• wikileaks ico  Home
  • privacy policy Privacy

Search   through 251'286 wikileaks cables

browse by topics
| advanced search
Select office:
Select classification:
Tags: ALL or ANY
B   R   O   W   S   E
By embassy:
Abidjan Abu Dhabi Abuja Accra Adana Addis Ababa Alexandria Algiers American Institute Taiwan, Taipei Amman Amsterdam Ankara Antananarivo Apia Ashgabat Asmara Astana Asuncion Athens Auckland Baghdad Baku Bamako Bandar Seri Begawan Bangkok Bangui Banjul Barcelona Beijing Beirut Belfast Belgrade Belmopan Berlin Bern Bishkek Bogota Brasilia Bratislava Brazzaville Bridgetown Brussels Bucharest Budapest Buenos Aires Bujumbura Cairo Calgary Canberra Cape Town Caracas Casablanca Chengdu Chennai Chiang Mai Chisinau Ciudad Juarez Colombo Conakry Copenhagen Cotonou Curacao Dakar Damascus Dar Es Salaam Department of State Dhahran Dhaka Dili DIR FSINFATC Djibouti Doha Dubai Dublin Durban Dushanbe Dusseldorf Embasy Bonn Florence Frankfurt Freetown Fukuoka Gaborone Georgetown Grenada Guadalajara Guangzhou Guatemala Guayaquil Halifax Hamburg Hamilton Hanoi Harare Helsinki Hermosillo Ho Chi Minh City Hong Kong Hyderabad Iran RPO Dubai Islamabad Istanbul Izmir Jakarta Jeddah Jerusalem Johannesburg Kabul Kaduna Kampala Karachi Kathmandu Khartoum Kigali Kingston Kinshasa Kolkata Kolonia Koror Krakow Kuala Lumpur Kuwait Kyiv La Paz Lagos Lahore Leipzig Libreville Lilongwe Lima Lisbon Ljubljana Lome London Luanda Lusaka Luxembourg Madrid Majuro Malabo Managua Manama Manila Maputo Marseille Maseru Matamoros Mbabane Melbourne Merida Mexico Milan Minsk Mission Geneva Mission UNESCO Mission USNATO Mission USOSCE Mogadishu Monrovia Monterrey Montevideo Montreal Moscow Mumbai Munich Muscat Nagoya Naha Nairobi Naples Nassau Ndjamena New Delhi Niamey Nicosia Nogales Nouakchott Nuevo Laredo Osaka Kobe Oslo Ottawa Ouagadougou Panama Paramaribo Paris Perth Peshawar Phnom Penh Podgorica Ponta Delgada Port Au Prince Port Louis Port Moresby Port Of Spain Prague Praia Pretoria Pristina Quebec Quito Rabat Rangoon Recife REO Basrah REO Hillah REO Kirkuk REO Mosul Reykjavik Riga Rio De Janeiro Riyadh Rome San Jose San Salvador Sanaa Santiago Santo Domingo Sao Paulo Sapporo Sarajevo Secretary of State Seoul Shanghai Shenyang Singapore Skopje Sofia St Petersburg Stockholm Strasbourg Surabaya Suva Sydney Tallinn Tashkent Tbilisi Tegucigalpa Tehran Tel Aviv The Hague Thessaloniki Tijuana Tirana Tokyo Toronto Tripoli Tunis Ulaanbaatar UN Rome UNVIE US Delegation FEST TWO US Delegation, Secretary US Interests Section Havana US Mission CD Geneva US Mission Geneva US Office Almaty US OFFICE FSC CHARLESTON USEU Brussels USMISSION USTR GENEVA USUN New York Valletta Vancouver Vatican Vienna Vientiane Vilnius Vladivostok Warsaw Wellington Windhoek Yaounde Yekaterinburg Yerevan Zagreb
By classification:
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN
SECRET
SECRET//NOFORN
UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY


By year:
2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1979 1978 1975 1973 1972 1966

More on tag:
ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
APER PERSONNEL
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
ASEC SECURITY
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
CVIS VISAS
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
[close]

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

[close]

More on tag:
ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
[close]

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)

[close]

More on tag:
KCOM: Chief of Mission
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
[close]

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)

[close]

More on tag:
KCRM: Criminal Activity
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KDEM: Democratization
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KGHG: Global Climate Change
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KHLS: Homeland Security
[close]

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)

[close]

More on tag:
KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KIRF: International Religious Freedom
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KISL: Islamic Issues
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KJUS: Administration of Justice
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KPAO: Public Affairs Office
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KPIN: Political Internationals
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KPWR: Power Support Program
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
[close]

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)

[close]

More on tag:
KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
[close]

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.
[close]

More on tag:
KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KSUM: Summit Meetings
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KUNR: UN Reform
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
KWMN: Women Issues
[close]

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)
[close]

More on tag:
MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
OTRA TRAVEL
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
PINR INTELLIGENCE
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
PREF REFUGEES
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
SMIG MIGRATION
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
SNAR NARCOTICS
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
[close]

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
[close]

More on tag:
TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
[close]

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
[close]
By tags:
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 AL-1 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 [+] ENRL ENTG ENV ENVI ENVIRONMENT ENVR ENVT EON EOXC EP EPA EPAT EPCS EPE EPEC EPECO EPET [+] EPIN EPIT EPPD EPRT EPSC EPTE EPTED EPWR EQ EQRD ER ERA ERD EREL ERGR ERICKSON ERIN ERTD ES ESA ESCAP ESCI ESDP ESENV ESF ESLCO ESOC ESOCI ESPS ESS ESSO ESTH ESTN ESTRADA ET ETA ETAD ETC ETCC ETD ETDR ETEL ETER ETEX ETFN ETIC ETIO ETLN ETMIN ETR ETRA ETRAD ETRB ETRC ETRD [+] ETRDECD ETRG ETRK ETRN ETRO ETRP ETT ETTC [+] ETTD ETTF ETTN ETTR ETTRD ETTW ETZ EU EUC EUCOM EUE EUEAID EUFOR EUM EUMEM EUN EUR EUREM EURM EURN EV EVENTS EVN EWRG EWT EWTR EWWT [+] EX EXBS EXEC EXIM EXO EXPORT EXTERNAL EZ FA FAA FAC FAGR FAO FARC FARM FAS FATAH FBI FCC FCS FCSC FCSCEG FCUL FDA FDIC FEDULOV FEMA FERNANDO FGM FI FIN FINANCE FINE FINR FINREF FINV FIR FISO FJ FK FKFLO FKLU FLU FM FMC FMGT FMLN FMS FO FOI FOOKS FOR FORCE FORCES FOREIGN FORWHA FP FPC FR FRA FRANCIS FRANCISCO RODENAS RUIZ FRB FREDOM FREEDOM FRELIMO FRIED FRN FRU FSC FSI FT FTA FTAA FWS GA GAERC GAMES GAO GARCIA GASPAR GATT GAZA GAZPROM GB GBSLE 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


Get the how-to to understand how to read a cable


202 rows / 202 results
IdentifierSubjectDateOfficeClassificationTags
02COLOMBO2078 Maldivian Government requests access to
[...] (U) This is an ACTION REQUEST -- Please see Para 4. 2. (S/NF) During a November 5 conversation, Maldivian MFA Permanent Secretary Ahmed Shaheed requested from the DCM that the United States share any intelligence information it may have garnered from Ibrahim Fouwzy, a Maldivian national hel [...]
2002-11-05 11:37:00Embassy ColomboSECRET//NOFORNPTER PREL MV
02COLOMBO2131BUSINESS FACILITATION INCENTIVE FUND END
[...] Post is pleased to inform EB/CBA of the completion of all activities approved under FY2002 BFIF funding. Post will fax copies of receipts as requested. 2. Following is the expenditure summary for BFIF projects, 2002: Project 1: American Fair - trade/catalog show ----------------------- [...]
2002-11-14 09:20:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP BTIO ETRD ABUD CE MV ECONOMICS
02COLOMBO2132 OFFICIAL INFORMAL NUMBER 160 (11-14-02)
[...] (C) Per our recent o/i on this issue, we received an official request today from the Permanent Secretary of the Maldivian MFA Ahmed Shaheed to obtain information about the investigation of Ibrahim Fauzee, the Maldivian national being held at Gitmo. Shaheed proposes sending an official from t [...]
2002-11-14 11:13:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALAMGT CE
02COLOMBO2323 During Mission visit, Maldivian MFA says it is
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: During a December 17 meeting in Male, Polchief urged the Maldivian government to sign an ICC Article 98 agreement with the U.S. MFA Permanent Secretary Shaheed replied that the GoRM continued to SIPDIS review the proposal, which it viewed in a "favorable light." Shaheed [...]
2002-12-18 11:25:00Embassy ColomboSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PTER ECON MV KICC UN
03COLOMBO1240 In Charge's visit, Maldivians again press for
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During Charge's July 13 meetings in Male, GoRM officials made another pitch that the Maldives' not be graduated from LDC status. Some concern was expressed about radical Islam gaining a beachhead in the island nation, a problem which would be heightened by an economic downturn. [...]
2003-07-15 11:36:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON ETRD MV
03COLOMBO1490 OFFICIAL INFORMAL NUMBER 123 (08/26/03)
[...] (C) FYI. Just wanted to flag the following peace track items: -- Paris Meeting: Beyond that reviewed in Colombo 1482, we have no new news to report re the LTTE's Paris meeting. The Norwegian Embassy here told us that Special Envoy Erik Solheim was slated to join the LTTE meeting today or [...]
2003-08-26 10:55:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALAMGT CE MV LTTE
03COLOMBO1493 Maldivian police review visit to detainee at
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: In an August 26 meeting with Charge', two Maldivian police officials reviewed their recent visit to Guantanamo Bay to interview a Maldivian national detained there. The officials said they did not/not believe the detainee was connected with terrorism, but noted that there we [...]
2003-08-26 11:38:00Embassy ColomboSECRET//NOFORNPREL PTER PINS PGOV KISL MV
03COLOMBO2009 Maldivian government requests return of
[...] (S/NF) This is an Action Request -- Please see Para 3. 2. (S/NF) On November 18, Mission received a letter dated November 5 from the Maldivian government requesting the release and return to the Maldives of Ibrahim Fauzee (or Fouwzy),a Maldivian national detained at Guantanamo (see Para [...]
2003-11-20 10:51:00Embassy ColomboSECRET//NOFORNPREL PTER PINS PGOV KISL MV
03COLOMBO205 Low key reaction to Secretary's UN Security
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Reaction to the Secretary's speech to the UN Security Council has been low key in Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Press coverage was limited to wire- service reports. Neither the GSL nor GoRM have issued public statements as of yet. With the speech wrapping up very late February [...]
2003-02-06 06:58:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPAO CE MV IZ
03COLOMBO208 Mission deploys points re Secretary's speech
[...] (C) In lieu of Ambassador who was en route to Colombo from the Maldives, DCM drew on Ref A points in a February 6 conversation with Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary Nihal Rodrigo. Rodrigo said the GSL does not SIPDIS have any plans for now to issue any public statement re the Secretary's Febr [...]
2003-02-06 10:28:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CE MV IZ
03COLOMBO238 Maldivian government proposes names of
[...] (U) This is an Action Request -- Please see Para 3. 2. (S/NF) Per Reftels, the Maldivian government has formally asked for permission to interview a Maldivian national being held at Guantanamo. A diplomatic note dated February 6 from the GoRM gives identification information on two securit [...]
2003-02-11 11:01:00Embassy ColomboSECRET//NOFORNPREL PTER MV
03COLOMBO26 OFFICIAL INFORMAL NUMBER 02 (01-06-03)
[...] (C) The Ambassador received an EPDP delegation led by its leader, Douglas Devananda, today. As expected, the group complained about the LTTE. Among the EPDP's allegations of Tiger harassment were various instances of physical attacks, threats against family members, abductions, and at least [...]
2003-01-06 11:07:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALCE MV AGMT LTTE
03COLOMBO468 TFIZ01: Low-key reaction in Sri
[...] (S) SUMMARY: General reaction in Sri Lanka and the Maldives to the start of military operations against Iraq has been low-key, so far. The PM has asked to see the Ambassador late today. Sri Lanka's envoy to the U.S. called the Ambassador earlier, and said the GSL plans to issue a "helpful" [...]
2003-03-20 07:27:00Embassy ColomboSECRETPREL PGOV PTER KPAO ASEC CE MV IZ
04COLOMBO1337 Maldivian reform in peril after August 12-13
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On the evening of August 12, Maldivians began massing outside police headquarters on the capital island of Male', demanding the release of several political prisoners. The crowd continued to grow until the police moved in with tear gas on the afternoon of August 13 to end the d [...]
2004-08-16 11:42:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL CASC MV
04COLOMBO1392MALDIVES: ATMOSPHERE CALM BUT TENSE AMID FEARS
[...] (C) Summary: The atmosphere in the Republic of Maldives remained calm but tense in the week following the August 12-13 demonstrations against the government in Male', the capital. Night-time curfews (from about 11:00 p.m. to 4:30 a.m.) remain in effect, but schools and businesses are open, [...]
2004-08-20 09:25:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL MV
04COLOMBO1400MALDIVIAN SPECIAL ENVOY REQUESTS MEETING WITH USG
[...] (U) This is an action request -- please see Para Four. 2. (C) On August 23, Mission received a diplomatic note dated August 22 from the Maldivian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ref A). In the note, the MFA conveys that Dr. Mohamed Latheef, Maldivian Ambassador to the United States and Maldivi [...]
2004-08-23 10:45:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM MV
04COLOMBO1427MALDIVES: OFFICIAL BLAME OF FUNDAMENTALISTS FOR
[...] (U) This is an Action Request -- please see Para Thirteen. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The Maldivian government continues to allege that fundamentalists are behind the August 12-13 demonstrations. In an August 26 address before Parliament, President Gayoom reiterated his commitment to reform and ex [...]
2004-08-26 12:06:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM MV
04COLOMBO1470MALDIVES: GAYOOM TRIES FOR BUSINESS AS USUAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Maldivian President Gayoom shuffled members of his Cabinet September 1 as he divested himself of two long-held ministerial portfolios: defense and finance. As planned, the police also separated from the National Security Service on September 1, becoming a "civilian force." Sev [...]
2004-09-03 06:20:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM MV
04COLOMBO1582MALDIVES: DEMOCRACY AND DHOONIDHOO
[...] (C) Summary: Democracy and human rights themes dominated the DCM,s September 19-20 visit to Maldives to open the American trade fair. Government (GoRM) officials acknowledged they have a public relations problem with the detained Special Majlis members but argued that a serious investigatio [...]
2004-09-23 08:10:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL MV
04COLOMBO1704MALDIVES: SPECIAL MAJLIS RECONVENES
[...] (SBU) The Special Majlis, originally formed for the purpose of considering constitutional reforms, met October 12 for the first time since July when some Members walked out in a dispute over the election of a Speaker. According to Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, Chief Government Spokesman, of 109 Special [...]
2004-10-14 01:40:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL MV
04COLOMBO1737MALDIVES: GOVERNMENT READYING CHARGES AGAINST
[...] (C) The Government of the Republic of Maldives has filed charges against three individuals who had been detained after the civil unrest of August 12-13; more charges, including some against Members of the Special Majlis, are expected to be filed soon. All of the remaining 43 detainees are e [...]
2004-10-20 12:15:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM MV
04COLOMBO186MALDIVIAN DEPUTY FM ASKS US TO RECONSIDER LDC
[...] No summary [...]
2004-02-03 01:50:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON MV
04COLOMBO1878MALDIVES: ELECTION NEARS AS LEGAL PROCESS FROM
[...] (C) Summary: The Maldivian government is slowly returning to work following the Ramadan Eid-al-Fitr holiday. Prison detainees are no longer on a hunger strike and approximately 21 people remain detained or under house arrest in connection with the August 12-13 civil unrest. Nine people have [...]
2004-11-19 04:54:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM MV
04COLOMBO1956MALDIVES: GOVERNMENT LEVELS SERIOUS CHARGES AT
[...] (C) Summary: The Maldivian government has charged four prominent MPs involved in the August 12-13 civil unrest for attempting to overthrow the government. Among those charged is one pro-reform MP who has filed to contest the December 31 People's Majlis elections. The four MPs remain under h [...]
2004-12-07 11:45:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL MV
04COLOMBO2046SRI LANKA, MALDIVES REPORT EXTENSIVE DAMAGE,
[...] (U) At least 2000 people were reported killed in Sri Lanka, including 4 in Colombo, and an unknown number in Maldives as a result of flooding caused by tidal waves unleashed by an earthquake off the coast of Indonesia on December 26. Beach resorts in both countries, packed with holiday touris [...]
2004-12-26 12:29:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCASC EAID CE MV
04COLOMBO2048DISASTER DECLARATION - TIDAL WAVE IN MALDIVES
[...] Summary: Based on an official request from the Chief Government Spokesman of the Republic of Maldives and our assessment of the situation, the Ambassador declares that a state of disaster has resulted from the tidal wave that hit Maldives on December 26 (reftel). The Ambassador requests USD [...]
2004-12-26 12:43:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR PGOV MV
04COLOMBO2053SRI LANKA AND MALDIVES: UPDATE ON POST-TSUNAMI
[...] Five Americans have been reported killed and about 100 remain unaccounted for after a tsunami struck Sri Lanka the morning of December 26, causing at least 6,000 deaths islandwide. (Note: The latest government figures indicate the count could rise as high as 10,000. End note.) This tally in [...]
2004-12-27 12:03:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDCASC AEMR EAID CE MV
04SANAA728PRESENTATION OF INCOMING LEGATT TO MINISTER OF
[...] (U) Summary: On 27 March 2004, The Ambassador met with ROYG Minister of the Interior Rashad al-Alimi to present newly arrived LEGATT and discuss security subjects. Alimi warmly welcomed LEGATT, and listed a number of issues on which MOI sought cooperation with LEGATT. Also present at the m [...]
2004-04-03 04:29:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL IZ YM COUNTER TERRORISM MARITIME SECURITY
05AMMAN7211FY-05 RP: "PROMOTING INTERFAITH DIALOGUE," NOVEMBER
[...] THE PUBLIC AFFAIRS SECTION IN IRAQ NOMINATES THREE PARTICIPANTS FOR SUBJECT PROGRAM. 2. MR.DALUZ A. MOHAMMED, MR.MAJID I. MOHAMED, AND MR. MUNIR H. KHUDAIR HAVE RECEIVED COUNTRY TEAM APPROVAL FOR THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE PROGRAM. 3. START FIXED-FORMAT TEXT (PLEASE DO NOT EDIT): : TH [...]
2005-09-08 13:03:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDOEXC SCUL JO
05BAGHDAD2799TIME TO BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES OVER SHARI'A
[...] (C) SUMMARY. At the July 30 Gender Working group, an Embassy-sponsored forum for women representing all sectors of society to express their views, the only clear consensus among participants was of the pressing need to educate the Iraqi public -- especially women - - regarding their rights a [...]
2005-07-02 08:44:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALKWMN PHUM PGOV IZ
05BASRAH148IRAN PURSUING ACTIVE PUBLIC DIPLOMACY PROGRAM IN BASRAH,
[...] (C) Summary. Iran is pursuing an aggressive public diplomacy campaign in Basrah and Maysan Provinces that includes programs similar to the State Department's public diplomacy (PD) programs: visitor programs, book fairs, book reprinting services, libraries and media training programs. In Nove [...]
2005-12-15 10:09:00REO BasrahSECRETPREL PROP KPAO IZ
05COLOMBO1016MALDIVES: THREE PARTIES PRE-REGISTER
[...] (U) On June 5 the Home Ministry approved applications from three groups to begin the work needed to register as political parties. The three groups included the Dhivehi Raiyithunge Party (Malidivian People's Party),founded by President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom; the Dhivehi Raiyithunge Democratic [...]
2005-06-06 11:23:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM MV
05COLOMBO107MALDIVES: DESPITE DISASTER, PARLIAMENTARY
[...] (C) Summary: Parliamentary elections, postponed from December 31 after the tsunami that hit Maldives December 26, have been rescheduled for January 22. The government's desire to go ahead is understandable in order to avoid charges that it is using the tsunami to put off an election it does [...]
2005-01-13 11:28:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM AEMR MV
05COLOMBO1189MALDIVES: MAJOR SHIFT IN PRESIDENT'S CABINET
[...] (C) On July 7, poloff met in Male with members of the recently registered Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) that opposes the current government. MDP offical Ali Hashim told poloff that he had met with Presidential Spokesman Ahmed Shaheed and requested that the President's office compromise by [...]
2005-07-08 05:56:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV MV
05COLOMBO1212MALDIVES: DEMOCRACY IS NO DAY AT THE BEACH
[...] (SBU) Summary. On a recent trip to Maldives, poloff spoke with government officials and members of the newly registered opposition Maldives Democratic Party (MDP) about the country's improvements to the police and judicial systems and its transition to multi-party democracy. While the Govern [...]
2005-07-13 08:45:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM MV
05COLOMBO1295MALDIVES CONTINUES TO WORK ON DEMOCRATIC REFORMS
[...] (U) Summary. The Government of the Republic of Maldives (GORM) is continuing its efforts to institute multi-party democracy and human rights reforms. On July 14, the President announced a massive shift in the Cabinet, with young, progressive Ministers replacing those opposed to reform. The A [...]
2005-07-26 03:21:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM MV
05COLOMBO1407MALDIVES: BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON FOREIGN
[...] (C) The July 14 appointment of Chief Government Spokesman Dr. Ahmed Shaheed as Foreign Minister (Reftel) brings to this important post a bright, western-educated technocrat friendly to the U.S. with whom the Embassy has worked closely on such key bilateral issues as democratic reform and tsu [...]
2005-08-11 11:54:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPINR PGOV MV
05COLOMBO1449MALDIVES: GOVERNMENT, OPPOSITION ACCUSE EACH
[...] (C) Although the streets of Male' were calm August 15 for the first night since August 12, at least 137 people remain in detention as a result of the preceding nights' unrest. ICRC is planning a visit to Maldives to meet the detainees. In an August 15 meeting in Colombo, opposition Maldivi [...]
2005-08-17 13:11:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM MV
05COLOMBO1530MALDIVES: SOME DEMOCRATIC REFORMS DESPITE TRIAL OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: Following the August 12-14 pro-reform demonstrations in Male' (Reftels C and D),as of August 28, 76 persons remained in detention, including opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed. Nasheed, the chairman of the Maldives Democratic Party (MDP),has been charged with one count of ter [...]
2005-08-31 12:30:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM MV
05COLOMBO1556TFUS01: SRI LANKA AND MALDIVES DONATIONS TO
[...] Per request reftel, Econchief relayed USG thanks for Sri Lanka's USD 25,000 donation to Ministry of Foreign Affairs. MFA Economic Affairs Director Esala Weerakoon said that Sri Lanka's contribution would be deliverd by Sri Lankan Ambassador to the US Bernard Goonatilake to the American Red Cr [...]
2005-09-06 11:46:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR EAID PREL CE MV
05COLOMBO1621MALDIVES: FORMER DETAINEE-TURNED-CABINET MINISTER
[...] (C) In a September 6 meeting with the DCM in Colombo, Maldivian Foreign Minister Dr. Ahmed Shaheed and Finance Minister Qasim Ibrahim each asserted their strong belief in President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's commitment to democratic reform, citing several recent positive developments, such as the [...]
2005-09-13 10:46:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM EFIN MV
05COLOMBO181MALDIVES: REFORM CANDIDATES MAKE GAINS AS POLLS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With one exception, polls to elect representatives to the People's Majlis, or Parliament, closed throughout this island nation on January 22. Although counting continues, preliminary results indicate a solid showing for pro-reform candidates, with the Presidential Spokesman [...]
2005-01-24 08:58:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM MV
05COLOMBO1823GORM INDIRECTLY TARGETS OPPOSITION NEWSPAPER STAFF
[...] (C) Summary: In a perceived crackdown on an opposition newspaper, police in Male detained two popular columnists for "Minivan" on October 13 on charges unrelated to journalism. Mohamed Nasheed and Ablo Saeed were summoned to the police station and detained on respective charges of "instigating [...]
2005-10-18 11:19:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL MV
05COLOMBO1868FOREIGN MINISTER STICKS UP FOR HIS SISTER, SLAMS
[...] (C) Summary. Sri Lankan Foreign Minister (and brother of President Kumaratunga) Anura Bandaranaike told the Ambassador he is contemptuous of SLFP Presidential candidate Mahinda Rajapakse's alliance with the Marxist JVP, will not campaign very hard on Rajapakse's behalf and is not at all sur [...]
2005-10-31 04:06:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KIRF CE MV
05COLOMBO1870REQUEST FOR RESETTLEMENT ASSISTANCE OF CERTAIN
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-31 06:34:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREL PTER KAWC PHUM PREF PINR MV
05COLOMBO1877MALDIVES: IRANIAN PRESIDENT'S EXTREMISM
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-31 11:00:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER PHUM IR MV
05COLOMBO1878MALDIVIAN FOREIGN MINISTER HERALDS BEGINNING OF
[...] (C) Maldivian Foreign Minister Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, accompanied by Deputy Foreign Minister Aminath Didi and Maldivian High Commissioner Dr. Mohamed Asim, called on the Ambassador in Colombo October 31 to offer the Government of Maldives' (GORM) side of recent events in the country, including th [...]
2005-10-31 11:17:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM MV
05COLOMBO1881MALDIVES WILL CO-SPONSOR HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE
[...] No summary [...]
2005-11-01 06:39:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL IS MV UNGA
05COLOMBO1953MIXED MESSAGES FROM MALDIVES: GOVERNMENT MOVES
[...] (C) During a November 9-11 visit by polcouns and Sri Lanka/Maldives Desk Officer Molly Gower to Maldives, discussions with government and opposition figures revealed a now-familiar mix of signs of progress--if intermittent and faltering--toward democratic reform, along with some disturbing in [...]
2005-11-15 12:28:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM MV
05COLOMBO420MALDIVES: BANNER DAYS FOR DEMOCRACY?
[...] (C) Summary: Democracy in Maldives is going through a growth spurt -- a big one -- and the government seems to be taking it in stride. Amnesty International was set to release its report on February 24 from its official visit to Maldives in October 2004. The Maldivian court is scheduled to [...]
2005-02-25 05:13:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM MV
05COLOMBO616SRI LANKA AND MALDIVES: SWIFT RESPONSE TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: In sharp contrast to the December 26 earthquake and tsunami that caused devastating loss of life in Sri Lanka and Maldives, both governments responded quickly and efficiently to the potential for another deadly tsunami following the March 28 earthquake off the Indonesian islan [...]
2005-03-29 11:13:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR CASC PHUM PGOV CE MV
05COLOMBO694MALDIVES: IN MEETING WITH AMBASSADOR, PRESIDENT IS
[...] (C) Summary: In an April 7 meeting with President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Ambassador Lunstead briefed the Maldivian president on the current situation regarding additional USG tsunami rehabilitation assistance. In response, Gayoom underscored the flexibility and accountability of the governme [...]
2005-04-11 06:43:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID MV
05COLOMBO837MALDIVES BLACKLISTS FOREIGN NATIONALS FOR
[...] (C) On May 2 Maldivian Foreign Secretary Abdul Hameed Zakariyya met with CDA in Colombo to advise him that the Government of the Republic of Maldives (GORM) had blacklisted eight foreigners, including an apparent American citizen, from entering Maldives because of suspected links to a Maldivi [...]
2005-05-05 06:15:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV CASC MV
05COLOMBO845MALDIVES: PROGRESS ON REFORMS: GLACIAL BUT
[...] (C) Summary: In a May 4 release, the Government of the Republic of Maldives said it would seek to legitimize political parties under the current constitution, based on a legal opinion by the current Attorney General Dr. Hassan Saeed. The move stems from growing dissatisfaction across the po [...]
2005-05-05 12:31:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL MV
05COLOMBO93TXFO01: SRI LANKA AND MALDIVES SITREP NO. 10,
[...] (U) Consular efforts: The consular section continues to focus entirely on tsunami-related efforts. The number of AmCits deaths in Sri Lanka still stands at eight, with one addition AmCit missing and presumed dead. Consular staff have reduced the number of welfare and whereabouts cases to s [...]
2005-01-12 12:24:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALAEMR EAID CASC PGOV CE MV
05COLOMBO968FORMER PRESIDENT CLINTON EMPHASIZES JOINT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Former President Clinton visited a tsunami-hit area in Sri Lanka's Muslim East where he heard SIPDIS complaints about the coastal buffer zone from NGO's and tsunami victims. He praised the proposed Joint Mechanism in SIPDIS talks with President Kumaratunga and publicly. Kuma [...]
2005-05-31 11:31:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALEAID PGOV PREL LTTE
05COLOMBO997MALDIVES: "BRIGHT DAY FOR DEMOCRACY" DARKENED BY
[...] (C) Early on June 2--the day the People's Majlis was expected to rubber-stamp President Gayoom's decision to allow the registration of political parties--police arrested six members of the opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP). Government Spokesman Dr. Ahmed Shaheed described the arrests [...]
2005-06-02 12:22:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM MV
05PRETORIA4358 SOUTH AFRICA: SAG ENCOURAGES MORE COLLABORATION
[...] (SBU) Summary. South Africa's National Treasury conducted a review of U.S. assistance to ensure that all development assistance is South African-led and fully aligned with its development priorities. In checking its findings with U.S. agencies at post, National Treasury officials appreciated [...]
2005-10-28 08:19:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN EINV ECON PREL PGOV SNAR SF
06COLOMBO1102MALDIVES: FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER SENDS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-05 06:51:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV OPPC MV
06COLOMBO1132MALDIVES: REFORMS MOVING IN RIGHT DIRECTION,
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador visited Male' July 6 to pay farewell calls on President Gayoom, Maldivian government officials, and the Chairman of the opposition, currently under house arrest. All interlocutors focused on a possible referendum on presidential versus parliamentary forms of gove [...]
2006-07-11 04:21:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM MV
06COLOMBO1443MALDIVES: CROSS-PARTY COOPERATION YIELDS GENERALLY
[...] (C) Summary: Following a July 19 meeting between the Government of the Republic of Maldives (GORM) and the opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) in Colombo, facilitated by the British High Commissioner, the two sides upheld commitments to move the reform agenda forward. In exchange for [...]
2006-09-05 05:44:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM MV
06COLOMBO1816MALDIVIAN PRESIDENT GAYOOM PLEDGES TO SUSTAIN
[...] (C) Summary: In a cordial 20-minute meeting with President Gayoom following the presentation of his credentials on October 30, Ambassador Blake pledged to work to strengthen US-Maldivian relations and urged the President to sustain Maldives' progress in its political Reform Roadmap. Gayoom [...]
2006-11-02 09:25:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KISL MV
06COLOMBO1827MALDIVES: SOME HARD BUMPS ALONG THE ROAD TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During his initial trip to the Maldives to present his credentials (ref a),Ambassador discussed the political reform process with several ministers and with the principal opposition figures. Assessments of the state of reform diverged widely: the government side portrayed the r [...]
2006-11-03 13:57:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL MV
06COLOMBO1847MALDIVES SUPPORTS U.S. RE-ELECTION TO THE ITU
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-07 12:09:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDAORC ECPS ITU MV
06COLOMBO2124 MALDIVES REFORMS MAKING SLOW PROGRESS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Assistant U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to South and Southwest Asia Ambassador Douglas A. Hartwick and Special Assistant Manpreet Anand traveled to Maldives on December 5-6, 2006, to meet with President Gayoom and other government officials to discuss US-Maldives bilateral e [...]
2006-12-26 05:19:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON PHUM SOCI EAID PREL MV
06COLOMBO235MALDIVES WILL SUPPORT GUATEMALA FOR SECURITY
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-14 09:35:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPREL UN UNSC
06COLOMBO236MALDIVES WILL LIKELY SUPPORT HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL,
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-14 09:39:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPREL KUNR PHUM UN MV
06COLOMBO254MALDIVES: POLITICAL SUSPICIONS FESTER WHILE
[...] (C) During a February 10-13 DCM visit to Maldives (in conjunction with a port call by the missile destroyer USS McCampbell from the USS Ronald Reagan strike group),conversations with government officials and the opposition conveyed a sense of logjam in the political reform process as social [...]
2006-02-17 05:40:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL MV
06COLOMBO288MALDIVES: REQUEST FOR STATEMENTS CONDEMNING THE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-23 11:06:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KDEM PTER IZ MV
06COLOMBO445MALDIVES: GROWING PAINS OF DEMOCRATIZATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a March 14-16 trip to Maldives, poloff met government officials, political party leaders, and civil society representatives, all of whom expressed commitment to democratic reform but worry about its pace and implementation. All interlocutors responded positively to the [...]
2006-03-22 04:58:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR MV
06COLOMBO62MALDIVES: ELEMENTS OF GOVERNMENT AT ODDS OVER
[...] (C) Summary. On December 28, Sri Lankan police, apparently acting on a request from Maldivian authorities via Interpol, searched the Colombo office of the pro-opposition Minivan News for evidence that Minivan staff were engaged in seditious activities and/or gun-running. Although the search y [...]
2006-01-10 10:44:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR MV CE
06COLOMBO662MALDIVES: DESPITE REFORM ROADMAP, QUESTIONS ON
[...] (U) Summary: On March 27 the Government of the Republic of Maldives (GORM) unveiled its much-hyped "Reform Roadmap" which calls for increased press freedom, a new constitution by June 2007, and a multi-party election in October 2008. Since then, however, little progress has been made and const [...]
2006-04-24 13:01:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM MV
06COLOMBO992MALDIVES: MINIMAL PROGRESS ON REFORMS, BUT
[...] (U) Summary: Following the Government of the Republic of Maldives (GORM) publication of a Reform Roadmap, the President's office issued a decree on freedom of assembly May 15 to complement the Roadmap and expand civil liberties. Nonetheless, police arrested over 120 demonstrators taking part [...]
2006-06-13 08:21:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM MV
06DUBLIN798IRELAND: ISLAM IN EUROPE (C-DI5-01478)
[...] (U) Summary. Embassy Dublin salutes the initiative of Washington analysts (ref A.) to look at the role of Islamic thinkers across Europe. In 2004, we launched a new outreach program to Muslims in Ireland, a group that has grown rapidly in recent years from a population of less than 4,000 ac [...]
2006-07-07 16:45:00Embassy DublinSECRETPINR PTER SCUL KTFN AU PINS KPAO BE FI FR
06GEORGETOWN112SHAHEED "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 13:37:00Embassy GeorgetownSECRETSNAR PINR PINS PGOV KCRM KCOR NS GY
06GEORGETOWN12152006-2007 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 11:31:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KCRM KTFN GY
06GEORGETOWN183REQUEST 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 21:12:00Embassy GeorgetownSECRETCVIS PTER PINR ASEC
06GEORGETOWN254INCSR 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 15:14:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PREL KCRM KPAO GY
06GEORGETOWN278SECRET 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 20:33:00Embassy GeorgetownSECRETSNAR PINS PGOV KCOR KCRM GY
06GEORGETOWN290POLICE 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 20:18:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALSNAR PINS KCRM GY
06GEORGETOWN297RSO 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 15:34:00Embassy GeorgetownSECRET//NOFORNASEC
06GEORGETOWN300INCSR 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 20:00:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR EAGR PGOV KCRM KPAO GY
06GEORGETOWN406AFTERMATH 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 14:54:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPINS PGOV ASEC KCRM GY
06GEORGETOWN424INTERAGENCY 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 15:53:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL PINS KCRM GY NS
06GEORGETOWN433NARCO-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 20:20:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALSNAR PGOV PREL KCRM GY
06GEORGETOWN562GUYANA 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 16:20:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALSNAR PGOV PINR KCRM 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 18:22:00Embassy GeorgetownSECRET//NOFORNPINR SNAR KCRM PREL PGOV GY NS
06GEORGETOWN663GUYANA 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 18:21:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM GY
06GEORGETOWN787GUNMEN 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 18:46:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALPINS PGOV ASEC KCRM 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 17:42:00Embassy GeorgetownSECRETPINR PGOV SNAR GY
06GEORGETOWN828SECURITY 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 21:32:00Embassy GeorgetownSECRETPINS PGOV ASEC CASC KCRM GY
06HILLAH122UPDATE ON NAJAF CAR BOMBINGS
[...] (C) Summary. According to local contacts, police believe that three of an original seven VBIEDs (Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Devices) are still roaming Najaf streets. However, two suspects have been arrested for the Friday, July 6 (VBIED) which exploded between two buses carrying tou [...]
2006-07-24 04:27:00REO HillahCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV KISL IZ
06HILLAH22SISTANI ADVISES SPEEDY FORMATION OF INCLUSIVE GOVERNMENT IN
[...] (U) This is a SET Najaf cable. 2. (C) Summary: Shi'a Religious Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani advised Prime Minister Ibrahim Jafari to quickly form a new government and to ensure that the new government is inclusive in a February 20 meeting at Sistani's home in Najaf's Old City. Afte [...]
2006-02-20 19:58:00REO HillahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KISL IZ
06HILLAH26THOUSANDS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL PROTEST MOSQUE BOMBING;
[...] (U) Summary: Iraqis across the South Central region took to the streets February 22, angrily protesting the bombing of the Al-Askariyah Mosque in Samarra. Reportedly spontaneous at first, the demonstrations were soon spurred on by mosque exhortations and organized by Shi'a government officials, [...]
2006-02-23 16:36:00REO HillahUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KISL PINR IZ
06HILLAH31CAR BOMB IN KARBALA KILLS EIGHT, CLERICS CONDEMN ACT BUT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A February 25 car bomb in Karbala killed eight and wounded 31. An impromptu protest after the incident at the site of the attack included chants of "No, no America." Religious leaders in Karbala and Najaf were quiet after the incident, with no reports of calls from the mosques [...]
2006-02-27 17:18:00REO HillahCONFIDENTIALKISL PGOV PINS PREL PTER IZ
06HILLAH55TEMPERS FLARE IN WAKE OF NAJAF VBIED ATTACK
[...] This is a SET NAJAF cable. 2.(U) SUMMARY. On April 6, a Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) detonated 300 meters from the Holy Shrine of the Imam Ali in Najaf. The vehicle was a Sports Utility Vehicle. At 1900 local time, casualty figures had reached 20 confirmed dead and ove [...]
2006-04-06 17:14:00REO HillahCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL KISL IZ
06HILLAH8NEW DIWANIYAH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DELEGATION SHOWS DAWA, SADR
[...] (C) Summary: The Diwaniyah Province delegation to the new National Assembly (NA) will contain seven candidates from the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA, ballot number 555) and one candidate from the Iraqi National List (ballot number 731) according to final provincial results provided by the provinc [...]
2006-01-09 14:59:00REO HillahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR IZ
06HILLAH89SADR LIEUTENANT KILLED AT IP CHECKPOINT, NAJAF REMAINS CALM
[...] This is a SET NAJAF cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: On May 18, Abbas Al Chilabi, Mahdi Militia leader and member of radical cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr's personal security detail, was killed at a Najaf Iraqi Police (IP) checkpoint. Najaf IP Chief General Abbas Al Moadal stated IPs opened fire after the [...]
2006-05-20 17:56:00REO HillahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER KISL IZ
06KUWAIT4076SENIOR SCIRI LEADER AMMAR AL-HAKIM VISITS KUWAIT,
[...] (C/NF) Summary and comment: Ammar Al-Hakim, the son of SCIRI leader Abdulaziz Al-Hakim and a top SCIRI leader himself, arrived in Kuwait October 8 for meetings with the Amir, Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and other Kuwaiti government officials. Al-Hakim likely tried to assuage Kuwaiti fe [...]
2006-10-11 14:37:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PINR IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS
06PARAMARIBO391SURINAME 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 14:52:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM PREL PGOV NS
06PARAMARIBO392SUMMARY 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 12:46:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM PREL PGOV KPAO NS
06PARAMARIBO399DESI 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 18:39:00Embassy ParamariboSECRET//NOFORNPINR SNAR KCRM PREL PGOV GY NS
06PARAMARIBO723SURINAME: 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 18:38:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM NS
06PORTOFSPAIN809EXTRAORDINARY 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 15:32:00Embassy Port Of SpainCONFIDENTIALPREL SNAR KCRM TD
06SANAA887MARIB WELCOMES THE AMBASSADOR WITH THANKS FOR A
[...] SUMMARY: On March 22, Ambassador and USAID Mission Director Mike Sarhan traveled with ROYG Minister of Health, Abdul Karim Rase, to Marib for the dedication of the Medgil Health Center and a tour of the USDA-funded President's Hospital in Marib City. In Marib, the party was joined by Ares Zuki [...]
2006-04-01 05:09:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON EAID YM
07BAGHDAD2908PRT-WASIT: AL KUT REPORTER KIDNAPPED, BEATEN, AND
[...] (SBU) Summary. On 6 August, Hassan Shaheed Al-Azzawi, a journalist for Iraqi national newspaper Al-Sabab and Al Kut TV, was kidnapped, beaten and held for approximately 36 hours. Al-Azzawi believes the Wasit Governor directed the abduction, but there is an absence of substantial evidence to [...]
2007-08-30 05:13:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPGOV IZ
07BAGHDAD351DISPLACEMENTS IN THE RASHEED DISTRICT OF BAGHDAD
[...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Neighborhood leaders from two areas of the Rasheed district of Baghdad report that internally displaced persons (IDPs) are both departing and settling in their neighborhoods due to sectarian violence or threats of violence and that [...]
2007-02-02 15:47:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALIZ PGOV PHUM PINR PREF PTER
07BASRAH114S/I SATTERFIELD HELPS BASRAH GOVERNOR AND PRIME MINISTER
[...] (S/Rel MCFI) SUMMARY: Senior Advisor to the Secretary and Coordinator for Iraq (S/I),Ambassador David Satterfield, encouraged Basrah Governor Mohammed Wa'eli to contact and work through Iraqi National Security Advisor (NSA) Muwafaq al-Rubaie as an intermediary to improve the Governor's relatio [...]
2007-12-03 18:36:00REO BasrahSECRET//NOFORNECON PTER PGOV PREL MARR MOPS IR IZ
07BASRAH88SECURITY IN BASRAH PROVINCE
[...] (S) Summary: While attacks against Coalition Forces (CF) remain at a six-month low, security for Basrah's politicians and government security forces is bad. A series of assassinations, or attempts, of politicians and security officials has highlighted the failure of basic law enforcement. Un [...]
2007-09-25 06:52:00REO BasrahSECRETPINS PGOV ASEC ECON IZ
07BASRAH89BASRAH MOD ADVISOR SAYS IRAN TRAINING JAM FOR PROXY WAR
[...] (S) Summary: MOD Advisor Majid al-Sari told REO September 23 that Iran was now hosting training for 3,000 Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) members on collecting intelligence, radio intercepts, and employing EFPs and snipers for operations in Basrah. According to al-Sari, Tehran was secretly behind a Septe [...]
2007-09-26 16:07:00REO BasrahSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PINR PINS PREL PROP PTER IR IZ
07COLOMBO1077SRI LANKA AND MALDIVES: 62ND UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[...] (SBU) On July 26, A/DCM called on Sri Lankan Ministry of Foreign Affairs Additional Secretary for UN and Multilateral Affairs Sarala Fernando to request a list of high-level officials planning to attend the 62nd UN General Assembly (UNGA). Fernando replied that President Mahinda Rajapaksa and [...]
2007-08-02 08:42:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ITRA OVIP KSEP UNGA CE MV
07COLOMBO1087MALDIVES: KEY GOVERNMENT REFORMERS RESIGN
[...] (C) Summary. On August 5, Attorney General Hassan Saeed and Justice Minister Mohamed Jameel, both leading members of the "New Maldives" group of reform-minded ministers, resigned from Government, accusing the President of obstructing the reform process. Local press and POL section contacts [...]
2007-08-06 13:01:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM MV
07COLOMBO1161MALDIVES: REFORM-MINDED FOREIGN MINISTER RESIGNS;
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 21, key Government reformer and Foreign Minister Ahmed Shaheed resigned from his post, joining the Attorney General and Justice Minister who resigned earlier this month (ref a). Embassy contacts tell us that Shaheed had several reasons to resign, including a scheduled [...]
2007-08-22 12:02:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM MV
07COLOMBO1184"NEW MALDIVES" MINISTERS WHO RESIGNED PREDICT
[...] (C) Summary: At a private dinner on 8/29 hosted by Ambassador, the three leading "New Maldives" advocates for political reform, all of whom resigned from the government in recent days, candidly discussed the bleak outlook for political reform and the unsuccessful negotiations they had with Pr [...]
2007-08-30 11:30:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MV
07COLOMBO1186MALDIVES: PRESIDENT GAYOOM SAYS REFERENDUM
[...] (C) Summary: Maldives President Gayoom told Ambassador August 28 that the country's August 18 referendum had been "well-organized," "in general, free and fair," and had produced an outcome of 62 percent in favor of a "U.S.-style" presidential system. Opposition Maldives Democratic Party leade [...]
2007-08-30 12:24:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KWWW ETRD EAID MV
07COLOMBO124MALDIVIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AGREES TO QUIET
[...] (C) During a January 16 trip to Male', Ambassador encouraged Foreign Minister Ahmed Shaheed to consider establishing LOW-KEY diplomatic contacts with Israeli officials with a view to establishing full diplomatic relations at a future date. (Note: The Ambassador had earlier discussed this [...]
2007-01-22 09:11:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MV
07COLOMBO1254MALDIVES: RESIGNED MINISTERS CONTINUE REFORM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Foreign Minister Ahmed Shaheed, Justice Minister Mohamed Jameel, and Attorney General Hassan Saeed, the key advocates for reform within the Government until their resignations last month (refs d and e),are reportedly considering joining the opposition Maldivian Democra [...]
2007-09-12 06:53:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM MV
07COLOMBO135MALDIVES: A NEED TO STRENGTHEN DEMOCRACY TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met government officials and the leader of the opposition in Male' on January 16 to discuss the lagging democratic reform process. Ambassador also promoted the Maldives' purchase of Boeing aircraft and a potential joint venture with an American wind power firm. Int [...]
2007-01-23 10:19:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM MV
07COLOMBO1532MALDIVES: ENCOURAGING PROGRESS ON CONSTITUTION;
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On the margins of U.S.-Maldives Friendship Week from November 4-6, Ambassador and Poloffs met a number of contacts to discuss the progress of democratic reform in Maldives. Most contacts reported a renewed sense of cooperation between the government and opposition and encoura [...]
2007-11-09 09:12:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM MV
07COLOMBO1588MALDIVES: CONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSAL TO DISQUALIFY
[...] (SBU) On November 24, pro-government members of the Special Majlis (constituent assembly charged with drafting a new constitution) put forward two proposed changes which would effectively bar former Attorney General Hassan Saeed from running in the country's first multi-candidate Presidential [...]
2007-11-26 11:37:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM MV
07COLOMBO1641ISRAELI AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ISRAELI RELATIONS
[...] (C) In an introductory meeting on December 7, Israel's new Ambassador to Sri Lanka Mark Sofer (who is resident in New Delhi) told Ambassador that after presenting his credentials to President Rajapaksa and several days of consultations in Colombo he had noted considerable pessimism about the [...]
2007-12-07 11:32:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER CE IR IS
07COLOMBO1666MALDIVIAN OPPOSITION PARTIES JOIN FORCES, ENDORSE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Opposition parties and other political groups in Maldives have formed a National Unity Alliance (NUA) and called for a transitional government that would run Maldives from the time the new constitution comes into effect until new officials can be elected. Member parties, includ [...]
2007-12-14 11:25:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM MV
07COLOMBO423 MALDIVES: U/S FORE MEETS WITH WOMEN LEADERS ON THE EVE OF
[...] (U) Summary: On March 7, the eve of International Women's Day, visiting Under Secretary of State for Management Henrietta Fore held a round-table discussion with female political and business leaders in Male'. The participants said that female contributions to civil society and the economy a [...]
2007-03-15 03:14:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWMN PREL PHUM MV
07COLOMBO429U/S FORE ENCOURAGES MALDIVIAN PRESIDENT TO PROCEED
[...] (c) Summary: In a friendly 30-minute meeting on March 7, Under Secretary of State for Management Henrietta Fore urged Maldivian President Gayoom to support the political reform efforts of the Foreign Minister and Attorney General. Gayoom expressed confidence that his government's dialogue wi [...]
2007-03-16 02:00:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MV
07COLOMBO455 MALDIVES: DRUGS, EDUCATION, ISLAMIC EXTREMISM AND WOMEN'S
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This cable contains an Action Request in Paragraph 14. During Under Secretary of State for Management Fore's March 7 visit to Maldives, in addition to discussions with President Gayoom (Ref A) and female political and business leaders (Ref B),she met separately with the Forei [...]
2007-03-20 04:21:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON ELAB ETRD MARR PHUM KDEM KISL EAID MV
07COLOMBO481MALDIVES: GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION NEGOTIATE ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ibrahim Hussein Zaki, the acting President of the opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP),met the Ambassador in Colombo on March 20 to offer an update on the ongoing talks between his party and the governing DRP (Maldivian People's Party). The two parties meet regularly and [...]
2007-03-23 02:18:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KDEM MV
07COLOMBO629MALDIVES: SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Your visit to Maldives comes as this moderate Islamic nation is experiencing the political strains of an indigenous push toward democracy that began in 2004. Tensions between the government and opposition have slowed the pace of constitutional reform, frustrating many. There is [...]
2007-04-27 10:07:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM PTER EINV MV
07COLOMBO635MALDIVES: POLITICAL TURMOIL FOLLOWS PUBLIC
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The discovery of a dead body floating in a lagoon near Male' on April 15 led to political controversy, as the deceased's family and opposition charged the victim was killed in custody -- and government authorities denied it. A demonstration erupted outside the cemetery. Police [...]
2007-04-30 10:58:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM MV
07COLOMBO703MALDIVES: ASSISTANT SECRETARY BOUCHER URGES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On a May 7-8 trip to Maldives, Assistant Secretary Boucher, accompanied by Ambassador, met with SIPDIS President Gayoom, government officials, members of the opposition, and women active in politics and civil society. Discussions covered the need for more concrete steps on [...]
2007-05-15 11:48:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PTER SNAR MARR ETRD SENV ENRG
07COLOMBO947MALDIVES REPORTS PROGRESS ON NEW CONSTITUTION AND
[...] (C) Summary. Foreign Minister Ahmed Shaheed called on Ambassador and DCM on June 29 to report positive progress on political reform. Shaheed and opposition contacts tell us that most of the draft of the new constitution is complete and that the Special Majlis, the committee drafting the new [...]
2007-07-03 12:26:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
07KABUL1814LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: REGIONAL COMMAND SOUTH DISTRICT
[...] This is an action request - see paragraph 2. 2. In order to comply with Leahy vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names and biodata of 23 Afghan National Police (ANP) officers who have been assigned to district commands in four southern provinces. Post has made a good faith effort [...]
2007-06-01 11:09:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF
07KABUL3772DEVELOPMENT, SECURITY KEY THEMES IN AMBASSADOR'S
[...] (SBU) Development and security were the key themes brought up in conversations with local officials during the Ambassador's October 29 visit to Khost Province. In meetings with the Provincial Governor, Provincial Council and university students, Ambassador underscored the U.S. respect for Is [...]
2007-11-07 09:49:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV MARR MOPS PREL PTER EAID AF
07PARAMARIBO109CY-06 INL END USE MONITORIING REPORT: SURINAME
[...] Post is pleased to provide its 2006 End Use Monitoring Report in accordance with the format provided in ref. A. 2. SUMMARY: Suriname instituions receiving INL funded assistance used all resources provided in an effective manner and in accordance with their stated purpose. INL assistance h [...]
2007-03-07 18:35:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR AFIN NS
07PARAMARIBO576SURINAME: 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 17:20:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR NS
08BAGHDAD3701KARBALA RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: PREPARATORY LEVEL
[...] (U) Summary: Karbala has seven Islamic preparatory academies, whose all-male students often go on to attend one of the 21 religious schools comprising the Hawza, or seminary center, in Najaf. The academies provide free education to their students, some of whom also receive room and board. En [...]
2008-11-24 12:54:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR KISL IZ
08BAGHDAD945SOUTHERN IRAQ SITUATION REPORT: MARCH 27, 13:00
[...] (S/REL MCFI) SUMMARY: The below is a situation report for Basrah and other southern provinces, reflecting reporting from PRTs and REO Basrah, open-source media, and Embassy Baghdad. In Basrah, JAM continues to occupy its traditional strongholds and conduct harassing attacks on ISF throughout [...]
2008-03-27 15:54:00Embassy BaghdadSECRET//NOFORNMOPS PGOV PINS PTER IZ
08BASRAH19ISCI-LED PROTEST AGAINST VIOLENCE IN BASRAH
[...] (C/Rel MCFI) SUMMARY: Basrawis affiliated with the Basrah Islamic List (BIL) parties on the provincial council (ISCI, Badr, Thar Allah, Sayyid al-Shuhada, Shaheed al-Mihrab, Hizbollah Movement) took to the streets March 8, protesting the city's deteriorating security. An estimated 600-800 pa [...]
2008-03-14 15:00:00REO BasrahCONFIDENTIALKDEM PROP MCAP MOPS PGOV PHUM PINR PINS PREL
08BASRAH45SAYYID AL-SHUHADAH LEADER ON POST-CHARGE OF THE KNIGHTS
[...] (S) SUMMARY: In a May 21 meeting with the REO, Sayyid al-Shuhadah (SAS) leader and Council of Representatives (COR) member Daghir al-Musawi stated that the security situation is much improved after Operation Charge of the Knights (Cok),but cautioned that the slow pace of reconstruction was be [...]
2008-05-27 03:37:00REO BasrahSECRETPGOV ECON IR IZ
08BASRAH46SAYYID AL-SHUHADAH LEADER ON POST-CHARGE OF THE KNIGHTS
[...] (S) SUMMARY: In a May 21 meeting with the REO, Sayyid al-Shuhadah (SAS) leader and Council of Representatives (COR) member Daghir al-Musawi stated that the security situation is much improved after Operation Charge of the Knights (Cok),but cautioned that the slow pace of reconstruction was be [...]
2008-05-27 03:37:00REO BasrahSECRETPGOV PINS ECON IZ
08BASRAH68BRANCH CHIEF OF NATIONAL UNITY ASSEMBLY SPEAKS TO REO
[...] (C) Summary: On Sunday, 10, Bahaa Nasir Hussein al-Khafaji, Branch Chief of the National Unity Assembly, met with Poloff at the Regional Embassy Office in Basrah. Bahaa lamented Baghdad's failure to negotiate an acceptable election law and predicted that late elections would benefit religious [...]
2008-08-18 13:09:00REO BasrahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IR IZ
08COLOMBO1022MALDIVES: MAJLIS PROVISIONALLY CONFIRMS NEW 14-MEMBER
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On November 12 President Nasheed secured approval for his new 14 minister cabinet. The cabinet represents each of the six parties and groupings that make up the ruling coalition. The cabinet's approval came amidst a power struggle between Nasheed and former President Gayoom's DRP [...]
2008-11-13 12:35:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR PREL KDEM MV
08COLOMBO1044MALDIVES WILL VOTE WITH U.S. IN UNGA THIRD
[...] (SBU) Foreign Minister Ahmed Shaheed reported to Ambassador that Maldives would vote against the no-action resolutions on Burma and DPRK and vote in favor of the resolutions. However, citing a common stand taken by the Organization of Islamic Countries, Shaheed said Maldives would not be abl [...]
2008-11-19 09:03:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM UNGA BM KN IR MV
08COLOMBO1056UNGA ANTI-ISRAEL RESOLUTIONS: POSITIVE MOVEMENT
[...] (SBU) Maldivian Foreign Minister Shaheed assured Ambassador that Maldives could probably shift "to a more reasonable stance" on the anti-Israel resolutions. He indicated, however, that MFA would have to look at each resolution on a case-by-case basis. He also reported that he had instructed [...]
2008-11-24 12:24:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNGA IS PA CE MV
08COLOMBO1140IRAN VOTE: DEMARCHE TO MALDIVES
[...] (SBU) On December 16, 2008, Ambassador conveyed ref A letter from Secretary Rice to Foreign Minister Shaheed thanking him for Maldives' helpful shift in stance on the Third Committee resolution in Iran (and the associated no-action motion). Ambassador requested that Maldives vote in acordanc [...]
2008-12-17 08:33:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM UNGA MV CE
08COLOMBO137MALDIVES UPDATE: UN ELECTION MISSION DELAYED
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a series of meetings on January 30, the Embassy learned that the Special Majlis considering constitutional reform has not yet resolved the section on transitional arrangements, because of disputes over whether President Gayoom should be allowed to run and whether a transitio [...]
2008-02-05 13:59:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM KISL AORC ML
08COLOMBO250MALDIVES: CONSTITUTION NEAR COMPLETION; COUNTRY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 20, visiting Staffdel from the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Poloff called on Maldivian government officials to discuss the political reform process and upcoming multi-party elections. Staffdel consisted of Professional Staff Member Manpreet Anand, Senior PSM H [...]
2008-03-12 03:59:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM MV
08COLOMBO496TIGHT TIMETABLE TO PREPARE FOR PRESIDENTIAL
[...] (C) Summary: Excitement and expectations are building for what Maldivians hope will be their country's first ever free and fair Presidential elections in the fall of 2008. Opposition parties failed to agree on a single "Alliance" candidate to contest against the presumptive ruling DRP party ca [...]
2008-05-22 11:36:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM CE
08COLOMBO652MALDIVES: DAS FEIGENBAUM ENCOURAGES REFORM AND
[...] (C) Summary. On July 2, SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum held meetings in Male' with government officials, civil society, the UN, and opposition groups to urge progress on democratic reform and free and fair multi-party elections in coming months. Government officials, includ [...]
2008-07-08 09:15:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM EINV ECON MV
08COLOMBO656MALDIVES: DAS FEIGENBAUM ENCOURAGES REFORM AND
[...] (C) Summary. On July 2, SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum held meetings in Male' with government officials, civil society, the UN, and opposition groups to urge progress on democratic reform and free and fair multi-party elections in coming months. Government officials, includ [...]
2008-07-08 10:56:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM EINV ECON MV
08COLOMBO686MALDIVES: AMBASSADOR PRESSES FOR SPEEDY
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Ambassador on July 15, Foreign Minister Shahid stressed the need for additional enabling legislation -- in advance of President Gayoom's signature on the constitution -- that will allow the police forces to continue to legally operate. He said the President [...]
2008-07-18 05:34:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ECON MV
08COLOMBO917MALDIVES SET TO VOTE OCTOBER 8 IN FIRST ROUND OF
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 22, the Elections Commission declared six candidates eligible to stand in Maldives' first-ever multi-party Presidential election. Five opponents are challenging President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom of the ruling DRP: the Maldives Democratic Party's Mohamed Nasheed ("An [...]
2008-10-03 09:43:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM MV
08DHAKA271LEAHY VETTING FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TRAINING AND
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Specialized English Language and Disaster Preparation Operation courses from April 23 to August 1, 2008, at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, and Fort Leonardwood, Missouri. Post [...]
2008-03-02 03:59:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
08HILLAH18SAYID AMAR AL-HAKIM AND GOVERNOR AL-TAIE DISCUSS ELECTIONS,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 17, Najaf Governor Asad Abu Gelal al-Taie organized a series of meetings to welcome the Ambassador in Najaf that included a meeting with Amar al-Hakim (son and heir apparent of Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq leader Abd al-Aziz Hakim),a luncheon with 30 Najaf notable [...]
2008-02-20 19:08:00REO HillahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IZ
08ISLAMABAD3137 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 26, 2008
[...] "Pakistan, US Blow Hot and Cold Over Flare-Up" "Dawn" (09/26) "Security forces fired on two NATO helicopters which had intruded into Pakistan territory on Thursday, forcing them to turn back to Afghanistan, officials said. "Two helicopters from the Afghanistan side crossed into Saidgai, Ghul [...]
2008-09-26 09:44:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD3533ZARDARI REACHES OUT TO BALOCHISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: In a marked change from the previous government, President Zardari has been reaching out to the oft forgotten province of Balochistan. Especially after the October 29 earthquake, Zardari is intensifying GOP efforts to settle a long-simmering Baloch rebellion through political reco [...]
2008-11-10 03:25:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PK
08PARIS735AUSTRALIA GROUP: 2008 INFORMATION EXCHANGE (IE)
[...] (S) The following describes highlights of the Information Exchange (IE) portion of the annual meeting of the Australia Group (AG),which met in Paris, April 12-18, 2008 (Report on AG Plenary provided septel). The IE included 30 presentations by twelve AG member states. The US provided 10 of the 30 [...]
2008-04-17 16:41:00Embassy ParisSECRETPARM PREL CBW ETTC AS FR
08USUNNEWYORK507PAKISTAN MISSION DELIVERS REQUEST FOR
[...] (C) Summary: Pakistan PermRep Akram told Ambassador Khalilzad on June 6 that he met with the Secretary-General on the same day, and had given him a letter (included below) asking the UN to establish an "international commission" to investigate the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir [...]
2008-06-09 23:26:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UNSC PK
09BAGHDAD178KARBALA CONFEREES CONFUSED, CANDIDATES CRANKY
[...] (C) Summary: With fewer than ten days to go before the provincial elections, attendees at a PRT-sponsored voter-education conference organized by the UN Assistance Mission to Iraq (UNAMI) on January 21 expressed considerable confusion over voting procedures. Many were tribesmen who said they [...]
2009-01-24 15:14:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD218NINEWA: SUNNI ARAB AND KURD POLITICAL ENTITIES
[...] (C) Summary. Representatives of the Sunni Arab al-Hadba list, the National Iraqi Project Group (Hewar),and the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) alleged that they are victims of Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP)-inspired intimidation and violence. The KDP has also levied accusations of elections malfeas [...]
2009-01-28 11:54:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD219KARBALANS KEEN TO CAST BALLOTS
[...] (C) Summary: Karbala's citizens are eager to vote in the provincial elections on January 31. Preparations for "special needs" voting on January 28 are complete. Acting Provincial Council Chairman Abd al-Al al-Yasiri told the PRT on January 26 that there is nothing to prevent those voting o [...]
2009-01-28 13:27:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD275KARBALA: ELECTIONS RUN SMOOTHLY, PM-BACKED SLATE
[...] Summary: Election Day in Karbala proceeded smoothly amid tight security. According to IHEC figures, 60 percent of registered voters participated. The decision to extend voting for an hour enabled as many as 4,000 voters whose names were not properly recorded to cast their ballots. Initial b [...]
2009-02-02 15:38:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR SOCI IZ
09BASRAH15BASRA: PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE
[...] (SBU) In March 17-19 meetings with the Senior Advisor for Southern Iraq and the Regional Embassy Office, Basra political leaders all but conceded that the next provincial government will be headed by the Da'wa-led State of Law coalition, despite attempts by opposition parties to capitalize on [...]
2009-03-25 13:23:00REO BasrahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EINV IZ
09COLOMBO1012THE MALDIVES AGREES TO ACCEPT FIVE UIGHUR DETAINEES
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 27, Ambassador Daniel Fried, Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure, held meetings with senior officials from the Government of the Republic of the Maldives (GORM) to discuss the possibility of the GORM accepting five ethnic Uighur detainees from Guantanamo Bay. Followi [...]
2009-11-04 09:37:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS MV
09COLOMBO1043MALDIVES OPPOSES IRAN'S NO-ACTION MOTION ON UNGA
[...] (C) On November 16, Vice President Ahmed Shaheed assured Ambassador of the support of the government of the Maldives (GOM) and of the Maldives intention to oppose the &no-action8 motion on the human rights resolution on Iran. Shaheed instructed their mission in New York not to participate in t [...]
2009-11-17 10:08:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALEAID MOPS PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PTER UNGA MV
09COLOMBO1142SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS: MALDIVIAN PARTIES LEARNING ABOUT
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On December 7 and 8, PolOffs traveled to Maldives to meet with political parties tomee Party (DQP),a member of the coalition party that recently broke away from government. As expected, there were dissenting opinions on the current state of the country but also several points of a [...]
2009-12-15 12:25:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM PHUM PREL MV
09COLOMBO139MALDIVES DECLARES INTENTION TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVO
[...] Maldivian Foreign Minister Dr. Ahmed Shaheed contacted Ambassador on February 6 to share with him the text of a Maldivian Foreign Ministry announcement that the Government of Maldives is committed to extending diplomatic recognition to the Republic of Kosovo at an early date. The statement n [...]
2009-02-06 12:47:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MV KV
09COLOMBO264SERBIA LOBBYING MALDIVES TO REVERSE KOSOVO
[...] (SBU) This is an action request for EUR/SCE. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) Maldives Foreign Minister Ahmed Shaheed contacted Ambassador on March 6 to indicate that Maldives' recognition of Kosovo had become controversial within the government of Maldives. On March 9, Shaheed reported tha [...]
2009-03-09 10:45:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPREL OPDC SR MV
09COLOMBO31MALDIVES: FOREIGN MINISTER EAGER TO CONVINCE
[...] (SBU)In a January 8 exchange with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Maldives Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, Ambassador urged Maldives to join the 52 nations across the world that have recognized Kosovo. Ambassador emphasized Kosovo's successful and stable development as one of the most important priorities [...]
2009-01-09 07:23:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UN UNGA KV MV
09COLOMBO367MALDIVES TO SUBMIT A KOSOVO BRIEF TO ICJ
[...] (SBU) Ambassador communicated ref A points to Maldives Foreign Minister Ahmed Shaheed on March 27. Embassy Colombo notes that the letter from Secretary Clinton thanking Maldives for its recognition of Kosovo (ref B) has helped greatly to sustain Maldives' support for Kosovo independence. Se [...]
2009-03-31 11:03:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDPQL AORC ICJ KV MV CE
09COLOMBO399SRI LANKA AND MALDIVES BOTH SUPPORTIVE OF US
[...] (SBU) Ambassador conveyed reftel points concerning the U.S. candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council to Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohona. DCM contacted Maldivian Foreign Minister Ahmed Shaheed. 2. (SBU) Foreign Secretary Kohona responded as follows: "We also believe that the [...]
2009-04-07 09:14:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL UNGA CE MV
09COLOMBO445SRI LANKA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (SBU) Post delivered diplomatic notes to the Governments of Sri Lanka and the Maldives on April 16 informing them of the candidacy of the United States for election to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the term 2009-2012, as well as a copy of the United States Human Rights Commitments [...]
2009-04-21 08:43:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL CE MV
09COLOMBO531 MALDIVES: FORMER RULING PARTY NARROWLY WINS ELECTIONS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Maldives held its first multiparty parliamentary elections on May 9. Long delays in counting and announcing results led to unruly protests and some violence in the capital, Male'. Provisional results announced by the Elections Commission on May 11 showed that the party of former [...]
2009-05-14 14:32:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM PHUM MV
09COLOMBO552MALDIVES: AMBASSADOR PUSHES FOR CONSOLIDATION OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In farewell calls on President Nasheed, Vice President Waheed, and Foreign Minister Shaheed, Ambassador warned of growing political and ideological polarization in Maldives and encouraged the government to work closely within its coalition and with opposition parties to continue an [...]
2009-05-21 08:06:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EENV MV
09COLOMBO570MALDIVES SUPPORTS KOSOVO WORLD BANK MEMBERSHIP
[...] (SBU) Maldivian Foreign Minister Ahmed Shaheed confirmed to Econ Chief on May 26 that the GORM will support Kosovo's bid to join the World Bank; he stated that the GORM remains "very supportive of U.S. policies to enhance the stability in the West Balkans." He said the GORM will cast its vote [...]
2009-05-28 09:09:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PREL EAID MV
09COLOMBO805MALDIVES ON THE BRINK OF BANKRUPTCY
[...] (SBU) Severe balance of payments imbalances, crushing government debt, and a decline in revenue have brought the economy of Maldives to the brink of collapse. In meetings with the Charge, Maldivian Foreign Minister Ahmed Shaheed, Vice President Mohamed Waheed, and former opposition Quamee par [...]
2009-08-13 11:07:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EAID EINV PREL MV
09COLOMBO898MALDIVES STRENGTHENS TIES WITH ISRAEL
[...] (C) In a September 18 meeting with PolOff, Maldivian Defense Minister Ameen Faisal spoke of his upcoming October trip to Israel and mentioned that he, Foreign Minister, Ahmed Shaheed and President Nasheed all agreed that stronger relations with Israel were in the Maldives' interest. The Defe [...]
2009-09-22 06:42:00Embassy ColomboSECRETPGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS MV
09COLOMBO899UN UNGA: MALDIVES HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE AND
[...] The following is the information requested in reftel regarding the Maldives Delegation to the 64th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA): A. Attendance of the Head of State: The head of state will attend the UNGA. -- Name and title. Mohamed Nasheed - President of the Republic of Mal [...]
2009-09-22 10:56:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OTRA OVIP KSEP CVIS UNGA MV
09COLOMBO995EID AL-ADHA MESSAGE FROM SECRETARY CLINTON
[...] (U) Post has delivered reftel Eid al-Adha message from Secretary Clinton to Foreign Minister of the Republic of Maldives Dr. Ahmed Shaheed. BUTENIS [...]
2009-10-29 12:08:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PREF PHUM MV
09GEORGETOWN418BLAZE 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 20:51:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALGY PHUM PREL SNAR
09GEORGETOWN522GEORGETOWN 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 19:06:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALECON PREL GY
09HILLAH11BABIL VOTE: EARLY SIGNS OF A DECISIVE DAWA VICTORY
[...] (C) In a late February 1 conversation, Babil Governorate Election Office Director Hussein Al-Khalef confirmed that Da'wa had won a decisive victory. Although IHEC has not yet released the initial vote results and the exact distribution of PC seats may take several weeks to determine, according [...]
2009-02-02 09:37:00REO HillahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR IZ
09HILLAH2BABIL'S POLITICS HEADING TOWARD ELECTIONS: CHANGE AND
[...] Summary. (C) Babil's political landscape is sure to change after the elections, but the scope may be less than some opposition politicians seek. ISCI's dominant position is sure to be weakened, but it may not be broken altogether. Dawa may assume a greater political role in the province, if [...]
2009-01-13 20:11:00REO HillahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM IZ
09HILLAH46NEW ANTI-DAWA COALITION CONTROLS MAJORITY OF BABIL
[...] (U) This is a PRT Babil cable. 2. (SBU) Summary and Comment: On Sunday, August 9, 2009, Iraqi press reported the formation of a new coalition of 18 members of the Babil provincial council called the Babil National Coalition formed in opposition to the ruling DAWA coalition. [...]
2009-08-12 10:47:00REO HillahUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINS IZ
09HILLAH7ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN BABIL: CREDITABLE IMPROVEMENTS OVER
[...] (U) SUMMARY.The Babil provincial election campaign has been lively and robust, engaging previously alienated voters (Sunnis and Saddrists) and producing predictions of a high turnout. The campaign reflects creditable progress over the last election in 2005, and the Independent High Electoral Co [...]
2009-01-27 05:26:00REO HillahUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM IZ
09ISLAMABAD1070 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 18, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-18 09:19:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1282 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 11, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-11 10:03:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1386FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF
[...] (C) The government continued low-intensity fighting during the first full week in June with pockets of militants in Swat, Buner, Shangla, and Lower Dir. The latter showed that they pose a continued threat by destroying schools in Lower Dir and Buner, and resuming kidnappings of civilians in [...]
2009-06-24 09:42:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALMOPS PGOV PINR PK PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD2361 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-30 10:23:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2474 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TERRORISM, KERRY-LUGAR BILL,
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-13 10:33:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD548ZARDARI AGREES TO APPEAL SHARIFS' DISQUALIFICATION
[...] (C) Ambassador and UK High Commissioner (Ambassador) had dinner with President Zardari March 14. Right before the meeting, Zardari had issued a statement indicating his government's intention to request a review of the Supreme Court's decision on the eligibility of the Sharif brothers to ho [...]
2009-03-14 17:48:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD66 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 12, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-12 11:59:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09PESHAWAR126MORE ON PEARL CONTINENTAL EXPLOSION
[...] (S/NF) Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Inspector General Police Malik Naveed told Consulate officials June 11 that no physical trace of the bombers or leads to their identities has yet been recovered from the June 9 attack on the Pearl Continental Hotel. PC security guards are in custody an [...]
2009-06-11 12:39:00Consulate PeshawarSECRETPTER ASEC ABLD PGOV MOPS CASC PK
09PESHAWAR138FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JUNE 5 -
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-29 16:00:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09STATE101875MALDIVES: A/S BLAKE'S MEETING WITH FM SHAHEED
[...] (C) Summary: In a September 25 meeting with SCA A/S Blake on the margins of UNGA in New York, Maldives Foreign Minister Shaheed related that Maldives would try to qualify for a Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) program despite MCC's focus on larger countries. Shaheed reported that in h [...]
2009-09-30 19:20:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER EAID EFIN ECON MARR SENV KGHG ETRD IN IS
10BAGHDAD343PRT MAYSAN: MAYSANI PC MEMBERS ATTEND IRI
[...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Maysan PRTOffs accompanied Maysan Provincial Council (PC) members, including PC Chair Abd Al-Rathah Reesan (ISCI),to the International Republican Institute,s (IRI) National Forum of Iraqi Provincial Leaders in Erbil, Jan [...]
2010-02-09 14:00:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCOR IZ
10BAGHDAD355HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED PATROL BOAT TRAINING,
[...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MOD) who have been nominated to attend the Patrol Boat Training Course during the period 1 [...]
2010-02-11 03:57:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BEIJING13JANUARY 5 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: U.S.-SINO RELATIONS,
[...] Key points at the January 5 MFA press briefing included: -- On trends in U.S-China relations, the two sides worked from a "comprehensive common ground," believed in the peaceful development of the relationship, and respected the "core interest" of each other. -- The PRC followed the "ethic [...]
2010-01-05 23:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM PARM SOCI CH NK UK IR VM PG XA
10COLOMBO137MALDIVIAN FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES DONOR CONFERENCE AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a February 19 meeting in Colombo, the Ambassador and Maldivian Foreign Minister Ahmed Shaheed discussed several issues, including the upcoming Maldives donor conference March 28-29 and an Asian Climate Change initiative led by Maldives and East Timor within the framework of th [...]
2010-02-24 12:17:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS ECON EFIN
10COLOMBO43DELIVERY OF MALDIVES GSP DEMARCHE; ILO REQUEST
[...] (U) Per reftel, post delivered the demarche on GSP and labor rights to the highest levels of the Government of the Maldives (GOM). On December 29, Ambassador Butenis wrote Foreign Minister Shaheed on USG plans to review the Maldives labor rights in one year, emphasizing the need for the [...]
2010-01-21 11:47:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ELAB ETRD MV
10COLOMBO5LETTER TO SECRETARY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON FROM MALDIVES
[...] (SBU) Post received from the Maldivian MFA a scanned copy of a letter from the Maldives Minister of Foreign Affairs to Secretary Clinton regarding the Copenhagen conference. The following is the text: BEGIN TEXT OF LETTER Minister of Foreign Affairs Republic of Maldives 30 December 20 [...]
2010-01-05 04:47:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS ECON EFIN
10KABUL594LEAHY VETTING REQUEST
[...] This is an action request - see paragraph 2. 2. In order to comply with vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names of Afghan nationals. Post possesses no derogatory information on these individuals. Post requests Department's review of these candidates by February 24, 2010. 3 [...]
2010-02-17 11:35:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF
10PORTOFSPAIN7REQUESTING 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 18:41:00Embassy Port Of SpainCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNDEA SNAR TD
202 rows / 202 results

This work is licensed under a creative common licence creative commons image creative commons another image