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Identifier	Subject	Date	Office	Classification	Tags
09UNVIEVIENNA361	UNODC'S MAJOR DONORS MEET; SEND STRONG MESSAGES TO COSTA [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-29 14:54:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PGOV SNAR UN

09UNVIEVIENNA362	IAEA BUDGET: FRAGILE CONSENSUS BUILDING AROUND [...] (U) This is an action request for IO; please see para 7. 2. (SBU) Summary: After five months of budget negotiations, IAEA Member States appear to be moving toward a consensus to increase the IAEA's Regular Budget by 5.4 percent from 2009 to 2010, a level that satisfies minimal U.S. objec [...]	2009-07-30 12:10:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC PREL KNNP IAEA UN
09UNVIEVIENNA369	IAEA/IRAQ: WITH IRAN IN THE BACKGROUND DG [...] (S) Following Iraq's ref request for Iraq to be added to the IAEA's September Board agenda for purposes of confirming Iraq's compliance with its safeguards agreement, IAEA DG ElBaradei sent a letter to the Iraqi Foreign Minister reiterating the Agency's 2008 Safeguards Implementation Report c [...]	2009-08-04 13:00:00	UNVIE	SECRET	AORC IAEA IZ KNNP IR
09UNVIEVIENNA37	IAEA/IRAN: THINKING ABOUT THE BOARD AT THE P5+1 [...] (S) The February 4 PolDirs meeting in Berlin will be an important opportunity to address the IAEA investigation Iran continues to block and possible steps to break the impasse at the March 2-5 IAEA Board of Governors. It is important to reaffirm P5 1 unity in this first Board meeting under the [...]	2009-01-30 14:38:00	UNVIE	SECRET	PREL PARM KNNP IAEA IR
09UNVIEVIENNA371	ABDUL MINTY SKETCHES AGENDA FOR COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary: In an August 4 conversation with Charge, South African IAEA Governor Abdul Minty commented on U.S. priority issues for the upcoming IAEA Board of Governors and General Conference meetings, arguing that an objective for both sides should be healing the rift between developed and de [...]	2009-08-04 14:08:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IAEA KNNP ENRG IR SA
09UNVIEVIENNA397	IAEA/BOG: September Board Preview and Analysis [...] (SBU) The traditional focus of the September 7-11 Board of Governors meeting is preparation for the IAEA General Conference (GC) the following week. The Board approves DG reports in core programmatic areas: nuclear safety, security and nuclear applications. However, we expect this will largel [...]	2009-08-21 15:16:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY
09UNVIEVIENNA40	UK TO HOST MULTILATERAL FUEL ASSURANCES CONFERENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: On January 27, a team from the British MFA and Department of Energy briefed Mission officers on plans for an upcoming conference on "Multilateral Approaches to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle" on March 17-18, in London. The conference is in response a public promise the [...]	2009-02-03 07:51:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ENRG ETTC IAEA IN KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY
09UNVIEVIENNA402	IAEA/GC/MIDDLE EAST: ARAB GROUP REJECTS GC PRESIDENT'S GOOD OFFICES [...] (C) The Arab Group (Lebanon and Syria) flatly rejected General Conference President Macmillan's efforts toward a consensus single resolution on the Middle East, standing by the Arab League Ministerial directive for a separate resolution naming Israel. Although both Egypt and Israel were more [...]	2009-08-26 15:57:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC IAEA KNNP PARM PREL XF
09UNVIEVIENNA41	IAEA: SEMINAR ON GLOBAL NUCLEAR FUEL SUPPLY DEPICTS A [...] (SBU) On January 26, the Permanent Mission of Japan in Vienna held a Seminar on Global Nuclear Fuel Supply. The seminar was attended by delegations from 63 countries including Canada, Germany, South Africa, Brazil, Egypt, Pakistan and Australia, as well as numerous NGOs, academic and industry [...]	2009-02-03 11:50:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG ETTC PREL TRGY KNNP
09UNVIEVIENNA414	IAEA/SYRIA: LAYING GROUNDWORK FOR NONCOMPLIANCE? [...] (C) Summary and Comment: The Director General's report levies strong criticism of Syria "severely impeding" the safeguards investigation, and underlines Syria's legal obligations in this regard; this lays helpful groundwork for next steps by the Secretariat and/or the Board of Governors. Howe [...]	2009-09-02 15:19:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM SY KN IAEA KNNP
09UNVIEVIENNA415	COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY (CTBT): On-Site [...] This cable reports discussions of On-Site Inspection (OSI) issues that took place during the first half of the thirty-third session of Working Group B (WGB-33),August 17 - 25. International Monitoring System (IMS) and International Data Centre (IDC) and OSI discussions taking place during th [...]	2009-09-03 06:48:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM AORC KTBT IR
09UNVIEVIENNA417	IAEA/IRAN: JOINT P5+1 STATEMENT FOR IAEA BOARD OF [...] (C) At a German-convened P5 1 meeting on September 4, Russian Ambassador Zmeyevskiy refused to discuss the German-proposed text for a joint P5 1 statement on the Iran issue at the IAEA Board of Governors meeting opening Monday, September 7. Over the course of nearly two hours, and seconded b [...]	2009-09-04 15:27:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP MNUC IAEA IR
09UNVIEVIENNA418	IAEA/GC: MIDDLE EAST MORASS [...] (C) The state of play on Middle East GC issues leading into the week of the September Board just before the IAEA General Conference is grim. GC President Macmillan's effort toward a consensus approach based on elements of a single resolution is on temporary life support, though she is not pre [...]	2009-09-04 16:16:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AORC PARM KNNP XF IAEA IR
09UNVIEVIENNA419	NUCLEAR FUEL BANKS - FEW VOICES LIKELY TO RISE IN [...] (C) Summary: The IAEA Secretariat will not release a discussion paper on assurance of nuclear fuel supply in time for the September meeting of the BoG, and few Member States other than the U.S. appear troubled over this inaction. The Board Chair wishes to avoid a re-heated version of the Jun [...]	2009-09-04 16:29:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC ENRG PREL KNNP TRGY IAEA NAM
09UNVIEVIENNA423	UNIDO Formally Invites U.S. to December General Conference [...] Summary. Attending the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) 2009 bi-annual General Conference as an official observer, while demonstrating U.S. interest in learning more about the organization's work, is procedurally straightforward, involving a simple registration form and a namepla [...]	2009-09-11 12:31:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EIND EAID UNIDO UNDP UNEP AORC KUNR KGHG
09UNVIEVIENNA429	STATES PARTIES FACE OBSTACLES IN EFFORTS TO CREATE A NEW [...] The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) hosted two intergovernmental expert working group meetings during the period August 25 to September 4 to help promote implementation of the UN Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC). 2. During the Review of Implementation Working Group on August 25 to [...]	2009-09-16 15:17:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV UN AU KCRM KCOR
09UNVIEVIENNA435	IAEA/IRAN: SEPTEMBER BOARD KEEPS THE SPOTLIGHT ON [...] (SBU) The September 7 IAEA Board of Governors discussion on Iran balanced between praising Tehran's recent cooperation with the IAEA and noting that more must be done. Although the usual Iran friendlies highlighted Tehran's decision to improve safeguards at Natanz and provide access to the [...]	2009-09-22 16:05:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KNNP AORC IAEA IR
09UNVIEVIENNA438	IAEA/GC/MIDDLE EAST OUTCOMES: THE GOOD, THE BAD [...] (C) Arab Group and Iranian triumphalism over the narrow passage (49-45-16) of the Israeli Nuclear Capabilities (INC) resolution should not eclipse two major positive outcomes on Middle East issues at the September 14-18 IAEA General Conference: U.S.-EU brokered agreement between Israel and Egy [...]	2009-09-23 11:07:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AORC PARM KNNP XF IAEA EG IS IR
09UNVIEVIENNA44	MOVING FORWARD ON THE COMPREHENSIVE TEST BAN TREATY [...] (C) Summary. With the United States one of nine countries whose ratification is necessary for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) to enter into force, the new Administration's promise of a change in US policy has drawn great attention in Vienna. Although good progress has been made in r [...]	2009-02-03 12:26:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC KTBT PARM MNUC
09UNVIEVIENNA440	UNIDO DG Yumkella: UNIDO and U.S. Share Common Vision [...] SUMMARY. The U.S. and UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) share common philosophies and visions when it comes to "greening" industry, improving the developing world's trade capacity and access to markets, and environmental sustainability, according to Director General Yumkella. In [...]	2009-09-23 15:12:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED	KUNR ETRD EIND EAID UNIDO UNDP UNEP AORC KGHG
09UNVIEVIENNA441	IAEA/SYRIA: DG RECEIVES MIXED SUPPORT AMONG BOARD [...] (C) Summary. Despite a highly critical report by the Director General, Board members remained divided on the Syria agenda item at the September Board of Governors meeting. Like-minded countries' criticism of Syria for "severely impeding" the investigation and repeated calls for Syria to provi [...]	2009-09-23 15:13:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM SY KN IAEA KNNP
09UNVIEVIENNA447	IAEA/IRAN: INITIAL JUSCANZ REACTION TO QOM [...] (C) Ambassador Davies briefed JUSCANZ (Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) counterparts, joined by Board-member ROK, September 28 on the disclosure of the Qom enrichment facility and solicited views on next steps at the IAEA. He stressed the imperative for immediate access by the IAEA, and [...]	2009-09-28 16:43:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AORC KNNP IAEA IR
09UNVIEVIENNA450	IAEA/General Conference: Resolutions Wrap-Up [...] (SBU) Once again, and despite best efforts by USDEL, Middle East issues (ref a) overshadowed much of the substantive agenda of the September 14-18 IAEA General Conference. Among the five core technical resolutions referred to the Committee of the Whole, or COW, -- omnibus safety, nuclear appli [...]	2009-09-30 15:06:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY
09UNVIEVIENNA452	IAEA/General Conference: Side Events [...] (U) SUMMARY: During the 2009 IAEA General Conference several side events were scheduled by the Technical Cooperation (TC) and Nuclear Applications (NA) departments and the Office of Nuclear Security (ONS). Msnoffs attended four events of interest to the USG: 1) the unveiling of a new Technica [...]	2009-10-02 12:48:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY
09UNVIEVIENNA457	IAEA/IRAN: CONSULTING BOARD MEMBERS ON QOM [...] (C) Following outreach to JUSCANZ (ref a) and EU Ambassadors earlier in the week, P-3 Ambassadors/Charges continued consultations on the disclosure of the Qom enrichment facility September 30-Ocotober 1 with the majority of Board members, the Egyptian NAM Chair and Malaysian Board Chair Arshad [...]	2009-10-02 15:20:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AORC KNNP IAEA IR
09UNVIEVIENNA46	HELPING UNODC TO HELP AFGHANISTAN [...] (SBU) Among issues handled by the UN Organization for Drugs and Crime (UNODC),none looms larger in the U.S. national interest than the Afghan narcotics trade and its impact undermining stability and contributing to terrorist activity in the region. UNODC's Afghanistan strategy compliments an [...]	2009-02-03 15:31:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KCRM PREL PINS PTER AF
09UNVIEVIENNA462	UNODC OPERATING ENVIRONMENT IN IRAN TOUGHER AFTER [...] (C) UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Tehran Program Head Antonino de Leo emphasized recently that it is more difficult for him to carry out his job in Iran following the presidential elections. In addition to the challenges posed by international wariness regarding continued funding for [...]	2009-10-08 07:38:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR AF PAK SNAR
09UNVIEVIENNA47	NUCLEAR FUEL BANK ASSURANCES: THORNY ISSUE IN [...] (C) Summary: The President and Secretary have publicly endorsed the establishment of an international nuclear fuel bank under the auspices of the IAEA, and advancing that goal is one of UNVIE's top priorities. A fuel bank would give the Agency the means in "last resort" circumstances to effe [...]	2009-02-03 16:29:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG TRGY KNNP
09UNVIEVIENNA475	IAEA/General Conference - NRC Bilateral Meetings [...] (U) SUMMARY: From September 14-17, 2009, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory B. Jaczko participated in the IAEA General Conference in Vienna, Austria. During the week, he conducted 20 bilateral meetings with foreign regulatory counterparts and members of the IAEA Secretariat. [...]	2009-10-16 15:12:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY
09UNVIEVIENNA476	IAEA/General Conference: NRC Meetings with IAEA staff and [...] (U) SUMMARY: From September 14-17, 2009, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory B. Jaczko participated in the IAEA General Conference in Vienna, Austria. During the week, he conducted 20 bilateral meetings with foreign regulatory counterparts and members of the IAEA Secretariat. [...]	2009-10-16 15:12:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY
09UNVIEVIENNA49	SECOND UNCAC WORKSHOP ON BRIBERY IN INTERNATIONAL [...] On January 28-29, 2009, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) hosted the second open-ended experts workshop on International Cooperation between Public International Organizations and States Parties to the UN Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC). Workshop participants discussed ways to imp [...]	2009-02-05 12:02:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV UN KCRM UNODC
09UNVIEVIENNA491	OPPONENTS TO IAEA 2011 BUDGET GROWTH MOBILIZING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a speech October 21 at the U.S. Institute for Peace, Secretary Clinton implied USG support for a further increase in the IAEA's budget and authorities. Formal negotiations among Member States to determine the 2011 level will not begin until later this winter, but the UK and [...]	2009-10-29 15:24:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC PREL KNNP IAEA UN
09UNVIEVIENNA497	MIXED EXPECTATIONS FOR SALEHI'S RETURN TO IAEA [...] (C) Atomic Energy Organization of Iran head, Ali Akbar Salehi, previously served in Vienna as Iran's Permanent Representative to the IAEA, thus many diplomats in Vienna already know him well. Although at least one IAEA official is optimistic that Salehi will bring greater cooperation from Ir [...]	2009-11-03 14:48:00	UNVIE	SECRET	PREL AORC SA IR KNNP
09UNVIEVIENNA506	ANYTHING LEFT TO SQUEEZE FROM THE IAEA'S "FUTURE [...] (SBU) Summary: Member States are looking forward - some with relief - to the final session of the year-long Future of the Agency (FOA) process on November 19 - 20. The Brazilian chair of the process will circulate and then formally submit a report to the March Meeting of the Board of Governor [...]	2009-11-06 16:03:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC PREL KNNP IAEA UN
09UNVIEVIENNA507	IAEA/PACT: WHO ENVOY FOR CANCER PREVENTION NANCY BRINKER [...] (U) SUMMARY: WHO Envoy Ambassador Nancy Brinker spoke at a PACT-hosted event entitled "The Globalization of Cancer" on October 20, 2009, painting a picture of how cancer will increasingly burden low income and developing countries. Brinker also consulted IAEA officials about implementing the [...]	2009-11-09 11:06:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SOCI EAID KNNP AORC IAEA
09UNVIEVIENNA509	IAEA BUDGET: DEPUTY DG SHARES VIEWS [...] (SBU) Summary: IAEA Deputy Director General David Waller contributed his views on the 2011 budget process, focusing on issues of sequencing, financing capital investments, and building alliances among G8 countries. Waller described DG ElBaradei's recent meetings in Washington as "very positiv [...]	2009-11-09 14:09:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC PREL KNNP IAEA UN
09UNVIEVIENNA518	HCOC: TWO REMINDERS TO PROVIDE REVIEW OF POSITION [...] (C) Summary. At two different meetings, diplomatic interlocutors recently inquired when the USG would complete the interagency review of its position on Hague Code of Conduct (HCOC) reporting commitments (reftel, para 26). On both occasions, we replied that the review was still ongoing. Cont [...]	2009-11-13 09:11:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC KNNP TSPA
09UNVIEVIENNA522	WASSENAAR ARRANGEMENT: GENERAL WORKING GROUP [...] (C) Summary: The October 13-15 General Working Group (GWG) meeting was notable for a lack of progress as a result of Russian intransigence. Russia continued to press its issues, primarily re-export control including language on destabilizing accumulations of conventional arms and its desire [...]	2009-11-17 08:43:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC KSTC PARM
09UNVIEVIENNA53	IAEA/MARCH BOARD: LIKE-MINDED PERSPECTIVES ON IRAN [...] (S) At an Australian-hosted meeting February 4, like-minded Ambassadors (EU3, U.S., Canada, Japan, New Zealand) saw little prospect of a Board resolution on either Iran or Syria. No one is advocating a March Board resolution on Iran so long as Russia and China's stances remain unchanged. Fra [...]	2009-02-06 15:33:00	UNVIE	SECRET	PARM PREL AORC IAEA KNNP IR SY
09UNVIEVIENNA530	IAEA/IRAN: TECHNICAL BRIEFING LARGELY FOCUSES ON [...] (C) On November 18, Ops B Director Herman Nackaerts provided Member States a technical briefing on the Director General's (DG)November 16 report on Iran. The briefing largely repeated the points covered in the report, but also offered more details on the IAEA's inspection of the Fordow Fue [...]	2009-11-20 16:23:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KNNP AORC IAEA IR
09UNVIEVIENNA531	IAEA/NUCLEAR FUEL ASSURANCE: RUSSIAN-U.S. JOINT [...] (SBU) Russian IAEA Governor Berdennikov and resident Ambassador Zmeyevskiy hosted Thursday and Friday, November 19 and 20, group meetings to discuss the IAEA Board agenda item "Establishment of a physical reserve of Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) in Russia." Beside U.S. Ambassador Davies (both d [...]	2009-11-23 13:51:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG KNNP RS IAEA
09UNVIEVIENNA536	IAEA:REPLACEMENT NEEDED FOR DEPUTY DIRECTOR [...] (C) UNVIE requests development of a U.S. position on a candidate to replace Deputy Director General Taniguchi as the head of the Department of Safety and Security at IAEA. The current DDG,s contract ends August 2010, but will leave office sooner. IAEA Director General-elect Amano could make [...]	2009-12-01 14:15:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC KNNP IAEA
09UNVIEVIENNA538	IAEA/IRAN: BOARD OF GOVERNORS CRITICIZE FAILURES [...] (SBU) The main event in the November 26-27 Board session was the adoption of the first Board resolution on Iran since February 2006 with the support of all P5 1 partners and by an overwhelming vote of 25-3-6 abstentions, with one absence (septel). Leading up to this, the Board debate on the [...]	2009-12-02 14:34:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KNNP AORC IAEA IR
09UNVIEVIENNA539	IAEA/SYRIA: DIVIDED BOARD REMAINS SEIZED OF THE [...] (SBU) The IAEA Board of Governors November 27 formally addressed Syria for the fifth time in as many boards. Despite a critical report by the Director General noting no progress on the Dair Alzour investigation and mounting questions on uranium traces at the Miniature Neutron Source Reactor th [...]	2009-12-02 15:08:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM SY KN IAEA KNNP
09UNVIEVIENNA540	STAFFDEL KESSLER EXAMINES IRAN, SYRIA, AND [...] (S) Summary: HFAC staffers Richard Kessler and David Fite received from IAEA Secretariat November 10 information on the Iran case that tracked with the tone of the subsequent Director General's reporting on Iran to the Board of Governors. The STAFFDEL heard that contact with Iran over "possible mil [...]	2009-12-02 17:17:00	UNVIE	SECRET	PREL KNNP AORC IR SY KN IN
09UNVIEVIENNA544	IAEA/IRAN: BOARD ADOPTS RESOLUTION IN RESPONSE [...] (SBU) The IAEA Board of Governors passed a resolution censuring Iran's nuclear program on November 27 , marking the first time since Iran was referred to the UN Security Council in February 2006 that the Board has taken formal action on Iran. The German-sponsored resolution had the support [...]	2009-12-03 15:10:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KNNP AORC IAEA IR
09UNVIEVIENNA545	IO A/S BRIMMER,S FIRST CALL ON DG AMANO AND [...] (C) IO A/S Esther Brimmer, accompanied by IO DAS Nerissa Cook, was among the first to welcome newly instated IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano on his first day in office December 1. She assured Amano of full U.S. support to make his tenure a success, for which Amano was grateful. Amano outl [...]	2009-12-04 08:00:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC IAEA KNNP PREL UN JA IR
09UNVIEVIENNA546	IAEA: NOVEMBER 2009 TACC AND BOARD TC WRAP-UP [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-04 08:54:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY
09UNVIEVIENNA547	PC524: CTBTO 33RD SESSION OF THE PREPARATORY [...] (U) Summary. The 33rd Session of the Preparatory Commission of the CTBTO proceeded more smoothly than expected. There was little discussion of the recommendations coming to the PrepCom from Working Group B (WGB) and Working Group A (WGA),and the PrepCom approved all recommendations quickly [...]	2009-12-04 12:15:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM AORC KTBT
09UNVIEVIENNA550	Major Donors to UNODC Agree to More Systematic [...] SUMMARY: At a November 30 meeting convened by the UK Mission to international organizations in Vienna the "Major Donor" countries to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) agreed to increase systematic coordination with one another. The U.S. delegation, led by IO Assistant Secretary Esther [...]	2009-12-04 12:46:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR KCOR KCRM PGOV UNCND
09UNVIEVIENNA553	AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR TO IRAN DESCRIBES ELECTIONS AS [...] (C) Summary. On December 3, former Austrian Ambassador to Tehran Michael Postl (please protect) debriefed MsnOff on his final calls on Iranian officials as he left post. He noted that former Presidents Khatami and Rafsanjani both had extracted themselves from the normal political scene and [...]	2009-12-09 13:43:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR AU AORC KNNP
09UNVIEVIENNA555	IAEA: DG AMANO CITES SAFEGUARDS AND BUDGET [...] (S) U/S for Arms Control and International Security Ellen Tauscher, accompanied by Special Assistant Jim Timbie, pledged full U.S. support to newly instated IAEA Director General Amano in an introductory call December 4. Amano confirmed his planned trip to Washington January 11-12 and welcome [...]	2009-12-10 08:39:00	UNVIE	SECRET	AORC IAEA KNNP TRGY PREL UN JA IR
09UNVIEVIENNA56	IAEA: SOUTH AFRICA WILLING TO GIVE UP U.S. ORIGIN HEU [...] (SBU) Acting on REFTEL A, Ambassador Schulte passed the USG non-paper on security of nuclear and radiological material to South Africa's IAEA Governor, Ambassador Abdul Minty, on February 4 during a lunch meeting. Ambassador Minty expressed gratitude for the offer and said he was open to coope [...]	2009-02-09 10:16:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY SF
09UNVIEVIENNA567	IAEA/SAFEGUARDS ANALYTICAL LABORATORY: SECOND [...] (SBU) The IAEA hosted on December 7 a successful second workshop on the Agency's upgrades to its Safeguards Analytical Laboratories (SAL). The Clean Laboratory Extension (CLE) is fully funded and should be completed by the end of 2010. This extension will house the Japanese-funded Large Geom [...]	2009-12-16 09:11:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY
09UNVIEVIENNA57	IAEA TO PROPOSE LARGE BUDGET INCREASE FEBRUARY 13 [...] (U) This a request for guidance. Please see paragraph 7. 2. (C) Summary: Top officials at the IAEA have informed Mission they will propose a 20 percent increase in the IAEA budget when the 2010-2011 draft budget document is released on Friday, February 13 (strictly protect). Mission reques [...]	2009-02-09 12:49:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC PREL KNNP IAEA UN
09UNVIEVIENNA572	UNIDO GENERAL CONFERENCE: YUMKELLA WINS REELECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: Working-level Mission Officers and Acting UN Counselor attended the December 7 - 11 UNIDO General Conference as informal guests, sitting at the rear and dispensing with name plates. The overall tone of the five-day Conference was positive. Resolutions reflected this year's th [...]	2009-12-17 11:27:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KUNR ETRD EIND EAID UNIDO UNDP UNEP AORC KGHG
09UNVIEVIENNA573	WASSENAAR ARRANGEMENT: PLENARY REPORT DECEMBER 2-3 [...] (C) Summary: Changes to the controls lists continues to be the strong success story of the Wassenaar Arrangement (WA) Plenary meetings. Russian intransigence on policy issues remains the stumbling block to progress on Best Practices. The Russian head of delegation (Grigory Mashkov) refused to [...]	2009-12-17 12:35:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC KSTC PARM
09UNVIEVIENNA575	GNEP INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT WORKING GROUP DRAWS BROAD [...] Summary: The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) Infrastructure Development Working Group (IDWG) held its fifth meeting December 9-10, 2009, in Vienna, under U.S. chairmanship. Approximately 85 representatives from GNEP partner and observer countries, the International Atomic Energy Agency [...]	2009-12-18 09:35:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY KNNP IAEA
09UNVIEVIENNA58	IAEA/IRAQ: DISPOSITION OF IRAQI DOCUMENTS AND [...] (S/NF) Summary: Reflecting U.S. concerns regarding the sensitivity and security of old INVO documents, records and hardware still stored at the IAEA, the U.S. (DOE) recently funded U.S. expert Bill Domke (DOE/LLNL) to conduct a preliminary review of the records and provide a recommendation on [...]	2009-02-10 14:31:00	UNVIE	SECRET//NOFORN	AORC IAEA PARM PREL KNNP IZ
09UNVIEVIENNA582	UNCITRAL Working Group on Procurement Makes Progress [...] SUMMARY. At its December 7-11 meeting, the UNCITRAL Working Group on Procurement made significant progress in a second reading of the current draft revisions to the 1994 Model Law, but did not cover all of the articles. The remaining articles should be addressed at the next meeting in Apri [...]	2009-12-22 13:17:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED	AU AORC EINV ETRD UN UNCITRAL
09UNVIEVIENNA59	IAEA/U.S. SAFEGUARDS: IMPLEMENTATION OF U.S. [...] (SBU) IAEA Safeguards Department Operations B Director Herman Nackaerts and Section Head Chris Charlier are anxious to schedule discussions with the USG in advance of the U.S. submitting our Additional Protocol (AP) declaration, due on the 4th of July, 2009. The Safeguards Department had req [...]	2009-02-11 08:57:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED	ENGR IAEA KNNP CVIS TRGY
09UNVIEVIENNA63	IAEA: TECHNICAL COOPERATION FOR EU REGIONAL [...] (SBU) As many governments have observed, member states funding the IAEA's Technical Cooperation program should have more control and oversight over project design and implementation. The program's opacity and confounding organization were illustrated most recently in a review of Board-approve [...]	2009-02-12 12:36:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG IAEA ETTC KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY
09UNVIEVIENNA64	ADVOCATING NEEDLE EXCHANGE AND MEDICATION-ASSISTED [...] (SBU) Per Ref A instructions, Charge approached CND chair Ambassador Ashipala on Friday, Feb 6 to explain change in the USG position regarding the ongoing UNGASS review negotiations (Ref B). On the same day Missionoffs shared with Russia and Japan highlights of the new USG position: support fo [...]	2009-02-13 15:49:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC KCRM PREL SNAR AU UN
09UNVIEVIENNA65	IAEA PROPOSES UNPRECEDENTED, 23 PERCENT BUDGET [...] (U) The IAEA released its biennial budget document on February 15, proposed an unprecedented, 23 percent increase. The increase would bring the IAEA regular budget from just under 300 million Euros in 2009 to 368 million in 2010 and 383 million in 2011. The proposed increase is split roughly [...]	2009-02-17 13:14:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC PREL KNNP IAEA UN
09UNVIEVIENNA67	IAEA MARCH BOARD: PREVIEW AND ANALYSIS [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-18 16:57:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY
09UNVIEVIENNA71	IAEA/SYRIA: DIRECTOR GENERAL REPEATS CALL FOR [...] (SBU) The Director General's February 19 report on Syria's undeclared nuclear activities is more categorical than his November report in re-focusing the Agency's nearly year-long investigation on Syrian noncooperation. Most importantly, the report debunks the Syrian red-herring allegation [...]	2009-02-20 13:16:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM SY KN IAEA KNNP
09UNVIEVIENNA72	UNODC Financial Crisis: Tough Choices But Silver Lining? [...] (SBU) Unexpected declines in UNODC's General Purpose Fund (GPF) contributions have created a financial crisis within the UNODC. Compounding that assessment are interest losses stemming from the world financial crisis and the inherent difficulties associated with managing an exploding Special P [...]	2009-02-20 14:08:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SNAR KCRM EAID UN
09UNVIEVIENNA73	IAEA/IRAN: DG REPORTS TEHRAN,S CONTINUED LACK OF [...] (SBU) The IAEA Director General's (DG) February 19 report on Iran describes the dichotomy between Iran's lack of cooperation with the IAEA -- the stalled investigation on possible military dimensions (PMD) issues and the refusal to allow IAEA access to some declared nuclear facilities -- an [...]	2009-02-20 14:43:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP AORC IAEA IR
09UNVIEVIENNA75	POLITICS SATURATE OPENING OF "FUTURE OF THE [...] (U) Summary: The initial meeting of the year-long, Future of the Agency (FOA) process got off to a disappointing - if predictable - start. Most Member States had not given thought to specific issues and their statements were overtly political and unconstructive. Only the U.S. and Canada offe [...]	2009-02-20 15:03:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IAEA AORC KNNP UN PREL
09UNVIEVIENNA76	IAEA: MOVING NUCLEAR SECURITY INTO THE MAINSTREAM [...] (SBU) In 2001, shortly after the September 11 terrorist attacks, the IAEA Board of Governors began a process of strengthening the Secretariat's role in preventing nuclear terrorism. The Agency has since adopted a "Nuclear Security Plan," the latest version of which expires at the end of 2009. [...]	2009-02-20 15:45:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC ENRG TRGY KNNP IAEA PTER
09UNVIEVIENNA78	COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY (CTBT): On-Site [...] (SBU) Summary: REFTEL requested U.S. Delegation provide detailed reporting of the on-site inspection (OSI) discussions at Working Group B (WGB)-32 of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization. As instructed delegation was primarily in a listening and information gathering mode, and avoided [...]	2009-02-24 15:04:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM AORC KTBT IR
09UNVIEVIENNA82	IAEA/IRAN: TECHNICAL BRIEFING IS SOUNDING BOARD [...] (SBU) On February 24, Ops B Director Herman Nackaerts provided Member States a technical briefing on the Director General's (DG) report on Iran that largely repeated the same points covered in the report, but also offered a more detailed explanation about how the "error" on the additional l [...]	2009-02-25 17:18:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP AORC IAEA IR
09UNVIEVIENNA85	Iran Poised to Chair 2010 Session of the UN Commission on [...] (U) This is an action request for IO, INR and NEA, see Para 13. 2. (SBU) The chairmanship of the 2010 UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) will rotate to the Asia Group. Iran has announced to the Group its intention to pursue the position. If no other Asian country seeks the chairmanship [...]	2009-02-27 10:43:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SNAR KCRM UN IR
09UNVIEVIENNA86	VIENNA PERMREPS URGE U.S. ACTION ON CTBT, [...] (SBU) Summary: In a series of recent lunches, eighteen Vienna PermReps provided Ambassador their advice to the new Administration on advancing the multilateral agenda here, especially in the IAEA. Common themes and thought-provoking perspectives, especially from NAM/G-77 counterparts, include [...]	2009-02-27 10:50:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC TRGY MNUC KNNP XF
09UNVIEVIENNA87	IAEA/INDIA - INDIA'S ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL: A [...] (C) The IAEA has added to the Board agenda for next week an Additional Protocol (AP) for India. The document was circulated for Member State consideration mid-day Thursday, 26 February. The draft text basically contains an obligation to provide limited reporting on exports to non nuclear we [...]	2009-02-27 11:25:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG IAEA KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY ETTC IN
09UNVIEVIENNA9	IAEA; WIDE-RANGING DISCUSSION WITH DIRECTOR [...] (C) Ambassador Schulte presented IAEA Director General ElBaradei with the U.S. instrument of ratification for the Additional Protocol on January 6, 2009. Ambassador used the occasion to query the DG on priorities for the remainder of ElBaradei's tenure (November 30, 2009),in particular how he m [...]	2009-01-13 07:35:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC PARM MNUC KNPP IR SY TRGY
09UNVIEVIENNA90	NEW RUSSIAN MOOD MUSIC AT IAEA BOARD MEETING [...] (C) The just-concluded March 2 - 5 meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors saw a striking improvement in the tone and content of US-Russian cooperation on our nonproliferation agenda. The most important result of this was the joint statement of the P5 1 delegations on Iran -- the first such st [...]	2009-03-05 13:43:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP IAEA SY IR RU
09UNVIEVIENNA91	IAEA/DPRK: SUPPORT FOR SIX-PARTY PROCESS AND [...] (SBU) North Korea has been on the agenda of every IAEA Board of Governors meeting since inspectors were kicked out of the country in December 2002. For the March 2009 Board meeting no written report was issued by the Secretariat on this item, and the Director General's introductory remarks w [...]	2009-03-06 13:36:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC IAEA KN KNNP
09UNVIEVIENNA92	IAEA/SYRIA: SYRIA OFFERS NO FURTHER COOPERATION TO [...] (SBU) The March 4 IAEA Board of Governors deliberations on Syria broke down along similar lines as past Board discussion of this issue. Although the Director General and a majority of Board members (21 of 33 Board members) called for cooperation by Syria, NAM standard bearers Egypt, Cuba and [...]	2009-03-06 14:13:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM SY KN IAEA KNNP
09UNVIEVIENNA93	IAEA/IRAN: BOARD URGES TEHRAN TO COOPERATE [...] (SBU) A joint six-country (P5 1) statement on Iran, the first of its kind at an IAEA Board of Governors meeting, had a salutary effect on the tenor of the March 3 Board deliberations on Iran. This statement of unity took Board members and Iran by surprise and the majority of the Board wel [...]	2009-03-06 14:50:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP AORC IAEA IR
09UNVIEVIENNA95	IAEA MARCH 2009 BOARD OF GOVERNORS: AOB DISCUSSION OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Renewed leadership by the Director General, announcements of financial pledges, and calls for more dialogue from potential beneficiary states advanced us toward future IAEA Board action to implement reliable access to nuclear fuel (RANF) mechanisms under IAEA auspices. The Boar [...]	2009-03-06 15:39:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC ENRG TRGY KNNP IAEA
09UNVIEVIENNA96	IAEA: MARCH BOARD WRAP-UP [...] (SBU) USDEL was broadly successful in using the March 2-5, 2009 IAEA Board of Governors meeting as a platform to enunciate the new Administration's support for the IAEA and renewed commitment to multilateral cooperation. U.S. interventions conveyed the overarching objective of building a robus [...]	2009-03-06 15:41:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY
09UNVIEVIENNA99	ANTI-CRIME VISION FOR UNODC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In anticipation of this week's high-level meeting in Vienna on anti-drug issues, Antonio Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC),issued a paper that paints a broad picture for UNODC's anti-crime work. On March 5, he provided a preview and briefing on this pape [...]	2009-03-10 13:58:00	UNVIE	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV UN KCRM UNODC
09USEUBRUSSELS1140	THE MANY SIDES OF DATA PRIVACY: MANAGING RISING TENSIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: European privacy and data protection concerns continue to jeopardize our commercial, law enforcement, intelligence and foreign policy objectives. Data privacy is an area of growing complexity and touches ever more U.S. interests, from the visa waiver program to e-commerce. We [...]	2009-08-17 12:06:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ECPS EINT BEXP KJUS KTFN TINT PREL ETTC EUN
09USEUBRUSSELS117	EU Commission Forecasts Significant Worsening in EU [...] (SBU) Summary: The European Commission released on January 19 its interim economic forecasts, advancing their release date by a full month due to the exceptionally difficult economic circumstances. The forecasts recognize that the impact on the real economy became more pronounced after the eve [...]	2009-01-28 11:47:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV EUN
09USEUBRUSSELS1234	SE WOLPE'S CONSULTATIONS WITH THE EU 31 AUGUST - 1 [...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S. Special Envoy to the African Great Lakes, Howard Wolpe, met with development and humanitarian aid officials from the Commission, and security and defense officials at the Council Secretariat. He also met with the Secretariat's Africa Task Force and attended a lunch meeting [...]	2009-09-11 15:52:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID MOPS MARR SOCI CG BE
09USEUBRUSSELS1319	EU DAIRY FARMERS SEEK TO REVERSE REFORMS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. EU dairy farmer protests are rapidly escalating into a widening milk delivery strike. The crisis in the EU dairy industry is due to decreased demand as a consequence of the economic crisis. Production of dairy products in the EU has been regulated/managed/protected since the mi [...]	2009-09-30 11:09:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON EUN
09USEUBRUSSELS1334	CONGRESSMAN MARKEY SHOWS OPTIMISM IN VIDEO CONFERENCE WITH [...] (SBU) Summary. Congressman Edward Markey (D-MA),Chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and co-author of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES, also known as Waxman-Markey),told Commission officials and reporters that the Senate could pass [...]	2009-10-01 16:32:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND ENRG EUN EWWT KGHG SENV TPHY TRGY TSPL
09USEUBRUSSELS1338	JOSCHKA FISCHER DISCUSS NABUCCO WITH AMB. [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: On September 17, Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Richard Morningstar, DoE PDAS for Policy and International Affairs Jonathan Elkind, and Charge d,Affaires a.i. Christopher Murray met with former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, now a special advisor to [...]	2009-10-02 09:36:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET EUN
09USEUBRUSSELS1343	EURO-BURMA NETWORK ENCOURAGES PRESSURE ON EU [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Representatives from the Euro-Burma Network during a September 29 meeting with the Charge, lauded the recent Burma policy review and encouraged the U.S. to continue to lead coordination with the EU. The delegation was concerned that the EU will now attempt to lift sanctions an [...]	2009-10-02 14:23:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETTC BU EUN
09USEUBRUSSELS1404	ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: The European Parliament (EP) has become increasingly influential in EU legislation and policy making; the new Lisbon Treaty, when ratified, will significantly accelerate this trend, in particular in the areas of justice and home affairs, agricultural budgets and [...]	2009-10-21 05:30:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON PGOV OVIP OEXC PINR EUN
09USEUBRUSSELS1516	ENERGY CHAPTER IS BOTTOM LINE FOR TURKEY [...] (C) Summary: Turkey's Deputy Permanent Representative to the EU stressed in a November 5 meeting that the opening of the Energy Chapter is a crucial step in Turkey-EU relations, and could pave the way for an agreement on the Southern Corridor. However, the inability of the EU to advance the a [...]	2009-11-10 17:40:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PREL TU EUN XS
09USEUBRUSSELS1663	EU CONSULAR CONFERENCES ILLUSTRATE IMPACT OF [...] (U) Summary: The USEU senior consular representative attended two EU consular seminars in November as an observer. The first concerned consular assistance to EU nationals in third countries and the second, international adoptions. The object of both conferences was to move toward harmonizing [...]	2009-12-11 12:20:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC CVIS EUN KOCI
09USEUBRUSSELS1681	EUPOL COPPS LOOKING FOR EXPANSION AND GREATER USSC [...] (S/NF) Summary: The EU Police Mission in the Palestinian Territories (EUPOL COPPS) implements police training and mentoring programs and serves as a clearing house for EU Member States, bilateral financial contributions to the Palestinian police. Begun in early 2006 as a 33-person financ [...]	2009-12-18 06:46:00	USEU Brussels	SECRET//NOFORN	KPMI WE EUN PREL PINS XF WBG
09USEUBRUSSELS1738	MONUC HEAD AND GREAT LAKES ENVOYS DISCUSS NEED FOR [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-30 18:13:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MARR MOPS CG
09USEUBRUSSELS206	WORKING WITH THE EU,S COUNTER-PIRACY HEADQUARTERS [...] (C//NF) Summary: USEU representatives visited the EU's counter-piracy Operational Headquarters (OHQ) on January 16, where interlocutors described the EU's operations and information sharing arrangements with the U.S. and NATO. To make maximum use of a limited force, the OHQ collects info [...]	2009-02-12 19:18:00	USEU Brussels	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV MOPS PHSA EWWT EAID PTER XI XO XW
09USEUBRUSSELS226	Barroso's economic stimulant on the rocks? [...] (SBU) Summary: The 5 billion euro EU-level portion of Europe's economic stimulus package appears to be foundering on the absence of funds, doubts about its effectiveness and plain old politics. Commission President Barroso will push hard, but a more likely outcome is a longer-term increase in e [...]	2009-02-18 10:48:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ENRG ECPS PINT EUN
09USEUBRUSSELS457	DIMAS SEEKS CONTRUCTIVE ROLE [...] (C) Econoff met with Andreas Papaconstantinou, a member of Environment Commissioner Dimas' staff, on 27 March. Papaconstantinou confirmed what we recently reported (reftel) that Commission President Barroso is seeking to play a major role in the climate discussions. He confirmed that Matthew [...]	2009-03-30 15:36:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV ECON ENRG
09USEUBRUSSELS552	ENGAGING THE EU ON DEFENSE ISSUES [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: As we prepare for the upcoming visit to Washington by the EU's High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana and Director General of the EU Military Staff Lieutenant General David Leakey, it might be useful to take stock of the EU's steady advance [...]	2009-04-09 15:36:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAID EIND EU MARR MOPS PREL

09USEUBRUSSELS568	GETTING THE EU TO EXTEND AND REINFORCE ITS [...] (C//NF) Summary. There is an emerging agreement among EU member states to extend the EU's naval operation off the coast of Somalia until December 2010. Discussions are moving beyond extending the mission to include addressing the root causes of piracy. We will have three opportunities in t [...]	2009-04-16 15:53:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MOPS MARR PREL EWWT XW XF EUN
09USEUBRUSSELS597	THE FUTURE OF EU DECISION MAKING ON POLICE AND [...] (C/NF) With or without the Lisbon Treaty, we anticipate that major Treaty provisions affecting police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters will ultimately find their way into the EU decision-making and institutional frameworks. The Treaty's fate will determine how fast these changes ma [...]	2009-04-24 18:21:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PTER KCRM EON
09USEUBRUSSELS622	INTRODUCING THE EU, PART VII: EU-U.S. COOPERATION UNDER THE [...] (U) Policy consultation and coordination between the United States and European Union has grown enormously over the past decade, and in many respects now rivals the level of discussion we have with such key allies as the UK, Germany and Japan. Our policy relationship with the EU differs from [...]	2009-04-30 13:22:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EUN
09USEUBRUSSELS681	APRIL 28 U.S.-EU JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS [...] (C) U.S. and European Union (EU) Cabinet Ministers engaged in a wide-ranging discussion of counter-terrorism, law enforcement, and border security issues at the April 28 U.S.-EU Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Ministerial Troika meeting in Prague. The EU side welcomed the Attorney General's de [...]	2009-05-13 15:12:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL KCRM PTER EUM
09USEUBRUSSELS692	EUROPEAN COMMISSION LAUNCHES COUNTER-PIRACY [...] (C//NF) Summary: On May 13, the European Commission committed to a 1.75 million euro program to support regional judicial capacity for pirate prosecutions in East Africa. The EU hopes this program, which will be implemented in concert with the UN, will allay the Government of Kenya's concer [...]	2009-05-14 18:30:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MOPS MARR PREL EWWT XW XF EUN
09USEUBRUSSELS716	EU MILITARY STAFF HEAD ON OPPORTUNITIES FOR [...] (C//NF) Summary: On May 13, Lt. Gen. David Leakey, Director General of the EU Military Staff, briefed USEU's Charg and political officers on military aspects of the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP),and the outlook for NATO-EU relations. Leakey was pessimistic on the prospects f [...]	2009-05-20 17:29:00	USEU Brussels	SECRET//NOFORN	MOPS MARR PREL EUN
09USEUBRUSSELS725	EU FOREIGN AND DEFENSE MINISTERS FOCUS ON RUSSIA, [...] (C//NF) Summary: The EU's General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meetings May 18-19 brought together foreign, defense, and development ministers in a complex choreography of meetings in Brussels. During the meetings, foreign ministers laid plans for the June European Council [...]	2009-05-26 14:48:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MARR RS BM IR BK XW XF CE EUN
09USEUBRUSSELS733	EU RULE OF LAW MISSION IN IRAQ TO INCREASE [...] (C) Summary and Action Request: USEU political officers were briefed May 27 by Stephen White, who heads the EU's Rule of Law mission for Iraq (EU JUSTLEX). White described the training undertaken in Europe since 2005 and the decision to undertake several pilot training programs in Iraq as a [...]	2009-05-27 15:43:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN IZ KJUS MARR MOPS PINS PREL
09USEUBRUSSELS839	EU LENGTHENS COUNTER-PIRACY FORCE MANDATE [...] (C) On June 15, EU foreign ministers approved an extension of the EU counter-piracy Operation ATALANTA's mandate until December 13, 2010. According to the EU,s official public statement announcing the extension, the decision was taken with a view to facilitating future force generation for [...]	2009-06-19 05:03:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PREL EWWT XW XF EUN
09USEUBRUSSELS948	TEC STAKEHOLDERS PRAISE DAY-LONG OUTREACH EVENT [...] (U) Over 70 EU business, consumer group and European Commission representatives joined USEU staff June 29 for an energetic discussion of the Transatlantic Economic Council and Transatlantic Economic Framework(TEC/TEF),organized jointly by the Transatlantic Business Dialogue (TABD) and USEU in [...]	2009-07-08 15:35:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD EIND ECIN EAGR EINV ETTC OECD PREL
09USNATO107	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL CASEY [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-19 11:25:00	Mission USNATO	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN NATO BE
09USNATO109	NATO CIVIL BUDGET: MEDIUM TERM FINANCIAL PLAN [...] (U) This is a request for guidance. See paras 5 and 6. 2. (C/NF) NATO is in the process of planning its civil budget expenditures over the next five years. As a part of this process the NATO International Staff has developed a draft Medium Term Financial Plan for 2010 to 2014 (MTFP). Th [...]	2009-03-19 13:32:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	NATO PREL AFIN ABUD AMGT
09USNATO114	RFG: NATO-BELARUS SECURITY AGREEMENT [...] (C/NF) This is a request for guidance. See paragraph 3. The Issue --------- 2. (C/NF) Although Belarus signed a security of information agreement with NATO many years ago as a member of the Alliance's Partnership for Peace (PfP),the U.S. has blocked the certification of the agreement. [...]	2009-03-20 15:52:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MARR NATO PGOV PHUM PREL BO
09USNATO115	MARCH 12 HLTF: NATO ALLIES PRESS U.S. TO LEAD ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. At the March 12 NATO High Level Task Force (HLTF) meeting, three main themes emerged from Allies' comments on next steps regarding CFE: 1) Allied support for U.S. leadership in engaging Russia on CFE; 2) support for the Parallel Actions Package as the basis for engagement; and 3) [...]	2009-03-23 17:06:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE NATO PARM PREL
09USNATO138	NATO SUMMIT DECLARATION ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (U) The following Declaration on Afghanistan was approved and released by the NATO Heads of State and Government following the Summit of April 3-4: BEGIN TEXT: 04 Apr. 2009 Summit Declaration on Afghanistan Issued by the Heads of State and Government participating in the meeting of the [...]	2009-04-06 05:33:00	Mission USNATO	UNCLASSIFIED	NATO MARR AF
09USNATO15	NATO/IRAQ: NTM-I CORE COUNTRIES SHARE CONCERNS OF [...] (C) The backbone countries in the NATO Training Mission in Iraq (NTM-I) share similar concerns about the legal status of the NTM-I as Denmark and Portugal (Ref A),both of which are withdrawing from the mission (Denmark until the legal status can be clarified, but Portugal permanently.). Polan [...]	2009-01-16 13:34:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL MOPS MARR IZ
09USNATO166	AZERBAIJAN PRESIDENT ALIYEV BRIEFS ENERGY, [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Appearing before the North Atlantic Council (NAC) for the first time in two and a half years, Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev (joined by Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov) briefed the Allies on Azerbaijan's role as a regional energy supplier, his commitment to resolve the Na [...]	2009-05-05 08:25:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	NATO PGOV PREL AJ AM GG TU RS
09USNATO169	READOUT: NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL MEETING APRIL [...] (C/NF) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- AFGHANISTAN: Estonia increased its election support contribution from a platoon to a company for Helmand. SHAPE continues to report Elections Support Force shortfalls, despite the U.S. and OEF partners, recent commitments. Canada expressed its hope t [...]	2009-05-05 12:23:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	AF PREL NATO
09USNATO174	CFE/VCC: APRIL 23 VCC AND EXPERTS--STATUS OF [...] (C) Summary. The U.S. non-paper on Status of VCC Experts (Ref A) was discussed in both the group of experts meeting and VCC. No one rejected the principle that experts receive their tasking from the VCC. Although they had only a brief opportunity to review the paper, preliminary comments from [...]	2009-05-05 17:05:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE NATO PARM PREL
09USNATO180	RUSSIA MOVES TO CLOSE DOWN THE NRC RESETTLEMENT [...] (C/REL NATO) SUMMARY: Russian DCM Soltanovskiy confirmed on May 7 that Russia is terminating the Memorandum of Agreement for the NATO-Russia Resettlement Center, effectively ending the program. We should ask Luxembourg whether it would be willing to reprogram money it had pledged for the Cent [...]	2009-05-08 16:01:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL PGOV MCAP RS
09USNATO197	NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL MEETING, MAY 13,2009 [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-18 15:36:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL NATO AF XG
09USNATO238	NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL MEETING, JUNE 3,2009 [...] (C/NF) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- AFGHANISTAN: At the June 3 meeting of the North Atlantic Council, Allies discussed continuing disagreements over the scope of the proposed NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan (NTM-A). Secretary General de Hoop Scheffer stressed the urgency of reaching a [...]	2009-06-05 19:51:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL NATO EWWT MARR MOPS AF PK RS
09USNATO249	RFG: NATO I.S. REFORM GUIDANCE NEEDED BY JUNE 11 [...] (SBU) Action Request: Please see para 5 for guidance request; response needed by noon Brussels time on Thursday, June 11. 2. (C/NF) NATO's Secretary General told PermReps at today's informal lunch that he intended to press Defense Ministers to approve changes in the allocation of senior I [...]	2009-06-09 20:11:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL
09USNATO253	NATO-RUSSIA MINISTERIAL: RUSSIA CAUTIOUSLY [...] (C/NF) SUMMERY: In a dramatic change in tone, the Russian Mission to NATO fully engaged in the June 9-10 NATO-Russia Council (NRC) Preparatory Committee (Prep Com) negotiations on deliverables for the NRC June 27 Foreign Ministerial in Corfu. Prior to this week, the Russian Mission had insis [...]	2009-06-12 04:29:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	NATO PREL MOPS GG RS UP
09USNATO262	ACTION REQUEST: MISSILE DEFENSE, NATO AND RUSSIA [...] (C) This is an action request - see para 6. 2. (C) Summary: As Washington considers missile defense options, discussions are underway within NATO on the form Alliance missile defense will assume. We believe it politically vital to involve Allies in the process of thinking through MD opt [...]	2009-06-17 15:09:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR NATO PARM PREL RS
09USNATO272	JUNE 19 NRC AMBASSADORIAL: MINISTERIAL PREP, [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: On June 19, NATO-Russia Council Ambassadors prepared for the June 27 NATO-Russia Council (NRC) Ministerial in Corfu. They focused on three possible deliverables: a "way forward" paper for the NRC; a political mandate to restart military-to-military cooperation; and, Russian p [...]	2009-06-23 16:30:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL NATO RS GG
09USNATO288	NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL MEETING, JULY 1,2009 [...] (C/NF) Summary of the July 1 meeting of the North Atlantic Council: -- AFGHANISTAN: The NATO Senior Civilian Representative briefed the North Atlantic Council on the status of preparations for Afghanistan's upcoming elections, stressing that it was important that the international community [...]	2009-07-02 19:41:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL NATO EWWT MARR MOPS AF PK RS
09USNATO289	ASD NACHT-LED TEAM CONSULTS WITH NATO ALLIES ON [...] (C/NF) Summary: An interagency delegation led by ASD Michael Nacht met with NATO Allies on June 29 to discuss and consult regarding the ongoing USG Ballistic Missile Defense Review (BMDR),potential MD cooperation with Russia, and the synergy of NATO and U.S. plans for MD in Europe. Allies [...]	2009-07-03 11:12:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MARR NATO RS
09USNATO299	NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL MEETING, JULY 8,2009 [...] (S/NF) Summary of the July 8 meeting of the North Atlantic Council: -- AFGHANISTAN: Allies were briefed on ISAF's revised tactical directive which emphasized the importance of population security. The Deputy Secretary General and Allies expressed frustration at not being notified by militar [...]	2009-07-13 18:05:00	Mission USNATO	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL NATO EWWT MARR MOPS AF PK RS
09USNATO30	READOUT NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL MEETING JANUARY 28, [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-29 16:35:00	Mission USNATO	SECRET//NOFORN	AF NATO PREL
09USNATO302	A/S'S GORDON AND GOTTEMOELLER DISCUSS MOSCOW [...] (SBU) This message has been cleared by EUR A/S Gordon and VCI A/S Gottemoeller. 2. (C/NF) Summary: On July 8, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Gordon and Assistant Secretary of State for Verification, Compliance and Implementation Gottemoeller exchanged views [...]	2009-07-15 13:55:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL KACT MNUC NATO EL EZ ZB
09USNATO304	U.S. DEBRIEFS ALLIES ON THE MOSCOW SUMMIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 8, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon and Assistant Secretary of State for Verification, Compliance and Implementation Rose Gottemoeller briefed the North Atlantic Council (NAC) on the outcomes of the recent U.S.-Russia summit in M [...]	2009-07-15 17:38:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	KACT MNUC NATO PREL RS EL EZ ZB
09USNATO309	JULY 9 MEETING REAFFIRMS NATO CONSENSUS ON CFE [...] (C) Summary: Keying off of U.S. briefings on CFE discussion at the U.S.-Russia Summit in Moscow and shared experiences at the June 9 Berlin CFE meeting and the Corfu Ministerials, Allies used a brief HLTF meeting to reaffirm a general consensus on next steps with regard to CFE. Allies reaff [...]	2009-07-17 13:50:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE NATO PARM PREL
09USNATO315	NATO AWACS IN THE UAE TO SUPPORT ISAF - LEGAL [...] (C) Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Operations Lawrence Rossin on July 20 briefed Allies in the Political Committee about difficulties and potential opportunities in his negotiations with the UAE regarding the potential of basing NATO AWACS at al-Ain airbase in support of the ISAF opera [...]	2009-07-20 18:38:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL MOPS AE AF
09USNATO32	RFG: TAKING FORWARD THE AFGHAN-PROPOSED MILITARY [...] (S) Summary and Comment: THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST, see Para 11. ISAF Senior Civilian Representative Gentilini briefed NATO Permanent Representatives on January 28. He argued that NATO should, with caution, view the draft military technical agreement on revised force procedures, proposed by [...]	2009-01-30 11:05:00	Mission USNATO	SECRET	PREL PGOV MOPS MARR NATO AF
09USNATO320	NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL MEETING, JULY 22, 2009 [...] (C/NF) Summary of the July 22 meeting of the North Atlantic Council (NAC): -- AFGHANISTAN/PAKISTAN: SACEUR, Admiral Stavridis, and COMISAF, General McChrystal, briefed the Council from Kabul via video teleconference, noting--among other things--that McChrystal was generally pleased with the [...]	2009-07-24 18:42:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL NATO EWWT MARR MOPS AF PK RS TZ XW
09USNATO323	USNATO: SWEDISH FM BILDT STRESSES NEED FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 22, Swedish Foreign Minister Bildt briefed the NAC on Sweden's goals for its EU Presidency. FM Bildt, with U.S. backing, emphasized the need for a true NATO-EU strategic partnership to confront common challenges. Ambassador Daalder called on the EU to do more in Afghanist [...]	2009-07-28 15:36:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO PGOV MOPS BK KV EUN
09USNATO332	NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL MEETING, JULY 29, 2009 [...] (C/NF) Summary of the July 29 meeting of the North Atlantic Council (NAC): -- AFGHANISTAN: Following the advice of the Military Committee and Senior Resouce Board, the NAC has been asked to approve changes to ISAF's upper command structure through a silence procedure which expires on August [...]	2009-07-31 19:21:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL NATO EWWT MARR MOPS AF PK RS TZ XW
09USNATO336	NEW SECRETARY GENERAL'S PRIORITIES [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: New NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen used the August 4 North Atlantic Council meeting--his first as the Secretary General--to set out the priorities for his term, including: Afghanistan, NATO-Russia, the Mediterranean Dialogue and Istanbul Cooperation Initiative par [...]	2009-08-05 06:46:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO EWWT MARR MOPS AF PK RS TZ XW
09USNATO346	AUGUST 12 MEETING OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL [...] (C/REL NATO) Summary of the August meeting of the North Atlantic Council: -- AFGHANISTAN: NATO will release its media coordination plan for Afghan elections on August 12. PermReps requested information about ad-hoc community guards to be hired by the Afghanistan Ministry of Interior for ad [...]	2009-08-13 17:59:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO EWWT MARR MOPS AF PK RS TZ XW
09USNATO348	NATO SYG MEETS RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR ROGOZIN [...] (U) This is an Action Request. See paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary: On August 11, 2009, new NATO Secretary General Rasmussen held his first meeting with Russia's Ambassador Rogozin, following Rasmussen's announcement that improving NATO-Russia relations is one of his three priorities as Se [...]	2009-08-14 16:53:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PGOV PINR PREF
09USNATO349	NATO SECGEN RASMUSSEN MAKES STATEMENT ON [...] (U) On August 16, Secretary General Rasmussen released a statement on casualties in Afghanistan. In the statement--which was posted on the NATO website--Rasmussen expressed sadness in the face of casualties, but argued that the "biggest tribute we can make to those who have lost their lives" [...]	2009-08-16 14:34:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO MARR MOPS AF PK UK XG
09USNATO350	COUNTER-PIRACY: WORKING WITH SOMALI OFFICIALS; [...] (C/REL NATO) As reported reftel, NATO has approved the Operational Plan for a long-term counter-piracy mission, Operation Ocean Shield, to include supporting and contributing to regional capacity building with regional authorities connected with the deterrence and prevention of piracy. While [...]	2009-08-18 05:25:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EWWT PHSA NATO MOPS MCAP SO XA
09USNATO351	COUNTER-PIRACY: WORKING WITH SOMALI OFFICIALS [...] (C/REL NATO) As reported reftel, NATO has approved the Operational Plan for a long-term counter-piracy mission, Operation Ocean Shield, to include supporting and contributing to regional capacity building with regional authorities connected with the deterrence and prevention of piracy. While [...]	2009-08-18 05:25:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EWWT PHSA NATO MOPS MCAP SO XA
09USNATO354	COUNTER-PIRACY: NATO SUCCESSFULLY WORKS WITH THE [...] (U) Even before the August 17 commencement of Operation Ocean Shield, NATO's recently agreed long-term contribution to international counter-piracy efforts (reftel),NATO's efforts off the Horn of Africa have been yielding positive results. These results are often only possible because of the [...]	2009-08-19 10:49:00	Mission USNATO	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EWWT PHSA NATO MOPS MCAP SO XA
09USNATO359	SECGEN WRITES KARZAI ABOUT SHIA LAW CONCERNS [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-20 15:19:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM NATO MOPS MCAP AF
09USNATO374	USNATO SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY LEW [...] (C/NF) You are visiting NATO at a time when the new NATO Secretary General, Allies, and non NATO partners are refining mission priorities and reviewing current resource commitments to align with planned commitments. The new NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, is setting an ambitiou [...]	2009-09-02 16:35:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAID PREL AF PK IK EUN
09USNATO375	NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL MEETING: NATO'S SYG GETS [...] (C) SUMMARY. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen used the September 2 meeting of the North Atlantic Council to advance his goal for increased NATO strategic policy coordination and guidance for political and military authorities involved in Afghanistan. Allies generally supported th [...]	2009-09-03 17:38:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	AFDB MARR MOPS NATO PREL AF
09USNATO378	PDUSDP MILLER CONSULTS WITH ALLIES ON NUCLEAR [...] (SBU) This message has been cleared by PDUSDP Miller. 2. (S) Summary: On July 16, Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Dr. James Miller met with Allies to consult on the U.S. Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) and related topics. Permanent Representatives (PermReps) expressed appreciat [...]	2009-09-04 15:34:00	Mission USNATO	SECRET	PREL MNUC KACT NATO RS
09USNATO38	RFG: TAKING FORWARD THE AFGHAN-PROPOSED MILITARY [...] (S) Summary and Comment: THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST, see Para 11. ISAF Senior Civilian Representative Gentilini briefed NATO Permanent Representatives on January 28. He argued that NATO should, with caution, view the draft military technical agreement on revised force procedures, proposed by [...]	2009-02-01 10:56:00	Mission USNATO	SECRET	PREL PGOV MOPS MARR NATO AF
09USNATO388	SEPTEMBER 8 NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL MEETING: [...] (C/REL ISAF) Summary from the September 8 meeting of the North Atlantic Council: Afghanistan: At the September 8 meeting of the North Atlantic Council (NAC),Secretary General Rasmussen told Allies that he expected to get the Commander of ISAF's strategic assessment of the situation in Afgh [...]	2009-09-11 18:16:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO MARR MOPS UN AF PK UK XG RS
09USNATO390	BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA'S FOREIGN MINISTER WANTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Bosnia and Herzegovina's (BiH) Foreign Minister, Sven Alkalaj, said in a courtesy call with Ambassador Daalder on September 11 BiH intends to submit its application to join the Membership Action Plan (MAP) in the coming weeks, immediately after the United Nations General Assembl [...]	2009-09-15 08:48:00	Mission USNATO	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	NATO PGOV PREL MOPS MCAT BK
09USNATO392	RFG: COMMANDER OF ISAF BRIEFS NAC ON ASSESSMENT; [...] (SBU) This is a request for guidance. See paragraph 10. 2. (S/NOFORN) SUMMARY: At the September 16 meeting of the North Atlantic Council, the commander of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan (COMISAF),U.S. General Stanley McChrystal, briefed NATO PermReps f [...]	2009-09-16 18:27:00	Mission USNATO	SECRET	PREL NATO MARR MOPS UN AF PK
09USNATO395	ALLIES WELCOME INTER-AGENCY BRIEFING ON U.S. [...] (C) Summary: NATO Allies received a September 17 briefing on the President's decision on the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense Review positively, especially its linkage with NATO's missile defense plans. A number of Allies asked questions regarding possible missile defense cooperation with Rus [...]	2009-09-17 21:28:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MARR PREL NATO
09USNATO403	CZECH PERMREP ASKS FOR GREATER U.S. ENGAGEMENT [...] (C/NF) Summary: The new Czech Ambassador to NATO has privately predicted a potentially unfavorable turning-point in the general direction of Czech foreign and security policy. He said challenges would result for Czech transatlanticists, due to the impact of the U.S. decision to retool missi [...]	2009-09-22 14:49:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	NATO PREL MOPS RS EZ PL
09USNATO410	RFG: STAFFING THE NATO LIAISON OFFICE IN TBILISI [...] (SBU) This is a request for guidance. See para 8. The Problem ----------- 2. (C/NF) Allies will discuss at the September 29 PermReps' lunch the inability of NATO to staff -- via Voluntary National Contributions (VNC) -- the NATO Liaison Office in Tbilisi, which Foreign Ministers agreed [...]	2009-09-25 15:11:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL NATO MCAP GG
09USNATO414	NAC DISCUSSES COUNTER-PIRACY COORDINATION ROLE FOR [...] (C) Summary: At the September 23 NAC, PermReps discussed counter-piracy, specifically a September 22 letter from SACEUR to the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (CMC - see para 8). Allies discussed what NATO's best value-adding role might be off the Horn of Africa. Several Allies who [...]	2009-09-28 17:44:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM KCRM NATO
09USNATO444	AFGHAN MINISTER OF DEFENSE: I SUPPORT MCCHRYSTAL'S [...] (SBU) On October 6, NATO Secretary General Fogh Rasmussen distributed to Allies a letter he received from Afghan Minister of Defense General Wardak (ref). In the letter, Wardak expressed his "wholehearted support for the findings of General McChrystal's assessment of the situation in Afghanis [...]	2009-10-08 16:07:00	Mission USNATO	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS MCAP MARR PREL NATO PINS PTER AF
09USNATO465	MARCHING TOWARDS DECEMBER: NATO DISCUSSES THE [...] (U) SUMMARY: NATO Secretary General (SYG) Anders Fogh Rasmussen presided over an informal session of the North Atlantic Council (NAC) on October 20 to discuss views on the Western Balkans in preparation for decisions to be taken at the December Foreign Ministerial, a discussion informed by a n [...]	2009-10-21 17:26:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	NATO PGOV PREL MW BK YI GG UP
09USNATO494	SECRETARY GENERAL'S THOUGHTS ON REFORM [...] (NC) At the October 20 PermReps' lunch, Secretary General Rasmussen drew from the following speaking notes on NATO reform: BEGIN TEXT NATO REFORM NATO cannot stand still. We must adapt to make sure we are in the best possible shape to meet the challenges this Alliance faces. We shou [...]	2009-11-03 14:51:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	ABUD AFIN APER NATO PGOV PREL
09USNATO501	DUTCH SAY U.S. AFGHANISTAN MESSAGE MUST BE A [...] (C) Summary. In a November 3 meeting, Dutch PM Cabinet Director Richard van Zwol told USNATO Ambassador Daalder the Dutch were in a political deadlock over their Afghanistan contributions and the Prime Minister was attempting to unlock it. He urged the US to deliver a strong message privately [...]	2009-11-05 09:42:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS NATO PGOV PREL AF
09USNATO505	U.S. TEAM CONSULTS WITH ISAF PARTNERS ON [...] (S/REL ISAF) SUMMARY: On November 5, a senior level USG interagency team consulted with NATO Allies and non-NATO ISAF troop contributing countries on the way ahead in Afghanistan, including how to respond to GEN McChrystal's assessment and resource request. The U.S. team stressed that the Pres [...]	2009-11-06 18:53:00	Mission USNATO	SECRET	MOPS MCAP MARR PREL PTER NATO PGOV AF PK
09USNATO507	SECURING ADDITIONAL ALLIED/PARTNER CONTRIBUTIONS [...] (C) Summary: When President Obama announces his decision on possible U.S. troop increases for Afghanistan, the impact could be far greater if other Allied and Partner leaders would announce increases of their own either simultaneously or in close succession. Several Allies and Partners have [...]	2009-11-09 15:44:00	Mission USNATO	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MOPS NATO MCAP MARR AF
09USNATO511	CORRECTED COPY: U.S. TEAM CONSULTS WITH ISAF [...] (S/REL ISAF) This cable is a corrected copy including additional comments by the Deputy Assistant to the President and the Vice President's National Security Advisor, Tony Blinken. 2. (S/REL ISAF) SUMMARY: On November 5, a senior level USG interagency team consulted with NATO Allies and no [...]	2009-11-10 16:37:00	Mission USNATO	SECRET	MOPS MCAP MARR PREL PTER NATO PGOV AF PK
09USNATO512	UN REQUESTS NATO ASSISTANCE FOR CONGO MISSION [...] (SBU) On November 6, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Operations Martin Howard distributed to Allies a United Nations request for NATO assistance in the form of equipment and training aids for a unit of 200 Tanzanian trainers that will train the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of th [...]	2009-11-10 17:59:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS MCAP MOPS MARR PINS PGOV UN NATO
09USNATO52	JANUARY 29 HLTF: ALLIES WILLING TO WAIT FOR U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY. At the January 29 NATO High Level Task Force (HLTF) meeting, two clear messages - pointedly directed at the U.S. - emerged. First, Allies continue to place high importance on a unified NATO strategy for retaining the CFE regime and getting it back on track. Many specifically not [...]	2009-02-04 17:44:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE NATO PARM PREL
09USNATO522	NOVEMBER 5 HLTF MEETING [...] (C) Summary: At the November 5 HLTF, Allies welcomed the U.S. proposal to revise NATO's NAC Communique message on CFE to reflect the Alliance's growing concern about Russia's continuing suspension of implementation of CFE. Most Allies also agreed in principle to the U.S.'s specific suggestion [...]	2009-11-16 15:52:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE NATO PARM PREL
09USNATO528	NATO MISSILE DEFENSE: NEED TO PUSH SOME ALLIES [...] (C) Summary: Allies have welcomed the President's Phased, Adaptive Approach (PAA) to European missile defense, but some key Allies require additional USG attention on this issue before we can garner unanimous support in the December Ministerial communique. Some Allies question our push for [...]	2009-11-18 16:45:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MARR PREL NATO
09USNATO532	LITHUANIAN MOD DISCUSSES NATO CONTINGENCY PLANNING [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: In a November 17 meeting with Ambassador Daalder, Lithuanian Defense Minister Rasa Jukneviciene underscored the importance of NATO contingency planning to Vilnius and asked about the status of U.S. thinking on the subject. Ambassador Daalder said the issue was still being studied in [...]	2009-11-19 15:35:00	Mission USNATO	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MARR MCAP NATO LH ZB RS
09USNATO534	NATO SYG PRESSES HUNGARY AND ROMANIA FOR MORE ISAF [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: The U.S. Deputy Director of the Secretary General's Private Office Jeff Rathke (strictly protect) told us that Secretary General Rasmussen pressed Hungary and Romania on November 19 for additional troops for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. [...]	2009-11-19 16:58:00	Mission USNATO	SECRET//NOFORN	MOPS PREL MARR MASS NATO AF HU RO SP
09USNATO540	NATO-RUSSIA: ROGOZIN UNCLEAR ON WHY MOSCOW PULLED [...] (C) Summary: The Russian Mission to NATO has painted a picture of disarray within the Moscow interagency to explain Russia's decision to pull the plug on NATO-Russia Council (NRC) reform. The Mission proposed that at their December meeting, NRC Foreign Ministers issue a new tasking for refor [...]	2009-11-20 17:08:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR NATO RS
09USNATO541	RFG: DRAFT DECEMBER FOREIGN MINISTERIAL STATEMENT [...] (SBU) This is a request for guidance. See para 4. 2. (SBU) Attached is the initial draft of the statement for the NATO Foreign Ministerial to be held in Brussels December 3 and 4, 2009. Reflecting the Secretary General's desire to have much shorter, "punchier" document that only raises is [...]	2009-11-20 17:50:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO RS GG UP AF
09USNATO546	NATO-RUSSIA: NAC DISCUSSES RUSSIAN MILITARY EXERCISES [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-23 13:23:00	Mission USNATO	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR MOPS NATO RS
09USNATO550	SYG'S LETTER TO THE SECRETARY REGARDING THE [...] (SBU) On November 24, NATO Secretary General Rasmussen provided us with a copy of a letter to the Secretary regarding NATO's December 3-4 Foreign Ministerial (letter e-mailed to EUR/RPM). The text of the Secretary General's letter to the Secretary follows: BEGIN TEXT SG(2009)0932 24 N [...]	2009-11-26 12:58:00	Mission USNATO	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL NATO OVIP OPDC MOPS MCAP MARR XG RS AF
09USNATO552	SCENESETTER FOR THE SECRETARY'S PARTICIPATION IN [...] (S/NF) The following message for the Secretary is being transmitted in memo format: BEGIN TEXT November 27, 2009 MEMORANDUM For: Secretary Clinton From: Ivo Daalder Subject: Your Participation in the NATO Foreign Ministerial Madam Secretary: This ministerial may be one of ) [...]	2009-11-27 12:38:00	Mission USNATO	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL NATO MOPS MARR MCAP PARM PINS OVIP AF
09USNATO560	NATO SYG STATEMENT ON PRESIDENT OBAMA'S [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-02 08:18:00	Mission USNATO	UNCLASSIFIED	MOPS PREL NATO MARR MASS PGOV AF
09USNATO562	NATO-RUSSIA: ALLIES AGREE TO RUSSIAN PROPOSALS [...] (C) Summary: Seeking to force Russia into a position where it must agree to cooperate with NATO or be exposed as unwilling, Allies agreed on December 2 to accept all of Russia's proposed changes to three key NATO-Russia Council (NRC) documents that are potential deliverables for the NRC Minis [...]	2009-12-03 11:11:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NATO RS
09USNATO569	FINAL STATEMENT OF THE NATO FOREIGN MINISTERIAL [...] (U) NATO Foreign Ministers issued the following statement following statement at the conclusion of their December 3-4 meeting in Brussels: BEGIN TEXT Meeting of the North Atlantic Council at the level of Foreign Ministers held at NATO Headquarters, Brussels, on 4 December 2009 Â [...]	2009-12-04 15:03:00	Mission USNATO	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL NATO MOPS MARR MCAP MASS AF KV MW BK
09USNATO571	DEPUTY SECRETARY STEINBERG'S DECEMBER 3, 2009 [...] (U) December 3, 2009; 1500; Brussels, Belgium. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. Deputy Secretary James Steinberg Amb. Ivo Daalder EUR A/S Phil Gordon EUR Deputy A/S Robert Wood Special Assistant Amy Scanlon USNATO PolAd Kelly Degnan (notetaker) NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen [...]	2009-12-04 18:52:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP STEINBERG JAMES PREL NATO MARR MOPS BK
09USNATO573	(U) DEPUTY SECRETARY STEINBERG'S DECEMBER 3, 2009, [...] (U) Classified by: Amy Scanlon, D(S) Special Assistant, Department of State. Reason 1.4.(d) 2. (U) December 4, 2009; 3:30 p.m.; Brussels, Belgium. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. Deputy Secretary Steinberg Ambassador Ivo Daalder A/S Phil Gordon, EUR Amy Scanlon, D(S) Special Assista [...]	2009-12-08 12:27:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	OVIP STEINBERG JAMES PREL NATO UP RS
09USNATO580	(U) DEPUTY SECRETARY STEINBERG'S DECEMBER 3, 2009, [...] (U) Classified by: Amy Scanlon, D(S) Special Assistant, Department of State. Reason 1.4.(d) 2. (U) December 3, 2009; 8:00 p.m.; Brussels, Belgium. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. Deputy Secretary James Steinberg Ambassador Ivo Daalder A/S Phil Gordon, EUR Amy Scanlon, D(S) Special As [...]	2009-12-10 09:04:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP STEINBERG JAMES PREL NATO PGOV MOPS
09USNATO585	NATO-RUSSIA: ALLIES UNITED IN OPPOSITION TO [...] (C) Summary: Allies agreed during a December 14 NAC that the Russian proposal for a new treaty with NATO was a non-starter and affirmed that the Russian initiative would not create divisions within the Alliance. There were differences over tactics: German, the SecGen and some other Allies w [...]	2009-12-14 17:03:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NATO RS
09USNATO595	NATO-RUSSIA: SECRETARY GENERAL'S TRIP TO MOSCOW [...] (U) Below is a written summary provided by Secretary General Rasmussen of his December 15-17 visit to Moscow. The SecGen's schedule included meetings with President Medvedev, Premier Putin, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, and Russian Parliamentar [...]	2009-12-21 15:02:00	Mission USNATO	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL NATO RS
09USNATO596	WAY FORWARD ON SUPPORTING EUPOL EXPANSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: We believe there may be an opportunity to enhance ISAF support for the EU Police Mission in Afghanistan (EUPOL). Turkey and EU officials have indicated privately that they might be open to engaging on such an initiative. Unless instructed otherwise, USNATO intends to work inform [...]	2009-12-22 15:13:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO PGOV EUN MARR AF PINS
09USNATO61	NATO-GEORGIA COMMISSION EXAMINES NEXT STEPS FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: During the February 4 NATO-Georgia Commission Meeting, Allies were united in support of Georgia's territorial integrity. Allies also stressed their desire to see Tbilisi advance its domestic reforms and to make maximum use of the recently agreed Annual National Program process. G [...]	2009-02-13 10:06:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MARR MOPS NATO PARM PINR PREL GG RS
09USNATO62	5 FEB 2009 VVC AND EXPERTS: TURKEY NEARLY SCUTTLES 2009 VD 99 VERIFICATION COORDINATION [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-13 14:34:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE NATO PARM PREL
09USNATO63	READOUT NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL MEETING FEBRUARY [...] (C/NF) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- AFGHANISTAN: Discussion focused on scheduling strategic instructed dialogues prior to the Krakow Defense Ministers, meeting on the Afghan National Army Trust Fund, crafting an interim response to the Afghan-proposed military technical agreement, and Pa [...]	2009-02-13 15:56:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	AF NATO PREL
09USNATO72	READOUT: NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL MEETING FEBRUARY [...] (C/NF) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- AFGHANISTAN: ISAF Senior Civilian Representative Fernando Gentilini said the Afghan constitution gives no clear guidance on who should govern during the period between the expiration of President Karzai,s mandate on May 22 and the elections on August [...]	2009-02-19 16:01:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	AF PREL NATO
09USNATO75	FORGING A BROADER NATO-PAKISTAN PARTNERSHIP? [...] (S/NF) This cable provides food-for-though for the Afghanistan/Pakistan Strategic Review, as seen from USNATO, on whether and how NATO could respond to Pakistan's interest in a broader relationship with NATO. We would of course welcome in particular Embassy Islamabad and Embassy New Delhi vie [...]	2009-02-24 10:56:00	Mission USNATO	SECRET//NOFORN	NATO MOPS PREL MARR MCAP ELTN KPAO PK AF IN
09USNATO97	READOUT: NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL MEETING MARCH [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-12 15:13:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	AF PREL NATO
09USOSCE118	CFE/JCG: MAY 5 PLENARY - RUSSIA TRIES TO TURN [...] (SBU) Summary. During the U.S.-chaired May 5 JCG Plenary, Russia repeated MFA criticisms of the CFE text of the NATO Summit declaration and presented its Aide-Memoire to all CFE States Parties as Russia's official position on how to restore the viability of the CFE regime on the basis of the [...]	2009-05-06 14:58:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCFE OSCE PARM PREL
09USOSCE119	FSC MAY 6: FSC SUPPORTS COMPROMISE ASRC AGENDA [...] (SBU) Summary: The Forum for Security Cooperation supported its Georgian chair's letter to the Permanent Council endorsing the Annual Security Review Conference agenda, until recently the pretext of another Georgian-Russian disagreement. Germany introduced Food-for-Thought papers on review of [...]	2009-05-07 07:08:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL KCFE OSCE RS XG
09USOSCE127	REDESIGNING EUROPE'S SECURITY ARCHITECTURE - IT'S ALL [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-18 13:05:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED	OSCE PGOV PREL
09USOSCE131	CFE: CFE/JCG: MAY 19 PLENARY - NO SCHEDULE YET; [...] (U) Summary. During the May 19 Joint Consultative Group (JCG) plenary, Russia objected to holding the first JCG meeting of the fall session on September 15 as proposed in a Draft Decision. Russia argued it should be on September 8, immediately following the opening meeting of the Permanent C [...]	2009-05-20 16:34:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCFE OSCE PARM PREL
09USOSCE132	FSC MAY 20: RUSSIA RETURNS TO NAVAL CSBMS [...] (SBU) Summary: Russia again proposed naval CSBMs and asked that they be included on the June 3 working group agenda. Code of Conduct expert Alexander Lambert praised the updated Code questionnaire but lamented the "imbalance" caused by additional questions related to terrorism. The decision [...]	2009-05-22 14:35:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL KCFE OSCE MD RS XG
09USOSCE134	FSC MAY 27: U.S.-MOROCCO SEMINAR ON CONVENTIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Security Dialogue included an account of the U.S.-Morocco hosted seminar on conventional arms and regional security in Rabat, April 14-15. The U.S., Morocco, Spain, and France described the seminar, which sought coordinated regional responses to the proliferation of weapon [...]	2009-05-28 12:48:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL KCFE OSCE MO RS XG
09USOSCE14	OPEN SKIES: JANUARY 26 PLENARY AND IWGRP [...] (SBU) Summary. The Open Skies Consultative Commission (OSCC) Chairman,s Statement on allowable video sensors was not adopted at its 26 January plenary because the Russian delegation lacked its final instructions from Moscow to join consensus. The Russians expect a green light for approval in [...]	2009-02-02 06:48:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL KCFE OSCE
09USOSCE141	TIME FOR ANOTHER LOOK AT A CHARTER FOR THE OSCE? [...] Many countries, led by Russia, have long argued that the legal status of the OSCE should be upgraded to that of a full-fledged international organization. Doing so would remove legal uncertainties hanging over the personnel, improve efficiencies and reduce costs. While there is a general c [...]	2009-06-15 15:40:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED	OSCE AORC PREL
09USOSCE145	FSC-PC JUNE 17: GENEVA TALKS ON GEORGIA; OSCE [...] (SBU) Summary: The OSCE, EU, and UN co-chairs of the Geneva talks on Georgia lauded the ongoing discussions, but called for concrete results and limited institutionalizing of the process with detailed agendas and regular meetings, particularly in light of the closing of UNOMIG and the OSCE Mi [...]	2009-06-19 14:54:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL KCFE OSCE RS XG
09USOSCE146	SCENESETTER FOR CORFU OSCE MINISTERIAL [...] (C) Your decision to attend this first-of-its-kind informal OSCE Ministerial in Corfu is a strong signal of your commitment to reinvigorate the OSCE. It marks a return to high-level American engagement at the OSCE after a four-year absence by the U.S. Secretary of State from ministerial-level [...]	2009-06-19 14:55:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OVIP OSCE XG XH

09USOSCE147	OSCE: LAVROV AT ASRC ADDS LITTLE ON NEW SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: Addressing the opening session of the OSCE Annual Security Review Conference (ASRC) June 23, Russian FM Lavrov ploughed familiar ground in terms of the rationale and outline of the Russian proposals to strengthen European security architecture. He attributed much of the deterio [...]	2009-06-23 16:29:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL KCFE OSCE RS XG
09USOSCE15	CFE/JCG: 27 JANUARY PLENARY - AZERBAIJAN, ARMENIA [...] (SBU) Summary: At the January 27 Joint Consultative Group plenary, Russia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia clashed in another round of lengthy dueling statements. This followed charges last week by Azerbaijan regarding Russian CFE Treaty-limited equipment transshipped through Armenia into Nagorno-K [...]	2009-02-02 10:51:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCFE OSCE PARM PREL RS AJ AM
09USOSCE153	CFE/JCG:JUNE 30:RUSSIA REPEATS ACCUSATIONS OF NATO [...] (SBU) Summary. In a relatively lengthy JCG meeting, Canada refuted Russia's 16 June claim that Canada did not understand Russia's views on actions versus words. Russia commented on its Aide-Memoire, stating that the Parallel Actions Package requires considerable work to flesh out necessary d [...]	2009-07-02 10:50:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCFE OSCE PARM PREL
09USOSCE156	CFE/JCG--JULY 7: RUSSIA INSISTS FLANK LIMITS MUST [...] (SBU) Summary. At the July 7 Joint Consultative Group (JCG),Belgium delivered a joint statement on behalf of 22 NATO states, criticizing Russia for not providing its supplementary flank data as of 1 July as required by the Flank Agreement. Using this segue, Russia (Ulyanov) referred to the [...]	2009-07-08 16:03:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCFE OSCE PARM PREL
09USOSCE16	CFE/JCG: FEBRUARY 3 PLENARY - AZERI/ARMENIA [...] (SBU) Summary: The February 3 Joint Consultative Group heard another exchange of accusations between Azerbaijan and Armenia regarding excess holdings of Treaty-limited equipment. The JCG POET working group met briefly with little result. At the JCG-T, the Dutch provided a readout of the Ja [...]	2009-02-04 16:16:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCFE OSCE PARM PREL RS AJ AM
09USOSCE164	OSCE MINISTERIAL LAUNCHES "CORFU PROCESS" [...] (C) SUMMARY. The first-ever "informal" OSCE Ministerial debated European security issues on June 27-28, revealing a broad convergence among most delegations in support of the U.S. approach that current European security institutions remain sound (but could be improved),and that discussions on [...]	2009-07-16 07:48:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS RU OSCE
09USOSCE166	CFE/JCG: 14 JULY PLENARY - RUSSIA RE-SETS OLD [...] (SBU) Summary: On the occasion of the 700th JCG Plenary, the Belarus Chair made some remarks highlighting the importance the JCG itself has played in the history of the Treaty. Russia said there were no grounds to be proud of the JCG during the last 10 years, and hopes the situation will imp [...]	2009-07-16 14:32:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCFE OSCE PARM PREL
09USOSCE169	DAYTON ARTICLE IV: CONTACT GROUP SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) Summary: The Dayton Article IV Contact Group (CG) met July 8 with the OSCE Personal Representative for Dayton Article IV (PR),Italian Brigadier General Costanzo Periotto and his staff, to discuss the PR's proposal for the ownership plan. This envisions a multi-year gradual transfer of t [...]	2009-07-20 13:18:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	BK HR KCFE MW OSCE PARM PREL SR XG
09USOSCE170	CFE/JCG JULY 21: RUSSIA PROVIDES ALLEGATIONS IN [...] (SBU) Summary. At the July 21 Joint Consultative Group (JCG),Russia raised three issues which it urged delegations to reflect on over the summer recess: a response to the U.S. December 2008 document on the legality of Russia's "suspension"; the case for provisional application of A/CFE; and [...]	2009-07-21 16:48:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCFE OSCE PARM PREL
09USOSCE172	OSCE/FSC: JULY 22 RUSSIAN "LESSONS LEARNED FROM [...] (SBU) Summary: At the final plenary before the summer break of the Forum for Security Cooperation (FSC),Russia made a lengthy statement outlining the lessons learned from the August 2008 war in Georgia. While Russia made what it considered to be a strong case that Georgian President Saakas [...]	2009-07-24 06:38:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL KCFE OSCE RS XG
09USOSCE18	FSC FEBRUARY 4: EU MILITARY HEAD ON BOSNIA AND MORE [...] (SBU) Summary: French General Bentegeat, chair of the EU military committee, reviewed current EU military operations and the European Security and Defense Policy in the Forum for Security Cooperation on February 4. Bentegeat said EU cooperation with NATO and the U.S. was good. Belarus called [...]	2009-02-05 14:26:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL KCFE OSCE RS XG
09USOSCE182	OSCE'S FSC, END OF WINTER/SPRING ROUND: SHARP [...] (C) Summary: During the winter/spring round of the OSCE's Forum for Security Cooperation (FSC),the viability of Vienna Document 1999 (VD99),the August 2008 conflict in Georgia, and reflection on Russia's European Security Treaty proposal pitted Russia against a majority of states. There wer [...]	2009-08-05 15:23:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE OSCE PARM PREL RS XG
09USOSCE183	OSCE'S FSC, END OF WINTER/SPRING ROUND: SHARP [...] (C) Summary: During the winter/spring round of the OSCE's Forum for Security Cooperation (FSC),the viability of Vienna Document 1999 (VD99),the August 2008 conflict in Georgia, and reflection on Russia's European Security Treaty proposal pitted Russia against a majority of states. There wer [...]	2009-08-06 07:33:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE OSCE PARM PREL RS XG
09USOSCE184	OSCE WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS: JULY 27 - 31, 2009 [...] (U) A team of election experts from the OSCE/ODIHR Mission arrived in Kabul July 26 to support conduct of the August 20 presidential and provincial council elections in Afghanistan. The 20 experts from the mission will assist election stakeholders in Afghanistan, including election administra [...]	2009-08-06 15:21:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR OSCE PGOV PREL RU KZ GG KG MK BK
09USOSCE200	CORFU PROCESS GETS UNDERWAY [...] (C) Summary: At the first informal meeting of the OSCE's Corfu Process on European security, PermReps reiterated their vision of the process and touched on the role of international law in the OSCE area. Most agreed that the process needed to remain firmly rooted in the OSCE, encompass the [...]	2009-09-11 10:45:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OSCE
09USOSCE203	CFE/JCG:15 SEPTEMBER: 12 ALLIES CRITICIZE RUSSIAN [...] (SBU) Summary. In the JCG on 15 September, Russia claimed to welcome elements of the U.S. opening of round statement last week and said it was open to U.S. overtures to work in the JCG on matters other than those simply technical in nature. Bulgaria noted Russia's refusal of an inspection and [...]	2009-09-15 15:33:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCFE OSCE PARM PREL
09USOSCE205	FSC: 1540 BEST PRACTICE GUIDE MOVES FORWARD UNDER [...] (SBU) Summary: After two years, the 1540 best practice guide appears to be moving forward in the OSCE's Forum for Security Cooperation (FSC). It is now under a silence procedure and should move to the FSC plenary for adoption as early as September 30. Meanwhile, on 16 September Deputy SACEU [...]	2009-09-22 06:27:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE OSCE PARM PREL RS XG
09USOSCE211	OSCE WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS: SEPTEMBER 21 - 25, 2009 [...] (SBU) At the weekly U.S.-CiO meeting September 22, Greek PermRep Marinaki said High Commissioner for National Minorities Vollebaek intended to visit South Ossetia in the near future, and had agreed to travel from Vladikavkaz, reversing his long-standing demand for access from the south. Vol [...]	2009-09-28 07:36:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR OSCE PGOV PREL GG RU
09USOSCE223	CORFU PROCESS SESSION IV: THINK GLOBALLY, ACT [...] (SBU) On October 13 the Corfu Process tackled new, globalized threats and met with a high degree of consensus on OSCE strengths and direction. Topics covered included terrorism, cybersecurity, border security and Afghanistan, WMD nonproliferation, and arms reduction. Besides a minor verbal [...]	2009-10-15 15:32:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OSCE RU
09USOSCE224	JOINT FSC-PC 14 OCTOBER: ISAF DEPUTY COMMANDER [...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy ISAF Commander LTG Dutton appealed to the joint meeting of the Forum for Security Cooperation and the Permanent Council (FSC-PC) for developing "expeditionary police" capabilities that would parallel those of the military for building capacity in Afghanistan. Dutton als [...]	2009-10-16 13:47:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCFE OSCE PARM PREL RS XG
09USOSCE225	OSCE WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS: SEPTEMBER 28 - OCTOBER 9,2009 [...] (C) In a meeting with Charge Fuller at NATO HQ October 2, NATO international staff led by Deputy A/SYG Bob Simmons advised that NATO allies have agreed to postpone discussion of the Medvedev proposal of European Security Architecture until the conclusion of initial OSCE Corfu Process (CP) dis [...]	2009-10-19 12:54:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR OSCE PGOV PREL GG RU
09USOSCE234	OSCE WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS: OCTOBER 13 - 16, 2009 [...] (SBU) During the October 9-12, 2009, Fall Meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PA),more than 200 parliamentarians from the OSCE participating States (pS) met in Athens to examine challenges to achieving energy security in the region. The United States was represented by Helsinki Commi [...]	2009-10-22 06:44:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR OSCE PGOV PREL GG RU
09USOSCE243	KAZAKHSTAN'S CHAIRMANSHIP OF OSCE: A SLIPPERY SLOPE [...] Following an October 21-25 visit to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, some of the participating nine OSCE Chiefs of Missions shared notes and perspectives. Although the consensus was that we must take steps to ensure "normality" during the Kazakh chairmanship of the OSCE in 2010, the group suspected [...]	2009-10-29 15:27:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OSCE PGOV PREL KZ
09USOSCE244	CFE/JCG: OCTOBER 27: RUSSIA MOCKS ALLIED [...] (SBU) Summary: At the October 27 JCG plenary, Romania supported by 13 other delegations including the U.S., criticized the Russian Federation for refusing a recent CFE inspection request. Delegations discussed a draft JCG political contribution to the Ministerial declaration proposed by De [...]	2009-10-29 15:39:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE OSCE PARM PREL
09USOSCE245	FSC: TRYING TO MOVE RUSSIA ON VD99; GEARING FOR [...] (C) Summary: In a "sidebar" with the Russians ) and in a subsequent follow-up discussion ) Ulyanov was receptive to the idea of working with the U.S. to "explore ways to strengthen current arms control and CSBM instruments, but not in exchange for specific language "to conduct a review of the [...]	2009-10-30 13:26:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE OSCE PARM PREL RS XG
09USOSCE247	OSCE WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS: OCTOBER 26 - 30, 2009 [...] (SBU) A draft Ministerial Council decision on "Women,s Participation in Political and Public Life" was tabled at the October 28 Human Dimension Committee meeting. While Russia, Belarus, and a handful of other participating States said they lacked formal guidance, all expressed general support [...]	2009-11-02 17:31:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR OSCE PGOV PREL GG RU
09USOSCE248	CFE/JCG: NOVEMBER 3: RUSSIAN PROPOSAL TAKES [...] (SBU) The November 3 Joint Consultative Group (JCG) plenary was brief even by recent JCG standards. The Spanish Chair (Sabadell) observed the draft decision on the duration of the present session had been circulated (JCG.DD/2/09). It would be approved at the next JCG unless any delegation [...]	2009-11-03 17:18:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCFE OSCE PARM PREL
09USOSCE250	THE OSCE'S CORFU PROCESS STARTS TO GROW LEGS [...] (SBU) Following seven out of ten sessions of informal but carefully developed dialogue among OSCE PermReps under the umbrella of the Corfu Process (CP),a consensus has emerged that the discussions have served a useful purpose, particularly in three areas. First, the CP provides a strong an [...]	2009-11-05 09:23:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL RU OSCE
09USOSCE251	FSC OF NOVEMBER 4: U.S. APPEARS ISOLATED FROM [...] (SBU) Summary: Reactions to Russia's draft decision for Ministers to task a review of Vienna Document 1999 dominated the FSC plenary discussion. Most comments were favorable "in principle." Inter alia, Russia proposed presenting the results from a VD99 review to the next OSCE Ministerial m [...]	2009-11-10 16:17:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE OSCE PARM PREL RS XG
09USOSCE255	DAYTON ARTICLE IV - 43RD SRCC: PARTIES AGREE TO [...] (U) Summary: The 43rd Dayton Article IV Sub-Regional Consultative Commission (SRCC),representing the four parties to the Dayton Agreement (Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia, Montenegro, and the Republic of Serbia),met November 3-4, 2009 in Novi Sad, Serbia. Five SRCC Decisions [...]	2009-11-16 15:33:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	BK HR KCFE MW OSCE PARM PREL SR XG
09USOSCE259	OSCE WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS: NOVEMBER 2 - 13, 2009 [...] (SBU) At our weekly meeting with the CiO Nov 3, Greek Ambassador Marinaki told us the CiO's Special Representative for Protracted Conflicts, Christopoulus, would meet with his Kazakh-proposed successor, Nurgaliev, in Vienna on Nov 5 and they would participate in the informal "Five plus Two" m [...]	2009-11-20 08:39:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR OSCE PGOV PREL GG RU
09USOSCE264	OSCE WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS: NOVEMBER 16 - 20, 2009 [...] (C) At the weekly CiO meeting November 17, which included for the first time Kazakh Ambassador and future PC Chair Abdrakhmanov, Greek Ambassador Marinaki emphasized the Chair's desire to adopt a Political Declaration at the December 1-2 Athens Ministerial. She acknowledged the Kazakh inter [...]	2009-11-26 11:05:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR OSCE PGOV PREL GG RU
09USOSCE269	FSC OF NOVEMBER 25: "ISSUES" AND OTHERS TO BE [...] (SBU) The Forum for Security Cooperation's Working Group B (WGB) preceded the plenary in order to determine whether any of the draft decisions intended to be presented to the OSCE Ministerial Council in Athens could be moved forward. Of the four draft substantive items on the agenda only the F [...]	2009-11-27 10:05:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCFE OSCE PARM PREL RS XG
09USOSCE281	UZBEK CHARGE AT OSCE MEETS WITH USOSCE CHARGE [...] (C) In a December 14 meeting, Charge d'Affaires (CDA) Ravshanbek Duschanov of the Uzbek Mission to the OSCE, said the small size of his delegation meant Uzbek diplomats could not always engage on some OSCE matters. He defended Uzbekistan's role as spoiler of the Media Freedom decision at the [...]	2009-12-16 07:15:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UZ
09USOSCE283	DEPUTY SECRETARY STEINBERG'S DECEMBER 1, 2009 [...] (U) Cleared by Deputy Secretary Steinberg 2. (U) December 1, 2009; 5:30 pm; Athens, Greece. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Deputy Secretary EUR Assistant Secretary Philip Gordon Jeff Hovenier, NSC Jim Kuykendall (Notetaker) OTHER COUNTRY Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu [...]	2009-12-18 07:25:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL XH ZL NATO TU BK YI HR MW AM AJ IR
09USOSCE284	OSCE/FSC: DECEMBER 2009 - END OF FALL SESSION AND [...] (SBU) Summary: This message constitutes an end of fall 2009 session report on the OSCE's Forum for Security Cooperation (FSC). The last FSC plenary on December 16 denoted not only the end of the United Kingdom's FSC Chairmanship but also a review of the FSC's accomplishments and prospects in [...]	2009-12-18 14:56:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCFE OSCE PARM PREL RS XG
09USOSCE286	OSCE/FSC: STRUCTURING WORK ON CSBMS, INCLUDING [...] (C) Summary and Guidance Request: As Washington reviews policy options and ways forward on many issues in the U.S.-Russia relationship at the end of 2009, USOSCE would recommend additional attention be focused on the "Vienna Document 1999" (VD99),the OSCE's landmark CSBM vehicle. In the ten [...]	2009-12-18 15:48:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE OSCE PARM PREL RS XG
09USOSCE292	OSCE WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS: DECEMBER 9 - 18, 2009 [...] (SBU) Staff in the OSCE Secretariat's Conflict Prevention Center (CPC) told PolOff December 8 that Special Representative Christopoulos and Special Representative-designate Nurgaliev intend to visit Tbilisi and Tskhinvali December 14 and 15 to revisit the idea of establishing a small team to s [...]	2009-12-24 11:40:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR OSCE PGOV PREL PHUM RU MD HR AF KZ
09USOSCE293	DEPUTY SECRETARY STEINBERG MEETS KAZAKHSTANI [...] Summary: (C) In a December 1 meeting with Deputy Secretary James Steinberg at the OSCE Ministerial Council in Athens, Kazakhstani Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev repeatedly pressed for the U.S. to drop its opposition to Kazakhstani desires for an OSCE Summit in 2010. The Deputy Secretary ex [...]	2009-12-30 07:12:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL
09USOSCE38	FSC-PC FEBRUARY 18: DFM GRUSHKO SHEDS LITTLE LIGHT [...] (SBU) Summary: Offering what he said was more a "vision" than a proposal, Russian DFM Grushko told the February 18 joint meeting of the Forum for Security Cooperation (FSC) and the Permanent Council that "new realities" and mounting evidence of the weakness of existing institutions necessitate [...]	2009-02-19 07:01:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL KCFE OSCE RS XG
09USOSCE46	FSC FEBRUARY 25: EXPERTS SAY CFE-FROZEN CONFLICTS [...] (SBU) Summary: At the Forum for Security Cooperation on February 25, international security experts from European think tanks agreed that NATO and Europe have been the victims of their own success in structuring a stable security environment for the last twenty years and, now, the security ac [...]	2009-02-26 11:54:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL KCFE OSCE RS XG
09USOSCE50	AIAM MARCH 3-4: LIVELIER IF NOT UNFAMILIAR: RUSSIA [...] (SBU) Note: This is the second part of a two-part cable reporting the March 3-4 OSCE Annual Implementation Assessment Meeting. See reftel A for the first part. End note. ---------------------------------- Working Session 2: Other Documents ---------------------------------- Conventional [...]	2009-03-06 11:02:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL KCFE OSCE RS XG
09USOSCE60	OPEN SKIES: DECISION ON COSTS FINALLY ADOPTED; [...] (SBU) Summary: The Open Skies Consultative Commission (OSCC) plenary on March 23 agreed on two decisions: the long-awaited Distribution of Costs and a revision to active quotas to reduce Latvia's quota this year. The U.S., which joined consensus on both decisions, reserved the right to mak [...]	2009-03-23 16:11:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL KCFE OSCE
09USOSCE61	CFE/JCG: MARCH 24: RUSSIA CRITICIZES, BUT U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: At the March 24 JCG plenary, Russia apologized for its having missed the March 10 JCG meeting due to heavy traffic. Russia also attempted, to no avail, to ensnare the U.S. delegation in a debate over who really was ready to resume negotiations on the parallel actions package. [...]	2009-03-24 14:05:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE OSCE PARM PREL RS
09USOSCE65	OSCE/FSC: DAY TWO--OSCE WORKSHOP ON A [...] (U) NOTE: This is the second of a two-part cable reporting the March 17-18 OSCE Workshop on a Comprehensive OSCE Approach to Enhancing Cybersecurity. END NOTE. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Session 3: Private Users and Civil Society - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [...]	2009-03-25 16:22:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINT FR KCFE KHLS OSCE PARM PREL RS KCIP
09USOSCE73	DAYTON ARTICLE IV - 42ND SRCC: PARTIES WANT OSCE [...] (SBU) Summary: The 42nd Dayton Article IV Sub-Regional Consultative Commission (SRCC),representing the four Parties to the Dayton Agreement (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, and Serbia),met March 16-19 in Split, Croatia. The SRCC was held in a cooperative and friendly atmosphere, res [...]	2009-03-27 09:12:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KCFE OSCE BK HR MW SR
09USOSCE80	CFE/JCG: MARCH 31: MORE PILING ON CRITICAL OF [...] (SBU) Summary: At the March 31 JCG plenary Germany (supported by 9 delegations, including the U.S.) criticized Russia's latest act of noncompliance with the CFE Treaty. There was agreement to cancel the April 28 JCG plenary due to the HLTF that day. Germany's Colonel Wolfgang Richter, whose [...]	2009-04-01 05:49:00	Mission USOSCE	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCFE OSCE PARM PREL
09USOSCE85	CONVENTIONAL ARMS CONTROL IN VIENNA, A SPRING [...] (C) Summary: The OSCE spring recess provides a useful occasion to take stock of conventional arms control work in Vienna. The crisis in CFE continues to overshadow all else. Most states continue to faithfully implement the Treaty, but the impasse over Russia's suspension of CFE implementation [...]	2009-04-07 14:51:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KCFE OSCE RS XG
09USOSCE95	THE OSCE'S ROLE IN ADVANCING U.S.-RUSSIA RELATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: As efforts to press the reset button in our relations with Russia proceed, the OSCE can be a valuable forum to channel Russia's desire for a larger role in discussion of broad European security themes. With the London summit commitment to start a dialogue on security and stabilit [...]	2009-04-14 10:46:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE OSCE PARM PHUM PREL RS XG
09USOSCE98	CFE IMPASSE: HOW DID WE GET WHERE WE ARE? [...] (C) Summary: At the London Summit, Presidents Obama and Medvedev pledged to explore a comprehensive dialogue on strengthening Euro-Atlantic and European security. The CFE agreement has long been considered a "cornerstone" of Euro-Atlantic security, and at Strasbourg-Kehl, NATO reaffirmed the [...]	2009-04-15 07:36:00	Mission USOSCE	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE OSCE PARM PREL RS XG
09USUNNEWYORK1004	UNGA MEETS ON IAEA REPORT: ELBARADEI'S SWAN SONG, [...] (U) SUMMARY: The UN General Assembly met in plenary to discuss the Report of the International Atomic Energy (IAEA),hearing for the last time from its outgoing Director-General, Mohammad ElBaradei, who emphasized the importance of not isolating countries, using diplomatic means to address pr [...]	2009-11-06 21:08:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL UNGA CU KN KS RS IS IR
09USUNNEWYORK1007	SYG BAN BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL ON NOVEMBER 6 [...] (C) Summary: On November 6, Secretary-General Ban provided a second briefing to Security Council members following the October 28 attack in Kabul which killed five and injured nine UN Staff. Ban had recently returned from Kabul where he met with staff and initiated a comprehensive security re [...]	2009-11-09 19:58:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PGOV KPKO OVIP
09USUNNEWYORK1013	AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS WITH PALAU PR BECK [...] (SBU) During a meeting with Ambassador Rice, Palau PermRep Stuart Beck conveyed a message from Palau President Toribiong that his country will "never change its loyalty" to the United States. To illustrate the point, Beck raised Palau's support in the UN General Assembly, including the recent [...]	2009-11-12 14:45:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECIN PREL MARR PS
09USUNNEWYORK1016	CORRECTED COPY: GUINEA-BISSAU: SECURITY COUNCIL [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see para 15. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In various UN and USUN meetings recently on Guinea-Bissau, UN officials have discussed the challenges facing both the country and the follow-on UN mission there. In the Security Council on November 5, UN Peacebuilding Su [...]	2009-11-12 15:15:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL UNSC PHUM SNAR XY PU ZA
09USUNNEWYORK1019	NEW LIBERIAN PERMREP ASKS U.S. THOUGHTS ON A [...] (SBU) During her courtesy call on Ambassador Rice on November 2, new Liberian Permanent Representative Marjon Kamara expressed anxiety at the potential for an accelerated UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) drawdown. Kamara said she was concerned with Liberia's security sector, noting that rule of [...]	2009-11-12 16:21:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL UNSC XY LI
09USUNNEWYORK1032	UNMIN BRIEFING TO THE SECURITY COUNCIL [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-13 20:33:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM NP
09USUNNEWYORK1045	THIRD COMMITTEE HEARS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS [...] SUMMARY: High Commissioner for Human Rights, Pillay, told the UN Third Committee of her priorities for the upcoming year and justified the controversial Goldstone Report on human rights violations in the Gaza Strip. END SUMMARY. 2. Following are summary points of the High Commissioner for Hu [...]	2009-11-17 18:39:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI UNGA MY
09USUNNEWYORK1046	UNGA FOURTH COMMITTEE DEBATE ON UNITED NATIONS [...] SUMMARY: The UN General Assembly's Special Political and Decolonization Committee (the Fourth Committee) held its general debate on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) on November 2 - 3. The Commissioner General of UNRWA opened the debate [...]	2009-11-17 19:20:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KPAL PHUM PREL PREF KWBG
09USUNNEWYORK1050	UNGA: U.S. CO-SPONSORED RESOLUTION ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (U) SUMMARY: The General Assembly met in plenary to discuss the Report of the United Nations Secretary-General on the situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security. A draft resolution, co-sponsored by the United States and over 90 countries, passed by con [...]	2009-11-17 23:17:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PREF PGOV KPKO UNGA AF
09USUNNEWYORK1051	SRSG MELKERT BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL ON UNAMI [...] (U) Summary: On November 16 Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) Ad Melkert briefed the Security Council regarding UNAMI activities during the last quarter, emphasizing the recent successful passage of an election law while highlighting the work remaining to hold credible el [...]	2009-11-18 15:39:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PGOV UNSC IZ SY TY
09USUNNEWYORK1054	SECURITY COUNCIL SUPPORTS CONTINUED UN ENGAGEMENT [...] (SBU) During Security Council consultations on November 17, UN Mediator Tiebile Drame welcomed the decision of all four major parties to form a transitional Madagascar government during a meeting in Addis Ababa on November 6-7. He noted that only three of the 31 government ministries had yet t [...]	2009-11-19 00:20:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL UNSC MA XO XW
09USUNNEWYORK1055	UNGA: UNSURPRISING PLENARY DEBATE ON UNSC REFORM [...] (SBU) Summary: The General Assembly held its annual plenary debate on November 12-13 to discuss Security Council reform, as well as the annual report of the Security Council (reported reftel). Seventy-five delegations spoke and largely reiterated positions expressed during intergovernmental [...]	2009-11-19 00:23:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KUNR UNGA UNSC GE JA BR IN
09USUNNEWYORK1063	GENERAL DEBATE ON THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF [...] Judge Hisashi Owada, President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ),addressed the General Assembly on October 29 and 30. Twenty-seven Member States addressed the General Assembly on the issue with Georgia exercising its right of reply. All of the interventions praised the ICJ for its [...]	2009-11-23 15:20:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AORC UNGA
09USUNNEWYORK1064	UNGA/C-5: FUNDING FOR AMISOM, CAPITAL MASTER PLAN, [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Fifth Committee recently held a series of formal meetings on procurement, After-Service Health Insurance (ASHI),support for the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM),and the Capital Master Plan (CMP). The U.S. delivered a statement noting its support for AMISOM and cond [...]	2009-11-23 19:08:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC KUNR PREL UNGA
09USUNNEWYORK1066	AMBASSADOR WOLFF AND INDIAN DEPUTY PERMREP PURI [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Wolff and a team from USUN met on November 18 with Indian Mission counterparts as a follow-up from the August 26 meeting to deepen understanding and cooperation across a broad range of UN issues. Topics covered included Security Council reform, the Comprehensive Conve [...]	2009-11-23 20:44:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PTER
09USUNNEWYORK1067	UNSC LAUDS COUNTER-PIRACY COOPERATION, CALLS FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 18, Special Representative for Somalia Ould-Abdallah briefed the Security Council on the status of the piracy problem off the coast of Somalia, emphasizing that the international community must build regional capacity and address root causes in conjunction with its s [...]	2009-11-23 23:12:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV UNSC PTER MARR PHUM SO
09USUNNEWYORK1071	UNGA/C-5: REGULAR BUDGET/PKO SCALES: E.U. [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Fifth Committee held informal meetings on November 20th on the Scales of Assessment for the Regular Budget and for Peace Keeping Operations. In the Regular - Budget scales debate, the G-77 proposed increasing the cap on assessments from 22 percent to 25 percent, while the Euro [...]	2009-11-25 15:58:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC KUNR PREL UNGA
09USUNNEWYORK1072	BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: SECURITY COUNCIL DEBATES [...] SUMMARY. Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) High Representative Valentin Inzko told the Security Council that BiH had made very limited progress in its effort to complete the agenda necessary for the closure of the Office of the High Representative (OHR),citing actions by Republika Srpska that unde [...]	2009-11-25 19:59:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC BK
09USUNNEWYORK1091	THIRD COMMITTEE SPECIAL RAPPORTEURS ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] SUMMARY: As part of the annual discussion of human rights issues in the UN General Assembly, numerous Special Rapporteurs on thematic issues made presentations to the UNGA Third Committee. Below are summaries of the hour-long presentations by the Special Rapporteurs for Right to Health, Right [...]	2009-12-03 15:37:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI UNGA
09USUNNEWYORK1093	STATEMENTS BY HUMAN RIGHTS SPECIAL RAPPORTEURS [...] SUMMARY: As part of the annual discussion of human rights issues in the UN General Assembly, numerous Special Rapporteurs on thematic issues made presentations to the UNGA Third Committee. Below are summaries of the hour-long presentations by the Special Rapporteurs for Torture, Myanmar, DPRK, [...]	2009-12-03 15:38:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI UNGA
09USUNNEWYORK1099	UNGA FOURTH COMMITTEE: PEACE KEEPING OPERATIONS [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: This year's annual general debate on peacekeeping in the Fourth Committee (special political and decolonization),from October 23 - 29, was largely uneventful, which is a positive step forward from the past few years' negative atmosphere and polemical divides between Nort [...]	2009-12-07 19:27:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	UNGA KPKO
09USUNNEWYORK1102	DPKO-UNIFIL JOINT TECHNICAL REVIEW [...] (C) Summary: On December 1, the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) hosted a meeting with Security Council Lebanon experts to share initial findings concerning the ongoing joint technical review of UNIFIL. DPKO's initial findings recommend the creation of a southern sector in UNIF [...]	2009-12-08 01:15:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO UNSC IS LE
09USUNNEWYORK1105	ISRAELI MILITARY ADVOCATE GENERAL BRIEFS ON [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Rice met on December 7 with Israeli Military Advocate General Major General Mandelblit to discuss the Israeli government's investigation of allegations of international humanitarian law and human rights violations, as set forth in the Goldstone report and other sources [...]	2009-12-08 22:04:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC IS
09USUNNEWYORK1114	SIXTH COMMITTEE RECONVENES ON OBSERVER STATUS ONLY [...] Summary: On December 9, the Sixth Committee reconvened to consider agenda items 169: Observer status for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM) in the General Assembly and 171: Observer status in the General Assembly for the Council of Presidents of the General Assembly. The [...]	2009-12-11 21:59:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AORC UNGA
09USUNNEWYORK1123	UNSC: COUNCIL CONSULTATIONS ON UNDOF [...] (SBU) Summary: The Council met on December 14 in consultations to discuss the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) since its mandate expires at the end of the month. Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Mulet briefed the Council on the Secretary-General's six-month repor [...]	2009-12-15 21:43:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPKO UNSC IS SY
09USUNNEWYORK1129	64TH UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC [...] (U) This cable was prepared by Ambassador Joan Plaisted, who served as Senior Area Adviser for East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) to the 64th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). 2. (U) EAP countries in general welcomed the new era of U.S. engagement and partnership this 64th General Assemb [...]	2009-12-18 01:55:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	BP BX CB CH ECON FJ FM ID JA KR KS LA MG
09USUNNEWYORK1133	WESTERN HEMISPHERE DELEGATIONS AT THE 64TH UNGA [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Obama's speech was the high point of the UNGA's opening session. WHA and other delegations warmly welcomed his call for a "new era of engagement." One of the most striking expressions of this sentiment came later in the session when the Third Committee erupted into appl [...]	2009-12-18 17:01:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PHUM PREL UNGA XK XL XM
09USUNNEWYORK1137	UNSC CONSULTATIONS ON DEVELOPMENT FUND FOR IRAQ [...] (SBU) Summary: In Security Council consultations on December 17, the UN Controller briefed on the recent International Advisory and Monitoring Board (IAMB) meeting, highlighting the Government of Iraq's (GOI) progress in developing a time-bound action plan to implement a comprehensive oil met [...]	2009-12-19 00:05:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ KU
09USUNNEWYORK114	SYG BAN BRIEFS ON AU SUMMIT, IRAQ, GAZA, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Secretary-General Ban briefed the Security Council on his recent travels in February 9 consultations. Ban recounted his personal intervention on the Muhajeria crisis in Darfur, described a long list of challenges in Afghanistan and relayed a new sense of optimism in Iraq in the [...]	2009-02-11 01:21:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC SO SU ZI MA AF IS IZ PK
09USUNNEWYORK1155	SECURITY COUNCIL LAUDS BURUNDI'S PROGRESS, CALLS [...] (SBU) Summary. In a December 10 Security Council briefing on the United Nations Integrated Office in Burundi (BINUB),Executive Representative and BINUB head Mahmoud gave a positive account of the status of both the peace process and electoral preparations, and underscored that BINUB will co [...]	2009-12-23 21:47:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO BY ZF
09USUNNEWYORK1156	NORWAY PREVIEWS PM,S TOPICS FOR POTUS MEETING; [...] (SBU) Summary. In a December 8 meeting with Ambassador Rice, Norwegian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Larsen previewed the topics that Prime Minister Stoltenberg will raise with President Obama during his upcoming visit to Oslo - an action plan for UN Millennium Development Goals Four and [...]	2009-12-23 21:49:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC UN AF CG SU
09USUNNEWYORK1160	UN HOLDS ANNUAL HIGH LEVEL CONFERENCE ON CENTRAL [...] At the December 8-9, 2009 high-level United Nations (U.N.) conference convened in support of the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF),57 donors and private sector companies pledged contributions totaling $424 million for 2010. This amount marks an increase of more than 10 percent from th [...]	2009-12-24 18:11:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PHUM PREF UN
09USUNNEWYORK1163	UNGA-C/5: SECRETARY GENERAL ADDRESSES THE FIFTH [...] (U) SUMMARY: The UN Secretary General came before the Fifth Committee on December 7th in order to further present his biennium budget, recognizing the need to scrutinize finances in the midst of the global economic crisis, while emphasizing that cuts should target operational costs and not tho [...]	2009-12-29 13:29:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC KUNR PREL UNGA
09USUNNEWYORK1169	EU: AMBASSADOR RICE PRESSES PERMREPS TO PLAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Rice urged Permreps from the European Union on December 15 to consider moving to the endgame in their effort to reach a consensus with the G-77 over scales of assessment and the regular budget. (See Reftel for details on negotiations.) Rice said that the U.S. had so fa [...]	2009-12-30 22:30:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AORC UNGA EU
09USUNNEWYORK117	GEORGIA: SECURITY COUNCIL CONSULTATIONS ON THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In closed consultations on February 10, all Security Council members except the Russian Federation identified a continuing need for a UN presence in Georgia, at least on an interim basis, which would ensure security and stability pending consultations on a comprehensive security [...]	2009-02-11 01:34:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV UNSC RS GG
09USUNNEWYORK119	IRAN: CYPRIOT NEXT MOVES ON MONCHEGORSK [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: The UN Perm Rep of Cyprus told Amb. Wolff that Cyprus had finished examining the cargo on the M/V Monchegorsk and would likely soon report to the UN Security Council's Iran Sanctions Committee the results of this inspection and Cyprus' final plan for disposing of the cargo. C [...]	2009-02-11 10:36:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM IR UNSC MNUC ETTC KNNP
09USUNNEWYORK124	AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT [...] (C) During an introductory call on General Assembly President (PGA) Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann on February 11, Ambassador Rice underscored U.S. priorities for renewed engagement with the United Nations, but cautioned the PGA against divisive actions. D'Escoto expressed his strong enthusiasm fo [...]	2009-02-12 14:36:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG EFIN UNGA KGHG KPAL PINR
09USUNNEWYORK125	AMBASSADOR RICE COURTESY MEETING WITH GERMAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. German PermRep Matussek told Ambassador Rice in their first meeting on February 3 that Berlin and the international community have high expectations about a U.S. policy of engagement with the Iranian leadership without precondition. Rice asked Matussek to help ensure that German [...]	2009-02-12 17:39:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC AF IR GM
09USUNNEWYORK127	GEORGIA: AMBASSADORS RICE AND DICARLO URGE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Georgian PermRep Alexander Lomaia expressed appreciation for the extension of UNOMIG, but warned that Georgia might not view another UNOMIG extension as worthwhile in June 2009. He complained that Russia had already begun to spin the draft resolution as a victory. Ambassadors Ric [...]	2009-02-12 19:40:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC RS GG
09USUNNEWYORK13	UN PREVIEWS PLANNED SUPPORT TO AMISOM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In two meetings on January 6, UN Under Secretary-General Malcorra and Department of Field Support (DFS) staff briefed USUN on the status of UN planning to implement the Secretary-General's proposed measures to strengthen the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). DFS is coor [...]	2009-01-09 20:22:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM MARR KPKO UNSC SO
09USUNNEWYORK130	UNGA: UNSC REFORM - INTERGOVERNMENTAL NEGOTIATIONS [...] (SBU) Action request in paragraph ten. 2. (C) Summary: The President of the General Assembly will launch intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council expansion in an informal plenary of the General Assembly on February 19, 2009. He will introduce a work plan with a schedule of meet [...]	2009-02-12 21:21:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KUNR UNGA UNSC
09USUNNEWYORK133	AMBASSADOR RICE DISCUSSES G-77 AND ICC WITH SUDAN [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Rice met with Sudanese Perm Rep Mohamad to discuss G-77 issues. Mohamad argued that more UN resources should be devoted to development and less to peacekeeping. Rice replied that both are essential. Mohamad raised the impending International Criminal Court (ICC) d [...]	2009-02-13 00:11:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO SU AF
09USUNNEWYORK136	OCHA BRIEFS ON MISSION TO PAKISTAN [...] (SBU) The UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in New York briefed the Humanitarian Liaison Working Group (HLWG) on a recent mission to Pakistan to assess the humanitarian environment in conflict-affected areas and develop plans to improve the coordination of the UN [...]	2009-02-13 21:51:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREF PK
09USUNNEWYORK138	SOMALIA: UN BRIEFS ON SECURITY SUPPORT, POLITICAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UN Under-Secretary-General (U/SYG) Malcorra briefed the Security Council on February 12 on UN plans to implement resolution 1863. Malcorra mentioned the need for a bridging arrangement with the contractor already on the ground and said that the UN planned to conclude its own lo [...]	2009-02-14 00:29:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR MOPS KPKO UNSC SO
09USUNNEWYORK144	AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS NIGERIAN PERMANENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a February 12 initial call on Nigerian Permanent Representative to the UN Uche Joy Ogwu, Ambassador Rice pressed Ogwu on the need for Nigeria to expeditiously complete its preparations for deployment of a battalion to AMISOM in Somalia. Ogwu referred to difficulties in lo [...]	2009-02-17 15:19:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC UNGA NI
09USUNNEWYORK148	(C) RWANDAN MISSION UNCOOPERATIVE ON FDLR NAME [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-17 23:59:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	UNSC POLS
09USUNNEWYORK15	UNHCR HIGH COMMISSIONER GUTERRES BRIEFS THE [...] Antonio Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),briefed the Security Council on January 8, 2009 on refugee and broader displacement issues as they relate to threats to international peace and security. In his speech, the High Commissioner reported that the number of r [...]	2009-01-10 00:33:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREF
09USUNNEWYORK156	UN: IRAQ ELECTIONS "WENT VERY WELL" [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 13, DPA officials briefed USUN and UKUN on the UN's assessment of elections in Iraq, as well as on UNAMI-related issues. In general, the UN believes the elections went very well, despite initial concerns regarding the lower turnout. DPA is finalizing the UNAMI report [...]	2009-02-19 00:01:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC IZ
09USUNNEWYORK159	UNSC MONTHLY MIDDLE EAST MEETING: SUPPORTIVE OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During the monthly Security Council meeting on the Middle East, Robert Serry, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and the Secretary General's Personal Representative to the PLO and the Palestinian Authority, briefed the Council on the situation in Gaza and t [...]	2009-02-19 22:42:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC IS LE SY
09USUNNEWYORK160	AMB. WOLFF MEETS WITH UNSCO SERRY ON GAZA [...] (C) Summary: UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Serry met with Ambassador Wolff on February 18 to discuss Gaza. Serry was pessimistic on the chances for a durable cease-fire in Gaza given Israel's linking of the cease-fire to Israeli CPL Shalit's release and news [...]	2009-02-19 22:44:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IS EG

09USUNNEWYORK162	UNSC IRAN SANCTIONS COMMITTEE MOVING ON MONCHEGORSK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Cyprus has submitted a report to the Iran Sanctions Committee detailing the results of a more complete inspection of the M/V Monchegorsk, a Cypriot-flagged vessel found transferring Iranian arms-related materiel in violation of Security Council sanctions on Iran. The letter says [...]	2009-02-19 23:47:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM IR UNSC MNUC ETTC KNNP
09USUNNEWYORK170	AMBASSADOR RICE'S MEETING WITH HIGH COMMISSIONER [...] (C) Summary: In a February 23 meeting with Ambassador Rice, High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay said of the Durban Review Conference, that although she was disappointed with the addition of unhelpful text in the draft outcome document and the politicized language used by some [...]	2009-02-24 19:06:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL
09USUNNEWYORK18	GEORGIA/RUSSIA: GERMANS PROMOTE REVISED UNOMIG [...] (C) SUMMARY. The German Mission to the UN is advocating a beefed-up mandate for the UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) when the current mandate expires on February 15, 2009. Germany hopes Security Council members will corner Russia into agreeing to extend authorization for a military ob [...]	2009-01-12 23:21:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC RS GG
09USUNNEWYORK180	SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOR LEBANON MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE [...] (C) Summary: At its February 20 meeting, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) Management Committee discussed the future STL Prosecutor's request for a change in the terms of his employment, to the equivalent compensation of a judge, to compensate for a decrease in his net earnings when he mo [...]	2009-02-27 01:42:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC PTER LE SY
09USUNNEWYORK185	1267 COMMITTEE LAUNCHES WORK ON MAJOR NEW TASKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Security Council's 1267 Committee (al-Qaeda/Taliban Sanctions) has recently begun two workload-intensive tasks mandated in resolution 1822 (2008) to address deficiencies in the fairness and clarity of the Committee's procedures. The first task directed the Committee to compl [...]	2009-02-27 10:35:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC
09USUNNEWYORK186	IRAN SANCTIONS COMMITTEE WRITES TO CYPRUS, LOOKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The chair of the UN Security Council's Iran Sanctions Committee (Japanese UN Perm Rep Takasu) has delivered to the Cypriot Perm Rep a letter from the Iran Sanctions Committee about the M/V Monchegorsk, a Cypriot-flagged vessel that was transferring Iranian arms-related materiel i [...]	2009-02-27 10:36:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM IR UNSC MNUC ETTC KNNP
09USUNNEWYORK189	AMBASSADOR RICE'S FEBRUARY 24 LUNCH WITH EU [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Rice and the 27 Permanent Representatives (PRs) from European Member states and European Commission (EC) representatives discussed a broad range of political, security, development, and human rights issues over lunch on February 24. The PRs unanimously welcomed the [...]	2009-02-27 16:26:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM EAID PREL SENV SOCI UN
09USUNNEWYORK19	UNSC: COUNCIL SUPPORTS SYG TRAVEL TO REGION; URGES [...] (SBU) Summary: In closed-door consultations with the Security Council on January 13, the Secretary-General briefed the Council on the goals of his upcoming trip to the region. He stressed it was time for the violence to stop and called for a durable cease-fire and the implementation of UNSCR [...]	2009-01-13 21:33:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KWBG KPAL UNSC IS EG TU
09USUNNEWYORK191	JAPAN WANTS SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION IF DPRK [...] (S) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (S) SUMMARY. Ambassador Rice shared U.S. concerns regarding a potential DPRK missile launch with Japanese PermRep Takasu on February 26, and asked for Japan's support in publicly calling any launch a violation of SCR 1718. Takasu st [...]	2009-02-27 18:00:00	USUN New York	SECRET	PGOV PREL UNSC PINR KN XB SU XA
09USUNNEWYORK198	AMBASSADOR WOLFF MEETS WITH UNIFIL COMMANDER [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Wolff met with General Claudio Graziano, the Force Commander of UNIFIL, and discussed UNIFIL's operations, elections in Lebanon, and Israel's occupation of northern Ghajar. Graziano said the security situation in Lebanon will remain critical during the run-up to the L [...]	2009-02-28 00:08:00	USUN New York	SECRET	PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL MARR IS LE
09USUNNEWYORK201	AMBASSADOR RICE'S FEBRUARY 24 LUNCH WITH EU [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Rice and the 27 Permanent Representatives (PRs) from European Member states and European Commission (EC) representatives discussed a broad range of political, security, development, and human rights issues over lunch on February 24. The PRs unanimously welcomed the [...]	2009-03-02 20:20:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM EAID PREL SENV SOCI EU UN
09USUNNEWYORK202	AMBASSADOR RICE AND UN DPKO USG LE ROY DISCUSS [...] (C) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (C) SUMMARY: UN Peacekeeping USG Le Roy told Ambassador Rice on February 26 that India planned to withdraw its troops from MONUC. He asked for U.S. assistance in encouraging DRC President Kabila to support Indian troops, to help ave [...]	2009-03-03 01:22:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM UNSC CG IN SU XA AF
09USUNNEWYORK208	KOSOVO: PRESIDENT SEJDIU MEETS AMBASSADOR RICE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The President of Kosovo, Fatmir Sejdiu, asked Ambassador Rice on March 2 to help Kosovo obtain recognition from additional states, particularly from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Pakistan and OIC members; and to help ensure that like-minded states, including non-European states, s [...]	2009-03-04 22:37:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ICJ UNSC SR KV
09USUNNEWYORK209	UN BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL ON GUINEA-BISSAU [...] (SBU) At the request of Burkina Faso, the UN Department of Political Affairs (DPA) briefed the Security Council on March 3 on the events surrounding the assassinations of Guinea-Bissau President Joao Vieira and Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Tagme Na Wai. DPA Deputy Director for Africa J [...]	2009-03-04 22:40:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM UNSC PU SG XY
09USUNNEWYORK219	AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS WITH SAUDI ARABIAN PERM REP [...] (C) Summary: During their introductory meeting on March 3, Ambassador Rice and Saudi PermRep Khalid Al-Nafisee discussed Saudi Arabia's progress on the Interfaith Dialogue, the Lebanon Tribunal and Gaza, recognition of Kosovo, and relations with Iraq and Iran. Al-Nafisee was keen to emphasiz [...]	2009-03-05 22:30:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC XF ZP
09USUNNEWYORK223	AMBASSADOR RICE'S INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) During a March 5 introductory meeting, Zimbabwe PermRep Chidyausiku told Ambassador Rice Zimbabwe wants to engage with the U.S. He noted the dramatic decline in health, education, infrastructure and quality of life in Zimbabwe and asked for the U.S. to lift its sanctions. Chidyausiku ex [...]	2009-03-09 16:15:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL UNSC ZI ZU
09USUNNEWYORK224	ARAB LEAGUE AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES BASHIR AND AID TO [...] (C) Arab League (AL) Ambassador Yahya Mahmassani began his March 5 meeting with Ambassador Rice by raising the International Criminal Court's (ICC) March 4 announcement of an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Bashir. He reiterated the AL's position that the indictment is not a positive st [...]	2009-03-09 18:34:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS SU
09USUNNEWYORK227	OCHA BRIEFS COUNCIL ON NGO EXPULSIONS FROM SUDAN [...] Summary: Libya began March 6 Security Council consultations on Darfur by noting that the African Union and Arab League would send a high-level delegation to brief the Council on regional organizations' unanimous opinion that the Council should defer prosecution of President Bashir by invokin [...]	2009-03-10 00:25:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KPKO SU AF
09USUNNEWYORK229	HIGHLIGHTS OF 1267 MONITORING TEAM'S ANNUAL REPORT [...] (U) SUMMARY: The 1267 Monitoring Team, a UN-mandated group charged with documenting and reporting on the implementation of the UN sanctions on Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, has issued its ninth annual report containing recommendations to improve the efficacy and fairness of this sanctions regime. T [...]	2009-03-10 00:30:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC
09USUNNEWYORK230	UNGA: UNSC REFORM: INTERGOVERNMENTAL NEGOTIATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The informal plenary of the General Assembly met March 4 and 5 to begin the substantive phase of intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council expansion. 80 delegations spoke during the day and a half discussion on "categories of membership." A core group of states suppo [...]	2009-03-10 00:33:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KUNR UNGA UNSC GE JA BR IN
09USUNNEWYORK243	IRAN COMMITTEE LETTERS DELIVERED (WITH DIFFICULTY) [...] (C) SUMMARY: The UN Security Council's Iran Sanctions Committee has approved letters to Iran and Syria regarding the transfer of arms-related materiel on the Cypriot-flagged ship Monchegorsk. The letters state clearly that this transfer was in violation of Security Council resolution 1747 an [...]	2009-03-11 09:58:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM IR UNSC MNUC ETTC KNNP
09USUNNEWYORK248	UNSC: UNSCR 1701 QUARTERLY CONSULTATIONS AFTER [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 10, UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Michael Williams and DPKO Director for Asia and the Middle East Division Wolfgang Weisbrod-Weber briefed the Security Council in consultations on the Secretary-General's UNSCR 1701 quarterly report. Both emphasized that the most [...]	2009-03-11 21:08:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER UNSC KPAL KPKO IS LE SY
09USUNNEWYORK250	AMBASSADOR DICARLO MEETS WITH SPECIAL COURT FOR [...] (U) Summary. Ambassador DiCarlo met on March 11 with Stephen Rapp, Prosecutor for the Special Court for Sierra Leone to discuss the latest developments at the Court, including the Court's need for additional voluntary contributions. Anthony Triolo, the Court's liaison officer, and Legoff also [...]	2009-03-12 16:43:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AOWC SL PGOV
09USUNNEWYORK251	SRSG FALL BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL ON CAR [...] Summary: On March 10, the Council was briefed on recent developments in the Central African Republic (CAR) by SRSG Fall, along with Belgium Perm Rep Grauls, who chairs the Central African Republic (CAR) configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission. CAR Perm Rep Poukre-Kono also addressed t [...]	2009-03-12 17:00:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	KPKO PREF PREL UNSC CD CT SU
09USUNNEWYORK262	P-3 MEET TO DISCUSS HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN SUDAN [...] (C) Summary: On March 12, French Perm Rep Ripert hosted a P-3 meeting with UK Ambassador Pierce and U.S. Ambassador DiCarlo to discuss future Council action regarding the humanitarian situation in Sudan. The P-3 agreed to request an additional briefing from the UN Office for the Coordinatio [...]	2009-03-16 19:41:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO SU AF
09USUNNEWYORK272	P-3 PERM REPS DISCUSS UNSC RESOLUTION ON SUDAN [...] (C) Summary: In a March 17 meeting called by Ambassador Rice, UK Perm Rep Sawers and French Deputy Perm Rep LaCroix discussed the humanitarian situation in Sudan created by the Sudanese decision to expel humanitarian NGOs. The group agreed to seek a second briefing from the UN Office of the [...]	2009-03-18 00:16:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO SU AF
09USUNNEWYORK278	AMBASSADOR RICE AND UNMIL SRSG LOJ DISCUSS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Ellen Margrethe Loj told Ambassador Rice she believed at least 8,000 troops should remain in Liberia through the 2011 election. Loj cautioned that the French and UK might attempt to [...]	2009-03-18 23:23:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL UNSC LI XY
09USUNNEWYORK28	UN SANCTIONS IN CRISIS? ACADEMICS SAY YES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A team of academics has proposed a new international process to address what they consider to be unprecedented challenges to the legitimacy and effectiveness of UN sanctions. The threats that these academics highlighted to USUN included questions about the legitimacy of sancti [...]	2009-01-16 20:14:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETTC EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC
09USUNNEWYORK283	AMBASSADOR RICE'S INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH [...] Summary: Ambassador Rice met with Francis Deng, the UN's Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide on March 16 to discuss current activities of his office and priorities for the future. Deng explained his efforts to engage three important constituencies on the work of his office in order [...]	2009-03-19 13:21:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL UNSC
09USUNNEWYORK292	SRSG OULD ABDALLAH BRIEFS AMB. RICE ON SOMALIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Somalia, told Amb. Rice on March 18 that the Council should adopt a "new paradigm" for Somalia, discussed "disappearances" of ethnic Somali youths from the U.S. and UK, and urged tangible support to [...]	2009-03-20 20:35:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PTER KPKO UNSC SO
09USUNNEWYORK296	CHARGE DINGER CONSULTS WITH UN ON BURMA [...] (SBU) Summary. U.S. Charge to Rangoon Larry Dinger met with UN Special Advisor Gambari and representatives from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA),UN Development Program (UNDP) and the Open Society Institute (OSI) during h [...]	2009-03-23 18:03:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL UNSC BM
09USUNNEWYORK299	SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOR LEBANON MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Special Tribunal for Lebanon Management Committee met March 20 and agreed to a one-time increase in the base salary of judges. The Management Committee also discussed and solicited more information on a request by the President of the Tribunal for appointment of the Vice P [...]	2009-03-23 22:02:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER UNSC LE
09USUNNEWYORK30	UN SUCCEEDS IN LAUNCHING NEW ADMINISTRATION OF [...] SUMMARY: At the main session of the sixty-third UN General Assembly, the Fifth Committee adopted a resolution (A/RES/63/253) that completely overhauls the organization's internal justice system for resolving employment-related disputes. Building on a framework resolution from the previous Gen [...]	2009-01-16 22:52:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC AMGT PREL UNGA
09USUNNEWYORK305	MONCHEGORSK: IRAN/SYRIA REBUFF SANCTIONS COMMITTEE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iran and Syria effectively rebuffed a request from the UN Security Council's Iran Sanctions Committee for information regarding a vessel found carrying Iranian arms to Syria in violation of UN sanctions. Syria answered with an anti-Israel screed that implicitly acknowledged its [...]	2009-03-24 21:36:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM IR UNSC MNUC ETTC KNNP
09USUNNEWYORK325	UNSC REFORM: CHINA NOT READY FOR P-5 MINISTERIAL [...] (C) UK Deputy Perm Rep Pierce hosted a P-5 meeting to discuss whether a statement could be released following the planned P-5 Foreign Ministers' discussion in London on Security Council expansion. She asked if other P-5 members could agree with the idea of issuing a statement on the subject [...]	2009-03-27 21:47:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KUNR UNGA UNSC CH FR UK RS IT
09USUNNEWYORK328	UNSC: MIDDLE EAST OPEN DEBATE HIGHLIGHTS LACK OF [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 25, the Security Council held its first Open Debate on the Middle East in 2009. In addition to a briefing by the Under Secretary-General for Political Affairs covering recent events, which he termed a "situation of impasse and uncertainty," all 15 Council members spoke [...]	2009-03-27 22:26:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNSC KWBG KPAL IS PA LE SY EG IR
09USUNNEWYORK329	CHIEF DARFUR MEDIATOR BASSOLE PUSHES UNSC FOR ICC [...] (SBU) Summary: Joint UN/AU Chief Mediator Djbril Bassole made his first appearance before the Security Council on March 26. Bassole focused on three factors affecting mediation efforts: the tense relationship between Chad and Sudan; the splintering of Darfuri armed movements; and the Interna [...]	2009-03-27 22:33:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KPKO SU AF
09USUNNEWYORK33	UN REPORT TO TACKLE EARLY RECOVERY [...] (U) SUMMARY: With a June deadline set by the Security Council approaching a report on strengthening the UN's response to immediate post-conflict situations, the UN Secretariat is now soliciting views from member states and within the UN on the following themes: 1) how to better incorporate [...]	2009-01-20 23:11:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	UN KPKO
09USUNNEWYORK342	UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL HOLMES BRIEFS THE SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 26, U/SYG Holmes briefed the Security Council on the results of the recently-completed joint UN and Government of Sudan (GoS) assessment of humanitarian gaps in Darfur. Holmes told the Council that the assessment revealed the extent of the gaps in humanitarian services [...]	2009-04-01 13:34:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AF EAID PHUM PREF PREL SU UNSC
09USUNNEWYORK344	AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS JAPAN'S AMBASSADOR TO IRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Rice on March 31 met with Akio Shirota, Japan's Ambassador to Iran, to hear Japan's assessment of U.S. outreach to Iran and Shirota's analysis of Iran's internal political situation. Shirota said President Obama's Nowruz message to the Iranians on March 19 gave Irania [...]	2009-04-02 00:49:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IR JA UNSC
09USUNNEWYORK348	UNMIL TECHNICAL ASSESSMENT MISSION ON TRACK FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UN DPKO officials on March 31 said a technical assessment mission would evaluate progress in Liberia in light of set benchmarks. Getting an effective police force was key, and ensuring legitimate elections in 2011 would be a reasonable use of UNMIL, according to DPKO. DPKO warn [...]	2009-04-03 12:00:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV UNSC LI XY
09USUNNEWYORK354	AMB. RICE MEETS WITH BOTSWANA PERM. REP. TO THE UN [...] (C) Summary - In an April 02 meeting between Ambassador Rice and Botswana's Ambassador to the UN Charles T. Ntwaagae, Ambassador Rice expressed her appreciation for Botswana's friendship and leadership in Southern Africa, and inquired about recent political developments in both South Africa and [...]	2009-04-06 15:45:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	BC UNGA
09USUNNEWYORK355	DPRK: SECURITY COUNCIL, KEY PLAYERS RESPOND TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an April 5 bilateral meeting, Amb. Rice told Japanese Perm Rep Takasu that in response to the recent Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) missile launch the United States will seek a Security Council resolution that includes real consequences for the DPRK's actions. She [...]	2009-04-06 17:21:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	UNSC PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN
09USUNNEWYORK359	UN SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PEACEKEEPING CONCLUDES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The United Nations Special Committee for Peacekeeping Operations (C-34) concluded its annual session on March 20 by adopting a consensus report on schedule for the first time since 2006. The report contains specific language regarding the protection of civilians and broadly as [...]	2009-04-07 18:47:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	UNSC PHUM PREL
09USUNNEWYORK360	CONCLUSION OF THE FIRST RESUMED SESSION OF THE [...] (U) SUMMARY: The first resumed session of the 63rd General Assembly for the Fifth Committee (March 2-27) concluded late evening on March 27th. The Fifth Committee took action on a number of proposals and approved an additional $17.97 million to the 2008-2009 regular budget which brings the r [...]	2009-04-07 18:54:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC KUNR PREL UNGA
09USUNNEWYORK368	SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOR LEBANON REGISTRAR RESIGNS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-08 17:31:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER AORC AMGT UNSC LE
09USUNNEWYORK373	THAI PERMREP DISCUSSES BURMA [...] (C) Summary: In an April 6 meeting with Ambassador Rice, Thai PermRep Pramudwinai urged intensified engagement with the Burmese regime and said the regime is awaiting the outcome of the U.S. policy review of Burma. He said Burma would be more comfortable with the Tripartite Core Group (TCG) [...]	2009-04-08 22:13:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV TH BU
09USUNNEWYORK38	DEBT RESOLVED - DRC MISSION TO THE UN [...] Vornado Realty Trust has informed USUN/HC that it received a check for $102,999.88 on December 29, 2008 to cover outstanding rental arrears and bring the Permanent Mission of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the United Nations current through January 31, 2009. In a December 30, 2008 [...]	2009-01-22 16:50:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	CG OFDP PREL
09USUNNEWYORK384	GEORGIA: USUN DELIVERS USG PRELIMINARY RESPONSE TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. Per Ref A instructions, Deputy PolCouns and Poloff shared the USG preliminary response to the UN Non-Paper on the future UN presence in Georgia (Ref B) with DPKO Director for Europe and Latin America, David Harland. Harland acknowledged U.S. views on the dimensions of the propose [...]	2009-04-10 12:41:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC UNOMIG RS GG
09USUNNEWYORK393	AMBASSADOR RICE SPEAKS WITH SECRETARY-GENERAL ON [...] (C) Ambassador Rice spoke with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon via telephone on April 10 to urge the appointment of a special envoy for Sri Lanka given the growing risks to civilians caught between the government of Sri Lanka's (GSL) military forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LT [...]	2009-04-13 23:02:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	CE EAID PHUM PREF PREL UNSC
09USUNNEWYORK405	PAID - CAMEROON UN MISSION DEBT TO LARCHMONT NY [...] USUN/HC received confirmation from both the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Cameroon to the UN (CMUN) and landlord Leonardo Lopane that the CMUN Perm Rep Tommo Monthe paid Mr. Lopane in full for over 8 months of overdue rental arrears and late fees for the CMUN's lease of 49 N. Chatswort [...]	2009-04-17 14:52:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	OFDP PREL
09USUNNEWYORK414	HIGH LEVEL MEETING OF DONORS ON THE HUMANITARIAN [...] (C) Summary - Meeting in New York April 16 to address the increasingly complex operating environment for aid agencies in Sudan, 17 donors from North America, Europe and Asia gave their general support to the UN Track III approach outlined in the document "Towards a more predictable, accountable [...]	2009-04-22 22:50:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID PHUM PREL UN SU
09USUNNEWYORK416	DPRK SANCTIONS COMMITTEE MAKES MINIMAL PROGRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 22, the UN Security Council's DPRK Sanctions Committee made some minimal progress in considering new sanctions designations, as was requested by the Security Council on April 13 after the DPRK missile launch. The Committee is nearing consensus on updating the Missile Tec [...]	2009-04-23 13:23:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	KN PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP
09USUNNEWYORK418	NEW UN WOMEN'S MECHANISM PROPOSED [...] (SBU) Summary and action request. Members of the General Assembly voiced measured support for continuing deliberations on the creation of a new "entity" to deal with women's empowerment and gender equality that would be a hybrid between a full-fledged Fund (such as UNICEF or UNDP) and an offic [...]	2009-04-23 17:39:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SOCI PHUM UN KWMN
09USUNNEWYORK421	UNSC: RUSSIANS MOVING FORWARD WITH PLANS FOR [...] (C) Ambassadors Rice and Wolff met bilaterally with Russian Perm Rep Churkin and Deputy Perm Rep Dolgov on April 23. Ambassador Churkin confirmed that his government plans to send out invitations April 24 to its proposed May 11 Council ministerial meeting on the Middle East. He said only U [...]	2009-04-23 22:24:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC KWBG KPAL IS RS
09USUNNEWYORK426	DPRK: RUSSIA/CHINA PRESSED ON DESIGNATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate phone calls on April 21, Amb. Rice told her Chinese and Russian counterparts that the United States expected the DPRK Sanctions Committee to approve a "serious, credible" package of new designations by the April 24 deadline requested by the Security Council. Russian Pe [...]	2009-04-24 00:18:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	UNSC PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN
09USUNNEWYORK430	A/S BRIMMER MEETS WITH USYG FOR FIELD SUPPORT [...] (C) Summary. Assistant Secretary Brimmer paid a courtesy call on UN Undersecretary-General Susana Malcorra, head of the UN's Department of Field Support (DFS) on April 16. Malcorra briefed on difficulties faced by UN operations, ongoing efforts on reform, and the importance of U.S. support. [...]	2009-04-24 15:51:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL MARR MASS SO
09USUNNEWYORK433	UNSC MIDDLE EAST CONSULTATIONS: FRUSTRATED BY LACK [...] (C) Summary: Lynn Pascoe, Under Secretary-General for Political Affairs, on April 20 briefed Council members on the situation in the Middle East in a public session before the Council moved to closed consultations. Pascoe focused most of his presentation on the situation in Gaza, and noted pa [...]	2009-04-24 22:32:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC KWBG KPAL IS PA LE SY EG IR
09USUNNEWYORK442	RWANDA TRIBUNAL REGISTRAR MEETS WITH USUN [...] (C) Adama Dieng, registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and his special assistant Mandiaye Niang met with Ambassador DiCarlo on April 27 to provide their views on the status of the ICTR's completion strategy. After referring to Security Council 1503 (2003) that cal [...]	2009-04-30 13:22:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	KAWC PARM PREF PREL RW
09USUNNEWYORK451	AMB RICE DISCUSSES WOMEN'S ISSUES WITH STEPHEN LEWIS [...] (SBU) Former Canadian ambassador Stephen Lewis spoke to Ambassador Rice April 27 on the need for a new UN agency on women's affairs, and to plead for U.S. support to move quickly to establish the new agency. Lewis, through his previous positions as Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF, Canadian [...]	2009-05-04 20:10:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI EAID KWMN ZI UN
09USUNNEWYORK453	CYPRUS: SPECIAL ADVISOR DOWNER BRIEFS THE SECURITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The SYG's Special Advisor for Cyprus, Alexander Downer, told the Security Council on April 30 he is "cautiously optimistic" about the current negotiations over reunification of the island. The two leaders had made "steady progress" since talks began in September 2008, but the [...]	2009-05-04 23:28:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV UNFICYP UNSC CY
09USUNNEWYORK458	AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS WITH UK MINISTER FOR [...] SUMMARY: In an April 27 meeting with Ambassador Rice, the UK Minister for Development Douglas Alexander and UK PR John Sawers expressed concern over the potential for the UN June 1-2 financial crisis conference to disrupt the G-20 international financial architecture reform discussions. Alex [...]	2009-05-05 19:25:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	UNGA PGOV KGHG EFIN ECON EAID
09USUNNEWYORK469	AMBASSADOR RICE MEETING WITH EC HEAD OF DELEGATION [...] On May 5, Ambassador Rice met with European Commission (EC) Head of Delegation Ambassador Fernando Valenzuela. He requested the meeting as an initial courtesy call. Valenzuela raised three specific issues: the future of the EC at the UN; the President of the General Assembly's (PGA) June 1- [...]	2009-05-07 15:01:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EFIN EU KGHG SENV
09USUNNEWYORK470	SUBJECT: A/S GOTTEMOELLER,S 5 MAY BILATERAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Assistant Secretary of State for Verification, Compliance and Implementation, Rose Gottemoeller, held several bilateral meetings May 5 on the margins of the NPT Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) in New York. This cable reports on her meetings with: South Africa,s Ambassador Abdul [...]	2009-05-07 15:51:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM NPT
09USUNNEWYORK475	SOMALIA: FRANCE PROPOSES SANCTIONS FOR PIRATES [...] (U) This is an action request -- please see para 5. 2. (C//NF) SUMMARY: The French mission has shared with USUN a list of fourteen individuals linked to piracy whom France wants to designate under the newly-imposed Somalia targeted sanctions regime (UNSCR 1844). France believes these indiv [...]	2009-05-08 20:08:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KPKO UNSC MARR AU SO
09USUNNEWYORK483	SWEDISH POLITICAL DIRECTOR DISCUSSES UPCOMING EU [...] (SBU) Swedish Political Director Bjorn Lyrvall told Ambassador Rice on May 6 that Sweden's priority during its upcoming EU presidency would be to prepare to address EU institutional issues under the assumption that the Lisbon Treaty would be fully ratified by the end of the year. Lyrvall thou [...]	2009-05-12 01:16:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC EUN
09USUNNEWYORK493	UNSC: MIDDLE EAST MINISTERIAL STRONGLY BACKS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Security Council on May 11 convened a ministerial-level meeting to encourage Israel, the Palestinians, and the international community to move forward on their commitments toward a comprehensive peace agreement. Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, opened the meetin [...]	2009-05-13 00:35:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PTER KPAL UNSC LE SY IS
09USUNNEWYORK497	A/S GOTTEMOELLER,S 5 AND 7 MAY BILATERAL MEETINGS [...] (SBU) Summary: Assistant Secretary of State for Verification, Compliance and Implementation, Rose Gottemoeller, held several bilateral meetings May 5 and 7 on the margins of the NPT Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) in New York. This cable reports on her meetings with: Brazil's Head of Delegation Lui [...]	2009-05-13 15:37:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM KNNP NPT
09USUNNEWYORK505	AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS NY STATE GOVERNOR PATERSON [...] (C) SUMMARY: At the request of the UN Secretary-General (SYG) Ban Ki-Moon, Ambassador Rice arranged a meeting between the SYG and NY State Governor David Paterson to solicit cooperation from the State on security issues pertaining to the UN's Capital Master Plan (CMP). Both the SYG and Governor [...]	2009-05-14 20:48:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AORC ASEC AMGT UN
09USUNNEWYORK506	SOMALIA: UNSC BACKS UK DRAFT, DEFERS UNPKO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Security Council members welcomed the UK's draft resolution on UN support to the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) with only a few members advocating a rapid transfer to a UN peacekeeping operation (UNPKO) in Security Council consultations on May 13. In a briefing prece [...]	2009-05-14 21:13:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM MARR MOPS KPKO UNSC SO
09USUNNEWYORK509	PGA,S OFFICE REACHES OUT TO MISSION ON FINANCIAL [...] (SBU) Paul Oquist Kelley, Senior Advisor to President of the General Assembly (PGA) Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, phoned Ambassador Wolff twice from Tripoli on May 13 to discuss the foundering preparation process for the June 1-3 UN Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Imp [...]	2009-05-14 22:02:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EAID UN
09USUNNEWYORK520	AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS WITH CHILEAN PR MUNOZ [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-19 21:34:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV UNGA EFIN CI
09USUNNEWYORK521	AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS WITH BOTSWANA FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 14, Botswana FM Mompati Merafhe told Ambassador Rice that Botswana would balance support for Zimbabwean social ministries controlled by the MDC and revitalization of the economy with the necessity of continuing to deny access to foreign credit to ZANU-PF leaders. To this [...]	2009-05-19 22:14:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNGA SOCI KHIV ETRD ELAB BC ZI MA
09USUNNEWYORK522	NPT, CTBT, FMCT DISCUSSED AT P-5 LUNCH IN NEW YORK [...] (C) Summary: Anatoly Antonov, Director for Arms Control, Russian MFA, hosted Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control Rose Gottemoeller (also U.S. Head of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) delegation meeting in New York) and other P-5 NPT PrepCom Delegati [...]	2009-05-20 14:13:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL
09USUNNEWYORK54	AMBASSADOR RICE'S MEETING WITH UN [...] (C) The UN's Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, John Holmes, just back from a brief visit to Gaza, told Ambassador Rice Jan. 26 it will take a lot of time and money to repair the war's damage, but lamented there is no political basis on which to build and said he fears donors w [...]	2009-01-27 19:46:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PGOV PREF PREL KWBG IS
09USUNNEWYORK542	CHAIRMEN OF THE 1267, 1373, AND 1540 COMMITTEES [...] (SBU) Summary: The Chairs of the UN Security Council,s Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC),1267 (Al-Qaida/Taliban) Sanctions Committee, and 1540 Committee (nonproliferation) briefed the Council in a public/open meeting on May 26. The Chairs described their committee,s accomplishments over the [...]	2009-05-29 14:47:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREF PREL
09USUNNEWYORK563	INVITATION TO PRESIDENT OBAMA FROM GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT TO ATTEND UN FINANCIAL CRISIS CONFERENCE [...] USUN has received the following letter to President Obama from General Assembly President Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, dated May 27, 2009. Text of letter follows in para 2 below. 2. Begin text of letter to President Obama: 27 May 2009 Excellency, Further to my letter dated 16 Apr [...]	2009-06-04 19:00:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT UNAUS EAID EFIN OPDC
09USUNNEWYORK564	A/S BRIMMER'S MEETINGS AT THE UNITED NATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs Esther Brimmer traveled to New York on May 27 for a series of meetings with United Nations officials. Department of Management Under Secretary General Angela Kane told A/S Brimmer that the United Nations is enthusias [...]	2009-06-04 19:02:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF UNAUS UNDP
09USUNNEWYORK57	AMBASSADOR RICE'S MEETING WITH FRENCH PREMREP [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Rice paid an initial call on French PermRep Ripert on January 26. Ambassador Rice reviewed her priorities and sought Ripert's views. Ripert offered his views on the state of the UN, the importance of progress on Security Council reform, engaging the Secretary General [...]	2009-01-29 02:30:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC PGOV FR
09USUNNEWYORK573	ROBERT ORR, UN ASSISTANT SECRETARY GENERAL FOR [...] Summary: Ambassador Wolff and USUN Legal Advisers met with Robert Orr, Assistant Secretary-General for Planning and Policy Coordination in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General on May 22 to hear an update on the UN's Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force (CTITF). Orr, the pr [...]	2009-06-08 22:54:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	CT PREF PREL
09USUNNEWYORK574	MUSLIM AMBASSADORS PRAISE PRESIDENT'S CAIRO SPEECH [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Rice on June 4 hosted 28 Ambassadors from Muslim-majority countries at her residence to view President Obama's speech in Cairo a few hours earlier and discuss it. There was uniform praise for the President's sincerity and honesty, and most judged the speech a watershed [...]	2009-06-08 23:27:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL KWBG IS UN EG
09USUNNEWYORK577	FORMER YUGOSLAVIA AND RWANDA WAR CRIMES TRIBUNALS [...] SUMMARY: The Security Council met June 5 for its biannual briefing on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). The President and Prosecutor of each tribunal made statements, as did all Council members and [...]	2009-06-10 00:18:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	ICTY PREL UNSC
09USUNNEWYORK589	AMBASSADORS DENNIS ROSS AND SUSAN RICE DISCUSS [...] (C) Ambassador Rice and Special Advisor for the Gulf and Southwest Asia Ambassador Dennis Ross on June 9 met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to explain key elements of U.S. diplomatic outreach to Iran and to hear Ban's assessment. Ambassador Ross explained that President Obama in various fora [...]	2009-06-13 00:23:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ZP IR IS UNSC
09USUNNEWYORK602	DPRK: U.S./JAPAN SHARE THOUGHTS ON NEXT STEPS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Rice told Japanese Perm Rep Takasu that the United States is now focused on implementing the new sanctions imposed on the DPRK in resolution 1874. She explained that in the highly-likely event of a future DPRK provocation, Washington would prefer not to engage in a tit [...]	2009-06-18 11:03:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN UNSC
09USUNNEWYORK603	REPATRIATION OF SIMON TARALALA [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified - please protect accordingly. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Simon Taralala, the 16 year-old adopted son of Papua New Guinea Deputy PermRep Mathilda Takaku, has been in foster care under the control of New York City's Administration of Children's Services (NYC [...]	2009-06-18 17:00:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	OFDP PREL PP UN
09USUNNEWYORK624	UNSC: MONTHLY MEETING ON THE MIDDLE EAST [...] (SBU) Summary: The Security Council held its monthly meeting on the Middle East on June 23. UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Serry briefed the Council and highlighted the concerted push to create the conditions for re-launching negotiations for a two state solution. [...]	2009-06-26 00:56:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KWBG KPAL UN IS LE
09USUNNEWYORK63	UN UPDATE: CNDP JOINING DRC ARMY; DRC AND RWANDA [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-30 00:26:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPKO UNSC XA CG RW UG
09USUNNEWYORK630	UGANDA SHOPPING FOR HELP ON SOMALIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ugandan Defense Minister Kiyonga told Ambassador DiCarlo on June 24 that Uganda still strongly favors a UNPKO for Somalia and that, in the meantime, AMISOM needs to push the envelope on services provided by a U.S. contractor in Mogadishu to allow more troops, better communication [...]	2009-06-26 22:38:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS PTER ASEC KPKO UNSC ER SO
09USUNNEWYORK633	AMB. RICE ADDRESSES UN SMALL STATES FORUM [...] Summary - At the June 23 Forum of Small States (FOSS) held within Singapore's Mission to the United Nations, Ambassador Rice delivered remarks and participated in a discussion on development, security, democracy, climate change, the financial crisis, and the role of the United Nations in helpi [...]	2009-06-27 00:26:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AORC PGOV KUNR UNGA SN
09USUNNEWYORK635	UN SECURITY COUNCIL APPROVES INTEGRATED OFFICE FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UN Peacebuilding Support Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNOGBIS) Special Representative Joseph Mutaboba on June 23 told the Security Council that Guinea-Bissau needed coordinated security sector reform. He also lobbied for the creation of a robust integrated UN office to replace UNOGB [...]	2009-06-27 01:42:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL UNSC XY PU
09USUNNEWYORK64	UNSC: U/SYG HOLMES AND UNRWA CHIEF BRIEF COUNCIL [...] (SBU) Summary: Under Secretary-General Holmes and UNRWA Commissioner-General Abu Zayd briefed the Security Council January 27 on the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Holmes said he was shocked by the destruction and suffering he saw in Gaza on his recent trip and highlighted both Hamas' use of [...]	2009-01-30 00:26:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER EAID SOCI UNSC KWBG KPAL IS LY
09USUNNEWYORK640	AMB RICE'S JUNE 29 MEETING WITH CHAIR OF NPT [...] (C) Ambassador Rice met with Zimbabwean PermRep Chidyausiku on June 29 to discuss his work as chair of the NPT Preparatory Committee (PrepCom). Chidyausiku said the U.S. had been very helpful during last month's PrepCom meeting. In response to the Ambassador's question as to what more the U. [...]	2009-06-30 20:19:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC KNNP MNUC PARM PREL UNGA NPT IAEA
09USUNNEWYORK646	AMBASSADOR DICARLO'S JUNE 30 MEETING WITH IDF BG [...] (C) Summary: Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Brigadier General Yossi Heymann, who leads the IDF delegation to the UNIFIL monthly tripartite meetings, told Ambassador DiCarlo on June 30 that Iran and Hizballah are the major Israeli concerns when discussing the implementation of UNSCR 1701. Israeli [...]	2009-07-02 00:08:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO UN IS LE SY IR
09USUNNEWYORK649	UN SECRETARIAT TELLS THE SECURITY COUNCIL TO "STAY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UN DPKO U/SYG Le Roy told the Security Council on June 25 that UN troops in Liberia should not be withdrawn too quickly, and that 8,000 should remain through the 2011 national elections. He said training for the Liberian National Police needed to be brought back on track, and [...]	2009-07-02 21:43:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL UNSC XY LI IV
09USUNNEWYORK652	SPECIAL ENVOY OBASANJO SHARES VIEWS ON DRC, SOUTH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Obasanjo met with Ambassador Rice on June 29 and the P5 Belgium on June 30. He told Rice that neither Rwanda nor the DRC wanted to shelter former CNDP leader Nkunda. He suggested implementing greater incentives to encourage FDLR combatants [...]	2009-07-07 02:11:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL UNSC RW SU GC XA
09USUNNEWYORK654	DPRK: COUNCIL RESPONDS TO JULY 4 MISSILE LAUNCHES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 6, the Security Council discussed how best to respond to the July 4 launch of short- and medium-range ballistic missiles by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Most Council members supported a Japanese proposal that the Council President (currently Ugandan [...]	2009-07-07 11:42:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN UNSC
09USUNNEWYORK657	AMBASSADOR RICE'S MEETING WITH PALESTINIAN [...] (C) Summary: Palestinian Observer Ambassador Mansour raised with Ambassador Rice on July 6 the possibility of cooperating on the various Israeli-Palestinian-related UNGA resolutions. Ambassador Rice pressed Mansour to set a tone during the upcoming UNGA that is constructive, responsible, and [...]	2009-07-07 23:43:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KWBG UNGA IS
09USUNNEWYORK659	1267 BRIEFING:STATISTICAL UPDATE ON KEY TASKS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The chair of the Al-Qaeda/Taliban Sanctions Committee ("1267 Committee"),Austrian Perm Rep Mayr-Harting, held an open briefing for UN Member States to discuss the Committee's activities and "enhance the transparency" of the Committee's work. He focused on two main tasks manda [...]	2009-07-08 10:54:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN UNSC
09USUNNEWYORK661	DPRK:1718 COMMITTEE DESIGNATIONS STALEMATED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 7, the DPRK Sanctions Committee ("1718 Committee") continued its work to implement key tasks in Resolution 1874, including making new sanctions designations by July 12, drafting a Program of Work to guide the Committee's work, and helping to establish a Panel of Expert [...]	2009-07-09 14:11:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MCAP PGOV PHUM PREL KN UNSC
09USUNNEWYORK663	G-7 FOLLOW-UP MEETING ON UN PEACEKEEPING BUDGET [...] (C) On 2 July 2009, the Japanese Mission hosted a meeting of the Fifth Committee delegates of the G-7 countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the U.S.) to exchange views regarding negotiation of the peacekeeping scale of assessment during the upcoming fall session of the [...]	2009-07-09 15:38:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AMGT AORC UN

09USUNNEWYORK664	EXTENSION OF TERM OF OFFICE OF YUGOSLAV AND [...] The Security Council on July 7 adopted (15-0-0) two resolutions (1877 and 1878) to authorize the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) to extend the terms of some of their permanent judges until 2010. Resolut [...]	2009-07-09 16:28:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ICTY PHUM
09USUNNEWYORK667	AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS WITH CTED EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR [...] (U) The UN's Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate's (CTED) Executive Director, Mike Smith, met with Ambassador Rice on July 7. Ambassador Rice thanked Smith for the positive impact he has had as Executive Director. Smith provided an overview of CTED's work and shared some recent initiati [...]	2009-07-09 23:13:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	CT PARM PREF PREL
09USUNNEWYORK670	GAMBARI CONVENES THE NINTH BURMA GROUP OF FRIENDS [...] (SBU) Summary. On July 8, Special Advisor Gambari convened the ninth Group of Friends of Burma meeting on behalf of Secretary-General Ban. Gambari reviewed Ban's schedule of meetings during the trip as well as his brief visit to the Delta and speech to the diplomatic corps and others. Gamba [...]	2009-07-09 23:30:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM UNSC BM
09USUNNEWYORK676	UN SECURITY COUNCIL CONSULTATIONS ON SYG'S [...] (SBU) Summary: In July 8 Security Council consultations on the UNSCR 1701 report, UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Williams told the Council that the successful Lebanese parliamentary elections and the calm during the reporting period offers a real opportunity for full implementation of UNS [...]	2009-07-11 00:31:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPAL KPKO UN IS LE SY
09USUNNEWYORK68	UN - GA LAUNCHES NEW ICT SYSTEM AND STRATEGY AND [...] Summary: The General Assembly, on December 24, 2008, took action on the proposals contained in several reports from the Secretary-General on the Secretariat,s information and communications technology (ICT) systems. The reform of the Organization's ICT systems was one of the reforms identif [...]	2009-01-30 16:39:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC KUNR PREL UNGA
09USUNNEWYORK681	U/SYG LE ROY BRIEFS AMBASSADOR RICE ON UPCOMING [...] (C) Summary: On July 7, Under Secretary General for the Department of Peacekeeping Operations Alain Le Roy and Under Secretary General for the Department of Field Services Susana Malcorra met with Ambassador Rice to brief her on Le Roy's upcoming trip to Sudan. Head of the Darfur Inter-opera [...]	2009-07-13 15:14:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO SU AF
09USUNNEWYORK682	UN OFFICE FOR WEST AFRICA BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL, [...] (SBU) UN Office for West Africa (UNOWA) SRSG Djinnit briefed the Security Council on July 7 on the biggest challenges facing the region, namely unconstitutional changes of government, security sector reform, and drug trafficking. He warned of the slow pace of reform in Guinea. Djinnit said UN [...]	2009-07-13 16:09:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL UNSC XY
09USUNNEWYORK685	ACTION REQUEST: IDENTIFYING OPTIONS FOR RESPONDING [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 5 below. 2. (SBU) Following the Security Council's debate on Somalia July 9, Council members are now considering whether to move forward on the question of sanctioning Eritrea for undermining the Djibouti Peace Process. The Council [...]	2009-07-14 11:01:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM MARR MOPS KPKO UNSC SO ER
09USUNNEWYORK692	AD HOC COMMITTEE ON MEASURES TO ELIMINATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ad Hoc Committee on Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism met from June 29 to July 2 to discuss the Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism (CCIT). While all countries publicly expressed the belief that terrorism must be condemned and professed the desir [...]	2009-07-15 16:17:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL CT
09USUNNEWYORK693	ASSISTANT SECRETARY SCHWARTZ MEETS WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Eric Schwartz, Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) visited New York on July 13 for meetings with the United Nations and USUN/New York. In talks with the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, John Holmes, Schwartz reviewed the [...]	2009-07-15 20:33:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PHUM PREF
09USUNNEWYORK70	GEORGIA: GROUP OF FRIENDS INFORMAL CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST. At an informal meeting of Ambassadors of the Georgia Group of Friends on January 29, Russian PermRep Churkin linked Russian cooperation on an extension of the UN Mission in Georgia to an invitation from the Security Council for Abkhaz de facto authorities to par [...]	2009-01-30 18:55:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC GG RS
09USUNNEWYORK701	DPRK:1718 COMMITTEE MAKES NEW SANCTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 16, the DPRK Sanctions Committee ("1718 Committee") unanimously approved a package of new sanctions designations, which included five entities, five individuals, and two technical items linked to DPRK's nuclear and ballistic missile programs. The Committee acted in res [...]	2009-07-18 00:22:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MCAP PGOV PHUM PREL KN UNSC
09USUNNEWYORK72	AMBASSADOR RICE'S MEETING WITH ISRAELI AMBASSADOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Israeli Permanent Representative to the United Nations Gabriela Shalev on January 28 welcomed Ambassador Rice to her new post during their initial meeting. During the hour-long meeting, Shalev stressed Israel's commitment to the peace process while isolating Hamas and ending smug [...]	2009-01-30 19:42:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	EG IR IS KPAL KWBG LE PAL SY UNSC
09USUNNEWYORK721	CLOSED COUNCIL SESSION LEAVES LITTLE DOUBT OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. On July 23 Alain LeRoy, UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, briefed Security Council members in consultations on the July 14 explosion of an arms cache in southern Lebanon and obstruction of UNIFIL's movements and initial investigation. LeRoy said the cache rep [...]	2009-07-24 16:33:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KPKO UN IS LE
09USUNNEWYORK723	SOMALI FOREIGN MINISTER OMAAR POSITIVE ON THE TFG, FRUSTRATED BY ERITREA [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-24 16:40:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM MARR MOPS KPKO UNSC SO ER
09USUNNEWYORK74	AMBASSADOR RICE'S MEETING WITH PALESTINIAN [...] (C) Head of the Palestinian Observer Mission Riyad Mansour used his January 28 introductory meeting with Ambassador Rice to urge renewed USG engagement with the UN. He said the Palestinian Mission is interested in building consensus for UN actions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and enco [...]	2009-01-30 20:36:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL PREL PGOV UN IS
09USUNNEWYORK749	SECURITY COUNCIL CONSIDERS FARDC-5 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. U/SYG Le Roy told the Security Council on August 4 that all five senior FARDC officers implicated by the Council itself as involved in sexual violence had been removed from their command positions and two had also been taken into custody by DRC authorities. He said the other t [...]	2009-08-06 02:31:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL UNSC CG
09USUNNEWYORK752	UNGA 64: TANZANIA INVITES PRESIDENT OBAMA'S PARTICIPATION [...] (SBU) Tanzanian PermRep Augustine Mahiga requested a meeting with Ambassador Rice following up on the May 21 meeting between Tanzanian President Kikwete and President Obama, and conveyed Kikwete's hopes that President Obama would participate in two high-level events contemplated on the margins [...]	2009-08-06 19:49:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI PHUM ECON EAID KWMN UNGA TZ
09USUNNEWYORK756	AMBASSADOR RICE MEETING WITH PERM REPS OF PACIFIC [...] (SBU - NO FORN) Ambassador Rice met August 5 at USUN with Perm Reps of Nauru (coordinator of Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS) in New York),Fiji and Tonga to discuss several issues, including the security implications of climate change. The delegation expressed disappointment tha [...]	2009-08-07 21:35:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON SENV KGHG AORC UNGA EAID XV
09USUNNEWYORK759	DPRK: COMMITTEE BLESSES PANEL OF EXPERTS SLATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 7, the DPRK Sanctions Committee ("1718 Committee") blessed a seven-person slate for the Panel of Experts (POE),a newly-established body under UNSCR 1874 charged with helping the Committee monitor and improve the implementation of sanctions on the DPRK. The Secretary-Ge [...]	2009-08-10 23:57:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC MCAP PGOV PHUM PREL KNNP KN UNSC
09USUNNEWYORK76	GEORGIA PERMREP DISCUSSES UNOMIG WITH AMBASSADORS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Rice told newly arrived Georgian PermRep Lomaia that Russia was tying extension of UNOMIG's mandate to Abkhaz formal participation in a UNSC meeting under Rule 39. Participation in an Arria-format meeting might be a compromise option to preclude their formal attendance [...]	2009-02-02 19:05:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC RS GG
09USUNNEWYORK764	SECURITY COUNCIL AGAIN DEBATES THE FUTURE OF [...] (SBU) Summary: U/SYG Alain Le Roy, U/SYG Susana Malcorra and UNAMID Force Commander Agwai briefed the Security Council on August 5, during an open debate on peacekeeping convened by the UK. The two U/SYGs highlighted key themes in the Secretariat's recently issued "New Horizon" non-paper, i [...]	2009-08-12 21:21:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	UNSC PHUM PREL
09USUNNEWYORK768	UNIFIL TCC MEETING: DPKO AGAIN HIGHLIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 13, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Mulet briefed Security Council members and troop contributing countries (TCCs) in a private meeting on the July 14 explosion of an arms cache in southern Lebanon and obstruction of UNIFIL's movement and initi [...]	2009-08-14 20:49:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPKO UN IS LE
09USUNNEWYORK77	AMBASSADOR RICE'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Croatian PermRep Neven Jurica told Ambassador Rice during a January 29 introductory meeting, that Croatia considered the United States to be a strong ally and friend, and that he would continue his practice of closely coordinating Croatia's Security Council positions with the Un [...]	2009-02-03 02:23:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV UNSC HR
09USUNNEWYORK772	ETHIOPIAN CHARGE EAGER TO SANCTION ERITREA; AGREES [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-17 09:03:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM MARR MOPS KPKO UNSC SO
09USUNNEWYORK78	AMBASSADOR RICE'S MEETING WITH MEXICAN PERMANENT [...] (C) Summary: In an initial January 29 meeting with Ambassador Rice, Mexican PermRep Heller said that modest Security Council reform is the most feasible option. He commented that Mexico supported Security Council resolution 1860 on the ceasefire in Gaza and highlighted the importance of the [...]	2009-02-03 02:52:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC MX
09USUNNEWYORK784	A/SYG MULET BRIEFS COUNCIL ON SUDAN ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: In his August 20 briefing to the Council on Sudan elections, A/SYG Mulet discussed remaining challenges towards holding credible elections in April 2010: ensuring freedom of press, speech and assembly; reaching an agreement on census results; developing an operational plan and [...]	2009-08-24 22:37:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KPKO SU AF
09USUNNEWYORK796	AMBASSADOR RICE AND SYG BAN DISCUSS GADDAFI VISIT, [...] (C) Summary: On the margins of a meeting to discuss the Security Council program of work for September, Ambassador Rice asked SYG Ban to help ensure Gaddafi's participation in the Security Council was productive. She also told Ban that the U.S. wanted to see continued UN leadership on donor co [...]	2009-08-27 23:03:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	UN UNGA XD XA
09USUNNEWYORK798	ISRAELI PARTICIPATION IN UNRWA AT 60 EVENT - USUN [...] (C) Summary: The Palestinian Observer Mission to the UN has taken a very hard-line position against the Israeli request for a speaking role at the high level segment of the UNRWA 60th anniversary commemorative event. The Arab members of the steering committee are likely to follow the Palestin [...]	2009-08-28 13:49:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF UNGA IS KPAL
09USUNNEWYORK803	HONDURAN PERM REP INQUIRES IF USG CAN HOST [...] This is an action request. See paras 3 and 6. ZELAYA MAY TRAVEL TO NEW YORK AFTER WASHINGTON --------------------------------------------- - 2. (C) In a meeting with Ambassador Wolff, August 28, Honduran PermRep Reina Idiaquez reported that President Zelaya would be coming to Washington [...]	2009-08-31 12:50:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA HO
09USUNNEWYORK812	DPRK: PANEL OF EXPERTS ALMOST UP AND RUNNING [...] (C) SUMMARY: The newly-created UN Panel of Experts (POE) for North Korea is on track to be operational by mid- to late-September, somewhat later than planned. As a result of various delays -- namely political wrangling and logistics snags -- none of the seven experts has yet arrived in New Yo [...]	2009-09-02 16:25:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN UNSC
09USUNNEWYORK817	AMBASSADOR RICE AND INDIAN PR PURI DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Rice and a team from USUN met on August 26 with Indian Mission counterparts as the first step to deepen understanding and cooperation across a broad range of UN issues. The new Indian ambassador arrived with instructions to strengthen the U.S.-India relationship at th [...]	2009-09-04 12:14:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PTER
09USUNNEWYORK818	1267: SAVING THE AL-QAEDA/TALIBAN SANCTIONS REGIME [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bold action is needed to salvage the UN's 1267 al-Qaeda/Taliban targeted sanctions regime. This effective multilateral tool has been seriously undermined by criticisms -- and adverse European court rulings -- asserting that procedures for listing and delisting names are not adequ [...]	2009-09-04 13:00:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL EFIN PTER KTFN UNSC
09USUNNEWYORK82	AMBASSADOR RICE'S MEETING WITH AUSTRALIAN PERMREP [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a February 2 introductory call on Australian PermRep Hill, Ambassador Rice reviewed her top priorities and solicited close partnership with the Australian Mission. Ambassador Hill shared views on candidates to replace the UNDP Administrator, worried that the ultimate decision [...]	2009-02-03 15:32:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNDP KGHG PARM PHUM KDEM AS XV
09USUNNEWYORK837	S/CT AMBASSADOR BENJAMIN MEETS WITH UN [...] Summary: In an August 25 visit to the UN, S/CT Ambassador Daniel Benjamin met with Richard Barrett, Coordinator, Al-Qaida/Taliban Monitoring Team (UNSCR 1267),Mike Smith, Executive Director, Counter-terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED),and the acting Chair of the Security Council Counte [...]	2009-09-15 16:05:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	CT PARM PREF PREL
09USUNNEWYORK840	MOVING FORWARD AT UNGA 64 ON THE COMPREHENSIVE [...] (U) This is an action cable. See paragraph 3. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The Sixth Committee will address the CCIT on October 6, 7 and 23. Negotiations on the CCIT have foundered for nine years on two issues: (1) the scope of an exemption for military activities and (2) exemption of national lib [...]	2009-09-16 14:04:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	CT PREL
09USUNNEWYORK861	UGANDA TO CONSIDER ERITREA SANCTIONS RESOLUTION [...] (C) Summary: During a September 20 bilateral meeting with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, USUN Ambassador Rice underlined that the U.S. supports a sanctions resolution on Eritrea that includes a condemnation and action in response to Eritrea,s destabilizing activities in both Somalia and D [...]	2009-09-29 15:25:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	AU ER ETRD MARR PNAT PREL PTER SO SU UG
09USUNNEWYORK862	USUN REITERATES REQUEST TO JOIN UK EFFORT TO [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (SBU) On July 31 of this year, USUN recommended that the Department support the United Kingdom's effort to shift the establishment of the Special Court for Sierra Leone's residual mechanism to the UN Security Council and to [...]	2009-09-29 23:29:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KJUS UN SL
09USUNNEWYORK866	PRESIDENT OBAMA'S SEPTEMBER 23 MEETING WITH TOP UN [...] (U) SUMMARY: Immediately following his address to the Open Debate of the UN General Assembly on September 23, President Obama convened an unprecedented meeting with the Heads of State and Foreign Ministers of the top contributors of troops and police to UN peacekeeping operations. President [...]	2009-10-01 09:29:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL UNGA UNSC KPKO
09USUNNEWYORK868	IRAQI FM ZEBARI MEETING WITH AMBASSADOR RICE [...] (SBU) Summary: During Ambassador Rice's September 28 meeting with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, he reiterated the Iraqi government request for U.S. support for a UN investigation into the August 19 Baghdad bombings and to move out of Chapter VII obligations. Zebari confirmed that Ir [...]	2009-10-01 17:30:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PGOV KPKO OVIP IZ SY
09USUNNEWYORK871	COTE D,IVOIRE: EXPERTS DOCUMENT SANCTIONS [...] SUMMARY: The UN Group of Experts on Cote d'Ivoire, a UN team established to monitor sanctions imposed on that country, submitted a final report documenting impediments to full implementation of these measures, particularly the UN ban on the export of diamonds. While the Group found that the [...]	2009-10-02 09:51:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ETTC UNSC
09USUNNEWYORK873	MADAGASCAR DELEGATION EXCLUDED FROM GENERAL DEBATE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Madagascar's unconstitutional president, Andry Rojoelina, was scheduled to speak in the General Debate in the afternoon of Friday, Sept. 25th. He was blocked by a vote, following a point of order raised by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, acting in their role of president of [...]	2009-10-05 22:25:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNGA AORC AF
09USUNNEWYORK875	LIBYA REQUESTS URGENT UN SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING [...] (SBU) On October 6, Libyan PermRep Shalgham sent a letter to the UN Security Council President (Vietnam) requesting, under Rule 2 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, an urgent meeting of the Security Council "to discuss the Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the G [...]	2009-10-06 23:03:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KWBG UNSC IS LY
09USUNNEWYORK887	UN GENERAL DEBATE CONTINUES (SEPTEMBER 25 AM) [...] SUMMARY: The UN General Debate continued on September 25 on a range of topics from climate change to UN reform (particularly Security Council membership),the Israel-Palestine dispute and multilateralism. The following heads of state or government spoke: Zimbabwe; Nauru; Palau; Estonia; Cote [...]	2009-10-09 21:25:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	UNGA ECON PGOV PREL AORC KPKO US ZI NR PS
09USUNNEWYORK888	UN GENERAL DEBATE CONTINUES (SEPTEMBER 23 PM): [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The September 23rd afternoon session of the General debate saw the U.S. delegation walk out of Iranian President Ahmedinejad's fiery diatribe against the U.S. and Israel. The Iranian President derided capitalist economic systems, defended recent election results, and condemned bo [...]	2009-10-09 21:46:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	UNGA PREL PGOV ECON AORC KPKO SW UK IT AR
09USUNNEWYORK89	FIFTH COMMITTEE ACTION ON THE 2008/2009 BUDGET [...] Summary: The main session of the 63rd General Assembly concluded early morning on December 24, 2008. The Fifth Committee considered an extraordinary number of proposals most of which were deferred from the Main session of the 62nd General Assembly (GA). At the outset of the session, the Orga [...]	2009-02-03 22:45:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC KUNR PREL
09USUNNEWYORK890	GENERAL DEBATE CONTINUES: CUBA AND MYANMAR SPEAK [...] SUMMARY: The eleventh plenary meeting of the 64th UN general assembly was held on the morning of September 28. The following countries spoke: San Marino, Namibia, Peru, Myanmar, Mexico, Bahrain, Cuba, Tunisia, Eritrea; Syria; Niger; Sudan; Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); Oman; Belize; Sin [...]	2009-10-10 02:07:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ECON KPKO UNGA AORC SM WA PE BM
09USUNNEWYORK892	SECURITY COUNCIL ADOPTS AND DEBATES WOMEN, PEACE, [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 5, Vietnamese Foreign Minister Khiem chaired the Security Council open debate on the Secretary-General's report on Women, Peace, and Security. At the top of the meeting, the Council adopted follow-on resolution 1889, which focuses on women's empowerment in post-confl [...]	2009-10-12 15:49:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM SOCI KPKO KWMN UNSC CG
09USUNNEWYORK893	SECRETARY CLINTON CHAIRS UNANIMOUS ADOPTION OF [...] (SBU) Summary. Secretary of State Clinton chaired the unanimous adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1888 on conflict-related sexual violence which was co-sponsored by 68 UN member states including 10 members of the Security Council. Russia, China, Libya, Uganda and Vietnam did not co- [...]	2009-10-13 20:08:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM SOCI KPKO KWMN UNSC CG
09USUNNEWYORK895	ERITREA PRESSES FOR IMPROVED RELATIONS, FAILS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a September 28 meeting with Ambassador Rice and AF DAS Fitzgerald, Eritrean Foreign Minister Osman Saleh and Presidential Advisor Yemane Ghebreab underscored their desire to improve relations with the United States, while denying that Eritrea is fueling the insurgency in So [...]	2009-10-13 20:23:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA UNP PGOV PTER KPKO ET SO
09USUNNEWYORK90	GEORGIA/RUSSIA: AMBASSADOR'S RICE MEETING WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY. Russian PermRep Vitaly Churkin met with Ambassador Rice and Ambassador DiCarlo on February 3 to sound out the U.S. position on an extension of the UN Observer Mission in Georgia. Churkin said Russia wanted to see a new resolution emphasize the terms of the "Medvedev-Sarkozy" agr [...]	2009-02-04 01:25:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC GG RS
09USUNNEWYORK910	BURMA, BURUNDI, COLOMBIA AND UGANDA ADDRESS SC [...] (SBU) The Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict (WGCAAC) held a formal meeting chaired by Mexican Permanent Representative Claude Heller on October 12 to adopt the group's conclusions on Burma and to discuss the Secretary General's reports on children and armed conflict [...]	2009-10-14 19:07:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM SOCI UNSC BM CO BY UG
09USUNNEWYORK915	DEBT RESOLVED- COMOROS MISSION TO THE UN [...] Vornado Realty Trust has informed USUN/HC that it has received a check for the payment of $43,242.54 from the Permanent Mission of the Union of the Comoros to the UN. This amount paid for the overdue rental arrears owed since September 2008 for the office space at 866 United Nations Plaza, Su [...]	2009-10-15 20:51:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	OFDP PREL CN
09USUNNEWYORK917	G77 OPPOSES CHANGES TO THE REGULAR BUDGET SCALES [...] This is an action request. See para 16. 2. (U) SUMMARY. Beginning with the last meeting of the G7 plus EU Group (G7 Group) on scales at the margins of the Fall meeting of the Geneva Group CLM (GG),the subject of scales has begun in earnest in the 64th General Assembly (GA). At the GG [...]	2009-10-15 21:32:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AMGT AORC UN UNGA
09USUNNEWYORK925	U.N. GENERAL DEBATE CONTINUES (SEPTEMBER 28, PM): [...] (U) SUMMARY: The continuation of the U.N. General Debate saw an impassioned and unscripted speech by the Honduran Foreign Minister calling on the United Nations to restore order and democracy in her besieged country. To highlight the point, she called Honduran President Zelaya on her cell phon [...]	2009-10-19 15:38:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ECON KPKO UNGA UN AF AM AO BB CD
09USUNNEWYORK931	SENATOR BOXER DISCUSSES WOMEN, CLIMATE WITH SG [...] Senator Barbara Boxer came to New York to meet with Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon in her capacity as Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittees on International Organizations and Global Women's Issues. She raised the need to quickly appoint a Special Representative of the Secretary-G [...]	2009-10-20 22:18:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI SENV KWMN KGHG UNGA
09USUNNEWYORK932	(U) U.N. GENERAL DEBATE CONTINUES (SEPTEMBER 24, [...] (U) Summary: Speeches in the afternoon session of the second day of the UNGA General Debate (September 24) continued with some familiar topics. Latin American leaders from Venezuela, Costa Rica, and Paraguay all condemned the coup in Honduras. Most of the speakers called for reform of the Un [...]	2009-10-20 23:35:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	CS ECON GA GY IZ LG MI PA PGOV PREL SI TZ
09USUNNEWYORK944	ARABS REQUEST U.S. SUPPORT FOR SECURITY COUNCIL [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Wolff met Friday October 23 with the representatives of Arab states and organizations that have joined together as a follow-up group to lobby for action on the Goldstone Report in New York. The Palestinian Permanent Observer suggested the establishment of a "monitoring [...]	2009-10-24 00:38:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KWBG UNSC IS LY
09USUNNEWYORK948	64TH UNGA/FIRST COMMITTEE BEGINS GENERAL DEBATE: [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-26 22:53:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	CD CDG KN PARM PREL UNGA
09USUNNEWYORK950	64TH UNGA/FIRST COMMITTEE BEGINS GENERAL DEBATE: [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-26 22:56:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	CD CDG KN PARM PREL UNGA
09USUNNEWYORK962	GOLDSTONE REPORT: MEETING BETWEEN USUN DEPUTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: DPR Alex Wolff met October 28, 2009, with Israeli Legal Adviser Ehud Keinan, at the latter's request. Keinan provided information on the investigations the GOI has undertaken in response to complaints arising out of Operation Cast Lead. He noted the internal GOI debate on how t [...]	2009-10-29 21:43:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG KPAL UN IS
09USUNNEWYORK965	UNSC DEBATE ON UNMIT [...] (SBU) Summary: UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General Atul Khare briefed the Security Council on the Secretary-General's interim report on the UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste on UNMIT on October 23. Khare discussed the successful community elections, strengthening the rule o [...]	2009-10-29 23:15:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	UNSC XB XV XU
09USUNNEWYORK972	UNGA: CONTINUED CALLS FOR RETURN OF ZELAYA AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: In plenary session on October 28, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) met to discuss the political situation in Central America. The plenary focused on the CICIG (the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala),adopting a resolution, with U.S. co-sponsorship, commending [...]	2009-11-01 18:17:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV UNGA KCRM KJUS KDEM GT HO
09USUNNEWYORK977	ALBANIA CONFIRMS STRONG RELATIONS WITH U.S.; URGES [...] (SBU) Summary. In an October 27 introductory meeting with Ambassador Rice, Albanian Permanent Representative Hoxha underscored Albania's strong relationship with the U.S. and praised the Obama administration's philosophy of greater UN engagement. Hoxha stressed that increasing the number of [...]	2009-11-02 21:24:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV UNSC AL KO SR
09USUNNEWYORK98	UNMIS CONSULTATIONS AND THE ICC [...] (SBU) This is an action request. See paragraphs 3 and 11. 2. (SBU) Summary: On February 5, the Security Council held consultations on the Secretary General's quarterly report on the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS). SRSG Qazi stressed that the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) [...]	2009-02-10 01:33:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPKO SU AF
09USUNNEWYORK989	GENERAL DEBATE AND RESOLUTION ON THE INTERNATIONAL [...] Summary: On October 29, Judge Sang-Hyun Song updated the General Assembly on the activity of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Twenty-eight Member States addressed the General Assembly on the issue. Most countries pledged support for the ICC and commended Chile and the Czech Republic [...]	2009-11-03 22:38:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UNGA
09USUNNEWYORK99	PALESTINIANS PRESSING SYG TO BROADEN SCOPE OF [...] (C) Palestinian Permanent Observer Ambassador Mansour told Ambassador Wolff February 6 that he was exploring ways for the UN to investigate the conduct of the Gaza conflict. He cited as precedent UNSCR 1405 (2002) which "welcomed the initiative of the Secretary-General to develop accurate inf [...]	2009-02-10 01:47:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC KPAL KWBG IS
09USUNNEWYORK994	UN GENERAL DEBATE CONTINUES (SEPTEMBER 25 AM) [...] SUMMARY: The UN General Debate continued on September 25 on a range of topics from climate change to UN reform (particularly Security Council membership),the Israel-Palestine dispute and multilateralism. The following heads of state or government spoke: Zimbabwe; Nauru; Palau; Estonia; Cote [...]	2009-11-05 23:27:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	UNGA ECON PGOV PREL AORC KPKO US ZI NR PS
09USUNNEWYORK997	U.N. GENERAL DEBATE CONTINUES (SEPTEMBER 24, PM): [...] (U) SUMMARY: The afternoon session of the 2nd day of the UNGA General Debate on September 24 opened with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez criticizing the United States, dissecting the intentions of President Obama, and extolling the merits of socialism. Latin American leaders from Venezuela, C [...]	2009-11-05 23:31:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KPKO UNGA VE SI GY CS PA TZ LG
09USUNNEWYORK999	GUINEA-BISSAU: SECURITY COUNCIL CONCERNED WITH [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see para 15. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: UN Peacebuilding Support Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNOGBIS) Representative Joseph Mutaboba on November 5 told the Security Council in an open session that there has been progress on national reconcliation, especially sinc [...]	2009-11-06 20:48:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL UNSC PHUM SNAR XY PU ZA
09VALLETTA160	MALTA'S ASSISTED VOLUNTARY RETURNS PROGRAM SENDS [...] (U) On April 2 Charge' met Ives De Barro, a former Maltese Ambassador to Cairo who is now heading Malta's Assited Voluntary Returns (AVR) program for irregular migrants. Under the AVR program, immigrants who willingly leave Malta are flow at GoM expense back to their home countries and given 5 [...]	2009-04-08 07:06:00	Embassy Valletta	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF MT
09VALLETTA456	UPDATE: STATUS OF CONTAINERS SEIZED BY FROM M/V [...] (S) This cable provides addtional information in response to Ref A and amplifies Refs B and C. During Ambassador's initial courtesy call on Maltese PM Lawrence Gonzi October 13, Gonzi stated that the decision to seize and sequester the Hansa India cargo was a "burdensome" decision for Malta to [...]	2009-10-14 16:04:00	Embassy Valletta	SECRET	PARM PREL MNUC IR UK LY EG GM MT
09VALLETTA498	PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SYG [...] (S) SUMMARY. U.S. Ambassador to Malta Douglas Kmiec met November 12 with Mr. Sergio Piazzi, Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM),at Piazzi's request. Piazzi urged U.S. support for and participation in PAM's planned February meeting in Malta on the Jerus [...]	2009-11-16 19:12:00	Embassy Valletta	SECRET	PREL KPAL IS MT
09VANCOUVER196	PRO-MEK DEMONSTRATOR ATTEMPTS SELF-IMMOLATION IN FRONT OF [...] (C) An illegal but otherwise peaceful demonstration by supporters of the Mujahadeen-e-Khalq (MEK) in front of Consulate General Vancouver turned critical on July 31 as one of the demonstrators poured oil over her body and threatened to light herself on fire. The local guard force (LGF) and Ro [...]	2009-08-01 00:08:00	Consulate Vancouver	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PHUM IZ IR CA ASEC
09VANCOUVER205	CODEL BOEHNER HEARS THE CANADIAN SIDE ON BUY AMERICA [...] (U) Summary: A Congressional Delegation (Codel) headed by House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) met with Canadian business, municipal and provincial representatives to discuss the impact of ARRA Buy America provisions on cross-border trade. The Codel heard first-hand accounts of how Buy Ame [...]	2009-08-19 20:03:00	Consulate Vancouver	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON CA ETRD OVIP
09VANCOUVER261	CALGARY AND VANCOUVER FRAUD SUMMARY [...] (U) SUMMARY. There are no significant fraud incidents to report for this period. Note that this report is on behalf of Calgary and Vancouver. End Summary. 2. (U) COUNTRY CONDITIONS. Vancouver and Calgary are low-fraud posts. Malafide travelers find it less difficult to attempt entry a [...]	2009-11-10 17:20:00	Consulate Vancouver	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS ASEC KFRD CPAS CMGT CA
09VANCOUVER31	VANCOUVER 2010 OLYMPICS FEELING THE ECONOMIC PINCH IN [...] (U) Summary: The global economic crisis and modern demands of post 9/11 security are proving to be huge challenges for the organizers of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The competition and special events venues are complete and already hosting test events, but the financial crisis surro [...]	2009-02-12 18:25:00	Consulate Vancouver	CONFIDENTIAL	CA PGOV KOLY ASEC ECON
09VATICAN101	PATRIARCH DELLY AND TEHRAN ARCHBISHOP COMMENT ON CHRISTIANS [...] (C) Summary: The Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Cardinal Emmanuel Delly, and the Archbishop of Tehran, Ramzi Garmo, briefed polchief on September 25 about problems their communities face in Iraq and Iran. Delly said that there is no organized persecution of Christians in Iraq, ho [...]	2009-10-01 12:11:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PREF KIRF IZ IR VT
09VATICAN106	(C) VATICAN BACKS AWAY FROM DEAL WITH INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-16 14:39:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SCUL VT IS
09VATICAN113	THE VATICAN AND THE ANGLICANS: OPPORTUNITY OR OPPORTUNISM? [...] (C) The upcoming visit of the Archbishop of Canterbury to Rome November 21 will take place with the background of the Vatican's far-reaching decision to facilitate the conversion of disaffected Anglicans to Catholicism. Embassy contacts approving the measure interpret it as a bold and appropriate r [...]	2009-11-09 12:02:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF UK VT
09VATICAN117	VATICAN TWO-STEP WITH CUBA: CRITICIZE EMBARGO, ASK GOC FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli requested greater mass communication freedom for the Catholic Church in Cuba during his visit to the island November 6 to 8. On his return to Rome, he criticized U.S. economic sanctions against Cuba. The Vatican's approach to Havana remains to p [...]	2009-11-17 17:32:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ETTC PREL KIRF CU VT
09VATICAN119	POPE TURNS UP THE HEAT ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: Pope Benedict addressed the opening of the World Food Summit urging leaders to care for the world's hungry and protect the environment. Similarly, at the UN General Assembly, the Vatican nuncio stressed the need for a comprehensive international energy policy that protects the enviro [...]	2009-11-19 15:33:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC BEXP EAGR ENRG FAO PGOV PREL SENV UN DA SF
09VATICAN122	AMIDST CONTROVERSY, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY MEETS POPE [...] (S) Summary: During his recent visit to Rome and meeting with the Pope --planned before the Pope urged disaffected Anglicans to convert to Catholicism-- Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams challenged the position of the Catholic Church on ordination of women and made it clear that the Vat [...]	2009-11-30 17:19:00	Embassy Vatican	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF SOCI UK VT
09VATICAN123	AMIDST CONTROVERSY, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY MEETS POPE [...] (S) Summary: During his recent visit to Rome and meeting with the Pope --planned before the Pope urged disaffected Anglicans to convert to Catholicism-- Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams challenged the position of the Catholic Church on ordination of women and made it clear that the Vatican s [...]	2009-11-30 17:19:00	Embassy Vatican	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF SOCI UK VT
09VATICAN126	RUSSIA AND THE VATICAN ESTABLISH FORMAL RELATIONS, FOR [...] (C) On December 3, Russian President Medvedev and Pope Benedict XVI upgraded Russian-Holy See ties to "full" diplomatic relations. The announcement coincides with a period of warmer relations between the Vatican and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill (reftel) and the Holy See hopes the move wi [...]	2009-12-04 16:33:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PREL KIRF RS VT
09VATICAN127	(S) LET'S MAKE A DEAL?: VIETNAMESE PRESIDENT-POPE BENEDICT [...] (S) Summary: Following personal involvement by Cardinal Law, the visit by Vietnamese President Nguyen with Pope Benedict is finally confirmed for December 11; it's unclear as yet whether (or which?) concessions Vietnam made to secure the visit. Meanwhile, per ref a, the Vatican may indeed have [...]	2009-12-04 16:34:00	Embassy Vatican	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM OFDP VM VT
09VATICAN133	(C) VATICAN FOREIGN MINISTER ON AMCITS DETAINED IN IRAN, [...] (S) Begin Summary and Introduction: At a December 16 meeting requested by Ambassador Diaz, the Vatican's Foreign Minister said the Papal Nuncio in Iran has been asked to intercede in the case of three Amcits detained there; Mamberti said the Vatican would be pleased to be of assistance in that [...]	2009-12-16 15:49:00	Embassy Vatican	SECRET	PREL PHUM CASC KIRF VT IR HO UG UNGA
09VATICAN134	AN INVENTORY OF THE VATICAN'S INTERFAITH DIALOGUES [...] (SBU) Summary: The Vatican is a leader or partner in many inter-religious dialogues, primarily with the "Abrahamic" religions - Islam, Judaism, and of course, other Christians. Vatican leaders are also beginning to reach out to Asian faiths. This cable describes the Vatican's primary, organized dia [...]	2009-12-18 11:44:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KIRF SOCI SCUL VT
09VATICAN28	THE HOLY SEE: A FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE [...] (C) Summary: Together with other flaps, the recent global controversy over the lifted excommunication of a Holocaust denying bishop (reftel) exposed a major disconnect between Pope Benedict XVI's stated intentions and the way in which his message is received by the wider world. There are many cause [...]	2009-02-20 16:00:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECPS PHUM PGOV KPAO KIRF VT
09VATICAN31	PAPAL STATEMENTS AND NORTHERN SRI LANKA [...] (C) Summary: A/DCM and poloff met on February 27 with the Vatican's point person on Sri Lanka, Monsignor Joseph Murphy, to discuss the situation in that country and ongoing efforts to press the LTTE to allow the departure of civilians from conflict zones. Murphy strongly supports the efforts [...]	2009-02-27 18:29:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV PREF PTER KIRF CE VT
09VATICAN42	VATICAN VIEWS ON SAUDI GOVERNMENT REFORMS; DIALOGUE WITH [...] (C) Summary: The Vatican's Arabian Peninsula Director said the Holy See considered recent Cabinet changes in Saudi Arabia significant but "oversold". The decision to include all schools of Sunni jurisprudence in the Council of Senior Ulamas was far more meaningful. The Vatican still expected [...]	2009-03-18 13:03:00	Embassy Vatican	SECRET	PREL KIRF PHUM VT SA
09VATICAN47	(C) VATICAN WILL APPEAL TO IRAN TO RELEASE SABERI [...] (C) Charge d'Affaires delivered reftel demarche to Monsignor Franco Coppola, Holy See director for the Middle East, on March 31. Coppola, who had not previously heard of the case, listened attentively. He asked several questions about the USG interest in the case, including whether the USG m [...]	2009-03-31 14:26:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC KJUS PREL PHUM KIRF IR VT
09VATICAN57	(C) RECENT TAX AND PROPERTY TALKS WITH ISRAEL A FAILURE, [...] (S) Summary: The Holy See chief negotiator says the latest talks on implementation of the Vatican-Israel Fundamental Agreement (reftel) were a complete "failure." In an unusually frank move, the Holy See official shared his negotiating diary with the Embassy to detail how the talks broke down. [...]	2009-04-16 13:03:00	Embassy Vatican	SECRET	PREL PGOV KIRF IS VT
09VATICAN59	(C) VATICAN HOPES FOR BETTER U.S.-CUBA TIES, IN PART TO REIN [...] (C) Summary: The Holy See welcomes President Obama's new outreach to Cuba and hopes for further steps soon, perhaps to include prison visits for the wives of the Cuban Five. Better U.S.-Cuba ties would deprive Hugo Chavez of one of his favorite screeds and could help restrain him in the region, acc [...]	2009-04-22 16:27:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KIRF VT CU VE BL
09VATICAN61	(C) VATICAN PESSIMISTIC ON CHINA RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: The Vatican's point person for relations with China sees no change in the PRC's hard line towards the Catholic Church. Chinese Catholics loyal to the Pope risk detention, while clergy in the government-approved Patriotic Association are "treated like children" and strictly control [...]	2009-04-24 19:54:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KIRF PHUM CH TW VT
09VATICAN64	VATICAN ADDRESSED HUMAN RIGHTS WITH LUKASHENKA [...] (C) The Vatican's point person on relations with Belarus, Monsignor Julio Murat, told ADCM on April 29 that human rights were discussed during the meetings that President Lukashenka had with the Pope and Secretary of State Bertone on April 27 (reftel). Murat added that most of the conversatio [...]	2009-04-30 20:34:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF BO VT
09VATICAN78	HOLY SEE: SCENESETTER FOR THE PRESIDENTâ€™S JULY 10 VISIT [...] (C/NF) Holy See officials also are pleased you are visiting. Your meeting with Pope Benedict XVI will be an opportunity to discuss our shared commitments to overarching goals such as peace, justice, development, human dignity, and inter-faith understanding. From the Vatican's perspective, it will a [...]	2009-06-26 16:37:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV VT
09VATICAN82	POPE DISMISSES STAFFERS INVOLVED IN HOLOCAUST DENIER [...] (SBU) On July 8, the Pope quietly let go the Vatican personnel who had this spring recommended the restoration of communion with a break-away Catholic movement that included a Holocaust-denying bishop. Although the Pope clarified that he was not aware of Bishop Williamson's views at the time [...]	2009-07-09 08:51:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KIRF VT
09VATICAN83	(C) VATICAN: ZELAYA A PROBLEM, BUT DON'T PENALIZE HONDURANS [...] (C) Summary: In dealing with the recent constitutional crisis in Honduras (ref. A),the Vatican wants above all to avoid hurting the Honduran people. The Holy See wants international support for development programs there and contacts with Honduran institutions and Embassies to continue. The [...]	2009-07-15 16:30:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KIRF KDEM ECON HO VT
09VATICAN9	NEW MEDIA, ETERNAL MESSAGE: THE HOLY SEE AND THE WEB [...] (U) Summary: Pope Benedict XVI is now on YouTube. This new channel, the result of collaboration between the Vatican and Google, is the Holy See's latest foray into the world of new media. Concerns persist at the Holy See over the digital divide and web content, but the Vatican's commitment [...]	2009-01-26 17:43:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECPS PHUM VT PGOV KPAO

09VATICAN95	INTERFAITH DIATRIBES TURN TO DIALOGUE IN KRAKOW AT ANNUAL [...] (U) Summary: At the 22nd edition of an annual interfaith dialogue to promote peace, held this year in Krakow with thousands of observers, hundreds of senior religious and political leaders expressed great agreement on themes like food security. They also engaged in some interfaith sniping, un [...]	2009-09-14 14:10:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SOCI PGOV KIRF VT PL
09VIENNA101	2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT FOR AUSTRIA [...] Following is the 2009 Investment Climate Statement for Austria, keyed to reftel instructions: 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT -- AUSTRIA -------------------------------------------- Introduction ------------ Major structural conditions and the decisive parameters for foreign investo [...]	2009-01-27 10:15:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ELAB ETRD PGOV KTDB OPIC USTR
09VIENNA1026	AUSTRIA'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: STRUGGLING THROUGH CONTROVERSY [...] (U) Summary: The Austrian Catholic Church has had a number of high-profile clashes with the Vatican in 2009. Cardinal Schoenborn, Archbishop of Vienna and head of the Austrian Bishops' Conference, publicly criticized the Pope's decision in January to rescind the excommunication of a bishop who [...]	2009-08-12 15:01:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KIRF VN AU
09VIENNA1058	AUSTRIAN FOREIGN POLICY IN DOLDRUMS, BUT [...] (C) For many reasons, the present Austrian Government has largely ignored foreign policy since its formation in December 2008. Some of the reasons -- economic crisis, budget cuts, lack of ministerial interest -- are specific to the new government. Others, however -- lack of a long-term goal, popula [...]	2009-08-20 11:36:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AU
09VIENNA1069	Magna's Frank Stronach - Enigmatic Austrian Emigre and [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This cable offers biographical context on Frank Stronach, the 76 year-old "Austro-Canadian" founder and CEO of Magna International, one of the world's largest automotive companies and a leading contender to acquire General Motors' European operations. After emigrating to Canada [...]	2009-08-21 14:13:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EIND EINV ECON PINR AU
09VIENNA108	Austrians Push EU to Help Banks on Eastern [...] SUMMARY: The Austrian government announced January 27 it will press the EU to help the financial sectors in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) in the wake of the global credit crisis and global downturn. Last week, the GOA assembled key regional players (including the IMF) for c [...]	2009-01-28 15:28:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN AU EU
09VIENNA1081	Austrian Economy Looking Up; Long Haul Ahead [...] SUMMARY: Austria's economy shrank 0.4% in Q2/2009 (versus the previous quarter),a sign of stabilization after the 2.7% first quarter contraction. Economists say the recession is coming to an end in Austria, but do not expect a swift upturn in the second half, and see further deterioration in [...]	2009-08-26 09:24:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ELAB EUN AU
09VIENNA1088	Austrian Parliament to Lift Bank Secrecy for Foreigners, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 26, Austria's governing parties reached agreement with the opposition Greens and BZO on a bill which partially lifts bank secrecy for foreigners (in exchange for stronger opposition rights to invoke investigative committees and special state audits). Parliament is exp [...]	2009-08-28 13:41:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN AU
09VIENNA1089	GOA BELIEVES FERRERO-WALDNER COULD WIN UNESCO RACE [...] (SBU) MFA SecGen Kyrle told the Ambassador August 27 that he does not believe Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni will draw enough votes to win the race for the UNESCO Director General position on the first ballot. Kyrle said he expects Austria's Benita Ferrero-Waldner to finish second to [...]	2009-08-28 14:30:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNESCO EG AU
09VIENNA1115	AUSTRIAN DIRECTOR OF FOREIGN TRADE POLICY EXPRESSES [...] (SBU) Summary: Josef Mayer, Austrian Ministry of Economics Director of Foreign Trade and EU Integration, said he would like to revive informal commercial talks with the U.S. and hopes to pursue the subject in Washington in October. He also cited the Ukraine as the next market with great poten [...]	2009-09-02 15:04:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EIND BEXP ECON AU
09VIENNA1125	AUSTRIA AND THE VISA WAIVER PROGRAM: VISIT OF [...] (C) Summary. Staffdel Nunez-Neto's Aug. 27 meetings with Data Protection Office personnel revealed some positive movement in Austrian thinking about the data protection provisions of the PCSC agreement; however, serious concerns remain about the HSPD-6. With the Foreign and Interior Ministri [...]	2009-09-08 13:20:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	CVIS PREL PGOV PTER AU
09VIENNA1155	Austria Climate Update: GoA Investing Heavily, But Still [...] SUMMARY: Leading Austrian researchers say the GoA must invest much more in the fight against global warming in order to sustain the emissions and energy use reductions associated with the ongoing economic crisis. Existing and planned laws/standards and investment levels are not enough to meet [...]	2009-09-11 11:34:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV KGHG ENRG EIND ECON AU
09VIENNA1212	Austria Implements Bank Secrecy Reform; Determined to [...] SUMMARY: On September 1, Austria's Parliament approved a new law lifting bank secrecy in tax information exchange cases involving non-citizens. The GoA has moved swiftly to sign enough amended double taxation conventions to have the OECD remove Austria from its "Grey List" (jurisdictions tha [...]	2009-09-21 12:32:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN AU
09VIENNA1220	UPPER AUSTRIAN ELECTIONS: SOCIAL DEMOCRATS COULD [...] (U) Summary: The conservative People's Party (OVP) is widely expected to retain first place in Upper Austria's September 27 elections, fueled by the popularity of Governor Josef Puehringer. The Social Democrats (SPO) will remain in second place, but polls show the party's support dropping 3-8 [...]	2009-09-22 11:46:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AU
09VIENNA1257	Austria Banking/Finance Update [...] First-half results of Austrian banks were largely positive, with higher operating results offset by a strong expansion of loan loss provisions. Tier 1 capital ratios as of June 30 ranged from 6.7% to 10.9%. Unicredit Bank Austria will not take GoA equity participation and financial sector exp [...]	2009-09-30 10:13:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN AU
09VIENNA1354	Austrian Development Aid Panned as Vienna-Centric, [...] SUMMARY: The GoA has just released a Court of Auditors report highly critical of the Austrian Development Agency (ADA). Instead of streamlining the assistance delivery, the ADA's creation in 2004 added a new layer of sometimes biased bureaucracy and diluted aid coordination with Austrian embas [...]	2009-10-16 15:14:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EFIN EAGR AU
09VIENNA1372	(SBU) GoA Alleges Diversion of Glock Pistols to Philippines [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Austria's Economic Ministry has contacted Post and the Department's Officeof Defense Trade Controls Compliance (DTCC) withinformation on possible mis-direction of Glock hanguns (produced in Austria and assembled in a U.S facility),including -- large-scale diversion of pistols no [...]	2009-10-21 14:07:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC AU
09VIENNA1382	Blue Lantern Broker Inquiry: Verifying Bona Fides Of [...] (SBU) Per reftel, Embassy checked on the bona fides of the company Diamond Airborne Sensing and Managing Director Michael Feinig (registered with the USG as an arms broker). We carried out an on-site visit, met at length with CEO/founder Christian Dries and a team of company staff, and consult [...]	2009-10-27 09:36:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KOMC ETTC AU
09VIENNA1384	GOA Nominates Science Minister Hahn as EU Commissioner [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-27 12:32:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM AU
09VIENNA1389	Austria Halfhearted on H1N1 Vaccination [...] Austria begins vaccinating its healthcare personnel (around 280,000 persons) this week on a voluntary basis. Vaccine developer Baxter has delivered 500,000 doses of "Celvapan" to the health authorities for a 2-shot immunization. According to a Health Ministry (MOH) survey, 30-35% of register [...]	2009-10-28 13:24:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KFLU CASC KFLO PREL AU
09VIENNA1442	AUSTRIA INCSR PART I [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-10 12:05:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL SNAR KCRM AU
09VIENNA1447	Faymann In Moscow: Austria Reaffirms South Stream Interest; [...] (U) Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann discussed energy and transportation issues with Russian President Medvedev and PM Putin during a November 10-11 trip to Moscow. According to press reports, the Medvedev meeting was a brief courtesy visit while the Putin meeting was a three-hour discussi [...]	2009-11-13 12:07:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EAIR ELTN ECON PREL AU RS
09VIENNA1448	AUSTRIA 2009-2010 INCSR PART I [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-13 13:28:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL SNAR KCRM AU
09VIENNA1450	STAFFDEL KESSLER DISCUSSES IRAN SANCTIONS IN [...] (C) Summary: Richard Kessler, Staff Director of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs (HCFA),and David Fite, HCFA Staff Member, discussed the Iranian nuclear program in Vienna November 9 with GOA officials and MPs from key political parties. The Staffdel emphasized that the U.S. seeks to en [...]	2009-11-13 14:25:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG MNUC MOPS EUN IR AU
09VIENNA1453	GM Pullout from Opel Deal: Austrian Reaction Low-Key, [...] Austrian stakeholders took on board last week's surprise announcement by General Motors (GM) that it would not sell its European subsidiary Opel/Vauxhall to the Magna/Sberbank consortium. Local experts and GoA politicians feel confident on the main Austrian concern -- securing "GM Powertrain" [...]	2009-11-13 16:09:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	EIND ECON AU
09VIENNA1478	New Leadership in Vienna Wiesenthal Institute [...] (U) As a result of the dispute between the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute (VWI) and the Vienna Jewish Community (IKG) over access to the IKG's archives, which had triggered the resignation of the VWI leadership in August (reftel),the VWI elected a new board in early November. Law historian Georg [...]	2009-11-20 12:55:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM AU
09VIENNA1479	Austria's Hypo Alpe Adria Bank in Trouble [...] (SBU) Hypo Alpe Adria (HAA),Austria's sixth largest banking group, is in trouble again. According to media reports and leaked documents, HAA is undercapitalized and will need fresh equity of 1.5-2.0 billion Euros in time for a special general shareholder meeting December 10. A conflict has e [...]	2009-11-20 13:04:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN AU
09VIENNA1491	AUSTRIA: SUPPORTING MACEDONIA'S EU MEMBERSHIP AND [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-23 15:17:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EUN EU GR MK PGOV PREL AU
09VIENNA15	Gas Dispute -- OMV Sees No Short-Term Solution; [...] (U) SUMMARY: Austrian energy company OMV announced early January 7 that Russian natural gas deliveries to Austria have come to a standstill. For the medium term (about three months),OMV's subsidiary EconGas -- which supplies customers -- can compensate from its storage (1.7 bcm),domestic pr [...]	2009-01-07 11:45:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG PGOV EPET PREL AU
09VIENNA1514	AUSTRIAN MFA ON IRAN NUCLEAR STEPS [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting with Econ/Pol Counselor, MFA Middle East Deputy Director Meran called into question the utility of sanctions as a next step in dealing with Iran's nuclear program. Without contesting the lack of a positive Iranian response to U.S./P-5 1 initiatives over the last yea [...]	2009-11-25 16:06:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR
09VIENNA1524	AUSTRIA: NOMINEES FOR PRESIDENTIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUMMIT [...] In response to reftel, Post submits the following nominees for the Presidential Entrepreneurship Summit: 2. Yavuz Kuscu. Kuscu is the current owner of TVG Consulting GmbH & TVG European Air Alliance. He is also the President of the Austro-Turkish Trade Association. TVG was established in [...]	2009-11-30 14:51:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAID PREL SOCI XF XI ZR ZP CN PU MV SO AU
09VIENNA1527	Austria, Strong Niche Player in Europe's Space Industry [...] (U) SUMMARY: Austria has developed a successful niche within Europe's space industry in the areas of earth observation and satellite equipment since its late entry to the European Space Agency (1987). Clusters of small earth observation firms (centered on universities in Salzburg, Innsbruck an [...]	2009-12-01 15:09:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA TSPL AU TNGD SENV
09VIENNA1533	GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER WESTERWELLE MAIDEN VISIT [...] (C) The German Embassy describes FonMin Westerwelle's Nov. 25 maiden visit to Austria as partly designed to strengthen the new Minster's standing and image vis-a-vis Chancellor Merkel and as part of a larger Westerwelle effort to improve Germany's standing with smaller EU member states. His d [...]	2009-12-02 14:22:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN ENRG IR GM AU
09VIENNA1543	AUSTRIA'S OMV SAYS NO INVESTMENTS IN IRANIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: OMV says it does not currently have investments or activities in Iran's oil/gas sector anywhere approaching ISA (Iran Sanctions Act) thresholds. The Austrian government has publicly reaffirmed its line against new investments in Iranian energy. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) On November [...]	2009-12-03 14:35:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET ETTC PREL IR AU
09VIENNA1549	AUSTRIA AND AFGHANISTAN: MODEST, BUT REAL, PROGRESS [...] (C) Austrian Foreign Minister Spindelegger publicly affirmed Dec. 2 that Austria would make a contribution to the civilian effort in Afghanistan. To consider Austria's specific contribution, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Interior, Justice, and Defense met that same day. Readouts of that [...]	2009-12-04 14:32:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AF AU
09VIENNA1552	BRIMMER IN VIENNA: AUSTRIANS CLAIM TO BE WITHIN [...] (C) Summary: Austrian MFA Political Director Lehne maintained Austria's position on sanctions against Iran was "well in the mainstream of Europe." We have since gone back to Lehne and others to review reports that indicate Austria is among the EU's Iran sanctions skeptics, and to urge prepara [...]	2009-12-07 15:17:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC KPKO IR AF AU
09VIENNA1554	Hydropower, Austria's Mixed Blessing [...] SUMMARY: Austria is blessed with extensive hydropower resources which provide the bulk of its electricity supply -- but come with environmental and political costs. Austria's hydropower potential is (TWh) 56 terawatt hours annually -- of which 38 TWh are already installed -- but further expan [...]	2009-12-09 15:03:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG SENV ECON KGHG AU
09VIENNA1582	Gas Trading Exchange Formally Launched -- Without Gazprom [...] (SBU) On December 11, Austrian national oil/gas company OMV and the Vienna Stock Exchange (VSE) formally launched a new gas trading platform as part of the Central European Gas Hub (CEGH),a gas-service provider and currently a 100% subsidiary of OMV. OMV and VSE (which is slated to take a 20% [...]	2009-12-15 12:55:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ECON EPET AU RU
09VIENNA1583	Austrian Government Takes Over Hypo Alpe Adria Banking [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 14, the GoA nationalized Hypo Alpe Adria (HAA) -- Austria's sixth largest bank -- in concurrence with the bank's private shareholders. HAA's troubles were increasingly evident (reftel) and the GoA took the step (in consultation with the ECB and the provincial governm [...]	2009-12-16 09:57:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN AU GM
09VIENNA1590	Aiming to Reassure, Austrian Bank Stress Tests Underline [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: New "stress test" results for Austrian banks -- released the same day the GoA had to take over 6th-largest Hypo Alpe Adria/HAA -- show that major banks could withstand a "double-dip" recession but will need additional capital in the medium-term. The Austrian National Bank says m [...]	2009-12-18 12:46:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN AU
09VIENNA1594	AUSTRIA'S RIGHTWING PARTIES JOIN FORCES [...] (U) Summary: The rightwing Freedom Party (FPO) and the Carinthia branch of the Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZO - an FPO splinter party) announced December 16 that they had agreed to join forces. The move will bolster the FPO, which has been attracting a growing number of voters with it [...]	2009-12-21 06:52:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL AU
09VIENNA1602	Copenhagen Accord: First Austrian Reactions [...] Last weekend's Copenhagen Accord at COP-15 was bashed in Austria at both ends of the climate spectrum, with scant words of support from GoA leadership. While centrist Chancellor Werner Faymann (a social democrat) called the compromise "an important step forward ... we don't have time to be di [...]	2009-12-22 09:49:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV KGHG ENRG PREL EIND AU
09VIENNA1604	Agreement on Financing of Jewish Cemetery Renovation and [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-22 14:18:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM AU
09VIENNA1605	Austrian Wood-Pellet Industry Seeking US Joint Ventures [...] SUMMARY: Austria's wood-pellet industry has approached Post, seeking to promote joint ventures and other commercial cooperation in advanced biomass heating. END SUMMARY. 2. On December 4, Embassy representatives met with Christian Rakos, head of ProPellets (an Austrian association that prom [...]	2009-12-23 07:51:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG SENV ECON ETRD KGHG AU
09VIENNA1606	Austria H1N1 Update: New Cases Down; Unused Vaccine [...] The number of new H1N1 infections appears to be slowing in Austria. In the week prior to December 16, health authorities estimated approximately 24,000 new infections, a decline from 45,000 infections the previous week. The total number of infections is now approximately 250,000. The number [...]	2009-12-23 09:43:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KFLU CASC KFLO PREL AU
09VIENNA1616	AUSTRIA: NEW HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM FOR POLICE [...] (U) Summary: The Ministry of Interior announced on December 10 (Human Rights Day) a project designed to increase the diversity of the Austrian police force and promote respect for human rights. Law enforcement authorities, facing rising crime, drew criticism during 2009 for their handling of [...]	2009-12-29 16:02:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV AU
09VIENNA173	Austria's Anti-Nuclear Stance: Rock Solid, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: There is no nuclear renaissance in Austria. This cable details Austrians' long-standing rejection of nuclear power and GOA opposition in every international context. Austria's new government will continue its role as Europe's strongest opponent of nuclear energy. While the r [...]	2009-02-17 15:44:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET PGOV AU
09VIENNA228	CARINTHIAN STATE ELECTION MAY BE LAST HURRAH FOR [...] (U) Though the vote is expected to be close, the March 1 election in Austria's southern state of Carinthia may well prove to be the last hurrah for the right-populist Alliance for Austria's Future (BZOE),a party established in 2005 by then-Carinthian Governor Joerg Haider. Seen now as benefi [...]	2009-02-27 09:20:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV AU
09VIENNA266	Austria Circles Wagons on Bank Secrecy [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Pressure is mounting on Austria's bank secrecy regime from large EU member states like Germany (who see it as promoting tax evasion by non- Austrians) and beyond. The GoA remains unwilling to touch this highly sensitive issue, since bowing to EU pressure would cause another wa [...]	2009-03-09 14:05:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN AU
09VIENNA270	Austria's Iran Trade Shrinking; Commercial [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Austrian trade with Iran fell in 2008 for the third year in a row, bucking the overall expansion of Austrian trade worldwide. The Austrian Kontrollbank (equivalent to the U.S. Ex-Im Bank) has further tightened export guarantees for Iran in line with UN/EU sanctions. The presen [...]	2009-03-10 06:34:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV PREL IR AU
09VIENNA272	Green Islands in Sea of Old-Style Stimulus in [...] (U) SUMMARY: The GoA has adopted economic stimulus measures totaling EUR 5.7 billion (c. 2% of GDP, above the EU benchmark of 1.5%/GDP). About one in ten Euros of new spending will be on "green" projects -- mostly energy efficient building retrofits. Even that modest sum still puts Austria i [...]	2009-03-10 07:25:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN SENV KGHG AU
09VIENNA279	SHARM AL-SHEIKH CONFERENCE: DETAILS ON AUSTRIA'S [...] Per reftel, Post sought clarification on Austrian assistance to Palestinians -- specifically GoA pledges made on March 2 in Sharm al-Sheikh -- from the Middle East desk officer at the Department for Development Assistance in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lydia Saadat. Saadat confirmed tha [...]	2009-03-11 10:44:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN PHUM KPAL KWGB EUN AU
09VIENNA296	Austrian Outlook on Central/ Eastern [...] SUMMARY: As leading investors and bankers in Central/Eastern/Southeastern Europe (CESEE),Austrians have developed broad expertise on the region. The latest forecast by the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW) paints a negative but differentiated picture. As a group, [...]	2009-03-12 15:35:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ELAB EUN XH TU RS KZ CH
09VIENNA307	AUSTRIA ON FINANCIAL CRISIS IN CENTRAL/EASTERN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Austria's Finance Ministry welcomed reftel demarche, painting a more nuanced picture of the current crisis than the media portrayal. The GoA supports U.S. initiatives to expand IMF/MDB engagement and sees better coordination now between the EU, IMF, and MDBs (e.g. in the case of [...]	2009-03-17 08:20:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	ECIN ECON EFIN EUN PREL AU
09VIENNA312	Europe's AgBiotech Nemesis on a Roll: Austria Follows [...] SUMMARY: The Austrian government sees itself "on a roll" in its long-standing campaign against agricultural biotech following the EU Environment Council's March 2 decision allowing Austria (and Hungary) to maintain national bans on cultivation of two EU-approved genetically-modified corn vari [...]	2009-03-18 06:02:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD TBIO EUN AU
09VIENNA323	GoA Curbs Bank Secrecy for Foreigners, Gets [...] SUMMARY: Together with Switzerland and Liechtenstein, the GoA has signaled it will loosen bank secrecy in cases of alleged tax fraud by foreigners. In the future, it will reinterpret Austrian bank secrecy law so that a criminal investigation is no longer required to cooperate with foreign [...]	2009-03-20 12:57:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN AU
09VIENNA329	Austrian Economy Heads South; Bottoming Out? [...] SUMMARY: Austria's economy plunged into recession in late 2008, due primarily to falling exports and industrial production. Private household consumption has help up so far. In January and February, the number of unemployed and part-time workers rose sharply in many industries. Economists n [...]	2009-03-23 12:52:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ELAB EUN AU
09VIENNA361	S/CRS ENCOURAGES AUSTRIAN OFFICIALS TO DEVELOP [...] Summary: John Herbst, head of the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS),discussed USG initiatives with key GOA assistance officials on March 16, encouraging the GOA to develop its own civilian reconstruction and stabilization assistance capabilities. GOA offic [...]	2009-03-27 07:21:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL PGOV KCRS KPKO AU
09VIENNA363	OPEC Ministers Foresee Supply Crunch, Price [...] Meeting March 18-19 under the aegis of OPEC's biannual International Seminar in Vienna, OPEC ministers and industry CEOs: -- supported the March 15 decision to hold production targets steady, with no indication of medium-term cuts; -- were unanimous in predicting the current investment drough [...]	2009-03-27 11:47:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG SENV KGHG AU
09VIENNA365	Austrian Bank Rescue Shows Positive [...] SUMMARY: The Austrian government's EUR 100 billion bank rescue package is showing positive effects across the financial sector. The interbank market is calmer with lower rates and improved liquidity; there is no credit crunch in Austria even though banks are being more selective about bor [...]	2009-03-27 14:47:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN AU
09VIENNA379	ENVIRONMENTAL DIPLOMACY IN AUSTRIA -- REACHING [...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S. policy on climate change and the environment are a key yardstick Austrians use to judge USG credibility as a global actor. Austria is also fertile ground for climate diplomacy, as an environmentally conscious but growth-minded country that has fallen woefully short of its K [...]	2009-03-30 14:23:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV PREL KGHG OPRC EUN AU
09VIENNA381	TURKISH GULENIST MOVEMENT IN AUSTRIA AVOIDS [...] (C) Summary: The international movement of Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gulen is represented in Austria by a cultural foundation, a high school, and a newspaper. While Gulenists in Austria are openly critical of the Turkish secular state, they avoid controversies over Muslim integration [...]	2009-03-30 15:08:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU AU
09VIENNA383	AUSTRIAN VIEWS ON AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN STRATEGIC [...] (U) In response to reftel A, and following up on reftel B conversation between Charge and Austrian PolDir Lehne, Econ/Pol Counselor and Polchief met March 30 with Bruno Bilek, MFA Deputy Director for East Asia and the Pacific. E/P Couns stressed that while the media had been focusing on the in [...]	2009-03-31 07:09:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AF NATO PK MARR MOPS AU
09VIENNA401	SERBIAN FM TELLS AUSTRIANS BELGRADE MUST [...] (C) Summary: Serbian FM Jeremic said during a March 30 visit to Vienna that the Serbian government had to "recalibrate" its European perspective, as the economic crisis had sapped the EU's enthusiasm for enlargement. According to an MFA contact, Jeremic claimed in his meeting with Austrian FM [...]	2009-04-02 11:39:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KV SR AU
09VIENNA402	Austrian Recession Deep, Budget Deficit [...] SUMMARY: Austria's export-oriented economy has plunged into a much deeper recession than expected but will still outperform Germany. Leading Austrian forecasters have drastically downgraded their GDP growth forecasts for 2009 (now projected to contract by 2.2-2.7%). The recession is severe [...]	2009-04-02 14:42:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ELAB EUN AU
09VIENNA408	Austria Reactions to OMV Sale of MOL Stake to Russian [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: OMV's sale of its 21.2% stake in Hungarian energy national MOL to Siberian energy company Surgutneftegas has raised few eyebrows in Austria, where it is seen as the logical unwinding of OMV's abandoned effort to grow into a regional powerhouse. The sale is no surprise: ever sin [...]	2009-04-03 14:36:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET ECON AU HU
09VIENNA411	VWP AGREEMENTS: CONSULTATIONS WITH GOA; MANAGING [...] (C) On March 23-24, a joint HSPD-6 and PCSC team from the Depts. of State, Justice, Homeland Security and the Terrorist Screening Center held consultations with representatives of the Austrian Foreign, Interior, Justice, and Defense Ministries, staff from the Chancellor's Data Protection Offic [...]	2009-04-03 15:52:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	CVIS PGOV PTER AU
09VIENNA430	VWP AGREEMENTS: AUSTRIAN MFA ON NEXT STEPS [...] (C) Summary. Barring a further media storm (reftel),the Austrian MFA expects to be able to move forward with a request for a mandate to negotiate HSPD-6 and PCSC agreements in the next "several weeks." The Ministry believes it would be counter-productive to have a VWP-review visit in April o [...]	2009-04-07 15:42:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	CVIS PGOV PTER AU
09VIENNA44	AUSTRIAN FORMIN RULES OUT IRAN ENERGY CONTRACTS [...] SUMMARY: Austria's new foreign minister has made the clearest public statement yet of GOA opposition to energy contracts with Iran under the present diplomatic situation. He also reaffirmed GOA support for the Nabucco pipeline and expressed confidence the consortium will secure gas from the Ca [...]	2009-01-14 08:48:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG PREL AU IR
09VIENNA451	Austrians Reject Krugman Warning on Default [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Senior Austrian politicians and economists rejected economist Paul Krugman's comment this week that Austria is a prime candidate for Iceland-style default due to its banking exposure in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe (CESEE). Krugman's remarks drew intense coverage i [...]	2009-04-16 14:14:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN AU
09VIENNA468	Austria Strongly Supports Kosovo IMF/WB [...] Post delivered reftel demarche to Dr. Edith Frauwallner (head of international affairs at Austria's MinFin) along with UK, French, and Italian embassy representatives and in coordination with the German embassy in Vienna. 2. MinFin rep replied that formal action rests with the Austrian Nat [...]	2009-04-17 15:32:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN AU
09VIENNA484	Austrian Banks Take GoA Equity, But More [...] SUMMARY. Four of the six largest Austrian banks (Erste Bank, Raiffeisen Zentralbank, Volksbanken AG and Hypo Alpe Adria/HAA bank) have now taken equity injections. So far the Austrian government has committed only about one third of the EUR 15 billion reserved for equity participation. Ita [...]	2009-04-23 10:23:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN AU
09VIENNA495	Austria's 2009/2010 Crisis Budgets - [...] SUMMARY: Austria's grand coalition government introduced its 2009 and 2010 budgets this week, projecting federal deficits of 3.2%/GDP in 2009 and 4.1% in 2010 (total public sector deficit to be 3.5% and 4.7% respectively). Consolidated public sector debt will rise to 73%/GDP in 2010 (from 6 [...]	2009-04-24 14:27:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON EFIN AU
09VIENNA503	CDA, UNVIE AMB. SCHULTE DISCUSS ASAD VISIT WITH GOA [...] (C) Summary: Charge Kilner and Ambassador Schulte met April 24 with Johannes Kyrle, MFA SecGen, and (separately) with Alfons Kloss, President Fischer's diplomatic advisor, to discuss Syrian President Asad's April 27-28 visit to Vienna. Charge stressed that the visit should be viewed as an oppo [...]	2009-04-28 06:47:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IAEA PHUM PARM SY AU
09VIENNA530	ASAD DISCUSSES U.S. RELATIONS, MEPP AND WINS GOA [...] (C) Summary: Syrian President al-Asad told GOA leaders during an April 27-28 visit to Vienna that he is optimistic about the new U.S. Administration, but maintained that President Obama has one year to turn around U.S.-Syrian relations. He said the new Israeli government must demonstrate a wi [...]	2009-05-04 13:51:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PARM SY IS AU
09VIENNA537	Austria's Declining ODA: Catching Up with [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since 2005, Austria's debt forgiveness programs have artificially inflated its official development assistance (ODA) figures and masked recent streamlining of its aid policies. Because 2009 marks the end of debt forgiveness for Iraq, Austrian ODA is expected to fall by a third [...]	2009-05-05 11:53:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EFIN EAGR AU
09VIENNA54	New Austrian Climate Realism at Highest Levels [...] SUMMARY: Faced with a widening gap between promises and performance on emissions reduction, the new GOA is shrinking its climate/energy goals to fit Austria's modest initiatives. Having failed to reach its Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reductions goals in the Kyoto period by almost a quarter, the Go [...]	2009-01-15 11:03:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG ENRG EIND ECON AU
09VIENNA585	Lufthansa Buyout of Austrian Airlines Clears Shareholder [...] SUMMARY. With Lufthansa in control of 85% of Austrian Airlines (AUA) shares, the merger with Lufthansa is on track to meet a July 31 deadline. The buyout remains contingent on European Commission approval of the deal and a EUR 500 million GoA subsidy -- and AUA must remain solvent until the m [...]	2009-05-15 15:08:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ECON PGOV AU
09VIENNA595	Nabucco-Turkey Progress - OMV Uncertain On IGA Timeline, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following media reports that an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) on the planned Nabucco Pipeline is imminent, OMV and Nabucco contacts appear more optimistic but are concerned about media speculation and caution that not all IGA issues have been resolved. END SUMMARY. (NOTE: [...]	2009-05-19 09:52:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG PGOV BEXP AU
09VIENNA60	Taking Stock of Austria's Financial Markets [...] SUMMARY: The Austrian government was decisive in crafting a EUR 100 billion financial sector rescue package in October, but implementation has been slow. Credit is scarce; demand is weak for GoA-guaranteed interbank funding; only one major bank (Hypo Alpe Adria) has gotten actual equity from [...]	2009-01-16 13:26:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON AU EUN
09VIENNA615	Austrian Economy - Rough First Quarter, More Pain to Come [...] SUMMARY: Austria's economy contracted 2.8% in the first quarter of 2009 (versus Q4/2008) on the basis of falling exports and investments; GDP is expected to shrink by at least 3% in 2009 and stagnate in 2010. Economists expect Austria's second quarter downturn to be less steep, but express un [...]	2009-05-27 07:51:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ELAB EUN AU
09VIENNA631	DOMESTIC AND EU POLICY COMPLICATIONS DELAY [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-29 12:40:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNESCO AU
09VIENNA642	Austrian Financial Market Update [...] SUMMARY. This cable updates recent issues in Austria's banking sector: -- Solvency / Liquidity: A fourth large Austrian bank (BAWAG) has accepted state equity capital. Bank Austria's negotiations on a GoA capital injection are complicated by signs that Italian parent UniCredit may move busi [...]	2009-06-02 14:06:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN AU
09VIENNA690	AUSTRIA PLANS DANUBE/BLACK SEA INITIATIVE [...] (C) Summary. Austrian FonMin Spindelegger has made a Danube-Black Sea (to include the Caucasus) initiative a centerpiece of his foreign policy agenda, but has said little in public about the initiative's content. Conversations with numerous MFA officials and Austrian academics suggest that Sp [...]	2009-06-09 14:55:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AU
09VIENNA691	SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF AMB. RICE [...] (U) Embassy Vienna looks forward to your visit, Amb. Rice, which will give us the opportunity to review significant UNSC issues with the Austrian government and to take a broad look at the bilateral relationship. After a quick survey of Austria's political scene, this cable takes a closer look [...]	2009-06-10 07:49:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OTRA RICE AU
09VIENNA738	Austria?s 2009/2010 Budgets: Fat Now, Lean to Come [...] (U) SUMMARY: On May 29, Austria?s Parliament adopted budgets for 2009 and 2010, endorsing a temporary flood of red ink to mitigate the current economic downturn. Total public sector deficits will likely exceed 4.0%/GDP in 2009 and 5.0% in 2010 (versus the GoA?s estimates of 3.5% and 4.7% respe [...]	2009-06-19 09:28:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PGOV AU
09VIENNA743	Climate Change: Austria to Exceed Kyoto, 2020 Emissions [...] SUMMARY: According to the latest "Climate Report" of the Austrian Environmental Agency (AEA - comparable to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency),Austria emitted 88 million tons of CO2 equivalent (mtCO2e),11% above 1990 levels and about 24% above Austria's Kyoto Protocol commitment. Pro [...]	2009-06-22 06:23:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV KGHG ENRG EIND ECON AU
09VIENNA75	AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALLS AT FOREIGN MINISTRY [...] (C) In separate farewell calls on January 16 with both new Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger and long-standing MFA Secretary General Johannes Kyrle, Ambassador Girard-diCarlo reviewed the top items on the US agenda with Austria: cooperation in the UN Security Council, Iran, energy securi [...]	2009-01-21 14:53:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	AU ENRG ETTC PREF PREL UNSC AF
09VIENNA755	UN AMBASSADOR RICE MEETING WITH ASUTRIAN [...] (C) Summary. UN Ambassador Susan Rice met separately with Austrian President Fischer and Foreign Minister Spindelegger on June 15. Charge accompanied Amb. Rice to both meetings. Fischer and Spindelegger were both joined by aides, as well as Austrian Ambassador to the UN Mayr-Harting. Both [...]	2009-06-23 09:33:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	USUN PREL AU
09VIENNA804	Austria Pushing Member State "Self-Determination" Over [...] (U) At the EU Agricultural Council in Luxembourg June 25, Austria proposed establishing Member State (MS) "self-determination" over cultivating transgenic agricultural crops, even those approved by the European Commission. Building on four qualified majority votes (the latest in March 2009) ag [...]	2009-07-02 07:29:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD TBIO EUN AU
09VIENNA805	Austria's Schizophrenic Approach to Nanotechnology [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Austrian government is investing heavily in nanotechnology -- as part of a well-funded campaign to regain leadership in science and research -- but given Austria's poor track record in public acceptance of new technologies (including nuclear energy and green biotech),the GoA [...]	2009-07-02 07:39:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TSPL TPHY TBIO ETRD EAGR OSCI TNGD
09VIENNA825	GOA INPUT ON AUSTRALIA GROUP AGENDA, RUSSIAN [...] (U) Economic Unit Chief delivered reftel demarche and Austria-only points to Dr. Helmut Krehlik, Head of the Austrian Economic Ministry's Export Control Division, who will lead Austria's delegation to the Australia Group (AG) 2009 plenary session in Paris. Krehlik welcomed USG coordination on [...]	2009-07-06 14:02:00	Embassy Vienna	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC CBW AU
09VIENNA828	Austrian Bank Exposure to Central/Eastern/ Southeastern [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Alarm over Austrian bank exposure to Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) has given way to a more realistic view of the situation as difficult but manageable. Top Austrian banks will suffer losses in the region -- but they continue to make profits, have ramped up lo [...]	2009-07-07 13:03:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN AU
09VIENNA839	Stress Tests Find Austrian Banks Safe, Current Measures [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to Austria's National Bank (OeNB),major Austrian banks will not need large-scale recapitalization even if the recession deepens further in Austria and eastern Europe. This is the main finding of OeNB stress tests published on July 6. Bank Tier 1 capital ratios would f [...]	2009-07-09 08:45:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN AU
09VIENNA847	Stung by Critique, Austria Now Working on FATF Action Plan [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Stung by their grilling at the Financial Action Task Force/FATF Plenary in Lyon, the Austrian government is determined to improve its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing standards to avoid de facto "black listing" by the FATF. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU) Over the [...]	2009-07-10 13:36:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN KCRM AU
09VIENNA856	Austria's Economic Outlook - Deep Recession in 2009, [...] SUMMARY: After a dismal first quarter, Austria is confronting a deeper recession than projected earlier this year. As a result, Austria's two leading economic institutes have downgraded their GDP growth forecasts for 2009 (contraction of 3.4-4.3%) and 2010 (stagnation). Austria's recession [...]	2009-07-13 15:32:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ELAB EUN AU
09VIENNA89	AUSTRIA ON VISA WAIVER PROGRAM CONSULTATIONS [...] (U) Summary. In a Jan. 21 meeting with senior Embassy staff, Austrian MFA and Interior Ministry officials proposed that a U.S. delegation visit Vienna in either the second week of February or the first or second week of March for consultations focused on Austrian concerns about U.S. data prot [...]	2009-01-22 15:07:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS PBTS PTER KCRM PREL AU
09VIENNA895	AUSTRIANS WARY OF RUSSIAN OPPOSITION TO U.S. ROLE [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-21 10:27:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EUN GG AU
09VIENNA903	OPEC-Funded Biofuels Study Sparks Controversy at [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A recent study on "Biofuels and Food Security" -- commissioned by the Vienna-based OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) and prepared by researchers at the multinational Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) -- has sparked controversy in the energy community. II [...]	2009-07-21 14:54:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET KGHG EAGR SENV TRGY AU
09VIENNA923	AUSTRIAN PLANS TO TRAIN AFGHAN POLICE STALLED [...] (C) Acting Polcouns discussed reftel A points July 22 with Bruno Bilek, MFA Deputy Director for East Asia and the Pacific. Bilek said the GOA's efforts to organize police training for Afghanistan (reftel B) had ground to a halt. The Interior Ministry now steadfastly oppposes the idea, arguing [...]	2009-07-24 09:29:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF AU

09VIENNA941	Nabucco Gas Pipeline: Next Steps [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Austrian government and industry contacts are optimistic that the Nabucco consortium can build on positive momentum from the July 13 Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) signing. The GoA has reaffirmed its support for Nabucco at the highest levels, while continuing to negotiate ove [...]	2009-07-28 08:39:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG PGOV AU
09VIENNA966	AUSTRIA DISCUSSES ENERGY TIES WITH TURKMENISTAN [...] (U) From July 27 to July 31, a 13-member Turkmen delegation attended the second meeting of the joint Austrian-Turkmen Commission for Intergovernmental and Foreign Trade Relations in Vienna. The commission was set up by a Memorandum of Understanding (reftel) signed by the two countries when Tur [...]	2009-07-31 12:33:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET ECON TX AU
09VIENTIANE112	CHINA'S DOMINANT INVESTMENT PRESENCE IN NORTHERN [...] (C) Summary: Chinese investment, and often demographic presence, in the northern Lao provinces of Oudomxay, Luang Namtha, and Bokeo dominates visitors' impressions and still appears to be growing rapidly. While many local government officials are clearly sensitive to the appearance of being [...]	2009-03-06 09:32:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	CN ECON ETRD LA PREL EINV
09VIENTIANE179	IMF LOWERS ESTIMATE OF 2009 LAO GDP GROWTH TO 4.5% [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 11 a visiting IMF team told a donor group that the IMF now projects 2009 Lao GDP growth at 4.5%, down from about 7% in 2008, due primarily to slowdowns in mining, hydropower, and construction. The budget deficit is expected to increase from 2% to 5% of GDP; the Governm [...]	2009-04-10 06:48:00	Embassy Vientiane	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV PREL LA
09VIENTIANE238	GMS:PROXIMITY AND POLITICS FOCUSES CHINESE [...] This is the second in a series of cables from Consulate General Chiang Mai and Embassy Vientiane on the Greater Mekong Subregion's (GMS) R3A highway (ref a). These cables have been coordinated with Consulate General Chengdu. This cable was co-drafted by econ officers at both Vientiane and Ch [...]	2009-05-19 02:07:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD ELTN EWWT CH LA TH
09VIENTIANE249	FRAUD SUMMARY-(VIENTIANE): SPRING 2009 [...] (U) SUMMARY: Vientiane is a medium fraud level post, with significant percentages of immigrant visa (IV) cases returned and a very large number of nonimmigrant visa (NIV) cases refused. The Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) in Vientiane currently consists of one full-time Locally Employed Staff (LE [...]	2009-05-26 10:59:00	Embassy Vientiane	UNCLASSIFIED	KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC LA
09VIENTIANE264	LAOS: IMF HINTS AT POSSIBLE MACROECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 27, a visiting IMF Article IV team briefed interested donors. While not changing their projected 2009 growth rate from 4.5%, the team noted that the Government of Laos (GOL) must make tough choices in the next 18 months to avoid putting macroeconomic stability at risk. [...]	2009-06-02 10:44:00	Embassy Vientiane	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV EAID PREL LA
09VIENTIANE29	CODEL FALEOMAVAEGA IN LAOS FOR APPF MEETS LAO [...] (C) Summary: U.S. House Asia Subcommittee Chairman Faleomavaega, in Vientiane to attend the 17th Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF) reviewed the U.S.-Laos bilateral relationship with the Lao Prime Minister, Acting Foreign Minister, and Deputy National Assembly Speaker. In each of his thr [...]	2009-01-16 10:31:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD LA OREP PARM PREL
09VIENTIANE291	Lao Government Issues Long-Awaited Decree on Associations [...] (SBU) Summary. The Prime Minister's Office has officially released the text of the new decree on the formation of non-profit associations in Laos, opening the door for Lao-run civil society organizations to register legally. Issued on April 29th, the decree will permit the formation of non-pro [...]	2009-06-18 09:39:00	Embassy Vientiane	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI SCUL LA
09VIENTIANE293	IRF VISITS PROVINCIAL LAOS TO GAUGE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM [...] (SBU) Summary: In May, DRL Office of International Religious Freedom (DRL/IRF) officer traveled with PolOff through three northern provinces - Luang Prabang, Oudomxay, and Luang Namtha - to assess religious freedom conditions. Predictably, the further away the officers traveled from Vientiane [...]	2009-06-19 05:07:00	Embassy Vientiane	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI LA
09VIENTIANE335	STAFFDEL LEE: GOL SHOWS OFF HMONG RESETTLEMENT SITE [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 6, senior Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials accompanied House Foreign Affairs Committee professional staff member Jessica Lee and Ambassador to the Phalak village Hmong resettlement site. Phalak is used to settle Lao Hmong who return from detainment in Thailand but d [...]	2009-07-10 09:16:00	Embassy Vientiane	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	LA PHUM PREF PREL SOCI TH
09VIENTIANE389	SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR WEBB'S VISIT TO LAOS [...] (SBU) You come to the Lao People's Democratic Republic as the bilateral relationship continues to broaden beyond anything seen since the Communist Pathet Lao came to power in 1975. Your visit will be interpreted by the Lao government (GOL) as further evidence of U.S. interest in positive engag [...]	2009-08-07 10:49:00	Embassy Vientiane	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD MARR LA
09VIENTIANE399	LAOS REACTION TO ASSK VERDICT [...] (C) Ministry of Foreign Affairs ASEAN Department's Deputy Director General Kham-Inh Khitchadeth told Poloff that the ASEAN Charter's principle of non-interference in internal affairs of member countries precluded ASEAN from engaging Burma on the outcome of the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK). [...]	2009-08-17 10:48:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL
09VIENTIANE424	UPDATE - ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSON EFFORTS IN LAOS [...] The GOL, limited by resource constraints, continues to encourage anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) efforts by the international organizations and NGOs. The UN helps coordinate anti-trafficking efforts with donor partners, and several UN agencies and NGOs provide training, education, outreach [...]	2009-09-01 08:36:00	Embassy Vientiane	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM ELAB ECON KTIP LA
09VIENTIANE458	LAOS REACHES OUT TO "DIASPORA" [...] The GOL estimates one million Lao live overseas, mostly in the U.S., France, Australia, Japan, Germany, and Belgium. In the U.S., Lao-Hmong and Lowland Lao make up the majority of the Diaspora. Although in the past the GOL made little attempt to engage with its Diaspora, the GOL now actively [...]	2009-09-23 10:49:00	Embassy Vientiane	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM EAID EINV BEXP BTIO OEXC OIIP SCUL
09VIENTIANE495	POSSIBLE URANIUM SMUGGLING INCIDENT IN NORTHERN [...] (C) Post wishes to alert the Department and Washington agencies per reftel that it has received a report indicating a potential incident of illicit trafficking in nuclear materials. This report came to post's attention via a conversation with the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) represent [...]	2009-10-19 10:28:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC BM KCRM KNNP LA MNUC PARM PREL PTER
09VIENTIANE594	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL FALEOMAVAEGA VISIT TO LAOS [...] (SBU) You come to the Lao People's Democratic Republic after a year of increased international attention to Laos, and as the bilateral relationship continues to broaden beyond anything seen since the Communist Pathet Lao came to power in 1975. Your visit will be interpreted by the Lao governme [...]	2009-12-30 11:49:00	Embassy Vientiane	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD MARR LA
09VIENTIANE66	LAOS: STILL SEEKING GOL INTERAGENCY CONCURRENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 6 the Ambassador met with Minister of Transport and Public Works Sommad Pholsena, who emphasized his commitment to securing Government of Laos (GOL) approval for a bilateral civil aviation agreement negotiated in October 2008. The Minister confessed the still unsat [...]	2009-02-10 06:55:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAIR PREL LA
09VIENTIANE67	2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT FOR LAOS [...] The Lao government is open to foreign investment as a matter of policy. It allows 100% foreign ownership of investments. The overall investment climate is poor but improving. Laos rates very low in international indices of transparency and ease of doing business. 2. The economic reform [...]	2009-02-10 07:56:00	Embassy Vientiane	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV OPIC USTR KTDB LA
09VIENTIANE68	LAO INGO POLICY: OVERSIGHT VS. EFFICIENCY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Lao Foreign Minister led an unusually high profile and public February 5-6 consultative discussion about proposed revision of the Prime Minister,s Decree 71, which regulates registration and operation of international NGOs (INGOs) in Laos. Also attending were vice ministers f [...]	2009-02-12 00:37:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PROP SOCI
09VIENTIANE71	NINTH ANNUAL TIP REPORT FOR LAOS [...] (SBU) Summary. Laos is overwhelmingly a sending country for human trafficking, although on a small scale it is also a transit and receiving country, with some domestic trafficking victims in the commercial sex trade. The vast majority of Lao who seek work abroad, including those who are victim [...]	2009-02-13 10:06:00	Embassy Vientiane	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF
09VILNIUS152	LITHUANIA'S PRIORITIES FOR NATO SUMMIT [...] (C) MFA Director of Transatlantic Cooperation and Security Policy Vytautas Leskevicius invited DCM in on March 20 to discuss the April 3-4 NATO Summit and the GOL's desire to avoid the sort of differences that emerged at the recent NATO Ministerial. Leskevicius said the GOL is now "pretty happ [...]	2009-03-20 14:43:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN NATO RU LH
09VILNIUS166	ECONOMIC DISTRESS INTENSIFYING IN LITHUANIA [...] (C) The economic situation is worsening in Lithuania. Devaluation of the Polish zloty and Russian ruble, rising unemployment, and decreasing revenues are some of the challenges Lithuania faces. Local analysts recently revised growth forecasts for 2009 to negative nine to ten percent. Unfortu [...]	2009-03-27 10:23:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN LH
09VILNIUS174	RFG: NATO-BELARUS SECURITY AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) Embassy Minsk hereby offers its views assist with preparation of the guidance requested reftel. 2. (C) As is known, one year ago, the GOB forced the reduction of U.S. diplomatic staff by 90%, declaring among others the Defense Attache persona non grata. We no longer have an America [...]	2009-04-02 07:41:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MARR NATO PGOV PHUM PREL BO
09VILNIUS180	LITHUANIA: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF CODEL BERKLEY [...] Welcome to Lithuania! We look forward to your visit, which coincides with a number of local celebrations. This year marks the fifth anniversary of Lithuania's membership in NATO. Lithuania is also celebrating the 1,000-year anniversary of the first reference to the country in historical te [...]	2009-04-03 13:54:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ECON ENRG OREP LH
09VILNIUS194	LITHUANIA STRAINING TO INCREASE CONTRIBUTIONS TO [...] (C) Summary: Lithuania is committed to Afghanistan, but its difficult financial situation will make additional contributions challenging. DCM met April 6 with MFA Under Secretary Asta Skaisgiryte-Liauskiene to present ref A requests for specific contributions to Afghanistan. She promised t [...]	2009-04-10 11:46:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL MARR NATO AF LH
09VILNIUS22	MEETING BETWEEN EUR ASSISTANT SECRETARY DANIEL [...] (C) Summary: A/S Fried and FM Usackas discussed the continuing negotiations to resolve the gas cut-off to Ukraine. They agreed that Russia had shown itself to be an unreliable supplier, and the current crisis may build support for greater diversification of supplies. A/S Fried stressed to [...]	2009-01-13 10:31:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL MOPS
09VILNIUS228	LITHUANIA TELLS CODEL BERKLEY: RELY ON US IN AFGHANISTAN [...] Summary: Political leaders assured CODEL Berkley on its visit to Vilnius April 15-17 that the GOL would not falter in its efforts in Afghanistan despite the country's deteriorating budget situation. They also promised -- again -- to move forward swiftly on resolving longstanding problems with J [...]	2009-04-27 10:55:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP PREL PGOV ECON ENRG BO LH
09VILNIUS273	PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS MAY 17; WHAT ARE THE [...] (U) Summary: European Commissioner Dalia Grybauskaite continues to far outpace the six other candidates in opinion polls for the May 17 presidential election. No analyst or politician we have talked to has questioned whether she will win the presidency, but only whether she will do so in the [...]	2009-05-15 13:16:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV LH
09VILNIUS277	LITHUANIAN GOVERNMENT VOTES TO PROTECT HISTORIC [...] (U) Summary: The GOL on May 18 voted to approve boundaries of the historic Snipiskes cemetery in Vilnius, delineating areas that will be permanently protected from development and moving closer to ending a dispute that has dragged on for years and damaged Lithuania's international reputation. [...]	2009-05-18 13:37:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SCUL LH
09VILNIUS340	LITHUANIA: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF CODEL CARDIN [...] Welcome to Lithuania! We look forward to your visit, which coincides with a number of local celebrations. This year marks the fifth anniversary of Lithuania's membership in NATO. Lithuania is also celebrating the 1,000-year anniversary of the first reference to the country in historical te [...]	2009-06-22 14:56:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ECON ENRG OREP LH
09VILNIUS391	LITHUANIA: GOVERNMENT SENDS JEWISH PROPERTY [...] (U) SUMMARY: The GOL on July 15 approved a plan for compensation of communal Jewish property expropriated by the Nazi and Soviet occupation regimes. The compensation plan calls for the government to pay 128 million litas (about 52.2 million USD) to a foundation to be determined by the GOL. T [...]	2009-07-16 14:31:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV LH
09VILNIUS419	SCENESETTER FOR A/S GORDON'S VISIT TO LITHUANIA [...] (C) Summary: Your visit to Lithuania provides an opportunity to reinforce the United States' commitment to an already strong bilateral relationship, to address Lithuanian concerns about security, Afghanistan and Guantanamo detainees, and to remind Lithuanian officials that important post-Holo [...]	2009-08-05 14:51:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON LH
09VILNIUS435	GICNT: LITHUANIA INFORMED OF UNODC OBSERVER STATUS [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-14 14:03:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL PTER LH
09VILNIUS436	RUSSIA HITS LITHUANIAN TRUCKING [...] (SBU) On August 3, Russian customs officials began giving additional attention to Lithuanian trucking firms' transport documentation, including Transports Internationaux Routiers (TIR) carnets, at Russia-Latvia border posts. As part of this effort, Russian customs officials required that truc [...]	2009-08-14 14:34:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON LH RS
09VILNIUS456	GOVERNMENT, JEWISH GROUPS SIGN PACT TO PROTECT [...] (U) Summary: The GOL and local and international Jewish groups on August 26 signed an agreement approving conditions for the protection of a historic Jewish cemetery in central Vilnius and for the development of land adjacent to it. They had been negotiating those conditions ever since the G [...]	2009-08-26 14:28:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SCUL LH
09VILNIUS457	LITHUANIA'S STRATEGIC PLANS FOR AFGHANISTAN [...] (U) Summary. The GOL recently prepared a new national strategy on its activities in Afghanistan which would extend the current mandate for troops on the ground through the end of 2013. The Parliament will take a decision on extending the mandate during its Fall session. The GOL continues t [...]	2009-08-26 14:43:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	AF LH MARR MOPS NATO PREL
09VILNIUS459	LITHUANIAN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER'S TENUOUS HOLD COULD [...] SUMMARY: Less than a year after television showman and novice politician Arunas Valinskas secured a spot in Lithuania's coalition government for his brand-new National Revival Party (NRP) and won the Seimas (parliament) Speaker's post for himself, his party has split. Moreover, President Gr [...]	2009-08-27 13:46:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV LH
09VILNIUS483	LITHUANIAN PARLIAMENT OUSTS SPEAKER; GOVERNING [...] SUMMARY: Lithuania's Seimas (parliament) on September 15 voted to remove TV showman Arunas Valinskas from the Speaker's chair he had held for almost a year. The vote followed media reports that Valinskas associated with and perhaps used his government post to do favors for an organized crime [...]	2009-09-16 14:29:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV LH
09VILNIUS494	LEGAL FLAWS COULD DERAIL JEWISH PROPERTY [...] (C) Legal deficiencies identified by parliamentary lawyers have called into doubt the prospects of a draft law on Jewish property compensation. The draft law would require the Lithuanian government to pay more than 50 million USD in compensation for Jewish communal property seized by Nazi and [...]	2009-09-24 08:06:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM LH
09VILNIUS505	BUDGET CUTS AFFECT THE GOL IN A VARIETY OF WAYS [...] (C) The GOL has cut planned public expenditures three times in the last year and will make cuts to social benefits as well in the coming months. These cuts, combined with the GOL's anti-crisis action plan and decisions by both the President's office and the parliament to limit their respecti [...]	2009-09-30 09:34:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON LH
09VILNIUS513	LITHUANIA WELCOMES CLIMATE POLICY, BUT HOPES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lithuanian government officials "appreciate the strong position the United States is taking right now" on climate change, but worry that discord in Congress might prevent the USG from meeting the goals set by the Administration. Without follow-through from the United States, th [...]	2009-10-01 14:17:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV ENRG TRGY LH
09VILNIUS549	LITHUANIA'S PRESIDENT REIGNITES ALLEGED CIA PRISON [...] (C) SUMMARY: After a period in which the story had largely disappeared, Lithuanian media again began writing articles and editorials about the alleged existence of a CIA prison in Lithuania after President Grybauskaite addressed the issue in a press conference October 20 and said she suspec [...]	2009-10-22 12:33:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LH
09VILNIUS564	LITHUANIAN MEDIA CONTINUE TO PROBE ALLEGATION OF [...] SUMMARY: In the aftermath of an October 20 presidential press conference that reopened the question of whether Lithuania hosted a secret CIA prison for terrorist suspects, Lithuanian media continue to report on and investigate the topic. GOL officials have by and large claimed ignorance of [...]	2009-10-28 15:02:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR LH
09VILNIUS594	LITHUANIA IN AFGHANISTAN -- ADVANCING MUTUAL GOALS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following our mid-October visit to Afghanistan to review Lithuania's ISAF contributions, Foreign Minister Usackas is seeking to inject much-needed new organization, energy and financing into Lithuania's efforts to support development in Ghor Province, where Lithuania leads a 200 [...]	2009-11-06 16:03:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	AF LH MARR MOPS NATO PREL EAID
09VILNIUS605	LITHUANIA FOCUSED ON BELARUS, RUSSIA AND UKRAINE [...] (C) Summary. The head of MFA's Common Foreign and Security Policy Division, Egidijus Navikas said Foreign Minister Usackas will focus on Belarus, Russia and Ukraine at the next GAERC meeting. Usackas will stress that the EU should monitor and assign target dates for Belarus to implement ben [...]	2009-11-13 13:23:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN LH
09VILNIUS619	LITHUANIA REPORTS FIRST FLU DEATH AS EPIDEMIC IS [...] SUMMARY: A 14-year-old boy died in Kaunas of complications from H1N1 flu on November 17, giving Lithuania its first flu death of the season. Health officials also announced that cases of flu and respiratory diseases have risen dramatically in the past week. New cases have reached epidemic [...]	2009-11-19 15:18:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU TBIO PREL LH
09VILNIUS620	LITHUANIAN MEDIA REPEAT AMERICAN JOURNALISTS' [...] SUMMARY: Lithuanian media on November 19 widely repeated reports published online by ABC News and the Washington Post providing further information about a CIA prison that was said to exist in Lithuania from March 2004 to November 2005. The reports said that the likely site of the alleged pri [...]	2009-11-19 15:26:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINR LH
09VILNIUS634	AMBASSADOR'S INITIAL MEETING WITH FOREIGN-AFFAIRS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The chairman of the parliamentary committee on foreign affairs told Ambassador Derse that Lithuania remains committed to development efforts and its PRT leadership in Afghanistan's Ghor Province, despite financial straitQd difficulties in attracting foreign donors. He also obl [...]	2009-11-25 15:25:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS LH
09VILNIUS660	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PARLIAMENT'S DEFENSE [...] (C) SUMMARY: During Ambassador Derse's introductory meeting with him, Seimas Committee on National Security and Defense Chairman Arvydas Anusauskas said his committee's members unanimously agreed that they would not allow their investigation into an alleged CIA prison in Lithuania to harm r [...]	2009-12-08 15:09:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL LH
09VILNIUS662	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH ENVIRONMENT MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: In her introductory call on Environment Minister Gediminas Kazlauskas, Ambassador Derse said that the USG is committed to reaching a legally binding agreement on climate change and heard that Lithuania, while largely in sync with the EU position in Copenhagen, does not want an [...]	2009-12-08 15:39:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SENV LH
09VILNIUS673	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH HEAD OF NEW NUCLEAR PLANT [...] (C) The Ambassador's introductory meeting with Sarunas Vasiliauskas, head of Visagino Atomines Elektrines (VAE),the firm planning the construction of a new nuclear power plant in Lithuania, displayed the complexities surrounding Lithuania's desire to build a new nuclear reactor. Vasiliauskas [...]	2009-12-10 12:57:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON LH
09VILNIUS696	LITHUANIA PASSES BUDGET, FACES DEFICITS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: After weeks of negotiation and debate, the parliament passed the GOL's 2010 budget on December 11, one day after passing a social-security budget. Both budgets contain deep cuts, but the government still faces billions of dollars in deficits and projected borrowing for the comi [...]	2009-12-21 10:47:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EFIN LH
09VILNIUS698	AFGHANISTAN: SPAIN, ITALY BILATERAL MEETINGS AT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 8-9, Director of Office of Afghanistan Affairs Henry Ensher led a U.S. delegation comprised of U.S. officers posted to Herat and Ghor provinces, the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, USAID, the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD),the Joint Staff, CENTCOM [...]	2009-12-21 14:59:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	MAPP MOPS NATO PREL EAID AF LH
09VILNIUS699	LITHUANIA'S GO-FORWARD STRATEGY IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary. Members of the U.S. delegation to the December 8-9 GOL-hosted RC-West conference met bilaterally with MFA and MOD representatives on December 9 to discuss RC-West conference conclusions and future strategy for Afghanistan. The U.S. delegation underscored that we should work toge [...]	2009-12-21 14:59:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	AF MAPP MOPS NATO PREL EAID LH
09VILNIUS702	JEWISH LEADER CALLS LITHUANIAN PROPERTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a visit to Vilnius, the director general of the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) told Ambassador Derse that the GOL's current proposal to compensate Jews for the expropriation of communal Jewish property by Nazi and Soviet occupation regimes remained unaccept [...]	2009-12-22 11:37:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM LH
09VILNIUS704	PARLIAMENT AXES RESTRICTIONS ON INFO ABOUT [...] The Lithuanian Seimas (parliament) on December 22 again amended a law to protect minors from harmful effects of public information, this time to remove restrictions on information concerning homosexual, bisexual or polygamous relations. The law, when amended earlier this year to include thos [...]	2009-12-22 15:53:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV LH
09VILNIUS706	AMBASSADOR'S INITIAL CALL ON SOCIAL-SECURITY [...] (C) In her first meeting with Minister of Social Security and Labor Donatas Jankauskas, Ambassador Derse heard that emigration is a problem for Lithuania as workers seek better opportunities elsewhere in the EU and usually do not return, that the GOL is moving forward with overhauling its de [...]	2009-12-23 09:07:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SMIG SOCI ELAB LH
09VILNIUS708	LITHUANIA: ENGAGEMENT AND OPPORTUNITIES ON WOMEN'S [...] (U) SUMMARY: Domestic violence, human trafficking and gender-based discrimination, including pay inequality, are among the major women's issues in Lithuania. The Embassy maintains a regular dialogue with the GOL and a variety of NGOs regarding women's issues, and has recently supported pro [...]	2009-12-23 13:01:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	KWMN PHUM LH
09VILNIUS711	AMBASSADOR'S INITIAL MEETING WITH POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a free-ranging discussion with the Ambassador, Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius' new domestic political advisor Virgis Valentinavicius said that President Dalia Grybauskaite "has a lot to learn" about how politics work in Lithuania but is doing so quickly, that Lithuania's fo [...]	2009-12-24 08:51:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV LH
09VILNIUS715	AMBASSADOR CALLS ON MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE [...] Summary. On December 18th Ambassador Derse made her first call on Minister of Agriculture Kazys Starkevicius to learn more about Lithuania's agricultural sector, which accounts for 4.5% of Lithuania's GDP. They shared ideas on business exchange opportunities such as the upcoming visit of ag [...]	2009-12-29 13:49:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAGR ETRD TBIO LH
09VILNIUS716	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: In her first meeting with Zygimantis Pavilionis, the MFA's Coordinator for Lithuania's Presidency of the Community of Democracies (CD),Ambassador Derse heard that the current recalibration of Lithuania's foreign policy provided an opportunity for the United States, and that Li [...]	2009-12-29 14:15:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LH
09VILNIUS95	ECONOMY SLOWING, BUT STIMULUS PLAN ON THE WAY [...] (SBU) Lithuania's economy is clearly slowing, and the GOL's poor job explaining the necessity of its austerity plan has aggravated the situation. The austerity plan, designed to address the budget deficit left by the previous government, was not clearly explained and implemented so quickly [...]	2009-02-17 11:40:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN LH
09VILNIUS97	CHAIRMAN OF LITHUANIAN BUDGET AND FINANCE [...] (C) The Chairman of the parliament's Budget and Finance Committee, Kestutis Glaveckas, painted a bleak economic picture when he met with the Ambassador on February 9. Unemployment is rising and Lithuania might have to ask for IMF help later this year, according to Glaveckas. Swedish parent ba [...]	2009-02-18 13:54:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN RU LH
09VLADIVOSTOK103	EUR/RUS DIRECTOR KYLE SCOTT VISIT TO VLADIVOSTOK [...] During his visit to Vladivostok on October 2, Primorye Region authorities gave EUR/RUS Director Kyle Scott an economic overview of the region, pointing out: the continuous youth out-migration; complicated transportation routes between the RFE, Primorye in particular, and the USA; and "non-fa [...]	2009-10-14 06:44:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON ECIN RS
09VLADIVOSTOK105	VLADIVSOTOK MAYOR ACQUIRES ANOTHER NEWSPAPER, BLOW TO PRESS [...] Summary: (U) The editorial staff of Moskovskiy Komsomolets vo Vladivostoke (MKV),one of the most aggressive independent newspapers in Primorskiy Kray, has received a note that Moscow owners of Moskovskiy Komsomolets (MK) have sold the franchise for publishing the Vladivostok edition to a comp [...]	2009-10-23 03:04:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SCUL RS
09VLADIVOSTOK106	KHASAN, RUSSIA: ON NORTH KOREA'S DOORSTEP [...] (U) Summary: After months of meetings and diplomatic notes, the Consulate received permission for a day trip to Khasan, Russia's only border crossing point with North Korea. Khasan is a small settlement where North Korea, Russia, and China meet. The permission for the October 22 trip did ext [...]	2009-10-23 04:18:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ECON RS KN KS CH
09VLADIVOSTOK107	SENIOR COP LANGUISHES IN JAIL FOR WORK ON US-FUNDED [...] This is an Action Cable. See para 8. 2. Summary. Aleksandr Astafyev, anti-corruption crusading militia colonel and long term U.S. Consulate contact, is still in jail after his arrest last June on trumped up charges. There has been no progress in his case. Now on his second lawyer, neith [...]	2009-10-27 02:05:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV RS
09VLADIVOSTOK11	YAKUTSK LENDING INSTITUTION OFFERS SNAPSHOT OF CREDIT [...] Summary. Though the effect of economic crisis has not hit Yakutia strongly yet, securing credit from financial institutions is becoming increasingly difficult for entrepreneurs and consumers there. Poloff visited a prosperous, privately-run credit association in Yakutsk that offers an acces [...]	2009-02-10 22:44:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON RS
09VLADIVOSTOK114	ANNUAL RUSSIAN AMERICAN PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP (RAPP) SEEKS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Fourteenth Annual Russian American Pacific Partnership (RAPP),entitled "A Meeting of Shared Interests," took place in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk September 29-30. USG and GOR officials touted the benefits of such fora and the strengthening of U.S.-Russian ties that they fostered. GO [...]	2009-12-02 03:07:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ETRD ECIN EAIR KDEM RS US
09VLADIVOSTOK12	DCM DONS A YARMULKE IN BIROBIDJAN [...] A highlight of DCM Eric Rubin's trip to the Russian Far East was a February 5 visit to the capital of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO),Birobidjan. The Jewish Autonomous Region was established in May 1934 as a homeland for Soviet Jews. It was a social experiment that some historians contend [...]	2009-02-11 05:00:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM RS
09VLADIVOSTOK121	PORNOGRAPHY ON ICE: VLADIVOSTOK SENDS MAYOR A MESSAGE [...] (SBU) Summary. "Have you seen the newspaper?" was the question of the day in Vladivostok on December 17. The front page of the Pacific Komsomolets newspaper featured a shocking photo of, what shall we call it, a snow phallus erected by residents outraged with the city's lack of snow and ice r [...]	2009-12-17 04:07:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON RS
09VLADIVOSTOK34	ECONOMIC CRISIS: WHAT'S WORSE, GLOBAL DOWNTURN OR OFFICIAL [...] Though Primorye's government has reported 6 percent growth in gross regional product (GRP) in 2008, the economic situation in the past few months is showing signs of trouble. Evaluating the situation is complicated by the fact that most official economic data is not publicly available, and me [...]	2009-03-12 05:54:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV
09VLADIVOSTOK35	RUMORS BEGIN AROUND FUTURE APEC SUMMIT [...] Summary. In 2006, federal authorities announced plans to hold 2012's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Vladivostok. Plans were made for several large-scale infrastructure improvements to prepare the city for the international event, which would bring world attention to Vladivostok [...]	2009-03-13 04:57:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV
09VLADIVOSTOK38	CHINESE STILL SMOLDERING OVER FREIGHTER SINKING IN RUSSIAN [...] (SBU) In an introductory meeting with the new Chinese representative to Vladivostok, Lu Jingo told CG that the sinking of a freighter with Chinese crew by Russian Border Guards that resulted in the deaths of eight Chinese merchant sailors was an excessive use of Russian force. Jingo would not [...]	2009-03-20 04:54:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV RS
09VLADIVOSTOK41	KAMCHATKA-ALASKA FLIGHTS CANCELLED FOR 2009 [...] Russian air carrier Vladivostok Avia has announced that it will not fly direct trans-Pacific flight service between Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy and Anchorage, Alaska this summer. The carrier operated the route for over two months in 2008 with 13 flights between July 7 and September 15, apparently [...]	2009-03-25 05:15:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ECIN PREL PGOV RS
09VLADIVOSTOK44	SAKHALIN'S PAPER FISH PROBLEM [...] Econ Officer met with Environmental activist Dmitriy Lisitsyn of Ecological Sakhalin Watch to discuss environmental problems on the island, the effect of oil and gas projects on wildlife, the use of "paper fish" by poachers to circumvent fish quotas, and even some environmental improvements th [...]	2009-04-08 08:06:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON SENV ENRG RS
09VLADIVOSTOK48	OVERVIEW OF JAPANESE BUSINESS ON SAKHALIN [...] Summary. Vladivostok Political Officer met with members of the Japanese community on Sakhalin to discuss the region from the Japanese perspective. Though the number of Japanese citizens living on the island has dwindled in recent years, many remain as part of the Sakhalin II oil and gas proj [...]	2009-04-13 07:34:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON RS
09VLADIVOSTOK5	FOREST MAFIA ADAPTS TO THE ECONOMIC CRISIS [...] Despite lower demand for wood products due to the global economic crisis and implementation of the Lacey Act Amendment, illegal logging in Russia continues at critical levels. Approximately 70 percent of Russia's forests are concentrated in the Russian Far East and Siberia in close proximity t [...]	2009-01-29 08:34:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD PREL ECON EAGR RS
09VLADIVOSTOK50	YOUTHS DANCE, SEVEN PROTESTERS DETAINED AT VLADIVOSTOK [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-13 07:34:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV RS
09VLADIVOSTOK53	JAPANESE CARS: FIFTEEN YEARS OF MOSCOW/FAR EAST [...] Summary. The subject of imported Japanese vehicles has come to the forefront in recent months, but it is not a new issue. The conflict between Far East residents and Moscow over the right-hand drive used cars dates back over fifteen years, and has consistently been one of the few social issue [...]	2009-04-27 07:39:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV RS
09VLADIVOSTOK54	NEW APEC LAW TO STREAMLINE PROJECTS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-27 07:48:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV RS
09VLADIVOSTOK57	SLAM DUNK IN YAKUTIA [...] (U) Former NBA Coach Tom Newell brought his basketball diplomacy to Yakutia April 22-29 for a week of seminars for coaches, practice sessions for boys and girls, and exhibition games. CG joined Newell for a game with local public officials dedicated to WWII veterans. CG also visited a Yakuti [...]	2009-04-28 06:46:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON RS
09VLADIVOSTOK61	CONFESSIONS OF VLADIVOSTOK USED CAR SALESMEN [...] Summary. The famous Vladivostok marketplace for used foreign cars called Zelyoniy Ugol ("Green Corner") has been experiencing a serious downturn in recent months. New customs tariffs, banks' reluctance to provide consumer credit for car purchases, and the slumping value of the ruble have con [...]	2009-05-12 04:58:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON RS
09VLADIVOSTOK67	WALLS OF DEATH: KAMCHATKA FIGHTS DRIFTNETS [...] Summary. Russia is one of few countries that still allow driftnet fishing in its coastal ocean waters. Most countries have already banned the nets, referred to by environmentalists "walls of death." A proposal by the Federal Fisheries Agency to ban the practice in Russian waters has stirred [...]	2009-06-10 06:59:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON SENV RS
09VLADIVOSTOK71	KREMLIN TO DARKIN: PROVIDE JOBS OR LOSE YOUR OWN [...] President Dmitriy Medvedev recently tasked governors in the Russian Far East with settling unemployment and wage arrears locally without Kremlin help, and those who fail to control economic problems and related social unrest will be fired. Demonstrations resulting from the likely demise of the [...]	2009-06-25 06:52:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV RS
09VLADIVOSTOK77	ANTI-CORRUPTION CRUSADER DETAINED IN VLADIVOSTOK [...] Authorities have arrested long-time consulate contact Colonel Aleksandr Astafyev, the Director of Witness Protection Center and deputy head of the Primorye UVD. He was arrested in his office on June 16 on fraud charges, and is currently in pre-trial detention. Astafyev is a close POL/ECON co [...]	2009-07-16 04:20:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV RS
09VLADIVOSTOK79	ANTI-CORRUPTION CRUSADER DETAINED IN VLADIVOSTOK [...] Authorities have arrested long-time consulate contact Colonel Aleksandr Astafyev, the Director of Witness Protection Center and deputy head of the Primorye UVD. He was arrested in his office on June 16 on fraud charges, and is currently in pre-trial detention. Astafyev is a close POL/ECON co [...]	2009-07-16 05:10:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV PHUM RS
09VLADIVOSTOK87	MOSCOW POURS OVER 4 BILLION DOLLARS INTO A NEARLY DESERTED [...] Summary. In preparation for the 2012 APEC Summit on Russkiy Island off Vladivostok, Moscow is spending over 4 billion dollars developing the island. As Consulate Staff verified during a site visit, workers have begun constructing a one billion dollar bridge from Vladivostok to Russkiy Island [...]	2009-08-18 06:24:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED	POL ECON
09VLADIVOSTOK98	SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF EUR/RUS DIRECTOR KYLE SCOTT TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Consulate General Vladivostok warmly welcomes you to the Russian Far East (RFE). You are coming to a region rich in investment opportunities for U.S. firms, especially as Vladivostok builds new infrastructure in the run-up to APEC 2012. Such investment from U.S. firms would b [...]	2009-09-22 03:00:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MARR ECON ENRG EPET ETRD EIND ECIN
09WARSAW1006	POLAND ON OUTCOME OF U.S. BURMA POLICY REVIEW [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-29 16:00:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM PL
09WARSAW1028	SCENESETTER FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Your visit to Warsaw is an opportunity to reset relations with Poland, a loyal ally. Poles have long aspired to building a special relationship with the U.S., on par with what we have with the UK, but they believe the U.S. has not always shown the same enthusiasm. To an extent, many Poles [...]	2009-10-05 11:14:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ENRG ECON PL
09WARSAW1029	SUPPORT FOR POLAND'S ASPIRING NUCLEAR POWER PROGRAM [...] (SBU) Summary: The Polish government requests US assistance in launching a nuclear power program. PM Tusk's goal of generating nuclear power by 2020 is optimistic. However, simultaneously meeting Poland's carbon emissions commitments and addressing its energy security concerns will require d [...]	2009-10-05 14:23:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENRG EINV TRGY BEXP BTIO PL
09WARSAW1039	PM TUSK RESHUFFLES CABINET IN WAKE OF CORRUPTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an effort to "ensure public trust" in his government and in the ruling Civic Platform (PO),PM Tusk announced October 7 the resignations of Deputy PM / Interior Minister Grzegorz Schetyna, Justice Minister Andrzej Czuma, and Deputy Economy Minister Adam Szejnfeld. Tusk said he [...]	2009-10-07 16:25:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR KJUS PL
09WARSAW1068	PM TUSK REMAINS MAN TO BEAT DESPITE SCANDAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: After nearly two years in office and in the midst of a corruption scandal and the global economic crisis, PM Tusk's public approval has held steady at around 50 percent, a feat unprecedented since 1989. By dismissing ministers implicated in the "Gamble-gate" scandal, even absent [...]	2009-10-19 12:41:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR PL
09WARSAW1069	FM SIKORSKI PITCHES U.S.-POLISH TEAMWORK ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Sikorski told visiting DRL A/S Posner that it is in the U.S. and Polish "national DNA" to share the benefits of liberty with the world. He said that together, U.S. resources and Poland's transformational experience could reinvigorate the Community of Democracies (CD). Sikorsk [...]	2009-10-19 12:51:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM PGOV PL
09WARSAW107	POLAND'S DIVIDED LEFT [...] (C) SUMMARY: There is strong consensus among Poland's left-wing parties that they could garner as much as 25 percent of the vote in June 2009 European Parliament elections by running a unified list. Although the left pays dearly for its division, its leaders cannot decide how, and under whos [...]	2009-01-30 16:59:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PL
09WARSAW1091	BALTIC ENERGY BRIDGE: POLAND CHEERS FROM THE [...] (C) Summary. The Polish government (GoP) views Baltic energy security as important to its regional diplomatic efforts, particularly to building EU energy solidarity and managing EU-Russian relations. However, the GoP does not believe that connecting Baltic energy markets to Poland or other [...]	2009-10-27 14:56:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EINV PREL PL
09WARSAW1096	POLAND SUPPORTS U.S. UNGA PRIORITIES, OFFERS A FEW [...] (U) THIS MESSAGE CONTAINS AN ACTION REQUEST. PLEASE SEE PARA 6. 2. (SBU) Poland will support UNGA Third Committee country-specific resolutions on Iran, Burma, and the DPRK. Although some states argue that the resolutions cross into the domain of the UN Human Rights Council, MFA UN and Huma [...]	2009-10-29 10:26:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UN PL
09WARSAW1112	POLES FATALISTIC ABOUT UKRAINIAN ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Poland shares our desire to integrate Ukraine into Western institutions, but many in the GoP view the upcoming Ukrainian presidential election in zero-sum terms: a likely victory for Russia and loss for Poland -- no matter which candidate wins. Many Poles believe that for five ye [...]	2009-11-02 16:49:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PL UP RS

09WARSAW1122	POLAND TO SIGN LONG-TERM GAS DEAL WITH RUSSIA [...] (SBU) Summary. Prime Minister Tusk's energy committee is expected to approve today, November 4, a new agreement with Russia on gas and transit through 2037. The deal will then go to the Council of Ministers for final approval, probably on Tuesday, November 10. The contract includes a reduce [...]	2009-11-05 07:16:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	ENIV ENRG ETRD PGOV PL
09WARSAW113	POLAND - PRIME MINISTER TO FUND TIP VICTIMS SHELTER [...] (SBU) Summary. Following front-page media coverage about the potential closure of Poland's only shelter providing specialized assistance for victims of trafficking in Poland (reftel),Prime Minister Tusk offered public assurances January 13 that the GoP would provide the funds necessary to kee [...]	2009-02-02 15:54:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB PL
09WARSAW1130	"BE PREPARED" -- WARSAW AND KRAKOW CONSULAR SECTIONS COMMIT [...] (SBU) Summary. The Consular Sections at U.S. Embassy Warsaw and U.S. Consulate General in Krakow launched their year-long commitment to crisis management training by holding a full-day crisis management exercise using air crash and H1N1 pandemic scenarios. American Citizen Service (ACS) Units i [...]	2009-11-05 16:35:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC CMGT ASEC PL
09WARSAW1135	H1N1 IN POLAND: QUIET FOR NOW [...] (SBU) Summary: Poland's Chief Sanitary Inspectorate reports no deaths related to H1N1 and no major outbreaks. While Polish officials are watching the situation closely, they do not plan to implement extraordinary measures absent a dramatic change in the disease's behavior, despite substantial [...]	2009-11-06 16:29:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC ECON GM PREL SOCI TBIO
09WARSAW1137	POLAND: KEEP BELARUS SANCTIONS, BUT HOW? [...] (C) SUMMARY. The GoP supports a rollover of the current EU sanctions mandate set to expire in March 2010, as well as extending the suspension of travel restrictions against EU officials, which expires on December 15, 2009. However, according to MFA officials, Poland still cannot commit to a [...]	2009-11-10 15:46:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EUN BO PL
09WARSAW1170	AMBASSADOR MORNINGSTAR IN POLAND [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Morningstar traveled to Poland November 12-14 to meet with government, opposition and business officials on a wide range of regional energy security topics. The visit followed Vice President Biden's commitment in Warsaw to further cooperation on energy security and t [...]	2009-11-25 16:56:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EINV PREL PL
09WARSAW1178	FRAUD SUMMARY - POLAND [...] (U) Although the Polish economy is slowing due to the global economic crisis, it has proven to be more resilient than other European economies. After 2008's 4.9 percent growth, Eurostat predicts Poland's GDP will drop to 1.2 percent in 2009. In comparison, the EU as a whole is expected to se [...]	2009-12-01 07:05:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC PL
09WARSAW1185	POLISH MFA: MIXED PROGRESS WITH EASTERN NEIGHBORS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Poland's engagement with Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus is yielding mixed results, according to Jaroslaw Bratkiewicz, Director of the MFA's Eastern Department. What Bratkiewicx described as a "pragmatic approach" toward Russia has led to some movement on historical issues and broug [...]	2009-12-02 16:03:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PL PREL
09WARSAW1188	POLAND SUPPORTS US AFGHANISTAN STRATEGY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Initial Polish reactions to the newly announced Afghanistan strategy have been supportive nearly across the board. In a morning interview, Prime Minister Tusk said Poland should respond to the U.S. call as a manifestation of "Allied solidarity". Previewing the December 1 call [...]	2009-12-02 16:55:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MCAP NATO KPAO PL
09WARSAW1200	SCENESETTER FOR U/S TAUSCHER'S DECEMBER 10-11 [...] (C) Welcome. Since your visit to Warsaw in mid-September, much has changed for the better in the bilateral relationship, although clean-up may be needed in light of Polish government statements on Patriot missiles following the December 4 meeting between the Secretary and Foreign Minister Sik [...]	2009-12-08 18:39:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV RS PL
09WARSAW121	POLISH SENATORS TO AMBASSADOR: POLAND DESERVES DUE [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a February 2 meeting with the Ambassador, members of the Polish Senate's Foreign Affairs Committee urged that progress on building a Polish-U.S. strategic partnership not slow or stop, regardless of the current U.S. Administration's decision on the Ballistic Missile Defense Ag [...]	2009-02-03 16:52:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS PL
09WARSAW1211	POLAND: OUT OF CYCLE REVIEW OF INTELLECTUAL [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. We assess the Polish Government's (GoP's) November 23 Out-of-Cycle review (OCR) submission as credible. The GoP has tightened its efforts to fight IPR violations, particularly with regard to internet piracy, to strengthen public awareness of the value of IP, and to [...]	2009-12-10 18:01:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KIPR PL
09WARSAW1222	GOP ENGAGEMENT DE-ESCALATES STANDOFF WITH CHECHEN [...] (SBU) Summary: Polish border guards December 15 stopped a train carrying more than 150 mostly Chechen refugees en route to Dresden, Germany. The refugees said they were on their way to Strasbourg to protest poor conditions for refugees in Poland. However, they did not have permission to travel [...]	2009-12-17 18:14:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF PL
09WARSAW1250	SEJM SPEAKER KOMOROWSKI ON U.S.-POLISH RELATIONS [...] (C) In his first meeting with Sejm Speaker Bronislaw Komorowski (Civic Platform - PO),Ambassador Feinstein heard that the Speaker sought U.S. help building public support for Poland's troop increase in Afghanistan. Komorowski also agreed that NATO contingency planning was a positive developm [...]	2009-12-31 14:03:00	Embassy Warsaw	SECRET	NATO MARR MCAP PREL PGOV PL
09WARSAW136	KACZYNSKI'S NEW CLOTHES: LAW AND JUSTICE'S [...] (C) SUMMARY. The opposition Law and Justice Party (PiS) stands to benefit from growing Polish economic anxieties, and party chair Jaroslaw Kaczynski has criticized the government's unwillingness to undertake deficit spending to provide an economic stimulus. Otherwise, PiS's "new" anti-crisis [...]	2009-02-06 16:35:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PL
09WARSAW146	POLAND/RUSSIA: MOVING FORWARD IN CHOPPY WATERS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Vladimir Putin's proposed spring visit to Warsaw has not yet been scheduled, but Polish officials tell us that energy security will likely top the agenda. Prime Minister Tusk's staff said the media accurately described Tusk's January 29 meeting with Putin in Davos as a discussion [...]	2009-02-10 14:16:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PL RS
09WARSAW166	MINISTER HAILS POLISH FOREIGN POLICY PRAGMATISM, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Sikorski's annual report to parliament highlighted improved relations with Germany, a pragmatic conversation with Russia, new influence within the EU, and expectations of strategic cooperation with the U.S. Poland's EU initiatives over the last year produced [...]	2009-02-13 14:15:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR RS PL
09WARSAW170	POLAND WANTS LIVE PATRIOTS, â€œNOT POTTED PLANTSâ€ [...] (S) SUMMARY. GOP officials are not privy to the full range of U.S. planning and thinking with regard to the prospective Patriot battery rotation here, but they do have expectations -- some naive, some tactical -- that they are making increasingly clear. For example, when told last autumn that the P [...]	2009-02-13 15:14:00	Embassy Warsaw	SECRET	PREL MAPP PL
09WARSAW18	Poland/TIP - Continued Forward Progress, But ... [...] (SBU) Summary. Poland has continued to make strides in its efforts to combat trafficking in persons. Poland ratified the 2005 Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings on November 17. It will enter into force on March 1, 2009. The Polish government and Interna [...]	2009-01-08 12:22:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB PL
09WARSAW183	POLISH ENERGY PRIORITIES: GAS SECURITY STRATEGY [...] (C) Poland's new energy security strategy has still not been released from the Prime Minister's Office, but after over a year in power, PM Tusk has announced most of his key priorities. In an important policy change, the government is embracing gas interconnections -- including to the German [...]	2009-02-18 16:50:00	Embassy Warsaw	SECRET	KGHG SENV EPET ENRG EUN PL
09WARSAW191	AUTO WEAKNESS MANAGABLE, BUT EU-15 PROTECTIONISM [...] (U) Summary. Poland,s relatively well balanced economy has shielded Poles from the worst of the global financial crisis and recession, but weakening exports are finally bringing the global recession home. Automobile manufacturing, Poland,s largest export industry, began to weaken in September [...]	2009-02-19 16:10:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV PGOV PL
09WARSAW199	BIOTECHNOLOGY CORN EVENT DEMARCHE [...] FAS Agricultural Counselor delivered reftel demarche on Pioneer and Syngenta GMO corn hybrid approvals at the Ministry of Environment, February 20, 2009, meeting with New Technologies Department Director, Agnieszka Dalbiak. Dalbiak said Poland has not decided how it will vote on February 25 i [...]	2009-02-23 13:06:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON ETRD PL
09WARSAW205	POLISH MFA ON AFGHANISTAN STRATEGIC REVIEW [...] (C) Summary. In a February 23 meeting with Charge to discuss reftels, Deputy Foreign Minister Jacek Najder suggested that the U.S. strategic review of Afghanistan/Pakistan policy should seek ways to empower Afghanistan's governors, the key to building stability outside the major cities. Najd [...]	2009-02-24 14:21:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF PL
09WARSAW217	POLAND - 2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Poland is a country of origin, transit, and destination for victims of trafficking in persons (TIP). The majority of victims were trafficked to work in the sex industry, but Poland is increasingly becoming a destination country for forced labor. Government officials at the hig [...]	2009-02-27 15:22:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF
09WARSAW22	CODEL TAUSCHER VISIT TO POLAND [...] (C) SUMMARY: CODEL Tauscher emphasized to Polish interlocutors December 17 that the U.S. remained committed to missile defense (MD),but insisted that the long-range component must be realistically tested and certified effective before deployment. In the meantime, Tauscher said Congress woul [...]	2009-01-08 15:27:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	OREP PREL MARR MCAP NATO PL CZ RS
09WARSAW225	POLAND: 2009 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW: POST [...] (SBU) Summary: Post recommends that Poland be removed from the Special 301 Watch List. In 2008, Poland consolidated and extended the major advances it made during 2007 in protecting intellectual property rights (IPR). Improved enforcement was highlighted in February, when Polish police raid [...]	2009-03-02 15:01:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON KIPR PL
09WARSAW253	POLAND'S ECONOMY HOLDS STEADY: FORTUNE FAVORS THE [...] (SBU) Summary. Poland's economy is slowing amidst global weakness, but thanks to good timing and good policy, it is not in crisis. Poles are sheltering behind the prudent fiscal, monetary, and regulatory policy of recent years; the relative immaturity of Poland's consumer credit market; and [...]	2009-03-09 13:12:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PL
09WARSAW257	POLAND AND ODIHR - NEW MATERIAL TO COMBAT [...] (SBU) Summary. On March 5, the Polish Ministry of Education and the OSCE Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) launched a set of teaching tools to combat anti-Semitism. The materials are specifically aimed at middle-school age (gymnazium) students. Discussions are underw [...]	2009-03-10 14:38:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL PL
09WARSAW258	POLAND/GERMANY - WHO'S AFRAID OF ERIKA STEINBACH, [...] (C) SUMMARY. PM Tusk and PM-Advisor Bartoszewski have been criticized by the opposition and media commentators for failing to communicate the extent of Polish opposition to the establishment of a German documentation center for expellees. In the view of these critics, the withdrawal of German [...]	2009-03-10 15:50:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL GM PL
09WARSAW259	SPECIAL 301 REVIEW: SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Removing Poland from the Special 301 Watch List now would acknowledge progress on traditional intellectual property rights (IPR) issues, and -- if the USG decides in the future to use the Special 301 process to draw attention to market access issues like those troubling the in [...]	2009-03-10 16:15:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON KIPR PL
09WARSAW260	POLISH VIEWS ON MARCH 16-17 GAERC [...] (C) SUMMARY. Poland believes the EU will reach a general consensus on extending -- for another six months -- suspension of the EU's travel ban on Belarusian officials. Poland views as a positive initiative the Belarusian Deputy Foreign Minister's March 6 visit to Warsaw to address Polish conc [...]	2009-03-10 16:24:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN AF TU PL
09WARSAW261	SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY NAPOLITANO'S MARCH 15 [...] (C) SUMMARY. Deputy Prime Minister/Interior Minister Minister Grzegorz Schetyna is interested in expanding cooperation with the new Obama administration. Your meeting with Schetyna is an opportunity to extend already strong U.S.-Polish security cooperation to other spheres, including countert [...]	2009-03-11 10:23:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM KJUS KCRM PL
09WARSAW298	POLAND: ARE WE SINCERE? [...] (C) SUMMARY. Polish political leaders have largely recovered from initial misgivings about recent U.S. overtures to Russia. The President's public clarification of his letter to President Medvedev, as well as the meeting between FM Sikorski and Secretary Clinton, have set aside for now Poli [...]	2009-03-20 14:45:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PM PL
09WARSAW309	POLAND LIKELY TO INCREASE ISAF DEPLOYMENT IN [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-24 08:36:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO AF PK PL
09WARSAW32	LECH WALESA CALLS FOR NEW ERA OF U.S. LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Nobel Laureate and former Polish President Lech Walesa told the Ambassador January 10 that the United States -- while still a military and economic power -- is no longer the moral or political leader it once was. After the fall of communism, Walesa said, the world needs to be "rearranged." [...]	2009-01-12 16:54:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PL
09WARSAW33	FORMER POLISH PM KACZYNSKI MEETING WITH AMBASSADOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 9 meeting with the Ambassador, a subdued and reflective Jaroslaw Kaczynski -- former Prime Minister and current chair of the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party -- characterized the U.S.-Georgia charter as an important development given Georgia's precarious politic [...]	2009-01-12 16:57:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ECON PL
09WARSAW345	POLAND'S "TRUTH-TELLER" CANDIDATE FOR COE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Poland's candidate for Council of Europe (COE) Secretary General has done it all. Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz has served as prime minister, foreign minister, justice minister, and parliamentary speaker; he has also run twice for president. A moderate social democrat, he is one of t [...]	2009-04-01 07:20:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM COE PL
09WARSAW351	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL ROGERS VISIT TO WARSAW, [...] (SBU) Mission Poland warmly welcomes your upcoming visit to Warsaw. Your meetings will occur one day after President Obama meets with the Polish leadership on the margins of the U.S.-EU Summit in Prague, which will likely be with both Prime Minister Donald Tusk and President Lech Kaczynski. [...]	2009-04-01 14:46:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR OREP ENRG MARR RS PL
09WARSAW360	POLAND IN NATO: LOOKING FOR RESPECT [...] (C) SUMMARY: "Nothing about us without us" has become the clarion call of Poland's security strategy in the post-communist era. Poles are determined to have a say in security arrangements that affect them, having suffered all too often as the pawn of larger powers. Because Poles see NATO a [...]	2009-04-03 16:18:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MCAP MARR NATO PL
09WARSAW365	DAIRY GENETICS SUCCESS [...] Summary: This cable outlines 18 months of diplomatic work and USDA programs that resulted in a new market opening for U.S. farm exports to the European Union's largest new member, Poland. April 1 the Holstein Association USA and the Polish Federation of Cattle Breeders and Dairy Milk Producer [...]	2009-04-06 13:05:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON ETRD PL
09WARSAW368	POLAND TO FILE ICJ BRIEF IN SUPPORT OF KOSOVO [...] (C) Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has given the political-level green light to the MFA Legal Department to proceed with a "written statement" to the International Court of Justice supporting independence for Kosovo. According to the MFA's Marek Madej, who was involved in drafting the do [...]	2009-04-07 13:36:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AORC ICJ KV PL
09WARSAW371	NATO SUMMIT A MIXED BAG FOR POLAND [...] (C) Former Polish Ambassador to NATO Jerzy Nowak told the Ambassador April 6 that the results of the recently concluded NATO Summit meeting were mixed for Warsaw. Poland welcomed decisions on beefing up the NATO-led force in Afghanistan, cooperation with Russia, and agreement to begin work on [...]	2009-04-07 16:04:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MCAP MARR NATO PINR PL
09WARSAW377	POLAND: SNAPSHOT OF BIALYSTOK, NEAR THE BELARUS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Local and regional officials in Poland's northeastern Podlaskie Province -- located along the Belarusian border -- told us April 1-3 that residents still viewed the U.S. as Poland's main security guarantor but have been shifting their focus towards the EU over the past five years. [...]	2009-04-09 13:15:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ECON SOCI PL BO
09WARSAW383	Mission Poland and International Roma Day [...] (U) Mission Poland maintains regular contact with the various Romani and government leaders on Roma issues. We celebrated International Roma Day at the largest known event taking place in the country on April 8. We also posted Secretary Clinton's video clip and message on our website with a P [...]	2009-04-10 11:54:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	APER PHUM KPAO PL
09WARSAW385	DISAFFECTED CIVIC PLATFORM LEADERS SPEAK OUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poland's ruling political party Civic Platform (PO) has lost the drive for change that brought it to power and has become increasingly focused on political goals (namely, capturing the Presidency for Tusk),at least according to two Krakow-based PO EU Parliamentarians who found t [...]	2009-04-10 13:10:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PL
09WARSAW388	POLAND STEPS UP IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Foreign Minister Jacek Najder April 9 confirmed GoP plans to increase Poland's contribution to ISAF and noted: -- Polish President Lech Kaczynski had good meetings with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and other senior leaders during a visit to Afghanistan April 8. -- K [...]	2009-04-10 14:05:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO MCAP MOPS AF PL
09WARSAW389	POLES FACE EC DELAY, DIVISION ON EASTERN [...] (C) SUMMARY. We reviewed developments in Poland's Eastern neighborhood in separate meetings with Witold Sobkow, MFA Acting Political Director, and Jacek Cichocki, Secretary of State in the Polish Prime Minister's Chancellery. They noted that: -- The EU is still divided on the issue of invit [...]	2009-04-10 14:48:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PL GG AJ AM UP BO
09WARSAW427	BACK FROM EXILE, POLAND'S PISKORSKI HAS A PLAN AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Three years after being dismissed by the center-right Civic Platform's (PO) governing council for responding ambiguously to conflict of interest allegations, now-independent MEP and former mayor of Warsaw Pawel Piskorski has re-surfaced in Poland and taken the reins of the Democr [...]	2009-04-23 12:01:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PL
09WARSAW438	SEJM FOREIGN AFFAIRS CHIEF HERALDS FURTHER POLISH [...] (C) SUMMARY. Krzysztof Lisek, Chairman of the Sejm Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC),told the Ambassador that he and other Civic Platform (PO) candidates would do well in the June Euro Parliamentary elections, leading to a consolidation of Polish Euro deputies among fewer parties. That cons [...]	2009-04-27 15:05:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS PL
09WARSAW443	RIGHT-WING RADICALS CONTROL POLISH PUBLIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Piotr Farfal, a former skinhead affiliated with the nationalistic League of Polish Families (LPR) , remains in control of Polish Public Television (TVP) -- opinions remain divided on just how long he will manage to stay in office. Barring a serious Farfal misstep, the only mecha [...]	2009-04-29 14:04:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PL
09WARSAW46	HEALTH MINISTRY UPDATES REIMBURSEMENT LIST [...] (SBU) Summary: Poland's Ministry of Health has released an update to its reimbursement list. The updated list contains about 10 innovative drugs that do not have generic competitors, and some of those are manufactured by U.S. companies. U.S. companies will also benefit from reductions in req [...]	2009-01-14 17:11:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON TBIO ETRD KIPR PL
09WARSAW467	POLAND - CODEL LEVIN DISCUSSES MISSILE DEFENSE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In meetings with CODEL Levin, the Polish Prime Minister's chief of staff, the President's deputy national security advisor, and the speaker of the Polish parliament expressed unanimous support for a large U.S. military footprint in Poland to bolster Article 5 guarantees. PM chief of s [...]	2009-05-07 05:17:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR OREP RS PL
09WARSAW477	RUSSIAN, POLISH FOREIGN MINISTERS KEEP FOCUS NARROW [...] (C) Despite the tense regional dynamics surrounding the visit (NATO explusions, Georgian coups and the launch of the EU's Eastern Partnership) the May 6 meeting in Moscow between Russian FM Sergey Lavrov and Polish FM Radoslaw Sikorski focused mainly on bilateral issues, according to the MFA's [...]	2009-05-11 05:35:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ETRD PL RS GG MD
09WARSAW490	DAVID LIPTON IN WARSAW: EUROPEAN FINANCIAL [...] (C) Summary: NSC Senior Director David Lipton and Treasury,s Eric Meyer were in Warsaw April 28-29. They met with government and private sector finance officials to discuss the crisis, as well as with Finance Minister Rostowski and Foreign Minister Sikorski regarding the situation in Ukrain [...]	2009-05-12 07:55:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL PL
09WARSAW538	LETTER OF THANKS AND MEETING REQUEST FOR SECRETARY [...] Embassy Warsaw received a letter from Stanislaw Stankiewicz, President of the International Romani Union in Poland, addressed to Secretary Clinton expressing thanks for her Roma Day statement and requesting a meeting. The original letter will be sent by pouch to S/ES-CR. 2. Post received t [...]	2009-05-29 13:09:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL OVIP PHUM PL
09WARSAW584	POLAND'S GROWING INFLUENCE IN THE EU [...] (C) SUMMARY. After five years in the European Union, Poland is increasingly skilled at "navigating" the EU, but still far from guru status. While Poland is tactically more effective, a lack of strategic vision, internal coordination, and active engagement in European capitals has hindered Po [...]	2009-06-09 11:00:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON SENV PHUM EUN PL
09WARSAW59	POLAND: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2009 [...] The 1923 Geneva Protocol on Arbitration Clauses 2. The 1958 New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of International Arbitration Awards 3. The 1961 Geneva European Convention on International Trade Arbitration 4. The 1972 Moscow Convention on Arbitration Resolution of Civ [...]	2009-01-20 07:59:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED	EIQ EFIN ETRD OPIC USTR KTDB PL
09WARSAW596	POLISH VIEWS ON JUNE 15-16 GAERC [...] (C) SUMMARY. In advance of the June 15-16 GAERC, MFA European Correspondent Cyryl Kozaczewski said Poland will press for close coordination with the U.S. on the Middle East and oppose efforts to condition the upgrade of EU-Israel relations on progress in the peace process. Poland views the E [...]	2009-06-12 10:48:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM EFIN KNNP IR PK KS PL
09WARSAW597	POLAND: MOVING FORWARD ON EASTERN PARTNERSHIP [...] (C) SUMMARY. A month after the formal launching of the EU's Eastern Partnership (EaP),Polish officials are determined to maintain the initiative's momentum in the face of upcoming Union leadership changes, a lukewarm reception by beneficiary countries, and possible Russian hostility. The MFA [...]	2009-06-12 13:21:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BO GC UP AJ AM MD PL
09WARSAW603	POLISH RESOLVE IN AFGHANISTAN STILL STRONG [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poland is a leading troop contributor in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, and senior Polish officials voice strong support for the effort. But Poland, like many other NATO allies, is not immune to the effects of a long campaign that has not enj [...]	2009-06-12 16:09:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO MCAP MOPS MARR PL AF
09WARSAW643	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL BEN NELSON TO WARSAW, JUNE [...] (SBU) Mission Poland warmly welcomes your upcoming visit to Warsaw. Your focus, Missile Defense, is front and center in our on-going conversation with the Poles, along with the rotation of a Patriot battery to Poland and on-going Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) Supplemental negotiations. Pre [...]	2009-06-23 15:39:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR OREP PGOV PREL PL
09WARSAW648	PROPERTY RESTITUTION AND REAL PROPERTY MARKET IN [...] (U) Summary: "Clouds" on title associated with property confiscations related to the Holocaust and post-war Communist upheavals have several effects on the Polish real estate market. Property may be kept off the market by unclear title or a pending restitution claim, sometimes driving up the [...]	2009-06-25 05:31:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON GM ODIP PREL XG XH XT PL
09WARSAW660	POLAND - INPUT FOR OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION MEETING [...] (U) Embassy Warsaw looks forward to once again hosting the delegates from Washington and the US Mission to the OSCE for the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM). Embassy Warsaw is providing the following input in response to Ref A request for information about host country progress an [...]	2009-06-26 10:26:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OSCE PHUM PREL PGOV PL
09WARSAW694	POLAND-CODEL NELSON WITH MINISTER KOMOROWSKI [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-06 14:54:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR OREP PGOV PL PREL RS
09WARSAW710	POLISH JUDICIARY BRACES FOR NEEDED REFORM [...] (SBU) Summary. Amid growing criticism of Poland's judicial system, Justice Minister Czuma has focused on the inefficiency of the EU's most expensive court system, on a per capita basis. Czuma has also sought to take on the perceived lack of integrity among Polish prosecutors and judges -- tho [...]	2009-07-09 11:58:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KJUS PREL PINR PHUM KCRM PL
09WARSAW76	PM TUSK'S NEW SHERIFF - JUSTICE MINISTER ANDRZEJ [...] (C) SUMMARY: Unlike his bookish predecessor, Poland's new Justice Minister, Andrzej Czuma -- one of the fathers of Poland's early anti-Communist movements and a former U.S. resident (1986-2005) -- is expected to take on the Polish judiciary,s daunting challenges in a more visible, determined a [...]	2009-01-23 15:41:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS PREL PINR PL
09WARSAW782	POLISH PARLIAMENTARY LEADER: "COMMUNICATION" KEY [...] (C) Newly elected Chairman of the Sejm Foreign Affairs Committee Andrzej Halicki (Civic Platform, PO) told the Ambassador July 28 that communication between the U.S. and Poland was key to maintaining excellent bilateral relations. His remark came in the context of prospective ratification of [...]	2009-07-29 15:00:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR PHUM PINR PL
09WARSAW82	LAW AND JUSTICE (PIS) TO PRESENT "NEW FACE" AT [...] SUMMARY: With a new media strategy and a new platform designed to present a "complete party" to Polish voters, members of the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) are increasingly confident about their prospects for success in June 2009 elections to the European Parliament -- widely advertised a [...]	2009-01-26 11:59:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PL
09WARSAW860	POLAND - LACK OF VISION IN FIGHTING CORRUPTION? [...] (C) SUMMARY. Since taking office in November 2007, the Tusk Government has been faulted by the opposition, NGOs, and the media for not making the fight against corruption a top priority. Recent surveys suggest Poles are as concerned as ever about corruption, despite notable progress over the [...]	2009-08-21 12:27:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON KCOR PL
09WARSAW875	SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENTIAL DELEGATION TO POLAND [...] (SBU) Mission Poland warmly welcomes your upcoming visit to Poland to commemorate the outbreak of World War II 70 years ago. Your trip comes at a key moment as Poland, Germany, Russia, and their neighbors work to put behind them controversial historical memories that have mired their relations [...]	2009-08-28 11:37:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV RS UP GM PL
09WARSAW879	POLISH MFA OPTIMISTIC ABOUT PUTIN VISIT AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. Despite controversy sparked by a recent Russian documentary about Poland's alleged alliance with Nazi Germany in the run-up to World War II, the Polish MFA appears to be upbeat about Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's scheduled visit to Poland for the September 1 commemoration in Gda [...]	2009-08-28 14:48:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PL PREL RS
09WARSAW881	POLAND WELCOMES EFFORTS TO ENHANCE GICNT [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-28 15:29:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL PTER KGIC PL
09WARSAW930	POLES INTENT ON SHAPING NATO'S REVISED STRATEGIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poland has high expectations for the upcoming revision of NATO's Strategic Concept (SC). Since joining NATO ten years ago, Poles believe they have paid their expeditionary dues in the Balkans and Afghanistan, and will insist that the Alliance now focus more attention on its tra [...]	2009-09-10 13:14:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MCAP MARR NATO PL
09WARSAW940	POLISH FORMIN OUTLINES EVOLVING RELATIONS WITH U.S. [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In recent remarks to the media, FM Sikorski suggested that Poland is a regional partner of the U.S., but only the EU has the scale and resources to be America's strategic partner. Sikorski argued that Poland should support deeper EU integration, Lisbon Treaty ratification, and a [...]	2009-09-12 07:03:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PARM NATO PL
09WARSAW950	SCENESETTER FOR JUSTICE SCALIA'S SEPTEMBER 23-25 [...] (SBU) Mr. Justice, Mission Poland warmly welcomes your September 23-25 visit to Warsaw. Your trip comes on the heels of ceremonies in Gdansk marking the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II -- one of many important commemorations this year, including the 20th anniversary of 1989 e [...]	2009-09-15 14:27:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM KJUS PL
09WARSAW97	BEEF HORMONES: POLES LOOKING FOR A DEAL [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 10. 2. (C) Summary: On instructions from the government of Prime Minister Tusk, officials from the Polish Agriculture Ministry asked EMBOFFS January 29 what concrete steps Poland could take to have its products removed from the retaliation list in [...]	2009-01-29 16:53:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EUN EAGR PL EU
09WARSAW983	POLES CAUTIOUS BUT OPEN-MINDED ON U.S. MD PROPOSAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. In the face of overwhelmingly negative press coverage, Polish officials' initial skepticism regarding the new U.S. offer on Missile Defense (MD) has evolved slightly to a posture of wait-and-see (but not too long). Both FM Sikorski and PM Tusk have issued guardedly encouraging p [...]	2009-09-23 16:18:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PL
09WARSAW985	REPAIRING U.S.-POLISH RELATIONS [...] (C) As I conclude my five years as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Poland, I offer some final thoughts on how to put U.S.-Polish relations back on an upward trajectory after several weeks of bumps. It is worth the effort. The Poles are like family - not shy about pointing out perceived sl [...]	2009-09-24 08:53:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CVIS PL
09WELLINGTON102	NEW ZEALAND'S $1.5NZ BILLION BROADBAND DEPLOYMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. In March, Communications and Information Technology Minister Steven Joyce unveiled plans for GNZ to offer up to NZ$1.5 billion for building high-speed broadband infrastructure to cover seventy-five percent of New Zealand. A Crown-owned investment company is expected, along wit [...]	2009-04-22 03:03:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECPS ECON NZ
09WELLINGTON112	NEW ZEALAND'S FOREIGN MINISTER ANNOUNCES CHANGE IN AID [...] (SBU) Summary. In a stinging May 1 speech, New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully signaled a course correction in New Zealand's aid program. Chief among the National Government's intended changes is a shift away from poverty alleviation to developing economic sustainability. McCully al [...]	2009-05-05 05:34:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID SOCI KDEM PREL NZ
09WELLINGTON117	TONGA PM SAYS APPROACH TO FIJI NEEDS REVISION [...] (SBU) Summary. On May 18, Tongan Prime Minister Dr. Feleti Seveli gave a public address in Wellington where he stated that critics need not worry about political reform in his country as it was continuing apace and is fully supported by the Tongan King. On Fiji, Dr. Seveli offered a nuanced [...]	2009-05-19 05:15:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PREL NZ
09WELLINGTON122	NEW ZEALAND'S FOREIGN MINISTER CRITICIZES US DAIRY [...] (SBU) In a lunch today with New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully and Charge, the former opened the conversation by noting the New Zealand Government,s strong negative reaction to the recent dairy subsidy announcement by the USG. McCully remarked that the decision by the EU and US to [...]	2009-05-27 06:48:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD PREL NZ
09WELLINGTON125	NEW ZEALAND'S 2009 BUDGET - SEEKING SECURITY IN UNCERTAIN [...] (SBU) Summary: Six months following the general election, the governing National Party delivered its first budget to the New Zealand Parliament on May 28. Finance Minister (FM) Bill English said the goal of the Budget was to achieve security in uncertain times and promised not to cut current [...]	2009-05-29 06:48:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PGOV NZ
09WELLINGTON159	LABOUR WINS RACE FOR HELEN CLARK'S OLD SEAT [...] (SBU) Summary. On June 13, the Labour Party's David Shearer easily won the by-election contest for the Mt. Albert seat in Auckland, recently vacated by former Prime Minister Helen Clark. Shearer, a former high ranking UN official, effortlessly defeated his nearest rival, the governing Nationa [...]	2009-06-16 04:50:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM NZ
09WELLINGTON169	New Zealand H1N1 Sitrep, June 19, 2009 [...] (SBU) Summary. On June 18, the New Zealand Government announced a shift of its H1N1 strategy from one of "containment" to one of "management" of the virus. This move was prompted by increased volumes of confirmed and suspected cases of the virus received by the country's regional health authori [...]	2009-06-19 05:26:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AEMR KFLU ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09WELLINGTON177	New Zealand H1N1 Sitrep, June 25, 2009 [...] (U) Updating Post's last sitrep, (see reftel),New Zealand's H1N1 flu strategy has shifted from a program of containment for confirmed and suspected cases to management of the pandemic's impact throughout major population centers. The management strategy of the pandemic now abandons distributi [...]	2009-06-25 01:49:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	AEMR KFLU TBIO KSAF PREL AMGT NZ
09WELLINGTON18	PM JOHN KEY OFFERS ECONOMIC ASSURANCES AND GENERALITIES [...] (U) Summary: On January 15, Prime Minister John Key held his first high-level meeting of the New Year to address growing negative economic news. Major financial research firms recently forecast significant contraction in the New Zealand economy resulting in a projected fifth quarter of no gro [...]	2009-01-20 02:21:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PGOV PREL NZ
09WELLINGTON2	U.S. COMPANIES AND AIR NEW ZEALAND TEST AVIATON BIOFUEL [...] December 30, 2008 Charge represented the Embassy, the Foreign Commercial Service and the U.S. Government generally at an Air New Zealand (ANZ) test flight of a new biofuel at Auckland International Airport. UOP, a U.S. subsidiary of Honeywell, has developed a biofuel from a tree called jatropha [...]	2009-01-06 02:29:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ENRG TRGY NZUS
09WELLINGTON213	New Zealand H1N1 SitRep July 13, 2009 [...] (SBU) Summary. New Zealanders are becoming increasingly concerned over H1N1 Influenza A (swine flu) as the virus spreads throughout the general population, causing serious illness and several deaths since the end of June. The public health sector has reported increased activity related to H1 [...]	2009-07-13 03:30:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO AEMR CW NZ PREL KSAF KPAO KFLU
09WELLINGTON223	ENGAGING AN MP CRITIC OF AFGHAN COMBAT OPS [...] (SBU) Summary. On July 15, Charge lunched with freshman Green Party MP Dr. Kennedy Graham, a former NZ and UN diplomat who recently questioned the legitimacy of Operation Enduring Freedom in the New Zealand Parliament. At lunch, Graham eloquently displayed his extensive knowledge and underst [...]	2009-07-20 05:18:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PREL AF NZ
09WELLINGTON259	MIXED REACTION TO NZ SAS DEPLOYMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. Political criticism of the GNZ's August 10 announcement to re-deploy the SAS to Afghanistan has been largely limited to the opposition Labour Party's criticism of the decision. This discord broke a long-held political convention in NZ of bipartisan support for foreign policy, es [...]	2009-08-17 02:51:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MOPS MARR NZ AF
09WELLINGTON27	NEW ZEALAND'S RESERVE BANK SLASHES INTEREST WHILE FONTERRA [...] (U) Summary: In a week of poor economic news, the Reserve Bank has reduced the Official Cash Rate to record lows while New Zealand's largest company Fonterra registered sharp losses that will translate into a 1 percent GDP reduction this year. Meanwhile, the opposition Labour Party held its [...]	2009-01-30 05:12:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL NZ
09WELLINGTON287	Foreign Minister on U.S. Relationship, Trade, Afghanistan [...] (SBU) Summary. During a September 26 introductory call, Foreign Minister Murray McCully warmly welcomed the Charge and emphasized that his door is always open for future meetings. McCully said the New Zealand Government puts a "huge priority" on building the relationship with the U.S., and he [...]	2009-09-30 02:18:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETRD ECON NZ AF PGOV MARR XV EAID
09WELLINGTON31	GOVERNMENT DISCUSSES ECONOMIC RISK TO MAORI [...] (SBU) Summary. The New Zealand Government recently sponsored an Economic Workshop dedicated to finding a response to the risk created by the worsening economic climate to indigenous Maori. Among New Zealanders, Maori remain particularly susceptible to the economic downturn as many work in low- [...]	2009-02-05 04:30:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM NZ
09WELLINGTON313	Vice Premier Li Keqiang Visit Underscores New Zealand's [...] (C) Summary: During a November 27 meeting with ChargC),Political and Economic Chief and Econoff, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs China Desk Director Grahame Morton gave a read-out of Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang's November 1-3 visit to New Zealand. Morton said Li's initial visit [...]	2009-12-06 22:42:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PREL PGOV ECON SENV CH EAID ETRD EINV EAGR AU
09WELLINGTON317	Vice Premier Li Keqiang Visit Underscores New Zealand's [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a November 27 meeting with ChargC),Political and Economic Chief and Econoff, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs China Desk Director Grahame Morton gave a read-out of Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang's November 1-3 visit to New Zealand. Morton said Li's initial visit [...]	2009-12-07 02:24:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ETRD EINV SENV EAGR NZ AS CH OVIP
09WELLINGTON320	Embassy Wellington: Samoa/New Zealand Situation Report [...] (SBU) SUMMARY - On September 29, 2009, Embassy Wellington's Emergency Action Committee met to discuss the recent earthquake off the coast of Samoa and ensuing tsunamis in the region. Embassy Wellington remains in contact with Embassy Apia, providing support and communication assistance as appr [...]	2009-09-30 06:55:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC NZ WS
09WELLINGTON37	BOEING BIDS TO SELL AIR NEW ZEALAND FIFTEEN NEW AIRCRAFT [...] (U) Summary: Boeing Corporation hopes to secure a new tender for the sale of fifteen new 737s to Air New Zealand worth US$1.2 billion. If successful this will add to Boeing's already lucrative contract to supply the national carrier with state-of-the-art aircraft. Air New Zealand is awaitin [...]	2009-02-13 03:12:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BEXP EAIR EIND EINT EINV ENRG ETRD NZ
09WELLINGTON54	NEW ZEALAND AND UNITED KINGDOM COLLABORATE ON RENEWABLE [...] (U) Summary. In February, the British High Commission (BHC) in New Zealand and the NZ Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (MoRST),organized a visit to New Zealand by a party of UK energy specialists. The purpose of the visit, funded the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO),was [...]	2009-02-27 03:17:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG SENV TRGY KGHG PREL NZ UK
09WELLINGTON68	NEW ZEALAND'S PRIME MINISTER HOSTS JOB SUMMIT IN HOPES OF [...] (SBU) Summary. With New Zealand's unemployment rate expected to exceed 6 percent by 2010 and to remain around this level until mid-2012, Prime Minister John Key opened a Job Summit in Auckland on February 27. Key invited some 200 participants from business, labor, government and NGOs to deve [...]	2009-03-09 01:36:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PGOV PREL NZ

09WELLINGTON69	TAXES, LAW AND ORDER TOP KEY'S LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM [...] (SBU) Summary. Prime Minister John Key was quick to enact his initial legislative agenda after coming to power following the 2008 election. As Key had promised prior to the election, his Government swiftly passed a tax cut package and a series of stronger law and order measures. The National [...]	2009-03-10 02:26:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KCRM KDEM NZ
09WELLINGTON70	2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATE FOR NEW ZEALAND [...] Following is Post's resubmission of the 2009 Investment Climate Statement (ICS) for New Zealand. As of end of January 2009, Post submitted ICS as part of the 2009 Country Commercial Guide per reftel. 2. Begin text of ICS submission: 2009 Investment Climate Statement - New Zealand Open [...]	2009-03-11 03:11:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EINV ELAB ETRD KTDB OPIC USTR NZ
09WELLINGTON88	NEW ZEALAND TO REDRAFT SECTION 92A OF NEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 23, New Zealand's Minister of Commerce Simon Power announced that the GNZ would suspend section 92A of the new copyright law, which would have created new regulations for terminating internet accounts of repeat copyright infringers. Negotiators for both the intellectu [...]	2009-04-03 03:31:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KIPR NZ
09WELLINGTON90	CONTROVERSIAL NZ RESOURCE ACT TO BE REFORMED [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 19, the GNZ introduced legislation aimed at reforming the controversial Resource Management Act (RMA). Meant to regulate infrastructure development, the RMA has been criticized as a barrier to economic growth. Part of the legislation proposed the creation of an Envi [...]	2009-04-08 03:02:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SENV ECON NZ
09WELLINGTON92	NZ EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEME UNDER REVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary. On December 9, 2008, the newly elected National-led Government announced its review of the country's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). Established by the previous Labour government, the ETS attracted criticism from many quarters, including the National Party, for its lack of poli [...]	2009-04-09 02:11:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV PGOV KGHG NZ
09WELLINGTON95	NEW ZEALAND MFAT BRIEFS ON FIJI'S "BLEAK" SITUATION [...] (SBU) Deputy Secretary Chris Seed invited resident chiefs of mission to New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) for an update on developments in Fiji. After reviewing recent developments, Seed concluded that "these actions demonstrate that Commodore Bainimarama has no intenti [...]	2009-04-15 04:52:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL FJ NZ
09WELLINGTON99	NZ PUBLIC SECTOR CUTS UNDERWAY [...] (SBU) Summary. In keeping with its campaign pledge to curb New Zealand public sector expenditure, the National-led Government has instigated a review of public spending in advance of the May 28 budget. The main aim of the review is to identify programs and personnel not consistent with Govern [...]	2009-04-17 03:35:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EFIN SOCI NZ
09WINDHOEK118	UPDATE ON CHINESE ACTIVITIES IN NAMIBIA [...] (C) China provided significant financial support to the ruling SWAPO party during the liberation struggle, and today it continues to maintain close political, financial, and commercial ties to SWAPO. The Chinese government has given the GRN over 1 billion Namibian dollars since independence ( [...]	2009-04-09 12:15:00	Embassy Windhoek	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR WA CH
09WINDHOEK121	NAMIBIA: ALLEGATIONS OF SECURITY BREACHES OF [...] (C) On April 4, Rainer Ritter (protect),suspended CEO of the Namibia Financial Institutions Supervisory Authority (NAMFISA),informed Ambassador Mathieu that he had discovered irregularities with regard to NAMFISAQs computer system. He further stated that he had reported those irregularities [...]	2009-04-09 13:01:00	Embassy Windhoek	CONFIDENTIAL	KCIP PREL WA
09WINDHOEK156	NAMIBIA: THE POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF COMMERCIAL [...] (SBU) Nineteen years after independence from South Africa, white Namibians still own the vast majority of commercial farm land. The Namibian government's (GRN) land reform efforts have helped resettle more than 3000 black Namibian families on previously white owned farms, but the program sti [...]	2009-05-08 10:52:00	Embassy Windhoek	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EAGR WA
09WINDHOEK246	NAMIBIA AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS [...] (SBU) While Namibia maintained positive economic growth in 2008, the consensus for 2009 is that the economy will shrink between 0.6 and 2.0 percent. Two of Namibia's primary sectors, mining and fishing, shrank considerably in 2008 and all indications are that this slump is continuing in 2009. [...]	2009-07-09 16:06:00	Embassy Windhoek	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EAGR WA
09WINDHOEK272	PARTY FINANCING OPACITY A HUGE BOON TO SWAPO [...] (C) Summary: Political parties in Namibia have no legal requirement to disclose the sources of private domestic funding, while public funding is dictated by the number of seats a party holds in the National Assembly. Both systems heavily benefit the ruling South West African People's Organiza [...]	2009-07-29 11:48:00	Embassy Windhoek	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV WA
09WINDHOEK302	NAMIBIA: CORRUPTION CASES TO NET BIG FISH? [...] (SBU) Namibia's Public Services Commissioner Teckla Lameck and her two business partners (a Namibian and Chinese national) are alleged to have defrauded the Namibian government (GRN) of USD $4.2 million. The alleged corrupt acts are linked to a deal involving the GRN's purchase of x-ray scann [...]	2009-08-20 14:54:00	Embassy Windhoek	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KCOR CH WA
09WINDHOEK324	NAMIBIA REEVALUATES CHINESE EXIM LOANS [...] (SBU) Summary: During President Hu Jintao's state visit to Namibia in 2007, the two governments signed an agreement for a concessionary loan, and a credit line - each valued at approximately USD 130 million. In July, the Namibian government (GRN) announced the suspension of its line of credi [...]	2009-09-10 14:48:00	Embassy Windhoek	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV PREL PGOV CH WA
09WINDHOEK326	REFUGEES IN NAMIBIA: IMPENDING FOOD CRISIS AMIDST DURABLE [...] (U) The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the GRN's Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration (MHAI) made a joint presentation to representatives from the diplomatic community in Windhoek on September 4 concerning durable solutions for the integration or resettlement of 800 [...]	2009-09-10 14:53:00	Embassy Windhoek	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PGOV PREL PHUM WA
09WINDHOEK360	FRAUD SUMMARY - WINDHOEK [...] (U) COUNTRY CONDITIONS: Namibia is a developing country with one of the world's highest levels of income inequality. Namibia has a population of roughly 2 million, with a low NIV and a moderate ACS workload. Culturally, there are strong ties to family and clan identity, as well as a strong [...]	2009-09-30 15:07:00	Embassy Windhoek	UNCLASSIFIED	KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC WA
09WINDHOEK37	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH NUJOMA [...] (C) On February 2, Ambassador met with former Namibian President and founding father, Sam Nujoma. Nujoma was in good spirits and spoke enthusiastically about the new U.S. administration and its potential impact on U.S. foreign policy. He also briefly commented on the state of democracy in Na [...]	2009-02-03 15:21:00	Embassy Windhoek	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM WA
09WINDHOEK38	NAMIBIA: TURBULENT SKIES AND RICKETY RAILS [...] (SBU) A recent spate of small aircraft accidents has highlighted the poor state of the Namibian private aviation sector. Industry insiders point to the lack of proper oversight as a key weakness. Members of the Directorate of Civil Aviation (DCA) acknowledge that they lack sufficient air tra [...]	2009-02-04 15:27:00	Embassy Windhoek	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC EAIR ECON ELTN PGOV WA
09WINDHOEK432	NAMIBIA ASKS DOE TO REVIEW SALE OF URANIUM TO USEC [...] Action request - please see paragraph 9. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Veston Malango, General Manger of the Chamber of Mines of Namibia (CMN),called on Ambassador Mathieu to convey his organization's concern over the U.S. Department of Energy's plan to sell excess USG uranium to [...]	2009-11-25 13:09:00	Embassy Windhoek	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EMIN ETTC PREL WA
09WINDHOEK433	NAMIBIAN ELECTION PRIMER [...] Summary. Namibia will hold its fourth National Assembly and Presidential elections on November 27 and 28. Fourteen political parties are contesting 72 National Assembly seats, and a record 12 candidates will contest the presidency. The ruling South West African People's Organization (SWAPO) p [...]	2009-11-25 13:12:00	Embassy Windhoek	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM WA
09WINDHOEK453	NAMIBIA: OPPOSITION CONTESTS FINAL ELECTION RESULTS [...] (SBU) After six days of counting, tabulating, and verifying votes, the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) issued its final results for the November 27-28 2009 Presidential and National Assembly (parliamentary) elections late on December 4. The ruling SWAPO party and the incumbent Preside [...]	2009-12-08 15:27:00	Embassy Windhoek	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM WA
09WINDHOEK468	Namibian Supreme Court Rules Independently, Finds Labor Law [...] (SBU) On December 14, the Namibian Supreme Court unanimously ruled as unconstitutional a provision of the 2007 Labor Act which prohibited employers from using labor hire, i.e., third-party hired temporary or contract workers. Opponents of labor hire see the industry as akin to the "inhumane" [...]	2009-12-16 08:26:00	Embassy Windhoek	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PGOV WA
09WINDHOEK69	Namibian Agriculture: An Inefficient but Key Employer [...] (SBU) Namibian agriculture employs - directly and indirectly -- approximately 70 percent of working Namibians. However, it contributes to less than ten percent of gross domestic product. Despite so much human activity involved in farming, Namibia's desert climate makes it highly dependent on f [...]	2009-02-26 15:30:00	Embassy Windhoek	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EAGR WA
09WINDHOEK70	DISASTER ALERT: NAMIBIA-SEVERE FLOODING IN NORTHERN AND [...] Torrential rains in Angola and northern Namibia in January and February 2009 have caused serious flooding in the north and north east of Namibia. Thousands of people have already been affected and every day the situation is getting worse. The floods in the northern regions have already claimed [...]	2009-02-26 15:35:00	Embassy Windhoek	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR SENV ECON WA
09WINDHOEK71	NAMIBIA: USG AG COOPERATION - A GOOD NEWS STORY [...] (C) The USG has for many years collaborated with the government of Namibia (GRN) in the latter's attempt to boost its agricultural productivity, improve its plant and animal health systems, and gain access to U.S. markets. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has conducted most U.S. agr [...]	2009-02-26 15:40:00	Embassy Windhoek	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EAGR WA
09WINDHOEK82	NAMIBIA ON KIMBERLEY PROCESS CHAIRMANSHIP [...] (C) Namibia's newly appointed chair of the Kimberley Process (KP) -- Deputy Minister of Mines and Energy Bernhardt Esau -- told DCM on February 24 that Zimbabwe would be his primary challenge. He plans a site visit there shortly and has invited South Africa and Angola to join the delegation, [...]	2009-03-05 16:04:00	Embassy Windhoek	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETTC EMIN ETRD WA
09YAOUNDE1007	PRESIDENT BIYA'S DEMARCHE TO AMBASSADOR: FRIENDS [...] (C) Summary: On November 25, Cameroonian Foreign Minister Henri Eyebe Ayissi summoned Ambassador to his office to read her a message which he said was from President Paul Biya. The statement, written in French, affirmed that diplomats should not interfere with Cameroon's internal affairs, e [...]	2009-11-25 15:32:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	CM PGOV PINR PREL
09YAOUNDE1046	CAMEROONIAN PRESIDENT BIYA UNUSUALLY ACTIVE [...] (C) Summary: Cameroonian President Paul Biya has been uncharacteristically active in the past two months. He issued a letter to the Cameroonian people, attended two high profile public events, announced several other future engagements, encouraged his party to refocus on bread and butter i [...]	2009-12-11 11:42:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	CM ECON PGOV PINR PREL
09YAOUNDE111	CAMEROON: USG SENDS MESSAGE ON ELECTION AGENCY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ambassador's decision not to attend the public swearing-in of the controversial leadership of Cameroon's elections agency (ELECAM) has caught the attention of the press, civil society, and the Government of Cameron (GRC). The Ambassador had briefed the Prime Minister and c [...]	2009-02-02 15:59:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL EAID CM
09YAOUNDE122	CAMEROON'S MINES MINISTER THINKS GLOBALLY, WORRIES LOCALLY [...] (U) Summary. Cameroon's Minister of Mining is increasingly worried about the impact that global economic trends will have on Cameroon, especially in the mining and industrial sectors. At the Minister's request, Post's Economic and Commercial team met with Badel Ndanga Ndinga, Cameroon's Min [...]	2009-02-05 15:09:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	EMIN EIND EINV ETRD ECON CM
09YAOUNDE152	CAMEROON: 2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] Summary: The Government of the Republic of Cameroon (GRC) acknowledges that Cameroon is a country of origin, transit and destination for trafficked women and children. In 2005, the National Assembly passed Anti-Child Trafficking legislation. A number of sections of the penal code apply to tra [...]	2009-02-16 09:50:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB CM
09YAOUNDE256	CAMEROON'S JUSTICE MINISTER SAYS NORTH WILL [...] (C) Summary. The struggle for Cameroon's future, including President Paul Biya's succession, should be viewed through ethnic and regional lenses, according to Amadou Ali, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Justice. In a recent, wide-ranging and frank discussion with the Ambassador, Ali sa [...]	2009-03-12 16:39:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KCOR CM
09YAOUNDE275	(S) ALLEGED PLOT TO KILL BIYA "PLAUSIBLE, BUT [...] (S) Summary. According to Francis Dooh Collins, a French national of Cameroonian origin who has proven to be politically well-connected but of dubious credibility, Minister of Defense Remy Ze Meka and a group of disgruntled senior military officials intend to assassinate President Paul Biya [...]	2009-03-20 17:55:00	Embassy Yaounde	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR PINS ASEC CM
09YAOUNDE28	CAMEROON'S ELECAM: VIEWS FROM THE EU, [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 8, Ambassador hosted a meeting of the "8 6", an informal group of resident Chiefs of Mission which meets periodically. The group discussed the implications and possible responses to President Biya's recent creation of a new Electoral Commission (ELECAM) packed with [...]	2009-01-13 16:34:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CM PGOV PHUM PREL
09YAOUNDE291	CAMEROON INCREASINGLY WORRIED ABOUT THE GLOBAL [...] (SBU) Summary: In a recent trip to the South West and Littoral Regions (Cameroon's economic heartland),Pol/Econ Chief found increasing nervousness about the potential impact of the global economic crisis on Cameroon's economy. The oil, timber, cotton, coffee and rubber sectors (which toge [...]	2009-03-27 13:03:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CM EAGR ECON EFIN EMIN EPET ETRD
09YAOUNDE407	CAMEROON PLANS TO OPEN TELCOM SECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Cameroon's National Assembly will vote later this year on a law to reform Cameroon's telecom sector, making it more open to competition, according to Edouard Ebah Abada, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MINPOSTEL). In a recent meeting with [...]	2009-05-07 11:53:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EINV ECPS KCOR CM
09YAOUNDE430	CAMAIRCO BACK TO SQUARE ONE [...] (C) Summary: In a recent meeting with then Charge d'Affaires, Deputy Secretary General of the Presidency and Chairman of the Board of CAMAIRCO Philemon Yang provided an update of the government's plans to start up a new national airline after the liquidation in 2006 of CAMAIR. Yang noted t [...]	2009-05-12 15:44:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	CM EAIR ECON PGOV KCOR
09YAOUNDE431	CAMEROON'S PM REVEALING ON GRC'S GOVERNANCE [...] (C) Summary. In a May 12 meeting with the Ambassador, Cameroonian Prime Minister Ephraim Inoni professed ignorance of President Biya's agenda for the coming months and dismissed Biya's claim--made to the Ambassador last month (ref b)--that the Senate would be set up before the end of the ye [...]	2009-05-13 13:40:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR CM
09YAOUNDE477	ECONOMICS AND ETHNICITY IN CAMEROON'S WEST REGION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On a recent trip to the West Region, Ambassador spoke with Governor Pascal Mani, who said the region has not been badly hit by the global economic crisis. Nonetheless, he expressed concerns about a slowdown in the timber sector and the impact of the decline in coffee production [...]	2009-05-29 08:04:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CM PREL EAGR ECON KOCI PGOV PINR
09YAOUNDE480	CAMEROON'S JUSTICE MINISTER ON BIYA'S PLANS, [...] (C) Summary. Amadou Ali, Cameroon's Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Justice and one of the country's senior political leaders, professes he still does not know whether or not President Biya will run for reelection in 2011, but he insists Biya will step aside before another term expires, [...]	2009-05-29 09:33:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	KCOR PREL PGOV PHUM OSEC CM
09YAOUNDE482	BIYA'S SUCCESSION UNCERTAIN, SAYS SENIOR [...] (C) Summary. Cameroon will either not have presidential elections, as scheduled, in 2011 or the elections, if they are held, will be so bad no one will believe them, according to Yaya Hamidou Marafa, Cameroon's Minister for Territorial Administration and Decentralization (MINATD). In a wid [...]	2009-05-29 11:23:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR CM
09YAOUNDE486	CAMEROONIAN FOREIGN MINISTER PRAISES BILATERAL [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 18, Ambassador met with Cameroonian Minister of External Affairs Henri Eyebe Ayissi, who praised bilateral relations and cited regional and maritime security as his top foreign policy priority. He claimed to know little about an ongoing case of piracy involving an Ame [...]	2009-06-01 16:08:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	AMGT CM ECON MAS PGOV PREL
09YAOUNDE504	CAMEROON'S ECONOMY MINISTER OUTLINES ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 28, Ambassador met with Minister of Economy,Planning and Regional Development Louis Paul Motaze. Motaze was frustrated with Cameroon's weak economic growth, poor budget implementation, and slow progress on major infrastructure projects. He blamed insufficient project [...]	2009-06-05 10:59:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CM EAGR EAIR ECON EFIN EIND
09YAOUNDE518	CAMEROON SEEKS EMERGENCY IMF SUPPORT; DONORS [...] (C) Summary: In a June 4 meeting of donors hosted by Ambassador, IMF Res Rep detailed Cameroon's request for about $140 million in Exogenous Shock Facility (ESF) funds to compensate for budget shortfalls due to low oil prices and the global economic crisis. While IMF Res Rep was confident [...]	2009-06-12 13:57:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	CM ECON EFIN
09YAOUNDE573	CAMEROONIAN MINISTER: BIYA COMMITTED, BUT [...] (C) Summary. On June 23, Poloff called on Victor Mengot, Minister at the Presidency in Charge of Special Duties, to discuss two high-profile American investments, Geovic and Le Bus, where the American investors are at loggerheads with the Government of Cameroon's (GRC) representatives. Men [...]	2009-06-29 12:19:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	KCOR ECON EINV ETRD PINR CM
09YAOUNDE581	Cameroon's Separatist SCNC Still Pushing its Cause [...] (U) The Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC) is an Anglophone separatist movement whose ultimate goal is a return to the two-state Federation which existed pre-1972. The movement has used violence in the past and has recently internationalized its campaign by lobbying in Washington, New [...]	2009-06-29 15:49:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PINR CVIS CM
09YAOUNDE608	(C) CENTRAL BANK SOURCE: "GABONESE STOLE $40 [...] (C) Summary. Senior Gabonese officials in the Bank of Central African States (BEAC) colluded to embezzle more than 18.3 billion CFA (about $36 million) from the pooled reserves of the six states of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) over the past five years, according to a [...]	2009-07-07 12:58:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	KCOR EFIN PREL PGOV ECON CM
09YAOUNDE643	CAMEROON'S NEW PRIME MINISTER - FOCUS ON THE [...] (C) Summary: On July 16, Ambassador made an initial courtesy call on Philemon Yang, named Cameroon's new Prime Minister in a June 30 Cabinet shuffle (ref A). Yang said his priority would be the economy. He praised the independence of members of the Electoral Commission, saying the 2011 pr [...]	2009-07-24 09:57:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KCOR PGOV PHUM SOCI CM
09YAOUNDE691	CAMEROONIAN MINISTERS ON RECENT NIGERIAN VIOLENCE [...] (C) Summary: A senior Cameroonian Minister told Ambassador that about 5,000 Nigerians crossed into Cameroon as a result of the recent Boko Haram-related violence in Nigeria and that the governor of one of the affected Nigerian states had contacted him to inform him of the capture and death [...]	2009-08-11 17:25:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	CM NI PGOV PHUM PREF PREL
09YAOUNDE825	A VISIT TO CAMEROON'S PRISONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Yaounde's Political Specialist recently visited the prisons of Douala New Bell, in the Littoral Region, and Buea and Kumba in the South West Region. These three prisons often top the headlines because of violence, revolts, and escape attempts. Douala's prison is dismal [...]	2009-09-28 15:03:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV CASC CM
09YAOUNDE838	RUSSIAN BUSINESS PRESENCE IN CAMEROON (C-CI9-01825) [...] (U) Responses are prepared according to reftel. A. (U) There is no official Russian trade representative in Cameroon. B. (U) There are no major Russian companies operating in Cameroon. C. (U) While Russia used to import cocoa and agricultural products from Cameroon and export car [...]	2009-10-05 10:56:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	PINR BBSR ECON AO
09YAOUNDE865	CAMEROON: A HEALTH UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Cameroon (GRC) has not yet offered a solution to a possible anti-retroviral drug (ARV) shortage, although the Central Drug Depository may use its reserves to finance ARVs for additional quarter. Although four H1N1 cases were reported in August, the Pasteur Ins [...]	2009-10-14 12:51:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KHIV KOCI SOCI PGOV CM
09YAOUNDE87	CAMEROON'S PM SHRUGS OFF CRITICISM OF ELECAM [...] (C) On January 27, Ambassador met with Prime Minister Iphriam Inoni to discuss Cameroon's new Electoral Commission, Elections Cameroon (ELECAM). Ambassador clarified that unlike in her January 15 conversation with him (reftel),this time she was representing USG views and not coming in her [...]	2009-01-27 16:53:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	CM PGOV PHUM PREL
09YEKATERINBURG29	A GLOBAL VILLAGE TACKLES GLOBAL WARMING [...] (U) Summary - The world is truly a global village and nowhere more so than at the U.S. Consulate General in Yekaterinburg. On Wednesday morning, April 16, 2009, the Consulate participated in a Digital Video Conference (DVC) with Kiowa Indian students at the University of North Texas in Dento [...]	2009-05-14 08:18:00	Consulate Yekaterinburg	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP RS MY SCUL SENV
09YEKATERINBURG31	TYUMEN, TOBOLSK SPARKLE IN THEIR OWN WAYS [...] Summary: Consul General traveled to Tyumen and Tobolsk May 18-20. In Tyumen, we opened a photographic exhibit, saw the newly renovated American Corner, met with the rector of the oil and gas university and visited the offices of the Halliburton oil services company. In Tobolsk, we met the m [...]	2009-05-23 08:05:00	Consulate Yekaterinburg	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON SCUL PGOV RS
09YEKATERINBURG44	BASHKORTOSTAN - WAITING FOR CHANGE [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: Political/Economic Officer and LES Pol/Econ assistant traveled to Ufa June 29-July 1, meeting with human rights and opposition activists, the rabbi, and exponents of women's rights. We participated in the op [...]	2009-07-15 03:33:00	Consulate Yekaterinburg	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON RS
09YEKATERINBURG54	HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP: YEKATERINBURG VISIT OF DRL [...] (U) Introduction: Susan Corke, DRL's EUR team leader, visited Yekaterinburg July 26-28, meeting with local human rights activists and sitting in on a blogger's class conducted by the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations. Her visit provided an excellent opportunity to catch up on local [...]	2009-08-07 09:23:00	Consulate Yekaterinburg	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SOCI RS
09YEKATERINBURG55	UPDATE ON THE ARREST OF ANDREY SOKOLOV [...] (U) This is an action request for DRL. See paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) Pol/Econ officer met with the lawyer representing arrested prisoners' rights activist Alexey Sokolov (see ref A) on August 5 for an update on the case. The court allowed Sokolov's release on bail on July 31 but he was rearres [...]	2009-08-10 10:21:00	Consulate Yekaterinburg	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SOCI RS
09YEKATERINBURG56	MINORITY RELIGIONS IN THE URALS - WALK SOFTLY AND YOU WILL [...] Sensitive But Unclassified. Not for internet distribution. 2. (U) Summary: In recent weeks, consulate officers have met with representatives of three "minority" religions operating in the Urals: Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Evangelical Lutherans. Jehovah's Witnesses appear to experi [...]	2009-08-10 10:39:00	Consulate Yekaterinburg	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SOCI RS
09YEKATERINBURG69	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: YEKATERINBURG PRE-LICENSE END-USE [...] As requested Ref A, Yekaterinburg Pol/Econ officer asked Vasiliy Volovod the questions in para 4. His answers (keyed to the questions) were: --End users of the ammunition are: Vasiliy Volovod Dmitriy Terentiev Andrei Lebedev Andrei Kochegarov Vyacheslav Skulin Sergey Lubimov Sergei Shi [...]	2009-10-23 09:43:00	Consulate Yekaterinburg	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC RS
09YEKATERINBURG74	URALS REGION GRAPPLES WITH GRIPPE [...] Summary: The H1N1 outbreak is the main topic of the week in Sverdlovsk oblast now that a new governor has been named. A flu epidemic was declared for the oblast last week. Deaths from H1N1 have been confirmed in Chelyabinsk oblast, Surgut, and Bashkortostan. School vacations in many oblasts [...]	2009-11-13 09:33:00	Consulate Yekaterinburg	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI KFLU WHO PGOV RS
09YEKATERINBURG79	CONFERENCES HIGHLIGHT BARRIERS TO INNOVATION AND [...] (U) Summary: At recent events in Yekaterinburg, prominent government, business, and academic representatives discussed issues of the Greater Urals economy. Several presenters from business and government noted signs of improvement in the Russian economy, but called for greater diversification [...]	2009-12-02 07:39:00	Consulate Yekaterinburg	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EFIN RS
09YEKATERINBURG83	NEW GOVERNOR STRESSES ECONOMIC MODERNIZATION [...] (SBU) Newly appointed Sverdlovsk oblast governor Aleksandr Misharin (see reftel) hosted a holiday toast for the Urals-based diplomatic corps at the governor's residence on December 10. For most of the foreign diplomats present, this was the first face to face meeting with the new governor. Th [...]	2009-12-16 11:12:00	Consulate Yekaterinburg	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAIR EINV PGOV PREL RS CH
09YEREVAN1	AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH STATE [...] (C) Meeting for the first time on December 19 with State Revenue Committee Chairman Gagik Khachatryan, Ambassador commended the reform goals of the newly-merged agency, while highlighting areas in which the agency had failed to demonstrate either the political will or the institutional capaci [...]	2009-01-05 09:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EFIN AM
09YEREVAN100	STORM CLOUDS GATHERING FOR ARMENIA'S ECONOMY? [...] (C) Armenia's economy continues to worsen as the effects of the global financial crisis take root. While the banking system remains stable, Armenia is highly vulnerable to external events, particularly in Russia. The real economy is already hurting, with indicators pointing to further pain a [...]	2009-02-17 13:25:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD AM
09YEREVAN103	DEFENSE MINISTER REVIEWS CSTO, RUSSIA, REGIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian reviewed Armenia's regional security perspectives with Ambassador February 10. He commented that the recently-announced CSTO reaction force remains only "on paper." He linked Russia's military presence in Armenia to the potential threat posed by [...]	2009-02-17 16:24:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS NATO CIS RU TU AJ AF AM
09YEREVAN106	OPPOSITION BUSINESSMAN'S COMPANY SOLD IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nearly two months after first putting it up for auction, the GOAM on February 16 finally found a buyer for the Bjni mineral water company, seized last fall from fugitive opposition oligarch Khachatur Sukiasian. This was the second attempt to auction off the firm. The first auct [...]	2009-02-18 12:30:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AM
09YEREVAN107	PROPOSED LAW THREATENS RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN ARMENIA [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-18 17:50:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF AM
09YEREVAN108	PRESIDENT TAMPS DOWN PREDECESSOR'S POLITICAL [...] (S) Republican Party faction secretary Samvel Nikoyan (protect) confided February 18 that political intrigues aimed at unseating Prime Minister Tigran Sargsian have dropped off from their peak in December. Nikoyan said that President Sargsian had gone to see ex-President Kocharian at some poi [...]	2009-02-18 17:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PGOV EFIN AM
09YEREVAN126	EVIDENCE OF POSSIBLE FRAUDULENT ASYLUM CLAIM - [...] (SBU/NF) Summary: Evidence has come to light during a Visa 92 following-to-join interview that suggests Ms. Jemma HOVHANNISYAN, Alien Registration Number 98824551 submitted a fraudulent claim for asylum. As per 9 FAM Appendix O, 1207.2-5(A),Post is reporting these details to CA/VO/F/P, CA/FP [...]	2009-02-23 13:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CVIS KFRD PHUM PREF AM
09YEREVAN135	ARMENIA'S 2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-25 12:59:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AM ASEC ELAB KCRM KFRD KTIP KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF PREL SMIG
09YEREVAN138	POLITICS AND IMPUNITY IN THE SCHOOLYARD [...] (SBU) The oppositional newspaper Haykakan Zhamanak reported that on February 24 the teenage son of Gagik "Chorni (Black) Gago" Beglarian -- the district chairman of Yerevan's Central ("Kentron") district -- called in his father's bodyguards to deal with a schoolmate, with whom he had had a braw [...]	2009-02-26 10:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV ASEC KCRM AM
09YEREVAN145	PRESIDENT INVITES EU ENVOY BACK FOR SENSITIVE TALKS [...] (C) Peter Semneby, the EU's Special Representative to the South Caucasus, provided the Ambassador a read-out of his conversations with President Sargsian and opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrossian. Semneby is trying to facilitate a dialogue between the president and the opposition that could [...]	2009-02-27 11:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KJUS KDEM AJ AM
09YEREVAN149	BANNED OPPOSITION RALLY PROCEEDS WITHOUT INCIDENT [...] (C) The opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) and Heritage Party attracted an estimated 10-15,000 people to a rally on the grounds of the Matenaderan manuscript museum March 1 to commemorate the anniversary of last year's political violence. ANC organizers then led the demonstrators in [...]	2009-03-02 12:34:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC CASC KDEM AM
09YEREVAN150	ARMENIANS ANTICIPATE NEAR-TERM DEVALUATION OF [...] (C) There appears to be increasing panic among the Armenian public and financial institutions concerning an imminent devaluation of the Armenian Dram (AMD). Armenians are increasingly moving their money into dollars, knowing that the CBA cannot continue to support the AMD indefinitely. This [...]	2009-03-02 15:40:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD AM
09YEREVAN151	DRAM FALLS 25 PERCENT AFTER CENTRAL BANK ENDS [...] (U) The board of the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA) announced today that it would end its aggressive intervention in support of the Armenian Dram (AMD). Almost immediately, the AMD fell nearly 25 percent. GOAM officials are hopeful that the currency has reached a new equilibrium price, but it [...]	2009-03-03 15:08:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD KTDB AM
09YEREVAN167	AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH MINISTER OF [...] (C) In their introductory meeting, Minister of Nature Protection Aram Harutyunian thanked the Ambassador for the assistance provided by USAID on a range of water projects as well as the work of Peace Corps volunteers in environmental education. He requested that USAID assistance be extended b [...]	2009-03-09 12:41:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAGR EAID ENRG SENV AM
09YEREVAN168	DAS MATTHEW BRYZA DISCUSSES GEORGIA AND NK WITH [...] (C) During his meeting with EUR DAS Matthew Bryza, the Catholicos of All Armenians, Karekin II, expressed hope for a resolution of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. He was less optimistic about a resolution of the growing dispute with the Georgian Church regarding the legal status of the Armen [...]	2009-03-09 14:05:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SCUL KIRF GG AM
09YEREVAN178	CENTRAL BANK CHAIRMAN BEHIND THE SCENES ON [...] (C) Central Bank Chairman Arthur Javadian told Ambassador the CBA's decision to sustain the Armenian Dram (AMD) since last fall had been the correct one, despite the significant depletion of Armenia's foreign reserves. Notwithstanding official independence, Javadian made clear that the Preside [...]	2009-03-13 13:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PROV PREL ECON EFIN EINV ASEC RU AM
09YEREVAN181	DONOR COMMUNITY GUARDED ABOUT ARMENIA'S ECONOMIC [...] (C) An Embassy-hosted roundtable on the global financial crisis indicated increasing doubt in the donor community that Armenia will escape the worst impacts of the global financial crisis. Macroeconomic indicators continue to underperform initial predictions, and the GOAM has few tools at its [...]	2009-03-16 08:24:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD AM
09YEREVAN189	GOAM DELAYS SPENDING IN WAKE OF ECONOMIC CRISIS [...] (C) In response to a shortfall in tax collections brought on by the global economic crisis, the GOAM has instructed ministries to defer nearly 10 percent of projected 2009 spending until the fourth quarter of the year. Prime Minister Tigran Sargsian advised ministers that for the time being, [...]	2009-03-18 14:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV AM
09YEREVAN192	MCC - ECONOMIC ADVISOR URGES ANALYTICAL APPROACH [...] (C) Presidential Economic Advisor Vahram Nercissiantz told Ambassador that the MCC compact's close linkage to political indicators is problematic, and using assistance programs as a political cudgel usually backfires. Nercissiantz urged that the USG make its case to the GOAM on democracy indic [...]	2009-03-20 11:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID ECON EFIN PHUM KDEM AM
09YEREVAN197	CIVIL SOCIETY REPS TALK TO AMBASSADOR ABOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador met March 18 with civil society representatives to discuss Armenia's immediate concerns, particularly in light of the MCC Board's announcement to continue to keep a hold on its road projects in Armenia. Those assembled pointed to human and political rights as well as t [...]	2009-03-20 16:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL EAID KDEM AM
09YEREVAN2	CARC DIRECTOR HEARS PESSIMISM ON DEMOCRACY, [...] (C) During his December 7-10 visit to Yerevan, EUR-CARC Director Baxter Hunt met with civil society leaders, members of parliament, heads of various think tanks, business leaders, senior officials, and representatives of the political opposition to discuss a wide range of domestic and foreign [...]	2009-01-05 10:15:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EAID ELAB ECON KDEM KJUS AM
09YEREVAN20	(S/NF) CONSTRUCTIVE TALKS ON EXPORT CONTROL ISSUE [...] (S/NF) The separate meetings on January 14 with NSS Chairman Hakobian and President Sargsian regarding the Iran export control issue were both positive and constructive. Sargsian acknowledged the weapons purchase from Bulgaria, and neither he nor the NSS Chairman challenged our information that the [...]	2009-01-14 15:56:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET//NOFORN	ETTC PARM PINR AM
09YEREVAN201	SPEAKER LEANS FORWARD ON MARCH 1 DETAINEES, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Without revealing specifics, National Assembly Speaker Hovik Abrahamian seemed to signal dramatic new moves on releasing March 1 (and election-related) detainees in the upcoming weeks, now that the parliament has enacted the criminal code revisions negotiated with PACE. He indica [...]	2009-03-23 08:44:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM COE GG TU AJ RU AM
09YEREVAN202	AMBASSADOR AIRS CONCERNS ON YEREVAN ELECTIONS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met March 16 with Garegin Azarian, Chairman of Armenia's Central Electoral Commission (CEC),to voice concerns about the upcoming Yerevan municipal elections. The Ambassador said that the questionable integrity of voter lists and the rumored removal of political p [...]	2009-03-23 09:14:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KJUS AM
09YEREVAN217	KOSOVO/KFOR DEMARCHE DELIVERED -- ARMENIANS HAPPY [...] (C) CDA conveyed an abbreviated version of reftel talking points to Deputy Foriegn Minister Arman Kirakossian. Our points highlighted appreciation for Armenian commitment to Kosovo, including its recent doubling of its troop contingent there, and signaled continued firm U.S. commitment to sein [...]	2009-03-26 12:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO KPKO KV AM
09YEREVAN219	PROFESSORS ACCUSED OF CORRUPTION; JOURNALIST BEATEN [...] Summary: On March 13, local youth NGO Miasin staged an initiative designed to publically denounce corruption in Armenia's universities. The group placed photos of allegedly crooked professors in several highly trafficked areas of the city. Reactions were mixed, but passionate. The pro-gover [...]	2009-03-27 12:38:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KPAO SCUL AM
09YEREVAN228	SEMI-ANNUAL FRAUD SUMMARY (SEPTEMBER 2008 - FEBRUARY 2009)- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Armenia remains a high-fraud post. While consular staff members periodically uncover fraud rings and other organized plots, post's interviewing officers deal with small-scale fraud every day. Due to widespread document fraud, including birth and marriage certificates as well a [...]	2009-03-30 14:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC PHUM KFRD KCRM AM
09YEREVAN239	AUTHORITIES DROP SOME CHARGES AGAINST LEADING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Revised Criminal Code articles -- redrafted at the behest of PACE co-rapporteurs -- went into effect March 24. At the April 1 session of the "Trial of Seven," prosecutors withdrew the Article 300 charge of "usurpation of state power" while leaving in place slightly-reduced charges [...]	2009-04-02 15:13:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS COE AM
09YEREVAN241	LUNCH WITH AN OLIGARCH: SARGSIAN ALLY CRITICIZES [...] (C) In an extended discussion with DCM on March 20, Armenian oligarch Mikhail Bagdasarov -- a close ally and personal friend of President Sargsian -- strongly criticized the GOAM for its handling of the economic crisis, questioned the Prime Minister's competence, and expressed enthusiastic sup [...]	2009-04-03 13:08:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PREL TU AM
09YEREVAN259	GOAM USES NEW NRM FOR LABOR TRAFFICKING CASE [...] (SBU) On March 17, Armenian police reported their launching of an investigation into a major labor trafficking case involving the forced labor of Armenian men in Russia. According to police, three suspected traffickers recruited and transferred eight male victims to a remote village in Russia' [...]	2009-04-16 13:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL ELAB KTIP KCRM HSTC RU AM
09YEREVAN26	PACE RAPPORTEURS FORESHADOW COMPROMISE TO POSTPONE [...] (C) SUMMARY: PACE rapporteurs John Prescott and Georges Colombier debriefed the CoE member state ambassadors (and a few other invited diplomatic representatives) January 15 on the results of their meetings in Yerevan. They revealed that they had reached agreement with the GOAM on a proposal t [...]	2009-01-16 15:24:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM COE AM
09YEREVAN261	PRESIDENT SARGSIAN ON DEMOCRATIZATION, MILLENNIUM [...] (C) In an April 15 meeting with the Ambassador, President Sargsian said he would not take action to free March 1 detainees before the trials of the final (and most prominent) seven defendants are concluded. Once the judicial process is over -- Sargsian left no doubt that all would be convicted [...]	2009-04-16 14:32:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL AM
09YEREVAN263	ARMENIAN TRAFFICKER SENTENCED TO SEVEN YEARS [...] (SBU) On April 2 a Yerevan court sentenced an ex-convict to seven years in prison for trafficking. This individual was found guilty of forcing Armenian boys into panhandling (reftel),after being prosecuted under a trafficking charge. According to the prosecutor who tried the case, the court' [...]	2009-04-17 12:55:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM HSTC AM
09YEREVAN269	EUR DAS BRYZA DRUMS UP POLITICAL PARTY SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: EUR DAS Matt Bryza held discussions with two opposition parties and the semi-governmental/nationalistic Dashnaks April 17, in a bid to build support -- or defuse possible opposition -- for possible negotiated settlements with Turkey or Azerbaijan. All three parties voiced strong [...]	2009-04-22 13:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PGOV PHUM KDEM AJ TU AM
09YEREVAN275	SERIES OF SMALL PROTESTS AT EMBASSY CALL FOR U.S. [...] The Embassy has been visited by a string of small, brief demonstration rallies in recent days, each calling for the U.S. Government to label the Armenian massacres of 1915 as "genocide." Each of these demonstrations amounted to several dozen participants. First in line, on April 16, was the [...]	2009-04-27 03:59:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ASEC AM
09YEREVAN278	NATIONALIST DASHNAK PARTY BOLTS COALITION IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF; aka Dashnaksutyun) party announced its resignation from the ruling coalition April 27, as a protest against President Sargsian's initiative to normalize relations with Turkey. The ARF criticized the recent Armenian joint communique with [...]	2009-04-27 17:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU AJ AM
09YEREVAN280	ARMENIAN PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO IRAN FURTHERS [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Last week's visit to Iran by President Sargsian was the culmination of a series of recent visits by officials of the two countries, and included the signing of eight MOUs, mostly on energy and transportation projects. Officials of both countries spoke of their desire [...]	2009-04-28 12:21:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV PREL IR

09YEREVAN282	AMBASSADOR URGES OPPOSITION LEADER NOT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador called on former President Levon Ter-Petrossian April 22 to deliver two messages: 1) that LTP should act as a patriot and not undermine recent progress in Turkish-Armenian relations for short-term political ends, and 2) to urge LTP, going into the Yerevan election, to [...]	2009-04-29 04:25:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM TU AJ AM
09YEREVAN286	MEDIA REACTION: Armenia - Turkey Negotiations, the Long [...] (SBU) Both print and TV media extensively covered the April 23 joint "road map" statement by Turkish, Armenian and Swiss foreign ministries on the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations. President Sargsian and FM Nalbandian made strong public statements of support for the proposal, which w [...]	2009-04-30 07:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PGOV KPAO KMDR KDEM AM
09YEREVAN288	SCENESETTER FOR FM NALBANDIAN'S MEETING WITH [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Your meeting is an opportunity to offer balanced encouragement and cautions to the Armenian government: encouragement for its moves on Turkey and Nagorno-Karabakh (NK),cautions about continuing failings on democracy and human rights, as well as export control. President Sarg [...]	2009-04-30 15:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM AM
09YEREVAN291	USG TRAINING HELPS GOAM COMBAT MONEY-LAUNDERING [...] (SBU) Armenian prosecution of financial crime has taken a big step forward, as witnessed by successful conviction of four defendants in three money laundering cases in 2009. The defendants received sentences of up to six years' incarceration, a high sentence by Armenian standards. Previous ef [...]	2009-05-04 12:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM KJUS AM
09YEREVAN299	SPEAKER PROMISES DOMESTIC BREAKTHROUGHS IN JUNE [...] (C) On April 27 EUR DAS Matthew Brzya met with National Assembly Speaker Hovik Abrahamian to discuss progress on normalization of relations between Turkey and Armenia. Abrahamian said he fully supported President Sargsian's move to normalize ties, and would actively promote its benefits to Arm [...]	2009-05-06 12:31:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM EAID AZ TU AM
09YEREVAN304	EMBASSY YEREVAN PROPOSAL FOR FY 2009 JULIA TAFT FUND FOR [...] SUMMARY: Embassy Yerevan, Armenia, requests USD 20,000 in Taft Refugee Funds for the one-time support of YMCA Shelter NGO to provide ethnic Armenian refugees from Iraq with furniture in a newly renovated state refugee shelter located in Darbnik village of Ararat region. YMCA Shelter NGO is a l [...]	2009-05-11 04:52:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PRFE IZ AM
09YEREVAN305	MAYOR ASSURES AMBASSADOR OF CLEAN YEREVAN ELECTION [...] (C) During the Ambassador's courtesy call on Yerevan's newly-appointed mayor and mayoral candidate, Gagik Beglarian maintained he would run a clean election campaign and that the May 31 Yerevan municipal election would be free and fair. Beglarian said he has no reason to resort to dirty trick [...]	2009-05-11 08:41:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS AM
09YEREVAN306	LTP CALLS SARGSIAN TRAITOR ON "GENOCIDE" RECOGNITION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Under the shadow of a heavy police presence, the opposition led by ex-President Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP) held its second rally of the year on May 1. LTP accused President Sargsian of being willing to pay any price -- even denial of the "genocide" -- to remain in power, as evid [...]	2009-05-11 09:43:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM TU AJ AM
09YEREVAN307	KOCHARIAN ON MCC: "THE BIGGEST BLUFF EVER" [...] (C) On May 8 the Ambassador called on ex-President Robert Kocharian to solicit his views on Armenia's recent joint statement with Turkey, and learn of his plans for Yerevan's upcoming May 31 municipal election that will decide the city's next mayor (septel). During the wide-ranging discussion, [...]	2009-05-11 12:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL EAID KDEM AM
09YEREVAN319	ARMENIAN OPINION LEADERS DEBATE TURKEY-ARMENIA TIES [...] (C) Ambassador hosted five prominent television and political personalities April 22 for a lively discussion of Armenia-Turkey relations. The Armenian guests remained convinced that the Turks are unscrupulously exploiting Armenia's diplomatic initiatives in order to prevent "genocide" recogni [...]	2009-05-14 06:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PGOV PREL TU AJ AM
09YEREVAN321	LINE-UP OF PARTIES CONTESTING YEREVAN MUNICIPAL ELECTION [...] (SBU) In view of the upcoming May 31 Yerevan City Council election that will determine the capital's next mayor, post has prepared a profile of the seven political parties contesting the election. This is the first time since 1995 that the mayor of Yerevan, who governs approximately one third [...]	2009-05-14 10:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM AM
09YEREVAN326	IRAN-ARMENIA GAS PIPELINE SET TO BEGIN SHIPMENTS [...] (C) A GOAM official has confirmed press reports that the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline will begin shipments of gas to Armenia this week. Although it is now the low season with respect to Armenia's domestic gas demand, and the thermal power plant that will ultimately be the primary user of the Ira [...]	2009-05-15 09:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG AM IR
09YEREVAN331	ARMENIAN POLICE CHIEF DEFENDS POLICE ACTIONS [...] (C) On May 8 Armenia's Chief of Police, Major General Alik Sargsian, assured the Ambassador that the police would do all they can to ensure that the upcoming Yerevan municipal election is free and fair. Sargsian vowed the police would exercise impartiality and restraint in the face of provoca [...]	2009-05-15 15:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC KJUS KCRM SNAR CASC AM
09YEREVAN332	FM OSKANIAN CRITICIZES TURKEY-ARMENIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 5, Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian shared his critical views of Turkey-Armenia normalization. On content, he said that Armenia had traded away "genocide" recognition for illusory progress in Turkey-Armenia negotiations. Turkey, he claimed, is now holding Armenia hostage [...]	2009-05-15 16:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	POGV PREL TU AJ AM
09YEREVAN333	GOVERNMENT COMPLAINTS FOLLOW MEDIA FUROR OVER U.S. [...] (C) Repeating Diaspora lobby group talking points, Armenian media have produced a barrage of stories lambasting the alleged 38 percent cut in U.S. assistance to Armenia for FY 2010, and noting that the Administration requested more military assistance funding for Azerbaijan than for Armenia. S [...]	2009-05-15 16:34:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PGOV KPAO KMDR AJ AM
09YEREVAN334	"OPPOSITION" DASHNAKS CONFIDENT ABOUT MAYORAL [...] (C) The leadership of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation - Dashnaktsutiun (Dashnaks) told the Ambassador that they are confident of their chances in the upcoming May 31 municipal election that will determine Yerevan's next mayor. They said that in spite of having recently exited the ruling [...]	2009-05-18 09:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS AM
09YEREVAN335	DASHNAK LEADERS EXPLAIN DECISION TO EXIT COALITION [...] (C) Leaders of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation - Dashnaktsutiun (Dashnaks) told the Ambassador that they exited the coalition in response to the April 22 Turkish-Armenia joint statement to normalize relations. They said that Armenia had gotten nothing out of it, while Turkey had success [...]	2009-05-18 09:24:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PGOV PREL TU AJ AM
09YEREVAN337	ECONOMIC CRISIS TAKES IT TOLL ON ARARAT REGION [...] (SBU) On May 29 the Ambassador traveled to Ararat marz, one of the country's 11 administrative regions that is also the primary agricultural growing area in Armenia. The region's governor and the mayor of the regional capital of Artashat said that while remittances from abroad had noticeably d [...]	2009-05-18 11:55:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EAID ECON AM
09YEREVAN346	LTP ASSAILS SARGSIAN ON RECENT FOREIGN POLICY [...] (SBU) In his first major campaign rally for the Yerevan mayoral election, ex-President Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP) sidestepped discussion of local issues and instead assailed President Sargsian on recent foreign policy developments. LTP called President Sargsian's rapprochement initiative with [...]	2009-05-20 15:40:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS AM
09YEREVAN347	ARMENIAN REACTION TO SECRETARY'S LETTER ON MCC [...] (C) Following receipt of the Secretary's May 12 letter to President Sargsian concerning Armenia's MCC program, Ambassador requested an appointment with Sargsian to discuss the letter and gauge reaction. Although scheduling issues prevented that meeting from taking place before the Ambassador' [...]	2009-05-21 15:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AM
09YEREVAN358	TREASURY DAS MEYER'S MEETINGS IN YEREVAN [...] (C) Acting Treasury DAS for Europe and Eurasia Eric Meyer met May 13 with the Chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA),Armenia's Minister of Finance and the IMF Resident Representative for Armenia. All three painted a dim picture of Armenia's macroeconomic situation, though noted that d [...]	2009-05-26 14:44:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON EFIN ETRD AM
09YEREVAN364	CEC HEAD ACCREDITS EMBASSY FOR YEREVAN ELECTION [...] (C) During his May 21 meeting with the Ambassador, Garegin Azarian, Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC),granted the Embassy the nine accreditations we had requested. Azarian defended the measures that the CEC has put in place for a free and fair election, but admitted "there is [...]	2009-05-29 04:45:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS AM
09YEREVAN368	PRESIDENT SARGSIAN HINTS AT POSSIBLE AMNESTY [...] (C) In response to a journalist's question on May 28, President Sargsian said he is prepared to declare an amnesty "if the public has determined that there is such a need." The amnesty would presumably apply to most if not all of those in prison on charges related to the 2008 presidential elec [...]	2009-05-29 14:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM PREL AM
09YEREVAN369	WHAT TO EXPECT IN MILESTONE YEREVAN ELECTION [...] (C) In the first elections to Yerevan's new municipal council and mayor on Sunday May 31, voters are generally apathetic, but the country's main political forces are aware of the stakes of the vote and preparing for a hard-fought election. In an election of firsts, this is shaping up as a ten [...]	2009-05-29 14:14:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS AM
09YEREVAN370	RAFFI HOVANNISIAN PESSIMISTIC ON YEREVAN ELECTION [...] (C) Armenia's first foreign minister and current leader of the opposition Heritage Party, Raffi Hovannisian, told the Ambassador that the ruling Republican Party of Armenia was resorting to fraud to win the Yerevan election. He predicted the Armenian National Congress led by ex-President Levon [...]	2009-05-29 14:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS AM
09YEREVAN376	RAFFI HOVANNISIAN ON TURKEY-ARMENIA RAPPROCHEMENT [...] (C) Armenia's first foreign minister and current leader of the Heritage Party Raffi Hovannisian told the Ambassador that inflammatory statements by Turkey's prime minister were "fraying Armenia's nerves." He said he was concerned that Armenian authorities were not responding to the remarks. H [...]	2009-06-02 08:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM TU AJ AM
09YEREVAN377	WELCOME HOME: GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS RETURNS TO [...] (C) Ambassador visited Syunik marz from May 18-20, where she met with local officials, civil society leaders, and other local residents to discuss the current socioeconomic situation in the region. Syunik is one of the country's most important economic regions, possessing large agricultural a [...]	2009-06-02 13:29:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EAID EFIN EMIN AM
09YEREVAN378	ARMENIA AND THE JUNE 10 MCC BOARD MEETING [...] (C) Despite modest progress in several areas mentioned by the Secretary in her letter to President Sargsian concerning Armenia's continued MCC eligibility, Armenia continues to fall short of what is required to merit restarting the rural roads portion of Armenia's MCC program. Although there i [...]	2009-06-02 16:25:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PHUM KDEM PGOV AM
09YEREVAN382	LTP REFUSES SEATS ON CITY COUNCIL; PRESIDENT HAILS ELECTION [...] (SBU) At the peaceful yet heavily policed post-election June 1 rally held by the Armenian National Congress (ANC),Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP) denounced Yerevan's May 31 mayoral election as the "ugliest election in Armenia's history." He announced that the ANC would not occupy the projected 13 [...]	2009-06-04 11:45:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KJUS AM
09YEREVAN386	RFE/RL'S ROSY VIEW OF THEIR STATUS IN ARMENIA [...] (C) RFE/RL Prague representative Nenad Pejic traveled to Armenia from May 20-21 to review Radio Liberty's coverage related to Yerevan's May 31 municipal election. Pejic sought feedback from Armenia's political parties and explained to them the election guidelines under which Radio Liberty's r [...]	2009-06-05 13:45:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OPRC KMDR KPAO AM
09YEREVAN388	YEREVAN'S TROUBLED POST-ELECTION WEEK [...] (SBU) Allegations of fraud, denials that they had an impact on the outcome, arrests, and political maneuvering all marked the fracas that followed Yerevan's May 31 mayoral election through Friday, June 5. NGOs and opposition parties cried foul, citing massive irregularities during the vote an [...]	2009-06-08 14:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS AM
09YEREVAN398	PRESIDENT DISBANDS MARCH 1 FACT-FINDING GROUP [...] (SBU) Without explaining his decision, President Sargsian on June 8 disbanded the bipartisan fact-finding group of experts he had established last October to examine the violence surrounding Armenia's disputed 2008 presidential election. The decision came on the heels of a June 3 statement by [...]	2009-06-11 05:31:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS AM
09YEREVAN403	OPPOSITION OLIGARCH'S ATTORNEYS FACE INVESTIGATION [...] (C) Three Armenian defense attorneys are under criminal investigation for their conduct while representing two defendants in a tax evasion prosecution involving a business owned by a leading opposition figure. The attorneys refused to participate in the trial after they discovered that the tri [...]	2009-06-12 12:48:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL AM
09YEREVAN410	AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO ARMAVIR MARZ [...] (C) Ambassador's May 27 familiarization visit to Armavir Marz highlighted the deepening impact of the global economic crisis in Armenia's regions, particularly as a result of declining agricultural demand and falling remittances. Corruption remains a serious problem in nearly every interaction [...]	2009-06-12 17:10:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID ECON ENRG AM
09YEREVAN422	EUR A/S GORDON'S MEETING WITH OPPOSITION LEADER [...] (C) Meeting with EUR A/S Philip Gordon on June 9, former Armenian Foreign Minister and current leader of the opposition Raffi Hovannisian characterized the results of the recent elections for Yerevan Mayor and City Council as a "failed post-Soviet" election that shows the challenge Armenia fa [...]	2009-06-18 05:30:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KJUS KDEM AJ AM
09YEREVAN424	ARMENIAN CIVIL SOCIETY LEADERS GLOOMY ON [...] (C) Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Dr. Philip Gordon met with four of Armenia's civil society leaders to learn their views on the current state of human rights and democratization in Armenia. The leaders offered a gloomy assessment, recounting their experiences with Yer [...]	2009-06-18 05:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS AM
09YEREVAN43	WORLD BANK ROAD FUNDING THREATENS TO UNDERMINE MCC [...] This is an action request. Please see para 10. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Ambassador advised World Bank Resident Representative Aristomene Varoudakis that a portion of a new World Bank credit facility intended to finance a package of rural roads originally designed by the Millenium Challenge [...]	2009-01-23 07:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL EAID AM
09YEREVAN441	AMNESTY DECLARED, BUT NOT ALL MARCH 1 DETAINEES [...] (C) On June 19, sixteen months to the day following Armenia's disputed 2008 presidential election, Armenia's parliament declared a wide-ranging amnesty that will result in the release of approximately 32 of the roughly 48 oppositionists still in jail for their election-related activities suppo [...]	2009-06-22 22:19:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS AM
09YEREVAN444	A/S GORDON TALKS TURKEY, N-K, DEMOCRACY WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary Gordon met Armenia's former Foreign Minister, Vartan Oskanian, on June 9 to discuss Turkish-Armenian rapprochement, prospects for a resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and Armenia's rocky road to democracy. Oskanian was frank in his views that Turkish- [...]	2009-06-24 05:41:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU GG AJ AM
09YEREVAN448	ARMENIA'S AMCHAM DISCUSSES CONCERNS WITH AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) During their June 15 meeting with the Ambassador, members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Armenia (AMCHAM) discussed taxes and customs, rule of law, and the general business environment in Armenia. AMCHAM members expressed dismay at the GOAM's ineffective tax administration and th [...]	2009-06-24 18:38:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD KTDB AM
09YEREVAN451	ELECTION FRAUD WHISTLEBLOWER STILL IN JAIL [...] (SBU) While the recent amnesty resulted in the quick "catch-and-release" of three government loyalists convicted for vote-rigging during Yerevan's May 31 municipal election, a human rights activist who blew the whistle on electoral fraud remains in jail. After having filed an election-related [...]	2009-06-25 21:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KJUS AM
09YEREVAN463	UPDATE ON AMNESTY DEVELOPMENTS IN ARMENIA [...] (SBU) According to official sources, 215 prisoners had been amnestied and released as of June 29. Four of them were the individuals convicted for pro-ruling-party election fraud during Yerevan's May 31 municipal election. According to the opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC),28 of its [...]	2009-06-29 19:01:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS AM
09YEREVAN465	YEREVAN'S RESPONSE FOR INFORMATION ON POLITICAL [...] (U) Following are post's responses to Ref A questions: 2. (C) WHICH NATIONAL LEADER AND/OR CABINET FIGURES ARE MOST ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN ECONOMIC DECISIONMAKING? ARE THERE DIFFERING OPINIONS WITHIN THE NATIONAL LEADERSHIP REGARDING APPROPRIATE ACTIONS IN LIGHT OF THE ECONOMIC CRISIS? The [...]	2009-07-02 08:01:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR ECON EFIN EINT AJ AM GG
09YEREVAN493	PRIME MINISTER DROPS ECONOMIC "BOMB" AT CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Catching local pundits and the diplomatic corps off guard, Armenia's Prime Minister Tigran Sargsian warned on July 7 that Armenia's economy could contract by as much as 20 percent in 2009. The dire prediction, made at an international economic forum held in Yerevan on the "Impact of the G [...]	2009-07-15 07:41:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD KTDB AM
09YEREVAN494	ARMENIA CONTINUES AGGRESSIVE PROSECUTION OF TRAF... [...] (SBU) A major trafficking in persons trial involving two Russian nationals began July 6 in Yerevan. The defendants -- a mother and her daughter -- are accused of trafficking into Armenia, and exploiting as striptease dancers, 24 trafficking victims from Russia. In addition to trafficking charges, t [...]	2009-07-15 07:48:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM HSTC AM
09YEREVAN515	PROMISES AND PROTESTS MARK SAAKASHVILI'S ARMENIA [...] (C) Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's June 24-25 visit to Armenia produced lots of smiles, but little apparentaction. Saakashvili's talks with President Sargsian focused on energy, transportation, border issues, tourism, communication and regional security. Two protests over the ethnic [...]	2009-07-22 13:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PGOV PREL GG AM
09YEREVAN523	CRIMINAL CASES OVER TEARGAS USE LATE BUT WELCOME [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Armenia's Prosecutor General (PG) has launched criminal proceedings against four police officers accused of improperly using teargas against opposition protesters in the March 1-2, 2008 crackdown on post-election demonstrations that left ten persons dead. Though a welcome devel [...]	2009-07-29 05:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS AM
09YEREVAN567	EUR DAS BRYZA'S MEETINGS WITH ARF/DASHNAKTSUTIUN [...] (C) EUR DAS Matthew Bryza's meeting on August 8 with ARF/Dashnaktsutiun leaders Vahan Hovhannisian and Giro Manoyan indicated this leading opposition group remains skeptical about President Sargsian's efforts to negotiate reconciliation with Turkey and an end to the conflict over Nagorno Karab [...]	2009-08-17 11:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ AM TU
09YEREVAN570	EUR DAS BRYZA'S MEETING WITH FORMER PRESIDENT [...] (C) In their meeting on August 8, former Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrosian (LTP) noted that time was not on Armenia's side on negotiations over Nagorno Karabakh as Azerbaijan grew relatively stronger. While the framework outlined by the Minsk Group's Basic Principles provided the only wa [...]	2009-08-17 12:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID AJ AM TU
09YEREVAN59	IMPLAUSIBLE TRIAL OF FORMER DEPUTY [...] (C) At the latest court hearing in the trial of Armenia's former Deputy Prosecutor-General, a senior police officer acknowledged that the high-ranking law enforcement official did not put up any resistance during his arrest. The admission contradicts the charge leveled against Gagik Jhangiria [...]	2009-02-02 13:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS AM
09YEREVAN597	AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ARMENIA'S DISJOINTED OPPOSITION? [...] (C) Growing public skepticism and unease with President Sargsian's handling of Turkey-Armenia negotiations and talks on Nagorno-Karabakh have created an opportunity for Armenia's opposition forces to rally around their common opposition to the President on these issues. The three main oppositi [...]	2009-08-31 11:40:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	AM EAID KJUS PGOV PHUM PREL
09YEREVAN607	ARMENIAN EXPORT CONTROL: LOOKING AHEAD [...] (S/NF) September 23, 2009 will mark a key deadline in the "Joint Action Plan Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Armenia On Preventing Transfers of Concern of Conventional Arms and Dual Use Items." As indicated in paragraphs 1 and 2 in [...]	2009-09-02 09:01:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET//NOFORN	ETTC PARM PINR IR AM
09YEREVAN608	ECONOMIC PROJECTS READY TO GO -- EVEN WITHOUT [...] (C) Opening the border between Armenia and Turkey is generally expected to produce long-term economic benefits for both countries. However, even without formal opening of the border or establishment of diplomatic relations, projects in the transportation, energy and telecommunications are near [...]	2009-09-02 11:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD AJ AM TU
09YEREVAN625	AMBASSADOR'S TRAVEL TO TAVUSH MARZ [...] (SBU) On August 21 the Ambassador traveled to Tavush marz, one of Armenia's 11 administrative regions. The region's governor and the mayor of the capital, Ijevan, remarked on the effects of the current economic crisis and the challenges of local governance. The USAID-supported Advocacy and Ass [...]	2009-09-09 12:48:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID ECON AM
09YEREVAN648	AMBASSADOR SEES ARID ECONOMIC LANDSCAPE IN VAYOTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During the Ambassador's early August trip to Vayots Dzor marz, she found a region struggling to dig out of an economic hole. Local mayors, the governor, NGO leaders and business groups all noted that the arid region, over 100 kilometers southeast of Yerevan, faced an uphill stru [...]	2009-09-17 12:48:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON AM
09YEREVAN649	ARMENIA'S PARLIAMENT PASSES FOUR LAWS RELATED TO [...] (S/NF) As promised by GOAM interlocutors, Armenia's parliament on September 16 passed the four draft laws related to munitions export controls that they undertook to pass in September as part of their commitments in the Joint Action Plan. The four draft laws that were passed included amendmen [...]	2009-09-17 12:48:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET//NOFORN	ETTC PARM PINR AM
09YEREVAN653	ARMENIAN ECONOMIC RECOVERY HAMPERED BY STRUCTURAL [...] (C) Recent meetings with an IMF economist and an opposition Armenian businessman about Armenia's macroeconomic situation indicate that while there are hints of an eventual recovery from the economic crisis, structural problems remain that undermine Armenia's economic growth prospects. The Cen [...]	2009-09-18 12:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD AM
09YEREVAN66	ARMENIA INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT, 2008 [...] Following is Embassy Yerevan's submission per reftel request for the 2009 Investment Climate Statement for Armenia. ---------- BEGIN TEXT ---------- 2. While Armenia's government officially welcomes foreign investment and the country has received respectable rankings on some global indi [...]	2009-02-04 04:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV OPIC USTR AM
09YEREVAN662	NAGORNO-KARABAKH: FORCES ALIGN BEHIND THE STATUS [...] (C) According to Armenian political observers, resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) conflict is nowhere on the horizon. Armenian society is quite comfortable with the status quo, has no appetite for compromise, and is completely confident of victory should this frozen conflict turn hot, we [...]	2009-09-23 12:48:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AJ TU RU AM
09YEREVAN687	ARMENIA'S OPPONENTS TO PROTOCOLS RATCHET UP THEIR [...] (C) Less than two weeks before Armenia's and Turkey's foreign ministers are to sign their agreed protocols to establish bilateral relations, domestic and Diaspora opponents of President Sargsian's rapprochement policy are ratcheting up their rhetoric against the protocols and the President. A [...]	2009-09-30 11:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU AM
09YEREVAN688	KOCHARIAN GRIM ON NORMALIZATION, NK CONFLICT, [...] (C) During the Ambassador's recent call on Robert Kocharian, Armenia's second president criticized President Sargsian for his handling of normalization of relations with Turkey. Kocharian said Sargsian was taking too big a risk and conceding too much in a misguided negotiating process that he [...]	2009-09-30 12:43:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PGOV PREL TU AJ AM
09YEREVAN689	COOL-HEADED OPPOSITION ACKNOWLEDGES SARGSIAN'S [...] (C) At a reception hosted September 15 by the Ambassador, PolOffs heard from leaders of the opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) and independent observers that the normalization process with Turkey, by itself, posed little risk to Serzh Sargsian's rule. A small minority of nationalists [...]	2009-09-30 13:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PBTS TU AJ AM
09YEREVAN69	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES TAX REFORM WITH STATE REVENUE [...] (C) Meeting with State Revenue Committee Gagik Khachatrian, Ambassador encouraged planned institutional reforms at the State Tax Service, while emphasizing the importance of establishing performance benchmarks and ensuring the political independence of the agency. Khachatrian outlined planned [...]	2009-02-05 05:41:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID ECON EFIN AM
09YEREVAN700	ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT INTRODUCES RESTRICTIVE [...] (SBU) On September 23 the GOAM approved proposed changes to the Law on Public Organizations (NGO law) which, if adopted by the Parliament, threaten to restrict significantly the rights of NGOs and increase government control of their finances. There were no public discussions held with the NGO [...]	2009-10-02 13:29:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV AM
09YEREVAN71	PARLIAMENT SPEAKER GIVES PARTY LINE ON DEMOCRATIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador accompanied EUR DAS Bryza for an introductory meeting with National Assembly Chairman Hovik Abrahamian January 20. Abrahamian affirmed President Sargsian's determination to reach a peaceful Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) settlement through the Minsk Group negotiations. He rev [...]	2009-02-05 16:26:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM AJ AM
09YEREVAN719	OPEN BORDER COULD INCREASE TRADE AND COOPERATION, [...] (C) The closure of Armenia's border with neighboring Turkey has isolated this landlocked country and imposed a high price in terms of lost economic opportunities. Armenia is not part of any regional transportation or energy network. Its isolation has helped foster import monopolies, stifled [...]	2009-10-13 14:41:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON ENRG ETRD PROG PREL AJ AM TU
09YEREVAN746	OCT 20 LETTER FROM FM NALBANDIAN TO THE SECRETARY [...] (U) On October 20, while receiving EUR DAS Tina Kaidanow in Yerevan, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian handed over a letter addressed by him to the Secretary. Below is the verbatim text of the signed-English language original, which is dated October 20, 2009. Post will send signed original [...]	2009-10-20 13:52:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OPDC PGOV PREL TU AM
09YEREVAN753	AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO ARAGATSOTN MARZ ASSESSES [...] (SBU) NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION ON THE INTERNET. HANDLE ACCORDINGLY. 2. (SBU) Ambassador Yovanovitch's September 15 trip to Aragatsotn Marz, one of the nation's poorer regions, included visits to USG assistance project sites as well as meetings with Governor Sargis Sahakian, Ashtarak Mayor Gagik [...]	2009-10-26 12:34:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON ETRD PGOV PHUM KDEM AM
09YEREVAN757	DAS KAIDANOW PRESSES ARMENIA ON DEMOCRACY, HUMAN [...] (C) In meetings with senior GOAM officials, EUR DAS Tina Kaidanow encouraged further progress on democracy and human rights issues, stressing the unnecessary harm to the GOAM's reputation from continued detention of political prisoners. Kaidanow cautioned that restricting NGO activities can cre [...]	2009-10-27 07:23:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AM
09YEREVAN758	DAS KAIDANOW MEETS WITH OPPOSITION, CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (C) Turkey-Armenia relations and the recently signed Protocols dominated the conversation between EUR DAS Kaidanow in her meetings with a former Armenian President and the Dashnak Political Party. Former President Levon Ter-Petrossian wants more attention paid to the problems of democratic fre [...]	2009-10-27 07:38:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OVIP KDEM TU AM
09YEREVAN759	DAS KAIDANOW DISCUSSES REGIONAL INTEGRATION, [...] (S/NF) During meetings October 20 and 21, senior GOAM officials told EUR DAS Tina Kaidanow that Turkey will need to be the first to ratify the protocols signed October 10. President Sargsian told Kaidanow that there has never been any question that Armenia would ratify, but that Armenia ratify [...]	2009-10-27 15:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV TU AJ AM
09YEREVAN769	(S) GOAM'S INITIAL RESPONSE ON SA-10 MISSILES [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-02 09:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET//NOFORN	AM ETRD ETTC MARR MCAP PARM PREL
09YEREVAN771	ADVANCING HR/ROL AGENDA WITH THE PROSECUTOR GENERAL [...] (C) The Ambassador met with Prosecutor General (PG) Aghvan Hovsepian on October 28 in an attempt to advance Post's human rights and rule of law agenda. The specific goals of the meeting were to acknowledge the PG's recent intervention in the release of two civil society activists--that Post ha [...]	2009-11-02 10:59:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS KTIP TU AM
09YEREVAN78	LATEST PACE RESOLUTION SPURS LIMITED REFORM [...] (C) With its January 27 passage of Resolution 1643, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) elected to give Armenia more time to complete reforms highlighted in previous PACE resolutions 1609 and 1620, focusing on the way forward negotiated by rapporteurs John Prescott and [...]	2009-02-10 16:05:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM COE AM
09YEREVAN798	THE BUSINESS OF POLITICS: LEADING ENTERPRISES OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The murky ownership of Armenia's major industry clusters is a hidden driver of Armenian politics and elites' inter-relationships. Yerevan chatter frequently refers to which prominent political figure owns what prominent economic assets, but it is difficult to get clear and consis [...]	2009-11-17 14:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PINR KDEM AM
09YEREVAN80	AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON MINISTER OF URBAN [...] (SBU) Ambassador met February 6 with Minister of Urban Development Vardan Vardanian. The Ministry's mandate includes overseeing urban development throughout the country, setting construction standards, regulating development in sensitive areas (e.g. seismic zones, slopes),and acting as the co [...]	2009-02-11 11:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON AM
09YEREVAN803	TURKEY-ARMENIA END GAME: GETTING TO 'YES' [...] (C) After the signing of the protocols, the Turkey-Armenia normalization process seems to be at an impasse, with both countries trapped by their own narrow conception of the issues: Turkey,s demand for "progress" on NK that Armenia is unable to deliver, and Armenia,s insistence that there is [...]	2009-11-18 17:18:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU RU AJ AM
09YEREVAN807	BY-ELECTIONS IN THREE ARMENIAN CONSTITUENCIES [...] (SBU) In three upcoming by-elections for the National Assembly, none will have genuine electoral competition. Authorities have barred oppositionist Nikol Pashinian from running in the upcoming race in Yerevan's Kentron district on a technicality. In the other two districts, pro-governmental ca [...]	2009-11-20 11:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM AM
09YEREVAN81	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES COOPERATION WITH SPORTS MINISTER [...] Summary: On February 7, Ambassador Yovanovitch paid a courtesy call on the RA Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs, Armen Grigorian. The Minister noted that his office focuses on youth and sports development and he described activities in both spheres. Interest was expressed by both sides to [...]	2009-02-11 11:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KPROG KPAO AM
09YEREVAN831	JUSTICE MINISTER ACKNOWLEDGES CONCERNS ON NGO LAW, [...] (C) On November 23 the Ambassador met with Armenia's Justice Minister Gevorg Danielian to discuss U.S. concerns on the draft NGO law and renew U.S. calls for the release of the remaining political detainees. Danielian told the Ambassador that the GOAM is addressing Washington's concerns on the [...]	2009-12-04 08:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS AM
09YEREVAN834	SEMI-ANNUAL FRAUD SUMMARY (MARCH 2009 - AUGUST 2009)- [...] (SBU) Armenia remains a high-fraud post. While consular staff members periodically uncover fraud rings and other organized plots, post's interviewing officers deal with small-scale fraud every day. Due to widespread document fraud, including birth and marriage certificates as well as passports [...]	2009-12-07 12:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC AM
09YEREVAN848	FIRST WOMEN'S MENTORING PROGRAM LAUNCHED IN ARMENIA [...] On December 8, Ambassador Yovanovitch launched the first women's mentoring program in Armenia for female students of the American University of Armenia (AUA) and local Armenian women leaders. Mentors and mentees were introduced to each other and learned about the concept and objectives of the [...]	2009-12-10 07:31:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KPAO SCUL SOCI AM
09YEREVAN849	PRESIDENT'S FOREIGN POLICY ADVISOR ON [...] (C) It is in Turkish interests to ratify the protocols normalizing relations with Armenia, and for the Turks to sort out their own domestic political challenges in order to seal the deal, according to Presidential Deputy Chief of Staff Vigen Sargsian. Delay of ratification beyond January/Febr [...]	2009-12-10 12:59:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU AJ AM
09YEREVAN859	AMBASSADOR ENGAGES EDUCATION MINISTER ON [...] (C) On December 9 the Ambassador met with Minister of Education Armen Ashotian and raised the case of the environmental youth activist Mariam Sukhudian who, after blowing the whistle on abuses in a state-run boarding school for special needs children, found herself charged with reporting a fal [...]	2009-12-11 14:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS AM
09YEREVAN864	MEDIA REACTION: ARMENIA - ERDOGAN'S U.S. VISIT A SETBACK [...] (SBU) The Armenian press, pro-government and opposition alike, expressed alarm at statements made by Turkey's Prime Minister Erdogan, regarding rapprochement with Armenia, during his visit to the U.S. His comments linking ratification of the protocols on normalizing Turkey-Armenia relations t [...]	2009-12-14 14:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OPRC KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL TU AZ AM
09YEREVAN865	DEPUTY PM DISCUSSES TRAFFICKING, INVITES AMB [...] (C) On November 25 Ambassador Yovanovitch met with Deputy Prime Minister Armen Gevorgian to discuss Armenia's current anti-trafficking efforts. The Ambassador emphasized that Armenia needed to continue the positive momentum it had achieved with its improved ranking last year, and that now was [...]	2009-12-15 06:44:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KTIP KWMN TU AM
09YEREVAN868	EMBASSY ACTIVITIES MARKING INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Yerevan marked International Human Rights Day by presenting an investigative journalist an award, and United Nations Anti-Corruption Day by highlighting ongoing efforts to increase transparency and limit graft. Prime Minister Sargsian continues to champion reform, yet st [...]	2009-12-16 10:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL AM
09YEREVAN878	ARMENIA: 2009 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] Armenia,s counterterrorism partnership with the United States included granting blanket over-flight clearance and ad hoc landing rights to U.S. military aircraft, deployment of a peacekeeping contingent to Iraq and Kosovo, and participation in bilateral assistance programs that strengthened the [...]	2009-12-21 14:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS PINS PREL AEMR AM
09YEREVAN885	ARMENIAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SPEAKER WEIGHS IN ON [...] (C) Parliamentary Speaker Abrahamian believes, based on conversation with his Turkish counterpart, that the Turkish Parliament has the votes necessary to ratify the Turkey-Armenia normalization protocols, if the government makes the political decision to proceed. On democracy and human rights [...]	2009-12-22 13:48:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU AJ AM
09YEREVAN889	ARMENIA TO DEPLOY PEACKEEPERS TO AFGHANISTAN IN [...] (C) After only one day of debate, on December 8 Armenia's National Assembly (parliament) approved in overwhelming fashion the February 2010 deployment of up to 80 Armenian peacekeepers to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. Parliament's swift approval of [...]	2009-12-24 10:13:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PREL AF GM AM
09YEREVAN9	ARMENIA'S RUST BELT PINS HOPES ON BORDER OPENING [...] (U) During the Ambassador's December 16 visit to Gyumri, capital of the economically depressed Shirak region, interlocutors expressed unanimous support for Armenia reestablishing relations with Turkey and opening the nearby border. Gyumri's population sees a possible trade opening with Turkey [...]	2009-01-08 05:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL ECON TU AM
09YEREVAN95	DEPUTY PM OUTLINES BEEFED UP ANTI-TIP EFFORTS [...] (C) Deputy Prime Minister Gevorgian evinced detailed knowledge of Armenia's TIP situation in a private lunch with the Ambassador, and outlined a very encouraging program of intensified work on the issue. The government has re-launched criminal cases to investigate the notorious Zakharyants [...]	2009-02-13 14:13:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV KJUS KTIP AM
09ZAGREB103	UNDP 2008 HUMAN DEVT REPORT: CLIMATE CHANGE AND [...] Summary: On February 16, UNDP released its 2008 Human Development Report for Croatia, which analyzes the links between climate change, the economy, and human development. While expected warmer temperatures could have good or bad effects on tourism in Croatia, rising sea-levels and increased fr [...]	2009-02-23 13:14:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG PGOV KGHG HR
09ZAGREB107	PAHOR-SANADER MEETING: NO PROGRESS ON [...] (C) Summary. In a February 24 meeting with the Ambassador, Croatian Foreign Minister Jandrokovic reported that the talks earlier in the day between Croatian Prime Minister Sanader and Slovene Prime Minister Pahor resulted in no progress on the Croatian-Slovenian border issue and the related i [...]	2009-02-25 11:32:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO HR
09ZAGREB109	ZAGREB WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT - FEBRUARY 27, 2009 [...] AMBASSADOR'S SPEECH ON NEW ADMINISTRATION DRAWS LARGE AUDIENCE AT AMCHAM: Ambassador Bradtke delivered a speech entitled "New Directions in the Obama Administration" at the American Chamber of Commerce luncheon at the Hotel Esplanade in Zagreb. Speaking to over 150 members of the business co [...]	2009-02-27 14:37:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV HR ECON
09ZAGREB117	NEW CIVIL AIR AGENCY TAKES CHARGE [...] Summary. The new Croatian Civil Aviation Agency (CCAA) assumed authority over all civil aviation oversight activities in Croatia on March 2, 2009. The CCAA will also absorb 90 percent of the staff of the former civil aviation authority within the Ministry of Transport. This key reform in c [...]	2009-03-03 15:14:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON HR PGOV
09ZAGREB120	MAYOR MILAN BANDIC, THE KING OF ZAGREB [...] (C) SUMMARY Zagreb Mayor Milan Bandic of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) will be running for re-election to his fourth term. He has a comfortable lead in recent polls and is an experienced campaigner, which will make him very tough to beat in the May election. Frequently criticized for his [...]	2009-03-04 10:55:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV HR
09ZAGREB124	ZAGREB WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT - MARCH 5, 2009 [...] (U) GENERAL ZAGOREC SENTENCED TO SEVEN YEARS: On March 2, a Zagreb court sentenced General (retired) Vladimir Zagorec to seven years in prison for abuse of office during wartime and stealing $5 million worth of diamonds upon leaving his post at the Ministry of Defense in 2000. In addition to [...]	2009-03-05 14:05:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV HR
09ZAGREB126	NEW BUDGET TOPS GOC'S SET OF ANTI-RECESSION [...] Summary: On February 26, PM Sanader announced a set of ten anti-recession measures the government will pursue. The first measure will be to cut budget expenditures by HRK 1-3 billion ($175-526 million). Other measures will increase support for exporters, small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) [...]	2009-03-09 10:32:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN PGOV HR
09ZAGREB152	CROATIA IPR UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Croatia is currently not on the Special 301 Watch List. Post has researched the area of concern identified by industry in its Special 301 submission (see paragraph 4). Croatia's legal framework continues to develop and is now completely harmonized with the EU. However, effec [...]	2009-03-20 14:11:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KIPR HR

09ZAGREB160	PARLIAMENT APPROVES CROATIA'S NATO ACCESSION [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-25 11:59:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV HR NATO

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