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01VATICAN1192	VATICAN - "VIEWS FROM THE HILL" [...] THE FEBRUARY 24 - MARCH 02 EDITION OF NEWS AND VIEWS FROM VATICAN CITY. UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 VATICA 01192 01 OF 02 022245Z CONTENTS: - POPE CALLS WORLD'S CARDINALS TO ROME TO PLAN FUTURE - VATICAN AND MOSLEMS ISSUE JOINT CALL FOR PEACE IN ISRAEL - PAP [...]	2001-03-02 11:45:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM KMDR EAID PINR IZ AF UP DR VT MEPP VTPREL

01VATICAN2022	VATICAN - "VIEWS FROM THE HILL" [...] THE APRIL 07 - 12 EDITION OF NEWS AND VIEWS FROM VATICAN CITY. CONTENTS: - POPE RESPONDS TO UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX "DON'T COME" LETTER - VATICAN RADIO CUTS AIRTIME AND ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION - CHANGES IN POPE'S PARTICIPATION IN EASTER EVENTS - POPE DISBURSES MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN AID - [...]	2001-04-12 09:25:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM EAGR ECPS SENV EAID PINR UP VT VTPREL
01VATICAN2955	VATICAN VERBATIM [...] THE MAY 26 - JUNE 01 EDITION OF NEWS AND VIEWS FROM VATICAN CITY. CONTENTS: - POPE SENDS ENVOYS TO ISRAEL AND PALESTINIAN TERRITORY - CONSISTORY: OUTREACH TO THE ORTHODOX? - VATICAN CALLS NUTRITION AN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHT - POPE'S UKRAINE TRIP NOT A THREAT SAYS VATICAN FM - POPE W [...]	2001-06-01 14:43:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM EAGR IS AM KZ BU UP GT MEPP RU
01VATICAN5288	POPE'S VISIT TO ARMENIA AND KAZAKHSTAN: VATICAN'S [...] No summary [...]	2001-10-11 14:38:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AM KZ TU RO UP BO BU VT
02ROME4912	KUCHMA VISIT TO ITALY [...] (U) GUIDANCE REQUEST. SEE PARA 3. 2. (C) POL MINISTER COUNSELOR USED THE OPPORTUNITY OF HIS COURTESY CALL ON THE NEW DIRECTOR GENERAL (A/S EQUIVALENT) FOR EUROPEAN AFFAIRS PAOLO PUCCI TO UNDERLINE U.S. CONCERNS SECRET PAGE 02 ROME 04912 081516Z OVE [...]	2002-10-08 14:40:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PREL PARM IT UP IZ UN
02ROME5849	UKRAINE - GOI TELLS KUCHMA TO SHAPE UP; WANTS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: ON DECEMBER 2, RUSSIA/FSU OFFICE DIRECTOR CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 ROME 05849 01 OF 02 041727Z ROSA ANNA CONIGLIO TOLD POLOFF THAT THE NOVEMBER 26/27 VISIT OF UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT KUCHMA TO ITALY WAS CONSIDERED BY THE GOI TO HAVE BEEN A "GREAT SUCC [...]	2002-12-04 15:54:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL UP MASS IT
02VATICAN3692	EASTERN CHURCHES UNDER STRESS WHERE CHURCH/STATE SEPARATION IS WEAK [...] (C) SUMMARY: SECRETARY OF THE CONGREGATION FOR EASTERN CHURCHES, ARCHBISHOP ANTONIO VEGLIO, TOLD CHARGE THAT THE EASTERN CHURCHES -- THE 22 CHRISTIAN RITES THAT ARE NOT ROMAN CATHOLIC BUT ARE IN COMMUNION WITH ROME -- FACE A NUMBER OF CHALLENGES THAT CAST LONG SHADOWS OVER THEIR FUTURE. BOTH C [...]	2002-07-26 10:54:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF RS IN IS UP VT VTPREL
03ANKARA7611	DECEMBER 1-2 VISIT TO TURKEY OF UKRAINIAN PM [...] (U) The December 1-2 visit to Turkey of Ukrainian PM Yanukovych focused mainly on bilateral economic relations. In the first-ever visit of the PM of an independent Ukraine to Turkey, the two nations discussed bilateral trade and signed environmental and cultural agreements. At the end of the [...]	2003-12-11 15:10:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD PREL SENV TU UP
03ROME4663	ITALY'S EU PRESIDENCY: READOUT ON EU-UKRAINE SUMMIT [...] (C) POST PASSED POINTS REFTEL TO THE MFA EU OFFICE AND NIS OFFICE ON OCTOBER 3. ON OCTOBER 8, SILVIA COSTANTINI FROM THE MFA'S OFFICE OF EU EXTERNAL RELATIONS TOLD POLOFF THAT WHILE THE OCTOBER 7 UKRAINE-EU SUMMIT IN YALTA WAS SUCCESSFUL IN ADVANCING A NUMBER OF ISSUES RELATED TO UKRAINE'S I [...]	2003-10-10 16:35:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON UP IT EUN
03ROME4840	READOUT OF ITALY-UKRAINE BILATERAL SUMMIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: ON OCTOBER 14 MFA COUNSELOR FOR NIS AFFAIRS LORENZO ORTONA GAVE POLOFFS A READOUT OF PRIME MINISTER SILVIO BERLUSCONI'S OCTOBER 8 BILATERAL MEETING WITH UKRAINE PRESIDENT LEONID KUCHMA FOLLOWING THE EU-UKRAINE SUMMIT IN YALTA. ORTONA REPORTED THAT BOTH LEADERS UNDERLINED THE IMP [...]	2003-10-22 15:22:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	IT UP ECON PREL EUN
03THEHAGUE1847	OSCE: A/S JONES' MEETINGS IN THE HAGUE [...] No summary [...]	2003-07-22 10:33:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	GG KCRM MD NL PREL UP OSCE
04ANKARA5847	DEMARCHE ON OSCE ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION TO [...] We presented reftel demarche October 14 to Turkish MFA Eastern Europe Department official Yavuz Evirgen. Evirgen and MFA OSCE Section Head Korkut Gungen acknowledged that MFA officials are consulting with each other continuously in monitoring Ukrainian election developments. 2. Evirgen a [...]	2004-10-15 09:54:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UP TU
04ANKARA6368	DEMARCHE ON SECOND ROUND OF UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) On November 10 we presented reftel A demarche to Turkish MFA Eastern Europe Political Officer Yavuz Evirgen, noting that we had demarched the MFA on Ukrainian elections as recently as October 14. Evirgen replied that Turkey had sent ten observers, five members of Parliament and five Turk [...]	2004-11-10 15:32:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EU UP TU
04ANKARA813	GOT WELCOMES UKRAINIAN DECISION ON ODESA-BRODY FLOW [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-11 15:15:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET PREL SENV ENRG TU UP
04ANKARA988	FOREIGN LEADERS MEETINGS WITH UKRAINIAN OFFICIALS: [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-20 12:47:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL TU UP
04BRATISLAVA101	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH PRESIDENT SCHUSTER ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. AMBASSADOR WEISER MET WITH SLOVAK PRESIDENT RUDOLF SCHUSTER ON JANUARY 28. THEY DISCUSSED HIS CONVERSATION THAT MORNING WITH UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT LEONID KUCHMA, WHO IS SEEKING A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO ALLOW FOR HIS REELECTION. SCHUSTER ALSO DESCRIBED HIS SUCCESSFUL TALKS WI [...]	2004-01-29 14:14:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR LO EG UP
04BRATISLAVA1011	WIDE SUPPORT FOR EU ACCESSION TALKS WITH TURKEY [...] (U) Summary. The vast majority of Slovak political parties have expressed support for beginning EU-accession talks with Turkey. However, they caution that beginning talks is not a guarantee of support for joining the EU; Turkey must fully meet all the political and economic requirements for [...]	2004-11-05 16:16:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EU UP LO
04BRATISLAVA1027	SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUNDUP NOVEMBER 10, 2004 [...] (C) Representatives of the MFA and MOD told DCM and emboffs October 19 that there was strong pressure from some EU countries to lift the arms embargo on China and added that Slovakia believed a strengthened EU Code of Conduct would only allow responsible exports (Refs A and B). DCM stressed t [...]	2004-11-10 15:18:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LO UP LY CH
04BRATISLAVA1043	CAUTION AND UNCERTAINTY IN GOS AS UKRAINE ELECTION [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: Emboffs have discussed the second round of presidential elections in Ukraine with several GOS interlocutors this week. Expectations regarding outcome are divided--the Prime Minister's foreign policy advisor is optimistic about a Yushchenko win, while MFA policy p [...]	2004-11-16 18:06:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV LO UP
04BRATISLAVA1067	SLOVAK REPONSE TO THE SITUATION IN UKRAINE [...] (S) SUMMARY. The Slovak government and private citizens are very concerned about the turn of events in Ukraine. Ivan Korcok, MFA State Secretary, convoked the Ukrainian Ambassador to Slovakia November 25 to express his strong concern about the undemocratic events and called for a new election [...]	2004-11-26 17:58:00	Embassy Bratislava	SECRET	PREL PHUM UP LO
04BRATISLAVA127	MFA VIEW ON UKRAINE'S PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) POLOFF CALLED ON MFA UKRAINE DESK OFFICER PETER VIZDAL FOR A GENERAL DISCUSSION ON SLOVAK-UKRAINE RELATIONS. VIZDAL POINTED OUT THAT SLOVAKIA SIGNED THE EU DECLARATION CRITICIZING A PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO ALLOW KUCHMA TO RUN FOR A THIRD TERM (REF B),AS A MATTER OF COMMON [...]	2004-02-06 16:55:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PGOV LO UP SLOVAK UKRAINE
04BRATISLAVA940	Slovakia Concerned With Ukrainian Anti-Democratic [...] No summary [...]	2004-10-13 13:49:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL LO UP
04BRUSSELS1162	U.S.-EU DISCUSS RUSSIA, UKRAINE, MOLDOVA, BELARUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: At U.S.-EU COEST consultations on March 16, EUR DAS Steven Pifer and EU interlocutors agreed that Russian progress on democracy and human rights and cooperation with the U.S. and EU in the former Soviet space were central to building a better strategic relationship with Russia. E [...]	2004-03-19 09:31:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UP BO MD EUN RU USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS2180	EU-UKRAINE: CONDITIONING ENHANCED TIES ON [...] (C) Summary. After a delay due to internal EU friction, the EU hopes to complete negotiation on an "Action Plan" for Ukraine in time for the July EU-Ukraine summit. The plan will list political and economic reforms that Ukraine will undertake, in return for reciprocal EU steps to bring Ukra [...]	2004-05-19 13:46:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM UP EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS2610	EU UPDATE ON GEORGIA, MOLDOVA, UKRAINE [...] (C) Summary. On June 17, EU High Rep Solana's advisor for the CIS, Kees Van Rij, reviewed developments in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine with visiting Coordinator for Assistance to Europe and Eurasia Pascual. Van Rij gave a readout of EU High Rep Solana's meeting the day before with Georgian [...]	2004-06-18 12:13:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UP BO MD RS EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS4665	EU COMMISSION AND COUNCIL SECRETARIAT VIEWS ON [...] (C) We shared Ref A and B points with Commission and Council officials in advance of the Nov. 2 EU FMs (GAERC) meeting and the Nov. 4-5 European Council summit meeting. Given the failure of the incoming Barroso Commission to get parliamentary confirmation (REF C) before this meeting, the Commi [...]	2004-10-28 16:41:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID YI CY UP ZR IS SU SO EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS5216	EU COMMISSION AND COUNCIL SECRETARIAT RESPONSE ON [...] (SBU) We reviewed REF A points with Judith Gebetsroithner of Commissioner Ferrero-Waldner's cabinet and Margarita Comamala of the Council Secretariat on December 7 and 8, respectively. Neither had any specific comment or reaction on the Great Lakes, Middle East or Colombia (the latter of whic [...]	2004-12-09 17:31:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC KPAL UP CO HR CG TU RW EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS5302	EU COMMITTED TO SENDING A POSITIVE MESSAGE TO KIEV [...] (C) The December 13 GAERC endorsed a European Neighborhood Policy "Action Plan" (AP) for EU-Ukraine cooperation, billing it as part of an effort to send a positive signal to Kiev. In fact, the AP's provisions remain unchanged from the draft which existed prior to the recent events, and offer li [...]	2004-12-16 13:05:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV UP RS PL EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04HELSINKI1442	FINLAND: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON SECOND ROUND OF [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to Tulla Yrjola, the Counselor for Ukraine in Finland's MFA on November 10. Yrjola confirmed that the two Finnish observers that worked with the OSCE during the first round of the Presidential Election in Ukraine would return for the second round. Yrjola sa [...]	2004-11-12 14:40:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EU UP FI
04HELSINKI1547	FINLAND: VIEWS ON THE DECEMBER 13-14 GAERC [...] (U) We met with Finnish MFA EU Correspondent Kimmo Lahdevirta to discuss the agenda for next week's GAERC meeting and the European Council meeting to follow. Finnish views, by issue: 2. (C) China Arms Embargo: Lahdevirta said his understanding is that the EU has reached consensus on revisi [...]	2004-12-10 14:28:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC XF CH HR IR TU UP FI EUN EU GAERC
04MADRID495	POINTS DELIVERED: FOREIGN LEADERS MEETING WITH [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to Esther Monterrubio, Director General for Eastern Europe at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Monterrubio said that Spain, as an EU member, is monitoring elections in the Ukraine very carefully. She agreed with our position that the Ukraine's accession t [...]	2004-02-13 10:39:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP SP EUN
04OTTAWA3058	CANADA: DEMARCHE ON SECOND ROUND OF UKRAINIAN [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to FAC Deputy Director for Eastern Europe Habib Massoud and Desk Officer Claude Demers November 12, the latter of whom recently returned from observing the first round of elections in Ukraine. Massoud thanked us for the points and commented that we are gen [...]	2004-11-15 13:07:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	CA EU PGOV PHUM PREL UP FAC
04OTTAWA3286	CANADA TO SEND A LARGE CONTINGENT TO OBSERVE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Canadian Government, and especially the large Canadian Ukrainian community, are eager to play a major role in ensuring the December 26 run-off elections run smoothly and fairly. However, Canada's decision to send a significantly larger observer contingent to Ukraine than [...]	2004-12-07 19:26:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM UP CA
04PARIS9160	UKRAINE: FRENCH ON YUSHCHENKO VICTORY [...] (U) MFA desk officer for Ukraine Benoit Fremont described French satisfaction that the re-run of the second round of the Ukrainian presidential election had been conducted freely and fairly. Fremont agreed that while there had been some problems with the balloting, the level of fraud had not [...]	2004-12-28 16:02:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EU UP FR PL
04ROME4000	BUREAUCRATICS WILL KEEP ITALY FROM SECONDING [...] (SBU) OSCE Office Director Fabio Cristiani told poloff that a bureaucratic complication would make it impossible for Italy to second observers to monitor upcoming elections in Ukraine. He said that Italian legislation authorizing such funds came with a string attached - money for transportatio [...]	2004-10-18 08:08:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM UP IT OSCE
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
04ROME4682	ITALY ON EU GAERC/COUNCIL AGENDA: TURKEY WILL [...] (C) The MFA's Director for EU Integration, Michele Quaroni, told poloff that consensus was building around a Council conclusion with an unconditional date to begin Turkish accession negotiations. He was not sure whether the date would be during the first or second semester of 2005. France may [...]	2004-12-10 08:59:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC KPAL UP CO HR CG RW IT EUN
04THEHAGUE1841	UKRAINE, THE NETHERLANDS, COUNTRY CLR, NSF: [...] Country Clearance is granted for Dr. James Morris, Program Officer, Division of Environmental Biology, for travel to Utrecht, The Netherlands from July 26-30, 2004. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is requested. POST ACCESS: 3. Visitors who need unescorted access into secur [...]	2004-07-21 16:01:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	TPHY TSPL OTRA KSCA UP NL
04THEHAGUE2680	DUTCH ON OSCE ELECTION MISSION IN UKRAINE [...] No summary [...]	2004-10-15 16:00:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UP NL OSCE
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
04THEHAGUE3219	NETHERLANDS/EU: EXPECTATIONS FOR DEC 13 GAERC [...] (C) Summary. Emboffs met with Jaap Werner, Director, Political Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on December 8 to deliver points reftel and December 9 with Joep Wijnands, the Deputy Director, and Derk Oldenburg (MFA Dep Dir for European Enlargement). Werner expected smooth sailing on Bulga [...]	2004-12-09 12:03:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	NL PREL KNNP IR IS TU CR RO SU UP EUN
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
05ALMATY2017	KAZAKHSTAN SUBMITS START QUARTERLY COST LIST [...] On 26 May 2005, DTRO-A received the START Quarterly Cost List for the period of 1 January to 31 March 2005 from Lieutenant Colonel A. Aubakirov of the Ministry of Defense Arms Reduction Control and Inspection Activities Support Center. 2. Unofficial Translation follows: BEGIN TEXT U.S [...]	2005-05-31 08:15:00	US Office Almaty	UNCLASSIFIED	KACT PARM US RS UP KZ DTRO
05ALMATY4290	DELIVERY OF JCIC-DIP-05-019 TO THE MINISTRY OF [...] On 5 December 2005, DTRO-Almaty delivered JCIC-DIP-05- 019, "Annual START SLCM Declarations," to CPT Radik Zhakirov, Duty Officer, Arms Reduction Control and Inspection Activities Center, Republic of Kazakhstan Ministry of Defense. CPT Zhakirov had no comments and no reaction. 2. (U) POC [...]	2005-12-05 03:54:00	US Office Almaty	UNCLASSIFIED	KACT KTIA PARM US RS UP BO KZ DTRO
05ANKARA1953	USNAVEUR ADM MULLEN DISCUSSES IRAQ, BLACK SEA AND BILATERAL RELATIONS IN ANKARA [...] No summary [...]	2005-04-05 11:25:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	BU GG IZ MARR MASS PREL RO RS TU UP
05ANKARA2060	TURKISH MFA OFFICIAL: "NATO INVOLVEMENT IN THE [...] (C) Turkey shares with us the goal of eventual NATO involvement in the Black Sea, an MFA official told us April 7. At BLACKSEAFOR's March 31 senior officials meeting, the members agreed on a common threat assessment and agreed that it would be beneficial to build some ties with outside states [...]	2005-04-08 15:06:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MOPS MARR PREL PARM TU RS GG UP RO BU NATO
05ANKARA3387	UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO VISITS TURKEY [...] (C) Summary: President Yushchenko's June 6-8 visit to Turkey, his first since becoming President, focused mainly on commercial issues. The two sides signed six agreements, including on energy, transport, and combating crime. Although Turkey claims to support Ukraine's EU and NATO aspiration [...]	2005-06-14 14:46:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EPET ENRG ECON TU UP
05ANKARA3953	USNAVEUR ADM ULRICH DISCUSSES BLACK SEA, IRAQ AND [...] (C) Summary: During introductory calls as USNAVEUR and Joint Forces Command Naples commander, ADM Ulrich won Turkish Navy's agreement to hold consultations on information sharing between the Turks' Black Sea Harmony (BSH) operation and Allied Maritime Component Command Naples sometime before [...]	2005-07-07 12:58:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MARR MASS TU RO BU GG UP RS IZ
05ANKARA5953	WHAT IS BEHIND TURKEY'S BLACK SEA POLICY? [...] (C) Summary: Turkey makes a strong distinction between Black Sea maritime security and broader security challenges in the larger region (such as frozen conflicts). We see Turkish pride of place as a main driver of their approach to the former, though a genuine desire to draw Russia into cooperation [...]	2005-10-04 09:03:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS TU RO BU GG UP RS
05ANKARA6230	UKRAINE MUNITIONS: TURKEY WILL URGE UKRAINE TO [...] (SBU) On Oct. 3, PolMilOff called on MFA Head of Department for NATO Political Affairs Atilla Gunay to deliver ref a demarche. Gunay responded that Turkey will indeed urge the Ukrainian government to finalize the NATO-PfP Trust Fund implementing agreement with the NATO Maintenance and Supply [...]	2005-10-13 14:59:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL MASS UP TU NATO
05ANKARA802	TURKS SEEK TO INCREASE MULTILATERAL MARITIME [...] (C) Turkish military and civilian officials have told us that Turkey is working to multilateralize its current Black Sea Harmony (BSH) operation, which monitors and assesses Black Sea maritime traffic and reports the findings to NATO. This effort would only extend to the other five littoral st [...]	2005-02-11 13:57:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PREL PARM TU RS GG UP RO BU
05BRATISLAVA1010	SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUNDUP, DECEMBER 23, 2005 [...] (C) NGO Obciansko-demokraticka mladez (Citizens' Association for Democratic Youth) has made a deal with center-right parties SDKU and KDH to act as their official mud-slingers / Smer fact-checkers in the upcoming parliamentary campaign. During the 2002 campaign, Obciansko-demokraticka mlade [...]	2005-12-23 13:35:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF KPAO SOCI UP BO LO
05BRATISLAVA315	SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUNDUP APRIL 20, 2005 [...] (U) ANO leader and Minister of Economy Pavol Rusko announced April 11 that State Secretary of the Education Ministry Frantisek Toth (ANO) will resign his post and take up the position of Culture Minister currently held by Rudolf Chmel (ANO). Toth's replacement at the Education Ministry is sti [...]	2005-04-20 08:27:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV LO UP NATO
05BUCHAREST1063	BLACK SEA CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS ROMANIAN EFFORTS [...] (C) Summary. An April 20 conference on strategic opportunities in the Black Sea region permitted Romanian President Basescu to highlight his view that democratic stability, security, and prosperity in the region depended on Euro-Atlantic cooperation. He also emphasized that Romanian strategi [...]	2005-04-29 13:36:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS PGOV PREL PINR PINS ENRG SENV ECON TU GG RS UP UK RO NATO
05BUCHAREST1270	ROMANIA EXPRESSES CONCERNS ABOUT RESURGENT BLACK [...] (U) This is an Action Request for the State Department. See Paragraph 10. 2. (C) Summary. GOR interlocutors who handle Black Sea issues express appreciation for U.S. views on Romania's possible contributions to the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) and the Romania-organized Black [...]	2005-05-31 12:03:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL ENRG SENV ECON TU GG RS UP UK RO NATO
05BUCHAREST1347	BLACK SEA BORDER SECURITY INITIATIVE EXPERTS GROUP [...] Summary. Under the auspices of the Black Sea Border Security Initiative (BSBSI),USG representatives attended a first planning conference to consider Romania,s proposal to hold a tabletop simulation of a WMD incident. The other states represented at the conference were Georgia, Moldova, Bulg [...]	2005-06-13 08:59:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ETTC KNNP RO MD GG UP BU
05BUCHAREST1472	BSBSI "STYX 2005" TABLETOP EXERCISE GOES WELL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Department TDY PolOff officially observed the Romanian-organized Black Sea Border Security Initiative (BSBSI) tabletop exercise, held at the Southeast European Cooperative Initiative (SECI) Center in Bucharest from June 22-24. During the exercise, representatives from Romania, B [...]	2005-06-30 13:24:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC KNNP PREL RO GG UP BU MD SECI
05BUCHAREST31	AMBASSADOR'S MEETINGS WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador January 3-4 made introductory calls on new Foreign Minister Razvan Ungureanu and new Defense Minister Teodor Atanasiu. Echoing a prominent theme in President Traian Basescu's electoral campaign, both incoming ministers expressed a firm commitment to a strong relati [...]	2005-01-06 16:08:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS MARR MASS ECON PINR MD UP IZ RO UNSC
05BUCHAREST477	ROMANIAN ENTHUSIASM FOR PSI OPERATIONAL SUPPORT - AND CONTINUED CONCERNS ABOUT BLACKSEAFOR EXPANSION [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-25 15:30:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	BU GG MARR MASS MNUC NATO PARM PGOV PINS PREL RO RS TU UP
05BUCHAREST566	ROMANIAN REACTION TO NATO TRUST FUND TO DESTROY [...] (C) PolMilOff discussed possible Romanian support for a U.S.-led NATO/Partnership for Peace (PfP) Trust Fund to destroy Ukrainian munitions, SA/LW and MANPADS with MFA NATO Division Director Mirela Maghiar March 2. (Reftel) Maghiar stated that the GOR would "seriously consider" supporting the [...]	2005-03-07 15:52:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC MARR MOPS PREL UP MD RO NATO
05DUBLIN1416	PRE-GAERC DEMARCHE: IRELAND NEARING EU [...] (C) Summary: On November 17, Post delivered ref A demarche to Jim Kelly, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) EU Correspondent, who underscored that Irish talking points had not changed substantively from Post's November 3 demarche (ref B). Kelly noted that defense-related discussions would f [...]	2005-11-18 17:26:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD IZ KPAL PREL SY UP YI EI EUN
05GENEVA1326	JCIC-XXVII: BELARUSIAN, KAZAKHSTANI AND RUSSIAN [...] This is JCIC-XXVII-003. 2. Paragraphs 3, 4 and 5 below contain the official translations of the texts of the Delegation Lists for the Belarusian, Kazakhstani and Russian Delegations, respectively, for Part I of JCIC-XXVII. 3. Begin text (Belarus): [...]	2005-06-01 11:08:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA1339	JCIC-XXVII: (U) WORKING GROUP MEETING ON GROUND [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-009. 2. (U) Meeting Date: May 27, 2005 Time: 10:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva SUMMARY 3. (S) A Working Group Meeting was held at the U.S. Mission on May 27, 2005, to discuss the U.S.-proposed exchange of l [...]	2005-06-02 05:15:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA1342	JCIC-XXVII: (U) WORKING GROUP MEETING ON RSM-56 [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-010. 2. (U) Meeting Date: May 27, 2005 Time: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva SUMMARY 3. (S) A Working Group meeting with all Parties present was held at the U.S. Mission on May 27, 2005. The U.S. Delegation ask [...]	2005-06-02 06:34:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA1361	JCIC-XXVII: (U) WORKING GROUP MEETING ON SS-25 [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-011. 2. (U) Meeting Date: May 30, 2005 Time: 10:30 A.M. - 1:00 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva SUMMARY 3. (S) A Working Group Meeting was held at the Russian Mission on May 30, 2005, to discuss the problems encountered d [...]	2005-06-03 09:01:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA1363	JCIC-XXVII: (U) HEADS OF DELEGATION MEETING ON [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-013. 2. (U) Meeting Date: May 31, 2005 Time: 10:30 A.M. - 12:07 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva SUMMARY 3. (S) A Heads of Delegation (HOD) meeting was held at the U.S. Mission on May 31, 2005, at which all Parties were repr [...]	2005-06-03 10:12:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA1365	JCIC-XXVII: (U) HEADS OF DELEGATION MEETING ON [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-014. 2. (U) Meeting Date: May 31, 2005 Time: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva SUMMARY 3. (S) A Heads of Delegation (HOD) Meeting was held at the U.S. Mission on May 31, 2005, to discuss the results of the Trident [...]	2005-06-03 11:39:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA1387	JCIC-XXVII: (U) HEADS OF DELEGATION MEETING ON [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-015. 2. (U) Meeting Date: June 1, 2005 Time: 10:30 A.M. - 12:45 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva SUMMARY 3. (S) A Heads of Delegation (HOD) meeting was held at the U.S. Mission on June 1, 2005, to discuss SS-25, SS-27, and [...]	2005-06-07 04:08:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA1388	JCIC-XXVII: (U) WORKING GROUP MEETING ON RUSSIAN [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-012. 2. (U) Meeting Date: May 30, 2005 Time: 3:30 - 4:00 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva SUMMARY 3. (S) A Working Group Meeting was held at the Russian Mission on May 30, 2005, to discuss Russian-proposed S-Series Joi [...]	2005-06-07 04:09:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA1391	JCIC-XXVII: (U) WORKING GROUP MEETING ON TRIDENT [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-018. 2. (U) Meeting Date: June 2, 2005 Time: 5:10 - 5:50 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva SUMMARY 3. (S) A Working Group Meeting was held at the Russian Mission on June 2, 2005, to discuss inspection procedures to address [...]	2005-06-07 06:20:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA1394	JCIC-XXVII: (U) U.S.-HOSTED RECEPTION, JUNE 2, [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-019. 2. (U) At a U.S.-hosted reception, held on June 2 at the U.S. Mission, Delegation members engaged the other participating Delegations' members from Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine on various topics under discussion in the JCIC. Those conversations are [...]	2005-06-07 10:04:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA1401	JCIC-XXVII: (U) WORKING GROUP MEETING ON [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-017. 2. (U) Meeting Date: June 2, 2005 Time: 3:00 - 5:05 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva SUMMARY 3. (S) A Working Group Meeting was held at the Russian Mission on June 2, 2005, at which Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, and the [...]	2005-06-07 11:56:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA1403	JCIC-XXVII: (U) SECOND WORKING GROUP MEETING ON [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-016. 2. (U) Meeting Date: June 2, 2005 Time: 10:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva SUMMARY 3. (S) A second Working Group meeting with all Parties present was held at the Russian Mission on June 2, 2005, to d [...]	2005-06-08 04:15:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA1404	JCIC-XXVII: DOCUMENTS SIGNED ON GROUND [...] This is JCIC-XXVII-021. 2. The texts at paragraphs 3-6 below are the letters on the ground transportation understanding that were signed and exchanged between the Russian Federation and the United States, and the Russian Federation and Belarus, at the final meeting of the first part of JC [...]	2005-06-08 05:03:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA1411	JCIC-XXVII: (U) BILATERAL MEETING ON UKRAINIAN [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-022. 2. (U) Meeting Date: June 7, 2005 Time: 11:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva SUMMARY 3. (S) A Ukraine-initiated bilateral meeting was held at the U.S. Mission on June 7, 2005, to discuss Ukrainian proposal [...]	2005-06-08 06:40:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA1415	JCIC-XXVII: DOCUMENTS SIGNED ON BULAVA, JUNE 7, [...] This is JCIC-XXVII-024. 2. The texts in paragraphs 3-6 below are JCIC Agreement Numbers 52 and 53, and Joint Statement Numbers 37 and 38, respectively, that were signed or initialed at the final meeting of the first part of JCIC-XXVII. The documents were completed at the U.S. Mission in [...]	2005-06-08 08:32:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA1417	JCIC-XXVII: DOCUMENT SIGNED ON REPLACEMENT OF [...] This is JCIC-XXVII-025. 2. The text at paragraph 3 below is JCIC Agreement 54, "Replacement of Radiation Detection Equipment," that was signed at the final meeting of the first part of JCIC-XXVII. The document was completed at the U.S. Mission in Geneva on June 7, 2005. 3. Begin text [...]	2005-06-08 08:48:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA1418	JCIC-XXVII: DOCUMENT SIGNED "ON CHANGES TO THE [...] This is JCIC-XXVII-026. 2. The text at paragraph 3 below is JCIC Joint Statement Number S-21, that was initialed at the final meeting of the first part of JCIC-XXVII. The document was completed at the U.S. Mission in Geneva on June 7, 2005. This document does not include the classified [...]	2005-06-08 10:00:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA1419	JCIC-XXVII: (U) FINAL MEETING OF PART ONE OF [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-023. 2. (U) The Parties met, with all delegation members of each Party present, at the U.S. Mission on June 7, 2005 for the final meeting of this part of the session. At the meeting, all Parties expressed their satisfaction for the work of the session. It had been [...]	2005-06-08 10:43:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA2636	JCIC-XXVII: RESUMPTION OF JCIC-XXVII (PART II) [...] This is JCIC-XXVII-029. 2. The Twenty-seventh Session of the START Treaty's Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission (JCIC) resumed operations on October 31, 2005. Addressees are requested to route cable traffic on all START-related issues, as well as INF implementation and compliance [...]	2005-10-31 09:40:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA2669	JCIC-XXVII: BELARUSIAN, KAZAKHSTANI, RUSSIAN AND [...] This is JCIC-XXVII-031. 2. Paragraphs 3, 4, 5 and 6 below contain the official translations of the texts of the delegation lists for the Belarusian, Kazakhstani, Russian and Ukrainian Delegations, respectively, for Part II of JCIC-XXVII. 3. Begin text (Belarus): [...]	2005-11-02 11:18:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA2682	JCIC-XXVII: (U) HEADS OF DELEGATION MEETING ON A [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-034. 2. (U) Meeting Date: October 31, 2005 Time: 3:00 - 4:35 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A Heads of Delegation (HOD) meeting was held at the U.S. Mission on October 31, 2005, to discuss a [...]	2005-11-03 10:16:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA2683	JCIC-XXVII: (U) TAYLOR-BORYAK DINNER, OCTOBER 30, [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-032. 2. Meeting Date: October 30, 2005 Time: 7:00 - 8:15 P.M. Place: Restaurant Le Creux-de-Genthod Participants: U.S. Russia Mr. Taylor Mr. Boryak ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) U.S. JCIC Representa [...]	2005-11-03 10:16:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA2685	JCIC-XXVII: (U) HEADS OF DELEGATION MEETING ON [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-037. 2. (U) Meeting Date: November 1, 2005 Time: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A Heads of Delegation (HOD) meeting was held at the Russian Mission on November 1, 2005, to dis [...]	2005-11-03 10:57:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA2690	JCIC-XXVII: (U) HEADS OF DELEGATION MEETING ON [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-035. 2. (S) Meeting Date: November 1, 2005 Time: 10:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A Heads of Delegation (HOD) meeting was held at the Russian Mission on November 1, 2005, [...]	2005-11-04 06:15:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA2712	JCIC-XXVII: (U) HEADS OF DELEGATION MEETING ON [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-038. 2. (U) Meeting Date: November 2, 2005 Time: 10:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At a heads of delegation (HOD) meeting, held at the U.S. Mission on November 2 at which all [...]	2005-11-08 06:02:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA2719	JCIC-XXVII: (U) WORKING GROUP MEETING ON [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-039. 2. (U) Meeting Date: November 2, 2005 Time: 3:30 - 5:30 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A Working Group meeting was held at the U.S. Mission on November 2, 2005, to discuss the Ukrainian [...]	2005-11-08 10:57:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA2726	JCIC-XXVII: (U) WORKING GROUP MEETING ON TRIDENT [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-040. 2. (U) Meeting Date: November 3, 2005 Time: 3:30 - 6:00 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A Working Group meeting was held at the Russian Mission on November 3, 2005, to discuss the U.S [...]	2005-11-09 05:41:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA2734	JCIC-XXVII: (U) WORKING GROUP MEETING ON [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-041. 2. (U) Meeting Date: November 3, 2005 Time: 11:00 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (U) A Working Group meeting was held at the Russian Mission on November 3, 2005, to discuss [...]	2005-11-09 07:35:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA2735	JCIC-XXVII: (U) U.S. CLOSING PLENARY STATEMENT, [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-049. 2. (U) At paragraph 3 is the text of the U.S. statement that was made at the closing plenary meeting of Part II of the Twenty-seventh Session of the START Treaty's Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission (JCIC),held at the Russian Mission on November 9, 200 [...]	2005-11-09 08:36:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA2738	JCIC-XXVII: UNCLASSIFIED ATTACHMENT TO THE U.S. [...] This is JCIC-XXVII-047. 2. At paragraph 3 is the text of the Unclassified Attachment to the U.S. closing plenary statement -- Coordinated Plenary Statement on Reentry Vehicle Inspections of Trident II SLBMs -- that was made at the closing plenary meeting of the Twenty-seventh Session of t [...]	2005-11-09 09:44:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA2739	JCIC-XXVII: INITIALED JOINT STATEMENT NUMBER 39 [...] This is JCIC-XXVII-048. 2. At paragraph 3 is the text of Joint Statement Number 39 "On First Stages of SS-25 ICBMs Burned Without Nozzles Attached" that was initialed by all Parties in Geneva, Switzerland, on November 8, 2005. 3. Begin text: [...]	2005-11-09 10:10:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA2741	JCIC-XXVII: (U) RUSSIAN CLOSING PLENARY [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-052. 2. (U) The text at paragraph 3 is the official translation of the Russian statement that was delivered at the closing plenary meeting of Part II of the Twenty-seventh Session of the START Treaty's Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission (JCIC),held at the R [...]	2005-11-09 10:57:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA2748	JCIC-XXVII: (U) WORKING GROUP MEETING ON TRIDENT [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-042. 2. (U) Meeting Date: November 7, 2005 Time: 10:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (U) A Working Group meeting was held at the Russian Mission on November 7, 2005, to further [...]	2005-11-09 13:09:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA2749	JCIC-XXVII: (U) UKRAINIAN GRIEVANCES WITH CTR AND [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-046. 2. (U) Meeting Date: November 8, 2005 Time: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) Ukraine took the opportunity, during a bilateral meeting at the U.S. Mission on November 8, 2005, [...]	2005-11-10 03:54:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA2750	JCIC-XXVII: (U) RUSSIAN-HOSTED RECEPTION, [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-033. 2. (U) Meeting Date: November 8, 2005 Event: Russian-Hosted Reception Time: 6:30 P.M. - 8:30 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva AND Meeting Date: November 9, 2005 [...]	2005-11-10 04:03:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA2751	JCIC-XXVII: (U) HEADS OF DELEGATION MEETING ON [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-043. 2. (U) Meeting Date: November 7, 2005 Time: 3:30 - 5:40 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A Heads of Delegation (HOD) meeting, followed by a Working Group meeting, were held at the Russ [...]	2005-11-10 05:49:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA2753	JCIC-XXVII: (U) WORKING GROUP MEETING ON [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-044. 2. (U) Meeting Date: November 8, 2005 Time: 10:15 - 11:30 A.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A working group meeting was held at the U.S. Mission on November 8, 2005, to discuss Russian con [...]	2005-11-10 06:24:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA2755	JCIC-XXVII: (U) BELARUSIAN CLOSING PLENARY [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-050. 2. (U) The text at paragraph 3 is the official translation of the Belarusian statement that was delivered at the closing plenary meeting of Part II of the Twenty-seventh Session of the START Treaty's Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission (JCIC),held at th [...]	2005-11-10 07:40:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF

05GENEVA2756	JCIC-XXVII: (U) KAZAKHSTANI CLOSING PLENARY [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-051. 2. (U) The text at paragraph 3 is the official translation of the Kazakhstani statement that was delivered at the closing plenary meeting of Part II of the Twenty-seventh Session of the Start Treaty's Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission (JCIC),held at t [...]	2005-11-10 08:02:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA2757	JCIC-XXVII: (U) UKRAINIAN CLOSING PLENARY [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-053. 2. (U) The text at paragraph 3 is the official translation of the Ukrainian statement that was delivered at the closing plenary meeting of the Twenty-seventh Session of the START Treaty's Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission (JCIC),held at the Russian Mi [...]	2005-11-10 08:19:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA2760	JCIC-XXVII: CLOSE-OUT OF PART TWO OF JCIC-XXVII [...] This is JCIC-XXVII-056. 2. This is the end of operations for the second part of JCIC-XXVII. The next meeting of the JCIC will be conducted at a date yet to be determined. Washington and other addresses are requested to continue to include U.S. Mission Geneva, slugged "Geneva for JCIC" o [...]	2005-11-10 08:59:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05GENEVA2761	JCIC-XXVII: (U) LIST OF REPORTING CABLES [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXVII-055. 2. (S) Following is the listing of Geneva cables from Part II of JCIC-XXVII reporting activity during the period October 31 - November 9, 2005. JCIC-XXVII-029 (GENEVA 2636) JCIC-XXVII: (U) RESUMPTION OF JCIC-XXVII (PART II) OPERATIONS JCIC-XXVII-030 (GENE [...]	2005-11-10 09:04:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	PARM KACT US RS UP BO KZ START JCIC INF
05HELSINKI207	FEBRUARY 21 GAERC: FINLAND RESPONSE [...] (U) We delivered Ref A demarche to the Finnish MFA and the Prime Minister's Office on February 11. In a February 16 follow-up conversation with Kimmo Lahdevirta, Finnish EU Correspondent, Lahdevirta provided GoF views on the GAERC agenda and a preview of the issues the Finns want to raise dur [...]	2005-02-17 13:04:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UP MD SR BK SU HR FI EUN EU GAERC
05KIEV5150	UKRAINE: PRESS COVERAGE OF THE GAS DISPUTE WITH RUSSIA [...] Summary: Most Ukrainian media have described Russia's intention to hike Ukraine's gas prices as politically motivated. Many press reports also highlighted the assertion from Ukrainian leaders that this is a step in Ukraine's transition from patriarchal to pragmatic relations with Russia. Depen [...]	2005-12-23 10:56:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO EPET ENRG PREL PGOV RS UP
05LJUBLJANA112	SLOVENIA ON FEBRUARY 21 GAERC [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-17 12:12:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IR UP MD SU CG SR BK SI
05MADRID617	SPAIN'S VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF FEBRUARY 21 GAERC [...] (C) SUMMARY. We discussed Transatlantic Relations, the Middle East Peace Process, Iraq, the Western Balkans, Ukraine/Moldova, Sudan, the Great Lakes, and Iran with Enrique Mora Benavente, MFA Head of EU Planning on February 15. Mora Benavente said that the February 21 GAERC meeting would [...]	2005-02-15 16:28:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IR UP MD SU SR BK CGEN
05MANILA1507	CAPTURE OF ARAB TERRORIST [...] (U) In a March 31 press conference at Edwin Andrews Air Base in the southern Mindanao city of Zamboanga, Philippine security officials presented to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (PGMA) and the media a captured terrorist suspect, Kuwait-born Fawaz Zaki Ajjur, who had traveled on a Palestin [...]	2005-04-01 06:31:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL ASEC PINS UP MY RP
05PARIS1082	FRENCH ON FEB. 21 GAERC [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel A) points to MFA DAS-equivalent for Common Foreign and Security Policy Pascal LeDeunff on Feb. 11 and followed up in conversation Feb. 18. LeDeunff emphasized that ministers would spend the bulk of the Feb. 21 GAERC in preparing for the EU summit with President Bus [...]	2005-02-18 18:04:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IR UP MD SU CG SR BK FR
05PARIS1511	PARIS RESPONSE, SOLICITING DONATIONS FOR NATO [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-08 13:58:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	UP ETTC MARR MOPS PREL NATO
05PARIS547	FRENCH ON JANUARY 31 GAERC [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche points to MFA CFSP deputy Pascal LeDeunff on Jan. 18 and followed in conversation with LeDeunff Jan 28. LeDeunff noted that the French are awaiting "with enthusiasm" the visits to Europe of both President Bush and Secretary Rice. With regard to the Presid [...]	2005-01-28 17:56:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM EAID KPAL BK CU IR IZ UP CH FR EUN
05PARIS6125	EUR A/S FRIED'S SEPTEMBER 1 MEETINGS WITH SENIOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 1, EUR A/S Daniel Fried met separately with French MFA Political Director Stanislas de Laboulaye, A/S-equivalent Director for Strategic Affairs Philippe Carre, and Presidential Diplomatic Advisor Maurice Gourdault-Montagne. They discussed Iran, NATO, the EU, Russia, [...]	2005-09-09 14:22:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PARM UP FR NATO EUN RU
05PARIS6632	USUNESCO: UKRAINIAN REP, CITING [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-27 16:27:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	SCUL ETRD CJAN CA UP UNESCO
05PARIS6741	FRENCH ON OCTOBER 3 GAERC [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel A points on September 27 to MFA deputy for CFSP Pascal Le Deunff and DAS-equivalent for enlargement and European neighborhood policy Caroline Ferrari, and followed up in conversation September 30. 2. (C) Both LeDeunff and Ferrari echoed comments in reftel B that [...]	2005-09-30 14:15:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	BO GG HR IZ KDEM KPAL PREL RS TU UP MD FR EUN
05PARIS7896	FRENCH ON NOVEMBER 21 GAERC - ISRAELI/PALESTINIAN, [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel points on November 16 to MFA CFSP deputy Pascal LeDeunff and European Affairs DAS-equivalent for EU External Relations Caroline Ferrari, and discussed them with LeDeunff November 18. Embassy Middle East watcher discussed points on November 16 with MFA DAS-equival [...]	2005-11-18 17:03:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD IZ KPAL PREL SR SY UP YI FR EUN
05PARIS7915	USUNESCO: UKRANIAN PRESIDENT AND FRENCH FM [...] Summary. In a ceremony at Unesco headquarters on November 16, Unesco marked its 60th anniversary. Featured speakers included Ukranian president Yushchenko, French Foreign Minister Douste-Blazy and former directors general Amdaou-Mahtar M'Bow and Federico Mayor. A recurring theme in all the [...]	2005-11-21 15:56:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SCUL ETRD UP FR UNESCO
05PARIS8684	FRANCE CONTENT TO OBSERVE RUSSIAN-UKRAINE GAS [...] (C) Summary. French officials agree that the Russia- Ukraine gas dispute bears watching, but do not believe that intervention by European officials recommending gradual market solutions is warranted at this time. They suspect that commenting now might even be counterproductive. Dismissing co [...]	2005-12-29 15:45:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON PREL UP RS FR
05PRAGUE128	CZECH VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF THE JANUARY 31 GAERC [...] (U) On January 27, conveyed reftel points concerning issues to be raised at the January 31 meeting of the GAERC to Michal Strouhal, Director of the Common Foreign and Security Policy Department at the MFA. Strouhal's responses follow: A. (C) TSUNAMI RELIEF: Strouhal said the EU member st [...]	2005-01-27 17:15:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PTER EAID KPAL CU IR IZ UP CH EZ EUN
05PRAGUE1590	CZECHS ON TRANSFORMING DEMOCRACIES [...] (C) Summary: The Czech MFA's Director for Transformation Cooperation believes that many international efforts to foster democratic change -- including in particular those of the EU -- suffer because the funding mechanisms chosen impede the chances for success. She believes that donors need to b [...]	2005-11-09 15:12:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EZ CU UP GG MD SR BK IZ BO BM
05PRAGUE241	CZECHS AND GAERC MEETING: PREPARING TO SPEAK OUT [...] (C) Summary: The Czech Republic plans to use the Feb 21 GAERC meeting to lead EU members to designate Hizballah as a terrorist organization. The Czechs are also working towards taking a leading role in the EU debate over the China arms embargo. The Czechs share our optimism about improving [...]	2005-02-17 15:51:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ETTC CH IR UP MD HR KPAL EZ EUN
05PRAGUE337	(C) RUSSIAN MISSILES FOR US NAVY COMING FROM [...] (C) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPH 4. The US Navy has for some time been planning an open commercial purchase of 23 KH-31 (or MA-31) Russian sea-skimming missiles from a Czech arms dealer. It has come to our attention that the missiles are coming from Belarus, via a series of complicated [...]	2005-03-09 06:49:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS PREL EZ UP BO RS
05PRAGUE356	(C) US NAVY POTENTIAL PURCHASE OF RUSSIAN MISSILES [...] (C) Poloff was shown March 10 the request for an export license filed by the Czech firm that is working to provide an initial shipment of 23 Russian-made sea-skimming missiles (KH-31) to the US Navy. The application showed the name and address of the firm in Minsk that was supplying the missiles, b [...]	2005-03-10 16:26:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS PREL EZ BO RS UP
05THEHAGUE161	NETHERLANDS/EU: EXPECTATIONS FOR JAN 31 FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The U.S. and EU need to agree to disagree on China and prepare a soft landing for the transatlantic relationship after the inevitable lift of the China arms embargo, Jaap Werner (MFA, Political Director) and Bahia Tahzib (MFA Deputy European Correspondent) told Poloff during di [...]	2005-01-21 15:32:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PTER EAID KPAL BK CU IR IZ UP CH NL EUN
05THEHAGUE164	NETHERLANDS/EU: EXPECTATIONS FOR JAN 31 FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The U.S. and EU need to agree to disagree on China and prepare a soft landing for the transatlantic relationship after the inevitable lift of the China arms embargo, Jaap Werner (MFA, Political Director) and Bahia Tahzib (MFA Deputy European Correspondent) told Poloff during di [...]	2005-01-21 16:54:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PTER EAID KPAL BK CU IR IZ UP CH NL EUN
05THEHAGUE2665	NETHERLANDS: ENCOURAGING UKRAINE TO RATIFY [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-04 14:58:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL MASS UP NL NATO
05THEHAGUE3121	NETHERLANDS/EU: APPROACHING THE DUTCH IN ADVANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY. During the November 21-22 GAERC, the Dutch will advocate for a "non-binding regime for civ-mil coordination" that favors development of national capacities and express concern on Iran. While the Dutch are proud of EU involvement in the Iraqi elections, they do not advocate for a [...]	2005-11-18 15:28:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL ETRD SR SY UP YI NL EUN
05THEHAGUE427	NETHERLANDS/GAERC: DUTCH EXPECTATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Preparing a positive agenda for the President's visit, the EU is actively seeking forward-looking ways to engage with the U.S. on a range of issues while the Luxembourg Presidency struggles to control an agenda where 25 Heads of State/Foreign Ministers want a chance to speak. T [...]	2005-02-14 16:45:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL PREL IR UP MD SU CG SR BK NL
05VATICAN382	UKRAINE: VATICAN OPTIMISTIC, DEFENDS CARDINAL'S [...] (SBU) Holy See Country Director for Ukraine Monsignor Julio Murat defended Ukrainian (Greek Catholic) Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, insisting that he had "no choice" but to speak out against abuses during his country's recent election controversy. According to Murat, Husar's public statements were [...]	2005-02-04 14:17:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PREL RS SOCI UP VT
05VIENNA175	DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA ON JANUARY 31 EU FOREIGN [...] (U) EconPolCouns met with Foriegn Ministry EU Affaris director Werner Almhofer on January 21 to present reftel points. Almhofer made the following substantive replies: 2. (SBU) Tsunami: Almhofer expressed some frustration with the European public's dissatisfaction with the response of t [...]	2005-01-21 14:17:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PTER EAID KPAL BK CU IR IZ UP CH AU EUN
05VIENNA2410	YUSHCHENKO IMPRESSES AUSTRIANS DURING VISIT [...] (U) During a July 12-13 visit to Austria, Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko met with Austrian President Heinz Fischer, Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel, parliamentary leaders, and a group of Austrian businessmen. Ukraine's efforts to integrate more closely with the European Union featured p [...]	2005-07-18 14:10:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP AU EUN
05VIENNA3324	ENCOURAGING UKRAINE TO RATIFY NATO-PFP TRUST FUND [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-07 14:40:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL MASS UP AU NATO
05VIENNA3974	RUSSIA-UKRAINE GAS NEGOTIATIONS: AUSTRIAN RESPONSE [...] (C) Embassy Vienna delivered reftel demarche to Austrian MFA Acting A/S-equivalent for Economic Relations with Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe Elisabeth Kornfeind and Director for Energy Policy Gisela Polte on December 29. Kornfeind and Polte confirmed that the GoA was following deve [...]	2005-12-30 14:51:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON UP RS AU EUN
05VIENNA473	APPROACHING EU IN ADVANCE OF FOREIGN MINISTERS [...] (SBU) Economic-Political Counselor and Pol Unit Chief conveyed reftel demarche to MFA Director/Coordinator for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) Werner Almhofer on February 11 and followed up with him on February 16. Almhofer's likely successor, Andreas Riecken, also attended. 2 [...]	2005-02-17 15:35:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IR UP MD SU CG SR BK AU EUN
05VIENNA568	DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: SOLICITING DONATIONS FOR [...] (U) EconPolCouns and Pol Unit Chief delivered reftel demarche on February 28 to Thomas Hajnoczi, the MFA's assistant secretary-equivalent Director for Political Military Affairs, and Robert Zischg, MFA Deputy Director for Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. 2. (U) Hajnoczi an [...]	2005-02-28 16:14:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC MARR MOPS PREL UP AU NATO
05VILNIUS1012	SU-27 CRASH: LITHUANIA TAKING DECISIONS ON BLACK [...] (C) Summary. The GOL accepted Ukraine's offer of assistance in analyzing data on the black boxes recovered from the Russian Su-27. The Government softened its rhetoric against Russia today, stating that there is no evidence to prove the Russian aircraft willfully violated Lithuanian airspace [...]	2005-09-23 16:28:00	Embassy Vilnius	SECRET	MOPS PGOV PINS PREL LH RS UP
05VILNIUS1017	UPDATE ON SU-27 CRASH INVESTIGATION [...] (C) The GOL's leadership continued to take a softer line on September 26 on the crash of a Russian Su-27 in Lithuania on September 15 (ref A). A senior briefer stated today that the GOL has "no evidence" that Russia intentionally violated Lithuanian airspace. Work on decoding the black boxes [...]	2005-09-26 15:18:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PGOV PINS PREL RS UP LH
05VILNIUS1046	SU-27 UPDATE: INVESTIGATION PROCEEDS, PILOT REMAINS [...] (C) Summary: GOL defense leadership told the Ambassador September 30 that the black box data supports the conclusion that the September 15 intrusion of a Russian Su-27 into Lithuanian airspace and subsequent crash was accidental. GOL leaders publicly and privately express frustration at the [...]	2005-09-30 15:03:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PGOV PINS PREL RS UP LH
05VILNIUS1050	GOL WILL PRESS UKRAINE ON NATO MUNITIONS PROJECT [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-03 14:59:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL MASS UP LH
05VILNIUS1161	GOL SUPPORTS USG POLICY ON BELARUS [...] (C) Summary: The GOL is refocusing its efforts to promote democracy in Belarus after fielding criticism from the USG and EU for overstepping the bounds of the agreed non-engagement policy. GOL foreign policy decision-makers admit that the Prime Minister's October 4 meeting with Belarusian PM [...]	2005-10-29 07:40:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PREL PHUM EAID PGOV BO UP LH
05VILNIUS572	LITHUANIA SEEKS TO USHER UKRAINE TO BRUSSELS [...] (U) Lithuania is mobilizing a full court press to promote Ukraine's integration into transatlantic and European institutions. Building upon the relationship that President Valdas Adamkus forged by mediating (with Poland's Kwasniewski) Ukraine's post-election crisis, Lithuania's Defense Minis [...]	2005-06-03 07:57:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LH UP
05WARSAW2265	HOLOCAUST ISSUES SPECIAL ENVOY EDWARD O'DONNELL IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During his May 4-7 visit to Poland Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues Ambassador Edward O'Donnell discussed with key Polish officials and leaders of the Jewish community Poland's ChairmRmQqMQnd plans for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews (MHPJ). ITC discussions centered o [...]	2005-05-16 11:18:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KNAR PGOV PHUM PL BE BO EZ HU IS UP WJRO
05WARSAW3387	POLAND WEIGHS UKRAINIAN ROLE IN ADDRESSING [...] (C) Polish officials confirmed to us September 16 that they are likely to respond positively to a Ukrainian proposal to host a meeting at the NSA-equivalent level between Poland and Belarus. Slawomir Kaminski, a deputy director in Polish National Security Adviser Jerzy Bahr's office, explained [...]	2005-09-16 11:41:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV BO UP PL
05WARSAW3423	POLISH NSA REQUESTS MEETING ON BELARUS [...] (C) Following up on reftel conversations concerning our interest in close coordination with Poland on Belarus, Polish National Security Advisor Jerzy Bahr has requested a meeting with the Ambassador in advance of a planned September 29 meeting in Kiev with Bahr's Belarusian counterpart. The A [...]	2005-09-20 13:52:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV BO UP PL
06ANKARA1400	TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, February 2006 [...] Turkey's National Security Council (NSC) held its first meeting of 2006 on February 23. Turkey-Iran relations, February 4 IAEA decision on Iran's nuclear program, and Turkey's foreign assistance policy topped the agenda. Turkish media coverage of the meeting was wider than other months. The [...]	2006-03-16 09:35:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL TU UP KS TC PK SU IR AL RU
06ANKARA1958	EUR DAS BRYZA'S BLACK SEA DISCUSSIONS IN ANKARA [...] (C) Summary: EUR DAS Matt Bryza discussed Black Sea security with MFA, Turkish Navy and Turkish Land Forces officials during his April 4-6 visit to Ankara. Bryza expressed appreciation for what Turkey was doing to foster security cooperation among the littorals, suggested efforts were neede [...]	2006-04-11 08:25:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR TU RO BU RS UP GG
06ANKARA2083	TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, March 2006 [...] Chief of the Turkish General Staff (CHOD) General Hilmi Ozkok gave his annual speech to the Istanbul War Academy on March 16. He noted the importance of a cohesive domestic government in the international place of a country; underlined the importance of a sound security strategy based on a st [...]	2006-04-17 12:37:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL TU UP KS TC PK SU IR AL RU
06ANKARA2482	BLACK SEA: ROMANIA/BLACK SEA HARMONY AND BLACK SEA [...] (C) Summary: Turkey appreciates our efforts to persuade Romania and Bulgaria to join Operation BLACK SEA HARMONY (OBSH),and asks that we weigh in again with the GOR prior to a May 9 Turkey-Romania bilateral on the subject. MFA told us May 4 that Romania has agreed to begin negotiations on jo [...]	2006-05-05 05:00:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR NATO UP RS TU GG BU RO
06ANKARA3435	BLACK SEA: ADMIRAL OUTLINES CURRENT TURKISH [...] (C/REL USA, GBR, AUS, CAN) Turkey is pleased with Russia's continually improving attitude toward Euro-Atlantic cooperation in maritime security, the Turkish Navy's N5 RADM (LH) Cem Gurdeniz told us June 7. Gurdeniz thanked us for persuading Romania and Bulgaria to be more positive toward Oper [...]	2006-06-09 15:04:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR NATO TU RS BU RO GG UP
06ASHGABAT108	TURKISH ENERGY MINISTER'S MEETING WITH NIYAZOV ON [...] (C)Turkish Ambassador Hakki Akil provided Ambassador a readout of Turkish Energy Minister Mehmet Hilmi Guler 1/19 meeting with President Niyazov. Guler told Niyazov that Turkey was ready to pursue seriously a Trans-Caspian Pipeline (TCP),and that he himself was prepared to come to Ashgabat [...]	2006-01-24 11:22:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET GG KZ PGOV PREL RS TX UP US
06ASHGABAT140	TURKISH AMBASSADOR POSITS GAZPROM PLANS TO [...] (C) During a lunch he hosted for Georgian Ambassador Petriashvili, Ukrainian Ambassador Mayko, and U.S. Ambassador, Turkish Ambassador Hakki Akil argued passionately (with the help of visual aids) that Gazprom is intent on establishing a monopoly of gas supply to Europe. Akil argued that Gaz [...]	2006-01-27 12:17:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET GG KZ PGOV PREL RS TX UP US
06ASHGABAT151	NIYAZOV WANTS TO "SOLVE GAS ISSUES PEACEFULLY" [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador was called in by Niyazov Monday morning for a briefing on his Moscow meeting with Putin last week. Unexpectedly, it transpired that the Turkish ambassador had been called in for the same briefing. Niyazov said he had resisted Putin,s pressure to take sides against Uk [...]	2006-01-30 13:09:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET GG KZ PGOV PREL RS TX UP US
06ASHGABAT177	EU SPECIAL ENVOY KUBIS GIVES READOUT OF NIYAZOV [...] (SBU) EU Emissary to Central Asia Jan Kubis told the ambassador on 2/7 that he had raised energy issues with Niyazov at their meeting the previous day and tried to drive home the point that, despite the current lack of a coordinated EU energy policy, energy developments in Turkmenistan are of [...]	2006-02-07 12:58:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET GG KZ PGOV PREL RS TX UP US
06ASHGABAT209	MESSAGE TO NIYAZOV ON TURKMEN GAS [...] ( SBU) Unfortunately, the reftel talking points arrived after Miller and his delegation did. It seemed unlikely we would be able to approach President Niyazov, who was fully engaged in opening ceremonies/speeches connected with the upcoming holiday. After the speech he delivered at the new [...]	2006-02-17 07:47:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL RS TX UP
06ASHGABAT215	NIYAZOV,S 2/17 GAZPROM, UKRAINIAN VISITORS: [...] (C) GazProm CEO Miller,s February 17 visit to Ashgabat came and went without known result; FM Meredov told Ambassador that Niyazov deferred any new energy-sector decisions for at least two months. Far less reassuringly, Ukraine energy officials, talks the same day with GOTX counterparts and [...]	2006-02-21 12:59:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL RS TX UP
06ASHGABAT439	GOTX DRAFTING STUDENTS STUDYING ABROAD INTO ARMY [...] (C) The GOTX has ordered male Turkmenistani citizens of Kazakh ethnicity studying in Kazakhstan to return home for military service, according to information from a Kazakh Diaspora contact. The contact provided Post with a copy of a letter sent by the Turkmen Embassy in Astana to South Kazakh [...]	2006-04-26 08:38:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KZ RS UP TX
06ASHGABAT532	UKRAINE'S INTERBUDMONTAZH OPERATIONS IN [...] (SBU) GENERAL DIRECTOR OF UKRAINIAN COMPANY INTERBUDMONTAZH VADIM SULIM TOLD POL/ECON OFF ON MAY 11 THAT THE COMPANY HAD NO PART IN THE TURKMENISTAN-UKRAINE BARTER FOR GAS AGREEMENTS AND WAS NOT INVOLVED IN THE OIL AND GAS SECTOR, DESPITE MULTIPLE PRESS REPORTS TO THE CONTRARY. INTERBUDMONTAZH [...]	2006-05-19 03:40:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EPET UP TX
06ASHGABAT561	Ukrainian Ambassador to Ashgabat Viktor Mayko to [...] (SBU) Ukrainian Ambassador to Ashgabat Viktor Mayko will travel to Kabul in mid-June to present his credentials to President Karzai. Ukraine previously had been represented by its ambassador in Tashkent. Mayko will be a valuable interlocutor on energy issues and also on the trials and tribu [...]	2006-05-25 13:39:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EPET PINR AF UP TX
06ASHGABAT673	GAZPROM'S SURPRISE VISIT TO TURKMENISTAN YIELDS NO [...] (SBU) On June 19 President Niyazov invited Gazprom Chairman Alexey Miller to Turkmenistan to discuss additional gas supplies for 2006 and gas deliveries for 2007 and 2008. Although no deal was struck, the Turkmenistani side offered increased volume to Gazprom, but did not accept the offer to [...]	2006-06-26 12:26:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ECON EFIN ENRG PGOV PREL TX RS UP
06ASHGABAT699	DEAL OR NO DEAL? NIYAZOV PLAYS HARDBALL ON [...] (C) On June 29 GazProm Chairman Alexei Miller returned to Turkmenistan to discuss gas prices with President Niyzaov )- his second visit in less than two weeks. The following day, a Ukrainian delegation headed by Minister Plachkov met with Oil and Gas Minister Atayev for a similar negotiation. [...]	2006-07-03 13:17:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG TX UP RS BO ZK
06ASTANA149	AND THEN THERE WERE THREE: CUSTOMS UNION BETWEEN RUSSIA, [...] (SBU) Summary: In the view of Kazakhstani working-level Industry & Trade officials, the newly announced Russia-Belarus-Kazakhstan customs union within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Community (EEC) is an acknowledgement of Ukraine's refusal to take part. While the creation of the cust [...]	2006-09-28 08:03:00	Embassy Astana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PREL PGOV KZ BO RS UZ UP
06BAKU1684	AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH MINISTRY OF [...] (U) This is an action request; see para 14. 2. (C) SUMMARY: During a November 14 introductory meeting with the Ambassador, Minister of Defense Industry Yavar Jamalov provided an overview of the new ministry, created in December 2005. Jamalov, who was appointed in March, said the ministry [...]	2006-11-17 14:23:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ AM RS TU PK UP
06BAKU734	PRESIDENT ALIYEV TO ATTEND KIEV GUAM SUMMIT; GOAJ [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Aliyev will attend the GUAM Summit in Kiev, according to his foreign policy advisor, Novruz Mammadov. Mammadov believes Ukraine will use the summit to stake out a leadership role in the region. Russia, he believes, sees GUAM as a rival to the CIS and will try to lever [...]	2006-05-18 13:09:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PBTS ECIN AJ GG UP MD
06BERLIN3354	DAS KRAMER'S VISIT TO BERLIN, NOVEMBER 17 [...] (C) (Summary) National Security Advisor Christoph Heusgen, MFA Political Director Michael Schaefer, and other senior German officials discussed Russia, Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, and Belarus in meetings with DAS Kramer who visited Berlin on November 17. Schaefer and Heusgen argued that we s [...]	2006-11-22 16:16:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN GM RU UP MD GG
06BRATISLAVA256	SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUNDUP, MARCH 31, 2006 [...] (C) Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda called Belarusian opposition leader Aleksandr Milinkevich March 24 to express his support and to convey Slovakia's offer to allow any Belarusian students expelled from state universities for political reasons to continue their studies at Slovak schools. M [...]	2006-03-31 15:29:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM UNSC KIRF IZ UP BO BM LO
06BRATISLAVA42	SLOVAKIA ORGANIZING V-4 ELECTION MONITORING TO [...] (C) Director of the MFA's Third Territorial Division (including Eastern Europe and Russia) Stefan Rozkopal presented us January 18 additional information about V-4 involvement in OSCE election monitoring missions for Belarus' March 19 Presidential vote and requested U.S. financial assistance [...]	2006-01-18 15:55:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI BO UP LO
06BRUSSELS1175	HAMAS LIKELY TO DOMINATE MEETING OF EU FOREIGN [...] (C) Judith Gebetsroithner, an advisor to External Relations Commission Ferrero-Waldner, told us April 6 that discussion of Hamas would likely be the main issue for EU Foreign Ministers to tackle at their monthly meeting (GAERC) in Luxembourg April 10. Gebetsroithner noted that member states [...]	2006-04-06 15:35:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PHUM KPAL BO UP XF EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS450	EU, UKRAINIAN OFFICIALS COMMENT ON ACTION PLAN, [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings, Ukrainian and EU officials discussed the status of the EU-Ukraine Action Plan and negotiations on a visa facilitation regime and readmission agreement. Ukrainian embassy officials said their priorities with the EU in 2006 are to: 1) launch consultations on [...]	2006-02-09 16:19:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CVIS ECON UP XH IR USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS707	EUR DAS KRAMER DISCUSSES RUSSIA, UKRAINE, MOLDOVA, [...] (C) Summary: On February 22, EUR DAS David Kramer held COEST Troika consultations with the EU on Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, and Belarus. On Russia, the EU agrees that a combative Russia feels it is in an increasingly strengthened position. The European Commission viewed the "creeping reasserti [...]	2006-03-03 09:20:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL RS MD UP EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BUCHAREST1133	BYSTROE CANAL: ROMANIA WELCOMES UN FINDINGS [...] (SBU) Summary: Romania welcomed the unanimous findings released by a special UN Inquiry Commission noting the negative trans-boundary impact of Ukraine's dredging in Bystroe Canal. Romanian officials now expect Ukraine to initiate public and cross-border consultations on this sensitive environ [...]	2006-07-14 15:18:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON PBTS SENV UP RO
06BUCHAREST208	ROMANIA: DEMARCHE ON RUSSIA-UKRAINE GAS [...] (C) On February 2, EmbOffs delivered reftel talking points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General for Enlarged Europe Razvan Rusu. Rusu agreed that transparency is needed in the Russia-Ukraine gas deal. However, he stated that this issue should be part of a comprehensive approach to [...]	2006-02-07 09:35:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON UP RS RO
06BUCHAREST287	ROMANIAN AND UKRAINIAN VIEWS ON PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: Romanian MFA officials expressed cautious optimism that the new bilateral commission set up by President Traian Basescu and Ukrainian President Yushchenko could yield concrete results in resolving historic problems between the two countries such as competing territorial claims ove [...]	2006-02-17 16:43:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PBTS MD UP RO
06BUCHAREST629	ROMANIA: DAS KRAMER, AMBASSADOR HODGES - [...] (C) Summary: DAS David Kramer and Ambassador to Moldova Heather Hodges shared views with leading Romanian interlocutors on recent developments involving Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Russia during a visit to Bucharest on April 3-4. Although Romanian interlocutors described growing strains in [...]	2006-04-18 07:57:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MD RS BO UP KDEM PHUM RO
06HELSINKI1148	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PM VANHANEN [...] (C) Ambassador Ware met with Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen Nov.8. Fresh from having recently hosted the EU-Ukraine Summit and the EU Heads of State/Government informals in Lahti (which included dinner with Russian President Putin),Vanhanen provided additional insights on Putin's Russia; ener [...]	2006-11-09 14:41:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ETRD ENRG EUN FI RU UP
06HELSINKI1173	DAS KRAMER AND FINNISH DG ESKELINEN DISCUSS [...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy Assistant Secretary David Kramer on 15 November met with Finnish Director General Eskelinen and other foreign ministry staff to discuss U.S. consultations around the G-8 Political Directors' meeting in Moscow and Finnish preparations for the upcoming EU-Russia summit on 24 [...]	2006-11-21 14:26:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG RU FI EUN BO MD PL UP
06KHARTOUM319	Ukrainian Firm to Sell Sudan Turbo Jets [...] On February 7, the Sudan Tribune web site posted an article dated February 6 from "Kharkiv" which indicates that the Kharkiv aviation plan in Ukraine has signed a contract in late 2005 to supply five AN-74 light turbo jet aircraft to Sudan. The multifunctional AN-74 is described as "intended [...]	2006-02-09 16:51:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP EAIR ETRD BEXP PREL UP SU
06KIEV1015	UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO'S MARCH 14 remarks ON FREE AND [...] (U) Summary: On March 14, shortly after the Rada (parliament) had passed a series of amendments designed to address technical problems regarding the administration of the March 26 elections (reftel),President Yushchenko held a press-conference devoted to the election campaign and the domesti [...]	2006-03-15 14:43:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM UP
06KIEV1021	UKRAINE/MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA: EUR DAS KRAMER [...] (C) Summary: During March 13 meetings in Kiev, EUR DAS David Kramer praised the Ukrainian government's decision to implement a customs protocol to control the flow of goods across its border with Moldova/Transnistria. Drawing on reftel, Kramer told PM Yuri Yekhanurov, Deputy Minister of Defe [...]	2006-03-15 15:54:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MD UP OSCE
06KIEV1036	UKRAINE: EURO-ATLANTIC INTEGRATION BEFORE AND [...] (C) Summary: Various interlocutors assessed the prospects for Ukraine's drive toward NATO membership after the March 26 parliamentary elections during visits to Kiev by EUR DAS David Kramer's March 13 and by Project for Transitional Democracies head Bruce Jackson March 4-8. Deputy Foreign Mi [...]	2006-03-16 15:51:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL NATO UP
06KIEV1040	UKRAINE: ELECTION OBSERVERS OSCE/ODIHR AND ENEMO ON PROCEDURAL PROBLEMS IN RADA ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: In a March 16 meeting with Charge, OSCE/ODIHR Ambassador Lubomir Kopaj said he thought the Central Election Commission was making efforts to deal with electoral procedural problems, but that election day would still be problematic, particularly due to precinct overcrowding. Kopa [...]	2006-03-16 17:09:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	NOTAG UP
06KIEV1062	UKRAINE/BELARUS/RUSSIA: GOU VIEWS ON RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary: During EUR DAS David Kramer's March 13 meetings in Kiev, Deputy Defense Minister Polyakov said that while security issues in the Ukraine-Russia relationship were secondary to political and military aspects, his Ministry (MoD) tried to play a "good cop" role by reinforcing a produ [...]	2006-03-17 15:23:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR KDEM PHUM PINR RS BO UP
06KIEV1084	UKRAINE: PRESIDENT SIGNS TWO OF THREE AMENDMENTS [...] (SBU) Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko signed into law March 17 two of the three bills passed by the Rada March 14, amending parliamentary and local election laws (reftel). The bills Yushchenko signed (now known as law No. 3519-IV) included provisions allowing District Election Commissions [...]	2006-03-21 11:41:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM UP OSCE
06KIEV1088	UKRAINE: KAZAKHSTAN AND THE 2009 OSCE [...] (C) Summary: During a March 2 meeting with U.S. Ambassador to the OSCE Julie Finley, DFM Volodymyr Khandohiy said Ukraine would not actively lobby for the 2009 OSCE Chairmanship in Office, but might consider advancing its candidacy if Kazakhstan were to voluntarily withdraw its bid. End summ [...]	2006-03-22 05:23:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS PHUM OSCE UP KZ
06KIEV1107	UKRAINE: DELIVERABLES FOR GUAM SUMMIT, NSDC AND [...] (C) Summary: According to a National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) staff official, the May GUAM summit aims to feature agreements to enhance regional energy security and cooperation in solving "frozen conflicts." The official opined that NSDC Secretary Kinakh's visit to Moscow might ha [...]	2006-03-22 15:52:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM EUN ENRG PGOV PINR RS AZ GG MD UP
06KIEV1159	UKRAINE: TYMOSHENKO RALLIES FAITHFUL ON THE MAIDAN [...] (SBU) Summary: During a rally March 23 on Kiev's Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti),the geographical and spiritual center of the late 2004 Orange Revolution, former PM Yuliya Tymoshenko strived to recreate the spirit of the November-December 2004 protests that broke the Kuchma regime [...]	2006-03-24 15:37:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM UP
06KIEV1261	UKRAINE ELECTION 2006: WINNERS, LOSERS, TRENDS [...] (C) Summary: While the results of Ukraine's March 26 parliamentary and local elections are not yet final, and negotiations to form a majority Rada coalition have not yet concluded, it is already clear that the elections highlighted a number of winners and losers, as well as trends in Ukraine's deve [...]	2006-03-30 14:51:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM UP
06KIEV1282	UKRAINE/MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA: APPLYING POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: MFA Romania and Moldova Division Counselor Cornelia Luskalova told us March 30 that the Ukrainian government (GOU) was planned to combine political and economic levers to return cross-border trade between Ukraine and Moldova/Transnistria to normal. The GOU would urge the Moldova [...]	2006-03-31 16:01:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PINR PGOV ETRD PREF OSCE MD UP RS
06KIEV1353	UKRAINE: REGIONS PARTY RADA DEPUTY SAYS REGIONS [...] (C) Summary: During an April 4 meeting, Party of Regions parliamentary (Rada) deputy and former Deputy PM Andriy Klyuyev told Ambassador that Regions was ready to join a coalition with the pro-presidential Our Ukraine bloc. He dismissed the possibility that Regions was looking to force a new [...]	2006-04-05 14:37:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR UP
06KIEV1354	UKRAINE: MFA DIRECTOR BELASHOV ON BLACK SEA [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 8. 2. (C) Summary: During an April 5 meeting called at his request, MFA Military-Technical Cooperation and Arms Control Department Director Volodymyr Belashov asked us for the USG position regarding the Turkish-sponsored Operation Black Sea Harmony, [...]	2006-04-05 14:37:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MARR MOPS PREL NATO UP
06KIEV1444	UKRAINE: NSDC SECRETARY ON TRANSNISTRIA, BELARUS, [...] (C) Summary: In an April 11 meeting, National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Kinakh told Ambassador the Ukrainian government was concerned that Transnistrian authorities might provoke an armed confrontation at one of Transnistria's "border crossings" with Moldova. The Russians [...]	2006-04-11 15:25:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS ENRG ETRD PINR OSCE MD BO RS UP
06KIEV1445	UKRAINE: NSDC SECRETARY KINAKH: STABLE [...] (C) Summary: In an April 11 meeting, National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Anatoliy Kinakh told Ambassador that a stable majority coalition in Parliament (Rada) and the formation of a new government had to happen quickly in order to address critical economic issues. In order [...]	2006-04-11 15:30:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EINV UP
06KIEV1481	UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO AND CODEL FRIST DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: President Yushchenko discussed Rada majority coalition possibilities, bilateral U.S.-Ukrainian issues, and his vision for Ukraine's future April 13 with a delegation led by Senator Majority leader Bill Frist (R-TN) and including Senators Judd Gregg (R-NH) and Richard Burr (R-NC). [...]	2006-04-13 17:46:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OREP PGOV PARM UP
06KIEV1530	UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH TO CODEL FRIST: ORANGE [...] (C) Summary: Former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych told CODEL Frist and Ambassador April 13 that the pro-presidential Our Ukraine (OU) bloc needed to form a coalition with his Party of Regions in order to overcome the east-west split within the country. A union of the previous ruling coalit [...]	2006-04-14 14:23:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ETRD NATO OREP PINR US UP
06KIEV1531	UKRAINE: INTERIOR MINISTER ORDERED TO ARREST [...] (C) Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko told Ambassador on April 14 that he had been ordered by the Prosecutor General (PG) to arrest senior Tymoshenko Bloc politicians Oleksandr Turchynov and Andriy Kozhemyakin for illegally destroying Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) files on the January gas deal w [...]	2006-04-14 14:24:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI UP
06KIEV1540	UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO'S PARTY "ENDORSES" PREVIOUS [...] (C) Summary: President Yushchenko's Hamlet-like dance over whether or when to endorse ex-Premier Yuliya Tymoshenko's claim on returning to her old job in the "Coalition of Democratic Forces" continued April 14 when the Executive Council of the People's Union Our Ukraine (PUOU) party's Politic [...]	2006-04-14 15:13:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM UP
06KIEV1552	UKRAINE: KERCH -- VERY LITTLE ORANGE IN THIS [...] (SBU) Summary: Kerch, one of the most ancient cities of Ukraine and a key industrial center for the Crimean peninsula during the Soviet period, now finds itself a remote backwater of independent Ukraine, famous recently only because in late 2003 a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia [...]	2006-04-18 07:40:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON SCUL UP
06KIEV1561	UKRAINE: DEMARCHE ON VENEZUELA'S UN SECURITY [...] (C) We discussed Venezuela's bid for a seat on the UN Security Council with Andriy Beshta from the MFA United Nations directorate April 18, reiterating ref C demarche points and drawing on information from ref A. Beshta said that his office had used our previous demarche to formulate a propos [...]	2006-04-18 13:45:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER UNSC VE GT UP
06KIEV1587	UKRAINE: PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO'S OUR UKRAINE [...] (SBU) Summary. For several weeks in the wake of the March 26 elections in which it was soundly defeated by Yuliya Tymoshenko's Bloc (BYuT),Our Ukraine (OU) bloc leaders offered primarily positive public commentary, with reservations, about the formation of an Orange Rada majority coalition a [...]	2006-04-20 14:57:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV UP
06KIEV1639	UKRAINE: DNSA CROUCH'S NATO-THEMED DINNER INCLUDES [...] (C) At an April 19 NATO-themed dinner in honor of Deputy National Security Adviser Crouch, Defense Minister Hrytsenko and Foreign Minister Tarasyuk politely disagreed over the attitudes toward NATO of PM-hopeful Yuliya Tymoshenko, the Socialist Party, and Party of Regions. They also disagreed [...]	2006-04-26 08:27:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM UP
06KIEV1662	UKRAINE: RADA MAJORITY COALITION TALKS RESUME; [...] (C) Summary: After a ten-day hiatus, coalition negotiations between President Yushchenko's Our Ukraine, the Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) and the Socialists resumed April 25, deputy Socialist Party leader Iosyp Vinsky told Ambassador April 27. Our Ukraine's Roman Zvarych, Tymoshenko (standin [...]	2006-04-27 16:00:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM UP

06KIEV1663	UKRAINE: BAPTISTS CAUGHT IN MIDDLE OF RADA [...] (C) In an April 27 meeting with Ambassador, the longtime head of the All-Ukraine Baptist Union, Gregoriy Komendant, asked for help in stopping the Prosecutor General's Office from seizing the Union's downtown Kiev headquarters building. Beginning in November 2005, the PGO has accused the Union [...]	2006-04-27 16:14:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL UP
06KIEV1698	UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE'S ZVARYCH ON AGREEMENTS, [...] (C) Summary: In an April 28 meeting with Ambassador, Our Ukraine legal department chief Roman Zvarych confirmed that, in ongoing Rada majority coalition negotiations between Our Ukraine (OU),Yuliya Tymoshenko's Bloc (BYuT) and the Socialists, two documents had been signed April 25, one on co [...]	2006-04-28 13:51:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM PHUM UP
06KIEV1706	UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE INSIDER POROSHENKO ON RADA [...] (C) During an April 28 meeting with Ambassador, Our Ukraine (OU) insider Petro Poroshenko emphatically denied he was using his influence with the Prosecutor General to put pressure on Tymoshenko lieutenant Oleksandr Turchynov (refs A and B). Coalition talks with the Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) were [...]	2006-04-28 14:35:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI UP
06KIEV1711	UKRAINE: SOMBER TYMOSHENKO DOWN ON ORANGE [...] (C) Summary: A subdued PM-hopeful Yuliya Tymoshenko told Ambassador April 28 that the scant progress in Orange coalition talks in recent days was much less significant than Our Ukraine efforts with Party of Regions to form local coalitions across the country. News during the meeting that Our [...]	2006-04-28 15:31:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM UP
06KIEV1772	UKRAINE: FM TARASYUK, NSAU CHIEF ALEXEYEV PRESS [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk and National Space Agency of Ukraine (NSAU) Director Yuri Alekseyev urged greater U.S.-Ukraine cooperation on ballistic missile defense during an April 26 meeting at MFA with U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Director Lt Gen (USAF) Trey Obering III [...]	2006-05-05 15:00:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MCAP PREL PINR US UP
06KIEV1773	UKRAINE: WAITING FOR YUSHCHENKO: LACK OF COALITION [...] (C) Summary: While much of Ukraine takes off the first week in May between the May Day and Victory in Europe holidays, work on possible Rada majority coalition policy agreements inched forward, even as the question remained open as to which coalition, if any, would ultimately emerge. In May [...]	2006-05-05 15:17:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM UP
06KIEV1851	UKRAINE: UPDATES FROM BEZSMERTNY AND TYMOSHENKO - [...] (C) Summary: A downbeat and cynical Roman Bezsmertny and a more relaxed Yuliya Tymoshenko separately assessed the current stated of play in coalition negotiations with Charge May 11-12; their characterizations largely tracked, though not completely. Both said that Yushchenko's attitude toward [...]	2006-05-15 08:07:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
06KIEV1912	UKRAINE/RUSSIA: NO PROGRESS ON BLACK SEA FLEET [...] (C) Summary: First Deputy Foreign Minister Volodymyr Ohryzko told Kiev-based diplomats May 12 that the May 4 second meeting of the Ukraine-Russia sub-commission on the Russian Black Sea Fleet made no progress. The Ukrainians have asked to conduct a joint inventory of real property occupied a [...]	2006-05-17 15:39:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PINR RS UP
06KIEV1913	UKRAINE: FORMER NSDC SECRETARY KINAKH ON [...] (C) Summary: In Ambassador's May 17 farewell call on outgoing National Secretary and Defense Council Secretary Anatoliy Kinakh, who has resigned in order to take up a seat in the new parliament (Rada),Kinakh detailed Ukrainian thinking on Transnistria, Belarus, and the deteriorating Ukraine- [...]	2006-05-17 15:53:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM UP
06KIEV1921	MTAG/UKRAINE: UKRAINIAN EXPORT ACTIVITY TO IRAN [...] (S) Stressing the importance of this issue, Ambassador passed ref A talking points to Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk during his May 17 farewell call. Tarasyuk said he would pass the information to the relevant officials in his ministry and pay personal attention to the preparation of a respo [...]	2006-05-18 13:01:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC MTCRE MNUC IR UP
06KIEV1937	UKRAINE: DEFENSE MINISTER ON COALITION TALKS, [...] (C) Summary: Defense Minister Hrytsenko opined to Ambassador May 18 that Orange coalition prospects were growing as President Yushchenko was resigning himself to ex-Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko's return to the prime ministership. He agreed with Ambassador's listing of honest government o [...]	2006-05-19 12:09:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PARM MARR NATO BO UP
06KIEV1940	UKRAINE: KINAKH AND FM TARASYUK ON COALITION [...] (C) Summary: In Ambassadorial farewell calls May 17 on outgoing National Security Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Anatoliy Kinakh and Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk, Kinakh and Tarasyuk, both of whom lead minor parties that contested the March 26 elections as part of President Yushchenko's O [...]	2006-05-19 12:13:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM UP
06KIEV1992	UKRAINE: FAREWELL CALL ON PM-HOPEFUL TYMOSHENKO ON [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador paid his farewell call on PM-aspirant Yuliya Tymoshenko May 24, the day prior to the opening of the new parliament (Rada) May 25. Tymoshenko said she and her team had stayed up "all night" analyzing the completely new coalition proposal Our Ukraine (OU) had sprung on [...]	2006-05-24 14:49:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
06KIEV1994	UKRAINE: KRAMER-WOOD 5/22 MEETING WITH FORMER [...] (C) In a May 22 meeting with visiting EUR DAS David Kramer, OVP Deputy NSA Joseph Wood, and Ambassador, former State Secretary Oleksandr Zinchenko stressed that Ukraine's next prime minister should be a politically independent technocrat -- not a politician. Zinchenko had advised President Yu [...]	2006-05-24 15:13:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI ECON PREL UP RS
06KIEV1995	UKRAINE: DARFUR PEACE AGREEMENT DEMARCHE [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel talking points on the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) to Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk during a May 17 farewell call. Tarasyuk promised to review the issue carefully and to pay personal attention to it. He observed that the current Ukrainian government had been [...]	2006-05-24 15:15:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PHUM SOCI SU UP
06KIEV1996	UKRAINE: AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON EX-PM [...] (C) During Ambassador's May 23 farewell call, Party of Regions chief Viktor Yanukovych said he bore Ambassador "no ill will" over the events of the Orange Revolution, commenting that the two had "worked well together." Yanukovych spoke in great detail about his "problems with the law," explain [...]	2006-05-24 15:17:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI UP
06KIEV2038	UKRAINE: EUR DAS KRAMER AND OVP DNSA WOOD'S 5/23 [...] (C) In a lengthy May 23 discussion with Ambassador, EUR DAS David Kramer, and OVP Deputy NSA Joseph Wood, Our Ukraine's (OU) lead negotiator in the coalition formation talks predicted that an "Orange variant" would soon prevail and that a new government would be in place by mid-July. The new [...]	2006-05-26 08:45:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI UP
06KIEV2039	UKRAINE: DEFENSE MINISTER GETS AHEAD OF FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: In a May 22 meeting with EUR DAS Kramer, Foreign Minister Tarasyuk said a meeting of the presidents of Ukraine and Belarus might be possible if Belarus were to make favorable decisions on issues of importance to Ukraine. Tarasyuk added that the Ukrainian government was preparing t [...]	2006-05-26 08:45:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHUM EAID NATO MARR PINR BO UP
06KIEV2065	UKRAINE/TRANSNISTRIA: FM TARASYUK'S FRUSTRATION [...] (C) Summary: In a May 22 meeting with EUR DAS Kramer, Foreign Minister Tarasyuk said Russia was reinforcing Transnistrian leader Smirnov's resistance to procedures required under the Ukraine-Moldova customs agreement. Furthermore, the Russians were refusing to agree to join a five-plus-two me [...]	2006-05-26 16:05:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM OSCE PINR RS MD UP
06KIEV2123	UKRAINE: GOVERNMENT'S POINT MAN ON RELIGION OFFERS [...] (SBU) The Ukrainian government's point man on religious issues, the State Department for Religious Issues (SDRI) chief Ihor Bondarchuk, told us June 1 that, for a variety of reasons, he had tendered his resignation. Bondarchuk criticized the Yushchenko administration's "unprofessional" handli [...]	2006-06-01 14:54:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL KIRF UP
06KIEV2124	UKRAINE SUPPORTS U.S. INITIATIVE ON IRAN [...] (C) Charge delivered reftel demarche to Deputy Foreign Minister Volodomyr Khandohiy May 31. Khandohiy said he had watched Secretary Rice's press conference on television; this was clearly a very important initiative. He promised to convey our message to the Foreign Minister and to look into [...]	2006-06-01 14:59:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM ENRG MNUC IR UP
06KIEV2190	UKRAINE: OPPOSITION CREATES TEMPEST OVER "SEA [...] (SBU) Summary: Anti-Orange Revolution forces are using the occasion of a joint U.S.-Ukraine mil-mil cooperative exercise in Crimea to stir up anti-NATO sentiment in the majority ethnic Russian peninsula and smear the Ukrainian government. Demonstrators outside GOU-administered compounds in t [...]	2006-06-06 16:43:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO PINR RS UP
06KIEV2207	UKRAINE: QUICK GOU FIX TO "SEA BREEZE" LIMBO [...] (C) Summary: The Ukrainian parliament (Rada) resumed June 7 and, without addressing the issue of foreign military participation in joint exercises in Ukraine, ended its session almost immediately, adjourning until June 14. A possible special session of the Rada could come before June 14, but [...]	2006-06-07 17:38:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR PREL NATO PINR UP
06KIEV2208	UKRAINE: RADA CONVENES, COALITION FORMATION GETS [...] (C) Nearly 11 weeks after national parliamentary and local elections, Ukraine remains without a Rada majority coalition. A June 7 Rada session opened and closed quickly, with 227 Orange MPs voting to adjourn until June 14. Deputies from the Party of Regions and the Communist Party stayed on t [...]	2006-06-07 17:44:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL MARR UP
06KIEV2246	UKRAINE: EXTRAORDINARY RADA SESSION UNLIKELY [...] (SBU) The Rada's five-member Provisional Presidium on June 8 voted down a motion by 176 opposition MPs to hold a special Rada session that would likely have focused on the situation in Crimea (reftels). The three "Orange" presidium members, who voted "no," dismissed the opposition's appeal as [...]	2006-06-08 15:57:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI MARR UP
06KIEV2247	UKRAINE: SEA BREEZE JUNE 8 UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: Defense Minister Hrytsenko defended his ministry's preparations for the U.S.-Ukraine bilateral military exercise Sea Breeze and determined, with the UK Embassy Defense Attache, that the joint Ukraine-UK Lone Knot exercise would need to be cancelled. Parliament's provisional pres [...]	2006-06-08 16:11:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR PREL NATO PINR UP
06KIEV2278	UKRAINE: ENCOURAGING GREATER SUPPORT TO BELARUSAN [...] (C) Summary: During a June 8 meeting with DFM Khandohiy, U.S. Ambassador to Belarus Krol encouraged Ukraine to develop contacts with Belarus at a level below cabinet minister and suggested that Ukraine could use such contacts to promote more responsible Belarusan government behavior. He also [...]	2006-06-09 15:26:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR BO UP
06KIEV2281	UKRAINE: TYMOSHENKO SAYS COALITION TALKS ARE [...] (C) Yuliya Tymoshenko told DCM on June 12 that talks on forming an Orange coalition were deadlocked over Socialist Party leader Oleksander Moroz' insistence on being made Rada Speaker. Tymoshenko had tried to reason with Moroz, but he was dug in, knowing that this would be his "political swan [...]	2006-06-12 20:33:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI PREL RS UP
06KIEV2293	UKRAINE: FINANCE MINISTER ON TAXES, BUDGET, AND [...] (U) This message contains a guidance request, see paragraph 9. 2. (C) Summary. In a June 6 meeting with DCM, Minister of Finance Viktor Pynzenyk discussed his concerns about budget performance and energy supplies. He denied the Ministry of Finance had asked the State Tax Administration to [...]	2006-06-13 14:55:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EPET UP
06KIEV2296	UKRAINE: WHAT MAY HAPPEN AT WEDNESDAY'S (JUNE 14) [...] (C) With no Orange coalition formed as of 1800 local time, two aides to senior Orange politicians have told us that the Party of Regions may essentially take charge of the coalition formation process at the June 14 Rada session. According to our interlocutors, Communist MP Martynyuk, who is sl [...]	2006-06-13 16:04:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI UP
06KIEV2297	UKRAINE: FM TARASYUK ON COALITION NEGOTIATIONS, [...] (C) Summary: During Ambassador's June 13 presentation of a copy of his credentials, Foreign Minister Tarasyuk said President Yushchenko's Our Ukraine bloc could not accept Socialist Party of Ukraine leader Moroz as parliamentary speaker, despite Moroz' insistence that this was his condition f [...]	2006-06-13 16:09:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR AMGT PGOV PINR UP
06KIEV2316	UKRAINE: AT THE RADA, SIGNS OF AN ORANGE-BLUE [...] (C) At the June 14 parliament (Rada) session, Socialist Party leader Oleksandr Moroz attempted to revive talks to form an Orange coalition by dropping his demand to become Rada Speaker. In return, he asked Our Ukraine (OU) to divide all government posts, down to district chiefs, among the Ora [...]	2006-06-14 15:57:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI MARR UP
06KIEV2329	UKRAINE: AT THE RADA, PARTY OF REGIONS UPBEAT [...] (C) The action at the June 15 Rada session was not at the rostrum, but on the floor and in the hallways, where Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych shook hands, slapped backs and assured reporters that Regions would sign a coalition agreement on June 20 -- when the Rada reconvenes. Our U [...]	2006-06-15 15:25:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI MARR UP
06KIEV2331	UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE INSIDER ZVARYCH ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Our Ukraine (OU) negotiator Roman Zvarych updated DCM June 14 regarding ongoing OU-Party of Regions talks on forming a Rada (parliament) majority coalition, trying to put a positive spin on OU's possible about-face. An Orange-Blue coalition could be in place by June 20, since dif [...]	2006-06-15 15:55:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM SOCI MARR ETRD UP
06KIEV2358	UKRAINE/ROMANIA/BLACK SEA FORUM: FRIENDLY [...] (SBU) Summary: Ukraine and Romania have enjoyed markedly warmer relations post-Orange Revolution, according to Romanian Embassy counselor Stanciu, with Romanian President Basescu visiting Kiev three times. MFA Romania desk officer Popyk told us three areas continued to be irritants in the bi [...]	2006-06-16 15:04:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS ETRD SENV KDEM RO UP
06KIEV2359	UKRAINE: ORANGE-BLUE COALITION TALKS ALLEGEDLY [...] (C) A coalition agreement between the Party of Regions and Our Ukraine (OU) could be reached tonight (June 16),according to Regions MP and de facto shadow foreign minister Leonid Kozhara. In a conversation with DCM, Kozhara dismissed OU's public distinction between "consultations" and "negot [...]	2006-06-16 16:54:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI MARR UP
06KIEV2403	UKRAINE: ANOTHER RADA SESSION ENDS WITHOUT A [...] (C) The Rada (parliament) held two short sessions June 20 but adjourned until June 21 without forming a majority coalition. Before the morning session, Our Ukraine (OU) MP Roman Zvayrch claimed to us that talks with OU's Orange partners were deadlocked over Yuliya Tymoshenko's refusal to acce [...]	2006-06-20 15:58:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI MARR UP
06KIEV2436	UKRAINE: ORANGE COALITION DEAL "UNDER THREAT" - OR [...] (C) Ukraine's coalition drama continued June 21, inching closer to an Orange Coalition, but also featuring a potential obstacle -- Petro Poroshenko as Our Ukraine's Rada Speaker nominee -- that could possibly cause the deal to unravel or create discord in the months to come. The Rada met brief [...]	2006-06-21 15:26:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI UP
06KIEV2451	UKRAINE: BILATERAL NONPROLIFERATION WORKING GROUP: [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 4. 2. (U) In a letter dated June 19, received by the Embassy June 22, MFA Arms Control and Military-Technical Cooperation Department Director Volodymyr Belashov transmitted the Government of Ukraine (GOU)'s proposed agenda for the July 11-12 U.S.-Ukr [...]	2006-06-22 12:33:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA PINR UP
06KIEV2452	UKRAINE: PROGRESS ON SCUDS INVENTORY BY JULY NPWG [...] (S) We delivered reftel's talking points on the need for a SCUDS inventory and a proposed timeline for a USG assessment team visit June 22 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Counselor Serhiy Kucherenko. Kucherenko noted the topic had been raised in a recent meeting between [...]	2006-06-22 12:36:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	ETTC PARM PREL MTCRE MNUC UP
06KIEV2453	UKRAINE: YEMENI ARMS BROKERS SEEKING [...] (S) We delivered reftel's talking points with information on Yemeni arms brokers efforts to obtain weapons and ammunition June 22 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Counselor Serhiy Kucherenko. Kucherenko said he would relay the information to other Ukrainian government of [...]	2006-06-22 13:01:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	ETTC PARM PREL YM UP
06KIEV2461	UKRAINE: COALITION OF DEMOCRATIC FORCES FINALLY [...] (C) Nearly three months after the March 26 elections, Yuliya Tymoshenko's Bloc (BYuT),Our Ukraine (OU),and the Socialist Party (SPU) finally created a parliamentary majority of the "Coalition of Democratic Forces" mid-day June 22 by presenting a coalition agreement with the signatures of 239 [...]	2006-06-22 17:06:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI UP
06KIEV2462	UKRAINE: SPURNED REGIONS VOWS TO "PAINT FENCES" [...] (C) Following the June 22 formation of parliamentary majority of the Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT),Our Ukraine (OU),and the Socialists, the direction of the spurned Party of Regions was being taken over by party "radicals," according to moderate Regions deputy leader Volodymyr Makeyenko. Bombastic [...]	2006-06-22 17:42:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI UP
06KIEV2477	UKRAINE: LAUNCH OF NATO PFP TRUST FUND PROJECT FOR [...] (U) Summary: The NATO PfP Trust Fund project to eliminate MANPADS, small arms/light weapons, and excess munitions began June 20 with the ceremonial destruction of two MANPADS before an audience of government officials and media. Actual operations are expected to begin at the Shostka site in [...]	2006-06-23 12:56:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MARR NATO PGOV UP
06KIEV2500	UKRAINE: REGIONS LEADER YANUKOVYCH ON NEW [...] (SBU) In a lengthy June 23 meeting with an American Jewish Committee (AJC) delegation, Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych claimed that anti-Semitic violence was infrequent in Ukraine and repeated the Soviet-era canard that such violence primarily occurred in "radical" western oblasts. Y [...]	2006-06-26 14:21:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL KIRF UP
06KIEV2523	UKRAINE: YEMENI ARMS BROKERS SEEKING [...] (U) This is an action request. Please advise how to respond to MFA inquiry in para 3. 2. (S) MFA Arms Control and Military-Technical Cooperation Counselor Serhiy Kucherenko requested clarification of the following point contained in our demarche of June 22 (taken from ref B) regarding arms [...]	2006-06-29 09:49:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	ETTC PARM PREL YM UP
06KIEV2526	UKRAINE: FM TARASYUK ON COALITION AGREEMENT, [...] (SBU) Summary: In a June 23 meeting with the American Jewish Committee (AJC),Acting Foreign Minister Tarasyuk said Ukraine would not join moves against Israel in the new UN Council for Human Rights and undertook to examine the possibility of withdrawing Ukrainian membership in the UN Committ [...]	2006-06-29 13:37:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AORC KCRM PINR IZ UP
06KIEV2530	UKRAINE: AMBASSADOR TAYLOR'S FIRST MEETING WITH [...] (C) In his first meeting with Ambassador Taylor, Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych criticized President Yushchenko for caving in to USG pressure to spurn Regions and bless the formation of an Orange coalition. The Orange team was deeply divided and may not even be able to get its cand [...]	2006-06-29 17:15:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI MARR ECON PREL RS UP
06KIEV2589	UKRAINE: BILATERAL NONPROLIFERATION WORKING GROUP [...] (S) We delivered USG response (ref A) July 5 to the Ukrainian government's (GOU) proposed agenda for the July 11-12 nonproliferation working group (NPWG) meetings to MFA Arms Control and Military-Technical Cooperation Counselor Serhiy Kucherenko. Kucherenko nodded understanding when we highli [...]	2006-07-05 15:06:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA PINR UK PL UP
06KIEV2590	UKRAINE: ACTING NSDC SECRETARY ON ENERGY, RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary: In a free-wheeling conversation during Ambassador's July 3 introductory call, Acting National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Volodomyr Horbulin focused on Russia and Russia's manifold impact on Ukraine. In contrast to its obvious behavior during the 2004 president [...]	2006-07-05 15:18:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG EPET ETRD MARR PGOV NATO RS UP
06KIEV2651	UKRAINE: MOROZ AS SPEAKER; [...] (SBU) Summary: In a maneuver which stunned Our Ukraine (OU) and Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) only hours after they had reached agreement with Party of Regions on a division of responsibilities between the majority and opposition forces in the Rada (parliament) to end Regions' 10-day blockade of the [...]	2006-07-07 15:24:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM UP
06KIEV2678	UKRAINE: ORANGE OPTIONS IN THE WAKE OF THE [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with Presidential Chief of Staff Rybachuk, former PM Tymoshenko, Our Ukraine (OU) Party leaders Roman Bezsmertny and Roman Zvarych, and OU Political Council member and former National Security and Defense Council Secretary Anatoliy Kinakh July 8 and Acting Foreign M [...]	2006-07-10 17:45:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
06KIEV2855	UKRAINE: THE POLITICAL CHESS GAME: VIEWS FROM THE [...] (C) Summary. Conversations with key deputy party leaders from Our Ukraine (OU),Regions, and the Socialists over the week of July 17-21 revealed a complicated political chess game underway in Ukrainian politics. Regions' Volodymyr Makeyenko and Socialists Mykola Rudkovsky and Yaroslav Mendus [...]	2006-07-21 15:37:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM UP
06KIEV2900	UKRAINE: WAYS OUT OF THE POLITICAL IMPASSE: FOUR [...] (C) Summary: With the window for a Presidential decision to disband the Rada now open and the "Anti-Crisis Coalition" nomination of Viktor Yanukovych for PM on his desk, Yushchenko and Ukraine face four scenarios: accept Yanukovych as PM; reject Yanukovych's nomination but not dissolve the Rad [...]	2006-07-25 15:29:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV UP
06KIEV2932	UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO-LED ROUNDTABLE POINTS TOWARD [...] (SBU) Summary. President Yushchenko moderated an extraordinary six-hour marathon roundtable July 27 involving all Ukrainian political leaders and additional eminent figures to discuss a way out of the current political impasse. Yushchenko ended the session at 10 pm with a plea for the parti [...]	2006-07-28 08:49:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM UP
06KIEV2962	UKRAINE: DAS KRAMER'S NATO-RELATED DISCUSSIONS [...] (C) Summary. Ukraine's relations with NATO in the context of ongoing domestic political roundtable discussions and fading chances for a Membership Action Plan (MAP) invitation at the Riga Summit were discussed in EUR Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) David Kramer's July 28 meetings with Actin [...]	2006-07-31 14:45:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM UP
06KIEV2964	UKRAINE/MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA: EUR DAS KRAMER URGES [...] (C) Summary: In July 28 meetings with Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych, Socialist Party leader Oleksandr Moroz, and Deputy Foreign Minister (and special negotiator on Transnistria Issues) Andriy Veselovsky, EUR DAS David Kramer praised Ukraine's leadership in resolving problems arisin [...]	2006-07-31 14:47:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS OSCE PINR RO MD UP
06KIEV3021	UKRAINE: FOLLOW UP ON MANPADS COUNTERMEASURES [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 6 2. (S) We met August 1 with Defense Minister First Assistant Oleksiy Melnyk regarding next steps on MANPADS countermeasures development, as agreed during our July 14 meeting with Melnyk and other Ukrainian officials (ref A). Melnyk said he had repo [...]	2006-08-03 13:03:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	MARR MOPS PREL PARM NATO PINR US UP
06KIEV3029	UKRAINE: TALE OF TWO VIKTORS: YUSHCHENKO NOMINATES [...] (C) Summary. In another last minute decision crucial to the political future of Ukraine, President Viktor Yushchenko initiated the procedures required for dissolution of the Rada (parliament) August 2, only to agree in the middle of the night instead to endorse Regions' leader Viktor Yanukovyc [...]	2006-08-04 06:46:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM UP
06KIEV3041	UKRAINE: FOREIGN POLICY OF A REGIONS-LED GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: In an August 3 meeting, parliamentary deputy and Party of Regions foreign-policy expert Kozhara was sketchy on the details of how a Regions-led government might modify Ukraine's foreign policy approaches. He affirmed that Regions would work to pass WTO-related legislation, but al [...]	2006-08-04 14:28:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ETRD WTO NATO OREP PINR RS UP
06KIEV3128	UKRAINE: ENERGY MINISTERS ON NEW GOVERNMENT'S [...] (C) Summary. In August 10 meetings with Ambassador, Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Kluyev and Minister of Fuels and Energy Yuriy Boyko made clear that the new GOU was determined to reach a good outcome in dealings with Russia and Turkmenistan on natural gas supplies. Boyko was confident that [...]	2006-08-11 13:27:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG PREL PGOV PBIO RS TX UP
06KIEV3129	UKRAINE: FIRST DEPUTY PM AZAROV COMMITTED TO WTO [...] (C) Summary: First Deputy PM and Finance Minister Azarov told the Ambassador that by the end of 2006, Ukraine would join the WTO. He pledged that the government would have a careful and well-balanced policy in place to deal with Ukraine's large negative trade balance. On the energy situati [...]	2006-08-11 13:45:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ECON EFIN MCC UP
06KIEV3130	UKRAINE: PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE? "ORANGE" MINISTERS [...] (C) Summary. Interior Minister Yuri Lutsenko, who repeatedly vowed publicly in July that he would never serve under Viktor Yanukovych, revealed his continuing ambivalence in an August 11 press conference to explain why he had remained Interior Minister in Yanukovych's government, stating that [...]	2006-08-11 14:41:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM UP
06KIEV3185	UKRAINE: POSSIBLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO UNIFIL FACE [...] (C) Summary. The Government of Ukraine (GOU) is actively considering what contribution Ukraine might offer to the expanded UNIFIL mission and has conducted consultations in New York with UN Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations Annabi but faces an August 17 deadline from UN [...]	2006-08-16 14:23:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL LE UP
06KIEV3256	(C) UKRAINE: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON U.S. CONCERNS [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-21 14:03:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNHRC UP
06KIEV333	UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO DISCUSSES ENERGY, RUSSIA, [...] (C) Summary: In a January 23 meeting with EUR Assistant Secretary Fried, EB Assistant Secretary Wayne, Assistant SIPDIS Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy Flory, SIPDIS NSC Director Wilson, and Ambassador, President Yushchenko Yushchenko said energy issues were at the [...]	2006-01-25 15:07:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG EPET ETRD MARR MCAP RS UP
06KIEV3332	UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO'S INDEPENDENCE DAY SPEECH [...] (C) Summary. During subdued Independence Day celebrations August 24, President Yushchenko stressed that the western-focussed policies adopted after the Orange Revolution (i.e., pursuing EU and NATO membership) would be continued by Ukraine's new government led by Viktor Yanukovych that he des [...]	2006-08-29 10:58:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM PHUM MARR UP
06KIEV335	UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH DISCUSSES GAS DEAL, RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: In a January 24 meeting with opposition Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych and Rada Deputy Taras Chornovil, EUR A/S Fried told Yanukovych the U.S. supported Ukraine and would work with whatever democratically-elected government the people of Ukraine chose. The U.S. would [...]	2006-01-26 08:12:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM ETRD ENRG EPET UP WTO
06KIEV336	UKRAINE: BILATERAL COORDINATION GROUP TALKS: NATO, [...] (C) Summary: In Bilateral Coordination Group talks January 24, ASD/ISP Flory and EUR A/S Fried noted U.S. support for Ukraine's NATO aspirations, but emphasized the importance of Ukraine demonstrating that it shared the political, economic, and social values required to meet the performance-b [...]	2006-01-26 08:12:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PINR YI IZ MD BO UP OSCE NATO
06KIEV337	UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE'S BEZSMERTNY ON WHY THE [...] (C) Summary: In a January 19 meeting with Ambassador, Roman Bezsmertny, campaign chief for President Yushchenko's party People's Union Our Ukraine, spun the January 4 Ukraine-Russia gas agreement as an advantageous deal for Ukraine. On a macro level, the higher prices would force necessary r [...]	2006-01-26 08:14:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL PGOV RS UP
06KIEV3370	UKRAINE: MTCR PROPOSALS WITH SUPPLEMENTAL [...] (C-Rel to MTCR) On August 31, we provided MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Counselor Serhiy Kucherenko with the texts contained reftels of U.S. proposals for the October 2-6 MTCR Plenary Meeting in Copenhagen. Kucherenko thanked us for the information but had no substantive [...]	2006-08-31 14:26:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	MTCRE ETTC PARM MNUC KSCA TSPA FR UP
06KIEV3371	UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR A/S FRIED'S SEPT 6-7 [...] (C) Summary: Your visit comes at a critical moment in Ukraine's post-Orange Revolution political development. While the primary gains of the Orange Revolution in societal attitudes, freedom of the press, and foreign and security policy remain, the orange-dominated political season is definiti [...]	2006-08-31 15:01:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM ETRD ENRG UP
06KIEV340	Ukraine: Bilateral Coordination Group Talks: [...] (U) In Bilateral Coordination Group talks January 24 (see septels for other issues discussed),the U.S. side pointed out that progress in combating trafficking in persons (TIP) was important not only because it protected Ukrainian citizens, but also because Ukraine was currently on the Tier Tw [...]	2006-01-26 09:59:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KCRM SMIG KFRD PREF ELAB KWMN UP
06KIEV341	UKRAINE: BILATERAL COORDINATION GROUP TALKS: [...] (SBU) During Bilateral Coordination Group talks January 24, the U.S. side raised the year-long inability of the Embassy to dispatch diplomatic pouches by air given a Ukrainian law requiring x-ray inspection. 2. (SBU) As Acting Chair for the U.S. side, EB A/S Tony Wayne noted that the Ukrain [...]	2006-01-26 10:26:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMGT ADPM ADCO PREL KREC ASEC KRIM UP
06KIEV3425	UKRAINE: ORANGE VS BLUE CASE STUDY: THE STRUGGLE [...] (C) Summary. The political struggle between Orange and Blue to define policy and make decisions in a government of uneasy cohabitation will unfold in the coming weeks and months on an issue by issue basis, particularly in areas and ministries currently controlled by "Orange" Ministers loyal t [...]	2006-09-06 12:49:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM UP
06KIEV346	UKRAINE: GOU TELLS A/S WAYNE OF CONTINUED IPR [...] (U) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs E. Anthony Wayne met on January 24 with Acting Minister of Education and Science Borys Zhebrovskiy and other GOU officials involved in intellectual property (IPR) rights protection. A/S Wayne told the officials that, [...]	2006-01-26 13:22:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON KIPR ETRD UP
06KIEV3463	UKRAINE: A/S FRIED AND PM YANUKOVYCH DISCUSS NATO, [...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary Fried highlighted USG willingness to work with PM Yanukovych's government and our belief that Ukraine needed to move at a speed it sets towards NATO membership. Fried also stressed the importance of Ukraine developing as an open, democratic, prosperous societ [...]	2006-09-08 15:37:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ENRG PGOV NATO UP
06KIEV3464	UKRAINE: EUR A/S FRIED VISIT: THE FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary: While acknowledging PM Yanukovych's inevitable influence in shaping Ukrainian foreign policy, FM Tarasyuk asserted to EUR A/S Fried during their September 6 dinner that President Yushchenko could still maintain his primacy on foreign policy, as established in the Constitution, b [...]	2006-09-08 15:57:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS MD GG PL UP
06KIEV3489	UKRAINE: PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO FOCUSED ON A NATO [...] (C) Summary: President Yushchenko told the Ambassador that NATO membership was an internal question for the country, but that he was working with PM Yanukovych to make a good case for a MAP during his September 14 visit to Brussels. On energy, if Ukraine could liberalize and diversify the s [...]	2006-09-11 14:36:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ECON ENRG UP
06KIEV3532	UKRAINE: MFA OFFICIAL WORRIES THAT KOSOVO [...] (C) Polcouns updated MFA Acting Director General for Political Affairs Olexander Tsvietkov September 12 on the situation with respect to Kosovo, drawing on information from ref b. Knowing that the situation in Kosovo was to be discussed, Tsvietkov presented us with a non-paper, text in para 4 [...]	2006-09-14 14:39:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS KDEM UNMIK PGOV UN YI MD UP
06KIEV3552	UKRAINE: A/S FRIED'S DISCUSSIONS OF ECONOMIC [...] (C) Summary: Speaker of Parliament Moroz told A/S Fried the parliament (Rada) had begun work on remaining WTO legislation, but notably made no predictions about when it would pass. Opposition leader Tymoshenko, on the other hand, expected Yanukovych's government to significantly slow down th [...]	2006-09-18 12:45:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ENRG EPET UP
06KIEV3553	UKRAINE: EUR A/S FRIED'S NATO-RELATED DISCUSSIONS [...] (C) Summary. Ukraine-NATO relations was a primary theme in EUR Assistant Secretary Fried's meetings September 6-7 with FM Borys Tarasyuk, Defense Minister Anatoliy Hrytsenko, and PM Viktor Yanukovych. Holdover "orange" Ministers Tarasyuk and Hrytsenko have been the two staunchest advocates [...]	2006-09-18 12:46:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM UP
06KIEV3569	UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH ADVANCES RELATIONS WITH EU [...] (C) Summary: While media attention had focused on PM Yanukovych's comments regarding a NATO Membership Action Plan during his September 14 visit to Brussels, MFA European Union Department acting director Dir argued that Yanukovych had made significant statements and substantial progress on EU [...]	2006-09-18 14:58:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECIN ETRD EPET EUN UP
06KIEV3570	UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO MIFFED ON MAP? KIEV'S REACTION [...] (SBU) Summary. Despite the positive dynamics of PM Yanukovych's September 14 visit to NATO HQ (ref A),Yanukovych's declaration that Ukraine was not ready for a Membership Action Plan (MAP) drew swift public complaints from FM Tarasyuk and Defense Minister Hrytsenko September 15, followed by [...]	2006-09-18 15:04:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM UP
06KIEV363	UKRAINE: PSI SHIPBOARDING NEGOTIATIONS - U.S. [...] (SBU) We provided the U.S. response to Ukrainian views on the draft text of the PSI Shipboarding Agreement, with accompanying Ukrainian language translation, to MFA Arms Control Department Counselor Ruslan Nymchynsky January 27. Nymchynsky promised to study our views, provided in the form of n [...]	2006-01-27 14:47:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP MNUC PARM PREL UP
06KIEV365	UKRAINE/TRANSNISTRIA: MFA DEFENDS DELAY IN CUSTOMS [...] (C) Summary: Briefing EU/G7 representatives January 27, Deputy Foreign Minister Veselovsky claimed the Ukrainian government had delayed implementation of the May 15, 2003, customs protocol with Moldova because the GOM's implementation of simplified registration procedures for Transnistrian bu [...]	2006-01-27 15:19:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PARM PINR MD UP OSCE
06KIEV367	UKRAINE: WHO ARE THE PEACEMAKERS? BUILDING [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: The public political posturing about potential post-election coalitions kicked off in earnest January 24 with President Yushchenko's party Our Ukraine releasing a letter calling for the forces of the Maidan -- Our Ukraine, Tymoshenko's bloc (BYuT),Moroz' Socialists [...]	2006-01-27 17:03:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM UP
06KIEV3674	UKRAINE: NEW PRESIDENTIAL CHIEF OF STAFF READY TO [...] (C) Summary: Newly-appointed head of the Presidential Administration Viktor Baloha told the Ambassador September 19 that he was ready to engage with the U.S. to ensure that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Threshold Anti-Corruption Project was a success and was eager to get started [...]	2006-09-22 14:12:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UP
06KIEV368	UKRAINE: BILATERAL COORDINATION GROUP TALKS: [...] (SBU) Summary: In the final session of the January 24 Bilateral Coordination Group talks, the Ukrainian side reviewed GOU judicial reform and anti-corruption efforts and pledged to respond soon to OPIC's urgent request for resolution of the issues stemming from OPIC's payment of a $17-million [...]	2006-01-28 08:08:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV PREL KCRM UP
06KIEV3710	UKRAINE: OFFICIALS DENY THAT KOLCHUGAS SOLD TO IRAN [...] (U) The Jane's Defense Weekly, dated September 27, 2006, carried a story, strangely datelined Bangkok, reporting that Ukraine had recently delivered or was imminently preparing to deliver an unknown number of Kolchuga systems to Iran for an estimated price of USD25 million per system. As accur [...]	2006-09-26 14:32:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL ETTC PINR IR UP
06KIEV374	UKRAINE: BILATERAL COORDINATION GROUP TALKS: TRADE [...] (SBU) Summary: In Bilateral Coordination Group (BCG) talks January 24, EB A/S E. Anthony Wayne said restoration of Ukraine's access to the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) was due to the GOU's good work on amending the optical disc law and implementing the new legislation. GOU official [...]	2006-01-30 09:38:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON KIPR PREL UP
06KIEV3750	UKRAINE: GOU SAYS NO EVIDENCE OF KOLCHUGA SALES TO [...] (C) We followed up September 28 with MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Director General Volodymyr Belashov regarding the Jane's Defense Weekly report that Ukraine had recently delivered or was imminently preparing to deliver an unknown number of Kolchuga systems to [...]	2006-09-28 13:28:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL ETTC PINR IR UP
06KIEV3751	UKRAINE: POTENTIAL SALE OF CIVIL AIRCRAFT TO [...] (C) On September 28, we met with MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Director General Volodymyr Belashov and Counselors Igor Kyzym and Oles Belakoles at Belashov's request. Belashov thanked us for the briefing on USG policy on arms transfers to Venezuela (ref A). H [...]	2006-09-28 13:31:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MARR MASS ETTC VE UP
06KIEV3755	UKRAINE: ENGAGING THE NEW UKRAINIAN REALITY AFTER [...] (SBU) Note: In preparation for senior-level consideration of our Ukraine policy, this cable assesses the political and economic developments under the new government. 2. (C) Summary. 50 days after Viktor Yanukovych returned to the premiership he vacated in December 2004 in the wake of the [...]	2006-09-28 14:18:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM ETRD KDEM UP
06KIEV3758	UKRAINE: RADA ROLLS BACK UTILITY PRICES, BUT WILL IT [...] (SBU) Summary. The Verkhovna Rada (parliament) on September 22 overrode an April presidential veto to pass a law rolling back residential natural gas and electricity prices to January 1, 2006 levels and putting a moratorium on future increases. The law, if it comes into effect, would cancel [...]	2006-09-29 13:30:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG PGOV PREL RS TX UP
06KIEV380	UKRAINE: PRIME MINISTER YEKHANUROV WARNS RUSSIANS [...] (S) Summary: Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov told Ambassador on January 28 that Russia was threatening to cut off shipments of Turkmen gas to Ukraine as early as February 1 because of the GOU's delay in implementing the January 4 agreement between Russia's GazProm and Ukraine's Naft [...]	2006-01-30 14:39:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	EPET ENRG PGOV PREL RS UP
06KIEV382	UKRAINE: FM TARASYUK WARNS KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk said, during a January 30 meeting with visiting Project for Transitional Democracies Head Bruce Jackson and Ambassador, that the Ukrainian government did not favor Kosovo independence. Such an outcome would destabilize the political situation in S [...]	2006-01-30 15:08:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS KDEM PINR YI UP UNMIK OSCE
06KIEV384	UKRAINE: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2006 [...] Below is text requested reftel of the 2006 Investment Climate Statement for Ukraine. Begin Text: Investment Climate Statement 2006 -- Ukraine A.1. Openness to Foreign Investment GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS FOREIGN INVESTMENT When President Yushchenko took office in January 2005, he [...]	2006-01-30 15:11:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV UP
06KIEV386	UKRAINE: Gas Pipeline Technical Capabilities [...] (SBU) Summary. Post met with Ukrainian technical experts at Naftohaz and UkrTransGaz following the January 1-3 gas shut-off to learn operational aspects of the gas crisis. Interlocutors provided background on the gas system's capabilities and parameters, and in detail described on which lines [...]	2006-01-30 15:12:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG RS UP
06KIEV3862	UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH -- DEFENDER OF THE [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych stressed with EUR DAS Kramer and Ambassador October 4 that constitutional reform had created a new governing framework in which Parliament (Rada) established government policy, and President Yushchenko together with Yanukovych and the cabinet of mi [...]	2006-10-05 07:10:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP

06KIEV3865	UKRAINE: SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST PROPORTIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary. The Commercial Chamber of Ukraine's Supreme Court ruled on October 3 in favor of a lower court's finding that mobile phone operator KyivStar's shareholders are entitled to equal representation on the company's Board of Directors, regardless of how many company shares each share [...]	2006-10-05 10:37:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECPS EINV RS UP
06KIEV3866	UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE MOVES INTO OPPOSITION - OR NOT [...] (C) Summary: After months of negotiations over whether or not to enter the governing coalition, President Yushchenko's Our Ukraine coalition announced October 4 that it would not join the coalition, but would formally join the opposition in parliament. OU's Roman Bezsmertniy told the press [...]	2006-10-05 12:04:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP
06KIEV3884	UKRAINE OPPOSES POSSIBLE NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TEST [...] (C) On October 5, Ambassador passed reftel points on the USG position regarding a possible North Korean nuclear test to Presidential Deputy Chief of Staff for Foreign Policy Oleksandr Chaliy. Ambassador praised the October 4 MFA statement (see para 2) regarding a possible North Korean nuclear [...]	2006-10-06 11:03:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP KN UP
06KIEV3906	UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH ECONOMIC POLICY RECORD MIXED [...] (C) Summary: After eight weeks in power, the Yanukovych government's record on economic policy in a number of areas has not been as bad as some expected, nor as good as others hoped. The conventional wisdom among the foreign business community has swung from "let's give them a chance" to "dej [...]	2006-10-10 16:16:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EFIN EINV POL PREL UP
06KIEV3919	UKRAINE: OVERHAULING THE PRESIDENT'S MEN - [...] (C) Summary. With the appointment of Industrial Union of the Donbas (IUD) executive Vitaly Haiduk as National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary October 10, the overhaul of President Yushchenko's team which started September 16 with the appointment of Viktor Baloha as Presidential [...]	2006-10-11 15:50:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV UP
06KIEV3923	UKRAINE: WHAT IF FOREIGN MINISTER TARASYUK GOES? [...] (C) Summary: With rumors rife that Foreign Minister Tarasyuk will leave the Cabinet -- either by resigning with his Our Ukraine colleagues or being voted out of his job by the Rada, pundits tout current Presidential Secretariat Deputy Chief of Staff for foreign policy Oleksandr Chaliy as the l [...]	2006-10-12 14:17:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR NATO PINR UP
06KIEV3933	UKRAINE: Rada Reviews Natural Gas Sector; Allows Price Rise [...] (SBU) Summary. The Verkhovna Rada (parliament) reviewed on October 4 the preliminary results of its investigatory commission on NaftoHaz and the natural gas sector. The commission reported multiple instances of mismanagement, malfeasance, and possible criminal acts within state-owned oil and [...]	2006-10-13 11:45:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG PGOV SOCI RS UP
06KIEV3936	UKRAINE: ORANGE MINISTERS FATE UNDECIDED [...] (SBU) Summary: Rumors continue to swirl in Kiev as to the fate of the "orange" ministers in the Ukrainian Government. On October 11, an aide to Our Ukraine's Roman Bezsmertniy told us that all "orange" ministers in the Cabinet had submitted letters of resignation, later confirmed publicly by [...]	2006-10-13 14:53:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
06KIEV398	Ukraine: Prosecutors Weak Link in Combating TIP [...] Summary. In trafficking in persons (TIP) criminal cases, prosecutors are the weak link in the law enforcement chain due to the negative stereotypes many prosecutors hold of TIP victims, a lack of aggressive prosecution for fear of losing a case, and the difficulty in obtaining evidence in tim [...]	2006-01-31 15:33:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KCRM SMIG KFRD PREF ELAB KWMN UP
06KIEV400	UKRAINE: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER SEES POSSIBILITIES [...] (C) Summary: During a January 31 conversation with visiting Project for Transitional Democracies President Bruce Jackson and PolOff, Presidential Security Policy Adviser and National Security Institute Chairman Volodymyr Horbulin said the electoral list of ex-PM Yanukovych's Party of Regions, [...]	2006-01-31 16:38:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM UP
06KIEV404	UKRAINE ADOPTIONS: YUSHCHENKO SIGNS LAW ON [...] (U) SUMMARY: On Tuesday January 31, President Yushchenko signed the law giving interim adoption authority to the National Adoption Center (NAC),clearing the way for prospective adoptive parents to process their adoptions to conclusion. The NAC has a plan in place to prioritize appointments [...]	2006-02-01 09:52:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC CVIS KOCI PREL PGOV UP
06KIEV406	UKRAINE: INL-Funded TIP Training Seminar [...] Summary: On January 23-25, Embassy Kiev and the Prosecutors' Academy of Ukraine co-sponsored a first ever training seminar on trafficking in persons (TIP) that brought more than 70 members of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office (PGO),both prosecutors and investigators, as well as local [...]	2006-02-01 11:38:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KCRM SMIG KFRD PREF ELAB KWMN UP
06KIEV408	UKRAINE: SHIFTING SANDS AND POST-ELECTION [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Conversations with Media watchdog-turned-PORA politician Serhiy Taran, website editor-turned-Tymoshenko Bloc PR director Oleh Medvedev, and independent-minded Regions MP Volodymyr Makeyenko January 25-27 provided three views on the shifting ground in Ukrainian politic [...]	2006-02-01 12:20:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM UP
06KIEV558	UKRAINE: MAJOR REFUGEE NGO ON CHECHENS, UZBEKS [...] (C) Two senior interlocutors from a major refugee-assistance NGO, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS),told us February 1 that Ukrainian authorities were continuing to refoul Chechen asylum seekers in violation of international law. Our HIAS contacts warned of a surge in the number of Uzb [...]	2006-02-10 14:40:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	NOTAG UP
06KIEV738	UKRAINE: TALES OF SEVASTOPOL, A HERO CITY [...] (C) Summary: The presence of the Russian Black Sea Fleet pervades the historic Crimean city of Sevastopol, which is one of two municipalities in Ukraine directly administered by the central government. Relations between President Yushchenko-appointed city administrator Serhiy Ivanov and the [...]	2006-02-23 13:23:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RS UP
06KIEV743	UKRAINE: MFA DEFENDS DEPORTATION OF UZBEKS, LABELS [...] (S) In a written response to our February 17 non-paper about Ukraine's refoulement of a group of Uzbek asylum seekers (refs A and B),MFA asserted that the Uzbeks had been deported in accordance with domestic and international law, dismissed the Uzbeks' asylum claims as "manifestly unfounded," [...]	2006-02-23 17:05:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI PREF PREL PTER UP UZ
06KIEV781	UKRAINE: EX-PM TYMOSHENKO ON DOMESTIC POLITICS, [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met ex-PM Yuliya Tymoshenko February 26 to deliver concerns about her comments on a contract by U.S. company Holtec to build a nuclear waste storage facility in Ukraine (septel). The conversation turned to domestic politics and the natural gas supply/transit deal with [...]	2006-02-27 15:55:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG RS UP
06KYIV3998	UKRAINE'S NATURAL GAS STORAGE: TANKS ARE FULL BUT WHO OWNS [...] (SBU) Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko announced on October 11 that Ukraine had pumped 25.5 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas into its underground storage facilities. The amount, according to Boyko, was sufficient to both guarantee steady gas transit to Europe and meet increased domestic d [...]	2006-10-18 09:20:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG PREL RS TX UP
06KYIV4021	UKRAINE: WHO WERE THE FATHERLAND'S DEFENDERS? THE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Orthodox feast day of Pokrova (October 14),marked for centuries to honor defenders of the fatherland, occasioned three dueling marches in downtown Kyiv between elderly veterans of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and nationalist supporters on the one hand and Communists [...]	2006-10-18 10:23:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM ASEC UP
06KYIV4028	UKRAINE: LIKELY GOU ABSTENTION ON UNGA VOTE ON [...] (U) On October 16 we delivered reftel demarche regarding the upcoming UNGA vote on the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to Andriy Beshta of the MFA UN Directorate. Neither Australia nor New Zealand have an embassy in Kyiv. 2. (C) While making our points, poloff noted that th [...]	2006-10-18 12:42:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KTIA UN UP
06KYIV4062	UKRAINE: GUAM STATEMENT CRITICIZES RUSSIAN ACTIONS [...] (U) The Organization for Democracy and Economic Development - GUAM issued a statement dated October 16 on Russia-Georgia tension on the margins of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Council of Foreign Ministers in Minsk. The press reported that Ukrainian delegation head First Deputy [...]	2006-10-20 16:25:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	PREL KDEM YI RS AZ GG MD UP
06KYIV4063	UKRAINE: PREPARATIONS ON TRACK FOR EU SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: With just a week to go, the EU and Ukraine are still working to finalize a key document to be initialed at the October 27 Ukraine-EU summit in Helsinki -- a visa facilitation agreement and an associated readmission agreement. Ukrainians are insisting that the provisions of the r [...]	2006-10-20 16:39:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECIN ETRD CVIS EUN UP
06KYIV4089	UKRAINE GETS $130 NATURAL GAS FOR 2007 WITH [...] (SBU) Summary. Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych confidently announced October 24 that he had just received word from Moscow that Ukraine in 2007 would receive 55 billion cubic meters of imported natural gas at a price no greater than $130 per thousand cubic meters. All that remained, he said [...]	2006-10-25 15:14:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG PGOV PREL RS TX UP
06KYIV4106	UKRAINE WILL PROBABLY ABSTAIN ON UPCOMING [...] (U) On October 26, 2006, we delivered points in reftels to Andriy Beshta of the MFA UN directorate. 2. (C) Mr. Beshta said Ukraine would "not support" the UNGA resolutions on the situation of human rights and children in Lebanon described in reftel A. 3. (C) Mr. Beshta also stated that U [...]	2006-10-26 15:40:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	UNGA LE IS PHUM PREL PTER UP
06KYIV4132	UKRAINE: MINISTER DZHARTY ON VANCO PSA NEGOTIATIONS [...] (SBU) Ambassador called on Environment Minister Vasyl Dzharty October 26 to advocate for foreign investment in Ukraine's off-shore and to request an update on the GOU's Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) talks with U.S. company Vanco. Dzharty stated he favored foreign investment for developin [...]	2006-10-27 15:26:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG UP
06KYIV4138	UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE HAMPERED BY DISORGANIZATION [...] (C) Summary: President Yushchenko has begun to respond to attempts by the Yanukovych/Regions team to tip the balance of power in its favor. He has brought in a more professional senior team to the Presidential Secretariat and taken steps to counter policies he does not support. However, the [...]	2006-10-30 15:49:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
06KYIV4149	UKRAINE IN AGREEMENT ON UNSCR 1718 OBLIGATIONS ON DPRK CONVENTIONAL ARMS [...] (C) On October 31, PolCouns delivered the points in reftel A and a copy of the letter in reftel B to Vasyl Pokotylo, Head of Division, MFA Arms Control Department. (Note: As requested, we also forwarded a copy of the letter ref B through official channels addressed to Deputy Foreign Minister [...]	2006-10-31 16:48:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PREL PHSA EWWT EAIR PBTS UP PARM
06KYIV4154	UKRAINE: AIRLINE TICKET PAYMENT SYSTEM UNDER THREAT FROM [...] (SBU) Summary. The Kyiv representative office of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) informed member airlines on October 24 that Ukrainian government agencies were trying to prevent IATA from implementing its billing and settlement plan (BSP) -- the industry-standard clearing [...]	2006-11-01 11:30:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR EFIN BEXP KCOR UP
06KYIV4156	UKRAINE REMAINS DOUBTFUL THAT KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) Ambassador and FM Tarasyuk discussed Transnistria and Kosovo, among other issues, October 31 (septel to follow). Tarasyuk, hewing to the line he has maintained since December 2005 (ref B),said the U.S. line on Kosovo independence not being a precedent for frozen conflicts such as Transnist [...]	2006-11-01 17:28:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SR UP
06KYIV4175	UKRAINE: TARASYUK ON COORDINATING FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary. A tired FM Borys Tarasyuk saw Ambassador late October 31 after returning from Estonia and Finland. He diagrammed the current players in Ukrainian foreign policy formulation, stating that his role as the fulcrum was to prevent encroachment by PM Yanukovych's team onto Presidenti [...]	2006-11-03 14:32:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM UP
06KYIV4183	UKRAINE MAKES PROGRESS ON WTO LEGISLATION [...] Summary: Ukraine's Parliament adopted on November 2 two laws identified as required for WTO accession. Parliament made further progress on legislation November 2-3, passing another eight WTO-related laws in the first reading, with significantly large majorities. Parliamentary "hearings" on [...]	2006-11-03 17:00:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP
06KYIV4187	UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH ON COOPERATION OR [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met with a confident PM Viktor Yanukovych Nov. 2 to discuss Yanukovych's planned trip to Washington in December and the current domestic political situation. Yanukovych centered the conversation around two options going forward vis-a-vis President Yushchenko - cooper [...]	2006-11-03 17:26:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
06KYIV4196	UKRAINE: POTENTIAL SALE OF CIVILIAN AIRCRAFT TO [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 4. 2. (C) We provided ref A talking points November 6 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselor Igor Kyzym, who said the information was timely since he would be able to relay the USG position to the interagency Pres [...]	2006-11-06 16:27:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC EAIR ETRD PARM MARR MASS VE UP
06KYIV4216	UKRAINE'S WTO NEGOTIATOR REQUESTS CONSULTATIONS IN [...] (U) This message contains a request for guidance. Please see para 3. 2. (SBU) Econ Counselor met on November 7 with Valeriy Pyatnytskiy, Deputy Minister of Economy and Ukraine's lead WTO negotiator. Pyatnytskiy briefed on recent progress with outstanding WTO-related legislation (ref B) and [...]	2006-11-08 10:00:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD WTRO UP
06KYIV4229	UKRAINE: GO SLOW APPROACH POSSIBLY COMPLICATING [...] (C) Summary. Ukraine is increasingly willing to use the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development - GUAM as a policy coordination vehicle, covering everything from joint declarations by GUAM members on regional issues to economic, military and scientific cooperation. However, Ukrain [...]	2006-11-09 14:54:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM MARR RS AZ GG MD UP
06KYIV4232	UKRAINE: AMBASSADOR URGES RAPID WTO ACCESSION [...] (C) Ambassador delivered ref A points urging rapid WTO accession to Mykola Azarov, First Deputy Prime Minister, in the context of a broad ranging meeting on November 3. Ambassador emphasized that Washington would be watching the status of Ukraine's accession very closely and would consider it [...]	2006-11-09 15:22:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PREL WTRO UP
06KYIV4237	UKRAINE'S WTO ACCESSION: 11/9 UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: The key outstanding tasks for Ukraine to accede to the WTO remain concluding its two remaining bilateral Market Access Agreements, passing WTO-related legislation, and reaching agreement in multilateral negotiations on agricultural support levels. The GOU has made no substantia [...]	2006-11-13 05:30:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP
06KYIV4251	UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH LAYS MARKERS FOR COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary. During a long Sunday afternoon lunch with Ambassador November 12, Prime Minister Yanukovych said that while President Yushchenko held up general, vague concepts like the guarantee of Ukrainian independence as the benchmark for cooperation with the Yanukovych government, the Prime [...]	2006-11-13 15:21:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	PGOV PREL UP
06KYIV4285	UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO, YANUKOVYCH MAKE ONE MORE TRY [...] (C) Summary. The Rada's November 15 decision not to vote for now on dismissing Foreign Affairs Minister Tarasyuk and Defense Minister Hrytsenko following an 8-hour marathon meeting between President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yanukovych November 13 suggests the two sides are still making a [...]	2006-11-15 16:04:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
06KYIV4290	UKRAINE: THE LONG ROAD TO REFORMING CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Constitutional reform bill 4180 (now known by its Ministry of Justice number 2222) shifting powers from the President to the Prime Minister-led Cabinet of Ministers and Rada majority was adopted December 8, 2004 as part of the package to solve the political crisis ensuing from t [...]	2006-11-17 07:23:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
06KYIV4295	UKRAINE: EMBATTLED FM SUPPORTS ENGAGEMENT WITH [...] (C) Summary: "Orange" and embattled Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk told visiting EUR A/S Fried that the U.S. approach to PM Yanukovych and the Party of Regions coalition was correct, arguing that Yanukovych had changed for the better. He noted that the PM's upcoming U.S. visit, and his des [...]	2006-11-17 12:58:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP
06KYIV4298	UKRAINE: DEFMIN HRYTSENKO ON YUSHCHENKO, [...] (C) Summary. Defense Minister Hrytsenko told visiting EUR A/S Fried and Ambassador November 16 that President Yushchenko's remote style interfered with his effectiveness, that PM Yanukovych was the most reasonable of the Regions' team in office and that the U.S. was right to seek to work with [...]	2006-11-17 15:39:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM UP
06KYIV4299	UKRAINE: PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO FOCUSED ON KEEPING [...] (C) Summary: In a 40-minute meeting November 17, President Yushchenko told visiting EUR A/S Fried that he was optimistic about making cohabitation work and his ability to move his relationship with PM Yushchenko and his team from coexistence to cooperation. He expressed concern about several [...]	2006-11-17 15:40:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UP
06KYIV4301	UKRAINE: HIGH-PROFILE RUSSIANS BANNED ENTRY INTO [...] (SBU) Chief of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) Ihor Drizhchany told journalists November 6 that the SBU had blacklisted 131 foreigners thus far in 2006 for "activities damaging national security interests." When we inquired, an SBU official advised that the SBU does not release names of [...]	2006-11-17 15:57:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PINR RS UP
06KYIV4302	UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH TELLS A/S FRIED: UKRAINE'S [...] (C) Summary. PM Yanukovych told visiting EUR A/S Fried and Ambassador November 16 that he was determined to bring Ukraine to Europe, meaning the WTO soon, and eventually into the EU and NATO. The latter would take time, both to change currently ambivalent public opinion and also to strengthe [...]	2006-11-17 16:08:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP
06KYIV4304	11/17 WTO UPDATE: UKRAINE MAKES GREAT STRIDES ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Parliament made remarkable progress on outstanding legislation for WTO accession during this week, and has now adopted 12 out of 21 required laws. GOU leaders clearly had given orders to move forward on the legislation, likely in order to help smooth the way for PM Yanukovych's [...]	2006-11-17 16:24:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP
06KYIV4305	UKRAINE: LITHUANIAN MFA U/S PAVILIONIS AND A/S [...] (SBU) Summary: Lithuanian MFA Under Secretary Zygimantas Pavilionis and A/S Fried discussed developments in the region and measures needed to address recent Russian assertiveness. Paviolionis said that the Lithuanian, Polish, and Ukrainian Presidents formed an effective "troika" in working tog [...]	2006-11-17 16:47:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BO UP RS GG TU PL LH
06KYIV4313	UKRAINE: ENGAGING YANUKOVYCH, THE MAN OF THE MOMENT [...] (C) Summary. Love him or hate him, the Ukrainian political elite and intelligentsia agree that Prime Minister Yanukovych is the man to deal with right now. Four months ago Yanukovych was painted variously as a puppet of oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, the Party of Regions, or the Kremlin, but he ha [...]	2006-11-20 15:22:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
06KYIV4315	EXPLAINING UKRAINE'S BURST OF ENERGY ON WTO [...] (C) Summary: Ukraine's recent progress on WTO-related legislation does not mark a shift in GOU policy, but rather demonstrates that fears of the GOU's lack of commitment to prompt WTO accession were overblown. A fortuitous alignment of several political factors may have accelerated the proces [...]	2006-11-20 15:48:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP
06KYIV4362	UKRAINE: "ORANGE" RIFTS DEEPENING TWO YEARS AFTER [...] (C) Summary. On the second anniversary of the Orange Revolution, November 22, a crowd of 500 or so gathered on the Maidan to commemorate the rise of democracy in Ukraine. Few leaders of the Maidan were there to share in the event. Disheartened by the failure to form a new "orange" government [...]	2006-11-22 16:25:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
06KYIV4375	UKRAINE: COALMINE METHANE-1 PROJECT - OPIC RESPONSE [...] Summary. The following information is sent in response to reftel action request for embassy comments and clearance on OPIC financing for a coalbed methane project involving Ukrainian companies EnergoCapital, EnergoImpex, and Gorlovsky. Post was unable to ascertain definitive ownership informa [...]	2006-11-28 12:56:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	EPET ENRG EINV PGOV UP
06KYIV4383	UKRAINE: VOTERS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN [...] (SBU) Summary. The Embassy, representatives from several USG-funded NGO's (NDI, IRI, Freedom House and IOM) and monitors from ENEMO (European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations) observed four repeat mayoral elections this month, all in the central Ukraine heartland which gave plural [...]	2006-11-29 09:56:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL UP
06KYIV4386	TELECOM REGULATOR DENIES 3G LICENSES TO MOBILE OPERATORS; [...] (U) Ukraine's National Communications Regulatory Commission (NCRC) on November 2 denied applications to issue next-generation, 3G licenses to Ukraine's top four mobile phone operators. With the NCRC refusal, state fixed-line monopolist UkrTelecom remains the sole operator in Ukraine with a 3G [...]	2006-11-29 13:01:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECPS PGOV UP
06KYIV4407	UKRAINE/POLAND: PM KACZYNSKI'S VISIT SIGNALS [...] (C) Summary: Both the Ukrainian and Polish sides hailed the November 15 visit of Polish PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski to Kyiv as a solid sign of continuity in Poland's working relationship with the government of Ukrainian PM Yanukovych. During his one-day visit, Kaczynski met with Yanukovych, Preside [...]	2006-11-30 12:53:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ENRG PL UP
06KYIV4413	UKRAINE: INFORMAL POLITICAL DIRECTORS' MEETING - [...] (C) Summary: In what the Ukrainian MFA would like to see morph into a regular informal gathering, political directors from select EU countries and countries of the "Baltic-Black-Caspian seas" region, along with EUR A/S Fried, discussed Ukraine's relationship with the EU and NATO and exchanged [...]	2006-11-30 15:56:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO EUN XH ZB ZK UP
06KYIV4414	UKRAINE: THE HOLODOMOR AND THE POLITICS OF [...] (SBU) Summary. In the aftermath of moving commemorations November 25 of the 73rd anniversary of the holodomor ("Great Famine"),Stalin's man-made famine 1932-33 that led to the death of an estimated 5-10 million Ukrainians in Ukraine and the Russian Kuban region, the Rada passed in a single rea [...]	2006-11-30 16:15:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM UP
06KYIV4415	11/30 UKRAINE WTO UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Ukraine's Parliament continued its progress on outstanding legislation for WTO accession during this week, adopting five additional laws, four of which related to the agricultural sector. Parliament has now adopted 17 out of the 21 required laws. On the eve of PM Yanukovych's [...]	2006-11-30 16:29:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP
06KYIV4425	UKRAINE/RUSSIA: DEFENDING NATIONAL INTERESTS [...] (C) Summary/comment: PM Yanukovych came to office on a campaign promise to improve relations with Russia, but, although he has toned down the rhetoric towards Russia, like his predecessors, he must find the right balance between close ties to Moscow and protecting Ukrainian sovereignty. While [...]	2006-12-01 14:02:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PBTS PINR RS UP
06KYIV4432	UKRAINE: ADDITIONAL MANPADS AND SCUDS INVENTORY: [...] (S) Summary: Deputy Defense Minister Volodymyr Tereshchenko told us November 22 that Ukraine would be willing to provide an additional 1,713 MANPADS, a mix of SA-7s and SA-14s, for destruction in the NATO PfP Trust Fund project. An official notification of this offer was under preparation and [...]	2006-12-01 16:33:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	MARR MOPS PREL PARM NATO PINR US UP
06KYIV4466	EU MAKES BELARUS AN OFFER, AWAITING RESPONSE [...] (C) Summary: EU European Commission official Jean-Eric Holzapfel told us December 4 that the initial Belarusan government reaction was noncommittal to the November 21 delivery of an EU non-paper stating its readiness to assist Belarus if the government implemented democratic reforms. The timi [...]	2006-12-05 14:48:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PHUM EAID EUN BO UP
06KYIV4468	UKRAINE/MTCR: U.S. VIEWS ON CONTROLLING [...] (C) We relayed reftel points on a U.S. proposal to revise the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) approach to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)/cruise missiles December 5 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselors Igor Kyzym and Oleh Belokoles. We stressed [...]	2006-12-05 15:28:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC KSCA UP
06KYIV4469	UKRAINE/NIAG 6167: PAKISTAN HEAVY WATER PURCHASE [...] (S) We relayed inquiries regarding Ukrainian State Enterprise Ecoantilid's potential sale of heavy water to the Karachi Nuclear Power Plant in Pakistan (ref A) and Ukrainian Yuzhnoye company's potential cooperation with Chinese 11 Institute on development of the RD-120 liquid rocket engine (re [...]	2006-12-05 16:12:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KNNP MTCRE CH PK UP
06KYIV4470	UKRAINE: AVIATION TRAINING FOR NORTH KOREA [...] (C) We relayed reftel inquiry for clarification on Ukrainian plans to provide radio electronics training for civil aircraft to two North Koreans during a December 5 meeting with MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselors Igor Kyzym and Oleh Belokoles. Kyzym said [...]	2006-12-05 16:13:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP ETTC EAIR PARM PREL KN UP
06KYIV4478	UKRAINE: STAND BY YOUR MEN: YUSHCHENKO RAISES THE [...] (SBU) Summary. President Yushchenko raised the stakes in the accelerating power struggle between his circle and that of PM Yanukovych December 5 by issuing a decree reinforcing Tarasyuk's status as Foreign Minister, notwithstanding the December 1 vote by the Rada to dismiss Tarasyuk. For its [...]	2006-12-06 15:42:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
06KYIV4484	UKRAINE: NAFTOHAZ PAYS DEBT TO ROSUKRENERGO; STILL OWES [...] (U) On December 4, Ukraine's state oil and gas monopolist NaftoHaz paid off its $306 million debt to RosUkrEnergo (RUE) for 1Q2006 natural gas supplies, according to NaftoHaz Deputy Chairman Aleksandr Kovalko. In a December 7 press interview, Kovalko said NaftoHaz paid the debt with part of a [...]	2006-12-07 13:11:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET EFIN PINR RS TX UP
06KYIV4489	UKRAINE: THE RUSSIA FACTOR IN CRIMEA - UKRAINE'S [...] (C) Summary. Discussions with a wide range of contacts in Crimea November 20-22 and officials in Kyiv discounted recent speculation that a return of pro-Russian separatism in Crimea, which posed a real threat to Ukrainian territorial integrity in 1994-95, could be in the cards. However, nearl [...]	2006-12-07 15:49:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL RU UP
06KYIV4491	UKRAINE: FM TARASYUK'S LEGAL LIMBO [...] (SBU) Summary: Foreign Minister Tarasyuk called in EU and NATO ambassadors and charges December 7 to confirm his position as Minister of Foreign Affairs. He reported that he had filed a suit to block the Rada's move to dismiss him on the basis of three procedural errors. The court would hold [...]	2006-12-07 16:19:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM UP
06KYIV4531	12/8 UKRAINE WTO UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: While Prime Minister Yanukovych and Ukrainian trade negotiators held talks with USTR during a visit to Washington, Dec 4-7 Ukraine's Rada (parliament) passed one more WTO-related law. This brings the total number of laws adopted to 18 out of the proposed 21. One more law remain [...]	2006-12-08 16:33:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP
06KYIV4537	UKRAINE/LITHUANIA: ADAMKUS LOBBIES FOR [...] (C) Summary: Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus' three-day state visit to Ukraine -- his fourth trip here this year -- was intended to demonstrate a willingness to work with the new Yanukovych government, promote bilateral trade and investment ties, and facilitate cooperation in the energy s [...]	2006-12-11 16:05:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NATO UP LH
06KYIV4542	UKRAINE: UPDATE OF CHILD LABOR INFORMATION FOR TDA [...] As requested reftel, below Post provides updated information on child labor in Ukraine, for use in the preparation of the 2006 report Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor. Post has chosen to answer each of the questions posed in reftel as "Indicators" under the five topical headings. [...]	2006-12-13 13:03:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM UP
06KYIV4558	UKRAINE: LAND, POWER, AND CRIMINALITY IN CRIMEA [...] (C) Summary. Land issues dominate the Autonomous Republic of Crimea's local agenda, according to a wide range of Crimean officials, journalists, and community leaders we talked to November 20-22 in the Crimean capitol of Simferopol, the separately administered city of Sevastopol, and Bakhchis [...]	2006-12-14 09:31:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PREL PHUM UP
06KYIV4576	12/15 UKRAINE WTO UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ukrainian Rada (parliament) this week adopted another WTO-related law, on scrap metal and steel, bringing the total number of adopted laws to 19 out of the 21 considered necessary for accession. Local media, however, fueled by some GOU officials, are erroneously reporting th [...]	2006-12-15 12:02:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP
06KYIV4597	UKRAINE: POSSIBLE RESOLUTION OF FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary. Party of Regions MPs forcibly prevented Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk from attending the weekly cabinet meeting December 20, initiating a scuffle at the Cabinet of Ministers' building with several Our Ukraine (OU) MPs who had arrived in support of Tarasyuk. Yushchenko's repre [...]	2006-12-20 15:30:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
06KYIV4600	UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE REGROUPING [...] (C) Summary. The People's Union Our Ukraine (PUOU) party, the dominant party inside the Our Ukraine bloc, is cleaning house in a move to reenergize itself, bring the party back under the President's wing, and possibly to regroup for new elections. The biggest shake-ups came in the party leade [...]	2006-12-22 07:01:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
06KYIV4647	UKRAINE/BELARUS: PLANNING A POSSIBLE PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary/comment: According to the MFA, Ukrainian Presidential Secretariat Chief of Staff Baloha's December 14 visit to Minsk was intended to maintain momentum toward a possible meeting between the Ukrainian and Belarusan presidents in the February-March 2007 timeframe. The meeting, if it [...]	2006-12-22 10:57:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MNUC PINR BO UP
06KYIV4648	12/22 UKRAINE WTO UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Ukrainian WTO negotiators held consultations with Working Party members in Geneva on December 18. The GOU is anxious for feedback on its recently passed legislation, although anticipates having to make some additional legislative fixes to ensure WTO conformity. A law on biotec [...]	2006-12-22 11:00:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP
06KYIV4660	UKRAINE: MR. PUTIN COMES TO KYIV [...] (SBU) Summary. Russian President Vladimir Putin made a compressed one-day visit to Kyiv December 22, his first since March 2005 and the second since Ukraine's November-December 2004 Orange Revolution. Putin and Yushchenko met for two-and-a-half hours alone, without notetakers. After the for [...]	2006-12-27 16:01:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RU UP
06KYIV4679	UKRAINE: FIGHT OVER NATO/SINGLE ECONOMIC SPACE [...] (C) Summary. The Central Election Commission (CEC) announced on December 29 that more than four million valid signatures had been collected in support of a proposed nationwide referendum on NATO membership and the Single Economic Space (SES),as a result of aggressive pushing from referendum [...]	2006-12-29 13:12:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
06KYIV4681	UKRAINE: CONFRONTATION AND COMPROMISE--A TALE OF [...] (C) Summary. Two years after the Orange Revolution and Yushchenko's election victory and almost five months into the prime ministership that has marked Yanukovych's triumphant return to the political center stage, the relationship between the two Viktors is rocky and full of mistrust. Althoug [...]	2006-12-29 13:18:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
06LONDON8097	(C) OSCE MINISTERIAL: UK EXPECTS RUSSIAN [...] (C) Charge met November 24 with Stephen Pattison, International Security Director in the FCO, to discuss prospects for taking a unified approach to the Georgia/Moldova conflicts at the December 4-5 OSCE ministerial meetings in Brussels (reftel). Mr. Pattison did not expect the OSCE to reach [...]	2006-11-24 18:21:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR RU UK GG MD UP
06MADRID2624	SPAIN: IN ADVANCE OF OCT. 16 GAERC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff met with MFA European Correspondent Carlos Fernandez-Arias on October 13 to discuss Spain's position in advance of the October 16 GAERC meeting. Fernandez-Arias indicated that Spain was in complete agreement on most topics with the United States, but he singled out Kosovo [...]	2006-10-17 07:22:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV UN EU YI SR BO MK SU CG IS LE IR IZ UP
06MADRID2870	SPAIN SUPPORTS CONTINUED EU, NATO ENGAGEMENT WITH [...] (C) Emboff delivered reftel demarche to Spanish Subdirector General for the EU Carlos Fernandez-Arias on November 2 and to Russia and Eastern Europe Desk Officer Iago Gil Aguado on November 8. Fernandez-Arias told Emboff that Ukraine is the most important non-EU European nation as far as Sp [...]	2006-11-13 14:19:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL MOPS SP UP
06MADRID2872	DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO SPAIN ON CHISINAU-MOSCOW [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-13 14:24:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ELTN RS MD UP SP
06MINSK1215	DELIVERED JCIC-DIP-06-11, 12, AND 13 [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-24 12:06:00	Embassy Minsk	SECRET	KACT PARM UP US START JCIC BO
06MINSK1256	DELIVERED JCIC-DIP-14 [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-07 13:15:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	KACT PARM UP US START JCIC BO
06MOSCOW12231	DEMARCHE ON DISRUPTION OF CHISINAU-MOSCOW RAIL [...] (C) We made reftel demarche November 1 to Ambassador Valeriy Nesterushkin, MFA negotiator for Transnistria. Nesterushkin made two notes of fact. In the first tick, he said the decision to cancel trains no. 47 (Moscow-Chisinau) and 48 (Chisinau-Moscow) was taken by Russian Railroads, not the G [...]	2006-11-02 14:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PBTS MD UP RS
06MOSCOW12528	A/S FRIED CONVERSATION WITH RUSSIAN DFM KARASIN, [...] (C) Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigoriy Karasin focused on Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova in a two hour discussion November 15. Karasin dismissed Georgian conciliatory steps as cosmetic; Fried said they are real and Russia should respond by ending sanct [...]	2006-11-20 13:48:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PBTS ETRD GG MD UP RS
06MOSCOW12666	RUSSIA'S APPROACH TO POST-ORANGE UKRAINE [...] (C) Summary: Russia has reinvigorated its engagement with Ukraine, focusing on practical cooperation. Last month's Fradkov-Yanukovich meeting, which yielded a gas deal, set the stage for the December 23 Putin-Yushchenko Summit. Russian attitudes, however, still seem to lack an appreciation [...]	2006-11-28 16:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP RS
06MOSCOW13074	BLACK SEA FLEET RELOCATION: A PORT TOO FAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nearly ten years after the 1997 bilateral agreement with Ukraine to use Sevastopol as a base for its Black Sea Fleet, Russia is doing little to plan for the Fleet's possible relocation after the agreement expires in 2017. While the Black Sea Fleet will be on the agenda for the [...]	2006-12-22 14:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MCAP RS UP
06MOSCOW2260	TRANSNISTRIA: RUSSIA OPPOSES UKRAINIAN CUSTOMS [...] (C) Russian Special Envoy Valeriy Nesterushkin told us March 6 that the Ukrainian customs implementation threatened the future of peace negotiations between Moldova and Transnistria, including the current 5 2 format in which the U.S. participates as an observer, and its prospective April sess [...]	2006-03-07 15:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS ETRD UP MD RS
06MOSCOW2969	TRANSNISTRIA: RESPONDING TO RUSSIA'S SHIPMENT OF [...] (C) Ambassador made reftel demarche to DFM Karasin March 23. Karasin reiterated that the GOR had serious concerns about developments in Transnistria, but his comments went primarily to political pressures centered in the Duma and in some regions. He acknowledged that current conditions do no [...]	2006-03-23 15:12:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PBTS OSCE UP MD RS
06MOSCOW3202	AMBASSADOR'S MARCH 29 MEETING WITH RUSSIAN DFM [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Burns met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigoriy Karasin March 29 to discuss the outcomes of the Belarusian and Ukrainian elections and recent developments in Moldova, Georgia, and Nagorno-Karabakh. Karasin was sanguine about the March 26 Ukrainian parliamenta [...]	2006-03-29 14:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG ETRD BO UP GG MD RS
06MOSCOW3510	RUSSIAN VIEWS ON POST-ELECTION UKRAINE [...] (C) Summary. A week after the Ukrainian election results were announced, reactions in Russia vary widely. Officially, Moscow has been neutral, while the media has buzzed with speculation about the new government's formation and especially Tymoshenko's possible role. Russian pundits are con [...]	2006-04-04 10:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG RS UP
06MOSCOW4198	TRANSNISTRIA: "THREE PLUS TWO" TALKS IN MOSCOW [...] (C) Summary: "3 2" talks on Transnistria took place in Moscow April 19 including the mediators -- Russia, Ukraine and the OSCE -- and observers -- U.S. and EU. Russia tried to focus discussion on the customs regime between Moldova and Ukraine. All other sides pushed back, hardest of all Ukr [...]	2006-04-20 11:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS ETRD OSCE UP MD RS
06MOSCOW5458	AMBASSADOR'S MAY 23 MEETING WITH DFM KARASIN [...] (C) Ambassador met with DFM Karasin May 23. Karasin was to leave later that day for a Nagorno-Karabakh trip. He hoped to be pleasantly surprised. With regard to U/S Burns' letter on South Ossetia, Karasin stressed positive movement and labeled the rest a matter of interpretation, but argued [...]	2006-05-23 13:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG IR AJ AM GG BO UP RS
06MOSCOW6131	RUSSIAN MFA DEMARCHED ON TRANSNISTRIA MAY PROTOCOLS [...] (C) With Ambassador-at-Large Nesterushkin on vacation until the end of the week, poloff delivered reftel demarche June 7 to Mikhail Yalkin, Moldova Section Chief, MFA Second CIS Department. Yalkin said that there was no change whatsoever in Russian policy or approach to Transnistria. He cha [...]	2006-06-07 12:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PBTS PREL MS RS UP
06MOSCOW9018	RUSSIA AND UKRAINE: TWO CHEERS FOR YANU? [...] (C) Summary: Moscow was pleased that new Ukrainian PM Viktor Yanukovich made his first foreign trip to Russia to meet with President Putin and PM Fradkov in Sochi. Observers here expect that the tone of the relationship will improve, but on substance, few saw Yanukovich as a pushover. On t [...]	2006-08-18 14:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG ETRD UP RS
06MOSCOW930	MOSCOW COMFORTABLE WITH UKRAINIAN DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Moscow continues to tell itself that it got the best of Kiev in the year-end negotiations on gas supply, according to the Russian MFA and a number of Embassy contacts. As they see it, the gas deal was an economic boon for Gazprom and the GOR, despite allegations of corruption a [...]	2006-01-30 13:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG RS UP
06MOSCOW9415	DFM KARASIN ON UPCOMING RUSSIAN DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS [...] (C) Summary: After DFM Karasin briefed Friends of Georgia Chiefs of Mission August 28 (Septel),he met with Ambassador Burns bilaterally. They discussed upcoming travel and visits. Karasin favors an end October-early November date for his own meetings in Washington. Karasin briefed on Russ [...]	2006-08-28 14:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MD UP BO RS
06MOSCOW963	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH RUSSIAN DFM KARASIN, [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Burns met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Karasin January 31 to discuss recent developments on regional issues. They spent most of the meeting discussing Georgia; it was clear that President Saakashvili's accusations concerning the January 22 pipeline explosion [...]	2006-01-31 14:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG UNSC AJ AM GG BO UP IAEA IR RS

06NICOSIA553	POST ASSISTS IN REPATRIATION OF UKRAINIAN [...] (C) On April 13, Ukrainian Ambassador Borys Humeniuk telephoned Ambassador Schlicher about a 23-year old Ukrainian woman, Oxana Nahod, who had been trafficked to the northern part of Cyprus -- where she was reportedly being mistreated and forced to work against her will in a night club. In a [...]	2006-04-14 12:01:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV UP TU CY KCRM KWMN
06NICOSIA558	POST ASSISTS IN REPATRIATION OF UKRAINIAN [...] (C) On April 13, Ukrainian Ambassador Borys Humeniuk telephoned Ambassador Schlicher about a 23-year old Ukrainian woman, Oxana Nahod, who had been trafficked to the northern part of Cyprus -- where she was reportedly being mistreated and forced to work against her will in a night club. In a [...]	2006-04-14 15:17:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV UP TU CY KCRM KWMN
06PARIS7266	DEMARCHE ON DISRUPTION OF CHISINAU-MOSCOW RAIL [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel November 3 to Aurelia Bouchez, MFA DAS-equivalent for Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. Bouchez commented that the suspension of the Chisinau rail link came as a surprise to France, which had expected Russia to avoid provocations on Transnistria in order to d [...]	2006-11-07 14:01:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ELTN RS MD UP FR
06PARIS7340	FRENCH AGREE ON IMPORTANCE OF SUPPORTING REFORM [...] (C) French DAS-equivalent for Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, Aurelia Bouchez, confirmed on November 3 that France would continue strongly to support reform efforts in the Ukraine, particularly in the defense field. Bouchez noted that although France in theory was in favor of a NATO m [...]	2006-11-09 16:54:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL MOPS UP FR
06PARIS7393	COTE D'IVOIRE/FRANCE: INVESTIGATION OF NOVEMBER [...] (C) SUMMARY: France's judicial investigation of the November 6, 2004, bombing of French forces in Cote d'Ivoire by the Ivoirian Air Force may be drawing to a close, according to recent developments reported by the press. Nine French military personnel and an Amcit civilian were killed in t [...]	2006-11-15 15:18:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR MOPS IV TO BO RS UP FR
06PARIS7484	TRANSNISTRIA: GOF AGREES IN SUBSTANCE ON PCE, BUT [...] (C) Summary: Aurelia Bouchez, DAS-equivalent for Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, explained on November 17 that France did not disagree in substance about the need for a multilateral peacekeeping mission in Transnistria, but was doubtful that the Russians would easily be convinced. She [...]	2006-11-21 14:30:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE EUN PREL MD RS UP FR
06PARIS7486	TRANSNISTRIA: GOF AGREES IN SUBSTANCE ON PCE, BUT [...] (C) Summary: Aurelia Bouchez, DAS-equivalent for Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, explained on November 17 that France did not disagree in substance about the need for a multilateral peacekeeping mission in Transnistria, but was doubtful that the Russians would easily be convinced. She [...]	2006-11-21 15:10:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE EUN PREL MD RS UP FR
06PRAGUE112	CZECH OPINION ON RUSSIA-UKRAINE GAS NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) PolOff Feb 2 conveyed reftel points to Tomas Szunyog MFA Director for South Eastern and Eastern Europe. Szunyog responded that the Czechs had been following the issue with concern for some time. Additionally, he knew that concern was growing both in the EU and in NATO. Vladimir Muller, Dep [...]	2006-02-02 14:48:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EZ PREL UP RS
06PRAGUE1387	CZECHS AGREE KOSOVO IS NOT A PRECEDENT FOR OTHER [...] (C) Summary. The Czechs strongly agree Kosovo is not a precedent for frozen conflicts, but are concerned that Russia and some EU member states already view Kosovo (and even Montenegro) that way. For this reason, drafting an UNSC resolution on Kosovo's final status may be tricky: the language c [...]	2006-11-08 13:52:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL AL BH GG MK PBTS RO SR UP EZ
06PRAGUE1388	CZECHS AGREE WITH THE U.S. ABOUT THE [...] (C) Czech MFA Director of Eastern Europe Department Tomas Szunyog told Poloffs on November 3 that the Czechs share U.S. concerns about the disruption to the Chisinau-Moscow rail link. Szunyog said the Czechs have already discussed the issue with Ukrainian officials and within the EU, and will [...]	2006-11-08 13:52:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ELTN RS MD UP EZ
06ROME163	AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO UPDATE ON TURKEY AND THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. ON JANUARY 13, USMISSION UN ROME STAFF MET WITH JOSEPH DOMENECH, FAO CHIEF VETERINARY OFFICER, AND MEMBERS OF HIS STAFF TO DISCUSS THE CURRENT SITUATION IN TURKEY AND NEEDS THERE. ALSO DISCUSSED WAS THE OUTLOOK FOR ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN AND GEORGIA. FOR TURKEY, DOMENECH STATE [...]	2006-01-18 11:05:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO TU UP AM AJ GG FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME3119	TRANSNISTRA: ITALIANS SUPPORT CHANGING [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-20 12:14:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE EUN PREL MD RS UP IT
06ROME324	GOI CLARIFIES SCAJOLA REMARKS ON UKRAINE-RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary. During a February 1 meeting with Econoff, Ministry of Productive Activities (MPA) Diplomatic Advisor Ambassador Gabriele Checchia backed away from MPA Minister Claudia Scajola's statement that Ukraine is "taking" Russian gas meant for Italy, and said Italy will support Ukrainian [...]	2006-02-03 13:52:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON IT UP RU
06ROME428	AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO UPDATE ON NIGERIA [...] From February 8-10, USMISSION UN Rome staff met with Juan Lubroth, FAO Senior Veterinary Officer, to discuss the current situation in Nigeria. 2. In these discussions, Lubroth reported the following: -- Two children are suspected of having contracted the virus. A WHO assessment arrives [...]	2006-02-13 12:17:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO NI UP AM AJ GG FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME430	AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO UPDATE ON NIGERIA [...] From February 8-10, USMISSION UN Rome staff met with Juan Lubroth, FAO Senior Veterinary Officer, to discuss the current situation in Nigeria. 2. In these discussions, Lubroth reported the following: -- Two children are suspected of having contracted the virus. A WHO assessment team ar [...]	2006-02-13 12:18:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO NI UP AM AJ GG FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME435	AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO UPDATE ON ITALY, IRAQ, [...] Based on communications today between USMISSION UN Rome staff and Dr. Juan Lubroth, FAO Senior Veterinary Officer, FAO will conduct a press conference on February 14 at 10:30 a.m. The message that will be relayed will include the following: 2. On the Government of Italy's efforts: -- FAO [...]	2006-02-13 15:42:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO NI IT GR BU UP AM AJ GG FAO WHO IQ AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME464	AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO PRESS CONFERENCE PROVIDES [...] On February 14, FAO held a press conference to provide a global update on Avian Influenza. Areas highlighted were Nigeria, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Europe in general (with a primary focus on Italy),and future preparations for Latin America/Caribbean. Samuel Jutzi, Director of FAO's Animal Product [...]	2006-02-15 16:29:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO NI IT GR BU UP AM AJ GG FAO WHO IQ AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME933	ITALIANS TO DAS BRYZA: RUSSIA NOT READY FOR [...] (C) Summary. On March 17, DAS Bryza met with Deputy Diplomatic Advisor to PM Berlusconi Francesco Talo and MFA Director General Giulio Terzi to discuss Caucasus security issues and Russian Australia Group (AG) membership. Bryza told his interlocutors that the USG believed that Russian member [...]	2006-03-27 12:16:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM NATO IT RU GG UP
06SEOUL2720	SPACE LAUNCH VEHICLE COOPERATION BETWEEN SOUTH [...] On 3 August 2006 poloff delivered reftel demarche on space launch vehicle cooperation between ROK and Ukraine to Youn Jong-Kwon, First Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade's (MOFAT) Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Division. Youn accepted and understood the request but did [...]	2006-08-11 04:52:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM MTCRE PREL ETTC KS UP
06STATE79031	MTAG 05-96: UKRAINIAN FIRM ZAPORIZHZHYA'S [...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Kiev please see paragraph 5. 2. (S) Background: Since 2002, we have discussed with the GOU cooperation between the Ukrainian entity Zaporizhzhya Regional Foreign Economic Association (RFA) and Iran's missile program (Ref A). Most recently, in Febr [...]	2006-05-16 18:55:00	Secretary of State	SECRET	ETTC PARM PREL PGOV MTCRE MNUC UP IR
06TALLINN1001	ESTONIA: REACTION TO CHISINAU-MOSCOW RAIL LINK AND [...] (C) On November 3 Poloff delivered reftel points (Refs A and B) to Toomas Lukk, MFA Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and Dr. Kaupo Kand, MFA Ukraine and Moldova Desk Officer, regarding the decision to close the Chisinau-Moscow rail link and Ukraine's reform efforts. Foreign Mi [...]	2006-11-08 12:24:00	Embassy Tallinn	CONFIDENTIAL	ELTN PREL MOPS NATO RS UP EN
06TALLINN1008	ESTONIA: BRIEFING ON KOSOVO [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-13 12:16:00	Embassy Tallinn	CONFIDENTIAL	AL BH GG MK MACEDONIA PBTS RO SR UP EN
06TALLINN1114	UKRANIAN PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO VISITS ESTONIA [...] (C) Summary. During a visit to Estonia, Ukrainian President Yushchenko emphasized his country's interest in NATO and EU membership, and asked the GOE to send senior officials to Ukraine to explain the benefits of integration. Yushchenko said that a rift between Belarusian President Lukashenk [...]	2006-12-19 13:50:00	Embassy Tallinn	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP BO EN
06TALLINN294	COMMERCE DEPUTY SECRETARY SAMPSON'S AND EUR [...] (C) Noting that Estonia would have to decide this fall on the future of its troop deployment in Iraq, Foreign Minister Urmas Paet asked visiting Deputy Secretary of Commerce David Sampson and Assistant Secretary of State Dan Fried how long the U.S. believes coalition forces will be necessary [...]	2006-03-29 07:48:00	Embassy Tallinn	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD CVIS BY UP EN
06TALLINN836	ESTONIA: PRE-GAERC DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (SBU) Summary. Pol/Econ Chief discussed reftel points on Iran and other GAERC agenda items with Kristina Meius, the MFA's European Correspondent, ON September 13. Meius noted there are "no surprises" on the GOE's position on the agenda items. She provided feedback on the following issues: [...]	2006-09-14 11:25:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UN EN YI SR BO IR IZ UP KPAL SU
06THEHAGUE16	NETHERLANDS/RUSSIA-UKRAINE GAS: ALSO COUNSELING [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-05 07:13:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON UP RS NL
06THEHAGUE2362	NETHERLANDS/TRANSNISTRIA: DISRUPTION OF [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche Nov 1 to MFA Deputy Head of Eastern Europe and Central Asia Division Thymen Kouwenaar and Moldova Desk Officer Natascha Soons. Kouwenaar said that the MFA was reviewing a frozen conflicts proposal delivered by us to the Dutch embassy in Washington last week [...]	2006-11-02 15:36:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ELTN RS MD UP NL
06THEHAGUE2363	NETHERLANDS: DUTCH SUPPORT CONTINUED ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Polmiloff discussed reftel points with MFA Senior Policy Advisor Marieke Monroy-Winter on November 2. Monroy-Winter agreed with the importance of continued engagement with Ukraine, and suggested support for eventual Ukrainian NATO membership aspirations was now more important than ever. S [...]	2006-11-02 15:55:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL MOPS UP NL
06THEHAGUE763	NETHERLANDS/EU: APPROACHING THE EU IN ADVANCE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff delivered reftel demarche April 7 to MFA European Correspondent Desiree Kopmels and Deputy Correspondent Bahia Tahzib-Lie. The Dutch do not expect the Balkans to be on the GAERC agenda and are content to let UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari set the pace for future status talks. [...]	2006-04-07 16:03:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ETRD EUN YI MW SR BK BO IR UP SY
06TOKYO2398	15TH JAPAN-EU SUMMIT: FOCUS ON POLITICAL AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. The 15th Japan-EU Summit on April 24 in Tokyo highlighted the maturing Japan-EU partnership. During the Summit: -- PM Koizumi stressed three points: his concern about low public awareness of the Japan-EU relationship, his desire to enhance the strategic dialogue on East Asia' [...]	2006-05-01 09:27:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ECON MEPP EUN KNUC UNSC BO UP RS
06TOKYO4550	JAPAN BEGINS DELIBERATIONS ON CONTRIBUTION TO NATO [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-11 08:38:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PARM NATO PINR UP JA
06USNATO643	NATO ECONOMICS COMMITTEE: "HEADS" AND "SECURITY & [...] (C) Summary: The NATO "Heads of Economic Intelligence" was convened by Defense & Economic Security Director Patrick Hardouin who reviewed the Committee's program over the past year. He then turned to the issue of the UK,s decision not to support the Committee's work in future and how to better [...]	2006-10-27 13:06:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET NATO PGOV RU UP
06USUNNEWYORK754	UKRAINE: HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CANDIDACY [...] Mission received a note from the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations requesting USG support for its candidature to the Human Rights Council. The elections will be held in New York in May 2006. 2. Mission will respond that careful consideration will be given by the United S [...]	2006-04-11 12:50:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC PHUM UN UP
06VIENNA3268	AUSTRIA ON DISRUPTION OF CHISINAU-MOSCOW RAIL LINKS [...] (SBU) Charge delivered reftel demarche on November 8 to Hannes Porias, the Austrian MFA's A/S-level Director for Eastern Europe and Russia. DAS-level Russia/Ukraine/Moldova/Belarus Director Josef Litschauer also participated. 2. (C) Porias said the EU had made clear to Kyiv that it is i [...]	2006-11-08 11:23:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ELTN EUN RU MD UP AU
06VIENNA3283	AUSTRIA ON ENCOURAGING SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE'S [...] (SBU) Charge delivered reftel points on November 7 to Hannes Porias, the Austrian Foreign Ministry's A/S-level Director for Eastern Europe, and to Josef Litschauer, the MFA's DAS-level Russia/Ukraine/Belarus/Moldova officer. 2. (C) Porias said that Austria shared our views on the need for [...]	2006-11-08 14:42:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL MOPS UP AU
06VIENNA3286	AUSTRIA AGREES: KOSOVO NOT A PRECEDENT [...] (SBU) Charge presented reftel demarche on November 7 to Hannes Porias, the Austrian MFA's A/S-equivalent Director for Eastern Europe, and Valerie Zirl, the MFA's South-East Europe desk officer. 2. (C) Porias agreed with our message, and undertook to support it. He said it was increasingy [...]	2006-11-08 16:28:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PREL UP AU
06VIENNA350	RAIFFEISEN ON URKAINE-RUSSIAN GAS DEAL [...] (C) Raiffeisen International Bank AG (RIAG) Chairman Herbert Stepic told us January 30 that Gazprom was the "driving force" behind the RosUkrEnergo (RUE) joint venture with RIAG. RIAG, according to Stepic, has exerted little influence on pricing decisions, but rather was providing financing [...]	2006-02-06 13:10:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON PREL AU RS UP
06VIENNA778	EU INFORMAL MINISTERIAL IN SALZBURG: [...] Speaking at the informal "Gymnich" meeting of the EU foreign ministers in Salzburg on March 10-11, European External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner commented that Belarus was a country "at a crossroads," with the elections a crucial test for democracy. If the elections are fre [...]	2006-03-15 10:48:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UP BO EUN AU
06VIENNA789	RUE GAS DEAL: FURTHER INFORMATION FROM RAIFFEISEN, [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-15 15:31:00	Embassy Vienna	SECRET	ENRG EPET ECON PREL AU RS UP
06VILNIUS137	PDAS VOLKER MEETS WITH LITHUANIA'S FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) EUR PDAS Kurt Volker and Ambassador discussed regional issues February 8 with MFA Undersecretary Albinas Januska, Lithuania's chief foreign policy strategist. Januska provided a readout of a "difficult conversation" between GOL FM Valionis and Ukrainian FM Tarasyuk in which Valionis urged [...]	2006-02-10 16:47:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM EAID PGOV BO UP LH
06VILNIUS279	EUR DAS KRAMER AND EU REPS COORDINATE BELARUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: EUR DAS David Kramer participated in an informal meeting on Belarus with EU officials and representatives from EU capitals March 14 in Vilnius. The participants agreed that the USG and the EU will coordinate their statements and actions in the immediate post-election period. EU [...]	2006-03-17 14:27:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EPET RS UP BO KZ LH
06VILNIUS442	VILNIUS CDC SUMMIT: DEMOCRACY IS EUROPE'S DESTINY [...] (U) Heads of state from the Baltic, Black Sea and Caucasus regions gathered with EU and U.S. high-level officials May 4 for a regional conference, "Common Vision for a Common Neighborhood," which Lithuania and Poland co-hosted. This second Community of Democratic Choice (CDC) summit enabled f [...]	2006-05-12 12:19:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO LT LG EN PL GG BO AM AJ UP RO
06VILNIUS483	GOL NEGOTIATING UKRAINIAN PARTICIPATION IN PRT IN [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-25 13:45:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS AF UP LH
06VILNIUS762	LITHUANIAN PM PUSHES UKRAINE'S YANUKOVICH ON EU, [...] (C) Lithuania's Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas interrupted his holidays August 10 to sell NATO, EU and WTO integration to Ukraine's newly appointed PM Victor Yanukovich. MFA officials present for the meeting called Yanukovich's "open" reaction to their points on EU and, especially, NATO in [...]	2006-08-11 14:17:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LH UP
06VILNIUS852	SEPTEMBER GAERC AND LITHUANIAN VIEWS ON GYMNICH [...] (C) We delivered reftel points September 13 to Tomas Gulbinas, head of MFA's Common Foreign Policy and Security Division who is responsible for briefing the FM for the GAERC. Gulbinas said that the Lithuanian FM does not plan any interventions in the September 15 GAERC, which focuses on issue [...]	2006-09-14 13:00:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LH EUN RS UP
06WARSAW148	U.S.-POLAND STRATEGIC DIALOGUE II - ENERGY SECURITY [...] (C) Begin Summary. Septel reports on security and defense issues discussed by EUR A/S Dan Fried and ASD/ISP Peter Flory at the Third U.S.-Polish Strategic Dialogue (SD) January 25 in Warsaw and provides a list of the principal U.S. and Polish participants. This cable reports on the Energy [...]	2006-01-31 18:29:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON PGOV PREL PL UP RS NO AJ TX
06WARSAW160	A/S FRIED AND FLORY DISCUSSIONS WITH POLISH [...] (C) Summary: A/S Fried's January 24 and 25 discussions with senior officials of President Kaczynski's staff reviewed issues likely to be on the agenda during President Kaczynski's February 9 meeting with President Bush. A/S Fried and Ambassador Ashe also had a separate breakaway meeting wit [...]	2006-02-02 11:42:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG OVIP MASS PL UP RS
06WARSAW176	U.S.-POLAND STRATEGIC DIALOGUE III: EU FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: Septel reports on security and defense issues discussed by EUR A/S Dan Fried and ASD/ISP Peter Flory at the Third U.S.-Polish Strategic Dialogue (SD) January 25 in Warsaw and provides a list of the principal U.S. and Polish participants. This cable covers the SD sessions on East [...]	2006-02-03 15:03:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PL UP BO RU
06WARSAW180	POLAND'S COMMENTS ON RUSSIA-UKRAINE GAS [...] (U) This cable contains an action request - see para 2. Summary and Action Request -------------------------- 2. (C) Poland's Ministry of Economy and MFA expressed support for the U.S. proposal on an approach to Ukraine but seek clarification on several questions. Poland requests fu [...]	2006-02-03 17:26:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON PINR PREL UP RS PO AU EU CZ
06WARSAW2339	GOP AGREES COMPLETELY WITH U.S. CONCERNS OVER [...] (C) Pol External Chief delivered reftel demarche (as amended by refmail) on November 3 to Mieczyslaw Kuzinski, action officer for Security Threats and Eurasian Conflicts in the MFA Security Policy Department. Kuzinski confirmed that GOP fully shares U.S. concerns over the Russian shutdown of [...]	2006-11-06 16:29:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS ELTN RS MD UP
06WARSAW2360	POLAND STRONGLY SUPPORTS CONTINUING UKRAINE REFORM [...] (C) DCM delivered reftel demarche October 31 to Amb. Andrzej Krawczyk, Foreign Policy Adviser to President Lech Kaczynski. Krawczyk responded that Ukraine was a key bilateral partner of Poland and a high priority in Polish foreign policy to which President Kaczynski attaches great importance. [...]	2006-11-08 15:55:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS UP PL NATO
06WARSAW325	UKRAINIAN PRIME MINISTER FAILS TO CLARIFY GAS [...] (C) Energy issues dominated the discussions during the February 16-17 visit to Poland by Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov and the separate February 21 visit by Anatolij Kinach, Secretary of the Ukrainian Office of National Security and Defense. According to the MFA, however, the Po [...]	2006-02-27 14:47:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EPET ENRG PL UP
06WARSAW353	POLISH PRESIDENT CAUTIONS YUSHCHENKO ON GAS DEAL [...] (C) In the course of his February 28-March 1 visit to Ukraine, Polish President Lech Kaczynski delivered a strong message to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on the January gas deal with Russia, expressing concern about the consequences of the agreement for Ukraine's economy and its abili [...]	2006-03-02 13:47:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG PGOV UP PL
06WARSAW953	POLISH PRESIDENT'S MEETINGS WITH UKRAINIAN, GERMAN [...] (C) Summary: The Ukrainian and German presidents paid reciprocal visits to Polish President Lech Kaczynski in mid-May, marking the importance of those bilateral relationships and the slow warming of personal contacts between the apprehensive Polish leader and his colleagues next door. With Yu [...]	2006-05-23 10:16:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GM UP PL
06ZAGREB847	AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON PM SANADER [...] (C) Croatia is committed to promoting ever stronger Transatlantic cooperation, PM Ivo Sanader told the Ambassador during a July 13 introductory call. Europe and the United States can only succeed when they work together; Sanader emphasized that now, as well as when Croatia is a member of the [...]	2006-07-14 13:42:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PGOV HR EU UP
07ANKARA1554	THE GUAM ORGANIZATION: PRE-SUMMIT DEMARCHE [...] (C) We delivered reftel points to MFA South Caucasus Desk Officer Yavuz Kul. Kul noted that Turkey follows the group, and said that member countries have solicited Turkey's more active involvement, believing it will strengthen the organization. Turkey, however, is only represented by its Am [...]	2007-06-18 14:26:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID AJ GG MD UP TU
07ANKARA1976	TURKEY REQUESTS VERIFICATION OF MILITARY CARGO [...] (U) Action request at para 4. 2. (C) Pol-Mil Counselor was summoned to the Foreign Ministry on August 1 by Deputy Director General for Security Affairs Sakir Torunlar, who requested information on the vessel MV Slavyanin and verification that its military cargo, reportedly destined for the [...]	2007-08-01 16:24:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL EWWT MARR UP TU IZ CY
07ANKARA2049	TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, July 2007 [...] The Silk Road-2007 Flag Officers Seminar (the 8th annual seminar) was held on July 2-6 in Antalya. Defense ministers and army chiefs from NATO, Partnership for Peace, Mediterranean Dialogue and Istanbul Cooperation Initiative countries participated in the seminar. In the keynote address, Chie [...]	2007-08-10 14:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL UP GR TU
07ANKARA2577	TURKS REQUEST HIGH-LEVEL ASSURANCES ON US MATERIEL [...] (C) Action request at para 5. 2. (C) MFA U/S Apakan convoked Ambassador October 18 to discuss continued GOT concerns about the MV Onyx and its cargo. Apakan told Ambassador he has had many conversations in recent days with the Turkish General Staff about the Onyx and that he is "sick of s [...]	2007-10-18 12:41:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS PTER ETTC KOMC IZ MG UP CY TU
07ANKARA2695	DEALING WITH TURKISH SUSPICIONS REGARDING US ARMS [...] (C) Rising PKK violence and the leakage of potentially thousands of US-procured weapons from Iraq have heightened Turkish government and public sensitivities about the transfer of weapons to Iraq. Delays and confusion as we attempted to provide the GOT with information on the origin and desti [...]	2007-11-01 10:04:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL MARR PTER MOPS ETTC KOMC MG UP CY IZ TU
07ANKARA379	TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, January 2007 [...] The Turkish Parliament ratified on January 24 the Bilateral Agreement on Cooperation to Facilitate the Provision of Assistance for Nonproliferation Purposes (EXBS),which was originally signed on June 14, 2005. The agreement, which was ratified despite the objection of the CHP (Republican Peop [...]	2007-02-22 10:10:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL LE GR UP IS AJ TU
07ANKARA863	MARE NOSTRUM? BLACK SEA MARITIME SECURITY AND [...] (C) Turkey seeks to maintain its leadership role in Black Sea maritime security but remains frustrated that not all six littoral countries are enthusiastic followers. Ankara complains of Romanian foot-dragging as the GOT seeks to add anti-WMD and anti-terrorism capabilities to BLACKSEAFOR. An [...]	2007-04-13 05:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS GG RO RS UP BU TU
07ASHGABAT1186	TURKMENISTAN: UKRAINIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SEEKS TO [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Ukrainian Foreign Minister Yatsenyuk's late-October visit to Ashgabat is part of an effort to re-establish a normal relationship between the two countries, after years of commercial disputes and changes in leader [...]	2007-11-02 11:44:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ETRD SCUL UP TX
07ASHGABAT1248	TURKMENISTAN MISSES POLISH NATIONAL DAY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) Polish Ambassador Maciej Lang hosted a reception in Ashgabat on November 19 in honor of Poland's National Day. Standard practice for national day receptions in Ashgabat is for both Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Mered [...]	2007-11-20 05:20:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL GG UP PL RS TX
07ASHGABAT436	ASHGABAT AMBASSADORS ON POLITICS, GROWING RUSSIAN [...] (C) Visiting Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia Dionisio de Leon, Charge, and embassy officers met with Ashgabat-based ambassadors on April 26-27 to solicit their impressions of the current political situation in Turkmenistan. Georgian Ambassador Alexy Petriashvili, U [...]	2007-04-30 13:39:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET GG PGOV PREL RS TU TX UP
07ASTANA546	JCIC-DIP-07-001: U.S. RESPONSE TO RUSSIAN [...] (S) On February 28 DTRO-A delivered reftel U.S. response to the Russian non-paper requesting an additional photograph for the Trident Reference Aid to Major Makhit Nyshanily Tulegenov in MOD,s Arms Reduction Control and Inspection Activities Center. Major Tulegenov had no comment. 2. (U) P [...]	2007-03-01 07:34:00	Embassy Astana	SECRET	JCIC START PARM PREL KACT RS UP BO KZ US
07ATHENS758	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GREECE AND GLOBAL INITIATIVE [...] (SBU) On April 12, Russian DCM Aleksey Rogalev with the consent of Embassy delivered welcome message on joining the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism to MFA Secretary General Charalambos Rocanas. Russian DCM also SIPDIS delivered the schedule of events, statement of principles, [...]	2007-04-16 14:26:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER KGIT PARM PREL UP GR
07BAKU1227	PRESIDENT ALIYEV ON ENERGY ISSUES IN ADVANCE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a one-hour one-on-one meeting with the Ambassador on October 8, President Aliyev outlined with frustration current problems on energy in advance of the Vilnius Summit. British Petroleum (BP) is "stealing our oil," he asserted sharply, seeking to put pressure on Azerbaijan to delay t [...]	2007-10-09 14:14:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PREL PGOV RS TU UP KZ PL GG LH TX AJ
07BAKU136	AZERBAIJAN,S APPROACH TO THE "NEW" GUAM [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the past year, Azerbaijan's primary interest in GUAM appears to have been regional security, especially resolving the region,s "protracted" or "frozen" conflicts. As Azerbaijan prepares to assume the Chair of GUAM in June, Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov said GUAM should f [...]	2007-01-30 06:37:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PBTS KDEM AJ GG MD UP
07BAKU287	ENERGY AND RELATIONS WITH EU AT THE FOREFRONT OF [...] (C) Summary: Polish Foreign Minister Anna Fotyga's February 28 - March 1 visit to Azerbaijan focused on energy cooperation and assisting Azerbaijan in its relations with the EU. These two issues are highlighted in a bilateral Memorandum of Cooperation (text below) that was signed during the [...]	2007-03-09 13:43:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PGOV PREL PL UP AJ
07BAKU693	UPDATE ON GUAM SUMMIT, JUNE 18-19 [...] (C) In a late May meeting, MFA Director for International Security Affairs Galib Israfilov told us that Azerbaijan, as incoming GUAM Chair, seeks to expand GUAM's geographic reach and raise its international profile. According to Israfilov, Azerbaijan views GUAM as a "natural bridge uniting E [...]	2007-06-05 04:28:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM MARR MD UP GG AJ
07BAKU792	BAKU GUAM SUMMIT: LOOKING FOR RELEVANCE [...] (SBU) The GOAJ hosted the second annual Summit of the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development - GUAM on June 18-19 in Baku. The summit included meetings of GUAM members' heads of state, foreign ministers, national coordinators, and several GUAM working groups. There were also se [...]	2007-06-25 11:59:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ GG UP MD KZ TX
07BERLIN45	GERMANY TAKES RUSSIAN - BELARUS OIL DISPUTE IN [...] (U) German reaction to the cutoff of Russian oil via the Druzhba Pipeline has been relatively muted. Economics Minister Michael Glos stated there was no cause for alarm as Germany has sufficient reserves to cover any shortages. That said, Glos demanded that "the pipeline be reopened as soon [...]	2007-01-09 16:55:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ECON PREL PGOV PL RS BO UP GM
07BERLIN599	GERMANY NOTIFIED OF UKRAINE JOINING THE GLOBAL [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-23 15:36:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MCAP PARM PTER PINR PINS KNNP KGIT GM UP
07BRATISLAVA630	NUCLEAR SMUGGLING INCIDENT AT PRIBENIK, SLOVAKIA REF: 06 STATE 163201 Classified By: Lawrence R. Silverman, Deputy Chief of Mission, for reason 1.4 (b) and (d) [...] (C) Summary: Slovak police authorities confirmed to the Embassy November 29 that Slovak and Hungarian police arrested three individuals in eastern Slovakia November 28, during a sting operation as the individuals attempted to sell 500 grams of Uranium 235 or 238. Slovak authorities are still testin [...]	2007-11-29 15:29:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PARM PREL PTER MNUC KCRM KNNP HU UP LO
07BRATISLAVA648	UPDATE ON NUCLEAR SMUGGLING INCIDENT AT PRIBENIK, SLOVAKIA REF: A. 06 STATE 163201 B. BRATISLAVA 00630 Classified By: Lawrence R. Silverman, Deputy Chief of Mission, reason 1 .4(b) and (d) [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-06 14:29:00	Embassy Bratislava	SECRET	ASEC PARM PREL PTER MNUC KCRM KNNP HU UP LOG
07CHISINAU1505	STRATAN GETTING COLD SHOULDER FROM BOTH NEIGHBORS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 20 meeting, Foreign Minister Stratan complained that his Romanian counterpart, Foreign Minister Cioroianu, would be in Chisinau for a ribbon-cutting ceremony, but had not requested a meeting with him. Stratan mentioned that Moldova also faces problems with its easte [...]	2007-12-21 13:17:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PGOV RO UP MD
07FREETOWN65	SIERRA LEONE: SECTION 1206 PROPOSAL FINAL [...] (S) Embassy Freetown concurs with reftel FY07 program proposal "Improvements and Theater Maritime Safety and Security Information System Network" for $12.51M. HULL [...]	2007-01-26 14:16:00	Embassy Freetown	SECRET	AL MK UP SL
07KYIV1023	UKRAINE: CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 4. 2. (C) We met April 20 with MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Deputy Director Pokotilo to discuss the May 15 next session of the UN Conference on Disarmament (CD) at MFA's request. Counselor Oleksandr Bondarenko and a [...]	2007-04-27 13:02:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL UNGA CDG UP
07KYIV1027	UKRAINE: LITTLE POLITICAL OR LEGAL PROGRESS, BOTH [...] (C) Summary. With President Yushchenko on a one-day trip to Poland April 27 and the ruling coalition trying to decide on its strategy in the face of the new decree ordering Rada elections for June 24, little progress was made on April 27 toward resolving the political crisis. The Constitutiona [...]	2007-04-27 15:26:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV1036	UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO PUSHING, REGIONS NOT BACKING [...] (C) Summary. During what normally would have been a quiet, five-day holiday weekend, the presidential and Rada/government teams were hard at work upping the ante in the current political crisis, with neither side appearing ready yet to relinquish hardball tactics and return to negotiations. [...]	2007-05-03 14:37:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV1051	UKRAINE: PRESIDENT AND PM REACH GENERAL AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yanukovych on May 4 finally reached a preliminary agreement to hold early Rada elections, after more than a week when the two leaders did not speak. At a press conference after the meeting, Yushchenko announced that a working group would [...]	2007-05-04 14:45:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV1064	(S) UKRAINE/MTCR: TRAINING TO CHINA FOURTH ACADEMY [...] (S) We relayed reftel points May 4 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselor Oleh Belokolos. Although we were prepared with if-asked guidance to respond to possible arguments that MTCR was not intended to impede space development or that the RD-120 preparation [...]	2007-05-07 14:34:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	ETTC PARM PREL MTCRE MNUC TSPA CH UP
07KYIV1066	UKRAINE/AUSTRALIA GROUP: PLENARY INFO EXCHANGE AND [...] (C) We transmitted reftel points May 4 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselor Oleh Belokolos. Belokolos, who is directly responsible for MTCR and the Wassenaar Arrangement, thanked us for the information and said he would provide our non-paper to his collea [...]	2007-05-07 14:35:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL CBW UP
07KYIV1076	UKRAINE: GAS PIPELINE EXPLODES--SUPPLIES TO E.U. STABLE [...] On May 7 a large explosion hit the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod natural gas pipeline in the Tarashcha Region, about 100 km south of Kyiv, at 14:12 p.m. The explosion took out 30 m of the pipeline built in 1983, which is capable of shipping more than 30 billion cubic meters of Russian gas annually t [...]	2007-05-08 10:48:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG EPET ECON UP
07KYIV1085	UKRAINE 2007 SPECIAL 301 NOTIFICATION DELIVERED [...] Deputy Econ Counselor delivered ref B points and Special 301 report language to Volodymyr Zharov, Deputy Chairman of the State Department of Intellectual Property, on May 8. Zharov thanked the USG for its recognition of progress made in recent years, and said he hoped the GOU's further efforts [...]	2007-05-08 14:03:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KIPR UP
07KYIV1088	UKRAINE: ELECTION DATE HOLDING UP COMPROMISE [...] (C) Summary. Negotiations may be almost complete on the "small package" of laws considered necessary to resolve Ukraine's six-week political crisis, but continued wrangling over whether the elections should be held in the summer or fall have slowed the pace of compromise. The working group n [...]	2007-05-08 14:53:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV1092	Ukraine: Struggle for Nikopol Ferroalloy Works Nearing [...] (U) Pitting oligarch against oligarch and featuring surprising plot twists and turns, the two-year struggle over the ownership of Ukraine's Nikopol Ferroalloy Works (NFW) makes for nearly as good drama as the country's prolonged political crisis. The State Property Fund (SPF) has been trying s [...]	2007-05-10 07:38:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EIND EFIN EINV PGOV UP
07KYIV1104	UKRAINE: MANPADS ACQUISITION FOR COUNTERMEASURES [...] (S) Ukrainian MFA provided the written response May 9 of the Ukrainian government position previewed ref A to the U.S. request for a mixture of 500 Igla-1 and 1,000 Igla MANPADS missiles for countermeasures development (ref C). In a nutshell, the reply states that such MANPADS missiles are st [...]	2007-05-10 13:10:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	MARR MOPS PREL PARM NATO PINR US UP
07KYIV1107	UKRAINE: BELARUS UN HRC CANDIDACY - AMBASSADOR'S [...] (C) Our soundings with the Ukrainian MFA, detailed below, indicate the Ukrainians are on the razor's edge regarding whether to support Belarus' candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council (HRC). Their concern is to ensure that this year's vote not result in keeping Slovenia off the Council (Slov [...]	2007-05-10 14:37:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC BO UP
07KYIV1108	UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR DIA DIRECTOR LTG MAPLES [...] (S/REL UP) General Maples: We look forward to welcoming you to Kyiv at a time of political turmoil as the President and Prime Minister search for ways to reach agreement on a date for pre-term parliamentary elections and a way forward on resolving contradictions in a newly-amended constitution [...]	2007-05-10 14:45:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	PGOV PREL MARR MOPS UP
07KYIV1117	UKRAINE: NEGOTIATIONS ON EARLY ELECTIONS STALL, [...] (C) Summary. Continued disagreement over the date of elections has paralyzed what initially seemed like a breakthrough agreement on May 4 between President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yanukovych to hold early parliamentary elections. The working group Yushchenko and Yanukovych named May 4 [...]	2007-05-11 10:10:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV113	UKRAINE: 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] As requested reftel, below is the 2007 Investment Climate Statement (ICS) for Ukraine. Post is transmitting the ICS in three separate parts due to its large size. Post will send the ICS in Microsoft Word version to EB/IFD/OIA by email. Begin Text: A.1. Openness to Foreign Investment G [...]	2007-01-18 12:55:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ETRD KTDB OPIC USTR UP
07KYIV1133	UKRAINE: SEPTEMBER ELECTIONS IN THE WIND? HAYDUK [...] (C) Summary: President Yushchenko and PM Yanukovych resumed meetings to resolve the political impasse May 12 after Yanukovych returned to Ukraine from his Spanish knee surgery; Yushchenko said afterwards that the two would meet again May 16 to agree on the date for early elections. Presidentia [...]	2007-05-15 03:21:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV114	UKRAINE: 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] Ref A contained part one of the 2007 Investment Climate Statement (ICS) for Ukraine. Part two of the ICS continues below. Text Continued: A.5. Performance Requirements/Incentives PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS There are no known cases of performance requirements imposed on foreign investo [...]	2007-01-18 13:46:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ETRD KTDB OPIC USTR UP
07KYIV118	UKRAINE: 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] Refs A and B contained parts one and two of the 2007 Investment Climate Statement (ICS) for Ukraine. The third and final part of the ICS is below. Text Continued: A.9. Efficient Capital Markets and Portfolio Investment BANKING The Ukrainian banking system consists of the National Ban [...]	2007-01-18 14:25:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ETRD KTDB OPIC USTR UP
07KYIV1180	UKRAINE: NEGOTIATIONS STALLING OUT AGAIN? [...] (C) Summary. Despite talk over the weekend that President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yanukovych would finalize a political compromise that included early parliamentary elections on May 16, talks between the two leaders fizzled out as disagreements over the date of a new vote and what the le [...]	2007-05-16 15:17:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV1184	UKRAINE'S KREMENCHUK: NOT YOUR TYPICAL POST- [...] Summary: Kremenchuk, an industrial city of 232,000 in central Ukraine, is home to several thriving enterprises. A visit to a local meat plant revealed a company transforming itself from a post-Soviet mess to a modern, competitive facility. The city administration is focused on a series of ma [...]	2007-05-18 05:11:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV EAID UP
07KYIV1195	UKRAINE: BALOHA SUGGESTS THAT TIME RUNNING OUT FOR [...] (C) Summary. Head of the Presidential Secretariat Baloha told the Ambassador that there were now two options on the table for a political compromise: either on Monday, May 21, the President, PM and their teams would announce the date for early elections and the contents of the legislative pack [...]	2007-05-18 15:12:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV1205	UKRAINE: MICROSOFT AND GOU GO AFTER SOFTWARE PIRATES [...] Summary: A local Kyiv court sentenced a convicted distributor of pirated software on May 7 to one year and one month imprisonment. Although the judge then suspended the prison term, the severity of the sentence attracted significant media attention. The case is part of an invigorated campaign [...]	2007-05-22 06:21:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KIPR EINT UP

07KYIV123	UKRAINE: GRAIN EXPORTS BLOCKED; TRADERS SUFFERING [...] (SBU) Summary: Exports of wheat, barley, corn, and rye from Ukraine remain completely blocked as the GOU has not yet implemented the export quota system it authorized on December 8, 2006. Traders estimate that there are over 1.5 million tons of grain in storage at ports, where it is beginning [...]	2007-01-19 05:02:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EAGR ECON PREL UP
07KYIV124	UKRAINE: GRAIN EXPORTS BLOCKED; TRADERS SUFFERING [...] (SBU) Summary: Exports of wheat, barley, corn, and rye from Ukraine remain completely blocked as the GOU has not yet implemented the export quota system it authorized on December 8, 2006. Traders estimate that there are over 1.5 million tons of grain in storage at ports, where it is beginning [...]	2007-01-19 05:03:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EAGR ECON PREL UP
07KYIV1243	UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR UNDERSECRETARY SEGA [...] (SBU) Undersecretary Sega: We look forward to welcoming you to Kyiv. For more than seven weeks Ukraine has been in political turmoil and paralysis as the President and Prime Minister search for ways to reach agreement on a date for pre-term parliamentary elections and a way forward on resol [...]	2007-05-24 14:01:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV1244	UKRAINE: DAS KRAMER VISIT: POSSIBLE WAY FORWARD ON [...] (C) Summary. Visiting DAS Kramer met with all the key players in the Ukrainian political crisis May 23-24: President Yushchenko, PM Yanukovych, opposition leaders Yuliya Tymoshenko and Yuriy Lutsenko; National Security and Defense Council Secretary Plyushch; and FM Yatsenyuk. Amidst backgrou [...]	2007-05-25 03:25:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV1245	UKRAINE: DAS KRAMER VISIT: POSSIBLE WAY FORWARD ON [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-25 03:25:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV1246	UKRAINE: MODERATE MUSLIM LEADER ACCUSES ARRAID [...] (C) Summary: Tensions are increasing within Ukraine's small Muslim population, with the head of the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims in Ukraine (SDMU) Sheikh Tamin accusing the Muslim Association of Civic Organizations - Arraid of promoting Islamic extremism. Tamim, who is known for his mod [...]	2007-05-25 06:26:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL UP
07KYIV125	UKRAINE: SCUD INVENTORY UPDATE [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 5. 2. (S) During a January 17 meeting, Deputy Defense Minister Tereshchenko expressed optimism to visiting EUR/PRA Director Anita Friedt, PM/WRA Deputy Director Steven Costner, and DOD and Embassy Kyiv representatives that the Ukrainian government wo [...]	2007-01-19 09:03:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	ETTC PARM PREL MTCRE MNUC UP
07KYIV126	UKRAINE: BILATERAL NONPROLIFERATION WORKING GROUP [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 8. 2 (S) Summary: We delivered draft agenda contained ref A to MFA Director Belashov January 17. His specific comments on the agenda contained below in para 4. Belashov also complained that USG suspicions about possible transfer cases were often ba [...]	2007-01-19 09:03:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	PARM PREL MNUC ETTC PHSA PINR CA UK PL UP
07KYIV1299	UKRAINE: MANPADS FOR DESTRUCTION AND [...] (S) Summary: Deputy Defense Minister Tereshchenko told visiting PM/WRA Deputy Director Steven Costner May 16 that the Ukrainian offer to provide 2,101 Man-Portable Air Defense System (MANPADS) missiles and 582 gripstocks (ref E) for the NATO PfP Trust Fund destruction project had been made in [...]	2007-05-25 14:45:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	MARR MOPS PREL PARM NATO PINR US UP
07KYIV1300	UKRAINE:SCENESETTER FOR COMMANDER, U.S. ARMY [...] (SBU) General MacKiernan: We look forward to welcoming you to Kyiv. The past couple of months have been marked by political turmoil as the President and Prime Minister search for ways to reach agreement on a date for pre-term parliamentary elections and a way forward on resolving contradictio [...]	2007-05-25 15:02:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR MOPS UP
07KYIV1305	UKRAINE: DEAL FOR SEPTEMBER 30 ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: After all night discussions, President Yushchenko, PM Yanukovych, and Rada Speaker Moroz emerged after 4 a.m. May 27 to issue a seven-point joint statement that set early elections for September 30 and aimed to resolve the ongoing political crisis. Reactions ranged from relief [...]	2007-05-29 10:55:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV UP
07KYIV131	UKRAINE/GUAM: NEW MFA TEAM IN CHARGE, TIMING OF [...] (SBU) Summary. The Ukrainian MFA team overseeing GUAM issues told us they anticipate approval of the GUAM Charter bill in the Rada session that starts February 6. However Rada Foreign Policy Committee Chairman Vitaliy Shybko, a Socialist Party member, was more pessimistic. He noted the oppo [...]	2007-01-19 12:09:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM MARR RS AZ GG MD UP
07KYIV1324	UKRAINE: GUAM AS A REGIONAL ORGANIZATION -- A TWO [...] (C) Summary: Executive Director of the GUAM Information Office Heorhiy Nazarov acknowledged that the impasse over scheduling early parliamentary elections had made it unlikely that the parliament (Rada) would vote on the GUAM Charter anytime soon. He said Ukraine's failure to ratify the GUAM [...]	2007-05-31 13:17:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM MARR RS AZ GG MD UP
07KYIV1326	UKRAINE: RADA CONTINUES TO DRAG HEELS WHILE [...] (C) Summary. Despite frequent meetings between President Yushchenko, PM Yanukovych, Speaker Moroz, and opposition leader Tymoshenko, the Rada has so far failed to approve the legislation needed to enable early elections on September 30, as agreed to in the May 27 compromise. Many MPs attribut [...]	2007-05-31 14:21:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV1327	UKRAINE: CFE EXTRAORDINARY CONFERENCE: REQUEST FOR [...] (U) This is a guidance request. See para 6. 2. (U) We met May 31 with MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Director Volodymyr Belashov at his request to discuss the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Extraordinary Conference called by Russia for June 12-15. Bela [...]	2007-05-31 14:24:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KCFE OSCE UP
07KYIV133	UKRAINE: KOSOVO STATUS PROCESS TIMELINE: DEMARCHE [...] (C) Summary/comment: In view of Ukrainian officials' previous concerns about the impact of Kosovo independence on "frozen conflicts" in Moldova and elsewhere, acting DCM drew on ref A background to brief DFM Veselovsky January 18 on the Kosovo settlement process. While underscoring that Ukrain [...]	2007-01-19 14:23:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS OPDC UNMIK UN YI MD RS UP
07KYIV1335	UKRAINE: CBA Special Representative Mermoud Meetings on [...] (SBU) Summary: Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs Frank Mermoud met on May 17-18 with government officials and U.S. business in Kyiv to discuss business climate and economic policy issues. The tone of the meetings with the State Customs Service, and the Ministers of Fu [...]	2007-06-01 07:33:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV EFIN ETRD UP
07KYIV1338	UKRAINE: GOU RUSHES WTO LEGISLATIVE PACKAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: Ukraine's Rada (parliament) voted on May 31 to adopt 11 laws considered necessary for WTO accession. The drafting process was rushed to meet the timeline for the Rada's planned dissolution, however, and close scrutiny will be necessary to ensure the adopted laws are WTO consiste [...]	2007-06-01 13:28:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP
07KYIV1340	UKRAINE: RADA WORKS FOR ANOTHER "ONE MORE DAY" - [...] (SBU) Summary. President Yushchenko relented again and extended authorization for the Rada to convene again June 1 in the hope that it would finish all its election-related business. Yushchenko, arriving back in Kyiv from his trip to Zagreb at 3 a.m., held morning meetings separately with PM [...]	2007-06-01 14:02:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV135	UKRAINE: ONE VICTOR? CABINET OF MINISTERS LAW [...] (C) Summary. A landmark Cabinet of Ministers law passed January 12 via a presidential veto override (ref A) will remake the Ukrainian political landscape once it comes into effect, although President Yushchenko cited a technicality to issue a renewed veto January 19 and returned the bill to t [...]	2007-01-19 15:09:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV1354	UKRAINE: JUNE 4 UPDATE - KYIV QUIET AS POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Actions by key political players June 1-2 gave greater cause for optimism that the political compromise announced May 27 is being implemented, although public statements from Prime Minister Yanukovych and Speaker Moroz on June 3-4 suggested that progress may continue to be slow [...]	2007-06-04 13:06:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV1391	UKRAINE: KYIV'S BOOMING REAL ESTATE MARKET, A BUBBLE READY [...] (U) Summary: This report analyzes the real estate market in Kyiv, which has experienced a sizeable boom over the past 12 months as average citizens have rushed to throw their savings into the market. Mortgage lending has dramatically increased but has room to expand. Some bankers are concerne [...]	2007-06-06 11:18:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV UP
07KYIV1396	UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO DECREE FOR SEPT 30 ELECTIONS, [...] (SBU) Summary: President Yushchenko issued a June 5 decree which established pre-term elections September 30 in accordance with the May 27 joint statement between Yushchenko, PM Yanukovych, and Speaker Moroz. Yushchenko delivered a 55-minute address to the diplomatic corps June 6 summarizing [...]	2007-06-06 13:17:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV1417	PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR 2007 IPR ENFORCEMENT TRAINING [...] Summary: Post proposes a project entitled "Creating a Sustainable Ukrainian IPR Training Capability" to be funded as part of the 2007 IPR Enforcement Training Funds Program. Improving IPR enforcement in Ukraine remains a serious USG priority. Since 2004 there has been progress toward good gov [...]	2007-06-08 08:38:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KIPR ECON EAID UP
07KYIV1418	UKRAINE: CRIMEA UPDATE - LESS TENSE THAN IN 2006; [...] (C) Summary: During Ambassador's May 29-30 visit to Simferopol, Crimea and an earlier poloff visit May 17-18, all of our interlocutors agreed that the situation in Crimea appears less tense than it did six months ago (reftels). The primary issues in play remain control/ownership of land; the [...]	2007-06-08 08:50:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI KDEM PREL UP
07KYIV1422	Ukraine: Grain Export Quotas Lifted, but New Controls In [...] (SBU) Summary: Citing crop damage from drought, the GOU appears poised to institute a new regime of export restrictions on Ukraine's grain market for the 2007/2008 market year. According to a June 4 decree, as well as the statements of GOU officials, the GOU will build up its reserves of whea [...]	2007-06-08 10:47:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD PGOV UP
07KYIV1425	UKRAINE: MILITARY EXERCISE LEGISLATION PASSES, SEA [...] (C) Summary and Comment: President Yushchenko signed the annual military exercise authorization bill June 6 and Rada (parliament) passage on May 29. Despite support from PM Yanukovych and most of the Party of Regions (the Rada's largest faction),Socialist and Communist party opposition remai [...]	2007-06-08 11:33:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS MASS PREL PGOV UP
07KYIV1450	UKRAINE: IPR ENFORCEMENT COOPERATION GROUP [...] Summary: GOU, Embassy, and industry representatives discussed the destruction of IPR-infringing material at a June 5 Enforcement Cooperation Group (ECG) meeting. GOU reps reviewed recently-passed legislation that provides the authority for destruction and said that implementation will be a ch [...]	2007-06-12 13:31:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KIPR ECON UP
07KYIV1452	UKRAINE: WORKSHOP ENCOURAGES JUDGES, PROSECUTORS, [...] Summary: Post, in coordination with U.S., UK, and Ukrainian institutions, held an IPR enforcement workshop in Kyiv June 5-7. Ukrainian judges, prosecutors, police, and IP inspectors participated in the workshop, which focused on court proceedings for IPR-related cases. Discussions revealed s [...]	2007-06-13 06:22:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KIPR ECON UP
07KYIV1458	UKRAINE: ELECTIONS PROCESS STILL BUMPY [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Yanukovych and Party of Regions members are now openly talking about their election preparations and have told us that June 15 will be the last day the Rada is in session. The Rada must still acknowledge the resignations of at least another 72 members of the oppos [...]	2007-06-13 12:55:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV1459	UKRAINE: MISSILE DEFENSE TALKING POINTS DELIVERED: [...] (U) This is a request for guidance. See para 6. 2. (U) Ambassador, accompanied by Army Attache and poloff, met with Defense Minister Anatoliy Hrytsenko June 11 to deliver the response to Ukrainian missile defense questions (ref B). We provided written talking points, a Ukrainian courtesy [...]	2007-06-13 13:07:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MCAP PARM OPRC PREL RS AZ US UP
07KYIV1469	UKRAINE: RADA LOSES QUORUM, BUT HURDLES MAY REMAIN [...] (C) Summary. After weeks of stalling by the coalition, and especially by Speaker Moroz, Deputy Speaker Martynyuk on June 15 read aloud from the Rada rostrum the final group of names of opposition deputies who have resigned from their Rada factions, reaching the total of 156 and formally depri [...]	2007-06-15 12:33:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV1507	UKRAINE: OLIGARCH AKHMETOV CONSIDERS STAYING OUT [...] (C) Summary: During a June 14 dinner, oligarch and Party of Regions financier Rinat Akhmetov said he was considering making a graceful exit from Parliament. He was disappointed and frustrated with his role as a Parliamentary Deputy and preferred to focus his efforts on his business activity a [...]	2007-06-21 06:41:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR UP
07KYIV1515	UKRAINE: RADA SPUTTERS TO A CLOSE AS ATTENTION [...] (C) Summary. Speaker Moroz closed the Rada's aimless plenary sessions on June 19, clearly under some pressure by Party of Regions leaders and despite earlier vows by Socialists and Communists to continue sessions into July. Moroz read a letter to the Rada written by PM Yanukovych in which the [...]	2007-06-21 14:03:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV1516	UKRAINE: DNIPROPETROVSK LUKEWARM ON RADA [...] (C) Summary. On an early June trip to Dnipropetrovsk city, the capital of a major industrial center in the East, poloff found a wealthy city more blue than orange, but with a great deal of distrust of both Donetsk-based Party of Regions and Dnipro-native Tymoshenko, leaving an opening for othe [...]	2007-06-21 14:16:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV1521	UKRAINE: DPM KLYUYEV ON NUCLEAR SUPPLY, OIL AND GAS, [...] (SBU) Summary: Meeting with Ambassador June 20, Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Klyuyev told Ambassador that Ukraine intends to pursue diversification of nuclear fuel supplies. He stated that Ukraine is not seeking to have Russia supply all Ukrainian reactors in the next contract for nuclear fue [...]	2007-06-22 13:30:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET EAID EINV ECON BEXP UP
07KYIV1522	Ukraine: GOU Imposes New Grain Export Limits [...] (U) Summary: As foreshadowed by recent official statements (reftel),Deputy Prime Minister Victor Slauta announced June 20 that the Cabinet of Ministers has made a decision to limit exports of grain, beginning July 1, in order to form a state grain reserve and limit growth in bread prices. Po [...]	2007-06-22 13:37:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD PGOV UP
07KYIV1544	RUSSIA USES GAS HIKE TALK TO TURN HEAT UP ON [...] (C) Summary. Russian President Vladimir Putin reawakened Ukraine's anxieties about future natural gas prices in his speech at the G8 summit on June 4, asserting Russia would no longer subsidize Ukraine's gas purchases. During the same week, Ukrainian Minister of Fuel and Energy Yuriy Boyko s [...]	2007-06-26 10:14:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET PGOV PREL RS UP
07KYIV1560	UKRAINE: U.S.-RUSSIAN MISSILE DEFENSE DISCUSSION: [...] (U) EUR/PRA Director and head of delegation to the U.S.-Ukraine non-proliferation Working Group (NPWG) talks Anita Friedt delivered ref A's notification June 26 to Ukrainian MFA Arms Control and Military-Technical Cooperation Department Director General Volodymyr Belashov on the margins of NPW [...]	2007-06-27 11:38:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MCAP PARM OPRC PREL RS AZ US UP
07KYIV1561	UKRAINE: SCUD INVENTORY FINALLY PROVIDED [...] (S) During the U.S.-Ukraine Non-Proliferation Working Group meeting June 27, Volodymyr Popovych, special advisor to Deputy Defense Minister Volodymyr Tereshchenko, grinning broadly, handed over the SCUD missile and component inventory long requested by the U.S. (note: see ref A from 2005. The [...]	2007-06-27 12:04:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	ETTC PARM PREL MTCRE MNUC UP
07KYIV1563	UKRAINE: JUNE 27 DOMESTIC POLITICAL SCENE UPDATE - [...] (SBU) Summary: In advance of the long (June 28 Constitution Day) weekend, Ukraine's political scene sputtered slowly forward towards summer holidays and election campaigns. President Yushchenko and PM Yanukovych spent significant time out of Kyiv, meeting twice at Boryspil airport to discuss [...]	2007-06-27 12:46:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV UP
07KYIV1595	UKRAINE'S UKRTELECOM: NOT THE DINOSAUR IT APPEARS TO BE? [...] (SBU) Summary. Georgiy Dzekon, Chairman of the Board of Ukraine's state-owned telecommunications provider, Ukrtelecom, charged that the State Property Fund's (SPF) attempt to sell 1% of Ukrtelecom stock in a trial run was counterproductive, noting that any money raised would not go back to bo [...]	2007-07-03 09:47:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECPS ECON BEXP EINT UP
07KYIV163	UKRAINE: MANPADS ACQUISITION AND THE NATO PFP [...] (S) Summary: As a result of a January 17 meeting with Deputy Defense Minister Tereshchenko on the proposals regarding man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS) contained ref A, PM/WRA will work with the NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency (NAMSA) to develop an amendment to the NATO/PfP Trust F [...]	2007-01-22 12:57:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	MARR MOPS PREL PARM NATO PINR US UP
07KYIV1704	UKRAINE: ELIMINATION OF SCUD MISSILES [...] (C) We delivered ref A response July 13 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Director Volodymyr Belashov and Counselor Oleksandr Bondarenko. Belashov directed Bondarenko to pass the information immediately to Deputy Minister of Defense Tereshchenko. Belashov also [...]	2007-07-13 13:17:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	MTCRE PARM PREL UP
07KYIV1722	UKRAINE: FLAWED LOCAL ELECTION REVEAL POTENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: Contentious repeat mayoral elections June 17 in Irpin, a town of 40,000 people located one hour northwest of Kyiv, underscored the potential for problems in the upcoming September 30 national Rada elections as a highstakes fight for land and power brought troublesome irregularitie [...]	2007-07-17 12:11:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM UP
07KYIV1761	UKRAINE: CFE POSITION PARALLELS U.S. [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 5. 2. (U) During a July 18 press conference with his visiting Canadian counterpart, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk expressed a position that closely tracked Department's July 14 statement on Russia's announcement that it would su [...]	2007-07-19 12:15:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KCFE OSCE UP
07KYIV1776	UKRAINE: USITC REVIEW OF STEEL ANTIDUMPING AND [...] (U) In response to reftel, Post formally requested the GOU to provide information regarding the production of steel products covered by the upcoming ITC five-year review of antidumping and countervailing duty orders. We received a response from the Ministry of Economy on July 18. An unofficia [...]	2007-07-20 10:50:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON UP
07KYIV1790	UKRAINE: POLITICS AND MONEY BEHIND GRAIN EXPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: Fear of rising bread prices was the driving force behind the GOU's decision to reintroduce grain export restrictions as of July 1. Bread prices are very politically sensitive in Ukraine, and a number of government officials also have a financial stake in the quotas through busin [...]	2007-07-23 09:35:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD PGOV UP
07KYIV1808	UKRAINE: POLITICAL WILL, NOT LAWS, WILL DETERMINE [...] (C) Summary. Parliament (Rada) adopted a number of amendments to the law on parliamentary elections June 1 as part of the compromise to hold early parliamentary elections on September 30. Some changes were needed, but a number of others reintroduced loopholes that contributed to election frau [...]	2007-07-24 14:16:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV1825	UKRAINE: SHIPMENT OF WEAPONS FROM UKRAINIAN PORT [...] (C) We delivered ref A inquiry regarding the destination of the St. Vincent-flagged vessel Slavyanin July 27 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Director Volodymyr Belashov. When doing so, we emphasized the urgency of the request. Belashov said he would immediat [...]	2007-07-27 12:59:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL EWWT MARR UP TU IZ
07KYIV1826	UKRAINE: HUNGARY LENDS QUIET SUPPORT TO UKRAINE'S [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-27 13:32:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ETRD EINV HU UP
07KYIV183	UKRAINE: PROLIFERATION SECURITY INITIATIVE AND [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 9. 2. (SBU) Summary: After a year-long hiatus (refs A and B were transmitted in January 2006),a Ukrainian MFA official said Ukrainian comments on a draft PSI ship-boarding agreement might be provided by the end of January, after which the Ukrainian [...]	2007-01-25 13:24:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM KNNP PHSA KTIA EWWT PL UP
07KYIV1837	UKRAINE: MOROZ BLUFFING ON NEW RADA SESSION [...] (C) Summary: The Ukrainian media was abuzz over the July 28-29 weekend with Rada Speaker Moroz's announcement that he would call an extraordinary Rada session July 31. Moroz said he was responding to a request from 179 deputies to hold the session, but Party of Regions leaders immediately res [...]	2007-07-30 11:33:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV1843	UKRAINE: AKHMETOV WING OF REGIONS GEARS UP FOR [...] (C) Summary. In meetings with Party of Regions leaders Raisa Bohatyreva and Borys Kolesnikov--both members of the business-oriented wing of Regions dominated by oligarch Rinat Akhmetov--it was clear that there was an ongoing and heated debate within the party over strategies for the election, [...]	2007-07-30 13:19:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV186	UKRAINE: TURKMEN OPPOSITION VISA SCANDAL REALLY [...] (C) Summary. The scandal that has erupted over Socialist Transportation Minister Mykola Rudkovskiy pressuring Ukrainian ambassadors to issue visas to Turkmen opposition figures to travel to Kyiv in late December in the wake of former Turkmen President Niyazov's death is, at its heart, the lat [...]	2007-01-25 15:21:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM EPET TX UP
07KYIV1862	UKRAINE: POLITICAL CLASH HIGHLIGHTS CORRUPTION IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOU attempted to push through a controversial amendment to the government procurement law, causing indignation among political opponents and spurring claims that the Party of Regions was trying to grab public funds for their election coffers. Opposition by President Viktor [...]	2007-08-01 05:08:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	EIND EFIN EINV PGOV UP
07KYIV187	UKRAINE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN COESPU [...] Italian DCM Sergio Martes, Italian military attache Colonel Claudio Ritacca, Embassy Kyiv Office of Defense Cooperation Chief LTC Rob Timm, and poloff delivered reftel demarche January 25 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Director Volodymyr Belashov and Counselor [...]	2007-01-26 04:56:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS PGOV IT TU PK ID UP
07KYIV1888	UKRAINE IPR: ENGAGING LAW ENFORCEMENT ON INTERNET [...] (SBU) Summary: Econ Counselor met on August 1 with leaders of the Ministry of Internal Affairs' (MIA) Economic Crime Department to push for improved IPR enforcement. The MIA officials expressed a firm commitment to protecting IP rights, and described the Ministry's increased enforcement effor [...]	2007-08-02 14:06:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR ECON UP
07KYIV1897	UKRAINE: MISSILE DEFENSE COOPERATION AND CFE; [...] (C) Visiting EUR Deputy Assistant Secretary David Kramer briefed Foreign Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk August 2 on the results of the July 30 U.S.-Russia experts' meeting on missile defense cooperation as requested reftel, as well as on parallel Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) discussions. Ya [...]	2007-08-03 11:54:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO AJ CZ PL RS UP
07KYIV1912	UKRAINE: AEROSVIT, BOEING SIGNING WORTH UP TO $1 BILLION [...] On August 2, Ukraine's largest carrier Aerosvit and Boeing signed a purchase agreement for seven 737s valued at $523 million. Aerosvit also secured an option to purchase another seven 737S, potentially making the deal worth more than $1 billion. This order marks Aerosvit's first direct purchas [...]	2007-08-06 11:34:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP EAIR UP
07KYIV1916	UKRAINE: NATO SEA BREEZE EXERCISE AN "UNQUALIFIED [...] (C) Summary: Sea Breeze 2007, the largest ever multinational exercise in the Black Sea, concluded July 22. Over two weeks, exercise participants from 13 NATO PfP member countries enhanced interoperability through peacekeeping operations, search and rescue, and communications training. Despite [...]	2007-08-06 13:02:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV UP
07KYIV1932	UKRAINE: PRESIDENTIAL SECRETARIAT ON VOTING AND [...] (C) Summary. Roman Bezsmertniy, deputy head of the Presidential Secretariat for information policy and political tactician, told Ambassador July 27 that there was no truly good outcome for the upcoming elections, but he was focused on making sure Party of Regions stays committed to participat [...]	2007-08-07 12:32:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV1940	UKRAINE: REGIONS'S PARTY CONGRESS: A HANDSHAKE, A [...] (C) Summary. The Party of Regions August 4 party congress was the least predictable of the major party congresses, featuring both moderate speeches by Prime Minister Yanukovych and faction leader Raisa Bohatyreva and well-received speeches from Communist Party leader Symonenko and a representa [...]	2007-08-08 09:27:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV196	UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR EUR DAS GRAFFY'S FEB 7-12 [...] (C) Summary: Your visit to Ukraine comes at a time when the struggle between President Yushchenko and PM Yanukovych for political dominance and the right to define national security, defense, and foreign policy has intensified. Recent legislation passed by Yanukovych's majority in the Rada (p [...]	2007-01-26 12:53:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP
07KYIV1968	UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH, OTHERS ANALYZE PRE- AND [...] (C) Summary: Key GoU leaders varied on their assessment of the upcoming pre-term elections in their August 1-2 meetings with EUR DAS Kramer but all acknowledged the importance of free and fair elections and the need to resolve tensions that have dominated the domestic political scene since A [...]	2007-08-10 10:43:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV1971	UKRAINE: THE ORANGE REVOLUTION AND UNEASY [...] (C) Summary. The nine parties of the democratic megabloc came together August 7 to formally become the Our Ukraine-People's Self Defense (OU-PSD) election bloc, with a youth-oriented message and an attempt to rekindle the fervor of the Orange Revolution. The bloc consists of People's Union O [...]	2007-08-10 12:51:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV1972	UKRAINE: REQUEST FOR USG SUPPORT FOR UKRAINIAN AS [...] (U) This is an action request - please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) PolCouns was called in August 9 by Acting Director of the MFA's Second Territorial Department Larisa Myronenko to receive a request for U.S. support for Ukraine's candidate to be the next OSCE Head of Mission in Kosovo, Ambas [...]	2007-08-10 13:24:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM OSCE UP
07KYIV1973	UKRAINE: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE RE ASSISTANCE TO [...] (S) As requested, on August 9, 2007, PolCouns delivered talking points contained ref A to Vasyl Pokotilov, Acting Director of the Foreign Ministry's Department for Arms Control and Military-Technical Cooperation, and asked for full details on the cooperation between the Ukrainian National Sp [...]	2007-08-10 13:34:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	ETTC PARM PREL MTCRE MNUC UP NI
07KYIV1974	UKRAINE: GOU SAYS IATA TICKET STOCK ILLEGAL-THREATENS SHUT [...] (SBU) Summary. In a meeting with representatives from Ukraine's State Aviation Authority (SAA),Economic officers verified the SAA had indeed found the International Air Transport Association's (IATA) ticket stock to be invalid under Ukrainian law. As a result, the SAA ordered IATA to refrain [...]	2007-08-10 13:39:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ERTD KTIA UP
07KYIV1986	UKRAINE: CENTRAL ELECTION COMMISSION DELAYS BYUT [...] (C) Summary. Leaders of the Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) on August 10 accused the coalition-dominated Central Election Commission (CEC) of refusing to register its candidates for the September 30 parliamentary election in order to keep the largest opposition force in Ukraine out of the election and [...]	2007-08-13 13:11:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV200	UKRAINE WTO UPDATE: JANUARY 26 [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOU is anxious to push ahead as quickly as possible on its WTO accession. Minister of Economy Volodymyr Makukha is requesting to hold bilateral consultations in early, rather than late, February. Makukha continues to work to ensure U.S. beef and pork imports flow freely, al [...]	2007-01-26 15:37:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP
07KYIV2001	UKRAINE: TEN YEARS AFTER THE SIGNING OF THE [...] (C) Summary: Ten years after the signing of the NATO-Ukraine Charter and two and a half years after the Orange Revolution, many policy makers and experts in Ukraine and in the West hoped that Ukraine would jump on a fast track to NATO membership. However, today public support for NATO members [...]	2007-08-15 07:35:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV UP
07KYIV2010	UKRAINE: BYUT REGISTERED FOR ELECTION [...] (C) Summary and comment. After a court ruled August 14 that the Central Election Commission (CEC) needed to review BYuT's candidates list within one day, the CEC complied and finally approved all 450 candidates of the bloc late in the day August 15. Tymoshenko herself attended the August 14 [...]	2007-08-15 13:26:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV2075	UKRAINE: BYUT CONGRESS--NATIONALIST WRAPPINGS, BUT [...] (C) Summary. In a congress that emphasized Ukrainian nationalism and loyalty to Tymoshenko, the diminutive opposition leader presented her detailed program for the country's future, "the Ukrainian Breakthrough." In a 75-minute speech, Tymoshenko laid out her ideas for everything from increasi [...]	2007-08-17 12:26:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV2093	UKRAINE'S FY 2008 FOREIGN ASSISTANCE OPERATIONAL [...] In response to reftel request, the following person is Post's Operational Plan Coordinator (OPC),responsible for the FY 2008 Foreign Assistance Operational Plan: Douglas Kramer Counselor for Economic Affairs U.S. Embassy Kyiv Office tel.: 011-380-44-490-4056 Cell outside Ukraine: 38-050-3 [...]	2007-08-21 11:44:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP
07KYIV210	UKRAINE: MANPADS ACQUISITION FOR COUNTERMEASURES [...] (S) On January 29, Ambassador, accompanied by DATT and poloff, passed ref A non-paper to Defense Minister Anatoliy Hrytsenko. Hrytsenko said he was frankly relieved the U.S. had elected to pursue an approach that involved some level of compensation to the Ukrainian government to transfer MANPA [...]	2007-01-29 15:08:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	MARR MOPS PREL PARM NATO PINR US UP
07KYIV211	UKRAINE: NATO REFERENDUM ON HOLD AFTER [...] (C) Summary. President Yushchenko's January 26 decision to refer two constitutional articles on holding a referendum to the Constitutional Court for clarification effectively pushes down the road the need to decide whether there will be a referendum on membership in NATO and the Single Economi [...]	2007-01-29 15:46:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NATO UP
07KYIV2114	UKRAINE: U.S. NON-PAPER ON CFE DELIVERED; [...] This is an action request. See paragraph 5. 2. (C) As agreed ref email, PolCouns met with MFA Director for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control Volodymr Belashov August 23, to follow up on Acting EUR A/S Volker's meeting with the Ukrainian Charge and Moldovan Ambassador August 22 in Washin [...]	2007-08-23 12:47:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KCFE NATO OSCE RS UP
07KYIV214	UKRAINE: UNCERTAIN FUTURE FOR COMMUNITY OF [...] (C) Summary. The Community of Democratic Choice (CDC),as described in an August 2005 joint statement by Ukrainian President Yushchenko and Georgian President Saakashvili, was to be a continuing dialogue and series of meetings to promote democracy, human rights, and civil society in former Sov [...]	2007-01-30 14:10:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM GG UP
07KYIV2165	UKRAINE: LITTLE PROGRESS IN INVESTIGATION OF [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Journalist Artem Skoropadiskiy, who claimed that an August 13 assault on him by two assailants was because of a critical story he wrote on Kyiv Mayor Leonid Chernovetskiy, told PolOff on August 21 that there had been no progress in the police investigation. Althoug [...]	2007-08-29 11:57:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV UP
07KYIV2185	UKRAINE: U.S. REACTION TO CFE NON-PAPER DELIVERED [...] (U) We delivered U.S. comments contained ref A on the Ukrainian Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) non-paper (ref B) to MFA Arms Control Director Volodymyr Belashov August 31. Belashov thanked us for the speedy U.S. response and welcomed the information that the U.S. had briefed Georgia and [...]	2007-08-31 13:06:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KCFE OSCE NATO RS UP
07KYIV220	UKRAINE: USITC ANTIDUMPING INVESTIGATION ON SILICON METAL [...] Post provides the following information regarding silicon metal production in Ukraine in response to reftel request. This response contains no business proprietary information. Overview of Metallurgy Industry ------------------------------- 2. Metallurgy is one of the Ukrainian economy's [...]	2007-01-31 11:06:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON UP
07KYIV2202	UKRAINE: PORA CONTROVERSY ANOTHER TEST OF ELECTION [...] (C) Summary. The sudden appearance of a "second" Pora political party, its quick registration by the Central Election Commission (CEC) and the CEC's deregistration of eight representatives of the "real" Pora on the OU-PSD list at worst raised questions about the use of dirty tricks, and at a [...]	2007-09-04 13:06:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV2204	UKRAINE: PERSONALITIES, NOT PROGRAMS, [...] (C) Summary. The conscious decision of the three main parties in Ukraine to focus their campaigns on the same themes -- populist social and economic promises and anti-corruption slogans -- means that the vote will come down once again to personalities and perceived leadership types. The offic [...]	2007-09-04 13:13:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV2206	UKRAINE: EXTRAORDINARY RADA SESSION TAKES AIM AT [...] (U) Summary: The Rada's majority coalition held an extraordinary parliamentary session on September 4, at Speaker Moroz's behest. With 269 MP's registered as present, they voted to amend two clauses of the constitution in order to eliminate parliamentary and presidential immunity, thereby pr [...]	2007-09-04 13:50:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL UP
07KYIV223	UKRAINE: TARASYUK RESIGNS AS FOREIGN MINISTER, [...] (SBU) Summary. Borys Tarasyuk ended two months of uncertainty and political confrontation over his lame-duck tenure as Ukraine's Foreign Minister by offering his resignation to President Yushchenko January 30, after a district court deferred a decision on his legal challenge to the Rada's Dec [...]	2007-01-31 16:34:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RU UP
07KYIV2239	UKRAINE: ELECTIONS IN ODESA HEAVILY FAVOR REGIONS [...] (C) Summary. During the Ambassador's August 31 meetings in Odesa with leaders from Party of Regions (POR),Bloc of Yuliya Tymoshenko (BYuT),and Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense (OU-PSD),all agreed that POR remained the overwhelming favorite in the predominately blue region -- in 2006, Regio [...]	2007-09-07 12:17:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV UP
07KYIV224	UKRAINE: REACTION TO MISSILE DEFENSE MEDIA REPORTS [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 9. 2. (C) Summary: Defense Minister Hrytsenko told Ambassador January 29 that the U.S. announcement about its preparedness to locate missile defense facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic had the unintended consequence in Ukraine of reinforcing [...]	2007-01-31 16:40:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MCAP PREL PINR US UP
07KYIV2245	UKRAINE: APPEAL FOR USG FORBEARANCE ON INDIA SPACE [...] (C) This is a request for guidance. Request that the Department provide the U.S. position regarding Ukraine company Yuzhnoye's contract to prepare blueprints for a semi-cryogenic, liquid-oxygen/kerosene-fueled rocket engine for the Indian Space Research Organization, as detailed below, and es [...]	2007-09-07 13:31:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM ETTC MTCRE TSPA PREL IN UP
07KYIV2247	UKRAINE: EVEN SMALL ELECTION ABUSES COULD [...] Summary. As the campaign heats up for Ukraine's September 30 preterm parliamentary elections, few anticipate there will be massive election fraud. However, in what is expected to be a very tight race, even abuses on the margins could influence the outcome. Greater transparency in the electio [...]	2007-09-07 13:50:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV225	UKRAINE: MOROZ, REGIONS PLAYING GAMES WITH THE [...] (C) Summary. Rada Speaker Moroz and the Yanukovych government have used "creative" interpretations of the constitution and the Rada rules of procedure to try to bring into force the controversial law on the Cabinet of Ministers, despite presidential claims that the law was vetoed (reftel). T [...]	2007-01-31 16:46:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV2256	UKRAINE: ACTING FM URGES USG SUPPORT FOR UKRAINIAN [...] (C) The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry continues to press for U.S. support for Ukraine's candidate to be the next OSCE Head of Mission in Kosovo, Ambassador Anatoliy Oliynyk, currently Ukraine's Ambassador to both Serbia and Montenegro. During an August 31 meeting with the Ambassador, Acting Fo [...]	2007-09-10 11:42:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV2260	UKRAINE IPR CONFERENCE HOSTS LATEST ROUND IN FIGHT [...] Summary: Ukraine's annual IPR Conference, held September 3-7, brought together GOU officials, industry reps, and international experts to promote better IPR protection in the country. Discussion of possible Copyright Law amendments and the operation of royalty collecting societies proved most [...]	2007-09-11 08:55:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KIPR ECON UP
07KYIV2266	UKRAINE: PREVIEW OF SEPTEMBER 14 SUMMIT WITH EU [...] (C) Summary: An EU delegation of Portuguese Prime Minister Socrates, EU Council Secretary General Solana, European Commission President Barroso, and Commissioner Ferrero-Waldner will participate in the EU-Ukraine summit September 14 in Kyiv. In their private meetings, the EU delegation will [...]	2007-09-11 12:18:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECIN ETRD ENRG EUN PO UP
07KYIV2272	UKRAINE: GOU AGREES IN PRINCIPLE TO SCANNING [...] On September 6, EconOff delivered reftel points to Viacheslav Voloshyn, Director of Ukraine's Maritime Security Agency. Voloshyn stated that in principle the State Maritime Agency, under the direction of the Ministry of Transport, supported future cooperation with the Departments of Homeland [...]	2007-09-12 06:10:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ETRD EWWT PTER UP
07KYIV2286	UKRAINE: IUD'S TARUTA ON REGIONS, ELECTIONS, AND [...] (C) Summary. In a marathon three-hour meeting, reclusive Industrial Union Donbas (IUD) owner Serhiy Taruta and his more politically-active partner Vitaliy Haiduk gave the Ambassador their views on the elections, Regions party leaders, and the current gas deal with Russia, especially their conc [...]	2007-09-13 10:05:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EPET PINR UP
07KYIV2290	UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE DISCOURAGED FROM THE TOP DOWN [...] (C) Summary. Conversations with Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense (OU-PSD) Leader Yuriy Lutsenko, First Lady Kateryna Yushchenko, and members of the bloc's regional headquarters show a political movement struggling to keep pace with the more aggressive Tymoshenko Bloc. Lutsenko and Mrs. Yushc [...]	2007-09-13 10:34:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV2336	UKRAINE: LEADING POLITICIANS VIE FOR REPUTATION AS MOST [...] (U) Summary: PM Viktor Yanukovych and opposition leader Yuliya Tymoshenko held dueling meetings with investors on September 10 to present their plans to improve the investment and business climate. Tymoshenko promised to push forward transparent privatizations, open up energy exploration to for [...]	2007-09-14 08:14:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON PGOV UP
07KYIV235	UKRAINE: SHCHERBAN CASE BEING SWEPT UNDER RUG [...] (C) Summary. It appears increasingly unlikely that former Sumy governor Volodymyr Shcherban, accused of election rigging and a number of other serious charges, will end up in court. Shcherban, who fled to the U.S. in the spring of 2005 to avoid arrest in Ukraine, was detained for overstaying h [...]	2007-02-01 12:43:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM UP
07KYIV2383	GOU RAISES THE STAKES AGAINST IATA, AND BACKS DOWN [...] (C) On August 30 the GOU suspended all cross border activities of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) in its latest move against the world airline industry's trade group. In a subsequent meeting with the Ambassador, however, Minister of Economy Anatoly Kinakh agreed to stop imp [...]	2007-09-14 11:28:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ETRD KTIA PREL UP

07KYIV2385	UKRAINE: INDUSTRY WINS LANDMARK INTERNET PIRACY CASE [...] Summary: A Ukrainian record company won a court case on September 13 against the infamous Ukrainian music download site mp3.ua. To our knowledge, it is the first time a music company has successfully won a civil case against an online music pirate in a Ukrainian court. The court ruling impose [...]	2007-09-15 12:38:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KIPR ECON UP
07KYIV2392	UKRAINE'S WTO NEGOTIATOR WANTS TO WRAP UP [...] (C) Summary: During a September 17 meeting, Ukraine's lead WTO negotiator Valeriy Pyatnytskiy complained that talks with Kyrgyzstan on a WTO bilateral agreement had stalled. Kyrgyzstan had rejected Ukraine's most recent proposal, and Pyatnytskiy believed that "one or more third parties" were [...]	2007-09-18 04:38:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD WTRO KG UP
07KYIV2401	UKRAINE: COALITION SCENARIOS IN A CLOSE RACE [...] (C) Summary and comment. With reliable polling suggesting that no one party will win an outright majority on its own in the September 30 elections, a coalition will have to be formed either based on an orange variant, a broad coalition that in some way joins the Party of Regions and Our Ukrai [...]	2007-09-18 13:14:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV2402	UKRAINE: KIROVOHRAD: IT'S A TWO PARTY RACE, [...] (SBU) Summary: In conversations with Kirovohrad's Communist mayor, Our Ukraine Governor, and various campaign workers regarding preparations for the September 30 elections, opinion across the spectrum was that Regions and BYuT will be the top two vote getters with about 25-30 percent each, w [...]	2007-09-18 13:25:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL UP
07KYIV2417	UKRAINE: NATO, RUSSIAN LANGUAGE ISSUES ENTER [...] (C) Summary. Party of Regions' recent decision to call for a referendum on neutrality (local shorthand for no NATO membership),and an official status for the Russian language resurrects divisive election themes, present in 2004 and 2006, that the major parties had tried to keep quiet so far [...]	2007-09-19 12:58:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NATO PREL PINR UP
07KYIV2479	UKRAINE: SEPTEMBER 30 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS A [...] (C) Summary. Ukrainians will go to the polls on September 30 -- for the fifth time in the past three years -- to elect a new parliament, and attempt to end the political deadlock that has gripped this country since President Yushchenko's April 2 decree dissolving the Rada. With the polls show [...]	2007-09-27 14:30:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV2481	UKRAINE: REGIONS FOCUSES ON CAMPAIGN; PUTS ASIDE [...] (C) Summary. Pouring money and manpower into its campaign effort, Party of Regions leaders have put aside their differences to aim for another win in the September 30 Rada election -- as all polls show them doing -- but squabbles over policy direction and coalition formation could resurface in [...]	2007-09-28 02:34:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV2489	UKRAINE/MTCR: SECURING SUPPORT FOR MODIFIED U.S. [...] (C) We relayed ref A points September 27 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselor Oleh Belokolos. Belokolos, who was at the Oslo meeting, said he would have the U.S. UAV/cruise missile proposal translated as soon as possible, distribute it to the relevant Uk [...]	2007-09-28 10:45:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC KSCA TSPA UP
07KYIV2490	UKRAINE: U.S. FEEDBACK ON SLV ENGINE COOPERATION [...] (S) We relayed ref A points September 27, on both the planned cooperation with the Indian Space Research Organization and a possible batch mixer sale to India's Cyano Chemisive Systems, to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselor Oleh Belokolos. Belokolos thank [...]	2007-09-28 10:48:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	PARM ETTC MTCRE TSPA PREL IN UP
07KYIV2491	(S) UKRAINE/MTCR/NSG: CENTRIFUGAL CHARGING PUMPS [...] (S) On September 27, MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselor Oleh Belokolos provided us with a non-paper regarding delivery to China of centrifugal charging pumps to China from the Ukrainian company, Sumy Frunze Machine Building Scientific Production Associatio [...]	2007-09-28 10:49:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	ETTC PARM PREL MTCRE MNUC TSPA PK CH UP
07KYIV2496	UKRAINE: MYKOLAYIV -- RUNNING ON ISSUES BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: The southern industrial city of Mykolayiv wrestles with a number of local issues revolving around the question of who will control the city's economic assets. Controversy centers in particular on ownership of the Black Sea Shipyard, currently in the hands of Russian businessmen, [...]	2007-09-28 12:54:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EIND EINV PREL RS UP
07KYIV2498	UKRAINE: PARTIES LAY OUT CONCERNS, PLANS ON EVE OF [...] (C) Summary. As the campaign comes to a halt September 28 at midnight, all three major parties -- Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense, BYuT, and Party of Regions -- have laid out their final positions, telling international observers that they will abide by any election results that the internat [...]	2007-09-28 13:33:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV2500	UKRAINIAN GOVT RELAXES QUOTAS ON GRAIN EXPORTS [...] (SBU) Summary: A September 26 GOU decision imposes new quota levels on grain exports as of November 1. The new quotas are significantly looser than the excessively restrictive ones currently in place, but still appear to be on the conservative side, especially since they cover a longer-than-ex [...]	2007-10-01 02:35:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAGR WTRO UP
07KYIV2501	UKRAINIAN ELECTIONS: A NEW ORANGE COALITION COULD [...] (C) Summary: A renewed "orange coalition" could potentially capture enough Rada seats to form the new government, according to several nationwide exit polls. As of noon October 1, counting continues and the Central Election Commission (CEC) has posted about 54% of the results, although there [...]	2007-10-01 07:07:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV2505	UKRAINE: CABINET OF MINISTERS APPROVES VANCO PSA [...] THIS INFORMATION IS COMMERCIALLY SENSITIVE AND SHOULD NOT BE SHARED OUTSIDE OF THE USG. 2. (C) Summary. On September 26 the Cabinet of Ministers approved the production sharing agreement (PSA) for oil and gas exploration in the Black Sea with Houston-based Vanco. Vanco told the GOU it woul [...]	2007-10-02 11:12:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG PINR EINV UP
07KYIV2508	UKRAINE: ALL SIDES WAIT WHILE ELECTIONS SLOWLY [...] (C) Summary. As votes continued to trickle into the Central Election Commission on October 2, parties remained for the most part constrained, holding off on both court challenges and coalition negotiations until the final count is announced. With more than 97 percent of the vote counted by 5 [...]	2007-10-02 12:46:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV2515	UKRAINE: MILITARY HELICOPTERS FOR UNAMID REQUESTED [...] (U) Per input received ref A, we joined UK Embassy Head of Political Section Duncan Allan on a joint demarche October 3 to MFA UN Directorate head Petro Datsenko to request that Ukraine consider providing six to twelve military utility helicopters (ref C) for UNAMID (United Nations-African Unio [...]	2007-10-03 12:15:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC KPKO SU UK UP
07KYIV2517	UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO CALLS FOR PARTIES TO BEGIN [...] (C) Summary. With less than one half of one percent of the vote still uncounted, the political parties are starting to slowly extend feelers on various coalition formations. President Yushchenko made the biggest stir of the day by holding a press conference in which he called on all the parti [...]	2007-10-03 13:32:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV2522	UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH SUGGESTS REGIONS WON'T ACCEPT [...] (C) Summary: PM Yanukovych told the Ambassador October 3 that Regions had the right to form the government as the party with the most votes and was willing to negotiate with all of the parties to form a coalition, but that it could not accept an orange coalition and government. According to Y [...]	2007-10-04 13:12:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV2533	UKRAINE: FRUSTRATION UP IN ORANGE CAMP AS [...] (C) Summary. Key players in the past two days have told us that they believe President Yushchenko is leaning towards a broad coalition, although BYuT and part of Our Ukraine-People's Self Defense are fighting hard for an orange government. An ebullient Presidential Administration head Baloha [...]	2007-10-05 13:47:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV2542	UKRAINE: GOU TELLS IATA ALL ISSUES RESOLVED: IATA [...] (SBU) On September 20, the GOU told the International Air Transport Association (IATA) that all issues regarding IATA's Billing and Settlement Program (BSP),including its ticket stock, had been officially resolved and IATA was no longer in danger of being shut down (ref C). The Ministry of Fi [...]	2007-10-09 11:36:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ETRD KTIA PREL UP
07KYIV2546	UKRAINE: PRESIDENT PUSHES FOR QUICK COALITION [...] (C) Summary. President Yushchenko has tried to jump start negotiations on forming a new governing coalition by calling all five political forces represented in the new Rada to a meeting October 8 and instructing them to submit proposals on the prime minister and coalition within five days. He [...]	2007-10-09 14:07:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV2555	UKRAINE: NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE, BALL IN BALOHA'S [...] (C) Summary. Conversations on October 10 with key advisers for Yuliya Tymoshenko and PM Viktor Yanukovych, Hryhoriy Nemyria and Serhiy Lyovochkin respectively, underscore what we have been hearing for the past week -- the ball on coalition formation is in Yushchenko's court, but it may be Pre [...]	2007-10-10 13:43:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV2566	UKRAINE: DASD CAGAN REQUESTS PLUS-UP IN IRAQ [...] (U) Action Request: See paragraph 13. 2. (C) Summary. In consecutive meetings with Ukrainian Chief of Defense, General of the Army Serhiy Kyrychenko, Minister of Defense Anatoliy Hrytsenko, and Deputy Foreign Minister Andriy Veselovsky on October 8, visiting Deputy Assistant Secretary of [...]	2007-10-12 02:18:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS IZ UP US
07KYIV2575	UKRAINE: COALITION SOUNDING ORANGE--FOR TODAY [...] (C) Summary. As the five-day timeline President Yushchenko gave to the parties to submit coalition proposals draws to a close, BYuT and Our Ukraine-People's Self Defense took public steps intended to demonstrate that the orange coalition is close to becoming a reality. Tymoshenko and three re [...]	2007-10-12 12:53:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV2588	UKRAINE: CLOCK TICKING ON RADA AND COALITION [...] (SBU) Summary. The Central Election Commission announced the official election results late on October 15, which triggers the next steps in seating the new Rada and then the formation of a government. The CEC must promulgate the results within 5 days, the Rada must open within 30 days after [...]	2007-10-16 12:36:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV2634	UKRAINE: PRESIDENTIAL SECRETARIAT AND OU-PSD [...] (C) Summary. Leader of Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense Bloc Yuriy Lutsenko and Deputy Head of the Presidential Secretariat Roman Bezsmertniy told the Ambassador in separate SIPDIS meetings October 16 that OU-PSD and President Yushchenko would support an orange coalition and Tymoshenko to [...]	2007-10-17 12:23:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV2653	UKRAINE: REGIONS AND SOME IN OU OPPOSE TYMOSHENKO, [...] (C) Summary. As they await the official promulgation of the election results, which has been slowed by court appeals, the major parties are clarifying their positions on coalition formation. Prime Minister Yanukovych rejected the idea of the technocratic government outlined by members of the [...]	2007-10-19 12:03:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV2671	UKRAINE:TALK OF REMOVING RUE FROM GAS DEAL [...] (C) Summary: Local reaction to Gazprom Chairman Medvedev's comments (ref b) about removing RosUkrEnergo (RUE) from the gas deal have ranged from positive to muted. Minister of Fuels and Energy Boyko told Ambassador he had heard nothing from the Russians about possibly removing RUE from the ga [...]	2007-10-23 12:34:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ETRD PREL RS UP
07KYIV2672	UKRAINE: MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR) [...] (C) We provided ref A report October 23 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Director Volodymyr Belashov. At the same time, we provided information copies of U.S. papers and positions contained refs B-E (on space launch vehicles and ballistic missiles, U.S. propos [...]	2007-10-23 12:53:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC KSCA TSPA UP
07KYIV2673	UKRAINE: READ-OUT OF MOSCOW TWO-PLUS-TWO MEETING [...] (U) We drew on ref A October 23 to brief MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Director Volodymyr Belashov and Counselor Rustam Rustamov on the results of the U.S.-Russia "2-plus-2" discussions held October 12-13 in Moscow. Belashov, who was on his way the same aftern [...]	2007-10-23 13:04:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS KPAO NATO EU EZ PL RS UP
07KYIV2676	UKRAINE: SAA TELLS IATA TICKET STOCK OK, BUT [...] (SBU) Summary. On October 19 in Kyiv, State Aviation Administration (SAA) officials confirmed to visiting International Air Transport Association (IATA) officials that the dispute surrounding IATA's paper tickets (ref D) had been solved, and that sanctions against IATA had been lifted. Howeve [...]	2007-10-24 09:22:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ETRD KTIA PREL UP
07KYIV2677	UKRAINE: MILITARY HELICOPTERS FOR UNAMID -- SECOND [...] DCM spoke October 24 with MFA Second Territorial Department Director Ihor Hrushko to relay ref A request for Ukraine to consider contributing helicopters or other critical force multipliers/enablers required for the UN/African Union hybrid peacekeeping operation in Darfur, Sudan (UNAMID). DCM [...]	2007-10-24 12:34:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UNSC KPKO SU UP
07KYIV2678	UKRAINE: FORMER PM YEKHANUROV ON TYMOSHENKO, [...] (C) Summary. Our Ukraine-People's Self Defense Rada deputy and former Prime Minister Yekhanurov told the Ambassador October 24 that he did not believe Tymoshenko would be a good prime minister, but he will vote for her if that is the decision his bloc makes. He added, however, that his conti [...]	2007-10-24 12:46:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV2713	UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH AND TYMOSHENKO WAIT FOR [...] (C) Summary and Comment: PM Yanukovych and his potential successor, Yuliya Tymoshenko, met separately October 24-26 with Colin Powell and Richard Holbrooke, both of whom were in Kyiv to deliver speeches at the invitation of the Pinchuk Foundation, established by businessman and Kuchma son-in-la [...]	2007-10-26 12:40:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV2714	UKRAINE: Cuba Embargo Resolution at UNGA -- Demarche [...] (SBU) DCM delivered reftel points regarding the Cuba embargo resolution October 26 to MFA Second Territorial Department Director (A/S equivalent) Ihor Hrushko. Hrushko noted that Cuba continues to provide substantial assistance for the "Chornobyl children" (belonging to families affected by th [...]	2007-10-26 12:44:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM ETRD UNGA UN CU US UP
07KYIV2720	UKRAINE: MILITARY HELICOPTERS FOR UNAMID -- UPDATE [...] (SBU) As noted ref A, DCM had a follow-up meeting October 26 with MFA Second Territorial Department Director Ihor Hrushko concerning ref B request for Ukraine to consider contributing helicopters or other critical force multipliers/enablers required for the UN/African Union hybrid peacekeeping [...]	2007-10-29 13:29:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC KPKO SU UP
07KYIV2721	UKRAINE: CANDIDACY OF DAVID WALKER FOR UN [...] DCM delivered reftel talking points and David Walker's biographic information October 26 to MFA Second Territorial Department Director Ihor Hrushko, after we had earlier conveyed the biographic information to MFA UN and Other International Organizations Counselor Petro Datsenko. Hrushko promis [...]	2007-10-29 13:30:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AORC UNGA UN UP
07KYIV2744	UKRAINE: RADA PREPARATIONS SLOWLY ADVANCING [...] (C) Summary. The process of preparing to seat the new Rada is moving forward slowly, while fissures in the orange coalition continue to appear even before it has officially become a coalition. As required by law, the Central Election Commission is now registering MPs and all five factions h [...]	2007-11-02 13:28:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV2748	UKRAINE: YOUNG DEPUTIES UNDERSCORE PARTY DIVIDES [...] (C) Summary. A lunch with three young MPs, all under 35 years old, underscored the fact that the three main factions share common policy ideas, but have such strained relations that any cooperation in the next year or two could be situational and uneven. Olena Bondarenko (Regions),Yuriy Pav [...]	2007-11-05 11:36:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV2752	UKRAINE: PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO FINALLY TO VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Israeli Embassy DCM Shahar Arieli confirmed that President Victor Yushchenko plans to visit Israel in mid-November and that he would also visit Ramallah and meet with Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, although he noted that previous planned visits did not m [...]	2007-11-06 08:20:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL IS UP
07KYIV2753	UKRAINE: PSI Eastern Shield Exercise, October 29-31, Odesa, [...] (U) Summary: Ukraine and Poland sponsored a Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Eastern Shield demonstration, with Romanian, Georgian, Moldovan, and Bulgarian participation, October 29-31 in Odesa, Ukraine. The demonstration, planned as the first PSI exercise in the Black Sea region, empl [...]	2007-11-06 09:24:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PTER KCRM PREL KNNP UP
07KYIV2759	UKRAINE: IRAQ DEPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS [...] (C) With regard to all the scenarios contained in reftel, Ukraine's parliament must approve the deployment of Ukrainian military units in peacekeeping operations (PKO),while the President can authorize the participation of individual members of the military in PKOs by the issuance of a Presid [...]	2007-11-06 11:07:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL IZ UP
07KYIV2766	UKRAINE: COALITION POSSIBILITIES - READING THE [...] (C) Summary: With the opening of the Rada on the horizon and after five weeks of coalition discussions between representatives of all of the major parties and President Yushchenko, we have boiled down the main number of possibilities for the next government to four -- an orange coalition led [...]	2007-11-07 14:59:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV2794	UKRAINE: MFA Statement on Russian CFE Treaty Suspension [...] (SBU) The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, on November 8, issued a statement expressing its alarm over the Russian Duma decision to suspend the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty's provisions. The strong statement continues the Ukrainian MFA's concern and engagement over the issue (reftels) [...]	2007-11-08 14:19:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL KCFE OSCE NATO RS UP
07KYIV2806	UKRAINE: PRESIDENT'S DEMANDS STRAIN OU; REGIONS [...] (C) Summary. While the parties are slowly going through the procedures to prepare for a new Rada, the orange coalition is either close to completion or teetering on the edge of self-destruction, reportedly pushed by President Yushchenko, his Chief of Staff Baloha, and NSDC Secretary Plyushch. [...]	2007-11-09 14:05:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV2810	UKRAINE: Black Sea Strategy Presented to German Marshall [...] (SBU) Summary: Academics and NGO representatives considered the Euro-Atlantic community's approaches to the "Eastern European neighborhood" during a conference held in Kyiv October 26-27. Despite the theme, conference participants were focused on Ukraine and particularly Ukraine's prospects fo [...]	2007-11-13 10:15:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPAO PBTS SENV EWWT PARM EUN UP
07KYIV2813	UKRAINE: KYIV MAYOR ONCE AGAIN UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT [...] (C) Summary. Many consider the Mayor of Kyiv to be the fourth most powerful political post in the country, after the President, PM, and Speaker of the Parliament. Both the Yuliya Tymoshenko (BYuT) Bloc and Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense (OU-PSD) made the dismissal of Kyiv mayor Leonid Che [...]	2007-11-13 13:58:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV282	UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO POISONING CASE REMAINS [...] (SBU) Summary. More than two years after his inauguration as President, Viktor Yushchenko's face no longer has the huge chloracne bumps and pallid grey color resulting from his poisoning by dioxin in September 2004, and his Swiss doctors claim that 80 percent of the dioxin has left his syste [...]	2007-02-02 15:06:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV2820	UKRAINE: RESOURCE NATIONALISM REPORT [...] (C) Summary: Ukraine has relatively small reserves of oil and natural gas, but is the world's largest hydrocarbon transit country, moving 75.8% of Russia's natural gas to Europe. Ukraine imports 77% of its natural gas and 79% of its oil needs almost exclusively from Russia. As a legacy of S [...]	2007-11-14 12:55:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ETRD PREL UP
07KYIV2821	UKRAINE'S APPROACH TO INVESTMENT PROMOTION: "WHY DO WE NEED [...] (SBU) Summary: Ukraine continues to trail behind most of its neighbors in attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The GOU was slow to recognize its role in this sphere, although it finally created a lead investment promotion agency, called InvestUkraine, in 2005. InvestUkraine, with USAI [...]	2007-11-14 13:04:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ETRD EAID UP
07KYIV2824	UKRAINE SIGNS BILATERAL WTO AGREEMENT WITH KYRGYZSTAN, [...] Summary: Ukraine signed a WTO bilateral agreement with Kyrgyzstan on November 14, removing the major hurdle to accession. The GOU agreed to pay $27.3 million worth of humanitarian assistance to Kyrgyzstan in order to secure the deal. Meanwhile, the GOU reports that it has also signed an agree [...]	2007-11-15 13:56:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP
07KYIV2829	UKRAINE: UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS [...] (U) Ref A relayed information passed by Ukraine's UN mission that Ukraine will vote in favor of the four country-specific resolutions in the UNGA Third Committee and against any no-action motion. In ref C, we reported on delivery of U.S. points regarding the draft resolution "On Condemning th [...]	2007-11-16 11:33:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL KTIA KWMN AORC UN UP
07KYIV283	UKRAINE: OLD FACES, PRACTICES RETURN TO MINISTRY [...] (C) Summary. Since the ouster of outspoken "orange" Interior Minister Yuri Lutsenko December 1 and the appointment of compliant Vasyl Tsushko in his place, some old faces and practices from the pre-Orange Revolution era have returned to the Ministry and police. Of note were the appointments [...]	2007-02-02 15:20:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV UP
07KYIV2831	UKRAINE: PEACEKEEPERS AND KOSOVO POST-INDEPENDENCE [...] (U) This is a request for Department guidance. Please advise on how we should respond to Ukrainian Defense Minister Hrytsenko's inquiry on contingency planning for possible Kosovo independence. 2. (C) During a November 15 meeting with EUR DAS David Kramer, Defense Minister Hrytsenko inquir [...]	2007-11-16 12:42:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS KDEM UNMIK OSCE YI MD RS UP
07KYIV2832	UKRAINE: 2008 GAS NEGOTIATIONS UNDERWAY--NOTHING [...] (SBU) Summary. 2008 Gas Negotiations between Ukraine and Russia continued in Moscow this week. Ukrainian Minister of Fuel and Energy Yuriy Boyko announced in the press that natural gas pricing negotiations with Russia's state-owned gas company, Gazprom, that Ukraine would pay close to $160 p [...]	2007-11-16 13:15:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ETRD PREL PINR UP
07KYIV2833	UKRAINE: ODDS MOUNTING AGAINST A TYMOSHENKO [...] (C) Summary: After visiting EUR DAS Kramer's series of meetings with top Ukrainian political figures, it is clear that the path to the premiership for Yuliya Tymoshenko will be difficult and is still far from certain. Presidential Administration head Baloha said that he was "101%" certain tha [...]	2007-11-16 14:59:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV2844	UKRAINE: KREMENCHUK OIL REFINERY CRISIS REMAINS UNRESOLVED [...] (U) Summary. A longstanding, complicated legal dispute over the ownership of shares in Ukrtatnafta, a company established in 1994 that owns and operates Ukraine's largest oil refinery in Kremenchuk, recently culminated in the physical enforcement by police on October 19 of a Sumy Court of App [...]	2007-11-19 12:59:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET ECON UP
07KYIV2858	UKRAINE: PREPARING FOR THE NATO BUCHAREST SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary. We need to engage now with Ukraine to craft a role for this important partner at the April 2008 NATO Summit in Bucharest even as Ukrainian political forces are focused on building a coalition and forming a new government. While President Yushchenko, FM Yatsenyuk, and Minister of [...]	2007-11-21 13:05:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL UP
07KYIV2865	UKRAINE: IPR ENFORCEMENT COOPERATION GROUP [...] Summary: GOU, Embassy and industry representatives discussed IPR issues of importance to pharmaceutical producers at a November 21 Enforcement Cooperation Group (ECG) meeting. The Ambassador emphasized the importance of IPR enforcement generally, and for the pharmaceutical industry specifical [...]	2007-11-23 13:00:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KIPR ECON UP
07KYIV2871	UKRAINE: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism -- [...] This is an action cable. See para 6. 2. We used talking points and delivered the proposed outline for a global nuclear detection architecture model guidelines document November 21 to MFA Political Department Political Planning Division chief Oleh Klynchenko. In doing so, we emphasized the n [...]	2007-11-26 11:18:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PARM PTER EAIR EWWT KNNP KGIC US UP
07KYIV2889	UKRAINE: UKRTELECOM LAUNCHES 3G MOBILE PHONE SERVICE [...] (SBU) On November 14 EconOffs met with representatives of state fixed-line monopoly Ukrtelecom to discuss the November 1 roll out of its 3G (third generation) communication services in six major cities under the U'tel trademark. Igor Syrotenko, Ukrtelecom's Deputy Chairman for Marketing and S [...]	2007-11-26 12:00:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECPS BEXP EINT UP
07KYIV2892	UKRAINE: DNIPROENERGO - AN EXAMPLE OF INTRANSPARENCY [...] (SBU) Summary. Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine's richest man and a key financial sponsor of the Party of Regions, recently acquired 40 percent ownership in financially troubled Dniproenergo, a large power generation company, through a controversial share issuance. Most observers believe that Akhmetov [...]	2007-11-26 13:48:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET ECON UP
07KYIV2894	UKRAINE: CONVENTIONAL FORCES IN EUROPE AND MISSILE [...] On November 26, we provided the background information contained ref A on U.S.-Russia discussion on the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty and missile defense (MD) to MFA Arms Control Counselor Rustam Rustamov and Attache Katerina Bila. (We had originally scheduled a meeting with Arms [...]	2007-11-27 07:00:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM MARR PREL KCFE OSCE NATO RS UP
07KYIV2902	UKRAINE: U.S.-IRAQ BILATERAL RELATIONS -- DEMARCHE [...] (C) We delivered ref A talking points and text of the U.S.-Iraq Statement of Principles November 27 to Third Territorial Department Middle East Division Acting Director Mykola Leshchenko and U.S. and Canada Desk Director Yuriy Nykytiuk. We emphasized the U.S. desire to consult on the best pos [...]	2007-11-27 13:55:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL PGOV IZ UP
07KYIV2923	UKRAINE: ORANGE COALITION ANNOUNCED, BUT NO [...] (C) Summary: Yuliya Tymoshenko's bloc (BYuT) and Our Ukraine-People's Self Defense (OU-PSD) announced the successful conclusion of a coalition agreement in the Rada November 29, bringing the renewed "orange" coalition one step closer to forming a government. However, the new coalition was un [...]	2007-11-29 14:00:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV2925	UKRAINE: UPDATE OF CHILD LABOR INFORMATION FOR TDA [...] Post provided detailed information on child labor in Ukraine last year (ref B),the first time that Ukraine was covered by this Trade and Development Act (TDA) reporting requirement. As requested by ref A, below Post provides updated information on child labor issues. 2. Post will also sen [...]	2007-11-30 11:08:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM UP
07KYIV2928	(S) UKRAINE: ARSENAL DESIGN BUREAU AND CHINESE [...] (S) We relayed reftel information November 30 regarding Ukrainian Arsenal Design Bureau's potential business with the Beijing Institute of Aerospace Control Devices and with affiliates of the China Sanjiang Space Group to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselor [...]	2007-11-30 11:48:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	ETTC PARM PREL MTCRE MNUC CH UP
07KYIV2932	UKRAINE: ARMS SALES TO BURMA - DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) We delivered reftel talking points urging termination of arms deals with Burma on November 30 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Counselor Oleh Belokolos. Belokolos noted that, while conventional arms sales were not in his direct portfolio, MFA was aware of the general n [...]	2007-11-30 12:22:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL PHUM BM UP
07KYIV296	UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO NOMINATES OHRYZKO AS FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary. President Yushchenko nominated First Deputy (and currently Acting) Foreign Minister Volodymyr Ohryzko February 5 to replace former FM Tarasyuk, defying general expectations that Deputy Head of the Presidential Secretariat Oleksandr Chaliy would be nominated. Ohryzko's nomination [...]	2007-02-05 15:56:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV2967	UKRAINE: GETTING TO GOVERNMENT - ORANGE COALITION [...] (C) Summary: After a day of parliamentary maneuvering, the orange coalition parties of Yuliya Tymoshenko and President Yushchenko mustered a slim-227 majority vote to elect 33-year old Foreign Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk as the Speaker of the Rada. The successful vote showed that the coalition i [...]	2007-12-05 13:30:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV2973	UKRAINE: RADA PREPARES TO VOTE ON TYMOSHENKO'S PM [...] (C) Summary: In a move that surprised many, especially the parliamentary opposition, on December 6, President Yushchenko submitted the nomination of Yuliya Tymoshenko to the Rada for a vote, just hours after receiving her nomination from the orange coalition via newly-elected Rada Speaker Yatse [...]	2007-12-06 10:31:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV2977	UKRAINE: RADA SCHEDULES PM VOTE FOR DECEMBER 11 [...] (C) Summary. Rada Speaker Yatsenyuk ended another day of finger-pointing and delaying tactics in the Rada by announcing that the parliament would hold the confirmation vote on Tymoshenko as Prime Minister on Tuesday December 11 -- the end of the five-day deadline for considering a prime minis [...]	2007-12-07 12:04:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV2985	UKRAINE: PLANNING FOR EURO 2012 SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIP [...] (SBU) Summary: The 2012 European Soccer Championship (Euro 2012),to be co-hosted with Poland, offers Ukraine opportunities to attract USD billions in foreign investment, improve the business climate, and make needed infrastructure upgrades. The event, which attracts an immense following in [...]	2007-12-10 07:26:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ETRD EAID EFIN PGOV PL UP
07KYIV3034	UKRAINE: MOI AND MFA DISCUSS PLANS TO FIGHT [...] (C) Summary and Comment. The Ukrainian Government is taking steps to combat the increase in racially-motivated crimes in Ukraine this year. Acting Minister of Interior Korniyenko highlighted to the Ambassador several initiatives undertaken by the Ministry including increased security for di [...]	2007-12-10 13:23:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV UP
07KYIV3035	UKRAINE: TYMOSHENKO PM VOTE COMES DOWN TO THE WIRE [...] (C) Summary. The December 11 vote on Tymoshenko's candidacy is shaping up to be a nail-biter, with three members of OU-PSD reportedly now in the hospital for various medical problems, Regions still threatening to block the rostrum, and disputes over Cabinet positions straining the coalition. [...]	2007-12-10 13:39:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV3036	UKRAINE: COALITION AGREEMENT TOO BROAD TO BE [...] (C) Summary. Should Yuliya Tymoshenko be confirmed as Prime Minister -- a vote is scheduled for December 11 -- her government program would be based on the coalition agreement, a wide-ranging 81-page document that promises sweeping reforms across the board with an emphasis on social programs, [...]	2007-12-10 14:04:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV3039	UKRAINE: PROLIFERATION SECURITY INITIATIVE AND [...] On December 11, we delivered ref A non-paper providing U.S. plans to sponsor a 5th anniversary Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) conference to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Counselor Oleksandr Bondarenko and Attache Maryna Stroga. Bondarenko opined that Deputy Fore [...]	2007-12-11 12:34:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PARM KNNP PHSA KTIA EWWT UP
07KYIV3048	UKRAINE: PM GRIDLOCK ILLUSTRATES DYSFUNCTION OF [...] (C) Summary. Disorganization and infighting within the orange coalition, particularly within the President's Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense party, and continued intransigence by the Party of Regions have stymied the confirmation of Yuliya Tymoshenko as Prime Minister. The December 11 vote [...]	2007-12-12 12:05:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV3058	UKRAINE: NAFTOHAZ'S FINANCIAL UNCERTAINTY A GROWING [...] (U) Summary. NaftoHaz Ukraine, the state-owned gas and oil company that accounts for 10 percent of GDP, could well be close to bankruptcy. NaftoHaz's losses and debts have mounted as the GOU continues to set domestic gas prices that are too low to cover the rising cost of gas imports, and be [...]	2007-12-13 10:37:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET EFIN ECON ENRG UP
07KYIV3065	EN2008FEB(UKRAINE): NOMINATION FOR FEBRUARY USPTO-GIPA [...] In response to ref A, Post nominates the following Ukrainian officials, in priority order, to participate in USPTO's Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA) training on IPR enforcement at USPTO headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, February 11-14, 2008: -- Ms. Tatyana Sapalyova, Judge, Vi [...]	2007-12-14 10:27:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KIPR ECON UP
07KYIV3066	UKRAINE: PM VOTE SCHEDULED FOR DECEMBER 18 [...] (C) Summary. The Rada approved an agenda for the December 18 session that will include a vote on the PM, the Government, deputy speakers, and the distribution of committee chairmanships. In spite of their best efforts, Rada Speaker Yatsenyuk and the orange coalition were unsuccessful Decembe [...]	2007-12-14 10:58:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV3071	UKRAINE COAL MINE DISASTER: HOW CORRUPTION KILLS [...] (SBU) Summary: A November 18 explosion at the Zasyadko Coal Mine killed 101 miners in Ukraine's worst coal mine accident since independence. Subsequent explosions killed another five miners and mine rescuers. The Zasyadko mine has one of the country's worst safety records. Its director, Yuk [...]	2007-12-17 09:32:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN PGOV ELAB EAID UP
07KYIV3074	UKRAINE: DRAFT UNSCR IRAQ TEXT PROVIDED [...] (C) We delivered ref A talking points and text of the draft UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) on Iraq December 14 to Third Territorial Department Middle East Division Acting Director Mykola Leshchenko, Iraq Desk Officer Mykola Radchenko, and UN and Other International Organizations UN des [...]	2007-12-17 12:47:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR EFIN PARM UNSC IZ UP
07KYIV3084	UKRAINE: A VISIT TO AN UNDERGROUND GAS STORAGE FACILITY [...] (SBU) Summary. EconOff and Econ Assistant traveled to the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in Western Ukraine to visit officials from the Prykarpattiatransgaz (PTG) gas transportation company, gas compressor stations and the underground gas storage facility near the town of Bogorodchany. Built between [...]	2007-12-18 13:11:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG ECON UP
07KYIV3086	UKRAINE: TYMOSHENKO ELECTED AS PM; NEW GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: After several weeks of debate and uncertainty, the orange coalition came together and confirmed Yuliya Tymoshenko as the new prime minister of Ukraine on December 18. Tymoshenko was confirmed with 226 votes, the minimum number of votes necessary in the 450-member Rada. Only MPs f [...]	2007-12-18 13:49:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV3087	UKRAINE: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism -- [...] The Ukrainian MFA responded to the delivery of the proposed outline for a global nuclear detection architecture model guidelines in diplomatic note 411/20-011-2060 dated December 14, 2007. The diplomatic note observed that the Ukrainian side supported the draft guidelines. The diplomatic note [...]	2007-12-18 13:54:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PARM PTER EAIR EWWT KNNP KGIC US UP
07KYIV3088	UKRAINE: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism -- [...] The Ukrainian MFA responded to the delivery of the proposed outline for a global nuclear detection architecture model guidelines in diplomatic note 411/20-011-2060 dated December 14, 2007. The diplomatic note observed that the Ukrainian side supported the draft guidelines. The diplomatic note [...]	2007-12-18 13:56:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PARM PTER EAIR EWWT KNNP KGIC US UP
07KYIV3102	UKRAINE: WHO'S WHO IN THE TYMOSHENKO GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary. The new Tymoshenko government, confirmed by the Rada December 18, is an interesting mix of PM Tymoshenko loyalists and President Yushchenko loyalists, and of experienced politicians and technocratic newcomers. Disagreements over Our Ukraine-People's Self Defense slots between the [...]	2007-12-20 05:55:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV315	UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR SECDEF'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: Secretary Gates, your meeting with President Yushchenko at Wehrkunde next week comes at a time when the struggle between Yushchenko and PM Yanukovych for political dominance and the right to define national security, defense, and foreign policy has intensified. Recent legislation [...]	2007-02-07 15:59:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR UP
07KYIV3154	UKRAINE: BOHATYREVA APPOINTMENT MUDDIES REGIONS [...] (C) Summary. With Regions finally settling into its role as the opposition, and both Prime Minister Tymoshenko and Regions leader Yanukovych making efforts to be constructive, President Yushchenko's decision to name deputy leader of Party of Regions Raisa Bohatyreva Secretary of the National [...]	2007-12-27 09:30:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV3157	UKRAINE: SHAPING OUR MESSAGE [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Prime Minister Tymoshenko's government has begun delineating its internal setup/workflow and the structures and processes for interacting with the President's team and parliamentary opposition. In turn, President Yushchenko is pushing forward his own initiatives aime [...]	2007-12-27 11:50:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL UP
07KYIV3165	ECONOMIC POLICY AND THE NEW GOU: PROGRESS, BUT WITH [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has sent out mixed signals on her plans for the Ukrainian economy. She continues to say many of the right things on economic matters, yet some of her populist campaign promises convey a different message. Nonetheless, we expect Tymosh [...]	2007-12-28 12:58:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ENRG EINV PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV331	2/9 UKRAINE WTO UPDATE: KYRGYZ BILAT [...] (C) Summary: Ukraine must sign one more bilateral Market Access Agreement, with Kyrgyzstan, as part of its accession to the WTO. Erkin Mamkulov, Kyrgyz Ambassador to Ukraine, told us that resolution of USD 27 million worth of debt, owed by Ukraine to Kyrgyzstan, is the critical remaining issue [...]	2007-02-09 15:55:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP KG
07KYIV332	UKRAINE: EU TROIKA MEETING LAUNCHES ENHANCED [...] (C) Summary: A February 6 EU Troika meeting in Kyiv marked the launch of a new enhanced Partnership and Cooperative Agreement intended to strengthen economic and political ties - responding to a Ukrainian push for a new kind of partnership and closer ties to the EU. The first meeting of a Wor [...]	2007-02-09 16:11:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM UP
07KYIV361	UKRAINE: COALITION PUBLISHES, SEEKS TO AMEND, [...] (SBU) Summary. The controversial Law on the Cabinet of Ministers, which tips the balance of power toward the Prime Minister at the President's expense, continues to be a political football on Kyiv playing fields. The February 2 decision by the Rada (parliament) and Government to officially p [...]	2007-02-15 15:36:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV449	UKRAINE: 2007 SPECIAL 301 POST INPUT [...] (SBU) Summary and Recommendation: Embassy recommends Ukraine remain on the Special 301 Priority Watch List, which is statutorily accompanied by Section 306 monitoring (Ref A),although the Government of Ukraine is definitely moving in the right direction on IPR protection. The GOU has followe [...]	2007-02-22 15:07:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR ECON UP
07KYIV452	UKRAINE: RADA REJECTS FM/SBU NOMINEES IN ANOTHER [...] (C) Summary. The Party of Regions-led Rada majority on February 22 rejected presidential nominees for Foreign Minister and Security Service (SBU) Chief in what appears to be the latest skirmish between the President and Prime Minister in the long-running struggle for power. Presidential Secre [...]	2007-02-22 16:37:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV464	UKRAINE: USITC ANTIDUMPING INVESTIGATION ON SILICON METAL [...] Ref A contained Post's response to ref B request for information regarding silicon metal production in Ukraine. 2. Post had filed a formal request for information with the Ministry of Industrial Policy of Ukraine, which maintains oversight of the metallurgy industry, and is responsible for s [...]	2007-02-23 14:14:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON UP
07KYIV466	UKRAINE: SHALL WE DANCE? TYMOSHENKO AND YUSHCHENKO [...] (C) Summary. Opposition leader Yuliya Tymoshenko and Presidential Secretariat Head Viktor Baloha separately told the Ambassador February 20-21 that there was a new, deeper cooperation agreement between Our Ukraine (OU) and the Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) in the works; both were guardedly optimisti [...]	2007-02-23 15:29:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP

07KYIV467	UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR OPPOSITION LEADER [...] (C) Summary: Opposition leader Yuliya Tymoshenko arrives in the U.S. at a time when the feuding and deal-making between Ukraine's three major political forces is hamstringing policy-making and legislating. The struggle between President Yushchenko and PM Yanukovych for political dominance an [...]	2007-02-23 15:48:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV478	UKRAINE: THINKING OF ENGAGING BELARUS PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: On February 16, the Ukrainians floated a proposal to extend an overture to Belarusan President Lukashenko in the hope of obtaining progress on Ukraine-Belarus border issues and cooperation in forming a united front against Russian on energy issues. The initial proposal included [...]	2007-02-26 16:04:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MNUC PINR BO UP
07KYIV499	UKRAINE: RELIGIOUS, ETHNIC GROUPS IN ODESA CONDEMN [...] (SBU) On February 26, representatives of more than 40 religious denominations and ethnic communities from the Odesa oblast signed a joint statement condemning the February 17-18 desecration in Odesa of Holocaust memorials, a Jewish cemetery, and a memorial to a well-known Odesan Jew (reftel). [...]	2007-02-28 15:18:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV UNHRC UP
07KYIV540	UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH LOBBIES EUROPE VIA BERLIN [...] (C) Summary: Seeking to gain public support from Germany for his government's goal of promoting Ukraine's integration with Europe, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych made a one-day working visit February 28 to Berlin, meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and addressing a group of German [...]	2007-03-06 15:34:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECIN ETRD ENRG EUN GM UP
07KYIV546	UKRAINE: ENGAGING UKRAINE ON MISSILE DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary: We passed reftel points and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Director LTG Obering's powerpoint presentation to MOD and MFA officials February 26-28. Ambassador's February 21 conversation with Presidential adviser, preeminent Ukrainian strategic thinker, and former rocket scientist Vo [...]	2007-03-07 09:14:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PL EZ UP
07KYIV552	UKRAINE/MTCR: SECURING SUPPORT FOR U.S. UAV/CRUISE [...] (C) We relayed ref A points March 7 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselor Igor Kyzym. We alerted Kyzym that the U.S. had submitted a revised proposal on Modifications to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)/Cruise Missile Criteria as MTCR POC DOC 9. Kyzym said [...]	2007-03-07 12:54:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC KSCA TSPA UP
07KYIV642	UKRAINE: LUTSENKO RAIDED, INTERROGATED BY [...] (SBU) Summary: On a busy political day that heralded a potential tectonic shift in the basic blue-orange divide in Ukrainian politics, which has existed since the November-December 2004 Orange Revolution (septel),a Prosecutor General Office (PGO) investigative team launched a seven- hour se [...]	2007-03-20 17:44:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV643	UKRAINE: ALLIANCE SHIFTS - BROAD COALITION IN THE [...] (C) Summary: Internal friction inside both the opposition and the majority coalition came to a head March 20 with the latest failed vote to approve a foreign minister seeming to spark a realignment of political forces in Ukrainian politics. The morning began with parts of the coalition seemin [...]	2007-03-20 17:49:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV UP
07KYIV645	UKRAINE: PARLIAMENT HALTS SALE OF TRADE UNION'S [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ukrainian Parliament has established a moratorium on the sale of property by the Federation of Trade Unions (FPU),the successor to Ukraine's Soviet-era trade union. The move marks a surprising turn of events in an ongoing conflict between the FPU, which controls all union [...]	2007-03-21 11:33:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PGOV UP
07KYIV646	UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO IN BRUSSELS -- THE "EU [...] (U) Summary: Ukrainian leaders continued their tours of European capitals with President Yushchenko making Ukraine's case for EU membership during a March 8 visit to Brussels and a March 15-16 visit to Copenhagen, echoing the points Prime Minister Yanukovych made during his February 28 working [...]	2007-03-21 14:22:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECIN ETRD ENRG UP
07KYIV654	UKRAINE/BELARUS SUMMIT STILL PLANNED FOR MARCH [...] (C) Summary: Plans are still proceeding for a Kyiv summit between President Yushchenko and Belarusan President Lukashenko, according to Deputy Foreign Minister Veselovsky during a meeting with EUR DAS Kramer, NSC Director Sterling, and the Ambassador. Kramer warned Veselovsky that such a mee [...]	2007-03-22 08:57:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PHUM ENRG EPET BO UP
07KYIV656	UKRAINE ACTION REQUEST: UNHCR CONCERNED ABOUT DROP [...] (SBU) Note: This is an action request for Moscow DHS/CIS, Mission Geneva and PRM, retransmitting the text of reftel, slightly modified. Post requests a response to the UNHCR-Kyiv claim that U.S. refusal rates of UNHCR-Kyiv referrals in 2006 jumped by 20 percent; see para 9. 2. (C) Summar [...]	2007-03-22 13:25:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL UP UNHCR
07KYIV663	UKRAINE: DAS KRAMER DISCUSSES NATO/SECURITY ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: EUR DAS David Kramer and NSC Director Adam Sterling discussed Ukraine-NATO relations and security issues with a range of Ukrainian officials March 18-20, in addition to energy, domestic politics, Belarus, and Transnistria (septels). Presidential adviser Oleh Rybachuk described his [...]	2007-03-22 15:22:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO UP
07KYIV665	UKRAINE/MOLDOVA: TRANSNISTRIA AND BILATERAL [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Foreign Minister Veselovsky told EUR DAS Kramer, NSC Director Sterling, and Ambassador March 19 that he would continue to hold the concurrent duty as Ukrainian special negotiator for Transnistria, despite rumors to the contrary. National Security and Defense Council (NSDC [...]	2007-03-22 15:45:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS OSCE PINR RO MD UP
07KYIV666	UKRAINE: RAIDS AIMED AT LUTSENKO WIDEN TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Following the March 20 Prosecutor General Office (PGO) early morning raid on former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko's apartment (ref A),on March 21, police allegedly broke into the Kyiv office of the Anti-Criminal Choice NGO (without a warrant) headed by Lutsenko's brother S [...]	2007-03-22 15:46:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR UP
07KYIV686	UKRAINE: DAS KRAMER'S DISCUSSIONS OF DOMESTIC [...] (C) Summary: In a wide range of conversations EUR DAS David Kramer and NSC Director Adam Sterling conducted with Ukrainian officials and commentators March 18-20, the overriding theme in domestic politics was that all branches of the government were consumed with the ongoing struggle for polit [...]	2007-03-23 15:31:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV687	UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH DECRIES OPPOSITION'S [...] (C) Summary. Although disappointed by President Yushchenko's continued rebuffs to his invitations to work together, PM Yanukovych told visiting EUR DAS David Kramer, NSC Director Adam Sterling and the Ambassador that he remained open to a broad coalition in parliament and cooperation. Yanu [...]	2007-03-23 15:33:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV688	UKRAINE: 3/23 WTO UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Ukraine has received comments regarding recently passed WTO-related legislation from members of its WTO Working Party and is working hard to respond to these comments quickly. Legislative drafting on issues of importance to the USG, such as IPR, biotechnology, and VAT on agricu [...]	2007-03-23 15:41:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP
07KYIV693	UKRAINE: NEW ECONOMY MINISTER ONBOARD FOR WTO [...] (C) Summary: At a March 23 meeting with Ambassador, new Minister of Economy Anatoliy Kinakh described Ukraine's integration with Europe as "irreversible." Ambassador encouraged Kinakh to help find a solution to the OPIC/Alliant issue, as well as a laundry list of other important bilateral iss [...]	2007-03-27 07:14:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV EINV WTRO UP
07KYIV702	UKRAINE: THE STRUGGLE FOR SEVASTOPOL [...] (C) Summary: Sevastopol continues to be in the middle of a tug-of-war between Ukraine and Russian for the hearts and minds of its residents. Moscow Mayor Luzhkov visited Sevastopol February 21, to open a renovated Moscow-funded Russian Culture and Information Center, to visit the Russian Bla [...]	2007-03-29 08:46:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RS UP
07KYIV705	UKRAINE: AMBASSADOR ADDRESSES PARLIAMENT COMMITTEE [...] (C) Ambassador had a discussion on U.S. missile defense plans March 26 with parliament (Verkhovna Rada) Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Vitaly Shybko. Shybko said his Committee on Foreign Affairs and the other committee of jurisdiction, the Committee on National Security and Defense, had e [...]	2007-03-29 09:36:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MCAP PINR RS PL EZ US UP
07KYIV746	UKRAINE: NEW ELECTIONS OR BROAD COALITION? ALL [...] (C) President Yushchenko, who has increasingly few options in his losing struggle with Prime Minister Yanukovych, is being pushed hard by his team to disband the Rada, but the President has not yet abandoned hope of reaching accommodation with Yanukovych. At the urging of opposition leader Ty [...]	2007-03-29 15:26:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV751	UKRAINE: MOD SAYS NO MANPADS FOR COUNTERMEASURES [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 3. 2. (S) Summary: During a March 28 meeting with Ukrspetsexport and Ministry of Defense representatives, an MOD official said that in response to the U.S. request for additional MANPADS to be used for counter measures development, other than the de [...]	2007-03-30 12:35:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	MARR MOPS PREL PARM NATO PINR US UP
07KYIV756	CREATION OF A GUAM SECRETARIAT CENTRAL TO GUAM'S [...] (C) Summary. First Deputy Minister of Georgia and GUAM National Coordinator Valery Chechelashvili sounded an optimistic note during our conversation with him after the March 15-16 GUAM Council of National Coordinators (CNC) meeting. Chechelashvili, slated to be GUAM's new Secretary General o [...]	2007-03-30 14:13:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM MARR RS AZ GG MD UP
07KYIV757	UKRAINE: PRESIDENT-PM NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE; [...] (C) Summary. President Yushchenko and PM Yanukovych's late-night March 29 meeting ended without agreement, with the PM's team pushing for a "gentleman's agreement" and the President's advisors arguing for a written, negotiated "rules of the game" to resolve the political conflict over the c [...]	2007-03-30 14:46:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV758	(S) UKRAINE: YUZHNOYE LIQUID FUEL ROCKET [...] (S) We relayed reftel points March 30 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Director Volodymyr Belashov regarding U.S. concerns about Ukrainian Yuzhnoye company's cooperation with Chinese 11 Institute on development of the RD-120 liquid-fuel rocket engine. Counselor [...]	2007-03-30 15:00:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL MTCRE CH UP
07KYIV764	UKRAINE: AN AD HOC ISRAEL POLICY -- BALANCING [...] (C) Summary: Israel is home to a half million Ukrainian immigrants and the two countries had $372 million in bilateral trade in 2006. Despite Ukraine's remaining Jewish population and the large diaspora in Israel, Ukraine's relations with the Jewish State were characterized as "ad hoc" by se [...]	2007-04-02 03:34:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IS UP
07KYIV779	UKRAINE: MISSILE DEFENSE QUESTIONS FOR U.S.; [...] (U) This is an action request for missile defense related information. See para 5. 2. (SBU) We met with MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Director General Volodymyr Belashov at his request March 30. Belashov expressed his appreciation for Missile Defense Agenc [...]	2007-04-02 15:06:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MCAP PINR RS EZ PL US UP
07KYIV784	UKRAINE: CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS OVER RADA DISMISSAL [...] (C) Summary: Justifying his April 2 decree dismissing the Rada (parliament) and calling pre-term elections for May 27, President Yushchenko told G-7 ambassadors April 3 that new elections were a democratic instrument to resolve a political crisis that stemmed from a parliamentary crisis. The [...]	2007-04-03 13:53:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL PHUM PINR UP
07KYIV789	UKRAINE: INTERPRETING THE CONSTITUTION: NO CLEAR [...] Summary and Comment. As Ukraine's political crisis proceeds, both sides argue that they have the constitutional and legal upperhand and are acting in support of democracy and the rule of law. President Yushchenko has dismissed the Rada, and his team maintains the Rada's powers have been curt [...]	2007-04-04 15:54:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV790	UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO'S CALL FOR MAY 27 PRE-TERM [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 2, after several days of tense negotiations and peaceful street demonstrations, President Yushchenko announced his intention to dissolve the Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) and set May 27 as the date for new elections; his decree was officially promulgated April 3. On Ap [...]	2007-04-04 16:32:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV804	UKRAINE: PRESSURE ON PECHERSK COURT INCREASES, [...] (SBU) Summary: The Pechersk District Court became involved in the struggle over President Yushchenko's decree dismissing the Rada and setting new elections April 3 after it threw out an April 2 Rada resolution to replace the current Central Election Commission (CEC) with the previous one led [...]	2007-04-05 14:59:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL UP
07KYIV818	Ukraine: Message on Designation of Iran's DIO Delivered [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-06 13:03:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KNNP PARM KN IR UP
07KYIV82	UKRAINE WTO UPDATE: JANUARY 12 [...] (SBU) Summary: Ukraine's Parliament passed a resolution on January 9 calling for a speedy conclusion to WTO accession negotiations. The GOU is working on five outstanding regulatory acts, to be issued at the Cabinet of Ministers level or below, which are required for accession. These five act [...]	2007-01-12 13:25:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP
07KYIV823	UKRAINE: RADA PASSES ANNUAL MILITARY EXERCISE [...] (SBU) The Ukrainian parliament (Rada) passed the annual exercise authorization legislation April 6, two days after rejecting it. Two U.S. exercises -- Rapid Trident and Sea Breeze -- are included in the authorization, as is one Ukrainian-Russian exercise. Yushchenko now has 15 days to sign [...]	2007-04-06 14:06:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS MASS PREL UP
07KYIV824	UKRAINE: POWER MINISTERS GIVE ASSURANCES THAT [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with Defense Minister Hrytsenko, Minister of Interior Tsushko, and acting head of the Security Service (SBU) Nalyvaichenko April 6 to discuss the security situation during the ongoing political crisis. Hrytsenko was the most optimistic of the three, giving assurance [...]	2007-04-06 15:09:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM MOPS UP
07KYIV841	UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH, YUSHCHENKO SEEKING [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador's separate conversations with Prime Minister Yanukovych and President Yushchenko on April 9 and 10, respectively, indicated both sides expressed preference for resolving the current crisis via a political compromise instead of a Constitutional Court (CC) ruling or goin [...]	2007-04-10 15:56:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV852	Ukraine: Plans for BSEC Chairmanship [...] Summary: Ukraine envisions an ambitious agenda for its chairmanship of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization (BSEC) from November 2007 to April 2008, according to MFA Director for Economic Cooperation, Serhiy Korsunsky. During a recent meeting with Econoff, he solicited U.S. involvem [...]	2007-04-11 14:10:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PREL EFIN JA UP
07KYIV853	UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH AND YUSHCHENKO AGREE EU [...] (C) Summary: During his March 27 visit to Brussels, PM Yanukovych said he wanted Ukraine to adopt a long-term strategy for EU membership and thanked his interlocutors for their help so far. Echoing President Yushchenko's earlier comments, Yanukovych urged the incorporation of a reference to U [...]	2007-04-11 15:46:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECIN ETRD ENRG EUN UP
07KYIV871	UKRAINE: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT TAKES UP [...] (SBU) Summary. As President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yanukovych meet daily to try to reach a political compromise to end the crisis sparked by Yushchenko's April 2 decree to dismiss the Rada and call new elections and the coalition/Rada's refusal to accept the decree, attention has focuse [...]	2007-04-12 07:39:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV88	UKRAINE: AIRCRAFT ENGINE BUILDER MOTOR SICH AND [...] (C) Summary/comment: Ukraine's aircraft engine and industrial gas turbine producer Motor Sich occupies a dominant position in both Ukraine and Russia's aviation industries. The venerable company, which began producing aircraft engines in 1915, remains dependent on Russia for 41 percent of it [...]	2007-01-12 15:05:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM ETTC EAIR EIND PINR PREL RS UP
07KYIV887	MITIGATING THE PIPEDREAM: THE ODESSA-BRODY-DRUZHBA ROUTE: A [...] (SBU) Summary. On April 5, Managing Director for Ukraine of US-based GlobalNet Financial Solutions, Geoff Berlin, told EconCouns of GlobalNet's aspirations to resurrect the idea of using the Odessa-Brody-Druzhba (OBD) route to move Caspian crude through Ukraine, Slovakia, and the Czech Republi [...]	2007-04-13 07:47:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET ECON UP
07KYIV89	UKRAINE: POWER PLAY - PM YANUKOVYCH DROPS [...] (C) Summary. After a pleasant January 10 meeting between President Yushchenko, Prime Minister Yanukovych, and Rada Speaker Moroz aimed at starting 2007 on a more cooperative note, Ukraine's political dynamics took another unexpected turn January 12, with Regions abandoning cooperation with Yu [...]	2007-01-12 16:36:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV897	UKRAINE: 4/13 WTO UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Top GOU officials continue to express concerns that USG comments on WTO-related legislation and the draft Working Party Report will slow down the accession process. EU diplomats in Kyiv have similarly inquired whether the comments signify a U.S. delaying tactic. Post has activ [...]	2007-04-13 13:14:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP
07KYIV906	UKRAINE: POLITICIANS CALCULATING ON [...] (C) Summary. While President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yanukovych continue to negotiate over whether there will be new Rada elections at some point this year, political playmakers from all parties are angling for best outcomes in the face of possible political compromise or snap elections. [...]	2007-04-13 15:36:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV921	UKRAINE: CODEL PRICE GREETED BY RADA CRISIS, HAS [...] (SBU) Summary. The visit Codel Price and members of the House Democracy Assistance Commission to Kyiv on April 1-3 came at a contested moment for the development of Ukraine's parliament--a constitutional crisis over whether the ruling coalition majority was formed unconstitutionally and whether [...]	2007-04-17 13:07:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV922	UKRAINE: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT BEGINS HEARINGS ON [...] (SBU) Summary. The Constitutional Court began full court hearings on April 17 into the constitutionality of Yushchenko's April 2 decree dismissing the Rada and calling new elections, while accusations of bribery, threats, and political pressure swirled around the proceedings. Despite earlier [...]	2007-04-17 15:52:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM UP
07KYIV924	UKRAINE: NEW FOREIGN MINISTER YATSENYUK -- A [...] (SBU) Summary: Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukraine's newest and youngest foreign minister, is extremely bright and, although he has no previous experience at MFA, will pick up the full scope of his new responsibilities quickly. He puts an emphasis on the economic side of his new duties, since he has [...]	2007-04-18 05:45:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ETRD PREL PINR UP
07KYIV929	UKRAINE: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT PROCEEDINGS RESUME [...] (SBU) Summary. Constitutional Court deliberations of the constitutionality of President Yushchenko's April 2 decree dismissing the Rada and calling new elections resumed April 18 after a brief delay caused by opposition efforts to impede access to the court. Opposition leaders Tymoshenko, Ky [...]	2007-04-18 14:49:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
07KYIV939	UKRAINE: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT HEARINGS, DAY THREE: [...] (SBU) Summary. The Constitutional Court's hearings on Yushchenko's April 2 decree went more smoothly April 19 than the previous day, as Presidential Court representative Shapoval concluded his presentation and fielded questions. Shapoval, a former Constitutional Court judge and one of Ukraine [...]	2007-04-19 15:00:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV941	UKRAINE: UKRTRANSNAFTA HEAD DISCUSSES ODESA-BRODY [...] (SBU) Summary: Meeting with Ambassador, Ihor Kyriushyn, the chairman of Ukraine's state oil transport company UkrTransNafta and Geoff Berlin of GlobalNet Financial Solutions reviewed plans to transport Caspian crude to Europe via the Odesa-Brody-Druzhba route (reftel). Kyriushyn felt the prop [...]	2007-04-20 06:00:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG PREL RS UP
07KYIV950	UKRAINE TAKES BACKWARD STEP ON AG IMPORT RULES [...] (SBU) Summary: Ukraine's Rada (parliament) passed a law on April 10 reinstating mandatory certification of all imported agricultural products. Should it enter into force, this measure would undo progress made last November and damage ongoing efforts to resolve problems with U.S. meat imports. [...]	2007-04-20 14:13:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP
07KYIV960	UKRAINE: POLITICAL COMPROMISE SOUGHT AS COURT [...] (C) Summary. As President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yanukovych appeared to inch closer to a political compromise, proceedings in the Constitutional Court (CC) April 20-23 indicated that the hearings will probably continue right up to the May 1 holiday. Following a lengthy closed-door Apri [...]	2007-04-23 14:13:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV971	UKRAINE: SCUD INVENTORY REQUEST DELIVERED [...] (S) We delivered ref A points renewing our request for a SCUD missile inventory March 30 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Director Volodymyr Belashov. Belashov noted the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense had the responsibility for providing the inventory and was w [...]	2007-04-24 14:01:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	ETTC PARM PREL MTCRE MNUC UP
07KYIV973	UKRAINE: YATSENYUK'S FIRST VISIT TO WASHINGTON AS [...] (C) Summary: Arseniy Yatsenyuk is familiar with Washington as a former Economics Minister and acting and deputy head of the Ukrainian National Bank, but his visit at the end of April will be his first opportunity to discuss the full range of foreign policy issues. With respect to the bilateral [...]	2007-04-24 14:49:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PREL PGOV ETRD US UP
07KYIV975	UKRAINE: COURT CASE MOVING ALONG SLOWLY, KYIV QUIET [...] (C) Summary. Major political forces in Kyiv were relatively quiet on April 24 with all eyes still on the Constitutional Court where the Cabinet of Ministers representative Nimchenko continued to present the coalition's case. Echoing the presentation of Rada representatives, Nimchenko argued t [...]	2007-04-24 15:23:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV976	UKRAINE: DEFMIN HRYTSENKO OPTIMISTIC ON POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador and DATT met with Minister of Defense Anatoliy Hrytsenko on April 23, 2007 to discuss command and control of military forces, potential uses of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Interior in times of crisis, Hrytsenko,s inclusion on the party list of Our Ukraine (OU) [...]	2007-04-25 03:23:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS UP
07KYIV988	UKRAINE: COURT WRAPPING UP OPEN HEARINGS AS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Constitutional Court moved into the closed deliberation phase late on April 25, amid rumors that a judgment was expected by the end of Friday April 27 (although others predict a later decision after the May 1-9 holidays). Court deliberations April 24 had concluded late in [...]	2007-04-25 14:47:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07KYIV992	MUNICIPAL HEATING SITUATION IN UKRAINE STILL CRITICAL [...] (U) Summary: Many GOU agencies and international development organizations agree on the urgency of improving reliability and efficiency in the municipal heating and combined heat and power (CHP) sector, which accounts for about 16% of Ukraine's total natural gas consumption. Despite the clear [...]	2007-04-26 12:08:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET ECON UP
07KYIV993	MUNICIPAL HEATING SITUATION IN UKRAINE STILL CRITICAL [...] (U) Summary: Many GOU agencies and international development organizations agree on the urgency of improving reliability and efficiency in the municipal heating and combined heat and power (CHP) sector, which accounts for about 16% of Ukraine's total natural gas consumption. Despite the clear [...]	2007-04-26 12:36:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET ECON UP
07KYIV998	UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO DECREES NEW ELECTION DATE TO [...] (SBU) Summary. President Yushchenko issued a new decree on early parliamentary elections late on April 25 in response to increasing indications that Constitutional Court was ready to deliver a quick ruling against the decree which would have bolstered the coalition's side in ongoing President- [...]	2007-04-26 15:05:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
07LONDON1893	(C) ROSUKRENERGO: HM TREASURY TO ALERT REGULATORS [...] (C) Embassy delivered reftel demarche to the head of HM Treasury's Financial Crime Team Sean Byrne and to Foreign and Commonwealth Office desk officer Jasper Thornton. Byrne said that issues surrounding a possible initial public offering (IPO) for RosUkrEnergo "resonate well here," noting that [...]	2007-05-18 09:14:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KCRM PREL UP UK
07MADRID167	TRANSNISTRIA: RUSSIANS WARN AGAINST PREMATURE [...] (U) January 25, 2007; 11:30 a.m.- 6:00 p.m.; Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Madrid, Spain. 2. (U) Participants: Observers United States - DAS David Kramer European Union - Amb. Adriaan Jacobovits, EU Special Representative Mediators Ukraine - Deputy FM Andriy Veselovsky Russian Federati [...]	2007-02-01 08:50:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PREL PBTS MD RS UP SP
07MINSK198	UKRAINIAN CHARGE ON LUKASHENKO-YUSHCHENKO MEETING [...] (C) Ukrainian Charge Aksana Kitsun assured DCM March 5 that the Ukrainians want any meeting between Presidents Yushchenko and Lukashenko to bring concrete, positive results. She reported that Ukrainian Presidential Secretariat Deputy Head for Foreign Policy Oleksandr Chaliy SIPDIS met wit [...]	2007-03-06 14:20:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MNUC PINR BO UP
07MINSK200	DELIVERED JCIC-DIP-07-001: U.S RESPONSE TO RUSSIAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-07 14:42:00	Embassy Minsk	SECRET	KACT PARM UP US START JCIC BO
07MINSK311	DELIVERED JCIC-07-001, 002, 003 [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-16 14:35:00	Embassy Minsk	SECRET	KACT PARM UP US START JCIC BO
07MINSK452	DELIVERED JCIC-DIP-07-004 [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-29 15:47:00	Embassy Minsk	SECRET	KACT PARM UP US START JCIC BO
07MINSK546	DELIVERED JCIC-DIP-07-006 [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-25 15:03:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	KACT PARM UP US START JCIC BO
07MOSCOW1316	RUSSIA-GEORGIA, TRANSNISTRIA: TOUGH TALK FROM DFM [...] (C) DFM Grigoriy Karasin showed little flexibility when Ambassador pressed him on relations with Georgia March 26. Karasin warned that a Georgian application to the European Court of Human Rights over last autumn's deportations would lead to a sharp Russian reaction. He said no process of nor [...]	2007-03-26 13:40:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MARR MOPS OSCE MD BO UP KZ GG RS
07MOSCOW1478	UKRAINIAN CRISIS: INITIAL REACTIONS FROM MOSCOW [...] (C) In the wake of President Yushchenko's decision to disband the Rada, the GOR issued a statement early April 3 urging Ukrainian political forces to demonstrate wisdom and responsibility, and to act within the law. State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Konstantin Kosachev termed Yus [...]	2007-04-03 16:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP RS
07MOSCOW1552	UKRAINIAN CRISIS: "NO SHARP MOVEMENT" FROM MOSCOW [...] (C) The GOR continues to keep a cautious but close watch over the unfolding crisis in Ukraine. In private, Russian leaders urge that the US and Russia advocate quietly for a constitutional resolution. DFM Karasin told the Ambassador and DAS Kramer to expect "no sharp movement" from the Russi [...]	2007-04-06 16:54:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP RS
07MOSCOW1631	UKRAINE: RUSSIAN OFFICIALS CIRCUMSPECT WHILE DUMA [...] (C) GOR officials assured the Ambassador April 10 that the Russian government would continue to be an attentive observer of the Ukrainian political crisis while avoiding direct public involvement. Russian Presidential Foreign Affairs Advisor Sergey Prikhodko told the Ambassador that Russia w [...]	2007-04-11 14:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP RS
07MOSCOW1809	UKRAINE: GOR WAITING FOR COMPROMISE [...] (C) Since the early-April start of the Ukrainian government crisis, the GOR has consistently maintained that it is an internal Ukrainian affair and not amenable to Russia's overt involvement. The Ukrainian FM Yatsenyuk's April 16 visit was portrayed as "business as usual," during which the t [...]	2007-04-19 13:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP RS
07MOSCOW2128	ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRIED'S MEETING WITH RUSSIAN [...] (C) EUR A/S Daniel Fried and Russian DFM Grigoriy Karasin focused on Georgia and Ukraine during an April 23 discussion in Moscow lasting over an hour. Fried noted recent progress from the Georgian side (the release of an Abkhaz official arrested by the Georgians, toned-down rhetoric) and call [...]	2007-05-08 14:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV ETRD PHUM OSCE UNSC GG UP RS
07MOSCOW4065	PUTIN-YUSCHENKO INTERGOVERNMENTAL COMMISSION [...] (C) The scheduled August 15-20 meeting between Presidents Putin and Yuschenko within the framework of the Russian-Ukrainian Intergovernmental Commission was postponed to late October or early November. MFA Ukraine Desk Head Vyacheslav Yelagin told us the GOU wanted to focus on the September 3 [...]	2007-08-21 07:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO UP RS
07MOSCOW4462	PROPOSAL TO HOST NRRC CONSULTATIONS PASSED [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-11 13:51:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BO KACT KZ NR PARM RS ST UP
07MOSCOW5008	NONPAPER RESPONSE TO RUSSIA'S START FORMAT 81 [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-16 03:26:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM KACT KREL START JCIC US BO KZ RS UP
07MOSCOW5265	INFORMATION REGARDING PLANNED U.S. MODIFICATIONS [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-02 14:48:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM KACT START JCIC US RS BO KZ UP
07MOSCOW5848	GOR NOT DISAPPOINTED WITH TYMOSHENKO'S COMEBACK [...] (C) Summary. Within a few hours after the election of Yulia Tymoshenko as Ukraine's new Prime Minister, MFA officials welcomed her "return", while expressing relief that many bilateral decisions put on hold in the absence of a "functioning" government in Ukraine could be made and implemented [...]	2007-12-18 16:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP RS
07MOSCOW5925	JCIC POINTS PASSED [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-21 14:46:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM KACT START JCIC US RS BO KZ UP
07MOSCOW871	MOSCOW MAYOR IN SEVASTOPOL: MFA DISTANCES ITSELF [...] (C) Moscow Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov's February 21 rant in Sevastopol about Russian interests in Crimea merited modest coverage on the major evening television news programs, but did not have much resonance in GOR official circles. The GOR continues to emphasize the "new maturity" in Russian-Ukrai [...]	2007-03-01 13:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP RS
07OTTAWA133	CANADA KEEN TO PARTICIPATE IN U.S.-UKRAINE [...] (C) Responding to reftel, on December 24 Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Global Partnership Program Director General Troy Lulashnyk told us that Canada would be pleased to participate in any non-proliferation discussions with the Ukrainians that the U.S. thinks a [...]	2007-01-25 17:05:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM EWWT CW PHSA EAID PINR UP UK PL CA
07PARIS2606	GOF: NO GSP FOR MINSK; BEWARE ANOTHER KOZAK PLAN [...] SUMMARY: (C) The MFA desk officer for Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova told poloff on June 14 that France fully supported the EU's decision to remove Belarus from the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program and saw it as a test for Lukashenko. On Moldova, Gosset was concerned about Presi [...]	2007-06-17 13:47:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL XG EU BO MD UP RS FR
07PRAGUE760	INFORMATION ON U.S.-RUSSIA MISSILE DEFENSE [...] (SBU) A/DCM delivered information on suggested U.S.-Russia expert-level missile defense consultations to Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Tomas Pojar and the Czech inter-ministerial missile defense working group June 25. A/DCM informed Pojar the consultations should take place in the next we [...]	2007-06-26 08:58:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MNUC OPRC PARM PREL RS AJ EZ PL UP
07PRISTINA71	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO NANCY IRIS AND ROLF OLSON [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to PRM/ECA Deputy Director Nancy Iris and PRM/ECA Program Officer Rolf Olson to visit Pristina January 28 to January 31, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to examine the state of UNHCR contingency planning in Kosovo and the environment [...]	2007-01-26 09:27:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC BK MW MONTENEGRO OTRA PREF SR UP ZL
07SEOUL3577	NUCLEAR SMUGGLING OUTREACH INITIATIVE: DOE-KOREA [...] (U) Per reftel authorization, the Ambassador designated Pol M/C Joseph Y. Yun to sign the "Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea and the Department of Energy of the United States of America for Cooperation on the Global Threat Re [...]	2007-12-20 05:46:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP PARM PREL ETTC KS UP
07STATE140068	UKRAINE: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS [...] Following an Embassy review which identified no derogatory information, the Department reviewed its files and identified no derogatory information on the following the following Ukrainian State Border Guard Service (SBGS) officers who will travel to the United States from October 6 to 13, 200 [...]	2007-10-04 16:56:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM UP
07STATE140070	SUBJECT: UKRAINE: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR HUMAN [...] Following an Embassy review which identified no derogatory information, the Department reviewed its files and identified no derogatory information on the following Ukrainian State Border Guard Service (SBGS) officers who will visit the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center/Department of Hom [...]	2007-10-04 16:57:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM UP
07STATE149865	UKRAINE: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS [...] Following an Embassy review which identified no derogatory information, the Department reviewed its files and identified no derogatory information on the following Ukrainian officers who will attend a Strategy Meeting for the GUAM Task Force on Counter Terrorism on October 29 and a Post-Opera [...]	2007-10-29 13:57:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PGOV PHUM SNAR UP
07STATE149866	UKRAINE: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS [...] Following an Embassy review which identified no derogatory information, the Department reviewed its files and identified no derogatory information on the following Security Service of Ukraine personnel who will attend the Program on Terrorism and Security Studies (PTSS 08-2) at the George C. [...]	2007-10-29 14:02:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PGOV PHUM SNAR UP
07STATE149868	UKRAINE: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS [...] Following an Embassy review which identified no derogatory information, the Department reviewed its files and identified no derogatory information on the following individuals from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine to attend training courses at the Center of Excellency for Stability [...]	2007-10-29 14:06:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM UP
07STATE149870	UKRAINE: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS [...] Following an Embassy review which identified no derogatory information, the Department reviewed its files and identified no derogatory information on the following personnel of the Security Service of Ukraine who will participate in the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) Regional Drug Un [...]	2007-10-29 14:09:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PGOV PHUM SNAR UP
07STATE161304	(S) DEMARCHE ON POTENTIAL COOPERATION BETWEEN [...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Kyiv please see para 6. 2. (S) Background/Objective: The United States has information indicating that as of late August 2007, Ukraine's Arsenal Design Bureau was planning to host a delegation from the Beijing Institute of Aerospace Control Device [...]	2007-11-28 21:50:00	Secretary of State	SECRET	ETTC PARM PREL MTCRE MNUC UP CH
07STATE83491	THE UNITED STATES AND THE GUAM ORGANIZATION -- [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) The 2007 Organization for Democracy and Economic Development - GUAM Summit in Baku is an opportunity for the U.S. to bolster this organization, both by complimenting GUAM on its achievements and by urging establishment of its Se [...]	2007-06-14 21:27:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OVIP EAID ECON KCRM AJ GG MD UP
07TASHKENT971	YANUKOVYCH'S TASHKENT VISIT MARKS GRADUAL PROGRESS [...] (C) Summary: The Ukrainian Ambassador discussed with Charge and Poloff the recent visit to Tashkent of Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. He characterized the Ukraine-Uzbekistan relationship as complicated, particularly since the Orange Revolution, and said that Ukraine is approachin [...]	2007-05-17 00:26:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PRGOV ECON PINR UP UZ
07THEHAGUE1447	NETHERLANDS:DEBRIEF OF JULY 30 U.S.-RUSSIA EXPERTS [...] Poloff delivered reftel on U.S.-Russia experts meeting on missile defense cooperation to Dutch MFA Senior Advisor of Security Affairs and Non-Proliferation Frank van Beuningen. Van Beunigen appreciated the information. GALLAGHER [...]	2007-08-03 13:16:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL NATO UP AJ CZ PL RS
07THEHAGUE643	STATE SECRETARY TIMMERMANS ON EU CONSITUTION, [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met April 4 with Frans Timmermans, the new Dutch State Secretary for European Affairs. Timmermans expressed hopes that EU members could agree on a compromise EU treaty prior to the end of the German Presidency. He reiterated his personal commitment to a continued Dutch [...]	2007-04-05 15:31:00	Embassy The Hague	SECRET	PREL EUN NATO PINR AF BO RS UP NL
07TOKYO2737	JAPAN WILL HAVE FIRST MEETING WITH "GUAM" COUNTRIES [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-18 05:57:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OVIP EAID ECON KCRM AJ GG MD UP JA
07TOKYO436	JAPAN ASKS ABOUT U.S.-UKRAINE RELATIONS [...] (U) This message contains an action request in para 2. 2. (C) In the course of a separate conversation on FM Aso's recent visit to Eastern Europe, MOFA Central and South Eastern Europe Division Deputy Director Hiroki Takabayashi observed that not all of the countries subsumed in Aso's "Arc [...]	2007-01-31 08:04:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UP JA
07USNATO410	NATO-UKRAINE COUNCIL MARKS TENTH ANNIVERSARY JULY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 9, the 27 members of the NATO-Ukraine Commission (NUC) met in Ambassadorial session at NATO headquarters to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the signing of the Charter on a Distinctive Partnership which established the NUC. Allies commended Ukraine's contributions to [...]	2007-07-11 16:02:00	Mission USNATO	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL NATO UP

07USNATO89	USNATO WELCOMES JAMES STARKEY FOR VCC EXPERTS [...] Mission welcomes Mr. James Stakey to Brussels for the February 12-13 VCC Meetings. Control officer for the visit is Don Sheehan, work tel:(32)2-724-3486 and fax: (32)2-724-3421, home tel: (32) 2-779-2047, cell: (32)476-663-647. Admin. support is Lucia Krul (32) 2-724-3233. 2. Hotel rese [...]	2007-02-12 16:03:00	Mission USNATO	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AMGT NATO OTRA PARM UP
07VIENNA919	UKRAINIAN PM YANUKOVYCH ASKS AUSTRIAN CHANCELLOR [...] (U) Austrian media has prominently reported on Ukrainian Prime Minister Yanukovych's April 5 news conference, in which he announced that he had asked Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer to mediate the political crisis in Ukraine. Austrian press reports quoted Yanukovych as pointing to Austr [...]	2007-04-06 11:11:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AU UP
07VILNIUS340	DAS DAVID KRAMER'S MAY 11 VISIT TO VILNIUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 11, EUR DAS David Kramer provided the GOL an account of his recent visit to Belarus and delivered the message that the USG and its allies must keep pressure on Belarusian President Lukashenko until he takes concrete steps toward reform. His GOL interlocutors were skeptical [...]	2007-05-16 07:02:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV LT BO UP
07WARSAW234	POLAND: ENERGY UPDATE [...] (U) This is an action cable, see paras 5, 7, 8 2. (C) Summary. The GOP continues to pursue the purchase of Transpetrol assets from Yukos International. The GOP remains concerned that the government of Slovakia will not support a GOP purchase. The GOP started negotiating a contract fo [...]	2007-02-05 07:44:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL PO RS UP KZ AG GM
07WARSAW31	Poland: GOP Unconcerned about Druzba Oil Cut [...] (U) Polish Deputy Minister of Economy Piotr Naimski confirmed that oil supply to Poland through the Druzba oil pipeline from Belarus was cut on January 7 at approximately 2200, reinstated at 0300, then cut it again at approximately 0600 on January 8. One hundred percent of Polish oil supply [...]	2007-01-08 13:32:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ECON PREL PGOV PL RS BO UP GM
07WARSAW33	Poland: GOP Unconcerned about Druzba Oil Cut [...] (U) Polish Deputy Minister of Economy Piotr Naimski confirmed that oil supply to Poland through the Druzba oil pipeline from Belarus was cut on January 7 at approximately 2200, reinstated at 0300, then cut it again at approximately 0600 on January 8. One hundred percent of Polish oil supply [...]	2007-01-08 14:15:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ECON PREL PGOV PL RS BO UP GM
08ASHGABAT1487	TURKMENISTAN: MORE HURDLES IN A CHALLENGING [...] (C) SUMMARY: A resident IFI representative recently shared reasons for construction delays at some sites in Ashgabat: credit problems and a breakdown in the cement supply chain. According to this source, a Turkish industrial magnate active in Turkmenistan has said the Turkmen are consistent [...]	2008-11-13 12:11:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	EIND EFIN ETRD RU TX TU UP UZ AORC
08ASHGABAT173	TURKMENISTAN: UKRAINE STUMBLES AS IT SEEKS TO [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Ukraine's representation in Turkmenistan is continuing to have a difficult time reviving its bilateral diplomatic and business relationship. Ukrainian diplomats are showing deep interest in the frequent arriva [...]	2008-02-05 07:06:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EPET UP CH IR TX
08ASHGABAT295	TURKMENISTAN'S BERDIMUHAMEDOV LAYS DOWN MARKERS TO [...] (S) SUMMARY: During a February 28 meeting in Ashgabat, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov told Coordinator for Eurasian Energy Diplomacy Ambassador Steven Mann: -- He rejects the concept of Gazprom as monopolist; it's Turkmenistan's key economic partner; -- He is strongly irked at Azerb [...]	2008-03-03 06:31:00	Embassy Ashgabat	SECRET	PGOV PREL ECON EPET UP TU RS AJ TX
08ASHGABAT300	TURKMENISTAN: UKRAINIAN INDUSTRIALIST MENDS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: With a series of diplomatic and commercial forays in January and February, the Ukrainian government appeared to be aggressively working to resolve contractual issues that have stalled its relations with Turkmen [...]	2008-03-04 11:38:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON EINV UP TX
08ASHGABAT669	TURKMENISTAN: DELL INC. TAKES ANOTHER LOOK; SEES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Dell Inc. Regional Manager for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) (except Russia and Ukraine) from Dell Inc. visited Ashgabat to investigate reshaping their business in Turkmenistan. Dell has been active in Turkmenistan since 2006, mostly selling workstations to t [...]	2008-05-27 12:35:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD TINT KZ RS UP TX
08ASHGABAT748	TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMEDOV FOLLOWS HIS OWN [...] (C) SUMMARY: At the June 6 CIS Summit in St. Petersburg, President Berdimuhamedov reaffirmed Turkmenistan's neutrality and held bilateral meetings. While expressing support for the relatively new goal of expanding economic ties among the CIS states, he again reminded attendees and observer [...]	2008-06-12 06:42:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EINV KCIS RS UP TX
08ATHENS1018	GREEK MFA ON JULY 22-23 GAERC ISSUES [...] (C) On 15 July, PolOfficer and PolAssistant delivered ref A points and discussed issues likely to be addressed at the July 22-23 EU Foreign Ministers' meeting (GAERC) with MFA European Correspondent Antonia Katsourou. She responded with the following points: -- Iran: Katsourou said Greec [...]	2008-07-16 14:41:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PGKV PREL EU GR PHUM IR SO SU CD ZI UP
08ATHENS323	GREECE/NATO: MFA NATO DIRECTOR ON MACEDONIA, [...] (C) In a March 5 meeting with A/Political Counselor, Ambassador Iraklis Asteriadis, MFA Director of the D2 Directorate for NATO and WEU Affairs, affirmed that FM Bakoyannis will tell NATO FMs at the March 6 informal that Greece cannot agree to a NATO invitation for Macedonia absent an agreeme [...]	2008-03-05 15:19:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO GR MK AF GG UP
08ATHENS342	GREECE/NATO: MFA NATO DIRECTOR ON MACEDONIA, [...] (C) In a March 5 meeting ith A/Political Counselor, Ambassador Iraklis Asteriadis, MFA Director of the D2 Directorate for NATO and WEU Affairs, affirmed that FM Bakoyannis will tell NATO FMs at the March 6 informal that Greece cannot agree to a NATO invitation for Macedona absent an agreement [...]	2008-03-07 13:29:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO GR MK AF GG UP
08ATHENS347	GREECE/NATO: MFA NATO DIRECTOR ON MACEDONIA, [...] (C) In a March 5 meeting with A/Political Counselor, Ambassador Iraklis Asteriadis, MFA Director of the D2 Directorate for NATO and WEU Affairs, affirmed that FM Bakoyannis will tell NATO FMs at the March 6 informal that Greece cannot agree to a NATO invitation for Macedonia absent an agreeme [...]	2008-03-07 13:29:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO GR MK AF GG UP
08BELMOPAN423	BELIZE RESPONSE: HIJACKING OF BELIZE-FLAGGED CARGO [...] (S) Poloff delivered reftel demarche September 27 to Mr. Oliver del Cid, Deputy Coordinator of the National Security Council Secretariat, Ministry of National Security. Mr. del Cid stated that IMMARBE, the International Merchant Marine Registry of Belize, was concerned about the welfare of t [...]	2008-09-27 21:17:00	Embassy Belmopan	SECRET	EWWT MOPS PREL PHSA XA SO RS LG UP BH
08BELMOPAN424	BELIZE RESPONSE: HIJACKING OF BELIZE-FLAGGED [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-29 16:05:00	Embassy Belmopan	SECRET	EWWT MOPS PREL PHSA XA SO RS LG UP BH
08BERLIN1542	GERMANY REMAINS STUBBORN ON MAP AND ADDITIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Top German government officials emphasized to visiting USNATO Ambassador Kurt Volker November 10-11 that Germany remains strongly opposed to granting Ukraine and Georgia member action plan (MAP) status at the December 2-3 meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers. While open to giving the appl [...]	2008-11-14 18:25:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV AF RS GG UP GM
08BERLIN1543	MERKEL OUTLINES GERMANY'S VISION FOR NATO: [...] (U) SUMMARY. In a major speech in Berlin November 10, Chancellor Merkel promoted the German concept of "networked security," emphasizing that NATO's experience in Afghanistan showed that "security cannot be achieved by military means alone." Merkel argued that the "networked security" approac [...]	2008-11-14 18:35:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR NATO EUN GM RS UP GG AF
08BERLIN1544	MERKEL OUTLINES GERMANY'S VISION FOR NATO: [...] (U) SUMMARY. In a major speech in Berlin November 10, Chancellor Merkel promoted the German concept of "networked security," emphasizing that NATO's experience in Afghanistan showed that "security cannot be achieved by military means alone." Merkel argued that the "networked security" approac [...]	2008-11-17 05:35:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR NATO EUN GM RS UP GG AF
08BERLIN1724	GERMANY ENCOURAGING UKRAINE AND RUSSIA TO SETTLE [...] (C) Summary: We discussed reftel points with the Chancellery and Foreign Office December 30. German officials confirmed that Russia has carried out an effective lobbying campaign on the question of gas debts. We were told that Germany shares U.S. goals and is encouraging Ukraine and Russia [...]	2008-12-30 16:19:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL UP EU GM
08BERLIN744	GETTING GERMANY ON BOARD FOR MAP FOR GEORGIA AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. We will have to engage regularly with the German government at very senior levels over the next several months to have any hope of getting the Germans on board with extending MAP to Georgia and Ukraine at the NATO foreign ministers meeting in December. The German "nein" at Bucha [...]	2008-06-05 14:33:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO GM RS UP GG
08BERLIN749	GERMANY/RUSSIA: CHANCELLERY VIEWS ON MAP FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. EUR Deputy Assistant Secretary David Merkel discussed Russian political developments and Ukrainian/Georgian MAP with Deputy National Security Advisor Rolf Nikel and Chancellery Director for East European and Central Asian Affairs Norman Walter June 4. Because of DAS Merkel's lon [...]	2008-06-06 11:58:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON GM RS GG UP
08BRASILIA1652	UKRAINE REQUESTS USG SUPPORT FOR UKRAINIAN-BRAZILIAN SPACE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Ukrainian Embassy in Brasilia is urging the USG to reconsider its earlier position and now support the Ukrainian-Brazilian space launch venture that will operate out of Alcantara, allowing U.S. satellite firms to benefit from these facilities. While the Ukrainians noted some [...]	2008-12-23 15:48:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC KTIA TSPA TPHY NASA UP RS BR
08BRATISLAVA161	UKRAINIANS PRESSING SLOVAKS TO BATCH CASPIAN CRUDE [...] (C) The Ukrainian pipeline operator UkrTransNafta is aggressively pushing a one-day trial to "batch" 40,000 tons of Caspian crude from Brody in Ukraine to the Kralupy refinery in the Czech Republic. The goal, according to Bratislava-based UkrTransNafta representative Mikulas Rakovsky, is to t [...]	2008-04-10 14:19:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET LO RU UP
08BRATISLAVA310	EUR DAS BRYZA'S JULY 1 VISIT TO BRATISLAVA [...] (C) Summary. EUR DAS Matt Bryza, accompanied by Ambassador Obsitnik and Pol-Econoff, met with Slovak Foreign Minister Jan Kubis on July 1 for a wide-ranging dicussion on Armenia-Azerbaijan, Georgia-Abkhazia, Turkmenistan and the Nabucco gas pipeline, Transpetrol, increased transparency in Ukr [...]	2008-07-03 18:50:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET PREL AM AJ GG TX UP RS PL
08BRATISLAVA336	GAERC: SLOVAKIA SUPPORTS U.S. POSITIONS ON UKRAINE [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points to MFA European Correspondent Albin Otruba on July 18. Otruba will include U.S. non-papers in the briefing materials acting FM Diana Strofova receives ahead of the July 22-23 GAERC meeting(FM Kubis will be on vacation at the time of the GAERC). 2. (SBU) [...]	2008-07-18 16:04:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EUN PHUM PREL PGOV IR SO SU CD ZI UP LO
08BRUSSELS1734	PDAS RIES DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN, CONGO, RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary: Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Marcie Ries met on November 5 with Vincent Mertens de Vilmars, Director for International Relations at the Ministy of Defense of Belgium. Mertens is a close advisor of Minister of Defense Pieter De Crem and a former Ambassador to Russia from B [...]	2008-11-13 17:38:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR BE AF CG GG RU UP
08BRUSSELS1746	CONGRESSMAN WEXLER'S MEETING WITH BELGIAN MFA [...] (C) Summary: On November 12, Congressman Robert Wexler, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Europe, met with Dirk Achtens, Director General for Bilateral Affairs of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Vincente Van Assche, Secretary to the Director General. B [...]	2008-11-17 16:16:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BE AF IS RU GG UP
08BRUSSELS1945	JANUARY 1 - "GROUNDHOG DAY" IN UKRAINE? [...] (SBU) Ambassador Silverberg spoke with Ukraine Ambassador to the EU Andri Veselovsky on December 22 to discuss the dispute between Russia and Ukraine over the terms of the gas supply contract. Veselovsky said the Russians claim $2 billion is due on the contract and will not enter into a new a [...]	2008-12-22 16:26:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET EUN RS UP
08BUCHAREST511	ROMANIA: BYSTROE CANAL HOPES SINKING DESPITE INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: At a recent conference in Bucharest, 48 countries - including, surprisingly, Ukraine itself - agreed that Ukraine's work on the Bystroe Canal is not compliant with the Espoo Convention. Despite this public admonishment, the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) reported th [...]	2008-06-23 11:56:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PBTS PREL SENV UP RO
08BUDAPEST940	DAS MERKEL'S CONSULTATIONS IN BUDAPEST [...] (SBU) Summary. During his September 9-11 visit to Budapest, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Russia David Merkel focused on energy and the Russia/Georgia conflict with a broad range of senior Hungarian officials. Encouraging greater visible support for Nabucco and a slow down/suspension of Sou [...]	2008-09-24 15:42:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EPET RS GG UP HU
08CHISINAU132	VORONIN: LOTS OF TALK, NO TRACTION ON TRANSNISTRIA [...] (C) Summary: On February 12, the Ambassador met with President Voronin and, separately, with Foreign Minister Andrei Stratan to discuss Transnistria (TN),Article 98, relations with Romania and Ukraine, and the upcoming Gagauzia parliamentary elections. Voronin discussed Moldovan neutrality a [...]	2008-02-13 10:03:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS EAID MARR MD RO UP
08COPENHAGEN393	DANISH VIEWS ON JULY GAERC MINISTERIAL [...] (C). In a July 18 discussion of reftel, Danish MFA European Correspondent Asif Amin informed PolOff that Denmark supports the US positions on the GAERC agenda items. Due to the FM's vacation schedule, Denmark's Ambassador in Brussels will lead the Danish delegation. Because of the FM's abse [...]	2008-07-21 06:07:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN PHUM PREL IR SO SU CD ZI UP DA
08DUBLIN428	IRELAND'S VIEWS ON JULY 22-23 GAERC ISSUES [...] (C) POLOFF delivered reftel demarche on July 12 to Pat Kelly, European Correspondent, Department of Foreign Affairs. EU Foreign Ministers will be briefed by High Representative Javier Solana following his scheduled discussions with Saeed Jalili in Geneva on June 19. They will also hear from [...]	2008-07-18 16:20:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN PHUM PREL PGOV IR SO SU CD ZI UP EI
08DUBLIN80	IRELAND'S VIEWS ON FUTURE UKRAINE EU MEMBERSHIP [...] (C) Summary: Ireland does not oppose Ukraine entry into the EU, but does not see it happening anytime soon. End summary. 2. (U) On February 12, in response to an inquiry from Washington, POLOFF spoke with Ruaidhri Dowling, Deputy Director of the Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia sec [...]	2008-02-14 13:05:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN EI UP
08GENEVA1000	JCIC-XXXIII: (U) U.S. CLOSING PLENARY STATEMENT, [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-025. 2. (U) At Paragraph 3 below is the text of the U.S. Statement that was delivered at the Closing Plenary Meeting of the Thirty-third Session of the START Treaty's Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission (JCIC),held at the U.S. Mission on November 21, 2008. [...]	2008-11-21 13:06:00	US Mission Geneva	CONFIDENTIAL	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA1001	JCIC-XXXIII: U.S. PRESS STATEMENT ON START [...] This is JCIC-XXXIII-023. 2. The text at Paragraph 3 below is the Press Statement on discussions in the Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission that are required by Article XVII concerning whether the START Treaty should be extended. The statement was delivered on November 21, 2008. [...]	2008-11-21 13:49:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA1002	JCIC-XXXIII: STATUS OF HEAVY BOMBERS AT THE [...] This is JCIC-XXXIII-024. 2. The text at Paragraph 3 below is the Unclassified Annex to the U.S. Closing Plenary Statement for JCIC-XXXIII on Status of Heavy Bombers at the Conversion or Elimination Facility at Davis Monthan Air Force Base. The Statement was delivered at the Closing Ple [...]	2008-11-21 13:49:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA1003	JCIC-XXXIII: (U) RUSSIAN FEDERATION HOSTED [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-014. 2. (U) Meeting Date: Monday, November 17, 2008 Time: 6:00 - 7:50 p.m. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) The Russian JCIC Delegation hosted a reception on November 17, 2008, at the Russian M [...]	2008-11-21 15:57:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA1004	JCIC-XXXIII: WG MEETING ON MM III RVOSI, NOVEMBER [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-016. 2. (U) Meeting Date: November 18, 2008 Time: 15:30 P.M. - 16:30 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A Working Group (WG) Meeting was held at the Russian Mission on November 18, 2008, to [...]	2008-11-21 16:02:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA1005	JCIC-XXXIII: (U) HEADS OF DELEGATION MEETING ON [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-017. 2. (U) Meeting Date: November 19, 2008 Time: 10:30 A.M. - 11:40 A.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A Heads of Delegation (HOD) Meeting was held at the U.S. Mission on November 19, 2008, [...]	2008-11-21 16:02:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA1006	JCIC-XXXIII: (U) U.S.-UKRAINE HEAD OF DELEGATION [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-021. 2. (U) Meeting Date: November 20, 2008 Time: 3:00 - 3:30 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At Ukrainian request, U.S. and Ukrainian Heads of Delegation (HOD) met to discuss and clarify th [...]	2008-11-21 16:04:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA1007	JCIC-XXXIII: (U) WORKING GROUP MEETING ON B-52 [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-018. 2. (U) Meeting Date: November 20, 2008 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 4:30 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A Working Group (WG) meeting was held at the U.S. Mission on November 19, 2008, to address [...]	2008-11-22 12:22:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA1009	JCIC-XXXIII: WORKING GROUP MEETING ON UKRAINIAN [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-020. 2. (U) Meeting Date: November 20, 2008 Time: 10:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A Working Group (WG) Meeting was held at the U.S. Mission on November 20, 2008, to discus [...]	2008-11-22 12:23:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA1010	JCIC-XXXIII: LAWYERS, MEETING ON ARTICLE XVII AND [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-019. 2. (U) Meeting Date: November 19, 2008 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) U.S. and Russian lawyers met to discuss Russian legal requirements if the decision were mad [...]	2008-11-22 12:23:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA1011	JCIC-XXXIII: (U) UKRAINIAN CLOSING STATEMENT, [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-029. 2. (U) At Paragraph 3 below is the official translation of the Ukrainian Statement that was deliverd at the Closing Plenary Meeting of the Thirty-third Session of the START Treaty's Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission (JCIC),held at the U.S. Mission on [...]	2008-11-22 12:23:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA1012	JCIC-XXXIII: (U) RUSSIAN CLOSING STATEMENT, [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-028. 2. (U) At Paragraph 3 below is the official translation of the Russian Statement that was deliverd at the Closing Plenary Meeting of the Thirty-third Session of the START Treaty's Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission (JCIC),held at the U.S. Mission on N [...]	2008-11-22 12:23:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA1013	JCIC-XXXIII: (U) KAZAKHSTANI CLOSING STATEMENT, [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-027. 2. (U) At Paragraph 3 below is the official translation of the Kazakhstani Statement that was deliverd at the Closing Plenary Meeting of the Thirty-third Session of the START Treaty's Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission (JCIC),held at the U.S. Mission [...]	2008-11-22 12:23:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA1014	JCIC-XXXIII: (U) BELARUSIAN CLOSING STATEMENT, [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-026. 2. (U) At Paragraph 3 below is the official translation of the Belarusian Statement that was deliverd at the Closing Plenary Meeting of the Thirty-third Session of the START Treaty's Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission (JCIC),held at the U.S. Mission o [...]	2008-11-22 12:23:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA1015	JCIC-XXXIII: (U) TAYLOR/KOSHELEV DISCUSSIONS AND [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-030. 2. (U) Meeting Date: November 21, 2008 Time: 11:45 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) Given the preparation requested for the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference [...]	2008-11-22 12:23:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA1016	JCIC-XXXIII: (U) WORKING GROUP MEETING ON B-52 [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-018. 2. (U) Meeting Date: November 20, 2008 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 4:30 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A Working Group (WG) meeting was held at the U.S. Mission on November 19, 2008, to address [...]	2008-11-22 12:23:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA1017	JCIC-XXXIII: WORKING GROUP MEETING ON UKRAINIAN [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-020. 2. (U) Meeting Date: November 20, 2008 Time: 10:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A Working Group (WG) Meeting was held at the U.S. Mission on November 20, 2008, to discus [...]	2008-11-22 12:23:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA1018	JCIC-XXXIII: LAWYERS, MEETING ON ARTICLE XVII AND [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-019. 2. (U) Meeting Date: November 19, 2008 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) U.S. and Russian lawyers met to discuss Russian legal requirements if the decision were mad [...]	2008-11-22 12:23:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA1019	JCIC-XXXIII: (U) UKRAINIAN CLOSING STATEMENT, [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-029. 2. (U) At Paragraph 3 below is the official translation of the Ukrainian Statement that was deliverd at the Closing Plenary Meeting of the Thirty-third Session of the START Treaty's Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission (JCIC),held at the U.S. Mission on [...]	2008-11-22 12:23:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA1025	JCIC-XXXIII: RUSSIAN PRESS STATEMENT ON START [...] This is JCIC-XXXIII-031. 2. The text at Paragraph 3 below is the official translation of a coordinated press statement on discussions that took place in the Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission as required by Article XVII of the Treaty on whether to extend the START Treaty. The U.S [...]	2008-11-22 12:51:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA1026	JCIC-XXXIII: (U) LIST OF REPORTING CABLES [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-032. 2. (U) Following is the listing of Geneva cables for JCIC-XXXIII reporting activity during the period November 13-21, 2008. JCIC-XXXIII-001 (GENEVA 0956) JCIC-XXXIII: (U) OPENING OF THE THIRTY-THIRD SESSION OF THE JOINT COMPLIANCE AND INSPECTION COMMISSIO [...]	2008-11-22 12:58:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA1027	JCIC-XXXIII: CLOSE OUT OF JCIC-XXXIII [...] This is JCIC-XXXIII-031. 2. This is the end of operations for JCIC-XXXIII. The next meeting of the JCIC will be conducted at a date yet to be determined. Washington and other addresses are requested to continue to include U.S Mission Geneva, slugged "Geneva for JCIC" on all cables conce [...]	2008-11-22 12:59:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA562	JCIC-XXXII: TAYLOR/KOSHELEV LUNCH, JULY 15, 2008 [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXII-004. 2. (U) Meeting Date: July 15, 2008 Time: 1:00 - 2:15 P.M. Place: Restaurant Le Creux-de-Genthod Participants: U.S. Russia Mr. Taylor Mr. Koshelev 3. (S) U.S. JCIC Representative T [...]	2008-07-22 09:15:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA564	JCIC-XXXII: (U) OTHER PARTIES' STATEMENTS, JULY [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXII-007. 2. (U) Meeting Date: July 17, 2008 Time: 10:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva 3. (C) The texts contained in paragraphs 4 and 5 below are the official translations of the Belarusian and Ukrainian opening s [...]	2008-07-22 13:25:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA565	JCIC-XXXII: HEADS OF DELEGATION MEETING ON [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXII-005. 2. (U) Meeting Date: July 17, 2008 Time: 10:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A Heads of Delegation (HOD) Meeting was held at the Russian Mission on July 17, 2008. All [...]	2008-07-22 14:43:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA572	JCIC-XXXII: HEADS OF DELEGATION MEETING ON [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXII-008. 2. (U) Meeting Date: July 18, 2008 Time: 10:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A Heads of Delegation (HOD) Meeting was held at the U.S. Mission in Geneva, Switzerland on Jul [...]	2008-07-23 07:21:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA583	JCIC-XXXII: WORKING GROUP MEETING ON PROCEDURES [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXII-010. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (S) A bilateral Working Group Meeting was held at the U.S. Mission on July 21, 2008, between the delegations of the Russian Federation and the United States, to discuss the closure of the Votkinsk Portal Monitoring Facility and Po [...]	2008-07-23 15:38:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA585	JCIC-XXXII: WORKING GROUP MEETING ON DROVYANAYA [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXII-009. 2. (U) Meeting Date: July 18, 2008 Time: 3:30 - 5:10 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A Working Group (WG) Meeting was held at the U.S. Mission on July 18, 2008, to discuss Russian-propos [...]	2008-07-24 07:39:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA587	JCIC-XXXII: WORKING GROUP MEETING ON UKRAINIAN [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXII-011. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (S) A Working Group Meeting on the issue of Elimination of Solid Rocket Motor Cases for First Stages of SS-24 (Ukrainian issue) was held at the U.S. Mission on July 21, 2008. All Parties, except Belarus, were represented. The [...]	2008-07-24 15:43:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA588	JCIC-XXXII: DOCUMENT INITIALLED AT JCIC-XXXII [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXII-018. 2. The text at paragraph 3 below is JCIC S-Series Joint Statement Number 29 "On Changes to the Boundary of Drovyanaya ICBM Base for Silo Launchers of ICBMs." The Joint Statement was initialed at the closing plenary meeting for JCIC-XXXII, held at the Russian M [...]	2008-07-25 06:25:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA589	JCIC-XXXII: HEADS OF DELEGATION MEETING ON B-1 [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXII-012. 2. (U) Meeting Date: July 22, 2008 Time: 10:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A Heads of Delegation (HOD) Meeting was held at the Russian Mission on July 22, 2008, to di [...]	2008-07-25 08:10:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA590	JCIC-XXXII: WORKING GROUP MEETING ON B-1 [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXII-013. 2. (U) Meeting Date: July 22, 2008 Time: 3:00 - 4:30 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A Working Group (WG) Meeting was held at the Russian Mission on July 22, 2008, to discuss Russian [...]	2008-07-25 09:09:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA591	JCIC-XXXII: WORKING GROUP ON TELEMETRY, JULY 22, [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXII-014. 2. (U) Meeting Date: July 22, 2008 Time: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A Telemetry Working Group (WG) meeting was held at the Russian Mission on July 22, 2008. The Unit [...]	2008-07-25 09:52:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA592	JCIC-XXXII: HEADS OF DELEGATION MEETING ON [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXII-006. 2. (U) Meeting Date: July 17, 2008 Time: 3:30 - 4:20 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A Heads of Delegation (HOD) Meeting was held at the Russian Mission on July 17, 2008. Representat [...]	2008-07-25 11:42:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA599	JCIC-XXXII: OTHER PARTIES' DELEGATION LISTS [...] This is JCIC-XXXII-003. 2. Paragraphs 3-5 below contain the texts of the official translations of the delegation lists of the Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian Delegations to JCIC-XXXII. The Kazakhstani Delegation did not arrive until July 18, 2008 and no delegation list was provided. [...]	2008-07-25 13:12:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA600	JCIC-XXXII: U.S.-HOSTED RECEPTION, JULY 23, 2008 [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXII-015. 2. (U) Meeting Date: Tuesday, July 23, 2008 Time: 6:00 - 8:20 P.M.. Place: 41 Quai Wilson, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) The U.S. JCIC Delegation hosted a reception on July 23, 2008, and engaged members of the [...]	2008-07-25 13:51:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC US RS UP BO KZ ZR ZP
08GENEVA601	JCIC-XXXII: HEADS OF DELEGATION MEETING TO DISCUSS [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXII-016. 2. (U) Meeting Date: July 23, 2008 Time: 10:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A Heads of Delegation (HOD) meeting was held at the U.S. Mission on July 23, 2008 to discuss the [...]	2008-07-25 14:46:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA602	JCIC-XXXII: RUSSIAN PAPER CONTAINING QUESTIONS ON [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXII-017. 2. (U) The text at paragraph 3 below is the official translation of a paper containing "Russian Questions on the Completion of Continuous Monitoring at Votkinsk and Closure of Points of Entry in Connection with Expiration of the START Treaty." The questions in [...]	2008-07-25 15:06:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA603	JCIC-XXXII: U.S. CLOSING PLENARY STATEMENT, JULY [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXII-020. . (U) Paragraph 3 below contains the text of the U.S. statement that was delivered at the closing plenary meeting of the Thirty-second Session of the START Treaty's Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission (JCIC),held at the Russian Mission on July 24, 2008. [...]	2008-07-25 15:20:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA604	JCIC-XXXII: BELARUSIAN CLOSING PLENARY STATEMENT, [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXII-021. 2. (U) Paragraph 3 below contains the text of the official translation of the Belarusian statement that was delivered at the closing plenary meeting of the Thirty-second Session of the START Treaty's Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission (JCIC),held at th [...]	2008-07-25 15:31:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA605	JCIC-XXXII: KAZAKHSTANI CLOSING PLENARY [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXII-022. 2. (U) Paragraph 3 below contains the text of the official translation of the Kazakhstani statement that was delivered at the closing plenary meeting of the Thirty-second Session of the START Treaty's Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission (JCIC),held at t [...]	2008-07-25 15:42:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA608	JCIC-XXXII: UKRAINIAN CLOSING PLENARY STATEMENT, [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXII-024. 2. (U) Paragraph 3 below contains the text of the official translation of the Ukrainian statement that was delivered at the closing plenary meeting of the Thirty-second Session of the START Treaty's Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission (JCIC),held at th [...]	2008-07-25 16:06:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA609	JCIC-XXXII: DOCUMENTS COMPLETED ON SS-24 SRM [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXII-019. 2. The texts at paragraphs 3 and 4 below are JCIC Agreement 55 on "Changes to Section I of the Conversion or Elimination Protocol Regarding the Elimination Process for ICBMs for Mobile Launchers of ICBMs" and JCIC Joint Statement 40 "On the Elimination of SS-24 [...]	2008-07-26 12:26:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA611	JCIC-XXXII: DOCUMENTS COMPLETED ON SS-24 SRM [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXII-019. 2. The texts at paragraphs 3 and 4 below are JCIC Agreement Number 55 on "Changes to Section I of the Conversion or Elimination Protocol Regarding the Elimination Process for ICBMs for Mobile Launchers of ICBMs" and JCIC Joint Statement 40 "On the Elimination o [...]	2008-07-26 12:26:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA612	JCIC-XXXII: RUSSIAN NON PAPER ON B-1 CONVERSION, [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXII-026. 2. (U) Paragraph 3 below contains the text of the official translation of a Russian Non-Paper, dated July 24, 2008, on the "U.S. Conversion of B-1 Heavy Bombers to a Non-Nuclear Variant." The non-paper refers to photographs that were taken during an inspection [...]	2008-07-26 12:38:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA613	JCIC-XXXII: UKRAINIAN SOP-24 MOTOR CASES [...] This is JCIC-XXXII-025. 2. The text at paragraph 3 below is the official translation of the Ukrainian Statement of Policy expressing its Government's commitment not to export eliminated solid rocket motor cases beyond its national territory. The Statement was made in conjunction with JC [...]	2008-07-26 12:42:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA614	JCIC-XXXII: CLOSE-OUT OF JCIC-XXXII [...] This is JCIC-XXXII-026. 2. This is the end of operations for JCIC-XXXII. The next meeting of the JCIC will be conducted at a date yet to be determined. Washington and other addressees are requested to continue to include U.S. Mission Geneva, slugged "Geneva for JCIC" on all cables conce [...]	2008-07-26 12:50:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA615	JCIC-XXXII: (U) LIST OF REPORTING CABLES [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXII-027. 2. (U) Following is the listing of Geneva cables for JCIC-XXXII reporting activity during the period July 17-24, 2008. JCIC-XXXII-001 (GENEVA 0544) JCIC-XXXII: OPENING OF THE THIRTY-SECOND SESSION OF THE JOINT COMPLIANCE AND INSPECTION COMMISSION JCIC-X [...]	2008-07-26 12:57:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA960	JCIC-XXXIII: (U) U.S OPENING PLENARY STATEMENT, [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-004. 2. (U) At paragraph 3 below is the text of the U.S. Statement that was deliverd at the Opening Plenary Meeting of the Thirty-third Session of the START Treaty's Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission (JCIC),held at the U.S. Mission on November 13, 2008. [...]	2008-11-14 12:30:00	US Mission Geneva	CONFIDENTIAL	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA961	JCIC-XXXIII:(U) BELARUSIAN OPENING PLENARY [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-005. 2. (U) At paragraph 3 below is the official translation of the text of the Belarusian Statement that was delivered at the Opening Plenary Meeting of the Thirty-third Session of the START Treaty's Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission (JCIC),held at the U [...]	2008-11-14 12:31:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA962	JCIC-XXXIII: (U) KAZAKHSTANI OPENING PLENARY [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-006. 2. (U) At paragraph 3 below is the official translation of the text of the Kazakhstani Statement that was delivered at the Opening Plenary Meeting of the Thirty-third Session of the START Treaty's Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission (JCIC),held at the [...]	2008-11-14 12:32:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA963	JCIC-XXXIII: (U) RUSSIAN OPENING PLENARY [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-007. 2. (U) At paragraph 3 below is the official translation of the text of the Russian Statement that was delivered at the Opening Plenary Meeting of the Thirty-third Session of the START Treaty's Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission (JCIC),held at the U.S. [...]	2008-11-14 12:33:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA964	JCIC-XXXIII: (U) UKRAINIAN OPENING PLENARY [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-008. 2. (U) At paragraph 3 below is the official translation of the text of the Ukrainian Statement that was delivered at the Opening Plenary Meeting of the Thirty-third Session of the START Treaty's Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission (JCIC),held at the U. [...]	2008-11-14 12:33:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA967	JCIC-XXXIII: BELARUSIAN, KAZAKHSTANI, RUSSIAN AND [...] This is JCIC-XXXIII-003. 2. Paragraphs 3, 4, 5 and 6 below contain the official translations of the texts of the Delegation Lists for the Belarusian, Kazakhstani, Russian and Ukrainian Delegations, respectively, for JCIC-XXXIII. 3. Begin text (Belarus): Offic [...]	2008-11-14 14:35:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA968	TAYLOR/ANTONOV MEETING, NOVEMBER 12, 2008 [...] (U) Meeting Date: November 12, 2008 Time: 3:15 P.M. - 4:05 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva, Switzerland ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (S) At the request of the Russian Federation, Taylor and Kuehne met with Antonov, Buzhinskiy, and Koshelev at the Rus [...]	2008-11-14 15:38:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA976	JCIC-XXXIII: (U) HEADS OF DELEGATION MEETING ON [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-010. 2. (U) Meeting Date: November 14, 2008 Time: 10:30 A.M. - 11:30 A.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A Heads of Delegation (HOD) meeting was held at the Russian Mission on November 14, 20 [...]	2008-11-18 14:54:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA983	JCIC-XXXIII: (U) HEADS OF DELEGATION MEETING ON [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-011. 2. (U) Meeting Date: November 14, 2008 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A Heads of Delegation Meeting (HOD) was held at the Russian Mission on November 14, 2008 [...]	2008-11-19 08:16:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA987	JCIC-XXXIII: (U) WORKING GROUP MEETING ON [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-009. 2. (U) Meeting Date: November 13, 2008 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) Following the introduction of the issue at a Heads of Delegation (HOD) Meeting, a Working G [...]	2008-11-20 07:47:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA988	JCIC-XXXIII: (U) RUSSIAN PAPER CONTAINING [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-022. 2. (S) The text at Paragraph 3 below is the official translation of a Russian paper containing an additional question on the Trident II flight tests that were conducted on November 4, 2004, and May 9, 2006. The paper was provided in Moscow and emailed to Wash [...]	2008-11-20 09:20:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA991	JCIC-XXXIII: HEAD OF DELEGATION MEETING ON THE [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-013. 2. (U) Meeting Date: November 17, 2008 Time: 3:45 P.M. - 5:15 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A Heads of Delegation (HOD) Meeting was held at the U.S. Mission on November 17, 2008, to c [...]	2008-11-20 12:54:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA997	JCIC-XXXIII: (U) WORKING GROUP MEETING ON [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-012. 2. (U) Meeting Date: November 17, 2008 Time: 10:40 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A Working Group (WG) Meeting was held at the U.S. Mission on November 17, 2008, to discus [...]	2008-11-21 07:10:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08GENEVA998	JCIC-XXXIII: (U) HEAD OF DELEGATION MEETING ON [...] (U) This is JCIC-XXXIII-015. 2. (U) Meeting Date: November 18, 2008 Time: 10:30 A.M. - 11:50 A.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A Heads of Delegation (HOD) Meeting was held at the Russian Mission on November 18, 20 [...]	2008-11-21 07:17:00	US Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT PARM START JCIC INF US RS UP BO KZ
08HELSINKI324	FINNISH COMMENTS ON GAERC JULY 22-23 [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-16 07:46:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM EUN PGOV FI IR SO SU ZI UP CD

08HELSINKI415	FINDLAND COMMENTS ON SEPTEMBER 15-16 FOREIGN [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-12 14:26:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM EUN PGOV FISO SO ZI UP
08KYIV101	UKRAINE: 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT, PART [...] Ref A contained part one of the 2008 Investment Climate Statement (ICS) for Ukraine. Part two of the ICS continues below. Begin Text of Part II: A.7. Protection of Property Rights MORTGAGES During the last few years, Ukraine's policymakers have launched several initiatives to develo [...]	2008-01-17 07:20:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD KTDB OPIC USTR UP
08KYIV102	UKRAINE: PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO FEELING CONFIDENT [...] (C) Summary. With an eye toward reelection in early 2010, President Yushchenko is asserting himself more confidently now with coalition partner Tymoshenko as Prime Minister than he did when faced with Yanukovych. The President has issued numerous public statements instructing the government o [...]	2008-01-17 11:22:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV1038	ENCOURAGING UKRAINE TO HELP ALLEVIATE THE GLOBAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Post has delivered points contained in refs B-D regarding the President's Global Food Security Initiative and agricultural trade issues. On May 21, the GOU moved to cancel restrictions on grain exports. We continue to work with Ukraine on introducing a regulatory framework to [...]	2008-05-28 15:35:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAGR TBIO UP
08KYIV1045	UKRAINE SUPPORTS U.S POSITIONS FOR ICAO AVIATION [...] (SBU) Post delivered talking points in reftel to the State Aviation Authority on May 22. On May 29 Deputy Econ Counselor and EconOff met with Ukrainian State Aviation Administration (SAA) officials to follow up. Deputy Head of the Aviation Security Department Valeriy Baranov confirmed that th [...]	2008-05-29 15:49:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON ETRD PREL PTER UP
08KYIV1047	UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF COMMERCE [...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit to Ukraine comes as the fragile two-vote majority coalition struggles to move ahead with an ambitious agenda as dissension between the two parties increases. All eyes are on whether Prime Minister Tymoshenko and President Yushchenko can work together better than they [...]	2008-05-29 15:56:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PREL PGOV EINV UP
08KYIV1056	UKRAINE CONTINUES DIALOGUE WITH PHARMACEUTICAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOU held a public roundtable on May 28 to discuss IPR enforcement issues of importance to the pharmaceutical industry. GOU reps said they were now implementing the data exclusivity provisions agreed to as part of Ukraine's accession to the WTO, but admitted that generic dru [...]	2008-06-02 07:52:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR ECON UP
08KYIV1063	UKRAINE: SE GRAY AND DAS BRYZA'S MEETING WITH DPM [...] (C) Summary. On the margins of the Kyiv Energy Security Summit May 22-23, Special Envoy Gray and DAS Bryza met with Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Hryhoriy Nemyrya to discuss US-EU-Ukraine cooperation on energy security, including the Ukrainian proposal to expand gas transit through Ukraine [...]	2008-06-03 09:29:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ENRG PINR PGOV UP
08KYIV1064	UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO POISONING REVISITED [...] (C) Summary. In the heat of a spat between President Yushchenko's team and former financial and political backer David Zhvaniya, the issue of Yushchenko's poisoning in September 2004 has once again become subject of political accusations. After the Presidential Secretariat initiated a case t [...]	2008-06-03 16:23:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV1077	UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT PASSES WTO-REQUIRED CUSTOMS [...] (SBU) Summary: Parliament adopted a bill on June 3 to lower Ukraine's tariff rates in line with commitments made during WTO accession negotiations. The law as adopted, however, delays tariff reductions for a large number of goods until 2009, in contradiction to accession commitments. The bil [...]	2008-06-04 08:45:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD WTRO PGOV UP
08KYIV1085	UKRAINE: LOW-KEY REACTION TO DUMA STATEMENT ON [...] (SBU) Summary. The June 4 Russian Duma statement calling for termination of the 1997 Ukraine-Russia Friendship Treaty in response to Ukrainian NATO membership has elicited relatively restrained responses in Kyiv. President Yushchenko, on the eve of his departure for the CIS Summit in St. Pete [...]	2008-06-05 13:14:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PGOV PREL RS UP WTO
08KYIV1087	UKRAINE: BALOHA CASTS COALITION IN NEGATIVE LIGHT [...] (C) Summary. Head of the Presidential Secretariat Viktor Baloha told the Ambassador on June 3 that the coalition was struggling forward and would continue to work together, but that they were nearing the breaking point. He criticized Tymoshenko for being unconstructive and populist, with pol [...]	2008-06-05 14:37:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV109	UKRAINE: PM TYMOSHENKO TO LEAD DELEGATION FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: President Yushchenko has asked Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to lead the Ukrainian delegation for the January 20 inauguration of Georgian President Elect Mikhail Saakashvili. Although some here were surprised that Yushchenko was not attending himself, both he and Tymoshenko [...]	2008-01-18 13:23:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	UP PGOV PREL GG
08KYIV1105	UKRAINE: COALITION TEETERING [...] (C) Summary. The June 6 announcement by two relatively unknown MPs -- one from BYuT and one from OU-PSD -- that they are withdrawing from the coalition leaves the coalition in an unclear legal status and without enough votes to push through legislation. BYuT and OU-PSD faction leaders, as wel [...]	2008-06-06 13:18:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV1108	UKRAINE: AVIATION HEAD DISCUSSES PROGRESS ON AIR [...] (SBU) Summary. Ukrainian State Aviation (SAA) officials discussed progress on outstanding issues including an upcoming International Civil Air Organization (ICAO) safety assessment scheduled for June 17. The SAA hopes that a positive ICAO assessment will fast-track it for an FAA safety reass [...]	2008-06-06 13:42:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON ETRD PREL PTER UP
08KYIV1127	DEEP IN A UKRAINIAN COAL MINE: CLOSER TO HELL THAN ANY [...] (SBU) Summary: Ukraine's coal mines remain dangerous and grueling workplaces for the miners who depend on them for their livelihood. Two recent accidents that included fatalities underscore the severity of the situation. Econoff visited one mine in eastern Ukraine and experienced first-hand t [...]	2008-06-11 12:16:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN ELAB EAID UP
08KYIV1144	UKRAINE: NATO INFORMATION CAMPAIGN GAINS MOMENTUM [...] (SBU) Summary. There has been no official launching ceremony, but a combination of recent NATO-related Presidential decrees, Cabinet adoption of a multi-year Euroatlantic information campaign, and passage of amendments to the 2008 state budget have given critical mass to Ukraine's NATO informa [...]	2008-06-11 15:58:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PGOV PREL UP
08KYIV1182	UKRAINE: RADA COUNTING DOWN TO SUMMER RECESS [...] (C) Summary. The consensus in the Rada across the political spectrum on June 17 was that regardless of the legal status of the coalition, the reality is that the parliament will not accomplish anything significant in its remaining month in session and all are now looking to the fall for chang [...]	2008-06-17 15:41:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV1200	UKRAINE: HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST VOWS TO CARRY ON [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Dmytro Groisman, a prominent Ukrainian human rights activist, told Emboff on June 12 that he had recovered fully from a beating by unknown assailants on May 23 (reftel). He suspected that he was attacked because of his public criticism of Ukraine's State Penal Depar [...]	2008-06-20 14:41:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV UP
08KYIV1201	UKRAINE: NATO SYG/NAC VISIT [...] (C) Summary and Comment. The June 16-17 visit to Kyiv and Ukraine's regional capitals by NATO Secretary General de Hoop Scheffer and the North Atlantic Council (NAC) was seen as a strong positive by the MFA and Ukrainian pro-NATO political forces. Extensive positive press coverage, the constr [...]	2008-06-20 14:46:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PGOV PREL UP
08KYIV1202	UKRAINE: PRESIDENT VETOES FLAWED CUSTOMS TARIFF [...] On June 20, President Viktor Yushchenko vetoed a bill amending the Law "On the Customs Tariff of Ukraine," which Ukraine's Rada (parliament) had adopted on June 3. While the original draft law was meant to lower Ukraine's tariff rates in line with commitments made during WTO accession negotia [...]	2008-06-20 15:52:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD WTRO PGOV UP
08KYIV1219	UKRAINE: VANCO CASE SENT TO CONSTITUTIONAL COURT, [...] (SBU) On June 18, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko issued a decree aimed at suspending the Cabinet of Ministers (CabMin) resolution which annulled the production sharing agreement (PSA) with Vanco. Yushchenko's decree temporarily suspends the CabMin resolution only until the Constitution [...]	2008-06-23 06:59:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV PREL ENRG PINR UP
08KYIV1226	UKRAINE: FAMILY OF SLAIN JOURNALIST IHOR [...] (C) Summary: The son of journalist Ihor Aleksandrov, killed in 2001 for his critical reporting on officials in Donetsk Oblast, told EmbOffs that he and his family continue to seek justice in his father's case and that he now fears for his and his family's safety. Both the lawyer of Mryoslav [...]	2008-06-23 15:13:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREF UP
08KYIV1256	UKRAINE: MIGRATION AUTHORITY TRANSFERRED TO MOI [...] (C) Summary: On June 18, the Cabinet of Ministers issued a decree transferring authority on asylum issues from the State Committee on Nationalities and Religion (SCNR) to the Ministry of Interior (MOI). UNHCR Kyiv, which has taken a neutral position on the change, told us that although the M [...]	2008-07-01 10:26:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV UP
08KYIV1257	UKRAINE: BILATERAL COOPERATION ON MAN-PORTABLE AIR [...] (C) Summary: Special Envoy for MANPADS Threat Reduction, Ambassador Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr., visited Kyiv June 17-19. During his visit, Bloomfield explained the special concern with which the U.S. Government regards trade in MANPADS and urged Ukraine to strengthen its cooperation with the [...]	2008-07-01 11:46:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL PARM NATO PINR US UP
08KYIV1268	UKRAINE: RESPONSE TO BLUE LANTERN PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK [...] This is a reply to a Blue Lantern action request (reftel). 2. Post was requested to conduct a pre-license check on DDTC license application number 050104685 for the export of rifles to Ukraine (applicant: Marlin Firearms Co., 100 Kenna Drive, North Haven, CT). The foreign end-user is Europa [...]	2008-07-01 15:31:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC UP
08KYIV13	UKRAINE: HIGHER GAS PRICE WON'T SLOW ECONOMY, BUT COULD HIT HOUSEHOLDS [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-04 07:19:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET ECON UP
08KYIV1300	UKRAINE: YATSENYUK, RISING POLITICIAN [...] (C) Summary. Rada Speaker Arseniy Yatsenyuk has become one of the most interesting senior politicians in Ukraine to watch. Only 34 years old, Yatsenyuk has already served not only as chair of the parliament, but Foreign Minister, Minister of Economy, and Acting Governor of the National Bank. [...]	2008-07-03 14:10:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV1330	UKRAINE CONSIDERING ITS ROLE IN RUSSIA'S WTO [...] (C) Summary: Ukraine's lead WTO negotiator Valeriy Pyatnytskiy told us on July 4 that Ukraine did not intend to block Russia's WTO accession, and was not planning to request any tariff concessions from Russia, but would likely make some requests of Russia given the importance of their bilater [...]	2008-07-07 13:45:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD WTRO PGOV RS UP
08KYIV1342	UKRAINE: LAST WEEK OF RADA STARTS OFF BADLY [...] (C) Summary. Party of Regions on July 8 shook up the planned agenda for the Rada's last week in plenary by moving forward with efforts to hold a no confidence vote on Prime Minister Tymoshenko. In response, her BYuT faction blocked the Rada rostrum and Speaker Yatsenyuk was forced to close t [...]	2008-07-08 16:17:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV1353	UKRAINE: RESPONSE TO BLUE LANTERN PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK [...] This is a reply to a Blue Lantern action request (ref B). 2. Post was requested to conduct a pre-license check on DDTC license application number 05-050103848 for the export of power modules to Ukraine via Russia (applicant: International Rectifier Corporation, 233 Kansas Street, El Segundo, [...]	2008-07-10 14:07:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC UP
08KYIV1356	UKRAINE: TYMOSHENKO SAFE, NO CONFIDENCE VOTE FAILS [...] (C) Summary. In a nail-biting vote, Prime Minister Tymoshenko was given a reprieve after Party of Regions' resolution of no confidence in the Cabinet failed, garnering only 174 votes. After a lengthy diatribe from Regions MP Azarov, Tymoshenko gave an impassioned defense of her government's [...]	2008-07-11 14:05:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV1411	UKRAINE: USG-FUNDED IPR ENFORCEMENT TRAINING [...] Summary: Post, in cooperation with CLDP (Commerce),on July 9-10 held an IPR enforcement workshop for Ukrainian judges, the second in a series of events that are part of a STATE/INL-funded, IPR training initiative. Seventeen judges, mostly from southern Ukraine, as well as representatives fro [...]	2008-07-22 10:09:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KIPR ECON UP
08KYIV1413	UKRAINE: UPDATE ON REPORTED RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Energy Attache received an update on July 21 from Ukraine's nuclear regulatory officials regarding a potential radioactive material smuggling incident (ref B). GOU experts have now finished a detailed analysis of the seized material and have determined that it is of NO prolifera [...]	2008-07-22 14:00:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP MNUC ASEC ENRG KCRM PARM PINR UP
08KYIV142	UKRAINE: SENATOR LUGAR DISCUSSES BIOLOGICAL THREAT [...] (SBU) Summary/Comment: Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) pressed for progress on implementing the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP) in separate meetings January 15 with Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko, an [...]	2008-01-22 07:27:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM TBIO EAID EAGR PREL OREP US UP
08KYIV1455	UKRAINE: DAS MERKEL HEARS SKEPTICISM ON UNITED [...] (C) Summary. During his July 24-25 visit to Kyiv, DAS David Merkel heard from representatives of several political forces that the way forward on internal politics was unclear, but that a great deal depends on President Yushchenko and how he decides to proceed. Secretary of the National Secur [...]	2008-07-29 13:38:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV146	UKRAINE: CHINESE SOLID ROCKET MOTOR EXPERTS AND [...] (S - REL UP) We met January 22 with MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselor Oleh Belokolos to provide reftel information regarding the possibility that four individuals from China's Fourth Academy, which develops and manufactures solid rocket motors for Chinese [...]	2008-01-22 13:52:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	PARM PREL MNUC ETTC MTCRE PINR CH UP
08KYIV1461	UKRAINE: GOU SIGNALS INTEREST IN TRILATERAL BYPASS PIPELINE [...] (SBU) Deputy Energy Minister Volodymyr Makukha signaled interest to DAS Matthew Bryza on July 24 in a possible EU/USG/GOU project to boost gas transit capacity through Ukraine in exchange for increased transparency in Ukraine's energy sector by constructing the Bohorodchany-Uzhgorod bypass pipe [...]	2008-07-30 12:25:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET EFIN ECON ENRG PREL UP
08KYIV1510	UKRAINE: VISIT OF PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW SPURS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodoxy, arrived in Ukraine on July 24 for a five day visit to celebrate the 1,020th anniversary of the christianization of the Kyivan Rus. Although he has no jurisdiction over other Orthodox patria [...]	2008-08-04 14:40:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV UP
08KYIV1516	UKRAINE: HATE CRIMES CONTINUE [...] (C) Summary: Since the beginning of 2008, human rights NGOs have reported over 40 apparently racially motivated attacks in Ukraine, five of which proved fatal. While the Government introduced new initiatives in 2007 and 2008 aimed at intensifying efforts to combat racism and intolerance, the [...]	2008-08-06 08:09:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV UP
08KYIV1553	UKRAINE: ICRC TO CLOSE ITS DELEGATION IN KYIV [...] (C) Summary: The Head of the Kyiv Regional Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross/Red Crescent (ICRC) informed Post on August 7 that it will close its Kyiv delegation later this year. The reasons given were its strategy to consolidate regional operations, position itself [...]	2008-08-12 07:33:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV UP
08KYIV1557	UKRAINE: IMPACT OF GEORGIA CRISIS ON DOMESTIC [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Events in Georgia have triggered front page charges/countercharges between Moscow and Kyiv -- including dueling MFA statements on Russian deployment of its Black Sea Fleet (BSF) off the Georgian coast and Russian attacks on Ukrainian arms sales to Tbilisi. While DFM [...]	2008-08-12 15:29:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR RS UP
08KYIV156	UKRAINE: NEW ENERGY MINISTER TOUTS WESTINGHOUSE-ENERGOATOM [...] (SBU) Summary: New Energy Minister Yuri Prodan told the Ambassador on January 21 that the GOU hoped to use a possible visit by President Bush in the near future to sign a contract with Westinghouse for the delivery of fuel to Ukraine's nuclear reactors. Acknowledging that the contract propose [...]	2008-01-25 06:10:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET ETRD PREL UP
08KYIV158	UKRAINE/SUDAN: UKRAINIAN HELICOPTERS FOR UNAMID [...] (C) Visiting EUR A/S Daniel Fried raised the issue of helicopter assets for the UN-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID, ref A) during a January 24 meeting with Deputy Foreign Minister Volodymyr Khandohiy. (Note: FM Ohryzko was unavailable due to his travel in Davos, Switzerland.) Fried t [...]	2008-01-25 12:06:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR KPKO SU UP
08KYIV162	TYMOSHENKO TURNS UP HEAT ON GAS MIDDLEMAN UKRHAZENERHO [...] (SBU) Summary. Tymoshenko's new government recently launched its first strike against intermediaries connected to RosUkrEnergo (RUE) in the gas trade with Russia. The National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) of Ukraine limited UkrHazEnerho's (UHE) (Note: a joint venture between RUE a [...]	2008-01-25 12:22:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET ETRD PREL UP
08KYIV1624	UKRAINE: PRESIDENT'S BSF DECREES HEIGHTEN DOMESTIC [...] (C) Summary and Comment. The issuance on August 13 by President Yushchenko of two decrees regulating Russian Black Sea Fleet (BSF) and other military units' entry into Ukraine and deployments from Ukrainian territory has triggered another sharp exchange between Kyiv and Moscow (ref. A). The [...]	2008-08-15 13:36:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR RS UP MARR
08KYIV1630	UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO POISONING REMAINS IN [...] (SBU) Summary. President Yushchenko,s 2004 poisoning has resurfaced as a major issue being examined both at at the Prosecutor General,s Office (PGO) and in the press, with many seeing the Presidential apparatus working the issue as a potential vote getter in the upcoming presidential campaign. [...]	2008-08-18 13:55:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PHUM UP
08KYIV1631	UKRAINE: OFFER OF MISSILE WARNING COOPERATION MORE [...] (C) Summary and Comment: On August 16, Ukraine's MFA announced that Ukraine was ready to develop active cooperation on early warning and missile monitoring systems with "European countries." It also stated that President Yushchenko on August 13 ordered Ukraine's withdrawal from a 1992 miss [...]	2008-08-18 16:05:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PGOV PINR PREL UP
08KYIV1672	UKRAINE: PRESIDENTIAL SECRETARIAT ALLEGES [...] (C) Summary and Comment: On August 19, Deputy Presidential Secretariat Head Andriy Kyslynskiy publicly accused PM Tymoshenko of colluding with Russia in exchange for Moscow's support of her expected run for the presidency in 2009/2010. On August 21, acting head of the Security Service of Ukr [...]	2008-08-23 10:02:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM UP
08KYIV1673	UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF THE VICE [...] (SBU) Summary.... [...]	2008-08-23 10:31:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PGOV PHUM PREL UP
08KYIV1706	UKRAINE: GOVERNMENT CONDEMNS RUSSIAN RECOGNITION [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Ukraine has made strong public statements condemning Russia's decision to recognize South Ossetia and Abkhazia. In both public statements and in meetings with the Ambassador, Democratic Coalition leaders remain committed to Euro-Atlantic collective security and [...]	2008-08-28 11:09:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS UP
08KYIV1707	UKRAINE: GOVERNMENT CONDEMNS RUSSIAN RECOGNITION [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Ukraine has made strong public statements condemning Russia's decision to recognize South Ossetia and Abkhazia. In both public statements and in meetings with the Ambassador, Democratic Coalition leaders remain committed to Euro-Atlantic collective security and [...]	2008-08-28 11:09:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS UP
08KYIV1760	UKRAINE: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON UNGA THIRD [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-04 12:49:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM UP
08KYIV1804	ORANGE COALITION CRISIS: NO SIGN OF RECONCILIATION [...] (C) The Orange coalition has shown no movement toward reconciliation since the September 2 vote by President Yushchenko's "Our Ukraine" party to withdraw. PM Tymoshenko, reportedly surprised by Our Ukraine's sudden exit, expressed willingness to meet with Yushchenko to try and work out a deal [...]	2008-09-11 17:17:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV183	UKRAINE: IRAQ DEPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS [...] (C) We provided ref A update on the state of U.S.-Iraq negotiations to develop a Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) January 28 to Third Territorial Department Middle East Division Acting Director Mykola Leshchenko and Iraq Desk Officer Mykola Radchenko. In response to our question, Leshchenk [...]	2008-01-28 13:37:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS UNSC IZ UP
08KYIV1860	ORANGE COALITION ENDS; CLOCK STARTS ON NEW [...] (C) As expected, on September 16 Rada Speaker Yatsenyuk announced the termination of the Orange Coalition, starting the 30-day clock on formation of a new coalition and, failing that, providing the option for President Yushchenko to call new elections. With parties continuing to jockey for ad [...]	2008-09-17 15:10:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV1869	UKRAINE: PASSAGE OF JOINT STOCK COMPANY LAW A [...] Summary: Ukraine's parliament passed a new Joint Stock Company Law on September 17. The law was among the top priorities of any list of desperately needed economic reforms, and its passage, by a large bipartisan majority, is a remarkable piece of good news at a time of intense political infig [...]	2008-09-19 10:43:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAID EINV PGOV UP
08KYIV1875	UKRAINE'S NEXT STEP TOWARD THE EU: A "DEEP" FREE [...] (SBU) Summary: Ukraine and the EU have launched negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA),which would slash bilateral tariffs and reduce a range of other non- tariff trade barriers. Ukraine's chief negotiator told us that the talks are not true "negotiations," as they are focused on how U [...]	2008-09-22 12:37:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECIN PREL EUN UP
08KYIV1891	HIJACKING OF CARGO SHIP FAINA: INITIAL UKRAINIAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-27 19:10:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	EWWT MOPS PREL PHSA XA SO RS LG BH UP
08KYIV191	UKRAINE: RADA SESSION CLOSES WITH A WHIMPER [...] (C) Summary. The final weeks of the new Rada's first session ended disappointingly with the Party of Regions blockading the rostrum and the coalition unable to muster a majority to pass any legislation or make personnel appointments. With over 700 draft bills at some stage of the legislative [...]	2008-01-29 11:59:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV192	UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO PUSHES AHEAD WITH [...] (SBU) Summary. President Yushchenko is moving forward with his plans to further amend the constitution in an effort to clarify poorly written articles, but constitutional experts are not convinced that this process will succeed. Yushchenko issued a decree in late December 2007 forming the Nat [...]	2008-01-29 12:02:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV194	UKRAINE: SENATOR LUGAR HEARS THAT ENERGY ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: In Kyiv meetings with Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) January 15-16, President Yushchenko, PM Tymoshenko, opposition representatives and local business leaders all discussed the importance of energy issues for Ukraine. President Yushchenko talked in detail about ways to transport Cen [...]	2008-01-29 13:42:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG ECON PGOV UP
08KYIV1943	RADA UPDATE: COALITION TALKS INCONCLUSIVE; DROP [...] (C) Negotiations continue between President Yushchenko's Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense (OU-PSD) and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) to re-form the Orange coalition in conjunction with potential new partner, the Lytvyn Bloc. This would avoid early elections, a goal PM Tymoshenko appears st [...]	2008-09-29 15:26:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV1950	UKRAINE: NAFTOHAZ CONTINUES TO FACE MAJOR [...] (SBU) Summary. NaftoHaz, Ukraine's state-owned oil and gas enterprise, continues to face major financial challenges as Russia and Ukraine continue highly-anticipated 2009 gas negotiations. In addition to debt owed to its gas suppliers, NaftoHaz faces various other financial difficulties, inc [...]	2008-09-30 14:23:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET EINV PREL ENRG PINR UP
08KYIV1959	UKRAINE SNEEZES, HAVING CAUGHT THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC COLD [...] (SBU) Summary. Despite Ukraine's expansion in trade and industry over the past several years, the global financial crisis has generated knock-on effects, potentially harming the country's economic prospects. In contrast to the first quarter of 2008, when analysts pointed to risks of rampant [...]	2008-10-02 04:53:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON XH UP
08KYIV196	UKRAINE: NEW GOU PROMISES SWIFT ACTION ON VAT, OPIC [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-30 08:57:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV EIND UP
08KYIV1966	TYMOSHENKO CALLS YUSHCHENKO'S BLUFF [...] (C) On October 1, PM Tymoshenko announced that her BYuT faction would accept all Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense (OU-PSD) ultimatums and conditions in order to form a three-party coalition, keep orange forces together, and avoid early elections. At the same time, Tymoshenko predicted Yushc [...]	2008-10-02 15:10:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV1968	ICRC RECONSIDERS DECISION TO CLOSE DELEGATION IN [...] (C) Summary: Representatives from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) told us that it was reconsidering its plan to close the ICRC delegation in Kyiv (Reftel) and said that they perceived a high level of tension among the ethnic Russian, Crimean Tatar, and Ukrainian communit [...]	2008-10-03 12:06:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM UP
08KYIV1995	UKRAINIAN CURRENCY IN SLIDE [...] (SBU) Summary: Ukraine's external vulnerabilities - including a substantial slowdown in capital flows, worsening terms of trade, and a large current account deficit (reftel) - have caught up with the economy, leading to a swift hryvnia (UAH) depreciation in recent days. Although the National [...]	2008-10-07 12:48:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON XH UP
08KYIV1999	KOSOVO ISJ RESOLUTION AT UNGA: UKRAINIAN MFA VIEWS [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche, on Serbia's resolution to refer a question on the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence to the ICJ, to First Deputy Foreign Minister Volodymyr Khandogiy on October 7. Khandogiy replied that Ukraine had not yet taken a position on the issue. [...]	2008-10-08 12:40:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA UN KV UP
08KYIV200	UKRAINE: EUR A/S FRIED HEARS ABOUT FRAGILE [...] (C) Summary. In A/S Fried's meetings with top Ukrainian leaders, all dominated by discussions about Ukraine's pending request for a NATO MAP (septel),the internal political subtext was fragility, distrust, and creeping dissatisfaction from all parties about the current government and its pos [...]	2008-01-31 06:00:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV2002	NBU INTERVENES TO SLOW HRYVNIA CURRENCY SLIDE [...] (U) Responding to the weakening hryvnia (UAH),National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Council Chairman Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday announced that the official exchange rate for this year would be changed to UAH 4.95/$ plus or minus 8 percent from the previous UAH 4.85/$ plus or minus 4 percent. Despi [...]	2008-10-09 06:49:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN UP XH
08KYIV2008	UKRAINE: CHERNOMYRDIN CRASHES KYIV ENERGY [...] (U) Summary. An animated Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian Ambassador to Ukraine since 2001, provided a spirited presentation on Ukraine's energy sector on October 7 at the "Ukrainian Energy Forum," a three-day event organized by Adam Smith Conferences. According to Chernomyrdin, reliability is [...]	2008-10-09 12:40:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ENRG EPET PINR PREL UP
08KYIV2012	YUSHCHENKO DISSOLVES RADA, CALLS NEW ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) In a widely expected move, President Yushchenko on October 8 issued a decree dissolving the Rada and setting pre-term parliamentary elections for December 7. Contacts in Prime Minister Tymoshenko's BYuT party have told us they may attempt to block the decree in court, but are prepared to [...]	2008-10-09 13:56:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
08KYIV2017	1ST MEETING OF U.S.-UKRAINE TRADE AND INVESTMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: The inaugural meeting of the U.S.-Ukraine Trade and Investment Council, created by our new bilateral Trade and Investment Cooperation Agreement (TICA),took place on October 2. Deputy U.S. Trade Representative John Veroneau led the U.S. delegation; Minister of Economy Bohdan Da [...]	2008-10-10 06:46:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD WTRO PREL UP
08KYIV2022	AKHMETOV HOLDS FORTH ON UKRAINIAN POLITICS AND [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador on October 8, billionaire industrialist and Party of Regions MP Rinat Akhmetov expressed support for President Yushchenko's plans to dissolve the Rada, saying elections were the only "democratic" way forward for the country. Akhmetov said that Regions woul [...]	2008-10-10 13:30:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL UP
08KYIV2024	PARTY OF REGIONS APPEARS UNITED FOR EARLY ELECTION [...] (C) The Party of Regions appears united around the upcoming election challenge. Fundraising and organizing for the pre-term election started in early September. Deputies will soon start heading to the oblasts for campaigning. Regions expects to increase its share of Rada seats by focusing i [...]	2008-10-10 15:11:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
08KYIV2025	PARTIES JOCKEY FOR POSITION; SNAP ELECTION COULD [...] (C) A day after President Yushchenko's decree dissolving the Rada and setting a snap election for December 7, PM Tymoshenko's BYuT blocked the Rada rostrum to prevent a vote on election legislation. Deputy PM Nemyria told the Ambassador that the election could "get ugly" with provocations and [...]	2008-10-10 15:46:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
08KYIV2028	UKRAINE: NBU INTERVENES TO SLOW HRYVNIA CURRENCY SLIDE [...] (U) Responding to the weakening hryvnia (UAH),National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Council Chairman Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday announced that the official exchange rate for this year would be changed to UAH 4.95/$ plus or minus 8 percent from the previous UAH 4.85/$ plus or minus 4 percent. Despi [...]	2008-10-14 06:55:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN UP XH
08KYIV2030	UKRAINIAN NATIONAL BANK IMPOSES CAPITAL CONTROLS [...] (U) Summary. The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU),pressed to stop a run on deposits in commercial banks, sharply tightened capital controls on October 13. The measures effectively prevent Ukraine's banking system, which has relied heavily on foreign borrowing to fuel its breakneck growth in [...]	2008-10-14 14:39:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PGOV XH UP
08KYIV2031	UKRAINE-RUSSIA: BLACK SEA FLEET ISSUES [...] (C) Significant Black Sea Fleet (BSF) basing issues remain unresolved, despite nine years of working group negotiations. Outstanding issues include: rules on deployment in crisis situations, troop movements on Ukrainian territory outside Fleet facilities, inventory and assessment of real prope [...]	2008-10-15 06:08:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MCAP UP RU
08KYIV2034	ELECTION BATTLE SHIFTS TO THE COURTS AND ELECTION [...] (C) On October 10, a Kyiv District Administrative Court suspended President Yushchenko's decree dissolving the Rada and ordered the Central Election Commission (CEC) to halt election preparations. In response, Yushchenko appealed the decision to the Administrative Court of Appeals, fired the [...]	2008-10-15 14:35:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
08KYIV2080	REGIONS-BYUT COALITION DEAL: WHY IT FELL APART [...] (C) The Party of Regions and Prime Minister Tymoshenko's party (BYuT) narrowly failed to form a majority coalition in the Rada after the ruling coalition disintegrated on September 3. They had agreed to a broad pro-European foreign policy that included continued cooperation with NATO. Ultimat [...]	2008-10-17 12:25:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
08KYIV2097	UKRAINE IMF VISIT HIGHLIGHTS DEEPENING BANK CRISIS [...] (SBU) Summary. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is not commenting on the substance of its ongoing discussions with the government of Ukraine (GOU) on a possible support program, but its representatives told us on October 17 that the delegation's stay in Kyiv was open-ended. PM Tymoshenk [...]	2008-10-17 17:02:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON ETRD PGOV XH UP
08KYIV2105	UKRAINE'S BUSINESSES TENSE; IMF AND NSDC DELIBERATE [...] (SBU) Summary. With ongoing International Monetary Fund (IMF) negotiations and an emergency session of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) as the backdrop, Ukraine's politicians swapped jabs, while businesses scrambled to cover their mounting losses. No announcement was made abo [...]	2008-10-20 15:31:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON ETRD PGOV XH UP
08KYIV2106	TYMOSHENKO MEGA-COALITION PROPOSAL FALLS FLAT [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Tymoshenko on October 19 proposed creating a unity coalition of all parties in the parliament to address the effects of the international financial crisis. She asked President Yushchenko to rescind his order for early parliamentary elections and support her proposal. Most [...]	2008-10-20 15:33:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV2111	TYMOSHENKO APPEALS TO USG: UKRAINE HAS "HOURS, NOT [...] (U) This is an Action Request. See Summary and Paragraphs 11 and 12. Summary ------- 2. (C) At a late night meeting on October 20, Prime Minister Tymoshenko told the Ambassador that Ukraine had "hours, and not days" to restore confidence in the country's financial system. The situatio [...]	2008-10-21 14:08:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PGOV PREL ECON ETRD XH UP
08KYIV2112	TYMOSHENKO BLOC IN EFFORT TO REUNITE ORANGE CAMP; [...] (C) President Yushchenko announced on October 20 the suspension of his decree dissolving the parliament, but still called for early parliamentary elections December 14. Yushchenko also called on the Rada to pass a package of legislation to combat the worsening economic situation and to amend t [...]	2008-10-21 15:34:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
08KYIV2113	UKRAINE CRISIS MEASURES PASSED TO UN-DISSOLVED RADA [...] (SBU) Summary. Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) approved a series of as yet unpublished anti-crisis proposals on October 20, designed to stave off a worsening financial emergency. President Viktor Yushchenko temporarily lifted his decree on parliament's dissolution to a [...]	2008-10-21 15:49:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON ETRD PGOV XH UP
08KYIV2127	MV FAINA: UKRAINIAN REQUESTS FOR ASSISTANCE AND [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-23 13:48:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL UP
08KYIV2128	POLITICS CONTINUE TO TRUMP ECONOMICS IN UKRAINE [...] (C) Continuing political turmoil threatens to hold up potential IMF assistance to Ukraine. On October 23, PM Tymoshenko's government submitted anti-crisis legislation, and demanded that any election legislation be shelved until emergency economic measures were in place. President Yushchenko' [...]	2008-10-23 14:20:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EFIN ECON ETRD UP
08KYIV2130	UKRAINE CURRENCY DOWN 20 PERCENT; RADA DIVIDED ON [...] (SBU) Summary. While Rada factions were busy haggling over three competing versions of anti-crisis measures, the hryvnia exchange rate slipped dramatically on October 23. Embassy contacts in the real estate and transportation sectors report more dismal news, indicating general woes throughou [...]	2008-10-23 15:43:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON ETRD PGOV XH UP
08KYIV2138	THE RADA FIDDLES... [...] (C) On October 24, the Rada was again unable to reach consensus on legislation to address Ukraine's looming economic crisis. Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) MPs once again blocked the rostrum to prevent voting on any anti-legislation tied to election funding -- and even allegedly disabled some Rada vo [...]	2008-10-24 14:42:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EFIN ECON ETRD UP
08KYIV2139	EBRD: UKRAINE NEEDS $20 BILLION IMF PACKAGE "TO [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-24 15:20:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PGOV PREL ECON ETRD XH UP
08KYIV2141	UKRAINE: HRYVNIA CONTINUES ITS SLIDE AS [...] (SBU) The hryvnia continues its slide against the dollar, having crossed the psychologically important barrier of 6 UAH/$ on October 24-25. It appears that demand for dollars by ordinary Ukrainians, fearful of further devaluation and inflation, is beginning to drive movements in the market, a [...]	2008-10-25 14:18:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN PGOV PREL ECON ETRD XH UP
08KYIV2142	HISTORICAL IMF PACKAGE IMMINENT, MAY NOT BE ENOUGH [...] (C) Summary. IMF chief envoy Ceyla Pazarbasioglu told the Ambassador on October 25 that Ukraine,s IMF package may amount to the second largest ever in IMF history and would be likely finalized soon, possibly as early as this weekend. She stated that implementation of the assistance package wo [...]	2008-10-25 18:45:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EREL ETRD PGOV PREL XH UP
08KYIV2166	ANTI-CRISIS LEGISLATION PASSES FIRST READING; [...] (C) Rada faction leaders on October 29 broke a legislative impasse by agreeing to consider IMF required anti-crisis legislation before President Yushchenko's early election amendments package. The anti-crisis package passed, drawing unanimous support from the Prime Minister and President's bl [...]	2008-10-29 16:43:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UP
08KYIV2172	UKRAINE: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH CRIMEA'S POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador, along with a small American business delegation, traveled to Crimea October 19-20 for an annual investment forum. The Ambassador also met with Crimea's political leadership while there. Local leaders characterized the September 19 vote by the Crimean Rada (parlia [...]	2008-10-30 11:15:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EINV RS UP
08KYIV2173	UKRAINE: TOO EARLY TO WRITE OFF ROSUKRENERGO (RUE) [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko has repeatedly promised to remove all intermediaries in the gas trade with Russia, but Russia appears to be making direct gas dealings contingent upon obligations that Ukraine may not be able to fulfill. Tymoshenko and Russian PM Putin have signed a mem [...]	2008-10-30 11:47:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ENRG EPET PINR PREL UP
08KYIV2174	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL CORKER VISIT TO KYIV [...] (SBU) Your November 8-10 visit to Ukraine comes during an unfolding domestic economic crisis and an ongoing struggle between President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Tymoshenko over whether to hold snap parliamentary elections. Yushchenko on October 8 dissolved Ukraine's parliament (the Rada) a [...]	2008-10-30 15:33:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OVIP PGOV PHUM PREL UP

08KYIV2185	START TREATY: JCIC-DIP-08-007: SATISFYING ARTICLE [...] (S) Embassy delivered reftel diplomatic note on October 30 to Ambassador Oleksandr Nykonenko, Director of the Arms Control and Military and Technical Cooperation Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Nykonenko agreed that the November Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission (JCIC) [...]	2008-11-03 13:11:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	PARM KACT START JCIC UP

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