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| 05ABIDJAN1003 | COTE D'IVOIRE: PRIVATE SCHOOLS TO REOPEN, STUDENTS [...] (U) Based on a gentlemen's agreement between the school owners and the Minister of Higher Education, Ivoirian private schools will reopen on June 20. The owners have kept the schools closed since May 17 to protest the USD 44 million in arrears owed them by the government (reftel). The Ministr [...] |
2005-06-16 16:15:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV ELAB IV |
| 05ABIDJAN1861 | COTE D'IVOIRE: ICCAT CHAIRMANSHIP AND NEW [...] On October 7, econoff delivered ref A and B demarches to Seraphin Dedi Nadje, Director of Fishery Production, Ministry of Animal Production and Fishery Resources. 2. In response to ref A demarche, Mr. Dedi Nadje replied that Cote d'Ivoire would be interested in supporting Dr. Hogarth's ca [...] |
2005-11-09 10:23:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIS ETRD PHSA SENV AORC IV ICCAT IATTC |
| 05ABIDJAN1864 | COTE D'IVOIRE INTENDS TO KEEP WEST AFRICAN CENTRAL [...] (U) The term of Charles Konan Banny, the current governor of the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO), will expire in December 2005. The BCEAO is the common central bank for the eight West African Economic Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries. The BCEAO governor is appointed by the Council [...] |
2005-11-09 14:53:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV IV |
| 05ABIDJAN1871 | TOGO NOT READY FOR REFUGEE RETURNS [...] (C) SUMMARY: RefCoord met UN and government agencies in Lome and Accra from November 8-10 to discuss the Government of Togo's proposed National Repatriation Plan (NRP) and the UN's 2006 Consolidated Appeal (CAP) for Togo. UN and EU representatives stated security conditions in Togo were not [...] |
2005-11-16 07:44:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM TO GH BE |
| 05ABIDJAN487 | COTE D'IVOIRE -- OUTSIDE LEGAL EXPERTS REVIEW [...] (C) Summary. A panel of legal experts from Burundi and Rwanda, led by the Advisor to South African President Thabo Mbeki, has issued an analysis of the Linas-Marcoussis legislation, and determined that many of the bills are not in compliance with either the letter or spirit of the Linas-Marc [...] |
2005-03-25 08:53:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO IV SA |
| 05ABIDJAN695 | COTE D'IVOIRE: ADDRESSING PROTECTION CONCERNS [...] (SBU) The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is conducting training sessions for militia groups, as well as the National Armed Forces of Cote d'Ivoire (FANCI) and the Armed Forces of the Forces Nouvelles (FAFN) in International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and the Geneva Conventions. [...] |
2005-04-27 08:29:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF IV LI PHUM WFP |
| 05ABIDJAN716 | WE DON'T NEED NO EDUCATION - STRIKING TEACHERS IN [...] (U) SUMMARY. The Union of Secondary School Teachers (SYNESCI) is staging a 48-hour strike starting April 28 to protest non-payment of 2004 exam-correction allowances. This strike comes just two weeks after a 72-hour strike by primary school teachers on April 11-13, also to protest non-payment [...] |
2005-04-28 19:16:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB IV |
| 05ABIDJAN944 | COTE D'IVOIRE: CLOSED PRIVATE SCHOOLS, WORRIED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Since May 17 the owners of secondary- and university-level private schools have kept their institutions closed in protest over nonpayment of government subsidies. According to the owners, the government owes them a total of USD 37 million for the years 2003 through 2005. On Jun [...] |
2005-06-07 18:08:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV ELAB IV |
| 05ABUDHABI1002 | DISCUSSION OF POLITICAL REFORM IN UAE STARTS TO [...] (C) Summary: The UAE is now the only state in the Gulf without elected bodies. However, discussion is starting to percolate in the UAE media and in private settings about the potential for political reforms in the country, including the possibility of holding elections at the local and federal [...] |
2005-03-02 12:14:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV KMPI TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1003 | SUBJECT: DUBAI ARRESTS COUNTERFEIT AUTO PARTS [...] (U) UAE officials remain staunchly committed to stemming the flow of counterfeit auto parts, and they routinely publicize their efforts against counterfeit dealers. A February 27 news article in a local newspaper detailed police and law enforcement actions against counterfeit auto parts deale [...] |
2005-03-02 12:14:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR PREL ETRD TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1005 | UAE PREPARING ACTIVELY FOR FTA FIRST ROUND [...] (C) Summary: The UAEG continues its preparations for negotiating an FTA with the USG. UAE negotiators have reached out to the private sector, including banks, textile manufactures, and insurance companies to solicit input in advance of the March 6 launch of the first round of FTA negotiations [...] |
2005-03-02 13:28:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON ELAB EFIN PHUM TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1006 | POINTS FOR A/USTR NOVELLI'S FTA BILATS [...] (U) Summary. During your March 7-11th visit to the United Arab Emirates for the first round of Free Trade Agreement negotiations, you will have a number of bilateral meetings with senior UAEG officials. We are providing short bios of your interlocutors and an overview of probable points of di [...] |
2005-03-02 13:28:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EINV ELAB ECON PREL USTR NEA PI |
| 05ABUDHABI1049 | UAE, GERMANY, AND IRAQ SIGN MILITARY TRAINING [...] (U) During German Chancellor Schroeder,s visit to the UAE March 4-5, the UAE, Germany, and Iraq signed an agreement which provides for the training of Iraqi military personnel. The agreement, which expands the role of Germany and the UAE in training members of the Iraqi armed forces, clears the [...] |
2005-03-07 08:20:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS PREL IZ TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1055 | RECONSTRUCTION DISBURSEMENTS TO IRAQ [...] (U) Embassy continues to press the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) for details of assistance to Iraq. On February 26, the MFA formally informed post, via diplomatic note, that the UAE has disbursed its entire $215 million Madrid reconstruction pledge "on projects inside Iraq." On March [...] |
2005-03-07 09:37:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN |
| 05ABUDHABI1069 | UAE RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE - SYRIA MUST WITHDRAW [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel talking points to Information Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al Nahyan on March 7, noting that the UAE and the international community needed to make clear that a complete and immediate withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon was required. (Sheikh Abdullah [...] |
2005-03-07 12:33:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY LE TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1091 | UAE: 2005 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] Embassy TIP points of contact are PolOff Susan Raddant and PolChief Joel Maybury, office: 971-2-414-2444, fax: 971-2-414-2639; email: raddantsk@state.gov, mayburyjf@state.gov. 2. OMB Reporting Requirements: One FS-04 officer spent approximately 40 hours preparing for and writing the repor [...] |
2005-03-08 12:46:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1153 | CHILD MARRIAGE IN THE UAE [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-13 11:21:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB PHUM PGOV SCUL SOCI KWMN TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1155 | UAE PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR ON POLITICAL REFORM, [...] (C) Summary: Minister for Presidential Affairs Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan told Ambassador March 12 that Abu Dhabi will begin consultations with leaders in the western part of the emirate about broadening political participation through representative municipal councils. When the Ambas [...] |
2005-03-14 02:06:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1156 | THE UAE FOUR MONTHS AFTER SHEIKH ZAYED'S DEATH [...] (C) Summary: UAE President and Abu Dhabi Ruler Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has overseen a smooth transition of power in his first four months in office. Gradually, the UAE leadership has restructured and rejuvenated government institutions, set in motion several infrastructure projects, [...] |
2005-03-14 02:06:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON KDEM TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1165 | DISSUADING IRAN FROM INTERFERING IN IRAQI POLITICS [...] (S) Pol Chief discussed reftel points March 14 with MFA Assistant Under Secretary for Political Affairs Tariq Al Haidan. Al Haidan said that MFA officials have spoken to the Iranian ambassador advising Iran not to interfere in Iraq's domestic affairs, but explained that the Iranians have a d [...] |
2005-03-14 08:55:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL IR IZ TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1166 | U.S. EFFORTS TO SUPPORT EU-3 DIPLOMACY ON IRAN [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-14 08:55:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1167 | UAE ANNOUNCES CAMEL JOCKEY LAW IN EFFECT BY MARCH [...] (C) Summary: After weeks of lobbying by the Ambassador, Deputy Prime Minister and de facto Foreign Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed (HbZ) issued a statement March 13 announcing that a law will be on the books by April 16, 2005 banning jockeys under age 16 from participating in camel [...] |
2005-03-14 10:44:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ELAB PHUM TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1169 | UPCOMING UAE INTERNATIONAL HAWALA CONFERENCE [...] The UAE Central Bank, in cooperation with the International Monetary Fund and the Middle East North Africa Financial Action Task Force (MENAFATF), will host the Third International Conference on Hawala in Abu Dhabi April 2-3, and the UAE has issued an invitation to Post to attend. 2. The pr [...] |
2005-03-14 10:48:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN PTER EFIN TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1170 | DUBAI BUSINESSMAN CRITICIZES DUBAI CROWN PRINCE [...] (C) Summary: In a recent conversation with DCM, Dubai developer and government official Mohammed Al-Abbar sharply criticized Dubai Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum (MbR) for arrogance and for losing touch with the people of Dubai. Al-Abbar told DCM that the only reason MbR h [...] |
2005-03-14 11:16:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PREL PINR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1171 | UAE Information Minister Reviewing Press Law [...] (U) UAE Information Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) has called for an amendment to the existing Press and Publication Law to protect press freedom and to prevent harassment of journalists. The Ministry of Information and the UAE Journalists Association are jointly submitting suggesti [...] |
2005-03-14 11:46:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KMPI OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1210 | MESSAGE TO THE ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) Charge discussed Ref. A points on Syria/Lebanon, Israeli-Palestinian affairs, Iraq, and Magen David Adom, with MFA Under Secretary Abdullah Rashid Al Noaimi on March 16. On Syria and Lebanon, Al Noaimi said that it was the UAE,s position that the Syrians should undertake the complete and i [...] |
2005-03-16 12:27:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY LE IZ IS TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1271 | UAE CONDEMNS TERROR ATTACK IN QATAR [...] UAE leaders have denounced the March 19 attack in Doha, and have pledged to cooperate with Qatar in fighting terrorism. Press reports said that President Khalifa called the Emir of Qatar on March 20 to condemn the attack. Khalifa said the security of Qatar was an "integral part" of the UAE' [...] |
2005-03-21 10:59:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL QA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1272 | WOLFOWITZ NOMINATION FOR WORLD BANK: UAE RESPONSE [...] On March 20, EconChief delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Finance A/US for Revenue and Budget Khalid Al- Bustani. EconChief stressed our hope that the World Bank Executive Board could approve this nomination quickly. Al- Bustani promised to discuss our nomination with MinState Khirbas [...] |
2005-03-21 11:05:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID ECON EINV PREL TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1274 | UAEG OFFICIALS: "WE WILL SOLVE THE CAMEL JOCKEY [...] (C) Summary: Senior UAEG officials have publicly and privately committed to ending the problem of underage camel jockeys. In response to reftel demarche, they have told Charge that their priority is to identify, rescue and repatriate the children, and not drive the problem underground. To [...] |
2005-03-21 11:57:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ELAB PHUM PGOV SOCI TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1295 | MEDIA REACTION 3/21-3/22: QATAR EXPLOSION/ ARAB SUMMIT [...] SUMMARY: THE TERRORIST EXPLOSION IN QATAR AND THE PREPARATIONS FOR THE ARAB SUMMIT IN ALGERIA DOMINATED COVERAGE IN LOCAL ELECTRONIC AND PRINT MEDIA. AN EDITORIAL IN "AL ITTIHAD" NOTED THAT THERE IS A NEED FOR ARAB COOPERATION AND COLLABORATION TO ACHIEVE REFORM. ANOTHER EDITORIAL IN "AL BA [...] |
2005-03-22 11:21:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1297 | MEDIA REACTION: A/USTR NOVELLI'S VISIT TO THE UAE TO [...] SUMMARY: ALL LOCAL ELECTRONIC AND PRINT MEDIA PROMINENTLY COVERED ASSISTANT USTR CATHERINE NOVELLI'S MARCH 8-10 VISIT TO THE UAE TO NEGOTIATE THE FTA. ABU DHABI PA ARRANGED A PRESS ROUNDTABLE WITH FOURTEEN LOCAL AND REGIONAL PRINT MEDIA, IN ADDITION TO ONE-ON-ONE TELEVISION INTERVIEWS WITH A [...] |
2005-03-22 11:22:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1307 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: APPOINTMENT OF KAREN HUGHES [...] SUMMARY: TWO PIECES IN LARGEST CIRCULATION ARABIC LANGUAGE DAILY, SHARJAH-BASED, PAN-ARAB "AL-KHALEEJ" 3/20 COMMENT ON APPOINTMENT OF NEW UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY KAREN HUGHES. AN EGYPTIAN COLUMNIST COMPARES HER TASK OF JUSTIFYING AMERICA'S POLITICAL AND MILITARY ACTIONS [...] |
2005-03-22 12:46:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1315 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF AMBASSADOR DAVID GROSS TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy and Consulate General welcome the visit of Ambassador David A. Gross, U.S. Coordinator of International Communications and Information Policy. The UAE has both a rapidly growing economy and a rapidly growing population, which makes it an attractive market for U.S. com [...] |
2005-03-23 08:01:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON ECPS OTRA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI132 | UNDERSCORING THE IMPORTANCE OF IRAQI ELECTIONS [...] (C) On January 8, Pol Chief delivered reftel points to MFA Assistant Under Secretary for International Cooperation Mohammed Abdul Jaleel, emphasizing that the January elections are part of a larger process aimed at choosing Iraq,s future leadership and shaping the country,s future. Abdul Jalee [...] |
2005-01-08 13:07:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1330 | UAE NOMINATIONA FOR IPR ENFORCEMENT ACADEMY AND [...] In response to reftel, Post asked the UAE Ministry of Justice and the Judicial Training and Studies Institute to nominate Emirati judges to participate in the May 9-26 IPR Enforcement Academy and U.S. Study Tour. The Ministry of Justice nominated three judges, and post supports their nominati [...] |
2005-03-23 11:54:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KIPR KMPI OTRA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1331 | UAE INCREASES SECURITY AFTER BOMBING IN QATAR, [...] (C) Summary: After the Doha theater bombing, UAE officials markedly increased the security presence throughout the cities of Abu Dhabi and Dubai in locations such as diplomatic communities, western schools, and residential neighborhoods. UAEG officials are worried they are vulnerable to this [...] |
2005-03-23 13:30:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PTER PREL ASEC QA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1333 | LABOR UNION RIGHTS A LENGTHY AND COMPLICATED TASK [...] (U) This is a joint Abu Dhabi and Dubai cable. 2. (C) Summary: DoL D/US Levine held labor consultations March 19-21 with a wide range of senior UAE officials, professional associations, and businesspeople. The labor delegation discussed current labor laws and practices and workers right [...] |
2005-03-26 03:58:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ETRD PHUM PREL TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1438 | US/UAE FTA FIRST ROUND [...] (C) Summary: The United States and the UAE held the first round of Free Trade Agreement negotiations in Abu Dhabi, March 8-10. UAEG leaders are enthusiastic about the prospect of an FTA with the United States. After a somewhat slow start the negotiators made significant progress, concluding [...] |
2005-04-02 02:18:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EINV ELAB ECON PREL USTR TC FTA |
| 05ABUDHABI1523 | UAE MINISTER OF CABINET AFFAIRS ON CAMEL JOCKEYS, [...] (C) Summary: Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Saeed Al Ghaith told Ambassador April 5 that he expects federal cabinet approval of a new law banning underage camel jockeys at its next meeting on Monday, April 11. Although formal approval is pending, the UAEG has implemented it effective [...] |
2005-04-05 12:20:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM ELAB ETRD TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1550 | ARBIFT $116 MILLION UNFROZEN...FINALLY [...] (SBU) On April 2, Abu Dhabi EconChief and Manama OFAC attach met with Ibrahim Lootah, the Managing Director of the Arab Bank for Investment and Foreign Trade (ARBIFT). They met to discuss whether J.P. Morgan Chase Bank had released ARBIFT's assets frozen pursuant to the lifting of U.S. sanctio [...] |
2005-04-06 12:23:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN KIDE |
| 05ABUDHABI1551 | UPTICK IN UNDERAGE CAMEL JOCKEY REPATRIATION [...] (U) Summary: In the three weeks since the UAEG announced that a new law banning underage camel jockeys would take effect March 31, a small but growing number of children from TIP source countries (especially Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sudan) have been "rescued" from their captors and are now ei [...] |
2005-04-06 12:39:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KDEM ELAB ETRD TC |
| 05ABUDHABI158 | ARAB MEDIA REFORM - "NO LONGER POSSIBLE TO SELL [...] (U) Summary: On January 9 the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research in Abu Dhabi opened its three day 2005 conference entitled "Arab Media in the Information Age." Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (MBR), Crown Prince of Dubai, delivered an emphatic message, as keynote speake [...] |
2005-01-10 11:34:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC PREL PGOV |
| 05ABUDHABI159 | NATIONAL WAR COLLEGE REGIONAL STUDIES PROGRAM [...] Embassy Abu Dhabi and Consulate General Dubai welcome the proposed visit of 8 students and 2 faculty to the UAE as part of the National War College's "Field Studies in National Security" program in May. Post, which has already had some e-mail exchanges with NWC student Jim Swan, looks forward [...] |
2005-01-10 11:34:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA MARR MOPS TC |
| 05ABUDHABI16 | Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit Sharing [...] THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES DOES NOT HAVE A REGULATORY FRAMEWORK FOR ACCESS AND BENEFIT SHARING. ALTHOUGH THERE ARE ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS, THEY DO NOT SPECIFICALLY ADDRESS ABS ISSUES. THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THESE IS FEDERAL LAW #24 OF 1999 ON THE PROTECTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE EN [...] |
2005-01-02 10:26:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID SENV TC |
| 05ABUDHABI160 | DUBAI CUSTOMS REENGINEERS FOR UPCOMING FTA [...] This cable is a joint Abu Dhabi - Dubai message. 2. (SBU) Summary: The UAE press reported this week on three recent events that are relevant for upcoming planned U.S. - UAE FTA negotiations. Dubai customs is in the middle of multi-million dollar program to upgrade its customs and document [...] |
2005-01-10 11:39:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ELAB ETTC TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1604 | UAE CAMEL JOCKEY SOLUTION: ROBOTS [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister and de facto Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed told Ambassador April 10 that the UAE was working to resolve the camel jockey/trafficking in persons (TIP) problem. Sheikh Hamdan, who is also Chairman of the Camel Racing Federation, said the UAE has alr [...] |
2005-04-11 11:48:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM ELAB ETRD TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1605 | SHEIKH HAMDAN ON IRAQ, GAZA, MLAT [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed (HbZ) and Ambassador met April 10 to review regional developments and U.S.-UAE relations. The UAE remains very worried about Iranian influence in Iraq. HbZ urged the U.S. to stand behind Mahm [...] |
2005-04-11 12:23:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ETRD JO IZ IR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1680 | AMB. JONES CONSULTS WITH SHEIKH HAMDAN ON IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: Senior Advisor and Coordinator for Iraq Policy Ambassador Richard Jones consulted with Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed on April 12 on Iraq developments. Ambassador Jones, who had been in Iraq three days earlier, briefed Sheikh H [...] |
2005-04-14 10:48:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON IZ IR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1683 | UAE ENERGY SECTOR: SECURITY, SPARE CAPACITY, AND [...] (C) Summary: Although the United Arab Emirates has taken many steps to improve oil and gas facility security, a number of vulnerabilities for both off and onshore facilities still exist. The UAE needs to improve information sharing and interagency coordination to further enhance security. AD [...] |
2005-04-16 07:34:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1712 | PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR ON U.S. - UAE BILATERAL [...] (C) Summary: On April 16, Ambassador called on long-time presidential advisor Mohammed Habroush Al-Suwaidi to review our bilateral agenda (FTA, MLAT, and Camel Jockey Trafficking). On FTA, Al-Suwaidi opined that there was no reason the process would not move ahead. The concerns of some busin [...] |
2005-04-17 11:17:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EPET PHUM ELAB ETRD SA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1788 | SUPPORT FOR REGIONAL ESTH HUB IN OMAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: EMBASSY ABU DHABI STRONGLY SUPPORTS ESTABLISHING A REGIONAL ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND HEALTH HUB OFFICE IN OMAN TO PROVIDE PROGRAMMATIC AND POLICY SUPPORT TO THE UAE AND THE WIDER GULF REGION. THE ENHANCED EXPERTISE AND EXPERIENCE OF THE HUB OFFICE WOULD ALLOW THE [...] |
2005-04-24 09:33:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV TBIO KSCA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1858 | COUNTERTERRORISM ACTION GROUP - EMBASSY ABU DHABI [...] (SBU) Summary: The British DCM convened the Abu Dhabi G-8 Counter-Terrorism Action Group (CTAG) on March 23. CTAG members discussed their perspectives of the threat environment in the UAE, and their observations of the UAE response to the recent theater bombing in Doha. Each country detailed [...] |
2005-04-27 02:19:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL ASEC ETTC TC KJAN |
| 05ABUDHABI1872 | OIL INDUSTRY REPS ON POTENTIAL PRODUCTION [...] (C) Summary: Western oil executives told Ambassador, at an energy roundtable, about Abu Dhabi plans to add 200,000 barrels per-day capacity over the next two years in onshore production and 150,000 capacity in the near term offshore. They agreed that Saudi ARAMCO would be able to meet Saudi Oil [...] |
2005-04-27 10:38:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1873 | UNICEF MOBILIZING TO HELP UNDERAGE CAMEL JOCKEYS [...] (C) UNICEF is firmly committed to helping the UAE Government develop a master plan for registering and safely repatriating underage camel jockeys. In a telephone conversation from her office in Muscat, UNICEF Gulf Area Office acting representative, June Kunugi, told Pol Chief April 26 that he [...] |
2005-04-27 23:39:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ETRD ELAB TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1874 | ILO VISITS UAE, WILL REVIEW DRAFT LABOR LAWS [...] (C) Summary: During his April 23-25 visit, the UAE Ministry of Labor presented ILO regional Middle East director Dr. Taleb Al Rafai with its draft revised labor law and draft labor union law for formal ILO review and comment in bringing UAE labor laws in line with international standards. Alt [...] |
2005-04-27 23:43:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ETRD PHUM PREL TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1875 | MINI DUBLIN GROUP MEETING -- EMBASSY ABU DHABI [...] No summary [...] |
2005-04-28 02:55:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SNAR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI1951 | UAEG PREPARATIONS FOR ROUND TWO OF FTA TALKS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and EconChief discussed FTA round two with lead UAE negotiator, MinEcon Sheikha Lubna Al-Qasimi and MinFin FTA coordinator Khalid Al-Bustani on May 1. Sheikha Lubna confirmed the UAEG's commitment to a successful second round, although she predicted that the complexity o [...] |
2005-05-03 13:26:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON EFIN TC FTA |
| 05ABUDHABI1983 | UAE WELCOMES FIRST BATCH OF F-16 BLOCK 60'S [...] (U) The UAE welcomed home the first installment of F-16 Block 60 combat aircraft during a May 3 ceremony that featured a precision fly-by before a crowd of several hundred dignitaries assembled at Al Dhafra Air Base. Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces [...] |
2005-05-04 12:04:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2067 | UAE OPENS TELECOM SECTOR FOR COMPETITION [...] (U) The UAE Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) announced this week it has approved the establishment of a new telecommunications company that will compete with Etisalat, which up until now was the sole telecommunications entity in the UAE. According to a May 7 Gulf News report, TRA [...] |
2005-05-09 13:03:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECPS EINT ETRD EFIN PGOV KPRV TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2070 | UAE WELCOMES IRAQ TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT [...] (U) The UAE Cabinet of Ministers issued a statement May 9 welcoming the Iraq Transitional Government (ITG). The statement, which was carried in the Arabic and English press May 10, said that the UAE hailed the final composition of the Iraq government and hoped that this latest political devel [...] |
2005-05-10 05:08:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IZ TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2090 | TOUR D'HORIZON WITH DEPUTY PM SHEIKH HAMDAN [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed (HbZ) and Ambassador met May 8 to review developments in Iraq and U.S.-UAE relations. At our urging, the UAE issued a statement May 9 welcoming the newly formed Iraqi government. HbZ agreed th [...] |
2005-05-10 09:46:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM CJAN KNNP PK GZ IZ WEU TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2113 | UAE MONEY EXCHANGES CONCERNED ABOUT ACCESS TO U.S. [...] (U) Summary. The UAE's 110 licensed money exchange houses have formed a Steering Committee to ensure that the UAE's regulated exchange houses can continue to do business with banks and financial institutions overseas. The steering committee will work with the UAE Central Bank and financial i [...] |
2005-05-11 09:15:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KTFN EFIN TC UAE |
| 05ABUDHABI2143 | RESPONDING TO CROWN PRINCE'S LETTER ON CAMEL [...] (C) Summary: The UAE has taken several positive actions since March 31 to address Trafficking in Persons related to child camel jockeys. These achievements generally track with those noted in Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed's (MbZ) April 28 letter to the Secretary, Deputy Sec [...] |
2005-05-11 12:34:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ELAB TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2158 | SUBJECT: UAE UPSET OVER PUBLICITY OF COOPERATION WITH U.S. MILITARY IN PAKISTAN [...] No summary [...] |
2005-05-14 09:00:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PK PTER TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2169 | UAE CHARITY - HUMAN APPEAL INTERNATIONAL [...] (S) Summary and Comment: Human Appeal International (HAI), headquartered in the Emirate of Ajman, is one of the most visible UAE international charities. Aware of ongoing U.S. concerns about HAI's activities and terror finance connections, Econoff visited HAI on April 25 and met with the foun [...] |
2005-05-15 09:25:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PTER KTFN EAID EFIN IQ TC UAE |
| 05ABUDHABI2173 | UAE DEMOCRATIC REFORM STRATEGY TO SUPPORT FREEDOM [...] (C) Summary: Although the United Arab Emirates is a wealthy and economically advanced country, an open political system and political competition do not exist. The UAE has no elections, no political parties, and no trade unions. The existing appointed consultative bodies that debate and adop [...] |
2005-05-16 05:06:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV ECON KPAO PREL XF KMPI TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2178 | MBZ ON IRAQ, IRAN, PAKISTAN [...] (U) Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed,s weekly Sunday "VIP Majlis" provided an excellent opportunity for a visiting National Defense University delegation to observe first-hand the UAEG,s informal consultative process. MbZ, brothers MinState Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamdan and Interior [...] |
2005-05-16 09:12:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL MASS PHUM ELAB IR IZ XF SA PK FR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2179 | GUANTANAMO ISSUES - ARB AND KORAN DESECRATION [...] (C) Ambassador met with MFA Under Secretary Abdullah Rashid Al Noaimi on May 14 and discussed ref A information regarding the Administrative Review Board's (ARB) assessment of UAE detainee Abdullah Al Hamiri, and the allegation that the Koran had been desecrated at the U.S. Naval Station at Gu [...] |
2005-05-16 09:12:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KAWC PINR PREL KISK TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2180 | MFA UNDER SECRETARY MEETS NDU DELEGATION [...] (C) Summary: MFA Under Secretary Abdullah Rashid Al Noaimi met May 14 with Ambassador and a visiting delegation from the National Defense University's (NDU) National War College and reviewed the UAE's security concerns, and the political reform trends that are under way in the region. Al Noaim [...] |
2005-05-16 09:13:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL KDEM PGOV IZ IR SA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2195 | UAE ACCESS STUDENTS: "I THOUGHT THAT AMERICANS [...] No summary [...] |
2005-05-17 03:04:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL XF TC |
| 05ABUDHABI224 | 2005 Investment Climate Statement, United Arab Emirates [...] No summary [...] |
2005-01-12 10:48:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON OPIC KTDB USTR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI231 | ASD RODMAN MEETS UAE MINDEF MOHAMMED BIN RASHID [...] (C) Summary: In a January 11 meeting with Dubai Crown Prince and UAE Minister of Defense Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid (MBR), ASD Rodman expressed USG appreciation for UAE's contributions to our counter-terror and counter-proliferation efforts. In response to a question on Iraq, ASD Rodman outli [...] |
2005-01-16 04:00:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS MOPS MARR PREL IR IQ TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2358 | UAE HOSTS UN INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN [...] Summary. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Sweden co-hosted a meeting in Abu Dhabi on 9 May to discuss coordination of international humanitarian assistance. The meeting was part of an evolving campaign to engage emerging donors in humanitarian response activities. Each the participating c [...] |
2005-05-25 09:20:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF UN TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2365 | UAE HOLDS CAMEL RACE WITHOUT BOY JOCKEYS [...] (SBU) On May 19, Emirates TV station carried a live broadcast of a camel race featuring jockeys whose age and weight appeared to conform with camel racing guidelines adopted by the UAE Government in mid-March (ref B). Embassy officers who watched the race on television noted that the jockeys [...] |
2005-05-25 12:17:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2437 | REACTION TO TIP REPORT: UAEG EXPECTED TIER 3 [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with MFA Under Secretary Abdullah Rashid Al Noaimi June 1 to deliver the 2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, ranking the UAE at Tier 3, and the companion mini-action plan. Ambassador also discussed the TIP report and action plan with director for internationa [...] |
2005-06-01 11:34:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KCRM ELAB KWMN TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2489 | Basrah Media Reporting Trip - "Tell them that our door is [...] (U) Summary. On May 18-21 PA Abu Dhabi conducted a media- reporting trip for Abu Dhabi TV, Arabic Language daily Al-Ittihad and monthly Gulf Defense Magazine to Basrah, Iraq to highlight Basrah political and economic stability and UK/Iraqi joint military training activities. The group met wit [...] |
2005-06-05 12:07:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR IZ TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2495 | UAE LEADERS COMMITTED TO TIP PLAN FOLLOW THROUGH [...] (C) Summary. The UAE leadership has reacted calmly to the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Tier 3 designation and action plan. UAE leaders designated Presidential Affairs Minister Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed to oversee the plan's implementation and have asked two specific questions about the action [...] |
2005-06-06 04:14:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ELAB TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2497 | POST VIEWS ON OUTREACH TO IRAQIS IN UAE [...] (C) Summary: The Embassy has considered ways to accelerate engagement with Iraq's Sunni Arab community (ref A), and believes that there could be a role for the UAEG in using its good offices to bring together U.S. and ITG officials with influential Sunni leaders. Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Moh [...] |
2005-06-06 04:43:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM IZ TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2500 | RELIGIOUS LEADERS DISCUSS QU'RAN DESECRATION [...] (SBU) DURING A MEETING MAY 24 WITH UAE RELIGIOUS ADVISOR, DR. ALI AL HASHEMI, AND A MEETING MAY 31 WITH MINISTRY OF JUSTICE UNDER SECRETARY FOR ISLAMIC AFFAIRS, DR. MOHAMED JUMA AL MEHAIRI, POL CHIEF DISCUSSED THE CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING THE DESECRATION OF THE HOLY QU'RAN AT THE DETENTION FACIL [...] |
2005-06-06 06:53:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KIRF KISL TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2512 | UAEG REQUESTS INFORMATION ON U.S. POSITION ON G-4 [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 3. 2. (SBU) In a June 6 meeting, MFA International Organizations Director Yacoub Al-Hosani asked Econchief if the Embassy could provide him with any information on the U.S. position with regard to the draft G-4 resolution on UN reform. Al-Hosa [...] |
2005-06-06 09:25:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UN TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2528 | CONGRESSIONAL STAFFERS SEE UAE INTEREST IN FTA [...] (SBU) Summary: A group of eight House and Senate staffers visited the UAE from May 28 to June 1 at the invitation of the UAEG to discuss FTA issues. UAEG interlocutors stressed the close relationship between the U.S. and the UAE and their interest in a mutually beneficial FTA. Information Min [...] |
2005-06-07 09:42:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON ELAB OVIP OREP TC FTA |
| 05ABUDHABI2529 | UAE ONE STEP CLOSER TO RATIFYING TWO ANTI-TERROR [...] The UAE Cabinet of Ministers approved, on June 6, the accession to two UN Conventions on Terrorism -- the 1999 Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism and the 1997 Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings. This decision brings the UAE one step closer to formal [...] |
2005-06-07 09:42:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KTFN TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2543 | AUSTRALIANS GENERALLY SATISFIED WITH FTA [...] (C) Summary: On June 7, lead Australian negotiator Stephan Deady told Ambassador that he was "quite pleased" with the results of the second round of FTA negotiations, although the talks are still in a very preliminary stage. The Australians plan to move the agreement forward, but are not going [...] |
2005-06-08 09:08:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PREL AS TC FTA |
| 05ABUDHABI2559 | PAKISTAN'S MUSHARRAF ON OFFICIAL VISIT TO THE UAE [...] (C) Summary: Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf paid his first official visit to the UAE since President Khalifa succeeded the late Sheikh Zayed last November. During the June 4-5 visit, the two leaders discussed the war on terror, Pakistan's internal political stability, Pakistan's ties wit [...] |
2005-06-08 10:41:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ECON PK TC |
| 05ABUDHABI257 | DEMARCHE ON IAEA COMPREHENSIVE SAFEGUARDS [...] (C) On January 16, Pol Chief and G-8 representatives (France, Japan, Russia, Italy, Canada, and UK -- Germany had a schedule conflict) jointly delivered reftel points to MFA Director for International Organizations, Yacub Al Hosani. Pol Chief also provided Al Hosani with a copy of the letter e [...] |
2005-01-17 09:01:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP TRGY PREL AORC IAEA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2574 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: ABUSE OF THE KORAN [...] SUMMARY: A COLUMNIST IN THE ARABIC DAILY "AL-BAYAN" WARNED ALL MUSLIMS AGAINST AN ALLEGED AMERICAN-ISRAELI PLAN TO DESTROY AL-AQSA MOSQUE. THE COLUMNIST CLAIMS THAT THE KORAN ABUSE IN GUANTANAMO IS A CONSPIRACY AND SHOULD BE TREATED AS A WAR CRIME. THE COLUMN URGES MUSLIMS TO NOT BE TOLERANT [...] |
2005-06-08 12:20:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2624 | SUSTAINING ENERGY DIALOGE - UAE [...] (C) Summary: On June 12, Ambassador met with UAE Energy Minister Al-Hamili as part of our continued dialogue on energy issues, to include briefing him on U.S. efforts to spur conservation and improve energy efficiency and exchanging views on the volatile oil supply situation. Al-Hamili noted t [...] |
2005-06-12 10:50:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET ENRG ETRD ELAB TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2704 | UAE PROGRESS ON FTA ISSUES -- SLOW BUT STEADY [...] (C) Summary: The UAE continues to make slow, but steady progress on outstanding Free Trade Agreement issues in advance of the proposed June 27 or 28 DVC between the lead negotiators. We have noticed an up tick in UAE preparations as the date of the DVC draws near. For that reason, Embassy su [...] |
2005-06-15 11:04:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON EFIN AS CH TC FTA |
| 05ABUDHABI2705 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: TIP REPORT [...] SUMMARY: A UAE COLUMNIST RIDICULES THE TIP REPORT BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT SAYING THAT THOSE WHO PREPARED THE REPORT "HAVE DEALT ONLY WITH THE MOST EXTREME EXAMPLES OF ABUSES OF HOUSEMAIDS AND IGNORED THE MAJORITY THAT ARE TREATED WELL AND WITH DIGNITY IN OUR HOMES". HE CALLED ON SECRETARY RU [...] |
2005-06-15 11:48:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2706 | MEDIA REACTION: WOMEN'S RACE TO THE BALLOT BOX [...] (U) SUMMARY: A UAE COLUMNIST CALLS FOR EQUAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS FOR ARAB WOMEN IN SOCIETY. SHE STATED THAT THE DEMOCRATIC TRANSFORMATION OF ARAB SOCIETIES WILL BE COMPLETE ONLY WHEN WOMEN ATTAIN EQUAL RIGHTS. SHE CALLS FOR GREATER ACCESS TO EDUCATION AND INCREASED POLITICAL REPRESENTATION [...] |
2005-06-15 11:57:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2741 | INCONSISTENT UAE CHARITY OVERSIGHT, A SYSTEM [...] (C) Summary. The UAE Government, aware that mechanisms of charitable giving could be used to provide a cover for the financing of terror, has established regulations and procedures to try to ensure that charitable funds are not diverted for terrorist purposes. The regulatory regime for licen [...] |
2005-06-19 09:03:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KTFN EAID EFIN TC UAE |
| 05ABUDHABI2759 | FGM ON THE DECLINE IN UAE [...] SUMMARY: THE TRADITIONAL PRACTICE OF FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM) HAS ALMOST DISAPPEARED AMONG UAE NATIONALS DUE TO THE SPREAD OF EDUCATION, GREATER AWARENESS OF THE HEALTH RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH FGM, AND GOVERNMENT INSTRUCTIONS TO HOSPITALS AND CLINICS PROHIBITING THE PRACTICE, ACCORDING TO [...] |
2005-06-20 07:16:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KOCI KWMN TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2781 | SCENESETTER FOR PDAS CHENEY'S VISIT TO THE UAE [...] (C) Summary: We look forward to welcoming you to Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The UAE leadership will be very interested in hearing your perspectives on the latest developments in Iraq and on the Mideast peace process, as well as listening to your views on reform in the region. We have requested mee [...] |
2005-06-20 10:44:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PGOV KMPI PTER ETRD PHUM MASS IZ AF TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2782 | NO PLAN TO OPEN COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP TO WOMEN THIS YEAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: DESPITE PRESS REPORTS THAT THE UAE'S APPOINTED REPRESENTATIVE BODY, THE FEDERAL NATIONAL COUNCIL (FNC), MIGHT BE OPENING ITS MEMBERSHIP TO WOMEN, FNC SECRETARY GENERAL MOHAMMED AL MAZROUIE TOLD POL CHIEF JUNE 14 THAT THERE WAS NO TIMELINE FOR HAVING WOMEN JOIN THE FNC BY THE TIME [...] |
2005-06-20 10:44:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KWMN MEPI TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2815 | UAE-IRAN RELATIONS: AN UNEASY CALM [...] (C) Summary: The UAE and Iran have long had a wary co-existence. While the two countries enjoy robust trade ties and have historical social and cultural links, Iran's nuclear program and the possibility of a clandestine weapons component, interference in Iraq's internal affairs, and continued [...] |
2005-06-21 11:57:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL ETRD PINR IZ IR GCC TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2816 | UAE REQUESTS PARTICIPATION IN NATO'S ICI [...] (C) The UAEG on June 14 formally notified the NATO SecGen of its interest in participating in NATO's Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI). NATO's approval of the request would mean the UAE would join Gulf neighbors Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar as ICI partners. Assuming NATO brings the UAE into [...] |
2005-06-21 15:01:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PTER SA IR AF IZ NATO TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2833 | UAE PROGRESS ON TIP ACTION PLAN [...] (C) Summary: Since receiving the TIP report and mini-action plan from us on June 1, the UAE Government has made steady progress in addressing the suggested steps in the plan. Ministry of Interior police continue to identify and rescue underage camel jockeys. Government social workers working [...] |
2005-06-22 11:45:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ELAB ETRD TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2945 | PDAS CHENEY MEETS WITH UAE PRESIDENT KHALIFA [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting June 26 with NEA Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Cheney, UAE President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan offered his assessment of the situation in Iraq, commented on the Iranian elections and discussed Syria's involvement in the region, reform in the UAE, and effo [...] |
2005-07-01 09:08:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KMPI KPAL PHUM IZ IR SY WE GZ TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2946 | PDAS CHENEY CONSULTS WITH SHEIKH HAMDAN ON KSA, [...] (S) Summary: NEA Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Cheney consulted with Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed (HbZ) on June 26 on debt relief for Iraq, Saudi Arabia, political reform, assistance for the Palestinians, and free trade. With respe [...] |
2005-07-01 09:23:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PGOV ETRD KMPI KPAL SA WE GZ TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2947 | PDAS CHENEY DISCUSSES REFORM, TIP AND TRADE [...] (C) Summary: During NEA Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Cheney's visit to the UAE June 26-27, she had an SIPDIS opportunity to speak to different audiences about political reform, trafficking in persons, and economic issues. Cheney emphasized that to fully empower its citizens, the UAE [...] |
2005-07-01 09:34:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD KMPI PHUM TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2957 | DOE WILLIAMSON ENERGY DISCUSSIONS IN UAE [...] (C) Summary. DOE officials Molly Williamson and John Brodman met UAEG counterparts to discuss the UAE's oil sector and oil market issues. The delegation, accompanied by Ambassador and econoff, briefed UAEG interlocutors on Secretary Bodman's recent travel to Moscow, Baku and Kiev. SIPDIS [...] |
2005-07-02 08:23:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG TC |
| 05ABUDHABI296 | USG EMPHASIZES NEED FOR LABOR LAW REVISIONS IN [...] (U) Summary: The UAEG told A/USTR Clatanoff a revised labor law and trade union law should be issued by summer 2005. The original 1980 labor law will be revised to bring it into compliance with ILO standards and address needed labor market reform. The trade union law will allow expatriate [...] |
2005-01-18 10:01:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ETRD PHUM TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2968 | HIGH PROFILE UAE GOVERNMENT OUTREACH ON FTA [...] (U) The UAE government has been actively pursuing high-level outreach to the press and UAE business community on the benefits of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States. Minister of Economy and Planning Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi and Minister of State for Finance and Industry Dr. Moh [...] |
2005-07-03 09:56:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV ELAB ECON PREL USTR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI2975 | CENTCOM DEPUTY COMMANDER GENERAL SMITH VISITS UAE [...] (C) Summary: CENTCOM Deputy Commander Lieutenant General Smith met July 2 with UAE Armed Forces Deputy Chief of Staff Major General Mohammed Al Kaabi and UAE Air Force and Air Defense Commander Staff Pilot Major General Khaled Al Buainnan. Smith briefed Al Kaabi on international troop deploym [...] |
2005-07-05 03:04:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP MASS AF IZ IR PK SA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3002 | UAE CAMEL JOCKEY LAW ON THE BOOKS [...] (U) UAE President Khalifa issued a federal law July 5 that prohibits persons below 18 years of age from taking part in camel races, and subjects traffickers to jail sentences and/or fines. The new law received prominent coverage in both the Arabic and English press, which touted it as the fir [...] |
2005-07-06 10:23:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3008 | ONE MORE CRACK IN THE GCC - UAE/SAUDI BORDER [...] (S) Summary. Tensions between UAE and Saudi Arabia over a border dispute have broad implications for intra-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) relations and the long-term viability of the GCC. UAE officials view Saudi objections to a planned causeway to link the UAE and Qatar as Saudi Arabia's at [...] |
2005-07-06 11:29:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PBTS PREL PHSA EPET ENRG TC GCC |
| 05ABUDHABI301 | SCENESETTER - NSC HOMELAND SECURITY ADVISOR [...] (C) Overview: We look forward to welcoming you to the United Arab Emirates February 6-7. U.S.-UAE cooperation in the security and counterterrorism fields is robust and the UAE leadership is actively seeking ways to enhance the relationship. Your visit here will be an excellent opportunity to [...] |
2005-01-18 11:17:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER PINS EFIN IZ IR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3013 | SCENESETTER - DEA ADMINISTRATOR TANDY'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Administrator Tandy: I would like to welcome you to the UAE. Your visit comes during a dynamic period in the U.S.-UAE bilateral relationship. Over the last few years, relations between the U.S. and the UAE have deepened and expanded in the economic, military, counter-terror, and nonproli [...] |
2005-07-07 14:55:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | SNAR PTER KTFN EFIN ETTC TC |
| 05ABUDHABI303 | WTO SERVICES NEGOTIATIONS: REQUEST FOR COMMENTS - [...] The UAE is an attractive place for U.S. businesses, but the legal framework here favors local over foreign investors. Post assesses that the overall level of openness for services in the UAE is medium. In some cases, we have assessed different sectors at different levels of openness. 2. [...] |
2005-01-18 12:00:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD WTO TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3043 | UAE DEMOCRATIC REFORM STRATEGY: QUARTERLY [...] (C) Summary: Since the May 16 submission of the UAE democratic reform strategy (ref A), visiting DOS and embassy officials have highlighted the need for greater public participation with President Khalifa, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, MinState Foreign Affairs Hamdan bin Zayed, [...] |
2005-07-11 06:58:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV ECON KPAO PREL XF KMPI TC MEPI |
| 05ABUDHABI305 | DISAPPOINTING FIRST DAY'S TURNOUT IN UAE'S IRAQI [...] (C) Summary: The first day of Iraqi out-of-county voting registration (OCV) ended on a low note, with only about 1,000 people showing up at registration tents in Abu Dhabi and Dubai on January 17, according to an IOM staffer in Dubai. Registration will continue through January 23, with polls o [...] |
2005-01-18 12:48:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PREL TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3050 | UAE DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON EXECUTIVE ORDER BLOCKING [...] (S) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to MFA U/S Abdullah Rashid Al Noaimi on July 5 and provided him with copies of E.O. 13382 and UNSCR 1540. At Al Noaimi's request, we will also pass a copy of the E.O. to the UAE's State Security Organization. 2. (S) On July 6, Econoff delivered ref [...] |
2005-07-11 08:42:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PARM PREL PGOV MNUC EFIN ETTC |
| 05ABUDHABI3068 | MTCR REGIME OUTREACH MISSION TO THE UAE [...] (C) Summary: Given the UAE's strategic geographic location, booming economic activity, and outstanding shipping facilities, the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) identified the UAE as a priority country for outreach. South Korea, as current MTCR Chair, led a June 7-9 mission to the UA [...] |
2005-07-12 07:19:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM KNNP MNUC ETTC TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3072 | G-4 FRAMEWORK RESOLUTION ON UN REFORM: UAE RESPONSE [...] (C) Ambassador made reftel demarche on the G-4 framework resolution on UN reform to MFA Under Secretary Abdullah Rashid al Noaimi on July 12, emphasizing that governments should continue to focus on a broad range of UN reform issues rather than pushing for quick action and a quick vote. Al No [...] |
2005-07-12 08:41:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3073 | UAE: DEAD SEA DONORS MEETING, IRAQI DEBT RELIEF [...] (U) On July 11, Econoff delivered Ref A demarche on the International Reconstruction Trust Fund Facility for Iraq to Mohammed Abdul Rahim Abduljalil, MFA Assistant Undersecretary for International Cooperation. Abduljalil reported that the UAE had not yet designated a representative to the IRFF [...] |
2005-07-12 09:21:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN IZ TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3074 | TIP ACTION UPDATE: LABOR [...] (C) Summary: The UAE Ministry of Labor has taken a number of proactive steps since June 1 in response to the TIP Mini-Action Plan (reftel) that requires the UAE to establish shelters for trafficking victims, articulate how the UAEG will extend formal protection to domestic workers and other l [...] |
2005-07-12 10:01:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PHUM ETRD PREL TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3131 | ABU DHABI EMIRATE RESTRUCTURES ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY [...] (U) President Khalifa bin Zayed signed a law on July 10, 2005 that restructures the Emirate of Abu Dhabi's environmental authority. Formerly known as the Environmental Research and Wildlife Development Agency (ERWDA), the new Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi has greatly increased enforcement auth [...] |
2005-07-17 04:40:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KSCA ECON EPET ETRD TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3144 | LABOR: SPONSORSHIP TRANSFER REGULATIONS LOOSENED [...] (SBU) Summary: The UAE Cabinet formally approved new sponsorship transfer regulations on July 12, 2005 which grant the Ministry of Labor's 2.1 million workers more freedom of movement in the labor market. The new laws allow a worker to change sponsorship after 1, 2 or 3 years of employment (d [...] |
2005-07-17 09:13:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM ETRD PREL TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3160 | NEW UAE FAMILY LAW [...] (U) ON JULY 11, THE FEDERAL CABINET APPROVED A PERSONAL STATUS LAW COVERING MARRIAGE, LEGAL COMPETENCE, GUARDIANSHIP, WILLS, INHERITANCE, AND ENDOWMENT. SIGNIFICANTLY, THE NEW DRAFT LAW GRANTS UAE WOMEN THE RIGHT TO DIVORCE THEIR HUSBANDS. CURRENTLY A WOMAN CAN SEEK DIVORCE THROUGH COURTS, BUT [...] |
2005-07-18 07:53:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM KWMN TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3161 | UAE IMAMS DENOUNCE TERROR, EXTREMISM [...] (C) Summary: In response to the July 7 terror attacks in London and the continuing violence in Iraq, the UAEG has stepped up its efforts to denounce terrorist violence. The UAEG's latest push has included a public campaign with unequivocal condemnations of extremism in government-approved Fri [...] |
2005-07-18 07:54:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL KPAO PTER TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3175 | DEFEATING THE G-4 FRAMEWORK RESOLUTION: UAE [...] No summary [...] |
2005-07-19 04:41:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3194 | UAE PROGRESS ON TIP ACTION PLAN [...] (C) Summary: With two weeks to go before the end of the 60-day TIP action plan, the UAE continues to make progress in addressing the suggested steps in the action plan (ref C). The following is a review of progress made to date on the mini-action plan, keyed to the six points provided by G/TIP. [...] |
2005-07-19 09:58:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ELAB ETRD TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3200 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: SAUDI INTELLECTUAL CONDEMNS [...] SUMMARY: SAUDI INTELLECTUAL JAMAL KHASHOGGI WROTE IN THE SEMI- OFFICIAL ARABIC DAILY "AL-ITTIHAD" THAT THE SUICIDE BOMBINGS REPRESENT THE LARGEST INTELLECTUAL AND ETHICAL CRISIS ENCOUNTERING ISLAM. HE ASSERTS THAT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MUSLIMS AND THE WEST ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE, BUT RESORTIN [...] |
2005-07-19 11:11:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3211 | DEA ADMINISTRATOR'S UAE VISIT - IT'S ALL ABOUT THE [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. Please see paragraph 11. 2. (U) Summary: In a 15-17 July visit to the UAE, DEA Administrator Karen Tandy met with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ), Interior Minister Sheikh Saif bin Zayed, and Central Bank Governor Sultan Nasser Al [...] |
2005-07-23 01:42:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PTER KTFN EFIN ETTC AF TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3220 | UAE JUDICIAL COOPERATION WITH THE EUROPEANS [...] (SBU) Summary. The UAE does not have a robust judicial cooperation relationship with the U.S. or European countries. The Ministry of Justice would like to sign bi- lateral judicial cooperation treaties with the U.S. and is holding the judicial cooperation relationship hostage in order to mak [...] |
2005-07-23 10:09:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KJAN KJUS PGOV KTFN SOCI TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3237 | SAJGAS IPO AND IRANIAN GAS [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 5. 2. (C) Dow Jones Correspondent Simeon Kerr (protect) telephoned EconChief on July 23 and July 24 to say that Crescent Petroleum and the Emirate of Sharjah planned to issue an initial public offering (IPO) in September for their SajGas proj [...] |
2005-07-25 03:22:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET BEXP ENRG ECON PREL IR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3241 | PRESIDENT KHALIFA IN ABU DHABI'S WESTERN REGION [...] (C) Summary: President Khalifa traveled to the less advantaged Western Region of Abu Dhabi Emirate July 21-23 to fulfill the traditional practice of the ruler meeting with tribal leaders, but also to inform residents about planned infrastructure upgrades. Khalifa may be using such visits arou [...] |
2005-07-25 07:27:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM EPET TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3242 | UAE CONDEMNS SHARM AL SHEIKH ATTACK [...] (C) Summary: UAE leaders have publicly condemned the July 23 attack in Egypt's Sharm Al Sheikh, and have called on religious leaders to preach tolerance and moderation. Three UAE nationals were injured in the explosions, according to press reports. As reported reftel, after the July 7 attack [...] |
2005-07-25 07:46:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL KISL KPAO TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3243 | UAE COUNTERTERRORISM EFFORTS: GOOD HARDWARE, BUT [...] (S) Summary: The UAE, keenly aware that the threat of extremist violence on its soil is real, is implementing numerous measures in hopes of preventing terrorist attacks. In the past year, the UAEG has prioritized homeland security within its national security strategy. However, the UAE lacks [...] |
2005-07-25 07:52:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PTER PINS ASEC EPET MCAP TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3244 | GENERAL ABIZAID MEETING WITH ABU DHABI CROWN PRINCE [...] (C) Summary: CENTCOM Commander General Abizaid met July 20 with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MbZ). Abizaid praised the UAEG for its steadfast determination to wage a public campaign against extremist i [...] |
2005-07-25 07:54:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP MASS PREL IZ AF PK IR SY SA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI326 | SCENESETTER FOR YOUR VISIT TO THE UAE [...] (C) I look forward to welcoming you back to the United Arab Emirates January 30-February 1. Your visit will provide a timely opportunity to discuss our common concerns about the Iranian nuclear program with the UAEG as well as to review progress on the UAEG,s export controls program. The UAE [...] |
2005-01-23 11:06:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM ETTC KNNP KOMC KSTC IZ IR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3264 | UAE DISMISSES ISLAMIST WEB SITE WARNING [...] An Islamist Web site features a statement warning the UAE to expel non-Muslims and Westerners within 10 days or risk attack. The statement, which appears to be a copy of a March 2005 statement posted on another Islamist Web site, was posted on the Al Sakifah Web site on July 19 by an unidenti [...] |
2005-07-25 11:25:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC PREL KPAO MCAP TC |
| 05ABUDHABI327 | EFFECT ON INSURANCE SECTOR OPENING LIMITED IN NEAR [...] (C) Summary: The UAE has announced that it will open its insurance sector to new foreign insurance companies. The impact of this move, meant to fulfill WTO obligations, is likely to be limited in the near term, as locally-owned companies are likely to continue to have preferential access to [...] |
2005-01-23 11:08:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3272 | SHEIKH ABDULLAH ON SYRIA, GAZA, SAUDI BORDER [...] (C) SUMMARY. On July 24, UAE Minister of Information Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al Nahyan and Ambassador discussed UAE attention to halting the flow of foreign fighters into Iraq; Abdullah's planned travel to Damascus to meet with Syrian President Bashar Al Asad; Gaza disengagement and the UAE [...] |
2005-07-26 09:56:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PTER UNSC PHUM PINR EAID SY IZ GZ SA |
| 05ABUDHABI3297 | UAE TIP ACTION PLAN UPDATE: PROSECUTIONS [...] Summary: With one week to go before the end of the 60-day TIP action plan assessment period, the UAE continues to make progress in addressing the suggested steps in the action plan (ref A). The UAEG has provided data on 19 investigations and prosecutions of persons of different nationalities [...] |
2005-07-27 10:07:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ELAB ETRD KJAN TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3299 | UAE USING OUTREACH TO THE FAITHFUL TO COMBAT [...] (C) Summary: The UAEG is capitalizing on the nation's reputation as a moderate, tolerant Muslim country to try to persuade its citizens and large expatriate community that extremist-inspired violence has no place in Islam. Through a series of carefully crafted Friday sermons, the Ministry of [...] |
2005-07-27 10:53:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL KPAO PTER TC |
| 05ABUDHABI330 | MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT BUSH'S INAUGURATION [...] SUMMARY: LOCAL AND REGIONAL MEDIA COVERED PRESIDENT BUSH'S INAUGURATION EXTENSIVELY AND EXCERPTS FROM HIS SPEECH WERE CARRIED IN ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS. AL ARABIYAH AND AL JAZEERA BROADCAST THE INAUGURATION LIVE WITH SIMULTANEOUS ARABIC TRANSLATION, ABU DHABI TV AND DUBAI TV ALSO REPORTED THE [...] |
2005-01-23 13:02:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI332 | ASD RODMAN MEETING WITH UAE INFORMATION MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: During a January 12 meeting with UAE Information Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, ASD Peter Rodman discussed Iraq,s upcoming election and its role in achieving stability. Sheikh Abdullah shared concerns about Sunni participation in the election and representation in [...] |
2005-01-23 13:13:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | AF ETRD IR IZ MAS PREL PTER TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3346 | STATUS OF UAE EXPORT CONTROLS [...] (C) Summary: The issue of export controls in the UAE has been raised in a number of contexts recently, including during the recent MTCR outreach mission to the UAE (Refs A and E) and FTA negotiations between the US and the UAE. This message reviews the status of export controls in the UAE as [...] |
2005-07-31 12:22:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | ETTC KNNP PREL PARM TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3352 | UAE PLANNED ATTENDANCE AT HLE AND UNGA [...] No summary [...] |
2005-08-01 07:10:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3391 | UAE THINK TANK PAINTS ROSY PICTURE ON TERROR [...] (C) Summary: An editorial by a quasi-governmental Abu Dhabi think tank asserting that the UAE is "an island isolated from terrorism" because of its "alert and advanced" security services appears to be part of an effort to attempt to reassure investors, tourists, and residents that the UAE rema [...] |
2005-08-03 06:57:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PINS ASEC TC |
| 05ABUDHABI34 | MEDIA REACTION: SOUTH ASIAN CATASTROPHE [...] SUMMARY: THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE ASIAN TSUNAMI, THE ELECTIONS IN IRAQ AND PALESTINE, AND SUDANESE PEACE AGREEMENT DOMINATED COVERAGE IN LOCAL ELECTRONIC AND PRINT MEDIA THIS WEEK. AN EDITORIAL IN "AL KHALEEJ" STATED THAT THE WORLD SHOULD FOCUS ON SPENDING MONEY ON HUMANITARIAN AID INSTEAD OF [...] |
2005-01-03 09:00:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3436 | UAE MAKING PROGRESS ON FTA ISSUS OVER SUMMER [...] (C) Summary: The UAEG continues to make progress on FTA issues over the summer months. The UAE Rules of Origin Committee announced a set of conditions that companies would need to comply with in order to have a good classified as "made in the UAE." According to MinFin's Saeed Al-Rukn, these [...] |
2005-08-08 06:26:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON EFIN TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3437 | REPORT OF MORE TIP PROSECUTIONS, CAMEL JOCKEY [...] Summary: UAEG progress on addressing the human trafficking problem has continued right through the August 2 60-day TIP action plan assessment period deadline (ref A). At the request of the Consul General, the Dubai Justice Department provided information on three new sex trafficking prosecuti [...] |
2005-08-08 07:25:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ETRD PHUM KJAN TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3439 | ABU DHABI OIL PRODUCTION AND SECURITY [...] (S) Summary: Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO) GM told Econchief that ADCO is currently producing 1.2 mb/d and will be able to produce 1.4 mb/d by end 2006. He expressed concern about the impact of a sea borne attack on ADCO's main export terminal, which could shut down expo [...] |
2005-08-08 07:56:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | ENRG EPET PTER TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3440 | ABU DHABI AWARE OF SHARJAH AND IRANIAN GAS [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 9. 2. (C) Summary: Abu Dhabi Executive Council member Khaldoon Al-Mubarak told Econchief that Abu Dhabi emirate leadership was aware of the planned Crescent petroleum project to pipe Iranian gas to the UAE and was trying to develop an appropr [...] |
2005-08-08 07:57:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL IR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3441 | OVERVIEW OF OIL AND GAS IN THE UAE [...] (C) Begin Summary. Oil and natural gas form the basis of the modern economy in the United Arab Emirates, which holds 8 to 9 percent of the world,s proven oil reserves and controls the world,s fifth largest natural gas reserves. Over 90 percent of the country,s established oil and natural gas [...] |
2005-08-08 07:57:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | ENRG EPET TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3475 | UAE ASSISTANCE TO THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 7. 2. (U) Summary. This cable is an initial report of some of the program aid that the UAE has provided to the Palestinians, including the $62 million Sheikh Zayed City, the planned $100 million Sheikh Khalifa City, and the $88 million in proje [...] |
2005-08-09 14:10:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN PREL KPAL TC |
| 05ABUDHABI349 | PROPOSED CHANGES TO UAE LABOR LAW [...] (U) Summary: During meetings with A/USTR William Clatanoff on January 17(reftel), Ministry of Labor officials listed points that are expected to change in the revised labor law that is expected to be issued by summer 2005. The UAEG has been working on a revision to the 1980 Labor Law for sev [...] |
2005-01-24 07:46:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ETRD TC |
| 05ABUDHABI35 | UAE APPROVES IOM OVERSEAS VOTER PROGRAM FOR IRAQIS [...] (U) The UAE and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) signed a memorandum of understanding January 2 in Abu Dhabi allowing Iraqi expatriates living in the UAE and other Gulf countries to take part in the January 30 Iraqi elections. The agreement covers all aspects of the Out-of-C [...] |
2005-01-03 09:11:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM IZ TC |
| 05ABUDHABI353 | USTR VISIT REINFORCES TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Assistant United States Trade Representative for Labor William Clatanoff met with representatives from the Ministries of Interior, Labor, and Foreign Affairs on January 17-19 to discuss a number of labor issues related to upcoming free trade negotiations. One subject Clatanoff [...] |
2005-01-24 09:07:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ETRD PHUM PREL TC |
| 05ABUDHABI354 | CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE FROM UAE PRIME MINISTER TO [...] Post has received a letter of congratulations from UAE Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Sultan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, to President Bush on the occasion of his re-election to a second term, that we are transmitting for the Department's information/action. 2. Begin Text: The Honorable Mr. George [...] |
2005-01-24 10:35:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3546 | DEVELOPMENT AID TO ABU DHABI'S WESTERN REGION [...] (C) Summary: Abu Dhabi Executive Council members told Econchief that the Emirate of Abu Dhabi's western region was relatively underdeveloped and poorly served, especially in the areas of health care and education. They were working on a plan to improve services and infrastructure in the weste [...] |
2005-08-16 09:26:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV EPET TC |
| 05ABUDHABI356 | UAE TERRORIST FINANCING AND MONEY LAUNDERING LAWS, [...] (SBU) Summary: Abdelrahim Mohammed Al Awadi, head of the Anti-Money Laundering Unit at the Central Bank (AMLSCU) presented UAE laws and regulations governing money laundering and terrorist financing to USG officials at the Terrorist Financing Subcommittee of the January 11-12 Joint Military [...] |
2005-01-24 12:52:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETTC PTER TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3565 | GULF STRATEGY TO COMBAT TERRORIST FINANCING - [...] (S/NF) Summary. Embassy supports the priorities and initiatives for the UAE as outlined in the Gulf Strategy to Combat Terrorist Financing. Establishing a Joint Terrorist Finance Coordination Committee (JTFCC) will feed into the paper's priorities of enhancing charity regulation, monitoring a [...] |
2005-08-16 15:00:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER KTFN EFIN ETTC TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3580 | ABU DHABI'S OFFSHORE PRODUCTION [...] (C) Summary: Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (ADMA/OPCO) GM Bud Fackrell (protect) told Econchief August 16 that ADMA/OPCO had taken several steps to increase oil production over the last year and had a project to bring sustainable oil production capacity to 600,000 barrels per day bp/d by [...] |
2005-08-17 12:26:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3583 | (S) S29G-04: SYRIAN USE OF UAE FIRM TO ACQUIRE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (S) On August 15, the UAE's State Security Directorate passed A/Legatt a request for further information on ref b demarche on Al-Mazroui Medical and Chemical Supplies (AMMCS). An informal translation of the document text follows. 3. [...] |
2005-08-17 13:57:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL CBW ETTC SY AE |
| 05ABUDHABI3618 | STAUNCHING THE FLOW OF SAUDI SUICIDE BOMBERS TO [...] No summary [...] |
2005-08-22 07:39:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PGOV PTER PREL GCCC TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3735 | TFUS01: UAE OFFER OF ASSISTANCE FOR HURRICANE [...] Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamdan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan called Ambassador early Saturday afternoon, September 3, to reiterate UAE President Sheikh Khalifa's message of condolence to President Bush (full text below, para 6) as well as the UAE's offer of [...] |
2005-09-03 11:14:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON EFIN AEMR KPAO CASC MARR AMGT US TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3746 | TFUS01: UAE OFFERS $100 MN IN HURRICANE KATRINA [...] Sultan Al Rumaithi, Office Director for Deputy PM/MinState Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamden Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, informed Ambassador today that the UAEG was prepared to extend $100 million dollars in assistance for Hurricane Katrina Relief. A UAEG inter-ministerial committee has been formed to [...] |
2005-09-05 07:47:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON EFIN AEMR KPAO CASC MARR AMGT US TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3767 | IRAN AND LIBYA SANCTIONS ACT (ILSA): SHARJAH/UAE [...] (C) On September 4, Ambassador stressed our opposition to investment in Iran's oil sector to MFA U/S Abdullah Rashid Al-Noaimi, using Ref a talking points. She emphasized deep USG concerns about Iranian actions and policies, including pursuit of WMD and delivery systems, support for terrorism, [...] |
2005-09-05 13:56:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC EPET ENRG PREL ECON IR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3772 | TFUS01: UAE DONATION - HURRICANE KATRINA [...] Obeid Al Marra, from UAE Ministry of Presidential Affairs, telephoned DCM to request instructions for in-kind delivery of donated materials (MREs, medical aid, bedding, generators) for Hurricane Katrina victims. 2. Al Marra stated that most probably the UAEG donation would be half cash an [...] |
2005-09-05 14:08:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON EFIN AEMR KPAO CASC MARR AMGT US TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3801 | DEMARCHE ON ISOLATING SYRIA AT UNGA [...] (S) In a September 4 call on Abdullah Rashid Al Noaimi, U/S for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador delivered ref A demarche and argued that Syria must be isolated at the UNGA Summit in order to send a strong message that Syria will be held accountable for its abysmal record on support for terrorist a [...] |
2005-09-06 14:39:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER SY TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3802 | UAE VIEWS ON CAIRO FOREIGN MINISTERS' MEETING [...] (S) Summary: On September 4, the Ambassador delivered ref A demarche on the upcoming Cairo Arab League Foreign Ministers meeting during a call on Abdullah Rashid Al Noaimi, U/S for Foreign Affairs. Ambassador reinforced USG views on terrorism, Israel-Palestine, Syria-Lebanon and Iraq. Al Noa [...] |
2005-09-06 15:15:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3804 | UAE NOTES COOPERATION ON COMBATING WMD [...] (C) Ambassador discussed the importance of FIU-FIU cooperation to combat WMD proliferation with MFA U/S Abdullah Rashid on Sunday September 4 and provided him with a copy of Executive Order 13382. Abdullah Rashid reaffirmed the UAE's commitment to working with the United States on combating th [...] |
2005-09-07 06:53:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PARM PREL MNUC TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3808 | UAE: DEVELOPMENT ISSUES AT UN HLE [...] In September 4 call on Abdullah Rashid Al Noaimi, U/S for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador enumerated several concerns about the outcome paper on development issues which will be discussed at the upcoming UN high level event (HLE), and left reftel non-paper detailing these concerns. Ambassador not [...] |
2005-09-07 09:06:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECIN PREL UNGA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3829 | MEDIA REACTION:UAE DENIAL, WITHDRAWAL FROM GAZA, KATRINA [...] SUMMARY: UAE PRESIDENT'S ORDERS TO SEND URGENT RELIEF TO THE VICTIMS OF KATRINA AND UAE'S OFFICIAL DENIAL OF REPORTS IN THE ISRAELI PRESS REGARDING THE OPENING OF A REPRESENTATIONAL OFFICE IN DUBAI RECEIVED PROMINENT COVERAGE IN THE UAE'S PRINT AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA. "AL-ITTIHAD" DAILY URGED [...] |
2005-09-07 15:40:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3851 | WHAT'S BEHIND THE UAE-SAUDI BORDER DISPUTE [...] This is an Action Request. Please see para. 15 2. (C) Summary: In response to the rising volume of private and public sniping between the UAE and Saudi Arabian governments over the status and meaning of their 1974 Agreement on the Delimitation of Boundaries (refs), Embassies Abu Dhabi and [...] |
2005-09-10 15:17:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PBTS EPET PGOV ETRD SA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3877 | UAE LABOR: EXPANDING EXPAT WORKER RIGHTS TARGETS [...] (C) Summary: The UAE Ministry of Labor has been proactive in changing many of the most restrictive laws and regulations governing the expatriate labor market over the past two months, Labor Minister Dr. Al Ka'abi told Ambassador September 10. These changes -- including changing the sponsors [...] |
2005-09-12 12:05:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PREL ETRD KDEM PINR PHUM TC |
| 05ABUDHABI388 | LOW REGISTRATION TURNOUT FOR IRAQI OCV PROGRAM [...] (C) Summary: While participant turnout significantly improved after the first disappointing day of Iraqi out-of-county voting (OCV) registration (ref. A), IOM officials are still questioning why so few UAE-based Iraqis are taking the opportunity to vote in the January 28-30 elections. Registr [...] |
2005-01-26 13:03:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PREL TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3883 | UAE 9/11 COMMEMORATION: "WE MUST ALL STAND UNITED" [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Abu Dhabi held a ceremony commemorating the fourth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and honoring the memory of those from eighty-two countries who lost their lives on September 11. UAE senior officials from the Presidency, and Ministries of Justice and Islamic Affairs, [...] |
2005-09-12 12:49:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO OEXC SCUL PTER XF TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3884 | MEETING WITH UAE ENERGY MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: On September 11, Ambassador met with UAE Energy Minister Al-Hamili to thank him for UAE and OPEC support after Hurricane Katrina (including a $100 million UAE donation to relief efforts) and brief him on U.S. and international efforts to respond to the crisis. Al-Hamili said that [...] |
2005-09-12 13:06:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET ENRG ETRD ELAB IR MU TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3888 | COMMENTS ON HUMAN APPEAL INTERNTIONAL NONPAPER [...] (S) Summary. Embassy thanks Department for forwarding Treasury's draft nonpaper on Human Appeal International (HAI), which is intended for OFAC Director Bob Werner's use during his 9/16-20 visit to the UAE (ref A). Embassy strongly recommends against passing the paper as currently drafted to [...] |
2005-09-12 15:05:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PTER KTFN EFIN TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3905 | ONE MAN'S NEGATIVE REACTION TO UAE FRIDAY SERMONS [...] (C) Summary: While the UAEG program of prepared Friday sermons is undoubtedly a strong step towards fighting radicalism and thus terrorism, there is an element of UAE society that is rankled by what it sees as heavy-handed government interference, and which attributes this interference to U.S. [...] |
2005-09-14 08:34:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3925 | TROUBLED UAE TEXTILES AND APPAREL SECTOR PINNING [...] SUMMARY: The UAE textile industry is slowing down due to increased international competition sparked by the elimination of the worldwide textile quotas. The Ministry of Economy and Planning and senior officials from five textile factories in the Jebel Ali Free Zone (AlPine Creation, Fine Texti [...] |
2005-09-14 13:52:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | KTEX ECON ETRD TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3927 | MEDIA REACTION: 9/11/ CONTRIBUTION TO KATRINA VICTIMS [...] SUMMARY: ALL ARABIC AND ENGLISH-LANGUAGE DAILIES COVERED MISSION'S COMMEMORATION OF THE FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11 TERRORIST ATTACKS THAT WAS ATTENDED BY THE RELIGIOUS ADVISOR OF THE PRESIDENT, SENIOR UAE OFFICIALS AND CHIEFS OF MISSIONS ACCREDITED IN THE UAE. A SEPARATE PRESS RELEASE THANKIN [...] |
2005-09-14 15:33:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI3954 | ENGAGEMENT OF UAEG ON IRAQ-UNGA THEMES AND [...] (C) Summary: During call on MFA Assistant Under Secretary Tariq Ahmed Al Haidan on September 13, DCM engaged the Assistant U/S on a range of issues including Hurricane Katrina, Avian Flu, and Iraq themes at UNGA. DCM thanked UAEG for its generosity following Hurricane Katrina. He encouraged [...] |
2005-09-18 11:49:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV KPAL KDEM UNGA AEMR EAID TC IZ |
| 05ABUDHABI3966 | ABU DHABI CIVIL AVIATION: RAISING THE PROFILE [...] (C) Summary: Abu Dhabi is raising its profile in the civil aviation arena, building a new government-sponsored airline and renovating the airport to accommodate significant growth, as it begins investing money to raise Abu Dhabi's international profile. Although Abu Dhabi is the capital cit [...] |
2005-09-19 12:51:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ETRD PREL PINR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4025 | MINSTATE FOREIGN AFFAIRS HAMDAN ON IRAQ, SAUDI [...] (U) Summary. Ambassador called on Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed al Nahyan (HbZ) September 19 to thank the UAE for its $100 million in Hurricane Katrina assistance and to discuss Iraq, the UAE-Saudi border, UAE assistance to the Palestinians, and possible addi [...] |
2005-09-22 15:51:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID SA JO TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4045 | MBZ ON IRAQ, EXTREMISM, PALESTINIANS, SAUDIS [...] (C) Summary: Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ) told Ambassador and a visiting delegation led by retired U.S. four-star generals over dinner September 20 that he expected the Iraqi people would approve a new Constitution on October 15. MbZ reiterated his support for former [...] |
2005-09-25 10:06:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER IZ IR SA SY PK TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4048 | WOMEN'S STOCK MARKET TIPS EVENT DRAWS A [...] SUMMARY: EMBASSY ABU DHABI AND MEPI REGIONAL OFFICE HOSTED A WOMEN'S EVENT FEATURING A PROMINENT LOCAL SPEAKER GIVING STOCK MARKET TIPS IN ARABIC. THE EVENT, HOSTED AT THE AMBASSADOR'S RESIDENCE, DREW A WIDE VARIETY OF UAE PROFESSIONAL WOMEN, ALL OF WHOM ASKED DETAILED AND INFORMED QUESTIONS O [...] |
2005-09-25 14:20:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM MEPI ECON TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4049 | UAE DEMARCHE: CUTTING OFF CONVENTIONAL ARMS TRADE [...] (U) This message contains an action request at the end of para 2. 2. (S) Summary: Reminding MFA U/S Abdullah Rashid Al Noaimi of the UAE's commitment to working with the United States on shutting down proliferators and targeting their assets (refs A and B), Ambassador highlighted the need t [...] |
2005-09-26 08:17:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PARM MNUC KNNP IR CH KN TC |
| 05ABUDHABI406 | INAUGURAL U.S.-UNITED ARAB EMIRATES JOINT MILITARY [...] (S) Summary: Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Peter W. Rodman and newly appointed and promoted UAE Armed Forces Chief of Staff Lt. General Hamad Mohammed Thani Al Rumaithy co-chaired the inaugural U.S.-UAE Joint Military Commission in Abu Dhabi January 11-12. [...] |
2005-01-29 12:30:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL MASS PTER IZ IR AF TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4074 | MFA U/S ON IRAQ; WELCOMES IRAQ COORDINATOR'S VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with MFA U/S Abdullah Rashid Al Noaimi September 24 to preview Iraq Coordinator Ambassador Jeffrey's October 8 visit to the UAE. She had earlier previewed the goals of the Jeffrey visit with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed and MinState for Foreign Affair [...] |
2005-09-26 12:20:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ SA IR SY TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4086 | MEDIA REACTION: RELEASE OF BRITISH SOLDIERS/ TWO [...] SUMMARY: A UAE DAILY CLAIMED THAT THE TWO BRITISH SOLDIERS DETAINED IN BASRA AND LATER FREED FROM POLICE DETENTION WERE MOSSAD AGENTS. ANOTHER DAILY WELCOMED THE LAUNCH OF TWO UAE DAILY TABLOIDS IN ENGLISH AND ARABIC URGING THEM TO REFLECT THE HOPES AND ASPIRATIONS OF THE STREET. A UAE ACAD [...] |
2005-09-26 14:29:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4102 | SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR JEFFREY AND TEAM'S [...] (C) Summary: The United Arab Emirates has been a key Arab partner and has supported our objectives in Iraq, condemned terror attacks, allowed Coalition forces access to UAE air force bases and ports, and hosted German training for the Iraqi military and police. UAE aid to Iraq, both pledged an [...] |
2005-09-28 08:48:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PGOV MASS EFIN IZ IR SY TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4103 | OFAC DISCUSSES WMD, TERFIN WITH UAEG, BANKS [...] No summary [...] |
2005-09-28 08:53:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | KTFN PTER EFIN SNAR PK KN IR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4104 | UAE ANNOUNCES NEAR TERM OIL PRODUCTION CAPACITY [...] (C) Summary: On September 25, UAE Minister of Energy Al-Hamili announced that the UAE would raise its oil production by 200 kb/d by March 2006, which tracks with what we have been told privately by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) officials. The same day, Exxon Al-Khaleej President Fran [...] |
2005-09-28 12:09:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET ENRG TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4105 | UAE DESIRES MECHANISM TO REVIEW ASSET FREEZES [...] (C) Summary. During his September 17-19 visit to the UAE, Bob Werner, Director of the Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), met with Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed, General Manager of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), to discuss concerns the UAE has raised during [...] |
2005-09-28 12:09:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN EFIN PTER ETRD ECON TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4111 | ENCOURAGING A NATIONAL SEISMIC NETWORK FOR UAE [...] (U) Two Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) seismologists, Dr. Keith Nakanishi and Dr. Arthur Rodgers, visited the UAE on September 13 and 14 in coordination with a planning meeting for the 2006 Gulf Seismic Forum that will be hosted in Oman. The two seismologists have been working wi [...] |
2005-09-30 13:10:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KSCA ECON EPET ETRD TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4113 | UAE REFORM STRATEGY: SECOND QUARTERLY UPDATE [...] No summary [...] |
2005-09-30 13:34:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL PGOV KPAO KMPI TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4134 | MEDIA REACTION: KAREN HUGHES'S MIDDLE EAST VISIT [...] SUMMARY: AN EDITORIAL IN THE POPULAR UAE DAILY "AL-KHALEEJ" 9/27 NOTED THAT UNLESS THE U.S. CHANGES ITS POLICY TOWARDS THE ARABS AND BECOMES A FAIR AND JUST PLAYER IN THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT, NEITHER KAREN HUGHES NOR ANY OTHER AMERICAN ENVOY WILL SUCCEED IN IMPROVING THE U.S. IMAGE IN THE AR [...] |
2005-10-01 06:46:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4175 | UAE LABOR: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMATION [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Labor laws and practices in the United Arab Emirates are in a state of flux; the young Minister of Labor, Dr. Ali Al Ka'abi, is a technocrat appointed in the November 2004 Cabinet reshuffle for his energetic plans for reform rather than for family connections. In the [...] |
2005-10-03 14:24:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PREL ETRD KDEM PINR PHUM TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4200 | MINSTATE FOREIGN AFFAIRS MEETS AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD [...] (C) Summary: U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad visited Abu Dhabi October 4 to urge Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed (HbZ) and the UAE to support the Iraqi political process. HbZ agreed that the UAEG would encourage Dubai-based Iraqi Su [...] |
2005-10-04 11:13:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR IZ QA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4225 | UAEG PREPARES FOR AVIAN INFLUENZA [...] (U) Summary: Recently, the UAEG established a task force to devise a contingency plan to block avian influenza from entering the country. As such, the Agriculture and Fisheries Ministry has imposed a ban on the import of live birds and their products from countries where cases of the diseas [...] |
2005-10-05 13:04:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KSCA EAGR ECON PREL SOCI WHO FAO OIE |
| 05ABUDHABI4227 | SUBJECT: UAE PROMISES CONTINUED COOPERATION ON [...] (S) Summary: On October 1-2, 2005, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Robert Joseph, National Security Director for Counterproliferation Strategy David Stephens, and T Senior Advisor Patricia McNerney met with UAE officials to discuss the issue of Iran,s nuclear progr [...] |
2005-10-05 13:11:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC KNNP PARM IR PK TC SY NK |
| 05ABUDHABI4232 | FOLLOW-UP ON ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: Two Department of Commerce officials from the Office of Anti Boycott Compliance visited the UAE on September 28. They had productive meetings with three U.S. businesses and with the Director of the Ministry of Economy's trade control department. Subsequently [...] |
2005-10-05 14:03:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KBCT KMPI ETRD ECON TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4239 | MEDIA REACTION: NONPROLIFERATION/DEMOCRACY IN THE [...] SUMMARY: A UAE COLUMNIST WONDERS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF ARABS SUCCEED IN ACQUIRING NUCLEAR WEAPONS. HE NOTES THAT ARAB CAPITALS WOULD HAVE BEEN DESTROYED BY OTHER ARABS IF THEY HAD POSSESSED NUCLEAR WEAPONS. HE CONCLUDES THAT IT IS THE WISDOM OF GOD THAT PLACED NUCLEAR WEAPONS OUT OF THE REAC [...] |
2005-10-09 07:45:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4261 | MINSTATE FOREIGN AFFAIRS HOSTING PROMINENT IRAQIS [...] (C) Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed (HbZ) is making good on his October 2 promise to U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Khalilzad to urge prominent Iraqi Sunni Arabs to engage positively on the draft constitution. The former leader of the Sunni Waqf (E [...] |
2005-10-10 13:06:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM IZ TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4262 | UAE MINISTER LAYS FOUNDATION STONE FOR KHALIFA BIN [...] On October 8, the UAE Minister of Information and Culture, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, laid the foundation stone of the $100 million residential area in Gaza, Khalifa bin Zayed City, funded by the UAE and which will house 25,000 persons in 3,500 apartments in Rafah city. 2. KHALIFA [...] |
2005-10-10 14:49:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID KPAL KWBG GZ TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4283 | UAE RESPONSE TO PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE SIGNIFICANT [...] (U) Summary: With Pakistanis being the second largest ethnic group in the UAE, the impact from, and the response to, the earthquake disaster in Pakistan has been both immediate and significant. President Khalifa approved the disbursement of USD 100 million to Pakistan to provide immediate rel [...] |
2005-10-11 14:07:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL EAID PK TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4284 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI CONSTITUTION/ARAB LEAGUE [...] SUMMARY: UAE'S SEMI-OFFICIAL DAILY "AL-ITTIHAD" REPORTED THAT IRAQI SUNNIS ARE OPPOSED TO THE NEWLY-DRAFTED CONSTITUTION AND INTEND TO VOTE NO TO THE REFERENDUM ON OCTOBER 15. EDITORIALS WELCOME THE ARAB LEAGUE DELEGATION'S UPCOMING VISIT TO BAGHDAD, DESCRIBING IT AS AN OVERDUE VISIT THAT REP [...] |
2005-10-11 14:12:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4305 | IRAQ'S CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM -- VIEWS FROM UAE [...] (C) Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed (HbZ) confirmed to Charge October 11 that he had positive meetings with Iraqi parliament speaker Hajim al-Hassani, Sunni Waqf (Endowment) leader Ahmed al-Ghaffour al-Samarrai, and former Sunni Waqf lead [...] |
2005-10-12 14:31:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4306 | SHEIKH HAMDAN DISTURBED BY LACK OF FTA PROGRESS IN [...] (C) Summary: On October 11, UAE Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed told Charge and Econ Counselor that he was disturbed by the performance of both sides during the high level FTA talks in London on October 7. He stressed that FTA negotiations w [...] |
2005-10-12 15:33:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PREL TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4308 | MBZ MEETING WITH SENIOR ADVISOR ON IRAQ JEFFREY [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ) October 8, Senior Adviser on Iraq Ambassador Jeffrey and an interagency team received a pledge of further UAEG assistance in reaching out to Sunni Arab Iraqis and other moderates to encourage them to play a p [...] |
2005-10-15 07:34:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER EFIN IZ IR SY SA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI446 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI ELECTIONS [...] SUMMARY: ALL PAPERS CARRIED FRONT PAGE PHOTOS OF IRAQIS VOTING AND HEADLINES SUCH AS "IRAQIS WIN DEMOCRACY," IRAQIS DEFY TERROR TO CAST VOTES," IRAQIS EMERGE FROM THE TUNNEL WITH 60% PARTICIPATION," AND "IRAQIS VOTE IN BIG NUMBERS AND THE OCCUPATION RULES OUT A REQUEST TO WITHDRAW." EDITORIA [...] |
2005-01-31 11:49:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI447 | IRAQI OCV PROGRAM RUNS SMOOTHLY IN THE UAE [...] Summary: Counting ballots cast by UAE-based Iraqis who participated in elections began Monday in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. International Organization for Migration (IOM) officials estimate it will take two to three days for 36 staff members to tally votes and publish unofficial results. Poll offic [...] |
2005-01-31 14:04:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ KDEM PREL TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4537 | MEDIA REACTION:CRITICISM OF AMR MOUSA [...] SUMMARY: A UAE COLUMNIST DIRECTED STRONG AND UNPRECEDENTED CRITICISM TO ARAB LEAGUE SECRETARY GENERAL AMR MOUSA, BLAMING HIM FOR DISREGARDING A PROPOSAL MADE BY THE LATE SHEIKH ZAYED, THUS PAVING THE WAY FOR THE AMERICAN OCCUPATION OF IRAQ. THE COLUMNIST URGES MOUSA TO PUBLICLY APOLOGIZE FOR [...] |
2005-11-01 14:32:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4540 | AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD MEETS ABU DHABI, DUBAI [...] (S) Summary: During an October 18-20 visit to the UAE, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad met leaders of Abu Dhabi and Dubai emirates, as well as former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. Ambassador Khalilzad reviewed the just-held constitutional referendum and the approaching December 1 [...] |
2005-11-07 03:19:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PGOV IR SY IZ AE |
| 05ABUDHABI4541 | UAE CENTRAL BANK RAISES INDEMNIFICATION -- AGAIN [...] (U) This is an action request, please see para 5. 2. (S/NF) OFAC analyst Andreas Morgner and IRS Special Agent Raymond Orzel met with UAE Central Bank and Ministry of Interior (MoI) officials on October 30th to discuss the UAE connections of international arms trafficker Victor Bout. Morgne [...] |
2005-11-07 06:52:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM KNNO KTFN ETTC AE |
| 05ABUDHABI4546 | SCENESETTER - VISIT OF ENERGY SECRETARY BODMAN TO [...] (C) We look forward to Secretary Bodman and team's November 11 to 13 visit to the UAE. The UAE is both a key regional security partner and a major oil producer. It holds 8 to 9 percent of the world's proven oil reserves and is the world's fifth largest natural gas reserves. The individual e [...] |
2005-11-07 12:04:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | EPET ENRG ETRD AE |
| 05ABUDHABI4548 | SYRIAN DEPUTY FM MOALLEM VISIT TO UAE [...] (C) Summary: Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Walid Moallem visited Abu Dhabi October 31 for meetings with President Khalifa and Information Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Sheikh Abdullah told Ambassador that Moallem "had nothing new to offer" and that he had declined the invitation to [...] |
2005-11-07 14:37:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY AE |
| 05ABUDHABI4573 | UAE FTA CO-CHAIRS ON UPCOMING FTA ROUND [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 8. 2. (C) Summary: On November 8, UAE FTA Co-Chairs MinEcon Sheikha Lubna and Minstate Finance Dr. Khirbash told Ambassador (in separate conversations) that the Emirati side is committed to an FTA with the U.S. and that they were working to ma [...] |
2005-11-08 14:15:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON EFIN AE |
| 05ABUDHABI4579 | STATUS OF ABU DHABI GENERATOR DONATION TO IRAQ [...] (SBU) Summary. As part of the its promised assistance to Iraq, the UAE intends to donate 2 ABB 200 megawatt/day power stations to Iraq. Although the UAE pledged to send the generators over a year ago, they have not yet been sent. The UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs indicated last y [...] |
2005-11-09 06:41:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN IZ AE |
| 05ABUDHABI4592 | ASSESSMENT OF CASH COURIER ENVIRONMENT IN THE UAE [...] (S) Summary. The UAE is a largely cash-based society, and the importation of large sums of cash is not frowned upon. In fact, the UAE tends to regard Westerners bringing in large sums of cash as good for the country's economy, and we note that it is common for people here to carry large amount [...] |
2005-11-09 13:34:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PTER KTFN EFIN ETTC AE |
| 05ABUDHABI4629 | DEMARCHE: URGING ISOLATION OF SARG IN WAKE OF [...] (S) Summary: On November 15, Ambassador discussed isolation of Syria with Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed(AbZ), Minister of Information and ruling family point-man on UAE-Syria relations. On November 9 Ambassador also delivered reftel demarche(ref A) to MFA U/S Abdullah Rashid al Noaimi. Ambassador [...] |
2005-11-16 10:28:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PGOV SY TC |
| 05ABUDHABI468 | UAE CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR DISCUSSES CT FINANCE, FTA [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador met with Central Bank Governor Sultan Nasser Al Suwaidi to discuss counterterror finance cooperation on January 29. Governor Al Suwaidi focused on regional CT finance engagement and on expected Free Trade Agreement discussions with the banking sector. End summary. [...] |
2005-02-01 11:15:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETRD IZ PTER TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4691 | MEDIA REACTION:SEC ENERGY BODMAN [...] SUMMARY: THERE WAS GOOD AND UNIFORMLY POSITIVE MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE VISIT TO THE UAE BY SECRETARY OF ENERGY SAMUEL BODMAN. ARABIC AND ENGLISH DAILIES PROMINENTLY REPORTED EXCERPTS OF REMARKS MADE BY THE SECRETARY DURING A PA-ARRANGED PRESS CONFERENCE AND HIS MEETINGS WITH UAE PRESIDENT AND [...] |
2005-11-16 15:08:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4696 | UAEG RECOMMENDATIONS FOR AFGHANISTAN [...] (S) Summary: On November 9, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Ronald Neumann, visited Abu Dhabi and met with Minister of Information Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al Nahyan (AbZ) and MFA U/S Abdullah Rashid al Noaimi. He inquired about GCC states, views and UAEG's recommendations on Afghanistan. [...] |
2005-11-19 12:50:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PGOV AF KU QA SA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI470 | UAE ATTENDANCE AT SAUDI COUNTERTERRORISM CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] |
2005-02-01 12:50:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER SA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI471 | UAE SUPPORT FOR IRAQI ELECTIONS [...] (U) Summary: The UAE leadership,s public and private comments on the Iraqi elections were overwhelmingly positive. President Khalifa,s 1/31 telephone call to the Iraqi President was widely publicized, while the UAE Ministers of Defense, Information, and Interior praised the higher-than-expect [...] |
2005-02-01 13:25:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KDEM PGOV PREL TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4713 | UAEG BOOSTS PLEDGE FOR PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE RELIEF [...] During the November 19 Pakistan Earthquake Relief Donors' Conference in Islamabad, the UAE announced an increase in its aid pledge to Pakistan from $100 million to $200 million. 2. UAE Minister for Labor and Social Affairs, Dr. Ali Al-Kaabi announced that the UAE is committed to "channel" [...] |
2005-11-20 14:51:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PHUM SENV AE |
| 05ABUDHABI4715 | UAE LEADERS DISCUSS REGIONAL SECURITY AHEAD OF [...] (U) Summary: The 9th Dubai Air Show got under way November 20 with the UAE leadership underscoring the UAEG's role in defusing regional tension by promoting dialogue and condemning terrorism, and at the same time stressing the importance of modernizing the military to safeguard the UAE's natio [...] |
2005-11-21 06:45:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MCAP IZ AE |
| 05ABUDHABI4720 | UAE REQUESTS DESIGNATION OF UAE ETIHAD AIRWAYS [...] The Embassy received via diplomatic note a letter to the Secretary of Transportation entitled "Designation of UAE SIPDIS Airlines- Etihad Airways." 2. Begin text: Dear Sir, We wish to intimate that the UAE national airline, 'Etihad Airways' is hereby designated in accordance with Ar [...] |
2005-11-21 09:29:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON AE |
| 05ABUDHABI4735 | BOEING WINS BIG AT DUBAI AIR SHOW [...] (U) On November 20, during the 9th Annual Dubai Air Show, the Dubai-based Emirates Airline awarded Boeing a $9.7 billion order to buy 42 B-777s with an option to purchase 20 more. With this newest order, the Emirates fleet will increase to more than 200 making it the largest carrier in the Ar [...] |
2005-11-21 13:03:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4737 | TIP: INTERIM ASSESMENT FOR NEA SPECIAL [...] (U) Summary: Since being placed on the Tier 2 Special Watch List, the UAEG has made steady progress in addressing the problem of trafficking, especially with regard to women in the sex trade and children in the camel racing industry. The answers in paragraphs 2-5 below are keyed to the four qu [...] |
2005-11-21 13:14:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ELAB KCRM KWMN SMIG AE |
| 05ABUDHABI4741 | ENERGY SECRETARY BODMAN'S VISIT TO THE UAE [...] (C) Summary: UAEG and Abu Dhabi government interlocutors told Secretary Bodman during his November 11-13 visit that the UAE is committed to expanding crude oil production (including condensates) to 4 mb/d over the next seven to ten years, with 200,000 b/d coming on line in early 2006. The UAE [...] |
2005-11-21 14:19:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ETRD PK AF SA IR IZ |
| 05ABUDHABI4742 | UAE -- DAS CARPENTER CALL AT MFA [...] (C) Summary: November 14, DAS Scott Carpenter met with MFA U/S Abdullah Rashid al Noaimi to seek UAEG views on Iran and Syria. Al Noaimi characterized Iran as a dangerous, destabilizing force in the region that needs to be treated firmly but carefully. He recommended that the USG "depersona [...] |
2005-11-22 07:08:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR SY AE |
| 05ABUDHABI4768 | USG AND UAEG HOST "ADVANCED FINANCIAL CRIMES" [...] (U) The Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training of the United States Department of Justice (OPDAT), the Central Bank of the UAE and the Middle East and North African Financial Action Task Force (MENA/FATF) held a conference in Abu Dhabi, UAE from November 19-21. [...] |
2005-11-22 13:59:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | TFIN PREL TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4815 | AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD VISITS ABU DHABI [...] (C) Summary: On November 23, Ambassador Khalilzad met with Deputy Prime Minister/MinState for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed (HbZ). They discussed the role Dubai-based Iraqi cleric Ahmed Al Kubaysi might play in encouraging greater Sunni Arab participation in Iraq's political process [...] |
2005-11-27 09:07:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PINR PTER IR IZ SA AE |
| 05ABUDHABI4826 | LETTER FROM U/S JOSEPH TO CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR AL [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (C) On November 26, Ambassador met with Central Bank Governor Sultan Nasser Al-Suwaidi to pass him the text of U/S Joseph's letter on the legal basis for U.S. actions against the financiers of proliferation. Ambassador had previously ta [...] |
2005-11-27 14:05:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PREL AE |
| 05ABUDHABI4828 | PROPOSAL FOR A U.S.-UAE JOINT TERRORIST FINANCE [...] (S) On November 26, Ambassador and Econchief met with Central Bank Governor Sultan Nasser Al-Suwaidi and the head of the Central Bank's Anti-Money Laundering and Suspicious Cases Unit, Abdulrahim Al-Awadi, to discuss reftel proposal for the establishment of a Joint Terrorist Finance Coordinati [...] |
2005-11-27 14:29:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | KTFN PTER EFIN AE |
| 05ABUDHABI4880 | PREPARING FOR THE DECEMBER 4-5 KABUL CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) On November 26, Econchief briefed MFA A/US for International Cooperation Mohammed Abduljaleel about the Kabul Conference. Abduljaleel suggested that Econchief also brief MFA A/US for Political Affairs Tariq Al-Haidan as the person responsible for the conference. On November 28, Econch [...] |
2005-11-29 14:21:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KPWR PREL ECON PGOV AF AE |
| 05ABUDHABI4881 | UAEG BACKS AWAY FROM THREAT TO IMPOSE HORMONE [...] (U) As widely reported in the local and international media, on November 23 the Abu Dhabi Police arrested 26 allegedly gay men who had gathered at an Abu Dhabi hotel for a party. The men were arrested on a tip by UAE nationals to police, according to the press. For several days the local med [...] |
2005-11-29 15:40:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KISL AE |
| 05ABUDHABI4901 | MDA AND PRCS AGREE ON MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING [...] No summary [...] |
2005-11-30 14:46:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PHUM PREF PREL ICRS AE |
| 05ABUDHABI4902 | UAEG'S PREPARATIONS FOR AVIAN INFLUENZA [...] (U) In response to the questions posed Reftel A regarding the UAEG's efforts to protect against avian influenza (AI) and its capability to respond to a pandemic, the following information is provided. ------------ Preparedness ------------ 2. (U) The UAEG has formed a National Avian Inf [...] |
2005-11-30 14:46:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4903 | CAMEL JOCKEY REPATRIATIONS RECOMMENCE [...] (U) On November 24, the UAEG recommenced repatriations of camel jockeys to their countries of origin, sending 64 boys back to Pakistan. Repatriations were temporarily suspended in October due to the earthquake in Pakistan and the subsequent social upheaval (ref A). The repatriation of this l [...] |
2005-11-30 14:47:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ELAB AE |
| 05ABUDHABI4904 | CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR ON INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION [...] (U) In an interview published November 30 in the English language "Khaleej Times," Central Bank Governor Sultan Nasser Al Suwaidi discussed the UAE Central Bank's cooperation with foreign law enforcement agencies and financial intelligence units in other countries. Al-Suwaidi said that, to dat [...] |
2005-11-30 14:47:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN PTER EFIN TC |
| 05ABUDHABI4905 | UAE ANNOUNCES INDIRECT ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan announced December 1 that indirect elections will be held for half of the Federal National Council (FNC), with the other half being appointed. This move had been anticipated, and in fact promised by UAE Deputy Prime Minister and Mi [...] |
2005-12-02 14:19:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL KPAL PTER IZ AE |
| 05ABUDHABI4919 | UAE: LIMITED POLLS A PRELUDE TO DIRECT ELECTIONS [...] (U) Summary: The UAE's Supreme Ruling Council on December 3 endorsed President Sheikh Khalifa's reform initiative that includes a plan for indirect elections of half of the Federal National Council (FNC), with the other half being appointed. President Khalifa also announced that the decision to [...] |
2005-12-05 17:34:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL PTER AE |
| 05ABUDHABI4946 | ABU DHABI CROWN PRINCE PUBLICLY DENOUNCES TERROR [...] (C) Summary: Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ) used a speech at the inauguration of the Abu Dhabi National Consultative Council December 6 to publicly denounce terrorists as disloyal towards their fellow citizens. MbZ's strongly worded message follows his equally powerful [...] |
2005-12-07 12:26:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KISL PREL KPAO AE |
| 05ABUDHABI4951 | 26 ALLEGEDLY GAY MEN IN DETENTION AWAITING TRIAL [...] (SBU) THE 26 ALLEGEDLY GAY MEN ARRESTED BY ABU DHABI POLICE DURING A PARTY ON NOVEMBER 23 REMAIN IN POLICE CUSTODY AWAITING TRIAL, ACCORDING TO AN ABU DHABI POLICE CAPTAIN WORKING IN THE INVESTIGATIONS DEPARTMENT. THE MEN WILL BE CHARGED WITH "OFFENSES AGAINST RULES OF DECENCY," THE POLICE CA [...] |
2005-12-07 14:37:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM AE |
| 05ABUDHABI4952 | IRAQ INTERIOR MINISTER PLEASED WITH UAE LAW [...] (U) Iraq's Interior Minister Bayan Jabr Al Zubeidi was in Abu Dhabi December 6 to thank the UAEG for supporting the development of Iraq's security apparatus. During his visit, Al Zubeidi met with his UAE counterpart, Interior Minister Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and toured Abu Dhabi Polic [...] |
2005-12-07 14:44:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC IZ AE |
| 05ABUDHABI4953 | AMBASSADOR TAHIR-KHELI MEETINGS ON UN REFORM IN UAE [...] (C) Summary: Senior Advisor to the Secretary on UN Reform Ambassador Tahir-Kheli visited the UAE December 4-5 for separate meetings on proposed UN reforms with Information Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, and with MFA U/S Abdullah Rashid Al Noaimi and MFA International Organizations Director [...] |
2005-12-07 15:13:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN AE |
| 05ABUDHABI4979 | RIGHTS ACTIVIST ALLEGES CAMEL JOCKEYS TRAIN AT [...] (C) Summary: Pakistani human rights activist Ansar Burney alleges that underage camel jockeys continue to train after dark in several camel racetracks in at least three of the country's seven emirates. Burney, who plans to be in Washington to meet with G/TIP later this month, told us that he [...] |
2005-12-12 04:59:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ELAB PREL PK AE |
| 05ABUDHABI4982 | CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR REACTION TO PROPOSED [...] (U) Please see para 5 for an action request. 2. (S) On December 10th, Ambassador and econoff met with the UAE Central Bank Governor, Sultan Nasser al-Suwaidi, to discuss the proposed U.S.-UAE Joint Terrorist Finance Coordinating Committee (JTFCC). This meeting was a follow-up to the Novemb [...] |
2005-12-12 05:03:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | KTFN PTER EFIN AE |
| 05ABUDHABI4983 | UAE: 2005 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] (U) This is the UAE Mission's unclassified submission for the 2005 Country Reports on Terrorism. We will transmit to the Department a classified addendum septel. The information in this report is divided into the four broad categories suggested in the provided style guide, and the septel add [...] |
2005-12-12 05:27:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC AE |
| 05ABUDHABI5021 | UAE: 2005 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM - ADDENDUM [...] (U) This is the UAE Mission's classified addendum to the 2005 Annual Terrorism Report transmitted to the Department on December 12 (ref A). Subject headings are keyed to the headings in the unclassified report, and information contained in each paragraph is strictly supplemental to the corres [...] |
2005-12-13 11:41:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER ASEC AE |
| 05ABUDHABI5025 | CHARGE CALL ON HBZ: HURRICANE KATRINA, IRAN NUKE [...] (C) Summary. In call today by CDA to present House of Representatives resolution on Hurricane Katrina foreign donors, UAEG Deputy PM/Min State Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed raised concern over Haaretz report that Iran could be three months away from acquiring a nuclear weapon. See [...] |
2005-12-13 15:18:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR PTER PREL PHUM PNUC ASEC KNNP LE AF IR |
| 05ABUDHABI5038 | ABU DHABI READYING FOR GCC SUMMIT, DEC. 18-19 [...] (C) On December 14, Embassy delivered the "Secretary,s Oral Message to the GCC Foreign Ministers" to Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed's Office in advance of the GCC Ministerial scheduled to take place in Abu Dhabi a day before the opening of the December 18-19 GCC [...] |
2005-12-14 13:30:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GCC IZ AE |
| 05ABUDHABI5039 | MEDIA REACTION:UAE SOCIETY THROUGH ONLINE FORUMS [...] Summary: Arabic language online forums are becoming increasingly popular as a means of expressing opinions about current events. Contributions to these online forums provide a window on what is of interest to the Arabic street. End Summary. 2. The UAE has several dynamic Arabic language on [...] |
2005-12-14 13:59:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI5042 | MEDIA REACTION: TUENI'S ASSASSINATION [...] SUMMARY: THE ASSASSINATION OF LEBANESE MP GIBRAN TEUNI RECEIVED PROMINENT COVERAGE IN THE UAE'S PRINT AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA. UAE MINISTER OF INFORMATION AND CULTURE AND UAE AMBASSADOR IN LEBANON CONVEYED UAE'S CONDOLENCES TO TUENI'S FAMILY AS WELL TO THE LEBANESE GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE. A LEB [...] |
2005-12-14 14:07:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI5043 | NEW ORLEANS JAZZ HERITAGE TOURS: THE MARDI GRAS [...] Summary: More than 500 UAE nationals including government officials, media representatives, businessmen, and students attended two performances of Mardi Gras Indian Collective. The program included two performances, one at the Emirates Heritage Village in Abu Dhabi on Saturday, November 26, and [...] |
2005-12-14 15:05:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC KPAO |
| 05ABUDHABI5065 | MEDIA REACTION: GCC SUMMIT/IRAQI ELECTIONS [...] SUMMARY: SPECIFIC COMMENTARY ON THE GCC SUMMIT AND ELECTIONS IN IRAQ. AL-KHALEEJ PAPER CRITICIZED THE GULF SUMMIT AS FOCUSING ONLY ON THE BUSINESS BETWEEN THE GULF STATES AND NOT THE DAILY PROBLEMS OF GULF CITIZENS. AL-BAYAN QUESTIONED THE ROLE OF THE GCC COUNSELING COMMITTEE AND HOPED THAT [...] |
2005-12-17 12:14:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI507 | UAE INTERIOR MINISTER COMMITTED TO CAMEL JOCKEY [...] (C) Interior Minister Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al-Nahyan told the Ambassador on February 1 that he is committed to solving the problem of underage foreign boys being trafficked to the UAE as camel jockeys. He said that the October HBO report on child camel jockeys in the UAE had affected him gre [...] |
2005-02-02 13:24:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM TC |
| 05ABUDHABI5078 | UAE'S POPULATION TAPESTRY: AN OVERVIEW [...] (C) Summary: While many UAE nationals see the ongoing rapid expansion of the country's expatriate population as a positive factor contributing to the UAE's 8% annual economic growth rate, others see a potential threat to their political and social fabric. Officially, foreigners are welcome in [...] |
2005-12-18 11:57:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS SOCI IR PA IN AE |
| 05ABUDHABI5079 | GCC SUMMIT GETS UNDER WAY IN ABU DHABI [...] (SBU) Summary: The December 18-19 GCC Summit in Abu Dhabi has a robust agenda judging from statements issued by GCC Secretary General Abdul Rahman Al Attiyah and other officials SIPDIS after Saturday's GCC ministerial. The summit agenda includes the post-election situation in Iraq, the Pale [...] |
2005-12-18 12:20:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER GCC ECON KPAL KNNP IZ IR AE |
| 05ABUDHABI508 | UAE INTERIOR MINISTER ENGAGED ON REGIONAL CT [...] (C) Summary. In a February 1 meeting with the Ambassador, Interior Minister Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al-Nahyan discussed his view of regional security cooperation with UAE,s neighbors and suggested ideas for bilateral training efforts. Saif noted that the smaller GCC countries have often been f [...] |
2005-02-02 13:24:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PTER TC |
| 05ABUDHABI5080 | IRAQI OVERSEAS VOTE IN THE UAE [...] (U) Summary: Iraqis resident in the GCC countries voted in greater numbers in their country's parliamentary elections hosted by the UAE December 13-15 than in Iraq's January 2005 parliamentary elections. The increase, from 11,409 to 17,967, was due in part to a UAE decision to grant a visa wa [...] |
2005-12-18 12:23:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM IZ AE |
| 05ABUDHABI5085 | MEDIA REACTION: GCC SUMMIT/IRAQ ELECTIONS [...] Summary: "Al-Bayan" explains that previous GCC summits did not have so many issues on the table. English daily "Gulf News" calls on the GCC to take significant steps to increase cooperation in the region. A Kuwaiti editorialist in "Al- Ittihad" cites elections in Iraq as a good example of de [...] |
2005-12-19 08:42:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI509 | UAE CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR DISCUSSES CT FINANCE, FTA [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador met with Central Bank Governor Sultan Nasser Al Suwaidi to discuss counterterror finance cooperation on January 29. Governor Al Suwaidi focused on regional CT finance engagement and on expected Free Trade Agreement discussions with the banking sector. End summary. [...] |
2005-02-04 05:59:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETRD IZ PTER TC |
| 05ABUDHABI510 | U/S BOLTON VISITS UAE [...] (S) Summary: Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton met with UAE officials on January 31 to discuss the status of Iran,s nuclear weapons programs and to present future options for addressing the threat on the UAE,s doorstep, including referral to the [...] |
2005-02-05 02:09:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | ETTC IR IZ KNNP PARM PK TC |
| 05ABUDHABI5111 | UAE CONTRIBUTION TO 2005-2006 INCSR, NARCOTICS [...] Although not a narcotics-producing country, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is believed to be a transshipment point for traffickers moving illegal drugs from the major drug producing countries, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran. Frequent reports of seizures of illegal drugs in the UAE [...] |
2005-12-20 09:48:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR |
| 05ABUDHABI5112 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: GCC SUMMIT [...] SUMMARY: A UAE COLUMNIST IN "AL-ITTIHAD," LAUDED THE GCC'S CALL TO CLEAR THE MIDDLE EAST OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS. AN ARABIC EDITORIAL PRAISED THE SUMMIT FOR TAKING MODERATE RESOLUTIONS. END SUMMARY. 2. Abu Awad, a columnist in Abu Dhabi-based Arabic daily "Al- Ittihad" (circulation 65,000) [...] |
2005-12-20 10:07:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI5115 | UAE CONTRIBUTION TO 2005-2006 INCSR, FINANCIAL [...] The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is an important financial center for the Gulf region. The UAE is still a largely cash- based society. However, the financial sector is modern and progressive. Dubai, in particular, is a major international banking center. There is also a growing offshore sector. T [...] |
2005-12-20 11:24:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KCRM KTFN PTER SNAR |
| 05ABUDHABI5129 | GCC SUMMIT COMMUNIQUE: IRAN ESCAPES CONDEMNATION [...] (C) Summary: The Gulf Cooperation Council concluded its 29th annual summit in Abu Dhabi December 19 by expressing support for Iraq's December 15 elections, condemning the assassinations of "Lebanese symbols and leaders," calling for a Middle East weapons of mass destruction-free zone, and urgi [...] |
2005-12-20 13:56:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KNNP KPAL IR IZ SY LE IS AE |
| 05ABUDHABI5131 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. AND HAMAS/GCC SUMMIT/IRAN'S [...] Summary: A columnist in "Al-Bayan" asks why the United States considers Palestinian resistance an act of terror. Columnists in "Al Ittihad" and "Al-Bayan criticize the Gulf Summit as ineffective. English daily "Gulf News" comments on the GCC's concerns with Iran's nuclear program and alligat [...] |
2005-12-21 09:02:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI5153 | DETAINED GAYS RELEASED; NO CHARGES FILED [...] THE 26 GAY MALES ARRESTED BY ABU DHABI POLICE DURING AN ALLEGED "GAY WEDDING" NOVEMBER 23 WERE RELEASED FROM POLICE CUSTODY THIS WEEK AND WERE NOT CHARGED WITH ANY CRIME, AN ABU DHABI POLICE CAPTAIN WORKING IN THE INVESTIGATIONS DEPARTMENT TOLD EMBASSY FSN EMPLOYEE. THIS IS THE OUTCOME THAT A [...] |
2005-12-21 14:11:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KCRM AE |
| 05ABUDHABI5168 | EXBS ADVISOR VISIT TO UNITED ARAB EMIRATES OCTOBER 2005 [...] Several times during the period October 9-23, EXBS Advisor met with principal US Embassy and Consulate staff to discuss the state of EXBS in UAE. Salient points of subsequent conversation were as follows: A. UAE has unique challenges with implementation of EXBS principles due to the st [...] |
2005-12-21 14:16:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP JO |
| 05ABUDHABI5171 | UAE: 2005 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM ADDENDUM -- [...] (U) This is the UAE Mission's classified addendum to the 2005 Annual Terrorism Report transmitted to the Department on December 12 (ref B). (Note: This message is being re-sent with corrected paragraph classifications. End note.) Subject headings are keyed to the headings in the unclassified [...] |
2005-12-21 14:49:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PTER ASEC AE |
| 05ABUDHABI5208 | MEDIA REACTION: DEMOCRACY AND DOUBLE STANDARDS [...] Summary: A columnist in "Al-Ittihad" urged Arab governments to use Western countries as examples in bringing liberty upon themselves. A columnist in "Al-Bayan" questioned the US pressure on religious groups and sanctions on their respective countries while at the same time ignoring similar t [...] |
2005-12-27 11:51:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI5210 | MEETING WITH NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR OF IRAQ, [...] (C) Summary: In response to Dr. Rubaie's out-of-the-blue request for a meeting, CDA met with Iraqi National Security Adviser Mowaffak Al Rubaie at 6 p.m., December 26. Visiting the UAE to address a conference on the Iraqi Constitution, Al Rubaei expressed interest in approaching UAEG for f [...] |
2005-12-27 14:43:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC IZ IR AE |
| 05ABUDHABI5231 | CALL BY NEPAL CHARGE D'AFFAIRES IN UAE [...] (C) Nepalese Charge in Abu Dhabi Madhuban Prasad Paudel paid courtesy call on CDA today (December 28). He talked mostly about problems faced by upwards of 70,000 Nepalese workers in the UAE, non-payment of salaries, visa overstays and deportations, and trafficking issues (including some cas [...] |
2005-12-28 13:50:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM NP |
| 05ABUDHABI5241 | UAE PENAL CODE AMENDED TO REFLECT SECURITY CONCERNS [...] (C) Summary: On December 24, the Emirates News Agency, the Ministry of Information's official website, announced that President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahyan had issued Federal Law No. 34 for 2005 amending a range of Articles in the Federal Penal Code. The Khaleej Times quotes Mohammed b [...] |
2005-12-28 14:02:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KTFN AE |
| 05ABUDHABI5243 | AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD VISIT TO ABU DHABI: ACHIEVING [...] (S) Summary: On December 27, Ambassador Khalilzad met with Deputy Prime Minister/MinState for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan(HbZ). Discussion centered on recent elections in Iraq and the need for a unification government to bring peace and stability to the country. Ambassad [...] |
2005-12-30 10:23:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PINR PTER IR IZ AE |
| 05ABUDHABI527 | MEDIA REACTION: CONDOLEEZZA RICE [...] SUMMARY: SECRETARY CONDOLEEZZA RICE'S STATEMENTS DURING HER FIRST VISIT AS SECRETARY OF STATE DOMINATED COVERAGE IN LOCAL PRINT AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA. ABU DHABI TV AND DUBAI TV BOTH CARRIED EXCERPTS OF HER STATEMENT DURING A PRESS CONFERENCE IN THE UK. AN UNUSUALLY POSITIVE EDITORIAL IN "AL [...] |
2005-02-05 13:20:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI528 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION:STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS [...] SUMMARY: ALL ARABIC AND ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PRINT MEDIA IN THE UAE DEVOTED EXTENSIVE COVERAGE TO PRESIDENT BUSH'S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS. RADIO AND TV STATIONS REPEATEDLY CARRIED LENGTHY EXCERPTS OF THE SPEECH, PARTICULARLY SECTIONS RELATED TO THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE PEACE PROCESS. ALL MEDI [...] |
2005-02-05 13:21:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI600 | UAE Federal Cabinet Approves FTA negotiating Committee [...] (U) The UAE Cabinet, on February 7, formally approved establishment of a committee to negotiate a Free Trade Agreement with the United States. According to the Cabinet decision, the committee would negotiate "within the framework of the Ministry of Finance and Industry's efforts on the issue." [...] |
2005-02-08 11:58:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECIN ECON EFIN |
| 05ABUDHABI634 | EB ASSISTANT SECRETARY WAYNE MEETS WITH UAE ENERGY [...] (C) Summary: UAE Energy Minister Al-Hamili told visiting A/S Wayne that the UAE would be adding 200,000 barrels of production capacity in 2005. He explained that the UAE decision to buy gas from Qatar was one of price. In response to A/S Wayne's questions about reported Iranian-UAE gas purch [...] |
2005-02-12 12:16:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON IR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI636 | US TREASURY ABU DHABI OFFICE [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6 2. The US Treasury Office of Technical Assistance (OTA), has opened a regional office in Embassy Abu Dhabi funded by the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) under the Partnership for Financial Excellence (PFE). The office serves all c [...] |
2005-02-12 12:21:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | KMPIO EFIN |
| 05ABUDHABI663 | ABU DHABI LEADERSHIP REITERATES COMMITMENT TO [...] (C) Summary: On February 13, MbZ aide Yousef al Otaiba told Ambassador Sison that the smaller emirates would suffer a financial penalty from Abu Dhabi if they do not cut the trafficking of underage camel jockeys. MFA U/S Abdullah Rashid al-Noaimi told visiting ARPI Office Director Alan Misen [...] |
2005-02-14 08:02:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ETRD PHUM PREL TC |
| 05ABUDHABI675 | AMERICANS AND EMIRATIS HIGHLIGHT POSITIVES OF FA, [...] (SBU) Summary: State Department Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs Frank Mermoud supported our strong commercial relationship and highlighted how a free trade agreement would enhance trade and investment during his January 29-31 visit to the UAE. His interlocutors exp [...] |
2005-02-14 10:24:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS ECON ETRD PREL TC |
| 05ABUDHABI685 | AMERICANS AND EMIRATIS HIGHLIGHT POSITIVES OF FTA, [...] (SBU) Summary: State Department Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs Frank Mermoud supported our strong commercial relationship and highlighted how a free trade agreement would enhance trade and investment during his January 29-31 visit to the UAE. His interlocutors exp [...] |
2005-02-14 11:14:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS ECON ETRD PREL TC |
| 05ABUDHABI706 | MEDIA REACTION: AL HARIRI ASSASSINATION [...] SUMMARY: THE ASSASSINATION OF RAFIQ AL-HARIRI, FORMER PRIME MINISTER OF LEBANON, DOMINATED COVERAGE IN LOCAL ELECTRONIC AND PRINT MEDIA. THE UAE GOVERNMENT CONDEMNED THE ASSASSINATION OF AL HARIRI IN AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT. AN EDITORIAL IN "AL ITTIHAD" POINTED OUT THAT THE ASSASSINATION OF A [...] |
2005-02-15 12:04:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI711 | EMIRATI PREPARATIONS FOR FTA TALKS CONTINUE [...] (C) Summary: In meetings over the past several days, we have gained more of a sense of how the UAEG is preparing for its upcoming FTA talks with the U.S. In addition to the formal addition of MinEcon Sheikha Lubna Al-Qasimi as a co-chair of the negotiating committee (reftel), it appears that [...] |
2005-02-15 12:10:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON TC |
| 05ABUDHABI713 | WHITE HOUSE HOMELAND SECURITY ADVISOR FRAN [...] (S) Summary. In a February 7 meeting with HSC Homeland Security Advisor Frances Townsend, the Director of UAE State Security Department (SSD), Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, expressed support for U.S. efforts regarding the Israeli/Palestinian situation. Sheikh Hazza also said that the UAE [...] |
2005-02-15 12:10:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | IR IZ PREL PTER SA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI716 | UAEG EXPRESSES VIEWS ON ISRAEL-PALESTINE [...] (C) Summary: On February 13, MFA U/S Abdullah Rashid Al-Noaimi told visiting ARPI Office Director Alan Misenheimer and DCM that he is more optimistic about the prospect for peace in Israel and Palestine since Abu Mazen,s election. He noted that motion on this front will help solve other regio [...] |
2005-02-15 12:11:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN KPAL KWBG PREL TC |
| 05ABUDHABI718 | HOMELAND SECURITY ADVISOR TOWNSEND MEETS WITH [...] (C) Summary: In a February 7 meeting with Dubai Crown Prince (and UAE Defense Minister) Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid (MBR), White House Homeland Security Advisor Frances Townsend expressed appreciation for the UAE's contributions to our counterterrorism efforts. Noting that it was a hopeful time [...] |
2005-02-15 12:11:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | IR IZ PREL PTER SA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI720 | HOMELAND SECURITY ADVISOR FRAN TOWNSEND MEETS WITH [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 12. Summary ------- 2. (S/NF) Homeland Security Advisor Frances Townsend and UAE Central Bank Governor Sultan Nasser Al-Suwaidi met February 7 and discussed the possible formation of a USG-UAEG terrorist financing task force. They agreed t [...] |
2005-02-15 12:12:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | ECON EFIN ETTC PTER TC KTFN |
| 05ABUDHABI721 | WHITE HOUSE HOMELAND SECURITY ADVISOR FRAN [...] (C) Summary: White House Homeland Security Advisor Fran Townsend met with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MbZ) February 7 to discuss counter terrorism trends in the Gulf region, U.S.-UAE CT cooperation, and the th [...] |
2005-02-15 12:12:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | IR IZ PTER SA TC |
| 05ABUDHABI760 | UAE DESIGNATES LEAD NEGOTIATORS FOR FTA [...] On February 15, Minister of State for Finance and Industry Dr. Mohammed Khalfan bin Kharbash chaired the first meeting of the UAE FTA negotiating committee. The committee, established by the UAE Cabinet on February 7 (reftel), assigned the lead negotiating responsibility for various sections [...] |
2005-02-16 12:06:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON TC |
| 05ABUDHABI767 | GENERAL ABIZAID VISITS ABU DHABI [...] (S) Summary: CENTCOM Commander Gen. Abizaid met with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MbZ) February 14 to discuss Iraq,s security situation in the wake of the January 30 elections. They also discussed othe [...] |
2005-02-20 02:24:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PTER MCAP IZ IR SA SY LE AF TC |
| 05ABUDHABI831 | ENCOURAGING SUPPORT FOR THE IRAQI TRANSITIONAL [...] (C) Pol Chief delivered reftel points to MFA Assistant Under Secretary Tariq Al Haidan on February 22, stressing the importance of Iraq,s neighbors, such as the UAE, to publicly signal their willingness to work with the Iraqi Transitional Government (ITG). Al Haidan said the UAEG will support [...] |
2005-02-22 12:14:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ TC |
| 05ABUDHABI833 | G/TIP VISIT TO UAE INFORMATIVE BUT DISAPPOINTING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. G/TIP Senior Coordinator for Reports Mark Taylor visited the UAE February 5-8 to update information for the 2005 Trafficking in Persons Report. High ranking UAEG officials assured him of their ongoing commitment to combating all forms of human trafficking. (Note: On February 1 [...] |
2005-02-22 12:15:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD PHUM PREL TC |
| 05ABUDHABI834 | EMIRATI BUSINESSMAN LOOKING TO INVEST IN WEST BANK [...] (C) Summary: Mohammed Al-Abbar, Chairman of Emaar, Dubai's largest publicly-traded real estate development company, called on DCM and Econ Chief to discuss his February 18 meetings with Palestinian and Israeli leaders regarding his development proposals for the Gaza settlements to be evacuated [...] |
2005-02-22 12:32:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EAID EINV PREL KPAL IS TC |
| 05ABUDHABI841 | EMBASSY ABU DHABI COMMENTS ON SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: The UAE Government remains strongly committed to protecting intellectual property rights (IPR). The UAE continues to enforce copyright, trademark, and patent laws passed in 2002 to protect U.S. intellectual property, and remains committed to the 2002 agreement prov [...] |
2005-02-23 07:58:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR PREL ETRD TC |
| 05ABUDHABI846 | UAE TRAINING IRAQI DIPLOMATS [...] (SBU) Nine Iraqi diplomats are currently receiving six weeks of training offered by the Emirates Institute of Diplomacy, which is an integral part of the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The training, which Iraq,s Foreign Ministry requested, consists of a series of lectures on topics ranging [...] |
2005-02-23 08:30:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IZ TC |
| 05ABUDHABI863 | CSW WOMEN'S ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT RESOLUTION - UAE [...] Pol Chief discussed the draft resolution on the Economic Advancement of Women with MFA Director for International Organizations Yacub Al Hosani on February 20. Post also shared copies of it with the Abu Dhabi Businesswomen,s Council and with the General Women,s Union, whose director, Noora Al [...] |
2005-02-23 10:56:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | UN CSW KWMN EAID KMPI TC |
| 05ABUDHABI864 | STAFFEDL FISCHER EXPLORES UAE REGULATIONS ON [...] (SBU) Begin summary. Visiting Senate Banking Committee Staffdel met with UAE Minister for Economy Sheikha Lubna Al-Qasimi and officials from the Central Bank for briefings on the regulatory regime for all financial institutions in the UAE -- including money changers, hawaladars, stock exchang [...] |
2005-02-23 11:00:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KTFN EFIN ETTC TC |
| 05ABUDHABI883 | EMIRATI PREPARATIONS FOR FTA TALKS CONTINUE [...] (C) Summary: On February 19 Minister of Economy Sheikha Lubna Al-Qasimi told Ambassador that she understood that labor was a potential "show stopper" for the USG on the FTA, and that the UAE Minister of Information had stressed to the UAE cabinet that the UAEG needed to push forward with labor [...] |
2005-02-23 12:06:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON ELAB KBCT TC |
| 05ABUDHABI908 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: "STOP THE APPOINTMENT" OF [...] (U) SUMMARY: UAE PROFESSOR DR. ABDULKHALEQ ABDULLAH WROTE AN OP-ED IN THE PRIVATELY-OWNED, SHARJAH-BASED, PAN-ARAB DAILY "AL- KHALEEJ" (CIRCULATION 85,000) ENTITLED "STOP THE APPOINTMENT". DR. ABDULLAH STRONGLY CRITICIZES THE CURRENT PRACTICE OF APPOINTING MEMBERS TO THE FEDERAL NATIONAL COUNCI [...] |
2005-02-27 09:26:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI911 | UAE INVESTMENT IN PALESTINE: GOOD INTENTIONS, BAD [...] (C) Summary: Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (MbZ) told Ambassador that he had been briefed on Dubai real estate developer Mohammed Al-Abbar's visit to the Palestinian territories and proposed investments there in advance of Al-Abbar's trip, and had no objection to A [...] |
2005-02-27 12:06:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EAID ECON EINV PREL KPAL IS TC |
| 05ABUDHABI917 | SECRETARY'S ORAL MESSAGE AND THE UAE [...] (C) Ambassador delivered the Secretary,s oral message to the Arab League to MFA Under Secretary Abdullah Rashid al Noaimi on February 27. Al Noaimi reported that UAE Foreign Minister Rashid Abdullah (his father) looked forward to seeing the Secretary in London on March 1 to discuss the issue [...] |
2005-02-28 04:44:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID TC |
| 05ABUDHABI95 | UAE SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: YEAR END EXPECTATIONS FOR [...] SUMMARY: REPORTS AND OP-EDS IN ARABIC DAILIES IN THE UAE INDICATED THAT THE PLIGHT OF THE ARAB PEOPLE IS ONE OF THEIR OWN MAKING, ATTRIBUTING IT TO THE LACK OF FREEDOM AND HUMAN RIGHTS, TOTALITARIANISM AND BAD GOVERNANCE. ONE OP-ED ANTICIPATED THAT THE PLIGHT OF ARABS WILL CONTINUE TO DETERI [...] |
2005-01-05 11:54:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUDHABI959 | UAE ARAB MEDIA CONFERENCE CALLS FOR REDUCED [...] (U) The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR) held its annual conference entitled "Arab Media in the Information Age" January 9-11, 2005. A common theme throughout the conference was the need for Arab governments to reduce their roles in controlling the media. Despite a l [...] |
2005-03-01 11:58:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC PREL PGOV |
| 05ABUDHABI964 | UAE: INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION WEEK ACTIVITIES [...] (U) Summary: PAO Abu Dhabi postponed International Education Week activities due to the mourning period following the death of UAE President Sheikh Zayed. PAO subsequently spread the activities out over several weeks in November and December. Public Affairs Officers and Education Advisors vi [...] |
2005-03-01 12:38:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO TC SCUL CVIS |
| 05ABUDHABI97 | UAE ENGLISH LANGUAGE MICROSCHOLARSHIPS [...] (U) Summary: The inauguration of the English-language Microscholarship Program in the UAE has generated goodwill and a positive image for the US at a time when Emirati students are bombarded with negative images from press and television. This is the first program to reach out to UAE youth in [...] |
2005-01-05 12:52:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO TC SCUL |
| 05ABUDHABI970 | UAE WOMEN SEE A PROMISING BUT CHALLENGING FUTURE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UAE WOMEN ARE GENERALLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THEIR ROLE IN UAE SOCIETY, TELLING US THAT THEY FORESEE WOMEN BEING APPOINTED TO THE FEDERAL NATIONAL COUNCIL AND MAKING OTHER GAINS IN THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SPHERES. HOWEVER, THEY ALSO SPOKE CANDIDLY ABOUT THE OBSTACLE [...] |
2005-03-02 08:12:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KWMN MEPI TC |
| 05ABUDHABI992 | SCENESETTER FOR FIRST ROUND OF US-UAE FTA [...] (U) Summary: The UAE is a federation of seven emirates (Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm Al-Qaiwain, Fujairah, and Ras Al-Khaimah) founded in December 1971. Over the last 34 years, the UAE has developed into the third largest economy in the Arab world, with an estimated 2004 GDP of at [...] |
2005-03-02 10:34:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB ETRD PREL TC EINV USTR |
| 05ABUDHABI993 | ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY TO REMAIN A LONG-TERM [...] (SBU) Summary: Former UAE President Sheikh Zayed, who died in November 2004, was widely respected in the UAE as an avid environmentalist who worked to "green" the UAE by promoting forestry and agriculture. Rapid expansion of agriculture, however, has negatively impacted the UAE,s ground wat [...] |
2005-03-02 10:44:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET ETRD KSCA SENV TC |
| 05ABUDHABI999 | MEDIA REACTION: LEBANON [...] SUMMARY: THE SITUATION IN LEBANON AND THE LONDON CONFERENCE SUPPORTING THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY DOMINATED COVERAGE IN LOCAL ELECTRONIC AND PRINT MEDIA. AN EDITORIAL IN "AL ITTIHAD" LAUDED THE RESIGNATION OF OMAR KARAMI. ANOTHER EDITORIAL IN "AL BAYAN" WAS SKEPTICAL ABOUT THE REASONS BEHI [...] |
2005-03-02 11:17:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
| 05ABUJA1024 | REGIME STABILITY QUESTIONED BY RECENT INCIDENTS [...] (S) SUMMARY: Joseph Wayas, the chairman of the political committee at the National Conference on Political Reform (Confab), avoided an apparent assassination attempt on June 3 and has been absent from the Confab since the incident. President Obasanjo apparently collapsed twice on June 7, s [...] |
2005-06-08 15:14:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET | PGOV PREL KDEM NI |
| 05ABUJA1034 | CHEEKY JIHADIST QUIVERS AS SACK FEVER GRIPS [...] On Friday, June 3, Governor Adamu Aliero of Kebbi State announced the removal of the Emir of Gwandu, one of the most senior traditional rulers in northern Nigeria, Mustapha Haruna Jokolo. Jokolo was quickly replaced by General Muhammadu Jega, a retired two-star general who twice served as mi [...] |
2005-06-10 14:16:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PINR KDEM KIRF NI |
| 05ABUJA1079 | AN EVENING WITH THE VICE PRESIDENT [...] No summary [...] |
2005-06-20 10:45:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR NI ECOWAS |
| 05ABUJA1086 | MEDIA REACTION: NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COUNCIL [...] In a May 24 letter to the Senate president transmitting copies of the US National Intelligence Council (NIC) Report, "Mapping Sub-Saharan Africa's Future," President Obasanjo started a firestorm of legislative and media debate that has lasted for more than two weeks. Released just days before [...] |
2005-06-20 18:13:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI PINR OIIP OPRC KDEM NI |
| 05ABUJA1119 | NIGERIAN LEGISLATORS THREATEN PRESIDENT OBASANJO [...] (U) On May 3, members of Nigeria's lower house initiated steps to impeach President Olusegun Obasanjo, listing 19 impeachable offenses against the president, generally related to the Obasanjo's altering or ignoring decisions of the National Assembly. The impeachment's prime movers say about [...] |
2005-06-23 09:48:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM NI |
| 05ABUJA1121 | ALLEGED AL-QA'IDA THREAT PARALYZES ACTIVITIES IN [...] Fear and anxiety gripped the citizens of crisis-ridden Plateau State in Nigeria's Middle Belt following an alleged plan by the Al-Qa'ida terrorist group to unleash terror attacks on some parts of the state. Trepidation over the possibility of another religious conflict also became rife follo [...] |
2005-06-23 11:46:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PINR PTER KDEM KIRF NI MILITANTS |
| 05ABUJA1129 | SUPREME COURT SET TO DECIDE 2003 ELECTIONS CASE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The two-year saga of Nigeria's 2003 elections is due to close its final legal chapter on or about July 1 when the Supreme Court is slated to announce its decision in the case brought by ANPP candidate Buhari against PDP's President Obasanjo over abuse of security forces, lapses [...] |
2005-06-24 11:14:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM NI ELECTIONS |
| 05ABUJA1132 | HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP, JUNE 2005 [...] This cable is a roundup of various incidents that impacted human rights in Nigeria, organized by section of the annual Human Rights Report. These incidents have not been reported in other cables, or are updates of previously reported items. --------------------------------------------- -- [...] |
2005-06-24 13:19:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL KCOR KIRF ELAB NI HUMANRIGHTS |
| 05ABUJA1133 | NIGERIA'S TRADE POLICY: ECOWAS COMMON EXTERNAL [...] Summary: Since July 2003, Nigeria's trade policy has taken a protectionist turn, with import bans imposed on various items including textiles, many consumer goods, and industrial minerals. Now Nigeria appears slowly to be implementing ECOWAS's new Common External Tariff (CET), which would har [...] |
2005-06-24 14:14:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EFIN ECON NI ECOWAS |
| 05ABUJA114 | CHARLES TAYLOR DEMARCHE [...] (C) Ambassador presented reftel demarche and talking points to MFA PermSec N.U.O. Nadibia-Anyanwu on January 19, and also sent a copy to National Security Advisor Aliyu Mohammed. The PermSec responded that such fears of Taylor's influence had been investigated in the past and proved overblown [...] |
2005-01-26 14:46:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SL LI NI |
| 05ABUJA1140 | LAWYERS ACCUSE POLICE AUTHORITIES OF HUMAN [...] Summary: The uneasy relationship between the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and the Nigerian Police continues in Kogi State and Abuja. In late March in Kogi State, the NBA accused the police force of committing "gross" Human Rights abuses, while the police responded that the lawyers were he [...] |
2005-06-27 14:58:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KCRM NI HUMANRIGHTS |
| 05ABUJA1142 | STOP THE PRESSES: KOGI STATE POLICE REACT [...] Summary: Following the publication of an article in three Nigerian newspapers that reported a Kogi State police commissioner's humiliation by armed bandits, Kogi State police occupied the headquarters of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the state capital. There, they harassed, in [...] |
2005-06-27 15:05:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV ASEC KCRM NI |
| 05ABUJA115 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIBUNAL MOVES AHEAD [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Federal Court of Appeal's 3-1 decision in December favored Obasanjo on Buhari's challenge to the 2003 presidential election, but the four justices were unanimous that the "Independent National Electoral Commission" (INEC) failed during the election due to partisanship, bias [...] |
2005-01-26 16:08:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KJUS NI |
| 05ABUJA1152 | POLICE KILL 6 TRADERS, ATTEMPTED COVER-UP [...] The killing of six Igbo youths by police in an Abuja satellite town sparked anger among local residents, but the attempt by police to cover up the crime attracted nationwide attention. In the early morning hours of June 7, police shot and killed six auto parts traders, then attempted to disp [...] |
2005-06-29 11:04:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KCOR KIRF KCRM NI |
| 05ABUJA1153 | HIGH COURT STRIKES DOWN "PUBLIC ORDER ACT" [...] Summary: An Abuja High Court struck down the 1990 Public Order Act that had required a police permit to be issued for all public rallies and processions. Security forces have regularly used the Act to suppress opposition rallies, refusing to issue police permits for "security reasons." Alt [...] |
2005-06-29 11:04:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV ASEC KCRM NI |
| 05ABUJA1154 | UN REFORM DEMARCHES DELIVERED: NIGERIA AGREES [...] (U) On the morning of June 29 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in Abuja, Acting DCM delivered reftel demarches on UN reform to Ambassador Anigbo, Director of the First United Nations Division of the MFA. Poloff served as notetaker. 2. (U) A/DCM delivered talking points in Ref A [...] |
2005-06-29 14:52:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KUNR AORC NI UNSC |
| 05ABUJA1155 | JUNE 12 ANNIVERSARY UNITES NIGERIAN OPPOSITION [...] (C) Despite a torrential rainstorm in Lagos on June 12, prominent opposition politicians and human rights activists gathered to mark the twelfth anniversary of the annulment of the 1993 presidential elections won by Chief MKO Abiola, politician and business icon who later died in detention in [...] |
2005-06-29 16:08:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC NI |
| 05ABUJA1156 | NIGERIA: EXTRAORDINARY SESSION OF THE NIGER [...] The Extraordinary Session of the NBA Council of Ministers took place from May 9 to 13, 2005, in Abuja, Nigeria. The Ministers met to review progress in developing a framework for sustainable integrated water resources management and cross-border cooperation, the "Shared Vision". Session par [...] |
2005-06-29 16:16:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | AID AMGT ABLD ASEC NI |
| 05ABUJA1164 | ARMED ROBBERY AT HOUSING COMPOUND ADJACENT TO [...] SUMMARY: On June 26, 2005 at about 0300 hours, a private apartment was robbed by ten robbers. The residence is located adjacent to two of the Embassy Housing Compounds. End Summary. 2. DETAILS: On June 26, 2005 at about 0300 hours, a private residence located next to Malibu and Newport Ho [...] |
2005-06-30 12:40:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER NI CRIME |
| 05ABUJA1172 | ON DAY OF SUPREME COURT DECISION ON 2003 [...] With the Supreme Court due to deliver its judgment today, July 1, in the suit filed by 2003 ANPP presidential candidate General Muhammadu Buhari against the April 2003 re-election of President Olusegun Obasanjo, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) police command warned yesterday that it woul [...] |
2005-07-01 09:16:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KCOR NI ELECTIONS |
| 05ABUJA1178 | DARFUR PEACE TALKS UPDATE: OBASANJO MEETS WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: President Olusegun Obasanjo met with the leaders of the Darfur rebel movements on June 30 and urged them to be flexible over the remaining points of contention on the Declaration of Principles. He also encouraged them to continue the negotiations, and above all, be patient. A [...] |
2005-07-01 12:38:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KAWC KCRS SU NI DARFUR |
| 05ABUJA118 | TRADE AND INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT, NIGERIA [...] No summary [...] |
2005-01-27 10:52:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV NI |
| 05ABUJA1181 | SUPREME COURT UNANIMOUSLY ENDORSES OUTCOME OF [...] (SBU) On the morning of July 1, the Supreme Court unanimously and strongly rejected the challenge to the 2003 election filed by All Nigerian People's Party (ANPP) presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari. The Court found that the election was in "substantial compliance" with the election law [...] |
2005-07-01 15:34:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KCOR NI ELECTIONS |
| 05ABUJA1184 | ON THE EVE OF THE DECISION ON THE 2003 ELECTION [...] (SBU) Intrigue, politics, and mudslinging have taken center stage at Nigerian Supreme Court. On June 21, a few days before delivering a judgment on the conduct of 2003 Nigerian presidential elections, Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Muhammadu Uwais was accused of receiving bribes from a par [...] |
2005-07-05 06:33:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM KCOR KCRM NI ELECTIONS |
| 05ABUJA1185 | GON OFFICIAL SUGGESTS POSSIBLE NUCLEAR ENERGY [...] (C) During a wide-ranging discussion with the Ambassador, Prince Adegboyega Christopher Ariyo, Director of Asia and Middle East Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), expressed concern about the possibility of Nigeria's oil and gas reserves' becoming depleted over the next forty yea [...] |
2005-07-05 06:33:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM ENRG TRGY KNNP NI |
| 05ABUJA1186 | PARIS CLUB REDUCES NIGERIA'S DEBT: JUBILATION NOW, [...] Summary: The Paris Club group of creditor nations has agreed to reduce Nigeria's debt by about 60 percent. This is seen as a reward for Nigeria's effort at reforming its economy with its home-grown economic reform program. Modalities for implementing the agreement will be negotiated between t [...] |
2005-07-05 06:42:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON KGCN PGOV PREL NI |
| 05ABUJA1209 | PRESIDENT OBASANJO ANNOUNCES NEW MINISTERS, [...] On July 5, President Obasanjo sent a list of 11 ministerial nominees to the Senate for approval, indicating that he plans to drop some of the current Cabinet, possibly to give those with political ambitions the opportunity to focus on 2007 rather than policy making and implementation. The li [...] |
2005-07-05 17:09:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL PINR KDEM NI |
| 05ABUJA1217 | DARFUR PEACE TALKS: DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Sudan, the Sudan Liberation Movement, and Justice and Equality Movement signed a Declaration of Principles for the Resolution of the Sudanese Conflict in Darfur (DOP) on July 5. This evolved after more than three weeks of African Union (AU) mediation assiste [...] |
2005-07-06 14:54:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PREF NI SU CD DARFUR |
| 05ABUJA1250 | NIGERIA RESPONDS TO DEMARCHE ON G-4 RESOLUTION [...] (U) On the morning of July 11 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in Abuja, Acting DCM delivered reftel demarche on UN reform to Ambassador Chike Alex Anigbo, Director of the First United Nations Department of the MFA. Poloff served as notetaker. 2. (SBU) A/DCM delivered reftel ta [...] |
2005-07-11 17:23:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KUNR AORC NI UNSC |
| 05ABUJA1271 | NIGER DELTA REMAINS TENSE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a July 6 meeting, NGO Director and Obasanjo associate, Judith Asuni, told the Ambassador tensions remain high in the Niger Delta. Small arms proliferation, cult/gang violence, and oil bunkering are all rampant, she said. The Peace and Security Strategy (PASS), a joint go [...] |
2005-07-14 12:41:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV NI EPET SOCI DELTAVIOLENCE |
| 05ABUJA1323 | NIGERIA: IBB FACTOTUM SPECULATES ON A COUP, [...] No summary [...] |
2005-07-20 16:25:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET//NOFORN | NI PGOV PREL |
| 05ABUJA1334 | NIGERIA TO ENACT PEACEFUL USE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY; [...] No summary [...] |
2005-07-21 16:31:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG KNNP TRGY PARM NI IAEA |
| 05ABUJA1338 | CHINESE AMBASSADOR TO NIGERIA CONFIRMS NIGERIA'S [...] (C) On the afternoon of July 22, Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria Wang Yongqiu visited the Ambassador to discuss UNSC reform. He told the Ambassador he had met with the Acting Permanent Secretary of Nigeria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), Mr. Asiru (phonetic), the previous afternoon, and th [...] |
2005-07-22 16:30:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KUNR NI UNSC UNGA |
| 05ABUJA1339 | NATIONAL POLITICAL REFORM CONFERENCE ENDS. NOW [...] (C) Summary: Unable to reach consensus on key issues of resource control, presidential term limits, and whether former military leaders should be precluded from contesting future elections, the National Political Reform Conference (NPRC) ended deliberations July 12. Conference chairmen plan [...] |
2005-07-22 16:39:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EPET PHUM KDEM NI |
| 05ABUJA137 | AF PDAS RANNEBERGER'S MEETING WITH AU CHAIRPERSON [...] (C) Summary. At his 29 January meeting in Abuja with African Union (AU) Chairperson Konare, Ambassador Ranneberger underscored the priority the U.S. attaches to strengthening its relationship with the AU. He emphasized U.S. support for the AU mission in Darfur. He stressed the need to use th [...] |
2005-01-31 16:25:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AU SU NI |
| 05ABUJA1381 | G-4 RESOLUTION: NIGERIA WILL SUPPORT COMMON AU [...] (SBU) On July 27, Poloff asked Ambassador Chike Alex Anigbo, Director of the First United Nations Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), about Nigeria's position on the G-4 resolution. 2. (SBU) Anigbo replied that the G-4 resolution and the AU resolution were very similar, d [...] |
2005-07-27 11:15:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KUNR AORC NI UNSC |
| 05ABUJA14 | OGBEH KEPT AS PDP CHAIRMAN, NGIGE AND UBA [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Obasanjo's effort (Ref A) to fire the ruling PDP's National Chairman, Audu Ogbeh, failed at least temporarily January 4 with the PDP National Executive Committee (NEC) keeping Ogbeh, an ally of VP Atiku, but suspending Governor Chris Ngige and his self-styled godfather C [...] |
2005-01-06 11:01:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM NI |
| 05ABUJA1408 | DISTRIBUTION OF OIL REVENUES TO NIGERIA'S [...] Summary and Introduction: Talks in the just-concluded National Political Reforms Conference (the "confab") reached a deadlock when the issue of the share of oil revenues paid to the oil-producing states to take care of environmental problems and infrastructure came to the fore on June 13. Th [...] |
2005-08-02 16:36:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EPET PGOV NI OIL |
| 05ABUJA1479 | OBASANJO TASKS NORTHERN GOVERNORS: IMPROVE [...] (SBU) Summary: At the Presidential Villa on August 8, President Obasanjo tasked several northern Governors with improving their states' poor social conditions. In group discussions, attendees agreed that public health services had collapsed, and that local government had failed to deliver [...] |
2005-08-11 10:32:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID NI |
| 05ABUJA1480 | WHAT WENT WRONG BETWEEN THE AU AND THE G-4? [...] (C) Summary: According to the Japanese Ambassador to Nigeria, who was at the AU Summit in Addis Ababa, emotional appeals about Africans standing up for their rights against Western "colonialists" carried the day in persuading the AU to stick to its demand for veto rights for any new permanent [...] |
2005-08-11 16:12:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AORC KUNR NI UNSC |
| 05ABUJA1497 | SUPREME COURT VERDICT UPHOLDING 2003 ELECTION [...] (SBU) A month after the Supreme Court judgment upheld President Obasanjo's 2003 election, Nigeria is calm, with no reports of violence related to the verdict. The media provided only modest coverage of the judgment. Ordinary Nigerians have been more interested in discussing other issues suc [...] |
2005-08-12 15:53:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KCOR NI ELECTIONS |
| 05ABUJA1498 | INEC'S FEATHERS RUFFLED, THEN SMOOTHED, AFTER [...] Summary: In an August 8 front page article, a Nigerian newspaper printed an article highly critical of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman Maurice Iwu. The article claimed to be based on comments from an anonymous US Embassy source. Both INEC and the USAID-funded NGO [...] |
2005-08-12 15:54:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI PINR OIIP OPRC KDEM NI |
| 05ABUJA1514 | NIGERIAN RAILWAY CORPORATION SEEKS TO PRIVATIZE [...] (SBU) Begin summary. Economic officers met on July 5 with A.A. Abubakar, managing director of the state-owned Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC). Abubakar asserted that the state of Nigeria's railways was rather good, and improving. He sketched out the NRC's plan, to be introduced later in 2 [...] |
2005-08-16 08:14:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELTN NI |
| 05ABUJA1526 | NIGERIA: PRESIDENT OBASANJO ON U.S. AMBASSADOR TO [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador met with President Obasanjo in his villa private quarters on the morning of August 18. Poloff served as notetaker. Obasanjo supported the nomination of a U.S. ambassador to the African Union, discussed the coup in Mauritania, and welcomed the visit to Nigeria by [...] |
2005-08-18 11:36:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV OVIP KDEM NI |
| 05ABUJA1532 | ACOTA PROGRAM MOVES FORWARD IN NIGERIA [...] SUMMARY. During 8-11 August 2005, an African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA) Program team met with officials of the Nigerian Army to jointly plan the future of the ACOTA program in Nigeria. The meetings resulted in decisive progress in terms of a concept and schedule f [...] |
2005-08-19 11:35:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV MASS MCAP PHUM KPKO NI |
| 05ABUJA1535 | NIGERIAN SENATE CALLS FOR ARTICLE 98 AGREEMENT TO [...] (C) Summary: The Nigerian Senate passed a resolution requesting that President Obasanjo rescind Nigeria's Article 98 Agreement because the National Assembly was not consulted before the agreement was signed. However, the GON determined at the time of signing that it was an executive agreemen [...] |
2005-08-19 12:44:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS KTIA NI KICC |
| 05ABUJA1556 | NO SPILLOVER FROM NIGER IN NORTHEASTERN NIGERIA'S [...] Abuja economic officer and two U.S. Army Office of Defense Cooperation humanitarian-assistance personnel visited Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State in far northeastern Nigeria, on August 19 and 20, 2005. Officers observed no evidence of Nigerien refugees in Maiduguri; in Borno's Baga town [...] |
2005-08-23 16:50:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID SOCI SMIG XY NI |
| 05ABUJA1609 | NIGERIAN AVIATION MINISTER ON OPEN SKIES [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. Please see paragraph 7. 2. (SBU) Summary. Embassy officers met on August 25 with Nigerian Minister of Aviation Babalola Borishade on two aviation disputes: the GON's failure to grant American Airlines the authorization to introduce codeshare serv [...] |
2005-08-30 08:24:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR NI |
| 05ABUJA1610 | THE STATE OF HIV/AIDS IN NIGERIA AS OF JUNE 2005 [...] Summary: This cable evaluates broadly HIV/AIDS' impact on Nigerians and their institutions. Roughly 4 million (UNAIDS, 2003) of the nation's 130 million people (PRB, 2002) are infected with HIV/AIDS, reflecting a national HIV/AIDS infection rate of 5 percent (NPS, 2003). Nigeria had at lea [...] |
2005-08-30 08:58:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | KHIV SOCI TBIO ECON PREL PGOV NI HIV AIDS |
| 05ABUJA1635 | ATIKU DISCUSSES 2007 ELECTIONS [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a two-hour meeting, a relaxed Vice President Atiku Abubakar expressed little concern about the search of his Potomac, Maryland residence and offered his insights on President Obasanjo and PDP party politics. He also expressed concerns about new INEC chairman Maurice Iwu and [...] |
2005-09-01 15:16:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM NI ELECTIONS |
| 05ABUJA1676 | IVLP Returnee Spearheads Judicial Reforms in [...] Summary: Ms. Faustinah I. Kola-Olalere, Chair of Magistrate Association of Nigeria (MAN) returned from her IVLP program with a consuming passion: transforming Nigeria's courts emphasis on punishment to correction and reformation. She hopes this new emphasis would red [...] |
2005-09-09 12:36:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO SCUL OEXC NI |
| 05ABUJA1677 | NIGERIA: EXXON MOBIL CHIEF ON REFINING DEMANDS, [...] (C) Exxon Mobil Nigeria Chief John Chaplin told the Ambassador on September 6 that oil majors were in the midst of renegotiating their MOU with the Nigerian government (GON), which would allow them to keep a part of the revenue over $30 per barrel, all of which now goes to the GON. They also a [...] |
2005-09-09 12:51:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ETRD NI OIL |
| 05ABUJA1683 | GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA ON AVIAN, PANDEMIC INFLUENZA [...] Embassy Abuja's Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) and an economic officer met on Sept. 9, 2005 with Ambassador Abdul Bin Rimdap, director general of the Nigerian Foreign Ministry's international organizations. 2. DCM presented ref talking points on the U.S. Government's intention to launch at t [...] |
2005-09-09 16:42:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON KSCA PREL SOCI TBIO XX NI AVIANFLU |
| 05ABUJA1684 | NIGERIA ON INNOVATIVE SOURCES OF FINANCING [...] Embassy Abuja's Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) and an economic officer met on Sept. 9, 2005 with Ambassador Abdul Bin Rimdap, director general of the Nigerian Foreign Ministry's international organizations. 2. DCM presented ref talking points on the U.S. Government's views on the Declaration [...] |
2005-09-09 16:43:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN EAIR EAID EFIN NI UNGA |
| 05ABUJA1692 | NIGERIAN PRESIDENT ABOLISHES EXPORT INCENTIVES [...] (U) The federal government of Nigeria has withdrawn the Bona-fide Manufacturers Scheme, and Manufacturer-in-Bond Export Scheme - two incentives the government extended to local manufacturers to be more competitive due to their alleged abuse. The Bonafide Manufacturers Scheme allowed manufactur [...] |
2005-09-12 09:04:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV EFIN NI |
| 05ABUJA1703 | NIGERIA: UK PROPOSED PRESS GUIDANCE ON A [...] (U) Action Request Para 11. 2. (S) SUMMARY: Despite repeated public denials and constitutionally mandated term limits, President Obasanjo's alleged aspiration to a third term has become a lightening rod among the political elites. The British High Commission proposes a common, public p [...] |
2005-09-13 09:45:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET | PGOV PREL KDEM OPRC NI THIRDTERM |
| 05ABUJA1745 | MAIDUGURI CUT OFF FROM NIGERIA RAILROAD 5 YEARS ON [...] (U) Summary. Embassy Abuja officers visited the Maiduguri train station of the state-owned Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) on August 19. Theis depot is the terminus of Nigeria's northeastern rail line, but heavy flooding in 2000 washed away tracks and bridges, leaving Maiduguri cut off fro [...] |
2005-09-19 16:45:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN ECON NI |
| 05ABUJA1789 | ARRESTS SPARK RENEWED UNREST IN DELTA [...] (C) Simmering tensions in the Niger Delta took a dramatic upturn with the arrest of Ijaw militia leader Asari Dukubo late on September 20. With passions already enflamed by the arrest in London last week of Bayelsa Governor Alamieyeseigha, reportedly a major financier to Ijaw militias, Asari [...] |
2005-09-21 17:01:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EPET ASEC NI DELTAVIOLENCE |
| 05ABUJA1798 | NIGERIA'S DELTA TENSE; ASARI IN COURT [...] (C) An uneasy calm has settled on Port Harcourt, but it is overshadowed by the fear among Embassy contacts that this incident could push the country into its most serious crisis in years. Some of the militia members have returned to the rivers even as Asari appeared before a court in Abuja. [...] |
2005-09-23 06:55:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EPET ASEC NI DELTAVIOLENCE |
| 05ABUJA1821 | NIGERIA PUBLIC DIPLOMACY INFLUENCE ANALYSIS [...] Introduction: Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation and the central gravity for the continent's emerging democracies. Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo is the current Chair of the Africa Union, and with approximately 130 million people and still growing, Nigeria provides the largest s [...] |
2005-09-26 13:58:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO NI |
| 05ABUJA1829 | NIGERIA'S SOBERING SOCIAL INDICATORS [...] (SBU) Summary: USAID provided technical assistance to analyze and publish data from Nigeria's 2003 Demographic and Health survey. The data analysis from that survey demonstrates two startling facts. In many areas, Nigeria has social indicators significantly worse than its poorer neighbors, [...] |
2005-09-26 15:59:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID SOCI TBIO PHUM NI |
| 05ABUJA1831 | NIGERIA: JOINT CRITIQUE WITH BRITISH ON NDLEA'S [...] (C) Summary: The U.S. and British Ambassadors agreed to develop and deliver a joint critique of the poor performance at present of the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to the Nigerian Attorney General in an attempt to highlight U.S./UK concern regarding Nigeria's massive problems [...] |
2005-09-26 16:00:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV SNAR NI |
| 05ABUJA1836 | NIGERIA DENIES MILITARY TIES TO NORTH KOREA [...] (C) Summary. Nigeria claims to have no military relationship with North Korea, and only a limited non-military relationship. The MFA's Director for Asia and Pacific Affairs said Nigeria's policy toward the DPRK is based on hopes for the peaceful resolution of all issues in the Six Party Talk [...] |
2005-09-27 14:09:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MNUC KNNP NI ZO POLMIL |
| 05ABUJA1845 | NIGERIA: IBB ON THE FUTURE OF DOMESTIC POLITICS [...] (S) Summary: Former military ruler and possible future presidential candidate Ibrahim Babangida will make a final decision only in the Spring of 2006 about whether to run for president. He also expressed interest in establishing his own political party. He urged the U.S. and other major do [...] |
2005-09-28 08:08:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET | PGOV PREL NI |
| 05ABUJA1846 | NIGERIA: DIALOGUE WITH TAIWAN RE PRC IN AFRICA [...] U.S. Mission Nigeria has had some contact with official Taiwanese in Nigeria. Deputy Chief of Economic Section recently met socially with the Deputy Director of the Taiwan Trade Delegation, Mr. CHANG Ming. Two recently arrived Missions members have transferred from Taiwan. 2. Post believe [...] |
2005-09-28 08:43:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EINV PREL CH TW NI |
| 05ABUJA1850 | Nigeria: COMBATING EXTREMISM [...] Summary: Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa with roughly an equal number of Muslims and Christians. Despite its prominence as a leading oil producer, the majority of Nigerians eke out a meager existence on less than a dollar a day, as the country finds itself near the bottom of the [...] |
2005-09-28 11:50:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM EAID KDEM KPAO KMPI NI |
| 05ABUJA1856 | NIGERIA: CENSUS DELAYED IS CENSUS DENIED [...] (U) As expected, the National Population Commission (NPC) requested a postponement the national census, which had been planned for December, explaining at a September 22 presentation at the Presidential Villa that there were delays in preparations for the long-awaited head count. For exampl [...] |
2005-09-29 07:50:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM NI CENSUS |
| 05ABUJA1861 | NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT FINANCE: THE KNOWN UNKNOWNS [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite improved government reporting on the Nigerian budget, neither the amount of revenue nor the actual expenditure is known with any confidence. The bulk of government revenue comes from the petroleum sector, but reported revenue is based on estimates and company figures. Fe [...] |
2005-09-29 14:33:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID EPET NI |
| 05ABUJA1862 | NIGERIA:LIBERIA DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO ECOWAS [...] (C) Summary. Despite sensitivities about the need in principle to support the legal structures of Liberia, the Executive Secretary of ECOWAS agreed with U.S. concerns about the Liberian Supreme Court rulings. He said that the U.S. and ECOWAS share a common position on how to respond to those [...] |
2005-09-29 15:50:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LI NI ECOWAS |
| 05ABUJA1870 | IAEA SAFEGUARDS COMMITTEE DEMARCHE [...] Embassy economic officer met on Sept. 7, 2005 with Director (EPA) of the Energy Commission of Nigeria, Professor O. L. Hoeje and Director General of the Energy Commission of Nigeria Professor A. S. Sambo. 2. Econoff presented ref talking points on the Board of Governors of the International [...] |
2005-09-30 10:54:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG KNNP AORC TRGY ECON IAEA |
| 05ABUJA1873 | NIGERIA/LIBERIA:GENERAL ABUBAKAR ON ECOWAS AND THE [...] (C) The Ambassador, with PolMilOff, met with CPA Mediator and former Head of State Abdulsalami Abubakar the evening of September 29 to deliver Ref A points, which were left as a nonpaper. Abubakar accepted the U.S. position and said that it is "in the line of our thinking." His response di [...] |
2005-09-30 11:21:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LI NI ECOWAS |
| 05ABUJA1891 | ECOWAS SUMMIT ON COTE D'IVOIRE AND OTHER REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary. The ECOWAS Heads of State and Government met in Abuja for an Extraordinary Summit on September 30 to discuss the situation in Cote d'Ivoire. Liberia was a late addition to the agenda. The leaders created a list of recommendations, which they have not made public, which will be [...] |
2005-10-04 15:25:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PBTS XY ECOWAS |
| 05ABUJA1892 | ECOWAS: AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS [...] The Ambassador presented the letter from S to the Executive Secretary of ECOWAS designating him as her "Special Representative to ECOWAS" on October 3. The short ceremony was also attended by the DCM, DATT, and PolMilOff and by the Deputy Executive Secretary for Political Affairs, Defense, a [...] |
2005-10-04 15:28:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL NI ECOWAS |
| 05ABUJA1900 | NIGERIA AGOA SUBMISSION AND RECOOMENDATION [...] (U) Country: Nigeria Current AGOA Status: Eligible 2. (U) Country Background Summary: Estimated population of 140 million. 2004 GNI was $55.9 billion; 2004 GNI per capita was $390. (World Bank 8/2005 Data) Nigeria completed civilian-run national and state elections in 2003 that were m [...] |
2005-10-05 07:41:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PHUM NI AGOA |
| 05ABUJA1902 | NIGERIA: VICE PRESIDENT ATIKU CONVINCED [...] (S) Summary: Atiku believes that President Obasanjo will try anything to stay in power past 2007, including exploiting unrest in the Delta and the Bakassi dispute to justify postponement of the elections. The Vice President fears that he himself could be assassinated. Atiku wants the U.S. [...] |
2005-10-05 08:40:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET | PGOV PREL NI THIRDTERM |
| 05ABUJA1904 | THE ECOWAS LOGISTICS DEPOT AND UNSC SANCTIONS [...] This is an action request. See paragraph 4. 2. As UNAMSIL vacates Sierra Leone at the end of the year, ECOWAS will assume control of the Hastings Airfield Complex outside of Freetown for the purpose of establishing a full-service peacekeeping logistics depot. This depot is one of the ke [...] |
2005-10-05 15:39:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPKO MARR SL NI UNSC ECOWAS |
| 05ABUJA1925 | CHINA'S INFLUENCE IN NIGERIA [...] Summary. (U) The People's Republic of China (hereafter China) has been for some time expanding its economic and business activity in Nigeria. Trade, energy, telecoms, and agriculture are the main areas of activity. Military cooperation is also an important area of engagement, both with Nig [...] |
2005-10-07 07:35:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET//NOFORN | EAID ECON PREL MASS EMIN ENRG ETRD AF CH |
| 05ABUJA1956 | NIGERIA: NARCOTICS [...] Summary: On October 7, I raised with the NDLEA Chairman, the Attorney General of the Federation and the Principal Secretary to the President Nigeria's apparently flagging performance in narcotics interdiction. Reaction ranged from denial -- the NDLEA chairman said our data about arrests and [...] |
2005-10-11 16:45:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET | SNAR PREL PGOV NI NARCOTICS |
| 05ABUJA1957 | NIGERIA: VICE PRESIDENT ATIKU REITERATES FIERCE [...] (S) Summary: Vice President Atiku believes that the North will erupt if its leaders are convinced that President Obasanjo is seeking a third term. This eruption, he believes, will occur whether or not Obasanjo changes legally the constitution to provide for a presidential third term. Atiku [...] |
2005-10-11 16:48:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET | PGOV PREF PREL NI THIRDTERM |
| 05ABUJA1986 | SLM CONFERENCE: CHADIAN/FRENCH PROPOSAL FOR [...] (U) On the margins of the Ninth Session of the Joint Commission (for the Cease-fire in Darfur) held in Ndjamena October 13-14, both SLM Chairman Abdelwahid Nur and France's Special Representative Ambassador Henri de Coignac had private meetings with Chadian President Deby touching on the Darf [...] |
2005-10-17 13:38:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KAWC KCRS SU NI DARFUR |
| 05ABUJA1987 | LONGTIME NIGERIA OBSERVER ON KANO'S SOCIO-ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Embassy officers met Sept. 1 with Professor Paul Lubeck, who recently visited Kano State. Lubeck formerly lived in Kano and has visited Nigeria for more than 40 years. Lubeck's observations about Kano were: - anti-Americanism there is at its highest point in more than 40 years; - [...] |
2005-10-17 16:30:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV ECON EAID KIRF NI |
| 05ABUJA2006 | NIGERIA ECOWAS COMMON EXTERNAL TARIFF UPDATE [...] Summary: Nigeria appears set to implement the ECOWAS Common External Tariff (CET), before the end of October 2005. The CET would harmonize Nigeria's tariffs with those of other ECOWAS member states, and make Nigeria's trade policies more predictable. Though Nigeria had earlier abolished impor [...] |
2005-10-19 08:18:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECIN EINV NI AGOA ECOWAS |
| 05ABUJA2008 | ABUJA: ROUND SIX [...] (SBU) Summary: The Sixth Round of the Darfur talks at Abuja, held from September 15 - October 20, were hindered by controversy within the SLM/A, poor planning, and a perceived lack of serious approach by the GOS and the JEM/SLM. The African Union did not provide the stern leadership needed [...] |
2005-10-19 13:14:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KAWC KCRS SU NI DARFUR |
| 05ABUJA2020 | NIGERIA: PRESIDENT OBASANJO ON NARCOTICS [...] (S) Summary: President Obasanjo wants immediate action taken on Nigeria's flagging performance in narcotics interdiction and is acutely aware of the consequences should Nigeria fail recertification. He has recalled Dr. Bello Lafiaji, Chairman of the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLE [...] |
2005-10-20 15:43:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET | SNAR PREL PGOV NI NARCOTICS |
| 05ABUJA2030 | ABUJA SITREP #2: CRASH OF BELLVIEW FLIGHT 3210 [...] (C) The EAC convened at 12:00 and was chaired by Ambassador Campbell. We continue to receive incomplete and sometimes conflicting reports about the location of the crash site and the presence and number of possible survivors. Pol Counselor spoke this morning to a Nigerian pilot who said he [...] |
2005-10-23 13:18:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC AEMR AMGT NI BELLVIEW |
| 05ABUJA2031 | SITREP #1 - 10/23/2005 1130 HOURS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The EAC reconvened and was chaired by Ambassador Campbell. Nigerian officials originally declared that Bellview flight B3-210 crashed in the Atlantic Ocean but have now stated that it crashed in Oyo state. The suspected place of impact is well northwest of the flight plan. Thi [...] |
2005-10-23 13:19:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC AEMR AMGT CASC NI BELLVIEW |
| 05ABUJA2032 | ABUJA SITREP #3: CRASH OF BELLVIEW FLIGHT 3210, [...] (C) Abuja EAC reconvened at 15:00 October 23, 2005, chaired by the Ambassador. Our latest information, confirmed by eyewitnesses, indicates that the crash site is near the village of Lissa, in Ifo local government area, Ogun State (Geocoordinates approximately 06 48 02 N, 003 18 21 E). This [...] |
2005-10-23 15:58:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC EAIR ASEC AEMR AMGT NI BELLVIEW |
| 05ABUJA2037 | INEC'S PROMISES RAISE QUESTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a rhetoric-heavy and superficial one-hour presentation to the donor's election support group, Independent National Elections Commission (INEC) chair, Professor Maurice M. Iwu, laid out his strategy to organize a high tech enabled election that would cost $66 Billion Naira, " [...] |
2005-10-24 08:32:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM NI ELECTIONS |
| 05ABUJA2039 | NIGERIA REQUESTS U.S. ASSISTANCE IN INVESTIGATING [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (U) The Government of Nigeria (GON) requested in a letter dated Oct. 24 technical assistance from the U.S. Government in investigating the Oct. 22 crash of a Bellview Airlines Boeing 737 about 30 km north of Lagos. Acco [...] |
2005-10-24 15:44:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC EAIR ASEC AEMR AMGT NI BELLVIEW |
| 05ABUJA2070 | REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE IN INVESTIGATING BELLVIEW [...] (U) This is an action cable. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (U) On October 25, 2005, post received the following letter from President Olusegun Obasanjo. The text of the letter is as follows: Dear Ambassador: Re: Crash of Nigerian Bellview Airline On Saturday, 23rd October 2005, Bellvie [...] |
2005-10-26 17:11:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC EAIR ASEC AEMR AMGT NI BELLVIEW |
| 05ABUJA2071 | BELLVIEW CRASH SITE SECURITY [...] 1.(SBU) Following reports On October 25 by ConGen Consular Reaction Team and others of concerns that security at the crash site was limited and that heavy equipment had been brought into to start excavation of the crash site crater before the arrival of U.S. investigators, Abuja Mission member [...] |
2005-10-26 17:12:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR CASC ASEC AMGT NI BELLVIEW |
| 05ABUJA2072 | MEETING WITH BELLVIEW AIRLINES RE CRASH [...] (C) Summary: On October 25, Bellview Airlines CEO, Kayode Odukoya, Exexcutive Director Gbenga Olowo and Abuja Airport Station manager Owo M called on the Ambassador to offer condolences on the death of Embassy staffer Major Joseph Haydon, to offer assistance to family members, and to provide w [...] |
2005-10-26 17:13:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR CASC ASEC AMGT NI BELLVIEW |
| 05ABUJA2073 | A/S FRAZER MEETING WITH NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR [...] (C) Summary: On 24 October, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer met with Nigerian National Security Advisor Aliyu Mohammed. They discussed the Sudan Peace Process, recent Liberian elections, Cote D'Ivoire, the Bakassi dispute with Cameroon, upcoming Nigerian elections, the s [...] |
2005-10-27 11:55:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM NI XY XW |
| 05ABUJA2075 | A/S FRAZER,S MEETING WITH NIGERIAN MFA RE [...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary Jendayi Frazer met with Nigeria's Foreign Minister Oluyemi Adeniji on 24 October to discuss the Sudan, Cote d'Ivoire (CDI), and other issues. During the meeting, Adeniji was vague on many issues, but spoke generally about the need to push the Southern Sudan [...] |
2005-10-28 08:00:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PTER MARR PHUM XW XY NI |
| 05ABUJA2079 | RULING PARTY'S ILLEGAL ACTIONS CAUSE CONFUSION AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: The crisis within the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) widened after its leadership ignored an Abuja High Court order and organized non-elective congresses on October 15, which excluded non-Obasanjo loyalists and their supporters. The congresses were characterized by [...] |
2005-10-31 07:01:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM NI |
| 05ABUJA2087 | OIL PRICE IMPACT ON NIGERIA [...] (SBU) Summary: High oil prices have proved a very mixed blessing for Nigeria. While greatly boosting government revenues, they have increased the challenge of managing those revenues. Though the government is wisely directing much revenue to debt repayment, some of the windfall is finding i [...] |
2005-10-31 15:52:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EPET PGOV NI OIL |
| 05ABUJA2119 | LEADERS OF YORUBA MILITIA GROUP ARRESTED [...] Summary: The leaders of two warring factions of the outlawed militant group Odua People's Congress (OPC), Fredrick Fasehun and Gani Adams, were charged by a Lagos Magistrate Court last week. OPC is the Yoruba militia responsible for violent communal clashes in Lagos and other parts of the S [...] |
2005-11-04 08:20:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM NI MILITANTS |
| 05ABUJA2127 | NIGERIA: NIGERIAN AMBASSADOR TO U.S. FEARS [...] (S) Summary George Obiozor, Nigeria's ambassador to the U.S., fears that Nigeria will break up "like Yugoslavia" unless the presidency's rotation amongst the geopolitical regions is "institutionalized" by a new or revised constitution. He advocates President Obasanjo remaining in office past [...] |
2005-11-04 14:03:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET | PGOV PREF PREL NI |
| 05ABUJA2138 | Embassy on Road in Nigeria: Sokoto [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 12-14, Ambassador and members of Embassy Public Affairs, Political, Economic and Defense Cooperation Sections decamped to the far northwestern state of Sokoto, doing two Iftar dinners, outreach events, and taking a closer look at education facilities in a region that [...] |
2005-11-07 08:48:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON KISL PGOV SOCI NI |
| 05ABUJA2142 | A/S FRAZER MEETING WITH NIGERIAN FINANCE MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 24, Assistant Secretary Frazer and Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala discussed Nigeria's completed Paris Club deal and Nigeria's efforts to improve its budget process and promote increased trade and investment. The Minister urged favorable U.S. action on [...] |
2005-11-07 15:23:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAIR ETRD EINV NI |
| 05ABUJA2148 | NIGERIA: DEMOCRACY AT THE TIPPING POINT [...] (C) With the shadow of the 2007 elections looming and a democracy scorecard that is mixed at best, Nigeria finds itself at a critical tipping point. There is great concern about whether the GON has the political will to implement the political reforms needed to increase transparency and enhance [...] |
2005-11-09 10:20:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM NI ELECTIONS |
| 05ABUJA2151 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED- IRANIAN PRESIDENT'S EXTREMISM [...] (U) On November 7, Poloff delivered reftel demarches to Ambassador Abdul bin Rimdap, Director for International Organizations at the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ambassador Rimdap was aware of the Iranian President's inflammatory remarks but said that the GON had not yet publicly rea [...] |
2005-11-09 15:28:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PHUM IR NI |
| 05ABUJA2168 | NIGERIA: PRESIDENT OBASANJO CONVENES MEETING ON [...] Summary: President Obasanjo convened a meeting November 9 to continue the discussion on Nigeria,s record on fighting narcotics trafficking. The Chairman of the NDLEA, Dr. Bello, gave an impassioned presentation refuting American and British allegations of poor performance that was wea [...] |
2005-11-10 14:06:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET | SNAR PREL PGOV NI |
| 05ABUJA2188 | ECOWAS ON LIBERIA AND TOGO [...] In response to reftel, Charge met with National Security Advisor (NSA) Aliyu Mohammed Gusau on Friday, November 11. NSA said he would personally convey the contents of the message to President Obasanjo on the afternoon of November 11 on his return to Abuja. 2. PolMilOff called ECOWAS Exec [...] |
2005-11-15 06:57:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KDEM NI LI ECOWAS |
| 05ABUJA2234 | NIGERIA'S PLAN ON AVIAN FLU STILL IN INITIAL STAGE [...] (SBU) Summary. In February 2004, Nigeria held a consultative forum on Avian Influenza (AI), and Nigerian President Obasanjo is "very aware" of the threat AI poses to Nigeria. The Ministry of Health (MOH), in late October 2005 issued the third draft of the government's AI Position Paper. On N [...] |
2005-11-16 14:17:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO SENV EAGR AMED CASC EAID XX NI WHO FAO AVIANFLU |
| 05ABUJA2242 | LOCAL PRESS REPORTS BUSH-OBASANJO LETTER RE THIRD [...] (U) SUMMARY: A local newspaper reported 17 Novemeber that a letter from President Bush to President Obasanjo had been delivered advising Obasanjo to not seek a third term. While not new, this is the most prominent reporting of the issue. The question came up in a press briefing held during [...] |
2005-11-17 12:10:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM NI THIRDTERM |
| 05ABUJA2244 | SCENARIOS FOR 2007 ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: Though potential candidates are already flinging mud and jockeying for position, there is no clear front-runner for Nigeria's 2007 presidential election. The role that President Obasanjo will play is still an important and open question. Will he be a kingmaker, eventually anoi [...] |
2005-11-17 13:15:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL NI ELECTIONS |
| 05ABUJA2253 | CHARGE CONVOKED OVER PUNCH ARTICLE [...] (C) Acting Under Secretary for Regions and International Organizations in Nigeria's Foreign Ministry (MFA) A. C. Ariyo convoked Charge during the evening of 17 November on instructions of the MFA's Permanent Secretary to relay a message from President Obasanjo. Ariyo was anxious to meet an [...] |
2005-11-18 12:37:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM NI |
| 05ABUJA2256 | NIGERIAN POLICEMAN KILLED OUTSIDE USG HOUSING [...] SUMMARY: This is one of many serious criminal incidents that have taken place in less than three days in Abuja. On November 16, 2005 at 1920 hours, a Nigerian uniformed policeman was shot and killed just outside of a USG housing compound. END SUMMARY 2. DETAILS: On November 16, 2005 at 1920 [...] |
2005-11-18 14:48:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER NI CRIME |
| 05ABUJA2283 | Phytosanitary Program Assessment Trip [...] (U) Reftel requested post to meet with ECOWAS Secretariat and judge its interest and ability to host a program to develop phytosanitary capacity. We have not met with the ECOWAS Secretariat by hope to do so by November 23 and will report on the results. 2. (SBU) As an interim response, po [...] |
2005-11-21 16:25:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID TBIO NI ATRD ECOWAS |
| 05ABUJA2287 | RUMBLINGS INCREASE AGAINST THIRD TERM BID [...] (C) The controversy over possible attempts by President Obasanjo to extend his tenure beyond 2007 continues to dominate current political discussions in Nigeria. Some lawmakers who spoke to POL staff admitted that there "is pressure from the presidency" to endorse a constitutional amendment [...] |
2005-11-22 15:05:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM NI THIRDTERM |
| 05ABUJA2289 | PRES. OBASANJO CONSOLIDATES HIS GRIP ON RULING [...] (C) President Obasanjo continues to consolidate his grip on the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) in preparation for its national convention early next year. The results of the latest regional (zonal) congresses of the PDP confirm Obasanjo's control over party machinery. Success in c [...] |
2005-11-23 06:40:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL NI ELECTIONS |
| 05ABUJA2295 | SHOOT OUT NEXT DOOR TO A USG RESIDENTIAL [...] On November 22, 2005 between 2020 and 2230 hours the local police engaged five carjackers that were pursued to a house locate directly next door to a USG housing compound. Embassy local guards and attached Nigerian police assisted authorities with the loaning of their po [...] |
2005-11-23 15:30:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC NI CRIME |
| 05ABUJA2322 | ECOWAS And Phytosanitary Program Proposal [...] (U) On November 25 Economic Counselor met with Dr. Subah, who handles agricultural programs at ECOWAS. In response to the questions in Ref A, Dr. Subah reported the following. 2. ECOWAS has been working with the USAID West Africa Regional Program (WARP) in Accra on SPS policy harmonization [...] |
2005-11-28 14:56:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID TBIO NI ATRD ECOWAS |
| 05ABUJA2326 | NIGERIA: VICE PRESIDENT ATIKU UPDATE ON [...] (S) Summary: Vice President Atiku says that he has taken the necessary steps to register, legally, a new political party through which he can contest the 2007 elections should he fail to win the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) nomination. For the time being, however, he is using the Movement [...] |
2005-11-29 11:00:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET | PGOV PREF PREL NI |
| 05ABUJA2339 | DARFUR PEACE TALKS: "FINAL, DECISIVE ROUND" OPENS [...] (SBU) Summary. The seventh round of the Inter-Sudanese Peace Talks on the conflict in Darfur opened on November 29 with all speakers emphasizing the importance of reaching a comprehensive agreement in this round. SLM leaders avoided an early setback by compromising on a single speaker for th [...] |
2005-11-30 13:51:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF SU NI DARFUR |
| 05ABUJA59 | OBASANJO ON SUDAN TRIBUNAL CONCEPT [...] (C) Ambassador presented the Sudan Tribunal Concept demarche to the Foreign Ministry and National Security Advisor, and then to President Obasanjo, on January 14. After explaining where he was going on the Darfur talks (below), Obasanjo asked how it would be decided who would be prosecuted by [...] |
2005-01-14 15:08:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KAWC SU NI DARFUR |
| 05ABUJA60 | WTO SERVICES NEGOTIATIONS: U.S. MARKET-ACCESS [...] The following responds to ref's request for information about U.S. service suppliers' market access in Nigeria. This cable ranks Nigerian sectors' level of priority for U.S. service providers (a value from 1 to 5, with "1" being a top priority for U.S. service suppliers). This rating is bas [...] |
2005-01-14 17:17:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD WTO NI |
| 05ABUJA676 | MOVING FORWARD ON ACOTA [...] (C) Summary. In meetings with visiting USG delegation led by Gen. Wald, Dr. Courville and DASD Whelan on May 2, the GON indicated its agreement to move forward on ACOTA. Intra-GON coordination has been accomplished, at least for now, and Post recommends keeping up momentum by dispatch soone [...] |
2005-05-04 14:59:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS MARR PHUM KPKO NI |
| 05ABUJA677 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ECOWAS ON TOGO [...] (C) Summary. The Executive Secretary of ECOWAS, Dr. Mohammed ibn Chambas, briefed Ambassador at length May 4 on ECOWAS's actions in Togo since the death of President Eyadema. ECOWAS supported the Togo elections happening within 60 days because that is what the Constitution provided for, al [...] |
2005-05-04 15:11:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM NI TO |
| 05ABUJA698 | DRAFT ELECTORAL ACT REVISION--NET NEGATIVE, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two years after Nigeria's greatly flawed 2003 and 2004 elections, a draft bill revising the Electoral Act is moving to committee in the National Assembly on its second reading. The net of what is in the draft is a slight step backwards in terms of the many serious concerns rai [...] |
2005-05-06 13:03:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM EAID KCOR NI |
| 05ABUJA70 | IRANIAN PRESIDENT KHATAMI PASSES UP U.S.- [...] Summary. On a state visit to Nigeria, Iranian President Khatami passed up an opportunity to bash the U.S. in public remarks. Instead, in responding to a journalist's leading question during his press conference with Nigeria's Foreign Minister, Khatami condemned Saddam Hussein and the Taliba [...] |
2005-01-18 09:12:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL IR NI |
| 05ABUJA728 | NIGERIA (AND UK) RE-WRITE G8 TRANSPARENCY [...] (SBU) With the British, the GON has expanded its Action Plan requests of January 2005 into a thematic structure that happens now to include most existing and pipeline DfID anti-corruption projects. It does not include any existing or pipeline USG anti-corruption programs in Nigeria, although [...] |
2005-05-12 23:05:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM EAID KCOR NI |
| 05ABUJA743 | OBASANJO AND CHARLES TAYLOR [...] (S) Summary: In our May 13 meeting, President Obasanjo reiterated his familiar arguments against turning Taylor over to the Special Court in Sierra Leone. He showed no sense of urgency and made it clear that he did not want to engage. However, he agreed on the importance of continued dialog [...] |
2005-05-13 16:59:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET | PGOV PREL SU NI LI |
| 05ABUJA756 | GON PRESENTATION ON NIGER DELTA [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Obasanjo has given us a document asking for cooperation in "ensuring availability, security and stability of hydrocarbon resources in the Niger Delta," although he refers to it as about the Gulf of Guinea as a whole and includes some regional efforts as a figleaf that it [...] |
2005-05-16 08:42:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS EPET PREL NI |
| 05ABUJA771 | NIGERIA - OUTREACH ON NEWSWEEK STORY [...] (SBU) Post has been pursuing the Newsweek story since it surfaced in the Nigerian press on May 9. Most versions, and all in the beginning, were repeats of foreign media reports of demonstrations/riots in Afghanistan. The Nigerian Government is aware that the story could be used to incite vio [...] |
2005-05-17 14:44:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KISL NI |
| 05ABUJA792 | SHIA-SUNNI CLASHES IN SOKOTO KILL THREE MORE [...] (U) Summary: A two-day conflict between rival Muslim groups in the northwestern city of Sokoto, seat of Nigeria's senior Islamic leader, the Sultan of Sokoto, led to the deaths of at least three people while dozens were injured. Shops, houses and other valuables were torched as Shia and Sunni [...] |
2005-05-19 06:40:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KISL NI |
| 05ABUJA797 | LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT OF THE NIGERIAN MILITARY [...] (C) Summary: Legislative oversight of the Nigerian military is still in its infancy. Meeting recently with a group from the U.S. National War College and Embassy staff, members of Nigeria's House Committee on Defense did not seem to understand what role they should play but were very inter [...] |
2005-05-19 14:29:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM MARR KPKO NI |
| 05ABUJA809 | ECOWAS' CHAMBAS ON ABUJA'S TOGO MEETING [...] (C) Summary: The Executive Secretary of ECOWAS believes a split is developing in the Togolese opposition, with Gnininvi and Agboyibo leading a faction that trusts Faure's intentions and is willing to work with him in a new government. Chambas is not sure that Olympio and the UFC are committ [...] |
2005-05-20 16:30:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS TO NI |
| 05ABUJA850 | CONTACTING OBASANJO ON ETHIOPIAN ELECTION [...] (C) Upon receipt of Ref A e-mail containing State 93687, we began asking for a meeting with President Obasanjo to deliver the talking points therein on how the AU is treating the Ethiopian election. Obasanjo is still in Paris on a four-day visit to France and is not expected to return to Nig [...] |
2005-05-26 13:30:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ET NI |
| 05ABUJA873 | NAVAL CHIEF COMPLICIT IN EXTRAJUDICIAL SHOOTING [...] (U) Two local newspapers reported on March 22 and 23 that a 50-year old female civilian, Gloria Ekeh, was shot by Chief of Naval Staff Afolayan's security detail. The newspapers reported that Ekeh's car collided with one of the Naval Chief's escort vehicles, causing an accidental discharge [...] |
2005-05-27 09:21:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET//NOFORN | PHUM KCRM MARR PGOV PINR KDEM NI |
| 05ABUJA880 | WHAT NEXT ON BAKASSI? IS THE UN STILL IN THE [...] (C) From Embassy Abuja's perspective, it seems UNSGSR Ould Abdullah's efforts to bring Nigeria and Cameroon to closure on Bakassi may be in trouble. As we have long reported (Ref B and before), the GON is only President Obasanjo on Bakassi, and Obasanjo has often said that he and President Biy [...] |
2005-05-27 15:21:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CM NI |
| 05ABUJA953 | NIGERIA'S MILITARY: PART I OF THE SERIES [...] (S) Summary. Nigeria's military is the largest in West Africa, but is significantly less capable than its size and equipment inventory would indicate. A large percentage of the Army is capable of little more than basic defensive operations, and most of Nigeria's ships and aircraft are inop [...] |
2005-06-02 07:14:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET | MCAP MASS PGOV PINR KDEM KPKO NI POLMIL |
| 05ABUJA965 | MEETINGS WITH PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS KALU AND [...] (C) Summary: Governors Kalu of Abia State and Makarfi of Kaduna State paid separate courtesy calls to the Ambassador recently amongst their campaigns for Nigeria's presidency in 2007 (Ref A). Both were critical of President Obasanjo, continuing ideas they had raised with us well before the N [...] |
2005-06-03 06:53:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM NI |
| 05ABUJA970 | NIGERIAN DEFENSE POWER DYNAMICS: PART II OF THE [...] (S/REL UK) SUMMARY: Leadership of the Nigerian military is personality-driven, from the President through the officer corps. Senior leaders rarely delegate decision-making authority and the "transmission lines" from these power centers are often weak and erratic, frequently leading to a fa [...] |
2005-06-03 13:54:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PINR MARR MCAP KPKO NI POLMIL |
| 05ABUJA971 | AMBASSADOR'S LUNCH WITH DR. CHAMBAS [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador and the Executive Secretary of ECOWAS, Dr. Mohammed ibn Chambas, discussed the role of ECOWAS in election monitoring on May 27. Chambas expressed concerns about the coming elections in Guinea-Bissau, particularly about candidate Kumba Yala, but said that neighbo [...] |
2005-06-03 13:55:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM EAID NI |
| 05ABUJA972 | MIXED REACTIONS AS NIGERIA MARKS DEMOCRACY DAY [...] Begin Summary: On May 29, 2005, Nigeria marked six years since President Obasanjo's return to power. Reactions to the celebration of Obasanjo's inaugurations were mixed. While some Nigerians say it is six years of democratic rule, others argue it is merely a return to civil rule devoid of t [...] |
2005-06-03 13:58:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM SOCI NI |
| 05ACCRA1051 | SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENT KUFUOR'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) Ghana is a democratic, market-oriented, pro-American country in a region marked by conflict and authoritarian rule. It has one of the best human rights records in Africa and has made significant efforts to combat trafficking in persons. President John Kufuor is five months into his secon [...] |
2005-05-27 16:34:00 | Embassy Accra | SECRET | EAIR ECON EFIN ELAB GH KWMN PGOV PREL PTER MAS |
| 05ACCRA1085 | AMBASSADOR MEETS GHANA'S MINISTER OF INTERIOR [...] (C) Summary: On May 27, Ambassador paid a courtesy call on Ghana's new Minister of Interior, Papa Owusu-Ankomah. He hoped for increased assistance in counter-narcotics and noted that the Cabinet has approved a draft trafficking in persons (TIP) bill. He promised to respond to us on propose [...] |
2005-06-01 17:56:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC EFIN GH KWMN PGOV PREF PREL PTER |
| 05ACCRA110 | GHANA: REQUEST FOR FUNDS FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY [...] This cable, in response to Ref A, requests funds for FY 05 public diplomacy outreach projects related to agricultural biotechnology. Post requests funding for upcoming workshops to be undertaken in conjunction with USAID,s Program for Biosafety Systems, the goal of which is to promote the judi [...] |
2005-01-14 10:51:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO EAGR ECON BIOTECHNOLOGY |
| 05ACCRA1110 | WESTEL UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: In an effort to avert the high cost of arbitration, Westel's Managing Director, Bill Taylor, and the GoG are working towards an agreement to end their seven-year-old dispute. According to Taylor, Westel submitted a terms sheet acceptable to the GoG in March, but Westel's Seatt [...] |
2005-06-03 11:09:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV KMCA GH ECPS |
| 05ACCRA1122 | GHANA'S FOREIGN MINISTER ON TOGO AND COTE D'IVOIRE [...] (SBU) The Ambassador and PolChief met on June 10 with Ghanaian Foreign Minister Nana Akufo-Addo to deliver a demarche on trafficking in persons (reported septel) and discuss his and President Kufuor's upcoming trip to Washington and meeting with President Bush. During the meeting, the minis [...] |
2005-06-06 18:46:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | GH IV PGOV PREL TO |
| 05ACCRA1134 | GHANA ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS, MAY 2005 [...] (U) This report covers noteworthy economic events and activities in Ghana for May 2005. The issues covered are: -- GoG Moves Forward on MCA Program Development -- Ghana Hosts G8/NEPAD Summit on Agriculture -- GoG/donors discuss new Poverty Reduction Strategy -- Local Poultry Producers Sue G [...] |
2005-06-07 17:28:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KMCA EAGR EFIN ECPS ENRG GH |
| 05ACCRA1148 | U.S. CHOCOLATE MANUFACTURERS IN GHANA TO WORK ON [...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S. chocolate industry is pressuring the GOG to issue a high level statement no later than mid-June declaring its commitment to eliminate child labor from the cocoa sector. Industry reps hope such a step may persuade members of Congress to drop draft legislation that would [...] |
2005-06-10 17:19:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON EIND ELAB ETRD GH PGOV PREL |
| 05ACCRA1187 | GHANA: DEMARCHE ON SWISS CIRCULAR NOTE [...] (C) On June 17, Pol Chief spoke with the Ghanaian Foreign Ministry's Acting Director for International Organizations Edwin Adjei and delivered reftel demarche on the Swiss Circular Note on the Conference for a Third Additional Protocol to the Geneva Convention. Adjei said the Foreign Minist [...] |
2005-06-17 12:35:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC GH IS PHUM PREF PREL SZ |
| 05ACCRA1203 | GHANA WILL SUPPORT WCO FRAMEWORK OF STANDARDS TO [...] On June 16, Econoffs delivered reftel demarche seeking support for the World Customs Organization (WCO) Framework of Standards to Secure and Facilitate Global Trade to Brigadier-General Baiden, Commissioner of the Government of Ghana's (GoG) Customs Service. Baiden said he was planning to at [...] |
2005-06-20 13:23:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON GH CTM |
| 05ACCRA1226 | GHANA'S TROKOSI REVISITED [...] (C) Summary: After another investigation of the issue, Post has been unable to find evidence of systematic human rights abuses in the traditional Trokosi practice. Fewer than 50 Trokosis are currently serving in shrines, and Trokosi is a dying practice. Some organizations have used fraudulen [...] |
2005-06-23 16:17:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID KDEM ELAB SOCI GH |
| 05ACCRA1282 | GHANA: VIEWS ON UN REFORM AND G-8 DEBT [...] Summary: The Ambassador met Ghanaian Foreign Minister Nana Akufo-Addo on June 28 to deliver demarches on UN reforms. Akufo-Addo said Ghana supports most of the USG priorities in UN reform, including creation of a Democracy Fund, reform of the UN Human Rights Commission, the creation of a Pe [...] |
2005-06-30 18:12:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ECON EFIN GH KUNR PGOV PREL |
| 05ACCRA1284 | GHANA'S PRESIDENT KUFUOR RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT [...] (C) Ambassador Yates met June 29 with President Kufuor, at his request. Kufuor complained about reports that the U.S. had attempted to delay the June 20 Board review of Ghana's IMF program over concerns on petroleum deregulation. Ambassador reassured Kufuor that the USG had supported Ghana's [...] |
2005-07-01 15:47:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON GH |
| 05ACCRA1317 | GHANA PRESIDENT KUFUOR AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS WAY [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Yates met July 1 with President Kufuor to discuss ways to accelerate Ghana's Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) program. Ambassador delivered Ref A talking points, emphasizing that both sides needed to increase engagement in order to conclude an agreement within a rea [...] |
2005-07-06 17:08:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KMCA GH MCA |
| 05ACCRA1351 | GHANA: DEMARCHE ON G-4 FRAMEWORK RESOLUTION ON UN [...] No summary [...] |
2005-07-12 08:50:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC GH PREL |
| 05ACCRA1357 | GHANA: COMPREHENSIVE CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...] |
2005-07-12 15:07:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC GH PTER UNGA |
| 05ACCRA136 | CTAG MEETING IN GHANA [...] (C) Summary: The British High Commission convened a CTAG meeting January 12 in preparation for a UK meeting on January 28. The group agreed that there had been no deterioration of the terrorist potential in Ghana, although there were isolated concerns. The GOG has not presented proposals [...] |
2005-01-19 17:02:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC EFIN GH PREL PTER UK |
| 05ACCRA1386 | GHANAIAN PUBLIC OPINION SURVEY SHOWS RISING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A March survey of popular opinion in Ghana, released on July 6 by the Center for Democratic Development, revealed mounting concern about the economy and corruption, especially perceived corruption by the president and his staff. Nonetheless, the survey revealed that support f [...] |
2005-07-14 17:11:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON GH PGOV PREL SOCI |
| 05ACCRA1389 | WESTEL UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After three months of negotiations, Westel has broken off talks with the GoG and is once again pursuing international arbitration. With the June 30 arbitration filing date looming, Westel reached an agreement with the GoG that included the mobile spectrum it has sought since th [...] |
2005-07-14 17:32:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON KMCA GH ECPS |
| 05ACCRA1391 | GHANA AND AGOA: RECENT SUCCESSES WITH A DIVERSE [...] (SBU) In 2004, Ghana increased its exports to the U.S. under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) by over 85%, to over $74 million dollars -- accounting for over 50% of Ghana's total exports to the U.S. In 2005, USAID's West Africa Regional Program's Accra-based West Africa Trade Hub [...] |
2005-07-14 17:34:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV KMCA GH |
| 05ACCRA1429 | GHANA RESPONSE ON LOCAL USE OF GEOGRAPHICAL [...] Per reftel, Post reports that there do not appear to be any products in Ghana that would be affected by the EU's proposals on Geographic Indications. Ghana currently imports most of the types of products listed reftel and on the EC website, including many such products from South Africa. Ghan [...] |
2005-07-20 17:07:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KIPR OTRA GH |
| 05ACCRA1435 | GHANA ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS -- JUNE/JULY 2005 [...] (U) This report covers noteworthy economic events in Ghana for June-July 2005. The issues covered are: -- Jeff Sachs Reiterates Call for Higher Aid flows -- Visit of State's Senior Advisor on Biotech -- Kufuor Hosts Ghana Investors Advisory Council ---------------------------------------- [...] |
2005-07-21 11:12:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID GH PGOV TBIO EINV UNGA |
| 05ACCRA1448 | GHANA ON THE G-4 RESOLUTION: AN ADVOCATE OF THE [...] (C) On July 22, the Ambassador delivered ref A points on the USG position on the G-4 resolution to Ghanainan Foreign Minister Nana Akufo-Addo. She urged Ghana to oppose the G-4 resolution or abstain, stressing the need to avoid a divisive debate on UN Security Council membership. He responde [...] |
2005-07-22 16:40:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC GH PREL UNGA |
| 05ACCRA1450 | SUDANESE REFUGEES ON THE BRINK OF EXPULSION FROM [...] (C) SUMMARY: A melee that broke out on July 21 at Ussher Fort involving Sudanese refugees resulted in a host of negative publicity and exposed GOG contingency plans to spirit them out of the country. Both UNHCR Representative Thomas Albrecht and Ambassador Yates have appealed for careful c [...] |
2005-07-22 17:42:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL GH SU |
| 05ACCRA1499 | POST COMMENT ON APPLICATION FOR OPIC FINANCE: [...] Post has consulted with various sources in Ghana and found no adverse information on Ghana Home Loans Co. Ltd., CAL Bank Ltd., or on any of the individuals mentioned Ref A. 2. Dominic Adu, the proposed Executive Chairman, is a Ghanaian trained in the U.K. as an accountant. Prior to workin [...] |
2005-07-28 16:19:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN GH OPIC |
| 05ACCRA1505 | RESULTS OF TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL SURVEY ON [...] (U) Summary: On July 19, the local chapter of Transparency International released a public opinion poll on perceptions of corruption in Ghana. The survey, while limited to three urban areas in the south, indicated that most people view corruption as pervasive and getting worse, although th [...] |
2005-07-29 14:26:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON GH PGOV PHUM SOCI |
| 05ACCRA1506 | CHARGE DELIVERS UNSC REFORM DEMARCHE: GHANA [...] On July 29, Charge delivered reftel demarche on UNSC reform to Ghanaian Deputy Foreign Minister Kwesi Osei-Adjei. (Note: due to the urgency of this issue, Charge met with the Deputy Foreign Minister rather than the Foreign Minister, who was not available until August 1. In the past, the Depu [...] |
2005-07-29 15:27:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC GH KUNR PGOV PREL UNSC |
| 05ACCRA151 | ECOWAS MEETINGS IN ACCRA: NIGER NEW ECOWAS CHAIR [...] Summary: A round of ECOWAS statutory meetings in Accra January 10-19 culminated in the 28th Summit of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government. ECOWAS heads of state unanimously selected President Mamdou Tadja of Niger as the new ECOWAS Chairman. There was candid discussion of regional conflict [...] |
2005-01-21 16:15:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EAGR EAID ECON GH PGOV PREL ECOWAS |
| 05ACCRA1516 | GHANA CENTRAL BANK'S HALF YEAR 2005 ANAYSIS OF THE [...] The Bank of Ghana (BoG) issued its half year economic review and analysis of financial and monetary policies. Inflation declined to 15.7% in June, monetary growth slowed, interest rates and commercial lending rates are falling, remittances are almost 60% higher than in 2004, reserves are stead [...] |
2005-08-01 17:14:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON GH |
| 05ACCRA1517 | GHANA CENTRAL BANK'S NEW MONETARY POLICY [...] (SBU) The Bank of Ghana (BoG) instituted a new monetary policy framework on July 1 -- including reduced reserve requirements -- to move towards an inflation targeting regime, increase transparency, and make the financial sector more competitive. Despite the potential expansionary effect of th [...] |
2005-08-01 17:15:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON GH |
| 05ACCRA1543 | UNSC REFORM: GHANA TO DROP VETO TO PRESS FOR SEATS [...] (C) During an Aug. 2 discussion on the proposed Human Rights Council (ref B), MFA official Nana Bema Kumi told PolOff that Ghanaian Foreign Minister Nana Akufo Addo will join African heads of state and other ministers in Addis Ababa on Aug. 4 for a single-issue summit on UN Security Council [...] |
2005-08-03 12:08:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL AORC GH KUNR PGOV UNCHR UNGA UNSC |
| 05ACCRA1547 | GHANA: HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DEMARCHE [...] On August 2, PolOff delivered ref A demarche on the proposed Human Rights Council to MFA Supervising Director for Legal, Multilateral and Passports Department Nana Bema Kumi. Kumi reaffirmed the GOG's support for creating a Human Rights Council and said she saw "nothing controversial" in the U [...] |
2005-08-03 17:02:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNCHR UNGA |
| 05ACCRA1548 | TOGOLESE REFUGEES PREPARING FOR THE LONG HAUL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Togolese refugees in Ghana, now numbering 11,900, are gearing up for the long haul, with plans underway for the construction or renovation of hundreds of homes, the donation of medical supplies in support of refugees, and the establishment of informal summer schools in pre [...] |
2005-08-03 17:04:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF GH TO |
| 05ACCRA1615 | PROPOSED LAW GIVES GHANAIANS OVERSEAS VOTING [...] (U) Summary: The ruling NPP party has proposed a law to enable Ghanaian citizens abroad to vote in elections. The opposition NDC party opposes the draft bill, fears the NPP wants to push it through, and says it will boycott the 2008 election if the bill is passed. The debate on the bill di [...] |
2005-08-10 17:13:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | GH PGOV PREL |
| 05ACCRA1644 | GOG APPROVES ANTI-TRAFFICKING BILL [...] Summary: With the July 28 passage of an anti-human trafficking law, the GOG is striving to overcome its downgrade to Tier 2 in our annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report and regain its reputation as a regional leader on human rights. This legislation marks the culmination of a protracted [...] |
2005-08-16 10:35:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL GH |
| 05ACCRA1679 | THE U.S. - GHANA RELATIONSHIP: THE AMBASSADOR'S [...] (C) Summary: The U.S.-Ghana relationship is strong and broad-based. In this message, I offer my parting thoughts on how the relationship has changed during my nearly three-year tenure as Ambassador, and identify some of the main challenges ahead. I leave very optimistic about Ghana. The Go [...] |
2005-08-22 07:34:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON GH |
| 05ACCRA1775 | OPPOSITION NDC RETAINS SEAT IN PARLIAMENTARY [...] (U) In a hotly contested by-election in Accra on August 30, the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) party retained its seat in Odododiodio constituency, beating the New Patriotic Party (NPP) by a substantial margin. Turnout was 55%, typical for a by-election. Embassy observers no [...] |
2005-09-01 16:16:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV GH GOG |
| 05ACCRA1788 | GHANA DEMARCHE: FOOD AID AND THE WTO [...] (SBU) USAID Acting Mission Director and EconChief met September 1 with Trade Minister Alan Kyerematen to deliver Ref A demarche on food aid and the WTO. This meeting followed on Post's July 5 letter to the Minister outlining the points articulated in the earlier State cable on food aid reform [...] |
2005-09-02 13:12:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EAGR ECON ETRD GH WTO |
| 05ACCRA181 | WESTEL UPDATE: GOG AGREES TO PARTICIPATE IN [...] (SBU) The GoG has agreed to participate in the arbitration case filed against it by Westel parent Western Wireless International (WWI). This reversal of the GoG's previously stated position was announced in a letter to Westel Director Bill Taylor December 17. This decision followed AF/W Offic [...] |
2005-01-25 18:22:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EINV GH |
| 05ACCRA1812 | GHANA ECON HIGHLIGHTS AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2005 [...] (U) This report covers noteworthy economic events and activities in Ghana for August and September 2005. The issues covered are: -- ExxonMobil Exits Ghana, Thirteen other African Countries -- Visit of US Coast Guard Port Security Liaison Officers -- MCC gives $3 million to Develop GoG Compa [...] |
2005-09-08 12:25:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD ECPS KMCA GH |
| 05ACCRA1868 | GOG BUYS WESTEL TO END SEVEN-YEAR-OLD DISPUTE [...] (SBU) Summary: Western Wireless International (WWI), the primary shareholder in Ghana's embattled second national operator Westel, has sold its interest in the company to the parastatel Ghana National Petroleum Company (GNPC) for USD 10 million. WWI dropped its international arbitration case [...] |
2005-09-15 12:47:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | GH ECON KMCA ECPS EINV |
| 05ACCRA1885 | IAEA DECISION ON IRAN: GHANA SYMPATHETIC BUT NOT [...] (C) On September 15, Charge and EconChief delivered Ref A points on reporting Iran to the UN Security Council to the Foreign Ministry. EconChief also delivered these points and Ref B points on safeguards and verification to GoG representatives to the IAEA. Deputy Foreign Minister Kwasi Osei- [...] |
2005-09-19 07:11:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL IR TRGY MNUC ENRG AORC GH IAEA |
| 05ACCRA190 | VALCO REBORN: ALCOA SIGNS MOU WITH GHANA GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) On January 26, Alcoa signed an MOU with the GOG giving it the exclusive right to assess the feasibility of creating an integrated aluminum industry in Ghana which could pave the way for a USD 600 million investment. If both parties agree on the economic feasibility of the project after [...] |
2005-01-27 16:58:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EMIN ENRG GH EXIM OPIC |
| 05ACCRA1900 | GHANA SUPPORT FOR INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP ON [...] (SBU) On September 15, Charge delivered Ref A points on seeking Ghanaian participation in an international partnership on Avian Influenza to Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Kwasi Osei-Adjei and Deputy Minister of Health Sam Owusu-Agyei. Deputy Foreign Minister Osei-Adjei promised to coordi [...] |
2005-09-19 17:09:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON KSCA PREL SOCI TBIO GH |
| 05ACCRA1969 | COMBATING EXTREMISM IN GHANA [...] (S) Summary: There is little political or religious extremism in Ghana. The Mission has an active Muslim outreach program and the USG spends about $12 million in programs annually directed largely at Ghana's 20 percent Muslim population. Other Mission activities help promote tolerance, incl [...] |
2005-09-27 13:17:00 | Embassy Accra | SECRET | EAIR GH KDEM KPAO PHUM PREL PTER |
| 05ACCRA2012 | GHANA ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS, SEPTEMBER 2005 [...] (U) This report covers noteworthy economic events and activities in Ghana for September 2005. The issues covered are: -- GoG/Donors plan for November 7 Consultative Group Meeting -- U.S. Customs Assesses Ghana Customs' Capabilities, Needs -- Ghana's oil refinery suffers exodus of senior emp [...] |
2005-10-01 10:35:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAGR ETRD EAID ENRG GH |
| 05ACCRA2036 | SCENESETTER FOR A/S FRAZER [...] (C) Ghana is a democratic, market-oriented, and pro-American country. It has one of the best human rights records in Africa and has made significant efforts to combat trafficking in persons. President John Kufuor is nine months into his second term, which has been marked by intra-party tensi [...] |
2005-10-04 18:05:00 | Embassy Accra | SECRET | EAIR ECON EFIN ELAB KWMN PGOV PREL PTER GH MAS |
| 05ACCRA2150 | GHANA: DEMOCRACY BUILDING SUCCESSES [...] Summary: In response to reftel A, post offers the following lessons from its efforts to strengthen Ghana's thirteen-year-old democracy. These lessons focus on our efforts to enhance the USG's credibility with political parties and human rights organizations, build capacity of local governments [...] |
2005-10-20 16:07:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | AFSI GH KDEM PGOV PHUM |
| 05ACCRA2168 | GHANA'S RESPONSE ON ICJ CANDIDATE [...] (U) On Oct. 5, PolOff delivered talking points and curriculum vitae of International Court of Justice candidate Thomas Buergenthal per reftel A to Supervising Director of Multilateral, Legal and Passports Nana Bema Kumi at Ghana's Foreign Ministry. Kumi said the GOG ordinarily develops lists o [...] |
2005-10-21 13:18:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | GH UNSC UNGA |
| 05ACCRA2205 | BELLVIEW PILOTS ALLEGE COVERUP OF EXCESSIVE FLIGHT [...] (C) On October 27, Ghana International Airlines' (GIA) Amcit Vice President of Operations Albert Vitale (STRICTLY PROTECT) told Econoff in confidence that he had recently interviewed four Ghanaian pilots currently employed by Nigeria-based Bellview Airlines for pilot positions at GIA. Vitale s [...] |
2005-10-27 16:53:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR GH NI |
| 05ACCRA2267 | GHANA'S AGOA ELIGIBILITY: POST'S SUBMISSION [...] Mission's submission regarding Ghana's continuing eligibility for the African Growth and Opportunity Act(AGOA) is formatted at requested in ref a. Submission was originally transmitted in ref. b. 2. Begin eligibility paper: TPSC SUBCOMMITTEE ON AGOA IMPLEMENTATION 2005 COUNTRY ELIGIBI [...] |
2005-11-04 13:17:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | AGAO ETRD ECON XA GH |
| 05ACCRA228 | INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT [...] Introduction: Post appreciates the extensions given for completion of this report, but wishes to underscore the difficulties involved in collecting the data. The Government of Ghana employs one person at the Bank of Ghana to monitor all issues related to money laundering. His long recent ab [...] |
2005-02-02 18:32:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PTER KSEP SNAR KTFN EFIN GH |
| 05ACCRA2287 | UNHCR DISCUSSES RESETTLEMENT, KRISAN CAMP, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During their initial courtesy call, Ambassador Bridgewater and Acting UNHCR Representative Luc Stevens discussed resettlement issues, the brewing unrest at Krisan Camp, the possible repatriation of Togolese refugees, and contingency planning for Cote d'Ivoire. Stevens said the [...] |
2005-11-08 11:31:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL GH TO CI |
| 05ACCRA2304 | GHANA'S DEFENSE MINISTER SEES MILITARY AS [...] (SBU) Summary: In the Ambassador's first official call on Minister of Defense Kwame Addo-Kufuor on November 7, the minister announced his vision to transform Ghana's military into a "development partner" of the Government of Ghana. A presidential hopeful, the minister used the meeting largely [...] |
2005-11-09 17:44:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL GH |
| 05ACCRA2311 | VIOLENCE AT GHANA'S KRISAN REFUGEE CAMP [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 8, refugees at Krisan camp in the Western Region of Ghana torched houses, and destroyed offices and vehicles, including from UNHCR. UNHCR's Senior Protection Officer in Ghana told PolChief and visiting RefCoord from Abidjan on November 10 that the violence was sp [...] |
2005-11-10 17:10:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | GH IV PREF PREL TO |
| 05ACCRA2312 | AMCIT HOSTAGE SITUATION RESOLVED AT GHANA GOLD MINE [...] (SBU) On November 9, Ghanaian mine workers held hostage senior staff, including Amcits, of a mine operated by the Ghanaian subsidiary )- Bogoso Gold Ltd. (BGL) -- of a U.S. based mining company, Golden Star. BGL informed Post and other affected Embassies about the situation on November 10, st [...] |
2005-11-11 10:25:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PREL PGOV EMIN GH |
| 05ACCRA2315 | PALESTINIAN AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES GHANA [...] (C) Summary: During a November 2 courtesy call, outgoing Palestinian Ambassador and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps Ibrahim Omar told the Ambassador that U.S. government efforts to gain allies among West African Muslims and stabilize the region will only succeed if the Israeli-Palestinian conflict [...] |
2005-11-11 16:24:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GH IS |
| 05ACCRA2316 | GHANA'S INTERIOR MINISTER DISCUSSES NARCOTICS, [...] (U) Summary: On November 2, the Ambassador paid a courtesy call on the Minister of Interior Papa Owusu Ankomah. The Minister emphasized Ghana's increasing role as a transit point for narcotics and pressed for further narcotics enforcement assistance. He also acknowledged Ghana's poor prison c [...] |
2005-11-11 16:27:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL GH |
| 05ACCRA2327 | AMBASSADOR MEETS VICE PRESIDENT OF GHANA ALHAJI [...] Summary: On November 10, the Ambassador paid a courtesy call on Ghanaian Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama. The Vice President praised our strong bilateral relationship, especially the MCA compact. He said the Northern Region of Ghana is calm and he was proud of the GOG's early submission o [...] |
2005-11-14 16:42:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON GH PGOV PHUM PREL |
| 05ACCRA2335 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MAJORITY LEADER AND [...] Summary: On November 9, the Ambassador called on Ghana's Majority Leader (and Minister of Parliament) and Speaker of Parliament. She emphasized the importance of parliament and good governance. Both parliamentary leaders praised US-Ghana ties and hoped for more USG support. The Speaker sa [...] |
2005-11-15 12:12:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GH |
| 05ACCRA2344 | PRESIDENT KUFUOR AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS MCA [...] (SBU) On November 11, 2005, Ambassador Bridgewater and Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) officials held the most open and frank discussion to date with President Kufuor about the state of Ghana's Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) program. On the eve of meetings in Washington between the [...] |
2005-11-16 12:50:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMCA ECON EAGR PREL GH MCA |
| 05ACCRA2382 | GHANA CIVAIR UPDATE - POSITIVE CHANGES AND REAL [...] (U) Summary: Ghana's civil aviation sector has entered a period of rebuilding after a year which saw the demise of Ghana Airways, the crash of Ghana-based MK Airlines' 747 in Nova Scotia, and the subsequent downgrade of the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), which barred all Ghanaian carrie [...] |
2005-11-21 17:11:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EAIR GH ECON |
| 05ACCRA2401 | GHANA ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS, OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2005 [...] This report covers noteworthy economic events and activities in Ghana for October-November 2005. The issues covered are: -- Government Submits Annual Budget to Parliament -- World Bank Review of Consultative Group Meeting -- World Bank Seminar on Fighting Corruption -- Treasury Advisors Ho [...] |
2005-11-23 18:30:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAGR PREL SENV EMIN GH |
| 05ACCRA2402 | AVIAN FLU: GHANA'S PLAN OF ACTION [...] (SBU) The GoG's response to the threat of an Avian Flu outbreak has so far been measured and pro-active. The Ministries of Health and Agriculture are working closely with USAID/Ghana and the World Health Organization (WHO) to create a comprehensive preparedness plan, which includes an assessm [...] |
2005-11-23 18:30:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMED CASC CMGT KHIV TBIO XA GH SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL XX SEC |
| 05ACCRA2425 | CORRUPTION IN GHANA I: PERVASIVE PROBLEM [...] (C) Summary: Corruption in Ghana is not as bad as in many other African countries but it is pervasive and increasingly sophisticated. That said, The GOG is committed to democracy and rule of law and Ghana has a lively media and civil society. The President faces accusations of conflict of [...] |
2005-11-29 07:08:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON GH PGOV PHUM PREL |
| 05ACCRA2427 | CORRUPTION IN GHANA II: FIGHTING BACK [...] (C) Summary: Reftel looks at corruption in Ghana, and this cable examines efforts to tackle the problem. Since President Kufuor came to office in 2000, Ghana has passed three anti-corruption laws, established an Office of Accountability in the presidency, allowed a more free media environm [...] |
2005-11-29 08:50:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON GH PGOV PHUM PREL |
| 05ACCRA2435 | EMBASSY GHANA'S RAMADAN OUTREACH TO MUSLIM [...] SUMMARY: This year Post continued to expand its Muslim outreach program during the recently completed Ramadan celebrations. The Embassy hosted more events, took the program to more areas, and reached more Muslim citizens than in any year so far. I was involved personally in several of the act [...] |
2005-11-29 14:25:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | GH KISL KPAO PGOV PREL PTER SCUL SOCI |
| 05ACCRA248 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH MINISTER-DESIGNATE FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 26, 2005 Minister)designate for Finance and Economic Planning, Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu and Acting Minister of State for Economic Planning, Dr. Nii Ashong paid an informal visit on the Ambassador to express appreciation for the U.S. Government,s (USG) support to Ghana. The [...] |
2005-02-04 15:06:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ENRG EPET GH |
| 05ACCRA2484 | WTO DOHA ROUND ACTION PLAN: GHANA [...] (SBU) In response to Reftels, Ambassador, Econoffs, and USAID/Ghana and USAID West Africa Regional Program (WARP) officers are working closely with the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MoTI) to prepare GoG representatives for the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial in Hong Kong with trai [...] |
2005-12-06 17:32:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD KIRC KPAO OIIP GH WTRO |
| 05ACCRA250 | STATUS OF REFUGEES IN GABON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Accra-based Refugee Coordinator and Embassy Libreville officers met with refugees and Gabonese officials on January 25 - 27 to discuss refugee issues. Although GOG officials said they warmly welcomed those fleeing violence in other countries, refugees recited a litany of compl [...] |
2005-02-07 07:25:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL GB |
| 05ACCRA2512 | OPPORTUNITY MISSED: GHANA UNLIKELY TO BACK U.S. [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Bridgewater met with Minister of Trade and Industry Alan Kyerematen December 7 to discuss the upcoming WTO ministerial in Hong Kong. Kyerematen confirmed Ghana's intention to negotiate as a bloc with other African Union (AU) WTO members --despite serious differences wit [...] |
2005-12-09 12:31:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PREL KDEM GH PROV WTRO |
| 05ACCRA2548 | POLICE EXCESSES IN CRACKDOWN AT KRISAN REFUGEE CAMP [...] (C) Summary: On December 8, RefCoords from Accra and Abidjan and AF/W Desk Officer for Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire visited Krisan refugee camp in Ghana's Western Region to investigate reports that police had beaten camp residents from November 8 - 11. Emboffs saw first-hand scars on the forehea [...] |
2005-12-15 11:33:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM CASC GH |
| 05ACCRA2554 | 2005-2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] No summary [...] |
2005-12-16 09:49:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR GH |
| 05ACCRA2563 | AMBASSADOR MEETS GHANA'S MINISTER OF FOREIGN [...] (U) Summary: The Ambassador paid a courtesy call on Minister of Foreign Affairs Nana Akufo-Addo on December 7 and discussed the Millenium Challenge Account (MCA) proposal, regional issues, the WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong, the Iraqi elections and Ghana's new seat on the UN Security Council. En [...] |
2005-12-19 10:49:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN GH PGOV PREL WTO MCA |
| 05ACCRA2565 | GHANA'S TEXTILES AND APPAREL SECTOR: UPDATED [...] Summary: Ghana's textile and apparel sector is small and -- despite the extension of AGOA benefits -- continues to shrink. Labor problems, cheap imports, lack of access to capital, smuggling, and copyright infringements have all contributed to a slow but steady decline over the last 30 years. [...] |
2005-12-19 11:21:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | KTEX ECON ETRD |
| 05ACCRA2566 | GHANA: COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] Ghana was not included in the 2004 Country Report on Terrorism. To date, no acts of international terrorism have ever occurred in Ghana. Ghana is not a sanctuary or safe haven for terrorists. Per reftel A instructions, Ghana will not require a detailed assessment. 2. The Government of Ghan [...] |
2005-12-19 12:43:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC KCRM EFIN KHLS KPAO GH |
| 05ACCRA2582 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH IOM CHIEF [...] SUMMARY: During the Ambassador's meeting Davide Terzi, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Chief of Mission, Terzi said the persistent cultural acceptability of child trafficking and the UNHCR's laggard handling of refugee resettlement significantly hamper IOM programs. Terzi al [...] |
2005-12-20 17:17:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PREF GH |
| 05ACCRA2583 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH MINISTER OF FOOD AND [...] Summary: Ambassador Bridgewater made a courtesy call on Minister for Food and Agriculture Ernest Debrah December 6. The Ambassador focused on Post's efforts to promote biotechnology, a revised agriculture strategy, and Ghana's agriculture-focused Millennium Challenge Account Compact Proposal. [...] |
2005-12-20 17:19:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR GH AGRICULTURE MCA |
| 05ACCRA2584 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES GAS PIPELINE AND CMS ENERGY [...] Summary: Ambassador Bridgewater made a courtesy call on Minister of Energy Professor Mike Oquaye December 19. The Minister and Ambassador discussed Ghana's preparation for the completion of the West Africa Gas Pipeline, the status of CMS Energy's expansion project, alternative energy sources, [...] |
2005-12-20 17:23:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ENRG GH |
| 05ACCRA2585 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES POLICE ABUSES AND CORRUPTION [...] SUMMARY: (C) The Ambassador raised the issue of police beatings at Krisan Refugee Camp during her meeting with the Minister of the Interior on December 16. The Minister indicated a willingness to investigate our findings and expressed indignation that UNHCR had not kept him informed. The Mi [...] |
2005-12-20 17:28:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM GH |
| 05ACCRA2587 | THE AMBASSADOR RAISES MISSION PROFILE IN TAMALE [...] Summary: During an intensive four-day trip to the Northern Region (November 29-December 2), historically plagued by ethnic conflict, but currently poor but peaceful, Ambassador and Mission team engaged in many successful programs that showcased transformational diplomacy at its best. The hi [...] |
2005-12-20 17:31:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON GH KISL KPAO PGOV PHUM |
| 05ACCRA2619 | GHANA'S PRESIDENT REJECTS CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS [...] (C) President Kufuor rejected recent corruption allegations (reftels) and assured his support for press freedom during a December 21 meeting with Ambassador Bridgewater. Ambassador warned Kufuor of the perception that corruption is worsening in Ghana, and noted U.S. concerns with lack of tran [...] |
2005-12-30 07:06:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PHUM PINR PREL PGOV GH |
| 05ACCRA302 | DCM MEETS GHANA'S NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL, DISCUSSES [...] Summary: On February 9, DCM Jerry Lanier and PolChief paid a courtesy call on Ghana's new Attorney General and Minister of Justice Ayikoi Otoo. DCM highlighted our interest in passage of an anti-trafficking law and in negotiating a new extradition treaty, as well as obtaining the extraditio [...] |
2005-02-10 12:05:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC CJAN GH KTIA KWMN PHUM |
| 05ACCRA306 | DCM MEETS MINISTER-DESIGNATE OF EMPLOYMENT, YOUTH, [...] Summary: DCM and Poloff called on Minister-Designate of Employment, Youth, and Manpower Development Joseph Kofi Adda on February 10 to highlighted our interest in Ghana's passage of an anti-trafficking law. Adda said that Ghana intended to enact the law but it would take some time for the cab [...] |
2005-02-11 07:02:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB GH KTIA KWMN PHUM |
| 05ACCRA311 | GOG AND UNHCR PREPARING FOR POSSIBLE INFLUX OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The death of former President Eyadema has added a new wrinkle to the historically troubled relationship between Ghana and Togo - despite President Kufuor's close relationship with the Eyadema family. Anticipating trouble, several dozen Togolese have already been observed trekk [...] |
2005-02-11 11:17:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL GH TO |
| 05ACCRA314 | GHANA: WTO NON-AGRICULTURAL MARKET ACCESS [...] Per reftel criteria, Post recommends the following private sector contacts that can be contacted to discuss a sectoral approach to tariff liberalization: Mr. Andrew Lawson, Executive Director Association of Ghana Industries Tel: 233-21-777283, 779023, 779024, 779793 Fax: 233-21-773143 Ema [...] |
2005-02-11 12:20:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD GH WTO |
| 05ACCRA350 | INL PROGRAMS INITIATED ON COMMUNITY POLICING AND [...] Two INL-funded programs in Ghana were successfully initiated in January. A new community policing unit was launched in Kumasi on January 28 (with twenty new patrol bikes) and the Embassy donated four computer workstations to the Ghana Police Service (GPS) on January 31. The launchings correspo [...] |
2005-02-16 12:20:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SNAR GH |
| 05ACCRA364 | MEETING WITH GHANA'S NEW MINISTER OF WOMEN AND [...] (U) Summary: On February 16, A/DCM and PolChief paid a courtesy call on Alima Mahama, Ghana's new Minister of Women and Children Affairs, to inform her about USG interest in passage of a trafficking in persons law. She said the ministry had recently submitted its comments on the draft TIP [...] |
2005-02-17 16:58:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB GH KWMN PHUM PREL SOCI |
| 05ACCRA370 | GHANA MFA VIEWS ON TOGO [...] (C) In a February 18 meeting, MFA Supervising Director of Political and Economic Affairs Leslie Christian told PolChief he saw some positive signs in the Togo situation. The fact that Faure Gnassingbe went to Nigeria on February 17 is encouraging, he opined. His information was that Gnassin [...] |
2005-02-18 14:22:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | GH PGOV PREL TO |
| 05ACCRA399 | GASOLINE PRICES UP 50 PERCENT AS GHANA MOVES [...] (U) Summary: On February 20, Minister of Finance Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu announced significant price increases for petroleum products. The price of gasoline jumped 50 percent, to USD 3.33 per imperial gallon. Diesel and Kerosene went up over 40 percent, to USD 2.94 and USD 2.66 per imperial gall [...] |
2005-02-24 17:29:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB ENRG EPET GH |
| 05ACCRA400 | USAID/WARP DISCUSSION OF A SECOND COMMON CURRENCY [...] Summary: USAID/West Africa Regional Program (WARP) hosted a January 28 meeting in Accra, Ghana, to discuss the establishment of a common currency (the "Eco") for the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ) --which consists of Ghana, The Gambia, Guinea, Nigeria and Sierra Leone-- and the work of the [...] |
2005-02-24 17:33:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN GH |
| 05ACCRA404 | GHANA: INPUT FOR 2005 PRESIDENT'S REPORT ON AGOA [...] Economic Situation: Ghana has a market-based economy with few barriers to trade and investment. In February 2005, the GoG ceded control of petroleum prices to the National Petroleum Tender Board, made up of GOG representatives and oil retailers, and gasoline prices immediately jumped 50 perce [...] |
2005-02-25 11:49:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED |