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04QUITO2868	GUTIERREZ CANCELS NEW YORK TRIP [...] Summary. On October 27, President Gutierrez told the Ambassador he had canceled his planned early November trip to New York in order to work in Ecuador on judicial reform projects and programs to spur economic growth. Gutierrez hopes the press will portray his decision as a need to focus on [...]	2004-10-27 22:11:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EC

04QUITO2869	"POWER-BLINDED" LFC DRIVES IMPEACHMENT PUSH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Leon Febres-Cordero (LFC),the cantankerous leader of Ecuador's Social Christian Party (PSC),is determined to destroy President Lucio Gutierrez by any means possible, according to two thoughtful PSC legislators. Brothers Luis Fernando Torres and Carlos Torres, the former the he [...]	2004-10-27 23:09:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KCOR PREL EC
04QUITO2886	EMBASSY PUSHING STABILITY MESSAGE HARD [...] SUMMARY: Reftels outline the current political quicksand enveloping GoE President Lucio Gutierrez. Believing further instability runs counter to Ecuadorian and U.S. interests, the Embassy is immersed in an outreach campaign to bolster rank-and-file support for constitutional democracy and th [...]	2004-10-29 21:32:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM EC
04QUITO2891	ECUADORIAN, CHILEAN FM'S TALK BORDERS, TRADE [...] Summary. Chilean Foreign Minister Ignacio Walker met with Ecuadorian officials in Quito on October 28. In a subsequent joint declaration, the countries committed to begin FTA negotiations in 2004, respect existing international treaties (in reference to Chile's maritime disagreements with P [...]	2004-10-29 22:16:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EC CH
04QUITO2922	MOL CONSIDERS LABOR REFORM; UNIONS URGE RESIGNATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Meeting in Guayaquil with USTR and Department of State officials, two key Ecuadorian labor leaders stated they will challenge the recently published executive decree on subcontracting as unconstitutional, and also repeated a call for Minister of Labor Raul Izurieta's removal f [...]	2004-11-05 17:39:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PGOV EC
04QUITO2923	ECUADOR BANS EXPORT OF SHARK FINS [...] Summary. President Gutierrez has issued a decree banning the export of shark fins. The ban applies to all shark fins, whether they are intentionally harvested or are the result of bi-catch. Despite having been consulted prior to the decree's issuance, a local fishing group is asking Preside [...]	2004-11-05 17:51:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EC ECON EFIS ETRD PGOV PREL SENV
04QUITO2927	CONGRATULATORY LETTER FROM PRESIDENT GUTIERREZ TO [...] Embassy received a congratulatory letter from President Gutierrez to President Bush dated November 2 on November 4 under a cover letter from acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Edwin Johnson. 2. Text of Letter from President Gutierrez: Your excellency: On behalf of the Ecuadorian peop [...]	2004-11-05 19:43:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV OPDC EC
04QUITO2929	PRESIDENT GUTIERREZ CONFIDENT IN FACE OF [...] (C) Summary: The GoE reacted calmly to the initiation of impeachment proceedings against President Gutierrez by Congress on November 4. The Ambassador spoke with President Gutierrez by telephone on November 4 and on the margins of an unrelated event on November 5. Gutierrez thanked the USG [...]	2004-11-05 21:15:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR EC
04QUITO2941	MINISTER OF FINANCE CONFIDENT OF STABILITY [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Finance Yepez believes the Gutierrez regime can make it through the current crisis, but remains handicapped by bad advisors at the top. The GOE is maintaining its responsible fiscal policy and continues to work on plans to eliminate the gas subsidy. End Summary. [...]	2004-11-08 22:14:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV EC
04QUITO2955	OPPOSITION FALLS SHORT ON FIRST IMPEACHMENT VOTE; [...] (C) Summary: The pro-impeachment opposition on November 9 tried and twice failed to create a special Congressional committee to consider impeachment grounds against President Lucio Gutierrez, effectively stymieing impeachment efforts at an early stage. The opposition came up short of taking [...]	2004-11-10 22:03:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR EC
04QUITO2980	TIER 2 WATCH LIST INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] Summary. Ecuador has taken significant steps since June to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). The government increased public awareness of the problem, reached out to source and destination countries, and established a national plan. The GOE has cooperated with the International Labor Or [...]	2004-11-12 19:07:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO3027	GOVERNMENT MINISTER POLITICAL LIGHTING ROD, [...] (C) Summary: Government Minister Jaime Damerval has courted controversy since taking office on November 8, recently suggesting that the GoE convoke a referendum on whether to dissolve Congress to promote constitutional reforms. In a private meeting with the DCM on November 15, Damerval back [...]	2004-11-17 21:51:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCRM PINR EC
04QUITO3081	GOE PRESSES ITS LUCK -- NEXT STEPS ON STABILITY [...] (C) Summary: A concerted USG effort to promote political stability contributed to the lessening of political tension over impeachment, and will continue to be important in the aftermath. Although the situation has calmed somewhat since the failure of an opposition initiative to impeach Presi [...]	2004-11-24 20:32:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR EC
04QUITO3099	NOVEMBER TIP UPDATE [...] Summary: This cable reports significant anti-TIP developments since our interim TIP report (Ref A). USAID and Geneva Global will mount six new projects to combat TIP (Trafficking in Persons) by the end of the year. We recently met with two organizations who provide services to children and [...]	2004-11-26 14:32:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO3102	FOX VISIT PROMOTES TRADE, INVESTMENT, & [...] Summary: In a brief visit to Quito on November 22-23, Mexican President Vicente Fox sought increased bilateral investment and trade. Presidents Fox and Gutierrez discussed issues of bilateral interest, including commitments to facilitate visa issuance, negotiate an extradition treaty, impro [...]	2004-11-26 20:12:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO3103	ARTICLE 98 BACK IN HEADLINES, POST PRESSES CASE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent public comments from high-level USG visitors and the Ambassador have put Article 98 back in play in Ecuador. Major newspapers and radio/TV outlets have highlighted our efforts, as well as GoE Foreign Minister Patricio Zuquilanda's November 23 claim that the MFA continues [...]	2004-11-26 20:24:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS PREL PGOV EC KICC
04QUITO3108	PRO-GOVT CONGRESSIONAL MAJORITY FLEXES MUSCLES [...] Summary: In a marathon session November 25, the new, pro-government legislative majority bypassed President of Congress Guillermo Landazuri's programmed agenda and elected Jorge Montero second vice president. It then replaced the members of the Constitutional Tribunal (TC) and the Supreme E [...]	2004-11-26 22:11:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO3115	DONORS LOSING PATIENCE WITH MANAGEMENT OF GALAPAGOS [...] Summary. Ecuador continues to take two steps backward for each step forward in the Galapagos. President Gutierrez signed a decree in October banning the export of shark fins from Ecuador (Reftel A),to promote conservation. The Minister of the Environment, Fabian Valdivieso, however, repla [...]	2004-11-30 13:35:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EC ECON EFIS ETRD PGOV PREL SENV
04QUITO3132	INFORMATION FOR MEANINGFUL LABOR RIGHTS REPORT [...] Summary: This cable provides information on labor conditions in Ecuador as requested for the Meaningful Labor Rights Report, and is keyed to questions included in RefTel. End Summary. Administration of Labor Law --------------------------- 2. The Ministry of Labor and Human Resources [...]	2004-12-01 14:57:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PGOV EC
04QUITO3146	CONGRESS GOES ON HOLIDAY, BUT REST UNLIKELY [...] (C) Summary: Congress ended its stormy fall calendar on December 2, releasing its combative politicians until January 4. Political leaders are likely to stay busy during holiday season, as all parties regroup for the battle over Congressional leadership and control of the Supreme Court set [...]	2004-12-02 22:14:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO3151	CAREER DIP TO HEAD ECUADOR'S WASHINGTON EMBASSY [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Lucio Gutierrez told the Ambassador on December 2 that he would nominate MFA Bilateral U/S Roberto Betancourt to head Ecuador's embassy in Washington. The career diplomat will replace political appointee Ambassador Raul Gangotena, who submitted his resignation Novembe [...]	2004-12-03 20:53:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO3153	ECUADOR LABOR UPDATE [...] (U) Summary: Following are recent labor-related developments of interest: --Changes at the MOL (para. 2) --MOL Izurieta Meets With Congress' Paez (3) --Chamber of Commerce Challenges Subcontracting Decree (5) --Hunger Strike by Public Sector Workers (6) --Penitentiary and Health Worker St [...]	2004-12-03 23:10:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PGOV EC
04QUITO3167	PRESIDENT GUTIERREZ CALLS CONGRESS BACK TO DEBATE [...] (SBU) On December 5, in a surprise exercise of constitutional privilege, President Gutierrez canceled his planned trip to Peru and called Congress back from recess into extraordinary session on December 8. In so doing he requested that they consider three issues: 1) the censure of recently [...]	2004-12-07 23:01:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO3168	CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR ECUADORIAN [...] (S) President Gutierrez' call for a special Congressional session, while controversial, is unlikely to directly threaten political stability. Nevertheless, this event bears watching, given the proven potential for Congressional conflicts to lead to unforeseen consequences on stability in thi [...]	2004-12-07 23:05:00	Embassy Quito	SECRET	PGOV PREL MARR EC
04QUITO3202	ECUADOR PREPARING TO MOVE FORWARD ON CIVIL [...] Summary. Ecuador's Congress is preparing for the second debate on proposed civil aviation legislation sometime in January. A legal advisor to the committee in which the draft legislation is pending says a vote on the floor of the Congress is likely sometime in February. The passage of this [...]	2004-12-10 17:15:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR PGOV EC
04QUITO3256	ARTICLE 98: GOE AWARE OF NETHERCUTT-BACKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Word of the Nethercutt Amendment, which mandates reductions in Economic Support Funds (ESF) available to non-Article 98 signers, has reached GoE leaders, and they are worried. In a pull-aside at a diplomatic reception recently, the foreign minister requested clarification and i [...]	2004-12-17 22:25:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS MARR PGOV EC KICC
04QUITO3257	DECEMBER TIP UPDATE [...] Summary. Ecuadorian police conducted 130 raids from November 12 to December 9 and found 28 minors who may be trafficking victims. The congressional committee reviewed the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) bill, and it has been amended and is ready for Congress' second reading. Several embassies [...]	2004-12-17 22:28:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO3260	ECUADOR SPLIT ON SUPPORT OF FREE TRADE AGREEMENT [...] Summary. A public opinion poll sponsored by USAID shows that about half of the Ecuadorian public has heard about the FTA and about half of the public (both informed and uninformed) supports it. Not surprisingly, solid majorities believe that the FTA will benefit the U.S. far more than Ecuado [...]	2004-12-20 20:52:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ECIN ECON ETRD PGOV PREL EC FTA
04QUITO3262	MOL UNDERSTANDS NEED FOR LABOR CODE REFORM [...] (SBU) Summary: While Minister of Labor Izurieta understands the need for labor code reform, he is not focused on freedom of association issues. The Embassy has made it clear to Izurieta that the U.S. Congress is less likely to pass a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) including Ecuador unless the l [...]	2004-12-20 22:07:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PGOV ETRD EC
04QUITO3280	CONTACT INFO FOR GOE OFFICIALS [...] In response to Reftel, Post provides the following contact information for Government of Ecuador leadership: HEAD OF GOVERNMENT/STATE LAST NAME: GUTIERREZ FIRST NAME: LUCIO TITLE: PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OFFICE PH:(593-2) 2580833 / 2588888 CELL: (593)94-236187 COMMENTS: GUT [...]	2004-12-22 20:24:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR PREL EC
04QUITO3302	EX-FINMIN MAY REPLACE CAREER DIP AS AMB-DESIGNATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: GoE President Lucio Gutierrez is reconsidering his earlier designation of career diplomat Roberto Betancourt to head Ecuador's embassy in Washington (Reftel). According to separate Embassy Quito sources, former Minister of Finance Mauricio Pozo now appears the preferred candida [...]	2004-12-28 15:46:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EC
04QUITO3304	INDIGENOUS ORGANIZATION ELECTS NEW HEAD [...] Summary: The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) on December 23 elected Luis Macas president of the organization, a post he previously held twice. Macas, a former Minister of Agriculture and an ethnic Saraguro indian from the south of the country, will lead the org [...]	2004-12-28 19:22:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EC
04RANGOON1014	BURMESE PRIME MINISTER KHIN NYUNT: CHINA FREQUENT [...] (C) Summary: Both the PRC Embassy and the Burmese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) described Burmese Prime Minister Khin Nyunt's 11-18 July visit to China, his eighth overall though the first as PM, as a huge success. The visit, during which Khin Nyunt met senior Chinese leaders and repor [...]	2004-08-06 09:48:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL ECON PGOV PHUM BM CH
04RANGOON1030	BURMA GETS FIRST PIECE OF GLOBAL FUND PIE [...] (U) Summary: On August 4 the GOB Ministry of Health facilitated a signing ceremony in Rangoon which initiated the tuberculosis (TB) component of a Global Fund (GF) grant to Burma, the country's first tranche of funding from the GF. The first two-year phase of the TB component is for $6.9 milli [...]	2004-08-10 10:25:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	TBIO SOCI PGOV EAID PHUM PREL BM NGO
04RANGOON1035	THE NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR DEMOCRACY: MONSOON SEASON [...] (C) Summary: The NLD CEC has established regular communications with ASSK and U Tin Oo. An ongoing NLD petition drive to free the two leaders has proven minimally appealing to party members and supporters, and has also encountered some regime resistance in Mandalay and Sagaing divisions. Wi [...]	2004-08-11 09:56:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM ASSK NLD
04RANGOON1048	UNHCR LOOKS FOR SHORT-TERM FUNDS FOR EASTERN [...] (C) Summary: UNHCR's activities in the recently opened eastern border areas are gaining momentum. As the GOB expands its preparations for possible future repatriation of refugees in Thailand, the UNHCR is expanding its roving presence and basic infrastructure work. We support the UNHCR reque [...]	2004-08-16 09:29:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM EAID PINS PGOV BM NGO
04RANGOON1049	BURMA: NLD APPEALS TO HIGH COURT TO FREE ASSK, [...] (C) Summary: The National League for Democracy (NLD) on August 16 initiated a legal maneuver requesting that Burma's High Court order the GOB to release ASSK and U Tin Oo and to allow the party to reopen its offices. NLD leaders are under no illusion that the effort will force the regime to r [...]	2004-08-16 09:54:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM NLD ASSK
04RANGOON1056	BURMA: HISTORIC HEROIN BUST REVEALS MAJOR [...] (C) Summary: Burma's largest heroin seizure in history (592 kilos seized along the southern coast in early July) has uncovered a major drug trafficking syndicate with possible connections to traffickers and markets in Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Australia, India, and the United S [...]	2004-08-18 07:59:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PREL PGOV KCRM KISL BM
04RANGOON1057	BURMA'S ENERGY SECTOR: WHISTLING IN THE DARK [...] (C) Summary: With the worst of Rangoon's dry season blackouts easing during the current monsoon rains, many are pondering whether the GOB will fix Burma's chronic energy problems before next spring. Signs most definitely point to 'No.' Burma's energy situation continues to suffer from three m [...]	2004-08-18 08:44:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON PGOV BM
04RANGOON1080	FOR BURMA'S REGIME, LOYALTY TRUMPS FAMILY [...] (SBU) MORE OPPRESSION: At the recent funeral of a famous Burmese writer (and NLD MP-elect),the Charge, a.i. met the wife of political prisoner Dr. Than Nyein. Dr. Than Nyein was elected on the NLD ticket in 1990 from PM General Khin Nyunt's hometown of Kyauktan. The NLD MP-elect was senten [...]	2004-08-24 07:52:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR BM NLD
04RANGOON1085	SUPPORT FOR BURMESE POLITICAL PRISONERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The NLD runs a modest but very successful program to assist its imprisoned members. Post is interested in exploring ways to bolster this NLD effort and/or find parallel means to help political prisoners and their families. See action request para 8. End Summary. 2. (SBU) [...]	2004-08-25 05:27:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM EAID PGOV KDEM BM NLD
04RANGOON1090	NLD MP ARRESTS: PETITION DRIVE FALLOUT? [...] (C) Summary: In mid-August the Burmese regime rounded up nine members and supporters of the National League for Democracy, including two MPs-elect, at several upcountry locations. NLD leaders believe that the arrests are in retaliation for the party's ongoing petition drive to release NLD le [...]	2004-08-25 09:01:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BM NLD
04RANGOON1132	GOB TALKS THE TALK ON GETTING TOUGH WITH HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: According to senior GOB police officials, Burma has undertaken a plethora of activities in recent months to combat trafficking of persons. We see ample evidence that the GOB continues to demonstrate a growing political will to combat trafficking and to improve cooperation with U [...]	2004-09-01 11:07:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB SMIG BM
04RANGOON1136	BURMA: "HELL'S ANGELS" IN THE EAST, SLAVE LABORERS [...] (C) Summary: UNHCR's latest assessment mission along Burma's eastern border revealed KNU strength to be significantly diminished and, by contrast, an alarming and widespread presence of DKBA soldiers "who resemble the Hell's Angels" in appearance, swagger, and influence. Meanwhile, on the we [...]	2004-09-02 07:02:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PGOV PINS ELAB BM
04RANGOON1149	INSIDE BURMA'S NLD PARTY: YOUNG TURKS VS OLD LIONS [...] (C) Summary: The National League for Democracy (NLD) held a series of recent meetings that pitted state and divisional party officials (younger leaders who demand a pro-active stance approach to the regime) against members of the NLD Central Executive Committee (octogenarians who are disincli [...]	2004-09-03 10:34:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BM NLD
04RANGOON1151	GOB INDIFFERENT TO HISTORIC FLOODING [...] (C) Summary: Record rainfall in July and August led to historic flooding throughout Burma, rendering thousands homeless and causing severe damage to rice crops. The Burmese regime denied that any flooding occurred and arrested individuals for distributing video footage of flooded towns. GOB [...]	2004-09-03 11:00:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV EAGR ECON PGOV BM
04RANGOON121	UWSA SEEKS TO IMPORT PRECURSOR CHEMICALS LEGALLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The leadership of the United Wa State Army, while trumpeting the dramatic reduction of opium poppy production in Wa territories, is seeking special dispensation to openly import precursor chemicals, ostensibly for the industrial processing of natural rubber. End Summary. 2. [...]	2004-01-28 10:34:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PGOV BM
04RANGOON1224	SHOWDOWN AT THE ILO? GOB CAVALIER ON FORCED LABOR [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 11. 2. (C) Summary: The ILO's Burma representative corroborates UNHCR reports of a "serious resurgence" in forced labor in Rakhine State. He adds that the GOB has dismissed all recent ILO interventions on forced labor and appears to be compl [...]	2004-09-16 10:44:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINS ELAB BM
04RANGOON1225	THE BURMESE REGIME'S "SELECTIVE ENGAGEMENT" WITH [...] (C) Summary: A recent exchange of top military visits between Burma and Thailand indicates improving relations between the SPDC and the Royal Thai Armed Forces and is a sign that many wounds have healed since the two armies squared off during a series of deadly border skirmishes in mid-2002. [...]	2004-09-16 10:58:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR MARR BM TH
04RANGOON1237	BURMESE REGIME OUSTS FOREIGN AFFAIRS TEAM [...] (C) Summary: On September 18, the SPDC conducted a mini-shuffle of the GOB cabinet, in the process ousting the regime's primary foreign affairs team and giving a boost to the trusted Minister of Labor, U Tin Winn. Gone to pasture are the unimpressive Minister of Foreign Affairs, U Win Aung, [...]	2004-09-20 10:59:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR BM
04RANGOON1250	BURMA'S NEW FOREIGN MINISTER: NOT READY FOR PRIME [...] (SBU) Summary: The Burmese regime's surprise choice as new Foreign Minister, a recently promoted Major General with thirty years of operational and combat military experience, is a virtual unknown in local diplomatic and military circles. FM Nyan Win's overseas experience appears limited to [...]	2004-09-22 11:33:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR MARR CVIS BM
04RANGOON1257	BURMESE ACTIVIST'S RETURN TO THE GULAG? [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 21, GOB authorities detained a 58-year old Burmese political activist for demonstrating in front of UNDP offices in Rangoon. U Ohne Thant, who has served over 13 years in the Burmese political gulag, was carrying a placard calling for the United Nations to help imp [...]	2004-09-23 10:21:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PGOV BM
04RANGOON1268	RAZALI'S HOPES FOR BURMA MEETINGS IN NEW YORK [...] (C) Summary: According to UN Special Envoy Razali's Rangoon-based liaison, broad consultations on the margins of the UNGA at the end of September will be a difficult undertaking, but are essential in order to achieve a greater consensus on "what is absolutely necessary for the (Burmese) regim [...]	2004-09-24 10:27:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM
04RANGOON1269	ALL SMILES: PM KHIN NYUNT'S TRIP TO SINGAPORE [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt made a recent trip to Singapore--part official, part medevac--in what the regime views as another successful effort to garner ASEAN support for the SPDC's road map to democracy. End Summary. 2. (SBU) On September 20 the COM and P/E chief call [...]	2004-09-24 10:30:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON BM SN
04RANGOON13	THAN SHWE AND KHIN NYUNT - A CONTRAST IN STYLE [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Khin Nyunt and Senior General Than Shwe hosted weekend functions involving Rangoon's diplomatic corps that illustrated the marked contrast in their styles. Khin Nyunt is engaging and polished, while Than Shwe is distant, grandiose, and strikes some observers as s [...]	2004-01-05 08:52:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV BM
04RANGOON1301	BURMA'S SCHIZOPHRENIC TIPS POLICY [...] (C) Summary: Though the Burmese government is taking steps to combat transnational trafficking in persons, it's becoming increasingly evident that the GOB is approaching domestic trafficking -- including forced labor -- from a different, less vigilant, angle. End summary. Anti-TIPs Unit, Not [...]	2004-09-30 07:06:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ELAB PGOV BM
04RANGOON131	AN ODD TRIP WITH FIVE BURMESE MINISTERS [...] (C) Summary: Two Emboffs joined five senior Burmese cabinet ministers and others in a four-day, 1,400 mile "Study Visit" of border areas and central Burma January 23 - 26. Traveling at close quarters with these ministers revealed them to be greedy, pampered, highly organized, and perpetually [...]	2004-01-30 09:20:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS EAID BM
04RANGOON1315	THE NLD ENFORCES "PARTY DISCIPLINE" [...] (C) Summary: On September 29, the NLD CEC suspended three local level party leaders following an "unauthorized" quiet march in support of several standard NLD policy positions. One senior NLD advisor told us that that the CEC, including ASSK, believes "party discipline must be enforced--otherw [...]	2004-10-04 10:48:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BM NLD
04RANGOON1330	BURMA: RICE POLICY INDECISION [...] (C) Summary: A surprising re-entry into the rice market by the GOB's agricultural export arm adds another layer of confusion to the government's rice policy. We don't see the GOB remaining in the business long, though we cannot predict the imminent return of the private sector either. However [...]	2004-10-07 01:47:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ETRD ECON PGOV BM
04RANGOON1345	BURMA'S GRUNTS VS. MI: ROUND ONE? [...] (C) Summary: An apparent up-country attack by the Burmese army's regular forces on a once untouchable interagency unit including military intelligence officers has led to speculation that long-simmering hatred between MI and the regular troops has begun to heat up. The incident is quite extra [...]	2004-10-14 00:33:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PGOV PINR MOPS ETRD ECON BM
04RANGOON1357	BURMA TO HOST MAJOR REGIONAL TIPS CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Burmese Government, with support from the United Nations, is preparing to host a three-day regional conference on trafficking in persons, October 27-29. This is a safe issue for the generals. It provides an easy platform on which to interact with their neighbors and to impr [...]	2004-10-19 00:03:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ELAB PGOV BM
04RANGOON1359	BURMESE PRIME MINISTER OUSTED? CRESCENDO OF [...] No summary [...]	2004-10-19 11:08:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PINR BM
04RANGOON1365	SPDC REFUSES TO FREE THOSE CONVICTED OF CONTACT [...] (SBU) The Burmese Supreme Court Special Appellate Bench ruled on October 14 not to throw out the high treason and conspiracy convictions against three individuals for, among other things, having in their possession business cards of the ILO representative in Burma. The three had initially bee [...]	2004-10-20 06:40:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PHUM PGOV BM
04RANGOON1366	MILITARY INTELLIGENCE-AFFILIATED MEDIA SHUT DOWN [...] (C) Summary: Following the October 19 removal of General Khin Nyunt as Prime Minister and Chief of Military Intelligence (ref A),32 journals and magazines with links to Military Intelligence (MI) have apparently been temporarily closed down. Quasi-independent media licensed through other mi [...]	2004-10-20 09:52:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON BM
04RANGOON137	AVIAN FLU: BURMA TIGHTENS DEFENSES TO REPEL NEW [...] (SBU) Summary: There appears to be no avian influenza yet in Burma and the government has taken the initiative to keep it that way. An interagency committee has begun a broad prevention program, which includes cutting off imports of baby chicks from Thailand. Though we are relatively confide [...]	2004-02-02 07:28:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR TBIO SOCI PGOV BM
04RANGOON1372	TOUGH(ER) GUYS MOVE UP IN RANGOON: BIOGRAPHIC [...] No summary [...]	2004-10-20 10:43:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PINR BM
04RANGOON1374	BURMESE JUNTA CHIEF TO SEEK INDIAN ENLIGHTENMENT? [...] (C) Summary: Despite a week of significant political change in Burma, we have seen no signs that SPDC Chairman Senior General Than Shwe plans to cancel a trip planned to India on October 24. If Than Shwe travels as planned, it would be an additional sign that the SPDC has effected a seamless, [...]	2004-10-21 10:08:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	PREL PGOV ECON BM IN
04RANGOON1375	UNHCR CAUTIOUS OF SPDC CHANGES [...] (SBU) Summary: UNHCR officials took the opportunity of a senior-level visit to Burma to stress that the time was not right for repatriation of Burmese refugees from Thailand. However, they said that roving missions and assessments in the eastern border regions were very important and would con [...]	2004-10-21 10:31:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM PGOV BM
04RANGOON138	BURMA SANCTIONS: GARMENT INDUSTRY TAKES STOCK [...] (C) Summary: We are getting a slightly clearer picture of the impact of last year's U.S. import ban on the Burmese garment industry -- the industry most directly impacted by the measure. Even the most optimistic garment manufacturers say they will not survive 2005, when the global quota system [...]	2004-02-02 09:10:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	KTEX ETRD PHUM ECON PGOV BM
04RANGOON1382	FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS "NO CHANGE IN FOREIGN [...] No summary [...]	2004-10-22 10:14:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM
04RANGOON1385	SPDC-KNU TALKS ABORTED; POSSIBLE RESUMPTION IN [...] (C) Summary: After perfunctory SPDC-KNU talks on October 19 failed to get off the ground because of changes in GOB leadership, the regime will likely resume negotiations in December-January, when the dust from deposed Prime Minister Khin Nyunt's "retirement," (hanging over Military Intellig [...]	2004-10-22 12:36:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PREL PGOV BM
04RANGOON1386	PUSHING A BIG ROCK UP A STEEP HILL: UNFPA TRIES TO [...] (SBU) Summary: The UNFPA's three-day tour through upper Burma in mid-October for members of the diplomatic community and INGOs presented a microcosm of life today in this country: a graceful, capable people burdened by a Government that takes decisions based on its own interests. End Summary [...]	2004-10-22 12:37:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV EAID SOCI BM NGO
04RANGOON1401	KHIN NYUNT'S OUSTER: ONE WEEK LATER [...] (C) Summary: A week after Khin Nyunt's ouster there is calm in the streets, Than Shwe seems comfortably in power, and MI's political and probably economic power is being eroded. However, there remain many variables -- especially relations with ethnic cease-fire groups post-Khin Nyunt -- that [...]	2004-10-26 10:22:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PGOV ECON MOPS BM
04RANGOON1402	BUSINESS AS USUAL: THE SPDC SHOWS LITTLE CONCERN [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Labor U Tin Winn told COM on October 25 that his government would "reassess the utility of the ILO" if the ILO's Governing Body decided to implement the measures outlined in Article 33 of the International Labor Conference's resolution of 2000. In response to our sta [...]	2004-10-26 11:14:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PHUM BM ASSK
04RANGOON1409	THE ROUND-UP CONTINUES: MORE NLD ACTIVISTS PUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The SPDC's round-up of the NLD's elected Members of Parliament continues, with more jail sentences and general harassment. An estimated 150 of the original 392 elected members remain free, but most of them have left their home communities and are living sub-rosa around Rangoo [...]	2004-10-27 11:10:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PGOV BM NLD
04RANGOON1421	ECHO COMING TO BURMA [...] (U) Summary: The EU plans to open a Rangoon branch of the European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO) by the end of this year to monitor and supplement the considerable humanitarian assistance it currently provides for Burma programs from Bangkok and Brussels. According to one Bangkok-bas [...]	2004-11-04 04:27:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM EAID PREL PGOV BM NGO
04RANGOON1422	MAINLAND SE ASIA AND CHINA PLEDGE TIP COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary: The Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative against Trafficking (COMMIT) moved forward in Rangoon, October 27-29. All of the participating governments seemed to find a comfortable confluence of political, strategic, and operational elements in the MOU they signed and the sup [...]	2004-11-04 05:02:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ELAB PGOV EAID BM
04RANGOON1425	INDIAN AMBASSADOR RATES THAN SHWE VISIT AN [...] (C) Summary: India's Ambassador to Burma concludes that the SPDC Chairman's October 24-29 visit to India was "a very important success" that addressed Burma's domestic situation, secured GOB support for an Indian UNSC seat, and yielded progress on bilateral security and trade issues. The Amb [...]	2004-11-04 08:18:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM BM IN
04RANGOON1426	RANGOON ILO WARY OF REACTIVATING COUNTERMEASURES [...] (SBU) Summary: Two weeks before the ILO Governing Body's consideration of Burma, ILO's Rangoon liaison had more bad news about forced labor in Burma. Despite some progress in a year-old treason case against three men who contacted the ILO, there were increasing incidents of forced labor, poor [...]	2004-11-04 09:48:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PHUM PGOV BM
04RANGOON1437	THE BIG KAHUNAS STRIKE AGAIN [...] (C) Summary: The after-shocks from Prime Minister Khin Nyunt's recent demise again shook the ground in Rangoon over the weekend of November 5-7, as two influential members of the government--the Minister of Labor and the Minister of Home Affairs--were pushed off their perches. Authorities ar [...]	2004-11-08 10:45:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PINR BM
04RANGOON1445	SHAN CEASE-FIRE GROUP WARY OF GOB INTENTIONS [...] (S) SUMMARY: In the course of travel to visit an INL-funded project in Shan State, Emboff encountered the leadership of the Shan State Army (SSA),a former insurgent group that has concluded a cease-fire agreement with the GOB. Shan leaders are concerned that the post-Khin Nyunt regime will m [...]	2004-11-09 09:25:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	PINS PGOV SNAR EAID BM
04RANGOON1462	THE BURMESE REGIME AIRS ITS DIRTY LAUNDRY: FORMER [...] (C) Summary: In an apparent campaign to smear former Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt and in the process diminish the authority of the military intelligence (MI) apparatus that he created and controlled, the SPDC on November 7 published a stunning "explanation" of his recent ouster. Gone is [...]	2004-11-12 10:44:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON BM
04RANGOON1470	BURMA STRIVES TO BECOME A (CENSORED) HI-TECH HUB [...] (C) Summary: Burma's generals are pushing to develop an IT and software sector well beyond the country's needs and abilities. Though a side effect of this effort has been improved communications and expanded access of some Burmese to the Internet, too many basic problems remain for this campa [...]	2004-11-16 10:10:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECPS TSPL PGOV SCUL ECON BM
04RANGOON1485	SMALL EXPLOSION NEAR RANGOON DISTRICT COURT: NO [...] (C) Summary: A small explosion occurred early November 18 near the Rangoon district court. No one was hurt, making this incident reminiscent of the June 26 explosion at the Rangoon railway station (reftel). It appears the government is trying to justify tightened security measures as more [...]	2004-11-18 10:13:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PREL BM
04RANGOON1488	BURMESE REGIME BEGINS RELEASE OF 4,000 PRISONERS [...] (C) Summary: Citing "irregularities" of deposed Prime Minister Khin Nyunt's recently disbanded National Intelligence Bureau (NIB),the Burmese regime commenced on November 18-19 to release nearly 4,000 prisoners, including an unknown number of political detainees. Although some observers sp [...]	2004-11-19 11:14:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BM
04RANGOON1499	FIFTEEN YEARS IN THE BURMESE GULAG [...] (C) Summary: One of Burma's best-known dissidents, Min Ko Naing (aka Paw Oo Tun),freed on November 19 after 15 years spent in Burmese prisons, met with Emboffs and discussed his long, isolated, and arduous stint in the military regime's gulag. The 42 year-old former Rangoon University zoology [...]	2004-11-23 11:13:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM BM
04RANGOON150	SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY: THE U.S. [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-03 10:52:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PGOV BM
04RANGOON1503	BURMA: TATMADAW TAKES AWAY M.I.'S KEYS [...] (C) Summary: Since former Prime Minister Khin Nyunt was ousted in mid-October, the SPDC has been striking at areas of economic graft formerly controlled by him and his Military Intelligence (MI) apparatus. One of the most visible crackdowns is on the illegal import of cars from Thailand and C [...]	2004-11-24 09:32:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PGOV BM
04RANGOON1504	BURMA PRISONER RELEASES: BEFORE YOU GET TOO [...] (SBU) The GOB's announcement on November 18th that nearly 4,000 prisoners -- mostly common criminals as it turns out -- would be released (ref A) is not symbolic of an improving attitude toward the democratic opposition. There have been no releases since November 19th, and of those released (o [...]	2004-11-24 10:48:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM BM NLD
04RANGOON1507	STATUS OF NLD DEPUTY CHAIRMAN U TIN OO [...] (S) SUMMARY: NLD deputy chairman U Tin Oo, 77, remains under house arrest, although has been allowed to visit a private clinic for medical diagnosis. He is undergoing medical treatment and may need surgery. His wife, Dr. Tin Moe Wai, met with DCM November 26 to delivered a personal note fr [...]	2004-11-29 09:53:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	PREL PHUM KDEM PGOV BM NLD
04RANGOON1518	BURMA: KHIN NYUNT'S CRONIES FEELING THE SQUEEZE [...] (C) Summary: The purge of those close to ex-PM Khin Nyunt is spreading to economic cronies -- no matter their "worth" to the economy. This purge, combined with the ongoing crackdown on smuggling, will certainly cause some economic disruption. How much, and for exactly how long, remain unclea [...]	2004-11-30 08:41:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV BM
04RANGOON1522	BURMA: KHIN NYUNT'S GONE, BUT BIG BROTHER'S STILL [...] (C) Summary: At the behest of the GOB, several Burmese-language newspapers have published articles detailing encounters between members of the diplomatic community, including U.S. Embassy personnel, and democracy activists, in the process reiterating that Big Brother's still on the job despite [...]	2004-12-01 07:16:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PINS PREL PHUM ASEC BM
04RANGOON1524	BURMESE REGIME RECALLS FOREIGN ENVOYS FOR [...] (C) Summary: The GOB has instructed its 37-odd foreign envoys to return to Burma in three separate batches for "reorientation" and "familiarization" with new members of the government and senior military officers. One senior official insists that rumors all of the ambassadors will be ousted a [...]	2004-12-01 09:43:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM
04RANGOON1530	NLD SAYS GOB HAS EXTENDED ASSK HOUSE ARREST [...] (C) Summary: Though there has been no official GOB announcement, on December 1st the NLD issued a statement indicating the SPDC would continue to hold Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) under house arrest for another year. We suspect ASSK has requested her subordinates issue this statement to publicize [...]	2004-12-02 09:45:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM BM ASSK
04RANGOON1540	VETERAN POLITICIANS CALL FOR RELEASE OF ASSK, [...] (U) Summary: The Veteran Politicians, a respected group of Burma's aging war heroes and retired government officials, commemorated the country's 84th "National Day" on December 6 by praising recently released political prisoners; urging the early release of opposition leaders ASSK and U Tin Oo [...]	2004-12-06 10:43:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM BM ASSK
04RANGOON1544	FOREIGN-OWNED NEWSPAPER FEELS THE POST-KHIN NYUNT [...] (C) Summary: The Australian co-owner and editor of Burma's only non-GOB English-language newspaper, under serious pressure from the regime, has appealed to Rangoon-based ambassadors for statements of support should his publication "be closed down for any reason." Like many others who enjoyed [...]	2004-12-07 07:37:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV PGOV PREL BM
04RANGOON1549	MORE SORDID TALES OF PRISON LIFE FOR POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: U Kyaw Hsan, a 72 year-old NLD MP-elect released on November 19 after spending nine of the previous twelve years at Insein Prison, is already back on the job. Our recent encounter with this elderly but energetic activist revealed additional evidence that the regime's primary tool [...]	2004-12-07 11:12:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BM NLD
04RANGOON1563	NLD ISSUES ULTIMATUM TO THAN SHWE [...] (C) Summary: Excerpts from a December 2nd letter from the NLD to Senior General Than Shwe indicate a new effort to engage the SPDC and prompt a bilateral dialogue. The letter is purportedly the "soft" approach, which, if ignored, will be followed up by more "confrontational methods." Though t [...]	2004-12-10 05:20:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM BM NLD
04RANGOON1569	THAI PRIME MINISTER MEETS WITH SENIOR GENERAL THAN [...] (C) Summary: On December 9, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra visited Rangoon and met with State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) Chairman Senior General Than Shwe. Thaskin reportedly assured Than Shwe that Thailand would continue a policy of non-interference in Burma's internal aff [...]	2004-12-13 09:45:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PHUM BM ASEAN

04RANGOON1577	UNHCR'S THIN BLUE LINE BETWEEN THE SPDC AND [...] (C) Summary: The UN's refugee agency has essentially exhausted its mandate to oversee repatriation operations along the Bangladesh border in northern Rakhine State and settled into an uneasy but crucial role providing a wide umbrella of protection, and coordinating basic relief services, for [...]	2004-12-14 08:25:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV PHUM KISL BM NGO
04RANGOON158	FIELD OBSERVATIONS OF UNICEF BURMA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Thirty-five percent of Burma's children are malnourished, while one out of ten dies by age five, according to UNICEF. Emboff traveled with a UNICEF team to Karen and Mon States recently to observe UNICEF's field operations. Embassy Rangoon is highly supportive of UNICEF's act [...]	2004-02-04 09:10:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PGOV PREL BM UNICEF NGO
04RANGOON1582	BURMA'S BUDDHIST SUMMIT: WE BUILT IT, NOW FIND [...] (SBU) Summary: The SPDC carried off its World Buddhist Summit despite the 11th hour loss of the primary sponsor and the 1,600 attendees it was planning to bring. The regime saved face by launching a dual strategy of publicly belittling its departed Japanese co-sponsor while using influential [...]	2004-12-15 03:06:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	SCUL PHUM PREL PGOV BM
04RANGOON1587	SPDC REMOVES ASSK'S PERSONAL BODYGUARDS FROM [...] (C) Summary: According to the NLD, in the pre-dawn hours of December 14 GOB police officials required the departure of ASSK's entire contingent of personal bodyguards from the compound where she resides under house arrest. In recent weeks, the GOB has increasingly restricted access to ASSK an [...]	2004-12-15 10:34:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PREL KDEM BM ASSK
04RANGOON1591	FURTHER RESTRICTIONS ON AUNG SAN SUU KYI [...] (C) Summary: The SPDC has increased its restrictions on Aung San Suu Kyi by reducing the visits of her doctor to one time a week, prohibiting the doctor from contacting NLD members, and tailing her housekeeper as she leaves the compound for grocery shopping. In short, ASSK is now being held [...]	2004-12-16 09:34:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM BM ASSK NLD
04RANGOON16	ANTIDOTE TO THE REGIME: THE DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT'S [...] (C) Summary: On January 4, the 56th anniversary of Burma's independence, pro-democracy political parties and supporters held quiet, but well-attended, commemorative events in Rangoon. In contrast to the regime's official ceremonies, heavily militarized functions that trumpeted the SPDC's self [...]	2004-01-05 10:41:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM BM NLD
04RANGOON161	SPDC TRIES TO ENHANCE "UNDERSTANDING" OF BURMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: A two day seminar on "Understanding Myanmar" on January 27-28 was certainly the first time we have seen the government willing to discuss its policies in even a reasonably open forum. However, few attendees took the opportunity to publicly push important issues with the often sen [...]	2004-02-05 06:03:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ECON BM
04RANGOON1629	INDONESIA QUAKE HITS BURMA [...] Rangoon awoke on Sunday the 26th to a 5.3 earthquake, the largest since 1958 in the capital, testimony to the vast power of the quake off Indonesia. Though there were no reports of casualties or major damage in Rangoon, there were scattered reports throughout the area of slightly damaged buil [...]	2004-12-27 09:07:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	AEMR CASC PREL PINR PGOV AMGT BM
04RANGOON1633	TFXO01: TSUNAMI DEATH TOLL RISES IN BURMA [...] (SBU) Summary: It is evident now that Burma's remote coastal and delta regions suffered at least several dozen casualties and, at the village level, significant property damage from the earthquakes and tsunami of December 26th, although the full extent of the impact is still unclear. As of CO [...]	2004-12-28 10:15:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AEMR CASC PREL PINR PGOV AMGT BM
04RANGOON1643	TFXO01: (12/29) BURMESE GOVERNMENT UPS TSUNAMI [...] (SBU) Summary: As of December 29th, the GOB's official earthquake/tsunami death toll in Burma is 51 dead and 70 missing, though the real numbers may be higher. There have been no reports of Amcit casualties or verified cases of missing Americans. The GOB has declined offers of assistance fro [...]	2004-12-29 10:19:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AEMR CASC PREL PINR PGOV AMGT BM
04RANGOON1647	BURMA: GOB AFFIRMS THAT ASSK WILL REMAIN ISOLATED [...] (C) Summary: The new Minister of Home Affairs, offering the first official GOB word on the current status of Aung San Suu Kyi's detention, says that ASSK and NLD Vice Chairman U Tin Oo are no longer considered held "in protective custody," but rather are detained under a specific provision of [...]	2004-12-30 05:41:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR BM ASSK
04RANGOON1649	TFXO01: (12/30) BURMA SITUATION SEEMS STABLE...FOR [...] Summary: All USG personnel in Burma are accounted for and safe. There have still been no reports of Amcit casualties or verified cases of missing Americans. There was no new information on casualties in Burma on December 30th, though a UN team found little evidence to dispute GOB claims of D [...]	2004-12-30 10:20:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	AEMR CASC KFLO PREL PINR PGOV AMGT BM
04RANGOON172	UNHCR GAINS ACCESS TO FORMER CONFLICT AREAS IN [...] (C) Summary: On the heels of a cease-fire agreement between the Burmese regime and the insurgent Karen National Union (KNU),the UNHCR will sign an agreement with the GOB o/a February 13 allowing unprecedented access to former conflict areas along the Burma-Thailand border. UNHCR plans to as [...]	2004-02-06 10:40:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PGOV KISL BM
04RANGOON174	BURMA'S BANKS: THE YELLOW FLAG IS LIFTED [...] (SBU) Summary: After months of speculation and rumor the government has allowed three of the country's six biggest private banks to resume operations -- albeit under strict new regs and a promise to roll heads if there are any foul ups. Though some of the new regulations are sound, others are [...]	2004-02-09 06:05:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PGOV BM
04RANGOON199	SPDC STILL ARRESTING NLD MEMBERS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite talk of a "new year of transition," the SPDC has perpetuated old habits by continuing to arrest NLD members for conducting peaceful political activities. These latest arrests, over a dozen total, stand in contrast to reports of an on-going dialogue between ASSK and the [...]	2004-02-13 11:12:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BM NLD
04RANGOON205	SPDC TRANSFERS IMPRISONED NLD VICE CHAIRMAN TO [...] (C) Summary: The Burmese regime has transferred 77 year-old NLD Vice Chairman U Tin Oo from a remote prison cell in northwest Burma to house arrest in Rangoon. All NLD members detained for direct participation in the May 2003 NLD convoy have now been released from prison. However, along wit [...]	2004-02-17 09:38:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BM NLD
04RANGOON206	UNION DAY WRAP UP [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOB celebrated Burma's 57th Union Day with an official ceremony in Rangoon's People's Square, attended by high-level SPDC officials and their faithful minions. Diplomats were invited to a low-key MOFA event co-hosted by the Myanmar Asean Women's Friendship Association. The [...]	2004-02-17 10:38:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM NLD
04RANGOON207	GOB APPROVES NEW UNHCR OPERATION [...] (SBU) UNHCR Director for Asia and the Pacific, Mr. Jean Marie Fakhouri, told Rangoon diplomatic corps February 13 that the GOB was giving UNHCR the green light to enter Karen (Kayin) State, Mon State, and Tenasserim (Tanintharyi) Division and conduct limited operations beginning March 1. Fakh [...]	2004-02-17 11:15:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PREF BM NGO
04RANGOON219	IN SEARCH OF PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT: THANLYIN AND [...] (SBU) Summary: A recent trip to Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt's home region of Kyauktan and Thanlyin (previously called Syriam),only a 45-minute jaunt southwest of downtown Rangoon, proved once again that kinship in this patronage-rich society has its privileges. The region is still very [...]	2004-02-19 10:23:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV PHUM EIND BM
04RANGOON232	REGIME BLOCKS NLD LEADERS FROM VISITING ASSK [...] (C) Summary: The five free members of the NLD's Central Executive Committee (CEC) attempted on February 17 to visit Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) at her Rangoon residence, where she is under house arrest, but were rebuffed by the Burmese regime. The "uncles" have in recent weeks taken a more visib [...]	2004-02-20 09:49:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM NLD ASSK
04RANGOON233	NLD IN THE PROVINCES: RARIN' TO GO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Department's Burma Desk Officer joined Poloff and PolFSN on an early February three-day 500-mile road trip from Rangoon to Mon and Karen States, which lie on Burma's southeastern border with Thailand. NLD members we met in Mon and Karen States seemed fairly well organized and [...]	2004-02-20 09:54:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINS BM NLD
04RANGOON237	UPDATE ON A MON STATE OF MIND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Emboff and FSN met Feb 14 with a high-level New Mon State Party (NMSP) delegation visiting Rangoon to meet with the PM and to attend the 57th Union Day activities -- including the State Banquet hosted by Than Shwe. The NMSP, one of the major cease-fire groups, discussed a wide a [...]	2004-02-23 09:50:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS ELAB PHUM BM
04RANGOON238	AMERICAN CENTER SPEAKER PROMOTES DIALOGUE ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Rangoon's Public Affairs Section hosted Fulbright Scholar Jeffrey Kamakahi for programs on diversity, inequality, and social change with Burma's many ethnic, racial, and religious groups. Though the target audiences greatly appreciated his visit, they also expressed th [...]	2004-02-23 10:07:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KISL KPAO BM
04RANGOON239	BURMA: ANOTHER TENTATIVE STEP ON MONEY LAUNDERING [...] (C) Summary: As is its custom, the GOB released with no warning news of three important steps toward the implementation of its anti-money laundering law. It announced the setting of threshold amounts for banking and real estate transactions, and the naming of members to its nascent Financial [...]	2004-02-23 10:08:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN SNAR ECON PGOV BM
04RANGOON240	BURMA: WFP PLANS EMERGENCY FOOD ASSISTANCE TO [...] (C) Summary: The World Food Programme (WFP) plans to initiate on March 1 a one-year program to assist former poppy farmers suffering from food insecurity. The program will cost about $4 million and target about 180,000 beneficiaries in the ethnic Kokang and Wa border areas through food-for-wo [...]	2004-02-23 10:08:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID EAGR PGOV SNAR PREF BM NGO
04RANGOON243	REGIME HAMMERS ACTIVISTS WITH LENGTHY PRISON TERMS [...] (C) Summary: The SPDC has handed down prison sentences ranging from 7 to 17 years to six university activists who distributed a handful of leaflets criticizing the regime's "road map for democracy." This harsh treatment is business as usual for a regime that tolerates no dissent. Meanwhile, [...]	2004-02-25 00:39:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV BM
04RANGOON247	BURMA'S PATRONAGE SYSTEM: THE DOG WAGS THE TAIL [...] (C) Summary: Burma's military leadership thrives atop a flourishing patronage system that dates back hundreds of years. The junta holds the key to huge success or crushing failure for those in business, the military, or civil service, but only rewards the most loyal and pliable. Such an envi [...]	2004-02-25 10:00:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON MCAP PGOV MARR MOPS BM
04RANGOON249	FILIPINO ENVOY MAKES LOW-KEY VISIT TO BURMA [...] (C) Summary: Filipino Foreign Secretary Albert made her debut visit to Burma February 18-19 to get to know her Burmese counterpart and to resurrect a moribund Burma-Philippines Joint Commission. Her public remarks were laudatory of regime road map efforts. However, she did not meet with the [...]	2004-02-25 10:06:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM RP
04RANGOON250	RANGOON'S OUSTED MAYOR: DOWNFALL OF A FAVORITE SON [...] (C) Summary: U Ko Lay, who served as Rangoon's powerful mayor for fifteen years following the military regime's rise to power in 1988, has endured five months of disgrace stemming from an investigation into his corrupt practices and culminating in his forced retirement. The murky demise of a [...]	2004-02-25 10:32:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON BM
04RANGOON252	EU REPS MEET WITH BURMESE PM IN RANGOON [...] (C) Summary: EU ambassadors resident in Rangoon and Bangkok met recently with the Burmese Prime Minister and Foreign Minister. The EU ambassadors assured COM that the meeting was not for the purpose of delivering any new EU policy message. COM cautioned them that they needed to be extreme [...]	2004-02-25 11:08:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM
04RANGOON298	NLD LEADERS CHEERED BY SECRETARY'S BURMA COMMENTS [...] (SBU) The free members of the National League for Democracy's (NLD) Central Executive Committee (CEC) were very pleased that Secretary Powell had mentioned Burma's democracy struggle during his March 2nd speech to the Heritage Foundation. NLD leader, and Nobel Peace Laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi [...]	2004-03-04 10:19:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OPRC PGOV BM NLD
04RANGOON34	BURMA: LIBERALIZED RICE EXPORTS AREN'T SO LIBERAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOB's sudden decision to "suspend" exports of rice was the latest foible in the move toward allowing the private sector to export rice for the first time in 40 years. Aside from further underlining the regime's ambivalence about giving up control of Burma's most important p [...]	2004-01-09 07:31:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD ECON PGOV BM
04RANGOON365	CAMPUS COMMOTION: RANGOON AND MYITKYINA STUDENT [...] (C) Summary: According to Embassy sources, recent student-led protests over administrative issues at two university campuses, one located in a Rangoon suburb and the other in Kachin State in northern Burma, resulted in military intervention to restore "order." These reports indicate the regim [...]	2004-03-18 10:53:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM MOPS BM
04RANGOON369	BURMA WELCOMES PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY AIDS PLAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Burma is interested in new program possibilities under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (ref A) and has requested further consultations with the Embassy and USAID Bangkok to examine details of what the emergency plan actually means for Burma. Probably for reasons o [...]	2004-03-19 08:19:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID SOCI KHIV PHUM PGOV BM NGO
04RANGOON370	MOFA ON DPRK MISSILES, ROAD MAP [...] (C) SUMMARY: MOFA Political Director General U Thaung Tun, covering a range of political issues, reiterated to COM on March 18 the GOB's position that Burma has refused North Korea offers to buy missiles and has no intention of resuming diplomatic relations with DPRK. He that although the GO [...]	2004-03-19 08:24:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM BM
04RANGOON382	DIFFERENT STROKES FOR DIFFERENT FOLKS: ONE [...] (C) Summary: While spending ten days in remote Shan State with a senior military intelligence officer during the annual USG-Burma opium yield survey, we were constantly told that Prime Minister Khin Nyunt has undertaken a full-court press to implement his "road map" to democracy. This focus h [...]	2004-03-24 07:51:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PINR MARR SNAR BM
04RANGOON393	BURMA'S NATIONAL CONVENTION: INK FOR THE RUBBER [...] Summary: Members of the National Convention Convening Work Committee demonstrate scant appreciation for the guiding principles and mechanics of constitution drafting. There is no indication the planned drafting process will involve genuine dialogue, negotiation, debate, or collaboration. By [...]	2004-03-26 10:06:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV SCUL BM
04RANGOON4	DON'T BLAME US FOR BURMA'S WIMPY MANUFACTURING [...] (SBU) Summary: Though U.S. sanctions have hurt some Burmese manufacturers, these punitive measures are not primarily to blame for the sector's perilous situation. An array of systemic problems, chronic mismanagement by the government, and periodic external shocks, have made Burma a wasteland [...]	2004-01-02 06:47:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EIND ECON PGOV BM
04RANGOON404	SPDC CELEBRATES ARMED FORCES DAY, NLD HAILS [...] (C) Summary: On March 27, the SPDC celebrated the 59th Anniversary of Armed Forces Day with a traditional military parade, sundry speeches lauding the accomplishments of the modern Burmese Army, and an official state dinner complete with a now-standard depiction of Senior General Than Shwe as [...]	2004-03-29 12:37:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM NLD
04RANGOON412	BURMESE-RUSSIAN NUCLEAR REACTOR PROJECT [...] (C) In a March 24 conversation, the Russian ambassador in Rangoon, Oleg Kabanov, told the COM that he had met with the Burmese Minister of Science and Technology, U Thaung, on March 23 and discussed the status of the proposed Burmese-Russian nuclear reactor project that has been hanging fire, [...]	2004-03-30 09:46:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PREL PGOV RS BM
04RANGOON438	BURMA: INDONESIAN AMBASSADOR PREVIEWS ALATAS VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Indonesian Ambassador to Burma, Wyoso Prodjowarsito, revealed on March 31 that Presidential Advisor Ali Alatas may revisit Burma o/a April 17, although that date could slip due to the concurrent Burmese New Year. Prodjowarsito portrayed Indonesia as a close friend of Burma and su [...]	2004-04-06 06:21:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM ID
04RANGOON470	BURMESE MUSLIMS BRACE FOR FALLOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Rangoon-based Muslim leaders are advising Muslims to expect a severe GOB reaction following the April 7 attack on the Burmese Embassy in Kuala Lumpur (ref A). The Foreign Ministry publicly condemned the attack, though avoiding mention of the attackers' ethnicity and religion, a [...]	2004-04-09 10:21:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PTER PGOV PINS KISL MY BM
04RANGOON471	RANGOON MISSIONS ON PREPARATIONS FOR BANGKOK II [...] (C) Summary: Our recent calls on six Rangoon-based EU and ASEAN diplomatic missions to discuss the second meeting of the "Bangkok Process" on Burma revealed a range of assessments on the road that lies ahead. Most of the missions believe that the SPDC will release ASSK within days or weeks a [...]	2004-04-09 10:25:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM
04RANGOON481	NLD LEADERS IN A "WAIT AND SEE" MOOD [...] (S) Summary: During our April 19 visit to re-opened NLD headquarters, recently released Chairman U Aung Shwe played down press reports that he believes ASSK's release is imminent and denied rumors of a meeting between top SPDC and NLD leaders, but acknowledged that the regime had allowed him [...]	2004-04-19 10:59:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	PREL PGOV BM NLD
04RANGOON487	BURMA: MALAYSIAN AMBASSADOR BELIEVES GOB WILL [...] (C) Summary: Malaysia's ambassador to Burma believes that the GOB is "firm" in wanting to postpone the April 29-30 Bangkok II meeting in order to avoid "getting clobbered" by the international community. Nonetheless, he believes that the signs are good ASSK will be released soon and assesses [...]	2004-04-20 10:15:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM MY
04RANGOON488	THE BURMA-THAI BORDER TRADE CHRONICLES: PART I, [...] (C) Summary: A recent joint visit by Bangkok and Rangoon Econoffs to Ranong and Kawthaung, along the southern Burmese-Thai border, shows business as usual in the informal movement of goods and people. However, the formal economy on both sides is sluggish due to the continued ban on Thai fishi [...]	2004-04-21 03:37:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PREL PGOV EFIS BM TH
04RANGOON497	THE BURMA-THAI BORDER TRADE CHRONICLES: PART II, [...] (C) Summary: A recent visit by Bangkok and Rangoon Econoffs to Mae Sot and Myawaddy, the largest trading point on the Burmese-Thai border, shows trade volumes that are flourishing despite U.S. sanctions and increasingly ludicrous Burmese trade policy. Even more than it does the sleepy Kawthau [...]	2004-04-22 02:08:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PREL PGOV PHUM BM TH
04RANGOON501	BURMA: CHINESE VISIT A "BIG EVENT" FOR PRC-SPDC [...] (C) Summary: The Chinese ambassador to Burma characterized the recent visit by Vice Premier Wu Yi as a "big event" for bilateral relations, noting 21 agreements had been signed and commenting that China had selected areas of cooperation that would be of import not only to the current regime [...]	2004-04-22 05:40:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PGOV BM CH ASSK
04RANGOON509	BURMA'S NATIONAL UNITY PARTY: NIGHT OF THE LIVING [...] (C) Summary: Leaders of the pro-regime National Unity Party (NUP) reveal an outlook on Burma and the world reminiscent of the bygone days of Ne Win and his "Burmese Way to Socialism" ideology, which viewed the international community, and domestic dissenters, as enemies of the state. The NUP [...]	2004-04-22 10:56:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON BM
04RANGOON513	THE BURMA-THAI BORDER TRADE CHRONICLES, PART III: [...] (C) Summary: Despite predictions that new U.S. sanctions would cause major changes in border trade and migration, a recent visit by Bangkok and Rangoon Econoffs to two of the three major Thai-Burma border crossings (refs A and B) shows business as usual in the movement of goods and people. Tho [...]	2004-04-23 04:33:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PHUM PREL ECON PGOV BM TH NGO
04RANGOON514	GOB PULLS THE PLUG ON BANGKOK II [...] (C) Summary: According to an MFA contact, Burma has opted out of the second meeting of the "Bangkok Process" and requested a postponement of at least one month, likely part of an effort to focus exclusively on reconvening the National Convention on May 17. We suspect the GOB realizes that the [...]	2004-04-23 08:13:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM TH
04RANGOON535	GOB RELEASES MORE POST-DEPAYIN PRISONERS [...] (C) On April 25 the GOB released 24 more of the estimated 250 pro-democracy activists arrested across Burma in the government crackdown immediately following the May 30, 2003 attack on the National League for Democracy (NLD) convoy at Depayin. Four other NLD members, including an MP-elect, wh [...]	2004-04-28 09:53:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV BM NLD
04RANGOON537	KNU OBSERVERS TO ATTEND NATIONAL CONVENTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to a well-placed, Rangoon-based ethnic Karen leader, the Karen National Union (KNU) will send a two-person observer delegation to the National Convention (NC) in May. The postponed SPDC-KNU talks originally scheduled for late April could take place in late May, despit [...]	2004-04-27 10:15:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS BM
04RANGOON542	FREED PRIVATE BANKS WARM UP [...] (C) Summary: Three of Burma's private banks, re-opened under tight new regulations in February, seem to be surviving nicely in the new environment. With deposits reaching pre-crash levels, the banks are set to start issuing loans for the first time since February 2003. However, this bright s [...]	2004-04-30 05:29:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV BM
04RANGOON544	BURMA: NLD MAKES "SUGGESTIONS" (CONDITIONS) FOR [...] (C) Summary: For the first time in a year the NLD CEC met this week as a full group, including detained leaders ASSK and U Tin Oo. Over the course of two private sessions, facilitated by military intelligence, the party leadership formed a series of "suggestions" that the SPDC must take on b [...]	2004-04-30 10:18:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV BM NLD
04RANGOON545	BURMA: VIEWS FROM MILITARY INTELLIGENCE [...] (C) On April 24 DATT and P/E Chief had an opportunity to chat at length with Major General Kyaw Win, second in command to General (and Prime Minister) Khin Nyunt as the powerful deputy chief of Burma's military intelligence. The occasion was a social event, but a significant portion of our d [...]	2004-04-30 10:20:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM
04RANGOON559	ENERGIZING BURMA'S SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTREPRENEURS [...] (SBU) Summary: The executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Thailand visited Rangoon explaining the benefits of a more active civil society role for the business community and delivering the message that combined voices were more effective in pushing reform. Progressive busin [...]	2004-05-06 05:00:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON KPAO PGOV SCUL KWMN BM
04RANGOON563	NLD LOOKING AHEAD TO CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM? [...] (C) Summary: Post has received some indications from NLD insiders that the party plans to focus its efforts on the constitutional referendum phase of the SPDC's road map. Rather than fight against terribly long odds at the stacked-deck National Convention, the party may feel its continuing m [...]	2004-05-06 09:35:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	PGOV KDEM BM NLD
04RANGOON587	NATIONAL CONVENTION SET TO RECONVENE, NLD [...] (C) Summary: According to top NLD leaders, as of May 12 the SPDC has not responded to NLD "suggestions" put forth two weeks ago that would improve the political environment and allow the party to attend the regime's forthcoming reconvened National Convention. Registration for the Convention w [...]	2004-05-12 10:15:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV BM NLD
04RANGOON594	NLD SAYS SPDC WON'T BUDGE ON ASSK RELEASE AND [...] (S) NLD spokesman U Lwin requested a meeting with P/E chief on May 13 and reported that he had met the previous evening with ASSK. He conveyed to ASSK the Embassy's oft-repeated offer to assist her and the NLD in any way possible. ASSK, who was "delighted and very encouraged" by the USG's co [...]	2004-05-13 10:25:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	PGOV BM ASSK NLD
04RANGOON600	NLD DECLARES BOYCOTT OF NATIONAL CONVENTION [...] (C) Summary: The NLD, failing to secure the release of party leaders ASSK and U Tin Oo, declared publicly on May 14 that the party will not attend the SPDC's National Convention. Burma's leading pro-democracy ethnic coalition will follow suit. However, NLD leaders allow that if the regime c [...]	2004-05-14 10:21:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM NLD
04RANGOON601	SPDC REJECTS CEASE-FIRE GROUPS' NC APPEAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The SPDC rejected an 11th hour appeal from Burma's eight largest cease-fire groups on May 12 to allow free discussions during the National Convention. The SPDC's reported response on May 13 stated the Prime Minister is upset the cease-fire groups don't want the military involved [...]	2004-05-14 10:27:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS BM
04RANGOON611	RAZALI'S "MAN IN RANGOON" ON NATIONAL CONVENTION [...] (C) Summary: Leon de Reidmatten (LDR),UN Special Envoy Razali's "man in Rangoon" told COM that up until May 12, NLD leaders believed that an agreement had been reached to allow the party to participate in the National Convention. Despite the NLD's May 14 announcement that they would not par [...]	2004-05-17 11:40:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM NLD
04RANGOON612	NATIONAL CONVENTION RECONVENES WITHOUT NLD AND [...] (C) Summary: The Burmese regime's National Convention reconvened on May 17 with over 1,000 hand-picked delegates in attendance, but without the participation of the NLD and the UNA nor the presence of the U.S. and EU missions. The NLD, on the basis that its existing demands are reasonable and [...]	2004-05-17 11:57:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM NLD
04RANGOON625	BURMA'S PRIVATE RICE EXPORTS: A FAILED EXPERIMENT [...] (C) Summary: Burma's military and its economic tentacles are apparently benefiting from the GOB's January freeze on private sector rice exports, buying up thousands of tons at discount prices. Though the purchases are good for farmers who were stuck with massive surpluses when private exporter [...]	2004-05-18 10:43:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR PGOV ECON BM
04RANGOON631	MONEY LAUNDERING: FATF COMES TO BURMA [...] (C) Summary: Anti-money laundering legislation and supervision were the topics of three days of discussions between FATF and the Burmese government. Though the GOB has made much progress on paper, concerns remain over some troubling details and prospects for proper enforcement. As FATF consi [...]	2004-05-19 10:41:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PGOV SNAR BM
04RANGOON637	NATIONAL CONVENTION: CENTER OF THE REGIME'S [...] (C) Summary: The Burmese regime's National Convention has thus far revealed little more than instructions and warnings to its hand-picked delegates who will have no opportunity to reconsider pre-drafted components of a new constitution. It is clear that the SPDC has reconvened the Convention [...]	2004-05-20 10:37:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV BM
04RANGOON644	BURMA'S FORESTRY MINISTER TAKES A MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary: In the COM's first meeting with Burma's Forestry Minister we were able to finally get the GOB's official line on wildlife trafficking and illegal timbering, and clarify an outstanding rumor regarding the punishment of a Ministry official for illegal contact with the Embassy. Tho [...]	2004-05-21 07:52:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV PGOV EAGR PHUM BM
04RANGOON675	BURMA AND CHINA: TRUE FRIENDSHIP OR MARRIAGE OF [...] (C) Summary: Burma's ruling SPDC views China as its key bilateral partner and seeks to use the relationship as evidence of its legitimacy and to offset pressure by the international community, particularly the United States, for concrete movement toward national reconciliation and democracy. [...]	2004-05-27 00:13:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PGOV MARR BM CM
04RANGOON676	ILO IN BURMA: A TREASONOUS MINION? [...] (C) Summary: ILO's man in Rangoon briefed diplomats on ambiguous news from Burma's Supreme Court, increased forced labor reports, and the GOB's inadequate responses. All of these issues will be discussed in Geneva on June 5th in the context of the ILO's postponed timetable for a Plan of Action [...]	2004-05-27 03:47:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PHUM PGOV BM ILO
04RANGOON678	NLD COMMEMORATES 14TH ANNIVERSARY OF 1990 ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: The NLD on May 27 marked 14 years since the party's stunning victory in the 1990 general elections. At a somber event at party headquarters, attended by several hundred members and supporters, the NLD demanded that the results of the 1990 elections be implemented without delay. [...]	2004-05-27 07:15:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BM NLD
04RANGOON694	BURMESE TAKE TO THE ETHER TO AVOID SANCTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: BURMESE BUSINESSES HAVE A WELL-EARNED REPUTATION FOR CREATIVITY IN THE FACE OF OBSTACLES. MANY HAVE FOUND WAYS TO WORK AROUND LAST YEAR'S BAN ON U.S. FINANCIAL SERVICES (INCLUDING TRADE FACILITATION AND CREDIT CARD SERVICES). ONE OF THE LATEST METHODS INVOLVES LARGER COMPANIES [...]	2004-06-01 10:23:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PGOV BM
04RANGOON695	ACTIVISTS ARRESTED ON ANNIVERSARY OF DEPAYIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE REGIME-ORCHESTRATED ATTACK ON THE NLD AT DEPAYIN ON MAY 30, 2003, THE REGIME ARRESTED AT LEAST NINE VERIFIED AND POSSIBLY DOZENS MORE YOUTHS INVOLVED IN DISTRIBUTING COPIES OF THE UN UNIVERSAL DECLARATION ON HUMAN RIGHTS. THE NLD HELD RELIGIOUS SERVICES [...]	2004-06-01 10:32:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV BM ASSK NLD
04RANGOON714	VIEWS FROM THE THREE RING NATIONAL CONVENTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: AFTER A THREE WEEK LOCKDOWN AT THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, 700 DELEGATES GOT A WEEKEND PASS FOR JUNE 5-6. DESPITE THIS RELEASE, NEWS FROM NYAUNG HNA PIN HAS BEEN SCARCE. SOME SECOND AND THIRD-HAND TALES HAVE BEEN TRICKLING OUT ATTESTING TO THE FARCICAL AND PRE-ORDAINE [...]	2004-06-08 07:32:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS BM
04RANGOON719	ETHNICS HOPING AGAINST HOPE [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE NATIONAL CONVENTION (NC) RESUMED JUNE 7 AFTER A TWO-DAY RECESS. THOUGH THE SPDC'S EMPTY PROMISES TO RE-EXAMINE THE 104 PRINCIPLES HAVE LEFT THE ETHNIC CEASE-FIRE GROUPS (CFGS) RATHER FRUSTRATED, THE CFGS PARADOXICALLY STILL HOPE FOR SOME DELIVERABLES ON THE SHARING OF POWER [...]	2004-06-09 01:35:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS BM
04RANGOON728	BURMA: DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER MAKES RARE EMBASSY [...] (C) SUMMARY: A SURPRISE, BUT WELCOME, MEETING BETWEEN THE CHIEF OF MISSION AND THE DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER WAS MORE SIGNIFICANT FOR ITS OCCURRENCE THAN ITS CONTENT. NONETHELESS, DURING THE CORDIAL 30-MINUTE EXCHANGE THE COM PRESSURED FOR A ROLE FOR THE NLD IN THE "ROAD MAP FOR DEMOCRACY," AND [...]	2004-06-09 10:18:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER BM
04RANGOON74	KNU COMING TO TOWN? [...] SUMMARY: After several days of confusion about who is coming and when, local contacts reported today, Thursday Jan 15, that a 21-strong KNU delegation led by Gen. Bo Mya has arrived from Bangkok. While here, the KNU will reportedly only discuss a cease-fire and Karen autonomy, not the natio [...]	2004-01-15 10:39:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM
04RANGOON764	BURMA'S IMPORTERS TAKE ANOTHER BLOW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A PLAN TO STICK IMPORTERS WITH HUGE NEW CUSTOMS EXPENSES IS PAR FOR THE COURSE. IT ADVANCES THE GOB'S DUAL ECONOMIC PRIORITIES -- RAISING REVENUE WITHOUT REFORMING THE DECREPIT TAX SYSTEM AND DISCOURAGING IMPORTS. THE IMPACT ON THE ECONOMY IS HARD TO PREDICT. FLOURISHING SMUGG [...]	2004-06-18 05:58:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ETRD ECON PGOV BM
04RANGOON770	BURMA'S BUDGETEERS WAVE MAGIC WAND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: BURMA'S FY 2004-05 STATE BUDGET MAGICALLY APPEARED IN LATE APRIL, SPORTING FIGURES AND PREDICTIONS FROM UNKNOWN SOURCES. UNSURPRISINGLY, THE MILITARY GETS A BOOST, BUT SO DO HEALTH AND EDUCATION. THE INITIAL TAKE CALLS FOR A REDUCED DEFICIT DUE TO INCREASED TAX RECEIPTS AND AN [...]	2004-06-21 04:00:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PGOV BM
04RANGOON779	ASSK'S BIRTHDAY PASSES QUIETLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: AROUND 300 NLD PARTY FAITHFUL ATTENDED A CEREMONY AT NLD HEADQUARTERS IN RANGOON TO MARK THE NLD-CREATED BURMESE NATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY AND ASSK'S COINCIDENT 59TH BIRTHDAY, WHILE THE USUAL HEAVY SECURITY PRESENCE LOITERED NEARBY. THE DAY PASSED PEACEFULLY, AND NO ARRESTS WERE MADE [...]	2004-06-22 08:53:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BM ASSK NLD
04RANGOON790	KOWI PARTNERS MEET, LAY OUT CONCERNS TO GOB [...] (SBU) ACCORDING TO UNODC'S BURMA OFFICE, ON JUNE 21ST EIGHT AGENCIES OF THE BURMESE GOVERNMENT SAT DOWN WITH THE UN, INGO, AND JAPANESE GOVERNMENT IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS FOR THE KOKANG AND WA INITIATIVE (KOWI) TO DISCUSS BARRIERS TO SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION. NO DONORS WERE INVITED TO ATTEND. [...]	2004-06-23 09:40:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PGOV BM
04RANGOON802	KHIN NYUNT MEETS UNOCAL [...] (C) Summary: Bangkok-based representatives of Unocal were in Burma to introduce a new regional chief. While paying a courtesy call on PM General Khin Nyunt, the Unocal reps heard upbeat talk of Burma's energy sector and of Burma-Thai relations. The PM also made vague promises of a release of [...]	2004-06-24 10:32:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PGOV BM
04RANGOON805	THE MADRASSAS OF RANGOON [...] (S) Summary: Despite pervasive and sometimes aggressive religious discrimination that favors Burma's Buddhist majority, Islamic religious education has survived and flourished in Rangoon Division. Though Rangoon's madrassas operate under vigilant MI attention, there are up to 130 schools -- s [...]	2004-06-25 02:24:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	SCUL PGOV PTER EFIN KISL BM
04RANGOON815	GOB BLAMES EXILE GROUPS FOR JUNE 26 BOMBINGS [...] (C) Summary: On June 26th, three small bombs exploded and four were disarmed at the main Rangoon train station. The GOB blamed exile opposition groups for the incident, just as it did for a similar event last July. We think it more likely the GOB did this itself to try to besmirch these oppo [...]	2004-06-28 08:26:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PGOV ELAB BM
04RANGOON82	RUMP CEC PUTTING HOUSE IN ORDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: The five NLD CEC members not under house arrest continue to meet daily and are pushing the security envelope further. The CEC is "putting the house back in order" and has held meetings with NLD Chairs from all of Burma's States and Divisions. Township-level meetings have begun [...]	2004-01-16 10:11:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM NLD
04RANGOON857	THE MANDALAY NLD: ON THE DEFENSIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The regime has recently increased its efforts to suppress the actions of the NLD in Mandalay through intrusive and intimidating surveillance of senior NLD members. Despite the regime's efforts, the NLD maintains a positive spirit while it continues to hold out hope for UN interven [...]	2004-07-07 07:31:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BM NLD
04RANGOON862	NLD AND ASSK: THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE [...] (C) Summary: UN Special Envoy Razali's "Man in Rangoon" painted a gloomy picture of the current state of the NLD. While the party and its executive board remain in stasis, awaiting the release of General Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi, the GOB steams ahead along its bogus democracy "Road Map." Tho [...]	2004-07-07 09:17:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PGOV BM NLD ASSK
04RANGOON88	BURMA: RUMORS OF CONSTRUCTION OF A NUCLEAR REACTOR [...] (S/NF) An expatriate businessmanXXXXXXXXXXXX recently volunteered to an Embassy Officer that he had heard rumors that a nuclear reactor was being built near Minbu, in central Magway Division on the Irawaddy River. The businessman added that he personally had seen a "massive" barge containing large- [...]	2004-01-20 09:44:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PARM PREL BM RS KS KNPP
04RANGOON881	KYAUKSE: THAN SHWE'S TIKRIT [...] (C) Summary: A visit to Senior General Than Shwe's hometown of Kyaukse revealed a town of above average development, but with lingering religious tensions. After Buddhist-Muslim religious riots here in October 2003, there seems to have been little attempt by anyone to systematically eliminat [...]	2004-07-13 09:35:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KISL BM
04RANGOON882	SENIOR GOB OFFICIAL DISCUSSES TIP AND DRUG ISSUES, [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Home Affairs Colonel Tin Hlaing says that while the SPDC gives "regular" consideration to releasing ASSK, the GOB will not repeat a 1995 "mistake" of freeing the NLD leader that led to the collapse of the National Convention. The Minister, while cordial, criticized o [...]	2004-07-13 09:53:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR BM NLD
04RANGOON883	BURMA: NATIONAL CONVENTION "ADJOURNS" ON SCHEDULE [...] (C) Summary: The constitutional National Convention (NC) "adjourned" (as the state press put it) on July 9th, ending an eight week session that has gone largely according to the SPDC's script. The NC will allegedly reconvene in the late Fall to continue its "deliberations." We see no reason w [...]	2004-07-13 10:06:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS BM
04RANGOON892	GOB PRISONER RELEASES: LESS THAN MEETS THE EYE [...] (C) Summary: GOB claims of significant releases of political prisoners in 2004 are a bit misleading. While many have been freed this year, most are those who have been picked up and then quickly released without charge, or those who were arrested following last May's attack on ASSK's convoy b [...]	2004-07-14 10:18:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PGOV PHUM BM NLD
04RANGOON894	BURMA NGOS LAY OUT CONSERVATION PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) Summary: A team of locally based environmental NGOs, backed by local experts, has produced a comprehensive analysis of Burma's most pressing priorities for biodiversity conservation. The report is the first of its kind that we've seen and is realistic in its objectives and its assessment [...]	2004-07-15 06:22:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV PGOV BM NGO
04RANGOON899	GOB BRIEFS DIPLOMATS ON NATIONAL CONVENTION [...] (C) Summary: On July 14 Burma's Deputy Foreign Minister led a briefing of the Rangoon dipcorps on the recently adjourned National Convention (NC). He did not rule out future participation by the NLD in the constitution drafting process, but gave no indication that efforts are underway to acc [...]	2004-07-15 11:13:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM
04RANGOON91	GOB RELEASES 26 NLD MEMBERS [...] (C) Summary: On January 16, the GOB released 26 NLD members detained in connection with the ill-fated May 30 NLD convoy, including seven Members-elect of Parliament. With the exception of ASSK and three senior party officials, all previously detained participants in the convoy have now been [...]	2004-01-21 00:20:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM BM NLD
04RANGOON914	RAZALI REP SAYS UNSYG WILL PURSUE BURMA MEETING AT [...] (C) Summary: Leon de Riedmatten, UN Special Envoy Razali's representative in Rangoon, says that UNSYG Kofi Annan hopes to organize a consultative group meeting on Burma on the margins of the upcoming UNGA to discuss next steps and strategies. The UNSYG will most likely invite traditional con [...]	2004-07-20 09:53:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	PREL PGOV BM
04RANGOON923	NLD AND GOB GO THROUGH THE MOTIONS ON MARTYRS' DAY [...] (C) Summary: The GOB and the NLD marked Martyrs' Day on July 19 with separate, low-key events. The GOB, per its tradition, took all necessary measures to ensure a quiet and subdued holiday. At NLD headquarters, opposition parties held a brief event for several hundred supporters, members, a [...]	2004-07-21 11:51:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM NLD
04RANGOON924	NLD LEADERS UNDERTAKE PETITION DRIVE [...] (C) Summary: According to NLD CEC members, the party quietly launched a petition drive on July 19 to secure signatures on a letter to the SPDC demanding that the regime release ASSK and U Tin Oo from house arrest, allow all party offices to reopen, and free all political prisoners. To date, [...]	2004-07-21 12:01:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	PREL PGOV BM NLD
04RANGOON945	THE WHO JOINS GOB TO FIGHT HIV/AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS, [...] Summary: Dr. Jack Chow, Assistant Director-General for the World Health Organization for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (HTM),called on the COM on July 21 to discuss his visit to Burma during which he met with the GOB Minister of Health and other health officials, announced 92 million in [...]	2004-07-26 10:32:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO SOCI PGOV EAID PHUM PREL BM NGO
04RANGOON959	IRRAWADDY FLOODING DRAWS SCANT INTEREST [...] (SBU) Starting July 18th, heavy rains caused the upper Irrawaddy River to overflow its banks, and flood waters reportedly reached four to ten feet in the Kachin State capital of Myitkyina. Local NGOs in Myitkyina reported the worst flooding since 1997, fouled wells, thousands homeless, and pe [...]	2004-07-28 10:36:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID SENV PGOV BM NGO

04RANGOON967	ECONOMIC TENSIONS IN THE BURMESE MILITARY [...] (C) Summary: There has been much talk recently of perceived "rifts" in the senior military leadership of Burma and between the regional commanders and the central command structure. Some claim that these rifts are based on starkly differing views on the best political path for Burma to take. [...]	2004-07-30 08:22:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON MCAP PINS PINR BM KBIO
04RIODEJANEIRO1105	BRZAIL'S MINAS GERAIS: PT INCUMBENT COULD [...] (U) SUMMARY: The mayoral race in the capital city of Minas Gerais state, Belo Horizonte, one of Brazil's largest cities in one of the largest states, is close, according to the most recent poll: 38 percent for ex-soccer idol and State Deputy Joao Leite (Brazilian Socialist Party/PSB) and 31 [...]	2004-08-13 09:59:00	Consulate Rio De Janeiro	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR SOCI BR
04ROME1080	BUSINESS AS USUAL AT ALITALIA: ZANICHELLI BECOMES [...] (U) FRANCESCO MENGOZZI RESIGNED AS ALITALIA'S MANAGING DIRECTOR ON FEBRUARY 28, AND WAS REPLACED BY MARCO ZANICHELLI, FORMER DIRECTOR GENERAL AND A MEMBER OF ALITALIA'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS. ZANICHELLI WILL BE ASSISTED BY TWO GENERAL DIRECTORS: GLENN HOUENASTEIN, AN AMERICAN CITIZEN FORMERLY O [...]	2004-03-18 14:34:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ELAB IT PGOV AVIATION
04ROME1125	DARFUR CONFERENCE: ITALIAN INPUT [...] (C) MFA East Africa Office Director, Stafano Dejak expressed great interest in the Darfur Conference. He reported that the level of EU support was being discussed and, although he could not speak for the EU, he was sure that, at a minimum, the EU delegation would consist of the EU representati [...]	2004-03-19 17:16:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PREL PHUM NO SU UK CD IT
04ROME122	ITALY'S CONSTITUTIONAL COURT ANNULS IMMUNITY FOR [...] (U) Summary. Following a Constitutional Court decision on January 13 PM Berlusconi is no longer protected from prosecution in a Milan-based corruption trial while serving as Prime Minister--a safeguard he was afforded by a June 2003 law. The Court found that the measure protecting the five m [...]	2004-01-13 18:23:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV IT
04ROME1229	GETTING TO YES ON AN ITALIAN-LED AFGHAN FSB [...] (C) The Government of Italy, at very high levels, has indicated a willingness to contribute more to Afghanistan and to support ISAF expansion beyond Kabul. The Italians concur that rapid action to stabilize Afghanistan is of the highest political priority; they also share our conviction that [...]	2004-03-26 18:32:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PGOV PREL AF IT AFGHANISTAN IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME1278	EUROPEANS MAY BE FROM VENUS, BUT PRODI IS FROM [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-31 17:43:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IT EUN ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME1509	ITALY: VIETNAMESE AMBASSADOR CALLED IN ON CENTRAL [...] (C) Summary. Italy responded quickly to the recent crackdown in Vietnam by summoning the Vietnamese Ambassador and stressing that all rights be respected and that international access be granted to the Central Highlands region. Ambassador Thu Le Vinh confirmed to MFA Deputy Director General fo [...]	2004-04-16 12:39:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF PREL VM IT HUMAN RIGHTS
04ROME1566	IRAQ: ROMAN BREAKFAST:BERLUSCONI SERVES HAM, PRODI [...] (C) SUMMARY. PM BERLUSCONI REACTED TO ZAPATERO'S WITHDRAWAL DECISION BY PUFFING OUT HIS CHEST AND CLAIMING THAT ITALY IS NOW AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE ALLY IN CONTINENTAL EUROPE. IT WILL STAY THE COURSE BUT PUSH FOR AN ENHANCED UN ROLE TO ASSIST WITH IRAQ'S POLITICAL TRANSITION. ROMANO PRODI, NOW [...]	2004-04-22 05:32:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS IT EUN IRAQI FREEDOM ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME1579	ITALIANS ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT CONSTABULARY INITIATIVE [...] (C) POLMIN COUNSELOR DISCUSSED REFTEL POINTS WITH MFA DEPUTY POLITICAL DIRECTOR CLAUDIO BISOGNIERO ON APRIL 21. BISOGNIERO CONFIRMED THAT HE WILL SERVE AS THE MFA'S POINT OF CONTACT FOR THE GLOBAL PEACE OPERATIONS INITIATIVE. HE SAID THE APRIL 22-23 POLITICAL DIRECTORS' DISCUSSIONS IN PARIS [...]	2004-04-22 15:03:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PREL PGOV KPKO IT
04ROME1596	FM FRATTINI TELLS IRANIAN FM KHARRAZI TO TOE THE [...] (C) POST READ WITH INTEREST READOUT (REF) INDICATING THAT IRANIAN NEWS AGENCY IRNA REPORTED THAT FM FRATTINI TOLD IRANIAN FM KHARRAZI THAT IRAN'S POSITION ON COOPERATING WITH THE IAEA WAS "DEFENSIBLE AND UNDERSTANDABLE" AND "CREDIBLE". ACCORDING TO MFA IRAN DESK OFFICER FEDERICA FERRARI BRA [...]	2004-04-23 13:39:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IT IR KNNR IAEA
04ROME1640	ITALY: WAIT AND SEE ON VIETNAM HIGHLANDS/REFUGEES [...] (C) MARCO DELLA SETA, MFA SOUTH EAST ASIA OFFICE DIRECTOR STATED THAT ITALY IS AWARE OF THE SITUATION IN VIETNAM AND HAS DEMARCHED BOTH THE VIETNAMESE AMBASSADOR TO ITALY AND THE GOVERNMENT OF CAMBODIA (REF B). HE ADDED THAT THE VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT ACKNOWLEDGED TWO CASUALTIES IN THE APRIL 10- [...]	2004-04-26 15:38:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF PREL VM CB IT
04ROME1683	ITALY: CONFIDENT OF EU SUPPORT FOR OAS IN VENEZUELA [...] (C) DANIELE RAMPAZZO, MFA SOUTH AMERICA OFFICE DIRECTOR, REPORTED THAT ITALY AND THE EU STRONGLY SHARE USG VIEWS ON THE NEED TO KEEP THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES (OAS) AND THE CARTER CENTER FUNCTIONING AS OBSERVERS IN VENEZUELA. HE SAID THAT ITALY AND OTHER EU MEMBER STATES ARE URGIN [...]	2004-04-29 08:41:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM VE IT PGOV PREL
04ROME1710	NAMES TITLES AND CONTACT NUMBERS FOR LEADING GOVT [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED, PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. 2. (U) INFORMATION BELOW IS SLUGGED TO QUESTIONS REFTEL. 3. (SBU) A. POST: EMBASSY ROME DATE OF SUBMISSION: MAY 3, 2004 B. NAME OF HEAD OF GOVERNMENT: SILVIO BERLUSCONI. TITLE: PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS (PRI [...]	2004-05-03 09:06:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL IT
04ROME1805	IRAQ: ITALY LIKELY TO DISPERSE E30 MILLION OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: GIANNI GHISI, DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL OF DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION AT THE MFA, TOLD ECONOFFS THAT ITALY WILL DISBURSE EURO 30 MILLION OF ITS EURO 200 MILLION MADRID PLEDGE IN 2004. EURO 10 MILLION WILL GO TO THE INTERNATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION FUND FACILITY, WHILE THE REMAINING 20 MILL [...]	2004-05-08 10:47:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID IT IZ PGOV PREL IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME1852	ITALY: AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ AND NONPROLIFERATION ON [...] (C) Summary. Italy is likely to establish a Forward Support Base (FSB) and contribute to the existing US-led Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Herat as requested by the US (reftel B),according to Prime Minister Berlusconi's Diplomatic Advisor Giovanni Castellaneta. In a May 12 meetin [...]	2004-05-12 15:50:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS MARR IZ AF IT AFGHANISTAN IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME191	ITALIAN PM BERLUSCONI HEADING BACK TO THE DOCK [...] (C) Summary. A suspended corruption trial against PM Berlusconi will resume this Spring. A new three-judge panel that will decide his case may be more favorable to him than the team it replaced. Berlusconi's defense lawyer told the Embassy he thinks the trial will wrap up quickly and that t [...]	2004-01-16 19:26:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME1911	ITALY'S BERLUSCONI UNDER POLITICAL PRESSURE; [...] (C) The Berlusconi Government is under increasing political pressure in the build-up to June 12-13 European Parliament and local elections. A combination of global and domestic events -- Iraqi prisoner abuse and Italy's purported knowledge thereof, heavy fighting in Italy's sector of Iraq, [...]	2004-05-17 15:39:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME1923	SOMALIA PEACE PROCESS - ITALIANS SEEK US SUPPORT [...] (C) Bruno Cabras, MFA Director General for Sub-Saharan Africa, requested a meeting with Pol M/C to discuss EU actions on and request US assistance for the Somalia National Reconciliation Conference. Cabras stressed that the peace process must result in a minimal level of stability and governan [...]	2004-05-18 13:53:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SO IT UN
04ROME1935	ITALY ENACTS CONTROVERSIAL MEDIA SECTOR REFORM BILL [...] Summary. President Ciampi signed the new text of the Berlusconi government's controversial media reform bill - known as the Gasparri Law - on May 4, after having rejected an earlier version on grounds of unconstitutionality (ref b). Critics argue that the law was designed exclusively to all [...]	2004-05-19 11:30:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECPS ETRD PGOV IT EUN
04ROME2091	MFA OFFICIALS TELL EUR DAS BRADTKE AND STEPHENS [...] (C) Summary. On May 18, EUR Deputy Assistant Secretaries Bradtke and Stephens had productive exchanges with MFA officials on the present situation and way ahead in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans, and discussed prospects for a robust Istanbul summit agenda. Bradtke stressed the importance [...]	2004-05-27 14:10:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ IT AF EUN NATO
04ROME2122	AFGHANISTAN: ITALY EDGING BACK ON PRT/FSB [...] (C) SUMMARY. ITALY IS EDGING BACK FROM A COMMITMENT TO A PRT AND FSB IN AFGHANISTAN, PENDING GREATER CLARITY OF ITS ROLE IN POST-JUNE 30 IRAQ. WE ARE CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC THAT BERLUSCONI'S GOVERNMENT WILL EVENTUALLY JOIN A PRT - AND THINK AN FSB IS STILL NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION - BUT DO NOT [...]	2004-06-01 16:03:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS AF IZ IT NATO AFGHANISTAN
04ROME2168	MFA OFFICIALS TELL A/S JONES ITALY WILL HELP PUSH [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a June 4 meeting over lunch on the margins of President Bush's Rome visit, MFA Political Director Giampiero Massolo told EUR A/S Jones that the draft UNSC Iraq resolution was "heading for a good result in a relatively short time," and Italy was doing all it could to help. [...]	2004-06-08 09:36:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ IR SR AF EUN NATO IAEA IRAQI FREEDOM AFGHANISTAN
04ROME22	PRODI LAUNCHES UNOFFICIAL CANDIDACY FOR ITALIAN PM [...] (U) ROMANO PRODI IN A JANUARY 2 INTERVIEW WITH THE CENTER-LEFT DAILY LA REPUBBLICA LAMBASTED THE BERLUSCONI GOVERNMENT FOR ITS HANDLING OF ITALY'S EU PRESIDENCY SEMESTER. TAKING OFF THE KID GLOVES HE HAD KEPT LOOSELY TIED SINCE LAST JULY, PRODI BLAMED THE CENTER-RIGHT COALITION FOR CONTRIBU [...]	2004-01-07 09:04:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
04ROME2245	ITALIAN ELECTIONS: PRODI AND BERLUSCONI IN THE [...] (U) Italy's June 12-13 European Parliament and local elections are the latest contest, albeit indirect, between Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his once and likely future challenger, European Commission President Romano Prodi. Italy's next national elections will almost certainly not o [...]	2004-06-10 17:08:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
04ROME2280	ITALIAN ELECTIONS: A SETBACK FOR BOTH BERLUSCONI [...] (SBU) Based on close-to-final results from the European Parliament and local elections, center-right and center-left ran almost a dead heat in Italy, with vote shifts occurring within coalitions. Voters rebuked Prime Minister Berlusconi; his Forza Italia party dropped fairly significantly. [...]	2004-06-14 16:57:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV IT ITALIAN POLITICS ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
04ROME2389	ELECTION RESULTS: SOMETHING GAINED, SOMETHING LOST [...] (U) In Italy's EU elections, the governing coalition obtained a total of 45.4 percent of the votes, compared to 46.1 percent obtained by all parties on the center left. The remaining 8.5 percent went to other smaller parties. mainly center-right oriented. The center-left now holds 37 seats, [...]	2004-06-18 15:42:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME2630	NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES ITALIAN STYLE: FINANCE [...] (C) FINANCE MINISTER GIULIO TREMONTI WAS FORCED OUT OF OFFICE JULY 2 BY DEPUTY PM FINI, WHO THREATENED TO QUIT THE GOVERNMENT ABSENT TREMONTI'S RESIGNATION. FINI'S PUSH FOR MORE POWER OVER ECONOMIC DECISION MAKING HAD BEEN STYMIED BY TREMONTI. BERLUSCONI, IN A SURPRISE MOVE, NAMED HIMSELF A [...]	2004-07-06 18:03:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME2653	BERLUSCONOMICS - THE RECORD UNDER TREMONTI'S [...] SUMMARY: PRIME MINISTER BERLUSCONI HAS ANNOUNCED HIS INTENTION TO STAY AT THE HELM OF ITALIAN ECONOMIC DECISION- MAKING, FOLLOWING THE FORCED RESIGNATION OF FINANCE MINISTER GIULIO TREMONTI (REF A). WHILE THERE IS PRESSURE FOR THE PM TO APPOINT A PERMANENT SUCCESSOR SOONER, BERLUSCONI HAS H [...]	2004-07-07 15:33:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME2692	ITALY SPEEDS PLANS FOR INTERNATIONAL GENDARME [...] The Italian government is moving quickly with plans for an international gendarme/constabulary training center and is looking for immediate US input on details such as project objectives, standards, and the numerical scope of the future training program. MFA and Carabinieri officials have conf [...]	2004-07-12 07:13:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KPKO MARR MOPS PGOV PREL IT NATO FORCES IN ITALY
04ROME2789	GOI PASSED PASSES A DEFICIT REDUCTION PACKAGE [...] As previously announced by PM Berlusconi, the Italian Cabinet passed on July 9 by decree law a euro 7.5 billion, or 0.6 percent of GDP deficit reduction package, as under pressure from the EU European Commission had requested. The package includes euro 4.2 billion in structural spending cuts, [...]	2004-07-19 10:07:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT EUN
04ROME2815	ITALY: AN INTERLUDE IN THE UNENDING GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Italy's governing coalition may have reached a moment of respite from disagreements, which have plagued it since the spring elections. The interlude may not endure long, but as one contact joked, "Berlusconi would certainly make history if his were the first government to fall during [...]	2004-07-20 15:12:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME2836	Treasury DG Domenico Siniscalco Appointed New [...] (SBU) After two weeks' debate within the Coalition following former Finance Minister Tremonti's resignation, PM Berlusconi appointed Domenico Siniscalco, Treasury Department Director General since 2001, as new Finance Minister on July 16. Over this two-week period, Coalition parties could no [...]	2004-07-22 04:33:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME2876	ITALY: ROBERTO CALDEROLI NEW MINISTER FOR REFORMS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: As expected, Prime Minister Berlusconi named Northern League National Coordinator and Senate Vice President Roberto Calderoli the new Minister for Reform and Devolution on July 20. Calderoli replaces League Secretary Umberto Bossi, who resigned the previous day to [...]	2004-07-26 08:49:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PINR PGOV IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME3060	JUDICIARY HAMPERS B767 ENGINE FIRE INVESTIGATIONS [...] No summary [...]	2004-08-09 10:55:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR PGOV IT ICAO AVIATION
04ROME3061	US AND ITALY MOVE AHEAD ON G-8 INTERNATIONAL [...] A State/DOD delegation, led by Acting DAS for Regional Security (PM) Elena Kim-Mitchell, visited Rome and Vicenza on July 19-21 to discuss the U.S.-Italian joint initiative for a G-8 sponsored Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units (COESPU). The delegation met with the MFA and Carabi [...]	2004-08-09 12:49:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KPKO MARR MOPS PGOV PREL IT
04ROME3224	ITALY WILL ATTEMPT TO CONTACT IRAN ON OUT OF [...] (U) Post conveyed ref points in the MFA to the Office of Iranian Affairs, the Office of Under Secretary for Asia Margherita Boniver, and to Special Representative for Afghanistan Ambassador Enrico De Maio. We also delivered the points to the Prime Minister's office. 2. (C) De Maio said [...]	2004-08-20 13:28:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AF IR IT UN
04ROME3239	ITALY ENGAGED IN TEHRAN IN EFFORTS TO SECURE OUT [...] Post received further information regarding Italy's efforts to secure Iranian cooperation for out of country voting for the upcoming elections in Afghanistan from the MFA's desk officer for Iran, Federica Ferrari Bravo, on August 23. Ferrari Bravo said that Italy is well aware of the problem [...]	2004-08-23 10:23:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV AF IR IT AFGHANISTAN
04ROME3240	ITALY SUPPORTS ASEM PARTICIPATION FOR BURMA [...] No summary [...]	2004-08-23 10:30:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM BM IT EUN
04ROME3832	ALITALIA: RESTRUCTURING PLAN CLOSE TO APPROVAL [...] (U) Summary: Alitalia, the Italian government, and labor unions are expected to sign a final agreement soon on the restructuring of Italy's flag carrier. The airline will be split into two companies, one to continue the core flight operations, the other to take over Alitalia's ground service [...]	2004-10-04 15:50:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ELAB EU IT KPRV PGOV FAA AVIATION
04ROME3882	ITALY ASKS FOR AFRICAN FOCS AND FURTHER U.S. [...] No summary [...]	2004-10-06 10:50:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	KPKO MARR MOPS PGOV PREL IT
04ROME402	PM BERLUSCONI LOOKING FOR EXIT STRATEGY ON [...] (SBU) Summary. The end of Italy's EU Presidency has compelled PM Berlusconi to address longstanding demands by two junior coalition partners for more say over policy making. The painstaking attempt to appease them without a major cabinet reshuffle may finally be drawing to a close. Vice PM [...]	2004-02-04 17:43:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME4056	ITALY SYMPATHETIC ON VENEZUELA BUT PREFERS EU TO [...] No summary [...]	2004-10-20 13:22:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE IT HUMAN RIGHTS
04ROME4268	TOUGH BARGAINING ON ITALIAN GOVERNMENT PORTFOLIOS [...] (C) Negotiations to fill Government positions, including that of Foreign Minister, resulting from Rocco Buttiglione's nomination and subsequent withdrawal as Italy's European Commissioner are caught up in domestic politics, especially an internal coalition struggle over the Government's tax [...]	2004-11-05 17:30:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME4313	GIANFRANCO FINI: ALMOST CERTAINLY ITALY'S NEXT [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a November 8 dinner at the Ambassador's residence, both Deputy Prime Minister Fini and Prime Minister Berlusconi's personal assistant confirmed that Fini will be named Italy's next Foreign Minister. We expect Fini to be a reliable replacement for Franco Frattini and to maint [...]	2004-11-09 16:47:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME4421	ITALIAN VIEWS ON SECOND ROUND OF UKRAINIAN [...] (C) Russia/CIS Office Director Marco Marsilli agreed with US views (ref a) that if activities in the run-up to and during the second round of elections do not meet OSCE/ODIHR standards, the US and EU must coordinate on raising concerns with Ukrainian officials and the Central Election Commissi [...]	2004-11-18 14:32:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UP IT EUN
04ROME4426	GIANFRANCO FINI IS (FINALLY) ITALY,S NEW FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Gianfranco Fini was (finally) appointed Italy's new Foreign Minister on November 18, following constant speculation on this outcome since the October 30 resignation of Rocco Buttiglione as Italy's nominee to the new European Commission and his replacement by ex-FM Franco Fratti [...]	2004-11-18 18:02:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL PGOV IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME4430	ITALY CREATES NEW OFFICE TO COMBAT RACIAL [...] (U) At a well-attended press conference November 16, Stefania Prestigiacomo, Minister for Equal Opportunity, announced the creation of a new office in her ministry to combat racial and ethnic discrimination in Italy. The Ufficio Nazionale Antidiscriminazioni Razziali (UNAR),which was found [...]	2004-11-19 10:46:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM IT HUMAN RIGHTS
04ROME4534	ITALY AGREES IN PRINCIPLE ON OSCE MONITORING [...] (U) MFA OSCE Office Director Fabio Cristiani told poloff that an OSCE election observer mission for Iraq as proposed reftel was in line with Italy's view that the organization's expertise should be exploited for "out of theater" missions. He agreed that ODIHR could provide invaluable assistance [...]	2004-11-30 15:06:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV IZ IT OSCE
04ROME4563	CHEVRON INCIDENT REFLECTS CHANGING DYNAMICS IN [...] No summary [...]	2004-12-01 16:43:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EPET PINR KZ
04ROME4599	ITALY'S UNDERGROUND ECONOMY [...] The underground economy has been a consistent part of post-war Italy, and is a result of the country's systemic inefficiencies, in particular its bureaucracy, high taxation, and rigid labor market. Recent estimates place the size of the underground economy at about 15-17 percent of Italian G [...]	2004-12-03 16:48:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT KPRP
04ROME4888	ITALY - NAMES TITLES AND CONTACT NUMBERS FOR [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED, PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. 2. (U) Information below responds to questions and formatting instructions reftel. 3. (SBU) COUNTRY: Italian Republic DATE: 12/27/04 HEAD OF GOVERNMENT LAST NAME: Berlusconi FIRST/MIDDLE NAMES: Silvio CONVE [...]	2004-12-28 06:23:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL IT
04ROME4922	AT ELEVENTH HOUR, ITALY APPROVES 2005 BUDGET [...] ON DECEMBER 29, PARLIAMENT PASSED THE 2005 BUDGET AFTER A LONG DEBATE TO RECONCILE THE COMPETING DEMANDS OF GOVERNING COALITION PARTNERS FOR PORK; PRIME MINISTER BERLUSCONI FOR A TAX CUT; AND FINANCE MINISTER SINISCALCO FOR A 2005 BUDGET DEFICIT BELOW THE STABILITY PACT THREE-PERCENT BUDGET [...]	2004-12-30 09:08:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT KPRP
04ROME624	PM BERLUSCONI SAYS HE IS A CANDIDATE FOR THE [...] DURING A PRESS CONFERENCE FEBRUARY 17, ITALIAN PM BERLUSCONI SAID HE WOULD BE A CANDIDATE IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY (EP) ELECTIONS IN JUNE, BUT THAT, WIN OR LOSE, HE WOULD REMAIN IN HIS POSITION AS PRIME MINISTER. ITALY HAS NO LAW THAT PREVENTS A MEMBER OF GOVERNMENT FROM RUNNING FOR [...]	2004-02-19 16:33:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PINR PREL PGOV IT EUN ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME638	ITALIAN SENATE APPROVES FUNDING FOR MILITARY [...] ON FEBRUARY 18, THE ITALIAN SENATE APPROVED THE GOVERNMENT DECREE EXTENDING UNTIL JUNE 30, 2004, FUNDING FOR ITALY'S PARTICIPATION IN ALL THE MILITARY MISSIONS IN WHICH IT IS CURRENTLY ENGAGED ABROAD, INCLUDING IRAQ. WHILE APPROVAL OF THE DECREE WAS ASSURED BY THE GOVERNING COALITION'S SOLID [...]	2004-02-20 14:43:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR PREL PGOV MOPS EAID MCAP IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME855	ITALY OPPOSES SANCTIONS FOR BURMA [...] (C) MFA SOUTHEAST ASIA OFFICE DIRECTOR, MARCO DELLA SETA, REPORTED THAT ITALY DOES NOT SUPPORT ECONOMIC SANCTIONS ON BURMA. SINCE BURMA HAS A TRADITIONAL ECONOMY AND IS NOT A MAJOR TRADING PARTNER WITH THE EU, THE GOI BELIEVES SANCTIONS WOULD HAVE LITTLE EFFECT ON THE GOVERNMENT AND INSTEAD, HU [...]	2004-03-04 15:18:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM BM IT EUN
04ROME936	ITALIAN LOWER HOUSE SET TO APPROVE FUNDING FOR [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-10 14:10:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PREL PGOV MOPS EAID MCAP IZ IT AFGHANISTAN IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME960	ITALIAN RESPONSE: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON [...] (SBU) POST DELIVERED REF A POINTS TO ITALY'S SPECIAL ENVOY FOR AFGHANISTAN, AMB. ENRICO DE MAIO, AND ALSO DISCUSSED THEM WITH ASIAN DEVELOPMENT OFFICE DIRECTOR, COUNS. ALESSANDRO GAUDIANO. WE ALSO DELIVERED THE POINTS TO THE OFFICE OF MFA UNDER SECRETARY FOR ASIA MARGHERITA BONIVER. ITALY S [...]	2004-03-11 15:31:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PGOV AF IT NATO AFGHANISTAN
04ROME969	ITALY: FUNDS FOR MILITARY MISSIONS ABROAD APPROVED [...] AS EXPECTED, THE ITALIAN CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES MARCH 10 APPROVED EXTENDING UNTIL JUNE 30, 2004, FUNDING FOR ITALY'S PARTICIPATION IN ALL ITS MILITARY MISSIONS ABROAD, INCLUDING IRAQ (REF. B). THE CHAMBER DID NOT MAKE ANY AMENDMENTS TO THE TEXT THAT WAS APPROVED BY THE SENATE ON FEBRUARY 18 (RE [...]	2004-03-11 16:28:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR PREL PGOV MOPS EAID MCAP IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM
04SANAA1166	AMBASSADOR'S 5/12 MEETING WITH FM QIRBI: WEF [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador called on FM Qirbi 5/12 to urge his attendance at WEF Amman and discuss AL attitudes toward reform post-Cairo and pre-Tunis. Qirbi will not/not attend WEF Amman. Yemen will be represented by DFM Mustafa Noman, who has been a receptive interlocutor on GMEI and warrants [...]	2004-05-15 07:48:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AL IZ YM
04SANAA1172	PRESIDENT SALEH ACCEPTS SEA ISLAND INVITATION [...] (C) Ambassador and DCM called upon Foreign Minister Qirbi 5/16 to discuss President Saleh's acceptance of the G-8 Sea Island invitation (ref e-mails). Qirbi asked about the formal invitation, travel arrangements to the U.S. and the proposed agenda. Ambassador briefed Qirbi on the known deta [...]	2004-05-16 10:47:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AL YM
04SANAA1178	DPM SOFAN: YEMEN WILLING TO HOST PROPOSED G-8 [...] No summary [...]	2004-05-16 14:09:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EAID PGOV YM COM
04SANAA1193	GME: REFORM YEMENI-STYLE [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Sanaa continues to engage government, civil society and business leaders on the Greater Middle East draft proposals (ref a). While most interlocutors express opposition to the idea of reform being "imposed from outside the region," the discussion generated by the GMEI appe [...]	2004-05-18 12:44:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM
04SANAA1261	SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR [...] (S/NF) Embassy Sanaa warmly welcomes your first visit to Yemen. You will find President Saleh and senior ROYG officials keen to hear from you the Washington perspective on bilateral and regional CT cooperation as well as the broader GWOT. Since 9/11 Saleh has met with President Bush in Washi [...]	2004-05-25 15:50:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER ASEC PGOV OVIP YM COUNTER TERRORISM TERFIN
04SANAA1458	DNSA TOWNSEND 05/26/04 MEETING WITH ROYG SECURITY [...] (S) Summary: On 5/26 DNSA Townsend reviewed CT cooperation with MOI al-Alimi, PSO Director al-Gamish and NSB Officer Saleh and highlighted recent inconsistencies in the relationship. Dominating discussion, Alimi affirmed the strength of the CT partnership, and noted that differences of opinio [...]	2004-06-15 07:44:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PTER ASEC PGOV ETTC PARM YM COUNTER TERRORISM
04SANAA146	REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND [...] (U) Summary and Comment: The Sanaa Inter-Governmental Regional Conference on Democracy, Human Rights and the Role of the International Criminal Court was held January 10-12, sponsored by No Peace Without Justice (an EU-affiliated NGO),the ROYG, the European Union and several European govern [...]	2004-01-14 14:52:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM YM KICC HUMAN RIGHTS DEMOCRATIC REFORM
04SANAA1475	TIP: MINISTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS DISCUSSES ROYG [...] (U) Summary: DCM called on Minister of Human Rights Amat Alim al-Suswa 6/14 to deliver country narrative and talking points in reftel on the release of the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. The Minister detailed further actions taken by the ROYG to combat TIP, including the formation of an [...]	2004-06-16 11:38:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KCRM ELAB ASEC KFRD PHUM SMIG YM TRAFFICKING PERSONS HUMAN RIGHTS
04SANAA1492	YEMEN: PRIORITIZATION OF CT PROGRAMS [...] (c) Embassy Sana'a welcomes the opportunity to engage with AF Bureau on counter-terrorism issues and on developing a more comprehensive CT strategy for the region. Post is concerned with border and maritime security as well as the movement of people and arms between Yemen and East Africa, par [...]	2004-06-20 11:36:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PTER EAID EFIN PREL PGOV PARM YM COUNTER TERRORISM MARITIME SECURITY TRAFFICKING PERSONS
04SANAA1537	PARLIAMENT CHALLENGES GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Over the course of several months, Members of Parliament (MPs) have conducted an investigation into government corruption regarding an oil deal that dates back to 1997. The investigation was spearheaded by two members of the Oil and Resources Committee, one from the r [...]	2004-06-26 12:36:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EPET PHUM KDEM KMPI YM DOMESTIC POLITICS
04SANAA1635	DEMOCRACY IN ACTION: TEACHERS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST [...] (U) Summary: The Al-Quds Girls Public School in Sanaa received a computer lab with brand-new equipment through a Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) grant. After an American Embassy delegation visited the school, reports appeared in local newspapers stating that the female principal for [...]	2004-07-07 12:02:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM
04SANAA1690	RELIGIOUS GUIDANCE CONFERENCE CALLS FOR MODERATION [...] (U) Summary: After several delays (reftel),Sanaa was the venue for a significant religious gathering June 20-24, the "Mutamar al-Irshad al-Awal" (First Guidance Conference),which brought together Muslim clerics, scholars, and ministers of religious affairs from Arab and Muslim states. The m [...]	2004-07-13 07:51:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER PREL PGOV PINR KISL YM COUNTER TERRORISM HUMAN RIGHTS
04SANAA1771	SA'DA FIGHTING: UPDATE AND IMPLICATIONS [...] (S) After an estimated 400-500 deaths, a large number of injured on both sides and roughly 400 al-Houthy supporters detained, the fighting in the Sa'da region in the north of Yemen remains inconclusive. A cease-fire was recently announced by the Government but non-official accounts indicate t [...]	2004-07-26 17:00:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PREL PTER PGOV KISL YM COUNTER TERRORISM DOMESTIC POLITICS
04SANAA1936	BLOODY CLASHES CONTINUE BETWEEN ROYG AND SHIA [...] (C) Embassy sources contradict press accounts that ROYG forces encircled extremist Shi'ite leader Hussein al-Houthi in the northern region of Marran on August 5. Rather it seems fighting has intensified in the past few days and continues to be particularly bloody for the ROYG. 2. (C) L [...]	2004-08-08 15:33:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PGOV PINR PREL PTER COUNTER TERRORISM
04SANAA1959	ADEN SHOWING SIGNS OF LIFE [...] (SBU) Summary/Comment: On an 8/4-8/6 introductory visit to Aden, CDA met Deputy Governor Shaif, representatives of political parties, businessmen, security and Coast Guard officials and members of civil society. The recent firing of a corrupt official running the Aden Free Zone, some increase [...]	2004-08-11 13:42:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PGOV YM COM DEMOCRATIC REFORM
04SANAA1962	ROYG REQUESTS U.S. INTEL ASSISTANCE IN FIGHT [...] (S) Summary. Yemeni Minister of Defense and his Intelligence Chief made a surprise appearance at Charge's August 11 meeting with Foreign Minister al-Qirby to request U.S. intelligence assistance in the ROYG's continuing struggle against the forces of Shi'ite extremist leader al-Houthi in no [...]	2004-08-11 16:02:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PINR PGOV PTER MCAP YM COUNTER TERRORISM
04SANAA1977	AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO PRESIDENT SALEH [...] (SBU) On his second working day in Sanaa, Ambassador Krajeski presented his credentials to President Ali Abdallah Saleh in a ceremony that included seven other Ambassadors, some of whom had waited three months to be invited to present their papers. The ceremonies, full of all the appropriate p [...]	2004-08-16 10:50:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL YM
04SANAA2006	YEMEN: AL-HOUTHI INSURGENCY CONTINUES UNABATED [...] (S) Summary. The conflict continues between ROYG forces and armed-supporters of rebel Shi'ite cleric al-Houthi. The fighting remains concentrated in the northern Marran mountains, although some fighting has been reported in urban centers in the Sa'da governate. Although the crisis has yet t [...]	2004-08-18 15:06:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	KISL PARM PGOV PINR PTER YM COUNTER TERRORISM
04SANAA2225	UPDATE ON SA'DA FIGHTING [...] (C) Despite repeated government claims that the fighting in Sa'da is in its final stages, the last week has been increasingly bloody for both sides. The ROYG has stopped discussing casualty rates publicly, but local media reports that 15 soldiers were killed on August 24 including Lt. Col. [...]	2004-08-25 12:48:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	KISL PGOV PINR PTER YM COUNTER TERRORISM
04SANAA2307	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES DEVELOPMENT ISSUES WITH VICE [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador paid a courtesy call on Yemeni Vice President Abd-Rabo Mansour Hadi on August 28. Discussions centered on U.S. - Yemeni cooperation in the GWOT. Hadi emphasized that long-term success in the war against terror in Yemen would also require improved social services, ec [...]	2004-08-30 06:57:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV KDEM YM COUNTER TERRORISM
04SANAA2385	YEMENI WOMEN DEMAND GREATER PARTICIPATION IN PARTY [...] Summary: On August 25 nineteen female members of the three major Yemeni political parties overcame substantive political differences to sign a joint-declaration calling on their parties to accept a quota for women candidates in the 2006 municipal and 2009 parliamentary elections. The culminat [...]	2004-09-07 13:43:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	KMPI PGOV KDEM PHUM YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM HUMAN RIGHTS
04SANAA2387	PM BA JAMMAL (VAINLY) AFFIRMS HIS ROLE TO [...] (C) Summary: In a 9/6 introductory call on Prime Minister Ba Jammal, Ambassador was treated to a wide-ranging and somewhat rambling review of Yemen's development obstacles and affirmed the ROYG's support for G8 reform initiatives. Ba Jammal is widely rumored to be on his way out, but held cour [...]	2004-09-07 15:51:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL YM KBIO DOMESTIC POLITICS
04SANAA2421	ROYG FORCES KILL REBEL CLERIC AL-HOUTHI IN [...] (C) Summary. Anti-American rebel Shi'ite cleric al-Houthi was killed on September 10 in an early morning raid on his cave hide-out in the Sa'da Goverornate. The ROYG has announced an end to the 10-week insurgency, which resulted in well over 1000 deaths. ROYG forces have already begun red [...]	2004-09-12 13:23:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	MARR MOPS MCAP PGOV PREL PINR PTER YM COUNTER TERRORISM
04SANAA2472	AL-SOSWA READY TO LEAD THE WAY IN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] Summary: On 9/06 Human Rights Minister, Amat al-Aleem Al-Soswa, told Ambassador that dealing with other, more established ministries can be challenging and that Yemen still has a ways to go to improve its human rights situation. Soswa touched on her efforts to protect freedom of the press, th [...]	2004-09-20 10:50:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PINR YM HUMAN RIGHTS
04SANAA2498	YEMEN: OPPOSITION NEWSPAPER CLOSED, EDITOR [...] (U) Summary: On September 6, a Sanaa court closed opposition newspaper as-Shura for six-months and sentenced its editor Abdulkarim al-Khaiwani to one year in prison for violating the 1990 Press Law. This latest incident, in what some are calling a bad year for freedom of the press in Yemen, [...]	2004-09-22 13:17:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM HUMAN RIGHTS
04SANAA2501	DFM NOMAN DISCUSSES BMENA, IRAQ, PRESS FREEDOMS [...] (C) Summary. On September 21 Deputy Foreign Minister Mustafa Noman discussed with DCM the BMENA Forum for the Future Summit, ROYG support for the IIG, and recent Presidential statements and actions to rein in the Yemeni press. Noman also offered condolences for the murder of American hosta [...]	2004-09-22 14:02:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ KDEM PTER YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM HUMAN RIGHTS
04SANAA2509	AMBASSADOR LAUNCHES MEPI ASSISTANCE TO UNDP PROGRAM [...] (U) On September 20 Ambassador, AID Rep and United Nations Development Program Resident Representative Flavia Pansieri signed a 1.59 million USD agreement to support the UNDP Decentralization and Local Development Support Project. Deputy Prime Minister and Minster of Planning and International [...]	2004-09-27 05:14:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KMPI KDEM PGOV DEMOCRATIC REFORM
04SANAA2521	WHY ECONOMIC REFORM IS FAILING IN YEMEN [...] (C) Summary and Comment: On September 25 Parliament and the Shura Council voted by a clear majority to reject the ROYG's five year economic plan, which included several hotly debated economic reform proposals. The economic package failed because there was no presidential initiative, no strate [...]	2004-09-29 06:04:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KMCA KMPI PGOV YM COM DOMESTIC POLITICS
04SANAA2556	FM QIRBI WANTS TO OVERCOME OBSTACLES TO EXPAND [...] (S) Summary: In a follow-on meeting from his recent visit to UNGA, FM Qirbi raised questions on BMENA process with Ambassador on October 4. Noting successful and positive meetings in Washington, Qirbi promised to look into recent irritants in the bilateral relationship including recent setbac [...]	2004-10-06 07:08:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PREL PTER PGOV EFIN YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM COUNTER TERRORISM TERFIN
04SANAA2725	YEMENI OPPOSITION JOURNALIST REMAINS IN DETENTION [...] (SBU) Summary. Despite mounting pressure on the ROYG to release opposition newspaper editor Abdulkarim al-Khaiwani, he remains in prison. The local press reported that the ROYG offered Khaiwani freedom in exchange for an apology for publishing articles that the ROYG considers personal attac [...]	2004-10-23 04:19:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM YM HUMAN RIGHTS DEMOCRATIC REFORM
04SANAA2757	AMBASSADOR'S TRIP TO ADEN AND TAIZ [...] Summary. Ambassador visited the port city of Aden and the city of Taiz October 11-13. Aden and Taiz, the two former capitals of North and South Yemen respectively, are the two largest and most commercially vibrant of Yemeni cities outside the capital Sanaa. NGOs, social activism, commercial [...]	2004-10-30 13:17:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	EWWT SOCI PGOV PHUM KMPI YM
04SANAA2783	INVESTMENT CLIMATE CHANGES, CHALLENGES AHEAD FOR [...] Summary. Corruption and non-implementation of existing laws and regulations make the investment climate appear nontransparent and arbitrary to most foreign investors. Concerns over security and ROYG non-movement on a critical economic reform package (ref A) create an inhospitable picture for [...]	2004-11-01 13:11:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV YM KMPF COM
04SANAA2803	DFM NOMAN DEPRESSED OVER RISING CORRUPTION IN YEMEN [...] (C) Summary: In a candid and wide ranging discussion on November 2, Deputy Foreign Minister Mustafa Noman advised Pol/Econ Chief and Deputy that Post should convey to high-level ROYG officials the perils of corruption. Noman advised the Embassy to communicate to journalists and businessmen mo [...]	2004-11-03 11:13:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KMCA YM ECON COM
04SANAA2850	FM QIRBI AGREES TO RAISE GOSS CALL WITH SALEH [...] (S/NF) Summary. Ambassador delivered Eid al-Fitr greetings (ref A),discussed the planned Ramadan amnesty and reviewed the upcoming BMENA forum with Foreign Minister Qirbi on November 8. Qirbi agreed to discuss with President Saleh the possibility of a CIA director call. FM raised Saleh's ref [...]	2004-11-09 11:09:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PGOV PREL YM COUNTER TERRORISM
04SANAA2863	JOURNALISTS ON KHAIWANI: NO RELEASE ANTICIPATED [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-09 15:17:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV YM
04SANAA2941	ANTI-SEMITISM IN YEMEN [...] There have been no reports incidents of anti-Semitic acts against Jews or Jewish property in Yemen since July 1, 2003. 2. There are between two and three hundred Jews remaining in Yemen. The ROYG issued a press release in June accusing Jews living in northern Yemen of backing the rebellio [...]	2004-11-24 10:47:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF YM HUMAN RIGHTS
04SANAA2972	IS A KHAIWANI RELEASE IMPENDING? [...] (C) Summary. In separate discussions on 11/21 with a member of the as-Shura Council and a close Presidential advisor, Ambassador was told "in strictest confidence" that Saleh has decided to release imprisoned As-Shura opposition newspaper editor-in-chief, Abdulkarim Al-Khaiwani "very soon." [...]	2004-11-29 13:11:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KMPI YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM
04SANAA3023	YEMENI PRESIDENT SALEH WANTS WASHINGTON TRIP [...] (C) Summary. President Saleh convoked Ambassador December 6 to request that he convey Saleh's strong desire to visit Washington to personally congratulate President Bush on his reelection and meet with newly appointed senior officials. Citing important new developments in the region "that can onl [...]	2004-12-06 15:11:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PREL PTER MARR PGOV KJUS PINR YM PARMS COUNTER TERRORISM
04SANAA3070	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador paid a courtesy call on Speaker of Parliament and head of the Islah opposition party Abdullah al-Ahmar on December 11. Al-Ahmar refused to address pressing domestic issues, including much-needed economic reforms, Parliament's agenda, and Islah's political agenda, in [...]	2004-12-12 14:55:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER YM DOMESTIC POLITICS
04SANAA3086	UN HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTIONS NEED SUPPORT IN [...] (U) Pol/Econ Chief delivered ref A demarche to Deputy Foreign Minister Mustafa Noman on December 13. Ref B demarche was delivered November 9 (ref C). 2. (C) Noman said he received the same demarche from the Dutch December 13. The DFM confided that he agreed with the USG position on both t [...]	2004-12-14 09:44:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL IR YM DEMARCHE HUMAN RIGHTS
04SANAA3098	DPM SOFAN SEEKS U.S. POLITICAL COMMITMENT FOR [...] (SBU) Summary. Deputy PM and Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Ahmed Sofan reviewed development cooperation and sought strong political support for Yemen's WTO accession bid from visiting Deputy Assistant Secretary Philo Dibble on December 15. Sofan complained of a lack of Sa [...]	2004-12-18 05:15:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD PGOV YM COM

04SANAA3130	PROMINENT BUSINESS LEADER ON MINISTERIAL CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary. Pol/Econ Deputy had a wide ranging discussion with Abdul Wahab Thabet, Chairmen of the Thabet brothers, the second largest company in Yemen. Thabet vigorously criticized three of the most powerful ROYG ministers for corruption, and stated that on economics President Saleh, "does [...]	2004-12-20 10:07:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KCOR PGOV PINR YM COM
04SANAA3151	ROYG MAKING TENTATIVE STEPS TO STEM CORRUPTION AND [...] (C) A recent series of local press articles may signal that the ROYG is finally taking initial steps to address corruption, particularly in the area of diesel smuggling, one of the main reasons Parliament was able to successfully stall implementation of an economic reform package. In a meeting [...]	2004-12-26 11:41:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV KMPI KCOR YM KMCC COM
04SANAA381	FM AL-QIRBI ON YEMEN-SAUDI BORDER ISSUES [...] (c) In February 16 meeting (other subjects ref b and septel),Foreign Minister Abubakr al-Qirbi elaborated on the current border dispute between Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Qirbi affirmed that President Saleh is traveling to Saudi Arabia on February 17 to discuss the issue with the Saudi Leadershi [...]	2004-02-18 04:35:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS YM
04SANAA396	FM QIRBI ON WASHINGTON VISIT [...] (s) In a February 16 meeting (ref a),CDA reviewed Foreign Minister Abubaker al-Qirbi's successful visit to Washington February 2-6. Noting the positive meetings Qirbi had with the FBI Director and DCI, CDA said that arrangements should proceed soon for teams from the CIA and FBI to visit Yeme [...]	2004-02-18 13:13:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PREL PGOV MASS PTER ETRD YM COUNTER TERRORISM ECON COM DEMOCRATIC REFORM
04SANAA472	MINISTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS TO MEET WITH U.S. [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. On 1 March, the Ambassador met with the ROYG Minister of Human Rights, Amat-al-Alim Al-Soswah, to present the 2003 Human Rights Report in English and Arabic. 3. The Minister requested a meeting with the U.S. Delegation to the UN C [...]	2004-03-02 08:27:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
04SANAA477	NO NEW SECURITY THREAT IN YEMEN; FRENCH NOT CLOSING [...] (C) SUMMARY. French DCM told DCM 3/2 that media reports of French diplomatic closure in Sanaa due to new local security threats are in error. The recent Zawahiri audiotape prompted Paris to advise French embassies worldwide to review security. In Yemen, this instruction prompted an ongoing [...]	2004-03-02 14:36:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC PGOV FR YM COUNTER TERRORISM
04SANAA498	ROYG CONDEMNS 3/2 ATTACKS IN BAGHDAD AND KERBALA [...] (C) DCM contacted Presidential translator/advisor Mohamed Sudam and conveyed reftel demarche evening of 3/3. Sudam noted that the absence of FM Qirbi (in Cairo for AL Ministerial) likely accounted for lack of immediate comment from the MFA, adding that ROYG would indeed denounce "these terrib [...]	2004-03-04 11:01:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PREL PGOV KISL YM DEMARCHE
04SANAA505	MINISTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS OUTLINES PRIORITIES; HRR [...] (c) Summary: Ambassador presented to the Minister of Human Rights on 3/1 the 2003 U.S Annual Report on Human Rights Practices on Yemen in Arabic. Already familiar with the report, the Minister said that her Ministry welcomed the report's findings. Overall, the Minister described it as provi [...]	2004-03-07 12:43:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV YM HUMAN RIGHTS TRAFFICKING PERSONS
04SANAA506	FM QIRBI ON ARAB LEAGUE, GREATER MIDDLE EAST [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador called on ROYG Foreign Minister 3/7 to discuss developments with Arab League reform and the Greater Middle East Initiative upon the FM's return from the Cairo AL ministerial. Qirbi highlighted the drafting of a charter committing the Arab League to political and econo [...]	2004-03-07 12:51:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER ECON EAID KISL YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM
04SANAA620	OFFICIAL REPUBLIC OF YEMEN REACTION TO THE SIGNING [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-17 12:56:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR PGOV IZ YM
04SANAA822	MFA RECEIVES GUIDANCE ON U.S. POLICY WITH RESPECT [...] (s) On April 7, Pol/Econ Chief discussed reftel guidance on U.S. policy on nations' non-lethal military equipment exports to Libya with MFA's Deputy Chief of the Arab World Department, Plenipotentiary Minister Saleh al-Nashad. As in previous meetings, al-Nashad expressed interest in U.S. inte [...]	2004-04-07 13:08:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	KSTC PARM PREL PGOV OPDC ETTC OVIP YM
04SANAA855	HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER ON THE HRR, TIP, AMNESTY [...] (c) Summary: On 4/10, Ambassador and Pol/Econ Chief met with Minister of Human Rights Amat al-Alim al-Suswah at her request to discuss the ROYG's response to the 2003 Human Rights Report (HRR),additional ROYG actions to quantify and combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP),the Amnesty Internatio [...]	2004-04-13 09:53:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SMIG ASEC ELAB KWMN KFRD PGOV YM KRIC HUMAN RIGHTS TRAFFICKING PERSONS
04SANTODOMINGO1094	DOMINICAN REACTION TO HAITI CRISIS [...] (SBU) Dominicans are apprehensive about the unraveling of Haiti, defensive about possible overflow onto their territory, and unwilling to take in any quantity of refugees. Reactions in the Dominican Republic to the unraveling of neighbor Haiti are mixed. The GODR has reinforced the border wi [...]	2004-02-20 23:58:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF ASEC DR HA
04SANTODOMINGO1293	DOMINICAN IS THE NEW SECRETARY GENERAL FOR THE [...] Dominican sociologist Ruben Silie was unanimously elected the Secretary General of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) on February 12. His term will be four years. The ACS is an organization for consultation and cooperation among its 25 member states and three associate members. Its c [...]	2004-02-26 19:04:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV IO DR
04SANTODOMINGO1299	DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #23 - POLITICS AFFECTS THE [...] (SBU) This is cable number 23 in our presidential election series. Politics affects the Supreme Court President Mejia's PRD appears to be positioning itself to pack the Supreme Court with PRD party members, less than three months before the presidential election, If Mejia loses the May 16 electio [...]	2004-02-26 20:14:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KJUS PGOV PREL DR
04SANTODOMINGO1300	DOMINICAN ELECTION #24: POLLS AND PARANOIA [...] (SBU) This is number 24 in our series on the Dominican presidential election: The Dominican Election: Polls and Paranoia Many Dominicans fear a stolen presidential election. With each succeeding poll that confirms opposition PLD candidate Leonel Fernandez's commanding lead over Presi [...]	2004-02-26 23:34:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO1319	DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #25: MEJIA'S [...] (SBU) This is number 25 in our series on the Dominican presidential election: PRESIDENT MEJIA'S PUGNACIOUS CAMPAIGN SPEECH ON NATIONAL DAY In his ceremonial annual address to Congress on Independence Day February 27, President Mejia came off more as a feisty election campaigner on the defe [...]	2004-03-01 20:10:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EFIN ENRG DR
04SANTODOMINGO1361	CANARD; ALLEGED TRAINING OF HAITI INSURGENTS IN [...] Embassy advises that Boston Globe reporter Bryan Bender (e-mail bender@globe.com, tels 202-857-5060, cell 202-369-6856) drafted on February 29 a text based on allegations of unidentified sources (including one "Haitian official") that Haitian insurgents received training and weapons from U.S. [...]	2004-03-02 20:31:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV HA DR
04SANTODOMINGO147	DOMINICAN ELECTION SERIES #13: NEW FEINT: THE LAW [...] Following is no. 13 in our series on the Dominican presidential elections. NEW FEINT: PROPOSAL FOR AMENDMENTS WITH THE LAW OF "SLOGANS" "We are steeped to the marrow in impulsiveness, always reacting to immediate circumsta [...]	2004-01-08 21:45:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO1515	CANARD II: DOMINICAN RIFLES FOR HAITI [...] Secretary of the Armed Forces Soto Jimenez told the press on March 5 that the Dominican Republic has received no rpt no arms from the USG and commented that the figure of 3,500 weapons used in questions to WHA Assistant Secretary Roger Noriega might correspond to annual licensed imports of arm [...]	2004-03-06 17:49:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PGOV HA DR
04SANTODOMINGO1518	DOMINICAN ELECTION #26: MEJIA CLOSES DEAL - FELLO [...] (U) This is no. 26 in our series on the Dominican presidential election: MEJIA CLOSES DEAL; FELLO IS RUNNING MATE (U) PRD Secretary General Rafael "Fello" Subervi Bonilla has agreed to become President Mejia's running mate in the May 16 election" for the sake of PRD unity and keeping the p [...]	2004-03-08 11:29:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PINR DR
04SANTODOMINGO1696	GODR PRESIDENT MEJIA PUBLICLY DENIES AIDING [...] (U) President Mejia commented extensively on March 11 to a journalist from Hoy newspaper, a respected daily in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. insisting that the GODR was not involved in helping Haitian rebels in any manner. 2. (U) Begin unofficial translation: MEJIA DENIES SUPPORTING [...]	2004-03-15 11:10:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL DR
04SANTODOMINGO1697	DOMINICAN ELECTION #27: CAMPAIGNING, LOGISTICS AND [...] (SBU) This is no. 27 in our series on the Dominican presidential election: ELECTION CAMPAIGNING, LOGISTICS AND A VIGIL FOR LEONEL'S VP CANDIDATE After Rafael "Fello" Subervi accepted President Mejia's offer of the vice presidential slot (Ref A),the ruling PRD mounted a rally of thousands [...]	2004-03-15 11:10:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO1723	(CORRECTED COPY) DOMINICAN ELECTIONS NO. 28: [...] (SBU) This is the 28th in our series on the Dominican presidential elections: Election Series #28: Running Past One Another: Styles of the Leading Candidates There will almost certainly be no debate between Hipolito Mejia and Leonel Fernandez, even though civic organizations and comment [...]	2004-03-16 12:31:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO1823	DOMINICAN ELECTION #29: LEONEL'S V.P. - LOW KEY [...] (SBU) This is no. 29 in our series on the Dominican presidential election: LEONEL'S V.P. - LOW KEY AND PLD Leonel Fernandez's March 16 announcement that Rafael Albuquerque would be his vice-presidential running mate surprised nearly everyone. It could prove to be an astute choice. The p [...]	2004-03-19 21:08:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR DR
04SANTODOMINGO1835	DOMINICAN ELECTION #30: OAS LAUNCHES OBSERVER [...] (SBU) This is No. 30 in our series on the Dominican presidential election: OAS LAUNCHES ELECTION OBERVER MISSION Senior advisor Santiago Murray kicked off the U.S.-funded Organization of American States (OAS) election observation mission during a March 15-19 visit to Santo Domingo. Murray [...]	2004-03-22 18:03:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL IO DR
04SANTODOMINGO1873	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: HEALTH WORKERS STRIKE - AGAIN [...] (SBU) Summary: A public health workers' strike has virtually shut down outpatient services at Dominican public hospitals for five days beginning March 22, following similar but shorter work stoppages since January. Government, civil society, and the press, while acknowledging a need for better [...]	2004-03-23 21:41:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ELAB DR
04SANTODOMINGO1963	DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #31: ARMED FORCES TO PROVIDE [...] (U) This is number 31 in our series on the Dominican presidential election: ARMED FORCES TO PROVIDE SECURITY FOR ELECTIONS (SBU) The Dominican military leadership has assured us the military will be on "model" nonpolitical behavior during the election and previewed preparations for provid [...]	2004-03-26 20:03:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV MARR ASEC DR
04SANTODOMINGO1965	DOMINICAN ARMED FORCES CHIEF ON HAITI, NEXT [...] (C) In conversation with DATT and poloff on March 22 Dominican Armed Forces Secretary LTG Soto Jiminez expressed concern over "gangs of criminals" that he said controlled the Haitian side of the northern border with the Dominican Republic. Dominican security forces along the border consequent [...]	2004-03-26 20:22:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR HA DR
04SANTODOMINGO1986	DOMINICAN ELECTION #32: BATTLE OF THE POLLS [...] (SBU) This is no. 32 in our series on the Dominican presidential election: BATTLE OF THE POLLS Two polls published today, March 29, both show a much tighter presidential race, indicating that President Hipolito Mejia has picked up considerable support. Polls were done the same week in Mar [...]	2004-03-29 17:18:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO1989	DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #33: BALAGUER'S GHOST [...] (SBU) Following is no. 33 in our series on the Dominican elections: Balaguer's Ghost Avaunt! And quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with. - - Macbeth, Act 3, scene 4 The message tha [...]	2004-03-29 19:25:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO2078	DOMINICAN ELECTION #34: CORRUPTION AND THE [...] (SBU) This is cable # 34 in our series on the Dominican presidential election: CORRUPTION AND THE CANDIDATES The heat of the campaign and the insistence of the Ambassador and U.S.-funded civic groups have finally brought the explosive issue of corruption into open debate. On March 26 t [...]	2004-04-05 10:57:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KCOR DR
04SANTODOMINGO2223	DOMINICAN BANKING SERIES #5; BANINTER/BANCREDITO [...] (SBU) This is cable # 5 in a periodic series on the banking sector in the Dominican Republic. Sensitive but unclassified, entire text. SIPDIS BANINTER and Bancredito Back in the News and in the Campaigns Presidential candidates are trading barbs over responsibility for the massive B [...]	2004-04-08 17:41:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PGOV PREL DR
04SANTODOMINGO2263	DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #35: WHAT THIS ELECTION IS NOT [...] (SBU) The following is #35 in our series on the Dominican presidential elections: Elections # 35 - What It's NOT About In the Dominican presidential elections set for May 16, none of the leading political parties believes in blaming the United States for Dominican woes or sees any advantage i [...]	2004-04-12 19:23:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO2294	DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #36: THE PLD PLATFORM, IN [...] (SBU) Following is no. 36 in our series on the Dominican elections. Dominican Elections #36: The PLD Platform, in Brief Leonel Fernandez's Partido de Liberacion Dominicana is the only one of three parties to have produced a formal election platform. The full text in Spanish is available [...]	2004-04-13 21:43:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO233	DOMINICAN ELECTION SERIES #14: SLOGANS AND A [...] (SBU) Following is no. 14 in our series on the Dominican presidential elections: SLOGANS AND A SPECIAL SESSION OF CONGRESS The controversy over a proposed election law change (reftel) is heading for a climax. On January 10 President Mejia announced that he would extend the current specia [...]	2004-01-12 22:39:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EFIN DR
04SANTODOMINGO2366	DOMINICAN ELECTION #37: SECURITY AN ISSUE, OAS ON [...] (C) This is no. 37 in our series on the Dominican presidential election: (U) Election Security at Stake, OAS Observers Active, Leonel Still Leads (SBU) At 30 days before the election, the violent deaths of two persons in the campaign prompted the big three presidential candidates to sign [...]	2004-04-19 11:27:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC DR
04SANTODOMINGO2504	REQUEST FOR NAMES, TITLES, AND CONTACT NUMBERS FOR [...] No summary [...]	2004-04-23 19:36:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL DR
04SANTODOMINGO2524	DOMINICAN ELECTION #39: CANDIDATES SKETCH PLATFORMS [...] (SBU) This is no. 39 in our series on the Dominican presidential election: Candidates Sketch Platforms So far only Leonel Fernandez's PLD has published a platform for the May 16 presidential elections. Newspapers of April 26 indicate that Mejia's PRD will release a document in the next f [...]	2004-04-26 12:19:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EFIN ENRG KCOR DR
04SANTODOMINGO2525	DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #41: FERNANDEZ AND ESTRELLA [...] (SBU) This is no. 41 in our series on the Dominican presidential election: Fernandez and Estrella Attack Mejia's Economics, Preach Austerity Leonel's Paradoxical Proposals PLD presidential candidate Leonel Fernandez, spoke April 21 before the American Chamber of Commerce (full text avai [...]	2004-04-26 13:02:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EFIN ENRG DR
04SANTODOMINGO2526	DOMINICAN ELECTION # 40: FERNANDEZ CONFIDENT BUT [...] (SBU) This is no. 40 in our series on the Dominican presidential election: FERNANDEZ CONCERNED ABOUT FRAUD BUT CONFIDENT IN ABILITY TO RESTORE PROGRESS On April 13 at luncheon with the Ambassador PLD presidential candidate Leonel Fernandez spent the first third of the encounter focusing o [...]	2004-04-26 13:10:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	DR PGOV
04SANTODOMINGO2575	DIPNOTE 11048 - PRESIDENT MEJIA NOTIFIES [...] On April 27 Embassy received from the Foreign Ministry formal notification of withdrawal from Iraq by the Dominican Quisqueya Batallion, dated April 26. Text follows: (Complementary intro...) and refers to the situation of the Ad Hoc "Quisqueya" Task Force, currently in Iraq. As it is kno [...]	2004-04-28 13:28:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MARR MOPS PGOV DR IZ
04SANTODOMINGO2580	DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #42: PLD PROMISES TO THE USG [...] (SBU) Following is number 42 in our series on the Dominican elections. PLD Promises to the USG In mid-March PLD campaign manager Danilo Medina led a four-person PLD delegation to Washington, where they met with NSC personnel and asked for an appointment at the Department of State. Sin [...]	2004-04-28 13:38:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO2722	DOMINICAN ELECTION SERIES #43: PLD CANDIDATE [...] (SBU) This is cable # 43 in our series on the Dominican elections. PLD CANDIDATE FERNANDEZ LOOKS TO EIU FOR POLICY PRESCRIPTIONS Judging from the consultant company he keeps, PLD candidate Leonel Fernandez is anything but a radical in economic matters. Rather than rely exclusively on in-h [...]	2004-05-06 13:33:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	DR ECON PGOV
04SANTODOMINGO2742	DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #44: CANDIDATES ON MACRO AND [...] (SBU) Following is number 44 in our Dominican elections series: Candidates on Macro and Financial Policy In April all three of the principal candidates for the Dominican presidency addressed the American Chamber of Commerce on their visions for economic policy for 2004-2008. The full te [...]	2004-05-06 20:53:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON DR
04SANTODOMINGO2754	DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #45: INSTITUTIONS - YOU CAN'T [...] (SBU) Following is number 45 in our series on the Dominican presidential elections: Institutions - - You Can,t Tell the Players without a Program The Dominican elections authority is one of the least well established in the hemisphere, a legacy of the long years of dictatorship, personali [...]	2004-05-07 16:55:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO2761	DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #47 (REVISED): THE EXPENDITURE [...] (SBU) This is no. 47 in our series on the Dominican presidential elections: The Expenditure Cost of Democracy Dominicans have lived in an increasing tempest of campaign advertising over the past eight months. Just how much money is being spent is unclear, as is the origin of private con [...]	2004-05-07 20:43:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON DR
04SANTODOMINGO2821	DOMINICAN BANKING SERIES # 06: "RAMONCITO" GOES TO [...] (U) This is cable # 6 in a periodic series on the banking sector in the Dominican Republic. Sensitive but unclassified, entire text. SIPDIS "RAMONCITO" SENT TO TRIAL IN THE BANINTER CASE --------------------------------------------- --------------- What's new: a summary of the bank [...]	2004-05-10 16:54:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PGOV PREL DR
04SANTODOMINGO2843	DOMINICAN ELECTION # 46: ESTRELLA, WOULD-BE STAR [...] (SBU) This is cable # 46 in our series on the Dominican presidential election: ESTRELLA, WOULD-BE STAR ------------------------ Heading for third place ------------------------ In the last week before the presidential election, Reformista candidate Eduardo Estrella continues to work t [...]	2004-05-11 11:04:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR DR
04SANTODOMINGO2918	DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #47: THE EXPENDITURE COST OF [...] (SBU) This is no. 47 in our series on the Dominican presidential elections: The Expenditure Cost of Democracy Dominicans have lived in an increasing tempest of campaign advertising over the past eight months. Just how much is being spent is unclear, as is the origin of private contribut [...]	2004-05-14 12:55:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO2925	DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #48: SCENESETTER FOR MAY 16 [...] (SBU) Following is number 48 in our Dominican elections series: Scenesetter for May 16 Presidential Vote Celebrations and Movement Santo Domingo was the scene on successive days this week of tumultuous street rallies for the three major presidential candidates. The atmosphere was that [...]	2004-05-14 16:12:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO2933	DOMINICAN ELECTION SERIES #49: LEONEL FERNANDEZ -- [...] (SBU) This is cable #49 in our series on the Dominican presidential elections. FERNANDEZ: THE ONCE AND FUTURE PRESIDENT? (SBU) Lawyer turned politician, Leonel Fernandez once reigned over the small island nation of the Dominican Republic. Times were good - tourism and exports were up, the [...]	2004-05-14 20:26:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR DR
04SANTODOMINGO2937	DOMINICAN ELECTION #50: OBSERVERS - MUCHOS OJOS [...] (U) This is no. 50 in our series on the Dominican presidential election: ELECTION OBSERVERS - MUCHOS OJOS We expect as many as 250 international observers, including 160 associated with the OAS Electoral Observation Mission, to be in the Dominican Republic to monitor the presidential voti [...]	2004-05-14 22:04:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM DR
04SANTODOMINGO2968	DOMINICAN ELECTION #51: LEONEL SWEEPS THE ELECTION [...] This is no. 51 in our series on the Dominican presidential election: ELECTION RETURNS: LEONEL SWEEPS THE ELECTION Leonel Fernandez Reyna, former president (1996-2000) and PLD candidate in the May 16 election, won a sweeping electoral victory May 16 and is scheduled to be inaugurated August [...]	2004-05-18 23:27:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO3004	DOMINICAN PRESIDENT-ELECT LOOKS FORWARD TO CLOSE [...] (SBU) Summary. Dominican President-elect Leonel Fernandez assured the Ambassador on May 19 that he anticipated close and collaborative relations with the United States. Economic issues will occupy much of his time. Dominican relations with Cuba are a relatively low priority for him. Fernand [...]	2004-05-20 12:02:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO3056	DOMINICAN ELECTION SERIES #52: DEMOCRACY WINS [...] (SBU) Following is number 52 in our series on the Dominican presidential election: Democracy Wins - - - - - - - - Voting was calm and orderly across the Dominican Republic during the 12-hour polling period on May 16, in what many consider to have been the best-conducted vote in national [...]	2004-05-24 10:39:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM DR
04SANTODOMINGO3313	DOMINICAN TRANSITION #1: TAKING REPONSIBILITY FOR [...] (SBU) Following is number 1 in our series on the Dominican presidential transition: Taking the Responsibility for the Mess - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (SBU) Both sides of this transition are apprehensive of taking blame for the pain necessarily associated with th [...]	2004-06-06 03:38:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV EFIN DR
04SANTODOMINGO3358	DOMINICAN TRANSITION #2: POLITICAL PARTIES RE-GROUP [...] (SBU) This is no. 2 in our series on the transition to a new administration in the Dominican Republic. POLITICAL PARTIES RE-GROUP (SBU) Following Leonel Fernandez's sweep of the May 16 presidential election, the three major political parties are grappling with their futures -- the winning [...]	2004-06-08 17:09:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR DR
04SANTODOMINGO355	ELECTIONS # 15 - PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATIONS AS [...] Following is no. 15 in our series on the Dominican elections. CONGRESS POSTPONES DISCUSSION ON "SLOGAN LAW" Dominican President of the Chamber of Deputies Alfredo Pacheco, postponed the January 15 congressional committee session when a block of Social Christian Reform Party (PRSC) congre [...]	2004-01-15 22:53:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO356	PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATIONS IN SANTO DOMINGO [...] Peaceful demonstrations were staged today in Santo Domingo outside the hotel housing USTR-GODR negotiations on a free trade agreement and outside the National Congress. Both were orderly and relatively limited in scope. 2. At the Jaragua Hotel, headquarters for the January 12-16 opening [...]	2004-01-15 23:14:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO3626	DOMINICAN TRANSITION # 3: SIDES ENGAGE ON IMF AND [...] (U) This is cable no. 3 in our series on the transition to a new administration in the Dominican Republic. SIDES ENGAGE ON IMF AND TAX REFORM ----------------------------------------- Fiscal reform, necessarily the hot topic ----------------------------------------- As the power outage [...]	2004-06-22 10:57:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR EFIN DR
04SANTODOMINGO3667	USG REPORT ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS HITS [...] (U) Embassy Santo Domingo delivered the Dominican Republic section of the 2003 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report to the Foreign Ministry on June 14; the Embassy press release on the subject made all the dailies the next day. The story grew as on June 16, in response to a written question, [...]	2004-06-22 13:59:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO3906	DOMINICAN TRANSITION #5: PACT BECOMES FACT [...] (SBU) This no. 5 in our series on the transition to a new presidential administration in the Dominican Republic. (SBU) Dominican Transition: Pact Becomes Fact The transition teams really are cooperating. The government is likely to deliver a PLD-shaped tax reform to Congress by the targe [...]	2004-07-01 20:33:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON EFIN DR SP
04SANTODOMINGO4001	TRANSPARENCY CLAUSE: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC [...] Embassy on July 6 delivered talking points on the transparency clause (para 8 reftel) to MFA deputy director for UN and OAS affairs Rhadys Abreu de Polanco, in the form of a non-paper in Spanish. She undertook to pass the document to the Dominican delegation before their July 7 departure for [...]	2004-07-08 21:31:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KSUM KCOR KCRM KDEM DR
04SANTODOMINGO4006	DOMINICAN TRANSITION #6: POLITICS DRIVES WAGE [...] (SBU) This is no. 6 in our series on the transition to a new presidential administration in the Dominican Republic. POLITICS DRIVES WAGE DEMANDS The grim joke in recent months is that the supermarket has become the "house of horrors," especially for the middle class. The double sting of [...]	2004-07-09 11:04:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	DR EFIN PGOV PINR ELAB
04SANTODOMINGO4014	DOMINICAN SUPREME COURT POSTPONES TRIAL FOR ALIEN [...] (U) On July 7 the Dominican Supreme Court once again postponed trial proceedings for PRD Congressman Guillermo Radhames Ramos Garcia, accused of alien smuggling in a July, 2000 incident. According to news reports, the chief prosecutor asked for a delay in order to issue a summons to several k [...]	2004-07-09 14:21:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KJUS SMIG DR
04SANTODOMINGO406	DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #16: OAS OBSERVER MISSION IN [...] (SBU) Following is number 16 in our Dominican presidential election series: OAS PROPOSES ELECTION OBSERVER MISSION OAS Special Adviser Santiago Murray, from the Secretariat General's Unit for the Promotion of Democracy, on January 15 called on the Central Election Board (JCE) and thi [...]	2004-01-20 17:06:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	DR PGOV EAID
04SANTODOMINGO4087	DOMINICAN TRANSITION #7: CONGRESS CONTINUES, [...] (SBU) This no. 7 in our series on the transition to a new presidential administration in the Dominican Republic: CONGRESS CONTINUES, DESPITE DISARRAY When President-elect Leonel Fernandez (PLD) takes office August 16, the present National Congress will be only halfway through its four-year [...]	2004-07-13 18:16:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EFIN DR
04SANTODOMINGO414	DOMINICAN ELECTION #17: MEJIA'S PRD PRIMARY - A [...] (SBU) This is number 17 in our series on the Dominican presidential election: MEJIA'S PRD PRIMARY - A VICTORY FORETOLD President Mejia, running virtually unopposed in the ruling PRD's presidential primary January 18, won about 95 percent of the vote, with his sole opponent Frank J. T [...]	2004-01-20 23:06:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	DR PGOV
04SANTODOMINGO4392	TRANSITION #8: DOMINCAN CONGRESS AWASH WITH TAX [...] (SBU) This is number 8 in our series covering the transition between the Mejia and the Fernandez governments. DOMINICAN CONGRESS AWASH WITH TAX CHANGE PROPOSALS Fifteen days ago President Mejia sent Congress the PLD-drafted fiscal package. The Fernandez team projected its proposal would [...]	2004-07-29 20:53:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	DR EFIN PGOV
04SANTODOMINGO4403	DOMINICAN DOCTORS STRIKE FOR SALARY INCREASE; [...] SUMMARY. Public sector physicians and the GODR have clashed on wages and hospital conditions, leading to several strikes and protests and a continuing reduction of medical services, especially for the poor. Doctors demand better salaries and better conditions in the hospitals, while the Dom [...]	2004-07-30 14:37:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ELAB DR
04SANTODOMINGO4418	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: 2004 INVESTMENT CLIMATE MID [...] This cable provides the 2004 Investment Climate Mid Year Update for the Dominican Republic tasked reftel 2. (begin text) CHAPTER 7: Investment Climate Investment Climate The following is the (preliminary) 2005 Investment Climate Report for the Dominican Republic.(as of July 2004) [...]	2004-07-30 20:42:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR ECON KIDE EINV EFIN ELAB KTDB PGOV
04SANTODOMINGO4421	TRANSITION #9 - DOMINICAN ELECTRICITY: NO ONE'S [...] (SBU) This is number 9 in our series covering the transition between the Mejia and the Fernandez governments. ELECTRICITY: NO ONE'S RESPONSIBLE, EVERYONE SUFFERS The slow-motion collapse of the electricity sector during the countdown to the August 16 presidential election has finally re [...]	2004-07-30 21:44:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EFIN DR
04SANTODOMINGO4501	TRANSITION #10 - THE AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH LEONEL [...] (U) This is cable number 10 in our series covering the transition between the Mejia and Fernandez governments. President-elect Fernandez - Two weeks from power 2. (C) Summary. President-elect Leonel Fernandez told the Ambassador in a private meeting on August 3, 2004, that his govern [...]	2004-08-04 17:15:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EFIN EINV ENRG MCAP DR
04SANTODOMINGO4514	DOMINICAN TRANSITION 11: STUDENTS PROTEST [...] (U) This is no. 11 in our series on the Dominican Republic's transition to a new administration: STUDENTS PROTEST VIOLENTLY AGAINST MEJIA 2. (U) Police estimated that 200 students protested violently at the inauguration by President Mejia of a new central library at the Autonomous Univers [...]	2004-08-05 14:24:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC DR
04SANTODOMINGO4531	DOMINICAN TRANSITION 12-PRESIDENT FERNANDEZ NAMES [...] (U) This is number 12 in our series on the transition between the Mejia and Fernandez adminstrations. President-elect Fernandez- Two weeks from power. 2. (U) Summary. President-elect Leonel Fernandez on August 4 announced appointments to his administration, mainly in positions related to [...]	2004-08-05 16:30:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG MCAP PGOV PINR PREL EINV DR
04SANTODOMINGO4579	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: DEMARCHE ON VENEZUELAN [...] (SBU) On August 6 poloff delivered points para 3 reftel to MFA international organizations deputy director Rhadys Abreu de Polanco, and urged the GODR to issue a statement supporting a free, fair, and transparent process in the Venezuelan presidential referendum August 15. Poloff also advocat [...]	2004-08-09 16:47:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO VE DR
04SANTODOMINGO4635	DOMINICAN CONGRESS STALLS EFFORT TO UNDERCUT IPR [...] Summary. On August 11 Charge and EcoPol counselor urged Dominican House of Representatives President Alfredo Pacheco to block draft legislation from the Senate intended to reduce penalties for IPR infringements and to institute automatic compulsory licensing of patents. Pacheco said that he [...]	2004-08-11 23:09:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO4637	DOMINICAN TRANSITION #14: FERNANDEZ TELLS [...] (U) This no. 14 in our series on the transition to a new presidential administration in the Dominican Republic. Lunch with Leonel (U) On August 6, the Ambassador and visiting Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) attended a lunch hosted by President-elect Leonel Fernandez (PLD) at the office of his G [...]	2004-08-12 10:46:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EPET MCAP DR VE
04SANTODOMINGO4665	DOMINICAN CONGRESSIONAL LEADER OPTIMISTIC ABOUT [...] (SBU) On August 11 President of the Dominican House of Representatives Alfredo Pacheco told Charge and EcoPol counselor that he expected, in the worst of cases, to obtain House approval for the first reading of the tax reform package on August 12. Congressional procedure requires two approva [...]	2004-08-12 20:23:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EFIN DR
04SANTODOMINGO4666	DOMINICAN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS HOPE FOR EARLY [...] Summary. The salary dispute between the Association of Air Traffic Controllers (ACTA) and the Dominican Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) that resulted in a three-day lockout in late March remains unresolved. Although the union and the government do not have good relations now, there is hope t [...]	2004-08-12 20:32:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ELAB EAIR DR
04SANTODOMINGO4719	DOMINICAN TRANSITION #13: FERNANDEZ TELLS [...] (U) This is the amplified and corrected version of ref a, part of our series on the transition to a new presidential administration in the Dominican Republic. Ten days before his inauguration, Leonel Fernandez spoke about his approach to the economic crisis and commented on his relations with [...]	2004-08-18 11:29:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EPET MCAP DR VE
04SANTODOMINGO473	DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #18: UN, EU AND OAS REPS [...] (SBU) Following is number 18 in our Dominican presidential election series: UN, EU and OAS Reps Engage Dominican Electoral Authorities A UN Mission, Soon - - - - - - - - - - UN Resident Representative Niky Fabiancic informed the Ambassador and poloff on January 12 that the UN El [...]	2004-01-23 23:04:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	DR PGOV EAID EU
04SANTODOMINGO4784	TRANSITION #14: LEONEL FERNANDEZ AT DOMINICAN [...] (SBU) This is #14 in our series on the transition between the Mejia and Fernandez governments in the Dominican Republic. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Fernandez promises Austerity, Anti-Corruption and Support for Social Concerns - - - - - - [...]	2004-08-20 17:10:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EFIN DR
04SANTODOMINGO483	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: USTR ZOELLICK LAUNCHES FTA [...] (U) Summary. U.S. Trade Representative Amb. Robert Zoellick told Dominicans on January 15 that bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations offer an opportunity for new engagement, economic growth and strengthened institutions. He stressed that an FTA, free and fair presidential electio [...]	2004-01-27 16:39:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	DR ETRD EAID EFIN PGOV PREL OVIP OREP
04SANTODOMINGO490	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: NATIONAL WORK STOPPAGE SET FOR [...] (SBU) A national work stoppage ("huelga" in Spanish),set for January 28-29, is likely to disrupt or close down many businesses across the country and cause scattered violence in low-income neighborhoods of the capital and smaller cities. The Coordinator of Popular and Labor Organizations promo [...]	2004-01-28 00:40:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ELAB ASEC DR
04SANTODOMINGO4904	ADDENDUM TO REQUEST FOR CONCURRENCE IN VISA [...] (C) SUMMARY. In reftel, Embassy requested Department's concurrence in the revocation of the B1/B2 visa of now former Attorney General Victor Cespedes under section 212(a)(2)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Following that cable, just two days before leaving office, Cespedes ordered the [...]	2004-08-30 20:13:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	CVIS CJAN PREL PGOV SNAR KCRM DR
04SANTODOMINGO4986	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: RAMOS GARCIA ALIEN SMUGGLING [...] (U) On 1 September 2004, the Supreme Court in regular session began hearing testimony in the alien smuggling trial of Congressional representative Guillermo Radhames Ramos Garcia. Because Ramos Garcia is a legislator, the Supreme Court is the court of first instance. Ramos, a former consul t [...]	2004-09-03 18:38:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KJUS SMIG DR
04SANTODOMINGO5024	DOMINICAN POLITICS: SUGAR, IPR, TAXES AND TRADE -- [...] (U) Following is the first in our series on the politics of the new Dominican administration of Leonel Fernandez. (U) Dominican Politics #1: Sugar, IPR, Taxes and Trade ) Trouble for Free Traders (U) Powerful opponents of free trade are mounting a campaign to discredit the agreement with t [...]	2004-09-07 17:30:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV ETRD EFIN DR
04SANTODOMINGO5080	DOMINICAN SENATORS TELL AMBASSADOR THEY'LL BLOCK [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador obtained from Senate and PRD leaders September 8 a commitment to delete a proposed 25 percent tax on beverages using imported high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) from paragraph 9 of the pending fiscal reform legislation (reftel). The Ambassador told them the protection [...]	2004-09-10 17:59:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ETRD EFIN PREL DR
04SANTODOMINGO5154	DOMINICAN PRESIDENT AND ECON TEAM SEEK TO REASSURE [...] (U) Summary: During the September 8 visit of EXIMBANK Vice President David Miller Dominican President Fernandez and his advisors stressed that the country,s economic crisis was one of liquidity rather than insolvency. They indicated their commitment to meeting the country's debt obligations an [...]	2004-09-15 18:47:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV EFIN DR
04SANTODOMINGO5186	DOMINICAN POLITICS #2: FERNANDEZ, CRISIS AND [...] (U) Following is no. 2 in our Politics 2004 series, our scenesetter for the visit September 16-17 to the Domincan Republic of OAS Amb. John Maisto. Amb. Maisto will participate in public events at the MFA Diplomatic School and the "Foundation for Global Democracy and Development," both to de [...]	2004-09-16 16:08:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EFIN DR
04SANTODOMINGO5242	DOMINICAN PRES. FERNANDEZ OFFERS TO RESOLVE CORN [...] (C) Summary: Visiting USOAS PermRep Ambassador John Maisto and Ambassador Hertell took advantage of a meeting planned on Summit of the Americas to tell President Fernandez and Foreign Secretary Carlos Morales Troncoso September 16 that a proposed 25 percent tax on products containing high fruc [...]	2004-09-20 18:09:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EFIN PREL PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO5302	FORMER DOMINICAN PRESIDENT OPTIMISTIC THAT SENATE [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Former Dominican President Hipolito Mejia told Ambassador Hertell September 22 that he expects that the effort will succeed to remove from the fiscal reform bill now in the Senate the proposed 25 percent tax on beverages that use high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). It [...]	2004-09-22 22:52:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PREL BEXP PGOV EFIN DR
04SANTODOMINGO537	DOMINICAN WORK STOPPAGE, JAN 28-29: STREETS ARE [...] (SBU) Most businesses were shuttered and schools were closed for the January 28-29 national work stoppage in the Dominican Republic, called by a coalition of community, labor, student, and political groups to protest economic and social policies. Banks and supermarkets were open but neighborho [...]	2004-01-28 22:44:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV ELAB ASEC DR
04SANTODOMINGO5425	DOMINICAN POLITICS #3: FREE TRADE, PAID JOURNALISM [...] Following is number 3 in our series on Dominican politics in 2004: Free Trade, Paid Journalism and Bad Press for the United States A small, powerful coterie of infuriated sugar barons continues to use influence and money in an effort to convince the Dominican public of the bad faith of D [...]	2004-09-30 15:32:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EFIN DR
04SANTODOMINGO5426	DOMINICAN BANKING SERIES # 7 - NEW LEGAL TEAMS AIM [...] (U) This is cable number 7 in a periodic series on the banking system and bank frauds in the Dominican Republic. SEE ACTION REQUESTS FOR SEC AND DOJ/OIA BELOW. NEW LEGAL TEAMS AIM AT ALVAREZ RENTA AND PROMISE VIGOROUS PROSECUTIONS 2. (U) Legal actions and investigations continue ag [...]	2004-09-30 15:32:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN PGOV PREL KJUS DR
04SANTODOMINGO5437	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC SCENESETTER FOR POSSIBLE VIP [...] Following is a backgrounder for a possible VIP visit to the Dominican Republic: (U) Background. The Dominican Republic, just 70 miles from Puerto Rico across the treacherous Mona Passage, is a heavyweight in the Caribbean, a strong trading partner, and a helpful ally in the Caribbean. The U [...]	2004-09-30 20:37:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EFIN DR
04SANTODOMINGO5468	DOMINICAN POLITICS #4: FERNANDEZ AND REPEAL OF TAX [...] Following is number 4 in our series on the 2004 politics of the Fernandez administration: Fernandez and Repeal of Tax Measure President Leonel Fernandez signed and promulgated on September 28 the tax measures passed by the Dominican Congress and submitted to the Dominican Senate on Septem [...]	2004-10-01 20:26:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ETRD DR
04SANTODOMINGO5696	DOMINICAN RESPONSE: CONVOKING A SPECIAL SESSION OF [...] No summary [...]	2004-10-18 16:00:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PGOV

04SANTODOMINGO5727	DEMARCHES TO DOMINICANS ON HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP [...] (U) Summary. EcoPol counselor delivered talking points urging rapid repeal of the 25 percent tax on fructose-sweetened drinks to Deputy Foreign Minister Alejandra Liriano on October 14. She accepted the document and undertook to pass it on. EcoPol counselor and poloff met Senator Alejand [...]	2004-10-19 17:14:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO5740	DOMINICAN ELECTRICITY: THE LAZARUS EFFECT [...] Summary (SBU) The Dominican electrical sector is still in great difficulty. Generation is running consistently below peak demand. Blackouts occur regularly, although they are less prolonged than in the last days of the Mejia administration. The government is keeping the lights through the end [...]	2004-10-20 11:10:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	DR ECON ENRG PGOV EINV
04SANTODOMINGO5777	DOMINICAN POLITICS #6: THE PRD: IT'S BROKE. FIX [...] (SBU) This is #6 in our current series on politics in the Dominican Republic: The PRD: It,s Broke. Fix It. (U) ** Without Hipolito Mejia to hold it together, the venerable populist PRD is not mounting a coordinated response to Leonel Fernandez's PLD administration. We look at the conten [...]	2004-10-20 22:47:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR DR
04SANTODOMINGO5779	DOMINICAN ATTORNEY VINCHO CASTILLO - STILL KICKING [...] (C) "Those who love me, love me a lot. Those who hate me, hate me a lot," declared Marino Vinicio Castillo (Vincho) when questioned by a reporter in 2000 about his reputation for controversy. It was a good self-characterization then and remains true today. Vincho, a well known attorney wh [...]	2004-10-21 11:04:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR EFIN KJUS PGOV DR CASTILLO VINICIO MARINO
04SANTODOMINGO5858	NEW DOMINICAN CODE AMENDS EXTRADITION PROCESS [...] Summary. The Dominican Republic implemented a new criminal procedural code on September 27, 2004 which moves the Dominican criminal justice system from an inquisitorial system towards an accusatory system. The new code amends the procedure for handling extradition cases. The USG has reques [...]	2004-10-25 20:41:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	CJAN KJUS PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO5888	DOMINICAN POLITICS #7: THE VANISHING LEFT [...] (SBU) This is #7 in our current series on politics in the Dominican Republic: The Vanishing Left ** Despite current economic hardships, Dominicans have shown no interest at all in radical political solutions. This year's presidential election emphasized the eclipse of the left. With a t [...]	2004-10-27 16:47:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL DR VE CU CH TW
04SANTODOMINGO593	ALIEN SMUGGLING TRIAL FOR DOMINICAN CONGRESSMAN [...] (SBU) Trial proceedings against accused alien smuggler Congressman Guillermo Radhames Ramos Garcia were postponed again on January 28 after his lawyer failed to appear in court. Lawyers for the two co-defendants did not appear either. The trial will resume at the Supreme Court on March 24. [...]	2004-01-29 23:51:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KJUS SMIG DR
04SANTODOMINGO5952	DOMINICAN PRESIDENT ON CORRUPTION, FREE TRADE [...] (C) Summary. Dominican President Fernandez asked on October 21 for USG help in addressing corruption issues. He told the Ambassador that he remains strongly in favor of the free trade agreement (FTA). He gave the sugar sector an opportunity of "only three weeks" (until sometime the week of [...]	2004-10-28 19:16:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PGOV EFIN DR
04SANTODOMINGO5972	DOMINICAN TECHNICAL SECRETARY OUTLINES PROGRESS [...] (SBU) Dominican Technical Secretary of the Dominican presidency Temistocles Montas received the Ambassador and senior staff last night, October 28 to discuss a variety of topics, including the progress in discussions on a new IMF program, the Paris Club, the country,s new oil finance deal with [...]	2004-10-29 19:03:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EFIN DR
04SANTODOMINGO6061	DOMINICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL WILL COORDINATE [...] (U) Summary. Dominican cabinet members and senior officials, meeting as a group with the Ambassador and Embassy staff on October 20 and 22, cited several instances of recent progress in combating TIP, including the creation of a new cyber-crimes unit in the Attorney General's office, the brea [...]	2004-11-04 22:41:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KWMN DR
04SANTODOMINGO6062	IFIS ON DOMINICAN FINANCES - TIGHT TIMETABLE WITH [...] (SBU) Despite progress on institutional reforms, the Dominican government still has a number of decisions to make before a new standby agreement can be reached with the IMF. Concerns about electricity sector reforms and and unanswered questions on fiscal problems mean that a tentative IMF Boar [...]	2004-11-05 11:15:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EFIN DR PGOV
04SANTODOMINGO6118	IMF POLICY PAPER - DRAFT SUMMARY OF THE DOMINICAN [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-09 17:39:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV EINV DR
04SANTODOMINGO6213	DOMINICAN POLITICS #8: FERNANDEZ, THE RIO GROUP [...] (C) Summary. When the Rio Group summit of November 4 got to the agenda item on Haiti, Dominican President Leonel Fernandez asked for hemispheric help in re-instilling democracy in that &narco-state,8 but he put a big front wrong in advocating the inclusion in the process of former president [...]	2004-11-16 20:51:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	DR ENRG HA PGOV PREL
04SANTODOMINGO6292	DOMINICAN SENATORS SCHEDULE VOTE ON REPEAL OF [...] (SBU) Summary. Senate president Andres Bautista has scheduled a Senate vote to repeal the 25 percent tax on beverages sweetened with high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) for Saturday, November 20. This move follows the Ambassador,s delivery of USTR Amb. Zoellick,s November 16 letter to President [...]	2004-11-19 15:03:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO630	DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #19: OPENING OF THE [...] (C) Following is number 18 in our series on the Dominican elections. OPENING OF THE DOMINICAN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN PRD - Mejia brings it home (U) A nationwide work stoppage January 28-29 to protest economic conditions and President Mejia's policies (Refs A-B) has only briefly int [...]	2004-01-30 21:38:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO6308	GODR ATTORNEY GENERAL TARGETS VEHICLE SCAM [...] (U) Summary. On November 18 the Dominican Attorney General filed charges against 12 former officials and members of former President Mejia's party faction, all of them with ties to El Plan de Renovacion de Vehiculos (Plan RENOVE),a government program created in 2000 by the Mejia administra [...]	2004-11-19 18:35:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO6338	DOMINICAN RENOVE OFFICIALS GET BAIL [...] (U) Summary. After a lengthy hearing on November 19, 2004, the Dominican officials charged with embezzlement in the RENOVE scheme (reftel A),were released on bail and/or on their own recognizance. The cases will move forward under the new Dominican criminal procedural code. The released [...]	2004-11-23 18:21:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KJUS DR
04SANTODOMINGO6339	GODR EXTRADITES TWO FUGITIVES [...] (U) On November 20, 2004, two fugitives were extradited from the Dominican Republic in the company of U.S. Marshals. Jose M. Guzman, reftel A, is wanted to stand trial in the Eastern District of New York on federal narcotics charges. Jose Bonilla is wanted to stand trial in the Supreme Court [...]	2004-11-23 19:26:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	CJAN KJUS PREL PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO6492	DOMINICAN AGRICULTURE SECRETARY DEFENDS FREE TRADE [...] On December 1 Dominican Secretary of Agriculture Amilcar Romero replied to an anti-trade-agreement diatribe at a national ceremony with a reasoned defense of the free trade agreement with the United States and Central America (CAFTA) and advised ranchers and farmers that agriculture will have [...]	2004-12-03 17:46:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR EAGR ETRD PGOV PREL
04SANTODOMINGO6498	DOMINICAN POLITICS #11: FERNANDEZ'S SPEECH ON HIS [...] (SBU) Following is number 11 in our series on 2004 Dominican politics. Fernandez's Speech on his First 100 Days - - - - - - - - - - - - - - First announced for the 100th day of his administration, November 25, President Leonel Fernandez's speech was postponed until Monday night, November [...]	2004-12-06 11:06:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EFIN DR
04SANTODOMINGO6609	DOMINICAN VOTE TO REPEAL PROTECTIONIST TAX - [...] (SBU) Summary: The Dominican Senate achieved a breakthrough of sorts on December 7 with a preliminary vote (19 to 1) in favor of repealing a protectionist 25 percent tax on beverages containing imported high fructose corn syrup, which for months has been a barrier to Dominican participation i [...]	2004-12-09 20:18:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ETRD EFIN DR
04SANTODOMINGO668	DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #20: HURRAH FOR HIPOLITO [...] (SBU) Following is no. 20 in our Dominican presidential election series: HURRAH FOR HIPOLITO, THE PRD CANDIDATE As exprected, President Hipolito Mejia was acclaimed as the PRD's presidential candidate by thousands of delegates and government employees reportedly bused in at the party [...]	2004-02-02 22:19:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO6699	DOMINICAN STANDOFF ON REPEAL OF PROTECTIONIST TAX [...] (SBU) Summary: President Fernandez on December 14 implied he would veto a bill to repeal a the protectionist 25% tax on fructose-sweetened beverages if the Dominican Senate does not remove all of the "compensatory" tax breaks for agribusiness and industry that have been added to the original d [...]	2004-12-16 11:15:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ETRD EFIN DR
04SANTODOMINGO6880	DOMINICANS MAKE TIP ARRESTS; GET ALIEN SMUGGLING [...] Dominican authorities continue to crack down on illegal smuggling and trafficking operations, particularly where there is evidence of child sexual exploitation. In late December, the district attorney,s office in Santiago, the Dominican Republic,s second largest city, closed two bars known fo [...]	2004-12-29 12:24:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO745	DOMINICAN BANKING SERIES #4: BANCREDITO AND [...] This is the fourth cable in a series on the Dominican Banking Sector. BANCREDITO AND BANINTER MANEUVERS (U) Baninter and Bancredito are no more. Baninter has been dissolved and Bancredito has been sold to Grupo Leon and renamed Banco Leon. Although the legal entities no longer exist, t [...]	2004-02-05 15:13:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	DR EFIN KJUS PGOV PREL
04SANTODOMINGO790	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND [...] The following is the Embassy response to reftel. Human Rights Record in the DR and the US Strategy --------------------------------------------- ---- 2. President Hipolito Mejia of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) took office in August 2000 after a generally free and fair election. [...]	2004-02-06 21:34:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR ELAB KDEM KPAO KSEP PGOV PHUM PREL
04SANTODOMINGO794	DOMINICAN WORK STOPPAGE, JAN 28-29: FEW GAINS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Dominican Republic has returned to normal after a January 28-29 national work stoppage by labor and community groups and small leftist parties. The stoppage was successful for the opposition in gaining widespread Dominican support and successful for the government in that v [...]	2004-02-06 22:16:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV ELAB ASEC DR
04SANTODOMINGO901	DOMINICAN ELECTION SERIES # 21: DOMINICAN SUPREME [...] (SBU) This is cable number 21 in our series on the Dominican Presidential Elections. Dominican Supreme Court Declines Advance Review of Election Bill The tedious, messy and probably ultimately irrelevant initiative to pass a "slogan law" (ley de lemas) continued on February 9 as the [...]	2004-02-11 19:05:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV DR
04SANTODOMINGO957	DOMINICAN ELECTION #22: LEONEL CONFIDENT, HIPOLITO [...] (SBU) This is number 22 in our Presidential election series. LEONEL CONFIDENT, HIPOLITO DIGS IN Dominican President Hipolito Mejia got bad news last week for his re-election bid. It should have been a good week, with the IMF approval of a new standby, a government agreement with the ele [...]	2004-02-17 11:46:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV DR
04SAOPAULO1130	Two for Two: Brazil's Trade Policy Machine Delivers [...] No summary [...]	2004-08-12 12:39:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD TBIO PGOV KIPR BR
04SAOPAULO1472	PT AND PSDB GAIN STRENGTH IN BRAZILIAN STATE OF [...] (U) Polls are leaning towards a PSDB win for mayor in Florianopolis, the capital of the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. The PSDB candidate, Dario Berger, has a 16 point lead over PP/PFL candidate, Chico Assis. State Governor Luiz Henrique da Silva (PMDB) has endorsed Berger and o [...]	2004-10-22 17:51:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR SOCI BR
04SAOPAULO1541	MUNICIPAL ELECTION RESULTS IN THE SOUTH: PT [...] Summary. In Sao Paulo and the South, the PSDB was the big winner and the PT the big loser in the second round of the Brazilian municipal elections on October 31. The PT lost control of the two biggest prizes in the region, Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre, the second of which the party had govern [...]	2004-11-01 20:33:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR SOCI BR
04SAOPAULO1745	TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS: VISIT OF AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Begin Summary: Special Ambassador John Miller visited Brazil November 29-December 3 to survey Brazilian efforts to combat trafficking in persons. Ambassador Miller found that Brazilian efforts to educate and raise awareness have been outstanding in many areas, but more needs to be done ( [...]	2004-12-17 17:59:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	CONFIDENTIAL	BR ELAB PGOV PHUM PREL TIP
04SAOPAULO1795	GOVERNOR ALCKMIN LAUDS RESULTS OF MUNICIPAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Sao Paulo Governor Geraldo Alckmin told the Ambassador during a December 14 courtesy call that he was confident the country was on good economic and political footing, and said he expected continued healthy growth in GDP and exports in both the state and Brazil during 2005. Al [...]	2004-12-30 15:41:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ETRD EINV BR
04SAOPAULO493	SPECIAL ENVOY REICH'S MEETING WITH JOSE DIRCEU [...] (C) SUMMARY. White House Special Envoy for the Western Hemisphere Otto Reich met with President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva's Chief of Staff Jose Dirceu on Sunday, March 21 at a private residence in Sao Paulo. During the course of the relaxed and open 90-minute conversation, the two touched o [...]	2004-03-26 12:12:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CO BL CU VE BR UNHCR US
04SAOPAULO843	RACE RELATIONS IN BRAZIL: THE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION [...] (U) Affirmative action measures aimed at improving the socioeconomic situation of Afro-Brazilians are fundamental to the "Movimento Negro," or Black Movement. Though affirmative action remains controversial, even among Afro- Brazilians, the controversy itself is drawing public attention to t [...]	2004-06-04 19:20:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM EINV SOCI BR TIP
04SINGAPORE3001	SINGAPORE'S OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Singapore's political opposition is disunited, dispirited, and incapable of offering a credible alternative to the ruling People's Action Party (PAP). Along with the internal problems and institutional obstacles that have stunted its development, the opposition has al [...]	2004-10-18 07:17:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PHUM SN
04SINGAPORE3211	SINGAPORE-BASED EXPERTS WEIGH IN ON THE ASIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Southeast Asia is better positioned than in recent memory to face the challenges presented by a slowdown in the global economy, especially in China, according to several Singapore-based economists and financial analysts. These economies inevitably will feel the pain of a down [...]	2004-11-10 10:09:00	Embassy Singapore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PGOV CH SN
04SINGAPORE3294	SINGAPORE PLAYS THE INDIA CARD [...] (C) Summary: Singapore is actively cultivating a closer political, military, and economic relationship with India. The GOS values India's "strategic weight" and hopes it can balance China's rising influence in the region. Singapore's defense cooperation with India has taken off this year, with [...]	2004-11-22 09:37:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD SN IN EAIR
04SOFIA2338	BULGARIAN COURT RULING ENDS MUSLIM LEADERSHIP [...] SUMMARY: A recent court ruling has resolved -- at least for the time being -- the leadership dispute that has divided the top echelons of Bulgaria's Muslim community since December 2003. A new chief mufti (the spiritual head of the denomination) has been appointed; however the community's new a [...]	2004-12-09 10:33:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI PGOV KIRF BU
04TAIPEI3077	CSB PLANS MAJOR CROSS-STRAIT OVERTURE [...] (C) Summary: President Chen Shui-bian announced on October 3 that he will use his October 10 National Day address make a "major statement" on cross-Strait relations that will serve Taiwan's long-term security and normalize relations across the Taiwan Strait. Chen pledged to use the speech to r [...]	2004-10-04 08:44:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3093	TAIWAN: TIME FOR TIFA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Taiwan's recent change in attitude towards making efforts to resolve long-standing bilateral trade concerns with the U.S. has led to real improvements in the environment for intellectual property protection, agricultural trade, telecommunications liberalization, and pharmaceutica [...]	2004-10-05 09:07:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON KIPR EAGR ECPS PGOV IPR
04TAIPEI3094	LATIN AMERICA: TAIWAN TAKES STOCK OF NEW POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: MOFA officials are nervous over a string of recent political transitions in Latin America. Over the last 13 months, 6 of these countries -- Panama El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Guatemala, and Paraguay -- have seen new governments come to power. Taiwan is adjusting [...]	2004-10-05 23:34:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CH TW
04TAIPEI3116	MAC APPOINTS CROSS-STRAIT NEOPHYTE AS VICE CHAIR [...] (C) Summary: The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) announced October 1 that Academia Sinica Research Fellow David Huang would assume the MAC vice chairman position previously held by Alexander Huang. A specialist in European local politics, David Huang has no experience in cross-Strait affairs, a [...]	2004-10-07 03:40:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR CH TW
04TAIPEI3139	POLITICAL POSITIONING IMPACTING FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary: Internal political maneuvering for the 2008 presidential nomination is increasingly spilling over into the cross-Strait and foreign policy arenas. Premier Yu Shyi-kun's advocacy of a cross-Strait "balance of terror" is the latest in a string of unauthorized statements that inside [...]	2004-10-07 10:03:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR CH TW
04TAIPEI3141	LY PRESIDENT WANG ON SPECIAL BUDGET [...] (C) At a October 6 meeting at his reception house, Legislative Yuan (LY) President Wang Jin-pyng told AIT that, with the LY expected to recess in November in order to release its members for the December 11 election campaign, there is not enough time to debate the Chen administration's propose [...]	2004-10-07 11:14:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TW
04TAIPEI3162	CHEN 10/10 SPEECH OFFERS CONCILIATORY MESSAGE [...] (C) Summary: President Chen Shui-bian used his October 10 National Day speech to send conciliatory messages to Beijing and opposition supporters in Taiwan. Chen reiterated a number of cross-Strait related themes from his May 20 inaugural address and proposed restarting dialogue with Beijing " [...]	2004-10-10 07:39:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3190	TAIWAN PUTS POSITIVE SPIN ON PRC REJECTION OF [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan officials tried to put a positive spin on the PRC Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) reported rejection of President Chen Shui-bian's October 10 inaugural address. National Security Council (NSC) and Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) officials say that TAO Spokesman Zhang Mingqing's [...]	2004-10-13 09:00:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CH TW
04TAIPEI3229	LY PRESIDENT WANG ON ELECTION POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: Legislative Yuan (LY) President Wang Jin-pyng told AIT that he expects the Pan-Blue to maintain its LY majority despite the PFP's declining popularity. Wang projected that there would be virtually no change in the balance between the two camps from the 2001 election. Wang downpl [...]	2004-10-15 10:22:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TW
04TAIPEI3231	FUGITIVE COUNTY MAGISTRATE STILL MISSING [...] (C) Summary: Yunlin County Magistrate Chang Jung-Wei disappeared on August 14, shortly after questions were raised about his involvement in a local bribery scandal. He was later declared a fugitive after ignoring repeated summonses from prosecutors. Chang claims he is the victim of a vendett [...]	2004-10-17 23:49:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TW
04TAIPEI3234	LY CAMPAIGN ATMOSPHERICS: DPP UPBEAT [...] (C) Summary: Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) officials are cautiously optimistic the Pan-Green camp will secure a narrow majority in the December 11 Legislative Yuan (LY) election. The DPP's campaign strategy is focused on sowing discord within the opposition alliance and enforcing discipl [...]	2004-10-18 08:44:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CH TW
04TAIPEI3265	PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE RESPONDS TO PRC SUSPICIONS [...] (C) Summary: Presidential Office Deputy Secretary General James Huang requested a meeting with the Deputy Director October 19 to clarify concerns raised by Beijing over President Chen Shui-bian's October 10 speech. Huang, at the president's instructions, explained that Chen's statement that " [...]	2004-10-19 10:55:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CH TW
04TAIPEI3294	LY ELECTION PREVIEW: SOUTH CENTRAL TAIWAN [...] (C) Summary: Yunlin is shaping up to be a battleground county in the December legislative elections. With eighteen candidates vying for six seats, both Pan-Blue and Pan-Green have nominated aggressively in the hopes of gaining territory. Furthermore, KMT County Magistrate Chang Jung-Wei's di [...]	2004-10-21 07:18:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3298	LY ELECTION CAMPAIGN KICKS OFF [...] (C) Summary: Candidate registration for the December 11 Legislative Yuan (LY) election campaign closed October 12 and the campaign season has begun. Neither camp is expecting any dramatic swings in the current LY balance, but most observers expect the Pan-Blue to lose its current slim majority [...]	2004-10-21 08:55:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TW
04TAIPEI3299	THE KMT'S LY ELECTION NON-STRATEGY [...] (C) Summary: With just over a month to go before the December 11 Legislative Yuan (LY) election, the KMT is close to abandoning efforts to formulate a coherent, coordinated strategy for retaining its current LY majority. The KMT failed to enforce discipline during the nomination process, and [...]	2004-10-21 09:08:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TW
04TAIPEI3340	ANATOMY OF A TAIWANESE LY ELECTION [...] (U) Summary: Individual and party strategies for the December 11 Legislative Yuan (LY) election will be shaped in large part by Taiwan's complex election system, which combines direct elections with proportional representation. The structures of both the direct and proportional elections promo [...]	2004-10-27 07:42:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3347	KAOHSIUNG PROTESTS SECRETARY POWELL'S REMARKS [...] (SBU) A candidate in Taiwan's upcoming Legislative Yuan (LY) elections led a group of around 20 supporters to protest in front of AIT Kaohsiung the morning of October 27. The protest was noisy, but peaceful, and dispersed within half an hour, after a letter of protest was read out for televis [...]	2004-10-27 08:10:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PGOV PREL TW CH
04TAIPEI3353	FOREIGN MINISTER ASKS FOR CLARIFICATION OF [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Mark Chen asked the AIT Director to a meeting October 26 to seek clarification over a set of interviews given by Secretary Powell in Beijing on October 24. Chen said the Secretary's reported statements on eventual reunification and Taiwan's lack of sovereignty de [...]	2004-10-27 08:17:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3409	TAIPEI SEEKS TO LIMIT FALLOUT OVER SECRETARY'S [...] (C) Summary: Chen administration officials are working to limit media and political fallout from a set of interviews given by Secretary Powell in Beijing on October 24. President Chen Shui-bian expressed appreciation to the AIT Director on October 28 for a series of public statements by the Se [...]	2004-10-29 10:08:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CH TW
04TAIPEI3410	PFP CLAIMS IT IS STILL IN THE GAME [...] (C) Summary: A confidante of People First Party (PFP) leader James Soong told AIT that the party has emerged from an early October KMT attempt at a hostile merger with renewed vigor. PFP Spokesman Daniel Hwang admitted that the party was close to collapse in the final days of the registration [...]	2004-10-29 10:23:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TW
04TAIPEI3414	LY ELECTION PREVIEW: NORTH EASTERN TAIWAN [...] (C) Summary: Keelung and Ilan counties, while at odds politically, both look to be equally predictable in the December legislative Yuan (LY) elections. Keelung is about 60 percent Pan-Blue and has five candidates vying for three seats. There are only four candidates running for three seats [...]	2004-11-01 01:02:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3465	CHINESE TAIPEI'S APEC AGENDA: LOW-KEY MEETINGS [...] (C) Summary: Academia Sinica President Lee Yuan-tseh will once again represent Chinese Taipei at the APEC Leaders' Meeting in November in Santiago, Chile. Academia Sinica's Michael Hsiao and National Security Council's Connie Yang believe the Chinese Taipei delegation will try to avoid any [...]	2004-11-03 08:55:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3466	LY ELECTION PREVIEW: WEST CENTRAL TAIWAN [...] (C) Summary: Changhua County (ten seats) and Taichung City (eight seats) are likely to be major battlegrounds in the struggle for control of the Legislative Yuan (LY) in this December's elections. Both districts have traditionally been strongholds for the Pan-Blue, but weakness in the Pan-Blue [...]	2004-11-03 09:24:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3494	HIGH COURT DISMISSES MARCH 20 ELECTION CASE [...] (C) Summary: The Taiwan High Court rejected a case filed by opposition leaders Lien Chan and James Soong to overturn the March 20 election. The court announced that the opposition failed to support its claims that President Chen Shui-bian won the election through illegal means. Opposition la [...]	2004-11-04 09:51:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3521	CHEN SHUI-BIAN MAKES PROVOCATIVE OFF-THE-CUFF [...] (C) Summary: During an open-press November 7 speech to a group of pro-independence university professors, President Chen Shui-bian emphasized Taiwan as a "sovereign and independent country" and asserted that Taiwan's current constitution was "made in China, for China" and was not appropriate f [...]	2004-11-08 10:21:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	SECRET	PREL PGOV CH TW
04TAIPEI3562	LY ELECTION PREVIEW: A TIGHT RACE IN TAIPEI COUNTY [...] (C) Summary: Taipei County, with its 28 seats (one more than last election),will be the site of fierce fighting in the election battle for a majority in the Legislative Yuan this December. The Pan-Blue parties have shown remarkable restraint in coordinating their nominations, resulting in a [...]	2004-11-10 09:15:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3563	PRESIDENT OUTLINES FUTURE CROSS-STRAIT POLICY [...] (C) Summary: National Security Council (NSC) Secretary General Chiou I-jen provided the Acting Director on November 10 an advanced copy of a 10-point policy statement President Chen Shui-bian planned to unveil later in the day. The policy reiterates themes from Chen's May 20 and October 10 sp [...]	2004-11-10 09:58:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR CH TW
04TAIPEI3584	PFP ADVISOR BREAKS RANK, JOINS DPP CROSS-STRAIT [...] (C) Summary: Former PFP International Affairs Director Raymond Wu told AIT that he intends to join President Chen Shui-bian's inter-party Cross-Strait Peace and Stability Committee after it is set up in early 2005. Wu said he would join the committee even if his political mentor James Soong o [...]	2004-11-12 08:22:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TW
04TAIPEI3604	SOVEREIGNTY ISSUES PROMINENT IN LY CAMPAIGN [...] (C) Summary: Both political camps are using national sovereignty and foreign policy issues to mobilize core supporters ahead of the December 11 Legislative Yuan (LY) elections. In his first weekend of campaigning, President Chen Shui-bian played all sides of the ideological spectrum, defendin [...]	2004-11-15 08:33:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3647	A DPP PERSPECTIVE ON TAIWAN ETHNIC POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) believes it could benefit in the December legislative election from its efforts to define and build a Taiwan identity that is "multi-cultural," and it aims to broaden the appeal of the DPP beyond its traditional ethnic Taiwanese base of suppo [...]	2004-11-17 00:51:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3651	TWO VIEWS OF TAIWAN'S MEDIA AND THEIR POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary. A recent report authored by the KMT's National Policy Foundation (NPF) alleges that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP),via the Government Information Office (GIO),is manipulating Taiwan's media and suppressing negative press reporting through its authority to regulate the m [...]	2004-11-17 06:22:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON TW
04TAIPEI3667	BEIJING ACCELERATING GLOBAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST [...] (C) Summary. Taiwan officials say Beijing is effectively leveraging its growing international clout to orchestrate a global campaign to isolate Taipei. Officials assert that Beijing's recent efforts have become increasingly coordinated, organized, and creative. Taiwan MOFA officials maintai [...]	2004-11-17 07:22:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON TW
04TAIPEI3677	LY ELECTION PREVIEW: MIAOLI COUNTY [...] (C) Summary: Miaoli County (four seats),with its large Hakka population, has been a long-time Pan-Blue stronghold. Hoping to keep it that way, the Pan-Blue has nominated its three incumbents, and will run a campaign in which ethnic politics (likely masquerading as "local roots") will feature [...]	2004-11-18 07:02:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3707	TAIWAN'S CULTURAL CRISIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent conversations with Taiwan artists and academics have revealed their growing concern that the ruling DPP's political drive to create a new national identity has created a battleground in the arenas of art and education. Artists and officials alike lament the fact that culture [...]	2004-11-19 07:05:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO PGOV PREL SOCI TW
04TAIPEI3712	LY ELECTION PREVIEW: TAOYUAN COUNTY [...] (C) Summary: Taoyuan County, with thirteen seats, is the largest Legislative Yuan (LY) election district in Taiwan. As in other northern districts, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has taken an aggressive nominating strategy and at a minimum hopes to parlay its strong showing during the [...]	2004-11-19 08:40:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3723	LY ELECTION UPDATE: THE PLOT THICKENS IN YUNLIN [...] (C) Summary: Hotly contested Yunlin County (six seats) remains one of the most volatile races in the LY campaign. The fugitive Magistrate Chang Jung-wei is still missing, but he and his criminal case remain the focus of the election. Bitter infighting has broken out as candidates realize each [...]	2004-11-22 06:32:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3734	Scenesetter for DOT A/S Bhatia's Trip to Taiwan [...] (U) The United States' unofficial relations with Taiwan focus on regional security and trade. Taiwan is considering the purchase of USD 18 billion in military equipment from the U.S. Outstanding trade issues include intellectual property rights, pharmaceuticals and telecommunications market [...]	2004-11-23 06:14:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PREL EAIR PGOV OVIP TW
04TAIPEI3740	TAIWAN PESSIMISTIC ABOUT EU ARMS EMBARGO [...] (C) Summary. Taiwan officials say that there is little they can do to prevent the eventual lifting of the EU arms embargo against the PRC. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) officials are confident that the embargo will not be lifted this year, but they expect Beijing to offer some sort of co [...]	2004-11-23 07:38:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON TW
04TAIPEI3742	JAPAN POLICY AT A CROSSROADS [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan officials say they are willing to be patient with the glacial pace of development in formal relations with Japan because they need time to resolve a deep internal policy division over how to manage the relationship. The policy debate is driven by sharply divergent assessmen [...]	2004-11-23 08:11:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV JA CH TW
04TAIPEI3743	LIEN, CHEN EXCHANGE RHETORIC OVER REFERENDUM [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-23 08:52:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3770	LY ELECTION PREVIEW: TAICHUNG COUNTY [...] (C) Summary: Spurred by Chen Shui-bian's 30,000-margin victory in Taichung County during the 2004 presidential election, the DPP expects to elect five of its six LY nominees there this December, up from the four seats it won in 2001. The KMT nominated its four incumbents and one newcomer, wi [...]	2004-11-29 00:38:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TW
04TAIPEI3771	LY ELECTION OVERVIEW: THE POLLSTERS WEIGH IN [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan's top polling centers are predicting a close election race between the Pan-Green and Pan-Blue camps for control of the Legislative Yuan (LY),with neither side currently expected to gain a majority. While pollsters agree that a majority for either side is unlikely, their es [...]	2004-11-29 00:38:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3779	LY ELECTION AT THE TWO-WEEK MARK [...] (C) Summary: The campaign for the December 11 Legislative Yuan (LY) election is entering its final phase with neither camp assured a majority of seats. On balance, campaign officials and observers project that the Pan-Green will win a plurality, leaving it within reach of a majority with the [...]	2004-11-29 08:32:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3780	WANG ON FATE OF SPECIAL BUDGET POST LY ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: LY President Wang Jin-pyng told the AIT Director November 24 that if the DPP controls the LY speakership after the December election, Taiwan's USD 18 billion special budget for the procurement of advanced weapon systems will pass but only over vigorous objections by the Pan-Blue. [...]	2004-11-29 08:49:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TW
04TAIPEI3782	CSB HITS CONSTITUTION THEMES ON CAMPAIGN TRAIL [...] (C) Summary: President Chen Shui-bian told an audience on November 27 that he will "terminate the Chinese constitution" during his second term of office regardless of international pressure. Chen, appearing on the same stage as former President Lee Teng-hui, told the group that if the voters [...]	2004-11-29 09:35:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3796	NSC SECGEN CHIOU ON CROSS-STRAIT/U.S.-TAIWAN [...] (C) Summary: National Security Council (NSC) Secretary General Chiou I-jen acknowledged continued USG concerns over where President Chen Shui-bian is leading Taiwan, but asserted that Chen knows that a move towards de jure independence would mean war. Chiou said that Taiwan will continue to s [...]	2004-11-30 08:10:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3797	CHEN RESPONDS PUBLICLY TO USG CONCERNS OVER [...] (C) Summary: President Chen Shui-bian used an open press meeting with a group of visiting U.S. Congressmen on November 30 to respond to the State Department Spokesman's warning over constitutional revisions. Chen stated that there has been no change to the policy line he articulated in his May [...]	2004-11-30 08:32:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3807	PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE DEFENDS CONSTITUTIONAL RHETORIC [...] (C) Summary: Presidential Office Deputy Secretary General James Huang asked AIT to convey a request for USG understanding over President Chen Shui-bian's recent constitution-related campaign rhetoric. Huang acknowledged that some of Chen's recent language had been "a little strong," especiall [...]	2004-12-01 10:46:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3848	LY ELECTION PREVIEW: A TALE OF TWO HSINCHUS [...] (C) Summary: With a total of six open seats, Hsinchu city (three seats) and Hsinchu county (three seats) are two northern districts where the battle between Pan-Green and Pan-Blue forces for control of the Legislative Yuan (LY) could be determined. The Pan-Blue, which currently holds a two-to [...]	2004-12-06 07:38:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3851	CHEN PLANNING NEW STRATEGY FOR UN BID [...] (C) Summary. Foreign Minister Mark Chen told the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) that he was surprised by President Chen Shui-bian's recent announcement that Taipei plans to apply for UN membership under the name "Taiwan" instead of the "Republic of China" (ROC) in 2005. Officials claim th [...]	2004-12-06 07:43:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3854	CHEN: OVERSEAS OFFICES, SOE'S TO BE CALLED [...] (C) Summary: President Chen Shui-bian pledged to change the name of Taiwan's overseas offices and State Owned Enterprises from "China" to "Taiwan" by 2006 during a December 5 press conference at Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) headquarters. In the same speech, Chen reiterated his intention [...]	2004-12-06 08:36:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3865	JASON HU GUARDEDLY OPTIMISTIC ON PAN-BLUE PROSPECTS [...] (C) Summary: Taichung City Mayor Jason Hu told the AIT Deputy Director December 1 that the Pan-Blue may well retain a working majority in the next LY session. Regardless he would urge KMT Chairman Lien Chan and those around him to resign, though they may resist. Whether or not the PFP perfor [...]	2004-12-08 01:24:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TW
04TAIPEI3866	TAIWAN'S "NON-PARTISAN" PARTY: FLASH IN THE PAN OR [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan's newest and fifth largest party, the Non-Partisan Solidarity Union (NPSU),is facing an uphill battle to eke out enough seats this election to remain a viable political force in the post-December Legislative Yuan (LY). The NPSU will have to exceed the expectation of most [...]	2004-12-08 01:25:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3867	LY ELECTION: DPP COULD GAIN BIG IN KAOHSIUNG COUNTY [...] (C) The Pan-Green could pick up two or even three Legislative Yuan (LY) seats in Kaohsiung County at the expense of the Kuomintang (KMT). Kaohsiung County's nine LY seats currently are split 5-4 in favor of the Pan-Blue, but the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is confident it can effectiv [...]	2004-12-08 01:25:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3897	LY RACE TIGHTENS IN TAICHUNG CITY [...] (C) Summary: With three days left before election day, the field of viable candidates for the eight Legislative Yuan (LY) seats in the battleground city of Taichung has narrowed to nine from eighteen (See Reftel). Although the Pan-Blue camp appears poised to retain the four seats it won in the [...]	2004-12-08 09:08:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3898	PAN-GREEN JUST SHORT OF A MAJORITY IN LY ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: With the battle for control of Taiwan's Legislative Yuan (LY) entering its final days, neither the Pan-Green nor Pan-Blue camp is likely to win an outright majority (113 or more out of 225 seats) on December 11. Although the race in several key districts is still too close to call [...]	2004-12-08 10:01:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3899	TIEN HUNG-MAO: PARTING SHOTS [...] (C) Summary: Upon his return to Taipei from London, former Representative to the UK Tien Hung-mao defended himself and his staff on the passport case of the fugitive Andrew Wang's wife. He foresaw difficult times ahead for Taiwan in Europe as China expands its trade with EU nations and success [...]	2004-12-08 10:01:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TW
04TAIPEI3900	KAOHSIUNG MAYOR ON LY ELECTION AND CABINET CHANGES [...] (C) In a December 1 meeting with visiting AIT Director Paal, Kaohsiung Mayor Frank Hsieh downplayed the possibility he would move to Taipei early next year to serve as Premier, suggesting that Yu Shyi-kun would continue in the position after the expected February cabinet reshuffle. Hsieh said [...]	2004-12-08 10:01:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3917	LY ELECTION PREVIEW: SOUTHERN TAIWAN [...] (C) Summary: Heading into the last few days of the Legislative Yuan (LY) campaign, little change is expected overall in Taiwan's southern districts, the Pan-Green's traditional stronghold. Southern Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) officials say the party already reached the point of "satura [...]	2004-12-09 09:14:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3918	CHEN REJECTS USG CRITICISM OVER NAME CHANGE [...] (C) Summary: President Chen Shui-bian has reacted sharply to the State Department Deputy Spokesman's December 6 warning over Chen's plans to rename state-owned firms and overseas representative offices using "Taiwan." On the campaign trail, Chen has accused the USG of carrying water for Beijin [...]	2004-12-09 09:34:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TW

04TAIPEI3919	LY ELECTION REGIONAL OVERVIEW [...] (C) Summary: The projected shift in the balance of power between the Pan-Green and Pan-Blue camps in the Legislative Yuan (LY) reflects changing electoral dynamics within Taiwan's five main regions. In the north the two sides will likely split the vote as they did in the last LY elections hel [...]	2004-12-09 10:06:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3920	25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE "KAOHSIUNG INCIDENT" AND [...] (SBU) December 10, on the eve of Taiwan's legislative elections, marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most important political events in Taiwan's democratic history. On December 10, 1979, a group of demonstrators supporting the "Dang Wai" (non-KMT) magazine "Meilidao" (Formosa) marched to [...]	2004-12-09 10:15:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3939	LY CAMPAIGN ENTERS THE FINAL STRETCH [...] (C) Summary: As the campaign for control of the Legislative Yuan (LY) enters its final day, the outcome looks increasingly to be determined by a few key variables: signs that the KMT's "peipiao" vote allocation is breaking down, DPP fears of a TSU late surge, a spate of vote-buying arrests, an [...]	2004-12-11 08:50:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3940	PAN-BLUE BEATS EXPECTATIONS AND RETAINS MAJORITY [...] (C) The Pan-Blue alliance lost only one seat and retained a majority with 114 of 225 seats, a surprising performance in the December 11 Legislative Yuan (LY) election. Most commercial and internal party polls, as well as analytical assessments (including AIT's) had expected the Pan-Blue allia [...]	2004-12-11 14:42:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3941	NEW LY LINE-UP MAY MODERATE TAIWAN POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: The Pan-Blue's surprise victory in the December 11 Legislative Yuan (LY) election should help reduce extremism in Taiwan's political discourse. President Chen Shui-bian will be under pressure to moderate his offensive on sensitive issues like cross-Strait relations and constituti [...]	2004-12-11 15:08:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3944	South Taiwan Races Intense but Voters Subdued [...] (SBU) On the eve of Taiwan's legislative elections, Southern Taiwan's races are intensely competitive, though most analysts predict little change in the overall Pan-Green/Pan-Blue ratio of seats here. For all but the top one or two candidates in each district, the races in much of the South [...]	2004-12-12 23:18:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3956	PAN-GREEN SURPRISE DEFEAT: TECHNICAL FACTORS KEY? [...] (C) Summary: An overly aggressive nomination strategy combined with a lower than expected voter turnout to deal the Pan-Green camp a surprising defeat in the December 11 Legislative Yuan (LY) election. Although the Pan-Green alliance of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and the Taiwan So [...]	2004-12-13 10:09:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3957	BOTH CAMPS ADJUSTING TO NEW POLITICAL ALIGNMENT [...] (C) Summary: Both the ruling and opposition camps are taking stock of the surprising results of the December 11 Legislative Yuan (LY) election. President Chen Shui-bian is facing pressure to resign his position as Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairman, and speculation is growing over a [...]	2004-12-13 10:21:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3968	DOT A/S Bhatia Attends AAPA Meeting, Meets with [...] (SBU) Department of Transportation (DOT) Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs Karan SIPDIS Bhatia traveled to Taiwan November 25 and 26 to speak at the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) 48th Annual Assembly of Presidents Meeting. A/S Bhatia also met with Tai [...]	2004-12-15 00:33:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PREL EAIR PGOV OVIP TW
04TAIPEI3987	LY ELECTION IN SOUTH -- LITTLE CHANGE, BUT A FEW [...] (C) While Southern Taiwan voted more or less as expected in the December 11 legislative election, with virtually no change in the overall Pan-Green/Pan-Blue ratio of legislative seats, there were a few surprises in individual races. Two independent candidates in Kaohsiung City who polled very [...]	2004-12-15 08:01:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
04TAIPEI3988	CHEN TAKES THE FALL FOR DPP LY SETBACK [...] (C) Summary: President Chen Shui-bian resigned his position as Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairman December 14 to accept full responsibility for the worse than expected showing in the December 11 Legislative Yuan (LY) election. In a speech to the DPP's Central Standing Committee (CSC) [...]	2004-12-15 09:18:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TW
04TAIPEI4007	KMT LEADERSHIP TRANSITION IN THE MIST [...] (C) Summary: The KMT's stronger than expected performance in the LY election will bring more uncertainty to the party's leadership question. While KMT Secretary General Lin Fong-cheng told local media on December 12 that Lien Chan would step down as party Chairman at the end of his term next [...]	2004-12-19 21:49:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TW
04TAIPEI4021	TAIWAN'S IMPENDING HEALTH CARE CRISES [...] (SBU) Summary: The Taiwan Health care system is facing a number of crises. The National Health Insurance system is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. The Department of Health faces low morale, an inflexible and conservative bureaucracy, a shortage of strong leadership, and an exodus of th [...]	2004-12-21 02:39:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV TW ESTH
04TAIPEI4035	SPECIAL DEFENSE BUDGET PROSPECTS IN DOUBT [...] (C) Summary: Early passage of the USG 18 billion Special Budget for defense procurement appears increasingly unlikely as the Pan-Blue continues to block the bill from getting on the legislative agenda. Taiwan MND officials are now turning to the USG for assistance in overcoming Pan-Blue resis [...]	2004-12-21 08:09:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TW
04TAIPEI4036	JUSTICES DEFANG LY'S "TRUTH INVESTIGATION [...] (C) Summary: The Council of Grand Justices ruled on December 15 that key portions of the statute establishing a commission to investigate the March 19 shooting of President Chen Shui-bian were unconstitutional. Although the "Truth Investigation Commission", established by the Pan-Blue majorit [...]	2004-12-21 08:12:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
04TAIPEI4037	15 New Southern Taiwan Legislators - An [...] (SBU) Thirty-three incumbents and 15 new legislators were elected from Southern Taiwan districts in the December 11 Legislative Yuan (LY) election. Twelve of the 15 new LY members have advanced degrees, including three PhD's and nine Master's degrees. Overall, the new LY members from the S [...]	2004-12-22 01:24:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV TW
04TAIPEI4076	PRESIDENT CHEN, UNDER POST-ELECTION PRESSURE, [...] (C) Summary. Post-December 11 election jockeying within the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and between Green and Blue alliances continues in ways that may affect cross-Strait and U.S. relations. Members of the DPP's New Tide faction are publicly and messily blaming President Chen [...]	2004-12-27 21:29:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CH TW
04TAIPEI4103	POLITICS TAR CONTROL YUAN NOMINATIONS [...] (C) Summary: The Presidential Office submitted on December 20 its list of 29 Control Yuan nominees for Legislative Yuan approval. Pan-Blue legislators, as well as some ruling DPP legislators, immediately dismissed the nominees as unqualified and vowed to resist the Presidential Office's atte [...]	2004-12-28 07:15:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TW
04TASHKENT2609	AFTER THE BOMBINGS: KARIMOV'S DECISION-MAKING [...] (C) Summary. This is the second of two cables, which provides insight into President Karimov's decision-making process. The first of which looked at Karimov's possible succession plans (ref D). Although Uzbekistan was rocked twice this year by terrorist bombings, little has changed for Pre [...]	2004-09-30 13:41:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PBIO PINR PTER UZ
04TASHKENT3519	PRESIDENT KARIMOV NOT AN ORPHAN, AND OTHER FAMILY SECRETS [...] (C) Summary: Although his face was covered in bruises, the physical resemblance to the President is striking. In a wide-ranging conversation with poloff, Islom Karimov's estranged nephew, Jamshid Karimov, and Jamshid's mother, Muslima Karimova -- the President's sister-in-law -- revealed det [...]	2004-12-27 12:56:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PBIO PGOV UZ
04TEGUCIGALPA1023	CONTACT INFORMATION FOR HONDURAN GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Please see below updated contact information regarding Honduras: President Maduro and his Senior Staff ===================================== Post: Tegucigalpa, Honduras Date of Submission: May 3, 2004 President Ricardo Maduro Joest President of Honduras (head of government and [...]	2004-05-04 23:12:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1050	MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, MAY 6, 2004 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 5/6 entitled "Torture." "President Bush has been forced to use the Arab television network Al Arabiya in an attempt to quiet the wave of international indignation, especially in the Middle East and the U.S., that has arisen as a resu [...]	2004-05-07 15:32:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV MOPS HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1051	MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, MAY 6, 2004 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 5/6 entitled "Torture." "President Bush has been forced to use the Arab television network Al Arabiya in an attempt to quiet the wave of international indignation, especially in the Middle East and the U.S., that has arisen as a resu [...]	2004-05-07 15:32:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV MOPS HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1067	LIMITED OPPORTUNITY EXISTS FOR WOMEN TO PARTICIPATE IN [...] Summary: Opportunities for women to participate in Honduran politics remains quite limited, particularly for those seeking elected office. While women account for well over half of the Honduran population, they hold only a fraction of elected positions, both on the national and local level. D [...]	2004-05-10 21:03:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN SOCI PHUM PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1073	MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, MAY 7, 2004 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 5/7 entitled "Bush in trouble." "Things are turning out for the worse for President Bush, more than a year after the Iraqi invasion and after having declared the end of the military actions. However, the Iraqis are still resisting [...]	2004-05-11 14:31:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV MOPS IZ HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1079	MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, MAY 11, 2004 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 5/11 entitled "Beyond 9/11" "If the `war on terrorism' carried out by Bush and his oil-thirsty `falcons' has been really caused by the devastating attacks on September 11, 2001, there's no doubt that the damage caused to the U.S. b [...]	2004-05-11 22:31:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV MOPS IZ HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1109	50TH ANNIVERSARY OF HISTORIC BANANA STRIKE IN HONDURAS [...] Summary: A series of events sponsored by the Ministry of Labor and the International Labor Organization (ILO) took place from May 3-5 in Tegucigalpa to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the historic May 1954 banana strike in Honduras. President Ricardo Maduro, President of the National Congr [...]	2004-05-13 23:04:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PHUM PGOV EAGR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1141	SAN PEDRO SULA PRISON FIRE KILLS 103 INMATES; [...] (U) A fire allegedly caused by an electrical short circuit in a refrigerator for soft drinks in a cell block for gang members killed 103 inmates in a prison on the outskirts of San Pedro Sula. Approximately 25 injured prisoners were treated at a nearby hospital. (Two other injured prisoners [...]	2004-05-17 22:53:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SNAR KCRM KJUS CASC ASEC HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1160	GOH BRIEFS DIPLOMATIC CORPS ON SAN PEDRO SULA [...] (U) Honduran Vice President (and Acting President) Vicente Williams and Minister of Government and Justice Jorge Ramon Hernandez Alcerro on May 18 briefed the diplomatic corps, including DCM and PolOff, on the May 17 fire in a cell block for gang members that killed 103 inmates in a prison on t [...]	2004-05-19 23:05:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SNAR KCRM KJUS CASC ASEC HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1169	MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, MAY 20, 2004 [...] Op-ed by Ramon Villeda Bermudez (current Liberal Party Congressman and former presidential candidate) in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 5/20 entitled "The war in Iraq: was it worth it?" "Senator Edward Kennedy has called the war in Iraq The Bushes' Vietnam, and his definition [...]	2004-05-21 17:19:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV MOPS IZ HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1173	POST RESPONSE TO INQUIRY INTO APRIL 14, 2003 [...] (U) Post appreciates the opportunity to comment on the time-line set forth in ref Y. Answers keyed to ref Y are provided in paragraph 4. 2. (S) Post believes the time-line included in ref Y is largely accurate but not complete. Post has conducted an exhaustive search of its files in orde [...]	2004-02-24 14:06:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET	SNAR MOPS EAIR PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1200	EMBASSY TEGUCIGALPA HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY FUND [...] Post believes that the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor initiative to address programs that promote human rights and democracy can greatly aid Mission efforts to strengthen the human rights practices in Honduras, particularly in the area of investigating and prosecuting extrajudicia [...]	2004-05-24 22:50:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM EAID KDEM KCRM KJUS PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1207	MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, MAY 25, 2004 [...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" of 5/23 entitled "At home." "The members of battalion Xatruch returned home last Friday after spending almost five months in Iraq working to support the consolidation of peace and democracy in that country." "The performance of th [...]	2004-05-25 21:50:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV MOPS IZ HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1258	LA CEIBA PRISON MASSACRE UPDATE; PUBLIC MINISTRY [...] (U) On April 5, 2003, 68 persons, 61 of them M-18 gang members, were killed in an incident at El Porvenir prison near La Ceiba. Reports produced by the Public Ministry, a Special Commission of the Honduran National Council for Internal Security (CONASIN),and the Human Rights Commissioner put [...]	2004-06-02 15:20:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SNAR KCRM KJUS ASEC HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1322	MEDIA REACTION ON PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN'S [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 6/9 entitled "The legacy." "The passing of Ronald Reagan has brought back the controversy of the time of civil war in Central America. Considering where these countries are now, opposed to the crisis they were going through and the [...]	2004-06-09 19:58:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1325	ALLEGED TEGUCIGALPA LEADER OF MARA SALVATRUCHA [...] On June 8, in what local residents described as a "war zone" reminiscent of a wild west shoot-out, Honduran authorities captured the alleged Tegucigalpa leader of the infamous Mara Salvatrucha (MS) gang, Wilmer Joel Cruz Coello, alias "El Micro," only two blocks from the U.S. Embassy compound. [...]	2004-06-09 22:34:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KJUS SNAR PGOV PHUM ASEC HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1339	Honduras TIP Update: EmbOffs Meet with Attorney [...] Summary: EmbOffs met recently with the Honduran Attorney General and the Supreme Court President to emphasize the critical nature of successful prosecutions as part of an overall GOH strategy to combat trafficking in persons. Honduras has also been active in recent months on a number of traff [...]	2004-06-10 22:39:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM SMIG KWMN ELAB PGOV PREL KJUS HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1355	HONDURAS SEIZES 1,460 MORE KILOS OF COCAINE; [...] (SBU) With DEA assistance, on June 9, 2004, Honduran authorities seized approximately 1,460 kilos of cocaine and arrested four suspects near Puerto Cortes on Honduras' Caribbean coast. The cocaine which originated in Colombia was seized at a property in a zone known as La Laguna de Alegria We [...]	2004-06-14 21:24:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PGOV KCRM KJUS SOCI PHUM HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1372	NATIONAL ARMS REGISTRY BEGINS 18 MONTHS AFTER [...] (U) On June 14, the Honduran Ministry of Public Security officially inaugurated a national firearms registry in the cities of Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula, and La Ceiba. The opening of the registry comes some 18 months after the Honduran National Congress approved legislation to regulate the s [...]	2004-06-16 22:15:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KCRM KJUS SNAR SOCI PHUM HO
04TEGUCIGALPA141	AmCit-owned Cable TV Company Claims Harassment by [...] (SBU) Summary. A U.S.-owned cable TV company, Mateo's Cable Vision, claims that it has been subject to an unusual number of audits and investigations from various GOH agencies over the past year. The owners of this company, Michael and Sally Mitrovic, see these investigations as acts of hara [...]	2004-01-21 16:41:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV BTIO KIPR CASC PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1411	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL SHELBY'S JUNE 28 - 30 VISIT [...] (U) Summary: Post welcomes the visit of CoDel Shelby to Honduras June 29-30. Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, two-and-a-half years through his constitutionally-mandated single four-year term, faces a difficult task leading one of the poorest countries in Latin America. However, there have [...]	2004-06-22 22:33:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP ECON ETRD EFIN PREL PGOV PHUM HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1434	HONDURAN PROTESTS BEGIN TO CREATE CONCERNS ABOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Honduran President Ricardo Maduro is facing an increasingly challenging domestic political situation. United teachers' unions are entering their fourth week on strike and have rejected offers from the government to resolve its wage dispute. President Maduro personally joined the [...]	2004-06-24 17:09:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB PREL PHUM HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1439	TEACHERS' PROTEST FAILS TO SHUT DOWN HONDURAN [...] (U) SUMMARY: On June 24, approximately 5,000 striking Honduran teachers temporarily blocked the four main arteries connecting Tegucigalpa with the rest of the country, bringing traffic to a standstill and disrupting commerce. Teachers also blocked traffic in other parts of the country, primari [...]	2004-06-24 22:21:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC ELAB PHUM SOCI PREL HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1466	MULTIPLE PROTESTS CONVERGE, MADURO'S REACTION IS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 29 Honduran President Ricardo Maduro went on national television to explain the Government of Honduras' (GOH) position after teachers' unions rejected the latest government offer. Protests continue (refs A and B) and both sides are at loggerheads. Also, the March for Life [...]	2004-06-30 22:59:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC ELAB PHUM SOCI PREL HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1467	HONDURAN SECURITY MINISTER ALLEGES SENIOR AL-QAIDA [...] (S) Summary: On June 29, Honduran Minister of Public Security (MOPS) Oscar Alvarez told the Honduran press senior Saudi Al-Qaida operative, Adnan Gulshair El-Shukrijumah, had been spotted in Honduras but has since left the country. MOPS Alvarez alleged that El-Shukrijumah was seen in an intern [...]	2004-07-01 00:19:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET	PTER ASEC KVPR PINR KJUS KCRM PGOV CVIS HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1472	MADURO STIFFENS RESOLVE AS PEACEFUL PROTESTS [...] (C) Summary: Peaceful protests continued in Tegucigalpa on July 1 as the Government of Honduras (GOH) rejected the latest counter-proposal from the teachers' unions, calling it "absurd" and launching a media campaign in the newspapers against the teachers. The March for Life (Marcha Por La V [...]	2004-07-01 22:20:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC ELAB PHUM SOCI PREL HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1490	Millennium Challenge Corporation Visit to Honduras [...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives from the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC),visiting Honduras from June 8- 16, held a productive set of meetings with Honduran government officials, members of civil society and the private sector, and representatives of other donor organizations and nation [...]	2004-07-06 16:17:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EINV SOCI PREL PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1508	Review of the Consultative Group meeting in [...] Summary: The Honduran Consultative Group (CG) meeting was held on June 10-11 with more than 300 participants from the GOH, civil society, and the international donor community. President Maduro made a key-note presentation on the importance of this meeting to report on the progress made on a [...]	2004-07-07 12:57:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EINV SOCI PREL PGOV HO MCC NSC
04TEGUCIGALPA1526	Honduran Economic Highlights: April-June 2004 [...] On April 14, Paris Club creditors and the GOH agreed to a restructuring of Honduras' public external debt, leading to the cancellation of approximately $147 million of Honduran debt, and the rescheduling of $214 million more (see reftel). Under the agreement reached between Paris Club partic [...]	2004-07-09 18:35:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV ELAB ETRD EWWT KJUS PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1541	Electoral Law Reform Adopted; 2005 Primary [...] On June 21, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (Tribunal Supremo Electoral TSE) - established for the purpose of directing the electoral process and internal elections - approved the calendar for the 2005 primary and internal elections in Honduras. According to the Calendar, starting August 20, 20 [...]	2004-07-12 13:05:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1567	HONDURAS READY TO ADVANCE ON DOHA, UNEASY ABOUT G- [...] (U) EconOff delivered ref A talking points to Vice Minister for External Trade Irving Guerrero on July 13. As Honduran officials have stated in the past (ref B),the GOH is eager to move forward with the Doha Round negotiations and are generally supportive of U.S. positions, but regard themse [...]	2004-07-15 18:29:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EAGR PGOV HO WTO
04TEGUCIGALPA1577	Honduras Poised to Become Leader in Port Security [...] SUMMARY: Following a June visit to the ports of Honduras, a United States Coast Guard delegation confirmed that Honduras was taking the appropriate measures to ready its ports for certification on July 1, and to successfully comply with International Maritime Organization (IMO) requirements an [...]	2004-07-16 18:02:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	EWWT EINV ETRD PBTS SNAR PTER BEXP ECON PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1581	March For Life Focused on Forests Reenergizes [...] (U) SUMMARY: The March for Life (Marcha por la Vida) appears to have successfully launched a new committed environmental protection movement in the country. It remains to be seen if the movement can sustain its momentum and maintain political pressure on the government and Congress, and whet [...]	2004-07-16 22:03:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SENV KCRM KJUS PHUM SNAR SOCI HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1583	Maduro Launches Investigation of Forestry Agency [...] (U) SUMMARY: On July 2, Honduran President Ricardo Maduro established an "intervention" into the operations of the Honduran Corporation for Forest Development, COHDEFOR. A three-person commission was named to conduct an in-depth analysis of COHDEFOR's operations, report back to Maduro within [...]	2004-07-19 13:06:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SENV EAGR KCRM KJUS KCOR PHUM SOCI HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1597	GOH, BUT NOT HONDURAN CIVIL SOCIETY, OPEN TO [...] (C) As noted in ref C, the GOH has actively worked to advance democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms in Cuba. On April 15, the UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) passed a Honduran-drafted resolution calling for greater respect for human rights in Cuba. The Government of Cuba (G [...]	2004-07-19 22:50:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ELAB CU HO ILO
04TEGUCIGALPA1599	Maduro Reaches $33 Million Deal with Teachers; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 10, President Ricardo Maduro and representatives of teachers' unions signed an agreement reinstating certain salary benefits which had been cut in December, thus bringing an end to the 33-day teachers' strike. The GOH did not offer an across-the-board salary increase, [...]	2004-07-20 17:25:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EAID ELAB SOCI PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA169	MEDIA REACTION ON FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, JANUARY 22, [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 1/24 entitled "No Access". "Within the package of Constitutional reforms approved by Congress, there is a new concept called Habeas Data, which was closes access to public information, even though it isn't part of the political agre [...]	2004-01-22 18:41:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA185	MEDIA REACTION ON STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH, [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 1/23 entitled "State of the Union Message". "The message of President Bush fell short, not only did it not address Latin American issues, but it was weak on international issues as a whole. For instance, Bush didn't talk about som [...]	2004-01-23 17:41:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1984	HONDURAS' FINANCIAL REFORM LAWS: THREE DOWN, ONE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Honduran Congress has approved three of the four financial sector reform laws required under the IMF agreement. The three that have passed are the shortest and simplest of the laws, leaving the longest and most important for last. However the President of the Banking Commis [...]	2004-09-03 19:57:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA1985	HONDURAN OIL TRUCKERS' STRIKE BLOCKS NORTHERN [...] (SBU) Summary: Striking oil truckers blocked the main highway to Puerto Cortes in northern Honduras for 19 hours from the night of August 30 to the afternoon of August 31, before Honduran police cleared the road and detained two strike leaders. The strike was triggered by a contract dispute w [...]	2004-09-03 20:18:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET	ECON ENRG ELAB PGOV KMCA HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2057	UNDER SIEGE FOR MONTHS, HONDURAN MINISTER OF [...] (U) During a national press conference on September 13, Honduran President Ricardo Maduro announced the resignation of the embattled Minister of Education Carlos Avila Molina. Maduro praised Avila's accomplishments and noted that Avila was leaving strictly for personal reasons. Replacing Avila [...]	2004-09-14 22:11:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB EAID ECON SOCI PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2092	SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE (SEPQ) [...] (U) The following responses are keyed to the Security Environment Profile Questionnaire (ref A). POLITICAL VIOLENCE Â [...]	2004-09-20 19:12:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ASEC PTER PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2093	Honduras: President Gives Economic Overview [...] Summary: On September 9, at the opening of an event to promote DR-CAFTA, President Ricardo Maduro presented a sweeping overview of the state of the Honduran economy. As usual, President Maduro emphasized what he sees as the accomplishments of his administration - reining in government spendi [...]	2004-09-20 20:16:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON ETRD ELAB EINV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2123	THE DEMISE OF HONDURAS' ANTI-CORRUPTION COUNCIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Once heralded by President Ricardo Maduro as a success story in the fight against corruption, Honduras' National Anti-Corruption Council (Consejo Nacional Anti Corrupcion - CNA) is about to fade from existence. The Maduro Administration plans to coopt the CNA's operations by plac [...]	2004-09-22 21:21:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KJUS KCRM ECON PHUM PINR ASEC EAID HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2222	HONDURAN POLICE DELIVER BLOW TO SUSPECTED [...] (U) On October 2, Honduran police confiscated USD 1,070,000 from suspected Honduran narcotraffickers near the city of San Pedro Sula (SPS) after discovering the cash during the search of a suspect truck at a police inspection stop. The money was found concealed in spare tires inside a sealed [...]	2004-10-05 16:56:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PGOV KCRM KJUS PHUM ECON HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2223	HONDURAS: FAST-FOOD BOOM CONTINUES AS FIRST [...] (SBU) Summary: Honduras, fast-food sector continues to flourish and, with new entrant &Quiznos Sub,8 remains dominated by U.S. franchises. Quiznos sees strong growth potential in Honduras, based on the strong market acceptance of U.S. brands and continuing economic growth. Quiznos did n [...]	2004-10-05 19:17:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2224	MEDIA REACTION ON THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE, [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 10/2, entitled "Debate and reality." "Although the first of three presidential debates was won by the Democratic candidate John F. Kerry, his victory was far from being a decisive blow against President Bush, who also lost the firs [...]	2004-10-05 21:24:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV KDEM HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2237	Honduras: ECA Postponement Demarche Delivered [...] (U) EconOff received ref A talking points by e-mail (ref B) on September 24, and delivered them on September 27 to Gerardo Salgado, Vice Minister for Natural Resources and Energy in the Minstry of Natural Resources and Environment. Salgado serves as acting Minister when Minister Panting is out [...]	2004-10-06 12:57:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EIND ELAB PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2267	HONDURAS: UNDP PROCUREMENT DEBATE CONTINUES TO [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 27, the Honduran National Association of Industries (ANDI) issued a two-page open letter denouncing the United Nations Development Program,s (UNDP) handling of the ongoing bid process for container inspection systems at Puerto Cortes. Post has already received comp [...]	2004-10-12 20:02:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECPS EINV PGOV EWWT KJUS KMCA HO UNDP
04TEGUCIGALPA2289	HONDURAS: TAX MAN IS MOVED BACK INTO MINFIN [...] (C) Summary: The Honduran National Congress has decreed that the Executive Revenue Directorate (DEI) will no longer be a semi-autonomous tax agency and will instead be folded into the Ministry of Finance (MOF). The DEI is overstaffed and highly politicized, as alleged in the justification to [...]	2004-10-13 18:25:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON EINV PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2313	"Cumple y Gana" Labor Project Advances CAFTA [...] Summary: The U.S. Department of Labor-funded "Cumple y Gana" project held two recent public outreach events in Honduras, aimed at informing the private sector as to the contents and implications of CAFTA-DR with regards to protection of labor rights and enforcement of labor laws. EconOffs par [...]	2004-10-15 14:10:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ELAB EINV PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2314	Honduras' Reaction to July Framework: Cautiously [...] (U) Summary: GOH trade officials are reasonably satisfied with the WTO July Framework, regarding it as an agreement that recognizes Honduras' key interests but nonetheless defers most difficult decisions for future negotiation. Honduras will support the candidacy of Perez de Castillo of Urugua [...]	2004-10-15 14:12:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EAGR PGOV HO WTO
04TEGUCIGALPA2318	CONVOKING A SPECIAL SESSION OF THE OAS PERMANENT [...] No summary [...]	2004-10-17 14:45:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM NU OAS
04TEGUCIGALPA232	HONDURAS IMF AGREEMENT FULL STEAM AHEAD -- PRIOR [...] (C) Summary. The Honduran government has fully completed the prior conditions listed in the preliminary Letter of Intent (LOI) for a three-year Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility Program (PRGF) agreed to with the IMF mission on November 25. In addition, the GOH has put to rest two new IMF [...]	2004-01-30 21:43:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV EAID ETRD EINV EPET ELAB HO
04TEGUCIGALPA234	TASK FORCE XATRUCH UPDATE: MADURO RESOLUTE IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In face of overwhelming domestic opposition and high costs to his own political popularity, President Maduro reaffirmed Honduras' commitment to send the next contingent of troops to Iraq and indicated those troops are likely to be deployed there beyond the initial one-year period [...]	2004-01-30 22:53:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PREL PGOV IZ HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2356	HONDURAN PUBLIC MINISTRY DROPPING CORRUPTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: While other countries in the region have taken steps to arrest and/or prosecute high-level corrupt individuals, Honduras appears to be moving in the opposite direction. On October 18, the Public Ministry officially dropped all pending corruption charges against ex-president (and [...]	2004-10-20 22:28:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KJUS KCRM ECON PHUM PINR EAID HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2357	HONDURAN PUBLIC MINISTRY DROPPING CORRUPTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: While other countries in the region have taken steps to arrest and/or prosecute high-level corrupt individuals, Honduras appears to be moving in the opposite direction. On October 18, the Public Ministry officially dropped all pending corruption charges against ex-president (and [...]	2004-10-21 12:43:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KJUS KCRM ECON PHUM PINR EAID HO
04TEGUCIGALPA236	TEGUCIGALPA PROTEST PLANNED FOR FEBRUARY 5: IMF [...] (C) Summary: The leftist organization Popular Block is planning a large protest march for February 5 in Tegucigalpa. The protest, which may include over a thousand demonstrators, will focus on controversial domestic legislation linked to the recent IMF agreement and various U.S. foreign polic [...]	2004-01-30 23:45:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB SOCI ETRD PREL ECON ASEC PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2373	HONDURAS DECLARED MINE FREE [...] On Friday, October 8, the Government of Honduras (GOH) convened a ceremony at the Headquarters of the First Infantry Battalion (Primer Batallon de Infanteria) on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa to officially declare Honduras mine free. U.S. participation in the demining efforts was directed throu [...]	2004-10-22 15:14:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MCAP PGOV PARM HO
04TEGUCIGALPA238	Honduras and CAFTA Labor Track II: Ministry of [...] (SBU) Summary: In Honduras, there is good will in the Ministry of Labor (MOL) in general and Minister of Labor German Leitzelar in particular to protect core labor rights. Honduran labor law, while deficient in some areas with respect to ILO core conventions, is not the main issue for the pr [...]	2004-02-02 14:29:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ETRD PHUM ECON PGOV KJUS PINR HO ILO
04TEGUCIGALPA2406	NON-FUNCTIONING BOMB DISCOVERED AT PUBLIC MINISTRY [...] Summary. At approximately 1000 hours on Friday, October 22, an explosive device was discovered outside the Public Ministry by a guard assigned to that location. The guard contacted the local bomb squad who responded to the scene to evaluate the device. RSO was told by police contact device lac [...]	2004-10-27 17:32:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC KSAC PGOV KJUS HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2424	HONDURAS: TAX SERVICE STRENGTHENS INTERNAL [...] (C) Summary: The tax authority,s internal affairs unit, known as the Transparency Unit, has mounted a vigorous effort over the last 18 months to investigate and combat corruption within the tax and customs services. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the dismissals for corruption have had an a [...]	2004-10-29 15:44:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON KCOR ETRD PGOV PINR KMCA KJUS HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2426	CORRECTED COPY: HONDURAS CASHIERS ITS TAX MAN; [...] (C) Summary: On October 15, it was reported that Mario Duarte, head of the Executive Revenue Directorate (DEI, the GOH equivalent of the USG,s Internal Revenue Service) will be moved out of his position effective November 1. Duarte will become the new Director of the National Ports Company. [...]	2004-10-29 15:52:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON EINV ETRD PGOV PINR KMCA HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2427	HONDURAS TELECOMMS UPDATE OCTOBER 2004 [...] (C) Summary: On October 12, EconChief met with Jose Renan Caballero, Chief Telecommunications Advisor on the President,s Modernization Commission, to discuss recent developments in the telecommunications sector. Caballero was candid regarding Alcatel, Communitel, Megatel, the new telecommuni [...]	2004-10-29 17:11:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECPS EINV PGOV ELAB KJUS KMCA HO UNDP
04TEGUCIGALPA2434	AMBASSADOR URGES GREATER ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS; [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 27, Ambassador and DCM raised U.S. concerns with President Maduro about perceptions that Honduras is backsliding on anti-corruption efforts, its potential impact on MCC eligibility, and the recent decision by the Public Ministry (PM) to dismiss corruption cases against [...]	2004-10-29 20:26:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KJUS KCRM ECON PHUM PINR EAID HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2452	Honduras: 2003 Macroeconomic Overview [...] SUMMARY: Post submits its annual macroeconomic summary for Honduras for the year 2003, based on the official economic statistics released by the GOH in the fall of 2004. Reftel contains information on imports, exports, and the trade deficit; this cable contains information on economic growth, [...]	2004-11-02 12:30:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV ELAB ETRD PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2456	MEDIA REACTION ON THE U.S ELECTIONS, NOVEMBER 1, [...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based moderate daily "La Prensa" on 11/1, entitled "Elections and Terror." "The U.S. election process on the first Tuesday in November has become an anachronism, since millions of Americans will have voted before that date despite the suspicion that the winner won't [...]	2004-11-02 20:35:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV KDEM HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2496	HONDURAN AG NAVARRO SEEKS SOLUTION TO PARALYSIS AT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Negotiations continue at the Public Ministry (PM) between Attorney General Ovidio Navarro and federal prosecutors (fiscales) after many fiscales walked off the job October 19 following Navarro's termination of ten and transfer of six others for their public criticism over the P [...]	2004-11-04 19:37:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KJUS KCRM ECON PHUM PINR EAID HO
04TEGUCIGALPA250	HONDURAN CONGRESS PASSES NEW LAW OF HABEAS DATA [...] SUMMARY: On January 20, the Honduran Congress passed a series of proposed changes to the Constitution to improve the mechanisms of civic participation and governmental accountability through the introduction of new democratic measures such as plebiscites and referenda. At the eleventh hour, [...]	2004-02-02 23:54:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM OIIP PREL KPAO HO
04TEGUCIGALPA251	MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, FEBRUARY 2, 2004 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 1/31 entitled "The big lie". "At this point in time, it's just intolerable the attempt to justify the invasion and aggression to Iraq under the false pretense of the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Besides, the th [...]	2004-02-03 14:38:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2510	MEDIA REACTION ON THE U.S ELECTIONS, NOVEMBER 5, [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 11/5, entitled "Democratic Defeat." "Not even the active support of several Hollywood stars, the most influential media outlets, academics, organizations of all kinds, including relatives of 9/11 victims and soldiers who died or ar [...]	2004-11-05 20:26:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV KDEM HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2529	MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, NOVEMBER 8, 2004 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 11/8, entitled "Another Challenge in Iraq." "While President George W. Bush and his followers are enjoying his indisputable win, the occupation forces in Iraq have a difficult task at hand: conquering the rebel Sunni city of Falluj [...]	2004-11-09 13:00:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV MOPS IZ HO
04TEGUCIGALPA258	GUNMEN SHOOT CAR OF PRESIDENT OF HONDURAN CONGRESS [...] (C) Summary: Unknown gunmen shot at the car of Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo, President of Congress, February 1. Lobo was not in the car at the time, and his driver, two aides, a bodyguard, and an army officer in the car were unhurt. Police believe that the attack was either (a) linked to threats (mad [...]	2004-02-03 21:17:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET	PGOV KCRM KJUS SNAR ASEC PHUM PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2580	MEDIA REACTION ON THE U.S ELECTIONS, NOVEMBER 10, [...] Op-ed by Vicente Machado (Honduran Ambassador in Colombia) in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 11/10, entitled "Wink to Kerry, Smile to Bush." "Senator John Kerry received a wink in the ballots, but victory smiled on President George Bush after the U.S. elections. It was what [...]	2004-11-16 13:10:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV KDEM HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2635	2005 HONDURAN PRIMARY ELECTIONS - RULES OF THE GAME [...] Summary. Honduran primary elections are scheduled for February 20, 2005, with general elections set for November 27, 2005. Under a new Electoral law reform passed early in 2004, Honduran voters will be able to select candidates for the National Congress in the 2005 elections based not only on [...]	2004-11-23 16:44:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2645	GOH Trade Officials Worried about DR Exclusion from [...] (SBU) Summary: GOH trade officials are increasingly concerned that the exclusion of the Dominican Republic from CAFTA would require Honduras to re-sign CAFTA and re-start its process of Congressional approval and ratification. They believe that there is no legal mechanism under Honduran law b [...]	2004-11-24 20:31:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON PGOV EAGR ELAB HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2646	HONDURAN PRIMARY ELECTIONS IN FEBRUARY: PASTOR AND [...] (SBU) Summary. With the February 20, 2005, primary elections three months away, the race is tightening on the Nationalists side with President of Congress Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo closing the gap on Tegucigalpa Mayor Miguel Pastor. On the Liberal side, politician Mel Zelaya is pulling away from [...]	2004-11-26 12:17:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON SNAR KJUS PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA265	HONDURAS SEIZES 90 MORE KILOS OF COCAINE; 2004 [...] On January 31 Honduran police seized 15 kilos of cocaine in Bonito Oriental, and on February 1 the police seized another 75 kilos in Balfate. Both towns are on the Caribbean coast of Honduras near Trujillo. In addition, in the February 1 action police arrested five suspects, and seized cash [...]	2004-02-04 21:00:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR PGOV KCRM KJUS SOCI HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2722	HONDURAS SEEING INCREASING NUMBERS OF CUBAN [...] (SBU) Honduras, for various reasons, is emerging as a new, preferred port for Cuban migrants by sea. Primarily, Honduras acts as a way station for Cubans on their way to the U.S. The route appears to usually be the same: migrants leave from Comaguey in the Santa Cruz province of Cuba, stoppi [...]	2004-09-24 10:30:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SMIG PREF PGOV PREL MARR CU HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2757	CAFTA Debate Heats Up Ahead of Possible December 15 [...] Summary: As the Honduran Congress considers CAFTA and moves closer to a vote, both supporters and opponents of the agreement have been making their views known in public fora and through the press. In recent weeks CAFTA has been publicly denounced by Roman Catholic Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez [...]	2004-12-10 12:10:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON PGOV EAID KIPR EAGR ELAB PINR HO

04TEGUCIGALPA2765	HONDURAS ECONOMIC REFORM: DEPOSIT INSURANCE AGENCY [...] (U) SUMMARY: In September 2004, at IMF insistence, the GOH passed four banking reform laws aimed at strengthening the nation's financial system. While the GOH missed the IMF's target date by nearly three months, the laws passed in late September do meet the terms of the IMF agreement and, mor [...]	2004-12-10 21:31:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PGOV HO IMF
04TEGUCIGALPA2766	HONDURAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: NATIONALS - [...] (SBU) Introduction: During recent meetings with Washington visitor, National Party leading presidential candidates Miguel Pastor (first in polls) and Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo (second in polls) were impressive, Liberal Party leading presidential candidate Mel Zelaya was charismatic, while third pla [...]	2004-12-10 21:46:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON ETRD SNAR KJUS PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2768	HONDURAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: NATIONALS - [...] (SBU) Introduction: During recent meetings with Washington visitor, National Party leading presidential candidates Miguel Pastor (first in polls) and Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo (second in polls) were impressive, Liberal Party leading presidential candidate Mel Zelaya was charismatic, while third pla [...]	2004-12-13 12:05:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON ETRD SNAR KJUS PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2777	STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS [...] Summary. Over the last several days student demonstrations have been taking place outside the public university in Tegucigalpa. The Government of Honduras (GOH) has threatened to close down the university for a year because of corruption in the awarding of degrees and student demonstrations. [...]	2004-12-13 20:04:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC KSAC HO PGOV
04TEGUCIGALPA2816	HONDURAS: 2004-2005 INCSR PART II, MONEY LAUNDERING [...] Post provides its submission for the 2004-2005 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) Part II, Money Laundering And Financial Crimes. Introduction and General Questions Two years after passing a new law against money laundering, the government of Honduras has made conside [...]	2004-12-21 12:14:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KTFN KJUS ECON PGOV PREL HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2826	HONDURAS ECONOMIC REFORM: CENTRAL BANK REFORMED AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: In September 2004, at IMF insistence, the GOH passed four banking reform laws aimed at strengthening the nation's financial system. This is the second in a series of four cables that analyze each of these laws, assess their impacts on the Honduran financial system, and outline ch [...]	2004-12-22 12:12:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PGOV HO IMF
04TEGUCIGALPA2841	HONDURAN GOVERNMENT RESPONDS TO 12/23 BUS MASSACRE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Honduras reacted with outrage and aggressive law enforcement efforts in the wake of the massacre of 28 people in a bus in San Pedro Sula December 23. The military is assisting the police by boosting joint patrols, and police have arrested several suspects acc [...]	2004-12-24 14:24:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PGOV SNAR KJUS PHUM ASEC CASC KSAC HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2844	HONDURAN GOVERNMENT RESPONDS TO 12/23 BUS MASSACRE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Honduras reacted with outrage and aggressive law enforcement efforts in the wake of the massacre of 28 people in a bus in San Pedro Sula December 23. The military is assisting the police by boosting joint patrols, and police have arrested several suspects acc [...]	2004-12-24 14:24:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PGOV SNAR KJUS PHUM ASEC CASC KSAC HO
04TEGUCIGALPA2874	HONDURAN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE FEELS POLICE [...] (C) Honduran military intelligence chief COL Efrain Ochoa met at his request December 30 with AMB and DCM to discuss his concerns about public statements made by President Ricardo Maduro, Minister of Public Security Oscar Alvarez, and top police officials about the massacre of 28 people in a b [...]	2004-12-24 14:24:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PGOV SNAR KJUS PHUM ASEC CASC KSAC HO
04TEGUCIGALPA298	LARGE BUT PEACEFUL TEGUCIGALPA PROTEST COMES OFF [...] As promised, the leftist organization Popular Block held a large protest march February 5 in Tegucigalpa, and a smaller protest in San Pedro Sula. The protest also included temporary morning road blocks on main highways near major cities in several parts of the country. The largely peaceful [...]	2004-02-10 21:35:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ELAB SOCI ETRD PREL ECON ASEC PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA315	Honduras: Supporting Human Rights and Democracy [...] The following is Post's submission for the "Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record 2003-4" for Honduras. 2. Begin Text Honduras' constitutional government is headed by President Ricardo Maduro, elected in November 2001 in elections that domestic and international observe [...]	2004-02-11 20:57:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM ELAB PGOV PREL SMIG EAID KDEM KJUS HO
04TEGUCIGALPA325	Honduran Econ Highlights: December 2003 - January [...] (U) On December 30, 2003, Congress passed the 2004 federal budget. The consideration of the budget, traditionally undertaken in a special December session of Congress, took on particular importance this year, as the government of Honduras worked under the constraint of meeting the prior condi [...]	2004-02-12 15:28:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR EFIN ETRD ELAB EINV PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA344	SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR SAUERBREY'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Post welcomes the visit of Ambassador Sauerbrey to Honduras February 19-20. Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, half way through his constitutionally mandated single four-year term, faces difficult task leading a highly indebted poor country with numerous challenges. Bilateral [...]	2004-02-13 23:13:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OVIP PREL PGOV PHUM ECON SNAR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA381	HONDURAN CONGRESSMAN ARMANDO AVILA PANCHAME [...] (U) National Party Deputy, Armando Avila Panchame, who was convicted February 12th for drug trafficking, was sentenced February 19th to 20 years in prison. His sentence stemmed from his arrest July 6, 2003, while attempting to flee the scene of a drug trafficking airplane crash in the eastern [...]	2004-02-20 20:24:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PREL PGOV KCRM KJUS CVIS HO
04TEGUCIGALPA382	Honduras TIP Update: GOH Active in Preventing and [...] Summary: Honduras has been active in recent months on a number of trafficking in persons (TIP) fronts. This cable provides an update on these efforts. End Summary. TIP Seminars - Prevention and Eradication of TIP --------------------------------------------- --- 2. The Embassy brought [...]	2004-02-20 20:50:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM SMIG KWMN ELAB PGOV PREL KJUS HO
04TEGUCIGALPA400	NEW HONDURAN ATTORNEY GENERAL: THE LAW IS GOOD, IF [...] (C) Summary: On February 17 Ramon Ovidio Navarro Duarte was sworn in as Honduras' next Attorney General (AG),replacing outgoing AG Roy Edmundo Medina Nolasco. Navarro, a Honduran Supreme Court Justice, is expected to assume his new responsibilities on March 12. Navarro is a Nationalist Part [...]	2004-02-23 23:31:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM SNAR PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA401	Port Security: Honduras on Track to Meet U.S. and IMO [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Honduras (GOH) is well positioned to be in compliance with MTSA and IMO requirements by the July 1, 2004 deadline. The country's chief challenges in meeting the requirements set out in the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002 (MTSA) and in the Internati [...]	2004-02-24 15:23:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV BEXP ECON ETRD PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA466	TASK FORCE XATRUCH I RETURNS AS HONDURAN ARMED [...] (U) Summary: On February 20, the Government of Honduras (GOH) celebrated the return of Task Force Xatruch I (TFXI),the 370-man contingent the GOH deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF),with full honors and a military parade. Final elements of TFXI arrived in Honduras [...]	2004-02-27 23:07:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PREL PGOV ASEC IZ HO
04TEGUCIGALPA467	ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE: MADURO INVITES TRANSPARENCY [...] (U) Summary: In a February 25 private briefing with international donors, the Transparency International (TI) delegation, led by TI Vice Chair of the Board of Directors Rosa Ines Ospina from Colombia, acknowledged positive anti- corruption efforts by President Ricardo Maduro's administration [...]	2004-02-27 23:22:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KJUS KCRM ECON EFIN PHUM PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA502	MEDIA REACTION ON CORRUPTION AND TRANSPARENCY, [...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" on 2/27 entitled "Transparency against corruption." "The visit of a delegation of Transparency International (TI) to Honduras, headed by its Vice-president, Ines Ospina, is an encouraging step in our fight against this threat, one of th [...]	2004-03-02 20:34:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA542	SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE (SEPQ) [...] (U) The following responses are keyed to the Security Environment Profile Questionnaire (ref A. POLITICAL VIOLENCE Â [...]	2004-03-08 15:31:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ASEC PTER PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA543	High Gas Prices: First Test of Honduran IMF Program [...] (SBU) Summary. A third price hike, in as many months, has brought gasoline and diesel prices in Honduras up to new highs of USD 2.94 and USD 2.02 per gallon, respectively. Gas prices are now 19 percent higher than at the end of 2003 (diesel is up 17.6 percent) and are now clearly the highest [...]	2004-03-08 15:33:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET EFIN ECON PGOV PINR ELAB HO
04TEGUCIGALPA56	HONDURAN MINISTER OF CULTURE RESIGNS; CITES [...] (U) On January 6, Honduran Minister of Culture Mireya Batres (former fiancee of Honduran President Ricardo Maduro) publicly announced her resignation. Batres' resignation comes as no surprise, as her tense relationship with First Lady Aguas Ocana has flared publicly on more than one occasion. [...]	2004-01-09 20:42:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SCUL HO
04TEGUCIGALPA560	Honduran Econ Highlights: February 2004 [...] (U) On February 2, the GOH signed a Letter of Intent for a three-year Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF),which was then approved by the IMF Board in Washington on February 18. This marks the end of two long years of negotiations between the IMF and the Maduro government, but the re [...]	2004-03-09 21:38:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAIR EFIN EINV ELAB ETRD PGOV TSPA HO IMF
04TEGUCIGALPA59	SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN SENIOR HONDURAN MILITARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 5, the Honduran Armed Forces made significant changes among its senior leadership, installing new officers in the positions of Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Inspector General of the Armed Forces, and Commander of the Navy. These leadership changes reflecte [...]	2004-01-09 22:46:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PGOV PREL PINR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA642	HONDURAS REMAINS COMMITTED TO IRAQ DEPLOYMENT BUT [...] (U) SUMMARY: Reports in the U.S. and international press which suggest that the Government of Honduras (GOH) now plans to withdraw its troops from Iraq this summer are misleading and contradict local Honduran media coverage of the issue. On March 16, President Ricardo Maduro held a press confe [...]	2004-03-17 00:17:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PREL PGOV ASEC IZ HO
04TEGUCIGALPA649	COUNTERTERRORISM ACTION GROUP -- TEGUCIGALPA [...] (SBU) Summary: At our first Counterterrorism Action Group (CTAG) meeting to discuss counterterrorism (CT) assistance to the Government of Honduras (GOH) and assess GOH CT needs, representatives of G-8 missions, Spain, and the European Union (EU) all concurred that the threat of a terrorist att [...]	2004-03-17 22:55:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PTER ASEC PREL PGOV SMIG PHUM HO
04TEGUCIGALPA652	MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, MARCH 17, 2004 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 3/17 entitled "They should come back." "The bloody terrorist attacks in Madrid last week, the defeat of Jose Maria Aznar's Partido Popular in Spain, and the announcement by recently elected Spanish Prime Minister Rodriguez Zapatero [...]	2004-03-18 14:33:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA653	MEDIA REACTION ON HAITI, MARCH 17, 2004 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 3/17 entitled "Maneuvers." "In a similar situation to what has happened in Iraq, where a provisional government backed by Washington tries to handle a transitional period until they come up with a new government to take over after a [...]	2004-03-18 14:34:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA669	MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, MARCH 16, 2004 [...] Editorial on front-page corner of Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 3/16 entitled "Mending errors." "As El Heraldo warned when it was decided to send troops, the continuing terrorist attacks and the announcement of the withdrawal of the Spanish troops from Iraq have shown that [...]	2004-03-19 18:59:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA671	HONDURAS UNABLE TO CONTRIBUTE TO HUMANITARIAN AID [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-19 20:16:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PREF PGOV EAID HA HO
04TEGUCIGALPA705	AVIAN FLU: HONDURAS STILL BANS POULTRY FROM TEN [...] SUMMARY: A new decree has renewed and slightly modified the ban which Honduras places on poultry exports from certain U.S. states, citing concerns of high-pathogenic and low-pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI and LPAI). The decree implementing the ban was signed on March 5, but only brought to [...]	2004-03-24 18:08:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON ETRD AMED TBIO PGOV HO OIE
04TEGUCIGALPA707	Popular Block Protests Presence of Honduran Troops [...] The Popular Block (Bloque Popular-BP) pulled together a small and peaceful two-hour demonstration on March 20 at the Embassy to protest the "War on Iraq." The BP convoked its member labor unions, indigenous groups, affiliated leftist political party, the Democratic Union, student organization [...]	2004-03-24 21:20:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI ETRD PINR ASEC HO
04TEGUCIGALPA734	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL BALLENGER'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Post welcomes the visit of CODEL Cass Ballenger (R-NC, Chairman, House International Relations, Western Hemisphere Subcommittee) to Honduras April 12-13. Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, a little over half way through his constitutionally mandated single four-year term, faces [...]	2004-03-29 22:53:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PREL PGOV PHUM ECON SNAR HO
04TEGUCIGALPA751	HONDURAS SEIZES 700 MORE KILOS OF COCAINE; 2004 [...] (U) On March 30, Honduran authorities confiscated approximately 700 kilos of cocaine and arrested six individuals in the vicinity of Santa Cruz de Yojoa, near Puerto Cortes on Honduras' Caribbean coast. Police arrived in the area as the traffickers were in the process of preparing a false com [...]	2004-03-31 23:28:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PGOV KCRM KJUS SOCI HO
04TEGUCIGALPA756	EMBASSY TEGUCIGALPA FY2004 ANTI-TIP BILATERAL [...] As one of the focus countries for the President's Initiative to combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP) (ref B),Post is pleased to present an anti-TIP bilateral project proposal. Post understands that several of the Mission's proposed anti-TIP activities in the areas of prevention, assistance to [...]	2004-04-01 12:51:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM SMIG KWMN KCRM ELAB ASEC PGOV KJUS HO
04TEGUCIGALPA778	HONDURAN TRADE PRIORITIES: DOHA NEGOTIATIONS AND [...] SUMMARY: The GOH's two top trade priorities for 2004 are progress in the WTO negotiations of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) and the creation of a Central American customs union. In the WTO negotiations, Honduras' main concerns focus on agricultural market access, rather than agricultural [...]	2004-04-02 20:51:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON EAGR PGOV HO WTO
04TEGUCIGALPA792	HONDURAS SEIZES 122 MORE KILOS OF COCAINE; 2004 [...] (U) On April 3, Honduran authorities confiscated approximately 108 kilos of cocaine and arrested Luis Armando Juarez Pineda (46) at a make-shift check point police established at Bonito Oriental in the Department of Colon on the Caribbean coast. The cocaine was discovered hidden in a false co [...]	2004-04-05 20:52:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PGOV KCRM KJUS SOCI HO
04TEGUCIGALPA80	IN FIRST MAJOR BUST OF THE YEAR, HONDURANS SEIZE [...] On January 10, Honduran authorities seized approximately 1,000 kilos of cocaine after a drug-laden aircraft, en route from Colombia, crashed landed in an attempt to avoid interdiction. The plane, under escort by the Honduran Air Force and apparently low on fuel, crash landed on the Caribbean [...]	2004-01-13 21:45:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR PGOV KCRM KJUS SOCI HO
04TEGUCIGALPA811	Honduras Announces New Minimum Wage - Nine Percent [...] After long and contentious negotiations, on April 1, the Government, the private employers' association (COHEP),and the three labor confederations announced they had agreed upon a raise in the minimum wage effective immediately. Unlike past years when the raise was backdated to January, this [...]	2004-04-06 21:37:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON ETRD PHUM PGOV HO
04TEGUCIGALPA819	Honduras' Fight Against Money Laundering: A Good [...] (U) Summary and Action Request: Two years after passing a new law against money laundering, the GOH has made considerable progress in implementing the law and establishing the entities responsible for the investigation and prosecution of financial crimes. The USG, through the Department of [...]	2004-04-12 18:27:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN PTER SNAR KCRM KJUS PGOV PREL HO
04TEGUCIGALPA858	CODEL BALLENGER DISCUSSES CUBA, IRAQ, CAFTA, [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 12, CODEL Ballenger met with Honduran President Ricardo Maduro. Issues discussed at the meeting included Cuba, Iraq, the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA),narcotrafficking, and humanitarian/development assistance. Representative Ballenger expressed U.S. [...]	2004-04-14 22:50:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OREP ETRD SNAR PGOV PHUM EAGR CU HO
04TEGUCIGALPA862	MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, APRIL 15, 2004 [...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" on 4/15 entitled "Iraq." "The situation in Iraq has deteriorated in the last weeks, due to the uprising of several armed groups in territories controlled by Shiites and Sunnis threatens to spread the violence to the whole Iraq." " [...]	2004-04-15 20:35:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV MOPS HO
04TEGUCIGALPA873	MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, APRIL 15, 2004 [...] Article in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 4/15 entitled "Sixth attack to Tegucigalpa Base." "Colonel Wilfredo Calderon Canales, commander of battalion Xatruch II, confirmed in a phone interview that the Honduran base in Najaf was attacked by unknown Iraqi forces on the afterno [...]	2004-04-15 23:14:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV MOPS HO
04TEGUCIGALPA925	MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, APRIL 21, 2004 [...] Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" on 4/21 entitled "Retreat" "The announced return of our troops has only confirmed a decision taken by President Maduro almost a month ago that he wouldn't request to Congress an extension to authorize the presence of additional Hondura [...]	2004-04-21 21:34:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV MOPS HO
04TEGUCIGALPA945	PUBLIC AFFAIRS INFLUENCE ANALYSIS FOR HONDURAS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Honduras is a small country of approximately 6.7 million people, 72 percent of them living on less than two dollars a day and almost 50 percent under the age of 18. A small, core group of related and associated economic and political elites (see my attached comment)1, exercise [...]	2004-04-26 18:32:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OIIP PREL KPAO ECON PGOV SMIG HO
04TEGUCIGALPA960	PUBLIC AFFAIRS INFLUENCE ANALYSIS FOR HONDURAS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Honduras is a small country of approximately 6.7 million people, 72 percent of them living on less than two dollars a day and almost 50 percent under the age of 18. A small, core group of related and associated economic and political elites1, exercise effective control of busin [...]	2004-04-27 19:46:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OIIP PREL KPAO ECON PGOV SMIG HO
04TEGUCIGALPA966	MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ, APRIL 26, 2004 [...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" on 4/24 entitled "Return of the troops." "President Maduro has recently announced the return of the Honduran troops in Iraq, who were supposed to carry out humanitarian and reconstruction works in that country." "When the Honduran gov [...]	2004-04-27 21:59:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV MOPS HO
04TELAVIV1354	LIKUD POWER BROKER -- AND REPUTED PARTY BULLY -- [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Likud's outspoken rightist Central Committee member Uzi Cohen and some of his what could only be described as political henchmen presented an alternative peace plan to Poloff and Pol/FSN on March 3 wherein the Palestinians would have their own state -- in a carved-out [...]	2004-03-04 13:16:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG IS GOI INTERNAL EXTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV1367	ISRAELI REACTION TO HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT MUTED [...] (SBU) Summary: GOI and public reaction to the State Department's 2003 Human Rights Report (HRR) has been relatively low-key in the five business days since the report's publication. The GOI's main substantive public statement -- as reported in the daily Ha'aretz on February 27 -- came from F [...]	2004-03-04 15:35:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KWBG KPAL IS GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI SOCIETY PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV1370	ASSASSINATION OF ARAFAT AIDE IN GAZA CITY -- LAW [...] (C) Summary: The March 2 assassination of Khalil al-Zaban, Yasir Arafat's advisor on human rights and media issues, is but the most recent in an ongoing series of events that indicates a decline in law and order in the Gaza Strip. Neither the killers nor their motives have been identified. So [...]	2004-03-04 17:03:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG KPAL KDEM PREL PGOV GZ IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
04TELAVIV1394	SHARON DENIES PERSONAL MOTIVATIONS IN TENNENBAUM [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Sharon and his staff have forcefully denied the explosive March 3 "Ma'ariv" story impugning his motives in the handling of the release of Elhanan Tennenbaum as part of the Hizballah prisoner exchange. Contrary to the paper's allegation that Sharon was influenced b [...]	2004-03-05 16:34:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IS GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV1452	POLITICAL/INSITUTIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF A GAZA [...] (C) SUMMARY: We assess that a complete Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip is unlikely to result either in substantial security turmoil or significant improvement in PA governance in the short-to-medium term. Unlike in the West Bank, the IDF does not maintain a presence within Gaza popul [...]	2004-03-09 07:50:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG KPAL KDEM EAID ECON PGOV PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV1611	UNUSUAL FACTORS IN ASHDOD BOMBINGS INVITE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Several atypical elements of Sunday's dual suicide bombing at the Ashdod port have led Israelis to worry that Hamas and Fatah meant what they said when they announced that the attack, for which the two groups claimed responsibility, signalled a new phase in the Intifada. The atta [...]	2004-03-15 15:14:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KWBG ASEC PREL PGOV IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS COUNTERTERRORISM
04TELAVIV1612	SPIEGEL BRIEFS DONORS ON SEPARATION BARRIER [...] (SBU) Summary. Baruch Spiegel, Israeli coordinator on humanitarian issues related to the separation barrier, told donors March 11 that he and his team are trying to find solutions to a variety of localized problems brought to its attention and is trying to apply "lessons learned" from previo [...]	2004-03-15 15:47:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG KPAL PGOV IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV1632	FOG REMAINS FOLLOWING SHARON WIN ON VAGUE [...] (C) Summary and comment: Following a vaguely-worded speech that was supposed to be about his disengagement plan, PM Sharon turned a March 15 Knesset vote on that speech into a so-called "vote of confidence" on his government -- which he won 46-45, with 29 members absent. The vote, however c [...]	2004-03-16 16:15:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV1638	SHARON TELLS CODEL LEVIN NO NEGOTIATIONS WITH PA [...] (C) SUMMARY: While reaffirming his preference for the roadmap, PM Sharon told Codel Levin on March 14 that he would not "negotiate" with the PA prior to Gaza withdrawal, which he termed a security, not political, solution. Asked what sort of U.S. support he is seeking, the PM said only that he [...]	2004-03-17 08:29:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG PGOV PTER IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV1667	NEW YAHAD CHAIRMAN BEILIN SOUNDS BATTLE CRY [...] (SBU) Summary: Yossi Beilin's close victory in the new Yahad Party's chairmanship race against Meretz MK Ran Cohen blows some new life into the foundering political career of the Geneva Accords architect, but has barely ruffled the political waters. Beilin termed his win a victory for "peace [...]	2004-03-17 15:46:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS GOI INTERNAL
04TELAVIV1706	ZEVULUN ORLEV, MINISTER OF LABOR AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS [...] (C) Zevulun Orlev, Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, is a moderate member of the rightist National Religious Party (NRP). He has primarily focused on domestic affairs and internal NRP machinations. Orlev has endeavored to move the NRP into a moderate position in order to prove that it is [...]	2004-03-19 14:06:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IS GOI INTERNAL
04TELAVIV1741	PM SHARON BANKING ON U.S. TO SAVE DISENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Following PM Sharon's March 21 meeting with Likud ministers to discuss his disengagement plan, it appears that the Prime Minister may lack the necessary Likud ministerial support for the plan to pass a cabinet vote. Pundits and Embassy political contacts say the PM will need to s [...]	2004-03-22 16:13:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISRAEL RELATIONS
04TELAVIV1752	GUSH KATIF VISA APPLICANTS EXPECT PROTESTS AGAINST [...] Summary. In February, Conoff interviewed three visa applicants from the Gush Katif settlement bloc who shared their views on PM Sharon's disengagement plan. The settlers said they expected Gush Katif residents to oppose the PM's plan through both legal and political channels. One applicant [...]	2004-03-23 07:13:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV IS KWBG GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI SOCIETY PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV1765	ISRAELIS HUNKER DOWN THE DAY AFTER YASSIN KILLING [...] (C) Summary: Israel's politicians wasted little time in taking to the airwaves to defend, or in some cases take issue with, the March 22 killing of Hamas spiritual leader Shaykh Ahmad Yassin. Sources in the PM's office expressed satisfaction with the U.S. response, and an MFA official said t [...]	2004-03-23 13:10:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KPAL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV1772	ISRAELI-ARAB POLITICIANS DECLARE DAY OF MOURNING, [...] (C) Summary. Israeli-Arab politicians rallied some 2,000 demonstrators in Nazareth March 23 to protest the GOI's assassination of Hamas leader Yasin. The Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, in conjunction with the more militant Islamic Movement, also declared March 23 a day of mourning. A Liku [...]	2004-03-23 14:37:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS SOCIETY
04TELAVIV1777	Canon White and Former Archbishop of [...] Summary: Lord Carey of Clifton (Former Archbishop of Canterbury) and Canon Andrew White met with Ambassador March 19 to seek his views on ways they could move forward the Alexandria Process Israeli- Palestinian religious dialogue in a manner that would best support the political track of the [...]	2004-03-24 06:59:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KMPI PHUM KPAO IS GOI EXTERNAL ISRAELI SOCIETY PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV1845	SHARON'S CABINET SECRETARY DOES THE MATH AND [...] (C) Summary: Cabinet Secretary Israel Maimon predicted to Ambassador Kurtzer March 23 that the present government would not last long. He cited as evidence of "the beginning of the end" the Shas-sponsored no-confidence motion the previous day -- hastily withdrawn to show solidarity after the [...]	2004-03-25 14:47:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV IS GOI INTERNAL
04TELAVIV1874	POLICE MAY HAVE LEARNED LESSONS FROM ORR [...] (C) Summary: In an apparent effort to avoid a repetition of the October 2000 police killing of 12 Israeli-Arab demonstrators, chief of Israel's national police force has ordered his forces to refrain from using either live ammunition or rubber-coated bullets during the March 30 Israeli Arab "L [...]	2004-03-26 13:11:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM IS ISRAELI SOCIETY GOI INTERNAL PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV1906	SHARON INDICTMENT RECOMMENDATION NO SURPRISE; MOST [...] (C) Summary: The long-anticipated word this past weekend that State Prosecutor Edna Arbel intends to recommend indictment of PM Sharon on bribery charges leaves unchanged for now the calculus that PM Sharon, if thick-skinned enough, can manage his legal and political problems, and remain in o [...]	2004-03-29 13:34:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS GOI INTERNAL
04TELAVIV1934	ISRAELI OFFICIALS DISCUSS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In meetings that took place in the hours following the Sheikh Yassin assassination, USD Dov Zakheim discussed the targeted killing and Gaza disengagement with Ministers Olmert and Mofaz and MKs Steinetz and Sneh. (Selected GOI comments from these meetings reported reftels.) Mofaz [...]	2004-03-30 14:17:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PREL PGOV MARR IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV1941	LABOR'S ENTRY TO COALITION COULD HINGE ON [...] (C) Summary: In the face of a possible bribery indictment against PM Sharon, speculation has begun over whether Labor will put on hold any plans to take the place of the right-wing parties in Sharon's coalition if they eventually bolt over Gaza withdrawal (reftel). Before the State Prosecuto [...]	2004-03-31 10:52:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IS GOI INTERNAL
04TELAVIV1953	SHARON'S LIKUD REFERENDUM LIKELY TO STYMIE [...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Sharon's decision to take his unilateral disengagement plan to a referendum of the full 200,000-strong Likud membership, a body more moderate than its leadership, reinforces his hand in dealing with Likud and other-party ministers and Knesset members who oppose withdrawal. The [...]	2004-03-31 15:51:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPAL IS GOI INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV1970	BEILIN BINDS NEW YAHAD PARTY TO GENEVA ACCORD [...] (C) Summary: New Yahad Party leader Yossi Beilin left no doubt that Yahad and the Geneva Accord are joined at the hip when accord co-author Yasser Ahmed Rabbo sat center stage with Beilin at the party's founding ceremonies on March 31. Copies of the accord and Yahad's basic covenant were both [...]	2004-04-01 12:52:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IS GOI INTERNAL PEACE PROCESS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
04TELAVIV2031	IN PASSOVER INTERVIEWS, SHARON WARNS ARAFAT, [...] (SBU) Israel's three major dailies previewed April 2 the separate Passover interviews with PM Sharon that each will publish on April 5. The previews highlighted three of Sharon's themes: -- Targeting Arafat and Nasrallah: In the wake of Israel's assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Yassin, [...]	2004-04-02 11:11:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KWBG PGOV IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV2034	PERES: LABOR READY TO JOIN LIKUD COALITION [...] (C) Labor Party Chairman Shimon Peres told Ambassador Kurtzer unequivocally April 2 that Labor "could not stay out" of the coalition if and when PM Sharon invites Labor to join. Responding to a scenario where Sharon loses the two right-wing coalition partners over a cabinet vote on unilater [...]	2004-04-02 11:36:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG GOI INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV2064	SHARON READY TO REPLACE WAYWARD MINISTERS OVER [...] (C) Summary. At the April 4 Cabinet meeting, PM Sharon invited two right-wing ministers to leave the coalition if they are not comfortable with its policies, demonstrating Sharon's confidence that Labor is waiting in the wings to replace these ministers' parties (ref A). Sharon's display of [...]	2004-04-05 12:27:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS GOI INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV2199	REACTION TO BUSH-SHARON MEETING: SHARON GOT WHAT [...] (C) Summary: Key Likud disengagement supporters and the major media are declaring PM Sharon victorious after learning of the assurances Sharon received in his April 14 meeting with President Bush. They also assess that Sharon obtained what he needs from the U.S. to push his disengagement plan [...]	2004-04-15 10:28:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL EXTERNAL ISRAEL RELATIONS
04TELAVIV2203	ISRAELI-ARAB NGO LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN AGAINST [...] Summary: An Israeli-Arab advocacy NGO appealed to the diplomatic community at an April 13 gathering to lobby the GOI against renewal of the controversial July 2003 law that bars Palestinians from the Occupied Territories from acquiring Israeli residency or citizenship rights through marriage t [...]	2004-04-15 13:40:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM IS GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI SOCIETY
04TELAVIV2206	OMRI SHARON SEES HARD WORK AHEAD ON DISENGAGEMENT [...] (C) PM Sharon's son and Likud MK, Omri Sharon, told poloff on April 14 -- before the PM's White House meeting -- that the main problem facing the pro-disengagement campaign is getting enough Likud members out to vote in the May 2 Likud referendum on the unilateral withdrawal plan. Sharon wor [...]	2004-04-15 15:29:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV2231	POLLS SHOW DISENGAGEMENT PLAN WINNING LIKUD [...] (C) Polls conducted after the April 14 meeting between President Bush and PM Sharon show Sharon's disengagement plan winning a majority of Likud voter support. Major media analysts, however, noted that intervening events -- such as a significant terrorist attack or FinMin Benyamin Netanyahu's [...]	2004-04-16 13:11:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV2249	PERCEPTIONS OF U.S. "GREEN LIGHT" FUEL ANGER AT [...] (C) Summary: Contacts throughout the Gaza Strip all concurred that the April 17 assassination of Hamas leader Abd al-Aziz al-Rantisi the March 22 assassination of Shaykh Ahmad Yasin and the Bush-Sharon summit were being viewed as a cumulative series of actions against the Palestinian people. [...]	2004-04-19 15:47:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG KPAL PGOV PREL GZ IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV2250	SHARON SECURES KEY LIKUD MINISTERS' SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) Summary. PM Sharon has lined up key Likud ministers behind his disengagement plan and set the stage for victory in the May 2 Likud referendum. In the process, Sharon stretched to their full measure USG assurances regarding Israeli retention of West Bank settlement blocs, Israel's right [...]	2004-04-19 17:40:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV2256	LIKUD MK SA'AR OPPOSES WITHDRAWAL PLAN BUT [...] (C) Summary: Likud MK Gideon Sa'ar told poloff on April 18 that he will quietly oppose PM Sharon's disengagement plan even though he is certain that the plan will win a majority in the May 2 Likud referendum. Sa'ar objects to the plan since it requires withdrawing from Gaza and four northern [...]	2004-04-20 11:29:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV2257	MAKING BREAD, NOT WAR, IN JAFFA: AN ISRAELI ARAB [...] (SBU) Summary: In the mixed city of Jaffa, where Jews and Arabs buy and sell side-by-side in one of the busiest marketplace environments in Israel, prominent bakery owner Hamis Abouelafia made news this week by presenting a ceremonial loaf of leavened bread to Jews at an end-of-Passover cele [...]	2004-04-20 11:29:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EIND PGOV PHUM IS ISRAELI SOCIETY
04TELAVIV2261	PERES TELLS CODEL ISSA "NO GUARANTEE THE FUTURE [...] (C) Summary: Labor leader Shimon Peres told CODEL Issa April 16 that the United States should be promoting modernization in the Middle East -- rather than democratization -- as the best means for furthering the U.S. agenda in the region. Peres recommended using business and investment as key [...]	2004-04-20 13:27:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG KPAL PGOV PREL GZ IS GOI EXTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV2293	PEACE NOW DIRECTOR: NETANYAHU AND SHARON FINAGLE [...] (C) Summary: Peace Now Director Yariv Oppenheimer told poloff on April 20 that PM Sharon and FinMin Netanyahu both know that prior GOI decisions on the fence route leave the Ariel settlement outside the main separation barrier, thereby not meeting Netanyahu's demand that it be fully on the "I [...]	2004-04-21 13:26:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV2327	VANUNU, UPON RELEASE, CLAIMS U.S. AGENT LURED HIM [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Immediately upon his April 21 release from prison, "nuclear spy" Mordechai Vanunu charged that the woman who lured him into a Mossad trap in 1986 worked for the CIA or FBI. Nevertheless, Vanunu told the press that he would like to emigrate to the U.S. The head of the [...]	2004-04-22 14:39:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PGOV PHUM PREL IS ISRAEL RELATIONS GOI INTERNAL
04TELAVIV2328	SHARON TELLS KNESSET NO USG ASSURANCES WITHOUT [...] (C) With an April 21 poll showing only 44-percent-to-40-percent Likud majority support for his disengagement plan, down from a week ago, an energized PM Sharon told a special Knesset session on April 22 that USG assurances on right of return and retention of settlements are tied to fulfillmen [...]	2004-04-22 15:03:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISRAEL RELATIONS
04TELAVIV2335	KEY MINISTERS AND WEISSGLAS REVIEW POTUS-SHARON [...] (C) SUMMARY: In April 20 meetings with U/S Bolton and the Ambassador, Olmert and Weissglas said there is still a chance to keep the GOI coalition together, even if disengagement moves forward. However, Minister Lieberman, leader of one of the right-wing parties that is expected to bolt, told t [...]	2004-04-22 15:38:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV2353	ROLE OF WORLD BANK IN GAZA DISENGAGEMENT PLAN [...] (C) Summary: On Tuesday, April 20, USAID/West Bank and Gaza Director Garber and Deputy Director Ellis, met with Nigel Roberts, World Bank Country Director. The meeting focused on the Bank's current thinking regarding Gaza disengagement and the Bank's specific plans for organizing an assessm [...]	2004-04-23 13:19:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID PGOV KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV2381	ISRAELI ARABS SPLIT OVER THE MERITS OF [...] (SBU) Summary: The Arab League is hosting a conference on ties between the Arab world and the Arab citizens of Israel in Cairo April 26-27. Arab League Deputy Secretary and PLO Representative Said Kamal, along with mid-level diplomats from the Arab League countries, arranged the program, wh [...]	2004-04-26 14:11:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EIND PGOV PHUM IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS SOCIETY GOI EXTERNAL
04TELAVIV2382	SHARON OPTIONS IN REFERENDUM RUN-UP [...] (C) With six days to go until Likud's May 2 referendum on his disengagement plan, inaction by three nominally supportive but reluctant key Likud ministers, and narrowing but still winning poll numbers, PM Sharon has available a menu of tactics from which to draw. Most Israeli poll results co [...]	2004-04-26 14:31:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV2421	POLLING LULL AND ANTI-WITHDRAWAL DEMONSTRATION [...] (C) The brief vacuum of polling results, with private and public polls of Likud voters not expected until April 29 and 30 respectively, and the large-scale April 27 anti-disengagement demonstration in Gaza, have increased speculation by media pundits and politicos about whether PM Sharon's d [...]	2004-04-28 15:05:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV2457	AM AHAD AND LABOR MERGER LIKELY [...] (C) Histadrut International Secretary Nawaf Massalha told poloff April 22 that it is likely Amir Peretz's Am Ahad Party will merge into the Labor Party by January 2005. According to Massalha, who served as a deputy foreign minister in the Barak government, a draft agreement is being circulate [...]	2004-04-29 15:07:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS GOI INTERNAL
04TELAVIV2458	SHARON'S CAMPAIGN: TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE? LATEST [...] (C) Summary. Results published on April 29 from two major media polls show 47-percent-to-39-percent and 45-percent-to-42-percent Likud majorities against PM Sharon's disengagement plan, reversing the earlier polls that showed similar majorities voting in favor of the plan. Both polls also [...]	2004-04-29 15:41:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV2471	GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: SHARON FACING DEFEAT UNLESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: All Israeli polls are showing defeat for Prime Minister Sharon's disengagement plan at the hands of Likud party members. With little time left to campaign, and with the public's focus riveted on the Israeli basketball team's Saturday night final game for the European championsh [...]	2004-04-30 12:00:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI INTERNAL
04TELAVIV6039	GAZAN VIEW ON SECURITY, FATAH FACTIONS [...] (C) Gaza business leader and longtime Embassy contact Mohammed Yazgi told POL/C November 30 that he foresees an eventual security team for Gaza comprised of Mohammed Dahlan, Public Security Chief MG Mousa Arafat, and National Security Forces MG Nasser Yusif -- a combination that he called "the [...]	2004-12-01 12:09:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV6045	BUDGET MAY FAIL, BUT SHRINKING SHARON GOVERNMENT [...] (C) The anticipated 43-54 failure of PM Sharon's budget late December 1, and the anticipated post-vote dismissal of Shinui ministers, leaves Sharon with a Likud-only government, but does not cause the government to fall. Sharon can bring the budget back to the Knesset as many times as he want [...]	2004-12-01 13:22:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS GOI INTERNAL ECONOMY AND FINANCE
04TELAVIV6072	ISRAELI MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE U.S. [...] Summary: The Israeli media followed the U.S. Presidential elections with great interest. From the campaign through to the aftermath, commentators focused their attention on several issues: the prospects for changes in U.S.-Israel policy, the likelihood of broader changes in U.S. policy in the [...]	2004-12-02 13:39:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KPAO KMDR PREL PGOV MEDIA REACTION REPORT
04TELAVIV6103	ISRAEL CONCERNED ABOUT ILLEGAL WATER WELLS ON WEST [...] (C) Summary: Israeli officials are concerned about water wells on the West Bank that have not been approved by the Israeli-Palestinian Joint Water Commission. They see the illegal wells as a bad precedent for Gaza disengagement, West Bank withdrawal, and eventual negotiations on water issues [...]	2004-12-03 15:22:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID IS KWBG PGOV PREL SENV ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
04TELAVIV6113	ISRAELI MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE U.S. [...] Summary: The Israeli media followed the U.S. Presidential elections with great interest. From the campaign through to the aftermath, commentators focused their attention on several issues: the prospects for changes in U.S.-Israel policy, the likelihood of broader changes in U.S. policy in the [...]	2004-12-06 08:29:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KPAO KMDR PREL PGOV MEDIA REACTION REPORT
04TELAVIV6146	LIKUD CENTRAL COMMITTEE EXPECTED TO APPROVE [...] (C) Likud's Central Committee is expected to give Prime Minister Sharon the green light December 9 to negotiate with the Labor Party, United Torah Judaism (UTJ),and Shas to rebuild Sharon's minority government, now consisting of only Likud's 40 MKs. Sharon's proposal to negotiate with relig [...]	2004-12-06 15:17:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON KWBG IS GOI INTERNAL

04TELAVIV6259	PERES: SUCCESS OF LIKUD-LABOR COALITION [...] (C) Summary: Prior to the Likud Central Committee's positive vote on December 9 to open coalition negotiations with the Labor Party, United Torah Judaism, and Shas (see septel),an obviously exhausted Labor Party leader Shimon Peres stressed to the Ambassador the depth of his own problems in [...]	2004-12-10 11:20:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG IS SY GOI INTERNAL
04TELAVIV6262	SHARON WINS LIKUD GREEN LIGHT TO NEGOTIATE WITH A [...] (C) The Likud Central Committee's 62 percent majority vote in favor of opening coalition negotiations with Labor, United Torah Judaism (UTJ),and Shas is an important victory in Prime Minister Sharon's long struggle to broaden his minority government, which has dwindled down to 40 Likud MKs. [...]	2004-12-10 12:46:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG IS GOI INTERNAL
04TELAVIV6285	PERES: SUCCESS OF LIKUD-LABOR COALITION [...] (C) Summary: Prior to the Likud Central Committee's positive vote on December 9 to open coalition negotiations with the Labor Party, United Torah Judaism, and Shas (see septel),an obviously exhausted Labor Party leader Shimon Peres stressed to the Ambassador the depth of his own problems in [...]	2004-12-13 11:56:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PGOV PREL KWBG IS SY GOI INTERNAL EXTERNAL
04TELAVIV6373	LIKUD-LABOR TALKS STALLED AS BOTH PLAY HARDBALL [...] (C) The current snag in Likud-Labor coalition negotiations over which cabinet seats Labor would receive is likely the result of poker game tactics by both sides. Embassy contacts do not expect the snag to prevent a Likud-Labor agreement. Referring to the breakdown in Likud-Labor talks as a " [...]	2004-12-15 14:02:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IS GOI INTERNAL
04TELAVIV6374	SPIEGEL ON ELECTION OBSERVERS, FENCE, JAYYUS, AND [...] SUMMARY: GOI coordinator for separation barrier issues BG (res) Baruch Spiegel (protect) spoke to POL/C December 14 about the apparent lack of GOI preparations to handle international election monitors, his team's efforts to document outpost and settlement activity, the apparent new responsi [...]	2004-12-15 14:06:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS SETTLEMENTS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
04TELAVIV6384	PERES TO CODEL HAGEL/BIDEN: DISENGAGEMENT IS [...] (C) Summary: Labor Party leader Shimon Peres told a visiting congressional delegation led by Senators Chuck Hagel and Joseph Biden December 1 that he supports joining the ruling coalition in the interest of advancing disengagement. He predicted (correctly) the likely failure of the 2005 budge [...]	2004-12-16 09:05:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PREF PGOV ECON KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI INTERNAL
04TELAVIV6407	PERES TELLS CODEL BLUNT IMPORTANT FOR U.S. TO [...] (C) Summary: In a December 13 meeting, Labor Party leader Shimon Peres told Codel Blunt that he hoped Likud and Labor would form a new coalition to avoid early elections and the consequent postponement of implementation of Gaza disengagement. Peres noted that with Yasser Arafat's death and t [...]	2004-12-16 15:07:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL IS GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
04TELAVIV6442	ISRAELI MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT WANTS TO REENGAGE [...] (C) Summary: GOI Environment Ministry officials hope that the USG and/or UNEP can help them reengage with their Palestinian counterparts to address pressing environmental issues. MoE provided a list of action items they consider the most feasible from a longer list of UNEP Desk Study recomme [...]	2004-12-20 12:17:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL KWBG PGOV PREL SENV ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
04TELAVIV6450	TZIPI LIVNI: NO NEW HOUSING TENDERS IN SETTLEMENTS [...] (C) Summary: In her first meeting with the Ambassador as acting Minister of Justice December 16, Likud MK Tzipi Livni stressed that she will not approve any new housing tenders in the settlements while serving as Housing Minister. Livni said she would be ready to discuss problems related to l [...]	2004-12-20 14:08:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG ECON IS SETTLEMENTS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI INTERNAL
04TELAVIV6455	MFA ANALYSTS TO CODEL TALENT: SYRIA IS ON A [...] (C) Summary: MFA Deputy Director General for Intelligence and Research Harry Kney-Tal told CODEL Talent December 6 that Syria will not relinquish either its hold on Lebanon or its relationship with Iraq without gaining some concessions from the West to replace them. With one million Syrians [...]	2004-12-20 16:48:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV LE SY IS GOI EXTERNAL
04TELAVIV6466	SHARON AND PERES AIM FOR UNITY GOVERNMENT WITHIN [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Sharon is well on his way to gaining passage of an amendment to the country's Basic Laws that will meet Labor's demands for senior government positions and allow Sharon to form a new government by New Year's. The amendment would allow for a second alternate prime [...]	2004-12-21 10:32:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IS GOI INTERNAL
04TELAVIV6525	PEACE NOW READY FOR DISENGAGEMENT, KEEPING AN EYE [...] (C) Summary: Yariv Oppenheimer, General Director of Peace Now, told Embassy economic officer on December 14 that his organization "is very excited" about the disengagement plan because it views settlements as a serious obstacle to peace. While the settlers had not yet, at the time of the me [...]	2004-12-23 08:57:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS SETTLEMENTS
04TELAVIV6548	ISRAELI MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT VIEWS ON GAZA [...] (C) Summary: The Israeli Ministry of Environment has begun to focus on critical environmental issues related to disengagement from Gaza. Ministry officials believe that unless there is close coordination among Israeli ministries and between Israeli and Palestinian officials, there will be ne [...]	2004-12-23 14:43:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL KWBG PGOV PREL SENV GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV6550	ISRAELI MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT WANTS TO WORK WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Israeli Ministry of Environment officials hope to work closely with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to make progress on some of Israel's most challenging environment problems. Those include: asbestos and hazardous waste cleanups, emergency preparedness, water securit [...]	2004-12-23 15:08:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV TBIO KSCA EIND PGOV PREL IS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ISRAEL RELATIONS
04TELAVIV6649	ALFE MENASHE SETTLEMENT EXPANDING TO THE GREEN LINE [...] (C) Summary. Amira Bahat, council member of the Israeli town of Nirit, which abuts the Green Line, told Embassy economic officer on December 22 that the Alfe Menashe settlement will eventually spread to the Green Line with the construction of over 1,200 new housing units on the West Bank la [...]	2004-12-30 08:04:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS SETTLEMENTS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV6672	PROBLEMS UNLIKELY TO IMPEDE EARLY JANUARY [...] (C) Problems with prospective coalition partners Labor and United Torah Judaism are delaying PM Sharon's efforts to put together a viable coalition, but should not prevent establishment of a new government in early January. Negotiators are generating alternative mechanisms to give Labor leade [...]	2004-12-30 15:03:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS GOI INTERNAL
04THEHAGUE1016	ICC: OTP, STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS, LOOKING AT [...] (C) Summary: The International Criminal Court (ICC) remains very much in a nascent stage even as the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) considers whether to open formal investigations of situations in northern Uganda and the Congo, based on referrals from Kampala and Kinshasa (refs). The lack of [...]	2004-04-22 13:06:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KAWC
04THEHAGUE1017	NAMES/TITLES OF LEADING DUTCH GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS [...] No summary [...]	2004-04-22 15:27:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL NL
04THEHAGUE1020	DUTCH SHARE EU DEMARCHE TO VIETNAM [...] (C) The Dutch government remains concerned about the situation of the Vietnamese Montagnards in the Central Highlands. Following the volatile situation April 10-11, the Dutch immediately contacted the Irish EU Presidency to register concern and request EU action. (Note: The Dutch are actin [...]	2004-04-23 06:44:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREF PREL VM NL
04THEHAGUE1142	DUTCH CANNOT FUND SSR IN LIBERIA [...] (SBU) As reported in ref b, the Dutch are unable to provide any funding for security sector reform (SSR) due to political and financial commitments elsewhere in Africa. The Netherlands previously supported efforts in Liberia by stationing the Dutch Navy's LPD HrMs Rotterdam off the coast of [...]	2004-05-10 11:57:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV EAID MASS ASEC LI NL
04THEHAGUE1200	LIBERIA SSR - DUTCH TO MEET U.S. OFFICIALS IN [...] No summary [...]	2004-05-14 16:00:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV EAID MASS ASEC LI NL
04THEHAGUE1201	A BIG JOB AHEAD FOR NEW DUTCH COUNTERTERRORIST [...] (C) SUMMARY: A highly respected bureaucrat, Tjibbe Joustra, recently assigned to the new Dutch position of counterterrorism (CT) coordinator, is remarkably candid about the flaws he sees in the Dutch CT efforts (e.g., lack of inter-agency coordination; lack of action). He has a broad mandate to rev [...]	2004-05-14 16:51:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PINR NL
04THEHAGUE122	Netherlands: Balkenende Government Challenged by [...] (U) SUMMARY: Looking forward to the summer of 2004, the Balkenende government is contemplating its second year in office and a full agenda of internal and European Union matters as it takes the EU Presidency in July. Continuing domestic economic malaise has generated incipient doubts over t [...]	2004-01-20 14:37:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV NL EUN
04THEHAGUE1253	ESTABLISHING U.S. MISSION BAGHDAD [...] PolOff delivered reftel demarche on May 18 to Arnout Wegerif, Deputy Head of the MFA's Gulf States Division. Wegerif was appreciative for the information and will advise others within his ministry. He did not provide any substantive comment. The GoNL maintains an Embassy in Baghdad. 2. CP [...]	2004-05-24 08:57:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL IZ NL
04THEHAGUE1446	G/TIP MILLER MEETS DUTCH FOREIGN AND JUSTICE [...] During a June 7 meeting with G/TIP Director Miller, Dutch Foreign Minister Bot and Justice Minister Donner acknowledged a shared commitment for concrete action against Trafficking in Persons (TIP). Although critical of the tone and unilateral nature of the U.S. benchmarks outlined in the TIP C [...]	2004-06-10 18:33:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PGOV PHUM SMIG NL
04THEHAGUE1454	DUTCH CABINET APPROVES EXTENSION IN MULTINATIONAL [...] Summary: On June 11, the Dutch cabinet decided to extend Dutch participation in the multinational Force in Iraq for eight months, i.e., until mid-March 2005, so that the Dutch troops in the Al Muthanna province can help secure stability during the transition period and the elections. As expec [...]	2004-06-14 13:48:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS MARR PREL PGOV IZ NL
04THEHAGUE148	BURUNDIAN PRESIDENT MEETS FNL REBEL GROUP [...] (U) Burundian President Ndayizeye met in the Netherlands with a delegation of the PALIPEHUTU-FNL, the only Burundian rebel group that has not signed a cease-fire. The final communique calls for: (a) an International Commission of Investigation into the death of the Apostolic Nuncio; (b) the [...]	2004-01-22 17:28:00	Embassy The Hague	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV MOPS BY NL
04THEHAGUE1566	DUTCH PARLIAMENT ENDORSES CABINET DECISION TO [...] (U) An overwhelming majority of the Dutch Parliament voted on June 22 to endorse the cabinet decision to extend Dutch participation in the multinational force in Iraq for eight months. (The Dutch have approximately 1300 troops serving in Al Muthanna province as part of the UK's Multinational D [...]	2004-06-23 14:32:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS MARR PREL PGOV IZ NL
04THEHAGUE1670	DUTCH EU PRESIDENCY: THE VIEW FROM THE HAGUE [...] (C) Summary: Balancing Dutch, European, and transatlantic interests will be a challenge for the Dutch presidency, made more complicated by the demands of a 25 member EU, a new parliament and Commission, and the new constitutional treaty. A "successful" presidency is seen by PM Balkendende as [...]	2004-07-02 14:45:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EU NL
04THEHAGUE1684	DUTCH RESPONSE ON PSI INFORMATION SHARING [...] No summary [...]	2004-07-06 14:29:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC PARM PGOV KNNP PHSA PREL
04THEHAGUE1690	DUTCH PARLIAMENT ENDORSES GOVERNMENT'S PRT DECISION [...] (U) On July 5 the Dutch Parliament broadly endorsed a recent Cabinet decision to lead a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Baghlan, Afghanistan. Only the small far-left Socialist Party opposed the mission. The operation, announced in a June 28 government letter to parliament, will consi [...]	2004-07-06 14:50:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS MARR PREL PGOV AF NL NATO
04THEHAGUE1804	EMBASSY THE HAGUE CONTACTS FOR THE NETHERLANDS EU [...] THE NETHERLANDS ASSUMED THE SIX-MONTH ROTATING EU PRESIDENCY BEGINNING JULY 1. PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITY AT EMBASSY THE HAGUE FOR COORDINATING EMBASSY ACTIVITIES AND LOGISTICAL ARRANGEMENTS RELATED TO THE PRESIDENCY LIES WITH THE MISSION'S EU COORDINATION UNIT, UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE D [...]	2004-07-16 16:04:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PARM ECON NL EUN
04THEHAGUE1847	UPDATE ON DUTCH COUNTERTERRORISM PLANNING [...] (C) Summary: In a July 21 meeting with DCM, Joustra briefed on his plans for a new agency that would integrate C/T policy, threat analysis, and operations under a senior coordinator reporting to the Justice (and Interior) Ministers. Joustra said the two Ministers had approved the outlines o [...]	2004-07-22 15:30:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PINR NL
04THEHAGUE1885	ICC: GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS? [...] (SBU) Summary: The next few months will see the International Criminal Court (ICC) begin formal investigations into serious charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Africa. The Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) recently opened its first investigation in the Democratic Republic of t [...]	2004-07-27 10:38:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KAWC
04THEHAGUE1901	NETHERLANDS/AFGHANISTAN: KARZAI CANDIDACY AND [...] Poloff delivered reftel message to MFA's head of South Asia Division Wilfred Mohr July 28. Mohr stated that the Dutch Ambassador in Afghanistan will soon call on Karzai to present his credentials, at which point he will also express GoNL support for reform and stability in Afghanistan. He sa [...]	2004-07-28 15:40:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL AF NL
04THEHAGUE1911	IRAQI JUDICIAL TRAINING [...] (SBU) In early May in The Hague, Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy chaired a conference on the rule of law in Iraq, involving some thirty Iraqi judges and twenty other jurists, advisers and staff. We understand that there is consideration in Baghdad of a proposed follow-on conf [...]	2004-07-29 15:15:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL IZ ICTY KWIC
04THEHAGUE1919	NETHERLANDS/EU/TURKEY: MOVING IN THE RIGHT [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: According to Dutch sources, the European Council will most likely decide in December to open accession talks with Turkey, setting a fixed starting date contingent on Turkey's completion of specific concrete reforms. Senior Dutch officials based in The Hague are playing an active [...]	2004-07-30 15:48:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PHUM TK NL EUN
04THEHAGUE1955	BIO INFO ON NEW DUTCH EUROPEAN COMMISSIONER NEELIE [...] PM Balkenende announced the nomination of former transport minister Neelie Kroes as the new Dutch European Commissioner on August 3. Kroes will succeed Frits Bolkestein as Dutch EU Commissioner. Balkenende said he expected President Barroso would give Kroes "a heavy economic portfolio," such [...]	2004-08-05 05:48:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PINR NL EUN
04THEHAGUE1983	DEMARCHE ON VENEZUELAN PRESIDENTIAL REFERENDUM [...] (C) Poloff met with MFA Venezuela Desk Officer Dimitri Vogelaar August 5 to discuss reftel message. Vogelaar said that he was disappointed that the EU would not be able to send an observer mission to Venezuela, but stressed that the EU would remain involved "even without a European mission." [...]	2004-08-10 09:26:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM VE KPAO NL
04THEHAGUE2040	DUTCH CELEBRATE CAPTURE OF EU COMPETITION PORTFOLIO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Dutch are clearly satisfied and claiming victory over the appointment of Neelie Kroes-Smit (Kroes) as the new European Commissioner for Competition. Prime Minister Balkenende's strategy of holding out for a "heavy" portfolio appears to have paid off. Both the Netherlands [...]	2004-08-16 05:39:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PREL PGOV PINR NL EUN
04THEHAGUE2112	DUTCH CABINET APPROVES SUPPLEMENTAL CONTRIBUTIONS [...] Summary: On August 20, the Dutch cabinet decided to provide to ISAF six F-16 jetfighters and a KDC-10 refueling aircraft for a period of eight weeks as of mid-September for the purpose of enhancing security during the presidential elections in October. If a second round of elections occurs, t [...]	2004-08-25 10:14:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	MOPS MARR PREL PGOV KPKO AF NL NATO
04THEHAGUE2123	NETHERLANDS/ASEM: LOOKING FOR COMPROMISE AGREEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2004-08-25 14:31:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM BM NL
04THEHAGUE2124	NETHERLANDS/AFGHAN ELECTIONS: DUTCH PREPARED TO [...] Poloff delivered ref A and B messages August 23 to Wilfred Mohr, Head of the Dutch MFA's South Asia Division. With regard to ref A request that the Dutch approach Iran on out of country registration and voting, Mohr acknowledged that the Government of Iran "needs to do more." He revealed that [...]	2004-08-25 14:50:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PK AF IR NL
04THEHAGUE2126	EU/NETHERLANDS/SOUTH OSSETIA: DUTCH SKEPTICAL [...] (C) On August 24, POLCOUNS discussed reftel points with Tony van der Togt, Head of the Dutch MFA's Eastern Europe and Central Asia Division, and Frank van Beuningen, Policy Coordinator for the OSCE within the MFA's Department of Security Policy. Both interlocutors were well briefed on the sit [...]	2004-08-25 15:20:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG GM NL EUN
04THEHAGUE2145	DUTCH C/T COORDINATOR PUSHES REORGANIZATION PLAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: C/T Coordinator Joustra won the backing of the Prime Minister for the outline of his plan to create a new Counter terrorism agency by Jan. 1, 2005. This may overcome the resistance of the (pro-status quo) Interior Minister and bolster the hand of Justice Minister Donner, who as Co [...]	2004-08-27 10:48:00	Embassy The Hague	SECRET	PTER PGOV PINR NL
04THEHAGUE2154	DUTCH PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE ON IRAQ [...] (U) Summary: On August 24, the Dutch parliament interrupted its August recess for a special session on Iraq attended by Defense Minister Kamp and Foreign Minister Bot. The parliament endorsed the additional security measures taken in the wake of the August 14 ambush of Dutch troops in Iraq a [...]	2004-08-27 15:12:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS MARR PREL PGOV IZ NL
04THEHAGUE22	DUTCH COMMENTS ON BOLIVIA SUPPORT GROUP [...] EconOff delivered ref demarche on January 5 to Jan Plantingha of the MFA's Western Hemisphere Division (Note: MFA was closed week of December 29, 2003. End Note). Plantingha said the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Washington had received the invitation/agenda to the Bolivia Support Group. [...]	2004-01-07 13:49:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BL EFIN NL PGOV PREL
04THEHAGUE2250	FM BOT VISIT TO INDONESIA AUGUST 25-27 [...] (SBU) During an August 25-27 visit to Indonesia, Dutch FM Bot met with Indonesian FM Nur Hassan Wirayuda, as well as with President Megawati and Presidential Candidate Susilo Yudhoyono. Bot discussed both bilateral issues and, in his EU Presidency capacity, the EU-Indonesian relationship. Pol [...]	2004-09-07 10:52:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ID NL
04THEHAGUE2300	DUTCH PREVIEW ASEM [...] (C) Summary: The Dutch expect the GAERC to endorse the compromise solution informally agreed among EU members at the September 9 Gymnich meeting (reftel),but expect some "fine-tuning" of technical aspects of the agreement. According to the Dutch, the French are "catching up" after their Minis [...]	2004-09-10 15:19:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM BM NL
04THEHAGUE2303	DUTCH RESPONSE: AFGHAN OOC VOTING AND G-8 AFGHAN [...] (C) Poloff spoke to Wilfred Mohr, Head of South Asia Division, on September 13 to inquire about Dutch/EU plans for monitoring out of country registration and voting in Iran and Pakistan (ref A). Mohr responded that the EU expected to involve its embassies in the process, but had not yet estab [...]	2004-09-13 12:46:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PK AF NL EAID MOPS MARR NATO NAC
04THEHAGUE2326	DUTCH DEFENSE MINISTER PREVIEWS SEPTEMBER 16-17 EU [...] Summary: In a September 9 letter to the Dutch parliament, Defense Minister Kamp previewed the September 16- 17 EU Defense Ministers Informal Ministerial at Noordwijk, Netherlands. This meeting will be preceded by the first meeting of the Steering Board of the new European Defense Agency unde [...]	2004-09-15 11:13:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	MOPS MARR PREL PGOV NL EUN
04THEHAGUE2461	PRIME MINISTER BALKENENDE OUT OF COMMISSION FOR [...] (U) Prime Minister Balkenende has been in hospital since September 14 with a serious foot infection caused by streptococcal and staphylococcal bacteria. According to Government Information Service, Balkenende underwent two operations, and the wound is said to be healing well. Balkenende is no [...]	2004-09-27 14:52:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR NL EUN
04THEHAGUE2480	DUTCH RESPONSE TO POTENTIAL HIGH LEVEL BURMESE [...] (SBU) Poloff spoke with Eric Verwaal, Head of Southeast Asia and Oceania Division and Special Assistant to EU Envoy Hans van den Broek September 28 to follow up Ref A message regarding the potential for Burmese participation in the October 8-9 Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) at a higher level than [...]	2004-09-29 09:40:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM BU NL
04THEHAGUE2490	DUTCH PROVIDE READOUT OF BILATERAL MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Both the Dutch and Pakistanis are pleased with the September 26-27 visit of President Musharraf in The Hague. The bilateral visit included an audience with the Queen, meetings with parliamentarians and business executives, and a discussion with the local Pakistani community. T [...]	2004-09-30 07:35:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PK NL
04THEHAGUE2512	NETHERLANDS/EU/ASEM: BURMESE ATTENDANCE; [...] (C) Eric Verwaal, Head of Southeast Asia and Oceania Division (and Special Assistant to EU Envoy Hans van den Broek),told poloff October 1 that the Vietnamese had informed him the Burmese participant at ASEM will be: U Tin Winn, identified as "Minister in the Office of Prime Minister." Verwa [...]	2004-10-01 15:31:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM BU NL
04THEHAGUE2559	EU-CHINA HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE: DISAPPOINTING, BUT [...] (C) Summary: While working-level MFA contacts found recent EU-China discussions on human rights disappointing, on balance the October 11 GAERC will almost certainly determine that the EU-China Human Rights Dialogue is worthwhile and should continue. Dutch interlocutors stressed on October 5 [...]	2004-10-07 09:14:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF KJUS CH NL
04THEHAGUE2582	NETHERLANDS/EU/BANGLADESH: DETERIORATING INTERNAL [...] (C) Summary: The Dutch share U.S. concerns regarding the deteriorating domestic situation in Bangladesh. In their capacity as EU President, the Dutch are organizing a "brainstorming session" on October 21 to develop a common EU approach to the situation. End Summary. "Bleak" Situation --- [...]	2004-10-08 10:33:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINS ECON BG NL
04THEHAGUE26	2003-2004 INCSR FOR THE NETHERLANDS - PART II: MONEY [...] ATTACHED IS THE HAGUE'S SUBMISSION OF PART II OF THE 2003- 2004 INCSR: MONEY LAUNDERING AND FINANCIAL CRIMES. POST'S RESPONSE HAS BEEN ORGANIZED ACCORDING TO CHAPTERS PROVIDED IN THE INCSR QUESTIONNAIRE (REF. A). THE DOLLAR/EURO EXCHANGE RATE ON JANUARY 5 WAS 0.7880 EUROS TO THE DOLLAR. THE [...]	2004-01-07 15:28:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	KSEP SNAR PTER ECON EFIN ETTC KCRM PREL PGOV NL
04THEHAGUE2611	NETHERLANDS/HUMAN RIGHTS/CHINA: "DIALOGUE" OF THE [...] (U) Please see guidance request in para 10. Bionote, para. 11. 2. (C) Summary: Dutch MFA contacts characterized the recently concluded round of the EU Human Rights Dialogue with China as a "dialogue of the deaf," but were certain it would continue. Chinese "dialogue fatigue" may have c [...]	2004-10-12 15:18:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV CH NL PINR UNAUS
04THEHAGUE2704	NETHERLANDS/EU/VENEZUELA: SPEAKING OUT ON HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: The Dutch share U.S. concerns about a deteriorating political and human rights situation in Venezuela, but as EU President are reluctant to voice criticism before consulting with other EU members. The EU does not plan to discuss a collective post-referendum strategy toward Venezu [...]	2004-10-19 14:26:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE NL EUN
04THEHAGUE2723	NETHERLANDS/EU/RUSSIA: SLOUCHING TOWARD THE SUMMIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to the Dutch EU Presidency, the October 19 EU-Russia troika made only limited progress toward finalizing agreements in the four "common spaces" preparation for the November 11 EU-Russia summit. Outstanding differences remain in the areas of external security (where the R [...]	2004-10-21 14:37:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PTER PGOV ECON NL RU
04THEHAGUE2735	CAUTIOUS DUTCH REACTION TO EC REPORT ON TURKEY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Dutch government has officially characterized the October 6 European Commission report on Turkey, including its recommendation that a date be set for accession negotiations, as "a good basis for decision making by the European Council in December." Parliament also receive [...]	2004-10-22 15:09:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV TU NL EUN
04THEHAGUE2789	TURKEY/EU - FM GUL TO EU: GIVE US OUR DATE WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a low-key visit to The Hague on October 25, Turkish FM Gul reportedly complained about provisions of the EC's October 6 report that highlighted Turkey's "unique" situation. He worried it was still uncertain that the European Council would set a date in December to begin acce [...]	2004-11-01 09:34:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM TK NL EUN
04THEHAGUE281	DUTCH FM BOT'S VISIT TO THE U.S. [...] (C) I just spoke with Ben Bot and found him well-prepared for his February 9 visit to Washington. He plans to ask how he personally can contribute to improved transatlantic relations. As he has said in press interviews, other European leaders are counting on him to help mend fences between the Euro [...]	2004-02-04 12:24:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	AF EU IZ NL PGOV PREL SNAR TU XA XF XH NATO
04THEHAGUE2836	NETHERLANDS/EU: SWARTBOL ON TURKEY, RUSSIA, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Rob Swartbol, PM Balkenende's senior foreign policy advisor, predicted to Ambassador Sobel on November 1 that the EU will make a positive decision on Turkish accession negotiations in December, but warned that the Turks will find some elements of the decision more objectionable [...]	2004-11-03 17:30:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NL EUN
04THEHAGUE2864	VAN GOGH KILLING SHOCKS DUTCH NATION [...] (SBU) Summary: The brutal murder November 3 of prominent Dutch film director/personality Theo van Gogh by a Dutch Moroccan in bright daylight in an Amsterdam street has rocked Dutch society. The murder recalls the assassination in 2002 of maverick politician Pim Fortuyn, who, like Van Gogh, critici [...]	2004-11-05 13:59:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR NL
04THEHAGUE287	Dutch policy on Burma [...] Summary: In a January 28 response to questions from Parliament, Foreign Minister Bot outlined Dutch policy on Burma. For reasons of effectiveness, the GoNL believes that the EU as a whole, and not bilateral Dutch efforts, should take the lead in advancing the improvement of the political and h [...]	2004-02-04 16:56:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM EU BM NL
04THEHAGUE2924	NETHERLANDS/EU/INDIA: "NEW PARTNERSHIP" HAS LITTLE [...] (C) Summary: Beyond welcoming a new "strategic partnership," the November 8 EU-India Summit was perhaps more notable for what it lacked than what it included. The new "strategic partnership" appears to be little more than a wishlist of topics for cooperation to be fleshed out over the next ye [...]	2004-11-12 14:09:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KNNP IN NL EUN
04THEHAGUE2929	TENSION AND DEBATE IN HOLLAND [...] (SBU) Summary: The November 3 murder of Theo van Gogh (reftel) and s... [...]	2004-11-12 15:26:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR NL
04THEHAGUE3001	DUTCH ASK USG HELP WITH TURKEY ON CYPRUS, AND [...] (C) Summary: Still expecting a positive outcome on December 17 for Turkey, the Dutch DG for the EU, Marnix Krop, sees trouble brewing on Greece and Cyprus and has asked the U.S. to help in two specific ways. First, urged us to impress upon Turkey the problems that Turkey's Aegean flights ha [...]	2004-11-19 08:02:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU CY GR PGOV EUN
04THEHAGUE3005	VENEZUELA/NETHERLANDS/EU: EU PESSIMISTIC BUT [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-19 08:03:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM VE NL EUN
04THEHAGUE3006	CUBA/NETHERLANDS/EU: NO CONSENSUS (YET) TO CHANGE EU POSITION [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-19 08:03:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	CU EUN NL PGOV PHUM PREL
04THEHAGUE3015	NETHERLANDS/IRAQ: RECONFIGURING THE DUTCH PRESENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: A clear consensus in the Cabinet and parliament exists for concluding the Dutch deployment in Al Muthanna as scheduled. The government's November 12 letter to parliament states Dutch troops will end their current mission in mid-March, although some personnel will stay longer (we [...]	2004-11-19 08:05:00	Embassy The Hague	SECRET	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS IZ NL NATO EUN
04THEHAGUE3041	NETHERLANDS/EU/MIDDLE EAST: DUTCH HOPING TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Dutch hope to use the remaining weeks of their presidency to refocus the EU on the Middle East in order to take advantage of new opportunities. According to FM Bot and the head of the MFA's Middle East section, providing support for the Palestinian elections it their top pr [...]	2004-11-19 17:03:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV KPAL NL MEPI
04THEHAGUE3074	DUTCH PARLIAMENT REITERATES OPPOSITION TO LIFTING [...] (U) At a regular hearing in the Dutch parliament on November 18 prior to the monthly EU foreign ministers' meeting (GAERC),spokesmen for the main political parties reiterated their opposition to the lifting of the EU's China arms embargo. Encouraged by the recent vote in the European Parliam [...]	2004-11-24 07:55:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV CU NL EUN
04THEHAGUE3094	RUSSIA/UKRAINE/EU - ANGRY PUTIN, FIRM EU AGREE AT [...] (C) SUMMARY: At the Russia-EU Summit in The Hague November 24, an "angry, aggressive" President Putin demanded Ukrainian law should dictated the outcome and rejected EU interest in finding a political solution as unwarranted and unnecessary. Drawing on OSCE election monitoring conclusions, [...]	2004-11-26 14:07:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR UP NL EUN RU
04THEHAGUE3133	NETHERLANDS/CROATIA: EU ATTITUDE TOWARDS ICTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: There is "no daylight" between the USG and Dutch national position on Croatia and its obligation to cooperate with the ICTY, Alle Dorhout (MFA European Integration Department Croatia officer) confirmed to Poloff and Legaloff when discussing reftel points November 30. The Dutc [...]	2004-12-01 11:16:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	KAWC PREL PGOV NL TU HR ICTY EUN
04THEHAGUE3320	2004 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT [...] The Netherlands continues to be a significant transit point for drugs entering Europe (especially cocaine),an important producer and exporter of synthetic drugs (particularly Ecstasy - MDMA),and a substantial consumer of most illicit drugs. U.S. law enforcement [...]	2004-12-21 17:21:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR PREL PGOV KCRM NL
04THEHAGUE3328	200434 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] ATTACHED IS THE HAGUE'S SUBMISSION OF PART II OF THE 200434 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT: MONEY LAUNDERING AND FINANCIAL CRIMES. POST'S RESPONSE IS ORGANIZED ACCORDING TO CHAPTERS PROVIDED IN THE INCSR QUESTIONNAIRE (REFTEL. A). THE DOLLAR/EURO EXCHANGE RATE ON DECEMBER 15J [...]	2004-12-22 16:17:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	KTFN KCRM PTER SNAR ECON EFIN ETTC PREL PGOV NL
04THEHAGUE3330	NETHERLANDS/EU/CAMBODIA: DEMARCHE ON TRAFFICKING [...] (C) Poloffs discussed reftel points December 21 with Eric Verwaal, Head of MFA's Southeast Asia and Oceania Department, and Hein Copper, desk officer. Verwaal clarified that the Netherlands Embassy in Bangkok covers Cambodian issues since the Dutch have no Embassy in Phnom Penh. Verwaal was [...]	2004-12-23 15:03:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	CB KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL NL
04THEHAGUE3332	NETHERLANDS/EU/BANGLADESH: BAN OF AHMADIYA [...] No summary [...]	2004-12-23 15:03:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV PINS BG NL
04THEHAGUE4	2003 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT [...] The Netherlands continues to be a significant transit point for drugs entering Europe (especially cocaine),an important producer and exporter of synthetic drugs (particularly Ecstasy and amphetamines),and an important consumer of most illicit drugs. U.S. law enforcement information indicates [...]	2004-01-02 14:34:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR PREL PGOV KCRM NL
04THEHAGUE552	CONSULTATIONS WITH EU ON BURMA: DUTCH RESPONSE [...] (C) The EU has not reached a common position to impose sanctions against the Burmese government. MFA Burma Desk Officer Mariko Peters stated that the EU discussion on Burma in on-going, and will be on the agenda for the next COASI. While there is no disagreement on the need for the government [...]	2004-03-04 13:48:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM NL EUN
04THEHAGUE554	DELIVERY OF NONPAPER TO DUTCH ON PSI INFORMATION [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-04 14:41:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MNUC PARM PREL PHSA NL
04THEHAGUE562	AFGHANISTAN: DUTCH PLANS FOR BERLIN CONFERENCE [...] (U) EconOff delivered ref A demarche to Martin Koper, Director of the MFA's Peacebuilding and Good Governance Division, and Wouter Biesterbos, Afghan Desk Officer. 2. (SBU) At this time, the Dutch have no plans to announce new pledges for Afghanistan at the March 31 donors conferenc [...]	2004-03-08 07:55:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AF EAID NL PGOV PREL
04THEHAGUE677	DUTCH PARTICIPATION AT THE CHAD CONFERENCE ON [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-17 08:50:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINS PREL PHUM NO SU CD NL
04THEHAGUE686	DUTCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON POSSIBLE 2009 KAZAKH [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-17 15:44:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KZ NL OSCE
04THEHAGUE690	DUTCH PM BALKENENDE'S WASHINGTON VISIT BOLSTERS [...] (C) Summary: The main Dutch opposition politician Wouter Bos has inflamed the debate over extending the Dutch troop deployment in Iraq by publicly opposing its renewal after July. However, spokespersons for the three governing coalition parties stated they were inclined to support renewal a [...]	2004-03-18 09:24:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS MARR IZ NL
04THEHAGUE787	AMBASSADOR'S MARCH 24 MEETING WITH DUTCH POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Sobel met with Dutch MFA Political Director Hugo Siblesz on March 24. They discussed Iraq, Afghanistan, the Greater Middle East, the March 22-23 EU GAERC meetings and China human rights issues. Siblesz said a new UNSCR would help the government secure broad support [...]	2004-03-26 05:04:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PARM PHUM IZ AF IR CH NL
04THEHAGUE879	NETHERLANDS: RISING BUDGET DEFICIT RESULTS IN NEW [...] The Dutch government is reacting with outward calm to the news that the EU Commission will launch an "excessive deficit" procedure against the Netherlands for running a budget deficit in 2003 of 3.2 percent - 0.2 percent greater than allowed by EU Growth and Stability Pact (GSP) rules. Financ [...]	2004-04-05 13:45:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN PGOV NL
04THEHAGUE905	CYPRUS: DUTCH RESPONSE ON DONORS' CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...]	2004-04-07 13:21:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CY NL EUN
04THEHAGUE966	DUTCH PARLIAMENT DEBATES IRAQ [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 15, the Dutch parliament engaged debated Foreign Minister Bot and Defense Minister Kamp in a debate on the future of Iraq. Looming in the background is the government's upcoming decision whether to renew the deployment of Dutch troops currently in Iraq beyond July. wi [...]	2004-04-16 16:14:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS MARR PREL PGOV IZ NL
04THEHAGUE969	DUTCH PARLIAMENT DEBATES IRAQ [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 15, the Dutch parliament debated Foreign Minister Bot and Defense Minister Kamp on the future of Iraq. Looming in the background is the government's upcoming decision whether to renew the deployment of Dutch troops currently in Iraq beyond July. Bot and Kamp parried o [...]	2004-04-16 16:44:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS MARR PREL PGOV IZ NL
04VATICAN1445	HOLY SEE REQUESTS U.S. APPROACH ISRAEL ON VISAS [...] (C) Vatican Foreign Minister equivalent Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo told the Ambassador April 6 of the Holy See's mounting frustration with Israel's unwillingness to address visa and residency problems for religious workers in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. The obstacles faced by Cath [...]	2004-04-13 15:34:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	IS PGOV PHUM PREL VT PLO
04VATICAN1988	VATICAN DELEGATION SEES PROGRESS IN VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Vatican representatives who visited Vietnam April 27 - May 2 were pleased by their surprisingly cordial reception by Vietnamese officials. Authorities allowed the delegation to visit the diocese of Xuan Loc for the first time, as well as Ban Me Thuot, where there were clashes in April [...]	2004-05-21 12:44:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CH KIRF PHUM PINR PREL VT VM PGOV SOCI
04VATICAN2890	NORTH KOREA: CATHOLIC RELIEF AGENCY BUILDING [...] (C) The Holy See's North Korea Country Director told us July 9 that Caritas has reinforced its traditional emergency food aid programs with training programs for local North Korean officials. The Vatican is cautiously optimistic that this focus on relationship building will create a greater [...]	2004-07-26 13:17:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM EAID PGOV KN VT KS KIRF
04VATICAN337	IRF: CARDINAL SEES OBSTACLES, PROGRESS IN VIETNAM [...] (C) AMERICAN CARDINAL BERNARD LAW REVIEWED WITH POLOFF JANUARY 28 HIS MID-DECEMBER TRIP TO VIETNAM AT THE INVITATION OF VIETNAM'S NEW CARDINAL, JEAN-BAPTISTE PHAM MINH MAN. LAW SAID HE SAW NO SIGNS THAT THE GVN WAS EVEN INCHING TOWARDS ALLOWING THE CATHOLIC CHURCH A ROLE IN CIVIL SOCIETY [...]	2004-01-30 12:07:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	CH KIRF PHUM PINR PREL VT VM PGOV SOCI
04VATICAN4878	NAMES, TITLES AND CONTACT NUMBERS FOR VATICAN [...] No summary [...]	2004-12-27 13:43:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL VT
04VILNIUS1065	AMERICAN RABBI CONTENDS LITHUANIAN PROPERTY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Escalating discord within Lithuania's Jewish community has surpassed the bounds of a religious dispute and threatens to become a fight over community property. At the center of the dispute is Rabbi Sholom Ber Krinsky, an American citizen, who publicly contends that Jewish commu [...]	2004-09-02 14:19:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SOCI CASC LH
04VILNIUS1196	LITHUANIAN PARLIAMENT PASSES REVISED INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) Summary. The Lithuanian parliament September 29 approved a bill raising the ceiling on the number of troops deployable in international operations and extending authorization of current missions through December 31, 2005. The bill mandates that Lithuania deploy an all-volunteer force and [...]	2004-09-30 13:49:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PREL LH

04VILNIUS1237	THE VIEW FROM ALYTUS: THE BLOOM IS OFF THE LABOR [...] SUMMARY. Less than a week before Lithuania's parliamentary election, few in Alytus doubt that the Labor Party will taste electoral success. However, a growing number question the Labor Party's populist promises and will support Lithuania's more tested traditional parties. End Summary. Aly [...]	2004-10-08 10:37:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV LH
04VILNIUS1239	LITHUANIAN CHEESE CAPITAL NODS LEFT, BUT WITH [...] SUMMARY: Rokiskis is a town of approximately 16,000 located in northeastern Lithuania and the capital of a productive agricultural region famous for the cheese brand that bears its name. The director of the cheese factory, sharing the spotlight with the visiting Prime Minister, was the local [...]	2004-10-08 10:52:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV SOCI LH
04VILNIUS1243	People in the Provincial Town will Vote for Change [...] Voters in the small town of Rietavas, in western Lithuania, see themselves as microcosm for the nation (if a bit more agricultural) and believe their vote in the upcoming election will mirror the country's vote as a whole. In Rietavas, it appears that the Labor Party will win big. End summar [...]	2004-10-08 12:54:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV LH
04VILNIUS1245	LITHUANIAN PRE-ELECTION WATCH: A SMALL TOWN LEANS [...] Summary. An incumbent from the ruling Social Democrats is paradoxically running on an anti-establishment platform and is likely to win re-election in the town of Anyksciai, 62 miles west of Vilnius. Residents are concerned with job security, the lack of youth employment options, and rising h [...]	2004-10-08 13:19:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV LH
04VILNIUS1261	LABOR PARTY WINS ROUND ONE OF LITHUANIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lithuania's Labor Party took the greatest number of votes in the October 10 first round of parliamentary elections, but failed to win enough seats to form a government or even ensure their leadership when all the votes are in. The coalition of ruling parties finished second, in l [...]	2004-10-12 14:50:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL LH
04VILNIUS1292	LITHUANIAN POLITICAL LEADERS AFFIRM SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Meetings we facilitated between American Jewish Committee official Andrew Baker and key Lithuanian political leaders October 13-17 resulted in a reaffirmed commitment to restitute communal Jewish property. On the eve of round two of parliamentary elections, President Valdas Adamk [...]	2004-10-19 11:55:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KNAR PHUM LH
04VILNIUS1323	LABOR LEADS LITHUANIAN ELECTIONS; BRAZAUSKAS WILL [...] (C) Summary. Victor Uspaskich's Labor Party won a plurality in the final round of Lithuanian parliamentary elections, October 24, but failed to guarantee its place in a ruling coalition. Over the next few weeks, President Valdas Adamkus must invite the leader of the winning party or coalitio [...]	2004-10-25 15:47:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL LH
04VILNIUS1352	THE END OF THE RAINBOW: COALITION TALKS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Conservative Party suspended formal talks with the Brazauskas-Paulauskas coalition on October 28, following major disagreement over the constitution of a so-called "rainbow coalition." Immediately following the collapse of talks, the Brazauskas-Paulauskas coalition formally a [...]	2004-10-29 13:29:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL LH
04VILNIUS1353	LITHUANIA CONCERNED OVER RUSSIAN AIR INCURSIONS [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania's opposition to hosting a Baltic regional air safety conference under NATO-Russia Council (NRC) auspices (ref A) is rooted in its assessment that Russian policy aims to disrupt NATO relations with its newest members and raise pressure on the air policing mission. Though [...]	2004-10-29 14:14:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MCAP MOPS PBTS PGOV PINS PREL LH
04VILNIUS1369	AMBASSADOR IN SIAULIAI STRESSES DEVELOPMENT AND [...] SUMMARY. Ambassador traveled to Lithuania's northern city of Siauliai October 20-21 to conveying a message of admiration for Lithuania's rapid democratic and economic growth and appreciation for its activist foreign policy and contributions to the NATO alliance. In a town often identified wi [...]	2004-11-05 12:57:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV OVIP LH
04VILNIUS1380	LITHUANIA'S 2005 DRAFT BUDGET SHORTS MOD [...] (C) Summary. The draft 2005 GOL budget before the Parliament fulfills Lithuania's NATO commitment to allocate two percent of GDP to defense spending, but falls far short of providing that two percent to the military. The budget increases the share of defense money that will go to other Minis [...]	2004-11-08 12:16:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL MCAP PINR PGOV LH
04VILNIUS1401	LITHUANIA RUSHES TO RATIFY EU CONSTITUTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lithuania became the first member state to ratify the EU Constitution on November 11 when the government rushed through a vote on the treaty on one of the Parliament's last days in session. The GOL had previously decided not to hold a national referendum on the Constitution. Opp [...]	2004-11-12 15:17:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV LH
04VILNIUS1411	LITHUANIAN DEFMIN CRITICIZES NATO MEMBERS' [...] (U) Lithuanian Defense Minister Linas Linkevicius, in an interview with the Baltic News Service on November 15, criticized the decision by ten NATO allies not to send instructors to the armed forces training mission in Iraq. Linkevicius remarked that he did not believe this decision, although [...]	2004-11-16 13:51:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MASS PGOV PREL LH
04VILNIUS1437	LITHUANIA CONDEMNS FRAUDULENT UKRAINIAN ELECTIONS; [...] (C) Summary. Lithuanian government and parliamentary officials strongly condemned reports of fraud in Ukraine's second round of presidential elections. Fully supporting the EU statement on the elections, they noted that Ukraine has apparently been deprived of an opportunity to demonstrate its [...]	2004-11-24 13:15:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL XH LH
04VILNIUS1442	FORMER AMBASSADOR'S CSIS PAPER CAUSES A [...] (SBU) Top TV journalist Edmundas Jakilaitis resigned over an incident in which he reported that a "secret" U.S. document warned of the dangers of Russian influence over Lithuanian politicians such as Russian-born Labor Party Leader Viktor Uspaskich. The document turned out to be written by f [...]	2004-11-26 09:49:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO PGOV PREL LH RS
04VILNIUS1445	LITHUANIAN PRIME MINISTER'S VISION FOR NEW TERM [...] (SBU) The Lithuanian parliament (Seimas) re-elected Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas November 25. In a speech to the Seimas November 24, Brazauskas outlined a broad vision for his new term. He promised to utilize EU funds to promote development in priority areas, such as the use, and expor [...]	2004-11-26 14:01:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON PGOV LH
04VILNIUS1449	ADAMKUS JOINS UKRAINE MEDIATION EFFORT [...] (U) Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus traveled to Kiev November 26 to join Polish President Kwasniewski's mediation efforts as domestic political pressure for Lithuanian engagement continued to mount. Though the scope and direction of Adamkus's involvement remain unclear, his strong democr [...]	2004-11-29 07:01:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV UK LH
04VILNIUS1450	LITHUANIA DECLARES SOLIDARITY WITH UKRAINE; TO [...] (U) The Lithuanian Parliament (Seimas) expressed its solidarity with the people of Ukraine and its support for their democratic objectives. In a vote of 123 to 1, with 3 abstentions, the 141-seat Seimas resolved to support the decision of Ukraine's Supreme Rada to evaluate the results of the [...]	2004-11-29 16:10:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP LH
04VILNIUS1454	UKRAINE: RUSSIANS REPORTEDLY BLAME U.S. FOR [...] (C) Adamkus expects to return to Ukraine with Kwasniewski and Solana before December 3 to continue mediation efforts, according to a senior adviser. Kwasniewski predicted privately to Adamkus November 30 that Ukraine would likely turn into "another Georgia" within a few days. A November 26 [...]	2004-11-30 13:47:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UK LH
04VILNIUS1455	LITHUANIAN PM PRESENTS CABINET LIST TO A SKEPTICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Valdas Adamkus on November 29 appointed Algirdas Brazauskas the new Prime Minister of Lithuania. Brazauskas, in turn, presented the President with his list of ministerial candidates, which includes Labor Party boss Viktor Uspaskich and Peasant Party leader Kazimiera Pru [...]	2004-11-30 14:18:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV LH
04VILNIUS1477	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY [...] Post warmly welcomes Ambassador Michael Kozak and is pleased to grant country clearance for the period of December 3-6, 2004 to attend the "Advancing Europe Whole and Free: Challenges and Opportunities for Transatlantic Cooperation" conference. 2. Embassy point of contact for your visit is [...]	2004-12-03 07:34:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA AMGT PGOV PHUM KDEM LI LH
04VILNIUS1489	ADAMKUS REPORTS INTERNATIONAL MEDIATION MISSION [...] (C) Adamkus is satisfied with the outcome of the contentious international mediation session in Kiev December 6-7. He predicts that December 26 elections will occur on schedule, but admits that key uncertainties remain. A return of the international mediators to Kiev appears unlikely for no [...]	2004-12-07 13:26:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL XH LH
04VILNIUS1492	LITHUANIA: DEFMIN NOMINEE PLEDGES TO STAY COURSE [...] (C) Summary. President Valdas Adamkus on December 7 nominated Gediminas Kirkilas, a leader of the Social Democrat Party and former Chairman of parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, to become Minster of Defense in Lithuania's new government. Kirkilas, who will replace fellow Social Democrat [...]	2004-12-08 11:23:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PREL MARR MCAP MOPS LH
04VILNIUS1496	LITHUANIAN PRESIDENT FORCES CABINET SHAKE-UP [...] (C) Summary: President Valdas Adamkus scored a major political victory on December 7, forcing the ruling coalition of PM Algirdas Brazauskas to replace two Cabinet candidates. Viktoras Muntianas and Rimantas Vaitkus are now out of the line-up, and, if cleared by investigative services, Labor P [...]	2004-12-08 13:34:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL LH
04VILNIUS1512	CODEL HASTINGS PRAISES LITHUANIAN EFFORTS IN [...] (C) Summary: Congressman Alcee Hastings, attending a GOL-sponsored conference on the promotion of democracy in Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and the South Caucasus, met with President Adamkus and parliamentary (Seimas) and GOL foreign policy experts on December 3 to discuss the current Ukrainian [...]	2004-12-13 04:54:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UK BO LH
04VILNIUS1520	LITHUANIA TO WORK THROUGH EU ON ANY IRAQ [...] (C) Acting AS for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Michael Kozak on December 3 discussed with Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis the possibility of Lithuania's participation in an Iraqi election observer mission. Ambassador Kozak, in Vilnius for a GOL-sponsored conference on supporting democr [...]	2004-12-16 12:32:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV LH
04VILNIUS1522	EU MEMBERSHIP SPURS LITHUANIAN LABOR FLIGHT [...] SUMMARY: Young Lithuanians have left their homeland en masse since the May 1 accession to the EU in search of employment abroad. The exact number leaving remains unclear, although as much as a quarter of the country's working-age population may leave by the end of the year. Some sectors have [...]	2004-12-16 13:16:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON SMIG PGOV LH
04VILNIUS1523	LITHUANIA'S NEW GOVERNMENT TAKES OFFICE WITH BROAD [...] (C) SUMMARY: The 13th Government of Lithuania took power on December 14, when Parliament approved the Cabinet and program of Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas. Negotiations over two Ministerial posts proved difficult, with the President forcing substitute nominees and ultimately accepting as [...]	2004-12-16 13:26:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL LH
04VILNIUS1546	NEW LITHUANIAN DEFMIN COMMITS TO CONTINUED SUPPORT [...] (U) This cable contains two action requests. Please see paragraph 13. 2. (C) Summary. New Lithuanian Defense Minister Gediminas Kirkilas told the Ambassador that Lithuania would remain engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq during a December 21 tour d'horizon of our bilateral military-military re [...]	2004-12-22 12:51:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR MOPS MASS LH
04VILNIUS1548	New Minister of Interior Furmanavicius Promises [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Mull met with newly appointed Minister of Interior Ginteras Furmanavicius on December 21, 2004. Furmanavicius thanked the Ambassador for past U.S. efforts to train the Ministry's experts in border security and law enforcement. He stated his commitment to maintaining [...]	2004-12-22 15:47:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL CMGT ASEC LH
04VILNIUS1556	BALTS REPORT RUSSIAN CHARM OFFENSIVE [...] (C) Summary. Russia has launched a "charm offensive" towards the Baltic states that features new movement on bilateral relations, according to Lithuanian officials and Baltic diplomats here. Lithuanian interlocutors point to recent Russian initiatives on long-stalled issues such as bilateral [...]	2004-12-23 10:58:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS LH
04WELLINGTON1010	NEW ZEALAND AIDS CASES MINIMAL, BUT CONCERN [...] (U) While the number of people infected with HIV/AIDS in New Zealand remains relatively small, the numbers have risen sharply in the past two years, with homosexual cases (53%) outnumbering heterosexual (21%) modes of transmission. NZ Aids Foundation executive director Rachael Le Mesurier po [...]	2004-12-06 04:18:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI TBIO PGOV EAID NZ
04WELLINGTON1018	PARLIAMENT "IN BALANCE": ACT PARTY SWEARS IN [...] (U) ACT Party MP Kenneth Wang was sworn into Parliament November 30, replacing former ACT MP Donna Awatere Huata. Huata was removed from Parliament November 19, after losing a year-long court battle to retain her seat, which culminated in a Supreme Court hearing. The Supreme Court, in its firs [...]	2004-12-08 04:09:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV NZ PBIO
04WELLINGTON1040	NEW ZEALAND CABINET RESHUFFLE: FIRST UP, [...] (U) Summary: The Labour Government took its first steps in a long-heralded Cabinet reshuffle, with the December 14 nomination of current Attorney-General Margaret Wilson for the position of Speaker of the House. The Speaker is the third highest office in the country and, while the role is no [...]	2004-12-15 03:53:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NZ PBIO
04WELLINGTON539	NEW ZEALAND OPPOSITION PARTY BACKS AWAY FROM [...] (C/NF) Summary: New Zealand Opposition National Party leader Don Brash has formally declared that his party would not propose making changes to NZ's anti-nuclear legislation - at least not until after 2005 Parliamentary election. Brash said a future National Government would not change NZ's [...]	2004-06-24 05:32:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL MNUC PARM NZ
04WELLINGTON558	INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT ON NEW ZEALAND [...] No summary [...]	2004-06-30 05:11:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN KTDB PGOV NZ OPIC
04WELLINGTON591	NZ OPPOSITION NATIONAL PARTY CONFERENCE - WHAT A [...] (C) Summary: New Zealand's largest opposition party, National, held an up-beat, almost giddy, Annual Conference July 9-11. Polling slightly ahead of the ruling Labour government, conference delegates expressed confidence in winning the 2005 election. In contrast to the festive atmosphere, N [...]	2004-07-12 05:19:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NZ
04WELLINGTON601	NEW ZEALAND'S NEWLY FORMED MAORI PARTY TAKES FIRST [...] (SBU) Maori activist Tariana Turia used her decisive win in a July 10 by-election to launch the Maori Party, with herself as its first MP. Turia easily regained her seat in Parliament after resigning her Labour Party Government seat in May protest over the government's stance on Maori claims [...]	2004-07-15 04:30:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM NZ
04WELLINGTON605	NEW ZEALAND IMPOSES "STRICT CONSTRAINTS" ON [...] (U) In an escalating diplomatic row, two Israeli men were sentenced July 14 by the High Court of New Zealand to six months in jail on charges of trying to obtain a false New Zealand passport. The GoNZ has not pursued allegations that the men are agents of Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. W [...]	2004-07-16 04:20:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR NZ
04WELLINGTON611	NEW ZEALAND PRAISED BY ISLAMIC RESISTANCE MOVEMENT [...] (U) According to media reports, the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas issued a press release July 17 thanking the GoNZ for Prime Minister Helen Clark's strong response to the conviction of two suspected Israeli intelligence agents (ref a). The press release urged other countries to foll [...]	2004-07-19 06:17:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR NZ
04WELLINGTON613	NEW ZEALAND: WHAT NUCLEAR ISSUE? PM CLARK [...] (SBU) In comments about the US-New Zealand relationship, NZ Prime Minister Helen Clark told Australia's ABC radio July 8 "I must say that I personally have met George Bush a number of times and consider the personal relationship between us to be very good." Making a direct link between those m [...]	2004-07-19 23:29:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PARM NZ
04WELLINGTON632	NEW ZEALAND PRIME MINISTER REITERATES VIEW THAT [...] (SBU/NF) Summary: New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark reiterated her position on NZ's anti-nuclear policy in comments to local media July 25: "I'm not looking for compromises. I'm perfectly satisfied with the policy. As far as I am concerned, (the US-NZ nuclear dispute) is finished busin [...]	2004-07-26 05:57:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PARM MNUC PINR NZ
04WELLINGTON647	NEW ZEALAND MINISTER HOSTS MIKE MOORE'S [...] (SBU) Embassy Wellington learned July 30 that GNZ Cabinet Minister for the Environment Marian Hobbs was reportedly hosting a special screening of Michael Moore's controversial movie "Fahrenheit 9/11" as a local Labour Party fundraising event. DCM contacted the Prime Minister's office to ask [...]	2004-07-30 05:53:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NZ
04WELLINGTON661	NEW ZEALAND FOCUSES ON REFORM OF PACIFIC ISLAND [...] (U) On July 27, Poloff shared ref A points on the 2004 Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) with Paul Willis, Regional Deputy Director, Pacific Division, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Willis indicated that Prime Minister Helen Clark would lead the New Zealand delegation to the PIF, [...]	2004-08-04 05:01:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON EFIS SENV NZ
04WELLINGTON701	NEW ZEALAND ATTENDANCE AT 59TH UNGA [...] (SBU) Post contacted Rachel Bennett, United Nations and Commonwealth (UNC) Division, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT),who provided the following information in response to reftel request. Foreign Minister: -- Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade the Honorable Phi [...]	2004-08-16 05:06:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL OVIP NZ
04WELLINGTON824	NEW ZEALAND TROOPS RETURN FROM IRAQ; NO FUTURE [...] (C) Summary: New Zealand's 12-month military deployment to Iraq ended September 25, with the homecoming of over 60 engineers and support staff. Prime Minister Helen Clark welcomed the troops, and issued a public statement confirming that no further deployments to Iraq are being considered. Wh [...]	2004-09-27 02:39:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS NZ
04WELLINGTON844	ASSISTANT SECRETARY JAMES A. KELLY'S AUGUST 8 [...] (U) Summary: Assistant Secretary Kelly, accompanied by Ambassador Swindells, Ed Rindler (INL) and notetaker, met August 8, 2004 with New Zealand Foreign Minister Phil Goff at the Pacific Islands Forum in Apia, Samoa. A/S Kelly and Goff discussed the deteriorating relationship between East Timo [...]	2004-10-06 19:57:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EFIS SENV NZ
04WELLINGTON880	WEOG ROTATION: NEW ZEALAND FM RESPONSE [...] (SBU) Post delivered the letter (reftels) on WEOG rotation in the UN Commission of Human Rights (CHR) from Secretary Powell to New Zealand Foreign Minister Phil Goff on August 16. On October 12 the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) provided the Ambassador a copy of Gof [...]	2004-10-20 01:20:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OPDC PHUM PREL PGOV NZ
04WELLINGTON889	NEW ZEALAND POLITICAL SCANDAL MAY LOSE THE [...] (C) Summary: Recent allegations concerning New Zealand Labour Government Minister John Tamihere's relationship to his former place of employment could result in a by-election, whose loss would end Labour's single-vote Parliamentary majority. This would force the Government to revise its polit [...]	2004-10-22 02:27:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM NZ
04WELLINGTON902	NEW ZEALAND URGES UN SECURITY COUNCIL REFORM, BUT [...] (SBU) The Government of New Zealand is strongly in favor of UN Security Council reform, but is averse to discussing its, proposed changes. The GoNZ has submitted a discussion paper on the topic to the SG's High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change. 2. (SBU) In his opening speech t [...]	2004-10-28 23:57:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NZ
04WELLINGTON909	NEW ZEALAND'S NEW MAORI PARTY GAINS TRACTION [...] (U) Summary: Approximately four months after its creation, the Maori Party has achieved more success than some observers may have initially expected, due largely to anger in Maori communities over the GoNZ's handling of proposed foreshore and seabed legislation. For now, Labour seems to ha [...]	2004-11-01 02:41:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM NZ
04WELLINGTON949	NEW ZEALAND LABOUR PARTY CAUTIOUSLY CONFIDENT ON [...] (C) Summary: New Zealand's governing Labour Party held its annual conference, November 12 ) 14 in Auckland. Foreign affairs and trade featured prominently, and Clark noted that priorities over a Third term would include the following: new trade and economic links, especially FTAs or arrangeme [...]	2004-11-15 04:33:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MNUC NZ
04WELLINGTON997	NEW ZEALAND SPY "SCANDAL" - SECURITY INTELLIGENCE [...] (S) Summary: Prime Minister Helen Clark has assented to a request by the Inspector-General of Security to conduct an investigation into allegations reported by the New Zealand media that New Zealand's Security Intelligence Service (SIS) has been spying on members of the newly formed Maori Party [...]	2004-11-30 23:22:00	Embassy Wellington	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM NZ
04YEREVAN1002	MFA PRESENTS FACT SHEET ON ARMENIA-NATO COOPERATION [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) The Head of the NATO Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hrachia Tashchian, presented us with the Ministry's "Fact Sheet on Cooperation of Armenia with NATO and its Participation in the Partnership for Peace Progr [...]	2004-04-29 12:31:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM PGOV AM
04YEREVAN1010	PARLIAMENT ADOPTS LAW ON RALLIES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The Armenian National Assembly passed the controversial "Law on the Procedure of Staging Meetings, Rallies, Marches and Demonstrations" (Law on Rallies) in its third and final reading April 2 [...]	2004-04-30 10:22:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV AM
04YEREVAN1088	ARMENIAN OPPOSITION HALTS PROTESTS, AWAITS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The Armenian opposition announced a 10-day suspension in its protests against the presidency of Robert Kocharian to give the government time to comply with PACE Resolution 1374. Opposition le [...]	2004-05-05 13:24:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV AM
04YEREVAN1089	NO PROGRESS IN INVESTIGATION OF HIGH-PROFILE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) At his May 4 press conference Procurator General (PG) Aghvan Hovsepian admitted that they had as yet made no significant progress in the investigation of several high-profile cases of violence against [...]	2004-05-05 13:24:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
04YEREVAN1109	REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: ARMENIAN MEDIA [...] SUMMARY: Armenian mass media widely covered the recent developments in Ajaria and Georgia and paid special attention to the resignation of Ajaria's leader, Aslan Abashidze. The press outlined the importance of the recent political developments for their possible impact on Armenia and on the [...]	2004-05-07 13:01:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM
04YEREVAN1119	"CELEBRATION" OF WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY IN [...] SUMMARY: Competing media organizations sponsored several events on Monday, May 3, in observance of World Press Freedom Day. Generally critical of the government of Armenia, the events also revealed a certain amount of intramural hard feelings in the world of Armenian journalism. The U.S. Em [...]	2004-05-10 09:26:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM
04YEREVAN1147	DIALOGUE CONTINUES BETWEEN OPPOSITION AND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Negotiations between Armenia's governing coalition and its political opponents have brought a temporary lull to their month-long political confrontation. Talks between leaders of the three pro- Kocha [...]	2004-05-14 12:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
04YEREVAN1148	TWO MEN DETAINED ON CHARGES OF ATTACKING [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The Office of the Procurator General (PG) announced May 12 that they had identified and officially charged two men for attacking journalists during an opposition rally on April 5. An assaulted journa [...]	2004-05-14 12:05:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL AM
04YEREVAN1179	SPRING 2004 DIASPORA ROUNDTABLE FOCUSES ON [...] The May 5-7 meetings of the Ambassador's Diaspora Roundtable held in Yerevan focused on encouraging private investment in Armenia and increasing partnership between Diaspora-based groups and the USG with ongoing assistance projects. Thirty-seven prominent Armenian-Americans representing the e [...]	2004-05-20 02:24:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV EAID AM
04YEREVAN1190	PREVENTIVE DETENTIONS A MAJOR SETBACK ON THE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenian police rounded up and questioned more than 25 opposition activists around the country on the eve of the planned May 21 opposition rally in Yerevan. According to opposition sources and media re [...]	2004-05-21 10:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL AM
04YEREVAN1194	MCA: THE VIEW FROM YEREVAN [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------------------------ PROGRESS IN RECENT YEARS ------------------------ 2. (SBU) Over the past 12 years since independence Armenia has moved from a state of open conflict with one of its neighbors to a stable, if occasionally [...]	2004-05-21 12:13:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID PGOV PHUM AM
04YEREVAN1207	MAY 21 OPPOSITION RALLY CALM, NO NEW [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. --------------------- LARGE RALLY, BUT CALM --------------------- 2. (SBU) Despite concerns raised by the May 20 preventive detentions (reftel),the May 21 opposition rally attracted roughly 12,000-15,000 participants, proceede [...]	2004-05-25 06:10:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM AM
04YEREVAN1238	KOCHARIAN DISCUSSES REFORMS, ARMENIA'S ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) EUR/ACE Ambassador Carlos Pascual, accompanied by the Ambassador, met with President Robert Kocharian May 18 following the meetings of the U.S.-Armenia Task Force on Economic Cooperation (USATF). The meeting focused on the potential role for Armenia as an example of progress and freedom [...]	2004-05-27 10:50:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID
04YEREVAN1254	RIVAL POLITICAL CAMPS UNITE OVER CHESSBOARD [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) The current National Assembly (NA) marked its first anniversary May 26 with a chess tournament featuring international grandmaster Smbat Lputyan who played against 14 MPs and NA staffers. Each [...]	2004-06-01 12:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
04YEREVAN1255	DECIPHERING THE ARMENIAN-AMERICAN DIASPORA [...] (SBU) The Armenian-American Diaspora continues to wield considerable influence upon the foreign and domestic policies of the Government of Armenia. This influence ranges from the obvious connection of U.S.-born and/or trained GOAM officials, the influence of private and public U.S. assistance [...]	2004-06-01 12:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AM
04YEREVAN1268	ARMENIA'S ALTERNATIVE MILITARY SERVICE LAW: [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The GOAM has not drafted implementating regulations for its alternative military service legislation, which went into effect June 1. The GOAM delayed creating the regulations because the law [...]	2004-06-03 12:01:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV AM
04YEREVAN1287	BUSINESS AS NOT-SO-USUAL IN ARMENIA'S PARLIAMENT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly . ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) More than one year into the legislative season, a boycotting opposition, spotty attendance by pro-government deputies, continued political saber-rattling between parties and even occasional f [...]	2004-06-04 12:21:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV AM
04YEREVAN1293	KOCHARIAN ESTABLISHES MCA BOARD, DISCUSSES COMPACT [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The GOAM has formed a Board of Trustees under the authority of the Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan with Chief Economic Adviser of the President of the Republic of Armenia Vahram Nercissiantz a [...]	2004-06-07 12:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV EAID AM
04YEREVAN1336	FRACTURED OPPOSITION ADMITS FAILURE TO GARNER [...] (SBU) Faced with dismal rally attendance, Armenian opposition leaders made announcements June 5 acknowledging their failure to receive sufficient popular support for "decisive actions" aimed at ousting President Kocharian. Instead of launching a promised "permanent" protest action, the June 4 [...]	2004-06-14 11:22:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
04YEREVAN1337	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES CITIZEN CONCERNS IN ARMENIA'S [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Ordway discussed USG assistance programs and current events with Armenians living in the southern province of Syunik during a town hall meeting June 8 in the provincial capital of Kapan. The meeting was part of a broader schedule of USG assistance site visits and poli [...]	2004-06-14 12:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV EAID AM
04YEREVAN1339	MFA INITIAL RESPONSE TO 2004 TIP REPORT [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (SBU) We delivered TIP report language and accompanying fact sheet and press release information to Special Advisor Salpi Ghazarian and Human Rights Desk Officer Karine Soudjian June 14 per reftel instructions. Both reported th [...]	2004-06-14 12:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EAID AM
04YEREVAN1341	FURTHER DELAYS FOR AMENDMENTS TO ALTERNATIVE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) This message updates reftel. A National Assembly committee expert who worked on Armenia's alternative military service law previously informed Post that amendments to the law on alternative military service would be com [...]	2004-06-15 11:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV AM
04YEREVAN1342	REPUBLICAN-BACKED PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE RUNS [...] (SBU) Vahe Hakobian, parliamentary candidate endorsed by Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan's Republican Party, ran unopposed during parliamentary by- elections in the southern province of Syunik on June 13. According to preliminary figures announced by the Territorial Election Commission, Ha [...]	2004-06-15 11:38:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
04YEREVAN1343	ARMENIA MCA BI-WEEKLY REPORT -- JUNE 15, 2004 [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. --------------------------------------------- ------- GOAM MCA BOARD CONVENES FIRST "CONSULTATIVE" MEETING --------------------------------------------- ------- 2. (U) Minister of Finance and Economy Vardan Khachatryan hosted th [...]	2004-06-15 12:15:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EAID AM
04YEREVAN1344	ARMENIA: 2004 - 2005 ANTI-TRAFFICKING STRATEGY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. While the formation of the Government's Interagency Commission to Address Issues related to Human Trafficking was encouraging, lack of a Commission Head for several months last year significantly slowed down the Government's response to TIP. As reported reftel, the Commission [...]	2004-06-15 12:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KCRM ELAB KWMN SMIG PGOV PREL UZ AM
04YEREVAN1352	RELATIONS WITH TURKEY BACK IN THE SPOTLIGHT [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The last-minute decision by the Turkish delegation not to attend a conference on regional archaeological and tourism issues, a report in the Armenian press regarding visa regimes and a widely ci [...]	2004-06-17 12:21:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV EAID AM
04YEREVAN1359	OPPOSITION ANNOUNCES END TO "HOT SPRING" [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified -- Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Leaders of the Armenian opposition Justice bloc and National Accord Party officially announced June 16 the end of the much-touted "hot spring" anti- Kocharian campaign. While some opposition [...]	2004-06-18 11:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
04YEREVAN1369	REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: PRESS [...] SUMMARY: All mass media widely covered Ambassador John Ordway's press conference held on June 17. Almost all TV and newspaper reports were accurate and factual. The majority of the newspapers quoted the Ambassador without any comments. All the newspapers noted that there will be the final p [...]	2004-06-21 08:24:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM
04YEREVAN1411	PRESIDENTIAL DECREE PUTS GOAM ON THE HUNT FOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) President Kocharian signed a decree June 1, stating the GOAM's intent to free five million dollars from the GOAM budget over the next two years for refugee housing assistance and authorizing t [...]	2004-06-24 09:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM EAID AM PMR
04YEREVAN1439	YEREVAN REACTION TO KOCHARIAN'S JUNE 24 COUNCIL OF [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Local media reaction was mostly positive in Yerevan following President Robert Kocharian's June 24 address to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). The address, which was c [...]	2004-06-25 12:59:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EAID AM
04YEREVAN1507	ARMENIA MCA BI-WEEKLY REPORT -- JULY 2, 2004 [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. -------------------------------- GOAM MCA BOARD MEETINGS CONTINUE -------------------------------- 2. (SBU) GOAM sources tell us that the GOAM MCA Board has met a total of seven times to date. This number, however, includes fi [...]	2004-07-02 12:45:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EAID AM
04YEREVAN1520	CONGRATULATORY LETTER FROM PRESIDENT [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (SBU) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs transmitted a letter from President Robert Kocharian to President Bush congratulating him on the occasion of the 228th anniversary of the independence of the United States. 3. (SBU) The [...]	2004-07-07 12:30:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AM
04YEREVAN1523	PRESIDENT OF IRAN TO VISIT ARMENIA [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Armenian President Robert Kocharian announced June 24 that Iranian President (Ali) Mohammad Khatami-Ardakani would visit Armenia this September. According to the announcement, Khatami will be the first Iranian head of s [...]	2004-07-07 12:32:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV IR AM
04YEREVAN1556	GOAM'S MCA MANAGEMENT AND CONSULTATIVE PROCESS IN [...] (U) Ministry of Finance and Economy officials tell us that the consultative process in advance of the GOAM's upcoming MCA compact proposal submission has moved to the country's regions and is on schedule. The GOAM has begun compiling a matrix of all concept papers and/or comments received fro [...]	2004-07-13 10:55:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EAID AM
04YEREVAN1624	KOCHARIAN AND MINISTERS PLAN FIRST STATE VISIT TO [...] (SBU) MFA sources confirmed July 20 that Armenian President Robert Kocharian would travel to China September 26-30. The GOAM had not yet made this information public but will likely announce it to the press July 21 or 22. Several GOAM Foreign Ministers have traveled to China in the past as pa [...]	2004-07-21 12:25:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV CH AM
04YEREVAN1628	GOAM INDICATES IT MAY VOTE NO ON CUBA RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...]	2004-07-22 11:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CU AM UNGA
04YEREVAN1641	MCA BI-WEEKLY REPORT -- JULY 26, 2004 [...] (U) The GOAM has indicated that it may be ready to present its MCA compact proposal to the GOAM's MCA Board by September 1, and to follow this with a consultative process that we understand will include the donor community here. A recent consultative session in Armenia's Syunik region was a f [...]	2004-07-26 09:56:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EAID AM
04YEREVAN1648	PUBLIC DEBATE MARKS FIRST YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Both supporters and critics of the ruling parliamentary coalition in Armenia's National Assembly took advantage of its one-year anniversary to stage public debates on its effectiveness and pro [...]	2004-07-26 12:13:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AM
04YEREVAN1665	LETTER FROM THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE TO [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ----------------------- TEXT OF LETTER FROM MOJ ----------------------- 2. (SBU) The Minister of Justice Davit Harytyunyan's staff transmitted the following letter to the Embassy July 28, noting that it had also been sent to th [...]	2004-07-29 12:22:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM AM
04YEREVAN1678	PARTY PRIMER: TOP ARMENIAN POLITICAL PARTIES [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) With 64 registered political parties (as of July 30, 2004) voters in Armenia suffer no lack of choice. The following parties are represented within the National Assembly (NA): the Republican [...]	2004-07-30 08:32:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AM
04YEREVAN1749	ARMENIA SIGNS ON TO DEFENSE ASSESSMENT: [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. --------------------------------------------- -- MINISTER OF DEFENSE REQUESTS DEFENSE ASSESSMENT --------------------------------------------- -- 2. (SBU) Armenia formally requested a Defense Assessment in the following letter fr [...]	2004-08-09 01:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PARM AM
04YEREVAN1771	MCA BI-WEEKLY REPORT -- AUGUST 9, 2004 [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Various ministries, state agencies, NGOs, educational institutions, and individuals submitted a number of new MCA proposals as a result of the consultative process initiated by the Government [...]	2004-08-09 12:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EAID AM
04YEREVAN1792	CIVIL MONITORING BOARD BEGINS PRISON VISITS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) In 2002, Armenia's National Assembly passed legislation creating a civilian board to monitor prison and police detention facilities and to subsequently issue a public report annually. The Civ [...]	2004-08-13 10:29:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV AM
04YEREVAN1813	ARMENIA'S TEST FOR NATO AND PFP: WILL THEY BE [...] (C) GOAM senior policy makers are looking to the upcoming Cooperation Best Effort 2004 (CBE04) Partnership for Peace (PfP) mid-September exercise in Azerbaijan as a test case for whether NATO, PfP members and the U.S. genuinely want to work with Armenia. Until the five Armenian military office [...]	2004-08-16 11:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PM PGOV AM AJ
04YEREVAN1822	MINIKES IN YEREVAN: ENGAGE WITH THE OSCE [...] (SBU) In a series of intense meetings with nearly all of Armenia's top-level leaders, USOSCE Ambassador Stephan M. Minikes called for Armenia to engage with the OSCE to make sure the organization suits the country's needs, and not to carp from the sidelines, eroding OSCE basic principles. Mini [...]	2004-08-18 08:48:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
04YEREVAN1837	LETTER FROM THE MFA ON ARMENIA'S CANDIDACY [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ----------------------- TEXT OF LETTER FROM MFA ----------------------- 2. (SBU) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs transmitted the following letter to the Embassy. The English- language text of the letter follows. Begin Text: [...]	2004-08-18 13:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM AM UN
04YEREVAN1862	AMBASSADOR EVANS PRESENTS COPIES OF HIS LETTERS OF [...] (SBU) Ambassador Evans presented copies of his letters of credence to Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian August 23. The Ambassador highlighted the strong U.S.-Armenia bilateral relationship, outlined U.S. policy objectives, and noted that new opportunities may exist in the South Caucas [...]	2004-08-23 11:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM

04YEREVAN1885	MODIFIED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS PACKAGE MOVES [...] (C) The three parties of the pro-government ruling coalition forwarded a package of proposed constitutional amendments to Armenia's National Assembly (NA) in mid-August for discussion and approval during the upcoming legislative session. This step was the latest in the continuing saga of Coun [...]	2004-08-27 07:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AM
04YEREVAN1899	ARMENIA'S OLIGARCHS: STAYING RICH ON FOOD, GAS, AND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Trade in the most basic goods in the Armenian economy is controlled by a small number of oligarchs with strong ties to government. While it is considered common knowledge that oligarchs use p [...]	2004-08-30 12:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID EIND ETRD PGOV KCOR AM
04YEREVAN1925	PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR JOINS JOURNALIST TO MAKE [...] (SBU) Summary. The GOAM took the high road in response to a physical attack on an investigative journalist on August 24 (reftel). The alleged attacker was arrested while Armenia's Prosecutor General pressed charges. A senior advisor to President Kocharian joined journalists in a "protest" o [...]	2004-08-31 12:30:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL AM
04YEREVAN1938	LOCAL RESULTS NULLIFIED IN ELECTORAL DEJA VU [...] (SBU) Territorial Election Commission (TEC) officials declared the results from an August 29 parliamentary by-election invalid August 31 following widespread reports of violations and an unreliably thin margin of only 32 votes between the two candidates. Analysts viewed the election as an impo [...]	2004-09-02 06:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM AM
04YEREVAN2113	FM TAPS SPECIAL ADVISOR AS NEXT AMBASSADOR TO IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2004-09-24 10:56:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PREL PGOV IR AM
04YEREVAN2114	PARLIAMENTARY BY-ELECTION: POWERPLAY TUG-OF-WAR, [...] (C) The National Assembly Speaker-backed candidate won a controversial parliamentary by-election September 19 in a Yerevan suburb after the only remaining candidate (backed by Armenia's Procurator General) withdrew from the race only a few days earlier. Analysts viewed the election, which had [...]	2004-09-24 11:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AM
04YEREVAN2156	REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: PRESS [...] SUMMARY: All mass media widely covered the first press conference of Ambassador John Evans held on September 15. Virtually all TV stations commented on the unique format of the press conference (the heads of all the sections of the U.S. mission in Armenia were present). All TV stations show [...]	2004-09-30 13:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM
04YEREVAN2165	GOAM TAKING ACTION TO FIGHT TRAFFICKING [...] (U) Although much work remains to be done, the Armenian government has made considerable efforts over the past three years and, despite being a country of origin for trafficking, has graduated from Tier 3 to Tier 2 (Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report 2004). Government actions have had the fol [...]	2004-10-01 06:29:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KCRM KWMN PHUM AM KTIP
04YEREVAN2194	OSKANIAN CALLS FOR ARMENIAN "RE- [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------------------------------- OSKANIAN STUNS DIPLOMATIC CROWD ------------------------------- 2. (SBU) Taking advantage of the official reception October 2 on the occasion of the "Day of German Unity," Foreign Minister Varta [...]	2004-10-04 12:31:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AJ AM
04YEREVAN2216	RUSSIAN-GEORGIAN BORDER CLOSING "NOT [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. -------- SUMMARY -------- 2. (SBU) As a result of the Russian-Georgian border closure roughly one thousand trucks bound for Armenia are stuck at the Verkhniy Lars border crossing point between Russia and Georgia. According t [...]	2004-10-06 12:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PREL PGOV AM
04YEREVAN2222	POLICE DETAIN TWO ON SUSPICION OF TRAFFICKING [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------------------------------------ POLICE ARRESTING ALLEGED TRAFFICKERS ------------------------------------ 2. (SBU) Police detained Tigran Rushanyan (nickname - Tigran the Great) on suspicion of trafficking October 4, 2004 [...]	2004-10-07 03:20:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP
04YEREVAN2256	GOAM PREPARED TO SIGN REVISED "ARTICLE 98" [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Foreign Minister Oskanian's senior advisor told us October 12 that the GOAM is prepared to sign a revised "Article 98" agreement "within next ten days." President Kocharian is currently deciding who to authorize to sign [...]	2004-10-12 12:18:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM PGOV AM
04YEREVAN2257	GOAM REGISTERS JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES [...] (SBU) The Armenian Ministry of Justice registered the Jehovah's Witnesses as a legal entity on October 8. Registration confers the right for religious groups to rent meeting space, broadcast on radio and television, publish magazines and newspapers, and it gives members of the Jehovah's Witnes [...]	2004-10-12 12:19:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL AM
04YEREVAN226	REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: PRESIDENT [...] SUMMARY: President George W. Bush's State of the Union Address was widely covered in Armenian media, both print and broadcast. Coverage by broadcast media was mostly factual, using CNN, EuroNews or Russian sources. Print media used the Russian Washington File provided by the U.S. Embassy Pu [...]	2004-01-23 12:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM
04YEREVAN2281	FM DISCUSSES TURKISH-EU ACCESSION: KOCHARIAN [...] (C) In her October 14 meeting with Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian, Deputy Assistant Secretary Laura Kennedy emphasized the positive benefits for Armenia of a Turkey anchored in the EU. She strongly urged the GOAM avoid trying to derail or complicate the process. Oskanian's recent [...]	2004-10-14 08:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU AM
04YEREVAN2325	COURT CONVICTS, SENTENCES JOURNALIST'S [...] No summary [...]	2004-10-19 12:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL AM
04YEREVAN2326	GENDER AND SALARY DISCRIMINATION IN YEREVAN [...] (SBU) According to a new survey, equally qualified men and women in Yerevan receive wildly disparate salaries: on average, women in Yerevan receive 40 percent less than men. While the survey was too small to be entirely reliable, the trends it demonstrated are strongly supported by anecdotal [...]	2004-10-19 12:13:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM AM
04YEREVAN2337	DIASPORA ORGANIZATION INCREASES SUPPORT FOR N-K [...] (C) The Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) is increasing its efforts to support ongoing Armenian government-sponsored repopulation programs in Nagrono-Karabakh (N-K) through its "Centennial Project." The AGBU, the Armenian Diaspora NGO with the largest membership worldwide, has reported [...]	2004-10-20 11:13:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
04YEREVAN2349	GOAM REFUGEE HOUSING PLAN FAILS TO ATTRACT [...] (SBU) The GOAM hopes to announce a solution to its refugee housing problem next year, but current plans depend on international donations that are unlikely to materialize. Local implementers have concluded the government plan is unlikely to be financed because it does not address the housing [...]	2004-10-22 09:19:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM EAID AM PRM
04YEREVAN2374	OPPOSITION RALLY DRAWS ONLY LUKEWARM [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. -------------------------- SMALL RALLY, NO EXCITEMENT -------------------------- 2. (SBU) Roughly 1500 opposition supporters gathered October 26 in Opera Square for an authorized rally timed to coincide with commemorative even [...]	2004-10-27 09:42:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM ASEC AM
04YEREVAN2387	GOAM DENIES SETTLEMENTS IN THE OCCUPIED [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) In a strongly-worded diplomatic note addressed to the Embassy October 28, the Government of Armenia denied any illegal activity in the occupied territories and requested that the United States [...]	2004-10-28 12:20:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AM UNGA
04YEREVAN2417	ARMENIA: SMALL KURDISH DEMONSTRATION FOR ABDULAH [...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) On 29 October, approximately 25 Armenian-Kurds staged a 30-minute demonstration outside of the Yerevan office of the European Commission. The demonstration was peaceful and covered by the local press. Knayz Hasanov, [...]	2004-11-02 13:25:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PHUM AM
04YEREVAN2447	KOCHARIAN SACKS INTEL SERVICE CHIEF [...] (C) President Robert Kocharian fired his Minister of the National Security Service (NSS) Karlos Petrossian November 5. Although there have been frequent rumors about Petrossian's departure, the immediate cause for his fall from grace appears to be the most recent report of Petrossian's corrup [...]	2004-11-08 07:40:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PREL PGOV AM
04YEREVAN2493	GOAM MOVING TO RATIFY REVISED "ARTICLE 98" [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Foreign Minister Oskanian's senior advisor told us November 17 that the GOAM is moving to ratify the revised "Article 98" agreement. The interagency review process is complete and the signed agreement is with President [...]	2004-11-17 13:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM PGOV AM
04YEREVAN2533	OSKANIAN SAYS "AZERBAIJAN IS MAKING A [...] During a joint press conference with visiting Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Margherita Boniver November 23, Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian commented that "Azerbaijan is making a mistake by initiating the discussion of the situation in the occupied territories issue at the UN, and after a [...]	2004-11-24 13:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV AJ AM UNGA
04YEREVAN2537	OPPOSITION EDITOR'S CAR TORCHED, BLAMES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) November 22 at 20:40 (local time) the car of Nikol Pashinyan, Editor-in-Chief of the opposition newspaper Haykakan Zhamanak, burst into flame in front of his office. Pashinyan is convinced th [...]	2004-11-24 14:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KPAO AM
04YEREVAN2540	EX-VICTIM OF TRAFFICKING ARRESTED FOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- Â [...]	2004-11-26 03:13:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP
04YEREVAN2545	ARMENIA COMPLETES LAW ON ALTERNATIVES TO [...] (SBU) On November 23, Armenia's National Assembly amended legislation that provides draftees with a mechanism to apply for an alternative to military service. These amendments clear the way for full implementation of the alternative military service law that was passed in November 2003 as par [...]	2004-11-26 13:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV AM
04YEREVAN2635	GOAM GETS QUOTAS FROM QATAR FOR LABOR [...] The Department on Migration and Refugees (DMR) has finished work with the Government of Qatar to create a legal framework for Armenians working in Qatar. In the agreement (scheduled to be signed in the near future) the Government of Qatar has provided quotas for the workers in the following [...]	2004-12-09 06:10:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ELAB QA AM KTIP
04YEREVAN2647	JANUARY-NOVEMBER 2004 DATA ON TIP PROSECUTION [...] (SBU) According to data on Trafficking in Persons (TIP) provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) for the period between January 1, 2004 and November 1, 2004, there have been 15 cases of trafficking in Armenia involving 26 defendants. While most of those people were sentenced to priso [...]	2004-12-09 13:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KCRM KWMN PHUM AM KTIP
04YEREVAN2648	IRAQ DEPLOYMENT GETS CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OK [...] (SBU) Armenia's Constitutional Court ruled December 8 that the agreement signed between Poland and Armenia regarding the dispatch of Armenian non-combat troops to Iraq does not run counter to the Armenian Constitution. The court's decision paves the way for a parliamentary hearing and vote on [...]	2004-12-09 13:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PREL PARM PGOV IZ AM
04YEREVAN2662	ARMENIAN IRAQ DEPLOYMENT ON TRACK [...] (C) Minister of Defense Serzh Sargsian requested a one-on-one meeting with Ambassador Evans in order to discuss the next steps as the GOAM prepares to deploy a non-combat unit to Iraq. After the Ambassador emphasized the importance of approving the deployment without delay, the Minister assur [...]	2004-12-10 13:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM MARR IZ AM
04YEREVAN2663	IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED IN ARMENIA'S HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) A recent report sponsored by the UN Development Program confirms that Armenia's Human Rights Ombudsman's office suffers from internal disorganization and an externally perceived lack of independence. During its first year of operation, the ombudsman's office has sent mixed messages and [...]	2004-12-10 13:38:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV AM
04YEREVAN2686	RUSSIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS: TIME TO SOLVE N-K [...] (C) NEITHER OF THE TWO FINE MOSCOW CABLES UNDER REFERENCE MENTIONS NAGORNO-KARABAKH AS AN ISSUE IN THE CIS THAT MOSCOW AND WASHINGTON (AND PARIS) MIGHT RECOMMIT THEMSELVES TO SOLVING IN THE DISTURBING WAKE OF THE CRISIS IN RELATIONS OVER UKRAINE. IN A CHAT EARLIER TODAY, THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADO [...]	2004-12-14 12:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AM IZ RS
04YEREVAN2786	BOYCOTT OVER? OPPOSITION PARTICIPATES IN [...] (SBU) Armenian parliamentary opposition members participated in the December 24 National Assembly debates over the dispatch of non-combat troops to Iraq, ending their months-long boycott of the sessions of the parliament. Opposition parties, however, were divided on the decision: while the J [...]	2004-12-27 13:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
04YEREVAN2793	NEW DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER THE FIRST IN A [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenian President Robert Kocharian named Armen Bayburdian Deputy Foreign Minister (DFM) December 24. Bayburdian joins current Deputy Foreign Ministers Tatul Margarian (expected to be named Am [...]	2004-12-28 11:52:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AM
04YEREVAN2796	GOAM MOVING TO RATIFY REVISED "ARTICLE 98" [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) National Assembly senior staff told us that the GOAM is pushing to ratify the revised "Article 98" agreement, but that it will not come up for a vote before the Spring session (i.e., at the earliest in late February). Wi [...]	2004-12-28 12:45:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM PGOV AM
04YEREVAN2804	ARMENIAN PRESIDENT SIGNS ALTERNATIVE MILITARY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) President Robert Kocharian signed legislation December 28 that establishes a system of alternatives to military service in Armenia. The National Assembly began work on this legislation at the end of 2003 at the urging o [...]	2004-12-29 13:24:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV AM
04YEREVAN313	ARMENIA'S NEW HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN: [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Larisa Alaverdian, Human Rights Ombudsman- designee, told us that she plans to create a lasting and strong institution that will have a respected place within the Armenian state structure. A [...]	2004-02-06 12:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL AM
04YEREVAN314	MEETING WITH ARMENIAN DEPUTY FONMIN ON TIP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. DCM met with Deputy Foreign Minister Tatoul Margarian, who oversees the GOAM Interagency Commission to Address Issues Related to Human Trafficking (TIP Commission),to discuss concerns that the GOAM has been slow to take visible, concrete steps to combat trafficking in persons [...]	2004-02-06 12:34:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KCRM ELAB KWMN SMIG PGOV PREL UZ AM
04YEREVAN33	GOAM PROPOSED TEXT FOR AN "ARTICLE 98" AGREEMENT [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) The GOAM presented us with a diplomatic note January 8 containing their proposed text for an "Article 98" agreement. We have faxed the full text (including a line by line GOAM explanation of the proposed changes) to t [...]	2004-01-08 13:05:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM PGOV AM
04YEREVAN353	KOCHARIAN'S INNER CIRCLE: ACCESS BUT LIMITED [...] (c) President Kocharian has a small inner circle with direct access to him and the potential to influence his thinking on foreign policy matters. Within this inner circle are Foreign Minister Oskanian, Minister of Defense Sargsian, Head of State TV Harutyunian, Presidential Chief of Staff Tum [...]	2004-02-12 14:10:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
04YEREVAN366	CRACKS IN THE COALITION: DASHNAKS ATTACK THE [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Protect Accordingly. -------- SUMMARY -------- 2. (SBU) Armenia's governing coalition, an alliance of the Republican Party, Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF, or Dashnaks),and Orinats Yerkir (Country of Law),that holds the majority of seats in th [...]	2004-02-13 08:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON AM
04YEREVAN391	BUREAUCRATS DISAPPOINTED WITH WORKING-LEVEL [...] (C) MFA Turkey Desk Officer Anahit Harutunyan told us February 13 that the MFA returned from the latest GOAM-GOT technical meeting having accomplished less than it had hoped for, specifically regarding a potential border opening or scheduling regular encounters between FMs Oskanian and Gul. Ha [...]	2004-02-18 08:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU AM
04YEREVAN398	SEEING EYE TO EYE WITH THE GOAM ON UNCHR, UNGA [...] (C) We discussed UNCHR issues and ways to more effectively pursue continuing USG policy priorities at the UN with MFA UN Division Chief Artak Apitonian February 11 (reftel). Apitonian credited the apparent decline in USG-GOAM voting coincidence during the 58th UNGA as a reaction to "more aggre [...]	2004-02-18 13:23:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AM UNGA
04YEREVAN399	CORRUPTION LEVIES HEAVY TOLL ON ARMENIAN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Widespread corruption in the Armenian university system has severely tarnished the reputation of once prestigious institutions and degraded the quality of education provided to Armenian studen [...]	2004-02-18 13:24:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM AM
04YEREVAN444	"A POLITICAL MURDER": ARMENIAN MEDIA REACTION [...] SUMMARY: Armenian mass media widely covered the murder of Lieutenant Gurgen Markarian who was attending a NATO training course in Hungary. Echoing the official press statements made by the Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs, almost all local media outlets connected this crime to the g [...]	2004-02-23 12:43:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM
04YEREVAN449	RARE PRESIDENTIAL INTERVIEW SPARKS [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) President Robert Kocharian's February 18 extended press conference sparked speculation about his political posturing vis-a-vis an increasingly vocal opposition. During the rare two-hour TV int [...]	2004-02-24 03:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV TU AJ AM
04YEREVAN462	"POLITICAL MURDER" ROCKS THE ARMENIAN BODY POLITIC [...] (SBU) The GOAM, parliamentarians, and NGOs agree across the board in calling the February 19 murder of Armenian Lieutenant Gurgen Margarian by an Azerbaijani officer at NATO Partnership for Peace (PfP) English training program in Budapest a "political murder," and have been widely quoted in th [...]	2004-02-25 03:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ AM
04YEREVAN489	STUDENT PROTEST OVER NEW DRAFT LAW ENTERS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Nearly one thousand university students in Yerevan continued to boycott their classes in protest of the proposed "Law on Military Service" currently before the National Assembly. The controve [...]	2004-02-26 12:34:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL OEXC AM
04YEREVAN505	GOAM CALLS ON USG TO RECONSIDER FY 2005 FMF [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Protect Accordingly. 2. (SBU) Deputy Foreign Minister Ruben Shugarian demarched DCM February 26 regarding expected differences in FY 2005 military assistance levels for Azerbaijan and Armenia. Shugarian delivered an eleven- point non-paper that called on t [...]	2004-02-27 12:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MARR PARM AJ AM
04YEREVAN507	GOVERNMENT WITHDRAWS CONTROVERSIAL LAW; [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Prime Minister Andranik Margarian announced February 26 that the government would formally withdraw from parliament the controversial "Law on Military Service." Margarian blamed other ministe [...]	2004-02-27 13:40:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL OEXC AM
04YEREVAN516	REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: PRESS [...] SUMMARY: All mass media widely covered Ambassador John Ordway's press conference held on February 27. TV reports were mainly accurate and factual. The printed press, however, carried some comments on the Ambassador's answers regarding the murder of the Armenian officer in Budapest and the Ka [...]	2004-03-02 03:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM
04YEREVAN532	EMOTIONS STILL STRONG IN ARMENIA OVER OFFICER'S [...] (C) The axe-murder of Lieutenant Gurgen Markarian two weeks ago in Budapest continues to elicit strong emotions from Armenians. The government held a state funeral for Margarian February 28, coinciding with the anniversary of the 1988 Sumgait killings in Azerbaijan. A Sumgait remembrance ce [...]	2004-03-04 09:05:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV AM AJ
04YEREVAN543	ARMENIA RATIFIES THREE ADDITIONAL [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-04 13:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PTER AM
04YEREVAN587	KURDISH ACTIVITIES IN ARMENIA [...] (S) There is an Armenian-Kurdish friendship society in downtown Yerevan with a sign posted on the door identifying it as such. The "Friendship Society's" main goals in Armenia appear to be to promote Kurdish culture, organize holidays, demonstrations, and campaigns for better treatment of and/ [...]	2004-03-11 03:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PTER PREL PGOV PINR AM TU
04YEREVAN592	USATF MID-TERM REVIEW FOCUSES ON CUSTOMS, [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (SBU) The March 1 meeting of the U.S.-Armenia Task Force on Economic Cooperation (USATF) mid-term review focused on issues related to corruption, U.S. technical assistance in the private sector, improving customs procedures, tra [...]	2004-03-11 09:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AM
04YEREVAN615	ARMENIAN DEP DEFENSE MINISTER OFFERS COMPROMISE ON [...] (C) Summary. Armenian Deputy Defense Minister Artur Aghabekian informed DAO March 11 that Armenia is planning to send three officers to Baku in September 2004 to participate in NATO Partnership for Peace (PfP) exercise Cooperative Best Effort 04 (CBE 04). Aghabekian ruled out the possibility [...]	2004-03-12 14:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR PARM AM AJ NATO
04YEREVAN633	DELEGATIONS ENCOURAGE INCREASED ARMENIAN [...] (C) An interagency delegation met with the Deputy Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense March 11 to outline a United States proposal to shift the focus of NATO Partnership for Peace (PfP) activities to the Caucasus and Central Asia. The delegation also discussed the necessity to reach a co [...]	2004-03-17 09:28:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV AM AJ NATO
04YEREVAN641	SAAKASHVILI MAKES FIRST STATE VISIT TO [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili paid his first state visit to Armenia March 11-12, praising the country and its president as an "ideal partner." Saakashvili and Armenian President Rober [...]	2004-03-17 13:32:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM GG
04YEREVAN656	PRESIDENT SACKS PROCURATOR GENERAL; APPOINTS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) On March 17 Kocharian unexpectedly sacked Procurator General Tamazian, replacing him with his most influential deputy, Aghvan Hovsepian. A strong supporter of Kocharian, Hovsepian already held this pos [...]	2004-03-18 14:05:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL AM
04YEREVAN68	ARMENIAN PARTICIPATION IN NATO INITIAL [...] (SBU) After a week of to-and-fro discussions over Armenian participation in the Initial Planning Conference for NATO Partnership for Peace exercise Cooperative Best Effort 2004 in Baku, Azerbaijan agreed to grant plane-side visas to two Armenian military officers to allow participation in th [...]	2004-01-12 13:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM PGOV AM AJ
04YEREVAN680	REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: PRESIDENT [...] SUMMARY: Armenian media widely covered the terrorist bombing in Madrid. The reports on TV and in the press were mainly factual. The only article with commentaries was published in "Hayots Ashkhar" newspaper. The following is the summary of the article. END SUMMARY WHO DOES AZNAR SUPPORT [...]	2004-03-22 10:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM
04YEREVAN684	MOD BACKTRACKS ON PROPOSED CBE COMPROMISE [...] (C) Summary. The Ministry of Defense (MOD) informed DAO March 22 that Armenia intends to send 12 participants to the NATO PfP exercise Cooperative Best Effort 04 (CBE 04) in Baku. The decision comes after a previous MOD pledge to send only 3 officers to the exercise in a compromise to the CBE [...]	2004-03-23 03:01:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PARM PGOV PREL AM AJ
04YEREVAN687	REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: TRAIN BOMBINGS [...] SUMMARY: Armenian media widely covered the terrorist bombing in Madrid. The reports on TV and in the press were mainly factual. The only article with commentaries was published in "Hayots Ashkhar" newspaper. The following is the summary of the article. END SUMMARY WHO DOES AZNAR SUPPORT [...]	2004-03-23 10:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM
04YEREVAN722	REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: SHEIKH AHMED [...] SUMMARY: The assassination of the founder and spiritual leader of the Palestinian Hamas movement, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, was reported on all Armenian TV channels, the reports being mainly factual. However, some local papers published commentaries. The following is the summary of the articles. [...]	2004-03-26 02:32:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM
04YEREVAN739	REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: PRESS [...] SUMMARY: All mass media widely covered the March 26 press conference held by Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage at the Presidential Palace in Yerevan after his meeting with President Kocharian. Among forty invited representatives of mass media, ten represented foreign media outlets. [...]	2004-03-29 01:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM
04YEREVAN765	MARCH 30 BEATING OF HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (SBU) Well-known human rights activist Mikael Danielyan contacted the Embassy March 30 after reportedly being beaten by four unidentified men near the entrance of his home in central Yerevan. Danielyan said the men attacked him [...]	2004-03-30 12:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AM
04YEREVAN769	GOVERNMENT RESHUFFLE PUTS KOCHARIAN LOYALISTS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The government shuffled a number of key high- and mid-level executive and judicial appointments in late March, placing Kocharian loyalists in the majority of the spots. Some of the most impor [...]	2004-03-31 11:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
04YEREVAN772	NATIONAL ASSEMBLY RATIFIES NATO PFP SOFA [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) The Armenian National Assembly ratified the NATO Partnership for Peace (PfP) Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) March 31. The GOAM signed the agreement on October 28, 2003. Under Armenian law, the agreement goes into ef [...]	2004-03-31 12:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PGOV PREL AM
04YEREVAN774	REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: AFTER THE [...] SUMMARY: After the visit of Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage to Armenia all mass media widely covered his meetings and press conference held in Yerevan. Following his visit to Azerbaijan, some Armenian newspapers published editorials discussing the Armitage visit to the region and [...]	2004-04-01 02:56:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM
04YEREVAN786	REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: PRESS [...] SUMMARY: Major General Jeffery Kohler, the Director of Plans and Policy for the U.S. European Command, paid a two-day visit to Armenia on March 30-31. Immediately before departure he gave a press conference, with more than twenty media outlets participating. The TV reports were mainly factu [...]	2004-04-02 01:31:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM
04YEREVAN794	ARMENIAN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY [...] (S) Emboff visited the Armenian Institute of Applied Chemistry (ARIAC) for an update on its activities. The chemical institute is going strong, boasting about USD 270,000 in export sales and USD 50,000 in domestic sales of chemical compounds in 2003. ARIAC's client base includes companies fr [...]	2004-04-02 12:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PTER PREL PGOV AM
04YEREVAN809	DESPITE "HOT SPRING IN ARMENIA," REVOLUTION [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Plans by opposition leaders for a "hot political spring" appeared to gain momentum in late March as politicians from both sides raised the level of rhetoric and hundreds of supporters gathered f [...]	2004-04-05 09:59:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV GG AM
04YEREVAN811	NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN: ARMENIAN [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) With few new ideas to present, Armenian government and opposition figures stuck to their standard positions during a recent series of meetings with EUR/CACEN Office Director John Fox. Our inter [...]	2004-04-05 10:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AM
04YEREVAN830	REAFFIRMING TIES WITH ARMENIA: DEPUTY SECRETARY [...] (SBU) Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage's visit to Armenia galvanized U.S.-Armenia relations as he met with Armenian Foreign Minister Oskanian and President Kocharian in back-to-back meetings March 26. The meeting with Oskanian clearly set the agenda for the subsequent discussion with [...]	2004-04-07 09:36:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PARM TU AJ AM OVIP RICHARD ARMITAGE
04YEREVAN842	HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST LEAVES HOSPITAL; ALLEGES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Prominent human rights activist Mikhail Danielyan discharged himself from the hospital April 4, and remains at home recovering from the March 30 beating by unknown assailants. Danielyan offer [...]	2004-04-08 12:13:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV AM
04YEREVAN844	A NOT-SO-HOT SPRING? WHAT IF WE'RE WRONG... [...] (SBU) We continue to believe that the current round of opposition protests across Armenia is unlikely to develop into a revolution, rose, velvet or otherwise (reftel). The Ambassador has urged restraint in the strongest possible terms during meetings this week with both senior government offi [...]	2004-04-08 12:51:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AM
04YEREVAN848	NAGORNO-KARABAKH: AMBASSADOR DELIVERS READOUT OF [...] No summary [...]	2004-04-09 10:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PREL PGOV AJ AM
04YEREVAN860	APRIL 9 DEMONSTRATIONS PEACEFUL, EVEN [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Roughly ten thousand opposition demonstrators rallied peacefully April 9 in Yerevan on Opera Square. In a meeting plagued by technical difficulties they called for Kocharian's resignation, and [...]	2004-04-10 08:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AM
04YEREVAN869	APRIL 12 DEMONSTRATIONS, MARCH TO THE [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Between five and ten thousand opposition demonstrators rallied peacefully April 12 in Yerevan on Opera Square before moving roughly half a mile down a major street toward the Presidential Palace [...]	2004-04-12 16:22:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AM
04YEREVAN879	KOCHARIAN LOOKING FOR A WAY FORWARD, OPPOSITION [...] (C) Following the forceful break-up of the opposition demonstration at roughly 2:00 a.m. April 13 (septel) and the subsequent detentions, Kocharian convoked the Ambassador, saying, "I invited you in order to consult with you on the internal political situation." Although Kocharian did not app [...]	2004-04-13 14:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AM
04YEREVAN880	RIOT POLICE BREAK UP DEMONSTRATION IN EARLY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) At approximately 2:00 a.m. April 13, Armenian riot police dispersed a crowd of about one thousand opposition supporters that had remained in front of the National Assembly since 6:00 p.m. the [...]	2004-04-13 14:08:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV AM
04YEREVAN885	DEFENSE MINISTER ON DOMESTIC SITUATION [...] (C) Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian joined the Ambassador in opening a EUCOM-funded hospital renovation on April 14. During the course of the event, the Ambassador had a 30-minute one-on-one conversation with him. On the issue of the dispersal of the anti-Kocharian demonstration on April 1 [...]	2004-04-14 13:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AM
04YEREVAN893	PARLIAMENTARIANS, MANY OTHER DETAINEES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenian opposition leaders Stepan Demirchian and Artashes Geghamian brushed off calls for dialogue with the government, instead calling for a new rally against President Kocharian in central [...]	2004-04-15 13:13:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV AM
04YEREVAN901	APP SPOKESWOMAN DESCRIBES RAID ON PARTY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) We met with Ruzanna Khachatryan, Spokeswoman for the opposition Armenian People's Party (APP) to discuss the April 13 police raid on APP Headquarters and her 36-hour police detention. Khachat [...]	2004-04-16 12:24:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV AM
04YEREVAN934	FM OSKANIAN DISCUSSES VISIT TO IRAN; GOI POSITIONS [...] (C) Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian discussed his April 11-12 visit to Iran with Ambassador April 13, providing details on his meetings with Iranian Foreign Minister Kharrazi. According to Oskanian, Kharrazi said that Iran is not supporting Shia insurgents in Iraq and feels the current situa [...]	2004-04-21 08:43:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AM IR
04YEREVAN94	GOAM REVISED PROPOSED TEXT FOR AN "ARTICLE 98" [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) The GOAM presented us with a diplomatic note January 13 containing their new proposed text for an "Article 98" agreement. We have faxed the full text to the Department for consideration. 3. (SBU) Begin text of the [...]	2004-01-14 09:22:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM PGOV AM
04YEREVAN945	NO LEGAL GROUNDS FOR OPPOSITION REFERENDUM [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Opposition leaders have made a national referendum of confidence on President Kocharian one of their key demands during their anti-government demonstrations of the past month. The Constitutio [...]	2004-04-22 10:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV AM
04YEREVAN947	WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? THE ARMENIAN [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Now that the dust has settled, the government has released most opposition activists, and subsequent rallies have proceeded without incident, the lack of genuine opposition unity or a realistic [...]	2004-04-22 11:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM AM
04YEREVAN960	WESTERN OBSERVER CONFIRMS GOVERNMENT ACCOUNT OF [...] (SBU) Vram Galstyan, serving a life sentence for his role in the October 1999 National Assembly killings, committed suicide in a Yerevan prison April 16. The Justice Ministry announced that Galstyan hanged himself shortly after prison guards granted his request to be transferred to solitary c [...]	2004-04-23 07:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM AM
04YEREVAN970	REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: PRESS [...] SUMMARY: All mass media widely covered Ambassador John Ordway's press conference held on April 22. TV reports were mainly accurate and factual. The press carried fewer commentaries this time than it has in the past. The majority of the newspapers quoted the Ambassador without any comments. [...]	2004-04-26 10:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM
04YEREVAN973	GOAM WARNING THE OPPOSITION: OSKANIAN [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) On April 26, Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian convoked the diplomatic corps ahead of planned opposition rallies for April 27. Reading from a non paper (text below) Oskanian indicated that if t [...]	2004-04-26 11:30:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM AM
04YEREVAN975	OPPOSITION OPENS A SMALL WINDOW FOR [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Against the backdrop of the opposition call for "the last stand" on April 27, National Assembly Speaker Artur Baghdasaryan has called a meeting with the opposition to discuss the current politic [...]	2004-04-26 13:56:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM AM
04YEREVAN997	LACKLUSTER OPPOSITION RALLY AND A [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Following two days of meetings between the opposition and the governing coalition, the opposition's April 27 rally of about 5000 participants went off without incident but with 15 people taken [...]	2004-04-28 12:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM AM
04ZAGREB1033	URGENT NEED FOR VIDEO CONFERENCING EQUIPMENT FOR [...] No summary [...]	2004-06-07 16:55:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	KAWC KJUS EAID PREL PGOV HR
04ZAGREB1037	POLITICS AND PORK OVERTAKE SCIENCE IN CROATIA'S [...] (C) After initial tests in February first raised the prospect of unlabeled GMOs in the Croatian food market (reftel A),the GoC has thoroughly politicized the GMO debate and shown an eagerness to cash in on populist anti-GMO sentiment to drum up support. A move in GMO policy away from scienc [...]	2004-06-08 08:25:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON ETRD SENV TBIO TSPL PGOV HR
04ZAGREB1277	DAS STEPHENS REVIEWS RELATIONSHIP, URGES CROATIA'S [...] (C) During her June 28-30 visit to Zagreb, EUR DAS Kathleen Stephens reviewed developments in our bilateral relationship. Satisfaction with the NATO Istanbul Summit was an important theme. Government interlocutors agreed that progress on refugee returns and the search for Gotovina must cont [...]	2004-07-13 05:49:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EFIN MASS KAWC HR NATO
04ZAGREB1297	CROATIAN PROGRESS ON PRIVATIZATION [...] Since assuming office in December 2003, the new government of Croatia (GoC) has, on several occasions, publicly repeated its commitment to rapid and transparent privatization by 2006 of virtually all of the approximately 1,100 companies in which the GoC holds equity. This divestiture will con [...]	2004-07-15 09:58:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON EFIN ETRD EAID PGOV HR
04ZAGREB1339	UNLICENSED GMO CORN RETURNS BIOTECH TO HEADLINES [...] (U) On July 9, Minister of Agriculture Petar Cobankovic announced that a hybrid corn seed imported by US-based Pioneer Seeds tested positive for GMO content. Cobankovic estimates that 2,000 hectares of farmland have been planted with the GMO-contaminated seed. Destruction of contaminated cropl [...]	2004-07-22 13:51:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON ETRD SENV TBIO TSPL PGOV HR

04ZAGREB1351	CROATIA TAKES SMALL STEP TOWARDS INCREASED MEDIA [...] (U) In a marathon session on July 15, Croatia's Parliament approved amendments to the Penal Code concerning media slander. The burden of proving the intent to slander and the actual offense now falls on the prosecution, not the defendant, and responsibility can no longer be transferred from a [...]	2004-07-23 14:43:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM HR

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