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Identifier	Subject	Date	Office	Classification	Tags
07KUWAIT487	PARLIAMENT PASSES LAW ENFORCEMENT COOPERATION [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 3, Parliament ratified 20 international agreements, including a security cooperation agreement with Iran in the field of drug trafficking and law enforcement. However, parliamentarians objected strongly to an Article 98 agreement with the U.S. and referred it to the M [...]	2007-04-04 13:47:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS

07KUWAIT488	KUWAIT BUDGET SURPLUS ESTIMATED AT $17.5 BILLION [...] Kuwait's fiscal year ended on 31 March, with the government budget surplus estimated at $17.5 billion (approximately 15% of GDP and 50% of actual budget expenditures). Oil revenue of $51.5 billion (est.) comprised about 95% of total government revenue. The projected government deficit of $9 [...]	2007-04-04 13:50:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EPET KU
07KUWAIT489	FREEDOM AGENDA: WOMEN'S ACTIVISTS INTENSIFY [...] (C/NF) Summary: Recently women's groups have galvanized their efforts to fight the main problems they face: discrimination in Kuwait's personal status law and lack of representation in parliamentary and governmental positions. Female activists rallied to successfully oppose a bill that woul [...]	2007-04-04 14:05:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM KWMN KU
07KUWAIT49	IRANIAN ARAB CLERIC CLAIMS IRANIANS INCREASINGLY [...] (C/NF) Poloff met January 10 with Shaykh Mohammed Kathem Al-Khaqani, an Iranian Arab Shi'a cleric from Ahwaz, the former Arabic name of the predominantly Arab province of Khuzestan in western Iran. Shaykh Mohammed is the second son of Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Taher Al-Khaqani, who, according [...]	2007-01-14 15:04:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PINR IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS
07KUWAIT490	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - IRAN AND US POLICY IN THE MIDDLE [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-07 05:10:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KUWAIT491	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - PELOSI VISIT, IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-07 07:00:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KUWAIT50	TOP KUWAITI JOURNALIST CLAIMS U.S. TO STRIKE IRAN [...] (SBU) In a January 14 editorial, one of Kuwait's top journalists asserted that a U.S. strike on Iran would occur before April. Quoting an unnamed "reliable source," Ahmed Al-Jarallah, the Editor-in-Chief of Al-Seyassah (local Arabic daily) and the Arab Times (local English Daily),said top a [...]	2007-01-15 14:36:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS
07KUWAIT500	CENTCOM COMMANDER FALLON MEETS WITH AMIR AND [...] (C) Summary. New CENTCOM Commander William J. Fallon discussed Iraq, Iran and bilateral military cooperation with the Amir of Kuwait, the Prime Minister, Defense Minister and Armed Forces Chief of Staff on April 3. The Government of Kuwait (GOK) message on Iraq was one of continued support fo [...]	2007-04-07 13:02:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MARR IZ IR KU
07KUWAIT501	KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR SUSAN JACOBS, [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for Susan Jacobs, Senior Policy Advisor to the Bureau of Consular Affairs, Mr. James W. Schnaible, Bureau of Diplomatic Security, and Mr. Gary Cote, Director Visa Security Program of the Department of Homeland Security to meet with E [...]	2007-04-07 13:05:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT APER ASEC CMGT KU OTRA COUNTRY CLEARANCE
07KUWAIT503	GOK RESPONSE: AL-AWADI AND AL-SHAITAN [...] (SBU) Post received April 7 the attached diplomatic note from the MFA Legal Department. Below is Post's unofficial translation: 4 April 2007 20070554 Secret SIPDIS The MFA presents its compliments to the Embassy of the United States of America in Kuwait. In reference to Note 800 [...]	2007-04-08 04:02:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OFDP OPDC PGOV CVIS KU
07KUWAIT504	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY, IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-08 09:36:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KUWAIT505	FEMALE LEADERS PAINT BLEAK PICTURE OF WOMEN'S [...] (SBU) Summary: Members of the Women's Network (WIN) told Representative Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) on April 7 that women still face major professional, political, and legal obstacles to achieving equality with men in Kuwait. Some of the problems come from discrimination in the workplace. Other [...]	2007-04-08 10:06:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KWMN KU
07KUWAIT506	CHARGE DISCUSSES CEIP NEXT STEPS WITH INTERIOR [...] (U) This cable contains an action request, see paragraph 4. 2. (S/NF) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On April 7 and 8, CDA and Econoff met separately with Ministry of Interior (MOI) Under Secretary Nasser Al-Othman, Deputy Director of the Kuwait SIPDIS Coast Guard (KCG) Colonel Abdullah Bin-N [...]	2007-04-08 12:35:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET//NOFORN	EPET ASEC PTER KCIP KU
07KUWAIT507	KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR TREASURY A/S [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for Department of Treasury Assistant Secretary Patrick O'Brien, Policy Advisor Daniel Harris, and Analyst Benjamin Davis to travel to post o/a April 24, 2007 for meetings with GOK officials. 2. This clearance is not/not valid for [...]	2007-04-08 12:59:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	APER AMGT OTRA KU COUNTRY CLEARANCE
07KUWAIT508	READOUT OF NDI MEETINGS WITH KUWAITI POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Senior NDI representative for Kuwait Kelley Jones briefed PolOffs on her April 3-7 meetings with Kuwaiti political associations. She said the organizations were open to receiving NDI training and assistance, but liberal groups expressed concerns about being viewed as too closely [...]	2007-04-08 13:28:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KMPI MEPI KU FREEDOM AGENDA
07KUWAIT51	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ADDITIONAL SYRIAN DESIGNATIONS [...] (SBU) Econoff hand-delivered reftel points via diplomatic note to the office of MFA Director of Follow-up and Coordination Khalid Maqamis on January 14, 2007. Econoff also faxed copies of Treasury's press release to the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK),the Ministry of Finance, and the Union of K [...]	2007-01-16 08:38:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC PARM PREL KNNP KU IR
07KUWAIT510	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - SYRIA, IRAQ, AND IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-09 06:33:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KUWAIT513	A VIEW FROM THE CHICKEN COOP: KUWAITI POULTRY [...] (C) Summary. On April 9, Econoff met with Meshal Al-Bazie, Deputy General Manager of Naif Poultry, one of the largest poultry producers in Kuwait, to discuss the ongoing avian influenza (AI) outbreak. Al-Bazie said only one of Naif's egg farms has been affected by the virus, but that 640,00 [...]	2007-04-09 12:50:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	AMED CASC KSCA SENV TBIO ECON ETRD KU
07KUWAIT514	MPS ASK FOR INFO ON KUWAIT'S PREPAREDNESS FOR A [...] (SBU) Responding to recent speculations in local press about an imminent U.S. attack on Iran (ref B),several parliamentarians (MPs) submitted questions to the Interior Minister asking him to outline the steps Kuwait has taken to prepare for such a possibility. Independent, tribal MP Saadoun [...]	2007-04-09 13:44:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
07KUWAIT515	VEILED WOMAN BREAKS BARRIERS TO RUN IN TRIBAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Zakiyya Thuwaini has announced her candidacy in local elections scheduled for April 30 in Kuwait's most conservative area. She has faced opposition from within her own family, but others in the community have encouraged her and women's activists from around the country are ass [...]	2007-04-09 13:45:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KWMN KU
07KUWAIT52	OES A/S MCMURRAY TALKS ENVIRONMENT, AVIAN FLU, AND [...] (SBU) Summary. On January 10, Assistant Secretary for Oceans, Environment, and Science Claudia McMurray met with Meshal Al-Meshan of the Kuwait Environmental Protection Society (KEPS),Captain Ali Haider of the Environment Public Authority (EPA),and Assistant U/S of Health Ali Al-Saif to di [...]	2007-01-16 08:51:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SENV ENRG TBIO IZ KU
07KUWAIT522	ISLAMIST MPS' GRILLING REQUESTS REKINDLE [...] (C/NF) Summary and comment: While many opposition MPs appeared willing to give the new government a chance to show it can perform, two tribal Islamist MPs have kept the political heat on, calling for parliamentary grillings of the Finance and Islamic Affairs Ministers. Most politicians and [...]	2007-04-10 13:36:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KISL KDEM KU ISLAMISTS
07KUWAIT524	USG COORDINATOR FOR INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS [...] (C/NF) On 8 April, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy Ambassador David Gross made an introductory courtesy call on Kuwait's new Minister of Communications and State Minister for National Assembly Affairs Shireeda Abdullah Saad Al-Mousharji. Al-Mousharji, [...]	2007-04-11 04:39:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECPS PREL PGOV PINR KU
07KUWAIT526	KUWAIT AVIAN FLU UPDATE #8 [...] (SBU) The total number of reported cases remains at 101, and no new cases have been discovered in the past week. Public Authority for Agriculture Affairs and Fish Resources (PAAAFR) inspectors continue to take samples from commercial and private poultry holdings, and the culling of birds fro [...]	2007-04-11 05:55:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMED CASC KSCA SENV TBIO KU
07KUWAIT535	KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR S/I [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for S/I Coordinator David Satterfield and Treasury Representative Malachy Nugent to travel to post o/a April 22, 2007 for meetings with GOK officials on the upcoming International Compact for Iraq and Iraq Neighbors conferences. [...]	2007-04-14 13:19:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ EG SA TU OTRA MARR COUNTRY CLEARANCE
07KUWAIT536	KUWAIT AVIAN FLU WORKING GROUP UPDATES TRIPWIRES [...] (SBU) On April 14, Kuwait's in-house Avian Influenza (AI) Working Group met to review the mission's AI-specific tripwires in light of the recent outbreak. Present at the meeting were representatives from the Economic (ESTHoff),Consular, Management sections, as well as the A/DCM. The AIWG ma [...]	2007-04-15 04:16:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMED CASC KSCA SENV TBIO KU
07KUWAIT542	KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR GULF SECURITY [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and grants country clearance for PM Acting A/S Stephen Mull, DOD Acting A/S Mary Beth Long, NEA DAS Gordon Gray, NSC Director Nik Ramchand, Lt. Col. Reginald Robinson, Capt. James Pelkofski, and Cmdr. Edward Palmer to travel to post o/a May 21 to May 22, 2007. 2. Th [...]	2007-04-15 11:16:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	SA QA KU PREL AMGT OTRA COUNTRY CLEARANCE
07KUWAIT55	GCC +2 STATEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-17 12:09:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KU GCC
07KUWAIT555	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - IRAN AND TERRORISM [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-16 08:53:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KUWAIT558	KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR DAVID [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for ATO Regional Director David Williams and Marketing Specialist Mohamed Taha to travel to post o/a April 30-May 2, 2007. Travelers will accompany the Technical Director of the American Soybean Association to meetings with GOK offi [...]	2007-04-16 10:42:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR AMGT APER OTRA KU COUNTRY CLEARANCE
07KUWAIT559	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PREPARING FOR WMO QUADRENNIAL [...] (U) Post forwarded reftel demarche and background paper to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on April 15 via diplomatic note. Post will report substantive response septel. ********************************************* * For more reporting from Embassy Kuwait, visit: http://www.state.sgov.gov/ [...]	2007-04-16 10:42:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TPHY KU DEMARCHE
07KUWAIT56	PARLIAMENT TO GRILL RULING FAMILY MINISTER [...] (SBU) On January 17, three Members of Parliament (MPs) formally submitted a request to question Minister of Health Shaykh Ahmed Abdullah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah over procedural irregularities in approving Kuwaitis for medical treatment abroad, alleged "administrative violations" in the min [...]	2007-01-17 13:51:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FREEDOM AGENDA
07KUWAIT566	AMIR'S ATTEMPT TO QUELL RULING FAMILY DISPUTES [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: In a rare meeting of senior Al-Sabah family members April 14, Amir Shaykh Sabah issued a strong warning not to air intra-ruling family rivalries in public via proxies and stressed that he had no intention to dissolve Parliament or amend the constitution. The Crown [...]	2007-04-16 14:13:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KDEM KU FREEDOM AGENDA NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
07KUWAIT568	ARAB FUND ON IRAQ COMPACT, REGIONAL AID, AND THE [...] (C/NF) Summary: Arab Fund Director General told A/DCM April 16 that he was unlikely to be able to attend the May 3 Iraq Compact (ICI) signing in Egypt due to prior commitments and, more importantly, because of the failure of the GOI to solve its arrears problem with the Fund. Al-Hamad said t [...]	2007-04-17 08:27:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAID ECON EFIN ETRD IZ KU PGOV PREL
07KUWAIT570	PENINSULA LIONS PROSECUTION OVERVIEW: CASE NEARS [...] (S) Summary. With a hearing date before Kuwait,s highest court set for May 15, 2007, the terror trials arising out of January 2005 armed clashes between the Peninsula Lions, a Kuwait-based extremist group, and Government of Kuwait security forces are nearing their conclusion. The December 200 [...]	2007-04-18 07:57:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PREL PHUM PGOV IZ KU TERRORISM
07KUWAIT575	IRAQ COMPACT: KUWAIT FM WILL ATTEND MAY 3 SIGNING [...] (SBU) MFA Americas Desk Officer Hamad Al-Meshan confirmed to Econcouns April 18 that Kuwaiti FM Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah will attend the Iraq Compact signing event in Egypt on May 3, along with the Neighbors Conference the following day. ******************************* [...]	2007-04-18 12:16:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EFIN ETRD IZ KU PGOV PREL
07KUWAIT576	KUWAITI POLITICAL FIGURES EXPRESS CONCERN, [...] (C/NF) Summary: A broad cross section of prominent Kuwaiti political figures expressed concern and uncertainty regarding Iraq, Iran and regional strategic issues at an Embassy-hosted diwaniyya (traditional evening gathering) featuring visiting Army War College Professor Dr. W. Andrew Terril [...]	2007-04-18 12:34:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV IR IZ KU
07KUWAIT577	BLUE LANTERN: POSSIBLE TRANSFER OF U.S.-ORIGIN [...] (S/NF) Following the delivery of diplomatic notes on 8 January and 4 April and several calls to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Refs B and C),Post obtained a meeting on this issue with the Foreign Procurement Division of the Ministry of Defense on 18 April. Econoff met with Assistant Direc [...]	2007-04-18 13:52:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET//NOFORN	ETTC KOMC KU
07KUWAIT578	PROGRAM EVALUATION: HIP HOP TRIO ROCKS KUWAIT [...] GPRA FY07Q2: The Gina Loring Poetry and Hip Hop Trio, a popular, contemporary African American youth-oriented music group based in Los Angeles, California, conducted its first tour of Kuwait, February 5-10, 2007. The highly energetic trio, comprised of Gina Loring, lead vocalist; Joshua Silve [...]	2007-04-18 15:28:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	SCUL KPAO KU
07KUWAIT58	MINISTER OF SOCIAL AFFAIRS AND LABOR SAYS GOK [...] (C) Ambassador met January 16 with Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Shaykh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah. Ambassador noted the of the upcoming TIP report evaluation and asked about GOK progress on addressing problems faced by Kuwait's 1.5 million foreign workers. The Minister noted that dome [...]	2007-01-18 04:58:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM ELAB KU
07KUWAIT581	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - IRAQ AND PALESTINE [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-21 06:37:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KUWAIT584	IRAQ COMPACT: IRAQ CENTRAL BANK EXTENDS PERSONAL [...] (C/NF) Chairman of the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development Dr. Abdelatif Y. Al-Hamad relayed to Econcouns April 21 that he had just received a phone call from the Governor of the Iraq Central Bank extending a "personal invitation" to attend the May 3 Iraq Compact signing in Egypt. [...]	2007-04-21 12:21:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAID ECON EFIN ETRD IZ KU PGOV PREL
07KUWAIT585	NEW ELECTRICITY AND WATER MINISTER DISCUSSES [...] (SBU) On 21 April, Ambassador met with new Minister of Electricity and Water Mohammed Abdullah Al-Elaim to congratulate him on his appointment (Ref. A) and discuss the power shortages that Kuwait is expected to suffer beginning in summer 2007. The Minister explained that he was reluctant to [...]	2007-04-21 14:00:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ENRG ECON PINR KU
07KUWAIT586	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES PUBLIC HOUSING, PARLIAMENTARY [...] (C/NF) Summary: On 21 April, Ambassador met with new Minister of State for Housing Affairs Abdul Wahid Al-Awadi to congratulate him on his appointment. Al-Awadi responded, "It is not always an honor to be a Minister in Kuwait," referring to the sometimes rough treatment of Kuwaiti ministers [...]	2007-04-22 05:36:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV ECON PINR KU NATIONAL
07KUWAIT587	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - AMERICAN MEDIA AND IRAQ [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-22 06:34:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KUWAIT59	MINISTER OF SOCIAL AFFAIRS AND LABOR: WE WILL [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Shaykh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah told Ambassador January 16 that in March his Ministry would begin a campaign to bring Kuwaiti charities into compliance with existing laws regulating charitable contributions so that the Ministry could better [...]	2007-01-18 07:06:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON PGOV PTER PREL KU KTFN
07KUWAIT592	FREEDOM AGENDA: ACTIVISTS UNSATISFIED WITH [...] (C/NF) Summary: The National Assembly's Women's Affairs Committee sponsored a conference on women's issues on April 21. The conference tackled some of the key challenges facing women, but activists criticized it as superficial and lashed out at the lack of interest by parliamentarians. Th [...]	2007-04-23 04:59:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM KWMN KU
07KUWAIT593	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - AMERICAN POLICY, IRAQ, AND IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-23 09:39:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KUWAIT594	ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-23 12:15:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV KU TERRORISM
07KUWAIT595	NOTIFICATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW BOARD [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-23 12:15:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PINR PHUM KU
07KUWAIT598	AMBASSADOR RAISES CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (S/NF) Summary: During meetings on April 23 and 24, the Ambassador raised the need for follow-up on critical infrastructure protection with the President of the National Security Bureau, the Prime Minister and Oil Minister, respectively. With each, the Ambassador praised the cooperation at th [...]	2007-04-24 10:34:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET//NOFORN	EPET ASEC PTER KCIP KU
07KUWAIT600	AMBASSADOR SATTERFIELD BRIEFED ON JUNE CONFERENCE [...] On 23 April, Iraq Coordinator David Satterfield, accompanied by Treasury Department Middle East Deputy Director Malachy Nugent, Polcouns, and Econoff, met with Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport Company (KGL) Chairman Saeed Esmail Dashti to discuss plans for the "Iraq First" International Convent [...]	2007-04-24 12:24:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EINV ECON IZ KU
07KUWAIT605	IRAQ COORDINATOR SATTERFIELD AND ARAB FUND OUTLINE [...] (C) Chairman of the Arab Fund Dr. Abdelatif Al-Hamad told Iraq Coordinator David Satterfield on April 23 that the Arab Fund remained open to lifting Iraq's suspension in the Fund provided the GOI signaled agreement to a previously discussed repayment regime and began paying down its arrears [...]	2007-04-25 07:37:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAID ECON EFIN ETRD IZ KU PGOV PREL
07KUWAIT606	OIL MINISTER AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS NEW REFINERY [...] (C/NF) On 24 April, Ambassador met with Oil Minister Shaykh Ali Jarrah Al-Sabah to congratulate him on his reappointment and discuss his priorities for the oil sector. The Minister said Kuwait's oil sector needs restructuring and new managers. Regarding long-delayed plans for the constructi [...]	2007-04-25 07:50:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EPET PGOV EINV OVIP KU
07KUWAIT608	MALIKI STRESSES DEBT RELIEF, ARAB IDENTITY ON [...] (C) Summary and Comment: In April 24 discussions with Kuwaiti officials and in press statements, visiting Iraqi PM Nouri Al-Maliki stressed the importance of debt relief and Iraq's desire for "bridge building" based on Kuwait's close family and tribal ties to Iraq, and a common Arab identity [...]	2007-04-25 10:45:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS
07KUWAIT611	MINISTER OF FINANCE DISCUSSES SURPLUS, PLANNING, [...] (C/NF) Summary: On April 23, Ambassador paid a courtesy call on recently-reappointed Minister of Finance Bader Meshari Al-Humaidhi. Al-Humaidhi, who has been reappointed to this position four times in the last two years, announced that he has also been appointed Supervisor of the Higher Cou [...]	2007-04-25 12:17:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN ECON PREL PGOV IZ KU
07KUWAIT612	MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS DISCUSSES FHWA [...] On 25 April, Ambassador met with new Minister of Public Works (MPW) and Minister of State for Municipal Affairs Moussa Hussein Abdullah Al-Sarraf to congratulate him on his appointment (reftel) and discuss his priorities. The Minister asked the Ambassador to encourage the U.S. Federal Highway [...]	2007-04-25 13:00:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ELTN EINV PINR KU
07KUWAIT615	AMBASSADOR AND DEFENSE/INTERIOR MINISTER DISCUSS [...] (S/NF) Summary: During an April 24 meeting with Defense/Interior Minister Shaykh Jaber Al-Mubarak, the Ambassador emphasized USG readiness to provide security assistance to Kuwait, stressed the need to continue investigating suspected terrorist financiers, and urged follow up on the recommend [...]	2007-04-26 12:54:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PTER ASEC KTFN KU TERROR FINANCE
07KUWAIT619	KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR AMBASSADOR RAPHEL AND [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for Ambassador Robin Raphel and Victoria Butler from the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction to travel to post on April 29-30, 2007 to meet with U.S. Embassy and host country officials to discuss Iraq reconstruction eff [...]	2007-04-28 08:13:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT APER OTRA PREL KU COUNTRY CLEARANCE
07KUWAIT626	AMBASSADOR RAISES ACS CONCERNS WITH [...] (C/NF) During an April 25 meeting with Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense, and Minister of Interior Shaykh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, the Ambassador raised continued concerns about the Kuwaiti police's failure to expeditiously notify the embassy when Amcits were arrested. The Ambassad [...]	2007-04-29 13:52:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL CACS KU
07KUWAIT638	KUWAIT COMMITTED TO SUPPORTING NEW WAY FORWARD ON [...] (S/NF) During recent meetings with U.S. officials, Kuwait's senior leadership reaffirmed their continued commitment to supporting coalition efforts in Iraq. The Amir, Prime Minister, Defense/Interior Minister, Foreign Minister, and Kuwaiti Armed Forces Chief of Staff told CENTCOM Commander W [...]	2007-04-30 12:39:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS
07KUWAIT639	KUWAITIS PRAISE SAUDI TERROR ARRESTS; PROMPTS SOUL [...] (C/NF) Summary: Kuwaitis welcomed the recent terrorist arrests in Saudi Arabia and condemned those involved. So far, no Kuwaitis have been implicated in the plots, but Kuwait is working with Saudi officials to investigate any possible connections. One local daily reported that the Saudis ar [...]	2007-04-30 13:04:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PTER KCIP ASEC SA KU TERRORISM
07KUWAIT642	KUWAITI TIFA LEAD DISAPPOINTED BY SPECIAL 301 [...] (SBU) On April 29, Econcouns and Econoff met with Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MOCI) Assistant Undersecretary Abdulazziz Al-Khaldi to deliver Ref A demarche. Al-Khaldi expressed disappointment that Kuwait retained its Watchlist ranking, noting (as he has in previous meetings) that Kuwa [...]	2007-04-30 13:28:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON KIPR KU
07KUWAIT649	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - IRAN'S POLICIES AND HEGEMONY [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-01 09:13:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KUWAIT656	KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR CBP TRAINERS [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for INATAR Contractor James F. Kelly, INATAR CBP Officer Jackie Ramsey Jr., and OIT Chemist Stepahnie Coy to travel to Kuwait to provide seaport interdiction training from May 5-9, 2007. 2. This clearance is not/not valid for ent [...]	2007-05-01 12:06:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	APER AMGT OTRA KU COUNTRY CLEARANCE
07KUWAIT661	KUWAITIS TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR SOMALI [...] (C) PolChief delivered reftel points to MFA Arab Affairs Deputy Director Ahmed Al-Baqer May 2. Al-Baqer said Kuwait has not considered the question of direct support for AMISOM. He added that the question did not come up at the March 28 Arab League Summit in Riyadh, the most likely context [...]	2007-05-02 11:09:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SO MOPS XF AL GCC KU DEMARCHE
07KUWAIT662	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ZIMBABWE'S UNCSD CANDIDACY [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-02 11:22:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNCSD AORC SENV ZI KU DEMARCHE
07KUWAIT663	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: BELARUS UNHRC CANDIDACY [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-02 11:27:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC BO KU DEMARCHE
07KUWAIT665	IRAQ COMPACT: KUWAIT'S LINE-UP AND UPDATE ON ARAB [...] (C) Econcouns spoke with Ambassador Khalid Maqamis, the MFA's head of Coordination and Follow-up and primary point of contact on the Iraq Compact, on May 2 to confirm Kuwait's participation in the May 3 ICI signing event. Maqamis confirmed that he would accompany Kuwait FM Shaykh Dr. Mohamme [...]	2007-05-02 12:03:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAID ECON EFIN ETRD IZ KU PGOV PREL
07KUWAIT666	KUWAITI COMMERCE MINISTER MAINTAINS HIGH HOPES FOR [...] (SBU) On May 2, Ambassador met with recently re-appointed Minister of Commerce and Industry (MOCI) Falah Al-Hajeri. Ambassador congratulated Al-Hajeri on his re-appointment, and said the planned early June trip by Assistant Undersecretary and head of Kuwait's TIFA delegation Abdulazziz Al-Khal [...]	2007-05-02 12:05:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETRD ECON BEXP KU
07KUWAIT667	NEW HEALTH MINISTER SAYS KUWAIT IS "LEARNING AS IT [...] (SBU) On May 2, Ambassador met with new Minister of Health (MOH) Dr. Maasouma Al-Mubarak, (one of two female ministers in the new cabinet),who was previously the Minister of Communications, to congratulate her on her appointment. Dr. Al-Mubarak said there are a number of problems that need [...]	2007-05-02 12:06:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMED CASC KSCA SENV TBIO KFLU KU
07KUWAIT668	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: MARCH 2007 AUCKLAND PSI [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-02 13:07:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM MNUC KNNP KU DEMARCHE
07KUWAIT669	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NPT PREPCOM [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-02 13:09:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM MNUC ENRG KNNP NPT KU DEMARCHE
07KUWAIT676	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - TERRORISM, AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY, [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-05 07:20:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KUWAIT681	KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR SENIOR [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for Senior Advisor Elizabeth Erin Walsh to travel to post o/a May 15-18, 2007 for meetings with current and potential MEPI implementers to discuss programming and future strategy, and to conduct Embassy consultations. 2. This cle [...]	2007-05-05 09:13:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	JO KU OTRA PREL
07KUWAIT691	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - IRAN, IRAQ, AND ISRAEL [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-06 06:02:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KUWAIT698	SIGIR DEPUTY IG RAPHEL'S VISIT TO KUWAIT [...] (C) Summary. On April 30, Special Investigator General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) Deputy IG Ambassador Robin Raphel met separately with Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport Company (KGL),Marwan Al-Ghanim of the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED),and the GOK's Humanitarian Ope [...]	2007-05-06 10:18:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL ECON ETRD IZ KU
07KUWAIT702	KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MU'AYYAD [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for Mu'ayyad Mehyar to travel to post o/a May 8-10, 2007 to attend a MEPI-funded KEPS activity, discuss program plans with KEPS officials, and meet with prospective small grantees. 2. This clearance is not/not valid for entry int [...]	2007-05-06 11:22:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT APER KPAO KU OTRA KMPI
07KUWAIT705	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - IRAQ'S DEBTS AND TERRORISM [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-07 06:11:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KUWAIT707	PROJECT KUWAIT STILL STALLED; ROLE FOR FOREIGN OIL [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Based on a series of recent meetings with Oil Ministry officials, leaders in Kuwait's state-owned petroleum companies (the K-companies),representatives of the major international oil companies (IOCs) in Kuwait, and local managers of international oil service com [...]	2007-05-07 08:58:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EPET ENRG EINV KU OIL SECTOR
07KUWAIT716	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - IRAN, AND IRAQI DEBTS [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-08 09:10:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KUWAIT719	KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR IBRAHIM [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for Ibrahim Parvanta, Health Scientist, NCCDPHP, CDC, HHS, to travel to Kuwait from May 25-June 1, 2007 to participate in a WHO/HHS/CDC expert meeting on flour fortification. 2. This clearance is not/not valid for entry into Iraq [...]	2007-05-08 11:19:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT APER CDC KSCA KU OTRA COUNTRY CLEARANCE
07KUWAIT720	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - IRAQI GOVERNANCE, DEBTS, AND IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-09 05:41:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KUWAIT728	DECISION ON LOUISIANA REFINERY INVESTMENT STILL IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Kuwait Petroleum International's Chief Planning Officer told Econoff May 8 that in the 6 months following the visit of the Governor of Louisiana to Kuwait for the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, no decision has been reached on whether Kuwait should invest in a major [...]	2007-05-09 12:58:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV PREL KU
07KUWAIT729	MOSAL MINISTER ON TERROR FINANCE, ENERGY [...] (C) Summary: MOSAL Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Khaled told Ambassador May 9 that recent Saudi investigations underscore the shared concerns of Kuwait and the U.S. about terrorist financing, though the GOK needs more evidence to move against RIHS. He is pleased with recent cooperation between K [...]	2007-05-09 13:40:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER EFIN KU
07KUWAIT730	NEW KUWAIT-IRAQ COALITION BORDER CROSSING TO OPEN [...] (C/NF) Summary: On May 8, Econoff attended the final drill in preparation for the May 15 opening of the Khabari Al-Wazem Border Crossing (commonly referred to as K-Crossing or the Khabari Coalition Crossing, KCC),on the Kuwait-Iraq border. K-Crossing will replace Navistar as the primary lan [...]	2007-05-09 15:35:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV MARR PBTS KU IZ
07KUWAIT731	UN COORDINATOR VORONTSOV FOCUSED ON MISSING [...] (C) Ambassador met May 8 with UN High-Level Coordinator Yuli Vorontsov. Vorontsov was visiting Kuwait in preparation for his next report to the Security Council on missing Kuwaiti persons and property, due June 6. (He was accompanied by UN Political Affairs officer Victor Poliakov.) Voron [...]	2007-05-10 08:11:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KU IZ
07KUWAIT732	CABINET AFFAIRS MINISTER ON LEGISLATIVE AGENDA, [...] (C) Summary: Minister for Cabinet Affairs Faisal Al-Hajji told Ambassador May 9 that while the Parliament had been moderately effective over the past weeks, budget negotiations would likely dominate the agenda between now and the summer recess making it unlikely that there will be significa [...]	2007-05-12 03:43:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KU
07KUWAIT746	HUMANTIARIAN OPERATIONS CENTER - HERE TO HELP [...] SUMMARY: Kuwait's Humanitarian Operations Center (HOC) can assist NGOs with shipping of their supplies (even free shipping) to Iraq, obtaining Kuwait and Iraq customs clearances, and Kuwait entry visas for medical cases granted treatment in Kuwait or abroad. The HOC desires to increase human [...]	2007-05-13 06:39:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL SOCI KCRS IZ KU
07KUWAIT749	REMOVAL OF AL ZAWRAA SATELLITE CHANNEL ON AGENDA OF [...] (SBU/NF) Summary and comment: The Ambassador met on May 9 with recently-appointed Minister of Information Abdullah Al-Muhailbi. The Ambassador pressed the Minister for action to remove the insurgent Iraqi channel Al Zawraa from Arabsat's offerings. (The GOK is a minority stakeholder.) Al-Muha [...]	2007-05-13 07:56:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KPAO KU PINR PTER
07KUWAIT751	KUWAITIS PLEDGE CONTINUED SUPPORT TO VISITING [...] (C) Summary: During his May 5-6 visit to Kuwait, Afghan Foreign Minister Spanta sought additional support for reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan. Kuwaiti officials made no new commitments, but promised to continue their current level of assistance, estimated at more than $1.4 billion sinc [...]	2007-05-13 12:35:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID AF KU
07KUWAIT752	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: TRAVEL OF UNSC-DESIGNATED IRANIANS [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-13 12:38:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP IR KU
07KUWAIT753	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNHRC ELECTION ASSESSMENT [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche May 12 to Dr. Hamad Bou Rahamah, the Acting Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' International Organizations Department. Bou Rahamah agreed that Belarus' human rights record was an obstacle to its candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) a [...]	2007-05-13 12:41:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNHRC BO BK SI KU
07KUWAIT758	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - U.S. POLICY AND IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-14 06:50:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KUWAIT774	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CITES COP 14 DELIBERATION [...] On May 12, post delivered reftel points via diplomatic note to the Kuwait Ministry of Foreign Affairs, asking that they be forwarded to the appropriate authority. Post will report any substantive feedback septel. ********************************************* * For more reporting from Embas [...]	2007-05-16 09:38:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV KSCA ETRD KU
07KUWAIT775	BANNING OF SAUDI SALAFI BOOKS AT BROTHERHOOD BOOK [...] (C/NF) Summary and Comment: Salafi MPs and their supporters have stepped up their threats to subject Dr. Abdullah Al-Ma'touq, Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs to a parliamentary grilling. The proximate cause was the banning of several books by former Saudi Grand Muftis Abdulaziz Bin Baz and Mu [...]	2007-05-16 09:48:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM KISL SA KU ISLAMISTS
07KUWAIT778	OIL MINISTER SAYS KUWAITI PROVEN OIL RESERVES ARE [...] (U) Kuwaiti Oil Minister Shaykh Ali Jarrah Al-Sabah told the new Kuwaiti daily Arabic-language newspaper Al-Wasat on May 12 that Kuwait's oil reserves amount to 48 billion barrels of proven reserves and 150 billion barrels of probable reserves. According to OPEC's 2005 Annual Statistical Bu [...]	2007-05-16 14:27:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG PGOV KU
07KUWAIT779	KUWAIT OPEN SKIES UPDATE: CABINET APPROVAL MOVES [...] (SBU) On May 16, A/DCM and Econoff met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Legal Department Counselor Nameer Al-Quraini to discuss full implementation of the U.S. - Kuwait Open Skies Agreement (OSA),signed August 30, 2006 (Ref A). Al-Quraini acknowledged receipt of post's diplomatic note [...]	2007-05-16 14:28:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR BEXP PGOV KU
07KUWAIT780	KUWAIT RESPONSES FOR COUNTRY BY COUNTRY REVIEW OF [...] (C) The following is post's response to reftel on implementation of Title III of the LIBERTAD Act. 2. (C) Cuba has a diplomatic presence in Kuwait, but the GOK does not maintain a mission in Cuba. Relations between the two countries have been strained since the 1990-91 Gulf War when Cuba [...]	2007-05-16 14:30:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL CU KU

07KUWAIT781	FOREIGN AFFAIRS CHAIRMAN ON RECENT VISIT TO IRAN, [...] (C) Summary: On May 13, Foreign Affairs Chairman and Inter-Arab Parliament (IAP) Speaker Mohammed Al-Sager gave PolOffs a read-out of his recent visit to Iran. Al-Sager said Iranian officials he met, including Rafsanjani, asked for Kuwaiti mediation with the U.S. and called on Kuwait to play [...]	2007-05-16 14:47:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS
07KUWAIT782	AMBASSADOR DELIVERS CRITICAL ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (C/NF) In a series of meetings between May 13-16, the Ambassador hand-delivered hard copies of two Critical Energy Infrastructure Protection (CEIP) reports from assessments conducted by a State-DHS-DOE-USCG team from 13-21 May (Ref A) and a USCENTCOM J-3 team on 1-4 February (Ref B) to Kuwaiti [...]	2007-05-16 14:48:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EPET KCIP ASEC KU
07KUWAIT783	KUWAIT SCENESETTER FOR MAY 22 GULF SECURITY [...] (S/NF) The second round of the Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD) with Kuwait will convene on May 22in Kuwait City. The National Security Bureau (NSB),the Kuwaiti government body responsible for coordinating security policy, is organizing the May 22 meeting. In addition to NSB President Shaykh A [...]	2007-05-17 07:22:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MARR PARM KU
07KUWAIT784	AMBASSADOR DELIVERS CRITICAL ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (C/NF) In a series of meetings between May 13-16, the Ambassador hand-delivered hard copies of two Critical Energy Infrastructure Protection (CEIP) reports from assessments conducted by a State-DHS-DOE-USCG team from 13-21 May (Ref A) and a USCENTCOM J-3 team on 1-4 February (Ref B) to Kuwaiti [...]	2007-05-19 04:07:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EPET KCIP ASEC KU
07KUWAIT789	KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR GULF SECURITY [...] This is an action request; please see paragraph j. 2. Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for PM Acting A/S Stephen Mull, DASD Mark Kimmitt, NEA DAS Gordon Gray, Col Ronald Tuggle, Brigadier General Michael Jones, DIA Senior Defense Intelligence Analyst Bruce Hardc [...]	2007-05-19 12:21:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	KU QA SA AMGT OTRA PREL APER COUNTRY CLEARANCE
07KUWAIT790	NATIONAL SECURITY BUREAU WELCOMES CRITICAL ENERGY [...] (C/NF) Continuing a series of calls on the senior GOK leadership, the Ambassador on May 19 hand-delivered hard copies of two Critical Energy Infrastructure Protection (CEIP) reports from assessments conducted by a State-DHS-DOE-USCG team on 13-21 May and a USCENTCOM J-3 team on 1-4 February t [...]	2007-05-19 12:58:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EPET KCIP ASEC KU
07KUWAIT795	PUBLIC OUTCRY OVER RESTRICTIVE PRESS DIRECTIVE [...] The newly-appointed Minister of Information Abdullah Al-Muhailbi hastily withdrew a set of directives issued last week that outlined new restrictions on what newspapers can publish. The ministry u-turn came after the Kuwait Journalists Association (KJA) condemned the measure, called an emergenc [...]	2007-05-20 09:17:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KPAO KPMI KU PINR
07KUWAIT796	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: REQUEST TO REJECT IRAN'S [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-20 11:44:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS
07KUWAIT799	KUWAIT-IRAQ BORDER: NEW COALITION CROSSING OPENS [...] (C/NF) Summary: On May 15, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Chief and Kuwait Customs Advisor Jim Piatt conducted a site visit of newly-opened Khabari Crossing (K Crossing) to assess overall operations. The first convoy arrived from Iraq on May 15 at 0130. In general, the opening went smo [...]	2007-05-21 08:26:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV MARR PBTS KU IZ
07KUWAIT80	KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR USAID MARK [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for Mr. Mark Ward, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Asia and the Near East, to travel to post o/a February 3-5, 2007 to participate in the Middle East donor coordination event hosted by the Arab Fund on February 4 (f [...]	2007-01-21 13:26:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	APER AMGT OTRA KU COUNTRY CLEARANCE
07KUWAIT800	COURT ACQUITS THREE DEFENDANTS IN PENINSULA LIONS [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-21 09:37:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV PINR IZ KU TERRORISM
07KUWAIT801	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - AMERICAN POLICIES IN THE MIDDLE [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-21 10:28:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KUWAIT804	KUWAITI MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ESTABLISHES WOMEN'S [...] (C/NF) Summary and Comment: The Islamic Constitutional Movement (the political wing of Kuwait's Muslim Brotherhood) officially launched a women's office in early May with the goal of enhancing its outreach to women voters. Though the KMB's social wing has a history of successful women's pr [...]	2007-05-21 12:31:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KWMN KISL KU
07KUWAIT806	KUWAIT DROPS DOLLAR PEG, RETURNS TO BASKET [...] (C/NF) Summary: On May 20, Kuwait's Cabinet approved a decision to abandon the U.S. dollar peg for a basket of undisclosed currencies, which will be dominated by the dollar. Although the decision followed months of speculation on the wisdom of the peg, the timing appears to have surprised r [...]	2007-05-21 14:12:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN ECON PREL KU
07KUWAIT807	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - LEBANON, PALESTINE, AND IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-22 08:48:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KUWAIT808	TERRORIST FINANCE: TREASURY A/S O'BRIEN ENGAGES [...] (S/NF) Summary: On April 23-24, Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes Sipdis Patrick O'Brien met with senior GOK officials on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism finance (AML/CTF) issues. He conveyed USG concerns about the activities of the Kuwait-based [...]	2007-05-22 09:42:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET//NOFORN	KTFN EFIN ETTC PREL PTER
07KUWAIT81	U/S DOBRIANSKY'S MEETINGS IN KUWAIT: WOMEN IN [...] (C) Summary: Under Secretary Paula Dobriansky visited Kuwait January 9 to participate in the Women Leaders in Science, Technology, and Engineering Conference (reftel). She also met with key Kuwaiti governmental and non-governmental figures. Dr. Ma'asouma Al-Mubarak, the first and only femal [...]	2007-01-21 14:27:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAIR PGOV PHUM PREL KSCA KWMN KU
07KUWAIT810	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: KUWAIT WILLING BUT HESITANT [...] (C/NF) PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Somalia Desk Officer Abdulnasser Al-Rashidi and MFA Arab World Deputy Director Ahmad Al-Baker on May 22. Al-Baker reiterated that the GOK has USD 2 million ready to give to support the Somali National Reconciliation Congress (ref B),but that it has [...]	2007-05-22 11:17:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL SO MOPS XF AL GCC KU DEMARCHE
07KUWAIT811	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: KUWAIT TO SUBMIT UNSCR 1747 [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-22 11:18:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS
07KUWAIT816	TERRORIST FINANCE: GOK RELEASES RIHS FINDINGS [...] (C/NF) On May 19, Embassy Kuwait received a long-promised report from the MFA (drafted by the Department of Follow-up and Coordination headed by Khalid Al-Maqamis) containing the findings of its investigation into the international activities of the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) [...]	2007-05-23 07:04:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET//NOFORN	KTFN EFIN ETTC PREL PTER
07KUWAIT817	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - IRAN AND PALESTINE [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-23 08:20:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KUWAIT821	(C) DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON AMMO TO LAF; KUWAIT AN [...] (C/NF) The Ambassador made reftel demarche to the Defense and Foreign Ministries on May 23. The Ambassador sent a message to Defense Minister Shaykh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah requesting material or financial aid. He also advised MFA Acting Minister Faisal Al-Mashan of the importance of Kuwai [...]	2007-05-23 13:09:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PTER MARR MASS LE KU
07KUWAIT83	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - IRAN, SECTARIANISM, AND RICE'S [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-22 07:50:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KUWAIT832	TERROR FINANCE: ANOTHER RUN AT THE MFA ON [...] (C/NF) Summary: Econcouns met with MFA Director of Follow-up and Coordination Khalid Maqamis on May 27 to hand-deliver a diplomatic note pressing our case on the designation of three Kuwaiti terrorist facilitators in light of their continued freedom of movement and access to international me [...]	2007-05-28 12:23:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET//NOFORN	EAID EFIN ETTC IZ KU PREL PTER KTFN
07KUWAIT833	LEBANON AID: KUWAIT OFFERS IN-KIND ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) Yousef Al-Merag, Disaster Management Coordinator at the Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS),confirmed to Econcouns on May 28 press reports announcing Kuwait's decision to send USD five million dollars in humanitarian supplies to Lebanon, upon the orders of the Amir. Al-Merag said a tea [...]	2007-05-28 14:02:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EAID KU
07KUWAIT836	TEMPERATURES RISE AS OPPOSITION MPS TARGET OIL [...] (C/NF) Summary: Opposition MPs have demanded the resignation of Oil Minister Shaykh Ali Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah and are threatening to question him in Parliament for defending his cousin and former Oil/Finance Minister Shaykh Ali Al-Khalifa Al-Sabah, one of five former Kuwait Oil Tanker Company (K [...]	2007-05-29 12:52:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV EPET KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
07KUWAIT837	U.S.-KUWAIT OPEN SKIES AGREEMENT CLEARS LAST HURDLE [...] On May 29, Post received a diplomatic note from the Kuwait Ministry of Foreign Affairs stating that the GOK has completed all necessary procedures for full implementation of the U.S.-Kuwait Open Skies Agreement, signed August 30, 2006 (Ref A). Full text of the diplomatic note follows. 2. [...]	2007-05-29 13:15:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR BEXP ECON KU PGOV
07KUWAIT838	IRAQI ELECTRICITY MINISTER VISITS KUWAIT SEEKING [...] (C/NF) Summary: Iraqi Minister of Electricity Dr. Karim Wahid Al-Hasan visited Kuwait 28 May to seek Kuwaiti support for the purchase of an additional 1.5 to 2 million liters per day of diesel fuel to support power generation in Iraq as new generating capacity comes online this summer. At th [...]	2007-05-29 13:23:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL ENRG EPET EAID KU IZ
07KUWAIT846	KUWAIT'S UNSCR 1747 REPORT DELAYED DUE TO FOREIGN [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-30 13:04:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP EFIN IR UNSC AORC ETRD TRGY KU
07KUWAIT850	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: KUWAIT NONCOMMITTAL ON JOINING [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-30 13:42:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA KU
07KUWAIT851	APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS ACQUITTAL OF TWO FORMER [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-30 13:43:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV KU TERRORISM
07KUWAIT852	KUWAIT'S BIG INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS FAIL TO LAUNCH [...] (C/NF) Summary and Comment: Several important state-sponsored infrastructure projects in Kuwait have been delayed for a number of years for largely bureaucratic and political reasons. These projects includes power plants, desalination plants, a mega-refinery, a major container port, and a [...]	2007-05-31 06:36:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EINV ENRG ECON
07KUWAIT853	KUWAIT UNLIKELY SOURCE FOR APCS FOR UN/AU MISSION [...] (SBU) PolOff passed reftel (ref A) request for APCs to Aisha Al-Dakheel of the MFA's International Organizations Department on May 30. Al-Dakheel did not seem to think it likely the GOK would approve such a request. She promised to pass on the request and provide a more detail answer as soo [...]	2007-06-01 06:36:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL KPKO MARR SU SA KU
07KUWAIT856	KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MS. VICTORIA [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for Ms. Victoria Butler, Deputy Director of Publications at the U.S. Department of Defense, to travel to Kuwait June 2-4, 2007. 2. This clearance is not/not valid for entry into Iraq; you must apply for Iraq clearance through Emb [...]	2007-06-02 07:15:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	KU AMGT OTRA PREL APER COUNTRY CLEARANCE
07KUWAIT86	TOP FIVE INFLUENTIAL WOMEN IN KUWAIT [...] (SBU) As per instructions in reftel, below are Post's recommendations of a list of the top five influential women in Kuwait. Kuwait does not have a female "Oprah Winfrey-type media icon." All five of the women speak excellent English. Name: Dr. Ma'asouma Al-Mubarak Title: Minister Institu [...]	2007-01-22 13:55:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KWMN PREL KU
07KUWAIT862	NEPALESE CONTRACTORS KIA IN IRAQ -- ALLEGATIONS OF [...] This is an Action Request. Please see final para. 2. Emboff met Riyadh-based Nepalese Charge d'Affaires Prakash Suvedi at his request on May 28, 2007 to discuss allegations of non-payment of death benefits by companies operating in Iraq for the USG. He requested any assistance the USG co [...]	2007-06-02 12:19:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER MOPS SOCI NP IZ
07KUWAIT865	KUWAIT HOSTS EIGHTH ANNUAL GCC BANKING CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: Kuwait hosted the Eighth Annual GCC Banking Conference on May 22-23. Organized by the National Bank of Kuwait in cooperation with the GCC Secretariat General and the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK),the conference entitled "Managing Growth and Risk in an Era of Openness" feature [...]	2007-06-03 05:23:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PREL KU
07KUWAIT868	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - LEBANON AND ISLAMIC EXTREMISM [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-03 12:50:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KUWAIT87	KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ADDITIONAL IRAN [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel points via diplomatic note to the MFA on January 16, 2007. Econoff also faxed copies of Treasury's press release to the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK),the Ministry of Finance, and the Union of Kuwaiti Banks. CBK confirmed receipt of the fax on January 15 but not [...]	2007-01-23 03:32:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IR KNNP ETTC PARM PREL KU DEMARCHE
07KUWAIT870	NATO VISITS LAY GROUNDWORK FOR EXPANDED [...] (C) On June 2, the Polish Embassy, the NATO Contact Point Embassy in Kuwait, briefed resident NATO member embassies on recent NATO visits to Kuwait. From May 6-7, NATO officials conducted a workshop on Civil Emergency Planning and Crisis Management in Kuwait. The team emphasized radiological [...]	2007-06-04 12:07:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO KU
07KUWAIT871	KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR CEIP TEAM: [...] (SBU) Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for S/CT Senior Coordinator Bruce A. Averill, DS/ATA officer Kevin A. Maloy, Sandia National Laboratory employee Byron H. Gardner, and USCG CAPT Donald C. Grant to travel to Kuwait June 11-15 to discuss Critical Energy Infras [...]	2007-06-04 13:58:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMGT ASEC KCIP KU OTRA PREL PTER ENRG
07KUWAIT873	U.S.-KUWAIT GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE TALKS (MAY [...] (S/NF) Summary: Discussion on Iran and Iraq dominated the May 22 U.S.-Kuwait Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD). Both countries agreed on the threat from Iran, but GOK officials expressed concern about Kuwait's vulnerability to Iranian retaliation (conventional and asymmetric) and the perceived am [...]	2007-06-05 06:45:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PARM MARR MCAP MASS KCIP EPET ASEC IZ
07KUWAIT874	WORLD BANK NOMINEE ZOELLICK TALKS ASIA IN KUWAIT [...] (SBU) On May 23, World Bank President Nominee and Goldman Sachs Group Vice Chairman Robert Zoellick delivered the keynote address at the Eighth Annual GCC Banking Conference hosted by Kuwait. Zoellick provided a brief historical overview of the tremendous growth of the world economy and high [...]	2007-06-05 07:56:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PREL KU
07KUWAIT875	KUWAIT'S ISLAMIC MODERATION INITIATIVE UNDER THE [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Kuwait recently launched a public relations campaign to further its "moderation" initiative, which seeks to foster tolerance and moderation among Muslims and to convey a moderate image of Islam to non-Muslims. The materials used in the campaign are of high quality [...]	2007-06-05 08:21:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PTER KISL EG MR SU KU ISLAMISTS
07KUWAIT876	KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR OPIC DIRECTOR [...] (SBU) Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) Director Nancy Rivera to travel to Kuwait June 8-9 to attend meetings with client Kuwait Gulf Link regarding a port privatization project in Jordan. 2. (U) This clearanc [...]	2007-06-05 10:46:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT APER ENIV KU OTRA OPIC PREL
07KUWAIT878	CBK GOVERNOR ON DROPPING THE DOLLAR PEG AND [...] (C/NF) Summary: On June 3, Ambassador called on CBK Governor Shaykh Salem Abdulaziz Saud Al-Sabah. Al-Sabah described Kuwait's May 20 decision to un-peg the dinar from the dollar in favor of a basket of currencies as a move that "had to be done" to address rising inflation. He acknowledged [...]	2007-06-05 13:23:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN ECON PREL PGOV KU
07KUWAIT879	KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR HANS WECHSEL [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for Hans Wechsel, Regional Office Director, to travel to post o/a June 10-11, 2007 and for Dima Toukan, Political Women's Issues Specialist, to travel to post o/a June 8-10. 2. This clearance is not/not valid for entry into Iraq; [...]	2007-06-06 05:41:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	QA BA KU KMPI OTRA AMGT APER
07KUWAIT881	KUWAIT AIRWAYS AGREES TO BUY 12 BOEINGS AS PART OF [...] (SBU) Kuwait Airways Corporation (KAC) has reached an agreement to purchase 12 Boeing 787 Dreamliners and 7 Airbus 320s from the Kuwaiti firm Aviation Lease and Finance Company (ALAFCO). ALAFCO, which already had standing orders for the aircraft, will deliver the Boeings in 2010 and the Airbu [...]	2007-06-06 07:58:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAIR BEXP ECON KU
07KUWAIT882	INFLUENTIAL AL-SABAH PREDICTS CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (S/NF) Summary and comment. An influential, younger Shaykh in the inner circle of the ruling family told the Ambassador June 4 that there was a "90% chance" the Amir would dissolve Parliament within a month and call for end of summer elections. Shaykh Mohammed Al-Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Saba [...]	2007-06-06 10:14:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PINR PREL KDEM KU FREEDOM AGENDA
07KUWAIT884	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR IMMIGRATION [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and grants country clearance for Mr. Joseph Hackbarth and Ms. Sandra Echeverri, Immigration Officers, Department of Homeland Security to travel to post o/a June 28, 2007. 2. Visit Officer: No Embassy support has been requested Embassy point of contact is: Jared [...]	2007-06-06 12:22:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	KHLS CVIS ASEC
07KUWAIT888	GUANTANAMO ARB III NOTIFICATION [...] (C) Poloff delivered notification of the upcoming ARB hearing to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) official Feisal Al-Eneizi on June 6. 2. (C) Poloff inquired about the development status of a Government of Kuwait (GOK) threat mitigation plan for use with detainees transferred from Guantana [...]	2007-06-06 13:19:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PTER PREL PHUM PINR SA KU TERRORISM
07KUWAIT889	SPEAKER DOWNPLAYS PARLIAMENT DISSOLUTION RUMORS; [...] (C/NF) Summary: Speaker of Parliament Jassem Al-Khorafi told the Ambassador June 5 he did not think the Kuwaiti Amir would dissolve Parliament, despite his frustration with opposition MPs' constant attacks against the Government. Al-Khorafi believed if there was a dissolution it would be cons [...]	2007-06-06 13:36:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KDEM KPAL LE IZ IR KU
07KUWAIT89	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - IRAQ, IRAN, AND RICE'S VISIT [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-23 07:22:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KUWAIT892	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: MESSAGE ON MUQTADA AL-SADR [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) official Feisal Al-Eneizi on June 6. Al-Eneizi said he was unaware of any planned visit to Kuwait by Muqtada al-Sadr and that he would communicate the message to senior MFA officials. 2. (C) Ambassador also raised the [...]	2007-06-06 14:09:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PTER IZ KU
07KUWAIT896	ARAB FUND: NO MOVEMENT ON AID TO IRAQ, LEBANON [...] (C/NF) On June 9, Ambassador met with Abdullatif Al-Hamad, Director General of the Arab Fund for Social and Economic Development (AFSED). Al-Hamad said the Iraqi government has not taken any further steps to resolve its arrears problem with the Fund, which prevents the resumption of the AFSE [...]	2007-06-10 07:57:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON EFIN EAID KU
07KUWAIT897	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - SYRIA, IRAQ, IRAN, AND KUWAIT [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-10 08:18:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KUWAIT902	MFA U/S ON PM'S TRIP TO ASIA, RELATIONS WITH IRAN, [...] (C/NF) Summary: MFA Undersecretary Khaled Al-Jarallah told the Ambassador June 10 that the Prime Minister's trip to Asia to promote economic relations had been "very fruitful" and a number of agreements had been signed. In a meeting earlier in the day with the Iranian Foreign Ministry's Dire [...]	2007-06-11 11:02:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAID ECON IR KU LE PGOV PREL
07KUWAIT903	AFGHANISTAN: UNPAID DEBT HINDERS ADDITIONAL [...] (SBU) Kuwait Fund Regional Manager for Asia and the Pacific Abdul Kareem Al-Mutawa told Econcouns May 29 that Afghanistan's arrears of 5.7 million dinar (USD 18 million),dating back to loans extended by the Fund to Afghanistan in the 1970s, continue to hamper further Kuwaiti assistance to Af [...]	2007-06-11 12:03:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EAID KU
07KUWAIT904	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-12 06:44:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KUWAIT905	KUWAIT DEFENSE MINISTER: BASES NOT TO BE USED IN [...] (C) On June 11, Kuwait Defense Minister Shaykh Jaber Al-Mubarak said that Kuwait would never allow itself to be used as a launch pad for an attack against Iran or any other country. He also stated that the U.S. had not asked for permission to use Kuwait's territory to attack any country in th [...]	2007-06-12 06:54:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PARM MARR IR KU
07KUWAIT909	TRIPARTITE COMMISSION TECHNICAL SUBCOMMITTEE 54TH [...] Summary: Kuwait hosted the 54th session of the Tripartite Commission's Technical Subcommittee (TSC) on June 5, 2007 with representatives from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, France, the United Kingdom, the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) and Poloff in attendance. The session clo [...]	2007-06-13 03:36:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR PHUM PREL IZ SA KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS KU
07KUWAIT914	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - HEZBOLLAH'S LEADERSHIP AND IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-13 07:36:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KUWAIT919	PARLIAMENT FORCES OIL MINISTER TO TESTIFY ON [...] (U) Three opposition MPs formally submitted on June 10 a request to "grill" Kuwait's Oil Minister, Shaykh Ali Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah. The grilling will require Shaykh Ali Al-Jarrah to go before parliament on June 25 to answer questions related to accusations of financial and administrative impr [...]	2007-06-13 13:00:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
07KUWAIT921	USG CEIP TEAM DISCUSSES JOINT WORKING GROUP AND [...] (S/NF) Summary and Comment: A USG Critical Energy Infrastructure Protection (CEIP) team visited Kuwait on 12-13 June to review recommendations from the two previous CEIP assessments this year, conduct a follow-up maritime assessment, and discuss the formation of a USG-GOK Joint Working Group [...]	2007-06-14 07:53:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC EPET KCIP KU PTER
07KUWAIT923	KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NEA/PI [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for Ms. Laura A. Schulz, NEA/PI Political Pillar Officer, to travel to post o/a June 19-21, 2007, to hold a mini strategic planning session with NEA/PI-grantee Kuwait Environmental Protection Society (KEPS). 2. This clearance is [...]	2007-06-16 07:51:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	JO KU KMPI ECON PREL OTRA AMGT APER
07KUWAIT930	KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR JUNE 23-24 [...] (SBU) Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for NEA/ARP Regional Economic Officer Ashley Bagwell to travel to Kuwait June 23-24 for consultations and regional familiarization. 2. (U) This clearance is not/not valid for entry into Iraq; you must apply for Iraq clea [...]	2007-06-16 12:07:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	KU SA BA OTRA AMGT ECON PREL APR
07KUWAIT931	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: URGING SUPPORT FOR UNRWA - [...] (C/NF) Following up on the Ambassador's June 10 meeting with MFA Undersecretary Khaled Al-Jarallah, Econoff delivered ref A demarche to MFA Arab World Department Director Jassim Mubarak Al-Mubariki on June 13. Mubariki came to the meeting directly from a meeting between GOK Deputy Prime Minis [...]	2007-06-16 13:07:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN EAID ECON PREL KU
07KUWAIT932	WASTING THE WINDFALL: A BREAKDOWN OF KUWAIT'S [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Kuwait's fiscal surplus for FY 2006/7 was $20 billion, after the allocation of 10 percent of revenues to the Reserve Fund for Future Generations (RFFG). While revenues increased by 12.8 percent, mostly due to high oil prices, fiscal expenditures grew by a whopping 60 [...]	2007-06-17 07:09:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EPET EAID KU
07KUWAIT933	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - PALESTINE, IRAN, AND TERROR [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-17 09:57:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KUWAIT938	KUWAITIS DEFENSIVE ABOUT TIER 3 TIP RANKING, [...] (SBU) Summary: The demotion of Kuwait to Tier 3 in the 2007 TIP report garnered a great deal of attention. Kuwaiti officials criticized the TIP report as inaccurate, but pledged to continue working with the U.S. on anti-TIP efforts. Officials and a number of columnists attacked the U.S. h [...]	2007-06-18 11:10:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV ELAB BG RP KU TIP
07KUWAIT94	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-24 06:55:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KUWAIT941	KUWAIT INPUT FOR 2007 REPORT OF INVESTMENT [...] (SBU) Per reftel, post is submitting the following update for inclusion in the 2007 Report on Investment Disputes and Expropriations Claims: 2. (SBU) Post is unaware of any current investment disputes or expropriation claims involving American claimants in Kuwait. ********************* [...]	2007-06-19 06:58:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC EINV KIDE OPIC PGOV KU
07KUWAIT942	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - IRAN, LEBANON, AND PALESTINE [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-19 07:00:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KUWAIT943	KUWAIT PETROLEUM COMPANY TO DISCUSS NEW REFINERY [...] (C/NF) On 17 June, Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) announced it is inviting international EPC (Engineering-Procurement-Construction) companies to apply for pre-qualification for contracts related to KNPC's plans to build a new 615,000 bpd mega-refinery in the Kuwaiti portion of the Pa [...]	2007-06-19 08:31:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EPET PGOV ECON KU SA
07KUWAIT944	LEADING ASSET MANAGEMENT COMPANY LAUNCHES KUWAIT [...] (SBU) On June 17, Ambassador met with KIPCO Asset Management Company (KAMCO) Chairman Masaud Al-Hayat and senior executives to discuss KAMCO's launch of the Kuwait Education Fund. The Fund, established in collaboration with the National Offset Company (NOC),will invest in companies and fina [...]	2007-06-19 09:05:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON EDU EFIN KU PREL SCUL
07KUWAIT946	THE CONTAMINATED OIL PATCH: KUWAIT GRAPPLES WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: As a desert country with very little fresh water and arable land, Kuwait's environmental challenges are numerous. Almost all water is desalinated from the Arabian Gulf, meaning that ensuring a dependable water supply and controlling marine pollution go hand in hand. Governme [...]	2007-06-19 10:49:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV PGOV ENRG TBIO KU
07KUWAIT95	KUWAIT OPEN SKIES: MOVING TOWARD FULL [...] Pursuant to Article 17, Paragraph 1 of the Open Skies Agreement between the United States and Kuwait signed on August 30, 2006, Post sent the following text via Diplomatic Note to the Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry on January 22: 2. Begin Text: No. 033 The Embassy of the United States of A [...]	2007-01-24 07:55:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR BEXP PGOV KU
07KUWAIT951	KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ADDITIONAL DESIGNATIONS [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche and background paper to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on June 19 via diplomatic note. Post will report substantive response septel. ********************************************* * For more reporting from Embassy Kuwait, visit: http://www.state.sgov.go [...]	2007-06-19 13:39:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IR KNNP ETTC PARM PREL KU DEMARCHE
07KUWAIT952	UN LABOR CONFERENCE IN KUWAIT IN DOUBT, MAY MOVE [...] (C) The Ambassador spoke with UN Resident Representative Valerie Cliff by telephone on June 16. He urged the ILO (International Labor Organization) positions on TIP and the labor situation in the region be made clear, since local officials are claiming that the ILO has not criticized local [...]	2007-06-19 13:57:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ELAB AE SA QA KU TIP
07KUWAIT953	FOLLOW-UP DEMARCHE REGARDING CONTINUED ARABSAT [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Information Assistant Under Secretary for Technical Affairs Nasser Al-Safar on 18 June. Al-Safar said the points would be forwarded to the Information Minister prior to his departure for the meeting of Arab League Ministers of Information in Cairo [...]	2007-06-19 14:03:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	SA KU TC KPAL KPAO ETTC PREL PTER
07KUWAIT957	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IRAQI WMD SCIENTIST [...] (S) PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Kuwait Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Director of Coordination and Followup Khaled Al-Maqamis on June 19. Maqamis expressed limited interest in the program noting that further information would be needed about the background of any fellowship recipien [...]	2007-06-20 12:41:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER PINR PINS PARM PREF XF IZ KU
07KUWAIT963	ON THE VERGE OF POWER OUTAGES, GOK MAKES A STRONG [...] (SBU) Summary: High summer temperatures are pushing Kuwait's peak power consumption to the limits of the country's generating capacity, which suffers from years of under-investment in power plants. On the demand side, the Government has launched an unprecedented multimedia conservation campa [...]	2007-06-23 11:49:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ECON KU ETRD
07KUWAIT964	KUWAITIS SEE INTIMIDATION, RETRIBUTION BEHIND [...] (U) Unknown assailants attacked Mohammad Al-Zo'bi, a low ranking diplomat at the Kuwaiti Embassy in Tehran, as he was leaving work on June 19. The Kuwait cabinet convened an emergency session the same day to discuss the event and the MFA called Iranian Ambassador Ali Jennati in immediately t [...]	2007-06-23 12:56:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS
07KUWAIT965	COURT COMMUTES FOUR DEATH SENTENCES IN PENINSULA [...] On June 19, Kuwait's highest court, the Court of Cassation, commuted the death sentences to life imprisonment for four defendants in the Peninsula Lions case. The Peninsula Lions came to prominence in January 2005 following armed clashes with Kuwait security forces. Under Kuwaiti law, a lif [...]	2007-06-24 05:03:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PREL PHUM PGOV IZ KU TERRORISM
07KUWAIT97	(C) SENIOR KUWAITI SHI'A CLERIC: RAFSANJANI [...] (C) Summary: A senior Kuwaiti Shi'a cleric told Poloff January 22 that Rafsanjani believes Iranian public opinion is shifting away from Ahmadinejad and towards Iranian "moderates." Sayed Mohammed Baqer Al-Mohri, who met privately with Rafsanjani January 17, said Rafsanjani attributed this sh [...]	2007-01-24 09:30:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS
07KUWAIT972	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - IRANIAN REGIONAL INFLUENCE AND [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-24 10:27:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KUWAIT973	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - IRAN AND WAR ON TERROR [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-25 07:47:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KUWAIT979	KUWAITI FIRMS ASK OSD TASK FORCE FOR HELP IN [...] (C) Summary: On June 21, Robert Love of OSD's Task Force to Support Business and Stability Operations (TFBSO) in Iraq met with several Kuwaiti firms to encourage ongoing and new business ventures in Iraq. United International Holding, which owns two banks in Iraq and has built at least one h [...]	2007-06-26 04:58:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV IZ KU
07KUWAIT98	KUWAIT UNVEILS 2007-2008 BUDGET [...] (U) On January 21, Kuwait's Council of Ministers approved a KD 10.45 billion ($35.78 billion) budget for the 2007-2008 fiscal year beginning April 1. Revenue, estimated at KD 8.32 billion ($28.88 billion),down slightly from KD 8.52 billion ($29.58 billion) in the 2006-2007 budget, would fall [...]	2007-01-24 10:08:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV KU
07KUWAIT989	OIL MINISTER TORCHED IN GRILLING; FACES NO [...] (C) Summary and comment: On June 25, ten MPs submitted a no confidence motion on the Oil Minister following a nine-hour "grilling" by three opposition MPs on corruption-related charges. The motion was supported by MPs from all four parliamentary blocs, suggesting it will get the 25 votes nee [...]	2007-06-26 13:30:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EPET KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
07KUWAIT990	KUWAIT REVIEWING OUTSTANDING PLEDGE FOR THE [...] (C/NF) During a June 26 meeting with Ambassador, Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah said that Kuwait had not yet disbursed aid pledged to the Palestinians. Shaykh Mohammed asked whether the Israeli government had freed tax revenues owed to the Palestinians. Ambassador said [...]	2007-06-26 14:35:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL EAID PREF IS KU ECON
07KUWAIT991	AFGHANISTAN: AMBASSADOR URGES NEW ENVOY TO [...] (C) During a June 26 courtesy call with Ambassador LeBaron, new Afghan Ambassador to Kuwait Abdul Rahim Karimi sought U.S. assistance in facilitating stronger ties between Afghanistan and Kuwait. Karimi said the Kuwaiti leadership had not forgotten that Afghan President Karzai had not attend [...]	2007-06-26 14:47:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET	EAID ECON EFIN KU PREL PTER
07KUWAIT999	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - IRAQ AND IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-27 09:30:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
07KYIV1027	UKRAINE: LITTLE POLITICAL OR LEGAL PROGRESS, BOTH [...] (C) Summary. With President Yushchenko on a one-day trip to Poland April 27 and the ruling coalition trying to decide on its strategy in the face of the new decree ordering Rada elections for June 24, little progress was made on April 27 toward resolving the political crisis. The Constitutiona [...]	2007-04-27 15:26:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV1036	UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO PUSHING, REGIONS NOT BACKING [...] (C) Summary. During what normally would have been a quiet, five-day holiday weekend, the presidential and Rada/government teams were hard at work upping the ante in the current political crisis, with neither side appearing ready yet to relinquish hardball tactics and return to negotiations. [...]	2007-05-03 14:37:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV1051	UKRAINE: PRESIDENT AND PM REACH GENERAL AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yanukovych on May 4 finally reached a preliminary agreement to hold early Rada elections, after more than a week when the two leaders did not speak. At a press conference after the meeting, Yushchenko announced that a working group would [...]	2007-05-04 14:45:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV1076	UKRAINE: GAS PIPELINE EXPLODES--SUPPLIES TO E.U. STABLE [...] On May 7 a large explosion hit the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod natural gas pipeline in the Tarashcha Region, about 100 km south of Kyiv, at 14:12 p.m. The explosion took out 30 m of the pipeline built in 1983, which is capable of shipping more than 30 billion cubic meters of Russian gas annually t [...]	2007-05-08 10:48:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG EPET ECON UP
07KYIV1085	UKRAINE 2007 SPECIAL 301 NOTIFICATION DELIVERED [...] Deputy Econ Counselor delivered ref B points and Special 301 report language to Volodymyr Zharov, Deputy Chairman of the State Department of Intellectual Property, on May 8. Zharov thanked the USG for its recognition of progress made in recent years, and said he hoped the GOU's further efforts [...]	2007-05-08 14:03:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KIPR UP
07KYIV1088	UKRAINE: ELECTION DATE HOLDING UP COMPROMISE [...] (C) Summary. Negotiations may be almost complete on the "small package" of laws considered necessary to resolve Ukraine's six-week political crisis, but continued wrangling over whether the elections should be held in the summer or fall have slowed the pace of compromise. The working group n [...]	2007-05-08 14:53:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV1092	Ukraine: Struggle for Nikopol Ferroalloy Works Nearing [...] (U) Pitting oligarch against oligarch and featuring surprising plot twists and turns, the two-year struggle over the ownership of Ukraine's Nikopol Ferroalloy Works (NFW) makes for nearly as good drama as the country's prolonged political crisis. The State Property Fund (SPF) has been trying s [...]	2007-05-10 07:38:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EIND EFIN EINV PGOV UP

07KYIV113	UKRAINE: 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] As requested reftel, below is the 2007 Investment Climate Statement (ICS) for Ukraine. Post is transmitting the ICS in three separate parts due to its large size. Post will send the ICS in Microsoft Word version to EB/IFD/OIA by email. Begin Text: A.1. Openness to Foreign Investment G [...]	2007-01-18 12:55:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ETRD KTDB OPIC USTR UP
07KYIV1133	UKRAINE: SEPTEMBER ELECTIONS IN THE WIND? HAYDUK [...] (C) Summary: President Yushchenko and PM Yanukovych resumed meetings to resolve the political impasse May 12 after Yanukovych returned to Ukraine from his Spanish knee surgery; Yushchenko said afterwards that the two would meet again May 16 to agree on the date for early elections. Presidentia [...]	2007-05-15 03:21:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV114	UKRAINE: 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] Ref A contained part one of the 2007 Investment Climate Statement (ICS) for Ukraine. Part two of the ICS continues below. Text Continued: A.5. Performance Requirements/Incentives PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS There are no known cases of performance requirements imposed on foreign investo [...]	2007-01-18 13:46:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ETRD KTDB OPIC USTR UP
07KYIV118	UKRAINE: 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] Refs A and B contained parts one and two of the 2007 Investment Climate Statement (ICS) for Ukraine. The third and final part of the ICS is below. Text Continued: A.9. Efficient Capital Markets and Portfolio Investment BANKING The Ukrainian banking system consists of the National Ban [...]	2007-01-18 14:25:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ETRD KTDB OPIC USTR UP
07KYIV1180	UKRAINE: NEGOTIATIONS STALLING OUT AGAIN? [...] (C) Summary. Despite talk over the weekend that President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yanukovych would finalize a political compromise that included early parliamentary elections on May 16, talks between the two leaders fizzled out as disagreements over the date of a new vote and what the le [...]	2007-05-16 15:17:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV1184	UKRAINE'S KREMENCHUK: NOT YOUR TYPICAL POST- [...] Summary: Kremenchuk, an industrial city of 232,000 in central Ukraine, is home to several thriving enterprises. A visit to a local meat plant revealed a company transforming itself from a post-Soviet mess to a modern, competitive facility. The city administration is focused on a series of ma [...]	2007-05-18 05:11:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV EAID UP
07KYIV1195	UKRAINE: BALOHA SUGGESTS THAT TIME RUNNING OUT FOR [...] (C) Summary. Head of the Presidential Secretariat Baloha told the Ambassador that there were now two options on the table for a political compromise: either on Monday, May 21, the President, PM and their teams would announce the date for early elections and the contents of the legislative pack [...]	2007-05-18 15:12:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV1205	UKRAINE: MICROSOFT AND GOU GO AFTER SOFTWARE PIRATES [...] Summary: A local Kyiv court sentenced a convicted distributor of pirated software on May 7 to one year and one month imprisonment. Although the judge then suspended the prison term, the severity of the sentence attracted significant media attention. The case is part of an invigorated campaign [...]	2007-05-22 06:21:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KIPR EINT UP
07KYIV123	UKRAINE: GRAIN EXPORTS BLOCKED; TRADERS SUFFERING [...] (SBU) Summary: Exports of wheat, barley, corn, and rye from Ukraine remain completely blocked as the GOU has not yet implemented the export quota system it authorized on December 8, 2006. Traders estimate that there are over 1.5 million tons of grain in storage at ports, where it is beginning [...]	2007-01-19 05:02:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EAGR ECON PREL UP
07KYIV124	UKRAINE: GRAIN EXPORTS BLOCKED; TRADERS SUFFERING [...] (SBU) Summary: Exports of wheat, barley, corn, and rye from Ukraine remain completely blocked as the GOU has not yet implemented the export quota system it authorized on December 8, 2006. Traders estimate that there are over 1.5 million tons of grain in storage at ports, where it is beginning [...]	2007-01-19 05:03:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EAGR ECON PREL UP
07KYIV1244	UKRAINE: DAS KRAMER VISIT: POSSIBLE WAY FORWARD ON [...] (C) Summary. Visiting DAS Kramer met with all the key players in the Ukrainian political crisis May 23-24: President Yushchenko, PM Yanukovych, opposition leaders Yuliya Tymoshenko and Yuriy Lutsenko; National Security and Defense Council Secretary Plyushch; and FM Yatsenyuk. Amidst backgrou [...]	2007-05-25 03:25:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV1245	UKRAINE: DAS KRAMER VISIT: POSSIBLE WAY FORWARD ON [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-25 03:25:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV1246	UKRAINE: MODERATE MUSLIM LEADER ACCUSES ARRAID [...] (C) Summary: Tensions are increasing within Ukraine's small Muslim population, with the head of the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims in Ukraine (SDMU) Sheikh Tamin accusing the Muslim Association of Civic Organizations - Arraid of promoting Islamic extremism. Tamim, who is known for his mod [...]	2007-05-25 06:26:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL UP
07KYIV126	UKRAINE: BILATERAL NONPROLIFERATION WORKING GROUP [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 8. 2 (S) Summary: We delivered draft agenda contained ref A to MFA Director Belashov January 17. His specific comments on the agenda contained below in para 4. Belashov also complained that USG suspicions about possible transfer cases were often ba [...]	2007-01-19 09:03:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	PARM PREL MNUC ETTC PHSA PINR CA UK PL UP
07KYIV1299	UKRAINE: MANPADS FOR DESTRUCTION AND [...] (S) Summary: Deputy Defense Minister Tereshchenko told visiting PM/WRA Deputy Director Steven Costner May 16 that the Ukrainian offer to provide 2,101 Man-Portable Air Defense System (MANPADS) missiles and 582 gripstocks (ref E) for the NATO PfP Trust Fund destruction project had been made in [...]	2007-05-25 14:45:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	MARR MOPS PREL PARM NATO PINR US UP
07KYIV1305	UKRAINE: DEAL FOR SEPTEMBER 30 ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: After all night discussions, President Yushchenko, PM Yanukovych, and Rada Speaker Moroz emerged after 4 a.m. May 27 to issue a seven-point joint statement that set early elections for September 30 and aimed to resolve the ongoing political crisis. Reactions ranged from relief [...]	2007-05-29 10:55:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV UP
07KYIV1326	UKRAINE: RADA CONTINUES TO DRAG HEELS WHILE [...] (C) Summary. Despite frequent meetings between President Yushchenko, PM Yanukovych, Speaker Moroz, and opposition leader Tymoshenko, the Rada has so far failed to approve the legislation needed to enable early elections on September 30, as agreed to in the May 27 compromise. Many MPs attribut [...]	2007-05-31 14:21:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV133	UKRAINE: KOSOVO STATUS PROCESS TIMELINE: DEMARCHE [...] (C) Summary/comment: In view of Ukrainian officials' previous concerns about the impact of Kosovo independence on "frozen conflicts" in Moldova and elsewhere, acting DCM drew on ref A background to brief DFM Veselovsky January 18 on the Kosovo settlement process. While underscoring that Ukrain [...]	2007-01-19 14:23:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS OPDC UNMIK UN YI MD RS UP
07KYIV1335	UKRAINE: CBA Special Representative Mermoud Meetings on [...] (SBU) Summary: Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs Frank Mermoud met on May 17-18 with government officials and U.S. business in Kyiv to discuss business climate and economic policy issues. The tone of the meetings with the State Customs Service, and the Ministers of Fu [...]	2007-06-01 07:33:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV EFIN ETRD UP
07KYIV1338	UKRAINE: GOU RUSHES WTO LEGISLATIVE PACKAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: Ukraine's Rada (parliament) voted on May 31 to adopt 11 laws considered necessary for WTO accession. The drafting process was rushed to meet the timeline for the Rada's planned dissolution, however, and close scrutiny will be necessary to ensure the adopted laws are WTO consiste [...]	2007-06-01 13:28:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP
07KYIV1340	UKRAINE: RADA WORKS FOR ANOTHER "ONE MORE DAY" - [...] (SBU) Summary. President Yushchenko relented again and extended authorization for the Rada to convene again June 1 in the hope that it would finish all its election-related business. Yushchenko, arriving back in Kyiv from his trip to Zagreb at 3 a.m., held morning meetings separately with PM [...]	2007-06-01 14:02:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV135	UKRAINE: ONE VICTOR? CABINET OF MINISTERS LAW [...] (C) Summary. A landmark Cabinet of Ministers law passed January 12 via a presidential veto override (ref A) will remake the Ukrainian political landscape once it comes into effect, although President Yushchenko cited a technicality to issue a renewed veto January 19 and returned the bill to t [...]	2007-01-19 15:09:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV1391	UKRAINE: KYIV'S BOOMING REAL ESTATE MARKET, A BUBBLE READY [...] (U) Summary: This report analyzes the real estate market in Kyiv, which has experienced a sizeable boom over the past 12 months as average citizens have rushed to throw their savings into the market. Mortgage lending has dramatically increased but has room to expand. Some bankers are concerne [...]	2007-06-06 11:18:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV UP
07KYIV1396	UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO DECREE FOR SEPT 30 ELECTIONS, [...] (SBU) Summary: President Yushchenko issued a June 5 decree which established pre-term elections September 30 in accordance with the May 27 joint statement between Yushchenko, PM Yanukovych, and Speaker Moroz. Yushchenko delivered a 55-minute address to the diplomatic corps June 6 summarizing [...]	2007-06-06 13:17:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV1417	PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR 2007 IPR ENFORCEMENT TRAINING [...] Summary: Post proposes a project entitled "Creating a Sustainable Ukrainian IPR Training Capability" to be funded as part of the 2007 IPR Enforcement Training Funds Program. Improving IPR enforcement in Ukraine remains a serious USG priority. Since 2004 there has been progress toward good gov [...]	2007-06-08 08:38:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KIPR ECON EAID UP
07KYIV1418	UKRAINE: CRIMEA UPDATE - LESS TENSE THAN IN 2006; [...] (C) Summary: During Ambassador's May 29-30 visit to Simferopol, Crimea and an earlier poloff visit May 17-18, all of our interlocutors agreed that the situation in Crimea appears less tense than it did six months ago (reftels). The primary issues in play remain control/ownership of land; the [...]	2007-06-08 08:50:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI KDEM PREL UP
07KYIV1422	Ukraine: Grain Export Quotas Lifted, but New Controls In [...] (SBU) Summary: Citing crop damage from drought, the GOU appears poised to institute a new regime of export restrictions on Ukraine's grain market for the 2007/2008 market year. According to a June 4 decree, as well as the statements of GOU officials, the GOU will build up its reserves of whea [...]	2007-06-08 10:47:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD PGOV UP
07KYIV1458	UKRAINE: ELECTIONS PROCESS STILL BUMPY [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Yanukovych and Party of Regions members are now openly talking about their election preparations and have told us that June 15 will be the last day the Rada is in session. The Rada must still acknowledge the resignations of at least another 72 members of the oppos [...]	2007-06-13 12:55:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV1521	UKRAINE: DPM KLYUYEV ON NUCLEAR SUPPLY, OIL AND GAS, [...] (SBU) Summary: Meeting with Ambassador June 20, Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Klyuyev told Ambassador that Ukraine intends to pursue diversification of nuclear fuel supplies. He stated that Ukraine is not seeking to have Russia supply all Ukrainian reactors in the next contract for nuclear fue [...]	2007-06-22 13:30:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET EAID EINV ECON BEXP UP
07KYIV1522	Ukraine: GOU Imposes New Grain Export Limits [...] (U) Summary: As foreshadowed by recent official statements (reftel),Deputy Prime Minister Victor Slauta announced June 20 that the Cabinet of Ministers has made a decision to limit exports of grain, beginning July 1, in order to form a state grain reserve and limit growth in bread prices. Po [...]	2007-06-22 13:37:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD PGOV UP
07KYIV1563	UKRAINE: JUNE 27 DOMESTIC POLITICAL SCENE UPDATE - [...] (SBU) Summary: In advance of the long (June 28 Constitution Day) weekend, Ukraine's political scene sputtered slowly forward towards summer holidays and election campaigns. President Yushchenko and PM Yanukovych spent significant time out of Kyiv, meeting twice at Boryspil airport to discuss [...]	2007-06-27 12:46:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV UP
07KYIV163	UKRAINE: MANPADS ACQUISITION AND THE NATO PFP [...] (S) Summary: As a result of a January 17 meeting with Deputy Defense Minister Tereshchenko on the proposals regarding man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS) contained ref A, PM/WRA will work with the NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency (NAMSA) to develop an amendment to the NATO/PfP Trust F [...]	2007-01-22 12:57:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	MARR MOPS PREL PARM NATO PINR US UP
07KYIV1722	UKRAINE: FLAWED LOCAL ELECTION REVEAL POTENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: Contentious repeat mayoral elections June 17 in Irpin, a town of 40,000 people located one hour northwest of Kyiv, underscored the potential for problems in the upcoming September 30 national Rada elections as a highstakes fight for land and power brought troublesome irregularitie [...]	2007-07-17 12:11:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM UP
07KYIV1761	UKRAINE: CFE POSITION PARALLELS U.S. [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 5. 2. (U) During a July 18 press conference with his visiting Canadian counterpart, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk expressed a position that closely tracked Department's July 14 statement on Russia's announcement that it would su [...]	2007-07-19 12:15:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KCFE OSCE UP
07KYIV1790	UKRAINE: POLITICS AND MONEY BEHIND GRAIN EXPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: Fear of rising bread prices was the driving force behind the GOU's decision to reintroduce grain export restrictions as of July 1. Bread prices are very politically sensitive in Ukraine, and a number of government officials also have a financial stake in the quotas through busin [...]	2007-07-23 09:35:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD PGOV UP
07KYIV1808	UKRAINE: POLITICAL WILL, NOT LAWS, WILL DETERMINE [...] (C) Summary. Parliament (Rada) adopted a number of amendments to the law on parliamentary elections June 1 as part of the compromise to hold early parliamentary elections on September 30. Some changes were needed, but a number of others reintroduced loopholes that contributed to election frau [...]	2007-07-24 14:16:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV183	UKRAINE: PROLIFERATION SECURITY INITIATIVE AND [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 9. 2. (SBU) Summary: After a year-long hiatus (refs A and B were transmitted in January 2006),a Ukrainian MFA official said Ukrainian comments on a draft PSI ship-boarding agreement might be provided by the end of January, after which the Ukrainian [...]	2007-01-25 13:24:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM KNNP PHSA KTIA EWWT PL UP
07KYIV186	UKRAINE: TURKMEN OPPOSITION VISA SCANDAL REALLY [...] (C) Summary. The scandal that has erupted over Socialist Transportation Minister Mykola Rudkovskiy pressuring Ukrainian ambassadors to issue visas to Turkmen opposition figures to travel to Kyiv in late December in the wake of former Turkmen President Niyazov's death is, at its heart, the lat [...]	2007-01-25 15:21:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM EPET TX UP
07KYIV1862	UKRAINE: POLITICAL CLASH HIGHLIGHTS CORRUPTION IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOU attempted to push through a controversial amendment to the government procurement law, causing indignation among political opponents and spurring claims that the Party of Regions was trying to grab public funds for their election coffers. Opposition by President Viktor [...]	2007-08-01 05:08:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	EIND EFIN EINV PGOV UP
07KYIV1888	UKRAINE IPR: ENGAGING LAW ENFORCEMENT ON INTERNET [...] (SBU) Summary: Econ Counselor met on August 1 with leaders of the Ministry of Internal Affairs' (MIA) Economic Crime Department to push for improved IPR enforcement. The MIA officials expressed a firm commitment to protecting IP rights, and described the Ministry's increased enforcement effor [...]	2007-08-02 14:06:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR ECON UP
07KYIV196	UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR EUR DAS GRAFFY'S FEB 7-12 [...] (C) Summary: Your visit to Ukraine comes at a time when the struggle between President Yushchenko and PM Yanukovych for political dominance and the right to define national security, defense, and foreign policy has intensified. Recent legislation passed by Yanukovych's majority in the Rada (p [...]	2007-01-26 12:53:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP
07KYIV1968	UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH, OTHERS ANALYZE PRE- AND [...] (C) Summary: Key GoU leaders varied on their assessment of the upcoming pre-term elections in their August 1-2 meetings with EUR DAS Kramer but all acknowledged the importance of free and fair elections and the need to resolve tensions that have dominated the domestic political scene since A [...]	2007-08-10 10:43:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV1971	UKRAINE: THE ORANGE REVOLUTION AND UNEASY [...] (C) Summary. The nine parties of the democratic megabloc came together August 7 to formally become the Our Ukraine-People's Self Defense (OU-PSD) election bloc, with a youth-oriented message and an attempt to rekindle the fervor of the Orange Revolution. The bloc consists of People's Union O [...]	2007-08-10 12:51:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV1974	UKRAINE: GOU SAYS IATA TICKET STOCK ILLEGAL-THREATENS SHUT [...] (SBU) Summary. In a meeting with representatives from Ukraine's State Aviation Authority (SAA),Economic officers verified the SAA had indeed found the International Air Transport Association's (IATA) ticket stock to be invalid under Ukrainian law. As a result, the SAA ordered IATA to refrain [...]	2007-08-10 13:39:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ERTD KTIA UP
07KYIV200	UKRAINE WTO UPDATE: JANUARY 26 [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOU is anxious to push ahead as quickly as possible on its WTO accession. Minister of Economy Volodymyr Makukha is requesting to hold bilateral consultations in early, rather than late, February. Makukha continues to work to ensure U.S. beef and pork imports flow freely, al [...]	2007-01-26 15:37:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP
07KYIV214	UKRAINE: UNCERTAIN FUTURE FOR COMMUNITY OF [...] (C) Summary. The Community of Democratic Choice (CDC),as described in an August 2005 joint statement by Ukrainian President Yushchenko and Georgian President Saakashvili, was to be a continuing dialogue and series of meetings to promote democracy, human rights, and civil society in former Sov [...]	2007-01-30 14:10:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM GG UP
07KYIV2165	UKRAINE: LITTLE PROGRESS IN INVESTIGATION OF [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Journalist Artem Skoropadiskiy, who claimed that an August 13 assault on him by two assailants was because of a critical story he wrote on Kyiv Mayor Leonid Chernovetskiy, told PolOff on August 21 that there had been no progress in the police investigation. Althoug [...]	2007-08-29 11:57:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV UP
07KYIV2202	UKRAINE: PORA CONTROVERSY ANOTHER TEST OF ELECTION [...] (C) Summary. The sudden appearance of a "second" Pora political party, its quick registration by the Central Election Commission (CEC) and the CEC's deregistration of eight representatives of the "real" Pora on the OU-PSD list at worst raised questions about the use of dirty tricks, and at a [...]	2007-09-04 13:06:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV2204	UKRAINE: PERSONALITIES, NOT PROGRAMS, [...] (C) Summary. The conscious decision of the three main parties in Ukraine to focus their campaigns on the same themes -- populist social and economic promises and anti-corruption slogans -- means that the vote will come down once again to personalities and perceived leadership types. The offic [...]	2007-09-04 13:13:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV224	UKRAINE: REACTION TO MISSILE DEFENSE MEDIA REPORTS [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 9. 2. (C) Summary: Defense Minister Hrytsenko told Ambassador January 29 that the U.S. announcement about its preparedness to locate missile defense facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic had the unintended consequence in Ukraine of reinforcing [...]	2007-01-31 16:40:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MCAP PREL PINR US UP
07KYIV2247	UKRAINE: EVEN SMALL ELECTION ABUSES COULD [...] Summary. As the campaign heats up for Ukraine's September 30 preterm parliamentary elections, few anticipate there will be massive election fraud. However, in what is expected to be a very tight race, even abuses on the margins could influence the outcome. Greater transparency in the electio [...]	2007-09-07 13:50:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV2256	UKRAINE: ACTING FM URGES USG SUPPORT FOR UKRAINIAN [...] (C) The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry continues to press for U.S. support for Ukraine's candidate to be the next OSCE Head of Mission in Kosovo, Ambassador Anatoliy Oliynyk, currently Ukraine's Ambassador to both Serbia and Montenegro. During an August 31 meeting with the Ambassador, Acting Fo [...]	2007-09-10 11:42:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV2260	UKRAINE IPR CONFERENCE HOSTS LATEST ROUND IN FIGHT [...] Summary: Ukraine's annual IPR Conference, held September 3-7, brought together GOU officials, industry reps, and international experts to promote better IPR protection in the country. Discussion of possible Copyright Law amendments and the operation of royalty collecting societies proved most [...]	2007-09-11 08:55:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KIPR ECON UP
07KYIV2266	UKRAINE: PREVIEW OF SEPTEMBER 14 SUMMIT WITH EU [...] (C) Summary: An EU delegation of Portuguese Prime Minister Socrates, EU Council Secretary General Solana, European Commission President Barroso, and Commissioner Ferrero-Waldner will participate in the EU-Ukraine summit September 14 in Kyiv. In their private meetings, the EU delegation will [...]	2007-09-11 12:18:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECIN ETRD ENRG EUN PO UP
07KYIV2290	UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE DISCOURAGED FROM THE TOP DOWN [...] (C) Summary. Conversations with Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense (OU-PSD) Leader Yuriy Lutsenko, First Lady Kateryna Yushchenko, and members of the bloc's regional headquarters show a political movement struggling to keep pace with the more aggressive Tymoshenko Bloc. Lutsenko and Mrs. Yushc [...]	2007-09-13 10:34:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV2336	UKRAINE: LEADING POLITICIANS VIE FOR REPUTATION AS MOST [...] (U) Summary: PM Viktor Yanukovych and opposition leader Yuliya Tymoshenko held dueling meetings with investors on September 10 to present their plans to improve the investment and business climate. Tymoshenko promised to push forward transparent privatizations, open up energy exploration to for [...]	2007-09-14 08:14:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON PGOV UP
07KYIV235	UKRAINE: SHCHERBAN CASE BEING SWEPT UNDER RUG [...] (C) Summary. It appears increasingly unlikely that former Sumy governor Volodymyr Shcherban, accused of election rigging and a number of other serious charges, will end up in court. Shcherban, who fled to the U.S. in the spring of 2005 to avoid arrest in Ukraine, was detained for overstaying h [...]	2007-02-01 12:43:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM UP
07KYIV2383	GOU RAISES THE STAKES AGAINST IATA, AND BACKS DOWN [...] (C) On August 30 the GOU suspended all cross border activities of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) in its latest move against the world airline industry's trade group. In a subsequent meeting with the Ambassador, however, Minister of Economy Anatoly Kinakh agreed to stop imp [...]	2007-09-14 11:28:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ETRD KTIA PREL UP
07KYIV2392	UKRAINE'S WTO NEGOTIATOR WANTS TO WRAP UP [...] (C) Summary: During a September 17 meeting, Ukraine's lead WTO negotiator Valeriy Pyatnytskiy complained that talks with Kyrgyzstan on a WTO bilateral agreement had stalled. Kyrgyzstan had rejected Ukraine's most recent proposal, and Pyatnytskiy believed that "one or more third parties" were [...]	2007-09-18 04:38:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD WTRO KG UP
07KYIV2401	UKRAINE: COALITION SCENARIOS IN A CLOSE RACE [...] (C) Summary and comment. With reliable polling suggesting that no one party will win an outright majority on its own in the September 30 elections, a coalition will have to be formed either based on an orange variant, a broad coalition that in some way joins the Party of Regions and Our Ukrai [...]	2007-09-18 13:14:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV2417	UKRAINE: NATO, RUSSIAN LANGUAGE ISSUES ENTER [...] (C) Summary. Party of Regions' recent decision to call for a referendum on neutrality (local shorthand for no NATO membership),and an official status for the Russian language resurrects divisive election themes, present in 2004 and 2006, that the major parties had tried to keep quiet so far [...]	2007-09-19 12:58:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NATO PREL PINR UP
07KYIV2496	UKRAINE: MYKOLAYIV -- RUNNING ON ISSUES BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: The southern industrial city of Mykolayiv wrestles with a number of local issues revolving around the question of who will control the city's economic assets. Controversy centers in particular on ownership of the Black Sea Shipyard, currently in the hands of Russian businessmen, [...]	2007-09-28 12:54:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EIND EINV PREL RS UP
07KYIV2500	UKRAINIAN GOVT RELAXES QUOTAS ON GRAIN EXPORTS [...] (SBU) Summary: A September 26 GOU decision imposes new quota levels on grain exports as of November 1. The new quotas are significantly looser than the excessively restrictive ones currently in place, but still appear to be on the conservative side, especially since they cover a longer-than-ex [...]	2007-10-01 02:35:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAGR WTRO UP
07KYIV2501	UKRAINIAN ELECTIONS: A NEW ORANGE COALITION COULD [...] (C) Summary: A renewed "orange coalition" could potentially capture enough Rada seats to form the new government, according to several nationwide exit polls. As of noon October 1, counting continues and the Central Election Commission (CEC) has posted about 54% of the results, although there [...]	2007-10-01 07:07:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV2508	UKRAINE: ALL SIDES WAIT WHILE ELECTIONS SLOWLY [...] (C) Summary. As votes continued to trickle into the Central Election Commission on October 2, parties remained for the most part constrained, holding off on both court challenges and coalition negotiations until the final count is announced. With more than 97 percent of the vote counted by 5 [...]	2007-10-02 12:46:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV2517	UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO CALLS FOR PARTIES TO BEGIN [...] (C) Summary. With less than one half of one percent of the vote still uncounted, the political parties are starting to slowly extend feelers on various coalition formations. President Yushchenko made the biggest stir of the day by holding a press conference in which he called on all the parti [...]	2007-10-03 13:32:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV2533	UKRAINE: FRUSTRATION UP IN ORANGE CAMP AS [...] (C) Summary. Key players in the past two days have told us that they believe President Yushchenko is leaning towards a broad coalition, although BYuT and part of Our Ukraine-People's Self Defense are fighting hard for an orange government. An ebullient Presidential Administration head Baloha [...]	2007-10-05 13:47:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV2555	UKRAINE: NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE, BALL IN BALOHA'S [...] (C) Summary. Conversations on October 10 with key advisers for Yuliya Tymoshenko and PM Viktor Yanukovych, Hryhoriy Nemyria and Serhiy Lyovochkin respectively, underscore what we have been hearing for the past week -- the ball on coalition formation is in Yushchenko's court, but it may be Pre [...]	2007-10-10 13:43:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV2671	UKRAINE:TALK OF REMOVING RUE FROM GAS DEAL [...] (C) Summary: Local reaction to Gazprom Chairman Medvedev's comments (ref b) about removing RosUkrEnergo (RUE) from the gas deal have ranged from positive to muted. Minister of Fuels and Energy Boyko told Ambassador he had heard nothing from the Russians about possibly removing RUE from the ga [...]	2007-10-23 12:34:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ETRD PREL RS UP
07KYIV2672	UKRAINE: MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR) [...] (C) We provided ref A report October 23 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Director Volodymyr Belashov. At the same time, we provided information copies of U.S. papers and positions contained refs B-E (on space launch vehicles and ballistic missiles, U.S. propos [...]	2007-10-23 12:53:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC KSCA TSPA UP
07KYIV2677	UKRAINE: MILITARY HELICOPTERS FOR UNAMID -- SECOND [...] DCM spoke October 24 with MFA Second Territorial Department Director Ihor Hrushko to relay ref A request for Ukraine to consider contributing helicopters or other critical force multipliers/enablers required for the UN/African Union hybrid peacekeeping operation in Darfur, Sudan (UNAMID). DCM [...]	2007-10-24 12:34:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UNSC KPKO SU UP
07KYIV2744	UKRAINE: RADA PREPARATIONS SLOWLY ADVANCING [...] (C) Summary. The process of preparing to seat the new Rada is moving forward slowly, while fissures in the orange coalition continue to appear even before it has officially become a coalition. As required by law, the Central Election Commission is now registering MPs and all five factions h [...]	2007-11-02 13:28:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV2753	UKRAINE: PSI Eastern Shield Exercise, October 29-31, Odesa, [...] (U) Summary: Ukraine and Poland sponsored a Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Eastern Shield demonstration, with Romanian, Georgian, Moldovan, and Bulgarian participation, October 29-31 in Odesa, Ukraine. The demonstration, planned as the first PSI exercise in the Black Sea region, empl [...]	2007-11-06 09:24:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PTER KCRM PREL KNNP UP
07KYIV2766	UKRAINE: COALITION POSSIBILITIES - READING THE [...] (C) Summary: With the opening of the Rada on the horizon and after five weeks of coalition discussions between representatives of all of the major parties and President Yushchenko, we have boiled down the main number of possibilities for the next government to four -- an orange coalition led [...]	2007-11-07 14:59:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV2806	UKRAINE: PRESIDENT'S DEMANDS STRAIN OU; REGIONS [...] (C) Summary. While the parties are slowly going through the procedures to prepare for a new Rada, the orange coalition is either close to completion or teetering on the edge of self-destruction, reportedly pushed by President Yushchenko, his Chief of Staff Baloha, and NSDC Secretary Plyushch. [...]	2007-11-09 14:05:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV2813	UKRAINE: KYIV MAYOR ONCE AGAIN UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT [...] (C) Summary. Many consider the Mayor of Kyiv to be the fourth most powerful political post in the country, after the President, PM, and Speaker of the Parliament. Both the Yuliya Tymoshenko (BYuT) Bloc and Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense (OU-PSD) made the dismissal of Kyiv mayor Leonid Che [...]	2007-11-13 13:58:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV282	UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO POISONING CASE REMAINS [...] (SBU) Summary. More than two years after his inauguration as President, Viktor Yushchenko's face no longer has the huge chloracne bumps and pallid grey color resulting from his poisoning by dioxin in September 2004, and his Swiss doctors claim that 80 percent of the dioxin has left his syste [...]	2007-02-02 15:06:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV2820	UKRAINE: RESOURCE NATIONALISM REPORT [...] (C) Summary: Ukraine has relatively small reserves of oil and natural gas, but is the world's largest hydrocarbon transit country, moving 75.8% of Russia's natural gas to Europe. Ukraine imports 77% of its natural gas and 79% of its oil needs almost exclusively from Russia. As a legacy of S [...]	2007-11-14 12:55:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ETRD PREL UP
07KYIV2821	UKRAINE'S APPROACH TO INVESTMENT PROMOTION: "WHY DO WE NEED [...] (SBU) Summary: Ukraine continues to trail behind most of its neighbors in attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The GOU was slow to recognize its role in this sphere, although it finally created a lead investment promotion agency, called InvestUkraine, in 2005. InvestUkraine, with USAI [...]	2007-11-14 13:04:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ETRD EAID UP
07KYIV2824	UKRAINE SIGNS BILATERAL WTO AGREEMENT WITH KYRGYZSTAN, [...] Summary: Ukraine signed a WTO bilateral agreement with Kyrgyzstan on November 14, removing the major hurdle to accession. The GOU agreed to pay $27.3 million worth of humanitarian assistance to Kyrgyzstan in order to secure the deal. Meanwhile, the GOU reports that it has also signed an agree [...]	2007-11-15 13:56:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP
07KYIV2829	UKRAINE: UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS [...] (U) Ref A relayed information passed by Ukraine's UN mission that Ukraine will vote in favor of the four country-specific resolutions in the UNGA Third Committee and against any no-action motion. In ref C, we reported on delivery of U.S. points regarding the draft resolution "On Condemning th [...]	2007-11-16 11:33:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL KTIA KWMN AORC UN UP
07KYIV283	UKRAINE: OLD FACES, PRACTICES RETURN TO MINISTRY [...] (C) Summary. Since the ouster of outspoken "orange" Interior Minister Yuri Lutsenko December 1 and the appointment of compliant Vasyl Tsushko in his place, some old faces and practices from the pre-Orange Revolution era have returned to the Ministry and police. Of note were the appointments [...]	2007-02-02 15:20:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV UP
07KYIV2831	UKRAINE: PEACEKEEPERS AND KOSOVO POST-INDEPENDENCE [...] (U) This is a request for Department guidance. Please advise on how we should respond to Ukrainian Defense Minister Hrytsenko's inquiry on contingency planning for possible Kosovo independence. 2. (C) During a November 15 meeting with EUR DAS David Kramer, Defense Minister Hrytsenko inquir [...]	2007-11-16 12:42:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS KDEM UNMIK OSCE YI MD RS UP
07KYIV2832	UKRAINE: 2008 GAS NEGOTIATIONS UNDERWAY--NOTHING [...] (SBU) Summary. 2008 Gas Negotiations between Ukraine and Russia continued in Moscow this week. Ukrainian Minister of Fuel and Energy Yuriy Boyko announced in the press that natural gas pricing negotiations with Russia's state-owned gas company, Gazprom, that Ukraine would pay close to $160 p [...]	2007-11-16 13:15:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ETRD PREL PINR UP
07KYIV2833	UKRAINE: ODDS MOUNTING AGAINST A TYMOSHENKO [...] (C) Summary: After visiting EUR DAS Kramer's series of meetings with top Ukrainian political figures, it is clear that the path to the premiership for Yuliya Tymoshenko will be difficult and is still far from certain. Presidential Administration head Baloha said that he was "101%" certain tha [...]	2007-11-16 14:59:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV2844	UKRAINE: KREMENCHUK OIL REFINERY CRISIS REMAINS UNRESOLVED [...] (U) Summary. A longstanding, complicated legal dispute over the ownership of shares in Ukrtatnafta, a company established in 1994 that owns and operates Ukraine's largest oil refinery in Kremenchuk, recently culminated in the physical enforcement by police on October 19 of a Sumy Court of App [...]	2007-11-19 12:59:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET ECON UP
07KYIV2889	UKRAINE: UKRTELECOM LAUNCHES 3G MOBILE PHONE SERVICE [...] (SBU) On November 14 EconOffs met with representatives of state fixed-line monopoly Ukrtelecom to discuss the November 1 roll out of its 3G (third generation) communication services in six major cities under the U'tel trademark. Igor Syrotenko, Ukrtelecom's Deputy Chairman for Marketing and S [...]	2007-11-26 12:00:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECPS BEXP EINT UP
07KYIV2892	UKRAINE: DNIPROENERGO - AN EXAMPLE OF INTRANSPARENCY [...] (SBU) Summary. Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine's richest man and a key financial sponsor of the Party of Regions, recently acquired 40 percent ownership in financially troubled Dniproenergo, a large power generation company, through a controversial share issuance. Most observers believe that Akhmetov [...]	2007-11-26 13:48:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET ECON UP
07KYIV2923	UKRAINE: ORANGE COALITION ANNOUNCED, BUT NO [...] (C) Summary: Yuliya Tymoshenko's bloc (BYuT) and Our Ukraine-People's Self Defense (OU-PSD) announced the successful conclusion of a coalition agreement in the Rada November 29, bringing the renewed "orange" coalition one step closer to forming a government. However, the new coalition was un [...]	2007-11-29 14:00:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV2925	UKRAINE: UPDATE OF CHILD LABOR INFORMATION FOR TDA [...] Post provided detailed information on child labor in Ukraine last year (ref B),the first time that Ukraine was covered by this Trade and Development Act (TDA) reporting requirement. As requested by ref A, below Post provides updated information on child labor issues. 2. Post will also sen [...]	2007-11-30 11:08:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM UP
07KYIV296	UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO NOMINATES OHRYZKO AS FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary. President Yushchenko nominated First Deputy (and currently Acting) Foreign Minister Volodymyr Ohryzko February 5 to replace former FM Tarasyuk, defying general expectations that Deputy Head of the Presidential Secretariat Oleksandr Chaliy would be nominated. Ohryzko's nomination [...]	2007-02-05 15:56:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV2967	UKRAINE: GETTING TO GOVERNMENT - ORANGE COALITION [...] (C) Summary: After a day of parliamentary maneuvering, the orange coalition parties of Yuliya Tymoshenko and President Yushchenko mustered a slim-227 majority vote to elect 33-year old Foreign Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk as the Speaker of the Rada. The successful vote showed that the coalition i [...]	2007-12-05 13:30:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV2973	UKRAINE: RADA PREPARES TO VOTE ON TYMOSHENKO'S PM [...] (C) Summary: In a move that surprised many, especially the parliamentary opposition, on December 6, President Yushchenko submitted the nomination of Yuliya Tymoshenko to the Rada for a vote, just hours after receiving her nomination from the orange coalition via newly-elected Rada Speaker Yatse [...]	2007-12-06 10:31:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV3034	UKRAINE: MOI AND MFA DISCUSS PLANS TO FIGHT [...] (C) Summary and Comment. The Ukrainian Government is taking steps to combat the increase in racially-motivated crimes in Ukraine this year. Acting Minister of Interior Korniyenko highlighted to the Ambassador several initiatives undertaken by the Ministry including increased security for di [...]	2007-12-10 13:23:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV UP
07KYIV3035	UKRAINE: TYMOSHENKO PM VOTE COMES DOWN TO THE WIRE [...] (C) Summary. The December 11 vote on Tymoshenko's candidacy is shaping up to be a nail-biter, with three members of OU-PSD reportedly now in the hospital for various medical problems, Regions still threatening to block the rostrum, and disputes over Cabinet positions straining the coalition. [...]	2007-12-10 13:39:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV3048	UKRAINE: PM GRIDLOCK ILLUSTRATES DYSFUNCTION OF [...] (C) Summary. Disorganization and infighting within the orange coalition, particularly within the President's Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense party, and continued intransigence by the Party of Regions have stymied the confirmation of Yuliya Tymoshenko as Prime Minister. The December 11 vote [...]	2007-12-12 12:05:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV3058	UKRAINE: NAFTOHAZ'S FINANCIAL UNCERTAINTY A GROWING [...] (U) Summary. NaftoHaz Ukraine, the state-owned gas and oil company that accounts for 10 percent of GDP, could well be close to bankruptcy. NaftoHaz's losses and debts have mounted as the GOU continues to set domestic gas prices that are too low to cover the rising cost of gas imports, and be [...]	2007-12-13 10:37:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET EFIN ECON ENRG UP
07KYIV3065	EN2008FEB(UKRAINE): NOMINATION FOR FEBRUARY USPTO-GIPA [...] In response to ref A, Post nominates the following Ukrainian officials, in priority order, to participate in USPTO's Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA) training on IPR enforcement at USPTO headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, February 11-14, 2008: -- Ms. Tatyana Sapalyova, Judge, Vi [...]	2007-12-14 10:27:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KIPR ECON UP
07KYIV3066	UKRAINE: PM VOTE SCHEDULED FOR DECEMBER 18 [...] (C) Summary. The Rada approved an agenda for the December 18 session that will include a vote on the PM, the Government, deputy speakers, and the distribution of committee chairmanships. In spite of their best efforts, Rada Speaker Yatsenyuk and the orange coalition were unsuccessful Decembe [...]	2007-12-14 10:58:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV3071	UKRAINE COAL MINE DISASTER: HOW CORRUPTION KILLS [...] (SBU) Summary: A November 18 explosion at the Zasyadko Coal Mine killed 101 miners in Ukraine's worst coal mine accident since independence. Subsequent explosions killed another five miners and mine rescuers. The Zasyadko mine has one of the country's worst safety records. Its director, Yuk [...]	2007-12-17 09:32:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN PGOV ELAB EAID UP

07KYIV3086	UKRAINE: TYMOSHENKO ELECTED AS PM; NEW GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: After several weeks of debate and uncertainty, the orange coalition came together and confirmed Yuliya Tymoshenko as the new prime minister of Ukraine on December 18. Tymoshenko was confirmed with 226 votes, the minimum number of votes necessary in the 450-member Rada. Only MPs f [...]	2007-12-18 13:49:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV3102	UKRAINE: WHO'S WHO IN THE TYMOSHENKO GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary. The new Tymoshenko government, confirmed by the Rada December 18, is an interesting mix of PM Tymoshenko loyalists and President Yushchenko loyalists, and of experienced politicians and technocratic newcomers. Disagreements over Our Ukraine-People's Self Defense slots between the [...]	2007-12-20 05:55:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV315	UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR SECDEF'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: Secretary Gates, your meeting with President Yushchenko at Wehrkunde next week comes at a time when the struggle between Yushchenko and PM Yanukovych for political dominance and the right to define national security, defense, and foreign policy has intensified. Recent legislation [...]	2007-02-07 15:59:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR UP
07KYIV3154	UKRAINE: BOHATYREVA APPOINTMENT MUDDIES REGIONS [...] (C) Summary. With Regions finally settling into its role as the opposition, and both Prime Minister Tymoshenko and Regions leader Yanukovych making efforts to be constructive, President Yushchenko's decision to name deputy leader of Party of Regions Raisa Bohatyreva Secretary of the National [...]	2007-12-27 09:30:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV3157	UKRAINE: SHAPING OUR MESSAGE [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Prime Minister Tymoshenko's government has begun delineating its internal setup/workflow and the structures and processes for interacting with the President's team and parliamentary opposition. In turn, President Yushchenko is pushing forward his own initiatives aime [...]	2007-12-27 11:50:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL UP
07KYIV3165	ECONOMIC POLICY AND THE NEW GOU: PROGRESS, BUT WITH [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has sent out mixed signals on her plans for the Ukrainian economy. She continues to say many of the right things on economic matters, yet some of her populist campaign promises convey a different message. Nonetheless, we expect Tymosh [...]	2007-12-28 12:58:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ENRG EINV PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV331	2/9 UKRAINE WTO UPDATE: KYRGYZ BILAT [...] (C) Summary: Ukraine must sign one more bilateral Market Access Agreement, with Kyrgyzstan, as part of its accession to the WTO. Erkin Mamkulov, Kyrgyz Ambassador to Ukraine, told us that resolution of USD 27 million worth of debt, owed by Ukraine to Kyrgyzstan, is the critical remaining issue [...]	2007-02-09 15:55:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP KG
07KYIV332	UKRAINE: EU TROIKA MEETING LAUNCHES ENHANCED [...] (C) Summary: A February 6 EU Troika meeting in Kyiv marked the launch of a new enhanced Partnership and Cooperative Agreement intended to strengthen economic and political ties - responding to a Ukrainian push for a new kind of partnership and closer ties to the EU. The first meeting of a Wor [...]	2007-02-09 16:11:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM UP
07KYIV361	UKRAINE: COALITION PUBLISHES, SEEKS TO AMEND, [...] (SBU) Summary. The controversial Law on the Cabinet of Ministers, which tips the balance of power toward the Prime Minister at the President's expense, continues to be a political football on Kyiv playing fields. The February 2 decision by the Rada (parliament) and Government to officially p [...]	2007-02-15 15:36:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV449	UKRAINE: 2007 SPECIAL 301 POST INPUT [...] (SBU) Summary and Recommendation: Embassy recommends Ukraine remain on the Special 301 Priority Watch List, which is statutorily accompanied by Section 306 monitoring (Ref A),although the Government of Ukraine is definitely moving in the right direction on IPR protection. The GOU has followe [...]	2007-02-22 15:07:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR ECON UP
07KYIV540	UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH LOBBIES EUROPE VIA BERLIN [...] (C) Summary: Seeking to gain public support from Germany for his government's goal of promoting Ukraine's integration with Europe, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych made a one-day working visit February 28 to Berlin, meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and addressing a group of German [...]	2007-03-06 15:34:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECIN ETRD ENRG EUN GM UP
07KYIV642	UKRAINE: LUTSENKO RAIDED, INTERROGATED BY [...] (SBU) Summary: On a busy political day that heralded a potential tectonic shift in the basic blue-orange divide in Ukrainian politics, which has existed since the November-December 2004 Orange Revolution (septel),a Prosecutor General Office (PGO) investigative team launched a seven- hour se [...]	2007-03-20 17:44:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV645	UKRAINE: PARLIAMENT HALTS SALE OF TRADE UNION'S [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ukrainian Parliament has established a moratorium on the sale of property by the Federation of Trade Unions (FPU),the successor to Ukraine's Soviet-era trade union. The move marks a surprising turn of events in an ongoing conflict between the FPU, which controls all union [...]	2007-03-21 11:33:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PGOV UP
07KYIV656	UKRAINE ACTION REQUEST: UNHCR CONCERNED ABOUT DROP [...] (SBU) Note: This is an action request for Moscow DHS/CIS, Mission Geneva and PRM, retransmitting the text of reftel, slightly modified. Post requests a response to the UNHCR-Kyiv claim that U.S. refusal rates of UNHCR-Kyiv referrals in 2006 jumped by 20 percent; see para 9. 2. (C) Summar [...]	2007-03-22 13:25:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL UP UNHCR
07KYIV665	UKRAINE/MOLDOVA: TRANSNISTRIA AND BILATERAL [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Foreign Minister Veselovsky told EUR DAS Kramer, NSC Director Sterling, and Ambassador March 19 that he would continue to hold the concurrent duty as Ukrainian special negotiator for Transnistria, despite rumors to the contrary. National Security and Defense Council (NSDC [...]	2007-03-22 15:45:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS OSCE PINR RO MD UP
07KYIV666	UKRAINE: RAIDS AIMED AT LUTSENKO WIDEN TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Following the March 20 Prosecutor General Office (PGO) early morning raid on former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko's apartment (ref A),on March 21, police allegedly broke into the Kyiv office of the Anti-Criminal Choice NGO (without a warrant) headed by Lutsenko's brother S [...]	2007-03-22 15:46:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR UP
07KYIV688	UKRAINE: 3/23 WTO UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Ukraine has received comments regarding recently passed WTO-related legislation from members of its WTO Working Party and is working hard to respond to these comments quickly. Legislative drafting on issues of importance to the USG, such as IPR, biotechnology, and VAT on agricu [...]	2007-03-23 15:41:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP
07KYIV693	UKRAINE: NEW ECONOMY MINISTER ONBOARD FOR WTO [...] (C) Summary: At a March 23 meeting with Ambassador, new Minister of Economy Anatoliy Kinakh described Ukraine's integration with Europe as "irreversible." Ambassador encouraged Kinakh to help find a solution to the OPIC/Alliant issue, as well as a laundry list of other important bilateral iss [...]	2007-03-27 07:14:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV EINV WTRO UP
07KYIV702	UKRAINE: THE STRUGGLE FOR SEVASTOPOL [...] (C) Summary: Sevastopol continues to be in the middle of a tug-of-war between Ukraine and Russian for the hearts and minds of its residents. Moscow Mayor Luzhkov visited Sevastopol February 21, to open a renovated Moscow-funded Russian Culture and Information Center, to visit the Russian Bla [...]	2007-03-29 08:46:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RS UP
07KYIV746	UKRAINE: NEW ELECTIONS OR BROAD COALITION? ALL [...] (C) President Yushchenko, who has increasingly few options in his losing struggle with Prime Minister Yanukovych, is being pushed hard by his team to disband the Rada, but the President has not yet abandoned hope of reaching accommodation with Yanukovych. At the urging of opposition leader Ty [...]	2007-03-29 15:26:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV757	UKRAINE: PRESIDENT-PM NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE; [...] (C) Summary. President Yushchenko and PM Yanukovych's late-night March 29 meeting ended without agreement, with the PM's team pushing for a "gentleman's agreement" and the President's advisors arguing for a written, negotiated "rules of the game" to resolve the political conflict over the c [...]	2007-03-30 14:46:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV764	UKRAINE: AN AD HOC ISRAEL POLICY -- BALANCING [...] (C) Summary: Israel is home to a half million Ukrainian immigrants and the two countries had $372 million in bilateral trade in 2006. Despite Ukraine's remaining Jewish population and the large diaspora in Israel, Ukraine's relations with the Jewish State were characterized as "ad hoc" by se [...]	2007-04-02 03:34:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IS UP
07KYIV784	UKRAINE: CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS OVER RADA DISMISSAL [...] (C) Summary: Justifying his April 2 decree dismissing the Rada (parliament) and calling pre-term elections for May 27, President Yushchenko told G-7 ambassadors April 3 that new elections were a democratic instrument to resolve a political crisis that stemmed from a parliamentary crisis. The [...]	2007-04-03 13:53:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL PHUM PINR UP
07KYIV790	UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO'S CALL FOR MAY 27 PRE-TERM [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 2, after several days of tense negotiations and peaceful street demonstrations, President Yushchenko announced his intention to dissolve the Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) and set May 27 as the date for new elections; his decree was officially promulgated April 3. On Ap [...]	2007-04-04 16:32:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV804	UKRAINE: PRESSURE ON PECHERSK COURT INCREASES, [...] (SBU) Summary: The Pechersk District Court became involved in the struggle over President Yushchenko's decree dismissing the Rada and setting new elections April 3 after it threw out an April 2 Rada resolution to replace the current Central Election Commission (CEC) with the previous one led [...]	2007-04-05 14:59:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL UP
07KYIV82	UKRAINE WTO UPDATE: JANUARY 12 [...] (SBU) Summary: Ukraine's Parliament passed a resolution on January 9 calling for a speedy conclusion to WTO accession negotiations. The GOU is working on five outstanding regulatory acts, to be issued at the Cabinet of Ministers level or below, which are required for accession. These five act [...]	2007-01-12 13:25:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP
07KYIV824	UKRAINE: POWER MINISTERS GIVE ASSURANCES THAT [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with Defense Minister Hrytsenko, Minister of Interior Tsushko, and acting head of the Security Service (SBU) Nalyvaichenko April 6 to discuss the security situation during the ongoing political crisis. Hrytsenko was the most optimistic of the three, giving assurance [...]	2007-04-06 15:09:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM MOPS UP
07KYIV841	UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH, YUSHCHENKO SEEKING [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador's separate conversations with Prime Minister Yanukovych and President Yushchenko on April 9 and 10, respectively, indicated both sides expressed preference for resolving the current crisis via a political compromise instead of a Constitutional Court (CC) ruling or goin [...]	2007-04-10 15:56:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV853	UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH AND YUSHCHENKO AGREE EU [...] (C) Summary: During his March 27 visit to Brussels, PM Yanukovych said he wanted Ukraine to adopt a long-term strategy for EU membership and thanked his interlocutors for their help so far. Echoing President Yushchenko's earlier comments, Yanukovych urged the incorporation of a reference to U [...]	2007-04-11 15:46:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECIN ETRD ENRG EUN UP
07KYIV871	UKRAINE: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT TAKES UP [...] (SBU) Summary. As President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yanukovych meet daily to try to reach a political compromise to end the crisis sparked by Yushchenko's April 2 decree to dismiss the Rada and call new elections and the coalition/Rada's refusal to accept the decree, attention has focuse [...]	2007-04-12 07:39:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV88	UKRAINE: AIRCRAFT ENGINE BUILDER MOTOR SICH AND [...] (C) Summary/comment: Ukraine's aircraft engine and industrial gas turbine producer Motor Sich occupies a dominant position in both Ukraine and Russia's aviation industries. The venerable company, which began producing aircraft engines in 1915, remains dependent on Russia for 41 percent of it [...]	2007-01-12 15:05:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM ETTC EAIR EIND PINR PREL RS UP
07KYIV897	UKRAINE: 4/13 WTO UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Top GOU officials continue to express concerns that USG comments on WTO-related legislation and the draft Working Party Report will slow down the accession process. EU diplomats in Kyiv have similarly inquired whether the comments signify a U.S. delaying tactic. Post has activ [...]	2007-04-13 13:14:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP
07KYIV906	UKRAINE: POLITICIANS CALCULATING ON [...] (C) Summary. While President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yanukovych continue to negotiate over whether there will be new Rada elections at some point this year, political playmakers from all parties are angling for best outcomes in the face of possible political compromise or snap elections. [...]	2007-04-13 15:36:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV921	UKRAINE: CODEL PRICE GREETED BY RADA CRISIS, HAS [...] (SBU) Summary. The visit Codel Price and members of the House Democracy Assistance Commission to Kyiv on April 1-3 came at a contested moment for the development of Ukraine's parliament--a constitutional crisis over whether the ruling coalition majority was formed unconstitutionally and whether [...]	2007-04-17 13:07:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV922	UKRAINE: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT BEGINS HEARINGS ON [...] (SBU) Summary. The Constitutional Court began full court hearings on April 17 into the constitutionality of Yushchenko's April 2 decree dismissing the Rada and calling new elections, while accusations of bribery, threats, and political pressure swirled around the proceedings. Despite earlier [...]	2007-04-17 15:52:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM UP
07KYIV924	UKRAINE: NEW FOREIGN MINISTER YATSENYUK -- A [...] (SBU) Summary: Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukraine's newest and youngest foreign minister, is extremely bright and, although he has no previous experience at MFA, will pick up the full scope of his new responsibilities quickly. He puts an emphasis on the economic side of his new duties, since he has [...]	2007-04-18 05:45:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ETRD PREL PINR UP
07KYIV929	UKRAINE: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT PROCEEDINGS RESUME [...] (SBU) Summary. Constitutional Court deliberations of the constitutionality of President Yushchenko's April 2 decree dismissing the Rada and calling new elections resumed April 18 after a brief delay caused by opposition efforts to impede access to the court. Opposition leaders Tymoshenko, Ky [...]	2007-04-18 14:49:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV941	UKRAINE: UKRTRANSNAFTA HEAD DISCUSSES ODESA-BRODY [...] (SBU) Summary: Meeting with Ambassador, Ihor Kyriushyn, the chairman of Ukraine's state oil transport company UkrTransNafta and Geoff Berlin of GlobalNet Financial Solutions reviewed plans to transport Caspian crude to Europe via the Odesa-Brody-Druzhba route (reftel). Kyriushyn felt the prop [...]	2007-04-20 06:00:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG PREL RS UP
07KYIV960	UKRAINE: POLITICAL COMPROMISE SOUGHT AS COURT [...] (C) Summary. As President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yanukovych appeared to inch closer to a political compromise, proceedings in the Constitutional Court (CC) April 20-23 indicated that the hearings will probably continue right up to the May 1 holiday. Following a lengthy closed-door Apri [...]	2007-04-23 14:13:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV975	UKRAINE: COURT CASE MOVING ALONG SLOWLY, KYIV QUIET [...] (C) Summary. Major political forces in Kyiv were relatively quiet on April 24 with all eyes still on the Constitutional Court where the Cabinet of Ministers representative Nimchenko continued to present the coalition's case. Echoing the presentation of Rada representatives, Nimchenko argued t [...]	2007-04-24 15:23:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV992	MUNICIPAL HEATING SITUATION IN UKRAINE STILL CRITICAL [...] (U) Summary: Many GOU agencies and international development organizations agree on the urgency of improving reliability and efficiency in the municipal heating and combined heat and power (CHP) sector, which accounts for about 16% of Ukraine's total natural gas consumption. Despite the clear [...]	2007-04-26 12:08:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET ECON UP
07KYIV993	MUNICIPAL HEATING SITUATION IN UKRAINE STILL CRITICAL [...] (U) Summary: Many GOU agencies and international development organizations agree on the urgency of improving reliability and efficiency in the municipal heating and combined heat and power (CHP) sector, which accounts for about 16% of Ukraine's total natural gas consumption. Despite the clear [...]	2007-04-26 12:36:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET ECON UP
07KYIV998	UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO DECREES NEW ELECTION DATE TO [...] (SBU) Summary. President Yushchenko issued a new decree on early parliamentary elections late on April 25 in response to increasing indications that Constitutional Court was ready to deliver a quick ruling against the decree which would have bolstered the coalition's side in ongoing President- [...]	2007-04-26 15:05:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07LAGOS10	CADBURY: NIGERIA'S ENRON? [...] (U) Summary: Since 2003, Cadbury Nigeria, Plc. had overstated its financial position by naira 13bn to naira 15bn. This information came to light following the company's discovery of accounting irregularities in November. After a special audit conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC),the comp [...]	2007-01-08 15:27:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN PGOV NI
07LAGOS100	SITREP 12 & NIGER DELTA ROUNDUP: 31 IN CAPTIVITY, [...] (C) Summary. This is an update on kidnappings and militant attacks in southern Nigeria in 2007. Approximately 31 hostages are currently being held in the Niger Delta. American citizen Bill Graham remains a captive and is the only American currently being held. Roughly sixty individuals hav [...]	2007-02-09 15:39:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS105	SITREP 13: NO CHANGE TO HOSTAGE CASE; OIL MAJOR [...] (C) Summary. There has been no contact with Amcit Bill Graham or Nigerian national Ezekiel Akwa or their captors since the release of British national Neil Mirrlees on February 7. A recent spate of incidents in Port Harcourt caused Shell to encourage expatriate staff to work from their resi [...]	2007-02-12 17:01:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS110	SITREP 14: SSS CONFIRMS HOSTAGES UNHARMED [...] (C) Rivers State Security Service (SSS) confirmed to John Walker of Control Risks Group on February 12 that American citizen Bill Graham and Nigerian national Ezekiel Akwa are "fine." Walker reported to the Pivot-GIS Hostage Crisis Group on February 13 there has been no progress toward the h [...]	2007-02-13 16:46:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS116	SITREP 15: NO SSS CONTACT WITH AMCIT; FILIPINO [...] (C) John Walker of Control Risks Group told the February 14 Pivot-GIS Hostage Crisis Group that he was unable to speak to Rivers State Security Service (SSS) on February 13. Walker speculated SSS may have been working on the February 13 release of 24 Filipino hostages. American citizen Bill [...]	2007-02-14 16:34:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS117	PRESIDENT OBASANJO AVERTS OIL SECTOR STRIKE [...] (C) Summary: President Obasanjo averted an oil sector strike on February 8 by assuring unions the GON would seek to improve security in the Niger Delta, according to Executive Secretary of Nigeria's Ministry of Labor and Productivity, SIPDIS Timiebi Koripamo-Agary. Peter Akpatason, Preside [...]	2007-02-14 16:40:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB EPET PTER ENERG NI
07LAGOS136	SITREP 18: HOSTAGES RELEASED; 3 EXPATS KIDNAPPED, [...] (C) Pivot employees American citizen Bill Graham and Nigerian national Ezekiel Akwa were released from captivity on February 17. Once State Security Service (SSS) had established some leverage in their communications with the kidnappers and once Rivers State Governor Peter Odili lent the mat [...]	2007-02-22 08:10:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS152	ELECTION YEAR PORK BARREL POLITICS IN OSUN STATE [...] (C) Summary: To improve his heretofore tepid and scattered support, Osun State Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola has actively distributed patronage in the run up to the April 2007 election. His main opponent is Action Congress (AC) candidate Rauf Aregbesola, whose campaign theme is Oyinlola has m [...]	2007-03-01 10:35:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS160	DISSECTION OF A 25 DAY KIDNAPPING [...] (C) Summary. Pivot employees American citizen Bill Graham and British national Neil Mirrlees were under surveillance for five days by their captors and abducted when they were boxed-in by vehicles on their way to work. Though the Nigerian Government does not admit officially to paying a rans [...]	2007-03-05 10:57:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS182	DWINDLING POWER SUPPLY LEAVES LAGOS DARK [...] (U) Summary: For the past three months, Lagos State has suffered a critical diminution in its power supply. Public power supply, normally spotty at best, has become almost non-existent. This has more than doubled operating costs for businesses and households for those fortunate enough to have [...]	2007-03-13 14:06:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	ECPS ECON EINV EIND PGOV PREL NI
07LAGOS185	NIGERIA 2007 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (U) The following is Mission Nigeria's submission for the annual trafficking in persons (TIP) report. Paragraphs respond to questions in reftel. ------------------ 27. (SBU) Overview ------------------ -- A. Nigeria is a source, transit, and destination country for trafficked persons. [...]	2007-03-13 15:46:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG
07LAGOS188	OYO FORECAST: VIOLENCE AND VOTING MANIPULATION [...] (C) Summary: A January visit by Poloff to Oyo State showed the return of Rashidi Ladoja to the governor's seat had further complicated the political climate of the State. People's Democratic Party (PDP) strongman Lamidi Adedibu and his ally Deputy Governor Christopher Alao-Akala continue to de [...]	2007-03-14 14:55:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS193	CONGRESSMAN CHRISTOPHER SMITH REVIEWS NATIONAL ANTI-TIP [...] (U) Summary: Nigeria Trafficking in Persons (TIP) experts told Congressman Christopher Smith during his February 20-22 visit to Abuja that Nigeria's anti-TIP network does not include the military. Victims' lack of marketable skills, parents' ignorance of the dangers of trafficking, cultural v [...]	2007-03-15 13:55:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KDEM ELAB PHUM SOCI KWMN CODEL NI
07LAGOS194	CONGRESSMAN CHRISTOPHER SMITH REVIEWS NATIONAL ANTI-TIP [...] (U) Summary: Nigeria Trafficking in Persons (TIP) experts told Congressman Christopher Smith during his February 20-22 visit to Abuja that Nigeria's anti-TIP network does not include the military. Victims' lack of marketable skills, parents' ignorance of the dangers of trafficking, cultural v [...]	2007-03-15 13:56:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	CODEL PREL PGOV KDEM ELAB PHUM SOCI KWMN NI
07LAGOS197	DELTA ACTIVISTS PREDICT ELECTORAL UNREST [...] (C) Summary: Ledum Mitee, President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP),told AF/W Director Phillip Carter that free and fair elections are unlikely. Both the People's Democratic Party Governorship candidates in Rivers and Delta states are unpopular with the large Ija [...]	2007-03-15 14:28:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	NI PGOV PREL PTER
07LAGOS198	FIVE EUROPEAN HOSTAGES AND ONE FILIPINO RELEASED; [...] (SBU) Summary: Two Italian Agip employees held hostage since December 7 were released March 14; two Croatians and one Montenegrin working for oil service company Hydrodrive International were released March 12 after 22 days in captivity; and a Filipino Shell employee abducted February 6 was r [...]	2007-03-15 14:46:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS199	TRIP REPORT: AKWA IBOM INVESTS IN INFRASTRUCTURE, [...] (SBU) Summary. Akwa Ibom, an oil-producing state in the Niger Delta, is building an airport, an independent power plant, underground water channels, and a tourism sector to develop the state and attract private investment. The People's Democratic Party politically dominates Akwa Ibom. PDP s [...]	2007-03-15 14:53:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NI
07LAGOS20	HOSTAGES TO BE RELEASED, BUT DELTA "ALMOST IN [...] (C) Summary: Bayelsa State Secretary Godknows Igali said January 11 that the hostage takers agreed in negotiations to release the three Italian and one Lebanese employees of Agip kidnapped December 7. This group claims disinterest in money and that they committed the kidnappings due to polit [...]	2007-01-11 19:16:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENERG ASEC PTER NI
07LAGOS208	NLNG'S TRAIN 6 ON LINE, TRAIN 7 FINAL INVESTMENT [...] (U) Summary: Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG),the first company in Nigeria to produce liquefied natural gas (LNG) for the export market, will bring Train 6, now two-thirds complete, and take a final investment decision (FID) on commencement of Train 7 in early 2007. The company antic [...]	2007-03-20 07:38:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET PGOV ENERG NI
07LAGOS213	EDO STATE MAKES PROGRESS AGAINST TIP, BUT THE [...] (SBU) Summary: A visit by Poloff with Global Trafficking in Persons Program Officer Amy LeMar to Edo State showed progress in combating trafficking in persons (TIP). Local organizations have been led by Idia Renaissance, founded by Edo State First Lady Eki Igbinedion. Igbinedion's anti-TIP [...]	2007-03-21 11:27:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KWMN ELAB KCRM SOCI SMIG NI
07LAGOS217	EXPECT POLITICIANS TO HIRE ARMED GROUPS [...] (C) Summary: Some armed groups in Rivers State are for hire this election season; Ateke Tom's group will be employed by Governor Peter Odili while Soboma George will be employed by opposition groups, says Miabiye Kuromiema, Rivers indigene and former Secretary General of the Ijaw Youth Counci [...]	2007-03-22 11:30:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	NI PGOV PREL PTER
07LAGOS22	ELECTION 2007: SOUTHERN PDP GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARIES [...] (SBU) Summary. This is a survey of the results of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial primaries in southern states, which took place December 9. Most candidates chosen were those who had pledged fealty to state governors or, where the governors were weak, to the PDP national lea [...]	2007-01-12 11:24:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07LAGOS223	DESPERATION MARKS LAGOS ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: In two March 15 meetings, a Progressive Peoples Alliance and a People's Democratic Party candidate gave opposing views on the likelihood of timely elections. They agreed that Lagos State would be the site of fiercely-disputed elections and thus sporadic, unpredictable violence wou [...]	2007-03-23 11:58:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS230	FIVE EXPATS KIDNAPPED; TWO RELEASED SINCE MARCH 17 [...] On March 23, one Lebanese and one Indian national employed by the Nigerian construction company Setraco, were reportedly kidnapped at gunpoint near Warri, Delta State. Media and security sources claim these two hostages were released March 25. Also on March 23, a Dutch security manager worki [...]	2007-03-26 14:54:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM PGOV PREL NI
07LAGOS240	EDO: CLOSE GUBERNATORIAL RACE SPARKS VIOLENCE [...] (C) Summary: Adams Oshiomole, the Edo State Action Congress (AC) governorship candidate, told Poloffs the People's Democratic Party (PDP) orchestrated an attack on the Edo State AC Chairman, who lost an eye, during a recent rally in Edo Central, his opponent's home territory. Professor Oser [...]	2007-03-30 14:28:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER NI
07LAGOS253	PROGRESS ON OIL AND GAS-RELATED LEGISLATION HALTED [...] (SBU) Before the five-week recess was called unexpectedly on March 21 by the National Assembly, observers predicted pending legislation of interest to the oil and gas industry would pass before the legislature adjourned sina die on May 29. Now however, observers decline to predict what bill [...]	2007-04-10 18:07:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC EPET NI PTER ENERG
07LAGOS261	SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHEAST NIGERIAN POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Political violence in the South has been connected to acrimonious local races. The police have been biased against the opposition, and the opposition anticipates the military will show similar bias. The violence has concentrated in the Southwest because of the tight races betwee [...]	2007-04-13 11:33:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07LAGOS264	LACK OF ELECTION PREPARATION RAISES QUESTIONS IN [...] (C) Summary: Election preparations in Oyo, a key southwestern state, have been scant. Neither Governor Rashidi Ladoja nor Action Congress (AC) gubernatorial candidate Taoheed Adedoja have seen voter registration lists, prototype ballots, ballot boxes, nor the hiring of sufficient numbers of [...]	2007-04-13 12:26:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07LAGOS266	THE "CORE" NIGER DELTA: THE DAY BEFORE THE ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: On the eve of the start of Nigeria's two-tiered election season, it appears that the People's Democratic Party (PDP) will recapture the gubernatorial seats of the three major states of the oil rich Niger Delta. Rivers State Governor Odili, Although still smarting from being pres [...]	2007-04-13 14:50:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET NI PGOV
07LAGOS267	LAGOS VIOLENCE TO CONTINUE [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-13 15:06:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07LAGOS269	ELECTION 2007: THE OUTLOOK FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: For the current elections, Southern Nigeria appears to follow the dictum that all politics are local. Greater attention will focus on the state gubernatorial races than on the presidential race. Few people expect a credible exercise. Most expect the People's Democratic Party (PDP [...]	2007-04-13 15:55:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07LAGOS278	AVIATION OFFICIALS SUPPORT NEW CARRIERS, ROUTES [...] (U) Summary: In an April 3 meeting with the Director General (DG),Nigerian Civil Aviation Administration (NCAA),a U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) official promised Virgin Nigeria's application to operate Lagos-JFK routes would be approved by the end of May. The NCAA DG promised to rec [...]	2007-04-18 14:22:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR EINV CVIS PREL NI
07LAGOS279	NIGER DELTA: SIX EXPATRIATES REMAIN HOSTAGES; NO [...] Warri police confirmed to security sources that two Indian employees working for Delta Steel Company were abducted on April 16 near Warri, Delta state. 2. Two Turkish nationals working for Merpa, contracted to the Italian oil major Agip, remain hostages after being abducted from their veh [...]	2007-04-18 14:58:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM PGOV PREL NI
07LAGOS29	TRADITIONAL RULERS KILLED IN NIGER DELTA; OIL [...] (C) Summary: Armed militants attacked the Ekuonoma flowstation owned by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in Rivers State on January 16. Expatriate and local staff from that station had already been evacuated; there has been no decline in production as of yet. The attack on the flows [...]	2007-01-16 16:00:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENERG ASEC PTER CASC NI
07LAGOS3	BAYELSA GOVERNOR WINS VICE PRESIDENTIAL BID [...] (C) Summary: Oronto Douglas, a confidant of Bayelsa State Governor Goodluck Jonathan, told Poloff early December 18 that Jonathan was chosen to be PDP presidential aspirant Umaru Yar'Adua's running mate because he is well respected among Ijaw leaders such as Chief Edwin Clark, because he has [...]	2007-01-04 15:55:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS30	LAGOS INCREDULOUS OVER CENSUS RESULTS [...] (SBU) Summary: For a moment shunting aside the partisan bickering of the election season, Lagosians of all stripes and religious persuasions collectively uttered a hue and cry at the recent national census results. They reject the notion that Kano State is more populous than Lagos. Feeling [...]	2007-01-17 08:46:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM SOCI ECON EAID NI
07LAGOS303	AMERICAN CITIZEN, 4 ITALIANS AND 1 CROAT KIDNAPPED [...] (SBU) Summary: American citizen John Stapleton, four Italians and one Croatian national were kidnapped around 5:30 AM on May 1, off the shore of Bayelsa State. Stapleton was employed by Chevron Nigeria Ltd. while the other five expatriates were working for a Chevron shipping subsidiary. The [...]	2007-05-01 09:50:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS309	SITREP 3: APPROXIMATELY 24 KIDNAPPED SINCE MAY 1 [...] (C) Summary: American citizen John Stapleton, four Italians and one Croatian remain hostages after being abducted on May 1. Stapleton takes medication daily and without it, is susceptible to seizures. The Secretary to Bayelsa State Government Dr. Godknows Igali is aware of Stapleton's need [...]	2007-05-03 14:41:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS31	TWO INCIDENTS IN THE NIGER DELTA [...] (C) Summary: Security sources reported two separate incidents in the Niger Delta, occurring on January 16 and 17. The first incident was an attack by militants on a boat carrying Hyundai employees. One Dutch expatriate and one Joint Task Force (JTF) officer were killed and four others on the [...]	2007-01-17 13:23:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENERG ASEC PTER CASC NI
07LAGOS312	POST-ELECTION MILITANT ACTIVITY ON THE UPSWING [...] Summary: Human rights activist Patrick Naagbanton told Poloff on April 24 militant leaders Soboma George and Ateke Tom reportedly met April 18 to discuss shifting from criminal to politically-motivated attacks. Naagbanton believed Rivers Governor Peter Odili bribed Soboma George and Ateke Tom [...]	2007-05-04 13:22:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM PGOV PREL NI
07LAGOS313	SITREP 4: BAYELSA TAKES THE LEAD; 6 AGIP HOSTAGES [...] (C) Summary: American citizen John Stapleton, four Italians and one Croatian remain hostages after being abducted on May 1. Chevron is following Bayelsa State Government's lead in securing the hostages release and has passed to the government Stapleton's medication. Bayelsa Secretary to the [...]	2007-05-04 14:31:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS318	SITREP 5: AMCIT STILL HOSTAGE; NO PROOF OF LIFE [...] (C) Summary: American citizen John Stapleton, four Italians and one Croatian started their seventh day as hostages. The State Security Service (SSS) could not confirm delivery of Stapleton's medication (Ref A) over the weekend and, as of May 7, had not received photos of the hostages. Chevro [...]	2007-05-07 14:47:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS321	SITREP 6: AMCIT REMAINS HOSTAGE; 3 PIPELINES [...] (C) Summary: After being abducted May 1, six expatriates, including American citizen John Stapleton, four Italians and one Croatian remain in captivity. Chevron has not received proof of life for any of the hostages. Chevron planned to pass a third care package containing food, water, clothe [...]	2007-05-08 15:12:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS322	SITREP 7: 5 AMCITS HELD HOSTAGE IN 2 DIFFERENT [...] (C) Summary: Four American citizen oil service workers were kidnapped May 8 from a Global Industries barge offshore Delta State. The kidnappers are presumably Bayelsa state-based. The Bayelsa State Government and Chevron have received information suggestive of proof of life for American cit [...]	2007-05-09 16:46:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS33	NIGER DELTA: 1 ITALIAN, 5 CHINESE RELEASED [...] (C) Italian Consul General Maurizio Bungaro confirmed the January 17 release of Italian Agip employee Roberto Dieghi after 41 days in captivity. One Lebanese and two Italian employees of Agip remain in captivity. According to security sources, Dieghi was released because he was in poor healt [...]	2007-01-18 14:39:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENERG ASEC PTER CASC NI
07LAGOS331	SITREP 8: FIVE AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES; MILITANTS [...] (C) Summary: Four American citizens abducted from Global Industries' Cheyenne barge on May 8 near Delta State were allowed to call their families the following day, thereby providing proof of life. The kidnappers of the four Americans purportedly demanded all expatriates depart Nigeria, Chev [...]	2007-05-10 15:08:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS337	SOUTHERN NIGERIA HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE THROUGH MARCH [...] This is a roundup of recent incidents representative of the human rights situation in southern Nigeria. This summary is organized according to the sections of the annual Human Right Report. These incidents have not been reported in other cables. --------------------------- Section 1 - Re [...]	2007-05-14 12:56:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL ELAB KIRF NI
07LAGOS338	SITREP 10: FIVE AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES; ITALIANS [...] (C) Summary: American citizens Kevin Faller, Christopher Gay, Michael Rousell, and Larry Plake, abducted May 8 remain hostages. The hostages' employer, Global Industries, has not met Delta State officials despite several attempts. American citizen John Stapleton, four Italians, and one Croat [...]	2007-05-14 15:44:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS344	SITREP 11: 5 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES; POOR DELTA [...] (C) Summary: Four American citizens employed by Global Industries (GI) abducted May 8 remain hostages. Telephone calls from the four Americans have escalated their families' anxieties. GI plans to send representatives to meet Delta State government officials. Chevron's six employees, inclu [...]	2007-05-15 16:02:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS347	SITREP 12: PROOF OF LIFE FOR AMCIT STAPLETON; [...] (C) Summary: Amcit John Stapleton called Chevron representatives May 16 to say that he and the other five captives are well, and have received the medicines sent to them. The militants are demanding a generator and a source of potable water in exchange for release of the hostages. Four Ameri [...]	2007-05-16 16:19:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS355	SITREP 13: 5 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES; GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: Amcit John Stapleton, four Italians, and one Croatian remain hostages. Despite the May 16 attack on Bayelsa Governor Goodluck Jonathan's house, Chevron has decided not to alter its release plan. Secretary to the State Government Dr. Godknows Igali said he was actively pursuing [...]	2007-05-17 15:40:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS357	NIGERIA: PRIVATE SECTOR SPEAKS OUT ON IPR, [...] Summary: Since 2004, Nigeria has seen a proliferation of Chinese-operated optical disc (OD) pirating factories. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has pressed for more effective enforcement and new legislation to make piracy as difficult as possible for these op [...]	2007-05-18 14:44:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EIND ETRD KIPR NI
07LAGOS359	SITREP 14: 5 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES; MEDS [...] (C) Summary: Chevron's six expatriate employees, American citizen John Stapleton, one Croatian and four Italians, begin their eighteenth day as hostages. Dr. Godknows Igali, Secretary to the Bayelsa State Government, continues to use SIPDIS other militant groups to pressure Victor Ebikabow [...]	2007-05-18 15:18:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS363	ATTACK ON VP-ELECT'S HOUSE MARKS THIRD ATTACK IN [...] (C) Vice President-elect Governor Goodluck Jonathan's country residence in Bayelsa State was attacked early morning on May 16. According to press reports, militants approached the house by boat, fired shots and detonated dynamite, purportedly killing one policeman. Jonathan left Yenagoa imm [...]	2007-05-21 16:28:00	Consulate Lagos	SECRET	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM PGOV PREL NI
07LAGOS367	SITREP 16: 5 AMCITS, 2 INDIANS, 1 LEBANESE, 1 [...] (C) Summary: Six expatriates employed by Chevron, including American citizen John Stapleton, begin their twenty-second day in captivity. Bayelsa Secretary to the State Government Dr. Igali and Chevron suspect the hostages will be released by May 29. Four American citizens held captive in De [...]	2007-05-22 15:43:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS368	OIL SECTOR LABOR UNIONS THREATEN MAY 24-25 STRIKE [...] According to press reports, workers of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) will wear red starting May 21 in protest of the recent Bureau of Public Enterprise's (BPE) sale of the Port Harcourt and Kaduna refineries and Stallion House in Lagos. If the Federal Government fails to [...]	2007-05-22 16:28:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB KDEM NI PGOV PHUM
07LAGOS372	SITREP 17: FIVE AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES [...] (C) American citizen John Stapleton, four Italians, and one Croatian remain hostages after being kidnapped off the shore of Bayelsa State on May 1. As of May 23, the State Security Service (SSS) emissary had not delivered Chevron's welfare package containing water, soft drinks, food and naira [...]	2007-05-23 16:45:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL

07LAGOS376	SITREP 18: FIVE AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES; 22 EXPATS [...] (C) Summary: On May 23, a welfare package was reportedly delivered to Chevron's six expatriate employees, including American citizen John Stapleton, who are being held hostage in Bayelsa State. The State Security Service (SSS) emissary told Chevron that the Bayelsa State Government had promis [...]	2007-05-24 14:44:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS38	6 FILIPINOS KIDNAPPED, AMCITS & BRITS NEXT, [...] (C) Summary. Six Filipino nationals were taken hostage from a vessel near Okerenkoko in Delta State on January 20. The following day, militants met in Okerenkoko and agreed to target American and British citizens for kidnapping, a security source and local newspapers reported. Governor Jame [...]	2007-01-22 17:32:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENERG ASEC PTER CASC NI
07LAGOS388	WITH EVIDENT FRUSTRATION, OYO STATE OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: During a May 9 visit by Poloff to Ibadan, interlocutors expressed their consternation over how the recent elections were conducted while the opposition discussed their support for the electoral tribunals. All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP) gubernatorial candidate Abiola Ajimobi pl [...]	2007-05-25 12:29:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS389	SITREP 19: EIGHT AMCITS HOSTAGE MAY 25 IN THREE [...] (C) Summary: On May 25, nine expatriates, including American citizens Bobbie Tyner, Shane McMorris, and Richard Moore employed by TransCoastal, were abducted from three vessels in the riverine area near Sangana, Bayelsa State. May 25 was the twenty-fifth day of captivity for Chevron employees [...]	2007-05-25 13:48:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS394	SITREP 20: 3 AMCIT LIVES THREATENED; 8 AMCITS [...] (C) Summary: On May 27, a news source reported the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND),"Bayelsa State Chapter," issued Nigeria's Federal Government a May 29 deadline to release jailed militant leader Dokubo Asari or "risk the death of seven expatriate oil workers", includ [...]	2007-05-27 20:22:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS395	SITREP 21: 8 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES, GON RECEIVED [...] (C) Summary: According to the Minister of Information, the GON had not received any ultimatum to release jailed militant leader Dokubo Asari or risk the death of seven expatriates, including three American hostages, as reported in the press on May 27 (Ref A). On the eve of the May 29 inaugur [...]	2007-05-28 12:50:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS399	SITREP 22: MEND ATTACKS KIDNAPPERS; 8 AMCITS [...] (C) Summary: Global Industries (GI) believes its four American employees are now under militant leader Tom Polo's custody and there could be a May 30 release. Three American citizens kidnapped off the shore of Bayelsa State on May 25 remain hostage but are well, Amcit Shane McMorris said on M [...]	2007-05-30 15:45:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS409	VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT GOODLUCK JONATHAN BIO [...] (C) Summary: Bayelsa State Governor Goodluck Jonathan's studied loyalty to his predecessor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, his humility, and his comparative honesty (by Nigerian standards) are reportedly reasons President Obasanjo chose him as Umaru Yar'Adua's vice presidential running mate. Jonatha [...]	2007-06-01 13:28:00	Consulate Lagos	SECRET	PGOV PINR PREL NI
07LAGOS412	SITREP 24: 4 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES, WOMEN & [...] (C) Summary: Three American citizens, four British nationals, one South African, one Filipino and one Nigerian employed by TransCoastal and kidnapped on May 25 remain hostages. Six Chevron employees, including American citizen John Stapleton, begin their second month in captivity. On May 31 [...]	2007-06-01 15:18:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS419	SITREP 26: 3 AMCITS, 33 EXPATRIATES REMAIN HOSTAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: Approximately 36 expatriates are being held hostage in the Niger Delta, including three American citizens kidnapped May 25 off the shore of Bayelsa State. Since June 1, 12 expatriates, no American citizens, have been abducted in Rivers and Akwa Ibom states. Twelve Indian nati [...]	2007-06-04 12:56:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS422	SITREP 27: 3 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGE IN BAYELSA STATE [...] (SBU) Three American TransCoastal employees (Bobbie Tyner, Shane McMorris, and Richard Moore),four British nationals, one South African, one Filipino, and one Nigerian begin their eleventh day in captivity. The ten individuals were kidnapped off the shore of Bayelsa State on May 25. ----- [...]	2007-06-05 13:38:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS434	SITREP 29: 3 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGE [...] (C) Three American citizens, Bobbie Tyner, Shane McMorris, and Richard Moore, four British nationals, one South African, one Filipino, and one Nigerian remain hostages after being kidnapped off the shore of Bayelsa State on May 25. TransCoastal (TCO) said they last had contact with the host [...]	2007-06-07 11:24:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET PGOV PREL KDEM NI
07LAGOS437	SITREP 30: 3 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGE; UK ENGAGING GON [...] (C) On June 8, ten hostages kidnapped off the shore of Bayelsa State on May 25 begin their third week in captivity. TransCoastal (TCO) representatives told us on June 7 that they believe Amcit Bobbie Tyner, two British nationals, and the South African hostage are being held by "The General," [...]	2007-06-08 12:06:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET PGOV PREL KDEM NI
07LAGOS439	ELECTION TRIBUNALS GET UNDERWAY IN SOUTHERN NIGERIA [...] (SBU) Summary: In several states of Southern Nigeria, the election tribunals are underway. The expectation is the tribunals will begin deciding cases in the next few months. The opposition hopes the recent independent decisions by the judiciary will continue in the election tribunals, and ov [...]	2007-06-08 16:48:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI
07LAGOS442	SITREP 31: 3 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGE; GOVERNOR [...] (C) American citizens Bobbie Tyner, Shane McMorris and Richard Moore, four British nationals, one South African, one Filipino and one Nigerian national kidnapped offshore Bayelsa State on May 25 remain hostage. On June 11, TransCoastal (TCO) reported there has been "no real change" to the si [...]	2007-06-11 15:35:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET PGOV PREL KDEM NI
07LAGOS447	OGUN STATE: PDP SUGGESTS TRY HARDER NEXT TIME, AS [...] (C) Summary: In Ogun State, the bitter aftermath of the elections brought garlands for the victors and disappointment for supporters of free and fair elections. The ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) believe they have ushered in a new wave of reform in the state and argue the opposition f [...]	2007-06-13 15:28:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS459	ASARI'S RELEASE IS NOT A PANACEA FOR THE NIGER [...] (C) Summary: Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force (NDPVF) leader, Dokubo Asari, was released on bail by the Abuja High Court on June 14. Despite the release of 10 Indian national hostages on June 15, militants have warned the federal government and multinational companies that Asari's release [...]	2007-06-20 13:59:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER NI
07LAGOS47	1 AMERICAN, 1 BRITON TAKEN HOSTAGE IN PORT HARCOURT [...] (C) Summary: American citizen Billy Ray Graham and Briton Neil Robert Mirrlees were kidnapped going to work at approximately 7:00 AM on January 23 in Port Harcourt. Graham and Mirrlees work for Pivot Engineering Company Ltd., a small oil service firm. A Port Harcourt police contact said a g [...]	2007-01-23 16:24:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENERG ASEC PTER CASC NI
07LAGOS480	YAR'ADUA & LABOR RELATIONS MAY IMPROVE [...] (C) Summary: It was not until President Yar'Adua directly negotiated with the NLC and TUC labor leaders in a closed-door session that the 2007 national labor strike was resolved, according to Denja Yaqub, Assistant Secretary to the Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC). Yar'Adua reportedly told the l [...]	2007-06-28 11:48:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PHUM PTER KDEM NI
07LAGOS482	SOUTHERN NIGERIA HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE THROUGH JUNE [...] (U) This is a roundup of recent incidents representative of the human rights situation in southern Nigeria. This summary is organized according to the sections of the annual Human Right Report. --------------------------- Section 1 - Respect for the Integrity of the Person ---------------- [...]	2007-06-28 15:00:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ELAB KIRF NI
07LAGOS492	BRITISH GIRL RELEASED; 2 EXPATS KIDNAPPED OFFSHORE [...] (SBU) On July 8, three-year-old British national Margaret Hill was released near Ogbakiri, Rivers State, after being abducted three days earlier in Port Harcourt (Reftel). No further details are known regarding her release; however, press reports suggest no ransom was paid to secure Hill's r [...]	2007-07-09 15:59:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PGOV PREL PTER NI
07LAGOS493	POLITICAL INSIDER ON NIGER DELTA & EFCC [...] (C) Summary: On July 1, Oronto Douglas, human rights lawyer and confidant of Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, said Jonathan will continue to meet with Delta and Bayelsa state militants throughout July in order to gain community input on how to improve the Niger Delta. The Niger Delta Develo [...]	2007-07-10 11:39:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER NI
07LAGOS5	NIGERIANS SUFFER HUGE LOSSES FROM POWER OUTAGES [...] (U) Summary: Despite the GON,s moves to privatize and restructure the power sector, Nigerians continue to suffer from inadequate power. Industrial and domestic consumers decry the state of the power sector in the last five months. Most Nigerians involved in small-scale enterprises spend naira [...]	2007-01-05 15:53:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	ECPS ECON EINV EIND PGOV PREL NI
07LAGOS502	IJAW MILITANTS ANNOUNCE CEASEFIRE; DESOPADEC BOARD [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 6, Ijaw militant leaders agreed to a 90-day ceasefire during which government could address their interests, which focus on gaining greater control over local government areas and resources. However, Rivers State criminal/militant leaders Ateke Tom and Soboma George did [...]	2007-07-13 09:49:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC NI
07LAGOS507	AES - UPDATE ON CONTRACT DISPUTE [...] (U) Summary: On July 11, AES Nigeria Barge Ltd. (AES),a U.S. power services company, met with President Umaru Yar'Adua to discuss an on-going tax exemption dispute (reftel). The meeting was attended by all stakeholders, including the Ministry of Finance and Energy, Federal Inland Revenue Servi [...]	2007-07-17 14:41:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV EINV PREL NI
07LAGOS522	IFC VILLAGE TELEPHONY PROJECT UNDERWAY IN NIGERIA [...] Summary: The International Finance Corporation would create, at a minimum, 1000 businesses for rural women and extend mobile phone network coverage to rural areas. The Village Phone Project would also expand the capacity of microfinance institutions to manage small-scale loans. This project wa [...]	2007-07-25 15:05:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ECPS EIND NI PGOV PREL EINV
07LAGOS526	MASSOB PRESSES FOR UWAZURUIKE'S RELEASE [...] (C) Summary: Representatives of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) explained to Poloff the case of their detained leader, Ralph Uwazuruike, in prison on treason charges. MASSOB claimed President Umaru Yar'Adua should release Uwazuruike as he has rele [...]	2007-07-26 13:26:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS53	SITREP #2: FIRST PIVOT HOSTAGE CRISIS MANAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Representatives of Pivot-GIS, executives of the Honeywell Group Limited (Pivot's parent organization; not affiliated with the U.S.-based Honeywell Company),representatives of the U.S. and British Embassies and a representative of Control Risks Group (CRG) met January 23 regardi [...]	2007-01-26 10:28:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENERG ASEC PTER NI
07LAGOS54	SHOUTING IN THE EAR OF A DEAF GOVERNMENT: [...] (C) Summary: Bunkerers tapping into crude oil pipelines, vandalized refineries too costly and dangerous to repair or maintain, organized looting of downstream pipelines, complicated import procedures that encourage corruption and force importers to bear the costs of the fuel price subsidy, c [...]	2007-01-26 12:41:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENERG ASEC PTER NI
07LAGOS566	ARIK AIR BUYS BOEING FLEET [...] (U) Summary: Arik Air, a wholly Nigerian-owned airline, recently purchased a new Boeing 737-700 and announced USD 3 billion of orders for a Boeing 777, 787 Dreamliner, 15 737-800s; and four Q400 Bombardier aircraft. Arik's capitalization is unprecedented for a fully-owned Nigerian airline, how [...]	2007-08-10 10:04:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR EINV PREL NI
07LAGOS567	NIGER DELTA: HOSTAGE TAKING & DEATH, PORT HARCOURT [...] (C) Summary: On August 12, a foreign hostage of an unidentified nationality reportedly died in Bayelsa State en route to a hospital. On August 10, a British National was kidnapped in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on his way to work. On August 8, the son of a Bayelsa State legislator was report [...]	2007-08-13 12:48:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC NI
07LAGOS571	DOE A/S HARBERT'S DAY IN LAGOS: GAS, OIL, POWER, [...] (C) Summary: On July 18, Department of Energy Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs Karen Harbert SIPDIS met with Lagos business representatives from the power, gas, oil, and oil services sectors to assess the situation and hear energy companies' concerns. International [...]	2007-08-14 11:48:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL NI
07LAGOS575	GOVERNOR OBI'S SUMMER OF OPTIMISM IN ANAMBRA STATE [...] (C) Summary: In a July 30 visit by Pol-econ chief to Anambra State, Governor Peter Obi optimistically believed with the court cases finally resolved in his favor, now was the time for Anambra State to be the "Light of the Nation". Political observers agree that Obi has an opening to transform [...]	2007-08-15 11:54:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS578	PORT HARCOURT VIOLENCE RESUMES; ATTACKERS IDENTITY [...] (C) Despite the increased deployment of military troops to Port Harcourt, Rivers State following the August 6-12 violence (Reftel),post has confirmed reports that serious fighting and the possible use of explosives broke out throughout the city on August 16. Fighting and violence has been r [...]	2007-08-16 14:56:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PREL NI
07LAGOS58	TRAFFIC STOP OF FUGITIVE SOBOMA GEORGE LEADS TO [...] (C) Summary: After the inadvertent arrest of their leader, Soboma George, a band of armed criminal militants attacked at least one police station in Port Harcourt. Details are sketchy and we have in hand conflicting reports whether George escaped. Apparently, the melee resulted in some casu [...]	2007-01-29 16:47:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENERG ASEC PTER KCRM NI
07LAGOS580	EBONYI STATE EXPERIENCES A SEAMLESS TRANSITION [...] (C) Summary: In a July 31 visit by Pol-econ chief to Ebonyi State, Governor Martin Elechi praised U.S. involvement in Nigeria and cited his top priorities as reforming the civil service and promoting development. Some observers contended Elechi's bureaucratic experience and acumen would bene [...]	2007-08-17 14:03:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS590	NIGERIA: Aviation Briefs [...] (SBU) Virgin Nigeria passed the Shell Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) Group Audit of Flight Operations and Airworthiness/Quality in August. Virgin Nigeria representatives said the airline scored better than Aero Contractors, Arik Air, and Bristows. A successful outcome in this audit sanct [...]	2007-08-23 11:54:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD KIPR PGOV NI
07LAGOS60	SHELL'S BAD DAY: NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT PULLS OIL [...] (C) Summary: Shell Managing Director Ann Pickard told visiting Deputy Director for West African Affairs Don Heflin the Government of Nigeria (GON) has notified the company that one of its oil blocks will be given to a Nigerian company. Unless the GON pays USD 1.2 billion in arrears Shell beli [...]	2007-01-30 15:48:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENERG ASEC PTER NI
07LAGOS602	NIGERIA ANNOUNCES REORGANIZATION OF ENERGY SECTOR [...] (C) Summary: On August 29, the Government of Nigeria announced the decision to "unbundle" the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and to create five new independent agencies. International oil companies (IOCs) were aware of the plan to restructure, but did not expect it to take p [...]	2007-08-30 15:35:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENERG PGOV NI
07LAGOS603	Southern Election Tribunals [...] (SBU) Summary: Election Tribunals in southern states are rejecting challenges to their jurisdiction and affirming rights granted petitioners under the Electoral Act. Nonetheless, Governors elected in Nigeria's deeply flawed April 14 election continue to use every means the law allows to assur [...]	2007-08-30 15:52:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM NI
07LAGOS62	SITREP #5: SSS INVOLVEMENT IN NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) The Pivot-GIS Hostage Crisis Group met January 29. The Nigerian State Security Services (SSS) had been in contact with the kidnappers and reported that all three hostages were well. The Director of the SSS Alhaji Kola Adeshina, has been personally involved in the release negotiations and [...]	2007-01-31 16:30:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CASC KCRM NI
07LAGOS628	NDDC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SCHEME; NGO SEEKS LOCAL [...] (C) Summary: The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) told international oil companies (IOCs) it would pursue community-driven development in pilot communities in 2008, and if successful, in all nine NDDC states by 2009. Bill Knight, Executive Director of Pro-Natura International, though [...]	2007-09-17 14:35:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC NI
07LAGOS629	Struggles Over State Electoral Commissions Precede LGA [...] (U) Summary: Elections in the 353 Local Government Area (LGA) Councils of Nigeria's 17 southern states are scheduled to be held in the last quarter of this year. Struggles continue over control of the State Electoral Commissions which handle the LGA electoral process. End Summary. --------- [...]	2007-09-18 10:45:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI
07LAGOS630	UNDP PLANS IN THE NIGER DELTA [...] (SBU) Summary: A United Nations (UN) official outlined a four part development program in the Niger Delta to be implemented in partnership with Shell Petroleum Development Company. He decried the lack of a concerted international plan to address ongoing unrest in the region. The UN continue [...]	2007-09-18 14:52:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EPET SOCI NI
07LAGOS631	LAGOS BAKERS ASSOCIATION ENDS BREAD STRIKE [...] (U) Summary: Small and medium-sized bakeries in southern Nigeria ended their strike over rising wheat prices. Post-strike prices for a loaf of bread have risen 33 percent. While no violence accompanied the strike, it served to highlight the continuing economic squeeze felt by the average Ni [...]	2007-09-18 14:53:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR SOCI NI
07LAGOS638	ND SPOT REPORT: OKAH ARRESTED, MILITARY PRESENCE [...] (C) Security sources reported on September 18 that criminal arms dealer Henry Okah, known to work in South Africa, Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria (Reftel),had been arrested in Angola. According to a press report, Okah is awaiting extradition to Equatorial Guinea where he will face criminal c [...]	2007-09-20 11:46:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC NI
07LAGOS644	RUMORS SURFACE ABOUT FUTURE OF NIGERIAN LNG PROJECT [...] (C) Summary: The head of a major gas project in Nigeria says there are indications that plans for the OK liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant will not proceed. He also said new gas tax legislation could cripple future gas exploration and production in Nigeria. A Shell managing director reports [...]	2007-09-24 15:20:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG PGOV NI
07LAGOS646	Southern Nigeria Economic Update [...] (U) Summary: Lagos analysts estimate that Nigeria's inflation rate is as high as 10.97 percent in contrast with the 4.8 percent recorded by the Bureau of Statistics in July. A major Lagos textile mill, Atlantic Textile Mill, was forced to close because of unfavorable business environment, maki [...]	2007-09-25 06:28:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD KIPR PGOV NI
07LAGOS647	SENATOR SEES OIL COMPANY MALFEASANCE, PROMISES [...] (C) Summary: The Chairman of the Nigerian Senate's Upstream Petroleum Committee said Chevron had grossly inflated the cost of building its Escravos gas to liquids (GTL) plant. He accused Shell of the same in the construction of its Bonga offshore facility and said Nigeria should use Shell's [...]	2007-09-25 07:12:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG PGOV NI
07LAGOS654	NIGERIA: SECOND PHASE OF BANK CONSOLIDATION UNDERWAY [...] (U) Summary: Another phase of bank consolidation in the wake of successful recapitalization of banks in 2005 pursuant to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) banking reform is underway. Many banks are going to the stock market to raise capital. Banks which had criticized the CBN directive to recap [...]	2007-09-26 14:27:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON EINV PGOV NI
07LAGOS672	LAGOS COMMISSIONERS ON SECURITY & DEVELOPMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with Theodore Craig, Office of Policy Planning, U.S. Department of State, two Lagos State Commissioners explained that relations between Lagos Governor Fashola and President Yar'Adua are strong, that Yar'Adua has agreed to expand a major expressway from four to 16 la [...]	2007-10-10 15:19:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ASEC NI
07LAGOS690	MOSOP PRESIDENT: EFCC MUST CHARGE CORRUPT [...] (C) Summary: The relative calm in Port Harcourt, Rivers State is misleading as state government officials have contributed to the violence, rather than decreased it. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) must hold government officials responsible for corruption and complicity i [...]	2007-10-22 13:45:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM NI
07LAGOS691	NIGER DELTA: 3 NON-AMERICAN EXPATS KIDNAPPED [...] (SBU) Militants in 20-30 speed boats attacked a Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) support vessel at the EA Field offshore Bayelsa state around 20:45 on October 20. Shell security sources confirmed the kidnapping of three expatriate subcontractors: a Russian, Croatian and British nati [...]	2007-10-22 13:45:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PGOV PREL NI
07LAGOS692	NIGER DELTA: 3 NON-AMERICAN EXPATS KIDNAPPED [...] (SBU) Militants in 20-30 speed boats attacked a Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) support vessel at the EA Field offshore Bayelsa state around 20:45 on October 20. Shell security sources confirmed the kidnapping of three expatriate subcontractors: a Russian, Croatian and British nati [...]	2007-10-22 13:45:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PGOV PREL NI
07LAGOS694	NIGER DELTA ROUNDUP: HOSTAGES RELEASED, PORT [...] (SBU) Three expatriates (Russian, Croatian, and British nationals),and four Nigerian hostages were released around 17:00 on October 22, two days after having been kidnapped offshore Bayelsa State, according to Shell representatives (Reftel). Shell attributed the release to quick community a [...]	2007-10-23 15:07:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PGOV PREL NI
07LAGOS697	NIGERIA'S OIL REGULATOR ON SECTOR REFORM [...] (C) Summary: Nigeria's petroleum regulatory chief said the government will give its interests in oil production joint ventures to a newly formed national oil company. Costs for building the OK liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant have increased significantly and he said the plant's future is in [...]	2007-10-24 12:24:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG PGOV NI
07LAGOS704	NIGERIA: DELTA'S AMBITIOUS INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT [...] (C) Summary: The Delta State Integrated Development Project has created an ambitious development plan for the state focused on establishing an industrial base, developing infrastructure, and privatizing some government functions to boost citizens' earning power. Two of the plan's larger proj [...]	2007-10-26 10:54:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAGR EPET PREL ASEC NI
07LAGOS705	NIGERIAN DRUG REGULATOR CLAIMS COUNTERFEITING SUCCESS [...] Summary: Professor Dora N. Akunyili has transformed Nigeria's National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) into an effective regulatory agency. NAFDAC has reduced the number of counterfeit drugs on the market, increased surveillance at ports, streamlined drug registratio [...]	2007-10-29 12:06:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	EIND KIPR EAGR SNAR NI
07LAGOS711	NIGER DELTA: 6 EXPATS RELEASED, GOVERNMENTS [...] (C) Summary: Four Indian and two Polish nationals kidnapped offshore Rivers State on October 26 were released on October 29. Despite being swindled by the Rivers and Lagos state governments, the Foundation for Ethnic Harmony in Nigeria (FEHN) will host a high level Global Conference on Nonvi [...]	2007-10-30 14:55:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC NI
07LAGOS717	OIL ADVISOR SAYS NIGERIA IS NO VENEZUELA [...] (SBU) Summary. The Nigerian president's special advisor on petroleum said that recent press reports on petroleum contract renegotiations were overblown and Nigeria was "no Venezuela." He clarified that the older oil production contracts were past due to be reworked, but the process will take [...]	2007-10-31 14:38:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG PGOV NI
07LAGOS719	NIGERIA: NEW RIVERS GOVERNOR REINVENTS HIMSELF BUT [...] (C) Summary: Recently inaugurated Governor Amaechi of Rivers State has pledged to fight corruption and promised to pressent a bill creating a Due Process and Public Procurement Commission to the legislature. After having been sidelined by the People's Democratic Party for six months, Amaechi [...]	2007-11-01 13:58:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC NI
07LAGOS736	Nigerian Grain Production Drop Leads to Higher Food Prices [...] Summary: With the drop in Nigeria's grain production from reduced acreage and late season dryness, the price of grain has risen and with it animal feed, leading to higher prices for eggs, poultry, and meats to consumers. These price increases come at a time when the price of bread, which is [...]	2007-11-10 07:43:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR SOCI NI
07LAGOS740	RESOURCE NATIONALISM IN NIGERIA [...] (C) Summary: Resource nationalism is not a significant movement in Nigeria. GON officials publicly and privately express a desire to attract more foreign investment in the petroleum sector. However, tough new local content requirements are in practice nationalistic and could hamper petroleu [...]	2007-11-13 15:37:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG PGOV NI
07LAGOS741	NIGER DELTA MILITANTS HIT QUA IBOE TERMINAL [...] (C) Around 07:00 AM on November 12, six to seven militant boats were spotted shooting into the air offshore Exxon Mobil's Qua Iboe Terminal (QIT) in Akwa Ibom State. According to security sources, the military Joint Task Force (JTF) repelled the militants around 10:30 AM after a firefight whi [...]	2007-11-13 15:59:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM NI
07LAGOS749	NIGERIA'S 2008 OIL PRODUCTION TO FALL SAYS TOP OIL [...] (C/NF) Summary: Shell's senior Africa executive reported that while no country in the world has the potential of Nigeria in terms of new reserves available to international oil companies, Shell would not develop new fields next year because of ongoing funding and security problems. The execut [...]	2007-11-19 15:39:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ENRG EPET MARR MASS PGOV PREL NI
07LAGOS750	A POSSIBLE STRUCTURE FOR A NEW NIGERIAN OIL SECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary: This cable provides an initial view of plans by the government of Nigeria (GON) to reorganize its petroleum sector and national oil company. No official plan has been announced publicly. Clarification may come in February 2008, but the actual implementation is expected to take [...]	2007-11-21 10:27:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG PGOV NI
07LAGOS759	NIGER DELTA TIDBITS: SECURITY, POLITICS, [...] (C) This cable provides updates to security and political developments in the Niger Delta. These events occurred in November and were not previously reported: --Bonny Island Labor Skirmish Results in 3 Fatalities --Delta: Joint Task Force-Uduaghan Prevent Itsekiri Attack on Chevron --Sena [...]	2007-11-29 16:11:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NI
07LAGOS769	NIGERIA: ITSEKIRI TAKE UP ARMS; MILITANTS SEEK TO [...] (C) Summary: The Itsekiri in Delta State have created the Niger Delta Survival Front, a militant body through which they reportedly hope to exert pressure on Chevron; however, an Ijaw contact believes this body will remain weak due to limited resources and the small geographic territory inhab [...]	2007-12-03 14:07:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC NI
07LAGOS780	START OF GAS FLOW THROUGH WEST AFRICAN GAS [...] (SBU) A USAID contractor advising the West African Gas Pipeline Company (WAGPco) reports that the free flow of natural gas through the West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP) has been delayed until at least January 2008. WAGPco had announced December 5th as the date for starting the flow of gas. Ho [...]	2007-12-13 12:13:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ECIN ECON ENRG PGOV NI
07LAGOS787	TSA COMPLETES INSPECTION OF LAGOS INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) In conjunction with the commencement of direct service between Atlanta and Lagos by Delta Airlines, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials completed an inspection of aviation security at Lagos' Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA). The five day inspection covered all aspects o [...]	2007-12-21 12:13:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR EINV PREL NI
07LAGOS789	NIGERIA: DELTA STATE PURSUES PRIVATE INVESTMENT IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Delta State Ministry of Environment is looking for assistance from donor agencies and private sector investment to spearhead projects such as erosion control, reforestation for timber, and waste management. The Delta State Waste Management Board, which falls under the purvi [...]	2007-12-27 12:32:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL SENV NI
07LAGOS792	EXXONMOBIL PREPARES FOR NIGERIA'S GAS FLARING [...] (C) Summary: ExxonMobil (EM) will not meet Nigeria's January 1, 2008 deadline to end natural gas flaring (Ref). EM has a multi-billion dollar plan in progress to reinject gas into near offshore fields, but will continue to flare some "routine" gas until at least 2011 unless it is forced to sh [...]	2007-12-28 11:08:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG PGOV NI
07LAGOS793	NIGER DELTA: DESOPADEC FOR OIL COMMUNITY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) has begun to develop riverine areas by offering health care to 180,000 individuals and by opening bids for more than 100 development projects. A decrease in oil production meant DESOPADEC received USD 8.5 mi [...]	2007-12-31 08:32:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL SENV NI
07LAGOS91	SITREP 10: BRITISH NATIONAL MIRRLEES RELEASED; [...] (C) Around 7:30 AM on February 7, militants released British national Neil Mirrlees due to the noticeable decline in his health since being held hostage. Mirrlees has been taken to a health clinic in Port Harcourt. Pivot will fly Mirrlees, a long time resident of Port Harcourt, to Lagos Feb [...]	2007-02-07 16:03:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL
07LAGOS95	STATE OF EMERGENCY BRINGS SOME CALM TO EKITI STATE [...] (C) Summary. Although controversial, President Obasanjo's declaration in October 2006 of a state of emergency in Ekiti State has provided citizens a respite from the State's tumultuous political climate. Special Administrator Tunji Olurin has brought some order to Ekiti. However, the party [...]	2007-02-09 07:07:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07LAGOS97	NIGERIA NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PREPARES DOWNSTREAM GAS [...] (U) Summary: Final investment decisions (FIDs) will be taken on the OK Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG),Brass LNG, Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) and Equatorial Guinea LNG projects early in 2007. As a result, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is pushing Nigeria's Nationa [...]	2007-02-09 09:47:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET NI PGOV ENERG
07LAGOS99	ECONOMIC ROUND-UP: JANUARY [...] (U) Summary: In January, news media reported China granted duty-free status to manufactured goods imported from Nigeria; Delta State signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China to rehabilitate several ailing publicly-owned companies; and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was offered Nig [...]	2007-02-09 12:12:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	ECPS ECON EINV EIND PGOV PREL NI
07LAHORE671	ROUND-UPS UNDERWAY IN PUNJAB [...] (S) Summary: Normalcy still prevails in Lahore and throughout the Punjab in the wake of the suspension of the constitution. Reports are surfacing, however, that the police are conducting sweeps against key opponents of the government. Punjabi opposition leaders, lawyers and civil society eleme [...]	2007-11-04 15:59:00	Consulate Lahore	SECRET	PGOV PREL AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PINR AMGT PK
07LAHORE707	NAWAZ SHARIF TOUCHES DOWN AT LAHORE [...] (C) Summary: Pakistani authorities permitted exiled former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif to enter Pakistan on Sunday November 25th, arriving at Lahore's Allama Iqbal International Airport at approximately 6:30 p.m. local time via a personal aircraft of the [...]	2007-11-25 16:42:00	Consulate Lahore	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PINR AMGT PK
07LAHORE715	PML-N WILL NOT BOYCOTT ELECTIONS [...] (S) SUMMARY: According to a close confidant of Nawaz Sharif, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) does not/not intend to boycott elections but will continue publicly and privately to threaten to do so in order to extract concessions from the government by insisting on the selection of a new [...]	2007-11-26 14:37:00	Consulate Lahore	SECRET	PGOV PREL AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PINR AMGT PK
07LAPAZ1032	NEW GOB PROPOSAL FOR DIP NOTE EXCHANGE ON MIL [...] (SBU) This message contains an urgent action request (paragraph 8). --------- SUMMARY --------- 2. (SBU) As part of Embassy La Paz's continuing efforts to work with the GOB towards a permanent Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) (see reftels),we have been negotiating with the Bolivian [...]	2007-04-13 18:03:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	KTIA PGOV PREL MARR MASS MOPS BL
07LAPAZ1060	CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY: A LONG "TO DO" LIST [...] (SBU) Bolivia's Constituent Assembly (CA) wrapped up its national tour over the weekend of April 14-15 and will resume work in commissions April 16. Press reports estimate that the new constitution may have as many as 300 articles (the current constitution has 234),and that the Assembly has [...]	2007-04-17 11:20:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ1085	OPPOSITION PREFECTS SIGN AUTONOMY PACT [...] (C) The opposition prefects of Beni, Cochabamba, Pando, Santa Cruz, and Tarija met on April 15 and all except Cochabamba signed a pact to defend departmental autonomy. The pact calls for respect for existing departmental borders, endorses moving the executive and legislative branches from La [...]	2007-04-18 19:00:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON BL
07LAPAZ1103	CHACO CONFLICT CONTINUES [...] (U) Violent confrontations in Tarija related to ownership of one of the country's largest gas reserves, which began on April 16 (reftel),continued on April 17, despite the GOB's acquiescence to protester demands. Thousands of protesters took over two natural gas pumping stations, shut the val [...]	2007-04-19 19:52:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EPET ENRG CASC BL
07LAPAZ1111	(UN) REQUEST FOR UPDATE OF WORST FORMS OF CHILD [...] Laws and regulations proscribing the worst forms of child labor. a) What laws and regulations have been promulgated on child labor, such as minimum age(s) for employment or hazardous forms of work? The minimum age for child labor is 14. Under President Morales, the Government of Bolivia es [...]	2007-04-20 18:35:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON BL
07LAPAZ1112	CHACO SITUATION APRIL 20: NO VIOLENCE, BUT NO [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-20 19:33:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON CASC EPET ENRG BL
07LAPAZ1113	EVO ANNOUNCES SOY AGREEMENT WITH IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-20 19:34:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON PREL BL
07LAPAZ1127	MAS PROPOSES PRESS OMBUDSMAN [...] (U) A Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) Constituent Assembly member has proposed expanding the responsibilities of Bolivia's human rights ombudsman or creating a new "press ombudsman" to hear citizen complaints regarding the press. Reactions to the proposal were mixed. Former journalist and Bo [...]	2007-04-24 17:33:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM BL
07LAPAZ1144	PARTIAL GOB TAKE-OVER OF BOLIVIA'S LARGEST [...] (SBU) On April 23, the GOB reportedly issued a decree taking over 47 percent of the nation's largest telephone company, Entel, from the Bolivian Pension Fund Administrators, who previously held the shares in trust to pay pensions to the Bolivian public. GOB negotiations with Telecom Italia, w [...]	2007-04-24 19:52:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ECPS EINV BL
07LAPAZ1150	NEGATIVE PR MAY BLOCK COMMUNITARIAN JUSTICE [...] (C) Summary: On January 1, President Morales proposed a law to create a formal, legally binding communitarian justice system (reftel). The Constituent Assembly has yet to debate the communitarian justice law, but there is already significant opposition to the proposal. Although the death pen [...]	2007-04-25 18:30:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ1166	DONATED VENEZUELAN TRACTORS CANNOT BE USED [...] (U) Several press reports throughout the month of April have noted that over 300 Venezuelan-Iranian-made tractors donated to municipalities throughout Bolivia over the past few months by Venezuela under the auspices of the People's Trade Agreement (TCP) and the Bolivarian Alternative for the A [...]	2007-04-26 17:06:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAGR EAID PREL PGOV BL
07LAPAZ1203	SPECIAL 301 DEMARCHE DELIVERED; VICE MINISTER [...] (C) Emboff delivered ref A demarche to Vice Minister of Trade Rabczuk and to the National Service of Intellectual Property (SENAPI) on April 27. SENAPI representatives expressed interest in the recommendations and noted that they had proposed changes to update the 1992 copyright law, which ar [...]	2007-04-30 19:20:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON ETRD KIPR TBIO BL
07LAPAZ1229	GOB-BACKED MINERS ATTACK CONSTITUTIONAL TRIBUNAL [...] (C/NF) Well over a thousand government-paid miners marched on Sucre and attacked the Constitutional Tribunal with dynamite April 27 to pressure the court into respecting the GOB's October 31 supreme decree (reftel) which nationalized the Posokoni, Huanuni mine. The court building sustained m [...]	2007-05-04 11:11:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PHUM BL
07LAPAZ1245	GOB'S ENTEL TAKE-OVER ATTEMPT VEXES EUROPE [...] (SBU) The parent company of Telecom Italia, which owns 50 percent of Bolivia's largest telephone company Entel, is threatening arbitration under the Bolivian-Dutch bilateral investment treaty. The arbitration threat arose following the GOB's announcement that it would take over majority owner [...]	2007-05-04 18:30:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ECPS EINV PREL BL
07LAPAZ1280	GOB TAKES OFF THE GLOVES WITH PETROBRAS [...] (U) On May 6, the GOB issued, and on May 7, officially published, decree number 29122 giving state-owned oil company YPFB majority control over residual crude oil exportation from two refineries owned by Brazil's Petrobras, the largest investor in Bolivia's hydrocarbons sector. Press reports [...]	2007-05-09 10:20:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ1281	CUBA STEPS UP ITS MISSION IN BOLIVIA [...] (C) Summary: Overt Cuban presence in Bolivia consists primarily of medical assistance and literacy programs. There are an estimated 2,000 Cuban medical personnel in Bolivia, of which 1,200 claim to be doctors. Cuba has funded 11 opthamology centers in Bolivia, and the Cuban Government recent [...]	2007-05-09 10:20:00	Embassy La Paz	SECRET	ECON PGOV PREL BL CU
07LAPAZ1322	SAN PEDRO- PRISON FACILITY OR URBAN SLUM? [...] On May 4, Emboffs visited La Paz's San Pedro prison with Alvaro Guzman, head of the National Public Defender's Office. After the conclusion of the formal visit, Guzman took Emboffs on a tour of San Pedro's "neighborhoods," the prison sections corresponding to inmates' socio-economic levels. [...]	2007-05-14 14:32:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON BL
07LAPAZ1347	BOLIVIAN AND VENEZUELAN OIL COMPANIES PLAN [...] (S) The GOB issued a decree on May 13 enabling state oil company YPFB to form partnerships to explore 21 areas for natural gas and oil. Following the decree issuance, Bolivian officials announced that YPFB is discussing the formation of a joint exploration company with Venezuela's PDVSA. Reft [...]	2007-05-15 19:06:00	Embassy La Paz	SECRET	ECON EINV ENRG EPET PREL IR VE BL
07LAPAZ136	MUTUN NEGOTIATIONS DRAG ON, DESPITE REPORTS OF NEW [...] (SBU) Mutun contract negotiations continue, despite January 19 press reports of new bidders. Bolivian Minister of Mining Jose Dalence reportedly said the GOB was looking for "better" offers, after repeated delays in signing a joint-venture contract allowing India's Jindal Steel and Power to d [...]	2007-01-19 20:38:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN EINV ECON PGOV BL
07LAPAZ137	BEHIND THE SCENES, MINING TAX DISCUSSIONS BEGIN [...] (SBU) GOB officials and mining company executives have quietly begun discussing tax increases. Industry representatives say the changes will be significant -- on paper, GOB officials are seeking a 50 percent share of before-tax profits -- but far less substantial than the 500 percent hike pro [...]	2007-01-19 21:18:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL

07LAPAZ1379	BFIF SUPPORTS FORESTRY TRADE SHOW [...] (U) Post used FY07 Business Facilitation Incentive Fund (BFIF) monies to support Expoforest 2007, Bolivia's principal forestry trade show. This cable provides outcome and expenditure information. End summary. --------------- EXPOFOREST 2007 --------------- 2. (U) BFIF funds supported [...]	2007-05-18 10:55:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	ABUD AFIN AMGT BEXP BTIO ECON EINV BL
07LAPAZ138	EXPORTERS WORRY ABOUT DETERIORATING BUSINESS [...] (SBU) Leading exporters have expressed concern about Bolivia's increasingly unfavorable image and deteriorating business climate. The GOB's left-leaning rhetoric, they say, threatens to turn Bolivia into an international pariah; combined with general political instability and growing GOB atta [...]	2007-01-19 21:18:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
07LAPAZ1404	UNCERTAINTY STILL REIGNS IN BOLIVIA'S NATURAL GAS [...] (SBU) The Bolivian Hydrocarbons Chamber told Emboffs May 18 that, while some smaller natural gas producers have agreed to invest in increased gas production, the largest players in the Bolivian industry are still waiting cautiously. Chaco has agreed to invest around USD 250 million over the ne [...]	2007-05-22 19:04:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
07LAPAZ1429	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON IMPLEMENTING UNSCR 1747 [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-24 12:11:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM ETTC UNSC IR BL
07LAPAZ1537	MORALES LASHES OUT AGAINST CAPITALISM AND THE [...] SUMMARY: The Fifth World Encounter of the Network in Defense of Humanity was held May 22-25 in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Bolivian President Evo Morales opened the gathering of leftist intellectuals and artists with a fiery speech that condemned capitalism as the "worst enemy of humanity." His hot-t [...]	2007-06-05 12:01:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON BL
07LAPAZ1569	NEW AIRLINE FINANCED BY VENEZUELA -- OLD AIRLINE [...] (SBU) The Bolivian press announced on June 6 that, according to sources from the GOB, a new national airline "Aerolineas Bolivianas" will soon be launched with USD 30 million of financing provided by Venezuela under the auspices of the People's Trade Agreement and the Bolivarian Alternative fo [...]	2007-06-06 19:03:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON EAID BL
07LAPAZ1570	CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY DELAYS CONTINUE [...] (SBU) On June 5, for the first time a senior MAS Constituent Assembly (CA) delegate publicly conceded that not enough time remains to draft a new constitution by the government's August 6 deadline. The MAS concession followed a recent deadline extension, from May 30 to June 11, for the CA's t [...]	2007-06-06 20:17:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ECON BL SNAR
07LAPAZ1589	ANDEAN COMMUNITY SUMMIT PREPARATIONS AND EU [...] (C) Preparations for the 17th Presidential Summit of the Andean Community (CAN),to be held in Tarija June 12-14, are going slowly as the CAN deals with internal divisions, especially in regard to negotiating a trade agreement with the EU. As of June 8, only President Correa of Ecuador and [...]	2007-06-08 20:04:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ160	BOLIVARIAN POLICIES UNDERCUT BOLIVIA'S [...] (SBU) The GOB issued a supreme decree on January 1 to establish a state development bank to provide subsidized, low-rate credits to small businesses associated with social organizations. Although according to the decree, the development bank will be a second-tier institution, rather than a fi [...]	2007-01-23 16:26:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EAID BL
07LAPAZ161	APPLICATION FOR PE 127 - OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY - [...] Michael Stewart's Application for PE 127 - Oil and Gas Industry: Michael Stewart will be working as a consular officer in Sao Paulo, Brazil until May 2007. He will report for a two-year tour as an economic officer in La Paz, Bolivia in August 2007. As economic officer in La Paz, he will cov [...]	2007-01-23 16:28:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	AFSI APER ENRG EPET ECON BL
07LAPAZ1619	MAS STEAMROLLS CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY COMMISSIONS [...] (SBU) The Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) appears to have adopted a new strategy to steamroll their proposals through the Constituent Assembly's (CA) twenty-one commissions, violating the voting rules agreed upon on February 14, 2007 (reftel). The strategy is aimed at preventing PODEMOS, the [...]	2007-06-12 08:14:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ1625	MAS STEAMROLLER CONTINUES DESPITE SETBACK [...] (U) A Constituent Assembly (CA) Directive ruling on June 11 provided a minor setback for the Movement Towards Socialism's (MAS) new strategy of controlling both the majority and minority reports issued by the CA's commissions (reftel A). The MAS' strategy consists of splitting its vote within [...]	2007-06-12 19:47:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
07LAPAZ1661	CUBAN DOCTOR PREVENTED FROM DEPARTING BOLIVIA [...] (SBU) On June 14, Cuban doctor Ruber Rodriguez Cruz was detained by Bolivian immigration authorities in Santa Cruz after boarding an American Airlines flight bound for Miami. Dr. Rodriguez Cruz eventually managed to leave the airport and found a "safe place" to avoid Bolivian authorities. We [...]	2007-06-15 10:04:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL BL CU
07LAPAZ1664	IMPEACHMENT OF CONSTITUTIONAL JUDGES: THE PROCESS [...] (C) The GOB's impeachment case against four of five of the constitutional tribunal justices (REFTEL A) will be a protracted process. Nonetheless the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) is trying expedite the case. On June 12, two MAS lower house deputies, who are members of a preliminary inves [...]	2007-06-15 14:08:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON BL
07LAPAZ1666	BOLIVIA: EITI RESPONSE PENDING [...] (SBU) The DFID letter referred to in ref A was delivered June 12; the GOB has not yet responded. The British DCM told Emboffs on June 13 that he does not expect the GOB to prioritize the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI),but hopes to encourage steps toward membership throu [...]	2007-06-15 16:26:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EMIN ENRG EPET BL
07LAPAZ1669	CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY: FISTS FLY, MILITARY ANGRY [...] (C) On June 14, a small group of opposition (PODEMOS party) constituent assembly (CA) delegates was involved in a confrontation with police within the Colegio Junin, the site where the CA's twenty-one commissions are working. An opposition delegate told poloff on June 15, that the incident beg [...]	2007-06-15 18:49:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ167	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH DORIA MEDINA AND UN PARTY [...] (C) On January 20, National Unity (UN) party leader Samuel Doria Medina and several UN party officials told the Ambassador, DCM, and Ecopol officers they believe cooperation among opposition political parties has improved, although obstacles remain to close coordination. Doria Medina claimed [...]	2007-01-23 20:24:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ECON BL
07LAPAZ1678	CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY: VP'S VIEWS AND SANTA CRUZ [...] (U) La Paz daily newspaper La Prensa on June 17 published an interview with Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera where he opined on the Constituent Assembly (CA) and the CA's hottest issue, autonomy. Garcia Linera reiterated his oft stated remark that "departmental autonomy is guaranteed" and [...]	2007-06-18 21:43:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
07LAPAZ1718	CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY: SEVEN COMMISSIONS FILE [...] (U) Despite a June 21 deadline only seven of the Constituent Assembly's twenty-one commissions issued their final reports. Of the seven, only the Coca and Rural Development commissions have issued consensus reports, while the other five commissions have each issued majority and minority repor [...]	2007-06-25 12:04:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON PHUM KDEM BL
07LAPAZ1811	PRESIDENT MORALES' "SUCCESSFUL" TRIP TO SWITZERLAND [...] (C) SUMMARY: While President Morales has publicly claimed that his trip to Switzerland was a success, post has learned from the Swiss delegation in La Paz that he may have alienated more people than he befriended and even put at risk future Swiss assistance with his delegations' disorganization [...]	2007-07-02 15:55:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ1840	TIME TO INVEST IN BOLIVIAN MINING? NOT LIKELY [...] (C) In the past week emboff has fielded calls from three U.S. companies seeking information about the investment climate for Bolivia's mining sector. U.S. mining companies have also contacted U.S. congressional representatives with their views of the investment climate in Bolivia (in connecti [...]	2007-07-05 12:09:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EMIN EINV BL
07LAPAZ1847	AMBASSADOR'S MEETINGS WITH U.S. MINING EXECUTIVES [...] (C) Although representatives from the three major U.S. mining companies in Bolivia listed specific concerns regarding GOB proposed changes to the mining code and taxes (ref B describes proposals),their basic request to the Ambassador was that the Embassy encourage the GOB to open a dialogue [...]	2007-07-05 16:04:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EMIN EINV BL
07LAPAZ1860	HUANUNI MINERS DEMAND AUTONOMY AND HIGH-LEVEL [...] (C) Huanuni's miners are blocking roads between La Paz, Oruro, Potosi, and Cochabamba (note: reports as of 1745 indicate that the police have broken the blockades using teargas.) Press coverage has been unsympathetic, focusing on the suffering of average Bolivians stranded in bus stations an [...]	2007-07-05 22:59:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV EMIN ECON BL
07LAPAZ188	A NEW YEAR, A NEW CABINET [...] (C) Despite recent public statements that he would not make any cabinet changes, President Morales announced a shake-up late January 23, replacing seven ministers (government, education, agriculture, justice, public works, planning, and labor). The announcement came as a surprise for many, ex [...]	2007-01-25 15:52:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ1928	HUANUNI UPDATE: MARCH ON LA PAZ OR MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) After deadlocked meetings with the ministers of mining and labor, Huanuni's state-salaried miners were driven from their road blockades by police July 6. The miners retreated with 14 wounded but swore to continue their protests with a march on La Paz. According to press accounts, the po [...]	2007-07-11 20:22:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EMIN ECON BL
07LAPAZ1940	HUANUNI UPDATE: BACK TO WORK [...] (SBU) After more than a week of lost production, the state-salaried miners at Huanuni returned to work July 12. Both sides are claiming victory, but it seems that the GOB made significant concessions to the protesters (including dropping charges against those who had attempted to enter La Paz [...]	2007-07-13 14:32:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EMIN ECON BL
07LAPAZ1949	OPPOSITION POLITICIAN PHYSICALLY ATTACKS [...] (C) On July 10, Adolfo Chavez, president of the Confederation of Indigenous and Original Peoples of Bolivia (CIDOB, an umbrella group of lowland indigenous groups, see reftel) was attacked by Podemos assembly member Fernando Morales. Chavez had flown in to Sucre and was stopped in the airport [...]	2007-07-13 22:14:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ1950	OPPOSITION POLITICIAN PHYSICALLY ATTACKS [...] (C) On July 10, Adolfo Chavez, president of the Confederation of Indigenous and Original Peoples of Bolivia (CIDOB, an umbrella group of lowland indigenous groups, see reftel) was attacked by Podemos assembly member Fernando Morales. Chavez had flown in to Sucre and was stopped in the airport [...]	2007-07-17 11:50:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ1976	COOPERATIVE MINERS MARCH ON LA PAZ AND PLAN TO [...] Press reports indicate that thousands of cooperative miners arrived the morning of July 17 in El Alto on their way to La Paz. On orders from the Ministry of Government and Ministry of Defense, the police and military are searching all vehicles entering La Paz in an attempt to seize explosive [...]	2007-07-18 05:49:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EMIN BL
07LAPAZ1981	BOLIVIA'S CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY: WHAT'S AT STAKE [...] (U) On July 13, twenty of the Constituent Assembly's (CA) twenty-one commissions issued their reports, most issuing a majority and minority version. The reports in total contain 708 articles. The majority Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) and the opposition (led by PODEMOS) only agree on 255. [...]	2007-07-18 14:09:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
07LAPAZ1993	AMBASSADOR GOLDBERG'S AND PDAS SHAPIRO'S MEETING [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a one-day visit to La Paz July 11, PDAS Charles Shapiro and Ambassador Goldberg met with Foreign Minister Choquehuanca and Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera to review bilateral relations. Shapiro laid down a strong marker that better bilateral relations require rhetorical [...]	2007-07-19 14:58:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ2008	MASSIVE DEMONSTRATION TO KEEP LA PAZ AS BOLIVIA'S [...] News organizations are reporting that up to 2 million residents of El Alto and the city and department of La Paz gathered July 20 in El Alto to show their support for La Paz as the legislative and executive capital of Bolivia (see ref A for an explanation of the capital-movement debate.) Spea [...]	2007-07-20 20:25:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM BL
07LAPAZ2063	SUCRE HOLDS RALLY FOR RETURN TO FULL CAPITAL STATUS [...] (SBU) On July 25, over 100,000 (perhaps over 200,000) people rallied in Sucre calling for the executive and legislative branches to return to Bolivia's historical (and still constitutional) capital. This rally followed La Paz's demonstration on July 20 where over a million "pacenos" gathered [...]	2007-07-26 22:30:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON BL
07LAPAZ2090	MUTUN IRON MINE DEAL: JACKPOT OR JINXED? [...] (C) On July 18 President Morales announced a contract with Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (India's third largest stainless steel producer) to develop the massive Mutun iron deposit, which straddles the border with Brazil. (Note: reportedly the contract allows Jindal to develop 50 percent of the B [...]	2007-07-30 21:32:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	EMIN EINV BL
07LAPAZ2092	COURTS OVERTURN BARRING OF HIV POSITIVE NAVAL CADET [...] (U) In a case that set a precedent for the Bolivian military, the La Paz Superior District Court ruled that HIV positive naval cadet Richard Condori should be reinstated to the naval academy. Condori is also alleged to suffer from lymphatic cancer. The Navy claimed Condori, a fifth year stud [...]	2007-07-31 16:35:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM BL
07LAPAZ2098	FOUR VIEWS OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY AND BEYOND [...] (C) From July 18-24, Emboff met with four Constituent Assembly (CA) members representing different political parties. PODEMOS delegate Gamal Serhan Jaldin of Cochabamba argued that there is a real threat that the eastern (lowland) departments will seek separation from the western (altiplano) [...]	2007-08-01 11:59:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL PINR BL
07LAPAZ2104	INTRODUCTION TO BOLIVIAN INDIGENOUS ISSUES [...] Bolivia has the highest percentage (from 35 percent to as high as 75 percent, depending on the survey) of indigenous citizens in South America, and Evo Morales' near-iconic status as the first indigenous president of Bolivia has made indigenous issues both highly-visible and contentious. But [...]	2007-08-01 19:21:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM BL
07LAPAZ2129	TENSIONS HIGH AHEAD OF AUGUST 6 INDEPENDENCE DAY [...] (C) Tensions are high ahead of Bolivian Independence Day on August 6 and Armed Forces Day on August 7. Seven of nine departmental civic committees issued a declaration on August 1 calling for the resignation of five ministers, a two-thirds majority vote for the new constitution, and departme [...]	2007-08-02 21:08:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ2146	INTERIM REPORT ON BOLIVIA DELEGATION TO UNGA [...] (U) This is an interim report on the government of Bolivia's proposed delegation to the 62nd United Nations General Assembly. This cable is keyed to paragraph 8 of reftel. A. Attendance of the Head of State. -- Name and title: Evo Morales Ayma, President of the Republic of Bolivia [...]	2007-08-07 16:09:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ITRA OVIP KSEP UNGA BL
07LAPAZ2155	BOLIVIAN CONGRESS MODIFIES LAW TO EXTEND [...] (SBU) Late in the evening of August 3, the Bolivian Congress approved a law modifying the original legislation (Law 3364) that convoked the Constituent Assembly (CA). The modifying legislation extends the CA's timetable to December 14 and sets forth a number of additional requirements, includ [...]	2007-08-07 20:57:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
07LAPAZ2156	BOLIVIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATIONS BAD FOR [...] (C) President Morales's public image took an unexpected hit during the Bolivian Independence Day celebrations August 6 in Sucre, when he received jeers and insults from the crowd and negative press following the event. President Morales's nearly four-hour-long speech included aspersions again [...]	2007-08-08 15:01:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ2186	MILITARY-INDIGENOUS PARADE NON-VIOLENT [...] (U) The August 7 Armed Forces Day parade held at El Trompillo military airport in Santa Cruz went off peacefully (Reftel A). Approximately 6,000 spectators watched thirty indigenous groups (including the poncho rojos) march with the Bolivian Armed Forces. President Morales, Vice President [...]	2007-08-09 22:10:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ2217	TAX CHANGES POSE SERIOUS PROBLEMS FOR U.S. MINE [...] (C) On August 1, Ambassador Goldberg met with executives from Apex Silver, Sumitomo Corporation, and San Cristobal mine (which is jointly owned by Apex and Sumitomo) to discuss the future of the mine and the impact of the proposed changes to Bolivia's mining code and tax regime. The outlook is [...]	2007-08-13 19:46:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EMIN EINV BL
07LAPAZ2234	INDIGENOUS "FOURTH POWER" POWERLESS [...] (SBU) On August 10, Emboffs met with members of the "National Mechanism for Social Control" to receive a briefing on their operations. The group, composed of leaders of national civic organizations and unions, is trying to position itself as a "fourth power" on level with the legislative, exe [...]	2007-08-14 21:59:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BL
07LAPAZ225	YPFB PRESIDENT REPLACED BY HARD-LINER [...] (SBU) Bolivian state oil company YPFB's President Juan Carlos Ortiz resigned on January 26 due to opposition to his corporate approach to refounding YPFB by militant members of the MAS. President Morales named MAS radical Manuel Morales Olivera as the new head of YPFB on January 29. Prior to [...]	2007-01-29 19:51:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
07LAPAZ2251	MAS MOVES TO SQUASH CAPITAL ISSUE [...] (SBU) On August 15, Constituent Assembly members from the ruling party Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) submitted a resolution removing from the agenda of the Constituent Assembly the issue of where Bolivia's capital should be located. Voting in a block with opposition members representing La [...]	2007-08-16 20:09:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
07LAPAZ2255	BOLIVIAN EMBASSY IN U.S. UNDER CORRUPTION [...] Bolivian press is reporting the Viceminister Against Corruption Nardy Suxo has opened a corruption investigation against several employees of the Bolivian Embassy in Washington. Viceminister Suxo has acknowledged receiving complaints against Consul General Oswaldo Cuevas and local DC hire Vi [...]	2007-08-16 21:51:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON BL
07LAPAZ2305	MAS TAKES STEPS AGAINST CONSTITUTIONAL TRIBUNAL [...] (SBU) On August 16, the Constitution Commission in Bolivia's lower house of Congress submitted a report recommending legal action against all but one of Bolivia's five Constitutional Tribunal judges (the Constitutional Tribunal rules on the constitutionality of laws, while the separate Suprem [...]	2007-08-21 19:26:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON PHUM BL
07LAPAZ2333	PUNCHES AND PROTESTS IN CONGRESS AND SUCRE [...] (C) Fisticuffs in Congress forced the opposition and ruling party Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) delegates to retreat to separate buildings on August 22. The MAS delegates were later reconvened in the Vice Presidential offices and voted by "majority of those present" (that is, the majority [...]	2007-08-23 19:07:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ2355	MAS' LATEST DRAFT CONSTITUTION: RADICAL RUMORS [...] (C) On August 15, national newspaper La Razon published a draft constitution purportedly written by the ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party and President Evo Morales' Venezuelan and Spanish advisors. In the days following the publication, some MAS officials repudiated the draft while [...]	2007-08-27 16:06:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ2386	TWO THIRDS OF BOLIVIA STRIKES AGAINST EVO [...] (C) The departments of Cochabamba and Chuquisaca joined Bolivia's media-luna (Pando, Beni, Tarija and Santa Cruz) and held a 24-hour general strike (paro civico) on August 28. The opposition is calling the strike an overwhelming success, since it paralyzed the six departments and demonstrated [...]	2007-08-29 21:15:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL PHUM BL
07LAPAZ2406	SUCRE SLIPPING TOWARD THE EDGE [...] (C) The city of Sucre is inching closer to a potential confrontation as both the government and opposition have asked their partisans to take to the streets. Saying he does not want to be responsible for any confrontation and placing the blame squarely on President Evo Morales, Governor Davi [...]	2007-08-31 19:55:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ2456	BOLIVIA MOVING TOWARDS FORMALIZING TIES WITH IRAN [...] (U) Bolivian press reported that President Evo Morales signed a commercial agreement September 5 with Iran's Ambassador to Venezuela Abdulat Zisan (alternate "Zifan") for the establishment of six milk processing plants. Morales noted the "historic" commercial agreement would be a start toward [...]	2007-09-06 23:03:00	Embassy La Paz	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ECON BL
07LAPAZ2465	POSSIBLE VIOLENCE AHEAD IN SUCRE [...] (SBU) Pro- and anti-government forces are converging on Sucre, seat of the Constituent Assembly, poised and prepared to clash with each other in Sucre's streets on September 10 (if not sooner). The debate over restoring Sucre as Bolivia's full capital (it is currently only home to judiciary [...]	2007-09-07 20:47:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ECON BL
07LAPAZ2467	BOLIVIAN GAS: THE PRESSURE IS BUILDING [...] (SBU) The first signs of an emerging crisis in the Bolivian gas sector are becoming apparent. Gas supply can no longer meet current contractual obligations. Production has fallen to 38.3MMm3/d and contractual obligations are up to 39.4MMm3/d. Moreover, investment in the sector is tentative [...]	2007-09-10 12:54:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL EPET BL
07LAPAZ2501	SUCRE SOCIAL SUMMIT - MORE BOMBAST THAN TURNOUT [...] (SBU) Pro-government groups held their planned "Social Summit" on September 10 in Sucre to rally support for the embattled Constituent Assembly, but the gathering was a failure given that only twelve percent of the expected 100,000 people attended. Despite fiery speeches where participants [...]	2007-09-11 23:33:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
07LAPAZ2510	BOLIVIA'S MIXED MESSAGE ON IAEA-IRANIAN ACTION PLAN [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Acting Foreign Minister Hugo Fernandez on September 7, 2007. Fernandez told the Ambassador that the French, German and British Ambassadors had covered the same topic with him several days earlier. Fernandez claimed that the European Ambassador [...]	2007-09-12 21:48:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON KNNP MNUC IR IAEA AORC BO
07LAPAZ2520	LA PAZ INPUT FOR PRESIDENT'S HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) Response keyed to paragraph 5 of reftel. Bolivia is one of ten western hemisphere countries covered in the Department of State's Supporting Human Rights and Democracy (SHRD) report. Embassy La Paz's human rights and democracy programs are covered in detail in the 2006 report. The re [...]	2007-09-14 05:31:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL BL
07LAPAZ2572	MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE: AN UPDATE FROM BOLIVIA [...] (U) Despite recent hostile pronouncements against US assistance from the national government, Bolivia continues its pursuit of a Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact for US$650 million. There are signs however, that the GOB is not united in its pursuit of such a Compact. Despite [...]	2007-09-20 17:12:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON BL PGOV
07LAPAZ2626	BOLIVIA'S NEW "PEACEFUL" RELATIONS WITH IRAN/LIBYA [...] (C) Summary: With the visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and signing of $1.1 billion in cooperation agreements September 27, Bolivia and Iran have fundamentally deepened both their commercial and political relationship. In his signing ceremony speech, Morales emphasized Bolivia's r [...]	2007-09-27 23:16:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PARM PGOV PREL KNNP MNUC IAEA UN IR BL
07LAPAZ2658	STUDENT DEAD IN POSSIBLE NEW HUMAN RIGHTS CASE [...] (SBU) A September 28 clash between student protesters and security forces left one student dead (Osmar Flores Torres) and four others wounded in the Arani province of Cochabamba. The students (or normalistas) were threatening to disrupt a gas pipeline if their demand for a new school was [...]	2007-10-02 20:11:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	BL PGOV PHUM PINR PREL
07LAPAZ2674	BOLIVIA UNDERMINING MINING: MORE STATE INVOLVEMENT? [...] (C) In the "exposition of motives" of the draft mining code that is circulating in the Bolivian mining sector but has not been formally submitted to Congress, mining companies are given one year from the promulgation of the new code to sign joint-venture contracts with the state-owned Bolivian [...]	2007-10-03 20:21:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EMIN EINV BL
07LAPAZ2712	EVO CELEBRATES CHE DAY; NO TO U.S. BASES [...] (U) Summary. During his remarks at an October 8 event honoring the 40th anniversary of Che Guevara's death in Bolivia, President Evo Morales unleashed a torrent of anti-U.S. rhetoric, said a new Bolivian Constitution would not permit U.S. military bases in Bolivia, and urged other Latin Ameri [...]	2007-10-09 21:26:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON BL
07LAPAZ2730	USDA IN BOLIVIA: FEEDING CHILDREN, FORTIFYING [...] (SBU) Since 2005, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has donated about $7.3 million through NGOs to Bolivia. One program provides a daily hot meal to approximately 20%-25% of rural school children in the nation. The program has helped build school greenhouses, chicken coup [...]	2007-10-11 16:46:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV AGR FAO FAS IFAD IICA BL
07LAPAZ2758	POTOSI: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE PERIPHERY [...] (U) Potosi, Bolivia's south-western department (or state),with Argentina to the south and Chile to the west, is focused on mining and tourism as its best options for escaping the poverty that afflicts most of its population. Despite the historic wealth of the mining sector in Potosi, prospec [...]	2007-10-15 15:04:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EMIN EINV EIND PINR PGOV KCRM KIPR BL
07LAPAZ2764	BOLIVIA: MORALES RAISES THE RHETORIC [...] (U) President Evo Morales, in a speech given to an indigenous gathering (attended by Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu) in the Chapare on October 12, continued to ratchet up his anti-American rhetoric. Morales opened the speech by yelling "long live coca, death to the Yank [...]	2007-10-15 20:44:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ2778	INDIGENOUS COHESION CRACKING IN BOLIVIA [...] (C) Summary: On October 15, Emboffs met with Fabio Colquechuima, the international relations officer of CONAMAQ (National Council of Ayllus and Markas of Qollasuyu),a group consisting of 16 indigenous groups from across Bolivia, mostly concentrated in the highlands to the west. In what is [...]	2007-10-17 16:14:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BL
07LAPAZ2791	BOLIVIAN INFLATION: PRESSURE FROM ALL SIDES [...] (U) After two decades of stable prices, Bolivia is headed toward double digit inflation. For the first nine months of the year inflation came in at 8.3 percent; it is likely to top 12 percent for the year. Skyrocketing remittances, narco trafficking, Venezuelan checks, favorable terms of [...]	2007-10-17 22:00:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PREL BL
07LAPAZ2813	NOTES FROM SANTA CRUZ - OCTOBER 2007 [...] (SBU) Summary: Santa Cruz Department, with 26 percent of Bolivia's population, is its fastest-growing region responsible for 32 percent of Bolivian GDP. Political and business leaders lament the lack of central government funds dedicated to Santa Cruz but on the other hand resent central gover [...]	2007-10-18 18:14:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON KPAO CONS AMGT BL
07LAPAZ2817	BROTHELS, BARS, AND ANGRY EL ALTO PARENTS [...] (U) Summary. Angry parents burned more than 50 bars and brothels in the city of El Alto October 15-17. The apparently impromptu protests started as a peaceful march protesting lack of funding for school classrooms, but grew into violent reaction to the proximity of schools to bars, which par [...]	2007-10-18 19:48:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ASEC BL
07LAPAZ2827	CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY SCENARIO II: NO DEAL = CRISIS [...] (C) The Constituent Assembly is in recess until October 22 but is in danger of complete collapse if the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party and opposition cannot reach agreement on key issues. This cable lays out the second of two likely scenarios regarding the Constituent Assembly's futu [...]	2007-10-19 13:30:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ2854	BOLIVIA'S PRESS INCREASINGLY UNDER PRESSURE [...] (C) Reporters Without Borders (RSF) recently released its annual press freedom index and Bolivia dropped from 16 to 68. RSF's report stated, "(Bolivia) has fallen many places because of serious press freedom violations." While RSF cites many physical attacks on reporters, perhaps the most [...]	2007-10-23 12:30:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BL
07LAPAZ2873	WINE AND GAS IN TARIJA: ONE FLOWS FREELY [...] (SBU) The Department of Tarija forms the southern base of the so-called half moon, a grouping of departments resistant to the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) agenda. It is home to both vineyards and almost all of the major Bolivian gas fields. As a result, Tarija may be the wealthiest of [...]	2007-10-24 21:43:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV AGR PREL EPET BL
07LAPAZ2897	NO SILVER LINING YET FOR APEX'S SAN CRISTOBAL MINE [...] (C) Apex's local executives continue to report difficulty in arranging meetings with Bolivian government officials. The draft bill which would increase mining taxes by 12.5 percent has passed the lower house of congress, so San Cristobal is focusing their efforts to arrange a modification on [...]	2007-10-26 22:13:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EMIN EINV BL
07LAPAZ290	RIC, RESIGNED, SEES BOLIVIA MOVING LEFT [...] (C) Former Minister of Public works Salvador Ric told Emboffs on February 1 that he resigned in January because of the tight, central control exercised over the ministries by President Morales and his inner circle, which took away Ric's voice. He expressed concern over the government's involv [...]	2007-02-06 12:48:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON BL
07LAPAZ2949	EVO ACCUSES AMBASSADOR OF COUP PLOTTING AND [...] (C) President Evo Morales used his recent trip to Italy and the Dominican Republic to level new conspiracy charges against the USG, and specifically Ambassador Goldberg. In an October 31 interview with Italian newspaper Il Manifesto de Italia, Morales accused the Ambassador of meeting with a [...]	2007-11-05 19:53:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL NO BO
07LAPAZ2960	EVO'S VAGUE CONDITIONS FOR "CONDITIONLESS" AID [...] (C) Summary: Bolivian President Evo Morales issued a decree October 11 presenting foreign assistance donors with a variety of new requirements to register projects with the Bolivian government and strengthen its oversight. The most potentially troublesome articles require that aid not/not imp [...]	2007-11-07 18:46:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON BL
07LAPAZ2963	BOLIVIA: AMBASSADOR CALLS FM ABOUT PHOTO ACCUSATION [...] (C) The Ambassador phoned Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca on November 7 to discuss recent public accusations that the Embassy was conspiring with Bolivian oligarchs and Colombian paramilitary against Evo Morales based on a photograph released on November 5. Although FM Choquehuanca publ [...]	2007-11-07 20:27:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ2964	CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY: TENSIONS BOILING OVER [...] (C) Summary: The afternoon of November 6, Vice President Garcia Linera publicly eliminated the possibility of compromise with the opposition and declared that the Constituent Assembly is now in the hands of the people, who "will find a mechanism to liberate the Assembly from this ultraconserv [...]	2007-11-07 22:27:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ2974	EVO'S DIPLOMATS: AFRAID, IRRELEVANT, ENDANGERED [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Ministry contacts complain career diplomats are increasingly ignored in foreign policy decisions, citing the decision to advance diplomatic relations with Iran as a prime example. They consistently described a battle over foreign policy between the MFA and advisors at th [...]	2007-11-08 21:56:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ2981	RESOURCE NATIONALISM IN BOLIVIA [...] (C) The Morales administration believes that the state should be more involved in all aspects of the Bolivian economy. In that context, resource nationalism does not stand alone; control of natural resources just happens to be the most valuable for the administration both financially and sy [...]	2007-11-09 13:49:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV EPET EMIN EINV EB BL
07LAPAZ3002	"CONSPIRACY" PHOTO WORTH 1000 WORDS TO EVO [...] (C) President Evo Morales used his speech at the seventeenth Ibero-American Summit as another opportunity to accuse the USG of conspiracy against Evo's government. As "evidence", Evo again displayed a copy of a photo taken a a trade fair in September, showing the Ambassador with the head of [...]	2007-11-13 22:46:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ3003	WEEK'S FORECAST: SPORADIC CLASHES & STORMY STRIKES [...] (C) Despite the strong possibility for clashes between pro-ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) demonstrators and local Sucre opposition protesters, Constituent Assembly President Silvia Lazarte has announced that the entire assembly will reconvene in Sucre on November 14. Most observers, [...]	2007-11-13 22:50:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC BL ECON PGOV PREL
07LAPAZ3013	CHAVEZ'S BOLIVIAN MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR [...] (U) Summary. Two layovers in Trinidad, Bolivia by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez continue to stir controversy here. President Chavez made the November 9 and 11 stopovers en route to and returning from the Ibero-American Summit in Santiago, Chile, where he reiterated controversial pledges to [...]	2007-11-14 21:02:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON BL
07LAPAZ3014	NATIONWIDE STRIKE CLOSES BOLIVIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Spot report, 1400. By coincidence, both the Santa Cruz airport and the Bolivian ground transportation unions decided to hold a 24 hour strike on November 14. The transportation strike, protesting diesel shortages and rising inflation, has turned confrontational in Santa Cruz a [...]	2007-11-14 21:03:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ECON BL
07LAPAZ3029	U.S. IN EVO'S CROSSHAIRS: WHAT NEXT? [...] (C) In a closed Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party meeting on November 12 that was taped and leaked to the press, Minister of the Presidency Juan Ramon Quintana repeated his outrageous conspiracy charges against USAID while upping the ante by threatening USAID's expulsion from Bolivia. Th [...]	2007-11-15 23:13:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL EAID SNAR BL
07LAPAZ3045	EVO TO USAID: "YOU HAVE THE RIGHT NOT TO HELP US" [...] (C) During a November 19 press conference President Evo Morales again criticized USAID for putting "conditions" on its help and claimed that the majority of USG aid is funneled back to the U.S. Evo opened the door for USAID to leave Bolivia, stating that "this (conditional) aid program has t [...]	2007-11-19 21:18:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ3062	CLONE WARS: MAS "PARALLELISM" IN ACTION [...] (C) At many levels of social organization, Bolivia's ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party is creating parallel organizations when confronted by civic groups that will not fall in line with the MAS agenda. By creating parallel organizations and then acting as if they are the original [...]	2007-11-20 20:51:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ELAB BL
07LAPAZ3066	BOLIVIA'S JUDICIAL IMPASSE: RECESS APPOINTMENTS? [...] (C) A leading opposition senator accused the ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party of purposefully blocking Congressional debate over judicial nominations so that President Evo Morales can issue interim appointments during Congress' upcoming recess. MAS Congressional representatives v [...]	2007-11-20 21:04:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ3068	2008 AGREEMENT WITH BOLIVIA ON STATUS OF FORCES [...] This is an action request for WHA/AND, L/PM, and PM/ISO. See Paragraph 5. 2. Background: DOD has asked the State Department to secure status protections for U.S. military personnel who will be present in Bolivia during 2008. DOD has requested Post immediately propose to the Government of [...]	2007-11-20 21:24:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	KTIA MARR MOPS PM PREL BL
07LAPAZ3075	PROTESTS TESTING BOLIVIA'S BOILING POINT [...] (C) Summary: Protests and counter-protests threaten to dominate Bolivia for at least the coming week. Although the Bolivian government said it asked pro-government farmers surrounding the headquarters of the Constituent Assembly to back off, they remain mobilized in the city, as do opposition [...]	2007-11-22 00:11:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV BL
07LAPAZ3077	OPPOSITION CLOSED OUT OF MAS CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY [...] (SBU) Constituent Assembly leadership from the ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) moved the Assembly to a military facility outside of Sucre without the vast majority of the opposition. As of 4:00 PM November 23, the MAS had successfully pulled together a 145 delegate quorum at La Glori [...]	2007-11-23 22:39:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ3078	AMIDST VIOLENCE EVO'S MAS APPROVES CONSTITUTION [...] (C) Following a tumultuous session on November 23 (ref A),that excluded all but a handful of opposition members, the ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) reconvened the Constituent Assembly on November 24 at a military school outside of Sucre amidst thousands of protesters calling for its [...]	2007-11-25 23:06:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ3079	AMIDST VIOLENCE EVO'S MAS APPROVES CONSTITUTION [...] (C) Following a tumultuous session on November 23 (ref A),that excluded all but a handful of opposition members, the ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) reconvened the Constituent Assembly on November 24 at a military school outside of Sucre amidst thousands of protesters calling for its [...]	2007-11-25 23:06:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ3091	BOLIVIA: EVO'S SUCRE SPIN BEGINS [...] (C) Summary. Bolivian President Evo Morales waited almost three days after protests turned violent in the city of Sucre to address Bolivians. He asked for calm, as have other government and opposition leaders. Morales also accused "groups of oligarchs and neoliberals" of manipulating the vi [...]	2007-11-26 23:13:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BL
07LAPAZ3092	BOLIVIA: SUCRE, WITHOUT ANY POLICE, ON THE EDGE [...] (C) Sucre returned to relative calm on November 26 after three days of turmoil, which left at least three dead, 200 people hospitalized and many public buildings (mostly police and prefecture) looted and burned. There are no reports of U.S. citizens among the injured. Police forces have fle [...]	2007-11-26 23:26:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC PGOV PHUM PREL BL
07LAPAZ3094	EAC MEETING - LA PAZ [...] (SBU) During severe civil unrest over the weekend in the city of Sucre (due to constitutional issues),several Bolivians were killed and hundreds wounded. By late afternoon, Bolivian National Police (BNP) had abandoned the city and local prisoners had escaped from nearby prisons. A 'warden me [...]	2007-11-27 18:52:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC AEMR AMGT PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ3098	CAN BRAZIL SAVE THE BOLIVIAN GAS SECTOR? [...] (C) The Bolivia gas sector appears headed for crisis. Currently out of compliance with 3 out of 4 major international contracts, the industry faces increasing commitments to the Argentine market and growing demand at home. The government realizes it needs investment and, after over a year o [...]	2007-11-27 21:51:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL ENRG EPET EINV EMIN BL
07LAPAZ3100	BOLIVIAN PRESS ATTACKED [...] (SBU) Summary: The past weeks have been marked by government rhetoric against press bias. On November 26, following a large rally where President Morales and several social sector leaders verbally attacked the media, violence erupted against both journalists and media headquarters. After Ev [...]	2007-11-27 22:26:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BL
07LAPAZ3120	SANTA CRUZ OPPOSITION: PACIFIST MEASURES FIRST [...] (C) During separate meetings with the president of the Santa Cruz Civic Committee, the secretary general of the Santa Cruz prefectural government, and the president of the Santa Cruz Business Federation (CAINCO),all expressed their intention to encourage peaceful means of protest against the [...]	2007-11-28 23:01:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC BL ECON PGOV PREL

07LAPAZ3136	BOLIVIA DEMARCHE REPLY: OPPOSING UNGA RESOLUTIONS [...] (U) PolOff delivered reftel demarche November 28 to MFA Director of Multilateral Affairs Rubin Viduarre. Viduarre said matters pertaining to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are typically discussed with Latin American counterparts at the United Nations (Grupo Latina America). Although Bolivi [...]	2007-11-29 21:14:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA UN IS BL
07LAPAZ3141	CONFLICT IN BOLIVIA: NO END IN SIGHT [...] (C) With the ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) poised to reconvene the Constituent Assembly perhaps as early as November 30 in the La Paz area or other friendly terrain, and the opposition stronghold of Santa Cruz stating it will declare defacto autonomy December 15, a cessation in Boli [...]	2007-11-29 23:47:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ3152	BOLIVIA-CUBAN RELATIONS: REVIEW FOR LIBERTAD ACT [...] (U) The following responses are keyed to the questions in ref A: --Bolivian Investment: Bolivia has no significant investments in Cuba. 2. (U) Bilateral Trade Agreements: Bolivia and Cuba signed a limited Economic Cooperation Agreement in May 1995. The accord offers preferential tariff [...]	2007-11-30 22:24:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL ECON CU BL
07LAPAZ3153	VENEZUELA-BOLIVIA: HOW MUCH FIRE BEHIND THE SMOKE? [...] (C) Summary. A common cry among opposition circles is that Hugo Chavez is pulling Evo's strings, particularly as Morales forcefully pushes forward to adopt a new constitution that would provide for indefinite reelection. Evo for his part does nothing to hide his admiration for Chavez; on the c [...]	2007-11-30 23:14:00	Embassy La Paz	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR VE CU BL
07LAPAZ3187	BOLIVIA: MINING SECTOR THREATENED [...] (C) In the controversy following the ruling Movement Toward Socialism's (MAS) possibly-illegal initial approval of a draft constitution on November 26, there has been little attention given to the passage through Congress of a new mining tax bill on November 23. Neither the draft constitution [...]	2007-12-05 21:02:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EMIN EINV ETRD BL
07LAPAZ3188	EVO TO INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY: OPPOSITION TO BLAME [...] (C) Summary: President Evo Morales and his Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) government is actively trying to project to the international community that the opposition is to blame for the violent political situation in Bolivia. The government is seeking to discredit the visit of four oppositi [...]	2007-12-05 22:02:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ3189	MEDIA LUNA MASISTAS: CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE [...] (C) Summary: Moderate ruling-party MAS members complain that they are labeled as traitors by President Evo Morales. They also lament an increasingly hostile environment in the Congress as Morales has decided to take a tougher line with the legislative branch. Nevertheless, MAS Senator Guido G [...]	2007-12-06 13:08:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ3196	EVO'S RECALL PLOY MASKS TRUE INTENTIONS [...] (C) Summary: International and domestic press have greeted President Evo Morales' call for a recall referendum for himself and Bolivia's nine prefects (state governors) as an important conciliatory step. Meanwhile, significantly less attention is being paid to the decision to reconvene the [...]	2007-12-06 22:22:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL ASEC BL
07LAPAZ3209	EVO PUSHES DEMOCRACY'S EDGES, APPROVES CONSTITUTION [...] (C) In a process largely devoid of democratic and legal procedure, President Evo Morales' ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) pulled together a quorum of the Constituent Assembly at about 7:00 PM December 8 in the heavily pro-MAS city of Oruro (three hours outside of La Paz). By 11:30 AM [...]	2007-12-10 13:20:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC BL PGOV PHUM PREL
07LAPAZ3216	EVO'S EXCLUSIONARY REVOLUTIONARY CONSTITUTION [...] (C) The Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) constitution that was passed in a surprise session of the Constituent Assembly without most opposition assembly members has not yet been published. According to press reports, state involvement in the economy and control over natural resources continues [...]	2007-12-10 20:39:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL ECON BL
07LAPAZ3220	VENEZUELAN PLANE CONTROVERSY GOES INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: Although facts are emerging, rumors continue to run rampant concerning the aborted landing of a Venezuelan C-130 Hercules airplane. Forced to leave one Bolivian town by a rock-wielding mob, the plane was unable to land at another Bolivian town as protesters blocked the runway. A [...]	2007-12-10 22:13:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL MARR BL VN
07LAPAZ3241	AUTONOMIA! SCENARIOS FOR SANTA CRUZ [...] (C) Summary: When Santa Cruz leaders declare "autonomy" on December 15, they will be meeting their citizens' demands for more local control of regional resources, and at the same time rejecting outright the new ruling MAS party constitution. Although they insist they are not calling for indep [...]	2007-12-12 23:06:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON ASEC BL
07LAPAZ3244	FEARS OF OPPOSITION ROUND-UP [...] (C) In separate meetings with Senate President Jose Villavicencio (UN - Pando),Senator Fernando Romero (MNR - Beni),and Erick Reyes Villa (brother of Cochabamba governor Manfred Reyes Villa),all warned of a government plan to round-up opposition leaders (governors and civic committee presi [...]	2007-12-12 23:38:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ3261	BOLIVIA: WHAT NEXT? [...] (C) Tensions are running high in the wake of the ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party's extra-legal maneuverings to achieve a draft constitution and with the opposition departments poised to declare their autonomy this weekend. While President Evo Morales has spoken of a Christmas tru [...]	2007-12-14 23:12:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC BL PGOV PREL
07LAPAZ3269	BOLIVIA: CALM AFTER AUTONOMIES ANNOUNCED [...] (C) Summary: As expected, the four opposition departments of Pando, Beni, Santa Cruz and Tarija took the first steps toward autonomy December 15, and the ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) government's response was restrained. The opposition's efforts to keep autonomy declarations peaceful [...]	2007-12-17 22:06:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ASEC PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ3330	BOLIVIA: EVO'S 2007 REPORT CARD [...] (C) Bolivian President Evo Morales's second year in office has been even more contentious than his first. On the international front, this year has included diplomatic scuffles with neighbors and increasing attacks against the United States and our mission in Bolivia. Domestically, conflict [...]	2007-12-26 22:08:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL ENRG EPET EMIN PINR MNUC BL
07LAPAZ334	MINERS' COOPERATIVES CONVERGE ON LA PAZ [...] (U) An estimated 10,000 cooperative-affiliated miners converged on La Paz February 6 to protest proposed mining tax increases (ref A),vowing to remain in the city until the GOB accedes to their demands. Marchers brandished sticks of dynamite and threatened nationwide road blockades and other [...]	2007-02-07 19:27:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
07LAPAZ341	MORALES HALTS DEAL IN CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY [...] (SBU) Amidst rumors that President Morales' Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party was approaching a deal with the opposition on whether to use a two-thirds or a majority vote for constitutional changes, Morales travelled to Sucre February 6 and halted his party's negotiations. According to p [...]	2007-02-08 16:45:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ363	GOB, MINERS' COOPERATIVES SIGN AGREEMENT [...] (U) Two days of protests (ref A) culminated February 7 in a comprehensive agreement between the GOB and cooperative-affiliated miners. The GOB backed away from proposed mining tax increases -- putting them on hold until all parties reach consensus -- and yielded to other demands, agreeing to [...]	2007-02-09 11:54:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
07LAPAZ370	U.S. MINING COMPANIES EXPRESS CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM [...] (SBU) Coeur d'Alene executives told the Ambassador February 8 that GOB officials may move away from proposed across-the-board tax hikes (ref A) in favor of negotiating increases with individual firms. An Apex Silver executive later told Econoff that Vice President Garcia Linera promised Febru [...]	2007-02-09 20:08:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
07LAPAZ38	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH ELECTORAL COURT [...] (C) The Ambassador met with Bolivian Electoral Court President Salvador Romero Ballivian on January 5. President Romero sought the meeting to express his concern about attempts by the GOB to co-opt the independent court. President Morales, in a December 22 meeting, suggested that Romero, wh [...]	2007-01-08 16:52:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ384	GOB NATIONALIZES SWISS-OWNED TIN SMELTER [...] (C) President Morales nationalized a Swiss-owned tin smelter February 9, reportedly sending troops to occupy the facility while publicly announcing it would refuse to provide compensation. The GOB cited "grave illegalities" in the sale of the state-owned enterprise as justification, later ann [...]	2007-02-13 11:34:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	EMIN EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL SZ
07LAPAZ387	HYDROCARBONS: YPFB IN DISARRAY, NEW CONTRACTS [...] (C) Hydrocarbons Minister Villegas has proposed changes to the May 2005 hydrocarbons law to resolve inconsistencies with the May 2006 nationalization decree and the operation contracts signed last October. Bolivia's state-owned oil company YPFB continues to lack the structural and human capac [...]	2007-02-13 15:02:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ENRG EPET BL
07LAPAZ411	CEJIS: LEFTIST LAND LAWYERS' INFLUENCE IN THE GOB [...] (SBU) Three former employees of the Center for Legal Studies and Social Research (CEJIS),a non-profit organization in Santa Cruz working to promote indigenous land rights, were named members of the GOB's cabinet in January, indicating the government's focus on land reform. A CEJIS representa [...]	2007-02-15 11:16:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON PGOV SOCI BL
07LAPAZ436	ACCORD REACHED ON CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY VOTING RULES [...] (U) After MAS delegates approved their own proposal for the Constituent Assembly's voting system on February 13, MAS leadership allowed its delegates to return to the negotiating table and to compromise on their position late February 14. Under the modified agreement, constitutional changes wil [...]	2007-02-16 12:48:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON BL
07LAPAZ443	GAS SALES TO BRAZIL: EVO SCORES -- AT LEAST IN THE [...] (SBU) The press announced on February 16 that Bolivia had reached agreement on the price of natural gas sales to Brazil after several months of negotiations. The press have trumpeted the agreement as a victory for President Morales, even though, in reality, the increase in revenues is modest. [...]	2007-02-16 20:48:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG EPET PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ515	BOLIVIA FLOODING SITREP 1: FEBRUARY 26, 2007 [...] (SBU) The worst flooding in Bolivia in 25 years has affected around 350,000 people, mainly in Bolivia's eastern departments of the Beni and Santa Cruz, causing over USD 100 million of damage to the agricultural sector and outbreaks of dengue fever and malaria. The governor of the Beni told the [...]	2007-02-26 20:23:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID AMED ASUP CASC EAGR ECON PREL BL
07LAPAZ523	CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY: TIME IS NOT ON ITS SIDE [...] (C) Summary: Opposition Constituent Assembly (CA) member Carlos Goitia told poloff February 23 that although the CA is not likely to complete its work within its one year mandate, he thinks President Morales' Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party will oppose an extension. Press reports from F [...]	2007-02-27 16:17:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ528	BOLIVIA FLOODING SITREP 2: FEBRUARY 27, 2007 [...] (U) Massive flooding continues to plague Bolivia's eastern departments of the Beni and Santa Cruz. - Damage estimates from the flooding described in reftel have risen to USD 250 million nationwide, according to press reports. - Flood waters have spread to new areas, and an outbreak of den [...]	2007-02-27 20:31:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID AMED ASUP CASC EAGR ECON PREL BL
07LAPAZ54	MASISTAS TURN VIOLENT, COCHABAMBA PREFECT ATTACKED [...] (C) On January 8, Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) militants protesting for the resignation of Cochabamba's prefect (governor) attacked the prefect's building, resulting in at least twenty-two people injured, assaults on several journalists, significant damage to the prefecture's property, an [...]	2007-01-09 21:03:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PHUM BL
07LAPAZ550	FOOT AND MOUTH OUTBREAK: VENEZUELA TO IMPORT [...] (SBU) The weakening of the institutional structure of Bolivia's animal health service (SENASAG) due to staff changes could endanger the progress that the U.S. Animal and Plant Health Service (APHIS) has made in combating animal and plant illnesses, and, in fact, may have already done so. An o [...]	2007-02-28 15:07:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON ETRD BL
07LAPAZ551	VENEZUELAN MILITARY INTERFERES WITH BOLIVIAN PRESS [...] (U) At approximately noon February 27, a Venezuelan Hercules that was reported to be carrying disaster assistance arrived in El Alto. When Bolivian journalists attempted to film the Venezuelan crew unloading the cargo, the Venezuelans prohibited them from filming the plane (citing the protect [...]	2007-02-28 17:44:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM MOPS MASS BL VE
07LAPAZ553	BOLIVIA FLOODING SITREP 3: FEBRUARY 28, 2007 [...] (U) Massive flooding continues to plague the eastern Bolivian departments of the Beni and Santa Cruz and has begun to affect municipalities of Pando, a department bordering the Beni to the northwest. - Water levels continue to rise, affecting more than 40 percent of the territory of the Beni [...]	2007-02-28 20:03:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AMED ASUP CASC EAGR ECON PREL BL
07LAPAZ559	GLENCORE GETS THE SILENT TREATMENT [...] (C) The GOB appears to have adopted the silent treatment after its February 9 nationalization of the Vinto tin smelter (reftel),ignoring overtures from Swiss-owned Glencore International and refusing to answer requests for dialogue. A Glencore representative said February 26 that executives e [...]	2007-03-01 14:18:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	EMIN EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL SZ
07LAPAZ591	CUBAN DISSIDENT SAMARTINO MAY GO TO NORWAY [...] (U) La Paz leading daily newspaper La Razon and the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) reported on February 28 that Norway has agreed to provide asylum to expelled Cuban dissident Amauris Samartino (aka Amauri Sanmartino) who is currently residing in Colombia. According to the HRF, the United Nati [...]	2007-03-02 18:39:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL PGOV BL
07LAPAZ593	BOLIVIA FLOODING SITREP 5: MARCH 2, 2007 [...] (U) Large parts of the departments of the Beni and Santa Cruz remain affected by massive floods. - GOB authorities raised total estimates of affected families from 71,982 to 73,482, or more than 340,000 persons in eight out of nine departments. Civil Defense officials added that the deaths [...]	2007-03-02 19:44:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AMED ASUP CASC EAGR ECON PREL BL
07LAPAZ594	GOB, JINDAL ANNOUNCE GAS PRICE AGREEMENT [...] (U) Days of intense negotiations resulted March 1 in a final agreement on the price of natural gas (reftel) employed in the development of Mutun, one of the world's largest iron ore deposits. India's Jindal Steel and Power agreed to pay $3.91 per million British thermal units (BTU) for gas use [...]	2007-03-02 19:45:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	EMIN EINV ECON PGOV BL
07LAPAZ597	MORALES TO TOBIAS: THANKS FOR THE ASSISTANCE [...] (C) As part of Director of Foreign Assistance and USAID Administrator Randall Tobias' visit to Bolivia, President Morales met with Tobias, WHA PDAS Charles Shapiro, and Ambassador Goldberg early March 2. Morales thanked Ambassador Tobias for U.S. natural disaster assistance, saying that this y [...]	2007-03-02 20:38:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL SNAR BL
07LAPAZ604	BOLIVIA FLOODING SITREP 6: MARCH 5, 2007 [...] (U) Large parts of the departments of the Beni and Santa Cruz remain affected by massive floods (ref A). Although flood waters in Trinidad, capital of the Beni, have begun to recede, rivers are rising in other areas of the department and threaten to expand the flooding to those new areas. - [...]	2007-03-05 17:46:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AMED ASUP CASC EAGR ECON PREL BL
07LAPAZ621	BOLIVIA FLOODING SITREP 7: MARCH 6, 2007 [...] (U) Large parts of the departments of the Beni and Santa Cruz remain affected by massive floods (reftel). Flood waters in Trinidad, the capital of the Beni, have begun to recede, but rivers throughout the department are rising and threatening new areas. In Pando, the department to the northw [...]	2007-03-06 17:49:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AMED ASUP CASC EAGR ECON PREL BL
07LAPAZ652	BOLIVIA FEARS IMPACT OF PROPOSED MADEIRA RIVER DAMS [...] (U) Brazil's plans to build a giant two-dam complex on the Madeira River worry GOB officials and Bolivian environmental groups, which fear negative impacts on communities and ecosystems dependent on the river. According to representatives of a La Paz-based green group, the dams could disrupt [...]	2007-03-08 11:32:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV BL
07LAPAZ661	CLIMATE CHANGE: BOLIVIA AT RISK [...] (U) Flooding in the eastern Bolivian department of the Beni (ref A) has prompted a media debate about the link between this latest catastrophe and climate change; it has also generated discussion of the long-term consequences of the latter. While current water levels are only five centimeters [...]	2007-03-09 12:37:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV BL
07LAPAZ662	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON 60-DAY UNSCR 1737 REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-09 12:47:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP IR UNSC AORC ETRD TRGY BL
07LAPAZ673	GOB PRAISES POTUS LATAM TOUR; PREPARES FOR CHAVEZ [...] (C) Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera announced March 8 that President Morales will not travel to Buenos Aires to join Hugo Chavez at his anti-American party. The VP added that President Bush's trip to the region "is a good signal that President Bush is more concerned about the South and i [...]	2007-03-09 20:23:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BL VZ AR
07LAPAZ679	A MIXED RECEPTION FOR CHAVEZ IN BOLIVIA [...] (C) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visited Bolivia March 10-11 to show solidarity with Bolivia's flooding victims. In the Beni department on March 10 before a trucked-in crowd of several thousand Bolivians, Chavez donated disaster assistance, including two helicopters and 40 tractors, and u [...]	2007-03-12 19:04:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON BL VE
07LAPAZ688	TOBIAS MEETING WITH JUSTICE SECTOR [...] (C) Visiting Director of Foreign Assistance and USAID Administrator Randall Tobias and visiting WHA PDAS Charles Shapiro met March 2 with senior judicial officials who expressed concerns about GOB threats to the courts' independence. The judges argued that the Morales administration would use [...]	2007-03-13 14:29:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ731	GOB DEFENDS MCC IN THE PRESS [...] (SBU) On March 14, a respected opposition-leaning La Paz newspaper claimed that Bolivia had lost the USD 600 million that it hoped to gain from the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). The following day, the paper published interviews with Ambassador Goldberg and Bolivia's MCC coordinator [...]	2007-03-16 20:23:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON BL
07LAPAZ733	BOLIVIA FLOODING SITREP 8: MARCH 16, 2007 [...] (U) Flood waters in the departments of the Beni and Santa Cruz (reftel) have begun to recede. - GOB authorities estimate that flooding has affected almost 85,000 families (approximately 400,000 people) in eight out of nine departments, with 53 fatalities. - Health reports indicate 2,450 su [...]	2007-03-16 20:26:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AMED ASUP CASC EAGR ECON PREL BL
07LAPAZ75	COCHABAMBA UPDATE: TENSIONS REMAIN HIGH [...] (SBU) Following the January 8 violent attacks on the Cochabamba prefecture by MAS militants, Cochabamba remains isolated due its encirclement by MAS activists. The Cochabamba civic committee called for a peace demonstration on January 9 but the rally was canceled after MAS militants threw roc [...]	2007-01-10 21:27:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
07LAPAZ751	MORALES RENEWS VERBAL ATTACKS ON MAINSTREAM MEDIA [...] (SBU) President Morales renewed his attacks on the mainstream media this week. First, he attacked leading daily newspaper La Razon March 14 for errors in its reporting on a decrease in hydrocarbons revenues and the GOB's loss of Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) funds (septel). On March 13 [...]	2007-03-19 19:11:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON BL
07LAPAZ793	BANK OF THE SOUTH: FREE LUNCH FOR BOLIVIA? [...] (C) President Morales announced on March 11 that Bolivia would join the Bank of the South. Central Bank President Raul Garron told the Ambassador that the Central Bank has not committed to providing any contributions to the Bank of the South. Inter-American Development Bank Resrep Joel Bransk [...]	2007-03-22 14:39:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON EFIN EINV PREL BL
07LAPAZ80	GOB RESCINDS AGUAS DEL ILLIMANI CONTRACT [...] (SBU) On January 3, President Morales rescinded the operating contract of Aguas del Illimani, a subsidiary of France,s Suez Group, and announced the creation of a new state-run enterprise to oversee the provision of water and sanitation services in La Paz and El Alto. The company's CFO said J [...]	2007-01-11 19:41:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
07LAPAZ801	VENEZUELA RAISES BARRIERS FOR BOLIVIAN EXPORTS [...] (U) The Bolivian Institute of Foreign Trade revealed March 20 that Venezuela had introduced new obstacles for Bolivian exports, after a February 28 decision by the Venezuelan government to import only what Venezuela does not produce or makes in insufficient quantity. The new barriers undermine [...]	2007-03-22 18:08:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
07LAPAZ83	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH COCHABAMBA PREFECT REGARDING [...] (C) Cochabamba Prefect Manfred Reyes Villa met with the Ambassador January 11 to discuss orchestrated political violence occurring in Cochabamba. Reyes told the Ambassador he would not resign from the governorship and expressed his strong concerns about the state of Bolivian democracy, sayin [...]	2007-01-11 21:14:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ84	COCHABAMBA: FIGHTING ERUPTS, TURNS DEADLY [...] (U) On January 11 at 4:15 local time, violent confrontations between pro-GOB (mostly cocaleros) and anti-GOB forces in Cochabamba, Bolivia's third largest city, resulted in at least one death and over one hundred injured. This followed earlier skirmishes. The city had been paralyzed all day b [...]	2007-01-11 21:49:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON PHUM BL
07LAPAZ850	WOULD-BE IMMIGRANTS TEMPORARILY TAKE SANTA CRUZ [...] (U) Frustrated by repeated delays, an estimated 300 Lloyd Aereo Boliviano passengers temporarily "took" Santa Cruz' Viru Viru International Airport March 27, angrily confronting Lloyd employees and demanding that the carrier operate scheduled flights to Madrid. Thousands of Bolivians have dep [...]	2007-03-28 18:16:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON PGOV BL
07LAPAZ855	AIRLINE EXECUTIVES DETAINED, MADRID FEVER RISES [...] (U) Bolivian authorities detained three Lloyd Aereo Boliviano executives March 28 on charges of fraud. Passengers have accused the carrier of collecting an estimated $2.4 million in ticket sales for flights it never intended to operate; according to the Santa Cruz district attorney, the money [...]	2007-03-29 16:49:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON PGOV BL
07LAPAZ859	VENEZUELA SUPPORTING BOLIVIAN MAYORS [...] (S/NF) Summary: Post has received reports of Venezuelans making direct payments to Bolivian mayors in order to garner support for President Morales in the run-up to the proposed 2008 national elections. In mid-March, an Embassy official received a copy of a $50,000 check from the Government of [...]	2007-03-29 20:00:00	Embassy La Paz	SECRET//NOFORN	ECON PGOV PREL BL VE
07LAPAZ865	BOLIVIA SLIDES TOWARDS ELECTIONS? [...] (C) Summary: With national elections generally expected to take place in late 2008 (reftel),there are rumors in the indigenous community that President Morales could choose Constituent Assembly President Silvia Lazarte as his running mate. As with the December 2005 and July 2006 elections, th [...]	2007-03-30 17:08:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BL
07LAPAZ884	BOLIVIA'S NATIONAL CARRIER: FINALLY GROUNDED? [...] (U) Bolivia's transportation superintendent suspended Lloyd Aereo Boliviano's domestic and international operations March 30, citing the firm's frequent flight cancellations and shaky finances. The carrier now has 90 days in which to demonstrate operating capacity and financial solvency; if it [...]	2007-04-02 19:56:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON PGOV BL
07LAPAZ903	COOPERATIVE MINERS "TAKE" CERRO RICO [...] (U) Press reports indicate that approximately 16,000 cooperative miners "took" Cerro Rico, the mountain that supplies much of Bolivia's silver, April 2, demanding that the GOB retreat from a proposed decree suspending surface mining activity above 4,400 meters. The GOB has argued that mining [...]	2007-04-03 19:36:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	EMIN EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL
07LAPAZ914	AG MINISTER SEEKS ENHANCED BILATERAL COOPERATION [...] (SBU) In an April 4 meeting with the Ambassador, Agriculture Minister Susana Rivero sought enhanced bilateral cooperation, noting that assistance could help ensure the success of a comprehensive agricultural development plan. Rivero touched briefly on new GOB efforts to "rationalize" coca, not [...]	2007-04-05 14:48:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON PREL PGOV BL
07LAPAZ958	POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION ON LICENSE D354892 [...] (SBU) Reftel requested a post-shipment verification on export license number D354892. At post's request, a narcotics affairs section (NAS) program assistant visited the Santa Cruz-based foreign consignee, Casa Asbun, April 4 and spoke to the company's owner, Alfredo Asbun, and a long-time sal [...]	2007-04-09 19:04:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BEXP ETRD ETTC BL
07LAPAZ96	COCHABAMABA UPDATE: QUIETER BUT TENSIONS REMAIN [...] (C) Cochabamba remained mostly calm throughout the night and during the day of January 12, following the violence of January 11. According to Police Inspector General Fernando Pelaez, there were two deaths and approximately 150 injured on January 11. Early January 12, President Morales calle [...]	2007-01-12 21:52:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PHUM BL
07LIBREVILLE1	OFFICIAL ELECTION RESULTS SLIGHTLY REDUCE RULING [...] Summary: Gabon's ruling party won 81 out of 120 seats in the National assembly; other candidates expected to support the government won an additional 21 seats. Opposition parties have a larger presence than in the past, with 17 seats. Electoral reforms may have contributed to greater transp [...]	2007-01-03 07:11:00	Embassy Libreville	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM GB
07LIBREVILLE167	GABON REACTS TO EQUATORIAL GUINEAN ACCUSATIONS ON [...] (U) On April 16 the GoG publicly responded to GREG accusations that the Gabonese have obstructed the UN mediation effort on the Gabon-EG border dispute. Para 3 contains an informal translation of the Gabonese statement. 2. (C) During an April 12 meeting with Ambassador, Vice Prime Minister [...]	2007-04-18 14:18:00	Embassy Libreville	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EPET EK GB
07LIBREVILLE222	POSSIBLE US-BRAZIL COOPERATION TO COMBAT MALARIA [...] (U) During a visit to Sao Tome and Principe (STP) last week, Ambassador Walkley met Manuel Innocencio de Lacerdo Santos, Brazil's ambassador in STP, to explore possible US-Brazilian cooperation in the fight against malaria. One focus of the conversation was an examination of Taiwan's anti-mal [...]	2007-05-14 13:34:00	Embassy Libreville	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV SOCI TBIO TP BR
07LIBREVILLE223	CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER EPIDEMIC IN GABON [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-14 13:34:00	Embassy Libreville	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI PGOV TBIO GB
07LIBREVILLE224	GABON WILL SEEK EARLY PARIS CLUB REPAYMENT [...] (C) Summary: On May 10, the Gabonese Finance Minister briefed the cabinet on Gabon's new three-year IMF agreement, and said the GoG will now seek early repayment of Paris Club debt. Gabon's external debt burden is moderate and declining, thanks to high oil prices, although new borrowing is up [...]	2007-05-14 13:45:00	Embassy Libreville	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV GB
07LIBREVILLE229	GABON ECONOMIC MISCELLANY [...] LIBYAN INVESTMENT. There has recently been a flurry of Libyan investment in Gabon. Libreville's Intercontinental Hotel (the largest hotel in town) has been purchased by a Libyan company for 20 million dollars. Other purchases include the Dialogue Hotel (a vacant hotel on prime beachfront prop [...]	2007-05-15 16:34:00	Embassy Libreville	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV EINV EPET GB LY
07LIBREVILLE236	UPDATE ON CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER EPIDEMIC IN GABON [...] (U) According to the Ministry of Health, there have been 2051 new cases of chikungunya fever since May 14, bringing the total number of cases in and around Libreville to 7,500. Although 127 of these cases have required hospitalization, health authorities report no deaths from the virus. 2. [...]	2007-05-22 10:51:00	Embassy Libreville	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI PGOV TBIO GB
07LIBREVILLE266	PING TO BRIEF UNSG ON BOUNDARY DISPUTE WITH EG [...] (C) Gabonese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Legal Advisor Michel Biang told DCM that he and Foreign Minister Jean Ping are traveling to New York this week to discuss the Gabon - Equatorial Guinea border dispute with UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. Biang said that both EG President Obiang and t [...]	2007-06-12 15:49:00	Embassy Libreville	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EPET GB EG
07LIBREVILLE268	PARTIAL LEGISLATIVE ELECTION RESULTS [...] (U) On June 10 voters cast their ballots for twenty legislative seats throughout Gabon. Nineteen of these positions were left vacant after the Constitutional Court invalidated various December 17 election results in several districts (reftel). 2. (U) Despite several issues with the voter re [...]	2007-06-12 16:32:00	Embassy Libreville	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM GB
07LIBREVILLE29	GABON BUYS USED MIRAGES FROM SOUTH AFRICA [...] (U) Gabon has purchased at least 3 Dassault Mirage F1-AZ fighters from South Africa's Aerosud and Paramount group, which apparently has acquired all of the remaining SAAF F1 airframes. The planes are approximately 30 years old but were upgraded in the 90s and are reported to be in excellent c [...]	2007-01-18 12:00:00	Embassy Libreville	CONFIDENTIAL	MCAP SF GB EK
07LIBREVILLE308	GABON MISCELLANY [...] CHINESE PRESENCE/PRESENTS. On June 26, the Gabonese Minister of Public Construction and the Minister of Telecommunication visited the construction site of the new national radio and television-broadcasting center being built by the PRC in Gabon. Construction began on this project in 2005. The [...]	2007-07-17 15:53:00	Embassy Libreville	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KDEM GB
07LIBREVILLE502	SAO TOME: GOVERNMENT COLLECTS WEAPONS FROM POLICE [...] (SBU) National authorities in Sao Tome and Principe (STP) have collected a significant quantity of weapons from the rebellious and now-disbanded "Ninja" police unit. Meanwhile, a senior government minister claims the Ninjas, who carried out armed occupations of the national police headquarter [...]	2007-11-14 16:38:00	Embassy Libreville	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC TP
07LIBREVILLE82	DHRF-FUNDED RITUAL CRIMES CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS TABOO [...] Summary: Post used DHRF funds to sponsor a one-day conference on ritual crimes organized by the local NGO "L'Association de Lutte Contre les Crimes Rituels" (ALCR). The objective of the conference was to focus attention on ritual crimes in Gabon and help develop a plan of action to fight the pr [...]	2007-02-14 13:57:00	Embassy Libreville	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM SMIG PGOV OPRC EAID KCRM GB
07LILONGWE101	PRESIDENT DECLARES "TOTAL WAR ON CORRUPTION" [...] (SBU) Summary: President Mutharika reaffirmed his commitment to the country's anti-corruption drive at National Anti-Corruption Day on February 5. In a speech launching an anti-corruption survey, Mutharika proclaimed his "position against corruption is even stronger today than it was three ye [...]	2007-02-07 11:59:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM MI
07LILONGWE105	WORRY AT STATE HOUSE OVER POSSIBLE MULUZI RETURN [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-08 08:11:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM MI
07LILONGWE124	MALAWI STILL IN LIMBO OVER SOMALIA MISSION [...] (U) Action request: See paragraph 7. 2.(SBU) Summary: Ambessador Eastham met with Minister of Defense Davis Katsonga on February 15 to discuss Malawi's potential involvement in an AU peacekeeping mission to Somalia. Katsongasaid that Malawi, while committed to peacekeeping on the continent, [...]	2007-02-16 10:20:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM MI
07LILONGWE126	MALAWI AND IMF POSTPONE PRGF REVIEW OVER BUDGETARY [...] (SBU) Summary. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Resident Representative in Malawi, Thomas Baunsgaard, notified post on February 15 that the IMF and the Government of Malawi (GOM) had agreed to a "short" postponement of the IMF Board's third review of the Malawi Poverty Reduction and Grow [...]	2007-02-16 11:08:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EINV EAGR EAID PGOV ECON MI
07LILONGWE144	MALAWI AND ITS NEIGHBORS [...] (U) Summary: Malawi's role in the Southern African region is limited, as the GOM is primarily focused on internal politics and local economic development. While Malawi is a founding member of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC),it is not particularly involved in the development or [...]	2007-02-26 05:46:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM MI
07LILONGWE156	Country Clearance granted - ACSS Malawi [...] American Embassy Lilongwe grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of Mr. Angelo Sommer, Mr. Enoch A. Sarbeng and Mr. Jeffrey Yeck to coordinate support for the upcoming Africa Center Seminar in Blantyre from 10-17 February 2007. Control Officer for the visit will be Political/Military [...]	2007-03-01 05:38:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL OTRA MI
07LILONGWE161	2007 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT - MALAWI [...] SUMMARY. Since achieving Tier 1 status in 2006, the Government of Malawi (GOM) has continued to make noteworthy progress in tackling trafficking in persons (TIP) despite its severely limited human and financial resources. Although TIP remained a relatively new concept for Malawians, the GOM [...]	2007-03-01 15:09:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB EAID
07LILONGWE169	U.S. ASSISTANCE GETS MALAWI GLOBAL FUND PROGRAM BACK ON [...] Summary: Malawi is one of the largest recipients of assistance from the Global Fund, with over $300 million in grants approved to date. Execution of the grants, however, has been beset by many problems, and less than a quarter of approved funds have been disbursed. In order to improve Malawi' [...]	2007-03-07 10:28:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID KHIV SOCI MI
07LILONGWE182	MALAWI INPUT FOR 2007 PRESIDENT'S REPORT ON AGOA [...] Following is Embassy's update for the annual President's Report on AGOA, in response to reftel request. Paragraphs/topics are organized according to the report template and instructions. 2. Market Economy/Economic Reform: The government has generally made a commitment to a market-based econ [...]	2007-03-12 13:35:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON PHUM PGOV MI
07LILONGWE194	ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE BITES THE DUST [...] (SBU) Summary: With raw Malawian power politics on full display, Parliament rejected the President's nominee for Auditor General on March 13. The rejection, the latest in a string of high profile presidential nominees to be refused, comes as a result of government's inept management of parlia [...]	2007-03-14 13:13:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KCOR MI
07LILONGWE196	MALAWI EARNS IMPROVED CREDIT RATING [...] (U) Summary: Malawi's sovereign credit rating has improved from "CCC" to "B minus", according to a newly-released assessment by international credit rating agency Fitch Ratings. The Millennium Challenge-funded evaluation praises the sound fiscal management of the Mutharika government and predi [...]	2007-03-15 08:22:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAID EFIN PGOV MI
07LILONGWE199	DEMARCHE DELIVERED - UN REFORM: INTERNQL [...] Poloff delivered reftel talking points to MFA Director of Political Affairs Paul Chiunguzeni on March 14, 2007. Chiunguzeni said he would look over the documents presented, but had no other substantive comment. Post recommends that USUN contact Malawi's Mission to the U.N., as many GOM decisi [...]	2007-03-16 07:00:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC APER PREL UNGA
07LILONGWE225	Country Clearance granted - Malawi [...] American Embassy Lilongwe grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of Maj. Tong Van (FAO) to Malawi to conduct a regional travel as part of his in country training 23-24 April 2007. Control Officer for the visit will be Political/Military Officer Tyler Sparks, office telephone number 26 [...]	2007-03-21 15:13:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL OTRA MI
07LILONGWE226	SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET REJECTED AS PARLIAMENT CLOSES EARLY [...] (SBU) Summary: Parliament finished a four week session on March 22 amid controversy over the opposition's refusal to pass a mid-year supplemental budget. The session ended without any substantive work having been accomplished, and important bills pertaining to local government elections, a nat [...]	2007-03-22 06:51:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KCOR MI
07LILONGWE227	Country Clearance granted - Malawi [...] American Embassy Lilongwe grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of Maj. Tong Van (FAO) to Malawi to conduct a regional travel as part of his in country training 23-24 April 2007. Control Officer for the visit will be Political/Military Officer Tyler Sparks, office telephone number 26 [...]	2007-03-22 06:52:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL OTRA MI
07LILONGWE253	DEMARCHE: EXTRAORDINARY SADC HEADS OF STATE SUMMIT [...] (SBU) Ambassador Eastham spoke with President Mutharika regarding the situation in Zimbabwe on March 19, as reported in reftel B. FM Banda is with the President in Tanzania, and all other senior MFA officials are currently away from Lilongwe in southern Malawi for a bilateral summit with Moza [...]	2007-03-29 07:37:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM
07LILONGWE254	MALAWI ARMY STOPS OPPOSITION RALLY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Malawi Defense Force (MDF) stopped former President Bakili Muluzi, Chairman of the United Democratic Front (UDF) opposition party and 2009 presidential candidate, from holding a campaign rally on March 25. Citing the incapacity of the police and concerns over the safety of [...]	2007-03-29 07:42:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM MI
07LILONGWE27	UDF LEADERS ARRESTED FOR DISSEMINATING BINGU RECORDING [...] (SBU) Summary: Police arrested two opposition leaders on January 11 for distributing a recording of President Mutharika instructing an unnamed GOM official to "shake up" former President and political nemesis Bakili Muluzi. The two officials, arrested on charges of sedition, played the recordi [...]	2007-01-12 12:42:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM MI
07LILONGWE277	Country Clearance granted - Malawi [...] American Embassy Lilongwe grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of Maj. Tong Van (FAO) to Malawi to conduct a regional travel as part of his in country training April 26 - May 1 2007. Control Officer for the visit will be Political/Military Officer Tyler Sparks, office telephone numb [...]	2007-04-11 15:49:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL OTRA MI
07LILONGWE322	COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR OGAC CORE TEAM LEADER KATIE [...] American Embassy Lilongwe grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of Ms. Kathryn Crowley from May 13th, 2007 to May 25th, 2007, for the purpose of assisting post in the preparation of the FY 2008 COP planning including team and partner orientation to full COP requirements for a non-focu [...]	2007-04-26 13:04:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	KHIV MI
07LILONGWE332	CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW RECONVENES, PROPOSES REFORMS [...] (SBU) Summary: From April 17-19 the Malawi Law Commission hosted the second constitutional review conference, ahead of their official presentation of proposed constitutional amendments to President Mutharika's Cabinet. The Commission presented their opinions on a number of controversial const [...]	2007-05-02 14:42:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV MI
07LILONGWE361	MUTHARIKA'S CABINET BALOONS TO 44 POSTS [...] (SBU) Summary: President Mutharika extensively reshuffled his cabinet on May 10, firing two ministers outright and adding nine new ministers or deputy ministers, to bring the total cabinet positions up to 44 (two of which Mutharika has filled himself). This is the largest cabinet since former [...]	2007-05-11 10:45:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM MI
07LILONGWE362	DEMARCHE ON KEY U.S. OBJECTIVES AT THE ANNUAL [...] (U) Poloff met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director of Political Affairs Warren Gunda on May 10 to discuss reftel talking points. Gunda thanked Poloff for the information, however offered no substantive comment as the issue is largely being dealt with in the Ministry of Health. On [...]	2007-05-11 10:46:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO AORC PREL

07LILONGWE380	IMET Students: Post Human Rights Certification [...] Name: Humphrey Kajawa MKANDAWIRE Rank: LTC Service number: 0536 Passport number: SE000629 Issued: 27 Nov 2004 Expiry: 27 Nov 2014 Date of birth: 2 May 1956 Course: Air Command and Staff College Report date: 11 June 2007 2. Name: Martin Liwewe KAICHE Rank: Brigadier General Service num [...]	2007-05-16 14:50:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL MASS MI
07LILONGWE381	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CATHERINE BROKENSHIRE-SCOTT, PEPFAR [...] American Embassy Lilongwe grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of Ms. Catherine Brokenshire-Scott from May 27th, 2007 to June 1st, 2007, for the purpose of assisting post in the transition of Strategic Information Advisors for the PEPFAR program in preparation of partner orientation [...]	2007-05-17 05:39:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	KHIV MI
07LILONGWE409	ACSS Student: Post Human Rights Certification [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-31 16:11:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL MASS MI
07LILONGWE415	MUTHARIKA'S THIRD YEAR: REFORM CONTINUES, BUT SLOWLY [...] (SBU) Summary: President Mutharika in May marked the completion of his third year in office. As with his first two years, the president's record in this past twelve months is one of mixed success. Mutharika has overseen a substantial improvement in Malawi's economy, but slow action in enactin [...]	2007-06-01 14:02:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM ECON EAID MI
07LILONGWE420	DEMARCHE DELIVERED - US 60-DAY REPORT ON UNSCR 1747 [...] Poloff met with Director of Political Affairs Paul Chiunguzeni on June 4, 2007 to discuss reftel talking points. Chiunguzeni thanked Poloff for the USG 60-day report, and said it was discouraging that Iran had refused to halt their nuclear program. He made no commitments on submitting a Malawi [...]	2007-06-04 14:36:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM MI
07LILONGWE579	ACSS Student: Post Human Rights Certification [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-25 14:20:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL MASS MI
07LILONGWE592	ACSS Participant: Post Human Rights Certification [...] Name: Ignacio E.J. Maulana Rank: Colonel Passport number: MW085345 Issued: 27 Oct 2003 Expiry: 27 Oct 2013 Date of birth: 8 May 1961 Course: Managing Security Resources Report date: 16 September 2007 2. Name: Annie C. Mabomba Rank: Civilian - Administrative Offic [...]	2007-08-02 12:15:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL MASS MI
07LILONGWE601	ACSS Student: Post Human Rights Certification [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-07 08:07:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL MASS MI
07LILONGWE633	Country Clearance granted [...] American Embassy Lilongwe grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of Cynthia Simon-Arndt to Malawi, 21-26 August to provide assistance with the COP preparation to the HCT. Control Officer for the visit will be the Political Officer John Letvin, office telephone number 265-1-773-166, ext [...]	2007-08-13 14:24:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL OTRA MI
07LILONGWE644	MALAWI'S POLITICAL IMPASSE CONTINUES [...] (SBU) Summary: Malawi's political impasse continues amidst a flurry of legal actions by both the ruling and opposition parties, and bickering in the National Assembly. Popular opinion seems to have convinced opposition leaders to agree at least to substantive discussion on the budget as of Au [...]	2007-08-16 12:03:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM EFIN EAID MI
07LILONGWE662	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED - ACSS Seminar Blantyre [...] American Embassy Lilongwe grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of the following ACSS staff from September 8-26, 2007 to Malawi to coordinate support for the Africa Center for Strategic Studies Seminar on Managing Security Resources in Africa in Blantyre, Malawi: - AMB (RET.) PETER [...]	2007-08-27 08:19:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL OTRA MI
07LILONGWE707	ACSS Participant: Post Human Rights Certification [...] Name: John Alfred Chikalimba Rank: Civilian, Member of Parliament Passport number: MW085345 Issued: 8 November 2004 Expiry: 8 November 2014 Date of birth: 21st August 1954 Course: Managing Security Resources Report date: 16 September 2007 EASTHAM [...]	2007-09-13 15:05:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL MASS MI
07LILONGWE735	MALAWI: MOZAMBIQUE BLOCKS PATROL BOATS DONATION [...] (C) Summary: Malawi Defense Force Commander General Marko Chiziko told Ambassador that Government of Mozambique (GRM) was blocking the delivery of the Taiwan's donation of four patrol boats for use on Lake Malawi, probably at the urging of the Chinese Government. Chiziko claimed the government [...]	2007-09-26 07:49:00	Embassy Lilongwe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS PBTS MI TZ MZ
07LILONGWE778	IMF GIVES MALAWI ECONOMY A THUMBS UP [...] Summary. In an October 9 briefing to Heads of Mission, the IMF presented a solidly favorable view of the GOM's economic performance and the outlook for the next year. The meeting highlighted strong economic indicators virtually across the board, with only a couple weak areas. The review un [...]	2007-10-17 14:16:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON EAID MI
07LILONGWE793	MCC DELEGATION VISIT TO MALAWI [...] (SBU) Summary: A three-person delegation from the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC),led by Threshold Program Director Malik Chaka, visited Malawi October 3-7, 2007. The delegation assessed the implementation of the Malawi Threshold Country Plan (TCP),both in terms of USAID management of [...]	2007-10-23 14:22:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID PGOV MI
07LILONGWE799	AIR MALAWI PRIVATIZATION REDUX [...] Summary. Privatization for Air Malawi is again being discussed, this time through a liquidation and sale of assets to COMAIR of South Africa. Finance Minister Gondwe has supported the plan, but potential divestiture of the flag carrier has drawn fire from Air Malawi's board and from some op [...]	2007-10-25 10:27:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR KPRV MI
07LILONGWE802	MALAWI: RWANDAN REFUGEES UNDER THREAT, OR [...] (SBU) Summary: Since the September visit of Rwandan President Paul Kagame to Malawi, a press report and letters from Rwandan refugees claim that the government of Rwanda (GOR) has made threats against the lives of refugees currently in Malawi. While Rwandan overseas opposition parties have use [...]	2007-10-29 08:56:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL MI
07LILONGWE803	MALAWI - REFUGEE CAMP CONSOLIDATION FAILS TO STOP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The government of Malawi's (GOM) closure of the Luwani refugee camp and Karonga transit shelter has failed to stop the flow of Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Somali men through the country. Over 400 of these refugees arrived in a single day in October. Asylum seekers from the Horn of [...]	2007-10-29 09:07:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PGOV MI
07LILONGWE83	DEMARCHE DELIVERED - AU CHARTER ON DEMOCRACY, ELECTIONS AND [...] (SBU) Poloff met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs US desk officer Pamela Mkwamba on January 30 to discuss reftel demarche. Mkwamba said that while she was not aware of an official GOM position on the charter, that she was confident that Malawi would support it. She said she would pass on the [...]	2007-01-31 11:07:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM MI
07LILONGWE838	IMET Students: Post Human Rights Certification [...] Post requests vetting clearance for the following students who have been nominated to attend IMET training: A. Name: Ross Costain Kingsley Magomero Rank: Major Service number: 0935 Passport number: MW186804 Issued: 28 July 2005 Expiry: 28 July 2015 Date of birth: 18 February 1976 Course [...]	2007-11-08 14:23:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL MASS MI
07LILONGWE84	MUTHARIKA BACKS OFF TROOP COMMITMENT TO [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-31 13:36:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM MI
07LILONGWE845	MALAWI: MCC THRESHOLD SUCCESS STORIES [...] Summary: The 20.92 million USD Millennium Challenge Threshold Program in Malawi has achieved its goals using targeted projects across multiple sectors to combat corruption. The most recent milestone was the establishment of an internal affairs unit at the Malawi Police Service after an 18-mont [...]	2007-11-13 12:46:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAID PGOV MI
07LILONGWE85	MALAWI POISED FOR GOOD MAIZE HARVEST, BUT LOW [...] Summary: Although it is too early to say for certain, Malawi appears to be headed for another year of surplus maize production, the result of good rains, improved maize seed provided donors, and an extremely expensive, but generally effective, government subsidy program that supplied fertilize [...]	2007-01-31 14:44:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON PGOV MI
07LILONGWE864	MALAWI: SPECIAL LAW COMMISSION RELEASES CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Special Law Commission, which was mandated in 2005 to recommend improvements to Malawi's hastily-drafted 1994 Constitution, released an ambitious report on October 12. The review produced a number of controversial recommendations relevant to the current Malawian political s [...]	2007-11-19 15:03:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM MI
07LILONGWE866	MALAWI - MCC'S TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITY PROVES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Mutharika and other government leaders expressed public disappointment and frustration with the 2007 Transparency International (TI) corruption perception ratings for Malawi. Mutharika's main criticism was that TI had no local representation and was dealing with old i [...]	2007-11-21 07:06:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON KMCA MI
07LILONGWE877	MALAWI SITUATION REPORT NUMBER XX - DISASTER ALERT [...] (U) SUMMARY: The first floods and hail storms of this rainy season are reported to have occurred between November 7-16 in seven districts: Chikwawa, Nsanje, Phalombe, Mwanza, Mangochi and Machinga in southern Malawi, and Mzimba in the north. According to the Department of Poverty and Disaster [...]	2007-11-26 15:08:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EAGR MI
07LILONGWE889	Country Clearance granted - Malawi [...] American Embassy Lilongwe grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of Kelly Langdorf to consult with Embassy and appropriate government officials and to discuss and review with the country teams and relevant ministry of Defense officials DoD programs currently in progress or under consi [...]	2007-11-30 05:44:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL OTRA MI
07LILONGWE938	ACSS Student: Post Human Rights Certification [...] Name: Polycard Bonface Zakaria CHILANGWE Rank: LTC Passport number: MW074012 Issued: 28 Aug 2003 Expiry: 28 Aug 2013 Date of birth: 26 Jan 1961 Report date: 20 Jan 2008 2. Name: Steben Bruce MANYOZO Rank: LTC Passport number: MW029620 Issued: 16 Dec 2002 [...]	2007-12-17 11:55:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL MASS MI
07LILONGWE949	SELF-HELP INTERIM OBLIGATION REPORT - MALAWI [...] Post submits the following summary of cumulative Self-Help interim obligation report. All activities prior to FY06 have been completed and closed out. ---------------- FY 2007 Projects ---------------- 2. Project Name: Kalwe Gravity-fed Water Project UODN No.: 612-SH-00-07-00001- [...]	2007-12-20 14:48:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON AFIN
07LIMA1052	PERU: DEMARCHE ON KOSOVO PROPOSALS [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-27 22:39:00	Embassy Lima	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNMIK UN YI EU PE
07LIMA1264	PRESS BREAKS STORY OF PERU ARMS TO FARC [...] Peru daily La Republica ran a front-page story on 4/1 that detailed how a "Mafia" within Peru's Armed Forces (FAP) and the Police (PNP) had robbed Peru's arms stocks to sell weapons to the FARC. The account summarized news reports since 2005 in an analytical piece detailing a weapons smugglin [...]	2007-04-04 20:57:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV SNAR PE
07LIMA1266	MINOR ANOMALY FOUND IN CAMISEA PIPELINE [...] SUMMARY: On April 3, Camisea pipeline operator TGP detected an anomaly in the gas liquids pipeline and took measures to remediate the problem. This is the only anomaly reported for the 2006-7 rainy season (now ending),during which the sodden earth has historically caused problems. A "smart p [...]	2007-04-04 21:10:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG ECON ETRD EAID SENV PE
07LIMA1277	NAS MONTHLY REPORT FOR MARCH 2007 [...] (U) The key developments in March 2007: Eradication halted on March 11 for the rest of the month due to cocalero protests; 651 ha of coca eradicated to date. Agriculture Minister Salazar signs 10-point accord with cocaleros that halts eradication and criticizes USG policy. ** CORAH [...]	2007-04-05 20:48:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
07LIMA1380	VAMEX SIGNS OIL GAS EXPLORATION PRODUCTION CONTRACT FOR [...] (U) On April 12, 2007, PeruPetro, the GOP's oil and gas production and exploration licensing agency, signed an oil and gas exploration and production license contract with the U.S. firm Vietnam American Exploration Company LLC (VAMEX),covering off-shore Block Z-38, in northwest Peru, just sout [...]	2007-04-13 16:58:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG ETRD SENV PE
07LIMA1413	APPOINTMENT OF FUJIMORISTA ROILS GOP, HURTS PRIME [...] (SBU) Summary: The short-lived appointment of ex-Fujimori Prime Minister Alberto Pandolfi to a government position has embroiled the APRA Administration in a debilitating scandal. Pandolfi faces criminal charges relating to Vladimiro Montesinos corruption scandals and in 2003 was legally proh [...]	2007-04-16 20:51:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR PE
07LIMA1421	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/CDC CARYN BERN [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Caryn Bern, Medical Officer, COGH, OD, CDC, HHS from May 21 to June 1, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to work with collaborators on data from a study of Chagas disease in Peru. No embassy assistance has been requested. Contro [...]	2007-04-17 15:50:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC KSCA CDCE US PE
07LIMA1451	MAHOGANY IN PERU: A PRIMER [...] SUMMARY: This cable lays out the basic facts of traded mahogany wood in Peru. 2006 Mahogany exports were worth about $30 million, about 17% of all timber exported. Approximately 90% of all exported mahogany goes to the U.S market. Mahogany is an Appendix II species under the International E [...]	2007-04-18 22:43:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR SENV ETRD EAID ECON PE
07LIMA149	PERU SECTION 1377 TELECOM REVIEW [...] (U) Per reftel, Econoff provided Peruvian telecom regulator OSIPTEL with NII Holdings' (Nextel) public comments and informed OSIPTEL of USTR's deadline for voluntary replies. As a follow-up, Econoff met with OSIPTEL's Manager for Regulatory Policies and Strategic Planning Jose Gallardo and se [...]	2007-01-18 20:18:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ECPS ETRD USTR PE
07LIMA1511	PERU: REQUEST FOR FORCED LABOR AND CHILD LABOR [...] Per reftel, post has contacted host government officials, NGOs, business and labor groups, and international organizations to obtain updated national-level information on labor law and practice in Peru in 2006. In most cases, the Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion (MTPE) was the most [...]	2007-04-24 16:40:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED	ECIN ECON ELAB ETRD EAID PE
07LIMA1558	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USGS GOLDFARB [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Mr. Richard Goldfarb, Research Geologist, from May 16-27, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to conduct field visits at mines sites, teach a short course, and attend and present a keynote address at the Proexplo Congress. No emb [...]	2007-04-27 18:10:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC TPHY KSCA TBIO PE
07LIMA1559	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USGS HEILWEIL [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Mr. Victor Heilweil, Hydrologist, US Geological Survey, from May 13-20, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to provide technical assistance and training to counterpart (Dr. Ignacio Benevent and study team, University of Piura) re [...]	2007-04-27 18:10:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC TPHY KSCA TBIO PE
07LIMA1566	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/CDC DUNCAN MACKELLAR AND [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Duncan MacKellar, Lead Epidemiologist and Amanda Smith, Epidemiologist, OD, CDC, HHS from June 3-9, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to assess research capacity in various clinical and outreach settings in Lima, and to provide [...]	2007-04-27 20:20:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC KSCA CDC US PE
07LIMA1568	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/CDC EDUARDO [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, Medical Epidemiologist, NCIRD, HHS/CDC, from May 20-25, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to support PAHO Regional Office activities aimed at influenza health information collection and regional prepar [...]	2007-04-27 20:45:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC KSCA CDC US PE
07LIMA1572	PERU: REQUEST FOR UPDATED INFORMATION FOR DOL [...] Per e-mail reference, post has contacted host government officials to collect updated information for the Department of Labor's Labor Rights Report. In most cases, the Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion (MTPE) was the most appropriate point of contact, although in some cases the data [...]	2007-04-27 21:00:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED	ECIN ECON ELAB ETRD EAID PE
07LIMA1648	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NPS MEYER, HERBERT W [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Mr. Herbert W. Meyer, Geologist (Paleontologist),from May 13-24, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to conduct research and excavations on the paleontology of the site in order to understand the context of the fossils and to res [...]	2007-05-07 16:06:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC TPHY KSCA SCUL SENV PE
07LIMA165	HUMAN RIGHTS COURT DECISION CAUSES GARCIA TO [...] (C) Summary: An Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) decision requiring the Peruvian government to pay reparations and to apologize for the May 1992 killing of 41 prison inmates (associated with the Shining Path terrorist group) has caused the Garcia administration political problems. [...]	2007-01-19 19:46:00	Embassy Lima	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER PE
07LIMA1667	NAS MONTHLY REPORT FOR APRIL 2007 [...] (U) The key developments in April 2007: Eradication total of 894 hectares is low compared to this time last year; in April 2006 we had eradicated 3,120. Garcia embraced eradication as an important element of GOP policy; taking a tough line against cocaleros. ** CORAH worker killed [...]	2007-05-08 21:02:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
07LIMA1668	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/CDC LAURA CONKLIN, [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Laura Conklin, Antonio Neri, Paula Staley, Wendy Blumenthal, Jeffery Jarrett, Rebecca LePrell, James Durant, and Rene Suarez-Soto from May 14 to June 1, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to assist in Cerro de Pasco collecting b [...]	2007-05-08 21:14:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC KSCA US CDC PE
07LIMA1669	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/CDC PATRICK SULLIVAN [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Patrick Sullivan, Branch Chief, CCID/NCHHSTP, CDC, HHS from June 3 - 9, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to assess research capacity in various clinical and outreach settings; to provide technical assistance in protocol develo [...]	2007-05-08 21:14:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC KSCA US CDC PE
07LIMA1675	PERU PERPLEXED BY ECUADORIAN MARITIME COMPLAINT [...] (SBU) Peru's MFA is perplexed by recent news reports that the Government of Ecuador (GOE) planned to send a formal note of complaint for Peru's alleged failure to agree to GOE protocol relating to Peruvian naval vessels' passage into Ecuadorian territorial waters during upcoming UNITAS naval [...]	2007-05-09 15:35:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EC PE
07LIMA1677	PERU: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR DOL LABOR RIGHTS [...] Peru's Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion (MTPE) has provided additional information to update reftel B. Responses are keyed to the e-mail reference cited above. 2. MTPE assistance for negotiated collective bargaining agreements: In 2006, the MTPE provided assistance in 541 coll [...]	2007-05-09 18:12:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED	ECIN ECON ELAB ETRD EAID PE
07LIMA1709	GARCIA GOVERNMENT: HONEYMOON OVER, TIME FOR RESULTS [...] (SBU) The Garcia governmen's extended honeymoon has ende. In the wake of the Tocache Accords and the Pandolfi Affair (Refs A-E),the GOP finds itself beset by a series of protests from cocalero, labor and other groups. At the same time, the APRA leadership faces increasing patronage pressur [...]	2007-05-11 15:44:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PHUM VE PE
07LIMA1774	PERU LNG: NEW PIPE, BUT NO NEW JUNGLE PIPELINE [...] SUMMARY: Camisea gas transporter TGP and Peru LNG operator Hunt Oil agreed to a tariff for TGP to transport Peru LNG gas for the jungle portion of the shared gas pipeline. This agreement obviates any need that might have seemed present for a new gas pipeline to be laid in the environmentally an [...]	2007-05-17 16:44:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG ECON ETRD EAID SENV PE
07LIMA1775	PERU LNG: NEW PIPE, BUT NO NEW JUNGLE PIPELINE [...] SUMMARY: Camisea gas transporter TGP and Peru LNG operator Hunt Oil agreed to a tariff for TGP to transport Peru LNG gas for the jungle portion of the shared gas pipeline. This agreement obviates any need that might have seemed present for a new gas pipeline to be laid in the environmentally an [...]	2007-05-17 16:44:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG ECON ETRD EAID SENV PE
07LIMA1804	THE SNIP SNIPPED: STREAMLINED PUBLIC PROJECTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: With Economy/Finance (MEF) Minister Luis Carranza out of the country, President Garcia issued an emergency decree allowing Regional Presidents to approve public investment projects based solely on project summaries, effectively dismantling the Finance Ministry's Public Investment S [...]	2007-05-18 21:37:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV EINV EAID PE
07LIMA1805	MINING STRIKE ENDS BUT CHALLENGES REMAIN [...] (SBU) Summary: The recent strike by the National Federation of Mining, Metallurgy, and Steel Workers ended after the government promised to create a national commission, headed by the Minister of Labor, to address issues raised by the union. In public, union leaders declared victory and note [...]	2007-05-18 22:18:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN ELAB EINV ENRG PGOV ECON PE
07LIMA1841	HUMALA PATRIARCH LAYS OUT STRATEGY FOR "REVOLT OF [...] (SBU) Isaac Humala, patriarch of the clan that produced Ollanta Humala, recently described to us his movement's plans to undermine the Garcia Government. Humala (pere) has created a philosophy called "Ethnocacerism" holding that Peru's oppressed masses must bring back a pro-indigenous, pro-c [...]	2007-05-23 17:40:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PINR SNAR PE
07LIMA1862	CLOCK TICKING FOR GARCIA IN THE HIGHLANDS [...] (SBU) Residents of Apurimac, a southern highlands region and former Humala stronghold, have seen few benefits from the Garcia government, according to interlocutors interviewed by poloffs during a May 13-15 visit. Despite a pro-Humala history, most elected local leaders are non-ideological t [...]	2007-05-24 17:21:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV PINR SNAR PE
07LIMA1940	GOP RESOLVES POTENTIAL CONFLICT OVER MARKET [...] (SBU) In a near-flawless May 29 operation, several thousand Peruvian Police peaceably removed close to one thousand merchant squatters from Santa Anita market in central Lima. The success of the Santa Anita operation sent a powerful message that the GOP is serious about enforcing the rule of [...]	2007-06-01 17:57:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PROG SNAR PIN PE
07LIMA1944	PERU'S FINANCIAL INTEL UNIT MERGING WITH BANKING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 31, the Peruvian Congress passed a law moving Peru's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) into the Superintendency of Banking, Securities and Pension Funds (SBS). This law reverses the GOP's March 1 Supreme Decree which ordered the FIU's incorporation into the Ministry of [...]	2007-06-01 21:15:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN KTFN ECON SNAR PGOV PE
07LIMA2000	BOLIVARIAN INFLUENCE IN PUNO [...] (SBU) Summary: The southern highlands region of Puno has emerged as the focus of Venezuelan proselytizing in Peru, with the Venezuela-funded "Bolivarian Alternative for Latin American and the Caribbean (ALBA)" center representing the latest evidence of deepening ties. While Regional President [...]	2007-06-07 19:21:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CU PE PGOV PINR PTER SNAR VE
07LIMA2009	OLLANTA HUMALA ONE YEAR LATER [...] (SBU) Ollanta Humala, the Chavez protege who nearly became Peru's President in June 2006, told Poloffs that he remains politically active, meeting with members of his Peruvian Nationalist Party (PNP) congressional bloc as well as unionists and regional presidents. Humala took pains to distin [...]	2007-06-08 16:33:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR PHUM PE
07LIMA2017	NAS MONTHLY REPORT FOR MAY 2007 [...] (U) The key developments in May 2007: A total of 1,583 hectares of coca has now been eradicated and 10,752 square meters of seedbeds have been eliminated. A second eradication front in Ucayali is slated to start in early June. ** The U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) o [...]	2007-06-08 20:02:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
07LIMA2091	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/CDC MARILIYN DISIRIO [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Marilyn Disirio, Associate Director for Global Health, NCEH, CDC, HHS from August 10-12, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to attend a Water Safety Plan Meeting Conference and Report Discussion. No embassy assistance has been r [...]	2007-06-15 12:59:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC KSCA CDC US PE
07LIMA2126	ANOTHER HUMALA AIMS AT 2011 [...] (SBU) Antauro Humala, the jailed brother of former presidential candidate Ollanta Humala, has formed a political party and plans to run for President in 2011, according to his advisor Miguel Angel de la Puente. Antauro hopes to become the "outsider" candidate in the style of former President [...]	2007-06-19 15:57:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PHUM VE PE
07LIMA2129	REFORM WITHOUT REVOLUTION: THE VIEW FROM PUNO [...] (SBU) Comment: Despite grinding poverty, bumbling local government, and flaring racial animosities, revolutionary political action in the altiplano department of Puno is unlikely, even though Puno is an historic center of Peruvian radicalism. Regional officials describe themselves as pragmat [...]	2007-06-19 17:12:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CU PE PGOV PINR PTER SNAR VE
07LIMA218	EMBASSY GETS TO KNOW COCALERO LEADER AND PRO-COCA [...] (SBU) Post hosted 48 cocalero (i.e., coca-producer) leaders on 1/18, including seven mayors and Nelson Palomino, secretary general for a large cocalero federation. The SIPDIS cocaleros main assertions were: extreme poverty plagues their communities and coca is one of their few profitable a [...]	2007-01-26 18:12:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SNAR PE
07LIMA2181	SCENESETTER FOR PM DAS COULTER-LED JUNE 26-27 [...] (SBU) Your visit to Peru to lead the first-ever Political-Military talks between Peru and the United States comes at a time when relations between Lima and Washington are in excellent shape. Since assuming office in July 2006, President Garcia has maintained the solid macroeconomic fundament [...]	2007-06-21 21:07:00	Embassy Lima	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV SNAR PE MARR
07LIMA221	PERU 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT (PART 1/2) [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-26 18:36:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD KTDB ELAB PGOV OPIC USTR PE
07LIMA222	PERU 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT (PART 2/2) [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-26 18:40:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD KTDB ELAB PGOV OPIC USTR PE
07LIMA2259	PERU: REQUEST FOR UPDATED INFORMATION FOR DOL PERU [...] Per e-mail reference, post has contacted host government officials to clarify information previously provided for DOL's Peru Labor Rights Report. In most cases, the Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion (MTPE) was the most appropriate source of information, although in some cases the da [...]	2007-07-03 12:03:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED	ECIN ECON ELAB ETRD EAID PE
07LIMA2298	MAFIAS BATTLE FOR TURF IN CIVIL CONSTRUCTION [...] (U) Summary: Brawls and violent crime at construction sites in Callao and Lima have caused three deaths in the past four months and put scores of workers in the hospital. The industry has long attracted leg breakers and goons, but union officials, business firms, and labor analysts say the lev [...]	2007-07-05 20:38:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ETRD PE PGOV
07LIMA2299	PERU: DOL REQUEST FOR EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION [...] Per reftel, post provides the following information for mandatory US-Peru Free Trade Agreement reporting requirements. The Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion (MTPE) provided the information cited, although in some cases the data requested was not available. Responses are keyed to re [...]	2007-07-05 20:39:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED	ECIN ECON ELAB ETRD PE
07LIMA2319	PERU'S SEASON OF PROTEST [...] (U) Comment: Widespread protests across different regions of Peru have led some political observers -- like Peru Nationalist Party President Ollanta Humala -- to suggest the GOP may be losing control in the countryside (see septel),and President Garcia has made several public appeals for ca [...]	2007-07-06 21:23:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN ELAB EINV ENRG PGOV ECON PE
07LIMA2322	AIR POLLUTION IN LIMA WORSENING [...] SUMMARY: A recent report issued by Peru's National Institute for Statistics and Information (INEI) concludes that Lima's air quality is deteriorating. For example, airborne lead particles have increased by 119 percent compared with 2006. All of the air pollutant levels for Lima are signific [...]	2007-07-06 22:24:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV SOCI ALOW AMED AODE ECON USTR PE
07LIMA2344	NAS MONTHLY REPORT FOR JUNE 2007 [...] (SBU) The key developments in June 2007: A total of 2,616 hectares of coca has now been eradicated and 15,465 square meters of seedbeds have been eliminated. CORAH opened a second eradication front in Ucayali on June 12 until the end of July. ** An anti-drug prosecutor and 3 police [...]	2007-07-09 21:31:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
07LIMA2345	PERU FORECASTS 7% GDP GROWTH FOR 2007, SHIFTS [...] In its latest medium-term economic report, the GOP raised its forecasted GDP growth rate for 2007 to 7.0 percent from its August 2006 forecast of 5.5 percent. This reviewed increase is in line with the Central Bank's May 2007 poll of local financial institutions and economists. The GOP repor [...]	2007-07-09 22:16:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON SOCI PGOV ETRD PE
07LIMA2347	PERU FORECASTS 7% GDP GROWTH FOR 2007, SHIFTS [...] In its latest medium-term economic report, the GOP raised its forecasted GDP growth rate for 2007 to 7.0 percent from its August 2006 forecast of 5.5 percent. This reviewed increase is in line with the Central BankQs May 2007 poll of local financial institutions and economists. The GOP repor [...]	2007-07-10 13:41:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON SOCI PGOV ETRD PE
07LIMA240	PERU: LABOR REFORM INCHES FORWARD [...] (SBU) Summary: In seeking consensus on the General Labor Law, the congressional labor committee plans to consult again with civil society before it submits a draft to the plenary. Continued political differences over specific issues -- particularly the rights of dismissed workers and the right [...]	2007-01-29 18:40:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ETRD PE PGOV
07LIMA2400	PERU FACES A "TORNADO OF PROTESTS" [...] (SBU) Summary: Peru is facing, in the words of one local commentator, a "tornado of protests," as organized labor, teachers, regional officials, and others have taken to the streets to call attention to a wide variety of grievances. Government officials and political analysts cite different causes [...]	2007-07-13 16:48:00	Embassy Lima	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ELAB PE PGOV PHUM PINR PREL
07LIMA2547	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ANN MOEN [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Ann Moen, Associate Director for Extramural Program, NCIRD, HHS/CDC from August 21-24, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to provide an oppportunity to meet with project staff to review progress and plan for the second year of th [...]	2007-07-26 21:53:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC KSCA SENV CDC BR AR PE
07LIMA2553	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NSF OFFICIAL CASSANDRA FESEN [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Dr. Cassandra Fesen, Program Manager in the Division of Atmospheric Sciences (ATM) from July 31 - August 5, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to attend the First Low Latitude Ionospheric Sensor Network Workshop in Lima. Control O [...]	2007-07-27 20:10:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC TPHY NSFO PE
07LIMA2560	SHINING PATH INMATES -- WHERE ARE THEY NOW? [...] (C) Summary: A majority of NGOs, political analysts, and former Sendero Luminoso (SL or Shining Path) members agree that most terrorists released from Peruvian prisons in the past six years have renounced armed struggle and are seeking to reintegrate themselves into Peruvian society. A core [...]	2007-07-27 21:06:00	Embassy Lima	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PHUM SNAR PE
07LIMA2652	NAS MONTHLY REPORT FOR JULY 2007 [...] (U) The key developments in July 2007: Strikes, violent marches, roadblocks, and airport shutdowns require heightened security measures. Plan VRAE, the GOP development program for Peru's main coca growing--and most poverty ridden--area, is stalled because the security component remai [...]	2007-08-03 21:59:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
07LIMA2708	PRESIDENT MORALES BLASTS NEOLIBERAL MODEL DURING [...] (U) Summary: During his first visit to Peru as Bolivian President August 1, Evo Morales met with President Garcia to discuss bilateral integration, addressed Peru's Congress, and met with local indigenous and labor leaders. In his speech to Congress, Morales called for an end to discrimination [...]	2007-08-08 22:32:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SNAR PINR BO PE
07LIMA2712	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DRS. NASH AND [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Dr. Siddhartha Mahanty, Staff Clinician, and Dr. Theodore Nash, Head, Gastrointestinal Parasites Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH from August 14-19, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to conduc [...]	2007-08-09 14:04:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC KSCA TBIO PE
07LIMA276	NEW GOP POINT MAN ON PTPA GOES TO WASHINGTON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: David Lemor, the GOP's de facto point man on the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (PTPA) told us January 19 that the GOP would now take a more internally coordinated and energetic approach in pushing for U.S. Congressional approval of the agreement. He travels to Washingto [...]	2007-01-31 17:24:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EAGR PGOV USTR PE
07LIMA2849	PERU: 8.0 QUAKE SHAKES ICA ECONOMY [...] The GOP has not yet issued an official assessment of the earthquake's economic effects and it is still early to gauge the disaster's full repercussions. Respected private sector analysts and Embassy officers and contacts have begun to evaluate the economic impacts of the massive August 15 ear [...]	2007-08-20 21:31:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON ETRD SENV ENRG USTR PE
07LIMA2850	PERU - EARTHQUAKE: SITUATION REPORT #1 [...] (U) Summary. As of August 19, the death toll in Peru from the August 15 earthquake, which occurred at 1840 hours local time, is 521 people. Following the August 16 U.S. Ambassador's disaster declaration for the earthquake in Peru and within 16 hours of the earthquake, the U.S. Embassy in Lim [...]	2007-08-20 21:48:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON ETRD SENV ENRG USTR PE XM XR
07LIMA2860	POSITIVE GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO EARTHQUAKE SO FAR [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government's swift response to the August 15 earthquake, with President Garcia and several key ministers quickly taking charge on site in Ica, earned it early public kudos. Lapses in communication, security and effective victims' assistance have since eroded the image of c [...]	2007-08-22 22:46:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EAID ECON XM XR PE
07LIMA290	PERU: CRISIS WITH CHILE AVERTED [...] (SBU) Summary: Following passage of Chilean legislation that, in effect, altered the territorial boundaries between Chile and Peru, intensive behind-the-scenes diplomacy helped avert a bilateral crisis, according to MFA contacts. Government officials are satisfied with the Chilean Constitutio [...]	2007-01-31 22:12:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PE
07LIMA2951	PERU - EARTHQUAKE: SITUATION REPORT #4 [...] (U) Summary. On August 29, U.S. Ambassador McKinley and a team of representatives from the U.S. Embassy in Lima, USAID/Peru, and USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) traveled to Pisco Province to visit earthquake-affected areas. The Ambassador visited Pisco's downt [...]	2007-09-04 11:50:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PE XM XR ECON ETRD SENV ENRG USTR
07LIMA2957	EARTHQUAKE RELIEF: A BOOST TO PERU-CHILE [...] (SBU) Summary: The August 15 earthquake has provided an unexpected boost to the Garcia administration's relations with key regional allies while raising public suspicion about the motives behind Venezuelan aid. Chile in particular has deftly used its high-profile relief effort to quiet the fl [...]	2007-09-04 15:31:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SNAR PINR BO PE
07LIMA2984	PERU - EARTHQUAKE: SITUATION REPORT #5 [...] (U) Summary. Between August 28 and 29, the USAID team, comprising representatives from USAID/Peru and USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA),conducted assessments of earthquake-affected districts in Huaytara Province, Huancavelica Region, and Yauyos Province, Lima Re [...]	2007-09-05 18:17:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PE XM XR ECON ETRD SENV ENRG USTR
07LIMA3016	NAS MONTHLY REPORT, AUGUST 2007 [...] (U) The key developments in August 2007: Joint operations by the Peruvian National Police and Army have captured a total of 28 Shining Path terrorists. To date, CORAH has eradicated 5,480 hectares of coca and eliminated 29,595 square meters of seedbeds. ** In support of USAID, erad [...]	2007-09-06 23:20:00	Embassy Lima	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
07LIMA3066	BUILDING POLICE PRESENCE - AND BETTER FUTURES - [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-11 21:47:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
07LIMA312	NAS MONTHLY REPORT, JANUARY 2007 [...] (U) The key developments in January 2007: The 2007 Eradication Plan was signed by Minister of Interior Pilar Mazzetti on January 11. Eradication and interdiction operations are still stalled due to the ongoing reorganization of the police. ** NAS received the official list of the n [...]	2007-02-02 18:58:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
07LIMA3136	GOP FORMALLY REQUESTS HUMANITARIAN DEMINING [...] (U) Summary: On August 1, the GOP formally requested USG assistance for humanitarian demining efforts. Post strongly supports the request and assesses that GOP interest and commitment to the program is high. Demining assistance would contribute to the overall USG foreign policy objective of [...]	2007-09-17 22:53:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM MCAP MASS MARR AFIN AMGT PE
07LIMA3163	IEDS IN ERADICATION OPERATIONS [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-18 23:45:00	Embassy Lima	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR KCRM PTER PREL PE
07LIMA3216	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. BENES TRUS, [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Dr. Benes Trus, Senior Investigator, Center for Information Technology, NIH from September 21-30, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to attend the 9th Inter-American Congress of Electron Microscopy in Cuzco. Dr. Trus will prese [...]	2007-09-21 17:24:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC KSCA TBIO PE

07LIMA3217	THE MAJAZ REFERENDUM: A VOTE AGAINST MINING [...] (SBU) Summary: Residents of three districts in the northern region of Piura voted September 16 to reject development of the Majaz copper deposit owned by the Chinese Zijin Consortium. The referendum is the latest event in two years of conflict between civil society and community groups that a [...]	2007-09-21 17:37:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON EINV EMIN PE PINR
07LIMA3229	COCA GROWERS ELECT AFFILIATES OF CHAVEZ ASSOCIATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Peru's largest coca-growers' organization elected new leadership September 14. Former leader Nelson Palomino, whose recent moderation was seen as bought by the GOP, lost his seat to individuals associated with the Peruvian Nationalist Party (PNP) and Venezuelan President Hugo C [...]	2007-09-24 13:26:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SNAR PE
07LIMA3231	FORMER PRESIDENT FUJIMORI RETURNED TO PERU [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following the surprise decision by Chile's Supreme Court to approve his extradition (Ref A),former President Alberto Fujimori was returned to Peru September 22 -- spirited to a suburban Lima police base in a carefully managed transfer that left little opportunity for political [...]	2007-09-24 15:54:00	Embassy Lima	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PTER PE
07LIMA3269	HUGO CHAVEZ, OLLANTA HUMALA AND THE TUNA CAN [...] (C) Summary: Following press reports that tuna cans labeled with pictures of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and nationalist leader (PNP) Ollanta Humala were being distributed in towns devastated by the August 15 earthquake, the public response was severe: Chavez and Humala were seeking to pr [...]	2007-09-28 12:09:00	Embassy Lima	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR PE
07LIMA3271	HUGO CHAVEZ, OLLANTA HUMALA AND THE TUNA CAN [...] (C) Summary: Following press reports that tuna cans labeled with pictures of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and nationalist leader (PNP) Ollanta Humala were being distributed in towns devastated by the August 15 earthquake, the public response was severe: Chavez and Humala were seeking to pr [...]	2007-09-28 12:09:00	Embassy Lima	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR PE
07LIMA3273	NAS MONTHLY REPORT, AUGUST 2007 [...] (U) The key developments in August 2007: Joint operations by the Peruvian National Police and Army have captured a total of 28 Shining Path terrorists. To date, CORAH has eradicated 5,480 hectares of coca and eliminated 29,595 square meters of seedbeds. ** In support of USAID, erad [...]	2007-09-28 12:09:00	Embassy Lima	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
07LIMA3324	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/CDC CARYN BERN [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Caryn Bern, Medical Officer, NCZVED/COGH, HHS/CDC, from October 11-15, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to work with collaborators in Asociacion Benefica Proyectos en Salud, Medicina y Agricultura (A.B. PRISMA) on data from stud [...]	2007-10-03 13:38:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC KSCA CDC BL PE
07LIMA3325	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. JERONIMO, [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Dr. Jose Jeronimo, Investigator, National Cancer Institute, NIH from October 6-8, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to speak at the XX Congress of the Cancerology. Control Officer would appreciate e-mail report of visit. No emb [...]	2007-10-03 13:38:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC KSCA TBIO PE
07LIMA3326	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/FDA DAVID LEPAY, [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of David Lepay, Medical Officer, Office of the Commissioner, FDA, HHS from October 14-19, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to serve as faculty and US FDA representative to a Pan American Health Organization sponsored training wor [...]	2007-10-03 13:38:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC KSCA TBIO US PE
07LIMA3327	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/CDC CHARLES RUPPRECHT [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Charles Rupprecht, Chief, Rabies Program, NCZVED/COGH, HHS/CDC, from October 21-25, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to provide consultation to the MOH on rabies prevention and control. POC would appreciate trip report of visi [...]	2007-10-03 13:38:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC KSCA CDC BL PE
07LIMA3344	PERU: KEEPING PRESSURE ON THE BURMESE REGIME [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche October 2 to MFA Director for Asian Affairs Raul Bressani, who said the GOP was following closely the events unfolding in Burma. Bressani added that Peru's embassies in Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok were reporting regularly on the issue. (Peru has no resident [...]	2007-10-03 21:32:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM
07LIMA3365	NAS MONTHLY REPORT, SEPTEMBER 2007 [...] (U) The key developments in September 2007: IEDs in coca fields kill a coca farmer and seriously injure a 12-year-old boy. During eradication, 21 IEDs were either disarmed or exploded, injuring four eradicators and two police. ** As of September 30, CORAH has eradicated a total of [...]	2007-10-05 20:35:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
07LIMA3369	AMENDMENT: COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/CDC CARYN [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Caryn Bern, Medical Officer, NCZVED/COGH, HHS/CDC, from Oct. 11-21 & Oct. 26-27, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to work with collaborators in Asociacion Benefica Proyectos en Salud, Medicina y Agricultura (A.B. PRISMA) on dat [...]	2007-10-09 21:48:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC KSCA CDC BL PE
07LIMA338	IMF COMMENDS PERU, BUT CHALLENGES REMAIN [...] (U) Summary: On January 26, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a stand-by agreement with the GOP for 2007-2009 during which the IMF will support the GOP's economic program. The IMF commended the GOP for its prudent conduct of fiscal policy in recent years, which is largely responsi [...]	2007-02-06 17:11:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EFIN ELAB PGOV USTR PE
07LIMA34	NAS MONTHLY REPORT, DECEMBER 2006 [...] (U) The key developments in November 2006: CORAH ended the year with a total of 10,137 hectares of coca leaf eradicated. The GOP's 2007 Eradication Plan is still awaiting a final signature. CORAH completes many financial and management improvements this year. Regional era [...]	2007-01-05 20:01:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
07LIMA3477	GOP REVISION SHOWS POVERTY DECLINES IN [...] SUMMARY. A National Statistical Institute (INEI) technical revision, supervised by the World Bank, indicates that PeruQs poverty rate declined more significantly than the government had previously calculated - by 4.2 percentage points, to 44.5 percent, from 2005 to 2006. Extreme poverty de [...]	2007-10-24 15:17:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON SOCI PGOV ETRD PE
07LIMA354	PERU'S MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CONCEPT PAPER [...] SUMMARY: The GOP's MCC Coordinator, Ben Schneider, will visit Washington February 12-13 to meet with State, USAID, MCA indicator institutions, and to present the GOP's draft Concept Paper to the MCC. The concept paper focuses on two of the most important indicators that Peru failed, Control of [...]	2007-02-07 12:16:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED	KMCC PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EAID SNAR PE
07LIMA3545	PERU RESPONSE: DEMARCHE (2ND REQUEST AND [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-31 22:16:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL AORC UNGA PE
07LIMA3546	PERU: DESIGNATIONS OF IRANIAN ENTITIES AND [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-31 22:16:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP PREL PARM EFIN PE
07LIMA3547	FATF STATEMENT AND GUIDANCE ON IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-31 22:17:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL MNUC ECON
07LIMA3577	PERU RESPONSE: INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION - DEMARCHE IN SUPPORT OF U.S. CANDIDACY [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-06 21:01:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC EWWT PE PHSA
07LIMA3588	NAS MONTHLY REPORT, OCTOBER 2007 [...] (U) The key developments in October 2007: Ambassador makes his inaugural trip to NAS-sponsored police and eradication facilities in Santa Lucia. Eradication total reaches 9,179 hectares of illegal coca and no booby traps (IEDs) encountered by eradicators. ** CORAH eradicated replan [...]	2007-11-07 18:01:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
07LIMA3589	PERU RESPONSE: ADVANCING THE DEMOCRACY AGENDA AT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-07 20:34:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PHUM PREL UNGA PE
07LIMA3636	GOP INTENDS TO ACT AGAINST VENEZUELAN MEDDLING [...] (C) Summary: Government officials, including President Garcia, have persistently expressed concern about Venezuelan meddling in Peru's affairs. Many believe that so-called "ALBA Houses," the subject of considerable if somewhat confused discussion here, are centers for Bolivarian agitation. [...]	2007-11-14 21:31:00	Embassy Lima	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PHUM VE PE
07LIMA3646	PERU: ANOTHER DEADLY ATTACK ON POLICE [...] (C) Summary: Four Peruvian National Police (PNP) officers were killed November 13 in an ambush in northern Huancavelica region by presumed narco-trafficking interests. Whether the culprits were narco-thugs or Sendero Luminoso remnants remains unclear, and in any case, the distinction between t [...]	2007-11-16 14:54:00	Embassy Lima	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER SNAR PE
07LIMA3652	PERU RESPONSE: U.S. VIEWS ON 15 NOVEMBER 2007 IAEA [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-16 19:49:00	Embassy Lima	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KNNP MNUC PARM AORC PE
07LIMA3673	ONDCP DIRECTOR WALTERS SEES PROGRESS IN PERU'S WAR [...] (C) Summary: ONDCP Director Walters met with Interior Minister Luis Alva Castro and Drug Policy Agency (DEVIDA) head Romulo Pizarro during a November 5-6 visit to Lima. Alva Castro characterized Peru's anti-drug efforts as an urgent fight to which U.S. assistance was critical. Pizarro credite [...]	2007-11-20 13:37:00	Embassy Lima	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER SNAR PE
07LIMA3764	NARCO-TERRORISM CAUSING NATIONAL DEBATE IN PERU [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-05 11:46:00	Embassy Lima	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PTER PREL PGOV PE
07LIMA3769	PERUVIANS WELCOME VENEZUELA REFERENDUM RESULTS AS [...] (C) Summary: Peruvian contacts inside and outside the government have expressed surprise that the proposed constitutional reform package in Venezuela was rejected by voters, and some claim President Chavez was compelled to concede because the margin was actually wider than reported. Most Peruv [...]	2007-12-05 18:05:00	Embassy Lima	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PINR PREL PE
07LIMA3776	NAS MONTHLY REPORT, NOVEMBER 2007 [...] (U) The key developments in November 2007: CORAH surpasses the coca eradication goal of 10,000 hectares for CY 2007. President Garcia tells visiting ONDCP Director John Walters that he strongly supports controls on precursor chemicals, money laundering, and asset forfeiture. ** N [...]	2007-12-06 19:22:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PREL SNAR KCRM PE
07LIMA3782	FOLLOW-UP REPORTING ON PERUVIAN MILITARY [...] (S/NF) Post appreciates the feedback offered by Washington analysts in ref A and offers the following responses to questions raised regarding the status of Plan VRAE. (Ref A questions regarding internal political and congressional matters will be answered septel.) 2. (C) Has the Peruvian [...]	2007-12-07 16:46:00	Embassy Lima	SECRET	PINR MOPS PGOV PINS PE
07LIMA3853	BOLIVIA CRISIS: CONCERN ABOUT POTENTIAL SPILLOVER [...] (C) Summary: Peruvian observers are watching Bolivia's political crisis, including its possible impact on Peruvian investments, with great concern. Our foreign ministry (MFA) contacts tell us their main worry regarding Bolivia is stability but, while concerned about the government's confronta [...]	2007-12-17 21:54:00	Embassy Lima	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR BO PE
07LIMA447	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL NELSON [...] (SBU) Welcome to Peru. Your visit comes just after the six-month mark of President Alan Garcia's government, which sees itself as leading a "moderate" Pacific coast bloc of nations toward regional integration. While President Garcia does not know the U.S. well, he understands that a coincid [...]	2007-02-14 22:20:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON OTRA ETRD PE
07LIMA458	SCENESETTER FOR DIRECTOR OF FOREIGN ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) Welcome to Peru. Your visit comes just after the six-month mark of President Alan Garcia's government, which sees itself as leading a "moderate" Pacific coast bloc of nations toward regional integration. While President Garcia does not know the U.S. well, he understands that a coincid [...]	2007-02-16 17:09:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EAID PE
07LIMA487	PERU: GOVERNMENT PLAN TO TAKE BACK ITS TERRITORY [...] (S) Summary: The Garcia government has developed a comprehensive plan that, successfully implemented, could end the continuing threat to Peru's peace and security represented by Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso -- SL) remnants while blunting the FARC and narcotraffickers. The four-part plan fo [...]	2007-02-20 22:45:00	Embassy Lima	SECRET	PGOV PINR PTER SNAR PE
07LIMA558	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/CDC ERSHOVA [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Julia Ershova from March 17-26, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to conduct training course to participants of project implementation and evaluation of rapid diagnostic methods. No embassy assistance has been requested. Contr [...]	2007-02-27 15:00:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA KSCA ASEC CDC US PE
07LIMA559	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR SEVGI ARAL [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Sevgi Aral from Feb. 28 to March 5, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to attend meeting and provide technical expertise on the on-going Welcome Trust-funded Urban Community Randomized Trial of Sexually Transmitted Infections (S [...]	2007-02-27 15:01:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA KSCA ASEC US CDC PE
07LIMA609	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR KENNEDY, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Teresa J. Kennedy from March 7-9, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to work with the GLOBE Country office in Lima. No embassy assistance has been requested. POC and ESTH officer would appreciate e-mail report of visit. When [...]	2007-03-02 16:01:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC PE
07LIMA610	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the official visit to Peru of Wilber T. Wright from March 12-24, 2007. No embassy assistance has been requested. POC would appreciate e-mail report of visit. When departing Lima by air, the Republic of Peru imposes an airport departure tax on any [...]	2007-03-02 16:01:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID OTRA ASEC PE
07LIMA612	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/CDC PAZ-ARGANDONA [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Enrique Paz-Argandona from March 21-24, 2007. The purpose of the trip is to participate in the 3rd Environmental Representative meeting in Lima. No embassy assistance has been requested. POC would appreciate e-mail report of [...]	2007-03-02 16:09:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC KSCA US CDC BL PE
07LIMA613	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/CDC LAURA CONKLIN, [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Laura Conklin, Antonio Neri, Paula Staley, Wendy Blumenthal, Jeffery Jarrett, Leslie Hausman, James Durant, and Rene Suarez-Soto from March 26 TO April 12, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to assist in Cerro de Pasco collecti [...]	2007-03-02 16:09:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC KSCA US CDC PE
07LIMA617	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TEWELL AND ASPELIN [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Craig R. Tewell and Mark Aspelin from March 18-24, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to participate on the regional training course on Foundations of Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials and Facilities for a group of membe [...]	2007-03-02 16:13:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IAEA ENRG TRGY AORC KNNP OTRA ASEC AU PE
07LIMA672	FIRST AMAZON BASIN CONSERVATION INITIATIVE PARTNERS [...] SUMMARY: USAID held the first Amazon Basin Conservation Initiative (ABCI) partners meeting from February 5-8 to lay the foundation for developing detailed work plans to implement this regional, five-year, $65 million dollar program. Over seventy participants from the six partner consortia, U [...]	2007-03-07 13:19:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAID EAGR PE
07LIMA689	Peru: 2007 Anti-Trafficking in Persons Report [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Peruvian Government demonstrated a strong commitment to comply with basic TIP standards by making significant efforts in the areas of prevention, prosecution, and protection. Its achievements include: -- One person was sentenced to 10 years in prison for trafficking i [...]	2007-03-08 19:15:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB PE
07LIMA767	NAS MONTHLY REPORT FOR FEBRUARY 2007 [...] (U) The key developments in February 2007: Eradication operations resumed; new PNP high command visit NAS-supported schools/bases en masse; CODEL inspects deforestation in drug producing area; F, Director of Foreign Assistance, helicopters to the field to see the nexus between eradication and [...]	2007-03-14 23:52:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
07LIMA796	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA PERSONNEL: MUNOZ [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Jose A. Munoz, Aviation Safety Inspector, from March 19 to March 22, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to perform ATOS constructed dynamic observation report (CONDOR) and ATOS element performace inspections. No embassy assistan [...]	2007-03-16 23:14:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR OTRA ASEC PE
07LIMA798	SUPREME COURT PRESIDENT MOVES ON JUSTICE CORRUPTION [...] (SBU) Summary: In one of several early moves to clean up the judiciary, the Office of Control of Magistrates (OCMA) in early February suspended Lima Superior Court President Angel Romero. The action was a promising first step in fulfilling the promise Supreme Court President Francisco Tavara m [...]	2007-03-19 12:08:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINS KJUS PE
07LIMA826	PERU'S FERVOUR FOR GLOBAL TRADE MARCHES FORWARD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While Peru waits for the US Congress to consider the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (PTPA),the GOP continues to discuss and engage in trade negotiations with numerous other countries. Peru recently completed an expanded trade agreement with Chile in October 2006; will fi [...]	2007-03-19 23:18:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECIN EINV APECO PE BL CA CI CH CO EC
07LISBON104	AVIAN FLU: PORTUGAL PREPARES FOR NEXT MIGRATORY [...] Portugal,s Ministry of Agriculture tested over 5000 birds for avian influenza in 2006 with no detection of the H5N1 virus. A national campaign to register domestic birds for quarantine contingency resulted in over six million birds being documented on-line. Although Portugal decided not to va [...]	2007-01-11 16:25:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU TBIO EAGR ECON PREL SOCI KSCA WHO PO
07LISBON1057	PORTUGAL ON THE APRIL 19 EC STANDING COMMITTEE [...] (C) On April 18, Ambassador Hoffman sent a letter incorporating reftel A talking points to Luis Caiano, Assistant to the Ministry of Agriculture's Deputy State Secretary of Agriculture and Fishes, urging Portugal to vote SIPDIS favorably at the April 19 Standing Committee of the Food Chain [...]	2007-04-19 11:29:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAGR ECON ETRD EU PO
07LISBON1251	PORTUGAL WILL NOT BLOCK MAY 10 BIOTECH VOTE [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-10 07:12:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON ETRD EU PO
07LISBON1297	PORTUGAL'S VIEWS ON THE MAY 14-15 FOREIGN [...] (U) Portuguese Deputy EU Correspondent Ana Filomena Rocha responded to the reftel U.S. policy interests on the Balkans, Middle East, Africa, Iran, and EU-Russia. She also shared Portugal's views on the Italian initiative to introduce a draft UN Resolution against the death penalty. 2. (C) [...]	2007-05-11 16:37:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	IS IR AF KPAL ETRD PREL
07LISBON1321	PORTUGAL: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SUBCOMMITTEE [...] In preparation for the May 18 Bilateral Commission, Embassy officials met with Portuguese counterparts on April 19 to review bilateral science and technology (S&T) cooperation. Discussion focused on Embassy organized conferences, the Embassy Science Fellow program, and fuel conversion at the [...]	2007-05-15 08:18:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA TBIO SENV PREL PO
07LISBON1386	PORTUGAL IMPUT FOR TITLE III SUSPENSION OF [...] (U) MFA Latin America Desk Officer Joao Batista said Portugal's relationship with Cuba has not changed over the last year and responded to reftel questions with updated information for the Title III Suspension of Libertad Act report. 2. (C) Economic activity between Portugal and Cuba is lim [...]	2007-05-18 16:06:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ETRD ETTC PREL PO
07LISBON1387	FM AMADO TO ATTEND RAMOS-HORTA INAUGURATION IN DILI [...] (C) FM Luis Amado will travel to Dili to attend the inauguration of President-elect Jose Ramos Horta on May 20. The Timorese have relied on the Portuguese Embassy there to provide protocolary guidance for this low-key event. No formal invitation was extended, but Amado decided to make the tr [...]	2007-05-18 17:18:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PO TL
07LISBON1388	Portugal: INL DAS McCampbell Visit Analyzes European [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During INL DAS Christy McCampbell's May 11 visit to Lisbon, she met with several counterparts to discuss the increasing use of Portugal as a transshipment area for drugs. Portuguese interlocutors offered a brief analysis into the drug trafficking problem facing Portugal and Eur [...]	2007-05-18 17:19:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PREL KCRM PO
07LISBON1412	PORTUGAL AT THE AUSTRALIA GROUP MEETING [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-21 16:01:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL CBW PO
07LISBON1418	PM'S DIPLOMATIC ADVISOR DETAILS PORTUGAL'S EU [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador on May 21, the Prime Minister's senior diplomatic advisor said Portugal's EU presidency priorities would comprise summits with Africa, Brazil, India, China, Russia, and Ukraine. On internal EU issues, the GOP's primary focus will be advancing progress on [...]	2007-05-22 07:42:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PO
07LISBON1467	PORTUGALS VIEWS ON NSG, GLOBAL INTIATIVE, AND PSI [...] (U) Visiting ISN/CPI Director Tony Foley called on Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Security and Disarmament Director Joao Corte Real May 3 to discuss issues before the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG),the Proliferation Security Initiativ (PSI),and the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclar T [...]	2007-05-24 16:10:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MCAP PARM PREL PO
07LISBON1560	PORTUGAL ON JUNE 8 BIOTECH VOTE [...] (C/NF) On June 5, PolEconOff delivered reftel A talking points to Rui Noronho from the Ministry of Agriculture Office of Planning and Policies (GPPAA),urging Portugal to vote favorably at the June 8 Standing Committee of the Food Chain and Public Health. Noronho reiterated the Portuguese po [...]	2007-06-06 16:41:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON ETRD EU PO
07LISBON1622	PORTUGAL'S VIEWS ON JUNE 18-19 FOREIGN MINISTERS [...] (U) Portuguese Deputy EU Correspondent Ana Filomena Rocha responded to the reftel points on U.S. policy interests regarding Cuba, Serbia, Kosovo, and Sudan. 2. (C) Cuba: Rocha reported that Portugal supported the proposal to remove EU sanctions. She emphasized Portugal's interest in suppor [...]	2007-06-15 17:08:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL ENRG ETRD ETTC PARM PGOV PREL PO
07LISBON1679	PORTUGAL ON JUNE 25 BIOTECH VOTE [...] (C/NF) On June 21, PolEconOff delivered reftel A talking points to Rui Noronho of the Ministry of Agriculture's Office of Planning and Policies (GPPA),urging Portugal to vote favorably at the June 25 Standing Committee of the Food Chain and Public Health. Noronho reiterated the Portuguese p [...]	2007-06-22 15:07:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON ETRD EU PO
07LISBON1766	A/S SHANNON VISIT HIGHLIGHTS EU-LATIN AMERICA TIES [...] (SBU) During Assistant Secretary Tom Shannon's visit to Portugal on June 25, he met with Portuguese government officials and EU member ambassadors to discuss Cuba, Venezuela, and Brazil. Overall, most agreed that the US policy of supporting a Cuban-directed solution after Castro would be the [...]	2007-07-05 14:29:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV EAID PREL EUN PO
07LISBON1812	SCENESETTER FOR YOUR VISIT TO PORTUGAL JULY 19-20 [...] (SBU) Madam Secretary: Your visit -- at the beginning of Portugal's EU presidency -- is particularly timely and provides an excellent opportunity to try to shape from the outset the Portuguese government's priorities in a direction consistent with U.S. interests. Portugal - Steadfast Ally ------- [...]	2007-07-11 18:30:00	Embassy Lisbon	SECRET	PREL PO
07LISBON182	PORTUGAL'S VIEWS ON JANUARY 22 GAERC MEETING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: MFA's Deputy European Correspondent Ana Filomena Rocha offered the Portuguese perspective on items scheduled for January's General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting. Portugal agrees with the EU consensus on most issues but (1) favors greater flexibility in d [...]	2007-01-19 17:12:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	YI PREL PGOV ENRG EAID MARR PO
07LISBON1854	A/S FRIED WITH PORTUGUESE DEFENSE STATESEC JOAO [...] (C) Summary. Portuguese State Secretary for Defense Mira Gomes told A/S Fried that his ministry is considering a plan to lead an Operational Mentoring Liaison Team in Afghanistan in addition to Portugal's current military contributions there, although budgetary and political considerations may [...]	2007-07-18 14:39:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL PO AF RS EUN
07LISBON1856	PORTUGAL - MOVING TOWARDS EU CONSENSUS ON KOSOVO [...] (C) FM Luis Amado told A/S Daniel Fried on July 13 that the issue of Kosovo's independence was the most pressing near-term issue of Portugal's EU Presidency, aside from EU treaty reform. The two compared notes from their recent trips to the Balkans, confirming the challenges and next steps th [...]	2007-07-18 16:16:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN PO UN ZL
07LISBON1858	U.S.- EU POLITICAL DIRECTORS DISCUSSES KOSOVO, [...] (SBU) A/S Fried met July 13 in Lisbon with Political Directors (PolDirs) from the 27 EU member states and with the EU Troika political directors. The agenda included Kosovo, Russia, NATO coordination in Afghanistan, conflicts in Africa, institution building in the Palestinian Territories, and [...]	2007-07-18 17:35:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	CVIS MOPS PHUM PREL PO EUN UN XA AF ZL RS
07LISBON1882	PORTUGUESE VIEWS ON JULY 23 FOREIGN MINISTERS [...] (U) Portuguese Deputy EU Correspondent Ana Filomena Rocha outlined Portugal's views on the reftel points on U.S. policy interests regarding Kosovo, the Ukraine, Iran, Middle East, and Sudan. She also offered a preview of EU discussions on the Democratic Republic of Congo and Libya. 2. (C) [...]	2007-07-23 06:37:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL ENRG ETRD ETTC PGOV PREL SOCI
07LISBON1960	PORTUGAL: 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] (U) Post does not have any investment disputes to report regarding the GOP nationalizing or expropriating property, repudiating or nullifying contracts, and/or taking any other action with the effect of seizing ownership or control of the property of any United States citizen. 2. (U) Post's [...]	2007-07-30 15:49:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC EINV KIDE OPIC PGOV PO
07LISBON2046	PORTUGAL ON KOSOVO NEXT STEPS [...] (C) Portugal's MFA political director Vasco Bramao Ramos acknowledged to Charge on August 8 that the 120-day period of additional negotiations on Kosovo was unlikely to produce a breakthrough. He said there is a growing realization within the EU that Kosovo will declare independence shortly a [...]	2007-08-09 06:34:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KV UNYI EU PO
07LISBON2143	PORTUGAL SUPPORTS A/CFE PLANS [...] (C) The Portuguese MFA,s Director for Security and Disarmament Affairs Joao Corte Real told us that Portugal fully supports the U.S. plans outlined reftel. He noted that timely ratification was a matter of political will and that Portugal viewed the Adapted CFE Treaty as a matter of the highe [...]	2007-08-22 11:05:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE PARM PREL PO
07LISBON218	PORTUGAL: SUPPORTIVE OF TFTP AND SWIFT "INFORMED [...] (SBU) In response to Embassy outreach on the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP) and SWIFT per reftel a, Ministry of Finance Chief of Staff Goncalo Castilho dos Santos responded via a Jan 10 letter acknowledging the program's important role in fighting terrorist finance, encouraging cont [...]	2007-01-24 15:45:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PTER KTFN PO
07LISBON2199	PORTUGAL: SPECIAL ENVOY ON KOSOVO DISCUSSES GOP [...] (C) Antonio Tanger Correa, Portugal's Special Envoy to the Western Balkans, discussed the GOP's efforts to build EU consensus on Kosovo and the impact that the situation could have on internal EU and transatlantic relations. He stressed that the GOP is doing everything within its powers to find [...]	2007-08-28 17:37:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS EUN NATO PO KV SR
07LISBON2200	PORTUGAL: SPECIAL ENVOY ON KOSOVO DISCUSSES GOP [...] (C) Antonio Tanger Correa, Portugal's Special Envoy to the Western Balkans, discussed the GOP's efforts to build EU consensus on Kosovo and the impact that the situation could have on internal EU and transatlantic relations. He stressed that the GOP is doing everything within its powers to find [...]	2007-08-29 06:28:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS EUN NATO PO KV SR
07LISBON2301	US-EU PRESIDENCY CONSULTATIONS DISCUSS HUMAN [...] (SBU) Summary: US-Portugal consultations on human rights covered the U.S.-EU common human rights agenda and outlined plans for resolutions both in the UN's Third Committee and the UN's Human Rights Council. Portugal agreed to seek common language with us and to avoid controversial measures as [...]	2007-09-07 12:58:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UN PO
07LISBON2303	PORTUGAL VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF THE SEPTEMBER 7-8 [...] (U) Portuguese Deputy EU Correspondent Ana Filomena Rocha offered Portugal's views on reftel U.S. policy interests regarding Kosovo, Russia, Georgia, China, India, and the Middle East. She also mentioned that the ministers will take up a discussion on Lebanon and Burma during their two days of [...]	2007-09-07 14:09:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	YI RS PGOV PREL PO EUN
07LISBON2307	SCENESETTER FOR THE PRESIDENT'S SEPTEMBER 17 [...] (SBU) Mr. President: Your meeting with Prime Minister Socrates -- two months into Portugal's EU presidency -- provides an excellent early opportunity to try to shape the Portuguese government's priorities in a direction consistent with U.S. interests, both from a bilateral perspective and in the E [...]	2007-09-07 16:09:00	Embassy Lisbon	SECRET	PREL PO
07LISBON2379	PORTUGAL: INPUT FOR THE PRESIDENT'S HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) Embassy Lisbon works closely with the Portuguese government to strengthen its already well-developed democracy and human rights infrastructure. Per ref A request, this cable details Post's efforts to promote the Freedom agenda in Portugal. Promoting Democracy ------------------- 2. [...]	2007-09-14 09:12:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL
07LISBON2438	INFORMAL ECOFIN/EUROMED: EU ECONOMY SOUND, FOCUS [...] On September 14-15, EU Finance Ministers, Central Bank Governors and Commissioners joined together in an informal ECOFIN gathering focused on state of the economy, fiscal consolidation and structural reform. Eurozone peer pressure would be necessary to keep France on track to reduce its defic [...]	2007-09-19 15:15:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON EUN
07LISBON2443	PORTUGUESE RESPONSE ON OCTOBER COMMUNITY OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Portuguese MFA Deputy Director General for Foreign Policy Antonio Ricoca Freire concurred with the U.S. priorities for the October meeting (reftel) and reported that Portugal would probably be represented by its Ambassador in Washington due to Minister Amado's other commitments. [...]	2007-09-20 15:39:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PHUM PREL PGOV PO
07LISBON2456	PORTUGAL'S PLANS REGARDING THE PARTNERSHIP FOR [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-21 08:50:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM EAID PO
07LISBON247	AMBASSADOR, PM'S DIPLOMATIC ADVISOR DISCUSS [...] (C) At a January 25 meeting with Ambassador Hoffman, Diplomatic Advisor to the Prime Minister Jorge Roza de Oliveira discussed the media attention and government response to Ana Gomes' vocal investigation of alleged CIA rendition flights through Portugal. He noted that Foreign Minister Amado [...]	2007-01-26 16:16:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NATO PO
07LISBON2477	EU AG MINISTERS DISCUSS FOOD SECURITY, HEALTH [...] (U) Food security, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Reform Health Check, and wine reform dominated the September 16-18 Informal EU Agricultural Ministerial agenda in Porto, Portugal. Portugal's Agriculture Minister Jaime Silva also welcomed debate on the EU's transgenic crop policy to cl [...]	2007-09-24 11:55:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON TBIO EUN
07LISBON2500	EU-CUBA MEETING IN NEW YORK: "USUAL STUFF" AND A [...] ( C ) Summary: Paulo Lourenco, diplomatic advisor to Portuguese FM Amado, called DCM to provide a readout of September 24 meeting in New York between the EU and Cuba. Meeting was described as "the usual stuff," with both sides listening and explaining impediments to engagement, but no resoluti [...]	2007-09-25 15:23:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA PGOV EU PO CU
07LISBON2503	PORTUGAL: CEQ CHAIRMAN CONNAUGHTON AND AMBASSADOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In Lisbon September 12-13, Chairman of the White House Council of Environmental Quality (CEQ) James Connaughton and USEU Ambassador Gray discussed with Portuguese officials the upcoming Major Economies Meeting (MEM) on climate change and energy security. The Portuguese interlocu [...]	2007-09-26 09:28:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV KGHG ENRG EU PO
07LISBON2570	MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS: AN UPBEAT ABBAS IN [...] (C) During a one-day visit to Lisbon on September 29, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met with the entire senior leadership of Portugal, which currently holds the EU's rotating six-month presidency. Abbas said he was encouraged by his talks with the U.S. and others in New York [...]	2007-10-04 15:57:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PO
07LISBON2571	PORTUGAL: 2006 TEXTILE AND APPAREL SECTOR OVERVIEW [...] SUMMARY: In 2006, the Textile/Apparel sector represented Portugal's largest industrial/manufacturing sector, accounting for 11.8% of industrial/manufacturing exports, primarily to Spain, Italy, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. Textile/Apparel manufacturers are concentrated in the north [...]	2007-10-04 16:23:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KTEX PO
07LISBON2591	PORTUGAL ON OCTOBER 10 BIOTECH VOTE [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-09 16:33:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON ETRD EUN PO
07LISBON2613	PORTUGAL'S VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF THE OCTOBER 15- 16 [...] (U) In advance of the October 15-16 GAERC, Deputy EU Correspondent Ana Filomena Rocha responded with Portugal's views on reftel U.S. policy interests including Kosovo, Russia, Libya, the Middle East, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Chad, and Burma. She noted that the ministers will return to the issue o [...]	2007-10-12 14:53:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	YI RS KPAL PREL PGOV ETRD ETTC EUN PO
07LISBON2714	PORTUGAL ON THE EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary. Portugal's October 25 bilateral meetings with Russia will be designed to keep current relations warm. Even the October 26 EU-Russia summit will discuss issues generally and in a relatively short format. The Portuguese noted, however, that they do not see the December 10 deadline [...]	2007-10-24 16:59:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL EUN PGOV IR RS UZ ZL PO
07LISBON2730	PORTUGUESE FM AMADO ON RUSSIA, IRAN, KOSOVO, AND [...] (C) Ambassador hosted FM Amado for a very friendly, two-and-a-half hour one-on-one lunch at the Residence on October 24. Amado said the EU would press President Putin during the October 26 EU-Russia summit to agree to additional UN sanctions on Iran and to invite the OSCE to observe the De [...]	2007-10-26 17:48:00	Embassy Lisbon	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PO
07LISBON2744	PORTUGAL TALKS TO VENEZUELA, RUSSIA AND IRAN TO [...] (C) Portugal's energy market is abuzz over Galp Energia's (Portugal's dominate energy firm) recent activities which include the signing of an MOU with Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PdVSA),Gazprom's possible acquisition of a minority stake in the company, and behind-the-scenes procurement talks wi [...]	2007-10-29 16:55:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON TRGY PO
07LISBON2750	US-EU-CANADA TRILATERAL MEETINGS ON IRAN AND US-EU [...] (C) SUMMARY: On Iran, all parties agreed on the need for concerted action in response to its nuclear program and pretensions for regional hegemony, as well as its deteriorating human rights situation. On the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP),the EU emphasized its support for the planned int [...]	2007-10-30 16:01:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL EUN UN XG XF AR IR
07LISBON2771	EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT IN PORTUGAL [...] (U) Summary. At the EU-Russia Summit in Portugal October 26, Russia committed to invite the OSCE to observe the December 2 Duma elections. On missile defense, Putin compared the U.S. proposal to the USSR placing offensive missiles in Cuba. This line garnered much press coverage, which ignor [...]	2007-10-31 18:47:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL EUN PGOV RS IR PO
07LISBON2882	PORTUGAL'S AFGHANISTAN DRAWDOWN [...] (C/NF) In a November 9 lunch with DATT and P/E Counselor, the Foreign Minister's diplomatic advisor, Paulo Lourenco, made it clear that President Cavaco Silva himself was behind Portugal's recently announced decision to reduce its contributions to ISAF beginning in August 2008. Lourenco said [...]	2007-11-09 17:41:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PO
07LISBON2911	MINISTERS CONFIRM, ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN, PORTUGUESE [...] (C/NF) Summary: In conversations with Ambassador Minister of Defense Severiano Teixeira and Minister of Foreign Affairs Amado confirmed that Portugal intended to draw down its contributions to ISAF by August 2008. The Defense Minister portrayed this move as a "different kind of commitment," [...]	2007-11-14 16:06:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MOPS PGOV PO
07LISBON2923	PORTUGAL CONCERNED BUT RESERVES JUDGMENT ON [...] (C) Pol-Econ officer met with MFA Venezuela Desk Officer Leandro Amado to detail U.S. concerns regarding the Chavez government's proposed constitutional amendments, highlighting the potential risks to free speech, due process, and civil liberties. Amado acknowledged reftel points and confirmed [...]	2007-11-15 17:21:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM PO
07LISBON2929	PORTUGAL RESPONSE IN ADVANCE OF NOVEMBER 19-20 [...] (U) In advance of the November 19 GAERC, Deputy EU Correspondent Ana Filomena Rocha offered Portugal's views on reftel points, including the upcoming summit with Africa, Kosovo, Bosnia, Iran, Iraq, the Middle East, Burma, and Pakistan. She further mentioned that the GAERC plans to raise the p [...]	2007-11-16 18:02:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	IR IS IZ LE SY PREL PGOV PO
07LISBON2949	PORTUGAL ON HUGO CHAVEZ VISIT [...] (C) In a conversation with the Prime Minister,s senior diplomatic advisor, Jorge Roza de Oliveira, DCM conveyed our strong concerns regarding Chavez,s recent maneuvers on the constitution, per ref A, and urged that the Prime Minister represent them forcefully to Chavez during the latter's Lis [...]	2007-11-19 17:06:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN PHUM VE PO

07LISBON3051	PORTUGAL'S FALL REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III [...] (U) Portuguese MFA Latin America Desk Officer Leandro Amado reported that Portugal's relationship with Cuba has not changed over the last year. He responded to ref A questions with updated information for the Title III Suspension of Libertad Act report. 2. (C) Economic activity between Por [...]	2007-11-30 16:48:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL PO
07LISBON3114	NOVEMBER US-EU COTER MEETING ENHANCES DISCUSSION [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. and EU counterterrorism (CT) experts shared their assessments, concerns, and cooperation agendas at the November 29 working group meeting on terrorism (COTER). In response to the U.S. briefing on the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership (TS/CTP),the Portuguese presid [...]	2007-12-07 16:08:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL EUN PO
07LISBON3116	PORTUGUESE VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF DECEMBER 10-11 GAERC [...] (U) Deputy EU Correspondent Ana Filomena Rocha responded to ref A policy interests with the Portuguese views in advance of the GAERC meeting on December 10 and 11. In addition to reftel points, Rocha mentioned that ministers would review conclusions on Lebanon and would consider proposals to [...]	2007-12-07 17:13:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	IR IZ IS PREL PGOV PO
07LISBON3149	PORTUGUESE POLITICAL DIRECTOR ON KOSOVO [...] (C) MFA political director Vasco Bramao Ramos told the DCM on December 12 there is a consensus among EU member states that the period for negotiations on Kosovo is over and that independence is the only alternative. He was less certain how events would unfold over the next weeks and months, [...]	2007-12-13 16:29:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV YI PO
07LISBON3178	EU-AFRICA SUMMIT; EPAS, ZIMBABWE, DARFUR [...] (SBU/NF) Summary. The Portuguese are justly proud of the successful EU-Africa Summit held December 8-9 in Lisbon, even if the self-congratulation is sometimes over the top. Economic partnership agreements that the European mission thought were a done deal were derailed for further study, and [...]	2007-12-18 16:54:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL EAID ETRD PINS MOPS PHUM EUN XA PO
07LISBON3193	PORTUGAL SIGNS ENERGY AGREEMENTS WITH VENEZUELA, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an effort to diversify the country's energy supply, Portugal's national energy firms, Galp Energia and Energias de Portugal, recently signed several agreements for procurement and joint exploration projects with the national oil and gas companies of Venezuela, Libya and Algeria [...]	2007-12-20 14:47:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PO RU VE AG LY AO
07LISBON3194	PORTUGAL CLAIMS EU DELIGHTED WITH BALI RESULTS [...] (C/NF) Fausto Brito e Abreu (protect),Advisor to Portugal,s Secretary of State for Environment Humberto Rosa, told post the EU was delighted with the final Bali text as a starting point for negotiations. He said the EU never would have imagined that, following the Major Economies Meeting in [...]	2007-12-20 14:53:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KGHG SENV ENRG PO EUN
07LISBON330	PORTUGAL'S ABORTION REFERENDUM EXPOSES POLITICAL [...] Summary: A new referendum set for February 11 on the question of decriminalization of abortion is dominating Portuguese political life. The effort to legalize abortion on demand in the first ten weeks of pregnancy demonstrates a political rift between young urbanites and older rural voters, [...]	2007-02-06 09:54:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KWMN SOCI PO
07LISBON345	PORTUGUESE AUTHORITIES INVESTIGATING CIA FLIGHT [...] (SBU) Summary: The Public Ministry received complaints from a crusading journalist and European Parliamentarian about alleged illegal CIA flights operating through Portugal. These allegations are undergoing a preliminary investigation, but no legal case has yet been opened. The issue will n [...]	2007-02-07 17:27:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PO
07LISBON369	PORTUGAL'S VIEWS ON FEBRUARY EU FOREIGN MINISTERS' [...] (U) On February 8, MFA Deputy EU Correspondent Ana Filomena Rocha responded to the Ref A demarche points by offering Portugal's views on the Balkans, Middle East, and African policies. 2. (C) BALKANS - Rocha saw this as the most important area for discussion since it would be the first oppo [...]	2007-02-09 17:52:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EU PO
07LISBON370	PORTUGAL TO CONSIDER STATEMENT OF UNDERSTANDING [...] On February 1, Pol/Econ Officer delivered reftel demarche to Maria do Ceu Faria, Political Analyst in the MFA's Office of International Organizations. Despite press reports that the Ministry of Culture called for the rejection of a "universal monoculture," Faria denied that protectionism was b [...]	2007-02-09 18:13:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EUN SCUL UNESCO PO
07LISBON457	PORTUGUESE FM TESTIFIES AGAIN REGARDING ALLEGED [...] (U) As predicted Ref (A),alleged CIA rendition flights remain front-page news in Portugal, recently stimulated by the European Parliament's report and the Portuguese Foreign Minister,s testimony in the National Assembly. Foreign Minister Luis Amado appeared before the National Assembly once [...]	2007-02-21 16:22:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PO
07LISBON48	EAST TIMOR: PORTUGAL'S FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE [...] (U) Jose Luis Arnaut, Chairman of Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, led a multi-party delegation to East Timor in late November/early December to evaluate the state of play after a tumultuous year. In June 2006, Portugal sent its paramilitary police force - the Republican National Guard [...]	2007-01-05 17:09:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS TT PO
07LISBON49	PORTUGAL'S ECONOMIC RECOVERY MODEST BUT CONVINCING [...] Proving the skeptics wrong, Portugal's Socialist government managed to reduce the budget deficit to 4.6% in 2006 from an all time high of 6.0% in 2005 and increase GDP growth to 1.4% from 0.3%. Even the ever cautious Bank Governor noted that Portugal's economic recovery, though modest, was c [...]	2007-01-05 17:10:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN PO
07LISBON533	PORTUGAL'S THOUGHTS ON MARCH 5-6 GAERC [...] (U) Pol-Econ Officer met MFA Deputy EU Correspondent Ana Filomena Rocha to solicit Portugal's views on the March GAERC issues. Energy, the UN Human Rights Council, and climate issues do not fall under Rocha's portfolio, so she did not comment. 2. (SBU) BOSNIA: The EU unanimously supports t [...]	2007-03-05 11:56:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	YI IR KPAL PREL PGOV ENRG PO
07LISBON549	PORTUGAL'S RESPONSE ON IAEA REPORT ON UNSCR 1737 [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-06 09:46:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED	IR KNNP PO
07LISBON607	PORTUGAL: 2006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT [...] The Monitoring Center for Trafficking in Persons; 2. The Portuguese Immigration Service (SEF); 3. The High Commission for Immigration and Ethnic Minorities (ACIME); 4. The Portuguese Association for Victim Support (APAV); 5. The International Organization for Migration (IOM); [...]	2007-03-09 16:31:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASCC PREF ELAB PO
07LISBON644	FORMER GOVERNOR BUSH MEETS PORTUGUESE PM, PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings with former Governor of Florida Jeb Bush, accompanied by Ambassador Hoffman, both President Cavaco Silva and Prime Minister Socrates stressed that the U.S.-Portugal relationship transcends party politics, asserting that changes in Portugal,s government do not [...]	2007-03-13 09:52:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV XA XF PO
07LISBON694	PORTUGAL SEEKS REPLACEMENT LEADER FOR COMMUNITY OF [...] (SBU) Summary: MFA Deputy Director General for Foreign Policy Antonio Ricoca Freire announced that, due to resource strains caused by Portugal's upcoming EU Council Presidency, Portugal would be stepping down as President of the Working Group for Inter-regional Cooperation in the Community of [...]	2007-03-16 15:28:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PREL PO
07LISBON708	PORTUGAL ON UN REFORM: INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION OF [...] (SBU) Pol-Econ Officer spoke with MFA International Organizations Officers Maria Manoel de Vilhena and Miguel Maia do Vale regarding our concerns over the proposed reforms before the UN's fifth and sixth committees (reftel). Vilhena stated that the European Union delegates were waiting for an [...]	2007-03-19 10:51:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC APER PREL PO
07LISBON725	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-20 15:23:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC PO
07LISBON750	CUBAN FM DISCUSSES EU POLICY IN PORTUGAL [...] (C) Summary: During a March 16 visit to Lisbon, Cuban Foreign Minister Perez discussed the EU,s Cuba policy with Portuguese Foreign Minister Amado, urging Portugal to support greater EU-Cuba engagement. Amado responded that the Cuban government needed to undertake major political reform befor [...]	2007-03-22 15:24:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CU PO
07LISBON966	SPEAKER PELOSI'S APRIL 6 MEETING WITH PARLIAMENT [...] (C) Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi paid a courtesy call on Portuguese Parliament President Jaime Gama on April 6 during a Lisbon stopover following her trip to the Middle East. The hour-long meeting was cordial and broad ranging. Speaker Pelosi underscored that the dele [...]	2007-04-13 09:42:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL PO EUN XF ZP AF
07LJUBLJANA113	EBRD SLOVENIA: PESSIMISM GROWING REGARDING REFORMS [...] (C) SUMMARY. European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) regional director Francois Lecavalier described himself as "completely pessimistic" about the Government of Slovenia's (GOS) commitment to necessary economic and institutional reforms. In his view, the GOS is resisting the ve [...]	2007-02-23 13:31:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ETRD SI
07LJUBLJANA119	SLOVENIA: ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT 2007 [...] (U) This message transmits post's contribution to the Department of State's seventh annual report on Trafficking in Persons. Responses below are keyed to questions in paras 27-30 of reftel. Embassy POC is Pol/Econ Chief Colleen Hyland; tel. 386-1 -200-5708, fax 386-1-200-5650. Based on info [...]	2007-03-01 15:11:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB SMIG KRFD PREF SI
07LJUBLJANA121	SLOVENIA: HOLOCAUST ISSUES SPECIAL ENVOY VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues J. Christian Kennedy held meetings with Slovene officials and research institute, diplomatic and Jewish community representatives February 19 and 20 to press for a fair and timely resolution of long-standing Jewish communal property restitution [...]	2007-03-02 14:27:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KIRF SI
07LJUBLJANA126	SLOVENIA: ACTIVISTS FOCUS ATTENTION ON "ERASED" IN [...] SUMMARY. (U) The story of several thousand Slovenian residents whose records were erased by state officials fifteen years ago -- leaving them in administrative limbo -- hurtled back into the spotlight again this month as human rights organizations and members of the "erased" community launched [...]	2007-03-05 13:48:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SI
07LJUBLJANA150	SLOVENIA ADDRESSING ISSUE OF AGING POPULATION [...] (U) SUMMARY. Slovenia faces the need to revise pension reforms in light of an aging population and the heavy public expenditures this entails. The Government of Slovenia (GOS) implemented labor reforms in 1999, extending the retirement age. Then in 2001, stop-gap labor reform measures went [...]	2007-03-14 15:29:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI ECON TBIO SI
07LJUBLJANA152	SLOVENIA: GOVERNMENT AND MEDIA REACTION TO THE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The 2006 Human Rights Report (HRR) generated extensive reaction from the Government of Slovenia (GoS),opposition party leaders, and the media. In general, government ministries offered an upbeat assessment, accentuating positive comments, minimizing criticism, and expressing pl [...]	2007-03-15 12:26:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KPAO SI
07LJUBLJANA155	SLOVENIA SAYING ALL THE RIGHT THINGS TO IRANIAN FM [...] (S) SUMMARY: Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki touched down in Ljubljana for a one day visit on March 14, meeting with Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, Prime Minister Janez Jansa, and President Janez Drnovsek for conversations touching on bilateral issues but focusing on the Iranian [...]	2007-03-15 14:12:00	Embassy Ljubljana	SECRET	PREL KNNP PINR IR SI
07LJUBLJANA178	SLOVENIA: ITF ADVISORY BOARD HEARS USG POINTS ON [...] (SBU) Summary. DCM Maryruth Coleman delivered talking points on allegations of impropriety in the Bosnian demining sector during the International Trust Fund for Demining (ITF) spring Advisory Board Meeting March 20. After an initial stumble in responding, ITF Director Goran Gacnik told the A [...]	2007-03-26 15:27:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MASS MARR PREL KCRM BK SI
07LJUBLJANA184	SLOVENIA: HUMPHREY ALUM BECOMES TOP GOS HUMAN [...] (SBU) Summary. The Government of Slovenia's new Human Rights Ombudsman Zdenka Cebasek-Travnik told COM the 2006 Human Rights Report was spot on, the Roma situation (when put in context) is relatively positive, and estimated the number of "erased" without status as less than 1,000. She said he [...]	2007-03-27 15:39:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM OEXC KWMN PINR PGOV SI
07LJUBLJANA188	SLOVENIA: MEDIA RESPONSE AND PUBLIC DIPLOMACY [...] (C) Summary. Slovenian media coverage of U.S. missile defense plans in Poland and Czech Republic has been generally restrained, with numerous straightforward, factual articles, but, as is typical, a handful of acerbic anti-American commentaries from Slovenia's skeptical intellectual elite. A [...]	2007-03-28 09:51:00	Embassy Ljubljana	SECRET	KPAO MARR PREL NATO PGOV MASS SI
07LJUBLJANA230	SLOVENIA DEMURS ON GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-13 14:37:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	KAWC PTER PHUM PREL
07LJUBLJANA237	VCJCS GIAMBASTIANI PRAISES SLOVENIAN CONTRIBUTIONS [...] (U) SUMMARY. Defense Minister Erjavec, Chief of Defense Gutman, and Deputy Chief of Defense Steiner were pleased to show off the Slovenian Armed Forces' (SAF) progress in defense transformation and its significant contributions to international security during a visit March 30 and 31 by Vice [...]	2007-04-17 08:49:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MASS MCAP MOPS PGOV SI
07LJUBLJANA25	SLOVENIA AGREES ON KOSOVO, WORRIES ABOUT RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary. Just back from a weekend visit to Belgrade with FM Rupel, MFA Director of Western Balkan Affairs, Leon Marc, expressed the Government of Slovenia's unreserved agreement that there should be no daylight between the US and EU positions on the future status of Kosovo. Raising the pe [...]	2007-01-19 11:43:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNMIK EUN YI SI
07LJUBLJANA255	PDAS VOLKER ENCOURAGES SLOVENES TO KEEP TRANS [...] (C) In meetings April 10 with Government of Slovenia officials, EUR PDAS Kurt Volker reinforced the importance of maintaining a strong trans-Atlantic dialogue during Slovenia's EU Presidency. Discussions at the MFA focused on the Western Balkans including an idea suggested by MFA Security Poli [...]	2007-04-20 10:54:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR IR RU SI
07LJUBLJANA283	SLOVENIA: MUFTI GIVES MUSLIM ISSUES UPDATE AT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The leader of the Slovenian Islamic community, Mufti Nedzad Grabus, told COM that the Slovenian Islamic community is finding its way through past troubles with leadership, on course to resolve the long-standing struggle to build a mosque in Ljubljana, and firmly anchored in the [...]	2007-05-04 09:30:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINR PGOV OEXC KIRF SI
07LJUBLJANA30	SLOVENIA: DINNER WITH THE RUPELS: KOSOVO/SERBIA, [...] (C) Summary. At dinner with COM and wife January 17, FM Dmitrij Rupel reported briefly on his recent trip to Belgrade where he urged PM Kostunica to accept the inevitable on Kosovo. He said he expected the Italian-Slovenian relationship to improve over the next year, noting a discrete agreem [...]	2007-01-19 15:45:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM IT SI
07LJUBLJANA303	FOLLOWING UP ON UNHRC VOTE [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 5. 2. (C) Embassy Ljubljana is glad to have been of assistance in our collective effort to undermine the candidacy of Belarus for the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). I am very pleased that Slovenia will remain in the race - it is the right thing to [...]	2007-05-11 15:30:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM SI EUN
07LJUBLJANA337	U.S. FIRMS STRUGGLE TO COMPETE AS DEFENSE [...] (S) Summary. Nearly one year after the Slovenian Ministry of Defense (MOD) announced that Finnish defense contractor Patria won a 330 million USD (263 million Euro) contract to supply 135 8x8 armored vehicles to the GoS, the issue continues to dominate headlines amid allegations of cost overr [...]	2007-05-25 15:05:00	Embassy Ljubljana	SECRET//NOFORN	MASS MARR MCAP ECON PGOV PINR PREL SI
07LJUBLJANA414	SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF JUNE GAERC [...] (SBU) PolEcon Chief delivered reftel points to MFA Director of EU Affairs, Matej Marn June 14. Cuba - Marn noted the conclusions of the PSC on Cuba and predicted there would be no further discussion at the GEARC. ENP - He did not think Belarus would be discussed since as a condition of ho [...]	2007-06-15 15:27:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SI
07LJUBLJANA418	COM'S JUNE 14 LUNCH WITH PRIME MINISTER JANSA [...] (C) Summary: At a lunch hosted by Prime Minister Janez Jansa for COM June 14, the Ambassador urged Slovenia to exert strong leadership during its upcoming EU Presidency (January-June, 2008). Jansa discussed themes for the Presidency, warned about the potentially explosive situation in Kosov [...]	2007-06-22 13:59:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN PINS EINV MOPS ECON PHUM ETRD PGOV
07LJUBLJANA432	KEEPING SLOVENIA IN IRAQ: HELP NEEDED [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 9. 2. (C) Summary. Slovenia's active support for coalition efforts in Iraq could terminate after only eighteen months. With its commitment of four troops halved to two by the reduction of billets at NTM-I earlier this year and the two re [...]	2007-07-02 12:38:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PGOV PINR IZ SI
07LJUBLJANA439	SLOVENE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY IN CRISIS [...] (U) Summary. The Slovene Intelligence and Security Agency (SOVA) has come under close scrutiny recently by a Government of Slovenia (GOS) task force specially formed to investigate alleged irregularities in SOVA's performance. What was intended to be a confidential investigation was leaked to [...]	2007-07-05 13:25:00	Embassy Ljubljana	SECRET	PGOV PINR SI
07LJUBLJANA440	SLOVENIA ON 5TH SESSION OF UNHRC [...] Polecon Chief delivered reftel points to Smiljana Knez, Head of the Office for Human Rights at the MFA. Knez said she appreciated and shared much of the USG frustration with the recent session of the UNHRC. Though Slovenia did not become a member until June 19, she had been aware of the very [...]	2007-07-05 13:25:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL SI
07LJUBLJANA45	SLOVENIA: COM ENGAGES DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER ON [...] (C) Summary: The new State Secretary (Deputy FM) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Andrej Ster and the new Director of the MFA's Division of the Americas, Roman Kirn, impressed COM as responsive and well informed on several thorny bilateral issues. The importance of close cooperation betwee [...]	2007-01-29 14:08:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ECON SI
07LJUBLJANA51	POLITICAL CURRENTS THREATEN TO SINK CENTRAL BANK [...] (C) Summary. Central Bank Governor, Mitja Gaspari, widely credited for guiding Slovenia's successful adoption of the Euro, finds himself embroiled in a political controversy that threatens his renomination as Governor. Right wing legislators accuse Gaspari of undermining Slovenia's credibili [...]	2007-01-30 15:08:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EFIN SI
07LJUBLJANA516	SLOVENIA FOCUSES ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN [...] (U) Summary. In an August 7 meeting, Sonja Robnik, Senior Advisor in the government's Office for Equal Opportunities, told PolEcon officer that the government of Slovenia is working on new legislation that would criminalize domestic violence that it will propose soon. Currently there is no umb [...]	2007-08-10 08:54:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM SI
07LJUBLJANA544	SLOVENE PM VOICES CONCERN ABOUT KOSOVO DURING COM [...] (S) During COM's farewell call with Prime Minister Janez Jansa August 17, Jansa expressed concern that we have missed the best opportunity to resolve the Kosovo issue and warned that a solution is needed soon to prevent violence. He called the U.S. the "main hope," and blamed some European [...]	2007-08-23 13:12:00	Embassy Ljubljana	SECRET	PREL PGOV EINV CASC PHUM PARM ECON SI
07LJUBLJANA558	SLOVENIA RENEWS ITS COMMITMENT TO NMT-I [...] (C) Slovenia has renewed its commitment to the NATO Training Mission in Iraq (NTM-I) by deploying two fresh troops to Baghdad to replace two soldiers who returned to Slovenia as scheduled. An officer who will perform logistical base operations and a non-commissioned officer who will serve as [...]	2007-08-30 11:42:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR SI
07LJUBLJANA560	SLOVENIA RENEWS ITS COMMITMENT TO NMT-I [...] (C) Slovenia has renewed its commitment to the NATO Training Mission in Iraq (NTM-I) by deploying two fresh troops to Baghdad to replace two soldiers who returned to Slovenia as scheduled. An officer who will perform logistical base operations and a non-commissioned officer who will serve as [...]	2007-08-30 12:26:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR SI
07LJUBLJANA564	OECD ACCESSION CRITERIA FOR SLOVENIA [...] (SBU) In post's judgment, Slovenia should not have many difficulties fulfilling the accession to the OECD. It meets many of the pre-accession criteria and shares the fundamental common values. Since independence in 1991, its foreign policy goal has been to integrate into the Euro-Atlantic co [...]	2007-08-30 17:36:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON ETRD PGOV OECD KDEM SENV SI
07LJUBLJANA587	SLOVENE RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) EmbOff delivered reftel points to MFA Office of International Organizations and Human Rights representative Nina Lenardic Purkart on September 6. She stated that Slovenia appreciates the U.S. position on these issues and offered the following: 2. (U) Despite U.S. concerns, Slovenia sup [...]	2007-09-10 14:30:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EUN UNGA SI
07LJUBLJANA600	SLOVENIA: DEMARCH ON EU BORDER MISSION FOR LEBANON [...] (C) In a September 18 meeting with arko Purkart of the Slovenian Foreign Ministry'sSecurity Policy Division, Pol-Econ Chief conveye U.S. support for EU involvement on the Lebanon-yria border along the lines discussed reftel. Pukart described the EU state of play on a possible brder mission, ex [...]	2007-09-18 15:10:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PRE SY IS LE EUN SI
07LJUBLJANA602	SLOVENE BUSINESS LEADER ASSESSES CHALLENGES OF [...] (C) At a lunch hosted by CDA September 12, Viktor Baraga, chairman of the supervisory boards of Slovenian energy company Petrol and gaming company Hit, discussed the problems these two companies have experienced in advancing joint venture projects with Russian and U.S. partners. He stated tha [...]	2007-09-19 14:28:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ENRG EUN PREL PINR SI
07LJUBLJANA632	SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF OCTOBER 15-16 FOREIGN [...] (U) This is an action request cable, please see para. 4. 2. (SBU) On October 9, P/E Chief delivered reftel's points to MFA Director of EU Affairs Matej Marn. He offered the following: WTO/DDA ------- 3. (C) Marn commented that WTO/DDA would be a short point on the GAERC agenda - Com [...]	2007-10-09 11:13:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN PREL PGOV ETRD ETTC KPAL YI RS LY IS IZ
07LJUBLJANA640	SLOVENIA: DEMARCHE ON U.S. OPPOSITION TO [...] (U) On October 10, EmbOff delivered reftel points to MFA Security Policy Division Counselor Irina Gorsic. Gorsic stated she would pass points to Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty lead Ambassador Robert Basej. Gorsic reported that she expects there will be internal EU discussions on the issue [...]	2007-10-11 05:47:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM MNUC UNGA SI
07LJUBLJANA676	SLOVENIA: DESIGNATIONS OF IRANIAN ENTITIES AND [...] (SBU) Embassy delivered U.S. non-paper and fact sheet on October 25 after 9:00 am EST to the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, per request reftel. A/DCM urged GOS officials to take parallel steps to isolate these entities from the international financial system and to d [...]	2007-10-25 15:34:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KNNP IR PARM EFIN SI
07LJUBLJANA681	SLOVENIA DISASTER DECLARATION [...] I am declaring a disaster in Slovenia for the loss of lives, property, livelihoods, and serious damage to infrastructure caused by a surprise flood that damaged one-third of the Republic of Slovenia. I hereby request $50,000 for disaster relief from USAID/OFDA. 2. On September 18, 2007, Pr [...]	2007-10-26 14:34:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL SI
07LJUBLJANA700	SLOVENIA/INCSR: 2007 - 2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-06 14:32:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KCRM SI
07LJUBLJANA718	SLOVENIA: INTERIM TIP ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) Slovenia has continued to make progress in 2007 in combatting trafficking in persons (TIP) through its actions on several fronts, per reftel. In September 2007, the Slovene court in Novo Mesto convicted four people for TIP-related offenses, including two citizens of Slovakia. Moreover, [...]	2007-11-16 13:56:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM KWMN PHUM PGOV PREL SMIG SI
07LJUBLJANA724	FOREIGN MINISTER RUPEL DENIES GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Foreign Minister Rupel requested a meeting with Charge November 22 to discuss charges by many journalists that the Jansa government is exerting indirect pressure on the media and restricting press freedom in Slovenia. Rupel fully dismissed the allegations, pointing to the broadly critical [...]	2007-11-23 12:36:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SI
07LJUBLJANA749	SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF DECEMBER 10-11 GAERC [...] (U) Emboff delivered Department's points to the MFA's EU Correspondent Aljaz Arih on December 6. EU Enlargement -------------- 2. (C) Arih said that Slovenia, as one of the strongest advocates for EU enlargement, agreed with our points. He noted that the EU was still drafting the Europe [...]	2007-12-07 10:44:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN PGOV IR IS BM SY
07LJUBLJANA757	SLOVENIA AGREES WITH U.S. VIEWS TO RESOLVE KOSOVO [...] (C) In a December 12 meeting with ADCM, MFA Director for Southeastern Europe Leon Marc expressed agreement with U.S. views to resolve Kosovo status (reftel). Marc asked about the timeline for a coordinated declaration of independence, explaining that Slovenia was not just looking at Serbian p [...]	2007-12-12 11:21:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN PGOV YI SI
07LJUBLJANA80	RE-ELECTION WOES FOR SLOVENIA'S CENTRAL BANK [...] (SBU) Summary. In a close vote February 2, Mitja Gaspari failed to get the 46 votes necessary for re-election as the governor of the Bank of Slovenia (BOS). On February 9, President Drnovsek put forward BOS Vice-Governor Andrej Rant as his second nominee. The ostensible cause of Gaspari's dow [...]	2007-02-13 14:44:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PREL SI
07LJUBLJANA81	SLOVENES TALK DEMINING TROUBLES WITH PM/WRA OFFICE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Recently, both International Trust Fund for Demining (ITF) and Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs staff expressed concern over the allegations of possible malfeasance in the Bosnian demining sector, but understood the importance of addressing them head on before the reputation [...]	2007-02-13 14:46:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS KCRM PREL SI
07LJUBLJANA90	SLOVENIA'S PRESIDENT SITES IRRESPONSIBLE [...] (C) Summary. Since suffering from cancer, and, so far, beating it, Slovenia's president Janez Drnovsek has adopted a simplified and more spiritual approach to life, which is apparent in his public life as well as in his personal demeanor. In the last two years, he has written three top ten [...]	2007-02-14 14:52:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SI YI SR
07LOME178	UNHCR REP ON TOGOLESE REFUGEE SITUATION [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a March 1 courtesy call on Ambassador, UNHCR's Regional Representative Rafik Saidi said that about three-quarters of the 40,000 Togolese refugees from the 2005 political violence have returned to Togo. The UNHCR is actively seeking to encourage the remainder to go home. END SUM [...]	2007-03-02 15:44:00	Embassy Lome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM GH BN TO
07LOME186	TOGO - ELECTORAL COMMISSION'S ACTIVITIES - 2007 [...] Summary: Togo's National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) has made institutional and logistics progress in a number of key areas toward legislative elections, officially scheduled for June 24. However, many believe that implementation of the new election system and voting logistics will [...]	2007-03-06 15:05:00	Embassy Lome	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PINR TO
07LOME257	FRANCOPHONIE ELECTION EVALUATION MISSION VISITS [...] (SBU) Summary: A technical evaluation mission from the Intergovernmental Francophone Agency (Francophonie),led by Nelson Messone, called on Ambassador on March 28 and shared observations of the political situation in Togo in the run up to legislative elections scheduled for June 24. The group [...]	2007-04-02 16:34:00	Embassy Lome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PREL TO
07LOME553	TOGO: VOTER REGISTRATION LAUNCHES WITH SOME FLAWS [...] SUMMARY: Togo completed on July 22 the first week of voter registration to mixed reviews. Representatives from six political parties have worked collegially during the week to administer the registration process, and there have been no allegations of fraud. However, mechanical and logistical [...]	2007-07-26 16:07:00	Embassy Lome	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL TO KDEM
07LOME571	TOGO ELECTION UPDATE: SOFTWARE PROBLEMS JEOPARDIZE [...] (C) Summary. The opening round of voter registration for Togo's upcoming legislative elections - the centerpiece of the ongoing reform and reconciliation process -- have revealed a number of problems related to the registration software. Of particular concern to the National Independent Elect [...]	2007-08-03 17:19:00	Embassy Lome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KDEM TO
07LOME804	TOGOLESE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OPENS; OPPOSITION [...] (U) SUMMARY. The newly-elected Togolese National Assembly (see reftel) held its first session on Tuesday, November 13, with all elected members attending. Notably, the Union for the Forces of Change (UFC),the largest opposition party, took its seats, marking the first time it has ever partici [...]	2007-11-17 17:28:00	Embassy Lome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV TO
07LONDON1047	ACCREDITATION - IMO - 34TH SESSION OF THE [...] Embassy London has requested accreditation and is pleased to grant UK country clearance to the following delegation members from March 26 - 30, 2007 for the International Maritime Organization's Thirty-fourth Session of the Committee on Facilitation: Howard L. Hime, Representative Jaideep Si [...]	2007-03-19 14:10:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ASEC IMO UK
07LONDON1062	BTEX FORENSIC EPIDEMIOLOGY WORKSHOP CATALYZES G8 EFFORTS AGAINST BIOTERRORISM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The UK and Germany co-hosted, with U.S. co-sponsorship, the G8 "Forensic Epidemiology Workshop," in London March 13-15, 2007 (Ref A). Although the U.S. was the primary source for workshop design and facilitation, all three nations worked collaboratively to plan and execute the [...]	2007-03-20 11:09:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER TBIO CA FR GM IT JA RS UK EUN
07LONDON1206	INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO): REPORT OF THE [...] SUMMARY: The 50th session of the IMO DE S/C met in London 5-9 March 2007, chaired by Mrs. A. Jost (Germany). The session was attended by delegations from 60 member states, one associate member, one non-member state, one intergovernmental organization, and observers from 24 non-governmental o [...]	2007-03-29 11:46:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED	IMO AORC ASEC UK
07LONDON1265	CHANCELLOR BROWN'S REPUTATION FOR FINANCIAL [...] (C) Summary: Gordon Brown's expected procession from 11 to 10 Downing Street hit a pothole over the weekend. "The Times" newspaper won a long Freedom of Information battle and published documents showing Brown had been warned by Treasury staff against removing tax breaks favorable to pension [...]	2007-04-03 15:41:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV UK
07LONDON1279	ONDCP DIRECTOR WALTERS REVIEWS AFGHAN AND OTHER CN ISSUES WITH UK [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-04 14:08:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR AF UK
07LONDON1346	ACCREDITATION - IMO - ELEVENTH SESSION OF THE [...] Embassy London has requested accreditation and is pleased to grant UK country clearance to the following delegation members from 16 - 20 April, 2007 for the International Maritime Organization's Eleventh Session of the Sub-Committee on Bulk Liquids and Gases: Richard Raksnis, Representative [...]	2007-04-12 12:10:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ASEC IMO UK
07LONDON14	UK "NOT OVERLY CONCERNED" BY PROPOSED UN [...] SUMMARY: The UK's initial assessment of ref talking points is that dronabinol - synthetic THC - is virtually unknown in the UK, and likely to remain so. As a consequence, they are not "overly concerned" by the WHO recommendation to move it from Schedule II to III of the 1971 Convention. Th [...]	2007-01-03 17:33:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR UNCND UNCRIME UK
07LONDON140	IRANIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATES CLAIM OFFICIAL [...] (C) Poloff has received, via London contacts, e-mails from several Iranian human rights activists who allege (citing evidence of film which Poloff has not seen) a pattern of beatings, extortion, and sexual assault by officials in Van, Turkey, against Kurdish Iranian refugees seeking protected [...]	2007-01-12 15:54:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM IR TU UK
07LONDON1658	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED - IMO DELEGATION-(ISRWG) [...] Embassy London is pleased to grant UK country clearance to the following delegation members from INTERSESSIONAL MEETING OF THE WORKING GROUP ON SHIP RECYCLING (ISRWG),LONDON, UK, MAY 6-13, 2007: Representative Constance C. Arvis Deputy Director Office of Oceans Affairs Bureau of Oce [...]	2007-05-02 16:05:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ASEC IMO UK
07LONDON1835	(S/NF) UK CONDUCTING STUDY OF IMPACT OF IRANIAN [...] (S/NF) Summary. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is doing a Top Secret study -- likely to get widespread attention within Her Majesty's Government -- of the real impact of Iranian financial measures. The study, which is intended to draw upon both open and closed sources, is intended to in [...]	2007-05-14 16:13:00	Embassy London	SECRET//NOFORN	EFIN PARM PTER ETTC IR UK
07LONDON1873	(C) SUDAN: FCO ON NEXT STEPS ON DARFUR [...] (C) The UK agrees with the thrust of reftel and is delivering supportive messages to the African Union (AU),according to Bruce Bucknell, Deputy Head of the FCO Sudan Unit. He told Poloffs May 16 that the British ambassador in Addis Ababa had spoken with AU Commission Chair Konare on May 14; [...]	2007-05-16 15:41:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO SU UK
07LONDON1947	BROWN'S ECONOMIC PRIORITIES AND CHALLENGES [...] (C) Gordon Brown is the longest continuously serving Chancellor of the Exchequer since 1823. During his ten year reign, Brown has enjoyed tremendous authority and autonomy in managing the UK's economy. As a result, Brown is expected to continue the economic and financial policies he developed [...]	2007-05-21 13:47:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL EFIN PGOV PBIO UK
07LONDON1991	ECONOMIC SNAPSHOT OF EU ENLARGEMENT FOR UK [...] Since Romania and Bulgaria formally joined the European Union (EU) on January 1, 2007, we have witnessed increased reference to economic activity between the UK and the new member states, ranging from high level visits to various UK contacts indicating they have purchased vacation property in [...]	2007-05-23 14:42:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PREL EU UK
07LONDON2063	ACCREDITATION - IMO - FIFTEENTH SESSION OF THE [...] Embassy London has requested accreditation and is pleased to grant UK country clearance to the following delegation members from the U.S. for the International Maritime Organization's Fifteenth Session of the Subcommittee on Flag State Implementation, London, June 4 - 8, 2007: Representativ [...]	2007-05-30 15:07:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC IMO
07LONDON2076	ACCREDITATION - IMO - FIFTY-SEVENTH SESSION OF [...] Embassy London has requested accreditation and is pleased to grant UK country clearance to the following delegation members from June 18 - 21, 2007 for the International Maritime Organization's Fifty-Seventh Session of the Technical Cooperation Committee: Head of Delegation Laurence Tobe [...]	2007-05-31 12:05:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC IMO
07LONDON2077	ACCREDITATION - IMO - NINETY-EIGHTH SESSION OF THE [...] Embassy London has requested accreditation and is pleased to grant UK country clearance to the following delegation members from June 25 - 29, 2007 for the International Maritime Organization Council's Ninety-Eighth Session: Head of Delegation Laurence Tobey Transportation Affairs Office [...]	2007-05-31 12:05:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC IMO
07LONDON2182	UK SHARES CONCERNS ON THE GROWING IRAN-VENEZUELA [...] (C) HMG is "on the same page" regarding growing Iran-Venezula ties, FCO Venezuela Desk Officer Peter Kay told us May 17. Kay, who had visited Caracas the previous week, had discussed the Iran-Venezuela relationship with numerous interlocutors; he noted Venezula at that point had just announc [...]	2007-06-06 17:08:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG KPRP PGOV PHUM IR UK VE LG
07LONDON2318	UK CALLS ON EU TO INVESTIGATE U.S. BIODIESEL SUBSIDIES [...] Summary: The UK Government has associated itself with its biodiesel industry in asking the EU to investigate whether US subsidies on biodiesel are trade distorting and should give rise to countervailing duties. HMG has "no appetite for a fight" about this, and wants to continue importing bio [...]	2007-06-15 14:57:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ENRG EAGR UK
07LONDON2340	CUBA SOLIDARITY GROUP MAY FORCE SANCTIONS SHOWDOWN [...] Summary: Hilton Hotels in the UK believes its efforts to obey US sanctions on Cuba, while simultaneously respecting UK law banning discrimination based on nationality, will soon be tested by a pro-Cuban government NGO. The NGO will seek to check a Cuban delegation into a Hilton hotel in the U [...]	2007-06-19 07:34:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC ELAB CU UK
07LONDON2420	(C) AMERICAN CITIZENS DETAINED IN IRAN: UK [...] (C) In response to poloff's June 12 demarche (ref A),FCO's Iran Team Leader Will Gelling and Iran human rights officer Marian Kalloor on June 20 said UK pressure and lobbying in Tehran was an important element behind the EU Presidency's demarche (reported ref B) on the Iranian Foreign Minist [...]	2007-06-22 17:07:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PHUM PREL IR UK
07LONDON2457	IRAN NUCLEAR ISSUE: UK FEEDBACK ON SOLANA-LARIJANI [...] Summary (CO) EU's Solana saw no movement during June 23 talks with Larijani on suspension and rebuffed Larijani's suggestion to link next steps on the nuclear issue in any way to the upcoming visit to Iran by IAEA chief El Baradei, according to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The UK [...]	2007-06-26 17:59:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL EU IR IZ UK
07LONDON2461	GORDON BROWN TAKES OVER AS PRIME MINISTER [...] (SBU) Gordon Brown is the UK's new Prime Minister. Right on schedule, Tony Blair submitted his resignation to the Queen shortly after 1:00 p.m. today June 27. Within minutes, the Queen had summoned Brown to Buckingham Palace and invited him to form a Government, as Leader of the party that [...]	2007-06-27 14:10:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV UK
07LONDON2488	(U) PRIME MINISTER GORDON BROWN NAMES HIS CABINET [...] (U) A day after taking over as Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has named his Cabinet. As expected, this is the biggest reshuffle since the Labour Party came to power in 1997. It includes several realignments, and has the maximum number of paid Cabinet Ministers permitted by law (22). While p [...]	2007-06-28 16:04:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UK
07LONDON249	UK PREVIEW OF THE JANUARY GAERC [...] (C) Summary. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) expects Kosovo and Iran to be major issues of discussion at the January GAERC. UK goals are to 1) keep "wobbly" EU Members on board with the need to resolve Kosovo's status as soon as possible after the Serbian elections and 2) keep the [...]	2007-01-22 17:40:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG EAID MARR YI SR BK IS SO IR
07LONDON2491	IRAN IN IRAQ: IRANIAN DEMARCHES UK ON IRAN'S GOOD [...] (CO/NF) Summary: The Iranian Ambassador conveyed a pro-forma summary of its own benign intentions in Iraq during a June 22 demarche at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). The demarche was intended to provide an Iranian version of the May 28 U.S.-Iran talks in Baghdad, according to fe [...]	2007-06-28 17:44:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM PREL IR IZ UK
07LONDON2510	ACCREDITATION - IMO - INTERSESSIONAL MEETING OF [...] Embassy London has requested accreditation and is pleased to grant UK country clearance to the following delegation members from July 9-13, 2007 for the International Maritime Organization's Intersessional Meeting of the Working Group on Long-Range Identification and Tracking of Ships: Curtis [...]	2007-07-02 09:59:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC IMO

07LONDON2534	(U) BROWN'S GOVERNMENT IN PLACE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Gordon Brown has moved fast to put his stamp on the UK Government and the results have been positive for his poll ratings and media coverage. The latest Guardian/ICM poll gives Labour the lead (39 percent to 35 percent) over the Conservatives, Labour's first le [...]	2007-07-02 16:01:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV UK

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