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SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SILVASANDE SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR SNUC SO SOC SOCI SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIO SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOMALIA SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STEPHEN HADLEY STET STP STR STUDENT SU SUCCESSION SUFFRAGE SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SUSAN SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THOMAS THOMMA THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN 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KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LOPEZ LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MANUEL SERGIO GONZALEZ MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARANTIS MARIA MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS MATT MAYA MB MBM MC MCA MCAP MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCAIN MCCONNELL MCCP MCGRAW MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEETINGS MENDIETA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL FELIPE CANAHUATI YACAMAN MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIKE MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMED HESHAM ELDIN YOUSSEF MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS MORALES MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURAD MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NADIA NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEGROPONTE NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICHOLAS NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC 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05KUWAIT142 | GOK SILENCES AL ARABIYA REPORTER AFTER ERRONEOUS [...] The GOK released January 8 on 300KD bail an Al Arabiya correspondent, detained January 5 for questioning after the Dubai-based news station aired a report of a shoot-out between militants and police. Adel Aidan, a Kuwaiti citizen, was taken into custody along with a journalist from the Kuwait [...] | 2005-01-10 11:22:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PHUM KU GPGOV |
05KUWAIT1449 | ASSEMBLY SPEAKER, PROMINENT MP DOWNPLAY [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Responding to a week of press speculation that Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah would seek the dissolution of the National Assembly in response to repeated ministerial grillings, National Assembly Speaker Jassem Al-Khorafi told local dailies April 9 that [...] | 2005-04-11 04:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
05KUWAIT1450 | NATO, ICI, AND KUWAIT - A WAY FORWARD [...] (C) SUMMARY. Post read with interest NATO's cable on the March 18 Rome ICI meeting. We agree with SYG de Hoop Scheffer's recommendation that the relationship be developed at a practical measured pace. NATO offerings that are likely to be most attractive and most useful to Kuwait would be tra [...] | 2005-04-11 04:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL KU XF NATO |
05KUWAIT1460 | GOK CONGRATULATES IRAQ ON APPOINTMENT OF LEADERS; [...] (C) Kuwait's English and Arabic press reported that during its weekly Sunday meeting, the Kuwaiti Council of Ministers extended its congratulations to the Iraqi people on the appointments of Jalal Talabani as President, and Ghazi Al Yawar and Adel Abdel Mehdi as his deputies. The April 10 sta [...] | 2005-04-11 12:34:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM IZ KU EAID KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT1462 | MP SAYS GOK ALLOWED HEALTH MINISTER'S RESIGNATION [...] (C) During an April 9 meeting with the Ambassador and visiting Senior Advisor and Coordinator for Iraq Policy, Ambassador Richard Jones, Liberal MP Mohammed Jassem Al-Sager told the Ambassador the Prime Minister had committed a "big mistake" in not replacing former Information Minister Mohamme [...] | 2005-04-11 13:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL KU |
05KUWAIT1465 | EU TRADE COMMISSIONER CRITICAL OF GCC STATE [...] (C) During consultations on a variety of issues with my EU counterparts today, they advised that during the recent EU/GCC Ministerial in Bahrain, the EU Commissioner for Trade criticized GCC members for pursuing bilateral free trade agreements with the U.S. Peter Mandelson reportedly upbraided [...] | 2005-04-11 13:41:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EU PREL KU |
05KUWAIT1467 | AMB. JONES CONSULTS WITH KUWAITI PM ON KEY [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador and Senior Advisor and Coordinator for Iraq Policy, Ambassador Richard Jones, met with Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah on April 9 to discuss political, security and economic support for the new Iraqi Transitional Government (ITG). Ambassador Jones, w [...] | 2005-04-12 05:27:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PHUM PREL EAID KU IZ KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT1468 | ASSEMBLY FOREIGN RELATIONS CHAIR ON IRAQ'S [...] (C) Summary: Senior Advisor and Coordinator for Iraq Policy, Ambassador Richard Jones, met with Chairman of the National Assembly's Foreign Relations Committee, MP Mohammed Jassem Al-Sager on April 9. Ambassador Jones, who had just returned from Iraq, briefed the MP on the formation of the P [...] | 2005-04-12 05:32:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL EAID KU IZ KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
05KUWAIT1482 | FOLLOW UP ON LIGHTER BAN DEMARCHE [...] (U) Reftel A points were delivered to the Ministry of Foreign Affai rs by diplomatic note on March 13, 2005. During a follow up conversation on April 12, 2005, Econoff spoke with Fawaz al-Farah, Deputy Director General of Civil Aviation for Aviation Security and Air Transport Affairs, to con [...] | 2005-04-12 10:07:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR PTER KU |
05KUWAIT1493 | NEW MINISTER OF INFORMATION HOPES TO DISSOLVE [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: In an introductory meeting with Ambassador, new Minister of Information Dr. Anas Al-Rasheed said that he would consider himself a successful minister if he were able to dissolve the ministry. He said that he is committed to freedom of the press and would work with the [...] | 2005-04-13 09:40:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAO ETRD PREL KIPR PINR KU IPR |
05KUWAIT1496 | KUWAIT ENERGY UPDATE: RECORD PRICES AND PROFITS, [...] (U) Summary: Kuwait Export Crude hits another record high in March, while sustained high oil prices push Kuwait's budget surplus to $9.2 billion for the current fiscal year and as high as $12-$13 billion in the next. Kuwait Oil Company expects to boost crude exports by an additional 150,000 [...] | 2005-04-13 12:19:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET ENRG KU OIL SECTOR |
05KUWAIT1497 | PRIME MINISTER REQUESTS SECURITY FOR BORDER TEAM; [...] (C) During their April 9 meeting, Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah told visiting Senior Advisor and Coordinator for Iraq Policy, Ambassador Richard Jones, that the United Nations had agreed to return to the Kuwait/Iraq border to oversee border pillar maintenance, but would need so [...] | 2005-04-13 12:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS KTIA MARR KU IZ UN KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT1498 | PRIME MINISTER COMPLAINS ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] (C) Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah complained that the State Department's Human Rights Report unfairly accused the GOK of interfering in the country's judicial process during his April 9 meeting with the Ambassador and visiting Senior Advisor and Coordinator for Iraq Policy, Amb [...] | 2005-04-13 12:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM KU |
05KUWAIT1500 | AMBASSADOR BRIEFS EU MISSION CHIEFS ON MEPI; EU [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador hosted a meeting with EU Chiefs of Mission to discuss Broader Middle East and North Africa (BMENA) projects in Kuwait as well as on-going Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) programs. The EU Chiefs reported the difficulty they had in convincing the GCC to part [...] | 2005-04-13 13:03:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON KMPI KU MEPI |
05KUWAIT1501 | GTMO DETAINEE NASSER AL-MUTAIRI RELEASED ON BAIL [...] (C) Summary: Former Guantanamo detainee Nasser Al-Mutairi (US9-KU-000205DP),who was transferred to Kuwaiti custody on January 15, was released April 13 on bail of KD 200 (USD 680) by the Criminal Court, pending the June 1 resumption of the case against him. The court's decision contradict [...] | 2005-04-14 09:07:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PHUM PGOV KU |
05KUWAIT1517 | AMBASSADOR ENCOURAGES GOK TO ENFORCE UNDERAGE [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador urged the Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Faisal Hajji Boukhadour to enforce a ban on the employment of underage camel jockeys and extend labor law coverage to domestic help. The Minister explained that the GOK was taking steps to ameliorate these problems but a [...] | 2005-04-16 13:39:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV PTER ELAB KU |
05KUWAIT1519 | SILENCED WRITER RETURNS AFTER NEWSPAPER COLUMN [...] SUMMARY: Liberal columnist Ahmed Al-Baghdadi, who forswore writing after being sentenced to a one-year suspended jail term for defaming Islam, has returned to work, saying that he must write to defend himself. His return follows an April 12 newspaper "column strike" in support of freedom of ex [...] | 2005-04-16 13:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PREL KISL PINR PHUM KU |
05KUWAIT1539 | KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNRWA EMERGENCY APPEAL [...] No summary [...] | 2005-04-17 13:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF KPAL KU PRES |
05KUWAIT1542 | KUWAITI DELEGATION DESCRIBES SUDAN AS "WORSE THAN [...] (SBU) During a 17 April meeting, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Khaled Al-Jarallah described the current situation in Sudan as worse than it was 20 years ago. Al-Jarallah, as part of a delegation led by Minister for Diwan Affairs Shaykh Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, visite [...] | 2005-04-17 14:54:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID ECON EINV PHUM SU KU |
05KUWAIT1557 | GOK RESPONSE ON RELEASE OF IRAQ ASSETS TO DFI AND [...] No summary [...] | 2005-04-18 11:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | ECON EFIN PTER KU IQ TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT1560 | KUWAIT REINFORCES NEED FOR SUNNI PARTICIPATION IN [...] (C) The Ambassador briefed April 17 Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Khaled Al-Jarallah on recent trips of senior U.S. officials to Iraq, stressing the shared U.S.-Iraqi commitment to building a transparent system of governance, ensure security within Iraq and along its borders, a [...] | 2005-04-18 13:23:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT1594 | GOK SKITTISH ABOUT MEPI FUNDING, ASSERTS FOREIGN [...] (C) Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Faisal Hajji Boukhadour voiced his concerns to the Ambassador about Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) funding of Kuwaiti organizations during an April 13 meeting. Under Kuwaiti law, he said, non-governmental organizations may not receive funding [...] | 2005-04-19 08:38:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KMPI PGOV PHUM KU MEPI |
05KUWAIT1600 | PARLIAMENT GIVES NOD TO WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN [...] The National Assembly gave preliminary approval April 19 to a municipality law amendment giving Kuwaiti women the right to run for, vote in, and be appointed to the Municipal Council. The measure passed 26 to 20 with three abstentions. A second round of voting is expected to take place in tw [...] | 2005-04-19 15:01:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM KWMN KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS |
05KUWAIT1631 | NEW FINANCE MINISTER EMBRACES PORTFOLIO, PROMISES [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador met with newly appointed Minister of Finance Bader Al-Humaidhi on April 20 and raised a number of issues of concern, including: cracking down on terror financing and tightening up Kuwait's money-laundering laws; IPR enforcement; Iraqi debt; and a tax case involving a U. [...] | 2005-04-20 10:54:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PINR KU |
05KUWAIT1633 | KUWAITI WOMEN MOVE TOWARD NEW POLITICAL RIGHTS; [...] (U) Summary: Kuwaiti women moved one step closer toward gaining political rights April 19 as Parliament voted to allow women to vote in elections for and run for Municipal Council (ref A). The amendment to the Municipality Law granting women these new political rights is scheduled to face anot [...] | 2005-04-20 13:52:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWMN PHUM KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS |
05KUWAIT1660 | EDUCATION REFORM: NEW KUWAITI TEXTBOOKS BY 2006 [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador, accompanied by CAO, met with Kuwait's Minister of Higher Education Dr. Rashid Al- Hamed on April 9, 2005. Discussion focused on reform of the educational system and textbooks. In previous meetings with Emboffs, ministry officials have said that the Ministry's str [...] | 2005-04-24 14:07:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV OEXC KISL KU |
05KUWAIT1677 | KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: FUNDING AFGHANISTAN'S [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) PolChief discussed reftel demarche with Hamad Al-Ahmad, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Counselor - Chief of Asian Affairs on April 20 and 24. Al-Hamad reported that Kuwait pledged $30 million at the January 2002 Tokyo Internat [...] | 2005-04-25 09:53:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID AF KU |
05KUWAIT1682 | COUSINS' CONSORTIA VIE FOR IRAQ POWER DEAL [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. Two wings of the influential Al-Ghanim clan are competing for the sale of electrical power to Iraq. Kutayba Al-Ghanim and Fouad Al-Ghanim recently presented similar, Kuwait-based BOT proposals to a visiting Iraqi negotiating team. The two consortia offer 7-10 year [...] | 2005-04-25 13:10:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP ENRG IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT1711 | EMBASSY KUWAIT VALIDATION STUDY ON DOMESTIC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Kuwait has completed a nonimmigrant visa validation study on domestic employee B1 visa recipients. The purpose of this study was to measure the overstay and non-return rates for B1 visa holders with Kuwaiti sponsors, as well as the B1 sponsors' compliance with U.S. labo [...] | 2005-04-26 16:38:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KFRD PHUM KU |
05KUWAIT1712 | AMBASSADOR AND COMMERCE MINISTER DISCUSS TIFA, [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador met Kuwaiti Minister of Commerce and Industry Abdullah Al-Taweel and staff on April 25 to discuss the status of the U.S.-Kuwait Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA),intellectual property rights (IPR),Project Kuwait, and the Pepsico tax dispute. The Am [...] | 2005-04-27 05:16:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL EPET EINV BEXP KU |
05KUWAIT1729 | FOREIGN MINISTER: GOK SERIOUS ABOUT COMBATING TIP [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador demarched Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah on Department concerns regarding Kuwait's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) status (reftel). While highlighting a strong U.S. desire to work with the GOK, the Ambassador raised specific concerns a [...] | 2005-04-27 14:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KCRM KWMN PGOV PREL KU |
05KUWAIT1730 | CHARITIES IN KUWAIT: TREASURY DAS DISCUSSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 16, 2005, Treasury DAS Glaser met with a Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor official to discuss how charitable contributions in Kuwait can be made, collected and transferred, and the methods the GOK uses to track and prevent the abuse of charitable contributions for te [...] | 2005-04-27 14:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER KTFN KU |
05KUWAIT1731 | CUSTOMS GIVES MIXED MESSAGE ON ANTI-TERRORIST [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an April 17, 2005 meeting with the Kuwait Customs Director General Ibraheem Al-Ghanim, visiting Treasury DAS Daniel Glaser learned of the new steps that Kuwait Customs is taking to combat terrorist financing. Although several new resources are being added to the Customs rep [...] | 2005-04-27 15:03:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER KTFN ELTN KU |
05KUWAIT1732 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: COLUMNISTS CALL FOR [...] Summary and comment: In the wake of an April 24 rampage by hundreds of Bangladeshi laborers who ransacked their Embassy to protest chronic nonpayment of wages (septel),both Liberal and Islamist columnists have called such nonpayment a national disgrace and urged their countrymen to do better [...] | 2005-04-27 15:06:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PREL KISL PHUM PINR KU |
05KUWAIT1733 | DAS GLASER DISCUSSES TERROR FINANCE LEGISLATION [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ambassador and Treasury DAS Daniel Glaser met with the Governor of the Central Bank of Kuwait on April 17, 2005. During the visit, DAS Glaser discussed the designation of Muhsin Al-Fadhli and inquired about any accounts that the Central Bank had frozen in response to that design [...] | 2005-04-27 15:16:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | EFIN PTER KTFN KU |
05KUWAIT1734 | TREASURY DAS GETS THE COMMERCIAL VIEW ON TERRORIST [...] (SBU) On April 16, 2005 Treasury DAS Daniel Glaser attended a dinner hosted at the DCM's residence. Several key members of Kuwait's commercial banking sector attended and over the course of the evening terrorist financing and the Central Bank's regulations to monitor banking transactions wer [...] | 2005-04-27 15:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIN PTER KTFN KU |
05KUWAIT1752 | HELP JUST A CALL AWAY: FOREIGN LABORERS TO PHONE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-04-30 12:55:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV ELAB KU |
05KUWAIT1756 | KUWAIT STOCK EXCHANGE: AN INSIDE VIEW [...] (U) Summary: Econ Officer met on April 27 with Kuwait Stock Exchange Manager of the Technical Bureau Department Ms. Wafa Mohamed Al-Rasheed for an overview and tour of the Exchange. Al-Rasheed described the modernization and upgrading of the Exchange, including the installation of a new ele [...] | 2005-05-01 04:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN BEXP PINR KU |
05KUWAIT1777 | FOREIGN MINISTER: PROGRESS ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS, IRAN [...] (C) Summary: During an April 27 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah told the Ambassador that he believes that the GOK has enough votes to pass the women's rights bill for Municipal Council elections on May 2 and that once women are regis [...] | 2005-05-01 14:13:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PBTS KUNC KPAL IZ KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS IRAN |
05KUWAIT1791 | KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ENCOURAGING SUPPORT [...] (SBU) PolChief delivered reftel demarche on 2 May to Ambassador Faisal Al-Mashan, MFA Arab World Department Manager. Al-Mashan agreed the ITG needs the public support of the international community and asserted Kuwait was among the first countries to welcome the formation of an Iraqi Govern [...] | 2005-05-02 10:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KU IZ |
05KUWAIT1807 | AVIATION UPDATE: JAZEERA READY TO LAUNCH AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: Econoff met with the CEO and Chairman of Jazeera Airways Mr. Marwan Boodai on April 30, 2005, to discuss the new proposed launch date of Kuwait's first privately owned airline. On May 1 Kuwait Airways (KA) announced that the draft bill transforming KA into a commercial body is ex [...] | 2005-05-02 14:19:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP EAIR KU |
05KUWAIT1808 | KUWAITI WOMEN'S MUNICIPAL POLITICAL RIGHTS REMAIN [...] (U) Summary: The results of the second round of Parliamentary voting May 2 on an amendment to the Municipal Law granting women political rights at the municipal level were 29 in favor, 2 against and 29 abstentions, sparking a debate as to the actual outcome. Some MPs claim a quorum was not rea [...] | 2005-05-02 15:05:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV KWMN KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS |
05KUWAIT1830 | OIL AND WATER: REGIONAL HUB OFFICER RECEIVES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During his April 17-20 orientation visit to Kuwait, Amman Regional Environment, Science, Technology and Health (ESTH) officer Jock Whittlesey met with a wide range of governmental, non-governmental and private sector individuals and participated in three public diplomacy outre [...] | 2005-05-03 09:32:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV TBIO EPET PREL KPAO KU TSPL |
05KUWAIT1834 | KUWAITI SHIITE POLITICAL BLOCS BUOYED BY WAVE OF [...] (C) Summary: The often mistrusted Shi'a population has slowly increased the intensity of its calls for reform since the liberation of Iraq, winning some concessions from the GOK, but losing ground in the face of active Salafi opposition. Although most Kuwaiti Shiites claim to identify themse [...] | 2005-05-03 12:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | PREL PINR KISL KU SOLI |
05KUWAIT1836 | CONFUSION AND DELAYS CONTINUE ON WOMEN'S VOTE FOR [...] (U) Summary: After admitting that he was wrong to declare "suspended" the May 2 vote on amending the Municipal Law to allow women political participation (reftel),Kuwaiti National Assembly Speaker Jassem Al-Khorafi provided the MPs with legal consultants' opinions on the previous day's vote. [...] | 2005-05-03 14:47:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KWMN KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS |
05KUWAIT185 | KUWAITIS NOT SURPRISED BY JANUARY 10 SHOOTOUT; [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Most Kuwait dailies described the January 10 incident (reftel),in which two state security officers and one militant were killed in a shootout, as an aggression which "shocked the Kuwaiti street." While the act was roundly denounced throughout the society, interpreta [...] | 2005-01-11 14:07:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL KISL KPAO KU |
05KUWAIT1859 | KUWAIT SUPPORT FOR MUSCAT-BASED ESTH HUB [...] (U) Embassy Kuwait strongly supports the establishment of an environment, science, technology and health (ESTH) regional hub in Muscat. Although the Gulf countries confront many of the same challenges as their counterparts in the Levant and Maghreb, there are many ESTH concerns that are uniq [...] | 2005-05-04 12:23:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TSPL TBIO AMGT KU ZR |
05KUWAIT1860 | DFI UPDATE FROM MFA LEGAL DEPARTMENT [...] (C) On May 4, 2005, Econ/C met with Mr. Ghanim Al-Ghanim, Director of the MFA Legal Department, to discuss the status of the $78 million in frozen Iraqi assets (Reftel) that remain at Kuwait's mission to the U.N. Al-Ghanim confirmed that this money has not been transferred to the UNSCR 1483 D [...] | 2005-05-04 13:25:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PTER KU IQ |
05KUWAIT1863 | WOMEN SPLIT ON FUTURE OF POLITICAL RIGHTS, SOME [...] (C) Summary: During several meetings with women's rights activists and supporters on May 4, PolOffs noted varying differences in opinion on the chances of success for women's political rights. Several expressed little hope that the two-week delay requested by Prime Minister Sabah Al-Ahmad Al [...] | 2005-05-05 07:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KWMN SOCI KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS |
05KUWAIT1878 | GULF INVESTMENT CORP: A GCC INVESTMENT POWERHOUSE [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador met May 3 with executives of the Gulf Investment Corporation and heard how this GCC-funded institution is changing its focus from simply encouraging private enterprise in the Gulf to providing financial research, investment advice and consulting throughout the region. [...] | 2005-05-07 12:45:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PINR KU |
05KUWAIT1879 | KUWAIT INVESTMENT AUTHORITY: DOING FINE BUT [...] (C) Summary: During a May 3 meeting with the Ambassador, Kuwait Investment Authority Managing Director Bader Al-Sa'ad said that KIA's assets had grown "substantially" over the previous year, but noted that recently KIA's U.S. investments had been a "drag on overall performance." He also said [...] | 2005-05-07 12:45:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV PINR KU |
05KUWAIT1883 | KUWAIT FUND: SPREADING GOODWILL WITH THE OIL MONEY [...] (C) Summary/Comment: During a May 4 meeting with newly appointed Director General of the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development Abdulwahab Al-Bader and Deputy DG for Operations and Disbursement Hisham Al-Waqayan, the Ambassador thanked the Kuwait Fund for its work in places of need around [...] | 2005-05-08 05:48:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN PINR KU |
05KUWAIT1884 | IRANIAN GAS AND PROJECT KUWAIT: THE VIEW FROM KPC [...] (C) Summary: During a May 2 meeting, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) General Counsel, Shaykh Nawaf Saud Nasser Al-Sabah (strictly protect) gave Poloff a readout on the status of Kuwait's efforts to import natural gas, including details on the highly publicized March 15 MOU with Iran. Nawaf [...] | 2005-05-08 10:18:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PREL PTER KU IZ IR OIL SECTOR |
05KUWAIT1900 | KUWAIT WILL CONTINUE TO PUBLICLY SUPPORT ITG AND [...] (C) Summary: During a May 7 call on Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Khaled Al-Jarallah, the Ambassador noted progress in Iraq since the formation of the Iraqi Transitional Government (ITG) and encouraged Kuwait to continue to make public statements of support. He stressed the n [...] | 2005-05-08 14:04:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KU IZ KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT1901 | AMBASSADOR HOSTS WOMEN'S RIGHTS DIALOGUE; WOMEN [...] (U) Summary: During a May 7 luncheon hosted by the Ambassador for Kuwaiti women's rights activists, many women expressed astonishment that an amendment to allow women political participation at the municipal level did not succeed during a second-round vote May 2. In general, they now reject th [...] | 2005-05-08 14:52:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KWMN KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS |
05KUWAIT1907 | MFA UNDER SECRETARY SAYS GOK SERIOUS ABOUT WOMEN'S [...] (C) During a May 7 meeting on regional issues (ref b),Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Khaled Al-Jarallah opened the discussion with the Ambassador with comments about the debate between the Government and Parliament on women's political rights. Stating, "I can assure you the Go [...] | 2005-05-09 10:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI KWMN KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS |
05KUWAIT1908 | KUWAITI COURT SENTENCES VIOLENT JIHADISTS TO JAIL [...] (U) Twenty Islamic extremists, including 18 Kuwaitis, were sentenced by the Criminal Court on May 8 in two separate cases for entering Iraq to fight U.S.-led forces, or providing training to others to fight there. Four others, three Kuwaitis and one bidoon (stateless Arab),were fined for low [...] | 2005-05-09 12:28:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL PTER KJUS KU ISLAMISTS TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT1912 | PRIVATE POLL IN KUWAIT REVEALS MAJORITY OF MEN [...] (C) Political up-and-comer Shaykh Mohammed Al-Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah (ref B) provided the Ambassador with the results from a poll he commissioned indicating 50% of Kuwaiti men back full political rights for women. Another 28% support women's right to vote, but not pursue elected office, w [...] | 2005-05-09 14:16:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KWMN KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS |
05KUWAIT1913 | KUWAIT GAS OPTIONS AND ILSA CONCERNS: GOK SAYS [...] (C) During a May 7 meeting with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Khaled Al-Jarallah, the Ambassador detailed U.S. concerns (ref B) about investment in Iran and advised that the proposed gas deal could trigger ILSA sanctions against companies involved in such investments. He furth [...] | 2005-05-09 14:25:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ETTC PREL KU IR IZ OIL SECTOR KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT1947 | WOMEN'S RIGHTS: AN UPDATE FROM THE FRONT LINE [...] (C) Summary: Two female women's rights delegations met with Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on May 9 to discuss the GOK's position on the issue of women's political rights. Both groups pledged not to discuss the details of the meeting and promised not to protest or rally in supp [...] | 2005-05-10 14:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV KWMN KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS |
05KUWAIT1965 | KUWAIT: THREE IPR SEMINARS IN THREE WEEKS [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. After their country was strongly criticized this past year for its poor intellectual property rights (IPR) record, Kuwaitis from inside and outside the government organized three different IPR seminars in late April and early May. The first event, an April 25 roun [...] | 2005-05-11 13:16:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PREL KIPR KU |
05KUWAIT1976 | BACKGROUND ON KEY ISSUES FOR THE WASHINGTON VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah will arrive in Washington May 17, in advance of an anticipated July visit by the Prime Minister. Shaykh Dr. Mohammed's visit follows his participation in the Arab-South America Summit held in Brazil, and planned [...] | 2005-05-12 10:22:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PHUM PGOV MARR ECON EAID CVIS IZ KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT2029 | WTO SERVICES NEGOTIATIONS: KUWAIT WILL SUBMIT [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-15 12:37:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD KU |
05KUWAIT2030 | LATEST EXPAT LABORER PROTEST: HOODWINKED [...] (U) Expatriate workers in Kuwait held the latest in a series of protests on their home-country diplomatic missions May 14 as hundreds descended on the Pakistani Embassy. Approximately 300-400 Pakistani laborers protested their current employment condition outside their embassy. According to Aa [...] | 2005-05-15 13:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ELAB PGOV KU |
05KUWAIT2037 | AMERICAN CORNER OPENS AT AUK [...] Summary: The Ambassador and President of the American University of Kuwait (AUK) officially opened the American Corner at AUK on Monday, May 9. In addition to opening the American Corner, the Ambassador visited with students at the campus library coffee shop and at AUK's career fair. The Am [...] | 2005-05-16 10:06:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL OIIP KIRC XF KU |
05KUWAIT2041 | GOK UPS ANTE ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS; REQUESTS IMMEDIATE [...] (U) The GOK surprised many during the May 16 session of the National Assembly in what was expected to be a re-vote on the proposed measure to grant women political rights at the Municipal Council level. Bypassing any discussion on municipal-level rights for women, the GOK introduced a motion, [...] | 2005-05-16 13:09:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV KWMN KDEM KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
05KUWAIT2064 | WELL WORTH THE WAIT: KUWAITI WOMEN GAIN FULL [...] After six hours of debate, the National Assembly passed May 16 an amendment to Article 35 of the election law granting Kuwaiti women full political rights, including voting in parliamentary elections and running for national office starting in 2007, the date of the next elections. Of the 59 M [...] | 2005-05-16 17:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV KWMN KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS |
05KUWAIT208 | KUWAITI CHARITABLE DONATIONS FOR TSUNAMI VICTIMS [...] Following a slow start and feeling the sting of accusations that it has been stingy toward countries hit hard by last month's tsunami, Kuwait has dramatically upped its assistance pledges this week (Ref A). In addition to the $100 million promised by the Government of Kuwait (GOK) on January [...] | 2005-01-12 11:56:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PGOV PREL KU |
05KUWAIT2091 | KUWAIT: DEMOCRATIC REFORM STRATEGIES TO SUPPORT [...] (U) Introduction: Kuwait proudly identifies itself as the region's oldest functioning democracy, pointing as evidence to its 43-year-old constitution; active elected National Assembly; and separate executive, legislative, judicial branches. The May 16 decision to grant Kuwaiti women full p [...] | 2005-05-17 14:12:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KDEM KMPI KU |
05KUWAIT2092 | REPORTS OF QURANIC DESECRATION SPARK LITTLE [...] Summary: Although local press have covered the story of supposed Quranic desecration at Guantanamo Bay, and some local Islamist groups have issued statements condemning the alleged actions, post has received little feedback from local contacts which would indicate widespread anger over the sto [...] | 2005-05-17 14:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KMDR KU PHUM SOCI ISLAMISTS |
05KUWAIT2093 | "MABROUK:" KUWAITI WOMEN GAIN POLITICAL RIGHTS YET [...] (U) Summary: The Government resuscitated a seemingly moribund campaign for women's political rights May 16 culminating in the passage of an amendment granting women full suffrage. On the sixth anniversary to the day that the Amir attempted to grant Kuwaiti women their voting rights in 1999, a [...] | 2005-05-17 15:48:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KWMN KDEM PREL KMPI KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS |
05KUWAIT2094 | MEDIA REACTION: FULL POLITICAL RIGHTS FOR KUWAITI [...] Summary: Kuwaiti media hailed the granting of full political rights for women by the National Assembly on the evening of May 16, 2005, as a "historic" moment. Initial reaction in all papers was positive and they are calling the granting to Kuwaiti women full political rights as the first st [...] | 2005-05-18 03:43:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OIIP PGOV KMDR XF KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS |
05KUWAIT2119 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: QURAN ALLEGATION FOLLOW- [...] Summary: While there has been coverage on the Quran allegations from Newsweek, Post has received little feedback from local contacts which would indicate widespread anger over the story (ref. A). Criticism from the media has generally come from anti-American sources. PAS issued a press rele [...] | 2005-05-19 07:08:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OIIP KMDR KISL XF KU |
05KUWAIT213 | SHIITE POLITICAL SCIENTIST: IRAN NOT TRYING TO [...] (C) Summary: Liberal Shiite and Kuwait University Political Science Chairman Professor Abdull Redha Assiri shared his thoughts on Iran with Poloffs during a January 11 meeting. Assiri, who travels often to Iran, said Kuwait and Iran maintain good relations and predicted that Iran -- already a [...] | 2005-01-12 13:38:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KU IR IZ |
05KUWAIT214 | GRILLING OF JUSTICE MINISTER UNEVENTFUL; PERSONAL [...] Summary: In what is being described as the most bland grilling yet, Justice Minister and MP Ahmed Baqer, the only Salafi in the cabinet, was grilled by liberal MP Jamal Al-Omar on January 10 for nine hours. Al-Omar is known to have a personal feud with the Justice Minister and this is likely [...] | 2005-01-12 13:42:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KISL KPAO PINR KU |
05KUWAIT215 | KUWAIT MFA ON DETAINEES: IF WE CAN'T HAVE THEM [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 4. 2. (S/NF) Pol Chief delivered January 8 background on the 12 Kuwaitis detained at Guantanamo (ref a) to Ambassador Khalid Al-Maqamis, MFA Director of Coordination and Follow Up. Al-Maqamis welcomed the information and confirmed that preparati [...] | 2005-01-12 13:48:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL KAWC PGOV KU IZ |
05KUWAIT2169 | SUMMARY OF OPEC-IEA WORKSHOP - THE OUTLOOK FOR [...] (U) Summary and Comment: The 3rd Joint OPEC-IEA Workshop, held in Kuwait on May 15, 2005, focused on the future of oil and gas supplies from MENA OPEC member countries and the anticipated worldwide demand for hydrocarbon products. Hosted by Kuwait's Ministry of Energy, the conference gave MENA [...] | 2005-05-22 13:30:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET KU |
05KUWAIT217 | MEDIA REACTION KUWAIT [...] Summary: All columnists condemned the January 10 terrorist act that left two Kuwaiti security officers and one terrorist dead. Many commentators faulted the government. One writer cited "loopholes in our laws" and another blamed it for having disregarded "warning signs." Another directed a [...] | 2005-01-12 14:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KU KDMR |
05KUWAIT2171 | AMBASSADOR MEETS CANDIDATE FOR FIRST WOMAN CABINET [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-22 14:22:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI PINR KWMN KU |
05KUWAIT2172 | POLITICAL REFORMERS CRITICIZE GOK FOR CRACKDOWN ON [...] (C) Summary: The GOK has come under criticism from prominent Kuwaitis for actions taken against members of the recently established Salafi, Islamist Nation's Party (Hezb Al-Ummah). All fifteen party founders were charged on May 2 with attempting to overthrow the government, violating laws go [...] | 2005-05-22 14:22:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KJUS KU ISLAMISTS |
05KUWAIT2173 | ASSEMBLY SPEAKER SURPRISED BY VOTE ON WOMEN'S [...] (C) Summary: During a May 21 meeting, Speaker of Parliament Al-Khorafi told the Ambassador the May 16 vote on women's political rights was a difficult day and he had not been confident legislation permitting their participation would pass. He named the Prime Minister as the reason for the [...] | 2005-05-22 14:41:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KWMN ECON EAID IZ KU EPTE WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
05KUWAIT2174 | LAWYER FOR ACCUSED TERRORIST MAKES HIS CASE [...] (C) Summary: PolOffs met with prominent defense attorney Osama Al-Munawer on May 15, 2005, at the law offices of his father, Ahmed H. Al-Munawer, to discuss the status of pending criminal cases against many of his clients. Al-Munawer is the defense attorney for most of the Kuwaiti nationals [...] | 2005-05-22 14:43:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PHUM PINR KJUS KISL KU TERRORISM ISLAMISTS |
05KUWAIT2197 | KUWAIT'S PRIVATE INVESTMENT COMPANIES ADVANCING ON [...] (U) Summary and Key Findings: During May 2005, Ambassador met with the leading figures in the Kuwaiti private investment sector. The Ambassador encouraged continued investment in the U.S. and new investments in Iraq and in other countries of U.S. interest. The Ambassador encouraged the inve [...] | 2005-05-23 13:01:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV KU KGCC |
05KUWAIT2199 | MEDIA REACTION: AMIR'S HEALTH, FOREIGN MINISTER [...] Summary: Kuwaiti media reported on the visit of the Amir, Shaykh Jabir Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, to the United States for "pre-planned" medical check-ups with assurances that the Amir's health was good. All Newspapers reprinted the Kuwait News Agency's (http://www.kuna.net.kw ) reports on Foreign M [...] | 2005-05-24 03:38:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OIIP PGOV KMDR XF KU |
05KUWAIT2212 | SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT CELEBRATES NEW RIGHTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 22, Kuwait's Women's Cultural and Social Society held an official reception to celebrate the May 16 passage of the law allowing women to vote and run for office. The event, held at the Society's headquarters and hosted by its President, activist Shaykha Al Nisif, featured [...] | 2005-05-24 09:47:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KWMN KDEM PREL KMPI KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS |
05KUWAIT2228 | KUWAIT'S INTERIOR MINISTER APPLAUDS WOMEN'S [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a meeting with the Ambassador on May 24, Interior Minister Shaykh Nawaf Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, said that the Prime Minister is seeking to place a woman in the Cabinet. (Note: The Prime Minister confirmed this in a meeting later in the day.) On C/T training, the Ambassado [...] | 2005-05-24 16:15:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | ASEC KISL KU PGOV PREL PTER SA TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT2229 | KUWAITI PM SAYS THERE WILL BE A FEMALE CABINET [...] (C) Summary: During a May 24 call on Kuwaiti PM Shaykh Sabah, the Ambassador congratulated him on the May 16 vote granting women full political rights and encouraged speed in bringing women into senior government positions. The PM said the GOK would appoint a woman cabinet minister, a matte [...] | 2005-05-24 16:53:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID ECON KDEM SOCI KWMN IZ KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT2231 | KUWAIT INPUT FOR 2005 REPORT OF INVESTMENT [...] (U) As requested reftel, post is submitting the following update for inclusion in the 2005 Report on Investment Disputes and Expropriations Claims. 2. (U) A. Claimant Designation: Claimant A vs. Kuwait Ministry of Finance, Offset Department. 3. (U) B. Year When Dispute Arose: The di [...] | 2005-05-25 04:27:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN CASC PGOV KIDE KU OPIC |
05KUWAIT2251 | KUWAIT IPR: NEW INFORMATION MINISTRY ASSISTANT U/S [...] (SBU) Summary. On May 24, emboffs met with Ibrahim Al-Nouh, the Ministry of Information's new assistant undersecretary overseeing intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement. Econ/C congratulated Al-Nouh on his ministry,s recent raids (ref B),and asked for additional details on Al-Nouh' [...] | 2005-05-25 11:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV PGOV PREL KIPR KU |
05KUWAIT2258 | FOUR OUT OF FIVE KUWAITI LAWYERS AGREE: SYSTEMIC [...] (C) Summary and Comment: An examination of many recent legal cases, discussions with Kuwaiti attorneys of all political stripes, and an overview of basic legal codes and procedures reveals significant flaws in Kuwait's judicial system. According to several lawyers, the system suffers from a c [...] | 2005-05-25 12:02:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL PTER KLIG KJUS PHUM ASEC KU ISLAMISTS TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT2265 | KUWAIT COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP: SOME [...] (S/NF) Summary: Post's Counterterrorism Working Group (CWG) met May 2 to asses the GOK's progress in developing its counterterrorism (CT) capacity. The group concluded that the GOK remained serious about confronting terrorism, investing heavily in tools and equipment, but is still in need of [...] | 2005-05-25 13:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL PGOV EFIN ASEC MARR CVIS KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT2335 | AL-ARABIYA REPORTER ACQUITTED OF HARMING NATIONAL [...] (U) A criminal court acquitted Kuwaiti correspondent Adel Eidan on May 21 of charges he had harmed the national interest. Eidan, a reporter for the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya satellite television network, was detained on January 4 and charged with "spreading false news that harmed national intere [...] | 2005-05-30 13:49:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KPAO KU |
05KUWAIT2380 | KUWAITI FOREIGN MINISTER WILL ATTEND U.S.-EU [...] (SBU) Along with his Dutch counterpart (representing EU Presidency) and EU Commission rep (resident in Riyadh),Ambassador met Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs Khalid Al-Jarallah June 1 to confirm Kuwaiti attendance at the Brussels conference on Iraq. Al-Jarallah said that the GOK highly [...] | 2005-06-01 11:55:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID IZ KU EUN KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT2416 | JUNE 2 MUNICIPAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS TO MARK [...] (SBU) Summary: The Kuwaiti Municipal Council (Al Majlis Al Baladi) is an influential governing body that retains great authority on important issues such as construction projects, economic development, and commercial planning. Despite its "municipal" name, the Council's jurisdiction is nationa [...] | 2005-06-01 13:45:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KWMN EIND KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS |
05KUWAIT2464 | KUWAITI PAPER REPORTS DEAL ON OIF JET FUEL [...] (U) On June 5, local Arabic daily newspaper Al-Qabas ran a short, front-page piece saying that Kuwait has agreed to supply the U.S. with reduced-price jet fuel for operations in Iraq (full text in para 2). Under the terms of the deal, the story said, Kuwait would provide jet fuel for $24/ton [...] | 2005-06-05 12:09:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS EPET PREL EAID MARR PGOV IZ KU |
05KUWAIT247 | IRANIAN WATER IMPORT AGREEMENT CANCELED [...] (U) Kuwait English daily Arab Times reported January 16 that a Kuwaiti-Iranian MOU signed in 2003 (ref. c) to import Iranian water into Kuwait was canceled by Iranian authorities due to inaction by the Iranian Majlis and Guardian Council and Kuwait's National Assembly. 2. (U) Iranian Deputy [...] | 2005-01-17 06:27:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EMIN ETRD KU IR KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT2484 | KUWAIT ENERGY DIALOGUE:OPEC PRODUCTION LIKELY TO [...] (C) Ambassador spoke with Energy Minister Shaykh Ahmed Al-Fahd Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah on June 6 to discuss points in reftel. He appreciated information about U.S. energy planning and initiatives. As for OPEC production, he noted that at the Isfahan meeting production had been around 28.8 million [...] | 2005-06-06 12:14:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON KU OIL SECTOR |
05KUWAIT2485 | AMBASSADOR CRITICIZED FOR REITERATING U.S. [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Led by National Assembly Speaker Jassem Al-Khorafi, a few Kuwaiti political figures have criticized the Ambassador's May 25 speech to the Kuwaiti Ministry of Defense Command and Staff College. The public release of the speech, in which the Ambassador reiterated U.S. [...] | 2005-06-06 12:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM KU IR NATIONAL ASSEMBLY KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT2486 | KUWAIT HOLDS SEMINAR ON POSSIBLE FTA WITH U.S. [...] (U) Summary. In a June 4 seminar sponsored by American-Kuwaiti Alliance (AKA),the Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the American Business Council of Kuwait and the Kuwait Economic Society, Kuwaiti, American, Jordanian and Singaporean speakers discussed the benefits of U.S. free trade [...] | 2005-06-06 13:36:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV PREL BEXP JO SN KU |
05KUWAIT2508 | (C) KUWAITI AMBASSADOR TO TEHRAN: IRAN FEARS [...] (C) Summary: During a June 4 meeting with Poloff and PolMiloff, Kuwaiti Ambassador to Iran Majdi Al-Thufiri shared his thoughts on the June 12 election, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei's ability to control Iran's security forces, the U.S.-Iranian relationship and Iran's concerns o [...] | 2005-06-07 13:52:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PARM KU IR KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT2509 | AMBASSADOR CONGRATULATES NEW MUNICIPAL COUNCIL [...] (U) Summary: Ten Kuwaiti men were elected in June 2 elections to the 2005-2009 Municipal Council and the GOK appointed on June 3 two women and four men to the Council completing the formation of the 16-member local governing body. The Ambassador paid courtesy calls on several newly-elected Cou [...] | 2005-06-07 13:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PINR KWMN EIND KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS |
05KUWAIT2515 | UN PROGRAMS AVAILABLE TO ASSIST GOK IN IMPROVING [...] (C) Poloff met June 6 with UN Resident Coordinator Moez Doraid and IOM Chief of Mission Mohammed Al-Nassery to discuss reaction to the 2005 Trafficking in Persons report, which downgraded Kuwait to Tier 3, and possible next steps to ameliorate the country's problems with the exploitation of do [...] | 2005-06-07 15:10:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV ELAB PREF KU UN |
05KUWAIT2547 | U.S.-EU INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IRAQ: KUWAIT [...] (C) During a June 8 meeting with Kuwait Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al Sabah Al Salem Al Sabah, the Ambassador again raised the June 22 U.S.-EU International Conference on Iraq, stressing the need for the conference to result in tangible support for the Iraqi Transitional Government [...] | 2005-06-08 14:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID KDEM KU IZ KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT2548 | IRANIAN NSA VISITS KUWAIT, CALLS FOR AMERICAN [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Following a number of official exchanges, the Secretary General of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Dr. Hassan Rouhani, visited Kuwait June 4-6, during which he held a series of meetings reportedly focusing on security cooperation in the fight against terroris [...] | 2005-06-08 14:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KU IR KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT2551 | FM REPORTS ON GCC GOODWILL TOUR, SAYS GOK OPPOSES [...] (C) Summary: During a June 8 meeting, Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed told the Ambassador he had been asked to visit Bahrain, Qatar, and the UAE to calm the waters between these GCC states and identify areas for cooperation with fellow GCC member Saudi Arabia. He reported progr [...] | 2005-06-08 16:06:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EPET PBTS PGOV KU KGCC |
05KUWAIT256 | REQUEST FOR DEPT CLARIFICATION OF ALLEGED REPORT [...] This is an action request: please see para 3. 2. On December 31, 2004, the Arabic newspaper Al-Watan alleged that a U.S. Department of State report exonerated all Kuwaiti charities of support for terrorism (informal translation in para 3). The story was subsequently repeated in other pu [...] | 2005-01-17 13:15:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC PTER PREL KU |
05KUWAIT257 | KUWAIT'S 2004 SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND [...] Per reftel, following is Kuwait's submission for the 2004 report on supporting human rights and democracy. The Embassy point of contact is Richard Michaels. 2. Begin text: Kuwait is a constitutional, hereditary emirate. The Constitution provides for an elected National Assembly; however, it [...] | 2005-01-17 14:03:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM ELAB PGOV PREL ECON KU HURI |
05KUWAIT258 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES TERRORIST ATTACKS, CT [...] (S) SUMMARY. In a January 17 meeting with Ambassador, National Security Bureau President Shaykh Sabah Al-Khaled said that while it was too early to reach any conclusions about last week's terrorist attacks, Kuwaitis everywhere were raising their voices against these incidents. He said he ho [...] | 2005-01-17 14:07:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | PTER EFIN PREL ETTC CASC KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT2587 | PM SENIOR ADVISOR SAYS IRAQ TOP PRIORITY, [...] (C) Summary: During a June 11 meeting which focused largely on Kuwait's relations with regional neighbors, Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister Mohammed Abulhassan told the Ambassador that Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah, who left June 11 for Riyadh, was attempting to break stalemates between Gulf [...] | 2005-06-12 07:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KU IR IZ KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS IRAQ |
05KUWAIT2606 | KUWAIT APPOINTS FIRST FEMALE MINISTER; CABINET [...] (C) Press reports that Kuwait has appointed Kuwait University Political Science professor and women's rights activist Dr. Massouma Al-Mubarak as Minister of Planning and Minister of State for Administrative and Development Affairs have been confirmed by Dr. Massouma and sources inside the Prim [...] | 2005-06-12 13:55:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KWMN KDEM PINR KU |
05KUWAIT2607 | COURT UPHOLDS EXTREMIST HAMAD AL-ALI'S SENTENCE; [...] (U) Kuwait's Supreme Court of Appeals (Mahkamah Al-Tameez) upheld on June 7 a two-year suspended sentence of Islamic extremist cleric Shaykh Hamad Abdullah Al-Ali (ref C). The court said that Al-Ali had violated the constitution by defaming Kuwaiti Amir Shaykh Jabir Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah during h [...] | 2005-06-12 13:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KISL PGOV KJUS KU ISLAMISTS |
05KUWAIT2618 | KUWAIT: TIP ACTION PLAN REVIEWED WITH THREE SENIOR [...] (C) Summary: Post has delivered TIP action plan to three senior Kuwaiti officials, including a Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister and the President of the National Security Bureau, who both stressed that the GOK views trafficking and other human rights as serious issues. In addition, two Ku [...] | 2005-06-13 08:09:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KCRM KWMN PGOV PREL ELAB SMIG KU |
05KUWAIT2624 | SECURITY BUREAU HEAD ON COUNTERTERRORISM, IRAQ, [...] (C) Summary: During a June 12 meeting with the Ambassador, National Security Bureau (NSB) President Shaykh Sabah Al-Khaled said the GOK remained committed to fighting terror and was taking all appropriate steps to arrest and prosecute those who practice or advocate violence. He reported th [...] | 2005-06-13 15:09:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL PHUM PARM KU IZ IR |
05KUWAIT263 | KUWAIT'S ANTI-TRAFFICKING PUBLIC AWARENESS ESF [...] Post requests ESF funding for an anti-trafficking in persons campaign targeted primarily at East and South Asian workers, the most vulnerable labor communities in Kuwait. Project FALCON (Fostering Awareness about Labor CONditions) would increase public awareness of trafficking in Kuwait, a des [...] | 2005-01-17 14:30:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM EAID ELAB KCRM KWMN SMIG ASEC KU |
05KUWAIT2631 | KUWAIT LIFTS REMAINING BAN ON US BEEF IMPORTS [...] (U) On May 29, Kuwait's Ministry of Commerce and Industry issued Ministerial Resolution 166, lifting the remaining ban on fresh, chilled and frozen imports of beef and its derivatives from Washington state to Kuwait (full text in para 2). The order went into effect on June 12, following its [...] | 2005-06-14 07:18:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR TBIO KU |
05KUWAIT264 | KUWAITIS SHOCKED BY RECENT TERROR INCIDENTS; MANY [...] (C) Summary and Comment: In the wake of a second shoot-out on January 15 between Kuwaiti security officers and extremists, public calls for increased monitoring of mosque sermons, weapons turn-in programs, and increased security throughout the country indicate a genuine and growing concern amo [...] | 2005-01-17 15:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL KISL KPAO KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT2654 | AMERICAN CORNER SPRING SEMESTER WRAP-UP [...] Summary: Post programming at the two American Corners in Kuwait was wrapped-up with the completion of the spring 2005 academic semester. Emboffs, Fulbright scholars and visitors were programmed at both of the American Corners in Kuwait. Programming involved informal lectures, presentations [...] | 2005-06-15 03:46:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL OIIP KIRC XF KU |
05KUWAIT2674 | AMBASSADOR CALLS ON FIRST WOMEN MUNICIPAL COUNCIL [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Earlier this month, the GOK appointed six members to the 16-person Municipal Council, including, for the first time, two women: engineers Shaykha Fatima bint Nasser Al-Sabah and Fawziya Al-Bahar. The appointments represented a historic first step for women's political [...] | 2005-06-15 13:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR KWMN EIND KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS |
05KUWAIT2694 | Public Diplomacy in Kuwait -- What "Moves the Needle"? [...] In the report "Changing Minds and Winning Peace" by the Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World," the authors emphasize the need for our public diplomacy programs to be evaluated by their ability to change attitudes towards the United States, using the metaphorical meas [...] | 2005-06-19 04:08:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC PREL SCUL OIIP XF KU |
05KUWAIT2712 | A SHAYKHA ON THE MOVE IN KUWAIT'S EDUCATION AND [...] (C) President of the American University of Kuwait (AUK) Dr. Shafiq Al-Ghabra recently invited the Ambassador to meet the chair of the university's board of trustees Shaykha Dana Nasser Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, granddaughter of the Prime Minister. Accompanying her at the June 13 meeting were Dr. A [...] | 2005-06-19 12:58:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PINR KU |
05KUWAIT2732 | MEPI KUWAIT: QUARTERLY ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND FUTURE [...] (C) Summary: Post's MEPI committee -- comprising representatives from the Front Office and Commercial, Economic, Political and Public Diplomacy sections -- convened June 12 to review the current quarter's accomplishments and discuss potential projects for the upcoming period. During the April- [...] | 2005-06-21 08:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KMPI ECON KDEM KWMN KU |
05KUWAIT274 | SHI'A CLERIC SAYS SHIITES LOSING LAST YEAR'S [...] (C) Summary and Comment: During a January 4 meeting, Secretary General of the Shiite Clerics Congregation and SIPDIS self-appointed representative of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistanti, Sayed Mohammed Baqr Al-Mohri, shared with Poloff his views on the resignation of Shiite Information Minister Mo [...] | 2005-01-18 07:41:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PREL KU IZ IR ISLAMISTS SHI |
05KUWAIT2802 | DOE WILLIAMSON DELEGATION VISITS KUWAIT [...] (U) Summary. DOE officials Williamson and Brodman met on 21 June with Minister of Energy Shaykh Ahmed and other senior GOK energy officials. The delegation delivered a letter from Secretary Bodman inviting Shaykh Ahmed to meet with him in Washington and expressing the Secretary's interest i [...] | 2005-06-23 05:37:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EPET KU PREL OIL SECTOR |
05KUWAIT2831 | GOK INCREASES IRAQI GRANTS TO $125 MILLION; PLANS [...] (U) In a June 25 conversation with Econ Officer, Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development Deputy Director Hisham Al-Waqayan commented on Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammad Al-Sabah's statements concerning additional aid for Iraq made at the Brussels Conference on June 22. Local newspapers [...] | 2005-06-26 05:42:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID KU IZ KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT2863 | COORDINATED GOK ANTI-TIP EFFORT UNDERWAY [...] (C) During a June 26 meeting with Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor (MOSAL) Acting Undersecretary Mohammed Al-Kandari, the DCM presented the ref B action strategy and reiterated the 60-day grace period for Tier 3 countries like Kuwait. In reference to the strategy's first point, Al-Kandari [...] | 2005-06-27 09:37:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KCRM KU |
05KUWAIT2869 | GOK OBJECTS TO TIP "COMPARISON" TO OTHER GULF [...] (C) Summary and comment: During her June 25 visit to Kuwait, NEA PDAS Cheney emphasized the need to make progress in dealing with the trafficking in persons (TIP) issue. Three senior officials voiced GOK disappointment with the 2005 report. The new Minister of Planning, the Foreign Minister [...] | 2005-06-27 13:42:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM KWMN KCRM KU |
05KUWAIT2893 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: KUWAITI OPINION ON IRANIAN [...] Summary: The election of Iranian president-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has stirred unease among Kuwaiti observers. While few voices predict Iranian foreign policy will substantially change under the new president, the perceived continuation of the status quo has prompted calls for GCC unity and [...] | 2005-06-28 14:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KISL PHUM PINR KU |
05KUWAIT2900 | CHENEY'S VISIT, COMMENTS ON IRAN AND DEMOCRACY [...] SUMMARY: Kuwaiti media produced blanket coverage of Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Elizabeth L. Cheney's June 24-25 visit to Kuwait. Ms. Cheney's comments praising Kuwaiti women for achieving their political rights and criticizing Iran for sham elections, and both Iran and Syria for supp [...] | 2005-06-28 15:39:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO KMPI KWMN KDEM KU |
05KUWAIT2902 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: TRAFFICKING IN [...] Summary: The Department of State Trafficking in Persons report and widespread media coverage of a subsequent Embassy-sponsored DVC on the issue with Ambassador John Miller (reftel) has moved some Kuwaiti commentators to acknowledge human rights abuses, but rarely do they concede that such abus [...] | 2005-06-28 15:40:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KPAO KISL KCRM PGOV KDEM KU |
05KUWAIT2911 | KUWAIT AGREES TO CROSS-CHECK SPEICHER DNA SAMPLE [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 3. 2. (C) The GOK's National Committee for Missing and POW Affairs (NCMPA) has formally agreed to cross-check a partial DNA sample of CAPT Michael Scott Speicher from the U.S. Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) and invites a DNA specialist to Ku [...] | 2005-06-29 09:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PGOV KU IZ |
05KUWAIT2922 | KUWAIT MOVES TO CUT FOREIGN CORP TAX RATE [...] (U) The Financial and Economic Affairs Committee of the Kuwait National Assembly voted out of committee on June 26 the GOK's proposal to amend Tax Law 3-1955 to reduce corporate tax on foreign firms from 55 to 15 percent of profits. Kuwaiti-owned corporations currently pay no tax and their s [...] | 2005-06-29 15:36:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EPET KU EIVN |
05KUWAIT2923 | FREE WATER AND ELECTRICITY? YES, IF YOU'RE KUWAITI [...] (U) On June 27, 2005 Kuwait's National Assembly unanimously approved a law that will waive up to 2000 Kuwaiti Dinar (about $6,850) of unpaid electricity and water bills per Kuwaiti household. Electricity and water issues have been debated between the GOK and the National Assembly for many ye [...] | 2005-06-29 15:36:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECON KU |
05KUWAIT2924 | KUWAITIS STILL CELEBRATING WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE AND [...] (U) More than one month after the historic decision granting women full political rights and the subsequent GOK appointment of one woman to the Council of Ministers and two women to the Municipal Council, Kuwaitis continue to celebrate the achievements with receptions, symposia, and other al [...] | 2005-06-29 15:36:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KDEM KWMN KMPI KU |
05KUWAIT2925 | KUWAITIS EXPRESS CONCERN, UNEASE ABOUT NEW IRANIAN [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Prominent Kuwaitis expressed unease with the recent election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as President of Iran during June 27 and 28 meetings with Poloff. Although conceding that Ahmadinejad's election would probably not bring about drastic changes to Iranian foreign and do [...] | 2005-06-29 15:36:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM MARR KU IR KNPP |
05KUWAIT2926 | GOK AND GOI CONTINUE TO MEET ON DEBT REDUCTION [...] (SBU) Ministry sources tell us that the Kuwaiti Minister of Finance Bader Al-Humaidhi met with Iraqi Prime Minister Jaffari on June 29 immediately prior to attending the final National Assembly session and then leaving the country for a short trip to Lebanon. We understand that debt reduction [...] | 2005-06-29 16:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID KU IZ |
05KUWAIT2927 | POST INPUT FOR GULF STRATEGY PAPER TO COMBAT [...] (S/NF) Post read with interest the Kuwait portion of the "Strategy for the Gulf Region to Combat Terrorist Financing And Strengthen Overall AML/CTF Efforts" paper (Ref A). While we endorse the action points for Kuwait as well-targeted and appropriate, we are concerned that the background por [...] | 2005-06-29 16:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER EFIN ETTC PGOV KU |
05KUWAIT2928 | GTMO DETAINEE NASSER AL-MUTAIRI ACQUITTED [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-30 11:13:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL PHUM PGOV KISL KCRM KU |
05KUWAIT2931 | PDAS CHENEY IN KUWAIT: WOMEN'S POLITICAL RIGHTS, [...] (C) During her June 25 visit to Kuwait, NEA Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Cheney congratulated Kuwait's first female minister, Dr. Ma'souma Al-Mubarak, on her appointment and discussed with her the political reforms and education needed to help Kuwaiti women enter the political arena [...] | 2005-06-30 19:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KWMN KU |
05KUWAIT294 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: TERRORIST FINANCE -- FADHLI [...] (S) Ambassador delivered ref A demarche to MFA Undersecretary Khaled Al-Jarallah on January 17. Al-Jarallah assured the Ambassador that Kuwait is ready to cooperate with the U.S., saying that the GOK recognized that people like Fadhli pose a threat to Kuwaitis as well as Americans, and that t [...] | 2005-01-18 12:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | ETTC EFIN PTER PREL CVIS |
05KUWAIT295 | KUWAITI OFFICIAL SAYS NO AID REQUEST FROM [...] (C) In a January 17 meeting with MFA Undersecretary Khaled Al-Jarallah, Ambassador asked if Jordanian Prime Minister Faisal Al Fayez had requested renewed assistance from Kuwait during his recent visit (ref A). The Undersecretary said that the Prime Minister did not/not ask for more aid in h [...] | 2005-01-18 12:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL JO KU |
05KUWAIT2990 | GOK PROSECUTION FOR TRAFFICKING-RELATED CRIMES [...] (SBU) Since the June 3 release of the 2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, PolOff has continued to meet with Hashim Maged Mohamed, General Manager of the Kuwait Union of Domestic Labor Offices (KUDLO). Mohamed also has a business association with Al-Haqooq International, a law firm provid [...] | 2005-07-03 12:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KCRM PREL KU |
05KUWAIT2991 | KUWAIT'S BUDGET: THE NEW MATH [...] Minister of Finance Bader Mishari Al-Humaidhi reported to local papers on July 3 that Kuwait posted a KD3.2 billion ($11 billion) surplus for the 2004/2005 (1 April - 31 March) fiscal year. Income for Kuwait was almost three times higher than the original budget projections made last year. Ap [...] | 2005-07-03 14:41:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EPET PGOV KU |
05KUWAIT2996 | AMERICAN SOLDIERS, KUWAITI WOMEN BOND OVER [...] Summary: The First Annual Kuwait-America Friendship Basketball Exhibition, a basketball game held June 30 at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, between the Arifjan servicewomen's team and the Kuwait Women's Sports Club team, was a huge success. Held against the backdrop of the May parliamentary approval of [...] | 2005-07-05 04:10:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO KDEM KU |
05KUWAIT3022 | UNAMI DONOR MEETING IN KUWAIT HIGHLIGHTS UN [...] Summary: During a meeting of donor and neighboring countries to Iraq organized by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI),EmbOffs heard about the various programs run by the UN, with a specific focus on the activities being carried out by UN agencies in southern Iraq. While [...] | 2005-07-06 04:22:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID KU IZ |
05KUWAIT3023 | KUWAIT: MDA DEMARCHE REQUEST REGARDING OIC MEETING [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-06 06:22:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PREF KU ICRC |
05KUWAIT3037 | CFLCC/MOI SIGN BORDER MOU [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 4, CFLCC and GOK Ministry of the Interior signed a memorandum of understanding that outlines the terms of use for the Coalition Crossing point on the Kuwait/Iraq border. This agreement entrusts the U.S. military with significant responsibility for control of one of the [...] | 2005-07-06 13:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN KTIA MARR MOPS PBTS PGOV KU IZ |
05KUWAIT3038 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: PRIME MINISTER SHAYKH [...] Summary: The exhaustively covered and widely hailed visit of Kuwaiti Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al- Jaber Al-Sabah to Washington DC sparked many columnists to examine the state of Kuwait-U.S. relations. While some commentators noted recent bilateral points of contention, such as traf [...] | 2005-07-06 13:47:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO PREL KU |
05KUWAIT3041 | TFUK01: KUWAITI RESPONSE TO JULY 7 TERROR ATTACKS [...] (U) The Kuwaiti government was quick to publicly condemn the July 7 attacks in London, reassert its commitment to the global war on terror, and call for the immediate capture of the perpetrators. Acting Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Shaykh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah told the press, "Ou [...] | 2005-07-08 11:54:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PGOV PREL PINR KPAO KISL KU |
05KUWAIT3054 | FOOD AID AND THE WTO: DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-09 12:25:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR ETRD KU WTRO |
05KUWAIT3055 | U.S. CANDIDATE FOR CODEX ALIMENTARIUS COMMISSION - [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-09 12:30:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD AORC KU |
05KUWAIT3057 | INFORMATION MINISTER CALLS FOR "RESTRUCTURING" OF [...] SUMMARY: Dr. Anas Al-Reshaid, Kuwait's information minister, said his ministry requires "restructuring" in a July 1 interview on the sidelines of Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah's recent visit to Washington, DC. While the term "restructuring" does not itself suggest rad [...] | 2005-07-09 13:01:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO KMDR KU |
05KUWAIT3058 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: LONDON TERROR ATTACKS [...] Summary: Local commentators aired widely divergent reactions to the London terror attacks. Some called for fighting terror by re-examining Islam and Arab culture to root out the causes, and condemning Bin Laden and his cohorts on religious grounds. Others implicitly blamed the attacks on the U [...] | 2005-07-09 13:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO PREL KU |
05KUWAIT3059 | KUWAIT COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP: SLOW BUT [...] (S/NF) Summary: The Charge chaired on July 5 Post's monthly meeting of the Counterterrorism Working Group (CWG). The CWG discussed continuing GOK efforts to locate wanted terror financier Mohsen Al-Fadhli; prompt GOK reaction to potential security threats, but limited follow up; the acquitta [...] | 2005-07-09 14:20:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL PGOV EFIN ASEC MARR CVIS KU |
05KUWAIT3085 | GOK LIKELY TO REACTIVATE OFFSET PROGRAM SOON [...] (U) At a July 11 signing ceremony between Boeing and the Ministry of Finance for an offset program project (reftel),the Minister of Finance said that Kuwait "has to go along with the program," indicating that the offset program, suspended in September 2004, would be reactivated. (Note: The [...] | 2005-07-12 06:39:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON BEXP KU |
05KUWAIT3091 | NATO MEMBER COUNTRIES IN KUWAIT OUTLINE PROGRAM [...] (SBU) Italian Ambassador to Kuwait Vincenzo Prati hosted July 6 the first meeting of NATO member countries in Kuwait, providing a general introduction to the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI) and explaining the role of NATO Contact Point Embassies (CPEs). The Italian Embassy is the CPE f [...] | 2005-07-12 06:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL PGOV KU NATO |
05KUWAIT3094 | HIJAB HIJINX: COLUMNISTS DEBATE APPROPRIATE [...] SUMMARY: In an interesting but likely coincidental juxtaposition, two editorialists -- one a liberal Shi'a former minister, the other a Sunni Islamist -- discussed the issue of appropriate Islamic dress for females in their regular July 9 columns. The liberal decries regulations in some minist [...] | 2005-07-12 09:04:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO KISL PREL KWMN KU |
05KUWAIT3097 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: KUWAIT TO OPPOSE G-4 RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-12 13:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KU UNSC |
05KUWAIT3098 | KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: FUNDING AFGHANISTAN'S [...] (C) PolChief discussed reftel demarche July 10 and 12 with Hamad Al-Ahmad, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Counselor - Chief of Asian Affairs. Al-Ahmad said with elections scheduled for September, it was still "too early for Kuwait" to make a decision on additional funding. PolChief stressed t [...] | 2005-07-12 14:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PHUM KU |
05KUWAIT3099 | DEMARCHES DELIVERED: KUWAIT SUPPORTS PARIS CLUB [...] (C) During a July 12 meeting with the Charge d'Affaires, Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Khaled Al-Jarallah said that Kuwait is still committed to forgiving Iraqi debt but in accordance with the Paris Club formula. He did not react to the CDA's suggestion that Kuwait forgive [...] | 2005-07-12 14:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV PREL EAID KU IZ |
05KUWAIT3112 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GOK UNAWARE OF MAURITANIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-13 09:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER OPDC KU MR |
05KUWAIT3113 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GOK REQUESTED TO RATIFY CCIT [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-13 10:02:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KU UNGA |
05KUWAIT3158 | TIP UPDATE: GOK PROPOSES NEW LABOR LAW, TO REQUIRE [...] Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor (MOSAL) Acting Undersecretary Mohammed Al-Kandari updated CDA July 12 on Kuwait's actions to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) in the second in a series of meetings (ref A) since the release of the TIP Report in June (ref B). Al-Kandari reported that MOSA [...] | 2005-07-17 12:13:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL KCRM KU |
05KUWAIT3164 | DEMARCHE ON DEFEATING THE G-4 FRAMEWORK RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-17 12:40:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KU UNSC |
05KUWAIT3173 | MIN ENERGY UNDERSECRETARY ON OIL PRICES AND ENERGY [...] (C) At a July 16 meeting with Charge, Ministry of Energy Undersecretary Issa Al-Own voiced his concerns about the "NOPEC" legislation and described three problems keeping world oil prices high: lack of refining capacity; market uncertainty in major producing countries such as Iraq and Venezue [...] | 2005-07-18 10:12:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PINR KU OIL SECTOR |
05KUWAIT3178 | The Diwaniya: A Defining Element of [...] Introduction: Post reporting often refers to "diwaniya" visits, important sources for information on domestic and international developments. Most readers recognize the diwaniya as an uniquely Kuwaiti political, social, and cultural institution, but what exactly is a diwaniya and what role [...] | 2005-07-18 13:30:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KU |
05KUWAIT3180 | MANY KUWAITI MINISTRIES ESSENTIALLY [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-18 13:47:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV AMGT ECON ELAB PREL KU |
05KUWAIT3196 | VORONTSOV ON POWS AND KUWAITI ARCHIVES: "SOMEONE [...] (C) Summary: During a brief visit to Kuwait, the UN Secretary General's High-Level Coordinator Ambassador Yuli SIPDIS Vorontsov briefed the Charge on preparations of the quarterly report, due August 25, on the missing and prisoners of war from the 1990-91 Gulf War. He said the current se [...] | 2005-07-19 12:15:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV KU IZ KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT3197 | TERRORISM FINANCE: MOVEMENT FOR ISLAMIC REFORM IN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-19 14:18:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER CVIS KVPR KU |
05KUWAIT321 | Media Reaction: Ongoing Commentaries about Recent [...] Summary ----------- Most columnists blame the GOK for "having failed to contain a rising tide of radical Islamic thought" and call for legislation to combat terrorism. End Summary. ---------------- 2. Block Quotes ---------------- A. One liberal columnist with independent Al-Qab [...] | 2005-01-19 12:12:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KU KDMR |
05KUWAIT3219 | TIP UPDATE: RECENT GOK ACTIONS TO PROTECT FOREIGN [...] The GOK continues to address foreign labor exploitation problems following the release of the 2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. An inter-ministerial committee, referred to as the "Four-Member Committee," established mid- June to oversee expatriate worker affairs (ref B) met July 19 t [...] | 2005-07-20 13:36:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV ELAB KCRM KU |
05KUWAIT3221 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SPEAKER SPEAKS OUT ON WOMEN, [...] SUMMARY: Speaker of the National Assembly Jassem Al- Khorafi discussed women's political rights, human rights, Kuwait's democratic development and political parties in a July 19 interview with Abu Dhabi TV widely covered the next day in all local media. Al-Khorafi clarified a series of recent [...] | 2005-07-20 13:42:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO KISL PREL PHUM KMPI KWMN KU |
05KUWAIT3222 | MIN COMMERCE IPR TASKFORCE RAMPS UP, SEPTEMBER [...] (SBU) Summary: During a July 18 meeting with Ministry of Commerce Inspection Department Director Mansour Al-Nazhan, we heard about increased IPR enforcement activity on the part of a newly created "task force" to combat intellectual property theft. While the six-month old task force does not [...] | 2005-07-20 14:49:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON KIPR PREL KU IPR |
05KUWAIT3224 | ACTIVISTS LAUD WOMEN'S RIGHTS ACCOMPLISHMENTS; [...] (U) Summary: The Charge hosted on July 19 a tea for the three delegations of Kuwaiti women who traveled in early July to the U.S., the UK, and France to talk about women's rights (ref b). Other attendees included political activists, Members of Parliament, journalists, and members of the d [...] | 2005-07-20 14:53:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KWMN KMPI KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS |
05KUWAIT3241 | PARLIAMENTARY INVESTIGATION OF KBR CONTRACT FINDS [...] July 21 newspapers reported that the parliamentary committee investigating suspected irregularities in humanitarian fuel sales to the U.S. Army in Iraq in 2003 (reftel) has recommended that Energy Minister Shaykh Ahmad Al-Fahed Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and other top oil executives "be held responsib [...] | 2005-07-23 11:09:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EPET MOPS KU IZ |
05KUWAIT3246 | Engaging Kuwaitis On Terrorism and Islam [...] (U) SUMMARY: The July 7 terror attacks in London, followed closely by increasingly horrific and deadly suicide attacks in Iraq, Lebanon and Egypt, have deeply affected Kuwaiti leaders and opinion makers. Some contacts have said that the London attacks, in particular, hit them harder than the 9 [...] | 2005-07-24 04:41:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KPAO KISL PREL PHUM KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT326 | ISLAMIST MP TALKS ABOUT TERRORISM, IRAQI DEBT, [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a January 16 call on influential Islamist Member of Parliament (MP) Dr. Nasser Al-Sane, the Ambassador discussed a wide range topics, including terrorist finance, cancellation of Iraq's debt to Kuwait, the Kuwait Project to develop the northern oilfields, and political rig [...] | 2005-01-19 13:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL EFIN ETTC PGOV EAID EPET KISL KWMN KU |
05KUWAIT3260 | US - ARAB ECONOMIC FORUM - KUWAIT INVITATION [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-24 10:37:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON BEXP KU |
05KUWAIT3261 | INVITATION DELIVERED FOR LABORATORY BIOSECURITY [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-24 10:37:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO PTER KU |
05KUWAIT3262 | MFA HOPEFUL PARLIAMENT WILL APPROVE ARTICLE 98 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-24 10:37:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM KU KLEG |
05KUWAIT3263 | UPDATE ON CWC HOST COUNTRY AGREEMENT WITH KUWAIT [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) PolChief met July 24 with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Legal Department Director Ghanim Al-Ghanim to discuss progress toward concluding a Host Country Agreement (HCA) with Kuwait on Challenge Inspections. Al-Ghanim reported [...] | 2005-07-24 13:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MARR PGOV PREL KU |
05KUWAIT3266 | READING, WRITING, AND QUR'ANIC RECITATION: THE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-25 04:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL KISL SCUL KWMN KIRF PINR KU ISLAMISTS |
05KUWAIT3267 | READING, WRITING, AND QUR'ANIC RECITATION: THE [...] (U) Summary and Introduction: The January shoot-outs between Kuwaiti security officers and extremist militants placed new emphasis on the debate over the Islamic religious education curriculum in public schools, an already politically divisive issue at the best of times. As Kuwaitis wrestle w [...] | 2005-07-25 05:49:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL KISL SCUL KWMN KIRF PINR KU ISLAMISTS |
05KUWAIT327 | UPDATE ON KEY ISSUES FOR UNDERSECRETARY BOLTON'S [...] (S) Since your last visit, the GOK welcomed the transfer of sovereignty to the interim Iraqi government and has been a strong supporter of holding elections on January 30. The GOK has also encouraged Sunni participation in elections and Kuwaitis are hoping greater stability will result from [...] | 2005-01-19 14:05:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER MARR KISL KU IR IAEA |
05KUWAIT3270 | KOC GAS CHIEF LOOKS FOR HELP IN AVOIDING [...] (C) Summary: At a July 23 meeting, Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) Gas Management Group Manager Mohammad Al-Otaibi told Econ Officer that Iran was "very eager" to have Kuwait sign an agreement to import gas from Iran, but that the GOK was still weighing its options. He asked for any assistance that [...] | 2005-07-25 10:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PINR BEXP KU IR IZ OIL SECTOR |
05KUWAIT3287 | JULY 25 DISTURBANCE ON IRAQ/KUWAIT BORDER [...] (SBU) An estimated 800-1000 Iraqi civilians converged on the closed border crossing point at Umm Qasr the morning of July 25 protesting lack of compensation for farm land lost due to the UN border demarcation. Kuwaiti contractors working on emplacing a pipeline barrier along the border were t [...] | 2005-07-25 13:37:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS ASEC PREL IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT3288 | DAILY NEWSPAPER DETERMINED TO CONFRONT ISLAMISTS [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: In a July 24 meeting with IO following the Sharm El-Sheikh bombings earlier that morning, the local editor of Al-Qabas newspaper reiterated his determination to confront Islamists on the issue of terrorism. He said that it was now the paper's "mission" to highlight Kuw [...] | 2005-07-25 14:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KPAO KISL PREL KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT3290 | HALTING THE FLOW OF FOREIGN INSURGENTS TO IRAQ: [...] (C) Charge delivered July 25 ref a demarche to Shaykh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah, President of the National Security Bureau (NSB). He explained that the U.S. was approaching several governments, with an emphasis on Iraq's neighbors, to underscore concerns about the presence of foreign fighters [...] | 2005-07-25 14:14:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL KISL KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT3325 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: SHARM EL-SHEIKH BOMBINGS [...] SUMMARY: Kuwaiti writers rallied around Egypt in the wake of the July 23 Sharm El-Sheikh bombings condemning the acts and seeking to assign blame. Most commentators foreswore blaming the acts on Israeli perfidy or U.S. policy, as has been the case after previous attacks elsewhere. Some sought [...] | 2005-07-27 11:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KPAO KISL PREL SCUL KU |
05KUWAIT3326 | DEMARCHE TO KUWAIT AGAINST G-4 RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-27 11:45:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR PGOV KU |
05KUWAIT3331 | KUWAITIS FEAR IRANIAN HAND IN JULY 25 BORDER [...] (S) Summary: Tensions persist at the Iraq/Kuwait border crossing near Umm Qasr with two RPG rounds fired at the Kuwait side the night of July 26 and Kuwaiti police returning fire. While the disturbances seems to be the result of local actions, GOK officials privately express concern that Iran [...] | 2005-07-27 16:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PBTS PREL PGOV MOPS ASEC IR IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS IRAN |
05KUWAIT3363 | SPECIAL PARLIAMENTARY SESSION: NO QUORUM, BUT [...] (U) An extraordinary session of Parliament held July 30 at the written request of 36 Members of Parliament (MPs) failed to reach the required quorum of 33 MPs/Ministers present. An unusual request while Parliament is not in session and many MPs are abroad on vacation, the extraordinary sess [...] | 2005-07-30 13:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
05KUWAIT3384 | ISLAMISTS OFFER CRITIQUE OF U.S. POLICY, ADVICE ON [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On July 26, CDA hosted a gathering of Kuwaiti Islamists from the media, academic, religious and political fields for the purpose of engaging Kuwait's religious leaders and opinion makers in a formal dialogue about U.S. policy and world events. The guests, some of whom expr [...] | 2005-07-31 11:34:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KPAO KISL PTER KU ISLAMISTS |
05KUWAIT3389 | INDIAN WORKERS CONFRONT THEIR EMBASSY ABOUT LABOR [...] (U) Summary: Expatriate workers in Kuwait continue to air their labor grievances publicly since the Bangladeshi revolt in April (reftel) emboldened other groups to denounce exploitative labor practices. Local media chronicled July 16-25 the fate of approximately 140 Indian workers who sought t [...] | 2005-07-31 12:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ELAB PGOV KCRM PREL PINR KU |
05KUWAIT3393 | CHARITY OVERSIGHT DIRECTOR DESCRIBES HIS WORK; [...] (U) This is an action request, please see para 6. 2. (C) Summary and Comment: Econ Officer met July 27 with Ministry of Social Affairs Charitable Organizations Oversight Department Director Nasser Al-Ammer and Undersecretary Adnan Al-Omar to learn more about the day-to-day operations of th [...] | 2005-07-31 13:18:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER KTFN PINR KU |
05KUWAIT3394 | TRANSFER OF KUWAITI DETAINEES: GOK PROMISES [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 4 and 5. 2. (S/NF) PolChief delivered ref A demarche July 31 to Ambassador Khaled Al-Maqamis, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Director of Coordination and Follow Up. Al-Maqamis said he was aware that several Kuwaitis were under considerat [...] | 2005-07-31 13:39:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PHUM PREL KAWC KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT3396 | BORDER ISSUE NOT SETTLED, BUT GOK SATISFIED WITH [...] (C) Ministry of Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Khaled Al-Jarallah told Charge d'Affaires in a meeting July 31 that the border issue with Iraq was "not settled yet," but the GOK was "very happy and satisfied" with the Iraqi Transitional Government (ITG) response so far. Al-Jarallah said the s [...] | 2005-07-31 15:39:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PGOV ASEC IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT3397 | SHARM EL-SHEIKH DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GOK HOPES FOR [...] (C) Summary: In response to reftel demarche delivered July 31 by the Charge d'Affairs (CDA),Ministry of Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Khaled Al-Jarallah said terrorism and Iraq will be the main topics discussed at the August 3 summit. Al-Jarallah remarked that Arab rhetoric was not enough: [...] | 2005-07-31 15:39:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KPAL KSUM KWBG KU |
05KUWAIT3398 | GOK "NOT FAR FROM U.S. POSITION" ON G-4 RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-01 07:28:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KUNR UNSC KU |
05KUWAIT3403 | SENIOR KUWAITI MFA OFFICIAL'S VIEWS ON SPEAKING [...] (C) PolChief discussed reftel points July 31 with Ambassador Khaled Al-Maqamis, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of Coordination and Follow Up. Al-Maqamis has the GOK lead for detainee issues and has previously engaged EmbOffs on what he views as a complete failure by the U.S. to inform [...] | 2005-08-01 10:23:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV KISL KPAO KCRM KU KACW |
05KUWAIT3405 | KUWAITI HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE FOR THE 60TH UN [...] (SBU) The GOK has not yet finalized attendance for the 60th UNGA, although the Prime Minister will participate in the High-Level Event (HLE). Post will provide additional information as it becomes available. 2. (SBU) GOK Participation. A. Attendance of Head of State: No B. Att [...] | 2005-08-01 12:01:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV OVIP KU UNGA |
05KUWAIT3412 | TIP UPDATE: GOK BRIEFS VISITORS ON ACTIONS TO [...] (U) Summary: G/TIP Ambassador John Miller and Reports Officer Feleke Assefa visited Kuwait July 26-27 to assess GOK progress to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) since the June 3 release of the 2005 TIP Report, which ranked Kuwait at Tier 3. The 60-day grace period for Kuwait to demonstrate [...] | 2005-08-02 08:30:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV KCRM KU |
05KUWAIT3422 | IN KUWAIT, POLITICS AS USUAL AFTER DEATH OF SAUDI [...] (SBU) Summary: The death of Saudi King Fahd elicited little surprise in Kuwait. With both the Amir and the Crown Prince old and ailing, however, King Fahd's death has renewed speculation on Kuwait's own succession issues (septel). Crown Prince Abdullah's accession to the Saudi throne will ha [...] | 2005-08-02 14:34:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KWMN KISL KU |
05KUWAIT3446 | KUWAITIS DENOUNCE IRAQI MPS' COMMENTS ON [...] (C) Summary and comment: Kuwaiti newspapers reported that Iraqi Shi'a MPs claimed Kuwait destroyed a sand berm on the Iraq-Kuwait border and penetrated Iraqi territory on the 15th anniversary of Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait. The August 2 comments come one day prior to a previously sched [...] | 2005-08-03 10:25:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PREL ASEC IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT3457 | KUWAIT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) PolChief delivered August 3 ref A demarche on creating a new UN Human Rights Council to Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Organizations Director Ambassador Abdullah Al-Murad. Al-Murad did not elaborate on Kuwait's position -- PolChief left an Arabic version of the points with [...] | 2005-08-03 13:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV KU UNGA HURI UN |
05KUWAIT3462 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: THE DEATH OF KING FAHD [...] SUMMARY: Kuwaiti commentators universally mourned King Fahd as a true Islamic leader and a special friend of Kuwait. The timing of his death, on the eve of the 15th anniversary of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, led many writers to remember the special support Saudi Arabia offered Kuwait as a re [...] | 2005-08-06 04:25:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO KISL PREL KU |
05KUWAIT3464 | BANGLADESHI EMBASSY IN KUWAIT UPDATES G/TIP ON [...] (SBU) For source country insight into the plight of foreign laborers in Kuwait, visiting G/TIP delegation, Ambassador John Miller and Reports Officer Feleke Assefa (ref A),met July 27 with Bangladeshi Embassy Labor and Welfare Attache Shahriar Kader Siddiky who reported that 250,000 Banglades [...] | 2005-08-06 08:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV KCRM ELAB KU HURI PDEM |
05KUWAIT3505 | NEW REFINERY TO BE "WORLD'S LARGEST"; KUWAIT CRUDE [...] Kuwait's planned fourth refinery, to be located in the Al-Zour area in the south of the country, will be "the world's largest" and will refine 615,000 barrels of crude oil each day, according to Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) officials quoted in August 4 newspapers. This refinery, [...] | 2005-08-07 10:23:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ENRG BEXP KU OIL SECTOR |
05KUWAIT3507 | HUMANITARIAN OPERATIONS CENTER TO DECENTRALIZE [...] (U) Summary and Comment: At an August 2 meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, MFA International Organizations Department Director Ambassador Abdullah Murad said that the Humanitarian Operations Center (HOC) offices would be closing down on August 10, but said that the MFA would try to c [...] | 2005-08-07 10:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PREL PREF KU IZ |
05KUWAIT3523 | GOK AND ITG COMMITTED TO RESOLVING BORDER DISPUTE [...] (C) Summary: On August 6, an Iraqi delegation, in Kuwait to discuss the border issue, visited the border and examined the barrier being installed by Kuwait. The delegation head Khaled Al-Attiyah confirmed that "the border barrier is in Kuwaiti territory." In a meeting with Kuwaiti Foreign M [...] | 2005-08-07 15:20:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT3548 | TERRORIST FINANCE: NASCO AMENDMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-09 10:56:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER CVIS KVPR KU |
05KUWAIT3552 | AMBASSADOR HOSTS YES STUDENTS AS NEW GROUP HEADS [...] SUMMARY: On Sunday, August 6, 2005, the Ambassador hosted a reception at his residence for past and present Kuwaiti participants in the YES program, their parents and AMIDEAST-Kuwait officials. Attendees said that they loved being invited to the Embassy. The event earned wide positive pres [...] | 2005-08-09 12:18:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL XF KU |
05KUWAIT3562 | NAVY MEDIA TRIP EARNS POSITIVE COVERAGE FOR [...] SUMMARY: A three-day trip to two Coalition ships and an Iraqi oil platform by a team of Kuwaiti reporters earned three days of positive media coverage for Coalition maritime security operations in the Northern Arabian Gulf. Of particular value to post PA efforts were sidebar stories on the coo [...] | 2005-08-09 14:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MOPS PGOV KPAO PHUM KDEM KU |
05KUWAIT3565 | FM EXPRESSES CONTINUED CONCERN OVER KUWAIT-IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: Contrary to recent local press reports declaring the border issue with Iraq "finalized" (ref A),Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Salem Al-Sabah was privately more pessimistic in a meeting with the Ambassador August 9. While he was glad "the ITG chose the proper channels" [...] | 2005-08-09 15:49:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT3580 | KUWAITI FOREIGN MINISTER ON WASHINGTON VISIT, FUEL [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Ambassador August 9, FM Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Salem Al-Sabah said PM Shaykh Sabah Al-Sabah was "very satisfied" with his July 1 visit to Washington. The FM reported that, as requested by the PM, he delivered messages to Saudi King Abdullah Al-Saud, then Cro [...] | 2005-08-10 10:22:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EPET MARR KDEM KU |
05KUWAIT3583 | ANTI-WEST, ANTI-ISRAEL AD MAKES ROUNDS OF LOCAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: A virulently anti-West, anti-Israel advertisement calling on good Muslims to fight to defend the Quran and their faith appeared in two of Kuwait's five Arabic daily papers on three consecutive days this week. The ad, placed at considerable expense by an individual Kuwaiti said to [...] | 2005-08-10 11:28:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO KISL PREL PTER PINR KU ISLAMISTS |
05KUWAIT3585 | KUWAIT RESPONSE: ARAB COUNTRY ASSISTANCE TO THE [...] (C) Ambassador met with Minister of Foreign Affairs Shaykh Dr. Mohammad Al-Sabah on August 9 and asked for reftel data on Kuwaiti aid to the Palestinian Authority. The FM promised to provide the figures, but said that any future aid would have to be taken up by the Council of Ministers. (The [...] | 2005-08-10 12:05:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN PREL KU WE GZ |
05KUWAIT3588 | G/TIP ACTION PLAN FOLLOW-UP [...] (U) As requested by ref A email, Post provides below additional information for the reassessment of Kuwait's Tier 3 ranking in the 2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. This information further confirms Post's assessment of significant progress in improving labor conditions for foreign wor [...] | 2005-08-10 12:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV KCRM KU |
05KUWAIT3590 | ACTING SPEAKER INFORMS AMBASSADOR NATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with MP Mohammed Jassem Al-Sager, Acting National Assembly Speaker, August 9 to discuss legislation that would be addressed when the National Assembly reconvened October 17. Al-Sager predicted the National Assembly would approve Project Kuwait legislation for [...] | 2005-08-10 13:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER EPET KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
05KUWAIT36 | SHI'A INFORMATION MINISTER RESIGNS AMID SCANDAL; [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah accepted, on January 2, the resignation of Information Minister Mohammed Abulhassan, preempting what was certain to be a difficult grilling of Abulhassan during the January 3 session of Parliament. Although Islamists were preparing to grill the Informa [...] | 2005-01-04 03:52:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL KPAO PINR KU |
05KUWAIT3603 | GOK ANNOUNCES DETAILS OF NEW MAID CONTRACTS [...] The Ministry of Interior (MOI),the entity responsible for domestic workers, officially announced the details of a new contract between domestic servants, sponsoring employers and recruitment agencies, scheduled to take effect October 1. All Kuwaiti newspapers gave first page or other prominent [...] | 2005-08-13 12:27:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV KCRM KU |
05KUWAIT3607 | INSIDE THE KUWAIT CENTRAL BANK'S AML/TF OFFICE [...] (C) Summary: Talal Alsayegh, head of the Anti-Money Laundering Section of the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK),confirmed that the CBK notifies Kuwaiti financial institutions of new terrorist finance designations and seeks to ensure compliance through periodic assessments. Alsayegh affirmed tha [...] | 2005-08-13 13:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER PINR KVPR KU |
05KUWAIT3608 | KUWAIT IPR ENFORCEMENT: MESSAGE RECEIVED, BUT [...] (U) Summary and Comment: In meetings late July with Ministry of Information officials and other interlocutors familiar with the IPR situation in Kuwait, Econ Officer heard that the GOK has gotten the message on the importance of intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement and protection. [...] | 2005-08-13 13:52:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KIPR BEXP KU |
05KUWAIT362 | PROPOSED DIPLOMATIC NOTE ON DETAINEE ABDELRAHAM [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 3. 2. (U) Post continues to receive requests from the Government of Kuwait for information on the status of Kuwaiti nationals detained in Iraq. Post seeks approval to deliver the below diplomatic note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on S [...] | 2005-01-26 14:04:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER KAWC PHUM PREL KU |
05KUWAIT3640 | GOK ASSIGNS INSPECTORS TO ENFORCE CAMEL JOCKEY BAN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-14 13:38:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV KCRM KU |
05KUWAIT3641 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION: MFA BRIEFED ON U.S [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-14 13:38:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MARR MASS MOPS PREL KU PROG |
05KUWAIT3652 | ONGOING BORDER DISPUTE: AP ARTICLE CAUSES [...] (U) A previously unknown Iraqi Shi'a group, calling itself Islamic Jihad, threatened to "attack (Kuwaiti) border posts, border patrols and carry out attacks inside Kuwait," if Kuwaiti troops did not pull back to the "pre-1991 border," an AP article reported August 14. Kuwaiti Arabic and Engl [...] | 2005-08-15 12:08:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PGOV IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT366 | MEDIA REACTION - SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION [...] On the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, one commentator advocated equating all human suffering. Other commentators wrote they expect little or no change in Administration policies during President Bush's second term. Writers were highly critical of GOK for having "miscalculated" e [...] | 2005-01-26 14:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KU KDMR |
05KUWAIT3669 | NATIONAL GUARD CHIEF ON COUNTERTERRORISM, THE [...] (C) Summary: During an August 15 meeting, National Guard Commander Shaykh Salem Al-Ali Al-Salem Al-Sabah told the Ambassador that fighting poverty and illiteracy will help combat terrorism and that the security situation in Iraq will improve once the Iraqis advance economically. On Iran and [...] | 2005-08-16 08:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PTER IZ KU |
05KUWAIT3677 | REVIVED AL-SABAH DEBATE OVER SUCCESSION; [...] (S/NF) Summary: Sources indicate a major change in leadership may take place in Kuwait, possibly before the end of August. Although Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is considered the primary candidate for Amir, his succession is not a foregone conclusion. According to [...] | 2005-08-16 12:05:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR KU PDEM |
05KUWAIT3704 | INFORMATION MINISTER SUBMITS PLAN FOR MINISTRY [...] Summary: Dr. Anas Al-Reshaid, Kuwaiti Minister of Information, unveiled his formal Ministry restructuring plan at the regular August 14 meeting of the Council of Ministers. While the Minister told reporters, "I will be the last Information Minister," the practical effects of the proposed plan, [...] | 2005-08-20 04:34:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO KMDR KU |
05KUWAIT3719 | KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ADDRESSING THE THREAT [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-20 13:41:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL TBIO ECON SOCI KU KSTH WHO |
05KUWAIT3720 | KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SUPPORT FOR [...] (SBU) Ambassador delivered August 20 ref A demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Acting Under Secretary and International Organizations Department Director Ambassador Abdullah Al-Murad. Al-Murad expressed surprise that Magen David Adom (MDA),the Israeli national society was not a part of [...] | 2005-08-20 13:41:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PREF KU ICRC |
05KUWAIT3730 | KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PRESSURING SYRIA TO [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-21 08:08:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL SY LE KU |
05KUWAIT3743 | NO PROOF OF KUWAITI LINK TO AQABA ATTACK GETAWAY [...] (S/NF) For the past two days, the local press has reported on the front pages that Jordanian authorities were searching for Syrian, Egyptian, and Iraqi terrorists who reportedly fled the scene of the August 19 Aqaba attack in a Kuwaiti-licensed car. We have been advised by DATT and SIMO that [...] | 2005-08-21 13:37:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL PGOV JO KU |
05KUWAIT3749 | KUWAIT SENDS FOOD AID TO NIGER [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-22 08:42:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PGOV PREL KU |
05KUWAIT3755 | GOK OFFICIALS SAY IRAQ BORDER DISPUTE RESOLVED; [...] (C) During an August 20 meeting on security and counterterrorism (septel),the Ambassador asked First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Shaykh Nawaf Al-Sabah for his latest assessment of the border dispute with Iraq (reftels). Shaykh Nawaf said the situation was under control, [...] | 2005-08-22 14:01:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | PBTS PREL PGOV MARR IZ KU UN |
05KUWAIT3769 | INTERIOR MINISTER RESTATES KUWAIT'S COMMITMENT TO [...] (C) During an August 20 meeting with First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior Shaykh Nawaf Al-Sabah, the Ambassador emphasized the need for the Government of Kuwait to maintain momentum on recent efforts to improve the working conditions of expatriate laborers and combat traf [...] | 2005-08-23 11:25:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV KCRM SOCI ECON KU |
05KUWAIT3774 | TERRORIST FINANCE: POST COMMENTS ON PCC-APPROVED [...] (S) Post has reviewed the PCC-adopted version of the Gulf Terrorist Finance Strategy paper. While Post concurs with the strategy's overall objectives, the paper paints an incomplete and bleak picture of the ground realities in Kuwait (see reftel). 2. (S) It is important to point out that: [...] | 2005-08-23 14:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER CVIS KVPR KU |
05KUWAIT3775 | PM URGES ENGAGEMENT WITH IRAN, SYRIA; CALLS FOR [...] (S) Summary: During Ambassador's 30-minute conversation with Kuwaiti Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah at Sief Palace August 23, the PM urged the U.S. to heed his advice and engage Iran and Syria. He provided updates on GOK progress in counterterrorism and human traffickin [...] | 2005-08-23 14:53:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER KU |
05KUWAIT3809 | NATIONAL BANK OF KUWAIT CEO DISCUSSES REGIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary. In a meeting with the Ambassador on August 22, Ibrahim Dabdoub, the CEO of the National Bank of Kuwait (NBK--largest Kuwaiti bank and third largest in the Middle East),made the following key points: (1) NBK has outgrown the Kuwaiti market and continues to expand worldwide; (2 [...] | 2005-08-24 13:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER PINR CVIS KVPR KU |
05KUWAIT3827 | FM TO RAISE IRAQ, IRAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM, AND [...] (C) The Ambassador met August 27 with Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah at the latter's invitation to discuss the FM's one-day visit to Iran on August 28. The FM said that he would raise three "issues of concern" with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- Iraq, [...] | 2005-08-27 14:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PGOV PREL PBTS IZ IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT3830 | GOK NOT MUCH TROUBLED BY SADDAM'S PHOTOS ON [...] (C) Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah told the Ambassador in a meeting August 27 that the recent return of Saddam Hussein's photo to demonstrations of diehard Ba'athists in Baghdad did not concern Kuwait. He suggested this was to be expected from people disenfranchi [...] | 2005-08-27 15:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ JO KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT3831 | KUWAIT CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR OPTIMISTIC ABOUT NEW [...] (C) Summary. In an August 24 meeting with the Ambassador, Sheikh Salem Abdulaziz Al-Sabah, Governor of the Central Bank of Kuwait made the following key points: (1) GOK remains committed to enacting comprehensive legal reform on terror finance and money laundering; (2) an independent auditing [...] | 2005-08-27 15:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PTER PINR CVIS KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT3835 | KUWAIT COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP: GOK TAKING [...] (S/NF) Summary: The Ambassador chaired on August 22 the monthly meeting of post's Counterterrorism Working Group (CWG). He reviewed his August 20 discussions with senior representatives of the GOK on the need to maintain a sharp focus on CT and recommendations that the arrests of wanted in [...] | 2005-08-28 04:58:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL PGOV MARR PBTS EFIN ASEC CVIS KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT3841 | WOMEN RIGHTS MEETING AT UNGA: KUWAIT LIKELY TO [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel request to Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah during a meeting August 27. The FM welcomed the invitation to the meeting hosted by the Secretary on the margins of the UN General Assembly and asked for more details on timing as they [...] | 2005-08-28 07:46:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KWMN KU UNGA USUN |
05KUWAIT3850 | KUWAIT FUND DIRECTOR GENERAL DISCUSSES AID TO [...] (U) Action request at para 13. 2. (SBU) Summary and Comment: In an August 24 meeting with the Ambassador, the Director General of the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED),Abdulwahab Al-Bader, made the following key points: (1) GOK has donated 25 million USD in grants to the [...] | 2005-08-28 13:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PINR PTER KU AF IZ GZ CH WB TERROR FINANCE |
05KUWAIT3851 | KUWAIT TO RECOMMEND JOINT KUWAIT-IRAQ BORDER [...] (C) In an August 27 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah said Kuwait would request establishment of a joint Kuwait-Iraq committee to work with the United Nations team on maintenance of the countries' shared border, which was officially dema [...] | 2005-08-28 13:32:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS MARR IZ KU UN KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT3858 | AMBASSADOR REITERATES U.S CONCERN OVER SYRIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-28 14:13:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SY KU |
05KUWAIT3860 | NEWS AGENCY HEAD QUESTIONS INFORMATION MINISTER'S [...] (C) Summary: In an amiable, wide-ranging meeting between Ambassador and Mohammed Al-Ajeeri, the Director General of the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA),on August 26, the Director General discussed his thoughts on the Minister of Information's plan for restructuring the ministry, the status of a dra [...] | 2005-08-29 04:53:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPAO KMDR PHUM KU |
05KUWAIT3867 | AID TO PALESTINIANS OPAQUE; QUESTIONS ON GAZA [...] (C) In an August 27 meeting with Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, the Ambassador followed up on his previous request to Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (ref B) and asked for clarification on Kuwaiti aid to the Palestinian Authority, particul [...] | 2005-08-29 09:18:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID EFIN WE GZ KU |
05KUWAIT3868 | KPC CEO ON OIF FUEL, REFINING CAPACITY, AND OIL [...] (C) Summary: During an August 28 meeting with Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) CEO Hani Hussain, the Ambassador thanked KPC for its support for OIF, and noted that the U.S. military is currently receiving about 800,000 gallons of jet fuel per day from KPC but actually needs 1.1 million gpd. [...] | 2005-08-29 09:42:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET MOPS KU IZ OIL SECTOR |
05KUWAIT3870 | OPEC PRESIDENT EXPRESSES "CONCERN OVER HIGH OIL [...] (U) Kuwait's Minister of Energy and current OPEC President Shaykh Ahmad Fahd Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah said in a statement released August 28 that OPEC would "explore options to reduce prices" at the September OPEC meeting in Vienna. "We are becoming increasingly concerned at the continuing high leve [...] | 2005-08-29 11:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON KU OIL SECTOR |
05KUWAIT3902 | FOREIGN MINISTER ON HIS VISIT TO IRAN; PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary. Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah sat with the Ambassador on August 30 to discuss his trip to Tehran, two days earlier. The visit itself last four hours on the ground and included meetings with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the new Foreign Minister, M [...] | 2005-08-30 14:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PGOV PREL PBTS IZ IR KU |
05KUWAIT3903 | KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ISOLATING SYRIA AT THE [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel demarche August 30 in a meeting with Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah. He urged Kuwait to avoid playing into Syrian attempts to burnish its image at the UNGA, absent progress on key issues of regional stability. Shaykh Dr. Moha [...] | 2005-08-30 14:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD SY LE KU UNGA UN |
05KUWAIT3943 | KUWAITI ENERGY MINISTER ON OPEC INTENTIONS, [...] (C) Ambassador spoke to Kuwaiti Energy Minister Shaykh Ahmed Al-Fahad Al-Sabah on 5 September. Most of the conversation was about ideas on implementing the generous Kuwaiti donation for hurricane relief (see septel),but Ambassador took the opportunity to solicit Shaykh Ahmed's views on the [...] | 2005-09-05 13:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET MOPS KU IZ |
05KUWAIT3947 | TFUS01: GOK OFFERS $500 MILLION IN HURRICANE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see Embassy recommendation in para 6 and action request in para 7. 2. (C) The Government of Kuwait (GOK) has decided to provide $500 million in aid to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, through a $100 million cash grant and $400 million in oil product [...] | 2005-09-05 13:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR EAID PREL ENRG KU US KATRINA AID |
05KUWAIT3948 | KUWAIT SENDS IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE TO IRAQ BRIDGE [...] (SBU) The GOK responded immediately to the August 31 Bridge of the Imams stampede in Baghdad, by sending a fully equipped ambulance and 500 first aid kits to Iraq the next day. On September 3, the aid continued as six truck loads carrying twelve tons of medical supplies began driving north. [...] | 2005-09-05 14:08:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT3949 | IRAQI FM HOSHYAR ZEBARI VISIT TO KUWAIT [...] (C) Summary: In a September 5 meeting with the Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Head of International Organizations Ambassador Abdullah Al-Murad commented on the August 31 visit of Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari to Kuwait. (Note: Al-Murad attended the meeting and lunch ho [...] | 2005-09-05 14:38:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID IZ KU |
05KUWAIT3956 | KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN REFORM, U.S. VIEWS [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered ref A and B demarches to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Head of International Organizations Ambassador Abdullah Al-Murad in a September 5 meeting. The Ambassador emphasized the need for UN reform and outlined U.S. views on the draft outcome document being prep [...] | 2005-09-06 08:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID ECIN KWMN KU UNGA UN |
05KUWAIT3957 | TFUSO1: SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: KUWAITIS EXTEND [...] Summary: Kuwaitis from all sectors of society and across the ideological spectrum have joined in praising the Government of Kuwait's decision to offer $500 million in aid to Hurricane Katrina victims, and effusive pledges of support covered the front pages of nearly every Kuwaiti newspaper. Ku [...] | 2005-09-06 09:15:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO PREL KU KATRINA AID |
05KUWAIT3959 | KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ARAB LEAGUE FOREIGN [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Head of International Organizations Ambassador Abdullah Al-Murad in a September 5 meeting. Al-Murad informed the Ambassador that Arab League foreign ministers would agree on a "new" resolution on Iraq, which wou [...] | 2005-09-06 09:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KSUM KU |
05KUWAIT3960 | TFUS01: KUWAITIS AND OTHERS OFFER OUTPOURING OF [...] Summary and Comment: The private sector response in Kuwait to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina has been overwhelmingly supportive and positive, with dozens of offers of support and solidarity streaming in from all sectors and segments of society. The Kuwait Red Crescent Society i [...] | 2005-09-06 09:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PREL ENRG KU US KATRINA AID |
05KUWAIT3961 | TFUS01: AMBASSADOR THANKS KUWAITI NATIONAL [...] (U) Ambassador called on the Acting Speaker of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, Abdulwahab Rashid Al-Haroun on September 6 to thank him for the outpouring of sympathy and solidarity from the Kuwaiti parliament and population. The Ambassador also reiterated his public statement (carried in Kuwa [...] | 2005-09-06 12:18:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR EAID PREL ENRG KU US KATRINA AID |
05KUWAIT3970 | TFUSO1: SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: AMBASSADOR'S [...] Summary: Major daily newspapers gave front-page, banner headline coverage to the Ambassador's remarks thanking Kuwait for its generous offer of $500 million in aid for Hurricane Katrina victims. The remarks came on the heels of a meeting, also widely reported, between the Ambassador and the Ac [...] | 2005-09-07 11:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO PREL KU KATRINA AID |
05KUWAIT3973 | KUWAIT FREEDOM AGENDA: AMBASSADOR'S DISCUSSES [...] (C) During a September 6 office call that focused on thanking the Kuwaitis for their generosity towards victims of Hurricane Katrina, Ambassador raised key elements of the democracy agenda for Kuwait with the Acting Speaker, Abdulwahad Rashid Al-Haroun. Ambassador asked for Al-Haroun's views [...] | 2005-09-07 11:28:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PINR KU |
05KUWAIT3974 | SWISS AMBASSADOR MAKING ROUNDS ON MAGEN DAVID ADOM [...] (C) Swiss Ambassador to Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain, Jean-Phillipe Tissieres, called on the Ambassador on September 7 to brief him on Swiss plans to secure support from Arab and Muslim states for the September 11 consultations in Geneva, and the subsequent October conference, on adopting the [...] | 2005-09-07 12:19:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PREF KU ICRC |
05KUWAIT3975 | KUWAIT ECHO CHAMBER RESPONSE: U.S. POSITION ON UN [...] Embassy Kuwait drafted an op-ed, signed by the Ambassador, using verbatim the guidance provided in reftel. PA placed the op-ed with Arabic daily Al-Qabas (circulation: approximately 65,000),which ran the piece on the front of the international news section on Sept. 5. ********************** [...] | 2005-09-07 12:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO PREL KU |
05KUWAIT3976 | KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NO DECISION ON KUWAITI [...] (SBU) The Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Acting Undersecretary Ambassador Khaled Abdul Mohsen Al-Babtain in a September 7 meeting. Noting that Kuwait was both a destination and a transit point for many people coming from south-east Asia, the area most affe [...] | 2005-09-07 12:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAGR EAID TBIO KU UNGA |
05KUWAIT3977 | POINTS DELIVERED ON PRESIDENT'S G-8 AFRICAN [...] (U) Begin Summary: On September 4, Econoff delivered reftel points to representatives from the Kuwait Fund For Arab Economic Development (a government entity) and the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development. While neither organization deals strictly in humanitarian projects associated [...] | 2005-09-07 12:34:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID EINV ETRD KU XA |
05KUWAIT4007 | TIP UPDATE: LABOR MINISTRY ADVISED KUWAIT LIKELY [...] (C) DCM opened a September 10 meeting with Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor (MOSAL) Acting Undersecretary Mohammed Al-Kandari with a briefing on Kuwait's tier reclassification status as part of the 2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. While reiterating that the White House had not ye [...] | 2005-09-11 13:53:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV KCRM KU |
05KUWAIT4008 | KUWAIT FREEDOM AGENDA: PRIME MINISTER'S SON [...] (C) Summary: Shaykh Nassar Al-Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, the son of the Prime Minister and an advisor to the premier, advised the Ambassador to push the U.S. political reform agenda quietly in political circles rather than publicly. The Ambassador questioned Shaykh Nassar on the intentions of Pr [...] | 2005-09-11 14:19:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PGOV PHUM KU PDEM FREEDOM AGENDA |
05KUWAIT4029 | TFUS01: MINISTER SAYS GOK WAS OBLIGED TO HELP, [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-13 10:45:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV US KU AMER KATRINA AID |
05KUWAIT4030 | LETTER OF CONDOLENCE RECEIVED FROM KUWAIT DEPUTY [...] Embassy Kuwait received a condolence letter for Secretary Rumsfeld from Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. Post has forwarded original letter, (in Arabic),to NEA/ARPI. 2. English translation of letter follows: Begin Text. In [...] | 2005-09-13 12:10:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID |
05KUWAIT4031 | TIP UPDATE: MINISTER SAYS GOK WILL "MAXIMIZE [...] (C) The Ambassador met Kuwaiti Minister of Social Affairs and Labor (MOSAL) Faisal Al-Hajji on September 12 that Kuwait to discuss Trafficking in Persons (TIP). He commended Kuwait for the progress made to date, but said even more should be done to address legal protection for expatriate wo [...] | 2005-09-13 12:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV ELAB KDEM KCRM KU |
05KUWAIT4032 | POST SUPPORT FOR GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF GULF [...] (S) Post reaffirms its support for the goals and objectives of the Gulf Strategy to combat terrorist finance and strengthen money-laundering (CTF/AML) efforts. We appreciated the opportunity to offer input on the strategy paper. 2. (C) While there is more to be done in Kuwait, it is impo [...] | 2005-09-13 12:58:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PTER PINR CVIS KU |
05KUWAIT4033 | TFUS01: ISLAMIC CONFERENCE MAKES APPEAL FOR AID TO [...] (U) Summary. In a sign of solidarity with the victims of Hurricane Katrina, the International Islamic Council for Dawah and Relief (an-Egyptian based pan-Islamic organization),has issued a statement on the final day of its annual conference in Kuwait, urging all its international affiliate o [...] | 2005-09-13 14:38:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PREL ENRG KU US ISCON |
05KUWAIT404 | KUWAITIS SPECULATE ABOUT OUTCOME OF IRAQI [...] (C) Summary and Comment: A third gun battle between militants and Kuwaiti law enforcement officials stole the January 30 media spotlight from what was genuine and growing interest in Iraq's elections. Nonetheless, many Kuwaitis, while hopeful for successful elections in Iraq, are concerned th [...] | 2005-01-30 14:20:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KISL KU IZ |
05KUWAIT405 | SALAFIS ANNOUNCE POLITICAL PARTY; EMBASSY PRESENCE [...] (C) Summary: The presence of Embassy personnel at a press conference held by prominent Salafis to announce the establishment of the Hizb Al-Ummah (People's Party or Nation's Party) on January 29 provoked a firestorm of complaints from liberal Kuwaitis, and a complaint from the Ministry of Fore [...] | 2005-01-31 03:58:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PREL KU ISLAMISTS |
05KUWAIT4050 | TFUS01: GOK BEGINS TO CLARIFY ITS INTENTIONS ON [...] (C) Summary/Comment. Ambassador was convoked to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on September 14 by Khaled Al-Babtain, the acting MFA Under Secretary. Al-Babtain clarified that the GOK 500M USD assistance offer would be comprised of 100M USD in cash for humanitarian assistance (HA); 300M USD [...] | 2005-09-14 10:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR EAID PREL ENRG KU US |
05KUWAIT4056 | KUWAIT SEEKING INDEPENDENT AUDITOR FOR CHARITABLE [...] (SBU) The Ambassador used a September 12 meeting on other issues (septels) to inform Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Faisal Al-Hajji of the September 20-23 visit of Department of Treasury Director of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Robert Werner. He told the Minister that among the issu [...] | 2005-09-14 14:53:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER EFIN PREL PGOV ETTC KU TERROR FINANCE |
05KUWAIT4059 | GOK REITERATES CALL FOR US-KUWAIT JOINT COMMISSION [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador on September 14 to discuss the GOK's hurricane Katrina assistance offer (ref B),MFA's Acting Under-Secretary Khaled Al-Babtain took the opportunity to reiterate the GOK's interest in establishing a "Joint Commission" with the United States to formalize bi [...] | 2005-09-16 10:38:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KU |
05KUWAIT4084 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES AGAIN FOR DFI DISBURSEMENT [...] (SBU) On September 14, Ambassador asked Ministry of Foreign Affairs Acting Under Secretary Khalid Al-Babtain for an update on GOK consideration of release of frozen funds to the Development Fund for Iraq. Al-Babtain promised to check and got back to the Ambassador on the 18th. He said that t [...] | 2005-09-18 11:25:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID IZ KU |
05KUWAIT4093 | KUWAITI PRESS CLAIMS U.S. WILL RETURN FIVE GTMO [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (U) Arabic and English dailies have given prominent coverage to hunger strikes by detainees in Guantanamo and reports that "the United States has agreed to release five of the 11 Kuwaitis imprisoned at its camp in Guantanamo Bay, [...] | 2005-09-19 13:53:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PHUM PGOV KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT4102 | KUWAIT SIGNS INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON THE [...] (U) According to press reports, Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah signed on September 16 the International Convention for the Suppression of Actions of Nuclear Terrorism. Kuwait was the 60th UN member state to sign the new treaty. The FM reaffirmed Kuw [...] | 2005-09-20 11:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL PGOV KU UNGA |
05KUWAIT4104 | SECRETARY'S MESSAGE DELIVERED TO MINISTRY OF [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-20 11:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL KU |
05KUWAIT4105 | LOCAL PRESS REPORTS ON KUWAITI ASSISTANCE TO [...] (U) This is an update on recent press reports about Kuwaiti (government and private) financial and materiel assistance to Palestinians (see reftels for past reporting). On September 13, the Arab Times (English language daily) quoted the President of the Islamic Development Bank, Dr. Ahmad Moha [...] | 2005-09-20 11:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID EFIN WE GZ KU |
05KUWAIT4111 | TERRORIST FINANCE: KUWAITI CHARITIES TO COLLECT [...] (U) Begin Summary. The director of the Charities Oversight Office, Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor, reports his ministry will implement a plan requiring Kuwaiti charities to collect zakat (alms) only through the sale of government-issued coupons. End Summary 2. (U) In a conversatio [...] | 2005-09-21 05:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER CVIS KVPR KU |
05KUWAIT4116 | KUWAITI CONTACTS BRIEF KUWAIT COUNTRY OFFICER ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Country Officer for Kuwait, David Berns, met September 18 with Jassem Boodai, owner and editor-in-chief of the Arabic-language daily Al-Rai Al-Aam; Salim Al-Nashi, official spokesman of the Traditional Salafis; and Dr. Lubna Al-Kazi and Ma'souma Al-Abdullah, members of the Wome [...] | 2005-09-21 11:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS PHUM KWMN KISL SOCI OTRA PINR KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT414 | MEDIA REACTION - IRAQI ELECTIONS;JANUARY 31 [...] Kuwaiti TV dedicated extensive coverage to Iraqi elections and conducted an interview with a former MP and Minister of Education on the subject. All editorials praised the Iraqi people's courage in braving the security situation to cast their votes. End summary. ---------- Kuwaiti TV [...] | 2005-01-31 13:03:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KU KDMR |
05KUWAIT4142 | DIPLOMATIC NOTE ON KUWAITI DETAINEES AT GUANTANAMO [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-21 14:53:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KAWC PHUM PINR KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT4144 | KUWAIT MEPIC II: INCREASING MEPI'S PUBLIC OUTREACH [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador chaired Post's September 14 MEPI committee meeting -- with representatives from the Front Office and Commercial, Economic, Political and Public Affairs sections -- to review quarterly accomplishments and discuss upcoming projects for inclusion in the quarterly report (c [...] | 2005-09-21 15:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KMPI KDEM ECON KWMN KU MEPI |
05KUWAIT4146 | KPC CHIEF ON IMPLEMENTATION OF GOK KATRINA AID [...] During a September 20 meeting with Ambassador, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation CEO Hani Hussain, offered further clarification of GOK intentions on mechanisms for distribution of petroleum product assistance connected to Hurricane Katrina relief, specifically on the pricing of the $100 million of [...] | 2005-09-22 09:03:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR EAID PREL ENRG KU US |
05KUWAIT416 | KUWAITIS NEAR UNANIMOUS IN PRAISE OF IRAQI [...] (C) Summary and Comment: All Kuwaiti dailies hailed the January 30 elections in Iraq as a success. Several rank-and-file Kuwaitis unanimously characterized the elections to PolOff as legitimate and historic, and in separate discussions, Kuwaiti banking executives told the Ambassador that the [...] | 2005-01-31 14:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KISL KU IZ |
05KUWAIT417 | MILITANT CLASHES PROVOKE COLLECTIVE SOUL [...] (C) Summary: Reeling from four separate shootouts between security forces and extremists in the past month, two of them in as many days, Kuwaitis are engaged in collective soul searching to determine what went wrong and how to prevent future acts of violence. Spurred into action, the GOK has [...] | 2005-01-31 14:12:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | PTER PREL KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT4185 | COMMERCE MINISTER ON TIFA PROGRESS, ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: During a September 24 meeting, Commerce Minister Abdullah Al-Taweel told the Ambassador that Kuwait would like another TIFA Council Meeting, and that the U.S. "must understand that changing laws in Kuwait takes time." He said that he would soon be sending a letter t [...] | 2005-09-26 10:30:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON KIPR PREL KU |
05KUWAIT4186 | FREEDOM AGENDA: COMMERCE MINISTER IDENTIFIES [...] (C) During a September 24 meeting with Minister of Commerce Abdullah Al-Taweel, the Ambassador asked Al-Taweel for his views on next steps in political reform. Al-Taweel said that, in his opinion, the top priority should be changes to the electoral constituencies in order to increase district [...] | 2005-09-26 10:38:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KMPI PREL SOCI KU |
05KUWAIT4190 | FREEDOM AGENDA: UNPRECEDENTED [...] (C) Summary and comment: Emboffs have confirmed that an unprecedented alliance of liberal, Islamist, and Shi'a political associations have been meeting since the end of May to negotiate a political reform agenda. Former Minister of Information Dr. Saad Bin Tefla Al-Ajmi said the associations [...] | 2005-09-26 12:37:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM KISL SOCI KU FREEDOM AGENDA |
05KUWAIT4202 | INDUSTRY REPS POSITIVE ABOUT GOK IPR PROTECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: Econ Officer met September 25 with Arabian Anti-Piracy Alliance (AAA) CEO Scott Butler, his local Kuwaiti staff, and Microsoft's local License Compliance Manager, Sami Al-Anzy, to discuss the status of IPR protection and enforcement in Kuwait. Butler emphasized that he has see [...] | 2005-09-27 07:43:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KIPR BEXP KU |
05KUWAIT4209 | COMBATING EXTREMISM IN KUWAIT [...] (S) Summary and Introduction: This report responds to the request (ref A) for information on programs for combating extremism. Embassy Kuwait actively engages the Government of Kuwait at every opportunity on every level on ways to combat extremism. Although the GOK has previously discounted [...] | 2005-09-27 11:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL KDEM KPAO EAID PHUM KMPI KISL ASEC KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT4214 | TERRORIST FINANCE: SUMMARY OF OFAC DIRECTOR [...] (C) Summary. On September 21, OFAC Director Robert Werner met separately with GOK officials from the Central Bank and Ministries of Finance, Foreign Affairs, Social Affairs and with Kuwait Customs to discuss continued bilateral cooperation on combating terrorist finance and money laundering (C [...] | 2005-09-27 14:09:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER CVIS KVPR KU |
05KUWAIT4219 | GOK ADVISED OF PRESIDENTIAL DETERMINATION ON [...] (C) On September 27, PolChief advised Hamad Al-Mashan, Second Secretary in the America's Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, of the President's September 21 determination that Kuwait would remain a Tier 3 country with regard to Trafficking in Persons (TIP),but that sanctions would be w [...] | 2005-09-28 07:14:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ELAB KDEM SOCI KWMN KCRM KU TIP |
05KUWAIT4229 | KUWAIT INTERESTED IN INVESTING IN NEW REFINERIES [...] (SBU) During a September 20 meeting with Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) CEO Hani Hussain, the Ambassador asked about Kuwait's plans to explore investment in new refinery capacity in the U.S. He raised the Kuwaiti - U.S. refinery cooperation mentioned in recent U.S. newspaper articles (The [...] | 2005-09-28 11:07:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET ECON KU |
05KUWAIT4230 | TERRORIST FINANCE: SUMMARY OF OFAC DIRECTOR [...] (U) Summary. On September 22, OFAC Director Robert Werner met separately with officials from the National Bank of Kuwait, the Union of Kuwaiti Banks and the Kuwait Finance House to discuss ways in which OFAC and the Kuwaiti banking sector can further cooperate on combating terrorist financing [...] | 2005-09-28 13:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER CVIS KVPR KU |
05KUWAIT4231 | KUWAIT EXPRESSES FRUSTRATION AT NATO'S SLOW PACE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 7. 2. (C) Summary. NATO member embassies held a second Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI) meeting September 28 at the Italian Embassy. The meeting was chaired by Italian Ambassador Vincenzo Prati, and in attendance were the Chiefs and D [...] | 2005-09-28 13:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PTER IR IZ KU NATO |
05KUWAIT4263 | FM TO TRAVEL TO JEDDAH FOR OCTOBER 2 MEETING OF [...] (C) During an October 1 meeting, Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah told the Ambassador he would travel to Jeddah for the October 2 FM-level meeting of Iraq's Arab neighbors: Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Syria; as well as Bahrain as current President of the [...] | 2005-10-01 13:32:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KU IZ |
05KUWAIT4264 | RUMORS OF A "SHAYKH" UP: KUWAITI WRITER PREDICTS [...] (C) The succession issue continues to dominate political discussion in Kuwait as factions both inside and outside the Al-Sabah family maneuver for political influence in anticipation of the death of either the Amir or the Crown Prince who are both in poor health. Ahmed Deyain, a liberal colu [...] | 2005-10-01 13:32:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM KU SUCCESSION |
05KUWAIT4265 | KUWAIT SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR JEFFREY AND [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Al-Sabah and the government of Kuwait remain committed to the Coalition and the ITG's success in Iraq, recognizing the mutual benefits afforded by a stable Iraq. The Government has demonstrated a willingness to contribute financial and political resources to help address [...] | 2005-10-01 14:30:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | PGOV PREL KU IZ |
05KUWAIT4279 | AMBASSADOR AND FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSS WAY AHEAD [...] (C) During an October 1 meeting, the Ambassador reviewed with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah the President's September 21 determination to maintain Kuwait's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) ranking as a Tier 3 country, but to waive applicable sanctions for [...] | 2005-10-02 08:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ELAB KDEM SOCI KWMN KCRM KU TIP |
05KUWAIT4281 | FOREIGN MINISTER CLARIFIES (SORT OF) BREAKDOWN OF [...] (C) During an October 1 meeting, the Ambassador restated to Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah U.S. appreciation for Kuwait's generosity to victims of Hurricane Katrina. He noted the $500 million pledge from the GOK as well as the reported $1.7 million in [...] | 2005-10-02 10:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL PGOV ENRG KU AMER |
05KUWAIT4283 | FM BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON KUWAITI-IRAQI ISSUES; SAYS [...] (C) Summary: During an October 1 meeting, Kuwaiti FM Shaykh Dr. Mohammed told the Ambassador that he and fellow GCC foreign ministers had a very good meeting with the Secretary on the margins of the UNGA, and he hoped such SIPDIS gatherings would become a regular event. On Kuwaiti-Iraqi [...] | 2005-10-02 14:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT4293 | FREEDOM AGENDA: REDUCTION OF ELECTORAL DISTRICTS [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Reducing the number of electoral districts from 25 to 10 is a top priority for reform-minded parliamentarians (MPs) in the next National Assembly session, which begins October 17. They argue that the reduction would reduce electoral corruption by making common prac [...] | 2005-10-03 14:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KISL SOCI KU FREEDOM AGENDA |
05KUWAIT4313 | FREEDOM AGENDA: MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SPOKESMAN SAYS [...] (C) The Political Relations Head for the Islamic Consensus Movement (ICM),the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in Kuwait, told Poloff in a recent meeting that his organization is committed to working within Kuwait's political system as outlined by the Constitution. Mohammed Al-Dallal [...] | 2005-10-04 11:02:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM KISL KWMN KU ISLAMISTS |
05KUWAIT4314 | FREEDOM AGENDA: BACKGROUND ON ELECTORAL [...] (C) Paragraph two is a translation of a document on reform of electoral constituencies in Kuwait, drafted by Shaykh Nassar Al-Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, the son of the Prime Minister and an advisor to the Amir and PM, on December 17, 2002. Shaykh Nassar provided the Ambassador with a copy foll [...] | 2005-10-04 11:32:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM KU FREEDOM AGENDA |
05KUWAIT4316 | KUWAIT AGREES TO U.S. CONDITIONS REGARDING [...] (SBU) Post received October 4, a diplomatic note from the Office of the Under Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reaffirming that the GOK will detain and try five of the Kuwaitis currently held in Guantanamo upon their return to Kuwait, as requested ref C. Post's unofficial transla [...] | 2005-10-04 12:55:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV PHUM OPDC KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT4317 | LATEST FIGURES ON GOK COMPENSATION CLAIMS AGAINST [...] (U) Summary. In an October 2 meeting with Economic Counselor, the Chairman of the GOK's Public Authority for Assessment of Compensation for Damages Resulting from Iraqi Aggression made the following points: (1) USG should help ensure continued UN oversight of the claims process; (2) all Kuwait [...] | 2005-10-04 13:27:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KU IZ KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT4318 | KUWAIT FUND CLARIFIES STATUS OF GOK ASSISTANCE TO [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting with Econ Counselor on October 3, the Kuwait Fund's Regional Manager for Arab Countries reaffirmed the $1.575B in reconstruction assistance the GOK has allocated for Iraq, noting that $1B had been disbursed prior to 2003 and that the remaining $575M (in new funds) wi [...] | 2005-10-04 13:29:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KU IZ |
05KUWAIT4322 | UPDATE ON PENINSULA LIONS: PROSECUTION CALLS FOR [...] (C) Summary: The Peninsula Lions terrorist cell case completed its procedural phase and began actual deliberations on the charges facing the thirty-seven defendants on Saturday, September 24. The accused are all implicated in the January 10, 15, 30, and 31 police actions that left four Kuwai [...] | 2005-10-05 07:09:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV JO IZ SA KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT4325 | MEPI-FUNDED REGIONAL CAMPAIGN SCHOOL BRINGS ARAB [...] (U) Summary. The National Democratic Institute (NDI) held in Kuwait from September 25 - 28, the fourth regional campaign school funded by the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI). "Partners in Participation" attracted women activists from 14 countries in the Middle East and North Afri [...] | 2005-10-05 09:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KDEM KMPI KWMN PGOV PREL PINR KU XF WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS MEPI |
05KUWAIT4333 | TOP IRAQI OFFICIALS REAFFIRM CLOSE IRAQ-KUWAIT [...] (U) On arriving in Kuwait October 1 for a four-day visit, Iraq's Speaker of Parliament Hajem Al-Hasani reaffirmed Iraq's close relationship with Kuwait and stressed that "the period of tension" between the two countries was over. Al-Hasani's trip was the first visit of an Iraqi Speaker of Par [...] | 2005-10-05 12:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PBTS IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT4334 | KUWAITIS PRESS IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER TO [...] (C) In a very brief exchange as Ambassador was leaving the Foreign Ministry with Ambassador Jeffrey's Iraq-related delegation on October 5, Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah advised that he had pressed visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki to c [...] | 2005-10-05 13:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PGOV PREL PBTS IZ IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT4338 | IRAQ SPECIAL ADVISER JEFFREY MEETS WITH GOK [...] (C) Summary. On October 5, Senior Adviser on Iraq Jeffrey and his delegation met separately with the Speaker of the Kuwaiti National Assembly and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Finance and Interior (also Deputy PM) to reaffirm the USG's long-term commitment to Iraq and to urge greater Arab [...] | 2005-10-07 10:22:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN EAID IZ KU |
05KUWAIT4352 | FREEDOM AGENDA: MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT SPEAK OUT ON [...] (C) Summary and comment: During his nightly courtesy visits to diwaniyas during Ramadan, which began October 4, the Ambassador has been asking National Assembly members (MPs) and political activists their views on reducing the number of electoral districts, a key component of political refor [...] | 2005-10-10 12:43:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM KISL KU FREEDOM AGENDA NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
05KUWAIT4353 | TERRORISM FINANCE: LIST 72T [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-10 12:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN ETTC EFIN PTER PREL KVPR CVIS KU |
05KUWAIT4354 | TERRORISM FINANCE: AL-AKHTAR TRUST INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-10 12:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN ETTC EFIN PTER PREL KVPR CVIS KU |
05KUWAIT4355 | TERRORISM FINANCE: LIST 72 U [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-10 12:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN ETTC EFIN PTER PREL KVPR CVIS KU |
05KUWAIT4356 | MEETING IN KUWAIT OF G8 COUNTER TERRORISM ACTION [...] (C) As current G-8 President, the UK Embassy in Kuwait hosted and chaired a meeting of the G-8 Counter Terrorism Action Group (CTAG) on October 10. Ambassador LeBaron attended along with other representatives of G-8 diplomatic missions. British Charge d'Affaires Jamie Bowden gave a G-8 Pres [...] | 2005-10-10 13:01:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV KU |
05KUWAIT4357 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNESCO CULTURAL DIVERSITY [...] (U) On October 10, Economic Counselor delivered reftel demarche points and copy of Secretary Rice's letter to Hamad Al-Mashan from the Americas Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Secretary's letter separately conveyed to Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah [...] | 2005-10-11 05:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD OPDC PREL SCUL KU UNESCO BHUM |
05KUWAIT4372 | AMIR VOTE OF CONFIDENCE IN KUWAITI PM AFTER [...] (C) Summary: National Guard Chief Shaykh Salem Al-Ali created the sensation of the early Ramadan season by suggesting publicly that a three-party ruling family committee be formed "to assist" Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah. Faced with this high level sniping, Shaykh Sabah was the recipient of a [...] | 2005-10-11 12:10:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KU SUCCESSION |
05KUWAIT4378 | STUDENT UNION ELECTIONS: A MICROCOSM OF POLITICS [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: The Islamic Alliance, a partnership between two student parties affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis, swept Kuwait University's (KU) Student Union elections held in October. The Muslim Brotherhood has dominated the influential Student Union, which [...] | 2005-10-11 13:54:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KISL KDEM KWMN SOCI KU |
05KUWAIT4380 | A VIEW FROM THE KUWAIT/IRAQ BORDER, FROM NAVISTAR [...] (U) Please see para 10 for action request of all addressees. 2. (U) The references in this cable are photographs which are posted on Embassy Kuwait's classified website. Please visit http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/kuwait/ and click on the "Kuwait/Iraq Border Pictures" link in the Pictur [...] | 2005-10-11 14:27:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | PTER PREL IZ IR KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT4400 | KUWAIT: VULNERABILITY OF KEY FOREIGN OIL SUPPLIERS [...] (S) Summary and Comment: The flow of oil from Kuwait remains vulnerable to disruption by terrorist attack, accident or natural disaster, with the off-shore loading platforms and facilities being the most vulnerable. The onshore Mina Al-Ahmadi facilities are considered a restricted zone and [...] | 2005-10-12 13:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | EPET ETRD EWWT KHLS PTER ASEC KU OIL SECTOR |
05KUWAIT4401 | MGXDO1: KUWAIT OFFERS $100M IN EARTHQUAKE [...] (U) On October 11, the Council of Ministers (cabinet) announced a $100M assistance package for victims of the South Asia earthquake. While the specific disbursal modalities remain to be worked out, initial feedback from the GOK indicates that the assistance will be split equally between the K [...] | 2005-10-12 13:58:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL AMGT XD KU |
05KUWAIT4402 | UPDATE ON KUWAIT IPR EFFORTS [...] (SBU) Summary: While Kuwait's elevation to the Special 301 Priority Watch List in 2004 galvanized some GOK agencies into action, overall the GOK has not made significant progress in enforcement actions, rewriting copyright laws, or prosecuting violators. Officials say steps will be taken af [...] | 2005-10-12 14:13:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR PREL KU IPR |
05KUWAIT4403 | REPORT THAT CRITIC OF THE PRIME MINISTER HAS [...] (C) Post received word on the evening of October 12 that Shaykh Salem Al-Ali Al-Salem Al-Sabah, National Guard Chief and fourth highest-ranking ruling family member, has resigned his post amid criticism of his call for the formation of a tri-partite group to "assist the leadership." This info [...] | 2005-10-12 15:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KU SUCCESSION |
05KUWAIT4405 | DEMARCHE TO KUWAIT ON IRAQ CONSTITUTION VOTE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-13 09:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ KU |
05KUWAIT4406 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SPEAKER ON SUCCESSION, PROJECT [...] (C) Summary/Comment: The Ambassador met October 12 with National Assembly Speaker Jassem Al-Khorafi for a periodic update on a range of issues. The speaker quickly turned to recent dispute within the ruling family (reftel). Al-Khorafi said the Amir's strong public support for the Prime Minis [...] | 2005-10-13 16:42:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ KU SUCCESSION NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FREEDOM AGENDA |
05KUWAIT4423 | TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATING OFFICER [...] (SBU) Below are Post's responses to reftel A action request. (a) Terrorism Finance Coordinating Officer (TFCO): --Name: Matthew Tueller --Title: Deputy Chief of Mission --Phone: 00-965-259-1362 --Email: TuellerMH@state.gov (b) TFCO Deputy: --Name: Mustafa Pop [...] | 2005-10-15 13:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KTFN KVPR EFIN ETTC PREL KU |
05KUWAIT4424 | GOK APPROVES NATO REQUEST FOR TANK SHIPMENTS, [...] (C) During a meeting with the Ambassador on October 15,Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Salem Al-Sabah agreed to a NATO request to accept Iraq-bound T-72 tanks at a Kuwait port but registered strong GOK concern about the substance and optics of the shipment. "We will give approval, but [...] | 2005-10-15 15:08:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR MOPS IZ KU NATO |
05KUWAIT4425 | AMBASSADOR PROVIDES GOK WITH STEPS TO IMPROVE TIP [...] (C) As a follow-up to an October 1 meeting during which Ambassador committed to providing examples of actions taken by Qatar and the UAE to permit their reclassification to the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Tier 2 Watch List (reftel),Ambassador presented a letter outlining these steps to Forei [...] | 2005-10-15 15:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV KU TIP |
05KUWAIT4426 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: TRANSFERRING KUWAITI DETAINEES [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-15 15:13:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | PREL KAWC OPDC PTER KU |
05KUWAIT4427 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNESCO CULTURAL DIVERSITY [...] In response to reftel, Ambassador delivered demarche and passed a letter from the Secretary of Commerce to Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Salem Al-Sabah during an October 15 meeting. Ambassador emphasized the U.S.' objections to the proposed convention, namely that aspects would be h [...] | 2005-10-15 15:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD PREL SCUL KU UNESCO UN |
05KUWAIT4433 | WTO AGRICULTURE NEGOTIATIONS: DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-16 06:23:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD WTO |
05KUWAIT4438 | LEADING MP "SCARED TO DEATH" ABOUT LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Summary and comment: The Ambassador met October 15 with Mohammed Jassem Al-Sager, a National Assembly member (MP) and Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Commenting on the recent ruling family spat over the country's future leadership (reftels),sparked by National Guard Chief Shay [...] | 2005-10-16 07:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SUCCESSION FREEDOM AGENDA |
05KUWAIT4443 | CHEVRON FUNDS ACCESS ENGLISH SUMMER CAMP PROGRAM [...] SUMMARY: On October 2, 2005, AMIDEAST-Kuwait hosted a ceremony welcoming back 10 Kuwaiti boys and 10 Kuwaiti girls who spent four weeks in an intensive English-as-a- Second-Language summer camp in West Palm Beach, Florida. Chevron financed the Embassy-initiated program for 20 Kuwaitis chosen [...] | 2005-10-16 12:14:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC OIIP SCUL XF KU |
05KUWAIT4445 | FOREIGN MINISTER DISCOUNTS FLAP IN AL-SABAH FAMILY [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Salem Al-Sabah said that recent statements by National Guard Chief Shaykh Salem Al-Ali Al-Salem Al-Sabah were just an expression of opinion and that the political status quo had returned. Commenting on Shaykh Salem's call for a three-person a [...] | 2005-10-16 12:37:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KDEM KU SUCCESSION |
05KUWAIT4449 | FOREIGN MINISTER COMMENTS ON IRANIAN NUCLEAR [...] Summary: (C) During an October 15 meeting with Ambassador, Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Salem Al-Sabah spoke about Iranian unity regarding the development of their nuclear program but division regarding the country's public handling of the situation. He reported that the Iranian chie [...] | 2005-10-17 08:28:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PGOV IR IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS IRAN |
05KUWAIT4451 | SHI'A MOSQUE ATTACKED BY YOUTH IN JAHRA; SHI'A [...] (C) Summary: A group of youth between the ages of 14 and 18 attacked a Shi'a mosque in Jahra on October 7, burning a stolen car, breaking the mosque's spotlights, pelting worshippers with stones, and chanting anti-Shi'a slogans, including: "Death to infidel Shi'a, agents of America." No one was rep [...] | 2005-10-17 10:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER KISL KDEM SA KU SHI |
05KUWAIT4455 | KUWAITIS MAKE SUPPORTIVE STATEMENTS ON REFERENDUM; [...] (U) Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, in remarks to the opening session of the National Assembly October 17, congratulated the Iraqi people on the Iraqi Constitution. The Kuwaiti Council of Ministers released a similar statement of support after its Sunday meeting. Bef [...] | 2005-10-17 13:05:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT4459 | KUWAIT FUND UPDATE ON GOK ASSISTANCE TO [...] (U) EconOff met on October 16 with Marwan Al-Ghanem, Regional Manager for Arab Countries at the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED),for an update on the latest GOK figures on economic assistance to Palestinians. Al-Ghanem provided the following breakdown of GOK economic assistan [...] | 2005-10-17 14:47:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KU |
05KUWAIT446 | KUWAIT RESPONDS TO JANUARY 31 SHOOTOUT: GOK WILL [...] Summary: Kuwaiti officials vowed to use all available resources to hunt down militants after security forces engaged in a nine-hour confrontation with Islamic radicals on January 31 that left 5 militants, 1 civilian and 1 police officer dead, 4 police officers and 3 militants wounded, and led [...] | 2005-02-01 12:16:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT4460 | FREEDOM AGENDA: GOK FORMS MINISTERIAL COMMITTEE TO [...] (SBU) The GOK has formed a ministerial-level committee to "study" proposals to reduce the number of electoral districts from 25 to 10, or fewer, and to register voters based on their civil identification numbers. The six-person committee is headed by First Deputy Prime Minister and Interior [...] | 2005-10-17 15:55:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KU PDEM FREEDOM AGENDA NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
05KUWAIT447 | MEDIA REACTION - IRAQI ELECTIONS;FEBRUARY 1 [...] Kuwait TV reports on the Iraqi elections ran as a second lead due to the competing news of security operations against militants in Kuwaiti City. Editorials continue to praise the election process, which took place despite "threats of terrorism." Only one columnist voiced pessimism believing [...] | 2005-02-01 12:46:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KU KDMR |
05KUWAIT4477 | ROBOT CAMEL JOCKEYS DEBUT IN KUWAIT [...] The Public Authority for Youth and Sports (PAYS) invited PolOff to attend the debut of robot camel jockeys in Kuwait during trial races October 12. Shaykh Fahad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, PAYS Chairman, and MP Waleed Al-Tabtabaie, Chair of the National Assembly's Human Rights Defense Committee, inaugu [...] | 2005-10-18 09:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KU |
05KUWAIT4479 | MINISTER FOR AMIRI DIWAN AFFAIRS SHAYKH NASSER ON [...] (C) The Ambassador met October 18 with Minister of Amiri Diwan Affairs Shaykh Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Shaykh Nasser said the recent succession controversy within the ruling family (reftels) "is calming," although he commented that "there will be some issues in the coming [...] | 2005-10-18 11:52:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KU SUCCESSION |
05KUWAIT4480 | AMID FLURRY OF RUMORS ABOUT SUCCESSION, PM OPENS [...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah opened the National Assembly October 17, delivering the Government speech on behalf of the Amir, who was notably absent from the protocolary duty. The session comes amid a flurry of rumors that Shaykh Sabah will replace th [...] | 2005-10-18 12:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM KU SUCCESSION NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
05KUWAIT4481 | KUWAIT RESPONSE: BARRIERS TO OIL INVESTMENT [...] Summary: The entire local oil industry in Kuwait is state-run and the Kuwait Constitution expressly forbids foreign companies from investing in the natural resources of the country. U.S. companies can neither purchase local oil companies nor obtain equity oil. There are some very limited o [...] | 2005-10-18 12:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EINV EPET KU |
05KUWAIT4483 | KUWAITI PERSONAL DEBT FORGIVENESS VERSUS IRAQ DEBT [...] (U) Kuwaiti opposition groups in the National Assembly opposed to debt relief for Iraq and assistance to the U.S., Pakistan and other countries have renewed their call for the cancellation of Kuwait citizens' personal debt. They see that as the preferred accompaniment or alternative to cance [...] | 2005-10-18 13:10:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT4510 | JAZEERA AIRWAYS TO LAUNCH LOW-COST FLIGHTS FROM [...] (U) SUMMARY On October 18, Econoff met with Suhail Homsi of the new Jazeera Airways (JA). JA is a publicly-traded company with the Boodai Corporation holding a controlling stake of 30% of the shares. The new airline will begin flights to Dubai on October 30 and to other regional destinatio [...] | 2005-10-19 11:14:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR KU FAA |
05KUWAIT4516 | KUWAITI PREPARATIONS FOR AVIAN INFLUENZA [...] (U) SUMMARY On October 17, Emboffs met with officials of the Department of Public Health (DPH) to discuss the GOK's preparations for a possible Avian Influenza (AI) outbreak in Kuwait. A recently formed committee has been charged with formulating the GOK's preparations to combat AI. The co [...] | 2005-10-20 06:30:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMED CASC KSCA SENV TBIO KU |
05KUWAIT4517 | KUWAIT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ON PARLIAMENTARY [...] (SBU) Summary. In an October 19 meeting with Econ Counselor, the Deputy Director General of the Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) lamented the political infighting among parliamentarians resulting in the election of a new and less pro-business chairman of the National Assembly's [...] | 2005-10-20 06:37:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KU |
05KUWAIT4519 | KUWAITI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ON FOUNDATION FOR THE [...] (U) Summary. In an October 19 meeting with Econ Counselor, the Deputy Director General of the Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) welcomed the establishment of the Foundation for the Future (reftel),looked forward to a potential role for KCCI in the Foundation's efforts, and expla [...] | 2005-10-22 04:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID EFIN KU WE GZ |
05KUWAIT4527 | FY05Q4 IIP SPEAKER EVALUATION: PATRICK CLAWSON; [...] SUMMARY: October 1-2, 2005, U.S. Speaker Dr. Patrick Clawson, Deputy Director for Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, conducted a speaking tour in Kuwait focusing on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Addressing diverse audiences, Dr. Clawson spoke at Kuwait Unive [...] | 2005-10-22 09:28:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC OIIP SCUL XF KU |
05KUWAIT4528 | DELIVERED: REDESIGNED U.S. $10 NOTES [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-22 09:29:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ASE EFIN KPAO |
05KUWAIT4531 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY VS. GOVERNMENT: FOOTBALL MATCH [...] (SBU) Government Ministers and National Assembly members (MPs) faced off October 19 for their fifth annual Ramadan football match. Laying aside both their traditional dishdashas (robes) and their political differences, Ministers and MPs alike donned football jerseys to participate in the jov [...] | 2005-10-22 13:20:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI KU |
05KUWAIT4532 | KUWAITIS HOPEFUL FOR DEATH PENALTY AS SADDAM'S [...] (SBU) Summary. Kuwaiti newspapers, television and radio stations gave front-page, first-item coverage to the start of Saddam Hussein's trial in Iraq. Kuwaitis interviewed called for the death penalty and said that Saddam and his cohorts had "too much" to answer for during the 1990-1991 Iraqi [...] | 2005-10-22 13:34:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS PINS IZ KU |
05KUWAIT4533 | KUWAIT SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION - SADDAM HUSSEIN [...] Thursday, October 20, 2005 All five major newspapers carried photographs of Saddam Hussein in court on their front pages: -- Al Qabas "Sadam before the mother of trials: I do not recognize your authority." -- Al-Seyassah "Saddam faced justice with the delusion of a desperate despot." -- Al [...] | 2005-10-23 04:25:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO IZ KMDR KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT4534 | MGXDO1: KUWAIT EARTHQUAKE ASSISTANCE UPDATE [...] (U) This is the second update from Post on Kuwaiti assistance to the victims of the South Asia earthquake. 2. (U) Press reports over the last week cite planeloads of Kuwait Red Crescent Society relief assistance arriving in Pakistan and being channeled through the Pakistani Red Crescent Soc [...] | 2005-10-23 06:43:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL AMGT XD KU |
05KUWAIT4535 | FINANCE MINISTRY ON EARTHQUAKE ASSISTANCE TO [...] (SBU) Summary. In an October 22 meeting with Econ Counselor, the Acting Undersecretary at the Ministry of Finance confirmed the GOK $100M assistance offer for Pakistan's earthquake victims. He was unaware of any additional assistance to be announced at the upcoming October 26 Geneva donors c [...] | 2005-10-23 06:43:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR EAID PGOV PREL XD KU |
05KUWAIT4546 | FINANCE MINISTRY ON TAX REFORM AND THE REJUVENATED [...] (U) Summary. In an October 22 meeting with Econ Counselor, the Acting Undersecretary at the Ministry of Finance confirmed the resumption of the Offset Program and the GOK's efforts, spearheaded by the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA),to establish a private company tasked with administering [...] | 2005-10-23 07:45:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KU KFIN |
05KUWAIT4550 | CIRCUS GUY ROCKS KUWAIT, PROMOTES STUDYUSA [...] SUMMARY: The Arab-American rock group "Circus Guy" conducted a "Study in the U.S." musical tour in Kuwait September 26-28, 2005. Circus Guy held concerts and educational workshops for youth audiences and the Kuwaiti public. The band performed at several private schools and Kuwait's Scientif [...] | 2005-10-23 09:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC OIIP SCUL XF KU |
05KUWAIT4552 | KUWAIT'S STOCK EXCHANGE EYES REGIONAL ROLE, FEMALE [...] (U) Summary. In an October 19 meeting with Econoff, the Director of Public Relations at the Kuwaiti Stock Exchange (KSE) applauded the increased number of Kuwaiti female investors, expressed confidence in the continued rise of the Kuwaiti stock market, and underscored the importance of ensuri [...] | 2005-10-24 09:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KFIN PINR KU |
05KUWAIT4555 | AMBASSADOR RE-EMPHASIZES RECENT DEMARCHES DURING [...] (U) On October 23, the Ambassador, accompanied by Econcouns and Econoff (notetaker),met with the new head of the Economics Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Shaykh Ali Khaled Al-Sabah. The Ambassador congratulated Al-Sabah on his recent appointment and discussed current issues [...] | 2005-10-24 10:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KU |
05KUWAIT4559 | KUWAIT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ON IPR AND LABOR ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. In an October 19 meeting with Econ Counselor, the Deputy Director General of the Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) contested Kuwait's non-compliance status on IPR and labor rights. He requested additional details outlining USG IPR compliance issues and [...] | 2005-10-24 11:36:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ELAB PGOV PREL KU IPR |
05KUWAIT4586 | MGXDO1: GOK NOT PLANNING NEW PLEDGE IN GENEVA AND [...] (U) Summary. Per reftel A, Embassy followed-up with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to confirm GOK participation at the upcoming Geneva Donors Conference for South Asia earthquake victims and to urge continued GOK assistance to victims in anticipation of winter. The MFA's Asia and Ameri [...] | 2005-10-25 11:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL AMGT XD KU |
05KUWAIT4588 | FOUR SHI'A POLITICAL ASSOCIATIONS FORM COALITION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: LEADERS OF FOUR LOCAL SHI'A POLITICAL ASSOCIATIONS ANNOUNCED OCTOBER 23 THE FORMATION OF A SHI'A UMBRELLA ORGANIZATION, THE NATIONAL SOCIETIES COALITION (NSC),TO ADVOCATE FOR GREATER SHI'A RIGHTS AND TO COORDINATE EFFORTS IN THE 2007 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS. TWO OF THE FIVE S [...] | 2005-10-25 12:45:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR KISL KU SHI |
05KUWAIT4590 | GOK GRANTS MELKITE CATHOLICS LAND FOR NEW CHURCH; [...] Summary: Long-time church ally Shaykha Fareeha announced the GOK's decision to grant 6,500 square meters to the Greek Catholics (Melkites) for the construction of a new church. They currently worship in a rented home whose owner just raised the rent 21%. According to Father Boutros Gharib, rec [...] | 2005-10-25 13:23:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KIRF KU |
05KUWAIT4623 | RESEARCH LINKS WITH THE U.S. - THE KUWAIT FUND FOR [...] SUMMARY: On October 19, 2005, the Ambassador met with the Director General of the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science (KFAS). KFAS is a non-profit, non- governmental research funding entity chaired by the Emir of Kuwait, and supported by nearly 900 Kuwaiti companies that annuall [...] | 2005-10-29 11:22:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO ECON OEXC XF KU |
05KUWAIT4624 | OVERVIEW OF GOK ASSISTANCE TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (SBU) Summary. This cable provides an overview of GOK assistance to Afghanistan, including outstanding GOA arrears with the GOK's Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED). The following information is current as of October 2005 and was provided to the Embassy by KFAED in response to [...] | 2005-10-29 12:18:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL KU AF |
05KUWAIT4625 | KUWAIT RED CRESCENT CHAIRMAN FINDS FAULT WITH [...] (SBU) During an October 25 meeting with Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) Chairman Mr. Barjas Al-Barjas, the Chairman presented the Ambassador with a set of points he had prepared on specific complaints he has with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC),and asked for support in [...] | 2005-10-29 12:18:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID KU |
05KUWAIT4626 | OVERVIEW OF GOK ASSISTANCE TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (SBU) Summary. This cable provides an overview of GOK assistance to Afghanistan, including outstanding GOA arrears with the GOK's Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED). The following information is current as of October 2005 and was provided to the Embassy by KFAED in response to [...] | 2005-10-29 12:18:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL KU AF |
05KUWAIT4633 | UPDATE ON SHI'A MOSQUE INCIDENT: LOCALIZED ACT [...] (C) This is an update to reftel reporting on the October 7 attack against a Shi'a mosque in Jahra, a predominantly Sunni city approximately 35 kilometers west of Kuwait City. According to the mosque's owner, Hussein Al-Qattan, and a worshiper at the mosque "between 150 to 200 Saudi and bidoon [...] | 2005-10-30 06:54:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KISL KIRF KU SHI |
05KUWAIT4639 | SYRIAN ENVOY DUE IN KUWAIT; GOK TO URGE [...] (C) Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Khaled Al-Jarallah told Ambassador October 30 that Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Walid Al-Muallim, with a letter from Syrian President Bashar Al-Asad in hand, would arrive in Kuwait October 31 and would meet with Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-A [...] | 2005-10-30 12:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY KU |
05KUWAIT4640 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GOK PLEDGE FOR PAKISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-30 13:05:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM PREL PK KU |
05KUWAIT4641 | DEMARCHES DELIVERED: GOK LABELS IRANIAN STATEMENTS [...] (C) During an October 30 meeting with Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Khaled Al-Jarallah characterized Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad's October 25 remarks regarding Israel as "very strong and very strange," reminding the GOK of language from the days of Ayatolla [...] | 2005-10-30 13:16:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER IR KU |
05KUWAIT4643 | GOK STILL GEARING UP FOR ECONOMIC REFORM [...] (SBU) Ambassador met with Advisor to the Prime Minister Dr. Yousef Al-Ebraheem on October 26. Among other issues, they discussed the slow pace of Kuwait's economic reform and the stalled TIFA process. Al-Ebraheem acknowledged that the GOK carried as much responsibility as did the parliament [...] | 2005-10-30 13:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL EFIN EINV BEXP KU |
05KUWAIT4644 | GCC EQUITIES: INVESTMENTS OR LOTTERY TICKETS? [...] (SBU) Summary. During a meeting with the Ambassador October 26, National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) CEO said skyrocketing GCC equities could presage a Gulf equivalent of the U.S. "dot com" market bust. In order to "shake up the market a bit," NBK will host a December 18 symposium to examine the [...] | 2005-10-30 14:09:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL KU |
05KUWAIT4647 | FREEDOM AGENDA: ENERGY MINISTER'S VIEWS ON [...] (C) Summary: Responding to the Ambassador's inquiries about elements of the "Freedom Agenda" during a meeting on October 30, ruling family member and Energy Minister Shaykh Ahmad Fahd Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah said most National Assembly members "don't know how many voting constituencies they want," [...] | 2005-10-31 07:40:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KMPI PREL SOCI PTER PINR KU FREEDOM AGENDA SUCCESSION |
05KUWAIT4648 | COMMENTS FROM ENERGY MINISTER AND UNDERSECRETARY [...] (C) Summary: During an October 30 meeting with the Ambassador, Energy Minister Shaykh Ahmad Fahd Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah told the Ambassador that prospects for a vote on the northern oilfields project were good for November or December and that he expected it to pass, echoing what Ministry of Ener [...] | 2005-10-31 08:14:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ECON KU OIL SECTOR |
05KUWAIT4649 | ERDOGAN PROMOTES ECONOMIC TIES DURING VISIT TO [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-31 08:38:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON TU KU |
05KUWAIT4653 | AMBASSADOR TELLS KEY KUWAITI MINISTER MORE C/T [...] (S/NF) During the course of a 30 October conversation on other topics with Shaykh Ahmad Fahd Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, the Ambassador told the Minister that, while cooperation on counter-terrorism between Kuwait and the U.S. has improved in the last 6-8 months, we are not satisfied and more needs to [...] | 2005-10-31 10:48:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT4654 | KUWAIT SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION - HARIRI [...] The Kuwaiti Arabic print media exhibited views from both sides of the spectrum concerning the International Independent Investigation Commission's report and what may subsequently result from its discussion in the United Nations Security Council. Opinions on the subject varied from supporting [...] | 2005-11-01 04:03:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO IZ KMDR KU |
05KUWAIT4670 | GOK CONGRATULATES IRAQI PEOPLE FOR APPROVING [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-01 10:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT4672 | FINANCE MINISTER ON IRAQI DEBT, ECONOMIC REFORM, [...] (C) Summary. In a November 1 meeting with the Ambassador, Finance Minister Al-Humaidhi explained that there had been no renewed contact with the Iraqi government on debt relief since Ambassador Jeffrey's visit in October and that reconstruction assistance was proceeding slowly. He expressed [...] | 2005-11-01 13:49:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID EFIN KTFN PGOV PREL IZ KU |
05KUWAIT4673 | KUWAIT AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE: GOK MEASURES FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 30, Emboffs and two U.S. military veterinarians met with the Deputy Director General for Animal Resources to discuss the GOK's efforts to combat the spread of the Avian Influenza (AI) virus. The GOK has teams of inspectors that routinely inspect farms and bird marke [...] | 2005-11-01 14:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD AMED KPAO PREL CASC KSCA SENV TBIO KU WHO FAO |
05KUWAIT4681 | FIRST GUANTANAMO RETURNEE'S ACQUITTAL OVERTURNED [...] Local press reports that former Guantanamo detainee Nasser Al-Mutairi has had his acquittal overturned and has been sentenced to five years in prison. The MFA office which tracks returning detainees confirmed that Nasser Al-Mutairi was sentenced to five years in prison, adding the sentence w [...] | 2005-11-02 12:07:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL PHUM PGOV KISL KCRM KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT4684 | APPEAL FOR INCREASED CONTRIBUTIONS TO PAKISTAN [...] (SBU) As reported in ref B, Ambassador met with Finance Minister Bader Al-Humaidhi on November 1 to commend the GOK for its $100M pledge and to urge increased GOK assistance to earthquake relief efforts in Pakistan. Without offering specifics, Al-Humaidhi said that the initial $100M package w [...] | 2005-11-02 13:23:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM PK PREL KU |
05KUWAIT4685 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY BODMAN'S NOVEMBER 13-14, [...] (SBU) Secretary Bodman will arrive about one week after the celebration of the end of the month of Ramadan. He will meet with Energy Minister Shaykh Ahmad Fahd Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah. He will also meet with Prime Minister Shaykh Sab [...] | 2005-11-02 15:04:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | ENRG EPET OVIP PREL KU |
05KUWAIT4713 | KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION: GUANTANAMO DETAINEES RELEASE [...] Kuwaiti Arabic language press celebrated the return of the five detained at the Guantanamo Bay facility. They were glorified as returning heroes with their names, photos, and biographical information occupying considerable space on front pages of the five major dailies. Only one writer took [...] | 2005-11-08 09:43:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO IZ KMDR KU |
05KUWAIT4717 | POST ASSESSMENT OF KUWAIT CASH COURIER ENVIRONMENT [...] (C) Per reftel A request, the following is Post's assessment of Kuwait's cash courier environment. At the Border and Legal Environment ----------------------------------- 2. (C) The GOK's 2002 law (No. 35) "Concerning Combating Money Laundering" criminalizes cash smuggling within the [...] | 2005-11-08 12:46:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER PGOV KU TERROR FINANCE |
05KUWAIT4718 | HUMAN RIGHTS DAY 2005: QUOTE FROM KUWAIT ON THE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-08 13:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KPAO PGOV ODIP APER KU |
05KUWAIT4719 | DRAFT U.S. STATEMENT FOR 28th MEETING OF [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. (U) Action request: The Tripartite Commission on Gulf War Missing will meet in Kuwait on November 15, 2005. Post requests Department approval of the below statement to be delivered by the Ambassador. Post would appreciate app [...] | 2005-11-08 13:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL MARR PGOV ICRC KU |
05KUWAIT4727 | BLUE LANTERN: CASE 966701 [...] (U) Per reftel request, Econoff paid a visit to the offices of "National Contracts Group" (NCG) to ascertain the validity of the company and its stated role as a party to pending license No. 966701. Econoff met with Mr. Omar A. A. Almutawa, President of NCG and Mr. Shahid Ayaz, General Manage [...] | 2005-11-09 12:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC KUNC KU US |
05KUWAIT4728 | BORDER ISSUE STILL FRONT PAGE NEWS AS KUWAIT WAITS [...] (U) Recent press articles on the border issue highlighting Iraqi Transitional Government (ITG) statements continue to make front page news in the Kuwaiti Arabic language press. Local Arabic dailies Al-Qabas and Al-Watan carried front page articles on November 8 discussing the ITG's decision [...] | 2005-11-09 12:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL PGOV IZ KU UN |
05KUWAIT4729 | PRIME MINISTER HOSTS FIRST OFFICIAL RAMADAN DINNER [...] (U) On October 31 Prime Minster Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah hosted a 'Ghabqa' traditional Ramadan late night dinner for a group of Kuwaiti women, marking the first time an official dinner has been held for women by the Prime Minister. The Ghabqa was held at the Prime Minister's [...] | 2005-11-09 12:47:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR KWMN KU |
05KUWAIT4739 | INTERIOR MINISTER SAYS INFORMATION-SHARING KEY TO [...] (C) Summary: During a November 12 meeting with Interior Minister Shaykh Nawaf Al-Sabah, the Ambassador stressed the needed to strengthen counterterrorism measures and said that better cooperation between the U.S. and Kuwait, as well as increased information-sharing, would help to prevent ter [...] | 2005-11-13 07:40:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PBTS PGOV PREL KU IZ |
05KUWAIT4740 | FREEDOM AGENDA: PLANNING MINISTER ON ELECTORAL [...] (C) Summary. Planning Minister Dr. Masouma Al-Mubarak told the Ambassador during a November 12 meeting that reduction of the number of electoral districts was a GOK priority and would pave the way for additional political reforms, and facilitate the participation of women in the 2007 nationa [...] | 2005-11-13 07:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KWMN KU FREEDOM AGENDA |
05KUWAIT4741 | HEAD OF CENTRAL BANK'S AML UNIT ON MENA/FATF, [...] (C) Begin Summary. On November 10, Emboffs met with Talal Al-Sayegh, head of the Kuwait Central Bank's Anti-Money Laundering unit, to discuss the latest MENA/FATF developments, get an update on the new terror finance legislation, and reaffirm USG technical assistance offers in support of Kuw [...] | 2005-11-13 08:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER CVIS KVPR KU TERROR FINANCE |
05KUWAIT4742 | INTERIOR AND PLANNING MINISTERS CONFIRM GOK [...] (SBU) Summary: During separate meetings on November 12, the Ambassador pressed Interior Minister Shaykh Nawaf Al-Sabah and Planning Minister Dr. Masouma Al-Mubarak to step up GOK efforts to combat human trafficking and improve the working conditions of Kuwait's large expatriate work force. [...] | 2005-11-13 08:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB PREL PGOV SOCI KDEM KCRM KU |
05KUWAIT4746 | GOK TO ATTEND NOVEMBER 19 ISLAMABAD CONFERENCE BUT [...] (SBU) Begin Summary. According to MFA and Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) officials, the GOK is unlikely to make any additional pledges at the November 19 Islamabad conference. However, a GOK delegation, including KFAED's Director of Operations, will attend the conference. [...] | 2005-11-13 13:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN PGOV PHUM PREL PK KU |
05KUWAIT475 | MEDIA REACTION - IRAQI ELECTIONS;FEBRUARY 2 [...] Kuwait TV coverage of Iraqi elections remained eclipsed somewhat due to ongoing reports about Kuwait's response to recent clashes between security forces and suspected terrorists. Commentators continue to praise the course of Iraqi democracy after "thirty years of fear." End summary. ----- [...] | 2005-02-02 09:15:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KU KDMR |
05KUWAIT4763 | MEDIA REACTION: INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM [...] Moderate Arabic daily Al-Seyassah reprinted an article by Mohamed Yousef Al-Melaify titled "The audacity of the American report." Mr. Al-Melaify heavily criticized the International Religious Freedom Report. He questioned the authenticity of the report's information as well as the integrity o [...] | 2005-11-15 04:03:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO XF IZ KU |
05KUWAIT4770 | SECRETARY OF ENERGY THANKS GOK FOR KATRINA AID, [...] (U) Summary: During his November 13-14 visit to Kuwait, Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman thanked the Government and SIPDIS people of Kuwait for their generous support for Hurricane Katrina victims, as well as their support of reconstruction efforts in Iraq, Pakistan and elsewhere. The Sec [...] | 2005-11-15 08:15:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ECON BEXP KU |
05KUWAIT4774 | KUWAITI FM TO CAIRO TO CONSULT ON RECONCILIATION [...] (C) In a brief aside at luncheon on 15 November, Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah told the Ambassador he would travel to Cairo on Saturday to be present for some of the preparatory work for the Iraqi reconciliation conference. He said he expected that [...] | 2005-11-15 12:30:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KU IZ |
05KUWAIT4776 | Study in the U.S.A.: We Are Failing [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-15 12:45:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC KPAO SCUL OIIP CVIS XF KU |
05KUWAIT4778 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON SUPPORT FOR U.S. CANDIDACY [...] (U) On November 16, Embassy delivered reftel points via diplomatic note to the MFA. Embassy will report on the results of the demarche as appropriate. ********************************************* Visit Embassy Kuwait's Classified Website: http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/kuwait/ You can [...] | 2005-11-16 07:06:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC IMO EWWT PHSA KTIA KU US |
05KUWAIT4784 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO KUWAITIS ON THIRD COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-16 09:55:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM IR KU |
05KUWAIT4785 | U.S. POSITIONS ON ARAB LEAGUE MEETING PROVIDED TO [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-16 09:55:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PREL |
05KUWAIT4789 | UN AMBASSADOR VORONTSOV ASK U.S. TO PRESS TUNISIA [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 7. 2. (C) Summary: UN Special Envoy Vorontsov requested November 16 that the U.S. press the Government of Tunisia to accept an agreement reached between the UN, Kuwait, and Iraq on the return to Kuwait of spare airplane parts stolen by Sadda [...] | 2005-11-16 13:22:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KU IZ TS UN |
05KUWAIT4791 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON FOLLOW-UP APPEAL FOR SUPPORT [...] (SBU) Begin Summary. Econoffs delivered ref A demarche points to Abdulkareem Al-Mutawa, the Regional Manager for South Asia at the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED). Al-Mutawa acknowledged the importance of expediting GOK assistance to earthquake victims and confirmed KFAED p [...] | 2005-11-16 13:46:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL PHUM SENV PAK KU |
05KUWAIT4792 | PUBLIC PROSECUTION QUESTIONS RULING FAMILY MEMBER [...] (C) Summary: The Public Prosecution Office questioned Shaykh Mishal Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah, former Assistant Undersecretary for State Security Affairs, on November 8 about his public criticism of the GOK during a September interview conducted by Mohammed Al-Jassem on his program "Al-Majlis," whic [...] | 2005-11-16 13:49:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PHUM KDEM KU SUCCESSION |
05KUWAIT4794 | PENINSULA LIONS UPDATE: DEFENSE CHALLENGES CHARGES [...] (SBU) The trial of the Peninsula Lions resumed on November 12 amid tightening security with over a dozen defense lawyers presenting their arguments one-by-one as the trial judges sat and listened. The hearing, which began at 2 pm, has continued in extraordinary sessions finishing after 8 pm [...] | 2005-11-16 14:38:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV JO IZ SA KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT4795 | MEDIA REACTION: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS, HUMAN [...] Kuwaiti Arabic-language press responded unfavorably to the November 9 roundtable discussion the Ambassador held on the topic of trafficking in persons, with the exception of one Kuwait University political science professor, who thanked the Ambassador in Al-Seyassah. Al-Rai Al-Aam dedicated a [...] | 2005-11-17 08:29:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KIRF KPAO PGOV PHUM PREL PTER |
05KUWAIT481 | FM AND SENIOR MP TELL U/S BOLTON IRANIAN NUCLEAR [...] (C) Summary: During a January 29 visit to Kuwait, Under Secretary Bolton shared with FM Shaykh Dr. Mohammed and MP SIPDIS Mohammed Al-Sager U.S. concerns about Iran's nuclear activities and the firm belief that UNSC involvement is necessary. Bolton said the U.S. was following the Europea [...] | 2005-02-02 12:39:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PGOV PTER KU |
05KUWAIT4811 | STUDY IN THE U.S.A.: WE ARE FAILING [...] SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATION: Despite the Mission's focused priority efforts at increasing the number of Kuwaitis studying in the U.S., the number of Kuwaitis opting for higher education in America continues to decline. In FY-05, 58 fewer F1 visas were issued to Kuwaitis than during FY-04, a [...] | 2005-11-19 13:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC KPAO SCUL OIIP CVIS XF KU |
05KUWAIT4813 | 28TH MEETING OF THE TRIPARTITE COMMISSION: 28 [...] (C) Summary: Kuwait hosted on November 15, the 28th meeting of the Tripartite Commission (TPC) on Gulf War Missing. The session closed 28 cases (26 Kuwaitis, two Saudis, and one Iraqi),continued the mandate of the Technical Sub-Committee (TSC) for one year, and selected November 15, 2006 [...] | 2005-11-19 14:54:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MARR AORC ICRC KU IZ SA |
05KUWAIT4824 | RESPONSE TO DEPARTMENT TASKER ABOUT AVIAN [...] (U) This message is Post's response to the questions contained in Reftel A regarding the GOK's efforts to control Avian Influenza (AI),and its capability to respond to an AI epidemic. Questions are answered in the order provided in reftel. -------------------- ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ----- [...] | 2005-11-20 11:18:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL XX KU |
05KUWAIT4831 | KUWAITI WRITER AND ARTIST SAYS PM'S OCTOBER 31 [...] (C) During a November 20 discussion at her co-ed diwaniya, Kuwaiti writer, artist, and democracy advocate Thuraya Al-Baqsami, told PolChief that although she was thrilled to have been invited to the Prime Minister's Ramadan dinner for women, she believes the event was a publicity ploy to por [...] | 2005-11-21 13:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM KWMN KU |
05KUWAIT4832 | AMBASSADOR RAISES ALARM RE SHARP DECLINE IN KUWAITI [...] (U) Summary and comment: On November 9, Ambassador met with Undersecretary for Higher Education, Dr. Rasha Al- Sabah. During the meeting, they discussed reasons for the significant decline in the number of Kuwaiti students studying in the U.S., the benefits of increasing the number of Ameri [...] | 2005-11-22 04:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OEXC KPAO SCUL PREL PTER OIIP CVIS KISL XF KU |
05KUWAIT484 | FORMER INFORMATION MINISTER ABULHASSAN NOW PM'S [...] (U) Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed recently appointed former Information Minister Mohammed Abdullah Abulhassan as Counselor for the Prime Minister's Diwan. Abulhassan resigned January 2 on the eve of his planned parliamentary grilling, which promised sharp attacks from liberals and Islam [...] | 2005-02-02 13:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KU |
05KUWAIT4846 | PARLIAMENT COMMITTEE PASSES KATRINA AID PACKAGE [...] (C) During its November 20 meeting, the National Assembly's Budget and Closing Accounts Committee approved the GOK's $500 million hurricane Katrina aid package. Islamist MP Dr. Nasser Al-Sane, a member of the Budget and Closing Accounts Committee told Poloff November 21 that the National Ass [...] | 2005-11-22 08:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID AMER PREL PGOV ENRG KU KATRINA AID |
05KUWAIT486 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DISCUSSES ANTI-TERRORISM [...] (C) Summary: During separate February 2 discussions with the Ambassador, Members of Parliament (MPs) Dr. Yousef Al-Zalzalah and Abdullah Al-Roumi discussed the National Assembly's February 1 passage of a new law which expands law enforcement powers to search and seize illegal weapons, calling [...] | 2005-02-02 14:30:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KISL EFIN PGOV KU |
05KUWAIT4884 | KUWAITI AUTHORITIES CRACK DOWN ON "DOOR-TO-DOOR [...] Local Arabic daily Al-Seyassah reported November 22 that five extremist preachers -- three Egyptians and two Indonesians -- were arrested November 21 "for spreading the doctrine of the terror group al-Qaeda among the inhabitants of a Kuwaiti city." The paper reported that they went from door- [...] | 2005-11-26 13:38:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KISL SOCI KU |
05KUWAIT4901 | AMBASSADOR TELLS MFA UNDERSECRETARY THE TIME IS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-27 13:06:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AORC ICRC PHUM PREF IS SZ KU |
05KUWAIT4902 | KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON NEXT STEPS ON [...] (SBU) During a November 27 meeting with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Khaled Al-Jarallah, the Ambassador referred to the November 12 Forum of the Future meeting in Bahrain and strongly urged Kuwait to join fellow Gulf states Qatar and Bahrain and become a founding member of the [...] | 2005-11-27 13:08:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM EAID ECON KMPI KU |
05KUWAIT4903 | MFA UNDERSECRETARY SAYS SYRIAN PRESIDENT'S [...] (C) During a November 27 meeting, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Khaled Al-Jarallah shared his views on the recent Syrian decision to send officials to Europe in for questioning by the Mehlis commission. Al-Jarallah said the SARG's decision to cooperate was the right one. Al-Jar [...] | 2005-11-27 13:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV SY KU |
05KUWAIT4904 | PARLIAMENTARIAN REQUESTS ASSISTANCE FOR KUWAITI [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request. In a letter dated 19 November 2005, Mohammad J. Al-Sager, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Kuwaiti Parliament, wrote Ambassador requesting Embassy intervention with U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of Kuwaiti citizen Ali Hijazi, a principal [...] | 2005-11-27 14:52:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CJAN CVIS KCRM KU |
05KUWAIT4905 | IRAQI PLANNING MINISTER TELLS KUWAIT ITG IS READY [...] (C) Summary: During a November 27 meeting, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Khaled Al-Jarallah told the Ambassador that the November 26 visit of Iraqi Planning Minister Barham Saleh to Kuwait resulted in a step forward on Kuwaiti-funded reconstruction projects in Iraq. The ITG su [...] | 2005-11-28 09:04:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAID PHUM PGOV KDEM ENIV IZ KU |
05KUWAIT4914 | MINISTER AL-HAJJI DISCUSSES COMBATTING TIP, [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Faisal Al-Hajji briefed Ambassador November 28 on GOK discussions to establish a shelter for domestic workers as part of efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). He highlighted other GOK measures including proposed revisions to the curren [...] | 2005-11-28 14:03:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KCRM ELAB PTER KU |
05KUWAIT4933 | PM TRIES TO CALM SUCCESSION FEARS; INSISTS AMIR [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: In an effort to silence continued speculation over succession, Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, in a November 22 interview, firmly dismissed the possibility that either the Amir or the Crown Prince, both in poor health, would step down from the [...] | 2005-11-29 10:06:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM SOCI KU SUCCESSION |
05KUWAIT4936 | IRAQI ENVOYS SET UP SHOP IN KUWAIT [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-29 12:07:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV IZ KU |
05KUWAIT4938 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DID NOT/NOT VOTE ON KATRINA AID [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-29 13:05:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID AMER ENRG KU KATRINA AID |
05KUWAIT4960 | DEMARCHE POINTS DELIVERED--FINCEN 314 (A) NOTICE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-30 10:52:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN PTER LE SY KU |
05KUWAIT4962 | GOK REMAINS UNDECIDED REGARDING DOHA ROUND [...] (SBU) Ambassador delivered ref b points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Khaled Al-Jarallah on November 27. He stressed the need for sustained engagement and noted that the European partners needed to be pushed on their proposals regarding access to agricultural markets. Al-Jar [...] | 2005-11-30 11:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD KPAO OIIP PGOV PREL KU WTO |
05KUWAIT4963 | HUMAN RIGHTS DAY: NO SCHEDULED ACTIVITIES IN KUWAIT [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-30 12:55:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ODIP KPAO APER KU |
05KUWAIT4964 | FORMATION OF JOINT STATE-DOD AVIAN INFLUENZA [...] (U) SUMMARY Embassy convened a new committee of Emboffs and military officers at the working level to coordinate USG efforts in Kuwait in preparation for a possible Avian Influenza (AI) outbreak. The group discussed information provided by the GOK about its preparations, internal Embassy pl [...] | 2005-12-01 07:16:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMED CASC KSCA SENV TBIO PREL KU |
05KUWAIT4979 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: WORLD BANK ON-SITE PRESENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-03 13:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL KU |
05KUWAIT4980 | KUWAIT FUND SIGNS IRAQ SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION [...] (SBU) Begin Summary. During a November 30 meeting with Econoff, the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development's (KFAED) acting Regional Manager for Arab Countries, Abdullah Al-Musaibeeh, confirmed that KFAED signed a $30M contract with a Kuwaiti firm to begin school construction in Iraq but t [...] | 2005-12-03 14:08:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IZ KU |
05KUWAIT4981 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED--FINCEN 314 (A) NOTICE ON SYRIA [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-04 04:28:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN PTER LE SY KU |
05KUWAIT4982 | NO DEFINITIVE RESPONSE FROM GOK ABOUT WTO [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-04 04:29:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD KPAO OIIP PGOV PREL KU WTO |
05KUWAIT4993 | FREEDOM AGENDA: NOW SHOWING AT EMBASSY KUWAIT. [...] (U) Post has taken advantage of its Motion Picture Licensing Corporation license to screen films addressing democratic reform issues and MEPI themes for host country audiences. The response has been overwhelmingly positive and post has made available purchased DVD versions of the movies to [...] | 2005-12-04 11:38:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPAO SOCI KDEM KWMN KMPI KU |
05KUWAIT4997 | Iraq-Kuwait Soccer Face Off -- 15 Years Later [...] Kuwait and Iraq faced off on the soccer field for the first time since before the first Gulf War. The match held on November 26, 2005 between the Iraqi and Kuwaiti national teams was part of the elimination round for the Asia Cup finals. The result of the game, played in Kuwait, was a huge d [...] | 2005-12-05 04:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC KPAO SCUL ZP IZ KU |
05KUWAIT4999 | AL-WATAN NEWSPAPER SLAMMED FOR PUBLISHING LIBELOUS [...] The Kuwait Criminal Court issued December 3 a verdict sentencing Islamist Kuwaiti writer Ahmad Al-Kose and Editor- in-Chief of the Arabic Daily "Al-Watan," Shaykh Khalifa Ali Al-Khalifa Al-Sabah, to suspended two-month jail terms and fined each 50 KD ($170) for publishing a libelous article a [...] | 2005-12-05 07:38:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KISL SCUL KIRF KPAO KU |
05KUWAIT5002 | PENINSULA LIONS VERDICT TO BE ANNOUNCED DECEMBER 27 [...] (C) After six weeks of deliberations, the all-Kuwaiti judicial panel of three judges presiding over the case of the Peninsula Lions, with 37 defendants, eleven of whom are fugitives, is expected to announce its verdict on December 27. The 37 defendants face charges including murder of Kuwai [...] | 2005-12-05 11:05:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV JO IZ SA KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT5003 | EMBASSY KUWAIT COMMENTS ON THE DEMARCHE WEBSITE [...] Embassy Kuwait applauds the creation of the Language Services web page where demarche translations can be downloaded. We have used the site several times and it has helped us to deliver demarches and convey complex points in a timely fashion. After months of using the site, however, we have [...] | 2005-12-05 11:14:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AINT AINF KU |
05KUWAIT5007 | CUBA: NSC-DIRECTED COUNTRY BY COUNTRY REVIEW [...] (C) The following is post's response to reftels on implementation of Title III of the LIBERTAD Act. 2. (C) Cuba has a diplomatic presence in Kuwait, but the GOK does not maintain a mission in Cuba. Relations between the two countries have been strained since the 1990-91 Gulf War when Cu [...] | 2005-12-05 12:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD CU PREL ETTC KU |
05KUWAIT5012 | PROMOTING STUDY IN THE U.S. DURING INTERNATIONAL [...] SUMMARY: Embassy Kuwait went on the offensive during International Education Week, November 13 to 18, 2005, advancing study in the U.S. by countering misinformation about visa difficulties, about Muslims being welcomed in America, and by arguing that higher education in America is second to [...] | 2005-12-06 04:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC KPAO SCUL KIRC OIIP XF KU |
05KUWAIT5016 | FREEDOM AGENDA: PARLIAMENT SPEAKER SUPPORTS [...] (C) Summary: National Assembly Speaker Jassem Al-Khorafi told the Ambassador December 5 that discussions on reducing the number of electoral constituencies were important to Kuwait's political future, but complicated due to a lack of consensus on the number and shape of electoral districts. [...] | 2005-12-06 06:48:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KWMN SOCI KPAO PINR KU |
05KUWAIT5030 | PARLIAMENT SPEAKER PLEASED WITH PREPARATIONS FOR [...] (C) Summary: During a December 5 meeting, Kuwait National Assembly Speaker Jassem Al-Khorafi told the Ambassador he was pleased with Iraqi preparations for December 15 elections and was convinced the Iraqi people intended for the process to be free and fair. Al-Khorafi reported Iraqi conce [...] | 2005-12-06 14:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KU IZ |
05KUWAIT5031 | MUSHARRAF THANKS KUWAIT FOR EARTHQUAKE AID; GOK [...] (SBU) In Kuwait for the first stop on a Gulf tour, President Pervez Musharraf thanked the GOK for its $100 million in earthquake aid and received assurances that Pakistan would receive concessional oil sales. The Pakistani Ambassador told us on December 6 that the visit, (which coincided wit [...] | 2005-12-06 14:45:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID EINV KU PK |
05KUWAIT5032 | HUMANITARIAN OPERATIONS CENTER CHIEF ON IRAQ AND [...] (C) Summary: Lt. General (Ret.) Ali Mohammed Hassan Al Mu'min, head of Kuwait's Humanitarian Operations Center (HOC),met with poloff on November 28 and discussed his candidacy for ambassador to Iraq, the extension of the HOC's mandate until spring 2006, and Sunni-Shi'a relations in Kuwait. [...] | 2005-12-06 15:12:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL KISL OFDP SOCI PINR IZ KU |
05KUWAIT504 | INTERIOR MINISTER TO SKIP RIYADH COUNTERTERRORISM [...] No summary [...] | 2005-02-05 13:55:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL KU |
05KUWAIT5044 | GOK SUPPORTS U.S. WTO PROPOSAL IN PRINCIPLE, [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-07 11:42:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD KPAO OIIP PGOV PREL WTO KU |
05KUWAIT5046 | UPDATE ON ARTICLE 98 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-07 12:02:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PARM KLEG KU |
05KUWAIT5052 | DEMARCHES DELIVERED ON ASG AND BANCO DELTA ASIA; [...] (SBU) On December 6, Econcouns, accompanied by Econoff, delivered reftels B-D demarche points (verbally and through non-papers) to Khaled Al-Mughamis, Director of the MFA's Follow-up and Coordination Department responsible for terrorism finance and anti-money laundering issues. 2. (SBU) Wi [...] | 2005-12-08 07:42:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN KJUS KNNP PTER PREL KN LE SY |
05KUWAIT5053 | DEMARCHES DELIVERED ON ASG AND BANCO DELTA ASIA; [...] (SBU) On December 6, Econcouns, accompanied by Econoff, delivered reftels B-D demarche points (verbally and through non-papers) to Khaled Al-Mughamis, Director of the MFA's Follow-up and Coordination Department responsible for terrorism finance and anti-money laundering issues. 2. (SBU) Wi [...] | 2005-12-08 07:42:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN KJUS KNNP PTER PREL KN LE SY |
05KUWAIT5054 | KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON PRESIDENT'S NOVEMBER [...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche by diplomatic note on December 5. During a December 6 meeting, NEA DAS Gordon Gray reiterated demarche points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Acting Undersecretary Ambassador Khaled Al-Babtain and provided him with a copy of the President's speech and the "N [...] | 2005-12-09 15:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ KU |
05KUWAIT5061 | KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PREVENTING AL-MANAR [...] (C) NEA DAS Gordon Gray delivered reftel demarche during a December 6 meeting with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Acting U/S Ambassador Khaled Al-Babtain. DAS Gray emphasized the insidious nature of Al-Manar broadcasts and urged the GOK to remove the station from Arabsat, of which Kuwait owns a [...] | 2005-12-10 07:19:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER ANET ASEC KU |
05KUWAIT5063 | NEA DAS GRAY ENGAGES GOK ON AID, IRAN, IRAQ, [...] (C) Summary: NEA DAS Gordon Gray met with Director General of the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) Abdulwahab Al-Bader, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Acting Undersecretary Ambassador Khaled Al-Babtain, National Assembly Speaker Jassem Al-Khorafi, and Minister of Social Af [...] | 2005-12-10 07:48:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM EAID KDEM KPAO CVIS KU |
05KUWAIT5064 | NEA DAS GRAY URGES GOK ACTION ON TIP/LABOR ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings on December 6 with National Assembly Speaker Jassem Al-Khorafi and Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Faisal Al-Hajji, NEA DAS Gordon Gray reiterated U.S. concerns about Kuwait's trafficking in persons (TIP) and domestic labor problems, and urged GOK action [...] | 2005-12-10 07:56:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ELAB KDEM KU |
05KUWAIT5068 | KUWAIT PLEDGES 1.5 MILLION USD AT UNRWA DONOR [...] (U) Kuwait, demonstrating its continued support for Palestinian refugees, pledged $1.5M at the December 5 United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) donor conference held in New York. Kuwait's 2005 pledge matches its 2004 contribution and will support UNRWA's 2006 budget. Another 19 coun [...] | 2005-12-10 13:58:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN PGOV PREL WE GZ KU |
05KUWAIT5069 | FREEDOM AGENDA: USING INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS [...] PolChief participated December 10 in a program organized by the American Universal School in celebration of International Human Rights Day. Addressing an audience of approximately 100 students aged 15-16, and drawing from reftel, she emphasized the U.S. commitment to promoting and safeguardi [...] | 2005-12-10 14:03:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL SOCI SCUL KIRF KDEM KPAO PINR KU |
05KUWAIT5070 | KUWAIT REQUESTS FILES ON RELEASED GUANTANAMO [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 3. 2. (C) Ambassador Khalid Al-Maqamis, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Coordination and Follow-Up Department called poloff December 10 to request that the U.S. military files of the five Guantanamo detainees released November 4 be passed [...] | 2005-12-10 14:18:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER PREL PGOV PHUM OPDC KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT5074 | KUWAIT WITHDRAWS RESERVATION REGARDING UN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-11 07:49:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL SOCI SCUL KDEM KWMN KU |
05KUWAIT5077 | KUWAIT ABOUNDS WITH INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS, [...] During a December 7 meeting, Minister of Public Works Bader N. Al-Humaidi informed the Ambassador that the State of Kuwait is moving forward on a number of infrastructure projects deemed as top priorities to the Government of Kuwait (GOK). The Minister complimented U.S. architectural and civ [...] | 2005-12-11 13:46:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON BEXP KLTN PIN KU |
05KUWAIT5081 | OIL INDUSTRY CONTACTS TALK INVESTMENTS, PROJECT [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: In the first two weeks of December, Econ Officer heard from a number of oil industry contacts that, while the GOK and the Kuwait oil industry are serious about investment in increasing upstream and downstream capacity, a bottleneck remains in bringing concepts to f [...] | 2005-12-11 14:02:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON BEXP PINR KU |
05KUWAIT5082 | TERRORIST FINANCE: AMBASSADOR OPENS ANTI-MONEY [...] (U) On December 11, Ambassador delivered remarks at the opening of an anti-money laundering and terror finance conference hosted by Kuwait General Administration of Customs (KGAC) and DHS's U.S. Custom's Advisory Team. The Ambassador's remarks praised ongoing cooperation between the GOK and t [...] | 2005-12-11 14:09:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER CVIS KVPR KU |
05KUWAIT5083 | FREEDOM AGENDA: KUWAITI INFORMATION MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: During a December 7 meeting, Minister of Information Dr. Anas Al-Rasheed told the Ambassador that he was very pleased by the progress of the revised press law and he believes it has a very good chance of being approved by the National Assembly in the near future. Al-Rasheed said that P [...] | 2005-12-12 03:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS KDEM KPAO KU KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL |
05KUWAIT5099 | AMBASSADOR PITCHES COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER ON [...] (SBU) Ambassador ran into the Kuwait Communications Minister, Shaykh Ahmed Al-Abdullah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, the evening of December 11 and made a strong pitch to pull Al Manar from ARABSAT programming. The Minister replied that ARABSAT is a jointly owned company and therefore others would nee [...] | 2005-12-12 13:01:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PREL ANET KU |
05KUWAIT5100 | APOSTOLIC NUNCIO RAISES VATICAN CONCERNS [...] (SBU) Ambassador, DCM, and PolOff met with Mounged El-Hachem, the Apostolic Nuncio to Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Yemen, on December 10. El-Hachem praised Kuwait's general atmosphere of religious tolerance but said two concrete issues would receive a great deal of his focus. 2. (SBU) First [...] | 2005-12-12 13:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KIRF PGOV SOCI PREL PINR VT KU |
05KUWAIT5101 | ENGAGING THOUSANDS - KUWAIT'S INTERNATIONAL BOOK [...] SUMMARY: The Embassy participated in Kuwait's 30th International Book Fair, organized by the National Council of Culture, Arts and Letters, from November 24 to December 2, 2005. Most of the tens of thousands of visitors were conservative Muslims accompanied by family members. Public Affair [...] | 2005-12-13 04:07:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC KPAO SCUL OIIP XF KU |
05KUWAIT5113 | MEDIA REACTION: GWOT SECRET PRISONS [...] One Kuwaiti Arabic-language newspaper reported allegations of the existence of CIA detention facilities on European soil. End summary. ------------------ Selected Headlines ------------------ 2. Saturday, December 10, 2005 -- Al-Rai Al-Aam, p. 33, "Did Romania get paid for the American [...] | 2005-12-14 04:02:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KIRF KPAO PGOV PHUM PREL PTER |
05KUWAIT5114 | DOD AVIAN FLU BRIEFING TO GOK MILITARY DOCTORS; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY On December 12, U.S. military medical personnel briefed Kuwaiti military doctors on Avian Influenza (AI) and the U.S. military's preparations for a possible outbreak. Comments and follow-up questions from Kuwaiti attendees indicate that the briefing was well received. On Decem [...] | 2005-12-14 04:10:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMED CASC KSCA SENV TBIO PREL KU |
05KUWAIT512 | RAID NETS SAUDI, JORDANIAN MILITANTS; KUWAIT [...] Summary: In the latest round of raids on suspected militants since security crackdowns began January 10, police on February 5 reportedly captured five suspected militants, including two Saudi Arabian and three Jordanian citizens. Kuwaiti security forces have been authorized and are using all n [...] | 2005-02-06 13:27:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL KPAO ASEC KU SA JO TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT5122 | CRIMINAL COURT AMENDS LIBEL VERDICT AGAINST AL- [...] On December 10, the Kuwaiti Criminal Court amended its December 3 sentence of Islamist columnist Ahmad Al-Kose and Shaykh Khalifa Ali Al-Khalifa Al-Sabah, editor-in-chief of the Arabic daily Al-Watan; the two men were convicted for publishing a libelous editorial against liberal political sci [...] | 2005-12-14 09:58:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KISL SCUL KIRF KPAO KU |
05KUWAIT5125 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES FM ON KUWAIT BECOMING A [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-14 11:42:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM EAID ECON KMPI KU |
05KUWAIT5128 | TUENI ASSASSINATION DEMARCHE DELIVERED FM SAYS [...] (C) Summary: During a December 14 meeting, the Ambassador shared with Kuwait FM Shaykh Dr. Mohammed U.S. views on the assassination of Gebran Tueni and encouraged the GOK to publicly condemn the murder. The FM responded that the situation in Lebanon was quite serious and said the GOK's pri [...] | 2005-12-14 12:32:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV LE SY KU |
05KUWAIT5129 | AMBASSADOR RESTATES TO FOREIGN MINISTER THE CASE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-14 12:38:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PREL ANET KU |
05KUWAIT5130 | FOREIGN MINISTER CONFIRMS GEN. AL-MUMIN IS THE [...] (C) During a December 14 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah confirmed that General Ali Hassan Al Mu'min, former Kuwaiti military Chief of Staff and current head of the Humanitarian Operations Center (HOC),is the Government's choice for a [...] | 2005-12-14 12:39:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL OFDP SOCI PINR IZ KU |
05KUWAIT5133 | KUWAIT: 2005 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT DRAFT [...] (U) Embassy Kuwait's submission for the 2005 Terrorism Report is provided below. The text will also be submitted electronically as instructed in reftel. Addendum information will be provided septel. Post contact is Political Officer Andrea F. Gastaldo who can be reached at GastaldoAF2@stat [...] | 2005-12-14 14:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC KCRM EFIN KHLS KPAO KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT5134 | KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SECRETARY'S ORAL [...] (C) Ambassador delivered December 14 reftel message and points to Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah. Regarding the Strategic Investment Initative, the Ambassador outlined the strategic approach to regional aid that was first raised by the Secretary in Manam [...] | 2005-12-14 14:28:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID KU |
05KUWAIT5135 | FREEDOM AGENDA: AMBASSADOR URGES WORDS TO MATCH [...] (C) Summary: Kuwait FM Shaykh Dr. Mohammed told the Ambassador December 14 that Kuwait had a strong record of encouraging religious tolerance and did not need to respond to calls by extremists to limit the construction of places of worship other than mosques. The Ambassador agreed the GOK [...] | 2005-12-14 14:41:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI KU FREEDOM AGENDA |
05KUWAIT5136 | FREEDOM AGENDA: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY POSTPONES [...] (C) Summary: The National Assembly voted on December 12 in favor of postponing discussion on proposals to reduce the number of electoral constituencies, a key political reform, until June 30, 2006. The vote comes amid heated public debate over the issue, and after the Government came out pub [...] | 2005-12-14 14:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM KU FREEDOM AGENDA |
05KUWAIT5137 | SHI'A CLERIC FINDS NO LOVE FOR PRESIDENT [...] (C) In a December 8 meeting, Kuwaiti Shi'a cleric Sayed Mohammed Baqer Al-Mohri told Emboffs he met "no one who was happy" with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government during his early-December trip to Iran. Al-Mohri said he met with the head of the Higher Judiciary Council, a former Minis [...] | 2005-12-14 14:47:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR ECON IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT514 | KUWAITI BLOGGERS: VOICES OF THE FUTURE [...] (U) Summary: Econ Officer attended 2 February a monthly meeting of Kuwaiti web-bloggers where the group discussed their various web-logs, technology, politics, religion, social life, and a variety of other issues. The group was made up of nine men and one woman, mostly in their early to mid [...] | 2005-02-07 05:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINT SCUL SOCI ECON KU |
05KUWAIT5140 | THE HIGH IMPACT OF CULTURAL AND SPORTS PROGRAMS [...] SUMMARY: EMBASSY KUWAIT'S CULTURAL AND SPORTS OUTREACH EFFORTS HAVE BEEN EFFECTIVE IN REACHING NEW AND DIVERSE AUDIENCES OF YOUNG KUWAITIS. SPORTS PROGRAMS SERVE AS A SUPERB TOOL WITH WHICH TO REACH YOUNG KUWAITI MALES, A KEY DEMOGRAPHIC IN THE STRUGGLE FOR HEARTS AND MINDS, AS WELL AS YOUN [...] | 2005-12-16 11:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC KPAO SCUL OIIP XF KU |
05KUWAIT5141 | 2005-2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] (U) Post's input for Part II of the 2005-2006 INCSR follows in para 2. An updated redlined country write-up has been emailed to rindlerep (AT) state.gov per reftel instructions. 2.(U) BEGIN TEXT OF REPORT. Kuwait The Government of Kuwait should significantly accelerate [...] | 2005-12-16 11:25:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN ETTC EFIN PTER PREL KU |
05KUWAIT5142 | PLACEMENT REPORT: OP-ED ON TERRORISM FINANCING AND [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-16 11:25:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KPAO ETTC KTFN PINS CVIS AMGT AFSI KSEP |
05KUWAIT5143 | TERRORIST FINANCE: LIST 74 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-16 11:27:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN ETTC EFIN PTER PREL CVIS KVPR KU |
05KUWAIT5144 | TERRORIST FINANCE: LIST 74 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-16 11:28:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN ETTC EFIN PTER PREL CVIS KVPR KU |
05KUWAIT5163 | NEW ORLEANS ALL-STARS THRILL KUWAIT [...] SUMMARY: On Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 2005, the New Orleans All-Star Brass Band performed to a packed hotel ballroom in downtown Kuwait to thank the people and Government of Kuwait for their support following Hurricane Katrina. The Charge d'Affaires welcomed and thanked the Kuwaiti pub [...] | 2005-12-17 13:32:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC KPAO SCUL OIIP XF KU |
05KUWAIT5164 | GOVERNMENT OF KUWAIT SHOWS INTEREST IN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-17 13:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PGOV PREL PTER KU |
05KUWAIT5165 | KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI PARLIAMENTARY [...] Summary: Over the Kuwaiti weekend, Arabic dailies provided a low volume of coverage of the Iraqi parliamentary elections. For the most part, offering only news of wide participation by Sunnis. Sporadic reports of the alleged Iranian truck full of forged ballot boxes being seized as it attempte [...] | 2005-12-18 04:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO PREL KDEM IZ KMDR KU |
05KUWAIT5166 | KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION: PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN [...] Summary: Kuwaiti Arabic-language press continued its coverage of the Iraqi parliamentary elections calling the election "a step towards unity and a better future for Iraq." Despite claims of possible fraud, the Kuwaiti press paid more attention to the fact that the elections were carried out [...] | 2005-12-18 04:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO PREL KDEM IZ KMDR KU |
05KUWAIT5183 | LEGISLATION PASSED AUTOMATICALLY REGISTERING ALL [...] Following the May 16 decision to grant women full political rights, the National Assembly on December 13 approved a temporary amendment to the 1962 election law to facilitate the first-time registration of female voters in Kuwait. The amendment requires, for this registration period only, th [...] | 2005-12-18 11:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM KWMN KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS |
05KUWAIT5184 | TIFA UPDATE: GOK PLANS TO SEND TECHNICAL EXPERTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY On December 18, Econoff met with Ministry of Commerce official Khalid Al-Azemi to discuss the ongoing Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) discussions, and urged that technical experts be included in Kuwait's delegation scheduled to arrive for talks in February 2006 in [...] | 2005-12-19 03:55:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD KU |
05KUWAIT5186 | FREEDOM AGENDA: HEATED DEBATE OVER ELECTORAL [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 12, the National Assembly voted to postpone discussion on proposals to reduce the number of electoral constituencies, a key political reform, until June 30, 2006 (ref A). The vote comes amid heated public debate over the issue. Top government officials recently st [...] | 2005-12-19 10:14:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KWMN KU FREEDOM AGENDA |
05KUWAIT5190 | PARLIAMENT'S HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE PLANNING MARCH [...] (SBU) MP and head of Parliament's Human Rights Committee Ali Al-Rashed announced December 10, International Human Rights Day, that he intended to organize a March conference, to coincide with International Women's Day, on human rights with a specific focus on women's issues. During a December [...] | 2005-12-19 12:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KMPI KWMN PINR KU |
05KUWAIT5191 | GOK CONGRATULATES IRAQIS ON SUCCESSFUL NATIONAL [...] (U) The Council of Ministers issued a statement December 18 congratulating the "brotherly Iraqi people" for the success of the December 15 national elections. In the statement, the Cabinet lauded the active participation of diverse Iraqi groups and sects, and expressed hope the elections wou [...] | 2005-12-19 12:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT5210 | SHUNNED KUWAITI EDITOR FEARS FOR SAFETY [...] (SBU) Summary: Mohammed Abdul Qader Al-Jassem, Al Hurra talk show host and the liberal former editor-in-chief of the Arabic daily Al-Watan, complained to Emboffs of receiving threats after posting a scathing article on his website on December 10 criticizing Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahm [...] | 2005-12-20 12:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL PINR SOCI KU |
05KUWAIT5231 | SCENESETTER FOR A/S TONY WAYNE'S JANUARY 7, 2006 [...] (SBU) We look forward to welcoming you to Kuwait. Over the past three years the GOK has embarked on an ambitious program of economic and political reform, with some successes and some frustration. There are significant opportunities for U.S. businesses in Kuwait, which will continue to incr [...] | 2005-12-21 13:15:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KU |
05KUWAIT5232 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: "AFGHANISTAN COMPACT" [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-21 13:15:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL KU AF |
05KUWAIT5234 | DEMARCHE TO KUWAIT IN ADVANCE OF DECEMBER 23 IMF [...] (C) CDA conveyed reftel points to MFA U/S Khalid Jarallah December 22 at 1600 local. Jarallah said the GOK was aware of the December 23 IMF board meeting on Iraq's Stand-by Arrangement. He said he would contact the Kuwaiti Ambassador in Washington to advise him to deliver the necessary instru [...] | 2005-12-22 15:22:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL IZ KU |
05KUWAIT5252 | SAUDI ARABIAN TEXACO CONCESSION IN KUWAIT-SAUDI [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Officials from Saudi Arabian Texaco (SAT),a subsidiary of U.S. oil company Chevron, told the Ambassador on December 10 that SAT was concerned about the Kuwait National Petroleum Company's (KNPC) plans to build a new refinery in an area adjacent to SAT's compound in t [...] | 2005-12-26 13:09:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ECON BEXP KU |
05KUWAIT5266 | KUWAIT PROJECT STALLED IN PARLIAMENT...AGAIN, KP [...] (C) Summary: After reviewing a critical State Audit Bureau report on the enabling law for the participation of foreign companies in the development of Kuwait's northern oilfields (Kuwait Project),the National Assembly's Economic and Financial Affairs Committee withdrew its previously submitt [...] | 2005-12-27 09:37:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ECON BEXP KU OIL SECTOR |
05KUWAIT5270 | PENINSULA LIONS VERDICT IN: 30 CONVICTIONS [...] (U) In a verdict announced December 27, 30 of the 37 Peninsula Lions defendants were convicted of murder, attempted assassinations and other terror related crimes. The decision was first read to the defense lawyers in a closed court session, followed by an announcement to court observers out [...] | 2005-12-27 12:58:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PHUM PGOV JO IZ SA KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT5281 | FORCE ADJUSTMENT IN IRAQ: "FOLLOW-UP" INFORMATION [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-28 09:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PREL MARR MOPS IZ KU |
05KUWAIT5283 | KUWAIT HOSTS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROLE OF [...] Kuwaiti Minister of Education and Minister of Higher Education Dr. Rashid Al-Hamad opened on December 26 "The First International Conference on the Educational Dimensions in the Treatment of Terrorism and Extremism Phenomenon." The two-day conference brought together representatives from 27 [...] | 2005-12-28 09:34:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT5285 | MEPI AND BMENA IN KUWAIT: YOUNG ARAB LEADERS [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT On December 27, Ambassador met with Maha Al-Ghunaim, Vice-Chairperson and Managing Director of Global Investment House (GIH),to discuss the Young Arab Leaders organization in Kuwait (YAL-K). Also on 12/27, Ambassador spoke with Kuwait Economic Society head Dr. Rola Dasth [...] | 2005-12-28 12:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMPI PINR KDEM KPAO ECON EAID KU |
05KUWAIT5286 | KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION: The New Press Law [...] Summary: The Kuwaiti press was vigorous in its coverage of the new press law which was seen as groundbreaking. The daily Arabic-language newspapers provided readers with some of the modifications proposed by the special panel formed to study the law and also changes that have been made to the [...] | 2005-12-28 13:10:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV KPAO KMDR KU |
05KUWAIT5287 | MEDIA REACTION: Conference on Using Education to [...] Summary: Kuwaiti Arabic-language daily newspapers praised a conference examining the role of education in confronting extremism as being a good initiative taken by the Ministry of Education. The conference, The First International Conference on the Educational Dimensions in the Treatment of [...] | 2005-12-28 13:10:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL PGOV KPAO KMDR KISL OEXC KU |
05KUWAIT5288 | KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION: Iraqi Elections [...] Summary: Kuwaiti daily newspapers provided coverage on Iraqi elections, praising the process and the peaceful manner in which it was carried out. The courage of the people going to the polls was also praised and they were seen as heroes in their own right. However Mr. Al-Ghabra, writing for [...] | 2005-12-28 14:12:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO KDEM KMDR IZ KU |
05KUWAIT5289 | KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION: International Conference on [...] Summary: Kuwaiti daily newspapers provided coverage on their pages of the first International Conference on the Educational Dimensions in the Treatment of Terrorism and Extremism Phenomenon, reporting on it as a news piece. Dr. Shamlan Yousef Al-Issa is a professor of political science at th [...] | 2005-12-28 14:12:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL PGOV KPAO KMDR KISL OEXC KU |
05KUWAIT5290 | KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION: Iran's Nuclear Program [...] Summary: Kuwaiti Arabic-language daily newspapers have not covered the Iranian nuclear program and its international implications with great depth. Articles and news pieces have appeared sporadically when there have been major developments. The article below was published in a daily newspap [...] | 2005-12-28 14:12:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO KMDR KU XF |
05KUWAIT5299 | HOC CHIEF / UNOFFICIAL KUWAITI AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: Lt General Ali Hassan Al-Mu'min, former Kuwaiti military Chief of Staff, current head of the Humanitarian Operations Center (HOC) and the GOK's unannounced choice for Ambassador to Iraq (reftel),told the DCM during a December 28 meeting that Kuwait will not "make the first move" [...] | 2005-12-31 10:12:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL OFDP PINR MOPS PHUM IZ KU |
05KUWAIT5306 | FREEDOM AGENDA: LACK OF QUORUM IN PARLIAMENT [...] (SBU) The last three National Assembly sessions of 2005 epitomized the obstacles to passage of key legislation on the Assembly agenda, such as the revised press law. (Note: The current parliamentary term began on October 17 and ends in July 2006. End note.) During its December 26 session, [...] | 2005-12-31 14:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
05KUWAIT537 | CABINET MINISTER SAYS ANTI-TERROR CAMPAIGN JUST [...] (C) Commerce Minister Abdullah Taweel told Poloffs February 6 that the GOK effort to rid the country of militants was "just beginning." He said there are approximately 250 people in Kuwait who have been identified as suspected militants and are wanted by the government. 2. (C) Taweel, who [...] | 2005-02-07 14:04:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL KU |
05KUWAIT539 | FM SAYS MOD SHOULD ADDRESS FUEL; PROMISES AID FOR [...] (C) Summary: In a February 7 meeting with the Ambassador, Kuwaiti FM Shaykh Dr. Mohammed encouraged that a timeline be established for resolving the fuel issue. He reported that members of Parliament were expressing interest in what that the GOK was providing and that a plan could help to [...] | 2005-02-07 14:39:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM EAID PTER PREL PGOV MOPS MARR PHUM KU |
05KUWAIT540 | ENERGY MINISTER SAYS OIF/AIK FUEL ISSUE IS IN [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met on 7 February 2005 with Minister of Energy regarding a variety of issues, including on-going negotiations for fuel used by coalition forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and as assistance in kind (AIK) for Kuwait-specific activities under the Defense Cooperation [...] | 2005-02-07 15:53:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL EAID MARR PGOV KU IZ |
05KUWAIT564 | OPIUM SMUGGLER SEIZED FROM IRANIAN FERRY: AN [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: During a February 2, 2005 visit to observe the International Shipping and Port Facility Security posture at the ferry vessel passenger terminal, Shuwaikh Port in Kuwait City, Econoff and visiting US Coast Guard LCDR Brenden Kettner were unexpected witnesses to a drug seizure [...] | 2005-02-08 13:07:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ELTN EWWT KU SNAR |
05KUWAIT568 | ENERGY MINISTER COMMENTS ON OPEC AND PROSPECTS FOR [...] (U) Ambassador met on 7 February 2005 with Minister of Energy H.E. Shaykh Ahmed al-Fahd al-Ahmed al-Sabah regarding a variety of issues. This cable concerns the Minister's comments on the recent OPEC session in Vienna and major electricity and oil recovery infrastructure projects in Kuwait. [...] | 2005-02-08 14:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG BEXP KU |
05KUWAIT571 | BSE: COMMERCE WILL PUSH FOR REMOVAL OF WASHINGTON [...] On February 8, emboffs met with Ministry of Commerce Undersecretary Rasheed Al-Tabtabaei and Assistant Undersecretary for Commercial Controls Abdulaziz Al-Khalidi to discuss Kuwait's remaining ban on U.S. beef imports from Washington state. Econ/C explained that the regional ban does nothing [...] | 2005-02-09 06:05:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR TBIO KU |
05KUWAIT594 | C/T UPDATE: PM SAYS ERA OF SOFTNESS OVER, TERROR [...] Summary: Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed told newspaper editors February 7 that the "era of softness" was over and the GOK would begin demolishing unlicensed mosques which the GOK partially blamed for the spread of radical ideology. The comments came during a meeting the PM called with e [...] | 2005-02-09 14:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL PHUM KPAO KU |
05KUWAIT638 | KUWAIT'S COMMERCIAL BANKS: SURVEY OF RESULTS, IRAQ [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Following up on his December 2004 meeting with the Central Bank Governor (Ref B) Ambassador met during January and February with the top executives of the leading Kuwait banks. The bank executives were generally positive about the Kuwaiti economy and the strength o [...] | 2005-02-13 12:28:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PTER KU IZ |
05KUWAIT65 | KUWAIT LIFTS BAN ON U.S. BEEF IMPORTS EXCEPT FROM [...] On January 2, the GOK officially announced that it had lifted its ban on imports of U.S. beef from all states except/except Washington, effective December 22, 2004. The ban, imposed in late 2003 following the discovery of a BSE-infected cow in Washington State, prevented the import of all U. [...] | 2005-01-05 08:43:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD BEXP ECON PREL |
05KUWAIT650 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY MEMBERS POSITIVE ON NORTHERN [...] (C) Summary and Comment: During January and February, Ambassador met with five prominent MPs and discussed the Kuwait Project to develop the northern oilfields and the associated enabling law, which will come before a vote in the National Assembly soon. The MPs were generally supportive of t [...] | 2005-02-14 09:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET BEXP ECON KU |
05KUWAIT651 | KUWAIT NATIONAL ASSEMBLY MEMBERS AGREE WITH GOK ON [...] (C) Summary and Comment: During January and February, Ambassador met with five prominent MPs and discussed Iraqi debt relief. Most of the MPs were supportive of the GOK's efforts to offer comparable treatment to the Paris Club decision to forgive 80% of Iraqi debts, but voiced a need to show [...] | 2005-02-14 09:27:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON KU IZ KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
05KUWAIT656 | ISLAMISTS IN KUWAIT: CONTOURS OF A GROWING, [...] (C) Introduction: The Islamist movement in Kuwait reaches into every aspect and sector of Kuwaiti society. From grass-roots businesses to senior positions in government, Islamists have a strong voice throughout this country. Paradoxically, Islamists lead the national dialogue in calling for d [...] | 2005-02-14 13:29:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL KISL KU ISLAMISTS |
05KUWAIT669 | MINISTER OF FINANCE AND TREASURY U/S DISCUSS AID [...] (C) Summary: Kuwaiti Finance Minister Mahmoud Al-Nouri hosted a working dinner 9 February for Department of Treasury Undersecretary John Taylor at which the two discussed aid to the Palestinians, Iraqi debt and reconstruction, future plans for BMENA and G8 involvement in economic and political [...] | 2005-02-15 08:13:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID EFIN KU IZ GZ WE |
05KUWAIT702 | KUWAIT: DEMARCHE ON FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO THE PA [...] (C) On February 15 DCM delivered ref demarche to MFA Director for Western Affairs Ambassador Khalid Babtain, stressing USG confidence in Salam Fayed's commitment to ensuring accountability and transparancy, Babtain affirmed GOK desire to assist the Palestinian Authority but repeated cautious [...] | 2005-02-15 15:01:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KPAL KWBG ECON EFIN |
05KUWAIT726 | COURTESY CALL OF FEB. 9 ON CHAIRMAN OF KUWAIT [...] (SBU) Summary: Mr. Ali Alghanim spoke enthusiastically of the existing strong ties at all levels between the U.S. and Kuwait and hoped that such relations would be increased especially in investment. Kuwait and Iraq have immediate opportunities for joint ventures, and Iran could eventually b [...] | 2005-02-16 12:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET SENV TBIO |
05KUWAIT728 | KUWAIT RESPONSE TO SPA PROPOSALS [...] Post's MEPI committee recommends two of the six Standing Program Announcement (SPA) proposals for funding. They include applications from, in descending order, the Sharqiyat Institution (SPA-105-168) and Young Entrepreneurs' Organization (SPA-105-153). In Post's view, these were the highest qu [...] | 2005-02-16 14:20:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KMPI PREL ECON KPAO KDEM KU |
05KUWAIT729 | PEPSICO DELEGATION CONSULTS WITH EMBASSY ON TAX [...] (U) Ambassador met with PepsiCo representatives on February 16, 2005 to discuss a tax judgment against PepsiCo that they are fighting in Kuwaiti courts. In October 2004, the Court of First Instance upheld the Kuwait Department of Income Tax (DIT) determination that the former local Pepsi bot [...] | 2005-02-16 14:25:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP EFIN ETRD KU |
05KUWAIT73 | GOK INCREASES AID FOR TSUNAMI VICTIMS [...] Summary: The GOK's initial pledge of $1 million in humanitarian assistance immediately after the tsunami was subsequently doubled, then increased to $10 million by the first week of January. Private aid groups, companies and individual citizens have all stepped forward with donations of mon [...] | 2005-01-05 13:02:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID KU |
05KUWAIT730 | KUWAIT COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP MEETING [...] (S/NF) Ambassador chaired February 14 a meeting of post's Counterterrorism Working Group (CWG) to review developments in Kuwait's counterterrorism activities following the January discovery of a terrorist cell, and to identify areas where post can enhance its CT activities as well as strengt [...] | 2005-02-16 14:27:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL PGOV EFIN ASEC MARR CVIS KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT755 | KUWAIT: SUPPORT FOR IRAQI TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT [...] (C) CDA delivered reftel talking points to MFA Director for Western Affairs Ambassador Khalid Babtain on February 20. Babtain said that Kuwait had a clear understanding of what is at stake in Iraq and would work closely with the U.S. to support the political transition and reconstruction. The [...] | 2005-02-20 09:19:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KU IZ ASEC |
05KUWAIT76 | KUWAIT FINANCE HOUSE: A GROWING ISLAMIC INVESTMENT BANK [...] No summary [...] | 2005-01-05 13:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETTC KU |
05KUWAIT762 | MFA REPLIES TO 15 FEBRUARY SECDEF LETTER ON [...] (C) Summary. While protesting the tone of the recent SecDef letter to MinDef on OIF fuel, MFA told us on February 20 that the GOK will send an interagency team to Washington in March to resolve the fuel issue and "all other issues" related to Kuwaiti support for OIF. MFA made an "official o [...] | 2005-02-20 14:55:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL EAID MARR PGOV KU IZ |
05KUWAIT765 | REFORM CONFERENCE IN CAIRO, TRAVEL OF KUWAITI FM [...] No summary [...] | 2005-02-21 10:13:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM KU EG |
05KUWAIT766 | SECURITY TIGHT AS SHI'A CELEBRATE ASHOURA [...] (U) Summary: Kuwaiti and expatriate Shiites celebrated Ashoura on the evenings of February 18 and 19 under heavy police protection after militants seized in the GOK's month-long offensive against extremism reportedly revealed they had planned to attack Shiite celebrations. Kuwait's estimated [...] | 2005-02-21 10:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PREL PHUM KU |
05KUWAIT768 | "SYRIAL KILLERS:" MARCHERS IN KUWAIT PROTEST [...] A crowd of 100-200 peaceful protesters chanted anti-Syrian slogans, waved Lebanese flags and carried pictures of the late Rafiq Hariri near the Embassy of Lebanon in Kuwait on February 21, coinciding with a protest through the streets of downtown Beirut. This was the second such rally in Kuwait [...] | 2005-02-21 13:06:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KU LE PDEM |
05KUWAIT790 | MESSAGE RECEIVED? INFORMATION GETS SERIOUS ABOUT [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Econoff and intellectual property rights (IPR) industry representatives met with the Ministry of Information's new IPR Committee Chief, Khaled Al-Hendi, on February 14 to discuss the challenges Al-Hendi faces and his strategies for improving the Ministry's poor IPR p [...] | 2005-02-22 10:55:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL KIPR KU IPR |
05KUWAIT796 | KUWAITI GOVERNMENT BEGINS TO PRESS PARLIAMENT ON [...] If Kuwait's senior leaders have their way, Kuwaiti women soon will have the right to join men at the ballot box. The GOK asked the National Assembly on February 20 to hold a special session to debate a draft law granting women the right to vote, pending since May 2004. This move comes four day [...] | 2005-02-22 13:19:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KDEM KWMN KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS |
05KUWAIT797 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY RICE'S MARCH 3-4, 2005 [...] (SBU) Welcome to Kuwait Madame Secretary. You will meet with Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah. We are also making arrangements for you to sign the condolence book at the headquarters of the National Comm [...] | 2005-02-22 15:39:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | OVIP PREL PGOV PHUM ECON EFIN EAID MARR KU |
05KUWAIT806 | SYNOPSIS OF KUWAIT'S ACTIONS TO COMBAT TERRORIST [...] (U) Summary. In the wake of January's violent confrontations between extremists and Kuwaiti security forces, the Government of Kuwait has begun to view terrorist finance as an issue of real concern. Although Kuwait is not a major financial center and has not been a primary entrepot for terr [...] | 2005-02-23 12:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER ETTC KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT833 | KUWAIT: ORAL MESSAGE TO THE ARAB LEAGUE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-02-28 13:45:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAL KWBG EAID ECON EFIN |
05KUWAIT926 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GUANTANAMO ADMINISTRATIVE [...] (C) Political Chief delivered 6 March ref A demarche on the proposed Administrate Review Board (ARB) Proceedings for the ten Kuwaiti nationals currently detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Ambassador Khalid Al-Maqamis, MFA Director of Co-ordination and Follow-Up. Al-Maqamis said he was aware [...] | 2005-03-06 13:30:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL KAWC KU |
05KUWAIT927 | SPEAKER SAYS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY COULD GO EITHER WAY [...] (C) During a brief exchange at a social event on March 5, National Assembly Speaker Jassem Al-Khorafi told Ambassador that the Assembly vote on women's political rights would either pass or fail by one or two votes. The Speaker said that the government could decide to handle the issue through [...] | 2005-03-06 14:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM KWMN PGOV KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS |
05KUWAIT929 | MGLE01: DEMARCHE TO KUWAIT ON SYRIAN WITHDRAWAL [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche on March 6 to MFA U/S Khalid Jarallah who was joined by the Foreign Minister's office director, Shaykh Ahmad Nasser Al-Sabah. (Foreign Minister was occupied in a cabinet meeting.) Jarallah made no comment on the U.S. talking points but indicated conce [...] | 2005-03-07 03:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KU LE |
05KUWAIT936 | KUWAIT PROJECT (NORTHERN OILFIELDS) STATUS: [...] (U) March 2005 newspaper reports and conversations with post interlocutors show continued progress by the National Assembly's Financial and Economic Affairs Committee on studying the enabling law allowing for outside investment in the petroleum sector. If passed, the law would allow for the [...] | 2005-03-07 10:23:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG BEXP KU OIL SECTOR |
05KUWAIT939 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNGA CONSIDERATION OF [...] (C) Political Chief delivered March 7 ref A demarche to MFA Director of International Organizations Ambassador Abdullah Al-Murad. Al-Murad was knowledgeable about the deliberations on the declaration, and although he expressed concern that a close U.S. ally like the UK voted "no," he said h [...] | 2005-03-07 11:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | TBIO PREL PGOV KU UNGA KSCI |
05KUWAIT941 | MEDIA REACTION - WOMEN'S VOTING RIGHTS [...] Summary: With National Assembly discussion of the proposed bill granting women their political rights scheduled for March 7, media speculation on the bill's chances, and attempts to rally both support and opposition, has reached a steady pitch. While handicapping has evinced no clear favorite, [...] | 2005-03-07 13:10:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KU KDMR WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS |
05KUWAIT943 | MINISTRY OF ENERGY UNDERSECRETARY OUTLINES GAS [...] (C) Summary: During a March 6 meeting with Economic Counselor, Ministry of Energy Undersecretary Issa Al-Own outlined Kuwait's options for receiving much-needed gas to fuel electric power plants. He said that Kuwait was now focusing its efforts on the two most promising options: drilling in [...] | 2005-03-07 14:02:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PREL PINR KU IZ OIL SECTOR |
05KUWAIT968 | KUWAIT WILL CONTRIBUTE $2 MILLION TO IFC'S MENA [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-09 04:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON KU |
05KUWAIT977 | FIJIANS ASSESSING NEED FOR HONORARY CONSUL IN [...] While Post is unable to comment on the current size of the Fijian population in Kuwait, we confirm that Kuwait's labor force is largely composed of expatriate workers who are also key to supply efforts for Operation Iraqi Freedom. As reported in reftel, there appears to be a surge in the number [...] | 2005-03-09 07:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON FJ KU |
05KUWAIT986 | OPENING OF MAJOR BOT WASTEWATER TREATMENT AND [...] AMBASSADOR AND FCS COMMERCIAL SPECIALIST ATTENDED THE CEREMONY ON MARCH 8, 2005 TO COMMISSION THE SULAIBIYA WASTEWATER TREATMENT AND RECLAMATION PLANT. KUWAITI PRIME MINISTER SHEIKH SABAH AL AHMED AL JABER AL SABAH AND VIRTUALLY THE ENTIRE CABINET WAS ON HAND FOR THE FORMAL OPENING OF THIS HU [...] | 2005-03-09 11:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP EINV SENV KU |
05KUWAIT989 | BSE: FOOD SAFETY COMMITTEE TO REVIEW BAN ON US [...] (U) During a March 9, 2005 meeting with Undersecretary Rasheed Al-Tabtabaei, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, and Abdulaziz Al-Khalidi, the Ministry's Assistant Undersecretary for Commercial Controls, Econcoun inquired about the status of the ban on importing beef from Washington state, refe [...] | 2005-03-09 13:52:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR TBIO KU |
05KUWAIT991 | KUWAITI MP SAYS WOMEN WILL VOTE, ARTICLE 98 TO [...] (C) Summary: Kuwaiti MP Mohammed Jassem Al-Sagr, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, expressed his tempered optimism that the National Assembly will approve the GOK's bill allowing women's suffrage. He added, however, that the GOK is nervous to pressure undecided MPs. Al-Sagr also predicte [...] | 2005-03-09 13:55:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWMN PARM LE KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
05LAGOS1044 | ATTENTION TO HIV/AIDS INCREASES AMONG LAGOS [...] Summary: Little statistical information exists on the effect of HIV/AIDS on the private sector in Lagos. The number of businesses with AIDS policies and programs has risen, but such efforts remain largely the domain of large multi-national companies. Anecdotal information indicates the HIV/ [...] | 2005-07-06 14:11:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI KHIV PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1047 | UPDATE ON LAGOS STATE AIDS CONTROL AGENCY [...] Summary: Lagos State AIDS Control Agency (LSACA) continues to work with 11 state ministries, 20 local governments, and over 400 organizations to reduce the incidence and mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS in Lagos State. Achievements in 2004 included the expansion of voluntary counseling and t [...] | 2005-07-06 14:30:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI KHIV PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1050 | NIGERIA SOUTHERN GOVERNORS MUSE ABOUT NATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings, Lagos Governor Bola Tinubu and Anambra Governor Chris Ngige downplayed the lasting import of the on-going National Political Reform Conference (NPRC),sponsored by President Obasanjo. Neither being allies of the President Obasanjo they both took thorough d [...] | 2005-07-06 15:38:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | NI PGOV PREL |
05LAGOS1063 | THE ONGOING NITEL - PENTASCOPE SCANDAL [...] (U) Summary: Privatization of the Nigerian Telecommunications Ltd. (NITEL) has faltered for the second time. Amid great controversy, the GON fired the Dutch management company, Pentascope, appointed to shepherd the process. Though the GON terminated the Pentascope contract in March 2005, the [...] | 2005-07-07 16:59:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ECON EINV NI |
05LAGOS1064 | WORLD BANK STRATEGY FOR DEBT RELIEF IN NIGERIA MAY [...] (U) On July 5, 2005, the Lagos Business School held its usual monthly breakfast for Nigerian business leaders. Different from the usual, however, this month's meeting focused on Nigeria's recent triumph in securing debt relief from Paris Club donors. Hafez Ghanem, the World Bank (WB) Country D [...] | 2005-07-07 17:02:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV PREL NI |
05LAGOS1073 | NATIONAL POLITICAL REFORM [...] (C) Summary: The National Political Reform Conference (NPRC) remains deadlocked over the issues of resource control and the rotation and length of presidential power (reftel). July 11 has been set for the resumption of talks, but positions have hardened, increasingly along ethnic fault-line [...] | 2005-07-08 09:59:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NI |
05LAGOS1100 | NIGERIA: STATE OF THE ECONOMY FOR JUNE/JULY [...] Summary: Nigerian economists indicate that the country can expect continued inflationary pressure, increased interest rates, and modest naira depreciation. This economic environment will cause Nigerian investors to continue to look outward for investment opportunities, as evidenced by a 30% [...] | 2005-07-12 10:02:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EPET ETRD ECPS NI |
05LAGOS1107 | NIGERIA: YOUTHS SHUT SHELL FLOW STATION [...] (U) The Billie, River State, flow station of oil giant Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) was shut down by angry youths on July 6. Press reports associated the youths' action with the National Political Reform Conference's refusal to grant greater control of oil and gas resources to s [...] | 2005-07-12 15:55:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ELAB KDEM PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1128 | NIGERIA: ADDITIONAL PROJECT FOR EMBASSY SMALL [...] This is an action request. See para 5. 2. After supplying project descriptions to the Senior Policy Operating Group (SPOG) per reftel, Mission's Small Project Funds Committee received a proposal from an NGO in Edo State. Because Edo State is widely considered the country's highest volume t [...] | 2005-07-14 11:41:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ELAB KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG NI |
05LAGOS1153 | AKWA IBOM DEPUTY GOVERNOR IMPEACHED, REINSTATED, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The recent impeachment and subsequent save-face "resignation" of Akwa Ibom State Deputy Governor, Chris Ekpenyong, highlighted ever-present rivalries and rifts within the ruling People,s Democratic Party (PDP). The Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly impeached the Deputy Governor f [...] | 2005-07-19 14:09:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KDEM NI |
05LAGOS116 | SOUTHERN POLITICIANS CONTINUE GRUMBLING ABOUT [...] (S) Summary: Based on the Consul General's conversations with several political contacts over the past few days, dissatisfaction with President Obasanjo is again escalating following a brief respite over the holidays. The whispering about whether Obasanjo should be removed from office is be [...] | 2005-01-28 13:31:00 | Consulate Lagos | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS KDEM NI |
05LAGOS1163 | CHEVRON'S SECURITY STRATEGY IN DELTA STATE [...] (U) Summary. Months after successfully containing an invasion of its facilities in Escravos, Delta State, Chevron Texaco (CT) characterized the relative quiet in the Niger Delta region as "the calm before the storm." CT has registered some small successes in the region, including involvi [...] | 2005-07-20 16:54:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV CASC PGOV ASEC MOPS NI |
05LAGOS1204 | NIGERIAN COURT DELIVERS SECOND CONVICTIONS UNDER [...] Summary. The GON has convicted two individuals involved in a trafficking in persons ring in Kano state, northern Nigeria. Nigeria's National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) expects at least one more conviction by year's end. Officials involved in the fight again [...] | 2005-07-29 07:16:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN NI |
05LAGOS1250 | NIGERIA: CA GAYE MEETING WITH NDLEA CHAIRMAN TO [...] (C) ON JULY 23, 2005, DEA ATTACHE (CA) SAM GAYE MET DR. BELLO LAFIAJI, NDLEA CHAIRMAN TO DISCUSS OPERATIONAL MATTERS AS WELL AS QUESTIONS AFRISING FROM THE PREVIOUS WEEK,S INTERAGENCY NARCOTICS CERTIFICATION MEETING IN WASHINGTON. 2. (C) CA GAYE INFORMED DR. BELLO ABOUT THE OUTSTANDING QU [...] | 2005-08-09 12:13:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PREL PINR NI |
05LAGOS1251 | KADUNA GOVERNOR SAYS A NORTHERN GOVERNOR WILL [...] (C) Summary: During a July 27th meeting with the Consul General Kaduna State Governor Ahmed Makarfi predicted that one of the PDP Northern governors would get the ruling party's PDP presidential nomination for the 2007 elections. Makarfi also revealed the PDP would retain its current pro-Obas [...] | 2005-08-09 12:14:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1264 | DRUG AGENCY TOUTS SUCCESS, BURNS NARCOTICS [...] (U) The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA),Lagos State Command, and Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Special Area Command hosted a destruction of illegal drugs on August 4. Almost 11.3 tons (11,469 kilograms) were set ablaze, including 139 Kg of cocaine, 78 Kg of hero [...] | 2005-08-11 12:36:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PREL NI |
05LAGOS1277 | NIGERIA: REPORTED AL QA'IDA ACTIVITY [...] (S) Summary. Professor Ukandi Damachi, a long-time Mission contact and close advisor to former head-of-state Ibrahim Babangida, recently told us about a chance encounter he had with pro-Obasanjo members of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) executive. These partisans alleged an association [...] | 2005-08-15 15:43:00 | Consulate Lagos | SECRET | PTER PINR PGOV PREL NI |
05LAGOS1289 | VIRGIN NIGERIA PLANS TO SEEK APPROVAL FOR DIRECT [...] (C) Summary. Virgin Nigeria (VN) soon plans to formally apply for a direct flight between Nigeria and the U.S. The airline sees New York, Chicago, and Houston, in that order, as the three most profitable routes. If approval is granted, VN hopes to begin operations by Christmas 2005. End Summar [...] | 2005-08-17 06:13:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR EINV PREL NI |
05LAGOS1293 | NIGERIA: POLITICAL SNAPSHOTS FROM THE SOUTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: A political insider asserts that President Obasanjo (OBJ) will not only play a decisive role in determining Nigeria's next president and vice president, but that he has not relinquished the notion of an extended term. Political candidates beware -- even when OBJ dons his kingmak [...] | 2005-08-17 13:26:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM NI |
05LAGOS1332 | SHELL AGBADA FLOW STATION SHUT DOWNS [...] (U) Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has been forced to shut down two flow stations in Rivers State in the last six days. On August 16, SPDC shut its 14,200 barrels per/day Agbada 1 flow station, following protests by host communities in Mbodo-Aluu, Rivers State, over alleged nonpaym [...] | 2005-08-24 10:34:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET EINV NI ENERG |
05LAGOS1340 | NIGERIA TO CONCLUDE 2005 BID ROUND FOR 88 BLOCKS; [...] (C) On August 26, Nigeria will hold a bid round for 88 oil blocks. Bidders will be judged on both commercial and technical bids in a Brazilian style competitive process. Changes to the Deep Offshore fiscal regime include the introduction of a royalty as well as an 80 percent cost recovery [...] | 2005-08-26 12:20:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1341 | NNPC ATTEMPTS TO FORCE MAJORS TO SELL, REFINE [...] (C) U.S. major oil firms are concerned about new Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) proposals to mandate in-country refining. In a series of meetings with ExxonMobil, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips, as well as with Shell, top executives raised alarm over a recently proposed regulat [...] | 2005-08-26 13:10:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET NI |
05LAGOS1348 | MANY SOUTHERNERS ARE UNHAPPY ABOUT THE NATIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: With barely three months until the scheduled national census, several southern Nigerian groups have threatened to boycott the exercise to protest the exclusion of information on religious affiliation and ethnicity from the census process. Many Southerners (mostly Christian) want [...] | 2005-08-29 14:12:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL NI |
05LAGOS1350 | PETROLEUM INDUSTRY STRIKE THREAT LOOMS ON 2 FRONTS [...] (U) The petroleum industry, the dominant force in the Nigerian economy, has recently been hit with threats of labor disruption. While labor allegations about government implementation of refinery privatization produced threats of a stoppage by oil workers, retail price hikes have been respond [...] | 2005-08-29 17:16:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EPET KDEM PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1356 | 2005 WORKER RIGHTS TRAINING SEMINARS: [...] Per action request in ref B, para 5, Post submits the following nominee for participation in the 2005 Worker Rights Training Seminar in Cairo from September 21-22. 2. Suggested Participant's Name and Title: Eshel William Murad, Political/Economic Officer Name of Supervisor: Shannon Ro [...] | 2005-08-30 14:55:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ELAB OTRA PHUM NI |
05LAGOS1359 | ANALYSIS OF APPLICATION FOR OPIC FINANCE: JACKDAN [...] Per action request in reftel, Post submits observations on the planned OPIC loan of USD 2.4 million to support the development of Jackdan Breweries Nigeria Limited, a microbrewery and water treatment and bottling project in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. 2. There is a significant consumer base for b [...] | 2005-08-30 15:07:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN NI |
05LAGOS1361 | NIGERIA: UPDATE OF CHILD LABOR INFORMATION FOR [...] As per ref B, para 5, Post met with Ministry of Labor, ILO, UNICEF, law enforcement and immigration, as well as NGO representatives to update the mandatory child labor report. The following paragraphs are updates keyed to the topics listed in ref B, para 7. Post has provided a separate respons [...] | 2005-08-31 11:56:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EIND ELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI NI |
05LAGOS1363 | A PRESIDENTIAL FRIEND TALKS ABOUT HIS TALK WITH [...] Summary: During an August meeting with the Consul General, respected constitutional lawyer and former personal attorney of President Obasanjo Dr. Tunji Abayomi recounted a 90-minute July conversation with President Obasanjo. Abayomi described the President as fit and not acting like someone re [...] | 2005-08-31 13:08:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1369 | NNPC HEAD TELLS OIL MAJORS - CONSTRUCT REFINERIES, [...] (C) ConocoPhillips Managing Director (MD) Todd Creeger briefed us on an August 25 meeting between the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Group Managing Director (GMD) Kupolokun and the MDs of Nigeria's major energy companies. Kupolokun told the MDs he was under intense pressure, apparen [...] | 2005-08-31 18:09:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ECON NI |
05LAGOS1376 | NIGERIA: FUEL PRICE HIKE AND NATIONAL STRIKE UPDATE [...] (SBU) On August 26, the Petroleum Products Regulatory Agency (PPPRA),citing increased international oil prices, raised gas prices from 50 Naira/liter to 65 Naira/liter. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) requested the increase, claiming it could no longer shoulder the financ [...] | 2005-09-01 16:22:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ELAB KDEM PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1377 | UNIONS SET TENTATIVE DATE FOR STRIKE TO PROTEST [...] (SBU) Labor sector stakeholders are preparing a nation- wide strike in protest of recent fuel price hikes. The date for the strike, set tentatively for September 7, will be affirmed at meetings scheduled for September 5. Nigerian Labor Congress (NLC) officials expect the strike to last one [...] | 2005-09-01 17:29:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ELAB KDEM PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1378 | CHEVRON MD DISCUSSES 2007 ELECTION AND GON [...] (S/NF) In a wide-ranging discussion with Ambassador Campbell, Chevron Nigeria Managing Director (MD) Jay Pryor expressed deep concern regarding "an underground PR campaign" by the GON against the petroleum industry. He specifically mentioned public attacks by Minister of Solid Minerals Ezek [...] | 2005-09-01 18:06:00 | Consulate Lagos | SECRET//NOFORN | EPET PGOV EINV ECON NI |
05LAGOS1390 | NIGERIA: SOUTH-EAST STATES TARGET CLINICS INVOLVED [...] (SBU) Summary. In response to information passed by Post's fraud prevention unit (FPU),police authorities in four of the five South-East zone states have raided clinics involved in trafficking infants. Clinic staff were paying less than 200 dollars to young, indigent pregnant women in exc [...] | 2005-09-06 15:38:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG NI |
05LAGOS1391 | NIGERIAN GOVERNOR UNSEATED BY ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL [...] (C) Summary. Following the Anambra State electoral tribunal's overturning of the 2003 gubernatorial election on August 12, the state's political climate continues to seethe. Electoral tribunal loser, current Governor Ngige had signalled his willingness to step down to aides of Governor-desig [...] | 2005-09-06 16:47:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NI |
05LAGOS1397 | NIGERIA: STRIKE PLANS FIZZLE [...] (U) The Nigerian Labor Congress (NLC) cancelled plans to initiate a nation-wide strike on September 7 in response to the recent fuel price increase (see ref A). Apparently, the NLC encountered resistance or foot-dragging within organized labor. Instead, the NLC now will organize a series of [...] | 2005-09-08 06:54:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EPET KDEM PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1398 | NIGERIAN LABOR CONGRESS CONTINUES TO RESTRATEGIZE [...] (U) With its sights diverted from a national strike for the time being, the Nigerian Labor Congress (NLC) is organizing a series of rallies designed, at the very least, to get GON agreement to rebuild four non-operational refineries and to commit to full deregulation of the petroleum industry [...] | 2005-09-08 07:39:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EPET KDEM PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1401 | SOUTHERN NIGERIA HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE MAY TO AUG [...] (U) This is a roundup of various recent incidents representative of the human rights situation in southern Nigeria. This summary is organized according to the sections of the annual Human Rights Report. These incidents have not been reported in other cables, or they are updates of previousl [...] | 2005-09-08 11:58:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB KIRF NI PGOV PHUM PREL |
05LAGOS1402 | NIGERIA: ECONOMIC BRIEFS, JULY/AUGUST 2005 [...] (U) Summary: While targeting a 1.6 trillion Naira budget for 2006, GON officials claim Budget 2005 cannot be fully implemented due to oil production shortage resulting from oil well closures in the Niger Delta. With oil production at only 2.4million barrels per day (bpd) instead of the budgete [...] | 2005-09-08 13:44:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD KIPR PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1405 | BANKS SCRAMBLING TO MEET DECEMBER RECAPITALIZATION [...] (SBU) Banking experts predict 25 to 30 banks or newly merged bank groups will make the December 2005 Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) deadline to attain a 25 billion naira capital base. A large number of banks will be unable to meet the CBN's naira 25 billion (USD 192 million)recapitalization re [...] | 2005-09-08 15:07:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV NI |
05LAGOS1413 | MICROSOFT LOSING MILLIONS, CHINESE PIRATED [...] (C) Chinese copycat firms appear to be using Nigeria as base for producing and selling pirated computer software. Microsoft Nigeria executives complain the number of Chinese factories and Nigerian outlets selling pirated software products has increased the past year. Piracy likely will increa [...] | 2005-09-12 11:14:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EIND ETRD KIPR EINV CH NI |
05LAGOS1416 | NIGERIAN LABOR CONGRESS ABBREVIATES RALLY PLANS [...] The NLC held a press conference September 12 to discuss the protest rally planned for Lagos September 14. They are now calling for a more modest demonstration than reported in ref A. The schedule of demonstrations has also been abbreviated, with the next venue being Benin City on September [...] | 2005-09-13 07:31:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EPET KDEM PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1420 | BASIC FOOD PRICES RISE CONSIDERABLY IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: PRICES OF BASIC FOOD ITEMS HAVE RISEN CONSIDERABLY IN THE PAST EIGHT MONTHS. CORN, SORGHUM, MILLET AND COWPEA PRICES HAVE MORE THAN DOUBLED DURING THE PAST YEAR. LOCAL SOURCES ATTRIBUTE THE SPIRAL TO A COMBINATION OF FACTORS, NAMELY: (A) LOW PRODUCTIVITY AND UNATTRACTIVE PRIC [...] | 2005-09-14 07:00:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR PGOV NI AME |
05LAGOS1422 | LAGOS STATE GOVERNOR DISCUSSES HIS OPTIONS FOR 2007 [...] (S) Summary: In an August 27 conversation with the Consul General, Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu stressed he was hedging his bets and political ambition on the 2007 election by no longer placing sole reliance on riding the coattails of Vice President Atiku. Tinubu sensed Atiku's stock was [...] | 2005-09-14 07:59:00 | Consulate Lagos | SECRET | PREL PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1425 | NIGERIAN VP'S POLITICAL FUTURE DIMS [...] (S) Summary. A long-standing consulate contact said pro-Obasanjo hardliners in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were eagerly waiting information from the FBI they hoped would incriminate Vice-President Atiku. In his political distress, Atiku is reaching out to former head-of-state Ibrahim [...] | 2005-09-14 15:27:00 | Consulate Lagos | SECRET | PGOV PREL NI |
05LAGOS1428 | LAGOS FUEL PRICE PROTEST WENDS PEACEFULLY THROUGH [...] The September 14 protest rally and march (against fuel price increases) in Lagos concluded peacefully. Police estimate 30,000 to 50,000 protestors gathered at the Lagos State Government Complex in the city's Alausa district. A protest letter was presented around 1:30 p.m. Protestors remaine [...] | 2005-09-15 12:52:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EPET KDEM PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1429 | LAGOS LABOR UPDATE [...] Nigerian Labor Congress (NLC) and other civil society leaders are headed to Benin City today to speak with police authorities regarding security measures for the September 16 rally against fuel price increases. Organizers are mindful of the violent student disturbances in Benin in early Sept [...] | 2005-09-15 13:06:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EPET KDEM PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1433 | NIGERIA: LAGOS TRIAL CENSUS AND DISTRIBUTION OF [...] (U) A trial census conducted in select local governments between August 29 and September 2 revealed imperfections in the GON's national population census process. In Lagos, the exercise was held during the work week in six local governments. While the State government did a good job of getting [...] | 2005-09-15 17:10:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM NI |
05LAGOS1438 | NIGERIAN ELECTORAL COMMISSION ENTERS ANAMBRA [...] (C) Summary. In a reversal that seems awkward even by Anambra State's meager standards of political behavior, the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) appealed the Anambra state electoral tribunals' decision to overturn the 2003 gubernatorial election. During the tribunal hearing, INEC d [...] | 2005-09-16 09:55:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NI |
05LAGOS1443 | FINANCE MINISTER ANNOUNCES INSURANCE INDUSTRY [...] (SBU) Summary. Finance Minister Okonjo-Iweala recently unveiled Government of Nigeria's (GON) insurance industry reforms aimed at raising the capital base requirements for insurance companies by February 28, 2007. The goal is to consolidate and strengthen the insurance industry along the lin [...] | 2005-09-16 13:00:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV NI |
05LAGOS1448 | LAGOS: SECOND LABOR UPDATE [...] The Benin City rally to protest increased fuel prices was big and fortunately took place without major incident. When protestors reached the Governor's office complex, they found the gate locked. Rally organizers were not able to enter to present the letter of protest. Marchers started to b [...] | 2005-09-16 15:01:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EPET KDEM PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1450 | VIRGIN NIGERIA APPLIES FOR U.S. ROUTE [...] (U) This is an action cable. See paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary. Virgin Nigeria (VN) CEO, Simon Harford, and Head of Corporate Development, Yemi Osindero, recently told ConGen officers their application for a direct U.S. route was nearly completed, and requested Embassy officials submit the [...] | 2005-09-19 09:48:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR EINV PREL NI |
05LAGOS1451 | NEW VIOLENCE FROM OLD DISPUTE IN OGONILAND [...] (SBU) Communal violence erupted in the Ogoniland region of Rivers State and claimed additional lives. Daily newspapers estimated the toll at 22 dead. Ledum Mitee, President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP),said in a September 8 meeting with Consular staff the ac [...] | 2005-09-19 10:25:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1463 | LONDON POLICE ARREST BAYELSA GOVERNOR, IJAW YOUTH [...] (C) The Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) confirmed its cooperation with UK authorities on Bayelsa State Governor Alamieyesiegha's September 15 London arrest in connection with allegations of money laundering. The London Metropolitan police have reportedly released t [...] | 2005-09-20 17:46:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV ASEC NI |
05LAGOS1464 | 2005 NIGERIAN STOCK MARKET NEGATIVELY AFFECTED BY [...] (SBU) Summary. The bank recapitalization process continues to weaken the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) as many investors prefer to channel their money toward bank Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) rather than daily stock market activities. The average returns on investment (ROI) for the 30 lar [...] | 2005-09-21 15:11:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1470 | LAGOS: THIRD LABOR UPDATE [...] The Nigerian Labor Congress's (NLC) September 20 rally against increased fuel prices in Kano attracted at least 50,000 people and proceeded relatively peacefully to the Governor's office. Kano State Governor Ibrahim Shekaruau addressed the protesters, supporting their cause and calling the f [...] | 2005-09-23 06:30:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EPET KDEM PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1474 | GFUP-05-9259/NIGERIA - SEIZURE OF 22 KILOGRAMS [...] ON SEPTEMBER 19, 2005, THE BENINOISE POLICE, ACTING ON A TIP FROM A CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE, EXECUTED A SEARCH WARRANT AND SEIZED 22 KILOGRAMS OF COCAINE AT THE RESIDENCE OF BENINOISE NATIONAL STEEVE JOEL CAMPBELL. NO ARRESTS WERE MADE AND CAMPBELL REMAINS AT LARGE. ALSO SEIZED WERE (1) 2002 B [...] | 2005-09-23 11:45:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR |
05LAGOS1477 | SEPTEMBER 23 DELTA UPDATE [...] (C) Port Harcourt remains calm but nervously so. An Amcit missionary and oil company contacts reported the city and most surrounding areas as being quiet. Some contacts said many local citizens remained home and many businesses were closed throughout the day. The police and military presen [...] | 2005-09-23 16:43:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC CASC NI |
05LAGOS1480 | SOLID MINERALS MINISTER EZEKWESILI SHARES HER [...] (C) Summary: In an August conversation with the Consul General, Minister of Solid Minerals Oby Ezekwesili stressed the President will step down in 2007. Despite urging from several quarters to prolong his tenure, Obasanjo wants to make room for a reformer from the next generation of Nigerian [...] | 2005-09-24 13:48:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1498 | NIGERIAN OIL PRODUCTION SUFFERS MINIMAL LOSSES [...] (SBU) Recent disturbances in Rivers States, arising from the London arrest of Bayelsa State Governor and the arrest of Ijaw militant leader Dokubu Asari, have had a minimal impact on Nigerian oil production thus far. Chevron is the only major oil producer whose production has been affected. [...] | 2005-09-26 16:37:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV PGOV ASEC NI |
05LAGOS1512 | VIRGIN NIGERIA RILES DOMESTIC COMPETITORS [...] (SBU) Summary. Many Nigerian airline executives continue to view Virgin Nigeria (VN) as a foreign carrier, which in its bid to look Nigerian, receives far too much government support. The other airlines contend that this alleged preferential treatment has made it difficult for them to compet [...] | 2005-09-29 08:47:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR EINV PREL NI |
05LAGOS1518 | CHINESE AND SOUTH KOREAN FIRMS BIDDING FOR RAIL [...] (C) Summary. Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) Managing Director Abubakar told us competing Chinese and South Korean firms were interested in constructing new rail lines and upgrading existing lines. Sometime in October, the NRC would chose the group with which it will partner. By the end o [...] | 2005-09-29 12:59:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ELTN ECON PGOV PREL NI CH KS XB |
05LAGOS1530 | NIGERIA DEA ATTACHE PRESSES FOR COORDINATION AT [...] (U) Participants gave high marks to the fifth annual West African Joint Operations (WAJO) conference held in Cotonou, Benin on September 7 and 8 (reftel). 2. (C) DEA received positive responses from Benin, Ghana, The Gambia and Togo about forming joint task forces between DEA and their re [...] | 2005-09-30 14:11:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NI SNAR |
05LAGOS1531 | TELECOM SECTOR GROWS, CHINESE FIRMS EXPAND [...] (C) Summary. Telecom operators believe the Nigerian Communications Commission's (NCC) unified licensing policy allowing existing fixed wireless and mobile licensees to provide both services for voice, data and multimedia will reinforce the current dominance enjoyed by the key players already [...] | 2005-09-30 14:17:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ECPS ECON EINV EIND PGOV NI CH |
05LAGOS1543 | LAGOS ANTICORRUPTION UNIT REQUESTS USG TECHNICAL [...] Summary. (C) The Lagos branch of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) met with the G8 Anticorruption/Transparency pilot team on September 23 to discuss its efforts to pursue financial crimes, institutional capacity to pursue such crimes, and areas in which it would like USG fund [...] | 2005-10-05 07:44:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KCOR KCRM ECON EINV PGOV PREL NI |
05LAGOS1549 | DEADLY SHOOTOUT BETWEEN POLICE AND ARMY ROCKS LAGOS [...] At least three bystanders were killed and ten wounded, when an altercation between police and soldiers turned violent in the Ojuelegba district of Lagos on October 6. More than 50 street thugs, known as area boys, joined in the fray and caused the destruction of at least 40 vehicles and sever [...] | 2005-10-05 13:32:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1570 | NIGERIA'S VERSION OF MCDONALD'S SAYS PROFITS ARE [...] (SBU) Summary. The increase in food and transportation prices had cut into the profit margins of Nigeria's equivalent to McDonald's -- Mr. Biggs. The company's executives told us food prices are rising because of weak infrastructure, inconsistent agricultural policies, and lack of local capa [...] | 2005-10-12 09:30:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND PGOV PREL NI |
05LAGOS1573 | NIGERIA: POLITICAL SNAPSHOTS FROM THE SOUTH [...] (C) Summary. The Southern Nigerian political scene remains volatile. Three demonstrations in Nigeria in recent weeks have resulted in between four and ten deaths. Another deputy governor has been impeached; the governor of Abia State is embroiled in a bitter political battle with the Presi [...] | 2005-10-12 12:11:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM NI |
05LAGOS1581 | GFUP-06-9259/NIGERIA; INTERNATIONAL CONTROLLED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On October 11, DEA Attache (CA) Sam Gaye and British Drug Liaison Officer (DLO) Jon King in conjunction with Togolese authorities, conducted a successful international controlled delivery (ICD) of 7 kilograms of heroin in Lome, Togo. Nigerian national Fedelis Ezechukwu was arres [...] | 2005-10-13 12:19:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | NI PGOV PINR SNAR |
05LAGOS1585 | BELLVIEW IS EXPLORING A POSSIBLE U.S. ROUTE WITH [...] (C) Summary. Bellview Airlines CEO Odukoya said World Airways executives called him October 4 to discuss establishing direct air service between Lagos and the U.S. Bellview expressed interest in partnering with World Airways to begin scheduled charter services between Lagos and New York and L [...] | 2005-10-13 12:51:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR EINV PREL NI |
05LAGOS1591 | GFUP-06-9259/NIGERIA; INTERNATIONAL CONTROLLED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On October 11, DEA Attache (CA) Sam Gaye and British Drug Liaison Officer (DLO) Jon King in conjunction with Togolese authorities, conducted a successful international controlled delivery (ICD) of 7 kilograms of heroin in Lome, Togo. Nigerian national Fedelis Ezechukwu was arres [...] | 2005-10-13 13:11:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | NI PGOV PINR SNAR |
05LAGOS1636 | LAGOS EAC MEETING ON INCREASED CRIME IN LAGOS AND [...] (U) Lagos EAC convened October 17 to review Post's security posture in response to what appears to be a marked increase in violent crime in Lagos, and to discuss appropriate precautions against such crime. NOTE: In the past few months armed bank robberies, prison riots, attacks on expatriate [...] | 2005-10-21 16:35:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PTER CASC NI |
05LAGOS1637 | BAYELSA GOVERNOR'S ARREST STRIKES FEAR IN THE [...] (C) Summary: The arrest of Bayelsa State Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha in London has unnerved some of his fellow pro-Atiku southern governors. His interception abroad, where he does not enjoy constitutional immunity, has not only sullied the attraction of frequent travel (one of the gove [...] | 2005-10-21 16:35:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1638 | BAYELSA GOVERNOR'S ARREST STRIKES FEAR IN THE [...] (C) Summary: The arrest of Bayelsa State Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha in London has unnerved some of his fellow pro-Atiku southern governors. His interception abroad, where he does not enjoy constitutional immunity, has not only sullied the attraction of frequent travel (one of the gove [...] | 2005-10-21 16:35:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1639 | BAYELSA GOVERNOR'S ARREST STRIKES FEAR IN THE [...] (C) Summary: The arrest of Bayelsa State Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha in London has unnerved some of his fellow pro-Atiku southern governors. His interception abroad, where he does not enjoy constitutional immunity, has not only sullied the attraction of frequent travel (one of the gove [...] | 2005-10-21 16:35:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1640 | BAYELSA GOVERNOR'S ARREST STRIKES FEAR IN THE [...] (C) Summary: The arrest of Bayelsa State Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha in London has unnerved some of his fellow pro-Atiku southern governors. His interception abroad, where he does not enjoy constitutional immunity, has not only sullied the attraction of frequent travel (one of the gove [...] | 2005-10-21 16:35:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1641 | BAYELSA GOVERNOR'S ARREST STRIKES FEAR IN THE [...] (C) Summary: The arrest of Bayelsa State Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha in London has unnerved some of his fellow pro-Atiku southern governors. His interception abroad, where he does not enjoy constitutional immunity, has not only sullied the attraction of frequent travel (one of the gove [...] | 2005-10-21 16:36:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1642 | LAGOS EAC MEETING ON INCREASED CRIME IN LAGOS AND [...] (U) Lagos EAC convened October 17 to review Post's security posture in response to what appears to be a marked increase in violent crime in Lagos, and to discuss appropriate precautions against such crime. NOTE: In the past few months armed bank robberies, prison riots, attacks on expatriate [...] | 2005-10-21 16:36:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PTER CASC NI |
05LAGOS1643 | SITREP #1: LAGOS BELLVIEW FLIGHT 3210 CRASH; TIME: [...] (SBU) U.S. Consulate Lagos officials were informed at 12:20 that domestic airline Bellview 3210 en route from Lagos to Abuja, Nigeria had disappeared from radar contact. US Consulate Lagos convened an Emergency Action Meeting at 1:45 and simultaneously sent Consulate officers to the Lagos (Mu [...] | 2005-10-23 03:11:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC EAIR NI ASEC PREL |
05LAGOS1644 | SITREP #2: LAGOS BELLVIEW FLIGHT 3210 CRASH; TIME: [...] (SBU) Bellview airline officials have still not/not yet made available the flight manifest list, claiming they will make it available once they finish checking it against passenger ticket coupons the airline retains when passengers board the aircraft. 2. (C) In the interim, the Managing Dir [...] | 2005-10-23 05:12:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC EAIR NI ASEC PREL |
05LAGOS1645 | SITREP #3: LAGOS BELLEVIEW FLIGHT 3210 CRASH; TIME [...] Lagos EAC reconvened at 0900 October 23 concerning crash of Bellview flight number 3210. The Nigerian National Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has publicly released the flight manifest (faxed to OpCenter). Mission has confirmed that the name of the USDH on board (ref A) was on the manifest. [...] | 2005-10-23 12:14:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EAIR NI PREL |
05LAGOS1646 | SITREP #4: CRASH OF BELLVIEW FLIGHT B3-210; TIME: [...] (U) Mission,s consular response team (CRT) arrived at the crash site around 1545. The site of the crash is north of Ota in Ogun State, near a hamlet named Lissa. Coordinates of the crash site provided to us by the CRT are N06.48.52, and E003.18.17. 2. (U) Members of the CRT report a s [...] | 2005-10-23 16:26:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC EAIR NI ASEC PREL |
05LAGOS1648 | SITREP #5: CRASH OF BELLVIEW FLIGHT B3210; OCTOBER [...] (SBU/NF) Mission's consular response team (CRT) returned to Lagos at approximately 19:30 yesterday, October 23. Per reftel, they reported no likely survivors and an unstable security environment around the crash scene. The crash site is not a very large area. The CRT did not see large sectio [...] | 2005-10-24 10:42:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC EAIR NI ASEC PREL |
05LAGOS165 | DECEPTION AND DEFECTION IN NIGERIA'S SOUTHERN [...] (U) SUMMARY: Recent developments in the southern political landscape highlight internal power struggles and the weakening of political parties. Succession battles scar the dominant People's Democratic Party (PDP) and factions within the PDP in both Edo state and Anambra state are unwilling t [...] | 2005-02-06 05:50:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM NI PGOV |
05LAGOS1656 | SITREP #6: CRASH OF BELLVIEW FLIGHT B3210; OCTOBER [...] (SBU) The Consular Response Team (CRT) remained present at crash site throughout the morning and most of the afternoon, gathering information necessary to cross-check passenger identities with AMCIT registration records. No/no additional amcits were discovered. The CRT will deploy to the cras [...] | 2005-10-24 16:26:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC EAIR NI ASEC PREL |
05LAGOS166 | DECEPTION AND DEFECTION IN NIGERIA'S SOUTHERN [...] (U) SUMMARY: Recent developments in the southern political landscape highlight internal power struggles and the weakening of political parties. Succession battles scar the dominant People's Democratic Party (PDP) and factions within the PDP in both Edo state and Anambra state are unwilling t [...] | 2005-02-06 05:56:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM NI PGOV |
05LAGOS1660 | SITREP #7: CRASH OF BELLVIEW FLIGHT B3210; OCTOBER [...] (SBU) The consular response team (CRT) yesterday liaised with Nigerian authorities to review identification documents found at the crash site. They found no/no information indicating additional AMCITs were on board, other than the one known AMCIT and two LPRs whose names match the manifest. T [...] | 2005-10-25 11:33:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC EAIR NI ASEC PREL |
05LAGOS1662 | SITREP #8: CRASH OF BELLVIEW FLIGHT B3210; OCTOBER [...] (SBU) Mission's consular response team (CRT) returned to Lagos at 1530 (local time) and will deploy again tomorrow. CRT confirmed that while the overall security climate at the site has improved, there is still fairly open public access, which may compromise evidence. Separately, the Red Cross [...] | 2005-10-25 18:51:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC EAIR NI ASEC PREL |
05LAGOS167 | NIGERIA ECONOMIC UPDATE, FEBRUARY 2005 [...] (U) This economic update includes: -- MTS First Wireless Management Crisis Sends US Citizen Packing -- Nigerian Stock Exchange Woos Real Estate Investors -- Virgin Atlantic Positions Itself for Vmobile Stake -- Banking Update - Mergers Continue Amidst Sector Uncertainty ------------------- [...] | 2005-02-06 06:00:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON NI |
05LAGOS1674 | BELLVIEW CRASH: AN UNLIKELY CLAIM OF RESPONSIBILITY [...] (U) The October 26 Punch Newspaper and Champion Newspaper reported a previously unknown group, Coalition for Militant Action in the Niger Delta (COMA),has claimed responsbility for the October 22 Bellview flight 3210 air crash. COMA claims its membership consists of the following groups: Isei [...] | 2005-10-26 16:26:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC EAIR NI ASEC PREL |
05LAGOS1675 | SITREP #9: CRASH OF BELLVIEW FLIGHT B3210; OCTOBER [...] (SBU) Mission's consular response team (CRT) arrived at the crash site at around 1000 (local time). Per reftel, they reported that no excavation had begun, and that local police said excavation would not begin until the NTSB team's arrival. Security at the site had improved with the Nigerian [...] | 2005-10-26 17:06:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC EAIR NI ASEC PREL |
05LAGOS1677 | NIGERIA: LATRINE PROJECT AT ORU REFUGEE CAMP STALLS [...] Summary. Construction of latrines at the Oru Refugee Camp has been delayed by about two months. Recent inspection of the camp revealed the delays were caused by disagreements on the use of refugee labor, disputes over location of latrines, and a restructuring of the Nigerian Red Cross (NRC) [...] | 2005-10-27 12:13:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL PGOV CVIS SMIG NI |
05LAGOS1691 | DRUG CHIEF SEETHES OVER PRESIDENTIAL MEETING [...] (S) In an October 21 meeting with the Consul General, Dr. Bello Lafiaji, head of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA),appeared tired, shaken and agitated with regard to the recent meeting between President Obasanjo, Ambassador Campbell, and the British High Commissioner about Nig [...] | 2005-10-31 10:17:00 | Consulate Lagos | SECRET | PREL PGOV SNAR NI |
05LAGOS1692 | MEETING WITH NDLEA INTERNATIONAL COORDINATOR [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-31 11:07:00 | Consulate Lagos | SECRET | PGOV PINR SNAR NI |
05LAGOS1705 | BELLVIEW PLANE CRASH INVESTIGATION: AVIATION [...] (C) Summary. Consul General Browne and National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) Representative Dennis Jones met Aviation Minister Borishade October 30 to discuss the Bellview crash investigation. Minister Borishade conveyed the President's assurances the NTSB team would receive full GO [...] | 2005-11-01 13:44:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC EAIR NI ASEC PREL |
05LAGOS1708 | BELLVIEW CRASH: NOVEMBER 1 UPDATE [...] (C) Summary. Excavation of crash site began October 31 with the National Transportation and Security Board (NTSB) team and USG forensics team both at the site. The NTSB team have not yet found the flight data nor cockpit voice recorders. Forensic team members observed that officials from Og [...] | 2005-11-01 17:01:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC EAIR NI ASEC PREL |
05LAGOS171 | COMMUNITY STORMS CHEVRON ESCRAVOS FACILITY [...] (C) Chevron Texaco (CT) confirmed the storming and occupation of its Escravos facility by Itsekiri villagers from the Okurogo community, for several hours on 4 February. GON security forces re-gained control of the facility by late in the day. No AMCITs or third country nationals were injur [...] | 2005-02-07 11:11:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV CASC PGOV ASEC MOPS NI |
05LAGOS1722 | AVIATION MINISTER SUPPORTS U.S.-NIGERIA DIRECT AIR [...] (C) Summary. The Consul General met Aviation Minister Borishade on October 20 for a readout on the aviation industry and the issues the Minister will likely raise during his October 28 meeting with Transportation Secretary Mineta. (This meeting occurred before the October 22 Bellview air cras [...] | 2005-11-04 12:29:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR EINV PREL NI |
05LAGOS1726 | BELLVIEW CRASH: WHERE ARE THE NIGERIANS! [...] (C) Summary. The USG forensic team arrived at crash site on November 3 at 1000 (local time). Recovery and investigation efforts continue to be hampered by heavy rain on November 1 and November 3, impeding excavation efforts as muddy roads prevented access to the crash site. The crater has f [...] | 2005-11-04 15:16:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC EAIR NI ASEC PREL |
05LAGOS1734 | BELLVIEW CRASH: POTENTIALLY WORRISOME EVIDENCE [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 8. 2. (S) On November 5, Charge Tom Furey, the Lagos Consul General and other Consulate staff accompanied NTSB's Dennis Jones to the Lagos airport hangar where Jones and his team had begun to piece together parts of the shattered Bellview ai [...] | 2005-11-07 15:34:00 | Consulate Lagos | SECRET | CASC EAIR NI ASEC PTER PREL |
05LAGOS1738 | NDLEA SAYS IT IS TEMPORARILY SUSPENDING [...] (S) In late October, the Nigerian National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) created a special unit, consisting of 25 agents. The mandate of the new unit was to arrest drug kingpins, according to unit commander-Gadzama who was also the NDLEA's top officer in the currently dormant NDLEA/DEA J [...] | 2005-11-08 08:14:00 | Consulate Lagos | SECRET | PGOV PINR SNAR NI |
05LAGOS1742 | AIRPORT AND SEAPORT SECURITY ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. Members of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA),the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN),and the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) met with the Contingency and Security Solutions International (CSSI) team October 17-18 to discuss efforts to improve maritime port a [...] | 2005-11-09 10:20:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR EINV PREL NI |
05LAGOS1743 | BELLVIEW CRASH: AVIATION MINISTER ACCEPTS [...] (S) Aviation Minister Borishade met Consul General to discuss next steps in the investigation of the crash, given our concerns regarding the plane fragment recently found (reftel). The Minister stated he had briefed President Obasanjo on the new evidence. According to Borishade, the Preside [...] | 2005-11-09 14:45:00 | Consulate Lagos | SECRET | CASC EAIR NI ASEC PTER PREL |
05LAGOS1747 | NIGERIA: FOOD PRICE QUARTERLY [...] (U) Summary: Food prices in Nigeria have risen over the last twelve months. While official reports estimate an increase of below 20% for staple foods, nongovernmental food industry reports estimate staple foods increased between 20 - 60%. This increase has a disproportionate impact on the poo [...] | 2005-11-10 15:34:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR EFIN PGOV SOCI NI |
05LAGOS1748 | PRELIMINARY REVIEW YIELDS NO "SMOKING GUN" IN [...] (S) Explosives forensics experts performed a preliminary examination of the Bellview plane crash debris thus far collected. Visual inspection of the plane fragment in question showed no clear sign of explosive damage, according to the experts. The suspect piece was swabbed, and the samples [...] | 2005-11-10 17:02:00 | Consulate Lagos | SECRET | CASC EAIR NI ASEC PTER PREL |
05LAGOS1753 | BIAFRAN SEPARATISTS AND POLICE CLASH, BURN FIRST [...] Summary. During a demonstration in Onitsha (Anambra State) following the GON's arrest and detention of Ralph Uwazurike, the house of Nigeria's first post-independence President, Nnamdi Azikiwe, was razed. Uwazurike is the leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State o [...] | 2005-11-15 09:32:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1757 | CONTINUED INFIGHTING PLAGUES OPPOSITION PARTY [...] (C) Summary: In a late October twist in its ongoing leadership struggle, the Alliance for Democracy (AD) expelled faction leader Senator Mojisoluwa Akinfenwa for anti-party activities. Akinfenwa responded with his own allegations that leadership rival Chief Bisi Akande had authored the expu [...] | 2005-11-16 10:34:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1761 | NIGERIA: WATER AND WASTE-WATER MANAGEMENT, [...] Summary. The Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment named solid waste management as the state's most pressing environmental problem. Lagos, a state of an estimated 15 million people, produces approximately 10,000 metric tons of solid waste per day with virtually no capacity for its di [...] | 2005-11-16 15:03:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV SOCI PREL NI |
05LAGOS1768 | MEETING WITH NDLEA CHAIRMAN BELLO LAFIAJI [...] (S) Summary: During an often tense November 15 meeting with DEA Attache and the Consul General, Nigerian National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Chairman Bello Lafiaji continued to express his bitterness over the Ambassador and the British High Commissioner's meeting with President obasan [...] | 2005-11-18 16:18:00 | Consulate Lagos | SECRET | PGOV PINR SNAR NI |
05LAGOS1769 | BELLVIEW CRASH UPDATE [...] (C) FBI explosives experts completed their on-site support and departed on November 10. Preliminary test results from swab samples from the subject fragment are expected this week from the FBI laboratory, and will be reported to GON crash investigators to assist with their ongoing investigat [...] | 2005-11-21 10:36:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC EAIR NI ASEC PTER PREL |
05LAGOS1772 | CONFIRMATION: BAYELSA GOVERNOR BACK IN NIGERIA [...] (C) Sources in Nigeria confirm breaking news reports that Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha of Bayelsa State is back in Nigeria. 2. (C) Publicly the Governor seemed to be gearing for a legal battle and voiced confidence that he would be acquitted at trial. Evidently, Alamieyeseigha had pl [...] | 2005-11-22 09:01:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1778 | NIGERIA: STILL FISHING FOR COMPLIANCE ON TURTLE [...] Summary. Fishing industry leaders claim product loss from the use of turtle excluder devices (TEDs) outweighs potential gains derived from renewed trade with the U.S. Without industry support, it will be difficult for the government alone - even if it intensifies efforts beyond their current [...] | 2005-11-23 06:51:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIS ETRD EIND PHSA SENV NI |
05LAGOS1781 | BAYELSA GOVERNOR SERVED WITH IMPEACHMENT NOTICE [...] (C) Barely forty-eight hours after returning to the country, embattled Bayelsa State Governor Alamieyeseigha was served with a notice of impeachment endorsed by most members of the State House of Assembly. Bayelsa's politics just moved from hot to hotter. By this move, the State Assembly in [...] | 2005-11-23 17:01:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1784 | AVIATION MINISTER PUSHING FOR U.S. DIRECT ROUTE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Consul General met Aviation Minister Borishade on November 21 for a readout on the aviation industry and to discuss the Minister's tentative plans to visit the Department of Transportation December 5-9. His visit would focus on the same areas he planned to raise prior to t [...] | 2005-11-25 11:34:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR EINV PREL NI |
05LAGOS1785 | EAC LAGOS CONVENED TO DISCUSS AVIAN BIRD FLU [...] (SBU) Embassy Lagos Emergency Action Committee (EAC) convened on November 18, 2005 to discuss preparations in the event of an Avian influenza virus outbreak. Present at the meeting was the CG, RSO, MGMT, POL, ECON, CLO, RAO, FBI, CONS, GSO, DAO, MSG, and RMO. 2. (U) MED discussed the need f [...] | 2005-11-25 14:07:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED ASEC CASC NI |
05LAGOS1786 | EXTRANCHECK: PLC - INTELS NIGERIA LTD. [...] PER REQUEST IN REFTEL, PLC FOR APPLICATION D344956 WAS PERFORMED BY CS LAGOS COMMERCIAL SPECIALIST IBRAHIM IBRAHIM. 2. ULTIMATE CONSIGNEE: INTELS NIGERIA LIMITD, KM 16 PH/ABA EXPRESSWAY, PORT HARCOURT, NIGERIA. 3. INTERVIEW CONDUCTED WITH MESSRS. N.C. PRAKASH AND CLEMENT ABRAKASA. [...] | 2005-11-25 15:14:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC NG |
05LAGOS1790 | DRUG CHIEF REPLACED [...] (U) Dr. Bello Lafiaji has been removed as Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and replaced by Ahmadu Giade, effective immediately. 2. (U) Giade is a retired deputy commissioner of police, and in 1994 while on active duty he served on a panel investigating NDLEA co [...] | 2005-11-25 16:20:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR NI |
05LAGOS1801 | NIGERIAN GOVERNOR LOSES FAITH IN VP [...] (C) Summary. Once an ardent supporter of Vice President Atiku, Abia State Governor Orji Kalu said Vice President Atiku's chances for capturing the PDP presidential nomination had diminished substantially. He claimed the President was ruthlessly choking pro-Atiku governors economically, and [...] | 2005-11-28 15:04:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1802 | NIGERIA: ECONOMIC BRIEFS, OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2005 [...] (U) Summary: The GON's single digit inflation target now seems a mirage as inflation figures for August rose to 28.2% from 26.1% in July. Experts expect September figures to be about 21%. In the official markets, the naira was stable at about N130/$1 as of late October, while parallel market [...] | 2005-11-28 15:13:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD KIPR PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1803 | PRESIDENTIAL INDECISION THREATENS SYSTEM [...] (C) In a late October conversation with the Consul General, Kwara State Governor Bukola Saraki described three approaches President Obasanjo could follow regarding the 2007 elections: amend the constitution to extend his current term, reconcile with the Vice President and support his candida [...] | 2005-11-28 15:30:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1811 | TROOPS, LEGAL ACTIONS INCREASE BAYELSA TENSION [...] (C) Summary: Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State Capital, is the site of a quiet but increasingly tense political standoff. While Governor Alamieyeseigha is going through the motions of normal operations, he is being guarded and supported by scores of armed Ijaw irregulars. Meanwhile, up to 1,000 Fed [...] | 2005-11-30 09:27:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1814 | BAYELSA GOVERNOR'S IMPEACHMENT MOVES FORWARD [...] (U) The Bayelsa State House of Assembly suspended four assemblymen for improper activities, and directed Chief Judge Emmanuel Igoniwari to form a panel to investigate the charges listed in Governor Alamieyeseigha's impeachment notice. The House also voided Governor Alamieyeseigha's replacemen [...] | 2005-11-30 16:35:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1820 | TROOPS SILENCE BAYELSA RADIO, RAID GOVERNMENT HOUSE [...] (SBU) The political crisis in Bayelsa intensified Wednesday morning when Federal troops occupied the state-owned radio station, Bayelsa Radio, and shut it down. Station workers were turned away when they reported to work early Wednesday. Media sources quoted Bayelsa State officials denouncin [...] | 2005-12-01 15:33:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1826 | DOCKWORKERS STAND DOWN ON PLANNED STRIKE [...] (SBU) Summary. The planned strike by dockworkers across Nigeria scheduled for December 1 was put on hold as GON and labor officials negotiated severance packages for over 6,000 dockworkers expected to be laid off as part of the GON's ports concessioning exercise. After a November 30 stakeholde [...] | 2005-12-02 14:47:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECON NI |
05LAGOS1857 | YOUTHS KILLED DURING MASSOB DEMONSTRATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary. On Tuesday, December 5, an estimated eleven people, allegedly members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB),were apparently killed in a clash with police and soldiers during demonstrations in Anambra and Imo States. While the police [...] | 2005-12-08 15:47:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1863 | NIGERIA CANNOT DETECT H5N1 AVIAN FLU [...] Summary. AgAttache met with the acting director of Nigeria's Department of Agriculture and Pest Control Services to discuss the GON's plan for contending with an outbreak of AI. Senior GON policymakers are keenly aware that an AI outbreak would very likely destroy Nigeria's poultry industry [...] | 2005-12-09 14:39:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SENV EAGR AMED CASC EAID XX NI WHO FAO |
05LAGOS1865 | OONI OF IFE BACKS OBASANJO EXTENSION [...] (C) In a November meeting, Consul General visited the Ooni of Ife, the most prominent Yoruba traditional ruler and one of the most influential traditional rulers in the country. The Ooni is unabashedly pro-Obasanjo and his leanings were quite apparent in his reflections on current political [...] | 2005-12-09 15:33:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1866 | REQUEST TO URGE EU TO SUSPEND IMPLEMENTATION [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-09 16:18:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NI |
05LAGOS1867 | IMPEACHMENT AFFIRMED, BAYELSA GOVERNOR ARRESTED [...] (U) Apparently at the urging of the Federal Government, impeachment proceedings against the Bayelsa State governor moved at lightning speed with the Speaker of the State Assembly announcing today that Governor Alamieyeseigha has been impeached. The impeachment removed the constitutional shie [...] | 2005-12-09 16:51:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1869 | SOSOLISO AIRPLANE CRASH:CONSULAR AND NTSB [...] (U) In response to the December 10 Sosoliso flight OSL 1145 air crash, Mission sent a two-member consular response team (CRT) to Port Harcourt on December 11 to observe the crash site, to ascertain the number of Amcits involved, and follow up on Amcit casualties. The Nigerian Red Cross report [...] | 2005-12-11 16:17:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR CASC ASEC AMGT NI PREL |
05LAGOS1871 | COOPERATION ON MARITIME SAFETY AND SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary. The National Maritime Authority (NMA) met with US Office of Naval Research Global team on December 6 to discuss mutual maritime safety and security cooperation and research. NMA Director General emphasized the need for USG assistance in training cadets, producing accurate coastal [...] | 2005-12-12 07:53:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECON EWWT NI |
05LAGOS1875 | NIGERIA LAUNCHES ELECTRICITY REGULATORY COMMISSION [...] (U) Continuing its high profile campaign to reform the power sector, the GON inaugurated the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on October 31. The 2005 Electric Power Sector Reform Act (EPSRA) mandates NERC promote quality and efficiency in the provision of electricity, and en [...] | 2005-12-12 15:26:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET EINV NI ENERG |
05LAGOS1876 | SOSOLISO AIRPLANE CRASH/ENUGU BUS ACCIDENT [...] (SBU) Consular Response Team (CRT) reported Doctor's Without Borders (DWB) collected Amcit Hawa Kamara's remains and are in contact with Ms. Kamara's parents to arrange for transport of her remains and personal effects to Monrovia, Liberia (Ms. Kamara was a DWB employee). Post has tried to rea [...] | 2005-12-12 18:07:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR CASC ASEC AMGT NI PREL |
05LAGOS1877 | NIGERIA'S OANDO GROUP LISTS ON SA STOCK EXCHANGE [...] (U) Oando Group, an integrated energy firm and Nigeria's leading downstream petroleum marketer, was listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) on November 25, the first Nigerian firm approved to do so. Oando announced 4 percent of its shares would be listed on the JSE; Oando forecasts [...] | 2005-12-13 06:56:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET EINV NI ENERG |
05LAGOS1883 | ENUGU BUS CRASH AMCITS SAFELY MEDEVACED;SOSOLISO [...] This is an action request. Please see para 6. -------------------------------------- Enugu Bus Crash Amcits Safely Medevaced --------------------------------------- 2. (SBU) Last night, Amcit Erin Cothran was medevaced to Accra and AmCit Rebecca Carter was medevaced to Johannesburg. [...] | 2005-12-13 16:20:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR CASC ASEC AMGT NI PREL |
05LAGOS1891 | TIP: TIER 2 ACTION PLAN FOR NIGERIA DELIVERED [...] In response to action request (reftel),Post explained to GON areas of specific concern to Nigeria from the 2005 TIP report, why GON efforts did not meet minimum standards, and how to improve results in the future. On November 18, G/TIP lead for Nigeria, Veronica Zeitlin, and POLOFF Eshel Mur [...] | 2005-12-15 09:46:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN PHUM PREL SMIG NI |
05LAGOS1892 | NIGERIA: RECAPITALIZATION OF MORTGAGE FINANCE [...] (U) Summary: Nigeria's ninety-plus primary mortgage institutions (PMIs) may soon be required to recapitalize in line with the ongoing reforms in the financial sector. In anticipation of a directive from the Central Bank (CBN),mortgagors are striving to raise their capital base from the curr [...] | 2005-12-15 10:18:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECIN NI |
05LAGOS1893 | ADDITIONAL 3RD TERM INDICATORS [...] (C) In a November conversation with the Consul General, Ugo Okafor of GoodWorks International LLC (strictly protect) said that indications point to President Obasanjo wanting a third term. GoodWorks is the advisory firm founded by Ambassador Andrew Young, who has a long, convivial relationsh [...] | 2005-12-15 10:43:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1898 | BAYELSA DEPUTY SWORN IN AS NEW GOVERNOR [...] (U) Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State under Governor Alamieyeseigha and acting Governor since Alamieyeseigha's impeachment, was sworn in as Bayelsa Governor on December 12. Jonathan will complete the remaining fifteen months of the current term. 2. (U) The new Gover [...] | 2005-12-16 10:21:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NI |
05LAGOS19 | SHELL, CHEVRON RE-STARTING PRODUCTION IN KULA AREA [...] Shell External Relations Director Don Boham confirmed to us on 5 January that Shell has reached an accord with the community in the Kula area to allow about 114,00 barrels/day of oil production, halted in early December 2004, to re- start. Shell remains in negotiations with the community con [...] | 2005-01-06 15:13:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET EINV CASC MOPS NI |
05LAGOS1917 | NIGERIA ENTERS DEEPWATER ERA AS BONGA GOES ONSTREAM [...] (U) Nigeria entered the era of major league deepwater oil and gas production on November 28, as Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCO),announced its Bonga oil field began production. Bonga will initially produce 225,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil, for a total of [...] | 2005-12-20 07:06:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET EINV NI ENERG |
05LAGOS1919 | NIGERIAN POLICE GAS PROTESTORS, IGNORE SUPREME [...] (U) On December 16, over two hundred mostly professional women calling themselves the Concerned Mothers of Nigeria gathered at the Sheraton Hotel in Lagos to protest perceived GON negligence in handling the recent Bellview and Sosoliso Airlines airplane crashes. Attempting to force the prot [...] | 2005-12-20 09:59:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM NI |
05LAGOS1921 | OYO IMPEACHMENT SPARKS VIOLENCE IN ASSEMBLY [...] (U) December normally experiences a decline in political activity and caviling in Nigeria. However, this December is an exception and is perhaps a sign of what is to come in 2006. If so, Nigeria may be in for a rough ride at the state as well as the national level. The Oyo State House of [...] | 2005-12-20 13:30:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1933 | TWO SHELL FLOWSTATIONS CLOSE AFTER SUSPICIOUS [...] (U) According to several credible sources, an unidentified group of armed men damaged a section of an oil pipeline in the Andoni local government area of Rivers State the evening of December 19. Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) shut down two flowstations, producing 170,000 barrels [...] | 2005-12-21 14:00:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV CASC PGOV ASEC PTER KHLS EWWT NI |
05LAGOS1934 | DOMESTIC AIRLINES GROUNDED;LOW PUBLIC CONFIDENCE [...] (U) Summary. In a vote of no confidence in the domestic aviation sector, many would-be air travelers seem to be opting for road transportation following recent air mishaps. After the December 19 emergency landing of a Bellview flight in Accra, the GON temporarily suspended Bellview's operating [...] | 2005-12-21 16:06:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR EINV PREL NI |
05LAGOS1941 | SHELL CLOSES THIRD FLOWSTATION, ANOTHER EXPLOSION [...] (U) After surveying the pipeline fire at their Opobo terminal line in Rivers State, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) closed their Bonny terminal supply line in an attempt to quench the fire faster. (Note. Previously, SPDC had shut down two flowstations in hopes that their temporar [...] | 2005-12-22 15:23:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV CASC PGOV ASEC PTER KHLS EWWT ELAB NI |
05LAGOS1942 | SHELL CLOSES THIRD FLOWSTATION, EXPLOSION IN EDO [...] (U) After surveying the pipeline fire at their Opobo terminal line in Rivers State, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) closed their Bonny terminal supply line in an attempt to quench the fire faster. (Note. Previously, SPDC had shut down two flowstations in hopes that their temporar [...] | 2005-12-22 15:23:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV CASC PGOV ASEC PTER KHLS EWWT ELAB NI |
05LAGOS1943 | NIGERIA TO ESTABLISH NATIONAL CONTINGENCY [...] (SBU) Summary: National technical committee of experts on the prevention and control of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) concluded deliberations in Abuja December 12-14, 2005 and proposed contingency plans for a pandemic in Nigeria. Federal Ministries of Agriculture and Health techni [...] | 2005-12-22 15:26:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1951 | NIGERIAN PETROLEUM VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT [...] (S) Given the presence of armed militia and of oil bunkering enterprises, the GON has difficulty maintaining security of the oil producing Nigerian Delta region. Parts of the region are effectively under the control of the militia or bunkering groups than governmental authority. As the Dec [...] | 2005-12-28 12:36:00 | Consulate Lagos | SECRET | EPET PTER KHLS EWWT PINR ETRD NI |
05LAGOS1955 | COORDINATION DIFFICULT FOR NIGERIAN ANTI-TIP [...] (U) Summary. Coordinating efforts to combat trafficking in persons, both among government agencies and NGOs, is one of the stiffest challenges facing the GON. State police commands are hesitant to relinquish primary investigative jurisdiction rights to the National Agency for the Prohibiti [...] | 2005-12-28 14:50:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG NI |
05LAGOS1956 | ANOTHER PIPELINE EXPLOSION, SABOTAGE SUSPECTED BUT [...] (U) As repairs continue on the pipelines ruptured in last week's attack reported ref B, a section of pipeline carrying refined product from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) refinery in Warri, Delta State to locations elsewhere in Nigeria suffered multiple explosions on December [...] | 2005-12-29 06:32:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV PGOV ASEC PTER KHLS EWWT PINR NI |
05LAGOS1961 | AQUACULTURE EXPERTS STATE NIGERIAN FISHING [...] (U) Aquaculture experts report Nigeria has consistently underperformed in meeting targeted fish production quotas. They blame the low productivity on lack of available commercial vessels and able seafarers, environmental pollution, poor enforcement of fishing regulations, lack of defined water [...] | 2005-12-30 08:14:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIS ETRD EINV PHSA SENV PGOV PREL CH NI |
05LAGOS1965 | TERRORISM FINANCE: AHMED IDRIS NASREDDIN [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ off and Poloff presented ref D demarche to Ibrahim Lamorde, Director of Operations for Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Lagos office. Lamorde said the EFCC had been investigating the Nasco group of companies since October, after receiving communication [...] | 2005-12-30 12:09:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KTFN EFIN PTER PREL PM NI |
05LAGOS276 | DOZENS REPORTEDLY KILLED IN BAYELSA STATE, NIGERIA [...] (SBU) Summary: The Nigerian Joint Military Task Force (JTF) along with local militia reportedly "stormed" the village of Odioma in Bayelsa State, February 19, killing dozens. The operation was in response to the February 3 deaths of 12 individuals, including four local councilmen, who were [...] | 2005-02-24 06:00:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL NI |
05LAGOS284 | GERMAN DIPLOMATIC VEHICLE ATTACKED IN LAGOS [...] SUMMARY: On 02/19/2005, armed gunmen in Lagos attacked a German Consulate armored vehicle. The German vehicle sustained damage however the German Consulate driver was able to evade the attackers and return to Victoria Island. No injuries were reported. 2. DETAILS: On 02/23/2005, RSO w [...] | 2005-02-24 12:29:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC |
05LAGOS3 | GREEK NATIONAL KILLED IN PORT HARCOURT [...] (SBU) Francis Lauze, Security Manager for Nigerian firm Globestar Engineering and Construction Company (an affiliate of French firm Stolt Offshore Services),confirmed the killing of a Greek national, Anastassiou Stilianos, in Port Harcourt on January 1, 2005. Daniel Oliseh, President and C [...] | 2005-01-04 16:41:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET CASC ASEC NI |
05LAGOS30 | NIGERIA ECONOMIC TIDBITS, JANUARY 2005 [...] (U) This economic update includes: -- Banking Reform Effort Drives Industry Change -- Power Sector Reform Bill Signed -- Recharge Card Import Ban Target Date Extended -- A Nigerian Success Story: Expanding Cassava Operations --------------------------------------------- Banking Reform Effo [...] | 2005-01-10 12:19:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON NI |
05LAGOS346 | NOMINATION FOR JULY 25-29 OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY [...] (U) Post nominates Economic Specialist - Obilade, Mayowa Olalonpe, as its candidate for the oil and gas industry course scheduled for July 25-29, 2005 in Houston. Ms. Obilade holds a Masters degree in Economics and has been the Consulate General's Economic Specialist for the past 12 months. [...] | 2005-03-06 04:12:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | NFATC ECON |
05LAGOS362 | ALIKO DANGOTE AND WHY YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT HIM [...] (C) Summary. Alhaji Aliko Dangote (Dangote) is Nigeria's most well known businessperson and may be its wealthiest citizen. He has taken on the aura of an economic folk hero for some, villain for others. To supporters, he symbolizes that Nigeria can do more than barter and trade. It can suc [...] | 2005-03-07 14:50:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EINV ECON NI PINR BEXP PGOV |
05LAGOS364 | ALIKO DANGOTE AND WHY YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT HIM [...] (C) Summary. Alhaji Aliko Dangote (Dangote) is Nigeria's most well known businessperson and may be its wealthiest citizen. He has taken on the aura of an economic folk hero for some, villain for others. To supporters, he symbolizes that Nigeria can do more than barter and trade. It can suc [...] | 2005-03-07 14:50:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EINV ECON NI PINR BEXP PGOV |
05LAGOS365 | NIGERIAN GOVERNOR: EXAMPLE OF GOOD GOVERNANCE BUT [...] (C) Summary: Ogun State and its governor Gbenga Daniel have fared relatively well since the 2003 elections, which were manipulated in order to allow President Obasanjo to carry his home state by a wide margin. Daniel, an Obasanjo protege, possibly could have won the elections without any ta [...] | 2005-03-08 06:21:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR NI |
05LAGOS366 | ANAMBRA ELECTIONS: REVERSALS OF FORTUNE [...] (C) Summary. Over the last month, five Anambra State election results from 2003 have been overturned, and the original PDP candidates installed. This tussle is not so much one to recognize the real electoral victor but one to see which PDP faction controls the state. For most of these elect [...] | 2005-03-08 06:21:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KJUS PGOV PINS PREL |
05LAGOS4 | GREEK NATIONAL KILLED IN PORT HARCOURT [...] (SBU) Francis Lauze, Security Manager for Nigerian firm Globestar Engineering and Construction Company, (an affiliate of French firm Stolt Offshore Services),confirmed the killing of a Greek national, Anastassiou Stilianos, in Port Harcourt on January 1, 2005. Daniel Oliseh, President and [...] | 2005-01-05 06:11:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET CASC ASEC NI |
05LAGOS413 | ANOTHER NEAR CRASH OF CHANCHANGI AIRLINER [...] (U) On March 12, Chanchangi Airlines (Nigeria) experienced its second crash landing in the last three months (reftel). Chanchangi officials blamed high winds and a rain-flooded runway for veering the B727- 200 some thirty meters off the Abuja airport runway. The Saturday flight from Katsina t [...] | 2005-03-15 13:43:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ATRN NI |
05LAGOS416 | MTS FIRST WIRELESS ROLLOUT SET BACK TWO MONTHS BY [...] (SBU) As MTS First Wireless (MTS) tries to recoup from a very open and public feud between rival factions in the Board of Directors (reftel),its Senior Vice President, AMCIT Charles Kimbrough, estimated the company's rollout has been delayed at least two months. Kimbrough recently returned to [...] | 2005-03-16 09:27:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON NI |
05LAGOS419 | RECENT TIP CASES SHOW NIGERIA'S PROGRESS AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In late February, state government officials in Lagos closed an "orphanage" run by a supposed church minister that was fronting for child trafficking and other illicit practices. On March 5, police in Lagos intercepted a truck carrying more than 60 children from Niger State. T [...] | 2005-03-16 12:32:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN NI |
05LAGOS422 | GOVERNMENT REQUESTS ASSISTANCE WITH 2005 PETROLEUM [...] (U) This is an action request for the Department of Energy and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency: Please see paragraphs five and six. 2. (SBU) In a series of meetings on March 9 and 10 with a visiting Department of Energy official, Presidential Advisor for Petroleum and Energy Reso [...] | 2005-03-16 17:01:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET EINV NI ENERG |
05LAGOS433 | CHEVRON LOOKS TO ETHNIC COUNCIL MODEL FOR DELTA [...] (C) Chevron Texaco is moving away from the 'host community' paradigm for implementing its community relations and development programs in the Delta region, and instead is embracing state-level 'ethnic councils.' These councils would disburse Chevron community development funds, and be respo [...] | 2005-03-18 06:16:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV CASC PGOV ASEC MOPS NI |
05LAGOS434 | LNG UPDATE ON NIGERIA: CHEVRON, EXXON, ANNOUNCE [...] (SBU) This cable provides an overview of two new proposals for liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in Nigeria, as well as a status report on the expansion of an existing plant. In January Chevron Texaco (Chevron) announced a feasibility study on a potential 10 million metric ton liquefied [...] | 2005-03-18 06:17:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV CASC PGOV ASEC MOPS NI |
05LAGOS435 | OBASANJO'S NEMESIS: LAGOS STATE GOVERNOR TINUBU [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 23, the Ambassador met Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu who said that the federal government's withholding of approximately USD 135 million of accrued local government allocations for Lagos still has disproportionately affected children, health care delivery, transp [...] | 2005-03-18 07:36:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KJUS NI PGOV PINS PREL |
05LAGOS46 | NIGERIA ECONOMIC UPDATE, JANUARY 2005 [...] (U) This economic update includes: -- Banking Reform Effort Drives Industry Change -- Power Sector Reform Bill -- Recharge Card Import Ban Target Date Extended -- A Nigerian Success Story: Expanding Cassava Operations --------------------------------------------- Banking Reform Effort Driv [...] | 2005-01-12 07:34:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON NI |
05LAGOS472 | EXPELLED GOVERNOR BOASTS: I AM THE BEAUTIFUL [...] (C) Summary. Anambra State Governor Chris Ngige met with us days after being expelled from the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). Ngige predicted that a growing army of supporters as well as some disgruntled politicians would move with him to the party of his choice, thus wresting Anambr [...] | 2005-03-29 06:09:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KJUS NI PGOV PINS PREL |
05LAGOS474 | MEGA CORPORATION COULD HELP AND HURT NIGERIA AT [...] (C) Summary. On March 1, a cadre of Nigeria ,s business elite presented plans to the Government of Nigeria (GON) to establish the Transnational Corporation of Nigeria (TCN). Deemed a mega- corporation, TCN's initial capital would consist of naira 4.2 billion (USD 31.5 million) including naira [...] | 2005-03-29 08:58:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV EFIN PGOV NI |
05LAGOS476 | SHANTY TOWN DEMOLISHED IN PORT HARCOURT; THOUSANDS [...] (C) Summary: In early March, the Rivers State government demolished the bulk of the "Agip waterside" shanty-town in Port Harcourt. Hundreds of dwellings have been leveled and thousands of people displaced. Former residents say the government neither paid compensation nor offered alternative [...] | 2005-03-29 10:05:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | NI PGOV PHUM PREL |
05LAGOS477 | NIGERIAN MILITARY OPERATION RESULTS IN CIVILIAN [...] (C) Summary: Bayelsa state representatives acknowledged that innocent civilians were probably killed by Nigerian soldiers on February 19 when the military raided the community of Odioma in search of the killers of twelve civilians two weeks before. Bayelsa state representatives characterized [...] | 2005-03-29 10:59:00 | Consulate Lagos | SECRET | EPET KJUS NI PGOV PHUM PREL |
05LAGOS478 | LAGOS PILOTS NEW WASTE MGT SCHEME WITH SOME [...] Summary: The Lagos State Ministry of Environment has begun a new waste management program in 24 of 57 local government areas. Under the program, 17 waste management companies provide trash collection services. A separate company handles customer billing, and the ministry provides oversight a [...] | 2005-03-29 11:05:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ECON NI AID |
05LAGOS494 | NIGERIA:AMCITS HELD ON VESSELS AS STRIKE MOVES [...] (C) Tidex, an American maritime firm, is involved in a labor dispute with two oil unions. Union members have taken control of twenty-two vessels in Rivers, Delta, and Bayelsa states. Seventeen American citizens and approximately 45-50 expatriates in total are affected by the labor action. [...] | 2005-03-31 17:45:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV CASC PGOV ASEC MOPS NI |
05LAGOS502 | TIDEX STRIKE CONTINUES; MISSION RAMPS UP EFFORTS [...] (C) Striking Tidex employees continue to prevent Tidex vessels and non-Nigerian crew members (approximately 45-50 expatriates),including thirteen AMCITs, from leaving the ports of Onne, Escravos and Brass. Tidex now states thirteen, not seventeen AMCITs, are aboard the detained vessels. T [...] | 2005-04-01 21:28:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV CASC PGOV ASEC MOPS NI |
05LAGOS503 | TIDEX STRIKE CONTINUES; TENSIONS INCREASE, BUT [...] (C) Striking Tidex employees continue to prevent Tidex vessels and non-Nigerian crew members, including thirteen AMCITs, from leaving the ports of Onne, Escravos and Brass. The attempt by a Cameroonian-crewed ship to depart Onne on 1 April appears to have increased tensions. Strikers made t [...] | 2005-04-02 16:47:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV CASC PGOV ASEC MOPS NI |
05LAGOS507 | NIGERIA: PICK ME FOR PRESIDENT, OK HOW ABOUT VICE [...] (C) Summary: Governors Odili and Alamieyeseigha representing Rivers and Bayelsa states respectively, harbor unrealistic presidential aspirations, but are contenders for the Vice Presidential slot. Though President Obasanjo has cooled somewhat towards Odili following the governor's failure to [...] | 2005-04-04 11:09:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NI |
05LAGOS509 | TIDEX STRIKE CONTINUES - THREE AMCITS RETURN TO [...] (C) Striking employees continue to prevent Tidex vessels and non-Nigerian crew members from leaving the ports of Onne, Escravos and Brass. However, the crews of two of the four vessels in Escravos returned to work. Three AMCITs were included in the two crews; ten AMCITs are still detained. [...] | 2005-04-04 18:55:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV CASC PGOV ASEC MOPS NI |
05LAGOS521 | TIDEX MANAGEMENT IN ABUJA TO WORK ON RESOLVING [...] (C) Striking employees continue to hold Tidex vessels and non-Nigerian crew members at Onne, Escravos and Brass ports. Ten Americans are detained in Onne. Management from Tidex and U.S. parent company Tidewater are meeting in Abuja with GON officials. Tidex management reports no substantiv [...] | 2005-04-06 16:48:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV CASC PGOV ASEC MOPS NI |
05LAGOS531 | AMCITS RELEASED IN TIDEX STRIKE; STRIKE CONTINUES, [...] (C) Tidex reported all expatriates, including ten AMCITs, have safely left the vessels in Onne and Escravos ports. GON intervention with national union leadership seems have played a role convincing the strikers to allow the expatriates off the vessels. The strikers still control approximat [...] | 2005-04-07 18:16:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV CASC PGOV ASEC MOPS NI |
05LAGOS536 | NIGERIAN BANKS IN DISTRESS? [...] (C) Summary. With nine months remaining to meet the December 2005 naira 25 billion (USD 192 million) recapitalization deadline, banking sector noise has amplified. While the banks publicly talk positive about the future, we have heard rumors of liquidity problems at some banks. We believe t [...] | 2005-04-08 13:03:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETTC KTFN PTER NI |
05LAGOS537 | NIGERIA ECONOMIC UPDATE, MARCH 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: The GON's privatization program may accelerate as a result of the power sector reform bill signed into law March 11, and the new Maersk operating concession of the Apapa (Lagos) port container terminal. The GON has also contracted the Italian firm, Grimaldi Group, to build a USD [...] | 2005-04-08 13:19:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON ECPS EWWT EINV PINR NI |
05LAGOS542 | IMF HEARS OUT NIGERIAN PRIVATE SECTOR [...] (U) Summary. During the IMF Mission Team's Article IV consultations in Nigeria (ref A),U.S. private sector firm representatives told the IMF team the operating environment in Nigeria remains challenging. Port delays and improprieties, arbitrary political decisions, and currency payment issues [...] | 2005-04-11 09:58:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV |
05LAGOS545 | LAGOS EAC MEETING ON ON CURRENT THREAT ASSESSMENT [...] (S/NF) Lagos core EAC members convened today to review Post's security posture in light of the current threat information outlined in REFTELs. In attendance were the CG, RSO, RMAS, MGT, CON, DEA, POL/ECON, PAO, DAO, FCS and FBI. 2. (S/NF) RMAS summarized recent reporting outlined in RE [...] | 2005-04-12 10:15:00 | Consulate Lagos | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC CASC NI PTER |
05LAGOS551 | OIL UNION STRIKE SUSPENDED; TIDEX NEGOTIATIONS [...] On April 9, leaders of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) suspended a three-day warning strike which had been scheduled to begin April 11. The unions called off the strike, saying [...] | 2005-04-12 14:05:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EPET KDEM NI PGOV |
05LAGOS563 | SHELL SAYS NIGERIA NEEDS OVERHAUL [...] (C) Summary: Shell Petroleum Development Corporation (SPDC) Managing Director (MD) Basil Oyimi told Ambassador he is concerned with President Obasanjo's "over-personalization" of reform. The lack of institutional underpinnings means Nigeria will be "back to square one" in 2007. Oyimi argued [...] | 2005-04-14 08:57:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | NI PGOV PREL EPET |
05LAGOS575 | VIEWS ON THE NIGER DELTA, FROM THE NIGER DELTA; [...] (SBU) Summary: During Ambassador Campbell's April 5-7 visit to Port Harcourt, Nigerian interlocutors identified poverty and corruption as their chief concerns. American citizens working in the area cited the absence of law and order as their biggest worry. Contacts said working in the Delta [...] | 2005-04-15 12:10:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON CASC NI |
05LAGOS578 | SEEKING SUPPORT FOR THE U.S. NONPROLIFERATION [...] (SBU) On April 12 AmEmbassy Abuja delivered text of reftel non-paper to the Nigerian Ministry of Transportation (MOT). AmConsul Lagos delivered the same non-paper to National Maritime Authority (NMA) Director General (DG),Engineer Festus U.C. Ugwu, and NMA Secretary and Legal Advisor, M.E. E [...] | 2005-04-17 16:25:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT KNNP MNUC MX PARM PGOV PHSA PREL |
05LAGOS605 | MILITANT DELTA YOUTH SET ASIDE ARMS AND DIFFERENCES [...] (C) Summary: Over the past few months, the Government of Nigeria and NGOs convened two major "peace camps" bringing together members of rival militia groups and gangs from the Delta region. The camps were largely in response to the flare up in violence which occurred in the region Fall 2004. During [...] | 2005-04-25 10:52:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | NI PGOV PHUM PREL |
05LAGOS61 | LAGOS BUSINESS EXECS GRIM ON NIGERIAN BUSINESS [...] (C) Commercial and Energy Officers recently met with group of senior business executives from American firms based in Lagos, who expressed substantial concern with the Nigerian business environment and import bans. They believe the GON is failing to develop the institutions and policies need [...] | 2005-01-14 16:22:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV EPET PGOV NI |
05LAGOS629 | NIGERIA'S UNEMPLOYMENT: A SILENT EMERGENCY [...] (C) Summary: According to the GON Federal Office of Statistics (FOS),Nigeria's unemployment rate for 2003 was 14.8 percent. (Note: Statistics have not been released for 2004. End note.) The actual unemployment rate likely is considerably higher than what FOS reports. Nigeria's informal s [...] | 2005-04-27 14:23:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON SOCI PGOV NI |
05LAGOS630 | Nigeria's 2005 Special 301 Review: Special [...] Summary. While awareness of intellectual property rights (IPR) is increasing in Nigeria, IPR compliance has improved only slightly. Inadequate funding of relevant agencies and the inability to sustain public and government attention to IPR violations remain concerns. Optical media piracy is [...] | 2005-04-27 14:35:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR NI |
05LAGOS631 | NIGERIA: PETROLEUM TRUCK DRIVERS COMMENCE [...] Summary: On April 26 long-distance petroleum truck drivers in Lagos began an "indefinite strike," protesting the Lagos State Government's seizure of some of their trucks which truckers normally parked alongside major roads overnight. The Lagos Government says it will not negotiate with the d [...] | 2005-04-27 14:49:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EPET KDEM NI PGOV |
05LAGOS654 | NIGERIA: PETROLEUM TRUCK DRIVERS STRIKE ENTERS DAY [...] (C) Summary: In an effort to resolve the on-going petroleum truck driver strike, the chairman of Zenon Petroleum and Gas paid Lagos State government an undisclosed fee, ostensibly to cover the impoundment fees levied against striking drivers. However, Lagos State and the drivers remain at log [...] | 2005-04-29 19:29:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB EPET KDEM NI PGOV |
05LAGOS661 | SOUTHERN NIGERIA HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE, APRIL [...] This cable is a roundup of various recent incidents that reflect the human rights situation in southern Nigeria. This summary is 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. - [...] | 2005-05-04 14:55:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF ELAB NI |
05LAGOS696 | LATEST MUTATIONS OF NIGERIAN INTERNET FRAUD [...] SUMMARY. NIGERIAN ADVANCE FEE SCAMS HAVE MUTATED CONSIDERABLY SINCE THE DAYS WHEN AN OFFICIAL-LOOKING BUSINESS PROPOSAL ON LETTERHEAD WOULD ARRIVE IN THE UNSUSPECTING AMERICAN'S POSTAL MAILBOX. NIGERIAN SCAMS NO LONGER JUST BELONG TO THE REALM OF SUPPOSEDLY LARGE SUMS OF MONEY IN NEED OF AN O [...] | 2005-05-11 09:59:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC SOCI ECON NI |
05LAGOS706 | BABANGIDA INSIDER FEARS OBASANJO WILL BAR HIS MAN [...] (S/NF) Summary: During a recent conversation, Professor Ukandi Damachi, long time associate and adviser to former head of state Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB),asserted Obasanjo may be considering a revolutionary thrust -- banning anyone who has held the office of governor or higher from the [...] | 2005-05-12 11:43:00 | Consulate Lagos | SECRET//NOFORN | NI PGOV PHUM PREL |
05LAGOS722 | AMBASSADORS' FUND FOR REFUGEES: NIGERIA [...] The Oru Refugee Camp in Ogun State, Nigeria, has a critical need for latrines. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) minimum standard is one latrine per 20 people; at one latrine per nearly 70 people, Oru Camp falls below this standard. Mission proposes a grant of $20,000 [...] | 2005-05-16 06:42:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF NI |
05LAGOS747 | CBN'S NEW CAPITALIZATION DEADLINES CAUSE BANKS TO [...] (C) Summary. Eschewing prior consultation with the industry, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) unexpectedly promulgated a new set of deadlines to spur banks to meet its recapitalization requirement: April 30 for pre-merger consent, August 31 for preliminary merger approval, and October 31 for [...] | 2005-05-19 08:49:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV PGOV PREL NI |
05LAGOS749 | NIGERIA ECONOMIC UPDATE, MAY 2005 [...] (U) This economic update includes: -- American Business Leaders Discuss Local AmCham -- Stock Market Affected by Banking Reform -- Shipping Dinner Reveals Hands Behind Cabotage Act -- GON Introduces Presidential IPR Initiative: STRAP -- Nigeria Census 2005, Plan for the Worst and Hope for t [...] | 2005-05-20 09:05:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD KIPR PGOV NI |
05LAGOS765 | SUBSTANDARD CONDITIONS PROVOKE PLEAS FROM [...] Summary: On a visit to Oru Refugee Camp, PRM regional refugee coordinator, PRM admissions program officer, and Lagos pol-off were greeted by a large crowd. The refugees complained of substandard housing and sanitation, both evident on a tour of the camp. They explained the barriers to local [...] | 2005-05-23 16:05:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF PREL LI NI |
05LAGOS782 | AMBASSADORS' FUND FOR REFUGEES: NIGERIA [...] This is a revision of the proposal submitted in reftel B. As requested in ref C, this revised submission proposes the Nigerian Red Cross (NRC) rather than the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as the grant recipient. ---------------- Proposal Summary ---------------- [...] | 2005-05-27 13:02:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF NI |
05LAGOS801 | NIGERIA'S LEGISLATURES VICTIM TO ONE PARTY STATES [...] Summary. While a little progress has been made since 1999, independence of the legislative bodies remains a challenge. A survey of five state Houses of Assembly in Southern Nigeria revealed legislatures dominated by their respective governors and further hamstrung by strong party discipline. [...] | 2005-05-27 15:05:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM NI PGOV PHUM PREL |
05LAGOS806 | NIGERIAN POWER SECTOR REFORM LAW IS SIGNED, [...] (U) Summary. After languishing in the National Assembly more than four years, the Electric Power Sector Reform Act (EPSRA) has been passed and signed by President Obasanjo. The Act: 1) Seeks to expedite privatization of the legendarily dysfunctional National Electric Power Authority (NEPA); [...] | 2005-05-31 10:08:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL NI |
05LAGOS838 | NIGERIA: IJAWS -- WHO ARE THEY AND WHY THEY MATTER [...] (SBU) Summary: Ijaws are the largest ethnic group in the volatile, oil-laden Niger Delta. As such, Ijaws view themselves as the legitimate stewards of the region's vast resources. Though united in the desire for "resource control," Ijaw leaders differ over how to attain that goal. These tac [...] | 2005-06-02 15:16:00 | Consulate Lagos | SECRET | PGOV PREL NI PTER ENRG |
05LAGOS89 | CONTINENTAL STEPS CLOSER TO DIRECT LAGOS- [...] (SBU) Introduction and summary. On December 2, 2004, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) approved Continental Airlines' request to provide daily service between Newark and Lagos, possibly as early as this spring. That same day the NCAA informed Continental that its initiation of fli [...] | 2005-01-19 16:33:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR EINV NI CVIS |
05LAGOS924 | NIGERIA: TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR ROUNDUP [...] (U) Summary. Since digital mobile licenses were awarded in 2001, Nigeria has improved from 400,000 telephone lines -- the world's third lowest telephony per capita rate -- to 10 million lines. This expansion has moved the country from a telecom emerging market to a quickly maturing market. T [...] | 2005-06-15 12:35:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ECPS ECON NI |
05LAGOS935 | NIGERIA: 2006 NARCOTICS CERTIFICATION REPORT CARD [...] (U) This responds to Ref A's request for a certification report card identifying the Government of Nigeria's (GON's) efforts towards meeting the 2004 certification benchmarks. A. Major Traffickers 2. (SBU) The 2003 benchmark for cooperation against major traffickers include increased eff [...] | 2005-06-16 14:17:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR NI |
05LAGOS945 | NIGERIA: WEEKEND PRISON-BREAK AND HOSTAGE RELEASE [...] (SBU) Over the weekend, villagers in Bayelsa state released six oil workers (four Nigerians and two Germans) held hostage since June 14. The villagers took the workers hostage to protest Shell's alleged breach of a 2002 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the community. Negotiations to de [...] | 2005-06-21 09:54:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV PHUM NI |
05LAGOS947 | NIGERIA: SOUTH-SOUTH DEMANDS TO KEEP MORE OF OIL [...] (C) Summary: With less than two weeks remaining before its scheduled end, Nigeria's National Political Reform Conference's (NPRC) delegates remain divided over several issues -- chief among them resource control and the rotation of power, i.e. the presidency, between geographic zones. South- [...] | 2005-06-21 12:34:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV NI EPET PREL |
05LAPAZ3518 | VENEZUELA OVERSTEPS IN PRESIDENTIAL RACE [...] Summary: In a diplomatic stumble, Venezuelan Charge d'Affairs Rafael Valero hailed Evo Morales as the anti-imperialist candidate and criticized Podemos rival Tuto Qurioga as the puppet of multinationals and the U.S. in a press conference on November 23. Public reaction to Venezuelan "interf [...] | 2005-11-25 21:32:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON BL |
05LILONGWE1005 | MUTHARIKA-BUSH LETTER ON TAIWAN [...] Post is pouching to Department a letter from President Mutharika to President Bush, requesting U.S. consideration of UN membership for Taiwan. In the letter, Mutharika cites the examples of the former Soviet republics, states of the former Yugoslavia, and Singapore as nations that were all adm [...] | 2005-11-28 06:27:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MI TW |
05LILONGWE1018 | MALAWI LAND REFORM STALLED [...] Malawi's informal system of land administration continues to hinder economic development. A land reform program adopted last year proposes across-the-board reforms, but resistance from local chiefs is stiff. There has been some progress putting a land bureaucracy in place, but the current GO [...] | 2005-12-05 09:36:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON EINV MI |
05LILONGWE1020 | MALAWI REQUESTS END USER AGREEMENT ON HELICOPTERS [...] (SBU) The Government of Malawi has submitted, via diplomatic note to the Embassy, a request for an End User, Retransfer and Security Assurances agreement covering four UH-1H helicopters. The helicopters, tail numbers 317, 331, 360, and 387, are to be donated to Malawi by Taiwan. Post has no [...] | 2005-12-05 14:43:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC PGOV PREL MI TW |
05LILONGWE1031 | PRESIDENT'S PARTY SWEEPS BY-ELECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: In its first test at the polls, President Mutharika's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has won all six parliamentary seats up for grabs in the December 6 by-election. It is a huge win for the DPP and the President, giving Mutharika a vote of confidence from the populace and e [...] | 2005-12-08 14:32:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PGOV MI |
05LILONGWE1043 | MALAWI TELECOMMUNICATIONS PRIVATIZED AT LAST [...] (SBU) After a delay that started last August, Malawi's telecom provider has been sold to a consortium of local companies for $29 million. President Bingu wa Mutharika had stopped the deal out of concern that the privatized company might disconnect the two state-owned television broadcasters. [...] | 2005-12-15 08:07:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ECPS KCOR MI |
05LILONGWE105 | RULING PARTY POISED FOR MAJOR SPLIT [...] SUMMARY: Amid the continuing rift within Malawi's ruling United Democratic Front (UDF),two senior party officials have resigned their positions on the party's National Executive Committee. Former president Muluzi, in his capacity as party chairman, is now openly seeking to expel President M [...] | 2005-02-02 15:11:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM MI |
05LILONGWE1058 | MALAWI TELECOM BOARD HOLDS UP PRIVATIZATION [...] (SBU) At what should have been a largely pro-forma meeting on 15 December, the board of Malawi Telecommunications Ltd. (MTL) voted down a proposal to privatize itself. The GOM, its sole shareholder, signed the deal on 14 December, together with all the other interested parties. Although MTL' [...] | 2005-12-19 07:25:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KCOR ECPS ECON MI |
05LILONGWE1059 | TEST OF PRESIDENT'S COMMITMENT TO ANTI-CORRUPTION [...] (SBU) The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) is investigating two cases against high-profile government ministers, which serve as another test of President Mutharika's commitment to his zero-tolerance anti-corruption campaign. If either is convicted it would be a blow to the President's Democratic [...] | 2005-12-19 14:18:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM MI |
05LILONGWE1062 | RE-ENERGIZED MUTHARIKA LAUNCHES IRRIGATION DRIVE [...] (U) Summary: Fresh from his party's by-election victory, a newly confident President Mutharika has launched a major GOM initiative to expand irrigation and improve food security. In a wide-ranging donor briefing on December 16, the president talked of plans for commercial farming, new dams and [...] | 2005-12-20 09:44:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EAGR PGOV MI |
05LILONGWE107 | MALAWI REIGNING IN PARASTATALS, PUSHING [...] (SBU) President Bingu wa Mutharika has recently reactivated the GOM's privatization program with a public speech strongly endorsing the Privatization Commission's efforts to push ahead with selling parastatal corporations. He is also said to have ordered the halt of operations at the Malawi De [...] | 2005-02-03 12:17:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMCA KCOR PREL ECON EINV EAID MI |
05LILONGWE109 | MALAWI REPLACES RESERVE BANK GOVERNOR [...] (U) The GOM announced on Tuesday that Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) Governor Elias Ngalande is to be replaced at the end of his contract on February 28. He is to be replaced with the recently retired chief executive and current chairman of Stanbic Bank, Victor Mbewe. Stanbic is Malawi's secon [...] | 2005-02-04 06:26:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV PREL MI BUD FIN |
05LILONGWE117 | PRESIDENT RESIGNS FROM OWN PARTY, RESHUFFLES [...] Summary: In a dramatic move, President Bingu wa Mutharika has resigned from his own party, making a definitive break with his predecessor, Bakili Muluzi. In addition, Mutharika has fired two ministers and two deputy ministers and reshuffled his cabinet. The actions are positive moves, both [...] | 2005-02-07 14:08:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM EAID KMCA MI |
05LILONGWE118 | MALAWI CABINET RESHUFFLE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-02-07 14:56:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM MI |
05LILONGWE128 | MALAWI CONSIDERS NEW DEVELOPMENT AGENDA [...] (SBU) As Malawi's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) reaches the end of its three-year life, the GOM has floated the idea of taking a new tack as it develops its next PRSP. The proposed new agenda would be based on the Malawi Economic Growth Strategy, essentially a plan for removing constr [...] | 2005-02-09 10:57:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN EINV PREL KMCA MI |
05LILONGWE131 | MALAWI'S ANTI-CORRUPTION FIGHT RATCHETS UP [...] (U) Malawi's president used Malawi's Anti-Corruption Day on February 5 as a platform to reaffirm his stance against corruption and to use the issue as a political lever against the ruling party. As he raises the profile of this issue still further, the main GOM agency responsible for prosecut [...] | 2005-02-10 14:41:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EINV KCOR PGOV KMCA MI |
05LILONGWE143 | MALAWI CROP ESTIMATE: SHORTAGE COMING [...] (U) Malawi's first crop estimates show a shortage of over 20 percent in maize, due mainly to late distribution of fertilizer and a developing dry spell. Grain stocks are adequate for now, though the hunger season is now reaching its peak. If the crop is seriously impaired, it may begin to imp [...] | 2005-02-15 14:54:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMCA EAGR ECON EAID PREL MI |
05LILONGWE146 | BIODATA - MALAWI'S NEW MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS [...] CDA paid a courtesy call to new Minister of Foreign Affairs Davis Katsonga on February 14. Katsonga, whose appointment to Foreign Affairs comes in the wake of the President's departure from the United Democratic Front (UDF),expressed his support for the president and his anti- corruption in [...] | 2005-02-16 14:10:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM PINR KMCA MI |
05LILONGWE15 | A PLOT TO KILL MALAWI'S PRESIDENT? [...] (SBU) Three United Democratic Front officials were charged with treason on Wednesday for carrying guns to a meeting with President Bingu wa Mutharika. The Attorney General said authorities had information that some politicians had plotted to kill the president on January 2, 2004. By Thursda [...] | 2005-01-06 16:32:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM MI |
05LILONGWE152 | PRESIDENT TO LAUNCH NEW PARTY; UDF DEFECTIONS [...] (U) Summary: President Mutharika intends to form a new political party called the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Mutharika has stated that, unlike his predecessor, he will not be involved in the administration of the party, but will only serve as its symbolic head. Meanwhile, the presid [...] | 2005-02-17 04:45:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM MI |
05LILONGWE16 | UDF PARTY FRAGMENTATION LEADS TO VIOLENCE, [...] (U) SUMMARY. The expanding rift (reftel A) between President Mutharika and former President Muluzi, now chairman of the ruling United Democratic Front (UDF),has recently been punctuated by sporadic violence, allegedly by the UDF-affiliated Young Democrats. Members of the UDF known to be al [...] | 2005-01-10 09:28:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM PHUM MI |
05LILONGWE166 | PRESIDENT PRESSES DEVELOPMENT AGENDA [...] Summary: President Mutharika last week launched a new series of regular meetings with donor heads of mission, and used the occasion to amplify his vision of Malawi's development. The president emphasized economic growth, rural development, performance evaluation, and the need to mobilize all [...] | 2005-02-22 14:31:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID KMCA MI |
05LILONGWE17 | THE UDF SPLIT: SOME POSSIBLE SCENARIOS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-01-10 10:07:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM MI |
05LILONGWE175 | MALAWI UPDATE FOR PRESIDENT'S AGOA REPORT [...] Following is Embassy's update for the President's AGOA Report, as requested in reftel. Embassy has also submitted this update via e-mail to AF/EPS Mary Fleming. 2. Status: AGOA eligible, including for textile and apparel benefits. 3. AGOA Trade and Investment: Malawi's exports under AGO [...] | 2005-02-24 14:43:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EFIN MI AGOA |
05LILONGWE177 | MALAWI LOSES GARMENT MANUFACTURER [...] (U) SUMMARY: Haps Investments, one of Malawi's largest AGOA garment manufacturers, has ceased operations, putting over 2,000 employees out of work. The closure stems from the financial failure of the Taiwanese parent company, which apparently faltered as a result of losses suffered at its ope [...] | 2005-02-25 10:02:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EIND MI AGOA BUD FIN |
05LILONGWE179 | UDF OFFICIALS CRY FOUL, DEFEND PARTY [...] SUMMARY. In a February 17 meeting with the donor community, four United Democratic Front (UDF) officials lashed out bitterly against President Muthartika. The officials outlined the political hazards of Mutharika's new party, professed support for his anti-corruption efforts, and denied tha [...] | 2005-02-25 11:06:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KCOR PHUM KMCA MI |
05LILONGWE187 | 2005 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT - MALAWI [...] SUMMARY. Human trafficking was a new issue for the GOM in 2004. With the advent of increased awareness and a new government with a new approach to governance, the GOM has made significant efforts to understand and address TIP. The GOM has implemented a multi-year strategy to protect vulner [...] | 2005-03-02 07:33:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF MI |
05LILONGWE188 | NATIONAL ACTION GROUP [...] Summary: Over the past year, Malawi has seen a remarkable reversal in the level of importance the GOM has placed on the role of the private sector in contributing to economic growth and poverty reduction. Now, more than ever, the US Mission is uniquely positioned to contribute significantly to [...] | 2005-03-02 08:28:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR ECON EINV EFIN ETRD KMCA MI |
05LILONGWE198 | IMF ON MALAWI: GOOD PERFORMANCE, BUT NO FUNDING YET [...] (SBU) In a mid-mission briefing earlier this week, an International Monetary Fund (IMF) team said Malawi has performed strongly since its November review (ref A) and has good prospects of continued good performance through the end of its fiscal year (end June). The mission was examining fisca [...] | 2005-03-02 14:28:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID PREL MI BUD FIN |
05LILONGWE202 | DVC on MCA Threshold Program Gets Rave Reviews [...] Post wishes to thank all those in Washington who organized and participated in the March 1 digital video conference hosted by USAID Washington on the Millennium Challenge Account Threshold Program. The DVC received high-level participation here, and key MCC officials in Washington were able [...] | 2005-03-04 06:01:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KMCA KPAO PGOV ECON MI |
05LILONGWE227 | DEBT PROPOSAL A PLEASANT SURPRISE FOR MALAWI [...] (SBU) Over the past week, Embassy has discussed the relative merits of the U.S. and U.K. proposals for debt relief to poor countries (reftel) with senior Malawian officials in ministries of finance, foreign affairs, and economic planning. To a person, our interlocutors have been unaware of ev [...] | 2005-03-10 14:06:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL EAID PA MI BUD FIN |
05LILONGWE232 | CHILD MARRIAGE IN MALAWI [...] Post provides the following information regarding child marriage in Malawi. Responses below are keyed to reftel paragraph 6. A. Section 22 Subsection 6 of the Constitution of Malawi states that the legal age for marriage in Malawi is 18. This law applies to both girls and boys. The consti [...] | 2005-03-14 11:59:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB PHUM PGOV SCUL SOCI KWMN |
05LILONGWE259 | GHOST STORY LANDS JOURNALISTS IN JAIL [...] Summary: Two Malawian journalists and an assistant to the Vice President were arrested March 15 over the publication of stories about ghosts in the presidential mansion in Lilongwe. The stories, perceived by the government to be an embarrassment, were carried on the BBC and international news [...] | 2005-03-16 14:58:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PGOV MI PDEM |
05LILONGWE263 | PRESIDENT MUTHARIKA REGISTERS NEW POLITICAL PARTY [...] President Mutharika quietly registered his newly formed political 2. COMMENT. The DPP was, until yesterday, the most talked about non GILMOUR [...] | 2005-03-18 11:20:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM MI |
05LILONGWE267 | REACTION - WESTERN AID, LILONGWE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-22 04:42:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC KMDR KPAO MI |
05LILONGWE274 | Journalists Charged with "Insulting President" [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-22 15:27:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PGOV MI PDEM |
05LILONGWE279 | MEDIA REACTION - IRAQ, LILONGWE [...] "Short memories, rude awakenings" 2. The independent daily, "The Daily Times" of March 9, 2005, carried an opinion piece by one of Malawi's prominent writers, Jika Nkolokosa, on his regular "Take it or Leave it" Nkolokosa argues that people in Malawi don't get the truth from politicians. [...] | 2005-03-24 09:41:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC KMDR KPAO MI |
05LILONGWE282 | MALAWI PAUSES ON FOOD CRISIS ACTION [...] (SBU) Malawi's president has recently softened his public stand on this year's food crisis and the government's likely reaction to it. From earlier indications, the GOM appeared to be set on a course of massive government-funded importation of maize for the commercial market. After several m [...] | 2005-03-29 06:32:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EFIN EINV MI |
05LILONGWE283 | MALAWI KWACHA UNDER SPECULATIVE PRESSURE [...] (U) Malawi's banks are reporting a surge in demand for foreign currency. Experts attribute the surge to speculation that the GOM may devalue the currency as the tobacco auction starts on March 29 or shortly afterward. The governor of the central bank has given no clear signals, though it appe [...] | 2005-03-29 08:43:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV ECON MI BUD FIN |
05LILONGWE284 | IMPEACHMENT RUMORS NO THREAT TO MUTHARIKA - YET [...] SUMMARY. Members of Parliament (MPs) belonging to the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) reportedly plan to launch a bid to impeach President Bingu wa Mutharika, alleging that he violated the Constitution. While both parties might eventually bring a motion to i [...] | 2005-03-29 10:44:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM MI |
05LILONGWE299 | PARLIAMENT FLEXES ITS MUSCLES [...] SUMMARY. The third session of the Malawi National Assembly since the May 2004 elections opened at the New State House in Lilongwe on March 30. In the opening session, Parliament rejected the President's nominee for Inspector General of Police. Party alliances were not clearly spelled out, a [...] | 2005-04-05 12:29:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM MI |
05LILONGWE302 | PREACHING FREE MARKETS IN MALAWI [...] Over the past several months, Mission Lilongwe's economic team has undertaken a concerted effort to promote the virtues of free markets among Malawi's key decision makers. The country has made halfhearted efforts toward market reforms in recent years, and the new president is pressing a pro-gr [...] | 2005-04-06 11:23:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON EFIN EAID EAGR KMCA MI |
05LILONGWE308 | REQUEST FOR U.S. SPEAKER ON OUTREACH TO MUSLIM [...] No summary [...] | 2005-04-11 05:45:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OIIP SCUL MI |
05LILONGWE331 | MALAWI TOBACCO SELLING AGAIN [...] Malawi's tobacco auction floor reopened on March 12 after being closed for a week and a half in a dispute over prices. While the negotiated base price is an improvement over last season's closing price, the size of the crop is estimated to be down nearly 20 percent from last year's. Large left [...] | 2005-04-18 05:46:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAGR ECON MI |
05LILONGWE333 | MUTHARIKA LAUNCHES NEW PARTY [...] Summary: President Mutharika has launched his new party, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). The party platform is essentially the same as that of his government, stressing development, anti-corruption, and law and order. End summary. 2. In a raucous and colorful four-hour rally in Lil [...] | 2005-04-18 10:43:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM MI |
05LILONGWE338 | MUTHARIKA DEFIANT ON JOURNALISTS' ARREST [...] Summary: President Mutharika has defended the recent arrest of two journalists for publishing stories about ghosts in the presidential mansion. Although the two were released on bail after two days, charges of ridiculing the president have not been dropped and the case remains in the judicial [...] | 2005-04-20 13:03:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KPAO MI |
05LILONGWE341 | MALAWI SCORES FIRST BIG CORRUPTION WIN [...] The mayor of Blantyre, Malawi's largest city, was convicted of theft yesterday. The Blantyre Magistrate's Court sentenced John Chikakwiya to three years in prison for stealing MK400,000 ($3,700) of funds solicited from a local merchant for city road repairs. This is the first conviction of a [...] | 2005-04-21 06:11:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KCOR PREL KMCA MI |
05LILONGWE343 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ADJOURNS [...] SUMMARY. The National Assembly adjourned on Wednesday April 13 after meeting for eleven days. The two major issues during the sitting were the National Assembly's rejection of President Mutharika's choice for head of the Police and a motion to prohibit MPs from changing parties. The major m [...] | 2005-04-21 10:19:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM |
05LILONGWE345 | MEDIA REACTION - IRAQ, LILONGWE [...] "Talabani and the Greatness of the Kurdish Soul" 2. The independent daily, "The Daily Times" of April 20, 2005, carried an opinion piece by one of Malawi's prominent writers, Jika Nkolokosa, in his regular column "Take it or Leave it". Nkolokosa writes that world leaders achieve great [...] | 2005-04-21 10:22:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KDEM KPAO MI |
05LILONGWE346 | MULUZI ARREST POSSIBLE WITHIN WEEKS [...] Summary: A Western diplomat who recently met with Malawi attorney general Ralph Kasambara has told us that the Mutharika government could arrest former president Muluzi by the end of May. The AG is said to be working on three principal corruption-related charges. End summary. 2. A Western [...] | 2005-04-21 13:05:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM MI PGOV |
05LILONGWE348 | IMF MALAWI PROGRAM DEPENDS ON FOOD SOLUTION [...] (U) As the IMF's team comes to negotiate a new program for Malawi, it is clear that the central issue is food. The poor crop is expected to lower GDP to 0-2 percent, and food-driven inflation is already rising. The need for humanitarian relief has become clear, and one of the main points to b [...] | 2005-04-22 11:21:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV ECON MI |
05LILONGWE36 | FY04 DHRF SUMMARY REPORT - MALAWI [...] Post submits the following information for Democracy and Human Rights Fund (DHRF) activities in FY03 and FY 04. All activities prior to FY03 have been completed and closed out. 2. FY 03 Projects Project Obligated Unliq. Balance DHRF-03-612-01 $15,000 $4,0 [...] | 2005-01-13 14:58:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PGOV EAID PHUM MI |
05LILONGWE364 | FLOOR-CROSSING AMENDMENT ON PARLIAMENT'S AGENDA [...] SUMMARY. On April 12 the National Assembly passed a motion accepting the introduction of an amendment to Section 65 of the constitution at the next sitting of Parliament. Section 65 defines what constitutes "crossing the floor", or switching political parties, in the National Assembly. The [...] | 2005-04-28 14:29:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM MI |
05LILONGWE398 | THE REHABILITATION OF HASTINGS BANDA [...] SUMMARY. President Bingu wa Mutharika's quest to create a political base after leaving the United Democratic Front has coincided with the growing nostalgia among Malawians for the era of Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda. The failures of former president Muluzi's decade in power have directly result [...] | 2005-05-11 06:58:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM SOCI MI |
05LILONGWE402 | SUCCESS OF AN ARV PROGRAM: IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT [...] Summary: Malawi has been making remarkable progress in the roll-out of its Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM) funded Anti-Retroviral (ARV) Program. It appears that treatment goals will be met and testing goals exceeded. Some government officials are now asking why Malawi cannot r [...] | 2005-05-11 12:45:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | KHIV EAID SOCI TBIO ECON PGOV MI HIV AIDS |
05LILONGWE406 | IMF ON MALAWI: STRONG PERFORMANCE, BUT RISK AHEAD [...] (C) Following a recent visit from the IMF's country team, the Resident Representative confirms that fiscal performance was strong in the last quarter, despite much weaker than expected donor inflows. The IMF and GOM have reached a tentative agreement for a new Poverty Reduction and Growth Fac [...] | 2005-05-13 10:36:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EINV ECON MI |
05LILONGWE409 | MALAWI'S BUDGET CONSULTATIONS [...] (U) In preliminary budget consultations with donors, Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe sketched an FY 2005/06 budget that would include some tax reform, allocations for humanitarian food relief, and a comparatively modest fertilizer subsidy. The budget for development will be increased by 35 pe [...] | 2005-05-13 11:56:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL KMCA BUD FIN |
05LILONGWE416 | REFUGEE SERVICES IN MALAWI: AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE [...] SUMMARY. The 2004 Ambassador's Fund for Refugees grant is currently being implemented in Malawi, despite several obstacles and an uncertain future for refugee services in the country. The closure of one of Malawi's two camps and even a possible cessation of services for Rwandese refugees ar [...] | 2005-05-17 11:34:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM EAID MI |
05LILONGWE421 | MEDIA REACTION - GUANTANAMO, LILONGWE [...] "Watch what you say: words can be deadly weapons" 2. The independent daily, "The Times" of May 18, 2005, carried an opinion piece by one of Malawi's prominent journalists, Jika Nkolokosa, on his regular column "Take it or Leave it". Nkolokosa chides Newsweek for the purported desecration [...] | 2005-05-19 05:01:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | KISL KPAO MI |
05LILONGWE438 | EDUCATION MINISTER ARRESTED FOR CORRUPTION [...] On May 17 President Bingu wa Mutharika fired Education Minister Yusuf Mwawa after Mwawa was charged with using government funds for his own wedding reception. Earlier that day, Mwawa was arrested and charged on four counts: theft by a public servant, forgery, altering an official document, an [...] | 2005-05-23 08:42:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KCOR MI |
05LILONGWE447 | RURAL LOAN PROGRAM ENDANGERS MICROFINANCE SECTOR [...] Summary: Against the advice of donors and banking experts, the GOM has launched a controversial rural loan program with subsidized interest rates, administered by a state-owned bank that has no experience in microfinance. The U.S. and other donors have expressed our concerns, but the GOM is de [...] | 2005-05-26 06:33:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EFIN EAID EAGR KMCA MI BUD FIN |
05LILONGWE448 | GOVERNMENT CLOSES FINANCE BANK OF MALAWI [...] (U) In a move that took the Malawian business community by surprise, the GOM revoked the license of Finance Bank of Malawi (FBM) and closed the bank without warning on May 19. In public statements, the GOM has said the bank was regularly violating the country's banking regulations. GOM sources [...] | 2005-05-26 09:50:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KCOR KMCA EINV PREL MI BUD FIN |
05LILONGWE452 | FAMILY AND FRIENDS: NEPOTISM IN THE MUTHARIKA [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Mutharika has placed relatives in key government positions as he struggles to build a political base for himself and his party. The president's cousin is serving as head of the Public Service, and two adult daughters have been appointed to positions in State House. Mut [...] | 2005-05-27 07:57:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM MI |
05LILONGWE457 | PRESIDENT MUTHARIKA'S FIRST YEAR IN POWER [...] SUMMARY: Bingu wa Mutharika's first year as President of Malawi has seen ups and downs. The questionable nature of the May 2004 presidential election created an unsettled political atmosphere that would have tested any president. His inaugural speech generated hope with its emphasis on the [...] | 2005-05-31 14:47:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KCOR ECON KPAO MI |
05LILONGWE46 | CONTACT NUMBERS FOR KEY OFFICIALS - MALAWI [...] POST SUBMITS THE FOLLOWING CONTACT INFORMATION FOR KEY GOVERNMENT OF MALAWI OFFICIALS. RESPONSE IS KEYED TO REFTEL PARAGRAPH 5. COUNTRY: REPUBLIC OF MALAWI DATE: 01/18/2005 HEAD OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT LAST NAME: Mutharika FIRST/MIDDLE NAMES: Bingu CONVENTIONAL USAGE: Dr. Bingu wa M [...] | 2005-01-18 16:11:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL MI |
05LILONGWE49 | RULING PARTY GAINS IN BY-ELECTIONS [...] Official results released by the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) on Thursday indicate that the eight By- Elections held on Tuesday January 12 resulted in a gain of six Parliamentary seats for the governing United Democratic Front (UDF) and its allies. The UDF picked up two seats, while two [...] | 2005-01-18 16:14:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM MI |
05LILONGWE496 | MALAWI REOPENS FINANCE BANK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Finance Bank of Malawi was allowed to reopen under Reserve Bank curatorship. The bank is experiencing a mild run, as Reserve Bank imposed restrictions curb withdrawals for the moment. With Finance Bank's shady customer base, liquidation seems a more likely outcome than a recov [...] | 2005-06-10 11:01:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC EINV ECON MI BUD FIN |
05LILONGWE506 | MALAWI BUDGET DEBATE BEGINS [...] (SBU) Malawi's finance minister presented the FY 2005/06 budget on June 10 to open parliamentary debate. The budget includes a sharply lower deficit, some paydown of both domestic debt and government arrears, and line items for food security and a fertilizer subsidy. While opposition is thre [...] | 2005-06-16 06:42:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EFIN MI BUD FIN |
05LILONGWE507 | MALAWI ADOPTS U.S. TAX RECOMMENDATIONS IN BUDGET [...] (SBU) In presenting the draft budget to Parliament on 10 June, Malawi's finance minister proposed several tax reforms which follow recommendations made by U.S. Treasury experts. The changes include a higher floor and simpler structure for personal income tax, lower excise rates on most imports, [...] | 2005-06-16 06:43:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV EAID MI BUD FIN |
05LILONGWE508 | MALAWI IMPEACHMENT RUMORS SWIRL [...] (C) Long-standing rumors of an impeachment attempt in Parliament have gained some credibility recently. The President's former party is said to be ready to bring the issue to the floor soon, and the President's office is canvassing diplomatic missions for legal help. At this point, the main [...] | 2005-06-16 12:22:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON KDEM PGOV KCOR MI |
05LILONGWE509 | MALAWI: POST RECOMMENDATIONS ON GLOBAL FUND PHASE 2 [...] (U) Malawi 2. (U) Grant No: MLW-102-G01-H-00 Phase 1 amount: $41,751,500.00 Phase 2 amount requested in proposal: $155 million 3. (SBU) Overall Comments/Recommendations: Post recommends funding Malawi's Phase II, HIV/AIDS proposal at the levels requested. However, approval of Phase II [...] | 2005-06-16 14:48:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KHIV SOCI TBIO MI HIV AIDS |
05LILONGWE514 | MALAWI DISASTER DECLARATION FOR SLOW ONSET FOOD [...] In a letter dated June 1, 2005, the Government of Malawi formally requested food aid assistance from the USG. This request follows the recent release of Malawi Vulnerability Assessment Committee results for the May 2005 to April 2006 marketing year that indicate e significant unmet food aid n [...] | 2005-06-17 08:28:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EAGR MI |
05LILONGWE515 | MALAWI SUGAR QUOTA FOR REST OF FY05 [...] Per reftel, econoff has spoken with Illovo Sugar of Malawi regarding additional sugar shipments before the end of FY05. Malawi intends to ship an additional 580 metric tons before September 30. This will leave a balance of 324 MT against Malawi's total quota of 10,530 for FY05. Malawi request [...] | 2005-06-17 08:30:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD ECON MI |
05LILONGWE539 | REQUEST FOR PEPFAR GUIDANCE [...] Malawi is one of the USG Missions receiving more than $10 million in USG funding for HIV/AIDS programs. We understand that Malawi and other posts in the "over $10 million" category will have new reporting requirements, but to date we have not received any formal notification from OGAC/State o [...] | 2005-06-24 10:38:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KHIV SOCI MI HIV AIDS |
05LILONGWE540 | SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT COLLAPSES DURING IMPEACHMENT [...] (C) Summary: The Speaker of Parliament collapsed on the House floor on June 23 as MPs debated procedures for possible Presidential impeachment. He was then taken to the hospital, stabilized, and then flown to South Africa. Parliament has been indefinitely suspended, and it is unclear who will [...] | 2005-06-24 10:45:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KCOR KDEM PGOV PREL MI |
05LILONGWE541 | UNHCR, GOM MARK WORLD REFUGEE DAY, KEEP CAMPS OPEN [...] UNHCR, in coordination with the Government of Malawi (GOM),held a day-long event to mark World Refugee Day. Guests from the GOM, the Diplomatic Corps, and NGOs were provided a comprehensive overview and tour at the Dzaleka camp just north of Lilongwe. The event focused on this year's theme, [...] | 2005-06-24 10:46:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM PGOV EAID MI |
05LILONGWE542 | REQUEST FOR PEPFAR GUIDANCE [...] Malawi is one of the USG Missions receiving more than $10 million in USG funding for HIV/AIDS programs. We understand that Malawi and other posts in the "over $10 million" category will have new reporting requirements, but to date we have not received any formal notification from OGAC/State o [...] | 2005-06-27 05:33:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KHIV SOCI MI HIV AIDS |
05LILONGWE555 | SPEAKER DIES AS PRESIDENT BLASTS OPPOSITION [...] (U) Summary: The Speaker of Parliament passed away late on June 27, after suffering a heart attack on the house floor on June 23. This comes as the President, along with various community groups, is blaming the opposition parties for the Speaker's condition, as well as Parliament's delay in pa [...] | 2005-06-28 14:42:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KCOR KDEM PGOV PREL MI |
05LILONGWE563 | FOOD AID AND THE WTO [...] CDA and PolOff met with Principal Secretary Thouse Odala from the Foreign Ministry and delivered reftel talking points. PS Odala said he would pass the information along to Malawi's trade representative in Geneva. GILMOUR [...] | 2005-06-29 14:34:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR ETRD WTRO |
05LILONGWE564 | MALAWIAN MILITARY'S ROLE IN CURRENT POLITICAL [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-29 14:41:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR KDEM PGOV PREL MI POL MIL |
05LILONGWE573 | MALAWI TO SEND BATTALION TO SUDAN; COMPANY TO DRC [...] Summary: General Marko Chiziko, Commander of the Malawian Defense Force (MDF),says Malawi will send an infantry battalion to the Sudan under the auspices of the United Nations. Malawi is also sending a communications company for peacekeeping in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. End Summa [...] | 2005-07-01 10:41:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV CIA POL MIL |
05LILONGWE577 | PARLIAMENT RECONVENES TO FOCUS ON BUDGET [...] Parliament reconvened on Thursday, July 7, to focus on passing the budget for 2005/06. This is the first meeting of Parliament since the late Speaker collapsed on the floor of the House on June 23 during debate over Presidential impeachment procedures. MPs seemed focused on addressing the bu [...] | 2005-07-07 14:47:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN KDEM PREL PGOV KCOR MI BUD FIN |
05LILONGWE579 | PRESIDENT MUTHARIKA'S LEADERSHIP STYLE [...] Despite a year of solid success in imposing discipline on government spending and launching a strong anti-corruption campaign, President Mutharika has been frustrated in his reform agenda by an increasingly militant opposition and a weak civil service. A series of negative media stories has p [...] | 2005-07-08 09:20:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KMCA MI |
05LILONGWE596 | MALAWI LOSES MORE GARMENT JOBS [...] CHIRIMBA GARMENTS COMPANY IN BLANTYRE ANNOUNCED ON JULY 11TH IT IS LAYING OFF OF 860 WORKERS DUE TO A CONTINUED DECLINE IN ORDERS UNDER THE AGOA INITIATIVE. THE TOTAL NUMBER OF WORKERS LAID OFF AT CHIRIMBA SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR IS 1,500. MANAGEMENT SAYS THAT NUMBER WILL CONTINUE T [...] | 2005-07-12 14:05:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EFIN MI AGOA |
05LILONGWE598 | USING CULTURE TO COMBAT HIV/AIDS [...] Summary: Using a $6,000 travel grant, Public Affairs invited Dr. Jack Allison to return to Malawi June 3 to participate in a three-week speaker program entitled "Using Music to Combat HIV/AIDS." Dr. Allison served as a PCV from 1966-68 and became famous in Malawi for using music to deliver h [...] | 2005-07-13 12:14:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL KSEP MI IIP HIV AIDS |
05LILONGWE606 | PARLIAMENT PASSES BUDGET; INCREASES FERTILIZER [...] Parliament passed the 2005/06 budget on July 15th, after amending it to include a larger and universal fertilizer subsidy. Government met opposition demands by increasing the fertilizer subsidy by 2.6 billion Kwatcha ($21.4 million US). They did so by cutting a number of ministry budgets, whil [...] | 2005-07-18 07:17:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN PGOV MI BUD FIN |
05LILONGWE614 | GOVERNMENT PASSES OPPOSITION TEST IN PARLIAMENT [...] (SBU) A controversial constitutional ammendment (reftel) supported by the full force of both opposition parties was rejected in Parliament on July 19th. The bill would have forced MPs who change parties to give up their seats in Parliament. The bill had the full support of the opposition, an [...] | 2005-07-20 11:36:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | KCOR KDEM PGOV PREL MI |
05LILONGWE634 | PARLIAMENT ADJOURNS; IMPEACHMENT MOTIONS PUT OFF [...] SUMMARY: (U) Parliament adjourned Thursday July 22 after passing the 2005/06 budget, electing a new Speaker, and addressing other legislative issues. Parliament did not, however, address the impeachment procedure bill that had been tabled before the they temporarily adjourned on June 23 (Reft [...] | 2005-07-26 13:27:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PGOV PINR PREL TBIO MI |
05LILONGWE649 | PRESIDENT RESHUFFLES CABINET; SIDELINES [...] (SBU) Summary: President Mutharika has reorganized his Cabinet, removing the portfolio of Vice-President Chilumpha and demoting the Minister of Information. The President also fired the Minister of Mines and the Environment, promoted the Minister of Home Affairs to Minister of Agriculture, an [...] | 2005-08-01 14:48:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON KCOR KDEM PGOV PREL TBIO MI |
05LILONGWE696 | MALAWI TOBACCO SHUT DOWN OVER PRICES [...] Frustrated over low prices at Malawi's state-controlled auction floors, smallholder tobacco farmers have closed down the auctions for the sixth time this season. In the past two weeks, Malawi's president and parliament have joined the fray, accusing international buyers of price collusion and [...] | 2005-08-16 12:47:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD EINV ECON MI |
05LILONGWE709 | MALAWI TELECOM PRIVATIZATION ON HOLD [...] (C) The GOM has suspended the privatization of Malawi's parastatal telecommunications monopoly at the last moment. The privatization is a condition of two large World Bank programs in Malawi. The President apparently made the decision out of fear that the privatized company might sabotage sta [...] | 2005-08-18 10:31:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ECPS KPRV PGOV PREL MI |
05LILONGWE729 | WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR UPDATE [...] This is an update of reftel C as per reftel E request. --------------------------- Child labor law enforcement --------------------------- 2. According to Paul Gondwe, the head of the child labor control unit in the ministry of labor, seven employers have been prosecuted and convicted over [...] | 2005-08-23 12:02:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI |
05LILONGWE731 | FOOD SECURITY TURNS POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The looming food crisis has become a political hot topic recently, with both the President and his opponents accusing each other of deserting the poor. The latest flare up is over the opposition's failure to support a new humanitarian fund promoted by the President. This is sur [...] | 2005-08-24 11:49:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PGOV KDEM MA |
05LILONGWE738 | (C) MUTHARIKA ON REFORM AND POLITICS [...] (U) SUMMARY: AMBASSADOR PRESENTED CREDENTIALS TO PRESIDENT BINGU WA MUTHARIKA ON AUGUST 25, 2005. DURING THE TRADITIONAL ONE-ON-ONE CONVERSATION AFTER THE FORMAL CEREMONY, PRESIDENT MUTHARIKA EXPOUNDED AT LENGTH ON HIS PROGRAM (SELF-RELIANCE) AND MALAWI POLITICS (STALEMATED IN PARLIAMENT),[...] | 2005-08-26 09:56:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KMCA EAID MI |
05LILONGWE74 | UNHCR SURVEY REVEALS LOWER NUMBER OF REFUGEES IN [...] (U) United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) resident representative Michael Owor told CDA in a January 20 courtesy call that the recent verification of refugee populations in Malawi (reftel A) has been completed. The exercise, which was a pilot program, has apparently been succe [...] | 2005-01-25 07:41:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM MI |
05LILONGWE744 | MEDIA REACTION - INTERNATIONAL AID, [...] "Bush Touches Desperate Souls" 2. The independent daily, "The Daily Times" of August 24, 2005, carried a full page story/opinion piece by Malawian journalist, Isaac Masingati. Masingati hails the newly launched Ambassador's Girls Scholarship Program as a key to easing underprivileged gi [...] | 2005-08-30 05:05:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KOCI KPAO MI |
05LILONGWE748 | MEDIA REACTION - IRAQ, LILONGWE [...] "Come to the rescue now" 2. The independent weekly, "Malawi News" of August 27, carried an opinion piece by prominent journalist/editor, Jika Nkolokosa, in his regular column "All I can say". Nkolokosa blames the world for a belated intervention to stop atrocities Saddam Hussein committ [...] | 2005-08-31 14:20:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO PTER MI |
05LILONGWE750 | SACHS AND FERTILIZER IN MALAWI [...] (C) The UNDP's recently issued Flash Alert on Malawi's food crisis contains a plan for providing free fertilizer and seed for 2 million farmers this growing season. The plan has received practically no support among local agriculture and food experts in Malawi, for reasons that Embassy views a [...] | 2005-08-31 14:43:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON EAID MI |
05LILONGWE761 | PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES NEW US AMBASSADOR AND OTHER [...] (SBU) On Monday, September 5, President Mutharika announced a number of new diplomatic appointments in the Malawian Foreign Service. Topping the list is the appointment of Francis Moto, former Principal at Chancellor College, as Ambassador to the U.S. This is the first that the Embassy has h [...] | 2005-09-06 14:54:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM MI PGOV TBIO |
05LILONGWE773 | PRESIDENT FIRES SENIOR MINISTER, WEAKENS [...] (SBU) Summary: Irrigation and Water Development Minister Gwanda Chakuamba, one of the most powerful politicians in Malawi, has left the government. As a head of a governing coalition partner, he could take some of the 15 MPs from his Republican Party (RP) out of government with him,further we [...] | 2005-09-08 14:56:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV TBIO MI |
05LILONGWE888 | MALAWI SENTENCES CHILD TRAFFICKERS TO SEVEN [...] (U) SUMMARY. ON SEPTEMBER 24, A MALAWIAN COURT SENTENCED THREE MEN TO SEVEN YEARS IMPRISONMENT WITH HARD LABOR FOR KIDNAPPING. ALTHOUGH MALAWI HAS YET TO ADOPT SPECIFIC TRAFFICKING LEGISLATION, THERE IS GROWING AWARENESS OF THE ISSUE AMONG THE COUNTRY'S LEADERS AND CIVIL SOCIETY. THE SENTENC [...] | 2005-10-11 11:50:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB PGOV PREL ZA MI |
05LILONGWE905 | MALAWI ON WTO AND GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS [...] (SBU) Embassy delivered reftel points to trade ministry principal secretary Newby Kumwembe on 3 October, with follow up on 11 October. As is usual in Malawi's multilateral trade discussions, Kumwembwe anticipated that Malawi would follow the consensus of least-developed countries in the WTO n [...] | 2005-10-13 14:51:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR EAGR ETRD |
05LILONGWE906 | AL QAIDA MADE ME DO IT: GONDWE'S TALL STORY ON [...] (U) In the midst of a raucous parliamentary debate on October 12 over the food and fertilizer situation in Malawi, Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe was asked to explain delays in getting fertilizer imported and distributed to depots around the country. He said the GOM had sealed a fertilizer d [...] | 2005-10-13 14:57:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER EAID MI |
05LILONGWE913 | MALAWI SITUATION REPORT AND FY 2006 DISASTER [...] This cable re-declares a disaster for FY 2006 in Malawi due to food insecurity and provides an update on the situation. Per reftel, it is estimated that over four million Malawians (more than one-third of the population) will be unable to meet their food needs over the next six months, until [...] | 2005-10-19 13:36:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EAGR MI |
05LILONGWE914 | PARLIAMENT ADOPTS IMPEACHMENT PROCEDURES [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 18, Malawi,s Parliament adopted procedures which provide the framework for the possible impeachment of President Mutharika. The opposition's next step will be to propose a constitutional amendment to establish a National Governing Council, which would make a major cha [...] | 2005-10-19 15:31:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL PGOV MI |
05LILONGWE924 | MODEST IMPROVEMENT TO MALAWI'S MICROLENDING FUND [...] (SBU) The GOM recently responded to concerns about its new microfinance program by announcing that it was offering something slightly closer to commercially viable interest rates. The program has been the subject of heated political debate, on the assumption that the loans will be political h [...] | 2005-10-25 05:26:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV MI |
05LILONGWE927 | MALAWI CONTINUES STRONG FISCAL PERFORMANCE [...] (U) The Reserve Bank of Malawi recently published its mid-year economic and fiscal report, showing strong performance across the board. Higher than projected domestic revenue and sharply lower expenditures compensated for lower revenues from external grants. Macroeconomic performance at the [...] | 2005-10-25 05:26:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN MI |
05LILONGWE930 | MALAWI ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE [...] (SBU) In a recent conference with Malawi's Anti-Corruption Bureau, director Gustave Kaliwo described the status of his agency's new and ongoing prosecutions. Three new cases are significant: the upcoming deposition of former president Bakili Muluzi in an investigation against him, and the rece [...] | 2005-10-25 09:41:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV KCOR EINV KHLS MI |
05LILONGWE932 | HIGH COURT PUTS INJUNCTION ON PRESIDENTIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The High Court issued an injunction against the Presidential impeachment procedures over the weekend. This came after a notice of indictment of the President was presented in Parliament on Friday, October 21. The Speaker had accepted the notice, and summoned President Muthari [...] | 2005-10-25 14:55:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL MI |
05LILONGWE937 | (C) BINGU AGONISTES: THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES [...] CONFIDENTIAL - ENTIRE TEXT. 2. (C) SUMMARY: PRESIDENT BINGU WA MUTHARIKA SUMMONED AMBASSADOR AND BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER TO STATE HOUSE OCTOBER 26 FOR A TWO-HOUR-PLUS DISCUSSION OF HIS EFFORTS TO COPE WITH THE "WRATH OF MULUZI" (AS HE CALLED THE EFFORT TO IMPEACH HIM) AND THE HUNGER CR [...] | 2005-10-26 15:09:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | MW PGOV PREL |
05LILONGWE942 | DONOR LETTER WELCOMED AS IMPEACHMENT WRANGLE [...] (U) Summary: Heads of Western donor missions sent a letter to Malawian political leaders, urging caution in considering constitutional amendments to rush through new impeachment procedures. Most political players welcomed the letter and all acknowledged the donors' right to a voice in the curr [...] | 2005-10-31 13:50:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | MW PGOV PREL |
05LILONGWE946 | SUBSIDIES WORSEN MALAWI'S FOOD SHORTAGE [...] (SBU) In a year marked by severe shortages of food and fertilizer, it is increasingly clear that the government's interventions in these commodities have considerably deepened the crisis. The current shortage of maize is in part a result of the GOM's insistence on selling subsidized maize thr [...] | 2005-11-02 13:24:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EAGR EAID MI |
05LILONGWE971 | GOVERNMENT HITS BACK AT IMPEACHMENT SUPPORTERS [...] (SBU) A number of opposition politicians have been arrested over the past two weeks in retaliation for their support of the effort to impeachment President Mutharika. While the arrests are apparently for legitimate crimes, the President has openly admitted that the arrests a "tit for tat" res [...] | 2005-11-09 13:50:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | MI PGOV KPOL |
05LILONGWE977 | VICE-PREZ ASSERTS HIMSELF, VERBALLY ATTACKS [...] (SBU) Malawi's Vice-President has stepped out from the shadows over the past few weeks, criticizing Mutharika's policies and taking sides in the ongoing conflict between the president and the opposition. VP Cassim Chilumpha, who has maintained his links to the opposition United Democratic Fro [...] | 2005-11-14 13:44:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PGOV MI |
05LILONGWE981 | VICE PRESIDENT ARRESTED, CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION [...] (C) Vice President Cassim Chilumpha was placed under house arrest on the evening of November 15 on corruption charges . He will appear in court on Monday, November 21 to face charges in Lilongwe. The timing of the arrest is clearly politically motivated, coming after the VP had attacked gover [...] | 2005-11-16 13:31:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV MI |
05LILONGWE994 | IMF MALAWI REVIEW: ANOTHER GOOD QUARTER [...] (SBU) The IMF's country team today delivered its first quarterly review of Malawi's new Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF). Malawi has met substantially all of its targets, although it appears headed to miss its net asset target next month. The IMF is recommending a looser foreign [...] | 2005-11-22 11:52:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV MI |
05LIMA1017 | PRESIDENT TOLEDO REALIGNS CABINET: POLS REPLACE [...] (U) President Toledo replaced four cabinet members on 2/26, bringing in new heads for the Ministries of Justice, Agriculture, Labor and Production. The new faces raise the profile of Toledo's Peru Possible party in the government -- two of the new ministers are strong party members and the th [...] | 2005-03-02 22:46:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PE ATPDEA |
05LIMA1062 | Cocalero Marching Season Begins [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The annual cocalero marching season has begun with two road-blocking demonstrations in Upper Huallaga Valley areas infamous for their militancy. Leaders launched the protests with false stories of local illnesses from spraying of coca fields with chemicals. Police easily freed [...] | 2005-03-03 20:43:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR ASEC EAID PGOV PE |
05LIMA1092 | PERU'S IPR NEGOTIATOR RESIGNS, BUT THEN STAYS ON [...] (SBU) Summary. Infighting between the Ministry of Trade (Mincetur) and Indecopi (Peru's IPR administrative agency) over Peru's intellectual property rights position in the FTA negotiations has become increasingly heated. Following the resignation of Peru's lead IPR negotiator and Indecopi emp [...] | 2005-03-04 17:29:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON PGOV PE FTA |
05LIMA1094 | PERU: NARCOTICS AFFAIRS SECTION, FEBRUARY 2005 [...] (SBU) On February 9, Bryan Tuttle, NAS's Deputy Port Security and Maritime Advisor, was killed in an accident while assisting a drug investigation in the Port of Callao in Lima. As part of the port security program, a Peruvian delegation visited Colombian facilities at the Bogota airport and [...] | 2005-03-04 17:44:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE |
05LIMA1146 | Request for Human Rights Vetting: PNP STUDENTS [...] NAS requests human rights vetting for the following Peruvian Police personnel to participate in TRAINING AT SANTA LUCIA PNP SCHOOL. Relevant Embassy sections will conduct a search of their files. Please process vetting by MARCH 22, 2005. ALIAGA VILLOGAS, YIMBER OSWALDO ALUMNO PNP HUAN [...] | 2005-03-07 22:18:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR MASS MARR PE |
05LIMA1159 | BLUE LANTERN END-USE CHECK: APPLICATION 05-888772 [...] Embassy regrets the delay in responding to Reftels, which was due to a lack of cooperation from the Peruvian Air Force and Navy. The new commands of both institutions, who took over this year, have promised to cooperate and have begun to provide answers to our Blue Lantern inquiries. 2. [...] | 2005-03-08 16:29:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | KOMC ETTC PE |
05LIMA1169 | ANDEAN NORTHERN BORDER CONFERENCE [...] Peruvian National Police (PNP) successfully sponsored with the assistance of the Lima Country Office (LCO) the Andean Northern Border Strategy Conference from Feb. 22-24, 2005. This conference centered on Counter-narcotics strategy on Amazonas Border countries and included National Police D [...] | 2005-03-08 21:11:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR |
05LIMA1171 | PERU: MULTI-TON COCAINE SEIZURES IN THE FIRST TWO [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY: In the first two months of 2005, the Peruvian National Police (PNP),supported by DEA's Lima Country Office (LCO),have tracked and seized record-breaking amounts of cocaine HCL/base - close to 5 metric tons - compared to 7.11 metric tons of cocaine HCL in the whole of 20 [...] | 2005-03-08 22:43:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR EAID PGOV PREL PE |
05LIMA1176 | DEMARCHE ON OAS SOCIAL CHARTER (PERU) [...] (U) Poloff presented the demarche on the OAS Social Charter (Reftel) to Julio Garro, the Foreign Ministry's Assistant Secretary for Multilateral and Security Affairs on 3/8, Deputy Director for Multialteral Affairs Carlos Chocano, and Director of Social Affairs Maria Eugenia Echeverria were [...] | 2005-03-09 15:00:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI PREL PE |
05LIMA1190 | FORMER PRESIDENT ALAN GARCIA TALKS POLITICS, TRADE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Ambassador met with former President Alan Garcia on 2/28 at APRA Party Headquarters. Garcia stressed the importance to APRA of forming inter-party alliances for the 2006 presidential campaign, and said he expected to enter into negotiations on an alliance with former Preside [...] | 2005-03-09 22:57:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EINV ETRD PE |
05LIMA1191 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EXIM BANK OFFICIALS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-10 13:54:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP EFIN OTRA CI PE EXIM |
05LIMA1215 | PERU REQUESTS USG SUPPORT FOR SPANISH AWARD [...] The Foreign Ministry, by diplomatic note dated 2/25/05, requested that the United States, as a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Binational Plan for Development of the Peru-Ecuador Frontier ("Binational Plan"),support the Andean Development Corporation's (CAF) nomination [...] | 2005-03-10 21:00:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PE |
05LIMA1228 | UNHCHR-61 DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-11 17:13:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PE UNHRC |
05LIMA1233 | PERUVIAN PROPOSAL TO REFORM UNHRC [...] (C) ... id: 28627 date: 3/11/2005 19:08 refid: 05LIMA1233 origin: Embassy Lima classification: CONFIDENTIAL destination: header: This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available. ----------------- header ends ---------------- C O N [...] | 2005-03-11 19:08:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PE UNHRC |
05LIMA1235 | BLUE LANTERN END-USE CHECK: APPLICATION 05-924452 [...] Answers to Ref D questions: CONFIRM THAT THE AIR FORCE RECEIVED THE COMMODITIES LISTED IN REF D, PARAGRAPH 4 BELOW FROM NEDISA PERUANA? -- Answer: Yes. The end-user, Air Force Grupo 42 Commander in Iquitos, Loreto Department, confirms receipt, and said the parts were delivered on time. IS [...] | 2005-03-14 15:06:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | KOMC ETTC PE |
05LIMA1246 | OPIUM STRATEGY PROGRESS REPORT [...] (C) The Mission strategy to combat opium production and trafficking in Peru was laid out in REF A in January. Since then, Embassy agencies including the Narcotics Affairs Section (NAS),the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Military Assistance Group (MAAG) have been aggressively [...] | 2005-03-14 21:05:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR EAID PGOV PREL PE |
05LIMA1254 | ACTION REQUEST: COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR REAC ROSEMARIE [...] Clearance is requested for Regional Educational Advising Coordinator for South America Rosemarie C. Arens to travel to Colombia. 2.Ms. Arens will assist with the country workshop for Colombian Advisers that will be held in Armenia from April 12 through 14, 2005 where she will make several p [...] | 2005-03-15 13:43:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC KPAO SCUL PE |
05LIMA1259 | PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS FLORES-ARAOZ TELLS [...] (C) SUMMARY. At a meeting with the Ambassador on 3/11, Congress President Antero Flores-Araoz said he would be a candidate for President in 2006. Flores described the ideal electoral coalition as one including: the APRA Party; a repentant leftist gravitating toward moderation, like Lambayeq [...] | 2005-03-15 17:33:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD PE |
05LIMA1272 | FTA and culture: Peruvian response [...] Summary: In July 2004, a group of renowned Peruvian artists and intellectuals, led by congresswoman Elvira de la Puente, created the Peruvian Coalition for Cultural Diversity to defend, promote, and protect Peruvian cultural industries and patrimony. The Coalition sent President Toledo a let [...] | 2005-03-15 21:38:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP ECON KIPR PE |
05LIMA1291 | PERU: CHILD MARRIAGE [...] Post has consulted local NGOs, women's organizations and relevant GOP ministries regarding request for information on child marriage (reftel). None view child marriage as a problem in Peru. 2. The legal age for marriage in Peru is 18. Peruvians under 18 and over 16 can marry, but only wi [...] | 2005-03-16 20:44:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB PHUM PGOV SCUL SOCI KWMN PE |
05LIMA1322 | Results Report: Target of opportunity speaker on [...] On February 9-16, Dr. Sheila Walker, Director of the African Diaspora and the World Program and Professor of Anthropology at Spelman College, visited Peru as part of PAS's activities to commemorate Black History month. Dr. Walker gave two lectures in Lima, the first organized by the Congressi [...] | 2005-03-17 21:10:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PE |
05LIMA1331 | DISCUSSING U.S. VIEWS ON DEBT RELIEF, MCA WITH [...] Acting EconCouns delivered on March 15 reftel demarche, outlining U.S. views on debt relief for poor countries, to Minister Counselor Cesar de las Casas of the Office of Commercial Promotion at the Ministry of Foreign Relations. De las Casas was accompanied by Vivian Weiner of APCI, the Peruv [...] | 2005-03-18 14:46:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN SOCI PGOV PE |
05LIMA1344 | (U) DRUG TRAFFICKING AND DRUG MARKETS IN PERU [...] (U) The responses in this cable reference the questions posed in Ref A. A. (S) Describe cocaine trafficking organizations in Peru? Do they typically specialize in one drug activity? What is their average size? How are they structured? Are they vertically or horizontally integrated? [...] | 2005-03-21 16:18:00 | Embassy Lima | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR SNAR PE EXIM |
05LIMA1346 | Peru: 2005 ATPDEA Eligibility Report [...] The following is Post's submission of Peru's 2005 ATPDEA Eligibility Report, as requested in reftel. Effect of the ATPA/ATPDEA ------------------------- 2. The growing importance of the U.S. market for Peruvian exporters is reflected by the fact that the U.S. share of Peru's total expor [...] | 2005-03-21 16:39:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV PE OPIC USTR |
05LIMA1361 | FINANCE MINISTER ON THE CURRENT SITUATION AND HIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Finance Minister Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK),during a 3/18 breakfast with the Ambassador, was uncertain whether the Toledo Administration would be able to hold the fiscal line as pressure mounts in an electoral climate to meet social demands and to show concrete progress on co [...] | 2005-03-21 22:19:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETRD ECON PGOV PE |
05LIMA1375 | PARTY REGISTRATION SCANDAL CONTINUES TO HOUND [...] (U) Congress President Antero Flores-Araoz' mediation seems to have defused a potential constitutional crisis over a Congressional committee's demand to question President Toledo; the committee is investigating accusations that Toledo's Peru Posible party forged signatures in its effort to re [...] | 2005-03-22 18:51:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCRM PE |
05LIMA1388 | GOP EXTENDS STATE OF EMERGENCY FOR 60 MORE DAYS [...] Via a Supreme Decree signed by President Toledo on March 18, the Government extended for two more months the State of Emergency first declared in May of 2003. The Presidential Decree carried over the State of Emergency in the same geographic area covered by the most recent extension, dated J [...] | 2005-03-22 21:22:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINS PHUM ASEC PE |
05LIMA1390 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES MINING AND DEVELOPMENT IN [...] (SBU) Summary. During a March 3-5 trip to Cajamarca in Northern Peru, the Ambassador met with local dignitaries to discuss mining and economic development, toured the Newmont- operated Yanacocha mine, and visited with Peace Corps volunteers. Cajamarca has more factors in its favor than virt [...] | 2005-03-23 12:55:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN EINV ECON PGOV PE |
05LIMA1409 | FUTURE OF OUR CN PROGRAMS AND OBJECTIVES IN PERU [...] (SBU) Summary: As reported reftels, our Mission counter- drug strategy in the short term will be focused on holding the line against expansion of coca and opium cultivation and drawing the noose around no-go coca source zones through eradication and alternative development. The advent in mid [...] | 2005-03-23 21:41:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR EAID PGOV PREL PE |
05LIMA1418 | THIRD NATIONAL COCALERO CONGRESS A BUST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Third National Congress of the National Confederation of Agricultural Producers of the Coca Valleys (CONPACCP),held 3/14-18 outside Lima, was largely a bust. Cocaleros from the Monzon and parts of the Apurimac-Ene Valley (VRAE) did not attend and a group led by Elsa Malpart [...] | 2005-03-23 22:53:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SNAR PTER PE |
05LIMA1564 | GOP RESPONDS QUICKLY TO CAMPESINO UNREST IN [...] (U) SUMMARY. The GOP responded quickly to road blockages last week by campesinos around Andahuaylas, Apurimac Department, declaring a 30-day state of emergency on 4/3, substantially increasing police presence in the area and offering to send a high-level negotiating commission to address the [...] | 2005-04-05 19:06:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PHUM ASEC PE |
05LIMA1606 | PERUVIAN ARMY OFFICER TAKES HIS TROUBLES TO CITY [...] (U) A Peruvian Army Officer on 4/6 chose an unusual method to bring attention to a dispute with his superiors. Lieutenant Colonel Carlos Soto Sarmiento arrived at the Mayor's Office in the regional capital of Moquegua with 35 of his troops to denounce alleged mistreatment he had been submitted [...] | 2005-04-06 22:45:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS MARR PE |
05LIMA1660 | MOVEMENT ON THE EXXON-MOBIL DISPUTE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Economic Commission of Congress is expected to deliberate on the Ministry of Finance (MEF) amendment to the tax law in upcoming weeks. The amendment would grant Exxon-Mobil a $15 million credit over the next three and half years. The Mining and Petroleum Society (SNMPE) [...] | 2005-04-11 15:24:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ECON EPET KIDE PE |
05LIMA1728 | ANDEAN FTA: LIMA ROUND SCENESETTER FOR A/USTR VARGO [...] (SBU) We very much look forward to your April 17-22 visit to Lima for the ninth round of the U.S.-Andean Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations. Peruvian public support for the FTA, at 68 percent, continues to be the highest in the region and the government remains committed to concluding ne [...] | 2005-04-13 18:09:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PGOV PE |
05LIMA1795 | COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES: ENCOURAGING CONSTRUCTIVE [...] (SBU) On 4/15, D/Polcoun delivered reftel points with U.S. views on the April 28-30 Community of Democracies Ministerial to Foreign Ministry North American Affairs Director Nestor Popolizio, and to Human Rights and Social Affairs Director Carlos Roman. Popolizio told Emboff that he expected Fo [...] | 2005-04-18 11:57:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PREL PE |
05LIMA1852 | COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES: PERU ON ELECTION [...] (SBU) On 4/19, D/Polcoun delivered reftel points and concept paper on the U.S. proposal for developing election standards and assessment mechanisms to Foreign Ministry Human Rights and Social Affairs Director Carlos Roman. Roman told Emboff on 4/21 that he had forwarded the U.S. proposal to F [...] | 2005-04-21 17:04:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PREL PE |
05LIMA2017 | ANOTHER ATPDEA DISPUTE OVER; LUZ DEL SUR AND [...] (SBU) Summary. Good news on three commercial disputes. Arcadis signed its contract for an environmental remediation project, completely resolving that dispute. In the Luz del Sur case, The Tax Court has a new valuation of the U.S. company's assets (similar to the firm's initial appraisal) a [...] | 2005-05-02 22:17:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ETRD PGOV PE |
05LIMA2018 | FOREIGN MINISTER CLAIMS CHARGES THAT CHILE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Manuel Rodriguez told the Ambassador that the resusitation of charges that Chile supplied Ecuador with arms during the latter's 1995 border conflict with Peru would make it difficult for Peru to join consensus on the election of Chilean Jose Miguel Insulza as O [...] | 2005-05-03 11:45:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PE |
05LIMA2025 | CAN PERU IMPROVE COMPETITION IN TELECOMS INDUSTRY? [...] (SBU) Summary. Two recent developments in the telecommunications industry have GOP officials pointing to improved competition in the market. America Movil, a Mexican company owned by Carlos Slim, acquired the fourth mobile band on March 30 and should begin operations by early 2006. The Mi [...] | 2005-05-03 16:47:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON ETRD EINV PE |
05LIMA2027 | USTR DISCUSSES MOBILE TERMINATION RATES WITH [...] (SBU) Summary. During the ninth round of U.S.-Andean Free Trade negotiations, USTR lead telecommunications negotiator Ken Shagrin met with both the Ministry of Communications (MTC) and Osiptel (Peru's telecommunications regulator) to discuss the lack of competition in the telecommunications [...] | 2005-05-03 17:46:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON ETRD EINV PE |
05LIMA2030 | PERU PARTIES SIGN ETHICAL ELECTION PACT GEARING UP [...] SUMMARY: Twenty-one political parties and organizations signed a comprehensive "Ethical Elections Pact" (EEP) on 4/28. The EEP signatories agreed to conform to existing legal limits on when, where, and what type of political propaganda can be promoted, as well as the prohibition against usin [...] | 2005-05-03 22:46:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PE |
05LIMA2053 | WILL AEROCONTINENTE RESUME FLIGHTS? [...] (SBU) Summary. OFAC King Pin designate and owner of the now defunct AeroContinente airlines, Fernando Zevallos, recently announced plans to resume domestic service of his airline. On May 1, AeroContinente announced job openings for pilots who can fly F28s, B737s, and B727s - all planes in th [...] | 2005-05-04 21:42:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON ETRD EINV CASC PE |
05LIMA2054 | CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE REPORT ON FORGED [...] (U) SUMMARY: The three opposition party members of the congressional committee investigating allegations that President Alejandro Toledo's party forged signatures to register for the 2000 elections concluded that there was massive fraud and that Toledo was responsible. The two pro-GOP memb [...] | 2005-05-04 21:43:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PINR PE |
05LIMA2055 | REVAMPING NAS SUPPORTED ERADICATION IN THE [...] (C) Peruvian National Police (PNP),with support from the Narcotics Affairs Section (NAS) support and encouragement, decided to go after illicit coca in conflictive zones of the Huallaga Valley in CY 2005. We planned coordinated interdiction and eradication ops for March and April in the Yan [...] | 2005-05-04 22:37:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PE |
05LIMA2061 | PERU REJECTS CHILE'S RESPONSE ON ARMS SHIPMENTS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Carlos Ferrero announced at a 5/3 press conference that the GOP considered "completely unsatisfactory" the Chilean Government's response to Peru's diplomatic note protesting Chile's 1995 arms deliveries to Ecuador (Ref A). Consequently, Ferrero continued, Peru wa [...] | 2005-05-05 19:40:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PE CI |
05LIMA2074 | BOWEN DECISION CAUSES OUTRAGE, THREATENS PRESS [...] (U) Judge Alfredo Catacora of the 11th Criminal Court of Lima on 5/4 convicted British journalist Sally Bowen, her co-author Jane Holligan, and their publisher of criminal defamation for quoting in their book "The Imperfect Spy" an imprisoned narcotrafficker's assertion that narco-kingpin Fer [...] | 2005-05-06 15:41:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM PINR SCUL PE |
05LIMA2080 | PERU: OAS WORKING GROUP ON RACISM [...] Poloff delivered the demarche on the proposed OAS Working Group on Racism (Reftel) to the Foreign Ministry's Director of Human Rights, Carlos Roman, and to its Director of OAS and Hemispheric Affairs, Carlos Chocano, on 5/5. Neither offered an official reply. Chocano indicated, however, that [...] | 2005-05-06 20:20:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM AORC PE USOAS |
05LIMA2111 | PERU: NARCOTICS AFFAIRS SECTION, APRIL 2005 [...] (SBU) On April 7, CORAH started eradication in the hard-core zone of Polvora-Pizana north of Santa Lucia in the Huallaga Valley. The eradicators and their police security units encountered stiff resistance by some cocaleros, including rock-throwing that damaged 3 INL helicopters in 2 separat [...] | 2005-05-10 15:38:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE |
05LIMA2115 | TINTAYA MINE: FROM CONFLICT TO COOPERATION [...] (SBU) Conflicts between communities and mining companies are among the most serious problems that confront Peru. One company, however, stands out as an exception: BHP Billiton, an Australian firm with a copper mine in Tintaya, has succeeded in ameliorating once highly conflictive relations w [...] | 2005-05-10 19:12:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EMIN SOCI ETRD ECON EAID ENRG PGOV PHUM PE |
05LIMA2132 | FUROR CONTINUES IN SALLY BOWEN CASE [...] (U) British journalist Sally Bowen may have been convicted for defamation in a Peruvian court, but her cause continues to gain converts and momentum in the court of public opinion. Bowen found herself bolstered from support by a variety of sources over the weekend, including: the British and [...] | 2005-05-11 15:40:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KPAO PE |
05LIMA2133 | FUNDING FOR INITIAL ENTRY ROTARY WING TRAINING FOR [...] NAS LIMA provides fiscal data to cover 6 slots for Peruvian students for the development and implementation of an Initial Entry Rotary Wing training program to be held from June 28 through October 24, 2005 for the total amount of USD 365,910. USD 365,910 19 4611540000 00 0136407070 0136 2770 [...] | 2005-05-11 16:41:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR EAIR ABUD PE |
05LIMA2158 | COCALEROS ATTRACTIVE TO POLITICAL GROUPS BUT [...] (C) Summary: Although the various cocalero groups remain fragmented with no national leadership or strategy, they are courted by disparate radical elements in Peruvian society who view the cocaleros as potential allies. In addition, there is evidence that narcotraffickers are arming and radical [...] | 2005-05-12 18:49:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR ASEC PGOV PTER PE |
05LIMA2180 | TOLEDO MAINTAINS HARD LINE ON 1995 CHILEAN ARMS [...] (U) President Alejandro Toledo is maintaining the GOP's hard line on Chile's 1995 arms deliveries to Ecuador. In a declaration made on 5/10 while attending the South American Arab Summit in Brasilia, Toledo announced that the issue will not/not be resolved and there will be no/no 2x2 meeting [...] | 2005-05-13 20:46:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PE CI |
05LIMA2185 | REGIONAL PRESIDENT YEHUDE SIMON: MOVING AHEAD ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. Lambayeque Regional President Yehude Simon briefed the Ambassador 5/4 on the extensive consultations he has carried out to smooth the way for the SOUTHCOM New Horizons Exercise anticipated for next year. Simon expressed confidence he would win a referendum on creating a northern [...] | 2005-05-13 22:28:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR ETRD ECON PE |
05LIMA2187 | KILLINGS AND KIDNAPPINGS BY INDIGENOUS GROUP [...] (SBU) Summary: The murder of four health workers followed by the kidnapping of a journalist and his assistant by indigenous Aguaruna tribesmen sparked speculation that these incidents were linked to efforts to cover up local opium cultivation and trafficking. An ongoing police investigatio [...] | 2005-05-13 22:31:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR ASEC PGOV PINS PE |
05LIMA2222 | IS IT PERU'S TURN TO HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS? [...] (C) On the afternoon of May 17, Prime Minister Carlos Ferrero asked urgently to meet with the Ambassador. Ferrero related that the government is seriously concerned that Peru,s Congress, at the instance of the APRA legislative block, might vote on May 19 to suspend President Toledo from off [...] | 2005-05-18 15:43:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL PE |
05LIMA2223 | PERU'S PARTICIPATION IN THE FOURTH GLOBAL FORUM ON [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-18 15:53:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SOCI AMGT ASEC CPAS CVIS KCRM KFRD PINR PINS PE BR |
05LIMA2226 | ACTING FOREIGN MINISTER ON HANDLING OF RELATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Acting Foreign Minister Armando Lecaros, in response to a query from the Ambassador during a meeting on 5/16, stated that the Foreign Ministry has worked closely with President Alejandro Toledo in handling the crisis in bilateral relations with Chile over the latter's delivery o [...] | 2005-05-18 16:11:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PE CI |
05LIMA2235 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES FREE TRADE IN PIURA [...] (SBU) Summary. During a May 5-6 trip to Piura in northern Peru, the Ambassador met with local dignitaries to discuss free trade and economic development, inaugurated a new AID-sponsored small business center, toured a local textile plant, and visited Peace Corps volunteers. Although the Wor [...] | 2005-05-18 18:52:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PGOV PE |
05LIMA2241 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH OPPOSITION LEADERS, RECEIVES [...] (C) The Ambassador, on 5/18, met separately with APRA leader Alan Garcia and Unidad Nacional Legislative Bloc leader Xavier Barron (Unidad Nacional leader Lourdes Flores had agreed to meet the Ambassador but fell ill). According to both Garcia and Barron, the opposition parties in Congress [...] | 2005-05-18 23:56:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL PE |
05LIMA2249 | OPPOSITION LEADERS TELL AMBASSADOR THEY WILL NOT [...] (C) The Ambassador met separately with APRA leader Alan Garcia and Unidad Nacional legislative bloc chief Xavier Barron on 5/18 to express concern over reports that opposition parties might stretch the Constitution to sanction President Alejandro Toledo over allegations that he and his Peru [...] | 2005-05-19 18:54:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL PE |
05LIMA2250 | OPPOSITION PARTY PROPOSALS AFFECTING PRESIDENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: Congress, on 5/19, is expected to debate at least three proposals to sanction President Alejandro Toledo for his alleged involvement in fraud in connection with the registration of his Peru Posible party for the 2000 elections. Most of the proposed sanctions are of doubtful co [...] | 2005-05-19 18:56:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL PE |
05LIMA2254 | GRADUATING COUNTERNARCOTICS CADETS INCREASE PNP [...] (U) SUMMARY: On May 12, almost 200 new Peruvian National Police (PNP) cadets graduated from two police academies in the heart of the coca source zones. These academies were conceived, constructed and fully equipped by Embassy NAS. The 200 graduates are the first batch of a planned 2000 more c [...] | 2005-05-19 20:49:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC SNAR EAID PGOV PE |
05LIMA2271 | AN EYE FOR A VISA -- FAKING EYE INJURIES TO GET [...] (U) Summary: Post's Fraud Prevention Unit was contacted by internal auditors for the Peruvian Ministry of Women and Social Development (MIMDES) who were auditing the National Council for Integration for the Handicapped (CONADIS). During the course of their audit, they determined that someone [...] | 2005-05-20 14:46:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD CVIS KCRM ASEC CMGT CJAN PE |
05LIMA2282 | CONGRESS AVOIDS VOTE ON PROPOSED TOLEDO SANCTIONS, [...] SUMMARY: In a stormy plenary session that lasted nearly 16 hours, the Congress finally voted 56-47 to send the documents amassed by the committee investigating President Alejandro Toledo and his Peru Posible party for registration fraud (Villanueva Committee) to the Public Ministry for use i [...] | 2005-05-20 19:50:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINS PREL PE |
05LIMA2302 | PERU AND CHILE SETTLE DIFFERENCES OVER 1995 ARMS [...] SUMMARY: A Joint Declaration, signed by the Foreign Ministers of Peru and Chile on May 22, has settled the bilateral squabble over Chile's delivery of arms to Ecuador during the 1995 Peru-Ecuador border conflict. The Joint Declaration referred to the Chilean Foreign Ministry's Public Declar [...] | 2005-05-23 19:19:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINS PE CI |
05LIMA2320 | GOP EXTENDS STATE OF EMERGENCY FOR 60 MORE DAYS [...] Via a Supreme Decree signed by President Toledo on May 20, the Government extended for two more months the State of Emergency first declared in May of 2003. The Presidential Decree carried over the State of Emergency in the same geographic area covered by the most recent extensions, dated Ma [...] | 2005-05-24 20:33:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINS PTER PHUM ASEC PE |
05LIMA2324 | Revocation Request - Visas Issued to Malafide [...] (U) Post submitted reftel reporting on mala fide applicants who obtained non-immigrant visas by faking a medical handicap. Applicants had appeared at the Embassy with one eye glued shut to simulate a vision problem requiring medical attention in the United States. The applicants paid visa fi [...] | 2005-05-25 13:25:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD CVIS KCRM ASEC CMGT CJAN PE |
05LIMA2335 | STRIKES BY AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS AFFECT TEN [...] (SBU) Agricultural producers from 10 departments, all with distinct agendas, began a series of strikes and road blockages on 5/23. The GOP quickly reached an accommodation with potato growers in the south, and remains in negotiation with rice farmers from the north. Textile manufacturers and [...] | 2005-05-25 21:47:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS EAGR ETRD CASC PE |
05LIMA2341 | PERU: FISCAL RESTRAINT FOR ILO PROPOSED BUDGET, [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-26 16:31:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PE AROC ILO |
05LIMA2342 | OPPOSITION APRA PARTY DECIDES TO DROP PROPOSED [...] (U) APRA Congresswoman (and Chairwoman of the party's Political Committee) Mercedes Cabanillas announced 5/25 that the APRA legislative bloc had decided to drop its planned resolution calling for a "political trial" of President Alejandro Toledo on allegations that he was involved in forging [...] | 2005-05-26 16:59:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PE |
05LIMA2376 | MORE COCALERO INFIGHTING; BOMBS SIGNAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: Monzon cocaleros' highly publicized rejection of Huallaga cocalero leader Nancy Obregon (for allegedly being too conciliatory to the GOP) is a parable for the fact that continued cocalero fragmentation is going hand-in-hand with a new radicalization. There are other disturbing si [...] | 2005-05-27 15:35:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR EAID ETRD PGOV ASEC PE |
05LIMA2377 | THRUSH AIRCRAFT SEARCHES FOR OPIUM POPPIES AMID [...] (U) SUMMARY: Cocalero leader Elsa Malpartida has renewed the groundless rumors of GOP coca fumigation, this time citing the presence of a U.S. Thrush surveillance aircraft. To counter these allegations, the Mission continues a concerted public affairs effort that included a tour of the Thrush [...] | 2005-05-27 15:36:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC SNAR EAID ETRD PGOV PE |
05LIMA2397 | ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS CANDIDATE [...] (C) The Ambassador reiterated our request for Peru to support the candidacy of Paolo Carozza for commissioner on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (Ref B) to Foreign Ministry Under Secretary for Political Affairs Oscar Maurtua on 5/27. Maurtua said that Peru is being heavily lob [...] | 2005-05-27 22:13:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PE BO |
05LIMA2444 | PERU'S TROUBLED FOREST CONCESSION PROCESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Three years after Peru began implementing a modern forest concession system - to wide acclaim - concessions remain unconsolidated and problematic. Lack of concessionaire funds, delays in management plan approval, lack of GOP capacity to oversee concessions, and competing land c [...] | 2005-06-02 15:19:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ETRD EINV ECON PGOV SNAR PE |
05LIMA2451 | NEW PERUVIAN NATIONAL AIRPORT POLICE DIVISION [...] (SBU) Post's Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) continues to actively engage with Peruvian officials to rout out corruption among the ranks of more than seven different police units operating at Lima's Jorge Chavez International Airport (JCIA). These discussions led to the idea of one, overall divis [...] | 2005-06-02 18:00:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD CVIS KCRM ASEC CMGT CJAN PE |
05LIMA2461 | PERU TO SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE FOR INTER-AMERICAN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-02 20:59:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PE BO OAS |
05LIMA2509 | TELECOMS REGULATOR ISSUES TEMPORARY MOBILE [...] (SBU) Summary. On May 26, Peruvian telecommunications regulator OSIPTEL issued a temporary mobile termination rate of $0.2053 for all carriers. According to OSIPTEL President Edwin San Roman, OSIPTEL is still working to establish a cost-based mobile termination rate, which should be publish [...] | 2005-06-06 18:58:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON ETRD EINV PE |
05LIMA2523 | PERU'S TEXTILE EXPORTS INCREASE 13 PERCENT IN Q1 [...] (U) Summary. Peru's textile industry witnessed a 13 percent increase in exports during the first quarter of 2005 year-on-year, despite local fears that the end of the Multi- Fiber Agreement (MFA) would limit the Peruvian textile industry's ability to compete internationally. The GOP, noting [...] | 2005-06-06 22:30:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTEX ETRD ECON PGOV PREL PE |
05LIMA2540 | TINTAYA MINE: FROM CONCILIATION TO CONFLICT [...] (U) Problems remain at BHP Billiton's Tintaya Mine in the wake of the May 23-25 agricultural strike (Ref A). Protesters temporarily occupied part of the mine's facilities on 5/24, demanding that the company revise a September 2003, Oxfam America-brokered agreement with local communities where [...] | 2005-06-07 16:28:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS EAGR ETRD CASC PE |
05LIMA2546 | FY 2006 Narcotics Certification for Peru [...] Peru has cooperated fully in the bilateral drug program with the United States. This report is based on the benchmarks. 2. Coca reduction - The goal is to reduce the amount of coca for illicit uses under cultivation through eradication of illegal coca to 27,800 hectares as measured by th [...] | 2005-06-07 19:16:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR |
05LIMA2550 | MYTH BUSTER: COCA-FREE WAYS TO SUPPORT YOUR FAMILY [...] Summary: A USG-funded program helps break the myth that poor farmers in Peru can only feed and educate their kids by growing coca. The Institute of Tropical Crops (ICT),supported primarily by INL, helps farmers manage an integrated mix of crops, centered on cacao. During a recent visit, [...] | 2005-06-07 21:07:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SNAR EAID PE |
05LIMA2551 | VENEZUELA MEDDLING IN PERUVIAN POLITICS [...] (S) Ambassador requested a one-on-one meeting with Foreign Minister Rodriguez Cuadros June 6 to discuss the Venezuelan government,s involvement with violent, extremist Peruvian organizations. The Ambassador noted that the Embassy had learned late last week that Venezuela,s Ambassador-desig [...] | 2005-06-07 21:15:00 | Embassy Lima | SECRET//NOFORN | PE PGOV PREL VE |
05LIMA2553 | GOP RESPONSE TO AGRICULTURAL STRIKE! PROMISES, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a four-day strike, that ended May 27, agricultural producers in ten departments put up roadblocks demanding import controls and price supports and concessions/protections for agriculture in the FTA negotiations. However, in some areas only a 15-day pause was agreed upon, hin [...] | 2005-06-07 21:54:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA EAGR EC |
05LIMA2554 | FOREIGN MINISTER ON PONDERING INITIATIVE ON [...] (U) This is an action message for WHA and INL. See para 6. 2. (C) In the course of a meeting to discuss Venezuelan meddling with Peruvian extremist groups, Foreign Minister Rodriguez Cuadros told the Ambassador that the inroads Bolivarian movements have made among cocaleros in Bolivia [...] | 2005-06-07 22:06:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PE PGOV |
05LIMA2565 | GOP RESPONSE TO AGRICULTURAL STRIKE! PROMISES, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a four-day strike, that ended May 27, agricultural producers in ten departments put up roadblocks demanding import controls and price supports and concessions/protections for agriculture in the FTA negotiations. However, in some areas only a 15-day pause was agreed upon, hin [...] | 2005-06-08 17:03:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA EAGR EC |
05LIMA2571 | ANDEAN COMMUNITY ISSUES STATEMENT SUPPORTING [...] (U) Acting in his capacity as President of the Andean Community Council, Foreign Minister Manuel Rodriguez issued a statement on 6/7 expressing support for constitutional norms and democratic institutions in Bolivia. Embassy's informal translation of the statement follows: (begin text) A [...] | 2005-06-08 19:59:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PE BL |
05LIMA2589 | FUJIMORI EXTRADITION CASE HAS PROBLEMS SAYS EXPERT [...] (C) The GOP's case to compel Japan to extradite former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is poorly organized and filled with errors, according to noted human rights lawyer and former Truth and Reconciliation Executive Secretary Javier Ciurlizza (strictly protect). Foreign Minister Rodrigue [...] | 2005-06-09 19:53:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PE |
05LIMA2600 | VISIT OF STAFFDEL WALKER TO PERU [...] SUMMARY. (SBU) During a busy two-day visit, Staffdel Walker raised pending U.S. company commercial disputes, trafficking of narcotics and persons, and the benefits of an U.S.-Andean Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in discussions with Members of Congress, high-ranking government officials, and pri [...] | 2005-06-10 14:49:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON SNAR EFIN EINV SOCI PGOV PE |
05LIMA2601 | PERU PONDERS DANINO OR OTHE... [...] (SBU) At least five major Peruvian dailies, plus "The Economist," have speculated over the last week that the GOP will make a major push for the candidacy of a Peruvian to replace IDB President Enrique Iglesias, who announced his resignation May 31. (Note: Iglesias will leave his post Septem [...] | 2005-06-10 14:54:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID EFIN PE |
05LIMA2616 | Peruvian Congressman involved in visa fraud [...] (SBU) According to a recent investigative report in the newspaper "Correo" dated March 17, 2005, Peruvian Congressman Roger SANTA MARIA Del Aguila, DPOB: September 26, 1950, Peru, appears to have been involved in visa/passport fraud by fraudulently filing a birth registration for a child who i [...] | 2005-06-10 22:28:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD CVIS PGOV PE |
05LIMA2625 | PERU AND CHILE AGREE TO RESUME "TWO PLUS TWO" [...] In a press release issued on June 10, Peru's Foreign Ministry announced that Peruvian FM Rodriguez and Chilean FM Walker had decided to convene a meeting on July 6 of the "2 plus 2" mechanism, the consultative group made up of the Foreign and Defense Ministers of the two countries. This step [...] | 2005-06-13 19:15:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINS PE CI |
05LIMA2642 | SEIZURE OF MAJOR COCAINE HCL LABORATORY IN APURIMAC [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 9, 2005, PNP DIRANDRO Special Operations Group, aided by NAS helicopters, seized a major cocaine HCL laboratory on the River Ene in the VRAE. At the site, the Special Ops group found half a metric ton of cocaine hcl along with 1 metric ton of cocaine base, as well as 3 [...] | 2005-06-14 14:33:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ASEC SNAR PE |
05LIMA2674 | UNODC ANDEAN COCA SURVEYS FOR 2004 SHOW EXPANSION [...] (SBU) Summary: UNODC's 2004 coca survey found a 14 pecent increase in coca cultivation over the previous year, totalling 50,300 hectares. Most of this increase occurred in the Upper Huallaga and San Gaban areas. The UNODC's findings match Embassy's observations; our current eradication sche [...] | 2005-06-15 19:04:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PE PREL SNAR UN |
05LIMA2686 | UPDATE ON PERU NOMINATION FOR IDB PRESIDENCY [...] (C) Ambassador Struble spoke June 14 to Hector Quintero, Colombian Ambassador to Peru, regarding the visit of Colombian Ambassador to the U.S. Luis Alberto Moreno to Lima. Quintero explained that Ambassador Moreno had met with President Alejandro Toledo that morning to seek Peruvian support f [...] | 2005-06-16 14:31:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID EFIN PE |
05LIMA2692 | PERUVIAN FINANCE MINISTER PPK WILL RUN FOR IDB [...] (C) Finance Minister Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK) confirmed to the Ambassador in a private conversation June 16 that he will be a candidate to replace Enrique Iglesias as IDB President. PPK said that he told Toledo recently of his desire to leave the Finance Minister position in mid-August 20 [...] | 2005-06-16 16:16:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID EFIN PE |
05LIMA2698 | MDA: CONFERENCE FOR THIRD ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL -- [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-16 19:10:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF PHUM PE ICRC |
05LIMA2702 | ORGANIZED CRIME GROUPS (C-CN5-00417) -- PERU [...] (C/NF) Information requested in Ref A regarding the activity in Peru of organized crimes groups based in specified countries is summarized below. The countries listed are the only ones from those cited in Ref A for which Embassy agencies possess significant background data. ------ Russia [...] | 2005-06-16 21:35:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PINR PE |
05LIMA2720 | VISIT OF PERUVIAN MINISTERS TO DISCUSS FTA [...] (C) Summary. Four Peruvian Ministers -- Trade, Finance, Agriculture, and Production -- will be traveling to Washington D.C. for high-level meetings with Deputy Secretary Zoellick, USTR Portman, Commerce Secretary Gutierrez, NSC Tom Shannon and several members of Congress, June 21-22. The Pe [...] | 2005-06-17 19:33:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PGOV EAGR PE ENIV |
05LIMA2748 | REFORMING THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION (CHR): [...] (SBU) On 6/17, A/Polcouns delivered reftel points on CHR reform to Foreign Ministry Director of Human Rights Carlos Roman, stressing that we were aware of Peru's proposal for the creation of a body of a body of Independent Experts, and requesting a comprehensive review of the U.S. non-paper, in [...] | 2005-06-20 23:46:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KUNR PE UNCHR |
05LIMA2751 | VENEZUELAN EMBASSY'S SEMINAR ON THE SOCIAL CHARTER [...] (SBU) On 6/15, Political Section FSN Assistant attended a "Participative Forum/Workshop" sponsored by the Embassy of Venezuela in Lima entitled "The Social Charter of the Americas (SCA)." Summaries of the interventions by the scheduled speakers are provided below. 2. (U) Ambassador Jorge V [...] | 2005-06-21 17:03:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SOCI VE PE |
05LIMA2791 | AMERICAN MUSIC ABROAD [...] Post applauds the re-establishment of the formerly Jazz Ambassadors program through the American Music Abroad and would like to be considered in one of the 2006 tours. 2. We prefer the month of February and a weeklong tour (5 program days plus 2 travel days). Best days for performances i [...] | 2005-06-22 20:46:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PE |
05LIMA2840 | THE "U.S. DESIGNS ON THE AMAZON" MYTH RESURFACES [...] (S) SUMMARY. The Ambassador and a USDAO member have confronted Peruvian officials concerning a Peruvian Army officer's briefing at a bilateral intelligence conference in Quito that depicted the U.S. as the principal security threat to Peru, and alleged that the U.S. had plans to take over the [...] | 2005-06-27 15:41:00 | Embassy Lima | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINS MARR PE EC |
05LIMA2919 | PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORS ON POLITICAL SCENE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Two top presidential political counselors recently reviewed the political scene with Polcouns. They were optimistic that President Alejandro Toledo and the GOP will work out a modus vivendi with the opposition parties on a new Congress President and a smooth transition to the [...] | 2005-07-05 15:26:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EFIN PREL PINS PE |
05LIMA3006 | FINANCE MINISTER NOMINATED FOR IDB PRESIDENCY [...] On July 8, the Foreign Ministry convoked the diplomatic corps to announce the GOP's nomination of Finance Minister Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK) as its candidate to replace Enrique Iglesias as President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). At the end of the day, Post received a diplom [...] | 2005-07-11 15:01:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL PE |