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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
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Effective from January 1983

The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
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OPPORTUNITIES

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
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Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)

Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
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Effective from May 1983

Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
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Effective from August 1983

The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
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Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)

Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
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Effective from March 1983

The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
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Effective from October 1997

Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)

The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc

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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
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Effective from April 1984

Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
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Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)

Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:

* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).

Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
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Effective from July 2001

Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
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Effective from August 1989

Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCRM: Criminal Activity
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Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
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Effective from May 1991

Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
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Effective from December 2007

Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
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Effective from August 1986

Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
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Effective from May 2007

Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
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Effective from September 2006

Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
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Effective from June 2000

Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
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Effective from August 2006

Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)

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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
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Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
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Effective from January 1999

Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
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Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.

(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
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Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
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Effective from August 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
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Effective From October 1999

Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
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Effective from April 1984

Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
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Effective from February 1984

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
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Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
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Effective from May 2000

Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
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Effective from November 1984

Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
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Effective from August 1996

Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
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Effective from March 1993

Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
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Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
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Effective from October 1997

Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
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Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)

Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
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Effective from July 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
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Effective from June 1984

Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
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Effective from September 2008

Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
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Effective from November 1995

Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
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Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
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Effective from June 1995

Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
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Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
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Effective from January 1983

Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
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EXCHANGE OPERATIONS

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
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Effective from January 1983

Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
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Effective from October 1999

Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
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Effective from January 1983

A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)

The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
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Effective from January 1983

Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
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Effective from January 1985

The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
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Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)

People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
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Effective from January 1983

The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
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Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
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Effective from March 1995

The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)

The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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01DAMASCUS3036 ASAD: ISRAEL DOES NOT DESIRE PEACE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: ACCORDING TO A LENGTHY INTERVIEW WITH GERMAN NEWS MAGAZINE DER SPIEGEL 7/9, SYRIAN PRESIDENT AL- ASAD ACCUSED ISRAELI PM SHARON OF PUSHING THE REGION TOWARDS WAR; ASSERTED THAT SYRIA WANTED PEACE BUT WOULD NOT SHY AWAY FROM WAR IF FORCED INTO IT; AND WAS UNAPOLOGETIC ABOUT SYRIAN [...]
2001-07-09 15:03:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV SY
02ANKARA8975NORTHERN IRAQ: TURKS TELL PUK ASSISTANCE AGAINST
[...] (C) Operation Northern Watch POLAD met with Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Ankara rep Bahros Galali December 13. Galali said he had met earlier in the week with Turkish military officials (NFI) who told him that if, in Turkey's view, the London opposition conference had a positive result, Turkey [...]
2002-12-13 14:33:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR TU IZ
03ANKARA3826ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2003-06-12 15:25:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
03JERUSALEM4246ISLAMIC RADICALS ATTACK EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] (U) EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AHMAD MAHER CAME UNDER ATTACK BY ISLAMIC ACTIVISTS WHILE VISITING AND PRAYING AT THE HARAM ASH-SHARIF ON THE EVENING OF DECEMBER 22. A VIDEO SHOWS MAHER BEING MOBBED BY ANGRY WORSHIPPERS AND APPARENTLY CHOKED BRIEFLY BY A CLOTH AROUND HIS NECK. WORSHIPPERS REPOR [...]
2003-12-22 16:40:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL IS EG
04JERUSALEM171HOW HAMAS IS WORKING TO REPLACE THE PA AND THE PLO
[...] (C) Summary: A range of Palestinian thinkers and activists are reporting that Hamas is moving with unprecedented boldness to establish itself as an alternative leadership to the Palestinian Authority (PA) and PLO. Hamas leaders are publicly arguing that stalled roadmap implementation, the w [...]
2004-01-20 05:00:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER KDEM KPAL KWBG IS
04JERUSALEM4203PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP WORRIED AS ARAFAT'S
[...] (C) Summary: Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasir Arafat's health deteriorated suddenly the evening of November 3, according to ConGen sources in Ramallah, who said his doctors in Paris had moved him to an intensive care unit after he began vomiting and experiencing fatigue and fever. Negotia [...]
2004-11-04 10:22:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG PGOV KPAL IS
04JERUSALEM4306ABD RABBO: LIFE AND DEATH WITH SUHA -- STRANGER
[...] (C) Summary: PLO ExCom member Yasir Abd Rabbo told DPO November 9 that Suha Arafat's undignified rant on al-Jazeera in which she accused the Palestinian leadership of conspiring against her husband had found no resonance among Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Instead, her behavior had [...]
2004-11-09 16:35:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS KWBG FR
04JERUSALEM926ARAFAT BLOCKS COURT ORDER UNFREEZING HAMAS ACCOUNTS
[...] (C) ON THE EXPLICIT INSTRUCTIONS OF YASIR ARAFAT, PALESTINIAN MONETARY AUTHORITY (PMA) GOVERNOR AMIN HADDAD CALLED ECON/C MARCH 23 TO REPORT THAT ARAFAT HAD INSTRUCTED THE PMA AND THE PA SECURITY SERVICES TO BLOCK IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MARCH 21 HIGHER JUDICIAL COUNCIL ORDER UNFREEZING 39 BANK [...]
2004-03-23 15:05:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPTER EFIN KPAL KWBG PREL IS
04TELAVIV1685JERICHO MONITORING MISSION: STATUS REPORT AND
[...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Tel Aviv-ConGen Jerusalem message, coordinated with the British Embassy and British ConGen. 2. (S) SUMMARY: Following a detailed review of the situation at the Jericho prison, the U.S. and British Ambassadors and Consuls General agreed March 15 that Palestinian [...]
2004-03-18 16:37:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETPREL PTER KPAL KWBG IS UK ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04TELAVIV2056RECOMMENDATIONS ON MAJOR GAZA/WEST BANK USAID
[...] (C) Summary/Recommendations: On January 30, Chiefs of Mission in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and the West Bank/Gaza USAID Mission Director decided jointly to put an eight-week hold on four USAID projects to allow time to: 1) measure progress in the investigation of the October, 2003 murder of our [...]
2004-04-05 09:09:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALEAID KPAL KWBG ASEC IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS HUMANITARIAN AID
04TELAVIV6500TRILATERAL WATER TALKS MOVE FORWARD COOPERATION,
[...] (C) Summary: Palestinian and Israeli water chiefs and their staffs held a thorough exchange focusing on water supply issues for Gaza and the West Bank during U.S.-Israeli-Palestinian Trilateral Water Talks at USAID offices in Tel Aviv December 9. The Israeli and Palestinian officials agreed [...]
2004-12-22 10:02:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALEAID IS KWBG PREL SENV ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL
05AMMAN2918UNRWA SEEKS DIRECT ROLE IN DISENGAGEMENT PLANNING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Karen Abu Zayd, Acting Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA),called on Ambassador Kurtzer and Consul General David Pearce in separate April 5 meetings to review the modifications UNRWA is making to both [...]
2005-04-11 10:50:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL KPAL KWBG IS JO UNRWA
05BRUSSELS235READOUT OF EU HIGHREP SOLANA'S TRIP TO MIDDLE EAST
[...] (C) SUMMARY. EU Middle East Envoy Marc Otte told USEU that, as a result of his January 9-13 trip to the region, EU High Rep Solana sees possibilities and opportunities for positive changes in the election of Mahmoud Abbas as the new leader of the Palestinian Authority. In particular, Solana [...]
2005-01-19 17:10:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL PGOV PTER EAID IS EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05CANBERRA1471SINGAPORE-AUSTRALIA MINISTERIAL HIGHLIGHTS DEPTH
[...] (C) Summary: Australian and Singaporean foreign, defense, and trade ministers exchanged views on security issues, counterterrorism, East Asian regional architecture, defense cooperation, and economic integration during the fifth biennial Singapore-Australia Joint Ministerial Committee (SAJMC [...]
2005-08-31 08:25:00Embassy CanberraCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER ETRD EINV EAIR MARR MOPS ECPS AS SN
05JERUSALEM1578WB/G SITREP: APRIL 18, 2005 (1800 HOURS LOCAL) --
[...] (SBU) Summary: In the West Bank, a 12-year-old Palestinian boy was wounded by IDF gunfire near Ramallah on April 17. Eight Palestinians were arrested from April 15-17 throughout the West Bank. Two firebombs were thrown at passing Israeli vehicles on road 443 and near Ofra settlement on April 1 [...]
2005-04-18 16:37:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC
05JERUSALEM1617WB/G SITREP: APRIL 19, 2005 (1600 HOURS LOCAL) --
[...] (SBU) Summary: In the West Bank, IDF troops arrested three Hamas members and two Fatah militants on April 18. IDF troops in Nablus found three kilograms of explosives hidden in a house in Askar refugee camp on April 18. The IDF imposed a curfew on Burqa village, north of Nablus, on April 18 [...]
2005-04-19 14:23:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL ASEC IS
05JERUSALEM1633WB/G SITREP: APRIL 20, 2005 (1500 HOURS LOCAL) --
[...] (SBU) Summary: In the West Bank, a Palestinian man was hospitalized April 19 after he was shot by an Israeli soldier. Palestinian militants also reportedly fired shots at Bet Romano settlement in the Old City of Hebron April 19. The IDF arrested five Palestinians April 19 in various areas of [...]
2005-04-20 14:07:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC
05JERUSALEM1655WB/G SITREP: APRIL 21, 2005 (1600 HOURS LOCAL) --
[...] (SBU) Summary: In the West Bank, a Palestinian shepherd was attacked by a number of settlers from Betar Illit settlement, near Husan village by Bethlehem on April 20. Six Palestinians were arrested in various areas of the West Bank April 20. In the Gaza Strip, one IDF soldier was moderately [...]
2005-04-21 14:36:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC
05JERUSALEM1668WB/G SITREP: APRIL 22, 2005 (1600 HOURS LOCAL) --
[...] (SBU) Summary: In the West Bank, 11 Palestinian and foreign peace activists were lightly injured when hit by rubber-coated bullets during clashes with the IDF in the village of Bil,in, west of Ramallah, April 21. The IDF found and defused a six-kilogram explosive device near Jenin on April 21 [...]
2005-04-22 14:32:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC
05JERUSALEM1772JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/29) - ABBAS'S FIRST
[...] No summary [...]
2005-04-29 11:30:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAL KWBG IS KPAO PREL OPRC
05JERUSALEM1792WB/G SITREP: MAY 2, 2005 (1800 HOURS LOCAL) -- ONE
[...] (SBU) Summary. On May 2, one IDF soldier and one PIJ gunman (Shawfiq Abd al-Ghani) were killed in a shootout during an IDF operation in Saida village, by Tulkarm, according to Israeli and Palestinian media. In Gaza, one Palestinian was killed during a gunfight between members of the Eddiri [...]
2005-05-02 16:45:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PBTS PHUM KWBG ASEC CASC IS
05JERUSALEM1849WB/G SITREP: MAY 4, 2005 (1700 HOURS LOCAL) --
[...] (SBU) Summary. IDF forces conducted several incursions near Jenin, Nablus and Hebron in the West Bank on May 3, but no deaths or serious injuries resulted. PA President Abbas is expected to leave Ramallah May 7 for an international tour including Chile, Brazil, Japan and India. A PA Interio [...]
2005-05-04 14:55:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PBTS PHUM KWBG ASEC CASC IS
05JERUSALEM1891WB/G SITREP: MAY 6, 2005 (1700 HOURS LOCAL) --
[...] (SBU) Summary. Fatah won at least 60 percent of 906 municipal council seats in May 5 elections held in 84 localities in the West Bank and Gaza, based on preliminary results and exit polling, but Hamas also garnered 35-37 percent. Militants fired four Qassam rockets toward Sderot May 5-6, ac [...]
2005-05-06 14:36:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PBTS PHUM KWBG ASEC CASC IS
05JERUSALEM1987WB/G SITREP: PALESTINIAN KILLED AT WEST BANK
[...] (SBU) Summary: In the West Bank, the IDF on May 16 shot and killed a Palestinian as he approached an Israeli checkpoint on foot near Tulkarm. The IDF on May 15 shot and wounded two Palestinians who had thrown firebombs near 'Abud village, northwest of Ramallah. In the Gaza Strip, four Isra [...]
2005-05-16 17:27:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PBTS PHUM KWBG CASC IS
05JERUSALEM1996WB/G SITREP: CLASHES IN GAZA CITY BETWEEN PA
[...] (SBU) Summary: At least three Palestinians were shot and injured the evening of May 16 in Gaza City during an altercation that broke out between members of the PA civil police and the anti-riot police unit. The ensuing gun battle went on for several hours. In the West Bank, PA police on M [...]
2005-05-17 16:59:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PBTS PHUM KWBG CASC IS
05JERUSALEM2009WB/G SITREP: IDF MISSILE STRIKE INJURES ONE HAMAS
[...] (SBU) Summary: In the Gaza Strip, the IDF fired missiles at two Hamas militants May 18, injuring one critically, as the two were reportedly preparing to fire mortars into the Gush Katif settlement bloc. The IDF action followed a barrage of five mortars into the settlement earlier in the day [...]
2005-05-18 16:21:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PBTS PHUM KWBG CASC IS
05JERUSALEM2051WB/G SITREP: HAMAS MILITANT SUCCUMBS TO WOUNDS
[...] (SBU) Summary: In the Gaza Strip, a Hamas militant on May 18 died from wounds received from an Israeli missile strike earlier that day. The IDF and UNRWA reported that Palestinian militants fired a total of 45 mortar shells and homemade rockets overnight May 18-19 at Israeli targets through [...]
2005-05-19 18:02:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PBTS PHUM KWBG CASC IS
05JERUSALEM2419WB/G SITREP: JUNE 10-14, 2005 (1600 HOURS LOCAL)
[...] (SBU) Summary. Two Palestinians were shot and injured during clashes between different al-Aqsa cells by Manasra Square in Ramallah on June 12. The IDF shot and injured a a Palestinian youth in Saida village near Tulkarm on June 11, according to Palestinian security sources. UNRWA reported [...]
2005-06-14 16:12:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PBTS PHUM KWBG ASEC CASC IS
05JERUSALEM2436WB/G SITREP: JUNE 15, 2005 (1600 HOURS LOCAL) --
[...] (SBU) Summary. Four Palestinian family members were shot and killed in Jabaliya in Gaza June 14, when an internal family dispute between two brothers turned violent, according to UNRWA. In the West Bank, the IDF entered Dura, west of Hebron on June 14, and shot and injured two Palestinians i [...]
2005-06-15 15:03:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PBTS PHUM KWBG ASEC CASC IS
05JERUSALEM2461WB/G SITREP: JUNE 16, 2005 (1300 HOURS LOCAL) --
[...] (SBU) Summary: In the West Bank, the IDF arrested four members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) June 15. Israeli settlers uprooted or set on fire 140 Palestinian-owned olive trees near Nablus-area settlements. In the Gaza Strip, IDF forces entered al-Mughragha overnight June 15-16 and arre [...]
2005-06-16 12:07:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC
05JERUSALEM2508WB/G SITREP: JUNE 17, 2005 (1500 HOURS LOCAL) --
[...] (SBU) Summary. Palestinian militants fired two Qassam rockets at the Israeli town Sderot on June 16, but caused no injuries or significant damage. A Palestinian Preventive Security (PSO) agent died in Ramallah June 16 from an accidental discharge of his weapon. Two Palestinians were shot a [...]
2005-06-17 12:40:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PBTS PHUM KWBG ASEC CASC IS
05JERUSALEM2570WB/G SITREP: JUNE 22, 2005 (1700 HOURS LOCAL) --
[...] (SBU) Summary: The IDF arrested alleged 10 PIJ activists June 21, most in Qalqiliya and Nablus. The IDF also arrested a Palestinian woman who attempted to stab an IDF soldier at a checkpoint near Tulkarm on June 21, according to Israeli newspapers. There were no injuries in the incident. In [...]
2005-06-22 14:06:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC
05JERUSALEM2643WB/G SITREP: JUNE 27, 2005 (1800 HOURS LOCAL) --
[...] (SBU) Summary: Palestinian gunmen shot and killed two Israelis and injured two others outside Bayt Haggai settlement near Hebron June 24. PIJ and Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed credit. In subsequent IDF incursions into the area, the IDF shot and injured two Palestinians in Dura village, [...]
2005-06-27 14:37:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC
05JERUSALEM2670WB/G SITREP: JUNE 28, 2005 (1800 HOURS LOCAL) --
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Palestinian militants launched a total of six mortar shells and one Qassam rocket from the southern Gaza Strip. Erez Crossing was open June 27, and 4,200 laborers and 405 merchants crossed into Israel. An IDF military court has convicted a former IDF soldier of manslaughter, [...]
2005-06-28 14:48:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC
05JERUSALEM2673WB/G SITREP: JUNE 29, 2005 (1800 HOURS LOCAL) --
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Five disengagement opponents and one Palestinian were lightly wounded in June 28 stone-throwing clashes that broke out in al-Mowassi in Gaza. In the West Bank, IDF raids continued in the area of Allar, Attil, and Saida. Several Palestinian activists suffered minor injuries in c [...]
2005-06-29 14:55:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC
05JERUSALEM2739WB/G SITREP: JUNE 30, 2005 (1800 HOURS LOCAL) --
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UNRWA and Israeli media reported that five Palestinians were injured, one of them seriously, as stone-throwing clashes between Palestinians, Israeli settlers, and Israeli security forces continued for a fourth day in al-Mowassi. A large IDF force entered Nablus after three IDF [...]
2005-06-30 13:50:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC
05JERUSALEM2786WB/G SITREP: JULY 01, 2005 (1800 HOURS LOCAL) --
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Five Palestinians and one IDF soldier were lightly wounded June 30 in Nablus during an IDF incursion in response to reports, ulimately unfounded, that two soldiers had been kidnapped. UNRWA and Israeli media reported that disengagement opponents in the al-Mowassi area of Gaza [...]
2005-07-01 16:05:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC
05JERUSALEM2911WB/G SITREP: TWO PALESTINIANS KILLED, SEVENTEEN
[...] (SBU) Summary: In the West Bank, an Israeli security guard on July 8 shot and killed a Palestinian teenager near Bayt Liqya, west of Ramallah. The Israeli Police are reportedly conducting an investigation of the incident. A second Palestinian teenager on July 10 died from bullet wounds re [...]
2005-07-11 16:00:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PBTS PHUM KWBG CASC IS
05JERUSALEM2955WB/G SITREP: SENIOR PA OFFICIAL ASSAULTED IN WEST
[...] (SBU) Summary: A senior official from the Palestinian Authority (PA) Ministry of the Interior (MOI) on July 12 sustained injuries from an attack by unknown assailants as he traveled from Jerusalem to Ramallah. The MOI official was later hospitalized, but is expected to recover from his in [...]
2005-07-12 16:18:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PBTS PHUM KWBG CASC IS
05JERUSALEM2970WB/G SITREP: TWO PALESTINIANS KILLED, FIVE
[...] (SBU) Summary: In response to the July 12 suicide bombing in Netanya that killed four Israelis and wounded at least 90 others, and the attempted car bombing by a Palestinian in the West Bank settlement of Shavei Shomron, the IDF on July 13 launched an operation into Tulkarm, killing two Pal [...]
2005-07-13 16:09:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PBTS PHUM KWBG CASC IS
05JERUSALEM3005WB/G SITREP: OPERATIONS IN TULKARM, GENERAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: IDF operations in Tulkarm continued for a second day following the July 12 suicide bombing in Netanya, which killed five Israelis. A general closure remains in effect for the entire West Bank and Gaza Strip. In Nablus, the IDF on the evening of July 13 shot and killed a loc [...]
2005-07-14 14:37:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PBTS PHUM KWBG CASC IS
05JERUSALEM3019WB/G SITREP: TARGETED KILLINGS, ROCKET ATTACKS
[...] (SBU) Summary: In the West Bank, Israeli helicopters on July 15 fired missiles at a vehicle traveling near Salfit, killing at least two Hamas activists. Meanwhile, in the Gaza Strip, Hamas and PA security forces have engaged in street battles July 14-15, resulting in the deaths of at least [...]
2005-07-15 15:49:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PBTS PHUM KWBG CASC IS
05OTTAWA3349 ARCTIC GAS PIPELINES REACH KEY DECISION POINTS
[...] (U) SENSITIVE, BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION OUTSIDE USG CHANNELS. 2. (U) Summary/Introduction: Both of North America's proposed major Arctic natural gas pipeline projects - Alaska and Mackenzie - are approaching key milestones: - On the Mackenzie project, Canada's National Ener [...]
2005-11-09 20:38:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG EINV CA
05OTTAWA3505 MACKENZIE PIPELINE PROJECT MOVES TOWARD HEARINGS
[...] (U) As anticipated (reftel),though with a week's delay, on November 23 Exxon-controlled Imperial Oil Resources informed Canada's National Energy Board (NEB) that the proponents of the Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline project are ready to proceed to public hearings. 2. (U) The NEB will [...]
2005-11-25 21:28:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ENRG EINV CA
05ROME3442ITALY: CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES PASSES ELECTORAL REFORM
[...] (C) SUMMARY. PM Berlusconi's Center-Right coalition moved an electoral reform bill through the important Chamber of Deputies on October 13 in a vote that ended in an opposition walkout and mass abstention. The bill is widely expected to pass the Senate next week and become law. The change her [...]
2005-10-14 12:08:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IT ITALIAN POLITICS
05ROME3467ITALY: PRODI WINS CLEAR VICTORY IN CENTER-LEFT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Former EU Commissioner Romano Prodi confirmed his role as Center-Left party leader in a decisive victory in Italy's first ever coalition primaries on October 16. A surprisingly high 4.4 million voters gave Prodi 74.6 percent of the vote, versus 14.6 percent for his nearest rival, [...]
2005-10-17 13:17:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
05ROME3512ITALIANS WONDERING IF THEY'RE NEXT
[...] (S) Summary. Both center-right and center-left politicians remain focused on the possibility of a major terror attack in Italy in coming months. An adviser on Middle East Affairs in the prime minister's office told us he sees a high possibility of an Al-Qaida attack somewhere in Italy duri [...]
2005-10-20 12:39:00Embassy RomeSECRETPREL PTER PINS ASEC IT ANTITERRORISM FORCE PROTECTION
05ROME3547ITALIANS SHARE USG CONCERNS ON BELARUS
[...] (C) Summary. On October 24 Poloff met with Antonino Cascio, Deputy Director of the Office of Eastern European Affairs of the Italian MFA to deliver reftel points. Cascio stated that Italy and the EU share the USG opinion that pressure must be stepped up on the Lukashenko regime in advance of [...]
2005-10-24 15:29:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM EAID PGOV BO IT EUN
05ROME3597UN REFORM, IRAN: VISIT OF IO A/S SILVERBERG
[...] (C) Summary. Italian officials told visiting A/S Silverberg they would look at any UNSC reform proposal except national permanent seats, such as the G4 proposal. They agree on the importance of moving forward before the end of the year on UN Secretariat reform, the Peace Building Commission, [...]
2005-10-26 16:34:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL KUNR XF IT UNSC
05ROME3631IRAN: ITALY SENDS TOUGH MESSAGE
[...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Berlusconi publicly condemned the statements made by Iranian President Ahmadinejad. The MFA also immediately phoned the Iranian Ambassador in Rome to protest upon hearing Ahmadinejad's remarks, following up with a short public statement on its web site. The Mayor [...]
2005-10-28 17:44:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PHUM IR IT ITALIAN POLITICS
05ROME3640CHAVEZ STEALS THE SPOTLIGHT AS LATIN AMERICAN
[...] (C) Summary. Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi delivered our message on consolidating democracy and ensuring respect for human rights to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during their meeting October 17 in Milan. Chavez was in Italy for the October 17 UN Food and Agriculture Organization's 60th Ann [...]
2005-10-31 17:17:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL XM XL IT HUMAN RIGHTS
05ROME3671ITALIAN VIEWS ON NOVEMBER 7 EU FOREIGN MINISTERS'
[...] (C) Summary. Post delivered ref d points to MFA interlocutors during the week of October 31. The GOI supports the US position on Middle East, Balkans, and Avian Flu issues. Progress on WTO issues, however, will depend on the whether there is movement on issues of key importance to the GOI - [...]
2005-11-03 16:47:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL BO KPAL ETRD IT EUN EAGER
05ROME3758GOI: FRENCH-STYLE RIOTS NOT SHORT TERM ISSUE
[...] (C) Italian politicians and the media have closely followed the riots in France, inevitably asking the question as to whether the Italian periphery could also burn. Ministry of Interior Giuseppe Pisanu told the media November 13, "The Italian peripheries are not comparable to the Parisian banl [...]
2005-01-14 17:25:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREF PREL PTER IT ITALIAN POLITICS
05ROME3763IRAQ: TALABANI IN ROME URGES NO HASTY TROOP MOVES
[...] (C) Summary. During his November 7-13 visit to Italy, Iraqi President Talabani discussed current developments in Iraq and Iraqi relations with Syrian, Iran and Turkey with Embassy officials. Talabani received assurances from Italian center-left leaders that they would not withdraw Italian tr [...]
2005-11-15 10:22:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPARM PREL PGOV IZ IT UNSC IRAQI FREEDOM NATO
05ROME3765ITALY ON SUDAN AND SOMALIA
[...] (C) Summary. Italian MFA U/S Mantica will travel to Sudan November 16-21, making stops in Khartoum, Darfur, and Juba. Implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) will be at the top of the agenda. Italy is pleased with its seat on the Sudanese Assessment and Evaluation Commission [...]
2005-11-15 10:49:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SO SU IT HUMAN RIGHTS
05ROME3774GOI: FRENCH-STYLE RIOTS NOT SHORT TERM ISSUE
[...] (C) Italian politicians and the media have closely followed the riots in France, inevitably asking the question as to whether the Italian periphery could also burn. Ministry of Interior Giuseppe Pisanu told the media November 13, "The Italian peripheries are not comparable to the Parisian banl [...]
2005-11-15 15:18:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREF PREL PTER IT
05ROME3796ITALY SEES NO POSSIBILITY TO DEPLOY EGF FOR
[...] (C) Poloffs delivered ref demarche to MFA Central America and the Caribbean Office Director Paolo Miraglia and to Major Fabio Cairo, who handles European Gendarme Force policy for Carabinieri HQ Rome. Poloffs urged consideration of early European Gendarmerie Force (EGF) deployment, but both M [...]
2005-11-17 12:16:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL KPKO HA IT EUN
05ROME3827ITALIANS WELCOME LEAD ROLE IN EU MISSION AT RAFAH
[...] (C) Summary. NEA DAS Elizabeth Dibble held consultations with senior GOI officials on Middle East issues November 15. The GOI officials welcomed the recent agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority on reopening the Rafah crossing and noted that an Italian general would lead the EU [...]
2005-11-21 07:43:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL XF IT EUN
05ROME3828MOI PISANU NO LONGER INTERESTED IN SAUDIS TRAINING
[...] (C) Minister of Interior Pisanu told the Ambassador during the Ambassador's introductory call in late September that he had been developing a close working relationship with his Saudi Arabian counterpart (REFTEL). Pisanu spoke positively about a Saudi offer of assistance training imams operati [...]
2005-11-21 11:24:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV IT ITALIAN POLITICS
05ROME3880OSCE: ITALIANS FLEXIBLE ON BUDGET ISSUES, SEEKING
[...] No summary [...]
2005-11-23 17:40:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALABUD AFIN PREL EU PGOV IT OSCE
05ROME3882ITALIAN-YEMENI COOPERATION ON BORDER CONTROL
[...] (U) This is an action request: please see para 5. 2. (C) Italian Minister of Interior Giuseppe Pisanu visited Sanaa last week for talks with his Yemeni counterpart. According to Pisanu's Diplomatic Advisor, Ambassador Guido Lenzi, the most urgent bilateral issue discussed was Yemen's re [...]
2005-11-23 18:24:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER IT YE
05ROME3885OSCE: ITALIANS FLEXIBLE ON BUDGET ISSUES, SEEKING
[...] No summary [...]
2005-11-25 08:53:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALABUD AFIN PREL EU PGOV IT OSCE
05ROME3936ITALY: ON IRAQ CENTER-LEFT MOVES RIGHT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: DS Party Secretary Piero Fassino says that if a Center-Left government comes to power next spring it would withdraw troops from Iraq in close coordination with the Iraqi government, the U.S. and other allies. A DS Official told us that Center-Left PM candidate Romano Prodi had a [...]
2005-11-30 16:21:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
05ROME3961ITALY INSISTS IT IS FIRM ON PRESSURING RUSSIA ON
[...] (C) Summary. On December 1, Poloff met with Dr. Susanna Schlien of the OSCE office of the Italian MFA to discuss the US position on a possible ministerial declaration during the OSCE Ljubljana summit. Poloff noted that the USG believed that no ministerial message might be better than one whic [...]
2005-12-01 17:40:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL EU PGOV IT OSCE
05ROME4052ITALIANS FOCUS ON LONG-TERM IN IRAQ, SEEK
[...] (C) Summary. In meetings with the Deputy Senior Coordinator for Iraq Robert Deutsch, Italian government officials stressed the need for the continued involvement and commitment of the international community in Iraq. The Prime Minister's office suggested a UN Presidential statement would hel [...]
2005-12-13 15:47:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL PGOV IZ IT UNSC IRAQI FREEDOM NATO
05ROME4060MOI EXPELS MOHAMMED DAKI: ITALY'S 13 IN 2005
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Interior Giuseppe Pisanu expelled Moroccan national and suspect terrorist Daki Mohamed on December 10, returning him to Morocco. Tunisian national and terrorist suspect Gharsellaoui Mohamed Akremi was also expelled December 10. In a December 11 press release, Pisanu [...]
2005-12-14 16:06:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV ASEC IT ANTITERRORISM FORCE PROTECTION
05ROME4083AMB. TAHIR-KHELI'S VISIT PRODUCES IMMEDIATE
[...] (C) Summary. Amb. Shirin Tahir-Kheli, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State on UN Reform, had meetings with Italian FM Gianfranco Fini, senior MFA officials, and senior officials in PM Berlusconi's office December 12 and 13. Amb. Tahir-Kheli highlighted U.S. reform priorities, stressed the [...]
2005-12-19 14:13:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALKUNR IT UNGA
05TELAVIV87ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iraq 3. Israel-Turkey Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Maariv and Yediot highlighted issues related to the opposition to the disengagement plan. Maariv bannered a call by PM Sharon on IDF soldiers to resist pro [...]
2005-01-06 11:21:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDIS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06BOGOTA10114U/S BURNS' OCTOBER 25 LUNCH MEETING WITH COLOMBIAN
[...] (U) October 25, 2006; 1400PM. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. Under Secretary Burns A/S for WHA Thomas P. Shannon Ambassador William B. Wood Deputy Assistant Attorney General Mary Lee Warren DCM Milton Drucker Daniel Tomlinson, NSC Attorney Advisor Patricia Prugh, L Political Counselor John [...]
2006-11-01 15:52:00Embassy BogotaCONFIDENTIALKJUS PGOV PHUM PREL PTER CO
06MOSCOW10432EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: FGUP
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Federal State Unitary Enterprise Research Institute for Co [...]
2006-09-19 07:11:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW10434EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: STATE
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, State Research Institute of Aviation, Moscow, Russia. The company is [...]
2006-09-19 07:11:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW10719EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: (A) VNESH OPT
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, (A) Vnesh Opt Torg and (B) FSUE Scientific and Tech. Atlas, Moscow, [...]
2006-09-25 10:56:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW10720EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: VF COMPANY,
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Vtoroy Front Company (VF Company),Moscow, Russia. The company is li [...]
2006-09-25 10:57:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW11032EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK:
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Technoservicepribor, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS li [...]
2006-10-02 08:31:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW11260EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: CHANCE
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Chance 2003 LLC, Kostroma, Russia. The company is listed on BIS lice [...]
2006-10-06 11:39:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW11261EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: TETIS PRO,
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Tetis Pro, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license appl [...]
2006-10-06 11:39:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW11262EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK:
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Elektroneftemash, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS licen [...]
2006-10-06 11:39:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW11264EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION:
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Federalnaya Sluzhba Ohrany, Moscow, Russia. The company wa [...]
2006-10-06 11:40:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW11988EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: MOSCOW
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Moscow Institute of Radio-Technique Electronics and Automation (MIRE [...]
2006-10-25 14:03:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW12481EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: LE MONTI MR.
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Le Monti Mr. Evgeny Mirmovich, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed [...]
2006-11-17 11:15:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW12482EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: (A) JSC CHOP
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, (A) JSC CHOP Vityaz-S (D359202) AND (B) JSC CHOP Vityaz-S (D358555),[...]
2006-11-17 11:15:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW12563EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: M.P.CHUMAKOV
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, M.P. Chumakov Institute of Poliomyelitis and viral encefalitides of [...]
2006-11-22 05:27:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW12646EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION:
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Federalnaya Sluzhba Ohrany, Moscow, Russia. The company wa [...]
2006-11-28 05:44:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW12712EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION:
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Federalnaya Sluzhba Ohrany, Moscow, Russia. The company wa [...]
2006-11-30 14:09:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW12935EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION:
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Villart Export, Elektrostal, Russia. The company was liste [...]
2006-12-15 06:42:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW12936EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: S-
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, S-Terra, Zelenograd, Moscow, Russia. The company was liste [...]
2006-12-15 06:43:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW12992EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: ITRC "MIR",
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, ITRC "MIR", Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license app [...]
2006-12-20 13:35:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW12993EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION:
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Supreme Commercial Court, Moscow, Russia. The company was [...]
2006-12-20 13:36:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06PRETORIA5095SOUTH AFRICA RESPONSE TO OPIC-SUPPORTED INVESTMENT
[...] Per request in reftel, post provides the following comments regarding OPIC's proposed backing of Ethos Fund V. -- Capital to build houses will improve the serious shortage of low-income housing in South Africa and is compatible with SAG's current housing policies. -- Funds for housing a [...]
2006-12-21 11:40:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDEINV OPIC SF
06ROME1023ITALY: SLOW DOWN ON ID FOR GEORGIA
[...] (C) Responding to reftel demarche on April 4, MFA NATO Office Head Gianni Bardini told polmiloff that Italy considers it premature to invite Georgia into Intensified Dialogue (ID) with NATO at the April 13 meeting between Georgia and the Allies. Bardini said that, while Italy is open to think [...]
2006-04-04 15:54:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL GG IT NATO
06ROME1025ITALY'S FLEDGLING ISLAMIC CONSULTATIVE COUNCIL
[...] (C) Summary: Interior Minister Pisanu's hand-picked Muslim Consultative Council continues to be controversial after its first two meetings. Criticism by both the right-wing Northern League Party and some members of the Muslim community convinced Pisanu to cancel the next meeting until afte [...]
2006-04-05 08:49:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALKISL PREL PGOV PTER IT HUMAN RIGHTS
06ROME1107NEXT STEPS IN ITALY'S CONTESTED ELECTION
[...] (U) SUMMARY: In elections that showed Italy split down the political middle, center-left challenger Romano Prodi has apparently won a razor-thin majority over PM Silvio Berlusconi in the Italian Senate. His edge in the Chamber of Deputies was also close, but the voting bloc will be more subs [...]
2006-04-11 16:33:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV IT
06ROME1162ITALY: CERTIFIED VOTE RESULTS EXPECTED SOON
[...] (C) A consensus is developing that the Italian Court of Cassation will issue certified election results next Tuesday, April 18, though reports that the recount could take a few days longer persist. UDC Party Secretary Lorenzo Cesa told the press that election results would not change, and FI [...]
2006-04-14 14:25:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME117ITALIAN MFA U/S MANTICA VISITS SOMALIA
[...] (C) Summary. The Italian MFA's Undersecretary for Africa Alfredo Mantica met with Somali TFG PM Ali Gedi in Jowhar January 5, as Somali President Yusuf and Speaker of Parliament Hassan were signing the Aden Declaration in Yemen. According to the MFA, Gedi expressed support for the Declaratio [...]
2006-01-12 16:14:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SO IT UN
06ROME1174ITALY SUPPORTS CURRENT EU BURMA POLICY
[...] (C) Summary. Poloff delivered reftel demarche April 13 to Nicola Tassoni, MFA Deputy Southeast Asia Office Director, presenting U.S. concerns regarding some of the statements made at the EC 2006 Burma/Myanmar Forum, and highlighting the importance the U.S. places on coordinating our Burma mess [...]
2006-04-19 07:31:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALBM EAID EU PHUM PREF PREL IT
06ROME1182ITALIAN VIEWS ON NATO GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP -
[...] (C) Italy has a positive impression of the U.S. concept for a NATO Global Partnership and is interested in pursuing it further, but registered concerns about our presentation and approach, fearing we are moving too fast, without a clear enough sense of what partners want or expect, or of possib [...]
2006-04-19 15:45:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR IT NATO EUN
06ROME119IRAQ: ITALIANS WANT TO LEAD PRT, EVALUATING OTHER
[...] (C) Summary. Italy would like to lead the PRT in Dhi Qar province, where it has considerable military and civilian experience. It sees this as a useful vehicle for an increasing focus on civilian activities as well as security training. Packaging the coalition's evolving role in Iraq in ter [...]
2006-01-12 17:09:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL PGOV IZ IT UNSC IRAQI FREEDOM
06ROME1202ITALY: BERLUSCONI STAYS MUM ON PRODI WIN
[...] (C) PM Silvio Berlusconi has not yet conceded victory to opposition leader Romano Prodi even after Italy's Court of Cassation officially confirmed the electoral victory for Prodi on April 19. In the wake of the court's confirmation, congratulatory calls from world leaders began to flow into P [...]
2006-04-21 10:14:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV IT
06ROME1221ITALY: PRODI ALLY LOOKS AHEAD ON IRAQ, HAMAS,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Head of the Democrats of the Left (DS) International Affairs Office adviser and newly elected member of parliament Luciano Vecchi told Poloff that Prodi would strictly follow EU policy with regards to Hamas. Vecchi also confirmed the Center-Left position on Iraq, reaffirming that [...]
2006-04-24 16:57:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS KPAL IZ IT
06ROME1222ITALY SHARES U.S. VIEWS ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
[...] (C) April 11 PolMinCouns informed Giacomo Sanfelice, Deputy Director General for Political Multilateral Affairs, of Reftel A letter from Secretary Rice to FM Fini and explained the U.S. position on supporting candidate countries in the first UN Human Rights Council (HRC) elections. Poloff fol [...]
2006-04-24 17:17:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALKUNR OPDC PREL PHUM IT UNGA HUMAN RIGHTS
06ROME1230ITALY BRIEFED ON U.S. KOSOVO POLICY
[...] (C) April 20 Poloff briefed Raimondo de Cardona, MFA Balkans Office Director, and Maria Teresa di Maio, Kosovo Desk Officer, on U.S. Kosovo policy per reftel. De Cardona said it was useful to hear our policy laid out more comprehensively, noting that the GOI was already aware of the various c [...]
2006-04-26 11:10:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV YI EU IT
06ROME1246ITALY ON BOARD WITH NATO'S MIDDLE EAST SECURITY
[...] (C) Summary. Italy, a co-sponsor of the Middle East Security Cooperation Center (SCC) proposal, is fully on board with the concept but concerned about presentation. Italy believes the SCC must be fully co-sponsored with participating Middle East countries and does not favor launching it at t [...]
2006-04-26 13:16:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO MARR IT
06ROME1261ITALIAN POLITICIANS REACT WITH GRIEF AND
[...] (C) Italian politicians reacted with grief, solidarity, and condemnation April 28 following the killing of three Italians and a Romanian in Nasiriya. PM Berlusconi said he was deeply grieved by the deaths and center-left leader Prodi called it a tragedy for all of Italy. One center-left party [...]
2006-04-28 05:10:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL UNSC PGOV EAID IZ IT
06ROME1325ITALY WILL NOT VOTE FOR IRAN ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-04 13:08:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALKUNR PHUM UNHCR PREL IT
06ROME1347IRAQ: ITALIAN MFA WARNS PRESSING TOO HARD ON QRF
[...] (C) The Italian MFA does not foresee a change in Italy's policy of gradual troop reductions, in consultation with the Iraqis and coalition partners, in Iraq. Barring additional terrorist attacks, the MFA also does not expect major problems with funding renewal for the mission this summer. But [...]
2006-05-05 16:14:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL UNSC PGOV EAID IZ IT
06ROME1359ITALY CONSIDERING APPROACH TO NORTH KOREAN FLAGS
[...] (C) Econoff and Poloff delivered Reftel A points and information on the Italian vessel using a North Korean flag to Federico Failla, MFA Office Director for the Far East, April 28, and urged the GOI to consider a law or regulation to make it illegal for Italian nationals and companies to use D [...]
2006-05-08 10:47:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL KN KNNP MNUC EWWT PHSA IT
06ROME137FM FINI'S MESSAGE TO BELGRADE LANDS ON DEAF EARS
[...] (C) Summary. Italian FM Fini's recent visit to Belgrade failed to persuade Serbian PM Kostunica to accept the possibility that a decision on Kosovo's status could result in anything other than broad autonomy. Kostunica is convinced that the international community would be prevented by inter [...]
2006-01-13 16:44:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SR MW YI IT EUN
06ROME141ITALY: ELECTORAL REFORM COULD BRING DIVIDED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In addition to impacts reported REF A and B, Italy's controversial electoral reform law introduces different systems for calculating results in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. In the Chamber of Deputies, the winning coalition receives a majority premium guaranteeing that [...]
2006-01-17 09:47:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV IT ITALIAN POLITICS ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME1410ITALY: GIORGIO NAPOLITANO ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE
[...] (SBU) Senator for Life Giorgio Napolitano May 10 was elected Italy's 11th President of the Republic by a simple majority in the fourth round of voting. The center-right opposition, led by caretaker PM Silvio Berlusconi, did not support Napolitano's candidacy. Two of Berlusconi's coalition al [...]
2006-05-10 16:16:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV IT
06ROME1492ITALY CONTINUES TO SUPPORT HUMAN RIGHTS IN SYRIA
[...] (C) Political Minister Counselor met May 16 with MFA Middle East Deputy Luca Del Balzo to deliver reftel, urging that the Italians speak publicly about the need for the SARG to improve its human rights record and release detainees. Del Balzo responded that the U.S., the EU and Italy were in [...]
2006-05-17 11:31:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PHUM PREL SY IT HUMAN RIGHTS
06ROME1519ITALY AND CUBA: NSC-DIRECTED REVIEW FOR LIBERTAD TITLE III SUSPENSION
[...] (C) Summary. There have been few developments in Italy's relationship with Cuba in the past six months. Italy supported the EU's condemnation of recent acts of repudiation and subsequent demarches to the GOC, including protesting the harassment of dissident Martha Beatriz Roque. Italy did no [...]
2006-05-18 12:34:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALETTC PREL IT CU ETRD
06ROME1526PRODI RATCHETS UP RHETORIC ON IRAQ, NO NEW GROUND
[...] (C) Summary. On May 18, Italian PM-designate Romano Prodi addressed the Italian Senate to lay out his government's political platform. Prodi reiterated his coalition's oft-stated opposition to the war, and said his government would propose to Parliament the return of Italian troops. He step [...]
2006-05-18 17:36:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER IT
06ROME1527ITALY: A LOOK AT THE PRODI GOVERNMENT
[...] (C) Romano Prodi and his cabinet of 25 ministers were sworn in May 17 by President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano. Political commentators immediately called the government composition "more left than center", but the vital ministries of Foreign Affairs, Interior, Defense, Economy and Just [...]
2006-05-18 18:09:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR IT
06ROME179SCENESETTER FOR FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER'S VISIT TO
[...] (S) Summary. Your visit will be an opportunity to visit the USG Olympics Coordination Office in Turin and review security preparations for the Winter Olympic Games. We have no current information about threats directed at Americans at the Games. Despite the presence and capability of Islam [...]
2006-01-19 10:23:00Embassy RomeSECRETKOLY PTER PREL IT ANTITERRORISM FORCE PROTECTION
06ROME1880ITALY VOTES NO TO BERLUSCONI-ERA CONSTITUTIONAL
[...] (C) The controversial constitutional reform approved by the Berlusconi-led majority last November was defeated soundly in a public referendum by a surprisingly wide margin of 61.3 percent to 38.7 percent countrywide. Voter turnout was a high: 53.6 percent. The most well-known component of the [...]
2006-06-27 10:40:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV IT
06ROME1911ITALY CONDEMNS DPRK MISSILE LAUNCH THREAT, WILL
[...] (S) Summary. June 28 Poloff and Polmiloff met with MFA Deputy Office Director for East Asia Filippo Nicosia to follow up on Ref A demarche requesting GOI regulation of DPRK flags of convenience, and to deliver Ref B points on North Korean long-range missile launch. Nicosia noted that the new [...]
2006-06-30 15:03:00Embassy RomeSECRET//NOFORNPARM PREL KN KNNP MNUC EWWT PHSA KS IT
06ROME1947SERBIAN PM KOSTUNICA'S VISIT TO ROME
[...] (C) Summary. Serbian PM Vojislav Kostunica visited Rome on July 6 to meet with PM Prodi, FM D'Alema, MOI Amato, President of the Chamber of Deputies Foreign Affairs Committee Ranieri, and President of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Dini. Kostunica told the Italians that Serbia would co [...]
2006-07-06 14:21:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IT YI SR
06ROME1957ITALIAN RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREAN MISSILE LAUNCHES
[...] (C) Summary. MFA Office Director for East Asia Federico Failla and Office Director for Non-Proliferation Filippo Formica, July 7 expressed Italy's concern over the North Korean missile launches and highlighted the GOI's commitment to the EU position, which condemned the launches and called fo [...]
2006-07-07 15:45:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL KN PARM KNNP IT
06ROME1992ITALIANS PROMISE TO DOWNPLAY PACE RESOLUTION ON
[...] (C) MFA Balkans Office Director Raimondo De Cardona told Poloff that the PACE resolution calling for the abolishment of qualified majority voting and for a review of the entity structure, while unhelpful, was entirely irrelevant to Italy's Balkan policy. According to De Cardona, the Italian C [...]
2006-07-12 14:30:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV BK IT
06ROME2006IRAN: TEHRAN-BASED UN OFFICIAL SEES INCREASING
[...] (C/NF) An Italian UN official based in Tehran says Iran is using all means at its disposal -- from support for terrorist groups to its own counter-narcotics campaign -- to boost its influence in the region. Accustomed to years of economic sanctions and international isolation, key Iranian powe [...]
2006-07-14 07:50:00Embassy RomeSECRET//NOFORNPREL PTER PHUM EUN KNNP SNAR IR IT
06ROME2013KOFI ANNAN VISITS ITALY TO TALK AFGHANISTAN, IRAN,
[...] Summary. (C) UN Secretary General Kofi Annan visited Rome July 11-12 for meetings with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, PM Romano Prodi, FM Massimo D'Alema, President of the Senate Franco Marini, President of the Chamber of Deputies Fausto Bertinotti, and center-right leader Silvio Berlu [...]
2006-07-14 16:29:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL UN AF SU IT
06ROME2061ISRAEL SEES IMPROVEMENT ON THE ITALIAN LEFT
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Israel sees an improving attitude by much of the Italian left toward Israel, according to an Israeli Embassy official in Rome. In a July 18 address to Parliament, FM D'Alema said Israel's reaction to Hezbollah in Lebanon was legitimate, but "went beyond all reasonable proport [...]
2006-07-19 13:59:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MARR LE IS IT PGOV
06ROME2099ICTY CHIEF PROSECUTOR CARLA DEL PONTE IN ROME
[...] (C) Summary. On July 18, ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte visited Rome to discuss the new Serbian action plan for compliance with the tribunal. Del Ponte told the Italians that she expected the action plan to result in the arrest and transfer of Mladic to the tribunal. The Italians urge [...]
2006-07-21 18:28:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SR YI IT
06ROME2285DEMARCHE ON UNSCR 1701: ITALY
[...] (C) Pol M/C August 12 delivered ref points to Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema's vice chief of staff, Alfredo Conte. Conte noted that the Secretary and D'Alema had spoken by telephone the previous evening, shortly after agreement was reached on the draft resolution. He said the FM ha [...]
2006-08-12 11:15:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MOPS IS LE SY IT
06ROME239IRAQ: ITALY-US-UK TRILATS, JANUARY 19, 2006
[...] (C) Summary. Italy confirmed it will lead a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Dhi Qar, for which it would provide its own security, and the UK previewed its plans for a PRT in Basra. U.S.-UK-Italy agreed on the concept for the PRTs as providing capacity-building for local authorities. [...]
2006-01-26 08:02:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL UNSC PGOV IZ IT
06ROME2434ITALIANS NOT OPPOSED TO KAZAKHSTAN'S OSCE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-30 15:53:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALKZ KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE IT
06ROME2535ICTY: ITALY CAUTIOUSLY SUPPORTS INCREASED PRESSURE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-08 14:46:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALICTY PINR PGOV PREL SR YI IT
06ROME2547PRODI TO AFFIRM TO BEIJING: GOI RESPECTS ARMS
[...] (C) Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi will travel to China September 13-18, stopping in Beijing, Nanjing, Canton, Shanghai, and Tianjin. In light of the upcoming trip, Poloff spoke with Assistant Diplomatic Advisor to the Prime Minister Sem Fabrizi September 7 to discuss the China arms embar [...]
2006-09-11 15:06:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM EUN ETTC ETRD CH IT
06ROME2568ITALIANS POSITIVE ON GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT
[...] (C) Summary. On September 7, ISN/WMDT officials Katsapis and Lehrman met with Italian MFA officials Filippo Formica, head of the nonproliferation office, Giampaolo Cantini, head of the counterterrorism office, and Carlo Mancini, a GOI expert on nuclear safety. Vladimir Proshin, Political Coun [...]
2006-09-12 13:46:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALKGIC PREL PGOV IT
06ROME2593ITALY AT NAM SUMMIT
[...] (C) Italy's observer to the NAM Summit in Havana, Sebastiano Cardi, a minister in the MFA Directorate General for Political Affairs, will be in Cuba for several days, beginning September 12. In light of the Italian presence at the meeting, Poloff spoke with Alessandro Busacca, a minister in t [...]
2006-09-14 12:19:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PINS KPKO UNSC KDEM PGOV SU CU IT
06ROME2663ITALY: "CAPACITY TO PAY" KEY SCALE OF ASSESSMENTS
[...] (C) Summary. Poloff met with Leonardo Bencini, Acting MFA UN Office Director, and Gabriella Biondi, UN office, September 19 to discuss the upcoming UN Scale of Assessments negotiations, as per reftel. Poloff stressed that the United States would not agree to a scale that eliminated or increas [...]
2006-09-21 09:53:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALKUNR AORC UNGA IT
06ROME2697ITALIANS AGREE THAT UN HRC NEEDS TO BE EFFECTIVE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-25 15:08:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPHUM UN IT
06ROME2780ITALIANS NEUTRAL ON SUPPORTING AMENDMENT TO CUBA
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to Leonardo Bencini, Director of the UN office of the Italian MFA, on October 3. Bencini noted that the EU regularly supports the Cuba Embargo resolution and would likely do so again. Bencini said that Italy's position on support for an amendment would be for [...]
2006-10-03 15:47:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALEUN UNGA PREL PHUM UN IT
06ROME2953ITALY: LEBANON RESOLUTIONS UNBALANCED, EU SEEKING
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-24 16:38:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PTER UNGA LE IS IT
06ROME2954ITALY: DPRK ACTIONS UNACCEPTABLE, EU COORDINATING
[...] (C) Poloff met with MFA East Asia Office Director Federico Failla October 20 to discuss the recent North Korean nuclear test and UNSCR 1718 (Refs A-D). Poloff stressed the importance of implementing all provisions in UNSCR 1718 expeditiously. Failla noted that PM Prodi and FM D'Alema had bot [...]
2006-10-24 16:38:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KN PARM KNNP IT
06ROME2961EGYPT SEEKS DETAILS ON FRENCH OFFER FOR MILITARY
[...] (C) Summary. Under instructions from Cairo, Egyptian DCM Abu Bakr Hefny Mahnoud, called on Pol M/C Pearce and Poloff on October 24 to ask for information on a French-led initiative, in which the Italians along with several other Mediterranean countries participated, to increase military - m [...]
2006-10-25 14:54:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV XF ZP NATO IT
06ROME2982ITALYASKS FOR HELP ON URS LOGISTICS,
[...] (C) Summary. PolMinCouns met with Italian Iraq Task Force coordinator De Martino on October 27 to deliver reftel points and discuss Italian URS logistics. De Martino told PolMinCouns that Italy would be represented at the October 31 Iraq Compact Meeting in Kuwait by the Italian Ambassador to [...]
2006-10-27 15:34:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID NATO IZ IT
06ROME2983ITALY HOPES MEPP DISCUSSIONS IN ALICANTE REALISTIC
[...] (C) Political M/C and Poloff called on Italian MFA Near East Office Director Luciano Pezzotti October 25 to discuss Italy's upcoming participation in Middle East peace process discussions hosted by the Spanish. Pezzotti said Italy hoped to play a constructive role in focusing discussions on [...]
2006-10-27 16:12:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV XF LE UN IT
06ROME2984ITALY SEES NK UNSCR POSSIBLE PRELUDE TO UNSC
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Senator Gordon Smith met with MFA Political Affairs Director General Terzi October 16. The Italians noted the UNSCR on North Korea, though not as robust as ideally desired, left hope the UNSC might reach similar consensus on Iran. Terzi stressed the goal of UNSC action must be [...]
2006-10-27 16:28:00Embassy RomeSECRET//NOFORNPREL IT IZ LE NP XF IR UN KNNP
06ROME3016ITALY SEES LITTLE TRACTION IN EU FOR MORATINOS
[...] (C) A senior MFA official November 2 provided Pol M/C with Italy's read on the recent Mediterranean Forum conference in Alicante, Spain. Luciano Pezzotti, director of the MFA's Middle East office, had accompanied FM D'Alema to the session. He said the GOI found the format of the meeting uns [...]
2006-11-03 10:31:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL XF IT SP
06ROME3068ITALY WORKING ON UNSCR 1718 OBLIGATIONS REPORT TO
[...] (C) Poloffs November 8 met separately with Filippo Nicosia, MFA East Asia Office, and Filippo Formica, Office Director for Non-Proliferation to deliver Ref A points requesting countries take steps to meet their obligations under UNSCR 1718 on DPRK Conventional Arms. Nicosia noted that, while [...]
2006-11-13 15:32:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL XX KN UN IT
06ROME3110ITALY DISTANCES ITSELF FROM SPANISH-FRENCH MEPP
[...] (C/NF) Summary. MFA Officials took pains November 17 to distance Italy from the Middle East Initiative announced by Spain. They said while the Middle East Peace Process was a top priority for Italy, it was crucial to coordinate any such initiative carefully: first within the EU, then with th [...]
2006-11-17 14:07:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV XF IT
06ROME3114ITALY: EU CONSENSUS UNLIKELY ON UNGA ISRAEL
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-17 15:30:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL UNGA IS IT
06ROME3119TRANSNISTRA: ITALIANS SUPPORT CHANGING
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-20 12:14:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALOSCE EUN PREL MD RS UP IT
06ROME3128KOSOVO: AHTISAARI, D'ALEMA AGREE TO NO FURTHER
[...] (C) Summary. UN Special Envoy for Kosovo Martii Ahtisaari visited Rome to discuss the future of Kosovo with PM Prodi and FM D'Alema on November 17. D'Alema agreed with Ahtisaari that the status decision on Kosovo should not be delayed further than the end of January. D'Alema told Ahtisaari t [...]
2006-11-20 16:41:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UN YI SR IT
06ROME3130SHARING DRAFT UNSCR TEXT ON IRAQ WITH ITALY
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-20 16:42:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL UNSC IZ IT
06ROME3131ITALY WARNS SYRIA ON DESTABILIZING LEBANON
[...] (C) Italy is concerned about possible Syrian-inspired efforts to destabilize Lebanon and PM Prodi has contacted President Bashar al-Asad with a message of warning. Despite the recent resignations of six cabinet ministers, Lebanese PM Siniora reportedly told the Italians he was confident in th [...]
2006-11-20 17:39:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV XF IR LE IT
06ROME3132ITALY: IRAN SANCTIONS UNAVOIDABLE, BUT ESCALATION
[...] (C) MFA Middle East Director Cesare Ragaglini says there is now no choice on the Iran nuclear issue but to move forward with sanctions. This is a matter for some concern, though, because it will set in motion a process of escalation whose outcome is unpredictable. We should also be looking [...]
2006-11-21 06:36:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV XF IR LE UNAUS KNNP IT
06ROME3223SOMALIA: ITALY WANTS ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT TFI-CIC
[...] (C) Poloff met with Italian MFA Somalia Coordinator Giancarlo Izzo November 30 to discuss the situation in Somalia and the possible deployment of a regional force. According to Izzo, Italy believed that the dialogue between the Transitional Federal Institutions (TFI) and the Council of Islamic [...]
2006-12-04 15:04:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SO IT
06ROME3261ITALY: REGISTER OF DAMAGES SHOULD HAVE TECHNICAL
[...] (C) Poloffs delivered reftel points to MFA Near East Deputy Office Director Daniele Bosio December 5 and Acting UN Office Director Leonardo Bencini December 6, noting U.S. concerns with the draft resolution to establish a register of damages related to the West Bank barrier. Poloffs emphasized [...]
2006-12-07 17:10:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA IS IT
06ROME3276IRAN'S FLAWED ELECTIONS - ITALY
[...] (C) Pol M/C and poloff delivered ref points December 4 and 11 to MFA Deputy Middle East Director Luca Del Balzo and Gulf Countries Office Director Bruno Campria. 2. (C) Pol M/C told Del Balzo that, as part of our effort to coordinate with Italy on Iranian issues, it would be important to [...]
2006-12-12 13:52:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM IR IT
06ROME329IRAN: ITALY STEADY ON REFERRAL, WANTS
[...] (C) Italy supports the U.S. "100 percent" on the Iranian nuclear issue, including referral to the UN Security Council. MFA officials continue to stress to the Iranians the need to suspend enrichment activities to restore the confidence of the international community. While unhappy at Italy's [...]
2006-02-03 14:43:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PHUM EUN KNNP IR IT
06ROME3298ITALY AND CUBA: NSC-DIRECTED REVIEW FOR LIBERTAD
[...] (C) Summary. There have been few developments in Italy's relationship with Cuba in the past six months. The Italian Embassy in Havana continued to meet regularly with opposition leaders as part of efforts to engage in intensified dialogue with civil society. Italy did not participate in exch [...]
2006-12-14 17:29:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALCU ETRD ETTC PREL IT
06ROME3299ITALY APPRECIATES EXAMPLES OF DPRK PROLIFERATION
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-14 17:29:00Embassy RomeSECRET//NOFORNPARM KNNP PREL PGOV KN IT
06ROME3312ITALIANS CAUTIOUS ON ISG RECOMMENDATIONS, PROPOSE
[...] (C) Summary. Gianludovico De Martino, head of the MFA's Iraq Task Force, says many of the Iraq Study Group (ISG) recommendations, such as embedding coalition members inside police, military and institutional structures, have already been tried and found to be difficult to implement. Other rec [...]
2006-12-15 18:28:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS IZ IT
06ROME383KOSOVO: ITALIAN MFA CONCERNED ABOUT LACK OF
[...] (C) Summary. The Italian MFA is concerned that US and UK messages to Belgrade regarding the final status of Kosovo may be creating high expectations among Kosovar Albanians and anxiety in Belgrade that could complicate negotiations. The Italians have the impression that US and UK messages may [...]
2006-02-09 11:38:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SR YI IT
06ROME427ITALY RECEPTIVE TO A/S SHANNON'S MESSAGE ON LATIN
[...] (C) Summary. A/S Thomas Shannon February 3 outlined U.S. policy in the Western Hemisphere for Italian MFA Director General for the Americas Claudio Bisogniero and encouraged Italy to be our partner in engaging with Latin America during this delicate time for the region. Bisogniero was very r [...]
2006-02-13 10:36:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL XM HA CU CA IT
06ROME433ITALY SUPPORTIVE OF GUATEMALA'S UNSC BID
[...] (C) WHA A/S Tom Shannon met with MFA Director General for the Americas Claudio Bisogniero February 3 (see Ref A) and urged Italy to support Guatemala's UN Security Council (UNSC) candidacy (per Ref B). Shannon shared our concerns regarding Venezuela's bid for the Latin America Group (GRULAC) s [...]
2006-02-13 13:13:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL UN UNSC GT VE IT
06ROME450FINI-LAVROV MEETING: RUSSIA CAN PLAY A ROLE IN
[...] (C) Summary. Antonio Cascio, an official in the Russia/Central Asian Department of the Italian MFA, told poloff that during a visit to Rome on February 7, Russian FM Lavrov told Italian FM Fini that Russia can play an important and constructive role in the Middle East. Lavrov told Fini the I [...]
2006-02-14 15:59:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ENRG RU IT
06ROME460ITALIAN MINISTER FLAUNTS CARTOONS IN T-SHIRTS
[...] (U) On February 14, Minister for Reforms Roberto Calderoli announced he had printed t-shirts emblazoned with the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad and would start wearing them. Calderoli is a member of the anti-immigrant Northern League party that is part of PM Berlusconi's center-rig [...]
2006-02-15 12:38:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KISL ITALIAN POLITICS
06ROME461PDAS VOLKER DISCUSSES STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP WITH
[...] (C) Summary. On February 7, PDAS Kurt Volker visited Rome to meet with high-level GOI leaders to discuss Iran, Iraq, the cartoon controversy, the Ukrainian Energy Crisis, NATO, OSCE, Balkans, and UN Reform. Volker stressed the importance of Italy's contributions to global security and need fo [...]
2006-02-15 12:39:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IT NATO OSCE UN GLOBAL DEFENSE
06ROME483HAMAS: ITALY WEIGHS IN FOR ISRAEL WITH RUSSIANS
[...] (C) Summary. PM Berlusconi reportedly has contacted Russian President Putin and urged that any visit of Hamas officials to Moscow be handled at as low a level as possible. Berlusconi made the call at the behest of Acting Israeli PM Olmert. End summary. 2. (C) A diplomatic advisor to Berl [...]
2006-02-16 17:36:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR KPAL PTER PGOV XF IT
06ROME494ITALY, VENEZUELA NOT NEGOTIATING NAVAL VESSEL SALE
[...] (C) PolMinCouns delivered reftel demarche to MFA Director General for the Americas Claudio Bisogniero February 15. He noted public statements by the GOV defense minister suggesting that Venezuela might look to Italy.for submarines, urged the GOI not to contemplate such sales, and reviewed USG [...]
2006-02-17 12:13:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS PREL PARM VE IT EXPORT CONTROLS
06ROME497MONTENEGRIN PARLIAMENT PRESIDENT IN ROME
[...] (C) Summary. On February 16, President of the Montenegrin Parliament Ranko Krivokapic visited Rome ostensibly for personal reasons. He took the opportunity, however, to lobby contacts in Italy's Center-Left opposition parties and the Vatican to oppose a possible request by EU Envoy Miroslav [...]
2006-02-17 15:30:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MW SR IT
06ROME507ITALIAN MFA POLITICAL DIRECTOR VISIT TO BELGRADE
[...] (C) Summary. MFA Political Director Giulio Terzi visited Belgrade on February 14 to deliver a bilateral message to the Belgrade leadership that the Contact Group was unified in its approach to the upcoming Kosovo status talks. Terzi also told PM Kostunica that both the Belgrade leadership and [...]
2006-02-20 16:19:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SR MW YI IT
06ROME536CARTOON-WEARING MINISTER RESIGNS
[...] (C) Summary. Italy's Reforms Minister resigned February 18 following violent protests against the Italian consulate in Benghazi. The minister, Roberto Calderoli of the Northern League, had won notoriety for wearing T-shirts emblazoned with cartoons that had triggered protests in Islamic co [...]
2006-02-21 18:14:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PHUM KISL IT ITALIAN POLITICS ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME584ITALY'S UNION COALITION PROGRAM: FAULT LINES ON
[...] (C) Romano Prodi presented the center-left Union coalition's 281-page governing program on February 13. As opposed to establishing a concrete program for the Union coalition should it win the April 9 national elections, the document has been viewed by critics from both the right and the left [...]
2006-02-24 15:46:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON MARR PARM MOPS ELAB EINV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME585ITALY: UN REFORM PARTNER, SUPPORTS GUATEMALA UNSC
[...] (C) Summary. Italy continues to support UN Reform, including making the new Peacebuilding Commission an effective body, and creating a strong Human Rights Council. It also supports improving UN management, including a mandate review, according to MFA UN Reform Coordinator Alessandro Busacca. [...]
2006-02-24 18:23:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL KUNR PHUM UNSC GT VE IT
06ROME71AFGHANISTAN ASSISTANCE: ITALIAN ENVOY SUGGESTS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-09 15:47:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID AF IT AFGHANISTAN
06ROME725ITALY: POLLSTERS GIVE EDGE TO PRODI BUT DON'T
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A collection of five Milan-based pollsters agreed that PM Berlusconi's effective campaign had closed much of the gap with opposition leader Romano Prodi, even if they were split over whether this momentum would carry Berlusconi to victory on election day. Recent polls give Prodi [...]
2006-03-09 06:13:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME756ITALY FOLLOWING SUMATE JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS
[...] (C) Poloff met with MFA South America Office Director Piero Benassi March 1 to deliver reftel demarche. Noting the judicial harassment of non-governmental organization (NGO) Sumate, Poloff urged Italy to speak out in defense of the accused leaders, send observers to the trial, and convey to t [...]
2006-03-10 11:42:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALEU PGOV PHUM PREL VE IT
06ROME768ITALIAN CENTER LEFT OFFICIAL SAYS NATO ESSSENTIAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Democrats of the Left Member of Parliament and former U/S in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Umberto Ranieri told Pol M/C that his party considers NATO an essential pillar of international security. He assured us that far left radicals would not make foreign policy in a future c [...]
2006-03-10 18:32:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON PREL IZ IT NATO ITALIAN POLITICS ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME826ITALY STAYING OUT OF ARAB LEAGUE SUDAN DECISION
[...] (C) Poloff met March 3 with MFA Horn of Africa Office Director Fabrizio Pignatelli to deliver reftel demarche. Poloff urged the GOI to approach the Arab League (AL) in advance of the March 28-29 summit to note the potential consequences of a Sudanese AL presidency, especially given the GOS's h [...]
2006-03-16 10:36:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL IZ SU IT
06ROME904IRAQ: ITALIAN MFA SAYS PRT MOVING AHEAD REGARDLESS
[...] (C) Italy's Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Dhi Qar province will be fully operational by the end of April. MFA officials are confident that, barring an unexpectedly large vote for the extreme left in Italy's April 9 election, a center-left election victory will not affect the current [...]
2006-03-22 15:56:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL PGOV EAID IZ IT UNSC IRAQI FREEDOM ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME933ITALIANS 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 12:16:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM NATO IT RU GG UP
06ROME956ITALIANS OPEN TO EU VISA BAN AGAINST LUKASHENKA,
[...] (C) Summary. On March 27, Poloff met with Antonino Cascio of the Eastern European Department of the Italian MFA to deliver reftel points. Cascio said the MFA is concerned that an extended visa ban, including a ban on Lukashenka, could prove to be ineffective and could backfire if Lukashenka [...]
2006-03-29 16:05:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM CVIS EUN BO IT
06ROME957ITALY SUPPORTS GOALS ON SUDAN FOR ARAB LEAGUE
[...] (C) March 22, Poloffs delivered reftel demarche to MFA Office Director for Middle East Regional Cooperation, Antonella Uneddu, and separately provided Sudan points to MFA Horn of Africa Office Director Fabrizio Pignatelli. March 24, Pignatelli responded that the MFA had contacted all Italian [...]
2006-03-30 05:20:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL IZ SU IT
06ROME979ITALIANS URGE SLOW EXPANSION OF EU VISA BAN
[...] (C) On March 31, PolMinCouns and Poloff met with Paolo Serpi, Director of the Eastern European Department of the Italian MFA, to get a readout of the measures the EU plans to implement against the Lukashenko regime. Serpi stated that the EU agreed to implement an expanded visa ban list agains [...]
2006-03-31 15:30:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM CVIS BO IT
06ROME997ITALY'S NORTHERN LEAGUE: THE CHALLENGE OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Italy's Northern League faces two strategic challenges in the short and the long term: what to do if the pro-devolution referendum fails this summer and how to replace the party's founder and unquestioned leader Umberto Bossi, who is still weak after a devastating stroke two years [...]
2006-04-03 08:38:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV IT ITALIAN POLITICS
06USUNNEWYORK1881SYG SELECTION: SEPTEMBER 28 STRAW POLL RESULTS;
[...] (C) Summary. Ban Ki-Moon increased his lead over his nearest competitors in the third Secretary-General straw poll, though one delegation that had previously encouraged Ban's candidacy slipped to the "no opinion" category. The Security Council - in a contentious meeting the previous day - ag [...]
2006-09-29 21:08:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL UNSC UN
07ABUDHABI1827INCREASED COSTS AND DELAYS FACTORED IN TO U.S.
[...] (C) Summary. On 25 October 2007, Treasury Attach Matthew Epstein and Econ Chief Oliver John met with Mubadala Chief Operating Officer (COO) Walid al Mokarrab and Executive Affairs Authority Director of Strategic Communications Simon Pearce. Treasury Attach and Econ Chief stressed USG commitme [...]
2007-11-04 10:04:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EINV AE
07AMMAN3326OPPORTUNITIES FOR JORDAN'S GROWING FILM INDUSTRY
[...] (U) Summary: After several years with few major film productions, Jordan has been the site of eight feature films in 2007, bringing in approximately $10 million and creating thousands of freelance jobs. The Royal Film Commission (RFC) hopes to benefit from the number of Iraq War-themed movies a [...]
2007-08-07 06:22:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDECON KIPR SCUL JO
07AMMAN4369KING ABDULLAH DISCUSSES IRAQ AND REGIONAL ISSUES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: King Abdullah said October 28 that Jordan sought strategic consultations and close coordination with the USG in the effort to help to restore stability to Iraq. He told visiting Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker that Jordan would continue to work with PM Maliki and planned to send [...]
2007-10-29 16:17:00Embassy AmmanSECRETPREL PGOV JO IZ
07BAGHDAD3416KRG PRESIDENT BARZANI ON NATIONAL RECONCILIATION,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior Adviser to Ambassador pressed KDP Leader Barzani on need for cooperation on key national issues like hydrocarbons and national political accommodation. He also laid down a marker on Kurdish expansion in the Sinjar area south of Mosul. Barzani struck a pessimistic note abo [...]
2007-10-12 18:31:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREF PTER PBTS PGOV IZ SY
07BAGHDAD3828KIRKUK/ARTICLE 140: SENIOR SUNNI POLITICIAN'S
[...] (S) During a November 20 introductory meeting, senior Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) official and Council of Representatives (CoR) member Ayad al-Samaraie provided Senior Adviser Pearce his views on Kirkuk and Article 140 implementation. Samaraie, expressing his personal thoughts, believed it bes [...]
2007-11-23 13:37:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPREL PGOV MOPS IZ TU IR
07BAGHDAD3895UK AMBASSADOR TO IRAN ON IRI NEGOTIATING STYLE,
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-30 10:39:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER IR IQ
07BAGHDAD3902NEW UNAMI SRSG TO FOCUS ON ARTICLE 140 IMPASSE
[...] (C) United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) Senior Representative to the Secretary General (SRSG) Staffan De Mistura emphasized in a November 25 meeting with Senior Political Advisor that resolving the Article 140 impasse is one of UNAMI's top priorities. "My strategy is to put all [...]
2007-11-30 15:04:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TU IR UN IZ
07BAGHDAD3903BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO IRAN: IRAN SEES U.S. AS ITS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-30 16:08:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPGOV PREL PTER IR IQ
07BAGHDAD3904SHIA POLITICIANS NOT ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT MOVING
[...] (C) Summary: The first step toward resolving complicated Article 140 territorial issues, including Kirkuk, is for Iraq's political leadership to come to agreement on the way forward, according to Council of Representatives (CoR) Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Humam Hamoudi (ISCI bloc lea [...]
2007-11-30 16:47:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IZ
07BAGHDAD3915KRG OFFICIALS DISCUSS WITH DEPUTY SECRETARY LACK
[...] (C) In November 28-29 meetings with Deputy Secretary Negroponte, S/I Satterfield, Ambassador Charles Ries, and Senior Advisor David Pearce, KRG PM Barzani and VP Rasoul praised Iraq,s improved security while criticizing PM Maliki,s failing performance and cautioning that security gains could [...]
2007-12-02 17:13:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER EPET ENRG TU IZ
07BAGHDAD3924DPM BARHAM SALEH SAYS BLUEPRINT NEEDED FOR WAY
[...] (C) Summary. DPM Saleh told the Senior Advisor to the Ambassador November 27 that the Article 140 issues on Kirkuk and disputed territories were the most difficult in Iraq. But, he said, the outlines of a deal are there and the time was opportune to push Iraqi leaders to agree to a process to [...]
2007-12-03 11:54:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IZ
07BAGHDAD3956VP ABDEL MAHDI: ARTICLE 140 NEEDS POLITICAL
[...] (C) Summary: Iraq Vice President Adel Abdel Mahdi (ISCI, Shia) told Senior Advisor December 4 that it was important to resolve the territorial issues involved in Article 140 of the Constitution, but a referendum focused on Kirkuk was not the way to go. Insisting on this route, he thought, coul [...]
2007-12-05 18:08:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IZ
07BAGHDAD4068UN SRSG POSSIBLY GAINS BREAKTHROUGH AGREEMENT ON
[...] (C) Summary: United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary General Staffan de Mistura told Senior SIPDIS Adviser December 13 that he had "good news" on an Article 140 way forward. De Mistura said that President Talabani, Kurdistan Regional Government Prime Minister Nechirvan Barz [...]
2007-12-14 18:28:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IZ
07BAGHDAD4096KRG ON ARTICLE 140: "TECHNICAL" DELAY ACCEPTABLE
[...] (C) Summary: Kurdistan Regional Government President Masoud Barzani and Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani told the Senior Advisor December 9 that only a "technical" delay for some months in implementing Article 140 would be acceptable, and must be announced by the GOI, not the KRG. While PM B [...]
2007-12-17 08:57:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER IZ
07BAGHDAD4106VP HASHIMI SUPPORTS ARTICLE 140 IMPLEMENTATION AND
[...] (C) Summary and comment: Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi told the press December 16 after meeting with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani that he supports the implementation of Article 140 and blamed delays in the implementation on the security situation. He [...]
2007-12-17 15:54:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IZ
07BAGHDAD4115NINEWA: KURDS AND ARABS A LONG WAY FROM DIALOGUE
[...] (C/REL ACGU) Summary: In a series of meetings on Article 140 with many influential Ninewa political figures on December 10-11, Special Advisor David Pearce heard unanimous support for continued USG engagement on the issue but agreement on little else. While Kurds favored implementation of wha [...]
2007-12-18 13:54:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PBTS PREL KDEM PHUM MARR IZ
07BANGKOK5765AMBASSADOR RAISES KEY ISSUES IN FAREWELL CALL ON
[...] (C) The Ambassador expressed concern about the draft Internal Security Act in a November 9 farewell call on Justice Minister Charnchai Likhitjittha. The Ambassador encouraged fair treatment for residents of southern Thailand detained by the Army, conveyed concern for an intimidated Australian [...]
2007-11-13 07:39:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KJUS ASEC TH
07CAIRO3562MUBARAK SPEAKS OUT AGAINST SYRIA IN LEBANON
[...] (C) Egyptian FM Aboul Gheit emphasized to Ambassador and a visiting Congressional delegation led by Senator Voinovich December 31 that Egypt was taking a firm public stance supporting election of a Lebanese president. Aboul Gheit cited Mubarak's December 30 joint press conference with French [...]
2007-12-31 16:13:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SY LE EG
07CAIRO492MEPI PROJECT DATABASE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-22 16:31:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PREL KMPI EG
07DOHA1042PRIME MINISTER OFFERS "SINCERE ADVICE" ON IRAQ
[...] (S) Summary: Ambassador Crocker briefed Qatar's Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani (HBJ) October 31 on the progress in Iraq and asked his assessment of building on this progress with the help of Arab states. HBJ said Qatar was a friend of the U.S. and wanted us to succe [...]
2007-11-05 10:03:00Embassy DohaSECRETPREL PGOV MASS IZ QA
07KUWAIT1543KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR AMBASSADOR
[...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and grants country clearance to Ryan Crocker, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq; Senior Advisor David Pearce; Special Assistant Ali Khedery; and A/RSO David Hazarian, to travel to post on October 29, 2007 to meet with host government principals. 2. An Embassy visit officer and [...]
2007-10-22 12:54:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDBA EG JO KU QA OTRA AMGT ASEC
07KUWAIT1605AMB. CROCKER'S MEETING WITH KUWAITI AMIR
[...] (C) On October 29, U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker met with Kuwaiti Amir Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al Sabah to discuss developments in Iraq since the U.S. military surge began and United States policy following the September Crocker/Petraeus testimony. Crocker underlined the need for renew [...]
2007-11-08 10:03:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALIZ KU PGOV PREL UN
07MANAMA1010IRAQ - AMBASSADOR CROCKER'S MEETINGS WITH BAHRAINI LEADERSHIP
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-06 10:55:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPAL IS IZ IR BA
07MANAMA1021IRAQ - AMBASSADOR CROCKER'S MEETINGS WITH BAHRAINI
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-12 12:15:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPAL IS IZ IR BA
07MOSCOW109EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: ITRC "MIR",
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, ITRC "MIR", Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license app [...]
2007-01-16 09:00:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW110EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION:
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Supreme Commercial Court, Moscow, Russia. The company was [...]
2007-01-16 09:01:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW111EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: JSC DIGAZ,
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, JSC Digaz, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license appl [...]
2007-01-16 09:01:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW112EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: JSC VREMYA-
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, JSC Vremya-Ch, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. The company is listed on BIS [...]
2007-01-16 09:01:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW1382EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION:
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Infopulse-Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine. The company is listed [...]
2007-03-29 12:51:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW1383EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION:
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Elvatech Ltd, Kiev, Ukraine. The company is listed on a [...]
2007-03-29 12:51:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW1718EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION:
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Tactica Ltd., Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on B [...]
2007-04-16 11:08:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW1719EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION:
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Tactica Ltd., Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on B [...]
2007-04-16 11:08:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW1720EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION:
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Tactica Ltd., Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on B [...]
2007-04-16 11:09:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW1721EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: NOVIKOVA
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Novikova Irina PBOUL firm, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on [...]
2007-04-16 11:09:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW1722EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: FSUE
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, FSUE Germanium, Krasnoyarsk, Russia. The company is listed on BIS li [...]
2007-04-16 11:09:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW1723EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: VITALIY
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Vitaliy Shevchenko, Kremenchuk, Ukraine. The company is listed on BI [...]
2007-04-16 11:10:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW1724EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: JSC
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, JSC Sredneuralsky Copper Smelter Plant, Sverdlovsk Region, Revda, Ru [...]
2007-04-16 11:10:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW1866EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK:
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Sevmorneftegeofizika, Murmansk, Russia. The company is listed on BIS [...]
2007-04-23 12:33:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW2045EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION:
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Bochvar All-Russian Scientific Research Institute for In [...]
2007-05-04 10:38:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW2046EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION:
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, TASC-T, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS lic [...]
2007-05-04 10:38:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW2074EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: PERM MOTOR
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Perm Motor Factory, Perm, Russia. The company is listed on BIS licen [...]
2007-05-07 08:33:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW237EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: OOO "MODERN
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, OOO "Modern Optical Technologies", Moscow, Russia. The company is li [...]
2007-01-22 07:47:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW238EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: JSC KASHIRSKY
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, JSC Kashirsky Electrical Network, Kashira, Moscow, Russia. The compa [...]
2007-01-22 07:48:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW250EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: OOO "MODERN
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, OOO "Modern Optical Technologies", Moscow, Russia. The company is li [...]
2007-01-22 12:02:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW256EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION:
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Russian Federal Research and Technological Institute of [...]
2007-01-23 08:15:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW2685EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: RASSIAN ACADEMY OF
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Institute of Solid State [...]
2007-06-06 12:20:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW2686EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: JSC NORTH WESTCOM, ST.
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, JSC North Westcom, St. Petersburg, Russia. The company is listed on BI [...]
2007-06-06 12:20:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3063EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: JSC
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, JSC Pribor.ru, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license [...]
2007-06-25 12:23:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3074EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: A) D368267
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, JSC Mikron, Zelenograd, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license [...]
2007-06-25 13:07:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3075EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: DMITROVSKY
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Dmitrovsky Electricity network, Dmitrov, Russia. The company is list [...]
2007-06-25 13:08:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3145EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: DMITROVSKY
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Dmitrovsky Electricity network, Dmitrov, Russia. The company is list [...]
2007-06-28 08:12:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3317EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: NST
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, NST OMZ Research Center for EOM, Moscow, Russia. The com [...]
2007-07-09 03:54:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3318EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION:
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIITF),Institute of Te [...]
2007-07-09 03:55:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3319EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: RIRT (RUSSIAN
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, RIRT, St. Petersburg, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license a [...]
2007-07-09 04:07:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3489EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION:
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, State Joint-Stock Railway Company, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. [...]
2007-07-17 12:27:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3490EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: JSC
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, JSC Uzbektelecom, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The company is l [...]
2007-07-17 12:28:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3592EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: MICRAN,
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, (A) and (B) Micran, Tomsk, Russia. The company is listed on BIS li [...]
2007-07-23 11:43:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3746EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: 1ST FIRE
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, 1st Fire Brigade, Krasnoyarsk, Russia. The company is listed on BIS [...]
2007-08-01 08:48:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3837EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: SECURITY
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Security Company Fakel Ost Ltd., Balashikha, Moscow Region, Russia. [...]
2007-08-06 08:45:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3838EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: SECURITY
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Security Company Fakel Ost Ltd., Balashikha, Moscow Region, Russia. [...]
2007-08-06 08:45:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3921EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION:
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Moscow State University, Institute of Nuclear Physics, D [...]
2007-08-10 10:34:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3976EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION:
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow Obla [...]
2007-08-14 13:31:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3977EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: TIE PELENG
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, TIE Peleng Ltd, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. The company is listed on BI [...]
2007-08-14 13:46:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW4263EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: JSC
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, JSC Institute Engineering Science Ural Branch RAS, Yekat [...]
2007-08-30 09:25:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW4264EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION:
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Kamensk-Uralsky City Administration, Kamensk- Uralsky, R [...]
2007-08-30 09:26:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW4267EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: SPECIAL
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Special Purpose Center of FSB, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed [...]
2007-08-30 09:53:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW4424EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: LLC NORDIX,
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, LLC Nordix, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license app [...]
2007-09-10 10:00:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW4555EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: MOSCOW
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Moscow Railways, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS licens [...]
2007-09-17 10:53:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW4957EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION:
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Kaluga Brewer Company (Russian abbreviation KPK),Kaluga [...]
2007-10-11 12:10:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW4958EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: ST.
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, St. Petersburg Physics and Tech Center for Research and [...]
2007-10-11 12:11:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW4959EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: MIREA STATE
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, MIREA State University, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS [...]
2007-10-11 12:11:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW4960EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: (A) AND (B)
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, (A) and (B) Kalibr 2001, Vidnoe City, Moscow, Russia. The company is [...]
2007-10-11 12:11:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW5148EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: SRI
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, SRI Biomedicinskoy Khimii im. V.N.Orekhovicha, Moscow, Russia. The c [...]
2007-10-25 12:12:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW5699EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: MIREA STATE
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, MIREA State University, Moscow, Russia and intermediate consignee Br [...]
2007-12-04 14:13:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW666EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK:
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Kirishinefteorgsintez, Kirishi, Russia. The company is listed on BIS [...]
2007-02-15 14:00:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW667EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: WORLD HUNTING
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, World Hunting Technology Ltd., St. Petersburg, Russia. The company i [...]
2007-02-15 14:01:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW668EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: ARGON LLC,
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Argon LLC, Balakovo, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license ap [...]
2007-02-15 14:01:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW669EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: ENERGOCASCAD,
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Energocascad, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license a [...]
2007-02-15 14:01:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW670EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION:
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Eurochim Spb, St. Petersburg, Russia. The company is lis [...]
2007-02-15 14:02:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW86EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: JSC VREMYA-
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, JSC Vremya-Ch, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. The company is listed on BIS [...]
2007-01-12 08:23:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW87EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: JSC DIGAZ,
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, JSC Digaz, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license appl [...]
2007-01-12 08:24:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW982EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: IGOR
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Igor Kochemasov, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. The party is listed on BIS [...]
2007-03-09 07:18:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07ROME1105ITALIANS OPPOSE RUSSIAN DRAFT OF OSCE CHARTER
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-23 14:40:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALOSCE PREL KTIA PGOV IT
07ROME1106OIE CHINA/TAIWAN: ITALY SUPPORTS EU POSITION TO
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to MFA Office Director for East Asia Giuseppe Mistretta May 21, emphasizing the need to work for consensus and delay a vote on the PRC resolution in the absence of consensus. May 22, Mistretta responded that Italy fully supported the EU position: --The World [...]
2007-05-23 14:40:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL EAGR AORG TW CH IT
07ROME1110ITALIANS OPPOSED TO OSCE BELARUS TRIP, WILL NOT
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-24 07:06:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM OSCE BO IT
07ROME1112ITALY MONITORING IRAN-VENEZUELA RELATIONSHIP
[...] (C) Poloffs conveyed Ref A points to MFA Gulf Countries Acting Office Director Lorenzo Klutzer May 10 and MFA South Africa Acting Office Director Paolo Campanini May 23, emphasizing U.S. concerns about implications of the growing Iran-Venezuela alliance for terrorism and proliferation activiti [...]
2007-05-24 10:51:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PHUM MASS ECON PTER KNNP PARM VE
07ROME1122ITALY ON SYRIA'S SHAM PRESIDENTIAL "REFERENDUM"
[...] (C) PolMinCouns delivered reftel points to Luciano Pezzotti, Director of the MFA Office for Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian territories. PMC urged an Italian and/or EU statement addressing Syria's pending presidential referendum. He said the Syrian Government should [...]
2007-05-24 14:59:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALKDEM PREL PHUM SY EUN IT
07ROME116ITALY IN AGREEMENT ON SOMALIA OBJECTIVES
[...] (C) Summary. Italy generally agreed with the talking points on Somalia policy in Ref A, according to MFA Somalia Coordinator Giancarlo Izzo. In a January 16 meeting with poloff, Izzo noted the importance of finding consensus among the international community, and listed involving civil socie [...]
2007-01-18 12:12:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL SO IT
07ROME1163AMB. WILLIAMSON DISCUSSES WAR CRIMES TRIBUNALS,
[...] (C) Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson met with MFA Balkans Office Director Raimondo De Cardona, Deputy Legal Advisor Valerio Astraldi, Director of the Great Lakes Office Orazio Guanciale and UN Coordinator Giamberto De Vito on May 21 to discuss the International Crimin [...]
2007-05-29 08:27:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKAWC PREL PGOV IT
07ROME1187KOSOVO: TADIC CLAIMS RUSSIANS HAVE PROMISED TO
[...] (C) Serbian President Boris Tadic and Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic told PM Prodi and FM D'Alema on May 29 that Russia had promised Serbia a veto of any UNSC resolution that would separate Kosovo from Serbia, according to MFA Balkans Office Director Raimondo De Cardona. Tadic told Prodi and D'A [...]
2007-05-31 14:33:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UNSC YI SR IT
07ROME1270ITALY AND CUBA: NSC-DIRECTED REVIEW FOR LIBERTAD
[...] (C) There has been little change in Italy's relationship with Cuba in the past six months. The most significant event in bilateral relations this period was a visit by Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque to Rome on March 15. In his meeting with Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema, [...]
2007-06-08 08:05:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL ETRD ETTC CU IT
07ROME129FM D'ALEMA LOOKING FOR SOMETHING NEW TO BRING TO
[...] (C) Italian MFA Lebanon Desk Officer De Parolis confirmed to Poloff on January 18 that FM Massimo D'Alema would lead Italy's delegation to the January 25 Paris III Donor Conference on Lebanon. He will be accompanied by MFA DG for Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Affairs Cesare Ragaglini; the [...]
2007-01-22 10:58:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALXF LE IT
07ROME1333KOSOVO: ITALIANS NOT READY TO DISCUSS INDEPENDENCE
[...] (C/NF) FM D'Alema is convinced of the need to exhaust every means possible to reach consensus on a resolution even if it meant a 120-180 day delay. The Italian MFA, therefore, will not engage at this point on discussions related to a unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo absent a [...]
2007-06-18 12:11:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV UNSC SR YI IT
07ROME1432ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER RAISES ALPHA MAGNETIC
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (C/NF) During President Bush's June 9 meeting in Rome, Prime Minister Romano Prodi raised the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (aka anti-matter spectrometer - AMS) experiment, saying that the GOI hoped the AMS would be carried on the [...]
2007-06-28 17:09:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNTSPA PREL KSCA NASA IT
07ROME1472ITALY HAS MIXED VIEWS ON HRC SESSION
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Office Director for Human Rights Laura Carpini July 5. Carpini said Italy was "not overwhelmingly happy" with the results of the Council's fifth session, but suggested that the compromise was necessary to move the Council forward. Considering the [...]
2007-07-06 10:01:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPHUM EUN UNHRC IT
07ROME1489ITALY MULLING ASSISTANCE FOR LAF
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Deputy Director for Levant, Danielle Bosio and MOD Office of the Diplomatic Advisor Antonella Remia July 5. ODC also delivered the points to the Italian Defense General Staff. MOD Diplomatic Advisor Achille Amerio told poloff July 6 that senior Leb [...]
2007-07-06 16:13:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MOPS PGOV PREL LE IT
07ROME1493CUBA AND INTERNET FREEDOM
[...] (C) Poloff raised reftel points with MFA Caribbean and Central America Office Director Michele Pala on July 9. He also provided detailed background information and urged that the GOI look for opportunities to help expand internet access for Cuban civil society. 2. (C) Pala said that Ital [...]
2007-07-09 11:51:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALCU ECON EINT PREL TINT XG XL IT
07ROME1497ITALIANS CAUTIOUS ON UN ENVOY FOR AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) In bilateral meetings on the fringes of the Rome Afghan conference, Italy's prime minister and foreign minister guardedly welcomed the prospect of a new, high-level UN envoy for Afghanistan. But PM Prodi told USUN Amb Khalilzad it would be important for such an envoy to have adequate res [...]
2007-07-09 17:12:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC IT
07ROME1542ITALY CONFIRMS IT HAS ITS OWN IOM DG CANDIDATE
[...] (C) Poloff met July 17, 2007 with MFA Office Director for Migration and Asylum Marco Matacotta Cordella and urged Italy to support the candidacy of Ambassador William Lacy Swing for Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Matacotta Cordella said he appreciated [...]
2007-07-17 15:56:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALAORC EUN PREF PREL SMIG IT
07ROME1584ITALY WILL CONSIDER UNESCO HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-25 16:43:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALUNESCO IT
07ROME1589ITALY CONCURS ON ATTENDANCE FOR GEORGIA/UNOMIG
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-26 11:50:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC GG RS IT
07ROME1598ITALY SHARES CONCERN ABOUT MEDIA FREEDOM IN
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Office Director for Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Europe Marco Clemente July 25 and discussed recent troubling developments in regard to media freedom, freedom of assembly and due process in Azerbaijan. Poloff urged Italy to maintain its [...]
2007-07-26 14:57:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV OSCE KDEM EUN AJ IT
07ROME1629ITALY SUPPORTS AMIS-UNAMID TRANSITION LANGUAGE IF
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Office Director for East Africa Fabrizio Pignatelli July 30 and pressed him to instruct the Italian mission in New York to support draft language on transition timing from AMIS to UNAMID. 2. (C) Pignatelli said Italy understands the need to move [...]
2007-07-30 16:13:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPKO SU IT
07ROME17ITALY LOOKS TO SANCTIONS COMMITTEE FOLLOW-UP ON
[...] (S/NF) Pol M/C called MFA Political Director Giulio Terzi January 4 to follow up on GOI thinking following passage of UNSCR 1737, and in particular next steps on Bank Sepah and Iran's Aerospace Industries Organnization (AIO). Terzi said the GOI has no plans to withdraw Bank Sepah's authority [...]
2007-01-04 16:44:00Embassy RomeSECRET//NOFORNPREL EFIN KNNP IR UNAUS IT
07ROME1710ITALY AWAITS DETAILS ON BURUNDIAN NEEDS FOR AMISOM
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-08 15:51:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALKPKO MOPS PHUM PREL EUN SO IT
07ROME1730ITALY: NO TO UNIFIL MANDATE CHANGE; SEEKS EARLY
[...] (C) Summary. MFA Near East Office Director Luciano Pezzotti said August 7 that Italy did not want changes to the UNIFIL mandate. He asked for early inclusion in UNSC talks on mandate renewal. PM diplomatic adviser Marco Carnelos echoed this. Both GOI officials stressed to poloff the GOI's [...]
2007-08-10 12:21:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UN XF LE IT
07ROME188PUTIN-PRODI MEETING FOCUSES ON BILATERAL ISSUES
[...] (C) Italian PM Prodi's January 23 dinner with Russian President Putin focused largely on bilateral trade issues. According to the MFA Russian Desk, Putin will visit Italy in mid-March for a bilateral visit to Rome and the Vatican and then to Bari for an summit focused primarily on trade, telec [...]
2007-01-26 16:11:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON PGOV RU SR YI IT
07ROME209IO PDAS WARLICK'S ROME MEETINGS ON UNSC ISSUES
[...] (C/NF) In January 29 consultations in Rome, visiting IO PDAS James Warlick discussed a broad range of upcoming UNSC issues including the Balkans, Middle East, and the Horn of Africa with Italy, a new non-permanent member. On Kosovo, Warlick and the Italians agreed on the way forward, and the [...]
2007-02-01 16:19:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL UNSC PHUM XF ZL XW IT
07ROME241ITALY: AMBASSADORS' AFGHANISTAN LETTER HITS
[...] (C/NF) An op-ed from ambassadors of the U.S., UK, Canada, Netherlands, Australia, and Romania calling for Allies -- and particularly Italy -- to stand firm in Afghanistan spurred widespread media and political response. The daily "La Repubblica" printed the op-ed on its front page on February [...]
2007-02-06 12:19:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MOPS MARR NATO AF IT
07ROME259ITALY SHARES USG VENEZUELA CONCERNS, EU WORKING ON
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche February 6 to MFA South America Office Director Francesco Talo and Desk Officer Paolo Campanini, urging Italy to raise the issue of Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) privately and publicly with the Venezuelan government. Talo said Italy shared our concerns t [...]
2007-02-08 12:31:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PHUM PGOV EU VE IT
07ROME261ITALY: ONLY MULTILATERAL DEMOCRACY ASSISTANCE
[...] (C) MFA Office Director for Persian Gulf, Bruno Campria, told poloff Italy no longer has a bilateral program for promoting democracy, human rights or civil society in Iran. He said Iran froze all dialogue with Italy on human rights issues after Italy co-sponsored a Canadian UN Resolution in 2 [...]
2007-02-08 13:29:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV IR IT
07ROME296ITALY: PRODI FACES COALITION TEST
[...] (C/NF) PM Prodi has used recent controversies related to a U.S. military base expansion and Italy's Afghan mission to rally the leaders of his diverse nine-party coalition. But with some dissidents in the Senate potentially beyond the control of even radical party leaders, the real test for P [...]
2007-02-12 16:50:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL IT
07ROME318ITALY: ETHIOPIA-ERITREA AT AN IMPASSE, REGIONAL
[...] (C) Poloff met with Horn of Africa Office Director Fabrizio Pignatelli and Ethiopia-Eritrea Desk Officer Alberto La Bella February 9 to discuss the role the GOI intends to play in the Ethiopia-Eritrea boundary dispute, as per Ref A. Pignatelli and La Bella reported that Italy sees the situatio [...]
2007-02-15 10:19:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV ER ET AF AL AU BE CH EU JA NO
07ROME356ITALY: PRODI LOSES KEY SENATE VOTE ON FOREIGN
[...] (SBU) By a vote of 158 to 160, PM Prodi's government lost a key Senate vote on a motion supporting his government's foreign policy. Previously, FM D'Alema had stated that if the majority in the Senate could not support the government's foreign policy, it "should go home." Following the vote, [...]
2007-02-21 18:38:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL IT
07ROME362PRODI'S RESIGNATION AND NEXT STEPS FOR ITALY
[...] (C/NF) President Napolitano is consulting with political leaders to determine the government's viability after it lost a key foreign policy vote in the Senate. PM Prodi tendered his resignation after the balloting, which the President accepted "with reserve". The Senate loss followed a warn [...]
2007-02-22 16:46:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL IT
07ROME385PRODI GETS APPROVAL TO SEEK A CONFIDENCE VOTE
[...] (C/NF) President Napolitano offered PM Prodi February 24 a second chance to prove his majority in a parliamentary confidence vote that will take place by the end of the week. Prodi appears to have collected four additional votes in the Senate and should squeak through. Thanks to FM D'Alema's [...]
2007-02-26 16:32:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL NATO PARM IT
07ROME386LARIJANI VISIT TO ITALY: LOOKING FOR A DEAL?
[...] (S/NF) Iranian nuclear negotiator Larijani came to Rome February 21 for meetings with PM Prodi and senior Italian officials. He reportedly told them Iran wants a deal that will not be humiliating and that recognizes its rights under the NPT. It would stop enrichment in place, the Security Co [...]
2007-02-26 17:33:00Embassy RomeSECRET//NOFORNPREL IR IT
07ROME393ITALY SUGGESTS IDEA OF LEBANON CONTACT GROUP WITH
[...] (C) During February 22 and 23 meetings with senior Italian MFA officials, NEA DAS Robert Danin discussed the idea of an informal contact group on Lebanon to discuss implementation of UNSCR 1701's arms embargo. Danin suggested the informal group's members could include France, Germany, Italy, [...]
2007-02-28 11:10:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV XF UN LE IT
07ROME400ITALIAN MOD SAY LEBANESE ARMY STILL HAS A LONG WAY
[...] (C) NEA DAS Danin met with senior Italian MFA and MOD officials to discuss developments in the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP) and Lebanon during February 22 and 23 meetings in Rome. The Italians were receptive to the idea of establishing an informal working group (see reftel),but suggeste [...]
2007-03-01 09:36:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV XF UN LE IT
07ROME405ITALY: PRODI WINS CRITICAL SENATE CONFIDENCE VOTE
[...] (C/NF) Italian PM Romano Prodi won a key confidence vote in the Italian Senate on February 28 in a close 162-157 vote. Excluding the votes of non-elected Senators for Life (SFL),Prodi still carried a "political majority" by a vote of 158-157. Prodi will appear March 1 before the Chamber of [...]
2007-03-01 12:31:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV IT
07ROME42ITALY SUPPORTS BURMA UNSC RESOLUTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-08 16:45:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PHUM UNSC BM IT
07ROME46ITALY FULLY SUPPORTS AHTISAARI, CONTACT GROUP ON
[...] (C) MFA DG for European Affairs Laura Mirachian says Italy is fully onboard with the Contact Group's support of UNOSEK Ahtisaari. She stated that there is broad bipartisan and expert consensus in supporting Kosovar "delinkage" from Serbia and a NATO and EU future for all the countries of the [...]
2007-01-09 16:55:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV NATO SR YI IT
07ROME472ITALIANS PROBE IRAQ, IRAN ON BAGHDAD CONFERENCE
[...] (C) PolMinCouns delivered reftel points to MFA Director General for Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Affairs Cesare Ragaglini on March 7. Ragaglini said Italy believed the conferences were a step in the right direction and would support the outcome whether or not Italy received an invitation. [...]
2007-03-08 15:32:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL OIC UN IZ
07SKOPJE797AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES INVESTMENT BARRIERS AND
[...] (SBU) During a September 25 meeting with Deputy PM for Economic Affairs Zoran Stavreski, the Ambassador raised U.S. concerns regarding three outstanding investment issues: questions surrounding the GOM's decision on a recent power plant privatization, steps the GOM should take to ensure the p [...]
2007-09-28 12:18:00Embassy SkopjeCONFIDENTIALEINV ECON ENRG PGOV PREL MK
07TELAVIV542OLMERT: DESPITE FRUSTRATION, GOI WILL MAINTAIN
[...] (C) Summary: During a February 20 meeting, Prime Minister Olmert told CODEL Kyl that despite Israeli frustration with Mahmoud Abbas and the Mekka Agreement, the GOI would keep open a channel to him. Olmert asserted that there could be no distinction between a non-Hamas minister and others i [...]
2007-02-21 05:25:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL IS
07TELAVIV559CODEL KYL MEETS WITH FOREIGN MINISTER LIVNI
[...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Livni echoed Prime Minister Olmert February 19 by telling CODEL Kyl that despite Israeli "disappointment" with Abu Mazen in the wake of the Mecca Agreement, contacts would continue, although she also cautioned that Abu Mazen needed to understand that he had "los [...]
2007-02-22 08:10:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPAL IS IR
07TELAVIV739IRAN: CODEL KYL AND HARMAN'S BREAKFAST WITH
[...] (U) During the visit of CODELs Kyl and Harman to Israel, February 18-20, the two CODELs -- led by Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Representative Jane Harman (D-CA) -- held a series of meetings with GOI officials and Knesset members according to a program drawn up by Knesset Member Yuval Steinitz, th [...]
2007-03-08 14:40:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETPREL PTER MASS KPAL KWBG IR SY IS
07TELAVIV740CODEL KYL AND HARMAN'S LUNCH WITH KNESSET MEMBERS
[...] (S) 1. (C) During the visit of CODELs Kyl and Harman to Israel, February 18-20, the two CODELs -- led by Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Representative Jane Harman (D-CA) -- held a series of meetings with GOI officials and Knesset members according to a program drawn up by Knesset Member Yuval Stei [...]
2007-03-08 14:53:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETPREL PINR PTER KPAL KWBG MASS IR SY LE IS
07TELAVIV741IRAN: CODEL KYL AND HARMAN'S DINNER WITH SHARANSKY
[...] (C) During the visit of CODELs Kyl and Harman to Israel, February 18-20, the two CODELs -- led by Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Representative Jane Harman (D-CA) -- held a series of meetings with GOI officials and Knesset members according to a program drawn up by Knesset Member Yuval Steinitz, th [...]
2007-03-08 15:17:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MNUC KNNP KPAL KWBG IR IS
07USUNNEWYORK405P5 WITH BAN, 5/18: SUDAN, DPKO RESTRUCTURING AND
[...] (C) Summary. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with P-5 Ambassadors on May 18. Ban noted that he had some way still to go to complete his high level appointments. He urged the Council to be cautious in moving forward with sanctions against Sudan lest it undermine the current "credible progr [...]
2007-05-23 00:24:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC KUNR AORC UNGA SU
08ABUDHABI1048EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: SHAPOOR TRADING
[...] Reftel requested that post conduct a post-shipment verification at Shapoor Trading LLC, Deira, Dubai for a shipment of 3000 cellphone lithium batteries exported as No License Required by BProlific Inc., Brooklyn, NY. On 17 Sept 2008, Export Control Officer (ECO) met with Mr. Shahbaz Mirzai and [...]
2008-09-18 11:57:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC AE
08ALGIERS1003RESURGENCE OF "ECONOMIC PATRIOTISM" TARGETS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Following President Bouteflika's public blaming of foreign investors for Algeria's lagging economy outside of the hydrocarbons sector (ref A),the Algerian government has begun to impose new taxes and restrictions on foreign companies doing business here. Apparently sobered by t [...]
2008-09-16 16:04:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALEINV ETRD EFIN ECON AG
08ALGIERS1005ALGERIA'S PARTICIPATION AT THE 63RD UN GENERAL
[...] Per reftel, we are transmitting the list of Algeria's delegation to the 63rd UN General Assembly, which the MFA provided us via diplomatic note on September 17. A. Attendance of the Head of State: No plans to attend as of 09/17/08. B. Attendance of the Head of Government: No plans to at [...]
2008-09-17 17:41:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA AG
08ALGIERS1022GET RICH - BECOME A PARLIAMENTARIAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A September 17 decision to increase dramatically the salaries of members of both the lower and upper houses of parliament has been greeted by public criticism and newspaper headlines screaming "Shame on You" and "Become an MP and Get Rich". The decision, made through a presidenti [...]
2008-09-24 07:22:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON AG
08ALGIERS1024INITIAL ALGERIAN REACTION TO IRFR MOSTLY NEGATIVE
[...] (C) We delivered the 2008 International Religious Freedom Country Report (IRFR) on September 23 during a meeting with MFA North America Deputy Director Rachid Ouali. Ouali gave no substantive comment on the IRFR, despite numerous critical official statements in the Algerian press in reaction t [...]
2008-09-24 15:13:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV OPRC KIRF KPAO AG
08ALGIERS1052ALGERIAN MFA OFFERS MEASURED CRITICISM OF 2008 IRFR
[...] (C) MFA Director General for the Americas (A/S equivalent) Fatiha Selmane called in the Ambassador on September 28 to deliver an official reaction to the 2008 International Religious Freedom Report (IRFR) (ref A). Selmane asserted that the IRFR's conclusions did not match Algerian reality. Sh [...]
2008-09-30 14:36:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV OPRC KIRF KPAO AG
08ALGIERS1053SENATE PRESIDENT ON BILATERAL RELATIONS, THIRD TERM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Algerian Senate president said September 29 that, press reports notwithstanding, there had been no official movement on a constitutional revision paving the way for a third term for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Senate President Abdelkader Bensalah [...]
2008-09-30 15:27:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM AG
08ALGIERS1067WATER: SECURITY THAT OIL CANNOT BUY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Algeria faces urgent challenges in managing its water resources and huge opportunities exist for U.S. companies in the sector, Minister of Water Resources Abdelmalek Sellal told the Ambassador on September 29. Sellal said he was satisfied with equipment, such as pumps, purchase [...]
2008-10-05 14:04:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALECON EAGR ETRD PGOV AG
08ALGIERS1087INTERIOR MINISTRY SNUFFS EBERT CENTER EVENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On the afternoon of October 4, the interior ministry quietly informed the Friedrich Ebert Center in Algiers that the political discussion it had organized for the following morning would not take place and "was not appreciated." The October 5 event, a debate on the 20th anniversa [...]
2008-10-06 15:48:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM AG
08ALGIERS1088GOVERNMENT SCRAMBLES TO REASSURE GHARDAIA FLOOD
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Frustration in Ghardaia province following severe October 1 floods led some 5000 people into the streets to protest what they perceived to be the government's sluggish response. The worst flooding the region has seen in over a century took the lives of 33 people, damaged 4000 h [...]
2008-10-06 16:06:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KISL AG
08ALGIERS1091GOA RESPONSE TO U.S. NON-PAPER ON SANCTIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-07 16:01:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP MNUC PARM IR AG
08ALGIERS1092GOA ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION AT UNGA
[...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche on October 6 to Ahmed Saadi, Acting Deputy Director of Multilateral Affairs at the MFA. Saadi was covering the Kosovo portfolio for a colleague who is currently in New York at the UNGA meetings, thus he said he was not able to respond substantively to our reque [...]
2008-10-07 16:20:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL UN UNGA KV AG
08ALGIERS1093DESIGNATION OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN
[...] (S) We delivered reftel demarche on October 6 to Ahmed Saadi, Acting Deputy Director for Multilateral Affairs at the MFA. Saadi, who usually covers human rights, was covering the sanctions portfolio and much of multilateral affairs for several colleagues who are currently in New York at the UN [...]
2008-10-07 16:46:00Embassy AlgiersSECRETECON EFIN ETRD PARM KKNP EUN EWWT PREL IR AG
08ALGIERS1108AIRBUS DETERMINED TO BREAK BOEING IN ALGERIA
[...] (U) Airbus has dramatically increased pressure on Algeria to dump Boeing, going so far as to offer to buy Air Algerie's entire Boeing 737 fleet and replace it with Airbus aircraft, simulators and training. As reported in reftel, Airbus has been lobbying Air Algerie intensely for some time, but [...]
2008-10-14 07:01:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR BEXP AG
08ALGIERS1119TO JOIN OR NOT TO JOIN: ALGERIA'S FRANCOPHONE
[...] (SBU) Despite the lack of an official announcement by the Algerian government, MFA contacts tell us that President Bouteflika will attend and give a speech at the twelfth Summit of Heads of State of the International Organization of Francophone Countries (OIF). The summit, to be held from Oct [...]
2008-10-15 17:11:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EDU FR AG
08ALGIERS1120FINANCE MINISTER DETERMINED TO BUILD PRIVATE SECTOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Finance Minister Karim Djoudi told the Ambassador that Algeria's economic situation is generally strong, and that Algeria will weather the current global economic crisis relatively unscathed. Djoudi shared his vision for the Algerian economy, and said that his priority now lie [...]
2008-10-15 17:16:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON EINV AG
08ALGIERS1121TRILINGUAL ILLITERATES: ALGERIA'S LANGUAGE CRISIS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Decades of government-imposed Arabization have produced an under-40 population that, in the words of frustrated Algerian business leaders, "is not fluent in anything" and therefore handicapped in the job market and more vulnerable to extremist influence. The Algerian school syste [...]
2008-10-16 12:46:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV SOCI EDU AG
08ALGIERS1122ALGERIAN MEDIA: AFRICOM TO COUNTER GROWING CHINESE
[...] We delivered reftel demarche notifying the Algerian government of AFRICOM's official inception as a unified command to MFA North America Deputy Director Rachid Ouali on October 8. Ouali provided no substantive comment on AFRICOM. Meanwhile, Algeria's leading newspapers devoted measured cove [...]
2008-10-16 13:10:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDMARR PREL AG
08ALGIERS1123ALGERIAN WESTERN SAHARA POSITION UNYIELDING
[...] (C) During an October 8 introductory meeting with the Ambassador, Minister Delegate for Maghreb and African Affairs Abdelkader Messahel (U/S equivalent) asserted that Algeria's position on Western Sahara has not changed since 1965 and that Algeria continued to believe that the principle of se [...]
2008-10-16 13:11:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PREF UNSC WI MO AG
08ALGIERS1124ALGERIAN MEDIA: AFRICOM TO COUNTER GROWING CHINESE
[...] We delivered reftel demarche notifying the Algerian government of AFRICOM's official inception as a unified command to MFA North America Deputy Director Rachid Ouali on October 8. Ouali provided no substantive comment on AFRICOM. Meanwhile, Algeria's leading newspapers devoted measured cove [...]
2008-10-18 06:18:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDMARR PREL AG
08ALGIERS1163BOUTEFLIKA LAUNCHES CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
[...] (U) SUMMARY: President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced on October 29 that he will convene a special session of parliament in the coming weeks to effect a partial and limited revision of the Algerian constitution. The changes he outlined would open the way for him to seek a third term as presi [...]
2008-10-29 16:42:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM AG
08ALGIERS1164CULTURE MINISTER TOUMI'S 15 MINUTES OF FAME
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Culture Minister Khalida Toumi has emerged as the latest face on government efforts to implement conservative social policies and neutralize regime critics. In September, Toumi issued a directive to shut down bars and nightclubs located near cultural monuments in downtown Algiers [...]
2008-10-31 17:18:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV SOCI AG
08ALGIERS1171EDUCATION MINISTER: GIVE US MORE ENGLISH, MORE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-04 16:10:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV EDU AG
08ALGIERS11722009 GOVERNMENT BUDGET PAINTS ROSY PICTURE
[...] SUMMARY. The Algerian parliament approved the government's 2009 budget with few amendments. Spending will increase six percent over 2008 levels, and the budget law estimates economic growth of 4.1 percent overall and 6.6 percent outside of the hydrocarbons sector. The budget uses an oil re [...]
2008-11-04 17:34:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EINV ECON PGOV AG
08ALGIERS1181ALGERIA REMAINS FIRM ON MAURITANIA, SEES SOME
[...] (C) MFA Director General for African Affairs (A/S equivalent) Lounes Magramane told visiting NEA/MAG Director Stephanie Williams November 3 that Algeria remains firmly opposed to the unconstitutional removal of Mauritanian President Abdallahi from power as a result of the August coup. Magrama [...]
2008-11-05 18:22:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER ML MR AG
08ALGIERS1206ALGERIA: BUREAUCRACY STIFLES GROWTH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Business leaders told Ambassador and visiting NEA/MAG Director that the government bureaucracy continues to stifle the Algerian economy. Contract tenders are slow to develop, forcing the government to accept bidders who promise speed but who often have cost overruns in the end [...]
2008-11-10 18:14:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALEFIN EINV ECON PREL AG
08ALGIERS1208CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS APPROVED WITHOUT DEBATE
[...] (C) Algeria's new constitution was ratified in a special November 12 joint session of the Algerian parliament, during which senators and MPs voted overwhelmingly to approve the constitutional amendments proposed by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (ref A). After an introduction by Senate Presid [...]
2008-11-12 17:08:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KISL AG
08ALGIERS1241ALGERIA: UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-23 14:01:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNGA IS PA LE SY AG
08ALGIERS1248ALGERIA RESERVED ON IRAN AND SYRIA IAEA REPORTS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-24 08:52:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALKNNP MNUC PARM IAEA IR TRGY AG
08ALGIERS1254VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN SURGES AS SOCIETY SIMMERS
[...] Even as the constitution was being revised on November 12 to guarantee greater political representation for women, violence against women in Algeria was on the rise. According to Farouk Ksentini, the chairman of the government's National Consultative Commission for the Promotion and Protectio [...]
2008-11-26 14:08:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDSOCI PREL AG
08ALGIERS1269WESTERN SAHARA: SAHRAWI YOUTH FRUSTRATION MOUNTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Sahrawi youth are increasingly frustrated and speak of a return to armed conflict with Morocco, but there is no indication that they are preparing to do so, or that they are indeed capable. During a November 15 visit by poloff and visiting NEA/MAG Algeria desk officer to a Sahraw [...]
2008-12-06 07:02:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PBTS WI AG
08ALGIERS1270WESTERM SAHARA: SAHRAWI YOUTH FRUSTRATION MOUNTS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-06 07:02:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PBTS WI AG
08ALGIERS1279NEW TELECOM MINISTER IDENTIFIES PRIORITIES,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Post and Telecommunications Hamid Bessalah laid out for us an ambitious internet and telecom agenda that includes requests for U.S. engagement and assistance as well as opportunities for U.S. investment. Bessalah is a first-time minister who assumed his post in the Jun [...]
2008-12-07 07:39:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALECON PREL ETRD AG
08ALGIERS1280CODEL HASTINGS PRESSES ALGERIA ON ELECTION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Representative Alcee Hastings (D-FL) urged that Algeria invite international observers for the April 2009 presidential elections. He met with positive but carefully hedged responses from his Algerian government interlocutors. The parliamentarians he met were generally warm to t [...]
2008-12-07 07:39:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM AG
08ALGIERS1282UNDER THE TLEMCEN SUN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A fertile farming region that is home to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and a disproportionate number of his ministers and advisers, the western wilaya (province) of Tlemcen appears at first glance to be a step ahead of other Algerian cities in reviving its economy and education [...]
2008-12-09 12:59:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV EAGR MO CN AG
08ALGIERS1286ALGIERS EAC: ANNIVERSARY OF THE DECEMBER 11
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-10 16:22:00Embassy AlgiersSECRET//NOFORNASEC AMGT KMSG AG
08ALGIERS1288FLN LEADER SEES MORE REFORM, HOPE FOR CLOSER U.S.
[...] (C) SUMMARY: National Liberation Front (FLN) Secretary-General (and former Prime Minister) Abdelaziz Belkhadem, now the leader of the alliance pushing for a third term for President Bouteflika, believes there is a hope for closer economic and political relations with the U.S. He told the Amba [...]
2008-12-10 19:13:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM AG
08ALGIERS1296ALGERIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS ON BOUTEFLIKA AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Parliamentarians told Codel Hastings on December 2 that they believed the international community must play a greater role in resolving the Western Sahara question and that a third term for President Bouteflika is necessary for the well-being of Algeria. The Minister of Parliame [...]
2008-12-15 07:56:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM OREP PBTS MO AG
08ALGIERS1306RIFTS WITHIN THE "POUVOIR" MAKE RARE HEADLINES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: An extremely rare public and personal exchange between a former president and a retired general has broken the omerta code usually observed by Algeria's ruling elite, exposing divisions within the "Pouvoir" that have persisted since the struggle for independence. The bitter excha [...]
2008-12-18 08:21:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM AG
08ALGIERS1307CENTRAL BANK CHIEF STAYS THE REGULATORY COURSE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Bank of Algeria Governor Mohamed Laksaci told the Ambassador December 7 that he and his organization are focused almost to a fault on bank regulation rather than on financial system modernization. Laksaci has been with the central bank in various positions since 1990, and remain [...]
2008-12-18 08:21:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALEFIN EINV ECON PGOV PREL AG
08ALGIERS1314STOP THE PRESS: JOURNALISTS ON TRIAL AGAIN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-20 11:49:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO AG
08ALGIERS1319STOP THE PRESS: JOURNALISTS ON TRIAL AGAIN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH) marked its celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by voicing concern that basic freedoms in Algeria were slipping, not improving as Algeria's human rights ombudsman Farouk Ksent [...]
2008-12-20 17:22:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO AG
08ALGIERS1320ALGERIA: 2008 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM
[...] (U) The security situation in Algeria was marked by a decrease in the number of high profile terrorist attacks throughout the country compared with 2007, although the overall number of attacks did not decline and ongoing low-level terrorist activities continued in the countryside. In the first [...]
2008-12-20 17:23:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS AEMR PGOV AG
08ALGIERS1324ALGERIA: FAROUK HOSNI UNESCO CANDIDACY THE TIP OF
[...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, Algeria will likely adhere to the position adopted in an October 25 Algiers meeting of pan-African culture ministers endorsing the candidacy of Egyptian Farouk Hosni for UNESCO Secretary General. Ambassador told MFA Director General for Arab Affairs Abdelha [...]
2008-12-22 11:35:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALUNESCO SCUL PREL AG
08ALGIERS1326ALGERIA: FAROUK HOSNI UNESCO CANDIDACY THE TIP OF
[...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, Algeria will likely adhere to the position adopted in an October 25 Algiers meeting of pan-African culture ministers endorsing the candidacy of Egyptian Farouk Hosni for UNESCO Secretary General. Ambassador told MFA Director General for Arab Affairs Abdelh [...]
2008-12-22 16:09:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALUNESCO SCUL PREL AG
08ALGIERS1327ALGERIAN MFA WARY ON EVE OF ASAD VISIT
[...] (S) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche December 21 to the MFA Director General for Arab Affairs on the eve of Syrian President Bashar al-Asad's expected visit. On foreign fighters, DG Abdelhamid Bouzaher said that the flow into Iraq had declined in recent years from a 2003-05 peak. He added [...]
2008-12-22 16:42:00Embassy AlgiersSECRETPREL PTER SY AF IC LE AG
08ALGIERS1328ALGERIAN MFA WARY ON EVE OF ASAD VISIT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-22 17:04:00Embassy AlgiersSECRETPREL PTER SY AF IC LE AG
08ALGIERS1329POTENTIAL SVBIED ATTACK AGAINST U.S. OR FRENCH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Algerian police have provided Embassy with specific and credible information concerning a possible imminent suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (SVBIED) attack against the U.S. or French embassies in Algiers. The EAC convened twice on December 22 to review the [...]
2008-12-22 17:23:00Embassy AlgiersSECRET//NOFORNASEC AMGT KMSG AG
08ALGIERS1336TOUGH CROWD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GHARDAIA
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Welcomed by a lively group of 250 students, the Ambassador spoke December 18 at the University of Ghardaia on the importance of youth participation in elections. His remarks were met with critical comments from faculty and students alike regarding U.S. policy on the Arab-Israeli [...]
2008-12-28 11:48:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALEDU PGOV PREL IQ AG
08ALGIERS1338ALGERIAN COMMITMENT TO AMISOM COMES FROM THE TOP
[...] (SBU) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche on December 28 to Kamel Rezag-Bara, Counselor to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika for Counter-terrorism. He thanked Rezag-Bara for Algeria's commitment to provide ten aircraft to transport African Union member troops into Somalia, and stressed the urge [...]
2008-12-28 15:01:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KPKO SO AG
08ALGIERS1350ALGERIAN MFA: DANGEROUS SPLIT BETWEEN REGIMES AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Secretary General Madjid Bouguerra assured the Ambassador on December 31 that Algeria would continue to play a constructive role in formulating Arab League reactions to the situation in Gaza, avoiding inflammatory rhetoric. Bouguerra said that Algerians were shocked and traum [...]
2008-12-31 18:48:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL PTER PHUM MOPS KWBG IS AG
08ALGIERS942ALGERIA UNLIKELY TO FOLLOW RUSSIA ON SOUTH OSSETIA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-27 11:17:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL RS GG AG
08ALGIERS947WESTERN SAHARA: FOREIGN MINISTER REAFFIRMS
[...] (C) In their introductory meeting August 28, Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci raised the Western Sahara briefly with the Ambassador and flagged it as an issue that the Algerians would be interested to discuss during the Secretary's proposed September 6 visit. Medelci described relations among [...]
2008-08-28 09:39:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PREF UNSC WI MO AG
08ALGIERS983REGIONALISM TRIUMPHS OVER LOGIC IN CHOICE OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The August 24 proclamation by Minister of Culture Khalida Toumi that Tlemcen will be the 2011 "Islamic Capital" was met with widespread cynicism, and appeared to continue a trend of western Algerian regionalism trumping common sense. Many were puzzled by the declaration, since al [...]
2008-09-12 10:38:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL SOCI AG
08ALGIERS984THE KABYLIE: RELUCTANT REFUGE FOR TERRORISTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A string of suicide bombings just east of Algiers (ref A) has brought renewed focus on the Kabylie mountains and the disproportionate amount of terrorist activity occurring there. A fiercely independent center of Berber culture and tradition for centuries, the Kabylie region has [...]
2008-09-12 11:30:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER KISL AG
08ALGIERS990ALGERIA NONCOMMITTAL ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION
[...] (C) We delivered ref A demarche to MFA Deputy Director for Central European Affairs Abdelmadjid Amalou on September 13 and outlined U.S. concerns about Serbia's proposal to seek an opinion from the ICJ on the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence. Amalou reiterated the GoA's positio [...]
2008-09-14 14:39:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA KV UN AG
08ATHENS1504RENEWABLES MARKET IN GREECE - OPIC-SUPPORTED
[...] (SBU) Post believes that at this time Greece is not yet ready for investment in the renewables sector given bureaucratic hurdles and a substantial backlog of projects. (See reftel d for details on the renewables sector in Greece.) Despite strong growth potential and a high priority given to [...]
2008-10-31 15:51:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ENRG KGHG SENV TRGY GR IS
08BAGHDAD1602TURKMAN BLOC ENDS BOYCOTT OF KIRKUK PROVINCIAL
[...] (C) Summary: The Iraqi Turkman Front (ITF)-led Turkman bloc officially ended its seventeen month-long boycott of the Kirkuk Provincial Council (KPC) by returning to the regularly-scheduled KPC session on May 20. Eight of the nine Turkman bloc members returned on May 20 while the ninth member [...]
2008-05-25 14:20:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPGOV PREL TU IZ
08BAGHDAD203SRSG'S STRATEGY ON IRAQI PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS AND
[...] (C) Summary: On January 18, Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) for Iraq Staffan de Mistura met with the Ambassador to discuss the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq's (UNAMI) plan of action to fulfill its expanded mandate under Resolution 1770. Topics included i [...]
2008-01-25 13:08:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UN IZ
08BAGHDAD299ARTICLE 140: WHERE ARE WE NOW?
[...] (C) Summary: The issue of Article 140 and the status of Kirkuk and the disputed territories is solidly in the middle of the national debate, although there are significant disagreements on all sides in terms of addressing this complex problem. A fair, transparent and agreed resolution to the [...]
2008-02-01 16:40:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD307ZEBARI URGES INCREMENTAL ACTION ON 140; COMPLAINS
[...] SUMMARY. (C) In a short January 31 meeting, Foreign Minister Zebari told Special Adviser Pearce that to create momentum that would facilitate resolution in areas with more complex problems, the USG and UNAMI should focus their Article 140-related work on disputed territories where the issue [...]
2008-02-02 14:05:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IZ
08BAGHDAD364BARZANI: NO PEACE, NO STABILITY WITHOUT ARTICLE 140
[...] (S) Masood Barzani February 4 warned that external and internal pressures were aligning to stall the Constitution's Article 140 process for resolving the status of Kirkuk and other disputed territories. The Kurds would not accept this. If Article 140 was dead, the KRG President said, the Con [...]
2008-02-07 15:02:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPGOV PREL TU IZ
08BAGHDAD512FORMER PRIME MINISTER AYAD ALLAWI IS BACK ON THE
[...] (S/NF) Summary. Former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi emphasized with the Ambassador in a dinner meeting on February 19 that Iran's growing interference is deterring Iraq's Arab neighbors from establishing stronger diplomatic ties. He received a request to meet with President of Iran Mahmoud Ahm [...]
2008-02-22 11:12:00Embassy BaghdadSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV IZ
08BAGHDAD539DPM SALEH'S GRAND BARGAIN--KURDS NEED SUNNIS;
[...] (C) During a two-and-one-half hour discussion on February 20, Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Barham Saleh told Ambassador Crocker and Special Adviser Pearce that both Massud and Nechirvan Barzani would shortly arrive in Baghdad for lengthy stays. Saleh emphasized that the USG must act as the mae [...]
2008-02-25 02:22:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TU IZ
08BAGHDAD594TURKISH ENVOYS AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS GOI
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Turkish PM Advisor Ahmet Davutoglu asserted to Ambassador that Turkish ground operations were inevitable after the October kidnapping of Turkish soldiers and refused to predict when the operation would end. Ambassador pressed for operations to end before they upset the fragile [...]
2008-02-29 18:21:00Embassy BaghdadSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV TU IZ
08BAGHDAD642SRSG DE MISTURA DISCUSSES UNAMI'S PLANS ON ARTICLE
[...] (C) Summary: On February 20, Counselor Eliot A. Cohen met with Staffan de Mistura, Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) to the UN Assistance Mission for SIPDIS Iraq (UNAMI),to discuss UNAMI's plans for negotiating disputed internal boundaries and assisting with provinci [...]
2008-03-05 02:52:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IZ
08BEIJING3065BEIJING 2008 SUMMER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT 9, 08/09/2008
[...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, political, and consular activities related to the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games as of 08/09/2008. 2. (U) The interagency USG Joint Operations Center (JOC) can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following n [...]
2008-08-09 07:32:00Embassy BeijingSECRET//NOFORNASEC CMGT ECON KOLY OVIP PREL PTER CASC CH
08CAIRO85DEFMIN TANTAWI WARNS THAT CONDITIONING FMF WILL
[...] (C) On December 31, 2007, Minister of Defense Field Marshal Mohamed Tantawi told the Ambassador and visiting CODEL Voinovich that conditioning U.S. military assistance to Egypt would harm bilateral relations, and would not be understood by members of military or the average Egyptian. Egypt has [...]
2008-01-17 15:24:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS PTER KPAL IR IZ IS EG
08CAIRO9CODEL VOINOVICH MEETING WITH EGIS CHIEF SOLIMAN
[...] (S) Summary. EGIS Chief Omar Soliman told Ambassador and a visiting Codel led by Senator George Voinovich December 31 that he is optimistic progress will be made on Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. However, Soliman was concerned with continuing Israeli criticism of Egyptian anti-smuggling e [...]
2008-01-02 18:07:00Embassy CairoSECRETPREL PGOV IS IZ SY EG
08JERUSALEM125PALESTINIAN OFFICIALS TELL CODEL VOINOVICH PA IS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Senator George Voinovich (R-OH),accompanied by Representatives Phil Gingrey (R-OH),Rob Bishop (R-UT),Steve Pearce (R-NM),and Michael Turner (R-OH),met separately on January 6 with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and Foreign Minister Riad Maliki. Maliki [...]
2008-01-24 14:46:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON IS KWBG
08KINSHASA258GOMA NOTES - NAIROBI PROCESS: 12TH MEETING OF JMG TASK
[...] (SBU) Summary: The March 7 meeting of the Nairobi process Joint Monitoring Group (JMG) Task Force went smoothly and professionally. Discussion of the minutes of the previous meeting took only about 20 minutes. Congo noted it had launched its FDLR "sensibilization" campaign March 1. FDLR lead [...]
2008-03-15 18:01:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KPKO CG RW EUN SF AU UN
08LAGOS99OPIC-SUPPORTED INVESTMENT FUNDS IN THE REGION:
[...] In response to reftel A, financial capital is needed to meet Nigeria's growing demand for middle income housing. Although Nigeria's middle-class is relatively small, affordable housing is in short supply across the country. Nigerian banks are well capitalized, but housing competes for funds wi [...]
2008-03-13 13:32:00Consulate LagosUNCLASSIFIEDEINV ECON NI
08MOSCOW202EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION:
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, RAS Institute of Solid Physics, Chernogolovka, Moscow, R [...]
2008-01-28 12:59:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
08MOSCOW206EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION:
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, RAS Institute of Solid Physics, Chernogolovka, Moscow, R [...]
2008-01-28 14:51:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
08NEWDELHI7CODEL VOINOVICH MEETING WITH PM SINGH
[...] (C) Summary. In a December 29 meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Codel Voinovich (consisting of Senator Voinovich, and Congressmen Turner, Gingrey, Pearce and Bishop) expressed appreciation for the Prime Minister's leadership in bringing U.S.-India relations to new heights. Senator V [...]
2008-01-02 12:18:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KNNP SOCI IN
08RANGOON764BURMA TO REAPPLY FOR GLOBAL FUND
[...] (C) The Burmese Government will again apply for assistance under the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (GFATM),three years after the GFATM withdrew from Burma due to GOB travel and operational restrictions. Ministry of Health officials have coordinated with the UN, but less so [...]
2008-09-29 09:54:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALSOCI EAID PHUM KHIV PGOV BM
08RANGOON786GLOBAL FUND'S PROPOSAL TO RETURN TO BURMA: A
[...] (C) As instructed reftel, Charge conveyed, point-by-point, USG concerns and conditions regarding Burma's potential application for Round Nine of the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM at an October 2 meeting in Rangoon to select a donor representative to the Country Coordin [...]
2008-10-03 09:57:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALSOCI EAID PHUM KHIV PGOV BM
08STATE113844Deputy Secretary Negroponte's Meeting with
[...] (C) October 22, 2008; 11:30 am; Washington, DC. 2. (C) Participants: U.S. Deputy Secretary Negroponte Ambassador David Pearce NEA DAS Gene Cretz Aaron Jost, D Special Assistant Jessica Patterson (NEA Notetaker) Algeria Major General Ahmed Senhadji, Secretary General of the Minist [...]
2008-10-24 20:37:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALOVIP PREL PGOV MASS MOPS
08TBILISI2271GEORGIA: ABKHAZIA SITUATION UNTENABLE
[...] (C) Summary and comment. During December 2-3 meetings in Zugdidi, government officials, EUMM and UNOMIG monitors, and NGO representatives all told the Ambassador that the security situation in and outside Abkhazia is precarious, with frequent violent incidents and provocations. Georgian poli [...]
2008-12-08 13:38:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS RU GG
08TELAVIV203 Codel Voinovich Meeting with Prime Minister Olmert
[...] Summary: On January 2, Codel Voinovich met with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert at the Prime MinisterQs Office in Jerusalem. Senator Voinovich was accompanied by Representatives Rob Bishop (R, Utah); Phil Gingrey (R, Georgia); Steve Pearce (R, New Mexico) and Michael Turner (R, Ohio) as w [...]
2008-01-24 15:07:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR OREP IS
08TELAVIV204CODEL Voinovich Discusses the Way Forward in Gaza with
[...] Summary: On January 2, 2008 Codel Voinovich met with Israeli Minister of Internal Security, Avraham QAvi Dicter, at the Knesset in Jerusalem. Senator Voinovich was accompanied by Representatives Rob Bishop (R, Utah); Phil Gingrey (R, Georgia); Steve Pearce (R, New Mexico) and Michael Turner [...]
2008-01-24 15:10:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR OREP IS
08TELAVIV24SETTLEMENT CONSTRUCTION MORATORIUM APPLIES TO WEST
[...] (C) Summary: Since Annapolis, Israeli settlement plans have been featured prominently and consistently in the Israeli press. In December alone, there were five published reports of GOI plans to build new residential and commercial projects, primarily in East Jerusalem. Recent press reports [...]
2008-01-03 14:43:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
08TELAVIV293CODEL VOINOVICH DISCUSSES GAZA SMUGGLING ISSUES
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-07 04:47:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL IS KPAL IR IZ
08WARSAW1171OPIC SUPPORT FOR GREEN EMERGY MARKETS FUND - DUE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-06 11:51:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EINV ECON PL
09ALGIERS1002ALGERIA PROVIDES ITS REASONS FOR SUPPORTING
[...] (C) The Ambassador on November 8 reinforced ref A demarche on the Goldstone report with MFA Director General for Arab Affairs Bouzaher, urging Algerian support to help ensure the follow-up process does not further complicate efforts to move Palestinians and Israelis to negotiated peace. Bouzah [...]
2009-11-09 12:18:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PTER KPAL IS IZ AG
09ALGIERS1006 SEPTEMBER SUMMARY OF TERRORIST INCIDENTS
[...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION: This cable is a summary of major security-related terrorist activities, terrorist threats, and incidents for Algeria during the month of September 2009. The information was obtained from open sources, news reports, and RSO police contacts. Press-based information should [...]
2009-11-12 08:51:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PINS ASEC AG
09ALGIERS1007 AUGUST 2009 SUMMARY OF TERRORIST AND
[...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION: This cable is a summary of major security-related activities, terrorist threats, and incidents for Algeria during the month of August 2009. The information was obtained from open sources, news reports, and RSO police contacts. Press-based information should not be taken a [...]
2009-11-12 09:21:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PINS ASEC AG
09ALGIERS1008SECURITY DIALOGUE WITH ALGERIA
[...] (U) In response to ref A, this message provides information on established security dialogues between the United States and Algeria. 2. (U) Joint Military Dialogue (JMD): The JMD was first held in October 2005 under an informal agreement between the U.S. and Algeria. The second JMD, in No [...]
2009-11-12 14:13:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER MARR AG
09ALGIERS1009ALGERIA: JULY - SEPTEMBER SECURITY TRENDS SUMMARY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This cable is the first of a series of quarterly summaries of security trends in Algeria related to terrorism, social unrest and criminal activity. This report refers to trends observed during the period July - September 2009. The information draws on reporting from local pres [...]
2009-11-12 14:18:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PTER PINR PINS ASEC AMGT AG
09ALGIERS1018ALGERIA: SOCCER VIOLENCE AFTERMATH
[...] (SBU) Summary: Unconfirmed reports that Algerian fans were injured and killed in attacks in Cairo November 14 following a soccer match between the two countries' national teams have led to public gatherings and some violence. Embassy has no GOA confirmation of deaths among Algerian fans in Ca [...]
2009-11-17 06:56:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PINS AG EG SU
09ALGIERS1026ALGERIA'S RESPONSE ON IRAN-BURMA-DPRK RESOLUTIONS
[...] (SBU) Pol-Econ Chief delivered reftel B points on the Iran/Burma/DPRK human rights resolutions to MFA Deputy Director for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs Salima Abdelhak on November 17. Abdelhak said she had recently returned to Algiers after a four-year posting in Algeria's UN mission [...]
2009-11-17 17:14:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UNGA AG IR
09ALGIERS1037ALGIERS-HOSTED CHEMICAL TERRORISM CONFERENCE
[...] Pol-Econ Chief delivered reftel points to MFA Deputy Director for Disarmament Hamza Khelil November 19, and left a copy of the reftel proposed agenda. Khelil welcomed the conference as an example of U.S.-Algerian cooperation in disarmament. He gave no definitive answers to reftel proposals b [...]
2009-11-21 17:37:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL CWC AG
09ALGIERS104SPORTS DIPLOMACY IN ALGERIAN PRISONS: AN IV
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ideas gained through the International Visitor (IV) Program are contributing tangibly to Algerian efforts to reduce violence and combat radicalization within the prison system, through sports diplomacy in particular. Some of Algiers' most notorious prisons have been organizing [...]
2009-01-28 18:20:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM SCUL KPAO AG
09ALGIERS1041POLISARIO AMBASSADOR SAYS RECENT MOROCCAN RHETORIC
[...] (C) Polisario Front "Ambassador" in Algiers on November 17 portrayed the Moroccan government's tougher position on Western Sahara and its mistreatment of Sahrawi rights activists as a provocation designed to undermine UN Special Envoy Christopher Ross' efforts to restart talks, and he stated [...]
2009-11-22 17:50:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS MARR PTER AG MO UN
09ALGIERS1043ALGERIAN RESPONSE TO EL-BARADEI REPORT ON SYRIA
[...] (SBU) Pol-Econ Chief on November 19 explained reftel points on the most recent IAEA Director General report on Syria to Hamza Khelif, head of the Sub-Directorate for Disarmament in the MFA's General Directorate for Political and International Security Affairs, and left him a copy of para 6 ref [...]
2009-11-23 12:35:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM KNNC IAEA SYR AG
09ALGIERS1048ALGERIA ON IAEA - IRAN NEXT STEPS
[...] (SBU) Pol-Econ Chief on November 19 explained reftel points on the IAEA case against Iran to Hamza Khelif, head of the Sub-Directorate for Disarmament in the Algerian MFA's General Directorate for Political and International Security Affairs. 2. (SBU) Saying he would refer the points to hig [...]
2009-11-25 06:28:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP MNUC IAEA IR AG
09ALGIERS1049TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD ACT: ALGERIA
[...] (U) Summary: Algeria does nothing to promote democracy and human rights in Cuba, or to help Cuban civil society. Algeria's commercial relationship with Cuba is focused on health care, pharmaceutical production, and energy. End summary. Democracy, Human Rights, Civil Society ---------------- [...]
2009-11-25 13:11:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ETTC PREL CU AG
09ALGIERS106ABC NEWS STORY BREAKS IN ALGERIA
[...] (S/NF) The ABC News story reporting alleged sexual misconduct by the Algiers chief of station first appeared in Algeria the morning of January 29 on the electronic news journal Tout Sur l'Algerie. The story aired late enough in the U.S. on January 28 that it did not appear in the January 29 [...]
2009-01-29 13:02:00Embassy AlgiersSECRET//NOFORNPREL PINR KPAO MARR ASEC AG
09ALGIERS107ALGERIA SCANDAL: LOCAL REACTIONS, EAC ACTIONS
[...] (S/NF) As of Friday afternoon, January 30, there has been effectively no Algerian public reaction to the January 28 ABC News story (reftel). This could change in days to come depending on media coverage and government response. Initial government response, per reftel, has been restrained. We [...]
2009-01-30 17:45:00Embassy AlgiersSECRET//NOFORNPREL PINR KPAO MARR ASEC AMGT KMSG AG
09ALGIERS1117POLISARIO RESTRICTS ACTIVITIES SEEN TO THREATEN
[...] (C) Summary: Embassy contacts with UNHCR and American NGOs working in the Polisario camps near Tindouf say that individual Sahrawis have been involved in smuggling activities, but the Polisario "government" severely punishes anyone caught trafficking persons or weapons that could aid terrorist [...]
2009-12-16 09:21:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PHUM PBTS MARR PTER AG MO UN
09ALGIERS113ALGERIAN MEDIA REACTION TO BREAKING SCANDAL - JANUARY 31,
[...] SUMMARY: Press reports of the CIA station chief in Algiers accused of raping two Algerian women, which broke on ABC News on the evening of January 28, were splashed across the front pages of almost every Algerian newspaper on January 31. The extensive reporting was largely a translation of the [...]
2009-02-01 06:43:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PBTS PTER AG
09ALGIERS115ALGIERS SCANDAL UPDATE: REACTIONS CALM AS EAC MEETS
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Ambassador Pearce chaired an EAC meeting on January 31 to review the fallout from the ABC news story related to a former Embassy officer who allegedly drugged and raped two Algerian nationals (reftels). Because of the Algerian weekend, the story did not break in the local pres [...]
2009-02-01 19:00:00Embassy AlgiersSECRET//NOFORNPREL PINR KPAO MARR ASEC AMGT KMSG AG
09ALGIERS116ALGERIA MEDIA REACTION TO PRESIDENT'S Al-ARABIYA INTERVIEW:
[...] As of Thursday, January 29, President Obama's interview received no front page coverage or commentary in the 70 or so daily Algerian newspapers. Many newspapers did, however, print short, primarily factual articles about the interview on Wednesday, January 28. Most articles were hidden on the [...]
2009-02-02 06:27:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDEINO OPRC KMDR KPAO PREL XF AG
09ALGIERS1162OVER-FLIGHT CLEARANCE FOR AFRICOM EP-3 MISSIONS:
[...] (S/NF) OSC Chief delivered reftel request for EP-3 overflight permission to the Algerian Defense Ministry's Office of External Relations and Cooperation (DREC) on December 29. There was no immediate response, but the DREC summoned OSC Chief for a follow-up meeting December 30 to state that (1) no d [...]
2009-12-30 16:33:00Embassy AlgiersSECRET//NOFORNPREL PINR MOPS KCOM AG US
09ALGIERS119INITIAL SCANDAL REACTIONS RESTRAINED, LONGER-TERM
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. Although initial public and government reaction to the ABC News story regarding misconduct by a former Embassy officer (refs A and B) has been polite and restrained, the medium-term impact on our image and public outreach activities may be linked to how the judicial process pl [...]
2009-02-02 18:35:00Embassy AlgiersSECRET//NOFORNPREL PINR KPAO MARR ASEC AG
09ALGIERS12GAZA: ALGERIAN DEMARCHE TO UNSC MEMBERS ON ARAB
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Algerian MFA summoned us and other UN Security Council member missions separately on January 4 to deliver a demarche on the Arab League position developed at the December 31 Cairo ministerial, and to lay out the Algerian position on the situation in Gaza. The MFA informed us [...]
2009-01-04 18:52:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL PTER PHUM MOPS KWBG IS AG
09ALGIERS122PA BUDGET DEMARCHE: ALGERIA PLEDGES SUPPORT
[...] (C) In response to reftel, MFA Acting Director of Arab League Affairs Mourad Merhoum told us that Algeria's support for the Palestinian people was a matter of principle, and that Algeria would continue its annual contributions of roughly USD 50 million to the Palestinian Authority (PA) throug [...]
2009-02-04 14:57:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALEFIN PGOV PTER PHUM KPAL KWBG AG
09ALGIERS144SECTARIAN VIOLENCE FLARES UP AGAIN IN GHARDAIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: New violent clashes in the town of Berriane (ref A) highlight the ongoing tension between Algeria's Ibadi Muslims (or Kharijites) and the Sunni (Malikite) Muslims of the Ghardaia region. Sectarian clashes broke out last week after Friday prayers and left two people dead and 120 i [...]
2009-02-10 16:59:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS AG
09ALGIERS147DISILLUSIONED INSIDERS LOOK TO U.S. AS ELECTIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Algerian political insiders have praised the Obama administration's message of change and told us that change is on Algeria's political horizon as well, despite the likelihood that Bouteflika will be re-elected to a third term on April 9. In meetings between January 31 and Februar [...]
2009-02-11 18:00:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM AG
09ALGIERS160ALGERIA'S CIVILIAN NUCLEAR ENERGY PLANS
[...] (U) This cable provides answers to questions in ref A. 2. OVERVIEW OF CIVILIAN NUCLEAR POWER PROGRAM -- (C) Algeria currently operates two nuclear research reactors at Draria and Ain Oussera. We have been told (refs B and C) that Algeria is roughly twenty years from actually operating a [...]
2009-02-16 16:19:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALENRG TRGY BEXP BTIO PREL AG
09ALGIERS164ALGERIA 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Algeria's population of roughly 35 million, its energy wealth, and growing demand for modern infrastructure and consumer products have generated broad interest in this market from companies around the world. But an often difficult business regulatory environment, symbolized by [...]
2009-02-17 07:35:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ELAB ETRD KTDB OPOC PGOV USTR AG
09ALGIERS176ALGERIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS FOR DUMMIES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The deadline for submitting candidate dossiers to the Constitutional Council will pass on February 23 at midnight, marking the first bureaucratic hurdle for presidential hopefuls who want to be included on the April 9 ballot. To qualify, potential candidates must meet basic citiz [...]
2009-02-23 16:13:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM AG
09ALGIERS177ALGERIA: 2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] (U) The TIP Officer for Embassy Algiers is Ryan Campbell; tel. (213)-(0)770-08-20-00, ext. 2264; fax (213)-(0)21-60-73-35; unclassified email: campbellrt@state.gov. Number of hours spent by rank: 1 hour FE-MC, 2 hours FE-OC, 2 hours FS-02, 15 hours FS-03, 25 hours FS-06, 10 hours FSN. SUMM [...]
2009-02-23 17:02:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG
09ALGIERS18ALGIERS GAZA PROTESTS GAIN MOMENTUM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Demonstrations of Algerian popular anger over Israeli actions in Gaza and support for the Palestinian people have increased in the past several days. Since much of the frustration is directed at the Algerian regime for its perceived impotence in the face of the Palestinian crisis [...]
2009-01-05 14:24:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALASEC AMGT KMSG PREL AG
09ALGIERS195ALGERIA RESERVED ON MARCH 2 IAEA BOARD MEETING
[...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche to MFA Deputy Director of International Security Issues Ali Alaoui on February 25. We underscored USG concerns regarding the IAEA reports on Iran and Syria and urged Algeria to make a strong national statement on both issues at the upcoming Board of Governors [...]
2009-02-25 16:52:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM IAEA MNUC IR SYR AG
09ALGIERS196CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT
[...] (C) Post does not recommend any modification to the CI/KR list as it relates to Algeria at this time. We note, however, that Algeria and international joint venture partners are constructing two undersea natural gas pipelines to Europe, one of which may be operational in late 2009. Once opera [...]
2009-02-25 17:18:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG KCIP AG
09ALGIERS2ALGERIA'S SMOKE-AND-MIRRORS DEATH PENALTY DEBATE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: 2008 closed with disproportionate media and public attention being paid to the death penalty debate in Algeria -- a debate largely theoretical since no executions have taken place since 1993. Toward the end of the year human rights activists and an opposition party increased thei [...]
2009-01-04 08:12:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KISL AG
09ALGIERS210ALGERIA: U.S. CANDIDATE FOR UN APPEALS TRIBUNAL
[...] We delivered reftel to MFA U.S. Desk Officer Ali Drouiche on February 28, asking for Algerian support for the nomination of Judge Mark Painter to the UN Appeals Tribunal. Drouiche gave no substantive comment, but was aware of the Tribunal and ongoing efforts to systemize responses to staff gri [...]
2009-03-01 13:44:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDAORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA
09ALGIERS221DEFAMATION CHARGE LANDS NEWSPAPER DIRECTOR IN JAIL
[...] (U) The 2005 defamation case of Ouargla-based El Waha newspaper took a sudden turn on March 2 when El Waha director Hadj Daoud Hadjar was arrested and sentenced to six months in prison. From his cell in Chaabet Ennichene prison in Ghardaia, Hadjar will now wait for the local court to make his [...]
2009-03-03 16:37:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KPAO AG
09ALGIERS223EXPANDING ESTH OPPORTUNITIES IN ALGERIA
[...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 11. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Algerian government ministries would like to engage in greater cooperation with the USG pursuant to our 2006 Science and Technology (ST) Agreement. During a visit of the ESTH Regional Hub Officer, officials at the Min [...]
2009-03-03 17:03:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPL SENV EINV PGOV AG
09ALGIERS224ALGIERS: SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE
[...] DEMONSTRATIONS A. ARE THERE ANY ETHNIC OR RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES IN COUNTRY CAPABLE OF CARRYING OUT SIGNIFICANT ANTI-AMERICAN DEMONSTRATIONS? (SBU) Algeria is a nominally secular state with a 99-percent Muslim population. There are no identifiable ethnic or religious communities that har [...]
2009-03-03 18:18:00Embassy AlgiersSECRET//NOFORNASEC PTER AG
09ALGIERS226HOW TO GET AN ALGERIAN TO VOTE IN APRIL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Achieving a respectable level of voter turnout for the April election appears to be the key government concern for legitimizing the presidential electoral process and delivering Bouteflika a landslide victory. Voter turnout has been in steady decline in recent years as Algerians [...]
2009-03-04 16:10:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM AG
09ALGIERS228ALGERIA 2009 SPECIAL 301 REPORT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Algeria's IPR posture remained generally static in 2008, and took a marked turn for the worse in regard to pharmaceutical market access with the imposition of a ban on imported pharmaceutical products that are produced domestically (ref A). Furthermore, it has become clear that [...]
2009-03-04 17:24:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KPIR AG
09ALGIERS234ISLAMIST LEADER BEARISH ON PEACE PROCESS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ruling coalition Movement for a Society of Peace (MSP) president Aboudjerra Soltani told the Ambassador on March 4 that he was pessimistic regarding an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement and did not believe "the opportunity was present" right now. Despite his pessimism and initi [...]
2009-03-10 11:22:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KISL AG
09ALGIERS235ALGERIA'S MODERATE ISLAMIST LEADER: A VIEW FROM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Movement for a Society of Peace (MSP - Muslim Brotherhood) President Aboudjerra Soltani gave the Ambassador on March 4 Algeria's official Islamist vision of how to increase political participation and create accountability in local government. Soltani said the most critical need w [...]
2009-03-10 11:28:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL PREL AG
09ALGIERS268ALGERIA CONFIRMS SUPPORT FOR PA
[...] (U) In response to ref A, MFA U.S. desk officer Ali Drouiche confirmed on March 14 that Algeria will provide approximately USD 200 million for reconstruction efforts in Palestinian territories, to be channeled through its membership in the Arab League. As reported in ref B, Algeria has alread [...]
2009-03-18 15:14:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALEFIN KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM PTER EUN AG
09ALGIERS269ALGERIA OF LIKE MIND ON MAURITANIA
[...] (C) MFA Deputy Director for Arab Maghreb Affairs Ayeche Ouahouah told us on March 18 that Algeria shared the U.S. view on Mauritania, and was confident that the African Union would remain focused on the points contained in reftel demarche. Ouahouah said that Libya's Qadhafi "was playing a rol [...]
2009-03-18 16:03:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM MR AG
09ALGIERS273FIND A PARTNER: ALGERIA'S NEW INVESTMENT RULES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Algeria has implemented policies that require a majority stake be held by Algerian interests in all new investments in the country, and a minimum 30-percent stake in import businesses. The policies have taken shape through a series of written instructions and guidance sent from [...]
2009-03-21 13:30:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EFIN ETRD ECON KPRV EIND AG
09ALGIERS274ISLAMOFASHION: VEILED BODY, VEILED MIND?
[...] SUMMARY: Less than a decade after a bloody civil war fought to keep Islamic extremists at bay, more Algerian women than ever are wearing the hidjab (veil or headscarf). The phenomenon is only partly due to religion, as the hidjab has become both a social trend as well as a tool Algerian women [...]
2009-03-22 12:32:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDSOCI KISL PGOV AG
09ALGIERS278BIOLOGY FAVORS BOUTEFLIKA ON ELECTION EVE
[...] (S) SUMMARY: General Larbi Belkheir, known for decades as the kingmaker within Algeria's military establishment, is in declining health and has all but formally faded from the political scene. His impending death will accelerate the decline of the army leaders (the "Janvieristes") who led the [...]
2009-03-23 14:11:00Embassy AlgiersSECRETPGOV PREL KDEM PINR AG
09ALGIERS279THE PLAYBILL FOR ALGERIA'S ELECTION THEATER
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-23 18:05:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KISL AG
09ALGIERS3GHARDAIA: IDEOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL OASIS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Proud of its independent spirit and unique heritage, the oasis town of Ghardaia stands at the gateway to the Sahara as a example of what a community whose traditional structures continue to thrive can achieve when left to its own devices. During his November 14-16 visit to the reg [...]
2009-01-04 08:46:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV EAID PREL KDEM KPAO AG
09ALGIERS30ALGERIA IMPLEMENTS THREATENED BAN ON PHARMA IMPORTS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: With no fanfare or public announcement, the Algerian government has implemented a ban on the importation of a wide range of pharmaceutical products that are also manufactured in Algeria. The ban, which took effect on January 1, is designed to spur the development of the Algerian [...]
2009-01-11 16:44:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON PREL AG
09ALGIERS302E-BARBARY COAST: PROFITS AND PIRACY IN THE
[...] THIS CABLE CONTAINS BUSINESS PROPRIETARY INFORMATION. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Algeria was the second-leading growth market for Microsoft in 2008, and even as the global recession appears to be dampening sales, it might maintain its position relative to other marke [...]
2009-03-29 16:33:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR EINV ECON TSPL AG
09ALGIERS307VIOLENCE ROCKS TIZI OUZOU ON THE EVE OF
[...] (U) Tizi Ouzou was rocked by violence on the eve of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's March 26 campaign swing through the province, but thanks in part to a massive security presence his tour of two major Kabylie cities occurred without incident. Al'Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) launched [...]
2009-03-31 09:20:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALASEC PTER PREL PINS AG
09ALGIERS308GUANTANAMO: FORMER DETAINEE ALLEGEDLY ENCOURAGED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A letter received by the Embassy on March 25 accuses the spouse of former Algerian Guantanamo detainee Sofiane Abar Houari of encouraging her husband to attack the U.S. Embassy in Algiers. The letter, written in mediocre French, purports to be from a concerned citizen presumably [...]
2009-03-31 09:21:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL MOPS PTER PHUM KAWK KISL AG
09ALGIERS309AQIM MEMBER ABOU RIHANA ARRESTED IN ALGIERS
[...] (U) The Algerian government has reported the arrest of senior AQIM leader Abou Rihana aka Z. Kamel. Rihana was described as being responsible for preparing the December 2007 suicide vehicle attacks in the capital city of Algiers. He allegedly planned both the United Nations and the Algerian C [...]
2009-03-31 09:30:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDASEC PTER KISL AG
09ALGIERS31FIS WRITES TO AMBASSADOR AND RAISES STREET PROFILE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Ali Benhadj, vice-president and spiritual leader of the disbanded and outlawed Islamic Salvation Front (FIS),wrote a letter to the Ambassador in which he advised the United States to revise its support of Israel in the wake of the current situation in Gaza, and in which he decri [...]
2009-01-12 10:24:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KISL PTER KDEM AG
09ALGIERS316ALGERIAN BUSINESS BULLISH ON FOREIGN INVESTMENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Algerian business leaders welcome new rules requiring a majority Algerian partner for all foreign investments in the country (ref A). They see the rules not as a retreat from capitalism and economic liberalization, but rather as a new economic model reflecting Algeria's unique hi [...]
2009-04-01 13:27:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALEINV ETRD ECON PGOV AG
09ALGIERS326ALGERIA ON USG CANDIDACY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-05 15:38:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL AG
09ALGIERS327ATTACK ON CONVOY CARRYING CHINESE WORKERS
[...] On March 29 at approximately 20:00 a group of men presumed to be associated with Al-Qa'ida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) attacked a convoy carrying Chinese workers employed by STIC CARC, a contracting company engaged in the construction of a highway linking the municipalities of El Ajiba and [...]
2009-04-06 08:05:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDASEC PTER PGOV AG
09ALGIERS331CHASTENED JOURNALISTS ADD TO ELECTION DAY CYNICISM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Tunisian journalist and human rights activist Sihem Bensedrine was denied entry at Algiers airport on April 4 after being invited by the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH) to participate in a program monitoring the media in the run-up to the April 9 presid [...]
2009-04-06 17:40:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KPAO PHUM AG
09ALGIERS337CRITICISM AND APATHY DEFINE PRE-ELECTION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On the eve of Algeria's presidential election, a mood of general apathy and cynicism has descended upon the capital, despite the government's best efforts to stimulate voter turnout on April 9. These efforts have consisted largely of an overwhelming Bouteflika propaganda machine, [...]
2009-04-07 10:45:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM AG
09ALGIERS34ALGERIA ALLOWS PUBLIC DEMONSTRATIONS OVER GAZA
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Bowing to growing public pressure (ref A),the Algerian government allowed protests in the streets of Algiers and other cities January 9 for the first time since 2001 so Algerians could show public support for the Palestinians in Gaza. Thousands participated in demonstrations ar [...]
2009-01-12 18:45:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINS KISL AG
09ALGIERS3492009 COUNTRY REPORT ON WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR
[...] SUMMARY: The absence of reliable statistics makes it difficult to assess the extent of child labor in Algeria, especially the worst forms of child labor. The Algerian government did not update existing legislation concerning child labor during the past year. In January 2009, however, the Alg [...]
2009-04-08 09:40:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI AG
09ALGIERS35BOUTEFLIKA'S ARMY: CIVILIAN CONTROL AT WHAT PRICE?
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Since President Abdelaziz Bouteflika famously announced his intention to be "more than three-quarters of a president" following his election in 1999, he has struggled to assert greater control over Algeria's army to avoid becoming yet another leader designated and replaced at will [...]
2009-01-13 07:53:00Embassy AlgiersSECRETPGOV PINS PREL PTER MARR KISL AG
09ALGIERS352ALGERIA'S ECONOMIC LIBERALS FADE TO THE LEFT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Many observers predict that, as the expected winner of the April 9 presidential election, President Bouteflika will reshuffle his cabinet again and either move or remove certain ministers that were associated with the economic liberalization of his first two terms. Bouteflika ra [...]
2009-04-08 16:34:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALEINV ETRD ECON PGOV KPRV AG
09ALGIERS355AUTHOR OF RECONCILIATION CHARTER SAYS BOUTEFLIKA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Algeria's de facto human rights ombudsman, Farouk Ksentini, told the Ambassador during an April 4 meeting that Algeria's relationship with the United States is "essential." The Ambassador raised the need to decriminalize defamation, which was intimidating the press. Ksentini agr [...]
2009-04-08 18:30:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL AG
09ALGIERS356FM MEDELCI WELCOMES MITCHELL VISIT, SHARES DOHA
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci on April 7 welcomed Special Envoy George Mitchell's upcoming visit to Algiers and provided us with a brief read-out of the recent Doha summit. Medelci recalled that he had spoken by telephone with Mitchell and was looking forwar [...]
2009-04-08 18:48:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPAL XF AG
09ALGIERS366CHALLENGES FACING FOREIGN ASSISTANCE IN ALGERIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The foreign assistance environment in Algeria is significantly different than in neighboring lower income countries where governments actively seek an open and transparent donor aid process. Donors from different governments and multilateral agencies do not coordinate their acti [...]
2009-04-13 09:35:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL EU AG
09ALGIERS370BOUTEFLIKA REELECTED IN HEAVILY MANAGED CONTEST
[...] (C) SUMMARY: To the surprise of noone, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was elected to a third term on April 9 in a carefully choreographed and heavily controlled election with official results the main opposition leader called "Brezhnevian." Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni annou [...]
2009-04-13 19:12:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM AG
09ALGIERS381FOREIGN MINISTER ON GUANTANAMO, WESTERN SAHARA,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In addition to the peace process (reftel),Foreign Minister Medelci raised cooperation on Guantanamo detainees, negotiations on Western Sahara and the ICC arrest warrant for Sudanese President Bashir during his April 7 meeting with the Ambassador at MFA. Medelci said Algeria woul [...]
2009-04-18 11:47:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PINR PHUM ICC SU MO AG
09ALGIERS386ALGERIA SEEKS U.S. SUPPORT FOR 2009 DISARMAMENT
[...] (C) MFA Director General for Political Affairs and International Security (A/S level) Boudjemaa Delmi briefed the Ambassador on April 15 on Algeria's effort to reinvigorate the work of the Geneva Conference on Disarmament (CD),for which Algeria holds the 2008-09 presidency. The Ambassador to [...]
2009-04-18 16:50:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL PGOV UNDC AG
09ALGIERS39WESTERN SAHARA: ALGERIA AND POLISARIO WELCOME ROSS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an official statement reported in the local press on January 12, the MFA welcomed the UN Secretary General's nomination of Ambassador Christopher Ross as Special Representative for the Western Sahara, expressing Algeria's readiness to cooperate with and assist Ross in his ef [...]
2009-01-13 19:17:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PBTS WI AG
09ALGIERS396ALGERIA: SITUATION IN MADAGASCAR FROZEN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-21 11:16:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDAORC EAID MA AG
09ALGIERS397ALGERIA CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC ON MAURITANIA
[...] According to acting Director of African Multilateral Affairs Zineddine Birouk, Algeria sees the April 15 resignation of Mauritanian General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz as a "positive sign" towards the expected June 6 elections. Birouk told us on April 21 that the Algerian position on Mauritania w [...]
2009-04-21 11:33:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL USAU MR AG
09ALGIERS415ALGERIA AND MEPI - MOVING FORWARD
[...] (U) MEPI remains a valuable tool in Algeria, both to continue existing programming and to focus future programming on new opportunities we identify. In response to refs A and B, this cable outlines what programs work in Algeria, today and tomorrow, and why. MEPI programs support USG goals of [...]
2009-04-26 12:35:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALKMPI PREL KPAO KDEM AG
09ALGIERS421WESTERN SAHARA: ALGERIA POSITIVE BUT GUARDED
[...] (C) MFA Director-General for African Affairs Lounes Magramane told the Ambassador on April 25 that Algeria had a very favorable opinion of new UN Special Envoy for Western Sahara, Christopher Ross, and that it found the report of his initial impressions "balanced." However, Magramane also poi [...]
2009-04-27 17:47:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS UN MO AG
09ALGIERS428THE GESTATION OF A NEW ISLAMIST PARTY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In what appears to be a government-backed effort to energize an alientated Islamist electorate, the traditional tensions within the Movement for a Society of Peace (MSP - Muslim Brotherhood) have sprouted a new formal political movement, the Movement for Preaching and Change (MPC) [...]
2009-04-29 08:31:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL KDEM AG
09ALGIERS44ARAB LEAGUE DEMARCHE: ALGERIA SUPPORTS EGYPT'S
[...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel demarche January 14 to MFA Director General for Arab Affairs Abdelhamid Bouzaher, who said that Algeria was in accord in principle with our points on Gaza. He said Algeria supported the UNSCR, and absolutely supported Egypt's efforts. But, he said, the sit [...]
2009-01-14 17:44:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD KPAL KWBG MOPS PHUM PREL AL XF AG
09ALGIERS442WESTERN SAHARA: ALGERIA OPTIMISTIC, POLISARIO DOUR
[...] (C) In response to ref A, MFA Director General for African Affairs Lounes Magramane told the DCM on May 3 that Algeria's response to the MINURSO rollover resolution had been "measured and positive" and that Algeria supported Ambassador Christopher Ross. The Algerian government issued a stateme [...]
2009-05-04 16:13:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS UN MO AG
09ALGIERS443ALGERIA TO ABSTAIN ON KOSOVO JOINING IMF
[...] (U) DCM delivered reftel demarche to MFA Director General for Economic Affairs and International Cooperation (Assistant Secretary equivalent) Amar Abba on May 4. Abba reported that Algeria would cast an abstention vote at the IMF by the May 5 deadline. He also implied that Algeria would proba [...]
2009-05-04 16:28:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL KV AG
09ALGIERS444GARDENS IN THE SAHARA: PROPOSAL FOR JULIA TAFT
[...] For PRM consideration under the Julia Taft Refugee Fund, Embassy Algiers proposes to fund the development of a demonstration farm and ongoing training program, and to provide 60 Western Sahara refugee families in the Auserd refugee camp with the skills, tools, and supplies needed to grow susta [...]
2009-05-04 17:00:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPREF AG
09ALGIERS447THE RESILIENT CHRISTIANS OF TAMANRASSET
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Some 2000 kilometers south of Algiers in the heart of the Sahara, a small group of Catholics continue to hold small, discreet services, despite the restrictions local officials have placed on their activities. Each week, 20-30 Christians attend services in a tiny sand and mud chur [...]
2009-05-06 11:25:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM SOCI PINR KISL AG
09ALGIERS449ALGERIA ACCEPTABLE AS ELS FOR STS 125
[...] In response to reftel, the Government of Algeria (GOA) has no objection to the use of Tamanrasset Airport as an emergency landing site (ELS) for Space Shuttle launch STS-125. Post likewise has no objection. 2. Contact information for the air traffic control tower (ACTC) at Tamanrasset is [...]
2009-05-06 16:08:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDTSPA PREL AG
09ALGIERS45DEMARCHE ALERTING ARAB CAPITALS ON MOU: ALGERIA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-16 10:58:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALAG IS MARR PREL
09ALGIERS463GUNS IN THE DESERT: ROOTS OF SAHEL INSTABILITY
[...] (S) SUMMARY: The stability of the vast Sahara region of southern Algeria, northern Mali and northern Niger has become a major source of concern to Algerian officials and local leaders we met during a March 23-30 trip to Tamanrasset and Djanet. They tell us a concerted development program and [...]
2009-05-11 08:46:00Embassy AlgiersSECRETPTER PGOV PINR PREL PINS ECON ASEC ML NG AG
09ALGIERS464ALGERIA LIKELY TO SUPPORT SOUTH AFRICAN IAEA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-11 11:03:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALAORC KNNP IAEA PREL AG
09ALGIERS465DISEASE IN THE DESERT: FIGHTING HIV/AIDS IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A gradual rise in legal and illegal African migration to southern Algeria over the past 15 years has brought an increase in cases of infectious diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS. The Saharan crossroads of Tamanrasset, which with 130,000 inhabitants is the only city in an area large [...]
2009-05-11 13:29:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALKHIV PGOV PREF AG
09ALGIERS469PROBLEM CHILD: ALGERIA'S GROWING IMPATIENCE WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Algeria has long considered Mali an ally in the fight against terrorism in the Sahel, but is losing patience with its southern neighbor. During the week of April 25, the two major independent French-language dailies in Algiers, Liberte and El Watan, accused Malian President Amado [...]
2009-05-12 15:06:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPTER PINS PINR PREL ASEC ML AG
09ALGIERS476ALGERIA: PROSPECTS FOR REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT ON IRAQ
[...] (S) In response to reftel, Algeria has been reluctant to re-engage fully with Iraq ever since two of its diplomats were killed there in 2005. We have found that until recently, the Algerians lacked direct and reliable sources of information on political and security developments in Iraq, ofte [...]
2009-05-16 13:51:00Embassy AlgiersSECRETPGOV PREL AG
09ALGIERS483ALGIERS EAC: DETAINEE PHOTOS AND THE SECURITY
[...] (S) On May 17, 2009, the acting DCM convened a full EAC to assess the impact on mission and AMCIT security from media attention to unreleased detainee photographs (reftel) as well as to evaluate the security situation in and around the city of Constantine for upcoming Embassy travel and activit [...]
2009-05-18 14:30:00Embassy AlgiersSECRETASEC PTER CASC AG
09ALGIERS492DESPERATELY LOOKING NORTH: THE MIGRANTS OF THE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The cities of Tamanrasset and Djanet in the Algerian south have become extended transit hubs for thousands of illegal migrants from sub Saharan Africa who are looking north to seek opportunity. With 130,000 residents, Tamanrasset is the largest population center in southern Alger [...]
2009-05-20 18:57:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PTER PINR PINS SOCI ML NG AG
09ALGIERS496GO WEST! AMBASSADOR REACHES OUT BEYOND ALGIERS
[...] (U) THIS CABLE CONTAINS BUSINESS PROPRIETARY INFORMATION AND IS INTENDED FOR GOVERNMENT USE ONLY. DO NOT DISTRIBUTE ON THE INTERNET. 2. (U) SUMMARY: The Ambassador's recent trip to Oran (Algeria's second largest city) and Tlemcen provided him an excellent platform to highlight existing coo [...]
2009-05-26 13:00:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPAO PREL PGOV EINV ECON OEXC OIIP SCUL PINR AG
09ALGIERS513ALGERIA DECLINES AIRLIFT SUPPORT FOR SOMALIA
[...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel demarche on May 31 to Lounes Magramane, MFA Director General for African Affairs. After conferring with decisionmakers, Magramane told the Ambassador on June 2 that Algeria will not transport weapons or ammunition. He noted that Algeria has supported the So [...]
2009-06-02 15:20:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPKO SO AG
09ALGIERS514BOUTEFLIKA: SERIOUS WESTERN SAHARA AUTONOMY IS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Bouteflika told Codel Burr Algeria would consider modifying its position on Western Sahara, and engaging the Sahrawis, if Morocco seriously implemented UN resolutions on self-determination. While Algeria would respect whatever outcome the Saharans chose, including auto [...]
2009-06-03 06:36:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS OREP PGOV PINR PTER PINS KNNP AG
09ALGIERS642WESTERN SAHARA: BOUTEFLIKA TELLS ROSS THAT ALGERIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: UNSYG Personal Envoy Christopher Ross met with President Bouteflika on June 24 to discuss participation in "informal" talks between Morocco and the Polisario regarding the Western Sahara. After his meetings with Bouteflika in Algiers and later with Polisario leaders in Tindouf, R [...]
2009-06-30 07:01:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS UN MO AG
09ALGIERS66ISLAMOFEMINISM: FINDING A FEMINIST AUDIENCE IN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two recent American Bar Association (ABA) seminars on sharia law held in Algiers and Oran featured lectures using the theological tenets of Islam to support arguments in favor of gender equality. The lectures, by Islamic feminist scholar and Richmond University law professor Ha [...]
2009-01-21 16:34:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KWMN KISL SOCI SCUL AG
09ALGIERS670ALGERIAN IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSC 1874
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-08 17:53:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN PARM PREL KNNP AG
09ALGIERS70ALGERIA: OBAMA IS "AMERICA WE DREAMED ABOUT"
[...] (C) SUMMARY: While we expected a mostly positive reaction to President Obama's inauguration in the Algerian press (reftel) and among most Algerians, the Ambassador received a surprisingly strong positive reaction from former prime minister and ruling National Liberation Front (FLN) chairman [...]
2009-01-21 18:51:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AG
09ALGIERS705MIXED MESSAGES ON ALGERIAN INVESTMENT CLIMATE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Members of CODEL Schiff heard mixed-messages regarding Algeria's investment climate during a visit June 30 and July 1. Government officials at once spoke of their desire to see more US companies investing in Algeria outside of the hydrocarbons sector, while describing new res [...]
2009-07-21 15:09:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG EPET EINV OREP AG
09ALGIERS717ALGERIA: ENGAGEMENT FOLLOWING PRESIDENT'S CAIRO
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The President's June 4 speech in Cairo was closely watched by a generally receptive Algerian public, as was his July speech in Ghana. Our Algerian contacts appreciated the President's effort at Muslim outreach -- epitomized by opening the speech with "assalaamu alaykum" -- and [...]
2009-07-28 17:38:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL OEXC ECON EINV SCUL SENV SOCI TSPL KISL
09ALGIERS718ALGERIA CHANGES WEEKEND TO FRIDAY-SATURDAY
[...] Effective August 14, 2009, the weekend in Algeria will change to Friday and Saturday instead of Thursday and Friday. 2. The Algerian Council of Ministers endorsed on July 21, 2009, a draft law to this effect put forth by the Minister of Labor. The law dictates the weekend change in all econo [...]
2009-07-29 16:31:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT OTRA AG
09ALGIERS729ALGERIANS AND POLISARIO READY FOR VIENNA
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The Algerians and Polisario are both ready for the informal talks on Western Sahara August 9 in Vienna. In separate meetings August 3, representatives of both the GOA and the Polisario told us they respect the effort of UNSYG Special Envoy Ross and find that his no-agenda approac [...]
2009-08-04 19:16:00Embassy AlgiersSECRETPREL PGOV PBTS PREF KPKO AG MO MR
09ALGIERS740ALGERIA LINKS RANSOM PAYMENTS TO TRANS-SAHARA
[...] (S) SUMMARY. Algeria considers the payment of ransom to terrorist organizations a serious problem for security in the Sahel region and will propose an UNGA resolution condemning such payments based on a similar proposal recently acted upon by the African Union (AU). Algeria is not circulati [...]
2009-08-09 07:13:00Embassy AlgiersSECRETPREL PTER PINR PGOV AG ML MR NG PBTS
09ALGIERS749ALGERIA: NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE 2010
[...] (U) Per reftel, Embassy POC on NPT-related issues will be Michael Bosshart, Political and Economic Section Chief, as of September 1, 2009. 2. (U) We believe that much of Algeria's NPT-related policy is coordinated through Algeria's ambassador to the IAEA in Vienna, although some authority m [...]
2009-08-12 17:30:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDAORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA
09ALGIERS764ALGERIA SEEKS SUPPORT FOR UN ACTION TO BAN RANSOM
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Algerian Presidential Counter Terrorism Advisor, Kamel Rezag Bara, said August 12 that Algeria sought U.S. support at the UN for an African Union initiative to strengthen the international legal regime against abductions, including a specific ban on ransom payments to terrorist g [...]
2009-08-20 12:39:00Embassy AlgiersSECRETPTER PREL PGOV PINR PBTS UNGA AG ML MR NG US
09ALGIERS765ALGERIAN MINSTATE SAYS TRANS-SAHARA LEADERS TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Algerian Minister of State for Africa and the Maghreb Abdelkader Messahel told a visiting Capstone delegation August 14 that trans-Sahara heads of state will meet in Bamako in early October to discuss security cooperation and regional development. Messahel said that Algerian P [...]
2009-08-23 06:43:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PTER PGOV AG
09ALGIERS768ALGERIA'S VIEW OF VIENNA TALKS ON WESTERN SAHARA
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Algerian Minstate for Africa and the Maghreb Abdelkader Messahel, Algeria's representative at the Vienna informal talks on the Western Sahara, told us August 14 that the talks were generally civil and constructive, and that the parties to the dispute agreed to further meetings i [...]
2009-08-23 10:56:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS AG MO UN
09ALGIERS779MEPI ALGERIA SNAPSHOT: PSP ENGLISH TRAINING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: We saw the MEPI-funded Partnership Schools Program (PSP) in action recently in the western Algerian city of Sidi Bel Abbes as MEPI implementers provided training to a group of government language inspectors. The progress we saw, along with anecdotal evidence from participants, [...]
2009-08-26 14:27:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKMPI PREL KPAO PGOV AG
09ALGIERS781POLISARIO VIEWS VIENNA AS POSITIVE STEP, BUT NO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Polisario "Ambassador" Brahim Ghali praised the positive atmosphere of the Vienna talks and reiterated the Polisario's commitment to continue its cooperation with UNSYG Special Envoy Christopher Ross. Although the talks were a good opportunity for direct dialogue between the part [...]
2009-08-27 17:50:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS MARR PTER AG MO UN
09ALGIERS818DEMARCHE U.S. CANDIDATE FOR UN INTERNATIONAL CIVIL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-13 15:48:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDAORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA AG
09ALGIERS819WIPO ISSUES DEMARCHE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-13 15:49:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDECON KIPR ETRD WIPO AG
09ALGIERS822MIDDLE EAST ISSUES IN IAEA GENERAL CONFERENCE:
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-14 13:46:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALAORC PARM KNNP IAEA PREL IS EG AG
09ALGIERS824ALGERIA: DEMARCHE ON IAEA REPORTS ON IRAN AND
[...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief presented reftel demarche September 13 to Hamza Khelif, Deputy Director for Disarmament in the MFA's Office of Security and Disarmament. Khelif noted that as president of the IAEA Board of Governors, Algeria carried a special responsibility to be impartial and listen to all [...]
2009-09-14 16:32:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM IAEA MNUC IR SY TRGY AG
09ALGIERS825ALGERIA ON SAHEL SUMMIT PREP: "THE CHAIN IS NOW
[...] (C) Algeria expects a regional heads of state meeting in Bamako on regional security cooperation before the end of the year. MFA Director General for African Affairs Magramane said he expects the summit to result in an action plan to address both joint security operations and development ini [...]
2009-09-14 16:54:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PINR PGOV PBTS AG ML MR NG
09ALGIERS837ALGERIAN MUSLIM LEADERS SAY YOUTH INCREASINGLY
[...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador hosted an iftar for prominent Algerian Muslim scholars September 8. All in the group, who belong to the Algerian religious establishment, felt that while salafist extremism lacked broad appeal in Algeria, the Algerian religious establishment could do better in offe [...]
2009-09-17 15:52:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALAG KISL PGOV PREL SCUL US
09ALGIERS838AMBASSADOR HOSTS IFTAR DINNER FOR ALGERIAN PRESS
[...] (C) Human rights lawyers and editors of Algeria's independent French and Arabic language print dailies complained of a continuing oppressive environment for the press over the past year during an iftar hosted by the Ambassador September 15. Government unwillingness to share information with t [...]
2009-09-17 16:46:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALAG KISL PGOV PHUM PREL SCUL US
09ALGIERS839ALGERIA TO ENGAGE IRAN ON AMCIT DETAINEES
[...] (C) The Algerian MFA says that Algeria's Minister of Foreign Affairs would engage with his Iranian colleague on the margins of UNGA to help obtain the humanitarian release of U.S. citizens detained in Iran. It would also instruct its Ambassador in Geneva to work with the U.S. and Egyptian del [...]
2009-09-17 17:31:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALAG CASC IR KNNP MNUC PARM PHUM PTER
09ALGIERS842ALGERIA: FINANCE LAW HAMPERS FOREIGN INVESTMENT,
[...] (SBU) A "complementary finance law" (CFL) adopted by presidential decree on 22 July imposes new restrictions on foreign investment, import companies, and domestic consumer credit. It grew out of government preoccupation with lowering Algeria's growing import bill and more tightly controlling [...]
2009-09-23 07:25:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALEINV EFIN ETRD ECON AG
09ALGIERS845ALGERIA: AFRICAN REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON BIOSAFETY
[...] (U) Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel points September 24 to Hamza Khelif, in the Security and Disarmament Division of the General Directorate of Political Affairs and International Security. Khelif said he would refer this matter to his superiors, but was fairly certain Algeria would participat [...]
2009-09-27 08:43:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDAORC KPAO PREL PTER UNSC XA KE AG
09ALGIERS887ALGERIAN INDUSTRY MINISTER REAFFIRMS INTEREST IN
[...] Summary: Minister of Industry told USTR Director Burkhead that Algeria remains interested in acceding to the WTO and engaging with the U.S. in the framework of our bilateral Trade and Investment Framework Agreement. He nevertheless believed the government had to exert more control over impor [...]
2009-10-01 12:49:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALETRD EINV EFIN ECON AG
09ALGIERS888ALGERIA: FINANCE MINISTER BACKS ALGERIA'S NEW
[...] (C) Minister of Finance Karim Djoudi told USTR Director for the Middle East and Europe Paul Burkhead September 28 that the purpose of Algeria's new rules on imports and foreign investment was to lower imports, tighten control on hard currency outflows, reduce tax fraud, and protect and promote [...]
2009-10-01 13:10:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALETRD ECON PREL AG
09ALGIERS889COMMERCE MINISTER SAYS ALGERIA SERIOUS ABOUT WTO,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Commerce Minister El Hachemi Djaaboub told USTR Director for the Middle East and Europe Paul Burkhead on September 28 that WTO accession is still a priority and Algeria looked to the U.S. for support in its efforts to complete negotiations. Djaaboub nevertheless defended new rule [...]
2009-10-01 13:44:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALETRD ECON PREL AG
09ALGIERS890ALGERIA: MINISTRY OF HEALTH DEFENDS DRUG IMPORT
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with visiting USTR director Burkhead, Health Ministry Secretary General Chakou defended Algeria's import ban on a number of pharmaceuticals. He said it was necessary to protect and develop Algeria's domestic drug production, and to reduce the rising import costs for [...]
2009-10-03 18:02:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALEINV ETRD ECON AG
09ALGIERS900ALGERIA: USTR DIRECTOR BURKHEAD TACKLES
[...] (C) USTR Director Paul Burkhead told Algerian ministers and senior officials during a September 27-28 visit that the U.S. wants to improve trade and investment ties with Algeria and help Algeria diversify its economy beyond the hydrocarbon sector. GOA officials said Algeria still wants to acce [...]
2009-10-05 15:21:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALEINV EFIN ETRD ECON PGOV PREL AG
09ALGIERS903ALGIERS MEDIA REACTION TO USTR PAUL BURKHEAD'S
[...] (U) On September 27-28, Paul Burkhead, Director of European and Middle Eastern Trade Affairs at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, visited Algiers to meet with senior officials in the GOA and key private sector stakeholders to explore areas of potential cooperation in international t [...]
2009-10-06 07:33:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL AG US KPAO
09ALGIERS904ALGERIA: RESPONSE TO P5 PLUS ONE TALKS WITH IRAN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-07 09:34:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALKNNP MUNC PARM IR AG
09ALGIERS948ALGERIA SAYS BAMAKO SUMMIT KEY TO REGIONAL
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Algerian Minister Delegate for Defense Guenaizia told visiting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) Ambassador Vicki Huddleston October 19 that the Algerian, Mauritanian, Nigerien and Malian chiefs of staff had agreed to set up a regional command for joint counter terrorism [...]
2009-10-25 09:28:00Embassy AlgiersSECRET//NOFORNPREL PTER PGOV MCAP MOPS SNAR AG ML MR NG
09ALGIERS96U.S. COAST GUARD GIVES ALGERIAN PORTS HIGH MARKS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: A delegation of four International Port Security Specialists from the U.S. Coast Guard visited the ports of Arzew and Algiers from January 10-14, marking the second visit by the Coast Guard since the implementation of the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS) [...]
2009-01-27 17:49:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALETRD EWWT AG
09ALGIERS961ALGERIA: ELECTIONS NOT ENOUGH IN GUINEA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-27 14:39:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV AG GV
09ALGIERS962ALGERIAN MINSTATE SAYS REGIONAL GOVERNMENTS CAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of State for African and Maghreb Affairs Abdelkader Messahel told Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) Ambassador Vicki Huddleston on October 17 that governments in the Sahel region have the resources to combat terrorism and criminal networks and have agreed on the [...]
2009-10-27 17:34:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV MCAP MOPS SNAR AG ML MR NG
09ALGIERS969ALGERIA'S ATTENDANCE AT THE 2009 G-8 BMENA FORUM
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-28 18:32:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC PREL ECON KPAO KDEM AG
09ALGIERS970A/S FELTMAN'S MEETING WITH ALGERIAN PRIME MINISTER
[...] (C) In an October 21 meeting with NEA A/S Feltman, Prime Minister Ouyahia was broadly receptive to the USG theme of economic and security partnership in the region. He said Algeria wants to adopt a market economy but needs time to strengthen its industry to meet world competition. While urgi [...]
2009-10-29 08:51:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD ECON KWBG KPAL KISR IS IR AG
09ALGIERS973NEA A/S FELTMAN MEETING WITH ALGERIAN FOREIGN
[...] (C) In an October 20 meeting with Algerian FM Medelci, visiting NEA A/S Feltman said we wished to deepen counterterrorism and regional security cooperation with Algeria. Medelci focused on the economy and the Middle East. Algeria was an open economy that needed foreign and U.S. investment, w [...]
2009-11-02 07:06:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER ECON ETRD KPAL KWBG IS AG
09ALGIERS980ALGERIA EXBS PROGRAM PLAN
[...] Embassy endorses reftel EXBS programs for Algeria. Embassy agrees that the program "Parliamentary Exchange," despite the program title, should target senior interagency Algerian officials from the executive branch, not parliamentary deputies or senators. Algerian legislators exercise virtuall [...]
2009-11-03 17:25:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDETTC PARM PREL ISTC AG
09ALGIERS982ALGERIA'S 2009-2010 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS
[...] (U) Algeria is primarily a transit country for drugs, but both domestic production and consumption are rising. Drug seizures increased substantially in 2008 and the first half of 2009. The Government of Algeria (GOA) is committed to addressing the problem and has begun several domestic pro [...]
2009-11-04 06:47:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR AG
09ALGIERS983CTAG MEMBERS DISCUSS REGIONAL CT CHALLENGES
[...] (C) Participants at the Italian-hosted Counterterrorism Action Group (CTAG) meeting of G-8 Embassies in Algiers on October 25 discussed the current status of regional CT cooperation, ongoing Algerian and bilateral CT efforts, and the activities of the African Union Center for the Study and Res [...]
2009-11-04 10:06:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PINR PGOV AG ML MR NG
09ALGIERS988ALGERIA RESPONSE TO U.S. POINTS ON GOLDSTONE REPORT
[...] (C) P/E chief delivered ref A points November 4 to Abdelkedar Hedjazi, Director of the MFA's Office of the Arab Magreb and Arab Maghreb Union, emphasizing in particular the need to avoid UNGA resolutions related to the Goldstone report that could complicate the resumption of Palestinian-Israe [...]
2009-11-04 16:27:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PTER KPAL AG IS UN
09ALGIERS993UK DEFENSE SECRETARY AINSWORTH VISIT TO ALGERIA,
[...] (C) The UK Ambassador in Algiers told us that the UK Secretary of State for Defense, during his October 26-27 visit to Algiers, signed a bilateral defense cooperation agreement that establishes a framework for UK training of Algerian military, information exchanges and joint exercises. A heli [...]
2009-11-05 15:26:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR MOPS AG UK IR
09ALGIERS998ALGERIA'S THIRD COMMITTEE RECORD UNLIKELY TO CHANGE
[...] We delivered reftel points November 4 to MFA Deputy Director of Human Rights and Humanitarian Assistance Ahmed Saadi. Saadi said that Algeria, as a matter of principle, did not support country-specific resolutions in the Third Committee. Dialogue and engagement were more effective approache [...]
2009-11-05 17:42:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL UN AG
09ANKARA251INTERIM RESPONSE - OPIC-SUPPORTED INVESTMENT FUND
[...] Post is unable to get significant information on Paladin Realty Eurasia Investors, L.P. or Paladin realty Partners, LLC from contacts or public sources. If OPIC can provide names of company owners, we will do further research. 2. Regarding Paladin's concept of providing financing for aff [...]
2009-02-13 16:06:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDEINV TU
09CANBERRA437RUDD PULLS PLUG ON EMISSIONS TRADING IN 2010
[...] (SBU) Summary: Australia will delay implementation of its proposed economy-wide emissions trading plan until July 2011 in response to strong political opposition (reftel) and the global recession. PM Kevin Rudd announced May 4 changes to the government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPR [...]
2009-05-04 07:17:00Embassy CanberraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG ECON AS
09RANGOON200BURMA: DONORS PREPARING TO PURCHASE TB DRUGS IN
[...] (C) Burma will face a shortage of tuberculosis (TB) drugs in mid-2010, leaving the region vulnerable to new outbreaks of both TB and multi-drug resistant TB. WHO estimates that Burma needs between USD 4-5 million to cover the drug shortfall; and to ensure timely delivery of drugs, procureme [...]
2009-03-31 07:39:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALSOCI EAID PHUM KHIV PGOV SENV BM
09RANGOON270BURMA: GOB LIMITING VISAS IN MAY
[...] (C) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) has informed the diplomatic community that the GOB will not be issuing any more visas for official foreign visitors during the remainder of May, but indicated that visas may be issued after June 1. MOFA has yet to justify this policy. Diplomats and [...]
2009-05-12 08:24:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON PGOV PREL BM
09SANTIAGO760 CHILE: OPIC-SUPPORTED INVESTMENT FUND MAY BE BETTER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post has no objection to OPIC's proposed investment funds program outlined in ref A. The objectives of the Paladin Realty Latin America Investors III, L.P. fund are compatible with Chile's economic development programs. However, OPIC may find that the program is better targete [...]
2009-08-10 18:26:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV CI
09STATE26881OPIC-SUPPORTED INVESTMENT FUND IN THE REGION
[...] This is an action cable. See paragraph 4. 2. OPIC management is considering support of a new $400-$500 million private equity fund, Paladin Realty Latin America Investors III, L.P. (the "Fund") that will be sponsored by Paladin Realty Partners, LLC (the "Sponsor"),of which a $200 million [...]
2009-03-20 13:00:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEINV BR CI MX PE
10ALGIERS104ANADARKO VS. SONATRACH -- UPDATE ON THEIR
[...] (C) The head of Algerian operations of the U.S. oil company Anadarko told the Ambassador this week that his company's dispute continues with the state oil company Sonatrach over the government's application of the windfall profit tax provision of the 2006 Hydrocarbons Law to Anadarko's operati [...]
2010-02-04 18:01:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EPTE ENRG EINV AGAO US
10ALGIERS105 November 2009 SUMMARY OF TERRORIST AND
[...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION: This cable is a summary of major security-related activities, terrorist threats, and incidents for Algeria during the month of November 2009. The information was obtained from open sources, news reports, and RSO police contacts. Press-based information should not be taken [...]
2010-02-07 08:06:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PINS ASEC PGOV SNAR AG
10ALGIERS111ALGERIA: DIRECTORS OF NATIONAL OIL COMPANY
[...] (C/NF) Eight directors, including the CEO, of Algeria's national oil company Sonatrach are under investigation for corruption and have been fired and replaced. Industry insiders fear company operations will soon be affected. Algeria's intelligence services are leading the investigation. This sc [...]
2010-02-08 16:58:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV ENRG ECON ETRD KCRM PINS AG
10ALGIERS115FM TO SANDERSON: TSA LIST "POISON IN RELATIONS"
[...] (C) In a meeting with visiting NEA DAS Sanderson January 25, Algerian Foreign Minister Medelci objected to TSA's placing Algeria on a list with supporters of terrorism and countries where U.S. troops were at war, arguing that this was at variance with Algeria's solid commitment to fighting te [...]
2010-02-10 08:03:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER ECON KPAL KGHG SENV ML SU AG
10ALGIERS116ALGERIAN CT CHIEF PRESSES NEA DAS SANDERSON ON TSA
[...] (C) Meeting with NEA DAS Sanderson January 25, Algerian Counterterrorism Coordinator Kamel Rezag Bara objected that putting Algeria on the list of countries subject to enhanced airport screening is at variance with Algeria's solid commitment to fighting terrorism and its close security partner [...]
2010-02-10 08:04:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER AG UN US
10ALGIERS117 Algeria Media Reaction to Algeria's Reported Inclusion in
[...] (SBU) Media reports that the Transportation Security Administration had included Algeria as one of fourteen "countries of concern" has sparked a myriad of negative reactions from the Algerian press and an obsessive focus on this issue that shows little sign of abating. In fact, the issue has [...]
2010-02-11 07:48:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PTER KPAO KMDR ASEC AG US
10ALGIERS123CHINA'S IMPACT AND RISKS IN ALGERIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: China's footprint in Algeria is primarily commercial and focused on construction contracts for major infrastructure projects. China provides no development or other forms of assistance. There are more than 40,000 Chinese nationals living in Algeria. Chinese firms have a stake i [...]
2010-02-11 16:11:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER ASEC ELAB ECON ETRD CH AG
10ALGIERS153ORASCOM TELECOM ALGERIE DISPUTE CAUSES WIDESPREAD
[...] (C) Orascom Telecom Algerie (OTA),Algeria's largest wireless phone company -- one of the largest and most economically productive foreign investments this decade -- has been assessed USD 650 million in back taxes via a series of assessments dating back to late 2008. On the face of it, many o [...]
2010-02-21 16:52:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EINV AG EG
10ALGIERS157OIL COMPANIES WORRIED ABOUT ALGERIA'S ENERGY FUTURE
[...] (C/NF) Leading foreign oil companies (FOCs) are concerned that the corruption investigation into Algeria's national oil company Sonatrach (reftel) has paralyzed company decision-making and could slow ongoing projects. Unless Sonatrach consolidates under new management and resumes normal contr [...]
2010-02-21 17:06:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV EPET ENRG ECON ETRD KCOR PREL PINS AG
10ALGIERS161Same-Sex Domestic Partner Accreditation - Algeria
[...] Post notes that Algerian law prohibits homosexual relations and that the issue is a public taboo, in large part because of the strong Muslim prohibition against homosexuality as well as strongly conservative social mores. Discussions with other western embassies in Algiers, some of which have [...]
2010-02-21 17:28:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDAPER AMGT PHUM AG
10ALGIERS164AMBASSADOR RAISED US INVESTOR CONCERNS ABOUT OTA
[...] (C) On the margins of the recent U.S. trade mission to Algiers, Ambassador on February 18 raised with Algerian Finance Minister Djoudi and Minister of Industry and Investment Abdelhamid Temmar U.S. investor concerns over Orascom Telecom Algerie's (OTA) current USD 650-million tax dispute (ref [...]
2010-02-22 17:26:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EINV AG EG US
10ALGIERS177ALGERIA REACTS TO CRISES TO ITS SOUTH, RECALLING
[...] (U) Algeria recalled its Ambassador to Mali on February 23 in protest over Mali's freeing of four alleged terrorists, whose release is seen as part of a deal to obtain the freedom of a French hostage held in Mali by individuals from al-Qa'ida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). The same day, the G [...]
2010-02-24 17:12:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER ML MR NG AG
10ALGIERS178ALGERIA: TEHRAN RESEARCH REACTOR
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-24 17:19:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP MNUC PARM PREL IR AG
10ALGIERS184ALGERIAN POLICE CHIEF ASSASSINATED - NO TERRORISM
[...] (SBU) Colonel Ali Tounsi, Director General of the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) and Algeria's top police official, was assassinated in his office late in the morning of February 25. DGSN sources reported to RSO that a senior police member of Tounsi's staff pulled a gun at a [...]
2010-02-25 15:24:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS AG
10ALGIERS20ALGERIA STRONGLY PROTESTS TSA LISTING
[...] (S/NF) MFA Americas Director General Sabri Boukadoum expressed to the Ambassador January 6 the GOA's "profound dismay" regarding Algeria's inclusion on the TSA list for enhanced screening. He said this message came directly from President Bouteflika. The TSA decision, Boukadoum stressed, did not ac [...]
2010-01-06 17:38:00Embassy AlgiersSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL MOPS PINR AG US
10ALGIERS37ALGERIAN INVITATION TO HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL RETREAT
[...] Algerian MFA Director General for Political Affairs and International Security Benchaa Dani briefed ambassadors January 10 on GOA plans to hold a "retreat" in Algiers February 19 - 21 for informal consultations in the framework of the Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on the work and [...]
2010-01-11 17:32:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL KDEM UNHRC AG
10ALGIERS39ALGERIAN FM: TSA LISTING “INTOLERABLE,
[...] (S/NF) Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci January 11 summoned the Ambassador and forcefully objected to Algeria's placement on the TSA enhanced screening list. He termed the decision intolerable, inappropriate, and inopportune. It reflected neither the reality of Algeria's security situation, its coun [...]
2010-01-12 17:50:00Embassy AlgiersSECRET//NOFORNPREL PTER PGOV PINR MOPS AG US
10ALGIERS40CONSULAR SECTION ALGIERS WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES
[...] Summary: U.S. Embassy Algiers consular section recently implemented an orientation program for potentially vulnerable new immigrants to the United States. Diversity visa (DV) winners, female fiancs and female spouses of American citizens are given the opportunity to pick up their visas at th [...]
2010-01-13 12:30:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS CMGT AG
10ALGIERS62ALGERIA AND COPENHAGEN FOLLOW-UP
[...] DCM delivered reftel points to MFA Director for North American Affairs Ambassador Ahriz January 20. The DCM noted that Algeria carried great weight in African discussions leading up to and during Copenhagen, had had some difficulty with the emerging consensus, had then joined the large majori [...]
2010-01-20 16:31:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDKGHG SENV ENRG PREL AG
10ALGIERS63TFHA01 - ALGERIAN AID FOR HAITI
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-20 17:22:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PGOV PREL PREF HA AG
10ALGIERS74ALGERIA - FY2010 BUDGET TRANSPARENCY REPORT
[...] (U) In response to reftel questions, post submits the following information. 2. (SBU) The Algerian central government is expected to receive a portion of U.S. foreign assistance using FY10 funds. The USG has allocated USD 950,000 for IMET funding and USD 950,000 for Nonproliferation, Anti- [...]
2010-01-27 16:50:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAID EAID ECON EFIN PREL
10ALGIERS76ALGERIA - FY2010 BUDGET TRANSPARENCY REPORT
[...] (U) In response to reftel questions, post submits the following information. 2. (SBU) The Algerian central government is expected to receive a portion of U.S. foreign assistance using FY10 funds. The USG has allocated USD 950,000 for IMET funding and USD 950,000 for Nonproliferation, Anti- [...]
2010-01-28 09:24:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAID EAID ECON EFIN PREL
10ALGIERS782010 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT - ALGERIA
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-28 09:56:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV USTR OPIC
10ALGIERS84ALGERIA ON CHEMICAL TERRORISM CONFERENCE IN EARLY
[...] Pol-Econ Chief shared ref A budget figures with and explained ref A points January 27 to the MFA Deputy Director for International Security Affairs, Abderrahman Hamdaoui, who was accompanied by Office Director for International Security Affairs, Melissa Lakehal. Hamdaoui thanked the U.S. for [...]
2010-01-28 15:52:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL CWC AG
10ALGIERS99EMBASSY ALGIERS ENERGY OFFICER
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-02 13:13:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDENRG AG
10CANBERRA42AMBASSADOR, THINK TANKS TO REPRESENT AUSTRALIA AT
[...] (SBU) Australia will be represented at the upcoming PRT conference in Prague by Ambassador to the Czech Republic Ruth Pearce. Australia does not have a deputy SRAP, and no high level officials from Canberra are planning to attend the conference. Afghanistan Section Director Paul Noonan to [...]
2010-01-18 22:46:00Embassy CanberraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL NATO AF AS
96ABUDHABI7350TEHRAN SEES TALEBAN AS U.S. TOOL AGAINST IRAN
[...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY: DAVID PEARCE, CONSUL GENERAL DUBAI. REASON: 1.6, X6 ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) ABDUL HAQ, A FORMER LEADER OF THE AFGHAN COMMANDERS SHURA, SAYS THE TALEBAN HAVE APPROACHED HIM ABOUT SERVING AS FOREIGN MINISTER, BUT HE HAS DECLINED. HAQ SAID HE WOULD ONLY ACCEPT S [...]
1996-11-12 13:56:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER AF IR
97ABUDHABI3777THOUGHTS ON IRAN - THE LION AND THE CAGE
[...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY: DAVID D. PEARCE, CONSUL GENERAL. 2. (S) SUMMARY THIS CABLE EXAMINES SOME OF THE VARIABLES AFFECTING IRANIAN GOVERNMENT DECISIONMAKING -- ESPECIALLY REGARDING POLICIES WE OPPOSE -- FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE WIDE VARIETY OF IRANIAN CONTACTS WE INTERVIEW IN DUBAI. WE HAVE [...]
1997-05-21 14:11:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PINR ETRD EFIN PTER KPRP IR
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