolOffs Yar'Adua [...]	2007-12-06 16:00:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CM NI
07ABUJA2544	YAR'ADUA BEGINS MOVES ON GON MASTER PLAN ON NIGER [...] (C) Summary: The office of Nigerian Vice President Goodluck Jonathan plans a retreat to discuss the Niger Delta Master Plan December 13-14 in Geneva, Switzerland. Ministers, international experts on conflict resolution and others will focus on ways to promote accountability, gauge performanc [...]	2007-12-10 15:45:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA256	MISSION NIGERIA LES VOTER REGISTRATION SURVEY [...] (U) Nigeria's voter registration exercise got off to a rocky start in October and ended on February 2, 2007. The political section sent a questionaire on voter registration via email to Embassy Abuja, Consulate Lagos and USAID Nigeria locally engaged staff (LES) during the first week of Febru [...]	2007-02-09 10:41:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI
07ABUJA2560	2007 ECOWAS DONORS' MEETING [...] Summary: Development partners of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met November 20-21 in Abuja for a progress report on the organization's initiatives. The central vision of the ECOWAS Commission was transforming ECOWAS into an "ECOWAS of the People." While peace and sec [...]	2007-12-13 06:19:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	ECIN ETRD EINV EAID PREL NI ECOWAS
07ABUJA2579	NIGERIA: NORTHERN POLITICAL TIDBITS FOR NOV/DEC [...] (U) This cable is a roundup of recent political developments across northern Nigeria, including: -- Violence erupts in Bauchi -- Niger governor probes former governor Kure -- Kano Imam escapes assassination -- LGC elections spark political violence in Kano 2. (SBU) VIOLENCE ERUPTS IN BA [...]	2007-12-14 13:38:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM NI
07ABUJA2589	NIGERIA-IMF ARTICLE IV CONSULTATION, ECONOMIC DIAGNOSTIC AND ADVISORY DISCUSSION [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-18 12:53:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ETRD ECON EPET EAID PINR NI
07ABUJA2593	NIGERIA: COMMERCE MINISTER SPEAKS ON U.S. RELATIONSHIP [...] (SBU) Summary. In a meeting prior to the December 11 Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) Council meeting, the Minister of Commerce and Industry Charles Ugwuh expressed appreciation for AGOA and contrasted USG understanding of what countries like Nigeria need to expand trade relativ [...]	2007-12-21 09:51:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EFIN EINV NI
07ABUJA2600	TIFA COUNCIL- U.S.-NIGERIA [...] (SBU) Summary. Following the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) Council meeting with the Government of Nigeria (GON),the U.S. and GON agreed on a work plan and joint-communique that paves the way forward for greater dialogue and engagement. Several GON officials expressed interes [...]	2007-12-21 12:20:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EFIN EINV EAID PGOV NI
07ABUJA2615	EFCC CHAIR RIBADU SENT BACK TO SCHOOL? [...] (C) Summary: Nuhu Ribadu, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been assigned to a one year course at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS). Speculation abounds that Ribadu's one year "study leave" is designed to remove him from the he [...]	2007-12-28 16:04:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR ECON NI
07ABUJA2616	(S/NF) NIGERIA: SULE ON BUHARI AND OBASANJO [...] (S//NF) SUMMARY: Maitama Sule (strictly protect),former Nigerian ambassador to the United Nations (1979-1983) and reported well-known confidante of President Umaru Yar'Adua, contends that the popularity of presidential aspirant Muhammadu Buhari, who is challenging the election of President Ya [...]	2007-12-28 16:04:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PINR KDEM NI
07ABUJA2618	EFCC CHAIR RIBADU SENT BACK TO SCHOOL? [...] (C) Summary: Nuhu Ribadu, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been assigned to a one year course at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS). Speculation abounds that Ribadu's one year "study leave" is designed to remove him from the he [...]	2007-12-28 16:28:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR ECON NI
07ABUJA2627	RIBADU: DISCUSSES MOVE ON HIM, YAR,ADUA, IBORI AND [...] (S) Summary: Ambassador had 4-hour private discussion with Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Chairman (EFCC) Mallam Nuhu Ribadu on the evening of December 28 at her residence to hear his views on the recent announcement that he will be transferred from the EFCC to the country,s leadersh [...]	2007-12-31 11:55:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET	PGOV EFIN ECON NI
07ABUJA263	DPP'S BAFARAWA ON CAMPAIGN, POLITICAL BASE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a February 4 meeting with the Ambassador, Sokoto State Governor Attahiru Bafarawa offered his take on the presidential race, his own campaign as the Democratic Peoples' Party (DPP) candidate, and widening his political base of support to include northern Christians. Bafarawa [...]	2007-02-12 11:02:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA2632	NIGERIA: ASARI BELIEVES CONVERSION OF YOUTH TO [...] (S//NF) Maitama Sule (strictly protect) told PolOff on December 19 that Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, leader of the Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force (NDPVF),has paid several visits to him in Kano since Asari's June 14 release from prison (Ref B). Former Nigerian ambassador to the United Nations [...]	2007-12-31 15:57:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PINR NI
07ABUJA272	ELECTION PREPARATION: THE PAST AS PRELUDE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The run-up to the 2007 elections in Nigeria has been marked by political acrimony, technical mismanagement and a generalized air of distrust. Lack of transparency in the overall process and competence in its technical implementation has resulted in a lack of confidence about the [...]	2007-02-13 07:35:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM NI
07ABUJA321	FEUD BETWEEN OBASANJO AND ATIKU NEARS KNOCKOUT [...] (U) The protracted war between President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice President Atiku Abubakar has entered a critical phase as the finish line for the 2007 elections approaches. Both sides have turned up the rhetoric since Atiku's return to Nigeria in January. During the second week in February [...]	2007-02-16 12:41:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07ABUJA322	THE ELECTORAL PLAYING FIELD TILTS NOTICEABLY [...] (C) Summary: With less than two months to go before elections in Nigeria, the ordinary logistical and managerial confusion which has characterized previous elections is giving way to what appears to be political exclusion. Recent coordinated actions by several key government agencies and a s [...]	2007-02-16 13:12:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07ABUJA343	2007 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW POST INPUT [...] Given the very short time between when post learned that, for the first time, Nigeria had been nominated by industry for inclusion on the Special 301 list and the deadline for post submission, we can offer only limited input. 2. Nigerian industry, U.S. industry, and the Nigerian government [...]	2007-02-22 07:07:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KIPR NI
07ABUJA402	SENATE PRESIDENT PESSIMISTIC ABOUT ELECTIONS [...] (S) SUMMARY: Nigerian Senate President Ken Nnamani expressed a deep pessimism about the run-up, conduct and likely outcome of elections in six weeks. Nnamani (PDP-Enugu) believes the elections, if they happen, are likely to be the "chaotic," but logical conclusion to a flawed process marred [...]	2007-03-02 10:45:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07ABUJA403	IWU: "ELECTION GOING ACCORDING TO PLAN" [...] (C) Summary: INEC Chairman Maurice Iwu said that election preparations are "going according to plan" and that he hopes the April 14 and 21 polls will be "hitch free." Sixty-one million voters have been registered, and according to Iwu, INEC is now in the process of checking each state's vote [...]	2007-03-02 10:56:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI
07ABUJA404	NIGERIA AVIAN FLU U.S. RESPONSE [...] (SBU) Summary: Although Nigeria is now better able to take samples and test reported outbreaks, most of the problems that have dogged the country in responding to AI persist. Surveillance remains very weak and urgently needs attention. Inter-ministerial cooperation is still a problem. The publi [...]	2007-03-02 12:50:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU EAID EAGR NI
07ABUJA417	PTDF - EXPOSING NIGERIA'S EXECUTIVE MALFEASANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Senate report on the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) provides a detailed account of the non-transparent nature of the PTDF and, in particular, specific actions taken by both President Obasanjo and Vice President Atiku which fall outside the mandate of the fund an [...]	2007-03-06 14:45:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR NI
07ABUJA426	THE THIRD IMF REVIEW OF NIGERIA'S PSI [...] Summary. On March 3, 2007, the IMF held a briefing of the 3rd review of the Policy Support Instrument (PSI). Michael Bell, IMF Senior Resident Representative, stated that the report is still a work-in-progress and that discussions with the GON are at an interim stage, but the IMF has seen good [...]	2007-03-06 17:09:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ETRD ECON PINR NI
07ABUJA431	PDP CANDIDATE YAR'ADUA GRAVELY ILL, POSSIBLY DEAD [...] (C) SUMMARY: The PDP presidential candidate Umar Yar'Adua collapsed at a private residence in Abuja on March 6 and was subsequently taken by air ambulance to Germany. Unconfirmed reports from Embassy contacts March 7 indicate Yar'Adua has died. Trying to downplay the event, PDP National Se [...]	2007-03-07 11:38:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07ABUJA438	YAR'ADUA'S CONDITION REMAINS UNCLEAR [...] (C) The status of the ruling PDP party Presidential candidate Umaru Yar'Adua remains unclear. Rumors of his death have slowed, but the best confirmation of his status comes from a BBC telephonic interview conducted with him at a hospital in Germany. 2. (C) German sources report that Yar [...]	2007-03-07 16:04:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI

07ABUJA44	NIGERIA CENSUS RESULTS - STATUS QUO MAINTAINED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Nigerian National Population Commission (NPC) released the first census in 15 years. The census tabulations affirmed conventional wisdom that the majority of the population is in the 17 northern states - 75 million compared to 65 million in the southern states. The largest [...]	2007-01-10 15:47:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SOCI KDEM ECON PGOV EAID NI

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