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05NEWDELHI1542 | INDIA QUERIES US ON POSSIBLE PAKISTAN-CHINA PROLIFERATION [...] (U) This is an action request, see para 3. 2. (C) During a February 23 meeting with AC/RSS Director Bob Gromoll, SA/RA Director John Schlosser, PolCouns, and Pol-MilOff, MEA Additional Secretary (International Security) Meera Shankar asked about the status of a USG response to two GOI non [...] | 2005-03-01 10:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP CH PK IN INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI1546 | MEA CAUTIOUSLY UPBEAT ON INDO-PAK [...] (C) Summary: In a February 28 conversation with PolCouns and Poloff, outgoing MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Arun K Singh was generally upbeat about short-term Indo-Pak rapprochement, and expressed cautious optimism about long-term sustainability of this trend. After shari [...] | 2005-03-01 11:14:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PINR MOPS KNNP IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI1551 | TERRORIST THREATS MARR SUCCESSFUL KASHMIR POLLS [...] (C) Summary: The February J&K municipal elections produced largely positive results. Participation, among the most important criteria for defining a ""successful"" election in the state, greatly exceeded expectations (even in areas with a history of alienation from New Delhi),proving again [...] | 2005-03-01 12:13:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM KDEM IN PK |
05NEWDELHI1553 | GOI REQUESTS USG INTERVENTION ON REPORTED PAKISTAN ARMS OFFER TO NEPAL [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 3. 2. (C) Following up the Foreign Secretary's earlier approach to the Ambassador on the subject of third country arms transfers to Nepal (reftel),Acting MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) Renu Pall called in PolCouns and PolOff on March 1 to inf [...] | 2005-03-01 12:27:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS IN PK NP |
05NEWDELHI1554 | US-INDIA PEACEKEEPING JOINT WORKING GROUP MEETING [...] (C) Summary: At the fourth US-India Joint Working Group on Peacekeeping on February 14, IO PDAS Swigert underscored US concerns about sexual exploitation committed within UN peacekeeping ranks and asked India, a main troop contributor, to play a leading role to ensure that the problem is deal [...] | 2005-03-01 12:49:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM KPKO XA IN |
05NEWDELHI1556 | INDIAN EXPERTS CONTEMPLATE NEPAL WITHOUT A KING [...] (C) Summary: During a February 25 lunch that the Ambassador hosted for visiting Ambassador to Nepal Moriarty, Indian experts on Nepal agreed that: -- The RNA was unlikely to collapse as a result of the suspension of military assistance; -- A Maoist takeover is more likely to result from p [...] | 2005-03-01 13:05:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS KDEM IN NP |
05NEWDELHI1615 | GOI OPPOSES NON-LETHAL MILITARY AID AND MEDICAL [...] (C) The GOI feels strongly that the USG should delay the first phase of the Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET) for the Royal Nepalese Army, because this is not the time to send mixed messages to the King. In a March 2 meeting with Polcouns and Poloff scheduled to discuss Bhutan, MEA Join [...] | 2005-03-02 12:32:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MOPS EAID IN NP |
05NEWDELHI1661 | RAHUL GANDHI: LACKLUSTER LEADER [...] (S) In a March 1 conversation with Poloff, influential columnist and political insider Saeed Naqvi commented on Rahul Gandhi at some length. Naqvi prefaced his remarks by noting that he was a personal friend of Rahul's father, Rajiv Gandhi, and a well-wisher of the Gandhi family. Naqvi was initi [...] | 2005-03-03 12:28:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PGOV PINR PREL IN |
05NEWDELHI1662 | WARM WELCOME FOR SENATOR CLINTON [...] (SBU) Summary: Senator Hillary R. Clinton received an enthusiastic welcome during her unofficial February 17 - 23 visit to New Delhi. Her stay in India included a call on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, meals offered in her honor by Foreign Minister Natwar Singh and Agriculture Minister Shara [...] | 2005-03-03 12:38:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IN |
05NEWDELHI1664 | INDIA REAFFIRMS SUPPORT FOR IRAQ, BUT NO NEW [...] (C) Summary: Outgoing MEA Joint Secretary (Gulf Division) R. Dayakar and his successor Sanjay Singh reiterated GOI willingness to support Iraq's reconstruction, but offered no new initiatives in a meeting with PolCouns and PolMilOff on March 3. Assistance to Iraq will continue to be constrai [...] | 2005-03-03 13:23:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ELAB ENRG IZ IN |
05NEWDELHI1710 | STATE ELECTIONS SET OFF POLITICAL TURMOIL IN INDIA [...] (C) Summary: Attempts by Congress to grab power in Goa and Jharkhand has thrown the Indian domestic political scene into turmoil. Observers in Delhi see these moves as part of a larger strategy by Congress operatives to gain control over a majority of Indian states. Should Congress succeed i [...] | 2005-03-04 12:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI1715 | ADVANCING USG EFFORTS ON BHUTANESE REFUGEES [...] (C) Summary: The Bhutanese Ambassador reaffirmed to us on March 3 that Thimphu remains committed to repatriate Category 1 refugees under the Dewey-Wangchuck framework, but is unlikely to allow any refugees to return until the constitution is finalized, and sees little prospect of progress on [...] | 2005-03-04 13:58:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PREL PHUM IN NP BT |
05NEWDELHI1764 | SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL PRAKASH,S MARCH 19-28 VISIT TO USA [...] (C) Summary: Admiral Clark, we greatly appreciate your willingness to host the upcoming visit to the USA of your counterpart, Admiral Arun Prakash, India's Chief of Naval Staff and Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee. President Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh agree that Indo-US relati [...] | 2005-03-08 05:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHSA MASS MOPS PTER PK XD IZ IN |
05NEWDELHI1773 | CONGRESS BEGINS PARTY CLEANUP IN HARYANA [...] (C) Summary: Following a week of political turmoil in which Congress has taken a beating for playing fast and rough with the democratic process in several states, the party leadership moved to install a cleaner politician as Chief Minister of Haryana. Bhupinder Singh Hooda, a longtime Congre [...] | 2005-03-08 08:55:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI1783 | INDIA SEEKS TECHNICAL COOPERATION AGREEMENT ON [...] (S) Summary: During a highly-anticipated February 22 briefing on the Patriot Advanced Capability-2 (PAC-2) missile defense system, GOI and USG representatives cited the exchange as evidence of the transformed Indo-US relationship. Throughout the session, GOI statements and questions indicat [...] | 2005-03-08 10:58:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | KSTC MARR MASS PGOV PREL IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI1824 | REVITALIZING THE US-INDIA ENERGY RELATIONSHIP [...] (C) Secretary Bodman, now that you have had a few weeks to settle into your new role, I want to share with you some thoughts and ideas on our relationship with India. You already know from our meeting last November my views on the emerging India, a vibrant, multi-faceted democracy that is a [...] | 2005-03-09 12:36:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ECON ETTC PREL KNNP TRGY IN US NSSP |
05NEWDELHI1854 | INDIA'S COMMUNISTS - CONTENT TO SUPPORT THE [...] (C) Summary: The strong performance of the BJP following recent State Assembly elections has convinced India's mainstream Communists to downplay their differences with the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and cooperate for the time being to meet the "rightist" threat. The Communists [...] | 2005-03-10 10:49:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB PREL PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI1866 | INDO-PAK CRICKET: FROM ""LOVE-FEST"" TO MINI-SUMMIT [...] (C) Adding to the veritable ""love-fest"" that Mission contacts and Indian press have reported surrounding the Pakistan cricket team's current tour of India (septel),the MEA has publicly cleared the way for an official invitation to Pakistan President Musharraf to attend a match ""of his cho [...] | 2005-03-10 12:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SCUL IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI1872 | HOME MINISTER UPBEAT ON KASHMIR, WORRIES OF POTENTIAL MAOIST SPILLOVER FROM NEPAL [...] (C) Summary: In a March 9 meeting with the Ambassador, Home Minister Shivraj Patil credited Pakistan with reducing infiltration, called the law and order situation in the state ""more comfortable,"" and expressed confidence that the first Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus would roll on schedule on Apr [...] | 2005-03-10 13:10:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK NP IN |
05NEWDELHI1873 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES TIP WITH HOME MINISTER [...] (C) Meeting on March 9, the Ambassador again urged Home Minister Shivraj Patil to focus more on the trafficking issue in order to avoid the downgrading of India from the Tier 2 Special Watch List to Tier 3 in June, which could set in motion a series of unfortunate and restrictive developments [...] | 2005-03-10 13:14:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM IN |
05NEWDELHI1905 | PRESSING INDIA ON NSSP PHASE II [...] (C) Summary: In the absence of MEA Additional Secretary Meera Shankar, who is on extended travel for non-proliferation and C/T dialogues in Australia and the UK, PolCouns flagged the need for progress on Indian export control legislation to keep the Next Steps in Strategic Partnership (NSSP) [...] | 2005-03-11 10:33:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ENRG ETTC PARM IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI1921 | US ARMS SUPPLIES TO PAKISTAN BACK IN THE PUBLIC [...] (C) Summary: With Secstate Rice due to arrive in India March 15, and with political memories still fresh from the announcement of major non-NATO Ally status for Pakistan last March, the issue of F-16 sales to Pakistan is rising. Indian concern regarding the F-16 issue is reflected in a series of GO [...] | 2005-03-11 13:19:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM MASS PK IN |
05NEWDELHI1938 | INDIA WANTS HIGH FIDELITY MISSILE DEFENSE EXERCISES [...] (S) Summary: In her remarks at the initial working group meeting of the US-India Missile Defense (MD) Workshop in Hyderabad on March 3-4, MEA Additional Secretary for International Security Meera Shankar affirmed New Delhi's desire for a cooperative MD technology relationship with the US over [...] | 2005-03-14 08:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | KOMC MARR PGOV PREL TNGD IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI2047 | BHUTANESE CENSUS UNLIKELY TO FACILITATE FURTHER [...] (C) In response to Reftel and following our contacts with travelers to Thimphu, the Mission assesses little likelihood that the Royal Government of Bhutan (RGOB) will use the upcoming census to justify further expulsions of ethnic Nepali citizens from Bhutan. United Nations Development Progr [...] | 2005-03-17 12:28:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PREL PHUM IN NP BT |
05NEWDELHI2048 | SARAN LAUDS SECRETARY'S "LANDMARK" VISIT [...] (U) In the GOI's first public comments on Secretary Rice's just-concluded visit to New Delhi, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran called it "landmark" and evidence of the US-India strategic partnership. Speaking at a small CSIS-sponsored gathering of senior foreign policy experts on March 17, Saran [...] | 2005-03-17 12:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ENRG MASS KNNP KDEM IN US |
05NEWDELHI2049 | UNCHR 61 DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO BHUTAN [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered the UNCHR 61 demarche (Reftel) to the Bhutanese Embassy on March 17. First Secretary Karma Rinchhen stated that he will forward our points to Thimphu for the official Royal Government of Bhutan response. 2. (C) During the meeting, Rinchhen inquired whether the USG [...] | 2005-03-17 12:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KDEM BT NP UNHCR |
05NEWDELHI2050 | INDIA ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT SECRETARY RICE'S VISIT [...] (C) Summary: In an upbeat assessment of Secretary Rice's first visit to India, MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) S. Jaishankar described the action agenda that the Secretary left behind as "the most significant road map we've had in the last 47 years." Areas for immediate progress include expa [...] | 2005-03-17 13:23:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PGOV PREL ENRG ETRD MASS TSPA ETTC IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI2086 | A CHASTENED CONGRESS FACES HARSH REALITIES [...] (C) Summary: As India's leading newsmagazine splashed across the cover of its March 21 issue, "the halo has slipped," from Sonia Gandhi after Congress' electoral setbacks and questionable decisions in Bihar, Goa, and Jharkhand. The long term impact for Congress and the BJP is unlikely to be [...] | 2005-03-18 12:01:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI2094 | FOREIGN SECRETARY SARAN REQUESTS REVIEW OF MODI VISA DECISION [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 6. 2. (C) Summary: Amid extensive media coverage of the USG decision to not issue an A2 visa to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and to revoke his B1/B2 visa, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran called the DCM to his office late afternoon on March 18 [...] | 2005-03-18 13:24:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV CVIS KIRF IN |
05NEWDELHI2095 | ANGRY BJP REACTION TO MODI VISA DENIAL; OTHERS [...] (C) Summary: The March 18 USG revocation of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's visa has set off strong criticism in the BJP, and prompted the Foreign Secretary to call in the DCM to lodge a protest (Ref A),followed by an MEA statement expressing its "deep concern and regret." The BJP rea [...] | 2005-03-18 13:30:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS PREL PHUM PGOV KIRF ASEC IN |
05NEWDELHI2116 | DEPUTY SECRETARY OF LABOR LAW'S INDIA VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy Secretary of Labor Steven J. Law's February 21-27 visit to India to review progress on the DOL- sponsored INDUS Child Labor effort and other DOL-sponsored projects was well received by GOI officials, project managers, and participants. The highest-ranking Labor Departme [...] | 2005-03-21 08:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM ECON KCRM KWMN EAID IN US |
05NEWDELHI2138 | UNCHR 61: INDIAN OBJECTIVES [...] (C) Summary: Poloff delivered the UNCHR 61 demarche (Reftel) to MEA Deputy Secretary (UN Economic and Social) Gopal Baglay on March 17, and PolCouns double-tracked with Joint Secretary (UN) Hamid Ali Rao. Baglay reiterated that the GOI neither supports country-specific resolutions nor oppose [...] | 2005-03-21 13:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL IN |
05NEWDELHI2140 | MODI CASE REFLECTS DOMESTIC POLITICAL DIVIDE [...] (C) Summary: Aside from limited and localized protests in Gujarat and scattered nationalist editorial comment, BJP efforts to build a domestic political issue out of the Modi visa revocation seem to be dissipating. Few outside the Sangh Parivar have risen to the bait and responded to BJP calls to [...] | 2005-03-21 13:19:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS PREL PHUM PGOV KIRF IN |
05NEWDELHI2141 | STRONG INDIAN VIEWS ON EAST ASIA SUMMIT [...] (C) In the strongest language we have heard so far from the GOI on the East Asia Summit (EAS),MEA Joint Secretary (Southeast Asia) Mitra Vashishta asserted that if India is left out, New Delhi will resort to "other means." Meeting with PolCouns and Poloff on March 17, she insisted on a stat [...] | 2005-03-21 13:19:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BM CB LA VM IN ARF |
05NEWDELHI2185 | MEA DEFENDS RECORD ON BURMA AHEAD OF FM SINGH TRIP [...] (C) Summary: Joint Secretary (SE Asia I) Mitra Vashishta defended India's policies in Burma in a March 17 meeting with PolCouns and Poloff, suggesting that progress on democratic reforms was dependent on engagement with the Burmese body politic, and warning that the USG focus on Aung San Suu K [...] | 2005-03-22 12:22:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ENRG PTER IN BM BD |
05NEWDELHI2186 | UNCHR61 CUBA DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO INDIA AND BHUTAN [...] (C) On 21 March, Poloff delivered Reftel demarche to Indian MEA Deputy Secretary (UN Economic and Social) Gopal Baglay and Bhutanese Embassy First Secretary Karma Rinchhen, reiterating our interest in this year's Cuba resolution. 2. (C) Baglay responded that the GOI has no official respon [...] | 2005-03-22 12:25:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM CU IN BT |
05NEWDELHI2189 | TERRORIST FINANCE: LET PRENOTIFICATION [...] (C) PolCouns and Poloff on March 22 delivered Ref A talking points and supporting non-paper to newly ensconced MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Dilip Sinha. Sinha welcomed the news of adding Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) to the UNSC 1267 Committee list of organizations affiliated [...] | 2005-03-22 13:02:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL IN PK |
05NEWDELHI2220 | PM SINGH ALIGNS INDIA'S FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) Summary: Signalling a break from India's traditional view of the world, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared in a February 25 speech that democracy and open economies are now the core of India's foreign policy values, replacing non-alignment, solidarity with developing countries, and [...] | 2005-03-23 11:02:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM IN US |
05NEWDELHI2226 | LOOKING TO MUSHARRAF VISIT, MEA UPBEAT ON INDO-PAK [...] (C) Summary: Recently ensconced MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Dilip Sinha was largely upbeat on Indo-Pak relations during a March 22 introductory meeting with PolCouns and Poloff, especially with regard to the Indo-Pak cricket series and the anticipated April 16-17 visit o [...] | 2005-03-23 11:45:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI2262 | FURTHER INDIAN THOUGHTS ON UNCHR61 [...] (C) Following up on our recent demarche on Cuba (Refs A and B),PolCouns and Poloff met with MEA Joint Secretary (UN Political) Hamid Ali Rao and incoming Joint Secretary (UN Economic and Social) Manjeev Puri on March 24 to review our UNCHR priorities. Recalling the recent statements by the P [...] | 2005-03-24 11:23:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PINR IN CU NP |
05NEWDELHI2266 | GOI DEMARCHE: INDIA SEEKS MORE ON IC-814 [...] (C) During a March 23 meeting with DCM and PolCouns and pursuant to discussions at the August-September 2004 US-India Counterterrorism Joint Working Group (reftel),MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) S Jaishankar delivered the following SIPDIS non-paper requesting USG assistance with the GOI investi [...] | 2005-03-24 12:21:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV IN GOI |
05NEWDELHI227 | AID TO THE TIGERS: ON THE SAME PAGE [...] (C) Summary: In a January 7 meeting with MEA Director (Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives) Taranjit Singh Sandhu, PolCouns explained the USG position on tsunami disaster relief for Tiger controlled areas in Sri Lanka, including the US intention not to deploy military forces to LTTE areas. Sandhu res [...] | 2005-01-10 13:34:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AEMR EAID MASS PTER SOCI CE BG IN |
05NEWDELHI2270 | A SMALL STEP, A GIANT LEAP: FULL SPEED AHEAD FOR KASHMIR BUS [...] (C) Summary: Preparations for what J&K Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has called the ""mother of all CBMs,"" the first bus to cross the LOC in 58 years on April 7, are on track, with the J&K government and GOI moving purposefully to ensure a successful launch. Initial passengers will be [...] | 2005-03-24 12:36:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER IN PK |
05NEWDELHI2273 | INDIAN IDEAS FOR ENERGY DIALOGUE [...] (SBU) Summary: Following up discussions between Secretary Rice and PM Singh, and building on our public agreement to a high-level Energy Dialogue including civil-nuclear power, MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) S. Jaishankar presented a non-paper with four areas for US-India cooperation in a Marc [...] | 2005-03-24 13:23:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ECON ETTC PREL KNNP TRGY IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI2299 | DEFENSE SALES TO INDIA: THE ECONOMIC DIMENSION [...] (C) Secretary Rice's visit to India, the announcement that U.S. companies will enter the competition to supply multi-role combat aircraft to India, and India's already articulated interest in P-3C aircraft, have raised the economic dimension of our defense relationship with India to a new level. ( [...] | 2005-03-28 13:01:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PARM ECON EFIN AA NSSP |
05NEWDELHI2301 | INDIA WARMING TO SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE, AND F-16S [...] (C) Summary: After initial knee-jerk negative reactions in the media, Indian responses to the March 25 announcement of the administration's new strategy for South Asia have become more positive, with the MEA going to unprecedented lengths to shape coverage and senior Indian officials largely [...] | 2005-03-28 13:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI2348 | PM: PREMATURE TO COMMENT ON F-16S [...] (C) Summary: Since Reftel, comments from senior GOI officials and governing coalition politicians on the Administration's March 25 South Asia Initiative continue to trickle out. The focus of remarks on March 28 was almost exclusively on F-16s to Pakistan, rather than the larger issues the pr [...] | 2005-03-29 13:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI2379 | INDIA UNDECIDED ON CHR NEPAL RESOLUTION [...] (C) We shared reftel demarche with MEA J/S (North) Ranjit Rae on March 28 regarding the need to improve GON human rights record or face an Item 9 resolution at the CHR. After repeated attempts to elicit a response from the J/S proved unsuccessful, A/Polcouns managed to reach him in the early [...] | 2005-03-30 14:40:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM IN NP EU UK SZ |
05NEWDELHI2380 | MAKING OUR SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE A REALITY [...] (S) Summary: We recommend capitalizing on Foreign Minister Natwar Singh's April 13-14 meetings with the Secretary and the President to make significant progress on SIPDIS strategic, energy and economic tracks the Secretary highlighted in her March 15-16 visit to India. Specifically, we su [...] | 2005-03-30 16:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL ENRG MASS KNNP ETRD IN PK NSSP |
05NEWDELHI2410 | SAARC: NO SUMMIT IN SIGHT, SAFTA ON TRACK [...] (SBU) Summary: Prospects for a rescheduled SAARC Summit in 2005 are diminishing amidst scheduling difficulties and Indian concerns over the coup in Nepal and instability in Bangladesh. In a March 30 meeting with USAIDoff and Poloff, MEA Joint Secretary (SAARC) V. Ashok expressed optimism, ho [...] | 2005-03-31 11:47:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECIN PREL IN PK NP BG SAARC |
05NEWDELHI2416 | DEFENSE MINISTER UPBEAT ON INDO-US RELATIONS, BUT [...] (C) Summary. During a 30 March meeting with Indian Defense Minister Mukherjee, Ambassador Mulford reviewed the scope and results of SECSTATE's visit, NSSP, the desire for greater defense cooperation, rationale of F-16s to Pakistan, and next steps in the MRCA competition process. Mukherjee was ver [...] | 2005-03-31 13:33:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MCAP IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI2470 | "WE ARE COMMUNISTS, BUT WE ARE NOT FOOLS:" CPI(M) [...] (SBU) Summary: The Communist Party of India-Marxist, the CPI(M) or CPM, the most organized and important member of India's Left Front (LF),will debate whether to change its leadership at its April 6-12 Party Congress. The CPI (M) patriarch, Harkishen Singh Surjeet, who steered the party to [...] | 2005-04-01 12:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI2473 | COUNTERNARCOTICS DEMARCHE: INDIAN AID WILL BE [...] (C) Poloff delivered counternarcotics demarche (Ref A) to MEA Director (Afghanistan) Tsewang Namgyal on April 1 following confirmation from British High Commission of delivery of the Jack Straw letter. Namgyal confirmed our UK colleague's report that India is not considering a contribution t [...] | 2005-04-01 13:01:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR IN UK AF |
05NEWDELHI2474 | OFFER TO SECURE THE KASHMIR BUS LINE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-04-01 14:36:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PTER IN PK |
05NEWDELHI2475 | DELHI EU MEMBER STATE MISSIONS TAKE ROSY VIEW OF [...] (C) Summary: At a March 31 meeting of EU and "likeminded" countries hosted by the Danes, EU member state representatives evinced surprising optimism about the potential for a constituent assembly and constitutional changes to resolve the impasse in Nepal. We noted a clear preference for an I [...] | 2005-04-01 14:39:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MASS KDEM IN NP BT DA NL SW SZ CA FR UK FI NO CH PK |
05NEWDELHI2507 | GOI RESPONSE: PRIORITIZING INDIAN ASSISTANCE TO [...] (SBU) On April 4, the DCM delivered Ambassador Jones' message (reftel) suggesting that the GOI could help build capacity in the Iraqi judiciary system to MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) S. Jaishankar. Jaishankar agreed to pass along the request, but asked that the DCM convey to Ambassador Jon [...] | 2005-04-04 13:34:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KJUS KCRM PREL IN IZ |
05NEWDELHI2511 | Scenesetter for Transportation Secretary Mineta's [...] (SBU) Mr. Secretary, I want to welcome you to India, a vibrant, diverse, multiethnic, multifaceted democracy that is emerging as an economic powerhouse and has growing global ambitions. Your visit comes close on the heels of an extraordinarily successful visit of Secretary Rice, who unveiled [...] | 2005-04-04 13:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR BEXP ECON IN US |
05NEWDELHI2550 | SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL FALLON,S APRIL 13-16 VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Admiral Fallon, we welcome your upcoming visit to India, coming at a time of excellent relations in a fast maturing defense cooperation relationship. You also come soon after Secretary of State Rice's first visit last month, which has been characterized as the most successful visit o [...] | 2005-04-05 14:21:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL MASS MOPS PTER IN US |
05NEWDELHI2567 | ELECTION ASSISTANCE FOR AFGHANISTAN: INDIA WILL [...] (SBU) MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Dilip Sinha told PolCouns on April 6 that while India had not received any specific request from Kabul for assistance with the September 8 parliamentary elections, New Delhi was willing to look favorably at our request. Sinha emphasized [...] | 2005-04-06 09:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL KDEM AF IN |
05NEWDELHI2586 | MORE THAN CRICKET: MUSHARRAF TO HAVE FULL BILATERAL VISIT [...] (C) MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Dilip Sinha told PolCouns and Poloff on April 5 that the GOI is hoping for ""something more concrete than an exchange of views"" when President Musharraf meets Prime Minister Singh and other leaders during his April 16-18 visit to New Delhi [...] | 2005-04-06 11:11:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PTER IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI2597 | INDIAN CONCERN ABOUT CHINESE PROCUREMENT FOR PAKISTAN'S WMD PROGRAM VIA US FIRM [...] (S) On March 25, MEA Under Secretary, Disarmament and International Security Affairs (DISA),Nutan Kapoor passed to PolMilOff a nonpaper outlining Indian concern about a Chinese firm trying to procure a fixed gamma ray spectrometer from a US firm for shipment to Pakistan. The GOI asks that th [...] | 2005-04-06 13:00:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PARM PREL KNNP ETTC PK CH IN INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI2599 | S35-04: INDIAN INVESTIGATION OF SANDHYA ORGANIC [...] (S) On March 25, MEA Under Secretary, Disarmament and International Security Affairs (DISA),Nutan Kapoor outlined for PolMilOff the status of the GOI investigation of Sandhya Organic Chemical's shipment of phosphorous oxychloride, a CW precursor, to Iran. 2. (S) According to Kapoor, Sand [...] | 2005-04-06 13:01:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PARM PREL IR IN CBW GOI |
05NEWDELHI2601 | INDIAN INVESTIGATION OF SABERO ORGANICS, LTD. [...] (S) On March 25, MEA Under Secretary, Disarmament and International Security Affairs (DISA),Nutan Kapoor gave PolMilOff a nonpaper outlining the status of the GOI investigation of Sabero Organics' export of a CWC Schedule 3 chemical to Iran. Text of nonpaper follows in para 3. 2. (S) Be [...] | 2005-04-06 13:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | ETTC PARM PREL IR IN CBW GOI |
05NEWDELHI2602 | CONGRESS CULTURE DEFINES SONIA GANDHI'S ROLE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-04-06 13:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON IN |
05NEWDELHI2604 | TERRORIST ATTACK ON SYMBOL OF KASHMIR BUS [...] This is an action request. See para 3. 2. The April 6 fidayeen (suicide) attack in Srinagar (Ref A) was targeted at the most significant Indo-Pak CBM in years, the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad Bus, which is scheduled to travel April 7 for the first time in 58 years between Indian and Pakistani [...] | 2005-04-06 13:34:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL PK IN |
05NEWDELHI2606 | ICRC FRUSTRATED WITH INDIAN GOVERNMENT [...] (S) Summary: In a April 1 confidential briefing on GOI detention centers in Kashmir, ICRC XXXXXXXXXXXX described to D/Polcouns torture methods and relatively stable trend lines of prisoner abuses by Indian security forces, based on data derived from 1491 interviews with detainees during 2002-2004. [...] | 2005-04-06 13:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PHUM PREL PTER IN PK |
05NEWDELHI2607 | INDIA SPACE COOPERATION AGENDA FOR FM SING'S VISIT [...] (U) This is an action request cable see paragraph 8. 2. (SBU) In preparation for the visit of the Foreign Minister, Science Counselor talked with ISRO Scientific Secretary, V Sundararmiah, who will be accompanying the SIPDIS Foreign Minister to Washington to find out what maybe on ISRO [...] | 2005-04-06 14:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC TSPA KNNP KSCA IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI2608 | GWOT ASSESSMENT: MISSION INDIA INPUT [...] (C) Summary: Mission welcomes the opportunity to share its views on ways to expand our GWOT efforts and cooperation with New Delhi as solicited in Refs A and B. We agree with the overall thrust of the Bureau's approach (Ref C),but suggest additional focus on: -- Continued pressing of Isla [...] | 2005-04-06 15:19:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV IN |
05NEWDELHI2631 | HISTORIC SRINAGAR-MUZAFFARABAD ""PEACE CARAVAN"" ROLLS! [...] (C) Summary: In an act of personal and political courage, the Prime Minister, joined by key cabinet and Congress Party colleagues, traveled to Srinagar on April 7 to inaugurate the bus service that has captured the imaginations of Kashmiris on both sides of the LOC. Emphasizing that ""nothing [...] | 2005-04-07 13:44:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK IN |
05NEWDELHI2633 | TERRORIST FINANCE: HIYARI AND BUISIR [...] (C) On April 7, Poloff delivered talking points and supporting non-papers from Reftels to MEA Director (Americas) Renu Pall, who thanked us for sharing the information. Understanding that the prenotification of the Hiyari and Buisir designations should be held tightly until after the public a [...] | 2005-04-07 13:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC EFIN PTER PREL CVIS KTFN IN JO EI SA |
05NEWDELHI2635 | MEA ON NEPAL: HUMAN RIGHTS IMPORTANT, BUT [...] (C) Summary: India's highest priority with respect to Nepal remains the full restoration of democracy, not one or two human rights improvements, MEA Joint Secretary (Nepal, Bhutan) Ranjit Rae told PolCouns and Poloff on April 7. Although "very uncomfortable" with a UNCHR Item Nine resolution, [...] | 2005-04-07 14:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM NP IN |
05NEWDELHI2677 | WEN VISIT PREVIEW: GOOD VIBES, NO BORDER [...] (C) Summary: High expectations for significant progress on the disputed border and other bilateral irritants during Premier Wen Jiabao's April 9-12 visit to India have given way to realism, although most China experts here expect a very successful trip. The Chinese Ambassador has cautioned th [...] | 2005-04-08 13:22:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD IN CN |
05NEWDELHI2680 | AMBASSADOR DELIVERS TOUGH MESSAGE ON CHR CUBA [...] (C) In an April 7 meeting with the MEA Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran, the Ambassador framed the issue of India's vote on the Cuba human rights resolution before the UN Human Rights Commission (ref C) as fuel for those in Washington who resist USG support for an Indian seat on the UNSC. Saran [...] | 2005-04-08 13:57:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL CU IN |
05NEWDELHI2682 | NATWAR LOOKS AHEAD TO UN AND NUCLEAR DISCUSSIONS IN WASHINGTON [...] (C) Summary: In an April 8 meeting with the Ambassador and PolCouns, Foreign Minister Natwar Singh offered an upbeat preview of his April 13-14 meetings in Washington, placing particular importance on the issues of India's role in the UN and India's quest for access to US origin nuclear power [...] | 2005-04-08 15:23:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP ETTC IN PK UNSC NSSP |
05NEWDELHI2717 | RGOB NON-COMMITTAL ON SUPPORT FOR UNCHR RESOLUTION [...] (C) Summary: In an April 7 meeting with Bhutanese Foreign Secretary Neden Zangmo, DCM urged the Royal Government of Bhutan (RGOB) to support a UNCHR resolution against Cuba noting that Bhutan's vote could be decisive. The FS was non-committal citing the support Cuba had provided Bhutan in th [...] | 2005-04-11 13:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PREL PHUM KDEM IN NP BT CU UNHCR |
05NEWDELHI2719 | ENERGY MINISTER CANCELS TRIP TO U.S. [...] No summary [...] | 2005-04-11 13:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET IN |
05NEWDELHI2758 | WEN VISIT: UNSC, SIKKIM, ECONOMY STEAL THE SHOW [...] (C) Summary: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's April 9-12 visit to India produced a dozen documents, and plenty of positive commentary, but the highlights were confusion over China's position on India in the UNSC and agreement on a roadmap to resolution of the border dispute. New Delhi-based Chin [...] | 2005-04-12 14:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD CN IN |
05NEWDELHI276 | TSUNAMI ENCOURAGES A PERIOD OF POLITICAL AMITY [...] (C) Summary: The unprecedented scale of the Tsunami disaster has compelled India's usually contentious political coalitions to bury their differences and cooperate to relieve the suffering. Likewise, elements of the Left which strongly oppose the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government's [...] | 2005-01-12 05:14:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELAB PGOV PREL IN |
05NEWDELHI2788 | INDIAN LEFT REMAINS ADAMANTLY OPPOSED TO US SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE [...] (C) Summary: Most Indian strategic commentators have endorsed the Administration's March 25 South Asia Initiative, and there is an emerging consensus within the GOI that India should capitalize on this opportunity to ensure close ties to the US. India's Communist parties remain adamantly oppo [...] | 2005-04-13 12:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MASS IN PK NSSP |
05NEWDELHI2792 | DAS GASTRIGHT ENCOURAGES COORDINATION ON BANGLADESH [...] (C) Summary: In an April 18 meeting with MEA Joint Secretary Neelam Deo (Bangladesh),SA DAS John Gastright SIPDIS emphasized that all concerned countries, not just India and the US, should encourage the BDG to improve its governance. Deo agreed that Bangladesh was still at a point where it could r [...] | 2005-04-13 13:52:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KISL IN BG US |
05NEWDELHI282 | PM UPBEAT ON US-INDIA RELATIONS REAFFIRMS EXPORT CONTROL COMMITMENT WITH CODEL FRIST [...] (C) Summary: Senators Frist, McConnell, DeWine and Coleman discussed a broad range of issues with PM Manmohan Singh during their January 10 meeting, including US-India ties, Tsunami disaster relief, democratization in Burma, HIV/AIDS, trade and the WTO, Iraq, NSSP, Indo-Pak relations, and UNS [...] | 2005-01-12 08:21:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ETTC EAID KDEM IN PK IZ BM CE US |
05NEWDELHI2844 | BHUTAN WILL ABSTAIN ON CHR RESOLUTION ON CUBA WITH [...] (C) Bhutan has agreed in principle to abstain on the CHR resolution on Cuba, but has specifically asked for stronger US support and understanding on the issue of the refugee camps in Nepal, Bhutanese Ambassador Tshering stated during an April 14 phone call with the Ambassador. He commented t [...] | 2005-04-14 14:39:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PGOV PREF PREL PHUM KDEM IN NP BT CU |
05NEWDELHI2866 | INDIA UPBEAT ON MUSHARRAF MINI-SUMMIT, BUT KEEPING [...] (C) Summary: India is expecting a successful April 16-18 visit by the Pakistan President, largely because Musharraf has laid out positive and realistic goals that mesh with New Delhi's. The Reuters interview he gave on the eve of his departure was music to India's ears, and was taken here as [...] | 2005-04-15 13:06:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI2884 | INDO-PAK MINI-SUMMIT BURIES ""GHOST OF AGRA"" [...] (C) Summary: India and Pakistan exorcised the ghost of the (failed) 2001 Agra Summit during President Musharraf's April 16-18 visit to New Delhi, with a solid list of CBMs, muted discussion on Kashmir, and very positive personal interactions (with more high-level visits possible this year). [...] | 2005-04-18 12:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI2924 | NSA NARAYANAN URGES "BIG TICKET ITEM" FOR PM VISIT [...] (C) In an April 18 meeting, SA A/S Rocca, joined by Charge, reaffirmed to Indian NSA MK Narayanan USG interest in a visit by PM Manmohan Singh to Washington in July, and urged the PM to commit to a date as soon as possible. Evincing uncertainty as to the exact dates under consideration, Nara [...] | 2005-04-19 11:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON KNNP ENRG IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI2925 | NARAYANAN WORRIED ABOUT NEPAL AND BANGLADESH, PLEASED WITH MUSHARRAF VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Meeting with SA A/S Rocca and Charge on April 18, Indian NSA MK Narayanan expressed concern about trends in Nepal and Bangladesh. On Nepal, the King had no policy to restore democracy or defeat the Maoists, which worried New Delhi because the insurgents were becoming more aggres [...] | 2005-04-19 11:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER IN BG NP PK |
05NEWDELHI2929 | INDIA TO OPPOSE GUANTANAMO RESOLUTION [...] (U) In a meeting with SA A/S Rocca and MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) S. Jaishankar on April 18, Charge SIPDIS delivered our demarche regarding Cuba's resolution before the CHR about the treatment of detainees in Guantanamo (Reftel). Charge requested that India oppose this resolution. Jais [...] | 2005-04-19 11:47:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM |
05NEWDELHI2932 | A TROUBLED BJP TURNS TO THE RIGHT [...] (C) Summary: Facing multiple crises, including electoral lethargy, growing ideological divides and an uncertain leadership succession, the BJP is drifting further to the right in an attempt to rouse its Hindutva base. The imminent departure of former PM Vajpayee and Party President Advani ha [...] | 2005-04-19 11:57:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PHUM PINR PREL IN PK |
05NEWDELHI2933 | INDIA REQUESTS CENTCOM LNO, NEW INFO ON IRAQ, AND [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with SA A/S Christina Rocca and Charge on April 18, MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) S. Jaishankar was upbeat about Foreign Minister Natwar Singh's recent meetings in Washington and about new opportunities for Indo-US cooperation since Dr. Rice's March 16 visit. However, he [...] | 2005-04-19 12:23:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MASS TRGY ETTC PK IZ IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI2949 | JASWANT SINGH SUPPORTS THE SECRETARY'S MARCH 25 SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE [...] (C) Summary: Meeting with A/S Rocca and the Charge in New Delhi on April 18, former Foreign Minister and BJP leader Jaswant Singh expressed wholehearted support for the Secretary's May 25 South Asia Initiative, especially its SIPDIS military aspects such as co-production. Singh implied tha [...] | 2005-04-20 09:44:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PGOV IN PK NSSP |
05NEWDELHI2951 | REGIONAL DIALOGUE WITH A/S ROCCA: NEPAL [...] (C) Summary: During their April 18 Regional Dialogue discussion, A/S Rocca and MEA officials reviewed recent developments in Nepal, with the GOI offering a pessimistic assessment of the King's intentions. (See septel for Bangladesh and Sri Lanka portions). Following the Indian Ambassador's [...] | 2005-04-20 10:22:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PTER NP IN |
05NEWDELHI2964 | REGIONAL DIALOGUE WITH A/S ROCCA: BANGLADESH, SRI [...] (C) Summary: During the April 18 Regional Dialogue meeting with SA Assistant Secretary Christina Rocca, Joint Secretary Neelam Deo (Bangladesh, Sri Lanka) expressed SIPDIS satisfaction that the USG's assessment of trends in Bangladesh had moved closer to New Delhi's. Her comments focused [...] | 2005-04-20 12:07:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM BG CE AF IN |
05NEWDELHI2968 | INDIA WARNS OF "REPERCUSSIONS" FOLLOWING [...] (C) Summary: On April 16, India's Border Security Force (BSF) engaged the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) on the border between the Northeastern state of Tripura and Southeastern Bangladesh in what the MEA has called a "fierce gun battle," which ultimately resulted in the death of an Indian officer. [...] | 2005-04-20 13:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS BG IN |
05NEWDELHI2992 | INDIA WAITING FOR NEW IRAQI GOVERNMENT BEFORE [...] (C) Summary: Incoming MEA Joint Secretary (Gulf Division) Sanjay Singh reiterated GOI willingness to support Iraq's democratic transition, but is waiting for the new government in Baghdad to take its seat before committing to action. In a conversation with PolCouns and PolMilOff on April 19 [...] | 2005-04-21 12:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ENRG IZ IN |
05NEWDELHI2994 | MEA SAYS ""CRICKET SUMMIT"" RE-FRAMED INDO-PAK AGENDA [...] (C) Summary: In a March 20 meeting with PolCouns and Poloff, MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Dilip Sinha dismissed the suggestion that India had obtained more than Pakistan from the ""Cricket Summit,"" highlighting Manmohan Singh's vision of a new agenda for Indo-Pak relatio [...] | 2005-04-21 13:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ETRD IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI300 | INDIA STRENGTHENS OIL AND GAS TIES WITH IRAN [...] (C) Summary: On January 7, India and Iran strengthened significantly their oil and gas relationship when they reached an agreement in which India will purchase a total of 7.5 million tons per year (MMTA) of LNG for 25 years beginning in 2009. Iran will reportedly allow Indian state-controll [...] | 2005-01-12 11:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ENRG EPET ECON PREL IR IN |
05NEWDELHI301 | AFTER DIXIT, INDIA PONDERS ROLE OF ITS NSA AND WHO [...] (C) Summary: Two questions now swirl around India's National Security Advisor position: will it lose its major role in the Indian foreign policy establishment, and who will land the job permanently? JN Dixit's death has prompted media speculation that PM Manmohan Singh is reassessing what he want [...] | 2005-01-12 12:05:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PINS PREL PGOV IN PK |
05NEWDELHI3017 | COMMANDER USPACOM MEETS DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (C) On 13 April 2005, Commander USPACOM met with Deputy National Security Advisor Ambassador Vijay Nambiar at the NSA's conferencing facility at the Cabinet Secretariat Building. Nambiar was joined by 10 members of the National Security Counsel. Also attending the meeting were PACOM staff, U [...] | 2005-04-22 07:49:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL PTER IN |
05NEWDELHI303 | INDIA VERY CONFIDENT IT IS RIGHT ON BAGLIHAR DAM [...] (C) Summary: In a January 12 meeting with PolCouns, MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Arun K Singh was brimming with confidence that India was in the right on the Baglihar Dam issue. If Pakistan went forward with arbitration, as it has suggested, India is ready, and will be v [...] | 2005-01-12 13:52:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC ECON PK IN INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI3080 | INDIA BREAKS RANKS TO OPPOSE GUANTANAMO RESOLUTION [...] (U) Following up earlier approaches by the Charge, MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) S. Jaishankar called PolCouns on April 25 to make sure we had noticed the GOI's April 21 ""no"" vote on the Cuba-sponsored UNHRC resolution condemning US practices at Guantanamo. Jaishankar noted that most South Asia [...] | 2005-04-25 10:22:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM CU IN |
05NEWDELHI3086 | PMO CONFIRMS MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO NEPAL STILL [...] (C) Summary: Contrary to reports sourced to the King of Nepal that India had reversed its suspension of military supplies, the PMO has confirmed to us press reports that India will only resume military assistance to Nepal in exchange for concrete progress towards restoration of democracy. Th [...] | 2005-04-25 12:22:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS EAID IN NP |
05NEWDELHI3087 | WEN VISIT WRAP-UP: "SIGNIFICANT BOOST," NO [...] (C) Summary: Two weeks after Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's "historic" April 9-12 visit to New Delhi (ref A),the initial breathless commentary has given way to a more sober and realistic assessment that no paradigm shift occurred, that Beijing did not exactly endorse India's UNSC bid, and that [...] | 2005-04-25 12:36:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAIR CN IN UNSC |
05NEWDELHI3132 | INDIA LOOKING TO "SUBSTANTIATE" RELATIONS DURING [...] (C) Summary: For Japanese PM Junichiro Koizumi's April 28-30 visit to New Delhi, the GOI will be focused on giving the relationship greater strategic and multilateral breadth, and solidifying Japan's support for India's UNSC campaign, according to our senior MEA interlocutors. Following Chine [...] | 2005-04-26 13:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ENRG KNNP IN UNSC |
05NEWDELHI3147 | BOEING WINS $8.5 BILLION AIR INDIA ORDER, LARGEST [...] Summary: (C) On April 26, Boeing won a $8.5 billion order from Air India to supply 50 wide body B777-B787 class aircraft powered by GE engines. Embassy believes it is unlikely that the PIB or the cabinet would reverse the selection, but advises we use high level visits to urge the GOI to qui [...] | 2005-04-27 12:27:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR BEXP IN |
05NEWDELHI3164 | INDIA WAITING FOR ACTION FROM NEPAL'S KING [...] (C) Summary: India wants to see progress toward democracy on the ground, not just hear the right words, before resuming arms shipments to Nepal, MEA Joint Secretary (North) Ranjit Rae told PolCouns and Poloff on April 27. Dismissing media reports of a "U-turn in Indian policy" as "speculation [...] | 2005-04-27 12:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS KDEM PHUM IN NP CH IS SF |
05NEWDELHI3213 | GOI STANDING FIRM AS BAGLIHAR PROCESS UNFOLDS [...] (C) Summary: The Foreign Ministry has denied to us reports that the GOI will halt work on the controversial Baglihar hydroelectric project to bring the GOP back to the negotiating table, maintaining that New Delhi has not changed its position regarding the legality of the project (reftel). Th [...] | 2005-04-28 11:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG ECON IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI3218 | PARADIGM SHIFT ON KASHMIR UNDERWAY [...] (C) Summary: President Musharraf's landmark visit to Delhi has strengthened the paradigm shift underway in India about the prospects for progress on Kashmir. Under the leadership of PM Manmohan Singh and the Pakistani President, the two countries have broken their impasse over Kashmir as the [...] | 2005-04-28 12:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PK IN |
05NEWDELHI3220 | INDIA DENIES UNLAWFUL IMPORT OF CONTROLLED [...] (C) Following several articles in the international and Indian press, PolCouns queried MEA Director, Disarmament and International Security (DISA),Venu Rajamony on April 26, about the GOI investigation of the case of Asher Karni, an Israeli businessman recently indicted in the US for unlawfu [...] | 2005-04-28 13:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MNUC KNNP TSPA ETTC PK IN GOI |
05NEWDELHI3242 | EXBS: EXPORT CONTROL SYSTEM STANDARDS FOR INDIA [...] (SBU) Export Control System Standards for India, in response to Ref A. The GOI is in the process of introducing new legislation aimed at licensing and controlling the export of WMD and their delivery systems. MEA contacts have stated that they expect to introduce and seek approval of the legi [...] | 2005-04-29 10:20:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KSTC PARM PREL IN GOI |
05NEWDELHI3250 | FOREIGN MINISTER SHOOTS DOWN ARMS FOR NEPAL [...] (U) Reaffirming India's position that the GOI wants to see meaningful steps toward restoration of democracy before resuming military assistance to Nepal (Ref B),Foreign Minister Natwar Singh told the upper house of Parliament on April 28 that following the arrest the day before of former PM [...] | 2005-04-29 11:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MASS KDEM IN NP |
05NEWDELHI3252 | KOFI ANNAN BURSTS INDIA'S UNSC VETO BUBBLE [...] (C) Summary: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's April 26-28 visit to New Delhi began on a positive note as Annan and the GOI made amends for the GOI's refusal to allow the Secretary General to tour tsunami affected areas in southern SIPDIS India in January, but it ended with a bubble-burstin [...] | 2005-04-29 12:09:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID IN IZ UNSC |
05NEWDELHI3270 | NEW INDIAN EXPORT CONTROL LAW IN THE MAKING [...] (SBU) Summary: A front page article in the April 26 "Indian Express" reported details of an ambitious draft export control bill giving the GOI far-reaching authority to investigate and enforce stricter controls on WMD-related items and technologies. Entitled "The Weapons of Mass Destruction [...] | 2005-04-29 13:14:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC KNNP KOMC KSTC PGOV IN GOI |
05NEWDELHI3275 | INDIAN LAWMAKERS MISSING MESSAGE ON US-INDIA [...] (C) Summary: During an Indo-US Parliamentary Forum (IUPF) gathering on April 27, Indian lawmakers were upbeat about US-India relations, but were surprisingly uninformed about key details of the initiatives underway to make the strategic partnership a reality. Suggesting that the positive impa [...] | 2005-05-02 07:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS PARM KNNP PK CH IN NSSP US |
05NEWDELHI33 | SARAN EXPRESSES APPRECIATION FOR TSUNAMI [...] (C) In a January 3 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Secretary Saran expressed satisfaction at the US-India SIPDIS partnership in responding to the December 26 Bay of Bengal tsunami, and offered his understanding that the core group -- SIPDIS having effectively triggered a robust respo [...] | 2005-01-03 13:09:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID MASS CE IN |
05NEWDELHI3308 | INDIA UPBEAT WITH SHEINWALD ON CHINA AND PAKISTAN; [...] (C) Summary: Aside from nuclear issues (septel) UK NSA Sir Nigel Sheinwald's April 25-26 visit to New Delhi stuck to familiar ground, with the PM, NSA Narayanan, and Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran providing an encouraging backdrop for SIPDIS the September 7-8 India-EU and India-UK Summits. [...] | 2005-05-02 13:20:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PK IZ NP BG CH IN AF UK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI3333 | INDIA STILL PONDERING UN REFORMS, DEMOCRACY [...] (C) Summary: In a May 3 meeting with PolCouns and Poloff, MEA Joint Secretary (UN Political) Hamid Ali Rao welcomed the upcoming visit of the Secretary's Adviser on UN Reform Shirin Tahir-Kheli and requested more details on Washington's position on UN reform proposals. He acknowledged that In [...] | 2005-05-03 13:11:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM IN KG UNSC |
05NEWDELHI3365 | INDIA'S LEADING COMMUNIST OPENS UP TO THE EMBASSY [...] (C) Summary: Meeting with Charge and Poloff on May 4, newly-elected Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Prakash Karat demonstrated that he is a talented SIPDIS and skillful leader who is well-aware of his political importance. Karat emphasized that the Communists want to play a [...] | 2005-05-04 12:36:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PGOV PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI3366 | DEMARCHE ON RECOMMENDATIONS TO ELIMINATE SEXUAL [...] (SBU) Following up on discussion at the most recent US-India Peacekeeping Joint Working Group (Ref B),PolCouns and Poloff discussed India's efforts to encourage high standards of conduct for troops participating in UN peacekeeping operations (PKO) with MEA Joint Secretary (UN Political) Hamid [...] | 2005-05-04 12:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM KPKO MARR IN |
05NEWDELHI3367 | KOIZUMI VISIT: LOW-KEY CAP ON A MAJOR MONTH [...] (C) Summary: Japanese PM Junichiro Koizumi's low-key April 28-30 visit to India contrasted sharply with the breathlessness that followed Chinese Premier Wen's visit two weeks earlier. Koizumi and PM Manmohan Singh signed an eight-point program for boosting bilateral relations, particularly i [...] | 2005-05-04 13:38:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD KNNP IN UNSC |
05NEWDELHI3392 | CABINET PASSES LANDMARK EXPORT CONTROL LAW -- [...] (C) Speaking with PolCouns on April 5, PMO Director Venkatash Verma confirmed reports from that morning's papers that the Cabinet had approved the Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems (Prevention of Unlawful Activities) Bill, which will be introduced in Parliament in a matter [...] | 2005-05-05 11:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC KNNP TBIO TSPA IN GOI |
05NEWDELHI3401 | UK NEPAL ENVOYS: MEA HARD LINE ON THE KING [...] (C) Summary: In a May 5 discussion with PolCouns and Emboffs, visiting UK Special Representative for Nepal Sir Jeffrey James, UK Ambassador to Nepal Keith Bloomfield, and UK Emboffs reported from their meeting with Foreign Secretary Saran that MEA Nepal policy vis-a-vis the King is hardening [...] | 2005-05-05 12:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS IN NP UK |
05NEWDELHI3402 | GOI READY TO ASSIST IRAQ, BUT QUIETLY [...] (C) Summary: Charge conveyed Ref A demarche encouraging a GOI statement on new Iraqi government on April 30. In a follow-up May 5 meeting, Joint Secretary (Gulf) Sanjay Singh told PolCouns and Poloff that while the MEA was unlikely to issue a formal statement congratulating the new Iraqi Tra [...] | 2005-05-05 12:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID KDEM IN IZ |
05NEWDELHI3430 | GOI "STEAMROLLERED" INTO VOTING FOR UNCHR WORKING [...] (C) Responding to Reftel demarche, MEA Joint Secretary (UN Economic and Social) Manjeev Puri told PolCouns on May 5 that India was "steamrollered" into voting for the resolution to create a UNCHR Working Group to consider reform proposals. The resolution sponsors forced a vote on the last day [...] | 2005-05-06 11:28:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM IN |
05NEWDELHI3431 | GOI EXPECTS BHUTANESE REFUGEE SURVEYS TO CONTINUE, [...] (C) Summary: During a May 2 meeting with a visiting G/PRM/DRL/DHS delegation in India to review Tibetan and Bhutanese refugee issues, MEA Joint Secretary (North) Ranjit Rae offered his view that the UNHCR "had met the concerns" of HMGN in order to resume the registration of Bhutanese refugees [...] | 2005-05-06 11:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PTER IN NP BT |
05NEWDELHI3432 | INDIA'S COMMUNISTS ADOPT AMBITIOUS AGENDAS AT [...] (C) Summary: India's Communist parties have been energized by their growing power as "kingmakers" who keep the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in power. During recently-concluded party congresses, they passed the baton to dynamic new leaders and broadened their agenda to take on ambitious [...] | 2005-05-06 11:51:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI3458 | REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE: INDIA AND PROLIFERATION [...] (C) In the run-up to Defense Minister Mukherjee's planned June 27 arrival in Washington, Mission continues to be approached by senior GOI officials inquiring about US deliberations on India's admission to the PSI core group. In this context, MEA officials cite the April 15 discussion between [...] | 2005-05-09 10:09:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL ETTC KNNP UK IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI3479 | INDIA CONGRATULATES NEW IRAQI GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) In its first official statement about Iraq since the January 30 elections, on May 7 the GOI released a summary of PM Manmohan Singh's message to Iraqi PM Al-Jaafari, which welcomed the formation of the new transitional government and offered to assist the country's reconstruction in area [...] | 2005-05-09 13:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID IZ IN |
05NEWDELHI3480 | GOI TO RESUME NON-LETHAL MILITARY AID TO NEPAL [...] (C) Summary: MEA Joint Secretary (North) Ranjit Rae called in PolCouns and Poloff on May 7 to inform us that the GOI, reviewing its suspension of military assistance to Nepal, had decided to release non-lethal supplies in the pipeline to the Royal Nepal Army (RNA). Indian Ambassador to Kathm [...] | 2005-05-09 13:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS KDEM IN NP |
05NEWDELHI3494 | MEA HOPEFUL NEPAL'S KING MAY ENGAGE PARTIES ON [...] (C) Summary: In a May 9 meeting with visiting Assistant Secretary for South Asia Christina Rocca, MEA Joint Secretary SIPDIS (North) Ranjit Rae welcomed the May 8 publication of a common platform by the Nepalese political parties as a potential "basis for talks" with King Gyanendra. The GO [...] | 2005-05-10 06:10:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MASS PTER IN NP |
05NEWDELHI35 | INDIA UPBEAT ON PAKISTAN COMPOSITE DIALOGUE [...] (C) Indian readouts track closely with Islamabad's detailed and generally positive assessment of the December 27-28 meeting of Foreign Secretaries that concluded the second round of the Indo-Pak Composite Dialogue (reftel). In a January 3 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Secretary Saran r [...] | 2005-01-03 13:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP ENRG IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI3505 | BJP LEADER REAFFIRMS US-INDIA COMMITMENT [...] (C) Summary: BJP spokesman and former Commerce Minister Arun Jaitley warned us recently that the Modi controversy continues to fester among the party rank and file, who see the Chief Minister's visa revocation as a personal attack on a leader of the party that began the transformation of US-India r [...] | 2005-05-10 10:14:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR ECON IN US |
05NEWDELHI352 | MEA NON-PAPER ON TERRORIST CAMPS IN PAKISTAN AND PAKISTANI KASHMIR [...] (C) MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran) Arun K Singh on January 12 showed PolCouns and Poloffs information on the locations and size of eight terrorist camps located in Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir. The data are as follows: 2. (S) Begin list: -- Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (L [...] | 2005-01-13 12:26:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PTER PGOV PREL IN PK |
05NEWDELHI353 | INDIA TSUNAMI UPDATE: JANUARY 13 [...] (SBU) Summary: Consular officers in Chennai continue to work to resolve the fewer than 20 remaining missing persons inquiries in India. The USAID/DART team that conducted assessments in Andhra Pradesh has found that there is not an emergency need for shelter, food and water in the state. The [...] | 2005-01-13 12:35:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CASC AEMR EAID MASS SOCI EAGR ID CE MV IN |
05NEWDELHI355 | MEA UPBEAT ON INDO-PAK, DESPITE SLOW PACE [...] (C) Summary: The Indian Foreign Ministry remains optimistic about Indo-Pak relations, despite slow progress in the recent round of the Composite Dialogue, MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran) Arun K Singh told SIPDIS PolCouns and Poloffs on January 12. ""The process has mo [...] | 2005-01-13 12:43:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI3587 | SRINAGAR CAR BOMB: NEW KASHMIR TERRORIST M.O.? [...] (U) A car bomb exploded in the summer capital of J&K on May 11, killing two persons, injuring more than 50, and damaging more than one dozen vehicles and some 40 shops and other buildings. J&K police sources have confirmed the casualty figures, and report that the blast was an improvised exp [...] | 2005-05-12 09:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PK IN |
05NEWDELHI3599 | GETTING CLOSER TO WHAT KASHMIRIS THINK [...] ... (COPY THE FORMATED FILE)) SUBJECT: GETTING CLOSER TO WHAT KASHMIRIS THINK Classified By: Polcouns Geoff Pyatt, for Reasons 1.4 (B, D) Â [...] | 2005-05-12 11:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK IN |
05NEWDELHI36 | GOI DISCOURAGES CODEL TRAVEL TO TSUNAMI-AFFECTED [...] (SBU) Summary: Responding to requests for US Congressional travel to tsunami-devastated areas of South India, Foreign Secretary Saran expressed gratitude on January 3 for the many expressions of condolence and support, but asked that US Codels not/not travel to South India. Saran, who is Ind [...] | 2005-01-03 13:21:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN TH CE IN |
05NEWDELHI3603 | ASSESSING OF INDIA'S DRAFT EXPORT CONTROL [...] (SBU) Summary: Our initial review of the "Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems (Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Bill, 2005" (Bill No. 70),suggests the draft legislation is a comprehensive statute that meets NSSP Phase Two requirements that the GOI introduce stronger exp [...] | 2005-05-12 12:27:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC MNUC IN GOI |
05NEWDELHI3607 | INDIA COMPLETES MEDIUM-RANGE, SURFACE-TO-SURFACE [...] MEA Deputy Secretary (Disarmament and International Security Affairs) Naveen Srivastava confirmed to PolMilOff press reports that India completed its test of the Prithvi medium-range, surface-to-surface missile on May 12. Srivastava notified PolCouns of the test on May 11 (Reftel). 2. Cit [...] | 2005-05-12 13:47:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MCAP MOPS IN |
05NEWDELHI362 | INDIA ACCEPTS TSUNAMI MILITARY LIAISON PROPOSAL [...] (C) Foreign Minister Natwar Singh used a January 13 meeting with CODEL Leach and the Ambassador to announce that the GOI has officially accepted the US proposal to appoint tsunami liaison officers. Singh indicated that Ambassador SIPDIS Ronen Sen in Washington has been instructed to have one of [...] | 2005-01-13 13:21:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS IN |
05NEWDELHI364 | INDIAN LEGISLATORS TELL CODEL LEACH THEY ARE [...] (SBU) Summary: Senators Sam Brownback and John Corzine, and Representatives James Leach, Earl Blumenaur, Scott Garrett, Wayne Gilchrest, Frank Pallone, and Diane Watson discussed a broad range of issues with an Indian parliamentary delegation led by MP Murli Deora, the President of the India [...] | 2005-01-13 15:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ETTC EAID KDEM PINR IN PK US INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI3645 | INDIAN PRIORITIES FOR MAY ARF SOM [...] (SBU) MEA Deputy Secretary (Disarmament and International Security) Naveen Srivastava told us on May 13 that Additional Secretary Meera Shankar (International Security) will lead SIPDIS the Indian delegation to the May 19-10 ARF Senior Official's Meeting in Vientiane. He noted that India i [...] | 2005-05-13 12:49:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR IN ARF |
05NEWDELHI3646 | INDIA SEEKS DIALOGUE ON NEPAL END-GAME [...] (C) Summary: PolCouns and Poloff met with MEA Joint Secretary (North) Ranjit Rae on May 13 to review A/S Rocca's SIPDIS and Indian Ambassador Shiv Mukherjee's recent audiences with Nepal's King Gyanendra. Rae emphasized that the King had not relented on his opposition to a dialogue with th [...] | 2005-05-13 13:01:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM MASS IN NP |
05NEWDELHI3647 | GOI RENEWS CALL FOR IC-814 INFO AS TRIAL NEARS END [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (C) During a May 9 meeting with PolCouns and Poloff, MEA Director (Americas) Renu Pall delivered the following non-paper requesting USG assistance with the GOI investigation into the December 1999 IC-814 hijacking. The non-paper is id [...] | 2005-05-13 13:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER IN PK AF GOI |
05NEWDELHI3652 | INDIAN PARLIAMENT PASSES LANDMARK WMD/EXPORT [...] (C) Summary: The Indian Parliament passed the landmark "WMD and their Delivery Systems Bill" (Ref A) in record time, with only a few hours to spare before the session adjourned on May 13. FM Natwar Singh framed the bill as "overarching and integrated legislation" for India's existing non-pr [...] | 2005-05-13 13:28:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC MNUC KNNP IN GOI |
05NEWDELHI3653 | FS SARAN PREPARES FOR WASHINGTON [...] (C) Summary. In a May 14 meeting with the Charge, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran gave an optimistic overview of the SIPDIS issues for his upcoming trip to Washington, emphasizing the GOI's intention to develop a rich menu of deliverables to make the Prime Minister's July White House visit "a [...] | 2005-05-14 12:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP KDEM ETTC MASS NP CH IZ IN US |
05NEWDELHI3717 | NSA NARAYANAN PRESSES FOR ACTION AGAINST LET, WELCOMES EXCHANGE ON NEPAL [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-17 12:24:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | IN MASS NP PK PREL PTER INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI3736 | PARLIAMENT CONCLUDES A STORMY YET PRODUCTIVE [...] (C) Summary: Despite BJP disruptions and a boycott of Parliament, the UPA and the Left Front (LF) passed crucial legislation and the budget during the session which ended May 13. Growing animosity between the BJP and the UPA underlies the inability of the parties to cooperate in Parliament, [...] | 2005-05-18 12:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI3744 | INDIAN GOVERNMENT BRIEFS ON NEW EXPORT CONTROL LAW [...] (C) Summary: MEA Additional Secretary (International Security) Meera Shankar expressed MEA intentions to take the lead on implementation of the new WMD law in a meeting with Charge, PolCouns, and PolMilOff on May 18. According to Shankar, the real success of the WMD bill was not its passage [...] | 2005-05-18 13:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PGOV KSTC KNNP TRGY ETTC CH IR IN |
05NEWDELHI3745 | MEA UPBEAT ON INDO-PAK, CLEARER ON SIACHEN [...] (C) Summary: In a May 18 meeting with Polcouns and Poloff, MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Dilip Sinha gave us the clearest GOI position on Siachen we have had in some time, stressing that settlement will require a signed map showing current troop positions in order to close [...] | 2005-05-18 13:27:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS ENRG IN PK AF TX INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI3746 | AFGHANS AND INDIANS ENCOURAGED BY BILATERAL [...] (C) Summary: Afghan Ambassador to India Khalili expressed strong appreciation for Indian assistance to his country in a May 17 meeting with PolCouns and Poloff, and told us that PM Manmohan Singh will visit Kabul in late June. In Khalili's view, the GOI welcomes Afghanistan's strategic partne [...] | 2005-05-18 13:35:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID SNAR IN IR PK AF |
05NEWDELHI3769 | MEA PROVIDES "NEXT STEPS" FOR US-INDIA CT JWG [...] (U) This is an Action Request -- see Para 4. 2. (U) Summary: MEA Director (Americas) Renu Pall recently gave Poloff the GOI's understanding of the next steps agreed to at the August 31-September 1, 2004, Sixth Meeting of the India-US Counter-Terrorism Joint Working Group (CTJWG),with a r [...] | 2005-05-19 11:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PTER PREL EFIN SNAR TBIO IN AF PK CE BG NP US INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI3770 | INDIAN ENVOY TO REVIVE IRAQ ASSISTANCE OFFER [...] (C) On the eve of his May 22-25 mission to Baghdad, GOI mid-east envoy Chimaya Gharekhan told the Charge that "India needs to be move involved in Iraq" for its own interests, and indicated that he would convey to the Iraqi government "an open-ended commitment" to provide whatever assistance au [...] | 2005-05-19 12:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ASEC IZ IN |
05NEWDELHI38 | INDIA TSUNAMI SITREP JANUARY 3 [...] (SBU) Summary: India-wide, consular officers have amassed a database of 500 missing persons inquiries to which they are responding, but still have no reported Amcit casualties in India. Mission engagement with the GOI on tsunami relief for India and the region continued with the Ambassador's [...] | 2005-01-03 13:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CASC AEMR EAID MASS SOCI EAGR ID CE MV IN |
05NEWDELHI3810 | PUTIN: "MANY GUESTS IN MOSCOW, BUT ONLY ONE INDIA" [...] (C) Summary: According to our Indian contacts, President Putin offered India a range of defense and energy cooperation proposals during PM Manmohan Singh's May 8-10 visit to Moscow, renewing top-level bonhomie after his scratchy visit to New Delhi last December. Commenting on Putin's offer to [...] | 2005-05-20 12:30:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG ETRD KNNP TSPA RS CH IN |
05NEWDELHI3811 | INDIA PREPARED TO ENGAGE INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) Summary: In an important May 17 address at the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO),India's premier military R&D facility, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared that with the passage of the new WMD law, India is prepared for "the broadest form of engagement with the int [...] | 2005-05-20 12:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS KSTC KNNP KOMC ETTC IN GOI |
05NEWDELHI3846 | SUSPECTS ABOUND IN TWIN DELHI CINEMA BOMB BLASTS [...] (C) Summary: No person or group has yet claimed responsibility for the explosions in two New Delhi movie theaters on May 22 that killed one person and injured at least 50. Both cinemas, located in neighborhoods with large Sikh populations, were screening the controversial detective film "Jo [...] | 2005-05-24 12:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PTER ASEC OVIP PREL IN PK |
05NEWDELHI3878 | PRIORITIZING INDIA'S ENERGY DIPLOMACY AND [...] (C) Summary: Ministry of Petroleum Additional Secretary (International Cooperation) Talmiz Ahmad outlined India's priorities for accessing more foreign fuel sources in a May 24 meeting with Charge and Emboffs. While domestic fuel subsidies continue to consume much of his attention, Minister [...] | 2005-05-25 10:13:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG EPET PK XA ZK ZP IN |
05NEWDELHI388 | SAARC SUMMIT: WHAT'S THE HOLD UP? [...] (C) Summary: The GOI has not yet agreed to the proposed February 7-9 dates for the SAARC Summit, and media reports indicate New Delhi has suggested February 6-7 instead. The MEA remains tightlipped about the reasons for delay, but some New Delhi foreign policy watchers speculate that the SAAR [...] | 2005-01-14 10:30:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD BG PK IN SAARC |
05NEWDELHI3882 | TERRORIST FINANCE: JI-3 AND IJG PRENOTIFICATIONS [...] (C) During a May 19 meeting with Poloff, MEA Director (Americas) Renu Pall expressed gratitude on behalf of the MEA's Americas and International Security divisions for keeping them in the loop on Washington's diplomatic CT efforts (Refs A-D). Admitting that MEA had limited information on ter [...] | 2005-05-25 12:45:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC EFIN PTER PREL CVIS KTFN IN ID UZ PK |
05NEWDELHI3912 | SONIA REVAMPS TWO PARTY COMMITTEES [...] (U) In the run-up to her re-election as Party President on May 27, Sonia Gandhi on May 25 revamped two important Congress party committees, the Parliamentary Affairs Committee (PAC) and the Media Committee (MC). Defunct for almost 20 years, Sonia plans to make the PAC into an active body and [...] | 2005-05-26 10:51:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI3918 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF INDIAN ARMY'S INDEPENDENT PARACHUTE BRIGADE [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 4. 2. (C) Embassy has been approached by US Special Operations Command Pacific (SOPAC),which wishes to engage in a training program with an Indian military counterpart, the Indian Army's 10th Para (SF) Battalion, 50 Independent Parachute Brigade. [...] | 2005-05-26 11:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MARR MASS IN |
05NEWDELHI3932 | NDA CALLS FOR STRIKES TO PROTEST DISSOLUTION OF [...] (C) Summary: A strike called by the opposition NDA for May 24-25 to protest the government's dissolution of the Bihar Assembly and to demand the removal of Bihar Governor Buta Singh drew a limited response. Clearly not impressed with the strike, the UPA reiterated its support for the Governo [...] | 2005-05-27 05:06:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV IN |
05NEWDELHI3933 | THE UPA SCORES BETTER THAN AVERAGE AFTER ONE YEAR [...] (C) Summary: The UPA government completed one year in office on May 22. Although the Left parties and the BJP predictably criticized its performance, commentary has been generally positive, reflecting widespread respect for Manmohan Singh's performance. Despite some initial weaknesses (such [...] | 2005-05-27 05:25:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PARM PGOV PHUM PINR PREL IN |
05NEWDELHI395 | INDIA COMMITTED TO PUL-I-KHUMRI, INTERESTED IN [...] (C) Summary: On January 12, MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran) Arun K Singh and newly appointed Ambassador to Afghanistan Rakesh Sood provided an update on Indian projects in Afghanistan, noting proudly that with the exception of the Parliament building and the Pul-i-Khumri [...] | 2005-01-14 11:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID IN AF |
05NEWDELHI3969 | INDIAN FOCUS ON FROZEN, WET, AND SOFT PAK BORDERS [...] (C) Summary: New Delhi is currently focused on three Indo-Pak territorial disputes, with senior officials in Islamabad discussing two of them, demilitarizing Siachen Glacier (May 26-27) and demarcating the international border at Sir Creek (May 28-29). Conventional thinking in Delhi is that, [...] | 2005-05-27 12:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI3971 | DEMARCHE ON ILO BUDGET DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-27 13:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC ELAB IN |
05NEWDELHI3973 | AMB TAHIR-KHELI HEARS INDIAN UNSC PITCH [...] (C) Summary: In meetings with senior MEA officials on May 26, Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli, the Secretary's UN Reform Adviser, heard a strong Indian claim for a permanent UNSC seat, and identified peacekeeping, management and accountability reform, counterterrorism, nonproliferation and demo [...] | 2005-05-27 14:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PHUM IN CH UNSC |
05NEWDELHI4052 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNESCO CULTURAL DIVERSITY [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-31 12:38:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD SCUL IN UNESCO |
05NEWDELHI4089 | PM OPTIMISTIC ON INDO-PAK BUT COUNSELS AGAINST [...] (U) Summary: Speaking to foreign journalists on May 30 regarding the UPA government's one year anniversary, PM Manmohan Singh offered an upbeat assessment of Indo-Pak relations, but warned that a major terrorist attack could still derail the peace process. He also advised against artificial [...] | 2005-06-01 12:36:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ENRG CE IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI4091 | USG ASSESSMENT OF TIBETAN REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to the Dalai Lama's request that the US consider a resettlement program for some 10,000 Tibetan refugees, a USG delegation traveled to India and Nepal from May 2-10, meeting with Tibetan, Indian, Nepalese, and Embassy officials to assess the political and logistical [...] | 2005-06-01 14:09:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL CH BT NP IN |
05NEWDELHI4124 | GOI AGREES TO COORDINATION ON PUL-I-KHUMRI, [...] (C) Summary: Meeting with a delegation from Embassy and USAID Kabul and the Afghan Ministry of Energy and Water (MEW),MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran) Dilip Sinha agreed to Indian participation as necessary in a donor Steering Committee in Kabul to coordinate technical de [...] | 2005-06-02 11:44:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ENRG PREL IN AF PK |
05NEWDELHI4131 | INDIAN PUNDITS PRESS FOR NEW DIRECTION IN NEPAL [...] (C) Summary: Delhi-based Nepal-watchers are split in their diagnosis of the strength of the competing factions in Nepal, and on their prescriptions for an end to the country's political crisis. The GOI decision to release non-lethal military assistance to the RNA and press reports of Indian [...] | 2005-06-02 12:55:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM MASS IN NP UK |
05NEWDELHI4193 | GOI WILL ENCOURAGE NEPALESE LEADER TO SHUN MAOISTS [...] (C) Summary: Joint Secretary (North) Ranjit Rae told A/DCM and Poloff on June 3 that India will caution Nepali Congress leader GP Koirala to avoid allying with the Maoists during his upcoming visit to New Delhi. Following a visit to Kathmandu, Rae worried that the gap between the King and the [...] | 2005-06-03 12:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM MASS IN NP |
05NEWDELHI4194 | INDIAN MISSION TO IRAQ OPENS DOORS FOR COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary: On June 1, MEA Joint Secretary (Gulf) Sanjay Singh briefed PolCouns and PolMilOff about West Asia Special Envoy Ambassador Chinmaya Gharekhan's recent visit to Baghdad. As the first official contact between the GOI and the new Iraqi Transitional Government (ITG),Gharekhan's vis [...] | 2005-06-03 12:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ETRD IZ IN |
05NEWDELHI4200 | GOI CAUTIOUS ON SEPARATIST VISIT TO PAKISTAN, [...] (C) Summary: During a June 3 farewell call that GOI Kashmir Interlocutor NN Vohra requested with soon-to-depart D/Polcouns, the senior official focused on two unprecedented events: the ground-breaking visit of what he termed "so-called moderate separatists" to Pakistani Kashmir and Pakistan p [...] | 2005-06-03 12:35:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI4205 | INDIA DELIBERATING ON LEVEL OF BRUSSELS CONFERENCE [...] (C) Responding to Acting DCM's presentation of ref A demarche on Iraq, MEA Joint Secretary (Gulf) Sanjay Singh reported June 3 that GOI is still deliberating on its level of representation at the Brussels International Conference. Foreign Minister Natwar Singh is scheduled to be in London and [...] | 2005-06-03 13:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID IN IZ |
05NEWDELHI4232 | ADVANI'S DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE IN PAKISTAN PROVOKES [...] (C) Summary: During his landmark May 30-June 6 trip to Pakistan, Opposition Leader LK Advani renounced his former antagonism towards Pakistan and its founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah, lauding him as a secular "ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity." Advani's public recognition of Pakistani sovereignty [...] | 2005-06-06 13:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR IN PK |
05NEWDELHI4234 | GOI WATER ISSUES FLOWING SLOWLY WITH PAKISTAN AND [...] (C) Summary: In recent meetings with SA Bureau's S&T Officer for Pakistan and Bangladesh Marcella Szymanski, the MEA emphasized GOI commitment to working with Bangladesh to create water sharing agreements to benefit both countries and to resolving its water issues with Pakistan consistent with [...] | 2005-06-07 03:10:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EWWT SENV BG PK IN INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI4270 | ADVANI RESIGNATION THROWS THE BJP INTO TURMOIL [...] (U) BJP President LK Advani threw his party into turmoil on June 7 when he abruptly announced his resignation after a tempest erupted following his recent visit to Pakistan (Reftel). In his letter of resignation Advani stood by his remarks in Pakistan praising the country's founder Muhammad [...] | 2005-06-07 12:06:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IN PK |
05NEWDELHI4299 | BIOS OF KASHMIR-RELATED LEADERS -- PART 2 [...] (C) This is the second of a three-part biographic report compiling information and impressions A/Polcouns gained from contact with Indian Kashmir-related politicians, government officials, separatists, academics, journalists, NGO activists, and others during a 2002-2005 assignment at Embassy [...] | 2005-06-08 06:24:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI4300 | BIOS OF KASHMIR-RELATED LEADERS -- PART 3 [...] (C) This is the third of a three-part biographic report compiling information and impressions A/Polcouns gained from contact with Indian Kashmir-related politicians, government officials, separatists, academics, journalists, NGO activists, and others during a 2002-2005 assignment at Embassy N [...] | 2005-06-08 06:24:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI4308 | INDIAN LABOR LEADERS OPPOSE UPA PLANS FOR PUBLIC [...] (C) Summary: Leftist labor unions and the UPA's communist allies have stepped up their opposition to the GOI's announced plans for a public offering of 10 percent of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL),which will raise approximately $400 million dollars for the National Investment Fund ( [...] | 2005-06-08 10:21:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON EINV PGOV IN |
05NEWDELHI4312 | INFORMATION MINISTER JAIPAL REDDY UPBEAT ON MEDIA [...] (C) Summary: Meeting with the Charge and the PA Minister Counselor in New Delhi on June 7, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Jaipal Reddy was upbeat and optimistic about the prospects for further liberalization of the media sector. The purpose of the Charge's call was to get the Minis [...] | 2005-06-08 11:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAO PGOV PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI4315 | ADVANI'S RESIGNATION - WHAT DOES IT MEAN? [...] (C) Summary: The turmoil surrounding Advani's dramatic June 7 resignation as BJP President continues. The BJP leadership meeting June 8 voted unanimously for him to remain, while the Sangh Parivar (family of Hindu nationalist groups) spent the day celebrating his resignation and anticipating [...] | 2005-06-08 13:07:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IN PK |
05NEWDELHI4330 | INDO-BANGLADESHI RELATIONS SOUR [...] (C) Summary: Relations between India and Bangladesh have soured since the April 16 killing of a BSF guard along the India-Bangladesh border, with increased concerns about illegal migration and terrorist groups along the border and calls for a more aggressive Indian policy towards the GOB. At [...] | 2005-06-09 05:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KCRM KWMN BG IN |
05NEWDELHI4355 | INVITATION DELIVERED, SARAN OUT OF TOWN [...] (C) As Foreign Secretary Saran is away from New Delhi, Charge forwarded U/S Burns's invitation to Saran's office via letter, and called Acting Joint Secretary (Americas) Renu Pall to alert her to the invitation. Pall called Charge later in the day to say that Saran already has committed to p [...] | 2005-06-09 13:10:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IN UNSC |
05NEWDELHI4434 | INDIA SUPPORTS SRI LANKA'S JOINT MECHANISM AND AIR [...] (C) Summary: During Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga's visit to New Delhi on June 2-3, PM Singh gave GOI conditional support for the Post-Tsunami Operational Management Structure (P-TOMS),discussed concerns about the LTTE's air capability, and offered to upgrade Sri Lankan Air Forc [...] | 2005-06-13 11:05:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MASS ECON CE IN |
05NEWDELHI4447 | ADVANI WITHDRAWS RESIGNATION AND RETURNS TO THE [...] (C) Summary: On June 10, LK Advani withdrew his resignation as BJP party President in response to unrelenting pressure from the party leadership. He accepted a compromise formula which credits him for a successful trip to Pakistan, while criticizing Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Advani's [...] | 2005-06-13 11:43:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IN |
05NEWDELHI4449 | SIKH TERRORISTS, WEAPONS CACHES SEIZED AFTER DELHI [...] (C) Summary: The recent arrests of terrorists from the Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) group -- which is proscribed under the US Terrorist Exclusion List -- included all the main conspirators in the May 22 twin cinema bombings as well as a BKI leader who had escaped police custody earlier t [...] | 2005-06-13 13:21:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL IN PK CA GM TH TC |
05NEWDELHI4531 | GOI SATISFIED WITH KOIRALA VISIT, BUT NOT HOPEFUL [...] (C) Summary: As former Nepalese PM GP Koirala prepared to depart New Delhi after his meetings with GOI officials and politicians, MEA Under Secretary (Nepal) Manu Mahawar told Poloff on June 14 that the visit was a success for the GOI, allowing frank exchange of views on the political impasse [...] | 2005-06-15 11:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MASS IN NP |
05NEWDELHI4532 | GOI DECLINES OFFER OF ITEMIZERS FOR KASHMIR BUS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-15 12:01:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PTER IN PK |
05NEWDELHI4590 | FM WILL ATTEND BRUSSELS CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-16 12:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID EIND IN IZ |
05NEWDELHI4619 | AMBASSADOR JONES DISCUSSES INDIAN OPPORTUNITIES IN [...] (C) Summary: In meetings with the GOI, strategic analysts, and journalists in New Delhi on June 10, Iraq Coordinator Ambassador Richard Jones encouraged high-level GOI participation at the upcoming US-EU conference on Iraq and suggested several priority areas in which the GOI may support pol [...] | 2005-06-17 10:02:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER EAID IZ IN |
05NEWDELHI4632 | GOI ON NSSP REMAINING STEPS: U.S. MOVING THE [...] (C) Summary: In response to DCM's delivery of reftel demarche on June 17, MEA Additional Secretary (International Security) Meera Shankar expressed concern that the USG was "moving the goalposts" on non-proliferation negotiations and that it would be difficult to achieve harmonization beyond [...] | 2005-06-17 13:25:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETTC PARM PGOV IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI4633 | INDIA PROPOSES INDIA-US GLOBAL DEMOCRACY INITIATIVE [...] The world's oldest democracy and the world's largest democracy have an obligation to the global community to strengthen values, ideals and practices of freedom, pluralism and rule of law. 2. As developed democracies, they must assist other societies in transition to become more open and d [...] | 2005-06-17 13:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM IN US |
05NEWDELHI4634 | GOI HOPING FOR MORE ON UN REFORMS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-17 13:57:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | KUNR PREL IN UNSC |
05NEWDELHI4679 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PETROLEUM AND NATURAL [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador told Indian Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar on June 17 that there appears to be an unprecedented level of optimism about the US-India relationship in the USG leadership. In this context, the Ambassador said, we have revitalized the Economic D [...] | 2005-06-20 13:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ECON ETTC IN US |
05NEWDELHI4690 | FOREIGN SECRETARY: GET NSSP OUT OF THE WAY, THE [...] (C) Summary: In a June 16 meeting with A/S Rademaker and the Ambassador, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran said he wanted to "get NSSP out of the way" before PM Manmohan Singh's July 18 visit in order "to move on to the bigger things we can do together," but stressed that "our way of doing things [...] | 2005-06-21 09:35:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC KNNP KSTC IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI4715 | INDIAN NON-PAPER ON BARC COOPERATION WITH IRAN [...] (C) During the June 16 US-India Strategic Stability and Nonproliferation Dialogue, MEA Additional Secretary (International Security) Meera Shankar gave A/S for Arms Control Stephen Rademaker the following nonpaper regarding possible cooperation between a Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) s [...] | 2005-06-21 11:20:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP IR IN |
05NEWDELHI4717 | S39-04: INDIAN NON-PAPER ON EXPORT OF CW PRECURSOR [...] (C) During the June 16 US-India Strategic Stability and Nonproliferation Dialogue, MEA Additional Secretary (International Security) Meera Shankar gave A/S for Arms Control Stephen Rademaker the following nonpaper regarding export of sodium cyanide, a chemical weapons precursor, by the Indian [...] | 2005-06-21 11:21:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM IN CBW US |
05NEWDELHI4718 | INDIAN NON-PAPER ON PAKISTANI EFFORTS TO PURCHASE [...] (C) During the June 16 US-India Strategic Stability and Nonproliferation Dialogue, MEA Additional Secretary (International Security) Meera Shankar gave A/S for Arms Control Stephen Rademaker the following non-paper regarding possible sale of a fixed gamma ray spectrometer by the US firm Canbe [...] | 2005-06-21 11:23:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP PARM PK CH IN US INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI4719 | INDIAN NON-PAPER ON PAKISTANI EFFORTS TO PROCURE [...] (C) During the June 16 US-India Strategic Stability and Nonproliferation Dialogue, MEA Additional Secretary (International Security) Meera Shankar gave A/S for Arms Control Stephen Rademaker the following non-paper regarding Pakistani entity Project Management Organization's efforts to procur [...] | 2005-06-21 11:25:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PK CH IN INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI4721 | SCENESETTER FOR INDIAN DEFENSE MINISTER MUKHERJEE,S 25 JUNE - 2 JULY VISIT TO THE USA [...] (C) Summary: Secretary Rumsfeld, we appreciate your willingness to host the upcoming visit of Indian Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee, and see many opportunities to accelerate our burgeoning defense cooperation with a nation we believe to be the key to a prosperous and peaceful future for South A [...] | 2005-06-21 12:09:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL ETTC ETRD KNNP MASS PTER IN NP PK IZ IR |
05NEWDELHI4760 | INDIAN PANCHAYATIS GIVE GLOWING REPORT ON [...] The New Delhi-based Institute for Social Sciences (ISS) on June 16 hosted Pakistani High Commissioner Aziz Ahmed Khan for the formal release of the trip report detailing the two-week tour of Pakistan that ISS organized for 33 elected Indian local government representatives. The delegation of [...] | 2005-06-22 12:47:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI4761 | SOCIOECONOMIC FUTURE OF INDIAN DALITS REMAINS BLEAK [...] (C) Summary: Embassy interlocutors report that after one year of UPA rule, limited government efforts to improve dalit (formerly called ""untouchables"") socioeconomic status have shown little success, ensuring that they continue to face severe economic and social discrimination. Government reser [...] | 2005-06-22 13:44:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV ECON ELAB IN |
05NEWDELHI4798 | INDIA READY TO COOPERATE WITH IRAQ ON SECURITY AND [...] (C) DCM spoke to Iraqi Charge Muayad Hussain on June 23 to share with him the text of Indian FM Singh's statement at the US-EU Conference on Iraq (text below). Highlighting the FM's offer that, "We stand ready to cooperate with Iraq in providing assistance in capacity building, for security [...] | 2005-06-23 12:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ENRG IZ IN |
05NEWDELHI4861 | LEFT FRONT SUSPENDS COORDINATION WITH UPA [...] (C) Summary: On June 26, the four parties of the Left Front (LF) suspended regularly scheduled coordination meetings with the UPA government, which were meant to implement the Common Minimum Program (CMP),but said they would continue to support the government from the outside. The Communists [...] | 2005-06-27 12:52:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB ECON IN |
05NEWDELHI4862 | INDIA PONDERS NEW IRANIAN PRESIDENT [...] (C) Indian foreign policy watchers predict that the June 25 Iranian presidential election outcome will upset the equilibrium in India's balancing act between its energy and trade interests in Iran and its growing strategic partnership with Washington. New Delhi's improved ties with Tehran in [...] | 2005-06-27 12:52:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IN IR |
05NEWDELHI492 | INDIA DOWNPLAYS LOC CEASEFIRE VIOLATION [...] (C) New Delhi has publicly downplayed the January 18 evening incident of artillery fire at the LOC, the first such case since guns fell silent in November 2003, and has assigned its Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) to discuss the incident with his Pakistani counterpart via a reg [...] | 2005-01-19 12:35:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PK IN INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI4934 | INDIA NOT AVERSE TO HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL PROPOSAL [...] (C) On June 29, Charge reviewed Ref A points with MEA Joint Secretary (UN Political) Hamid Ali Rao, emphasizing that at this early stage in the discussions, the US would like other countries to avoid making preemptive negative statements about the proposed Human Rights Council (HRC). Noting t [...] | 2005-06-29 09:58:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR PHUM IN |
05NEWDELHI496 | BHUTANESE AMBASSADOR: SECURITY SITUATION IN NEPAL [...] (C) Summary: The poor security situation in Nepal, instability of the government in Kathmandu, and uncertainty over future GON willingness to deliver on any inherited agreements will hinder the refugee repatriation process, Bhutanese Ambassador Lyonpo Dago Tshering told the Ambassador on Jan [...] | 2005-01-19 12:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PREF PTER IN NP BT UNHCR |
05NEWDELHI4961 | US-INDIA NON-PROLIFERATION DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary: Arms Control A/S Stephen Rademaker and representatives from AC, NP, SA, OSD, and Embassy met GOI counterparts, led by MEA Additional Secretary (International Security) Meera Shankar on June 16 to continue the ongoing bilateral dialogue on strategic stability and nonproliferation [...] | 2005-06-29 13:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP PARM ETTC KSTC IR PK CH IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI4996 | INDIA TESTS TRILATERAL TALKS WITH CHINA AND RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Natwar Singh's June 2 meeting with the Foreign Ministers of China and Russia in Vladivostok reflects India's desire for greater cooperation on areas of mutual interest such as energy, terrorism, and business, but Delhi-based analysts contend that any results for [...] | 2005-06-30 12:24:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV RS CH IN |
05NEWDELHI5047 | U/S BURNS DISCUSSES PM'S VISIT WITH FS SARAN [...] (C) Summary: In a three and a half-hour session with Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran on June 24, U/S Burns reviewed deliverables for PM Manmohan Singh's July 18 visit to Washington, discussing in detail those of greatest interest to New Delhi (Civil Nuclear cooperation and UNSC reform) and revi [...] | 2005-07-01 12:11:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP ETTC EAGR IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI5048 | U/S BURNS' DISCUSSIONS ON SOUTH ASIAN ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: U/S Nicholas Burns met with Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran on June 25 to review Indo-Pak SIPDIS relations, Iran, Nepal, Bangladesh, and briefly Sri Lanka. Although pleased with the groundswell of support for people-to-people exchanges with Pakistan, Saran warned that a single [...] | 2005-07-01 12:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PK AF IR NP BG CE IN US |
05NEWDELHI5049 | MISHRA CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC TO U/S BURNS ABOUT [...] (C) Summary: Meeting with U/S Burns and the Charge on June 25, former NSA Brajesh Mishra was cautiously optimistic on the US-India relationship. One of the architects of India's greatly expanded ties with Washington, Mishra stressed that progress would be incremental and evolutionary, that b [...] | 2005-07-01 12:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KNNP ENRG IN CH US |
05NEWDELHI5108 | SEEKING ELECTORAL GAINS LEFT PARTIES COME DOWN [...] (C) Summary: India's Left parties have severely criticized the "New Framework for the US-India Defense Relationship" signed by SecDef Rumsfeld and DefMin Mukherjee on June 28, despite initial positive reviews from most Indian media and strategic commentators, and will hold street demonstrations [...] | 2005-07-05 10:57:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PGOV PINR PINS PREL IN US |
05NEWDELHI5115 | INDIA'S ASSESSMENT OF THE EXBS PROGRAM: "TRAIN THE [...] (SBU) MEA Under Secretary (Disarmament and International Security) Nutan Kapoor gave PolMilOff a brief overview of an internal GOI assessment of recent EXBS events on July 5. According to Kapoor, MEA surveyed GOI officials that participated in EXBS events in the past year and found that while [...] | 2005-07-05 11:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ETTC KNNP PARM IN GOI |
05NEWDELHI5117 | AFGHAN FM ABDULLAH DISCUSSES TALIBAN VIOLENCE, [...] (C) Summary: Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah's July 3-5 visit to New Delhi was uneventful, but gave the GOI a chance to display its continued commitment to Afghan reconstruction and its determination to play a role in Central Asia through its relationships in Afghanistan. According to the Af [...] | 2005-07-05 12:38:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID AF IN PK UNSC |
05NEWDELHI5165 | LET PRIME SUSPECT IN SYMBOLIC AYODHYA ATTACK [...] (C) Summary: The July 5 attempt by suspected Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) terrorists to wreck the controversial Ayodhya temple site was foiled by Indian security forces who had been previously alerted that the group might target religious sites. The incident, however, is causing significant rippl [...] | 2005-07-06 13:24:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PHUM IN PK |
05NEWDELHI5166 | INDIA SEEKING SMALL-SCALE PROJECTS IN IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: In the aftermath of the US-EU Conference in Brussels, MEA Joint Secretary (Gulf Division) Sanjay Singh reiterated GOI willingness to support Iraq's reconstruction and sought specific small-scale projects, especially in the electricity sector, which the GOI might consider funding a [...] | 2005-07-07 01:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ENRG KDEM IZ IN |
05NEWDELHI5208 | SONIA GANDHI CAPS INDIA'S MONTH IN RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary: Sonia Gandhi's trip to Russia from June 13-16 (Ref A) on her first bilateral visit abroad since taking over as the United Progressive Alliance Chairperson has stirred debate about the symbolism of her trip and provoked a front-page controversy over questions of ethics and protoco [...] | 2005-07-07 10:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG EPET PGOV RS IN |
05NEWDELHI5216 | BJP MISCALCULATES AGAIN: EFFORTS TO CAPITALIZE ON [...] (C) Summary: BJP attempts to capitalize on the July 5 Ayodhya terrorist attack have largely fallen flat, and opposition calls for the resignation of Home Minister Patil and the Uttar Pradesh (UP) Chief Minister have evoked little popular response. BJP calls for nationwide strikes and demonstrations [...] | 2005-07-07 11:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PTER KISL IN PK |
05NEWDELHI5226 | PM: SPIKE IN TERRORISM COULD THREATEN INDO-PAK [...] (C) Summary: In addition to the July 6 attack in Ayodhya, senior J&K politicians and civilian officials are increasingly under terrorist attack, and a long string of bombings in Kashmir is growing more lethal. The recent incidents in J&K, coupled with the Ayodhya attack (Ref A),led to PM Si [...] | 2005-07-07 12:57:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI5278 | MTAG: IRANIAN ATTEMPTS TO PROCURE MISSILE TECH [...] (S) PolMilOff raised the points in Ref A regarding Indian firms Aron Hurley Koncepts and KG Global's possible transfer of sensitive equipment to Iran in a July 8 meeting with MEA Under Secretary, Disarmament and International Security (DISA),Nutan Kapoor. PolMilOff also gave Kapoor a non-pap [...] | 2005-07-11 06:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | ETTC PARM PREL MNUC IR IN GOI |
05NEWDELHI5318 | INDIA REVIVES TOP-LEVEL ENGAGEMENT WITH BANGLADESH [...] (C) Summary: Meetings between the Foreign Secretaries of India and Bangladesh in New Delhi on June 21-22 provided the first opportunity after a two year gap for the nations' top diplomats to turn around deteriorating relations by airing disagreements, reviving several working groups, and plann [...] | 2005-07-11 12:47:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KCRM KWMN ETRD ENRG BD IN |
05NEWDELHI5319 | INDIA HOPING TO LURE NEPAL MAOISTS INTO POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: In a July 11 meeting with MEA Joint Secretary (North) Ranjit Rae, PolCouns emphasized the need to SIPDIS coordinate USG and GOI policy to prevent sending mixed messages to the Nepalese political parties, Maoists, and King, and expressed concern about the risks inherent in New [...] | 2005-07-11 13:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS PHUM PTER IN NP AF CE |
05NEWDELHI5320 | RSS FLEXES POLITICAL MUSCLES, DEMANDS ADVANI'S [...] (C) Summary: The right-wing Hindutva Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) asserted its political dominance of the BJP on July 8, calling for the removal of LK Advani from his party leadership positions, including the presidency and head of the parliamentary delegation. Pundits expect the move t [...] | 2005-07-11 13:43:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IN |
05NEWDELHI5354 | PM AND DEFMIN SCOFF AT LEFTIST CRITICISM OF U.S. [...] (C) Summary: To place Left Parties' continuing attacks on the New Framework for US-India Defense in context, Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have reassured critics that the agreement is in India's national interest, does not compromise Indian security or soverei [...] | 2005-07-12 14:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MASS MARR KSTC IN |
05NEWDELHI5355 | INDIAN PARTICIPATION AT DEAD SEA CONFERENCE [...] (U) Responding to points in Ref A, MEA Joint Secretary (Gulf) Sanjay Singh told PolMilOff on July 12 that he and the Indian Charge in Baghdad, Mr. S. Sharma, would attend the July 18-19 Dead Sea Conference on Iraq. 2. (SBU) He also confirmed that the GOI had disbursed the full amount of t [...] | 2005-07-13 01:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID ECON JO IZ IN |
05NEWDELHI5365 | INDIAN LABOR LAW REFORMS NOT LIKELY SOON; IMPROVED [...] (C) Summary: The Indian business community is frustrated by what it views as "inflexible" labor laws that constrain business operations and lead companies to use costly loopholes. American companies also favor labor law reforms, but are not as concerned as their Indian counterparts. Labor u [...] | 2005-07-13 05:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV ECON IN |
05NEWDELHI5382 | DELHI WORRIED ABOUT SPIKE IN TERRORISM, THREATS, [...] (C) Summary: Indian concerns over possible spectacular terrorist incidents are escalating, based on the recent London and Ayodhya attacks, widespread speculation on what high-profile target might be next, and a significant uptick in terrorism reporting in the Indian media, most of which point [...] | 2005-07-13 12:02:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL SCUL ASEC IN PK |
05NEWDELHI5402 | FOREIGN LABOR TRENDS REPORT: INDIA, 2004 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-14 06:30:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PHUM ECON ETRD PGOV IN |
05NEWDELHI5444 | INDIA COMPLETES THE NSSP, STILL PONDERING PSI [...] (S) Summary: Paving the way for completion of the NSSP, MEA Additional Secretary (International Security) Meera Shankar delivered two non-papers to the Charge and PolCouns on July 14, one responding to USG questions about implementation of the WMD Bill (see text in para 5 and initial analysi [...] | 2005-07-14 13:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV ETTC KNNP KSTC PARM TSPA IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI5445 | GOI WORKING TO MANAGE DISAPPOINTMENT AT US G-4 [...] (C) Summary: US opposition to the G-4 UN Security Council expansion proposal was badly received in India, but the GOI is doing damage control to preserve the positive atmospherics of the PM's July 18-20 Washington visit, including working to ensure the resolution will not come up for a vote while t [...] | 2005-07-14 13:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IN CH UNSC |
05NEWDELHI5446 | GOI WANTS TO HELP US IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Dilip Sinha told us on July 14 that India is very committed to its Afghan reconstruction projects, is looking for opportunities to do more in reconstruction, vocational training, and election and governance technical assistance, a [...] | 2005-07-14 13:22:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID KDEM PTER IN PK AF IR |
05NEWDELHI5447 | INDO-PAK RAPPROCHEMENT CONTINUES DESPITE TERROR [...] (C) Summary: In a July 14 meeting, MEA Joint Secretary Dilip Sinha reassured us that Indo-Pak rapprochement would continue despite indications Islamabad is ramping up cross-border infiltration and terrorism. The Composite Dialogue round is half-way through but there has been no progress in t [...] | 2005-07-14 13:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL ENRG ETRD KDEM IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI5480 | BHUTAN REITERATES COMMITMENT TO DEWEY-WANGCHUCK [...] (C) Summary: The Royal Government of Bhutan (RGOB) remains committed to resolving the refugee problem using the Dewey-Wangchuck framework and is ready to meet with its Nepalese counterparts to hash out the modalities of the agreement, Bhutanese Ambassador Tshering told us on July 13. After rec [...] | 2005-07-15 10:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL IN NP BT |
05NEWDELHI549 | INDIA ON EAST ASIA SUMMIT: NOT WITHOUT ME [...] (C) Summary: Following the November 2004 ASEAN Plus One Summit in Vientiane, the MEA scoffed at the idea of an East Asia Summit, but a recent conversation with MEA Joint Secretary (Southeast Asia Two) Biren Nanda indicates India SIPDIS has shifted from that position. It now appears that In [...] | 2005-01-20 13:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECIN IN ASEAN |
05NEWDELHI551 | MEA WARNS OF NUCLEAR IMPASSE IN NSSP [...] (C) The Ambassador used a January 20 meeting with MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) S. Jaishankar to press for a timely reply to the US requests conveyed via ref A and to underline the importance of India coming to us with draft export control legislation and other outstanding items related to P [...] | 2005-01-20 13:28:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC KNNP TRGY TPHY IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI5521 | INDIAN WOMEN CONTINUE TO FACE OBSTACLES IN POLITICS [...] Summary: Despite an impressive list of accomplishments, including several current Chief Ministerships and presidency of the Congress party, Indian women continue to face cultural and practical barriers to their participation in politics. Female political leaders insist that greater women's par [...] | 2005-07-18 10:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KWMN PINR SOCI IN AF BG PK |
05NEWDELHI5522 | INDIAN POLICE DETAIL L-E-T ROLE IN AYODHYA ATTACKS [...] (C) Summary: Indian police and press sources have broadly outlined the role of Lashkar-e-Taiba (L-e-T) in the July 5 attack on the disputed Ayodhya temple site in Uttar Pradesh. Several suspected accomplices have been detained, the alleged "mastermind" is reported to have returned to Pakistan, [...] | 2005-07-18 10:20:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL IN PK |
05NEWDELHI5592 | SRINAGAR BOMBING MERITS PUBLIC USG RESPONSE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 7. 2. (C) Summary: A powerful car bomb possibly detonated by a suicide bomber killed at least 3 security personnel and two unidentified persons (probably including the terrorist) outside of a school today in Srinagar. Police sources tell us [...] | 2005-07-20 09:40:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV IN PK |
05NEWDELHI5593 | UTTAR PRADESH GOVERNMENT SHAKY - COULD FALL SHORTLY [...] (C) Summary: In a July 13-15 visit to Uttar Pradesh (UP) Poloff met with a wide variety of interlocutors who speculated that the two year rule of Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav would soon come to an end. Pervasive mis-governance and corruption, and a fast-deteriorating law and order sit [...] | 2005-07-20 09:45:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER ECON PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI5616 | PM SINGH'S US TRIP MEETS NEW DELHI'S HIGH [...] (C) Summary: Initial reactions to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's highly anticipated July 18-19 meetings in Washington have been overwhelmingly positive. Most commentators believe that the US decision to normalize our civil nuclear relationship puts substance behind the US promise to assist [...] | 2005-07-20 13:23:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KNNP ETRD ENRG IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI5680 | PRIME MINISTER SINGH'S NUCLEAR LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Summary: Our contacts in the Indian nuclear establishment welcomed the July 18 announcement of potential civil nuclear cooperation and are confident that Prime Minister Singh's experience with the nuclear sector will be critical to rapid implementation of the commitments that India made [...] | 2005-07-22 11:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETRD IN KNNP PGOV PREL NSSP |
05NEWDELHI5684 | INDIAN OBSERVERS: TIME TO TURN UP PRESSURE ON [...] (C) Summary: Non-governmental Nepal-watchers in New Delhi remain pessimistic about the chances for a compromise between King Gyanendra and the Nepalese political parties. Many say that the next 2-3 months will be crucial for a rapprochement, with a strong likelihood that the parties and Maois [...] | 2005-07-22 13:07:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PHUM IN NP |
05NEWDELHI5685 | MONSOON SESSION OF PARLIAMENT LIKELY TO BE LESS [...] (C) Summary: Although it leads the opposition, the BJP is in disarray and largely incapable of playing a strong role in the upcoming Parliamentary session scheduled for July 25-August 26. The Left Front (LF) is determined to fill the vacuum and will act more like an opposition party than an [...] | 2005-07-22 13:10:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KNNP IN |
05NEWDELHI5755 | JASWANT IN THE WILDERNESS [...] (C) Summary: A deeply embittered Jaswant Singh shared with us a scathing assessment of the Congress government, calling Manmohan Singh unfit to govern India and warning that the contradictions inherent in the UPA coalition made meaningful reform impossible. Jaswant disassociated himself from t [...] | 2005-07-26 13:13:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP EINV PGOV IN |
05NEWDELHI5756 | INDIA SEEKS US INTERVENTION WITH PAKISTAN ON NEPAL [...] (C) Echoing the GOI appeal last March (reftel),MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) S. Jaishankar sought the Charge's SIPDIS assistance in conveying to Washington a formal GOI request for US intervention with Pakistan to prevent a possible Pakistan Ordinance Factory delivery of eight million roun [...] | 2005-07-26 13:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS PREL PTER IN NP PK |
05NEWDELHI5814 | INDIA AND NEPAL TO TEST BORDER CONTROLS [...] (SBU) Summary: India and Nepal have agreed to a pilot program to check documents at only one border crossing as an experiment in increasing security along the 1,750 km open border. MEA officials downplayed the significance of the decision with us, pointing out that any substantial control ov [...] | 2005-07-27 12:25:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PGOV PBTS IN NP |
05NEWDELHI5815 | INDIAN LEFT OPPOSES "PRO-US SHIFT" BUT WILL [...] Summary: The Left Front heavily criticized agreements reached during the PM's visit to Washington, claiming that the UPA has abandoned its pledge in the Common Minimum Program (CMP) to pursue "multipolarity," in favor of a "pro-US shift" initiated by the previous NDA government. The CPI and C [...] | 2005-07-27 13:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PARM KNNP ECON IN CH IR |
05NEWDELHI5845 | TEA WITH AN INDIAN MARXIST: ARTICULATE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Charge and D/Polcouns met July 26 with Sitaram Yechury, a senior and more moderate member of the CPI/M, to understand better the Left's political calculus at the start of the Monsoon Session of Parliament, and also to make the pitch for better ties with the U.S. Yechury is the [...] | 2005-07-28 07:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EINV ELAB IN |
05NEWDELHI586 | PRESERVING THE LOC CEASEFIRE [...] (U) This is an action request for SA. Please see paragraph 7. 2. (S) The LOC ceasefire is one of the most important achievements in the slow but steady Indo-Pak rapproachement process that began in mid-2003 with former PM Vajpayee's ""Hand of Friendship"" speech, but without US engagemen [...] | 2005-01-24 12:36:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL MOPS IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI5865 | LABOR PROTESTS TURN VIOLENT OUTSIDE DELHI [...] (C) Summary: A July 25 protest rally in support of workers of a Honda subsidiary turned into an all-out riot in Gurgaon, following apparent provocations by unions linked to India's Communist parties. Located 25 kilometers southwest of Delhi, Gurgaon is a major hub of multinational corporations [...] | 2005-07-28 13:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB ECON EINV ASEC PHUM IN JA |
05NEWDELHI5867 | INDIAN INITIATIVES IN IRAQ STILL ON HOLD [...] (C) Summary: Following the Dead Sea conference on Iraq, MEA Joint Secretary (Gulf) Sanjay Singh told PolCouns and PolMilOff on July 28 that he was impressed with how Iraqis were taking control of their political process, and expressed confidence that this would result in greater support for r [...] | 2005-07-28 13:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM ENRG EPET IZ IN |
05NEWDELHI5868 | INDIAN PEACEKEEPERS: SUDAN READY TO GO, MAYBE MORE [...] (C) Summary: Indian media reported on July 27 that a second Indian infantry brigade had been told to prepare to deploy to the UN peacekeeping operation (PKO) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). While MEA Under Secretary (UN Political) K Nandini told us that the MEA was SIPDIS unawa [...] | 2005-07-28 13:28:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO IN CG SU UNSC |
05NEWDELHI5874 | TRAIN BLAST CAUSED BY RDX, GOI LOSING PATIENCE [...] (C) A blast on a New Delhi-bound train killing at least 13 passengers on July 28 was caused by RDX, police sources told us, noting that the same explosive was found in the possession of the July 5 Ayodhya attackers (Ref B). Director General AK Suri of the Railway Protection Force reported tha [...] | 2005-07-29 08:34:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV IN |
05NEWDELHI5879 | INDIAN PM BRIEFS PARLIAMENT ON US TIES: IT'S ALL [...] (C) Summary: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh heralded his first state visit to the US as an unqualified success for India's foreign and economic policy in a speech to Parliament on July 29, and emphasized that India's relationship with the US was based on equality and reciprocity, sentim [...] | 2005-07-29 11:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MNUC ENRG EINV KNNP IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI5912 | BHUTANESE DRAFT CONSTITUTION: A STEP IN THE RIGHT [...] (C) Summary: The RGOB released a draft constitution on March 26, continuing the process of democratic reform started when the King abdicated power to a council of ministers in 1998. The draft, if approved, would create a constitutional monarchy with a Parliament consisting of an upper and lo [...] | 2005-07-29 13:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL ECON KDEM KIRF SENV IN NP BT |
05NEWDELHI5913 | INDIAN SUPREME COURT DEFENDS ASSAM AGAINST [...] (C) Summary: Amidst continuing anguish over the growing number of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in India, the Supreme Court on July 13 repealed the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) (IMDT) Act in Assam, marking a victory for the BJP and Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and paving the way [...] | 2005-07-29 13:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PINS SMIG PREL BD IN |
05NEWDELHI5925 | KASHMIRIS: INDIA NOW HOLDS ALL THE CARDS, BUT WILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: A survey of Kashmiri political opinion in Srinagar, Jammu, and Delhi indicates a consensus that India is in a magisterial position right now: our contacts assess that India's strategic stock is secure and rising on the heels of the PM's visit to Washington; they agree the mood of [...] | 2005-08-01 07:25:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MOPS ECON ASEC PBTS IN PK |
05NEWDELHI594 | INDIA'S SUNNI-SHIA DIVIDE DOMINATES MUSLIM [...] (C) Summary: Indian Shias are excited about the prospect of a Shia government in Iraq, revere Ayatollah Sistani and support the January 30 election. This does not mean, however, that they are pro-American, as they also want US troops to depart Iraq as soon as possible and Iraq and Iran to ha [...] | 2005-01-25 05:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PGOV PINR PREL PTER SCUL IN IR IZ |
05NEWDELHI5957 | TENTATIVE INDIAN ATTENDANCE AT 60TH UNGA [...] MEA UN Political Director Pankaj Sharma told Poloff that the Indian delegation to the September UNGA High-Level Event in New York has not yet been finalized, as the composition will be the prerogative of the Prime Minister. However, he informed us that previous delegations have included the [...] | 2005-08-02 06:58:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP IN UNGA GOI |
05NEWDELHI5960 | MHA ADDRESSING TERRORISM, WILLING TO CONSIDER [...] (C) Summary: Special Secretary (Home) KP Singh told Charge, Consul General and Poloff on August 1 that recent terrorist attacks in India, while worrisome, represent a return to past levels of higher terrorist activity to which India was accustomed. He identified several new MHA initiatives t [...] | 2005-08-02 08:52:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV ASEC MASS IN PK NP |
05NEWDELHI5964 | MHA WILLING TO PONDER DEPORTEE DOCUMENTATION FIX [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: Ministry of Home Affairs Special Secretary Kanwar Pratap Singh told Charge, Consul General and Poloff on August 1 that MHA would be willing to meet with DHS representatives to explore developing a mechanism to speed up the process of documenting Indian nation [...] | 2005-08-02 10:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL KCRM IN US |
05NEWDELHI6011 | PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE ON US-INDO NUCLEAR DEAL [...] (C) Summary: The much-anticipated Lok Sabha debate on PM Singh's visit to Washington and his July 28 statement in Parliament (Ref A) contained few surprises: the BJP called for a national debate and nit-picked over technicalities of the agreement while the Communist parties decried the Congre [...] | 2005-08-03 15:27:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MNUC MASS KNNP ENRG EPET KDEM NSSP |
05NEWDELHI6032 | WEST BENGAL FRETS OVER ALLEGED ISI CONTAGION [...] (C) A two day visit to Calcutta revealed surprisingly deep anxiety over the presence in West Bengal of terrorist cells and radical Islamist groups allegedly linked to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). The starkest message during PolCouns' August 1-2 visit came from Home Secretary [...] | 2005-08-04 11:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL KISL IN BG PK |
05NEWDELHI6036 | INDIA'S SAARC PRIORITIES: SAFTA IS KEY [...] (C) Summary: In a July 28 meeting, newly appointed MEA Joint Secretary for the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) P.K. Kapur highlighted the GOI's priorities for the November 12-13 meeting in Dhaka, including the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA),a poverty and infrast [...] | 2005-08-04 14:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ECIN EAID BG SL NP PK ML BU IN SAARC |
05NEWDELHI6079 | PM REAFFIRMS VALUE OF STRATEGIC TIES WITH U.S. IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Compared to the staid August 3 Lok Sabha debate about Prime Minister Singh's Washington visit (Reftel),the statements in the Rajya Sabha on August 4 were much livelier, with the depth of feeling reflected in repeated personal insults and yelling matches. Throughout the debate [...] | 2005-08-05 12:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MNUC MASS KNNP ENRG EPET KDEM IN |
05NEWDELHI6080 | DEMARCHE ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL PROPOSAL [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-05 13:24:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL IN BT UNGA |
05NEWDELHI6148 | MEA HINTS AT COY INDIAN SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) PolCouns delivered Ref A points on July 29 to MEA Joint Secretaries Hamid Ali Rao (UN Political) and Manjeev Puri (UN Economic and Social). In a follow-up meeting with Puri on August 8, the Joint Secretary assured us that the US shouldn't worry about the Human Rights Council (HRC),as he [...] | 2005-08-08 14:10:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM IN |
05NEWDELHI6149 | MEA GRASPING FOR A PLAN B IN NEPAL [...] (C) Summary: MEA Joint Secretary (North) Ranjit Rae told PolCouns and Poloff on August 8 that the "window of opportunity" for reconciliation between the Palace and the political parties in Nepal is closing, and MEA is looking for new ways to increase pressure on the King. India was annoyed b [...] | 2005-08-08 14:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MASS KDEM MOPS IN NP |
05NEWDELHI6150 | DELHI ON WARY TACK WITH ISLAMABAD, MULLING TALKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite mounting political concern about increased infiltration across the Line of Control (LOC),and BJP sniping over the UPA government's failure to hold Pakistan accountable for terrorism in India, the GOI's top leadership has remained committed to forward progress in the Ind [...] | 2005-08-08 15:06:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS ECON PTER KDEM KISL MOPS PK IN INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI6181 | MUKHERJEE AGAIN UNDERLINES VALUE OF US-INDIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an otherwise uneventful August 8 Parliamentary debate on the US-India Defense Framework, Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee signaled strong support for burgeoning Indo-American military ties. Mukherjee responded to politically motivated BJP complaints and the usual litany o [...] | 2005-08-09 12:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MNUC ENRG EINV KNNP MASS IN |
05NEWDELHI621 | INDIA WELCOMES MORE CONTACT BETWEEN KASHMIRIS [...] (C) Summary: The Pugwash-sponsored conference on Kashmir held in Kathmandu last December has reinforced growing GOI receptivity towards contact between Kashmiris from India and Pakistan, and New Delhi is considering proposals for a follow-on meeting, possibly in Srinagar, according to Kashmir [...] | 2005-01-25 12:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IN NP PK |
05NEWDELHI6213 | INDIAN SUPREME COURT VERDICT IN 2001 PARLIAMENT [...] (C) Summary: The Indian Supreme Court upheld the death sentence for Mohammad Afzal, reduced a death sentence to 10 years imprisonment for Shaukat Hussain, and acquitted Navjot Sandhu (aka: Afsan Guru),and SAR Geelani (of whom three are Kashmiris) in connection with the spectacular December 13 [...] | 2005-08-10 11:39:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL PHUM KJUS IN PK |
05NEWDELHI6215 | MEA PLAYS DOWN BHUTANESE KING'S VISIT [...] (C) Summary: King Wangchuck's August 1-4 visit to New Delhi was part of a routine exchange and did not focus narrowly on an imminent Bhutan-China boundary agreement, according to MEA Joint Secretary (Nepal/Bhutan) Ranjit Rae. Rae said that the border issue was discussed, along with other rout [...] | 2005-08-10 12:30:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF ECON IN NP BT CH |
05NEWDELHI6218 | INDIAN MID-EAST ENVOY PITCHES FOR GAZA ROLE, [...] (C) In an August 10 meeting with the Charge, GOI "West Asia" Special Envoy Chinmaya Gharekhan underlined New Delhi's strong interest in contributing to the task of Israeli disengagement from Gaza, and noted that India was discussing with the Palestinians how best to channel its $50 million ass [...] | 2005-08-10 12:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID MASS IZ IS IN |
05NEWDELHI6222 | TERROR REVISITS ASSAM PRIOR TO INDEPENDENCE DAY [...] (C) Summary: Indian CT experts believe the recent spate of terrorist bombings in Assam by the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) is "absolutely routine" and part of an annual uptick prior to India's August 15 Independence Day. The intended lethality of some recent attacks is markedly hig [...] | 2005-08-10 13:34:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV IN |
05NEWDELHI6250 | IRAN/IAEA: URGING SUPPORT FOR FIRM ACTION [...] (U) This is an action message please see para 3. 2. (S) In coordination with EU partners, PolCouns presented reftel demarche to MEA Joint Secretary (Disarmament) Dilip Sinha on August 11. The Charge double-tracked in an August 11 meeting with Deputy NSA Vijay Nambiar. Both the Charge and [...] | 2005-08-11 12:28:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PARM PREL IR EU IN |
05NEWDELHI627 | CANADIAN PM MEETS WITH SONIA, DISCUSSES ENRON [...] (C) Summary: The unprecedented meeting with Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi marked the highlight of Canadian PM Paul Martin's January 18 trip to New Delhi, Canadian Embassy PolCouns Adrian Norfolk told PolCouns and Poloff on January 25. Canadian PM Paul Martin also met with Prime Mini [...] | 2005-01-27 01:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO KNNP EINV CA IN |
05NEWDELHI6294 | THE US-INDIA NUCLEAR DEAL: SHAPING PUBLIC OPINION [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Singh,s appearances before Parliament (Ref. A, B and C) and our contacts in the Indian scientific community allow an early assessment of how the GOI interprets the July 18 Joint Statement (JS) on civil nuclear cooperation and where challenges are likely to arise in [...] | 2005-08-12 11:06:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETRD IN KNNP PREL IAEA US |
05NEWDELHI6295 | POST FLOOD DISEASE WAVE IN MUMBAI [...] (U) SUMMARY: Mumbai is facing a wave of post flood infectious diseases. Newspaper reports have put the death toll at 66 for Mumbai and suburbs. Most of the deaths have been attributed to leptospirosis and dengue. Maharashtra health authorities believe that while the incidence is high, the dise [...] | 2005-08-12 11:14:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA IN |
05NEWDELHI6308 | INDIA READY TO WORK WITH US ON AFGHAN PARLIAMENT, [...] (C) India stands ready to provide any assistance Afghanistan requests for elections and Parliamentary training, MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Dilip Sinha told PolCouns on August 12. The Prime Minister will lay the cornerstone of the Indian-constructed Parliament building [...] | 2005-08-12 12:51:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID KDEM IN AF |
05NEWDELHI6310 | MANMOHAN SINGH A TRUE STATESMAN IN REACTING TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Doing what no Indian leader in 20 years has been willing to do, Manmohan Singh apologized to the nation for government inaction during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The apology preempted BJP efforts to capitalize on the report, which named two high-profile Congress leaders as cons [...] | 2005-08-12 13:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS KIRF IN |
05NEWDELHI6311 | PUNJAB WORRIED ABOUT DRUGS AND JOBS, NOT TERRORISM [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to media reports warning of a resurgence in Khalistani terrorism in Punjab and northern India, Poloff traveled to Chandigarh August 4-5 to interview government, business, police, civil society and political leaders. They were uniformly unperturbed by reports of mil [...] | 2005-08-12 13:47:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM ECON EAGR SNAR ELAB EINV IN PK |
05NEWDELHI6312 | MEA ON PAKISTAN TALKS: SOME PROGRESS, MANY DOUBTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: MEA Pakistan policy manager Dilip Sinha believes India and Pakistan made good but slow progress in their latest round of Composite Dialogue efforts, with a more constructive climate than earlier discussions. They agreed to extend the LOC ceasefire, establish nuclear hotlines, pre [...] | 2005-08-12 13:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS ECON ECIN ETRD MOPS IN PK AF INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI6338 | IMPLEMENTING EXPORT CONTROL LEGISLATION IS [...] (C) New MEA Joint Secretary for Disarmament and International Security Affairs (DISA) Hamid Ali Rao told PolCouns and PolMilOff on August 16 that although he is "still digesting the new legislation," his priority will be implementing India's new export control law. PolCouns delivered A/S Rad [...] | 2005-08-16 12:44:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP ETTC IR IN |
05NEWDELHI6339 | PM INDEPENDENCE DAY SPEECH: THE WORLD IS WATCHING [...] (U) SUMMARY: In his second annual independence day speech to the nation, PM Manmohan Singh echoed themes from his recent address to the US Congress regarding India's rising economic power, its democratic credentials, its increasing engagement with the international system, and the need to ens [...] | 2005-08-16 12:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN PBTS EAID MOPS PTER IN |
05NEWDELHI6340 | MEA: TURN UP THE HEAT ON THE LTTE [...] (C) Summary: The GOI was saddened but not surprised by the August 12 assassination of Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar -- apparently by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) -- because he, as a moderate Tamil, was considered the LTTE's second-most important target after P [...] | 2005-08-16 13:20:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL MOPS KCRM PGOV ECON IN CE |
05NEWDELHI6396 | MEA URGES USG NOT TO PURSUE STATUS OF FORCES [...] (C) DATT conveyed reftel points to MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) Dr. S. Jaishankar in a letter on August 16 (full text para 6 below). In a meeting on August 17 with DCM to introduce a new Embassy officer, Jaishanker pulled DCM aside to discourage strongly any effort by the USG to pursue at this [...] | 2005-08-18 09:35:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL IN |
05NEWDELHI6410 | BHUTANESE HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE AT 60TH UN GENERAL [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-18 12:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA OVIP IN BT UNGA |
05NEWDELHI6411 | INDIA ALLEGES PAKISTANI AND CHINESE WEAPONS SALES [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-18 13:02:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS IN PK NP CH |
05NEWDELHI6413 | DEMARCHE DELIVERY: MAGEN DAVID ADOM [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-18 14:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL IS IN |
05NEWDELHI6414 | MEA UNSURPRISED BUT ANXIOUS IN REACTION TO BANGLA [...] (C) Summary: The MEA told us that the few indicators so far available point to the Jamaat ul-Mujahidin Bangladesh as author of the August 17 bombing wave. The MEA further theorized that the terrorists' goal was to demonstrate organization and sophistication. Delhi views Bangladesh's terrori [...] | 2005-08-18 16:09:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV MOPS PBTS ECON IN BD PK SA |
05NEWDELHI6485 | NATWAR RESERVED ON US-INDIA NUCLEAR UNDERSTANDING [...] (C) Foreign Minister Natwar Singh was oddly aloof on the US-India nuclear understanding when the Ambassador met with him August 23 to convey the Secretary's letter designating Undersecretary Burns as the US interlocutor for the civil nuclear working group established in the July 18 joint state [...] | 2005-08-23 12:47:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP ETTC MNUC IN IR NSSP US |
05NEWDELHI6519 | NATWAR DECRIES BANGLADESHI DENIAL, QUESTIONS SAARC [...] (C) The Ambassador used an August 23 meeting with Foreign Minister Natwar Singh to probe Indian thinking on next steps in Bangladesh, underling our hope that we will be able to develop the same kind of fluid information exchange and close coordination of diplomatic strategies that characterizes [...] | 2005-08-24 13:24:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KDEM IN BG SAARC |
05NEWDELHI6520 | ALL EYES ON UNGA SUMMIT AS INDO-PAK TALKS WRAP UP [...] (C) Summary: Round Two of the Indo-Pakistan Composite Dialogue (CD) is drawing to a close with few concrete results, although the two sides managed to preserve a sense of forward movement, which reinforces the broad Indian public support for rapprochement with Pakistan. To facilitate dialogu [...] | 2005-08-24 14:01:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV ECON SNAR SCUL PBTS PINR IN PK INDO PAK UNGA |
05NEWDELHI6545 | GOI MOBILIZES TO SELL US-INDIA FRAMEWORK AND SHAPE [...] (C) In an informal conversation on August 24, Prime Minister's Media Adviser Sanjaya Baru told A/DCM that the PMO would shortly unveil an advisory task force whose job would be to help sell the new US-India bilateral framework and to develop recommendations for action between now and the expec [...] | 2005-08-25 13:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC KNNP MNUC IN US NSSP |
05NEWDELHI6594 | MEA STICKS WITH TWIN PILLARS, SKEPTICAL ON UN [...] (C) A skeptical MEA Joint Secretary (North) Ranjit Rae told A/DCM on August 26 that the GOI will receive UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi in New Delhi on August 30, but was puzzled by what the UN might expect to accomplish in Nepal. In contrast to reports in Kathmandu and among non-governmental India [...] | 2005-08-26 12:45:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM IN NP CH KS |
05NEWDELHI6595 | NEW DELHI NEPAL EXPERTS CALL FOR LONG-TERM STRATEGY [...] (SBU) Summary: New Delhi-based Nepal experts representing a wide spectrum of viewpoints agreed that the international community must take a longer-term view of the crisis in Nepal, and argued the US must lead in any recasting of strategy, as New Delhi is handcuffed by conflicting domestic int [...] | 2005-08-26 13:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS KDEM PGOV MOPS PBTS IN NP |
05NEWDELHI6596 | TOUGH NEW ANTI-HIJACKING POLICY, AT LEAST ON PAPER [...] (C) Summary: To break with earlier ad hoc practices -- many of which yielded disastrous results -- the GOI recently unveiled India's first formal anti-hijacking policy and streamlined bureaucratic procedures in the event of a successful hijacking in Indian airspace. The Indian Air Force (IAF [...] | 2005-08-26 13:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV ASEC EAIR MOPS KSAC IN PK |
05NEWDELHI6598 | PM SINGH TO SEEK FRENCH SUPPORT ON NUCLEAR ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: In an August 25 meeting, French Second Counselor Gilles Bourbao previewed PM Singh's September 11-12 trip to Paris. The primary motivation for the Singh visit is to obtain French support for modifying the international nuclear framework in light of the US-Indian civil nuclear ag [...] | 2005-08-26 14:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP MNUC ENRG MASS FR IN EU |
05NEWDELHI6635 | LEFT SHAKES DOWN CONGRESS USING ITS COALITION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Indian Left, led by the CPI(M),has been on a political roll. It has pressured the UPA government to forestall disinvestiture plans, to sack a Cabinet minister and to support economically-unsound programs such as the "National Rural Employment Guarantee Bill" (septel). Pun [...] | 2005-08-29 12:20:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ELAB IN KDEM MNUC |
05NEWDELHI6637 | THE SORDID PATRONAGE POLITICS OF ECONOMIC REFORM [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: On August 24, both Houses of Parliament passed the National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREG) Bill with little opposition by any political party. The Bill, which could theoretically cost the treasury as much as USD 70 billion over 5 years, will now go to President [...] | 2005-08-29 14:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EINV ENRG PGOV IN |
05NEWDELHI6638 | INDIAN QUESTIONS ABOUT IRAN WMD BRIEFING OFFER [...] (S) In response to the USG offer to brief the GOI on Iran's weaponization program and pursuit of the nuclear fuel cycle (Ref A),MEA Deputy Secretary (Americas) Santosh Jha told PolMilOff on August 29 that MEA is generally interested, but would like more information before it could formally a [...] | 2005-08-29 14:45:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | KNNP PARM PREL IR IN |
05NEWDELHI6655 | AMBASSADOR CALLS ON MOD HIERARCHY [...] (C) Summary: Defense Minister Mukherjee expressed great satisfaction with his visit to the US. Opposition to the New Framework for Defense Relations mainly comes from those mired in "Old Think Syndrome." Mukherjee interested in visiting upcoming Indo-US military exercises, and visiting USS [...] | 2005-08-30 11:45:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | IN IZ MARR MOPS PREL |
05NEWDELHI6660 | IRAQI CONSTITUTION: INDIAN SUPPORT, BUT NO [...] (U) This is an action request for NEA/I. Please see para 4. 2. (C) PolMilOff encouraged the GOI to make a public statement in support of Iraq's efforts to draft a constitution and delivered the Secretary's statement and fact sheet (Reftel) during her meeting with MEA Deputy Secretary ( [...] | 2005-08-30 16:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ IN |
05NEWDELHI6691 | PUSHING INDO-PAK DELIVERABLES FOR UNGA MEETING [...] (C) Summary: Although the bonhomie and impressive "to do" list that emerged from the April "cricket summit" (Ref C) gave a palpable boost to Indian perceptions of Indo-Pak relations, the relationship soured in New Delhi's eyes after the GOI reported worsening trends on cross-border infiltrati [...] | 2005-08-31 12:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL EAID ECON PGOV IN PK AF UNGA INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI6693 | INDIA ACCEPTS IRAN BRIEFING [...] (U) This is an action request for NP/RA. See para 3. 2. (S) The GOI has accepted the offer to have a briefing on Iran's weaponization program (Ref A),MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) Dr. S. Jaishankar told A/DCM on August 31. However, because of sensitivities about the visit of Iran's top [...] | 2005-08-31 13:09:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | KNNP PARM IR IN |
05NEWDELHI6694 | MEA EAGER TO WORK WITH US ON BANGLADESH AND SRI [...] (C) Summary: In an August 31 meeting, new MEA Joint Secretary for Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Myanmar Mohan Kumar SIPDIS agreed to the need for greater information sharing and policy coordination between GOI and USG on Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Stressing that Bangladesh is "India's most impo [...] | 2005-08-31 14:14:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV MOPS PBTS ECON IN BD PK SA |
05NEWDELHI6721 | INDIA NOT LIKELY TO PARTICIPATE IN TRACKER WORKSHOP [...] (SBU) India will likely not participate in the Tracker Automated Export Control System workshop in Oxford, UK, in October because the GOI is developing its own export control software, MEA Under Secretary (Disarmament and International Security) Nutan Kapoor told PolMilOff. The GOI is aware o [...] | 2005-09-01 10:27:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KNNP ETTC IN GOI |
05NEWDELHI6722 | INDIAN OFFER TO HELP IRAQ "STILL ON THE TABLE" [...] (U) This is an action request for USAID Mission in Iraq. See para 6. 2. (C) Summary: India's previous offers to provide training, advice, and material assistance to assist Iraq's electoral and constitutional processes are "still on the table," but remain constrained by security concerns, [...] | 2005-09-01 10:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ENRG KDEM IZ IN |
05NEWDELHI6723 | INDIA WILL PROVIDE UPDATE ON NEC CASE [...] (S) In response to points in Reftel, MEA Under Secretary (Disarmament and International Security Affairs) Nutan Kapoor told PolMilOff on August 31 that the GOI would provide an update on the status of the NEC case. PolMilOff also asked that the GOI provide information on the remaining steps t [...] | 2005-09-01 10:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC IN CBW GOI |
05NEWDELHI6725 | GOI WANTS AGRICULTURE MEETING IN OCTOBER [...] (U) This is an Action Request. Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) S Jaishankar told A/DCM on August 31 that while the Agriculture Initiative would be the most difficult of the new US-India undertakings to fulfill, it would be pushed through the Indian side quickly [...] | 2005-09-01 10:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAGR EAID IN |
05NEWDELHI6735 | GOI VISITOR DISAPPOINTS ISRAEL [...] (S) Israel DCM Yoed Magen gave us an unexpectedly downbeat readout of the August 28 visit to Jerusalem by MEA Secretary East Rajiv Sikri, reporting that Sikri appeared SIPDIS more often to be the representative of the Palestinians, rather than India. The Israelis went all out for this visit, supp [...] | 2005-09-01 13:22:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL IN IS |
05NEWDELHI6737 | INDIAN MUSLIMS REJECT EXTREMISM VIA FATWAS [...] (U) Summary: The recent controversy surrounding a fatwa from the Darul-Uloom Deoband seminary demonstrates the unique ability of India's Muslim community to reign in signs of extremism to maintain a moderate Islam identity. During Panchayat (local) elections in Uttar Pradesh, three muftis f [...] | 2005-09-01 13:52:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KISL KIRF PINR PHUM PTER IN IR |
05NEWDELHI6797 | PM'S KABUL VISIT: TERRIFIC OPPORTUNITY TO WORK [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's August 28-29 visit to Kabul is playing as a resounding foreign policy success in New Delhi. The announced USD 50 million additional assistance, proposals for new areas of cooperation, Parliament ground-breaking and ribbon cutting of the Habibia sc [...] | 2005-09-02 13:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM EAID IN AF PK IR |
05NEWDELHI680 | MEA HOPEFUL LOC FIRING ""A ONE-TIME PROBLEM"" [...] (C) On the margins of a January 27 meeting with Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran, DCM expressed our hope that the SIPDIS January 18 and 20 cross-LOC shelling incidents (reftel) would not impede the ongoing Indo-Pak Composite Dialogue. Saran responded that he understood the USG concern and was [...] | 2005-01-27 13:34:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI6803 | NEW DELHI 2005 POLITICAL REPORTING OFFICERS' [...] (U) As previewed in recent e-mails to addressee posts, Embassy New Delhi is pleased to host the second annual Political Reporting Officers' Conference, September 29, 2005 in New Delhi. The event, for which we hope to attract participation from both India constituent posts and India's neighbors [...] | 2005-09-02 14:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV APER ASEC ECON ETRD IN ABUD AMGT US |
05NEWDELHI6804 | INDIA WALKING IRAN TIGHTROPE [...] (C) Summary: As Natwar Singh travels to Tehran September 2 to meet the new regime, India's overriding goal is securing energy, followed by preserving access to Afghanistan, maintaining influence in what India perceives as a swing state in the debate over Islam, and advancing other business relati [...] | 2005-09-02 14:39:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG PBTS IR IN |
05NEWDELHI6806 | YASIN MALIK VISA [...] (SBU) Action Request: Post recommends that Department either authorize Post to issue a visa or that Washington issue a 212(d)(3)(A) waiver of nonimmigrant visa ineligibilities as appropriate for Yasin MALIK (DOB: 3 April 1965),President of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF),to at [...] | 2005-09-02 16:00:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS PREL PTER IN |
05NEWDELHI6809 | TFUS01: INDIA SEEKS USG OK TO SEND MORE AID [...] (U) SEE URGENT ACTION REQUESTS AT PARA 6. 2. (SBU) A/DCM conveyed Refs A and B points to MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) Jaishankar late evening on September 4. SIPDIS Jaishankar indicated he understood the bureaucratic issues regarding sending a medical team and offering Indian pharmace [...] | 2005-09-05 14:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR PREL EAID MOPS MASS AMGT MARR US |
05NEWDELHI6810 | KING OF BHUTAN OFFERS CONDOLENCES FOR HURRICANE [...] The Bhutanese Ambassador to New Delhi has passed the following message from King Wangchuck of Bhutan to the President: 2. Begin text. Your Excellency, I was deeply saddened to learn about the tragic loss of lives and extensive damage to properties caused by Hurricane Katrina in the St [...] | 2005-09-05 14:28:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL BT IN |
05NEWDELHI6837 | CRICKET CONCERNS: GOI'S PROPOSED SATELLITE TV [...] (SBU) Summary: Minister of Information and Broadcasting Jaipal Reddy told A/DCM on September 2 that US broadcasters' concern on proposed new GOI restrictions on satellite uplink policies (reftel) was misplaced, as New Delhi's only interest was in ensuring that India's rural poor would have acc [...] | 2005-09-06 12:14:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS EINV PREL IN |
05NEWDELHI6840 | A NUCLEAR IRAN STILL UNACCEPTABLE TO INDIA, BUT DELHI QUESTIONS EVENTUAL ARMED CONFRONTATION [...] (S) Summary: Indian FS Saran listened attentively to Ambassador's views on Iran, including our disappointment with FM Natwar Singh's public statements on his September 3-4 visit to Tehran; and reaffirmed India's long-standing policy on Iran, ie, that Iran must comply with its international commitm [...] | 2005-09-06 13:34:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | MNUC PREL KNNP PINS MOPS IN IR |
05NEWDELHI6841 | INDIA-SYRIA RELATIONS (C-NE5-00868) [...] (S/NF) Summary: Indian West Asia Envoy Gharekhan's recent trip to Syria was focused on Iraq. India's broader interests in Damascus include Syria's influence on the Israel-Palestine conflict and Iraq, and the GOI's desire to burnish relations with the Muslim world. End Summary. Gharekhan's Visi [...] | 2005-09-06 13:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PINR IN SY |
05NEWDELHI6844 | CONGRESS PARTY: CLINTON DINNER IN BAD TASTE [...] (C) Summary: Congress spokesperson Anand Sharma told the press on September 5 that a lavish September 7 dinner planned by Congress adversary Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav in honor of former President Clinton in the midst of an fatal outbreak in U.P. of Japanese Encephalitis [...] | 2005-09-06 14:20:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER OVIP OTRA EAID PREL ASEC IN |
05NEWDELHI6846 | GOI MINISTER: NO THIRD FRONT, UPA TO PUSH FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: GOI Minister and Congress leader Jaipal Reddy told A/DCM on September 2 that the US-India relationship was welcomed "across the political spectrum" in India, despite some insincere sniping from the opposition. While the Left Front has staked out opposition to some UPA efforts, it [...] | 2005-09-06 14:55:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EINV EFIN ECON PREL ELAB IN |
05NEWDELHI6847 | INDIAN MINISTER: NEPAL'S KING UNREPENTANT, BUT GOI [...] (C) Summary: Indian Minister Jaipal Reddy told us that Nepal's King Gyanendra was unrepentant in a discussion at the August 29 SAARC information ministers' meeting. The King is hoping India will blink, but it will not, Reddy said. In the meantime, he argued, the Maoists are gaining ground an [...] | 2005-09-06 15:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV IN NP |
05NEWDELHI6903 | BHUTAN FEARS MAOISTS IN REFUGEE CAMPS [...] (C) Summary: Bhutanese MFA officials expressed concern over Maoist intrusions into refugee camps in Nepal and indicated the government's main priority is keeping radical elements out of Bhutan during August 24-25 meetings with Poloff and Econoff in Thimphu. The MFA reiterated the Royal Govern [...] | 2005-09-07 12:19:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PGOV PHUM IN NP BT |
05NEWDELHI6915 | INDIAN DEPUTY NSA UPBEAT ON PAKISTAN, HESITANT ON [...] (C) Summary: Deputy NSA VK Nambiar told A/DCM and Poloff on September 7 that he was optimistic the Indo-Pak peace process would continue to make slow progress, and looked forward to PM Manmohan Singh's meeting with President Musharraf during the UNGA summit. Nambiar highlighted instability i [...] | 2005-09-08 08:39:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KNNP IN IR PK BG INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI6929 | MDA: INDIA SUPPORTS PROTOCOL, BUT NO PLANS TO PUSH [...] (U) A/DCM delivered reftel demarche to Joint Secretary (UN Political) Sanjiv Arora on September 6. Arora promised to confer with his UN Economic and Social (UNES) counterparts, but had no substantive comment. 2. (C) Poloff followed up with Deputy Secretary (UNES) Gopal Baglay on Septembe [...] | 2005-09-08 12:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL IN IS SZ GOI UN |
05NEWDELHI6931 | DEMARCHES DELIVERED: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, [...] (U) This is an Action Request. Please see para 8. 2. (C) Summary: A/DCM and Poloff called on new MEA Joint Secretary (UN Political) Sanjiv Arora on September 6 and SIPDIS delivered Refs A and B demarches, underlining the importance in the new US-India relationship for India to be seen [...] | 2005-09-08 12:21:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ECIN PHUM KDEM KUNR IN AF UNGA GOI |
05NEWDELHI6974 | INDIA NOTES US IRAN VIEWS; TRYING TO CLARIFY ITS POSITION [...] (S) SUMMARY: Our efforts here and Congress' reaction in Washington seem to be encouraging the Indians to review their public postures on Iran. According to a senior MEA contact, they are mulling ways to restate their position in an unambiguous and helpful way. Our MEA contacts cite Indian engage [...] | 2005-09-09 10:35:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | KNNP PREL MNUC IR IN |
05NEWDELHI6994 | INDIA-EU,UK SUMMITS: THE SINCEREST FORM OF FLATTERY [...] (U) Summary: Tony Blair wrapped up two days of EU and UK summits on September 8, leaving behind an EU-India joint action plan, British and European support for Indian ITER participation, a framework agreement on Galileo, and UK assent to increased civil nuclear cooperation. Trade representatives [...] | 2005-09-09 14:40:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD EINV KPKO KDEM KNNP PHUM IN UK EU IR GM |
05NEWDELHI708 | INDIAN EXPECTATIONS FOR THE PAC-2 BRIEFING [...] (C) The classified briefing on the Patriot PAC-2 missile defense (MD) system, currently scheduled for February 22 or 23, has generated a great deal of interest within the Indian government, with senior GOI officials hopeful that this will be the beginning of a broader MD relationship with the U [...] | 2005-01-28 11:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MASS IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI7083 | DEMARCHE ON LTTE ACTIVITIES DELIVERED TO GOI [...] (C) We delivered Ref A demarche on September 8 to MEA Director (Americas) Sanjay Bhattacharyya and Deputy Secretary (Sri Lanka) Anupam Ray, both of whom accepted it without substantial comment. We pointed out that our giving the GOI this demarche was more about demonstrating our resolve to c [...] | 2005-09-13 08:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV IN CE |
05NEWDELHI709 | INDIA REINVENTING NSA POSITION [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 11. 2. (C) Summary: MK Narayanan, formally named on January 25 as India's new NSA, will be a different kind of National Security Adviser than his high-profile, powerful predecessors, JN Dixit and Brajesh Mishra. After several weeks of debat [...] | 2005-01-28 11:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PINS PREL PGOV IN PK |
05NEWDELHI7092 | GOI MORE PESSIMISTIC THAN EVER ON NEPAL [...] (C) Summary: MEA Joint Secretary (North) Ranjit Rae was less optimistic than ever that King Gyanendra would take steps to resolve the deteriorating political stalemate in Nepal. He told A/DCM and Poloff on September 12 that all Indian observers believe the King is in "self-destruct mode," an [...] | 2005-09-13 10:55:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER PBTS MOPS MASS ECON IN NP |
05NEWDELHI7100 | SCENE-SETTER FOR MEETINGS WITH MANMOHAN SINGH & NATWAR SINGH IN NEW YORK [...] (C) Summary: Madame Secretary, your meetings this week with (we hope) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Foreign Minister Natwar Singh provide an occasion to sketch the real challenges we face in implementing legislative actions necessary for us to fulfill the civil nuclear vision of the July 18 Jo [...] | 2005-09-13 12:49:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IN |
05NEWDELHI7135 | INDIA: UPDATE OF WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] IN RESPONSE TO REFTEL, POST SPOKE TO MINISTRY OF LABOR OFFICIALS, NGOS, AND TRADE UNIONISTS TO ANSWER QUESTIONS POSED IN PARA 7. A. LAWS AND REGULATIONS PROSCRIBING THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR: -- INDIA HAS NOT YET RATIFIED ILO CONVENTION 182. ALTHOUGH THE GOI INITIATED THE PROCESS [...] | 2005-09-14 06:45:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PGOV KCRM ETRD IN |
05NEWDELHI7159 | ECONOMIC INTERVIEWS IN BHUTAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Econoff traveled to Bhutan in late August to interview several Ministry officials at the working level and to establish additional contacts with non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The three day visit, which included over 15 meetings around Thimphu, resulted in a number o [...] | 2005-09-14 12:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD IN BT |
05NEWDELHI719 | FIRST INDIA-CHINA STRATEGIC DIALOGUE MODEST BUT [...] (C) Summary: The January 24 strategic dialogue between China and India "did not accomplish much," but did provide insight into China's view of the world, Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran told the DCM on January 27. From New SIPDIS Delhi's perspective, the dialogue illustrated China's [...] | 2005-01-28 13:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM IN CH |
05NEWDELHI7194 | INDIA DECLINES INVITATION TO EXPORT CONTROL [...] (U) Indian export control officials will not attend the international export control conference in Stockholm, Sweden, Sept. 20-22, because of other commitments at that time, MEA Under Secretary for Disarmament and International Security Nutan Kapoor told PolMilOff on Sept. 14. 2. (C) Comm [...] | 2005-09-15 09:10:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KSTC MASS ETTC IN |
05NEWDELHI7197 | BLAIR SUPPORTS INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR COOPERATION AND [...] (C) Summary: In a briefing on the September 7-8 India-EU Summit, British High Commissioner Sir Michael Arthur emphasized the UK's support for civil nuclear cooperation with India, the success of the UK's effort to play up its European personality during this visit, and the excellent personal [...] | 2005-09-15 09:38:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD EINV EAID KDEM KNNP PHUM IN UK EU IR GM NSSP |
05NEWDELHI72 | INDIAN INITIATIVES TO FURTHER HIGH TECH, BIOTECH, [...] (C) Summary: Despite changes in key USG interlocutors, the GOI hopes to preserve momentum on high-tech trade and other cooperation under the Next Steps in Strategic Partnership (NSSP) umbrella and is looking to Washington for similar signals. In a December 29 meeting with PolCouns and Pol-M [...] | 2005-01-04 13:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETTC KNNP TRGY IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI7230 | WHITHER THE BJP? [...] (C) Summary: Well-documented divisions (reftels) have recently prevented the BJP from fulfilling its role as India's leading opposition party and led to a string of electoral defeats. The latest "crisis" was the expulsion and reinstatement of BJP leader Madan Lal Khurana. The core issue is [...] | 2005-09-15 13:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IN PK |
05NEWDELHI7241 | EDUCATION IN A HIMALAYAN KINGDOM: ANOTHER FACET OF [...] (U) Summary: During Poloff's August 22-25 visit to Bhutan, our interlocutors insisted that Bhutan is committed to educating its children by providing free schooling for all. Primary school enrollment stands at 87.8 percent. The government's decision in the 1950s to use English as the medium [...] | 2005-09-16 09:23:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF SCUL PHUM IN BT |
05NEWDELHI7259 | INDO-PAK UNGA MEETING POSITIVE, NO FIREWORKS [...] (C) Summary: The September 14, four-hour Manmohan Singh-Musharraf dinner meeting and joint statement on the sidelines of UNGA continued the positive bilateral vibe even if it did not produce new deliverables, MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan/Iran/Afghanistan) Dilip Sinha told us during a Septemb [...] | 2005-09-16 13:13:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PHUM PGOV IN PK AF INDO PAK UNGA |
05NEWDELHI7261 | NUCLEAR ISSUES OVERSHADOWED NATWAR'S TRIP TO IRAN [...] (C) Summary: MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan/Iran/Afghanistan) Dilip Sinha complained to CDA and Poloff during a September 15 office call that nuclear proliferation issues overshadowed in the press the rest of Foreign Minister Natwar Singh's September 2-4 trip to Iran. The trip's substantive fo [...] | 2005-09-16 13:36:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG EPET KNNP PARM PINR IN IR UK GM |
05NEWDELHI73 | LODI GYARI INFORMS INDIA OF PLANS FOR TIBETAN [...] (C) On January 3, the Dalai Lama's Special Representative Lodi Gyari told Ambassador Mulford that he had briefed MEA Joint Secretary (East Asia) Ashok Kantha that same day on Dharamsala's intention to relocate 10,000 Tibetan refugees from India and Nepal to the US. He emphasized that he had [...] | 2005-01-04 13:26:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PHUM IN CH NP |
05NEWDELHI7345 | ALL EYES ON VAJPAYEE AS ADVANI AND RSS TUSSLE [...] (C) Summary: The BJP's leadership conclave in Chennai ended with a bang when LK Advani picked a very public fight with the Hindu right-wing RSS over the future ideological direction of the party. On September 18, Advani finally submitted to RSS pressure to resign (in December) as party pres [...] | 2005-09-20 12:38:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PINR PREL PTER IN PK BG |
05NEWDELHI7346 | INDIA QUICK TO COMMEND AFGHAN ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) The MEA released a supportive statement on September 19 welcoming the Parliamentary and provincial elections in Afghanistan, calling the polls "an important stage in Afghanistan's journey towards a peaceful, stable and prosperous society," and a demonstration of the population's choice [...] | 2005-09-20 13:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM EAID IN AF |
05NEWDELHI74 | INDIA TSUNAMI SITREP: JANUARY 4 [...] (SBU) Summary: India Consular officers have been focusing on unaccounted for American citizens through an ongoing effort to respond to inquiries, and have been successful in resolving about 170 cases. In a January 4 session with members of the local media, the Ambassador highlighted the US r [...] | 2005-01-04 13:34:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CASC AEMR EAID MASS SOCI EAGR ID CE MV IN |
05NEWDELHI7400 | RISING BANGLADESHI MIGRATION IN INDIA AND THE [...] (C) As India grows increasingly concerned about Islamic extremism in Bangladesh, there is a rising paranoia about the number of Bangladeshi migrants, the nature of a more radicalized Islam that they bring to border areas, and changes in political demographics in the Northeast. This problem i [...] | 2005-09-22 11:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS SMIG PTER BG IN |
05NEWDELHI7417 | BHUTAN: GOOD GOVERNANCE LEADS TO HEALTHY MOUNTAIN [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite its isolation, low income and rugged terrain, Bhutan has created an effective system of state-provided medical care that is delivering a healthier population and outpacing others in South Asia. The Government continues to invest heavily in the medical sector, with dono [...] | 2005-09-23 10:14:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SCUL EAID IN BT NP UN |
05NEWDELHI7421 | BREAKING INDIA'S PSI LOGJAM [...] (U) This is an action request for Department L/LEI. See para 7. 2. (C) Summary: To gain GOI support for the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) we should quickly respond to GOI concerns about the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation (SUA) Convention [...] | 2005-09-23 10:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHSA KNNP IN UK PSI |
05NEWDELHI7432 | UNFOUNDED "THIRD FRONT" RUMORS HINT AT CONGRESS [...] (C) Summary: Persistent rumors in Indian political circles that the Left Front (LF) is conspiring with the Samajwadi Party (SP) of Mulayam Singh Yadav to construct a "third front" capable of unseating the present United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government are unfounded. The LF benefits fr [...] | 2005-09-23 11:26:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IN |
05NEWDELHI7436 | RE-TOOLING THE HTCG: EMBASSY'S THOUGHTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As we plan for the December 1-2 meeting of the High Technology Cooperation Group (HTCG) in New Delhi, the Embassy HTCG working group -- Econ, Pol, Sci, FAS, ODC, FCS - met on September 20. The consensus of our group is that the focus of the HTCG in the post-NSSP era should u [...] | 2005-09-23 11:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETTC EINT EINV ETRD PREL EAGR IN HTCG |
05NEWDELHI749 | HIGH TURNOUT IN FIRST ROUND OF J&K LOCAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: Consolidating the pattern set in other recent state elections, Kashmiris turned out in large numbers in municipal elections in North Kashmir on January 30, defying terrorist intimidation and a separatist-led boycott campaign, and demonstrating that they want to have a greater say i [...] | 2005-01-31 12:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM IN PK |
05NEWDELHI7493 | INDIAN GOVERNMENT AGGRESSIVELY DEFENDING ITS VOTE ON IRAN [...] (C) Summary: India's decision to support the US/EU resolution on Iran at the IAEA was the most important signal so far of the UPA's commitment to building a transformed US-India relationship. To counter the domestic backlash, the GOI launched an aggressive campaign to explain to its domestic con [...] | 2005-09-26 13:06:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KNNP IR IN |
05NEWDELHI7494 | GOI CONSIDERING RUSSIAN THRUST IN CENTRAL ASIA [...] (C) Summary: As India perceives a shift by Central Asian nations toward their Soviet roots and increased competition from China, the GOI is taking a new look at how to orient its foreign policy in the region. Frustrated with the slow progress expanding influence in its extended neighborhood a [...] | 2005-09-26 13:07:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ETRD MOPS CN PK AF IN |
05NEWDELHI750 | Bio-Terrorism Tabletop and Bio-Security [...] Summary: On January 7, 2005, OES/DAS Morin met with the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA),Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOH) and the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) officials to present US - India Counterterrorism Joint Working Group (CTJWG) on a bio-terrorism tabletop exercise and [...] | 2005-01-31 12:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO PTER KNNP PREL PGOV TPHY TRGY KSCA IN |
05NEWDELHI7505 | NEPALESE MAOISTS STILL TOP CONCERN FOR GOI [...] (C) Summary: The GOI still sees the Maoists as its chief concern in the ongoing crisis in Nepal, MEA told us on September 27. However, the GOI believes the cease-fire could be a sign of progress toward an ultimate political solution, if the Maoists prove sincere in their professed commitment [...] | 2005-09-27 08:00:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MASS KDEM IN NP PK CH |
05NEWDELHI7555 | SHIELD S38-05: INDIA WILL INVESTIGATE SHIPMENT OF [...] (S) PolMilOff raised the points in reftel regarding the Grow-On Group's shipment of large amounts of sodium cyanide to North Korea in a Sept 27 meeting with MEA Under Secretary, Disarmament and International Security, Nutan Kapoor. PolMilOff gave Kapoor a non-paper about the case, as well as [...] | 2005-09-28 07:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC KN IN |
05NEWDELHI7556 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNFC COMPLIANCE RESOLUTION [...] PolMilOff delivered reftel demarche seeking support for the US resolution on compliance in the UNGA First Committee to MEA Under Secretary, Disarmament and International Security, Nutan Kapoor on September 27. Kapoor had no substantive comment. 2. EmbOffs also delivered the demarche to M [...] | 2005-09-28 07:05:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL IN UNGA |
05NEWDELHI756 | INDIA ON IRAQI ELECTIONS: CONGRATULATE AND [...] (C) Summary: Despite the GOI's deliberately low-profile public and material support in the run-up to the Iraqi elections, Indian government, media, and commentators welcomed the completion of Iraq's first election. In a January 31 statement, the Indian MEA called the elections a "noteworthy [...] | 2005-01-31 13:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IN IZ |
05NEWDELHI757 | STRATEGIC DIALOGUE WITH CHINA JUST THE BEGINNING, [...] (C) Summary: "If China had proposed a strategic dialogue a few years ago, we would have been wary," MEA Joint Secretary (East Asia) told PolCouns and Poloff on January 31, SIPDIS adding that the PRC now seems willing to engage with India on issues of global importance. Echoing Foreign Secr [...] | 2005-01-31 13:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IN CH |
05NEWDELHI759 | RESTORING MOMENTUM TO OUR NSSP RELATIONSHIP [...] (C) MEA Joint Secretary Americas Jaishankar called in DCM and PolCouns on January 31 to reiterate his earlier message (reftel) regarding the likely impasse in our Next Steps in Strategic Partnership (NSSP) relationship if we are not able to achieve buy-in from key GOI scientific agencies that f [...] | 2005-01-31 14:26:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP ETTC TSPA IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI7693 | INITIAL INDIAN OUTREACH TO THE NUCLEAR SUPPLIERS [...] (C) Summary: India has begun to lobby Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) members in advance of the 19-20 October meeting of the Consultative Group (CG),MEA Joint Secretary for Disarmament and International Security Hamid Ali Rao told PolCouns and PolMilOff on 3 Oct. So far, the GOI has engaged [...] | 2005-10-03 12:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG KNNP IS IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI7725 | COMBATING EXTREMISM - MISSION INDIA RESPONSE [...] (C) Summary: India enjoys a democratic, multi-religious, multi-cultural, heterogeneous, multi-ethnic society where all major world religions are practiced freely. Isolated elements of religious extremism of many varieties have, however, occurred in India -- notably among Hindus, Muslims, and [...] | 2005-10-05 05:52:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL KDEM KPAO EAID PHUM KMPI PGOV IN |
05NEWDELHI7752 | GOI ON ICJ ELECTIONS DEMARCHE, ITALIAN COESPU [...] (SBU) Summary: PolCouns and Poloff delivered Ref A demarche on ICJ elections, discussed Ref B plans for funding travel of Indian students to Italy's Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units, and reviewed the way forward for cooperation on UN reform in an October 5 conversation with MEA [...] | 2005-10-05 10:10:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO KUNR IN IT UNSC UNGA GOI |
05NEWDELHI7759 | CONGRESS MOVES TO CALM COALITION JITTERS [...] (C) Summary: The virulent criticism by the Left Front (LF) and the opposition BJP of India's anti-Iran vote in the IAEA and their efforts to politicize the debate on economic reform has caught many Congress leaders by surprise, and fed rumors that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) governm [...] | 2005-10-05 12:21:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ELAB KISL PREL PINR EINV IR IN |
05NEWDELHI7767 | SECOND ANNUAL SOUTH ASIA POLITICAL REPORTING [...] (U) Summary: The September 29 South Asia Political Reporting Officers' Conference in New Delhi brought together almost 50 officers and FSNs from Indian consulates, South Asian countries, the broader region and Washington to discuss recent developments. Participants discussed the July 18 Indo [...] | 2005-10-05 13:11:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER BD PK NP IN |
05NEWDELHI7777 | HOME SECRETARY UPBEAT ABOUT DECLINE IN TERRORISM, [...] (U) ACTION REQUEST FOR S/CT IN PARA 8. 2. (C) Summary: In an October 3 meeting with the Ambassador following an MLAT signing ceremony, Home Secretary VK Duggal was moderately upbeat over the security situation in Kashmir, noting that the situation was calm enough for the valley to welcome [...] | 2005-10-06 08:25:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PTER CASC CJAN IN PK NP GOI |
05NEWDELHI7794 | GOI J&K POINTMAN CAUTIOUSLY UPBEAT ON INDO-PAK, [...] (C) Summary: In an October 4 meeting with visiting US Ambassador to Islamabad Ryan Crocker, GOI Interlocutor on Kashmir NN Vohra was generally upbeat on Indo-Pak relations and said that Islamabad is sending positive signals on Kashmir, but Musharraf is not doing enough to combat cross-border [...] | 2005-10-06 11:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PBTS IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI7795 | DNSA NAMBIAR TO AMB CROCKER: PAKISTANI GLASS HALF [...] (S) Summary: Playing bad cop, Deputy National Security Advisor Vijay Nambiar gave visiting US Ambassador to Pakistan a twenty minute assessment of Pakistani terrorists' ties to regional and global jehadi groups as a way of "balancing Musharraf's rhetoric." Bangladesh, he feared, was the new hub for [...] | 2005-10-06 11:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV PBTS ECON MOPS PK IN INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI7797 | GOI: NO BASHAR VISIT PLANNED, BUT SYRIA MUST DO [...] (C) Summary: India's West Asia Envoy C Gharekhan told us he is unaware of plans for Syrian President Bashar al-Asad to visit New Delhi, but agreed that Damascus is eager to exploit any opportunity for high-level visits to dispel its deep isolation. Syria must do more for its own sake and Iraq [...] | 2005-10-06 13:09:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IN SY IZ |
05NEWDELHI7803 | HOME SECRETARY OPTIMISTIC ON PAKISTANI TIES, BUT [...] (C) Summary: Reviewing India-Pakistan relations for visiting US Ambassador to Islamabad Ryan Crocker, Home Secretary VK Duggal observed on October 4 that Indo-Pak SIPDIS relations are generally "on the upswing," but lamented the lack of concrete evidence of a change of Pakistani intentions [...] | 2005-10-07 05:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI7874 | BAGLIHAR DAM: NEUTRAL EXPERT VISITS SITE, WILL [...] (U) Summary: World Bank-appointed Neutral Expert Dr. Raymond Lafitte today completed his tour and consultations on the controversial Baglihar Dam; he gave the GOI a preliminary read-out and will file a comprehensive report by October 21. The process, under the auspices of the World Bank-broker [...] | 2005-10-07 12:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ENRG IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI7880 | TFPK01: INDIA ANALYZING ITS NEEDS, ACKNOWLEDGES US [...] (U) Please see Action Request in Para 4 below. 2. (SBU) In a meeting October 10 with Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran (other topics reported septel),the SIPDIS Ambassador conveyed to India the condolences of the United States for the loss of life and injuries sustained as a result o [...] | 2005-10-10 09:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR ASEC KISL PREL PGOV EAID PBTS PK IN US |
05NEWDELHI7909 | CONGRESS ON DEFENSIVE OVER SUPREME COURT DECISION [...] (C) Summary. On October 7, the Indian Supreme Courts ruled that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) May 22 dissolution of the Bihar State Assembly and its declaration of President's rule was unconstitutional. However, the Court refused to cancel the October 18-November 19 state elections, [...] | 2005-10-11 12:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KJUS PHUM PREL IN |
05NEWDELHI7910 | TFPK01: India Sitrep Oct. 11, 2005 [...] (U) The following is an update on salient events in India since the October 8 earthquake. 2. (U) Death toll: "The Hindu" of Oct. 11 reports 927 are dead in Indian Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). The J&K government doesn't expect the death toll to go above 1100 because only 180 more are considered [...] | 2005-10-11 12:33:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR KISL PTER PGOV EAID PBTS PK IN |
05NEWDELHI792 | INDIA RESPONDS QUICKLY TO NEPAL KING'S ACTIONS; [...] (S) Summary: Expressing "grave concern" over the King's decision to dissolve the multiparty government in Nepal, and calling the action "a serious setback to the cause of democracy," New Delhi responded swiftly and with unusual firmness to the February 1 developments in Kathmandu. In a statem [...] | 2005-02-01 11:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MASS EAID PREF ASEC IN NP |
05NEWDELHI796 | CONGRESS SET TO WIN IN HARYANA BUT THE VICTORY [...] (C) Summary: Pundits, journalists, and politicians agree that Congress will emerge victorious in Haryana's February 3 Legislative Assembly elections, winning from 60 to 80 seats in the 90 member Assembly. Growing disgust with the misrule and corruption of the ruling Indian National Lok Dal (I [...] | 2005-02-01 13:52:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON IN |
05NEWDELHI7967 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: BRINGING BURMA BEFORE THE UNSC [...] (C) Deputy PolCouns and Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MEA Director (UN Political) Sangeeta Mann on October 13, who said she would provide a response after consulting with her regional office. Post will continue to follow up with GOI officials. 2. (U) Visit New Delhi's Classified We [...] | 2005-10-13 13:21:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV BM UNSC UNGA |
05NEWDELHI7984 | TFPK01: India Sitrep Oct. 14, 2005 [...] (U) The following is the final India sitrep of events related to the October 8 earthquake. 2. (U) Death toll: Contradicting October 13 media reports of 1400 dead, the Press Information Bureau (PIB) of the Government of India (GOI) reports 1178 civilians and 85 Security Forces are dead in Ja [...] | 2005-10-14 09:40:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR KISL PTER PGOV EAID PBTS PK IN |
05NEWDELHI7990 | TFPK01: KASHMIRIS SEEK LOWERING OF BORDERS AS [...] (C) Summary: PM Singh and the senior Indian leadership have moved swiftly following the October 8 earthquake to show Kashmiris that India shares their grief and would help them, but relief efforts have been slow to reach some areas. The quake is having its impact in Kashmiri politics, too, wit [...] | 2005-10-14 10:55:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID AEMR KISL PTER PBTS PK IN |
05NEWDELHI7992 | TFPK01: India Sitrep Oct. 14, 2005 [...] The following is the final India sitrep of events related to the October 8 earthquake. 2. Death toll: Contradicting October 13 media reports of 1400 dead, the Press Information Bureau (PIB) of the Government of India (GOI) reports 1178 civilians and 85 Security Forces are dead in Jammu an [...] | 2005-10-14 10:57:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR KISL PTER PGOV EAID PBTS PK IN |
05NEWDELHI8006 | THE LEFT GROOMS A NEW GENERATION OF REFUSENIKS [...] (SBU) Summary: Although the growing strength of Congress and BJP student unions suggests that the student body has become more tolerant of centrist and right wing views, the left continues to dominate student politics at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU),one of the country's pre- [...] | 2005-10-14 12:43:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SCUL ECON IN |
05NEWDELHI8007 | MEA "VERY SUPPORTIVE" OF AFGHAN SAARC MEMBERSHIP [...] (C) In an October 14 meeting with PolCouns and Poloff, MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Dilip Sinha -- after reading Reftel demarche -- said the GOI is "very supportive" of Afghanistan joining SAARC. Sinha reported that the GOI has raised this topic repeatedly with the GOA, [...] | 2005-10-14 12:47:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD IN AF XD |
05NEWDELHI8008 | MEA ESTIMATES ZARANJ-DELARAM ROAD COMPLETION BY [...] (SBU) Further to Ref A demarche, PolCouns and Poloff met on October 14 with MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Dilip Sinha, who reiterated that, because of delays in procuring supplies and fuel for the Zaranj-Delaram road project from Iran, the completion date has slipped from [...] | 2005-10-14 12:49:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ELTN EAID IN AF |
05NEWDELHI8010 | MEA FORMULATING "MORE ACTIVE ROLE" IN SRI LANKAN [...] (C) Summary: The MEA's Deputy Secretary for Sri Lanka Anupam Ray told us that New Delhi is concerned about the deteriorating situation in Sri Lanka, and has decided the ""time has come"" for India to start ""taking a higher profile in Sri Lanka."" The GOI does not, however, wish for a facilitatio [...] | 2005-10-14 13:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MASS CE IN |
05NEWDELHI8011 | INDIA AND BANGLADESH TRADE SPITBALLS IN INDIAN [...] (C) Summary: In the past two weeks, India and Bangladesh have been fighting a war of words in the press over Bangladeshi allegations of Indian involvement in the August 17 blasts and the arrest of five Bangladeshi criminals in Kolkata At a September 30 press conference, concluding an otherwi [...] | 2005-10-14 13:35:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KCRM KWMN BG IN |
05NEWDELHI8012 | MEA LARGELY UPBEAT ON INDO-PAK, BUT QUAKE NO [...] (C) Summary: In an October 14 meeting with PolCouns and Poloff, MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Dilip Sinha judged that it was too soon to assess the damage the October 8 earthquake dealt to terrorism in Kashmir, although he cautioned that the terrorists' setbacks may only [...] | 2005-10-14 14:26:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS ENRG PBTS ETRD IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI8034 | INDO-PAK COUNTRY TEAMS DISCUSS HOW TO ENCOURAGE [...] (C) Summary: Taking advantage of Ambassador Crocker's trip to India, New Delhi and Islamabad country teams on October 4 convened a round table discussion on Indo-Pak relations. Both sides agreed that, although there are few feasible avenues for direct USG involvement in this sphere -- and th [...] | 2005-10-17 10:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PTER PREL PGOV PINR ETRD EPET MASS KPAO IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI8035 | AMBASSADOR CROCKER'S MEETINGS WITH DELHI DEFENSE [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Crocker's October 4 meeting with strategists focused largely on Indian concerns that Musharraf is continuing Pakistani polices that foster intolerance, a hawkish stance on India, and cross-border terrorism. With business leaders, the emphasis was on recent increment [...] | 2005-10-17 10:51:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PGOV ETRD IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI8049 | INDIA'S OUTREACH AND ADHERENCE TO NSG [...] (C) Outlining India's efforts to seek support for the July 18 Civil Nuclear Agreement in advance of the upcoming NSG meeting, MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) S. Jaishankar passed copies of presentations the GOI was making to NSG member states to Charge, PolCouns, and PolMilOff on October 14 (c [...] | 2005-10-17 12:43:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP ENRG IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI8053 | GROWING FEARS OF AN INDECISIVE OUTCOME AS BIHAR [...] (SBU) Summary: Bihar goes to the polls tomorrow, October 18, in its second set of State elections in less than nine months. Over 500 candidates made their last efforts over the past weekend to sway voters, in what all observers believe will be a close election. However, the Rashtriya Jana [...] | 2005-10-17 13:35:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IN |
05NEWDELHI8054 | RAJASTHAN PROVIDES NO LET-UP IN UNRELENTING BAD [...] (C) Summary: Rajasthan has joined a long list of places where BJP fortunes are on the wane. Vasundhara Raje pulled off a stunning upset victory to become Chief Minister in 2003 and many thought her administration would be one of the rare "success stories" for the embattled BJP. However, her [...] | 2005-10-17 13:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON SCUL PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI8061 | GROWING FEARS OF AN INDECISIVE OUTCOME AS BIHAR [...] (SBU) Summary: Bihar goes to the polls tomorrow, October 18, in its second set of State elections in less than nine months. Over 500 candidates made their last efforts over the past weekend to sway voters, in what all observers believe will be a close election. However, the Rashtriya Jana [...] | 2005-10-18 09:51:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
05NEWDELHI8073 | J&K ATTACK WILL DEEPEN GOI ANGER OVER TERRORISM [...] (C) Summary: Terrorists affiliated with Pakistan-based al-Mansoorian (a front name used by Lashkar-e-Tayyiba) on October 18 conducted a daytime suicide attack on a secure residential compound in Srinagar, killing the J&K Education Minister and two security personnel. This attack appears desi [...] | 2005-10-18 10:09:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL IN PK |
05NEWDELHI8120 | INDO-PAK "DISASTER DIPLOMACY" SOFTENING BORDERS [...] (C) Summary: Terrorism aside (Ref A),the diplomatic vibes of disaster diplomacy are resonating well in India. The GOI warmly welcomed Musharraf's October 18 decision to permit "any amount" of Kashmiris from J&K to cross the LoC into Pakistani Kashmir to assist with earthquake reconstruction [...] | 2005-10-19 11:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EAID ECPS PBTS IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI8140 | JAMMU AND KASHMIR EARTHQUAKE DISASTER AND NEEDS [...] Following a 7.4 earthquake that struck the Kashmir region on October 8, a Regional Advisor from USAID's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance and a Disaster Management Specialist from USAID/Delhi deployed to the affected region in northern India October 12-16 to conduct a rapid needs assessmen [...] | 2005-10-20 08:27:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | NONE |
05NEWDELHI8150 | IRAQ: SEEKING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR REFERENDUM [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-20 10:51:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO IN |
05NEWDELHI8162 | INDIA'S STANCE ON IRAN AND THE IAEA CONTINUES TO [...] (SBU) Summary: The spate of media and political criticism touched off by the GOI's decision to vote with the US and the EU3 (UK, France, and Germany) at the September 24 IAEA meeting on Iran is increasing rather than dying down. Foreign Secretary Saran recently summoned Ambassadors from the EU3 to [...] | 2005-10-20 12:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KNNP ENRG IR IN |
05NEWDELHI8163 | USG QUAKE ASSISTANCE CAN HELP BUILD GOODWILL IN J&K [...] (SBU) Summary: The October 8 earthquake that carved a path of destruction through Kashmir continues to claim lives as the death toll continues to rise. A USAID/OFDA team completed a rapid assessment in J&K (Ref A) and reports more extensive damage and a slower humanitarian assistance respons [...] | 2005-10-20 12:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID AEMR KISL PTER PBTS IN PK US |
05NEWDELHI8185 | CONTAINER INSPECTION IN MUMBAI INDIA [...] ICE Attach Dozier explained that the radiation alert on the container in Colombo, Sri Lanka currently located in Mumbai, India was allegedly caused by neutron radiation from the container as registered by the equipment installed by mega-port (Department of Energy) personne [...] | 2005-10-21 11:14:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC KNNP PARM ENRG IN |
05NEWDELHI8188 | UIGHUR RESETTLEMENT: GOI UNLIKELY TO RESPOND [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) S Jaishankar told the Charge on October 15 that the GOI would consider the US request for assistance in resettling Uighur detainees, but suggested that the answer would be no. "You know why," he added. Comment ------- [...] | 2005-10-21 13:00:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PTER KAWC PHUM PREF PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI8194 | RE-EXAMINATION OF MUMBAI CONTAINER [...] (SBU) DCM met with MEA (Americas) Joint Secretary Jaishankar to present reftel demarche. DCM underlined the importance of this issue to Washington and indicated DOE's interest in sending a team immediately to re-examine the container. Jaishankar reported that the GOI will need to consult the [...] | 2005-10-21 13:07:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IN KNNP PARM ENRG |
05NEWDELHI8231 | JASWANT SINGH BELIEVES THE UPA IS INCAPABLE OF MANAGING THE INDO/US RELATIONSHIP [...] (C) Summary: Meeting with U/S Burns and the Ambassador in New Delhi on October 21, former Foreign Minister and BJP leader Jaswant Singh expressed wholehearted support for the India/US agenda and its many components, but reading between the lines, that support was actually qualified. Singh seemed [...] | 2005-10-24 10:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PGOV PINR IN PK IR |
05NEWDELHI8237 | U/S BURNS AND F/S SARAN CLARIFY POSITIONS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: U/S Nicholas Burns' meeting with GOI Foreign Secretary Saran on U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation SIPDIS clarified differing perceptions on how to sequence each side's fulfillment of obligations in order to build sufficient confidence in the other side's executive and legisl [...] | 2005-10-24 11:30:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KNNP ENRG IN |
05NEWDELHI8245 | BURNS-SARAN OCTOBER 21 MEETING ON BILATERAL ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: Much progress was made in the October 21 opening meeting in Delhi between Under Secretary for Political Affairs Burns and Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran which reviewed the US-India joint ventures launched at the July 18 Summit. Both agreed that the two sides must ensure that smal [...] | 2005-10-24 11:45:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MASS EAID EAGR ENRG EINV KNNP ETRD EAIR ETTC ECPS TSPA TBIO TSPL CVIS KDEM SENV IN PK US |
05NEWDELHI8247 | NEPAL, AFGHANISTAN, AND IRANIAN TERRORISM: FOREIGN [...] This message contains an ACTION REQUEST for SA. Please see para 11. 2. (C) Summary: Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran and his regional Joint Secretaries told visiting U/S for Political Affairs Nick Burns on October 22 that the GOI would announce that day the opening of several points along t [...] | 2005-10-24 12:01:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MASS EAID ENRG PHUM IN NP AF PK CH CE BM TH |
05NEWDELHI825 | NEPAL SITUATION "WORST CASE SCENARIO" FOR INDIA [...] (C) Summary: King Gyanendra's decision to dissolve the government is a "worst case scenario," driving the Maoists and the political parties together, undermining the monarchy, and muzzling politicians rather than the Maoists, MEA Joint Secretary (Nepal and Bhutan) Ranjit Rae told PolCouns and [...] | 2005-02-02 12:45:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MASS EAID PREF ASEC IN NP |
05NEWDELHI8253 | INDIA OPENS LOC TO HELP PAKISTAN DESPITE TERROR [...] (U) Summary: Consistent with the PM's admonition to find ways to make the Line of Control (LoC) less relevant and facilitate quake relief, the GOI is putting aside fears that terrorists will seize the advantage even as it creates camps along the LoC to provide food, shelter, and medical attent [...] | 2005-10-24 13:25:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PINR PHUM EAID IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI8254 | INDIA EMPHASIZES SUPPORT FOR NON-PROLIFERATION IN [...] (SBU) Summary: In a landmark October 24 speech aimed at an elite group of strategic analysts, Foreign Secretary Sham Saran forcefully defended the India-US civil nuclear framework, offered helpful interventions on NSG and MTCR harmonization, and highlighted India's vigorous support for the glo [...] | 2005-10-24 14:45:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KNNP MNUC PREL ENRG IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI8255 | U/S BURNS MEETS AMCHAM (INDIA) ON DEFENSE SALES [...] (C) Warning, Contains Business Proprietary Information. Please protect accordingly. 2. (C) SUMMARY: In U/S Burns' meeting with AMCHAM (India) on October 22, U.S. defense company representatives suggested that there needs to be a breakthrough in the U.S. procurement cycle and sales approach [...] | 2005-10-25 01:01:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON MARR MASS IN |
05NEWDELHI826 | REACTING TO NEPAL, INDIA WILL NOT ATTEND THE SAARC SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: The MEA announced on February 2 that India will not attend the SAARC Summit scheduled for February 6-7 in Dhaka. Both publicly and privately, GOI officials cited both King Gyanendra's actions in Nepal on February 1, and the security situation in Dhaka following the violence of J [...] | 2005-02-02 12:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IN BG PK NP SAARC |
05NEWDELHI8266 | INDIA'S SHAME: LINGERING BIGOTRY AFFLICTS 200 [...] (SBU) Summary: India,s 200 million Hindu and Christian Dalits (formerly &untouchables8) constitute approximately 21-25% of the population. Dalit leaders argue, and our Human Rights Report agrees, that Dalits are subject to sporadic cases of human rights abuses, including rape, trafficking, an [...] | 2005-10-25 09:36:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PINR ECON ELAB KDEM KIRF SCUL IN |
05NEWDELHI8380 | GOI TRYING TO SALVAGE ISRAEL RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Indian-Israel relations have hit a rough patch because of a recent lack of direction on the part of the ruling UPA government in New Delhi, but both sides say they intend to restore better ties. Over the next few weeks, Congress party leadership will affirm India's interest in m [...] | 2005-10-28 11:06:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IN IS |
05NEWDELHI8394 | LEFT RAISES THE STAKES IN CONFRONTATION WITH [...] (C) Summary: On October 27, after a four month hiatus, the Left Front (LF) deigned to meet their Congress coalition partners again in their formal Coordination Committee, but instead of being cowed by their recent pummelling in the press, the Communists were even more combative and rigid, an [...] | 2005-10-28 12:19:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ETRD PREL SCUL PINR EINV ELAB SOCI IN |
05NEWDELHI8397 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY SNOW'S VISIT TO INDIA [...] (C) Mr. Secretary, I want to warmly welcome you to India, a vibrant, diverse, multi-ethnic, multifaceted democracy -- much like our own in important respects -- that is emerging as an economic powerhouse and has growing global ambitions. Your visit will help set the stage for President Bush's [...] | 2005-10-28 13:32:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON BEXP PGOV PREL IN US |
05NEWDELHI840 | ABU SALEM EXTRADITION UPDATE [...] (C) In a February 1 conversation with Poloff, Portuguese DCM Frederico Nascimento confirmed recent Indian press reports stating that his country's Supreme Court had rendered a decision to permit the extradition of Abu Salem to India. He noted that this decision allows the extradition of Salem [...] | 2005-02-03 08:25:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV IN PO |
05NEWDELHI8510 | DESPITE TERROR BLAST, NEW KASHMIR CHIEF MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite a suicide car bombing that killed five, Cabinet Affairs Minister and Sonia Gandhi close aide Ghulam Nabi Azad became Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir November 2, as per a 2003 power-sharing agreement between Congress and former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed's PD [...] | 2005-11-04 09:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL KDEM PHUM PBTS PTER ASEC PK IN |
05NEWDELHI8535 | THE UPA DESCENDS DEEPER INTO THE VOLCKER REPORT [...] (C) Summary: The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government continued to descend into the quagmire created by the release of the Volcker Report (reftels),while its embattled Foreign Minister has veered to the left in a desperate attempt to win support from the Left Front (LF). The UPA has [...] | 2005-11-07 12:43:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ETTC EPET KCRM IN IR |
05NEWDELHI8537 | GOI FINDS NEUTRON SOURCE IN MUMBAI CONTAINER [...] (C) MEA Director (Americas) gave PolCouns a note on October 7 detailing further radiation measurements that the GOI's Atomic Energy Regulatory Board carried out on the suspect shipping container following USG requests for additional scrutiny (reftels). According to the note, after negative r [...] | 2005-11-07 14:02:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETRD KNNP PREL IN IAEA |
05NEWDELHI858 | EXPLAINING INDIA'S ANGER OVER DEVELOPMENTS IN NEPAL [...] (C) Summary: New Delhi's surprisingly angry reaction to developments in Nepal underlines the serious mid to long-term implications the GOI believes King Gyanendra's actions will have on Nepal, India, and the GOI's larger foreign policy objectives. From New Delhi's perspective, the King has s [...] | 2005-02-03 12:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MASS EAID PREF ASEC IN NP CH |
05NEWDELHI859 | GOI REWARDS BHUTANESE KING AS GUEST OF HONOR AT [...] (C) Summary: The Government of India (GOI) rewarded Bhutanese King Jigme Singye Wangchuck for conducting military operations in December of 2003 against Indian militants hiding out in Southern Bhutan by making him the guest of honor at Republic Day. During the King's January 24-28 visit, th [...] | 2005-02-03 12:24:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM IN NP BT UNHCR |
05NEWDELHI860 | INDIAN INTEREST, AND HESITATION, ABOUT MARITIME [...] (C) Summary: Despite skepticism from some strategic commentators, the Indian government continues to express interest in the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) and other maritime security programs, but will not join PSI unless the matter of the Core Group is resolved. In the latest sign [...] | 2005-02-03 12:25:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHSA ETRD EWWT XD XO IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI8627 | IRAQI CHARGE CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC ON INDIA [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi Charge Muayad Hussain told A/DCM on November 9 that while he was unhappy at former FM Natwar Singh's parting criticism of Iraq's government (reftel),he remained optimistic about continued engagement with the GOI. The Indian Petroleum Minister has proposed a renewal of the [...] | 2005-11-09 12:43:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG KDEM PTER IN IZ |
05NEWDELHI8628 | INDIA AND THE KABUL AGENDA [...] (SBU) Poloff shared Ref A points with MEA Under Secretary (Afghanistan) Acquino Vimal on October 8, reiterating USG appreciation for India's contributions to Afghan reconstruction and urging continued commitment in the next phase of assistance. Vimal reported that the GOI intends to continue [...] | 2005-11-09 12:45:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PREL EAID ECON EFIN IN AF |
05NEWDELHI8681 | INDIA WILL URGE IRAN TO COOPERATE WITH THE EU3 [...] Charge took the opportunity presented by the scheduled meeting between Special Advisor for UN Reform Shirin Tahir-Kheli and Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran to express concern to Saran about the visit on November 17 of Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mehdi Safari. The Charge noted that the EU3 [...] | 2005-11-15 06:57:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PGOV PREL MNUC PARM IN IR |
05NEWDELHI8682 | AMBASSADOR TAHIR-KHELI URGES GOI LEADERSHIP ON [...] (C) Summary. In her second round of consultations with senior MEA officials on November 14, Special Advisor on UN Reform Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli discussed areas of common consensus on UN reform and urged the GOI to take leadership and build coalitions of support before the review of the [...] | 2005-11-15 11:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PHUM IN UNSC GOI |
05NEWDELHI8711 | THE COMMUNISTS THREATEN THE UPA AGAIN OVER [...] (U) While addressing campaign meetings in Kerala on November 15 Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Prakash Karat and Communist Party of India (CPI) SIPDIS General Secretary AB Bardhan demanded that the GOI change its stance in the IAEA regarding Iran's nuclear program. Bo [...] | 2005-11-16 12:27:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL IN IR |
05NEWDELHI8712 | MDA DEMARCHE ON ADDITIONAL GENEVEA PROTOCOL [...] (U) Acting Political Counselor delivered Ref A demarche to Director (UN Political) Sangeeta Mann, who confessed she was not aware of the issue, thanked the USG for the information conveyed, and promised a more substantive response once she ascertained the GOI position. 2. (C) Comment: Man [...] | 2005-11-16 12:34:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL IN IS SZ |
05NEWDELHI8715 | INDIANS WORRIED ABOUT NEW TERROR BLASTS AND [...] (S) SUMMARY. In a disturbing up-tick in the level of terrorist violence in India, a car bomb blast in Srinagar on November 16 killed four and injured 56, including a former insurgent who changed sides and served for a period as a Kashmiri state minister. This was the third such deadly terror [...] | 2005-11-16 17:13:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PTER PREL PGOV KISL PBTS KCRM ASEC IN |
05NEWDELHI8741 | CONGRESS PUSHES THE LEFT TO MOVE TOWARD COMPROMISE [...] (U) On November 15, Communist leaders from the CPI(M) and CPI demanded that the GOI reverse its position and vote with Iran at the November 24 IAEA meeting or "face the consequences," but left the door open for face-saving "consultations," (ref A). On November 16, the GOI took advantage of t [...] | 2005-11-17 12:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KNNP MNUC IN IR |
05NEWDELHI8746 | FOREIGN SECRETARY SARAN URGES USG TO CORRECT [...] (C) Summary: In his November 15 meeting with Senior Advisor on UN Reform Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran expressed general GOI support for most SIPDIS of the USG's UN reform agenda, with some minor disagreement on the oversight mechanisms. He reinforced the GO [...] | 2005-11-17 12:36:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PHUM IN UNSC GOI |
05NEWDELHI8748 | DUE TO INTERNAL POLITICS, INDIA RELUCTANT ON IRAN [...] (C) Charge delivered reftel demarche to Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran during a November 15 meeting with Special Advisor on UN Reform Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli. Saran promised to examine the issues raised, but pointed out that India is already in a difficult position with Iran (as a result [...] | 2005-11-17 12:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM MNUC KNNP IN IR |
05NEWDELHI8749 | OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: GOI PROPOSES US OBSERVER STATUS AT SAARC [...] (U) For SA: SEE ACTION REQUEST PARA 8. 2. (C) Summary: In a surprise development, the GOI has told us that it would welcome US participation as an Observer to SAARC. At a South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit briefing on November 16, MEA Joint Secretary (SAARC) P.K. [...] | 2005-11-17 13:25:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ECIN AORC BG SL NP PK ML BU IN SAARC |
05NEWDELHI8750 | FS SARAN GIVES AMBASSADOR MORIARTY READOUT OF [...] Summary (C) In a 16 November meeting, Indian Foreign Secretary Saran and visiting Ambassador Moriarty discussed SIPDIS the worrying political climate in Nepal. The Ambassador described options for increasing pressure on the King to reach out to Nepalese political parties to counter growing [...] | 2005-11-17 13:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PGOV MOPS ECON IN |
05NEWDELHI8751 | KASHMIRIS QUIETLY APPRECIATIVE OF INDIAN ARMY AND [...] (C) Summary: Indian Kashmiris have been quietly appreciative of the way the Army, J&K state government, Indian NGOs, and Indian businesses and citizens provided relief following the October 8 earthquake. Immediately following the quake, soldiers threw themselves into rescue efforts and opene [...] | 2005-11-17 15:44:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS KISL PTER EAID MOPS PK IN |
05NEWDELHI876 | GOI NON-PAPER ON ATTACKS ON (BANGLADESH) AWAMI [...] (C) On January 27, MEA Director (Americas) Renu Pall gave us the following non-paper list of summer 2004 attacks on Awami League leaders in Bangladesh. This non-paper was originally referenced by our GOI interlocutors during the August 31-September 1, 2004 US-India Counterterrorism Joint Wor [...] | 2005-02-04 08:47:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PTER PREL IN BG |
05NEWDELHI877 | GOI NON-PAPER ON ATTACKS ON BANGLADESHI AHMEDIYAS [...] (C) On January 27, MEA Director (Americas) Renu Pall gave us the following non-paper on 2003-04 attacks against Ahmediyas in Bangladesh. This non-paper was originally referenced by our GOI interlocutors during the August 31-September 1, 2004 US-India Counterterrorism Joint Working Group (CTJ [...] | 2005-02-04 08:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PTER PREL IN BG |
05NEWDELHI8772 | GOI WORKING ON EXPORT CONTROLS IN ADVANCE OF HTCG [...] (C) Charge Blake delivered points from Reftel A to MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) Jaishankar on November 18th, emphasizing the importance of India harmonizing its control lists with international standards. Jaishankar responded that he would follow up with issue experts in MEA. Charge noted [...] | 2005-11-18 09:57:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP ETRD ETTC IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI878 | GOI NON-PAPER ON MAJOR ARMS SEIZURES IN BANGLADESH [...] (C) On January 27, MEA Director (Americas) Renu Pall gave us the following non-paper list of 2003-04 arms seizures in Bangladesh. This non-paper was originally referenced by our GOI interlocutors during the August 31-September 1, 2004 US-India Counterterrorism Joint Working Group (CTJWG) meet [...] | 2005-02-04 08:52:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PTER PREL IN BG |
05NEWDELHI8782 | MEA: LACK OF REPSONSE IN IC-814 CASE COULD HAMPER US-INDIA RELATIONS [...] (U) This is an action request for S/CT, CIA, DNI, and SECDEF. See paragraph 5. 2. (C) MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) Jaishankar used a November 18 meeting with Charge and PolCouns to warn that a USG failure to respond to earlier information requests (Reftel) regarding the hijacking of IC-814 [...] | 2005-11-18 11:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PGOV PTER KISL KCRM EAIR IN US |
05NEWDELHI8791 | INDIANS WORRY LASHKAR TERRORISTS ARE THRIVING IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Apprehension is mounting in India about Pakistan-based terrorist groups' exploitation of relief efforts to enhance their capabilities, recruitment, and operations against India. Indians are also noticing with alarm that terror groups such as the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jammat- [...] | 2005-11-18 12:43:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PBTS KISL MOPS PINS EAID ASEC PK IN |
05NEWDELHI8795 | GOI COMMENTS REGARDING PERM REP SEN'S REMARKS ON UNSC REFORM [...] (C) Visiting Senior Advisor on UN Reform Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli raised Reftel A points in separate meetings with MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) Jaishankar and Media Advisor to the Prime Ministers Office Sanjay Baru on November 17. In both meetings, our interlocutors underlined that PermRep N [...] | 2005-11-18 12:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR IN UNSC UNGA GOI |
05NEWDELHI8799 | INDIA'S NAM BAGGAGE STILL HOLDING IT BACK ON UN [...] (C) Summary: At a November 17 meeting with Senior Advisor on UN Reform Ambassador Tahir-Kheli, Deputy National Security Advisor Nambiar insisted that India's "stereotype as a representative of developing countries" at the United Nations will hinder its ability to play a leading role with the [...] | 2005-11-18 14:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PHUM IN UNSC GOI |
05NEWDELHI8809 | PM SINGH SHUFFLES PORTFOLIOS SLIGHTLY [...] (SBU) In an anti-climax, the GOI announced November 18 that it had reallocated Cabinet portfolios between the sitting Cabinet Ministers rather than expanding the Cabinet as expected. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh retained the External Affairs Ministry. Jaipal Reddy moved from Information an [...] | 2005-11-21 11:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL ECON IN |
05NEWDELHI8810 | JAMMU AND KASHMIR EARTHQUAKE MONITORING VISIT [...] A Regional Advisor from USAID's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and a representative from USAID/Delhi conducted a post-earthquake visit to Srinagar in Jammu & Kashmir from 15-16 November in order to monitor program progress of USAID/OFDA-funded partners. Due to security concerns [...] | 2005-11-21 11:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | IN NOTAG |
05NEWDELHI8844 | CONGRESS FACING A DOMESTIC "PERFECT STORM" [...] (C) Summary: With Parliament set to convene on November 23, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government is reeling from assaults from its left and right and faces a series of political events that could undermine its stability, including the UPA defeat in the important Biha [...] | 2005-11-22 14:02:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EPET ETTC KCRM IN IR |
05NEWDELHI8845 | INDIA DOUBTS NEPALESE MAOIST/POLITICAL PARTY [...] (C) Summary: Recent press reports of a breakthrough between Nepalese Maoists and political parties are not true, outgoing MEA Joint Secretary (North) Ranjit Rae insisted on November 22, acknowledging nonetheless that the two sides have met in Delhi to discuss a solution to the ongoing crisis. [...] | 2005-11-22 15:34:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PGOV MOPS ECON IN NP |
05NEWDELHI8856 | CONGRESS DREADS IMPENDING SUPREME COURT JUDGMENT, [...] (C) Summary: Congress is facing a major political mess of its own making as it waits for a Supreme Court judgment that may rule its actions in Bihar to have been unconstitutional, with potentially dire consequences. When Congress moved precipitously to head off the formation of BJP/NDA gover [...] | 2005-11-23 10:59:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS KDEM PGOV PINR IN |
05NEWDELHI8891 | IRAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED, EU-3 ALSO PUSHING [...] (C) PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to Joint Secretary (Disarmament and International Security) Hamid Ali Rao on November 23, emphasizing the importance of India conveying through a strong national statement that the international community remains seriously concerned about Iran's nuclear [...] | 2005-11-23 12:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP AORC IN IR |
05NEWDELHI8892 | INDIA CAUTIOUSLY WELCOMES NEW SRI LANKAN PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: The GOI called Mahinda Rajapakse's victory in the November 17 Sri Lankan Elections a ""wake-up call for India"" and plans to use the new President's upcoming visit to New Delhi to stress the importance of maintaining the Cease-Fire Agreement while continuing India's already close rela [...] | 2005-11-23 12:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MASS CE IN |
05NEWDELHI8893 | INDIAN REPORTS BREAKTHROUGH IN BHUTAN/NEPAL [...] (C) Summary: The agreement reached in Dhaka between the RGOB and GON to restart the Joint Verification Process and allow for the return of Category 1 and 4 refugees from the Khudunabari refugee camp was a significant and positive step, outgoing MEA Joint Secretary (North) Ranjit Rae told PolCou [...] | 2005-11-23 13:14:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PHUM PTER IN NP BT |
05NEWDELHI8928 | INDIAN FOREIGN SECRETARY FRETS ABOUT JIHADI [...] (C) This is an action request. Please see para 5. 2. (C) Indian Foreign Secretary Saran summoned the Charge on November 24 to register concern about several dimensions of international relief activities in Pakistani Kashmir. Saran's delivery of the non-paper in para 5 was low key and respe [...] | 2005-11-25 11:34:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS EAID IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI8933 | INDIA COMMITTED TO RE-BUILD AFGHANISTAN DESPITE [...] (U) Anger in India is mounting following the November 19 kidnapping and subsequent murder by the Taliban of MR Kutty, one of 290 Border Roads Organization employees who have been working on the GOI-funded Zaranj-Delaram road in Nimruz Province, Afghanistan. The discovery of Kutty's throat-sli [...] | 2005-11-25 12:13:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL EAID MARR MASS PBTS AF IN PK |
05NEWDELHI9008 | MEA SHARES INDIAN INTEL BLAMING LET FOR DIWALI [...] (S) Summary: Following up on MEA Additional Secretary Meera Shankar's November 14 assurance that the Indian government would share with us information regarding the October 29 Diwali bombings (Ref B),MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) S Jaishankar on November 29 confirmed to Charge and Poloff th [...] | 2005-11-29 13:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PTER PREL PINS EFIN KCRM KTFN PBTS PK IN TS GOI |
05NEWDELHI9029 | RGOB: NEED CATEGORY 1 AND 4 REPATRIATION AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Bhutan is ready to accept category 1 and 4 refugees from the Khudunabari camp, but needs Nepal to agree to the proposal in writing, which Nepal seems unwilling to do, Bhutanese Ambassador Tshering stated in a December 1 meeting with PolCouns and PolOff. The Ambassador reported t [...] | 2005-11-30 11:22:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PTER PHUM IN BT NP |
05NEWDELHI9031 | KASHMIRI LEADERS SHARE PERSPECTIVES WITH CODEL [...] (SBU) Kashmiri political leaders and human rights advocates described in differing viewpoints the problems facing Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and emphasized the need for redoubled peace efforts between India and Pakistan during a November 28 meeting with CODEL Burton and embassy officers. Mirwa [...] | 2005-11-30 11:27:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KISL PBTS PHUM OREP IN PK |
05NEWDELHI9078 | RESPONSE FOR INFORMATION REQUEST ON DALITS [...] (U) This cable is a response to Reftel A requesting information regarding the treatment of Dalits in India. Please read Reftels B and C in conjunction with this cable for a thorough picture of the issue. The following is posts response to Paragraph 6 questions: 2. (U) Question 1: How is th [...] | 2005-12-01 12:05:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KIRF PHUM PREL SCUL KDEM ELAB IN |
05NEWDELHI9080 | GOI "CONSTRUCTIVELY ENGAGED" IN BURMA, UPBEAT ON [...] (C) Summary: MEA J/S (Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Myanmar) Mohan Kumar was candid about India's need to continue engaging in Burma and optimistic that PM Singh had begun to "clear the air" during his bilateral meeting with President Zia in Bangladesh. Acknowledging Indian competition with the [...] | 2005-12-01 12:30:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER BG BM IN SA |
05NEWDELHI9088 | TIP TIDBITS - CHILD LABOR, FEMALE FETICIDE, CHILD [...] (U) The following describes a variety of news reports and GOI actions on child labor, female feticide and child marriage that we have been following over the past few weeks. LARGEST RAID IN DELHI HISTORY ---------------------------- 2. (U) On November 21, "The Hindu" reported in their mo [...] | 2005-12-02 05:21:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM KWMN SOCI OTRA PREL SMIG BG |
05NEWDELHI909 | INDIA: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN 2005 [...] (S) Summary: With political momentum in its favor, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) expects to solidify its hold on power in 2005. The Congress-led coalition's pursuit of closer US-India ties will continue unabated, but the exigencies of coalition government will slow progress on issues of i [...] | 2005-02-04 11:55:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EAID MARR MOPS KPKO XD IN |
05NEWDELHI9127 | INDIA’S DEMOCRACY AND ECONOMY MINIMIZE EXTREMIST [...] (C) India's over 150 million Muslim population is largely unattracted to extremism. India's growing economy, vibrant democracy, and inclusive culture, encourage Muslims to seek success and social mobility in the mainstream and reduces alienation. With Indian Muslim youth increasingly comfortable in [...] | 2005-12-02 12:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PGOV KDEM PINR PTER SCUL IN |
05NEWDELHI9128 | NEW ALLEGATIONS BREATHE LIFE INTO NATWAR OIL [...] (C) Summary: The NDA's anti-UPA, anti-Natwar Singh campaign got a new lease on life December 2 when longtime Natwar Singh confidant (and serving Indian Ambassador to Croatia) Aneil Mathrani claimed in a television interview that the former Foreign Minister was deeply and personally involved [...] | 2005-12-02 12:55:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PHUM PTER EPET ETTC IN |
05NEWDELHI9133 | INDO-RUSSIAN SUMMIT TUNED TO DEFENSE COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary: The GOI hopes to expand Indo-Russian defense and space cooperation at the December 4-6 Sixth Annual Summit in Russia, but a sluggish economic relationship is dragging down bilateral ties. President Putin and Prime Minister Singh are expected to sign four agreements on defense In [...] | 2005-12-03 03:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG EPET PGOV KNNP MASS IN |
05NEWDELHI9139 | INDIAN GOVERNMENT REQUESTS USG ASSISTANCE TO URGE [...] (C) Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran contacted DCM on December 3 to request the USG's help with the mission of Indian Special Envoy Virendra Dayal to Iraq in connection with the GOI's ongoing investigation into the naming of Former Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh and the Congress Pa [...] | 2005-12-05 06:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET IN IZ PREL |
05NEWDELHI9164 | FS SARAN CALLS FOR ENHANCED BHUTAN TIES [...] (C) Summary: India and Bhutan have a vital stake in each other's well-being and greater economic, security and cultural ties will benefit both countries, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran argued during an unusual December 3 seminar focused on Bhutan. Underlining the growing GOI concern about con [...] | 2005-12-05 14:19:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGREL PBTS ECIN ETRD PREF PTER PGOV IN BT NP |
05NEWDELHI9204 | BHUTAN: LARGELY LACKING WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] (U) In response to Reftel, post spoke to Bhutanese Ministry of Labor, Education, Employment and Works and Human Settlement officials and NGOs to answer questions posed in paragraph seven. We assess that while 45,000 children may at times work, the worst forms of child labor are largely absent [...] | 2005-12-06 12:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PGOV KCRM ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID BT |
05NEWDELHI9205 | INDO-JAPANESE INTERESTS CONVERGING AHEAD OF EAST [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Singh is heading to Kuala Lumpur for the December 14 East Asian Summit (EAS) at a time of rapid improvement in Indo-Japanese relations that may finally overcome the sense on both sides of unfulfilled potential. In a December 2 meeting with PolCouns, MEA's Asia Co [...] | 2005-12-06 12:57:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN ETRD ENRG TRGY KNNP CH JA IN ASEAN |
05NEWDELHI9207 | IN DIVIDED PUNJAB, DIPLOMACY DANCES TO A BHANGRA [...] (SBU) Summary: Drawn together by shared historical, cultural, and ethno-linguistic ties, the Indian state of Punjab and Pakistan's Punjab province continue to forge deeper relations even as Delhi-Islamabad rapprochement has slowed. This message details recent progress in people-to-people con [...] | 2005-12-06 13:10:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS SCUL IN PK |
05NEWDELHI922 | INDIA SUSPENDS MILITARY PIPELINE TO NEPAL, WORRIES [...] (C) With NSA Narayanan unavailable until February 7, the Ambassador used a February 4 meeting with Foreign Secretary Saran to convey reftel points detailing our goals and strategy in Nepal. He also addressed these issues in broad brush during a pull aside with Foreign Minister Natwar Singh. [...] | 2005-02-04 13:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID MASS NP IN RS |
05NEWDELHI9223 | INDIA WILL TAKE STOCK OF IRAQ OPTIONS AFTER [...] (C) Summary: PolCouns shared Ref A points with MEA Joint Secretary (Gulf) Sanjay Singh on December 7, continuing a SIPDIS December 6 discussion on India's objectives and perspectives in the Middle East (septel). New Delhi is waiting to see the outcome of the December polls in Iraq before d [...] | 2005-12-07 11:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KDEM PINR IN IZ |
05NEWDELHI9231 | GOI INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO ADDRESS COMMUNAL [...] (C) Summary: Over stringent opposition from BJP-ruled states, the Congress government devised a bill to prevent the outbreak and spread of communal rioting by allowing New Delhi to intervene in any state experiencing communal violence. On December 5, the UPA unexpectedly diluted the bill t [...] | 2005-12-07 12:39:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PHUM KISL IN |
05NEWDELHI9245 | INDIA FACES GROWING NAXALITE MENACE [...] (C) Summary: Despite India's rapidly expanding economy, Naxalite groups in poor rural areas and their educated urban sympathizers continue to spread and have extended their areas of influence into 12 states, proving they can launch spectacular attacks on government facilities. The GOI has respon [...] | 2005-12-08 08:36:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PHUM PTER KCRM ASEC SCUL IN NP |
05NEWDELHI9249 | GOI DESIRE TO EXPAND CYBER RELATIONSHIP [...] (U) This is an Action Request for PM. Please see para 9. 2. (SBU) Summary: The GOI would like to see measurable progress on the creation of a joint Indo-US Cybersecurity fund and joint training opportunities, and welcomes Washington comments on how to proceed on these issues. Of particu [...] | 2005-12-08 09:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR KCIP TINT PTER EFIN ECPS KTFN IN |
05NEWDELHI9260 | GOI UPDATES ON EXPORT CONTROLS DURING HTCG [...] (SBU) Summary: MEA officials used the Strategic Trade session of the High Technology Cooperation Group meetings held in New Delhi December 1 to respond to USG questions about India's export controls, stating that the Indian regime "completely covers" MTCR and NSG requirements. The GOI presen [...] | 2005-12-08 12:13:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD ETTC KNNP KSTC PARM TSPA MTCRE IN |
05NEWDELHI9261 | INDIA REITERATES SUPPORT FOR RED CROSS PROTOCOL [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-08 12:32:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC PHUM PREF PREL IN |
05NEWDELHI9296 | INDIAN NGOS THAT ASSIST VICTIMS OF TERRORISM: [...] (SBU) India suffers from three major strains of terrorism -- jihadi separatism in Jammu and Kashmir (that also of late spills into Delhi); Maoist/Naxalite terrorism that has spread through 12 states in the West, Central, and South regions of the country; and ethno-linguistic separatism in the [...] | 2005-12-09 11:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PHUM IN |
05NEWDELHI9319 | INDIA SEEKS TO PROTECT CITIZENS, SECURE ENERGY INTERESTS IN MIDDLE EAST (C-NE5-00945) [...] (C) Summary: While India has major interests in the Middle East (energy, trade, expatriate workers, and religious ties),it has historically had lackluster relations in the area. GOI attention focuses on a few nations of particular importance to those interests, primarily Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq [...] | 2005-12-12 01:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV ETRD ENRG EPET PTER PINR IN BA IR IS IZ QA MU AE XF |
05NEWDELHI9335 | PM SINGH AFFIRMS INDIAN NUCLEAR SEPARATION PLAN AT [...] Speaking to the press December 11 while en route to Kuala Lumpur for the East Asian Summit, Indian PM Singh told journalists India is working quickly to meet commitments it made in the July 18, 2005 nuclear agreement with the United States. Specifically, the PM said plans for separating India [...] | 2005-12-12 10:36:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KNNP PGOV ENRG MNUC IN |
05NEWDELHI9345 | PMO MINISTER CITES DOMESTIC POLITICS IN PSI DEBATE [...] (C) The Ambassador used a December 9 meeting with Prithviraj Chavan, Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office, to press for early presentation of India's plan for separation of its civilian and military nuclear facilities and to continue our advocacy of Indian participation in the Pro [...] | 2005-12-12 12:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC MOPS IN PSI |
05NEWDELHI9376 | IS THE BJP READY FOR A REVIVAL? PERHAPS [...] (C) Summary: The BJP is undergoing churnings that suggest that it could regain its political legs. Supporters of this position point to the recent NDA electoral victory in Bihar, and the decision to expel perennial troublemaker Uma Bharati as signs that the party is putting its internal pro [...] | 2005-12-13 13:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PHUM EPET ETTC ECON IN |
05NEWDELHI9393 | URGENT REQUEST FOR RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW DELHI [...] This is an ACTION REQUEST for NEA/SA/EX and HR/RMA. Please see paragraph 6. 2. Summary: Embassy New Delhi respectfully requests that the DRI position (10504002 vice Nair) in our Political Section be immediately re-established and filled for 2006- 2008. Our workload has skyrocketed as US- [...] | 2005-12-14 09:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | APER AMGT PREL PHUM ELAB PGOV KDEM BT IN US |
05NEWDELHI940 | INDIAN REACTIONS TO THE IRAQ ELECTION REFLECT [...] (C) Summary: The reaction of India's political parties and major newspapers to the January 30 election in Iraq predictably reflected their political orientations. The UPA government saw the election as a step forward, but unveiled no new initiatives or specific plans for greater engagement. [...] | 2005-02-07 09:44:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PGOV PINR PREL PTER SCUL IN IZ |
05NEWDELHI9400 | "GOOD ENGAGEMENT" IS COMMON REFRAIN AT U.S.-INDIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce David McCormick and GOI Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran led U.S. and Indian delegations in the fourth meeting of the High Technology Cooperation Group (HTCG) in New Delhi on November 30 - December 1. The HTCG was formed in November 2002 to provide [...] | 2005-12-14 11:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ETTC KSTC OTRA PREL KNNP PARM TSPA IN |
05NEWDELHI9407 | STRANGLING THE GOLDEN GOOSE: LEFT SEEKS TO [...] (U) Summary: At a time of declining union membership, the information technology (IT) sector's high growth, potential to employ large numbers, and lack of unions has attracted the attention of India's Communist labor federation, which sees it as an untapped area to recruit new members. This [...] | 2005-12-14 12:25:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB OTRA PGOV IN |
05NEWDELHI9408 | MTAG AND S49-05: INPA EXPORT CONTROL DEMARCHES [...] (S) PolCouns and Poloff delivered reftel demarches to MEA Joint Secretary (Disarmament and International Security Affairs) Hamid Ali Rao and Deputy Secretary (DISA) Naveen Srivastava on December 14, emphasizing that both transactions appear to be covered under India's new WMD Bill and attendan [...] | 2005-12-14 12:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | ETTC KSCA MTCRE PARM PREL CBW IN IR SY |
05NEWDELHI9409 | GOI INTERESTED IN US SPONSORED IMO DONOR CONFERENCE [...] (U) Poloff delivered Ref A demarche to MEA D/S (Disarmament and International Security) Naveen Srivastava, who commented that the Ministry of Defense had indicated interest in such a conference. 2. (C) PolCouns followed up with Joint Secretary (DISA) Hamid Ali Rao on December 14, who also [...] | 2005-12-14 13:23:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHSA PBTS EWWT PTER GM IN KS |
05NEWDELHI9414 | TENTATIVE AGREEMENT FOR JAN 24 CTJWG WITH INDIA [...] (U) PolCouns and Poloff made an introductory call on new Additional Secretary (UN and International Security) KC Singh on December 15, and discussed plans for the next round of the US-India Counter-terrorism Joint Working Group (CTJWG),which Singh enthusiastically supported. PolCouns reviewe [...] | 2005-12-15 05:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PINR EAIR EFIN TBIO KTFN IN |
05NEWDELHI9421 | AHMADINEJAD'S IRRATIONALITY: AN INDIAN [...] (C) Summary: During PolCouns's introductory call on new MEA Additional Secretary (UN and International Security) KC Singh, Singh shared his impressions from his recent posting as India's Ambassador in Tehran, emphasizing that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's perspective is skewed by his fer [...] | 2005-12-15 09:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV KNNP PINR IN IR |
05NEWDELHI9434 | INDIA JOINS ASEAN'S TOUGHER LINE ON BURMA [...] (U) Summary: After many months of wishy-washy Indian posturing on Burma, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called publicly for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and encouraged the GOB to move towards democracy on his return from the East Asia Summit. Speaking after a meeting with Burmese PM Soe Win in [...] | 2005-12-15 12:46:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PHUM IN BM ASEAN |
05NEWDELHI9435 | SARAN: INPA SANCTIONS AT ODDS WITH BILATERAL [...] (S) Summary: Responding to the Ambassador's December 15 presentation of the US decision to impose sanctions on Indian entities, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran highlighted the danger that public awareness of prior GOI action regarding companies being sanctioned for activities that violate neith [...] | 2005-12-15 13:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PARM MNUC ETTC MTCRE IN |
05NEWDELHI9484 | SARAN: NEPAL'S KING PROMISES OUTREACH TO PARTIES [...] (C) Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran told the Ambassador on December 15 that Nepal's King Gyanendra committed to "some initiative with the political parties" during his December 13 audience in Kathmandu. The monarch accepted Saran's argument that he was isolating himself and contributing to the [...] | 2005-12-16 12:33:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MASS IN NP |
05NEWDELHI9485 | INDIA: 2005 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] (U) Below is Post's submission for the 2005 Country Reports on Terrorism: Begin text: India remains an important and vigorous ally in the global war on terror. India's law enforcement, paramilitary and armed forces neutralized over 1,500 terrorists in 2005, according to a leading indepen [...] | 2005-12-16 12:35:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC KCRM EFIN KHLS KPAO MASS PGOV PHUM |
05NEWDELHI9486 | PM SINGH ABLY DEFENDS RECIPROCAL NATURE OF INDO/US [...] (C) Summary: The BJP latched onto a leftist Parliamentary question on the July 18 civil nuclear agreement in an attempt to score points against the UPA. BJP heavyweights Yashwant Sinha (former Foreign Minister) and Sushma Swaraj asserted that the agreement was "stalemated," and that the US [...] | 2005-12-16 12:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL ETTC KNNP MNUC ENRG IN |
05NEWDELHI9487 | INPA SANCTIONS ON INDIA ARE A "LAND MINE" [...] (S) Briefing Joint Secretary (Americas) S Jaishankar on December 16 about the Ambassador's preview to Foreign Secretary Saran of the imminent announcement of sanctions on SIPDIS Indian entities (Ref A),PolCouns reviewed the Congressional notification timeline and Ref B talking points, emph [...] | 2005-12-16 12:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PARM MNUC ETTC MTCRE IN |
05NEWDELHI9488 | GOI WELCOMES IRAQ ELECTIONS [...] (U) On December 16, the DCM and D/PolCouns held a media briefing on the Iraqi elections, emphasizing the high voter turnout, the low levels of violence, and eager participation from Sunni voters who largely boycotted earlier elections. The December 15 polls were the most free and open ever see [...] | 2005-12-16 13:10:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM EAID IN IZ |
05NEWDELHI9489 | NARAYANAN BULLISH ON INDIA'S CIVIL NUCLEAR [...] (C) Summary: On the eve of FS Saran's departure for the December 21 Civil Nuclear Working Group meeting in Washington, NSA MK Narayanan told the Ambassador that Saran is bringing India's finished plan for civil/military nuclear separation in the hope that Congress will pass the required legis [...] | 2005-12-16 14:17:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP ENRG ETTC IN |
05NEWDELHI9504 | BHUTAN KING TO ABDICATE IN 2008, DEEPENING [...] (U) Wire services and the on-line Bhutanese newspaper Kuensel.com reported on December 18 that King Jigme Singye Wangchuck announced he would abdicate the throne to the well-regarded and modest Crown Prince (known in Bhutan as the Chhoetse Penlop) Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck in 2008. Kuens [...] | 2005-12-19 11:55:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR IN NP BT |
05NEWDELHI9513 | EXTRADITION: INDIA: KULBIR SINGH BARAPIND: POST [...] (SBU) Summary: This message will address as many of the Ref A questions as Post is able to answer. Confirming or refuting specific allegations of torture is extremely difficult by the very nature of the usual secrecy surrounding torture. Barapind's claims of torture include a litany of many [...] | 2005-12-19 12:44:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | CJAN CVIS PTER PREL KCRM PHUM PGOV IN GOI |
05NEWDELHI9514 | GOI SIFTING POTUS DELIVERABLE IDEAS, FINALIZING [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Secretary Saran's priority for his Washington visit, aside from presenting India's proposals for separation of its nuclear program, is to begin detailed consultations on deliverables for the upcoming POTUS visit, MEA official Jaishankar told the Charge on December 19. Jai [...] | 2005-12-19 12:49:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OVIP KNNP TRGY TNGD EAGR ENRG MARR MASS IN |
05NEWDELHI9516 | NSA NARAYANAN FOCUSED ON POTUS VISIT, NSG, AND [...] (C) Summary: Ahead of FS Saran's meeting with Burns on December 21, NSA Narayanan shared his priorities for the POTUS visit to India and his take on progress at the East Asia Summit and GOI policy on Burma in a December 16 meeting. He listed progress on the civil nuclear agreement and initi [...] | 2005-12-19 12:57:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL ENRG PHUM PTER BM IN |
05NEWDELHI9527 | THE TRIBAL BILL - A UPA ATTEMPT AT SOCIAL [...] (C) Summary: India's forest dwelling tribals (aboriginals largely residing in Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Orissa, Chhattisgarh Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra) are caught in a vise between greedy forest mafias and the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist),which hopes to enlist them into its vio [...] | 2005-12-20 10:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PHUM KCRM ASEC SCUL SENV KSCA TSPL |
05NEWDELHI9592 | GOI'S TAKE ON CHINA'S ROLE IN DEVELOPING THE [...] (C) Summary: In a December 16 meeting on India's relationship with Central Asia and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO),MEA J/S Jaimini Bhagwati (Eurasia) suggested that India and the US should look for opportunities to advance our shared interests in the region. Bhagwati speculated [...] | 2005-12-20 13:24:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL KDEM MOPS CH IN PK RS |
05NEWDELHI961 | LOOKING TO REASSERT A MID-EAST ROLE, INDIA [...] (C) Summary: On February 2, the MEA announced the appointment of retired career diplomat Chinmaya Gharekhan as Special Envoy for West Asia and the Middle East Peace Process. In creating this position, the GOI signaled its hope to raise New Delhi's profile in the Gulf, where India has an unde [...] | 2005-02-07 13:02:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG PINR IS IZ IN |
05NEWDELHI9750 | GOI TURNING PESSIMISTS ON NEPAL [...] (C) Summary. GOI officials told us on December 27 that developments in Kathmandu since Foreign Secretary Saran's early December visit have made them less hopeful of a resolution any time soon to the continued political stalemate in Nepal. Hardening of the positions of both the Palace and th [...] | 2005-12-27 12:21:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PTER MASS IN NP CH |
05NEWDELHI9751 | INDIA READY TO PUSH HARDER ON BHUTAN REFUGEES [...] (C) Summary: The GOI is ready to take a more proactive role in prodding Bhutan to resolve the long-running refugee problem, an MEA official told A/DCM and Poloff on December 27. Bhutan's King had previously informed New Delhi of his plan to abdicate in 2008 following elections, and India is [...] | 2005-12-27 12:26:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF KDEM PGOV ENRG IN BT |
05NEWDELHI9752 | GOI NON-PAPER ON LINKAGES AMONG TERRORIST GROUPS [...] (S) MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan/Afghanistan/Iran) Dilip Sinha in a December 27 meeting passed to Acting DCM a 10-page non-paper on connections among various terrorist groups, entitled "Inter-Group Linkages". The terrorist groups addressed in the non-paper include the following: al-Qaida an [...] | 2005-12-27 12:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PTER PREL PGOV EFIN PINR SNAR IN PK BG AF |
05NEWDELHI9754 | TIBETANS IN INDIA BRIEF VISITING STAFFDEL SZYMANSKI [...] (U) Summary: Members of the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamsala, including the chief executive of the Central Tibetan Authority and the Dalai Lama, told visiting professional staff of the House Small Business Committee during a December 11-12 visit that although human rights conditions [...] | 2005-12-28 05:23:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KDEM PREF IN CH |
05NEWDELHI9755 | TERRORIST FINANCE: PRENOTIFICATION TO GOI OF [...] (S) Acting DCM on December 27 passed Reftel prenotification to MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan/Afghanistan/Iran) Dilip Sinha, who read it with interest. Acting DCM reiterated the confidential nature of the prenotification as a precaution to better enable our counter-terrorism partners to freez [...] | 2005-12-28 06:13:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PTER PREL PGOV EFIN IN |
05NEWDELHI9758 | MTAG: GOI WILL FOLLOW UP ON IRAN BROKERING, PUSHES [...] (S) Summary: A/DCM and Poloff delivered Ref A demarche to MEA officials, who promised to provide the additional information to concerned GOI agencies and report the status to us at an early date. New Delhi remains concerned by Ref C decision to sanction Indian entities for INPA violations, p [...] | 2005-12-28 08:45:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA IN IR |
05NEWDELHI9761 | THE BJP ATTACKS UPA FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary: The BJP leadership, meeting in Mumbai on December 26-27, continued its twisting foreign policy trajectory, issuing a public statement on ""The UPA's Mismanagement of our Foreign Policy,"" that was so shrilly critical of Congress initiatives that it drew a public rebuke from former Pr [...] | 2005-12-28 09:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IN |
05NEWDELHI9771 | MEA LOOKS AHEAD TO PAKISTAN TALKS, SEEKS [...] (C) Summary: Speaking on December 27, MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan/Afghanistan/Iran) Dilip Sinha judged that the GOP is dragging its feet in implementing agreed-upon confidence-building measures and presenting its own ideas in a "half-baked" manner, but was confident that relations would mud [...] | 2005-12-28 12:39:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL EAID EPET ELTN MOPS KDEM KNNP IN PK AF IR INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI9820 | BIOS OF INDIAN CYBERSECURITY EXPERTS [...] Summary: This cable includes biographic notes of 13 GOI and Indian private sector cybersecurity interlocutors. These biographies are derived primarily from their resumes, and all below information is in the public domain. End Summary. R. Chandrashekhar ----------------- 2. Ministry [...] | 2005-12-30 10:21:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR KCIP TINT PTER KIPR MCAP KCRM ECPS |
05NEWDELHI997 | NEW NSA SIGNALS COMMITMENT TO US-INDIA [...] (C) Summary: In his first meeting with the Ambassador since his elevation as National Security Adviser, MK Narayanan identified progress in US-India relations as one of the three or four top priorities that the PM has tasked him to focus upon. Although Narayanan was uninformed about Phase 2 o [...] | 2005-02-08 12:49:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC PTER BG NP IN PK US |
05NICOSIA1565 | COMBATING VIOLENT EXTREMISM IN CYPRUS [...] (S) Summary: On Cyprus, the Cyprus issue itself dominates the agenda and colors nearly every aspect of life. This includes the problem of violent extremism, which is typically charted on an ethnic Turkish-Greek axis rather than through the lens of an Islamic-Christian, East-West, or religious [...] | 2005-09-27 15:29:00 | Embassy Nicosia | SECRET | EAID KDEM PHUM PREL |
05NICOSIA1566 | EXTREMISM IN CYPRUS: (MOSTLY) "NO PROBLEM" [...] (S) This message is in reply to ref a tasking. The 31-year division of Cyprus has produced two separate, and quite distinct, populations and governing systems on the island. While the USG and the international community recognize the Republic of Cyprus as the sole sovereign government on the [...] | 2005-09-28 04:10:00 | Embassy Nicosia | SECRET | ASEC PGOV PREL PTER SOCI TU CY |
05NICOSIA1585 | CHANGING THE FRAME: HOW WE TALK ABOUT THE CYPRUS [...] (C) Summary: Since the referenda on the Annan Plan in April 2004, our rhetorical position on the Cyprus issue has been clear and consistent. We support the UN SYG and his Mission of Good Offices. We believe the Annan Plan represented a fair and viable settlement. And, we want the Greek Cyp [...] | 2005-09-29 12:17:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC CY |
05NICOSIA1617 | "AND FOR MY NEXT TRICK...": REVISITING THE CYPRUS [...] (C) Summary: Although the end result of the EU's October 3 decision on Turkey was positive, the tortuous negotiations on the framework and the "counter declaration" highlight the implications that the unresolved Cyprus dispute has for U.S. interests across a wide range of issues. While the p [...] | 2005-10-04 13:16:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CY |
05NICOSIA1813 | DOING MORE WITH TURKISH CYPRIOTS ON ISSUES OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. The United States policy of supporting economic development in the Turkish Cypriot community has an important role to play in support of a resolution of the Cyprus problem -- however, closer cooperation with the Turkish Cypriots can also help advance other issues of broader natio [...] | 2005-11-15 06:29:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID ECON KCRM EFIN PTER KHLS CVIS |
05NICOSIA1886 | TURKISH CYPRIOTS UNVEIL NEW SCHEME FOR GREEK [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Turkish Cypriot administration has drafted a new law that would significantly alter the way in which the "TRNC" handles claims for restitution or compensation for Greek Cypriot property, which makes up between 80 and 90 percent of the land in the north. In response to an Apr [...] | 2005-11-30 09:31:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CY TU PHUM PREF COE ECON |
05NICOSIA1955 | SUBJECT: "SETTLERS" AND CITIZENSHIP: THE [...] (C) Summary: Questions of "settler status" and ROC citizenship have become increasingly entwined, further complicating an already contentious issue that lies close to the core of the Cyprus dispute. Issues of citizenship, status, and the definition of a "settler" are of more than academic [...] | 2005-12-14 11:49:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV UNSC CY |
05NICOSIA2006 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON CONTINUING CONCERNS OVER [...] (C) On December 21, poloff delivered reftel demarche on Russian NGO law to Elena Rafti in the MFA's European Affairs Division. Rafti had no substantive response, but promised to pass the message forward for consideration. SCHLICHER [...] | 2005-12-23 09:34:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL |
05NICOSIA2007 | KIDS THESE DAYS: WHAT DO GREEK CYPRIOT YOUNG [...] (C) Summary: In the April 2004 referendum on the Annan Plan for a Cyprus settlement, Greek Cypriots in the 18-24 age group voted "No" by a margin of nine-to-one. Both anecdotal impressions and polling data lead to the conclusion that, on balance, young Greek Cypriots take a harder line on t [...] | 2005-12-23 11:32:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM CY |
05NICOSIA2024 | AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALLS ON THE TURKISH [...] (C) Summary: On December 27, Ambassador Schlicher paid introductory calls on key players in the Turkish Cypriot leadership --"President" Mehmet Ali Talat, "Prime Minister" Ferdi Sabit Soyer, and "Foreign Minister" Serdar Denktash -- to discuss the current state of play on the Cyprus issue and [...] | 2005-12-28 15:06:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CY |
05NICOSIA2037 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON FEMIP LOAN TO SYRIA [...] (C) On December 28, Poloff delivered the reftel demarche concerning The Facility for Euro-Meditteranen Investment and Partnership's (FEMIP) loan to Syria to Stelios Makriyiannis in the MFA's Political Affairs Division. Makriyiannis had no substantive response, but promised to pass the messag [...] | 2005-12-30 12:07:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EFIN PREL PGOV |
05NICOSIA291 | CIVILIAN-MILITARY RELATIONS IN NORTH CYPRUS: [...] (C) SUMMARY. With roughly 25,000 troops in Cyprus and a history of interference in Turkish Cypriot politics, the Turkish military exercised considerable sway in many spheres of civilian life in the north. The army has kept a low profile, however, since the 2003 elections that brought the pro [...] | 2005-02-18 15:16:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CY TU PHUM PINR ECON |
05NICOSIA304 | SHIP VISIT TO CYPRUS: CALLING IN THE NORTH IS A [...] (C) SUMMARY. Embassy Nicosia supports a visit by the USN to the Republic of Cyprus (south),but opposes a ship visit to north Cyprus under the current circumstances. The Republic of Cyprus has hosted many visits by the United States Navy (USN) over the years without incident. The Cyprus go [...] | 2005-02-23 13:19:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | CY TU PREL MOPS MARR |
05NOUAKCHOTT762 | WHY DID MAHMOUD ABBAS VISIT MAURITANIA? [...] (U) On July 2, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made his first official visit to Mauritania. Spending roughly 24 hours, he met with President Taya and toured Nouakchott,s port. The two men reportedly discussed Abbas' recent trip to the US, including discussions he had had with President B [...] | 2005-07-07 10:34:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM MR IS |
05OTTAWA1007 | (C) IRANIAN SCIENTIST OF CBW CONCERN IN CANADA [...] (C) Polmiloff met April 5 with Foreign Affairs Canada Acting Director for Arms Control and Nonproliferation Marina Laker, at the latter's request, to discuss Iranian national Mehdi Arbabi Ghahroudi, currently in Canada on a one-year work permit that will expire 04 July 2005. In addition to he [...] | 2005-04-06 14:33:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET | PARM PREL CVIS CA IR CBW |
05OTTAWA1020 | VEHICLE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS: [...] AS ANTICIPATED (REFTEL),ON APRIL 5 THE GOC AND REPRESENTATIVES OF NINETEEN AUTOMOTIVE COMPANIES ANNOUNCED A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING (MOU) UNDER WHICH THE COMPANIES PLEDGE TO REDUCE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM NEW CARS. THE TARGET IS TO CUT EMISSIONS FROM THE CANADIAN VEHICLE FLEET BY [...] | 2005-04-06 20:49:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG CA |
05OTTAWA1021 | Canada reacts to invasion of (not on) bicycles [...] In January, CITT informed the Embassy that it had received a complaint from the Canadian Bicycle Manufacturers Association (CBMA) requesting that CITT "initiate a global safeguard inquiry into the importation of bicycles, assembled and unassembled, with a wheel diameter greater than 15 inches. [...] | 2005-04-06 21:17:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD CA CITT NAFTA |
05OTTAWA1028 | TERRORIST FINANCE - OTTAWA: GOC PLANS TO LIST [...] (S) Reftel requested USG views on GOC plans to list Hizb-i-Islami (HIG),Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) under Canada's criminal code. Canadian Deputy Ministers met on April 1 and decided in principle to list MEK. However, given political sensitivities that listing will [...] | 2005-04-07 14:56:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET | EFIN PREL PTER CVIS KVPR KTFN CA IR |
05OTTAWA1029 | MAKING THE ECONOMIC CASE FOR CANADA: [...] (SBU) Having invested a decade of their top talent in an effort to win Quebecers to the federalist cause, the GOC's national-unity strategists now find themselves in a changed landscape. Provincial governments have grown bolder and more effective in asserting themselves on fiscal issues (re [...] | 2005-04-07 15:48:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SOCI EFIN PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA1057 | TERRORIST FINANCE - OTTAWA: GOC READY TO PROCEED [...] (U) This is an action request: see para 3. 2. (S) The GOC confirmed late on April 7 that, having reviewed the supplementary information in Ref A, they are prepared to proceed with designation of Lashkar-e-Tayyiba and all aliases provided in Ref B. They could proceed as early as Monday, Ap [...] | 2005-04-08 14:58:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET | EFIN PREL PTER CVIS KVPR KTFN CA |
05OTTAWA1079 | CANADIAN VIEWS ON THE CONGO BASIN FOREST [...] Demarche requested in reftel was made to the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). While Canadian officials were unable to respond on substance at the time of the demarche, they subsequently provided the following comments on the U.S. position. 2. Text of Canadian Response W [...] | 2005-04-11 18:21:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV PREL CA CIDA |
05OTTAWA1104 | SCENESETTER: CANADA AND THE SPP [...] (U) This is the first in a series of cables offering Mission views and background information on elements of the Security and Prosperity Partnership. This cable outlines some political and economic factors in Canada that may affect progress toward SPP goals. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Security [...] | 2005-04-13 11:57:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ECIN PREL CA |
05OTTAWA1105 | CANADIAN OFFICIALS SUGGEST THAT MINISTER LAPIERRE'S [...] (SBU) Emboffs met on April 6 with Chief of Staff to Minister of Transport Jean Lapierre, Leslie Swartman, and Lapierre's Senior Policy Advisor, Paul Stothart, to discuss the Government of Canada's (GOC) slow steps toward air liberalization discussions. When Lapierre and Secretary of Transport [...] | 2005-04-13 13:20:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECIN EINV CA |
05OTTAWA1123 | DEMARCHE ON LIGHTER BAN [...] (U) As discussed with TSA in reftelcons, the Government of Canada (GOC) is still seeking to find the regulatory means to implement the ban on lighters on U.S.-bound aircraft. The GOC is considering the issue of whether a policy change such as the addition of lighters to the list of prohibited [...] | 2005-04-14 17:20:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR PTER CA |
05OTTAWA1125 | CANADA UNVEILS CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGY: [...] ON APRIL 13 CANADA ANNOUNCED ITS LONG-AWAITED STRATEGY TO MEET ITS GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION REDUCTION COMMITMENTS UNDER THE KYOTO PROTOCOL. MOST PLAYERS ACKNOWLEDGE THAT CANADA'S KYOTO TARGET (EMISSIONS SIX PERCENT BELOW 1990 LEVELS BY 2012) IS NO LONGER ATTAINABLE, IF IT EVER WAS. THE NEED [...] | 2005-04-14 18:17:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG CA |
05OTTAWA1128 | CANADA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON FOURTH GLOBAL [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche discussing the Fourth Global Forum on Fighting Corruption (GF IV) to Alain Tellier, Deputy Director of the International Crime and Terrorism Division at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),on April 8. Tellier thanked us for the points, said that FAC was tracking the [...] | 2005-04-14 19:01:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PREL PINR KFRD SOCI CVIS CA GF IV FAC |
05OTTAWA1134 | HAS THE CAMPAIGN STARTED? [...] (C) Summary: The phony war between the Conservatives and Liberals broke out into open trench warfare April 13 as the PM turned a direct question on his relationship with a key figure in the sponsorship scandal into an attempted grilling of Conservative leader Harper on the Conservative health [...] | 2005-04-15 12:15:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | CA PGOV PREL |
05OTTAWA1142 | VISIT TO OTTAWA OF CHAIRMAN OF U.S. COMMISSION ON [...] This is an action message. Please see paragraph 8. 2. Summary: Admiral James D. Watkins (ret.),former Chairman of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, visited Ottawa April 12 to brief senior Canadian officials on the Commission's final report. GOC officials reviewed the status of Cana [...] | 2005-04-15 16:26:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIS PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA1166 | CANADA SCENESETTER FOR POL-MIL BILATS [...] (C) Your leadership of the U.S. delegation at the inaugural US-Canada political-military consultations is greatly appreciated. While the United States and Canada meet regularly in continental security and defense forums, there has been growing recognition in both governments that broader poli [...] | 2005-04-18 15:37:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MARR CA |
05OTTAWA1168 | Canadian Reaction to GOC's Proposed Copyright Law Amendments [...] (U) Summary: On March 24th, GOC released its highly anticipated response to the 2002 Heritage Committee report on the need for copyright reform. Many Canadian observers had hoped that the GOC's recent announcement would adequately address remaining IPR questions, but the government's goals f [...] | 2005-04-18 18:34:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ETRD ECON CA |
05OTTAWA1172 | CANADA'S PRIORITIES FOR THE ST. JOHN'S CONFERENCE [...] Sensitive but Unclassified. 2. (SBU) Summary: As the host of the Conference on the Governance of High Seas Fisheries and the UN Fish Stocks Agreement, May 1-5 in St. John's, Newfoundland, the Government of Canada will be pursuing recommendations for concrete measures to strengthen Regio [...] | 2005-04-18 19:22:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA1175 | CANADA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON COMMUNITY OF [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche concerning the upcoming April 28-30 Community of Democracies (CD) Ministerial in Santiago to Jessica Blitt, Policy Advisor in the Peacebuilding and Human Security Division at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),on April 13. Blitt said that FAC was still considering [...] | 2005-04-19 12:40:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PREL CA |
05OTTAWA1190 | INTERNATIONAL POLICY STATEMENT CALLS FOR ENHANCED [...] (C) Summary: Ottawa unveiled its long-awaited International Policy Statement today, which the government pledged would give Canada a more prominent place on the world stage and provide needed focus to its first-ever effort to integrate defense, diplomacy, development aid, and trade. The docum [...] | 2005-04-19 21:21:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | CA MARR PGOV PREL AID KCRS |
05OTTAWA1197 | Canada and China conclude expanded air transport [...] On April 19 Canada's Transport Minister Jean Lapierre and International Trade Minister Jim Peterson announced the conclusion of a new and expanded bilateral air transport agreement with the People's Republic of China. The new entitlements include possibilities for all-cargo and code- sharing [...] | 2005-04-20 13:56:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECIN EINV CA CH |
05OTTAWA1199 | SPP Institution Building: Regulatory Cooperation [...] Summary: This is the second in a series of cables discussing the background and possible future course of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (Ref A). Summary: As SPP working groups move through the first phase of reaching out to stakeholders and identifying key issues, we recommend that [...] | 2005-04-20 14:58:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD CA |
05OTTAWA1201 | SPP: Can-Am Business Council shares views on next [...] Summary: Members of the Canadian-American Business Council (CABC),a Washington DC based industry advocacy group, outlined for the Charg their principal concerns that they think need to be addressed by the SPP. The CABC underscored the pressing need to quickly build appropriate infrastructur [...] | 2005-04-20 17:50:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECIN CA |
05OTTAWA1203 | DETAILS EMERGE ON CANADA'S CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGY [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. 2. (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraph 12. 3. (SBU) Summary: According to a senior official at Environment Canada, the GOC's recently unveiled climate change strategy (reftel) reflects an attempt to meet Canada's Kyoto targets while [...] | 2005-04-20 19:22:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG CA |
05OTTAWA1205 | CANADA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON UNRWA EMERGENCY [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche concerning an appeal for countries to make contributions to the 2005 Emergency Appeal for UNRWA to Sam Hanson, Deputy Coordinator, Middle East Peace Process Division at Foreign Affairs Canada, on April 12. Hanson stated that the Government of Canada had just [...] | 2005-04-20 20:54:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF KPAL PREL CA EUN CIDA |
05OTTAWA1217 | EVALUATION FOR A DVC ON THE U.S. NATIONAL [...] DESCRIPTION: Anne E. Stone, President, the Stone Group (Political Consultants) and Craig Charney, President, Charney Research gave a one hour, one country (Embassy and four constituent posts) DVC on the subject: "U.S. National Election: the results are in - A look back at the campaign and a [...] | 2005-04-22 13:17:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC OIIP CA OBSP |
05OTTAWA1221 | CANADA: IRAQI POLICE TRAINING PROGRAM IN JORDAN [...] (U) The Government of Canada has every intention to continue its International Police Trainers participation at the Jordan International Police Training Center through CY2006. According to Foreign Affairs Canada, Regional Peacekeeping Director Wendy Gilmour on April 22, recommendations have a [...] | 2005-04-22 15:46:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER SNAR SOCI CA IQ |
05OTTAWA1226 | CANADA: DEMARCHE ON FUNDING AFGHANISTAN'S [...] (C) In a conversation on April 20 with Foreign Affairs Canada contacts (please protect),poloff was told privately that GoC financial assistance to the Afghanistan elections could be in the range of CDN 5-10 million (approximately USD 4-8 million). The amount of the contribution is expected t [...] | 2005-04-22 19:44:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID AF CA UNSC |
05OTTAWA1244 | MISSION CANADA 90 DAY GOALS - 3RD QUARTER [...] Summary - Over the next three months, Mission Canada commits to supporting the SPP, finalizing our budget and continuing our enhancement of our SIPRnet site. In this next period, we also expect to prepare for the arrival of a new Ambassador and to follow-up on our project to design an emerge [...] | 2005-04-26 12:05:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT PREL PGOV CASC ECON CA ETRA |
05OTTAWA1246 | CANADA: CANDIDATE FOR MEMBER OF BOARD OF DIRECTOR [...] Post received the following note (original/fax) from Foreign Affairs Canada: QUOTE NO LIA-0057 Foreign Affairs Canada presents its compliments to the Embassy of the United States of America and has the honour to inform the Embassy that the Government of Canada has the honour to presen [...] | 2005-04-26 13:30:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM CA OAS |
05OTTAWA1248 | CANADA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON COMMUNITY OF [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered the demarche (per ref a) outlining a USG initiative to develop universal election standards that will be presented at the April 28-30 Community of Democracies (CD) Ministerial in Santiago, to Jessica Blitt, Policy Advisor in the Peacebuilding and Human Security Division [...] | 2005-04-26 14:27:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PREL CA |
05OTTAWA1256 | PACIFIC SALMON TREATY AMENDMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2005-04-26 17:57:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIS KTIA CA |
05OTTAWA1258 | CANADA: FOREIGN MINISTER TO TRAVEL TO SANTIAGO TO [...] (SBU) Further to reftel, contacts at Foreign Affairs Canada have just advised us that Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew is now scheduled to attend the CD Ministerial in Santiago, April 28-30. 2. (SBU) Canada's Chief Elections Officer, Jean-Pierre Kingsley, remains undecided because of the [...] | 2005-04-26 17:59:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PREL CA |
05OTTAWA1274 | Malone nomination for IRC directors conference, May [...] Post wishes to nominate PA Ottawa IRC Director Kyle Malone to attend the IRC Directors Conference for Caribbean, Central America, Canada and Venezuela from 05/16/2005 through 05/20/2005. 2. Ms. Malone will be arriving Continental 1950 at 1250 hours on May 16, 2005 and departing on May 20 a [...] | 2005-04-27 18:07:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO KIRC OIIP |
05OTTAWA1283 | HARPER SUGGESTS POINT OF NO RETURN ON ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-04-27 21:57:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CA PGOV NDP |
05OTTAWA1305 | Canada's Response to the 2005 Special 301 Report [...] (SBU) Summary: Economic officers met with Doug George, director of IPR issues, and other officials at International Trade Canada (ITCAN) to inform them of the Special 301 decision and deliver reftel points. While rejecting the Special 301 process as a whole and disappointed with this year's r [...] | 2005-04-29 19:48:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR CA |
05OTTAWA1315 | SPP: Canadian Chemical producers like SPP, see it [...] Summary: Representatives of the Canadian Chemical Producers Association (CCPA) are supportive of the SPP and suggested that enduring institutional links between government agencies will be a major factor in increasing continental commerce in the chemical sector. They identified the Four Corner [...] | 2005-05-02 17:09:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECIN CA |
05OTTAWA1318 | CANADA WILL VOICE SUPPORT FOR THE IRAQI [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-02 19:29:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ PGOV PREL FAC |
05OTTAWA1364 | Security and Prosperity Partnership in Canada - A [...] (SBU) Summary - From a distance Mission Canada is heartened by the effect and attention given to the SPP in Washington, throughout our government. We are hearing from Canadians most affected that this is precisely what is needed. Because of the political situation now in Canada, we can affor [...] | 2005-05-05 19:16:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIN EIND ELTN ECON PGOV PREL CA MX |
05OTTAWA1368 | CANADIAN SUPPORT FOR LIBERIAN SECURITY REFORM [...] (SBU) In response to ref a, poloff followed up with Andrew Armstrong, Manager of Fleet Policies and Standards at Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) Headquarters. Armstrong stated that he would advise CCG management of our interest in using these boats as part of a nascent Liberian Coast Guard, but a [...] | 2005-05-06 12:00:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PREL MARR EAID LI CA FAC |
05OTTAWA1371 | PARLIAMENTARY MELTDOWN WHILE THE SHARKS CIRCLE [...] (C) Summary: The Conservatives continue to press the Liberals to allow a vote in the House of Commons that would let them attempt to bring down the government, but the Liberal leadership has thus far skillfully maneuvered around the circling sharks. Speaker Milliken announced today that the [...] | 2005-05-06 13:42:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | CA PGOV NDP |
05OTTAWA1373 | CANADA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON AN UNMANDATED [...] (SBU) Poloff discussed the reftel demarche concerning a 2005 Commission on Human Rights (CHR) resolution establishing a five-day working group in Geneva to discuss CHR reform, with Henri-Paul Normandin, Director of the Human Rights Division at Foreign Affairs Canada, on May 5. Normandin stat [...] | 2005-05-06 18:12:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM CA UNCHR UNGA |
05OTTAWA1374 | Members of Transport Committee appear hostile to [...] On May 4 Canada's Commissioner of Competition, Sheridan Scott, addressed the House of Commons Standing Committee on Transport as part of that Committee's on-going examination into the liberalization of civil aviation in Canada. Emboff was surprised at the extent to which MPs on the committee [...] | 2005-05-06 18:14:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR EINV CA |
05OTTAWA1384 | CANADA: MISSION PERSPECTIVE ON SPP SECURITY GOALS [...] SUMMARY: Mission Canada appreciates the opportunity to comment on the interagency effort under way to identify a coherent and forward looking security road map for North America. We must continue to search for security weaknesses and identify areas where our three countries can strengthen ou [...] | 2005-05-06 20:55:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | CA ECON ETRD MX PGOV PREL EWWT SMIG SNAR SOCI |
05OTTAWA1385 | SPP IN CANADA: THE PROSPERITY AGENDA [...] Summary: Following are Mission's general comments on the areas covered in the SPP declaration. Mission Canada recommends that Washington agencies focus on the following overarching elements for progress in SPP: -- a permanent dialogue between the two executive bodies charged with regulato [...] | 2005-05-09 11:53:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECIN EFIN CA |
05OTTAWA1386 | SEEKING SUPPORT FOR U.S. APEC RADIOACTIVE SOURCES [...] (C) Reftel points were delivered on May 2 to the APEC Unit of Foreign Affairs Canada's International Economic Relations and Summit Division (EER),the International Crime Division (AGC) and the Regional Security Office (IDC). In a follow up discussion on May 6, AGC's Katie McLaurin informed pol [...] | 2005-05-09 14:28:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSTC EAID CA APECO |
05OTTAWA1403 | Canada announces airport rent reductions with 5-year [...] On May 9 Canada's Minister of Transport, Jean Lapierre, announced a new rent policy for federally owned airports. The new policy is expected to result in close to C$8 billion in rent relief for Canada's airport authorities over the life of the airport leases, which are typically for 60 years. [...] | 2005-05-10 18:06:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR EINV CA |
05OTTAWA1410 | CANADA ON ISAF CAVEATS [...] (C) Though Canada has not/not provided a formal response to ref b demarche, the GOC's position on ISAF-related caveats was discussed on the margins of the April 27 US-Canada polmil talks. Paul Chapin, Director General for Security Policy at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC) explained that the cavea [...] | 2005-05-10 19:58:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR AF CA NATO FAC |
05OTTAWA1411 | DEVIL'S LAKE: CONTAINING THE DAMAGE [...] (C) Summary - The U.S. and Canada are clearly on a collision course over Devils Lake, one that could have been avoided in a number of ways over the past two years. We continue to believe that a reference to the International Joint Commission (IJC) would have been the most constructive approa [...] | 2005-05-10 20:14:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV CA |
05OTTAWA1412 | CANADA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON OAS WORKING GROUP [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Pamela Moore, Senior Policy Officer at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),on May 5. Moore thanked us for the points, and advised that she would review the demarche with her colleagues at FAC, including Marie Gervais-Vidricaire, Director General of the Glob [...] | 2005-05-10 20:43:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM AORC CA USOAS |
05OTTAWA1413 | SCENE-SETTER FOR CANUS ARMED FORCES COUNCIL [...] (C) CANADA-U.S. POL-MIL RELATIONS. PRIME MINISTER MARTIN LEADS A MINORITY GOVERNMENT THAT OPERATES WITH EXTREME CAUTION AND LACKS STABILITY. MARTIN,S OVERRIDING CONCERN IS POLITICAL SURVIVAL AS HE FACES A POTENTIAL NO-CONFIDENCE, VOTE 18 OR 19 MAY WHICH MANY BELIEVE WILL LEAD TO ELECTIONS BE [...] | 2005-05-11 11:39:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV |
05OTTAWA1459 | CANADA: ATTORNEY GENERAL GONZALES' MAY 18 VISIT [...] (SBU) As you prepare for your first meeting with Canada's Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan and Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler, I want to extend my welcome and offer the Embassy's continuing support for the range of issues, initiatives, and processes that form the core of the Department o [...] | 2005-05-13 18:29:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER KCRM CA |
05OTTAWA1460 | OTTAWA'S CHARGE CALLED TO MEET TRADE MINISTER [...] (SBU) On May 12, Charge John Dickson met with International Trade Minister Peterson at the Minister's request to discuss U.S. designation of Caribe Sol and Hola Sun as Specially Designated Nationals under the Cuban Assets Control Regulations (comment: Minister Peterson also included Internet [...] | 2005-05-13 18:43:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON CU CA |
05OTTAWA1461 | CANADA: PARALYSIS IN PARLIAMENT -- WHO'S RUNNING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Canada's House of Commons came to a grinding standstill on May 12, when the opposition Conservative Party and Bloc Quebecois flexed their muscle by adjourning the daily session of Parliament, to the surprise of the ruling Liberal Party. In the wake of a controversial "confiden [...] | 2005-05-13 18:50:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV CA NDP |
05OTTAWA1472 | VOIP: CANADA CONFIRMS IT WILL REGULATE INTERNET- [...] Canada's communications regulator has confirmed a decision which it foreshadowed in April 2004 (reftel): that its existing telecoms regulatory framework will cover "voice over Internet protocol" services when VOIP is used for local calling. (The decision, by the Canadian Radio-Television a [...] | 2005-05-16 14:43:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ETRD CA |
05OTTAWA1475 | THE POLITICS OF CANADA'S DARFUR INVOLVEMENT [...] (C/NF) Summary: In an effort to shore up support for his tottering minority government, PM Martin gave in to the demands of independent MP David Kilgour and accelerated the announcement of a major increase in aid for Darfur, to include CN $200 million and up to Canadian Forces technical advis [...] | 2005-05-16 22:01:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | CA PGOV EAID MARR MASS MOPS PREL SU |
05OTTAWA1487 | NATO-AFGHANISTAN: ISAF CAVEATS [...] (C) In a diplomatic note (No. IDR0258) dated May 17, 2005, Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC) provided a formal response to our demarche on ISAF caveats (ref (c)),delivered April 5,2005. Text follows: 2. (C) Begin text. Canada recognizes the potentially detrimental effect national caveats ca [...] | 2005-05-17 19:27:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR AF CA NATO |
05OTTAWA1488 | RESPONDING TO ALLEGATIONS OF QURAN DESECRATION AT [...] Canadian media treatment: National media in Canada carried stories beginning May 11 of rioting in Kabul that resulted from the Newsweek report. Canadian media have followed the story with scrupulously "straight" reporting, primarily from international wire services and U.S. media, prominentl [...] | 2005-05-17 19:28:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO KISL PREL |
05OTTAWA1491 | CONSERVATIVE DEFECTION DEALS HEAVY BLOW TO HARPER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Before an audience of stunned journalists, PM Martin announced May 17 that Conservative MP Belinda Stronach has crossed the floor to join the Liberal Caucus and Cabinet as the Minister for Human Resources and Skills Development. She will also hold special responsibility for Demo [...] | 2005-05-17 21:40:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | CA PGOV |
05OTTAWA1493 | TERRORIST FINANCE - OTTAWA: GOC PLANS TO LIST [...] (C) Foreign Affairs Canada informed us late on May 17 that they are proceeding with plans to list Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and MEK (Mujahedin-e-Khalq under Canada's criminal code. They are already listed domestically under the UN Suppression of Terrorism resolution but the Criminal Code listing i [...] | 2005-05-18 12:54:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET | ETTC EFIN PTER PREL KVPR KTFN CVIS CA FAC |
05OTTAWA1497 | NATO-AFGHANISTAN: CIVILIAN COMPONENTS OF PRTS [...] (C) Post delivered ref demarche to Foreign Affairs Canada on May 5; however, it is only recently that we have been able to reach officers in the North American and Euro-Atlantic Security and Defence Relations Division (IDR). Our key contacts have been unavailable due to a convergence of travel [...] | 2005-05-18 16:49:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR AF CA NATO |
05OTTAWA1500 | CANADA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON ICJ ELECTIONS [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche, discussing the nomination of Thomas Buergenthal for appointment to the International Court of Justice, to Michel Tessier, Coordinator for Elections at the UN Division of Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),on May 4. Tessier thanked us for the demarche, and mention [...] | 2005-05-18 19:52:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | CA UNSC UNGA |
05OTTAWA1502 | US-CANADA POLMIL TALKS: FIRST IN A DECADE [...] (SBU) On April 27, Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC) hosted the first US/CAN political-military consultations in more than a decade. The day-long talks opened with each side providing an overview of its recently released national defense policy/strategy. Topics covered in the talks included cont [...] | 2005-05-18 21:59:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PK IN CA |
05OTTAWA1503 | CANADA-U.S. EXCHANGE ALUMNI CONFERENCE, APRIL 8-9, [...] SUMMARY: In the first national conference of Canada- U.S. exchange alumni, a sense of common purpose and responsibility for contributing to the shape of the North American community emerged from a day and a half of lectures, discussions, and informal networking at Vancouver's Simon Fraser U [...] | 2005-05-19 11:56:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA US |
05OTTAWA1504 | FY 2006 International Visitor Leadership Program [...] SUMMARY: This cable transmits the Mission's FY 2006 International Visitor Leadership Program slate. END SUMMARY. 2. The Mission Canada International Visitor Committee, composed of principal officers of Canada's seven constituent posts and Embassy Minister-Counselors for political, eco [...] | 2005-05-19 11:57:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1516 | NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS FOR ALASKA GAS PRODUCERS [...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives of the Alaska North Slope natural gas producers now hope that the GOC may be reconsidering its options regarding a permitting authority for the Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline. A GOC decision that the 1,300 mile Canadian portion of the proposed pipeline could be pe [...] | 2005-05-19 19:54:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ETRD EPET CA |
05OTTAWA1522 | NEW FOCUS FOR CANADA'S DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE [...] Summary: Canada is focusing its official development assistance (ODA) dollara and will be weaning 130 countries from its bilateral aid programs. The April 19 International Policy Statement (IPS) confirms that Canada, will concentrate its development assistance dollars on countries that can u [...] | 2005-05-20 15:35:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PGOV SENV CA |
05OTTAWA1523 | CANADIAN CHIEF OF DEFENCE STAFF REQUEST FOR MEU [...] USDAO OTTAWA RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING LETTER FROM GENERAL R.J. HILLIER TO LIEUTENANT GENERAL J.C. HULY. TEXT FOLLOWS: FROM: CHIEF OF THE DEFENCE STAFF NATIONAL DEFENCE HEADQUARTERS OTTAWA, ONTARIO 10 MAY 2005 TO: LIEUTENANT GENERAL JAN C. HULY DEPUTY COMMANDANT HEADQUARTERS, U.S. MARIN [...] | 2005-05-20 15:44:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM |
05OTTAWA1528 | MARTIN SURVIVES BUDGET VOTE, WILL THE TORIES STAND [...] (C) Summary: The Liberal government survived a budget vote May 19 by a one vote margin, the first time in Canadian history that the Speaker had to vote to break a tie. The impending cliffhanger kept Ottawa buzzing for a week and now leaves MPs to return to their ridings for the long weekend a [...] | 2005-05-24 11:49:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | CA PGOV PREL NDP |
05OTTAWA1540 | CANADA'S BORDER CAUCUS PREPARING TO COMMENT ON [...] (U) On May 18, 2005, Emboffs met with Conservative Member of Parliament Russ Hiebert, chief organizer of Canada's multiparty Border Caucus, whose 37 members are from ridings (districts) adjacent to the U.S. border. Parliament's Border Caucus was formed in 2004 and had its inaugural meeting in [...] | 2005-05-24 15:52:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PREL CA |
05OTTAWA1550 | DEMARCHING INVITEES TO THE US-EU INTERNATIONAL [...] This is an action request, see para. 6. 2. Poloff delivered reftel points to Ann Flanagan-Whalen, Deputy Director for the Middle East Division of Foreign Affairs Canada. Ms. Flanagan-Whalen said FAC has not yet received the EU invite and was pleased to get the detail which we provided. Sh [...] | 2005-05-25 11:43:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ EG JA ASEC PREL UN FAC |
05OTTAWA1571 | IPR FILESHARING APPEAL: RIGHTS-HOLDERS LOST A [...] (SBU) Summary: The Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) is claiming a victory in an Appeals Court's rejection of last year's decision by Judge von Finkenstein that filesharing does not constitute infringement. CRIA and the other rights-holding plaintiffs (the largest musical provid [...] | 2005-05-26 18:46:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR CA |
05OTTAWA1579 | FY 2006 IVLP MRP on International Crime Issues - [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-27 11:43:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1580 | FY 2006 IVLP MRP on International Crime Issues - [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-27 11:44:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1581 | FY 2006 IVLP Individual Program - Derek Brown [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-27 11:45:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1582 | FY 2006 IVLP, ITT on U.S. Policymaking Process [...] The post proposes a two-person project, subject to availability of nominees once approved and invited, that would acquaint two first-term Members of the Canadian Parliament to the policy-making process in the United States. Through discussions with federal, state and local government leader [...] | 2005-05-27 11:46:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1583 | FY 2006 IVLP Individual Program - David Neufeld [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-27 11:47:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1584 | FY 2006 IVLP, ITT Ground Transportation Safety and [...] Post proposes a two-person IVLP project on Ground Transportation Safety and Planning in the U.S. This project would better acquaint two players involved in supporting Canada-U.S. trade via truck to overall U.S. security policies, U.S. border security concerns, regulation and implementation, [...] | 2005-05-27 11:49:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1585 | FY 2006 IVLP, ITT Ground Transportation Safety and [...] Post proposes a two-person IVLP project on Ground Transportation Safety and Planning in the U.S. This project would better acquaint two players involved in supporting Canada-U.S. trade via truck to overall U.S. security policies, U.S. border security concerns, regulation and implementation, [...] | 2005-05-27 11:50:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1588 | FY 2006 IVLP, ITT on U.S. Public Policy Issues and [...] Mission Canada proposes a two-person International Visitor Leadership Program which would acquaint two accomplished broadcast journalists in Halifax and Winnipeg with major public policy debates in the U.S. and how they are covered in the broadcast media. Through meetings with federal execu [...] | 2005-05-27 11:52:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1589 | Nomination for FY 2006 IVLP EU RP on FOREIGN POLICY [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-27 11:53:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1604 | CANADA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHES ON ILO ELECTIONS AND [...] (U) Poloff discussed refs (a) (Cuban candidacy for the ILO Governing Body) and (b) (ILO's proposed budget for 2006-2007) with Wendy Drukier, Senior Policy Advisor at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),on May 24. Drukier thanked us for the points, and requested some time so that she could pass the [...] | 2005-05-27 19:50:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL AORC ELAB CA ILO |
05OTTAWA1607 | CANADIAN REACTIONS TO ETHIOPIAN POST-ELECTION [...] (C) POLMINCOUNS and POLOFF met May 27 with FAC Deputy Director for Southern and Eastern Africa Stephen Moran and Ethiopia Desk Officer Curtis Ajmani, to discuss post-election Ethiopia and Sudan. On Sudan, Moran mentioned that Canada has set up an interagency task force comprised of individuals [...] | 2005-05-27 20:57:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | CA ET PREL KDEM PGOV PHUM |
05OTTAWA1615 | DEMARCHE REQUEST ON OSCE CORDOBA DECLARATION [...] (SBU) Post delivered demarche points to Foreign Affairs Acting Director for North American and Euro-Atlantic Security and Defence Relations, Isabelle Poupart, the morning of May 31. In a follow-up discussion, Poupart said that the matter had been resolved earlier in the day in Vienna with agr [...] | 2005-05-31 19:55:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM CA OSCE |
05OTTAWA1627 | USG PROPOSED UN COPUOS STSC SPACE DEBRIS [...] ESTH Counselor discussed proposed guidelines transmitted in reftel with Doug Altworth of the Science and Technology Division of International Trade Canada. Altworth said that the Canadian Government is still reviewing the proposed guidelines and has not yet had consultations with industry con [...] | 2005-06-01 15:45:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPA AORC UNGA |
05OTTAWA1628 | FY 2006 IVLP Individual Nomination - Marie-France [...] Post is pleased to nominate Ms. Marie-France Charbonneau, Political Attache of the Bloc Qubcois Cabinet, for a 21-day individual project. EVDB nomination follows. 2. START FIXED-FORMAT TEXT (PLEASE DO NOT EDIT): : The following data is in a fixed format which enables : automated process [...] | 2005-06-01 16:43:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1629 | FY 2006 IVLP Individual Nomination - Marie-France [...] Post is pleased to nominate Ms. Marie-France Charbonneau, Political Attache of the Bloc Qubcois Cabinet, for a 21-day individual project. Ms. Charbonneau has full country team approval. EVDB nomination follows. 2. START FIXED-FORMAT TEXT (PLEASE DO NOT EDIT): : The following data is in [...] | 2005-06-01 16:44:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1634 | CANADA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON UN DEMOCRACY FUND [...] (U) Poloff discussed reftel with Jessica Blitt, Senior Policy Advisor at Foreign Affairs Canada, on June 1. Blitt indicated that she was in contact with the GoC's UN mission in New York, but that no decision had been made on whether Canada would co-sign the proposed letter to the UNSYG on the [...] | 2005-06-01 20:53:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM CA UN |
05OTTAWA1636 | CORRECTION: FY 2006 IVLP Individual Program - [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-02 18:30:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1641 | FY 2006 Proposed IVLP ITT "Infrastructure [...] The post proposes a two-person IVLP project focused on the political, financial, environmental, and social aspects of infrastructure development in urban areas and at key U.S. border crossings. One nominee is a public sector manager, the other a business association leader. The program woul [...] | 2005-06-02 19:24:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1642 | FY 2006 Proposed IVLP ITT "Infrastructure [...] The post proposes a two-person IVLP project focused on the political, financial, environmental, and social aspects of infrastructure development in urban areas and at key U.S. border crossings. One nominee is a public sector manager, the other a business association leader. The program woul [...] | 2005-06-02 19:26:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1643 | FY 2006 IVLP EU RP on Current Social, Political and [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-02 19:32:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1644 | FY 2006 ITT on Multiculturalism in the U.S. [...] The post is pleased to propose a two-person IVLP project that would acquaint two Canadian leaders of multicultural communities with U.S. ideals and practice in celebrating the diversity of our society. Themes might include immigration policy and integration of new immigrants; business devel [...] | 2005-06-02 19:48:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1646 | FY 2006 IVLP Individual Program - Letia Cousins [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-02 19:55:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1647 | FY 2006 IVLP EU RP Combating International Crime - [...] Post is pleased to nominate Joe Couto, Director of Government Relations, Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police, for subject project. EVDB-formatted nomination follows. 2. START FIXED-FORMAT TEXT (PLEASE DO NOT EDIT): : The following data is in a fixed format which enables : automat [...] | 2005-06-02 20:08:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1653 | FY 2006 IVLP EU RP on Trade and Economic Issues - [...] Post is pleased to nominate Mr. Barry McNamar, Assistant Director for Development, The Fraser Institute, Calgary for subject project. Mr. McNamar has full country team approval. Post looks forward to advice on acceptance of Mr. McNamar into this project. EVDB nomination follows. 2. S [...] | 2005-06-02 20:30:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1656 | DEMARCHE: SA/LW NEGOTIATIONS ON MARKING AND TRACING [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche points to Deputy Director Shawn Barber in the Peacebuilding and Human Security Division (AGP) at Foreign Affairs oin May 31. A copy was conveyed to the Ambassador Anton Thalmann as well. 2, (SBU) Barber provided the following response on June 2: Begin [...] | 2005-06-02 20:33:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CA |
05OTTAWA1658 | FY 2006 IVLP Individual Program - Carmen Moore [...] Post nominates Carmen Moore, Chief of Protocol, Government of the Northwest Territories, as an alternate Canadian candidate for a 21-day individual project in FY2006. EVDB nomination follows. Ms. Moore has full country team approval. 2. START FIXED-FORMAT TEXT (PLEASE DO NOT EDIT): : [...] | 2005-06-02 20:37:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1663 | DEMARCHE REQUEST TO ENCOURAGE NICARAGUA TO DESTROY [...] (C) Post delivered reftel points to Foreign Affairs Deputy Director Sarah Fountain-Smith in the Regional Security Section (IDC) of the International Security Bureau. She said that while our request comes under the purview of her bureau, Canadian MANPADS policy is handled by a range of offices [...] | 2005-06-02 21:11:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET | MARR PARM PTER MASS CA |
05OTTAWA1664 | FY 2006 IVLP Individual Program - Allan Scholz [...] Post nominates Allan Scholz, President, A.N. Scholz and Associates, Calgary as an alternate candidate for a 21-day individual or ITT project on U.S. water policy and management. Mr. Scholz has full country team approval. EVDB nomination follows. 2. START FIXED-FORMAT TEXT (PLEASE DO NO [...] | 2005-06-03 12:04:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1668 | FY 2006 IVLP Individual Program - Peter Gregg [...] Post is pleased to nominate Peter Gregg, Vice President, Corporate Communications, Hydro One, Toronto for a 21-day individual project on U.S. Energy Policy and Security. Mr. Gregg has full country team approval. EVDB- formatted nomination follows. 2. START FIXED-FORMAT TEXT (PLEASE D [...] | 2005-06-03 14:22:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1669 | FY 2006 IVLP Individual Program - Peter Gregg [...] Post is pleased to nominate Peter Gregg, Vice President, Corporate Communications, Hydro One, Toronto for a 21-day individual project on U.S. Energy Policy and Security. Mr. Gregg has full country team approval. EVDB- formatted nomination follows. 2. START FIXED-FORMAT TEXT (PLEASE D [...] | 2005-06-03 14:23:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1670 | FY 2006 IVLP MRP on U.S. Foreign Policy and [...] Post nominates Baraladei Daniel Igali, President, Igali Foundation Inc., Vancouver, for subject project, pending availability of funds. (Mr. Igali is currently a high alternate for Canada funding). EVDB-formatted nomination follows. 2. START FIXED-FORMAT TEXT (PLEASE DO NOT EDIT): : Th [...] | 2005-06-03 14:41:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1672 | FY 2006 IVLP MRP on Substance Abuse, Education, [...] Post is pleased to nominate Mr. Robert Daniel Small (he goes by Dan Small),Non-profit Manager and Program Developer, Portland Hotel Society Community Services Society, Vancouver for subject project or for an individual program on Substance Abuse Education, Treatment and Prevention. EVDB-fo [...] | 2005-06-03 16:21:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1673 | FY 2006 IVLP MRP on Substance Abuse, Education, [...] Post is pleased to nominate Zarina Mulla, Social Planner, City of Vancouver Drug Policy Program for the subject MRP or an individual program on Drug Abuse Prevention, Education and Treatment, pending availability of FY2006 funding. EVDB-formatted nomination follows. 2. START FIXED-FORM [...] | 2005-06-03 16:43:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1675 | NSDD 38 - NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE [...] I concur with the proposal set forth in reftel to abolish the NASA USDH International Space Station Technical Liaison position in Saint-Hubert, Canada. Per reftel, the NASA FSN position remains in order to support regularly scheduled TDY travel to Canada by NASA officials. 2. According t [...] | 2005-06-03 17:15:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | AODE ABLD ASEC KMRS KSPR AMG |
05OTTAWA1676 | CANADA: REVIEW FOR TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD ACT [...] (U) Poloff met with Louise Branch, Deputy Director of the Caribbean and Central America Division at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),and Ghislain Chaput, FAC Desk Officer for Cuba, on May 25, to discuss recent Government of Canada policies and actions to advance democracy, human rights, and fund [...] | 2005-06-03 17:51:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ETTC PREL CU CA |
05OTTAWA1681 | LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES REGROUP, WAIT FOR THE [...] (C) Summary: It appears that the most likely scenario now is an early spring election following the end of year release of the Gomery report. Both sides have settled in for what amounts to a 10-month campaign, with the Liberals appearing much better organized and focused. The Conservatives c [...] | 2005-06-03 20:03:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CA PREL |
05OTTAWA1697 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: NATO: AIRLIFT TO THE AFRICAN [...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche points on Friday, June 3, to Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC) Sudan Task Force Director Wendy Gilmour and NATO Deputy Director Isabelle Poupart. FAC forwarded the points to the NATO policy office at National Defence. Promising us a "more definitive answer" late [...] | 2005-06-06 14:49:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR SU CA NATO |
05OTTAWA1701 | FY 2006 IVLP Individual Program - Ahmed Mahidjiba [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-06 16:56:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1703 | TERRORIST FINANCE - OTTAWA: CANADIAN INTEREST IN [...] (S) This is an urgent action request. See para 4. 2. (S) On June 6, Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC) provided post with their analysis of listing HIG under Canada's criminal code. (Hekmatyar, as an individual, and MEK, were recently added to Canada's criminal code, but the GOC held HIG for [...] | 2005-06-06 19:03:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET | EFIN ETTC PREL PTER CVIS KVPR KTFN CA |
05OTTAWA1708 | CANADIAN BALLAST WATER REGULATION [...] ESTH Counselor conveyed demarche contained in reftel to Foreign Affairs Canada on May 31, with follow-up copies to Environment Canada and Transport Canada. Counselor and ESTH Specialist met on June 6 with Transport Canada (TC) officials responsible for Ballast Water regulations: Director Gener [...] | 2005-06-06 20:39:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TBIO CA |
05OTTAWA1713 | LIBERAL MP QUITS CAUCUS OVER HANDLING OF SAME-SEX [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-06 21:05:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA1725 | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ACTION PLAN: ENGAGING GOC ON [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: Following the Special 301 decision requiring an out of cycle review for Canada (OCR),we urge Washington agencies to engage directly with Canadian officials to clarify the issues and assess how much progress can be expected during the review period. Following [...] | 2005-06-07 20:41:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR CA |
05OTTAWA1728 | CANADA AGREES TO PROVIDE SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES [...] (S) Polmiloff met with Foreign Affairs Director for Defense Relations Barbara Martin on June 7, 2005, at the latter's request. Martin wanted to convey officially the Canadian Government's positive response to USG's December 2004 request for Canadian Special Operations Forces for Operation End [...] | 2005-06-08 11:38:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET//NOFORN | MOPS MARR PREL CA AF |
05OTTAWA1734 | CANADA: APPEAL TO DONORS FOR HAITIAN ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff and Econoff met with a combined Foreign Affairs Canada and CIDA team led by FAC Director for the Caribbean and Central America Christian Lapointe June 7 to discuss the Haitian elections budget and the general situation in Haiti. Canadian officials feel it is important f [...] | 2005-06-08 15:42:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | HA AORC EAID EFIN PGOV PREL |
05OTTAWA1735 | DEMARCHE REQUEST TO ENCOURAGE NICARAGUA TO DESTROY [...] (C) Following-up on reftels June 7, Regional Security Affairs (IDC) desk officer Anne-Marie Spain at Foreign Affairs Canada informed polmiloff that Canada believes that "all actors, not just the Government of Nicaragua" should be approached regarding MANPADS destruction. Spain said that while [...] | 2005-06-08 17:27:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PARM PREL PTER MASS CA |
05OTTAWA1755 | TERRORIST FINANCE - OTTAWA: GOC LIKELY TO PROCEED [...] (S) Reftel reported that the GOC is proceeding with consideration of listing HIG domestically under Canada's Criminal Code but would solicit input from the USG and the Government of Afghanistan. On June 8, Foreign Affairs Canada informed post that FM Minister Abdullah, during a meeting in th [...] | 2005-06-09 14:40:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET | EFIN ETTC PREL PTER CVIS KVPR KTFN CA AF |
05OTTAWA1773 | OTTAWA: 2005 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-10 18:47:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV CASC EFIN KIDE PGOV CA OPIC |
05OTTAWA1776 | DEMARCHE: DELIVERABLES FOR THE US-EU INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Charge delivered reftel talking points to Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Peter Harder June 7 and Poloff followed up with FAC Deputy Director for the Middle East Ann Flanagan-Whalen June 8. We were told that it is not clear whether Minister Pettigrew will be attending the Brussels meet [...] | 2005-06-10 20:40:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PREL PGOV EAID EIND ECON CA |
05OTTAWA1780 | SPP: Enhancing Canadian Law Enforcement Presence on [...] (SBU) Summary: The President of Canada's Customs Officers' Union (CEUDA) has made the case before a Parliamentary committee that Canada needs an enhanced armed presence along the border between official ports of entry (POEs),and more generally that Customs officers need to have better acces [...] | 2005-06-13 14:18:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ELTN ASEC CA PTBS |
05OTTAWA1782 | TERRORIST FINANCE - OTTAWA: GOC LISTING OF HIG [...] (S) Foreign Affairs welcomed reftel message requesting a delay in announcing the domestic designation of HIG but that decision would not take effect or become public until on or after June 24. They expect that Cabinet Ministers will approve the proposal to proceed at the June 14 meeting on de [...] | 2005-06-13 14:31:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET | EFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN CA |
05OTTAWA1788 | TERRORIST FINANCE - OTTAWA: GOC DOMESTIC [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-13 18:57:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET | EFIN ETTC PREL PTER CVIS KVPR KTFN CA |
05OTTAWA1799 | CANADA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON MDA AND A RESPONSE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche concerning full membership for the Israeli National Society (MDA) in the International Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement, to Allisa Golberg, deputy director of the human rights division at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),on June 13. Golberg referred to the me [...] | 2005-06-14 17:29:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PHUM PREF PREL IS SZ CA ICRC |
05OTTAWA1800 | CANADA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON ALLEGED TERRORIST [...] (C) Poloff discussed reftel, concerning the possible extradition of alleged terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, with Rana Burley, Desk Officer for Venezuela at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),on May 31. Burley thanked us for the opportunity to review the legal situation involving Posada, noted tha [...] | 2005-06-14 17:31:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PHUM EAIR KJUS VE CU CA |
05OTTAWA1801 | CANADA'S RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON CHALLENGING OTHER [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-14 18:11:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR CA |
05OTTAWA1802 | GOC LIKELY TO SURVIVE VOTE ON BUDGET BILLS [...] (U) Summary: Barring a voting glitch that could bring down the government, Canada's basic budget measures are expected to receive final approval by the House of Commons tonight. Members will vote late tonight on Bill C-43, the legislation implementing proposals in the February 23 budget (ref [...] | 2005-06-14 20:57:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA1803 | HEALTH MINISTER ON INTERNET PHARMACIES: TAKE TWO [...] Summary: At yesterday's meeting of the House Committee on Health, Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh stated that he did not wish to destroy the internet pharmacy industry, but that he was committed to addressing potential drug shortages in Canada and the underlying "ethical questions" of doctors [...] | 2005-06-14 21:16:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON SOCI CA |
05OTTAWA1811 | OTTAWA: REVISION TO 2005 REPORT ON INVESTMENT [...] The following information has been received from Robert Curtis, claimant G. His letter (below),requesting assistance in returning to Canada, is accompanied by two copies of a FOIA request (para 2). Post is forwarding the original to WHA/CAN for transmittal to the FOIA office and other offic [...] | 2005-06-15 16:11:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV CASC EFIN KIDE PGOV CA OPIC FOI |
05OTTAWA1819 | DEVILS LAKE, ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE WEIGHS IN [...] Summary: In a press conference on June 14 the House of Commons Environment Committee called on the federal government to act decisively and exhaust "all diplomatic and/or legal options" to stop the Devils Lake outlet from commencing operation until it has been reviewed by the IJC. The Committe [...] | 2005-06-15 20:20:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV PBTS CA |
05OTTAWA1828 | ACTION REQUEST: DRAFT CONFERENCE STATEMENT FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-16 22:09:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ PREL PGOV EIND |
05OTTAWA1829 | CANADA ON UN REFORM: REQUEST TO CONVEY USG [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-16 22:31:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KUNR PREL PGOV AORC CA UNSC |
05OTTAWA1832 | Canadian company predicts damage to U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 8, Charge, and U.S. Foreign Commercial Service, POL and ECON staff met with executives of a Canadian commercial communications satellite operations and consulting company, Telesat, for a presentation on the impact of U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR [...] | 2005-06-17 15:45:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KSTC BEXP TSPA CA |
05OTTAWA1845 | FY 2006 IVLP ITT "Infrastructure Development and [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-20 13:28:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1847 | TERRORIST FINANCE - OTTAWA: GOC DOMESTIC LISTING [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-20 13:51:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET | EFIN ETTC PREL PTER CVIS KVPR KTFN CA |
05OTTAWA1857 | CANADA: IRANIAN NOMINEE TO BE AMBASSADOR IN OTTAWA [...] (C) Charge delivered reftel demarche, regarding the appointment of Ahmad Azizi as Iran's ambassador to Canada, to Peter Boehm, Assistant Deputy Minister (North America) at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),on June 20. Boehm, referring to the conversation last week between Under Secretary Nichol [...] | 2005-06-20 20:31:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR CA |
05OTTAWA1860 | SCENESETTER: Your Visit to Alberta, Canada [...] I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you and House Agriculture Committee members and staff to Canada. I am sure that your visit will be productive and will help us advance the agenda on two of our biggest bilateral bilateral economic issues. The Canadian Political Scene 2. [...] | 2005-06-21 12:16:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECIN EAGR PREL CA |
05OTTAWA1861 | FY 2006 IVLP ITT "U.S. Public Policy Issues and the [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-21 13:20:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1869 | CANADIAN REQUEST FOR TRANSIT RIGHTS THROUGH U.S. [...] (U) This is an action request: see paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) Embassy Ottawa received a diplomatic note dated June 20, 2005 from Foreign Affairs Canada. The note provides details of Canadian plans to deploy three joint RCMP/Canadian Coast Guard vessels on the Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence [...] | 2005-06-21 17:58:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM EWWT PBTS PHSA PREL CA |
05OTTAWA1888 | FY 2006 IVLP Individual Program - Yolande James [...] Post nominates Yolande James, Member of the Quebec National Assembly for a 21-day Individual project. EVDB nomination follows. 2. START FIXED-FORMAT TEXT (PLEASE DO NOT EDIT): : The following data is in a fixed format which enables : automated processing in Washington and should not be [...] | 2005-06-22 20:41:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA1894 | CANADA: TUNISIA HOPING FOR G-8 PUBLICITY FOR THE [...] (SBU) Tunisia's Ambassador to Canada, Khalifa El Hafdhi, demarched Charge on the forthcoming United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS),to be held in Tunisia from November 16-18. Ambassador El Hafdhi briefly reviewed the background of the WSIS, noting that phase I of the [...] | 2005-06-22 20:45:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECPS TS CA |
05OTTAWA1902 | SCENE-SETTER FOR AIRMEN TALKS NORTH, OTTAWA, [...] (C) CANADA-U.S. POL-MIL RELATIONS. PRIME MINISTER MARTIN LEADS A MINORITY GOVERNMENT THAT OPERATES WITH EXTREME CAUTION AND LACKS STABILITY. MARTIN,S OVERRIDING CONCERN IS POLITICAL SURVIVAL AS HE FACES A POTENTIAL NO-CONFIDENCE, VOTE 18 OR 19 MAY WHICH MANY BELIEVE WILL LEAD TO ELECTIONS BE [...] | 2005-06-23 15:47:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM |
05OTTAWA1910 | Canadian Border Patrol idea gains support from Senate [...] (SBU) Summary: The National Security and Defence Committee of the Senate of Canada suggests that a Canadian Border Patrol might be necessary. The committee also supports arming all Customs Officers at ports of entry. The backing of this Senate committee provides a high visibility boost to [...] | 2005-06-23 18:25:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ELTN ASEC PBTS CA |
05OTTAWA1911 | WASSENAAR BILAT MEETING WITH CANADA ON MAY 3 [...] (SBU) Summary: NP/ECNP led an interagency delegation to Ottawa to hold bilateral consultations with Canada on various Wassenaar issues. The U.S. and Canada agreed to work together in an effort to make progress on enhancing controls over items of terrorist use; individual reporting of items Ve [...] | 2005-06-23 19:07:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM CA PREL ETTC |
05OTTAWA1917 | LICENSING CONDITIONS IN THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR [...] Fees paid by telecommunications carriers in Canada are based on the cost of the regulators' telecommunications-related activities, multiplied by the carrier's share of industry operating revenue (see Telecommunications Fees Regulations, SOR/95-157). Telecoms firms have not complained to us abo [...] | 2005-06-24 15:14:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ETRD CA |
05OTTAWA1930 | CANADA: THE CANADA-EU SUMMIT [...] (U) Robert Clark, Director of the EU Division at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),provided a debrief on the results of the June 19 Canada-EU summit, held in Niagara-on-the-Lake, a resort town in southern Ontario. Clark characterized the one-day summit as extremely successful, with the GoC please [...] | 2005-06-24 20:45:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAIR ASEC EAID ECON EU CA |
05OTTAWA1947 | BIO -- GARY FILMON [...] (U) Canadian Prime Minister Paul Mrtin recently named Gary Filmon as Chairman of the country's Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC),which oversees the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Filmon had served on the committee for about four years before his appointment at chairman. [...] | 2005-06-27 18:33:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA1960 | CANADA'S BUDGET BILLS PASS THE HOUSE OF COMMONS IN [...] (SBU) In an unexpected parliamentary maneuver, the Liberal Party, with strong support from the New Democrats and acquiesence by the Bloc Quebecois, passed bill C-48, the C$4.6 billion in supplemental spending that will provide additional funding for post-secondary education, low-income housin [...] | 2005-06-28 14:24:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON CA |
05OTTAWA1962 | TERRORIST FINANCE - OTTAWA: SPECIFICATION OF HIG [...] (S) Reftel reported that the GOC is proceeding with plans to designate HIG domestically under Canada's criminal code. For the record, the listing will be as follows: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's faction, Hezb-e-Islami, the Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) 2. (S) Any aliases would be related to [...] | 2005-06-28 15:04:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET | EFIN ETTC PREL PTER CVIS KVPR KTFN CA |
05OTTAWA1968 | CANADIAN TO HEAD FINANCIAL ACTION TASK FORCE FROM [...] (SBU) Frank Swedlove, Assistant Deputy Minister for Financial Sector Policy at the Department of Finance, will assume the presidency of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in July 2006. The announcement was made during the FATF meeting in Singapore earlier this month. In his press relea [...] | 2005-06-28 19:21:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON KTFN PTER CA |
05OTTAWA1972 | INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY COMMITS TO MAINTAIN [...] (SBU) Summary: Approximately 90 senior level officials from Haiti, international organizations, and donor governments met June 17 in Montreal to discuss the future of Haiti. The conference's key theme was the importance of maintaining momentum in the lead-up to the November elections. Partic [...] | 2005-06-29 14:00:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | HA MOPS PGOV PREL KPKO CA |
05OTTAWA1975 | LETTER ON PSI CORE GROUP DELIVERED TO CANADA [...] (C) Undersecretary Joseph's letter was delivered on June 27 to Assistant Deputy Minister for International Security Jim Wright, with a copy to Rob McDougall, Director of Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament Division (IDA) at Foreign Affairs Canada. In a follow-up conversation on Ju [...] | 2005-06-29 17:30:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL KNNP CA |
05OTTAWA1989 | HEALTH MINISTER ANNOUNCES STRATEGY ON CROSS-BORDER [...] (U) Summary: Health Minister Dosanjh announced that the GOC will take three steps to address the cross-border drug trade: 1) create a drug supply monitoring network, including input from both public and private stakeholders, to determine whether there are drug shortages or threats to the Can [...] | 2005-06-30 13:59:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON SOCI CA |
05OTTAWA1990 | CANADIAN COPYRIGHT AMENDMENT LEGISLATION: NOT [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: As predicted (ref Ottawa 1725),the GOC has now tabled draft legislation amending the Copyright Act. The amendments are intended to implement the provisions of the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty; however, industry commen [...] | 2005-06-30 14:25:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR CA WIPO |
05OTTAWA2020 | AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH PM MARTIN [...] (U) Ambassador Wilkins paid an introductory call on PM Martin June 30 in the Prime Minister's Office at Parliament. The tone of the meeting was friendly and allowed time for a cordial exchange on family and political careers, of note sharing experiences operating in a political minority situat [...] | 2005-07-06 14:12:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET | CA HA IR PGOV SENV SOCI PTER |
05OTTAWA2023 | CANADA ON RUMORS OF ARISTIDE'S DESIRE TO RETURN TO [...] (C) DCM and PolOff shared reftel talking points with FAC Director General for Latin America and the Caribbean Jamal Khokhar and Caribbean and Central America Director Christian Lapointe. Khokhar said "we are on the same sheet" with regards to Aristide, and Canada's consistent message has been [...] | 2005-07-06 16:11:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | BR HA PREL UNSC |
05OTTAWA2030 | THREAT DIRECTED AT US EMBASSY OTTAWA [...] (S/NF) THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS PROVIDED TO RSO CONCERNING A POTENTIAL THREAT DIRECTED AT THE US EMBASSY OTTAWA. ACCORDING TO RMAS UNCORROBORATED INFORMATION AL-QAEDA REPORTEDLY IS PLANNING TO ATTACK AMERICANS AND ARAB INTELLIGENCE SERVICES IN JORDAN, SYRIA, LEBANON, EGYPT AND PALESTINE. [...] | 2005-07-06 21:53:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET | PTER ASEC |
05OTTAWA2032 | EXECUTIVE ORDER BLOCKING PROPERTY OF WMD [...] (C) Polmiloff informed Nonproliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament Deputy Director Marina Laker of the new Executive Order on Jun 30 and provided additional details in a follow-up meeting on July 5. Laker welcomed USG's supplemental background and said she would convey the information to A [...] | 2005-07-07 14:15:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PGOV MNUC EFIN ETTC CA |
05OTTAWA2042 | CANADIAN HEALTH CARE: [...] (U) THIS MESSAGE IS SENSITIVE, BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION OUTSIDE USG CHANNELS. 2. (SBU) A Supreme Court of Canada ruling on June 9 has opened up and accelerated Canada's national debate on health care reform. The court struck down a Quebec provincial prohibition on private he [...] | 2005-07-07 17:27:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SOCI EFIN PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA2047 | U.S./CANADA ENVIRONMENTAL DISCUSSIONS AND CEC [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for distribution outside USG channels. 2. (SBU) Summary: On the margins of the 12th annual meeting of the Council of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) in Quebec City June 21-22, EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson reviewed a wide rang [...] | 2005-07-07 19:29:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG CA MX |
05OTTAWA2057 | AMBASSADOR MEETS MANITOBA PREMIER GARY DOER TO TALK [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED -- HANDLE ACCORDINGLY. 2. (SBU) Ambassador Wilkins took advantage of a transit stop in Winnipeg to meet with Manitoba Premier Gary Doer in the airport transit lounge. Other than a brief discussion of the BSE crisis (where the Ambassador reminded the Premier of t [...] | 2005-07-08 11:31:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SENV CA |
05OTTAWA2070 | OTTAWA: OECD DEMARCHE ON WORKING PARTY FOR [...] Amembassy Ottawa Econ section made the demarche requested in reftel to Wendy Clark of Foreign Affairs Canada's Economic Policy division on July 5, 2005, following up on previous telephone conversations with Ms. Clark about the Working Party for Governance Reform. Ms. Clark provided the follo [...] | 2005-07-08 18:09:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD AMGT OECD |
05OTTAWA2071 | DEMARCHE: SECURITY SECTOR SUPPORT FOR THE [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel points to the Regional Security and Peacekeeping Division (IDC) at Foreign Affairs Canada on June 30, just prior to the Canada Day long week-end. In a follow-up discussion on July 7, desk officer Emi Furuya informed polmiloff that a Canadian Coast Guard/RCMP team i [...] | 2005-07-08 18:19:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PREL KWBG KPAL IS CA FAC |
05OTTAWA2076 | OTTAWA: DEMARCHE TO MEMBERS OF THE ITU COUNCIL ON [...] (SBU) Econ staff responsible for the Telecom portfolio met with Industry Canada's Director of International Telecommunications Policy and Coordination Bill Graham and staffers Janis Doran and Jim Mackenzie to discuss the documents provided in reftel, which we had previously faxed to Industry C [...] | 2005-07-08 18:49:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS |
05OTTAWA2078 | U.S.-CANADA ENERGY CONSULTATIVE MECHANISM: [...] (U) Sensitive, but unclassified. Not for distribution outside USG channels. 2. (U) Canada is the United States' largest foreign supplier of energy, and (when its oil sands are considered) the world's second largest holder of petroleum reserves. While high energy prices are boosting Canad [...] | 2005-07-08 18:55:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SOCI EFIN PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA2081 | FOREIGN MINISTRY BRIEFING ON HAITIAN ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) FAC briefed members of the Haitian election observer's steering committee July 8 to help shore up their commitment to supporting the observation mission. Participants were told that the process is largely on track but requires continued coordination and close cooperation if it is to be s [...] | 2005-07-08 20:25:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CA HA PGOV PREL KPKO |
05OTTAWA2082 | Possible shift in GoC position on Canadian Border [...] (U) Summary: According to reports from the Customs Officers' union, CEUDA, the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Anne McLellan and her senior staff are warming to the idea of enhancing Customs Officers' law enforcement role and presence at and between ports of entry. If accu [...] | 2005-07-08 20:29:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ELTN ASEC PBTS CA |
05OTTAWA2092 | TERRORIST FINANCE - OTTAWA: GOC NOTIFIED OF [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-11 21:22:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET | KTFN EFIN ETTC PTER CA |
05OTTAWA2097 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: G-4 FRAMEWORK RESOLUTION ON UN [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOC supports us in opposing the G-4 proposal. Canada instead supports a model of Security Council reform which would provide for no new permanent seats but instead create a new category of eight four-year renewable seats and one new two-year non-permanent (and non-renewable [...] | 2005-07-12 12:46:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CA UNSC |
05OTTAWA2105 | FY 2005 IVLP EVALUATION: GORD STEEVES; JANUARY 30 - [...] Summary: Program evaluation for International Visitor Leadership Program grantee Gord Steeves. End summary. 2. MPP Theme Addressed: Open Markets, Mutual understanding. Strategic Goal: Economic Prosperity. 3. Post Objectives: For Mr. Steeves to learn about the efficient operation of [...] | 2005-07-12 19:03:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC PREL CA |
05OTTAWA2106 | FY 2005 IVLP EVALUATION: LUCI GRECHEN; FEBRUARY 7-25, [...] Summary: Program evaluation for International Visitor Leadership Program grantee Luci Grechen. End summary. 2. MPP Theme Addressed: Open Markets, Mutual Understanding. Strategic Goal: Economic Prosperity. 3. Post Objectives: -- Learning about the U.S. federal system of government - [...] | 2005-07-12 19:11:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC PREL CA IV |
05OTTAWA2107 | FY 2005 IVLP EVALUATION: KERRY MCQUARRIE SMITH; JANUARY [...] Summary: Program evaluation for International Visitor Leadership Program grantee Kerry McQuarrie Smith. End summary. 2. MPP Theme Addressed: Open Markets, Mutual understanding. Strategic Goal: Economic Prosperity. 3. Post Objectives: Learning about the U.S. federal system of govern [...] | 2005-07-12 19:12:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC PREL CA IV |
05OTTAWA2108 | TREASURY SECRETARY SNOW'S VISIT TO CANADA: "MOST [...] For official use only. Not for Internet distribution. 2. Summary: Treasury Secretary Snow's July 7-9 visit to Calgary highlighted the strong positive relationship between the US and Canada and focused on cooperation in the energy sector. Canadian Minister of Finance Ralph Goodale hosted a [...] | 2005-07-12 19:21:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ENRG EAGR EAID ETRD CA NI |
05OTTAWA2109 | TREASURY SECRETARY SNOW VISIT TO CANADA [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-12 19:31:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ENRG EAID ETRD KTFN ECON CA JA NI |
05OTTAWA2112 | U.S. EMBASSY OTTAWA RECEIVED DIP NOTE #JLAB-0107 [...] On July 11, 2005 the U.S. Embassy Ottawa received DipNote #JLAB-0107 from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ottawa, Canada. The original is being sent to WHA/CAN. 2. Begin text of note: The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade presents its compliments to the Embassy of [...] | 2005-07-12 20:03:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD CA MX |
05OTTAWA2113 | CANADA: PUBLIC SAFETY MINISTER SPEAKS OUT ON [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 11 Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan gave a speech that the Ottawa Citizen described as one of the most forceful ever by a Canadian minister on terrorism. She stated "we have perhaps for too long thought that these were things that happened somewhere else. But Canad [...] | 2005-07-12 20:14:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CA PGOV PREL PTER |
05OTTAWA2119 | IRAQ: DEAD SEA DONORS' MEETING JULY 18-19 - CANADA [...] Sensitive but unclassified, please protect accordingly. 2. The Iraq staff at Canada's International Development Agency are optimistic about the upcoming Iraq Donors' meeting, saying things are going remarkably well so far and they are receiving excellent support from Jordan. They are try [...] | 2005-07-13 10:34:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN PREL IZ JO CA |
05OTTAWA2127 | PACIFIC SALMON COMMISSION (PSC) [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-14 12:35:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ABUD EFIS |
05OTTAWA2128 | CANADIAN - U.S. DISCUSSION ON MARITIME TRANSIT [...] (SBU) Summary: A U.S. delegation headed by USCG Rear Admiral Sirois met July 11, 2005 with Canadian officials to discuss the US/Canada Great Lakes shiprider proposal and a recent Canadian request for Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) vessels with armed RCMP officers embarked to transit US waters dur [...] | 2005-07-14 13:07:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EWWT KCRM PBTS PHSA PREL CA |
05OTTAWA2148 | TERRORIST FINANCE - OTTAWA: GOC ON HIG [...] (S) Foreign Affairs Canada has received the information that was provided to the Canadian Embassy regarding the US position on designation of HIG (ref A). Our FAC counterpart tells us that they do not, at this point, have individual names that could be designated but welcome collaboration in [...] | 2005-07-15 14:24:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN ETTC PTER KTFN CA SA AF |
05OTTAWA228 | CANADA: PM MARTIN'S SEEKS TO STRENGTHEN COMMERCIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: PM Paul Martin traveled to Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, Japan and China January 15-23 on a whirlwind tour that mixed tsunami relief with commercial relations. Some of the stops were photo ops or courtesy calls and critics questioned whether anything could be accomplished in such [...] | 2005-01-24 22:38:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL CA |
05OTTAWA229 | PATRIOT ACT: CANADA LOOKING FOR LOW-KEY DIALOGUE [...] (SBU)Summary and Action Request: As reported reftels, there is growing concern among certain consumer and union groups in Canada about the privacy effects of certain elements of the Patriot Act, primarily Section 215. While GoC experts believe that Patriot Act procedures are not incompatibl [...] | 2005-01-25 12:56:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD EINV PINS CA FAC |
05OTTAWA2320 | ENVIRONMENT CANADA'S DISMAY OVER ONTARIO'S [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for distribution outside USG channels. 2. (SBU) Summary: ESTOFFs met July 27 with officials from Environment Canada regarding Ontario's Transboundary Air Pollution Report (refs B and C),which attempted to estimate costs to the province of air pollu [...] | 2005-08-02 18:35:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA2331 | CANADA: MARIJUANA DECRIMINALIZATION BILL LOSING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The marijuana decriminalization bill (C-17),which began the Parliamentary term as the potential next big issue on the Liberal agenda, appears to have lost steam. Opinion on C-17 is split between activists who suggest it does not go far enough, and prohibitionists who say it go [...] | 2005-08-02 21:26:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CA PGOV PREL SNAR SOCI |
05OTTAWA2344 | CANADA GIVES POSITIVE SOUNDINGS ON GREAT LAKES [...] (SBU) Summary: After meeting with a U.S. Shiprider team on July 28 and offering positive soundings on a way to move forward on the two-week proof of concept phase of the program, GOC lawyers and operators met August 2 and agreed to continue joint planning for a possible program in September-O [...] | 2005-08-03 20:54:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PREL EWWT PBTS CA MOPS |
05OTTAWA2352 | BOMBARDIER AND THE WORLD AIRCRAFT SUBSIDIES GAME [...] This report outlines a significant part of the backdrop to the WTO's current aircraft subsidies case: Canadian- based Bombardier Aerospace and the market for 100-seat- and-up "regional jets" - airliners at the small end of the product ranges offered by Boeing and Airbus. 2. Bombardier anno [...] | 2005-08-04 18:18:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EIND EINV CA |
05OTTAWA2361 | HAITIAN-CANADIAN ANNOUNCED AS NEW GOVERNOR GENERAL [...] (C/NF) Summary: PM Martin today announced that the Queen has approved the appointment of Michaelle Jean, a prominent Quebec journalist and media personality, to a five-year term as Governor General when Adrienne Clarkson's term ends September 27. Jean covers all the right bases, indeed it wo [...] | 2005-08-04 20:02:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV CA PINR |
05OTTAWA2363 | UK'S IMMUNIZATION FINANCE PROJECT: VIEW FROM THE [...] (C/noforn) An official at Finance Canada who works closely on international finance and development said he finds the UK's IFFm proposal "personally offensive" and the EuroStat finding does not change that view. While admitting that there are niches within the GOC with different views, those [...] | 2005-08-04 20:50:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIN EAID CA UK |
05OTTAWA2364 | INTERAGENCY DEFENSE OFFSETS TEAM INVITATION TO [...] (SBU) Political section passed reftel to DAO and FCS offices in the Mission. 2. (SBU) Though post has no feedback to offer on the discussion questions at this time, we note that "Industrial Regional Benefits (IRBs)" (Canadian equivalent of "offsets") figure prominently in federal government [...] | 2005-08-04 21:03:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON MASS CA |
05OTTAWA2368 | CANADIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON CLOSING THE GAP [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche points to Nadia Ahmad, Foreign Affairs Canada Policy Advisor for Afghanistan, and Econoff delivered them to Jonathan Lane, Desk Officer at CIDA. We were told that Canada is fully supportive of making the elections work and will do whatever it can to ensure [...] | 2005-08-05 16:14:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL CA AF EAID |
05OTTAWA237 | POSSIBLE POISON PEN, ANOTHER ONE? [...] (sbu) ON JANUARY 21, 2005, US CONSULATE MONTREAL RECEIVED A LETTER FROM AN INDIVIDUAL IDENTIFYING HIMSELF AS OSMAN TATLICILAR, KIMYA YUK.MUH, KISLA CAD. 2 GENC HAN, SIT. NO:115/40, RAMI-ISTANBUL, TURKEY. THE FOLLOWING REPRESENTS FULL TEXT OF THE TYPE WRITTEN, ONE PAGE LETTER DATED 22 DECEMBER [...] | 2005-01-25 19:10:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC |
05OTTAWA2370 | U.S.-CANADA FISHERIES BILATERALS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. 2. (U) Summary: The United States and Canada held annual bilateral fisheries consultations July 29 in Ottawa. The two sides reviewed a wide range of fisheries and oceans issues, including Canada's ocean action plan, bilateral fishing treaties, internatio [...] | 2005-08-05 18:33:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS SENV CA |
05OTTAWA2380 | CANADIAN FORUM OF FEDERATIONS IRAQ TEAM ON THE NEW [...] (C/NF) Summary: Former Canadian Deputy Minister for Natural Resources George Anderson recently returned from Iraq where he was an advisor to the constitutional committee as part of a Forum of Federations team under contract with NDI. He said that the Canadian International Development Agency [...] | 2005-08-08 14:40:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV EAID IZ PREL CA |
05OTTAWA2410 | CANADA'S NEW TRANSPORTATION SECURITY STRATEGY [...] Summary: Transport Minister Jean Lapierre announced an expanded Transportation Security Strategy that will assess how Canada's transportation industry and the threat environment are likely to evolve. When completed, the TSS will allow the GOC to better assess threats and will guide decision [...] | 2005-08-09 20:43:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR EWWT CA ETRN |
05OTTAWA2413 | ENRON HITS CANADA: CIBC PAYS RECORD $2.4 BILLION [...] (U) For official use only. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (U) The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) announced August 2 that it is paying US$2.4 billion to settle the class action suit brough on behalf of purchasers of Enron securities. The settlement, the largest ever paid b [...] | 2005-08-10 15:05:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN CA |
05OTTAWA2422 | CANADA: FOLLOW-UP TO SEA ISLAND ACTION PLAN [...] (SBU) Following confirmation from the Italian Embassy that Italy's demarche on assistance to COESPU had been delivered, on August 4 polmiloff provided reftel points and web site information to Foreign Affairs (FAC) International Security Bureau (IDD) Director General Paul Chapin. An informatio [...] | 2005-08-10 20:29:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO MASS MARR CA |
05OTTAWA2429 | CANADA: RESPONSE TO APPEAL TO DONORS TO ASSIST [...] Canada recently announced C$15 (about US$ 12) in new projects to support Haiti. Minister for International Cooperation Aileen Carroll announced C$5 million (about US$ 4 million) to fund new job creation. The GOC will also commit C$5 million to rehabilitate Haiti's electrical system, in coor [...] | 2005-08-11 20:53:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN HA CA |
05OTTAWA243 | TFXO01: ROUNDUP ON CANADIAN TSUNAMI ASSISTANCE [...] The increase in GOC tsunami assistance to C$425 million (US$340 million),from an initial C$1 million on December 26, reflects the overwhelming response of the Canadian public. The GOC has allocated C$36 million (about US$30 million) of the total to the UN Flash Appeal and C$265 million (over [...] | 2005-01-26 11:24:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PGOV CASC CA |
05OTTAWA2430 | NAFTA CHAPTER 11: METHANEX -- THE IMPORTANCE IS [...] (U) A NAFTA Chapter 11 tribunal on June 10 dismissed Methanex Corporation's claim against the U.S. on both jurisdictional grounds and on the merits, ordering Methanex to pay the State Department $3 million in legal fees and to pay the tribunal $1 million in costs. (Note: this is more than h [...] | 2005-08-11 20:53:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD SENV CA NAFTA |
05OTTAWA2442 | DOES CANADA'S MULTICULTURAL FRAMEWORK MAKE IT [...] (C/NF) Summary: In a briefing during the Cross Border Crime Forum's Counterterrorism Working Group, and discussions with Britain's Political Counselor, Poloff was given two views of the internal terrorist threat in Canada. Canadian officials have, since long before the London bombings, been c [...] | 2005-08-12 19:36:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER KCRM PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA2446 | U.S.-CANADIAN COOPERATION IN STOPPING GUN [...] (SBU/NF) Summary: A spate of gang-related killings in Toronto has left Ontario Premier McGuinty and Toronto Mayor David Miller under pressure to act. McGuinty shifted the focus from the internal problems with gangs in Toronto to the notion that many of the guns used in the killings originated [...] | 2005-08-12 22:07:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KJUS PTER SNAR CA |
05OTTAWA2455 | LIBERTAD TITLE IV IMPLEMENTATION: ADDITIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-15 15:57:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | CA CU CVIS ETTC ETRD PREL EINV |
05OTTAWA2459 | OTTAWA'S PARTICIPATION AT DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN [...] Although Ottawa's new Human Rights officer, Lisa Wishman, is not yet at post, she has been contacted and is interested in attending the conference. 2. She will arrive from Ottawa on September 25 and depart the morning of September 28. She will make her own hotel reservations. 2. Pos [...] | 2005-08-15 19:17:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA PHUM CA |
05OTTAWA2462 | RENEWAL OF ISAF MANDATE: CANADA ON SAME PAGE BUT [...] (C) Polmiloff met with Director of North American and Euro-Atlantic Security and Defence Relations Division (IDR) Director Barbara Martin and staff on August 11 to discuss renewal of ISAF,s mandate. Though Canada has not started to examine the matter in detail (NOTE: summer cottage season is [...] | 2005-08-16 13:51:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL CA NATO UNSC |
05OTTAWA2617 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Sarah Fountain-Smith, Director of the Brazil, Southern Cone, and Summit Coordination Office at Foreign Affairs Canada. Fountain-Smith said that Canada takes the summit process very seriously and Peter Boehm, Assistant Deputy Minister for Latin America [...] | 2005-09-01 19:20:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSUM ECON PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA2618 | IRAQ: PRESENTATION OF A DRAFT CONSTITUTION [...] (C/NF) FAC Middle East Division Deputy Director told Poloff August 30 that the GOC prepared a statement on the Iraqi constitution last week but pulled it back when it became clear that the document was not a finished product and could still change. He said Canada would wait until there was a [...] | 2005-09-01 19:23:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | IZ PGOV PREL CA |
05OTTAWA2620 | SUBSCRIPTION RADIO: HERITAGE MINISTER BACKS DEMAND [...] (U) SUMMARY/INTRODUCTION: Canadian Heritage Minister Liza Frulla reportedly will ask her Cabinet colleagues to review the recent regulatory decision to license the extension into Canada of two U.S-based satellite radio services. The regulatory decision was two years in the making, and a re [...] | 2005-09-01 20:08:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ETRD CA |
05OTTAWA2638 | TFUS01 - CANADA: SURGE OF ASSISTANCE OFFERS IN [...] (SBU) Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath have captured Canadian headlines and triggered heart-felt offers of assistance (list from paragraph 5). The Mission has received an outpouring of sympathy and offers of assistance from governments at all levels as well as from individual officials and [...] | 2005-09-02 17:54:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON AEMR ASEC CASC MARR AMGT US CA |
05OTTAWA2640 | YOUR VISIT TO ALBERTA, SEPTEMBER 8-11, 2005 [...] (C) As you prepare to visit Alberta, I want to extend a warm welcome and reaffirm this Mission's strong commitment to making your visit a success. Your meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan will underscore the importance we place on close collaboration with the Canadian government. [...] | 2005-09-02 18:30:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA2642 | CANADA - TERRORISM FINANCE: YASIN AL-QADI - STATUS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-02 19:49:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER PGOV PREL SA CA UN |
05OTTAWA2649 | CANADA'S VIEWS ON DEVELOPMENT ISSUES IN TEH UN [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOC shares our views on the problems of length, coherence, and balance in the draft "outcome" document, as well as our commitment to reform and opposition to creative financing measures for ODA. We differ on the goal of 0.7% of GDP, with Canada still thinking it is an imp [...] | 2005-09-02 20:56:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECIN PREL CA UNGA |
05OTTAWA2650 | CANADIAN VIEWS ON CHAVEZ AND THE SOCIAL CHARTER [...] (C) DCM spoke with Jamal Khokhar, FAC Director General for Latin America and the Caribbean, to elicit Canada's views on Chavez and the Social Charter. Khokhar said that prior to the event, Venezuelan Ambassador Perez was called in for Canadian officials to deliver the message that the way Ven [...] | 2005-09-02 21:10:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | BH GY MX XM KSUM SOCI |
05OTTAWA2658 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE, OTTAWA: STRATEGIC APPROACH TO [...] Summary: Econ officers met with officials from Environment Canada, International Trade Canada (ITCan),and Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC); at the meeting, all officials made it clear that Canada will be guided in the SAICM process by Environment Canada. The Canadians suggested that a voluntar [...] | 2005-09-06 18:42:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ETRD ECON |
05OTTAWA2659 | CANADA SHARES USG VIEWS ON ZIMBABWE VOTE IN IMF [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-06 19:18:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL CA ZI IMF |
05OTTAWA2669 | TFUS01 - CANADA: STATUS OF ASSISTANCE REPORT 2, [...] (SBU) After the long weekend and initial confused flurry, things seem to be running smoothly. We will direct most future offers of Canadian assistance to the GOC for coordination. Deputy Prime Minister Anne McClellan told the Ambassador this afternoon that the USG should let her know of any [...] | 2005-09-06 21:20:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON AEMR ASEC CASC MARR AMGT US CA |
05OTTAWA2672 | FY 2006 DVC REQUEST on U.S. Intelligence Reform, [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-07 15:00:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OIIP CA |
05OTTAWA2673 | CANADA REMAINS COOL TO JORDAN,S REQUEST TO RAISE [...] (SBU) Finance Canada tells us that the GOC believes Jordan benefitted from exit treatment (that is, it was not expected back at the Paris Club) and does not need more debt assistance. On debt swaps more generaly, Finance officials are concerned that swaps are often used for trade distortion a [...] | 2005-09-07 17:31:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTIA CA JA GM |
05OTTAWA2677 | TFUS01 - CANADA: AMBASSADOR JOINS PRIME MINISTER [...] (U) Ambassador Wilkins thanked Prime Minister Martin privately and Canadians publicly for their support to victims of Katrina at a ceremony in Halifax seeing off the four Canadian ships deploying for the Gulf of Mexico with relief supplies. Along with CG Halifax, US Naval Attache and DCM, [...] | 2005-09-07 18:30:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON AEMR ASEC CASC MARR AMGT US CA |
05OTTAWA268 | PLACING A NEW NORTH AMERICAN INITIATIVE [...] THIS MESSAGE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION OUTSIDE USG CHANNELS. 2. (SBU) An incremental and pragmatic package of tasks for a new North American Initiative (NAI) will likely gain the most support among Canadian policymakers. Our research leads us to conclude that [...] | 2005-01-28 15:56:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV CA |
05OTTAWA2688 | CANADIAN VIEWS OF HURRICANE KATRINA ENERGY SUPPLY [...] (U) This message is sensitive, but unclassified. Not for distribution outside USG channels. SUMMARY/INTRODUCTION -------------------- 2. (SBU) In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the Government of Canada (GOC) has pledged its support through the International Energy Agency to increase o [...] | 2005-09-07 20:47:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EPET CA |
05OTTAWA2689 | TFUS01 - CANADA: STATUS OF ASSISTANCE 3 - [...] We continue to receive offers of assistance and are referring all Canadian donors, public and private, to: Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada (PSEPC) at 1-800-929-1705 or 613-991-7000; goc-cog@psepc-sppcc.gc.ca 2. PSEPC suggests that corporations that are interested in sellin [...] | 2005-09-07 21:08:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON AEMR ASEC CASC MARR AMGT US CA |
05OTTAWA269 | A/S RADEMAKER'S DISCUSSIONS WITH CANADIANS ON CWC [...] (C) SUMMARY. During consultations in Ottawa on January 11, Assistant Secretary for Arms Control Stephen Rademaker and AC/PDAS Frank Record discussed with Canadian Foreign Affairs (FAC) and National Defense officials progress on the BTWC and CWC. Discussion of Canada's prospective participat [...] | 2005-01-28 17:47:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM CA CWC BWC FAC |
05OTTAWA2690 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): URGING CANADA [...] (U) Following ref A exchanges, and modified guidance, polmiloff met on September 6 with Canadian National Authority Coordinator for the CWC, Bob Brooks, and Senior Advisor Adrian Ghita-Duminica, to discuss USG concerns regarding captive use of Schedule I chemicals. Polmiloff left revised poin [...] | 2005-09-07 21:28:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CA |
05OTTAWA2691 | CANADA SHARES CONCERNS ON UNITED NATIONS SUMMIT [...] (C) Poloff presented reftel demarche points to Marie-Isabelle Massip, Director of the United Nations and Commonwealth Affairs Division of Foreign Affairs Canada. Massip said that Canada agrees with the U.S. on the importance of arriving at a strong outcome document and has instructed its deleg [...] | 2005-09-07 21:33:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CA UNGA |
05OTTAWA2700 | CANADA'S GLOBAL SAFEGUARD INQUIRY INTO BICYCLES [...] The Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) has published its final report determining that imports of bicycles are a principal cause of "serious injury" to Canadian bicycle manufacturers. CITT has recommended a surtax on assembled or unassembled bicycles with a wheel diameter greater t [...] | 2005-09-08 20:09:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD |
05OTTAWA2701 | TFUS01 - CANADA: STATUS OF ASSISTANCE 4 -- [...] The contact number for Canadians wishing to contribute to Katrina relief is 1-800-O CANADA (1-800-622-6232). Information on how to help is also available on the web sites of Foreign Affairs Canada, International Trade Canada (for companies wishing to sell to the US market) and the Canadian Re [...] | 2005-09-08 20:12:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON AEMR ASEC CASC MARR AMGT US CA |
05OTTAWA2702 | CANADIAN VIEWS ON CONTINUING MOMENTUM FOR HAITIAN [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche September 8 to DG for the Caribbean, Central American and the Andes Christian LaPointe, who also introduced members of a newly created office on Haiti. He explained that Foreign Affairs Canada finally accepted that Haiti was going to be a significant issue [...] | 2005-09-08 21:26:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | HA CA PGOV PREL KCRS |
05OTTAWA2708 | CANADA: DOESN'T OPPOSE DECLARATION ON INNOVATIVE [...] (C) As reported refs A and B, the GOC shares many of our goals at the upcoming High level event, although priorities differ and there remain areas of disagreement. With regard to the declaration being circulated by Algeria, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany and Spain, the GOC has not yet taken a [...] | 2005-09-09 17:03:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN EAIR EAID EFIN CA UNGA |
05OTTAWA2726 | UNCERTAINTY THE OPERATIVE WORD AS PARLIAMENT SET [...] (C) Summary: The Canadian Parliament is scheduled to resume on September 27, amidst a political climate that is best defined by uncertainty. PM Martin has the option to prorogue Parliament, which would end the current session and reset the agenda by calling for a new session and an early con [...] | 2005-09-09 20:49:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | CA PGOV PREL |
05OTTAWA2740 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): URGING CANADA [...] (SBU) Charge and Political Minister Counselor took the opportunity of a meeting with Foreign Affairs Assistant Deputy Minister (between A/S and U/S level) Jim Wright to raise USG concerns about the potential proliferation loophole caused by failure to address "captive use" of CWC Schedule I ch [...] | 2005-09-12 20:27:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CA |
05OTTAWA2741 | TFUS01 - CANADA: STATUS OF ASSISTANCE 4 - [...] Canadians are still offering to assist with emergency relief, but we are also starting to receive offers of recovery assistance. Past reports have mentioned offers by Canadian schools to assist students from the affected area. Jobs ---- 2. WCG International, through its Sacramento-based [...] | 2005-09-12 20:54:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON AEMR ASEC CASC MARR AMGT US CA |
05OTTAWA2745 | SUBSCRIPTION RADIO: [...] (U) Sensitive, but unclassified. Not for distribution outside USG channels. 2. (U) SUMMARY/INTRODUCTION: On September 9, after furious lobbying from both sides, the GOC decided not to remand a regulatory licensing decision for subscription radio (ref B outlines the June decision by th [...] | 2005-09-13 14:36:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ETRD CA |
05OTTAWA2748 | IRAN/IAEA: CANADA CALLS IN IRANIAN CHARGE [...] (C) In a September 12 meeting with Charge on another matter, Assistant Deputy Minister (ADM) for International Security Policy Jim Wright took the opportunity to underline Canada's frustration with Iran and its snubbing of the IAEA. Wright reported that he had just called in the Iranian Charge [...] | 2005-09-13 17:19:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL PHUM CA IR IAEA |
05OTTAWA2764 | COLOMBIA MEETING WITH SELECT WHA AND EUR [...] (U) POL M/C made a strong pitch to secure Canadian Political Director Jim Wright for the September 16 Meeting on Columbia. Unfortunately, scheduling conflicts made it impossible for him to be in New York on Friday. 2. (U) Canada, however, remains very interested in the future of Columbia a [...] | 2005-09-14 19:42:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | CO OPDC PREL PTER PGOV UNGA ON |
05OTTAWA2766 | TFUS01 - CANADA: STATUS OF ASSISTANCE SEPTEMBER [...] Archival assistance: The National Librarian and Archivist of Canada, Ian Wilson, offered the Ambassador assistance in restoring historic documents, manuscripts, maps, artwork, that may have been damaged by flooding of archives or museums. He notes that his conservators have experience with [...] | 2005-09-14 20:30:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON AEMR ASEC CASC MARR AMGT US CA |
05OTTAWA2768 | U.S. PROPOSALS TO ENABLE CIVIL NUCLEAR COOPERATION [...] (C) In a meeting on September 14, Pol M/C and polmiloff solicited Canada's engagement and support to advance civil nuclear cooperation with India by the Nuclear Suppliers Group; they emphasized that this was a top priority of President Bush. Emboffs left reftel non-paper outlining obligations [...] | 2005-09-15 13:04:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP IN CA |
05OTTAWA2785 | CLOUDSAT CANADA, AUTHORIZATION FOR SIGNING THE [...] Summary: Charge John Dickson signed the CloudSat Agreement with Dr. Marc Garneau, President of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA),in Montreal on September 14, 2005. The U.S. original of the agreement is being sent to L/T by pouch. During the luncheon following the signing ceremony, Garneau rais [...] | 2005-09-15 20:53:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | CA KTIA PREL TSPA ETTC |
05OTTAWA2805 | FY 2006 IVLP MRP ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE EDUCATION, [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-19 14:48:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA |
05OTTAWA2815 | Mission Canada 90-Day Goal Tracker Application - [...] Mission Canada is pleased to announce the launch of an innovative, locally developed, web-enabled application to track Mission 90-Day goals and progress. 2. The 90-Day Goal Tracker application provides Department and Mission managers with a snapshot of current Mission Canada goals, a grap [...] | 2005-09-20 13:39:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT AADP PREL |
05OTTAWA2827 | Public Health Emergency Governance in Canada [...] In Canada the provincial governments have the primary responsibility for health matters, including managing public health emergencies. The federal authorities do play an important coordination role between the provinces, with other countries and the WHO. In addition to that role, the federal [...] | 2005-09-20 20:30:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA SOCI PREL CA WHO KSTH |
05OTTAWA2833 | DEMARCHE TO CANADA ON SPECIAL 301 OUT-OF-CYCLE [...] On September 20, Econoffs met with officials of International Trade Canada's (ITCan) Intellectual Property Division to discuss the plan of action for Canada's upcoming Special 301 out-of-cycle review (reftel). After reciting their usual criticism of the Special 301 process in general, the Ca [...] | 2005-09-21 16:24:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CA KIPR ETRD ECON |
05OTTAWA2834 | TERRORIST FINANCE - OTTAWA: NO GOC ACTION ON HIG [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-21 16:35:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET | EFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN CA |
05OTTAWA2837 | TERRORIST FINANCE - OTTAWA: GOC TO DESIGNATE [...] (U) Reftel announced USG plans to designate the entity ELEHSSAN under E.O. 13224 and urged other governments to do the same. We explained that we would not be notifying this listing to the UN 1267 Committee. 2. (C) During a meeting on September 20, post was informed by Foriegn Affairs Can [...] | 2005-09-21 19:46:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC PREL PTER CVIS KVPR KTFN CA |
05OTTAWA2846 | FY 2006 EU RP TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - [...] For Ava Smith: Barry McNamar has advised post that he is unable to travel on subject project. Post appreciates efforts on his behalf and regrets cancellation. 2. For Essie Wilkes-Scott: Post wishes to convert Mr. McNamar to individual status and requests a 21-day program during the F [...] | 2005-09-22 15:00:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA |
05OTTAWA2847 | FY 2006 ITT ON GROUND TRANSPORTATION SAFETY AND [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-22 15:01:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA |
05OTTAWA2848 | FY 2006 ITT ON CURRENT SOCIAL, ECONOIC AND [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-22 15:02:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA |
05OTTAWA2857 | CANADA: COMMERCIAL SOURCES OF MRES FOR POSSIBLE [...] Bauly Specialty Foods Vendor: Le Baron Manufacturer: Bauly Specialty Foods Mr. Len Bauly 7620 Anaka Drive Missassauga, Ontario, Canada L4T 3H7 1-800-351-FOOD (3663) phone 905-677-9734 fax info@bauly.com or lebauly@yahoo.com http://www.bauly.com Price per unit, ( [...] | 2005-09-22 18:24:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID ETRD ECON AMGT CA |
05OTTAWA286 | S/CRS AMBASSADOR PASCUAL,S OTTAWA CONSULTATIONS: [...] (C) Summary: In consultations January 20 with colleagues from Foreign Affairs Canada, Defense, and the Prime Minister,s Office, Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS) Ambassador Carlos Pascual broke new ground in sharing ideas and seeking synergy for shared efforts to impr [...] | 2005-01-28 20:38:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP PREL PGOV CA KCRS START FAC |
05OTTAWA2877 | SECURITY ENVIRONMENTAL PROFILE RESPONSE - MISSION [...] (SBU) DEMONSTRATIONS A. YES B. YES C. YES D. ALCAN POSTS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF DEMONSTRATORS TO BE APPROXIMATELY 50. HOWEVER, A STEADY DECREASE IN THE NUMBER AND FREQUENCY OF DEMONSTRATIONS DID OCCUR THROUGHOUT CANADA DURING THIS REPORTING PERIOD. E. MILITARY ACTIO [...] | 2005-09-26 14:47:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET | ASEC PTER |
05OTTAWA2881 | CANADA UNTIES HALF ITS FOOD AID [...] (U) Up to 50% of Canada's food aid may now be purchased in developing countries. Until September 22, 90% of Canada's food aid contributions had to be Canadian-sourced. The ministers of International Cooperation, of International Trade and of Agriculture and Agri-food made their announcement [...] | 2005-09-26 18:18:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EAGR PREL CA |
05OTTAWA289 | CANADA: IRAQ OUT-OF-COUNTRY VOTING COMMENCES [...] Canada is one of 14 countries designated by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to host polling sites for Iraqi citizens to participate in the January 30th election of a transitional National Assembly. As the 3-day window (January 28-30) for out-of-country voting opens at five [...] | 2005-01-28 21:38:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI KDEM IZ CA |
05OTTAWA2891 | COMBATING EXTREMISM IN CANADA [...] (C) HOST GOVERNMENT EFFORTS TO MINIMIZE EXTREMISM -- Canada seeks to minimize extremism among its immigrant population through a stated policy commitment to building an inclusive society that is tolerant of religious, ethnic, racial and cultural diversity. In 1971, Canada became the first c [...] | 2005-09-26 22:01:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM KPAO PHUM CA |
05OTTAWA290 | CANADA: TIMETABLE FOR WITHDRAWAL OF US MILITARY [...] (C) DND Office of Peacekeeping Director, Colonel Denis Thompson, and desk officer Joey Cloutier told us on January 27 that they foresaw "no problems" with the projected departure of U.S. military assets from the tsunami-affected region. They noted that Canadian relief efforts had been focused [...] | 2005-01-28 22:20:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL CA |
05OTTAWA2903 | CUTTING OFF CONVENTIONAL ARMS TRADE WITH NORTH [...] (S) Polmincouns and polmiloff met with Foreign Affairs DG for International Security Paul Chapin and DG for North Asia and Pacific Ted Lipman on September 22 to discuss cutting off North Korean hard currency earnings from arms sales. Emboffs left key points as a nonpaper, and a duplicate copy [...] | 2005-09-27 19:52:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET | PARM PREL MNUC KNNP CA |
05OTTAWA2909 | CANADA NUCLEAR "COOPERATION" WITH INDIA: [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-28 14:30:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PARM MNUC PREL CA |
05OTTAWA2923 | CANADA ON SUMMIT OF AMERICAS DECLARATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Canada would like to build on rather than scrap language in the Summit Declaration, given the amount of time that has already been spent negotiating the text and the disruption that new language would cause. The GOC would also like to see more forward-looking language and a more [...] | 2005-09-28 21:18:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KSUM PGOV |
05OTTAWA2928 | CANADA INTERESTED IN COOPERATING ON DARFUR WOMEN'S [...] (U) As requested in reftel, poloff met with officials from Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC) and the Canadian International Development Agency(CIDA) on 23 September to discuss U.S. initiatives to counter violence against women in Darfur, and to solicit Canada's support for such initiatives. Canadia [...] | 2005-09-29 14:26:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF PREL EAID SU CA |
05OTTAWA2931 | CANADA'S DISAPPEARING BUDGET SURPLUS [...] (U) Introduction and summary: Canada's 2004-05 budget surplus came in at C$1.6 billion (about US$ 1.36 billion),almost C$8 billion lower than conventional wisdom had expected. The GOC attributes the discrepancy to an unanticipated change in accounting procedures for one-time expenditures a [...] | 2005-09-29 19:19:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID ETRD KTFN ECON PREL CA |
05OTTAWA2934 | NASA Deployment of RB-57 aircraft [...] Transit of Canadian airspace and overnight stop in Goose Bay by the NASA aircraft enroute to the UK and return, can proceed without GoC diplomatic approval (Ref A). The aircraft will not/not be collecting data/conducting research in Canadian airspace, the Government of Canada therefore does not [...] | 2005-09-29 19:58:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPA TSPL OTRA CA |
05OTTAWA2936 | NOTIONAL AGENDA FOR INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP ON [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-29 20:48:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA TBIO EAGR ECON PREL SOCI CA |
05OTTAWA2938 | ICJ ELECTIONS DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO CANADA [...] (U) Poloff delivered points in reftel to Jeanette Sautner, Legal Officer in the Human Rights and Economic Law Division at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),on September 29. Sautner acknowledged previous receipt of the diplomatic note containing Judge Buergenthal's C.V. 2. (U) Sautner indicated [...] | 2005-09-29 21:48:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | CA UNSC UNGA |
05OTTAWA2951 | CHANGES AT CANADA'S NATURAL RESOURCES MINISTRY: [...] (U) Sensitive, but unclassified. Not for distribution outside USG channels. 2. (U) Pending a cabinet shuffle or an election, GOC Revenue Minister John McCallum now simultaneously carries the GOC's Natural Resources portfolio, as John Efford has left Cabinet due to ill health. Meanwhile, [...] | 2005-09-30 20:25:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA2966 | HURRICANES AND NATURAL GAS DISRUPTIONS: THE VIEW [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. 2. (SBU) Summary: With Canada's natural gas production at nearly full capacity, there is little that government or industry can do in the short-term to add to North America's natural gas supply. Interlocutors say that in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and [...] | 2005-10-04 17:00:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA2970 | CANADIAN STAKEHOLDERS' CONCERNS ON COPYRIGHT [...] (SBU) Summary: We have met again with intellectual property (IP) rightsholders to discuss their views of GOC moves on IPR. Canadian industry frustration with ineffective IPR enforcement continues to grow, and further review of the proposed copyright amendment legislation (C-60) has revealed [...] | 2005-10-04 18:21:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR CA |
05OTTAWA2976 | CANADA TO HOST HEALTH MINISTERS MEETING ON AVIAN [...] Summary: As part of the continuing international response to the threat of avian and pandemic influenza, the Canadian Government will host a meeting of health ministers from more than 30 countries and international organizations in Ottawa, October 24/25. The purpose of the meeting is to enco [...] | 2005-10-05 17:01:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA EAGR ECON PREL SOCI CA WHO FAO OIE |
05OTTAWA2987 | 60TH UNFC: CANADA HEARS USG CONCERNS ABOUT AD HOC [...] (C) DCM and polmiloff met with Canadian Assistant Deputy Minister for International Security Jim Wright late on October 5 to present general points on the UNFC draft resolution and deliver oral points, as instructed. Arms Control Director Rob MacDougall and incoming Deputy Director Ron Stansf [...] | 2005-10-06 19:41:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | AORC PARM PREL MNUC CA |
05OTTAWA3012 | CWC: HOST COUNTRY AGREEMENT/ARRANGEMENT WITH CANADA [...] (C) Polmiloff met with Foreign Affairs Canada officials and a Department of National Defence representative on October 7 to deliver reftel message and text. Meeting participants were CWC National Coordinator Bob Brooks, Senior Advisor for Industry Issues Adrian Ghita-Duminica, Nonproliferatio [...] | 2005-10-07 19:19:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIA PARM PREL CA |
05OTTAWA302 | DEMARCHE ON NPT 2005 REVCON DELIVERED TO CANADA [...] (C) As instructed in reftel, nonpaper was delivered to FAC Nonproliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament Division Deputy Marina Laker on January 31, 2005. Laker expressed appreciation for USG's efforts to initiate consultations early in the process. She said she would be circulating the U.S [...] | 2005-02-01 13:32:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM CA IAEA FAC |
05OTTAWA3021 | OTTAWA: TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER [...] Post has enjoyed strong support from Washington counterparts and excellent cooperation with the GOC in countering terrorist financing. We will continue to report on developments and strengthen bilateral coordination. In 2006, Canada will assume the chair of the Financial Action Task Force ( [...] | 2005-10-07 20:55:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN KVPR PTER EFIN ETTC PREL CA |
05OTTAWA3022 | DEMARCHE: BRINGING BURMA BEFORE THE UNSC [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-07 21:20:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | BM PREL PHUM PGOV CA UNSC UNGA |
05OTTAWA304 | A/S RADEMAKER,S MEETINGS WITH CANADIANS ON ARMS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During a day of consultations in Ottawa on January 11, Assistant Secretary for Arms Control Stephen Rademaker and AC/PDAS Frank Record exchanged views with Canadian Foreign Affairs (FAC) and National Defense officials on U.S. and Canadian arms control and disarmament policy. [...] | 2005-02-01 18:52:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM CD CA NPT FAC |
05OTTAWA3065 | REQUEST FOR RESETTLEMENT ASSISTANCE OF CERTAIN [...] (S) On October 12, 2005 POL M/C raised the Uighur resettlement issue with Michael Small, Acting ADM (Assistant Deputy Minister) for Global Affairs at Foreign Affairs Canada. Small, who is also Director General for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, had been briefed by FAC,s Senior Adviso [...] | 2005-10-13 14:46:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET | KAWC MOPS PREL PTER PHUM PREF PINR |
05OTTAWA3069 | Hurricane Katrina and Canadian Response; Lessons [...] Summary: Operational linkages between DHS and Canada's Public Safety Ministry (PSEPC) worked reasonably well as Canada responded to provide relief in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. But, to make those connections even more effective, Canada would like to have a DHS Liaison Officer stationed at [...] | 2005-10-13 19:10:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS PGOV PREL PINS CA |
05OTTAWA3090 | A PARTNER IN TRANSFORMATION - YOUR VISIT TO [...] (SBU) As you prepare to visit Ottawa, I want to extend a warm welcome and reaffirm this Mission's strong commitment to making your trip a success. I have been on the ground in Canada for just under four months and have traveled to all but one of the country,s ten provinces and three territori [...] | 2005-10-14 20:55:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | CA ENRG ETRD ETTC PGOV PREL SCRS |
05OTTAWA3091 | URGENT DEMARCHES ON UNESCO CULTURAL DIVERSITY [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-14 21:31:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CA ETRD PREL SCUL |
05OTTAWA3092 | Canada Nominees for "U.S. National Security [...] Summary: Mission Canada is pleased to nominate two strong candidates, selected from among the Embassy and seven consulates in Canada, for the subject U.S. Studies Institute. Both play significant roles in educating future leaders of Canada and stimulating public debate in Canada on securit [...] | 2005-10-17 11:50:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA |
05OTTAWA3095 | BOMBARDIER AND THE WORLD AIRCRAFT SUBSIDIES GAME [...] (U) SENSITIVE, BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION OUTSIDE USG CHANNELS. 2. (U) This report outlines an increasingly significant part of the backdrop to large aircraft subsidies issues: Canada-based Bombardier Aerospace and the future of the market for commercial jets carrying 100 t [...] | 2005-10-17 15:09:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND EINV EAIR CA |
05OTTAWA3101 | DIPLOMATIC NOTE REGARDING UNESCO CULTURAL [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel diplomatic note by fax on receipt Saturday, October 15. The Ambassador followed up with Jonanthan Fried, senior official at the Privy council Office. Fried said that he had just spoken to Faryar Shirzad at the NSC on the same subject but that the GOC remains conv [...] | 2005-10-17 17:08:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CA ETRD PREL SCUL |
05OTTAWA3102 | ISLAMIC SCHOLAR EXHORTS CANADIAN MUSLIMS TO FIGHT [...] (U) On September 28, 2005, poloff attended a conference entitled "Building the Dialogue Gaps Towards a Culture of Peace" hosted by WEBB Canada (Women Engaging in Bridge Building) at which keynote speaker Dr. Mohamed Fathi Osman challenged the Muslim community to embrace a faith that is forward [...] | 2005-10-17 18:17:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KISL KDEM PHUM PREL KPAO KIRF CA |
05OTTAWA3103 | SPP: FIRST FINANCIAL SERVICES WORKING GROUP [...] Introduction and Summary: Treasury DAS for International Monetary and Financial Policy Mark Sobel led the U.S. delegation to the first Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) Working Group meeting and the 11th NAFTA Financial Services Committee meeting near Ottawa on October 4, 2005. The [...] | 2005-10-17 20:18:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETRD ECON PREL CA MX |
05OTTAWA3105 | (2004) REQUEST FOR CANADIAN MARITIME PATROL [...] Post received the following response to reftel B request via diplomatic note dated 11 October 2005: BEGIN TEXT: Note no. IDR0485 The Department of Foreign Affairs presents its compliments to the Embassy of the United States of America and has the honour to refer to the Embassy's demarch [...] | 2005-10-17 22:07:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL CA |
05OTTAWA3106 | Canada Nominees for "U.S. National Security [...] Summary: Mission Canada is pleased to nominate two strong candidates, selected from among the Embassy and seven consulates in Canada, for the subject U.S. Studies Institute. Both play significant roles in educating future leaders of Canada and stimulating public debate in Canada on securit [...] | 2005-10-18 11:33:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA |
05OTTAWA3114 | OTTAWA OUTREACH EVENT ON GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS [...] Summary: Embassy Ottawa's October 14th outreach event on WTO and Geographical Indications (GI) was hosted by FAS and Econ and attended by officials from International Trade Canada, Agriculture and Agri-Foods Canada, Industry Canada, and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office. The Canadian [...] | 2005-10-18 14:55:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR EAGR ECON ETRD WTO |
05OTTAWA3116 | CANADA OPEN TO "CREDIBLE" AND "DEFENSIBLE" MODUS [...] (C) Polmiloff delivered reftel demarche points to Terry Wood, Deputy Director for Nuclear Non-Proliferation (IDN) at Foreign Affairs Canada on October 18. Wood expressed appreciation for timely briefing materials in light of last week's discussions at the G-8 Senior Group meeting in London, a [...] | 2005-10-18 18:11:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM KNNP PREL CA IN |
05OTTAWA3120 | CANADA ON U.S. POLICY TOWARD BELARUS -- ENGAGE [...] (C) Poloff shared U.S. views on democratization toward Belarus with Habib Massoud, Deputy Director at Foreign Affairs Canada for Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldavia. Massoud was grateful for the readout of U.S. intentions in Belarus and explained how Canada views its role in the region. As part o [...] | 2005-10-18 20:13:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | BO KDEM PREL PHUM EAID PGOV CA SCRS |
05OTTAWA3121 | MISSION CANADA 1ST QUARTER 2006 90-DAY GOALS [...] (SBU) Summary - Two issues will dominate our relationship with Canada over the next 90 days -- softwood lumber and climate change. The frustration and anger over softwood, whipped up in the current political climate, is palpable and continues to push out all else on our agenda. Our contribut [...] | 2005-10-19 14:04:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSPR KPAO AMGT PREL PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA3122 | BMENA: SUPPORT FOR THE FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE [...] (SBU) POLMINCOUNS delivered reftel demarche to Middle East Director General Mark Bailey October 19. Bailey said that Minister Pettigrew would not be able to attend the meeting in Bahrain because of the unstable political situation in Canada but Deputy Minister Harder would attend in his place. [...] | 2005-10-19 16:26:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EU XF PREL EAID PGOV PHUM |
05OTTAWA3123 | LETTER FROM MP DAVID KILGOUR TO SECSTATE URGING [...] Embassy has received a letter from MP David Kilgour addressed to the Secretary regarding NATO involvement in Darfur. Mr. Kilgour is an independent MP who has been a champion of human rights and humanitarian issues going back to international efforts on behalf of Soviet Jewry in the 1970,s. K [...] | 2005-10-19 16:26:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | CA PREL SU PARM MOPS |
05OTTAWA3125 | CANADA'S EVOLVING CAPACITY FOR DISASTER RELIEF AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Canada's Stabilization and Reconstruction Task Force (START) Secretariat, a new bureau with responsibilities equivalent to those of S/CRS and some of the State Pol/Mil Bureau, began operating on September 6. Housed in the International Security Branch under A/DM Jim Wright, it [...] | 2005-10-19 17:55:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL MOPS PTER CA |
05OTTAWA3127 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PREMIER CHAREST: QUEBEC [...] (C) Summary: Quebec Premier Charest has told us that Quebec, Ontario and BC are trying to develop a common negotiating position and, if the U.S. makes the "right decision" on October 28, will push PM Martin to go back to the table. The provinces are looking at a combination domestic tax/tar [...] | 2005-10-19 19:00:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD CA |
05OTTAWA315 | CANADA: CABINET TO REVIEW MANDATE TO [...] (C/NF) In meetings January 20 with NorthCom Deputy Commander and U.S. NORAD Vice Commander, Lieutenant General Joseph Inge, Canadian security policy officials professed interest in helping to advance North American security cooperation with Mexico, downplayed the likelihood of an "early" Canad [...] | 2005-02-02 17:25:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | MARR PREL CA NORAD |
05OTTAWA3153 | TERRORIST FINANCE - OTTAWA: GOC REQUESTS US VIEWS [...] (C) The GOC has received a letter from Interpal's UK solicitors reiterating the request for delisting. A similar letter in June, 2004 was sent to Canada and, they believe, to the US and Australia. They wonder if we have also recieved the 2005 letter. If so, the GOC would welcome knowing th [...] | 2005-10-20 21:14:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC PREL PTER CVIS KVPR KTFN CA |
05OTTAWA3169 | CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION IN TELECOMS [...] (U) This message summarizes key views of Canadian players on the challenges of critical infrastructure protection in North America's telecom sector. It is based on a series of interviews held by Mission staff in September-October 2005 in Ottawa and Toronto with government and industry repres [...] | 2005-10-21 19:54:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | EIND PTER ECON CA SPP |
05OTTAWA3170 | PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE: TRANSPORTING TENTS FROM [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-21 20:28:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | CA PK EAID PREF PREL SENV |
05OTTAWA3173 | CANADA TO FOLD DART UNDER NATO UMBRELLA FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-24 16:38:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR ASEC EAID MASS PGOV PREF PREL PK CA NATO |
05OTTAWA3179 | CANADA: NORAD AGREEMENT NEGOTIATIONS, ROUND I [...] (U) On September 21, 2005 in Ottawa, a U.S. negotiating team led jointly by the Departments of State and Defense met with Canadian counterparts in the first round of discussions to renew the Agreement for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD),due to expire on May 12, 2006. U. [...] | 2005-10-24 18:31:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL CA NORAD |
05OTTAWA3198 | CANADA: APPEAL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO PAKISTAN [...] The GOC is contemplating an additional pledge at Geneva but the amount is not yet confirmed. They asked if post has information on the amount the US plans to announce. The Canadian delegation to the October 26 conference in Geneva will be led by their Ambassador, Paul Meyers, or his alterna [...] | 2005-10-25 19:21:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PREL PK CA |
05OTTAWA3204 | OTTAWA: COMBATING WMD PROLIFERATION VIA FINANCIAL [...] (C/Noforn) Foreign Affairs Canada Nuclear Non-proliferation officer Colin Smith has provided an update on implementing reftel proposals but warned that "bureaucratic inertia" and the need for legislative amendments will delay progress. He confirmed that all elements of the government with a [...] | 2005-10-26 17:51:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL MNUC EFIN CA |
05OTTAWA3209 | CANADIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON SINGLE MEMBER [...] (SBU) Econoff spoke with Industry Canada contact Janis Doran, who will be attending the TSAG meeting and who is the GOC ITU expert who has been our primary contact before (see Ottawa 2076). We provided a copy of the talking points to Ms. Doran, who was well-aware of the situation and who has [...] | 2005-10-26 20:35:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS CA AS XA |
05OTTAWA3228 | AMBASSADOR MEETS PARLIAMENT'S BORDER CAUCUS [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Wilkins and Minister Counselor of Consular Affairs Keith Powell met for 75 minutes with Parliament's Border Caucus on October 26, fielding questions on subjects ranging from the new travel document requirements of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) to the [...] | 2005-10-28 21:12:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECIN ETRD CPAS ASEC CMGT CA |
05OTTAWA3229 | POSSIBLE SHIFT IN CANADA'S UNGA ANTI-ISRAEL [...] (C) As requested in reftel, poloff met with Wendy Drukier, Deputy Director of United Nations and Commonwealth Affairs Division, and Anne Flanagan Whalen, Deputy Director of the Middle East Division, at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC) on 28 October to discuss Canada's upcoming vote on extending the [...] | 2005-10-28 21:25:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CA IS UNGA |
05OTTAWA3230 | CANADA COSPONSORS HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE RESOLUTION [...] (U) As requested in reftel, poloff met with officials from Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC) on October 28 to discuss Canada's co-sponsorship of the Holocaust Remembrance resolution. Canadian participants included Ann Flanagan Whalen, Deputy Director of the Middle East Division, Wendy Drukier, Dep [...] | 2005-10-28 21:26:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CA IS UNGA |
05OTTAWA3233 | DEMARCHE -IRANIAN PRESIDENT'S INCREASING EXTREMISM [...] (SBU) Poloff discussed reftel with Foreign Affairs Deputy Director for Iran and Iraq Jeffrey McLaren on October 28. McLaren concurred with the points in our non-paper. He said that upon learning of Ahmadi-Nejad's remarks on October 26, Assistant Deputy Minister David Mulroney immediately broug [...] | 2005-10-31 13:00:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PTER CA IR |
05OTTAWA324 | CANADA, DEBT, AND THE COMMISSION FOR AFRICA [...] (SBU/noforn) Summary: Canada strongly supports increasing aid to Africa but does not endorse financing proposals such as the International Finance Facility (IFF) advocated by the UK and others or the 0.7% of GDP resource volume target for ODA. Their position is especially delicate as Financ [...] | 2005-02-02 21:26:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID PREL ECON EINV CA UNGA |
05OTTAWA3244 | EVOLUTION OF INDUSTRY RESPONSE TO CANADA'S DRAFT [...] (SBU) Summary: Canadian rightsholders seem to be positioning themselves to accept notice and notice as a step in the negotiations surrounding Canada's proposed amendment to the Copyright Act. Internet service provider (ISP) liability waivers in the draft text have rightsholders fearing that [...] | 2005-10-31 19:46:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR CA |
05OTTAWA3247 | NMFS CHIEF HOGARTH SEEKING ICCAT CHAIRMANSHIP [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-31 20:37:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIS PHSA SENV AORC CA |
05OTTAWA3278 | CANADA'S RESPONSE TO PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE [...] (SBU) DCM conveyed ref A points November 1 to Jonathan Fried, the Prime Minister's senior foreign policy advisor. We provided follow-up copies to Foreign Affairs Canada and the Canadian International Development Agency. Canada responded quickly and generously to the South Asian earthquake (s [...] | 2005-11-03 15:24:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID MARR MOPS PHUM PREL PK CA |
05OTTAWA3283 | US-EU-CANADA DISCUSSIONS OF IRAN (CORRECTED [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 26, NEA DAS Gordon Gray and a U.S. delegation met with senior EU Commission and Canadian officials in Ottawa to exchange views on Iran and discuss prospects for addressing human rights and security-related concerns. Topics covered included Iran's internal situation, [...] | 2005-11-03 20:34:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP PARM IR CA |
05OTTAWA3285 | Airlines confident of seeing complete Open Skies in [...] Sensitive But Unclassified - For Internal USG use only 2. (SBU) Summary: Conversations with the President of the Air Transport Association of Canada (ATAC),and separately with Air Canada officials reveal that the Canadian civair industry is confident that Canada and the United States will [...] | 2005-11-04 12:29:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR EINV CA |
05OTTAWA329 | CANADA: PREPARATIONS FOR CICTE [...] Foreign Affairs Canada, Director for International Crime, Evelyn Puxley told poloff on February 2 that the Government of Canada is in full agreement with the US on the importance of CICTE's role in strengthening hemispheric political will to combat terrorism and enhance OAS member states' cou [...] | 2005-02-03 15:10:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PREL PTER CA OAS CICTE |
05OTTAWA3293 | CANADIANS INVITED TO NAIROBI; GOC FUNDING POSSIBLE [...] (C) Post extended reftel invitation to the Prime Minister's Special Advisory Team (SAT) on Sudan through Lt. Col. Brad Bergstrand, Military Advisor to the Sudan Task Force at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC). Currently, the Team is planning a trip to Darfur but will not be on the ground in the [...] | 2005-11-04 17:36:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PREF PHUM CA SU |
05OTTAWA3300 | OTTAWA PLANS TO HOST LANDMINE EVENT IN MARCH 2006 [...] Embassy Ottawa plans to organize an event in March 2006, in lieu of this Fall. As in 2003 and 2004, the likely venue would be the Ambassador's residence and we would invite a range of government and non-government interlocutors. ConGen-Toronto is also considering organizing an event during t [...] | 2005-11-04 21:18:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KHDP KSEP PHUM PREF PARM AORC ODIP OFDP CA |
05OTTAWA3301 | OTTAWA RESPONSE: DEMARCHE ON CODEX MEETING ON [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-04 21:33:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD FDA |
05OTTAWA3309 | FY 2006 VOLUNTARY VISITOR: LILLIAN THOMSON [...] SUMMARY. Post proposes a six-day funded Voluntary Visitor program for Lillian Thomson, Winnipeg City Councillor and Secretary of Urban Aboriginal Opportunities, focused on U.S. approaches to Native American Affairs and urban indigenous populations at the federal, state and local levels. Pr [...] | 2005-11-07 17:19:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA |
05OTTAWA3317 | CANADA: LAYTON PULLS THE PLUG -- THE GOMERY EFFECT [...] (SBU) Summary: NDP Leader Jack Layton announced today that the NDP cannot express confidence in the Martin government, and "the life of this Parliament is limited," after receiving what he considered an inadequate Liberal response to NDP concerns over creeping privatization in health care. Lay [...] | 2005-11-07 21:35:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CA PGOV PREL |
05OTTAWA3334 | ELECTIONS CANADA CHIEF ON UPCOMING ELECTIONS IN [...] (SBU) Head of Elections Canada Jean-Pierre Kingsley called the Embassy November 7 to debrief us on his recent trip to Haiti. He had met with Ambassador Wilkins just before his trip. 2. (SBU) Overall Kingsley said he came away optimistic and confident. He had a good deal of time with the h [...] | 2005-11-08 21:21:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CA HA PGOV KDEM PREL SCRS |
05OTTAWA3335 | CANADA'S VOTING PRIORITIES FOR UN THIRD COMMITTEE [...] (U) On 8 November, poloff delivered points in reftel with Wendy Drukier, Deputy Director of the United Nations and Commonwealth Affairs Division at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC). 2. (U) The Canadian positions on each of these resolutions remains unchanged from those discussed at the semi- [...] | 2005-11-08 21:22:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL CA UNGA UNHRC |
05OTTAWA3347 | CANADA COMMITTED TO MOVING FORWARD ON KABUL AGENDA [...] (U) Polmiloff delivered reftel points on November 8 to Foreign Affairs Canada desk officers Pamela Isfeld in the Peacekeeping and Peace Operations group (IRP) and Richard Arbeiter, senior policy advisor in the South Asia division. Both welcomed USG views on the Kabul Agenda and re-affirmed Can [...] | 2005-11-09 19:20:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PREL EAID CA AF |
05OTTAWA3348 | PROPOSED AGENDA ITEMS FOR UK-HOSTED MEETING OF THE [...] (U) Post delivered ref points to Sebastien Beaulieu, Deputy Director for Counter-Terrorism in the International Crime and Terrorism Division (ICT) of Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC). While Canada will not/not be submitting any proposals for the December 12 BTEX meeting in London, Beaulieu thanked [...] | 2005-11-09 20:09:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER TBIO PINS EAGR |
05OTTAWA3349 | ARCTIC GAS PIPELINES REACH KEY DECISION POINTS [...] (U) SENSITIVE, BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION OUTSIDE USG CHANNELS. 2. (U) Summary/Introduction: Both of North America's proposed major Arctic natural gas pipeline projects - Alaska and Mackenzie - are approaching key milestones: - On the Mackenzie project, Canada's National Ener [...] | 2005-11-09 20:38:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV CA |
05OTTAWA336 | MINORITY GOVERNMENT HAS ITS PRICE -- PREMIERS COME [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOC reached an agreement in principle on January 28 with the provinces of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland & Labrador in the ongoing dispute over offshore oil and gas revenue and &equalization8 payments. The provinces were the clear winners, with an eight-year renewable deal t [...] | 2005-02-03 19:47:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA3362 | DETROIT TUNNEL OPERATOR COMPLAINS HAS BEEN SHUT OUT OF [...] (SBU) The President of the Detroit and Canada Tunnel Corporation (DCTC),Gordon Jarvis (a Canadian citizen),contends that despite many good faith attempts to negotiate an extension of their current lease arrangement for the tunnel with the City of Detroit, it appears that they are being shut [...] | 2005-11-10 15:42:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN ECIN EINV PREL CA |
05OTTAWA3372 | NAFTA CHAPTER 11: SUN BELT WATER REQUESTS [...] (SBU) Post has received the following letter regarding Sun Belt Water's Nafta Chapter 11 dispute with the government of Canada. Note: Sun Belt is Claimant C in the 527 Report to Congress on investment disputes. End note. The original letter and the accompanying CD, which we have not viewe [...] | 2005-11-10 20:27:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD CA NATO |
05OTTAWA3373 | CANADA ON OECD/ANTI-BRIBERAY DEMARCHE ON EXPORT [...] (SBU) We have conveyed the points provided reftel to Canada's Departments of Finance, International Trade (formerly part of Foreign Affairs and still charged with this issue) and to Export Development Canada, the Ex-Im counterpart. Peter Cameron at Finance Canada confirmed that Export Devel [...] | 2005-11-10 21:08:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD PREL CA EXIM |
05OTTAWA3380 | OTTAWA PROGRAMS HUMAN RIGHTS DAY 2005 EVENT [...] (U) Post plans to observe Human Rights Day with an educational outreach program to fourth grade students at which Ambassador Wilkins will read a picture book entitled "If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks" by Faith Ringgold. The Ambassador will also educate the students about Elean [...] | 2005-11-14 16:56:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PHUM PREL ODIP PGOV APER CA |
05OTTAWA3397 | CANADA SUPPORTS MDA'S INCLUSION AND IS READY TO [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel on 15 November to Alexandra MacKenzie in the Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Response Group at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC). 2. (C) MacKenzie emphasized the importance of ensuring the success of the Geneva conference, as well as the adoption by consensus of [...] | 2005-11-15 17:39:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PREF AORC IS SZ CA ICRC |
05OTTAWA3399 | GOC PAVES ROAD TO WINTER ELECTION BY PROMISING [...] SUMMARY/INTRODUCTION: On November 14 the GOC's annual Economic Update to Parliament took on new life as the Liberal Party's campaign platform. In an hour-long presentation to the House Finance Committee, Finance Minister Ralph Goodale recapped Canada's strong fiscal condition and promised [...] | 2005-11-15 19:56:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA3400 | US-EU TROIKA CONSULTATIONS ON MIDDLE EAST [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 26 in Ottawa, NEA DAS Gordon Gray and a U.S. delegation exchanged views with EU Troika officials on developments in Iran and countries in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. Tri-lateral consultations with the EU and Canada on Iran are reported reftel. END SUMMARY. [...] | 2005-11-15 20:14:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP IR IZ |
05OTTAWA3404 | NOVEMBER 8 MEETING OF THE NORTH AMERICAN ENERGY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for distribution outside USG channels. 2. (SBU) Summary: Representatives of the United States, Canada and Mexico attended the ninth meeting of the North American Energy Working Group (NAEWG-9) on November 8 in Montreal, reviewing a broad range of commo [...] | 2005-11-16 17:47:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EIND CA MX KTRD |
05OTTAWA3414 | OTTAWA RESPONSE: TITLE IV ADDITIONAL SHERRITT [...] (SBU) Econoff met yesterday with officials from Foreign Affairs Canada and International Trade Canada to inform them that six additional Sherritt International executives have been found subject to the provisions of Title IV of the Libertad Act (ref SECSTATE 208609). The Canadian officials re [...] | 2005-11-17 15:33:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | CA CU CVIS ETRD ETTC PREL EINV |
05OTTAWA3415 | CANADA WILL SUPPORT FOR THE OAS MISSION IN COLOMBIA [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points to Harold Hickman, Deputy Director in the Inter-American Relations Division of Foreign Affairs Canada. Hickman said that Canada is definitely going to provide assistance to the OAS Mission to Colombia, and it could be substantial. The GOC sent an inter-a [...] | 2005-11-17 16:14:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CO EAID PTER CA PGOV |
05OTTAWA3417 | NETHERLANDS/AFGHANISTAN: CANADA UNABLE TO BOOST [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-17 20:45:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET | MARR MOPS PREL AF NL CA |
05OTTAWA3421 | CANADA WILL GIVE MORE -- FOLLOW-UP APPEAL FOR [...] (SBU) Steve Blais, who officially becomes Director of the Pakistan and South Asia office at the Canadian International Development Agency next Monday, said the GOC plans to announce that it will make a major commitment to earthquake relief after it has had time to digest the World Bank/Asia D [...] | 2005-11-18 14:23:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL PHUM SENV CA PK |
05OTTAWA3425 | PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE RELIEF: NO IMMEDIATE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-18 16:08:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL PHUM SENV CA PK |
05OTTAWA3438 | OECD SECRETARY GENERAL SELECTION [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-18 22:27:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETRD PREL |
05OTTAWA3442 | FY 2006 Voluntary Visitor Gerard Bourdeau [...] SUMMARY. Post proposes a ten-day funded Voluntary Visitor program for Gerard (Gerry) Bourdeau, Deputy Minister for International and Intergovernmental Affairs for the Province of Alberta. The proposed project support MPP goals of Secure and Stable Markets (energy security, environmental pr [...] | 2005-11-21 14:46:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA |
05OTTAWA3445 | SPP LEADS TO REVIVAL OF MORIBUND BORDER [...] (U) Officials of Transport Canada (TC) and the Department of Transportation (DOT) met November 15-16, 2005, in Ottawa to revitalize the Emergency Preparedness Committee on Civil Transportation (EPCCT),a group which held its last meeting in September 2002. This initial meeting after a long hi [...] | 2005-11-21 16:41:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ELTN EWWT EAIR ASEC CA |
05OTTAWA3448 | Avian Influenza Report 1: Low Pathogenic Virus [...] Summary: Avian influenza virus detected on November 18 in a domesticated duck from a farm in British Columbia has been confirmed as a low pathogenic H5 North American strain. An estimated 67,000 ducks and other fowl from the farm and surrounding area will be euthanized. A national wild bird [...] | 2005-11-21 20:00:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA SOCI PREL CA WHO KSTH |
05OTTAWA3450 | CANADA HOPING FOR USG SUPPORT OF MARSAF 2006 [...] This is an action message. See para 3. 2. (SBU) In the margins of another meeting, Foreign Affairs' newly installed Deputy Director for Regional Security (IDR),Christine Cadieux, inquired whether USG planned to support the 2006 Middle East Maritime Safety Colloquium (MARSAF). A confidenc [...] | 2005-11-21 20:23:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS MARR CA |
05OTTAWA3454 | CANADA'S DELEGATION TO THE DECEMBER 4-5 KABUL [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-21 21:54:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD PREL ECON KPWR PGOV AF CA |
05OTTAWA3482 | Canada's Pandemic Influenza Plans [...] Summary: Canada has a national pandemic flu plan dating from early 2004; an updated version is expected in December 2005. Preparing for an influenza pandemic is a top priority for the government of Canada. Canada is working with many partners, including the United States, to enhance global cap [...] | 2005-11-23 17:33:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KSCA SOCI CA WHO KSTH |
05OTTAWA3483 | GOVERNMENT OF CANADA WILL SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDACY [...] (U) Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC) notified post transportation officer on November 23 that Canada will support the U.S. candidacy for re-election to Category A of the IMO Council. 2. (U) FAC indicated that Canada would similarly appreciate U.S. support for Canada's candidacy. Note: Canad [...] | 2005-11-23 17:33:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EWWT PHSA KTIA CA IMO |
05OTTAWA3505 | MACKENZIE PIPELINE PROJECT MOVES TOWARD HEARINGS [...] (U) As anticipated (reftel),though with a week's delay, on November 23 Exxon-controlled Imperial Oil Resources informed Canada's National Energy Board (NEB) that the proponents of the Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline project are ready to proceed to public hearings. 2. (U) The NEB will [...] | 2005-11-25 21:28:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EINV CA |
05OTTAWA3507 | OSCE SCALES OF CONTRIBUTION DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO [...] (U) Reftel demarche was delivered on November 21 to Isabelle Poupart, Deputy Director for NATO and OSCE at Foreign Affairs Canada. In a follow-up coversation on November 22, Poupart said that Canada was aware of USG's position, that negotiations in Vienna were ongoing and continuous, and that [...] | 2005-11-28 12:46:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ABUD AFIN CA OSCE |
05OTTAWA3511 | WTO DOHA ROUND - CANADA: LOOKING TOWARD HONG KONG [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite differences on the details, notably over the future of Canada,s single desk Canadian Wheat Board, Canadian WTO negotiators see themselves as working in close cooperation with the U.S. on the elements of a package for Hong Kong. They stress that they have not given up o [...] | 2005-11-28 17:45:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRC KPAO EAGR ECON ETRD OIIP WTRO |
05OTTAWA3518 | CANADA: SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD ACT [...] (C)Summary: While Canada has a long history of economic engagement with Cuba, it has supported U.S. efforts to address Cuban human rights issues in international fora and has practiced a consistent, if cautious, policy of maintaining ties with dissidents and pressing Cuba on human rights iss [...] | 2005-11-28 22:08:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | CU ETRD ETTC PREL |
05OTTAWA3519 | CANADIAN FEDERAL AND PROVINCIAL TRADE MINISTERS [...] Canadian International Trade Minister Jim Peterson and several provincial counterparts (including those representing Canada's four most populous provinces) met in Ottawa on November 22 and spoke to reporters afterward. Peterson stressed the GOC's continued hope for an "ambitious outcome" fro [...] | 2005-11-29 14:15:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EAGR CA WTRO |
05OTTAWA352 | Air Canada adds/alters flights to avoid U.S. Transit [...] Air Canada is adding to and altering flights schedules to accommodate travelers seeking to avoid transit of the United States. Air Canada is explicitly touting new non- stop Asian flights as providing "the added convenience of avoiding U.S. transit visa requirements." Air Canada says the inc [...] | 2005-02-04 17:42:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ETRD CA |
05OTTAWA3523 | CANADA'S MINORITY GOVERNMENT FALLS -- HOW THINGS [...] (SBU) Summary: After losing a straight up confidence vote the evening of November 28 Prime Minister Martin went to the Governor General the morning of November 29 and asked her to dissolve Parliament. He then announced that the election would be January 23, and by the afternoon all party leade [...] | 2005-11-29 18:52:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CA PGOV PREL |
05OTTAWA3540 | CANADA ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT RUSSIAN DRAFT NGO LAW [...] (U) Polcons and Poloff delivered reftEl on 28 November to Tom MacDonald, Director General of the Central, East and South Europe Bureau and Gilles Breton, Deputy Director, Eastern European Division at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC). . 2. (C) According to MacDonald, the GoC shares many of t [...] | 2005-11-30 17:54:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL CA RS |
05OTTAWA355 | IRAQI TURKMEN FRONT ON THE JANUARY 30 ELECTION [...] (SBU) Asif Rashid Sertturkmen, senior representative of the Iraqi Turkmen Front (ITF) in Canada and the UK, recently met with us (at his request) to brief on the status of the Turkomen population in Iraq, and outline what the ITF believes is the systematic political disenfranchisement of the T [...] | 2005-02-04 18:42:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM IZ CA ITF |
05OTTAWA3571 | CANADA: MEASURES AGAINST WMD PROLIFERATION FINANCE [...] (SBU) Post faxed ref (A) points to Foreign Affairs Deputy Director for Nonproliferation, Deborah Paul, and UN, Human Rights and Economic Law officer Catrina Ventura on November 28. 2. (C) In a subsequent conversation, Ventura acknowledged the importance of fulfilling Canada's obligations u [...] | 2005-12-02 17:08:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PTER PREL EWWT MNUC CA |
05OTTAWA3572 | CANADA'S FOREST INITIATIVE: LESS THAN MEETS THE EYE [...] (SBU) Summary: While it does raise subsidy concerns, there appears to be much less than meets the eye in the GOC,s November 24 announcement of a new CAD 1.5 billion (USD 1.27 billion) forestry package. In particular, the CAD 800 million figure for loan insurance appears to be a political mi [...] | 2005-12-02 17:09:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | CA ETRD |
05OTTAWA3577 | CANADA'S ECONOMY STRONG AS ELECTION CAMPAIGN [...] Canada's economy continued to accelerate in the third quarter of 2005, rising 3.6% on a real annualized basis (versus 3.4% in the second quarter and 2.0% in the first). While Canada's currency and stock markets have recently appreciated in line with energy prices, media reports tended to overs [...] | 2005-12-02 21:01:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA3578 | CANADA: CONCURS ON STRONG LANGUAGE FOR [...] (C) Polmiloff conveyed reftel concerns to Isabelle Poupart, Foreign Affairs Deputy Director for NATO and OSCE, the morning of December 1. Poupart was taken aback by USG perception that Canada was "reluctant to endorse" the proposed text on Moldova, indicating that such a posture would contrav [...] | 2005-12-02 21:38:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KCFE CA NATO |
05OTTAWA3579 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: MONITORS FOR BOLIVIAN ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-02 21:56:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | BO PGOV PREL |
05OTTAWA3580 | QUAD MEETING ON SRI LANKA IN OTTAWA [...] (C) Summary: A Quad meeting was held in Ottawa November 29 on Sri Lanka on the margins of scheduled meetings on Bangladesh and Pakistan. The participants expressed concern over the downward spiral in the peace process and slackening international attention to Sri Lanka. The participants agr [...] | 2005-12-02 22:54:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | AS CA KDEM PGOV PREL PTER SL UK |
05OTTAWA3586 | WTO HONG KONG MINISTERIAL: INDUSTRIES PUBLICLY [...] Reftel reported a joint press availability at which trade ministers from the GOC and the provinces of Ontario and Quebec vowed to defend Canada's agricultural "supply management" system at the WTO. In subsequent days, the House of Commons unanimously passed a motion supporting supply manageme [...] | 2005-12-05 16:00:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EAGR CA WTRO |
05OTTAWA3588 | CANADA FORMALIZES ITS OPPOSITION TO THE DEATH [...] (U) On November 25, Canada ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, in support of its long-standing opposition to the death penalty. The treaty requires that parties abolish the death penalty within their respective jurisdictions. Th [...] | 2005-12-05 19:32:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SOCI CA UNGA |
05OTTAWA3602 | SUBSCRIPTION RADIO NOW (LEGALLY) AVAILABLE IN CANADA [...] SENSITIVE, BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION OUTSIDE USG CHANNELS. 2. (U) Reftels reported the GOC regulatory decision in mid- 2005 to allow the launch of three subscription radio services in Canada. Two of the licensees are extensions of U.S.-based "XM" and "Sirius" satellite radio [...] | 2005-12-07 12:43:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ETRD CA |
05OTTAWA3608 | CANADA ON MDA: EXPECT A YES VOTE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-07 16:26:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF PREL AORC IS SZ CA ICRC |
05OTTAWA3611 | (C) CANADA SHARES CONCERNS ABOUT VENEZUELA ARMS [...] (C) We delivered oral demarche points to Foreign Affairs Deputy Directors Christine Cadieux (Regional Security) and Harold Hickman (Andean Region),and National Defence Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs Col. Mike Hache, on November 18 and 21, respectively. FAC and DND officials acknowled [...] | 2005-12-07 20:02:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MARR MASS CA VE |
05OTTAWA3618 | CANADA: FUNDING APPROVAL FOR EXTENSION OF [...] (SBU) Foreign Affairs Peacekeeping and Peace Operations Group Director Wendy Gilmour has affirmed that Canada plans to extend its police trainers at the International Police Training Center for another year. We understand that the extension had been endorsed by RCMP authorities and the fundin [...] | 2005-12-07 22:16:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KJUS MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINR PINS IZ |
05OTTAWA3619 | CANADA: JIPTC FUNDS WILL BE AUTHORIZED BEFORE YEAR [...] (SBU) Daniel Joly, Director of the Iraq program at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) assured polmiloff late on December 7 that Canadian funding for 2006 training at the JIPTC would be authorized before the end of the year. The funding package already had been reviewed again [...] | 2005-12-07 22:50:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KJUS PINS PGOV MARR MCAP MOPS IZ |
05OTTAWA3629 | ANTI-AMERICAN RHETORIC IN THE CANADIAN ELECTION: [...] (C/NF) Summary: As the themes in the ongoing campaign take shape it appears that the United States will be in the second tier, although this could change as this hotly contested race takes off and the parties scramble to gain traction. At present the primary themes are health and child care, t [...] | 2005-12-09 15:39:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | CA PGOV PREL |
05OTTAWA3636 | INCSR PART I - CANADA [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-09 21:34:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR CA |
05OTTAWA3638 | FOLLOW-UP TO REQUEST FOR RESETTLEMENT [...] (U) This is an action message. See para 6. 2. (S) Polmiloff met with Senior Advisor for Migration and Refugees Kathy Porter on December 9 to discuss Uighur resettlement. Other meeting participants were China and Mongolia Senior Political Officer Walter Bernyck, and U.S. Relations Politica [...] | 2005-12-09 22:08:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET//NOFORN | MOPS PREL PTER KAWC PHUM PREF PINR CA |
05OTTAWA3649 | CANADIAN STUDENTS PRAISE HUMAN RIGHTS DAY PROGRAM [...] On December 8, Ambassador David H. Wilkins hosted 55 fourth grade students from the Glen Ogilvie Elementary School in Gloucester, their teachers and a dozen chaperones at the Embassy in Ottawa to observe the 57th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. The hi [...] | 2005-12-13 17:42:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KPAO CA ID |
05OTTAWA3650 | RUSSIAN NGO LAW - THE ART IS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel to Gilles Breton, Deputy Director of the Eastern Europe and Balkans Division at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC). 2. (C) Breton emphasized that, since our last discussion (reftel B),Vladimir Lukin, the Russian Parliament's ombudsman for human rights issues, has [...] | 2005-12-13 17:45:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL CA RS |
05OTTAWA3656 | CANADA: RESETTLEMENT OF CERTAIN REFUGEES [...] (U) This is an action message. See para 5. 2. (S) On December 13, Political Minister Counselor and polmiloff raised the matter of Uighur resettlement with Tony Burger, Assistant Secretary of the Global Affairs Secretariat at the Privy Council Office (Burger reports to Jonathan Fried, Senio [...] | 2005-12-13 22:20:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET//NOFORN | MOPS PREL PTER KAWC PHUM PREF PINR CA |
05OTTAWA3670 | WHAT MIGHT THE NEW GOVERNMENT LOOK LIKE? [...] (C/NF) Summary: With the parties polling eerily similar to where they were at this point in the 2004 election, one might assume that the next government will look much like the last one. However, even if the gross percentages are the same, the next government will be very different, and poss [...] | 2005-12-14 22:40:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | CA PGOV PREL |
05OTTAWA3671 | CANADA: 2005-2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] Canada is strengthening measures to reduce its vulnerability to money laundering and terrorist financing. Financial institutions remain susceptible to transactions involving international narcotics proceeds, including significant amounts of funds in U.S. currency derived from illegal drug sal [...] | 2005-12-15 13:01:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KCRM KTFN PTER SNAR CA |
05OTTAWA3684 | U.S.-CANADA LAW ENFORCEMENT AND COUNTER-TERRORISM [...] (C/NF) Summary: The final reports of the Arar Public Inquiry (one factual, one with policy recommendations) will be released in March 2006. RCMP Commissioner Zaccardelli fears that the recommendations will seek to undermine his institution's independence and its ability to freely and proactiv [...] | 2005-12-15 19:52:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | CA KCRM KJUS PINR |
05OTTAWA3695 | CANADIAN IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS NEGATIVE ON [...] (S) Pol Minister Counselor and polmiloff met with two Assistant Deputy Ministers (Operations and Policy) at Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) on December 15, to follow up on USG's request that Canada consider resettlement of Uighurs from Guantanamo. In a cordial but candid exchange, A/D [...] | 2005-12-16 20:28:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET//NOFORN | MOPS PREL PTER KAWC PHUM PINR CA |
05OTTAWA3696 | DEMOCRACY IN ACTION -- PURPLE FINGERS ACROSS CANADA [...] (U) Summary. In contrast to sealed borders and security curfews in Iraq to protect Iraqi voters, Iraqis resident in Canada overcame only bitter temperatures in their efforts to make their political will known on December 13, 14 and 15. Approximately 8,700 of the 15,000 to 20,000 eligible vote [...] | 2005-12-16 20:40:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KDEM PREL KPAO CA IZ JO |
05OTTAWA3697 | CANADA ISSUES STRONG STATEMENT OF SUPPORT FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Canada has issued a very strong statement of support for Iraq's Parliamentary Elections. Text is carried in para 4. The Ambassador has and will continue to cite the elections as a positive development in his public appearances. In addition, Elections Canada, [...] | 2005-12-16 21:34:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ CA KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV |
05OTTAWA3698 | CANADA: 2005 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] Unclassified entire text. GENERAL ASSESSMENT ------------------ 2. The Government of Canada remained steadfast in 2005 in partnering with the United States and other like-minded states to support the international fight against terror. With a 5,200 mile undefended border, Canada is one [...] | 2005-12-16 21:40:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CA KCRM KHLS PGOV PHUM PINR PTER KPAO |
05OTTAWA3699 | UPDATE TO INCSR PART II: ADDITIONAL DATA [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-19 17:22:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KCRM KTFN PTER SNAR CA |
05OTTAWA3709 | OTTAWA REQUESTS GUIDANCE ON LEGISLATION ADDRESSING [...] (SBU) Summary and action request: The U.S. pharmaceutical industry has repeatedly asked for Embassy support for Canadian legislation to ban bulk exports of drugs from Canada, in anticipation of Congressional action to legalize bulk imports into the United States. A Canadian drug export ban, [...] | 2005-12-20 16:25:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON SOCI TBIO CA SIPDIS |
05OTTAWA3717 | IMPLICATIONS OF ANWR DEVELOPMENT AND THE PORCUPINE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. See action request in paragraph seven. 2. (SBU) Summary: As Congress moves towards possibly opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil and gas development, reaction in Canada is likely to become increasingly shrill. We can expect Canadia [...] | 2005-12-20 21:34:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA3726 | TRILATERAL REGULATORY COOPERATION MEETING UNDER [...] On December 9, Canadian, Mexican and U.S. officials met in Ottawa to discuss possibilities for regulatory cooperation under the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). The Canadians, who had proposed and organized the meeting, seem enthusiastic about the prospects for eng [...] | 2005-12-21 20:27:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PGOV CA MX SIPDIS |
05OTTAWA373 | TERRORIST FINANCE: CANADA - CONSULTATION ON LET [...] (S) The GOC is prepared to join in consulting with Pakistan on our joint intent to submit LET to the 1267 Sanctions Committee for inclusion on its consolidated list by February 10 and is notifying its embassy in Islamabad. 2. (S) Action request: As we proceed, the GOC would welcome advanc [...] | 2005-02-07 21:40:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET | KTFN PTER EFIN ETTC PREL CA |
05OTTAWA3732 | PRECLEARANCE CONSULTATIVE GROUP REVIEWS POLICIES [...] (SBU) Summary: The inaugural meeting of the Preclearance Consultative Group (PCG) took place in Ottawa on December 13. The U.S. side was represented by the State Department, Customs and Border Protection (CBP),and the Transportation Security Administration. Canadian officials were from Fo [...] | 2005-12-22 15:30:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECIN ASEC CA |
05OTTAWA3735 | FY 2006 IVLP Individual Patrick Gilles [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-22 19:11:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
05OTTAWA3741 | CANADA'S CONTINUING CONCERNS OVER RUSSIAN NGO LAW [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel to Gilles Breton, Deputy Director of the Eastern Europe and Balkans Division at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC) on 22 December 2005 and shared the USG talking points prepared for delivery in Moscow. --------------------------------------- Transparency Limits Corrup [...] | 2005-12-22 21:02:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL RS CA |
05OTTAWA3747 | WTO HONG KONG MINISTERIAL: CANADIAN REACTIONS [...] SUMMARY/INTRODUCTION: Canadian players' reactions to the outcome of this month's WTO Hong Kong ministerial were generally positive, as the declaration keeps alive the promise of greater market access for Canada's competitive sectors such as livestock and grain, while not appearing to threaten [...] | 2005-12-23 17:21:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EAGR CA WTRO |
05OTTAWA3749 | OTTAWA TERRORIST FINANCE: LET AMMENDMENT, GOC [...] (S) Econoff met with our Foreign Affairs Canada counterpart on terrorist financing to provide the information in reftel. He had discussed this briefly with U.S. delegates in London and had then discussed the subject with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). At that time, CSIS [...] | 2005-12-23 17:38:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET | EFIN KTFN ETTC PREL PTER CA PK |
05OTTAWA375 | CANADA'S BUDGET: MINORITY STATUS NOT EXPECTED TO [...] (SBU/noforn) Summary: This year's budget could be a brawl. The budget vote is the only absolute confidence vote that Paul Martin's government will face in the short term and debate is expected to be vigorous. Finance Minister Goodale plans to present the budget to Parliament on February 23. [...] | 2005-02-07 22:23:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA3760 | CANADA SUPPORTS BLUE LINE PEACE BUT HAS LITTLE [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel to Peter McRae, Director of the Middle East Division at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC) on 29 December 2005. 2. (C) McRae agreed with the American position of encouraging Syria and Iran to end their support for rejectionist groups in southern Lebanon as well as t [...] | 2005-12-29 20:23:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LE IS SY CA |
05OTTAWA3765 | OPPOSITION PARTIES SEIZE ON RCMP INVESTIGATION OF [...] (U) Summary: Opposition parties have seized on confirmation of an RCMP criminal investigation into the possible leak of tax information from the Department of Finance, calling for Finance Minister Ralph Goodale to resign. Goodale, reiterating his confidence that he, his political staff, and [...] | 2005-12-29 21:17:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIN ECON PREL CA SIPDIS |
05OTTAWA382 | CANADIAN TRADE MISSION TO CHINA HIGHLIGHTS [...] SUMMARY/INTRODUCTION: Economic relations with China were a key focus of Prime Minister Paul Martin's January tour of South and East Asia (which also touched on tsunami relief and a range of political issues - see ref A). China displaced Japan in the past decade as Canada's largest trading p [...] | 2005-02-08 17:56:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV PREL CVIS KFRD CH CA |
05OTTAWA394 | DEMARCHE REQUEST ON MERCURY ISSUE AT UNEP [...] ESTH Counselor made the demarche requested in reftel to Environment Canada (EC) and Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC). Nancy Hamzawi, Director, International Affairs, EC, told us that Canada looks at the US proposal for partnerships on mercury very favorably, but is unable at this time to give any [...] | 2005-02-08 21:47:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV AORC ETRD PREL CA |
05OTTAWA395 | CANADIAN POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: THE [...] (SBU) Summary: A tan, rested, and combative Parliament returned this week ready to get down to business. The buzz on Parliament Hill was higher than normal as the MPs -- energized by their enhanced role in the minority government -- begin to tackle a host of divisive issues. While most agree [...] | 2005-02-09 14:07:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EFIN CA KCRS |
05OTTAWA402 | CANADA LOOKS TO CHINA FOR NUCLEAR REACTOR SALES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for distribution outside USG channels. 2. (SBU) Summary: Along with interest in joint development of petroleum and mineral resources (reftels),Canada and China have also pledged to deepen their ties in nuclear energy. During Prime Minister Martin's [...] | 2005-02-09 19:05:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY CA CH AECL |
05OTTAWA412 | DEVILS LAKE: MANITOBA DIGS IN ITS HEELS [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED -- PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. 2. (U) This is a joint cable from APP Winnipeg and Embassy Ottawa. See action requests paras 10 and 11. 3. (SBU) SUMMARY: North Dakota is expected to begin moving water from Devils Lake to the Sheyenne River in July 2005, in an effo [...] | 2005-02-09 21:25:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PREL CA |
05OTTAWA418 | SMART REGULATION IN CANADA: IMPLICATIONS FOR [...] (U) Following the September 2004 report on Smart Regulation (www.smartregulation.gc.ca),the Privy Council Office's group for Implementation Strategy for Smart Regulation is gearing up to put principle into practice. PCO plans to propose a number of new initiatives to improve the quality and [...] | 2005-02-10 14:35:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECIN ETRD |
05OTTAWA428 | A KINDER, GENTLER BLOC QUEBECOIS TAKES TO THE ROAD [...] (C) Summary: Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe has taken his message of the advantages of separation on a quiet, but successful tour of Canada, and now plans to take the message abroad. While gaining little direct support for separatism, he has improved the Bloc,s public image and his nati [...] | 2005-02-11 12:42:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CA |
05OTTAWA429 | A DARK HORSE, A STALKING HORSE: ENBRIDGE INC. AND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for distribution outside USG channels. 2. (SBU) Summary: As wrangling continues over who has rights to build the Canada portion of the Alaska Gas Pipeline, Calgary-based Enbridge Pipelines Inc. has persistently signaled its capabilities and interest i [...] | 2005-02-11 12:42:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ETRD EPET CA |
05OTTAWA434 | EVALUATION OF DIGITAL VIDEO CONFERENCE: [...] No summary [...] | 2005-02-11 14:54:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC OIIP CA OBSP |
05OTTAWA435 | COPUOS - Canadian reaction to USG approach on Space [...] ESTH Counselor and Specialist met on February 9 with Danielle Ayotte, Director and Dave Church, Senior International Advisor, with the Science and Technology Division of International Trade Canada (ITCan) to discuss the USG approach outlined in reftel. We had provided the USG draft guidelines [...] | 2005-02-11 16:04:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPA CA UNPUOS UNGA |
05OTTAWA437 | CANADA,S DIMINISHING PRESENCE ON WORLD STAGE -- [...] (C) Summary: A recent report reflecting the views of world leaders and policymakers on Canada's slippage in global clout has caused a small stir here. The paper by the former President of Bombardier International posits that Canada should put muscle behind its human security agenda by creat [...] | 2005-02-11 17:46:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HA CA UNGA MEPP |
05OTTAWA448 | CANADA SHARES CONCERNS OVER VENEZUELA'S WEAPONS [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche on February 11, FAC South America Division Director Jose Herran-Lima told polmiloff that Canada shares USG concerns about the course Chavez is taking and will find a way to convey those concerns to the Venezuelan government. He said that the GOC is conductin [...] | 2005-02-14 13:02:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL VE CO CA |
05OTTAWA454 | OTTAWA: TSUNAMI DONORS CONFERENCE AND FORMATION [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to reftel demarche, the GoC has indicated its interest in participating in a donor coordination group, and offered a number of suggestions on structure and participation. Full text of Canadian response follows below. End summary. 2. (SBU) In discussions with Fi [...] | 2005-02-14 20:34:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN CA |
05OTTAWA459 | CANADA: ENGAGING HOST GOVERNMENTS ON THE CANDIDACY [...] No summary [...] | 2005-02-14 21:28:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC PREL CA |
05OTTAWA473 | CANADIAN CONCERNS REGARDING MINISTERIAL IN CAYENNE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-02-15 20:39:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON CA FR HA |
05OTTAWA481 | AMBASSADOR SPEAKS AT INAUGURAL MEETING OF [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Cellucci addressed the first meeting of Parliament's new Border Caucus on February 8, 2005. The Ambassador affirmed our determination to keep the border functioning, while sounding a note of caution about the potential effects of marijuana liberalization in Canada a [...] | 2005-02-16 15:31:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN ETRD PREL CA |
05OTTAWA486 | CANADA, DEMARCHE RESPONSE: EXTERNAL EVALUATION - [...] (U) Econoffs spoke with Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC) Senior Policy Advisor for UN Specialized Agencies regarding funding for the external evaluation of FAO. FAC reports that the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has earmarked C$25,000 (roughly US$20,000) as an initial contrib [...] | 2005-02-16 18:08:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KUNR EAGR AORC |
05OTTAWA490 | SECURITY ENVIRONMENTAL PROFILE RESPONSE FOR [...] (SBU) DEMONSTRATIONS A. YES B. YES C. YES D. ALCAN POSTS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF DEMONSTRATORS TO BE APPROXIMATELY 50. HOWEVER, A STEADY INCREASE IN THE NUMBER AND FREQUENCY OF DEMONSTRATIONS DID OCCUR THROUGHOUT CANADA. DURING AND AFTER THE IRAQI WAR/CONFLICT CG'S TORONTO AND [...] | 2005-02-16 19:29:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET | ASEC PTER |
05OTTAWA494 | PM MARTIN,S SEARCH FOR A "BIG IDEA" IN [...] (C) Summary: The Government lost its first vote February 15 when the Opposition Parties banded together to vote against two pieces of legislation that would have divided the Foreign Affairs Ministry from the Department of International Trade. The move took PM Martin,s Liberals by surprise, ha [...] | 2005-02-16 21:44:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MCAP PREL CA |
05OTTAWA505 | COPUOS: USG APPROACH FOR CONSIDERATION OF SPACE [...] ESTH Counselor spoke on 2/17/05 with the Science and Technology Division of International Trade Canada for further Canadian reaction (ref A) to the demarche requested in ref B. David Church, Deputy Director of the office provided the following points that had been agreed on an interagency basi [...] | 2005-02-17 19:13:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPA CA UNGA UNCOPUOS |
05OTTAWA523 | CANADA: LABOR MINISTERS MEETING - LONDON, MARCH [...] Canada intends for Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development, Lucienne Robillard, to lead the GoC delegation to the March 10-11 G-8 Labor Ministers' Meeting in London. Robillard was assigned this Ministerial role in mid-January. In addition she is also President of the Queen's Privy [...] | 2005-02-18 16:47:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB CA |
05OTTAWA525 | CANADA SEEKS REGULATORY PRESCRIPTION FOR INTERNET [...] (U) Summary: Health Canada Minister Ujjal Dosanjh's response to reimportation of drugs from Canada to the United States has been increasingly negative in the past months. In the wake of the U.S. task force report, Health Canada seems poised to act in order to limit or prohibit drug sales fr [...] | 2005-02-18 17:44:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD SOCI CA |
05OTTAWA530 | HYDRO-QUEBEC MOVES TO ENHANCE SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: In the wake of the intrusion into two Hydro-Quebec generating facilities by television journalists, Thierry Vandal, Hydro-Quebec President for Production, called DCM February 18 to provide an update on steps which the company is taking to improve security. Vandal also expressed [...] | 2005-02-18 19:06:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PGOV TRGY CA |
05OTTAWA531 | CANADA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE CONCERNING MEXICO [...] (C) Poloff delivered demarche (per reftel) regarding Mexico's regional human rights initiative and our concerns that this might serve to undermine Cuba-specific (or other country-specific) resolutions at the UN's Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to Katherine Verrier-Frechette, Senior Human Ri [...] | 2005-02-18 19:08:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM MX CA CHR |
05OTTAWA537 | CANADA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON OAS SOCIAL CHARTER [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche concerning Venezuela's bid to chair the OAS working group on the social charter, to Leonard Beaulne, Deputy Director of the Inter-American Affairs Division at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),on February 18. Beaulne relayed that FAC was also tracking this [...] | 2005-02-18 20:48:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI XA XL XM CA FAC |
05OTTAWA541 | OTTAWA DEMARCHE RESPONSE: TRADE IMPACT OF REVISING [...] No summary [...] | 2005-02-18 21:35:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD WTRO |
05OTTAWA569 | American Fellow Diane MacLaren, Program Evaluation [...] Summary: Diane MacLaren, Senior Manager with the Canadian Treasury Board Secretariat, participated in the new American Fellow Exchange Program September 15-December 15, 2004. (The American Fellow Exchange Program was announced at the Quebec Summit of the Americas in April, 2001). In a deb [...] | 2005-02-23 19:58:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OIIP SCUL OEXC CA |
05OTTAWA572 | MARTIN GOVERNMENT EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE THIS WEEK [...] No summary [...] | 2005-02-24 00:15:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MARR CA NORAD |
05OTTAWA578 | IRAN/IAEA: CANADA SUPPORTS USG APPROACH FOR [...] (C) Polmiloff conveyed reftel points to Foreign Affairs Deputy Director for Nuclear Nonproliferation Terry Wood on February 24, encouraging Canada to make a national statement. Wood said he was pleased to see that the USG's assessment of the upcoming BOG briefing on Iran tracked with Canada's [...] | 2005-02-24 18:46:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL TRGY MNUC CA IAEA |
05OTTAWA587 | Proposed law would ban trans-fats in Canada [...] A law proposed by Canada's social democratic party, the NDP, would amend Canada's Food and Drug Act to prohibit content of more than 2 grams of trans-fatty acids per 100 grams of oil or fat in foodstuffs. This proposed law, would take Canada down the same path as Denmark, which in March 2003, [...] | 2005-02-25 14:00:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR TBIO CA NDP |
05OTTAWA590 | 2005 SPECIAL 301 REPORT FROM OTTAWA [...] (SBU) Summary: The regulatory picture on IPR has not changed much from earlier years, however Canada is moving to address many of the issues raised in the Special 301 submissions, even though results are unlikely to be visible before the end of April. On the headline issues of enforcement an [...] | 2005-02-25 15:51:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR CA CBSA RCMP |
05OTTAWA594 | THE POLITICS OF CANADA'S BUDGET: THE RATTLING OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 23, the Martin Government tabled its long-awaited 2005-2006 Budget. The first "minority government" budget in more than twenty years provides for billions in spending across a broad spectrum of policy interests. In addressing some of the oft-professed key interests [...] | 2005-02-25 18:02:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CA |
05OTTAWA603 | GOC HINTS THAT IT WILL SOON AUTHORIZE ALASKA GAS [...] (C) Summary: Top Canadian officials have indicated their desire to move quickly on northern pipeline issues, providing clues on which permitting process Canada will use to authorize its section of the Alaska Gas Pipeline. In a series of meetings with a delegation led by Alaska Governor Frank [...] | 2005-02-25 20:06:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETRD EPET CA NPA |
05OTTAWA637 | GOC AT PAINS TO DEMONSTRATE COMMITMENT TO SECURITY [...] (S/NF) Privy Council Clerk Alex Himelfarb contacted me on February 28 to stress yet again his concern that the government,s good-faith effort to beef up its defense capabilities will get lost in the reporting on the poorly managed missile defense decision. First Himelfarb, then the PM,s Chie [...] | 2005-03-01 18:27:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR MCAP PARM PREL CA LTG |
05OTTAWA640 | CANADA'S 2005 BUDGET: SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Not for Internet or distribution outside the USG. 2. (U) Introduction and Summary: Canada's Opposition parties were hard-pressed to complain about the minority Liberal Party's February 23 budget. Prime Minister Paul Martin and Finance Minister Ralph Goodale [...] | 2005-03-01 19:10:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA641 | U.S.-CANADA CONSULTATIONS IN PREPARATION FOR THE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The U.S. and Canada held consultations on February 14 in Ottawa in preparation for the upcoming session of the CHR. Both sides agreed that engaging Mexico before the CHR in a tri-lateral meeting would be important, particularly if Mexico goes forward with an initiative that coul [...] | 2005-03-01 19:13:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV CA CHR |
05OTTAWA642 | CANADA: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT FOR 2004-2005 [...] (SBU) The following is Mission Canada's submission for the 2005 Trafficking in Persons Report. Answers are keyed to numbered paragraphs in reftel. Embassy POC is Poloff Mark Baron, telephone (613) 688-5339, fax (613) 688-3098. Estimated number of hours spent researching and drafting this r [...] | 2005-03-01 19:14:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB CA |
05OTTAWA653 | CANADA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON CSW WOMEN'S [...] (U) Poloff delivered the demarche (per reftel) concerning a U.S. draft resolution, Economic Advancement of Women, to be presented at the 49th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW),to Chantale Walker, Policy Advisor in the International Women's Equality Division at Foreign A [...] | 2005-03-01 21:27:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWMN CA UN CSW |
05OTTAWA654 | OTTAWA: CANADIAN RESPONSE TO US VIEWS ON DEBT [...] (SBU) Reftel demarche was welcomed by GOC officials at Finance, Foreign Affairs and CIDA (the Canadian International Development Agency). On March 1, our Finance counterpart, noting that "it's going to be an interesting year" in the G-7, confirmed that of the five debt relief proposals that [...] | 2005-03-01 21:51:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID CA CIDA |
05OTTAWA663 | CANADA: MISSILE DEFENSE DECISION CLEARS THE WAY [...] (SBU) Summary: Canada,s Liberal Party will hold its biennial convention in Ottawa from March 3 to 7. It will be both a policy convention and a review of PM Martin,s leadership. Martin is expected to handily survive the review, and with missile defense now out of the way, only the Same-Sex Ma [...] | 2005-03-02 17:39:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV CA SNAR MCAP |
05OTTAWA666 | CANADA: SOUTH KOREA AND IMPLEMENTING A VISA [...] (SBU) On February 15, Daniel Jean, Assistant Deputy Minister for Policy and Program Development at Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC),advised post via letter that the Government of Canada (GoC) would continue its policy of a non-immigrant visa exemption for nationals of South Korea. Th [...] | 2005-03-02 21:43:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL PGOV KCRM CA CIC |
05OTTAWA680 | TERRORISM FINANCE: OTTAWA - 2005 UPDATE NO. 2 - [...] (SBU) Following please find Embassy Ottawa's response to reftel questions on terrorist financing. (A) Amount of assets frozen, forfeited or seized (in US dollars) by host government pursuant to UNSCR Resolutions 1267 and 1373, the legal authority under which the action was taken (legislativ [...] | 2005-03-03 21:03:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN KVPR EFIN PTER ETTC PREL CVIS CA |
05OTTAWA695 | EXXONMOBIL ENTERS THE ALASKA PIPELINE DEBATE; [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for distribution outside USG channels. 2. (SBU) Summary: After many months of staying on the sidelines while others argued about Canada's regulatory regime for the Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline, executives from ExxonMobil visited Ottawa March 3 to discuss [...] | 2005-03-04 18:59:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ETRD EPET CA NPA |
05OTTAWA696 | MICHAEL IGNATIEFF OFFERS VISION FOR LIBERAL PARTY, [...] Summary: Harvard-based Canadian Michael Ignatieff offered a compelling case as the Liberal Party,s keynote speaker for why the Liberals are the most successful party in Canada and can be expected to remain so well into the new century. He attributes the Party,s success to a national (as oppose [...] | 2005-03-04 19:10:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | MCAP PGOV PREL PINR CA |
05OTTAWA706 | CANADIAN OPPOSITION LEADER HEARS DISAPPOINTMENT [...] (C/NF) Summary: Ambassador Cellucci met March 4 with Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper, at the latter's request. Although the original reason for the meeting was to explain and gain understanding for the Opposition Party's position on Missile Defense, the Senate vote to keep the border close [...] | 2005-03-04 21:22:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MARR PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA713 | CANADA'S LIBERAL PARTY CONVENTION: NO TO MISSILE [...] (SBU) Summary: Both PM Martin and Defense Minister Graham used early speaking opportunities at the Liberal Party Convention to remind delegates that non-participation in the ballistic missile defense program does not preclude Canada,s participation in global security matters. Both leaders sou [...] | 2005-03-07 20:05:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MCAP PGOV MARR PREL CA |
05OTTAWA714 | ALASKA GOVERNOR MURKOWSKI AND YUKON PREMIER FENTIE [...] (SBU) Alaska State Governor Frank Murkowski and Yukon Territory Premier Dennis Fentie held two days of meetings in Ottawa in late February to promote a proposed rail line to link Alaska and Canada. Murkowski and Fentie jointly tried to sell the project to Government of Canada (GOC) officials, [...] | 2005-03-07 21:16:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN ECIN CA |
05OTTAWA717 | SUBSCRIPTION RADIO: CANADIAN LICENSE EXPECTED SOON [...] This message is sensitive, but unclassified. Not for distribution outside USG channels. 2. SUMMARY/INTRODUCTION: Canada's broadcast regulator, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC),is considering three license applications for subscription radio servi [...] | 2005-03-08 15:27:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ETRD CA |
05OTTAWA741 | LIBERAL PARTY CONVENTION WILL BE DIFFICULT FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The Liberal Party Convention finished on an upbeat note March 6, trumpeting the theme of "Promises Made - Promises Delivered" for three days. The Liberals followed the model of successful American convention organizers by scripting an overwhelming endorsement of PM Martin,s lea [...] | 2005-03-09 21:48:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CA PGOV PINR PREL |
05OTTAWA746 | TERRORIST FINANCE - OTTAWA: GOC SEEKS U.S. VIEWS [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (S) The GOC is considering possible Canadian Criminal Code listing of Hizb-I-Islami Gulbuddin (HIG),Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) in the near future. MEK and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar are currently listed in Canada under the UN Suppres [...] | 2005-03-10 14:43:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET | EFIN PREL PTER CVIS KVPR KTFN CA |
05OTTAWA747 | MDA: DEMARCHE REQUEST ON CONFERENCE ON MDA [...] (C) Poloff followed up on reftel demarche with Peter McRae, Director of the Middle East and North Africa Department of Foreign Affairs Canada, on March 10. McRae said that in principle Canada supports the convening of a conference for Magan Adom David membership in the Red Cross/Red Crescen [...] | 2005-03-10 17:35:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | IS RS CA AS PHUM PREL PREF ICRC |
05OTTAWA754 | FY 2005 EVALUATION: DVC with Robert Dixon and [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-11 13:12:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OIIP CA |
05OTTAWA755 | Discount Airline Jetsgo founders, strands passengers [...] Passengers at Canadian airports expecting to board Jetsgo aircraft on Friday, March 11 were surprised to find no staff at ticket counters, and no Jetsgo flights operating. There has been no official announcement, but it is expected that Jetsgo will seek bankruptcy protection later today. [...] | 2005-03-11 15:20:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ETRD CA |
05OTTAWA761 | LIBERAL BUDGET PASSES AT CONSERVATIVE,S EXPENSE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Liberal Government,s Federal budget passed March 9 by a vote of 132 to 73, after the largest mass abstention in Canadian Parliamentary history by the Opposition Conservative Party. The Conservatives were anxious to avoid an election, and given the roughly even numbers of op [...] | 2005-03-11 18:24:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CA PGOV PREL |
05OTTAWA774 | SCENESETTER: SECRETARY CHERTOFF'S VISIT TO OTTAWA, MARCH 17, [...] (U) As you prepare for your first meeting in Ottawa with Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan, I want to extend my welcome and the Embassy's continuing support for the dialogue. At a time when Canadians are voicing concern about the growing role of "border risk" in the [...] | 2005-03-14 20:30:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD ECIN EWWT ASEC CA |
05OTTAWA800 | TAKING STOCK OF U.S.-CANADIAN RELATIONS -- AN END [...] My core message as I depart Ottawa is that our relationship with Canada has changed fundamentally in the last four years, and we as a government need to catch up with this new reality. Canada is the front line of our efforts to protect the U.S. homeland. There is no priority in the hemisphe [...] | 2005-03-17 15:17:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC ECON OPRC PREL CA |
05OTTAWA801 | CANADA:DEMARCHE RESPONSE ON UN REFORM [...] Poloff delivered the demarche concerning the results of the February 22 meeting in Geneva hosted by IO A/S Kim Holmes with Geneva Group counterparts to discuss UN reforms, to Peter Taylor, Deputy Director of the United Nations and Commonwealth Affairs Division at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),[...] | 2005-03-17 18:08:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KUNR AORC PREL ECON CA UN FAC |
05OTTAWA802 | CANADA: DEMARCHE RESPONSE TO UNCHR-61 [...] (SBU) Poloff discussed the U.S. priorities at the 61st session of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR-61) with Henri-Paul Normandin, director of the human rights division at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),per ref a, on March 15. Normandin, who will be attending the final 3 weeks of CHR-61, ref [...] | 2005-03-17 18:12:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL CA UNHRC CHR FAC |
05OTTAWA822 | AUTO AND AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURING INVESTMENT: [...] The GOC and the provincial government of Ontario will contribute hundreds of millions of dollars toward investments announced recently in central Canada's auto plants. The federal, Quebec and Ontario governments are also offering large new incentives to the aerospace industry. This marks a s [...] | 2005-03-18 18:38:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EIND EINV CA |
05OTTAWA824 | CANADA'S AUTO SECTOR - [...] WHILE THE GOC WORKS TO ENGAGE THE U.S. TOWARD FORMING A POST-KYOTO STRATEGY ON CLIMATE CHANGE, IT HAS YET TO IMPLEMENT A CREDIBLE PROGRAM FOR MEETING ITS KYOTO TARGETS BY 2012. MEASURES AFFECTING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM NEW MOTOR VEHICLES ARE MEANT TO BE A KEY FEATURE OF THIS PROGRAM, [...] | 2005-03-18 19:36:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG CA |
05OTTAWA825 | CANADA: RESPONSE TO SOMALIA - IGAD DEPLOYMENT PLAN [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche concerning the possible deployment of troops by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in Somalia to Jamieson Weetman, Somalia desk officer at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),on March 17. Weetman thanked us for the points, and indicated that [...] | 2005-03-18 19:36:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SO CA FAC |
05OTTAWA831 | NOT GUILTY: CANADA'S AIR INDIA BOMBING VERDICT [...] Summary: A British Columbia provincial court acquitted on March 16, terrorism suspects, Ajaib Singh Bagri and Ripudaman Singh Malik of conspiracy and murder charges resulting from their alleged role in the bombing of two Air India planes in 1985. The case is the largest incident of mass mur [...] | 2005-03-18 20:47:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KCRM PGOV PREL CA |
05OTTAWA851 | CANADA: CHR-61 RESOLUTION ON CUBA [...] (C) Poloff delivered the reftel demarche concerning the draft of a resolution on Cuba that the U.S. intends to introduce at the 61st session of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR-61),to Pamela Moore, human rights officer at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),on March 14. Moore thanked us for th [...] | 2005-03-22 14:51:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM CU CA CHR FAC |
05OTTAWA860 | CANADIAN CONSERVATIVES HIT A DOUBLE AT CONVENTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Conservative Party of Canada held its biennial convention in Montreal March 17 to 19. It was the party's first policy and leadership review convention since the merger of the Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties in December 2003. On issues such as aborti [...] | 2005-03-22 21:17:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI CA |
05OTTAWA875 | DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY CHERTOFF [...] (U) Summary: Handguns entering Canada illegally from the United States and divergence between Canadian and U.S. visa policies were two unscripted items discussed during Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Michael Chertoff's and Canadian Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Anne McLellan's [...] | 2005-03-23 21:25:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECIN ASEC PREL CVIS CA PSEPC |
05OTTAWA886 | CANADA AND CLIMATE CHANGE: IDEAS FOR MOVING TO [...] Summary: Canadian Minister of Environment, Stephane Dion, and his staff are in the process of formulating their plans for COP-11 and post-Kyoto cooperation on climate change. Their current thinking is to engage international experts and key foreign governments in a dialog leading up to COP-11 i [...] | 2005-03-24 19:40:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG CA |
05OTTAWA891 | TERRORIST FINANCE - OTTAWA: DISCREPANCY IN LET [...] (U) This is an action message. 2. (S) Two of the Lashkar-e-Tayyiba aliases in para 7 of reftel (Passban-e-Kashmir and Paasban-I-Ahle-Hadith) apparently entered the joint prenotification message at some point between the original draft that we shared with the GOC and the final version sent [...] | 2005-03-24 20:46:00 | Embassy Ottawa | SECRET | EFIN PREL PTER CVIS KVPR KTFN CA FAC CSIS |
05OTTAWA904 | CANADA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON MDA AND PRESSING [...] (C) Poloff discussed ref a demarche concerning Magen David Adom (MDA) membership in the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement, with Claudie Senay, Human Rights Officer at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),on March 24. As indicated ref b, Senay reiterated that Canada strongly supports the convening of a [...] | 2005-03-29 16:52:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF AORC IS GM CA ICRC MDA FAC |
05OTTAWA914 | FOREIGN PRESS CENTER REPORTING TOUR ON U.S. [...] PD OTTAWA NOMINATES ONE PRINT JOURNALIST FOR THE APRIL 24-30, 2005 FPC PROGRAM U.S. SECURITY POLICY IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE. REQUESTED DATA FOR THE JOURNALIST FOLLOWS: (A). MANON CORNELLIER, DOB: 04/26/1960, MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA. PASSPORT NUMBER IS JL958935, ISSUED IN CANADA (B [...] | 2005-03-29 20:35:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OPRC CA |
05OTTAWA933 | PROPOSED AGENDA FOR 2005 U.S.-CANADA [...] (C) Polmiloff conveyed Acting Assistant Secretary Likins' acceptance of the invitation to attend the first U.S.-Canada pol-mil consultations in Ottawa to Barbara Martin, Foreign Affairs Canada Director of North American and Euro-Atlantic Security and Defence Relations Division (IDR),on March 3 [...] | 2005-03-30 23:19:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS CA IDR LTG |
05OTTAWA940 | Canadian Customs Officers argue to create Border [...] Summary. According to the President of Canada's Customs and Excise Union, Canada needs an armed "Border Patrol" to make the border between official ports of entry (POEs) less porous. The President of the Union appeared on March 22 before the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Just [...] | 2005-03-31 16:42:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ELTN ASEC CA PTBS CBSA CEUDA RCMP IBET |
05OTTAWA942 | CANADA INFORMED OF NEW SOUTH ASIA STRATEGY [...] (SBU) As requested reftel, on March 29 polmiloff delivered the Fact Sheet on Broadening the U.S. strategic partnership with South Asia to Keith Fountain, Acting Director of the South Asia Division (PSA) at Foreign Affairs Canada. Fountain said that he normally handles Afghanistan policy and wo [...] | 2005-03-31 18:00:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MASS PK IN CA PSA |
05OTTAWA944 | LETTER FROM SECRETARY RICE TO FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Secretary Rice's letter to Foreign Minister Pettigrew regarding Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr was delivered by polmiloff on March 30 through the Foreign Intelligence Division (ISI) at Foreign Affairs Canada. ISI staff subsequently confirmed hand-delivery of the letter to the Foreign Mini [...] | 2005-03-31 18:25:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | OPDC PTER KAWC PHUM PINR CA |