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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN
SECRET
SECRET//NOFORN
UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
By year:
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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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GC GCC GCCC GE GEF GEORGE GERARD GESKE GF GG GH GI GIPNC GIWI GJ GKGIC GL GLOBAL GM GN GO GOG GOI GON GOVPOI GPGOV GPI GPOI GPOV GR GRQ GS GT GTIP GTMO GTREFTEL GU GUAM GUANTANAMO GUIDANCE GUILLERMO GUTIERREZ GV GWI GY GZ GZIS HA HARRIET HARRY HAWZ HCOPIL HDP HE HEAVEN HEBRON HELGERSON HERCEGOVINA HG HHS HI HIGHLIGHTS HIJAZI HILARY HILLARY HILLEN HIPC HIV HIZ HK HKSX HL HLSX HN HNCHR HO HOA HOSTAGES HPKO HR HRC HRCS HRICTY HRIGHTS HRKSTC HSI HSTC HSWG HT HTCG HTSC HU HUD HUM HUMAN HUMANITARIAN HUMANR HUMANRIGHTS HUMOR HUMRIT HUNRC HURI HURRICANE HYDE HYLAND HYMPSK HZ IA IACHR IACI IACO IACW IADB IAEA IAES IAHRC IAIE IAII IASA IATTC IAZ IBB IBD IBET IBPCA IBRB IBRD IC ICAC ICAO ICC ICCAT ICCROM ICES ICJ ICRC ICRS ICSCA ICTR ICTY ID IDA IDB IDLI IDLO IDP IDR IE IEA IEAB IEF IF IFAD IFC IFIN IFM IFO IFR IFRC IG IGAD IGF IHO IICA IINS IIP IK IL ILAB ILC ILEA ILO IMC IMET IMF IMMIGRATION IMO IMSO IMTS IN INAUGURATION INCB IND INDO INF INFLUENZA INL INMARSAT INNP INPFC INR INRA INRB INRD INRO INRPAZ INS INSC INT INTEL INTELLECTUAL INTELSAT INTERNAL INTERPOL INV INVI IO IOC IOM IP IPET IPGRI IPK IPPC IPR IPROP IQ IQNV IR IRAN IRAQ IRAQI IRAQI FREEDOM IRC IRCE IRDB IRE IRL IRLE IRM IRMO IRNB IRPE IRS IS ISA ISAAC ISAF ISCA ISCON ISLAMISTS ISLE ISN ISNV ISO ISPA ISPL ISRAEL ISRAEL RELATIONS ISRAELI ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISSUES ISTC IT ITA ITALIAN ITALY ITECIP ITEIND ITELTN ITER ITF ITIA ITRA ITRD ITU IUCN IV IVIANNA IWC IWI IX IZ IZAORC JA JAM JAMES JAPAN JAT JAWAD JCIC JE JEFFERY JEFFREY JHR JI JIMENEZ JIMENEZ CHILDREN JK JKUS JM JN JO JOHNNIE JOSE NEY MILA ESPINOSA JOSE RAMOS HORTA JOSEPH BIDEN JP JS JSRP JUAN JUS JY KA KACP KACT [+] KACW KADM KAID KALM KALR KANSOU KAPO KARIM WADE KATRINA KAUST KAWC [+] KAWK KAWL KAWS KAWX KAYLA KBCT KBDS KBEM KBIO KBNC KBTC KBTR KBTS KBWG KCCP KCEM KCERS KCFC KCFE [+] KCGC KCHG KCIP [+] KCIS KCM KCMA KCMR KCOG KCOM [+] KCOR [+] KCPS KCRCM KCRI KCRIM KCRM [+] KCRN KCRO KCROM KCROR KCRP KCRS KCRT KCSA KCSI KCSY KCUL KCUM KCVM KCWI KDCM KDDEM KDDG KDE KDEM [+] KDEN KDET KDEV KDGOV KDGR KDHS KDM KDMR KDP KDRG [+] KDRL KDTB KDUM KE KEAI KEBG KECF KEDEM KEDM KEDU KEIM KEM KEMPI KEMR KEMS KEN KENV KERF KERG KESO KESP KESS KEVIN KFAM KFCE KFE KFEM KFGM KFIN KFIU KFLD KFLO KFLU KFOR KFPC KFRD [+] KFRP KFSC KFTFN KFTN KG KGCC KGCN KGHA KGHG [+] KGIC [+] KGICKS KGIT KGIV KGKG KGLB KGOR KGOV KH KHDP KHGH KHIB KHIV [+] KHJUS KHLS [+] KHMN KHOURY KHPD KHSA KHSL KHUM KI KIBL KICA KICC KICCPUR KICR KICT KID KIDE KIF KIFR KIIC KIIP KIL KILS KIMMITT KIMT KIND KINF KINL KINP KINR KINT KIPR [+] KIPT KIRC KIRF [+] KIRL KIRP KIS KISC KISK KISL [+] KISM KISR KITA KIVP KIVR KJAN KJRE KJU KJUS [+] KJUST KJWC KK KKIV KKNP KKOR KKPO KLAB KLAP KLBO KLEG KLFLO KLFU KLHS KLIG KLIP KLPM KLSO KLTN KM KMAC KMAR KMCA [+] KMCC KMCR KMDR [+] KMEPI KMFO KMGT KMIG KMNP KMOC KMPF KMPI KMPIO KMPL KMPP KMPT KMRD KMRS KMSG KMVP KMWN KN KNAO KNAP KNAR KNDP KNEI KNEP KNET KNMP KNN KNNA KNNB KNNC KNNF KNNO KNNP [+] KNNR KNOP KNP KNPP KNPPIS KNPR KNPT KNRG KNRV KNSD KNUC KNUP KO KOC KOCI KOCM KOEM KOGL KOLY [+] KOM KOMC KOMCCO KOMCSG KOMH KOMO KOMS KOR KOSOVO KOUYATE KPA KPAD KPAI KPAK KPAL [+] KPALAOIS KPAM KPAO [+] KPAS KPBT KPDD KPEM KPEO KPER KPET KPIN [+] KPIR KPKO [+] KPKP KPLS KPMI KPMO KPO KPOA KPOKO KPOL KPOP KPOV KPOW KPPAO KPPD KPRD KPRM KPRO KPROG KPRP KPRV KPSC KPTD KPTS KPWG KPWR [+] KQ KQM KQRDQ KR KRAD [+] KRAL KRCIM KRCM KRCS KRD KRDP KREC KREF KREL KRF KRFD KRFR KRG KRGY KRIC KRIF KRIM KRKO KRM KRMS KRV KRVC KS KSA KSAC KSAF KSCA [+] KSCI KSCS KSCT KSEAO KSEC KSEI KSEO KSEP KSI KSIA KSKN KSLG KSMT KSOC KSOCI KSPA KSPR [+] KSRE KSTC KSTCC KSTCPL KSTH KSTS KSTT KSUM [+] KSUP KT KTAO KTBD KTBT KTCRE KTDB KTDD KTDM KTER KTEX KTFIN KTFM KTFN [+] KTFR KTFS KTIA [+] KTIP [+] KTLA KTNBT KTNF KTPN KTRD KTRF KTSC KTSD KTTB KTTC KTTP KU KUAE KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR [+] KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG [+] KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN [+] KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR [+] MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS [+] MATT MB MBM MC MCA MCAP [+] MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCONNELL MCCP MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC [+] MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS [+] MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC OASCC OASS OAU OBAMA OBS OBSP OCBD OCEA OCED OCHA OCII OCRA OCS OCSE ODAG ODC ODIP [+] ODPC OECD OECS OECV OES OESC OEXC [+] OEXP OF OFDA OFDC OFDP [+] OFDPQIS OFFICIALS OFPD OFSO OGAC OGIV OHCHR OHI OHIP OI OIC OICCO OIE OIF OIG OIIP [+] OIL OIM OLY OLYAIR OLYMPICS OM OMB OMIG OMS ON ONA OPAD OPBAT OPC OPCD OPCR OPCW OPDAT OPDC [+] OPDP OPEC OPET OPIC OPID OPOC OPPC OPRC [+] OPREC OPREP OPS OPSC OPVIP ORA ORC ORCA ORECD ORED OREG OREP [+] ORGANIZED ORP ORTA ORUE OSAC OSCE OSCI [+] OSD OSEC OSHA OSIC OSTA OSTRA OTA OTAR OTP OTR OTRA [+] OTRABL OTRAO OTRAZ OTRC OTRD OUALI OVIP [+] OVP OXEC OXEM OZ PA PAARM PAC PACE PAGE PAGR PAHO PAIGH PAK PAL PALESTINIAN PAMQ PAN PANAM PAO PAR PARALYMPIC PARCA PAREL PARK PARLIAMENT PARM [+] PARMS PARN PARP PARR PARTIES PARTM PARTY PAS PASS PATTY PAUM PB PBGT PBIO PBK PBOV PBPTS PBS PBT PBTS [+] PCI PCON PCOR PCRM PCUL PD PDA PDD PDEM PDIP PDOV PDRG PE PEACE PEACEKEEPINGFORCES PEDRO PEL PELOSI PEMEX PENA PENV PEPFAR PEPR PER PEREZ PERL PERM PERSONS PET PETER PETERS PETR PETRAEUS PETROL PF PFIN PFLP PFOR PFOV PG PGGOC PGIC PGIV PGKV PGO PGOC PGOF PGOG PGON PGOR PGOT PGOV [+] PGOVE PGOVQL PGPV PGREL PGREV PGV PH PHALANAGE PHARM PHAS PHEM PHIM PHM PHSA [+] PHU PHUH PHUM [+] PHUMHUPPS PHUN PHUS PHYTRP PI PIA PICES PIF PIN PINB PIND PINER PINF PING PINL PINO PINR [+] PINS [+] PINT PINV PIR PIRF PIRN PJUS PK PKAO PKBL PKFK PKISL PKK PKMN PKNP PKO PKPA PKPAL PKPO PKPRP PKST PL PLAB PLAN PLEC PLN PLO PLUM PM PMAR PMAT PMDL PMIG PMIL PMIN PMR PMUC PN PNAT PNET PNG PNIR PNNL PNR PNRG PNS PNUC PNUK PNUM PO PODC POG POGV POINS POL POLG POLI POLICY POLINT POLITICAL POLITICS POLM POLMIL POLS POLUN POREL PORG POSTS POTUS POUS POV POWELL PP PPA PPAO PPD PPEF PPEL PPKO PPOL PQL PQM PRC PRE PREC PRED PREF [+] PREG PREJ PREK PREL [+] PRELEVU PRELM PRELPLS PRELTBIOBA PREM PREO PREP PRER PRES PRESIDENT PRESL PREV PREZ PRF PRFE PRFL PRGO PRGOV PRIL PRL PRLE PRM PRO PROB PROCESS PROG PROL PROLIFERATION PROP [+] PROPERTY PROTECTION PROTESTS PROV PROVE PRT PRTER PRWL PS PSA PSCE PSEC PSEPC PSHA PSI PSNR PSO PSOC PSOCI PSOE PT PTBS PTE PTEL PTEP PTER [+] PTGOV PTIA PTR PTRD PU PUAS PUBLIC PUNE PUNR PUOS PV PVIP PVOV PVPR PVTS PWBG PWMN PY QA QADRI QEL QI QIZ QM QT QU QUAN QUOC RA RAED RAID RAS RATIFICATION RBI RCA RCMP RE REA REACTION REALTIONS RECIN REF REFORM REFPAN REFUGEE REFUGEES REGION REGIONAL REID REIN REINEMEYER REL RELAM RELATIONS RELFREE RELIGIOUS REMON RENAMO RENE PREVAL REO REPORT REUBEN RF RFE RFIN RFREEDOM RGOV RGY RHUM RI RICE RICHARD RIGHTS RIGHTSPOLMIL RIMC RIVERA RL RLA RM RMA RO ROK ROME ROSS ROW ROY RP RPEL RPTS RQ RR RRB RREL RS RSO RSOX RSP RSZ RTT RU RUEHZO RV RW RWANDA SA SAAD SAARC SACU SADC SAFE SAIR SAIS SAMA SAN SANC SANR SAO SARB SARGSIAN SARS SASC SASEC SB SBA SC SCA SCCC SCE SCENESETTER SCHUL SCI SCIENCE SCNV SCOI SCOL SCOM SCPR SCRM SCRS SCRSERD SCUL [+] SCVL SD SE SEC SECDEF SECI SECRET SECRETARY SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV [+] SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG [+] SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR [+] SNUC SO SOC SOCI [+] SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STET STP STR SU SUCCESSION SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO [+] TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN TNDG TNGD TO TOPEC TORRIJOS TOURISM TP TPHY [+] TPKO TPP TPSA TPSL TR TRAD TRADE TRAFFICKING TRBIO TRBY TRD TREAS TREASURY TREATY TREL TRG TRGV TRGY [+] TRIO TRSY TRT TRV TRY TRYG TRYS TS TSA TSLP TSPA [+] TSPL TSRL TSRY TSY TT TTFN TU TURKEY TV TVBIO TW TWRO TX TY TZ TZBY UA UAE UAID UAM UB UDEM UE UEU UG UGA UK UKR UKRAINE UM UMIK UN UNA UNAF UNAIDS UNAMA UNAMSIL UNAORC UNAUS UNBRO UNC UNCC UNCDF UNCDN UNCHC UNCHR UNCHS UNCITRAL UNCND UNCOPUOS UNCRED UNCRIME UNCSD UNCSW UNCTAD UNDC UNDEF UNDOF UNDP UNECE UNEF UNEP UNESCO UNFA UNFC UNFCYP UNFF UNFICYP UNFIYCP UNFPA UNGA UNGAPL UNGO UNHCR UNHRC UNICEF UNIDCP UNIDO UNIDROIT UNIFEM UNIFIL UNION UNKIK UNM UNMEE UNMIC UNMIK UNMIKI UNMIKV UNMIL UNMIN UNMOVIC UNO UNODC UNOMIG UNOPS UNP UNPAR UNPUOS UNRCCA UNRCR UNREST UNRWA UNSC UNSCAPU UNSCD UNSCE UNSCER UNSCR UNSCS UNSD UNSE UNTAC UNTERR UNTZ UNUS UNVIE UNYI UP UPU UPUO UR US USAID USAU USCC USCG USDA USDELFESTTWO USEU USG USGS USMS USNC USOAS USOP USPS USPTO USSC USTA USTDA USTR USTRD USTRIT USTRPS USTRUWR USUN UUNR UV UX UY UZ VA VANG VAT VC VE VELS VEN VENZ VETTING VI VINICIO VIP VIS VISIT VM VN VO VOA VT VTEG VTFR VTIS VTPREL VTTBIO VTWCAR VXY VY VZ WA WAEMU WAKI WAR WB WBEG WBG WCAR WCI WCL WCO WE WEBG WEBZ WEET WEF WEOG WET WEU WFA WFP WFPAORC WFPO WGC WGG WHA WHITMER WHO WHTI WI WILCOX WIPO WIR WJRO WM WMD WMDT WMN WMO WOMEN WPO WRTO WS WSIS WTO WTRD WTRO WTRQ WW WWARD WWBG WWT WZ XA XAAF XB XC XD XE XF XFNEA XG XH XI XJ XK XL XLUM XM XO XP XQ XR XS XT XTAG XU XV XW XX XXX XY XZ YE YEH YI YL YM YMCS YS YU YURIY ZA ZANU ZB ZC ZCTU ZEALAND ZF ZFR ZH ZI ZIM ZJ ZK ZKGM ZL ZM ZN ZO ZP ZR ZS ZT ZU ZW ZXA
AA AADP AALC ABER ABLD [+] ABLDG ABLG ABMC ABT ABUD AC ACABQ ACAO ACCOUNT ACDA ACEC ACKM ACOA ACOTA ACS ACTION ADANA ADB ADCO ADCP ADEL ADEP ADIP ADM ADMIRAL ADPM ADRC AE AEC AECL AEGR AEIR AEM AEMED AEMR [+] AER AESC AF AFARI AFDB AFDIN AFFAIRS AFGHANISTAN AFIN [+] AFL AFLU AFOR AFR AFSA AFSI AFSN AFU AFZAL AG AGAO AGENDA AGENGA AGIT AGMT AGOA AGR AGS AGUIRRE AI AIAG AID AIDAC AIDS AIEA AIHRC AIN AINF AINFCY AINR AINT AISG AIT AJ AK AL ALAB ALBE ALEXANDER ALI ALJAZEERA ALL ALNEA ALOW ALOWAR AM AMAT AMB AMCHAMS AMCT AME AMED AMEDI AMEMR AMER AMERICAS AMEX AMG AMGE AMGMT AMGT [+] AMIA AMLB AMPR AMT AMTC AMTG AN ANARCHISTS ANC AND ANET ANTITERRORISM AO AOCR AODE AOIC AOMS AOPR AORC [+] AORD AOREC AORG AORL AOWC AP APCS APDC APEC APECO APER [+] APR APRC APRM AQ AR ARAB ARABBL ARABL ARABLEAGUE ARAS ARC ARCH ARENA AREP ARF ARG ARM ARMITAGE ARMS AROC ARR ARRMZY ARSO AS ASA ASAC ASC ASCC ASCE ASCEC ASCH ASE ASEAN ASEC [+] ASECARP ASECE ASECM ASECSI ASECVE ASED ASEDC ASEG ASEK ASES ASEX ASFC ASIC ASIG ASIR ASJA ASO ASOC ASPA ASR ASSEMBLY ASSK ASUP AT ATFN ATPDEA ATRA ATRD ATRN AU AU-1 AUC AUNR AUSGR AUSTRALIAGROUP AV AVERY AVIAN AVIANFLU AVIATION AW AX AY AZ AZE B. BA BAGHDAD BAIO BAKOYANNIS BALKANS BAPOL BARACK BASHAR BATA BB BBG BBSR BC BCW BCXP BD BE BEAN BEN BERARDUCCI BESP BEXB BEXP [+] BEXPC BEXPPLM BEXT BF BFIF BFIN BFIO BG BGD BGMT BH BHUM BI BIC BIH BILAT BIMSTEC BINR BIO BIOS BIOTECH BIOTECHNOLOGY BIT BITO BK BL BLR BLUE BLUNT BM BMENA BMGT BMOT BN BNUC BO BOIKO BOL BOND BOQ BORDER BOSNIA BOU BOUCHAIB KAKA BOUTERSE BP BPIS BPTS BR BRIAN BRPA BRUSSELS BS BSSR BT BTA BTC BTIO [+] BTIU BTRA BTT BU BUD BULGARIA BURMA BUSH BV BW BWC BX BXEP BY BZ CA CAC CACM CACS CAFTA CAIO CAJC CAMBODIA CAN CAPC CARC CARE CARIB CARICOM CARSON CAS CASA CASC [+] CASCC CASCR CASE CASTILLO CAVO CB CBC CBD CBE CBG CBIS CBM CBSA CBTH CBW CCSR CCY CD CDB CDC CDCC CDCE CDG CDI CE CEA CEC CEDAW CEN CENTCOM CENTRIC CEUDA CF CFE CFED CFG CFIS CFSP CG CGEN CGOPRC CH CHAD CHALLENGE CHAO CHELIDZE CHENEY CHERTOFF CHG CHIEF CHN CHR CHRISTIAN CHRISTOF CHRISTOPHER CI CIA CIAT CIC CICTE CIDA CIO CIP CIS CITEL CITES CITIBANK CITT CIVAIR CIVS CJ CJAN [+] CJUS CK CKGR CKOR CL CLEARANCE CLINTON CLMT CLO CLOK CM CMAE CMFT CMGT [+] CMP CMT CN CNAR CNARC CNC CNO CO CODEL COE COL COLIN COLLECTIVE COLOMBO COM COMESA COMMERCE CON CONAWAY CONDOLEEZZA CONDOLEEZZA RICE CONEAZ CONG CONGO CONGRINT CONS CONSULAR CONTROL CONTROLS CORRUPTION COSI COUNTER COUNTER TERRORISM COUNTERTERRORISM COUNTRY COUNTRYCLEARANCE CP CPA CPAS CPC CPCTC CPPT CPUOS CQ CR CRIM CRIME CRIMES CRM CROATIA CROS CRS CRUZ CS CSCE CSEP CSIS CSW CT CTBT CTER CTERR CTM CTR CTRYCLR CU CUCO CUIS CUL CV CVIA CVIC CVIS [+] CVISU CVPR CVR CW CWC CWCM CWG CX CY CYP CYPRUSARMS CZ DA DAC DAFR DAN DANFUNG DANIEL DAO DARFR DARFUR DAVID DAVID LEE HOWES DAVID WELCH DAVID WILLIAM RAY DB DC DCDG DCG DCHA DCI DCM DCOM DCRM DE DEA DEAX DEFENSE DEFENSEREFORM DELTAVIOLENCE DEM DEMARCHE DEMOCRATIC DENNIS DEOC DEPT DEPT FOR DS COMMAND CENTER DESI DHA DHLAKAMA DHLS DHRF DHS DHSX DIEZ DIPLOMACY DISENGAGEMENT DJ DK DKEM DMIN DMINE DO DOC DOD DOE DOJ DOMC DOMESTIC DOMESTICPOLITICS DONALD RUMSFELD DOT DPAO DPKO DPM DPOL DPRK DR DRC DRIP DRL DS DSR DSS DTFN DTRA DTRO DU DVC DY EAC EAD EADI EADM EAG EAGER EAGR [+] EAI EAIC EAID [+] EAIDB EAIDCIN EAIDEGZ EAIDMG EAIDNI EAIF EAIG EAIO EAIR [+] EAIS EAIT EAOD EAP EAPC EAR EARI EASS EATO EAUD EAVI EB EBEXP EBRD EBUD EC ECA ECCP ECCT ECE ECIN ECIP ECLAC ECN ECOIN ECOM ECON [+] ECONCS ECONEGE ECONOMIC ECONOMICS ECONOMY ECONOMY AND FINANCE ECOR ECOS ECOSOC ECOWAS ECPC ECPN ECPO ECPS [+] ECPSN ECRM ECTRD ECUN ED EDA EDEV EDRC EDU EDUC EE EEB EEC EENG EENV EEOC EET EETC EFI EFIC EFIM EFIN [+] EFIS [+] EFLU EFN EFND EFNI EFQ EFTA EG EGAD EGAR EGEN EGHG EGOV EGOVSY EH EI EIAD EIAID EIAR EIB EICN EID EIDE EIDN EIFN EIN EIND [+] EINDIR EINF EING EINN EINO EINR EINT [+] EINV [+] EINZ EIPR EIQ EISL EISNLN EITC EITI EIVN EK EL ELA ELAB [+] ELAD ELAINE ELAM ELAN ELAP ELB ELBA ELBR ELEC ELECTIONS ELF ELIN ELN ELND ELNT ELTD ELTM ELTN [+] ELTRN EMAIL EMED EMI EMIN [+] EMN EMS EMW EN END ENDURING ENEG ENER ENERG ENERGY ENFR ENG ENGR ENGRD ENGRG ENGY ENIV ENLT ENNP ENR ENRC ENRG 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| 03LAGOS2045 | THE SEX TRADE TO THE US AND EUROPE: MEETING WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: POLOFF met with Gerrit Van Hemert, Deputy Head of Mission for the Netherlands Consulate General in Lagos on 17 September to discuss patterns of trafficking of women for the sex trade to Europe. Van Hemert, who has studied the subject for three years, laid out a pattern of traffick [...] | 2003-10-02 10:37:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SMIG SOCI SNAR CVIS NI |
| 03NASSAU1635 | BAHAMIAN OFFICIALS VISIT TO CHINA -- COURTESY OR CONFIDANTS? [...] No summary [...] | 2003-08-21 18:17:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EINV PINR PGOV CH JA BF |
| 03ROME1105 | BEPPO SAX FALLING DOWN [...] FOLLOWING IS THE TEXT OF A NOTE VERBALE RECEIVED MARCH 13 FROM THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. 2. BEGIN TEXT: THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF ITALY PRESENTS ITS COMPLIMENTS TO THE EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES AND HAS THE HONOR TO INFORM ON THE FOLLOWING. ON APRIL 30, 2002, AT THE END [...] | 2003-03-18 10:39:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPA IT |
| 04BRASILIA1000 | BRAZIL'S INDIANS - PART III: LAND DISPUTES AND [...] (U) This is Part III of a three-part series about Indians in Brazil. This cable discusses current land disputes. Part I (ref B) provided an overview and Part II (ref C) discussed concerns of indigenous leaders. 2. (U) Summary. The government of Brazil is facing unhappiness among indigeno [...] | 2004-04-27 19:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI ECON BR TIP |
| 04CARACAS2255 | PETROAMERICA: CHAVEZ'S OIL DREAM FOR THE AMERICAS [...] (C) Energy Vice Minister Luis Vierma told Emboffs July 12 that discussions with Caribbean nations on the formation of a "PetroCaribe" joint venture are at a preliminary stage. According to Vierma, the GOV's plans for the Hemisphere envision a holding company "PetroAmerica" that would have thre [...] | 2004-07-15 19:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PREL VE |
| 04CARACAS338 | CHAVEZ CARRIES BOLIVIA'S WATER IN CHILE SEA SCUFFLE [...] (C) Three months ago President Hugo Chavez began a rhetorical offensive in support of Bolivia's claim to its historic Pacific coastline, seized by Chile in 1879. Chavez's campaign has made international headlines, and resulted in Venezuela and Chile recalling their ambassadors for consultation [...] | 2004-01-30 12:43:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL VE |
| 04CARACAS366 | PDVSA POWER STRUGGLES: THE REVOLUTION DEVOURS ITS [...] (C) With street battles between opposing labor groups, mass protests to force the removal of managers, new allegations of corruption in internal product sales, and rumors of yet another new Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) board, January has demonstrated yet again the disarray in the Venezuelan [...] | 2004-02-02 18:46:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON PGOV VE |
| 04CARACAS945 | VENEZUELA ON THE VERGE OF A PURGE [...] (C) The GOV appears to be engaged in a broad effort to ensure loyalty and punish opposition using the list of persons who signed the recall petition against President Hugo Chavez. Since the beginning of March, reports have emerged of GOV offices and state enterprises using signature data from [...] | 2004-03-19 21:36:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB PHUM VE |
| 04NASSAU1400 | BAHAMAS PLANS TO UPGRADE DIPLOMATIC PRESENCE IN [...] (C) On Friday, July 16, 2004, Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell and Under Secretary for Consular Affairs Carlton Wright returned from a Caricom meeting in Cuba, and held a conference during which Foreign Minister Mitchell reiterated his hope that The Bahamas will be able to open a consulate/emba [...] | 2004-07-19 19:12:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | OFDP PREL CU BF |
| 04NASSAU733 | BAHAMIAN PERSPECTIVE ON CARICOM AND HAITI [...] (C) Charge hosted a lunch for the Bahamian Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell, and Foreign Ministry Permanent Secretary, Ms. Patricia Rodgers on March 29. A/DCM and Consular Section Head also participated. The discussion covered a number of topics: The dynamics of recently-completed Caricom h [...] | 2004-04-06 15:13:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHSA HA BF CARICOM |
| 04PARAMARIBO117 | MILITARY OFFICER VOICES PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR AN [...] (C) Summary. During a February 7 press "Information Day" hosted by Suriname's National Army, a military officer, Major Goerdeyal, called on the Surinamese Government to sign an Article 98 agreement with the United States or face losing US military assistance. Goerdeyal declared that the day [...] | 2004-02-11 13:58:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NS |
| 04PARAMARIBO195 | SURINAME SHOCKED OVER GUYANA TAKING IT TO UNCLOS TO [...] UPON THEIR MARCH 2 RETURN TO SURINAME AFTER A VISIT TO CHINA, SURINAMESE PRESIDENT VENETIAAN AND MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS MARIE LEVENS ANNOUNCED SURINAME'S INTENT TO CAREFULLY STUDY THE CASE BROUGHT AGAINST SURINAME BY GUYANA BEFORE UN CONVENTION OF THE LAW OF THE SEAS (UNCLOS) REGARDING T [...] | 2004-03-04 18:02:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PBTS NS GY |
| 04PARAMARIBO225 | SURINAME: NO LIKELY HUMANITARIAN AID FOR HAITI [...] No summary [...] | 2004-03-11 18:42:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF PREL EAID NS |
| 04PARAMARIBO39 | IIP U.S. RICE POLICY SPEAKER DR. GAIL CRAMER WINS [...] Dr. Gail Cramer, the Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness at Louisiana State University, educated Surinamers about U.S. Rice Policy during an October 12-16 visit to Suriname. He met with a variety of government officials, politicians, rice farmers and exporters b [...] | 2004-01-16 11:22:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO EAGR PREL NS |
| 04PARAMARIBO527 | JAZZ AMBASSADORS THRILL CROWDS IN SURINAME, HELP [...] On July 8-11, the Embassy hosted Jazz Ambassadors Deborah Davis and a Few Good Men in the first ever visit of a Jazz Ambassadors group to Suriname. The dynamic quartet thrilled school children in a workshop entitled "What is Jazz?," invitees to a private concert at the Ambassador's residence [...] | 2004-07-19 19:07:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO SOCI NS |
| 04PARAMARIBO58 | SURINAME PROPOSES NEW ROUND OF BORDER TALKS WITH [...] SURINAMESE FOREIGN MINISTER MARIE LEVENS ANNOUNCED ON JANUARY 11 PLANS TO CONTINUE TALKS WITH GUYANA OVER THE ONGOING BORDER DISPUTE NEXT MONTH. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CAME ON THE HEELS OF PUBLIC STATEMENTS BY GUYANESE FOREIGN MINISTER RUDY INSANALLY, WHO, DURING A RECENT TRIP TO EASTERN GUYANA, [...] | 2004-01-23 12:57:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MARR NS GY |
| 04PARAMARIBO98 | CST GENTIAN COMPLETES OUTSTANDING TRAINING AND [...] FOLLOWING ITS SUCCESSFUL VISIT TO GUYANA (REFTEL),CST GENTIAN SAILED INTO PARAMARIBO JANUARY 21 AND COMPLETED A HIGHLY PRAISED PROGRAM OF TRAINING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS. THE AMBASSADOR MET THE GENTIAN AT SEA ON A SURINAMESE PILOT VESSEL AND SAILED INTO PORT WITH THE GENTIAN'S CREW TO BEGIN T [...] | 2004-02-05 13:31:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MASS MARR KPAO NS |
| 04PARIS9171 | CIVAIR: DGAC RESPONSE TO U.S. CARRIER OPERATIONS IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While remaining firm in their request to eight U.S. carriers, operating under FAR 135 (commuter and on-demand operations) in French Caribbean territories to supply documentation supporting their requests for "revalidation of any non-scheduled flight authorizations," French avi [...] | 2004-12-29 14:18:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON FR |
| 05BOGOTA10055 | VICE PRESIDENT SANTOS ELATED ABOUT REELECTION; [...] (C) Director of Andean Affairs Philip French and DCM Drucker called on Vice President Francisco Santos and MFA Acting Vice Minister for Bilateral Affairs Mauricio Gonzalez separately on October 19. Santos, speaking minutes after the announcement that the Constitutional Court approved reelecti [...] | 2005-10-25 22:23:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM CO EC |
| 05BOGOTA3422 | ZAPATERO VISIT AFFIRMS SUPPORT FOR URIBE [...] (SBU) Summary: Spanish President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's March 31 visit to Bogota, as well as his participation in a March 29 four-party summit in Venezuela, produced positive results diplomatically for the GOC. Zapatero pledged support on the critical issues of terrorism and trade and [...] | 2005-04-13 14:23:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER PREL PGOV PINR CO |
| 05BOGOTA7402 | U/S BURNS MEETS WITH PRESIDENT URIBE [...] (U) July 26, 2005, 4:00-5:30 pm, Casa de Narino, Bogota 2. (U) Participants: U.S. --- R. Nicholas Burns, U/S for Political Affairs Ambassador William B. Wood Cynthia Echeverria, P Special Assistant Jeffrey DeLaurentis, Polcouns (notetaker) Luis Guio, Interpreter Colombia -------- [...] | 2005-08-04 22:44:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS PHUM SNAR CO |
| 05BRASILIA2658 | SOUTH AMERICAN SUMMIT: NOT MUCH ADO ABOUT NOT MUCH [...] (SBU) Summary: The first summit meeting of the Community of South American Nations (CASA) provided a forum for Venezuelan President Chavez to blast the United States and call into question CASA's very nature, as well as for Brazilian President Lula to criticize his Argentine counterpart, but [...] | 2005-10-05 17:14:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON EINV PHUM BR |
| 05BRASILIA91 | MERCOSUL SUMMIT: NO PARTY, BUT NO FUNERAL [...] (SBU) Summary and introduction. Diplomatic restraint enabled the 27th Mercosul presidential summit to conclude on December 17 without incident, but widespread dissatisfaction with meager economic benefits flowing from the bloc, and bitter trade disagreements between Brazil and Argentina cloud [...] | 2005-01-10 14:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ETRD PREL ECON BR |
| 05CARACAS3560 | PETROCARIBE RECAP [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOV has begun negotiations with Haiti over its accession to Petrocaribe. If Haiti joins Petrocaribe, it will receive better financing terms than it currently receives under the Caracas Energy Accord, which it signed in 2000. International oil companies operating in Venezuel [...] | 2005-11-25 20:37:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV BH VE |
| 05CARACAS512 | VENEZUELA: BIOS OF SELECTED GOVERNORS [...] (C) Candidates backed by President Hugo Chavez won 20 of 22 gubernatorial races on October 31, 2004, in addition to the Caracas mayoralty. Chavez's Fifth Republic Movement (MVR) and allied parties picked up 7 states and lost only one. The new governors' competence varies; some are career p [...] | 2005-02-15 17:57:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM VE |
| 05CARACAS624 | VENEZUELA'S FIFTH ANNUAL TIP REPORT SUBMISSION [...] (SBU) Per reftel A instructions, the following is post's input for the fifth annual anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) report. Political officer Carolina Hidea is the point of contact. Telephone: 58-212-907-8493; Fax: 58-212-907-8033; Email: hideac@state.gov. Hours spent compiling the report: [...] | 2005-02-28 20:09:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KCRM KWMN KFRD ELAB SMIG ASEC PREF |
| 05CARACAS651 | AMBASSADOR VISITS BOLIVAR STATE [...] (U) The Ambassador,s visit to the state of Bolivar on February 16 and 17, included meetings with the Mayor of Ciudad Bolivar, Director General of Ciudad Guyana, a local Chavista university, local press, various business leaders, American citizens in the area, as well as visits to USAID-support [...] | 2005-03-03 14:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID PINR VE PIR |
| 05CARACAS750 | VENEZUELAN MILITARY: SEEKING PLOTTERS BEHIND [...] (C) Summary: The Venezuelan Government and supporters of President Hugo Chavez continue to prepare for a suspected US coup attempt and invasion. Although the Venezuelan Navy chief played down the late February visit of a US Navy vessel at Curacao, Chavez and other GOV officials called it a [...] | 2005-03-14 18:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS VE |
| 05CARACAS951 | CIUDAD GUAYANA SUMMIT: QUADRIPARTITE LOVE FEST [...] (C) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hosted the Presidents of Brazil, Colombia, and Spain March 29 in a summit concerning national security, poverty reduction, democracy, and regional integration. Chavez interspersed his remarks at the follow-on press conference with some anti-US invective. [...] | 2005-04-04 13:22:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER VE |
| 05GENEVA1211 | MEETING OF THE WTO NEGOTIATING GROUP ON NON- [...] SUMMARY. The WTO Negotiating Group on Market Access (NAMA) met in Geneva on April 25-29, 2005 to continue discussions on tariff formula options, treatment of unbound tariffs, sector tariff liberalization, issues of concern to developing countries, and non-tariff barriers. The meeting moved [...] | 2005-05-17 13:35:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD WTRO USTR |
| 05GENEVA1238 | WTO SERVICES NEGOTIATIONS - FEBRUARY 7-25, 2005 [...] (U) Summary: The WTO services three week "mega cluster" took place in Geneva, February 7- 25, 2005. The meetings focused on preparations for revised offers indicatively due May 2005 with many "friends" groups presenting sector-specific proposals aimed at eliciting market access commitments [...] | 2005-05-20 10:31:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON WTO |
| 05GENEVA1755 | WHO: 58TH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY: MINISTERIAL [...] SUMMARY. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Michael O. Leavitt and Ambassador Randall L. Tobias, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, invited the Ministers of Health from the fifteen focus countries of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief to meet with them during the 2005 World H [...] | 2005-07-19 10:54:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO OTRA AORC WHO |
| 05GENEVA2614 | 22-30 SEPTEMBER 2005 MEETINGS OF THE WTO RULES [...] The WTO Rules Negotiating Group held three days of plenary meetings to discuss eight papers on antidumping issues and two papers related to fisheries subsidies. There were also plurilateral meetings for more in-depth discussions of selected elaborated antidumping proposals. Two U.S. papers, [...] | 2005-10-28 06:02:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD WTRO USTR |
| 05GEORGETOWN1095 | GEORGETOWN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL [...] Per reftel, post welcomes Andrew Hernandez from November 14-22, 2005. 2. Hotel reservations are confirmed at the Le Meridian Pegasus Hotel (within walking distance of the U.S.Embassy). Reservation number is 13. Rate is $130 per night plus 10% tax. Visitor will be met at the airport a [...] | 2005-10-18 19:16:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ABLD ACOA AMGT ASEC KRIM KSAF OTRA KLBO AORC |
| 05GEORGETOWN1106 | GEORGETOWN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL - LURCH, [...] Per reftel, post welcomes Henry Lurch from October 31 to November 4, 2005. 2. Hotel reservations are confirmed at the Le Meridian Pegasus Hotel (within walking distance of the U.S.Embassy). Reservation number is 254. Rate is $130 per night plus 10% tax. Visitor will be met at the air [...] | 2005-10-20 17:11:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ABLD ACOA AMGT ASEC KLBO KRIM |
| 05GEORGETOWN1182 | Country Clearance Granted for Harry Ponting and [...] Post welcomes Harry Ponting and Robert Sutter to Guyana from November 16-20 to assist in implementing the classified web publishing initiative Net-Centric Diplomacy. 2. Control Officer is Timothy Birner, telephone 592-225-4900 ext. 220, IVG 747-0220, fax 592-227-0240. Control officer's em [...] | 2005-11-10 12:27:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AINF PGOV PINR GY |
| 05GEORGETOWN1192 | PRESIDENT AND FORMIN TRAVEL VIA NEW YORK TO [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-14 19:01:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP GY |
| 05GEORGETOWN1195 | INTERIM REPORT: GUYANA IMPROVES VICTIM ASSISTANCE, [...] Summary. A series of nation-wide educational seminars, new legislation to raise Guyana's age of consent, new resources for trafficking shelters, new partnerships to research trafficking in persons (TIP),and charges filed against human traffickers highlight Guyana's recent efforts to combat [...] | 2005-11-15 12:39:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SMIG SOCI PGOV KCRM KWMN GY |
| 05GEORGETOWN1196 | GUYANA 2005 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] Guyana was not included in the 2004 Country Report on Terrorism. Post's reading of the instructions indicates Guyana will not require a "detailed assessment" for 2005 because no acts of international terrorism occurred in Guyana, Guyana is not a state sponsor of terrorism, there are no known [...] | 2005-11-15 13:55:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC GY |
| 05GEORGETOWN1202 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL - GEORGETOWN- [...] Post requests and welcomes Kurt Low, Program Officer with Top Secret Level 3 security clearance, from USAID/Dominican Republic, SIPDIS o/a 11/16/2005 to o/a 11/18/2005, to provide program support to USAID/Guyana during the portfolio review exercise and grants country clearance to this effe [...] | 2005-11-15 15:44:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID OVIP AMGT ASEC |
| 05GEORGETOWN1203 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL - GEORGETOWN- [...] Post requests and welcomes Michael Donald, Regional Environmental Advisor with Top Secret Clearance, from USAID/Dominican Republic, o/a 11/27/2005 to o/a 11/30/2005, to assist with Regulation 216 environmental compliance assistance and grants country clearance. 2. Hotel reservation is co [...] | 2005-11-15 15:45:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID OVIP AMGT ASEC |
| 05GEORGETOWN1212 | WHA CHIEFS OF MISSION CONFERENCE: NOVEMBER [...] This cable is in response to REF cable requesting logistical arrangements which should be given to Alison Shorter-Lawrence and Kathy M. Djahanbani. -- Amb. Roland W. Bullen will attend the subject conference accompanied by Mrs. Hilda Cox-Bullen. -- For lodging, Amb. request a non-smoking [...] | 2005-11-16 21:03:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT CMGT GY APER |
| 05GEORGETOWN1273 | President's Economic Vision for Guyana [...] At a December 1 speech to the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce, President Jagdeo threw away his speech and instead spelled out, unscripted, his economic vision for Guyana's future. His remarks highlight a strategy for Guyana's infrastructure, macroeconomic policy, and growth sectors. ------- [...] | 2005-12-06 12:46:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON BTIO PGOV EAGR EFIN ENRG GY |
| 05GEORGETOWN1281 | JAGDEO: U.S. LOSING PR BATTLE IN LATIN AMERICA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Charge and PolOff met with President Jagdeo on December 5 for an informal, amiable discussion of ongoing bilateral issues. Jagdeo also shared his candid view on a topic that clearly interests him -- the U.S. public relations problem in Latin America. During the conversation, Jagd [...] | 2005-12-07 17:02:00 | Embassy Georgetown | SECRET | PGOV PREL PHUM EAGR ELTN SCUL KPAO XM GY |
| 05GEORGETOWN1309 | GUYANA TRADE MINISTER BLASTS 'UNFAIR' TRADE SYSTEM [...] SUMMARY: Guyana's Minister of Foreign Trade, Clement Rohee, criticized developing countries for negotiating trade rules that "further marginalize" developing countries. The remarks are the latest in a series of public pronouncements expressing distrust of the Doha Development Agenda. END SUMM [...] | 2005-12-15 13:07:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EAGR GY |
| 05GEORGETOWN1313 | GLIMMER OF HOPE IN GUYANA'S ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Guyana's Director of Public Prosecutions met with PolOff on December 13 and indicated that she is preparing what would be a watershed money laundering case. Two suspects implicated in a 2004 UK drug bust received wire transfers in Guyana in 2002 totaling almost USD 300,000 and exc [...] | 2005-12-15 20:05:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR EFIN PGOV KCRM GY |
| 05GEORGETOWN1317 | CARICOM SECGEN SPEAKS ON EVE OF SINGLE MARKET [...] SUMMARY: A rare, frank press conference by CARICOM Secretary General Edwin Carrington outlined some of the SIPDIS challenges that face the imminent CARICOM Single Market Economy (CSME). Information dissemination, funding for a regional development fund, reconciliation of laws, and memory of [...] | 2005-12-16 18:14:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON ETRD BEXP CARICOM GY XL |
| 05GEORGETOWN1329 | CABINET INSIDER AMBIVALENT ABOUT PROSECUTING DRUG [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador met with Head of Presidential Secretariat Roger Luncheon on December 16 to discuss DEA SIPDIS plans in Guyana (reported septel). Luncheon's comments during the meeting about how to fight the drug trade in Guyana, such as his stated preference for sanctioning rather [...] | 2005-12-20 20:59:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR EFIN PGOV PREL KCRM GY |
| 05GEORGETOWN1348 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL - GEORGETOWN. CHUNG [...] Post welcomes Dr. Donna Chung, International Relations Analyst with the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL),and Ms. Elizabeth Bury, USDOL consultant of Management Systems International, for travel to Guyana from January 8 - 15, 2006, and grants country clearance. 2. Post understands that Dr [...] | 2005-12-28 15:52:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB OTRA GY |
| 05GEORGETOWN1349 | TEIXEIRA STRUGGLING TO CONTROL HOME AFFAIRS [...] (U) SUMMARY. Charge, Deputy Consul, and PolOff met with Minister of Home Affairs Gail Teixeira on December 23. Teixeira had requested a Consular briefing on trends in fake Guyanese civil documents detected by the Consular Section. Teixeira also described problems with control of the visa proce [...] | 2005-12-28 23:20:00 | Embassy Georgetown | SECRET | PGOV PREL SNAR SMIG KFRD KCOR KCRM GY |
| 05GEORGETOWN1350 | GUYANA ELECTION PREVIEW #2: CALL FOR LONG-TERM [...] (U) SUMMARY. While progress continues on some fronts, three major problems loom with preparations for the 2006 elections: a) the urgent need to secure long-term observers to monitor the registration process that began in October; b) hiccups in the plan to scan and cross-match all registered v [...] | 2005-12-29 00:04:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GY |
| 05KINGSTON2083 | JAMAICA HOSTS PETROCARIBE SUMMIT IN MONTEGO BAY [...] (U) On September 6, Prime Minister P.J. Patterson hosted Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Cuban President Fidel Castro, and representatives of CARICOM states, the Dominican Republic, and Monserrat, to conclude the PetroCaribe Energy Cooperation Agreement. Domestically, the summit was oversha [...] | 2005-09-07 23:34:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL JM |
| 05KINGSTON806 | HCOC DEMARCHE - JAMAICA [...] (SBU) On March 14, Pol/Econ Chief conveyed reftel talking points to Shorna-Kay Richards, of the International Organizations Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT),leaving talking points as a non-paper. Richards carefully reviewed the points, as well as The Hague Co [...] | 2005-03-21 23:37:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA JM MTCRE |
| 05NASSAU1071 | CARICOM FOREIGN MINISTERS CLOSE MEETING [...] Foreign Ministers from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM),meeting as COFCOR (Council for Foreign and Community Relations),concluded a series of meetings in Freeport, Grand Bahama, on June 4 (reftel). In their discussions, the ministers focused on relations with third countries (the U.S., Can [...] | 2005-06-06 16:58:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ETRD BF CARICOM |
| 05NASSAU1827 | CARIBBEAN CONFERENCE ON HIV/AIDS CONFRONTS STIGMA [...] Summary: On October 3 and 4, Post hosted international HIV/AIDS experts and 10 Caribbean mission representatives for the 4th Caribbean Chiefs of Mission Conference on HIV/AIDS. Ambassador Rood opened the conference with an appeal to reduce the 2.3 percent Caribbean infection rate by compassi [...] | 2005-10-21 16:06:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID TBIO OVIP KHIV XL BF |
| 05OTTAWA1522 | NEW FOCUS FOR CANADA'S DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE [...] Summary: Canada is focusing its official development assistance (ODA) dollara and will be weaning 130 countries from its bilateral aid programs. The April 19 International Policy Statement (IPS) confirms that Canada, will concentrate its development assistance dollars on countries that can u [...] | 2005-05-20 15:35:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PGOV SENV CA |
| 05OTTAWA1582 | FY 2006 IVLP, ITT on U.S. Policymaking Process [...] The post proposes a two-person project, subject to availability of nominees once approved and invited, that would acquaint two first-term Members of the Canadian Parliament to the policy-making process in the United States. Through discussions with federal, state and local government leader [...] | 2005-05-27 11:46:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
| 05PARAMARIBO647 | PRESIDENT VENETIAAN'S STATE OF THE REPUBLIC SPEECH [...] SUMMARY: Surinamese President Ronald Venetiaan marked the start of the new parliamentary year with his constitutionally required "State of the Republic" speech on October 3, which includes a presentation of the country's budget for the coming year. Successfully past the election period, the ne [...] | 2005-10-05 19:04:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON PREL NS |
| 05PARAMARIBO700 | JAPAN CLOSING ITS EMBASSY IN SURINAME [...] Japanese Embassy Charge Katsuhiko Hosaka called on DCM October 26 to convey that Japan was closing its Embassy in Paramaribo (and in neighboring Georgetown, Guyana) as part of a general exercise to consolidate and rationalize Japanese diplomatic representation worldwide. This ends a Japanese [...] | 2005-10-27 12:18:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SN JA |
| 05PARAMARIBO721 | SOFA WITH SURINAME IN FORCE [...] On November 1, the Embassy received a diplomatic note dated October 20 from Suriname's Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirming acceptance of the text of a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) proposed in the Embassy's note of April 11, 2005. The SOFA was approved by Suriname's Parliament on June 2 [...] | 2005-11-04 18:19:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS PREL PGOV NS |
| 05PARAMARIBO790 | SURINAME TO SIGN ARTICLE 98? [...] (C) Summary: Surinamese President Venetiaan announced in an appearance before the National Assembly on December 6 that Suriname intends both to join the International Criminal Court (ICC) and to sign an Article 98 agreement with the United States. A subsequent conversation with the Presiden [...] | 2005-12-07 17:50:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR EAID NS |
| 05PARAMARIBO843 | SURINAME ILL-PREPARED ON EVE OF CSME [...] In a special meeting on Saturday December 17, Suriname's Council of Ministers voted to remove all remaining legal restrictions to Suriname joining the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). This came exactly two weeks before the December 31 deadline set by CARICOM members five years ago t [...] | 2005-12-29 18:34:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PBTS PGOV PREL SCUL SMIG TBIO SENV NS |
| 05PARIS1432 | FRANCE: ANNUAL SECTION 1377 REVIEW OF TELECOM TRADE [...] On January 26, EconOff and visiting USTR telecom trade specialist Ken Schagrin met with GOF Industry Ministry (DIGITIP) officials as well as Telecom Regulatory Authority (ART) officials to discuss concerns raised in response to the reftel Federal Register Notice published on November 24, 2004. [...] | 2005-03-04 16:12:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ETRD FR WTO |
| 05PARIS2861 | FRANCE: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 2: PRE-LICENSE END USE [...] As requested reftel, Post reached out to the French entities listed as end-users in reftel para 4: Onera, MBDA, and ETBS to confirm that they had indeed ordered the accelerometers requeted and also to EADS Astrium to confirm its order for an airborne amplifier. We transmit their response bel [...] | 2005-04-27 14:47:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC FR |
| 05PARIS6376 | (U) USUNESCO: COUNTERING THE CULTURAL [...] (C) Summary. With the UNESCO general conference starting on October 3 and the General Conference Legal Committee scheduled to meet that first week, things are rapidly coming to a head. Several delegates have indicated that strong pressure in their capitals may help us to build a ground swel [...] | 2005-09-20 06:21:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | SCUL ETRD EU UNESCO |
| 05SANJOSE2008 | THE PROCESS OF RATIFYING FTAs IN COSTA RICA [...] (SBU) Summary. The process to ratify free trade agreements such as the United States-Central American- Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) in Costa Rica is not simple. It is not even clear whether the agreement must be passed by a simple or a two-thirds majority. The Assembl [...] | 2005-08-26 14:30:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECPS ECON PREL PGOV SOCI CS |
| 05SANJOSE2658 | COSTA RICA RESPONSE TO USTR REQUEST FOR INFO ON CBI- [...] SUMMARY: Post has updated information provided in previous report using the same format. Post contact is Maria D. Villanueva, (506) 519-2419, Fax (506) 519-2364, villanuevamd@state.gov. End Summary. 2. Country Reports: Compliance with Eligibility Criteria The country reports contained [...] | 2005-11-15 14:30:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON CS |
| 05SAOPAULO283 | THE TIP REPORT [...] (U) This is version II of the Brazil TIP report, incorporating answers to questions raised by version I, and additional information. This report was a coordinated effort between Sao Paulo and Embassy Brasilia, which supplied much of the new information. 2. (SBU) Begin Summary: Brazil conti [...] | 2005-03-11 10:25:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF TIP |
| 05TEGUCIGALPA1326 | MEDIA REACTION ON G-8 DEBT FORGIVENESS, JUNE 21, [...] On 6/21 the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" published an editorial entitled "Politicians and Debt Forgiveness." "The debt forgiveness issue has already entered political campaigns." "The two candidates of the traditional parties have already talked about multilateral organiza [...] | 2005-06-21 22:43:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO |
| 06ASUNCION999 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE, SEPTEMBER [...] (U) SUMMARY -- If you Fail To Compete... -- Try a Winning Formula -- MANG Commander Visits Paraguay -- Paraguay Signs INL Amendment IF YOU FAIL TO COMPETE... 2. (U) Paraguay fares among the worst in the world - ranking 106th in a list of 125 countries surveyed (in 2005 Paraguay was [...] | 2006-09-28 21:49:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON SNAR MASS PA |
| 06BELIZE562 | (C) BELIZE: PM MUSA ON GUATEMALA-VENEZUELA UNSC [...] (C) Belize appreciates U.S. assurances that its recent TIP Tier 3 ranking is not linked to its unwillingness to support Guatemala's candidacy for a seat on the UNSC, and will make a concerted effort to implement the 60-day mini-plan, according to Prime Minister (PM) Said Musa. Guatemala sh [...] | 2006-06-23 15:27:00 | Embassy Belmopan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PBTS SMIG UNSC KWMN OAS BH GU |
| 06BOGOTA309 | INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT FOR [...] Below you will find AmEmbassy Bogota's submission for the 2005- 2006 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report per Ref. I. Summary  [...] | 2006-01-13 20:59:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR SENV KCRM PTER CO |
| 06BOGOTA4894 | A/S SHANNON MEETS PRESIDENT URIBE [...] (C) A/S Shannon and Ambassador Wood met with President Uribe on May 26. Shannon emphasized U.S. policy in the region was based on cooperation, not confrontation; promoted democratic institutions and values; and addressed poverty, social exclusion, and inequality. Shannon said European offi [...] | 2006-06-01 20:29:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ECON ETRD ENRG SNAR CO |
| 06BRASILIA1079 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 75 [...] The following is the seventy-fifth in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expre [...] | 2006-06-02 15:25:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 06BRASILIA1337 | AmEmbassy Brasilia's NAS/DEA Partnership [...] (U) This cable was coordinated with Brazil's DEA Country Office. 2. (SBU) Summary. In conjunction with the Brazilian Federal Police, DEA Brazil and AmEmbassy Brasilia's Narcotics Affairs Section (NAS) work together to dismantle large-scale international drug trafficking organizations ( [...] | 2006-07-03 18:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR BR |
| 06BRASILIA1508 | BRASILIA COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST - DR. SUZANNE WESTMAN, [...] Embassy Brasilia requests country clearance for Dr. Suzanne Westman, Dr. Aristides Barbosa and Mrs. Erin Johnson for August 03, 2006. 2. The purpose of this visit is to view access to care and HIV testing services for high risk migratory groups along the corridor between Guyana and Brazil; [...] | 2006-07-27 13:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO CDC OTRA US GY BR |
| 06BRASILIA1509 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 78 [...] The following is the seventy-eighth in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expr [...] | 2006-07-27 13:28:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 06BRASILIA1618 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 79 [...] The following is the seventy-ninth in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expre [...] | 2006-08-09 17:45:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 06BRASILIA2069 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 81 [...] The following is the eighty-first in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expres [...] | 2006-09-28 16:09:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 06BRASILIA2150 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 82 [...] The following is the eighty-second in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expre [...] | 2006-10-11 14:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 06BRASILIA2378 | BRASILIA HUB HOSTS 2006 CONFERENCE OF WESTERN HEMISPHERE [...] The September 13-16 Western Hemisphere Environment, Science, Technology and Health Officers Conference (ESTHOC) in Foz do Iguazu, Brazil was by all accounts a great success. Forty-six people representing US embassies in nineteen Latin American countries as well as USG entities USGS, EPA, USAI [...] | 2006-11-09 20:37:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA XM XL BR |
| 06BRASILIA2419 | SOUTH AMERICA HUB FY07 WORK PLAN [...] In FY 07, the South America Hub will continue to work both regionally and with individual missions to support USG ESTH priorities within the region. Due to the large number of free trade and environmental cooperation agreements in the region, the Hub will devote considerably more energy and r [...] | 2006-11-17 15:28:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENVQGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 06BRASILIA2448 | Strengthening of Regional Management for the Sustainable [...] The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) carried out the "First Meeting of National Coordinators for the Project 'Strengthening of Regional Management for the Sustainable Use of Amazonian Biodiversity'" in Brasilia (Brazil) October 25-27, 2006. The following spot report details the ID [...] | 2006-11-21 15:03:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 06BRASILIA954 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 74 [...] The following is the seventy-fourth in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expr [...] | 2006-05-16 17:08:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1140 | DOMINICA MAY CEDE BIRD ISLAND TO VENEZUELA [...] (SBU) Summary: Dominica has moved closer to abandoning its claim on Bird Island, a small piece of rock and sand located in the center of the Caribbean Sea that is also claimed by Venezuela. Following a June meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Sker [...] | 2006-07-05 14:30:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS PHSA PGOV PINR PREL EAID DO VE XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1286 | CARICOM HEADS SPEAK OUT ON DOHA ROUND [...] (SBU) Summary: At their recent annual meeting, CARICOM Heads of Government (HOGs) said they felt marginalized in World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha round negotiations. In the HOGs' opinion, "small and vulnerable economies" are being ignored in the trade talks, which have been dominated by t [...] | 2006-07-21 20:46:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR EAID PREL PINR WTO XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1315 | INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY PREPARES TO STEP UP INTO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The first meeting of the International Support and Advisory Group (ISAG) for Cricket World Cup 2007 was held July 26-27 in Bridgetown, Barbados. The objective of the meeting was to pull together an informal group composed of hosting and playing nations and the international com [...] | 2006-07-28 22:09:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ASEC CPAS PINR PTER AFIN UNSC USOAS XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1640 | DOMINICA HOPES FOR IMPROVED U.S.-CARIBBEAN [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Kramer and Dominica Foreign Minister Savarin exchanged views on U.S.-Caribbean relations in a September 8 meeting in Bridgetown. Savarin explained that, in addition to Guatemala's claim on Belize territory, Guatemala's role in damaging the Caribbean banana industry is [...] | 2006-09-15 19:53:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PBTS PHSA DO CH VE XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN178 | BARBADOS BUDGET - PM PLEDGES TAX CUTS AND ENERGY [...] (SBU) Summary: Barbados Prime Minister Owen Arthur presented his government's 2006 economic and financial policies in a January 16 speech to parliament. PM Arthur pledged to lower energy costs, cut taxes, boost pensions, and prop up manufacturing. Most of the budget seems practical and will [...] | 2006-01-27 18:12:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EIND ECPS SENV ENRG PINR BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1832 | AMBASSADOR KRAMER BEGINS FAREWELL TOUR: ST. KITTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: During her September 18-20 visit to St. Kitts, Ambassador Kramer began the first in a series of farewell meetings with the Prime Ministers and Governors General of the seven island-nations to which she is accredited. On September 18 she met with St. Kitts and Nevis Governor Gen [...] | 2006-10-17 15:21:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV PGOV PREL PINR CASC ELAB OPIC EAGR KIDE |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1833 | AMBASSADOR KRAMER BEGINS FAREWELL TOUR: ST. KITTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: During her September 18-20 visit to St. Kitts, Ambassador Kramer began the first in a series of farewell meetings with the Prime Ministers and Governors General of the seven island-nations to which she is accredited. On September 18 she met with St. Kitts and Nevis Governor Gen [...] | 2006-10-17 15:21:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV PGOV PREL PINR CASC ELAB OPIC EAGR KIDE |
| 06BRIDGETOWN188 | CRICKET WORLD CUP 2007 SCHEDULE AND MATCH-UPS [...] If you would like a copy of this schedule via e-mail, please contact Patricia Aguilera at AguileraP@state.gov. -- CRICKET WORLD CUP 2007 (CWC) -- Hosting Warm-Up Matches: Barbados, Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago Hosting CWC Countries: Antigua and Barbuda, [...] | 2006-01-31 10:10:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | BB CASC CVIS PGOV PINR PTER SNAR |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1904 | AMBASSADOR KRAMER'S FAREWELL MEETING WITH PRIME [...] (C) Summary: During her October 23 farewell meeting with Barbados' Prime Minister Arthur, Ambassador Kramer took stock of U.S.-Barbadian relations and discussed areas where greater collaboration could be useful. Ambassador Kramer urged Prime Minister Arthur to review Barbados' stance on Vene [...] | 2006-10-27 18:50:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ASEC UNSC ETRD CASC BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1933 | BARBADOS LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE: PROMISING [...] (U) Summary: The ruling Barbados Labour Party (BLP) met over the weekend for their annual conference. Prime Minister Owen Arthur did not announce the date for the next general election, as some had expected. He did, however, promise to run again and to deliver another big BLP victory. The [...] | 2006-11-02 19:05:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECON BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN206 | EASTERN CARIBBEAN WARY OF CARICOM SINGLE MARKET [...] (U) Summary. The January 1 "start" of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) and January 30 signing are purely ceremonial events because the CSME is a patchwork process that countries must implement through national legislation. Owing to fears of a mass influx of foreign labor, concerns [...] | 2006-01-31 14:17:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ETRD ELAB EAID EIND EFIN PREL XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN239 | CARIBBEAN POLITICS: AN INSIDER'S VIEW [...] (C) Summary: Caribbean political campaigns are awash with money from a variety of sources, particularly wealthy expatriates seeking to influence governments, according to regional political consultant Peter Wickham. The availability of money favors ruling parties and has dramatically changed [...] | 2006-02-03 20:42:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CPAS CVIS EINV OFDP PINR SNAR XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN348 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ICE OFFICERS [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for ICE Officers Jean Elliott and Eric Pecoraro to escort deportee Wayne Semple A#036521594 through Barbados to Guyana on February 27 - March 1, 2006 2. Embassy RSO has notified Barbados authorities of the details of the visit. Understand that [...] | 2006-02-23 19:30:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN354 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ICE OFFICERS [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for ICE Officers Kirk Heim and Joseph Cicatello to escort deportee Deoraj Persaud A#041929097 through Barbados to Guyana on March 6-7, 2006. 2. Embassy RSO has notified Barbados authorities of the details of the visit. Understand that further [...] | 2006-02-24 11:50:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN362 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ICE OFFICERS [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for ICE Officers Scott Burnside and Terry Florian to escort deportee Fazak Karim A#036430057 through Barbados to Guyana on March 13-15, 2006. ICE Officers will transit Barbados with the criminal alien March 13, while enroute to Guyana. The ICE Off [...] | 2006-02-27 12:36:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN372 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO YOON FOR TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Steven S. Yoon, Epidemiologist, CDC, to travel to Barbados on March 16, 2006. Mr. Yoon will be lodging at the Grand Barbados hotel between his morning flight from Georgetown, Guyana and his late afternoon flight home. 2. Per refte [...] | 2006-02-28 12:41:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN388 | TIP SUBMISSION - ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA [...] (U) As requested in reftel, below are Post's responses to questions regarding Antigua and Barbuda for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. Paragraph 21 - Overview ----------------------- 2. (SBU) -- A) Is the country a country of origin, transit, or destination for internationall [...] | 2006-03-01 20:44:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF AC XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN392 | LIAT PILOTS' SURPRISE SICKOUT LEAVES HUNDREDS [...] (SBU) Summary: Without advance warning, Leeward Islands Air Transit (LIAT) cockpit crews staged a sickout beginning 4:00 a.m. March 1. This industrial action left hundreds of passengers stranded, including the Principal Officer in Grenada and an Embassy-sponsored jazz group. LIAT is vital [...] | 2006-03-02 17:23:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ELAB PREL PGOV KPAO XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN431 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO TIM HOLTZ TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. Tim Holtz, Medical Officer, NCHSTP, CDC, HHS to transit Barbados en route to Guyana for the period March 25-26, 2006. 2. Embassy point of contact is Angela Davis, HIV/AIDS Technical Specialist, phone: 1(246) 228-8070, f [...] | 2006-03-08 21:15:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID OTRA XL BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN432 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO STEVEN YOON TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. Steven Yoon, Epidemiologist, NCHSTP, CDC, HHS to transit Barbados en route to Guyana on March 16, 2006. 2. Embassy point of contact is Angela Davis, HIV/AIDS Technical Specialist, phone: 1(246) 228-8070, fax: 1(246)228 [...] | 2006-03-08 21:18:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID OTRA ASEC XL BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN505 | BARBADOS REQUESTS URGENT USG ASSISTANCE ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Barbados Deputy Prime Minister Mia Mottley requested USG assistance in funding and setting up a Caribbean regional immigration database before Cricket World Cup 2007. Speaking during a March 17 meeting with Ambassador Kramer, Mottley asked the USG to take the regional immigrati [...] | 2006-03-21 19:13:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PTER ASEC SNAR XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN635 | WIN-WIN OR LOSE-LOSE: MARITIME BORDER DISPUTE [...] (U) SUMMARY: On April 11, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague handed down its ruling finally establishing a single maritime boundary between Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago. The new border differs from those claimed by each of the parties in their pleadings, yet both countries a [...] | 2006-04-12 18:05:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS EWWT ETRD EPET PHSA TT BB GY VE XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN637 | BARBADOS FOREIGN MINISTER ON HAITI, TRADE, AND UN [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Dame Billie Miller and members of her staff held a candid question and answer session with Barbados-based Ambassadors, revealing Caribbean views on Haiti, trade, and UN reform. On Haiti, Miller encouraged the U.S. and Brazil to remain engaged, while committing t [...] | 2006-04-12 20:08:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR ETRD EINV EAIR UNSC BR CH CS HA |
| 06BRIDGETOWN654 | ST. KITTS SUGAR TRANSITION - JOBS AVAILABLE, [...] (SBU) Summary: According to the St. Kitts Sugar Transition Team, there are around 700 former sugar workers still unemployed and about 600 available hotel jobs. (Note: St. Kitts ended its centuries-old sugar industry in 2005, after decades of financial losses at the state-run sugar company. [...] | 2006-04-19 14:01:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ELAB ECON PREL PGOV KPAO SC XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN744 | CLARITY OF PURPOSE ACHIEVED ON CWC REGIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Barbados Deputy Prime Minister Mottley hosted a meeting between Embassy officials and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Director of Foreign Operations in Customs and Border Protection (CBP),Charles Stallworth, April 18, 2006. The meeting proved to be beneficial as it de [...] | 2006-05-03 17:12:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PTER ASEC CPAS XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN777 | AMBASSADOR MAISTO PETITIONS CARIBBEAN FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS),Ambassador John F. Maisto, visited Bridgetown, Barbados, April 26-28 to attend the U.K.-CARICOM Forum. His primary goal was to meet with CARICOM Foreign Ministers to discuss the June OAS General Assembly [...] | 2006-05-05 19:56:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECIN ETRD KFPC KPAO OAS BB BF |
| 06BRIDGETOWN88 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ICE OFFICERS TO ESCORT [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for ICE officers Joseph Cicatello and Scott Wolfe to escort Jageshwar Ramnauth through Barbados to Guyana on January 16, 2005. RSO understands that the escorts will stay at Le Meridein Hotel located in Georgetown, Guyana. 2. Embassy RSO has no [...] | 2006-01-13 20:21:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN911 | BARBADOS/TRINIDAD MARITIME BOUNDARY DISPUTE: THE [...] (C) Summary: Barbados Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Permanent Secretary Teresa Marshall invited representatives from the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. to the MFA for a private briefing on the recently settled Barbados/Trinidad maritime boundary dispute. Marshall painted a picture of slipper [...] | 2006-05-26 19:08:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS EPET EFIS PREL BB TT XL |
| 06BUENOSAIRES1025 | ARGENTINA VERY UNLIKELY TO CONTRIBUTE TO OAS [...] (C) POLOFF met May 5 with Minister Maria Ines Fernandez in the MFA's Office of International Organizations, to discuss reftel points. POLOFF said that Canada, the U.S., and Brazil had all contributed to the proposed OAS electoral mission for Guyana, but that the OAS was still short of the nece [...] | 2006-05-05 21:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC OAS PREL AR |
| 06CARACAS2406 | CHAVEZ ROMANCES THE CARIBBEAN TO GAIN UNSC VOTE [...] (C) Summary. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,s (BRV) bid for a seat on the UN Security Council will depend partially on the support of the fifteen CARICOM countries (almost half of the 33 Latin American votes). A CARICOM consensus in favor of support for Venezuela, while assumed by Pres [...] | 2006-08-14 21:35:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL VE |
| 06CARACAS2489 | INSIDE BARRIO ADENTRO: THE BRV'S PRIMARY HEALTH [...] (SBU) Mision Barrio Adentro ("Inside the Neighborhood") is a network of BRV-sponsored primary health care modules largely staffed by Cuban medical personnel. Current statistics and financial information about this BRV program are very difficult to obtain. Venezuelan physicians' groups alleg [...] | 2006-08-21 20:16:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON VE |
| 06CARACAS3174 | MILITARY CLASHES WITH FISHERMEN, LEAVES NINE [...] (U) SUMMARY Violent clashes in the port of Guiria in Sucre state left nine fishermen injured on October 19. Fishermen took control of the port in early October, protesting the awarding of a contract to a new port administrator. Police and military forces, accompanied by state governor Ramo [...] | 2006-10-20 21:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM VE |
| 06CARACAS3257 | CHAVEZ' DOLLAR DIPLOMACY: SPREADING WEALTH AND [...] (C) Since 2005, President Chavez has verbally pledged over USD 90 billion for bilateral agreements, regional initiatives, government contracts, binational funds, donations, investments and joint ventures involving foreign countries. The total figure is approximately one third of combined GDP [...] | 2006-10-31 18:54:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON EAID PREL VE IR |
| 06CARACAS3671 | THE DO-NOTHING NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF 2006 POISED TO [...] (C) Summary. The National Assembly, although composed entirely of pro-Chavez party members after the opposition boycotted the December 2005 parliamentary election, passed little important legislation in 2006. Among the more memorable National Assembly "Bolivarian accomplishments" of 2006 are [...] | 2006-12-21 20:15:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PHUM PREL VE |
| 06CARACAS854 | BOLIVARIAN DOLLAR DIPLOMACY [...] (U) SUMMARY: During the past year President Chavez has undertaken an extensive dollar-diplomacy campaign to win friends and influence countries in the region and beyond. Two recent studies, drawn from Chavez' announcements, place BRV public commitments of support (donations, discounts, gover [...] | 2006-03-29 16:52:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID PREL VE |
| 06GEORGETOWN1 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL - GEORGETOWN. VON GEIJER AND [...] Post welcomes TSA Senior Aviation Security Inspector Dan Von Geijer and Aviation Security Inspector Jon Christensen from January 23 until January 31, 2006 and grants country clearance. 2. Per the travelers' request, hotel reservations are confirmed at the Le Meridien Pegasus hotel, phone [...] | 2006-01-03 11:27:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ASEC GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN101 | REVISED CABLE: GEORGETOWN REQUESTS INCLUSION IN [...] Below is Embassy Georgetown's nomination for the Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists. The slate has full front office approval. START FIXED-FORMAT TEXT (PLEASE DO NOT EDIT): : The following data is in a fixed format which enables : automated processing in Washington and should not be [...] | 2006-01-30 13:21:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC SCUL KPAO GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN1011 | JAGDEO EXPLAINS RATIONALE FOR SUPPORT OF [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a September 27 press conference, President Jagdeo cited national interest and assurances that Venezuela will not advance its claim on the disputed Essequibo border region as justification for Guyana's support of Venezuela's bid for the U.N. Security Council (UNSC). The statement [...] | 2006-09-28 20:12:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET KPAO UNSC GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN1019 | PARLIAMENT OPENS, ABSENT OPPOSITION [...] (SBU) Summary: A series of meetings and phone calls between President Jagdeo and opposition party leaders seemed to clear a path for the People's National Congress Reform (PNCR) to attend the opening of Parliament on September 28, but walk out before Jagdeo's speech. However, an eleventh hou [...] | 2006-09-29 20:44:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN1028 | TEXTILES AND APPAREL SECTOR: UPDATED [...] SUMMARY: The textile and apparel sector in Guyana has approximately one large manufacturer and five small manufacturers. A steep decline in prices has offset a slight increase in production. While not an engine of growth, the textiles and apparel sector makes a small but valuable contribution t [...] | 2006-10-03 15:17:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KTEX ECON ETRD GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN1037 | TRADE AGREEMENT COMPLIANCE AND MONITORING (GUYANA) [...] Post provides to following information in response to reftel: A) The Economic/Commercial Section has dual responsibility for economic monitoring and reporting as well as for Post's commercial diplomacy efforts. The section consists of one Economic/Commercial Officer and one Foreign Service Na [...] | 2006-10-04 19:53:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN1038 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: POSSIBLE NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel talking points on October 4 to Minister of Foreign Affairs Rudy Insanally. Insanally stopped short of committing to specifics but indicated that Guyana's support was likely, stating, "we are all of one mind" on this issue. ROBINSON [...] | 2006-10-04 19:59:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KN PARM KNNP GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN1039 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: VENEZUELA'S GREATEST HITS [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel talking points on October 4 to Minister of Foreign Affairs Rudy Insanally. 2. (C) Insanally considered Chavez' UN speech "far too much," and said he appreciated Congressman Rangel's reported response to it. However, he indicated that Guyana would support Ven [...] | 2006-10-04 20:07:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC GT VE GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN104 | TV CO-OP PROPOSAL - GUYANA [...] SUMMARY: Guyana is a fragile state with a history of ethnic-related post-election violence. General elections are due by called by August 2006. Post proposes a television co-op with the theme "The Role of the Media in Elections". Reporters would focus on the large overseas Guyanese communi [...] | 2006-01-31 13:53:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP OPRC KPAO GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN1043 | GUYANA: OUR POST-ELECTION AGENDA [...] (C) Summary: President Bharrat Jagdeo starts his second five-year term with a firm parliamentary majority and apparent control over his own People's Progressive Party (PPP). He aligned his priorities in an October 2 conversation with the Ambassador as breaking Guyana's wave of violent crime [...] | 2006-10-05 20:01:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID PHUM KDEM OAS GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN1056 | GOG REACTION TO MCC FY07 SCORECARD [...] (U) SUMMARY: USAID Mission Director and State EconOff delivered the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) FY07 indicator scorecard to Chief Cabinet Secretary Roger Luncheon, Minister of Finance Ashni Singh, and Advisor within the Ministry of Finance Coby Frimpong on October 5. The GOG acknowle [...] | 2006-10-10 19:36:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID KMCA GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN1058 | GUYANA ECONOMIC & COMMERCIAL ROUND-UP [...] Jagdeo Pursues Debt Relief, Treasury Ties in Singapore 2. Guyana-Suriname Maritime Boundary Dispute: Legal Teams to begin Oral Arguments on December 7 3. Russian Firm Interested in Linden Bauxite Operations 4. Cambior/IAMGOLD Merger Could Affect Guyanese Mining Operation 5. Stone Supply Sh [...] | 2006-10-10 20:50:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PBTS EMIN ETRD EFIN EINV ENRG GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN1065 | SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR MAISTO,S OCTOBER 18-20 [...] (U) We warmly welcome your visit to Georgetown. You are arriving at an important historical moment, shortly after the first peaceful elections in nearly a decade. In the run-up to elections and during the victory celebrations, President Jagdeo promised to widen political dialogue and to push [...] | 2006-10-12 20:32:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN1069 | SURVEY OF ETHANOL POTENTIAL IN GUYANA [...] SUMMARY: Though a small-scale sugar producer, Guyana could be a lucrative destination for investment in ethanol production. Guyana's efforts to streamline its sugar industry and lower the cost of production--which will enable it to remain competitive--have limited excess cane capacity and inves [...] | 2006-10-13 19:53:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EAGR PREL PGOV GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN107 | INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT FOR GUYANA [...] The Government of Guyana encourages foreign direct investment in almost all sectors. Billed as a "first stop shop" for investors, the Guyana Office for Investment (GO- INVEST) is charged with leading government efforts to attract foreign and domestic investment. GO-INVEST focuses primarily [...] | 2006-01-31 19:28:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB PGOV KTDB GY OPIC USTR |
| 06GEORGETOWN1097 | MEETING OF G8 COUNTER-TERRORISM ADVISORY GROUP IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Russian Embassy in Georgetown hosted the first local meeting of the G-8 Counter-Terrorism Advisory Group (CTAG) on October 20. Guyana ForMin Rudy Insanally said the terrorist threat is not prominent in Guyana but also called for capacity-building assistance in enacting count [...] | 2006-10-23 19:30:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN112 | SHAHEED "ROGER" KHAN: GUYANA'S OWN ESCOBAR? [...] (S) SUMMARY. Shaheed "Roger" Khan (DOB: 13-Jan-72),Guyana's number one narco-criminal, threatens to exert control over the fragile Guyanese state akin to Pablo Escobar's erstwhile control over Colombia. Khan is presently active in drug trafficking, money laundering, and arms smuggling. His [...] | 2006-02-01 13:37:00 | Embassy Georgetown | SECRET | SNAR PINR PINS PGOV KCRM KCOR NS GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN1135 | OAS AMBASSADOR MAISTO VISITS GUYANA: TALKS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ambassador John Maisto, U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS),visited Georgetown October 18-20, meeting government and opposition leaders, addressing local media, and encouraging the pursuit of democracy and development. He also used his tr [...] | 2006-10-31 14:52:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM OAS GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN1138 | PNCR-1G COMES TO PARLIAMENT ) DEBATE PRESIDENT,S [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-31 20:50:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN1142 | GUYANA TO SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE TO INTERNATIONAL LAW [...] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs notified Post via diplomatic note on October 16 that the GOG will support the U.S. candidate for the International Law Commission. ROBINSON [...] | 2006-11-01 17:58:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ODIP ILC UNGA GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN1148 | MINISTER OF HOME AFFAIRS OUT OF LOOP ON KERIK ISSUE [...] (C) On November 1, Legal Attach Kevin Currier, Assistant Legal Attach Marvin Freeman, and DCM paid a friendly and productive introductory courtesy call on newly appointed Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee. The FBI thanked Rohee for assistance in several cases, to include the 2005 Thomson [...] | 2006-11-02 19:05:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN1154 | GUYANA PASSES CRICKET WORLD CUP LEGISLATION [...] With minimal debate, Guyana's Parliament unanimously passed legislation governing venue access, commercial rights and public order for the Cricket World Cup, scheduled to take place in Guyana from March 27 to April 9, 2007. The International Cricket Council (ICC) mandated passage of the so-call [...] | 2006-11-03 19:56:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV CASC ASEC GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN1162 | AFC ALLEGES MISCOUNT, CLAIMS PRIME MINISTER'S SEAT [...] (SBU) Summary: The Alliance for Change (AFC) alleges that several ballot boxes were left off of the total tally in Region Ten, costing the party a seat in parliament. In a press conference, AFC leaders called on the ruling People's Progressive Party/CIVIC (PPP/C) to voluntarily relinquish th [...] | 2006-11-06 15:06:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN1172 | POLICE COMMISSIONER GREENE: GIVE US BARABBAS [...] (C) Summary: President Bharrat Jagdeo appears set to make Acting Police Commissioner Henry Greene the permanent head of the Guyana Police Force. Elevating Greene makes political sense--his aggressive response to out of control street crime is a hit--but the president fears it may cause prob [...] | 2006-11-07 15:43:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN1180 | EMBATTLED PCNR TO DISCUSS LEADERSHIP ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary: Persistent rumors that leader Robert Corbin is on his way out, as well as a public airing of complaints by some members of the party's youth arm, have recently dogged the opposition People's National Congress Reform (PNCR). After its dismal election showing, the PNCR appears to [...] | 2006-11-08 18:33:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN1182 | JAGDEO: CONSERVATION, IF THE PRICE IS RIGHT [...] Speaking at his return from an investment promotion conference in London on November 4, President Bharrat Jagdeo said that he intends to work with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and others to explore the potential use of Guyana's rainforest to offset climate change. Jagdeo further stated tha [...] | 2006-11-08 20:21:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID EINV SENV GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN1183 | 2006-2007 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT [...] The following text is post's narrative for Part II of the 2006-2007 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Financial Crimes and Money Laundering for Guyana. BEGIN TEXT: 2. Guyana is neither an important regional or offshore financial center, nor does it have any notable offshore [...] | 2006-11-08 20:29:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KCRM KTFN GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN1186 | STAFFDEL MEACHAM AND TOON VISIT: DISCUSS MLO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Carl Meacham and Bernard Toon, Senior Professional Staff Members of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, traveled to Guyana November 2-4. The primary focus of their visit was to understand the process and procedures whereby the State Department oversees security assistan [...] | 2006-11-09 21:24:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR KDEM OREP GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN1208 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED IN ADVANCE OF IMO MARITIME SAFETY [...] Emboff delivered reftel talking points to Ivor English, Director General, Guyana Maritime Administration, on November 14, 2006. English said MARAD will not be sending a representative to the November 29 International Maritime Organization Maritime Safety Committee meeting. English agreed to rev [...] | 2006-11-15 18:56:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT ANET AORC PREL ECPS KTIA IMO INMARSAT GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN121 | GUYANA FLOOD UPDATE: WATER LEVEL STABLE [...] SUMMARY: Several days of relatively good weather have allowed water levels in affected areas to lower slightly. The GOG declared two of the affected regions disaster areas and briefed donors of the potential need for assistance in mitigation and disaster prevention. Meanwhile, reports of vanda [...] | 2006-02-03 13:26:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV AEMR EAID PGOV GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN1215 | 2006-2007 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT [...] The following text is post's narrative for Part I of the 2006-2007 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Drugs and Chemical Controls for Guyana. BEGIN TEXT: 2. Guyana is a transshipment point for cocaine destined for North America, Europe, and the Caribbean. Interdictions and s [...] | 2006-11-16 11:31:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KCRM KTFN GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN1218 | GUYANA ENDORSES U.S.-CARICOM INITIATIVE TO COMBAT ILLICIT [...] Ambassador met with Guyana Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee on November 14 and delivered the joint U.S.-CARICOM Agreement on Illicit Trafficking in Arms. Rohee said that Guyana endorses the statement and that he will raise the matter with FonMin Insanally and President Jagdeo. Ambassador [...] | 2006-11-16 20:27:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MASS PARM PREL CARICOM OAS GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN122 | Update on Leptospirosis in Guyana [...] Leptospirosis is considered endemic in Guyana. In January 2005 during catastrophic flooding Guyana experienced an outbreak of the disease far above baseline levels with 65 laboratory -confirmed cases and more than 200 additional suspected cases. 2. Increasing numbers of cases clinically con [...] | 2006-02-03 18:37:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO EAID CASC PGOV GY CDC |
| 06GEORGETOWN124 | DONOR COMMUNITY TO ISSUE NON-VIOLENCE STATEMENT IN [...] Ambassador and Chiefs of Mission of the UK, Canada and the European Union (ABCEU) met with leaders of the ruling PPP/C and several opposition parties, including the Guyana Third Force, the Alliance for Change, and the Working People's Alliance, to emphasize the need for non-violence following [...] | 2006-02-03 20:37:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ASEC KCRM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN1252 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SANTA CRUZ MINISTERIAL [...] EmbOff delivered reftel talking points on November 29 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Department of Americas and Asia Director Audrey Waddell. Waddell promised to relay talking points to Commissioner of the Civil Defense Commission Col. Chabilall Ramsarup, who will represent Guyana at the Minis [...] | 2006-11-29 20:28:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON EFIN ETRD PHUM SENV USTR OAS GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN1277 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: URGING GUYANA'S ABSENCE FROM [...] Guyana has sent Minister of Foreign Trade and International Cooperation Dr. Henry Jeffrey to the AFCARPAC Summit in Khartoum and preliminary meetings beginning December 3. EmbOff delivered relevant reftel talking points to Ministry of Foreign Trade and International Cooperation Permanent Secr [...] | 2006-12-06 18:08:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINS SOCI SU GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN130 | Guyana Snares Cuban Medical Aid And Scholarships [...] President Jagdeo returned from a two-day visit to Cuba and held a press conference to trumpet several pledges of assistance, including the establishment of an ophthalmology clinic and a scholarship program for Guyanese students to study medicine, agriculture and engineering in Cuba. The eye cl [...] | 2006-02-07 15:22:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EAID PREL SCUL KPAO KHIV CU GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN1303 | GUYANA'S TROUBLED FORESTRY SECTOR [...] (C) Summary: Amid recent public outcry over unscrupulous business practices in Guyana's poorly monitored forestry sector, the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) has announced an investigation into allegations of transfer pricing. Despite some companies' official agreements with the GOG on provi [...] | 2006-12-15 19:42:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV EAGR EAID PGOV KCOR KFRD XB CH GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN131 | GUYANA'S CAPACITY FOR SUGAR TRQ REALLOCATION [...] THE GUYANA SUGAR CORPORATION (GUYSUCO) INFORMED POST, THROUGH THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, OF THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION REQUESTED IN REFTEL: GUYSUCO HAS 16,746 TONS REMAINING UNDER ITS TRQ FOR THE QUOTA YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2006. IT INTENDS TO SHIP THIS TONNAGE AND WILL ALSO BE INTERE [...] | 2006-02-07 15:27:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN132 | PROPOSAL FOR TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS INCLE PROJECT [...] Below is Embassy Georgetown's proposal for an FY 2006 INCLE funded anti-trafficking in persons program to build the capacity of the Guyanese criminal justice system: A. Title: Technical Assistance Proposal to Increase the Capacity of Guyana's Criminal Justice System to Combat [...] | 2006-02-07 15:29:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SMIG SNAR KWMN KCRM KJUS GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN137 | DEATH THREAT AGAINST U.S. AMBASSADOR AND PROMINENT [...] (S) Ambassador met with Major General (ret.) Norman McLean on February 8 at McLean's request. At the meeting, McLean handed Ambassador a sheet of paper listing information he had received from a policeman who has access to the Buxton area. This paper described a discussion regarding an operati [...] | 2006-02-08 23:27:00 | Embassy Georgetown | SECRET | ASEC PTER PGOV PREL SNAR GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN138 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR JULIA A. REHWINKEL [...] USAID/Guyana requests country clearance concurrence for Ms Julia Ann Rehwinkel, from o/a March 20 - 24, 2006. She will be attending the CTO Assistance Training in El Salvador. 2. Ms. Rehwinkel will arrive in San Salvador on March 19, 2006 at 8:22 p.m. via AA 2119 and departs o/a on March 24 [...] | 2006-02-09 13:08:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT OVIP ASEC EAID |
| 06GEORGETOWN139 | TEIXEIRA SHARES INFORMATION ON SUSPECT VISA SEEKERS [...] (C) Ambassador met with Minister of Home Affairs Gail Teixeira on January 12 and January 20 to discuss various matters. At the January 12 meeting, Teixeira handed a document to Ambassador containing a list of Indian nationals who had applied for Guyanese tourist visas through Indian "tour ope [...] | 2006-02-09 20:53:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SNAR SMIG KFRD KCOR KCRM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN140 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL - GEORGETOWN- [...] Post welcomes Dr. David Williams, International Affairs Specialist, from USDA/FAS, o/a 2/13/2006 to o/a 2/18/2006, to interview candidates for the 2006 Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellow Program and to advise partners at the National Agricultural Researc [...] | 2006-02-10 11:55:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID OVIP AMGT ASEC |
| 06GEORGETOWN141 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL - GEORGETOWN- [...] Post welcomes from USAID/Washington Virginia Gidi "Secret Security Clearance" o/a 2/15 -22/2006, to meet with Guyana Core Team Members and Key Partners and conducting site visits; and grants country clearance. 2. Hotel reservation is confirmed at the Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel, Seawall R [...] | 2006-02-10 11:56:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID OVIP SOCI AMGT ASEC KHIV |
| 06GEORGETOWN142 | GEORGETOWN NOMINEES: ATA 5756, VIP MAJOR EVENT [...] Post nominates two officers from the Guyana Police Department to attend the VIP Major Event Security Management Consultations in Nassau Bahamas. Name Edward Wills Keith John PDOB 05/20/1954 GY 06/05/1954 GY Rank Deputy Commissioner Assistant Commissioner [...] | 2006-02-10 14:31:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC |
| 06GEORGETOWN150 | EMBASSY GEORGETOWN NOMINATION FOR FY-06 ECA/A/E/USS [...] Embassy Georgetown nominates Ms. Geetangeli Geer to the U.S. Institute on U.S. Foreign Policy. Ms. Geer is the Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and a lecturer at the University of Guyana. Ms. Geer lecturers on a international relations, conflict resolution. Her classes incl [...] | 2006-02-13 20:38:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC SCUL KPAO GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN151 | GUYANA ASSUMES CHAIR OF RIO GROUP [...] (U) SUMMARY. Guyana has assumed chairmanship of the Rio Group from Argentina. At the handing over ceremony FonMin Insanally emphasized that the group will focus on democracy and human rights, poverty alleviation, and multilateralism under Guyana's stewardship. Guyana has a proud history of l [...] | 2006-02-13 20:39:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EU HA XM XL GY UN |
| 06GEORGETOWN153 | EDITORIAL ON GUYANA'S SECURITY CHALLENGE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-13 20:44:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINS SOCI GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN157 | CENSUS PROVIDES INSIGHT INTO GUYANESE SOCIETY [...] SUMMARY. The GoG released the results of Guyana's 2002 Population and Housing Census in October 2005. The census confirmed two demographic trends that will profoundly shape the country's political and economic development: a) total population is stagnant and predicted to fall; and b) the ethn [...] | 2006-02-15 13:11:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI PGOV PHUM SMIG CVIS GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN158 | LABOR STRUGGLES TO UNIFY AS GOG SEIZES INITIATIVE [...] SUMMARY: A number of simmering labor issues have emerged in the run-up to the elections. The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) is in an ongoing struggle for government salary arbitration with unclear ends and limited impact to date. The Guyana Trade Union Congress (GTUC) is contesting a propo [...] | 2006-02-15 13:14:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PGOV GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN160 | GUYANA UNESCO CONVENTION NOT ON AGENDA [...] Post is not aware of any attention paid to the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Expressions in legislative, media, or public forums in Guyana. The University of Guyana has not held any discussions on the matter, and informal inquiries to parliament revealed it is not on the legislative agenda. A [...] | 2006-02-16 12:08:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD SCUL GY UNESCO |
| 06GEORGETOWN162 | Firearms Seized from US Commercial Aircraft [...] Action request para 5. 2. On February 11, 2006, Guyanese Customs Officials intercepted 3 firearms at Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) that were found in exported cargo from the U.S. on North American Airlines flight 091 from JFK International Airport. Customs official examined a [...] | 2006-02-16 12:11:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAIR PGOV GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN166 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL - GEORGETOWN - BOURNE [...] Post welcomes NSF Integrative Biology Program Director Dr. Godfrey Bourne from March 5 until March 21, 2006 and grants country clearance. 2. No Embassy assistance was requested. 3. Control officer is Ed Luchessi, Economic/Commercial Officer, telephone 592-225-4900 ext. 220, IVG 747-0 [...] | 2006-02-17 12:16:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TPHY KSCA GY NSF |
| 06GEORGETOWN167 | A/SYG RAMDIN WANTS STRONG OAS ENGAGEMENT IN GUYANA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. OAS A/SYG Albert Ramdin visited Guyana February 13-14. Key takeaways from his visit are: a) Ramdin wants to increase OAS' involvement in Guyana and will act quickly to form a long-term mission of some sort; b) he wants any OAS electoral observation mission to act in close part [...] | 2006-02-17 15:21:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM GY OAS |
| 06GEORGETOWN170 | STATEMENT DELIVERED: IAEA REPORTS IRAN TO UN [...] (U) Per reftel, Ambassador briefed Foreign Minister Insanally on the IAEA's reporting of Iran to the UN Security Council during February 15 meeting on another matter. Ambassador provided copies of President's and Secretary's statements. 2. (U) Post will forward any response by the Governmen [...] | 2006-02-17 19:04:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM KNNP PREL IR EU AORC GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN171 | GUYANA: MESSAGE DELIVERED ON PALESTINIAN ASSISTANCE [...] (U) Per reftel, Ambassador delivered message on Paelstinian assistance to Foreign Minister Insanally during February 15 meeting on another matter. 2. (U) Post will forward any response from the Government of Guyana. 3. (SBU) FM Insanally agreed that the Palestinian Authority needs to ab [...] | 2006-02-17 19:05:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAL IS PREL GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN174 | JAGDEO ANNOUNCES WIRELESS LICENSE FOR DIGICEL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. President Jagdeo announced February 20 that the GoG would grant a license to regional wireless telecommunications operator Digicel. Issuing this license would violate the terms of the MoU between the GoG and U.S.-owned incumbent operator CelStar. Jagdeo also repeated his call [...] | 2006-02-21 20:37:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EINT PGOV GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN175 | NOMINATION FOR PK 334, FSN SECRETARIAL [...] USAID/Guyana, hereby nominates Ms. Rita Mohabir, to attend the PK 334 FSN Secretarial Seminar at the Shultz Training Centre (FSI)from May 15 - 24, 2006. 2. Data on Ms. Mohabir are as follows: Name of Participant: Rita Mohabir Date of Birth: April 24, 1958 Nationality: Guyanese P [...] | 2006-02-22 21:08:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | APER AFSN AFSI AMGT KPAO ASEC EAID |
| 06GEORGETOWN181 | OPPOSITION DRAWS BATTLE LINE: ELECTION PREVIEW #4 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Technical preparations for Guyana's elections are proceeding reasonably well (ref A),but the process is deadlocked for political reasons. The main opposition party PNC/R, facing dim electoral prospects, is working to obstruct and discredit the election process. The PNC/R lea [...] | 2006-02-24 20:35:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN183 | REQUEST FOR EVALUATION OF SECURITY INFORMATION [...] Visas Viper 2. (U) Khan, Shaheed Roger; AKA Khan, Roger; Male; Marital Status: Unknown; DOB:13 January 1972; POB: Guyana; Passport Data: A028178; Physical Description: Race: Black Height: 64 Weight: 128 Eyes: Brown Hair: Black; Current Occupation: Director of Classic Development Inc. and Dr [...] | 2006-02-24 21:12:00 | Embassy Georgetown | SECRET | CVIS PTER PINR ASEC |
| 06GEORGETOWN191 | GUYANA FM LIKES GUATEMALA FOR UNSC [...] (C) Ambassador met with Foreign Minister (and UN PermRep) Rudy Insanally February 27 to deliver demarche regarding the candidates for the 2007-2008 Latin America non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). 2. (C) Insanally said that he has discussed the matter with Gua [...] | 2006-02-27 17:47:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GT VE GY UNSC UN |
| 06GEORGETOWN195 | GUYANA INL CY-2005 END USE MONITORING REPORT [...] Post's Military Liaison Office (MLO) provided a fast interceptor boat to the Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard (GDFCG) in May 2005. Post did not provide any other new commodities or services to the GoG in CY-2005 under the international narcotics and crime program. ---------- Procedures - [...] | 2006-03-01 11:37:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR AFIN GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN196 | GUYANA ECONOMIC ROUND-UP--FEBRUARY 2006 [...] Domestic Economy: Cement Shortage Hampers Construction Industry 2. Inflation Watch: Upward movement in January CPI, domestic sugar prices rise 3. Trade: Rice producers hopeful as international prices rise 4. Investment: GO-INVEST reports heavy FDI in mining, forestry sectors 5. Bilatera [...] | 2006-03-01 15:26:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EAGR EFIN EINV SENV GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN197 | SIXTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS ASSESSMENT- [...] (SBU) The following is Embassy Georgetown's submission of information requested in reftel for the 2006 Annual Trafficking in Persons Report: BEGIN REPORT. Overview of a country's activities to eliminate trafficking in persons: -- A. Is the country a country of origin, transit, or destinat [...] | 2006-03-01 15:31:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SMIG ASEC PREF ELAB KCRM KWMN KFRD GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN204 | RESULTS OF BLUE LANTERN CHECK ON APPLICATION 05- [...] Per reftel, EconOff visited site of MMC Security Force, Inc. to assess the company's operations. The company's proprietor, Alfred M. Mekdeci (an American citizen),and CEO, Colonel (ret.) Carl Morgan, provided the following information: -The firm was founded in 1995, originally to provide s [...] | 2006-03-02 14:15:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN205 | BRAZEN CRIMES IN GEORGETOWN SHOCK, PORTEND [...] (U) SUMMARY. A SPATE OF SEEMINGLY DISPARATE CRIMES HIT GEORGETOWN BETWEEN FEBRUARY 22 AND 27: A) A POSSIBLE STAGED KIDNAPPING; B) THE DISAPPEARANCE OF POWERFUL WEAPONS FROM A GUYANA DEFENCE FORCE (GDF) STOREHOUSE; C) A HIGH-SPEED BOAT CHASE ALONG THE CAPITAL'S WATERFRONT; AND MOST DISTURBINGLY [...] | 2006-03-02 20:48:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINS ASEC PGOV SOCI SNAR MCAP KCRM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN208 | GOG TO INVESTIGATE UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS IN INTERIOR [...] (SBU) Commissioner of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC),Robeson Benn, informed EconOff on February 28 that mine officers and immigration officials will begin inspecting interior mining locations by the second week of March in an effort to identify and regularize undocumented work [...] | 2006-03-03 12:21:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SMIG ELAB CVIS KCRM KCOR GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN219 | TELECOM UPDATE--WAR OF WORDS ESCALATES BETWEEN GT&T [...] SUMMARY: In a rare move to take his case straight to the media, Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) CEO Major General (ret.) Joe Singh condemned the GOG's recent "propaganda blitz" as an effort to disparage the company and justify abrogating the firm's exclusive right agreement in landline t [...] | 2006-03-07 11:58:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ECPS EINT PGOV GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN22 | CABINET SECRETARY ANNOUNCES GUYANA DEA OFFICE [...] (U) SUMMARY. Presidential Secretariat Head Roger Luncheon told a press conference that the GoG welcomes the establishment of a U.S. DEA office in Guyana, but acknowledged that certain details still need to be addressed. The state-owned newspaper carried the story the following day under the [...] | 2006-01-06 18:25:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV PREL GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN224 | GOG REQUESTS ASSISTANCE ON STOLEN WEAPONS [...] (U) Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon called a meeting with Ambassador on short notice March 3 to discuss the recent theft of weapons from a Guyana Defense Force (GDF) storehouse (ref A). 2. (U) Luncheon gave Ambassador a copy of an October 19, 2005, memorandum from hi [...] | 2006-03-08 14:03:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC MCAP SNAR KCOR KCRM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN233 | BERBICE RIVER BRIDGE AGAIN INCHES TOWARD REALITY [...] SUMMARY: The GOG's point person on the one-mile long Berbice River Bridge project, which would connect the agricultural east Berbice region with the central coast and Georgetown, has predicted completion of the bridge by October 2007. Significantly, funding for the US$37.2 million dollar proje [...] | 2006-03-13 11:48:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ELTN ECON PGOV EFIN GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN235 | JAGDEO TAKING CAMPAIGN TO LOW ROAD: ELECTION [...] (C) President Jagdeo summoned Ambassador as well as the British and Canadian High Commissioners to his home on short notice Saturday March 4. Jagdeo wanted to discuss the elections and security. He said that he has started his campaign. (Note: Jagdeo has not yet been officially designated th [...] | 2006-03-13 16:17:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PHUM SNAR KDEM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN236 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED--GEOGRAPHIC INDICATORS [...] EconOff delivered demarche requested in reftel to Neville Totaram, coordinator of the National Committee for External Negotiations (NACEN) within the Ministry of Foreign Trade and International Cooperation. Totaram was aware of the U.S.-sponsored joint proposal as well as the EC proposal. Tota [...] | 2006-03-14 11:22:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR WTRO GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN242 | CUBA ON DIPLOMATIC OFFENSIVE IN CARIBBEAN [...] (U) Cuba's Ambassador to Guyana and CARICOM, Alejandro Marchante Castellanos, presented his credentials to CARICOM SYG Edwin Carrington March 10. In his remarks, Castellanos said that Cuba planned to establish four new diplomatic missions in Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, St. Vincent and the [...] | 2006-03-14 14:26:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL GY XL CU |
| 06GEORGETOWN248 | EMINENT GUYANESE WARN DIPLOMATS OF ELECTION THREATS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Members of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) met with donors March 8 and 10 to discuss their deep concerns about preparations for Guyana's upcoming elections, the deteriorating security situation, and the disturbing nexus between the two. These Guyanese civil society figures a [...] | 2006-03-14 16:43:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS KDEM KCRM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN254 | INCSR Sparks Lively, Constructive Debate in Guyana [...] SUMMARY. The 2006 INCSR has resonated with the Guyanese public and generated considerable dialogue in the media in the two weeks since its release. All television and radio news programs carried the 2006 INCSR as their lead story on March 1 and the next morning. TV news and talk shows revolve [...] | 2006-03-17 15:14:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PREL KCRM KPAO GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN257 | Radio, monopoly and technology in Guyana [...] Summary: The Stabroek News, the leading independent daily newspaper in Guyana, carried an editorial on Friday, March 17, analyzing GoG ambivalence with regard to radio broadcasting in Guyana. The editorial is reproduced below: Begin Text: One cannot avoid the conclusion that after thirt [...] | 2006-03-17 20:25:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PROP PGOV PHUM SCUL KDEM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN258 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S.-CARICOM INITIATIVE TO [...] DCM delivered demarche per reftel March 17 to Ambassador Elizabeth Harper, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General. Harper was receptive to the concept of the initiative to Combat Illicit Trafficking In Arms. She recognized the proposal as a step towards moving the U.S.-CARICOM dialogue [...] | 2006-03-17 20:25:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MASS PARM PREL XL GY CARICOM |
| 06GEORGETOWN267 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON OAS CICTE VI [...] PolOff delivered demarche March 20 per reftel to Audrey Waddell, Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Director of Americas and Asia Department. Waddell will be Guyana's head of delegation to the OAS Inter-American Committee Against Terrorism (CICTE) sixth regular session in Bogota. No one else from [...] | 2006-03-21 20:20:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER GY OAS |
| 06GEORGETOWN269 | GUYANA COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR KEVIN W. [...] Post welcomes Kevin W. Currier, Legal Attache from Caracas, Venezuela and grants Country Clearance for routine visits to territories covered by Legat from Caracas to meet with Embassy and Host Country Officials on 03/23/06 - 03/25/06. 2. Hotel reservations will are confirmed at the Le Me [...] | 2006-03-22 17:58:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC |
| 06GEORGETOWN270 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ICE PAUL PASUCO AND EDWARD [...] Post welcomes Paul Pasuco and Edward Newnom and grants country clearance to escort Samuel Cromwell on 03/29/2006 for criminal alien removal to Georgetown, Guyana. 2. Guyanese Immigration officials will meet and assist at Cheddi Jagan International Airport. NO EMBASSY ASSISTANCE WILL BE P [...] | 2006-03-14 15:46:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CVIS GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN271 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ICE ERIC PECORARO AND DANIEL [...] Post welcomes Eric Pecoraro and Daniel Henderson and grants country clearance to escort John Hintzen on 03/27/2006 for criminal alien removal to Georgetown, Guyana. 2. Guyanese Immigration officials will meet and assist at Cheddi Jagan International Airport. NO EMBASSY ASSISTANCE WILL BE [...] | 2006-03-10 10:56:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CVIS GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN272 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ICE THOMAS WENDLING AND LEE [...] Post welcomes Thomas Wendling and Lee Mitchell and grants country clearance to escort Chetram Singh on 03/27/2006 for criminal alien removal to Georgetown, Guyana. 2. Guyanese Immigration officials will meet and assist at Cheddi Jagan International Airport. NO EMBASSY ASSISTANCE WILL BE [...] | 2006-03-10 13:11:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CVIS GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN274 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ICE ROBERT WOODSON AND DAVID [...] Post welcomes Eddie Robert Woodson and David Cuffee and grants country clearance to escort Martin Stanford Durant on 03/28/2006 for criminal alien removal to Georgetown, Guyana. 2. Guyanese Immigration officials will meet and assist at Cheddi Jagan International Airport. NO EMBASSY ASSIST [...] | 2006-03-09 09:03:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CVIS GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN278 | SECRET TAPE, RAID ON DRUG LORD'S ASSETS ROCK GUYANA [...] (U) SUMMARY. Georgetown is flush with intrigue as a joint army/police team conducted raids March 19-20 on drug lord Shaheed "Roger" Khan's properties and, concurrently, a secret recording of Police Commissioner Winston Felix's phone conversations was anonymously and widely distributed to the [...] | 2006-03-23 20:33:00 | Embassy Georgetown | SECRET | SNAR PINS PGOV KCOR KCRM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN281 | NATIONAL MILLING COMPANY FENDS OFF OPENING [...] SUMMARY: Acting Chief Cabinent Secretary, Nanda Gopaul, announced at a March 23 press conference that the GOG had reached agreement with the National Milling Company of Guyana (NAMILCO),a subsidiary of Kansas-based Seabord Corporation, to reduce the price of flour by G$200 (US$1) per bag. The [...] | 2006-03-24 19:07:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN29 | FONMIN DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL AND OAS VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Insanally January 9 to discuss: a) efforts to strengthen the UN human rights machinery through the Human Rights Council; b) OAS A/SGY Ramdin's anticipated visit and the need for an OAS long-term observer mission for the upcoming elections; and [...] | 2006-01-10 19:54:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL GY UN OAS |
| 06GEORGETOWN290 | POLICE CHIEF REQUESTS USG HELP INVESTIGATING DRUG [...] (C) Guyana Police Force (GPF) Commissioner Winston Felix paid Ambassador a visit March 27 to request U.S. government assistance on two specific matters. The requests stem from last week's joint army/police raids on drug lord Shaheed "Roger" Khan's properties and the widely, anonymously distri [...] | 2006-03-28 20:18:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PINS KCRM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN292 | GUYANA TO SEEK ADDITIONAL FIBER OPTIC [...] Pierre Strasser, the French-national Chief Operating Officer of American-owned wireless communications provider Cel*Star Guyana, informed Embassy on March 27 that the GOG will likely pursue inclusion in a second fiber optic communications cable, with construction to be completed by early 200 [...] | 2006-03-29 15:20:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS EINT ECON GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN293 | INVITATION FOR BIDS -AGRICULTURAL SUPPORT SERVICES [...] This invitation for Bids follow the General Procurement Notice for this project that appeared in the Development Business, Issue No. 639 dated September 30, 2004. 2. The Co-operative Republic of Guyana has received financing the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) toward the cost of th [...] | 2006-03-29 15:22:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP BTIO EAID EAGR GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN294 | GUYANA TIMBER INDUSTRY LOOKS TOWARD [...] SUMMARY: In a bid to achieve recognition for sustainable forestry, the Malaysian/South Korean firm Barama Company Ltd. has received Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification, the first of its kind in Guyana. While the FSC label should allow the firm to command higher prices in internation [...] | 2006-03-29 15:40:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR SENV BEXP ECON ETRD GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN295 | INVITATION FOR BIDS -AGRICULTURAL SUPPORT SERVICES [...] This invitation for Bids follow the General Procurement Notice for this project that appeared in the Development Business, Issue No. 639 dated September 30, 2004. 2. The Co-operative Republic of Guyana has received financing the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) toward the cost of th [...] | 2006-03-30 15:13:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP BTIO EAID EAGR GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN296 | INVITATION FOR BIDS - SUPPLY OF WORKSHOP EQUIPMENT FOR [...] The Government of Guyana has received financing the Inter- American Development Bank towards the cost of the Basic Education Access Management Support Programme - Phase 1. It is intended that part of the proceeds of this financing will be applied to eligible payments under the Contract for [...] | 2006-03-30 15:16:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP BTIO EAID EAGR GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN297 | RSO GEORGETOWN REQUESTS TDY ARSO SUPPORT AND [...] (U) Action request para 9. 2. (U) Over the last two years, physical threats against the Ambassador to Guyana have been reported from several different sources. On February 8, 2006, the Ambassador recieved a specific death threat towards himself. RSO has provided protection since that date [...] | 2006-03-30 15:34:00 | Embassy Georgetown | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC |
| 06GEORGETOWN298 | GOVERNMENT OF GUYANA REQUESTS COPIES OF [...] In a diplomatic note dated March 29, 2006, Guyana's Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed that the GoG (Director of Public Prosecution) has requested copies or certified copies of the indictment and arrest warrant against Moonie Moses. 2. The diplomatic note also stated: "The Laws of Guyana [...] | 2006-03-30 19:17:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | CJAN GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN30 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PREEMPTING MORALES' MESSAGE [...] (C) Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Insanally January 9 and delivered talking points on U.S. concerns and suggestions regarding the Morales government (Ref A). Ambassador noted that Guyana will take over as chair of the Rio Group later this month and asked Insanally to raise the issue wit [...] | 2006-01-10 20:04:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BO GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN300 | INCSR PROMPTS GREATER SCRUTINY OF FOREST [...] The Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) is taking steps to prevent narco-traffickers from gaining control of timber concessions in Guyana. This is a direct reaction to the 2006 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR),which stated that the GFC "granted a State Forestry Explorator [...] | 2006-03-30 20:00:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR EAGR PGOV KCRM KPAO GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN308 | GUYANA POLL DATE UNDER THREAT: ELECTION PREVIEW #6 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The likelihood of Guyana holding elections by the August 4 constitutional due date has plummeted over the past ten days. The Guyana Elections Commissioner (GECOM) Secretariat - the technical staff - took the country by SIPDIS surprise March 24 when they circulated a draft re [...] | 2006-04-03 18:12:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS KDEM OAS GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN327 | BACKGROUND INFORMATION FOR CARICOM-USTR MEETING: [...] Minister of Foreign Trade and International Commerce, Clement Rohee, will represent Guyana at the USTR-CARICOM meeting April 12. Below is a brief overview of Guyana's economy and Rohee's bio. --------------------------------------------- ---------- An Agricultural Economy With Heavy U.S. Mar [...] | 2006-04-07 19:53:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR PREL GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN329 | Guyana Economic/Commercial Round-up: March 2006 [...] Trade: Parliament Passes CSME-Related Bills 2. Agriculture: Bumper Rice Crop Expected, Slight Price Increase 3. Public Finance: Flat Income Tax at 33 1/3% 4. Investment: Two Airline Investors Considering Guyana 5. Bilateral Economic Activity: Cuban Lightbulbs [...] | 2006-04-07 21:01:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EAIR EAGR PREL GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN330 | EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOWS REQUEST: GUYANA [...] Embassy Georgetown requests an Embassy Science Fellow with expertise in agro-meteorology to work with the Embassy and the Government of Guyana to assess and build capacity in forecasting techniques and water management. Post is hopeful that NOAA or USDA in particular would be able to accommoda [...] | 2006-04-10 19:18:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPL SENV KSCA GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN344 | OAS OBSERVERS FOR GUYANA, CONCERN OVER ELECTION [...] (U) SUMMARY. OAS A/SYG Ramdin led a three-person OAS mission to Guyana April 6-11 that paves the way for an OAS Electoral Observation Mission (EOM) with a broader role of ensuring that Guyana has elections. His visit coincided with the Guyana Elections Commission's (GECOM) capitulation that [...] | 2006-04-18 14:16:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM OAS XL GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN361 | RISING INTEREST IN URANIUM EXPLORATION IN GUYANA [...] The GOG announced on April 19 that the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has awarded a permit to Canadian- backed Prometheus Resources Guyana to conduct uranium exploration. The firm, affiliated with Vancouver-based Chemico Corporation, will have a three-year permit to conduct researc [...] | 2006-04-20 16:05:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EMIN ECON GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN365 | Venezuela and the Caribbean [...] Following is text of the editorial in today's Stabroek News newspaper, Guyana's leading independent newspaper. The editorial is a good reflection of the Guyanese thinking man's view of Venezuela, Chavez, and the 160 year-old boundary dispute. 2. BEGIN TEXT: It was columnist Mr. Reggie D [...] | 2006-04-21 14:21:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PBTS ECIN EINV EPET EAID XL VE GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN371 | GUYANA ELECTION DELAYED, PROESS IN DISARRAY: [...] U) SUMMARY. The Guyana Elections Commission (GECO) says it cannot deliver elections by the Auust 4 constitutional due date and will not be ready before August 30. This raises thorny constitutional questions about Guyana's governance after August 4. GECOM has also failed to set a new election [...] | 2006-04-24 15:26:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS KDM OAS GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN372 | GOG CABINET MEMBER ASSASSINATED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Cabinet member and People's Progressive Party (PPP) insider Satyadeow Sawh was gunned down at his home April 22 in an apparent targeted assassination. Most observers detect a political link behind the killing. Regardless of the motive, this adds more fuel to the fire as pre-el [...] | 2006-04-24 15:53:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINS PGOV ASEC KCRM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN374 | OPIC-SUPPORTED INVESTMENT FUND IN THE REGION: [...] As requested in Reftel, Post has reviewed AIC International Investments Limited's proposal and offers the following feedback. 2. There is a need for capital in almost all sectors in Guyana. Commercial banks are the main source for capital funds. During 2005, the average lending rates at com [...] | 2006-04-24 19:38:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV OTRA OPIC GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN39 | AVIAN INFLUENZA TRIPWIRES - EMBASSY GEORGETOWN [...] SUMMARY: Embassy Georgetown's Avian Influenza Response Committee has prepared the following tripwires in the event of an avian influenza outbreak in the region, the United States or Guyana itself. The committee reviewed tripwire reports by other posts especially the excellent tripwires prepar [...] | 2006-01-12 21:17:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ASEC CASC AMED KFLO AEMR GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN395 | CANCELLATION OF NIGHT FLIGHTS--GUYANA [...] On April 26, the Cheddi Jagan Airport Authority announced the cancellation of night flights at Timehri airport due to an equipment malfunction. CJIA officials reported that the barometer in the control tower was giving inaccurate readings, which could affect arriving flights' altimeters; this [...] | 2006-04-27 13:35:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR OTRA GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN40 | CARICOM UPDATE--DRUGS, DISASTERS, ECONOMIC [...] SUMMARY: Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Patrick Manning, speaking as chairman of CARICOM, identified drug control, disaster preparedness, and deeper regional integration as key issues facing the organization. He also announced January 30 date for the signing ceremony for the Caribbean Sing [...] | 2006-01-13 15:02:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SNAR ETRD EAGR GY CARICOM |
| 06GEORGETOWN405 | GUYANA ECONOMIC & COMMERCIAL ROUND-UP APRIL 2006 [...] Mining: Diamond, Bauxite Production Increase 2. Trade: Guyanese Companies to Participate in Orlando Trade Fair 3. Agriculture: Exports of Non-Traditional Crops High Despite 2006 Flood 4. Financial system: Excess Liquidity, Declining Interest Rates 5. Investment: Financing Deal for Teperu [...] | 2006-05-04 14:51:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EMIN ELAB EFIN EAID BBSR BEXP GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN406 | AFTERMATH OF SAWH ASSASSINATION [...] (U) SUMMARY: More than one week has passed since the assassination of Agriculture Minister Satyadeo Sawh, with little progress on apprehending the killers. Various theories are circulating in an effort to explain why he was targeted, and the ruling PPP has publicly insinuated the involvement o [...] | 2006-05-04 14:54:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINS PGOV ASEC KCRM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN417 | SABOTAGE OF TELEPHONE SYSTEM CONTINUES [...] SUMMARY: Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) has revealed several "acts of sabotage" that have disrupted telephone communications for several key military installations and large businesses. The events are the latest in a series of acts of vandalism against the company's facilities. END SUMM [...] | 2006-05-10 11:32:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS MCAP PINS ECON GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN419 | NOMINEES FOR REGIONAL ANTI-TIP TRAINING: GUYANA [...] As requested in reftel, post, in coordination with the Ministry of Labor, Human Services, and Social Security (MLHASS),nominates the following individuals for the June 19-30 "Trafficking in persons Course for Investigators": 1) Name: Francis Trim Rank: Assistant Superintendent, Guyana Po [...] | 2006-05-10 19:23:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR SMIG KCRM KWMN ELAB EAID GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN422 | IMPLEMENTATION OF ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT: GUYANA [...] Per consultation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, and the Guyana Customs and Trade Administration, Guyana does not have any laws on record to implement the Arab League Boycott (ALB),nor are Israeli products denied market access. The GOG doe [...] | 2006-05-11 15:33:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KBCT ABLD PHUM PIRF AL GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN424 | INTERAGENCY EFFORT TO APPREHEND GUYANESE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador met April 20 in Port of Spain with Ambassador to Suriname Marsha E. Barnes and officials from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA),Department of Homeland Security (DHS),Department of Justice (DOJ),and Embassies Georgetown and Paramaribo. The meeting accomplish [...] | 2006-05-11 15:53:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PREL PINS KCRM GY NS |
| 06GEORGETOWN433 | NARCO-CRIMINAL ROGER KHAN LASHES OUT AT USG [...] (U) Guyana's leading narco-trafficker Shaheed "Roger" Khan has stepped up his public relations attack since news of his grand jury indictment emerged May 5 on conspiracy to import cocaine emerged. Khan approached various media organizations May 10 with a statement painting himself as a victim [...] | 2006-05-11 20:20:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PGOV PREL KCRM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN44 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL - GEORGETOWN - LUFTIG [...] Post welcomes WHA Desk Officer Laura Luftig from January 25 until January 27, 2006 and grants country clearance. 2. Hotel reservations are confirmed at the Le Meridien Pegasus hotel, phone 592-225-7943. Rate is $130 per night plus a 10% tax. Confirmation number is 336. Visitor will be met [...] | 2006-01-13 21:26:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN45 | FLOODS PLAGUE GUYANA, AGAIN [...] SUMMARY. Since late December, flooding has plagued coastal Guyana, particularly the centers of agricultural production. After initially dismissing the magnitude of the flooding, the GOG has begun a massive public relations and relief spending effort. The GoG's initial underestimate of the magn [...] | 2006-01-13 21:28:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV PGOV EAGR EAID ECON GY ASEC CASC |
| 06GEORGETOWN462 | POLITICAL STALEMATE CONTINUES: ELECTION PREVIEW #8 [...] (U) SUMMARY. Guyana's election impasse has moved into a new phase. The country currently has neither a legislature (dissolved May 2 by President Jagdeo) nor an election date (no new date has been set since the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) decided April 12 that it could not meet the Au [...] | 2006-05-17 19:23:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS KDEM OAS GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN47 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL - GEORGETOWN - WARFIELD AND [...] Post welcomes U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Technical Assistance advisors Robert Warfield and Lee Niederman from January 22 until January 26, 2006 for purpose of consultations with the Caribbean Organization of Tax Administrators and host country revenue officials and grants co [...] | 2006-01-17 11:36:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ASEC GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN471 | OPPOSITION SUES GOG, WANTS COURT TO WEIGH IN ON [...] (U) The main opposition PNC/R threw up another major obstacle to election preparations May 18. It filed a lawsuit in Guyana's High Court challenging the legality of a May 2 constitutional amendment that had extended the election deadline to September 2. The plaintiff is Joe Hamilton, the PNC [...] | 2006-05-19 18:12:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN48 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL - GEORGETOWN - MCNEIR [...] Post welcomes Transportation Security Administration Representative Loretta McNeir from January 26 until January 31, 2006 to participate in an assessment of security conditions at Cheddi Jagan International Airport and grants country clearance. 2. Per the travelers' request, hotel reserva [...] | 2006-01-17 11:42:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ASEC OTRA GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN489 | REQUEST AND RATIONALE FOR DEA OFFICE IN GUYANA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In light of the great and increasing influence of the narcotics trade and related transnational crimes in Guyana, Post requests the formal establishment of a DEA office at Embassy Georgetown. Guyana is well on its way to narco-statehood -- a prospect that poses a real threat to [...] | 2006-05-24 20:05:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL KCRM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN493 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SEEKING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR NEW [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered demarche per reftel May 24 to Ambassador Elizabeth Harper, Director General (and number two) at Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Harper does not believe the GoG has had any communication or interaction with the new Iraqi government. Although providing assistance is out of [...] | 2006-05-25 18:52:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PREL PGOV KPAO IZ GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN494 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED IN ADVANCE OF NAM MINISTERIAL [...] (C) PolOff delivered demarche per reftel May 24 to Ambassador Elizabeth Harper, Director General (and number two) at Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Harper was unaware of any movement afoot to include a statement in support of Iran at the NAM Ministerial. Nor had she read such language in the d [...] | 2006-05-25 18:54:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL AORC AIEA KNNP UNSC IR GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN499 | TIME HAS COME FOR COORDINATED PLAN ON GUYANA [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Commonwealth Secretariat's Special Envoy to Guyana briefed Ambassador and other donor representatives May 25 on his "depressing" visit to Guyana. The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) conceded May 24 that it would not be able to hold elections before September 12, beyond e [...] | 2006-05-25 21:17:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN5 | Guyanese Business Optimistic as CSME Approaches [...] On Christmas Day, GOG President Jagdeo signed documents indicating Guyana's commitment to the CSME, becoming the sixth CARICOM head of state to do so. This was the culmination of several initiatives aimed at preparing Guyana for CSME compliance by January 1. In other recent developments, parli [...] | 2006-01-03 16:18:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD PREL ECON BEXP XL GY CARICOM |
| 06GEORGETOWN518 | GOG REQUESTS FOLLOW-UP MEDICAL ASSISTANCE FOR [...] The GOG has requested that the USG provide follow-up medical attention for Guyana Defense Force (GDF) soldier Calvin Lewis, who suffers from severe venous stasis disease. 2. Private Lewis was originally injured in an ammunition storage point explosion in December 2000. He was evacuated to [...] | 2006-06-02 16:21:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN519 | GUYANA'S SUPPORT FOR GUATEMALA'S UNSC PUSH UP IN [...] (U) Ambassador delivered demarche May 31 per reftel to Minister of Foreign Affairs Rudy Insanally. 2. (C) Insanally is "sympathetic to Guatemala's ambition" for the Latin American non-permanent UNSC seat, but the "bugbear" remains its border issue with Belize. He referred more than once t [...] | 2006-06-02 16:36:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC GY XL |
| 06GEORGETOWN52 | NOMINATION FOR SPRING 2006 FSN ECONOMIC TRAINING: [...] Post nominates Economic/Commercial Assistant Jillian R. Duncan for the Spring 2006 PE220 FSN Economic Training from May 1-12, 2006. Information requested in Reftel follows: A. Name and grade of FSN Jillian R. Duncan FSN-8/1 B. Date of birth January 22, 1977 C. Nationality Guyanese [...] | 2006-01-17 20:04:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON AFSI AFSN |
| 06GEORGETOWN521 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED- CBTPA WAIVER (GUYANA) [...] EconOff delivered demarche as requested in reftel to Neville Totaram, Coordinator of the National Advisory Committee on External Negotiations (NACEN) within the Ministry of Foreign Trade, on June 2. Trade Minister Rohee was out of the office. Totaram agreed that approaching Paraguay on the sub [...] | 2006-06-02 20:26:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD WTRO GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN522 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED--JOINT PROPOSAL ON GI WINES AND [...] Econoff delivered message in Ref A to Neville Totaram, Coordinator of the National Advisory Committee on External Negotiations (NACEN) within the Ministry of Foreign Trade, on June 2. Totaram said CARICOM had not deliberated further on the matter since the previous demarche on the subject earl [...] | 2006-06-02 20:27:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR WTRO GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN53 | GUYANA FLOODING: Conservancy Dams near danger level [...] SUMMARY. The Cabinet decided early Monday to open the Maduni sluices, which will greatly exacerbate flooding in agricultural areas on the Mahaica and Mahaicony Rivers, in order to relieve pressure on the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) which is reaching dangerous levels. While this is a [...] | 2006-01-17 21:38:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAID PGOV EAGR ECON ASEC CASC GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN530 | GOG BOND DEFAULT RATTLES FINANCE COMMUNITY [...] SUMMARY: Media reports have revealed that the GOG is seeking better terms on US$20 million of government bonds after failing to pay on maturity. The default, as well as the flat-footed GOG response, has shocked the finance community and signals a next stage in the GOG's dogged pursuit of debt [...] | 2006-06-06 18:45:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ECON EMIN GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN532 | "SHAMBLES": EDITORIAL ON GUYANA'S PRECARIOUS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-06 21:02:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINS SNAR KCRM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN533 | RESPONDING TO GOG SECURITY ASSISTANCE REQUEST [...] (U) Para 9 contains action request for WHA. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. The GoG requested security assistance from the U.S., UK and Canada in the wake of Agriculture Minister Satyadeow Sawh's assassination April 22 (refs A and B). The GoG's initial request was hasty and vague -- a knee-jerk reactio [...] | 2006-06-07 13:50:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PREL ASEC KCRM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN546 | USING IDB DEBT WRITE-OFF AS LEVERAGE WITH GOG [...] (C) SUMMARY. Post understands that the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will consider forgiving $3.5 billion of debt owed by its five poorest members, including Guyana. This presents a unique opportunity to influence the GoG to follow through on long overdue governance improvements. The [...] | 2006-06-09 18:48:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EFIN PREL EAID KCRM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN547 | 2006 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] In response to reftel, the following is Post's submission for the 2006 Report on Investment Disputes and Expropriation Claims. Post is aware of five (5) claims of United States persons that may be outstanding against the Government of Guyana (GOG),all of which were detailed in the 2005 report [...] | 2006-06-09 19:25:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV CASC KIDE OPIC PGOV GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN552 | SUBJECT: CIVIL DOCUMENT SECURITY IN GUYANA: THE [...] SUMMARY: A Vice Consul covering the anti-fraud portfolio and a Fraud Investigator LES visited the General Registrar's Office (GRO) to observe how civil documents in Guyana are issued and safeguarded. Although these systems are becoming more secure, there are gaps in the s [...] | 2006-06-12 20:19:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KFRD KCRM CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN559 | JAGDEO USES WORLD CUP TV COVERAGE TO BOOST IMAGE [...] (U) President Jagdeo has taken credit for bringing World Cup soccer to Guyanese television. The state-run National Communications Network (NCN) has bombarded the airwaves with this news in recent days, heralding the "personal intervention of His Excellency President Bharrat Jagdeo" to make Wo [...] | 2006-06-14 13:20:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SCUL ECPS PINR GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN562 | GUYANA NARCO-RUMORS: ACETONE IMPORTS, STALLED HOTEL [...] (U) PolOff's recent conversations with prominent locals yielded noteworthy comments about developments in Guyana's narco-trade. 2. (C) PolOff spoke June 7 with Stanley Ming (protect),vice-chairman of the opposition PNC/R party and prominent Guyanese businessman. He is a large importer by [...] | 2006-06-15 16:20:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PGOV PINR KCRM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN577 | VENEZUELA-GUYANA BORDER DISPUTE OVERSHADOWS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-16 16:31:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS ECON EPET PREL GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN592 | IMPLEMENTATION OF RAW SUGAR TRQ--GUYANA [...] In response to reftel seeking information on Guyana's ability to ship its full allocation of sugar under the raw sugar tariff rate quota for marketing year 2006, post received the following reply from the Guyana Sugar Corporation: BEGIN TEXT: Thank you for your letter of June 8, 2006 relati [...] | 2006-06-19 19:55:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN594 | GUYANA VOTER LIST IN LEGAL LIMBO: ELECTION PREVIEW [...] (U) SUMMARY. The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is progressing with its work to prepare a final voter list for the upcoming national elections. But Guyanese disagree whether registered electors must reside in Guyana to have the right to vote. Because emigration rates are so high, this i [...] | 2006-06-19 20:47:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN595 | AMBASSADOR: TIE IDB DEBT FORGIVENESS, MCC TO REFORM [...] (C) I recently learned that the IDB is planning to forgive the debt owed by its five poorest members -- including almost a half billion dollars that Guyana owes. I cannot stress enough the unique opportunity this gives us to induce meaningful reform in a country that has obstinately resisted [...] | 2006-06-20 15:05:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID EFIN KDEM KMCA GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN597 | GUYANA RESPONSE: UNHRC - ANTICIPATED OIC ASSAULT [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered points orally June 19 per reftel to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Director of Multilateral and Global Affairs, Jacqueline Hamer. She said that Guyana would not be represented at the UN Human Rights Council session. Nevertheless, she agreed in principle that the HRC [...] | 2006-06-20 17:50:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN60 | FRAUD SUMMARY - GEORGETOWN, GUYANA [...] SUMMARY: Economic and cultural pressure to migrate continues to motivate all forms of immigration fraud in Guyana. Cooperation with elements of the Government of Guyana (GoG) and civil society enables post to detect and combat some types but corruption and cultural support for migration compl [...] | 2006-01-18 21:16:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC KCRM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN63 | CARICOM SYG DISCUSSES MINISTERIAL MEETING AGENDA [...] (U) SUMMARY. Ambassador met with CARICOM SYG Carrington January 17 to discuss proposed ministerial between Secretary and CARICOM FonMins. Carrington suggested postponing the meeting until the week of March 27. CARICOM is in general agreement with the five broad agenda topics, but requested [...] | 2006-01-19 12:26:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL XL CARICOM |
| 06GEORGETOWN64 | GEORGETOWN FY06 BFIF PROPOSAL [...] SUMMARY: Embassy Georgetown submits a proposal for USD $6,000 under the Business Facilitation Incentive Fund (BFIF) to host a seminar on electronic commerce. Post proposes to coordinate this project with the regional Foreign Commercial Service (FCS) office in Santo Domingo and the U.S. Agenc [...] | 2006-01-19 15:05:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ABUD BTIO ECON EINV ETRD GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN640 | (C/NF) GUYANA RESPONSE: DESI BOUTERSE AND SHAHEED [...] (C) Post presents response to ref A. Noting that Shaheed "Roger" Khan is now in custody, Post takes this opportunity to mention other narco-criminals in Guyana eager to take over Khan's turf (see paras 14-17). As Minister of Home Affairs told Ambassador at their June 23 meeting: "When one st [...] | 2006-06-29 18:22:00 | Embassy Georgetown | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR SNAR KCRM PREL PGOV GY NS |
| 06GEORGETOWN642 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: WTO DOHA ROUND NEGOTIATIONS [...] EconOff delivered reftel talking points to Chairman of the National Committee for External Negotiations (NACEN) Neville Totaram. Totaram agreed to pass the message to Minister of Foreign Trade Clement Rohee, who is en route to Geneva. Totaram observed that all the "technical arguments had been [...] | 2006-06-29 19:09:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | WTRO ETRD ECON GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN643 | BUYER BEWARE: THE PERILS OF GIFT DIPLOMACY IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Like many of its Caribbean neighbors, Guyana receives various high-profile gifts from countries pursuing diplomatic objectives, most notably Cuba and the People's Republic of China (PRC). Despite initial fanfare and high-profile media attention, however, many of these offers are [...] | 2006-06-29 20:52:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL KPAO GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN651 | NO CARICOM CONSENSUS YET ON UNSC SEAT [...] (U) Under the headline "Venezuela or Guatemala for UN seat? Caricom still undecided", the independent Stabroek News reported July 6 that the CARICOM Heads of Government have refrained from reaching consensus on a regional block vote for the UNSC seat. Guyana FonMin Insanally's comments indica [...] | 2006-07-06 14:41:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS UNSC CARICOM GY XL |
| 06GEORGETOWN663 | GUYANA POLITICS BACK TO THE FORE: ELECTION PREVIEW [...] (U) SUMMARY. Election-related activity hit a lull in the latter half of June as news of narco-criminal Shaheed "Roger" Khan's arrest transfixed Guyana. With Khan now in U.S. custody, election controversy is heating up again. Although many electoral preparations are progressing well, the main [...] | 2006-07-07 18:21:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN667 | PLAN TO COAX GUYANA INTO IMPLEMENTING GOVERNANCE [...] (U) This is an action request for WHA -- see para 6. 2. (C) Ambassador met July 6 with mission chiefs from UK, Canada, European Community (EC),UNDP, IDB, and World Bank to discuss a strategy for approaching President Jagdeo with a coordinated message on elections. The group proposes that [...] | 2006-07-07 20:07:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN672 | CARICOM DID NOT DECIDE ON UNSC SEAT SAYS GUYANA [...] (C) Ambassador probed Guyana's and CARICOM's stance on the UNSC seat issue during a July 10 farewell call on Foreign Minister Rudy Insanally. (Note: Insanally represented Guyana at the St. Kitts CARICOM Heads of Government meeting, in President Jagdeo's absence.) Insanally plans to address th [...] | 2006-07-10 20:24:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL UNSC CARICOM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN673 | GUYANA: RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREAN MISSILE LAUNCHES [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered message and statement July 7 per reftel to Ministry of Foreign Affairs' acting director for Department of Americas and Asia, Audrey Waddell. Waddell did not have a response to the points about North Korea's missile launches and did not seem very familiar with the issue. [...] | 2006-07-10 20:26:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM KNNP KN GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN679 | (C) FUZZY MATH: JAGDEO SAYS UNSC VOTE ALL ABOUT [...] (U) Action request see para 5. 2. (C) President Jadgeo told Ambassador July 11 that CARICOM has made a condition on its support for Venezuela's UNSC seat candidacy -- that Venezuela must make a public statement that it will not use the UNSC seat to further the cause of its border issue. In [...] | 2006-07-12 20:55:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC CARICOM VE GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN685 | JAGDEO DETERMINED TO HOLD ELECTIONS ON AUGUST 28 [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Jagdeo is determined to hold national elections on August 28 -- one to two weeks sooner than expected -- and within the constitutional deadline. The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) needs to push hard to be ready by then. The pressure is also on donor countries and [...] | 2006-07-13 19:23:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM OAS GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN694 | COMMERCIAL COURT RULES AGAINST GOG IN BOND DEFAULT [...] On July 12, 2006, Guyana's newly christened Commercial Court ruled in favor of a plaintiff who had sued the GOG after it defaulted on a $US201,085 bond. The bondholder, Carol Correia, sued the GOG on June 29, 2006 seeking the principal plus 5% interest on the 12-year bond, which matured on May [...] | 2006-07-17 12:00:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PGOV KJUS ECON GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN70 | Guyana Flood Update: Conservancy Water Rising [...] Peace Corps volunteers reported this afternoon that farmers unhappy with flooding in the Mahaica, Mahaicony and Abrary Creek area are protesting and have blocked the East Coast road at Belledrum, approximately 60 km east of Georgetown. Peace Corps moved one Mahaicony area volunteer to Georget [...] | 2006-01-19 22:44:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR CASC EAID PGOV ASEC SENV EAGR GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN704 | POLICE COMMISSIONER OUT, INTERIM REPLACEMENT TIED [...] (S) SUMMARY. President Jagdeo and his deputy, Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon, separately highlighted to US, UK, Canada and EU chiefs of mission that Police Commissioner Winston Felix is out as of July 24. Jagdeo wants to name a replacement by October -- after election [...] | 2006-07-17 17:35:00 | Embassy Georgetown | SECRET//NOFORN | SNAR PGOV CVIS KCRM KCOR GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN706 | AMBASSADOR'S SELF-HELP FUND SUPPORTS GUYANESE EYE CARE [...] (U) On Monday, July 10, Ambassador awarded four grantees through the Ambassador's Self Help Program, including a US$6,500 grant to the "New Light, New Sight" program at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Georgetown. Mercy Hospital's program will provide subsidized eye surgery to persons living outsid [...] | 2006-07-18 12:16:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN71 | GECOM MAKES ENCOURAGING PROGRESS: ELECTION PREVIEW [...] (U) SUMMARY. Preparations for Guyana's 2006 elections are gathering steam. The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has addressed donor concerns in a number of areas. This cable reviews the latest status of various preparation activities -- observers, voter registration, media code of conduct [...] | 2006-01-20 13:50:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN710 | GUYANA: RESPONSES TO DEMARCHE ON GOVERNANCE REFORMS [...] (C) SUMMARY: US, UK, Canada and EU chiefs of mission delivered demarche on governance reforms to President Jagdeo July 13, Opposition Leader Robert Corbin July 14, the upstart Alliance For Change (AFC) July 17, and the ruling People's Progressive Party (PPP) July 18. Jagdeo generally agreed w [...] | 2006-07-19 14:13:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM OAS GY UK CA |
| 06GEORGETOWN724 | GUYANA ELECTIONS ON AUGUST 28; PNC WILL PARTICIPATE [...] (U) Summary: President Jagdeo announced to the nation July 21 that general elections will be held on August 28. The following day, opposition leader Robert Corbin said the People's National Congress (PNC) will contest the elections, grudgingly, rather than follow through on its threat to boyc [...] | 2006-07-24 19:51:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN725 | GOG PICKS CROOKED POLICE CHIEF DESPITE REVOKED VISA [...] (S) SUMMARY: The GoG moved ahead with its plan to elevate Deputy Commissioner Henry Greene to Acting Police Commissioner, despite his visa ineligibility for involvement with drug traffickers. Greene assumed his new position July 24. Greene's elevation will bring much international assistan [...] | 2006-07-24 21:24:00 | Embassy Georgetown | SECRET//NOFORN | SNAR PGOV PINR PREL KCOR GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN738 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED--P5+1 INCENTIVE PACKAGE FOR IRAN [...] EmbOff delivered talking points to Jackie Hamer, Director of Multlateral and Global Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs on July 26. Hamer said that the Ministry is currently drafting a position paper on the Iran matter and that the demarche comes at an opportune time to inform that process. H [...] | 2006-07-27 14:37:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL AORC KNNP IR GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN741 | GEORGETOWN REQUESTS INCLUSION IN EDWARD R. MURROW PROGRAM [...] Below is Embassy Georgetown's nomination for the Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists. The slate has full front office approval. START FIXED-FORMAT TEXT (PLEASE DO NOT EDIT): : The following data is in a fixed format which enables : automated processing in Washington and should not be [...] | 2006-07-27 19:57:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC SCUL KPAO GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN743 | NOMINATION DAY AND POLL PUT GUYANA ELECTIONS INTO [...] (U) SUMMARY: Georgetown was boisterous on July 26 Nomination Day as the political parties -- arriving in turns to the tune of chanting supporters and Caribbean music -- presented their candidate lists to the Chief Election Officer at City Hall. A less than expected total of eleven parties ap [...] | 2006-07-28 13:01:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN748 | GUYANA/CARICOM REACTION TO SUSPENSION OF DOHA ROUND TALKS [...] SUMMARY: The GOG has expressed disappointment on suspension of WTO Doha Round Talks, placing blame on the G6 while also expressing hope for a resumption of talks. Media and editorial coverage has been minimal. END SUMMARY. 2. GOG Minister of Foreign Trade and International Cooperation and C [...] | 2006-07-28 18:55:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR WTO GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN760 | GUYANA ECONOMIC & COMMERCIAL ROUND-UP [...] Mining: Cambior prepared to sell bauxite stake 2. ESTH: Environmental permit sought for Berbice River bauxite project 3. Banking: Republic Bank Rebrands, Introduces Debit Cards 4. Debt: World Bank grants US$322M debt relief 5. Public Finance: Revenue Authority reports 2005 tax exemptions [...] | 2006-08-03 20:55:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EMIN EAID EAIR ECIN ENRG ECON GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN769 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN HIGH LEVEL DIALOGUE ON MIGRATION [...] EmbOff delivered reftel talking points to Jackie Hamer, Director for Multilateral Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs on August 4. Hamer was aware of the event and said that the GOG's representative at the U.N. General Assembly would plan to attend the High Level Dialogue on Migration as well. [...] | 2006-08-07 13:34:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF SMIG UNGA |
| 06GEORGETOWN779 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNSC RESOLUTION ON LEBANON (GUYANA) [...] EmbOff gave reftel talking points to Leslie Dowdridge-Collins, Deputy Director of the Division of Multilateral Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dowdridge-Collins said that Guyana had condemned the hostilities between Lebanon and Israel, but she had no other immediate response. She agreed t [...] | 2006-08-08 14:00:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER MOPS UN IS GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN787 | GUNMEN KILL NEWSPAPER WORKERS IN GEORGETOWN [...] (U) SUMMARY. Guyana is aghast at the brutal killing of six men August 8 by roving gunmen. The main target of the operation was the complex where the independent Kaieteur News is printed, located in Eccles along the road connecting Georgetown to the airport. The killings are reminiscent of a [...] | 2006-08-09 18:46:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PGOV ASEC KCRM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN804 | ALLIANCE FOR CHANGE OUTLINES STRATEGY, GAINS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Dick Morris, political advisor to third-party contender Alliance for Change (AFC),described the party's strategy as it heads into the final weeks of its campaign. The AFC is optimistic that it can continue to siphon votes from the opposition People's National Congress (PNC) while [...] | 2006-08-10 19:20:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN811 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION ON [...] EmbOff delivered reftel talking points and text of UN Security Council Resolution to Ambassador Elisabeth Harper, Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Harper had no immediate reaction. THOMAS [...] | 2006-08-12 15:19:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER MOPS UN UNSC IS LE GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN815 | (U) GUYANA ELECTION PREPARATIONS (C-AL6-01121) [...] (U) Post presents response to ref A. 2. (C) WHAT IS THE CURRENT STATE OF AFFAIRS WITHIN THE GUYANA ELECTIONS COMMISSION (GECOM)? HOW IS CHAIRMAN STEVE SURUJBALLY VIEWED WITHIN GECOM? (C) The much-maligned GECOM has withstood constant criticism and is on track to deliver free and fair el [...] | 2006-08-14 17:42:00 | Embassy Georgetown | SECRET | PINR PGOV SNAR GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN817 | INFORMATION ON DAR-UL-ULOOM ISLAMIC CENTER AND [...] (U) Post has gathered the following information in response to the questions posed in Ref A: A. (S/NF) What is the relationship between the Dar-ul-Uloom Islamic Center in Guyana and the center in Trinidad? Individuals from the center in Guyana and Trinidad share personal and professional [...] | 2006-08-14 18:46:00 | Embassy Georgetown | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR PK TD GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN828 | SECURITY FEARS MAR RUN-UP TO GUYANA ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY. One week after the August 8 execution-style killing of five Kaieteur News printery employees (ref A),we take stock of the consequences for Guyana and the August 28 elections. Uncertainty remains over the gunmen's motive, but the front-running theory of conspiracy-minded Guyanese [...] | 2006-08-16 21:32:00 | Embassy Georgetown | SECRET | PINS PGOV ASEC CASC KCRM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN832 | PUSHING FOR POST-ELECTION REFORMS IN GUYANA [...] (C) Chiefs of mission from the US, UK, Canada, EU, UNDP IDB, World Bank, and IMF (collectively, the "donors") met August 15 to identify and agree on donors' next steps to coax the incoming post-election government into implementing critical governance reforms. 2. (C) The donors agreed on se [...] | 2006-08-17 21:28:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN833 | GUYANA ELECTION SCENARIOS: POSSIBLE UNREST, [...] (U) SUMMARY: With elections just a week away, Guyana's 65-seat National Assembly is still up for grabs and the security situation remains on edge. While Bharrat Jagdeo looks all but certain to win another term as president with a plurality, his People's Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) may fal [...] | 2006-08-21 18:08:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS KDEM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN836 | DELIVERY OF UN1267 SANCTIONS LISTS (GUYANA) [...] EmbOff delivered reftel UN 1267 Sanctions Committee listings and talking points to Paul Geer, Director, Financial Intelligence Unit. Geer said he will disseminate information to the central bank and commercial banks and will notify post of any pertinent findings. THOMAS [...] | 2006-08-21 19:38:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN838 | DISCIPLINED SERVICES VOTE: SMOOTH, BUT A COUPLE [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a preview of the August 28 elections, members of Guyana's disciplined services voted on August 21. Initially there was confusion over the ballots at a few polling stations and some service members did not find their names on the voters list. This underscores the fallibility of [...] | 2006-08-22 20:57:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS KDEM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN839 | CHILD LABOR AND TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) DIGEST-JULY [...] NGO in project to combat child labor in Region Three 2. Shadick: TIP Networks to be established countrywide 3. Indigenous group calls for intervention by people trafficking unit in Region Seven 4. Shadick taps Amerindian Captains, Councillors for TIP training 5. Shadick Under Fire for Comm [...] | 2006-08-23 16:54:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PHUM SOCI KCRM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN850 | GUYANA GENERAL ELECTIONS AUGUST 28: FINAL PREVIEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Heading into the final weekend before Guyana's August 28 general elections, international observers have descended upon the capital in force. Two dozen Mission employees and contractors will participate as observers under the OAS' auspices. The ruling People's Progressive Par [...] | 2006-08-25 19:39:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN854 | GUYANA ELECTION STATUS REPORT AUGUST 28, [...] (U) As of 15:30, election day is proceeding as smoothly as could be expected. We have spoken with all 17 OAS observer teams that include U.S. Mission personnel. Eight of these teams are around Georgetown, the others are dispersed throughout the country. Altogether, these teams have observed a [...] | 2006-08-28 20:08:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN855 | GUYANA ELECTION STATUS REPORT: AUGUST 29 [...] (U) SUMMARY: Georgetown remained quiet overnight as the consensus solidified that the August 28 national and regional elections proceeded better than expected on a technical level. OAS A/SYG Albert Ramdin made a statement to this effect after the polls closed. Field reports from Embassy pers [...] | 2006-08-29 18:50:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM OAS GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN86 | GUYANA FLOOD UPDATE: CONSERVANCY LEVEL SLOWLY [...] Water levels in the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) dropped several inches from Friday January 20th's high of 58 feet 9 inches to 58.57 Tuesday, January 24 at the Flagstaff measuring site. Measurements at all locations within the Conservancy dropped or remained steady during this same p [...] | 2006-01-24 20:14:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR CASC EAID PGOV ASEC GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN860 | GUYANA ELECTION STATUS REPORT: AUGUST 30 AT 15:00 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Georgetown continues to remain quiet two days after the August 28 national and regional elections, but things may change as the official results are announced. Although both international and local observers agree that the vote went technically well, conflicting reports concernin [...] | 2006-08-30 20:46:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM OAS GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN862 | SUBJECT: GUYANA ELECTION STATUS REPORT: AUGUST 31 [...] (C) SUMMARY: GECOM is expected to officially announce final results at 6:00 p.m. showing that the ruling PPP/C has won the election and will retain its majority in the National Parliament. Due to persistent rumors yesterday of impending street protests by PNCR supporters, the PNCR released a [...] | 2006-08-31 20:15:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM OAS GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN869 | SUBJECT: THE RESULTS ARE IN: PPP/C IN A LANDSLIDE [...] (U) The Guyana Elections Commission announced the official results of the August 28 national and regional elections yesterday evening - the result: the People's Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) in a landslide. With 338,839 total votes cast, the ruling PPP/C received 183,887 (54.6%) votes, the [...] | 2006-09-01 19:49:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM OAS GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN879 | RIO GROUP STATEMENT ON HOSTILITIES IN LEBANON [...] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Guyana, current chair of the Rio Group, issued the following statement on behalf of the Rio Group on August 31. BEGIN TEXT: RIO GROUP STATEMENT ON A FULL CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES IN LEBANON The Members of the Permanent Mechanism of Consultation and P [...] | 2006-09-05 21:45:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV IS LE GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN886 | GUYANA REPRESENTATION TO 61ST UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-06 21:23:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN90 | Budget Speech Unveils Government Program For 2006 [...] SUMMARY: The Minister of Finance presented Guyana's 2006 budget, which includes ambitious projections for economic growth, increased public spending, tax reform, and resource extraction. Despite the President's pledges not to use the budget for political ends, the election year budget diminish [...] | 2006-01-25 17:42:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON EAID GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN903 | DEMARCHES DELIVERED: NAM SUMMIT AND IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM [...] EmbOff delivered Iran NAM demarche using talking points in Ref A to Jackie Hamer, Director for Multilateral and Global Affairs, Guyana Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Hamer said she will convey the points to Minister Rudy Insanally, who is currently attending the NAM ministerial in Havana. H [...] | 2006-09-12 15:03:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PTER IAEA IR GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN91 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL - GEORGETOWN- [...] Post welcomes Darren Roman, Andy Nguyen, Lyne Paquette and Mauricio Guzman from USAID/Regional Inspector General office (RIG/ San Salvador) with "Top Secret" Security Clearances, o/a 1/30/2006 to o/a 2/17/2006, to perform the Audit of USAID's Progress in Implementing PEPFAR in Guyana and gran [...] | 2006-01-25 17:43:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID OVIP AMGT ASEC |
| 06GEORGETOWN910 | GUYANA ECONOMIC & COMMERCIAL ROUND-UP [...] GT&T: Cellular Network to Improve 2. Digicel to Launch GSM Network in Guyana 3. Inflation Watch: Consumer Price Index - July 2006 4. Berbice Bridge Gets US$5.4 Million 5. Civil Aviation: BWIA Implements New Security Measures REFS: A) GEORGETOWN 417, B) GEORGETOWN 174, C) GEORGETOWN 233 [...] | 2006-09-12 20:36:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECPS EAIR EFIN ELTN EINV SOCI GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN915 | SUBJECT: GUYANA ELECTION: FREE, FAIR AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Guyana's 2006 national and regional elections: free, somewhat fair, but not transparent. International observers agree that: (1) the elections were technically a success; (2) proper procedures were followed at polling places in the subsequent vote count. However, there are lo [...] | 2006-09-13 20:20:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KDEM OAS GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN92 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL - GEORGETOWN- [...] Post welcomes from USAID/Washington 1) Michael Hope, SCMS Pharmaceutical Advisor, "Secret Security Clearance" o/a 2/11 - 28/2006 and 2) Heidi Mihm, SCMS Advisor, "Top Secret Clearance" o/a 1/12 - 18, 2006, and grants country clearance. 2. Hotel reservations are confirmed at the Le Meridie [...] | 2006-01-25 17:44:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID OVIP AMGT ASEC |
| 06GEORGETOWN925 | PARTY POLITICS, PERSONAL LOYALTY KEY IN CABINET [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Jagdeo's new cabinet, sworn in September 9, showcases a cadre of up-and-coming, Moscow-educated party leaders with close personal ties to the President. While this cabinet also confirms the ascendancy of the more venal Janet Jagan faction of the People's Progressive P [...] | 2006-09-15 14:13:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN932 | SIGNIFICANT ELECTORAL REFORM DOUBTFUL [...] (SBU) Summary: Broad national and international consensus says Guyana's August 28 elections were a qualified success. The vote itself was free, fair and transparent; even the losing opposition candidates conceded defeat before the last ballot was counted. But smooth voting and the unchara [...] | 2006-09-15 20:24:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM OAS GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN933 | BLUE LANTERN PROGRAM INFORMATION - GUYANA [...] Embassy Georgetown's Blue Lantern Coordinator is: Name: Edward Luchessi Title: Economic/Commercial Officer Telephone: 592-226-4309 IVG: 747-0220 Fax: 592-227-0240 E-mail: LuchessiEP@state.gov Effective November 29, 2006, Post's Blue Lantern Coordinator will be: Name: Nancy Long Titl [...] | 2006-09-15 21:19:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC KSEP GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN948 | GUYANA REPRESENTATION TO 61ST UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY [...] To update information reported in Ref C, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has notified Post that President Jadgeo's travel plans to New York are as follows: Friday, September 22: Arrive JFK at 1800 hours on British Airways flight BA0113 Monday, September 25: Depart JFK at 0700 hours on Brit [...] | 2006-09-18 21:35:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN954 | STRING OF SUSPICIOUS FIRES FUELS GOSSIP [...] (SBU) Summary: Unexplained fires have recently damaged a series of buildings in Georgetown and beyond. Arson is suspected, but authorities have not determined if there was foul play. Memories of previous post-election arson and the nature of the burned properties--two regional government he [...] | 2006-09-20 19:56:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN97 | GEORGETOWN REQUESTS INCLUSION IN EDWARD R. MURROW [...] Below is Embassy Georgetown's nomination for the Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists. The slate has full front office approval. START FIXED-FORMAT TEXT (PLEASE DO NOT EDIT): : The following data is in a fixed format which enables : automated processing in Washington and should not be [...] | 2006-01-27 19:32:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC SCUL KPAO GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN974 | WHO NEEDS A GOVERNMENT? GUYANA NOT BOTHERED BY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The PNCR and AFC have both filed lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the delay in convening Parliament and of the swearing-in of government ministers before they were formally elected to Parliament. Also, in an unprecedented move President Jagdeo left the country for [...] | 2006-09-22 20:37:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM OAS GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN979 | T-MINUS 170 DAYS--STATUS REPORT ON GUYANA'S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With just 170 days left until the scheduled opening of Cricket World Cup 2007, Guyana appears unprepared to host this major sporting event. A CARICOM review of Guyana's security arrangements has concluded that Guyana "has no plan" and appears to be "overwhelmed by the magnitude" [...] | 2006-09-25 14:23:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV CASC ASEC EAID GY |
| 06JOHANNESBURG467 | SOUTH AFRICA: STATE OF ALUMINUN INDUSTRY [...] (U) The South African aluminum industry is well developed and a major contributor to the economy. During 2005, primary and semi-fabricated aluminum sales amounted to 920,000 tons valued at about $1.7 billion, of which exports accounted for more than 70% by mass and value. All plants are curre [...] | 2006-11-17 13:04:00 | Consulate Johannesburg | UNCLASSIFIED | EMIN ETRD ENRG ECON ELAB EIND SF |
| 06KINGSTON1085 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ENCOURAGING JAMAICA TO [...] On May 26, P/ECouns and PolOff met with and conveyed reftel points to Angella Brown, Deputy Director, International Organizations Department, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT). 2. Brown noted that out of the Caribbean countries only Guyana and Haiti had signed an [...] | 2006-06-02 15:24:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA KSCA |
| 06KINGSTON240 | KINGSTON POL/ECON ROUNDUP: JANUARY 20, 2006 - [...] This week's topics: -- Formal Inauguration of CARICOM Single Market -- Fiscal Deficit Worsens -- Fiscal Situation Worries International Investors -- GOJ Exploring Fuel Tax Increase -- Bauxite/Alumina Expansion Project On Track -- Crime Rates Down --------------------------- [...] | 2006-02-03 20:47:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EFIN ECON EINV PHUM ELAB KHIV JM |
| 06KINGSTON418 | CRICKET WORLD CUP 2007: URGENCY REQUIRED, BUT [...] (SBU) Summary. Seeking to assess the state of Jamaica's preparations to host the opening ceremony and some competitive matches for the 2007 International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup, Ambassador and Econoff met seperately with three top organizing officials: Chris Dehring, Managing Direct [...] | 2006-02-28 20:21:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAIR ECON PREL PTER JM |
| 06KINGSTON930 | VISIT OF WHA/DAS PATRICK DUDDY TO KINGSTON, [...] (U) Summary: On April 27 and 28, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Patrick Duddy SIPDIS visited Kingston, Jamaica. On April 27, Duddy met with GOJ officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, the details of which are reported in ref. A. On April [...] | 2006-05-12 20:05:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | ABLD AMGT ECON EAID PREL KMCA JM |
| 06KINGSTON939 | KINGSTON POL/ECON ROUNDUP: May 3 - May 12, 2006 [...] This week's topics: -- Venezuelan Navy Ship Visits Kingston -- Prime Minister of Malaysia Visits -- Budget Debate Closes -- Motorola Deal Moving Forward -- Delta to Offer Atlanta-Kingston Route -- Cement Investigation Extended -- Bananas and Sugar: Help on the Way? -- Se [...] | 2006-05-15 11:42:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EFIN ECON EINV PHUM ELAB KHIV JM |
| 06LAPAZ3355 | SOUTH AMERICAN SUMMIT: ALL HYPE NO SUBSTANCE [...] (SBU) On December 8-9, Cochabamba played host to the Second Summit of the South American Community of Nations (CSN). Despite Bolivia's current political turmoil (reftel),nine presidents attended the conference. Cochabamba's lack of experience hosting such a high-profile event was obvious, [...] | 2006-12-12 21:49:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL ECON BL |
| 06LAPAZ84 | IDB PREOCCUPIED BY UNCERTAINTY OF U.S. AND GOB [...] (SBU) Summary: Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Resident Representative, Joel Branski, told the DCM and Econoffs on January 11 that IDB staff has not met with the MAS' transition team, but that an IDB delegation plans to visit Bolivia at the end of January after the Presidential inaugura [...] | 2006-01-13 20:06:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN BL |
| 06MADRID1088 | SPAIN ON ELECTION SUPPORT FOR HAITI AND GUYANA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-28 16:29:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL PGOV HA GY |
| 06NASSAU1050 | BAHAMAS CLAIMS NO FINAL DECISION FOR VENEZUELA ON [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-11 20:20:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC VE BF |
| 06NEWDELHI1415 | CONGRESSMAN CROWLEY AND RAHUL GANDHI DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary. In a half hour February 20 meeting with Congressman Joseph Crowley (D-NY),Congress heir apparent Rahul Gandhi was eager to learn the Democratic party positions on a number of foreign policy issues, including the war in Iraq, the situation in the Middle East and the US relations [...] | 2006-02-27 09:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KISL IN IZ IR |
| 06OSLO545 | NORWAY WILL TRY TO SUPPORT OAS EFFORTS IN GUYANA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-28 14:42:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NO GY KDEM |
| 06PARAMARIBO155 | CONTINUED CONCERN OVER BOUTERSE'S NEXT STEPS [...] (SBU) Summary. Former military dictator and convicted narcotics trafficker Desi Bouterse's recent statements claiming current conditions in Suriname are similar to those just prior to his 1980 coup have heightened public unease over Suriname's future stability. Adding to the atmosphere was a r [...] | 2006-03-14 12:22:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR KCRM ASEC NS |
| 06PARAMARIBO164 | SURINAME CONSIDERS EXPANDING ITS MARITIME BORDER [...] Suriname's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lygia Kraag Keteldijk, announced on March 10, that Suriname would exercise its option to increase the country's maritime border (northern Atlantic seacoast) an additional 150 nautical miles under the auspices of the United Nation's Convention on the Law [...] | 2006-03-17 13:58:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS PGOV PHSA PREL KTIA ECON EPET ENRG NS |
| 06PARAMARIBO170 | SURINAME PLANNING TO HOST REGIONAL NARCOTICS [...] (U) The Government of Suriname (GOS) is planning to host a regional anti-narcotics conference in September. Minister of Justice and Police and Chandrikerpad Santokhi is the driving force behind the initiative, which is intended to bring together the governments of source, transit and destinati [...] | 2006-03-21 19:03:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM PGOV PREL NS |
| 06PARAMARIBO191 | ATTORNEY GENERAL PRAISES DEA ASSISTANCE, CALLS FOR [...] (U) Summary. In recent public statements, Attorney General Subhas Punwasi reiterated his commitment to combating narcotics, praised cooperation between the Government of Suriname (GOS) and DEA, and expressed a desire to increase law enforcement ties with Guyana to stem the increasing quantity [...] | 2006-03-31 17:51:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM PREL PGOV NS |
| 06PARAMARIBO223 | DOZENS ARRESTED IN MILITARY DEPOT WEAPONS THEFT [...] (SBU) Summary. Surinamese law enforcement officials have made 29 arrests thus far in connection with a February military depot weapons theft and recovered the majority of weapons stolen. The theft was an inside job that turned out to be one in a string of robberies. Twenty-two civilians, six s [...] | 2006-04-20 20:37:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM SNAR MARR PARM PREL PGOV |
| 06PARAMARIBO23 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: POST CONTINGENCY PLANNING AND [...] (SBU) Further to the readiness assessment of Government of Suriname (GOS) capabilities conveyed ref (b),post notes that the GOS avian flu working group, consisting of government entities and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO),had not as of January 9 yet completed its promised avian [...] | 2006-01-12 17:40:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT ASEC CASC AMED KFLO AMER NS |
| 06PARAMARIBO272 | PARTICULARS CONCERNING SEPTEMBER REGIONAL [...] (U) As noted in reftel, the Government of Suriname will host an international anti-narcotics conference from 7-8 September 2006 in Paramaribo. The Minister of Justice and Police Chandrikapersad Santokhi has now formally invited representatives of the U.S. Government to attend the conference vi [...] | 2006-05-10 14:40:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM PGOV PREL NS |
| 06PARAMARIBO285 | BOUTERSE ADMITS TRAVELING TO GUYANA DESPITE INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) Desi Bouterse, former military dictator and current opposition party chairman, disclosed to journalists on May 13 that he recently made a trip to neighboring Guyana. The trip was made despite an outstanding Interpol warrant for his arrest issued after he was convicted in 1999 by a Dutch [...] | 2006-05-16 15:25:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM SNAR PGOV PREL NS |
| 06PARAMARIBO300 | JUSTICE MINISTER CLAIMS FARC PRESENCE IN SURINAME [...] (U) Suriname's Minister of Justice and Police Chandrikapersad Santokhi told journalists on May 17 that transnational criminal organizations involved in the weapons-for-drugs trade are working closely together in Suriname and that the FARC is one of these organizations. He made the statement up [...] | 2006-05-22 19:09:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | SECRET | SNAR KCRM PREL PGOV NS CO |
| 06PARAMARIBO33 | INL ASSISTANCE CONTRIBUTING TO CASH SMUGGLING [...] (U) Summary. On December 29 Surinamese police in the western district of Nickerie seized USD 391,000 from a Guyanese man attempting to board a boat to neighboring Guyana after leaping from a helicopter that dropped him on the bank of the Corantijn River. Post's INL assistance is playing a rol [...] | 2006-01-18 19:05:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM SNAR PGOV PREL NS |
| 06PARAMARIBO391 | SURINAME MAKING EFFORTS TO SECURE BORDER WITH [...] (SBU) Summary. Cross-border crime between Suriname and Guyana has been on the rise over the past year. Drugs, cash, goods, gold, arms, and people are smuggled across the poorly controlled border regularly through what is called the "back-track." This term generally refers to the multiple ro [...] | 2006-06-21 14:52:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM PREL PGOV NS |
| 06PARAMARIBO392 | SUMMARY OF SURINAMESE PRESS COVERAGE OF ROGER KHAN [...] The arrest of Roger Khan and the USG's request for his extradition has dominated the news since Friday. Post provides a summary of Surinamese press coverage in chronological order to explain the action-reaction of Surinamese officials as they attempt to gain consensus on the disposition of Rog [...] | 2006-06-22 12:46:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM PREL PGOV KPAO NS |
| 06PARAMARIBO399 | DESI BOUTERSE AND SHAHEED ROGER KHAN ACTIVITIES [...] (S/NF) WHAT IS THE STATUS OF DESI BOUTERSE AND SHAHEED "ROGER" KHAN'S CURRENT RELATIONSHIP? Khan and Bouterse are partners in the drug trade, according to sensitive sourcing. The police suspect that Surinamese citizen Steven Douglas, the owner of local fishing and hunting store "Tacklebo [...] | 2006-06-23 18:39:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR SNAR KCRM PREL PGOV GY NS |
| 06PARAMARIBO415 | SUMMARY OF SURINAMESE PRESS COVERAGE OF ROGER KHAN [...] The deportation of Roger Khan from Suriname and speculation of possible U.S. involvement dominated the news on Thursday and Friday (June 29-30). (See Reftel). All electronic media and print covered the story extensively. Radio and TV broadcasts focused on a chaotic parliamentary meeting Thursd [...] | 2006-06-30 19:53:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM PREL PGOV KPAO NS |
| 06PARAMARIBO424 | SUMMARY OF SURINAMESE PRESS COVERAGE OF ROGER KHAN [...] The deportation of Roger Khan from Suriname continues to receive both front-page and electronic media coverage this week. (See reftel A and B for earlier coverage). The Times of Suriname published the results of an opinion poll conducted on July 5 by a respected Surinamese polling organiza [...] | 2006-07-06 19:17:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM PREL PGOV KPAO NS |
| 06PARAMARIBO438 | MEETING WITH PRESIDENT VENETIAAN REVEALS SUPPORT [...] (C) President Venetiaan told the Ambassador in a meeting on July 12 that while the recent CARICOM Heads of Government meeting in St. Kitts had not finalized a formal common position on the UNSC vote, it was his view that CARICOM hoped to reach consensus to support Venezuela in its UNSC seat [...] | 2006-07-13 16:49:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL UNSC CARICOM VE NS |
| 06PARAMARIBO442 | SURINAME FOREIGN MINISTER EXPLAINS CARICOM'S BACKING OF [...] (U) Suriname's Minister of Foreign Affairs Lygia Kraag-Keteldijk said in a radio interview aired July 14 that CARICOM had chosen to back Venezuela in its bid for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. Kraag-Keteldijk said CARICOM members carefully considered the pros and [...] | 2006-07-14 19:00:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC NS |
| 06PARAMARIBO705 | PARAMARIBO NONCOMMITTAL ON UN DECLARATION ON THE [...] (C) SUMMARY Per reftel, post delivered message and non-papers regarding the UN declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Government of Suriname showed interest and concern and said it would share a position paper, which we have not yet received. Po [...] | 2006-11-03 15:04:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KTIA UN NS |
| 06PARAMARIBO723 | SURINAME: 2006-2007 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS [...] Post presents its 2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT (INCSR),Part I, Drugs and Chemical Control. Suriname I. Summary Suriname is a transit point for South American cocaine en route to Europe and, to a lesser extent, the United States, and has been a transit country [...] | 2006-11-09 18:38:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM NS |
| 06PARAMARIBO94 | NEW BIDDING ROUND OPENED FOR OIL EXPLORATION OFF [...] Suriname's Minister of Natural Resources, Gregory Rusland, announced to the press last week that Suriname's state-owned oil company, Staatsolie has opened a new round of bidding to international oil companies interested in off shore oil exploration. This follows an earlier successful signing [...] | 2006-02-15 21:08:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ENRG ETRD ECON EINV KTDB PREL PBTS NS |
| 06PARIS1732 | FRANCE ON EXPANDING UN PARTICIPATION OF DEPENDENT [...] Deputy Polcouns discussed reftel points on rights of dependent territories March 16 and again March 17 with MFA IO Political Affairs DAS-equivalent Jean-Hughes Simon-Michel, whose office is also responsible for decolonization issues but does not deal directly with the UN Economic Commission f [...] | 2006-03-17 16:30:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL FR PGOV ECON XL UNO ECLAC |
| 06PARIS2928 | FRENCH MFA ANTICIPATES DONATION TO OAS ELECTION [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche May 4 to MFA Guyana Desk Officer Eric Amblard, who indicated that the GoF was troubled by the growing violence, instability, and likely electoral delays in Guyana. According to Amblard, the precarious situation was a driving force in Guyanese immigration [...] | 2006-05-04 13:18:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OAS KDEM PGOV FR GY |
| 06PARIS5024 | PARIS CLUB - JULY 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON AND AFGHAN DEBT [...] (SBU) At the July 18-19 meeting of the Paris Club, creditors agreed on exceptionally generous debt relief for Afghanistan, which achieved three main objectives: (1) 92% of Afghanistan's debt stock will be canceled immediately; (2) all interest falling due between now and the end of the IMF pr [...] | 2006-07-25 12:38:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR |
| 06PARIS7491 | PARIS CLUB - NOVEMBER 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON [...] (U) At the November 15 meeting of the Paris Club, creditors decided on an initial response to Argentine Finance Secretary MacLaughlin's letter to the Club expressing the GOA's desire to restart a dialogue and normalize relations as soon as possible. Creditors agreed that Paris Club Chairman Mu [...] | 2006-11-21 15:14:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE1379 | PREVAL SAYS CARICOM WILL SUPPORT VENEZUELA FOR [...] (C) Summary: President Preval asserted to A/S Shannon July 25 that CARICOM had adopted a common position in support of Venezuela's bid for a UNSC seat. Preval judged that Guyana had softened its opposition to Venezuela, clearing the way for a CARICOM consensus. Shannon explained that Guat [...] | 2006-07-31 14:18:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | GT HA PREL |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE1387 | PREVAL SAYS CARICOM WILL SUPPORT VENEZUELA FOR [...] (C) Summary: A/S Shannon used the opportunity of a July 25 meeting with Haitian President Preval to urge Haiti to support Guatemala for the GRULAC UNSC seat. President Preval asserted that CARICOM had adopted a common position in support of Venezuela's bid for a UNSC seat. Shannon noted th [...] | 2006-07-31 18:42:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC VZ GT HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE2373 | GOH TO ANNOUNCE NEW CARICOM OFFICE [...] Summary: President Rene Preval appointed a new advisory council on external relations consisting of financial specialists Marie Michelle Rey, Charles Clarmant, and Preval's financial advisor (and presumed fiancee) Elizabeth Delatour. He created the advisory council in September to review rel [...] | 2006-12-14 17:17:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE2477 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT REFLECTS ON THE 48TH [...] (SBU) Summary: The first session of the 48th Legislature concluded on December 28. National Assembly President Joseph Lambert believes that the legislators laid the foundation for a stronger democratic institution with the prospect of greater productivity in the future despite the paucity of [...] | 2006-12-29 15:21:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HA |
| 06PORTOFSPAIN1126 | PM MANNING FRUSTRATED OVER CARICOM RESPONSE TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a September 8 meeting with DOE A/S Karen Harbert and WHA DAS Patrick Duddy, PM Manning voiced frustration with CARICOM colleagues over their stance on Petrocaribe but at the same time said he would go along with a "CARICOM decision" to support Venezuela's bid for a UNSC seat. [...] | 2006-09-22 21:14:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET UNSC PREL PGOV VE TD |
| 06PORTOFSPAIN1152 | AMBASSADOR DEMARCHES NEW T&T FM ON VENEZUELA'S [...] (C) During an October 3 courtesy call on new T&T Foreign Minister Arnold Piggott to congratulate him on his appointment, the Ambassador raised Venezuela,s candidacy for the 2007/2008 Latin American and Caribbean non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council, drawing on the talking points in S [...] | 2006-10-04 20:27:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC GT VZ TD |
| 06PORTOFSPAIN1349 | SECRETARY AND CARICOM: BROAD DIALOGUE NEEDED [...] (C) SUMMARY. Secretary Chertoff,s October 26 meeting with CARICOM representatives highlighted the potential for greater cooperation building on existing structures for Cricket World Cup 2007. CARICOM is happy to receive assistance for Cricket World Cup, and further collaboration on interdic [...] | 2006-11-24 10:31:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EAID XL TD |
| 06PORTOFSPAIN677 | GUATEMALA'S UNSC CANDIDACY - APPROACH TO TRINIDAD [...] (C) Ambassador called on Prime Minister Manning June 1 to discuss ref A. A/DCM accompanied the Ambassador at the meeting. No paper was left behind. 2. (C) Ambassador informed Manning that we had heard earlier (ref B) that T&T had a favorable view of Guatemala's qualifications to be a cand [...] | 2006-06-02 15:42:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC TD |
| 06PORTOFSPAIN787 | PARAGUAY TO MEET CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES ON WTO [...] A brief AP story appeared in the June 28 Trinidad Express business supplement regarding Paraguay and the waiver in the World Trade Organization (reftels) for countries enjoying benefits of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA). The article, reporting on a recent meeting in Guyana, [...] | 2006-06-29 14:19:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD WTRO EAID TD XL |
| 06PORTOFSPAIN809 | EXTRAORDINARY COOPERATION FROM T&T ON MOVING [...] (C) On June 29, Suriname expelled Guyanese national Roger Shaheed Khan from prison. Suriname arrested Khan for drug and weapons charges, but determined to expel him from the country after determining that he was in the country illegally and that their case against him was "insufficient." Th [...] | 2006-07-06 15:32:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR KCRM TD |
| 06PORTOFSPAIN884 | TRINIDAD ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS JULY, PART 1 [...] Caribbean Star/Sun expanding operations in T&T --------------------------------------------- ------- To better support an expansion in service from Trinidad, Caribbean Star Airlines has established a new crew base and maintenance facility at Piarco Airport in Port of Spain. The new crew bas [...] | 2006-07-25 14:33:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAIR EIND KCOR TD |
| 06PORTOFSPAIN920 | SCENESETTER FOR DHS SECRETARY CHERTOFF'S VISIT TO T&T [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Secretary Chertoff, my team and I look forward to welcoming you to Trinidad and Tobago. T&T is a major political and economic player in the region, and your visit will help underscore the importance we plac [...] | 2006-08-03 18:18:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER OVIP ASEC CARICOM TD |
| 06SANTIAGO879 | DONORS TO SUPPORT OAS ELECTION EFFORTS IN GUYANA [...] (C) Poloff orally delivered reftel points to Foreign Ministry Deputy Director for Multilateral Affairs Jose Manuel Lira on April 26. Lira agreed it was important for the international community to support OAS efforts to get the electoral process back on track. He confirmed the GOC already ha [...] | 2006-04-27 17:00:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OAS KDEM PGOV CI GY |
| 06SEOUL4382 | ROKG WELCOMES USG SUPPORT ON ECLAC MEMBERSHIP [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-27 05:10:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ECON ECLAC KS LA |
| 06THEHAGUE1041 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR [...] (U) PRC Ambassador Xue Hanqin asked to meet with Amb. Javits on April 28 to discuss a number of issues. Xue raised the PRC request on the margins of last year's Conference of States Parties for bilateral discussions concerning issues ranging from destruction of abandoned CW to chemical indust [...] | 2006-05-09 14:50:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
| 06THEHAGUE642 | NETHERLANDS: CONCERN SIMMERS OVER VENEZUELAN [...] (C) Summary: WHA PDAS Charles Shapiro met March 15 with Dutch MFA, Interior, MOD and military intelligence officials. The Dutch message was consistent. The GONL is deeply concerned about developments in Venezuela - its neighbor - but does not currently see a direct military threat to the Net [...] | 2006-03-24 13:40:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PGOV BL CU CO NT VE NL |
| 06TOKYO4618 | JAPAN WILL NOT CONTRIBUTE TO GUYANA'S ELECTION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-15 07:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OAS KDEM PGOV GY JA |
| 06USUNNEWYORK1323 | WRAP-UP OF UN CHARTER COMMITTEE MEETING APRIL [...] SUMMARY: The Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization ("Charter Committee") held its annual meeting at UN Headquarters from April 3 to 13, 2006. The Charter Committee adopted a Japanese working paper regarding the Commit [...] | 2006-07-06 21:22:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA |
| 06USUNNEWYORK2166 | UN FINANCES: IMPROVING THE FINANCIAL SITUATION OF [...] SUMMARY: ON NOVEMBER 9 AND 15TH , THE FIFTH COMMITTEE (ADMINISTRATIVE AND BUDGETARY) RESUMED CONSIDERATION AND DISCUSSION ON IMPROVING THE FINANCIAL SITUATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS. CONTROLLER WARREN SACH HAD PREVIOUSLY (REFTEL) EMPHASIZED THE FOLLOWING THREE POINTS IN HIS STATEMENT PERTAINI [...] | 2006-11-17 15:06:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UNGA KUNR |
| 06USUNNEWYORK2222 | UN CAPITAL MASTER PLAN: INTRODUCTORY STATEMENTS [...] SUMMARY: On November 30 and December 4, the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) considered the Capital Master Plan, with several speakers emphasizing the need to take an early decision on the financing of the Plan so the project could move forward quickly. The UN acting under-secr [...] | 2006-12-06 23:28:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UNGA KUNR |
| 06USUNNEWYORK2298 | UNGA 6TH COMMITTEE DEBATES NEW TOPIC -- THE RULE [...] (U) Summary. On November 16, the Sixth (Legal) Committee adopted without a vote the draft resolution on the "Rule of law at the national and international levels" (A/C.6/61/L.18) (as verbally amended). The U.S. joined consensus (REFS A, B). The resolution places the rule of law item on the [...] | 2006-12-27 23:57:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA |
| 06USUNNEWYORK645 | UNSC OPEN DEBATE ON HAITI: ALL SMILES AND MANY [...] Summary. During an open debate on Haiti in the United Nations Security Council on March 27, UN Secretary-General Annan and representatives from 30 countries -- including Foreign Ministers or Vice-Ministers from Greece, Guyana, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Peru, Chile, and Br [...] | 2006-03-30 23:35:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KPKO UNSC HA |
| 07ASUNCION101 | PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE FEBRUARY 3 [...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Pucheta New Supreme Court Chief Justice -- Senator Morinigo in Intensive Care; Driver Dead -- Senate Approves Peacekeepers for Cyprus -- Paraguay Second-Least Competitive Country in Americas -- IPR Unit Attacked in Press PUCHETA NEW SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE 2. (C) S [...] | 2007-02-09 18:24:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON EINV MCAP MOPS PA |
| 07BRASILIA1105 | BRAZIL: IPR TRAINING REQUEST [...] In accordance with requirements presented in reftel A, Embassy Brasilia submits the following proposal for 2007 IPR enforcement training. The proposal is for a grant of $43,900 to provide a two-day high-level workshop for law enforcement officials (Federal Police, Customs, Highway Patrol) and [...] | 2007-06-15 11:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ECON BR |
| 07BRASILIA1185 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 96 [...] The following is the ninety-sixth in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expres [...] | 2007-06-22 19:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 07BRASILIA132 | RUSSIA DOWNPLAYS MILITARY SALES IN BRAZIL BUT [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador met with his Russian counterpart, Ambassador Vladimir L. Tyurdenev, on January 12, 2007 at the Russian Embassy. Tyurdenev spoke candidly about bilateral relations, trade, Russian hopes to furnish equipment and exprtise to the potential regional gas pipeline proect, [...] | 2007-01-25 13:37:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ENRG BR RU |
| 07BRASILIA1431 | BRAZIL: IPR TRAINING REQUEST [...] Embassy is resending this as an amendment to reftel F to incorporate suggestions made by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). 2. SUMMARY: In accordance with requirements presented in reftel A, Embassy Brasilia submits the following proposal for 2007 IPR enforcement traini [...] | 2007-07-26 19:08:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ECON BR |
| 07BRASILIA1463 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 98 [...] The following is the ninety-eighth in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expre [...] | 2007-08-01 14:13:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 07BRASILIA1520 | FISCAL DATA FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ENFORCEMENT WORKSHOP IN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-08 19:13:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV OTRA VE BR |
| 07BRASILIA1774 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 99 [...] The following is the ninety-nine in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views express [...] | 2007-09-17 19:20:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 07BRASILIA1803 | EPA TRAININGS STRENGTHEN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ENFORCEMENT IN [...] (U) Summary: Using funds from OES, three trainings on environmental law enforcement were carried out by EPA experts in August 2007 in Medellin (Colombia),Lima (Peru),and Georgetown (Guyana). With support from the Regional Environmental HUB Office, ECON Offices in each respective country, and [...] | 2007-09-21 10:09:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 07BRASILIA1865 | VENEZUELAN MERCOSUL ACCESSION MAY NOT PASS [...] (SBU) Summary. The bill to approve Venezuelan accession to Mercosul may not pass the Brazilian congress, in spite of support from the administration and the government's large majority in the chamber of deputies. President Chavez may have torpedoed Venezuela's chances when, at the September [...] | 2007-09-28 19:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN BR VE XR |
| 07BRASILIA1893 | NAS BRASILIA REPORT FOR SEPTEMBER 2007 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: NAS-supported activities during September -- though still limited in size and scope -- continued to produce results. In particular, two key NAS and DEA-supported operations carried out by the Brazilian Federal Police (DPF) resulted in several arrests and the seizure of signific [...] | 2007-10-03 19:08:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR EAID KCRM PREL BR |
| 07BRASILIA2062 | Ambassador Sobel's meeting with the Senate Foreign [...] (SBU) Summary. Members of the Senate Foreign Relations and National Defense Committee told Ambassador Sobel in a closed, informal meeting on October 16 of concerns about a possible U.S.-Brazil tax treaty, fears of Venezuelan aggression, support for the Doha Round, and hopes for sustainable de [...] | 2007-10-30 13:55:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ETRD BR |
| 07BRASILIA2068 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 101 [...] The following is the one-hundred-first in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views e [...] | 2007-10-30 19:27:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 07BRASILIA2069 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 101 [...] The following is the one-hundred-first in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views e [...] | 2007-10-31 09:54:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 07BRASILIA2151 | FORMER PRESIDENT URGES USG TO COUNTER CHAVEZ [...] (C) Summary. Former President and sitting senator Jose Sarney (PMDB, Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, governing coalition; of Amapa) urges the USG to do more to counter Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's increasingly destabilizing actions in the region. Sarney said Chavez threatens to c [...] | 2007-11-19 15:49:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PBTS MASS MCAP BR GY VE IR RS |
| 07BRASILIA2171 | BIOFUELS IN BRAZIL [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to reftel request, and pursuant to request for extension to Oct. 19 response date, Post submits the following information regarding the development and adoption of bio-based chemical products and liquid biofuels in Brazil, including research and reports available, [...] | 2007-11-23 10:45:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV PREL EINV ECON PGOV OTRA BR |
| 07BRASILIA313 | VENEZUELA'S GROWING MILITARY PROWESS AND CLAIMS [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Sobel gave a dinner on February 13 for veteran political figures that drew out opinions on political reform, relations with the U.S., party behavior, and grave concerns about a perceived growing menace from Venezuela. Guests included a former president; the presid [...] | 2007-02-23 14:39:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL BR XM SCUL |
| 07BRIDGETOWN1351 | BARBADOS WORKER'S UNION DISPUTE WITH ADM BARBADOS [...] Sir Roy Trotman, General Secretary of the Barbados Workers' Union, sent the following letter to Laboff on Friday, October 19. Begin text: Dear Mr. Aller I am aware that part of your duties is to say (sic) on top of US business relations with the people of Barbados generally and particu [...] | 2007-10-23 16:42:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON PGOV PREL BB XL |
| 07BRIDGETOWN1440 | AMBASSADOR OURISMAN TO ST. LUCIA: ARTICLE 98, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador's October 17-19 trip to St. Lucia was highlighted by a positive meeting with PM King that helped move our Article 98 agenda forward. In addition, the Ambassador's presentation of USD 2 million to the OECS for a biodiversity grant and USD 39,000 worth of DSATA bomb [...] | 2007-11-20 15:11:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID EINV EIND ASEC CASC KTIA ST XL |
| 07BRIDGETOWN1499 | DEPORTEE DEBATE: FLOGGING OLD MYTHS [...] (sbu) Summary: Objectivity continued to lose the battle against alarmism during a discussion of the criminal deportee issue at the December 4 inter-sessional meeting of the Association of Caribbean Chiefs of Police in Barbados. Local media keyed on an alarmist - and as yet unpublished - CA [...] | 2007-12-07 15:39:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM SOCI PHUM PREL XL |
| 07BRIDGETOWN265 | TIP SUBMISSION - ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA [...] (U) As requested in reftel, below are Post's responses to questions regarding Antigua and Barbuda for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. ------------------ Para 27 - Overview ------------------ 2. (SBU) A. Is the country a country of origin, transit, or destination for int [...] | 2007-03-01 22:42:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF AC XL |
| 07BRIDGETOWN284 | THIRD CWC 2007 ISAG MEETING: CWC TO WALK BY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The International Support and Advisory Group (ISAG) for Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007 held its third plenary session February 23 in Bridgetown, Barbados. The objective of the meeting was to bring together the group of hosting and playing nations and the international community fo [...] | 2007-03-05 21:39:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PREL PTER CASC PINR KCIP KTIA XL |
| 07BRIDGETOWN711 | AMBASSADOR OURISMAN'S MEETING WITH BARBADOS DPM [...] (C) Summary: In a May 30 introductory meeting with Ambassador Mary Ourisman, Barbados' Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Affairs and Development, Mia Mottley, thanked the United States for its assistance during Cricket World Cup and looked forward to further cooperation in the a [...] | 2007-06-05 17:13:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | BB ECON ETRD PGOV PINR PREL XL |
| 07BRIDGETOWN764 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR MANSFIELD BLACKWOOD [...] Embassy Bridgetown requests country clearance for Mansfield Blackwood, USAID Senior Technical Officer, to travel to Grenada June 20-21, 2007 and Georgetown from June 21-23, 2007. 2. The purpose of the visit to Grenada is to inspect sites for final certification under the Hurricane Ivan Pro [...] | 2007-06-13 18:45:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA EAID BB GJ XL GY XR |
| 07BRIDGETOWN777 | AMENDED COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR MANSFIELD BLACKWOOD [...] Embassy Bridgetown advises changes in travel schedule for Mansfield Blackwood, USAID Senior Technical Officer. Mr. Blackwood's travel dates are Grenada from June 22-23, 2007 and Georgetown from June 20-22, 2007. 2. The purpose of the visit to Grenada is to inspect sites for final certific [...] | 2007-06-14 20:05:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA EAID BB GJ XL GY XR |
| 07BRIDGETOWN907 | CARICOM HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING: HALTING [...] (C) Summary: The 28th CARICOM Heads of Government Conference took place in Barbados on July 1-4, 2007. Unsurprisingly, the Caribbean leaders agreed on a number of measures that should ensure some forward momentum in the region's integration efforts in the economic, security, and social develo [...] | 2007-07-16 19:46:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC BB EAID EAIR ETRD PGOV PINR PREL XL |
| 07BRIDGETOWN952 | CANADA PM STEPHEN HARPER ADDRESSES BARBADOS [...] (SBU) On July 19, Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, addressed a standing room only audience of approximately 200 senior officials, diplomats and top business representatives in Barbados. Harper unveiled Canada's plan to play a bigger role in the hemisphere and create "a new partnership [...] | 2007-07-27 15:11:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | BB ETRD ETTC PGOV PINR PREL XL |
| 07BRUSSELS3497 | ANTWERP DIAMOND OFFICIAL ALLEGES CHAVEZ EXPORTING [...] (C) A senior official in the Antwerp Diamond Center alleged on December 10 to DCM and ECOUNS that Venezuela may be exporting diamonds illegally through third countries, including Ghana and Congo-Brazzaville. The official explained that diamonds from Venezuela and British Guyana are geologic [...] | 2007-12-13 13:25:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD CF GY VE BE |
| 07BUENOSAIRES106 | MEDIA REACTION KIRCHNER-LULA'S ROLE IN MODERATING CHAVEZ; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend stories include Argentine President Kirchner and Brazilian President Lula da Silva's role in moderating Chavez in favor of Mercosur's interests; fears of China re-launching its space arms race; the two highest-ranking Democratic leaders of Congress criticizing the W [...] | 2007-01-22 19:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION |
| 07BUENOSAIRES2296 | ARGENTINA: 2007 INSCR PART I: DRUGS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-05 17:40:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR AR |
| 07CARACAS1306 | JOURNALISTS, STUDENTS COMMEMORATE "DAY OF THE [...] (SBU) Tens of thousands of Venezuelans participated in peaceful demonstrations nationwide on June 27 to commemorate the "Day of the Journalist" and to mark the one-month anniversary of the BRV-imposed shutdown of Radio Caracas Television (RCTV). In Caracas, the National Press Workers' Union o [...] | 2007-06-28 21:17:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI VE |
| 07CARACAS666 | SERVICE COMPANIES: THE NOOSE BEGINS TO TIGHTEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: PDVSA is considering the formation of one or more service companies that will compete directly with the private sector. In addition to this threat, service companies still face payment delays and a myriad of administrative hurdles in dealing with PDVSA. As a result, private sec [...] | 2007-03-30 17:34:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
| 07DUBAI394 | FORMER DUBAI DIAMOND EXCHANGE CEO ALLEGES SLACK CONTROLS ON [...] This is an action request for EB/ESC, see paragraph 14. 2. (S) SUMMARY: The former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Dubai Diamond Exchange (DDE),Noora Jamsheer, expressed concern to ConGenoff about the integrity of the UAE's adherence to the Kimberly Process (KP) to stem the trade in co [...] | 2007-06-20 10:08:00 | Consulate Dubai | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN EMIN PTER ETTC KCRM VE IR AE |
| 07GEORGETON514 | VAT TX BRINGS IN THE MONEY FOR GUYANA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-23 19:08:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV ETRD GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN1042 | INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT, PART I [...] (U) Post presents its 2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Part I, Drugs and Chemical Control Guyana: I. Summary Guyana is a transit point for cocaine destined for North America, Europe, and the Caribbean, but not in quantities sufficient to impact the U.S. market. In [...] | 2007-11-26 18:31:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN1075 | INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT, PART II [...] (U) Post presents its 2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Part II, Money Laundering and Financial Crimes. Begin text: Guyana is neither an important regional nor an offshore financial center, nor does it have any free trade zones. Money laundering is perceived as a serio [...] | 2007-12-11 11:19:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN108 | GUYANA'S NEW VAT AND TAX RECIPROCITY - REQUEST TO CONVOKE [...] Action request para 8 and 9. 2. The Government of Guyana (GoG) instituted a 16% VAT on 1 January 2007. Preparations for the VAT were insufficient at best (Reftel). The GoG's public education campaign was misleading on many points causing confusion and discontent among the public and the un [...] | 2007-01-26 12:24:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ABLD AFIN EAID EFIN GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN109 | RIO GROUP SUMMIT SET FOR MARCH 3 IN [...] (U) Summary: The 2007 Rio Group Summit of Heads of State will be held in Georgetown, Guyana on March 3, preceded by a Foreign Ministers meeting on March 1, and a National Coordinators meeting on February 28. GoG insiders characterize the Summit as unlikely to attract a large turnout and larg [...] | 2007-01-26 18:17:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN PINR XM VE GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN110 | GOVERNMENT PULLS ADS FROM INDEPENDENT DAILY [...] (SBU) Summary: Citing the paper's supposedly falling circulation figures, GOG recently stopped placing state advertisements in the independent Stabroek News. During the 2006 election campaign, President Jagdeo and ruling party officials repeatedly accused Stabroek News of criticizing the gover [...] | 2007-01-26 20:15:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN117 | Guyana Immigration CWC Training Reveals Security [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At GoG request, U.S. Embassy Consular officers participated as trainers in a recent Cricket World Cup Border Security Training Course for Guyanese Immigration and Customs Officers. The training made it clear that while some senior officers have basic knowledge of APIS and the Ca [...] | 2007-01-30 14:46:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS SMIG CVIS ASEC KFRD KHLS GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN138 | GUYANA PASSES WORLD CUP LEGISLATION - BETTER LATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Guyana's National Assembly unanimously passed four bills allowing Guyana to participate fully with the nine other Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries in a Single Domestic Space for the upcoming Cricket World Cup (CWC). The four bills were: (1) Immigration (Amendment) Act [...] | 2007-02-06 20:29:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS SMIG CVIS ASEC KFRD KHLS GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN141 | GUYANA PREPARES FOR FIRST PETROCARIBE OIL DELIVERY [...] (U) Petrocaribe is making its formal debut in Guyana in May amid unrealistic expectations. Optimistic Guyanese government leaders are prepared to reap its promised benefits but unprepared for the logistics and ramifications of doing business under the untested program. GoG officials also exp [...] | 2007-02-07 20:16:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PREL ENRG PBTS XL VE GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN147 | Guyana Finally Moves Towards Machine Readable Passports [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After more than ten years of delays, Guyana will finally begin issuing machine-readable passports (MRPs) this summer. After having bid on the project eleven years ago, Canadian Bank Note (CBN) was awarded the contract in December 2006. The company says that they will be ready to [...] | 2007-02-08 17:29:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS SNAR SMIG ASEC KFRD KCRM GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN152 | JAGDEO HITTING CRITICS WHERE IT HURTS [...] (C) Summary: An escalating conflict between the GOG and the independent Stabroek News over a recent withdrawal of government advertisements (reported reftel) illustrates President Jagdeo's mounting willingness to lash out at critics with more than verbal attacks. As more groups condemn the ad [...] | 2007-02-08 18:32:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN153 | ER Medical Team Cancels CWC Support Trip to Guyana [...] The serious lack of adequate medical facilities, equipment and trained medical staff in Guyana, especially for emergency care, is one of Post's greatest concerns as crisis management preparations are made for the upcoming Cricket World Cup (CWC) matches. A severe nursing shortage across Guyana [...] | 2007-02-08 19:26:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR CASC CMGT |
| 07GEORGETOWN175 | GUYANA'S 2007 BUDGET: THE VIEW THROUGH ROSE-TINTED [...] (SBU) Summary: Minister of Finance Ashni Singh presented the GoG's 2007 budget to parliament on February 2 under the banner of "Building a Modern and Prosperous Guyana." He said spending would hit US$500 million, or about 2.9 less than last year. At the same time, he forecast GDP growth at [...] | 2007-02-14 20:26:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EAID GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN207 | RIO GROUP SUMMIT RSVPS SLOW IN COMING [...] (C) Summary: With the 19th Rio Group Summit less than a week away, Guyana has only received one definite confirmation of attendance from a head of state. Although President Jagdeo and the local press have touted the Summit as a prestigious event in its own right and an important "dry run" for [...] | 2007-02-21 18:08:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN XM GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN211 | MAKE HASTE SLOWLY - CARICOM INTER-SESSIONAL [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Rudy Insanally told the Ambassdor that the Heads of Government participating in the 18th CARICOM Inter-Sessional in St. Vincent on February 12-14 were determined to "make haste slowly" on a range of issues including governance, trade, economic development and re [...] | 2007-02-22 16:36:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN EAID EAGR ENGR EAIR SMIG CARICOM XL |
| 07GEORGETOWN267 | SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (SBU) The following is Embassy Georgetown's submission of information requested in reftel for the 2007 Annual Trafficking in Persons Report. --------------------------------------------- -- Begin Report: Overview of country's activities to eliminate trafficking in persons: ----------------- [...] | 2007-03-12 20:47:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SMIG ASEC PREF ELAB KCRM KWMN KFRD GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN279 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN REFORM: INTERNAL [...] (U) Poloff and DCM delivered reftel demarche to Ambassador Elizabeth Harper, Director General of Guyana's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ambassador Harper promised to look at the points closely and discuss it with the Minister of Foreign Affairs (who concurrently serves as Guyana's Permanent Re [...] | 2007-03-15 19:24:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC ACABQ UNGA GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN282 | VULNERABILITY OF FRC REGIONAL SUPPORT PERSONNEL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-16 17:05:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | APER ODIP AODE AMGT KLIG |
| 07GEORGETOWN283 | JAGDEO ON HUMAN RIGHTS, DRUGS AND VENEZUELA [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with President Bharrat Jagdeo in his office and at his request on March 15 to discuss the INCSR and Human Rights Report. Jagdeo objected to the methodology and tone of both documents, describing them as on-going irritants, and said he hoped to discuss their o [...] | 2007-03-16 20:35:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON PBTS KCRM VE GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN288 | Civil Document Vulnerability Compromises Visa Security - [...] (U) Georgetown continues to wrestle with excessive fraud in all aspects of consular services. Longstanding issues such as sham marriages and engagements, corruption in the issuance of passports and civil documents, as well as more recent concerns involving fraud in HIV testing, complicate adjud [...] | 2007-03-20 21:01:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS SMIG KCRM KFRD GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN293 | Foreign Policy Decision-Making in Guyana and CARICOM--A [...] (SBU) In late November 2006 post delivered a Diplomatic Note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) proposing an arrangement for the deployment of armed Federal Air Marshals (FAM) on flights between the United States and Guyana to bolster counterterrorism efforts in the region (ref A). Despi [...] | 2007-03-22 20:25:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECIN EAIR CARICOM GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN295 | EAB REPORT ON 2006 ELECTIONS: FREE AND FAIR, BUT [...] (U) SUMMARY: More than six months after election day, the local Electoral Assistance Bureau (EAB) released its Final Report on Guyana's 2006 National and Regional Elections. The EAB declared the elections "free and fair" and found the Final Declaration of Results was "largely representative o [...] | 2007-03-23 12:27:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM OAS GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN319 | Cuban Doctors Fearful in Guyana [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-30 17:55:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM CVIS PREL SMIG CU GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN324 | Cuban Doctors Fearful in Guyana [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post has interviewed six applicants for significant public benefit parole (SPBP) under the Cuban Medical Personnel program. Five came to Guyana as conscripted members of the Cuban medical brigade. As they await a decision on their applications, some of these doctors fear that [...] | 2007-03-30 20:56:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM CVIS PREL SMIG CU GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN338 | GUYANA STOCK MARKET OFFERS LITTLE HOPE FOR LOCAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The four year-old Guyana stock market is handicapped by the tiny number of listed companies, low trading volume, and regulatory problems. These make the market an unattractive alternative to saving accounts, real estate, and migration. End summary. 2. (U) The Guyanese Asso [...] | 2007-04-04 19:51:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON AFSN AFIN APER BEXP ELAB GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN363 | NEW VENEZUELAN AMBASSADOR STILL A NO SHOW [...] (C) Dario Morandy Figuera, publicly announced last month by Venezuela's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) as the new Ambassador to Guyana, has still not formally arrived in Guyana. Although he did visit Guyana during the recent Rio Group Summit, he had to return to Caracas as the GoG had yet [...] | 2007-04-11 20:43:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GY VE |
| 07GEORGETOWN386 | HAPPILY NEVER AFTER: PRESIDENT TO DIVORCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ending public speculation regarding the status of their relationship, President Bharrat Jagdeo and First Lady Varshnie Jagdeo yesterday announced the end of their nine year marriage. The announcement came as a shock to no one-rumors of adultery, separation, and domestic violence [...] | 2007-04-17 20:38:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN388 | GUYANA GOVERNANCE REFORMS: SLOW AND NOT TOO STEADY [...] (C) Summary: The President's Advisor on Governance recently reported some limited progress on constitutional and judicial reform, local government elections, and the appointment of parliamentary committees, but she was skeptical about the GOG's ability to follow through in a timely manner. Gi [...] | 2007-04-19 16:59:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN391 | GUYANA-CARICOM ATTENDENCE AT THE CONFERENCE ON THE [...] (U) Per MFA Director General Elisabeth Harper, the tentative GoG delegation to the Conference on the Caribbean will include -- President Bharrat Jagdeo -- Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Rudy Insanally -- Minister of Foreign Trade & International Cooperation Dr. Henry Jeffrey -- Chief Execut [...] | 2007-04-23 11:19:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KSUM CARICOM GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN400 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN CORRUPTION AND CRIME [...] Guyana: Charge raised the UNCAC and UNTOC April 19 with MFA Director General Elisabeth Harper and MFA Acting Director for Americas and Asia Audrey Wadell. Harper said the Cabinet sub-committee on governance discussed the UNCAC the week before. Wadell was aware of the UNTOC questionaires and s [...] | 2007-04-24 20:36:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PTER PGOV KCRM KCOR CARICOM GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN403 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GUYANA ON CARICOM-U.S. [...] Charge raised the CITIA with MFA Director General Elisabeth Harper April 19. Amb. Harper noted that CARICOM had recently recirculated the CITIA and said that the GoG had signed off on it. In response to the U.S. proposal to release the statement bilaterally if CARICOM remains unable to agree [...] | 2007-04-25 11:21:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MASS PARM PREL CARICOM GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN406 | CARICOM ON CITIA STATEMENT AND CONFERENCE ON THE [...] (SBU) DCM delivered the CITIA demarche to CARICOM A/SG Granderson April 24. In his introductory chatter Granderson noted the difficulty the CARICOM Secretariat has in preparing for the multitude of high-level CARICOM meetings and in following up on action items afterwards. In response to CIT [...] | 2007-04-25 20:33:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC PARM MASS KSUM CARICOM GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN407 | GUYANA NOT CAPABLE OF ASSISTING IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-25 20:57:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER IZ GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN435 | CARICOM: LITTLE PROGRESS ON CONFERENCE ON THE [...] (SBU) After a month of trying for a substantive discussion with CARICOM Secretariat on the agenda for the 20/20 Conference, Secretary General Carrington told Ambassador that CARICOM agrees with the broad themes suggested by the U.S. and wished to add another "Migration and Development" that mi [...] | 2007-05-04 19:53:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETTC KSUM CARICOM XL |
| 07GEORGETOWN445 | LOCAL ELECTIONS IN 2007: MAYBE YES, MAYBE NO [...] (U) Summary: Rhetoric about local elections, more than ten years overdue, is heating up. The ruling People's Progressive Party (PPP) wants them before the end of 2007; the opposition People's National Congress (PNC) wants a new voters list first. In the end, it may come down to what Presi [...] | 2007-05-09 16:49:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN447 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNHRC CANDIDACY OF BELARUS [...] (C) Poloff delivered demarche on UN Human Rights Council Candidacy of Belarus on May 4, 2007 to Jacqueline Hamer, Director of Multilateral and Global Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ms. Hamer stated that Guyana was currently looking at many different candidates for UNHRC seats, bu [...] | 2007-05-09 20:11:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM PREL UNHRC GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN455 | MAKING THE USNS COMFORT A SUCCESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Guyana's capital and populated coastal areas benefit from one of the more impressive primary health care delivery systems in the low-income world. On the other hand, Guyana's hinterland areas are in great need of the primary health care services the USNS Comfort's ashore team co [...] | 2007-05-11 13:12:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID MASS MOPS PREL TBIO XK XL GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN464 | Commercial Land Lines to Guyana Out of Service [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-11 20:05:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ACOA CMGT ASEC AMGT KRIM GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN501 | GUYANA CONCERNED BY THE GROWING IRAN-VENEZUELA [...] (C) DCM delivered demarche on the growing Iran-Venezuela relationship to MFA Director General Elisabeth Harper on May 18. Amb. Harper took particular note of the points on weapons technology cooperation. She said that given the Venezuelan claim on two-thirds of Guyana's territory, Guyana "v [...] | 2007-05-18 18:12:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS PTER VE IR GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN502 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] (U) DCM delivered demarche on the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism to MFA Director General Elisabeth Harper on May 18. Ambassador Harper noted that Guyana has long been sensitized to the fight against terrorism as Guyana was itself victim of two terrorist attacks: the 1976 bombing [...] | 2007-05-18 18:12:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PARM RU GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN506 | Commercial Land Lines to Guyana Back In Service [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-21 19:50:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ACOA CMGT ASEC AMGT KRIM GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN511 | Foreign Medical Assistance in Guyana [...] Embassy Georgetown is committed to working with the Department, the Pentagon, and Southcom to carry through successfully the President's mandate that the USNS Comfort's visit will aid "people who might not otherwise get the basic health care they need to realize a better tomorrow." The Guyanes [...] | 2007-05-22 17:40:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID MASS MOPS PREL SOCI TBIO KPAO GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN514 | VAT TAX BRINGS IN THE MONEY FOR GUYANA [...] Summary: The returns are in from Guyana's newly instituted Value-Added Tax (VAT),and the government of Guyana is in the enviable position of adding more dollars to its reserves than initially projected. Leaked news of the positive returns re-ignited issues debated when the tax made its debut i [...] | 2007-05-23 19:08:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV ETRD GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN535 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IMPORTANCE OF INTL SUPPORT FOR [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered demarche on Importance of INTL Support for CT Objectives Under UNSCR 1267 on May 17, 2007 to Leslie Dowridge-Collins, Acting Director of Multilateral and Global Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ms. Dowridge-Collins said that the MFA acknowledges the importanc [...] | 2007-05-30 18:22:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PTER GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN536 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IMPLEMENTING UNSCR 1747 [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered demarche on Implementing Operative Paragraph 5 of UN Security Council Resolution 1747 on May 17, 2007 to Leslie Dowridge-Collins, Acting Director of Multilateral and Global Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ms. Dowridge-Collins said that the MFA acknowledges t [...] | 2007-05-30 18:24:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM ETTC GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN556 | GOVERNMENT REACTION: GUYANA AND THE JFK TERROR PLOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: With emotions ranging from defensiveness, to apprehension, to contrition, President Bharrat Jagdeo initiated multiple conversations with the Ambassador through the weekend regarding the JFK terror plot, distancing his government from the Guyanese involved and reiterating that Guya [...] | 2007-06-04 20:42:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER PGOV PREL CVIS GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN578 | UPDATED GUYANA ATTENDENCE AT THE CONFERENCE OF THE [...] Guyana has substantially changed its delegation to the Conference of the Caribbean. Per MFA CARICOM Desk Officer Nikki Cole, the final GoG delegation to the Conference of the Caribbean will be: -- President Bharrat Jagdeo -- Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Rudy Insanally -- Minister of Fore [...] | 2007-06-11 19:05:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KSUM GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN582 | SECOND UPDATED GUYANA ATTENDANCE AT THE CONFERENCE [...] After checking with the MFA three times yesterday, and sending GEORGETOWN 578, Poloff was contacted by MFA and told that they have now added Kwabena Frinpong, Head of Policy Coordination Unit in the Office of the President, to the GoG delegation. 2. Guyana has substantially changed its del [...] | 2007-06-12 13:38:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KSUM GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN584 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PROMOTING TRANSPARENCY AND [...] Poloff delivered demarche on Promoting Transparency and Accountability at the UNDP on June 12 to Jacqueline Hamer, Director of Multilateral and Global Affairs at Guyana's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ms. Hamer thanked us for the information and stated that she would forward it to Guyana's repr [...] | 2007-06-12 15:14:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EFIN EAID KUNR GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN59 | VAT AND CASINO GAMBLING CAUSE PUBLIC DISCORD AND [...] (SBU) Summary: The PPP/C government,s sloppy implementation of VAT and heavy-handed efforts to legalize casino gambling are giving rise to public discontent and fueling internal dissent within the party. End Summary. 2. (U) The difficult introduction of VAT in Guyana was reported reftel. [...] | 2007-01-16 19:39:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KCOR SNAR PGOV GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN607 | GOVERNMENT THREATENED BY ANOTHER DRUG SCANDAL; [...] (C) The GoG is threatened with yet another narco-trafficking scandal. An anonymous letter to the Commissioner of Police threatens to release audio and video surveillance recordings that link government and PPP figures to cocaine trafficking unless the Commissioner removes a corrupt senior pol [...] | 2007-06-19 16:36:00 | Embassy Georgetown | SECRET | SNAR PGOV PREL MARR PINR KCRM KCOR GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN642 | DEPORTEES: PROPORTIONALLY, GUYANA DEPORTS MORE [...] The issue of deportation was raised by President Bharrat Jagdeo and other heads of government at the Conference on the Caribbean. Caribbean interest in deportation is normally presented as a concern over the impact on small nations of the large number of deportees they must absorb. However, [...] | 2007-06-29 14:05:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS SMIG PREL CASC GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN713 | PNCR'S RETURN TO POLITICS AS USUAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Robert Corbin was returned unopposed as Leader of the People's National Congress Reform (PNCR) after Vincent Alexander and his team of supporters formally withdrew from the elections for party leader and members of the Central Executive Committee (CEC). Alexander's withdrawal, [...] | 2007-07-23 20:12:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN776 | GUYANA PREPARES TO ENTER BIO-ENERGY FIELD [...] (U) SUMMARY: Guyana recently hosted a two-day, regional agro-energy seminar to discuss the current world bio-energy market and the prospects of developing bio-fuel opportunities in Guyana, Barbados, and Jamaica. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) pledged US $850,000 to Guyana to help j [...] | 2007-08-16 18:50:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EAGR EAID EFIN ECON GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN795 | JAGDEO PROMOTES LT. COLONELS TO DEFENSE GENERAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Bharrat Jagdeo announced that Coast Guard Captain Gary Best, one of four officers promoted to O-6 rank last week, will be appointed the next Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defense Force (GDF). The other three new colonels will take senior positions in the GDF General Sta [...] | 2007-08-24 13:44:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MCAP PGOV PINS PREL GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN805 | REQUEST TO REPROGRAM INL FUNDS [...] (U) Post requests to reprogram INL Allotment No: 0107-05-01 ($100,000). 2. (SBU) Post was granted US$100,000, pursuant to INL Allotment No: 0107-05-01, in September 2005 to fund a proposed Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) project to create a vetted DEA unit in Guyana. As of this date, no fun [...] | 2007-08-29 15:06:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR AFIN AMGT GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN812 | PRESIDENT PARDONS TREASON ACCUSED MARK BENSCHOP [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Jagdeo paradoned Mark Benschop, the treason accused detainee who has been imprisoned since 2002 for alleged involvement in storming the Office of the President. Benschop, whose first trial resulted in a hung jury in 2004, reluctantly accepted the pardon, but vowed to co [...] | 2007-08-29 19:41:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM GY |
| 07GEORGETOWN818 | MCC SIGNING CEREMONY'S REVEALING INSIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 23rd, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Deputy Chairman Rodney Bent participated in a signing ceremony for the US$6.7 million two-year Guyana Threshold Program contract. The event was covered by all television and radio news programs and reported in each of the thr [...] | 2007-08-31 19:19:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAID EFIN PGOV PREL GY |
| 07GRENADA164 | WHA/CAR DIRECTOR DE PIRRO VISITS TO GRENADA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: WHA/CAR Director Velia De Pirro met with a range of local government officials and community leaders during her November 12-13 visit to Grenada. In her meetings, De Pirro reiterated continued U.S. engagement in the region and stressed the importance of demonstrating support for [...] | 2007-11-21 13:07:00 | Embassy Grenada | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV CASC CVIS KCRM EFIN ASEC GJ |
| 07KATHMANDU1142 | MELAMCHI: ADB'S $350 MILLION DREAM IN JEOPARDY [...] (SBU) The future of the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) USD 350 million Melamchi Water Supply Project has grown increasingly uncertain since the new Maoist Minister for Physical Planning and Construction, Hisila Yami, decided in early May to postpone awarding the contract for the management of [...] | 2007-06-11 13:10:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ETRD EAID SENV NP |
| 07KATHMANDU762 | ELECTION COMMISSION CALLS FOR ELECTION DELAY; [...] (C) IFES Country Representative Peter Erben told the Ambassador April 13 that Chief Election Commissioner Bhoj Raj Pokhrel had given a letter to Prime Minister Koirala stating that a Constituent Assembly election could not be held by June 20. Pokhrel and his fellow commissioners were asking f [...] | 2007-04-13 12:44:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER UN NP |
| 07KINGSTON1810 | JAMAICA WILL NOT ACCEPT DEPORTEE REINTEGRATION [...] Summary: (SBU) On December 20, the Jamaican Prime Minister rejected the U.S. offer of assistance for returning deportees through the pilot Deportee Reintegration Program. This decision was based on adherence to a reported collective decision by CARICOM Heads of Government to discuss the prog [...] | 2007-12-21 21:56:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PHUM JM |
| 07KINGSTON820 | JAMAICA: GOJ OFFICIALS RAISE QUESTIONS/CONCERNS [...] (C) Deputy Director of WHA/CAR Karen Williams, DCM, and poloff visited Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT) Permanent Secretary Ambassador Douglas Saunders on May 22. Williams raised the issue of the Government of Venezuela's attempts to enlist OAS support in calling for the e [...] | 2007-05-25 14:51:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI OAS XM XL JM |
| 07LONDON317 | INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO): [...] SUMMARY: The International Maritime Organization (IMO) met at Central Hall Westminster in London, UK from 06-09 November 2006, to hold the ninety-seventh session of the Council (C97) chaired by Mr. Johann Franson (Sweden). Topics of significant interest included: Condolences for the recent pa [...] | 2007-01-25 16:18:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHSA EWWT ECPS MOPS AORC IMO KTIA |
| 07MONTEVIDEO89 | THE MERCOSUR RIO SUMMIT: USELESS FOR URUGUAY [...] (C) Summary: The following was gathered from press reports and from our close contacts within the GOU. It represents the view from Uruguay, where dissatisfaction with Mercosur has been steadily growing. President Vazquez's expectations for the Rio Mercosur Summit were reportedly "very low" [...] | 2007-01-24 20:20:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL ECIN AORC UY |
| 07NASSAU1455 | BAHAMAS REACTS POSITIVELY, SEEKS MORE INFO ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Bahamian officials reacted positively to initial briefings on the IOM Deportee Reintegration Pilot Project, but seek further details regarding its timing, progress and scope. They would also welcome clarification of the distinction between governmental and non-governmental invo [...] | 2007-12-06 21:35:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID PHUM SMIG BF |
| 07NICOSIA596 | CYPRUS'S FOUR NEW CABINET MINISTERS SWORN IN [...] (SBU) GOC President Tassos Papadopoulos announced July 13 the appointment of four new ministers (including the first woman Foreign Minister, career diplomat Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis) to serve for the remaining seven months of the current administration. The four replace the communist AKEL mini [...] | 2007-07-17 12:37:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ETRN CY |
| 07PARAMARIBO165 | CHINESE HIGH OFFICIAL VISITS: POPULAR WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Li Changchun, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee, arrived in Suriname on March 27 for a two-day visit. In a striking display of warm relations by the government of Suriname (GOS),Li was met by Vice Presi [...] | 2007-04-03 18:06:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV NS CH ECON |
| 07PARAMARIBO282 | DRUGS TO THE WEST, ROBBERY TO THE EAST: TAXI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Over the last two years, there have been 48 instances of Surinamese taxi drivers who have been victims of reported crimes up to and including murder. On the lone road west from Paramaribo to Guyana, the most common incidence is involvement in drug transportation. Taxi drivers [...] | 2007-06-05 19:36:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC SNAR PGOV NS |
| 07PARAMARIBO419 | HOW MUCH DISPUTED OIL? GOVERNMENT, MEDIA DISAGREE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Government officials are reluctant to give an estimate of the amount of oil in the disputed maritime area between Guyana and Suriname. Nevertheless, in recent years the GOS has sought out foreign investment with offshore production sharing agreements. As for quantity, media rep [...] | 2007-08-13 11:09:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EMIN ENRG EPET KTDB PBTS EINV NS |
| 07PARAMARIBO452 | PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN IN SURINAME--OR INSURANCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The owner of three fishing boats in Suriname,s second city, Nieuw Nickerie, reported a supposed act of piracy to the police on August 18-19. However, police inspectors told post insurance fraud, not pirates, is a more likely explanation of this incident near the Guyanese borde [...] | 2007-08-23 18:35:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PBTS NS |
| 07PARAMARIBO501 | (C) SCENESETTER AND READ-AHEAD FOR THE VISIT OF DEFENSE SECRETARY ROBERT GATES TO PARAMARIBO, SURINAME SATURDAY AFTERNOON OCTOBER 6, 2007 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-19 21:09:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR NS |
| 07PARAMARIBO509 | (C)Briefing information for October 6 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-20 19:35:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR NS |
| 07PARAMARIBO529 | MARITIME BORDER DECISION: SURINAMERS, DISAPPOINTED BUT [...] (U) SUMMARY. The fate of the disputed maritime area off the borders of Suriname and Guyana was settled September 20 in a long-awaited and much-anticipated decision by the U.N. International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS). While GOS President Ronald Venetiaan expressed satisfaction and [...] | 2007-09-27 20:55:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS EINV EPET PGOV PREL NS |
| 07PARAMARIBO576 | SURINAME: 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS [...] Post presents its 2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT (INCSR),Part I, Drugs and Chemical Control. Suriname I. Summary Suriname is a transit point for South American cocaine en route to Europe, Africa, and, to a lesser extent, the United States. The Government of Surinam [...] | 2007-11-02 17:20:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR NS |
| 07PARAMARIBO585 | STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS: FAILED ACTION OR OMINOUS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Protest demonstrations organized by the Youth Collective Suriname (JCS) continued on November 5 and marked the third time in less than a week that students took to the streets of Paramaribo, ostensibly to protest deficiencies in the educational system and other youth issues. Mem [...] | 2007-11-09 12:09:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV NS ASEC |
| 07PARAMARIBO586 | STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS: FAILED ACTION OR OMINOUS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Protest demonstrations organized by the Youth Collective Suriname (JCS) continued on November 5 and marked the third time in less than a week that students took to the streets of Paramaribo, ostensibly to protest deficiencies in the educational system and other youth issues. Mem [...] | 2007-11-09 12:10:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV NS ASEC |
| 07PARAMARIBO604 | SURINAME: 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] (U) 1. Post presents its 2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT (INCSR),Part II, Money Laundering and Financial Crimes. Suriname: I. Summary: Suriname is not a regional financial center and is not yet a significant site for money laundering when compared to other count [...] | 2007-11-21 19:48:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR EFIN KCRM KTFN NS |
| 07PARAMARIBO617 | JUSTICE MINISTER TALKS PRIVATELY ABOUT STRIKES, [...] (U) From Ambassador Lisa Bobbie Schreiber Hughes. 2. (C) In response to my telephone request, Justice and Police Minister Chandrikapersad Santokhi invited me and my RSO, Doug Marvin, to attend his November 29 meeting with Dutch Ambassador Tanya van Gool and her political officer to disc [...] | 2007-12-04 11:22:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASIC PREL SNAR NS |
| 07PARAMARIBO62 | PROMINENT SURINAMER OPTIMISTIC ABOUT MARITIME [...] (SBU) During a roundtable lunch for educators Kries Nandoe, Suriname's former Ambassador to the U.N., voiced his opinion about the maritime border dispute with Guyana currently being decided by an international tribunal in Washington. An observer during the preliminary hearings in December, 2 [...] | 2007-02-02 20:16:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL NS |
| 07PARIS265 | NAMES OF INFLUENTIAL WOMEN - FRANCE [...] SUMMARY: In response reftel, Mission France identified ten (10) influential women in politics, business, civil society and media. END SUMMARY. 2. Retel asked posts to contribute names to a worldwide roster of women leaders for contact use by the Secretary and other Department principals. L [...] | 2007-01-23 15:59:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KWMN PHUM PREL FR |
| 07PARIS328 | PARIS CLUB - JANUARY 2007 TOUR D'HORIZON AND MACEDONIA & [...] (SBU) During the January 23-24 meeting of the Paris Club, creditors granted Sierra Leone completion point treatment under the enhanced HIPC initiative, cancelling 100 percent ($363 million) of Sierra Leone's bilateral debt to the Club. The United States wrote off $44 million in USDA concession [...] | 2007-01-29 12:22:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR |
| 07PARIS4083 | SECRETARY OF STATE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS YADE'S CHIEF [...] (SBU) Summary: Pol M/C and Poloff met on September 25 with the Chief of Staff for the Secretary of State for Human Rights Brigitte Collet and Counselor Pierre Thenard to discuss Rama Yade,s role and priorities in her newly created position, Yade,s recent visit to Haiti, her upcoming visit to [...] | 2007-09-28 12:34:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL SOCI UNSC FR HA BM |
| 07PORTOFSPAIN1031 | OAS LABOR MINISTERIAL HIGHLIGHTS DECENT WORK AS THE CENTER [...] (U) SUMMARY. THE XV INTER-AMERICAN CONFERENCE OF MINISTERS OF LABOR (IACML) IN PORT OF SPAIN SEPTEMBER 11-13 PROVIDED AN OPPORTUNITY FOR U.S. FOREIGN POLICY AND LABOR OBJECTIVES IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE TO BE REINFORCED THROUGH ENGAGEMENT ON MATTERS OF MUTUAL INTEREST AMONG LABOR MINISTERS, I [...] | 2007-10-15 11:48:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB SOCI OAS XK XL XM TD |
| 07PORTOFSPAIN389 | T&T PRIME MINISTER SEEKS U.S. ENGAGEMENT IN MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During an April 16 meeting with CODEL Engel, Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister Manning voiced frustration that Washington has not engaged on his bilateral economic and security proposals, and he complained about Article 98 and low margins on LNG sales to the U.S. CODEL members ag [...] | 2007-04-20 19:10:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EPET ETRD MARR SNAR VE TD |
| 07PORTOFSPAIN393 | TRINIDAD & TOBAGO ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS - MARCH [...] Tobago Land License for Foreigners 2. Far East Co-operation in Trade & Investment 3. GOTT committed to FTAA 4. Fishy concerns 5. T&T gets Water Pollution Rules 6. U.S. company to build Caustic Soda plant 7. Essar Steel plant approved 8. T&T Bird Flu ready 9. VAT removed on [...] | 2007-04-23 16:48:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAIR EFIN EIND EINV ETRD KFLU TD |
| 07PORTOFSPAIN545 | TRINIDAD & TOBAGO GOVERNMENT REACTS TO JFK TERROR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Patrick Manning requested a meeting with Ambassador Austin June 4 to pledge continued assistance in all law enforcement and legal matters to fight terror, including efforts to extradite two of the JFK bomb plotters currently being held in Trinidad. Manning had a [...] | 2007-06-05 15:24:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL CVIS TT |
| 07PORTOFSPAIN642 | TRINIDAD & TOBAGO ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS - MAY [...] CA adds flights to Caribbean and North America --------------------------------------------- ----- Caribbean Airlines will increase seat capacity to the Caribbean and North America by 25 percent. CA will fly double daily frequencies to New York four days a week, maintaining daily service fo [...] | 2007-07-02 18:50:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECPS EIND EINV SENV SOCI TD EAGR |
| 07PORTOFSPAIN652 | SOUTHCOM COMMANDER STAVRIDIS VISITS TRINIDAD & [...] (C) SUMMARY - Southcom Commander Admiral James Stavridis visited Trinidad and Tobago June 29 for meetings with Ambassador Austin and Embassy Senior Staff, Prime Minister Patrick Manning, Chief of Defense Staff Edmund Dillon and his regiment chiefs. PM Manning seemed particularly pleased with [...] | 2007-07-05 14:07:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL SNAR MASS MOPS TD |
| 07PORTOFSPAIN657 | SOUTHCOM COMMANDER STAVRIDIS VISITS TRINIDAD & [...] (C) SUMMARY - Southcom Commander Admiral James Stavridis visited Trinidad and Tobago June 29 for meetings with Ambassador Austin and Embassy Senior Staff, Prime Minister Patrick Manning, Chief of Defense Staff Edmund Dillon and his regiment chiefs. PM Manning seemed particularly pleased with [...] | 2007-07-05 17:41:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL SNAR MASS MOPS TD |
| 07PORTOFSPAIN786 | TRINIDAD'S INL CANINE ACADEMY PROGRAM: AN [...] SUMMARY: On August 3, the Trinidad and Tobago Canine Academy held their most recent graduation for 9 new officers and canines. In addition, the national newspapers showcased the academy on June 14 and 15. This new unit of the T&T Police Service was established with the assistance of post's I [...] | 2007-08-09 12:54:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM TD |
| 07PORTOFSPAIN838 | TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO POLITICAL ROUND-UP [...] The following stories are mainly from media reporting and represent issues of public interest in Trinidad and Tobago with potential political implications: A. POLICE KILLING THIS WEEKEND B. CARIBBEAN COURT OF JUSTICE-AN UPDATE C. CHIEF OF IMMIGRATION RETIRED AUGUST 8 -------------- [...] | 2007-08-21 13:23:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KJUS KCRM TD |
| 07SANTIAGO384 | MEDIA REACTION - PRESIDENT BUSH'S TRAVEL TO LATIN AMERICA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-07 16:20:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OPRC CI |
| 07SAOPAULO206 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: VENEZUELA: CHAVEZ AND [...] "The Guyana Factor" Political columnist Eliane Cantanhede opined in liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo (3/16): "President Bush made rapprochement gestures towards US friends in Latin America while Chvez poured millions of dollars into Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia a [...] | 2007-03-16 12:06:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
| 07SAOPAULO891 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: VENEZUELA;SAO PAULO. [...] "The Language That Chvez Understands" Center-right national circulation daily O Estado de S. Paulo editorialized (11/6): "A regime that permits a caudillo to remain perennially in power, deprives minorities and the opposition their fundamental liberties and allows a nation to be ruled without [...] | 2007-11-06 16:07:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
| 07STATE126663 | CONFERENCE ON THE CARIBBEAN - MOVING AHEAD ON [...] (SBU) This is the first in a series of periodic updates for posts describing progress on June initiatives and deliverables of the 2007 Conference on the Caribbean. It also requests posts to engage with host governments to encourage effective follow-through on the part of relevant host governm [...] | 2007-09-10 17:47:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD ENRG SNAR EAID CU XL |
| 07STATE131348 | DEMARCHE REQUEST ON WTO DOHA INDUSTRIAL GOODS [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 8. 2. (U) Summary and action request: WTO Doha Round negotiations on potential approaches for global reductions on industrial goods tariffs (known as Non-Agricultural Market Access or NAMA) resumed in Geneva September 17 with informal me [...] | 2007-09-18 19:08:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD WTRO |
| 07STATE159330 | SUPPORT FOR NEW DELHI CONFERENCE ON AVIAN AND [...] This is an action request (see para 12) both for posts whose host governments have not yet accepted invitations to the New Delhi avian and pandemic influenza conference and for donor nations. SUMMARY ------- 2. Begin Summary: The USG has assumed a world leadership role in the effor [...] | 2007-11-21 21:05:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR KFLU EAID TBIO PREL XX |
| 07STATE167353 | UNGA: INSTRUCTIONS ON "NEW GLOBAL HUMAN ORDER" [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paras. 2 and 3. 2. (U) The Department instructs USUN to delay consideration of the resolution under UN General Assembly (UNGA) agenda item 50, "New Global Human Order," entitled "The role of the UN in promoting a new global human order" (A/62/L.35),[...] | 2007-12-15 00:22:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN AORC UN |
| 07STATE87143 | (U) Secretary Rice's June 18 Meeting [...] (U) June 18, 2007, 3:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m., Washington. 2. (U) Participants: United States The Secretary WHA A/S Thomas A. Shannon WHA/DAS Patrick D. Duddy Ambassador Robert Dieter Ambassador Brenda Johnson Ambassador Mary Ourisman Ambassador David Robinson Ambassador Janet Sanderson [...] | 2007-06-21 23:49:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP RICE CONDOLEEZZA PREL ETRD ENRG |
| 07TOKYO2897 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/27/07-1 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-27 01:32:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07USUNNEWYORK1040 | CARICOM PERMREPS URGE U.S. FOCUS ON CLIMATE [...] (SBU) During a meeting with CARICOM Ambassadors on November 15, Amb Khalilzad underscored U.S. interest in working closely with the group on issues of mutual concern at the UN. CARICOM representatives said their priorities included addressing climate change, ensuring a greater UN focus on dev [...] | 2007-11-16 22:12:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PREF KUNR CARICOM |
| 07USUNNEWYORK224 | ELEVENTH SESSION OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON THE [...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY: The Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization ("Charter Committee"),a sub-Committee of the General Assembly Legal Sixth Committee, held its annual meeting at UN Headquarters from February 7-15, 2007. [...] | 2007-03-20 22:01:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC PTER UNGA |
| 08ASUNCION43 | AN ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT OF DUARTE'S TENURE [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Duarte,s 2003-2007 economic performance yielded mixed results. Macroeconomic stability was achieved but a rigid expenditure structure, a visible bias to support current expenses instead of public investments, and a political rather than an economic spending rationale un [...] | 2008-01-18 13:43:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL PA |
| 08BELGRADE1268 | SERBIA: GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES NEW AMBASSADORS SANS AGREMENT [...] (SBU) At its weekly session on November 20, the Serbian government (GOS) endorsed the appointment of seven new ambassadors, even though we later learned from MFA contacts that the government had not yet requested agrement for the ambassadors-designate. This lapse of diplomatic protocol may com [...] | 2008-12-10 14:35:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PREL CA FR GM MO PL RO SZ SR |
| 08BRASILIA1219 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 112 [...] The following is part of a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expressed do not n [...] | 2008-09-12 15:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 08BRASILIA1294 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 113 [...] The following is part of a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expressed do not n [...] | 2008-09-30 16:55:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 08BRASILIA1465 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 114 [...] The following is part of a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expressed do not n [...] | 2008-11-07 18:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 08BRASILIA1504 | SOUTH AMERICAN MINING SECTOR DOWNTURN CALLS FOR [...] SUMMARY: Between 2002 and 2008, South America experienced a sustained, successful expansion of its mining sector, with strong growth in Brazil, Chile, and Peru. This expansion brought environmental costs to some fragile ecosystems and public health concerns to vulnerable populations - impacts [...] | 2008-11-20 15:07:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON SENV SOCI TBIO XR |
| 08BRASILIA1588 | BRAZIL: DRUG TRAFFICKING UP, DRUG FLIGHTS DOWN, TIP ISSUES LIMITED: A REPORT FROM THE FAR NORTH [...] (SBU) Summary. Drug flights into Brazil's far north have diminished by 75 percent since the introduction of Brazil's Air Bridge Denial (shootdown) program, but Brazilian authorities say pressure from Plan Colombia has actually increased the amount of cocaine entering Brazil. The region rem [...] | 2008-12-12 15:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR SOCI KCRM ELAB FARC KTIP BR VE PE CO XR |
| 08BRASILIA159 | REGIONAL STABILITY, GLOBAL ASPIRATIONS BEHIND NEW [...] (S) Summary. Discussions between Ambassador Sobel and Defense Minister Nelson Jobim, along with Brazilian defense-related activities with France and Russia and in South America suggest the key elements shaping Brazil's new defense posture. The military's traditional role in maintaining inter [...] | 2008-01-31 13:24:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET | MARR MCAP PREL |
| 08BRASILIA228 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 106 [...] The following is the 106th in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expressed do [...] | 2008-02-19 16:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 08BRASILIA454 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 108 [...] The following is the one hundred eigth in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views e [...] | 2008-04-09 16:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 08BRASILIA6 | A/S SHANNON'S MEETING WITH FORMER PRESIDENT SARNEY [...] (C) Summary: Former President and sitting Senator Jose Sarney (PMDB, Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, governing coalition; of Amapa) told WHA A/S Thomas Shannon on December 14 that President Lula is doing a good job and has maintained the social calm necessary for growth and development. [...] | 2008-01-03 11:14:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD KDEM BR VE GY BL EC CO XM XR FARC |
| 08BRASILIA707 | BRAZILIAN GENERAL BREAKS RANKS ON INDIGENOUS [...] (C) Brazilian Army General Augusto Heleno, military commander of the Amazon region, spoke out on April 16 against the GOB's indigenous policy calling it "chaotic," specifically in reference to a traditionally indigenous area in northern Roraima state planned to become a protected reserve. Thi [...] | 2008-05-20 19:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | BR PHUM PREL PGOV |
| 08BRASILIA877 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 110 [...] The following is the one-hundred-tenth in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views e [...] | 2008-06-27 14:59:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 08BRIDGETOWN125 | SNAPSHOT: ISLAM IN NEVIS [...] (SBU) Summary: Following-up on contacts made at the Embassy's inaugural Iftar, PolOff met with the leader of the Nevis Muslim Association, as well as with leaders from the local university's Muslim Association. While both groups are small, they are well-integrated into the tiny island comm [...] | 2008-02-28 18:25:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KISL SOCI PREL PHUM XL SC |
| 08BRIDGETOWN140 | Labor Unions in St Kitts - Going Through Transformation [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-04 19:39:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PGOV ECON SC XL |
| 08BRIDGETOWN162 | TIP SUBMISSION - ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA [...] (U) Below are Post's responses to questions regarding Antigua and Barbuda for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. ------------------ Para 27 - Overview ------------------ 2. (SBU) A. Is the country a country of origin, transit, or destination for internationally trafficked m [...] | 2008-03-11 12:28:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM ELAB KFRD ASEC KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG BB XL |
| 08BRIDGETOWN163 | TIP SUBMISSION - BARBADOS [...] (U) Below are Post's responses to questions regarding Barbados for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. ------------------ Para 27 - Overview ------------------ 2. (SBU) A. Is the country a country of origin, transit, or destination for internationally trafficked men, women, o [...] | 2008-03-11 12:28:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM ELAB KFRD ASEC KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG BB XL |
| 08BRIDGETOWN77 | DOL ILO FUNDED PROGRAM IN BARBADOS WINDS DOWN [...] (U) Summary: In December, 2007, DOL funding for the ILO/DOL HIV AIDS in the Workplace program ended in Barbados. The ILO program held a workshop in November 2007 to discuss the results of the program and to look at next steps towards setting up a domestically funded successor program. Key reco [...] | 2008-02-05 20:59:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB BEXP ECON KHIV ILO LAB BB XL |
| 08BUENOSAIRES373 | MEDIA REACTION; IRAQ AND THE US FINANCIAL CRISIS; THE IRAQ [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend papers carry opinion pieces and editorials linked to the relationship between the Iraq war and the current US financial crisis; press freedom in Cuba; and the FARC, negotiations for hostage release and drug trafficking. 2. OPINION PIECES AND EDITORIALS - "Iraq [...] | 2008-03-25 18:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL |
| 08CARACAS1700 | CHAVEZ'S BAND OF BROTHERS [...] (C) Six of the seventeen PSUV governors elected to office on November 23 were either co-conspirators in Chavez's 1992 coup attempt or his military contemporaries. Personal loyalty, reliability and the ethos of a military fraternity reflected in many of Chavez's ministerial appointments and w [...] | 2008-12-10 21:48:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV VE |
| 08GEORGETOWN148 | EIGHTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (SBU) The following is Embassy Georgetown's submission of information requested in reftel for the 2008 Annual Trafficking in Persons Report. After a full review of the available information, Post has found that Guyana is not/not a country of origin, transit, or destination for a "significant" [...] | 2008-03-17 12:25:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SMIG ASEC PREF ELAB KCRM KWMN KFRD GY |
| 08GEORGETOWN233 | GUYANA: DEMARCHE ON US-EU PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-24 13:19:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL GY |
| 08GEORGETOWN309 | GUYANA/CARICOM SECURITY ASSESSMENT [...] (C) Guyana Summary: As demonstrated by two mass killings by gangs earlier this year and general homicide rates across the country, Guyana is ill-equipped to address its modern security challenges. Historically, security has been hindered by limited financial and human resources, poor training [...] | 2008-05-23 21:55:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER PREL MASS MOPS XL GY |
| 08GEORGETOWN364 | DIP NOTE REQUEST FOR USG FORENSIC ASSISTANCE IN [...] (SBU) This is communication of a formal diplomatic request from the Government of Guyana (GoG) to the USG for provision of a forensic pathology team to assist in a criminal investigation. 2. (SBU) Begin text of cover Diplomatic Note: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Guya [...] | 2008-06-24 20:28:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | GY PREL PGOV PINS PHUM MOPS |
| 08GEORGETOWN365 | FORMAL GOG REQUEST FOR INFORMATION REGARDING [...] (SBU) This is communication of a formal request by the Government of Guyana (GoG) for information relating to applications for export licenses. 2. (SBU) Begin text of letter: Ms. Karen Williams Charge d'Affaires Embassy of the United States of America Duke Street Kingston Dear Ms. W [...] | 2008-06-24 21:19:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | GY PREL PGOV PINS ETTC |
| 08GEORGETOWN390 | GUYANA DEMARCHE DELIVERED: MAJOR ISSUES AT [...] (U) Per reftel, Post delivered diplomatic note and demarche to Audrey Waddell, Director of America and Asias at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Waddell agreed to foward the dip note and demarche to the appropriate office. 2. (U) Post will report any substantive response from the Government [...] | 2008-07-09 21:35:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ECON ETRD WTRO |
| 08GEORGETOWN441 | POST ENDORSES SECTION 1206 PROPOSAL, WITH [...] (S) Post endorses the FY2008 proposal for Section 1206 funding for Guyana that was submitted by SOUTHCOM, with the following caveats: Post endorses the provision of all non-lethal assistance, i.e., all items identified under the categories COMMUNICATIONS, NIGHT VISION, MEDICAL EQUIPMENT, AND C [...] | 2008-07-28 20:18:00 | Embassy Georgetown | SECRET | GY MARR MOPS PREL |
| 08GEORGETOWN451 | GUYANA RESPONSE TO UNGA ATTENDANCE [...] (U) Econoff delivered reftel request for information to Marsha Caddett, Americas Desk Officer at the MFA. Ms. Caddett noted that although plans were not yet confirmed, President Jagdeo was not likely to attend UNGA, and that Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett would likely lea [...] | 2008-07-31 21:13:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA PREL OVIP KSEP UNGA |
| 08GEORGETOWN453 | GUYANA'S RULING PARTY DETERMINES POWERFUL [...] (SBU) Summary: A low-ranking minister finished a surprisingly high third in party elections as the ruling People's Progressive Party (PPP) held its final congress before the 2011 presidential election. Party delegates selected the 35-person Central Committee that will determine the 18-member [...] | 2008-08-04 21:36:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV GY EAID EAGR |
| 08GEORGETOWN459 | GUYANA AND FORESTRY SECTOR AT LOGGERHEADS; BOURGEONING [...] (U) Summary: Guyana's forest-products sector, which with USAID support grew 56 percent from 2004 to 2006, will likely decline for the second consecutive year. In general, the private sector has worked to develop the forestry industry in a sustainable way, and large international wood companie [...] | 2008-08-06 21:12:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BTIO EAGR EAID ECON EIND EINV SENV ETRD |
| 08GEORGETOWN484 | GUYANA'S RESPONSE TO 2009 SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-18 21:47:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT AORC APER BEXP ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD KSUM |
| 08GEORGETOWN486 | GUYANA PRESIDENT TO ATTEND UNGA [...] MFA Director General Elisabeth Harper informed Post that President Jagdeo would attend UNGA. Guyana's delegation now includes the following: A. Attendance of the Head of State --Bharrat Jagdeo, President --Jagdeo will arrive in New York September 20, 2008, speak September 23 [...] | 2008-08-19 21:15:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA |
| 08GEORGETOWN538 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) On September 10, Poloff delivered reftel demarche points to Lesley Dowridge-Collins, Director of Multilateral Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Per reftel instructions, Poloff also highlighted the GoG's voting pattern on similar resolutions in previous years, noting that Guyana [...] | 2008-09-18 12:41:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UN GY |
| 08GEORGETOWN539 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNAIDS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR [...] (U) On September 10, Poloff delivered reftel points to Lesley Dowridge-Collins, Director of Multilateral Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ms. Dowridge-Collins affirmed that she would relay the information for internal consideration. Post does not anticipate receiving further word ab [...] | 2008-09-18 12:42:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KHIV UNGA EAID GY |
| 08GEORGETOWN550 | JAGDEO HUFFS AND PUFFS, BUT WILL SIGN EU TRADE DEAL [...] (U) Summary: After weeks of sharply criticizing its provisions, President Jagdeo has begrudgingly agreed to sign onto the proposed CARICOM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA),citing the certain imposition of higher tariffs on Guyana's exports if he did not acquiesce. Despite his pledge to [...] | 2008-09-18 20:09:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BTIO EAGR EAID ECON EIND EINV SENV ETRD GY PREL |
| 08GEORGETOWN551 | OFFSHORE OIL EXPLORATION IN FULL SWING ONE YEAR AFTER [...] (U) Summary: Offshore oil exploration is in full swing one year after the September 2007 resolution of the Guyana-Suriname maritime border dispute. Concession-holders Exxon and Canada-based CGX are commencing seismic surveys, and may begin exploratory drilling as early as late 2009. The GoG w [...] | 2008-09-18 20:11:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ENRG EPET |
| 08GEORGETOWN556 | (C) GUYANA PRISION OFFICIALS CHARGED IN INMATE DEATH [...] (C) Media report two mid-level prison officials were charged with manslaughter following a Guyana Prison Systems (GPS) investigation into the beating and July 11 death of Edwin Niles after guards found him with seven rounds of ammunition. An autopsy revealed an arm fracture and determined the [...] | 2008-09-22 20:38:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | GY PGOV PHUM CASC |
| 08GEORGETOWN644 | GOG REQUESTS ASSISTANCE IN SEARCH FOR MISSING [...] (U) During a phone conversation with the Ambassador, Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo officially requested and welcomed Embassy assistance in the search for a U.S.-registered airplane missing since November 1. On-the-ground Post resources have already been employed and Post is in discussions [...] | 2008-11-04 18:43:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR PGOV GY |
| 08GEORGETOWN685 | INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT, PART I [...] (U) Post presents its 2009 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Part I, Drugs and Chemical Control Guyana: I. Summary Guyana is a transit point for cocaine destined for North America, Europe, and the Caribbean, but not, it is thought, in quantities sufficient to impact the [...] | 2008-12-03 19:10:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR GY |
| 08GEORGETOWN693 | TIP: GUYANA 2008 INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] (U) This is a response to reftel about progress made by the Government of Guyana (GoG) in addressing Trafficking in Persons issues. 2. (SBU) In 2008, The GoG continued its prosecution of a woman arrested in October 2006 in the town of Bartica, in which two teenage girls were allegedly traff [...] | 2008-12-09 20:12:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM SMIG GY |
| 08GEORGETOWN698 | USS KEARSARGE VISIT A HUGE SUCCESS [...] (U) Summary. On November 22, the USS KEARSARGE concluded its two-week humanitarian medical and engineering mission to Guyana, the final stop on its six-nation "Continuing Promise 2008" mission. Medical and dental practitioners provided care at three sites in one of Guyana's more remote and und [...] | 2008-12-10 18:11:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | GY SOCI PREL MARR |
| 08GEORGETOWN702 | MEDIA REACTION TO THE USS KEARSARGE VISIT [...] (U) Summary. The November 9-22 humanitarian mission to Guyana of the USS KEARSARGE generated widespread and overwhelmingly favorable coverage in both print and broadcast local media. The media consistently incorporated the KEARSARGE's motto "Continuing Promise" into their reporting, and frequen [...] | 2008-12-11 10:53:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | GY SOCI PREL MARR |
| 08GRENADA138 | GRENADA WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT FOR OCTOBER 19 - 25, 2008 [...] Embassy Grenada's weekly report (GWAR) provides a little detail about events of interest that do not merit longer reporting at this time. 2. Begin GWAR text: a. Caribbean Financial Action Task Force visits Grenada According to the Prime Minister's Office, Prime Minister Tillman Thomas to [...] | 2008-10-30 17:56:00 | Embassy Grenada | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID ETRD ENRG GJ XL |
| 08HANOI573 | CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? VIETNAM'S MOBILE PHONE SECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Vietnam's telecommunication market continues its rapid development, underpinned by the strong performance of the mobile phone sector, which surpassed 35 million subscribers in 2007. New market entrants and more flexible government regulations helped to drive down costs and incre [...] | 2008-05-16 00:20:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ETRD ECON KPRV VM |
| 08KINGSTON1016 | JAMAICA: NOVEMBER ECONOMIC REVIEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: -- The Government of Jamaican (GOJ) announced a 29 percent drop in traditional export crops such as bananas, sugarcane and coffee in the third quarter. -- The GOJ has signed another agreement with Guyana to import 60,000 tons of rice in 2009. -- The GOJ has received fundi [...] | 2008-12-01 19:31:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EAIR EINV ECON ETRD KCOR KIPR IADB IBRD IMF |
| 08KINGSTON1042 | JAMAICA RESPONSE TO LIBERTAD ACT, TITLE III, [...] (C) Post has provided responses to questions listed in reftel A. On July 23 while speaking at an event hosted by the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI) on the theme "Cuba and its Neighbors: The Challenges of Change," Prime Minister (PM) Bruce Golding said: "My hope is that within a s [...] | 2008-12-11 15:08:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | TRAD ETTC PREL JM XL |
| 08KINGSTON358 | JAMAICA REQUESTS INCREASE IN HIV AIDS FUNDS [...] (SBU) The U.S. Mission is requesting to increase HIV/AIDS funding for Jamaica from USD 1.25 million to USD 2.5 million beginning in FY 2008. An estimated 2/3 of Jamaicans infected with HIV do not know their status. The highest rate of growth in transmission is among youth aged 10-19. Back [...] | 2008-04-25 17:49:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SOCI TBIO KHIV JM XL |
| 08KINGSTON366 | JAMAICA RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD AND COMMODITY [...] (SBU) Jamaica does not currently face a chronic shortage in aggregate food supplies, but soaring prices over the last two years have led to a growing nutritional deficit among the most vulnerable citizens. Food substitution has also been on the rise as consumers search for cheaper alternatives [...] | 2008-04-30 12:43:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR SENV ECON ETRD SOCI PREL AGR EAID ENRG |
| 08KINGSTON453 | JAMAICA FOOD SECURITY: GOJ ACTS QUICKY TO SECURE [...] (SBU) Fear of potential rice shortages has led the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) to act quickly to secure additional rice imports from beyond its CARICOM partners. Prime Minister (PM) Bruce Golding met with President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana to obtain a waiver from CARICOM external tariff in ord [...] | 2008-05-20 18:31:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR SENV ECON ETRD SOCI PREL EAID XL ENRG JM |
| 08KINGSTON516 | JAMAICA: WIDE-RANGING MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-06 19:54:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD EAGR EAID ECON SNAR MARR MOPS PHUM |
| 08KINGSTON787 | REQUEST FOR LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR [...] Post requests Department's assistance in screening the following candidate of the Jamaican Defence Force (JDF),for USG-funded International Military Education and Training (IMET) Program, pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has no derogatory information. 2. Nam [...] | 2008-09-08 21:13:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM JM |
| 08MAPUTO1010 | MOZAMBIQUE ECONOMIC AND GOVERNANCE RANKINGS SHOW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Recent ratings and rankings point to relative weaknesses in Mozambique's business climate. According to Transparency International, corruption is still "rampant," while the World Bank's indicator Doing Business 2009 ranking shows that Mozambique's business climate is not impr [...] | 2008-10-24 08:11:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PREL PGOV MZ |
| 08MONTEVIDEO372 | FINAL/TRANSFER LEAP CABLE - MILLIE HOPES DOMINGUEZ [...] Millie Hopes Dominguez, ARSO AmEmbassy Montevideo departed post 6/26/08. Following home leave and consultations, she will arrive at her new post, Georgetown, Guyana on September 19, 2008. 2. As reported via fax, Millie reported 55 regular work days, 119 total LEAP hours, 0 OT hours, 2 RD [...] | 2008-06-27 18:55:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | APER |
| 08MONTEVIDEO535 | BRAZILIAN DEFENSE MINISTER BRIEFS MERCOSUR [...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. - - - - Summary - - - - 2. (U) Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim outlined Brazil's vision for a South American Defense Council (CODESUR) for Mercosur's parliament September 16 in Montevideo. CODE [...] | 2008-09-18 18:26:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS MCAP PINS UY |
| 08NASSAU191 | U.S.-BAHAMAS COUNTER-DRUG TASK FORCE REVIEWS TRAFFICKING [...] (SBU) The Ambassador and Deputy Prime Minister co-chaired the semi-annual Joint Counternarcotics/Illegal Migration Task Force Meeting (JTF) between the United States, The Bahamas, and the Turks and Caicos Islands on December 14, 2007. The parties discussed trafficking trends, reviewed year-to- [...] | 2008-03-03 22:18:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV PREL BF |
| 08NASSAU228 | CARICOM LEADERS ADDRESS CRIME, TOURISM, ECONOMIC [...] (U) CARICOM heads of government gathered in Nassau March 7-8 for an inter-sessional Heads of Government meeting that focused on preventing crime, lowering the cost of living, and improving domestic economic links with their important tourism sectors. Reflecting mounting concerns throughout th [...] | 2008-03-19 15:51:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ETRD BF XL |
| 08NASSAU623 | CARIBBEAN ENERGY SEMINAR SPOTLIGHTS ISLAND INITIATIVES AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: Advancing U.S. energy diplomacy in the Caribbean, the USG partnered with the OAS and the GCOB to host a two day regional sustainable energy event July 23-24 in Nassau. The USG-funded, OAS-sponsored seminar brought Caribbean leaders together with energy experts from the OAS, CARICO [...] | 2008-08-29 14:07:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECON EINV ETRD BF |
| 08OTTAWA1068 | CDMA 2008: CANADA TO HIGHLIGHT NEW FOCUS ON THE [...] (C) Summary: Canada will highlight its renewed focus on the Americas at the Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas (CDMA) 2008 in Banff, September 2-6. Canadian officials look forward to a robust U.S. presence at the CDMA and want to collaborate with the U.S. to ensure that the Dec [...] | 2008-08-12 11:53:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MARR PGOV OAS CA |
| 08PARAMARIBO101 | (SBU) SCENESETTER AND READ-AHEAD FOR THE VISIT OF [...] (SBU) THE FOLLOWING SCENESETTER IS A SENSITIVE-BUT-UNCLASSIFIED VERSION OF REFTEL. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY OF PROPOSED TRIP AGENDA: Everyone at Embassy Paramaribo joins me in welcoming you to Suriname. Although we cannot yet confirm your appointment with President Venetiaan, who is out of the cou [...] | 2008-03-11 16:17:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL NS |
| 08PARAMARIBO120 | LEADING UP TO SURINAMESE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN 2010, [...] (U) SUMMARY. Jules Wijdenbosch and Desi Bouterse agreed to re-unite their two political parties, the Democratic National Platform 2000 (DNP 2000) and the National Democratic Party (NDP),according to reports. A union of Bouterse and Wijdenbosch, who went from party colleagues and close persona [...] | 2008-03-26 13:08:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL NS |
| 08PARAMARIBO145 | FIVE HOURS WELL-SPENT IN SURINAME: [...] (U) SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES FROM SHANNON/STAVRIDIS FIVE-HOUR VISIT: On March 28, WHA Assistant Secretary Tom Shannon and SOUTHCOM Commander Admiral Jim Stavridis spent five hours on the ground in Suriname. Together they met with President Runaldo Ronald Venetiaan (paras 2-4) and conducted a we [...] | 2008-04-09 15:51:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINS PGOV PINR SNAR NS |
| 08PARAMARIBO177 | RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES - [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Rising food prices, in particular of the Surinamese staple, rice, have received extensive play in the media, but did not result in public disorder or runs on foodstuffs. Political attention was high, with the opposition blaming the government, the government looking towards in [...] | 2008-04-30 21:02:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ETRD ECON BTIO NS |
| 08PARAMARIBO178 | FRAUD SUMMARY - SURINAME, 2ND QUARTER FY 2008 [...] Per the instructions in RefTel, Paramaribo submits the following post fraud summary for the second quarter of FY 2008. Answers are keyed to the letters found in RefTel. A. Country Conditions The economy, while stable, is still developing, and more than half the population lives below the p [...] | 2008-05-02 19:39:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC NS |
| 08PARAMARIBO200 | SURINAME INTRODUCES RICE REGULATING MEASURES [...] (U) Summary. The Government of Suriname implemented a new export license requirement on rice exports. Border inspections will include a search for rice being smuggled out of the country. Local rice producers and exporters have criticized these new measures, stating local demand is only proje [...] | 2008-05-12 21:33:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ETRD ECON BTIO NS |
| 08PARAMARIBO249 | SURINAME: RESPONSE TO CARIBBEAN SECURITY [...] (C) Post is pleased to respond to Reftel request for information. Answers are keyed to Reftel. A. REFTEL QUERY: How could the United States help enhance Caribbean regional cooperation in addressing transnational crime and terrorism, including by providing additional resources? ----------- [...] | 2008-06-06 20:13:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL MASS MOPS SNAR XL NS |
| 08PARAMARIBO312 | PETROCARIBE OIL SHIPMENTS TO BEGIN FALL 2008 [...] (SBU) Summary. The governments of Suriname and Venezuela reached agreement on the structure of their PetroCaribe deal, which has been dubbed the "Suriname Model." Under this scheme, the Government of Suriname (GOS) will provide the Government of Venezuela (GOV) partial payment for the crude [...] | 2008-08-04 18:24:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ETRD PREL XM XL |
| 08PARAMARIBO41 | SURINAME TO MOVE FORWARD ON AVIAN INFLUENZA PREPAREDNESS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Government of Suriname (GOS) made progress on pandemic influenza preparedness in 2007, and hopes to announce a National Avian Influenza Preparedness Plan in early 2008. In 2007, the GOS engaged international partners on pandemic influenza and is now working to map, using GPS [...] | 2008-02-04 16:29:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU EAGR KSTH NS |
| 08PARAMARIBO434 | SURINAME: POLICE TIP UNIT RESCUES TWO TEENAGE MINORS [...] (SBU) Summary. During a routine nightclub check, officers from the Surinamese Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Unit discovered two minor teenage Guyanese girls being used for sexual exploitation. The club manager was arrested and her daughter, also under suspicion of involvement, is being sought b [...] | 2008-10-14 18:41:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KTIP SNAR NS |
| 08PARAMARIBO58 | POST INPUT FOR REPORT TO CONGRESS ON ENERGY [...] (U) Post is please to provide information on our work on energy-related issues. Answers are keyed to REFTEL. A. The Political-Economic Section handles energy matters. The section totals 7 staff: political-economic officer (USDH),political officer (USDH, who also covers public diplomacy a [...] | 2008-02-14 17:00:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG SENV APER ABUD NS |
| 08PARAMARIBO59 | SUSI ON U.S. FOREIGN POLICY: PARAMARIBO, SURINAME [...] (SBU) Post is pleased to submit the following information for the candidate nomination. A. Nominee's full name as it appears on passport; Last name: Rudge First name: Eric Middle name: Patrick B. Date of birth (Month, Day, Year): November 16, 1960 C. City of birth: Paramaribo [...] | 2008-02-14 18:24:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OEXC SCUL KPAO NS |
| 08PARAMARIBO95 | (C) SCENESETTER AND READ-AHEAD FOR THE VISIT OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY OF PROPOSED TRIP AGENDA: Everyone at Embassy Paramaribo joins me in welcoming you to Suriname. Although we cannot yet confirm your appointment with President Venetiaan, who is out of the country, our tentative plan for your three-hour visit would include a short meet/greet with [...] | 2008-03-07 20:19:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NS |
| 08PARIS2226 | FRANCE AND CUBA: RESPONSE TO REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION [...] (C) The following paragraphs are responses to the request for information on the relationship between France and the Cuban government and the implementation of Title III of the LIBERTAD Act(ref a): 2. (C) Has France, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and hu [...] | 2008-12-09 11:52:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU FR |
| 08PORTOFSPAIN121 | TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO'S RELATIONS WITH CUBA [...] (C) Summary: Trinidad and Tobago's relations with Cuba are a mixture of pragmatism and pan-Caribbean solidarity. Along with a number of other Caribbean states, it has had diplomatic ties with Cuba since 1972. Although Fidel enjoys a positive image among the minority of Trinis who reflect on [...] | 2008-03-11 14:25:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PGOV PREL CU TD |
| 08PORTOFSPAIN185 | RISING FOOD PRICES PROVOKE POLITICAL AND PUBLIC CONCERN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Against the backdrop of rising food prices and shortages, the GOTT is under pressure to address the "food crisis." The spike in prices, now a staple of headline writers, is straining low and middle income families. The opposition asserts government neglect of agriculture is the [...] | 2008-04-18 18:24:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR PGOV ECON EFIN ETRD ECIN TD |
| 08PORTOFSPAIN195 | IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES - TRINIDAD AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With food price inflation reaching 19.7% year-on-year, public concern and political fallout over the cost of food is growing. The "food crisis" has spotlighted the government's neglect of agriculture and the nation's dependence on imports. Although domestic food production meet [...] | 2008-04-30 19:23:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EFIN ETRD ECIN TD |
| 08PORTOFSPAIN377 | CLOSER TIES UNDER DISCUSSION AS REGIONAL LEADERS MEET [...] (U) Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Prime Minister Stevenson King of St. Lucia and President Bharat Jagdeo of Guyana joined Prime Minister Tillman Thomas of Grenada and Prime Minister Patrick Manning in Port of Spain August 14 to discuss regional issues. Durin [...] | 2008-08-15 19:11:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON TD |
| 08PORTOFSPAIN378 | CLOSER TIES UNDER DISCUSSION AS REGIONAL LEADERS MEET [...] (U) Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Prime Minister Stevenson King of St. Lucia and President Bharat Jagdeo of Guyana joined Prime Minister Tillman Thomas of Grenada and Prime Minister Patrick Manning in Port of Spain August 14 to discuss regional issues. Durin [...] | 2008-08-15 19:16:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON TD |
| 08PORTOFSPAIN388 | REGIONAL INTEGRATION: THE JOINT DECLARATION [...] (SBU) An MFA source passed us the "Joint Declaration on Collaboration towards the achievement of the Single Economy and Political Integration among Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago" signed August 14 in Port of Spain (text in para four). [...] | 2008-08-26 17:54:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON TD |
| 08PORTOFSPAIN447 | THE ISLAMIC COMMUNITY IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The extradition this year to the U.S. of three Muslims (one a citizen of T&T and the other two from Guyana) to face trial for an alleged plot against JFK Airport has heightened interest in the state of Islam in Trinidad and Tobago. Variously estimated at 6-10 percent of the pop [...] | 2008-10-02 12:05:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON SCUL PHUM PTER TD |
| 08PORTOFSPAIN448 | THE ISLAMIC COMMUNITY IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The extradition this year to the U.S. of three Muslims (one a citizen of T&T and the other two from Guyana) to face trial for an alleged plot against JFK Airport has heightened interest in the state of Islam in Trinidad and Tobago. Variously estimated at 6-10 percent of the pop [...] | 2008-10-02 12:05:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON SCUL PHUM PTER TD |
| 08PORTOFSPAIN474 | DOD DEPUTY SECRETARY ENGLAND AND USSOUTHCOM MILITARY DEPUTY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England and SouthCom Military Deputy Commander Lieutenant General Glenn Spears visited Trinidad and Tobago October 14-15. They held several meetings, highlighted by a lengthy second day session with the Prime Minister. Agreement was reached t [...] | 2008-10-23 12:12:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MASS SNAR KCRM TD |
| 08PORTOFSPAIN535 | AMBASSADORS TO THE CARIBBEAN DISCUSS HIV/AIDS AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At the Seventh Annual Chiefs of Mission Conference on HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean, eight U.S. Ambassadors discussed the future of U.S. regional assistance in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Focusing on the Partnership Compacts envisaged under PEPFAR II legislation, the Ambassadors as [...] | 2008-11-24 17:24:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KHIV EAID PREL OVIP TBIO KPAO TD XL |
| 08QUITO459 | ECUADOR ECON WEEKLY: NEW OIL ARBITRATION CASES; IDB LOANS; [...] (U) The following is a weekly economic update for Ecuador that reports notable developments that are not reported by individual cables. Two New Oil Arbitration Cases --------------------------- 2. (U) Ecuadorian press reported that French petroleum company Perenco and its U.S. partner, [...] | 2008-05-27 17:05:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV EPET ETRD EC |
| 08RIODEJANEIRO172 | AMB. LAGON VISITS RIO DE JANEIRO TO DISCUSS TRAFFICKING IN [...] (U) Summary. Ambassador Mark Lagon, Director of the State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP) visited Rio de Janeiro on June 21-23 as part of a multi-city trip to Brazil. He consulted with various members of the NGO and academic community on the sexual exp [...] | 2008-07-01 12:05:00 | Consulate Rio De Janeiro | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI BR |
| 08SANTIAGO851 | UNASUR LEADERS TO SUPPORT DIALOGUE IN BOLIVIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The UNASUR Summit concluded with a commitment from leaders to facilitate dialogue through a UNASUR commission in Bolivia. The leaders also agreed to send a team to investigative the deaths and disappearances in Pando Department and provide (undefined) experts to assist and suppo [...] | 2008-09-17 17:53:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON VE BL CI |
| 08SANTIAGO852 | UNASUR'S ROAD AHEAD AFTER EMERGENCY BOLIVIA [...] (C) Summary. A senior Chilean diplomat characterized UNASUR's meeting this week to deal with the crisis in Bolivia as an important early victory for the new organization and for its President Pro-Tempore, Chile. According to MFA Planning Subdirector Patricio Pradel, UNASUR is still defining [...] | 2008-09-17 20:35:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SOCI MARR BL CI |
| 08SAOPAULO19 | FORMER FINANCE MINISTER ON BRAZILIAN POLITICS AND RELATIONS [...] (SBU) During a January 7 meeting with the Ambassador, former Minister of Finance Antonio Delfim Netto (strictly protect),who is currently working as a political and business consultant, discussed the opposition's victory over the government in a major tax battle and its implications for domes [...] | 2008-01-15 16:07:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EINV ETRD BR VE |
| 08STATE103508 | REGIONAL REFUGEE COORDINATOR NDJAMENA DUTIES AND [...] As noted reftel, Perlita Muiruri has taken up duties as the Regional Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) for Chad, Darfur, the Central African Republic, and Cameroon. The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM),would like to draw your attention to the important role played by the Nd [...] | 2008-09-27 01:27:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF CD CM CT |
| 08STATE103528 | INSTRUCTIONS FOR EXTENSION OF TERM OF OFFICE OF [...] This is an action cable. USUN is instructed to join consensus on the draft UN Security Council resolution in para 2 below that extends the term of office of ICTY judges. If there are substantial changes to the text of the resolution USUN is requested to seek additional instruction prior to a [...] | 2008-09-27 06:03:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM |
| 08STATE117478 | DIPLOMATIC SECURITY DAILY [...] (U) Diplomatic Security Daily, November 4, 2008 2. (U) Significant Events ) Paragraphs 7-22 3. (U) Key Concerns ) Paragraphs 23-36 4. (U) Threats & Analysis ) Paragraphs 37-50 5. (U) Cyber Threats ) Paragraphs 51-58 6. (U) Suspicious Activity Incidents ) Paragraphs 59-68 7. [...] | 2008-11-04 20:42:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC |
| 08STATE123081 | OPPOSING UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS [...] (SBU) Posts are requested to approach highest appropriate officials in host governments in pursuit of the following objectives: -- to pursue reduction in the overall number of one-sided UN General Assembly resolutions on the Middle East; and, -- to defeat three resolutions reaffirming the [...] | 2008-11-20 01:58:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA IS PA LE SY |
| 08STATE125392 | GUIDANCE: COOPERATION BETWEEN THE UN AND THE [...] (U) Following is guidance on a Guyanan-sponsored resolution at the 63rd session of the UNGA: "Cooperation between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community." Guidance is for the November 26 plenary. 2. (SBU) The proposed item expands the scope of a previous resolution of the same titl [...] | 2008-11-26 16:24:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA |
| 08STATE125712 | GUIDANCE: COOPERATION BETWEEN THE UN AND THE [...] (U) Following is guidance on a Guyanan-sponsored resolution at the 63rd session of the UNGA: "Cooperation between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community." Guidance is for the November 26 plenary. 2. (SBU) The proposed item expands the scope of a previous resolution of the same titl [...] | 2008-11-27 12:12:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA |
| 08STATE135037 | BLUE LANTERN POST-SHIPMENT END USE CHECK ON [...] This is an action message. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests post assistance in conducting a post-shipment check for the export of protective vest ceramic plates to Guyana. Post is requested to complete this Blue Lante [...] | 2008-12-30 14:10:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC GY KOMC |
| 08TOKYO1335 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05/15/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-15 08:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1177 | UNGA COMMEMORATES UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN [...] (U) SUMMARY: The UN General Assembly (UNGA) marked the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in New York on December 10. Despite some initial uncertainty about which states would be permitted to speak, the commemoration, which included two panel discussions and [...] | 2008-12-17 10:38:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM AG MO IS NU UNGA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK870 | AT THE UN, IRAN, GEORGIA, BOLIVIA AND OTHERS [...] Summary: The annual UN General Debate continued in the afternoon of September 23 on the themes of global food crisis and UN reform among others. Iran and Lebanon strongly criticized Israel. Iran also defended its nuclear program. Georgia spoke about the need for a stronger UN role given Rus [...] | 2008-09-29 14:44:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECON UNGA AORC FI BK RW LH IR LE |
| 08USUNNEWYORK962 | UN TO COMMEMORATE BICENTENNIAL OF END OF SLAVE [...] In plenary session on October 20, The UN General Assembly (UNGA) received the Secretary-General's report on the Follow-up to the Commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (A/63/213),and passed a resolution on a Permanent Memorial to and Remembra [...] | 2008-10-22 19:11:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KTIP AORC |
| 08USUNNEWYORK997 | UNGA: UN PASSES 17TH ANNUAL RESOLUTION AGAINST THE [...] Summary: In plenary session on October 29, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) passed its 17th annual resolution condemning the United States embargo on Cuba with near unanimity, slightly more one-sided than last year. The usual diatribes were accompanied by more measured language from the EU an [...] | 2008-10-31 22:57:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC ECON CU |
| 09BELMOPAN305 | CCJ MAY BECOME BELIZE'S FINAL APPELLATE COURT [...] On June 19, 2009, Prime Minister Dean Barrow proposed a bill to the House of Representatives for a constitutional amendment that would replace the Privy Council in London as the final appellate court for Belize with the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). This proposal is in keeping with the obl [...] | 2009-08-05 15:44:00 | Embassy Belmopan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV XL BH |
| 09BOGOTA3489 | COLOMBIA TO BE SUPPORTIVE IN COPENHAGEN; PROPOSES FORESTRY [...] (SBU) Summary: Environment Minister Carlos Costa told the Deputy Chief of Mission that Colombia would support U.S. efforts at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. The Minister welcomed the close coordination and openness of U.S. negotiators and indicated the USG could count on Col [...] | 2009-12-01 23:10:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID ECON ENRG EINV PGOV PREL UN CO |
| 09BRASILIA1 | BRAZIL: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS BROAD INDIAN LAND [...] (U) Summary. The Federal Supreme Court (STF),in a partial vote cast by eight of the 11 judges, ruled on December 10 that the Raposa Serra do Sol (RSS) Indian reservation in Roraima state should exist with a single continuous border. The decision will put an end to non-indigenous farming i [...] | 2009-01-02 13:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV BR |
| 09BRASILIA1234 | BRAZIL HELPING GUYANA WITH ENERGY IN VENEZUELA BORDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Brazil is in talks with Guyana to build a hydroelectric plant on the border region of the two countries, in the territory disputed between Venezuela and Guyana. International Advisor to Brazil's Minister for Mines and Energy Edison Lobao, Ambassador Rubem Barbosa told Econoff on [...] | 2009-10-09 14:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON PREL BR GY VZ |
| 09BRASILIA1381 | BRAZIL: LATEST ON CLIMATE CHANGE OFFER AND PRE-COPENHAGEN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On November 13, the Government of Brazil (GOB) unveiled its position for the Conference of the Parties-15 (COP-15) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen. The GOB has announced that it will seek to reduce its economy-wide greenhouse gas emissio [...] | 2009-11-30 18:36:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIN EAGR EAID KGHG BR |
| 09BRASILIA178 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 117 [...] The following is part of a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expressed do not n [...] | 2009-02-12 13:59:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 09BRASILIA234 | BRAZIL: DIFFICULT TO PROSECUTE TIP CASES; BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: Socioeconomic conditions in the state of Para are among the worst in Brazil, and as a result, the state acts as a source for slave and domestic child labor and trafficking in persons cases. Belem international airport is a major transit point for Trafficking in Persons (TIP) ne [...] | 2009-02-26 22:10:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KCRM KFRD KWMN ELAB PREF ASEC SMIG BR |
| 09BRASILIA251 | BRAZIL: NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT, [...] (SBU) While adult prostitution is legal (an adult is defined by Brazilian law as a person 18 years of age or older),various associated activities, such as operating a brothel and pimping, are illegal. The degree to which these laws are enforced varies from place to place in Brazil based on lo [...] | 2009-03-02 11:14:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB BR |
| 09BRASILIA330 | GOLD MINING POSES HEALTH, ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS IN GUYANA [...] SUMMARY Artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has seen exponential growth in the South American countries of the Guyana Shield (Guyana, Suriname, French Guyana, Venezuela, Brazil) since the early 1980's, owing to dramatic gold price increases and limited government presence in the remote i [...] | 2009-03-17 19:10:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EMIN EAID TBIO SOCI BR XR |
| 09BRASILIA78 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 116 [...] The following is number 116 in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expressed do [...] | 2009-01-16 18:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 09BRIDGETOWN109 | TIP SUBMISSION - ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES [...] (U) As requested reftel, below are Post's responses to questions regarding St. Vincent and the Grenadines for the annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. ------------------------------------- PARA 23 - THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION ------------------------------------- 2. (SBU) -- A [...] | 2009-02-13 19:11:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP XL PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF VC |
| 09BRIDGETOWN119 | TIP SUBMISSION - ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA [...] (U) Below are Post's responses to questions regarding Antigua and Barbuda for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. ------------------------------------- Para 23 - THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION ------------------------------------- 2 (SBU) A. What is (are) the source(s) of available [...] | 2009-02-24 21:41:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM ELAB KFRD ASEC KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG BB |
| 09BRIDGETOWN122 | TIP SUBMISSION - ST. KITTS AND NEVIS [...] (U) As requested in reftel, below are Post's responses to questions regarding St. Kitts and Nevis for the annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. ------------------------------------- PARA 23 - THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION ------------------------------------- 2. (SBU) -- A. What is [...] | 2009-02-25 14:16:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP XL PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF VC |
| 09BRIDGETOWN125 | TIP SUBMISSION - Barbados [...] (U) Below are Post's responses to questions regarding Barbados for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. ------------------------------------- Para 23 - THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION ------------------------------------- 2 (SBU) A. What is (are) the source(s) of available informatio [...] | 2009-02-25 19:38:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM ELAB KFRD ASEC KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG BB |
| 09BRIDGETOWN219 | Counter-Narcotics on our Eastern Caribbean Third Border: [...] (SBU) The countries of the Eastern Caribbean are seeing a steady increase in narcotics trafficking and the attendant problems of gun and gang violence in their communities. Trafficking is on the rise as drug runners look for alternate routes to compensate for successes under Plan Colombia and [...] | 2009-04-06 20:25:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM ECON PGOV XL |
| 09BRIDGETOWN293 | BARBADOS ANNOUNCES NEW IMMIGRATION POLICY [...] (SBU) A recent announcement by Barbados PM David Thompson that places greater restrictions on undocumented CARICOM aliens has elicited negative reactions from the opposition, the local Guyanese community, and regional commentators. While the policy is consistent with other GOB actions to "fe [...] | 2009-05-19 20:45:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS PREL PGOV BB XL |
| 09BRIDGETOWN294 | ST. VINCENT PM LASHES OUT OVER BARBADOS IMMIGRATION POLICY [...] (U) St. Vincent Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves leveled unusually sharp criticism against a fellow CARICOM member at a speech to the St. Vincent parliament May 14. While stopping just short of calling out Barbados PM David Thompson by name, Gonsalves strongly castigated Barbados for a recently- [...] | 2009-05-19 20:51:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS XL |
| 09BRIDGETOWN314 | ATTORNEY GENERAL HOLDER'S VISIT TO BARBADOS SETS [...] (C) Attorney General Eric Holder's May 21-24 visit to Barbados generated enormous goodwill both in Barbados and more broadly among CARICOM Attorneys General. The visit, which received glowing press in Barbados, charted a positive agenda for judicial and law enforcement cooperation between t [...] | 2009-05-28 15:23:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL KJUS MASS XL |
| 09BRIDGETOWN339 | Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean: May 2009 NAS Update [...] (SBU) The island nations that make up Embassy Bridgetown's area of responsibility - Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines continue to see a steady increase in the volume of narcotics destined for and transshipped th [...] | 2009-06-09 16:28:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM ECON PGOV XL |
| 09BRIDGETOWN567 | Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean: NAS Summer 2009 [...] (SBU) The following is a summary of law enforcement and counter-narcotics activities and training for July and August 2009 in Embassy Bridgetown's AOR. Most of the reporting period was dominated by a JIATF-S led operation, Operation Flying Fish II, which resulted in numerous contacts with drug [...] | 2009-09-16 22:42:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM KJUS MASS PREL XL |
| 09BRIDGETOWN617 | (C-AL9-01941) LEADERSHIP PROFILE: BARBADOS PM [...] (C) Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson is a bland but competent leader who is maintaining his country's long-standing tradition of political pragmatism and fiscal responsibility. He is also committed to an independent foreign policy of "moderation and commonsense." This commitment, refle [...] | 2009-10-06 20:18:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR INRB XL |
| 09BRIDGETOWN619 | ST LUCIA IFTAR HIGHLIGHTS COMPETITION IN LOCAL [...] (C) The Iftar hosted by the Embassy in St. Lucia continued our efforts begun in Barbados in 2007 to reach out to the small but growing Muslim Community in the Eastern Caribbean. This community is appreciative of U.S. engagement. The local dynamics among Muslim groups competing for scarce re [...] | 2009-10-07 15:38:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SCUL KISL SOCI XL |
| 09BUENOSAIRES1141 | MEDIA REACTION: OBAMA FOREIGN POLICY; ALBA SUMMIT; THE [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend international opinion pieces are related to President Obama's policy on Afghanistan and Pakistan; the outcome of the ALBA summit, which was held in Cochabamba, Bolivia; and the evolution of drug cartels during the last 30 years. 2. OPINION PIECES AND EDITORIALS [...] | 2009-10-19 17:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL |
| 09BUENOSAIRES927 | (C) ARGENTINA: TAIANA TRIES TO EXPLAIN CFK'S [...] (C) Summary: The GOA confirmed August 12 President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) August 10 invitation to South American heads of government to an August 28 UNASUR meeting on the Colombia-U.S. negotiations of a Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA). CFK made the invitation during UNASUR [...] | 2009-08-13 22:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS SNAR PTER PARM PGOV CO AR |
| 09CARACAS1367 | VENEZUELA: GBRV IMPOSES WATER AND ELECTRICITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Faced with water and electrical shortages, Venezuelans are facing outages and rationing of both. In response to the growing electrical crisis affecting the entire country, President Chavez has announced an emergency plan that includes the creation of a new electricity ministry [...] | 2009-10-23 21:44:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
| 09CARACAS1479 | FEDERAL COUNCIL LAW TO CENTRALIZE POWER AWAY FROM LOCAL [...] (C) Summary: The Chavista-dominated National Assembly (AN) passed the draft Organic Law of the Federal Government Council in a first vote, which appears engineered to create a parallel structure that could greatly diminish the funding and responsibilities currently granted to governors and m [...] | 2009-11-20 16:30:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KDEM VE |
| 09CARACAS1539 | Venezuela's Rice Availability Diminishing [...] (C) Summary: According to local rice producers and traders, Venezuela's rice supplies are contracting due to diminished domestic output and a slow import program. Although there have been high profile purchases in the last few months from Ecuador, Argentina, and Guyana to cover the expe [...] | 2009-12-08 13:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR VE PGOV ETRD |
| 09GEORGETOWN123 | NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (U) The following is Embassy Georgetown's submission of information requested in reftel for the 2009 Trafficking in Persons Report. 2. (SBU) GUYANA'S TIP SITUATION: A. Sources of information used to compile this report include: the Guyanese media; the Ministry of Home Affairs; the Minis [...] | 2009-02-27 16:27:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KTIP PREF ELAB SMIG ASEC KCRM KWMN KFRD GY |
| 09GEORGETOWN149 | PRESIDENT JAGDEO TO EMBARK ON MIDDLE EAST TOUR [...] (SBU) Summary: President Bharrat Jagdeo has announced that he will travel to several Middle Eastern countries beginning on March 20, with his visit centered around the March 31 Second Summit of Arab-South American Countries in Qatar. Other countries on the planned itinerary include Syria, Jord [...] | 2009-03-18 20:36:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID ECIN ECON EFIN EINV ETRD GY XF |
| 09GEORGETOWN157 | JAGDEO UNREPENTANT AFTER LATEST ANTI-US OUTBURST, [...] (C) Summary: A day after another set of searing public criticisms of the U.S. Government and its "condescending lectures" on fighting drug trafficking and other issues through its annual reports, an entirely unrepentant President Jagdeo asserted to the Ambassador on March 19 that the tone of t [...] | 2009-03-20 19:16:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR GY |
| 09GEORGETOWN179 | 2009 OSAC CRIME AND SAFETY REPORT FOR GEORGETOWN [...] This report provides a historical record of crime in Georgetown, Guyana and how it affects the American private sector community that resides in country. --------------------------- OVERALL CRIME AND SAFETY --------------------------- I. Criminal activity in Georgetown continues to incre [...] | 2009-04-02 15:51:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT APER ASEC |
| 09GEORGETOWN192 | DEATH OF FORMER PRESIDENT JAGAN TO HAVE MAJOR [...] (U) Summary: Former President of Guyana Janet Jagan died in Georgetown on March 28, at the age of 88. A native of the United States, she married future President Cheddi Jagan in Chicago in 1943, immigrated to Guyana, and became a giant of Guyanese history in her own right. She remained a highly [...] | 2009-04-03 15:38:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV GY |
| 09GEORGETOWN194 | GUYANA RESPONSE TO FY09 PROHIBITION ON ASSISTANCE [...] (U) The following is Post's response to reftel questions regarding fiscal transparency in Guyana. 2. (U) As stipulated by law, the Government of Guyana publicly disseminates its annual budget. The Minister of Finance presents the budget to Parliament in the presence of the media and members [...] | 2009-04-03 20:37:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PREL GY |
| 09GEORGETOWN231 | GUYANA SUMMIT REACTION: PRAISE FOR'ENLIGHTENED' APPROACH, [...] (U) Summary: Initial local media reports reflected President Jagdeo's generally positive comments following CARICOM's meeting with President Obama at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad April 17-19. The press played up Jagdeo's praise of POTUS's leadership style and apparent willingness to [...] | 2009-04-22 20:47:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SNAR GY |
| 09GEORGETOWN363 | CARICOM LEADERS TALK ABOUT PROGRESS ON INTEGRATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) met in Georgetown July 2-5 for lengthy discussions on numerous regional topics with a focus on hemispheric relations, the economic criss, the free movement of peoples among member states and competing propo [...] | 2009-07-08 20:49:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON GY PREL |
| 09GEORGETOWN367 | GUYANA'S GREAT CARBON-BASED HOPE [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Jagdeo recently launched a Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) which he hopes will transform Guyana,s economy, conserve its forests and contribute to the global effort of reducing climate-changing carbon emissions. The strategy,s feasibility hinges on UN climate nego [...] | 2009-07-10 14:15:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | CARICOM EAGR ECON ENRG |
| 09GEORGETOWN418 | BLAZE AT MINISTRY OF HEALTH IS OUT, BUT NEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Testimony in the U.S. trial of a Guyanese drug kingpin,s lawyer alleged that the Minister of Health (and AMCIT) Leslie Ramsammy gave narco-trafficker and death squad leader Shaheed 'Roger' Khan the necessary permission from the GoG to purchase sensitive eavesdropping equipment [...] | 2009-07-31 20:51:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | GY PHUM PREL SNAR |
| 09GEORGETOWN421 | GUYANESE PRESIDENT JAGDEO SEEKS CONFIRMATION FOR CARICOM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-04 12:49:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL OVIP |
| 09GEORGETOWN434 | GUYANA REPRESENTATION AT UNGA STILL UNDETERMINED [...] (U) MFA officer for multilateral relations Lesley Collins stated that official high-level representation at UNGA 64 is still undetermined. In past years, President Bharrat Jagdeo or the Foreign Minister have attended, but typically that decision has not been made until just before the event. [...] | 2009-08-13 14:56:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KSEP OTRA PREL OVIP UNGA |
| 09GEORGETOWN450 | MORMON MISSIONARIES IN GUYANA DETAINED, ORDERED TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GoG detained 41 missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) for 11 hours on September 2, claiming they were in the country without valid work permits. Despite a court order for their immediate release, the Ministry of Home Affairs only freed th [...] | 2009-09-03 20:04:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | GY PGOV PHUM |
| 09GEORGETOWN454 | RULE OF LAW IN GUYANA: MORE LIKE A GUIDELINE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent actions by the Government of Guyana, illustrated by the case of detained missionaries (REFTEL A) and the pursuit of suspects in the Ministry of Health fire (REFTEL B),paint a picture of a state where opposition is marginalized and rule of law is selectively applied. Diplo [...] | 2009-09-11 20:56:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GY |
| 09GEORGETOWN508 | CONCURRENCE TO TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR COMBATING [...] (U) Summary: Post concurs with the Terms of Reference (TOR) to conduct Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET) mission SGY2010JCET618W in Guyana from January 10 to March 31, 2010. Post further confirms that the leadership of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) concur with this deployment. End Summ [...] | 2009-10-15 19:56:00 | Embassy Georgetown | SECRET | GY MARR MASS MCAP PREL PTER |
| 09GEORGETOWN51 | PRESIDENT JAGDEO BHARRAT CONGRATULATORY LETTER TO [...] The President Jagdeo Bharrat, sent the following congratulatory message to President Obama, a copy of which was sent to post and dated January 21. The original letter was sent to the White House. Text begins: Mr. President, On behalf of the Government and people of the Republic of [...] | 2009-01-26 12:46:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL OVIP |
| 09GEORGETOWN518 | CONCURRENCE FOR TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR NSW [...] (U) Summary: Post concurs with the Terms of Reference (TOR) to conduct Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET) mission SGY2010JCET618W in Guyana from January 10 to March 31, 2010. Post further confirms that the leadership of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) concur with this deployment. End Summ [...] | 2009-10-26 20:39:00 | Embassy Georgetown | SECRET | GY MARR MASS MCAP PREL PTER |
| 09GEORGETOWN521 | COM CONCURRENCE/VETTING ASSURANCE FOR FY2010 [...] (C) Charge d'Affaires Karen L. Williams formally concurs, per reftel guidance, with Embassy Georgetown's proposal for FY2010 Section 1206 funding submitted via web on October 13, 2009. The proposal is designed to strengthen Guyana's capacity to conduct counter-terrorism activities and continu [...] | 2009-10-28 15:44:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PTER ASEC GY |
| 09GEORGETOWN522 | GEORGETOWN POL/ECON ROUND-UP, OCTOBER 14-28, 2009 [...] (U) This cable inaugurates a new practice of bi-weekly "round-up" reporting cables highlighting developments in Guyana's politics and economy. This first installment covers October 14-28, 2009. CANCELLATION OF UK SECURITY SECTOR REFORM GOES PUBLIC 2. (C) Responding to a BBC Caribbean repor [...] | 2009-10-28 19:06:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL GY |
| 09GEORGETOWN527 | Joint Opposition Political Parties Launch Dossier to Address [...] (C) Summary. The Joint Opposition Political Parties (JOPP),comprising the People's National Congress Reform (PNCR),Alliance for Change (AFC),Guyana Action Party (GAP/ROAR),National Front Alliance (NFA) and Working People's Alliance (WPA),held a public meeting November 17 to launch their 2 [...] | 2009-11-19 20:02:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM PREL GY |
| 09GEORGETOWN531 | Receipt of GoG Diplomatic Note DG/3/11/2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-20 20:34:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR GY |
| 09GEORGETOWN535 | Guyana Response to Cuba/Libertad Act Suspension Request [...] (U) Post's responses to reftel: Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? No. Has the host country made public statements or undertaken other governmental actions, such as resolutions in national assemblies condemni [...] | 2009-11-24 17:31:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD CU GY ETTC PREL |
| 09GEORGETOWN539 | President Jagdeo Discusses Human Trafficking in Guyana [...] (C) Summary. In an unexpected meeting with a visiting G/TIP Officer on November 24, President Bharatt Jagdeo said he views trafficking in persons as a serious matter and would like to see Guyana ranked higher than Tier 2 Watch list. He said there are three on-going cases to prosecute traffick [...] | 2009-12-02 18:18:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM SMIG PREF ELAB KTIP KCRM KWMN KFRD GY |
| 09GEORGETOWN547 | CANADIAN COMPANY CONFIDENT OIL OFF GUYANA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Based on promising seismic indicators, CGX Resources Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canadian oil firm CGX Energy Inc. created in 1998 to develop deposits in Guyana's coastal waters, plans to begin exploratory drilling in September 2010 and projects peak production of up to 300 [...] | 2009-12-22 14:40:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL ECON EPET XL GY |
| 09GEORGETOWN553 | Pol/Econ Round-up December 8-December 24 [...] (U) This "round-up" reporting cable covers December 8-December 24. Copenhagen - Lower Than Expected Results 2. (U) Local media reported that the UN Climate Change Summit ended on lower than expected results. President Bharrat Jagdeo expressed disappointment with the total ag [...] | 2009-12-23 18:37:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON SENV GY |
| 09GEORGETOWN566 | Demarche Delivered: Country-Specific Resolutions at UNGA [...] (U) Per reftel, on November 18 Political Officer delivered demarche to Government of Guyana (GoG)'s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Head Candida Daniels. Regarding upcoming UNGA human rights resolutions on Iran, Burma and DPRK, Daniels offered no substantive response. WILLIAMS [...] | 2009-11-19 19:38:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA GY |
| 09GEORGETOWN568 | Demarche Delivered: Opposing UNGA Resolutions with [...] (U) Per reftel, on November 18 Political Officer delivered demarche to Government of Guyana (GoG)'s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Section Head Candida Daniels on November 18. Regarding opposition to UNGA resolutions with anti-Israeli bias, Daniels had no substantive response. WILL [...] | 2009-11-19 19:44:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA KPAL IS GY |
| 09GEORGETOWN630 | GUYANA: Demarche Delivered on UNGA "Defamation of Religions" [...] (U) Per reftel, PolChief delivered demarche on the potential dangers of the "Defamation of Religions" resolution and requested the Government of Guyana (GOG) to vote against or to abstain on the resolution when it comes to the UNGA plenary session for a final vote. Demarche was delivered [...] | 2009-12-10 13:59:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PREL PHUM KIRF UN UNGA XL GY |
| 09GEORGETOWN636 | 2009 Trafficking in Persons Project Assessment - CRS Guyana [...] (U) The following is Embassy Georgetown's submission of information requested in reftel for the Guyana Trafficking in Persons Mitigation Project. 2. (SBU) Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Project Assessment: A. PolChief met with Director of Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Cheryl M [...] | 2009-12-17 17:08:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN GY |
| 09GEORGETOWN71 | AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS STRIKE MAKES GUYANA'S [...] (U) An air traffic controllers strike has caused cancellations of at least two daily Caribbean Airlines flights and closed Guyana's international airport during night hours. Daytime arrivals and departures, which include a four-time weekly Delta flight, are so far unaffected. Senior staff mem [...] | 2009-02-02 19:23:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECIN ELAB |
| 09GEORGETOWN8 | GUYANA,S RULING PARTY LEADS MUSLIM COMMUNITY IN [...] (U) The ruling People's Progressive Party (PPP) led some 80 demonstrators in a peaceful event in front of the Embassy on January 9. High profile protesters included PPP General Secretary Donald Ramotar, Minister of Amerindian Affairs Pauline Sukhai, and a number of other former Ministers who [...] | 2009-01-09 19:11:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL GY |
| 09GEORGETOWN82 | JAGDEO INTERVENTION ENDS AIR TRAFFIC STRIKE [...] (U) On February 5, air traffic controllers at Guyana's international airport ended their nearly week-long strike after negotiating a last-minute truce directly with President Jagdeo. Having just returned to Guyana from a trip to Europe, Jagdeo agreed to rescind the letters of dismissal issued t [...] | 2009-02-06 19:57:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECIN ELAB |
| 09KAMPALA77 | SUBJECT: 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT - [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-16 05:29:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB OPIC USTR UG |
| 09KINGSTON481 | JAMAICA RESPONSE TO 2009 INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION [...] (U) The following is Post's response to questions listed in reftel regarding staffing and employee data at International organizations. 2. (U) Staff of the International Seabed Authority are listed below by name, title, nationality, category and level: OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL --- [...] | 2009-06-16 20:08:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC APER ECON KUNR OECD POL UN APECO UNESCO JM |
| 09KINGSTON508 | JAMAICAN-TRINIDADIAN-TRADE: FIRE SALES, FAILED DEALS AND DETAINED PATTIES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-29 15:00:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EMIN ENRG ETRD JM OPIC PGOV PREL TRSY XL |
| 09KINGSTON509 | JAMAICAN-TRINIDADIAN-TRADE: FIRE SALES, FAILED DEALS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Trade relations between the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) and the Government of Trinidad and Tobago (GOTT) heated up again in May after Trinidad detained a container of Jamaican meat patties for several weeks before releasing them on June 1. An ensuing media debate subsequently brok [...] | 2009-06-29 15:05:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ENRG PREL PGOV EFIN EMIN SOCI TRSY OPIC XL |
| 09KINGSTON514 | JAMAICA: FRUSTRATION GROWS OVER FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT, [...] (U) As the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) prepares for its July 2 summit in Guyana, the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) finds itself increasingly frustrated and at odds with its partners in the 36 year old organization, especially the regional economic powerhouse of Trinidad and Tobago. Particula [...] | 2009-06-30 16:24:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ECON EIND PBTS PREL EINV EPET ETRD SMIG MIC |
| 09LONDON109 | 2009 UK INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] In response to reftel, the following is the 2009 Investment Climate Statement for the United Kingdom. The information is updated as of January 1, 2009. 2. Much of the data supplied in this report is from 2007, since end-of-year 2008 figures are not yet available. Given the economic down [...] | 2009-01-15 13:20:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV OPIC USTR KTDB UK |
| 09MANAGUA314 | VISIT NICARAGUA! DECREE TEXT AND REVISED COUNTRY [...] (U) Late on March 18, 2009, the Government of Nicaragua (GON) released the official text of Decree 07-2009 that changed Nicaragua's visa policy. Our unofficial English translation appears below. The decree's fundamental change to Nicaragua's visa regime is that citizens from countries in "C [...] | 2009-03-24 18:03:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS ASEC PGOV SMIG PREL NU |
| 09NASSAU159 | CLICO BAHAMAS LIQUIDATED FOLLOWING COLLAPSE OF TRINIDAD'S [...] (U) SUMMARY: Nearly one hundred agents were laid off from one of The Bahamas largest insurance companies, CLICO Bahamas Ltd., the week of March 2 as the company goes into liquidation. Concerns were raised when Trinidad based parent company, CL Financial, collapsed due to massive losses and [...] | 2009-03-16 16:14:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON ETRD BF |
| 09NASSAU65 | LECTURE AFFORDS SNAPSHOT OF BAHAMAS MUSLIM [...] (U) SUMMARY: During a recent lecture at the historical society, a prominent local Muslim leader presented a largely autobiographical and documentary overview of the origins and development of Islam in The Bahamas. He provided an eyewitness perspective on a growing minority religion whose ad [...] | 2009-02-02 20:04:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM BF |
| 09OTTAWA834 | Canada: 2009-2010 International Narcotics Control Strategy [...] . (U) Summary In 2009, Canada continued to implement its National Anti-Drug Strategy, involving three action plans to reduce the supply of and demand for illicit drugs as well as associated crime. Canada remains a country of concern due to the amount of MDMA (3, 4-methylenedioxymethampheta [...] | 2009-11-02 22:39:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR CA |
| 09PARAMARIBO356 | Suriname: 2009-2010 International Narcotics Control Strategy [...] (U) Post presents its 2009-2010 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) Part I, Drugs and Chemical Control. Suriname I. Summary Suriname is a transit zone for South American cocaine en route to Europe, Africa and, to a lesser extent, the United States. The Government of [...] | 2009-11-05 20:09:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR NS |
| 09PARAMARIBO36 | INL 2008 END USE MONITORING REPORT [...] (U) Post is pleased to provide its 2008 End Use Monitoring Report. Cable is keyed to Ref A. 2. (U) PROCEDURES A. Inventory Management Post's EUM Program Coordinator: Geneve Menscher, Pol-Econ Chief, (597) 472-900 ext. 2205, MenscherGe@state.gov. Inventory System: Post does not hav [...] | 2009-02-02 17:28:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR AFIN NS |
| 09PARAMARIBO372 | EVALUATION OF PARTICIPATION OF HERB FRAZIER IN FY09 PRESS [...] (U) This cable is a program evaluation for the Strategic Speaker Initiative program bringing Herb Frazier to Suriname on September 14 - 18 to advise journalists and engage in activities surrounding press freedom. This addressed MSP Goal #1, mutual U.S.-Suriname appreciation and respect contrib [...] | 2009-11-13 16:59:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO NS |
| 09PARAMARIBO86 | PARAMARIBO 2009 OSAC CRIME SAFETY REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-19 18:40:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ASEC |
| 09PARIS1553 | FRANCE/BRAZIL: THE ECONOMIC AGENDA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Behind the cultural exchanges and warm diplomatic relations with Brazil (Ref A),France is embarking on a long-term strategy to court a country it sees as a resource-rich future global powerhouse and foothold in Latin America. Since the 2005 "Year of Brazil in France," commercial tie [...] | 2009-11-23 16:52:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL EINV BEXP ETRD EAID SENV FR BR |
| 09PARIS679 | FRANCE AND CUBA: RESPONSE TO REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION [...] (C) The following paragraphs are responses to the request for information on the relationship between France and the Cuban government and the implementation of Title III of the LIBERTAD Act (ref a): 2. (C) Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democr [...] | 2009-05-19 16:40:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU FR |
| 09PORTAUPRINCE29 | HAITI'S LATEST FUEL CRISIS: WHO IS TO BLAME? [...] (U) Summary: The Government of Haiti (GoH) announced December 31 a 91-octane gasoline price decrease of nearly 20 percent. By January 5, many gas stations were closed and those with fuel attracted long lines. The GoH denied any involvement, blaming late delivery from the refinery; distributo [...] | 2009-01-09 19:26:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL HA |
| 09PORTOFSPAIN233 | CARICOM: HEADS OF GOVERNMENT DISCUSS REGIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: CARICOM heads of government met May 24 in Port of Spain to discuss a regional response to the economic crisis. They encouraged member countries intending to approach the IMF to do so sooner rather than later, but also stressed the need for a medium-term regional approach to th [...] | 2009-05-27 18:00:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EFIN ECIN TD |
| 09PORTOFSPAIN289 | FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES BILATERAL ISSUES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Gopee-Scoon told the Charge July 10 she appreciated her talk with USTR on a partial scope energy agreement and on packaging. In other comments, she noted GOTT displeasure with the TIP report; it plans to send a complaint letter. The CDA raised the need for Trin [...] | 2009-07-12 12:15:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KCRM TD |
| 09QUITO703 | ECUADOR'S UNASUR AGENDA: AN ANTI-AMERICAN TONE? [...] (C) SUMMARY: On the 200th anniversary of its so-called "First Call for Independence" on August 10, Ecuador will assume the rotating presidency of UNASUR on the same day that President Correa is inaugurated. The MFA announced the GOE's objectives and planned projects for UNASUR on August 3, w [...] | 2009-08-07 15:21:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PREL ECIN MARR EC CO XM XR |
| 09QUITO707 | SCENESETTER FOR INAUGURATION DELEGATION [...] (SBU) Embassy Quito warmly welcomes the delegation headed by Senator Bob Graham for the inauguration of President Correa on August 10, held on the 200th anniversary of Ecuador's first call for independence. While we do not agree with the Correa government on every issue, we have enjoyed stron [...] | 2009-08-07 18:05:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EAID MARR OVIP EC CO |
| 09RABAT195 | MOROCCO'S TALLY OF COUNTRIES REJECTING/SUPPORTING [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Morocco continues to work to persuade countries around the globe to de-recognize the Polisario Front's declared Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, or at least freeze relations, beyond which they want countries to recognize Moroccan sovereignty over the Western Saha [...] | 2009-03-06 18:58:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV WI UNSC MO |
| 09SANJOSE921 | COSTA RICA RESPONSE TO USTR REQUEST FOR INFO ON CBI- [...] The following is Post's response to reftel A. The text replies to specific keyed reftel questions and updates Post's 2007 submission (reftel C) to USTR's request regarding CBI beneficiary countries. Questions can be directed to Economics Specialist, Kevin Ludeke at +506 2519-22261, Fax +506 [...] | 2009-10-27 20:48:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR EINV PREL PGOV CS |
| 09SAOPAULO18 | BRAZIL MAKES PROGRESS AGAINST TIP [...] (U) Summary: The year 2008 saw continued improvement in the fight against Trafficking in Persons (TIP) in Brazil. Despite prickly reactions to U.S. pressure, as evidenced by discussions between U.S. and Brazilian officials during a June G/TIP visit (Reftels A and B),the fight against human [...] | 2009-01-09 17:35:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF KCRM PHUM ELAB KTIP BR |
| 09STATE105775 | Allowance and Post Differential [...] Effective October 11, 2009, unless otherwise noted, allowances and/or post differential rates are revised as shown. These changes are issued under TL:SR-718. 2. Please inform local offices of all U.S. government agencies at the posts listed in this cable. 3. Important: Read this entire [...] | 2009-10-09 20:41:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ALOW AMGT APER AFIN |
| 09STATE110433 | WHA: INSTRUCTIONS FOR 2009 TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-26 22:54:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KTIP KWMN PGOV PHUM SMIG AR BH DR GT GY NU XL |
| 09STATE112504 | G/TIP FY 2010 ANTI-TRAFFICKING COMPETITIVE GRANT [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paras 8 and 9. 2. (U) Summary: The Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP) is conducting a two-stage competitive process for FY 2010 funding of projects that will improve the response to trafficking in persons. [...] | 2009-10-31 01:41:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP ELAB KCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL |
| 09STATE118799 | OPPOSING UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS [...] (SBU) Posts are requested to approach the highest appropriate officials in host governments in pursuit of the following objectives: -- a reduction in the overall number of one-sided UN General Assembly resolutions on the Middle East; -- the defeat of three resolutions reaffirming the "Com [...] | 2009-11-17 23:53:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA KPAL IS SY LE |
| 09STATE122629 | A-BR ACTION REQUEST: DECEMBER VOTE ON "DEFAMATION [...] (SBU) During the week of 7-12 December, the deeply problematic "combating defamation of religions" resolution, which seeks to undermine established human rights of freedom of religion and expression, will come to the plenary session at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) for a final vote. This r [...] | 2009-11-30 20:20:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UN PHUM UNGA |
| 09STATE122637 | B-K ACTION REQUEST: DECEMBER VOTE ON "DEFAMATION [...] (SBU) During the week of 7-12 December, the deeply problematic "combating defamation of religions" resolution, which seeks to undermine established human rights of freedom of religion and expression, will come to the plenary session at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) for a final vote. This r [...] | 2009-11-30 20:24:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UN PHUM UNGA |
| 09STATE122638 | K-P ACTION REQUEST: DECEMBER VOTE ON "DEFAMATION [...] (SBU) During the week of 7-12 December, the deeply problematic "combating defamation of religions" resolution, which seeks to undermine established human rights of freedom of religion and expression, will come to the plenary session at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) for a final vote. This r [...] | 2009-11-30 20:26:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UN PHUM UNGA |
| 09STATE122639 | PH-UL ACTION REQUEST: DECEMBER VOTE ON [...] (SBU) During the week of 7-12 December, the deeply problematic "combating defamation of religions" resolution, which seeks to undermine established human rights of freedom of religion and expression, will come to the plenary session at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) for a final vote. This r [...] | 2009-11-30 20:27:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UN PHUM UNGA |
| 09STATE122641 | V-Y ACTION REQUEST: DECEMBER VOTE ON "DEFAMATION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-30 20:27:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA PHUM UN |
| 09STATE26136 | PSI: MAY 2009 PSI OUTREACH MEETING - OFFICIAL [...] The U.S. will host a Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Operational Experts Group (OEG) meeting and a PSI Outreach meeting on May 12-14, 2009 in Miami, FL. The OEG meeting for PSI participating countries will take place on May 12-13, and the Outreach meeting for Western Hemisphere coun [...] | 2009-03-18 21:16:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | MNUC PARM PHSA PREL KNNP XL XM |
| 09STATE322 | ANNOUNCING RATIFICATION OF THE U.S.-IAEA [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 15-17. ------- Summary ------- 2. Summary: On December 30, 2008, the President signed the instrument of ratification for the Protocol Additional to the Agreement Between the United States of America and the International Atomic Energy [...] | 2009-01-03 03:47:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC IAEA ENRG NPT PREL KNNP TRGY KTIA |
| 09STATE33629 | DEMARCHE IN SUPPORT OF KOSOVO'S IMF AND WORLD [...] (SBU) This is a time-sensitive action request for addressee posts. Given the importance of these IMF and World Bank votes, Department asks that the demarche be delivered at the highest appropriate level, preferably by Chief of Mission or DCM (please see paragraphs 2-5),with reports by April [...] | 2009-04-07 11:44:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL KV |
| 09STATE40824 | HCOC - ENCOURAGING INDIA TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE HCOC [...] (C) Summary: Department requests Embassy to encourage India to subscribe to the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC). This overture is consistent with India's positive efforts related to preventing the spread of ballistic missiles via harmonization and adherenc [...] | 2009-04-23 16:49:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA |
| 09STATE44996 | HCOC - ENCOURAGING ADDITIONAL COUNTRIES TO [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) Background: Per reftels, the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC; also known as the International Code of Conduct, or ICOC; text at para 5) was formally brought into effect on November 25, 2002 at [...] | 2009-05-04 15:34:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA |
| 09STATE44998 | HCOC - ENCOURAGING ADDITIONAL COUNTRIES TO [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) Background: Per reftels, the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC; also known as the International Code of Conduct, or ICOC; text at para 5) was formally brought into effect on November 25, 2002 at [...] | 2009-05-04 15:35:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA |
| 09STATE45698 | SITUATION REPORT NO. 7 INFLUENZA TASK FORCE [...] (SBU) The WHO confirms a case was identified in Portugal. (Task Force/HHS telcon) 2. (SBU) Mexican Health Minister Cordova announced 866 confirmed cases without any additional fatalities. (Task Force/Embassy Mexico City telcon) 3. (SBU) Embassy Mexico City confirmed one U.S. citizen [...] | 2009-05-05 20:14:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO |
| 09STATE47360 | KUDOS AND ACTION REQUEST: VOTING FOR KOSOVO'S [...] (SBU) On May 6, Kosovo,s membership in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was accepted overwhelmingly with 96 countries voting in favor of membership and another 32 casting abstentions. Kosovo,s membership received significant support throughout the world, but especially in the Arab world [...] | 2009-05-08 21:42:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL KV |
| 09STATE47369 | KUDOS AND ACTION REQUEST: VOTING FOR KOSOVO'S [...] (SBU) On May 6, Kosovo,s membership in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was accepted overwhelmingly with 96 countries voting in favor of membership and another 32 casting abstentions. Kosovo,s membership received significant support throughout the world, but especially in the Arab world [...] | 2009-05-08 22:10:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL KV |
| 09STATE47372 | KUDOS AND ACTION REQUEST: VOTING FOR KOSOVO'S [...] (SBU) On May 6, Kosovo,s membership in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was accepted overwhelmingly with 96 countries voting in favor of membership and another 32 casting abstentions. Kosovo,s membership received significant support throughout the world, but especially in the Arab world [...] | 2009-05-08 22:24:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL KV |
| 09STATE49477 | 2009 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] This is an action request. -------------------------- SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST -------------------------- 2. Action Request: Pursuant to the requirements of Section 527 of the FY 94-95 Foreign Relations Authorization Act (FRAA),the Department must prepare an annual, non-public rep [...] | 2009-05-14 18:20:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC EINV KIDE OPIC PGOV |
| 09STATE60500 | BRAZIL -- 2009 TIP REPORT: PRESS GUIDANCE AND [...] This is an action cable; see paras 5 through 7 and 10. 2. On June 16, 2009, at 10:00 a.m. EDT, the Secretary will release the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report at a press conference in the Department's press briefing room. This release will receive substantial coverage in domestic an [...] | 2009-06-11 21:06:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP ELAB KCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG BR |
| 09STATE60533 | ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA -- 2009 TIP REPORT: PRESS [...] This is an action cable; see paras 5 through 7 and 10. 2. On June 16, 2009, at 10:00 a.m. EDT, the Secretary will release the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report at a press conference in the Department's press briefing room. This release will receive substantial coverage in domestic an [...] | 2009-06-11 22:18:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP ELAB KCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG AC |
| 09STATE60536 | BARBADOS -- 2009 TIP REPORT: PRESS GUIDANCE AND [...] This is an action cable; see paras 5 through 7 and 10. 2. On June 16, 2009, at 10:00 a.m. EDT, the Secretary will release the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report at a press conference in the Department's press briefing room. This release will receive substantial coverage in domestic an [...] | 2009-06-11 22:20:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP ELAB KCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG BB |
| 09STATE60549 | GUYANA -- 2009 TIP REPORT: PRESS GUIDANCE AND [...] This is an action cable; see paras 5 through 7 and 10. 2. On June 16, 2009, at 10:00 a.m. EDT, the Secretary will release the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report at a press conference in the Department's press briefing room. This release will receive substantial coverage in domestic an [...] | 2009-06-11 22:48:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP ELAB KCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG GY |
| 09STATE60550 | SURINAME -- 2009 TIP REPORT: PRESS GUIDANCE AND [...] This is an action cable; see paras 5 through 7 and 10. 2. On June 16, 2009, at 10:00 a.m. EDT, the Secretary will release the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report at a press conference in the Department's press briefing room. This release will receive substantial coverage in domestic and [...] | 2009-06-11 22:49:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP ELAB KCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG NS |
| 09STATE60555 | TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO -- 2009 TIP REPORT: PRESS [...] This is an action cable; see paras 5 through 7 and 10. 2. On June 16, 2009, at 10:00 a.m. EDT, the Secretary will release the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report at a press conference in the Department's press briefing room. This release will receive substantial coverage in domestic an [...] | 2009-06-11 22:52:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP ELAB KCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG TD |
| 09STATE69805 | INSTRUCTIONS FOR ICTY/ICTR EXTENSION RESOLUTIONS [...] The Department authorizes USUN to vote for adoption of the following resolutions, included in paras 2 and 3, to be considered by the Council on Tuesday, July 7, extending the terms of the judges of the International Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Rwanda (ICTR),2. Begin ICTY [...] | 2009-07-06 21:30:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PREL ICTY ICTR |
| 09STATE73869 | ENGAGING CARICOM STATES ON KOSOVO RECOGNITION [...] (SBU) This is an action request for posts in CARICOM member states. See paragraph 2. Objectives ---------- 2. (SBU) Sixty-two countries have now recognized Kosovo. It is a high U.S. priority to obtain new recognitions to strengthen Kosovo,s international position, especially ahead of [...] | 2009-07-16 11:21:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KV |
| 09STATE85140 | Allowance and Post Differential [...] Effective August 16, 2009, unless otherwise noted, allowances and/or post differential rates are revised as shown. These changes are issued under TL:SR-714. 2. Please inform local offices of all U.S. government agencies at the posts listed in this cable. 3. Important: Read this entire [...] | 2009-08-14 22:37:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ALOW AMGT APER AFIN |
| 09STATE90944 | PREPARATORY MEETING OF THE XVI INTER-AMERICAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Preparatory Meeting of the Sixteenth Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labor (IACML) took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina July 22-24. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) led the U.S. delegation, which also included officials from the Department of State's Bureau of [...] | 2009-09-01 14:05:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC ELAB ETRD OVIP PREL |
| 09STATE96343 | BLUE LANTERN PRE-LICENSE END USE CHECK ON [...] This is an action message. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests post assistance in conducting a pre-license check for the export of facemask canisters to Guyana. Post is requested to complete this Blue Lantern check withi [...] | 2009-09-16 18:22:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC GY KOMC |
| 09SUVA216 | FORMER PM CHAUDHRY REQUESTS URGENT MEETING WITH AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 20, I met with former prime minister and leader of the Fiji Labor Party (FLP) Mahendra Chaudhry at his request. Chaudhry has yet to see Bainimarama since the abrogation but still wants a meeting to discuss the situation in Fiji. Chaudhry and deposed PM Laisenia Qarase ha [...] | 2009-05-21 23:32:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR FJ KDEM |
| 09SUVA251 | NOTED ACADEMIC'S SPEECH BANNED BY FIJI'S DE FACTO [...] (U) On June 12, Fijian police banned the opening session of the Fiji Institute of Chartered Accountants annual congress in Nadi because Fiji lawyer and outspoken critic of the de facto government Graham Leung and Dr. Brij Lal, Professor of Pacific and Asian History at the Research School of Pa [...] | 2009-06-12 03:16:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL FJ KDEM |
| 09USUNNEWYORK1133 | WESTERN HEMISPHERE DELEGATIONS AT THE 64TH UNGA [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Obama's speech was the high point of the UNGA's opening session. WHA and other delegations warmly welcomed his call for a "new era of engagement." One of the most striking expressions of this sentiment came later in the session when the Third Committee erupted into appl [...] | 2009-12-18 17:01:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PHUM PREL UNGA XK XL XM |
| 09USUNNEWYORK581 | AMBASSADOR DICARLO MEETS WITH THE ICTY'S PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) Ambassador DiCarlo met with Judge Patrick Robinson, the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on June 3 prior to the ICTY's biannual briefing to the UN Security Council. The ICTY's new Registrar, John Hocking and its Chef de Cabinet, Gabriell [...] | 2009-06-10 16:01:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ICTY PREL UNSC |
| 09USUNNEWYORK864 | UN COMMEMORATION OF 60 YEARS OF UNRWA [...] (SBU) Summary: The commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of United National Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) special high-level meeting of the General Assembly took place at UN headquarters September 24, 2009. The event was an opportunity [...] | 2009-09-30 14:39:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF UNRWA KPAL IS |
| 09USUNNEWYORK924 | UN CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT: SEEKING MOMENTUM FOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Secretary-General's September 22 high-level event on climate change drew leaders from nearly one hundred countries just a day before the start of the UN General Assembly and three months before the anticipated Climate Change Convention ministerial in Copenhagen. Leaders from a [...] | 2009-10-19 15:15:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KGHG SENV UN |
| 09USUNNEWYORK932 | (U) U.N. GENERAL DEBATE CONTINUES (SEPTEMBER 24, [...] (U) Summary: Speeches in the afternoon session of the second day of the UNGA General Debate (September 24) continued with some familiar topics. Latin American leaders from Venezuela, Costa Rica, and Paraguay all condemned the coup in Honduras. Most of the speakers called for reform of the Un [...] | 2009-10-20 23:35:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | CS ECON GA GY IZ LG MI PA PGOV PREL SI TZ |
| 09USUNNEWYORK989 | GENERAL DEBATE AND RESOLUTION ON THE INTERNATIONAL [...] Summary: On October 29, Judge Sang-Hyun Song updated the General Assembly on the activity of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Twenty-eight Member States addressed the General Assembly on the issue. Most countries pledged support for the ICC and commended Chile and the Czech Republic [...] | 2009-11-03 22:38:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA |
| 09USUNNEWYORK997 | U.N. GENERAL DEBATE CONTINUES (SEPTEMBER 24, PM): [...] (U) SUMMARY: The afternoon session of the 2nd day of the UNGA General Debate on September 24 opened with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez criticizing the United States, dissecting the intentions of President Obama, and extolling the merits of socialism. Latin American leaders from Venezuela, C [...] | 2009-11-05 23:31:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KPKO UNGA VE SI GY CS PA TZ LG |
| 10BERLIN166 | Germany - REVISED Investment Climate Statement [...] In response to reftel, the following is the 2010 Investment Climate Statement for Germany. This is the revised version of the statement. A previous version was sent on January 15, 2010. 2. Begin Text: GERMANY: 2010 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT ---------------------------------------- [...] | 2010-02-05 16:41:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV USTR OPIC GM |
| 10BRIDGETOWN15 | TIP SUBMISSION - ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES [...] (U) As requested ref A, below are Post's responses to questions regarding St. Vincent and the Grenadines for the annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. --------------------------------------------- ------ PARA 25 - THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION ------------------------------------ [...] | 2010-01-19 19:15:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KCRM KFRD KMCA KWMN KTIP PGOV PHUM SMIG ASEC |
| 10BRIDGETOWN164 | TIP SUBMISSION - ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA [...] (U) Below are Post's responses to questions regarding Antigua and Barbuda for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. --------------------------------------------- ---- Para 25 - The Country's TIP Situation --------------------------------------------- ---- 2. (SBU) [...] | 2010-02-18 16:09:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KTIP PREF ELAB ASEC SMIG KCRM KFRD KWMN KMCA XL |
| 10BRIDGETOWN25 | TIP SUBMISSION - BARBADOS [...] (U) As requested reftel, below are Post's responses to questions regarding Barbados for the annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. --------------------------------------------- ------ PARA 25 - THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION --------------------------------------------- ------ [...] | 2010-02-01 14:51:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREF KTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KMCA KWMN SMIG |
| 10BRIDGETOWN33 | TIP SUBMISSION - ST KITTS AND NEVIS [...] (U) As requested in reftel, below are Post's responses to questions regarding St. Kitts and Nevis for the annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. ------------------------------------- PARA 25 - THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION ------------------------------------- 2. (SBU) -- A. What is [...] | 2010-02-23 20:38:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KTIP PREF ELAB ASEC SMIG KCRM KFRD KWMN KMCA XL |
| 10BUENOSAIRES76 | Argentina Interested in Hosting Small Arms and Light Weapons [...] (U) Action request for Department in para 5. 2. (U) Deputy Pol Couns discussed the proposal (reftel) to co-host with Argentina a regional conference on small arms and light weapons (SA/LW) traffic with Alberto Dojas, Deputy Director for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office on Internat [...] | 2010-01-27 19:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC MARR MCAP MOPS PARM PREL MASS AR |
| 10GEORGETOWN1 | Pol/Econ Round-up December 25- January 11 [...] (U) This "round-up" reporting cable covers the period from December 25, 2009 to January 11, 2010. Search for next PPP Presidential Candidate Begins 2. (C) The People's Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary Donald Ramotar publicly stated on December 30 that the PPP has st [...] | 2010-01-11 20:42:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ECON XL CH GY |
| 10GEORGETOWN15 | Jagdeo Visits Iran [...] (C) Summary. President Bharrat Jagdeo returned from his visit to the Middle East, including Iran January 20-21, announcing that the GoG had signed two Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with Iran. Besides announcing these two MoUs, President Jagdeo said Iran would send a team of specialists to [...] | 2010-02-04 19:52:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL ENRG IR XL GY |
| 10GEORGETOWN17 | LCDS COLLIDES WITH GOLD MINING INDUSTRY [...] (SBU) Summary: In early January the Jagdeo administration proposed new mining regulations to limit forest degradation as part of President Bharrat Jagdeo's Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS). Miners strongly rejected proposed regulations and demanded that five to seven percent of Guyana's [...] | 2010-02-08 17:08:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV EMIN ECON XL GY |
| 10GEORGETOWN19 | Pol/Econ Roundup January 28-February 16 [...] (U) This periodic reporting cable highlights developments in Guyana's politics and economy affecting Department strategic objectives in country and throughout the Caribbean basin. Local Government Elections - STATUS UPDATE 2. (C) Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (G [...] | 2010-02-16 20:16:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV EMIN ECON XL GY |
| 10GEORGETOWN3 | Pol/Econ Round-up January 11-January 28 [...] (U) This periodic reporting cable highlights developments in Guyana's politics and economy affecting Department strategic objectives in country and throughout the Caribbean basin. JAGDEO'S FIRST VISIT TO IRAN January 20-21 2. (C) Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affair [...] | 2010-01-28 21:38:00 | Embassy Georgetown | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ENRG ECON IR GY |
| 10GEORGETOWN5 | Demarche Delivered: Copenhagen Accord [...] (U) Charge d'Affaires delivered reftel points to Foreign Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett on Wednesday, January 27. Foreign Minister Rodrigues-Birkett told Charge that the Government of Guyana has received correspondence from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) but has [...] | 2010-01-29 12:19:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG KGHG GY |
| 10GEORGETOWN58 | GUYANA - CHILD LABOR REPORT 2010 [...] (U) No evidence exists to suggest forced or exploitive child labor occurs in the production of goods in Guyana. While child labor does exist in certain forms in Guyana, it occurs primarily in the informal sector, mainly domestic housework and small-scale fishing, farming and vending. Sou [...] | 2010-02-01 16:33:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD KTIP PHUM GY |
| 10GEORGETOWN78 | TENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS ASSESSMENT - GUYANA [...] (U) The following is Embassy Georgetown's submission of information requested in reftel for the 2010 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. 2. (SBU) GUYANA'S TIP SITUATION: A. Sources of information available include: the Guyanese media; the Ministry of Home Affairs; the Ministry [...] | 2010-02-10 16:23:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB KMCA GY |
| 10GEORGETOWN82 | Request for SSI Speaker on Energy and Climate Change [...] SUMMARY: Post seeks a speaker under the Strategic Speaker Initiative (SSI) to discuss climate change issues related to conventional and renewable energy production during the month of April 2010. END SUMMARY. 2. Proposed program dates: Mission requests two program days in April, spe [...] | 2010-02-19 14:15:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO NS GY |
| 10GEORGETOWN86 | Guyana: S/GWI Project Proposal [...] (U) Per reftel, local NGO Help & Shelter's program proposal is provided below: 2. Project Title: Support in Combating Gender-Based Violence (GBV) with proposed project duration of 18 months. Amount requested is USD99,970 (see paragraph 7). 3. Help & Shelter Background: [...] | 2010-02-19 19:59:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KWMN KPAO PHUM AID CDC GY |
| 10GEORGETOWN90 | SCENESETTER FOR MARCH 3-4 VISIT BY S/EGCI DAVID GOLDWYN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY OF PROPOSED TRIP AGENDA: Embassy Georgetown welcomes you to Guyana March 3-4. On March 3 you are scheduled to meet with President Bharrat Jagdeo, Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, Foreign Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Finance Minister Ashni Singh, Bank of Guyana Central Governo [...] | 2010-02-24 14:38:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EAID ECON ETRD PGOV GY |
| 10HONGKONG113 | RUSAL IPO IN HONG KONG: ALL RISK, NO REWARD FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Russian Aluminum company Rusal is set to be the first Russian company to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx) when it completes its Initial Public Offering (IPO) on January 27. Rusal's questionable corporate governance, precarious debt profile, and its CEO's alleged ties [...] | 2010-01-20 11:34:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV HK CH RS |
| 10LIMA256 | Peru to Consider USG Cites Proposals [...] SUMMARY: EconOff and REO Hub Officers met with officials from the Ministry of External Relations, Ministry of Environment, Vice Ministry of Fisheries of the Ministry of Production and Export, and the Peru Ocean Institute (IMARPE) regarding reftel CITES proposals. Visiting OES Marine Science O [...] | 2010-02-09 13:26:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KSCA AORC UNEP PE |
| 10LONDON92 | United Kingdom: Investment Climate Statement 2010 [...] In response to reftel, the following is the 2010 Investment Climate Statement for the United Kingdom. The information is updated as of January 1, 2010. UNITED KINGDOM: 2010 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT --------------------------------------------- ---- A.1. Openness to Foreign Investment [...] | 2010-01-15 17:27:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV OPIC KTDB USTR UK |
| 10PARAMARIBO26 | Paramaribo: Request for American Corners Sustaining Funds in [...] (U) SUMMARY (A) Embassy Paramaribo requests "American Corner Sustaining Funds" for FY10. Post's vigorous efforts in harnessing the American Corner's (AC) capabilities as one of Post's premier public diplomacy tool paid off with a dramatic 132% increase in the number of audience members r [...] | 2010-01-14 15:20:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO KIRC NS |
| 10PARAMARIBO34 | Suriname: Investment Climate Statement 2010 [...] Post submits the 2010 Investment Climate Statement for Suriname. OPENNESS TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT ------------------------------- 2. The Government of Suriname (GOS) welcomes Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into the country and has identified it as key factor in achieving susta [...] | 2010-01-19 18:32:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB OPIC KTDB PGOV NS |
| 10PARAMARIBO5 | Scenesetter for Special Envoy David Goldwyn and EGCI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY OF PROPOSED TRIP AGENDA: Everyone at Embassy Paramaribo joins me in welcoming Special Envoy David Goldwyn and the Energy Governance and Capacity Initiative delegation to Suriname. Although we cannot yet provide a confirmed schedule, we expect our Ministerial-level and worki [...] | 2010-02-23 18:12:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EAID ECON ETRD PGOV NS |
| 10PORTOFSPAIN7 | REQUESTING PTO FUNDING FROM OGL TO ASSIST IN FUNDING [...] During 2007, the Port of Spain Country Office (POSCO) initiated a Priority Target, CPOT linked investigation into the Bramhanand NANDALALL Drug Trafficking Organization (DTO). The POSCO imitated this Priority Target, CPOT linked investigation with the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the Gu [...] | 2010-02-04 18:41:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | DEA SNAR TD |
| 10QUITO160 | UNASUR Stresses South-South Assistance to Haiti [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a UNASUR summit meeting in Quito on February 9, presidents and other representatives from member countries approved a $100 million UNASUR fund for Haiti and requested a $200 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank that would be repaid by UNASUR member states. [...] | 2010-02-09 23:49:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID EFIN MARR EC HA CO XR |
| 10QUITO65 | Ecuador Calls UNASUR Presidential Meeting on Haiti [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Correa visited Haiti in his capacity as UNASUR interim president on January 29. Correa has since called for an emergency meeting of UNASUR presidents on Haiti on February 9 in Quito, which may include Haitian President Preval. Meanwhile, UNASUR vice defense ministers [...] | 2010-02-05 00:13:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID MARR EFIN SNAR EC HA CO XR |
| 10SEOUL92 | SEOUL ESTH UPDATE - DECEMBER 2009 [...] In January 2008, Korea revised the goal of raising the share of new and renewable energy in its total energy equation from 2.6 percent in 2008 to 6 percent in 2020, and 11 percent in 2030. Korea's New and Renewable 2030 Vision stipulates wind energy to be developed and deployed as the third la [...] | 2010-01-25 08:11:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EIND ENRG PGOV PREL TBIO TRGY TSPA KS |
| 10STATE14935 | THE ENERGY GOVERNANCE AND CAPACITY INITIATIVE [...] SUMMARY. The Office of the Coordinator for International Energy Affairs (S/CIEA),in coordination with USAID, our missions overseas, and State's regional and functional bureaus, is proud to unveil the Energy Governance and Capacity Initiative (EGCI). EGCI is designed to help countries with [...] | 2010-02-19 00:46:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET EAID ECON ETRD PGOV |
| 10STATE16555 | HCOC - ENCOURAGING SINGAPORE TO SUBSCRIBE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 3. OBJECTIVE AND ACTION REQUEST ---------------------------- 2. (U) Objective: We want Singapore to subscribe to the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC). 3. (SBU) Action Request: Drawing on the ta [...] | 2010-02-23 19:26:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA SN |
| 10STATE18410 | Allowance and Post Differential [...] Effective February 28, 2010, unless otherwise noted, allowances and/or post differential rates are revised as shown. These changes are issued under TL:SR-728. 2. Please inform local offices of all U.S. government agencies at the posts listed in this cable. 3. Important: Read this entir [...] | 2010-02-26 21:57:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ALOW AMGT APER AFIN |
| 10STATE2094 | PREPARING THE TENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN [...] (U) This is an action message for all posts. See paras 14-35. This cable describes the annual reporting requirement for Trafficking in Persons (TIP) and provides instructions for posts' contributions. The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000, as amended, requires the Department [...] | 2010-01-09 04:19:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF |
| 91STATE374256 | LIBYAN OFFICIALS INDICTED FOR BOMBING PAN 103 [...] S - ENTIRE TEXT. THE PAPER IS EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AND IS CLASSIFIED SECRET UNTIL THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14 AT 1530 (GMT). AFTER THAT POINT THE WHITE PAPER IS DECLASSIFIED AND SHOULD BE SHARED WIDELY WITH HOST GOVERNMENT. 2. AS DISCUSSED IN SEPTEL (MESSAGE REFERENCE NUMBER NOT YET AVAILABLE [...] | 1991-11-14 18:04:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | PTER LY |
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