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03COLOMBO289 | Iraq: FM reaffirms constructive position; [...] (S/NF) The Ambassador met with Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Tyronne Fernando on February 20. The conversation focused on the Iraq situation. When queried, the Foreign Minister confirmed that Sri Lanka's position on the situation remained unchanged from the MFA's previous public statement on [...] | 2003-02-20 09:55:00 | Embassy Colombo | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINS PTER ASEC CE IZ |
03COLOMBO3 | ACTION REQUEST: Demining assistance for [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. Message contains an **ACTION REQUEST** -- Please see Para 8. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Mines/UXO are a serious problem in Sri Lanka. After a very successful stint, the U.S.- sponsored QRDF program ended operations in [...] | 2003-01-02 10:23:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM PHUM PREF EAID CE LTTE |
03COLOMBO301 | Mission conveys points re NAM summit to GSL [...] (U) Classified by Lewis Amselem, Deputy Chief of Mission. Reasons 1.5 (b, d) 2. (C) Per Reftel, Mission conveyed the points on the expected NAM statement on Iraq to the Sri Lankan and Maldivian governments on February 22. Responding to the Ambassador, key GSL Minister Milinda Moragoda w [...] | 2003-02-24 09:35:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM IZ CE MV UNSC |
03COLOMBO322 | Prime Minister address on status of peace [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe used the February 22 one year anniversary of the formal ceasefire to comment on the status of the peace process and his vision of what is to come. Most observers viewed his speech with appreciation. The only detractors were those who were to [...] | 2003-02-25 10:52:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PHUM CE LTTE |
03COLOMBO358 | Chief LTTE negotiator in Sri Lanka to prepare [...] (C) Summary: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's chief negotiator Anton Balasingham is visiting Sri Lanka from March 2 to 16. The visit is seen by many as an opportunity for Balasingham to prepare for the next round of peace talks and to brief the LTTE leadership on the international comm [...] | 2003-03-03 10:55:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM CE LTTE |
03COLOMBO410 | SRI LANKA NAVY SINKS LTTE SHIP; MOST OBSERVERS [...] (C) Summary: After a reported exchange of fire on March 10, the Sri Lanka Navy sunk a cargo ship, that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) claimed was one of its merchant ships. While the monitoring mission investigates the incident, the Norwegian Embassy and others have expressed co [...] | 2003-03-11 11:07:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PHUM PREL MOPS CE LTTE |
03COLOMBO418 | 59th Commmission on Human Rights-Demarche Request [...] No summary [...] | 2003-03-12 10:22:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL CE MV |
03COLOMBO420 | Iraq: Mission conveys demarche on UNSC open [...] (C) Per Reftel, Mission has urged the Sri Lankan and Maldivian MFA's to express support for the joint US/UK/Spanish Iraq resolution. 2. (C) Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary Nihal Rodrigo told us that Sri Lanka's UN representative had instructions to speak if there is "a cast of thousands" par [...] | 2003-03-12 11:00:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ CE MV UNSC |
03COLOMBO436 | Demining: Advance team prepares the way for [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Preparations for the arrival of the second round of the USG-funded Quick Reaction Demining Force (QRDF) are well in gear. The GSL is proving very helpful in arranging for the QRDF's return. M [...] | 2003-03-14 06:02:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PREF PTER CE LTTE |
03COLOMBO456 | SME LOR SUBMISSION FOR 30 MM BUSHMASTER CANNONS [...] THE GOVERNMENT OF SRI LANKA HAS SUBMITTED REFERENCE (FORWARDED UNDER SEPARATE COVER) REQUEST FOR A SYSTEM SALE LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE FOR TEN 30MM AUTOMATIC "BUSHMASTER" CANNONS WITH ASSOCIATED MOUNTING, FIRE CONTROL, TRAINING, SPARES AND AMMUNITION. 2. AMEMBASSY COLOMBO STRONGLY SUPPORTS THI [...] | 2003-03-19 08:27:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PGOV PTER CE |
03COLOMBO460 | TFIZ01: PM negative on possible UNGA [...] (S) SUMMARY: The PM told the Ambassador that he agreed that there was no need for UNGA involvement re Iraq. He said he would look into possibly issuing a "constructive" statement re the overall situation. Mission has reviewed Department's points re Iraqi intel officers, but does not think f [...] | 2003-03-19 11:16:00 | Embassy Colombo | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER KPAO ASEC CE MV IZ |
03COLOMBO467 | Mission conveys demarche on closure of [...] No summary [...] | 2003-03-20 10:26:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV CE |
03COLOMBO468 | TFIZ01: Low-key reaction in Sri [...] (S) SUMMARY: General reaction in Sri Lanka and the Maldives to the start of military operations against Iraq has been low-key, so far. The PM has asked to see the Ambassador late today. Sri Lanka's envoy to the U.S. called the Ambassador earlier, and said the GSL plans to issue a "helpful" [...] | 2003-03-20 07:27:00 | Embassy Colombo | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER KPAO ASEC CE MV IZ |
03COLOMBO476 | TFIZ01: GSL releases relatively constructive [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: The GSL has issued a relatively constructive statement re the Iraq situation (text in Para 10). In a meeting late March 20, the PM gave the Ambassador the opportunity to help craft the message and some improvements were made. The PM confirmed that the GSL would not be able [...] | 2003-03-21 05:41:00 | Embassy Colombo | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER KPAO ASEC CE MV IZ |
03COLOMBO481 | D'S MEETING WITH G L PERIIS [...] (C) You have met with GL before and will thus recall that he is a man of spectral gauntness, extraordinary intellect and unfailing optimism. It is this latter quality that I want to draw your attention to prior to your meeting. By all accounts, and despite having been wounded himself in an L [...] | 2003-03-24 05:40:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV CE LTTE |
03COLOMBO486 | Iraq: Mission conveys points on CHR to the [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Per Reftels, Mission conveyed on March 22 the talking points on not interrupting the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) for a special sitting on Iraq to the Sri Lankan government. The GSL has not yet replie [...] | 2003-03-24 10:09:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM PHUM CE MV IZ UN |
03COLOMBO499 | Cuba: Mission conveys points on crackdown [...] (C) Per Reftel, Mission has conveyed points requesting the government of Sri Lanka to call for the release of those arrested in Cuba's crackdown against the opposition. The GSL has not yet responded to our points. 2. (U) Minimize considered. WILLS [...] | 2003-03-25 10:59:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM CE CU UN |
03COLOMBO500 | UNESCO: Mission conveys points on US reentry; [...] Per Ref B, Mission conveyed the points on the United States' decision to seek reentry into UNESCO and our candidacy for the executive board to the Sri Lankan and Maldivian governments. The Maldivian government has replied that it welcomes the decision by the U.S. to rejoin UNESCO and looks fo [...] | 2003-03-25 10:59:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL CE MV UNESCO |
03COLOMBO502 | TFIZ01: Mission presses points re CHR, UN; [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission is continuing to press points re keeping the Iraq issue out of the CHR and the UNSC/UNGA. Overall reaction in Sri Lanka and the Maldives to the Iraq situation continues to be low-key. Media coverage is heavy, with almost all commentary anti-U.S. Our best educated guess [...] | 2003-03-25 11:01:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KPAO PHUM ASEC CE MV IZ |
03COLOMBO514 | Iraq, Mission conveys points for UNSC open [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified - please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Per Reftel, mission conveyed paper re U.S. themes for the March 26 UNSC Open Session to the Sri Lankan and Maldivian governments. 3. (U) Minimize considered. WILLS [...] | 2003-03-26 10:41:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM CE IZ UN |
03COLOMBO524 | TFIZ01: Maldives issues statement re Iraq; [...] (C) This update, focused on reaction to the war in Iraq in Sri Lanka and the Maldives, reviews: >> In its first public statement, the Maldivian government says it is "very concerned" about the war >> In Sri Lanka, religious groups issue statements against the war >> More anti-war ralli [...] | 2003-03-27 09:51:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS ECON ASEC PINR CE MV IZ |
03COLOMBO533 | Status of Maldivian non-surrender of nationals [...] (C) Per Ref B and previous, Mission has been in close and constant touch with the Maldivian government, pressing it to sign the non-surrender of nationals agreement as soon as possible. The Maldivian MFA has told us that the plan is to have Foreign Minister Jameel sign it. (Note: The Maldi [...] | 2003-03-28 04:44:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KTIA MV |
03COLOMBO542 | PRESIDENT KUMARATUNGA PROCLAIMS SHE IS PRO-PEACE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Kumaratunga convoked the diplomatic corps on short notice Monday, March 31, to discuss current events. Iraq did not come up. She assured us all that she is for peace and a federal solution and is also inclining toward an alliance with the hard left JVP. She also pro [...] | 2003-03-31 10:30:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINR PARM LTTE |
03COLOMBO560 | TFIZ01: Mission conveys latest message re [...] (C) This update, focused on reaction to Operation Iraqi Freedom in Sri Lanka and the Maldives, reviews: >> Mission conveys latest points re blocking possible UNGA meeting >> Taking a different tack than the government, President Kumaratunga hits out at the U.S. >> NGO, Muslim criticis [...] | 2003-04-02 09:54:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAO ASEC CE MV IZ UN |
03COLOMBO587 | PRESIDENT KUMARATUNGA TELLS AMBASSADOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: I spent two hours 15 minutes with President Kumaratunga on Saturday, April 5. I didn't learn much. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) I met with President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga for two hours 15 minutes at her residence Saturday afternoon, April 5. She was attended by forme [...] | 2003-04-07 07:16:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINR PARM |
03COLOMBO59 | 2002-2003 International Narcotics Control [...] Provided below is response to ref A request for information on Sri Lanka's regulations and practices regarding financial crimes and money laundering. 2. Sri Lanka is neither an important regional financial center nor a preferred center for money laundering. There is no significant market [...] | 2003-01-10 05:31:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR EFIN PGOV PREL CE |
03COLOMBO606 | DRAFT DONOR STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES RE FOREIGN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This is an ACTION message. This cable contains the latest draft of the Donors' statement of principles regarding provision of foreign assistance to Sri Lanka as the peace process proceeds. It has been agreed to (ad referendum) by all of Sri Lanka's major bilateral donors at [...] | 2003-04-09 07:37:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL CE LTTE |
03COLOMBO613 | Action Request: Sri Lankan nominee for UN [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (U) This message contains an Action Request -- Please See Para 5. 3. (SBU) On April 9, the Ambassador was approached by Desmond Fernando, a well known local lawyer, seeking support for his nomination as U [...] | 2003-04-09 09:31:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SOCI PHUM CE UN |
03COLOMBO623 | Iraqi Charge phones Ambassador, saying he is [...] (U) This message contains an Action Request. Please see Para 3. 2. (S/NF) The Ambassador received a phone call from Iraqi Charge Wajdi Mardan Abbas this morning (April 10). Abbas said he was calling from the "embassy of liberated Iraq" and wanted to express his deep appreciation to the [...] | 2003-04-10 04:51:00 | Embassy Colombo | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINS PTER ASEC CE IZ |
03COLOMBO626 | Ambassador presses Foreign Minister to support [...] (C) Ambassador Wills spoke to Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Tyronne Fernando this morning (April 10) and urged the GSL to support the resolution re Cuba now before the UNCHR. Fernando remarked that Sri Lanka had traditionally abstained on the Cuba vote. The Ambassador reviewed Ref A talking p [...] | 2003-04-10 06:55:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM CE CU UNCHR |
03COLOMBO628 | Mission deploys points re in-kind offers of [...] No summary [...] | 2003-04-10 08:24:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PREF PHUM CE MV IZ |
03COLOMBO630 | Sri Lanka/Maldives: EU intervention on [...] (C) Per Reftel, Mission has no information re European Union intervention against the bilateral U.S./Sri Lanka Article 98 agreement prior to the November 22, 2002, signing of the agreement. There are indications, however, that the Germans and Dutch approached the GSL through the Sri Lankan am [...] | 2003-04-10 08:46:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PHUM CE MV EUN |
03COLOMBO637 | ICC: Non-surrender of nationals agreement [...] Ambassador Wills signed the U.S.-Maldivian non- surrender of nationals agreement in Colombo on April 10. Foreign Minister Jameel had signed the agreement in Male on April 8. 2. The signed original is being pouched to L/T (Frank Holleran). A copy of the agreement is being faxed to SA/INS [...] | 2003-04-11 03:51:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KTIA MV CE KICC |
03COLOMBO639 | Foreign Secretary indicates that GSL plans to [...] (C) Following up on his conversation with FM Fernando yesterday (see Ref A),Ambassador Wills spoke to Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary Nihal Rodrigo today (April 11) re the resolution on Cuba now before the UNCHR. Rodrigo said the GSL's current plan was to abstain on the vote while issuing a "s [...] | 2003-04-11 05:23:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM CE CU UNCHR |
03COLOMBO640 | Ambassador urges GSL to expel post-Saddam [...] (S/NF) The Ambassador spoke to Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary Nihal Rodrigo on April 11, and reviewed Ref B SIPDIS points re expulsion of post-Saddam official Iraqis and suspending the operations of its embassy. Rodrigo replied that the situation was very "confusing" and that the GSL was "p [...] | 2003-04-11 05:23:00 | Embassy Colombo | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINS PTER ASEC CE IZ |
03COLOMBO646 | Leahy Amendment: Mission reviews human rights [...] (C) SUMMARY: This cable reviews the human rights record of Army Commander Balagalle in light of a recent adverse court ruling involving the December 2001 election. Balagalle's human rights record, heretofore, has been excellent and we do not think the ruling rises to the level of a "gross v [...] | 2003-04-15 09:50:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV MOPS KPAO CE |
03COLOMBO657 | REVISED DONOR STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES RE FOREIGN [...] (U) This is an ACTION request, please see para. 6. 2. (SBU) Summary: This cable contains the latest draft of the Donors' statement of principles regarding provision of foreign assistance to Sri Lanka as the peace process proceeds. The text has been agreed to (ad referendum) by all of Sri L [...] | 2003-04-16 09:24:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL CE LTTE |
03COLOMBO659 | Sri Lanka: FY-2005 INL project proposal -- [...] (U) Per Ref A, Mission's FY-2005 INL project proposal for Sri Lanka follows in Para two. The goal of the project is to establish a means by which Sri Lanka's police can identify the talents of their officers and most effectively make them operational. The paragraphs below are keyed to the in [...] | 2003-04-16 10:48:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM PREL PGOV CE OEXC |
03COLOMBO674 | In meeting with Ambassador, key aide reviews [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an April 16 meeting, former FM Kadirgamar provided a readout of President Kumaratunga's recent visit to India. Based on the New Delhi meetings, Kadirgamar said the GoI seemed to want to become more engaged re Sri Lanka. In Chennai, Chief Minister Jayalalitha Jeyaram undersc [...] | 2003-04-17 10:18:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER CE IN NO JA LTTE |
03COLOMBO675 | Mission conveys points on fleeing Iraqi regime [...] (C) Per Reftel, Mission has conveyed the points on fleeing Iraqi regime officials to the Sri Lankan and Maldivian Governments. Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary Nihal Rodrigo assured the Ambassador that if the GSL had any information that a former Saddam official was trying to enter Sri Lanka the [...] | 2003-04-17 10:18:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ CE MV |
03COLOMBO703 | Mission conveys urgent talking points on [...] No summary [...] | 2003-04-24 09:31:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MV IZ |
03COLOMBO704 | FINAL DONOR STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES RE FOREIGN [...] (U) This is an ACTION request, please see para.7. 2. (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. -- Please handle accordingly. 3. (SBU) SUMMARY: This cable contains the final draft of the donors statement of principles regarding provision of foreign assistance to Sri Lanka as the [...] | 2003-04-24 09:41:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL PGOV CE LTTE |
03COLOMBO720 | Tigers issue constructive response to U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: Late April 25, chief Tamil Tiger negotiator Anton Balasingham issued a direct response to the April 24 U.S. statement re the group's pullout from the peace talks. Balasingham's statement underscored that the Tigers still support a negotiated settlement to the conflict and said [...] | 2003-04-26 06:46:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL PINS KPAO CE LTTE |
03COLOMBO748 | Sri Lanka: Mission conveys points on [...] No summary [...] | 2003-05-05 11:23:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM CE |
03COLOMBO749 | Scenesetter for SA Assistant Secretary Rocca's [...] (C) SUMMARY: We warmly welcome your upcoming visit. It comes at an important time, with the peace process facing serious turbulence. After months of progress, including six rounds of talks, the Tigers recently suspended negotiations. There have been tentative signs that the Tigers' may be e [...] | 2003-05-05 11:23:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER ECON MARR CE NO JA |
03COLOMBO782 | Mission conveys urgent talking points re [...] (U) Classified by Lewis Amselem, Deputy Chief of Mission. Reasons 1.5 (b, d) 2. (C) Per Reftel, Mission has conveyed the urgent talking points re countering Cuban misinformation to the Sri Lankan government and the government of the Republic of Maldives. WILLS [...] | 2003-05-12 03:27:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM CE MV CU |
03COLOMBO783 | Mission conveys talking points re Iraqi [...] (U) Classified by Lewis Amselem, Deputy Chief of Mission. Reasons 1.5 (b, d) 2. (C) Per Ref A, Mission has conveyed the urgent talking points re the lifting of sanctions on Iraq to the governments of Sri Lanka and the Republic of Maldives. Per Ref B, Mission also conveyed points re Pr [...] | 2003-05-12 03:27:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS CE MV IZ |
03COLOMBO787 | Cohabitation crisis erupts as president takes [...] (C) SUMMARY: Another in Sri Lanka's long series of cohabitation crises has erupted as President Kumaratunga has taken steps to take over the lucrative national lottery board. The GSL has resisted the move fiercely and the dispute seems bound for the courts. In the meantime, the GSL is mull [...] | 2003-05-12 09:06:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS PHUM KPAO CE |
03COLOMBO805 | In Sri Lanka visit, A/S Rocca underscores [...] (C) SUMMARY: SA A/S Rocca used her May 12 meetings with President Kumaratunga, Prime Minister Wickremesinghe, and other GSL officials to underline strong U.S. support for the peace process. Noting the recent spike in cohabitation tensions, A/S Rocca also urged that parties work together in [...] | 2003-05-13 11:05:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER OTRA CE |
03COLOMBO821 | Mission continues promotion of child [...] (U) Classified by Lewis Amselem, Deputy Chief of Mission. Reasons: 1.5 (b, d) 2. (C) Per Reftel, as part of our ongoing promotion of human rights, Mission continues to work with the GSL and the GoRM to protect the rights of children via the ratification or implementation of appropriate [...] | 2003-05-16 06:32:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM CE MV |
03COLOMBO830 | Sri Lankan government requests assistance re [...] (C) Over the May 17-18 weekend, key Sri Lankan minister Milinda Moragoda spoke with Ambassador Wills several times re the May 12 arrest of three suspected Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) members in Thailand on weapons charges (see Para two for more details). Minister Morogoda express [...] | 2003-05-13 11:45:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER CE TH LTTE |
03COLOMBO838 | Mission recommendation regarding Tokyo donors [...] (C) SUMMARY: As matters now stand, it seems probable that the Tamil Tigers will not participate in the Tokyo donors conference in June, raising the question of whether the event should go forward. After much reflection, we argue that it should proceed as planned whether or not the Tigers at [...] | 2003-05-20 11:18:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER EAID CE NO JA LTTE |
03COLOMBO847 | Mission conveys Secretary Powell's letter to Sri Lanka re [...] No summary [...] | 2003-05-21 09:26:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OPDC PHUM CE CU |
03COLOMBO855 | Sri Lanka Flooding: Need For Humanitarian [...] Devastation from one of Sri Lanka's worst ever flood crises continues. Nearly 250 people are feared dead and another 1000 are missing. As many as 600,000 people are homeless as heavy rains continue in affected areas of five districts. The government of Sri Lanka has appealed to the interna [...] | 2003-05-22 03:28:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PGOV MARR CE |
03COLOMBO909 | Sri Lanka's foreign policy: Prime Minister [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since coming to power, PM Wickremesinghe has taken steps to steer Sri Lankan foreign policy closer to the U.S. In doing this, he has had successes, including the signing of an ICC waiver with the U.S. and in regard to Iraq where the GSL steered a constructive course. Moreover, o [...] | 2003-05-29 10:14:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR CE UN |
03COLOMBO914 | OFDA ASSESSMENT: FLOODS AND LANDSLIDES IN [...] SUMMARY: USAID/OFDA ASIA REGIONAL ADVISOR TRAVELED TO SRI LANKA FROM MAY 21-25 TO ASSIST THE MISSION WITH RESPONSE TO THE FLOOD DISASTER. SHE TRAVELED WITH USAID/SRI LANKA MISSION DISASTER RELIEF OFFICER (MDRO) TO THE WORST HIT DISTRICTS IN SOUTHWESTERN SRI LANKA. WHILE THE FLOODWATERS HAV [...] | 2003-05-29 11:16:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL CE |
03COLOMBO920 | Sri Lanka: Status of USAID/Office of [...] SUMMARY: As Washington prepares for the Tokyo Donors' Conference next month, we thought it useful to provide an update on what promises to be a highly successful assistance program in Sri Lanka. USAID/OTI has made excellent progress during the past two months and should become fully operation [...] | 2003-05-30 05:58:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PREL PINS CE LTTE |
03COLOMBO94 | ICC Article 98: Foreign Minister assures [...] (U) This message contains Action Requests -- Please see Paras 4-5. 2. (C) Ambassador Wills spoke to Maldivian Foreign Minister Fathulla Jameel on the telephone on January 16. The Ambassador reiterated the U.S. proposal that the Maldives sign as soon as possible a bilateral Article 98 non [...] | 2003-01-16 10:28:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KTIA MV |
03COLOMBO948 | CY 2002 End-Use Monitoring Report for Sri [...] Starting in 1993, Mission has used funds from the International Narcotics Control program for equipment purchases to government and NGO entities. The equipment recipients are the National Dangerous Drugs Control Board (NDDCB) from 1993 to 1996; The Federation of Non- Governmental Organizatio [...] | 2003-06-03 11:29:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PREL CE |
03COLOMBO970 | GSL looks forward to Tokyo and hopes for big [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GSL is looking forward to the Tokyo donors conference, hoping for a big impact both politically and financially. That said, the Tigers' apparent non-participation is casting a bit of a shadow. The Norwegians plan to be represented in Tokyo by development officials. India m [...] | 2003-06-05 11:16:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER EAID CE NO JA IN LTTE |
03COLOMBO990 | Mission conveys talking points re ICOC to [...] No summary [...] | 2003-06-09 08:28:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL MNUC TSPA KSCA MV |
03COLOMBO993 | Human rights verification: Operation [...] (C) Mission verifies that the Department of State possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by either of the two Sri Lankan armed forces units identified to participate in Operation Flash Style 03-4, as of this date. 2. (U) The Charge certifies this statement. [...] | 2003-06-09 11:19:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MASS MARR PHUM CE |
03DAMASCUS1684 | TFIZO1:SYRIA CLOSES BORDER AND SAYS IT WILL SET UP [...] (S) SUMMARY. SARG MINISTER OF LOCAL AFFAIRS CONVENED UN/IO REPS AT 23:00 ON MARCH 19 TO INFORM THEM THE BORDER WITH IRAQ HAD CLOSED, BUT THAT THE SARG AND THE SYRIAN RED CRESCENT WOULD SET UP THREE REFUGEE CAMPS IN IRAQI TERRITORY OR THE "NO MAN'S LAND BETWEEN THE TWO BORDERS." HE STATED THAT [...] | 2003-03-20 15:47:00 | Embassy Damascus | SECRET | KREF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ SY |
03DAMASCUS6920 | ASAD: HOW DO WE TURN THIS AROUND? [...] (C) Summary. During a 90-minute one-on-one meeting on November 30, Syrian President Asad asked former NEA A/S Richard Murphy for advice on what could be done to improve US-Syrian relations and how Asad could expand his contacts with US media. (Asad had just completed his interview with the N [...] | 2003-12-02 13:25:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL MEPP PTER LE IZ IS SY |
03DJIBOUTI1510 | DJIBOUTI: EXPULSION OF ALIENS DRAWS WIDESPREAD [...] (C) Hundreds of illegal aliens took to the streets on August 16 to protest the Djiboutian Government's declaration that all illegals must depart the country by August 31. As the deadline approaches, Djiboutian security forces are conducting regular sweeps of the city. Over 300 persons per da [...] | 2003-08-18 13:40:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM EAID DJ |
03DJIBOUTI1633 | DJIBOUTI: DEMARCHE ON ALIEN EXPULSIONS [...] (C) Summary: In response to ref A demarche dissociating the U.S. from Djibouti's on-going expulsions of foreigners, Minister of Interior Wais deplored U.S. insistence on making a public statement. He stressed Djibouti's good historical record on handling refugees, noted that foreigners had b [...] | 2003-09-03 17:02:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL DJ KPAO |
03DJIBOUTI1639 | DJIBOUTI: ASSISTANCE CONFUSION [...] (C) Summary: Chief of Armed Forces Fathi conveyed to Charge September 3 President Guelleh's confusion and vexation -- directed mainly at Djibouti's ambassador in Washington -- about assistance from the United States. He said, perhaps too frankly, that Guelleh was nervous because he needed to [...] | 2003-09-04 15:22:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL DJ EAID |
03DJIBOUTI1659 | DJIBOUTI: EMBASSY VIEWS ON UNSC RESOLUTION ON IRAQ [...] (C) The UNSC resolution outlined in reftel would not bother Djibouti, so long as there were not strong Arab or European opposition to it. Djibouti does not want to be seen leading any charge on Iraq, but it will not be a negative force. It is small, poor, and in Arab League terms, peripher [...] | 2003-09-08 13:22:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL DJ IZ |
03DJIBOUTI1819 | SOMALILAND MINISTERS REQUEST USG SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: AmEmbassy Djibouti representatives received Somaliland requests for counterterrorism assistance in a brief meeting with the the secessionist region's Ministers of Defense, Interior, and Rehabilitation and Returning Refugees September 29, 2003. The Embassy reiterated the USG p [...] | 2003-10-05 07:47:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | MAS PBTS PREL DJ SO |
03DJIBOUTI1826 | DJIBOUTI FAVORS ARAB LEAGUE MODEL FOR IRAQI [...] (SBU) CDA Tim Smith delivered Reftel talking points to Djiboutian Minsistry of Foreign Affairs Secretary General Badri Ali Bogoreh October 2. Bogoreh welcomed the information and said that Djibouti believed that the Iraqi Governing Council should receive the same level of recognition they rec [...] | 2003-10-06 10:37:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL DJ OIC |
03DJIBOUTI1827 | PSI BACKGROUND AND TALKING POINTS DELIVERED TO [...] (SBU) CDA Tim Smith presented reftel talking points to Djiboutian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary General Badri Ali Bogoreh October 2. Bogoreh expressed interest in the program. He promised to circulate the Interdiction Principles within the GoDj. He wished to know how counter-terror [...] | 2003-10-06 10:37:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL DJ |
03DJIBOUTI1836 | THREAT INFORMATION [...] (S) On 4 October 2003 about 1400 hours, the Embassy received threat information indicating that a Protestant church in the down town area of Djibouti was targeted for a bomb attack on that same evening. Notifications were immediately made to all appropriate authorities and the Embassy issued [...] | 2003-10-07 09:12:00 | Embassy Djibouti | SECRET | PTER ASEC CASC PREL DJ |
03DJIBOUTI536 | DJIBOUTI: FOUR INJURED IN ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATIONS [...] (C) Four people have been injured, two seriously, in three days of anti-war student demonstrations in Djibouti City. Two local students were seriously wounded when local police fired on demonstrators on March 24; they remain hospitalized. In addition, two German soldiers were injured on the sa [...] | 2003-03-25 13:04:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PREL CASC KPAO DJ |
03DUBAI2696 | IRANIANS EAGER TO JOIN THE INFORMATION AGE, BUT [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY ACTING CONSUL GENERAL JOHN LANCIA FOR REASONS 1.5 (B) AND (D). 2. (C) SUMMARY: IRANIAN USE OF THE INTERNET AND CELLULAR COMMUNICATION IS RAPIDLY EXPANDING AND THE TREND LOOKS SET TO CONTINUE. CONOFF SPOKE WITH A SOFTWARE ENGINEER AND AN INTERNET/TELECOM COMPANY OWNER IN MA [...] | 2003-06-28 11:34:00 | Consulate Dubai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IR TC |
03FRANKFURT1051 | BADEN-WUERTTEMBERG MINISTER OF INTERIOR THOMAS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with the Consul General on January 29, Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W) Minister of Interior, Dr. Thomas Schaeuble (CDU) expressed his regret over anti- American statements in recent election campaigns. On terrorism, Schaeuble is concerned about a lack of cooperation from [...] | 2003-02-04 14:04:00 | Consulate Frankfurt | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL GM |
03FRANKFURT2231 | MINISTER-PRESIDENT KOCH'S VISIT TO WASHINGTON MAY [...] (SBU) Hesse Minister-President Koch will have an official visit Washington May 13-15. Koch would like to focus on international affairs, the U.S.-German relationship, potential U.S. military base closings in Germany, Iraq, US- EU issues, and counter-terrorism and security issues and will be s [...] | 2003-03-13 16:02:00 | Consulate Frankfurt | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL GM |
03FRANKFURT2252 | RHINELAND-PFALZ OFFICIALS CALL FOR DRASTIC [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with the Consul General on March 11 and 12, Rhineland-Pfalz Minister for Economics, Transportation, Agriculture and Viniculture, Hans-Artur Bauckhage (FDP) and State Secretary Karl-Heinz Klaer (SPD),Representative of the State in Berlin and Brussels, called for comp [...] | 2003-03-14 14:11:00 | Consulate Frankfurt | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR ECON GM |
03FRANKFURT3665 | SCENESETTER FOR MINISTER-PRESIDENT KOCH'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Hesse Minister President and Hesse CDU chairman Roland Koch will visit Washington for meetings with senior USG officials on May 13-15. Koch is widely discussed as a CDU Chancellor candidate in 2006 and is in competition with CDU Chairperson Angela Merkel for influence in the pa [...] | 2003-05-07 15:04:00 | Consulate Frankfurt | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL ECON GM |
03FRANKFURT3946 | SAARLAND SPD LEADER CRITICIZES CHANCELLOR SCHROEDER [...] (SBU) Summary: During his April 30 trip to Saarland, the Consul General met 34-year-old Saarland opposition leader Heiko Maas in Saarbruecken. The Consul General and Maas, who is the state SPD chairman and Landtag caucus leader, spoke about economic issues, including Agenda 2010 and the upco [...] | 2003-05-15 13:32:00 | Consulate Frankfurt | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL ECON GM |
03FRANKFURT401 | FDP CHIEF WESTERWELLE FAILS TO LEAD PARTY OUT OF [...] (SBU) Summary: The Free Democratic Party's (FDP) traditional Three Kings gathering in Stuttgart (January 5-6) is one of the first major national political conventions in the new year and generates a lot of media interest. National Party Chief Guido Westerwelle was under pressure to deliver a s [...] | 2003-01-15 11:44:00 | Consulate Frankfurt | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL GM |
03FRANKFURT550 | HESSE MINISTER-PRESIDENT ROLAND KOCH: POLARIZING, [...] (SBU) Summary: Hesse's Minister President Roland Koch (Christian Democratic Union - CDU),is the most prominent state politician in the CDU and is a strong leader of his party's conservative wing. He is a potential CDU chancellor candidate in 2006. If the CDU-FDP coalition wins state electi [...] | 2003-01-22 09:24:00 | Consulate Frankfurt | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL GM |
03FRANKFURT5668 | SAARLAND'S POPULAR MINISTER-PRESIDENT PETER [...] (SBU) Summary: Saarland Minister-President Peter Mueller represents the center-left membership of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Known for his unorthodox, provocative political style, he one of the most outspoken CDU Minister-Presidents. He faces state elections in summer 2004 and cu [...] | 2003-07-10 14:33:00 | Consulate Frankfurt | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL ECON ELAB GM |
03FRANKFURT7786 | Protests Follow Hesse/Koch Austerity Plan of Less [...] SUMMARY: Hesse Minister-President (M-P) Roland Koch's announcement of austerity measures, including a one-billion Euro cut in the Hesse state budget, longer working hours for public employees, cuts in wages and subsidies, and the sale of state assets resulted in demonstrations by public sect [...] | 2003-09-18 14:41:00 | Consulate Frankfurt | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON PINR PREL GM |
03FRANKFURT8426 | Berninger/Hesse Greens Move Towards USG, CDU [...] (U) SUMMARY: Matthias Berninger, State Secretary in the national Agriculture Ministry and new head of the Green party in Hesse, wants to help repair US-German relations and could make helpful gestures on Iraq. A rising star and protege of FM Fischer, Berninger wants to free the party from its [...] | 2003-10-10 11:56:00 | Consulate Frankfurt | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL EAGR GM |
03FRANKFURT926 | B-W CDU CAUCUS CHIEF EXPECTS M-P TEUFEL TO STEP [...] Summary: In a meeting with Consul General on January 29, Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W) caucus chief Guenther Oettinger, the possible successor to B-W Minister President Erwin Teufel (CDU),spoke about the upcoming elections in Hesse and Lower Saxony and his own political future. He also used the [...] | 2003-01-31 09:54:00 | Consulate Frankfurt | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL GM |
03GUATEMALA1 | DRUGS, TRADE, AND HUMAN RIGHTS: AMBASSADOR'S FIRST [...] (C) Summary: At an informal dinner at the home of President Portillo December 28 that also included FM Gutierrez and the DCM, the Ambassador emphasize the need to focus in Portillo's remaining year in office on being recertified and on making progress in other areas -- human rights, corrupt [...] | 2003-01-02 13:41:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID SNAR KDEM PHUM CASC US GT |
03GUATEMALA1015 | LOS CIMIENTOS: A PORTILLO PRESS SPECTACLE AND NEW [...] (U) Summary: On April 8, HROff and EconOff attended President Portillo's inauguration of a primary school at the new site of the Los Cimientos Community in San Vincente, Siquinala, Escuintla. After the flashy Presidential press opportunity, HROff and EconOff visited the community's temporary [...] | 2003-04-15 22:36:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL EAID GT |
03GUATEMALA102 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES MILITARY-TO-MIILTARY [...] (C) Summary: During an introductory call on MOD Robin Moran, the Ambassador restated USG policy in dealing with the Guatemalan military and reviewed the benchmarks for possibly establishing normal military-to-military relations. The Ambassador said that the military needs to improve its human [...] | 2003-01-14 22:16:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PINR MASS PGOV SNAR PHUM GT |
03GUATEMALA1032 | GUATEMALA SUPPORTS CUBA RESOLUTION AT OAS [...] No summary [...] | 2003-04-21 22:56:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM GT OAS |
03GUATEMALA1036 | DEMARCHE ON FLEEING IRAQI OFFICIALS [...] No summary [...] | 2003-04-22 17:15:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ GT |
03GUATEMALA1066 | CUBA VOTE PROVOKES LARGELY POSITIVE REACTIONS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Unlike previous years, Guatemala's vote in favor of the 2003 Cuba resolution at the UN Human Rights Commission drew favorable editorials in the press. Cuba's repression of dissidents and the execution of the three hijackers led to a steady stream of press criticism of Castro's [...] | 2003-04-24 15:29:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV SNAR GT CU |
03GUATEMALA1084 | APPEAL OF 2002 MACK CASE SENTENCE [...] (U) Summary: On April 23, the Fourth Court of Appeals heard the public arguments from both the defense and the prosecution for the appeal of the Third Sentencing Court's October 3, 2002 decision in the Myrna Mack murder case, in which retired Colonel Juan Valencia Osorio was convicted and sent [...] | 2003-04-28 15:36:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KJUS GT |
03GUATEMALA1108 | GUATEMALA STILL STUDYING BALLISTIC MISSILE ICOC [...] No summary [...] | 2003-04-28 19:13:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM MNUC ETTC TSPA GT |
03GUATEMALA1125 | VICTIMS' ASSISTANCE CENTER: GUATEMALA'S HRDF GRANT [...] (U) Embassy Guatemala appreciates the opportunity to propose an HRDF grant to help implement our human rights strategy.(Ref A) We believe that the Human Rights Victims' Assistance Center project outlined below offers an excellent opportunity to increase the Human Rights Ombudsman's Office cap [...] | 2003-04-30 20:07:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV EAID KDEM KSEP GT |
03GUATEMALA1131 | LETTER TO PRESIDENT PORTILLO [...] Confirm we have received and will deliver letter to President Portillo following working day. HAMILTON [...] | 2003-04-26 18:12:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL GT |
03GUATEMALA1177 | ANOTHER STEP FORWARD: FURTHER REDUCTION OF EMP [...] (U) Summary: At a May 2 public event, President Portillo officially demobilized 107 Presidential Guard (EMP) members in the second phase of the peace accord-mandated process to replace the EMP with a civilian agency. The Ambassador attended the ceremony at the National Cultural Palace, and la [...] | 2003-05-06 22:15:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL EAID GT |
03GUATEMALA1191 | ANOTHER LANDMARK TOPPLED: MACK CONVICTION [...] (U) SUMMARY: On May 7, the Fourth Court of Appeals overturned the Third Sentencing Court's October 3, 2002 conviction of Colonel (ret.) Juan Valencia Osorio (Ref A). The Fourth Court of Appeals also found Helen Mack's appeal of the acquittal of General (ret.) Edgar Godoy Gaitan and Colonel (re [...] | 2003-05-07 22:15:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV KJUS GT |
03GUATEMALA1205 | GUATEMALA DEMARCHED ON TOBACCO CONTROL CONVENTION [...] PolOff discussed reftel points and left non-paper with Sylvia Corado, Director for Multilateral Affairs at the Foreign Ministry on May 5, 2003. Corado expressed appreciation for the Spanish language version of the non-paper, saying it would help her prod the Health Ministry. Corado said it [...] | 2003-05-08 18:37:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL GT WHO |
03GUATEMALA1243 | PRESIDENT OF SUPREME ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary: During a courtesy call by the Ambassador, the President of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) indicated his belief that General Rios Montt is prohibited by law from being a candidate for president, but noted that if the TSE is asked to decide this question, other magistrates ma [...] | 2003-05-13 16:44:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID PREL PINR KDEM GT |
03GUATEMALA1254 | URC-119 RADIO TRANSFER TO GUATEMALAN MILITARY [...] This is an action request. See paragraph 4. 2. Ref A was Post's request for authorization to transfer one URC-119 High Frequency (HF) Radio Set to the Guatemalan Military through the Excess Defense Articles (EDA) Program. The transfer is part of a region-wide upgrade to provide an Automati [...] | 2003-03-13 14:30:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MASS MARR GT MACP |
03GUATEMALA127 | AMBASSADOR'S INITIAL CALL ON HELEN MACK [...] (U) Summary: The Ambassador paid an introductory call on Helen Mack at the Myrna Mack Foundation on January 13. They discussed the proposal to investigate clandestine groups, the impending decertification decision, the Consultative Group meeting, the status of the Mack case, and recent wave of [...] | 2003-01-16 16:22:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PINR KJUS GT |
03GUATEMALA1277 | GUATEMALA RATIFIED INSTRUMENTS ON PROTECTION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2003-05-15 20:38:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL GT |
03GUATEMALA1299 | PRESIDENT PORTILLO DISCUSSES CAFTA, PEACE ACCORDS, [...] (C) Summary: In a May 14 breakfast at the Ambassador's residence with visiting senior USG officials, President Portillo expressed hope for the prompt conclusion of a free trade agreement with the U.S. which, he said, "will transform Guatemala;" said that in his remaining months in office he [...] | 2003-05-19 22:34:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD SNAR PHUM KDEM EAID ELAB GT |
03GUATEMALA1336 | DEMARCHE ON POSSIBLE PUERTO RICAN REQUEST FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2003-05-23 15:47:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL GT |
03GUATEMALA1357 | FRG NOMINATES RIOS MONTT FOR PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) Summary: The ruling Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG) nominated its founding leader, Efrain Rios Montt, for President; former Agriculture Minister Edin Barrientos for Vice President; and corrupt former Minister of Public Works Luis Rabbe was nominated for Mayor of Guatemala City by a p [...] | 2003-05-27 20:00:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR GT |
03GUATEMALA137 | USING THREAT OF GSP REVIEW TO PREPARE FOR CAFTA [...] (SBU) Summary: Pending further steps from the GOG to protect labor rights, Embassy recommends that USTR inform the Guatemalan Embassy in Washington (and the Department instruct us to inform the GOG here) that the GSP petition is under informal USG review pending an assessment of current GOG [...] | 2003-01-17 14:57:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PHUM PGOV ELAB PREL GT |
03GUATEMALA1375 | GUATEMALA MAKES COUNTER REQUEST ON OAS CANDIDATES [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 4. 2. (U) Per ref A, following up on our previous demarche (ref B) and diplomatic note, PolOff discussed post-specific and Central American points with Sylvia Corado, Director for Multilateral Affairs at the Foreign Ministry on May 28. Corado ex [...] | 2003-05-29 15:26:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM GT OAS |
03GUATEMALA139 | THIRD ANNUAL CORRUPTION REPORT - GUATEMALA [...] Summary: Guatemala made limited progress in 2002 in implementing its commitments under the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption. The primary obstacle to greater progress was the lack of effective leadership on the part of the Executive in fighting corruption, and the political polariz [...] | 2003-01-17 15:34:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | KCOR KCRM SNAR PREL PGOV GT |
03GUATEMALA143 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES COUNTER-NARCOTICS [...] (C) Summary: On January 16, the Ambassador and FRG legislator Zury Rios discussed possible counter-narcotics decertification and the importance of securing more effective GOG cooperation in the war on drugs before a free trade agreement is ready to be approved by Congress. Rios said that the [...] | 2003-01-17 16:50:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR SNAR ETRD CASC KIPR GT |
03GUATEMALA1435 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY STRUBLE'S MAY 29-31 VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary: During a May 29-31 visit to Guatemala, to participate in a WHA Entry Level Conference, Acting Assistant Secretary Curt Struble met with Vice President Reyes Lopez, SIPDIS Acting Foreign Minister Aguilera and Minister of Interior Reyes Calderon to discuss the full range of bila [...] | 2003-06-05 14:46:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ELAB ETRD CASC GT |
03GUATEMALA1454 | FRG REACTS TO USG STATEMENT ABOUT RIOS MONTT CANDIDACY [...] No summary [...] | 2003-06-05 22:56:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | GT PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SNAR |
03GUATEMALA146 | OMBUDSMAN CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION TO [...] (U) Summary: On January 16, Human Rights Ombudsman Sergio Morales unveiled a proposal for a UN-OAS led commission to investigate clandestine groups (for details on the proposal, see Ref A). The proposal was enthusiastically received by the press, human rights NGOs, and the international commu [...] | 2003-01-17 18:04:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PINR KJUS GT UN OAS |
03GUATEMALA147 | GUATEMALAN DELEGATION TO THE THIRD CICTE [...] Poloff delivered reftel points to Sylvia Corado, Director of Multilateral Affairs for the Foreign Ministry. The Guatemalan delegation will be headed by Vice Minister Gabriel Aguilera of the Foriegn Ministry and will include Vice Minister of Interior Alfredo Caseres, Colonel Francisco Permudes [...] | 2003-01-17 18:07:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL AORC GT OAS |
03GUATEMALA1479 | RIOS MONTT CANDIDACY FACES FIRST LEGAL CHALLENGE [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOG's Registry of Citizens announced on June 6 its rejection of Efrain Rios Montt's presidential candidacy. Rios Montt announced his intention to appeal the decision, a process involving several different institutions which could take months. The deadline for candidates t [...] | 2003-06-09 22:31:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PINR GT |
03GUATEMALA1530 | ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL UPHOLDS BAR AGAINST RIOS MONTT [...] (U) By a three to two vote on June 12 the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) upheld a ruling from the Registry of Citizens (reported RefTel) barring President of Congress Efrain Rios Montt from running for president. The ruling was based on Article 186 (a) of the Constitution. Rios Montt has [...] | 2003-06-13 17:43:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PREL PINR GT |
03GUATEMALA1535 | HELEN MACK'S TAKE ON JUSTICE, POLITICS, AND CICIACS [...] (C) Summary: On June 13, Helen Mack had breakfast at the residence with the Ambassador and Human Rights Officer to discuss the Supreme Court appeal in her case set for June 19, the latest political alliance between Oscar Berger and Eduardo Stein, the mixed commission to investigate clandestin [...] | 2003-06-13 19:39:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KJUS GT UN OAS |
03GUATEMALA1561 | RIOS MONTT CAMPAIGN SUFFERS THIRD LEGAL DEFEAT [...] No summary [...] | 2003-06-17 22:58:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR KDEM PREL GT |
03GUATEMALA1581 | BERGER SELECTS EDUARDO STEIN AS VP CANDIDATE [...] (C) Summary: The front-running Gran Alianza Nacional (GANA) officially nominated former Foreign Minister and chief of two OAS missions to Peru, Eduardo Stein, as its Vice Presidential candidate. The move, announced on June 16, broadens the appeal of the Berger ticket providing it with needed [...] | 2003-06-19 20:46:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM GT |
03GUATEMALA159 | LETTER FROM FOREIGN MINISTER GUTIERREZ TO [...] Foreign Minister Edgar Gutierrez gave us on January 21 a letter to Secretary Powell (dated January 17) in which he thanks the Secretary for his letter (reftel) congratulating Gutierrez on his nomination as Foreign Minister. In his letter, Gutierrez expresses his desire to work together with t [...] | 2003-01-21 21:22:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PBTS GT BZ |
03GUATEMALA1596 | LAST CHANCE FOR JUSTICE IN MACK CASE [...] (C) Summary: On June 19, Helen Mack, the prosecution, and the defense presented oral arguments before the Supreme Court for the final appeal in the case against the three retired military officers allegedly responsible for ordering the murder of Myrna Mack in September 1990. All three officers [...] | 2003-06-20 18:11:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV MOPS PREL KJUS GT |
03GUATEMALA1609 | COUNTER-NARCOTICS MARITIME AGREEMENT SIGNED [...] (U) Ambassador Hamilton and Foreign Minister Gutierrez signed the bilateral counter-narcotics maritime agreement (reftels) in a ceremony at the MFA on June 19. Signature of this landmark agreement has been an important element in our dialogue with the GOG on counter-narcotics certification. T [...] | 2003-06-20 18:45:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KTIA SNAR PBTS KCRM PHSA EWWT EAIR GT |
03GUATEMALA1642 | AMBASSADOR VIELMAN SAYS GOG IS PRESSING UN FOR [...] (C) Summary: On June 23, Acting DCM and Human Rights Officer met with Ambassador Maritza Ruiz de Vielman, Foreign Minister Gutierrez's Special Advisor, to discuss the state of play on the proposed mixed commission to investigate clandestine groups (CICIACS),to commend GOG collaboration with t [...] | 2003-06-24 21:10:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KJUS GT UN OAS |
03GUATEMALA1673 | KEEPING NARCOTICS TRAFFICKERS FROM BEING RELEASED [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Attorney General de Leon and with Foreign Minister Gutierrez to raise, inter alia, our concerns that an irregular change of judges presiding over the case of major narcotics trafficker Otto Herrera's organization could be the prelude to releasing the defen [...] | 2003-06-26 21:16:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR KJUS PGOV PREL PINR GT |
03GUATEMALA1674 | RECENT GOG ACTIONS TO COMBAT ALIEN SMUGGLING [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOG cooperated fully with us in the expulsion through the US of alien smuggler Karla Chavez, wanted by US law enforcement authorities in connection with the May 13 death of 19 illegal aliens in Victoria, Texas. Foreign Minister Gutierrez also informed the Ambassador that the [...] | 2003-06-26 21:23:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SMIG CVIS PREL PGOV PINS PINR GT |
03GUATEMALA1683 | FOREIGN MINISTER ASKS FOR TIME TO CONSIDER ARTICLE [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Edgar Gutierrez told the Ambassador on June 24 that the MFA is seeking interagency comments on the proposed bilateral Article 98 Agreement, and is engaged in internal political consultations on the desirability of signing the agreement. He asked that we give the [...] | 2003-06-27 17:24:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL MOPS PGOV PINR GT |
03GUATEMALA1686 | XAMAN CASE REOPENED [...] (C) Summary: On June 17, Human Rights Officer attended a public session of the Xaman trial in San Pedro Carcha, Alta Verapaz. This trial is the third attempt to prosecute 25 soldiers for the October 5, 1995, massacre of eleven civilians in the community of Aurora 8 de Octubre, Finca Xaman, Al [...] | 2003-06-27 19:27:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV MOPS KDEM PREL KJUS GT |
03GUATEMALA1692 | MAJOR COCAINE SEIZURE IN GUATEMALAN HIGHLANDS [...] At 09:45 local time on June 27 a Bell 212 helicopter carrying 757 kilos of cocaine crashed near the town of San Francisco el Alto, in Totonicapan Department, near the border with Mexico. Its three crew members, injured in the crash, escaped and remain at large. Local police immediately arriv [...] | 2003-06-29 20:39:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PREL PGOV KJUS GT |
03GUATEMALA1693 | SAIA INTERNAL REGULATIONS SIGNED BY MINISTER OF [...] Minister of Government Jose Adolfo Reyes Calderon told the Ambassador on June 27 that he had signed the global internal regulations of the SAIA (Guatemala's counter-narcotics police). These new internal regulations, which were drafted in consultation with the Embassy, represent a major step [...] | 2003-06-29 20:40:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PREL PGOV KJUS GT |
03GUATEMALA1699 | 58TH UNGA DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO GOG [...] No summary [...] | 2003-07-01 21:21:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM GT UNGA UN |
03GUATEMALA1700 | AMBASSADOR AND HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN DISCUSS [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Hamilton met with Human Rights Ombudsman Sergio Morales on June 26 to express concern over the recent murder of an Auxiliary Ombudsman and new threats against human rights defenders and journalists. The Ambassador also praised Morales' efforts to promote the prompt e [...] | 2003-07-01 21:40:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KJUS PINR MOPS GT |
03GUATEMALA1727 | CAFTA LABOR TRACK TWO DEMARCHE: GUATEMALA [...] (C) Summary: Embassy welcomes Department's proposal, outlined in Ref A, to demarche Central American Ambassadors in Washington to emphasize the need for progress on labor rights protections in the context of CAFTA negotiations, and appreciates the opportunity to provide input for the demarch [...] | 2003-07-07 14:09:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ETRD CA PREL GT |
03GUATEMALA1743 | SUPREME COURT STRIKES DOWN RIOS MONTT CANDIDACY, [...] (U) On July 4, the Supreme Court denied the appeal of FRG presidential candidate Efrain Rios Montt against a decision of the Registry of Citizens (Ref A) which stated that he could not be a candidate for President based on prohibitions contained in Article 186 of the Constitution. Twelve of th [...] | 2003-07-07 19:57:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM PINR PREL GT |
03GUATEMALA1751 | GUATEMALA DEMARCHED ON OCCUPIED TERRITORIES [...] No summary [...] | 2003-07-08 18:54:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI GT ECOSOC |
03GUATEMALA1805 | CONSTITUTIONAL COURT DECLARES RIOS MONTT ELIGIBLE [...] (U) By a vote of 4 to 3, the Constitutional Court issued a decision on the evening of July 14 striking down the earlier findings of the Registry of Persons, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal and the Supreme Court (reftels),which had found that former de facto President Efrain Rios Montt was not [...] | 2003-07-15 16:29:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL MOPS PHUM KDEM GT |
03GUATEMALA1806 | SUPPORT REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS PROSECUTOR [...] This is an action request for DRL. See para 8. 2. Summary: Attorney General Carlos De Leon has requested USG support for the Public Ministry's Office of the Special Prosecutor for Crimes Against Human Rights Workers. De Leon cited the Public Ministry's resource constraints and the crit [...] | 2003-07-15 17:02:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL EAID KJUS GT |
03GUATEMALA1815 | BILATERAL TIP WORKING GROUP FORMED [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to RefTel, on July 7, the Ambassador and visiting G/TIP Program Officer Greg Holliday met with an inter-governmental group including the Minister of Government, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vice Minister of Labor, Secretary of Social Welfare, a Supreme Court m [...] | 2003-07-15 22:15:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM SMIG PREL ASEC KSEP KFRD CA CVIS GT |
03GUATEMALA1853 | AIDS Worker Escapes Kidnapping [...] (U) Summary: Violence against human rights workers has escalated in recent months and a group working to educate street workers on the prevention and danger of HIV/AIDS has been the most recent victim of such assaults. There have been several threats and acts of intimidation against workers [...] | 2003-07-21 14:47:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL EAID GT |
03GUATEMALA1862 | SUPREME COURT SUSPENDS REGISTRATION OF RIOS MONTT [...] (U) On July 20, the Supreme Court accepted two appeals filed by opposition political parties against the presidential candidacy of former General Efrain Rios Montt, and suspended registration of the candidate until the court hears the appeal. The President of the Supreme Court immediately rec [...] | 2003-07-21 23:22:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL PHUM KDEM GT |
03GUATEMALA188 | AMBASSADOR'S FIRST MEETING WITH G-13 [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met on January 14 with members of the Donor Dialogue group (6 major bilateral donors, plus 4 multilaterals, MINUGUA, USAID, and UNDP) to discuss development cooperation and preparations for the May consultative group meeting. Ambassadors and IFI Reps queried the [...] | 2003-01-23 22:24:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID SNAR PGOV PHUM GT |
03GUATEMALA1888 | CONSTITUTIONAL COURT UPHOLDS APPEAL IN RIOS MONTT [...] (SBU) The Constitutional Court met on July 23 to hear the FRG's appeal ("ocurso" in Spanish) to the appeal filed by two political parties against the earlier Constitutional Court decision which allowed former de facto President Efrain Rios Montt to become a presidential candidate (reftels). Ag [...] | 2003-07-23 23:22:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PINS PREL PHUM KDEM GT |
03GUATEMALA189 | AMBASSADOR AND PRESS MAINTAIN PRESSURE ON GOG FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: In the days following the Human Rights Ombudsman's public presentation of the proposal for a UN-OAS led commission to investigate clandestine groups (Ref A)),the media has followed up with domestic editorials and international endorsements of the idea. The Ambassador has conti [...] | 2003-01-23 22:51:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PINR KJUS GT UN OAS |
03GUATEMALA1896 | INDIGENOUS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DISCUSSES [...] (SBU) Summary: Indigenous presidential candidate and mayor of Guatemala's second city Rigoberto Queme told the Ambassador July 18 that the Constitutional Court's decision to allow Rios Montt to run for President was fracturing the indigenous movement politically, with some groups calling for a [...] | 2003-07-24 17:12:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM GT |
03GUATEMALA1902 | STATUS OF GUATEMALAN COUNTER-NARCOTICS COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary: GOG cooperation in the war on drugs has had several concrete successes in the past six months, and there has been further progress since the June 30 Inter-Agency meeting in which the Ambassador participated. A quick run down on our benchmarks: cocaine seizures have increased four [...] | 2003-07-24 23:34:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PREL KDEM PGOV KJUS KCOR KCRM GT |
03GUATEMALA1908 | FRG PROTEST AFTERMATH: GUATEMALA MORE FRAGMENTED [...] (C) Summary: Unexpected legal setbacks to the registration of former General Rios Montt's presidential candidacy have led to profound frustration among FRG leaders. They view Rios Montt as the only FRG candidate who has a chance of winning the elections, and the biggest draw for voters to sup [...] | 2003-07-27 18:58:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS KDEM PREL PINR PHUM ASEC GT |
03GUATEMALA1928 | GUATEMALAN PRESIDENT PORTILLO TO ATTEND 58TH UNGA [...] (SBU) The following preliminary information is keyed to reftel's format requesting information on the GOG delegation to the 58th UNGA. A. Attendance of Head of State: -- Alfonso Portillo, President -- Portillo currently plans to arrive on September 22 (NFI). We understand that he is 9th sp [...] | 2003-07-30 15:28:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OTRA GT UNGA UNAUS |
03GUATEMALA1952 | RIOS MONTT REGISTERED AS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE [...] (C) Summary: FRG leader Efrain Rios Montt was registered as a presidential candidate on July 31, following a ruling by the Constitutional Court ordering the electoral institutions to carry out its decision to that effect of July 14 and void all appeals. Opposition and civil society leaders cal [...] | 2003-07-31 17:54:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PHUM KJUS KDEM GT |
03GUATEMALA1981 | POLITICAL TENSIONS RELATED TO RIOS MONTT'S [...] (SBU) Following the Constitutional Court's controversial July 30 decision to order the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) and Registry of Persons to register FRG leader Efrain Rios Montt as a presidential candidate in the November elections (reftel),the political opposition and civil society gr [...] | 2003-08-01 18:39:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KDEM GT |
03GUATEMALA2014 | CODEL BALLENGER VISIT ADVANCES U.S. INTERESTS [...] (SBU) Summary: A U.S. Congressional delegation led by Rep. Cass Ballenger, and including U.S. Representatives Kevin Brady, Jerry Weller, and Marsha Blackburn, visited Guatemala August 4-6. The CoDel conveyed to the GOG, civil society, the private sector and the press USG concern over recent [...] | 2003-08-06 23:30:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ETRD SNAR ELAB CASC GT |
03GUATEMALA2017 | GUATEMALA'S NO SHOOT-DOWN POLICY [...] (C) Summary: Following the April 14 downing of a civilian aircraft carrying cocaine in Honduras, we have met with senior Guatemalan military officials to confirm that the GOG has a strict policy against firing on civilian aircraft believed to be transporting narcotics and to ensure that they u [...] | 2003-08-07 17:53:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR MOPS EAIR PREL PINR GT |
03GUATEMALA2040 | GETTING AHEAD OF THE POLICY CURVE IN GUATEMALA [...] (C) Summary: We need to be planning now as to how we would respond to a variety of contingencies during the campaign and as a result of the November 9 elections. I believe we have in place most of the policy elements we need: a sound public position on the Rios Montt candidacy in the May 27 [...] | 2003-08-12 00:00:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM PHUM ETRD GT |
03GUATEMALA2052 | NEW ELECTION POLL PUTS RIOS MONTT FIFTH, WITH [...] (SBU) Election poll results released on August 12 show GANA presidential candidate Oscar Berger leading the pack with 44% (up from 37% in July); followed by UNE candidate Alvaro Colom with 17% (up from 13% in July) and FRG candidate Efrain Rios Montt with 3% (down from 8% in July in the same p [...] | 2003-08-12 22:14:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PINR PHUM GT |
03GUATEMALA2065 | EMBASSY GUATEMALA'S 90-DAY GOAL PLAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Guatemala's highest priority goals for the next 90 days include ensuring that the national elections (to be held on November 9) are free and fair; that Guatemala ratifies and places in force a bilateral counter-narcotics maritime agreement with the U.S.; and that Guatema [...] | 2003-08-13 22:34:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT PREL GT WHA |
03GUATEMALA2080 | MEETING WITH PRESIDENT PORTILLO [...] (C) Summary: In an August 13 meeting with the Ambassador and DCM, President Portillo promised to veto a badly flawed law on the new civilian presidential security force, to reinstate the highly-regarded, recently-fired head of the national disaster relief agency, to look into a decision taken [...] | 2003-08-14 17:37:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR GT |
03GUATEMALA2094 | Vital Voices Meets With Guatemalan Women [...] (U) Summary: Vital Voices Global Partnership held a two-day Women's Leadership Retreat in Guatemala City in July. Present at the conference were approximately 40 women leaders from diverse backgrounds. The Ambassador hosted a reception in honor of the group attended by more than 100 women [...] | 2003-08-18 14:37:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL GT WHA PDA |
03GUATEMALA218 | TOUR D'HORIZON WITH PRESIDENTIAL PRE-CANDIDATE [...] (C) At a January 24 breakfast meeting with the Ambassador, presidential pre-candate Alvaro Colom of the center-left Union for National Hope Party (UNE) said that the main challenge for the winner in this year's presidential election will be to jump-start the economy and to shut down the transn [...] | 2003-01-28 13:35:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR SNAR PHUM ETRD GT |
03GUATEMALA220 | AMBASSADOR AND LARUE DISCUSS CLANDESTINE GROUPS [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador visited the headquarters of the Center for Legal Action in Human Rights (CALDH) on January 22 to meet with director Frank LaRue. The Ambassador informed LaRue of his personal efforts in support of the commission to investigate clandestine groups with various GOG le [...] | 2003-01-28 15:23:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PINR KJUS GT UN OAS |
03GUATEMALA2253 | GUATEMALA SUPPORTS CENTRAL AMERICAN ARMS INITIATIVE [...] No summary [...] | 2003-09-02 21:49:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PARM PREL GT |
03GUATEMALA2277 | DECREE ENACTING COUNTERNARCOTICS MARITIME [...] No summary [...] | 2003-09-04 18:16:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PREL KTIA MOPS PHSA GT EWWT |
03GUATEMALA2278 | PRESIDENT SIGNS MINI-SOFA DECREE [...] No summary [...] | 2003-09-04 18:17:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL MASS MOPS GT |
03GUATEMALA231 | GERARDI WITNESS FOUND DEAD [...] (U) Summary: A key witness in the Gerardi trial was reportedly murdered on December 19, 2002. The body of the witness, Noe Gomez Limon, was found on January 21, nearly a month after the murder, and details about the murder remain fragmentary. On January 22, MINUGUA called on the government t [...] | 2003-01-29 14:00:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PINR KJUS GT |
03GUATEMALA2331 | AMBASSADOR'S SEPTEMBER 8TH MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Portillo says he fired number two in the army General Rios Sosa (Rios Montt's son) for disobeying orders to use the military to restore public order during the FRG violent protests July 24 and for lending military resources to the FRG campaign. He has Rios Montt's suppo [...] | 2003-09-09 19:34:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR ELAB PHUM ETRD GT BZ |
03GUATEMALA2341 | STATEMENT OF INTERDICTION PRINCIPLES DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2003-09-09 21:46:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL GT |
03GUATEMALA2371 | AMBASSADOR'S TOUR D'HORIZON WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Edgar Gutierrez on September 10 to discuss re-certification; Article 98; Belize; a draft law on the successor to the Presidential Guard (SAAS); the Commission to Investigate Parallel Groups (CICIACS); and trafficking in persons. Gutierrez [...] | 2003-09-12 00:11:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KCRM PHUM GT |
03GUATEMALA2387 | GT NAVY BRINGS IN 102 STRANDED ILLEGAL ALIENS [...] The Guatemalan Navy launched patrol boats in response to information from the Embassy's Tactical Analysis Team indicating an Ecuadorian vessel, possibly transporting narcotics, was stalled 40 nautical miles southwest of Guatemala's Puerto Quetzal. The vessel "Matheus Tollet" was intercepted a [...] | 2003-09-16 16:55:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MOPS GT |
03GUATEMALA2388 | BELIZEAN DATT ON BORDER DISPUTE [...] (C) PolOff met with Lt. Col. Omar L. Pulido, Belizean Defense Attache in Guatemala, at his request, on September 9. Pulido wanted our readout on whether the future of the confidence building measures had been affected by Guatemala's rejection of the OAS facilitator's proposals. Pulido said [...] | 2003-09-16 16:55:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL BH GT |
03GUATEMALA2413 | ANTI-FRAUD MEASURES FOR GUATEMALAN ELECTIONS [...] Summary. This message provides information about procedures to prevent electoral fraud in response to questions raised at the September 4 Policy Coordinating Committee meeting on Guatemala. We are encouraged by the measures that electoral authorities and institutions are taking to reduce po [...] | 2003-09-18 20:33:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KDEM PINR GT |
03GUATEMALA2426 | URGENT MIDDLE EAST DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2003-09-19 18:23:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAL GT UNGA |
03GUATEMALA243 | AMBASSADOR AND RIOS MONTT DISCUSS DECERTIFICATION, [...] (C) Summary: In a January 27 meeting with the Ambassador, President of Congress Rios Montt professed to be a strong supporter of CAFTA (which he views as reducing the political influence of the traditional economic elites),and expressed understanding for Guatemala's impending counternarcotics [...] | 2003-01-29 20:00:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR PHUM ETRD PINR MOPS GT |
03GUATEMALA2441 | BAD BLOOD BETWEEN OMBUDSMAN AND PROSECUTOR: [...] (U) Summary: In the wake of the break-in at the Human Rights Ombudsman's Office on August 26 (reftel),a dispute over the motivation for the break-in erupted between the Public Ministry and the Ombudsman's Office. This dispute has divided opinion of human rights groups and threatens to perman [...] | 2003-09-22 19:17:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KJUS SNAR GT |
03GUATEMALA2461 | ICOC - GUATEMALA UNABLE TO SUBSCRIBE BY OCTOBER [...] No summary [...] | 2003-09-23 21:48:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA GT MTCRE |
03GUATEMALA2473 | SCENE SETTER FOR VISIT OF CODEL KOLBE [...] (U) Summary: Your September 27-29 visit to Guatemala comes in the final weeks of Guatemala's heated national election campaign, leading up to the November 9 election of the President, all members of the unicameral Congress and all local government officials. The sometimes violent confrontatio [...] | 2003-09-25 16:25:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP PREL PGOV ETRD PHUM GT |
03GUATEMALA248 | AMBASSADOR WEIGHS IN WITH ATTORNEY GENERAL DE LEON [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador phoned Attorney General Carlos de Leon on January 29 to enlist his immediate action on the investigation of a recent Gerardi witness murder (Ref A) and the protection of the Special Prosecutor for Human Rights, Tatiana Morales, who has been receiving threats coincide [...] | 2003-01-29 22:43:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PINR KJUS GT |
03GUATEMALA2486 | INVITATION TO THE SECRETARY TO GUATEMALAN [...] A letter addressed to the Secretary from Foreign Minister Edgar Gutierrez, dated September 18, was delivered to the Embassy on September 24. The original letter will be pouched to WHA/CEN. Text of the letter follows. 2. Begin Text: Excellency, Mister Secretary of State: It is my ho [...] | 2003-09-25 22:42:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV GT |
03GUATEMALA2527 | GUATEMALA DOES NOT HAVE A POSITION YET ON [...] No summary [...] | 2003-10-01 15:38:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL PHSA EAIR GT |
03GUATEMALA2550 | ELECTION UPDATE: OAS CRITICIZES ELECTORAL [...] (C) Summary: The OAS Electoral Observation Mission (EOM) issued its second report, criticizing the GOG's failure to investigate and prosecute electoral violence, especially the murders of political activists and the violent FRG protests of July. On October 1, the OAS EOM opened offices in sev [...] | 2003-10-02 20:34:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM PHUM PREL GT |
03GUATEMALA2623 | GUATEMALA: SUPPORT FOR LEVITSKY NOMINATION TO THE [...] No summary [...] | 2003-10-09 22:24:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL GT |
03GUATEMALA2634 | JUST ANOTHER LATIN AMERICAN ELECTION, FOR NOW [...] (C) Summary: The election campaign, which got off to a violent start, marred by allegations of expected fraud, has settled in recent weeks into what the UN mission aptly described as "just another Latin American election." The continuing heated confrontation between the ruling FRG and the opp [...] | 2003-10-10 18:55:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PINR GT UN |
03GUATEMALA2635 | RIGOBERTA MENCHU HARASSED BY FRG SUPPORTERS [...] Summary: Nobel Peace Prize winner and indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Menchu Tum was harassed by supporters of FRG presidential candidate Efrain Rios Montt inside the Constitutional Court building on October 9. Although she was not harmed, Menchu still sounded shaken by the incident ear [...] | 2003-10-10 18:56:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL PINS GT OAS |
03GUATEMALA264 | PRESIDENTIAL PRE-CANDIDATE WHITBECK DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary: Former senior FRG member Harris Whitbeck told the Ambassador that it is almost certain he will run for President as the candidate of the Partido Patriota, and said the FRG has lost much of its popular support. He believes Rios Montt would be defeated at the polls if he runs. The [...] | 2003-01-31 16:41:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ETRD PHUM GT |
03GUATEMALA2651 | GUATEMALA'S DELEGATION TO OAS SPECIAL CONFERENCE [...] Poloff delivered reftel points to Carla Rodriguez, Director General for Multilateral Affairs at the Foreign Ministry on October 7. In a follow-up meeting on October 9, Rodriguez said that the Guatemalan delegation would be led by Foreign Minister Edgar Gutierrez. Other delegates include Mini [...] | 2003-10-15 23:50:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ASEC MARR PARM XM XL XS GT |
03GUATEMALA2659 | INAUGURAL INVITATION FOR PRESIDENT BUSH [...] On October 15, the Embassy received Diplomatic Note number 9-1452 from the Directorate of Protocol at the Foreign Ministry. The note, unofficially translated in paragraph 2, is a cover letter for an invitation to President Bush from President Portillo to attend the January 14 inauguration in [...] | 2003-10-16 17:26:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV OVIP GT |
03GUATEMALA2660 | DEMARCHE MADE TO GOG ON IRAQ DONORS CONFERENCE [...] (C) DCM and PolCouns met with Deputy Foreign Minister Gabriel Aguilera and MFA Director of Multilateral Affairs Carla Rodriguez on October 15 to urge the GOG to attend the Madrid Donors Conference and to pledge financial support for the reconstruction of Iraq. DCM noted that the whole interna [...] | 2003-10-16 18:26:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAID IZ GT |
03GUATEMALA2705 | WITH TWO WEEKS TO GO, VOTER PREFERENCES REMAIN [...] (C) Summary: The polls continue to show GANA candidate Oscar Berger in a clear lead in the run up to the November 9 national elections, followed by Colom and Rios Montt vying for second place. Fears of potential electoral fraud are much diminished, and pre-election violence and electorally m [...] | 2003-10-23 22:24:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR PREL EAID GT |
03GUATEMALA2727 | GUATEMALA ON COLOMBIAN'S SIDE DECLARATION AT OAS [...] No summary [...] | 2003-10-24 18:27:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PTER CO GT OAS |
03GUATEMALA2744 | FORMER CIVIL PATROL MEMBERS TAKE JOURNALISTS [...] (C) Summary: A group of approximately 500 ex-PACs blocked the inter-American highway in La Libertad, Huehuetenango on October 26 and took four journalists hostage, in an attempt to get the government to compensate them for wartime service. The former civil patrol members had originally taken t [...] | 2003-10-28 18:25:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR PINS ASEC GT |
03GUATEMALA275 | GUATEMALAN COSPONSORSHIP OF CUBAN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) I have misgivings about our seeking Guatemalan co-sponsorship of the UNHRC resolution on Cuba (seeking a yes vote would be different). There is the question, first, whether Guatemalan support would be a genuine asset to the effort in Geneva. As the Department is aware, violence and thr [...] | 2003-01-31 20:23:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | CU PHUM PREL GT UNCHR |
03GUATEMALA2759 | GUATEMALA ON CUBAN EMBARGO RESOLUTION AT UN [...] No summary [...] | 2003-10-29 18:14:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM CU GT UNGA |
03GUATEMALA2764 | ELECTION SNAPSHOT #3: LEGACY OF NEGLECT LIVES ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Voters in Quiche, historically a bastion of the FRG, told us that their votes this time would be for any candidate other than the former General. Berger and Colom led the pack of presidential preferences. While there is little concern among the international observers or the loc [...] | 2003-10-29 20:37:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PINR EAID GT UN |
03GUATEMALA2769 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ELECTIONS WITH RIOS MONTT [...] (C) Summary: In an October 29 breakfast with the Ambassador, FRG presidential candidate Rios Montt said he would respect the outcome of the election, whatever it is. He expressed concern about technical problems with the voter registration list ("padron") and locally organized acts of violenc [...] | 2003-10-29 23:26:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR KDEM MOPS PREL EAID GT |
03GUATEMALA2793 | HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE: JOURNALISTS RELEASED, EMP [...] (SBU) Summary: Protesting ex-PACs have released four journalists in Huehuetenango, President Portillo presided over a ceremony marking the dissolution of the Presidential Guard (EMP),and the GOG formed a working group to analyze the UN's revised proposal for a Commission to Investigate Clan [...] | 2003-10-31 18:31:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL AORC GT |
03GUATEMALA2794 | GUATEMALAN ELECTION UPDATE: ONE WEEK TO BALLOTING [...] (C) Summary: Polls show voter preferences largely unchanged, with Berger ahead with 41%, followed by Colom (22.3%) and Rios Montt (13.3%). Informal polling conducted by Embassy in the countryside supports these results. The OAS and EU Observer Missions say the TSE has addressed problems with [...] | 2003-10-31 18:39:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM EAID GT OAS |
03GUATEMALA2796 | GOG WORKING ON SOLUTION TO MAJOR FLAP OVER [...] (C) Summary: The Guatemalan Congress passed a law on October 28 forbidding "any productive activity" on election day, the day before and the day after, ostensibly to enable migrant workers to return to their homes to vote. Minister of Labor Moreira told reporters that the law forbid all but f [...] | 2003-11-03 00:02:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EAID KDEM GT OAS |
03GUATEMALA2827 | IN PORTILLO'S ABSENCE, ELECTION HOLIDAY LAW [...] (C) Summary: President Portillo traveled to Panama without vetoing the controversial election holiday bill (reftel),and opposition to the legislation has taken on a fever pitch. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal called on Portillo (who returns on the afternoon of November 4) to veto the law beca [...] | 2003-11-04 22:47:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID PINR GT OAS |
03GUATEMALA2831 | PRESIDENT PORTILLO WILL VETO ELECTION HOLIDAY LAW [...] (C) President Portillo called the Ambassador early on the morning of November 5 to say that he would veto the election holiday law, as he had promised. Congress did not hold a special session to revise the bill on November 4, and the Executive Decree of November 3 (signed by Vice President Re [...] | 2003-11-05 14:59:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EAID GT |
03GUATEMALA2845 | UNRWA DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2003-11-06 17:55:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAL IS GT UNGA |
03GUATEMALA2850 | SCENE SETTER FOR GUATEMALA'S ELECTIONS: A GROWING [...] (C) Summary: The November 9 elections will pit Guatemala's past (represented by General Rios Montt and his authoritarian vision of Guatemala rooted in the armed internal conflict) against the region's future (represented by Oscar Berger and Alvaro Colom, and their vision of private sector-drive [...] | 2003-11-06 19:42:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EAID PHUM GT |
03GUATEMALA2857 | GUATEMALA ON MIDDLE EAST RESOLUTIONS AT UNGA [...] No summary [...] | 2003-11-07 16:39:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAL IS GT UNSC |
03GUATEMALA2880 | GUATEMALA ON MIDDLE EAST RESOLUTIONS AT THE UNGA [...] No summary [...] | 2003-11-10 22:53:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAL IS GT UNGA |
03GUATEMALA2889 | BERGER AND COLOM BEGIN SECOND ROUND CAMPAIGN; FRG [...] (C) Summary: Guatemalan voters turned out in history-making numbers on November 9 to say "no" to General Rios Montt's presidential bid, but gave his FRG a large bloc in Congress and a majority of the municipalities. Preliminary vote results, with 94% of tables counted, give Berger 35% of the v [...] | 2003-11-12 21:01:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EAID PHUM GT |
03GUATEMALA2916 | FRG CONGRESSMAN COMMENTS ON ELECTORAL DEFEAT [...] (C) Summary: FRG Congressman-elect Antonio Arenales told the Ambassador on November 13 that the FRG accepts its electoral defeat and will not challenge the election results. The FRG will not endorse a candidate in the second round elections. Within the party there are those who want the FRG [...] | 2003-11-13 22:46:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL EAID GT |
03GUATEMALA2942 | EMBASSY ELECTION OBSERVATION: DISORGANIZATION, NOT [...] Summary: Guatemalans refused to be intimidated by predictions of violence and fraud, and braved the disorganized election process to vote in record numbers. Thirty-nine Embassy observers of the November 9 national elections witnessed this display of democratic participation by Guatemalans wh [...] | 2003-11-17 22:45:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID KDEM GT |
03GUATEMALA2948 | RIOS MONTT CONCEDES, AND OTHER POST-ELECTION [...] Summary: On November 14, FRG presidential candidate Rios Montt publicly accepted the election results which put an end to his presidential aspirations. No challenges have been filed to the results of the national elections (and only minor challenges in municipal races). The Supreme Electoral [...] | 2003-11-18 16:33:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR EAID PHUM GT |
03GUATEMALA2956 | CAPITALIZING ON POLITICAL CHANGE IN GUATEMALA [...] (C) Summary: The assumption of power on January 14, 2004 of a new government more aligned with USG interests offers an opportunity to advance our priority goals in Guatemala by engaging creatively up front on our shared interests in free trade, human rights, strengthening democracy and counter [...] | 2003-11-18 23:01:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR EAID PHUM MASS ETRD SNAR GT |
03GUATEMALA305 | GERARDI SUPREME COURT APPEAL [...] SUMMARY: On January 31, the Supreme Court Chamber of Appeals held the public audience of the latest appeal in the Gerardi case. The Archbishop's Office on Human Rights (ODHA) and the Public Ministry presented their appeals of the fourth appeals court's October 8, 2002 decision (Ref A) to annu [...] | 2003-02-04 23:41:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KJUS GT |
03GUATEMALA307 | CIRCULAR 175 REQUEST FOR NEW HORIZIONS 2004 [...] Summary and Action Request: Post requests circular 175 authority to negotiate an exercise-specific agreement with the Government of Guatemala (GOG) that would cover U.S. personnel participating the planned New Horizons 2004 - Guatemala exercise. Except for point number 13 which incorporates [...] | 2003-02-05 13:31:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MOPS MASS PREL GT |
03GUATEMALA317 | RULING PARTY OFFICIAL CALLS FOR SUPPORT FOR CUBA [...] Aristedes Crespo, Floor Leader for the ruling FRG party in Congress, used the visit of three Cuban legislators to announce in Congress that the FRG would press President Portillo to support Cuba at this year's UNCHR in Geneva. Crespo said his remarks were in response to Cuba's long-standing so [...] | 2003-02-05 21:33:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM CU GT UNCHR |
03GUATEMALA329 | GUATEMALAN OFFICIALS EXPRESS CONDOLENCES FOR SPACE [...] Post has received numerous expressions of condolences over the tragic loss of the Columbia and her crew. Phone calls, faxes, letters and e-mails expressing sorrow and solidarity have come from private citizens as well as Guatemalan officials. Noteworthy are letters from President Portillo, [...] | 2003-02-05 22:46:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL GT |
03GUATEMALA369 | AMBASSODOR,S MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Over lunch at the residence February 10, the Ambassador gave FM Gutierrez a heads up that we are actively working on specific benchmarks for re-certification; pressed him on Article 98, extradition, Belize-Guatemala, election observation, the proposal to investigate clandestine gr [...] | 2003-02-10 23:13:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CJAN EAGR KTIA PGOV PHUM SNAR CFED GT |
03GUATEMALA370 | GUATEMALA NONCOMMITTAL ON IRAQ IN WAKE OF [...] (C) Due to the absence of President Portillo on February 6, Ambassador Hamilton discussed Secretary Powell's UNSC presentation of the case against Iraq with Vice President Reyes (reftel). The Ambassador concluded that no one prefers the option of war, and that the best way to convince Saddam [...] | 2003-02-11 15:13:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM IZ GT UNSC |
03GUATEMALA403 | WHA/CEN DIRECTOR TRIVELLI DISCUSSES CAFTA, [...] (C) Summary: During a two-day visit to Guatemala, WHA/CEN Director Paul Trivelli discussed counter-narcotics certification and free trade with Vice President Reyes and the Acting Foreign Minister; CAFTA and fiscal responsibility with the economic cabinet and business leaders; and support for [...] | 2003-02-13 23:30:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR PHUM ECON ETRD MARR GT |
03GUATEMALA429 | GUATEMALA WILL NOT ADDRESS FEB 18 UNSC OPEN SESSION [...] Per reftel, DCM discussed Iraq's failure to disarm with Foreign Minister Gutierrez on February 17. Gutierrez was noncommittal. He requested a Spanish version of Secretary Powell's UNSC speech of February 14 (which Post will provide) and stated that Guatemala would not take the opportunity to [...] | 2003-02-18 18:00:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM IZ GT UNSC |
03GUATEMALA471 | VIVANCO MISSION: STATE OF PLAY [...] (SBU) Summary: Human Rights Watch Latin America Director Jose Miguel Vivanco visited Guatemala February 11-14 to consult with the GOG, the Human Rights Ombudsman, and human rights leaders about the Ombudsman's proposal to create an international Commission to Investigate Clandestine Groups ( [...] | 2003-02-21 17:18:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV GT |
03GUATEMALA489 | EMBASSY VIEWS ON REGIONAL ANTI-TIP HARMONIZATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy concurs that regional harmonization of anti-trafficking in persons legislation, as outlined in RefTel, would further U.S. interests in Guatemala. Harmonized anti-TIP legislation is necessary to achieve greater regional cooperation to prevent and combat trafficking, an [...] | 2003-02-24 22:18:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL PREF ELAB SMIG SNAR KCRM KWMN GT |
03GUATEMALA496 | GUATEMALA COOPERATIVE ON IRAQ AT NAM SUMMIT [...] (C) DCM raised ref A points with Foreign Minister Edgar Gutierrez on February 21. In a brief discussion, DCM urged Guatemalan support for a constructive outcome regarding Iraq at the NAM Summit in Malaysia. Gutierrez said he would instruct Vice Minister Aguilera, heading Guatemala's delegati [...] | 2003-02-25 16:53:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ GT NAM |
03GUATEMALA511 | FEBRUARY 25 DINNER WITH PRESIDENT PORTILLO [...] (S) Summary: In a one-on-one dinner, President Portillo committed to making his decision on the UNHRC Cuba issue "in a calm moment," promised to energize his Labor ministry on issues of labor justice, issued instructions to his Agriculture Minister (by phone during dinner) to get the Mediter [...] | 2003-02-26 16:15:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CU ELAB PHUM SNAR GT |
03GUATEMALA533 | VICE PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO CUBA SPURS SPECULATION [...] (C) Summary: A glowing press conference by Vice President Reyes after an official visit to Cuba fueled speculation that some in the GOG are reconsidering Cuba policy. Reyes hinted that Guatemala would abstain on the Cuba vote at the UNCHR, did not rule out voting with Cuba, and said that he b [...] | 2003-02-27 18:02:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM CU GT UNCHR |
03GUATEMALA534 | PROGRESS TOWARD REGIONAL ARMS INVENTORY [...] (C) Summary: On February 19, Central American Foreign Ministers ratified a model format for providing each other with information about the composition, armaments, material and equipment of their military and police forces. The measure removes another hurdle in establishing a "reasonable bala [...] | 2003-02-27 18:13:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MARR MCAP GT |
03GUATEMALA55 | ESTABLISHMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY WORKING GROUP [...] Embassy Guatemala has established a Homeland Security Working Group (HSWG) comprising all the agencies at Post with law enforcement or security responsibilities, as well as appropriate Mission section heads. The HSWG will ensure Post is able to coordinate its resources to provide Mission-wide [...] | 2003-01-08 22:07:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER CVIS PREL PGOV APER SNAR GT |
03GUATEMALA551 | AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN [...] SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with Human Rights Ombudsman Sergio Morales on February 27 to support the Ombudsman's proposal for the commission to investigate clandestine groups (CICIACS). Morales was encouraged by President Portillo's recent official response and believes Vivanco's recent memo [...] | 2003-02-28 18:06:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL GT UN OAS |
03GUATEMALA555 | MEETING WITH ATTORNEY GENERAL DE LEON [...] (SBU) Summary: In a dinner conversation February 28, De Leon told the Ambassador that he would seek to energize investigations of murdered American citizens and labor leaders, to beef up his office on money laundering investigations and said that, if invited, he would attend the next high-lev [...] | 2003-03-03 16:48:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SNAR PHUM GT CACS |
03GUATEMALA57 | PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BERGER SUPPORTS CAFTA AND A [...] (C) Summary: In a tour d'horizon with the Ambassador on January 7, PAN Presidential candidate Oscar Berger said that the PAN believes it will win the 2003 national elections, and that their priorities as a government would be completing negotiation of a free trade agreement with us, "rightsizi [...] | 2003-01-08 22:29:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ETRD MOPS SNAR GT |
03GUATEMALA623 | NEW GUATEMALAN AMBASSADORS TO GENEVA, TOKYO, AND [...] (SBU) An excellent MFA source confirmed that Ricardo Alvarado was sworn in at noon on March 4 as Guatemalan Ambassador to Geneva. Ambassador to the OAS, Arturo Duarte, will move to Tokyo and will probably be replaced by Victor Godoy. Bio information below. End Summary. 2. (SBU) Ricardo A [...] | 2003-03-07 18:48:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV GT UNHRC |
03GUATEMALA636 | MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER GUTIERREZ [...] (SBU) Ambassador met one on one for a few minutes with FM Gutierrez March 7 on the heels of the fourth high-level working group meeting on narcotics, which the two had just chaired. That meeting is being reported septel. Following is a quick rundown: Gutierrez in Washington -------------- [...] | 2003-03-10 22:04:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MOPS BEXP GT CU KICC |
03GUATEMALA64 | AMBASSADOR HAMILTON PRESENTS CREDENTIALS [...] Ambassador John R. Hamilton presented credentials to President Alfonso Portillo in a ceremony at the National Palace on the morning of January 8, 2003. 2. Following his presentation of Credentials, Ambassador Hamilton made the following statement to the press: In the course of the ceremon [...] | 2003-01-09 21:59:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AMGT APER GT |
03GUATEMALA648 | GUATEMALA NOT LIKELY TO ASSIST ON IRAQ RESOLUTION [...] (C) Although the GOG has informally indicated support for Iraq's unconditional need to comply with UNSCR 1441, it has remained non-committal on US/UK/Spanish resolution on Iraq. Were we to press Guatemala we believe it might play an unhelpful role. We therefore did not urge GOG participation [...] | 2003-03-11 23:14:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ GT UNSC |
03GUATEMALA651 | MACK CASE MISSTEP INCREASES SUSPICION [...] (U) Summary: The case against the GOG on behalf of the family of murdered anthropologist Myrna Mack was presented February 18-20 in the Inter-American Court in San Jose, Costa Rica. In the days leading up to the trial, FM Gutierrez attempted to short-circuit this hearing by publicly accepting [...] | 2003-03-12 16:55:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KJUS GT OAS |
03GUATEMALA678 | GUATEMALAN RESPONSE TO 59TH UNHRC DEMARCHE: [...] (C) Summary: In response to reftel points, MFA Multilateral Affairs Director Castillo told us Guatemalan positions at the UNHRC this year might differ from previous years. On Cuba, Castillo repeated that President Portillo would ultimately decide how the GOG will vote, but said the decision [...] | 2003-03-14 17:27:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL GT UNHRC |
03GUATEMALA696 | GUATEMALAN MFA DISCUSSES FUTURE OF BORDER TALKS [...] (C) In a March 11 meeting with PolCouns and PolOff, the Belize Border Commission of the Guatemalan MFA said that resolution of the long-running border dispute would be passed along to the new Guatemalan government that will take office in January, 2004, and said the new government will have to [...] | 2003-03-17 20:59:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL PGOV GT OAS BZ |
03GUATEMALA705 | AGREEMENT ON CLANDESTINE GROUP COMMISSION [...] (SBU) Summary: The human rights community, Human Rights Ombudsman, and FM Gutierrez agreed on the make-up and mandate for an international commission to investigate recent attacks on human rights defenders in Guatemala. Helen Mack invited the Ambassador to attend the public signing ceremony [...] | 2003-03-18 17:51:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL GT OAS UN |
03GUATEMALA706 | DEMARCHE ON POSSIBLE UNGA AND UNCHR SESSIONS ON [...] (C) In the absence from Guatemala of Foreign Minister Gutierrez, the Ambassador spoke with senior Presidential Advisor Arturo Montenegro on March 18 to express USG concern over the possible convocation of a special UNGA or a special session of the UNCHR to condemn possible coalition military a [...] | 2003-03-18 18:17:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM IZ GT UNSC |
03GUATEMALA708 | PORTILLO PLEDGES UNCONDITIONAL SUPPORT IN [...] (SBU) President Alfonso Portillo sent the Ambassador a letter (text below) on March 17 expressing consideration for the difficult situation facing the U.S. and offering Portillo's personal unconditional support for the Ambassador and Embassy staff. Written without explicit reference to Iraq, [...] | 2003-03-18 21:03:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PINR IZ GT |
03GUATEMALA710 | GOG TO SUPPORT CENTAM SUMMIT ON IRAQ AND TO ISSUE [...] (C) The Ambassador urged President Portillo on March 18 to join the Central American Summit Statement on Iraq or to issue a unilateral statement along the same lines. As Portillo is not attending the Summit in Roatan, Honduras, he told the Ambassador he would instruct Vice Minister Aguilera [...] | 2003-03-18 21:06:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ GT |
03GUATEMALA711 | GUATEMALA WILL CONSIDER OAS BUDGET INCREASE IN JUNE [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Acting Director General for Multilateral Affairs, Sylvia Corado, at the Foreign Ministry on February 28. Corado said she would have to consult internally before she could speak officially. However, she speculated that, given "severe" budget constraints, th [...] | 2003-03-18 21:10:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL GT USOAS |
03GUATEMALA723 | GUATEMALAN VIEWS ON IRAQ SITUATION [...] (U) Summary. President Portillo told reporters on March 18 that Guatemala "stands beside the United States," but said Guatemala does not take a position for or against war with Iraq. He added that he sent a letter of support to President Bush (reftel). According to the MFA, the GOG delegation [...] | 2003-03-19 19:30:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV IZ GT |
03GUATEMALA724 | MENCHU CASE ADVANCES IN SPAIN [...] Summary: With broad coverage in the Guatemalan press, the Spanish Supreme Court reportedly accepted Spanish jurisdiction for Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchu's case against six Guatemalan military leaders and two civilian officials linked to torture and murder of Spanish citizens in Guatemala i [...] | 2003-03-19 20:25:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KJUS SP GT |
03GUATEMALA73 | URC-119 RADIO REQUEST FOR GUATEMALAN MILITARY [...] Summary and Action Request: Embassy requests State Department and Defense Security Cooperation Agency concurrence to transfer one URC - 119 High Frequency Radio set to the Guatemalan Military through the Excess Defense Articles Program. The radio's purpose is to enhance natural disaster respo [...] | 2003-01-10 16:44:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS MCAP PREL GT |
03GUATEMALA746 | MARCH 17 LETTER FROM PRESIDENT PORTILLO TO [...] (U) President Alfonso Portillo sent President Bush a letter on March 17 (delivered by the Guatemalan Embassy in Washington to the White House and Department of State) saying that Guatemala stands by the United States during the current difficult international situation. Following is the Embas [...] | 2003-03-20 22:36:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINR GT IZ |
03GUATEMALA758 | KEEPING THE IRAQ ISSUE IN THE SECURITY COUNCIL [...] In the absence of the Director General for Multilateral Affairs, PolOff discussed reftel points with his assistant, Sylvia Corado on March 21. Corado said the MFA had anticipated our position on this issue and agreed that the UN Charter gives responsibility for international peace and securi [...] | 2003-03-21 18:30:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM IZ GT UNSC HNCHR |
03GUATEMALA760 | FOREIGN MINISTER ON KEEPING THE IRAQ ISSUE IN THE [...] Ambassador made reftel points to Foreign Minister Gutierrez by phone on March 21. Gutierrez responded that the Government of Guatemala agrees that Iraq is an issue for the Security Council exclusively. However, Gutierrez would not clearly commit to supporting us on substance. HAMILTON [...] | 2003-03-21 18:55:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM IZ GT UNSC UNCHR |
03GUATEMALA77 | AMBASSADOR AND MINUGUA CHIEF TOUR D'HORIZON [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador and USAID Director met with MINUGUA Chief Koenigs, who was thankful for USG support on extension of MINUGUA's mandate through 2004, and was cautiously optimistic about further implementation of the Peace Accords. The Ambassador discussed possible counternarcoti [...] | 2003-01-10 18:18:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM EAID PGOV MOPS GT |
03GUATEMALA770 | MEETING WITH PRESIDENT PROTILLO [...] (C) Summary: Over dinner at the residence March 22, President Portillo acknowledged that Guatemala ought to support a UNHCR resolution on Cuba but said he has a problem with General Rios Montt's resentment over U.S. opposition to his presidential candidacy. Portillo said Guatemala agreed with [...] | 2003-03-24 18:31:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ELAB PGOV KTIA MARR SNAR KDEM PHUM EFIN ETRD CU IR GT |
03GUATEMALA783 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO GOG ON U.S. INTENTION TO [...] (SBU) Polcouns delivered talking points (reftels) on the USG's intention to rejoin UNESCO and our candidacy for the Executive Board to the MFA Director General for Multilateral Affairs Giovanni Castillo on March 25. Castillo said that Guatemala welcomed the USG decision to rejoin UNESCO, and [...] | 2003-03-25 22:36:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC GT FR UNESCO |
03GUATEMALA784 | GUATEMALA RESPONSE TO CUBAN CRACKDOWN AGAINST [...] (C) In a March 22 meeting with President Alfonso Portillo, the Ambassador raised USG concerns (Ref A) over the Cuban crackdown against the opposition. As noted in Ref B, Portillo acknowledged that the arrests carried out by the Cuban Government were worrisome, but stopped short of committing [...] | 2003-03-25 22:38:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL CU GT UNHRC |
03GUATEMALA786 | GUATEMALAN RESPONSE TO BLOCKING ARAB EFFORTS AT UN [...] (C) In the absence from the country of President Portillo, and the absence from the office of Foreign Minister Gutierrez (due to illness),the Ambassador spoke with Vice Foreign Minister Jorge Perez on March 25 and relayed reftel request that the GOG oppose any effort to convoke a special Gener [...] | 2003-03-25 23:19:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL IZ GT UNSC |
03GUATEMALA802 | GUATEMALA DEMARCHED ON SECURITY COUNCIL OPEN [...] (SBU) The Embassy raised reftel talking points with MFA Deputy Director General for Multilateral Affairs Marco Tulio Chicas, in the absence of more senior officials. Chicas took note of our concerns and promised to immediately relay our points to the Guatemalan PermRep in New York. 2. (SBU [...] | 2003-03-27 14:15:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM IZ GT UNSC |
03GUATEMALA803 | GUATEMALA WILL OPPOSE SPECIAL SITTING ON IRAQ [...] (C) DCM McFarland called Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Jorge Perez on March 26 to reconfirm the GOG's commitment of March 25 to vote against a special sitting on Iraq at the 59th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights. DCM noted that the Guatemalan Mission in Geneva had informed our [...] | 2003-03-27 14:16:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL IZ GT UNHCR |
03GUATEMALA836 | GUATEMALAN COUNTERPROPOSAL FOR ARTICLE 98 AGREEMENT [...] (U) This is an action request: see paragraph 3. 2. (C) Summary: The Guatemalan MFA has proposed an Article 98 Agreement that contains three additions to the modified text in reftel. The additions consist of making reference to UNSCR 1422 (the one-year exemption from the ICC for UN Peaceke [...] | 2003-03-31 16:40:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MARR KTIA GT KICC |
03GUATEMALA871 | GUATEMALA WILL OPPOSE GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING ON [...] (C) Ambassador spoke with Foreign Minister Edgar Gutierrez on April 2 and raised reftel talking points, requesting that the GOG oppose ongoing efforts to convene a special UN General Assembly on Iraq. Foreign Minister Gutierrez said that the GOG agrees with the USG position that debate of thi [...] | 2003-04-03 15:14:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GT IZ UNGA |
03GUATEMALA873 | GUATEMALA WILL OPPOSE UNESCO DEBATE ON IRAQ [...] (C) Ambassador called Foreign Minister Edgar Gutierrez on April 2 and relayed reftel talking points, urging the GOG to oppose attempts at the UNESCO Executive Board meeting to add to the agenda an item on Irak. Foreign Minister Gutierrez said that, like us, the GOG opposed UNESCO discussion o [...] | 2003-04-03 15:14:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC GT IZ UNESCO |
03GUATEMALA890 | EMBASSY DISCUSSES IRAQ AND CUBA WITH HUMAN RIGHTS [...] Summary: Embassy and USAID Officers met with Guatemalan human rights leaders Frank LaRue, Claudia Samayoa and Orlando Blanco on April 2 to discuss developments in the establishment of CICIACS (septel) and to express Embassy disappointment with the participation of members of their organizatio [...] | 2003-04-03 16:53:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL ASEC IZ CU GT |
03GUATEMALA916 | HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT RECEIVES LIMITED PRESS COVERAGE [...] (U) Summary: Upon public release of the 2002 Human Rights Report (HRR) on March 31, Embassy issued a press statement from the Ambassador highlighting the USG human rights concerns in Guatemala and areas where we believe improvements can made. However, neither the report nor the Ambassador's s [...] | 2003-04-07 15:44:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL GT |
03GUATEMALA927 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES TORTURE CASE WITH MINISTER OF [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador called on Minister of Defense Robin Moran on April 3 to emphasize that resorting to illegal detention and torture as appears to have occurred in the March 6 drug seizure in Rio Hondo, Zacapa is totally unacceptable. Moran clearly understood that these methods put Guat [...] | 2003-04-07 22:06:00 | Embassy Guatemala | SECRET | PREL PGOV MOPS SNAR GT |
03GUATEMALA929 | NGOS UPBEAT ON CICIACS DEVELOPMENTS [...] (U) Summary: Embassy officers met with human rights activists Frank LaRue, Claudia Samayoa, and Orlando Blanco on April 2 to discuss both the recent protest by human rights groups in front of the Embassy and their silence on Cuban dissident jailing (Ref A),as well as steps that the Embassy ca [...] | 2003-04-08 13:46:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL GT UN OAS |
03GUATEMALA932 | GUATEMALA STILL NON-COMMITTAL ON UNHRC CUBA [...] (C) The Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Edgar Gutierrez on April 3, and raised reftel talking points requesting GOG co-sponsorhip of a UNHRC resolution on Cuba. The Ambassador noted that, to avoid unnecessary controversy, the draft resolution presented by three Latin American countries di [...] | 2003-04-08 15:53:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL CU GT UNCHR |
03GUATEMALA933 | AMBASSADOR AND FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador and Foreign Minister Gutierrez met on April 3 to discuss the upcoming visit of the Central American presidents to Washington to meet with President Bush on CAFTA. The Ambassador carried out demarches on Cuba and Iraq (septels),mentioned upcoming visits of USG off [...] | 2003-04-08 17:10:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR OVIP KIPR PHUM ELAB MARR GT |
03GUATEMALA937 | GUATEMALA OPPOSES DISCUSSION OF IRAQ AT UNESCO [...] (C) The Ambassador raised reftel concerns with Foreign Minister Gutierrez on April 3. Gutierrez confirmed his earlier statement that the GOG believes multilateral discussion of Iraq should be confined to the UNSC. Guatemala will oppose discussion of Iraq at UNESCO, according to Gutierrez. [...] | 2003-04-08 21:43:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC IZ GT UNESCO |
03GUATEMALA955 | EMBASSY CALLS ON RULING PARTY TO URGE PORTILLO TO [...] (U) On April 9, the Guatemalan Congress passed an unscheduled resolution calling on President Portillo to abstain in the upcoming UNCHR resolution on Cuba. Only one independent congressman, Emilio Saca, voted against the measure, saying that the Government of Cuba should be censured for its d [...] | 2003-04-09 23:05:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR CU GT UNCHR |
03GUATEMALA962 | OMINOUS SIGNS COME IN THREES: LATEST HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) Both in the capital and farther afield, new human rights concerns are popping up in Guatemala. To the north, in Quiche, a Mayan priest and human rights activist was murdered; to the east, in Izabal, the Human Rights Ombudsman (PDH) Auxiliary office was ransacked; here in the Guatemala Cit [...] | 2003-04-10 22:43:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KJUS GT |
03GUATEMALA967 | GUATEMALA: ICC/ARTICLE 98 AGREEMENT AND SOFA [...] (C) Summary: On the Article 98 Agreement, discussions with the GOG covered all the points where the GOG counterproposal differs from the US text. New language was proposed by both sides ad ref. If approved, and the negotiating team believes the proposed changes are workable, we would have a [...] | 2003-04-11 14:24:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GT KICC |
03HALIFAX110 | FDA BIOTERRORISM MEASURES: NEWFOUNDLAND SEEKS [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED - ENTIRE TEXT. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The province of Newfoundland-Labrador believes its exporters of fish and other perishable products should get special consideration when the USG implements new FDA border measures to combat bioterrorism. Newfoundland, which depe [...] | 2003-04-04 21:08:00 | Consulate Halifax | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PBTS ETRD EFIS EAGR CA US FDA |
03HALIFAX27 | ATLANTIC CANADA WORRIED BY IMPACT OF BORDER [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED - ENTIRE TEXT. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Nova Scotia officials have raised with CG the deep concerns in Atlantic Canada over the potential that USG border screening systems, including the regulations emanating from the Bioterrorism Act, will hurt the large volume of agri [...] | 2003-02-12 19:07:00 | Consulate Halifax | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER PBTS ETRD EFIS EAGR CA US |
03HALIFAX352 | AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO NOVA SCOTIA: SECURITY, ECONOMY, [...] SUMMARY: Ambassador's visit to Nova Scotia October 9 - 14 was useful in reinforcing a traditionally good relationship between the province and the U.S., as well as dispelling misperceptions about U.S. energy, environmental and foreign policy. Primary topics of discussion were security, econo [...] | 2003-10-21 13:52:00 | Consulate Halifax | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD EFIS ECON EPET MOPS SENV ASEC CA |
03HALIFAX367 | PEARSON PEACEKEEPING CENTRE CAPABILITIES AND IRAQ [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Pearson Peacekeeping Centre in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, has extensive expertise in training military, civilian and police personnel for peace operations in a variety of environments, but has as yet received from the Canadian government no taskings related to Iraq. Ottawa [...] | 2003-10-31 11:19:00 | Consulate Halifax | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS KPKO PGOV PREL ASEC IZ CA |
03HALIFAX372 | FDA BIOTERROR RULES: POSITIVE LOCAL REACTION [...] (U) Government and fishing industry officials in Atlantic Canada have told us that they are generally pleased with the FDA's anti-bioterrorism regulations, principally those concerning the prior notice time for perishable shipments. Our contacts were deeply concerned that the 24-hour notice ti [...] | 2003-11-07 10:15:00 | Consulate Halifax | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIS EAGR TBIO PREL CA US FDA |
03HALIFAX51 | U.S. CUSTOMS AT HALIFAX PORT [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED Q ENTIRE TEXT. 2. SUMMARY: Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (CCRA) officials in Halifax are pleased with the cooperation they have enjoyed over the past year with the U.S. Customs inspectors assigned to work at the Halifax port. Since U.S. Customs began ass [...] | 2003-02-27 21:02:00 | Consulate Halifax | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC PREL ETRD EWWT CA |
03HALIFAX86 | ANTI-WAR PROTESTS IN HALIFAX [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED - ENTIRE TEXT. 2. (SBU) AS REPORTED VIA E-MAILS OVER THE PAST WEEK, CONGEN HALIFAX HAS BEEN THE SITE OF THREE MAJOR (BY ATLANTIC CANADA STANDARDS) ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATIONS SINCE THE COMMENCEMENT OF HOSTILITIES IN IRAQ. ALL THREE PROTESTS---ORGANIZED BY A COMBINAT [...] | 2003-03-26 20:01:00 | Consulate Halifax | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PREL CA US |
03HALIFAX91 | CANADIAN PUBLIC OPINION ON THE IRAQ WAR: [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED - ENTIRE TEXT. 2. (SBU) CANADIANS IN THE ATLANTIC PROVINCES, MOST OF WHOM CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO HAVE A STAUNCHLY PRO-U.S. WORLD VIEW ON MOST ISSUES, ARE DEEPLY DIVIDED OVER THE WAR IN IRAQ. IN DISCUSSIONS DURING THE PAST WEEK WITH A WIDE RANGE OF PEOPLE INCLU [...] | 2003-03-26 21:17:00 | Consulate Halifax | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ASEC KPAO CA US |
03HANOI1043 | MONITORING VISIT TO KY SON PHASE II PROJECT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Much to the relief of district officials and following extensive delays, the UNODC-funded Ky Son Phase II is up and running. Agriculture and livestock models -- the focus of the USG assistance to this project -- are being implemented in a number of communes dispersed around [...] | 2003-04-29 05:56:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL PGOV EAID LA VM UNODC CNARC |
03HANOI1063 | NAM CAN BORDER OPEN FOR BUSINESS [...] (U) SUMMARY. The Vietnam - Laos Nam Can border crossing in Nghe An province opened to foreigners in January 2003. There appears to be a frenzy of building activity in and around the border, but cross border traffic remains modest. Smuggling of drugs and other contraband in the border are [...] | 2003-05-01 23:34:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SNAR SOCI PGOV ETRD ECON EAID LA VM CNARC |
03HANOI1185 | Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Deputy Foreign Minister Le Van Bang on May 13 and left a non-paper based on reftel para 12. Ambassador stressed that progress on issues raised at the November 2002 Human Rights Dialogue was insufficient to schedule another dialogue, nor [...] | 2003-05-15 09:17:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL VM HUMANR |
03HANOI1233 | VIETNAM: MEETING WITH JUSTICE MINISTRY ON ADOPTIONS [...] (U) Summary. The GVN has indicated that the content of the draft MOU provided is generally quite good and close to their draft framework. However, the GVN is backtracking from earlier assurances by the former Vice Minister of Justice that Vietnam would be willing to go forward with an MOU [...] | 2003-05-20 10:57:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | KOCI CVIS CASC PREL VM |
03HANOI1263 | GERMAN CHANCELLOR REAFFIRMS STRONG RELATIONSHIP [...] (U) SUMMARY. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's visit to Hanoi focused on economics and concluded with a number of economics-related agreements, but also touched, albeit briefly, on a number of other issues, including Iraq, transnational crime, and counterterrorism. Schroeder did not rai [...] | 2003-05-23 10:05:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD EAID PHUM PTER GM VM |
03HANOI1320 | REVIEWING BILATERAL RELATIONS WITH DEPUTY [...] (SBU) Summary. Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Nguyen Tan Dung and the Ambassador (accompanied by DCM Porter and poloff) held a two-hour discussion on bilateral issues on May 27. The meeting received generally positive coverage in the state-controlled print and broadcast media. Dung highlight [...] | 2003-05-30 09:43:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KIRF OEXC ECON ETRD VM RELFREE HUMANR |
03HANOI135 | Vietnam on Religious Freedom [...] (SBU) Summary: In two recent meetings with the Ambassador, GVN officials discussed religious freedom issues originally raised by Ambassador Hanford at the November 2002 Human Rights Dialogue in a frank manner, but had little specific information. The most welcome news was that the Southern [...] | 2003-01-16 09:26:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KIRF VM ETMIN HUMANR RELFREE |
03HANOI136 | Reclama to GVN on USAID program in Central Highlands [...] (U) On January 14, Ambassador raised with Deputy Foreign Minister Le Van Bang the GVN's unfortunate refusal to allow implementation of the Kontum provincial portion of a larger USAID-funded project on disabilities. Aware of the sensitivities of having a US-based organization carry out a pro [...] | 2003-01-16 09:26:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINS PHUM EAID VM |
03HANOI1422 | VIETNAM REACHING OUT TO AFRICA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As another symbol of how Vietnam prizes the diversity of its diplomatic contacts and seeks to maintain its third world credentials, the GVN hosted the first Vietnam - Africa Forum in Hanoi May 28-30. Delegations from 18 African countries discussed trade and investment and "opp [...] | 2003-06-10 09:24:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD EAID IV NI MA GV PU BN SG ZI RW AO SF MO WA CM VM MZ |
03HANOI1487 | U.S. CT WORK PLAN FOR ASEAN ACCEPTED IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The U.S. and ASEAN member states agreed to accept in principle a U.S.-proposed counterterrorism Work Plan at the ASEAN-U.S. Senior Officials Meeting on Transnational Crime (SOMTC). While final approval of the Work Plan, probably as part of the formal Summary Record, will tak [...] | 2003-06-14 08:04:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC PREL OTRA VM ASEAN CTERR |
03HANOI1504 | LARGEST DRUG BUST EVER IN VIETNAM [...] (U) SUMMARY. In what Vietnam's state-controlled media reported as the "largest single heroin seizure ever" in Vietnam, Quang Tri provincial counternarcotics police seized approximately 40 kilograms of heroin entering Vietnam in a truck near the Lao Bao border crossing. Five people are under [...] | 2003-06-17 06:38:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM PREL PINS LA VM CNARC |
03HANOI1510 | ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW OF VIETNAM'S [...] (U) SUMMARY: A new Prime Ministerial degree in March 2003 reaffirmed the MFA's main diplomatic functions as the GVN's main foreign affairs agency and also confirmed its leadership over Vietnam's Border Commission and increasingly active Committee for Overseas Vietnamese. The new decree is u [...] | 2003-06-18 03:54:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL VM |
03HANOI1549 | NARCOTICS CERTIFICATION PROCEDURES FOR 2003 [...] (U) In response to ref a request, post is providing responses keyed to 2003 certification demarche points (ref b) as follow: 2. (U) Implementation of the counternarcotics Master Plan for 2001-2005: --This is an ongoing activity that continues to make slow but steady progress. The Un [...] | 2003-06-20 06:22:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PREL PGOV KCRM PINS VM CNARC |
03HANOI155 | DESIGNATION OF COUNTRIES OF PARTICULAR CONCERN [...] (SBU) Embassy understands that a recommendation from Ambassador Hanford to the Secretary on designation of Countries of Particular Concern under the International Religious Freedom Act is imminent and would like to weigh in arguing against a possible designation of Vietnam. 2. (SBU) Ref [...] | 2003-01-17 09:17:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL SOCI VM RELFREE HUMANR |
03HANOI1615 | GVN RESPONSE TO DRAFT LOA [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (U) Embassy received MFA's long-awaited response to the draft LOA on counternarcotics on June 26. It appears that the USG and GVN views still differ in the areas of taxes, immunities, certification, and Leahy. Full text of G [...] | 2003-06-30 02:23:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL EAID VM CNARC |
03HANOI1759 | VIETNAM: MEETING WITH JUSTICE MINISTRY ON [...] No summary [...] | 2003-07-10 09:26:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | KOCI CVIS CASC PREL VM |
03HANOI1805 | CPV WRAPS UP 8TH PLENUM -- DEFENSE, SALARY [...] (U) The Communist Party of Vietnam's (CPV) Ninth Central Committee held its eighth plenum in Hanoi July 2-12, with major addresses by General Secretary Nong Duc Manh and issuance of a formal communiqu. (Ref a provides translation.) The major themes, which CPV insiders said had been determi [...] | 2003-07-15 10:22:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MARR PREL SOCI ECON VM DPOL |
03HANOI1821 | REDUCTION IN FATHER LY'S SENTENCE [...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 3. 2. (U) Court officials in Ha Nam province on July 17 confirmed media reports that the court had reduced the cumulative 15 years sentences of Catholic Father Nguyen Van Ly by five years in recognition of his "good behavior" in prison. Court o [...] | 2003-07-17 09:48:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL VM RELFREE HUMANR |
03HANOI1842 | TRADE MINISTER ON WTO, HUMAN RIGHTS, OIL FOR FOOD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a July 17 meeting with Minister of Trade Truong Dinh Tuyen, the Ambassador noted that GVN efforts to raise auto tariffs, impose tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) on a number of agricultural products, and reorganize the agencies responsible for protection of intellectual property rig [...] | 2003-07-21 07:57:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL ECON KIPR IZ VM WTO IPROP |
03HANOI1864 | UPDATE ON PRISONERS OF CONCERN [...] (U) On July 21, the MFA's International Organizations Department provided an update dated July 17 on 28 persons of concern, whose names had been on a longer list provided by the Embassy earlier this year, covering both religious and political prisoners. The MFA's information is quoted below [...] | 2003-07-22 09:28:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL VM HUMANR RELFREE |
03HANOI1870 | VIETNAM ADOPTIONS: NO FORWARD MOTION, LOSS OF [...] (SBU) Summary. The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) reorganization has all but halted forward progress on reaching any bilateral understanding on adoptions. Post has yet to receive written confirmation that a document other than a bilateral agreement will be acceptable, and has been told that the [...] | 2003-07-23 08:51:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | KOCI CVIS CASC PREL VM |
03HANOI1885 | LARGEST DRUG BUST EVER IN VIETNAM (PART II) [...] (U) SUMMARY. Some of Vietnam's state-controlled media have reported that a second comprehensive search of the same truck seized on June 9 led to the recent discovery of another 33 kilograms of heroin, in addition to the 40 kilograms uncovered during the first inspection. A senior [...] | 2003-07-24 00:23:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM PREL PINS LA VM CNARC |
03HANOI1933 | MFA SUGGESTS NEXT ROUND OF HR DIALOGUE [...] (U) In a meeting with A/DCM on July 30, MFA International Organization Department Acting Director Pham Binh Minh formally proposed that Vietnam host the next round of US-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue, preferably in late August 2003. He suggested that Vietnam would be ready to up the level o [...] | 2003-07-30 09:53:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL VM HUMANR |
03HANOI1989 | AGENT ORANGE/DIOXIN UPDATE [...] SUMMARY: On July 3, the Ambassador met with Vietnamese VFM Nguyen Dinh Bin to deliver Ref A talking points on the status of joint research on Agent Orange/Dioxin. Bin emphasized the GVN's gratitude for humanitarian efforts by non-governmental organizations and U.S. congresspersons who have a [...] | 2003-08-05 10:24:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OSCI SENV EAID VM |
03HANOI1995 | OUTGOING FRENCH ADOPTIONS OFFICIAL SAYS VIETNAM IS [...] (SBU) Summary. Despite the precision in the French adoption agreement with Vietnam, French adoptions are encountering problems at the provincial levels. Significant problems include demands for donations/fees in excess of those set in the French agreement, unclear origins of adoptive childr [...] | 2003-08-07 00:22:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | KOCI CVIS CASC PREL VM |
03HANOI213 | NEW COUNTERNARCOTICS DECREE: A RAY OF HOPE? [...] (U) SUMMARY: A new GVN decree may enhance international counternarcotics cooperation and offer new hope for the long- awaited conclusion of a US-Vietnam Counternarcotics Agreement. END SUMMARY. ------------------------ COOPERATION IN PRINCIPLE ------------------------ 2. (U) On Jan [...] | 2003-01-28 05:33:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL PGOV VM CNARC |
03HANOI2168 | REDUCTION OF PHAM HONG SON'S SENTENCE [...] (U) According to a two Western media sources, Appeals Court officials in Hanoi confirmed that the 13 year sentence of activist Pham Hong Son (ref a) was reduced to 5 years during a brief hearing on August 26. (Son will still apparently be subject to three years' house detention after comple [...] | 2003-08-26 09:50:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL VM HUMANR |
03HANOI218 | VIETNAM: MEETING WITH JUSTICE MINISTRY ON ADOPTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary. Consul met with Justice Ministry (MOJ) officials regarding a MOU on adoptions on January 23. Specifics were not negotiated, but several elements, which are seen as "must-haves" for an MOU, were identified. Parties with the "authority" to transmit cases to the Vietnamese centr [...] | 2003-01-28 08:41:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KOCI CVIS CASC PREL VM |
03HANOI223 | TAIWAN ECONOMICS MINISTER VISITS VIETNAM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Taiwan Economics Minister Lin Yi-fu visited Vietnam January 23 - 27 as the head of a trade mission. While his official host was the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Lin held meetings with GVN officials, including his counterparts at the Ministry of Trade as well as t [...] | 2003-01-29 03:01:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD TW CH VM |
03HANOI2254 | VIETNAM AG EXPORTS TO IRAQ [...] This is an action request -- see Paragraph 10. 2. SUMMARY: As noted in Reftels, Vietnam is very interested in continuing its agricultural exports to Iraq under the Oil-for-Food (OFF) program, and whatever replaces the OFF program. Vietnamese contacts, ranging from the Prime Minister to var [...] | 2003-09-05 00:13:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAGR ECON EFIN IZ VM UNSC |
03HANOI2260 | VIETNAM AND IRAQ [...] (U) Summary: Vietnamese Ambassador to Iraq (resident in Amman for the past six months and now sitting back in Hanoi) Nguyen Quang Khai is planning to return to Baghdad at Prime Minister Phan Van Khai's request on September 13 for a meeting at the Iraqi foreign trade ministry. Ambassador Khai [...] | 2003-09-05 06:34:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER EAGR EAID IZ VM |
03HANOI2320 | NEW COUNTERNARCOTICS SUCCESSES [...] (U) SUMMARY. A prominent drug trial in Hanoi concluded on August 29 with a variety of harsh punishments, including four death sentences. According to government prosecutors, this was an exceptionally serious case, involving many people, in a drug-trafficking ring between Lai Chau province an [...] | 2003-09-12 10:36:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM PREL PINS VM CNARC |
03HANOI2364 | POLITBURO MEMBER TRAN DINH HOAN ON PARTY AFFAIRS [...] (SBU) Summary. Politburo member Tran Dinh Hoan welcomed improving U.S.-Vietnam relations, called for more high-level visits and mutual understanding, claimed that the CPV was tackling the major problem of corruption in its own way, and explained how the Ho Chi Minh National Political Academ [...] | 2003-09-18 00:42:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PREL PINR VM |
03HANOI240 | VVAF AND MOD SIGN HISTORIC AGREEMENT TO CONDUCT [...] (U) Another small, but historic step in the bilateral relationship took place in Hanoi on January 27, when the Ministry of Defense (MOD) signed an MOU for a survey of landmines and UXO with the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation. The Director of Defense Ministry's Demining Command (BOMICO [...] | 2003-01-29 09:42:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MASS VM US |
03HANOI2413 | UPDATE ON ALLEGED ANTI-SRV "TERRORIST" IN U.S. [...] (U) MFA Americas Department Deputy Director Pham Van Que presented to A/DCM on September 19 a non-paper on alleged "terrorist" Nguyen Huu Chanh, who has been the subject of an earlier diplomatic note (reftel) and other communications. Que made no formal request and there was no diplomatic n [...] | 2003-09-24 01:15:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL VM CTERR |
03HANOI2462 | CPV EXTERNAL RELATIONS CHIEF MEETS AMBASSADOR [...] (U) Summary: The CPV's top foreign affairs official told the Ambassador he wants better relations and "understanding" with the U.S., and that Vietnam would continue dialogue with the U.S. on human rights and "democracy." He also said Vietnam would participate in the rebuilding of Iraq "accor [...] | 2003-09-26 00:07:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM OVIP IZ VM |
03HANOI2521 | VIETNAM AND THE PROLIFERATION SECURITY INITIATIVE [...] (U) Following up on our delivery of the Proliferation Security Initative's Statement of Interdiction Principles September 5 (ref c),Embassy coordinated with ten of the eleven PSI country Ambassadors in country (the eleventh, Portugal, does not have an Embassy in Vietnam) and obtained their si [...] | 2003-10-01 07:04:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL VM |
03HANOI261 | REACTION TO SECRETARY'S UNSC PRESENTATION [...] (U) In a meeting with Assistant Foreign Minister Nguyen Duc Hung on February 6, Charge delivered a copy of Secretary Powell's presentation to the February 5 open meeting of the UNSC and reinforced it with the points provided in para 2 of ref B. Hung said that the GVN was "still studying" the [...] | 2003-02-06 09:08:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL IZ VM |
03HANOI2610 | FOREIGN MINISTRY COMMENTS ON WHEREABOUTS OF UBCV [...] (SBU) On October 10, Charge and Acting POLOFF met with Assistant Foreign Minister Nguyen Duc Hung to express our concern about the apparent police actions this week to interfere in the travel of Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang, his deputy Thich Quang Do, and sev [...] | 2003-10-10 10:57:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM VM HUMANR RELFREE |
03HANOI2622 | MEKONG SUBREGION ANTI-DRUG COOPERATION [...] (U) Summary: At a recent six-party ministerial-level anti- drug conference in Hanoi, Thailand and China pushed hard for more concrete action against ATS and precursor chemicals. Conferees agreed that border liaison offices were effective and should be expanded, but one visited by poloff on the [...] | 2003-10-14 11:38:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SNAR EAID CH VM CNARC |
03HANOI264 | VIETNAM'S "TRADITIONAL FRIENDS" [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Vietnam has strived to maintain good ties with a number of the world's most troubling states, including Cuba, Iraq, North Korea (DPRK),Iran, Libya, Sudan, and Syria. With the exception of Sudan and Syria, all have embassies in Hanoi. These relations are largely an outgrowth [...] | 2003-02-06 09:25:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD PTER CU IR IZ KN SU SY VM DPRK |
03HANOI2650 | POLITICS AND MONEY: VIETNAM AND THE KOREAS [...] (SBU) Summary: Vietnam's relationships with both Koreas are growing. ROK-Vietnam relations are likely to continue to expand, especially economically, while Hanoi-Pyongyang relations will develop more slowly. Vietnamese interlocutors are discouraged by their lack of access to or influence on [...] | 2003-10-17 00:19:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM ETRD ECON VM KN KS SW DPRK ASEAN |
03HANOI2678 | U.S. and Vietnam initial air services agreement [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified protect accordingly. 2. (U) Summary: On October 9, the U.S. and Vietnam entered into a five-year air services agreement that, while maintaining some restrictions, contains many Open Skies provisions. The agreement will eventually allow three passenger carrie [...] | 2003-10-21 02:37:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR EINV PREL VM |
03HANOI2765 | U.S.-VIETNAM MILITARY RELATIONS ON THE EVE OF [...] (U) Summary: The upcoming visit of Defense Minister Tra to the U.S. to meet with the Secretary of Defense and other USG officials (ref A) is the latest and clearest of a series of positive signals from GVN concerning the development of a U.S.-Vietnam defense relationship, which has grown to in [...] | 2003-10-29 09:01:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MASS OREP OVIP KPOW EAID VM ASEAN |
03HANOI2788 | MFA RESHUFFLES -- GOOD NEWS FOR U.S. [...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 6. 2. (SBU) Deputy Foreign Minister Le Van Bang informed Ambassador October 31 that his area of responsibility had been shifted from the Northeast Asia portfolio to the Americas, effective that day. He noted that the news would not be announced [...] | 2003-10-31 06:15:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINR VM FR |
03HANOI2790 | VIETNAM TRYING TO CONVINCE PYONGYANG ON [...] (U) Summary: Vietnam continues to encourage North Korea to follow the same path of economic reforms Vietnam has successfully implemented but remains mostly circumspect on other issues like disarmament or the Six Party Talks. End Summary. 2. (U) Deputy Foreign Minister Le Van Bang, respo [...] | 2003-10-31 06:17:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID ECON KN KS VM DPRK |
03HANOI2795 | Vietnam: Review of BTA Implementation [...] (U) December 10 will mark the second anniversary of the entry-into-force of the U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA). Ensuring timely and effective implementation of the BTA remains a critical component of our economic relations with Vietnam. We continue to provide significant techni [...] | 2003-10-31 08:29:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON EAID PREL VM IPROP BTA WTO |
03HANOI2860 | VIETNAM'S EXPERIENCE WITH HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUES [...] (SBU) Summary: Vietnam's series of human rights dialogues with foreign governments are broad-based and generally non-confrontational. Many are linked to ongoing aid programs related to governance reform, but few dialogues result in -- or are expected to - produce concrete short- term results [...] | 2003-11-07 02:35:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV SW SZ AS NO VM HUMANR |
03HANOI2869 | TOUR D'HORIZON WITH DEFMIN GENERAL TRA [...] (SBU) Summary. Defense Minister Tra's meetings in Washington next week are unlikely to produce any surprises, but should put the full stamp of approval on better mil/mil ties and lead to a more active program of exchanges. Tra is keen to expand medical cooperation and also seeks more techn [...] | 2003-11-07 08:23:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR TH CH CB VM |
03HANOI288 | VIRGINIA FLAG: UPPING THE ANTE [...] (U) Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Dinh Bin has called the Ambassador to a meeting as soon as possible after the latter's return to Hanoi February 8 to deliver a "strong protest" about the proposed Bill No. 2829 in the Virginia House of Delegates regarding the Vietnamese flag. (The bill cal [...] | 2003-02-07 09:16:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL VM |
03HANOI289 | Vietnamese media critical on Iraq [...] (U) Senior GVN and Communist Party leaders have maintained a public silence in response to Secretary Powell's UNSC presentation. Answering written questions from foreign journalists on February 6, the MFA spokeswoman said that "now it is important to prevent wars" and reiterated Vietnam's w [...] | 2003-02-07 09:34:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL IZ VM |
03HANOI2898 | CONVICTION OF TRAN DUNG TIEN [...] (U) Activist Tran Dung Tien (usually described as a former bodyguard of Ho Chi Minh) was sentenced after a brief trial on November 12 to ten months in prison by the Hanoi People's Court under article of 258 of the Penal Code ("Abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the [...] | 2003-11-12 10:06:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV VM HUMANR |
03HANOI301 | STRONG GVN REACTION TO VIRGINIA FLAG BILL [...] (SBU) Senior Vice Foreign Minister (VFM) Nguyen Dinh Bin told Ambassador on Sunday, February 9 that the Virginia House of Delegates' Bill (HB 2829) on displaying the flag of the former Republic of Vietnam is a "wrongdoing that has upset the GVN, the National Assembly, and the people of Vietn [...] | 2003-02-10 09:16:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV VM |
03HANOI3273 | VIETNAM: TEXTILE QUOTAS AND TRANSSHIPMENT [...] (SBU) I understand that the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) may soon consider requesting textile consultations with the GVN to discuss the findings of a U.S. Customs Textile Production Verification Team (TPVT) that visited Vietnam for three weeks last August. In [...] | 2003-12-18 07:23:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD PREL KTEX VM |
03HANOI3277 | GVN'S RECENT ENGAGEMENT ON HUMAN RIGHTS, RELIGION [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Vietnam is making some effort to engage the USG and other foreign governments more actively on human rights and religious freedom issues. European Union member diplomats spoke positively of the GVN's interaction in their human rights dialogue, and said it had [...] | 2003-12-18 11:14:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM ETMIN HUMANR RELFREE |
03HANOI329 | 2002 OFFICIAL VIETNAM DRUG STATISTICS [...] (U) BELOW ARE OFFICIAL 2002 VIETNAM DRUG STATISTICS PROVIDED BY THE STANDING OFFICE FOR DRUG CONTROL OF VIETNAM (SODC). THIS TABLE UPDATES REF B SUBMISSION. 2. (U) BEGIN TEXT INCSR SUMMARY TABLES. SUMMARY TABLES FOR THREE YEARS -- 1. COCA. VIETNAM PRODUCED NO COCA IN 2001 OR PREV [...] | 2003-02-11 09:25:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PREL VM CNARC |
03HANOI3350 | 2003 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY -- REPORT (INCSR) - VIETNAM [...] No summary [...] | 2003-12-29 10:13:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CNARC EFIN HIV KCRM PGOV PREL SNAR SOCI VM |
03HANOI3351 | FOLLOWING UP ON DPM KHOAN VISIT WITH VFM BANG [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador and Pol/C met with Vice Foreign Minister Le Van Bang on December 24 to follow up on issues from Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan's visit, about which the Vietnamese leadership appears clearly pleased. MFA will issue an invitation letter to Peace Corps. MFA will also [...] | 2003-12-29 10:14:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL VM HUMANR CVR RELFREE |
03HANOI3373 | CONVICTION OF Nguyen Vu Binh [...] (SBU) Activist Nguyen Vu Binh, a former journalist who had pushed for the establishment of a new political party and has criticized Vietnam's border agreement with China, was sentenced after a brief trial on December 31 to seven years in prison and two years administrative detention by the Han [...] | 2003-12-31 08:12:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV VM HUMANR |
03HANOI373 | JOINT RESEARCH ON HEALTH/ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF [...] (U) This is an action cable. Please see Paragraph 13 below. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: To date, the Government of Vietnam (GVN) has made little, if any, progress towards achieving the goals set forth in the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed in Hanoi on March 10, 2002, following bilateral [...] | 2003-02-16 01:22:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSCA KTIA TSPL TNGD PREL TBIO OSCI SCUL ENRG OTRA TRGY MNUC VM |
03HANOI376 | TAIWAN-VIETNAM DRUG COOPERATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The drug connection between Vietnam and Taiwan is a "chronic, but not large" problem." A large heroin seizure in Taiwan last May was "unprecedented." Relations between the Taiwan Ministry of Justice/Investigative Bureau (MOJ) liaison officer based in Ho Chi Minh City and his [...] | 2003-02-18 07:04:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL PGOV PINS VM CNARC |
03HANOI381 | POSITIVE ON ASEAN COUNTERTERRORISM INITIATIVES [...] (U) According to Ministry of Foreign Affairs ASEAN Department (MFA/ASEAN) expert Nguyen Thanh Huy, the GVN "is fully committed" to the international struggle against terrorism and will accede to ASEAN's "Agreement on Information Exchange and Establishment of Communication Procedures" signed [...] | 2003-02-18 08:53:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL VM ARF ASEAN CNARC |
03HANOI386 | Vietnam: Second Annual U.S.-Vietnam BTA Joint [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please protect accordingly. -------- OVERVIEW -------- 2. (SBU) Ensuring timely and effective implementation of the U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) continues to be the centerpiece of our economic relations with Vietnam. The BTA continues [...] | 2003-02-18 10:19:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON EAID PREL OVIP VM |
03HANOI388 | VIETNAM: USG HUMAN RIGHTS STRATEGY [...] (U) Ambassador and other Embassy and Consulate General officers demarched and spoke with GVN authorities at the national, provincial, and local levels numerous times throughout the year on various human rights issues including religious freedom as well as the status of persons of concern det [...] | 2003-02-19 03:09:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV ELAB KDEM KSEP XG VM HUMANR ETMIN TIP |
03HANOI396 | "PROTESTING" FOR PEACE IN IRAQ [...] (U) According to press reports, over 1,300 people turned up for a rally at Hanoi's downtown Cultural and Friendship Hall (a gift from the then-Soviet Union) on February 18 to demonstrate solidarity with the people of Iraq, express opposition to war and embargoes against Iraq, and to call for [...] | 2003-02-19 09:05:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINS PTER IZ VM |
03HANOI409 | MORE PROTESTS OVER IRAQ [...] (U) On February 19, the national Youth Federation and the Hanoi Youth Federation jointly sponsored a rally at the Hanoi Medical University opposing war in Iraq and expressing solidarity with the people of Iraq. According to press reports, more than 1,000 students and young people from a var [...] | 2003-02-20 08:25:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINS IZ VM |
03HANOI433 | VIETNAM ON ARF ACTION ON NORTH KOREA [...] (U) In a diplomatic note dated February 21, the MFA's ASEAN Department requested all ARF member Embassies in Hanoi transmit to their Foreign Ministers a copy of a February 21 letter from Foreign Minister Nguyen Dy Nien to Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Hamhong expressing qualified support fo [...] | 2003-02-24 05:43:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KN VM ASEAN DPRK |
03HANOI462 | VIETNAM: CASTRO VISITS HANOI - ACCORDING TO A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Cuban President Fidel Castro and an entourage of over 100 government and business officials made a "successful" and carefully scripted visit to Hanoi from February 21-23, on his way to the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Kuala Lumpur. This was Castor's third visit to Vie [...] | 2003-02-26 08:01:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER CU VM |
03HANOI475 | AMBASSADOR CALLS ON NEW INSTITUTE OF [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a February 26 courtesy call, Ambassador Trinh Quang Thanh, the new Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Institute of International Relations (IIR),told Ambassador Burghardt that IIR "greatly appreciates" Embassy Hanoi's support and looks forward to a co [...] | 2003-02-27 09:24:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PINS VM |
03HANOI517 | VIETNAM VIEWS ON NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT SUMMIT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: From the GVN's perspective, the recently concluded Non-Aligned Movement summit in Kuala Lumpur demonstrated that NAM continues to "revitalize and unify." While NAM came out strongly against a war on Iraq, Vietnamese officials did not view the conference as "anti- American." [...] | 2003-03-05 08:33:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID VM NAM ASEAN |
03HANOI520 | ASEAN-US ISSUES [...] (U) This is an action request: see para 5. 2. (U) ICM: MFA ASEAN Department Deputy Director General Tran Ngoc An confirmed on March 5 to Pol/C that ASEAN had agreed to hold the initial Informal Coordinating Mechanism (ICM) meeting in Vientiane during the afternoon of March 28, followi [...] | 2003-03-05 08:55:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID VM ASEAN |
03HANOI550 | REVIVING THE COUNTERNARCOTICS LOA [...] (SBU) Pham Quang Vinh, Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Department of International Organizations, told poloff on March 7 that the "will is there for completing the LOA in the next several months. What remains is to work on the technical details." Vinh said that h [...] | 2003-03-07 09:19:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL EAID VM CNARC |
03HANOI554 | UNODC CONCERN OVER VIETNAM FUNDING [...] (U) This is an action request - see paragraph 8. 2. (U) UNODC country representative Dr. Doris Buddenberg contacted poloff on March 6 to express concern over Department's decision to reprogram USD 740,000 originally intended to fund UNODC's law enforcement project "Interdiction and Seiz [...] | 2003-03-07 10:05:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PREL EAID VM CNARC |
03HANOI567 | REVIEWING BILATERAL RELATIONS WITH DPM DUNG [...] (U) Summary. DPM Dung expressed general satisfaction with US-Vietnam relations, especially regarding trade and investment ties, along with the desire to do more to push the relationship further. He complained about the recent flag cases, catfish, and the US desire for a textile agreement, [...] | 2003-03-11 01:34:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD MARR SNAR KCRM VM |
03HANOI584 | DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ON IRAQ [...] (U) In a meeting on March 10 devoted primarily to bilateral ties (ref a),senior Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung described Vietnam's "consistent" policy regarding Iraq: The GVN opposed terrorism, opposed using the excuse of terrorism to invade another country, and opposed weapons of m [...] | 2003-03-11 08:57:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MARR PTER VM IZ |
03HANOI593 | SINGAPORE PRIME MINISTER REAFFIRMS STRONG [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong underscored a shared determination to advance the already strong economic ties with Vietnam. PM Goh encouraged his hosts to "look beyond Singapore" for future trade and investment partners, however. Both sides reaffirmed a commitment t [...] | 2003-03-12 04:40:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PGOV ETRD IZ SN VM ASEAN |
03HANOI615 | GVN COOPERATION ON COUNTERTERRORISM [...] (U) In a meeting with Charge on March 13, Assistant Foreign Minister Nguyen Duc Hung, concurrently Director of the MFA's America's Department, said that the GVN had taken prompt action on all USG requests for name checks on potential terrorist links since 9/11, including reviewing informatio [...] | 2003-03-13 08:50:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL VM CTERR |
03HANOI619 | GVN CONCERNED OVER VIETNAM HUMAN RIGHTS ACT [...] (U) In a meeting with Charge on March 13, Assistant Foreign Minister Nguyen Duc Hung, concurrently Director of the MFA's America's Department, expressed concern that the Vietnam Human Rights Act (VHRA) will be reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. Such legislation is "not in th [...] | 2003-03-13 09:21:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM SOCI PGOV VM HUMANR |
03HANOI647 | VIETNAM ON RIGHTSIZING THE IAEA SFEGUARDS BUDGET [...] (U) In response to reftel letter from Deputy Secretary Armitage and demarche on rightsizing the IAEA safeguards budget, Standing Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Dinh Bin responded in a letter dated March 17, 2003 indicating Vietnam's support for general and complete disarmament, th [...] | 2003-03-17 05:10:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ABUD KNNP TRGY OVIP OPDC VM IAEA |
03HANOI651 | "MASS" PEACE RALLIES IN HANOI [...] (U) Similar to the pro-peace meeting they organized on February 18 in Hanoi (ref b),the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF),the Vietnam Peace Committee, the Committee for Asian- African-Latin American Solidarity and Cooperation, and the Vietnam-Iraq Friendship Society jointly sponsored another [...] | 2003-03-17 08:57:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINS ASEC PTER IZ VM |
03HANOI669 | VIETNAM AND CAMBODIA: LOOKING FORWARD [...] (U) SUMMARY. Vietnam and Cambodia have a complex relationship with a volatile history, but both sides now appear to focus on the future. Cross border smuggling of drugs and other goods as well as human trafficking have emerged as significant problems. Vietnam reportedly does not view the [...] | 2003-03-19 02:49:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SNAR SOCI PHUM ETRD ECON EAID CB VM ETMIN CNARC ASEAN TIP |
03HANOI676 | PRO-PEACE RALLY AT EMBASSY [...] (U) During the afternoon of March 19, a group of approximately 30 school-age children (apparently in their early teens at the oldest) suddenly appeared at the front of the Chancery chanting -- in English -- "peace for Iraq" and "no war," and holding up a few pro-peace posters (also in Englis [...] | 2003-03-19 09:45:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ASEC IZ VM |
03HANOI688 | Vietnam: Second Annual BTA Joint Committee [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED -- PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. 2. (SBU) Summary and Introduction: DUSTR Jon Huntsman led the U.S. delegation and Vice Minister of Trade Luong Van Tu headed the GVN side at the plenary session of the second annual meeting of the Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) [...] | 2003-03-21 00:10:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON KIPR KTEX PREL VM |
03HANOI690 | OFFICIAL COMPLAINT ABOUT FLAG BILLS [...] (U) In a diplomatic note to the State Department dated March 20, the MFA formally asked for assistance to "abolish" recent bills by the City Councils of Westminster and Garden Grove, California to permit the use of the flag of the former Republic of Vietnam and to prevent further such legisl [...] | 2003-03-21 02:47:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL VM |
03HANOI694 | THAN SHWE VISIT: CLOSE BUT NOT "TRADITIONAL" FRIENDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The visit by Than Shwe, Senior General and Chairman of Burma's State Peace and Development Council (SPDC),focused on trying to enhance the modest economic relationship of these two fellow ASEAN states. Narcotics were apparently not on the agenda; however, the two sides pled [...] | 2003-03-21 07:53:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PGOV SNAR ETRD MARR BM VM |
03HANOI702 | TFIZ01: VIETNAM UPDATE MARCH 21 [...] (U) Vietnamese television, radio, and newspapers on March 20 and March 21 highlighted international protests against military action in Iraq, including another slew of mass pro-peace "meetings" throughout Vietnam that were described as involving at least tens of thousands of Vietnamese citiz [...] | 2003-03-21 09:50:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINS CASC IZ VM |
03HANOI725 | March 12-14 US-Vietnam Aviation Negotiations [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Substantial progress was made during civair negotiations March 12-14 with the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) on a limited bilateral aviation agreement. The Vietnamese accepted elements of the model U.S. O [...] | 2003-03-25 07:43:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR EINV PREL VM |
03HANOI776 | FOREIGN MINISTER'S LETTER TO SECRETARY POWELL [...] (U) Foreign Minister Nien has written to the Secretary ostensibly to cite progress in bilateral ties but in reality to complain about the likely reintroduction in Congress of the Vietnam Human Rights Act and passage or expected passage at the city and state levels of various "flag bills" man [...] | 2003-03-28 07:49:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OPDC VM |
03HANOI785 | DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER ON IRAQ, RELATIONS WITH U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary. Over an informal dinner on March 27, Deputy Foreign Minister Le Van Bang and the Ambassador discussed differences over Iraq and their effect on the bilateral relationship. They also explored ways to move the relationship forward, including a series of high level visits, a poss [...] | 2003-03-28 09:48:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IZ VM |
03HANOI812 | THE ROLE OF THINK TANKS IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS [...] (U) SUMMARY: The GVN supports an extensive network of research institutes ("think tanks") under the National Center for Social Sciences and Humanities (NCSSH). Among its 25 think tanks, five focus on Vietnam's external relations. While their influence appears modest, the think tanks provid [...] | 2003-04-02 03:54:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SOCI VM |
03HANOI821 | COUNTERTERRORISM: VIETNAM COMMITTED TO WORKING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The GVN views ASEAN as an important framework for regional counterterrorism (CT) efforts and has consistently voiced support for regional and multilateral approaches. From Vietnam's perspective, the recently concluded ASEAN Regional Forum intersessional meeting on counterter [...] | 2003-04-02 09:26:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL VM ASEAN ARF CTERR |
03HANOI829 | VIETNAM ON OIL-FOR-FOOD PROGRAM [...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 10. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Vietnam is interested in continuing its exports of rice until the Oil for Food (OFF) Program, especially in quickly fulfilling outstanding rice contracts, but has concerns about insurance costs and port access. The MFA stres [...] | 2003-04-03 07:05:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETTC EAID EAGR ETRD IZ VM UNSC |
03HANOI956 | VIETNAM'S PRIME MINISTER VISITS JAPAN: [...] (U) SUMMARY. Prime Minister Phan Van Khai's recent visit to Japan avoided potentially controversial political issues such as Iraq and North Korea, instead focusing on economic relations and aid. There is optimism that a bilateral investment agreement may be signed by the "end of this year" [...] | 2003-04-17 09:16:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD EAID ECON PGOV JA VM |
03HANOI975 | NONG DUC MANH'S "WORKING VISIT" TO THE PRC: [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Nong Duc Manh, Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) General Secretary (GS),visited the PRC April 7 - 11. This was his second visit to the PRC since assuming these responsibilities in April 2001. GS Manh was apparently the first foreign leader to meet with the PRC's new leadersh [...] | 2003-04-18 09:32:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINR CH TW VM CVR |
03HARARE1028 | MORE NEGATIVE COMMENTARY IN GOVERNMENT MEDIA [...] Under the headline "Archbishop Ncube shameless" the government-controlled daily "Herald's" May 24 editorial criticized Archbishop Pius Ncube for meeting with Secretary Powell. Excerpts follow: SIPDIS 2. "Like the proverbial Judas Iscariot, Roman Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube was in Wash [...] | 2003-05-27 15:55:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1029 | GOVERNMENT PAPER COVERS POWELL-NCUBE MEETING [...] The meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and Bulawayo Archbishop Pius Ncube provided the lead story in the May 22 edition of the government- controlled daily "Chronicle." The article distorted the purpose and substance of the may 20 meeting Wash [...] | 2003-05-27 16:19:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1031 | GOVERNMENT MEDIA CRITICIZE ARCHBISHOP NCUBE FO [...] Under headline "Pius Ncube must make his intentions clear" the government-controlled daily "Chronicle's" May 22 editorial was critical of Bulawayo Archbishop Pius Ncube for having met with Secretary of State Colin Powell during a recent visit to Washington. Exce [...] | 2003-05-28 05:06:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1034 | STATE-CONTROLLED PAPER HAILS JOURNALIST'S [...] Under headline "Meldrum's expulsion was long overdue" the editorial in the May 28 edition of the government-controlled daily "The Herald" said: "After painting the situation in Zimbabwe in dark colors and generally portraying the country as a lawless community [...] | 2003-05-28 08:54:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO ZI |
03HARARE1035 | LAWYER SEEKS COURT ORDER FOR RETURN OF EXPELLED [...] Beatrice Mtetwa, lawyer for expelled U.S. citizen journalist Andrew Meldrum, has filed an application in the High Court seeking the return of her client, expelled on May 16. The application, filed on May 21, seeks a ruling that would compel Home Affairs Minister Kembo [...] | 2003-05-28 09:00:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KPAO ZI |
03HARARE1058 | MDC PLANS FOR JUNE 2 MASS ACTION [...] (C) On May 27 MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai briefed G8 mission representatives on the MDC's position vis-a-vis various current issues, including plans for mass action. Other G8 representatives present objected to demonstrations in lieu of a stayaway because of the potential for violence. Vio [...] | 2003-05-28 15:04:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ASEC ZI |
03HARARE1080 | MEDIA REACTION MASS ACTION IN ZIM; HARARE [...] Under headline "First duty of army, police is to the nation" the independent daily "The Daily News" dedicated its May 30 editorial to urging Zimbabwe's uniformed forces not to use strong-arm tactics against demonstrators who may participate in next week's possible anti [...] | 2003-05-30 09:56:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1081 | MDC OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCES NATIONWIDE PROTESTS WEEK [...] (C) SUMMARY. The MDC officially announced that protests including demonstrations would begin June 2 and run throughout the week. However, in contrast to the official MDC call for mass action next week, MDC Special Presidential Advisor Gandi Mudzingwa confided that the party hoped to move up [...] | 2003-05-30 10:13:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ASEC ZI |
03HARARE1092 | MEDIA REACTION MASS ACTION IN ZIM; HARARE [...] While editorials in the independent newspapers are in favor of the proposed week-long mass protests that are expected to begin in Zimbabwe today (June 2),called by the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) to force Robert Mugabe to enter into a serious and g [...] | 2003-06-02 08:07:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1095 | MEDIA REPORT U. S./UK UNDER FIRE FROM ZANU PF; [...] No summary [...] | 2003-06-02 08:52:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1097 | TSVANGIRAI DETAINED AS WEEK OF MDC PLANNED MASS [...] (C) Summary. MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai was arrested this morning as his party prepared to kick off a week of mass action including demonstrations and stayaways against the government of Robert Mugabe. Though charges have not yet been brought against Tsvangirai, it may be that the gover [...] | 2003-06-02 09:13:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ASEC ZI |
03HARARE1113 | MEDIA REACTION MASS ACTION IN ZIM; HARARE [...] Editorials in the mainstream media remain sharply divided over the implications of the week-long national protests organized by the opposition Movement of Democratic Change (MDC) to pressure Robert Mugabe to the negotiating table. While the independent media is [...] | 2003-06-03 11:18:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1130 | AFTER MUGABE: POST RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A U.S. [...] (c) Summary: While it is still uncertain whether President Robert Mugabe will depart in the next days or months, Post considers it prudent to offer policymakers "day after" recommendations at this stage. Assuming a transition government is committed to political and economic reform, the U.S. [...] | 2003-06-04 10:47:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV ECON EFIN KDEM PHUM PREL SENV SOCI ZI EXIM |
03HARARE1133 | MEDIA REACTION MASS ACTION IN ZIM; HARARE [...] Editorials in the June 4 editions of the two national dailies - the independent "Daily News" and the government- controlled "Herald," continue to focus on the on-going nationwide anti-government protests that are expected to end on Friday, June 6. The demonstrations [...] | 2003-06-04 12:55:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1139 | MEDIA REACTION MASS ACTION IN ZIM; HARARE [...] Under headline "What next after mass action?" the independent daily "The Daily News" dedicated its June 5 editorial to challenging the leadership of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) to "come up with an imaginative and focused plan that can sav [...] | 2003-06-05 07:55:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1150 | MEDIA REPORT GOZ ACCUSES WEST OF BACKING MDC; [...] No summary [...] | 2003-06-05 14:26:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1151 | MEDIA REACTION MASS ACTION IN ZIM; HARARE [...] Editorials in the June 5 editions of the government-controlled daily "Chronicle" and the pro-government "Business Tribune" concentrated on the continuing mass action in Zimbabwe called by the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) to pressure the Mugabe [...] | 2003-06-05 14:30:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1158 | MEDIA REACTION MASS ACTION IN ZIM; HARARE [...] The week-long mass action, called by the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) aimed at forcing Robert Mugabe to address the economic and political crisis afflicting the country, remains the mainstay for editorials being carried in the mainstream media [...] | 2003-06-06 09:01:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1166 | MEDIA REACTION MASS ACTION IN ZIM; HARARE [...] Weekend editorials concentrated on the five-day anti-government protests, called by the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC),that completely shutdown commerce and industry in the country from June 2 through 6, 2003. Editorial excerpts follow: [...] | 2003-06-09 09:50:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1169 | MEDIA REACTION IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "Bush and Blair lied about Iraq" the pro-government weekly "The Sunday Mirror" dedicated its June 8 editorial to criticizing the United States-led war against Iraq, saying, "the invasion of Iraq was unjust." Adding: "Bush and Blair are shameless liars." [...] | 2003-06-09 12:20:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1179 | MEDIA REPORT MASS ACTION IN RETROSPECT; HARARE [...] Two journalists working for the independent short-wave radio station Voice of the People (VOP) were detained and beaten by ZANU-PF youths and war veterans at the beginning (June 2) of the week-long mass protests organized by the opposition Movement for Democratic Chang [...] | 2003-06-10 15:11:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1185 | ASSISTING ZIMBABWE AFTER DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS [...] (c) Summary: This message provides recommendations for U.S. assistance to a reformist, democratically-elected government. These recommendations go well beyond the assistance we recommended for a transition government in reftel. End summary. 2. (c) Reftel outlined programs and activities we [...] | 2003-06-11 12:39:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV ECON EFIN KDEM PHUM PREL SENV SOCI ZI |
03HARARE1209 | MEDIA REPORT IMF AND ZIMBABWE; HARARE [...] Under headline "Embrace the devil" the independent weekly "The Financial Gazette" dedicated its June 12 editorial to encouraging the government of Zimbabwe "to seek rapprochement and mend fences" with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) "for the good of the na [...] | 2003-06-12 13:55:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1217 | MEDIA REACTION DROC; HARARE [...] Under headline "U. N.'s indifference to DRC conflict disturbing" the government-controlled daily "The Herald" dedicated its June 13 editorial to accusing the United Nations of dragging its feet in solving the political discord in the Democratic Republic of Congo [...] | 2003-06-13 10:25:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1236 | MEDIA REACTION G8 SUMMIT; HARARE [...] Under headline "Africa should adopt one position on G8" the independent weekly "The Business Tribune" dedicated its June 12 editorial to criticizing the G8 for failing to meet their obligations to Africa at the just-ended summit in Evian, France. Stating: "Africa must [...] | 2003-06-17 11:50:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1242 | SOUTH AFRICANS SEE SLOW PROGRESS TOWARD ZIMBABWE [...] (c) South African High Commissioner Jeremiah Ndou told the Ambassador June 17 that talks about talks between ZANU-PF and the MDC continued with both sides agreed on need to resume their dialogue. Ndou said that some talks had already occurred between the two sides prior to the June 2-6 stayawa [...] | 2003-06-18 05:30:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SF ZI |
03HARARE1267 | MDC LEADER TSVANGIRAI WELL AND DETERMINED TO MOVE [...] No summary [...] | 2003-06-23 12:58:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS ZI MDC |
03HARARE1292 | MEDIA REACTION ZIM CRISIS; HARARE [...] Under headline "Pretoria becomes chief stumbling block", the independent daily "The Daily News" dedicated its June 24 editorial to encouraging South African President Thabo Mbeki to stop obstructing international efforts meant to resolve the deepening political and [...] | 2003-06-25 10:11:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1293 | NIGERIAN HIGH COMMISSIONER DISCOURAGED ON ZIMBABWE [...] No summary [...] | 2003-06-25 11:43:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NI ZI |
03HARARE13 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S./IRAQ/NORTH KOREA STANDOFF; [...] With headline "Under the specter of a third world war," the pro-government weekly "The Sunday Mirror" dedicated its January 5 editorial to encouraging the United States, at a time when a military showdown against Iraq seems inevitable, to resolve the nuclear sta [...] | 2003-01-06 08:52:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1316 | Situation in Zimbabwe Remains Critical: [...] The significant 2002/2003 response by the international humanitarian community to the complex food security crisis in Zimbabwe averted famine. Although the current harvest is expected to be marginally better than last year's, the situation remains fragile and will require substantial quantiti [...] | 2003-06-27 08:48:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL US ZI |
03HARARE1317 | MEDIA REACTION POWELL ON ZIM CRISIS; HARARE [...] The op-ed column by United States Secretary of State Colin Powell in the "New York Times" has made front-page headlines in the mainstream print media. While the independent newspapers welcomed Secretary Powell's commentary and recommendations, the state-controll [...] | 2003-06-27 08:50:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1318 | MEDIA REACTION POWELL ON ZIM CRISIS; HARARE [...] Under headline "Ball in your court" the independent daily "The Daily News" dedicated its June 26 editorial to encouraging Robert Mugabe's government to embrace Secretary Colin Powell's recommendations, carried in an op-ed published in the New York Times, in supp [...] | 2003-06-27 08:50:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1319 | MEDIA REACTION POWELL OP-ED ON ZIM UNDER FIRE; [...] Under headline "Powell is a slow learner" the government-controlled daily "The Herald" dedicated its June 27 editorial to criticizing Secretary of State Colin Powell for penning a critical op-ed in the "New York Times" on Robert Mugabe's government. Excerpts fol [...] | 2003-06-27 08:51:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE132 | UN PREPARES TO BEGIN FOOD MONITORING [...] SUMMARY: Systematic UN monitoring of humanitarian assistance flows in Zimbabwe appears--finally--to be on the verge of proceeding. Two of the expatriate staff who will conduct this effort are on the ground, and plan shortly to open the first of five offices. Limited monitoring will begin in [...] | 2003-01-17 09:00:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAGR ZI |
03HARARE1333 | SIMBA MAKONI ON ZIMBABWEAN CRISIS [...] (C) Former Finance Minister and still ZANU-PF Politburo member Simba Makoni called on the Ambassador July 1. Makoni, who recently lost his 23-year old son to suicide, told the Ambassador July 1 that he was focused on family and his growing consultancy business and relatively disconnected fro [...] | 2003-07-01 13:16:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ZI ZANU PF |
03HARARE134 | UN Humanitarian Assistance Coordination [...] Summary. On Monday, January 13, the UN held its first coordination meeting of 2003 on Zimbabwe's humanitarian crisis among UN agencies, donors and Government of Zimbabwe (GOZ) officials. The large number of attendees included July Moyo, the Minister of Social Welfare, Labor and Public Works [...] | 2003-01-17 09:31:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL US ZI |
03HARARE1360 | MDC LEADER TSVANGIRAI SAYS THAT NO CURRENT [...] (U) MDC Delegations ----------------- (C) MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai outlined for the Ambassador his party's plans for upcoming meetings and various mediation efforts underway. Tsvangirai said that the MDC would be sending a small team to Pretoria next week headed by spokesman Paul The [...] | 2003-07-04 11:59:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SF ZI MDC |
03HARARE1362 | MUGABE LAUNCHES RHETORICAL DEFENSE AGAINST VISIT [...] No summary [...] | 2003-07-07 08:57:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ZI |
03HARARE1368 | MEDIA REACTION U. S. POLICY TOWARDS ZIM UNDER [...] Under headline "U. S. taking out carrot and stick once again" the July 3 edition of the independent daily "The Daily News" carried an op-ed by Kuthula Matshazi on page 8 that was critical of the United States policy towards Zimbabwe. Excerpts: 2. ". . .The car [...] | 2003-07-08 09:37:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1369 | MEDIA REACTION AU SUMMIT; HARARE [...] Under headline "AU must make a stand" the independent daily "The Daily News" dedicated its July 3 editorial to urge the African Union (AU) - meeting in Maputo, Mozambique, next week for its second summit - to "publicly and firmly denounce Harare" for human rights abuse [...] | 2003-07-08 09:37:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE137 | ZVOBGO-AMBASSADOR MEETING [...] (C) ZANU-PF elder statesman Eddison Zvobgo told the Ambassador January 15 that he preferred to keep his upcoming trip to the U.S. focused primarily on personal business but, at the Ambassador's suggestion, he agreed to consider stopping in Washington. Zvobgo discussed a faction within the ru [...] | 2003-01-17 10:34:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ZI |
03HARARE1370 | MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO AFRICA; [...] President George W. Bush's visit to Africa remains the top issue for discussion in lengthy editorials being carried in the mainstream newspapers ahead of the July 7 - 12 visit. Excerpts follow: 2. Under headline "Bush must respect African leadership" the gover [...] | 2003-07-08 09:38:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1371 | MEDIA COVERAGE PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO AFRICA; [...] An avalanche of news articles and opinion pieces focusing on the decisive African Nations Cup qualifying soccer match between Zimbabwe and Eritrea, especially in the government-controlled print and electronic media, failed to eclipse critical articles against Pr [...] | 2003-07-08 09:40:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1372 | MEDIA REPORT PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO AFRICA; [...] The June 29 edition of the government-controlled weekly "The Sunday Mail" devoted considerable space to articles talking about the forth-coming historic visit to Africa by United States President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell's op-ed in the New Yor [...] | 2003-07-08 09:41:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1373 | MEDIA REPORT EDITOR CHARGED UNDER POSA; HARARE [...] Nqobile Nyathi, Editor of the independent daily "The Daily News," was arrested, charged and released on June 26 under the controversial Public Order and Security Act (POSA) for allegedly publishing adverts insulting Robert Mugabe. The ostensibly illicit adverts [...] | 2003-07-08 09:41:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1375 | MEDIA REACTION SECRETARY POWELL'S OP-ED ON ZIM [...] The government-controlled daily "The Herald" continues to publish discourteous articles against Secretary of State Colin Powell. Excerpts of an op-ed carried in the July 2 edition follow: 2. Under headline "U. S. Secretary of State ignorant of Zimbabwean situa [...] | 2003-07-08 09:42:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1377 | MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO AFRICA; [...] Weekend editorials continue to focus on President Bush's first trip to Africa. Excerpts follow: 2. Under headline "Rude awakening awaits Bush" the government-controlled weekly "Sunday News" (06/29) comments: "The announcement that U. S. President George W. [...] | 2003-07-08 09:53:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1378 | MEDIA REACTION POWELL OP-ED ON ZIM UNDER FIRE; [...] The lead article in the June 27 edition of the government-controlled daily "The Herald" and an op-ed in the same edition collectively criticize Secretary of State Colin Powell for writing an op-ed column in the "New York Times" criticizing Robert Mugabe's govern [...] | 2003-07-08 09:54:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1379 | MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO AFRICA; [...] Mainstream newspapers have started dedicating acres of editorial space to mull over United States President George W. Bush's visit to Africa. Editorial excerpts follow: 2. Under headline "The Bush African trail" the independent weekly "The Daily News on Sunday" (06/ [...] | 2003-07-08 09:54:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ZI |
03HARARE1383 | MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO AFRICA; [...] Under headline "Bush must tell Mbeki to act decisively on Zimbabwe" the July 8 edition of the independent daily "The Daily News" printed an op-ed by Joseph Whande on page 8, in which he urges President George Bush to help resolve the socioeconomic and political impasse [...] | 2003-07-08 13:44:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1389 | MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO AFRICA; [...] Under headline "Bush must demand that Mbeki act on Zimbabwe" the independent daily "The Daily News" dedicated its July 9 editorial to calling on President George W. Bush "to use his immense influence to pressure" South African President Thabo Mbeki to stand up [...] | 2003-07-09 07:50:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1390 | MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO AFRICA; [...] Under headline "Bush must demand that Mbeki act on Zimbabwe" the independent daily "The Daily News" dedicated its July 9 editorial to calling on President George W. Bush "to use his immense influence to pressure" South African President Thabo Mbeki to stand up [...] | 2003-07-09 07:51:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1398 | RIOT POLICE BREAK UP SMALL DEMONSTRATION, HARARE [...] (C) On July 8 police stopped about 15 to 20 MDC members who attempted to march from Africa Unity Square in downtown Harare to the US Embassy to deliver a petition. While the Daily News reported the number of demonstrators to be about 3000, reports from witnesses put the number at 15 - 20. [...] | 2003-07-09 09:06:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ASEC ZI |
03HARARE1400 | MEDIA COVERAGE PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO AFRICA; [...] President George W. Bush's visit to Africa continues to make headlines in the local print and electronic media. While the independent press is casting the visit in positive light, the government-controlled print and electronic media is denouncing the whistle stop tour [...] | 2003-07-09 09:11:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1404 | MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT BUSH;S VISIT TO AFRICA; [...] Under headline "Tsvangirai exhibits inferiority complex" the government-controlled daily "The Herald" dedicated its July 10 editorial to hailing President George W. Bush and his South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki for coming up with a shared position on how to [...] | 2003-07-10 08:24:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1405 | MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO AFRICA; [...] Under headline "U. S. has a role to play in solving Zimbabwe crisis" the July 10 edition of the independent daily "The Daily News" carried the following op-ed by Marko Phiri, political commentator, in which he advocates for a United States involvement in resolvi [...] | 2003-07-10 08:37:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1408 | MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO AFRICA; [...] President George W. Bush's remarks on the challenges facing Zimbabwe during a joint news conference with his South African counterpart, Thabo Mbeki, in Pretoria made the top story during the state-run radio and television, ZBC/TV, news programs broadcast on July [...] | 2003-07-10 12:19:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1409 | MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO AFRICA; [...] Under headline "Bush putting up a faade" the July 10 edition of the independent weekly "The Financial Gazette" carried the following opinion piece by Taungana Ndoro under his regular column "Inside Politics" on page 13, in which he bemoans the exclusion of Zimbabwe from President Bush's itine [...] | 2003-07-10 12:52:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1411 | 58TH UNGA - ZIMBABWE AGREES WITH MOST U.S. [...] SUMMARY: On July 10, DCM delivered Reftel demarche to Tadeous Chifamba, Director of Multilateral Affairs in Zimbabwe,s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who raised no objections to any of the U.S. initiatives. Chifamba enthusiastically agreed with the U.S. position on Women & Political Participatio [...] | 2003-07-10 13:44:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PREL PHUM ZI |
03HARARE1417 | MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO AFRICA; [...] Talks on Zimbabwe between President George W. Bush and his South African counterpart, Thabo Mbeki, continue to dominate editorials in the mainstream newspapers. Excerpts: 2. Under headline "Mbeki has his job cut out" the independent daily "The Daily News" (07/1 [...] | 2003-07-11 09:42:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1418 | MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO AFRICA; [...] Under headline "Africa must resist West's machinations" the government-controlled daily "Chronicle" dedicated its July 3 editorial to accusing Washington of conspiring to unseat Robert Mugabe and his government. Excerpts: 2. ". . .Mr. Bush's African visit. . .s [...] | 2003-07-11 09:43:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1419 | MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO AFRICA; [...] There has been an outpouring of articles, op-ed and opinion pieces in the mainstream newspapers following talks on Zimbabwe between President George W. Bush and his South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki, including President Bush's visit to Botswana, in the lead [...] | 2003-07-11 09:43:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1422 | MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO AFRICA; [...] Under headline "Bush visit sees welcome consensus on Zim" the independent weekly "The Zimbabwe Independent" dedicated its July 11 editorial to hailing President Bush's trip to Africa, saying: "By reaching out to Africa. . .Bush has indicated that post-Iraq Ameri [...] | 2003-07-14 07:30:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1437 | MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO AFRICA; [...] President George W. Bush's visit to five nations in Africa remains a sizzling issue in the leading newspapers in Zimbabwe. An epigrammatic sample of some of the articles, op-ed and opinion pieces follow: 2. Under headline "Cyclone Bush hits Africa" the [...] | 2003-07-15 09:26:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1438 | MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT BUSH'S TRIP TO AFRICA; [...] Under headline "President finally vindicated" the government-controlled daily "The Herald" dedicated its July 15 edition to declaring that the just-ended five-nation tour in Africa, especially South Africa, by President George W. Bush had managed to shore up Rob [...] | 2003-07-15 09:28:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1439 | MEDIA REACTION IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "White House in crisis over Iraq invasion lies" the government-controlled daily "The Herald"(07/15) carried the following op-ed by Patrick Martin on page 6, in which he argues that the on-going muddle surrounding the contents of President George W [...] | 2003-07-15 10:41:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1447 | MEDIA REACTION IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "MPs call for Blair to resign: Bush hangs British PM out to dry over Iraqi nuclear claims" the government-controlled daily "The Herald" (07/17) carried the following opinion article by Chris Marsden on page 9: 2. "In admitting U. S. doubts over B [...] | 2003-07-17 08:48:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1448 | MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO AFRICA; [...] Under headline "Liars like Bush annihilate themselves" the ruling ZANU-PF weekly mouthpiece "The People's Voice" dedicated its July 13 editorial to criticizing the United States policy towards Zimbabwe. Excerpts: 2. ". . .Since when (has) Britain and the U. S. starte [...] | 2003-07-17 09:17:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1453 | CAPITALIZING ON POTUS VISIT TO MOVE SOUTH AFRICA [...] No summary [...] | 2003-07-17 12:23:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SF ZI |
03HARARE1457 | MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO AFRICA; [...] An editorial and an op-ed article carried in the July 13 edition of the pro-government weekly "The Sunday Mirror" concentrate on the talks between President George W. Bush and his South African counterpart, Thabo Mbeki, during President Bush's visit to Africa. Excerpt [...] | 2003-07-18 05:03:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1462 | MEDIA REPORT PRESIDENT BUSH'S TRIP TO AFRICA; [...] No summary [...] | 2003-07-18 08:40:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1463 | MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO AFRICA; [...] President George W. Bush's visit to Africa remains a core issue for discussion in op-ed and opinion pieces being carried in some of the leading newspapers in Zimbabwe. Excerpts follow: 2. Under headline "U. S. seeks to strengthen its position in Africa" the go [...] | 2003-07-18 09:43:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1466 | MEDIA REACTION NORTH KOREA; HARARE [...] Under headline "China shows the way" the pro- government weekly "The Sunday Mirror" dedicated its July 20 editorial to hailing China's "efforts to encourage and promote a diplomatic solution" over a crisis stemming from North Korea's alleged nuclear weapons program. E [...] | 2003-07-21 08:33:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1467 | MEDIA REPORT U. S./ ZIM RELATIONS; HARARE [...] Back-to-back leading articles in the July 20 and 21 editions of the independent weekly "The Daily News on Sunday" and its sister daily "The Daily News," respectively, focus on the failing relations between the United States and Zimbabwe. Excerpts follow: 2. Th [...] | 2003-07-21 10:06:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1471 | MEDIA REACTION DROC; HARARE [...] Under headline "DRC rebel ministers irresponsible" the pro-government weekly "The Sunday Mirror" dedicated its July 20 editorial to urging leaders from the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) two main rebel movements "to act responsibly and in the interests of their l [...] | 2003-07-22 08:29:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1475 | MDC RELATES MORE CONTACTS ABOUT DIALOGUE [...] (C) Contacts with ZANU-PF: MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai and Secretary General Welshman Ncube told the SIPDIS Ambassador over lunch July 22 that Zanu-PF and the South African Government(SAG) had reached out to them recently. ZANU-PF Minister for Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Patrick C [...] | 2003-07-22 14:33:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ZI SF |
03HARARE1476 | MEDIA REACTION U. S. FOREIGN POLICY, BUSH'S VISIT [...] The July 20 editions of the two government-controlled weeklies - "The Sunday Mail" and the "Sunday News" - carried lengthy articles centering on United States foreign policy, President George W. Bush's visit to Africa, and another urging the United States to loo [...] | 2003-07-23 07:25:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1477 | MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT BUSH ON "CAPTIVE NATIONS [...] Under headline "Africa must resist" the government-controlled Bulawayo-based weekly "Sunday News" dedicated its July 20 editorial to criticizing President George W. Bush for including Zimbabwe on the list of country's he said, in a proclamation to mark "Captive [...] | 2003-07-23 08:40:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1478 | MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO AFRICAL; [...] Under headline "U. S. crop subsidies disadvantage African farmers" the July 20 edition of the government-controlled Bulawayo-based weekly "Sunday News" carried the following article by Mbongeni Mguni, in which he criticizes President George W. Bush for dodging t [...] | 2003-07-23 11:09:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1507 | HOW MUCH GIVE IN ZANU-PF OPENNESS TO DIALOGUE [...] No summary [...] | 2003-07-25 09:34:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ZI |
03HARARE1519 | MEDIA REACTION IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "U. S. shows unparalleled savagery, contempt for human life" the July 28 edition of the government-controlled daily "The Herald" carried the following article by Barry Grey, in which he criticizes the American Government for sanctioning the emblaz [...] | 2003-07-28 10:12:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1534 | GOZ ISSUES APPEAL FOR HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE [...] The Government of Zimbabwe (GOZ) has finally issued a formal request for humanitarian assistance to the United Nations (UN). The primary request is for additional (not in the pipeline) food aid in the amount of 600,000 MT of maize to fill what the GOZ perceives to be the "food gap," the diff [...] | 2003-07-30 07:19:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL US ZI |
03HARARE1535 | MEDIA REACTION IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "Bush humbled by uncertainty in Iraq" the July 30 edition of the government-controlled daily "The Herald" carried the following op-ed by Lovemore Mataire in which he blames the United States for going into Iraq without possessing "a brilliant exit [...] | 2003-07-30 09:34:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1536 | MEDIA REPORT VOA'S STUDIO 7 UNDER FIRE; HARARE [...] Information and Publicity Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has accused the United States and Britain of toughening "their hostility towards Zimbabwe," by "churning out propaganda about regime change" through the Voice of America's (VOA) Studio 7 channel on Zimbabwe. S [...] | 2003-07-30 12:27:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1544 | MEDIA REACTION IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "America's medieval barbarism" the pro-government weekly "The Sunday Mirror" dedicated its July 27 editorial to condemning the United States for making public the pictures of Saddam Hussein's two sons, Uday and Quasy, who were killed in a gun batt [...] | 2003-07-31 05:03:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1564 | MEDIA REPORT ANZ SUES INFORMATION MINISTER MOYO; [...] We have a classic case here in which the prey has become the predator. Upset by "highly defamatory and malicious attacks" by Information and Publicity Minister Jonathan Moyo, the independent Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ) - publishers of the "Daily News" and [...] | 2003-08-05 13:22:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1594 | MDC OFFICIAL OFFERS MIXED ASSESSMENT ON CHURCHES' [...] (C) SUMMARY: Gandhi Mudzingwa, MDC's Director of Presidential Affairs, on August 7 told poloff that mixed signals from ZANU-PF underscored the uncertainty surrounding the ongoing bishops' attempt to jump start talks. He reported that a ZANU-PF source had approached him about derailing the e [...] | 2003-08-08 10:10:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ZI |
03HARARE1599 | BISHOP RECOUNTS STATUS OF TALKS INITIATIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On behalf of the bishops' troika (reftels),Trevor Manhanga of the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe on August 8 gave Charge a status report on the bishops' initiative to get political talks renewed. Manhanga dismissed criticism of the initiative by certain ZANU-PF elements and [...] | 2003-08-12 07:00:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ZI |
03HARARE1607 | MEDIA REACTION MUGABE/TAYLOR ARROGANT; HARARE [...] Under headline "Alternative to dialogue" the independent daily "The Daily News" dedicated its August 13 editorial to urging Robert Mugabe to be sincere in finding a durable solution to the current political impasse in Zimbabwe, adding that Mugabe's "demand that [...] | 2003-08-13 13:56:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1614 | MEDIA REACTION MUGABE/TAYLOR HOLD POLITICAL [...] Under headline "Africa must now bear on Mugabe to step down" the independent daily "The Daily News" dedicated its August 14 editorial to calling on African leaders to "use their influence" to encourage Robert Mugabe, blamed for the "deepening political and economic ana [...] | 2003-08-14 09:18:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1643 | MEDIA REACTION TAYLOR/MUGABE; HARARE [...] Under headline "Curse of quiet diplomacy" the independent weekly "The Daily News On Sunday" dedicated its August 17 editorial to criticizing South African President Thabo Mbeki's "quiet diplomacy" towards Robert Mugabe, arguing, "It was not quiet diplomacy which [...] | 2003-08-19 06:26:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1649 | MEDIA REPORT GOZ BANS NGOS FROM DISTRIBUTING FOOD [...] Under headline "Merchants of hunger" the independent daily "The Daily News" dedicated its August 20 editorial to denouncing the government of Zimbabwe (GOZ) for ordering donor agencies in Zimbabwe to surrender all food aid to village headman. Excerpts: 2. [...] | 2003-08-20 11:28:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1651 | MEDIA REACTION TRUCK BLAST AT U. N.'S IRAQ HQ; [...] The August 19 truck bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, has received extensive coverage in both the local print and electronic media. The blast made the lead story in the August 20 edition of the government-controlled daily "The Herald." The [...] | 2003-08-21 05:48:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1656 | MEDIA REACTION IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "Will America learn from its past mistakes?" the pro-government weekly "Business Tribune" carried the following feature article by Billet Magara in which he criticizes the United States for leading a military campaign against Saddam Hussein, sayin [...] | 2003-08-21 14:52:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1671 | MEDIA REACTION EDITORIALS AGAINST LIFTING OF [...] Back to back editorials in the August 25 edition of the independent daily "The Daily News" and the July 24 edition of its sister weekly "The Daily News on Sunday" are against the call for the lifting of travel and economic restrictions imposed on Robert Mugabe a [...] | 2003-08-25 14:46:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1672 | MEDIA REACTION IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "U. N. abuse by UK and U. S. must be probed" the August 24 edition of the government- controlled weekly "The Sunday Mail" carried the following opinion piece by Tafataona Mahoso under his regular column "African Focus": 2. "For those nations who [...] | 2003-08-25 14:47:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1673 | MEDIA REACTION SADC MUTUAL DEFENSE PACT HAILED; [...] Under headline "SADC Mutual Defense Pact welcome development" the August 25 edition of the government- controlled daily "The Herald" carried the following op-ed by Caesar Zvayi: 2. ". . .The events of September 11, 2001 an obvious backlash by the disgruntled bu [...] | 2003-08-25 14:48:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR ZI KAPO |
03HARARE1705 | MEDIA REACTION U. S. ACCUSED OF TRYING TO ISOLATE [...] The United States Institute of Peace is reported to have accused the United States and the European Union (EU) of trying to isolate Zimbabwe. Under headline "ZANU PF rule unavoidable: U. S. report," the August 28 edition of the government-controlled daily "The [...] | 2003-08-28 07:58:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR ZI KAPO |
03HARARE1711 | TALKS ON TALKS: MOMENTUM TOWARD ZIMBABWE POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: A series of meetings between political players here and HIRC Africa Subcommittee staffer Malik Chaka illuminated the tentative state of play of various efforts to get ZANU-PF/MDC talks resumed. ZANU-PF Chairman John Nkomo highlighted improvements in the political atmosphere and [...] | 2003-08-28 14:55:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ZI MDC ZANU PF |
03HARARE1712 | ZIMBABWE WAFFLING ON EFFORT TO CONTROL FOOD RELIEF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In meetings with House International Relations Committee Africa Subcommittee staffer Malik Chaka August 20-21, Minister for Special Affairs (and ZANU-PF Party Chairman) John Nkomo and Minister of Public Service, Labor and Social Services July Moyo emphasized the government's pr [...] | 2003-08-28 15:01:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI SA ZI |
03HARARE1713 | WFP/UNDP REPORT A FOOD-FIGHT IN THE OFFING [...] (c) Summary. In a somber August 28 meeting, UNDP resrep Victor Angelo commented on the accelerating downward spiral of the Zimbabwean economy and increasingly difficult UN/NGO relations with the GOZ. The WFP Regional Director described a discouraging exchange with President Mugabe on NGO in [...] | 2003-08-29 06:16:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PREL EAGR PHUM ZI |
03HARARE1732 | MEDIA REACTION PAPER REBUTS "HERALD" STORY; HARARE [...] The August 29 edition of the independent weekly the "Zimbabwe Independent" carried an article rebutting a front-page article in the August 28 edition of the government-controlled daily "The Herald" that deliberately mis-reported and quoted out of context a most [...] | 2003-09-03 05:52:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1736 | MEDIA REACTION COUNCIL ELECTIONS IN ZIM; HARARE [...] While an editorial in the September 3 edition of the independent daily "The Daily News" saw the outcome of the weekend urban council elections, in which the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) narrowly defeated the ruling ZANU PF party, as a demonstr [...] | 2003-09-03 08:51:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1782 | MINISTER OF STATE NKOMO ON INTERPARTY TALKS: HASTE [...] (c) Summary. The Ambassador met with Minister of State for Special Affairs John Nkomo on September 10 as a follow up to last month's meeting (ref a). The talks centered on HIV/AIDS programs, the role of NGOs in distributing humanitarian food assistance, the status of interparty dialogue, an [...] | 2003-09-11 07:14:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID ZI |
03HARARE1792 | TSVANGIRAI ON MDC'S OVERSEAS OUTREACH, TALKS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a September 10 meeting with Ambassador Sullivan, MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai voiced continued frustration with ZANU-PF's lack of urgency on resuming talks and recounted efforts by MDC principals to engage with regional SADC leaders in that regard. He sought USG support f [...] | 2003-09-11 14:33:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ZI MDC |
03HARARE1794 | UNDAUNTED BISHOPS SEEK BENCHMARKS TO STIMULATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The bishops troika on September 10 updated Ambassador Sullivan on their efforts to facilitate inter-party talks. They were encouraged by ZANU-PF Chairman John Nkomo's invitation to a meeting earlier that day, although they did not expect ZANU-PF to re-activate the bishops' initi [...] | 2003-09-11 14:47:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ZI |
03HARARE183 | PARLIAMENT BUDGETARY PROCESS [...] This year represents the second time in Parliament's 20 year history that the budget bill has been disaggregated and subjected to a serious review by Parliament's newly (2000) created portfolio committees- consisting of Members of the ruling and opposition political parties. This new, more tr [...] | 2003-01-27 14:53:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL US ZI |
03HARARE1838 | MEDIA REACTION CUBA/ZIM/U. S. RELATIONS; HARARE [...] Under headline "Cuba, Zimbabwe lead the way" the government-controlled weekly "The Sunday News" dedicated its September 7 editorial to demonizing the West, especially the United States and Britain, for allegedly maltreating Cuba and Zimbabwe. Excerpts follow: [...] | 2003-09-15 05:19:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1839 | MEDIA REPORT ZIMABWEANS SEEK ASYLUM IN THE U. S.; [...] The lead article in the September 8 edition of the independent daily "The Daily News" concentrates on an application for "Temporary Protection Status" by Zimbabweans living in the United States. Under headline "Zimbabweans seek U. S. shelter," Farai Mutsaka, Ch [...] | 2003-09-15 05:19:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1840 | MEDIA REACTION IRAQ - CALL FOR BLAIR TO RESIGN; [...] Under headline "Blair lacks moral fiber to remain in office" the pro-government weekly "The Sunday Mirror" dedicated its September 7 to calling on British Prime Minister Tony Blair to resign over his decision to commit Britain to military action in Iraq. Excerp [...] | 2003-09-15 05:19:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1841 | MEDIA REACTION SA DRUG DEAL WITH WTO HAILED; [...] Under headline "SA drugs deal with WTO noble" the pro-government weekly "The Sunday Mirror" dedicated its September 7 editorial to hailing a drug manufacturing and importation deal between South Africa and the World Trade Organization (WTO),saying the deal "has [...] | 2003-09-15 05:19:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1842 | MEDIA REACTION IRAQ; HARARE [...] The United States-led mission in Iraq, including a U. S. proposal for a new United Nations resolution to attract more money and troops for Iraq, have again come under fire in articles published in the government-controlled mainstream newspapers. Article excerpt [...] | 2003-09-15 05:19:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1843 | MEDIA REACTION SEPTEMBER ELEVEN SECOND [...] Under headline "Americans to mark grim anniversary" United States-based columnist for the government controlled weekly "The Sunday Mail" (09/07),Tendayi Kumbula, dedicated his article to reflect on the second anniversary of September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks [...] | 2003-09-15 05:19:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1844 | MEDIA REPORT PLACEMENT OF OP-ED ON WTO CANCUN [...] No summary [...] | 2003-09-15 05:20:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1845 | MEDIA REPORT SUPREME COURT ORDERS DAILY NEWS TO [...] No summary [...] | 2003-09-15 05:20:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1846 | MEDIA REACTION 9/11; HARARE [...] Under headline "U. S. foreign policy to blame for September 11 attacks" the government-controlled daily "The Herald" (09/11) carried an op-ed by Caesar Zvayi on page 8, in which he accuses President George W. Bush of "busy stepping on more toes" after the terror [...] | 2003-09-15 05:21:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1852 | MEDIA REACTION SUPREME COURT RULING ON ANZ [...] Under headline "Travesty of Justice" the independent weekly "The Standard" dedicated its September 14 editorial to dismissing Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku's ruling on the Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ),publishers of Zimbabwe's only independent dai [...] | 2003-09-15 09:26:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1853 | MEDIA REACTION U. S. AND WAR AGAINST TERROR; [...] Under headline "U. S. losing war against terrorism" the pro-government weekly "The Sunday Mirror" dedicated its September 14 editorial to encouraging the United States to "abandon its current Middle East foreign policy" as a panacea to win the U. S.-led war against glo [...] | 2003-09-15 09:43:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1861 | MINISTER OFFERS INSIGHTS ON ZANU-PF POSTURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Mines Edward Chindori-Chininga on September 11 spoke with Ambassador Sullivan on ZANU-PF succession issues and internal party elections. Chindori-Chininga did not break any new ground but confirmed party elections' potential implications for succession and the govern [...] | 2003-09-15 13:01:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI PREL ZI ZANU PF |
03HARARE1866 | GOVERNMENT RAIDS AND CLOSES ONLY INDEPENDENT DAILY [...] (SBU) Summary: Friday night, September 12, police units raided the offices and printing press of the largest circulation daily newspaper in Zimbabwe, The Daily News (TDN),forcing production to cease. Thursday's Supreme Court ruling declared the paper's operations "illeg [...] | 2003-09-16 06:10:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1871 | MEDIA REACTION GOZ-CONTROLLED THE HERALD HAILS [...] Under the headline "Action against Daily News proper" the government-controlled daily newspaper "The Herald" dedicated its September 16 editorial to saluting the government of Zimbabwe for shutting down the "Daily News" and its sister weekly "The Daily News on Sunday," [...] | 2003-09-16 12:09:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1874 | PRELIMINARY REPORT: ARMED RIOT POLICE BEGIN FORCED [...] (C) According to an eyewitnesses account by head legal counsel of The Daily News, (TDN),Gugulethu Moyo, armed riot police came to the TDN offices and began forcibly removing the assets of the company. In place of taking TDN CEO Sam Nkomo to court this morning (September 16),the police ins [...] | 2003-09-16 13:14:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | KMDR KPAO PHUM PREL ZI |
03HARARE1880 | UN Coordination Meeting with GOZ and [...] Summary. On September 15th, the UN held its first coordination meeting on the humanitarian crisis, after a hiatus of many months, with the Government of Zimbabwe (GOZ) and donors. Overall, despite the GOZ's attempt to try and reassure the donors and encourage them to respond favorably to th [...] | 2003-09-17 09:48:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL US ZI |
03HARARE1885 | MEDIA REACTION REMEBERING 9/11; HARARE [...] Two weekend newspapers - the government-controlled weekly "The Sunday Mail" and independent weekly "The Standard" - dedicated huge acres of space to opinion articles reflecting on the second anniversary of September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. Las [...] | 2003-09-17 11:33:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1886 | MEDIA REACTION 9/11; HARARE [...] Under headline "U. S. foreign policy to blame for September 11 attacks" the government-controlled daily "The Herald" (09/11) carried an op-ed by Caesar Zvayi on page 8, in which he accuses President George W. Bush of "busy stepping on more toes" after the terror [...] | 2003-09-17 11:55:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1887 | GOZ UPS THE ANTE ON CLOSURE OF ONLY INDEPENDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY In the span of six days, from September 11 to 16, the GOZ has gone from declaring The Daily News (TDN) illegal (9/11; ref a),to occupying and shutting down TDN operations (9/12; ref b),to accepting TDN registration under the onerous Access to Information and Privacy Protection Ac [...] | 2003-09-17 12:33:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1891 | UPDATE ON SECRET CONSTITUTIONAL TALKS [...] CONFIDENTIAL/NOFORN -- PLEASE DO NOT DIVULGE TO OFFICIALS OF FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS. 2. (C) In a meeting in his law office September 16, MDC Secretary General Welshman Ncube told Ambassador Sullivan SIPDIS that he was scheduled to meet with Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa September 21- [...] | 2003-09-17 15:07:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL ZI |
03HARARE1892 | MDC SECRETARY-GENERAL ON SADC OUTREACH, TALKS, AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: MDC Secretary-General Welshman Ncube on September 16 reported to Ambassador Sullivan on meetings with selected SADC heads of state. He advised that the bishops troika remained active as an informal intermediary between MDC and ZANU-PF but that the ruling party continued to stall. [...] | 2003-09-17 15:14:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ZI MDC |
03HARARE1903 | MEDIA REPORT "DAILY NEWS" UPDATE; HARARE [...] Since the government of Zimbabwe outlawed the Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe on September 12, the popular independent daily newspaper "The Daily News" has not been appearing on the streets for five days. The newspaper's website has the message: "We apologize for th [...] | 2003-09-18 14:10:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1911 | GOZ IGNORES OWN COURT, REOCCUPIES ONLY INDEPENDENT [...] (C) Following a pattern going back several years, the GOZ has thus far ignored a direct court order. The High Court of Zimbabwe ruled, on September 18 (ref B),that the police's crack-down (ref A) of Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ),publisher of The Daily News (TDN) and The Daily New [...] | 2003-09-19 09:08:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1933 | GOZ KEEPS THE BOOT ON THE DAILY NEWS [...] (C) Over the weekend of Sept 19th, the GOZ solidified its position in its battle (ref) to keep the only independent daily newspaper in Zimbabwe, The Daily News (TDN),closed. The parent company of TDN, Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ),filed an application with the Media and Informatio [...] | 2003-09-22 12:33:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1938 | Zimbabwe not qualified for AGOA [...] No summary [...] | 2003-09-23 09:13:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD PREL ELAB PHUM ZI |
03HARARE1943 | GOZ GIVES FURTHER PROOF OF INTENT TO SHUT DOWN THE [...] (C) On Sept 22, 2003, the police picked up four directors, including CEO Sam Nkomo, of Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ),the parent company of The Daily News (TDN),which was the only independent daily newspaper in Zimbabwe. At the station, the police took the directors, statements, and [...] | 2003-09-24 13:28:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1949 | MEDIA REACTION IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "U. S. soldier serving in Iraq calls for end to occupation based on lies: We're facing death for no reason" the government-controlled daily published the following hypercritical op-ed by Tim Predmore, a United States soldier on active duty with the 101st [...] | 2003-09-25 13:39:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1950 | UN Consolidated Appeal for Zimbabwe [...] The UN formally launched the stand-alone Consolidated Appeal (CAP) for Zimbabwe in September. While acknowledging the after effects of the last three years of drought, the CAP notes that Zimbabwe's humanitarian crisis has largely been man-made and that moving beyond emergency to recovery would [...] | 2003-09-25 14:24:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL US ZI |
03HARARE1975 | MEDIA REACTION MUGABE'S BROADSIDE AGAINST WEST; [...] Robert Mugabe's broadside against the West, especially the United States and Britain, while addressing the 58th United nations General Assembly in New York, made the lead story in the September 27 edition of the government- controlled daily "The Herald" (circulation 5- [...] | 2003-09-30 08:13:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1976 | TAKING STOCK OF TALKS [...] (C) SUMMARY/INTRODUCTION: With signals from ZANU-PF and MDC suggesting that they may be preparing to resume negotiations, Embassy offers this inventory of factors likely to play on each party's negotiating posture during the run-up to and in the conduct of talks. To date, neither party appe [...] | 2003-09-30 10:18:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ZI |
03HARARE1977 | BISHOPS PROPOSE PARTIES' RETREAT [...] (C) Bishop Trevor Manhanga on September 26 offered the Embassy an update on the so-called bishops' initiative. According to Manhanga, the bishops continued to meet personally with representatives from each party at least once a week. They remained especially encouraged by ZANU-PF's posture, [...] | 2003-09-30 10:21:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ZI |
03HARARE1979 | MEDIA REACTION CALL FOR U. N. REFORM; HARARE [...] Under headline "The U. N. must reform or die" the government-controlled weekly "The Sunday News" (circulation 50,000 - 60,000) dedicated its September 28 editorial to call for the restructuring of the United Nations. The editorial comes hard on the heels of Robert Mugabe' [...] | 2003-09-30 11:25:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1992 | MEDIA REPORT "ZIM'S JUDICIARY INDEPENDENT" - [...] Under headline "Zim's judiciary independent" the government-controlled daily "The Herald" (circulation 50 - 70,000) dedicated its September 27 editorial to declaring that that local judges "fit the bill of an independent judiciary." The editorial is in response to an [...] | 2003-10-01 05:44:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE1995 | Zimbabwe's Food Crises Set to Continue in the Face [...] As a result of the continuing severe economic decline, particularly in the crippled agricultural sector, the food crisis in Zimbabwe is expected to continue into the 2004/05 marketing year. Projections for Zimbabwe's 2003/2004 agricultural season are bleak, largely due to worsening input supp [...] | 2003-10-01 09:25:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL US ZI |
03HARARE1997 | THE DAILY NEWS STRUGGLES TO RETURN TO THE STREETS [...] (SBU) Since Sept 24 (reftel) the only independent daily newspaper in Zimbabwe, The Daily News (TDN),has not succeeded in getting an edition on the streets. TDN,s parent company, Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ),was optimistic several times about returning to press only to see the g [...] | 2003-10-01 15:20:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI KPOL |
03HARARE201 | UN SPECIAL ENVOY MORRIS IN THE ZIMBABWEAN PRESS [...] Zimbabwe's government-owned "Herald" newspaper attempted to twist comments made by UN Special Envoy for Humanitarian Needs in Southern Africa James Morris after his January 24 meeting with President Mugabe in Harare. The front page of the January 25 "Herald" informed r [...] | 2003-01-28 15:07:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO ZI |
03HARARE2015 | MEDIA REPORT MOYO THREATENS STUDIO 7; HARARE [...] No summary [...] | 2003-10-06 13:08:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO ZI |
03HARARE2017 | MEDIA REPORT MOYO THREATENS INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPERS [...] The independent press in Zimbabwe, including the Voice of America's (VOA) Studio 7 - a program that features the latest developments in Zimbabwe - have become endangered projects following Information Minister Jonathan Moyo's threats to ban the news organizations last [...] | 2003-10-06 13:10:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ZI |
03HARARE2044 | DISASTER DECLARATION FOR ZIMBABWE [...] The Ambassador has determined that the severe and complex political, economic, social and humanitarian crises facing Zimbabwe continue to be of sufficient magnitude to warrant USG assistance and is therefore exercising the disaster assistance authority, as per Reftel B and 2 FAM-061-062, in de [...] | 2003-10-09 14:42:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL US ZI |
03HARARE2080 | MEDIA REPORT STATE NEWSPAPER ATTACKS GOZ MINISTER; [...] Under headline "Take urgent steps to arrest inflation" the government-controlled daily newspaper "The Herald" (circulation 50 - 70,000) dedicated its October 16 editorial to attacking Finance Minister Dr. Herbert Murerwa and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) for doing [...] | 2003-10-17 07:36:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE2081 | MEDIA REACTION MEP; HARARE [...] Under headline "U. S. double standards on Israel deplorable" the pro-government weekly "The Sunday Mirror" dedicated its October 12 editorial to accusing the United States of treating Israel with kid gloves. "The U. S.'s hypocrisy and double standards when it c [...] | 2003-10-17 07:36:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE2095 | CHAT WITH A CHIEF [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with poloff October 8, ZANU-PF MP (appointed by the President) and Deputy Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Chief Fortune Charumbira identified weaknesses in the nation's municipal administration and outlined efforts to improve them. He [...] | 2003-10-21 14:18:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ZI ZANU PF |
03HARARE2096 | MEDIA REACTION IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "U. S. efforts on Iraq reflect crisis in diplomatic ethics" the October 18 edition of the government- controlled daily newspaper "Chronicle" (circulation 45 - 60,000) carried the following op-ed by Dr. Godfrey Chikowore, Head, International Relations and Social Development Stud [...] | 2003-10-21 14:22:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE2104 | MEDIA UPDATE; HARARE [...] Begin summary: Two independent newspapers "The Daily News" and "The Daily News on Sunday" remain shut as the government of Zimbabwe makes sure that Zimbabweans are bereft of voice and answerability. The government of Zimbabwe recasts some sections of the controversial [...] | 2003-10-23 08:54:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE2122 | ENGAGING SOUTH AFRICANS ON ZIMBABWE [...] No summary [...] | 2003-10-24 10:04:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR ZI SF |
03HARARE2123 | MDC LEADERSHIP ON COURT CASES, TALKS, VIOLENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai and Secretary General Welshman Ncube on October 23 confirmed to SIPDIS the Ambassador that court consideration of the party's election petition would commence November 3 and that Tsvangirai's treason trial would be postponed until next SIPDIS [...] | 2003-10-24 10:05:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ZI MDC |
03HARARE2141 | SOUTH AFRICAN TAKE ON DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary: South African High Commissioner Jeremiah Ndou told the Ambassador Oct 27 that dialogue/negotiations between ZANU/PF and the MDC had progressed well on both constitutional as well as transitional arrangements. He said that there had been some recent backsliding by ZANU-PF, however [...] | 2003-10-28 13:43:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ZI SF |
03HARARE2159 | LEGAL BATTLE ON AFTER RELEASE OF ANZ DIRECTORS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A court magistrate on October 29 ordered the release of four directors of the Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ),reserving judgment on criminal charges pending against them until November 13. Armed police continue to bar access to ANZ offices, preventing resumed publicat [...] | 2003-10-30 13:20:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE2170 | VOA'S STUDIO 7 MAKING WAVES IN ZIMBABWE; HARARE [...] At first glance, Negussie Mengesha's - VOA Program Manager, Africa Division - visit to Zimbabwe seemed difficult, if not impossible. What stood in his way was the hardnosed anti-VOA Studio 7 rhetoric by the government of Zimbabwe's spokesman, Information Minister Jona [...] | 2003-10-31 09:50:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE2196 | MEDIA REPORT KANSTEINER UNDER FIRE; HARARE [...] Under headline "Kansteiner: from C-130 to Carrots" the government-controlled daily "The Herald" (11/02),circulation 55 to 70,000, carried the following op-ed by Nathaniel Manheru, a. k. a. Jonathan Moyo (Information Minister),under his regular column "The Other Side" [...] | 2003-11-05 08:27:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR ZI |
03HARARE220 | GOVERNMENT-OWNED PAPER TAKES OFFENSE AT U.S. [...] Under headline "Zim must not bow to hate campaign" the government-controlled daily "The Herald" used its January 30 editorial to dismiss the January 27 travel warning. Excerpts follow: 2. "The travel warning issued by the United States State Department advising [...] | 2003-01-30 13:41:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE2225 | MDC SECRETARY GENERAL ON CARROTS AND STICKS [...] (C) SUMMARY. MDC Secretary General Welshman Ncube on November 6 told poloff that he intended during his planned visit to Washington next week to urge the USG to be more vocal in its criticism of the GOZ. At the same time, he concluded that the time had come for a more explicit elaboration b [...] | 2003-11-10 10:09:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID ZI MDC |
03HARARE2236 | VISIT TO ROTTEN ROW [...] (C) SUMMARY: ZANU-PF Deputy Director for External Relations Itai Mach on November 5 told poloff that the party's national conference next month would likely focus more on economic and land reform issues than personnel/leadership matters. He suggested that informal and personal communications [...] | 2003-11-12 15:06:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EAID EAGR ZI ZANU PF |
03HARARE2241 | FOOD ASSISTANCE IN NEWLY RESETTLED AREAS [...] The World Food Program recently wrote to the major international donors requesting their concurrence with a proposal to provide food assistance in the newly resettled areas, i.e., the former commercial farming areas that were subject to the Government of Zimbabwe's fast-track, often violent, [...] | 2003-11-13 14:02:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL US ZI |
03HARARE2256 | MUGABE'S CHOGM ATTENDANCE IN AIR FOLLOWING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nigerian President Obasanjo met with opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai twice and President Mugabe once during his visit to Zimbabwe on November 17. According to MDC sources, Tsvangirai told Obasanjo during the first meeting that the MDC would be willing to participate in a tran [...] | 2003-11-18 13:45:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ZI |
03HARARE2287 | OPPOSITION LEADER ON OBASANJO VISIT, POLITICAL [...] (C) Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on November 21 confirmed to Ambassador Sullivan the essential details related by associates to the Embassy last week (reftel) of his meetings with Nigerian President Obasanjo on November 17. He clarified that Obasanjo had said that Mugabe indicated agr [...] | 2003-11-24 14:54:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ZI MDC |
03HARARE2289 | MEDIA REPORT VOA'S STUDIO 7 UNDER HEAVY FIRE [...] Voice of America's (VOA) Studio 7 program on Zimbabwe made the hub of the lead story carried in the November 23 edition of the government-controlled weekly "The Sunday Mail" (circulation 55 - 70,000),in which the United States Government is slammed for allegedly setti [...] | 2003-11-25 07:19:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE2310 | ENCOUNTER WITH THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a chance encounter at a social event on November 25, Minister of Justice, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs Patrick Chinamasa elaborated privately to poloff about ruling party views of the MDC and the USG. Chinamasa suggested that the USG had the potential stature to influe [...] | 2003-11-26 14:45:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ZI |
03HARARE2313 | MASS ACTION IN THE OFFING? [...] (C) SUMMARY: MDC Secretary for Presidential Affairs Gandi Mudzingwa on November 25 advised poloff that the opposition party was laying the groundwork for another "mass action" in late January or early February 2004. He predicted that the bishops would soon publicly declare their mediation e [...] | 2003-11-28 10:31:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC ZI MDC |
03HARARE2364 | RULING PARTY CIRCLES WAGONS AT ANNUAL CONFERENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The ZANU-PF annual conference December 5-8 in Masvingo projected a ruling party united under the unquestioned leadership of Robert Mugabe and ever-resistant to outside influence. The conference ended suspense over succession speculation by indicating unambiguously that the party [...] | 2003-12-08 15:04:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ZI ZANU PF |
03HARARE2399 | "DAILY NEWS" IS HONORED; HARARE [...] On December 10 at a ceremony held at the Espace EDF Electra in Paris, Zimbabwe's only private daily newspaper, The Daily News, was awarded the 2003 Reporters Without Borders - Foundation de France Prize for being "a media that best exemplifies the struggle for the free [...] | 2003-12-15 05:02:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE2437 | LETTER FROM MORGAN TSVANGIRAI TO SECRETARY POWELL [...] No summary [...] | 2003-12-18 12:03:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ZI MDC |
03HARARE2443 | MBEKI VISIT REKINDLES TALKS ON TALKS [...] (C) MDC Secretary for Presidential Affairs Gandi Mudzingwa on December 19 briefed poloff on South African President Mbeki's 20-minute December 18 meeting with MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai and Secretary General Welshman Ncube. According to Mudzingwa, Mbeki told the party leaders at the end [...] | 2003-12-19 09:12:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SA ZI |
03HARARE2449 | RAPID DETERIORATION OF SOCIAL SERVICES IN ZIMBABWE [...] As detailed in a recent UN briefing to donors on trends in Zimbabwe's social sectors, the continuing complex emergency in Zimbabwe is taking a heavy toll on its citizens. This cable summarizes UN figures presented at recent special donor meeting. Crumbling social services are failing to meet b [...] | 2003-12-23 09:57:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL US ZI |
03HARARE2453 | Pilot WFP Feeding Program in Former Commercial [...] On December 18 in a meeting for donor representatives, the World Food Programme (WFP) presented details of its proposed pilot program for extending general food distribution into newly resettled (i.e., former commercial farming) areas. This meeting followed the delivery of letters from the E [...] | 2003-12-23 14:49:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL US ZI |
03HARARE250 | TWO JOURNALISTS ARRESTED AT TSVANGIRAI TRIAL, [...] Two journalists were arrested outside of Harare's High Court on February 3 as they sought entrance into the court to cover the opening day of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's treason trial. The two journalists, Daily News Deputy News Editor Pedzisayi Ruhanya and freelance journalist Ish [...] | 2003-02-05 06:30:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE260 | UN/Donor/GOZ Meeting on the Zimbabwe Food [...] On 27 January 2003, US Ambassador Sullivan and Acting USAID Director attended a periodic meeting organized by the UN for diplomats to discus issues related to the humanitarian crisis with cabinet level representatives of the GOZ. While most embassies were represented by ambassadors/high comm [...] | 2003-02-06 10:25:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL US ZI |
03HARARE262 | GOVERNMENT PAPER REFUSES TO APOLOGIZE FOR [...] On January 25, UN WFP Envoy James Morris took the government-owned "Herald" to task for gross distortions in their report of his remarks after a January 24 meeting with Robert Mugabe. Morris characterized the "Herald's" article as "100 percent lies." 2. On Jan [...] | 2003-02-06 10:26:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE264 | GOVERNMENT WITNESS IMPLICATES U.S. [...] The February 6 edition of the government-owned "Herald" newspaper reports that Ari Ben-Menashe, the government's star witness in the treason trial of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and two other opposition leaders, claimed in court that he believed the U.S. Gove [...] | 2003-02-06 11:39:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PREL ZI |
03HARARE268 | MEDIA REACTION IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "Stop acting headboy" the government-controlled daily "Chronicle" dedicated its February 6 editorial to urging the United States and Britain to "desist from attacking" Iraq, adding that only the United Nations Security Council has the mandate "to [...] | 2003-02-06 12:46:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE274 | MEDIA REACTION POWELL EVIDENCE AGAINST IRAQ; [...] Under headline "Powell fails to prove case against Baghdad" the pro-government daily "Daily Mirror" dedicated its February 7 editorial to dismissing Secretary of State Colin Powell's testimony against Iraq, saying, Powell's presentation was "flawed" and "did not [...] | 2003-02-07 11:00:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM ZI KPAO KMDR |
03HARARE277 | MEDIA REACTION IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "Africa opposes war on Iraq" the pro-government weekly "The Sunday Mirror" dedicated its February 9 editorial to reiterating the anti-war positions taken by the African Union (AU) and former South African President, Nelson Mandela. Excerpts: [...] | 2003-02-10 09:04:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE293 | WFP EXPANDS ZIMBABWE DISTRIBUTION DURING [...] During January 2003, the World Food Programme (WFP) distributed 42,428 metric tons (MT) of food commodities, more than doubling the total distribution for December 2002. The distribution reached 3.216 million beneficiaries in 47 of 49 targeted districts. In February, WFP plans to target 4.25 [...] | 2003-02-11 07:47:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL US ZI |
03HARARE304 | MEDIA REACTION IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "U.N. must not allow U. S. to start war" the government-controlled daily dedicated its February 11 editorial to urging the United Nations to restrain the United States from attacking Iraq. Excerpts follow: 2. "The tug-of-war between the United St [...] | 2003-02-12 06:58:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE326 | MEDIA REACTION IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "Bush abusing his office" the government-controlled daily "Chronicle" dedicated its February 18 editorial to declaring that the current standoff between the United States and Iraq is about the control of Iraqi oil. "(President George W.) Bush and [...] | 2003-02-18 10:54:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE354 | ZIMBABWEAN MEDIA CARRY BOUCHER STATEMENT ON [...] The February 20 editions of the independent daily "The Daily News" and the independent weekly "The Financial Gazette" carry articles reporting on A/S Boucher's statement on the detention of a U.S. diplomat by the police in Harare. The Daily News ran the article on page [...] | 2003-02-21 06:17:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO ZI |
03HARARE357 | PRO-GOVERNMENT PAPER HAILS FRANCE AS A [...] Under headline "The Franco-African summit" the pro-government daily "The Daily Mirror" dedicated its February 20 editorial to hailing France for shooting down plans for a war against Iraq and for inviting Mr. Robert Mugabe to attend the Franco-African summit in [...] | 2003-02-21 06:45:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO ZI |
03HARARE366 | MEDIA REACTION IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "World must block Bush, Blair's belligerence" the independent daily "The Daily News" carried an op-ed by Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem in which he calls on Arab governments to restrain the United States and Britain from attacking Iraq. Excerpts: 2. [...] | 2003-02-24 09:30:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE377 | MEDIA REPORT FRANCO-AFRICAN SUMMIT; HARARE [...] Under headline "Africa and the French connection" the pro-government weekly "The Sunday Mirror" dedicated its February 23 edition to hailing French President Jacques Chirac and African leaders for coming out with a collective communiqu, at the just ended Franco- [...] | 2003-02-24 15:59:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE378 | MEDIA REACTION IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "NAM opposes war on Iraq" the pro-government weekly "The Sunday Mirror" dedicated its February 23 editorial to embracing the Non Aligned Movement's (NAM) anti- war position against Iraq. Excerpts: 2. ". . .The Non Aligned Movement. . .has alread [...] | 2003-02-24 16:00:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE400 | MEDIA REACTION: MUGABE ATTACKS U. S. AND BRITAIN [...] The lead story in the February 26 edition of the government-controlled daily "The Herald" highlights Mr. Robert Mugabe's broadside against the United States and Britain at the just-ended Non Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, accusing them [...] | 2003-02-26 07:57:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE422 | OBASANJO LETTER TO HOWARD: FANTASYLAND [...] (U) The recent letter from President Obasanjo to Australian PM Howard recommending lifting of Commonwealth sanctions on Zimbabwe surprised many observers in Zimbabwe, as many of the assertions on which his recommendation is based have little basis in reality. Indeed, the Nigerian president a [...] | 2003-02-27 11:19:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ZI |
03HARARE440 | U.N./Government/Donors Meeting on the [...] Summary: On February 24, Ambassador Sullivan, USAID Director Weisenfeld and AidOff attended the regular bi-weekly U.N.-sponsored meeting on the humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe with concerned Government of Zimbabwe (GOZ) and international donor country representatives. Meeting presentations [...] | 2003-03-03 09:14:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL US ZI |
03HARARE450 | ZIMBABWE: SIMBA MAKONI ON PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION [...] (C) Former Finance Minister Simba Makoni said the recently-announced modest fuel hike and announcement of an export support mechanism were supported by every ZANU-PF politburo member except Information Minister Jonathan Moyo, but the measures were unlikely to have much of an effect on Zimbab [...] | 2003-03-03 14:37:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON ZI ZANU PF |
03HARARE451 | MEDIA REACTION IRAQ; HARARE [...] In an opinion piece carried in the March 2 edition of the government-controlled weekly "The Sunday Mail," Dr. Tafataona Mahoso criticized the United States and Britain for appearing to be "arm-twisting" the United Nations to sanction the war against Iraq. Under headli [...] | 2003-03-04 06:29:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE452 | MEDIA REACTION NAM/IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "New challenges for NAM" the pro-government weekly the "Sunday Mirror" dedicated its March 2 editorial to calling on the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) to transform into "a reasonable, balanced and objective counter-force" in international issues. "I [...] | 2003-03-04 06:37:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE453 | MEDIA REACTION IRAQ; HARARE [...] The March 2 edition of the independent weekly "The Standard" carried an article by its United States- based stringer, Ken Mafuka, in which he accused the U. S. of creating policies that could give President George W. Bush unilateral powers to "declare war on an [...] | 2003-03-04 06:39:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE48 | CHINESE TIES TO ZIMBABWE [...] (S) The ruling ZANU-PF party has long maintained a close diplomatic and military relationship with China, dating back to the liberation war in the 1970's. Since independence in 1980, the Government of Zimbabwe (GOZ) has purchased a range of military hardware from China, including aircraft, a [...] | 2003-01-08 12:22:00 | Embassy Harare | SECRET | PREL ZI CI |
03HARARE493 | MEDIA REACTION IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "Iraq (U. N.) debate: War mongers shamed again" the pro-government weekly "The Sunday Mirror" dedicated its March 9 editorial to call for a peaceful disarmament of Iraq. Excerpts: 2. "After the latest presentation by the U. N. chief weapons insp [...] | 2003-03-10 11:45:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE494 | MEDIA REACTION IRAQ; HARARE [...] The standoff with Iraq remains fodder for opinion articles being carried in the mainstream newspapers. Excerpts follow: 2. Under headline "Imminent war against Iraq: The ironies and contradictions" the pro-government weekly "The Sunday Mirror" (03/09) dedicated [...] | 2003-03-10 11:49:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE497 | MEDIA REPORT: PRESIDENT BUSH SANCTIONS MUGABE [...] No summary [...] | 2003-03-10 13:02:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EFIN KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE512 | MEDIA REACTION IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "Iraq issue hits at core of U.S., UK's democratic claims" the March 12 edition of the independent daily "The Daily News" carried an op-ed by Dida Halake, in which he urged the United States and Britain to show consideration for the outpouring of world op [...] | 2003-03-12 08:07:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE513 | ZBC SEES LINK BETWEEN SANCTIONS AGAINST ZIMBABWEAN [...] THE ZIMBABWE BROADCASTING CORPORATION'S (ZBC) PRIME- TIME EVENING NEWS PROGRAM ON MARCH 12 REPORTED THAT NEWLY IMPOSED U.S. FINANCIAL SANCTIONS AGAINST ZIMBABWEAN LEADERSHIP ARE PART OF A POLITICAL ACCOMMODATION WITH GREAT BRITAIN TO ENSURE CONINTUED UK SUPPORT FOR U.S [...] | 2003-03-12 08:43:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE523 | MEDIA REACTION IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "Claire blasts Blair's blurry vision" the government-controlled daily "Chronicle" dedicated its March 12 editorial to criticizing President George Bush for imposing sanctions on the Mugabe government, saying the executive order is "a calculated pr [...] | 2003-03-13 08:13:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE527 | MEDIA REACTION IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "Save generations from scourge of war" the pro-government daily "The Daily Mirror" dedicated its March 13 editorial to discouraging the United States from attacking Iraq, saying, "the unilateral use of force against Iraq is illegitimate under inte [...] | 2003-03-13 15:52:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE537 | Humanitarian Assistance Field Observations [...] From March 4-8, (2003) USAID/AFR/SA Officer (AIDOff) MacNairn conducted three field trips to assess the delivery and impact of humanitarian assistance in Zimbabwe. Events covered for these field trips included a seed fair, a food distribution (also attended by DCM Whitehead),and an intervie [...] | 2003-03-14 10:20:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL US ZI |
03HARARE541 | WFP CONTINUES TO EXPAND DISTRIBUTIONS IN [...] During February 2003, the World Food Programme (WFP) distributed 54,567 metric tons (MT) of food commodities in Zimbabwe, increasing by over 10,000 MT distribution totals from January 2003. The distribution reached 4.285 million beneficiaries in 49 targeted districts. In March 2003, WFP pl [...] | 2003-03-17 07:27:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL US ZI |
03HARARE549 | DAILY NEWS REACTS TO COMMONWEALTH EXTENSION OF [...] Under headline "Extension of suspension is a victory for sanity" the independent daily "The Daily News" dedicated its March 18 editorial to hailing Zimbabwe's suspension from the councils of the Commonwealth for a further nine months, saying it is "a victory of [...] | 2003-03-18 09:39:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE554 | PRO-GOVERNMENT DAILY FAULTS ZIMBABWE'S [...] Under headline "Stayaways and sanctions will not solve our problems" the pro-government daily "The Daily Mirror" offered a March 18 editorial criticizing the Commonwealth for extending Zimbabwe's suspension, saying the move was "unwise" and "also dampens homegro [...] | 2003-03-18 11:18:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE562 | MEDIA REACTION IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "End of the road for U.N. system" the pro-government daily "The Daily Mirror" used its March 19 editorial to accuse the United States and Britain of usurping United Nations authority over the Iraq crisis. ".the U.N. system will never be the same again af [...] | 2003-03-19 12:15:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE563 | MEDIA REACTION U.S. BLAMED FOR ZIM'S WOES; HARARE [...] Under headline "MDC lacks respect for human life" the government-controlled daily "The Herald" used its March 19 editorial to accuse the United States of stirring up the current socioeconomic and political turbulence in Zimbabwe. Excerpts: 2. ". . .As if to giv [...] | 2003-03-19 12:17:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE588 | MEDIA REACTION WAR WITH IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "Bush, Blair must learn from history" the government-controlled daily "Chronicle" dedicated its March 21 editorial to declaring that the war against Iraq is uncalled for and is bound to fail, adding, "America must not be allowed to bully the world [...] | 2003-03-21 09:08:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI IZ |
03HARARE594 | MEDIA REACTION WAR WITH IRAQ; HARARE [...] Over the 3/22-23 weekend, Zimbabwean newspapers dedicated major acreage to comment on the war to disarm Iraq. The tone is critical. Excerpts follow: 2. Under headline "U. N. in tatters" the pro- government weekly "The Sunday Mirror" (03/23) comments: [...] | 2003-03-24 08:50:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI IZ |
03HARARE595 | MEDIA REACTION WAR WITH IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under the headline "Time to curb U.S. bully tactics" the government-controlled weekly "The Sunday Mail" (03/23) an opinion article by the newspaper's Political Editor, Munyaradzi Huni. Huni accuses the United States and Britain of leading a campaign "to spread imperi [...] | 2003-03-24 09:15:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI IZ |
03HARARE599 | MEDIA REACTION WAR WITH IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "What will this war achieve?" the pro-government "Daily Mirror" dedicated its March 24 editorial to denouncing the war against Iraq, saying, "Instead of freeing the Iraqis, he (President George W. Bush) is ensnaring them into deeper poverty and di [...] | 2003-03-24 15:14:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR IZ ZI |
03HARARE604 | MEDIA REACTION WAR WITH IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "Coverage of Iraq war raises questions" the government-controlled daily "The Herald" dedicated its March 25 editorial to urging journalists, especially those from the electronic media, covering the United States-led war against Iraq to be impartia [...] | 2003-03-25 09:01:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE609 | MEDIA REACTION WAR WITH IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "Bush, Blair are villains" the government-controlled daily Chronicle" called for broadcast of "more gory pictures of mutilated British and American soldiers on our television screens," in its March 25 editorial. Excerpts: 2. ". . .We wish [...] | 2003-03-25 10:29:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE610 | MEDIA REACTION WAR WITH IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under the headline "Time to curb U.S. bully tactics" the government-controlled weekly "The Sunday Mail" (03/23) an opinion article by the newspaper's Political Editor, Munyaradzi Huni. Huni accuses the United States and Britain of leading a campaign "to spread imperi [...] | 2003-03-25 10:54:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI IZ |
03HARARE622 | MEDIA REACTION WAR WITH IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "Economic effect of war devastating" the government-controlled daily "The Herald" dedicated its March 27 editorial to denouncing the war to disarm Iraq, saying the invasion could sap the strength of the global economy for years to come. "Tougher t [...] | 2003-03-27 09:05:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE624 | MEDIA REACTION WAR WITH IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "Humanitarian disaster in Iraq" the pro-government daily "The Daily Mirror" dedicated its March 27 editorial to urging the United Nations to provide emergency food and medical aid to the civilian population in Iraq. Excerpts follow: 2. ". . .The [...] | 2003-03-27 10:09:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE633 | MEDIA REACTION WAR WITH IRAQ; HARARE [...] Opinion articles carried in the March 28 edition of the independent daily "The Daily News" and the March 27 edition of the independent weekly "The Financial Gazette" focus on the ongoing United Stated- led military campaign to disarm Iraq. Excerpts: 2. Under h [...] | 2003-03-28 09:04:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE638 | MEDIA REACTION WAR WITH IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "Al Jazeera and the war in Iraq" the pro-government weekly "The Sunday Mirror" dedicated its March 30 editorial to hailing the Arabic language television network Al Jazeera's coverage of the United States-led war against Iraq. "While the U.S. and [...] | 2003-03-31 09:15:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE64 | RUMBLINGS OF DISCONTENT WITHIN ZANU-PF [...] (C) Concern and frustration with Zimbabwe's worsening economic and other crises are mounting among senior ZANU-PF officials, many of whom blame Robert Mugabe. No one appears willing or able to nudge the Zimbabwean President into retirement, however. Internal discussions of succession scenari [...] | 2003-01-10 09:56:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID ZI ZANU PF |
03HARARE642 | MEDIA REACTION WAR WITH IRAQ - OPINION [...] The March 30 editions of the government- controlled weekly "The Sunday Mail" and the pro- government weekly "The Sunday Mirror" carried a number of opinion pieces focusing on the war in Iraq. Excerpts: 2. Under headline "U.N. becomes irrelevant" the "The [...] | 2003-03-31 12:04:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE649 | MEDIA REACTION WAR WITH IRAQ; HARARE [...] Editorials in the March 30 edition of the government-controlled weekly "The Sunday News" and its sister daily "Chronicle" published on March 29 accused the United States pursuing similar policies in Iraq and Zimbabwe. Excerpts: 2. Under headline "We must rejec [...] | 2003-04-01 10:13:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE67 | MEDIA REACTION IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "War on Iraq a threat to world peace and security" the independent "Daily News" dedicated its January 9 editorial to discouraging the United States from using force against Iraq, saying "going to war with Iraq does definitely endanger world peace because [...] | 2003-01-10 10:48:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE676 | MEDIA REACTION WAR WITH IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "U.N. must stop murder of innocent civilians" the government-controlled daily "Chronicle" used its April 4 editorial to label President Bush and Tony Blair as "the real terrorists." Excerpts: 2. ". . .It is sad that the American and British inva [...] | 2003-04-04 10:33:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE678 | Zimbabwean Media and Public Opinion on War in [...] (SBU) Summary: In spite of efforts by both government-owned and privately owned media to spin war news for local political purposes, the conflict in Iraq remains a distant concern for the great majority of Zimbabweans. Public opinion is quietly anti-war and tends t [...] | 2003-04-07 06:39:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO ZI IZ |
03HARARE680 | MEDIA REACTION WAR WITH IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "What liberation?" the pro- government weekly "The Sunday Mirror" dedicated its April 6 editorial to condemning the United States-led war against Iraq, charging that the war is "creating untold hardships" for the Iraqis. Excerpts: 2. ". . .Adama [...] | 2003-04-07 09:55:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE683 | MEDIA REACTION WAR WITH IRAQ; HARARE [...] The war to disarm Iraq remains a popular topic for op- eds in the mainstream media. Excerpts follow: 2. Under headline "United States pursuing hidden commercial agenda in Iraq" the April 7 edition of the government-controlled daily "The Herald" carried the fol [...] | 2003-04-07 13:50:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE713 | MEDIA REACTION WAR IN IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "What next for 26 million Iraqis after Saddam?" the independent daily "The Daily News" dedicated its April 10 editorial to the need for the UN to be engaged in the reconstruction of Iraq. Excerpts: 2. "The United Nations is justified to be concer [...] | 2003-04-10 20:01:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE714 | MEDIA REACTION WAR IN IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "Give Iraqis the peace they deserve" the government-controlled daily "Chronicle" used its April 10 editorial to accuse the United States and Britain of "butchering" journalists "at will" in the ongoing war to free Iraq. Excerpts: 2. "A bloodbath [...] | 2003-04-10 20:01:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE738 | GROWING SADC ENGAGEMENT ON ZIMBABWE [...] (C) South African High Commissioner to Zimbabwe, Jeremiah Ndou, confirmed to the Ambassador on April 14 that President Mbeki is planning a joint visit to Zimbabwe with President Muluzi on April 24, as reported reftel. He expressed concern that the Angolans -- who should be taking the lead as [...] | 2003-04-14 15:09:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ZI |
03HARARE767 | MUGABE READY TO LEAVE, WITH CONDITIONS [...] (C) In an April 16 conversation with the Ambassador, ZANU-PF spokesman and elder statesman Nathan Shamuyarira seemed concerned about the implications of USG actions in Iraq for Zimbabwe. He deemed a U.S. or British invasion "unlikely," but thought attempts would be made to destabilize the co [...] | 2003-04-17 14:27:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ZI ZANU PF |
03HARARE768 | TSVANGIRAI WELCOMES MULUZI INITIATIVE [...] Summary: In an April 17 conversation with the Ambassador, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai welcomed the initiative by President Muluzi to encourage political dialogue in Zimbabwe and expressed hope that it might help forestall further mass action -- and its unpred [...] | 2003-04-17 14:54:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ZI SADC |
03HARARE780 | MULUZI/MBEKI VISIT POSTPONEMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2003-04-23 09:40:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ZI SF MI |
03HARARE791 | ANGOLAN FOREIGN MINISTER'S VISIT TO ZIMBABWE [...] (C) Summary: Angolan Foreign Minister Joao Miranda visited Zimbabwe March 22-24 and met with Government and MDC leaders. Miranda, who will chair the SADC Task Force on Zimbabwe visit next month told us that the clear focus of his visit was on Zimbabwe's crisis, although he met GOZ denial and [...] | 2003-04-25 06:28:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AO ZI |
03HARARE860 | AFRICAN PRESIDENTIAL MEDIATION IMPORTANT - BUT NO [...] (C) The presidents of South Africa, Nigeria and Malawi attempted to restart talks between the GOZ and MDC in separate meetings with both sides in Harare on May 5. However, both sides stuck to their original positions - Mugabe demanding that the MDC recognize his presidency, and the MDC refusin [...] | 2003-05-06 13:51:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ASEC ZI |
03HARARE890 | SOUTH AFRICAN EMBASSY BELIEVES PROGRESS BEING MADE [...] (c) The Ambassador met May 8 with South African High Commissioner Jeremiah Ndou to discuss the May 5 visit of Presidents Mbeki, Muluzi and Obasanjo. Ndou confirmed that President Mugabe had accepted that the MDC court challenge of presidential election results would not be an impediment to di [...] | 2003-05-08 14:23:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SF ZI |
03HARARE891 | SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST PART OF MEDIA [...] On May 8 the Zimbabwe Supreme Court ruled that Section 80 of the controversial Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA) is unconstitutional and invalidated that section of the Act. Section 80 made the publication of a "falsehoods" a criminal [...] | 2003-05-08 14:33:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO ZI |
03HARARE906 | INDEPENDENT PAPER PRAISES COURT DECISION ON [...] Under headline "A step in the right direction" the independent daily "The Daily News" dedicated its May 9 editorial to hailing a recent Supreme Court ruling that annulled two sections of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA) impinging o [...] | 2003-05-09 11:44:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE939 | POOR 2003 AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION [...] A USAID BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY CONFLICT AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) PRELIMINARY RAPID ASSESSMENT OF PROSPECTS FOR THE CURRENT HARVEST CONCLUDED THAT PARTS OF ZIMBABWE ONCE AGAIN FACE FAILED HARVESTS AND LIMITED MARKET ACCESS TO FOOD DUE TO A COMBINATION OF POOR RAINFALL, COMMERCIAL FARM [...] | 2003-05-15 10:15:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR EFIN PREL US ZI |
03HARARE950 | MEDIA REACTION IRAQ; HARARE [...] Under headline "Washington and London acting irresponsibly" the pro-government weekly the "Sunday Mirror" dedicated its May 18 editorial to calling on the United States and Britain "to move out of Iraq and let the Iraqis to handle their own affairs." Excerpts f [...] | 2003-05-19 08:10:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE956 | NEW INDEPENDENT WEEKLY HITS THE STREETS [...] No summary [...] | 2003-05-19 09:51:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE958 | INDEPENDENT PAPER REACTS TO MELDRUM EXPULSION [...] Under headline "Iron fist will fail" the independent daily "The Daily News" dedicated its May 19 editorial to the expulsion of Andrew Meldrum, a United States national and correspondent for the British newspaper "The Guardian." The editorial said Meldrum's eject [...] | 2003-05-19 10:07:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE963 | MEDIA REPORT GOZ DEPORTS ANDREW MELDRUM; [...] Under headline "Arrests, deportations: Government running scared" the independent weekly "The Standard" dedicated its May 18 editorial to criticizing the Government of Zimbabwe for deporting Andrew Meldrum, a United States national and Harare-based correspondent [...] | 2003-05-19 13:49:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI |
03HARARE978 | ZIMBABWE FOOD SECURITY PROJECTIONS FOR 2003/04: [...] ACTION: THIS CABLE IS FOR AMBASSADOR J. SULLIVAN'S IMMEDIATE ATTENTION FOR USE IN CONJUNCTION WITH HIS TDY CONSULTATIONS IN WASHINGTON, D.C. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. Summary: The final Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZIMVAC) April (2003) update and joint U.N. World Food [...] | 2003-05-20 13:26:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL US ZI |
03HELSINKI262 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES IRAQ WITH PRESIDENT HALONEN [...] (C) ON MARCH 4 THE AMBASSADOR CALLED ON PRESIDENT HALONEN FOR A GENERAL DISCUSSION OF ISSUES ON THE INTERNATIONAL AND BILATERAL AGENDA. IRAQ WAS THE CHIEF TOPIC. THE AMBASSADOR BEGAN BY THANKING THE PRESIDENT FOR HER RECENT FIRM PUBLIC STATEMENTS THAT THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR RESOLVING THE CRIS [...] | 2003-03-07 14:58:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ CH FI |
03HOCHIMINHCITY1000 | UNITED BUDDHIST CHURCH OF VIETNAM: GENERAL SECRETARY [...] (SBU) Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) General Secretary Thich Tue Sy told ConGen today that he has been placed SIPDIS under a two-year administrative detention, effective October 11. He confirmed that Thich Nguyen Ly and Thich Thanh Huyen -- two other UBCV monks riding in the van [...] | 2003-10-14 13:34:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI PGOV PREL KIRF VM HUMANR RELFREE |
03HOCHIMINHCITY1009 | LEGAL PROTESTANTS HOLD UNAUTHORIZED MEETING: WANT [...] (SBU) In violation of their own GVN-approved charter, approximately 400 legal pastors and another 400 "lay volunteers" of the Southern Evangelical Church of Vietnam (SECV) met in Ho Chi Minh City September 10-11. While the 2001 charter allows for only one conference every four years, the lead [...] | 2003-10-16 14:29:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI PREL KIRF VM RELFREE HUMANR |
03HOCHIMINHCITY1010 | STILL NO OFFICIAL DETENTION ORDERS FOR TOP UBCV MONKS [...] (SBU) Continuing to work the few remaining telephones that haven't been cut off or rerouted, ConGen received confirmation today that Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang is in good condition at his pagoda, although he is being closely watched. While neither he [...] | 2003-10-16 14:37:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI PGOV PREL KIRF VM HUMANR RELFREE |
03HOCHIMINHCITY1021 | POLICE DISRUPT CONSULAR VISIT TO CENTRAL HIGHLANDS [...] (U) During a particularly unpleasant trip to the Central Highlands to fulfill normal consular duties -- fraud investigation, document verification, and personal interviews regarding relationships and status -- ConGenOff, two Consular Section and Refugee Resettlement Section FSNs, and two FSN [...] | 2003-10-22 01:00:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT ASEC CASC PHUM PREL VM HUMANR ETMIN |
03HOCHIMINHCITY1059 | A/S DEWEY IN VIETNAM CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: LAM DONG [...] (SBU) Summary: In recent meetings with Lam Dong provincial authorities, PRM Assistant Secretary Dewey expressed strong U.S. concern about the treatment of ethnic minorities and a lack of religious freedom for unregistered Protestant house churches. Lam Dong officials stressed that the pract [...] | 2003-10-30 11:46:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PGOV PREL PINS SOCI KIRF VM CB RELFREE HUMANR ETMIN |
03HOCHIMINHCITY1080 | HCMC LAND PROTEST: POLICE TURN MOLEHILL INTO MOUNTAIN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A protest against land expropriation drew extra attention after police attempted to remove ConGen personnel, who were observing the protest from the sidelines. The protesters -- illegal migrants, squatters, and legal land owners - - whose land had been seized in Ho Chi Minh C [...] | 2003-11-04 11:25:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINS PREL SOCI VM HUMANR |
03HOCHIMINHCITY1087 | AMBASSADOR HANFORD CALLS ON LOCAL OFFICIALS, LEGAL [...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 18 meeting with Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford, three leaders of the GVN-recognized Southern Evangelical Church of Vietnam (SECV) urged continued, focused USG pressure on the GVN to relax restrictions on unregistered house chur [...] | 2003-11-06 11:18:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI KIRF VM RELFREE HUMANR |
03HOCHIMINHCITY1093 | MIXED PICTURE ON HOUSE CHURCHES IN AMBASSADOR HANFORD'S [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with several Protestant house church pastors and "victims" of religious oppression during his visit to HCMC, Ambassador at Large for Religious Freedom John Hanford heard several credible-sounding reports of arrests, beatings, forced renunciations, and church closures [...] | 2003-11-08 07:18:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREF PREL SOCI KIRF VM HUMANR RELFREE |
03HOCHIMINHCITY1100 | BALANCING ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY IN SOC TRANG AND [...] (SBU) Summary: DCM (then Charge) and ConGen Poloff visited Soc Trang and Tra Vinh Provinces during October 1-3, to examine firsthand the situation for the ethnic Khmer in the Mekong Delta, in light of continuing reports of discrimination from sources overseas. Situated in an area that once be [...] | 2003-11-10 07:29:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ECON PGOV PREL EINV ETRD SOCI KIRF VM RELFREE HUMANR ETMIN |
03HOCHIMINHCITY111 | HCMC PASTORS: CHRISTMAS CELEBRATED WITHOUT [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite a stream of reports from U.S. sources proclaiming a new "crackdown" on Protestant worshippers in the Central Highlands and elsewhere in Vietnam over the Christmas holidays, conversations with well- connected pastors in HCMC over the past weeks revealed surprisingly fe [...] | 2003-02-06 09:22:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI KIRF VM HUMANR ETMIN RELFREE |
03HOCHIMINHCITY1141 | CA MAU PROVINCE: AT THE END OF THE LINE, BUT BLESSED BY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Lying at the southern tip of Vietnam, Ca Mau is one of the country's more isolated provinces. Heavily dependent upon aquaculture, especially shrimp, the province has enjoyed strong recent economic growth. While the province actively touts its natural resources and advantages, [...] | 2003-11-21 11:06:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ECON SOCI PGOV PREL EFIS VM HUMANR RELFREE |
03HOCHIMINHCITY1142 | KIEN GIANG PROVINCE: PRACTICALLY PERFECT, IF NOT FOR THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The southern Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang faces significant challenges in attracting foreign investment and reducing poverty. Despite impressive recent economic growth, mostly due to rice farmers converting to more profitable shrimp farming, the province is still underd [...] | 2003-11-21 11:18:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI ECON PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM |
03HOCHIMINHCITY1143 | AMBASSADOR HANFORD INVESTIGATES ABUSES IN THE CENTRAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford traveled to Gia Lai and Dak Lak provinces from October 20-22 to meet with local officials and gain a firsthand view of conditions for Protestant worship in Vietnam's Central Highlands. Raising the specter of C [...] | 2003-11-24 11:12:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREF PREL SOCI VM RELFREE HUMANR ETMIN |
03HOCHIMINHCITY1215 | PROTESTANT POSSIBLY BEATEN, DETAINED FOR DISTRIBUTING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. At least one Protestant religious worker in Ho Chi Minh City was reportedly beaten and detained on December 9 for involvement in the distribution of religious leaflets designed to look like official Southeast Asia (SEA) Games pamphlets. Other Protestant leaders held a "sit-in" [...] | 2003-12-10 12:49:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI VM HUMANR RELFREE |
03HOCHIMINHCITY1222 | SEA GAMES RELIGIOUS PAMPHLET INCIDENT FOLLOW-UP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. ConGenoffs met with Pastor Nguyen Hong Quang on December 11, 2003, to discuss the events of December 9-10 (reftel). Quang was also accompanied by the allegedly beaten religious worker. An agreement between Protestants and police had reportedly resulted in the release of all b [...] | 2003-12-11 11:12:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV SOCI VM RELFREE HUMANR |
03HOCHIMINHCITY1233 | FACE TO FACE WITH SMUGGLERS AND OFFICIALS ALONG THE [...] An Econ trip to the town of Chau Doc and the border area of An Giang Province revealed energetic levels of small time smuggling that is largely tolerated by local authorities. That fat man on the motorcycle may simply have his clothing stuffed full of cartons of cigarettes, locals say, but th [...] | 2003-12-15 11:00:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED | VM ECON CB ETRD PREL SMIG SNAR SOCI CNARC TIP |
03HOCHIMINHCITY153 | FATHERLAND FRONT HOLDS PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION AGAINST [...] Summary. On February 19 the Fatherland Front of Vietnam (FFV)- -the umbrella organization for Communist Party mass organizations in Vietnam--coordinated a peaceful and orderly demonstration inside the Friendship Association House across the street from ConGen to show opposition to a war with [...] | 2003-02-19 08:37:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINS PINR PHUM PREL OPRC MOPS VM IZ |
03HOCHIMINHCITY251 | MENNONITES TURN UP THE VOLUME ON COMPLAINTS OF [...] (SBU) In a flurry of conversations with ConGenoffs over the past week, a Mennonite church leader and several of his colleagues have lodged serious complaints of stepped-up religious repression by government officials. The allegations include arrests, beatings, destruction of property, and si [...] | 2003-03-18 03:27:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF MOPS SOCI PGOV PREL KIRF VM HUMANR ETMIN RELFREE |
03HOCHIMINHCITY257 | COMMUNIST YOUTH ORGANIZATION HOLDS PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION [...] Summary: The HCMC Youth Union organized a boisterous, but peaceful demonstration by more than 5000 high school and college students at the District One Youth Center on March 17. The rally featured speakers and musical performances to appeal to the kind of young audience which frequents the Y [...] | 2003-03-19 06:30:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINS PINR PHUM PREL OPRC MOPS VM IZ |
03HOCHIMINHCITY259 | DR. QUE UNDER DETENTION [...] (SBU) Poloff visited the home of democracy activist Dr. Nguyen Dan Que on March 18 to confirm reports of his arrest received earlier that day. Based on the information originally provided by his brother in the U.S., and now confirmed by his wife, it appears that a large number of security of [...] | 2003-03-19 06:32:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL VM HUMANR |
03HOCHIMINHCITY265 | PROPOSED PRESS GUIDANCE ON DR. QUE'S DETENTION [...] (SBU) Post has notified the HCMC External Relations Office (ERO),the local branch of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, of its interest in the case of Dr. Nguyen Dan Que, who was detained in HCMC on March 17 (reftel). We have also requested MFA assistance in obtaining additional information o [...] | 2003-03-19 15:22:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV VM HUMANR |
03HOCHIMINHCITY268 | HCMC BUSINESSES SEE LIMITED ECONOMIC IMPACT FROM WAR IN [...] As U.S. forces launched the first strikes against Iraq, government and business leaders in HCMC were still largely uncertain what effect the war would have on the local economy. Initial reports from some sectors, such as hotels, energy, and banking, appeared to indicate only short-term jitters [...] | 2003-03-20 13:56:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EPET ETRD PREL VM |
03HOCHIMINHCITY337 | CHURCH AND STATE MAINTAIN BALANCE IN TAY NINH PROVINCE [...] (U) On a recent one-day trip to meet with provincial and Cao Dai Church leaders in Tay Ninh Province, the Ambassador came away with a mostly positive impression of the current state of health of both the province and the religion which predominates there. Tay Ninh, while still on the fringes [...] | 2003-04-08 11:21:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PHUM PREL ETRD EINV VM HUMANR RELFREE |
03HOCHIMINHCITY342 | HARASSED UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE: DON DUONG AND FAMILY [...] (SBU) Summary: Actor Bui Don Duong, his wife, and their two sons departed Ho Chi Minh City today on the first leg of their journey to the U.S. as intending immigrants. Up to the last minute, GVN security forces delayed and humiliated the family at Tan Son Nhut Airport, almost causing them to [...] | 2003-04-10 00:55:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL SOCI PGOV VM HUMANR |
03HOCHIMINHCITY450 | KON TUM: STILL STRUGGLING..... AND GOING NOWHERE FAST [...] (SBU) Returning to Kon Tum for the first time in a year, the Consul General found little changed in the poorest and least developed of the four Central Highlands provinces. While poverty continues to be the biggest story in Kon Tum, local officials seemed hopeful that construction of new hig [...] | 2003-05-20 13:38:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PHUM PREL SOCI ETRD EINV VM HUMANR ETMIN RELFREE LABOR |
03HOCHIMINHCITY491 | INVITATIONS TO "DISCUSS" RELIGION IN DAK LAK PROVINCE [...] (SBU) On May 29, ConGen Poloff and Pol/Econ assistant met with a reliable contact regarding the situation of unregistered religious minority groups in Dak Lak province. The contact gave ConGenoff a collection of written materials -- some official-looking original documents and several photoc [...] | 2003-06-05 02:35:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV VM KIRF ETMIN HUMANR RELFREE |
03HOCHIMINHCITY572 | NEWEST HCMC VICE CHAIRMAN: BAD HABITS TO BLAME FOR [...] (SBU) HCMC People's Committee's newest Vice Chairman, Nguyen Van Dua, discussed urban planning and quality of life issues with Consul General in an initial courtesy call on June 11. Vice Chairman Dua focused on HCMC's serious waste management, land use and trafffic issues, and its efforts to [...] | 2003-06-23 11:09:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON SENV SOCI PREL EINV |
03HOCHIMINHCITY585 | THICH QUANG DO -- HOW FREE AT LAST? [...] (SBU) Summary: During a June 30 meeting with Consul General, recently "released" United Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) deputy Thich Quang Do launched into a two- hour plus discourse on religion, democracy, freedom, and capitalism. Confirming press reports, he said he would soon attempt [...] | 2003-06-30 17:44:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI PGOV PREL EAID EINV KIRF VM RELFREE HUMANR |
03HOCHIMINHCITY65 | RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: THE VIEW THROUGH THE VISA [...] (SBU) Consular associate recently interviewed a Korean missionary affiliated with the Global Mission Society of the Presbyterian Church in Korea for a nonimmigrant visa (NIV). The applicant, who described himself as a missionary pastor with an "underground" Protestant church, said he conducte [...] | 2003-01-16 09:56:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI KIRF VM HUMANR RELFREE |
03HOCHIMINHCITY650 | Leader of the Hue Branch of the Outlawed United [...] (SBU) An influential leader of the Hue branch of the outlawed UBCV discussed his views with DPO and A/PAO on the current state of the Buddhist Church, the status of Thich Huyen Quang, and the need for continued U.S. pressure on the GVN to allow greater religious freedom. The meeting was marr [...] | 2003-07-18 07:48:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI VM HUMANR RELFREE |
03HOCHIMINHCITY670 | VIETNAM: THICH QUANG DO VISITS THICH HUYEN QUANG [...] (SBU) The Venerable Thich Quang Do, Deputy Head of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV),met with UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang at the Nguyen Thieu Monastery in Quy Nhon July 15-20. This was Thich Quang Do's first trip outside of HCMC since being placed under "probationary [...] | 2003-07-24 11:56:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KIRF SOCI VM RELFREE HUMANR |
03HOCHIMINHCITY710 | PROTESTANT CHURCH CAN STAY -- FOR NOW [...] (SBU) Summary: The HCMC People's Committee has decided that an illegally constructed Protestant church in the Thu Thiem area of District 2 can remain open as a house of worship, pending approval of the required permits. While city officials made clear that they hold both church leaders and [...] | 2003-08-06 12:58:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI PREL KIRF VM RELFREE HUMANR |
03HOCHIMINHCITY713 | Vietnam: Pirates in the Gulf of Thailand [...] (SBU) During a courtesy call on the Kien Giang provincial People's Committee, Ambassador Burghardt asked Chairman Bui Ngoc Suong and Vice Chairman Van Ha Phong for their views on reports of increasing maritime piracy in the Gulf of Thailand and the impact on Vietnamese fishermen. Noting that [...] | 2003-08-07 09:30:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS PHSA EFIS EWWT PTER PREL PGOV VM |
03HOCHIMINHCITY759 | VIETNAM: US MILITARY DONATION WELCOMED IN MEKONG DELTA [...] Summary. In a goodwill event that generated enthusiastic local and national press coverage, Acting Consul General, Defense Attache Col. Stephen Ball, U.S. Army Pacific John Almarez, and Congen Econoff, participated in a handover ceremony at Can Tho General Hospital to commemorate the donation [...] | 2003-08-20 08:42:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PINS PREL ECON VM |
03HOCHIMINHCITY766 | POLICE RAID "ILLEGAL" HOUSE CHURCH IN HCMC DURING A/S [...] (SBU) Summary: Just prior to the return of Assistant Secretary Eugene Dewey to Ho Chi Minh City from the Central Highlands on Monday, August 18 (septels),ConGen HCMC learned of an altercation at an unrecognized "illegal" Protestant house church in the city's District 11. According to reliabl [...] | 2003-08-21 12:56:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL SOCI PGOV KIRF VM HUMANR ETMIN RELFREE |
03HOCHIMINHCITY770 | A/S DEWEY PRESSES HO CHI MINH CITY LEADERSHIP ON [...] (SBU) Summary. A/S Dewey raised issues of religious freedom during several official meetings in Ho Chi Minh City on August 19. Describing the GVN's record as uneven in the Central Highlands provinces he had visited, he registered disappointment that even in HCMC, there were sporadic reports of [...] | 2003-08-23 07:41:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PREF SOCI PGOV VM RELFREE HUMANR |
03HOCHIMINHCITY777 | COFFEE AND COCOA IN DAK LAK PROVINCE -- THE POT [...] (U) Summary: Hopes for economic prosperity in Vietnam's Dak Lak province remain centered on agriculture, especially cash crop coffee. While low coffee prices have meant continued slow growth, they have also spawned diversification programs. During a visit to the largest of the four Central [...] | 2003-08-27 00:36:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID PREL EINV ETRD EAGR SOCI VM |
03HOCHIMINHCITY833 | A/S DEWEY IN VIETNAM'S CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: KON TUM [...] (U) Summary: In a visit to Kon Tum Province, PRM Assistant Secretary Dewey met with Provincial People's Committee Chairwoman Y Veng and with the province's Committee on Ethnic Minority and Religious Affairs. He also visited a village in Ia Sia commune where 15 UNHCR- repatriated ethnic mino [...] | 2003-09-09 06:04:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PGOV PREL PINS SOCI KIRF VM CB RELFREE HUMANR ETMIN |
03HOCHIMINHCITY836 | POTENTIAL P1 REFUGEES TO STAND TRIAL FOR ESPIONAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: Mrs. Nguyen Thi Hoa, Mr. Nguyen Truc Cuong and Mr. Nguyen Vu Viet -- the niece and nephews of jailed Catholic priest Father Nguyen Van Ly -- will go on trial in Ho Chi Minh City People's Court for "espionage" on September 10. Under Article 80 of the Criminal Code, "espionage" [...] | 2003-09-09 13:18:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL PGOV SOCI VM HUMANR RELFREE |
03HOCHIMINHCITY842 | A/S DEWEY VISIT TO VIETNAM'S CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: [...] (SBU) Summary: PRM Assistant Secretary Dewey visited Gia Lai Province in the Central Highlands on August 16-17. His meeting with Provincial People's Committee Chairman Ha was cordial, with a frank exchange of ideas on treatment of ethnic minorities and freedom of worship. Ha said that at le [...] | 2003-09-10 08:46:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PGOV PREL PINS SOCI KIRF VM CB HUMANR ETMIN RELFREE |
03HOCHIMINHCITY933 | UNLICENSED PROTESTANT HOUSE CHURCH REPORTEDLY TORN DOWN [...] (SBU) In what looks to be a replay of recent events surrounding an illegally constructed house church in District 11 of HCMC (reftels),Post has received information regarding the possible destruction of a small Seventh Day Adventist house church at No.42 Binh Loi, Binh Khanh, Can Gio Distric [...] | 2003-09-26 10:05:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI PREL RELFREE HUMANR |
03HOCHIMINHCITY942 | UBCV LEADERS MEET DESPITE GVN INTERFERENCE [...] (SBU) Leaders of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) met September 18-20 in Binh Dinh Province, according to UBCV Deputy Thich Quang Do, despite some overt GVN efforts to prevent the meeting from taking place. This is the first time the UBCV leadership has been able to gathe [...] | 2003-10-01 01:24:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI PGOV PREL VM HUMANR RELFREE |
03HOCHIMINHCITY978 | POLICE DISRUPT TRAVEL OF UBCV LEADERS TO HCMC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Police apparently stopped United Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) leaders Thich Huyen Quang, Thich Quang Do and Thich Tue Sy from leaving Binh Dinh Province to drive to Ho Chi Minh City on October 8 (local time). Although various reports differed on details, there was genera [...] | 2003-10-08 13:41:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KIRF SOCI PGOV PREL VM HUMANR RELFREE |
03HOCHIMINHCITY993 | UBCV LEADERS IN LIMBO: INQUIRIES CONTINUE CONCERNING [...] (SBU) ConGen has confirmed that UBCV leaders Thich Huyen Quang, Thich Quang Do and Thich Tue Sy were detained by police on October 9 in Khanh Hoa Province about 10 km north of the provincial capital Nha Trang. They had left Thich Huyen Quang's pagoda in Binh Dinh Province to travel to HCMC t [...] | 2003-10-10 13:29:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KIRF SOCI PGOV PREL VM RELFREE HUMANR |
03ISTANBUL1025 | ARMENIAN CHURCH POLITICS AND TURKEY-ARMENIA [...] (SBU) Armenian Patriarch Mesrob II advised the Ambassador during his July 16 farewell call that aggressive efforts by the Armenian Catholicos in Etchmiadzin to assert primacy over the Armenian community in Turkey could increase Turkish tensions on the Armenian issue in the coming months. Spec [...] | 2003-07-24 08:03:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AM TK |
03ISTANBUL113 | ISTANBUL MARKETS "WAIT AND SEE" ON GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Leading Istanbul bankers and market analysts see current market sentiment as one of "watchful waiting," but believe that despite recent declines in the stock market, there is an underlying expectation that the Turkish government will reach agreement with the IMF on the fourth r [...] | 2003-01-27 13:57:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL TU |
03ISTANBUL118 | TURKISH HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP REQUESTS GUANTANAMO [...] (U) On January 21, Poloff met with Ahmet Mercan, Istanbul Chairman of Islamically-oriented Turkish human rights group Mazlum-Der (Organization of Human Rights and Solidarity for Oppressed People). Mazlum-Der provided Poloff with a letter dated January 13, 2003, requesting information on a Turk [...] | 2003-01-29 05:30:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL |
03ISTANBUL127 | RISING ANTI-AMERICAN SENTIMENT AND U.S. POLICY [...] (C) Summary: Widespread and increasingly vocal opposition to a possible war against Iraq is on the verge of evolving into a more general anti-American backlash in Istanbul. Our observations, Istanbul contacts, and recent polls and surveys lead us to believe that anti-American sentiment is shar [...] | 2003-01-29 14:33:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAO PTER KISL TK |
03ISTANBUL1347 | ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH (FINALLY) MEETS WITH AKP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I met with FonMin Abdullah Gul and IntMin Abdulkadir Aksu on August 8 and 12, respectively. Though both ministers publicly and warmly received Bartholomew, the meetings did not yield any concrete steps forward on property issues or recognition of [...] | 2003-09-12 21:04:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL TU |
03ISTANBUL1356 | PM ERDOGAN CALLS FOR U.S. ACTION AGAINST PKK/KADEK [...] (U) Summary: In a September 12 public speech, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan called for a leading U.N. role in Iraq, Turkish contributions to Iraq's stability and reconstruction, and U.S. action against PKK/KADEK. Without attaching any specific pre-conditions, the PM said that Turkey is still [...] | 2003-09-15 11:43:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU |
03ISTANBUL1409 | ISTANBUL REPUBLICAN PEOPLE'S PARTY: HOPING FOR [...] (C) Summary: Istanbul Republican People's Party (CHP) contacts report widespread internal discontent with CHP Chairman Baykal and the CHP's performance over the last several months. Although Baykal has successfully taken firm control of the Istanbul party organization, the party has so far be [...] | 2003-09-24 05:49:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
03ISTANBUL1427 | ISTANBUL VIEWS ON SENDING TURKISH TROOPS TO IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: Istanbul residents from all walks of life continue to worry about the situation in Iraq and the prospect of sending troops to Iraq. Whomever we meet with, and whatever the subject, the conversation inevitably turns to Iraq. Despite the widespread opposition before the U.S. inter [...] | 2003-09-26 08:31:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU |
03ISTANBUL162 | TURKEY ALPHABET SOUP: ISTANBUL'S MYRIAD BUSINESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Istanbul, Turkey's economic, commercial and cultural capital, hosts a rich diversity of business voices, all seeking to influence both government policy and international perceptions of Turkey. Leader of the pack is the venerable TUSIAD-- Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen [...] | 2003-02-06 14:15:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL TU |
03ISTANBUL1698 | TURKISH ORTHODOXY: ONE PATRIARCH, THREE CHURCHES, [...] (C) Summary: It's hard to be a patriarch with a tiny domain. Recently-enthroned Turkish Orthodox Patriarch Pasa Umit Erenerol is the third Patriarch of a "church" that dates its founding back to 1922 and the heat of a civil war. Today, the patriarch's writ goes no further than his extended fa [...] | 2003-11-14 10:53:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL TU |
03ISTANBUL1703 | ISTANBUL SYNAGOGUES BOMBED [...] (u) Bombs detonated simultaneously at two of the major Jewish synagogues in Istanbul at approximately 9:30 am have claimed dozens of lives and injured over a hundred people. Based on observations by the Consul General, RSO, and poloffs at both sites, it appears that both buildings were targeted [...] | 2003-11-15 11:49:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL ASEC TU |
03ISTANBUL1710 | ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH CONFIRMS CUBA TRAVEL PLANS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew still plans to travel to Cuba in January, 2004, to attend the opening of an Orthodox church in Havana. Bartholomew did not take USG and international concerns into account in deciding on this trip, focusing instead on competition with the Russian [...] | 2003-11-17 10:51:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL TU CU |
03ISTANBUL1711 | ISTANBUL REACTS TO SYNAGOGUE BOMBINGS [...] (sbu) Summary: Istanbul is still stunned by the shock and horror of Saturday's synagogue bombings. The overwhelming response has been to view this as a senseless and unjustifiable attack, not merely against Turkey's small Jewish community, but against Turkey itself. Despite widespread specul [...] | 2003-11-17 14:12:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER TU |
03ISTANBUL1744 | NEW BOMBING WAVE TARGETS BRITISH INSTITUTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2003-11-20 13:58:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL ASEC TU |
03ISTANBUL1752 | BOMBING UPDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2003-11-21 14:11:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL ASEC TU |
03ISTANBUL1759 | ISTANBUL GOVERNOR COMMENTS ON TERRORIST ATTACKS [...] (U) After examining sites of the November 15 and 20 terrorist attacks, the Ambassador visited the Istanbul Mayor and Governor on November 24 to extend the condolences of the United States and to offer any further assistance that might be required during the investigations Istanbul Gover [...] | 2003-11-26 09:54:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV TU |
03ISTANBUL1760 | TURKEY: A NEW FRONT FOR INTERNATIONAL TERROR [...] (U) Summary: Istanbul is slowly recovering from the shock of two separate sets of terrorist bombings that claimed over 50 lives and wounded 750 in one week. Although both the synagogue bombings (ref a) and the latest bombings of the British Consulate and HSBC Turkey headquarters (ref b) appear [...] | 2003-11-26 11:42:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV ASEC TU |
03ISTANBUL1803 | BANKING SECTOR PREPARES FOR A "BRAVE NEW WORLD" [...] (SBU) Summary: The strong profits reported by Turkish banks in 2003's third quarter show that the sector is gradually recovering from the effects of the 2001 crisis, according to industry analysts in Istanbul. They note, however, that much of the recent good news is the result of the windfal [...] | 2003-12-05 14:45:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL TU |
03ISTANBUL1821 | U/S GROSSMAN'S 12/9/03 MEETING WITH ISTANBUL [...] (C) Summary: U/S Grossman met with the Governor of Istanbul to express U.S. solidarity with the people of Istanbul and Turkey, and our ongoing cooperation in the war on terror. Guler outlined a series of "lessons learned" from the attacks, and expressed optimism that Turkey would be better pr [...] | 2003-12-11 10:42:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC OVIP PGOV PREL TU |
03ISTANBUL1847 | ISTANBUL-YEREVAN FLIGHTS: TURKISH FIRM ENTERS THE [...] (C) Summary: Absent an open border between Turkey and Armenia, twice-weekly flights between Istanbul and Yerevan since 1995 have provided some of the only direct contact between Turks and Armenians. Initially operated by the state-owned (and now bankrupt) Armenian Airlines, the rights were ta [...] | 2003-12-18 08:23:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PGOV AM TU |
03ISTANBUL1872 | TOURISM'S POSTWAR REBOUND FACES TERROR CHALLENGE [...] (SBU) Summary: Tourism industry executives are again wondering what the future holds for their sector following November's suicide bombings in Istanbul. The attacks interrupted a strong sectoral recovery that saw visitor figures surpass last year's level by the end of November, and tourism r [...] | 2003-12-23 12:53:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL TU |
03ISTANBUL280 | MARKET PLAYERS FACE THE NEW REALITIES [...] (SBU) Summary: Istanbul market analysts are grappling with the new political landscape following Saturday's parliamentary vote against permitting U.S. troops. The development was a shock: despite difficulties in negotiations, the market had long assumed (and priced in) a positive outcome. [...] | 2003-03-04 10:43:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL TU |
03ISTANBUL294 | TURKS WEIGH AN IRAQ OPERATION'S TOURISM IMPACT [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkish government and tourism industry officials are bracing in anticipation of a sharp downturn in tourism in the event of an Iraq operation. The sector, Turkey's largest foreign exchange earner, turned in a good performance in 2002, earning over 10 billion USD (27 percent o [...] | 2003-03-07 11:26:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL TU |
03ISTANBUL348 | TURKISH-ARMENIAN RECONCILIATION COMMISSION MEETS, [...] (C) Summary: Following a March 10 meeting to review and discuss a report it had commissioned from the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ),members of the Turkish Armenian Reconciliation Commission (TARC) have been unable to reach agreement on how to deal with the contentious " [...] | 2003-03-14 14:08:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AM TU |
03ISTANBUL399 | ARMENIAN PATRIARCH MESROB II ON THE CHURCH, [...] (C) Summary: In a March 13 meeting, Istanbul Armenian Patriarch Mesrob II blamed Catholicos Karekin II and Armenian President Robert Kocharian for increasing tensions within the Armenian Church and criticized the Armenian Diaspora for focusing exclusively on "genocide" recognition and for igno [...] | 2003-03-26 09:58:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL AM TU |
03ISTANBUL418 | ISTANBUL ECONOMIC ANALYSTS: LOOKING FOR A LIFELINE [...] (SBU) Summary: After a rocky start to the week on Monday, word that the U.S. Iraq supplemental contains 1 billion USD for Turkey has been seized on as a lifeline by Istanbul markets and analysts. Concern persists about the sustainability of Turkey's debt, however. Analysts suggest any probl [...] | 2003-03-27 14:33:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL TU |
03ISTANBUL465 | ISTANBUL ECONOMIC PESSIMISM: "MUDDLING THROUGH" AS [...] (SBU) Summary: While not quite so pessimistic as they were two weeks ago about Turkey's immediate economic prospects, Istanbul financial analysts remain decidedly gloomy about the country's mid-term future. All agree that the Treasury seems to have next week's debt auction well in hand. In [...] | 2003-04-07 08:56:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL TU |
03ISTANBUL467 | ISTANBUL WORRIES ABOUT WAR, U.S.-TURKEY TIES, [...] (U) Summary: With apparently over ninety percent of the local population opposed to the war in Iraq, anti-war sentiment in Istanbul continues to harden as reports and images of civilian casualties stream in over the sympathetic news networks. Among Istanbul's academic and business elite, howe [...] | 2003-04-07 12:59:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON TK |
03ISTANBUL469 | ISTANBUL STUDENTS VOICE NUANCED UNDERSTANDING OF [...] (U) Summary: Istanbul pol/econoffs hosted a group of 11 students from Istanbul's Beykent University to discuss current political developments in the Middle East and the Turkish/U.S. relationship. The students were unanimously opposed to the war. However, the group demonstrated a nuanced unde [...] | 2003-04-07 13:01:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL TU |
03ISTANBUL588 | POWER AT ANY PRICE? CEM UZAN'S POLITICAL AMBITIONS [...] (C) Summary: Initial contacts with Youth Party (GP) officials in Istanbul confirm our belief that the party is essentially a vehicle of convenience for media tycoon Cem Uzan's considerable political ambitions. At the same time, GP is not resting on its laurels, but instead is moving quickly t [...] | 2003-04-28 08:52:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TK |
03ISTANBUL644 | THE "ARMENIAN ISSUE" IN ISTANBUL [...] (C) Summary: Most of those Turks we have spoken with in Istanbul are largely ignorant of the tragic fate of at least hundreds of thousands of Armenians who were killed in 1894-5 and especially in 1915-16 throughout Anatolia toward the end of the Ottoman Empire. Turkish history books and readil [...] | 2003-05-07 08:15:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM TK |
03ISTANBUL667 | WOLFOWITZ AND PERLE REMARKS REVIVE DEBATE ON [...] (C) Summary: Recent remarks by DOD Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz and Defense Policy Board Member Perle have revived a rancorous public debate in Istanbul on the status of U.S.-Turkish relations. Reactions to the May 6 Wolfowitz interview on CNN Turk also dominated our previously-scheduled May 7 [...] | 2003-05-09 10:45:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TK |
03ISTANBUL671 | ISTANBUL IN THE SPRINGTIME: RESURGENT OPTIMISM [...] (SBU) Summary: As a belated spring bursts forth on the Bosphorus following an unusually cold and protracted winter, "spring is also in the air" in Istanbul business circles. The resurgent optimism stems from speedy conclusion to the war in Iraq and belief that its short-term cost for Turkey w [...] | 2003-05-09 13:55:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL TU |
03ISTANBUL752 | CEM UZAN STUMPS YOUTH IN ISTANBUL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Genc Party leader Cem Uzan's recent speech to a gathering of university student leaders in Istanbul provided insight into both his political skills and shortcomings as he seeks to build on his surprisingly strong showing in last year's election. While charismatic in some ways, [...] | 2003-05-28 04:40:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TU |
03ISTANBUL776 | TURKISH ARMED FORCES DEPUTY AFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO [...] (C) Summary: Declaring at a globalization conference that the Turkish military is not against Turkey's pursuit of EU membership, deputy chief of the TGS Buyukanit further qualified the military's stance with a series of reservations and an indirect but clear set of jabs at the U.S. End summar [...] | 2003-05-31 09:26:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU |
03ISTANBUL796 | EXPORTS REMAIN STRONG, BUT LIRA WORRIES PERSIST [...] (SBU) Summary: New figures released by the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TIM) on June 2 show that Turkey's exporters withstood the challenge of a strengthening lira and set a new monthly export record of USD 3.9 billion in May, a 30.7 percent increase over 2002. For the year ending May 31, exp [...] | 2003-06-03 15:01:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL TU |
03ISTANBUL96 | AMBASSADOR'S JANUARY 14 EXCHANGES WITH ISTANBUL [...] (C) Summary: In a series of January 14 discussions, the Ambassador reassured prominent Turkish businessmen, academics, and journalists that there is no crisis in U.S.-Turkish relations. He outlined in general terms the USG-GOT discussions on Iraq, and made the case that the status quo in Ira [...] | 2003-01-22 14:06:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EFIN TU |
03JAKARTA13041 | INDONESIA: 2003 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT [...] Indonesia significantly increased its support for the global coalition against terrorism during this period. The October 12, 2002 bombing in Bali that killed 202 - including 88 Australians, 38 Indonesians, 28 Britons, and seven Americans galvanized the Indonesian Government into action, and t [...] | 2003-11-28 10:47:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PGOV PREL KJUS ID |
03JAKARTA3306 | TFIZ01: TEXT OF MEGAWATI'S STATEMENT CRITICAL OF [...] No summary [...] | 2003-03-20 12:10:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV IZ ID |
03JAKARTA5111 | ACEH: YUDHOYONO HOPES FOR "INVISIBLE HAND OF GOD" [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY POLITICAL OFFICER TED LYNG FOR REASONS 1.5 (B) AND (D). 2. (C) SUMMARY. MINISTER YUDHOYONO TOLD THE AMBASSADOR MAY 9 THAT HE HOPED FOR THE "INVISIBLE HAND OF GOD" TO SAVE THE ACEH PEACE PROCESS. YUDHOYONO SAID THE WINDOW IS STILL OPEN FOR DIALOGUE AND HE PRAYS FOR A BREAK [...] | 2003-05-09 13:45:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV ID |
03JEDDAH828 | TWO SAUDI PROFESSIONALS: BET ON THE PEOPLE, NOT [...] (C) ON APRIL 2, POLOFF MET WITH A LOCAL SAUDI LAWYER, DR. BASIM ALIM (STRICTLY PROTECT),TO DISCUSS HIS OPEN LETTER TO CROWN PRINCE ABDULLAH CALLING FOR REFORM. A "SELF-MADE" LAWYER, ALIM WAS CHOSEN IN DECEMBER 2002 TO REPRESENT SEVERAL SAUDI CHARITIES IN THE SEPTEMBER 11 LAWSUIT AND ADMITS T [...] | 2003-04-14 13:18:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI KISL SA |
03JERUSALEM2293 | HAMAS READY TO EXTEND TRUCE, PA MINISTER CLAIMS [...] (C) Following up on his conversation with Embassy PolOff last week (reftel),PA Minister of Culture Ziad Abu-Amr, in a meeting with A/PO in Ramallah on 8/4, said that Hamas leaders would tell PA Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas in Gaza this week that they are prepared to extend the cease-fire for [...] | 2003-08-05 15:28:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG KPAL IS |
03JERUSALEM2771 | FATAH LEADER HINTS AT PM ABBAS'S DOWNFALL [...] (C) Summary: Fatah Central Committee member and frequent Arafat ally Sakher Habash, in a conversation with Pol/C in Ramallah 9/3, said he saw only two ways out of the ongoing political crisis in the Palestinian Authority: either PM Abbas makes amends with Arafat and the Fatah leadership, or h [...] | 2003-09-04 16:06:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL KWBG PGOV IS |
03JERUSALEM2819 | THE TALE OF PM ABBAS'S RESIGNATION [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, disappointed and embittered after losing a power struggle with Arafat that left him publicly branded as a traitor, sent his letter of resignation to the PA President on September 6, then vented his frustrations to the Legislative Council in a closed [...] | 2003-09-08 17:10:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL KWBG PGOV IS |
03JERUSALEM4246 | ISLAMIC RADICALS ATTACK EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (U) EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AHMAD MAHER CAME UNDER ATTACK BY ISLAMIC ACTIVISTS WHILE VISITING AND PRAYING AT THE HARAM ASH-SHARIF ON THE EVENING OF DECEMBER 22. A VIDEO SHOWS MAHER BEING MOBBED BY ANGRY WORSHIPPERS AND APPARENTLY CHOKED BRIEFLY BY A CLOTH AROUND HIS NECK. WORSHIPPERS REPOR [...] | 2003-12-22 16:40:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IS EG |
03KABUL1006 | AMBASSADOR'S APRIL 8 MEETING WITH CAPTAIN DAOUD: [...] (C) Captain Daoud, an Afghan-American investor interested in establishing a private airline in Afghanistan, met with Ambassador on April 8. Daoud is seeking OPIC support for the establishment of Oxus Air, a private airline serving the U.S. and Europe from Afghanistan with a projected fleet of [...] | 2003-04-18 04:02:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN AF |
03KABUL1007 | SE KHALILZAD'S APRIL 11 MEETING WITH FM ABDULLAH [...] (C) Summary: During his April 11 meeting with FM Abdullah, SE Khalilzad addressed both regional and domestic Afghan developments. Khalilzad suggested that the renewed activity of the Taliban and other destabilizing elements in the South might be addressed through a trilateral (U.S.-Afghan-Pak [...] | 2003-04-18 04:02:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINR PTER AF PK |
03KABUL1008 | AMBASSADOR'S APRIL 8 MEETING WITH PRIVATIZATION [...] (C) On April 8, Ambassador met with Privatization Commission Chairman and former Minister of Public Works, Khaliq Fazal. Fazal,s comments focused on deteriorating security conditions around Kandahar, infiltration of Pakistanis in the south, political demands on President Karzai, and the regre [...] | 2003-04-18 04:02:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN AF |
03KABUL1015 | SE KHALILZAD'S APRIL 11 MEETING WITH NDS CHIEF [...] (S/NF) Summary: SE Khalilzad met on April 11 with National Directorate of Security (NDS) Chief Engineer Aref to discuss current security conditions, his views on proposed US-Afghan-Pakistan trilateral discussions, and to review NDS reform. Aref told SE Khalilzad that Pakistan was indeed promo [...] | 2003-04-18 14:11:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINR PTER AF PK |
03KABUL1029 | CONGRESSMAN ROHRABACHER'S APRIL 16 MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: On April 16, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Rohrabacher was accompanied by his spouse, Ambassador and Econ/Comofficer (notetaker). Congressman Rohrabacher began by assuring Karzai that the war in Iraq had not diverted attention from Afghanis [...] | 2003-04-21 02:45:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR PINR PTER AF |
03KABUL1560 | PROPOSAL TO WORK WITH ECONOMIC COOPERATION [...] (SBU) The USG and the World Bank are planning to hold the ministerial-level Regional Trade Initiative Conference on the margins of the IMF/WB Annual Meetings in Dubai from September 21-23, 2003. 2. (C) The interagency community is considering a proper venue to conduct a preliminary planning [...] | 2003-06-05 13:11:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PREL AF PK TU IR |
03KABUL303 | NO LONGER IN ARREARS, AFGHANISTAN HAS BUDGET [...] (C) In a chance meeting with the Ambassador and Security Coordinator MG Karl Eikenberry at the presidential palace on February 4, a clearly pleased Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani noted that Japan had come through with pledged funding the day before. As a result, Afghanistan was no longer in a [...] | 2003-02-06 15:17:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID PREL AF IMF IBRD |
03KABUL354 | TERRORIST FINANCE - KABUL: PRENOTIFICATION OF [...] (S) Ambassador delivered reftel's talking points to President Karzai on Feb 12. Karzai reacted favorably to the actions outlined in the points. 2. (S) Para 7 requested post's view of possible designation of individuals associated with Hekmatyar. Where loyalties are not clear, post recomme [...] | 2003-02-12 15:12:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | ETTC EFIN PTER PREL KVPR CVIS AF |
03KABUL955 | AMBASSADOR'S APRIL 6 MEETING WITH FRENCH AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador held a wide-ranging discussion with French Ambassador, Jean Pierre Guinhut, on April 6. The Ambassadors reviewed Afghan security conditions in the aftermath of Iraqi Freedom, lingering obstacles to economic growth, and progress on the drafting of the Afghan Constitutio [...] | 2003-04-13 11:55:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN AF |
03KATHMANDU1018 | FUTURE OF TIBETAN REFUGEES IN NEPAL REMAINS [...] (U) PolOffs met June 3 with Wangchuk Tsering, Office of Tibet and Official Representative of the Dalai Lama in Nepal to discuss the status of Tibeten refugees in Nepal, after the May 30 deportation described Ref B. Tsering said he appreciated USG efforts to delay the deportation of the 18 ref [...] | 2003-06-03 10:11:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL CH NP |
03KATHMANDU1042 | TIBETAN REFUGEE DEPORTATION: POST-MORTEM [...] (C) Despite strenous efforts by the Embassy to dissuade it from doing so, the Government of Nepal on May 31 deported 18 Tibetan refugees to China. Th Mission began working this issue in late April shortly after the refugees were first detained. Post pressed for the refugees' release at all le [...] | 2003-06-05 11:47:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL NP CH |
03KATHMANDU1044 | (U) TIBETAN REFUGEE DEPORTATION: POST-MORTEM [...] (C) Despite strenous efforts by the Embassy to dissuade it from doing so, the Government of Nepal on May 31 deported 18 Tibetan refugees to China. Th Mission began working this issue in late April shortly after the refugees were first detained. Post pressed for the refugees' release at all le [...] | 2003-06-06 00:36:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL NP CH |
03KATHMANDU1071 | NEW NEPAL PRIME MINISTER ASKS U.S. FOR [...] (C) Summary. Nepal's Foreign Secretary, Madhu Raman Acharya, convoked the Charge' privately on June 10 under instructions from the new Prime Minister and Acting Foreign Minister, Surya Bahadur Thapa. The Secretary explained the PM's current efforts to persuade the major political parties to [...] | 2003-06-11 05:49:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NP |
03KATHMANDU1072 | WEEKLY NEPAL MEDIA REPORT: JUNE 3 - 9, 2003 [...] POLITICAL AFFAIRS KING APPOINTS NEW PRIME MINISTER -- King Gyanendra appointed (6/4) Surya Bahadur Thapa as the new Prime Minister. Thapa's appointment bri ngs to an end the controversy over "transfer" of the executive powers from [...] | 2003-06-11 05:56:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC PGOV PREL KMDR NP |
03KATHMANDU1074 | NEPAL: GOVERNMENT ASSURANCES, POLICY AMBIGUITIES [...] (C) On June 10 in separate conversations with Charge and Ambassador Joyce Leader, Office Director of PRM/ANE, the Secretaries of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Home SIPDIS have attempted to assure us that Government of Nepal (GON) policy toward Tibetan refugees transiting Nepal has n [...] | 2003-06-11 09:17:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL CH NP |
03KATHMANDU1085 | NEPAL: PM THAPA APPOINTS SIX MINISTERS FROM HIS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. ON JUNE 11, AFTER CONSULTATIONS WITH THE MAIN POLITICAL PARTY LEADERS, PRIME MINISTER THAPA APPOINTED SIX MINISTERS FROM HIS OWN CENTER-RIGHT PARTY, THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY (RPP). WITH ONE EXCEPTION, ALL THE NEW APPOINTEES HAVE PREVIOUS MINISTERIAL EXPERIENCE WITH HALF O [...] | 2003-06-12 09:24:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR NP |
03KATHMANDU1132 | NEPAL: GON RELEASES TIBETAN REFUGEE FROM [...] (SBU) ON JUNE 17, NEPAL'S DEPARTMENT OF IMMIGRATION RELEASED A MALE TIBETAN REFUGEE INTO UNHCR'S CUSTODY TWENTY-FOUR HOURS AFTER THE OFFICE OF TIBET PAID HIS FINE OF 7,500 RUPEES (APPROXIMATELY 98 USD). THE DEPARTMENT OF IMMIGRATION HAD DETAINED THE MAN IN LATE APRIL, SHORTLY AFTER THE DETENT [...] | 2003-06-18 09:45:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL CH NP |
03KATHMANDU1139 | BHUTANESE REFUGEES STAGE PEACEFUL PROTESTS IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. ON JUNE 18, THE NEPAL-BHUTAN JOINT VERIFICATION TEAM ANNOUNCED THE RESULTS OF THE KHUNDANABARI CAMP VERIFICATION. THE RESULTS WERE CONSISTENT WITH INFORMATION POST RECEIVED AFTER THE FOURTEENTH JOINT MINISTERIAL COMMITTEE MEETING ON MAY 22 (REFTEL). HOWEVER, INCONSISTENCIES A [...] | 2003-06-19 10:56:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL BT NP |
03KATHMANDU1169 | WEEKLY NEPAL MEDIA REPORT: JUNE 17 - 23, 2003 [...] POLITICAL AFFAIRS -- Five parties, Maoists hold massive rallies: The five agitating political parties and the Maoists took separate rallies on Friday in the capital against the "regression". (Media reports, 6/21) -- Nepal warns king: UML General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal has war [...] | 2003-06-24 04:28:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC PGOV PREL KMDR NP |
03KATHMANDU117 | NEPAL: AN EXTRAORDINARY TRAINING GROUND FOR U.S. [...] (C) Dear Bob: I was disappointed to learn that Nepal is not included on USSOCOM,s High Value Target List. As I understand it, if Nepal is not on this list, it will be difficult for U.S. Special Operations Forces to conduct deployments and training here. I hope I can enlist your support t [...] | 2003-01-23 04:58:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS MCAP PREL PTER NP |
03KATHMANDU1219 | NEPAL RELEASES NINETEEN TIBETANS TO UNHCR [...] (SBU) IN A UNHCR BRIEFING TO THE DONOR COMMUNITY IN KATHMANDU ON JUNE 30, EMBASSY WAS INFORMED THAT THE 19 TIBETANS ARRESTED ON JUNE 24 (REFTEL) HAVE BEEN TURNED OVER TO THE UNHCR FOR PROCESSING AND TRANSIT TO INDIA. 2. (SBU) ON JUNE 29, A UNHCR TEAM ARRIVED IN KAILALI DISTRICT IN WESTERN N [...] | 2003-06-30 08:59:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL CH NP |
03KATHMANDU1237 | NEPAL: UNHCR BRIEFING ON BHUTANESE REFUGEES [...] (C) Summary. In a briefing to the donor community in Nepal on June 30, UNHCR Country Director Abraham Abraham expressed strong concern over the results of the verification of the first camp of Bhutanese refugees. These results, he said, present "serious difficulties" for some refugee familie [...] | 2003-07-01 09:06:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL NP BH |
03KATHMANDU1239 | NEPALI KING SAYS TIBETAN DEPORTATIONS A MISTAKE [...] (C) In a June 30 meeting with the Ambassador, King Gyanendra opened by apologizing for May 31 deportations of 18 Tibetans (Ref A). He characterized the decision to deport the 18 as undertaken by a bureaucracy that "went off on its own" in the "last minutes of the former government." The Go [...] | 2003-07-01 10:18:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PGOV CH NP |
03KATHMANDU1247 | NEPAL'S PRIME MINISTER SEEKS TO LOWER POLITICAL [...] (C) In a June 29 meeting with the Ambassador, Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa said he wants to "lower the political temperature" with the protesting political parties. He hopes to bring representatives of the parties into the Government of Nepal (GON) negotiating team. His efforts so far [...] | 2003-07-02 11:15:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER EAID PREF NP |
03KATHMANDU1257 | NEPAL: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH NEW FINANCE [...] (C) In a June 29 meeting with the Ambassador, Finance Minister Dr. Prakash Chandra Lohani said that the Government of Nepal (GON) is preparing for another round of negotiations with the Maoists and making some headway in persuading political parties to join the new government. He said that [...] | 2003-07-03 09:52:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ETRD EINV NP |
03KATHMANDU1262 | REPORT ON TRAVEL FROM CENTRAL NEPAL [...] (C) Summary. On June 23-25, PolOff visited Bharatpur, headquarters of Chitwan district in Nepal's central lowlands, and Dhadingbesi, headquarters of Dhading district in the central hills. Officials in both districts reported that Maoist activity, including extortion and training, continues. [...] | 2003-07-06 05:51:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINR PREL NP |
03KATHMANDU1263 | WEEKLY NEPAL MEDIA REPORT: JUNE 24 - 30, 2003 [...] No summary [...] | 2003-07-06 08:18:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC PGOV PREL KMDR NP |
03KATHMANDU1277 | NEPAL: GON CANCELS DALAI LAMA CELEBRATIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. ON JULY 4, THE GOVERNMENT OF NEPAL (GON) PROHIBITED TIBETAN GROUPS FROM HOLDING CELEBRATIONS ON JULY 6 TO HONOR THE DALAI LAMA'S BIRTHDAY. DESPITE THE PROHIBITION, AT LEAST TWO TIBETAN GROUPS PROCEEDED WITH CELEBRATIONS WITHOUT GON INTERFERENCE. ALTHOUGH THE BIRTHDAY CELEBRAT [...] | 2003-07-08 10:24:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PHUM KIRF CH NP |
03KATHMANDU128 | NEPAL: FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS IN BHUTANESE REFUGEE [...] (C) Foreign Minister Narendra Bikram Shah returns on January 28 from an unofficial visit to Bhutan to discuss the refugee issue with his counterpart. Shah said he believes the visit presents a window of opportunity to secure a bilateral resolution to the problem. The EU representative in Ka [...] | 2003-01-24 08:02:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL NP BT UNHCR |
03KATHMANDU1282 | WEEKLY NEPAL MEDIA REPORT: JULY 1 - 7, 2003 [...] POLITICAL AFFAIRS -- Ten left parties for new constitution: Ten left parties demanded (7/6) for a new constitution as the only way out of the present political crisis. (Media reports, 7/7) -- U.S. Ambassador against Maoists: Although the U.S. has not formally exhibited any activit [...] | 2003-07-09 06:59:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC PGOV PREL KMDR NP |
03KATHMANDU1308 | NEPAL: TIBETAN REFUGEES AND U.S. INTERESTS - [...] (SBU) Embassy understands that a group of nine congressmen who sent a letter on June 19 to the Prime Minister of Nepal is now poised to introduce punitive legislation against Nepal if the government does not satisfy their ultimatum regarding the status of Tibetan refugees in Nepal. The Embassy [...] | 2003-07-11 08:58:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF EAID PREL NP |
03KATHMANDU1321 | NEPAL: PEACE PROCESS PROGNOSIS DIM [...] (S/NF) Summary. Maoist activities in violation of the code of conduct, including extortion, harassment and abductions, have increased since late May, dramatically in the last couple of weeks. In particular, Maoists have stepped up efforts to rebuild their war chest with the possible objectiv [...] | 2003-07-14 10:29:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PGOV PREL PHUM NP |
03KATHMANDU1329 | WEEKLY NEPAL MEDIA REPORT: JULY 8 - 14, 2003 [...] POLITICAL AFFAIRS PEACE TALKS -- Government, Maoists hold talks: Members of the negotiating teams of the government and the Maoists held an informal meeting in Kathmandu to create a congenial atmosphere for the third round of the peace talks. However, the talks failed to set a dat [...] | 2003-07-15 07:22:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC PGOV PREL KMDR NP |
03KATHMANDU1337 | NEPAL: ANOTHER NINE TIBETANS HANDED-OVER TO UNHCR [...] (SBU) ON JULY 15, THE GOVERNMENT OF NEPAL'S DEPARTMENT OF IMMIGRATION RELEASED NINE UNDOCUMENTED TIBETANS TO UNHCR. ACCORDING TO THE OFFICE OF TIBET, THE NINE TIBETANS WERE ARRESTED ON IMMIGRATION VIOLATIONS SOMETIME DURING THE WEEK OF JULY 7 IN THE EASTERN HILL DISTRICT OF OKHALDHUNGA. THE [...] | 2003-07-16 08:27:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PHUM CH NP |
03KATHMANDU1356 | NEPAL: MAOIST WARNING AGAINST US-AFFILIATED [...] (C) Summary. The Maoists in Nepal reportedly have issued a notice that all Nepali nationals affiliated with the United States in Maoist-controlled areas would be subject to harassment and travel restrictions. Reports from many west and mid-west districts have indicated that the Maoists' edict [...] | 2003-07-18 09:12:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER EAID PREL CASC NP |
03KATHMANDU1357 | NEPAL: JULY 20-25 VISIT TO WASHINGTON OF FOREIGN [...] (U) This cable contains an action request at paragraph 17. Summary: Issues the Secretary Intends to Address in Washington ============================================= ================= 2. (SBU) On July 17, the Ambassador, DCM, and poloff met with Nepal's Foreign Secretary, Madhu Raman [...] | 2003-07-18 09:14:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF ETRD MASS NP XD |
03KATHMANDU1358 | NEPAL: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting with Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa on July 16, the Ambassador, accompanied by the ambassadors of the UK, India, Germany and France and leaders of their respective bilateral chambers of commerce, discussed their intention to issue a joint statement condemning gro [...] | 2003-07-18 09:54:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PTER NP |
03KATHMANDU1369 | NEPAL: JOINT STATEMENT CONDEMNING MAOIST [...] (U) Ref A cable resent to expanded list of addressees (AmEmbassies Berlin and Paris). 2. (U) On July 21, the Industrial Security Group in Nepal released a press statement condemning Maoist extortions of individuals and businesses during the current cease-fire. Despite provisions in the c [...] | 2003-07-21 23:03:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PGOV ECON EINV NP |
03KATHMANDU1377 | WEEKLY NEPAL MEDIA REPORT: JULY 15 - 21, 2003 [...] PEACE TALKS -- Maoists close Kathmandu contact office: The Maoists have closed down the contact office in Kathmandu, open from April 10. The government is shocked with the Maoists' decision to close the Kathmandu contact office, but it "thinks" such a move will not affect the forthc [...] | 2003-07-23 01:35:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC PGOV PREL KMDR NP |
03KATHMANDU1388 | NEPAL: MAOISTS ISSUE PRE-CONDITIONS FOR RESUMPTION [...] (C) Summary. On July 23, the Maoist leadership publicly released a letter responding to the Government of Nepal's invitation to resume formal peace negotiations stalled since early May. Blaming the GON for violations of the cease-fire code of conduct, the letter represents another effort to t [...] | 2003-07-24 10:40:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL NP |
03KATHMANDU1390 | NEPAL: ARTICLE 98 AGREEMENT ENTERS INTO FORCE [...] (SBU) On July 22, 2003, Nepal's Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a diplomatic note to the Embassy, informing us that the Government of Nepal (GON) has completed the necessary domestic legal requirements for entry into force of the Article 98 Agreement. The Agreement, signed in Kathmandu on D [...] | 2003-07-25 09:22:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIA PREL PGOV PINR NP |
03KATHMANDU1413 | NEPAL: MAOISTS SET JULY 31 DEADLINE FOR POSSIBLE [...] (C) On July 25, Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa's government replied to the Maoist letter setting pre-conditions for the resumption of peace talks (reftel). In its response, the Government of Nepal (GON) reaffirmed its commitment to the peace talks, but stated it would not concede to Maoist [...] | 2003-07-28 10:22:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL NP |
03KATHMANDU1414 | WEEKLY NEPAL MEDIA REPORT: JULY 22 - 28, 2003 [...] PEACE TALKS -- Minister denies government agreed to restrict army: Finance Minister Dr. Parakeet Chandler Lorain said (7/27) the previous talk team of the government had not committed to restrict the army within five kilometers of the barracks and that the best thing was to sit down f [...] | 2003-07-29 03:59:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC PGOV PREL KMDR NP |
03KATHMANDU1424 | NEPAL: DELIVERING USG MESSAGE TO MAOIST FACILITATOR [...] No summary [...] | 2003-07-30 10:57:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PTER ASEC PINS NP |
03KATHMANDU1430 | (C) NEPAL: PROPOSED PUBLIC STATEMENT CONDEMNING [...] (C) In view of increased tension between the Government of Nepal and the Maoist leadership (reported reftels) and the extreme pressure the Maoists have placed on the already fragile cease-fire, Post recommends that the Department release a public statement should the cease-fire break and hosti [...] | 2003-07-31 11:07:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC NP |
03KATHMANDU1432 | NEPAL: PLANS FOR BHUTANESE REFUGEE REPATRIATION [...] (C) Summary. DCM met with Madan Kumar Bhattarai, MFA Acting Secretary and Joint Secretary for South Asia, on July 31 to discuss progress toward a durable solution for the Bhutanese refugee problem in Eastern Nepal as instructed reftel. Bhattarai admitted that the Government of Nepal and Roya [...] | 2003-07-31 11:08:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PHUM NP BT |
03KATHMANDU1484 | INDIAN NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR PLEDGES TO [...] (S) Summary. According to the Indian Ambassador to Nepal, India's National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra has reaffirmed the Indian Government's (GOI's) policy of synchronizing with the U.S. its tough talking points for Nepal's Maoist leaders. Mishra reportedly also pledged that his Governm [...] | 2003-08-05 09:42:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV NP IN |
03KATHMANDU1486 | NEPAL: MAIN COMMUNIST PARTY WILL NOT JOIN THE [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting on August 4 with the leader of Nepal's largest legal communist party, Madhav Kumar Nepal, the Ambassador expressed concern that the Government's cease-fire with the Maoists might not continue for long and emphasized the need for the political parties and the King to [...] | 2003-08-05 10:32:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER NP |
03KATHMANDU1516 | MEETING WITH ONE OF NEPAL'S MOST SENIOR DEMOCRATS: [...] (C) On August 7, the Ambassador met with Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, a founding father of Nepal's democracy, and Narayan Khadga, a former Vice Chairman of the National Planning Commission, to discuss the internal dynamics of the Nepali Congress Party, Bhattarai's recent discussions with the Kin [...] | 2003-08-08 09:54:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER NP |
03KATHMANDU1524 | NEPALI CONGRESS WILL NOT JOIN GOVERNMENT OR PEACE [...] (C) On August 8, the Ambassador met with Nepali Congress (NC) General Secretary Girija Prasad Koirala, completing a week of meetings with party leaders. Koirala relayed his telephonic discussions with Maoist leaders still in New Delhi, over the past week. The NC will not join the formal Gov [...] | 2003-08-11 23:14:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER NP GON |
03KATHMANDU1571 | WEEKLY NEPAL MEDIA REPORT: AUGUST [...] PEACE TALKS -- Third round of peace talks: The government conceded (8/17) two key demands of the Maoists an interim government that would also include them and a round table conference but rejected their demand for a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution. The Maoists said [...] | 2003-08-20 05:43:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC PGOV PREL KMDR NP |
03KATHMANDU1577 | NEPAL: THIRD ROUND OF TALKS ENDS WITHOUT AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary. Amidst increased violence over the past several days, the third round of peace talks between the Government of Nepal and the Maoists concluded on August 19 without agreement. Both sides left open the possibility of returning for a fourth round of talks. However, a growing numbe [...] | 2003-08-20 10:56:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL NP |
03KATHMANDU1606 | NEPAL: BHUTAN'S COMMITMENT TO REPATRIATE REFUGEES [...] (C) Summary. The postponement of the 15th Nepal-Bhutan Joint Ministerial originally scheduled for August 11-15 has led many Bhutanese refugee leaders to become increasingly doubtful of the Royal Government of Bhutan's commitment to repatriate the refugees. UNHCR field director John Andrew re [...] | 2003-08-25 08:46:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL BH NP |
03KATHMANDU1614 | WEEKLY NEPAL MEDIA REPORT: AUGUST [...] PEACE TALKS -- Dr. Bhattarai for no less than constituent assembly: The Maoists warned (8/24) the government that the ongoing talks would cease automatically if the latter declined to come up with its revised agenda by Tuesday and accept the Maoist condition for unconditional constituent [...] | 2003-08-26 05:33:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC PGOV PREL KMDR NP |
03KATHMANDU1638 | NEPAL: INDIAN AMBASSADOR ON MAOIST ACTIVITIES IN [...] (S) Summary: The August 20 arrest in Chennai of Maoist Politburo member Chandra Gajurel is the most significant capture of a member of the insurgents' leadership in more than seven years of conflict. While the reasons for Gajurel's intended travel to the UK remain unclear, his arrest could [...] | 2003-08-27 10:18:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET | PTER PREL IN NP |
03KATHMANDU1643 | NEPAL: PAKISTAN EMBASSY EMPLOYEE CAUGHT WITH [...] (SBU) On August 19, Nepalese Police arrested an administrative staff member of the Pakistani Embassy, allegedly carrying counterfeit Indian currency. The staff member was released into the Pakistani Ambassador's custody and deported over the weekend. The Pakistani Embassy denies all the cha [...] | 2003-08-27 12:37:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR ECON ETTC KCRM IN PK NP XD |
03KATHMANDU1649 | NEPAL: FURTHER INFORMATION ON MAOIST LEADER [...] (C) In an informal discussion with the Ambassador on August 27, Indian Ambassador Shyam Saran and British Ambassador Keith Bloomfield provided further details on the August 20 arrest of Nepali Maoist Chandra Gajurel in Chennai. According to Ambassador Bloomfield, Gajurel was traveling on a f [...] | 2003-08-28 10:16:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET | PTER PREL IN UK NP |
03KATHMANDU1670 | NEPAL: MAOIST ACTIVITY AUGUST 23 - 29 [...] ON AUGUST 27, NEPAL'S MAOIST REBELS ISSUED A PRESS STATEMENT EFFECTIVELY ENDING THE SEVEN-MONTH LONG CEASE- FIRE WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF NEPAL (GON) (REF C). IN THE PRESS STATEMENT, THE INSURGENTS ATTEMPTED TO BLAME THE GON FOR THE FAILURE OF THE PEACE PROCESS, CITING ALLEGED GON VIOLATIONS OF [...] | 2003-08-29 10:21:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PGOV PREL NP |
03KATHMANDU1674 | NEPAL: POLITICAL PARTY LEADERS SEEKING US MEDIATION [...] (S) Mainstream political parties are reassessing plans for a large joint demonstration to be held in the capital on September 4 in light of the Maoists' unilateral decision to break the ceasefire and return to violence. Party leaders have indicated that they are seeking an overture from King [...] | 2003-08-29 10:48:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET | PGOV PREL NP GON |
03KATHMANDU1677 | NEPAL: AMBASSADOR SENDS MAOISTS TOUGH WARNING ON [...] (C) The Ambassador sent a stern warning to the Maoists not to target American citizens or interests. The message was sent through Shailendra Upadhaya, a former facilitator during the most recent three rounds of dialogue between the Government of Nepal (GON) and the Maoists. An August 29 press [...] | 2003-08-30 06:51:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV ASEC CASC NP |
03KATHMANDU1684 | NEPAL: FORMER PRESIDENT OF FINLAND AHTISAARI [...] (C) Summary. Former President of Finland Marti Ahtisaari paid a three-day visit to Nepal August 28-30 at the request of British aid agency DFID to provide assistance to the facilitators of the GON-Maoist peace talks. During a meeting with Ambassador Malinowski, Ahtisaari expressed optimism t [...] | 2003-09-02 09:08:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV NP GON |
03KATHMANDU1685 | WEEKLY NEPAL MEDIA REPORT: AUGUST 26 [...] MAOISTS BREAK CEASEFIRE - - Maoi sts break cease - fire , blame government : The Maoi sts un i latera 1 ly broke of f ( 8/27 ) the seven-month-old cease-fire and the subsequent peace process with the government "for the time being" saying it had lost its relevance while b [...] | 2003-09-02 09:11:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC PGOV PREL KMDR NP |
03KATHMANDU1692 | NEPAL: AMBASSADOR URGES PARTIES TO TURN OFF [...] (S) Ambassador Malinowski, accompanied by British Ambassador Keith Bloomfield, had separate discussions with party leaders and the Prime Minister on August 31 and September 1 in an effort to head off a potentially violent all-party demonstration planned for September 4 (Ref A). The Indian Am [...] | 2003-09-02 10:28:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET | PGOV PTER PREL UK NP |
03KATHMANDU170 | BHUTANESE REFUGEESS: NEPALESE FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) On January 28, Foreign Minister Narendra Bikram Shah briefed the Ambassador on his January 23-26 trip to Bhutan. Shah revealed a timeline for the Twelfth and Thirteenth bilateral Ministerial Meetings to restart the work of the Joint Verification Team to repatriate Bhutanese refugees. Bhu [...] | 2003-01-29 11:00:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET//NOFORN | PREF PREL EAID PHUM AORC NP |
03KATHMANDU1723 | NEPAL: PRELIMINARY READ-OUT ON MEETING BETWEEN [...] (S) According to the British Ambassador's read-out of the September 4 meeting between King Gyanendra and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw in London, the King said that he would reach out to the political parties only if efforts to revive negotiations with the Maoists fail. The King also [...] | 2003-09-05 08:37:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET | PGOV PREL PHUM UK NP |
03KATHMANDU1758 | WEEKLY NEPAL MEDIA REPORT: [...] POLITICAL AFFAIRS -- Parties' protest to continue despite blasts: The five agitating parties will not halt their protests scheduled for the afternoon despite the series of bomb blasts in the Valley Monday morning, a UML leader said Monday. (Nepalnews.com, 9/8) - - UML back on stree [...] | 2003-09-09 07:17:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC PGOV PREL KMDR NP |
03KATHMANDU1859 | NEPAL: INDIAN SECURITY COOPERATION [...] (C) According to Indian Ambassador Shyam Saran, the Indian government is sending a defense consultation group to Kathmandu the week of September 22 to "institutionalize" bilateral security assistance and support to the Government of Nepal (GON). A few weeks later in New Delhi, the GOI will [...] | 2003-09-24 00:25:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MCAP PTER IN NP |
03KATHMANDU1870 | NEPAL: INDIAN AMBASSADOR REPORTS ADVANCES IN BILATERAL SECURITY COOPERATION [...] (S/NF) According to Indian Ambassador Shyam Saran, bilateral consultations between Indian and Nepali security and intelligence officers in Kathmandu on Sept 22-23 proceeded ""exceptionally well"" as a first step in institutionalizing security assistance and information exchange between the two go [...] | 2003-09-25 10:34:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER MCAP PGOV IN NP |
03KATHMANDU1904 | NEPAL: MAOIST ACTIVITY SEPTEMBER 26 - OCTOBER 1 [...] ACCORDING TO LOCAL PRESS ACCOUNTS, 39 MAOISTS, 18 POLICEMEN AND 7 ROYAL NEPAL ARMY (RNA) SOLDIERS DIED IN CLASHES FROM SEPTEMBER 26 - 30. MAOISTS ALSO KILLED SIX PERSONS IDENTIFIED AS NEPALI CONGRESS MEMBERS AND SEVEN OTHER CIVILIANS. AN RNA SPOKESPERSON CLAIMED ON OCTOBER 1 THAT 300 MAOISTS [...] | 2003-10-01 09:49:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PGOV PREL NP |
03KATHMANDU1926 | NEPAL: MAOISTS ONLY PARTIALLY HONOR PLEDGE TO [...] SUMMARY. MAOISTS ONLY PARTIALLY HONORED THEIR PLEDGE TO "SUSPEND ALL OFFENSIVE ACTIONS" DURING THE OCTOBER 2 - 10 DASAIN HOLIDAY. REPORTS INDICATE THAT MAOISTS INTENTIONALLY TARGETED INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS IN SEVERAL LOCATIONS, WHILE CLASHES WITH SECURITY FORCES CONTINUED, ALBEIT SOMEWHAT A [...] | 2003-10-07 09:13:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PGOV PREL NP |
03KATHMANDU1964 | NEPAL: MAOIST ACTIVITY OCTOBER 2 - OCTOBER 10 [...] DESPITE THE MAOIST PLEDGE TO HALT ALL OFFENSIVE ACTIONS DURING OCTOBER 2 - 10 FOR THE DASAIN HOLIDAY, THE INSURGENTS CONTINUED TO TARGET NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS AND ATTACK SECURITY FORCES (REFTEL). ACCORDING TO LOCAL PRESS ACCOUNTS, 19 MAOISTS, 2 POLICEMEN AND 2 ROYAL NEPAL ARMY (RNA [...] | 2003-10-10 08:25:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PGOV PREL NP |
03KATHMANDU1989 | NEPAL: MAOIST PUBLIC STATEMENT DECLARES NEPAL [...] (SBU) THE MAOIST INFORMATION BULLETIN, POSTED ON THE INTERNET SITE (WWW.CPNM.ORG) OF NEPAL'S MAOIST INSURGENTS ON SEPTEMBER 28, COMPLAINED OF THE "ACTIVITIES OF THE AMBASSADORS OF SOME POWERFUL COUNTRIES," BUT ADDED THAT THE MAOISTS POSE "NO DANGER TO THE LIFE OF ANY FOREIGNER, INCLUDING U.S. [...] | 2003-10-15 08:59:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PREL CASC NP |
03KATHMANDU2040 | NEPAL: MAOISTS ABDUCT AND RELEASE BRITISH ARMY [...] (C) Summary. On October 19, a group of armed Maoists seized four British Army Gurkha officers or employees, including one active duty British Lieutenant Colonel and two Nepali Gurkha retired officers, in Baglung District in mid-western Nepal. The insurgents reportedly harangued the group for [...] | 2003-10-21 10:13:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER PREL UK NP |
03KATHMANDU2074 | SAARC'S FRAMEWORK FREE TRADE TREATY: THE DEVIL [...] (U) Rajiv Chander, Director of Trade and Transport Division of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Secretariat, provided EconOff with an up-beat read-out from the recent Committee of Experts (CoE) meeting (at the Commerce Secretary level) held in Kathmandu from 15 to [...] | 2003-10-24 09:52:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL NP |
03KATHMANDU2075 | NEPAL: MIXED RESULTS FROM THE 15TH JOINT [...] (C) Summary. On October 24, Nepal's de facto Foreign Minister, Bekh Bahadur Thapa, briefed the Charge on the results of the 15th Nepal-Bhutan Joint Ministerial, which concluded in Thimpu on October 23. Thapa generally was positive about progress made at the meeting, noting an increased flexi [...] | 2003-10-24 10:14:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL NP BH |
03KATHMANDU2076 | NEPAL: MAOIST ACTIVITY OCTOBER 18 - OCTOBER 24 [...] After a relatively quiet Dasain holiday, the period of October 18-24 has been marked with increased violence. According to local press reports, 57 suspected Maoists, 3 security personnel and 5 civilians were killed during this week's clashes around the country. Despite the Maoists' press rel [...] | 2003-10-25 04:58:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PGOV PREL NP |
03KATHMANDU2098 | NEPAL: VISIT OF CHINESE DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) The October 16-18 visit to Kathmandu of Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi focused primarily on preparations for the upcoming Dec. 2-3 visit of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Chairman Jia Qing Lin. According to the head of the Political Section of the Chinese Embass [...] | 2003-10-29 09:21:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PGOV CH NP |
03KATHMANDU2150 | NEPAL: HOPELESSNESS REIGNS IN BHUTANESE REFUGEE [...] (C) Summary. During a visit to the Bhutanese refugee camps in Eastern Nepal on October 29-30, PolOff met with UNHCR field officers, refugee community leaders, and the Khudunabari Camp Management Committee. Following the 15th Joint Ministerial in Thimpu (Ref A),the general mood among the ref [...] | 2003-11-04 07:37:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PTER BH NP |
03KATHMANDU2163 | NEPAL: MAOIST WEBSITE, LEADERSHIP ELABORATE ON [...] (SBU) Recent public announcements by Nepal's Maoist leaders indicate an awareness of the movement's dwindling popular support and a continuing attempt to explain ideologically their failure to win power. For example, following the recent Maoist Politburo meeting (Reftel),the Maoists have po [...] | 2003-11-05 05:53:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL NP |
03KATHMANDU2246 | NEPAL: PEACE CORPS TRAINEES TO RETURN TO CAPITAL [...] (C) Summary: Peace Corps Nepal has decided to transfer 30 trainees participating in a 12-week program in Butwal, in the south central district of Rupandehi,and five other volunteers in that area back to Kathmandu following threats of possible "action" from local Maoist cadres. The trainees [...] | 2003-11-17 09:58:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC EAID CASC PREL NP |
03KATHMANDU2248 | WEEKLY NEPAL MEDIA REPORT: November 11 to 17, [...] POLITICAL AFFAIRS -- Parties to go in forceful and comprehensive manner: The five political parties protesting against the royal takeover of October 4 last year have decided to continue with the protest programs in a more forceful and comprehensive manner in days to come. (Centrist "Kantip [...] | 2003-11-18 02:17:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC PGOV PREL KMDR NP |
03KATHMANDU2254 | WARNING NEPAL'S MAOISTS AGAIN AGAINST THREATENING [...] (S/NF) Summary: In view of the increased intensity and frequency of verbal threats by Nepal's Maoists against U.S. citizens and interests, the Embassy requests Department permission to attempt to send another message to the Maoist leadership through a reliable intermediary, warning them to des [...] | 2003-11-18 08:55:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER ASEC PREL NP IN UK |
03KATHMANDU228 | APPARENT BREAKTHROUGH IN BHUTANESE REFUGEE DEADLOCK [...] (C) Summary and Action Request: Meeting in Kathmandu on February 6, Nepali Foreign Minister Narendra Bikram Shah and Bhutanese Foreign Minister Lyonpo Jigmi Y. Thinley reportedly reached agreement on criteria for the resettlement and repatriation of more than 100,000 Bhutanese refugees in Ne [...] | 2003-02-07 09:22:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL EAID BT NP |
03KATHMANDU2284 | NEPAL: CHINESE REPORTEDLY ARREST FOUR SUSPECTED [...] (C) Summary: The Chinese Ambassador in Kathmandu, Sun Heping, confirmed that his government has no reservations about U.S. security assistance to Nepal and expressed strong opposition to Nepal's Maoist insurgents. He was unable to confirm reports in the Nepali press that Chinese authorities [...] | 2003-11-21 11:25:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER NP CH |
03KATHMANDU2295 | NEPAL: PRIME MINISTER PREPARES FOR REGIONAL TOUR [...] (C) On November 23, Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa will depart Nepal on a ten-day visit of the four regional capitals, starting with New Delhi and finishing with Islamabad. The objective is to brief the other SAARC governments on achievements made during Nepal's one-year chairmanship an [...] | 2003-11-24 08:38:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | NP PGOV PREL |
03KATHMANDU2298 | NEPAL: COMMUNIST PARTY LEADER MEETS MAOIST LEADERS [...] (C) Summary. On November 20, Communist Party of Nepal - United Marxist Leninst (CPN-UML) leader Madhav Kumar Nepal met with Maoist leaders in northern India. Nepal's public statements following the meeting provoked criticism -- but not denial -- from the Maoists, as well as condemnation by o [...] | 2003-11-24 09:43:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL NP |
03KATHMANDU2309 | WEEKLY NEPAL MEDIA REPORT: November 18 to 24, [...] U.S. -- Maoist fiat forces Peace Corps out: Thirty American Peace Corps volunteers have been forced to leave the district following an ultimatum by an armed group of Maoists asking them to leave within four days. The volunteers were running a temporary Peace Corps office at the Butwal Tec [...] | 2003-11-25 03:24:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC PGOV PREL KMDR NP |
03KATHMANDU2318 | NEPAL: MORE MURMURINGS, BUT HOW MUCH MOVEMENT [...] (C) Once again, political circles in Kathmandu are reporting signs that King Gyanendra may be considering another initiative to broaden multi-party participation in the government. The Palace reportedly has sent initial feelers out for separate meetings with the heads of the two largest pol [...] | 2003-11-26 09:11:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IN NP GON |
03KATHMANDU2330 | NEPAL: MAOISTS CRITICIZE U.S. MILITARY ASSISTANCE [...] IN RESPONSE TO LOCAL PRESS REPORTING ON A/S ROCCA'S OCTOBER 29 TESTIMONY TO CONGRESS AND A NOVEMBER 26 ARTICLE IN THE VERNACULAR PUBLICATION JANA ASTHA (PEOPLE'S FAITH),THE MAOISTS POSTED A STATEMENT ON THEIR WEBSITE (WWW.CPNM.ORG) TITLED "MOCKERY OF U.S. DEMOCRACY: PEACE IN LIPS, GUNS IN HAN [...] | 2003-11-28 09:18:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PGOV PREL NP |
03KATHMANDU2340 | NEPAL: OTHER DONORS KEEPING A DISTANCE FROM US? [...] (C) Summary: Following the delivery of increased USG security assistance last year, Maoist insurgents embarked on an anti-American propaganda campaign intended, in part, to isolate the U.S. diplomatically, discourage other donors from collaborating with us, and to incite Chinese and Indian [...] | 2003-12-01 09:38:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PTER NP UK |
03KATHMANDU2345 | PROMOTING DURABLE SOLUTIONS FOR THE BHUTANESE [...] (SBU) Post welcomes reftel's proposals regarding a durable solution for the Bhutanese refugees in Nepal. We concur that U.S. objetives for the refugees are first, to ensure that basic protection and assistance needs of the refugees are met and second, to advance efforts by the Government of Ne [...] | 2003-12-02 07:15:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PHUM BH NP |
03KATHMANDU2364 | NEPAL: HEAD OF BRITISH AID IN KATHMANDU TALKS [...] (S/NF) Summary: On December 3 Pol/Mil Chief received from his British counterpart notes from a November 13 telephone conversation between David Wood, the head of the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) in Nepal, and Baburam Bhattarai, top ideologue and erstwhile lead negotia [...] | 2003-12-03 23:50:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER EAID NP UK |
03KATHMANDU2366 | NEPAL: AMBASSADOR RELAYS CONCERNS ABOUT [...] (S/NF) On December 3 the Ambassador raised with Indian Ambassador Shyam Saran reports that intelligence agents assigned to the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu have been characterizing USG policy and motives in Nepal as malevolently aimed at undermining Nepal's sovereignty. The Ambassador told Saran [...] | 2003-12-04 02:14:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER NP IN |
03KATHMANDU2367 | NEPAL: THE COST OF THE MAOIST INSURGENCY [...] (U) The seven-year Maoist insurgency in Nepal has taken a tremendous toll on the already impoverished Nepalese economy. The impact of the conflict is obvious in the floundering tourist sector, the depressed foreign investment climate, stalled economic development projects, crippled infrastruc [...] | 2003-12-04 02:18:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER ECON EAID EFIN NP |
03KATHMANDU2385 | BHUTANESE REFUGEES: UNHCR'S FAKHOURI FEARS CURRENT [...] (C) Summary. After a two-day visit to Nepal, UNHCR Director for Asia, Jean-Marie Fakhouri met with Ambassador Malinowski privately to share his impressions and to discuss UNHCR's future role in the Bhutanese refugee camps. Fakhouri fears that Nepal-Bhutan negotiations on refugee repatriation [...] | 2003-12-05 07:42:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL BH NP |
03KATHMANDU2386 | NEPAL: BHUTANESE REFUGEE LEADER DEPLORES [...] (C) On December 3, DCM and PolOff met with Bhutanese human rights activist Tek Nath Rizal to discuss conditions inside Bhutan and the repatriation of Bhutanese refugees in Nepal. Rizal contends that the Royal Government of Bhutan's system of discrimination continues to oppress the ethnic Nepali [...] | 2003-12-05 08:10:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM BH NP |
03KATHMANDU2432 | BHUTANESE REFUGEES: FRIENDS OF BHUTAN VISIT TO [...] (C) During a recent visit to Kathmandu, the Swiss and Austrian Ambassadors resident in New Delhi reported on their visit December 1-3 to Thimpu. The five-nation Friends of Bhutan demarched the Royal Government of Bhutan (RGOB),urging it to increase transparency in the repatriation process, t [...] | 2003-12-15 05:45:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM BH NP |
03KATHMANDU2470 | A/S ROCCA AND NEPAL'S ACTING FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) On December 16, Christina Rocca, Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia met with Ambassador-at-large and de facto Foreign Minister Bekh Bahadur Thapa and Foreign Secretary Madhu Raman Acharya to discuss the Government of SIPDIS Nepal's plans for political reconciliation and electio [...] | 2003-12-19 07:09:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF ETRD BH CH NP |
03KATHMANDU2472 | NEPAL: A/S ROCCA'S DECEMBER 16 MEETING WITH THE [...] (C) On December 16, Christina Rocca, Assistant Secretary for South Asian Affairs, accompanied by Ambassador Malinowski, met with Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa to discuss Nepal-U.S. bilateral relations and Nepal's ongoing Maoist insurgency. Thapa expressed the GON's appreciation for USG [...] | 2003-12-19 07:44:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF ECON NP |
03KATHMANDU2476 | NEPAL: GOVERNMENT REACTION TO CAPTURE OF SADDAM [...] (SBU) The December 16-19 visit to Kathmandu of Assistant Secretary for South Asian Affairs Christina Rocca to Nepal SIPDIS provided an opportunity for a range of high-ranking government officials and others to convey their congratulations on the capture of Saddam Hussein. Many welcomed th [...] | 2003-12-21 03:45:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ NP |
03KATHMANDU2491 | NEPAL: SA A/S ROCCA'S MEETINGS WITH POLITICAL [...] (C) In separate meetings with leaders of four political parties on December 18, Assistant Secretary for South Asian Affairs Christina Rocca, accompanied by Ambassador Malinowski, urged the need for reconciliation between the King and estranged political parties. With the exception of the Nep [...] | 2003-12-23 05:01:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL NP |
03KATHMANDU2501 | NEPAL: BHUTANESE REFUGEES ANGERED OVER [...] (SBU) Summary. On December 22, the Nepal - Bhutan Joint Verification Team (JVT) visited Khudunabari Camp to brief refugees on conditions for repatriation to Bhutan. According to the Bhutanese JVT members, Category I refugees will be returned with full citizenship rights; Category II refugees [...] | 2003-12-23 09:27:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL BH NP |
03KATHMANDU26 | NEPAL: FY2003 ANTI-TRAFFICKING PROJECT PROPOSALS [...] Summary: Post's anti-trafficking-in-persons (TIP) project proposals for FY2003 provide for improved formal and non-formal educational opportunities for girls; a public awareness campaign targeting urban migrants, media outlets, transport providers and rehabilitation centers; and improvement i [...] | 2003-01-06 11:31:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG ELAB KPAO EAID NP |
03KATHMANDU280 | US-INDIAN COOPERATION AND MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO [...] (C) Summary: US security assistance to Nepal has brought the ancillary advantage to the US of providing a new arena for fruitful US-Indian dialogue and collaboration. Top Indian diplomats in Kathmandu clearly appreciate not only US support for common US-Indian security objectives in Nepal, but al [...] | 2003-02-14 05:16:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER IN NP |
03KATHMANDU286 | NEPAL: BHUTANESE REFUGEES CRITICIZE REPATRIATION [...] Summary: On February 12, PolOff met with respresentatives of the Bhutan National Democratic Party (BNDP),a political group composed of Bhutanese refugees living in UNHCR-administered camps in Nepal, to discuss the results of the 12th round of ministerial talks on the refugee issue (ref A). W [...] | 2003-02-14 09:15:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL EAID BT NP IN |
03KATHMANDU287 | BHUTANESE REFUGEES: GON HOLDS DONOR'S MEETING, [...] (SBU) On February 13, Nepal's Secretary of Foreign Affairs briefed international donors on the agreement reached between Nepal and Bhutan on verification of Bhutanese refugees. The Government of Nepal (GoN) and participating donors were openly skeptical of the agreement, pointing out the lac [...] | 2003-02-14 11:24:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL EAID NP |
03KATHMANDU329 | USG HUMAN RIGHTS STRATEGY FOR NEPAL [...] In CY 02 our Mission engaged with the Government of Nepal (GON),the military, and members of civil society on a variety of fronts to advance the USG human rights agenda. Such programs have addressed needs in areas as diverse as voter education; advocacy in a democracy; trafficking in persons [...] | 2003-02-25 11:43:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL EAID NP |
03KATHMANDU330 | NEPAL/INDIA EXTRADITION TREATY NEGOTIATIONS FALTER [...] (SBU) Extradition treaty negotiations between the Government of India (GOI) and the Government of Nepal (GON) ended inconclusively after five days on February 20. This initial meeting, held in Kathmandu at the working level, was aimed at updating and revising the existing extradition treaty [...] | 2003-02-25 11:50:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NP IN |
03KATHMANDU351 | USG HUMAN RIGHTS STRATEGY FOR NEPAL [...] In CY 02 our Mission engaged with the Government of Nepal (GON),the military, and members of civil society on a variety of fronts to advance the USG human rights agenda. Such programs have addressed needs in areas as diverse as voter education; advocacy in a democracy; trafficking in persons [...] | 2003-02-27 10:04:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL EAID NP |
03KATHMANDU363 | INDO-NEPAL COMMERCIAL TRANSPORTATION [...] ON FEBRUARY 10-14, REPRESENTATIVES FROM INDIA AND NEPAL MET IN KATHMANDU TO NEGOTIATE RAILWAY AND TRANS- BORDER MOTOR VEHICLE TRAFFIC AGREEMENTS, WITH LIMITED RESULTS. THE GOVERNMENT OF NEPAL (GON),UNDER SIGNIFICANT PRESSURE TO OPEN ITS WORLD BANK-FUNDED INLAND CONTAINER DEPOT (ICD),MADE A [...] | 2003-02-28 11:45:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ELTN NP IN XD |
03KATHMANDU382 | INDO-NEPAL CROSS-BORDER ENERGY TRADE STAGNATES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nepal's Minister for Water Resources Dipak Gyawali is sharply critical of India's policies on cross-border energy trade. He told us that he believes New Delhi focuses on the strategic aspects of water and energy to the exclusion of economics. Despite Nepal's current power surpl [...] | 2003-03-04 04:50:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECIN ENRG PREL |
03KATHMANDU427 | NEPAL: INDIAN AMBASSADOR SAYS MAOISTS THREATENING [...] (S) Summary: According to Shyam Saran, India's Ambassador to Nepal, continued disagreement on the terms of a code of conduct for the current cease-fire has led Maoists to threaten an end to preliminary talks about future peace negotiations with the GON. At the heart of the disagreement is th [...] | 2003-03-07 11:32:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER NP IN |
03KATHMANDU44 | NEPAL: MAOISTS IN NO MOOD FOR COMPROMISE [...] (S) Summary. In both their words and deeds, Nepal's Maoist insurgents have shown themselves to be unwilling to negotiate, compromise or abandon their armed struggle. They have admitted that they would use negotiations or a cease-fire as an opportunity to regroup for their next offensive. The [...] | 2003-01-08 10:43:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC NP |
03KATHMANDU472 | NEPAL: GOVERNMENT AND MAOISTS AGREE TO CODE OF [...] (C) At a press conference on March 13, Government of Nepal (GON) and Maoist representatives released a long-awaited code of conduct to govern behavior during the ongoing ceasefire. The 22-point program contains language that is ambiguous in parts, but which defines some clear ground rules for t [...] | 2003-03-14 12:10:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PTER NP |
03KATHMANDU549 | NEPAL: GOVERNMENT RAISES PETROL PRICES [...] (U) Summary: The Government of Nepal (GON) raised prices on all petroleum products to prevent further losses by state-owned Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC). The price increase should substantially reduce the corporation's monthly losses, but will not produce a profit. Prior to the increase, rumo [...] | 2003-03-26 11:20:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET PGOV NP GON |
03KATHMANDU551 | TFIZ01: NEPAL REACTIONS TO WAR IN IRAQ FOR MARCH [...] PROTESTS AND MISSION SECURITY: The Embassy maintained full services and normal working hours on March 27. As of 3:00 p.m. local time, Embassy knows of no protests in the capital against the war in Iraq or against the U.S. A small anti-war protest in downtown Kathmandu on March 26 apparently [...] | 2003-03-27 09:08:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CASC KPAO NP PREL |
03KATHMANDU552 | NEPAL: KING'S CONFIDANT ON INDIAN, EUROPEAN [...] (S) On March 26 royal confidant Prabhakar Rana briefed the Ambassador and DCM on his recent secret discussions with foreign government representatives in India and Europe. Indian National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra reportedly emphasized to Rana that while the GOI supports Government of [...] | 2003-03-27 10:54:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER IN NP |
03KATHMANDU565 | NEPAL'S FOREIGN SECRETARY REPORTS BILATERAL [...] (C) Foreign Secretary Madhu Raman Acharya told the Ambassador and DCM on March 28 that the Governments of Nepal and Bhutan have reached agreement on a formula for the repatriation or resettlement of an initial tranche of 12,000 Bhutanese refugees living in eastern Nepal. Under the agreement, [...] | 2003-03-28 10:56:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM NP BT |
03KATHMANDU566 | NEPALI MAOISTS PURSUE SEPARATE DIALOGUE WITH [...] (C) Anton Hagen, local head of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC),confirmed to the DCM that Maoist insurgents have enlisted his help in sounding out other European and Canadian donor agencies regarding a possible meeting with Maoist interlocutors. Hagen also confirmed t [...] | 2003-03-28 12:02:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EAID SZ NP |
03KATHMANDU621 | NEPAL: MAOISTS ASK TO MEET AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) On April 4 the Embassy received what appeared to be a form letter addressed to "Your Excellency the Ambassador/Consular" and signed by Maoist second-in-command Baburam Bhattarai inviting the Ambassador or his representative to "a goodwill meeting" with the five-man negotiating team. T [...] | 2003-04-04 11:34:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PREL NP |
03KATHMANDU647 | NEPAL: BHUTANESE REFUGEE CONCERNS ABOUT [...] (C) On April 8 a delegation of Bhutanese refugees from eastern Nepal met with poloff to raise a number of concerns about ongoing discussions between the Governments of Nepal and Bhutan regarding the refugees' categorization and possible repatriation to Bhutan. Among such concerns are whethe [...] | 2003-04-08 11:56:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL PGOV NP BT |
03KATHMANDU671 | NEPALI MAOISTS MEET WITH EU MISSION HEAD [...] (C) The head of the European Union office in Kathmandu broke ranks with his diplomatic colleagues and met with Maoist ideologue Baburam Bhattarai and other Maoist leaders in Kathmandu on April 10. The EU Charge justified his "spontaneous" decision to meet the insurgent leader on humanitaria [...] | 2003-04-11 10:37:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL EU NP |
03KATHMANDU691 | NEPAL: MAOISTS TO MEET EMBOFFS [...] (C) Following Ref C guidance, on April 16 poloff contacted known Maoist sympathizer Padma Ratna Tuladhar to convey Embassy agreement to meet at the First Secretary level with Maoist representatives. Poloff advised Tuladhar that the RSO will also participate in the meeting, which has been te [...] | 2003-04-16 09:59:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL NP |
03KATHMANDU702 | NEPAL REQUESTS USG LENIENCY FOR WTO ACCESSION [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: In an April 16 meeting with the Ambassador, Commerce Secretary Lawa Prasad Devkota requested that the USG show greater flexibility in accepting Nepal's revised WTO offers. As a long-time development partner, it is "kind of incumbent" upon the US to assist N [...] | 2003-04-18 04:52:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL SNAR NP |
03KATHMANDU793 | NEPAL CRACKS DOWN ON IRAQI TRAVELERS [...] (C) In a May 1 conversation with the DCM, Foreign Secretary Madhu Raman Acharya disclosed that the Government SIPDIS of Nepal (GON) has instructed all its diplomatic posts not to issue visas to Iraqi passport holders without specific authorization from the Foreign Ministry in Kathmandu. Ac [...] | 2003-05-02 06:51:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NP IZ |
03KATHMANDU87 | NEPAL: ARMY FACES CRITICISM FOR HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) The Royal Nepal Army (RNA) has come under fire recently from a variety of sources, both local and international, for human rights abuses committed while fighting Nepal's bloody six-year-old Maoist insurgency. Most disturbing, according to some sources, is the pattern of apparent impun [...] | 2003-01-17 10:13:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL MCAP MOPS NP |
03KATHMANDU885 | WEEKLY NEPAL MEDIA REPORT: MAY 6 - 12, 2003 [...] POLITICAL AFFAIRS "SECOND ROUND OF PEACE TALKS" -- The government and Maoists made incremental progress in the second round of peace talks (5/9) with the former agreeing to release a few jailed rebels and even limiting the Royal Nepal Army to within five kilometers of their barrack [...] | 2003-05-13 08:27:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC PGOV PREL KMDR NP |
03KATHMANDU977 | NEPAL: MINISTERIAL MEETING FAILS TO RESOLVE [...] (C) Summary and Action Request: The 14th bilateral meeting between the Foreign Ministers of Nepal and Bhutan concluded on May 22 without clarifying a number of crucial issues, including the status of thousands of Bhutanese refugees who must reapply for citizenship upon their return, and the [...] | 2003-05-28 09:34:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL NP BT |
03KATHMANDU984 | CHINESE PRESSURE NEPAL TO DEPORT TIBETANS [...] (C) Summary: On May 29 Office of Tibet Representative in Kathmandu Wangchuk Tsering reported that the Department of Immigration was preparing to hand over to representatives of the Chinese Embassy 18 Tibetans detained for immigration violations. The Government of Nepal (GON) has also asked [...] | 2003-05-29 10:13:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL NP CH |
03KATHMANDU991 | NEPAL: PM RESIGNS; NEW GOVERNMENT,PROBABLY WITH [...] (S) Prime Minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand resigned from office on May 30. Well-placed Palace sources predict the Palace will approach leaders of the Parliamentary parties to form an all-party government. A confidant of the King credits US (and, we believe, Indian) pressure with encouraging [...] | 2003-05-30 09:31:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET | PGOV PREL NP GON |
03KATHMANDU997 | NEPAL: TIBETANS STILL IN DETENTION; MOVED TO [...] (C) Charge delivered Ref A demarche to Foreign Secretary Madhu Raman Acharya on May 30. Acharya denied that there has been any change in Government of Nepal (GON) policy toward Tibetans transiting Nepal. He said that he would look into reports of Chinese diplomats attempting to pressure immi [...] | 2003-05-30 10:24:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL NP CH |
03KHARTOUM185 | SUDAN'S POSITION ON IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS HAS FORMALLY SPELLED OUT THE GOVERNMENT'S VERY GENERALIZED AND NON-CONFRONTATIONAL POSITION ON IRAQ WHICH PUTS KHARTOUM BEHIND THE UNSC RESOLUTION AND THE WORK OF THE INSPECTORS. THE POSITION IS MARKEDLY DIFFERENT FROM VIEWS EXPRESSED BY SUDAN'S FO [...] | 2003-03-02 17:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SU AL IZ |
03KHARTOUM374 | RETURN OF SUDANESE BA'ATHISTS [...] (C) OVER 80 MEMBERS OF THE SUDANESE BA'ATH PARTY HAVE RETURNED FROM IRAQ TO SUDAN IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS. THE MOST PROMINENT SUDANESE BA'ATHIST AND FOUNDER OF THE PARTY IN SUDAN, BADR-ADDIN MUDATHIR, RETURNED, POST WAS TOLD, ON PRESIDENT OMAR AL-BASHIR'S PLANE FROM SYRIA, LANDING AT KHARTOUM'S [...] | 2003-04-30 16:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER IZ SU |
03KINSHASA1961 | KATUMBA STEPS OUT OF THE SHADOWS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On 25 July, GDRC President Joseph Kabila named eminence grise Augustin Katumba Mwanke Secretary-General of the DRC's transitional government. Kabila officially suspended Katumba in October 2002 following publication of the UN panel report on illegal exploitation of the DRC's weal [...] | 2003-07-30 08:58:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CG |
03KINSHASA3015 | WANTED: LEADERSHIP AT DRC'S HELM [...] (C) SUMMARY: AFTER AN INITIAL BURST OF ACTIVITY, THE DRC'S TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT HAS LOST MOMENTUM TOWARDS REUNIFYING THE COUNTRY. PRESIDENT KABILA IN PARTICULAR HAS FAILED TO ENERGIZE HIS CUMBERSOME GOVERNMENTAL STRUCTURE, BUT PARLIAMENT AND MINISTERS HAVE LIKEWISE FAILED THE LEADERSHIP C [...] | 2003-11-28 16:03:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PINS PREL CG |
03KINSHASA477 | NEW BREED OF HARDLINERS INFLUENCES KABILA [...] (C) SUMMARY: IN RECENT WEEKS GDRC PRESIDENT JOSEPH KABILA HAS APPROVED SEVERAL ACTIONS WHICH ARE REPRESENTATIVE OF A SLOW-BUILDING EVOLUTION TOWARDS HARDLINE POLICIES. "HAWKISH" ADVISERS SUCH AS AUGUSTIN KATUMBA, SAMBA KAPUTO AND EVARISTE BOSHAB HAVE GAINED THE ASCENDANCY OVER MORE "MODERATE" [...] | 2003-02-27 14:57:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CG |
03KUWAIT1004 | APPROVAL OF PROVISIONAL ENTRY OF FORCES INTO [...] (S) THE GOK HAS AUTHORIZED NEW COALITION FORCES TO ENTER INTO KUWAIT WITHOUT A SIGNED STATUS OF FORCES AGREEMENT, PROVIDED (A) THEY ARE UNDER THE COMMAND OF THE UNITED STATES AND (B) SOFA NEGOTIATIONS ARE ONGOING. THE AUTHORIZATION, IN A FORM SIMILAR TO THAT GRANTED TO THE CZECHS IN JANUARY, [...] | 2003-03-20 04:23:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | MARR MOPS PREL KU |
03KUWAIT1009 | SITREP NO. 3 [...] SITREP NO. 3 AS OF 1159 HOURS LOCAL, 0359 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP: -------- Security -------- All reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three. At 0615hrs on 20 March 2003, POTUS addressed the nation and stated that American and Coalition Forces were i [...] | 2003-03-20 09:22:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1013 | SITREP NO. 4 [...] SITREP NO. 4 AS OF 1159 HOURS LOCAL, 0359 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP: -------- Security -------- Classified Kuwait 1012 reported multiple missile launches. Watchstanders and others put on gas masks and went to safehaven until all clear announced. No chemical/bi [...] | 2003-03-20 21:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1018 | SITREP NO. 5 [...] SITREP NO. 5 AS OF 1159 HOURS LOCAL, 0359 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME MARCH 21. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- In the past twelve hours, we have had four duck-and- cover alerts in resp [...] | 2003-03-21 09:06:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1023 | SITREP NO. 6 [...] SITREP NO. 6 AS OF 2359 HOURS LOCAL, 1559 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME MARCH 21. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- In the past twelve hours, we have had two "duck-and- cover" alerts in res [...] | 2003-03-21 21:23:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1024 | SITREP NO. 7 [...] SITREP NO. 7 AS OF 1159 HOURS LOCAL, 0359 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME MARCH 22. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- In the past twelve hours, we have had no "duck-and-cover" alerts. ---- [...] | 2003-03-22 08:54:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1037 | TFIZ01 SITREP NO. 9 [...] SITREP NO. 8 AS OF 1200 HOURS LOCAL, 0800 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME MARCH 23. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- Ops Center is aware of the events at Camp Pennsylvania, however we have n [...] | 2003-03-23 09:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT104 | (C) HUMANITARIAN PLANNING ON IRAQ [...] (C) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: This message summarizes the current state of planning in Kuwait for humanitarian aspects of Iraq contingency. Most of this information has been reported previously in greater detail. Coordination is ongoing among the Embassy, US military, GOK, Kuwait Red Cresc [...] | 2003-01-14 07:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF MOPS MARR PHUM PREL EAID IZ KU ICRC |
03KUWAIT1040 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY WRAP-UP: MARCH 12-18, 2003 [...] The long-running Kheiran Pearls scandal was finally resolved this week (reftel B) when a vote of no-confidence against Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Mohammed Sharar failed to pass the National Assembly. Motions to cancel the Kheiran Pearls contract and to re [...] | 2003-03-23 10:20:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR KU |
03KUWAIT1044 | KUWAITI PARLIAMENT MOVING FORWARD ON [...] (C) On March 22, the Ambassador joined the French ambassador and the ambassadors of Italy, Canada and Russia as well as the British and German DCM's to carry out the G8 demarche on adherence to counter terrorism conventions with Mohammed al-Sagr, the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee o [...] | 2003-03-23 12:37:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER EFIN PREL PGOV KU |
03KUWAIT1046 | TFIZ01:SITREP NO. 6 [...] SITREP NO. 6 AS OF 2359 HOURS LOCAL, 1559 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME MARCH 21. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- In the past twelve hours, we have had two "duck-and- cover" alerts in res [...] | 2003-03-23 15:02:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1047 | KUWAIT SNUBBING ARAB LEAGUE MEETING [...] (C) The Ambassador reviewed reftel demarche with Shaykh Dr. Ahmed Nasser al-Sabah, Office Director for Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Shaykh Dr. Mohammed al-Sabah, on the morning of March 23. Shaykh Ahmed informed the Ambassador that Dr. Mohammed would not be attending the March 24 Ara [...] | 2003-03-23 15:53:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AL XF IZ KU |
03KUWAIT105 | (C) GULF WAR MISSING: 1/22 MEETING WILL BE THE [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Iraq held a meeting of the Technical Sub-Committee (TSC) of the Tripartite Commission on Gulf War POWs and Missing (TPC) January 8 in Amman, Jordan. The process got off to a reasonably constructive start but will only begin to tackle su [...] | 2003-01-14 07:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPOW IZ KU ICRC |
03KUWAIT1050 | TFIZ01 SITREP NO. 10 [...] SITREP NO. 10 AS OF 2359 HOURS LOCAL, 1559 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME MARCH 23. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- NSTR --------- Political --------- Embassy operations center rece [...] | 2003-03-23 21:06:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1053 | TFIZ01 SITREP NO. [...] SITREP NO. 11 AS OF 1200 HOURS LOCAL, 0800 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME MARCH 24. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- 0105 Duck and Cover Alert, donned gas masks, all clear announced ten min [...] | 2003-03-24 09:03:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1062 | HUMANITARIAN/RECONSTRUCTION SITUATION REPORT #1 24 [...] This is the initial USG Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) daily cable that will report on the humanitarian situation within Iraq from Kuwait City. End Summary. ------------- DART ARRIVALS ------------- 2. Team West is fully constituted with the arrival of NGaertner and JAcree. [...] | 2003-03-24 18:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF MOPS PREL ASEC AMGT OTRA IZ WFP |
03KUWAIT1063 | KUWAIT REQUESTS IMMEDIATE U.S. ASSISTANCE TO [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 5. 2. (C) Summary: On March 24, the GOK requested immediate USG assistance in facilitating an oil swap with Saudi Arabia, thereby providing Jordan with badly needed crude oil. End Summary. 3. (C) During their March 24 meeting, Kuwaiti MinS [...] | 2003-03-24 18:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID EPET KU SA JO |
03KUWAIT1065 | TFIZ01 SITREP NO. 12 [...] SITREP NO. 12 AS OF 2359 HOURS LOCAL, 1159 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME MARCH 24, 2003 . 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- 1310 Duck and Cover Alert; gas masks donned. 1320 All C [...] | 2003-03-24 20:55:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1068 | TFIZ01 SITREP NO. 13 [...] SITREP NO. 13 AS OF 1200 HOURS LOCAL, 0800 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME MARCH 25, 2003. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- 0110 Duck and cover alert sounded. 0117 All clear --------- [...] | 2003-03-25 09:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1075 | FLOOD OF SUPPORT FROM KUWAITI POPULATION [...] At 7:45am March 25, Op Center Kuwait received a call from a Kuwaiti woman expressing support for our role in the military action in Iraq. She said her call was the result of a text message she received on her cell phone telling her to call the Embassy to let us know her opinion of the conflic [...] | 2003-03-25 14:01:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI MOPS PREL KU |
03KUWAIT1080 | USAID HUMANITARIAN/RECONSTRUCTION SITUATION REPORT [...] The DART is expecting the delivery of relief supplies to the warehouse in Kuwait within the week. On 23 March, a WFP plane arrived at Kuwait International Airport with 40 MT of high-energy biscuits, and on 24 March, two shipments of wheat donated by the Australian Government departed Muscat [...] | 2003-03-25 17:43:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF MOPS PREL ASEC AMGT OTRA IZ WFP |
03KUWAIT1081 | TFIZ01 SITREP NO. 14 [...] SITREP NO. 14 AS OF 2359 HOURS LOCAL, 1559 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME MARCH 25, 2003. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- 1500 Duck and cover alert sounded. 1509 All Clear sounded. -- [...] | 2003-03-25 20:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1082 | TFIZ01: KUWAIT-CONCERNED ABOUT LEGAL ASPECTS OF [...] (U) This is an action message -- see paragraph 4. 2. (C) In a March 24 meeting with Kuwaiti Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (and Acting Finance Minister) Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, Ambassador raised issue of unblocking frozen Iraqi government assets in Kuwait for use [...] | 2003-03-26 06:15:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETTC PREL |
03KUWAIT1083 | TERRORIST FINANCE -- KUWAIT: FREEZING LAJNAT [...] (C) Ambassador met with Kuwaiti Central Bank (CBK) Governor Shaykh Salem AbdulAziz Al-Sabah on March 23 to review the status of freeze actions by the Central Bank against accounts of the Lajnat Al-Daawa Al-Islamiyya (LDI). The Governor confirmed local press reports that KD 1.4 million (nearly [...] | 2003-03-26 06:16:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC EFIN PTER PREL KU |
03KUWAIT1086 | TFIZ01 SITREP NO. 15 [...] SITREP NO. 15 AS OF 1200 HOURS LOCAL, 0800 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME MARCH 26, 2003. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- Nothing to report. --------- Political --------- Post recei [...] | 2003-03-26 09:06:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1102 | (C) IRAQI OPPOSITIONISTS AND RECONSTRUCTION; [...] (C) Summary: On March 24, during an introductory call for Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA) Director, Gen. Jay Garner, he and the Ambassador discussed war-related issues with Minstate for Foreign Affairs Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah . Among the items raised were ORHA [...] | 2003-03-26 16:05:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MARR EAID IZ KU |
03KUWAIT1103 | USAID HUMANITARIAN/RECONSTRUCTION SITUATION REPORT [...] On 25 March, the Health Fusion Cell met with representatives in water and sanitation, civil governance, and OTI to strategize on health and water assessments, funding capabilities, and interventions. CA assessments have begun in Safwan to determine the condition of the 5,000 people who are i [...] | 2003-03-26 16:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PREL ASEC AMGT OTRA IZ KU WFP |
03KUWAIT1105 | (C) HOW THE WAR COULD AFFECT KUWAIT POLITICALLY [...] (C) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: Reftel examined how a US-led war against Saddam's regime could affect US relations with Kuwait. This message looks at the closely-related topic of the political effects the war could have on Kuwait itself. In both cases, the answer is highly scenario-dependent. [...] | 2003-03-26 18:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS PGOV SOCI KISL KU |
03KUWAIT1106 | TFIZ01 SITREP NO. [...] SITREP NO. 16 AS OF 2359 HOURS LOCAL, 1559 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME MARCH 26,02003. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- Missile launch alert approximately 2005. Duck and cover sounded. [...] | 2003-03-26 20:56:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1108 | TFIZ01 SITREP NO. 17 [...] SITREP NO. 17 AS OF 1200 HOURS LOCAL, 0800 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME MARCH 27 2003. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- 1135 Duck and cover alarm 1150 All clear --------- Political [...] | 2003-03-27 09:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1113 | TFIZ01 SITREP NO. 18 [...] SITREP NO. 18 AS OF 2400 HOURS LOCAL, 1600 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME MARCH 27 2003. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- 1330 Duck and cover alarm was sounded, when the Consequent Manageme [...] | 2003-03-27 21:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1116 | TFIZ01 SITREP NO. 19 [...] SITREP NO. 19 AS OF 1200 HOURS LOCAL, 0800 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME MARCH 28 2003. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- Nothing to report. --------- Political --------- Nothing to [...] | 2003-03-28 09:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1122 | TFIZ01: USAID/PRM HUMANITARIAN/RECONSTRUCTION [...] On 26 March, the Regional Coordinator for UNICEF/Iraq convened a water/sanitation meeting in collaboration with the HOC USACE. The limited effectiveness of treatment plants combined with the shortage of technical capability in Iraq for repairs and management means that water and sewage are m [...] | 2003-03-28 13:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PREL ASEC AMGT OTRA IZ WFP |
03KUWAIT1143 | TFIZ01 SITREP NO. 21 [...] SITREP NO. 21 AS OF 1200 HOURS LOCAL, 0800 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME MARCH 29, 2003. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- 0145 - Two separate calls from Wash OPS Center requesting informat [...] | 2003-03-29 12:29:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1147 | PORTRAYAL OF THE WAR IN KUWAIT'S STATE MEDIA [...] After months of public hedging and equivocation for the benefit of the media and the Arab League, the GOK has come out in strong support for the war on Iraq, and Kuwaiti public opinion is following its lead. Embassy has received hundreds of calls expressing support from ordinary Kuwaitis, many [...] | 2003-03-29 16:07:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PREL OPRC OIIP KWWW IZ |
03KUWAIT1149 | TFIZ01 SITREP NO. 22 [...] SITREP NO. 22 AS OF 2359 HOURS LOCAL, 1759 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME MARCH 29, 2003. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- At 1810 hours a 'duck and cover' alarm sounded; the all clear was an [...] | 2003-03-29 20:58:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT115 | BAGHDAD ON HIS MIND: GOK'S PRE-OCCUPATION WITH IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a recent meeting with a visiting delegation led by former US senior diplomat Frank Wisner, Kuwait's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah shared candid views on pressing priorities for his government. Discussion centered on four main themes: Sa [...] | 2003-01-15 09:49:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ IR KU |
03KUWAIT1153 | TFIZ01 - KUWAITI OIL FOR JORDAN [...] (S) Ambassador spoke with Kuwaiti Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Shaykh Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah afternoon of Thursday, March 27 on the status of Kuwait's agreement to provide Jordan with 25,000 barrels of oil per day (BPD) in light of the loss of Iraqi oil supplies. Ambassador [...] | 2003-03-30 07:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | EPET EAID PREL KU SA JO |
03KUWAIT1158 | TFIZ01: KUWAIT SITREP NO. 23 [...] SITREP NO. 23 AS OF 1200 HOURS LOCAL, 0800 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME MARCH 29, 2003. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- Nothing to report. --------- Political --------- Nothing to [...] | 2003-03-30 09:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1166 | TFIZ01: DART ABUSE PREVENTION UNIT [...] The DART Abuse Prevention Unit has been activated to identify, monitor, prevent, and respond to human rights abuses and protection issues in Iraq. Since arriving in Kuwait, the APU has briefed military units, NGOs, ORHA, and the USAID Reconstruction Team on the importance of reporting on rep [...] | 2003-03-30 15:22:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PREF MOPS PREL IZ |
03KUWAIT1167 | TFIZ01: KUWAIT SITREP NO. 24 [...] SITREP NO. 24 AS OF 2359 HOURS LOCAL, 1559 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME MARCH 30, 2003. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- 1630 Received telephone call from DOS Task Force requesting details [...] | 2003-03-30 20:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1178 | TFIZ01: KUWAIT SITREP NO. 26 [...] SITREP NO. 26 AS OF 2359 HOURS LOCAL, 0359 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME MARCH 31, 2003. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- NSTR --------- Political --------- One Kuwaiti called in su [...] | 2003-03-31 21:05:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1182 | TFIZ01: KUWAIT SITREP NO. 27 [...] SITREP NO. 27 AS OF 1200 HOURS LOCAL, 0400 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME APRIL 1, 2003. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- 0905 Duck and cover alert. All clear announced 0915. --------- [...] | 2003-04-01 09:10:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1197 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY WRAP-UP: MARCH 29 TO APRIL 1, [...] SUMMARY: The National Assembly voiced strong support for Operation Iraqi Freedom, approved the GOK's supplemental budget request of approximately $1.6 billion, and debated punishing hostile states by withholding loans from the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development. The mood of defiance [...] | 2003-04-01 14:58:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID PINR IZ LY KU |
03KUWAIT1198 | TFIZ01: KUWAIT SITREP NO. 28 [...] SITREP NO. 28 AS OF 1815 HOURS LOCAL, 1015 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME APRIL 1, 2003. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- NSTR --------- Political --------- NSTR -------- Consula [...] | 2003-04-01 15:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1199 | SADDAM'S SECRET WEAPON: THE MIGHTY MENGASH! [...] Summary: The forced landing of a U.S. Apache attack helicopter behind Iraqi lines in the early days of the war, and the resulting implausible Iraqi claims that a heroic farmer named Mengash was responsible, have spawned a cottage industry of derision in Kuwait. Today's date (April 01),and Ku [...] | 2003-04-01 15:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI PREL IZ KU |
03KUWAIT1207 | KUWAITI YUPPIES LOOK BEYOND THE LONG-AWAITED WAR [...] SUMMARY: Where reftels analyzed how the US-led war against Iraq might affect Kuwait's political and economic landscape in general, this cable examines perceptions of a specific sector of society -- young, upwardly-mobile, democratically-minded professionals. At an informal dinner, EmbOffs me [...] | 2003-04-02 11:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ETRD MARR IZ KU |
03KUWAIT1213 | PROMOTING U.S. (AND OTHER FOREIGN) TRADE WITH, AND [...] No summary [...] | 2003-04-02 13:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ETRD EAID BEXP PREL IZ KU |
03KUWAIT1219 | TFIZ01: KUWAIT SITREP NO. 30 [...] SITREP NO. 30 AS OF 1800 HOURS LOCAL, 1000 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME APRIL 02, 2003. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- Nothing to report. --------- Political --------- Six Kuwaiti [...] | 2003-04-02 15:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1221 | TERRORIST FINANCE: POST VETTING OF PROPOSED [...] No summary [...] | 2003-03-27 23:09:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN ETTC PTER PREL PGOV KU |
03KUWAIT1233 | TFIZ01: KUWAIT SITREP NO. 34 [...] SITREP NO. 34 AS OF 1800 HOURS LOCAL, 1000 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME APRIL 4, 2003. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- NSTR --------- Political --------- NSTR -------- Cons [...] | 2003-04-04 15:12:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1234 | TFIZ01: KUWAIT SITREP NO. 35 [...] SITREP NO. 35 AS OF 0600 HOURS LOCAL, 2200 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME APRIL 4, 2003. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- POL/MIL Officer received a call from KSS on alleged shooting of U [...] | 2003-04-05 03:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1250 | (U) GOK TO TAKE ITS CASE ON THE ROAD [...] (C) Summary: During their April 2 meeting, the Ambassador and MinState for Foreign Affairs Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah discussed the progress of the war and Dr. Mohammed,s upcoming trip to key UNSC member states. The Minister said the focus of his visits would be to discuss an array of issues surr [...] | 2003-04-05 11:12:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KU IZ SY SA |
03KUWAIT1273 | FOLLOW-UP ON JANUARY 21 TERROR ATTACK IN KUWAIT [...] (SBU) The following is an update on judicial actions taken against those involved in the January 21 terrorist attack on U.S. citizens near Camp Doha. The GOK moved quickly to apprehend the gunman and other suspects, however two accessories remain at large and the Kuwaitis have had little succ [...] | 2003-04-06 11:39:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PTER PREL CASC KU |
03KUWAIT1276 | TFIZ01: KUWAIT SITREP NO. 37 [...] SITREP NO. 37 AS OF 1800 HOURS LOCAL, 1000 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME APRIL 6, 2003. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- NSTR --------- Political --------- NSTR -------- Consula [...] | 2003-04-06 15:12:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1283 | (C) SCENESETTER FOR GOK MINSTATE'S VISIT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: GOK Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Acting Minister of Finance and Planning, Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah, leaves Kuwait April 6 on a whirlwind tour to Beijing, Moscow, Paris, London, Washington, and New York. To governments that opposed Operation Iraqi [...] | 2003-04-07 06:04:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PHUM PINR IZ KU |
03KUWAIT1292 | TFIZ01: KUWAIT SITREP NO. 39 [...] SITREP NO. 39 AS OF 1800 HOURS LOCAL, 1100 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME APRIL 7, 2003. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- NSTR --------- Political --------- NSTR -------- Consula [...] | 2003-04-07 15:09:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1293 | KUWAITI CONCERNS ON MEETING ITS AID PLEDGE TO PA [...] (C) The Ambassador discussed the issue of Kuwaiti support for the Palestinian Authority (ref A) with Shaykh Dr. Ahmed Nasser al-Sabah, the Head of Office for Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Shaykh Dr. Mohammed al-Sabah, the morning of April 6. (Dr. Mohammed was unavailable due to a last [...] | 2003-04-07 15:25:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID KPAL US IS KU |
03KUWAIT1297 | TFIZ01: KUWAIT SITREP NO. 40 [...] SITREP NO. 40 AS OF 0600 HOURS LOCAL, 2300 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME APRIL 7, 2003. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- NSTR --------- Political --------- The Polish Ambassador to [...] | 2003-04-08 05:34:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1307 | TFIZ01: KUWAIT SITREP NO. 41 [...] SITREP NO. 41 AS OF 1800 HOURS LOCAL, 1000 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME APRIL 8, 2003. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- NSTR --------- Political --------- NSTR -------- Consula [...] | 2003-04-08 14:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1334 | REACHING OUT AT THE SHI'ITE FEAST OF AL-ARBA'EEN [...] (U) This is an action cable. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) Both the people and the Government of Kuwait support U.S. actions in Iraq very strongly. Even here, however, the constant drumbeat in the Arabic press of U.S. anti-Muslim intent is having an effect. In recent conversations wo [...] | 2003-04-09 16:42:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KISL PGOV PREL SOCI IZ |
03KUWAIT1335 | IRAQ: BULGARIA SEEKING TO SUPPORT RECONSTRUCTION [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 6. 2. (C) Summary. The Government of Bulgaria is seeking ways to support efforts by the DoD Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance in the reconstruction and civil administration of Iraq according to Bulgarian Ambassador to Kuwait [...] | 2003-04-09 16:45:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS BU IZ KU |
03KUWAIT1337 | (C) TFIZ01: GCC TO MEET 4/15 ON AID TO IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GCC Foreign Ministers meeting in Kuwait April 7 expressed support for the security of Kuwait, and affirmed the organization's readiness to provide humanitarian aid to Iraq. The Ministers decided that the GCC will discuss the subject of aid to Iraq in Riyadh on April 15, appa [...] | 2003-04-09 17:09:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PREF EAID IZ |
03KUWAIT1341 | TFIZ01: KUWAIT SITREP NO. 44 [...] SITREP NO. 33 AS OF 0600 HOURS LOCAL, 2300 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME APRIL 10, 2003. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- At 1825 a phone call was received in the operations center from a [...] | 2003-04-10 03:03:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1344 | TFIZ01: KUWAIT SITREP NO. 45 [...] SITREP NO. 45 AS OF 1800 HOURS LOCAL, 1100 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME APRIL 10, 2003. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- Several Kuwaitis called to express thanks for the Coalition's libera [...] | 2003-04-10 16:34:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1345 | TFIZ01: KUWAIT SITREP NO. 46 [...] SITREP NO. 46 AS OF 0600 HOURS LOCAL, 2300 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME APRIL 11, 2003. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- 1810 - US Embassy Berlin Pol-Mil Affairs Officer telephoned to pas [...] | 2003-04-11 02:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT138 | GETTING THEIR HANDS DIRTY; INFLUENTIAL KUWAITI [...] (U) This message contains biographical information. Please see para. 8 for biographical information. 2. (C) Summary. Faced with ineffectual political leadership, some of the large commercial families of Kuwait have stepped into the political fray to derail the rising tide of Islamism here, [...] | 2003-01-15 12:52:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KU IZ |
03KUWAIT1381 | TFIZ01: TRYING TO RESOLVE THE UNCC/RECONSTRUCTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Decisions will be made soon about distributions of Iraqi oil revenues that may have significant political as well as economic ramifications. Our GOK contacts accept in principle the idea of reducing the percentage of Iraqi oil revenues paid into the UN Compensation Commission (U [...] | 2003-04-13 06:18:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | EPET PREL EFIN KU IZ UNCC |
03KUWAIT1390 | TFIZ01: KUWAIT SITREP NO. 50 [...] SITREP NO. 50 AS OF 0600 HOURS LOCAL, 2300 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME APRIL 12, 2003. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- NSTR --------- Political --------- Fielded request from a re [...] | 2003-04-13 08:49:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1416 | THE IMPORTANCE TO IRAQS POST-WAR ECONOMY [...] SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: ORHA believes that its success in administering the newly liberated Iraq will depend significantly on stimulating early economic activity and sending a message of hope for their economic future to the Iraqi people. ORHA proposes to encourage trade with, and inves [...] | 2003-04-14 14:46:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC ETRD ECON EFIN PREL IZ |
03KUWAIT1451 | TFIZ01: KUWAIT SITREP NO. 54 [...] SITREP NO. 54 AS OF 1800 HOURS LOCAL, 1100 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME APRIL 15, 2003. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- 1030 Call received from a Kuwaiti man whose brother is employed as [...] | 2003-04-15 18:48:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1468 | ARAB FUND MEETING APRIL 22-23: REQUEST FOR URGENT [...] No summary [...] | 2003-04-16 15:39:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL KU IZ |
03KUWAIT1477 | TFIZ01: KUWAIT SITREP NO. 58 [...] SITREP NO. 58 AS OF 1800 HOURS LOCAL, 1100 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME APRIL 17, 2003. 2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): ----------------- Security/Military ----------------- NTSR --------- Political --------- NSTR -------- Consul [...] | 2003-04-17 15:20:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU |
03KUWAIT1813 | AMBASSADOR'S APRIL 30 MEETING WITH MINSTATE [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah on April 30th. Among the issues discussed were Kuwaiti POWs, the future of Kuwait's fuel donations to coalition forces and the status of ongoing efforts to secure an Article 98 agreement with [...] | 2003-05-04 06:32:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KU IZ |
03KUWAIT1848 | (S/NF) IRANIAN PROTEST PLANNERS MEET WITH [...] (S/NF) Poloff spoke with Washington-based American-Iranian activist Mark Namdar (strictly protect) on May 3, 2003. Mr. Namdar serves as an unofficial spokesman and intermediary for U.S.-based Iranian student movement leader and political asylee Reza Mohajeri-Nejad. Mr. Namdar claims that th [...] | 2003-05-05 13:40:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL IR |
03KUWAIT1909 | GOK CONCERNED ABOUT IRAQI DEBT REDUCTION PROPOSAL [...] (C) The Ambassador discussed Iraqi debt (reftel),and the issue of Oil For Food (OFF) revenues for the UNCC with Kuwaiti MinState for Foreign Affairs Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah during their April 29 meeting. Dr. Mohammed expressed great concern over possible plans for Iraqi debt reduction, [...] | 2003-05-07 11:19:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL KU IZ |
03KUWAIT1927 | (C) TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS: SOURCE COUNTRY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Reftels reported on GOK's efforts to address the issue of trafficking in persons, an issue on which it is increasingly engaged. This message provides an update on GOK initiatives as well as a snapshot of opinions of source country embassies in Kuwait voiced during a May 7 lunc [...] | 2003-05-08 11:14:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV SOCI KU |
03KUWAIT1973 | RETURNING STOLEN KUWAITI PROPERTY [...] This is an action request. Please see para. 5 2. Summary: A member of Kuwait's ruling family met with the Ambassador on May 4 to seek his assistance in reclaiming property stolen by Iraqis during the 1990-91 occupation of Kuwait. The request highlights the need to establish a procedure for [...] | 2003-05-11 09:39:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL IZ KU |
03KUWAIT2163 | KUWAIT STRONGLY PROTESTS NEW LANGUAGE ON [...] (C) MFA's Director General for International Organizations, Ambassador Abd al-Hamid al-Awadi, called the Ambassador at home late in the evening of May 20. Al-Awadi explained that he had been instructed to contact the Ambassador at this late hour by First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Mini [...] | 2003-05-21 10:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ KU UN |
03KUWAIT222 | (U) ONE AMCIT KILLED, ONE WOUNDED IN KUWAIT [...] (SBU/NF) At approximately 9:20 a.m. local time, two U.S. citizen civilian DoD contract employees working at Camp Doha, Kuwait were shot in their vehicle, a Toyota Prado, while it sat at a traffic light at the intersection of Route 85 and Route 7, heading from Camp Doha. They were wearing civil [...] | 2003-01-21 12:37:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PREL OIIP KU |
03KUWAIT224 | NEW CUSTOMS CARGO MANIFEST RULES DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2003-01-21 13:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON KTIA PREL KU |
03KUWAIT2276 | IRAQ'S SHIA HEARTLAND: PROMINENT SHIA SHARES [...] (S) Summary: One week after returning to Iraq, noted Shia leader Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum and his party are encountering an Iraqi populace disillusioned with the lack of security and disgruntled at the fact that Ba'ath Party members still hold positions of power, according to Kuwaiti Shia busine [...] | 2003-05-28 06:10:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | PREL PGOV KISL SOCI IZ KU IR |
03KUWAIT2291 | WORKING TO DEVELOP THE ECONOMIES OF IRAQ AND THE [...] No summary [...] | 2003-05-28 13:32:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV PREL IZ KU ZP |
03KUWAIT23 | (U) DEPUTY SPEAKER ON POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a January 5 meeting Deputy Speaker Meshari al-Anjari gave his readout on recent developments in Kuwait,s National Assembly, the status of a possible "grilling" of a Minister charged with corruption, and his version of a military timeline for Iraq. End Summary. 2. (C) Pol [...] | 2003-01-07 06:02:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KU |
03KUWAIT2335 | KUWAITI AIRWAYS SEEKS ACCESS TO SEARCH FOR [...] MFA U/S Khalid al-Jarallah called the Ambassador the afternoon of May 26. Al-Jarallah explained that he had recently received a request from Kuwait Airways. According to al-Jarallah, Kuwait Airways believed that spare parts stolen from its warehouses after the 1990 invasion of Kuwait had bee [...] | 2003-05-31 14:45:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAIR KCRM US IZ KU |
03KUWAIT2352 | IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION VIRTUAL CONTACT GROUP [...] No summary [...] | 2003-06-01 09:23:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN PREL KU |
03KUWAIT2448 | REVISED PROCEDURES FOR COALITION PARTNERS [...] This is an action message. See paragraph 4 below. 2. DCM, CONS Chief and OMC-K JAG met June 3 with Kuwaiti Chief of Immigration COL Abdullah Yousef Al-Ruwaieh and LTCOL Adeeb Al-Sweidan to discuss procedures which will allow CPA personnel currently in Iraq in an official capacity to depar [...] | 2003-06-04 13:30:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA PREL IZ JO KU |
03KUWAIT2450 | KUWAIT: SUPPORT FOR PRESIDENT'S HIV/AIDS [...] No summary [...] | 2003-06-04 13:41:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KHIV KPAO PREL |
03KUWAIT2454 | BORDER FREE-FOR-ALL; GOK COMPLAINS ABOUT LACK OF [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 4. 2. (C) During their June 4 meeting, Kuwaiti MinState for Foreign Affairs Shaykh Dr. Mohammed al-Sabah informed the Ambassador that the Kuwaiti business community is becoming increasingly frustrated that coalition forces in Iraq are not con [...] | 2003-06-04 16:02:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KU IZ |
03KUWAIT2455 | GOK (REALLY) READY TO SIGN ARTICLE 98 AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary: The GOK will be ready to sign an Article 98 Agreement with the U.S. when U/S Bolton visits Kuwait this month, MinState for Foreign Affairs told the Ambassador during their June 4 meeting. End Summary. 2. (C) The Ambassador met with Minister of State Shaykh Dr. Mohammed al-Saba [...] | 2003-06-04 16:05:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KU |
03KUWAIT2456 | KUWAITIS VERY DISAPPOINTED AT POTUS CANCELLATION [...] (C) During their June 4 meeting, MinState for Foreign Affairs Shaykh Dr. Mohammed al-Sabah shared with the Ambassador Kuwait's extreme disappointment at the cancellation of POTUS' visit to Kuwait. Dr. Mohammed led off the meeting by noting that the Kuwaiti people had looked forward to the vis [...] | 2003-06-04 16:12:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KU OVIP |
03KUWAIT2500 | KUWAIT'S NEW CABINET, PENDING ELECTIONS [...] In order to run in the National Assembly elections scheduled for July 5, four members of the Cabinet have resigned, as required by the Constitution: Talal al-Ayyar (Electricity and Water, Social Affairs and Labor),Fahd Dhaisan al-Mai al-Azmi (Public Works, Housing),Ahmed Baqer (Justice, Awq [...] | 2003-06-08 10:14:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR KU |
03KUWAIT2543 | (C) KUWAIT SEEKS US SUPPORT AGAINST NEW PROPOSAL [...] (C) At a luncheon in honor of visiting US Ambassador to Jordan Edward Gnehm on June 7, Kuwaiti UN Permanent Representative Ambassador Mohamed Abulhassan buttonholed Ambassador Jones regarding recent developments in the UN Compensation Commission in Geneva. According to Abulhassan, the French [...] | 2003-06-10 11:15:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KU IZ UN |
03KUWAIT2668 | HALTING ASSISTANCE TO HAMAS [...] (C) Ambassador called on Kuwait's First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sabah al-Ahmed June 17 to register U.S. views on the need to shut down all types of support for Hamas. Drawing on points in ref (a) and non-paper in ref (b),Ambassador emphasized that the U.S. wanted to work w [...] | 2003-06-17 14:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAL PREL PTER KU |
03KUWAIT284 | KUWAIT'S HOLD ON LDI NOT SANCTIONED BY MFA [...] (C) The Ambassador raised Kuwait's request (refs A and B) for a hold on the French proposal to include the Kuwaiti-based organization Lajnat ad-Da'wa al-Islamiya (LDI) on UN freeze orders with Kuwaiti Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Shaykh Mohammed al-Sabah in a one-on-one meeting o [...] | 2003-01-26 03:58:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL EFIN ETTC FR KU UN |
03KUWAIT2949 | (U) MEPI 03-04: COUNTRY STRATEGY FOR KUWAIT [...] (SBU) Post welcomes the opportunity to present this MEPI country strategy for Kuwait. As we consider how best to engage on these issues, particularly on sensitive issues such as political reform and education (where the U.S. has already been unjustly accused of inappropriate interference),[...] | 2003-07-03 06:08:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ETRD KPAO KU PGOV PHUM PREL SCUL SOCI |
03KUWAIT2954 | MISSING KUWAIT AIRWAYS CORPORATION SPARE PARTS [...] After a brief trip into Iraq in June, the GOK believes it has located spare parts belonging to Kuwait Airways which were looted by the former Regime in Baghdad during the occupation of Kuwait. GOK wants to recoup these parts. We received the following Diplomatic note (in Arabic) containing [...] | 2003-07-03 06:12:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD IZ KU |
03KUWAIT296 | (U) MTCR PLENARY RESULTS DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2003-01-26 09:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA PL KU MTCRE |
03KUWAIT3039 | GOK REQUESTS INCREASED SECURITY FOR FUEL SHIPMENTS [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) MFA U/S Khalid al-Jarallah contacted the Ambassador on the afternoon of July 9 at the request of Minister of Foreign Affairs Shaykh Sabah al-Sabah. According to al-Jarallah there is a continuing need for security for trucks carr [...] | 2003-07-09 12:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL EPET IZ KU |
03KUWAIT3044 | TERRORIST FINANCING: POST IN-HOUSE VIEWS ON [...] (S) Summary: Post-election Kuwait's somewhat defused political environment offers greater latitude than before for USG action. Post confirms Ref C recommendation that absent substantive evidence linking certain Islamic charities to terrorist activity, USG interests might best be served via co [...] | 2003-07-03 01:06:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | EFIN ETTC PTER PREL PGOV KU |
03KUWAIT3101 | AMIR APPOINTS SHEIKH SABAH AS PRIME MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: On July 13, the Amir issued a decree formally naming Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah Prime Minister of Kuwait. This ended a behind-the-scenes row between the two leading branches of the Kuwaiti ruling al-Sabah family over the job, a position traditionally reserved for the Crown P [...] | 2003-07-13 15:07:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KU |
03KUWAIT3138 | NORTH KOREA TO OPEN EMBASSY IN KUWAIT [...] No summary [...] | 2003-07-14 14:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KU KN KS |
03KUWAIT3140 | IRAQ ASSETS FREEZE/GOK REVIEW OF TERRORIST FINANCE [...] (U) In initial courtesy calls, in-coming Econ Chief met on 28 June with Ministry of Finance U/S Abdul Mohsen Al-Hunaif and Dep U/S Mustafa Shamali; on 30 June with Kuwait Stock Exchange Technical Chief Wafa Al-Rashid; and on 1 July with Banking supervisors Abdul-Aziz Al-Bader and Abdullah Al-Sa [...] | 2003-07-14 16:16:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC PTER PREL PGOV KU |
03KUWAIT3141 | FIRST REACTION: SHAYKH SABAH APPOINTS NEW CABINET [...] (C) MFA U/S Ahmed Al-Jarallah shared the names of newly appointed Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah's cabinet with the Ambassador on July 14. U/S Jarallah said the names would be formally announced later the same day. Following is a list of the new cabinet and initial reactions, i [...] | 2003-07-14 16:48:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KU |
03KUWAIT3217 | (C) DEFEATED ISLAMIST OFFERS VIEWS ON KUWAITI [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador and Poloff visited ex-MP and unabashed Islamist Mubarak Al-Dowailah on July 16. During an unusually candid conversation, Dowailah offered his views on his defeat, the new government, the future of Islamism in the upcoming National Assembly, and the prospect of estab [...] | 2003-07-19 15:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KU |
03KUWAIT3266 | KUWAIT INVITED TO DESIGNATE CIC REPRESENTATIVE [...] Post conveyed Reftel note verbale to Kuwait MFA on 19 July inviting the GOK to designate a representative for appointment to the Council for International Cooperation (CIC) in Iraq. MFA confirmed 21 July that U/S Amb Khaled Al-Jarallah has the request under consideration. We anticipate a re [...] | 2003-07-21 14:25:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PREL KU |
03KUWAIT3311 | TRIALS POSTPONED; FAILAKA SUSPECTS RELEASED ON BAIL [...] On July 19, Kuwait's Criminal Court announced the postponement to September 6 of the trial of twelve Kuwaiti students charged with involvement in the October, 2002 shooting incident which led to the death of U.S. Marine LCPL Antonio Sledd, on Failaka Island. The Court released two of the susp [...] | 2003-07-23 14:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KU |
03KUWAIT3316 | KUWAIT FORMS HIGH-LEVEL IAWG TO EXPLOIT GOVERNMENT [...] Summary. Kuwait has inaugurated a high-level interagency working group to coordinate government and private sector programs for participation in the reconstruction of Iraq. Embassy and GOK interlocutors see this development as an excellent opportunity to promote the economic and regulatory r [...] | 2003-07-26 06:46:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EFIN PREL PGOV KU IZ |
03KUWAIT3358 | KUWAIT AND THE UNITED STATES: AN AGENDA FOR FUTURE [...] (C) Kuwait and the United States have been full partners in the defense of Kuwait since the 1990-91 Gulf War. Beginning with the liberation of Kuwait, the fruits of this partnership have included the decade long successful containment of Saddam Hussein's quest for weapons of mass destruction [...] | 2003-07-27 12:19:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | PREL IZ IR KU |
03KUWAIT3360 | NO BELARUS VISIT FOR KUWAITI SPORTS MINISTER [...] (C) Per Ref. A, the Ambassador briefed FonMin U/S Khaled Al-Jarallah on the background of Belarusian Sports Minister Yuri Sivakov during their July 27 meeting (other topics septel). 2. (C) Al-Jarallah said he could not confirm that Sivakov had extended any invitation to Sheikh Fahd Al-Jaber [...] | 2003-07-27 15:32:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KU BO |
03KUWAIT3409 | KUWAIT ON SUPPORT FOR POLISH STABILIZATION FORCES [...] (S) The Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah during their July 28 meeting (other topics septel). The FM said Kuwait had already agreed in principle to supporting Polish forces, as long as the burden was also shared by other nations. He added that Pri [...] | 2003-07-29 06:07:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | MARR MASS PREL KU QA BA SA MU TC |
03KUWAIT3410 | DEMARCHE ON BORDER CONTROL DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2003-07-29 06:07:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | MARR MASS PREL KU SA JO |
03KUWAIT3423 | GOK SAYS P.A. SUPPORT A BILATERAL ISSUE [...] (C) Summary: During meetings with the Ambassador on July 27 and 28, respectively, MFA U/S Khaled Jarallah and Minister of Foreign Affairs Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah discussed Kuwaiti financial support for the Palestinian Authority (P.A.). Both made it clear that Kuwait intends to treat fina [...] | 2003-07-29 12:55:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID KU XF |
03KUWAIT3441 | KUWAIT RESPONSE TO IAEA REPORT REQUEST [...] (C) The Ambassador raised the issue of IAEA Director Dr. ElBaradei's upcoming report on Iran's nuclear program (reftel) with Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Khaled Al-Jarallah during their July 27 meeting. 2. (C) Jarallah was supportive of the USG position, and said he welcomed the reaction [...] | 2003-07-30 06:02:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KU IR |
03KUWAIT3534 | (C) MINISTER SHARAR URGES ACTION ON GUANTANAMO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs and National Assembly Affairs Sharar told the Ambassador August 2 that Kuwaitis look to the US to ensure due process for Guantanamo detainees (which include 12 Kuwaitis). They discussed the GOK's prospects for cooperation with the newly-ele [...] | 2003-08-04 08:55:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR KU |
03KUWAIT3536 | (C) POLITICAL ISLAM WORKING GROUP: KUWAIT SNAPSHOT [...] (C) This cable responds to reftel request for "brief thumbnail descriptions" of Kuwait's "most influential or prominent Islamist political parties, NGO's, individuals or university campus activist groups." Formal political parties are not permitted in Kuwait, but de facto parties exist, and [...] | 2003-08-04 10:23:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PREL PHUM PGOV KU |
03KUWAIT3555 | NEW CABINET MANTRA: PRIVATE SECTOR WILL ADD JOBS [...] (C) Summary: With Kuwait's population expanding at a rapid pace, the new GOK says it will finally turn to the private sector in an effort to bolster its economy. During courtesy calls last week with many of the new Ministers, the Ambassador was on more than one occasion treated to the GOK's l [...] | 2003-08-04 13:09:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL EINV ELAB ETRD KU |
03KUWAIT3556 | GOK CLAIMS INTENT TO EXPAND SUFFRAGE, WELCOMES [...] (C) Summary: On July 26, the Ambassador met with the new government's Minister of Justice, Ahmed Baquer Al-Abdullah, who gave him a readout on some of the governments upcoming plans. Among the specific items discussed were the GOK's commitment to womens suffrage, the possible lowering of the [...] | 2003-08-04 13:09:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KWMN PINR PHUM KU |
03KUWAIT3563 | (C) ORAL MESSAGE FROM SECRETARY TO ARAB LEAGUE [...] (U) Action Request - see paragraph 4. 2. (C) Pol Chief delivered reftel oral message to Shaykh Dr. Ahmed Nasser Mohammed al-Sabah, the Foreign Minister's Office Director, August 4. Shaykh Ahmed replied that Kuwait and all other GCC states endorse the Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) and sup [...] | 2003-08-05 06:55:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IZ AL KU |
03KUWAIT3567 | U/S JARALLAH ON CIC REPRESENTATIVE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 3. 2. (C) The Ambassador raised the issue of Kuwait's designation of a Council for International Coordination (CIC) representative with MFA U/S Khaled Al-Jarallah during their July 27 meeting. Jarallah said that Kuwaiti participation would b [...] | 2003-08-05 07:03:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PREL KU IZ |
03KUWAIT3589 | (C) GOK CLAIMS TURKS BUYING IRAQI OIL, [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 4. 2. (C) During their July 27 meeting, MFA U/S Khaled Al-Jarallah told the Ambassador that Turkish tanker trucks carrying mogas into Iraq for the CPA under a Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) contract were returning to Turkey laden with Iraqi oi [...] | 2003-08-06 03:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ETRD KU IZ TU |
03KUWAIT3605 | ISLAMIST COMMENTATORS TAKE AIM AT EMBASSY [...] No summary [...] | 2003-08-06 10:14:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PREL PHUM KU |
03KUWAIT3619 | (U) KUWAITI SHI'IS DESCRIBE TRIP TO NAJAF AND [...] (C) Summary: A group of prominent Kuwaiti Shia businessmen recently briefed the Ambassador on their visit to the Shia spiritual centers of Najaf and Karbala. The group met with Shia leaders who shared their concerns that the security situation in the holy cities had still not been properly a [...] | 2003-08-06 17:15:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KU IZ |
03KUWAIT3623 | (C) SHAYKH SABAH'S VISIT TO WASHINGTON [...] (C) INTRODUCTION: This message is intended to assist preparations for Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabah's visit to Washington, where he is due to meet with President Bush on September 10. We recommend that he be invited to meet (separately) with the Secretaries of State [...] | 2003-08-07 11:41:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS PTER EFIN EAID KDEM PHUM PINR KU OVIP SABAH AL AHMED JABER |
03KUWAIT3684 | (C) SHAYKH SABAH ACCEPTS POTUS' INVITATION [...] (C) Post has received a dipnote dated August 11 accepting President Bush's invitation to meet in the Oval Office at 11:25 a.m. on Wednesday, September 10, followed by a media event then lunch in the Old Family Dining Room. The GOK is also accepting the US offer to arrange a schedule of meetin [...] | 2003-08-11 13:39:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KU |
03KUWAIT3702 | (C) GOK REQUESTS BLAIR HOUSE [...] (C) Further to reftel, MFA Protocol has clarified that the GOK accepts the offer to request the hospitality of Blair House for Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah, who is due to meet with the President on Wednesday, September 10. We are pressing the GOK to clarify how it wishes to handle announcemen [...] | 2003-08-12 11:04:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KU |
03KUWAIT3750 | GOK SUPPORTS CONTESTED UNCC CLAIM [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 5. 2. (C) MFA IO Division Acting Director Ambassador Aqeel Behbehani contacted PolChief on August 16 to express the GOK's official support for a United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) claim by prominent Kuwaiti businessman Jawad Bu Kham [...] | 2003-08-17 13:22:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | KUNC PREL KU |
03KUWAIT3762 | TERRORIST FINANCE: KUWAIT: AL ZINDANI/WALDENBERG, [...] (S) CDA conveyed to GOK MFA on 17 August talking points and background papers regarding, and shared on a close hold, confidential basis, the names of the individual and the SIPDIS entity proposed Ref A for designation on 25 August 2003 under Executive Order 13224. 2. (U) Econ Chief con [...] | 2003-08-18 09:25:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | ETTC EFIN PTER PREL KVPR CVIS KU YE |
03KUWAIT3775 | SHEPHERDING HUMANITARIAN FUEL FOR BASRA [...] Summary. Apparently frustrated that the Coalition was not heeding Kuwait's requests to tighten controls on the Iraq-Kuwait border to limit smuggling, the GOK slammed shut to civilian traffic its northern border with Iraq on 12 August. Convoys of vehicles supplying the contracted-out logisti [...] | 2003-08-19 03:56:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAID ENRG EPET MOPS PREL PGOV PTER KU IZ |
03KUWAIT3826 | (C) KUWAITI PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT TO WASHINGTON, [...] (C) Kuwait Prime Ministerial Counselor Shaykh Fawaz Saud Nasser Al-Sabah told Charge August 20 that the GoK has just now begun to nail down details on the visit of Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber Al-Sabah to Washington. Delegation will likely consist of the following: Prime Mi [...] | 2003-08-20 11:41:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OVIP KU |
03KUWAIT3857 | (U) KUWAIT'S NEW MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS, BADER [...] (C) Contrary to reftel, Kuwait's new Minister of Public Works and Minister of State for Housing Affairs, Mr. Bader Nasser Al-Hamaidi, is not/not the long-time director of the Kuwait Fund for Arab and Economic Development (KFAED),who shares a similar name (Bader al-Humaidhi),but rather an ex- [...] | 2003-08-24 13:13:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PREL KU |
03KUWAIT3967 | GOK OFFICIAL DELEGATION LIST [...] There follows the GOK's official delegation list, received (in Arabic only) August 27 from the Prime Minister's Diwan (Office): BEGIN TEXT: The official delegation accompanying His Highness Shaykh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabah, Prime Minister, visiting the United States of America dur [...] | 2003-08-27 13:23:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP PREL KU |
03KUWAIT3969 | KUWAIT NO LONGER WILL PERMIT ENTRY OF IRAQIS [...] On August 26, Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr. Mohammed al-Sabah told Charge that Kuwait would no longer permit the entry of Iraqis who do not have valid travel documents. Kuwaiti law requires that all aliens entering the country have valid passports. In recent weeks, several [...] | 2003-08-27 13:32:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV CVIS KU IZ |
03KUWAIT4071 | LACK OF NAJAF SECURITY THREATENS SHIA SUPPORT [...] (C) Summary: Reacting to the death of Sayed Mohammed Baqer Al-Hakim, prominent Kuwaiti Shi'is have again (reftels) warned the Embassy that the absence of increased security for Shi,a religious leaders based in the city of Najaf is threatening coalition efforts in Iraq and turning the country' [...] | 2003-09-03 13:48:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL SOCI KU IZ |
03KUWAIT4078 | (U) IRANIAN FM VISITS KUWAIT [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi met with PM Shaykh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah and FM Shaykh Dr. Mohammed al-Sabah, during a one-day visit to Kuwait on September 1. According to MFA, the visit was previously planned and not prompted by Kuwaiti PM Shaykh Saba [...] | 2003-09-04 18:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET KU IR IZ KNPT IAEA |
03KUWAIT408 | POW FAMILIES APPEAL TO POTUS [...] The Ambassador met January 28 with a group of family-members of Kuwaiti POWs/missing persons, who handed him a letter in Arabic addressed to POTUS appealing that consideration be given to protecting Kuwaiti detainees in Iraq during a confrontation The Ambassador assured the group that the U. [...] | 2003-02-02 04:18:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC PHUM PREL MARR KU |
03KUWAIT4130 | REQUIREMENT TO ENTER KUWAIT WITH PASSPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2003-09-07 08:20:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV CVIS KU IZ |
03KUWAIT4141 | BIO DATA ON DR. ADNAN SHIHAB-ELDIN, OPEC [...] (U) Bio Data on Dr. Adnan Shihab-ElDin in reference to Kuwait 04078 para. 4. 2. (U) Name: Dr. Adnan Shihab-Eldin Director, Research Division, OPEC Secretariat, Vienna, Austria Present Position: 8/2001 - present Date of Birth: 1 November 1943 Citizenship: Kuwaiti Marital Status [...] | 2003-09-07 12:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET IR IZ KU PREL IAEA KNPT |
03KUWAIT4391 | (C) KUWAITIS STILL UNEASY OVER AL-ONAYZEH ARREST [...] (C) Kuwaiti contacts continue to be concerned about repercussions stemming from the arrest of Iraqi tribal sheikh Mtaib bin Mahrouth bin Hadhal al-Onayzeh. Prominent businessman Fuad al-Ghanim told Charge from London September 21, 2003, that he believed the arrest and detention of al-Onayze [...] | 2003-09-23 04:09:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS IZ KU |
03KUWAIT4451 | (U) COMPENSATION REMARKS PROVOKE FIRESTORM, [...] (U) NIACT Immediate due to need for earliest possible Washington action. See para 7 for action request. 2. (C) Summary: Kuwaiti MP's have over-reacted predictably to Ambassador Bremer's September 26 remarks suggesting Kuwait and Saudi Arabia give up compensation claims against Iraq. This i [...] | 2003-09-28 15:29:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID IZ KU |
03KUWAIT4456 | (U) POLICY CHANGE NEEDED FOR MEDEVAC OF NON-US [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST; PLEASE SEE PARAGRAPH 5. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Soldiers from Coalition countries medevaced from Iraq through Kuwait are typically stranded in Kuwait days longer than Americans in similar condition, before being flown onward for better/longer-term care. The same [...] | 2003-09-29 08:15:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MARR MOPS IZ KU UN |
03KUWAIT4459 | (C) IRAQ ECONOMIC RECONSTRUCTION -- THOUGHTS ON [...] (S) SUMMARY: Relative to the size of its economy, Kuwait has been the most generous supporter in the world of OIF and of humanitarian assistance to Iraq. It will likely continue to play this role willingly for some time. There are, however, several factors that augur against a large GOK ple [...] | 2003-09-29 08:36:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | ECON PREL EAID EINV IZ KU |
03KUWAIT4486 | (C) KUWAITI FM DISCUSSES AID TO IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN [...] (U) Action Request - see paragraphs 8, 12. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador discussed Iraq -- and, briefly, Afghanistan -- with Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah September 30 (other topics septels). The Minister was keenly interested in how the Madrid donors conference will be st [...] | 2003-10-01 05:48:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ECON ETRD OPDC IZ AF KU |
03KUWAIT4532 | (C) AMBASSADOR CALLS ON NEW AWQAF MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador paid an introductory call on the new Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, Dr. Abdullah al-Maatouq, September 30. The Minister praised the US liberation of Iraq, jumped at the offer to work with PAO to re-organize a visit of Ministry staff to the US, which he h [...] | 2003-10-01 14:10:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL PINR KU |
03KUWAIT4534 | (C) KUWAITI FM DISCUSSES IRAN/IAEA [...] (C) Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah told the Ambassador September 30 that Kuwait has told Iran it must sign the NPT Additional Protocol (AP),and he expects the GCC states to press this point at the OIC Summit in Kuala Lumpur. He also expects Iran to make a big push for support at [...] | 2003-10-01 14:10:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM MNUC PREL IR KU IAEA |
03KUWAIT4645 | KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: MADRID CONFERENCE ON [...] No summary [...] | 2003-10-12 10:10:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ ECON BEXP PREL |
03KUWAIT4661 | (C) AMBASSADOR TALKS HUMAN RIGHTS WITH MINISTER OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador used his October 8 introductory call on the Minister of Social Affairs and Labor to make him aware of the annual Human Rights Report (HRR) and Trafficking In Persons Report (TIPR). Minister Feisal al-Hajji personally arranged for a poc in his Ministry for us to f [...] | 2003-10-13 13:14:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL ETTC ELAB PHUM PINR KU |
03KUWAIT4680 | (C) GOK SEES STRONG SAUDI COMMITMENT AGAINST [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOK assesses that key Saudi leaders Prince Sultan and Prince Nayif have become strongly committed against terrorism since the May 12 Riyadh attacks. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) NEA PDAS Larocco called on Shaykh Sabah al-Khalid al-Hamad al-Sabah, Chairman of Kuwait's National Security Bur [...] | 2003-10-14 12:19:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SA KU |
03KUWAIT4681 | (C) SYRIA: GOK TO HOST BASHAR AFTER RAMADHAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOK is concerned that Bashar al-Asad lacks the power to remove his late father's old guard and adapt to the new regional reality. It expects him to visit after Ramadhan, and would be happy to pass on any messages. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) NEA PDAS Larocco called on Shaykh Sab [...] | 2003-10-14 12:19:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY IS TU KU |
03KUWAIT4682 | (C) IRAQ: GOK SAYS SAUDIS RELUCTANT TO COMMIT [...] (S) SUMMARY: GOK insider confides that Saudi Arabia is reluctant to commit specific funding for Iraq at the Madrid conference. Kuwaiti PM and FM intend to revisit the issue with Saudi counterparts on the margins of the OIC Summit. GOK urges USG to push the Saudis hard in the next few days, preferab [...] | 2003-10-14 12:20:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | PREL EAID IZ SA KU |
03KUWAIT4683 | (C) IRAN: GOK PESSIMISTIC, BUT REMAINS ENGAGED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOK sees no short-term hope that Iranian reformists will be able to challenge the conservative mullahs effectively, but intends to remain engaged with Tehran. It claims to have told Iran the international community is united on the need for it to comply with IAEA conditions [...] | 2003-10-14 12:20:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP IR KU IAEA |
03KUWAIT4709 | (U) FRENCH AMBASSADOR HOSTS G8 CTAG MEETING [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: The French Ambassador hosted a meeting October 13 of embassy representatives of G8 countries and Switzerland, as part of worldwide consultations in preparation for the November 17 second meeting of the Counter-Terrorism Action Group (CTAG) created during the G8 [...] | 2003-10-15 13:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL ETTC KU |
03KUWAIT4746 | (C) CLONING: KUWAIT TO SUPPORT, NOT CO-SPONSOR [...] (C) MFA Deputy Director of International Organization Affairs Amb. Aqeel Behbehani told Pol Chief October 18 that Kuwait would vote for the Costa Rican UNGA resolution calling for a total ban on all human cloning, and would urge other Arab states to do likewise. When pressed, he said Kuwait [...] | 2003-10-18 12:43:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM TBIO KU KSCI UNGA |
03KUWAIT4788 | DELIVERY OF URGENT DEMARCHE: UN ACTION ON THE [...] (C) DCM delivered subject General Assembly Demarche October 19, 2003, to MFA Americas Department Chief, Ambassador Khaled Al-Babtain. Al-Babtain, who is generally critical of U.S. policy toward the Palestinians, was this time subdued in his response. He promised to pass the U.S. recommenda [...] | 2003-10-19 13:29:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IS KU UNGA |
03KUWAIT4798 | (C) KUWAIT FM SAYS GOK'S IRAQ PLEDGE WILL BE [...] (C) The Ambassador met with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed al-Sabah at the airport on October 20, immediately prior to the FM's departure for visits to Poland, Hungary and Spain, where he will represent Kuwait at the October 23-24 Madrid conference. This was the first opportunit [...] | 2003-10-20 15:30:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EINV EFIN PREL KU IZ |
03KUWAIT4799 | ACCEPTING NEW IRAQI DIPLOMATIC AND OFFICIAL [...] Pol Chief conveyed reftel request to MFA Americas Dept. Deputy Director Ayham al-Omar October 19, following up with a diplomatic note. While the MFA official gave no substantive response, in practice, Kuwait is already accepting such passports and going out of its way to facilitate travel of [...] | 2003-10-21 05:20:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL CVIS IZ KU |
03KUWAIT4840 | TERRORIST FINANCE: OFAC/STATE TEAM MEETS KUWAITI [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and a State Department representative met with Kuwaiti officials 4-5 October to encourage a joint USG-GOK investigation of suspicious charities, discuss the status of frozen Iraqi assets, and inform the GOK of money transfers [...] | 2003-10-25 07:20:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN ECON ETTC PTER PREL KU |
03KUWAIT4843 | PALESTINIAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO MFA U/S [...] No summary [...] | 2003-10-25 10:30:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAL KWBG PREL IS KU |
03KUWAIT4844 | ARTICLE 98 AGREEMENT UPDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2003-10-25 10:46:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM KU |
03KUWAIT4960 | SYRIA TO CONVENE FM'S ON IRAQ [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 5. 2. (C) MFA Undersecretary, Ambassador Khaled Al-Jarallah told the Ambassador during an October 28 telephone conversation that Syria has invited Foreign Ministers from states bordering Iraq to a meeting in Damascus on November 1 to discuss Iraq. Ja [...] | 2003-10-28 12:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KU SY IZ TU IR EG JO SA |
03KUWAIT4964 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: OPPOSING CUBA'S UN RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2003-10-29 06:36:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD UNGA |
03KUWAIT4988 | (C) MORE ON SYRIA'S IRAQ MEETING [...] (C) After we sent ref A, MFA Undersecretary Ambassador Khaled Al-Jarallah told the Ambassador that FM Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah had consulted with his Saudi, Egyptian and Jordanian counterparts. They had agreed that Saudi FM Prince Saud al-Feisal would call Syrian FM Sharaa and press him to invi [...] | 2003-10-29 14:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KU SY IZ TU IR EG JO SA |
03KUWAIT5001 | FROZEN IRAQI ASSETS: OFAC/STATE VISIT TO KUWAIT [...] (C) SUMMARY. A delegation from Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and a State Department representative met with Kuwaiti officials on October 3-5 to discuss, among other things, some $85 million in frozen Iraqi assets held by the Nassau, Bahamas branch of the Commercial Bank o [...] | 2003-11-01 07:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EAID ETTC PTER PREL KU IZ UNSC |
03KUWAIT5057 | (C) IRAQ: GOK WANTS TO REBUILD PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE [...] (C) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Sh. Dr. Mohammed al-Sabah told the Ambassador Kuwait wants to coordinate with Iraqis on its remaining half-billion dollar pledge, to ensure the money helps rebuild ties between the two peoples. He said the GOK is encouraging involvement by the [...] | 2003-11-04 08:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID SY IZ KU |
03KUWAIT509 | MANAGING A NEW IRAQ [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a private dinner with two prominent Kuwaiti businessmen -- one Islamist, the other liberal -- the topic of conversation centered on doing business in post-Saddam Iraq. This pair of 40-something movers-and-shakers was extremely interested to know who will run economic an [...] | 2003-02-09 08:29:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL MARR IZ KU |
03KUWAIT5103 | (SBU) NEIGHBORS FOREVER: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met with the Chairman of the Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry's (KCCI) Finance and Investment Committee, Mr. Faisal Al-Mutawa, on November 3. Conversation centered on the immediate GOK reaction to the recent Madrid Donors' Conference and KCCI and GOK efforts [...] | 2003-11-06 08:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EINV PREL KU IZ |
03KUWAIT5104 | (C) SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY ARMITAGE [...] (C) Mister Secretary, the backup itinerary for your upcoming visit to the Mideast involves overnighting in Kuwait. We therefore take the opportunity to provide you with this scenesetter emphasizing the GOK's role -- and this embassy's -- in support of the Iraq effort. (U) KUWAIT: THE ONE [...] | 2003-11-06 08:38:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL MARR EAID AMGT IZ KU |
03KUWAIT5129 | (C) SAYED BAHR AL-OLOUM TELLS AMBASSADOR IRAQIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: IGC member Sayed Mohammed Bahr al-Oloum told the Ambassador November 5 that our success in Iraq is very important to him, but that it requires changing policy so as to give the impression that Iraqis are ruling themselves, with the Coalition providing strong but discreet support from " [...] | 2003-11-10 05:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR IZ IR SA SY KU |
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