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SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SILVASANDE SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR SNUC SO SOC SOCI SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIO SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOMALIA SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STEPHEN HADLEY STET STP STR STUDENT SU SUCCESSION SUFFRAGE SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SUSAN SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THOMAS THOMMA THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN 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KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LOPEZ LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MANUEL SERGIO GONZALEZ MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARANTIS MARIA MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS MATT MAYA MB MBM MC MCA MCAP MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCAIN MCCONNELL MCCP MCGRAW MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEETINGS MENDIETA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL FELIPE CANAHUATI YACAMAN MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIKE MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMED HESHAM ELDIN YOUSSEF MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS MORALES MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURAD MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NADIA NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEGROPONTE NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICHOLAS NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC 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05BAGHDAD4090 | NEW TNA INTERPRETATION OF "VOTER" COULD SPARK [...] (C) SUMMARY. Two days before recess, the Transitional National Assembly (TNA) passed a resolution on October 2 that could dim the hopes of Sunni Arabs seeking to vote down the constitution. The resolution inconsistently defines the word nakhabeen, or "voters", as it appears in Article 61 (c) [...] | 2005-10-03 20:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT PHUM KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4091 | IRAQ'S CHALLENGES IN COMBATING TERRORIST FINANCING [...] (C) Summary: Iraq faces many challenges in building its capacity to come to grips with terrorism financing and money laundering. The unique security situation also makes it extremely difficult to conduct an in-depth assessment of Iraq's needs and deliver technical assistance in this area. [...] | 2005-10-04 03:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KTFN KCOR EFIN ETTC PREL IZ |
05BAGHDAD4094 | IRAQI ELECTION/REFERENDUM PREPARATION ON TRACK, [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Independent Election Commission of Iraq (IECI) reports that staffing, training, materials, budget, and security preparations for the referendum and elections are moving forward according to plan. IECI expects to announce preliminary referendum results within two days. Staff [...] | 2005-10-04 05:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4096 | MFA DISAPPOINTED WITH LIBYAN VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: There were no specific discussions on upgrading diplomatic relations during the Sept 24-25 Libyan delegation visit to Baghdad, much to the disappointment of the Iraqi MFA. The delegation, primarily of Qadhafi relatives, offered condolences to President Talabani, PM Jaafari, and M [...] | 2005-10-04 08:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LE LY IZ |
05BAGHDAD4105 | DAILY IRAQI WEBSITE MONITORING - October 4, 2005 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-04 17:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4106 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, CONSTITUTION, [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-04 17:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ BAGHDAD |
05BAGHDAD4107 | UPDATE ON SYRIAN RETURN OF IRAQI ASSETS [...] (C) Emboff met Dr. Saladin H. Al-Hadithi, Director General, Iraqi Fund for External Development (DFI),Ministry of Finance, October 4 for his take on his recent trip to Damascus to discuss the current status of Iraqi funds in Syrian banks (reftel; Saladin headed the GOI team). The main purpose [...] | 2005-10-04 17:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL SY IZ |
05BAGHDAD4108 | MINISTRY OF TRADE FOOD SUBSIDY REFORM PLANS [...] (C) Summary: State and MNF-I representatives met with Ministry of Trade (MoT) on October 3 to discuss Public Distribution System (PDS) reform. Minister Abd al-Basit Karim Mawlud told us that Prime Minister Jafari tasked an inter-ministerial committee to develop a reform plan by the end of t [...] | 2005-10-04 18:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON EFIN IZ |
05BAGHDAD4109 | CONDITIONAL DEAL TO FIX THE REFERENDUM LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY. DCM, UK Charge, and Acting UN Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Schulenburg met with Deputy Speaker Shahrastani and VP Adel Abd al-Mahdi October 4 to discuss the TNA's October 2 "double standard" interpretation of the word "nakhabeen" in TAL 61(c) as both act [...] | 2005-10-04 19:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT PHUM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4110 | IECI REACHES OUT TO KIRKUK [...] (C) SUMMARY. Sunni Arab leaders in Kirkuk told an Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) delegation September 28 that the large increase in Kurdish voter registration was fraudulent and demanded an investigation. IECI commissioners Hamdia Muhammad and Adil Allami assured these Sunni [...] | 2005-10-05 06:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINS IZ |
05BAGHDAD4116 | KIDNAPPED BROTHER OF INTERIOR MINISTER RELEASED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The brother of Iraqi Interior Minister Bayan Jabr was freed by members of the Mahdi Militia on October 2 after being held captive for 27 hours. His kidnapping is especially notable as a high-profile case where the Mahdi Militia operated more or less openly without police interfe [...] | 2005-10-05 12:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PTER IZ |
05BAGHDAD4118 | IRAQI SHIA DON'T THINK MUCH OF SAUDI FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent comments by the Saudi Arabian Minister of Foreign Affairs, combined with the Arab League Secretary General's decision to travel to Iraq, have raised SIPDIS the ire of many Iraqi Shia. They expressed anger at assertions that Iran has undue influence in Iraq, and they a [...] | 2005-10-05 14:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ SA |
05BAGHDAD4122 | CONSTITUTION PUBLIC OUTREACH EFFORT INTENSIFIES [...] (C) Summary. UNAMI distribution of the Iraqi draft constitution is well underway. 750,000 copies of the text reached the southern governorates in the past five days. Distribution to other parts of the country continues. Kurdish copies are expected to arrive in Kurdistan by October 6. Meanw [...] | 2005-10-05 18:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT PHUM KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4124 | TNA REVERSES DEFINITION OF "VOTER" [...] (SBU) On October 5, 119 TNA members voted to pass a measure that clarifies the Arabic term "nakhabeen" (i.e., voter) in the TAL to mean "those who cast their vote". 28 members abstained. This decision overturns the October 2 resolution that defined the term to mean "registered voter" in a mo [...] | 2005-10-05 19:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ UN |
05BAGHDAD4125 | IRAQI ISLAMIC PARTY OFFERS CONDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Sunni Arab Iraqi Islamic Party conditionally agreed to support the constitution on the basis of a package of amendments proposed by the Ambassador in an October 5 meeting. The amendments include a provision that would have the next National Assembly create a "Constitutional R [...] | 2005-10-05 20:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4126 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, CONSTITUTION, [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-06 04:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ BAGHDAD |
05BAGHDAD4127 | DAILY IRAQI WEBSITE MONITORING - October 5, 2005 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-06 04:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4132 | MCNS DISCUSSES SECURITY IN BAGHDAD, TAL AFAR, [...] (C//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Jaafari convened on short notice a meeting of the Ministerial Committee for National Security (MCNS) at his office on the evening of September 25. Topics discussed included a disagreement between Coalition Force (CF) officers and Ministry of Defense [...] | 2005-10-06 15:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS IZ |
05BAGHDAD4133 | MCNS MEETS TO DISCUSS SECURITY IN BAGHDAD, TAL [...] (C//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Jaafari convened on short notice a meeting of the Ministerial Committee for National Security (MCNS) at his office on the evening of September 25. Topics discussed included a disagreement between Coalition Force (CF) officers and Ministry of Defense [...] | 2005-10-06 15:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS PINS PTER IZ |
05BAGHDAD4138 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, CONSTITUTION, [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-06 18:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ BAGHDAD |
05BAGHDAD4140 | DAILY IRAQI WEBSITE MONITORING - October 6, 2005 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-07 03:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4143 | CHRISTIAN VOTERS TO HELP SINK THE CONSTITUTION? [...] (C) The leading Christian politician in Transitional National Assembly, Yonadam Kanna told PolOff, however, that many Christians are unhappy with the draft because Section One, Article 2A declares that no law can be passed that contradicts Islam. Moreover, some Christian minorities, such as t [...] | 2005-10-07 14:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR PNAT IZ |
05BAGHDAD4144 | AUSTRALIAN DETAINEE RELEASED FROM COALITION [...] (SBU) Australian national Ahmed Aziz Rafiq was released from MNF-I custody on October 7, 2005. Mr. Rafiq was originally detained by Coalition Forces on May 27, 2004 on suspicion of involvement in terrorist activity, and was held as a security internee. His case was reviewed on November 7, 200 [...] | 2005-10-08 08:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINS PTER IZ AU |
05BAGHDAD4145 | REQUEST FOR GERMAN ASSISTANCE IN TWO HUMANITARIAN [...] (SBU) Post requests that the Department ask Embassy Berlin to approach the German MFA regarding a request for assistance from two German residents currently attempting to return to Germany from Iraq. (Post first contacted Embassy Berlin through the Department regarding these cases in the summ [...] | 2005-10-08 08:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PHUM PTER XF GR |
05BAGHDAD4146 | IRAQI MCNS DISCUSSES REFERENDUM SECURITY, OTHER [...] (S//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: The Iraqi Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) met on October 4, 2005 to discuss the conditions for the transfer of security responsibilities, to review security plans for the October 15 referendum, and to discuss other issues. The Committee's discussi [...] | 2005-10-08 13:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV MOPS ECON PREL IZ |
05BAGHDAD4147 | IRAQI MCNS MEETS TO DISCUSS TRANSFER OF SECURITY [...] (S//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: The Iraqi Ministerial Committee on National Security (MCNS) met on October 4 to discuss, among other subjects, the conditions for the transfer of security responsibilities from the Coalition to Iraqi civil authorities. Prime Minister Jaafari stated a preference for [...] | 2005-10-08 14:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV MOPS IZ |
05BAGHDAD4149 | EMBOFFS TO BADR CORPS HEAD: DO NOT CONDUCT ARMED [...] (C) In an October 4 meeting to discuss Sunni allegations of persecution by Badr Corps militia members, MOI Senior Advisor James Yellin warned Badr Organization leader and SCIRI TNA member Hadi al-Amari that militias must not conduct operations during the run-up to the referendum on the constit [...] | 2005-10-09 07:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR IZ |
05BAGHDAD4154 | STATUS UPDATE ON CAMP ASHRAF REPATRIATIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Between August 2004 and October 2005, 331 "defectors" from the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MeK) organization have been voluntarily repatriated to their countries of nationality or residence: 316 to Iran, eleven to Pakistan, two to Sweden, one to Turkey, and one to Canada. Possible thir [...] | 2005-10-09 10:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS PHUM PTER IZ IR ICRC |
05BAGHDAD4172 | DAILY IRAQI WEBSITE MONITORING - October 10, 2005 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-10 18:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4173 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, CONSTITUTION, [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-10 18:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ BAGHDAD |
05BAGHDAD4174 | CODEL SHAYS CALLS ON IRAQI MINISTER OF INTERIOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A Congressional delegation led by Rep. Christopher Shays (R, CT) called on the Iraqi Minister of Interior Bayan Jabr on October 9, 2005. Jabr told the group that Iraqis are grateful for all the U.S. has done to free them from the tyranny of Saddam, assured them that steps are b [...] | 2005-10-10 19:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER |
05BAGHDAD4175 | SHEIKH HAMMOUDI TELLS CODEL SHAYS WHEN U.S. CAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 9, TNA Constitution Committee Chair and senior Shia Islamist politician Sheikh Humam Hammoudi told Representatives Christopher Shays (R, CT),Michael McNulty (D, NY),Earl Pomeroy (D, ND),Michael Campuano (D, MA),Ron Kind (D, WI),and Eni Faleomavaega (D, American Sa [...] | 2005-10-11 06:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PINS PNAT PREL |
05BAGHDAD4176 | FALLUJAH: LEADERS MEET WITH IECI COMMISSIONER, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Fallujah city leaders met with IECI Chairman, Izadin Shufiq, UN IFES elections expert Philip Sfocina, and an Embassy/USAID delegation October 6, 2005, at the Fallujah Civil-Military Operations Center (CMOC). Residents criticized the number of seats (nine) the Transitional Nation [...] | 2005-10-11 06:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM IZ XL |
05BAGHDAD4178 | AL-BAYYNA JOURNALISTS ARGUE IN SUPPORT OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Journalists from Al-Bayyna, a major Shia newspaper published by the Hezbollah Movement in Iraq, told PolOff that they supported the draft constitution. The best option for Shia, the journalists argued, would be to join together in several Shia regions and work to build a stable [...] | 2005-10-11 06:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ KMDR |
05BAGHDAD4182 | ANBAR: GOVERNOR FRUSTRATED BY LACK OF ELECTION [...] (C) Summary. In October 2 meeting with Second Marine Division ADC and Poloff, Anbar Governor Mamoon expressed his disappointment in the lack of follow-through by Election Commissioners after their August 30 outreach visit. He said that if his demands for confirmation of designated polling lo [...] | 2005-10-11 07:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4186 | ARAB LEAGUE MISSION SURVIVES ATTACK, SCORES [...] (C) SUMMARY. (C) An eleven member Arab League (AL) delegation continued their five-day fact-finding visit to Baghdad despite an attack on their convoy that resulted in the deaths of 2 security guards. Except for that incident, the Iraqi MFA and the Prime Minister's office characterized the v [...] | 2005-10-11 10:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IZ |
05BAGHDAD4198 | DAILY IRAQI WEBSITE MONITORING - October 11, 2005 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-11 17:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4199 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, CONSTITUTION, [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-11 18:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4200 | WATCH SALAH AD-DIN AND NINEWA PROVINCES TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. A last-minute political compromise to elicit Sunni Arab leader public expressions of support for the Constitution could help ensure its passage in the October 15 referendum. That deal apparently is sealed. Were it to fall through, the outcome of the referendum will probably be [...] | 2005-10-11 18:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT PHUM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4204 | IRAQ - AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD DISCUSSES THE IMF, [...] (C) SUMMARY: DPM Ahmed Chalabi invited Ambassador Khalilzad to break the Ramadan fast with him October 7. During wide-ranging discussions, Chalabi expressed confidence that Iraq will succeed in negotiating a Standby Arrangement (SBA) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) before year's en [...] | 2005-10-12 09:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETRD PREL PGOV ECON IZ IMF |
05BAGHDAD4208 | CODEL REED VISITS PM JAFARI [...] (SBU) On October 11, Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari told Senators Jack Reed (R-RI) and Chris Dodd (D-CT) that he is optimistic that the constitution referendum will take place on time and will pass without issue. Jaafari added that he expects widespread voter turnout that will include Sunni [...] | 2005-10-12 16:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT PREL IZ |
05BAGHDAD4209 | DAILY IRAQI WEBSITE MONITORING - October 12, 2005 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-12 19:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4210 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, CONSTITUTION, [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-12 19:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4213 | ANBAR: NEW RAMADI CITY COUNCIL CONFRONTS FOUL [...] (C) Summary. A technocrat-dominated, fledgling Ramadi City Council prioritized its responsibilities with regard to oversight of essential services to the violent and battered city. They praised the performance of the local Ministry of Electricity employees and noted their speed in restoring [...] | 2005-10-13 11:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PTER IZ |
05BAGHDAD4214 | MAJOR SUNNI PARTY PARTICIPATES IN GATHERING IN [...] (C) Summary. The Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) reiterated support for the amended draft constitution at a big tent gathering of Iraqi political leaders October 12 in the Transitional National Assembly. A number of important amendments, negotiated in the last week, paved the way for the statemen [...] | 2005-10-13 12:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT PHUM PTER IZ |
05BAGHDAD4215 | FALLUJAH: MOBILIZED FOR THE REFERENDUM, BIG [...] (C) SUMMARY: Fallujans are mobilized to vote in large numbers October 15. Most residents remain primarily focused on immediate needs in the recovering city (power, water, and security) rather than the national political debate. City leaders have not yet formally urged rejection of the const [...] | 2005-10-13 12:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM IZ XL |
05BAGHDAD4218 | PRELIMINARY IRAQI THINKING ON FALL JCRED [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified; not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) In a meeting with EconOffs and Treasury Attache on October 12, the Minister of Finance's chief of staff shared some of FINMIN Allawi's thinking on the next US/Iraq Joint Commission on Reconstruction and Economic Develo [...] | 2005-10-13 16:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR PREL IZ |
05BAGHDAD4219 | TURKISH ASSISTANCE TO TAL AFAR AND KIRKUK [...] (C) Summary. If the Turks want to offer humanitarian assistance, and Iraq wants to take it, we have no objection. However, there is no urgent need for Turkish aid. This aid proposal is certainly politically charged and should be negotiated bilaterally between the GOT and the ITG with minimal [...] | 2005-10-13 16:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV MOPS IZ TU KCRS |
05BAGHDAD4221 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, CONSTITUTION, [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-13 19:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4222 | DAILY IRAQI WEBSITE MONITORING - October 13, 2005 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-13 20:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4223 | THE SUBSTANCE OF THE CONSTITUTION COMPROMISE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The final set of constitutional amendments announced on October 12 comprises one major gesture to all of the constitution's detractors and a series of smaller provisions to address the concerns of specific communities. The review clause at the core of the amendment package will al [...] | 2005-10-14 03:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4224 | STRAGGLERS BEWARE: ELECTION REGISTRATION DEADLINE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Procrastinators will have less than a week to make sure they are on the ballot during December 15 elections. The September 30 registration deadline for parties and individuals has come and gone, and only one more week (deadline: October 21) remains for registered parties to name [...] | 2005-10-14 13:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4225 | IRAQI REFERENDUM UPDATE: PREPARATIONS MOVING AHEAD [...] (C) SUMMARY. IECI reports that referendum planning logistics and security have proceeded as planned with only minor problems, including in provinces with significant Sunni Arab populations. Preparations have moved forward far more smartly than they did in advance of the January 2005 election [...] | 2005-10-14 14:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4228 | MIXED REACTION BY SUNNI ARABS TO CONSTITUTION [...] (C) An official from the Sunni Arab-dominated Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP),Nasir Al-Ani, told PolOff October 13 the IIP remains resolutely in support of the constitution despite insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades on the IIP office in Fallujah October 13. Al-Ani said there were no casua [...] | 2005-10-14 15:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PNAT IZ |
05BAGHDAD4230 | MGIZ02: POWER DISRUPTION, FUEL IMPORT SHORTAGES [...] (C) Summary: On the eve of the Constitutional referendum, Iraqis face an almost general electricity blackout, another round of fuel shortages, and a major pipeline breach at the critical al-Fatah Crossing in the north. A decision to amply supply Baghdad with fuel at this time has produced sho [...] | 2005-10-14 17:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET MOPS MARR PGOV PINS PREL TU IZ |
05BAGHDAD4231 | SOMO ARREARS MOUNTING, FUEL IMPORTS INTERRUPTED [...] (C) Summary: Fuel imports from Turkey have been reduced due to canceled contracts, allegations of corruption, and Iraqi arrears to Turkish suppliers. State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) officials said October 6 that their outstanding debt to Turkish firms (reftels/emails) was $25 million [...] | 2005-10-14 18:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET PGOV PREL TU IZ |
05BAGHDAD4232 | 19 IRAQI PALESTINIANS IN NO MAN'S LAND AT AL [...] (C) Summary. Christian Peacemakers Team (CPT) told RefCoord and PolOff that the 19 Palestinians in the No Man's Land between the Iraqi and Syrian land borders fled because of an upsurge in abuse of Palestinians by the ITG and the general public. CPT was unable to provide specific details on [...] | 2005-10-15 05:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF KPAL PHUM PINS IZ JO SY KCRS |
05BAGHDAD4235 | IRAQI REFERENDUM 001 (OCTOBER 15) [...] (S) Summary. As of midday October 15, the Iraqi constitutional referendum generally was proceeding operating smoothly with problems most notably in Anbar and Ninewa; in both governorates it appears many polling stations did not open. The Independent Election Commission of Iraq (IECI) reporte [...] | 2005-10-15 11:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KISL PNAT IZ |
05BAGHDAD4238 | SAMARA SUNNI ARABS IN DENIAL ABOUT THEIR IP [...] (C) Summary: During an October 12 meeting in Samarra to discuss security and governance, MOD Senior Advisor General Amer al-Hashimi asked Coalition Force officers to reduce their security controls in the city. LTC Wald of the 42ND ID noted that there had been no change in the demands of the [...] | 2005-10-15 15:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PNAT PHUM PTER IZ |
05BAGHDAD4239 | ANBAR: IMPASSE OVER PAYMENT OF POLICE SALARIES [...] (C) Summary. This is a SET Ramadi cable. Provincial Police Chief Shaqr interrupted shouting matches with his financial director on October 10, to explain to PolOff and Police Advisors (P3) the obstacles to distributing September pay to his officers. Charging the governor with inference in h [...] | 2005-10-15 16:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS IZ |
05BAGHDAD4240 | REFERENDUM UPDATE 2 - FREE AND FAIR AND LOTS OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. All reporting indicates that the October 15 referendum was generally free and fair. There were some allegations of irregularities at sites around the country, especially in Ninewa. There were isolated incidents of violence but these did not much affect the voting. Although ther [...] | 2005-10-15 16:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR IZ |
05BAGHDAD4241 | MGIZ02: STATUS OF OIL PRODUCTION/REFINING CAPACITY [...] (C) As of 1230 hours October 15, officials at the Ministry of Oil reported that the October 14 blackout (reftel) has had limited effect on Iraq's oil production. The October 12 explosion at the al-Fatah Crossing had already interrupted refining at Bayji, although refining has since resumed. [...] | 2005-10-15 16:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET MOPS MARR PGOV PINS IZ |
05BAGHDAD4242 | FIRST REACTIONS TO REFERENDUM: SHIA CONFIDENCE, [...] (C) Summary: So far, the UN election advisory team has not heard of significant irregularities during the voting operation on October 15. In contrast to the January 2005 election, this time our Assyrian Christian contacts in Baghdad so far are not complaining of serious problems with the v [...] | 2005-10-15 20:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PNAT |
05BAGHDAD4268 | IRAQI POLITICIANS SPINNING REFERENDUM RESULTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi politicians were quick to begin spinning results of the October 15 referendum, issuing statements to the media on provincial voting well before the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) began its tally of governorate ballot sheets. While such spinning is to be expe [...] | 2005-10-17 14:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4270 | ALLAWI ALLY ON FORMER PM'S EFFORT TO BUILD A [...] (C) Summary. With the Conference of Centrists and Moderation underway, Allawi supporter and former Planning Minister Medhi Hafedh has gathered a myriad of Sunni, Shia and Kurds that may possibly form alliances with Ayad Allawi for the December elections. Hafedh reported that Allawi's politica [...] | 2005-10-17 18:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4271 | IRAQI ELECTION COMMISSION DELAYS ANNOUNCEMENT OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. UN Special Representative (SRSG) Qazi told P5 Chiefs of Mission late October 17 that the announcement of the constitution referendum results would be delayed while the Iraqi election commission investigates potential irregularities. Preliminary information from IECI field office [...] | 2005-10-17 18:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PNAT PGOV PTER KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4272 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, CONSTITUTION, [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-17 19:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4273 | DAILY IRAQI WEBSITE MONITORING - October 17, 2005 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-17 19:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4284 | PM AGREES NOT TO DELAY DECEMBER ELECTION [...] (C) Prime Minister Ibrahim Jafari met with Ambassador Khalilzad and UK Ambassador William Patey on October 16 to discuss delaying the date for registration of political coalitions from October 21 to November 4 and the date of the National Assembly election from December 15 to December 29. They [...] | 2005-10-18 09:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT PHUM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4289 | ANBAR POLITICS: NOBODY LIKES ANYBODY VERY MUCH [...] (C) Summary. This is a SET Ramadi Cable. Anbar Sunni Arab politicos may feel besieged with worries about Shia, Iranians, terrorists, Iraqi Security Forces and the American military, but they are hardly circling the wagons. The lead political figure in Anbar, in terms of administrative prow [...] | 2005-10-18 12:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4290 | FALLUJANS OVERWHELMINGLY REJECT CONSTITUTION IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Fallujah and neighboring area residents voted in large numbers during the October 15 referendum. They overwhelmingly rejected the constitution, according to initial reports from Fallujah-based IECI staff. The large turnout in Iraq's "city of mosques", alongside low turnout in th [...] | 2005-10-18 12:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ XL |
05BAGHDAD4291 | SUNNI DEPUTY CITY COUNCIL CHAIRMAN REFLECTS ON [...] (C) Summary. Immediately after polls closed for the October 15 constitutional referendum, Baghdad City Council Deputy Chairman (and sole Sunni member) Riyadh Nassir Al Adhadh shared his thoughts about the referendum and politics with PolOff. Dr. Riyadh said that perhaps half of the Sunni vot [...] | 2005-10-18 12:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PNAT KDEM IZ XL |
05BAGHDAD4297 | DAILY IRAQI WEBSITE MONITORING - October 18, 2005 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-18 18:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4298 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, CONSTITUTION, [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-18 18:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4305 | TNA MEMBER QASSIM DAOUD ON THE REFERENDUM, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Political positioning to build coalitions for the December election has begun in earnest, and fears of significant Sunni Arab or Shia Islamist gains in December may have led to a thaw between former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and TNA Constitution Committee member and former ally [...] | 2005-10-19 10:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
05BAGHDAD4306 | AYATOLLAH SADR SAYS MARJAYA SHOULD STAY OUT OF [...] (C) Summary. At an October 17 iftar, Ayatollah Hussein al-Sadr told Ambassador Khalilzad that the Shia clerical establishment (Marjaya) should not endorse any electoral lists in the December 2005 elections. Al-Sadr warned the Ambassador of the danger of Islamic extremism and said that he fav [...] | 2005-10-19 10:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4311 | SUNNI ARAB REACTION TO REFERENDUM RESULTS: SOME [...] (C) Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) General Secretary Tariq al-Hashimi told the Ambassador October 18 he is gravely concerned that a disputed referendum result in Ninewa handled indelicately would lead to a "disaster." He recommended the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) delay an anno [...] | 2005-10-19 13:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT PHUM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4319 | DAILY IRAQI WEBSITE MONITORING - October 19, 2005 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-19 18:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4320 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, CONSTITUTION, [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-19 18:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4321 | COALITION AND CANDIDATE REGISTRATION DEADLINE [...] (U) The Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) announced October 19 that the IECI Board of Directors has approved extending both the political coalition and the political candidate registration deadline from October 21 to October 28. The IECI has produced a press release announcing t [...] | 2005-10-19 18:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4322 | OIL MINISTRY OFFICIAL SAYS IRAQ WILL PAY ARREARS [...] (C) Summary: Senior Advisor to the Minister of Oil Abdul Sahib al-Qutub said that he was working with the Ministry of Finance to organize payment o/a October 19 of some $450 million in arrears to Turkish firms for fuel imports. Ministry of Oil officials blamed the poor security situation in t [...] | 2005-10-19 19:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET MOPS MARR PGOV PREL TU IZ |
05BAGHDAD4323 | ALLAWI COALITION BUILDING EFFORTS NEARING [...] (C) Summary. Former PM Ayad Allawi is reportedly putting the final touches on a wide secular coalition for the December elections. Iraqi Communist Party Secretary General Hamid Majid Mussa told us October 19 SIPDIS that Allawi has completed his coalition negotiations and was completing n [...] | 2005-10-20 06:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4324 | POLITICAL REACTIONS TO THE SADDAM TRIAL [...] (C) Summary. For many Iraqis, the Saddam trial provides a sense of relief, revenge, justice and healing. However, some Sunni Arabs claimed that it is a political tool to divert attention away from referendum anomalies and the upcoming elections. Press editorials warn that Saddam's grandstand [...] | 2005-10-20 07:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4329 | FADHILA PARTY OFFICIAL LOOKS TO THE FUTURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mohammed Ismael, generally regarded as a top-ranking member of the Fadhila Party, told PolOff in an October 18 meeting that the Fadhila Party is ready to run its own list in the December 2005 elections, but is also considering forming coalitions with various parties. Fadhila is o [...] | 2005-10-20 12:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
05BAGHDAD4330 | REFERENDUM-RELATED COMPLAINTS NUMBER LESS THAN 100 [...] (C) UN/EAD legal advisor Jose Aranaz, told Poloff October 19 that the IECI has received approximately 80 complaints about the referendum process, 40 of which are associated with events on referendum day, October 15. The remaining 40 complaints are related to the voter registration period and [...] | 2005-10-20 12:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4332 | UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE EDELMAN MEETS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman and LTG Victor Renuart, Director of Strategic Plans and Policy, called on Iraqi Minister of Interior Bayan Jabr at his office on October 18, 2005. Jabr was accompanied by GEN Babiker Shwakt, commander of the Iraqi Joint Forces [...] | 2005-10-20 13:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS PTER IZ |
05BAGHDAD4335 | IRAQ FUEL PRICES - A SNAPSHOT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Black market prices are far outstripping the modest GOI efforts at price reform. "Unofficial" price rises for gasoline begun in September (Ref B) have spread to Basrah, Kirkuk and Mosul. END SUMMARY. ------------------- BLACK-MARKET PRICES ------------------- 2. (SBU) [...] | 2005-10-20 14:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ECON EFIN KCOR PGOV IZ |
05BAGHDAD4336 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, CONSTITUTION, [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-20 17:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4337 | DAILY IRAQI WEBSITE MONITORING - October 20, 2005 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-20 17:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4338 | SADDAM TRIAL BEGINS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The first trial of Saddam Hussein began yesterday before the Higher Criminal Court of Iraq. Despite some technical issues, the trial was broadcast with a thirty-minute delay, with the Chief Judge, three of four prosecutors, and all but one defense attorney agreeing to have their [...] | 2005-10-20 18:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4339 | MIXED LOCAL REACTIONS TO AMRE MUSA VISIT [...] (C) Summary. On October 20, Arab League Secretary General Amre Musa discussed with GOI officials the possibility of hosting a national dialogue conference in Baghdad, prior to the national elections. Jafari staff reaction to the visit, and that of other Shia contacts, has been measured. Sunn [...] | 2005-10-21 03:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EG IZ |
05BAGHDAD4341 | SADDAM TRIAL DEFENSE COUNSEL KILLED [...] (S) SUMMARY: Sa'adoun Sughaiyer al-Janabi, defense counsel for Awad Al-Bandar (Black Lister Number 84) was found dead at Firdos Mosque in the Ur section of Baghdad on 20 October 2005 after his abduction the evening before. According to preliminary reports from his son and wife, there were sign [...] | 2005-10-21 14:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4342 | IECI-SUNNI ARAB OUTREACH MEETINGS A SUCCESS [...] (U) PolOffs organized trips during September and October to bring IECI commissioners to meetings in Ramadi, Fallujah, Tikrit, Kirkuk, and Mosul with local officials and notables. Typically, one or two IECI commissioners met at each location with provincial council representatives, mayors, po [...] | 2005-10-21 14:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINS PNAT PHUM PTER IZ |
05BAGHDAD4343 | AT LATE HOUR, UNITED SHIA LIST STILL IN FLUX [...] (C) SUMMARY: Shia Islamists from the United Iraqi Alliance have still not settled on an electoral alliance as the clock ticks down on the coalition registration deadline. The last-minute IECI decision to extend that deadline to 28 October will provide more room for the Shia to narrow differen [...] | 2005-10-21 14:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4344 | AMRE MUSA AND IRAQIS THINKING OF NOVEMBER MEETING [...] (C) Summary: Arab League Secretary General Amre Musa told Charge October 21 evening that he hopes to hold an initial conference in Cairo in mid-November for Iraqi political factions aimed at facilitating national reconciliation. This initial meeting should lead to a larger meeting in Baghd [...] | 2005-10-21 17:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PINS PREL |
05BAGHDAD4345 | IRAQ'S FUEL SITUATION WORSENS UNDER IMPACT OF [...] (S) Summary: National power blackouts and repeated interdictions of crude oil and product supply lines to and from major refineries have reduced Iraq's domestic fuel production, and increased its reliance on imported fuel. Stores of gasoline are low (critically in the north) and dropping, as [...] | 2005-10-21 18:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ECON ENRG EFIN ETRD EPET MOPS MARR PGOV PREL TU IZ |
05BAGHDAD4347 | UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE EDELMAN MEETS WITH PM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (USDP) Eric Edelman and LTG Victor Renuart, Director of Strategic Plans and Policy, met with Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari at his office on October 18. They discussed the ongoing development of the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF). Jaafari s [...] | 2005-10-22 03:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS ECON EFIN PTER KCOR IZ |
05BAGHDAD4356 | NATIONAL ENERGY COUNCIL REVIEWS ENERGY CRISIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The National Energy Council October 20 reviewed the increasing attacks against energy infrastructure and tactics used in response resulting in Iraq,s current energy shortages. An increase in the effectiveness of attacks in the north has cut off the electricity flow to Baghdad and [...] | 2005-10-23 08:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ENRG EPET EFIN ECON MOPS PGOV PREL TU IZ |
05BAGHDAD4367 | DAILY IRAQI WEBSITE MONITORING - October 23, 2005 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-23 16:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4368 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, CONSTITUTION, [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-23 17:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4369 | PERELLI REAFFIRMS AUDITS WILL NOT AFFECT [...] (C) SUMMARY: UN EAD chief Carina Perelli and advisor David Avery told the Charge October 23 that the audit team conducting ballot counts in Erbil had discovered indications of fraud, but none that would impact the outcome of the vote (ref a). Perelli said that audit teams in Basrah and Babil [...] | 2005-10-23 18:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT IZ |
05BAGHDAD4371 | IRAQ MEDIA SILENT ON AFGHAN CREMATIONS [...] Iraqi media monitored by the coalition forces, FBIS, and U.S. Embassy offices in Iraq devoted practically zero coverage to the reported burning of two Taliban fighters' bodies by U.S. troops in Afghanistan. 2. Iraqi media, instead, are closely following expected results of the recent cons [...] | 2005-10-24 08:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC PREL MOPS KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4376 | ALLAWI AIMING FOR SIZE OVER SUBSTANCE IN [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: With coalition negotiations entering their final four days, former Prime Minister Allawi appears to have opted for size over substance in forming his slate. He has pulled together a moderate -- but not clearly liberal -- coalition including Ghazi al-Yawar's party, the [...] | 2005-10-24 12:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4378 | CHALABI PLAN FOR ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary. One of Ahmad Chalabi's senior advisors indicated to PolOffs willingness to form an alliance with Ayad Allawi to form one liberal, moderate, centrist coalition. If an agreement cannot be reached before the coalition registration deadline -- and we doubt an agreement would be possi [...] | 2005-10-24 12:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PNAT KCOR IZ |
05BAGHDAD4379 | MOI IG CLAIMS HIGH LEVEL RESISTENCE TO IG EFFORTS; [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ministry of Interior (MoI) Inspector General (IG) Nori Al-Nori told PolOff on October 18 that there is some improvement in the human rights situation within MoI, but there is resistance at the highest levels to IG efforts in fighting abuse and corruption. Steps have been taken to [...] | 2005-10-24 13:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR IZ |
05BAGHDAD4380 | PRESIDENT TALABANI'S CHIEF OF STAFF COMMENTS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Kurds appear fairly confident about their chances in the December election, and have begun working on their joint list of candidates, according to Kamiran Karadaghi, President Talabani's chief of staff, on October 23. The two Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) administratio [...] | 2005-10-24 13:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT PHUM IZ KRG |
05BAGHDAD4384 | AVIAN FLU OUTBREAK DOES NOT POSE SIGNIFICANT [...] SUMMARY: The H9N2 strain of avian flu virus detected in the northern governorates does not pose a significant health risk to humans. The GOI is responding and developing response and prevention plans. An Embassy task force is following the situation and assisting the GOI as necessary and ap [...] | 2005-10-25 08:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON ETRD KSCA TBIO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4386 | IRAQI CONTRIBUTION TO PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE RELIEF [...] (SBU) The Iraqi Ministry of Defense has offered to send an Iraqi Army engineering company of approximately 140 men to Pakistan to assist in earthquake relief (reftel). A letter was passed to the Iraqi MFA for formal transmission to the government of Pakistan, that must then decide whether or [...] | 2005-10-25 11:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PHUM PREL MOPS PK IZ |
05BAGHDAD4390 | OFFICIAL RESULT SHOWS THE CONSTITUTION PASSES - [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) announced final referendum results and passage of the constitution October 25, publicly certifying the results shortly thereafter. In what appeared a conciliatory gesture to Sunni Arabs, Deputy Speaker Shahristani said that thos [...] | 2005-10-25 15:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT IZ |
05BAGHDAD4391 | DAILY IRAQI WEBSITE MONITORING - October 25, 2005 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-25 17:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4392 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, CONSTITUTION, [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-26 03:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4400 | INSPECTORS GENERAL HOLD EMERGENCY MEETING IN [...] (C) Summary. In reaction to the reported removal of Inspectors General (IG) from five ministries and the Council of Ministers, an emergency meeting of all the IGs and representatives from the TNA Committee on Integrity was held on October 23. The discussions focused on the integrity and ind [...] | 2005-10-26 12:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KCOR KCRM PGOV PHUM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4402 | POST REQUESTS GUIDANCE ON SABAWI EXTRADITION [...] (S) In Ref A, the Department requested that Post "contact appropriate ITG officials to urge them to request Sabawi's extradition from Yemen to execute their arrest warrant and to refer his case to the CCCI for appropriate judicial action". 2. (S) However, in Ref B, Embassy Sanaa notes tha [...] | 2005-10-26 15:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ KJUS PREL PTER YM |
05BAGHDAD4403 | IRAQI MOJ REQUESTS VISIT FROM TURKISH JUDGE [...] (C) Post and Coalition Forces continue to work with Iraqi authorities to expedite the extradition to Turkey of Sadettin Akdas and Burhan Kus. The ITG is itself unclear as to the correct procedures for the processing of extradition requests, and much effort has been expended on both sides in [...] | 2005-10-26 15:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PGOV PREL PTER IZ TU |
05BAGHDAD4407 | IMF DISCUSSIONS WITH IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY: GOI and IMF discussions in Amman on October 20-22 for a Standby Agreement (SBA) were successful. Although there are few quantitative targets, significant areas for reform have been set out. They include an emphasis on budgetary discipline; modest but required increases in fuel p [...] | 2005-10-26 18:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL MCAP IZ IMF |
05BAGHDAD4409 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, CONSTITUTION, [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-26 18:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4411 | AL-BAGHDADIYA TV: IS THE FORMER IRAQI REGIME [...] (U) This is a joint message with Embassy Amman and Embassy Cairo. 2. (U) Summary. There are reports in Baghdad and Cairo that members of Saddam's family, or at least unreformed Saddam-era Ba'athists, may be using new satellite channel al- Baghdadiya as a Trojan Horse to re-enter Iraqi p [...] | 2005-10-27 03:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC PREL KPAO EG IZ |
05BAGHDAD4425 | (C) KURDISH TNA MEMBER'S MOSQUE SPEECHES SILENCED [...] Summary. According to TNA member Ahmed Wahab Majeed, the Kurdish Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs informed him that he could no longer be an imam in his mosque in Irbil. The Ministry's decision is purportedly based on Article 28(A) that states that TNA members "may not be appointed t [...] | 2005-10-27 11:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4426 | SUNNI ARABS HEAD INTO ELECTIONS DIVIDED AND [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: With only two days left before the registration deadline, there is no united Sunni Arab coalition in the offing for the December elections. Sunni Arab leaders, fractured since Saddam's fall, appear just as divided heading into the coming vote. There is no preeminent [...] | 2005-10-27 15:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4427 | SHIA ISLAMIST COALITION APPEARS SEALED AS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Shia leaders have reportedly formed a grand coalition but remained holed up in negotiations on the evening before the October 28 election registration deadline. The Sadrist trend has reportedly significantly expanded its clout in the coalition, as has the Badr Organization. Ther [...] | 2005-10-27 15:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4428 | BAGHDAD PROVINCIAL COUNCIL CHAIRMAN CHANGES [...] (C) Mazin Makia, Chairman of the Baghdad Provincial Council (BPC) has left the Da'wa Party and joined the National Democratic Alliance Party (NDAP). Makia has been the BPC Chairman since the formation of the council and also serves as Provincial Reconstruction and Development Committee (PRDC) [...] | 2005-10-27 15:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
05BAGHDAD4429 | KADHIMYAH WOMEN'S PRISON: CONDITIONS ADEQUATE, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 19, Poloffs visited Kadhimiyah Women's Facility located in Baghdad. According to Director Faisi Mehda, this prison is the only women's facility in Iraq. During the visit, Poloffs discovered a fairly well appointed building that seemed to provide a clean and safe atmosp [...] | 2005-10-27 15:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR IZ |
05BAGHDAD4432 | IRAQI ELECTIONS: CANDIDATE LIST DEADLINE LOOMS; [...] (C) SUMMARY. One day before the Candidate List deadline, the IECI had only received 40 - 50 political entity candidate lists containing a little over 600 potential candidates. Although this amalgamation of names is enough to conduct the December 15 elections in 15 of the 18 governorates, the [...] | 2005-10-27 17:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4433 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, CONSTITUTION, [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-27 18:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4434 | WORKING DINNER WITH BAGHDAD MAYOR AND [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 26, 2005, IRMO Director Ambassador Daniel Speckhard, MG Robert Heine, BG O'Neill, Ferris Nesheiwat, LTC William Duddleston met with the Mayor of Baghdad, Saber Al-Esawi, and accompanying delegation, Amer Al-Saadi, Deputy Mayor for Managerial Affairs; Mohammad Amanuel, [...] | 2005-10-27 19:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ELAB IZ |
05BAGHDAD4435 | TOP SHIA ISLAMIST LEADER SAYS UNIFIED ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: Senior SCIRI party leader Abdel Mehdi told Charge midday October 28 that the unified Shia Islamist party list for the December elections is nearly ready. The coalition's leaders are rushing to finish the bottom halves of the provincial election slates, and Abdel Mehdi anticipa [...] | 2005-10-28 12:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4436 | UNAMI SUPPORTS OCTOBER 28 DEADLINE [...] (C) In an October 28 meeting with the Charge, SRSG Qazi and IECI international adviser Craig Jenness said they would press the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) to maintain the October 28 deadline for coalition registration and candidate lists. Qazi and Jenness agreed that the O [...] | 2005-10-28 16:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PNAT KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4437 | UNAMI REAFFIRMS OCTOBER 28 DEADLINE [...] (C) In an October 28 meeting with the Charge, SRSG Qazi and IECI international adviser Craig Jenness said they would press the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) to maintain the October 28 deadline for coalition registration and candidate lists. Qazi and Jenness agreed that the O [...] | 2005-10-28 18:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PNAT KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4438 | CANDIDATE LISTS ANOTHER VICTORY FOR IDENTITY [...] (C) Summary: As the October 28 deadline closes for political parties to register electoral alliances and candidate lists, the shape of the December 15 national election is clear. A broad Shia Islamist unity list, a Kurdish unity list and a Sunni Arab unity list will head the political grou [...] | 2005-10-28 18:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS IZ |
05BAGHDAD4439 | IRAQI PARTY LEADER OFFERS PROGRAM SUPPORT TO [...] (SBU) Summary. On October 22, PA Counselor and PA Section staff met with Mithal Al-Alusi, Secretary General of a liberal Sunni party, to discuss cooperation in the area of public outreach, specifically the establishment of a joint mechanism to promote Iraqi-American cultural linkages and to [...] | 2005-10-29 05:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPRC OEXC PGOV KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4444 | DANISH EXHIBIT COMPANY PRESSES ON WITH [...] Summary. Denmark-based United Exhibits Group (UEG) is in Baghdad to secure an addendum to its exclusive July 2004 agreement with the Iraqi government to exhibit Iraq's "Nimrud Gold" collection internationally for five years. The initial agreement called for that tour to begin by October 20 [...] | 2005-10-29 15:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SCUL MOPS KPAO ECON PGOV PREL DA IZ |
05BAGHDAD4445 | JAAFARI ON TRIP TO JORDAN AND ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) PM Jaafari briefed Charge October 29 on his just-concluded visit to Jordan and reflected on the previous week's visit by Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa. Jaafari said he was "completely satisfied" with the visit to Amman. King Abdullah, the Jordanian PM and other officials - he [...] | 2005-10-29 18:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4446 | PRT ROLLOUT IN KIRKUK: LOCAL LEADERS FOCUS ON [...] (C) Embassy and MNF-I personnel unveiled the concept of the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) on October 24 to the Kirkuk Governor, Provincial Council Chairman and members of the Provincial Reconstruction and Development Committee (PRDC). Although thankful for the support, Kirkuk leaders f [...] | 2005-10-30 13:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4447 | IMF DISCUSSIONS WITH IRAQ: CHALABI [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging discussion with CDA Satterfield, DPM Chalabi emphasized the need for a less alienating security posture vis--vis the minority Sunni population, including the use of lower tier former Baathist officers to lead operations in sensitive areas. On security of infras [...] | 2005-10-30 14:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL MCAP IZ IMF |
05BAGHDAD4448 | IRMO DIRECTOR'S MEETINGS WITH [...] Summary. During the period of October 16-25, IRMO Director Daniel Speckhard met separately with Ambassadors from the Republic of Korea, Japan, United Kingdom, Italy, Poland, and Australia. The IRMO Director briefed the ambassadors on three initiatives: U.S. plans to establish the first th [...] | 2005-10-30 15:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PNAT PREL IZ |
05BAGHDAD4449 | IRAQI ENERGY COUNCIL IN DISARRAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The National Energy Council (NEC) assessed the energy infrastructure siege of Baghdad October 27. Attacks against infrastructure in the North have cut off the oil flow to Baghdad and Turkey, reducing fuel supplies in parts of Iraq to critically low levels. Deputy Prime Minister C [...] | 2005-10-30 15:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | ENRG EPET EFIN ECON MASS MOPS PGOV PREL IZ TU |
05BAGHDAD4450 | WELFARE AND WHEREABOUTS VISIT TO AMCIT DETAINEE [...] (SBU) In coordination with the Consular Section and CA/OCS, Pol-MilOff met on October 27th with detained American citizen Shawki Omar (aka "al- Ameriki") at the Baghdad Central Correctional Facility at Abu Ghraib. Mr. Omar, who had requested the visit, was in good health. Pol-MilOff passed a [...] | 2005-10-30 16:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC PTER PHUM MOPS IZ |
05BAGHDAD4451 | DAILY IRAQI WEBSITE MONITORING - October 30, 2005 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-30 16:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4452 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, CONSTITUTION, [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-31 03:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4453 | SOMO ARREARS -- CHECK REALLY IN THE MAIL [...] (SBU) Ministry of Oil Director General for Finance Radwan al-Sa'adi updated Emboffs October 30 on the status of Iraq's payment of some $900 billion in arrears to Turkish fuel exporters. According to Radwan, the Ministries of Finance and Planning have both signed off on the release of $500 mi [...] | 2005-10-31 06:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET PGOV PREL TU IZ |
05BAGHDAD4464 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, CONSTITUTION, [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-31 18:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4465 | SHAHRISTANI AND ZEBARI ON ARAB LEAGUE ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) In an October 30 meeting with the Charge, First Deputy TNA Speaker Husayn al-Shahristani reflected on Amre Moussa's recent visit to Iraq. Shahristani indicated that both ITG officials in Baghdad and Ayatollah Sistani in Najaf pressed the SYG to establish Arab League representation in Iraq [...] | 2005-10-31 19:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EG IZ |
05BAGHDAD4466 | IRAQI FUEL PRICES RISES -- FACT AND FICTION [...] (C) Summary: Attention by the IMF to fuel price increases as one of several criteria for the Standby Arrangement with the IMF suggests that an explanation of the real fuel price situation might be useful. First, the Council of Ministers (CoM) decision of October 6 raising fuel prices effectiv [...] | 2005-10-31 19:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET EFIN PGOV PREL IZ |
05BAGHDAD45 | BAGHDAD PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR'S ASSASSINATION SHAKES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Baghdad Provincial Governor Ali Radhi al- Haidary was assassinated on January 4, in the eighth attempt on his life since he assumed office in June, 2004. Assailants in three vehicles attacked the Governor's motorcade after he left his office in Baghdad's Mansour District. He was [...] | 2005-01-04 19:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINS PREL PGOV KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4503 | DAILY IRAQI WEBSITE MONITORING - November 2, 2005 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-02 18:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4506 | ACTIONS TO ASSURE CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE INTEGRITY [...] (C/REL MCNI/IRAQ) SUMMARY: Failures of Iraq's critical energy infrastructure have reached unprecedented levels which are seriously hindering the Iraqi Transitional Government's (ITG) ability to raise desperately needed revenues and to deliver basic services such as electricity, fuel, and wate [...] | 2005-11-03 03:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC ECON ENRG EPET ETRD EWWT KCOR KCRM KHLS MCAP MOPS PGOV PINR PTER NATO |
05BAGHDAD4511 | TALABANI VIEWS ON SITUATION IN SYRIA [...] (C) On October 31 (other topics septels),President Jalal Talabani commented to Charge that the SARG had been sending emissaries to make its case to foreign governments since the issuance of the Mehlis report. (Note: Indeed, on several occasions prior to the report, Talabani has noted to us " [...] | 2005-11-03 15:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY LE IZ |
05BAGHDAD4512 | FADILA PARTY MAKES ABORTIVE ATTEMPT TO RUN ON ITS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Fadila Party approached the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) November 2 in an effort to break with the Shia Islamist United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) coalition. After the Commissioners declined the request, a Fadila Party spokesman announced that his party would rem [...] | 2005-11-03 18:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4514 | SUNNI ARAB PARTIES RUNNING COMPETING SLATES FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The recently-released IECI list of coalitions and political entities set to run in the December elections reveals a fractured field of Sunni Arab politicians who have chosen to compete with one another rather than run together. Power struggles rather than policy diffe [...] | 2005-11-04 18:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4516 | BASRAH REGIONAL MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-06 09:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4774 | TOWNS NEAR SYRIAN BORDER RETURNING TO NORMALCY [...] (C) Summary. This is a SET Ramadi Cable. Site visits to two, separate portions of the Western Euphrates River valley revealed -- post-combat operations -- a generally positive climate for the December 15 elections. There are no immediate humanitarian crises and military planners hope to expa [...] | 2005-11-29 14:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREF EAID ECON EIND MOPS IZ |
05BAGHDAD4775 | UNSRSG QAZI ON ARAB LEAGUE CAIRO PREPCON [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 8. 2. (C) SUMMARY. On November 25, Ambassador met with UN Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Ashraf Qazi and Deputy SRSG Michael von der Schulenberg to discuss follow-on actions for the Arab League Conference on the Iraqi [...] | 2005-11-29 16:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ UN |
05BAGHDAD4776 | PRESIDENT TALABANI ON ELECTIONS, CITIZENSHIP LAW [...] (C) In a November 27 meeting, President Talabani outlined to the Ambassador his predictions for the December election results: 90-110 seats for the Shia list; 50-60 seats for the Kurds; 45-50 seats for the Sunni Arabs; 25-35 seats for former PM Ayad Allawi's coalition; and 5-10 for Deputy PM C [...] | 2005-11-29 16:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT PHUM CPAS IZ |
05BAGHDAD4777 | PRIME MINISTER JAFARI TO VISIT SAUDI ARABIA [...] (C) Prime Minister Jafari told the Ambassador that he has been invited to visit Saudi Arabia. He departs November 29. He plans to meet the Saudi king during his visit. 2. (C) The PM may raise the following issues: -- Increasing the number of hajj slots for Iraqis; -- Sending a Saudi Am [...] | 2005-11-29 16:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ SA |
05BAGHDAD4778 | ALLAWI'S CAMPAIGN TEAM REPORTS INTIMIDATION [...] (C) Summary: Allawi's National Iraqi List coalition has been subject to intimidation and harassment in Sadr city and the south, including the deaths of six Iraqis in clashes and attacks, according to TNA member and Allawi campaign manager Adnan al-Janabi. In a meeting with Polcouns November 2 [...] | 2005-11-29 17:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4779 | INTERNATIONAL LAWYERS APPLY TO REPRESENT SADAAM [...] (S) SUMMARY: Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Issam al-Ghazzawi (Jordan),and Dr. Najeeb Al- Noaimi (Qatar) are seeking to join the defense team of Saddam Hussein in the Ad Dujayl trial now in front of the Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT). The principal Iraqi attorney for Saddam Hussein, K [...] | 2005-11-29 17:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4780 | DAILY IRAQI WEBSITE MONITORING - November 29, 2005 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-29 17:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4781 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 15th [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-29 19:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4782 | IRAQ MEDIA SUMMARY NOVEMBER 19-26, CAIRO [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. This week the Iraqi press zeroed in on the Cairo Conference and spinoff topics. The Cairo Conference in fact prompted Iraq's first real public debate about resistance and terrorism, the coalition presence, and de- Ba'athification. Cairo seems also to have stimu [...] | 2005-11-29 20:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPRC PGOV IZ |
05BAGHDAD4786 | CENTRAL BANK OF IRAQ FUNDS IN LEBANESE BANKS [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 9. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) has reported that despite progress toward the repatriation of CBI funds deposited in banks in Lebanon, the balance of such funds held by banks there is USD 197,858,652.82. The CBI is in commu [...] | 2005-11-30 14:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PREL PGOV LE IZ |
05BAGHDAD4788 | ANBAR SECURITY CONFERENCE DRAWS STRONG SUNNI [...] (C) Summary and Comment. During an unprecedented gathering on November 29th, leaders from Ramadi and elsewhere in Anbar province agreed to build Iraqi capacity to take over security in Anbar's cities. Nearly all of the assembled leaders encouraged Anbaris to join the ISF, but there were div [...] | 2005-11-30 16:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINS KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4789 | DAILY IRAQI WEBSITE MONITORING - November 30, 2005 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-30 17:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4790 | FORMER EXILE SAYS REAL TEST TO COME WITH POST- [...] (C) Summary: Former Iraqi exile Saad Saleh Jabr predicted that the Sunni victors in the upcoming elections would ally with Iyad Allawi, providing the Kurds with a king-making position of supporting either Allawi or Adel Abdel Mahdi. He complained about Iranian "control" of key Iraqi faction [...] | 2005-11-30 18:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT PHUM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4791 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 15th [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-30 19:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4796 | IECI WILL NOT EXCLUDE CANDIDATES LISTED BY [...] (C) Prior to departing for OCV oversight trips on November 24, Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) Commissioner Farid Ayar told PolOff on multiple occasions that the IECI Commissioners had agreed not to exclude the names of any candidates on a letter previously submitted to the IEC [...] | 2005-12-01 11:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PNAT PGOV PTER KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4798 | COPING WITH LIFE AND SHORTAGES IN IRAQ [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Iraq's current economic conditions are adverse for many. While emigration, whether permanent or temporary, is available to a relatively small number, ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE INDICATES those who leave are often among Iraq's best and brightest. Average families have developed a compl [...] | 2005-12-01 11:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ELAB ENRG EPET SMIG SOCI PGOV IZ |
05BAGHDAD4800 | UPDATED STATUS OF IRAQ DETAINEE ABUSE [...] (S/NF) Three committees investigating human rights abuses committed against 168 detainees at the Iraqi Ministry Interior (MOI) Bunker facility and others at similar facilities nationwide are making uneven progress. The mandate of some committees has been overwhelmed by the political agenda of [...] | 2005-12-01 13:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | MOPS PHUM PINS PGOV KJUS IZ |
05BAGHDAD4804 | PUSHING BACK ON DE-BA'ATHIFICATION COMMISSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The de-Ba'athification Commission (DBC) continues to submit names of election candidates for potential disqualification to the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI). The list comprises 117 names. However, Deputy Prime Minister Chalabi agreed with the Ambassador Novembe [...] | 2005-12-01 17:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PNAT PGOV PTER KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4805 | DAILY IRAQI WEBSITE MONITORING - December 1, 2005 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-01 17:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4806 | NATIONAL DIALOGUE COUNCIL MEMBER ON ELECTIONS, [...] (C) SUMMARY. National Dialogue Council member Mahmoud Mashadani told the Ambassador November 29 that Iraqi Security Forces are preventing campaigning and that terrorists are targeting Tawafoq (consensus) leaders. He called for a national unity government after the election. He also said his [...] | 2005-12-01 17:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ SA |
05BAGHDAD4807 | FALLUJAH MUFTI, A COALITION ALLY, KILLED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sheikh Hamza Abass Muhna al-Esawe, Fallujah's universally respected mufti and senior imam, was killed November 29, 2005. He had functioned as an effective coalition ally since Operation Al Fajr. Initial reports from local Iraqi police indicate masked gunmen shot Hamza as he lef [...] | 2005-12-01 19:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KDEM IZ XL |
05BAGHDAD4808 | PRESIDENT TALABANI'S CHIEF OF STAFF COMMENTS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kamiran Karadaghi, President Talabani's Chief of Staff, told PolOff on November 29 that the Shia List was increasingly concerned about its prospects in the December elections, and predicted that former Prime Minister Allawi would fare even worse than he did in the elections last [...] | 2005-12-01 19:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM TU IZ |
05BAGHDAD4809 | BAGHDAD'S 9 NISSAN COUNCIL CRITICAL OF PAST [...] (C) SUMMARY. Members of Baghdad's 9 Nissan District Advisory Council (DAC) are optimistic about upcoming elections. All but one of 30 members indicated they would vote during the elections. Most opinions were similar to council members in other districts (reftel). However, in 9 Nissan only [...] | 2005-12-01 19:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4810 | TNA VOTE ON PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS LAW UNCERTAIN [...] (U) A final TNA vote on the provincial elections law was scheduled December 1, but the Assembly took no action due to a lack of quorum. The provincial elections law was amended from the one presented at the second reading November 28; it sets the date for local, municipal, and provincial elec [...] | 2005-12-01 19:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4811 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 15th [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-01 20:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4812 | CHRISTIAN LIST BEGINS ACTIVE CAMPAIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloffs met December 1 with Amjed Abdulahad, a member of the Christian list, "Al-Nahrain Watani," to discuss progress on the campaign and the political environment in the weeks prior to the December 15 election. Abdulahad said he hopes the election will result in an increase of [...] | 2005-12-01 20:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4826 | TEXT FOR MG DARWISH FROM AMB KHALILZAD [...] (C) This is an action request. Please see para 3. 2. (C) During a November 23 visit to Abu Dhabi, Ambassador Khalilzad discussed the desirability of engaging Iraqi cleric Dr. Ahmad 'Ubad Abdallah Al Kubaysi in support of the political process in Iraq (reftel). Major General Atiqu Juma Ali [...] | 2005-12-02 13:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER AEMR IZ |
05BAGHDAD4830 | SUNNI OUTREACH: IECI COMMISSIONER VISITS RAMADI [...] (C) Summary: IECI Commissioner and Chief Electoral Officer Adel al-Ami visited Ramadi December 1 to discuss preparations for the upcoming elections. In a joint meeting with coalition forces (CF),the governor, local leaders, and representatives from IFES and the NGO Iraqi Institute for Peac [...] | 2005-12-03 14:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PNAT PGOV PTER KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4836 | PM JA'AFARI PLANS MAJOR SHAKEUP OF IRAQI MILITARY [...] (S//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: Iraqi Prime Minister Ja'afari is preparing to sign decrees which will lead to a major reorganization of the Ministry of Defense (MOD) and the Iraqi Joint and Army Land Forces Headquarters. The new leadership personnel he plans to bring in are all Shia. MNF-I Command [...] | 2005-12-04 12:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV MOPS IZ |
05BAGHDAD4838 | RAMADI'S AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT BANK: SADDAM'S [...] (C) Summary. Managers of the Ramadi branch of the Agricultural Bank admitted they issued few loans and were bureaucratically constrained by parent institution Ministry of Finance from more creative means of increasing their financing. Nonetheless, employees bustled about doling out slips of [...] | 2005-12-04 15:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV IZ |
05BAGHDAD4841 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 15th [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-04 18:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4842 | CHALABI ALLY: THERE IS NO RESISTANCE, ONLY [...] (C) In a December 3 meeting with Poloffs, INC candidate Mariam al-Rais argued in favor of her party's platform and party leader Ahmed Chalabi's qualifications to lead the next government. Al-Rais faulted Jordan, Syria and Saudi Arabia for contributing to Iraq's instability. In a clear allusio [...] | 2005-12-04 21:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ SA |
05BAGHDAD4843 | SHIA INDEPENDENT ALI AL-DABAGH ON ELECTIONS, SHIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Poloffs met December 1 with TNA member Ali al-Dabagh, a politician who left the United Iraqi Alliance to form his own party, while maintaining his ties to Ayatollah Sistani. Al-Dabagh accused the Shia Alliance of candidate intimidation as well as inappropriate efforts to convey t [...] | 2005-12-04 22:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KISL KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4846 | LEADING SUNNI ARAB SLATE REP ON ELECTIONS, U.S. [...] (C) Summary: A leading Sunni Arab coalition representative recounted the Sunni Arab sense of grievance and estrangement from the political transition process, and asserted the solution to the security problem is a "balanced" government (read: more Sunni officials) and "professional" securit [...] | 2005-12-05 08:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KISL MOPS IZ |
05BAGHDAD4847 | LEADING SUNNI ARAB SLATE REP ON ELECTIONS, U.S. [...] (C) Summary: A leading Sunni Arab coalition representative recounted the Sunni Arab sense of grievance and estrangement from the political transition process, and asserted the solution to the security problem is a "balanced" government (read: more Sunni officials) and "professional" securit [...] | 2005-12-05 08:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KISL MOPS IZ |
05BAGHDAD4849 | IRAQI MEDIA DEVELOPMENTS IN NOVEMBER: [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. Iraq's media sector remains extremely active, reflecting the unsettled political situation as different parties and candidates clamor to project their voices to a skeptical but highly politicized public. November saw a new effort at independent broadcasting for [...] | 2005-12-05 12:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPRC PGOV IZ |
05BAGHDAD4851 | NATIONAL ENERGY COUNCIL ACTS TO ENSURE ADEQUATE [...] (C) Summary: The National Energy Council decided December 1 to stockpile almost 4 million gallons of gasoline and 2.6 million gallons of diesel in Baghdad to ensure adequate supplies in the capitol during the elections. Exports from the north will be kept minimal in the coming weeks so that [...] | 2005-12-05 13:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET MOPS MARR PGOV IZ |
05BAGHDAD4853 | ADNAN DULAIMI ON WAYS TO END THE INSURGENCY [...] (C/REL UK) SUMMARY. Adnan Dulaimi, in a meeting with UK Ambassador Patey and Poloff, proposed three measures to decrease insurgency violence against the Coalition. He called for an immediate halt to Coalition military operations in Anbar, a large-scale release of prisoners before the electio [...] | 2005-12-05 15:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT PTER PHUM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4855 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 15th [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-05 19:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4856 | DAILY IRAQI WEBSITE MONITORING - December 5, 2005 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-05 19:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4857 | ELECTORAL COMMISSIONERS TALK DE-BA'ATH [...] (C) Summary. A total of 181 candidate names have been included by the De-Ba'athification Commission in lists sent to the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI). So far, 24 of these candidates have been withdrawn from the lists either by themselves or their parties. IECI Commissioner [...] | 2005-12-05 19:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PNAT PGOV PTER KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4865 | FRENCH DCM PESSIMISTIC ABOUT IRAQ PROSPECTS [...] (C) SUMMARY Only the Iraqis will be able to solve their problems, and the US should stay out of it said French DCM Franck Gellet in a December 4 meeting with Poloff. The insurgency will continue for some time even with concessions to the Sunni Arabs, key among them, according to Gellet, a de [...] | 2005-12-06 12:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER FR IZ |
05BAGHDAD4868 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 15th [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-06 18:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4869 | MAYSAN POLITICAL LEADER DISCUSSES SHIA ELECTORAL [...] (C) Summary: A prominent tribal leader from Maysan, who won a TNA seat on the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) list in January and has decided to join Ali al-Dabbagh's party as a candidate in this month's election, told poloff December 5 that there are no policy differences between the UIA and Da [...] | 2005-12-06 19:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4870 | IECI POSTS COMPLETE CANDIDATE LISTS WITHOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The IECI posted complete candidate lists the evening of December 6 after Commissioners reportedly failed to reach consensus on whether to strike any of the names identified by the de-Ba'athification Commission (DBC). According to International Commissioner Jenness, no names have b [...] | 2005-12-06 21:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4885 | SUFI POLITICAL PARTY PESSIMISTIC ON ELECTIONS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Party officials from the slate representing Iraq's Sufi Muslims complained about intimidation in the election campaign, interference by neighboring states, and the sectarian and extremist character of Iraqi politics during a December 3 meeting with poloffs. Anticipating they wil [...] | 2005-12-07 19:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4890 | DE-BA'ATHIFICATION PROCESS MECHANICS [...] (U) Summary. The recent discussion over the role of the National De-Ba'athification Commission (NDC) in the candidate vetting process has underscored the need for greater clarity as to the mechanics of how the NDC operates. This message is based on poloff's December 6 discussion with NDC Gene [...] | 2005-12-08 07:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KJUS IZ |
05BAGHDAD4891 | SCIRI LEADER WARNS OF ELECTION FRAUD, BENDS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over dinner with the Ambassador on November 29, SCIRI leader Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim and Interior Minister Bayan Jabr alleged the U.S. excludes Iraqi security forces from operations against insurgents and also warned of election fraud. Hakim's aides noted that the constitutional req [...] | 2005-12-08 08:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS KISL KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4892 | KURDISTAN ISLAMIC UNION OFFICIALS ON ELECTIONS; [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over the course of two meetings with the Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU),a Kurdish splinter group from the Kurdistan Alliance and the main rival to the dominant KDP and PUK parties in Kurdistan, members highlighted their allegedly non-sectarian, democratic and secular political ag [...] | 2005-12-08 08:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
05BAGHDAD4893 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES BUDGET, BANK RESTRUCTURING, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador urged Minister of Finance Allawi on December 1 to ensure the passage of the 2006 budget in order to fulfill the GOI's commitment to the IMF. (NOTE: The Transitional National Assembly (TNA) passed the budget on December 4. END NOTE.) The Ambassador also pressed the Mini [...] | 2005-12-08 08:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PINR PGOV KBCT MOPS |
05BAGHDAD4897 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH WATER [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ambassador and IRMO Director Speckhard met with Minister of Water Resources Dr. Latif Rashid on November 28 to discuss government transition, capacity development, and substantive issues related to Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR). These included transboundary water issues with [...] | 2005-12-08 10:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PNAT PREL IZ |
05BAGHDAD4900 | SHIA INDEPENDENT ALLEGES IECI CORRUPTION [...] (C) TNA member and Shia independent Ali Hashim al- Yusha, who is leading his own party, the Unified National Coalition, in the December elections, alleged IECI corruption in a December 4 conversation with PolOff and PolFSN. Al-Yusha said he had been approached by IECI poll center managers wit [...] | 2005-12-08 11:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4904 | OPIC INQUIRY RE: ERBIL HOUSING PROJECT [...] This cable is in response to questions posed in reftel re: OPIC interest in Erbil Housing Project. ------------------------------------- Scimitar, Bazian, and KRG Background ------------------------------------- 2. Iraqi contacts indicate that Scimitar Global Ventures acts as a broker [...] | 2005-12-08 14:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EINV ETRD KPRV IZ |
05BAGHDAD4906 | ALLAWI CAMPAIGN UPDATE [...] (C) Summary. Former PM Ayad Allawi's Campaign Manager, Renda Rahim Rancke, met with PolOffs on December 7 to provide them with proof of serious campaign violations and copies of the 55 complaints filed with the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI). She encouraged Embassy efforts [...] | 2005-12-08 17:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM PHUM PINR IZ |
05BAGHDAD4907 | SMALLER "ISLAMIC COALITION" WAGES A TOUGH CAMPAIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Several leaders from the "Islamic Coalition," list 549, cast their slate as an embattled competitor of the dominant United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) in a December 4 meeting with Poloffs. The group, made up of breakaways from the Shia coalition led by the Islamic Action Organization, dr [...] | 2005-12-08 17:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4908 | PM DISCUSSES PRISON INSPECTIONS, VISIT TO SAUDI [...] (C//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: On the evening of December 3, Prime Minister Ibrahim Ja'afari hosted a meeting at his residence attended by Charge, MNF-I Commanding General and Deputy Commanding General, UK Ambassador Patey, and DepPolMilCouns. Present with the PM were Chief of Staff Dr. Abdul Azi [...] | 2005-12-08 19:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EFIN ETRD IZ |
05BAGHDAD4910 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 15th [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-08 19:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4911 | REVIEW OF ELECTION CAMPAIGN STATUS WITH U.S. NGO'S [...] (C) Summary: POL and USAID met December 6 with IFES, NDI, and IRI to assess the state of the electoral campaign. There was general agreement that the mechanics of the process are well underway (the exception, for security reasons, being Anbar province; see septel). An exciting development is [...] | 2005-12-08 20:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4912 | WHAT CAMPAIGNING IN IRAQ LOOKS LIKE [...] With so much at stake, campaigning for the December 15 elections is intense. The security situation weighs heavily on the campaign, and leaders of the major coalitions make relatively few public appearances. That said, we sense there are more public campaign events than we saw in the Januar [...] | 2005-12-08 21:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL IZ |
05BAGHDAD4915 | ANBAR ELECTIONS PLANNING PROCEEDS SLOWLY BUT SURELY [...] (C) The IECI, CF, and MOD met December 4 to finalize a conceptual framework and to continue to work out the operational details for holding elections in Anbar province. In comparison to the October referendum, the likely outcome will be a limited increase in polling sites (and some shifts in [...] | 2005-12-09 12:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4916 | PM JA'FARI TELLS CODEL HAGEL WAR ON TERROR IS MORE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Ja'fari told Senator Charles Hagel, Senator Thomas Carper, Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher, and Ambassador in a December 2 meeting that Iraq has accomplished much in 2005, but much work needs to be done. The most pressing problem, Ja'fari warned, is that [...] | 2005-12-09 13:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM PINS PREL PTER IZ |
05BAGHDAD4918 | ANBAR ELECTIONS PLANNING PROCEEDS SLOWLY BUT SURELY [...] (C) The IECI, MNF-I, and MoD met December 4 at IECI Baghdad headquarters to define the operational plan for holding elections in Anbar province; details continue to be worked. The MoD rejected an IECI plan to use tribes to provide security in western Anbar. A Special Police Commando Brigade [...] | 2005-12-09 14:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4919 | TURCOMAN CLAIMS OF KURDISH ATTACK ON IRAQI HOUSING [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Islamic Union of Iraqi Turcomans leader Abbas al-Bayyati on December 5, he confirmed reports that the Iraqi Housing Minister, Jassim Jaafar (an ethnic Turcoman) was ambushed while visiting the Turcoman city of Tuz Khurmato in Salah-ad-Din province in late Novemb [...] | 2005-12-09 14:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ KDP |
05BAGHDAD4920 | MFA RESPONDS TO OIL-FOR-FOOD DEMARCHES [...] (C) Summary: In a December 8 meeting with Econoff, Ambassador Srood R. Najib of the MFA, agreed to USG requests for: 1) declassification of certain Oil-for-Food (OFF) documents for use by the Department of Justice (DOJ),and 2) Iraqi funding of the U.N. OFF Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) [...] | 2005-12-09 14:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | AINF ECON PGOV IZ |
05BAGHDAD4924 | KURDISTAN ISLAMIC UNION LEADER ASKS FOR HELP ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU) leader Salah al-Din Baha al-Din on December 7 following attacks on six KIU offices in Dahuk the previous day. Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) leader Mas'ud Barzani told the Ambassador in a phone call before the meeting that h [...] | 2005-12-10 09:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ KDP |
05BAGHDAD4926 | AMBASSADOR CALLS ON MINISTER OF CULTURE, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador met with ITG Culture Minister Nuri Al-Rawi on November 30. They reviewed the impact of Iraq's security situation on Iraqi cultural heritage sites and the promotion of Iraqi culture generally. Fourteen Iraqi cultural centers are planned worldwide (three in the U.S.) [...] | 2005-12-10 10:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SCUL PGOV KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4928 | VP GHAZI AL-YAWAR PREDICTS ALLAWI WILL BE PM [...] (C) Vice President Shaykh Ghazi al-Yawar told Ambassador on December 8 that only one of two groups will dominate after the December 15 election: the Allawi group (in which Shaykh Ghazi is running) or the "pro-Iranian group" (the Shia Alliance). Many Shia, Ghazi explained, particularly the sec [...] | 2005-12-10 15:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT PREL PTER PHUM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4929 | AVIAN FLU UPDATE: POULTRY CONSUMPTION LAGS [...] SUMMARY: From November 26-30, Embassy Agriculture Attache and Senior Agricultural Advisor visited Kurdish governorates and met with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Minister of Agriculture to follow up on U.S. poultry imports since the lifting of the import ban on poultry (ref A). Ac [...] | 2005-12-10 15:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD IZ USTR |
05BAGHDAD4932 | ELECTION PREPARATIONS APPEAR ON TRACK - SPECIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. With days to go until the December 15 election and despite the absence of several IECI Commissioners on Out-of-Country Voting (OCV) travel, preparations for domestic election preparations are well on track. Special voting for detainee, hospital, and Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) [...] | 2005-12-11 10:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PNAT PGOV PTER KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4935 | RAMADI SECURITY COMMITTEE DEBATES A DIVISION FOR [...] (C) Summary and Comment. In a lively and emotional debate in Ramadi, ex-military officials -- backed by sheikhs and technocrats -- argued forcefully for the creation of an entirely new Iraqi Army Division for Anbar. Rejecting suggestions to enlist and thereby change the character of the Mini [...] | 2005-12-11 13:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINS KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4936 | SECOND AND THIRD DAYS OF AD DUJAYL TRIAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: The second day of the Ad Dujayl trial commenced on November 28, 2005. Despite fears that the defense lawyers would refuse to appear, most attended. The day was devoted largely to procedural issues although the Court did review a short video presentation and read the witness state [...] | 2005-12-11 16:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4938 | SECOND AND THIRD DAYS OF AD DUJAYL TRIAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: The second day of the Ad Dujayl trial commenced on November 28, 2005. Despite fears that the defense lawyers would refuse to appear, most attended. The day was devoted largely to procedural issues although the Court did review a short video presentation and read the witness state [...] | 2005-12-11 17:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4940 | ACTION REQUEST REGARDING KUWAITI AND SAUDI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post asks that the Department request that Embassy Kuwait and Embassy Riyadh consult with GOK and and KSA as a matter of priority as to whether either government is interested in providing assistance to the Kuwaiti and Saudi nationals listed below upon their release from the Ba [...] | 2005-12-12 06:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PHUM PGOV KJUS IZ KU SA |
05BAGHDAD4942 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED REGARDING GOI REQUEST FOR WORLD [...] Embassy transmitted demarche talking points to the Special Assistant to Planning Minister Barham Salih on December 11. In a telecon with the advisor, we were told that Barham Salih remains intensely interested in establishing a permanent World Bank (WB) Office here. He also promised to inco [...] | 2005-12-12 08:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN IZ PREL IBRD |
05BAGHDAD4954 | DAILY IRAQI WEBSITE MONITORING - December 12, 2005 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-12 15:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4955 | IRAQI HUMAN RIGHTS NGOS ON WAY AHEAD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A group of Iraqi non-governmental organizations (NGO) told PolOff and DRL representative on December 7 that capacity-building is the greatest need of most NGOs in Iraq. They said it is especially difficult for independent NGOs to sustain themselves and they often rely on donat [...] | 2005-12-12 15:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KWMN IZ |
05BAGHDAD4956 | SADRISTS READY TO TAKE IRAQ TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 11 meeting, Sadrist TNA member Nasser al Sadi of Sadr City told PolOff the Sadrists favor forming a government that includes the Sunni Arabs and Kurds. He said the Sadrists do not want UIA 555 to govern alone, and the Sadrists do not wish to dominate any particular [...] | 2005-12-12 15:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KISL PGOV PINR PINS IZ |
05BAGHDAD4957 | SUBJECT: SADR CITY YOUTH SPORTS NGO TEACHES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In meeting last month, Sadr City DAC member Mohammad Abdullah Shamikh told PolOff his NGO, The Sport Parliament of Sadr City, is responsible for teaching approximately 5,000 youth in 25 different sports schools about morals and sports. Some of his former students have gone on [...] | 2005-12-12 16:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
05BAGHDAD4958 | SHI'A TECHNOCRAT TALKS OF INTIMIDATION AND CABINET [...] (S) Summary. Iraqi Transitional National Assembly (TNA) member and former Minister of Oil Thamir Ghadhban described methods of election intimidation and urged the USG to call on the political parties likely responsible for this intimidation to stop it. He predicted that the United Iraqi All [...] | 2005-12-12 16:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PHUM KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4959 | KEY SUNNI LEADER ENVISIONS A UNITY GOVERNMENT - [...] (C) SUMMARY: A leading figure in the top Sunni Arab electoral list told PolOff December 12 that his group was aiming for a broad "national unity" government after the elections. The official, Mahmud Mashhadani of the Iraqi Consensus (Tawafuq) Front, told PolOff that he envisioned an alliance [...] | 2005-12-12 16:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4960 | VIOLENT ACTS OF INTIMIDATION MARR THE ELECTION [...] (C) Summary. During early December we heard reports of blackmail, kidnapping and murder of political candidates and campaign workers in the run- up to the national elections. Numerous incidents have been reported to the Senior Representative of the United Nations Secretary General (SRSG) an [...] | 2005-12-12 18:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT PHUM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4961 | LEADING IRAQI SUNNI ARAB SLATE CALLS ON INSURGENTS [...] (C) Ambassador Khalilzad and General Casey convoked selected Sunni Arab leaders December 11 to discuss concrete steps each side could take in support of the December 15 elections (see septel). After this meeting, the Iraqi National Dialogue Council, which is a major group within the leading [...] | 2005-12-12 19:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS IZ |
05BAGHDAD4962 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 15th [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-13 03:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4963 | INFORMATION UPDATE ON ALGERIAN DETAINEE [...] (SBU) Post passed Embassy Algiers' request for information (see Reftel) to Coalition Forces, and has been informed that Mohmad Ahmed Mohamed Waber (DPOB 27 SEP 1975, Al Shalaf, Algeria) was detained on 21 May 2005 inside a targeted terrorist safe house. Mr. Waber has been referred to the Cen [...] | 2005-12-13 03:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PHUM PGOV KJUS IZ AG XA |
05BAGHDAD4967 | ALLAWI ALLY JANABI ON ELECTION PROSPECTS [...] (C) Saad Al-Janabi, head of the Iraqi Republican Group running under Ayad Allawi's National Iraqi List coalition, told Poloffs that he hopes the coalition will win at least 43 seats, despite expected ballot stuffing and other irregularities on behalf of the Shi'a and Kurdish coalitions. In an [...] | 2005-12-13 07:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT PTER PHUM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4968 | IRAQ'S STATE BOARD OF ANTIQUITIES AND HERITAGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (SBAH) Director, Dr. Donny George, explained to visiting Embassy Public Affairs (PA) officers that SBAH and National Museum staffs are ready to work, that cameras and motion detectors have been installed, but that the security situa [...] | 2005-12-13 08:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SCUL PGOV KPAO PREL IZ |
05BAGHDAD4971 | FALLUJANS MOBILIZED FOR ELECTION AMID INCREASED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Fallujans stand mobilized for the December 15 election. Momentum flowing from the October 15 referendum - when an estimated 200,000 residents in the city and surrounding communities voted - should lead to repeat high turnout. Campaign posters and fliers dot the city; Ahmed Chal [...] | 2005-12-13 14:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EFIN KDEM IZ XL |
05BAGHDAD4973 | KAMIRAN KARADAGHI ON "IRAQI IDENTITY," CABINET [...] (C) Summary: President Talabani's Chief of Staff and former journalist Kamiran Karadaghi told us on December 12 that there was no such thing as an "Iraqi identity." Rather, people still identified themselves primarily in sectarian terms. The Sunni Arabs were so fragmented, Karadaghi said, th [...] | 2005-12-13 15:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
05BAGHDAD4976 | AHAD AL-IRAQ SHOWS PROMISE IN BUILDING [...] (U) Summary. 'Ahad al-Iraq (Iraq's Promise) held a press conference in Baghdad on December 12 to announce that a cross-sectarian, cross-ethnic group of more than 270 politicians, political parties and NGO's had signed their pledge to support five specific legislative reforms to advance human [...] | 2005-12-13 17:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4978 | SADRISTS, INCLUDING THEIR MILITIA, ON PARADE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 7 as many as 5,000 supporters of Muqtada al Sadr, including many armed members of the Mahdi Army, gathered at Al Mustanseryah Square in Baghdad to mark the seventh anniversary of the death of Mohammed Sadiq Sadr, Muqtada's father (who was killed by Saddam). Among t [...] | 2005-12-13 17:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KISL PGOV PINR PINS IZ |
05BAGHDAD4979 | IECI STANDS UP TO DE-BA'ATHIFICATION COMMISSION [...] (C) Summary. In a press release distributed December 11, the IECI stated that it would not follow the recommendation of the National De-Ba'athification Commission (NDC) to disqualify any election candidates, citing the lack of evidence to substantiate the complaint being made. On December 12 [...] | 2005-12-13 18:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PNAT PGOV PTER KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4980 | IRAQI NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR DISCUSSES NEXT [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a private luncheon hosted by the Ambassador at his residence on December 9, Iraqi National Security Advisor Dr. Mowaffak al-Rubaie shared his concerns about USG plans for the future of Iraq, urged the Ambassador to play an active role in assuring the "right" people are chosen t [...] | 2005-12-13 18:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
05BAGHDAD4981 | THE ANBAR SECURITY COUNCIL: RECENT NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) Summary. This is a SET Ramadi cable. A recently created council of influential Anbaris in Ramadi known alternatively as the Ramadi or Anbar Security Council has brought together local officials (from the professional or technocratic class),ex-military officers, imams and tribal sheikhs. [...] | 2005-12-13 18:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINS KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4982 | ADIL 'ABD AL-MAHDI ADVISOR SEES UIA GETTING [...] (C) Summary. Vice President 'Adil 'Abd al-Mahdi's adviser Fareed Yasseen said that the UIA would get 110-120 seats in the December 15 election. He hoped 'Abd al-Mahdi would emerge as the UIA nominee for Prime Minister, but acknowledged PM Ja'fari's stubbornness, and could not describe a sce [...] | 2005-12-13 18:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4983 | UNSRSG QAZI ON ELECTION PREPARATIONS [...] (C) UN Special Representative Ashraf Qazi told Ambassador Khalilzad on December 10 that he would not object if the IECI disqualified some candidates charged by the De-Ba'thification Committee, as long as there were not too many disqualifications or the disqualified candidates were not well kno [...] | 2005-12-13 18:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT PTER PHUM IZ UN |
05BAGHDAD4984 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 15th [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-13 18:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4987 | ELECTION UPDATE: SPECIAL VOTING, KIRKUK DECISION, [...] (SBU) Summary. The election has officially begun with special voting on December 12 for Iraqi Security Forces (ISF),detainees, and hospital patients. Logistically, the IECI is on track for a successful election day on December 15. In other developments, the IECI has publicly announced that - [...] | 2005-12-13 20:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PNAT PGOV PTER KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4990 | IRAQI BUSINESS EXPATRIATES-WATCHING AND WAITING IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Iraqi business expatriates in Amman assess opportunities in Iraq to be uncertain at present. They focus on 1) getting Iraqi businesses involved in doing reconstruction, 2) improved security and stability to permit investment, and 3) opening of competitive opportunities via priv [...] | 2005-12-14 06:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD IZ |
05BAGHDAD4991 | FOURTH AND FIFTH DAYS OF AD DUJAYL TRIAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: The fourth day of the Ad Dujayl trial occurred on December 6, 2005. Five witnesses provided testimony in open court although each had their identities shielded. The two morning witnesses testified in a closed session. Thus, no media was present, and no recording was made of the [...] | 2005-12-14 10:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4993 | PRESIDENCY COUNCIL VETOES CITIZENSHIP LAW [...] (C) Kamiran Karadaghi, President Talabani's Chief of Staff, confirmed to PolOff December 9 that the Presidency Council had vetoed the Citizenship Law passed by the TNA on November 15 (reftels). In a December 4 letter, the Presidency Council notified the TNA that it had returned the bill becau [...] | 2005-12-14 11:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4995 | IRAQ: JUSTICE DELAYED [...] (C) SUMMARY. Kareem Al Jaaf, a respected council member in the Karkh District of Baghdad and Baghdad City Council member, has been held in detention for four months, with only intermittent access to a lawyer. He was accused of kidnapping by a neighbor and taken to jail. While waiting for a [...] | 2005-12-14 12:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4996 | 'ABD AL-MAHDI ADVISOR SEES UIA GETTING 110-120 [...] (S) Summary. Vice President 'Adil 'Abd al-Mahdi adviser Fareed Yasseen opined that the UIA would get 110-120 seats in the December 15 election. He hoped 'Abd al-Mahdi would emerge as the UIA nominee for Prime Minister, but acknowledged PM Ja'fari's stubbornness, and could not describe a sce [...] | 2005-12-14 12:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4997 | THE DE-BAATHIFICATION PROCESS [...] (C) The De-Baathification Commission has become something of an election issue with Ayed Allawi publicly criticizing it and Shia Islamists in turn strongly supporting it. Behind the scenes, Shia Islamist political figures are driving the commission as other commission board members show lit [...] | 2005-12-14 12:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KJUS IZ |
05BAGHDAD4998 | IRAQI ENERGY SECTOR STATUS ON ELECTION EVE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Electricity and fuel supplies in Iraq remain very limited. The GOI continues to have problems paying for imported fuel supplies from Kuwait and Turkey. The GOI again permitted arrears to Turkish and Kuwaiti fuel suppliers to mount with the former threatening a fuel shutoff. Pa [...] | 2005-12-14 13:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ECON IZ |
05BAGHDAD4999 | PRESIDENCY COUNCIL VETOES CITIZENSHIP LAW - REVISED [...] (C) Kamiran Karadaghi, President Talabani's Chief of Staff, confirmed to PolOff December 9 that the Presidency Council had vetoed the Citizenship Law passed by the TNA on November 15 (reftels). In a December 4 letter, the Presidency Council notified the TNA that it had returned the bill becau [...] | 2005-12-14 14:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD5000 | IRAQI MCNS MEETS DEC. 9: ELECTION SECURITY, PRIME [...] (C//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: The Iraqi Ministerial Committee for National Security (MCNS) met the afternoon of December 9, 2005 at Prime Minister Ja'afari's residence. Ja'afari expressed extreme consternation about the fact that his flight back to Baghdad from Japan was denied permission to lan [...] | 2005-12-14 15:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PHUM IZ |
05BAGHDAD5001 | NEWSPAPER EDITORS LOOK TO PLAY A ROLE IN BUILDING [...] (C) Summary. Two newspaper editors-in-chief, Muhammad 'Abd al-Jabbar of al-Sabah and Shaker al-Jaboury of Al-Furat, both expressed concerns about the direction Iraqi politics is headed after the December 15 election, but both expressed interest in becoming more politically active afterwards. [...] | 2005-12-14 16:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD5002 | CAMPAIGN TONE GETS SHARPER, MORE INTENSE [...] (U) With just one day before the elections, campaigning for the December 15 elections has been intense, incredibly more personal, organized and criminal than the campaign in January. This has included inter-sectarian conflicts: the destruction of Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU) offices by force [...] | 2005-12-14 16:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT PHUM IZ |
05BAGHDAD5003 | CAMPAIGN DEVELOPS SHARP ELBOWS [...] (U) With just one day before the elections, campaigning for the December 15 elections has been intense, incredibly more personal, organized and criminal than the campaign in January. This has included inter-sectarian conflicts: the destruction of Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU) offices by force [...] | 2005-12-14 16:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT PHUM IZ |
05BAGHDAD5004 | ON EVE OF ELECTION BAGHDAD LEADERS ANTICIPATE [...] (C) PolOff spoke with selected leaders throughout Baghdad to gauge the mood of the public on the eve of the December 15 elections. In NE Baghdad Sunni Arab Dr. Riyadh Hassir Al Adhadh, District Advisory Council (DAC) and City Councilman reports the largely Sunni district of Al Adhamiyah is [...] | 2005-12-14 17:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD5005 | IECI RECOVERS FROM ERRORS THAT OMITTED OVER [...] (C) Summary. When comparing the list of registered voters used for the October referendum with the list prepared for the December 15 election, the Kirkuk office of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) found a discrepancy in the number of voters. Alerted to this issue by the Kurd [...] | 2005-12-14 17:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PNAT KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD5007 | SECRETARY'S COORDINATOR FOR COUNTERTERRORISM [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 8, 2005, Ambassador Henry A. Crumpton, the Secretary's Coordinator for Counterterrorism, visited Mosul, where he accompanied REO Mosul Regional Coordinator Carl Gettinger and MND-NW Deputy Commanding General BG Kevin Bergner to a lunch hosted by PUK official Aso Mamaud [...] | 2005-12-15 07:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV IZ |
05BAGHDAD5010 | SHIA PROTEST AL JAZEERA REPORT [...] (U) On December 14 at 2100, Al Jazeera TV broadcast the political talkshow Al Et'jah Al Muakis (The Opposite Direction),hosted by Faisal Al Kasim. Joining him on the show was a former Shia Ba'athist Fadhil Al Rubae and Sistani loyalist Fuad Al Samawi. During the program, Faisal and Fadhil m [...] | 2005-12-15 10:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PINR PINS IZ |
05BAGHDAD5012 | Electoral War Heats up -- Jazeera and Furat [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the most notable example of the intensified electoral debate in the media, a candidate's complaints on al-Jazeera about the "meddling of" Shia clergy in Iraqi politics sparked condemnations by Shia Islamist media outlets and provoked demonstrations in Baghdad December 14. [...] | 2005-12-15 11:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPRC PGOV KMDR IZ |
05BAGHDAD5016 | STRONG TURNOUT MARKS OPENING HOURS OF IRAQI [...] (SBU) The election for Iraq's new national assembly is progressing well with good turnout, along with technical problems in some locales. While strong voter participation was anticipated in the Shi'a-dominated south, our observers are reporting long lines and a festive atmosphere in the Sunni [...] | 2005-12-15 12:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL IZ |
05BAGHDAD5019 | ELECTIONS - AROUND IRAQ BIG TURNOUT, LIMITED [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Here follows a review, as of 18:00, of today's events in various parts of Iraq. PRTs and SETs will submit individual analyses as well. Overall, turnout was high across Iraq, including in troubled Anbar province in the West. The election commission extended offici [...] | 2005-12-15 16:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KISL PGOV PINR PINS IZ |
05BAGHDAD5020 | BUNKER INVESTIGATION FALTERS, NATIONWIDE [...] (S/REL GBR AUS) The committee appointed by PM Ja'afari to investigate abuse discovered by Coalition Forces on November 13 at the Ministry of the Interior "Bunker" site in Jadiriyah has made little progress. On December 13, Deputy Prime Minister Rowsh Shaways passed Post the committee's first [...] | 2005-12-15 16:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS PHUM PGOV PINS KJUS IZ |
05BAGHDAD5021 | FADHILA LOOKS TO LIFE AFTER ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 11 phone interview, Mohammed Ismael, a high ranking member of Fadhila (an anti-Moqtada, Sadrist party),told POL/FSN that his party will most likely support Adel Abdul Mehdi for Prime Minister, Bayan Jabr for Minister of Interior, and party leader Nadeem Jabiri for [...] | 2005-12-15 17:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KISL PGOV PINR PINS IZ |
05BAGHDAD5022 | SUNNIS GENERALLY PLEASED WITH ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary. Our initial soundings from Sunni Arab and Kurdish political figures indicate that they are pleased with the election even though they are collecting complaints from an apparently reasonably well developed poll observer network. The Sunni political leaders we spoke with December [...] | 2005-12-16 03:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV |
05BAGHDAD5024 | IRAQ: DEMARCHE ON THREATS TO MINISTRY OF INTERIOR [...] (C) On December 13, Embassy Rule of Law (ROL) Coordinator delivered a demarche to Iraqi Minister of Interior Baqir Jabr regarding threats to Ministry of Interior (MOI) personnel participating in inspections of detention facilities. ROL Coordinator stressed the importance of supporting these [...] | 2005-12-16 12:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM MOPS KJUS PINS PGOV IZ |
05BAGHDAD5026 | FALLUJAH: ELECTION WEDDING IN CITY DESPITE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Fallujans turned out in large numbers for the December 15, 2005, parliamentary election. Poll site estimates exceeded city leaders, optimistic expectations. The November 30, 2005 murder of the city's mufti, Sheikh Hamza Abass Al-Issawi, motivated the population on top of post-re [...] | 2005-12-16 15:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PHUM |
05BAGHDAD5027 | SHIA ISLAMIST LEADERS REACT TO ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Reacting to the December 15 elections, prominent members of the Shia Islamist Coalition (List 555) Dr. Saad Jawad Qindeel of SCIRI, Hassan al Rubaie of the Sadr Bureau, Mohammed Ismael al-Khuzai of the Fadhila Party expressed their confidence to PolOff and Pol/FSN. They all feel [...] | 2005-12-16 15:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS IZ |
05BAGHDAD5028 | RAMADI REALITY GAP: SECURITY COUNCIL VS. MOD [...] (C) Summary. This a SET Ramadi Cable. Minister of Defense Sadoun Dulaime addressed in strong terms the Anbar Security Council on December 12. Chastising Anbaris for allowing the province to serve as an 'incubator' of the insurgency, the minister deflected calls by the council to create a ne [...] | 2005-12-17 10:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MASS IZ |
05BAGHDAD5030 | ALLAWI BUILDS HIS POST-ELECTION COALITION [...] (S) Summary. Head of the National Iraqi National List (731),former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, told the Ambassador he believes Iraq needs a national unity government to deal with the challenges ahead. He has begun talks to put together a cross-ethnic, cross- sectarian coalition that would [...] | 2005-12-17 19:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINS IZ |
05BAGHDAD5031 | COORDINATOR FOR COUNTERTERRORISM MEETS IRAQI [...] (S) SUMMARY: Ambassador Henry A. Crumpton, the Coordinator for Counterterrorism (S/CT),on December 8, 2005 in Baghdad, met with Dr. Mowaffak al-Rubaie, Iraq's National Security Advisor. Rubaie described the dual role he plays as National Security Advisor and as head of the National Intelli [...] | 2005-12-18 06:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PTER PREL IZ |
05BAGHDAD5032 | IRMO DIRECTOR'S MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 12, IRMO Director Daniel Speckhard met with Japanese Ambassador Toshiro Suzuki to discuss a potential Japanese role in the PRT initiative and US-Japan cooperation to assist in Iraqi reconstruction efforts. Suzuki reaffirmed Japan's continued desire to assist in Iraq [...] | 2005-12-18 06:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PNAT PREL IZ |
05BAGHDAD5038 | COORDINATOR FOR COUNTERTERRORISM VISITS IRAQ, [...] (S) SUMMARY: On December 5-8, 2005, Ambassador Henry A. Crumpton, the Coordinator for Counterterrorism (S/CT),visited Iraq to meet with Embassy, military, and Iraqi officials. During his visit Ambassador Crumpton met with Ministry of Interior (MOI) officials responsible for counterterrorism [...] | 2005-12-18 13:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PTER PGOV PREL MOPS IZ |
05BAGHDAD5039 | IRAQI FUEL PRICES RISE BEFORE IMF DEADLINE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Iraq (GOI) formally initiated fuel price increases across Iraq on December 18. These fuel price increases meet an essential IMF prior action for a Stand by Arrangement with Iraq. Demonstrations were reported in multiple locations in response to the price incr [...] | 2005-12-18 18:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ENRG ECON PGOV IZ |
05BAGHDAD5040 | IRAQI FUEL PRICES RISE BEFORE IMF DEADLINE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Iraq (GOI) formally initiated fuel price increases across Iraq on December 18. These fuel price increases meet an essential IMF prior action for a Stand by Arrangement with Iraq. Demonstrations were reported in multiple locations in response to the price incr [...] | 2005-12-19 03:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ECON PGOV IZ |
05BAGHDAD5043 | COORDINATOR FOR COUNTERTERRORISM MEETS IRAQI [...] (SBU) (SUMMARY) Ambassador Henry A. Crumpton, the Coordinator for Counterterrorism (S/CT),called on Iraqi Minister of Defense Saadoun Dulime during a visit to Baghdad on December 6. Present at the meeting were a group of 17 Sunni sheikhs from the Al Anbar Province. This presented an oppor [...] | 2005-12-19 10:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL PTER IZ |
05BAGHDAD5045 | AN INSIDER'S LOOK AT THE PM'S OFFICE [...] (C) Summary. An American contractor working at the PM's office indicates that Adnan Ali al-Khadimi is the only policy and decision-maker on Jaafari's team. Considered the second and third most important people on the team are senior PM advisors Said Hakki and Emad Dhia. But even though they [...] | 2005-12-19 13:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PINS IZ |
05BAGHDAD5046 | ACTION REQUEST REGARDING DETAINEE TRAVEL TO AMMAN [...] (U) This cable contains an action request; please see paragraphs 5-6. 2. (S/NF) Coalition Forces are releasing from custody twenty-three High-Value Detainees (HVDs) who have been determined not to pose an imperative threat to security, the standard set for Coalition detention. Eight were [...] | 2005-12-19 13:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | MOPS PHUM PGOV KJUS IZ JO |
05BAGHDAD5047 | IRAQI POLITICOS PONDER NEW GOVERNMENT: SHIA [...] (C) Summary: With even the preliminary announcement of most election results still days away, Iraqi political operatives are trying to consolidate alliances. Prime Minister Jafari and Adil Abdel Mehdi, Jafari's rival within the Shia Islamist Coalition (List 555),each are trying to line up [...] | 2005-12-19 13:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ PGOV |
05BAGHDAD5051 | CODEL INHOFE MEETS WITH TNA MEMBERS [...] (SBU) Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) met December 12 with TNA members Dr. Saad Qindeel, Wijdan Salim, and Yunadem Kanna. ---------------------------------------- Security Situation: We are in a Catch-22 ---------------------------------------- 2. (C) Wijdan Salim said the security situation [...] | 2005-12-19 16:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PBTS PINR MOPS IZ |
05BAGHDAD5052 | POST-ELECTION UPDATE: PRELIMINARY RESULTS, [...] (SBU) Summary. The IECI has released preliminary information indicating that the December 15 voter turnout ranged from 65-70 percent, an increase over both the January elections and October referendum. Tallying for the elections is well underway, and in the case of Baghdad, almost complete. T [...] | 2005-12-19 17:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PNAT PGOV PTER KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD5053 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 15th [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-19 21:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD5065 | PRELIMINARY RESULTS POINT TO BIG SHIA ALLIANCE [...] (C) Summary: Initial election returns from most of Iraq released on December 19 showed the Shia Islamist Coalition breezing towards a strong showing, while the list of former Prime Minister Allawi was scoring much lower than it had hoped, especially in its home base of Baghdad. The Sunni T [...] | 2005-12-20 14:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT IZ |
05BAGHDAD5066 | IECI DISPATCHES AUDIT TEAMS TO TRADITIONAL [...] (C) Summary. As part of a previously planned initiative to enhance the credibility of the election process, the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) will conduct post-election audits in five cities throughout Iraq. These audits follow the pre- election audits conducted that establ [...] | 2005-12-20 14:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD5067 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 15th [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-20 16:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD5068 | UIC 555 LEADERS REACT TO ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 14 interview, Sadr City District Advisory Council (DAC) member Ali Suadi told PolOff that in Sadr City confidence in Coalition Forces (CF) is low. The Sadr militia, he claimed, openly patrols in Sadr City in black uniforms and guns; the Iraqi police make no effort [...] | 2005-12-20 16:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PHUM PGOV PINR IZ |
05BAGHDAD5069 | BAGHDAD GOVERNOR HOPES TO HEAD MOI [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a December 18 meeting Hussein Mohammad Al-Tahan, Governor of Baghdad, told PolOff that he expects to be the next Minister of the Interior. Hussein, a member of the Shia Islamist SCIRI party, said MOI requires a complete overhaul and needs to be less aggressive with terrorists [...] | 2005-12-20 17:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PHUM PGOV PINR IZ |
05BAGHDAD5070 | SHIA LEADERS REACT TO ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sayed Kareem al Bukhati from List 652 Sun of Iraq and Jawad al Bolani of Ahmed Chalabi's List 569 Iraqi National Congress told us December 18 that the elections were conducted well in most places. Bukhati felt there was some electoral fraud, but his party has yet to file any com [...] | 2005-12-20 17:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PHUM PGOV PINR IZ |
05BAGHDAD5072 | AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD'S FIRST [...] (U) Action request, para seven. 2. (U) BEGIN SUMMARY. Ambassador Khalilzad and IRMO Director Speckhard met with Minister Nasreen Berwari, Iraq Minister of Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works (MMPW),on December 10 to discuss several substantive issues. Ms. Berwari suggested that th [...] | 2005-12-20 18:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PNAT PREL IZ |
05BAGHDAD5073 | LIMITED DEMONSTRATIONS IN SOUTH AGAINST FUEL PRICE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Governorate officials in several southern provinces reacted very negatively to the fuel price increases of December 18. While the price increases appear to be accepted in the northern provinces, minor demonstrations, especially by taxi and truck drivers, were reported in the s [...] | 2005-12-20 18:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ENRG ECON PGOV PINS IZ |
05BAGHDAD5074 | DECEMBER 17 VISIT TO THE BUNKER [...] (C) On December 17, U.S. officials accompanied First Deputy Prime Minister Shaways and Deputy Minister of Interior for Intelligence Kamal on a visit to the MOI detention facility known as the Bunker. As expected, no detainees were found. Two MOI employees at the Bunker told Shaways that det [...] | 2005-12-21 03:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM MOPS KJUS PINS PGOV IZ |
05BAGHDAD5081 | IECI SCRUTINIZES COMPLAINT PROCESS AMIDST [...] (U) See paragraph 12 for recommended press guidance. 2. (C) Summary: On December 21 there were more denunciations of election fraud while the election commission investigated specific charges and complete the vote count. UN election team leader Jenness told us December 21 that the numb [...] | 2005-12-21 14:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PNAT KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD5083 | UPDATE ON MOHAMMED MUNAF CASE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-21 15:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | MOPS PHUM PGOV KJUS IZ RO |
05BAGHDAD5085 | NEW CHAIRMAN OF BAGHADAD PROVINCIAL COUNCIL SETS [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a December 19 meeting, Mu'een Hammed, the new Baghdad Provincial Council (BPC) Chairman, outlined his agenda for the coming months. Mu'een is a SCIRI Party member from Sadr City in Baghdad. He hopes to unify the BPC, strengthen the Provincial Reconstruction and Development C [...] | 2005-12-21 16:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
05BAGHDAD5087 | PRELIMINARY ELECTION RESULTS FOR ALL GOVERNORATES [...] (C) Summary: Post analysis on the preliminary and partial election counts shows the Shia Coalition winning 131 of the 275 Council of Representative Seats, with 53 seats going to the Kurdish Alliance, and 41 seats to Sunni Arab-dominated Tawaffuq. This would put the Shia Coalition in a very s [...] | 2005-12-21 16:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PNAT PGOV PTER KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD5088 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 15th [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-22 03:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD5089 | SUNNI ARABS EXPAND SECURITY DIALOGUE WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sunni Arab leaders from the Iraqi Tawafuq (Consensus) Front met with the Ambassador and General Casey to continue a dialogue on security issues and outreach on December 21. The group, led by Iraqi Islamic Party leader Tariq al-Hashemi and National Dialogue Council leader Khalaf a [...] | 2005-12-22 07:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD5090 | DPM SHAWAYS EXPRESSES MISTRUST OF THE UIA [...] (C) On December 17, First Deputy Prime Minister Rowsh Shaways told U.S. officials that too strong a performance in the December 15 elections by the predominantly Shia United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) would undermine the prospects for democracy in Iraq. 2. (C) Shaways said Iran controls the UIA [...] | 2005-12-22 11:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM MOPS KJUS PINS PGOV IZ |
05BAGHDAD5092 | IRAQ'S ROLLERCOASTER RIDE TO DECEMBER 23 IMF [...] (C) Summary: Popular protests against December 18 fuel prices have died down. Some southern provinces might be resisting price hikes, but the Central Government took a tough stance against recalcitrant governors December 21. In reaction to surprising news concerning last minute debt assurance [...] | 2005-12-22 18:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL IZ IMF |
05BAGHDAD5093 | AMBASSADOR'S EARLY GOVERNMENT DISCUSSIONS SHOW [...] (S) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Ambassador held separate meetings with SCIRI leader Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim, President Jalal Talabani, Sunni Arab Tawafuq leaders, and wavering Shia Islamist leader Nadeem Jabiri from December 19-21 to open early discussions on the shape and goals of Iraq's next gove [...] | 2005-12-22 18:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD5094 | PRESIDENT TALABANI ON GOVERNMENT FORMATION, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with President Jalal Talabani and other Kurdish government officials on December 21, the Ambassador reiterated the U.S. Government's commitment to an inclusive, cross-sectarian government in the interests of Iraqi national unity. Talabani agreed and stated his prefe [...] | 2005-12-22 19:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
05BAGHDAD5095 | SUNNI ARAB PROTEST GROUP MARAM MUCH BARKING, HOW [...] (C) Summary. A variety of parties unhappy with the election results, including Allawi's and the major Sunni Arab blocs, met December 21-22 and issued a "Pact of Honor" under the name MARAM. They demanded an international investigation into the December 15 elections, as well as the formation [...] | 2005-12-22 19:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PHUM IZ |
05BAGHDAD5096 | SUNNI ARABS EXPAND SECURITY DIALOGUE WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sunni Arab leaders from the Iraqi Tawafuq (Consensus) Front met with the Ambassador and General Casey to continue a dialogue on security issues and outreach on December 21. The group, led by Iraqi Islamic Party leader Tariq al-Hashemi and National Dialogue Council leader Khalaf a [...] | 2005-12-23 03:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD5097 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 15th [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-23 08:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD5098 | SERIOUS NEGOTIATIONS ON GOVERNMENT FORMATION NOT [...] (C) Summary: Hussein Shahristani, a leading independent in the strong Shia Islamist bloc, told us December 23 that the bloc is unlikely to settle on its prime minister candidate for another week or two. He thought it possible a dark horse independent might emerge as a compromise choice give [...] | 2005-12-23 13:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
05BAGHDAD5099 | SMALL SECULAR PARTY: IECI SAYS 468 VOTES, OUR [...] (C) Summary. Abid Faisal al-Sahlani, the leader of the National Democratic Alliance, told PolOff and PolFSN December 21 that the IECI's preliminary results for Baghdad contrasted massively with the results collected by their election observers (462 votes versus 109,000 votes). The 468 votes [...] | 2005-12-23 13:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM IZ |
05BAGHDAD5101 | OPIC INQUIRY RE: IMMDF LOAN PROPOSALS [...] This cable is in response to reftel A re: OPIC request for Embassy comments on potential Iraq Middle Market Development Foundation (IMMDF) loan proposals. 2. Post IRMO/Private Sector Development was closely involved in the referral process for projects A (Naseer Oxygen Gas),C (Hilal Al K [...] | 2005-12-24 08:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EINV ETRD KPRV IZ |
05BAGHDAD5103 | AMBASSADOR AND GENERAL CASEY CONVENE A SUNNI ARAB [...] (C) SUMMARY: A group of politically connected Sunni Arab figures urged the Ambassador and MNF-I CG Casey to expedite detainee releases and to facilitate stand-up of credible, non-sectarian Iraqi security forces. In a December 13 meeting prior to the national elections, they agreed to meet re [...] | 2005-12-24 15:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD5125 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 15th [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-26 16:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD5131 | ELECTION UPDATE: OCV DOES NOT CHANGE RESULTS, [...] (C) Summary: Preliminary counts from the over 300,000 out- of-country and 200,000 special voting ballots show the largest number of votes going to the Shia Coalition (36.6%) followed by the Kurdish Coalition(30%) and National Iraqi List (11%). When added into the preliminary totals, these v [...] | 2005-12-27 12:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PNAT PGOV PTER KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD5132 | IRAQI OIL SECTOR UNDER STRESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Fuel supplies in Iraq remain scarce, and the country may face regional outages. Deputy Prime Minister Chalabi, as acting Minister of Oil, was informed of the deteriorating fuel situation and urged to act by A/DCM and the acting IRMO director. National refinery capacity has dr [...] | 2005-12-27 17:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET IZ |
05BAGHDAD5133 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 15th [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-28 03:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD5134 | ALLAWI CHIEF OF STAFF: WE UNITE WITH SUNNI BLOCS [...] (C) Ibrahim al-Janabi, Chief of Staff to Dr. Ayad Allawi, told Poloff and PolFSN December 27 that the National Iraqi List and the main Sunni Arab blocs (Tawwafuq, National Dialogue, and Reconciliation and Liberation) had signed an agreement December 25 in Amman to establish a common front; the [...] | 2005-12-28 05:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
05BAGHDAD5135 | SUNNI ARAB PARTY SECGEN AL-HASHIMI COMPLAINS OF [...] (C) Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) General Secretary Tariq al-Hashimi told PolCouns December 26, the Tawafuq, a Sunni Arab coalition, has evidence of corruption within the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI). Al-Hashimi maintained IECI officials, including staff investigating election i [...] | 2005-12-28 05:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PNAT IZ |
05BAGHDAD5144 | MCNS MEETING 21 DECEMBER 2005: OFF-RAMP [...] (S) SUMMARY. During a December 21 MCNS meeting, participants discussed four issues. The Iraqis agreed to the scenario of announcing the off-ramp decision on Friday, December 23. We would prepare the text of a statement to be read publicly to the press at the end of a meeting with the PM. W [...] | 2005-12-28 13:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS PHUM IZ |
05BAGHDAD5145 | SUNNI ARAB LEADERS AGREE TO ALLIANCE WITH KURDS, [...] (C) In a telephone conversation on December 26, List 731 leaders Ayad Allawi and Adnan Pachachi informed the Ambassador of their meeting on December 25 with the representatives from Saleh Mutlak's National Dialog Front, Khalaf al-Ayyan and Adnan Dulaymi of the Tawaffuq, and others. Allawi and [...] | 2005-12-28 14:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
05BAGHDAD5148 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH CHALDEAN PATRIARCH DELLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Chaldean Patriarch Mar Emmanuel III Delly on December 22, the Ambassador expressed the importance of an inclusive, cross-sectarian Iraqi government to promote national unity. Patriarch Delly agreed that a united government and society were essential to a strong [...] | 2005-12-28 15:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PNAT PGOV KDEM IZ KREL |
05BAGHDAD5149 | INDEPENDENT POLITICIAN MITHAL AL-ALUSI CLAIMS IECI [...] (C) Summary: Mithal al-Alusi, an Independent Sunni Arab and founder of the Iraqi Nation Party, claimed December 27 that the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) is attempting to alter seat allocation in the new Council of Representatives by counting ballots the IECI's own investig [...] | 2005-12-28 15:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PNAT IZ |
05BAGHDAD5150 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 15th [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-29 03:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD5153 | IRAQI OIL SECURITY IN DISARRAY [...] (C/REL MNF-I) SUMMARY: The Steering Group for Critical Infrastructure Integrity assessed the security problems in the oil infrastructure and fuel product distribution systems across Iraq. Intimidation of Ministry of Oil (MOO) employees continues to be a problem for both product distribution an [...] | 2005-12-29 14:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET EFIN MASS MOPS IZ |
05BAGHDAD5154 | AMBASSADOR ENCOURAGES IECI TO ADDRESS CREDIBILITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 28 meeting with eight commissioners of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI),the Ambassador urged the IECI to consider how best to address complaints about the credibility of the election results. The Ambassador suggested the Commission welcome outsi [...] | 2005-12-29 14:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PNAT PGOV KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD5155 | ALLAWI AND SUNNI ARAB PARTIES CONSIDER BROADER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sunni Arab political party leaders reported to PolOffs December 29 that they are headed towards a government coalition alliance with both Ayad Allawi's National Iraqi List and the Kurdish Alliance and eventually later with the Shia Islamists. However, our Sunni Arab contacts also [...] | 2005-12-29 16:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PNAT IZ |
05BAGHDAD5156 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 15th [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-29 16:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO IZ |
05BAGHDAD5160 | DECEMBER 22 MEETING WITH IRAQI INTERIOR MINISTER [...] (C) On December 22 Iraqi Minister of Interior Baqir Jabr told us that: -- he supported the decision by the police chief of Babil Province to refuse to hire 800 recently nominated police recruits who were Badr Corps militiamen; -- another 650 recruits had been appropriately vetted and sen [...] | 2005-12-30 08:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS PINR IZ |
05BAGHDAD5161 | ELECTION COMMISSION PROCEEDING WITH COMPLAINTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Less than 25 serious, unresolved complaints ("red" complaints) lie between the Iraqi election commission (IECI) and final certification of the elections, according to International Commissioner Craig Jenness, down from 50 plus original red complaints. Notably, the IECI has finish [...] | 2005-12-30 12:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM IZ |
05BAGHDAD5162 | SHIA ISLAMIST FADHILA LEADER THROWING HIS HAT IN [...] (C) Fadhila Party members Muhammad Ismail al- Khazali and Hassan al-Shimry told PolCouns and PolOff December 30 that Dr. Nadeem al-Jabiri, the party's Secretary General, is one of four candidates for Prime SIPDIS Minister within the Shia Alliance ? the others being PM Jafari, VP Abdel Mehdi [...] | 2005-12-30 15:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
05BAGHDAD5164 | SIXTH AND SEVENTH DAYS OF AD DUJAYL TRIAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: The sixth day of the Ad Dujayl trial commenced on Tuesday, December 21. Three complainants provided graphic testimony about torture, incarceration, and murder. The seventh day of trial commenced on Wednesday, December 22. Three additional complainants testified about summary d [...] | 2005-12-31 11:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD6 | SHIA CLERIC SEPARATES RELIGION FROM POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: We have met twice in the past two weeks with Shia cleric Saayid Ayad Jamal Ad-Din who warns that the forces of ideological and religious extremism will dominate the new National Assembly without Coalition support to educated moderates and liberals such as himself. He claimed that [...] | 2005-01-02 17:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KISL IZ |
05BAGHDAD7 | FOREIGN MINISTER ZIBARI SAYS IRAQ'S NEIGHBORS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi Interim Government Foreign Minster Zibari told Deputy Secretary Armitage on December 31 that Iraq's Arab neighbors need to worry less about what the Shi'a will do in Iraq after elections and think about how to help convince Iraq's Sunni Arabs to stop tearing the country apar [...] | 2005-01-02 17:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KISL PNAT IZ SY TU |
05BANDARSERIBEGAWAN431 | TFUS01: OFFER OF CASH DONATION FROM THE SULTAN OF [...] (C) MFA Political II Acting Director Alihashim Yusof contacted Charge on September 7 to inform him that the Sultan had decided in principal to make a cash contribution in support of Hurricane Katrina victims and to inquire into the modalities of donation. Alihashim reported a specific dollar [...] | 2005-09-07 08:38:00 | Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EFIN AEMR AMGT BX |
05BANDARSERIBEGAWAN597 | SINGAPOREAN VIEW OF BRUNEIAN ADHERENCE TO PSI, [...] (C) Summary: The Singaporean High Commissioner believes Malaysia,s coolness toward the Proliferation Security Initiative may be causing Brunei to delay a decision on adherence to PSI principles, in accordance with Brunei,s desire to avoid taking a stand on any issue on which its two closest [...] | 2005-12-09 07:48:00 | Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PARM PREL BX MY SN |
05BANGKOK1008 | THAILAND: THE SOUTH - IMPRESSIONS FROM FEBRUARY [...] (C) Summary: On February 1-2, Emboffs made a pre-election visit to Songkhla and Pattani provinces as part of an ongoing effort to monitor the situation in southern Thailand. In meetings with local businessmen, bankers, politicians, and journalists, they repeatedly heard claims that signifi [...] | 2005-02-08 11:42:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER TH |
05BANGKOK1019 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (SBU) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Wng Cdr Tien TEPANON, Office of Don Muang Base Command, RTAF (Air Police Battal [...] | 2005-02-09 03:32:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK1024 | THAILAND: NPT 2005 REVIEW CONFERENCE [...] (U) PolOffs delivered reftel non-paper February 7 to representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Departments of International Organizations (IO) and ASEAN Affairs. One MFA official noted in the non-paper the line reading, "The United State will seek support for other measures t [...] | 2005-02-09 04:34:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP PARM KPAO TH NPT IAEA |
05BANGKOK1026 | AMBASSADOR BOYCE CALLS ON THAI COMMERCE MINISTER [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Boyce paid his first official call on Thai Commerce Minister Watana Muangsook on February 4, 2005. A beaming Watana predicted a landslide for the ruling party on February 6, saying it was vindication of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's hands-on "CEO style." Watana [...] | 2005-02-09 05:01:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAGR ECON EINV ETRD ASCH ID TH |
05BANGKOK1036 | THAILAND: AMBASSADOR CALLS ON DEFENSE MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an introductory call on Defense Minister Sumpun Boonyanun February 3, Ambassador discussed a wide range of subjects and positively reaffirmed the overall excellent relations between our two militaries. They exchanged views on the tsunami relief effort and overall U.S./T [...] | 2005-02-09 09:48:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TH BURMA IRAQ POL MIL |
05BANGKOK1038 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF CDR SEVENTH FLEET VADM [...] (C) Admiral Greenert, your visit to Bangkok and Phuket will come as we are winding down the critical U.S. military role in providing assistance to Thailand and the other tsunami-hit nations in the region. Your meetings with senior SIPDIS Thai officials follow on the heels of visits by a n [...] | 2005-02-09 09:58:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR TH |
05BANGKOK1039 | THAILAND ELECTION UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Thailand's Election Commission (EC) has announced that it will officially endorse the general election results (votes are still being counted in some constituencies) by February 25. Banyat Bantadtan has resigned as the leader of the major opposition Democrat Party (DP),along [...] | 2005-02-09 10:43:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TH |
05BANGKOK1072 | AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON FINANCE MINISTER [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary. On February 3, the Ambassador paid a courtesy call on Minister of Finance Somkid Jatusripitak. The Ambassador discussed the ongoing Thai-US FTA negotiations, and stressed the need to work together to ensure the talk [...] | 2005-02-10 07:41:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PREL TH US FTA |
05BANGKOK1075 | BANGKOK WELCOMES CODEL MCHUGH [...] (U) Post welcomes and grants country clearance for Congressman John McHugh and his delegation arriving in Bangkok on THG 683 from Hanoi at 2225 local time on Thursday, February 24. We understand that the delegation will depart for the United States on UA 9688 at 2355 on Friday, February 25. [...] | 2005-02-10 08:35:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN TH |
05BANGKOK1105 | THAILAND: AMBASSADOR CALLS ON ROYAL THAI SUPREME [...] (C) On February 8, the Ambassador met with Royal Thai Armed Forces Supreme Commander General Chaisit Shinawatra to discuss a variety of security issues. Chaisit was grateful for U.S. assistance to help Thailand mitigate the impact of the tsunami and correctly noted that our use of Utapao as [...] | 2005-02-11 08:06:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR TH POL MIL BURMA PKO IMET |
05BANGKOK1106 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR: RAY [...] (U) Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. Martinez from February 12 - February 21, 2005. 2. (U) Reservations have been made at the Conrad Hotel, 87 Wireless Road, Tel: (66-2) 690-9999, Fax: (66-2) 690-9000. Room rate is USD 125 net (taxes and American Breakfast included) and [...] | 2005-02-11 08:07:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA PGOV TH |
05BANGKOK1157 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF FORMER PRESIDENTS BUSH [...] (U) President Bush and President Clinton, your visit to Phuket is eagerly anticipated by our Embassy in Bangkok, U.S. officials working on relief efforts, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (Prime Minister TOCK-SIN),and the Royal Thai Government. In Thailand, we are several weeks past the c [...] | 2005-02-15 06:50:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP PREL PGOV TH |
05BANGKOK1163 | EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR: [...] This is an action request. 2. JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for units that have been selected to participate in Exercise Balance Torch (BT) 05-2 from 11 April - 3 June 2005. To meet internal DOD advance deployment deadlines, they [...] | 2005-02-15 08:20:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK1169 | THAILAND: THE AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PM [...] (C) The Ambassador met with Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra at Government House on February 14, 2005. Although this meeting was billed as an official "courtesy call," the Ambassador had met with Thaksin several times since his arrival January 2 with the many high-level visits for the tsunami [...] | 2005-02-15 11:40:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON TH TRT US FTA POL MIL |
05BANGKOK1179 | EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR [...] (U) As authorized per Ref A, U.S. Embassy Bangkok verifies that the Department of State possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by any of the Thai units listed in Para 2, as of this date. Embassy Bangkok's Political Officer Robert J. Clarke is the verifying off [...] | 2005-02-16 06:47:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK1187 | THAILAND: AMBASSADOR CALLS ON ROYAL THAI NAVY [...] (C) During a February 14 meeting with the Ambassador, Royal Thai Navy Commander-in-Chief, ADM Sampop Amrapala, noted that over half of the RTN's Phang Nga Naval Base had been destroyed by the December 26 tsunami and that it would be at least six months before the facility was operational. No [...] | 2005-02-16 06:48:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR TH POL MIL |
05BANGKOK1191 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END USE CHECK ON [...] (U) Political FSN contacted the Royal Thai Navy's Personnel Data Center, the Royal Thai Supreme Command's Directorate of Joint Personnel, the Ministry of Defense's Office of Personnel and the Naval Air Division at Sattahip Royal Thai Naval Base. None of these offices have a record of a "Dir [...] | 2005-02-16 07:42:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | KOMC ETTC TH BLUE LANTERN |
05BANGKOK1209 | ISLAND BIODIVERSITY MAIN THEM AT CONVENTION ON [...] Summary: The Tenth Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological advice (SBSTTA) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was held in Bangkok on February 7-11, 2005. The main goal of the meeting was to develop a program of work on island biodiversity. Other major themes [...] | 2005-02-17 02:58:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR KSCA SENV TH |
05BANGKOK1214 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (SBU) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for 1Lt. Peamsak PAKDEEPINIT, 5th Air Defense Artillery Battalion, WCN 1114 who has [...] | 2005-02-17 03:48:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK1215 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (SBU) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Cpt. Preeyapong SAMIPAGDI, Directorate of Intelligence, WCN 1173 who has been s [...] | 2005-02-17 03:49:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK1216 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (SBU) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Maj. Sarawuth BENJAJINDA, Command and General Staff College, WCN 1151 who has b [...] | 2005-02-17 03:49:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK1233 | THE AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PRIVY COUNCILOR [...] (S) On February 16, 2005 I, met with Privy Councilor General Surayud Chulanont former Supreme Commander of the Royal Thai Armed Forces (RTAF) and Royal Thai Army (RTA) Commander-in-Chief. The meeting, held at Surayud,s request, took place at his residence in the Eastern suburbs of Bangkok and [...] | 2005-02-17 10:10:00 | Embassy Bangkok | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR TH BM BURMA |
05BANGKOK1248 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR: FORMER [...] (U) Post welcomes and grants country clearance to the Presidential Delegation on its visit to Thailand February 19 - 20, 2005. 2. (U) Post is working closely with the advance team for this delegation to ensure a successful visit to Phuket. 3. (U) Control Officer is DCM, Alexander A. A [...] | 2005-02-18 06:05:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PGOV TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK1266 | THAKSIN,S ECONOMIC POLICY: THE NEXT FOUR YEARS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-02-18 08:46:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN PREL TH |
05BANGKOK1277 | VEHICLE BOMB STRIKES HOTEL IN SOUTHERN THAILAND [...] (U) SUMMARY: A VEHICLE-BORNE IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICE (VBIED) EXPLODED 2/17/2005 OUTSIDE A HOTEL IN NARATHIWAT PROVINCE, SOUTHERN THAILAND. POLICE REPORT 5 DEAD AND 49 INJURED. THIS IS AN ESCALATION IN TACTICS FROM THE DAILY DRIVE-BY SHOOTINGS AND SMALLER IEDS WHICH TYPICALLY TARGET THAI S [...] | 2005-02-18 12:20:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER TH |
05BANGKOK1278 | THAKSIN'S VICTORY -- CREDIT THE MAN, INNOVATIVE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The landslide victory of Thaksin Shinawatra's Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party in the February 6 parliamentary election victory reconfirmed the Prime Minister's domination of the Thai political landscape. Thaksin's personality, sophisticated media presentation, focused populist messa [...] | 2005-02-18 13:23:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM TH |
05BANGKOK1280 | THAILAND'S DEEP SOUTH -- VIOLENCE UPTICK AND [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra announced February 16 that the Royal Thai Government (RTG) will use a scheme of color coding to classify and zone villages in Thailand's three southernmost provinces. Villages where incidents of violence remain high and the RTG believes it is ge [...] | 2005-02-19 12:47:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER TH |
05BANGKOK1321 | THAILAND TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS/LABOR DEVELOPMENTS [...] (U) Summary. Senior Royal Thai police (RTP),accompanied by a post NGO anti-trafficking partner, traveled to Malaysia to enhance cooperation in countering the increasing cross-border trafficking of women and children. A low-ranking Thai policeman was convicted for trafficking a 14-year old g [...] | 2005-02-23 03:03:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KCRM KWMN PHUM PREF PREL SMIG TH TIP |
05BANGKOK1345 | Thai Customs Notifies Ports: Zero Percent Duty on [...] (SBU) Summary: Thailand's Customs Department informed Econoff on February 18 that its November 1 ruling, that ATMs that dispense cash as a core function are entitled to a zero percent import tariff under the Information Technology Agreement (ITA),had been distributed to Thailand's ports in J [...] | 2005-02-23 10:07:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON TH |
05BANGKOK1375 | THAI PRIME MINISTER RATTLED BY CRITICS OF SOUTHERN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra initially reacted to critics of his new security zoning policy in Southern Thailand (Ref A) with a blast of vulgar expletives. But strong and spreading negative public reaction to his new plan, coupled with an invigorated media focus on continuing [...] | 2005-02-24 07:37:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER TH |
05BANGKOK1425 | SPECIAL 301 REVIEW -- EMBASSY RECOMMENDS WATCH [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Overall IPR protection in Thailand remains woefully inadequate by any measure. During the past year, however, the RTG has modestly improved upon its commitments to improve IPR protection. Minister of Commerce Wattana Muangs [...] | 2005-02-25 09:24:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL ECON KIPR TH |
05BANGKOK1427 | Thailand: Customs Valuation Issues [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 18, Embassy representatives met with the Customs Department's Mr. Watana U-Thasoonthorn, Director, Customs Procedures and Valuation Directorate. Noting that some customs officers continue to assign arbitrary values to data on carrier media (CD) imports, Watana agree [...] | 2005-02-25 09:42:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON TH GATT WTRO |
05BANGKOK1431 | THAILAND: FORMER PRESIDENTS BUSH AND CLINTON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a February 19 meeting, Prime Minister Thaksin thanked former Presidents Bush and Clinton for U.S. assistance following the disaster, and highlighted the excellent cooperation between the U.S. and Thai militaries. Thaksin discussed Thai recovery efforts and plans for the aff [...] | 2005-02-25 10:50:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV TH POL MIL |
05BANGKOK1454 | THAILAND: NGO HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH ASIA HIGHLIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a hard hitting press conference on February 24, Brad Adams, executive director of the non-government organization Human Rights Watch Asia (HRW-Asia),described the trend for human rights in Thailand as "unambiguously negative." Poloff attended the press conference, as did the [...] | 2005-02-28 12:29:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS |
05BANGKOK1507 | UNESCAP: May's "High-level" Ministerial to Highlight [...] (SBU) SUMARRY: At the February 24 meeting of UNESCAP's (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific) Permanent Representatives, Executive Secretary Kim Hak-Su announced a High-level Tsunami Panel for the May 12-18 ministerial that would include select prime ministers [...] | 2005-03-01 10:10:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KUNR OVIP SENV SOCI TPHY ID IN IR FJ TH ESCAP |
05BANGKOK1527 | THAILAND: INITIAL MEDIA COVERAGE, GOVERNMENT AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Local Thai media on March 2 headlined their stories on the 2004 Human Rights Report (HRR) with variations on the theme, "US government slams Thailand's human rights performance," with special attention to incidents in the South. PM Thaksin has not commented on the HRR. Offici [...] | 2005-03-02 13:36:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KPAO TH HUMAN RIGHTS |
05BANGKOK1528 | THAILAND: SOUTH DEVELOPMENTS UPDATE, MARCH 2, 2005 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Thai Government has moved rapidly away from Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's controversial plan to allocate economic assistance based on the color coded security ratings of villages in the southern border provinces. In the face of broad condemnation of the zoning schem [...] | 2005-03-02 14:32:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER TH |
05BANGKOK1536 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR: GAO [...] (U) Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Stephen Lord, Jeffrey D. Phillips, Ann M. Ulrich and George Taylor from March 19 - 26, 2005. 2. (U) Reservations have been made at the Conrad Hotel, 87 Wireless Road, Tel: (66-2) 690-9999, Fax: (66-2) 690-9000. Room rate is USD 125 net (t [...] | 2005-03-03 03:22:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK1541 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (SBU) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for the individual listed below who has been selected to attend the following cours [...] | 2005-03-03 03:38:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK1542 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (SBU) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for the individual listed below who has been selected to attend the following cours [...] | 2005-03-03 04:04:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK1573 | THAI MFA PERMSEC SUMMONS THE AMBASSADOR OVER 2004 [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Ministry (MFA) Permanent Secretary Krit Garnjana-Goonchorn told the Ambassador March 2 that the 2004 Human Right Report (HRR) on Thailand presented government actions (at Khru Se mosque and Tak Bai) in the deep South in a misleading light by failing to place them in the c [...] | 2005-03-03 10:42:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV TH HUMAN RIGHTS |
05BANGKOK1578 | ASEAN INTER-PARLIAMENTARY BURMA CAUCUS VISITS [...] (U) Summary. Several members of the informal Association of Southeast Nations (ASEAN) Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus visited Thailand this week, hosted by Senator Kraisak Choonhavan, Chairman of the Thai Senate Foreign Relations committee. In a March 2 press conference, the Caucus called [...] | 2005-03-03 11:52:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PREF TH BM BURMA ASEAN |
05BANGKOK1600 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR: SCOTT [...] (U) Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Scott Kwak from March 5 - 11, 2005. 2. (U) Reservations have not been made per reftel as no assistance requested. 3. (U) Due to limited resources and easy availability of airport transportation, post policy does not allow for airport [...] | 2005-03-04 06:16:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TH |
05BANGKOK1601 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR: VICTOR [...] (U) Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Victor G. Raphael from March 12 - 15, 2005. 2. (U) Reservations have not been made per reftels. 3. (U) Due to limited resources and easy availability of airport transportation, post policy does not allow for airport meet and assist. [...] | 2005-03-04 06:20:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TH |
05BANGKOK1619 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CSW DECLARATION [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-04 10:33:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL TH HUMAN RIGHTS |
05BANGKOK1635 | NOTIFYING BANGKOK ABOUT APCSS SEMINARS AND [...] (U) General Stackpole, As you know, our Mission in Bangkok is a long-standing supporter of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. The courses you have organized are among the best of their type in the world. Thai alumni return better informed about vital issues of mutual concern an [...] | 2005-03-07 06:40:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AMGT TH POL MIL |
05BANGKOK1737 | PEACEFUL PROTEST IN BANGKOK 03/08/2005 [...] (U) SUMMARY: On 3/08/2005, approximately 35 individuals staged a 30-minute peaceful protest at the US Embassy in Bangkok. The protesters sought the return of an antique royal headdress, currently on loan to an exhibit in San Francisco, from the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the United States [...] | 2005-03-09 09:43:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC TH PHUM |
05BANGKOK1739 | THAI PARLIAMENT FORMALLY RE-ELECTS THAKSIN AS [...] (U) Summary: On March 9, in a vote that surprised no one, Thailand's new National Assembly chose Thaksin Shinawatra as Prime Minister, formally completing a historic re-election bid, the first time an elected Thai PM has regained the top post after a full four-year term. The over-whelmed polit [...] | 2005-03-09 10:46:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TH |
05BANGKOK1749 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (SBU) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for LTC Chumphot NURARKATE, J-3/RTSC, WCN 1482 who has been selected to attend the [...] | 2005-03-10 03:16:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK1750 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (SBU) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Lt.JG. Putporn YING-IN, Marines Division, Royal Thai Navy, WCN 1588 who has bee [...] | 2005-03-10 03:45:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK1751 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (SBU) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for LTC Weerapun JUNDOUNG, J-3/RTSC, WCN 1481 who has been selected to attend the J [...] | 2005-03-10 03:46:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK1760 | TIP/PISCES UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Washington-based Terrorist Interdiction Program(TIP)/PISCES Director Keith McCoy and Program Officer Julie Reynolds along with PISCES Thailand Coordinator Tang Penland met with Thai Immigration Bureau and National Security Council (NSC) officials February 20-25 to discuss the [...] | 2005-03-10 08:11:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV ASEC KFRD TH KRCM TIP |
05BANGKOK1765 | THAILAND: SUBSCRIPTION TO THE HCOC [...] (U) PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Nawinee Plyoni of the International Organizations Peace, Security, and Disarmament (IO/PSD) division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Nawinee confirmed that Thailand planned to subscribe to The Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Prolif [...] | 2005-03-10 09:05:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA TH MTCRE |
05BANGKOK1772 | THAILAND: PSI - SECURING THAI ENDORSEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Foreign Minister Surakiart Sathirathai on March 9. Surakiart said the RTG could not provide a definitive response over the next few days because the new government was in the process of being formed. Surakiart indicated that he would pe [...] | 2005-03-10 10:06:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PREL TH PSI |
05BANGKOK1774 | OPPOSITION MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FACES LESE MAJESTE [...] (U) Summary. A respected opposition Member of Parliament (MP),Khunying Kallaya Sophonpanich, has been summoned for questioning by Thai police on charges of lese majeste. Four others were questioned, including Democrat Party parliamentary candidate Thanom Onkhetpol, who lost in the February [...] | 2005-03-10 10:43:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM TH |
05BANGKOK1775 | THAILAND: A KINDER AND GENTLER THAKSIN? [...] (SBU) Summary: In his second term inaugural speech on March 9, Prime Minister Thaksin promised to be open to dissent, support non-governmental organizations and establish a better rapport with the press. Thaksin also told the Thai nation that he will dedicate himself to building a better s [...] | 2005-03-10 11:14:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TH TRT HUMAN RIGHTS |
05BANGKOK1817 | THAILAND: TRT MPS BEGIN THEIR ENGAGEMENT IN THE [...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Thaksin's select group of 25 Members of Parliament (MP) from his Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party has begun the work he personally assigned them to assess and develop strategies for dealing with the Muslim South. Two MPs told poloffs about their initial visit to the S [...] | 2005-03-11 11:31:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER TH |
05BANGKOK1819 | THAILAND: THAKSIN'S NEW CABINET FAMILIAR, BUT [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Thaksin unveiled the first cabinet lineup in his new administration on March 11. Many faces are familiar, but there were some surprises. This cabinet may only last until next June. If the list is approved by the King (as is likely),Foreign Minister Surikiart Sa [...] | 2005-03-14 00:07:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TH |
05BANGKOK1842 | THAI LAW SOCIETY CALLS FOR INDEPENDENT COMMISSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: One year after the disappearance of a prominent Muslim human rights attorney, the Law Society of Thailand called for Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to establish an independent committee to investigate the disappearance and presumed death of Somchai Neelapaijit. The President [...] | 2005-03-14 10:58:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS |
05BANGKOK1886 | PSI: THAIS CLOSE, BUT UNLIKELY TO ENDORSE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Royal Thai Government (RTG) continues to move towards formal endorsement of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Statement of Principles (SOP) in the near future. However, it is unlikely that the endorsement will be made before the March 21 OEG meeting in Omaha. Emb [...] | 2005-03-15 23:58:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PREL KNNP ETTC AS TH PSI |
05BANGKOK1892 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] This is an action request. 2. Joint Interagency Task Force West J33/JUSMAG THAI in conjunction with DEA Bangkok Country Office (BCO) has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for units that have been selected to participate in Exercise Fusion Torch (FT) [...] | 2005-03-16 03:05:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK1896 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (SBU) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for 1Lt. Chainarong YORDRABAM, 1st Engineer Regiment, King's Guard, WCN 1186 who ha [...] | 2005-03-16 04:11:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK1897 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Cpt. Kitsada CHITRARANGSI, Transportation Army Aircraft Maintenance Battalion, WC [...] | 2005-03-16 04:12:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK1898 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for 2Lt. Chairat ARMAT, 2nd Air Mobile Company, WCN S109 who has been selected to att [...] | 2005-03-16 04:12:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK1899 | THAI SHRIMP INDUSTRY ASKS FOR AD RELIEF [...] On March 15, the Embassy received a delegation representing the Thai shrimp industry. The delegation, comprised of the heads of several regional shrimp farmers associations, the Thai Shrimp Association, and the Thai Marine Shrimp Farmers Association, presented to the Economic Counselor a 2-p [...] | 2005-03-16 04:27:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD TH |
05BANGKOK1901 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] As authorized per Ref A, with the exception of the 25 regiment noted in Para 3 below, Embassy verifies that the Department of State possesses no credible information of Gross violations of human rights by the Royal Thai units identified below to participate in Balance Torch 05-2, as of this d [...] | 2005-03-16 04:31:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK1902 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] This is an action request. 2. Joint Interagency Task Force West J33/JUSMAG THAI in conjunction with DEA Bangkok Country Office (BCO) has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for units that have been selected to participate in Exercise Fusion Torch (FT) [...] | 2005-03-16 04:32:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK1921 | THAIS SEEK RETURN OF CLAIMED ROYAL HEADDRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Thai media and some politicians have recently called for the return to Thailand of a 500-year old royal headdress which they claim was stolen in the 1950s. The headdress is currently on display at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, on loan from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. [...] | 2005-03-16 08:48:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPAO TH |
05BANGKOK1924 | THAILAND: CHILD MARRIAGE [...] (U) The legal age of marriage for men and women in Thailand is 18. Persons under 18 may be legally married with the consent of both parents or a single surviving parent or legal guardian. In some cases, the Court can approve a legal underage marriage. This is usually granted when requested by [...] | 2005-03-16 09:06:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB PHUM PGOV SCUL SOCI KWMN TH HUMAN RIGHTS |
05BANGKOK1933 | AMBASSADOR CALLS ON FORMER PRIME MINISTER CHUAN [...] (C) Summary: During a March 8 meeting with the Ambassador, former Prime Minister and Democrat Party (DP) leader Chuan Leekpai said that Prime Minister Thaksin did not understand the problems in southern Thailand and indeed his policies were exacerbating the situation. Chuan feared that if [...] | 2005-03-16 10:52:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TH BURMA US FTA |
05BANGKOK1947 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR: STAFFDEL [...] (U) Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Staffdel Frank Januzzi from March 25 - 30, 2005. 2. (U) Reservations have been made at the Conrad Hotel, 87 Wireless Road, Tel: (66-2) 690-9999, Fax: (66-2) 690-9000. Room rate is USD 125 net (taxes and American Breakfast included) and is [...] | 2005-03-17 03:48:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP OTRA ASEC TH |
05BANGKOK1956 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Cpt. Mahaesuk CHINMART, 2nd Armor Division, King's Guard, WCN S112 who has been s [...] | 2005-03-17 07:15:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK1969 | THAI PRIME MINISTER SKIPS LUNCH DATE WITH ASSEMBLY [...] (U) SUMMARY: Newly sworn-in Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra disappointed a three-day gathering of mostly rural villagers from the Assembly of the Poor NGO by going on vacation in Japan rather than stopping by for lunch. The 900-strong peaceful demonstration in front of Thailand's Parliament [...] | 2005-03-17 08:31:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM TH TRT |
05BANGKOK2000 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for LCdr Sumate MALAMAS, Naval Rating School, WCN 6320 who has been selected to atten [...] | 2005-03-18 08:03:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2001 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Lt.JG. Prayoon ASANOK, Mine Squadron, who has been selected to attend the WCN 134 [...] | 2005-03-18 08:03:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2002 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Wg.Cdr. Niyom SUTTICHANTUK, RTAF Institute of Higher Education, Air Education and [...] | 2005-03-18 08:03:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2003 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Flt. Lt. Chayapan PULSAPYA, who has been selected to attend the following courses [...] | 2005-03-18 08:04:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2004 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Sqn. Ldr. Somphop SOOKKEE who has been selected to attend the following courses l [...] | 2005-03-18 08:04:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2005 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Gp. Capt. Dejudom KONGSRI, RTAF Institute of Higher Education, Air Education and [...] | 2005-03-18 08:04:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2006 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Cdr. Yotin TANAMOOL, Marine Security Regiment, RTMC, WCN 1584 who has been select [...] | 2005-03-18 08:04:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2010 | LOCKHEED MARTIN PROMISES COUNTERTRADE TO THAILAND [...] (C) In a March 17 meeting with Defense Minister Gen. Thamarak Isarangura Na Ayutthaya, Lockheed Martin Director for Industrial Cooperation Richard Jannarone made it clear that Lockheed Martin is willing to offer a "100 percent" countertrade deal if the RTG selects F-16 as the fighter aircraf [...] | 2005-03-18 09:12:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS MARR PREL PGOV TH POL MIL |
05BANGKOK2013 | FIGHTING TERRORIST FINANCING IN THAILAND [...] (S) The following responds to reftel A questions regarding RTG efforts to combat terrorist financing: (A) The RTG has not seized, frozen or forfeited any assets under UN Security Council resolutions 1267 or 1373. The Thai Anti-Money Laundering Act of B.E. 2542 (1999) makes "offenses related [...] | 2005-03-18 09:31:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER ETTC KTFN TH |
05BANGKOK2017 | THAILAND'S WEEK IN POLITICS, MARCH 13-18, 2005 [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Thaksin has announced the ranking of his six deputy prime ministers and delineated their individual oversight authorities. The Public Administration Act allows the Prime Minister to delegate to the deputy prime ministers, including designating the order in which they are [...] | 2005-03-18 11:47:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TG |
05BANGKOK2048 | Thailand: Coordination and Outreach on Maritime [...] (U) In response to reftel, various agencies at Post have portfolio responsibility and/or interest in maritime security. The Economic section has portfolio responsibility for maritime security from an economic policy standpoint. The Political section has responsibility for engaging and coordi [...] | 2005-03-22 00:09:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC ECON ETRD EWWT KSTC TH |
05BANGKOK2062 | THAILAND: SENIOR GOVERNMENT ADVISOR DISCUSSES THE [...] (S) SUMMARY: Ambassador and Poloffs met with Mark Tamthai, a prominent academic and senior advisor to the Thai National Security Council (NSC),to discuss RTG policy for southern Thailand. He said the Thai government, acknowledging recent policy failures, is increasingly focused on the sep [...] | 2005-03-22 08:50:00 | Embassy Bangkok | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER TH |
05BANGKOK2067 | THAILAND'S NEXT STEPS ON PROLIFERATION SECURITY [...] (SBU) On March 22, Polcouns contacted Busaya Mathelin, Deputy Director General (DDG),International Organizations (IO) Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, about the Thai decision to recall two designated Thai participants before they joined the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Oper [...] | 2005-03-22 12:00:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MNUC PARM TH PSI |
05BANGKOK2069 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] This is an action request. 2. Joint Interagency Task Force West J33/JUSMAG THAI in conjunction with DEA Bangkok Country Office (BCO) has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for units that have been selected to participate in Exercise Counter-Drug Fusi [...] | 2005-03-23 00:11:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2070 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] This is an action request. 2. Joint Interagency Task Force West J33/JUSMAG THAI in conjunction with DEA Bangkok Country Office (BCO) has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for units that have been selected to participate in Exercise Baker Torch (BT) [...] | 2005-03-23 00:12:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2087 | THAILAND: AMBASSADOR CALLS ON NEW DEMOCRAT PARTY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 21 the Ambassador met with newly installed Democrat Party (DP) leader Aphisit Wetchachiwa. Aphisit spoke candidly about mistakes made by the DP during the election and discussed how he hoped to form the party into an effective opposition to Prime Minister Thaksin's [...] | 2005-03-23 09:16:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TH US FTA BIO |
05BANGKOK2088 | THE AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH THAI NSC SECRETARY [...] (C) Summary. Thai National Security Council Secretary General Winai told the Ambassador on March 21 that after two postponements of the original August 2004 deadline for the move of the urban Burmese to the border camps, there would be no further extensions of the current deadline of March 31. [...] | 2005-03-23 09:24:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PTER PGOV TH BM BURMA |
05BANGKOK2137 | MEGAPROJECTS: WE KNOW WHY, NOBODY KNOWS HOW [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-25 05:18:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PREL TH |
05BANGKOK2189 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR: NEJDAT R. [...] (U) Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Nejdat R. Mulla from April 2 - 7, 2005. 2. (U) Reservations have not been made per reftel. 3. (U) Embassy point of contact is: David Distefano. Work phone: (66-2) 205-4715, Home: (66-2) 253-3039, cell phone: (66-7) 089-1597. Aft [...] | 2005-03-29 06:17:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TH |
05BANGKOK2219 | THE THAKSINIZATION OF THAILAND -- IMPRESSIONS [...] (C) After six and a half years away and three months back, this seems as good a time as any to review the landscape in Thaksin Shinawatra,s Thailand. For starters, there is the towering figure of the Prime Minister himself. Dominating the scene as no previous civilian leader has ever done, T [...] | 2005-03-29 23:51:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON TH US FTA |
05BANGKOK2228 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR: GAO TEAM [...] (U) Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. Robert Repasky, Mr. Kelly Baumgartner and Mr. Guy Lofaro from April 23 - April 27, 2005. 2. (U) Reservations have been made at the Hotel Sukhothai 13/3 South Sathorn Road, Bangkok 10120, Tel: (66-2) 344-8888, Fax: (66-2) 344-8899. R [...] | 2005-03-30 03:48:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP OTRA ASEC TH |
05BANGKOK2254 | EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR [...] (U) DOD (OSD/POLICY),per Ref A, has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete further human rights vetting for the 25th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division, 4th Army Area, a unit that has been selected to participate in Exercise Balance Torch (BT) 05-2 scheduled from 11 April [...] | 2005-03-30 08:55:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2255 | NATIONAL RECONCILIATION COMMISSION ANNOUNCED [...] (U) Summary: On March 28, Prime Minister Thaksin officially appointed a broad-based 48-member National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) to explore solutions to the ongoing separatist turmoil in Thailand's predominantly Muslim southern provinces. NRC Chairperson and former Prime Minister Anand [...] | 2005-03-30 09:46:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM TH NRC |
05BANGKOK2257 | THAI POLITICAL UPDATE -- MARCH 30, 2005 [...] (U) HOUSE SPEAKER'S PARLIAMENTARY PERFORMANCE HARSHLY CRITICIZED The opposition Democrat Party (DP) again walked out in protest of actions by House Speaker Bhokin Bhalakula. The latest protest occurred on March 25 when Bhokin rejected a request by Democrat Party Chief Advisor (and former [...] | 2005-03-30 09:47:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV TH |
05BANGKOK2259 | JAPANESE DFM TANAKA BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON BURMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 25 Ambassador met with visiting Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Tanaka to discuss Tanaka's recent official visit to Burma. Tanaka said he delivered "a strong message" to the SPDC on democracy and the release of ASSK. Tanaka reported that Prime Minister Soe Win did no [...] | 2005-03-30 11:21:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV BM TH ASEAN BURMA |
05BANGKOK2260 | THAILAND: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH THE [...] (U) SUMMARY: During the Ambassador's March 28 courtesy call on the leader of Thailand's official Islamic community, the Chularatchamontri stated his support for the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) headed by former Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun. The 89-year-old Muslim cleric expr [...] | 2005-03-30 11:21:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM TH BIO NRC |
05BANGKOK2261 | THAILAND: AMBASSADOR HILL'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: A/S Designate for East Asia and Pacific and U.S. Ambassador to Korea Christopher Hill met with opposition Democrat Party (DP) Deputy Leader and former Foreign Minister Dr. Surin Pitsuwan on March 29. Surin urged the U.S. to continue to pressure Thailand and ASEAN partners to seek [...] | 2005-03-30 12:00:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM TH BM BURMA ASEAN ARF NRC |
05BANGKOK2280 | UTAPAO NAVAL AIR STATION - OPPORTUNITIES FOR [...] (C) The Royal Thai Naval Air Station at Utapao represents the most strategically significant location in Thailand, and one of considerable importance regionally. In the past several years Utapao has been used to support OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM, OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM and various smaller c [...] | 2005-03-31 04:51:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL POL MIL |
05BANGKOK2318 | THAILAND'S POSITION ON BURMA AND ASEAN: NEW FACE, [...] (C) Summary: The appointment of a new foreign minister, Kantathi Suphamongkhon, will not substantially change Thailand's "constructive engagement" policy towards Burma, according to a key Foreign Ministry (MFA) official responsible for Burma. Kantathi has already publicly (and privately) mad [...] | 2005-04-01 06:19:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV TH BM ASEAN BURMA |
05BANGKOK2320 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Wg.Cdr. Piyasak SANGWONG, Foreign Language Division, Armed Forces Education Departm [...] | 2005-04-01 07:02:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2321 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Pol.Col. Peerapong DOUNGAMPORN, Division 1, Special Branch, Royal Thai Police, WC [...] | 2005-04-01 07:04:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2322 | THAILAND: THAKSIN SIGNALS SHIFT IN SOUTH POLICY [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 30, Prime Minister Thaksin, speaking to a joint session of parliament, surprised the political establishment by suggesting that the RTG would take a less security focused approach towards Thailand's troubled far south. Thaksin's conciliatory tone, with statements suc [...] | 2005-04-01 07:05:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TH |
05BANGKOK2323 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Col. Duangsuda SUKSAWAD, Counter-Terrorist Operations Center, WCN (N/A),who has [...] | 2005-04-01 07:11:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2324 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Capt. Teansiri MONTRIWADE, WCN 5003, who has been selected to attend the Counter- [...] | 2005-04-01 07:12:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2347 | THAILAND: THE WEEK IN POLITICS: MARCH 27 - APRIL [...] (SBU) Tensions within the Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party ratcheted up when members of Wang Nam Yen, Wang Nam Yom and Mod Dum Faction met for the first time at disgruntled Wang Nam Yen faction leader Sanoh Thiengthong,s residence on March 29. The group announced that it will set up a "Creative Gr [...] | 2005-04-01 10:35:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TH |
05BANGKOK2348 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR: [...] (U) Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Ambassador Dinger, Karen Chandler (S/CT) and Christopher Marut (EAP/RSP) to visit Thailand from April 5-9, 2005, to participate in the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Intersessional Meeting (ISM) on Counterterrorism and Transnational Crime. 2. [...] | 2005-04-01 11:04:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL OTRA AMGT ASEC TH |
05BANGKOK2351 | THAILAND: STAFFDEL JANUZZI VISIT TO FAR SOUTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 28-29, Senate Foreign Relations Committee professional staff member Frank Januzzi visited Thailand's southernmost Muslim majority provinces. Januzzi spoke with a variety of interlocutors and heard local views on the origins and nature of the continuing unrest, cautious [...] | 2005-04-01 11:32:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER TH NRC |
05BANGKOK2401 | THAILAND: TRIPLE BOMBING IN FAR SOUTH, APRIL 3, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The evening of April 3, three bombs exploded nearly simultaneously in the southern province of Songkhla, killing at least two and injuring scores of others. Two Americans were injured; their injuries, while serious and requiring hospitalization, are not life-threatening. Two [...] | 2005-04-04 12:12:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER CASC TH |
05BANGKOK2431 | THAI POLICY ON CHINESE REFUGEES [...] (C) Summary. The Thai government continues to refuse UNHCR access to Chinese dissident Lu Decheng for a refugee status determination interview. In their handling of Lu, the Thai are balancing human rights concerns and U.S. and UNHCR pressure against their relations with China and a belief tha [...] | 2005-04-05 08:45:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PHUM TH CH |
05BANGKOK2441 | THAILAND: RTG REACTIONS TO APRIL 3 TRIPLE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Royal Thai Government (RTG) has responded to the three bombs on April 3 that targeted Hat Yai international airport and other high-visibility targets (reftel) with heightened security nationwide and carefully calibrated words. End Summary. 2. (U) Prime Minister Thaksin [...] | 2005-04-05 11:18:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER TH |
05BANGKOK2492 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for LCdr. Pongsak TONGSAI, Marines Division, Royal Thai Navy who has been selected to [...] | 2005-04-07 07:54:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2493 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for 1Lt. Patapee RUNGRASSAMEE, 722nd Field Artillery Regiment, WCN 1112 who has been [...] | 2005-04-07 07:57:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2494 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for LCdr. Sakda WATTANATHAM, Naval Ordnance Department who has been selected to atten [...] | 2005-04-07 07:57:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2495 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Sgt. Warawuth MANEEINT, Aviation Center who has been selected to attend the follo [...] | 2005-04-07 07:59:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2496 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Sgt. Kittipong KONGKAW, 9th Air Mobile Company who has been selected to attend th [...] | 2005-04-07 07:59:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2517 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Col. Puwadol PONNARK, 3rd Special Forces Regiment, WCN N/A who has been selected [...] | 2005-04-08 02:21:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2536 | AMBASSADORS HILL AND BOYCE CALL ON NEW THAI [...] (C) Summary: A/S Designate for East Asia and Pacific Affairs Christopher Hill, accompanied by Ambassador Boyce, met with new Thai Foreign Minister Kanthati Suphamongkhon on March 30. Ambassador Hill told Kanthati that the U.S. remains committed to the six-party process in nuclear negotiati [...] | 2005-04-08 07:40:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BM TH BURMA ASEAN |
05BANGKOK2537 | AMBASSADORS HILL AND BOYCE MEET INDONESIAN [...] (C) Summary: During a March 29 meeting in Bangkok, Indonesian Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) Chairman Achmad Hasyim Muzadi told Ambassadors Hill and Boyce that the Royal Thai Government (RTG) had invited him to visit the troubled Muslim-majority southern border provinces of Thailand, speak with local [...] | 2005-04-08 07:45:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL TH |
05BANGKOK2541 | THAI INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY OBSERVERS DISCUSS [...] (S) Summary: In recent Embassy meetings with several Thai government and academic experts on Thailand's southern separatist troubles, several themes emerged: 1) the Royal Thai Government (RTG) sparked deep resentment and lost credibility among Muslims in the South after detainees taken at [...] | 2005-04-08 07:49:00 | Embassy Bangkok | SECRET | PGOV PTER TH |
05BANGKOK2572 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR: DAS J. [...] (U) Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to DAS J. Kelly Ryan to visit Thailand from April 17 - April 22, 2005. 2. (U) Reservations have been made at the Conrad Hotel, 87 Wireless Road, Tel: (66-2) 690-9999, Fax: (66-2) 690-9000. Room rate is USD 125 net (taxes and American [...] | 2005-04-11 08:42:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF OTRA TH |
05BANGKOK2575 | THAILAND: ARF ISM DISCUSSES DOCUMENT SECURITY AND [...] (U) Summary: Thailand and Canada co-chaired the third ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Inter-Sessional Meeting (ISM) on Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime April 6-8 in Bangkok, which focused on intelligence and information sharing, document security and integrity, and police and law enforcem [...] | 2005-04-11 08:57:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PREL PTER TH ARF |
05BANGKOK2600 | THAILAND: EAST ASIA SUMMIT - THAI IMPRESSIONS [...] (C) On April 12, Poloff discussed reftel questions and passed reftel points to MFA official Buskorn Prugsapongse, Director of the Economic and Policy Division, Department of ASEAN Affairs. Buskorn's comments echoed many of those provided by the Singapore Embassy in Washington, as reported in [...] | 2005-04-12 09:29:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN TH ASEAN |
05BANGKOK2601 | THAILAND: NOBEL LAUREATE SHIRIN EBADI DISCUSSES [...] (U) SUMMARY. On April 10, Iranian Nobel Peace Laureate (2003) Shirin Ebadi spoke in Bangkok. She focused a discussion attended by poloff on her experiences as a judge, lawyer and advocate for women,s rights in Iran, before and after the Islamic Revolution. She argued that many of the laws tha [...] | 2005-04-12 10:52:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SOCI IR TH IRAQ |
05BANGKOK2602 | THAILAND: MORE REPORTS OF FACTIONAL FERMENT IN THE [...] (SBU) Summary: A prominent Bangkok daily, the "Krungthep Thurakit," reported on April 12 that Thai Rak Thai (TRT) Secretary General and Transportation Minister Suriya Jungrungreankit may lose his party position at the TRT's next general meeting on April 24. Reportedly, Prime Minister Thaks [...] | 2005-04-12 11:07:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TH TRT |
05BANGKOK2603 | THAILAND: THREATENING LEAFLETS IN THE SOUTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a March 28-29 visit by Poloff to the far southern province of Pattani, Vice Governor Chanvit Vasayangkura provided a collection of leaflets which had been dropped by extremists at different locations throughout the province over the past several months. The leaflets, let [...] | 2005-04-12 11:17:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER TH |
05BANGKOK2636 | BURMESE PRO-DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT IN THAILAND: DOWN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Nearly 2,000 out of 2,707 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) persons of concern (POC) have reported to Thai immigration offices in Bangkok and three provincial offices in Northern and Western Thailand. The largest number reported to the Mae Sot immigration [...] | 2005-04-19 00:49:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF TH BM BURMA |
05BANGKOK2665 | ANTI-TERRORIST MEASURE -- RTG REQUIRES ID FOR [...] (U) Summary: In an effort to thwart or identify and arrest separatist bombers, the RTG intends to require that buyers of mobile phone SIM cards show their national ID cards to register the purchase. Following the bombings in Hat Yai and other locations in the south recently, the RTG is eage [...] | 2005-04-19 10:06:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER TH |
05BANGKOK2699 | THAILAND: COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Phantipha Iamsudha, Counselor, Social Affairs Division of the MFA International Organizations Division. Phantipha said Foreign Minister Khantathi will not be able to attend the April 28-30 Community of Democracies Ministerial in Santiago because he [...] | 2005-04-20 09:41:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM TH |
05BANGKOK2743 | AMBASSASOR DISCUSSES SECURITY ISSUES WITH DEFMIN: [...] (C) In an April 20 meeting with the Ambassador, Defense Minister Gen. Thamarak Isarangura Na Ayutthaya welcomed the recent Iraqi elections and noted his long-held belief that setting up the Iraqi Government will reduce anti-American violence there. The Ambassador noted keen interest in Wash [...] | 2005-04-21 10:32:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS MARR PREL PGOV TH IRAQ BURMA POL MIL |
05BANGKOK2749 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF PACOM CDR ADM FALLON [...] (C) Admiral Fallon, your visit to Bangkok to meet with Thai leaders and Chiang Mai to open this year's Cobra Gold exercise will allow you an opportunity to push forward a number of key U.S. foreign policy objectives. We have requested meetings for you with Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra [...] | 2005-04-22 02:34:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MASS TH |
05BANGKOK2751 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR: STAFFDEL [...] (U) Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Staffdel Woo for April 27, 2005. 2. (U) No hotel reservations have been made as Staffdel is not staying overnight. No per diem will be prepared. 3. (U) Embassy point of contact is: Michael D. Sweeney. Work phone: (66-2) 205-4 [...] | 2005-04-22 03:53:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP OTRA TH |
05BANGKOK2795 | EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR [...] (U) As authorized per Ref A, U.S. Embassy Bangkok verifies that the Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by any of the Thai units listed in Para 2, as of this date. Embassy Bangkok's Political Offic [...] | 2005-04-26 00:47:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2796 | EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR [...] (U) As authorized per Ref A, U.S. Embassy Bangkok verifies that the Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by any of the Thai units listed in Para 2, as of this date. Embassy Bangkok's Political Offic [...] | 2005-04-26 00:47:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2797 | EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR [...] (U) As authorized per Ref A, U.S. Embassy Bangkok verifies that the Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by any of the Thai units listed in Para 2, as of this date. Embassy Bangkok's Political Offic [...] | 2005-04-26 00:47:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2798 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT TO THAILAND OF USARPAC [...] (C) General Brown, your visit to Bangkok to meet with Royal Thai Army (RTA) leaders and Chiang Mai to observe this year's Cobra Gold exercise will allow you an opportunity to develop relationships with senior Thai Army officers. We have requested meetings for you with RTA CINC GEN Prawit Wo [...] | 2005-04-26 01:06:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PGOV TH POL MIL |
05BANGKOK2822 | F-16 AND RTAF FIGHTER REPLACEMENT: ELEVATING [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 20, in a meeting with 13th Air Force Commander, Major General Edward Rice and the Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) Selection Committee, Lockheed Martin (LM) executives advocated that RTAF purchase F-16s to replace their aging F-5 fighters. The presentation offered three prin [...] | 2005-04-26 08:11:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS MCAP PGOV EIND TH POL MIL |
05BANGKOK2827 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR: TRAVEL BY [...] (U) Embassy Bangkok warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Deputy Secretary of State Robert B. Zoellick and his delegation to visit Thailand May 4 - 5, 2005. 2. (U) Reservations have been made at the Four Seasons Hotel, 155 Rajadamri Road, Bangkok, Thailand 10330, Tel: (66-2) 250 [...] | 2005-04-26 08:36:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP TH |
05BANGKOK2830 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Flt. Lt. Panyapol CHAIYAPRUKE, Directorate of Personnel, RTAF who has been select [...] | 2005-04-26 08:50:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2831 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Gp. Capt. Suchin WANNAROJ Security Forces Command AirCombat Command RTAF, who has [...] | 2005-04-26 08:50:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2832 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Lt. Sirapatt BUANGBON, the Office of Policy and Planning, Min. of Defense, who ha [...] | 2005-04-26 08:50:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2833 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Col. Dittharat AMORNVITTHAVAT, the Institute of Advanced Military Studies, who ha [...] | 2005-04-26 08:50:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2834 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Col. Amnat POOKSRISUK, Army War College, who has been selected to attend the cour [...] | 2005-04-26 08:51:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2835 | THAILAND: GLOBAL FORUM ON FIGHTING CORRUPTION [...] Poloff discussed reftel with Brazilian Embassy Minister Counselor Fernando Jose de Carvalho Lopes. Lopes said that he had already been in contact with the Thai MFA regarding the June conference in Brasilia and that his Ambassador preferred that we demarche the MFA separately. Lopes said the [...] | 2005-04-26 09:03:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CPAS KCRM KFRD TH |
05BANGKOK2837 | THAILAND: QUEEN CALLS FOR UNITY AND VIGILANCE IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 23 Queen Sirikit delivered a strongly worded nationally televised address calling for an end to the violence in southern Thailand. She urged all Thais to work with the government against persons responsible for recent killings and bombings, saying the violence threate [...] | 2005-04-26 10:20:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER TH |
05BANGKOK2838 | THAILAND: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF DEPUTY [...] (C) Mr. Deputy Secretary, on behalf of the entire Embassy community, I welcome you to Bangkok. You are visiting at an opportune point in our negotiations with the Thai on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). With Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra no longer distracted by elections and firmly back [...] | 2005-04-26 10:22:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PGOV PREL PTER TH OVIP ZOELLICK ROBERT |
05BANGKOK2839 | FAMILY OF MISSING MUSLIM HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER [...] (U) SUMMARY: Mrs. Angkana Wongrachen, the wife (and presumed widow) of Muslim lawyer Somchai Neelapaijit, has alleged that, after a letter was submitted on her behalf to the UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) about the case of her missing husband, she received anonymous threatening phone c [...] | 2005-04-26 11:04:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS |
05BANGKOK2845 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Cdr. Jaray CHOMCHALAD, Naval Personnel Department, who has been selected to atten [...] | 2005-04-27 01:04:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2846 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for LCdr. Warintorn KUMHONG, Naval Personnel Department who has been selected to atte [...] | 2005-04-27 01:04:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK2862 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR: LTC LOU [...] (U) Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to LTC Lou Ortiz, EAP Military Advisor from EAP/RSP from May 1 - May 8, 2005. 2. (U) LTC Ortiz has been coordinating itinerary with DATT Bangkok, POLMIL and JUSMAG. Post understands that LTC Ortiz is making his own travel arrangements [...] | 2005-04-27 07:39:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR OTRA TH |
05BANGKOK2887 | APPROVING MILITARY INFORMATION SUPPORT TEAM [...] (C) USPACOM proposed deployment of a military information support team (MIST) to Thailand to offer military support to public diplomacy. The focus of this team will be to advise and assist the Royal Thai Army in its efforts to address ongoing unrest in southern Thailand. Post concurs and r [...] | 2005-04-28 07:14:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PGOV TH POL MIL |
05BANGKOK2922 | THAILAND EXBS LEGAL TECHNICAL FORUM [...] (U) Per reftel request, Post has proposed and confirmed that a "U.S.-Thailand Legal Technical Forum" will be held under the auspices of the Export Control and Related Border Assistance (EXBS) program, in Bangkok in mid-May. Post expects 20-30 Thai participants at the workshop, including partic [...] | 2005-04-29 11:17:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC PARM PREL KSTC TH EXBS |
05BANGKOK2925 | PSI: UPDATE ON SECURING THAI ENDORSEMENT [...] (C) Summary: After a year and a half of U.S. and other lobbying, Thailand apparently has made the basic policy decision to be more supportive of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) and is moving through the final steps towards endorsement of the PSI Statement of Interdiction Princi [...] | 2005-04-30 06:22:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PREL TH PSI |
05BANGKOK2946 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE: INR ANALYST REID DAUGHERITY [...] (U) Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Reid Daugherity, INR Analyst, from May 2 - May 13, 2005 to participate in the 2005 COBRA GOLD Exercise. 2. (U) Post has made a reservation for Mr. Daugherity at the Amari Airport Hotel the night of May 2. Confirmation number is 9948742. [...] | 2005-05-02 09:52:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL OTRA ACOA MOPS TH |
05BANGKOK3000 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Plt. Off. Thanaporn THANUPANT, Directorate of Education and Training, who has bee [...] | 2005-05-04 04:51:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK3001 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for LTC Noppol POLPATIPICHARN, Air Defense Headquarters, who has been selected to att [...] | 2005-05-04 04:51:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK3002 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for 1Lt. Tippawong RODJANATHAM, Army Training Command, who has been selected to atten [...] | 2005-05-04 04:51:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK3003 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for 1LT Thayagiat CHANARAT, 9th Air Mobile Company, who has been selected to attend t [...] | 2005-05-04 04:52:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK3004 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Maj. Weerachon SOMBOONSIN, 1st Air Mobile Company, who has been selected to atten [...] | 2005-05-04 04:52:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK3005 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for 1Lt. Suphannika VIDHAYASARONYUDH, Army Training Command, who has been selected to [...] | 2005-05-04 04:52:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK3006 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Wg. Cdr. Arunee DILOKNORANART, Directorate of Education and Training, who has bee [...] | 2005-05-04 04:53:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK3020 | PACOM COMMANDER ADM FALLON MEETING WITH NATIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a May 3 meeting with visiting PACOM Commander ADM William J. Fallon, the Chairman of Thailand's National Security Council, General Winai Phattiyakul, expressed Thailand's support for the continued "strong presence" of the US military in the Asia-Pacific region. Winai commented [...] | 2005-05-04 09:27:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL PINS PGOV TH BURMA POL MIL |
05BANGKOK3041 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR: PATRICIA [...] (U) Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Patricia Scoggs, Andrea Richhart and Teri Simpson Lojewski to attend the U.S.-ASEAN Informal Coordinating Mechanism from May 15 - May 18, 2005. 2. (U) Per Ref E-mail, USAID Regional Development Mission has made reservations at the [...] | 2005-05-06 08:14:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ECIN ETRD TH |
05BANGKOK3045 | BLUE LATERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON [...] Pol FSN made inquiries to establish the bona fides of Olympic Arm & Ammunition Co. as requested in reftel. According to the Department of Business Development of the Thai Commerce Ministry, Olympic Arm and Ammunition (Thailand) Co., Ltd. has a three person executive committee made up of Mr. C [...] | 2005-05-06 09:46:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC TH BLUE LANTERN |
05BANGKOK3073 | THAI GIVE APPROVAL TO PRM DAS RYAN FOR BURMA [...] (C) Summary. During an April 18-23 visit by PRM Bureau DAS Kelly Ryan, the Thai government gave its approval for a multi-year program to resettle Burmese refugees residing in camps along the Thai-Burma border to the United States. DAS Ryan told Thai officials that the United States wanted to [...] | 2005-05-09 09:31:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL TH BM BURMA |
05BANGKOK3074 | BURMESE DISSIDENT GROUPS IN THAILAND DENY [...] (SBU) Summary: Burmese exile groups based in Thailand have denied any connection to the bombings in Rangoon on May 7, 2005. Most speculated, without any providing any hard evidence, that former associates of ousted Prime Minister Khin Nyunt and the military intelligence services might be res [...] | 2005-05-09 09:33:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM TH BM BURMA |
05BANGKOK3082 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Mr. Auen KUNKEAW, The Supreme Court, who has been selected to attend the WCN 1908 [...] | 2005-05-10 02:52:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK3107 | THAILAND: ENCOURAGING SUPPORT FOR THE IRAQ [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Minister-Counselor Amornsate Singha, the new Director of MFA's North America Division. In subsequent conversations, Amornsate said that the Royal Thai Government (RTG) has already delivered congratulatory messages to both President Jalal Talabani a [...] | 2005-05-10 10:18:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IZ TH IRAQ |
05BANGKOK3110 | THAILAND -- DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNMANDATED [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-10 11:28:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM TH |
05BANGKOK3128 | PACOM ADM FALLON MEETING WITH FM KANTHATI: KOREAS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a May 4 meeting with visiting PACOM Commander ADM William Fallon, FM Kanthati Suphamongkhon highlighted the close long-term relationship between the U.S. and Thailand and expressed gratitude for U.S. assistance during the tsunami crisis and for continuing joint U.S.-Thai tra [...] | 2005-05-11 05:04:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PGOV MARR MASS TH BURMA DPRK POL MIL |
05BANGKOK3129 | PACOM MEETING WITH PM THAKSIN: IRAQ, F-16, CHINA, [...] (C) Summary: In a May 4 meeting with visiting PACOM Commander ADM William Fallon, PM Thaksin Shinawatra did not directly address a U.S. request for Thailand to send staff officers to the multinational headquarters in Iraq, but did suggest that Thailand might be able to provide additional su [...] | 2005-05-11 05:10:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PGOV MASS MARR TH IRAQ POL MIL BURMA |
05BANGKOK3130 | PACOM COMMANDER ADM FALLON MEETING WITH ROYAL THAI [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a May 3 meeting with Royal Thai Supreme Commander GEN Chaisit Shinawatra, PACOM Commander ADM William Fallon pressed for an answer to CJCS Gen. Myers letter requesting Thailand to send staff officers to man the multinational headquarters for Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). C [...] | 2005-05-11 05:15:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PGOV MARR MASS TH IRAQ POL MIL |
05BANGKOK3131 | PACOM COMMANDER ADM FALLON MEETING WITH NATIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a May 3 meeting with visiting PACOM Commander ADM William J. Fallon, the Chairman of Thailand's National Security Council, General Winai Phattiyakul, expressed Thailand's support for the continued "strong presence" of the US military in the Asia-Pacific region. Winai commented [...] | 2005-05-11 05:19:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL PINS PGOV TH BURMA |
05BANGKOK3143 | THAILAND: MEETING OF THE G8 CTAG [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Thailand G8 Counter-Terrorism Action Group (CTAG) held its first quarterly meeting under the Chairmanship of UK Ambassador David Fall on April 27. The group discussed joint cooperation on a wide range of counter terrorism (CT) related issues in Thailand, focusing on creati [...] | 2005-05-11 09:34:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER TH ASEAN |
05BANGKOK3144 | THAILAND: ARF MISSILE DEFENSE CONFERENCE; EAS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Poloffs met with Thai Foreign Ministry (MFA) officials to discuss planning details and next steps for the Missile Defense Conference which the Royal Thai Government (RTG) has agreed to co-host with the U.S. October 6-7 in Bangkok. The Thais expect to achieve consensus within [...] | 2005-05-11 09:50:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL TH ASEAN |
05BANGKOK3145 | NATIONAL RECONCILIATION COMMISSION RELEASES FULL [...] (U) SUMMARY: The National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) recently released the complete texts of reports authored by two government-authorized "Independent Commissions" which investigated separate high casualty incidents in 2004 in southern Thailand involving Thai security forces. In April [...] | 2005-05-11 10:17:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS NRC |
05BANGKOK3182 | THAILAND: PACOM CMDR ADM FALLON'S ROUNDTABLE ON [...] (C) Summary. On May 3, PACOM Commander ADM Fallon and the Ambassador met with a select group of Thai academics and activists to discuss the separatist insurgency in Thailand's Muslim-majority deep South. The Thai analysts spoke of tensions from Bangkok's historical efforts to integrate the M [...] | 2005-05-13 03:00:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PGOV PREL PHUM PTER TH |
05BANGKOK3185 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR [...] (U) Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Ambassador Prosper and Mr. Peter Hemsch for transit of Thailand from May 18 - May 19, 2005. 2. (U) Embassy expediter will assist upon arrival on May 18. Two reservations have been made at the Amari Airport Hotel with confirmatio [...] | 2005-05-13 03:24:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA AMGT TH |
05BANGKOK3190 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR EAP A/S [...] (U) Embassy Bangkok warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for transit travel through Thailand to EAP Assistant Secretary Christopher Hill and EAP Special Assistant Marc Koehler during the period May 18 - May 19, 2005 and on May 21, 2005. 2. (U) For the night of May 18, two single [...] | 2005-05-13 07:34:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL TH |
05BANGKOK3198 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR: [...] (U) Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to David Recker, Parvin Roushan Huda, Kevin Cummings and Laurie Magree from May 15 - 23, 2005 in order to attend the "US-Thailand Legal Technical Forum", to be held in Bangkok from May 18-20. 2. (U) As noted in reftel, hotel reservat [...] | 2005-05-13 08:37:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA PARM PREL ETTC KSTC TH |
05BANGKOK3203 | THAILAND: DEALING WITH CONSPIRACY THEORIES ABOUT [...] (S) SUMMARY: As separatist violence escalates in Thailand's deep South, USG officials must deal with the persistent and perhaps widening perception in the Thai public that the United States is fomenting the violence for its own purposes. When traveling in Thailand's southern provinces, Emb [...] | 2005-05-13 09:58:00 | Embassy Bangkok | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER TH |
05BANGKOK3205 | THAILAND: CO-CHAIRING THE ARF/ISG [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel talking points to Urawadee Sriphiromya of the MFA Department of ASEAN Affairs. Urawadee said the RTG was appreciative of the United States' willingness to con-chair the ARF/ISG in Honolulu, October 17-19, 2005, and as dialogue partners, looked forward to coordina [...] | 2005-05-13 10:31:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL AORC XB RP TH |
05BANGKOK3206 | THAILAND ISSUES STATEMENT OF SUPPORT FOR NEW IRAQI [...] (SBU) The MFA has informed Post that the RTG has issued a public statement in support of the Iraqi transitional Government. The MFA has posted the announcement on the Ministry's website (www.mfa.go.th). In addition, MFA North America Division provided post with a copy of a congratulatory D [...] | 2005-05-13 10:33:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPAO TH IRAQ |
05BANGKOK3207 | PROMINENT HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST ON WHY THAILAND'S [...] (C) Summary: In a recent meeting with the Ambassador, Dr. Gothom Ariya, who is a respected academic, human rights activist and member of the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC),expressed his views on the NRC's initial meeting, changes in the attitude of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra [...] | 2005-05-13 11:03:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER TH |
05BANGKOK3208 | MY DINNER WITH THAKSIN [...] (C) Summary: I had dinner on May 12 with Prime Minister Thaksin. He was in a receptive mode. On trade issues, Thaksin indicated that he was ready to push his ministers to reengage on all FTA issues and said there was "no problem" in lifting Thailand's ban on U.S. beef. He accepted constr [...] | 2005-05-13 11:11:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER BU TH IZ BURMA ASEAN |
05BANGKOK3243 | REVISED THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR: [...] (U) Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Amb. Prosper and Mr. Jonathan Crock from May 17 - May 20, 2005. 2. (U) Hotel reservations were made at the Amari Airport Hotel and reservation number 5421186 has been changed to reflect name of Mr. Crock. Currently, the Thai Bah [...] | 2005-05-17 02:51:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TH |
05BANGKOK3258 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Miss Chatchadapa JARURANGSAN, State Enterprise Policy Officer who has been select [...] | 2005-05-17 08:18:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK3271 | THAILAND: PM THAKSIN'S PUBLIC REMARKS ON RANGOON [...] (C) Summary: It has not been lost on Thai observers that SPDC propaganda about who is responsible for the May 7 bombings in Rangoon (Ref A) vaguely suggests Thai involvement as well as that of a "superpower nation." Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra tackled this issue on May 16 by rejecting [...] | 2005-05-18 00:11:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER BM TH ASEAN BURMA |
05BANGKOK3283 | THAILAND: DEPUTY SECRETARY ZOELLICK'S MAY 4, 2005 [...] (C) Summary: On May 4, 2005 Deputy Secretary Zoellick met with Thai Foreign Minister Kanthati Suphamongkhon at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). In an 80-minute exchange, they covered key areas for inclusion in the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations, Thai endorsement of the Proli [...] | 2005-05-18 04:03:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL PGOV ECON MARR TH |
05BANGKOK3303 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR: STAFFDEL [...] (U) Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Jamie McCormick, professional staff member to the House International Relations Committee (HIRC). Mr. McCormick will be transiting Thailand on May 28 and June 5, 2005. Per Staffdel's request, no official program or meetings are being [...] | 2005-05-18 11:17:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP ASEC TH |
05BANGKOK3313 | EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR: [...] This is an action request. 2. JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for units that have been selected to participate in the DIILS, "Human Rights/LOAC" course scheduled from May 16 - 20, 2005. To meet internal DOD advance deployment dead [...] | 2005-05-19 03:17:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK3314 | THAILAND: PM THAKSIN'S PUBLIC REMARKS ON RANGOON [...] (C) Summary: It has not been lost on Thai observers that SPDC propaganda about who is responsible for the May 7 bombings in Rangoon (Ref A) vaguely suggests Thai involvement as well as that of a "superpower nation." Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra tackled this issue on May 16 by rejecting a [...] | 2005-05-19 03:38:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER BM TH ASEAN BURMA |
05BANGKOK3327 | THAILAND: MAY 1992 DEMOCRACY HEROES TO BE [...] (SBU) Summary: Families of democracy demonstrators killed, injured or missing from a military crackdown in May 1992 laid the foundation stone for a new memorial in Bangkok. Opposition Democrat Party leader Abhisit spoke in praise of those who "sacrificed to bring democracy" to the Thai people. [...] | 2005-05-19 08:31:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS |
05BANGKOK3333 | THAIS CONTENT WITH LOCAL NEGOTIATIONS TO DEFUSE BORDER TENSIONS WITH CAMBODIA AT ANCIENT KHMER TEMPLE [...] Summary: Recent news stories about a dispute at a historically sensitive ancient Khmer temple at the border between Thailand and Cambodia inaccurately reported increased Thai troop deployments and explosion of a landmine inside the temple. Tensions at this temple site, which flare periodically, app [...] | 2005-05-19 10:31:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PREL CB TH CAMBODIA |
05BANGKOK3381 | THAILAND: REPLACEMENT OF RTG AUDITOR-GENERAL [...] (SBU) Summary: A controversy over the status of Auditor-General Khunying Charuwan Methanaka is receiving wide attention in Thailand. On May 12, citing a Constitutional Court decision voiding her original appointment, the Senate named former Finance Ministry Deputy Permanent Secretary Wisut [...] | 2005-05-20 10:37:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TH |
05BANGKOK3392 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Cdr. Peerapong TABYAM, Planning and Estimating Division, Phrachulajomklao Naval D [...] | 2005-05-24 08:14:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK3436 | THAILAND SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF SECRETARY OF [...] (C) Mr. Secretary, all of us in Bangkok look forward to your visit as an opportunity to advance a number of key U.S. foreign policy objectives. We have just finished our annual Cobra Gold exercise -- the only multilateral training exercise in the Asia-Pacific region. This year's exercise [...] | 2005-05-25 08:24:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PGOV MARR MASS TH |
05BANGKOK3439 | (UNITS TO STATE) EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN [...] This is an action request. 2. Joint Interagency Task Force West J33/JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for units that have been selected to participate in Exercise Balance Torch 05-3 scheduled from 18 July to 23 Sept. 2005. To meet i [...] | 2005-05-25 08:50:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK3471 | THAILAND: TRT FACTIONAL TENSIONS FLARE OVER [...] (SBU) Summary: Opposition to Thai Senate efforts to replace popular Auditor-General Charuvan -- up to now led by the Democrat Party (DP) -- has been taken up by one of the ruling Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party's key factions. Powerful TRT faction leader Sanoh Thienthong has drawn Prime Minister [...] | 2005-05-26 11:19:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TH TRT |
05BANGKOK3500 | THAILAND: ICJ ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Per reftel instructions, on May 16 Poloffs delivered diplomatic note seeking RTG support for the reelection of Judge Buergenthal to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to the MFA North America Division. 2. (SBU) Poloff subsequently discussed reftel talking points with Phaspor [...] | 2005-05-27 11:14:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL TH |
05BANGKOK3521 | THAILAND: NATIONAL COUNTER CORRUPTION [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 30, eight commissioners of the National Counter Corruption Commission (NCCC) resigned under a cloud. A ninth commissioner had resigned earlier, shortly after the Supreme Court of Justice's Criminal Division for Persons Holding Political Positions ruled (6 to 3) on May [...] | 2005-05-31 04:54:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TH NCCC |
05BANGKOK3522 | COMMUNITY RADIO IN THAILAND: CRACKDOWN OR CROSSED [...] (U) SUMMARY: An estimated 2,000 (maybe 3,000) unregistered community radio stations continue to broadcast popular news and "call in" talk shows without a legal regulatory framework. Appointment of a National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) remains stalled in the Thai Senate. Although the Royal [...] | 2005-05-31 05:35:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KPAO TH |
05BANGKOK3588 | NOMINATION OF MICHAEL D. SWEENEY FOR THE POWELL [...] (U) I nominate Michael D. Sweeney for consideration as one of the EAP Bureau's nominees for the Powell Fellows Program. Michael is a tenured FS-03 Foreign Service generalist who has distinguished himself while working in the Consular and Political sections in Embassy Bangkok. He is the type [...] | 2005-06-01 08:56:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | APER |
05BANGKOK3590 | THAILAND: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON SUSPENSION OF [...] (C) On May 27, PolCouns conveyed reftel para 8 talking points to Chakarin Chayabongse, Deputy Director General, East Asian Affairs Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Chakarin expressed appreciation for the official notification of suspension of the U.S. remains recovery program in N [...] | 2005-06-01 10:29:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KN KS TH DPRK |
05BANGKOK3592 | THAILAND: SUSPECTED JI MEMBERS FOUND NOT GUILTY [...] (C) Maisuri Haji Abdulloh and three other suspected Thai Jemaah Islamayah (JI) members on trial in Bangkok on charges of plotting to bomb Western embassies and other targets in Thailand were found "not guilty" on June 1 in a Bangkok court. One of the defense attorneys, Witthaya Buranasin of [...] | 2005-06-01 11:09:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER TH |
05BANGKOK3622 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Gp. Capt. Saisak KANPACHAI, Directorate of Joint and Combined Exercises who has b [...] | 2005-06-03 01:44:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK3623 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Paijit SAVASDISARA, The Supreme Court, who has been selected to attend the WCN 29 [...] | 2005-06-03 01:44:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK3624 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Capt. Yanapan BOOBPAMALA, 9th Air Mobile Company who has been selected to attend [...] | 2005-06-03 01:45:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK3625 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Capt. Atit Tanyanon, Infantry School, who has been selected to attend the WCN 111 [...] | 2005-06-03 01:45:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK3633 | THAILAND: VIOLENCE IN THE SOUTH: VISIT TO SONGKHLA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff visited the far southern province of Songkhla and the Muslim majority province of Satun May 23-24. Satun province has avoided the violence plaguing the three other Muslim majority Thai provinces despite a similar population and geographical location. A separate historic [...] | 2005-06-03 06:44:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER TH |
05BANGKOK3635 | THAILAND: NCCC RESIGNATIONS SPUR MOVES TO AMEND [...] (SBU) Summary: The Thaksin administration and the political opposition are both drafting proposals for a constitutional amendment on the selection process for the National Counter Corruption Commission (NCCC),from which all nine National Counter Corruption Commissioners resigned following [...] | 2005-06-03 06:59:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TH NCCC |
05BANGKOK3704 | THAILAND-DPRK RELATIONS: RTG SEES ITSELF AS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-06 10:41:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PARM PHUM KN KS TH DPRK |
05BANGKOK3722 | SECRETARY RUMSFELD'S MEETING WITH THAI MINISTER [...] (C) Summary. Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld met with Thai Defense Minister Thamarak Isarangura Na Ayutthaya on June 6 in Bangkok. SecDef said: 1) the strong history of U.S.-Thai military cooperation facilitated the impressive response to the December 26 tsunami; 2) the U.S. hopes that Tha [...] | 2005-06-07 01:00:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL OVIP PARM PTER MASS TH PSI |
05BANGKOK3725 | SECRETARY RUMSFELD'S MEETING WITH THAI PRIME [...] (C) Summary: Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld met on June 6 with Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra at Government House in Bangkok. Secretary Rumsfeld 1) encouraged Thailand to endorse the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Statement of Principles; 2) sought PM Thaksin's insights into [...] | 2005-06-07 01:38:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PARM OVIP TH PSI |
05BANGKOK3744 | GUIDANCE REGARDING TWO NORTH KOREAN SISTERS IN [...] (C) Per ref a request, on June 7 Refcoord told UNHCR Regional Representative Hasim Utkan that the U.S. would consider refugee referrals of the two North Korean sisters reportedly in Cambodia if UNHCR determines that it is in their best interest to travel to the United States. 2. (C) Utkan s [...] | 2005-06-07 08:19:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM KN KS CB DPRK |
05BANGKOK3745 | VOLUNTARY AND FORCED REPATRIATION OF MONTAGNARDS [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) In June 7 discussion with UNHCR Regional Representative Hasim Utkan on other matters, Refcoord took the opportunity to pass along reftel guidance regarding U.S. policy on voluntary and forced repatriation of Montagnards in Cam [...] | 2005-06-07 08:21:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF VM CB CAMBODIA |
05BANGKOK3790 | THAILAND: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON UN DEMOCRACY FUND [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on the UN Democracy Fund and discussed reftel points with Suvat Poopatanapong, Counselor of the International Organization Peace Security and Disarmament Division at MFA. Suvat said the MFA had passed our request to the Thai UN Perm Reps in New York. [...] | 2005-06-09 07:14:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM TH |
05BANGKOK3799 | SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING [...] (C) Ref A) requests Department action for human rights vetting for the 5th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division of the 4th Army of the Royal Thai Army. As noted in ref A),the unit is scheduled to participate in Exercise Balance Torch 05-3. The Department has requested further informati [...] | 2005-06-09 11:18:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK3802 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for LtG Pamook U-THAICHAYA, Special Warfare Command, who has been selected for an Of [...] | 2005-06-10 00:59:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK3803 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Ltc Chartchai CHAIGASAM, Special Warfare Command, who has been selected for an O [...] | 2005-06-10 01:00:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK3804 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Col. Chetta TRONGDEE, 2nd Special Forces Regiment, who has been selected for an O [...] | 2005-06-10 01:01:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK3805 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for MG. Podok BUNNAG, 1st Special Forces Division, who has been selected to an Offic [...] | 2005-06-10 01:01:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK3806 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Sqn.Ldr. Tawatchai MAKPANICH, RTAF Academy, Air Education and Training Command wh [...] | 2005-06-10 01:05:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK3807 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Flt.Lt. Silath REANMANEE, Directorate of Civil Affairs who has been selected to a [...] | 2005-06-10 01:05:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK3808 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for AM Decha Hunhaboon, Royal Aide-de-Camp Department, who has been selected to atten [...] | 2005-06-10 01:06:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK3810 | EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR [...] (U) As authorized per Ref A, U.S. Embassy Bangkok verifies that the Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by any of the units from the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Army Areas identified in Par [...] | 2005-06-10 01:15:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK3829 | EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR: [...] This is an action request. 2. JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for units that have been selected to participate in the following courses and to meet internal DOD advance deployment deadlines, they have requested that the review of h [...] | 2005-06-10 05:49:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK3846 | THAILAND TO CONTINUE PUSH TO SERVE AS "MEDIATOR" [...] (C) On the margins of an MFA briefing on the recent OIC visit to Thailand (septel) the chief of the MFA's ASEAN Affairs Policy Section, Suriya Chindawongse, pulled poloff aside to discuss North Korea (DPRK). Suriya repeated remarks made during recent high-level U.S./Thai meetings (reftels) [...] | 2005-06-10 08:18:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR MASS TH DPRK |
05BANGKOK3850 | AMCITS RELEASED IN LAOS HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE IN BANGKOK [...] (U) SUMMARY: Three US citizens, recently detained in Vientiane after trying to assist with the surrender of approximately 170 Hmong and Khmu in Laos, held a press conference on June 9 describing the events of June 4 and 5 (Reftels). Ed and Georgie Szendrey gave an emotional account of their " [...] | 2005-06-10 08:55:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PREF CASC TH LA HUMAN RIGHTS |
05BANGKOK3852 | THAILAND: RTG SUBMITS CORRUPTION COMMISSION [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government's draft constitutional amendment to revise the selection process for the National Counter Corruption Commission (NCCC) easily passed its first reading in Parliament on June 8. The opposition Democrat Party (DP) proposed a different version of constitutional ame [...] | 2005-06-10 09:53:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TH |
05BANGKOK3854 | THAILAND: MFA BRIEFS ON OIC DELEGATION VISIT TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 9, the Foreign Ministry (MFA) briefed the Diplomatic Corps regarding the ongoing visit of a delegation from the Organization of The Islamic Conference (OIC) looking into the Tak Bai incident and unrest in southern Thailand. The Royal Thai Government (RTG) emphasized t [...] | 2005-06-10 10:17:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER TH |
05BANGKOK3890 | THAILAND: DRIVING FORWARD ON TRAFFIC SAFETY [...] Summary: The upcoming International Road Federation (IRF) meeting in Bangkok this June affords an opportunity to engage Royal Thai Government (RTG) contacts and consider USG follow- up work on traffic safety in Thailand, including the status of two US Trade and Development Agency (TDA) projects [...] | 2005-06-13 09:56:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ELTN ECON ETRD PREL SOCI TH |
05BANGKOK3930 | (C) THAILAND: ALLEGED USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS [...] (S) Summary: The senior Thai Foreign Ministry (MFA) official covering Burma told poloffs that the Royal Thai Government (RTG) has no hard evidence confirming the reported use of chemical weapons by the Burmese Army against ethnic Karenni soldiers near the Thai border in February 2005. These [...] | 2005-06-14 10:48:00 | Embassy Bangkok | SECRET | PINR MOPS PHUM TH BM BURMA |
05BANGKOK3945 | WORKING WITH THAILAND TO ENGAGE OTHER MILITARIES [...] (C) SUMMARY. Thailand affords the United States a unique platform in Asia to work jointly with other Asian military forces, including those from Japan and Indonesia, and to conduct multinational peacekeeping, disaster relief and other exercises. Our largest exercise, Cobra Gold, is America [...] | 2005-06-15 09:44:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR MASS TH POL MIL |
05BANGKOK3963 | BIG COMPROMISES PUSH JAPAN-THAI FTA INTO FINAL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary. As the negotiation of the Japan-Thailand Economic Partnership Agreement (JTEPA) enters its final stages, Thai and Japanese negotiators have moderated some key demands to avoid a stalemate. A Japanese economic officia [...] | 2005-06-16 08:47:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR ETRD EINV TH |
05BANGKOK3992 | TALKING POINTS DELIVERED: UN REFORM & PROMOTING [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-17 07:52:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | KUNR PREL PGOV AORC TH UNSC |
05BANGKOK3993 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Lieutenant General Nipat THONGLEK, Office of Policy and Planning, MOD who has bee [...] | 2005-06-17 07:53:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK3994 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Mr. Chinnavuthi KHAWSUMLEE, Ministry of Interior, who has been selected to attend [...] | 2005-06-17 07:54:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK4001 | THAKSIN RUNS INTO POLITICAL TURBULENCE [...] (SBU) Just over four months since his massive election victory, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is looking much less like the invincible politician who easily swept back into power. The opposition is tenaciously pursuing corruption questions regarding purchase of security equipment for th [...] | 2005-06-17 08:59:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV TH |
05BANGKOK4028 | THAI MFA OFFICIAL: NO CHANGE IN POLICY TOWARD SHAN [...] (C) Summary. The Burma desk officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) stated that despite the Royal Thai Government's (RTG) pushback of approximately 450 Shan refugees to the Burmese side of the border last week, there is "no change in Thai policy" in providing temporary protection and [...] | 2005-06-20 08:53:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PHUM PBTS TH BM BURMA |
05BANGKOK4063 | UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON BURMA TO SPDC: WHAT DO [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a visit to Bangkok, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Burma, expressed frustration with Burma's ruling State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) and called upon the Burmese junta to clarify what steps they plan to take in the democratic r [...] | 2005-06-21 11:04:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM TH BM BURMA |
05BANGKOK4066 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Lt. Bunnarasi SIRIRAM, Directorate of Join Civil Affairs, who has been selected t [...] | 2005-06-22 01:10:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK4067 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for MG Chaiwat SATONDEE, NSC, who has been selected to attend the WCN 1201, PK for De [...] | 2005-06-22 01:10:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK4107 | REFORMING THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION DEMARCHE [...] (C) Poloff delivered Reftel talking points to Dusit Manapan, Counselor in the Social Division of the Department of International Organizations (IO),Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dusit passed the talking points to the Deputy Director General for IO. At this time the MFA is not taking a positi [...] | 2005-06-23 05:42:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KUNR TH UNCHR |
05BANGKOK4108 | THAILAND: NRC HEAD ANAND PANYARACHUN DISCUSSES [...] (S) SUMMARY: On June 15, the Ambassador met with Anand Panyarachun -- the highly respected former Prime Minister and current head of the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) -- to discuss the ongoing unrest in southern Thailand and Anand's role in RTG's efforts to end the violence. Anan [...] | 2005-06-23 05:53:00 | Embassy Bangkok | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV TH |
05BANGKOK4118 | VIOLENCE IN SOUTHERN THAILAND MARKED BY INCREASE [...] (U) Summary: Assailants, suspected to be Muslim separatists, beheaded a Thai civilian in broad daylight at a teashop in Narathiwat province on June 22, the fifth beheading of civilians, all believed to be Buddhist, during this month. Three male Muslim volunteer teachers were shot to death at [...] | 2005-06-23 08:15:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PTER TH |
05BANGKOK4205 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR: EAP DAS [...] (U) Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to EAP DAS Eric John from July 4 - July 7, 2005. 2. (U) Hotel reservations have been made at the Conrad Hotel, All Seasons Place, 87 Wireless Road, Bangkok, Tel: (66-2) 690-9999, Fax: (66-2) 690-9000). Currently, the Thai Baht is a [...] | 2005-06-28 07:48:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ASEC TH |
05BANGKOK4220 | THAILAND: UPDATE ON CONTROVERSIAL PAK MUN DAM [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 15, Poloffs visited Ubon Ratchathani province, where the controversial Pak Mun Dam is located. Representatives of an NGO alleged that the Pak Mun Dam has disrupted local fishing and farming communities, without producing anticipated levels of electricity and water. The [...] | 2005-06-29 05:31:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PGOV SOCI EFIS TH |
05BANGKOK4238 | THAILAND: CENSURE OF TRANSPORT MINISTER ENDS IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Thai Parliament voted overwhelmingly and along party lines not to censure Transport Minister Suriya Jungrungreangkit for irregularities related to bribes reportedly paid by InVision Corporation to win a procurement contract for airport scanners at Bangkok's new international [...] | 2005-06-29 10:48:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TH |
05BANGKOK4266 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Col. Pradiyuth KLINSRISOOK, Counter Terrorist Operations Center, Supreme Command, [...] | 2005-06-30 08:34:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK4267 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for the individuals listed in Para. 3 who has been selected to attend the courses as [...] | 2005-06-30 08:34:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK4268 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Cpt. Jirayut KONGTARAT, Cavalry School, who has been selected to attend the WCN 1 [...] | 2005-06-30 08:35:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK4269 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for 1LT. Mathawee SRIPAKHO, Jukapong Fort Hospital, who has been selected to attend t [...] | 2005-06-30 08:35:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK4270 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for 1Lt. Montira YIMSOMBOON, Army Training Command, who has been selected to attend t [...] | 2005-06-30 08:35:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK4271 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for 1Lt. Sirinipat MARNOOT, Quartermaster Department, who has been selected to attend [...] | 2005-06-30 08:35:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK4284 | THAKSIN CONSIDERS CABINET CHANGES FOLLOWING [...] (U) Summary: Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra appears ready to make the first changes to his cabinet since his re-election in February. Following an unsuccessful censure motion against his Minister of Transportation, the move is expected in mid-July and could likely involve the Transportatio [...] | 2005-06-30 09:24:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TH |
05BANGKOK4286 | ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALIST SHOT IN TSUNAMI-HIT AREA [...] (U) SUMMARY: A reporter for a popular daily newspaper survived an attempt on his life near his home in the tsunami-affected province of Phang Nga on June 1. The attack SIPDIS occurred following his publication of articles about land encroachment on public forest lands by influential busine [...] | 2005-06-30 09:25:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KPAO TH |
05BANGKOK4324 | SCENESETTER FOR THE SECRETARY'S VISIT TO THAILAND [...] (C) Madame Secretary, all of us in Thailand look forward to your visit to Phuket. The Royal Thai Government is particularly enthusiastic about hosting you: Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (Prime Minister TOCK-sin) and Foreign Minister Kantathi Suphamongkhon (Minister KHAN-ta-tee) plan to [...] | 2005-07-01 07:31:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL OVIP TH |
05BANGKOK4332 | ISLAMIC CONFERENCE TONES DOWN CRITICISM OF THAILAND [...] (C) SUMMARY. The RTG appears to have been successful in getting criticism of its practices in Southern Thailand toned down. On June 29, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) released its report on the conditions of Thai Muslims in Thailand,s southern provinces, at the 32nd Session [...] | 2005-07-01 09:30:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI TH |
05BANGKOK4367 | THAILAND: PARLIAMENT AMENDS CONSTITUTION; CRIMINAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Thai Parliament approved a constitutional amendment revising the method for selecting the nation's National Counter Corruption Commission, the nation's chief independent corruption monitor. Based on petitions filed by members of the opposition Democrat Party, the Office of th [...] | 2005-07-05 08:30:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV TH |
05BANGKOK4402 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR: VANESSA [...] (U) Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Vanessa W. Golding from July 13 - July 23, 2005. 2. (U) Hotel reservations have been made for dates listed below at: Conrad Hotel, All Seasons Place 87 Wireless Road, Bangkok Tel: (66-2) 690-9999 Fax: (66-2) 690-9000 From [...] | 2005-07-06 08:09:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TH |
05BANGKOK4429 | THAILAND: INITIAL POSITIVE RESPONSE TO GLOBAL [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-07 08:42:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR KPKO MASS PGOV TH GPOI |
05BANGKOK4430 | HMONG GROUP IN THAILAND'S PETCHABOON PROVINCE [...] This is an action request. Please see para. 15. 2. (C) Summary. The 6,000 Hmong who have congregated in Thailand,s northern province of Petchaboon have entered Thailand at different times and for different reasons. It is unclear how many are recent arrivals from Laos who have fled persec [...] | 2005-07-07 08:48:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL TH |
05BANGKOK4467 | THAILAND: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON G-4 FRAMEWORK [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-08 10:33:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL TH UNSC |
05BANGKOK4468 | THAILAND: DELIVERY OF STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-08 10:34:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL SN TH |
05BANGKOK4508 | THAI GOVERNMENT LETTER APPROVING U.S. RESETTLEMENT [...] On July 8, Embassy received a letter from General Winai Phattiyakul, Secretary-General of the Thai National Security Council, which gives formal Thai government approval for the USG to undertake resettlement from the Thai-Burma border refugee camps. This letter responds to a May 2, 2005 letter [...] | 2005-07-12 08:55:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL TH BURMA |
05BANGKOK4596 | COORDINATED ATTACKS IN YALA; NEW SECURITY LAW TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 14, suspected Muslim separatist insurgents launched a series of coordinated attacks in the far southern Thai province of Yala. The militants targeted Thai security forces, power transformers and public buildings with bombing, shooting and arson attacks. Two police were [...] | 2005-07-15 10:56:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER TH |
05BANGKOK4608 | THAILAND: RESPONSE TO CCIT DEMARCHE [...] (U) Poloffs delivered reftel demarche to Komgrit Varakamin, Director of the Peace, Security and Disarmament Division. Komgrit would not offer a specific commitment of Thai support for the CCIT Convention. However, he did say that it was Thailand's policy to comply with all international te [...] | 2005-07-18 02:34:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER TH UNGA |
05BANGKOK4643 | THAILAND: TALKING POINTS ON G-4 RESOLUTION ON UN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-19 03:48:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OTRA KSEP TH UNGA |
05BANGKOK4646 | CONFIDENT OPPOSITION LEADER SENSES THAKSIN [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met with opposition leader and Democrat Party (DP) head Abhisit Vejjajiva over tea on July 14. This was not the dispirited Abhisit we had met with in the wake of his party's shattering defeat at the hands of Prime Minister Thaksin's Thai Rak Thai (TRT) juggernaut e [...] | 2005-07-19 03:48:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TH |
05BANGKOK4653 | EMERGENCY DECREE UNVEILED; NATIONAL RECONCILIATION [...] (C) Summary: The RTG unveiled its new Emergency Decree to the Diplomatic Corps at a July 18 briefing. MFA Permanent Secretary Krit Garnjana-Goonchorn characterized the decree as SIPDIS "consistent with the Constitution" and subject to checks. He said that the RTG is drafting an explanat [...] | 2005-07-19 10:04:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TH |
05BANGKOK4695 | ASEAN PROPOSAL FOR AN ENHANCED PARTNERSHIP WITH [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered points contained in reftel to MFA Department of ASEAN Affairs Director Nopporn Adchariyavanich on July 20. Nopporn noted that the Thai proposal for an enhanced ASEAN-U.S. partnership had been raised at the ASEAN-U.S. Dialogue in Washington last month and has the appro [...] | 2005-07-21 09:45:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL TH |
05BANGKOK4696 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES THE SOUTH WITH DEPUTY PRIME [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 15, Ambassador met with Deputy Prime Minister Chaturon Chaisaeng to discuss the situation in southern Thailand. Chaturon spoke frankly, and often critically, of the Thaksin Administration's handling of the situation in the South. Chaturon, a member of the National Rec [...] | 2005-07-21 09:47:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER TH |
05BANGKOK4697 | RTG REDUCES AREAS UNDER EMERGENCY DECREE AND [...] (SBU) Summary: The RTG formally lifted martial law in the deep south and declared the southernmost provinces of Narathiwat, Yala and Pattani as an "area of extreme emergency." Contradicting earlier indications, the Cabinet decided not to implement the decree in any part of Songkhla provinc [...] | 2005-07-21 09:52:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TH |
05BANGKOK4723 | TRIAL BEGINS IN LIBEL CASE FOR RESPECTED THAI [...] (C) SUMMARY. On July 19, witnesses for the prosecution began their arguments in the case of Shincorp versus Thai media activist Supinya Klangnarong. Supinya is being sued for libel over comments that she made in a 2003 interview with the Thai Post. Supinya told Poloffs she was disappointed [...] | 2005-07-22 09:46:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KPAO PINS PROP TH HUMAN RIGHTS |
05BANGKOK4778 | THAILAND: VISIT TO FAR SOUTH JULY 18-19 [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 18-19 Poloff and DRL/PHD Foreign Affairs Officer Vanessa Golding visited the far southern Thai provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Songkhla. Officers heard widespread concern that the deteriorating security situation is increasing tension between the Buddhist and Musli [...] | 2005-07-26 09:19:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER TH |
05BANGKOK4780 | CHINA REVALUES; THAI BUSINESS SHRUGS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-26 10:04:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD ECON CH TH |
05BANGKOK4784 | THAI DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER RAISES ASEAN [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister Surikiart Sathiritai told the Ambassador on July 26 afternoon that he had made a strong representation to Burmese leaders during his visit to Rangoon the day before, telling them that their rumored intention to further delay their decision to forgo the ASEA [...] | 2005-07-26 10:45:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM TH BM BURMA |
05BANGKOK4785 | UNSC REFORM: DEMARCHE AGAINST G-4 RESOLUTION [...] (C) In the absence of Foreign Minister Kantathi, who was attending the ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting in Vientiane, Ambassador spoke with MFA Permanent Secretary Krit Garnjana-Goonchorn to solicit an RTG vote against or abstention on the G-4 resolution. Krit took the Ambassador's comments [...] | 2005-07-26 10:48:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | KUNR PGOV PREL TH UNGA UNSC |
05BANGKOK4796 | CORRECTED VERSION: THAILAND'S NATIONAL DISASTER [...] Summary: Thailand's new National Disaster Warning Center (NDWC) issued a "Tsunami Watch" immediately following the 7.2 Richter magnitude earthquake near Nicobar Island in the Indian Ocean late at night on July 24. The "watch" prompted local officials to evacuate residents and tourists in some [...] | 2005-07-27 01:24:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY TSPL PREL SENV EAID KSCA TH |
05BANGKOK4818 | THAI JUDICIAL COMMISSION UNANIMOUSLY ELECTS NEW [...] (U) On July 25, the Thai Judicial Commission (JC) unanimously elected Mr. Chanchai Likhitjittha, 59, to be the new President of the Supreme Court. Chanchai will replace Mr. Supphachai Phoo-ngam, who will retire on September 30. Chanchai has served on the Supreme Court since 1998, and is curre [...] | 2005-07-27 08:41:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI TH |
05BANGKOK4822 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Miss Nuttanun LAPANUN, State Enterprise Policy Office, who has been selected to a [...] | 2005-07-27 09:12:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK4823 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Col. Vit CHAROENSIRI, Counter Terrorist Operations Center, who has been selected [...] | 2005-07-27 09:13:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK4824 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for 1st. Lt. Sasitha KITCHAWEE, Royal Aide-de-Camp Department, who has been selected [...] | 2005-07-27 09:14:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK4825 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Lt. Kampon CHANDUAYKIJ, Frigate Sq. 1, who has been selected to attend the follow [...] | 2005-07-27 09:19:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK4826 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Sqn. Ldr. Sorrayuth CHANTARACHA, who has been selected to attend the WCN 2229, In [...] | 2005-07-27 09:20:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK4827 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Wg.Cdr. Suchada Wattanawanyoo (WRTAF),who has been selected to attend the WCN 62 [...] | 2005-07-27 09:21:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK4828 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Capt. Somchai KAWINFUANGFUKUL, Naval Special Warfare Group, who has been selected [...] | 2005-07-27 09:22:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK4829 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Gp. Capt. Nuanpong TIENTONG (WRTAF),Directorate of Education and Training, who h [...] | 2005-07-27 09:23:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK4842 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR SHARI [...] (U) Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Chief of Mission designate Shari Villarosa from August 27 - 31, 2005. 2. (U) Hotel reservations have been made at: Four Seasons Hotel (Former Regent Hotel) - Confirmation No: 414825 155 Rajadamri Road, Bangkok Tel: (66-2) 251 [...] | 2005-07-28 04:09:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TH |
05BANGKOK4850 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR TRANSIT OF: [...] (U) Bangkok warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for the transit of CODEL Wexler on August 1 and August 4/5, 2005. 2. Per reftel, hotel reservations are not required. Expediter will meet and assist Codel Wexler upon his arrival in Bangkok via TG 921 on August 1 at 0645 and same [...] | 2005-07-28 07:35:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OVIP TH |
05BANGKOK4864 | THAKSIN AND NRC HEAD ANAND TO DISCUSS ON TV [...] (U) Summary: On July 28 Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) head and former Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun will discuss on national television the ongoing violence in Thailand's south, the RTG's Emergency Decree and the NRC's proposals to end the [...] | 2005-07-28 09:25:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PTER TH |
05BANGKOK4901 | SOUTHERN THAILAND VIOLENCE: THAKSIN AND ANAND [...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) head and former Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun traded views on the Thailand's southern violence over national television on July 28 evening. They debated the root causes of the violence, the new [...] | 2005-07-29 11:17:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PTER TH |
05BANGKOK4902 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Ltc. Ronawee HIRUNSI Army Training Command, RTA, who has been selected to attend [...] | 2005-07-29 11:19:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK4903 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Cpt. Jarae SAPTHIANG, 111st Engineer Battalion, who has been selected to attend t [...] | 2005-07-29 11:20:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK4904 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Cpt. Krit POOLSIN, 1st Infantry Division, King's Guard, who has been selected to [...] | 2005-07-29 11:20:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK4946 | THAILAND: CABINET SECRETARY-GENERAL DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary: During tea with the Ambassador on July 28, RTG Cabinet Secretary-General Dr. Borwornsak Uwanno took issue with critics of the recently enacted emergency decree, saying that it contained legal safeguards and will be applied sparingly and only when absolutely necessary. Dr. Borwo [...] | 2005-08-02 04:50:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER TH |
05BANGKOK4998 | THAILAND: THAKSIN'S FIRST CABINET RESHUFFLE [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Thaksin unveiled the first reshuffled cabinet of his second administration on August 2. Though Thaksin made a significant number of changes within his cabinet, there were few new faces. Ostensibly, the reshuffle sought to demonstrate Thaksin's resolve to confront [...] | 2005-08-03 10:20:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TH |
05BANGKOK5017 | ASEAN: MFA PUTS SPIN ON MEETING - PUSHES THAI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an unusual move, the MFA summoned the diplomatic corps to a briefing on the results of the recently completed ASEAN Ministerial, Post Ministerial, ASEAN plus Three and ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF). The MFA touched on Rangoon's decision to forgo its turn as ASEAN Chair, UN re [...] | 2005-08-04 09:32:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TH |
05BANGKOK5018 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: US PROPOSAL FOR STANDING UN [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Mr. Peerasak Chantavarin, Director, Social Division of the Department of International Organizations (IO),MFA, and Mr. Chakkrid Krachaiwong, First Secretary, Department of American and South Pacific Affairs (AA),MFA. Thai officials were well-versed on [...] | 2005-08-04 09:52:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | KUNR PHUM PREL PGOV TH |
05BANGKOK5020 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SPEAKING OUT ON GITMO AND [...] (C) Upon receipt of reftel, Embassy has done the following: -- Incorporated talking points for possible use in relevant high-level meetings with senior RTG officials; -- Discussed main points with working level counterparts in the RTG (See para 2); -- Post also ant [...] | 2005-08-04 10:00:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM PINR PINS TH |
05BANGKOK5077 | The Future of Thailand's Automotive Sector [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-08 09:06:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV PGOV PREL KIPR TH |
05BANGKOK5095 | DEMARCHE ON PROPOSED EXCHANGE OF LETTERS ON TREATY [...] (C) Reftel demarche was delivered on August 9 to Dr. Virachai Plasai, Deputy Director General at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Department of International Economic Affairs. Virachai expressed appreciation for the "clear USG effort to consider the RTG's views and concerns on this matter" and [...] | 2005-08-09 08:52:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EINV PREL TH |
05BANGKOK5096 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MS. MELISSA FRANCIS [...] (U) EMBASSY WELCOMES AND GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO MS. MELISSA FRANCIS, NEP, TO TRAVEL TO BANGKOK, THAILAND O/A SEPTEMBER 8 OCTOBER 12, 2005. PURPOSE OF THIS TRAVEL IS TO COVER THE PROGRAM OFFICE AT USAID RDM/A. 2. (U) HOTEL RESERVATION IS MADE AT CENTER POINT ON WIRELESS ROAD. PER DI [...] | 2005-08-09 08:53:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID |
05BANGKOK5128 | APEC RADIOACTIVE SOURCES INITIATIVE DEMARCHE: RTG [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 3. 2. (SBU) Poloff delivered demarche (reftel A) to Chutintorn Gongsakdi, Director of International Economic Policy at MFA; Katanawadee Kalayanamit, International Organizations/Peace, Security and Disarmament Division at MFA; and Amornsate [...] | 2005-08-10 05:07:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PARM ETTC KSTC EAID ETRD ECIN TH APECO IAEA |
05BANGKOK5144 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Capt. Patchara WAT-AKSORN, Royal Thai Navy Language Center, who has been selected [...] | 2005-08-10 09:19:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK5145 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for the following individuals in para. 3. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credible info [...] | 2005-08-10 09:20:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK5146 | UPDATE ON PETCHABOON HMONG SITUATION [...] (SBU) Summary. A Thai National Security Council official stated on August 8 that the Thai government believed the cause of the Petchaboon Hmong situation was the pull factor created by the Wat Tham Krabok resettlement program, exacerbated by the activities of Hmong-Americans who were encourag [...] | 2005-08-10 09:36:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL TH |
05BANGKOK5214 | SIX-PARTY TALKING POINTS DELIVERED/FOREIGN [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel talking points to Surapon Petch-Vra, Director of East Asian Affairs - North and South Korea; Piroon Laismit, Director of East Asian Affairs - China and Japan; and Amornsate Singha, Director North America at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Points were received [...] | 2005-08-15 08:00:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KNNP PARM KN KS TH |
05BANGKOK5217 | THAI ECONOMY CONTINUES TO SLOW [...] Sensitive but Unclassified. not for Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: Increasing oil prices exacerbated a turn in Thailand's business cycle resulting in GDP growth of 3.3 percent in 2Q 2005. Continued declines in consumer and business sentiment caused weakness in consumer spending an [...] | 2005-08-15 08:41:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD TH |
05BANGKOK5271 | AMBASSADOR'S FTA MEETING WITH DEPUTY PM [...] (SBU) On August 16, Ambassador Boyce called on Deputy Prime Minister and Commerce Minister Somkid Jatusripitak to express USG concerns about the slow pace of FTA negotiations, explain that an FTA with the U.S. must be a single undertaking (the Thai-Japan FTA model is not an option for us),the [...] | 2005-08-17 03:45:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN TH US FTA |
05BANGKOK5284 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Angkharn INDRA, Wing 4, RTAF, who has been selected to attend the WCN 2480, Inter [...] | 2005-08-17 07:11:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK5315 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 3. Post apologizes for the short notice but would appreciate this request being processed before the APCSS travel deadline of August 24, 2005. 2. (U) DAO Bangkok has requested that the [...] | 2005-08-18 06:57:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK5317 | EASTERN SEABOARD WATER SHORTAGE HIGHLIGHTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A water shortage in the industrial areas along Thailand's Eastern Seaboard raises questions about the management of the nation's water resources with important implications for the further development of Thailand's most important industrial zone. A concurrence of two dry years [...] | 2005-08-18 07:49:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ECON ECPS ELAB EINV ENRG EPET KCOR KPRV SENV SOCI TH EPWR |
05BANGKOK5346 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR GROMOLL, JAMISON, KANG AND [...] (U) Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Drs. Robert Gromoll, Eliot Kang, and Kerry Kartchner from the Department of State and Mr. Phil Jamison from the Office of the Secretary of Defense to visit Thailand during the period of August 26 - August 30 , 2005, to give Thai MFA and MOD of [...] | 2005-08-19 06:45:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM OTRA PREL MARR TH |
05BANGKOK5366 | THAI MFA EMBRACES CONCEPT OF STRATEGIC DIALOGUE TO [...] (C) Summary. The Thai MFA embraces the concept of a U.S.-Thai Strategic Dialogue -- seeing it as a way to strengthen the bilateral relationship in accord with PM Thaksin's call for an "Action Plan" with the United States. MFA proposes hosting a two day session to take place in early Novembe [...] | 2005-08-19 10:15:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR MASS TH |
05BANGKOK5368 | EMBASSY BANGKOK SENDING HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICER TO DC [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-22 00:01:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PHUM TH |
05BANGKOK5393 | THAKSIN COMES TO LUNCH [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is confident and focused as he prepares for his September 19 meeting with the President. He is prepared to discuss ongoing separatist violence in Southern Thailand and his policy towards Burma. He welcomes the upcoming Thai-U.S. Dialogue on s [...] | 2005-08-22 10:41:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR TH |
05BANGKOK5419 | MORE CONCERNS ABOUT FREEDOM OF THE PRESS AS RTG [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Two recent moves by the RTG against media operations critical of Prime Minister Thaksin's government have renewed concerns within the human rights community that the government is once again resorting to legal measures to intimidate the country's press. After being warned twice, [...] | 2005-08-23 10:08:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PROP SOCI KPAO TH |
05BANGKOK5443 | CHINESE VICE PREMIER WU YI TO VISIT THAILAND IN [...] (C) At a dinner he hosted for the Ambassador on August 22, Chinese Ambassador to Thailand Zhang Jiuhuan confirmed information contained in reftel that PRC Vice Premier Wu Yi is scheduled to visit Thailand in September. Zhang explained that Wu would spend three or four days in either Bangkok [...] | 2005-08-24 08:07:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TH |
05BANGKOK5444 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END USE CHECK ON [...] Per reftel request, POL FSN made inquiries into the bona fides of J.N.S. International Co., Ltd and determined the following information. J.N.S. is registered with the Thai Ministry of Commerce, Department of Business Development as: The J.N.S. International Ltd. Registration No.10754501 [...] | 2005-08-24 08:07:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC TH BLUE LANTERN |
05BANGKOK5445 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK [...] Per reftel request, POL FSN made inquiries into the bona fides of Kornyuth Limited Partnership and determined the following information. Kornyuth is registered with the Thai Ministry of Commerce, Department of Business Development as: The Kornyuth Ltd., Partnership Ltd. Capital Registrati [...] | 2005-08-24 08:07:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC TH BLUE LANTERN |
05BANGKOK5446 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON [...] Per reftel request, POL FSN made inquiries into the bona fides of Somboon Firearms Ltd and determined the following information. Somboon is registered with the Thai Ministry of Commerce, Department of Business Development as: The Somboon Firearms Co. Ltd. Capital Registration 240,000 Bah [...] | 2005-08-24 08:07:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC TH BLUE LANTERN |
05BANGKOK5447 | (UNITS TO STATE) EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN [...] This is an action request. 2. Joint Interagency Task Force West J33/JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for units that have been selected to participate in Exercise Balance Torch 06-2 scheduled from 3 October to 3 December 2005. To me [...] | 2005-08-24 08:10:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK5454 | THAILAND CIV AIR: PROPOSAL FOR OPEN SKIES TALKS [...] (U) This cable is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (U) As reported in Ref A, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra recently proposed sending an Open Skies delegation to Washington before his scheduled visit to the United States with an eye to be able to announce substantial progre [...] | 2005-08-24 10:25:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON ETRD PREL TH |
05BANGKOK5455 | EMERGENCY DECREE CONTROVERSIAL AMONG SENIOR THAI [...] (C) MFA PermSec Krit Garnjana-Goonchorn (please protect) confidentially told the Ambassador on August 24 that he had SIPDIS severe misgivings about the recently released Emergency Decree. Saying that he was speaking privately and with a need to "unburden himself," Krit said that, while he [...] | 2005-08-24 10:32:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MASS TH |
05BANGKOK5456 | MFA PROPOSES NOVEMBER 7 AND 8 FOR STRATEGIC [...] (C) MFA PermSec Krit Garnjana-Goonchorn told the Ambassador on August 24 that the RTG looks forward to our upcoming Dialogue to discuss security matters. Krit confirmed that he will head the Thai delegation for the Dialogue and that other Ministries, including the military and NSC, will be [...] | 2005-08-24 10:36:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR MASS TH |
05BANGKOK5482 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR: STAFFDEL [...] (U) Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Staffdel Jannuzi from August 27 - September 1, 2005. 2. (U) Hotel reservations have been made at: Conrad Hotel, All Seasons Place 87 Wireless Road, Bangkok Tel: (66-2) 690-9999 Fax: (66-2) 690-9000 3. (U) Embassy point o [...] | 2005-08-26 08:28:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT TH |
05BANGKOK5503 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: THAKSIN MISTAKES AND [...] (C) SUMMARY/COMMENT: Prime Minister Thaksin's missteps and often heavy-handed responses to the unrest in far southern Thailand have clearly exacerbated a long-simmering conflict. However, while he has made mistakes, the Prime Minister has not paid a serious political price for his southern [...] | 2005-08-26 11:20:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER TH |
05BANGKOK5559 | U.S. ENGAGEMENT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF TSUNAMI [...] (SBU) Following receipt of the demarche in Ref A, U.S. Trade and Development Agency Officer contacted Deputy Director General Kriengkrai of Thailand's Meteorological Department (Met Dept) under the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology and an official at Thailand's National Disa [...] | 2005-08-30 07:00:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC EAID SENV TPHY TH KSCI |
05BANGKOK5569 | THAILAND CHILD LABOR REPORT - 2005 [...] (U) Contradictory statistical surveys by various Royal Thai government (RTG) agencies involved in child labor issues make an estimate of the scope of the phenomenon in Thailand difficult. Children found in street peddling/begging and other illegal industries such as prostitution are generally [...] | 2005-08-30 09:26:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | EIND ELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI TH |
05BANGKOK5573 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Sakoltee PHATIYKOL, Depart of Special Investigation, Ministry of Justice, who has [...] | 2005-08-31 02:34:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK5574 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for LTC Rawee TANGPITHAKKUL, Director of Operations, Royal Thai Army, who has been se [...] | 2005-08-31 02:35:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK5575 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Lt. Komol KONGBOONRAK, Fleet Training Command, Royal Thai Fleet, Royal Thai Navy, [...] | 2005-08-31 02:35:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK5626 | FLU PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS: THAILAND [...] (C/NF) Summary: The responses below are in reply to questions contained in Reftel. In general, Thailand is increasingly capable and increasingly transparent in detecting, reporting, and planning for and responding to avian influenza outbreaks in animals and humans. Although Ministry of Publi [...] | 2005-09-01 08:18:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAGR ECON PGOV PINR SOCI TBIO TH |
05BANGKOK5627 | THAI MFA OFFICIAL GIVES READOUT ON FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: North Korean officials told Thai Foreign Minister Kantathi in Pyongyang earlier this week that six-party talks could resume by mid-September if U.S.-ROK military exercises are concluded by the 10th. DPRK officials also reiterated their determination to maintain a civilian nucle [...] | 2005-09-01 08:19:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TH |
05BANGKOK5628 | THAI RESPONSE TO SAICM DEMARCHE [...] Talking points in reftel were delivered on August 30 to Mr. Chusak Wongwatcharakarn, Director of the Hazardous Substance Control Bureau, Department of Industrial Works, Ministry of Industry, and to Mr. Komgrit Varakamin, Director of the Peace, Security and Disarmament Division, Department of I [...] | 2005-09-01 08:21:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ETRD ECON TH |
05BANGKOK5636 | THAILAND CIVAIR: CONFIRMATION OF PARTICIPATION IN [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (U) The Royal Thai Government has officially confirmed its plans to send a delegation to engage in talks on September 7-8 (with September 9 held in reserve) with the objective of concluding an Open Skies Agreement. Mr. Chaisak Angkasu [...] | 2005-09-01 10:29:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON ETRD OVIP PREL TH |
05BANGKOK5652 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR: EAP/BCLTV [...] (U) Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Scot MARCIEL from Sept. 19 - Sept. 30, 2005. 2. (U) Hotel reservations have been made: For Nights of Sept. 19 (Conf. No: 5822017) and Sept. 29 (Conf. No: 7644518) at: Amari Airport Hotel 333 Chert Wudthakas Road, Bangkok Te [...] | 2005-09-02 03:45:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA AMGT TH |
05BANGKOK5653 | EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR [...] (U) As authorized per Ref A, U.S. Embassy Bangkok verifies that the Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that. as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by any of the Thailand Armed Forces units listed in Para 2. Embassy Bangko [...] | 2005-09-02 03:49:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK5662 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for 1Lt. Suteeka BOONWANG, Special Warfare School, Royal Thai Army, who has been sele [...] | 2005-09-02 07:59:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK5664 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for 1Lt. Sapasith KULPASITH, 1st Infantry Division, King's Guard, who has been select [...] | 2005-09-02 08:11:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK5665 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Col. Sunai PRAPHUCHANAY, 3rd Special Forces Regiment, who has been selected to at [...] | 2005-09-02 08:12:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK5671 | EU GRANTS GSP TO THAI SHRIMP IMPORTS [...] Summary: The EU,s reinstatement of Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) benefits for shrimp imports should be a high note for an otherwise hard-hit Thai shrimp industry this year. The reduction in duties for Thai shrimp broadens a previously small market for exporters, but supply issues [...] | 2005-09-02 09:47:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD TH |
05BANGKOK5673 | INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION MEETING: [...] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) confirmed that Thailand will send a delegation to the September 7-8 International Maritime Organization (IMO) meeting in Jakarta on Malacca Strait security among littoral states. The Thai delegation will be led by Mr. Pornchai Danvivathana, Director of t [...] | 2005-09-02 10:03:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHSA KCRM PBTS PTER EWWT TH |
05BANGKOK5676 | 'HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER' INJURED IN MOTORCYCLE [...] (C) SUMMARY. On September 1, Mr. Chatopa "Mustafa" Awae, a prominent human rights researcher, was shot three times by unknown gunmen in Pattani. Mustafa's injuries do not appear to be life-threatening and he is conscious and under armed guard in Pattani Hospital. Mustafa reportedly had been [...] | 2005-09-02 10:20:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI KPAO TH |
05BANGKOK5681 | THAILAND CIVAIR: READOUT ON FAA CONSULTATIONS WITH [...] (U) SUMMARY: Consultations between a visiting team from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and officials from the Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) met pursuant to reftel and previous consideration of problems relating to the Thai carrier Phuket Air on August 13, 2005. The discussions [...] | 2005-09-06 02:09:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON TH |
05BANGKOK5699 | THAILAND: CAPITAL ALLOCATION TO TSUNAMI VICTIMS [...] The streets of Patong Beach are busy, not as busy as normal and with a distinct scarcity of the Asian tourists typical during the summer months that comprise the low tourist season in Phuket, but still enough to give the place a certain buzz. Hotels report a 40-50 percent occupancy rate, about [...] | 2005-09-06 08:40:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EAID TH |
05BANGKOK5705 | ACCEPTANCE OF OFFER FOR ASSISTANCE FROM THAILAND [...] This is an action request. Please see para 3. 2. Per ref. A Embassy notified RTG MFA America and South Pacific Affairs Department of U.S. acceptance and thanks for Thai offer of blankets, canned fish and rice for Hurricane Katrina relief on September 6. Embassy had earlier discussed pri [...] | 2005-09-06 09:55:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PREL US TH |
05BANGKOK5706 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: THAI MUSLIMS SEEK REFUGE IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The flight of 131 Muslim-Thais from a rural village in Narathiwat province, across the border into Malaysia, has embarrassed the Thaksin government and threatens to further strain relations between Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur. The possible involvement of UNHCR in the incident will [...] | 2005-09-06 11:01:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER TH |
05BANGKOK5707 | EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR: [...] This is an action request. 2. Joint Interagency Task Force West J33/JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for units that have been selected to participate in Exercise FLASH Torch 06-1 scheduled from 03 - 31 October 2005. To meet interna [...] | 2005-09-06 11:18:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK5708 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Col. Yuthakiat LUANPAIRIN, Office of Policy and Planning, Ministry of Defense who [...] | 2005-09-06 11:19:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK5747 | POLOFFS MEETS WITH MFA TO DISCUSS FM'S MEETING [...] (C) SUMMARY. On September 5, Political Counselor Susan Sutton met with Mr. Damrong Kraikuan, MFA Desk Officer for Burma, to discuss FM Kantathi Suphamongkhon's visit to Rangoon. Damrong emphasized that because this was the FM,s first meeting with Than Shwe, "sensitive issues" were not discusse [...] | 2005-09-08 08:07:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF PBTS SOCI TH |
05BANGKOK5748 | REGIONAL ARCHITECTURE - THAI PERSPECTIVES [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-08 08:07:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN TH |
05BANGKOK5750 | THAILAND: FY 2005 SUPPLEMENTAL PKO ALLOCATIONS TO [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-08 08:07:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PARM TH PKO |
05BANGKOK5772 | DEMARCHE ON LTTE ACTIVITIES [...] (C) On September 8th, Emboffs delivered points in reftel to MFA Counter-Terrorism Office Counselor Penprapa Vongkovit, and MFA Department of South Asia, Middle East, and African Affairs South Asia Division Counselor Arunrung Phothong. The MFA officials agreed with our support for the continu [...] | 2005-09-08 08:58:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER TH |
05BANGKOK5773 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL II PRE-LICENSE CHECK ON PENDING [...] Per reftel request, Pol FSN visited the Royal Thai Directorate of Aeronautical Engineering in Bangkok on September 7 to inquire about Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) links with the Singapore firm, Monarch Aviation Pte., Ltd. Group Capt. Suphachok Onbunkua, staff aide to the Director of Aeronautic [...] | 2005-09-08 08:59:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC TH SN BLUE LANTERN |
05BANGKOK5791 | PM THAKSIN'S TRIP TO WASHINGTON [...] (C) Summary: PM Thaksin Shinawatra's September 19 meeting with the President presents an opportunity to underscore our deep and warm relations with Thailand and to build upon that relationship to strengthen our links to the rest of Southeast Asia. Thaksin is the strongest Prime Minister in Th [...] | 2005-09-09 04:16:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR OVIP TH |
05BANGKOK5805 | THAI RESPONSE TO IPAPI DEMARCHE [...] Regional Environmental, Science, and Health Officer (REO) delivered points in Reftel to Dr. Itti Ditbanjong, Ambassador attached to the Office of the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and to Ms. Sansanee Sahussarungsi, Director of the Division of Economic Information of t [...] | 2005-09-09 08:52:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON PREL SOCI TBIO XB XC TH |
05BANGKOK5808 | THAILAND AVIAN INFLUENZA: SITUATION REPORT 1 [...] On August 31, 2005, the Royal Thai Government (RTG) announced that it had detected another outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in poultry in central Thailand (Ayutthaya and Kamphaeng Phet). This new detection was made in so-called native chickens (free ranging, backyard poul [...] | 2005-09-09 09:47:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV SOCI TH |
05BANGKOK5875 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Lt. Col. Kornwipa JAROENPOL, office of Permanent Secretary for Defense, MOD, who [...] | 2005-09-13 07:34:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK5876 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for Col. Barame SIRIKATE, Office of the Comptroller General, Supreme Command Headquar [...] | 2005-09-13 07:34:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK5882 | THAILAND'S RESPONSE REGARDING CODEX AD HOC [...] Post contacted Thai lead of delegation, Ms. Orathai Silapanapaporn, Assistant Director, Office of Commodity and System Standards, National Bureau of Agricultural Commodity and Food Standards regarding ref tel action request. 2. Thai position on questions posed in reftel is as follows: [...] | 2005-09-13 08:01:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD TBIO TH |
05BANGKOK5917 | CONFLICT OVER AUDITOR GENERAL EMBARRASSES THAKSIN [...] (C) Summary. Some 96 days after a candidate for new Auditor-General was submitted by the Senate for the King's approval, the Palace remains mute, leaving the Thaksin Government in an awkward situation. Though the issue of appointments to the independent Auditor-General position is made b [...] | 2005-09-14 10:28:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TH |
05BANGKOK5937 | UNHCR UPDATE ON DPRK REFUGEE IN THAILAND [...] (C) Summary. North Korean refugee Mr. Park Tae-Hung continues to reside in Thailand illegally and appears to have moved from Pattaya to Bangkok. UNHCR has been in sporadic contact with him since June and is prepared to refer him on an immediate basis to the ROK Embassy for resettlement. End [...] | 2005-09-15 08:15:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL TH KN KS DPRK |
05BANGKOK5940 | FOT (FRIEND OF THAKSIN) BUYS UP HUGE SHARES IN TWO [...] (U) SUMMARY. Within two days, Thailand's largest entertainment conglomerate spent $US 66 million dollars to buy 32% and 23% of shares in the parent companies of two of Thailand's leading newspapers- Matichon, and the Bangkok Post respectively. The company's President, Mr. Paiboon Damrongchaith [...] | 2005-09-15 11:02:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KPAO PINS PROP TH HUMAN RIGHTS |
05BANGKOK5964 | GOVERNOR RESHUFFLE -- SOME REWARDS FOR TRT [...] (SBU) Summary: Earlier this month, the Cabinet of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra approved changes for 47 of Thailand,s 75 Governor positions, which is among the highest number of Governor posting changes on record for a single year. The reshuffle is an annual event. Though the Governors [...] | 2005-09-16 09:18:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TH TRT |
05BANGKOK5965 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: AUG 29-31 VISIT OF STAFFDEL [...] (C) SUMMARY: From August 29-31 Senate Foreign Relations Committee professional staff member Frank Januzzi visited Thailand's southernmost Muslim majority provinces for a follow-up assessment of the violence affecting the region. The recently announced Emergency Decree -- which has not yet ha [...] | 2005-09-16 09:18:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KPAO TH |
05BANGKOK6001 | THAI NOT DEPORTING PETCHABOON HMONG, YET [...] (SBU) Summary. Contrary to rumors circulating among NGOs, the RTG is not currently deporting the nearly six thousand ethnic Hmong living in Petchaboon province. The RTG is cooperating with UNHCR's efforts to determine which Hmong may qualify as refugees and for resettlement, but clearly plans [...] | 2005-09-19 23:58:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL TH |
05BANGKOK6016 | THAI TEXTILES AND APPAREL: COPING WITH A [...] Summary: Thailand's textiles and apparel exports continue to grow following the expiration of the global quota system, albeit at a more moderate pace than during the banner year of 2004. The overall sector has seen exports rise by a solid 5.8 percent in the first half of 2005, defying the mos [...] | 2005-09-20 09:29:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | KTEX ECON ETRD ELAB |
05BANGKOK6051 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: TWO SOLDIERS KILLED AFTER BEING HELD BY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 21, A Thai Navy officer and Marine were beaten and stabbed to death in Narathiwat province after being held overnight by Muslim villagers. The soldiers, in plain clothes, had been sent to the village the previous evening to investigate a recent shooting incident. [...] | 2005-09-21 12:38:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER TH |
05BANGKOK608 | THAI MFA AND THE NORTH KOREAN IN VIENTIANE [...] (C) On January 24, Polcouns sought clarifications regarding the Royal Thai Government (RTG) positions in the matter of An Kyong-Su, the North Korean asylum seeker in Embassy Vientiane, from MFA's Paisit Boonparlit, Director for Political Affairs in the Americas Department, and Suraphan Boonyam [...] | 2005-01-24 11:36:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PGOV ASEC TH DPRK LA |
05BANGKOK6088 | THAILAND: REQUESTS FOR FUNDING PKO PROJECTS IN [...] (SBU) Post appreciates the opportunity to propose projects supporting U.S. strategic peace keeping and counter terrorism objective The Embassy outlines below several projects, in priority order, to impr the Thai ability to thwart terrorism and to fulfill more effectively it peacekeeping oblig [...] | 2005-09-23 08:00:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR TH PKO |
05BANGKOK6090 | TWO MOVES AGAINST THE THAI MEDIA: NEWSPAPER AVOIDS [...] (U) SUMMARY. On September 12, Thai entertainment tycoon Paiboon Damrongchaitham of GMM Grammy shocked Thailand by attempting a hostile takeover of the Matichon Group, as well as buying up a large stake in T Bangkok Post (Ref A). Press freedom advocates, academics and the politi opposition stron [...] | 2005-09-23 08:01:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KPAO PINS PROP TH HUMAN RIGHTS |
05BANGKOK6091 | THAI RESPONSE TO ASSISTANCE WITH REMOVAL OF ALIEN [...] (U) Acting Refcoord delivered reftel demarche on September 21 to Dus Manapan, Counselor, Social Division, Department of International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After consulting with seni officials in his department, Dusit stated that it would be "quite difficult" for the RTG [...] | 2005-09-23 08:02:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF TH |
05BANGKOK6093 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: REPERCUSSIONS OF SEPTEMBER 21 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The September 21 murders of two Marines who were being held hostage at a Muslim village in Narathiwat province continue to dominate the headlines. The Thaksin administration has been restrained in its initial response but has vowed to take decisive measure against the culprits. [...] | 2005-09-23 09:56:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KPAO TH |
05BANGKOK6094 | THAILAND: REQUESTS FOR FUNDING PKO PROJECTS IN [...] (SBU) Post appreciates the opportunity to propose projects supporting U.S. strategic peace keeping and counter terrorism objectives. The Embassy outlines below several projects, in priority order, to improve the Thai ability to thwart terrorism and to fulfill more effectively its peacekeepin [...] | 2005-09-23 09:56:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR TH PKO |
05BANGKOK6095 | TWO MOVES AGAINST THE THAI MEDIA: NEWSPAPER AVOIDS [...] (U) SUMMARY. On September 12, Thai entertainment tycoon Paiboon Damrongchaitham of GMM Grammy shocked Thailand by attempting a hostile takeover of the Matichon Group, as well as buying up a large stake in The Bangkok Post (Ref A). Press freedom advocates, academics and the political opposition [...] | 2005-09-23 09:57:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KPAO PINS PROP TH HUMAN RIGHTS |
05BANGKOK6096 | TWO MOVES AGAINST THE THAI MEDIA: NEWSPAPER AVOIDS [...] (U) SUMMARY. On September 12, Thai entertainment tycoon Paiboon Damrongchaitham of GMM Grammy shocked Thailand by attempting a hostile takeover of the Matichon Group, as well as buying up a large stake in The Bangkok Post (Ref A). Press freedom advocates, academics and the political opposition [...] | 2005-09-23 09:58:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KPAO PINS PROP TH HUMAN RIGHTS |
05BANGKOK6097 | RESPONSE ON OPPORTUNITIES IN THAILAND TO ASSIST [...] (C) Summary. Both Thai and local UNHCR officials judge that the current, informal pipeline that funnels North Korean asylum seekers through UNHCR and on to the ROK embassy for swift and quiet resettlement continues to work well. According to Thai officials, any future USG efforts to accept Nor [...] | 2005-09-23 10:01:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM TH KN DPRK |
05BANGKOK6098 | MEDICAL TOURISM: OUTSOURCE YOUR KNEE SURGERY TO [...] Summary: Low costs and high quality medical treatment in Thailand are bringing in a new breed of visitor, the medical tourist traveling overseas for treatment unavailable or too expensive in their own country. Thai hospitals are positioning themselves to be the regional destination of choice [...] | 2005-09-23 10:04:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD |
05BANGKOK6099 | THAI RESPONSE TO ASSISTANCE WITH REMOVAL OF ALIEN [...] (U) Acting Refcoord delivered reftel demarche on September 21 to Dusit Manapan, Counselor, Social Division, Department of International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After consulting with senior officials in his department, Dusit stated that it would be "quite difficult" for the [...] | 2005-09-23 10:04:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF TH |
05BANGKOK6101 | AMBASSADOR RAISES KANTATHI'S COMMENTS TO PRESS ON [...] (C) During a September 23 call on MFA Permanent Secretary Krit Garjana-Goonchorn, the Ambassador pointed out that Foreign Minister Kantathi Suphamongkhon's reported September 20 comments to the press on FTA and Burma appeared to be at odds with what was discussed on these issues between the P [...] | 2005-09-23 10:46:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BM TH BURMA US FTA |
05BANGKOK6104 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: TWO SOLDIERS KILLED AFTER BEING [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 21, A Thai Navy officer and Marine were beaten and stabbed to death in Narathiwat province after being held overnight by Muslim villagers. The soldiers, in plain clothes, had been sent to the village the previous evening to investigate a recent shooting incident. [...] | 2005-09-23 13:25:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER TH |
05BANGKOK6109 | THAI RESPONSE TO ASSISTANCE WITH REMOVAL OF ALIEN [...] (U) Acting Refcoord delivered reftel demarche on September 21 to Dusit Manapan, Counselor, Social Division, Department of International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After consulting with senior officials in his department, Dusit stated that it would be "quite difficult" for the R [...] | 2005-09-23 13:25:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF TH |
05BANGKOK6119 | THAILAND'S ELECTION HOOLIGANS -- ELECTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Election Commission of Thailand (ECT) on September 20 issued red cards, and yellow cards, to 4 elected Members of Parliament (MP,s) for election irregularities stemming from last February,s elections. One member of the Democrat Party received a red card (meaning 1 yea [...] | 2005-09-26 03:10:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TH |
05BANGKOK6138 | FOREIGN MINISTER KANTATHI CALLS AMBASSADOR TO [...] (C) Foreign Minister Kantathi Suphamongkhon telephoned the Ambassador on September 26 to give his explanation of the flap over his recent interview with Associated Press (reftel). Kantathi maintained that his interviewer, Foster Klug, had misrepresented his remarks and had done a similar di [...] | 2005-09-26 09:52:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BM TH BURMA |
05BANGKOK6154 | WTO SERVICES NEGOTIATIONS: THAILAND RESPONSE [...] Econoff contacted Ministry of Commerce's Department of Trade Negotiation (DTN) officials per reftel regarding the Thai offer on trade in services. Answers are keyed to questions in reftel. 2. Q: Has the host government stated specifically that its offer is tied to further movement in ag [...] | 2005-09-27 05:08:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD WTRO |
05BANGKOK6156 | THAILAND AVIAN INFLUENZA: SITUATION REPORT 2 [...] On September 16, 2005, the Royal Thai Government (RTG) announced confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in 90 birds in central Thailand (Saraburi and Kamphaeng Phet). This new detection was made in so-called native chickens (free ranging, backyard poultry) with minimum biosecuri [...] | 2005-09-27 05:11:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV SOCI TH |
05BANGKOK6240 | UPDATE ON AUDITOR-GENERAL CONTROVERSY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The embattled Senate President announced on Friday, September 23rd that the nominee for the position of Auditor-General, Mr. Wisut Montriwat, had withdrawn his nomination for the position. The King, who stood silent rather than endorse the nomination, accepted the withdrawal. [...] | 2005-09-30 03:44:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TH |
05BANGKOK6241 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for GP. CPT CHANINTORN CHALERMSUP, WG. CDR. WANCHAI PLANGSRI, and LT. COL. UKRIT SA-A [...] | 2005-09-30 04:02:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK6243 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for GP. CPT CHANINTORN CHALERMSUP, WG. CDR. WANCHAI PLANGSRI, and LT. COL. UKRIT SA-A [...] | 2005-09-30 04:46:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK6244 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for CPT THITIKAJII BIJAPHALA, of the Defense Research and Development Office, who has [...] | 2005-09-30 04:51:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK6245 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for COL WUTICHAI ISARA, of the Fort Mengrai-Maharaj Hospital, who has been selected t [...] | 2005-09-30 04:57:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK6246 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for CPT WORACHIN YAOWARAT, of the 2nd Engineer Battalion, King's Guard, who has been [...] | 2005-09-30 05:03:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK626 | COL JAMES REILLY'S ASSIGNMENT AS COMMANDING [...] (U) LtGen Blackman, I mentioned this to you in person at our last meeting, but I wanted a written record of my appreciation for the splendid performance of Col James Reilly during his recent tenure as commanding officer for the Combined Support Group Thailand (CSG-THAI). First, as leader of [...] | 2005-01-25 03:03:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL MARR TH POL MIL |
05BANGKOK6269 | SENATE SELECTION OF NATIONAL BROADCAST COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. After a long series of delays, Thailand's Senate nominated 7 candidates to the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) on September 27th. The selection of the candidates came amid controversy, as many of the Senators allegedly had previous connections with some of the candid [...] | 2005-09-30 09:36:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TH |
05BANGKOK628 | LOST IN THAILAND'S TSUNAMI: BURMESE MIGRANT WORKERS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Royal Thai government (RTG) has earned international plaudits for its responsiveness to western tourists and Thais affected by the tsunami. Roughly 30,000 Burmese migrants, employed in construction, fisheries, and hotels in three devastated provinces, remain marginalized i [...] | 2005-01-25 03:03:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KWMN PHUM PREL PREF TH |
05BANGKOK6282 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) ILEA BANGKOK has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for the following individuals, who have been selected to attend the Post Blast Inve [...] | 2005-10-03 02:44:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK6287 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) BANGKOK RSO has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for the following individuals, who have been selected to attend ATA 5213, Cyber Terr [...] | 2005-10-03 03:28:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK6288 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) BANGKOK RSO has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for the following individuals, who have been selected to attend ATA 5432, VIP Protec [...] | 2005-10-03 04:06:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK6336 | STAFFDEL MCCORMICK OCTOBER 10-17, 2005 [...] (SBU) Post warmly welcomes the October 11-12 and 16 visit to Thailand of Mr. James McCormick and delegation to Thailand. Control Officer for the Bangkok portion of the visit will be Political Officer James F. Cole. (Office- 66-02-205-4816; Home-66-02-287-4652; Cell-01-868-0498; e-mail Cole [...] | 2005-10-04 09:10:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AFIN AMGT ASEC OREP BM TH |
05BANGKOK6362 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for COL KANTANPONG WAJJANATEPIN and CAPT PANTHIRA WATTANAMONGKOL, who have been selec [...] | 2005-10-06 02:02:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK6386 | LIFTING THE BAN ON U.S. BEEF [...] Summary: Prime Minister Thaksin,s pledge to President Bush to lift the ban on imports of U.S. beef has filtered down to the working level for implementation. However, this is the third time that PM Thaksin has promised to lift the ban without resolution. Technical requirements still remain [...] | 2005-10-06 11:49:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD TH |
05BANGKOK6440 | THAI UNIONS, LABOR EXPERTS CRITIQUE DRAFT LABOR [...] (U) Summary: At an October 5 NGO-sponsored roundtable, 12 Thai labor leaders called Thailand's draft revision of the 1975 Labor Relations Act (LRA) a "step backwards" for labor rights in this country. U.S. labor advisers and ILO representatives presented a more balanced view of the LRA draft [...] | 2005-10-12 01:43:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI TH |
05BANGKOK6441 | NEW THAI POLICE ANTI-TIP UNIT TAKES ON FIRST [...] (U) Summary: The commander of Thailand's new anti- trafficking unit met with G and G/TIP officials on September 29 to outline future Thai government plans to combat human trafficking. Police General Camronwit Toopgrajank also recounted details of recent trafficking cases since the creation of [...] | 2005-10-12 01:46:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWMN KCRM ELAB PHUM SOCI TH |
05BANGKOK6462 | UNCERTAINTY OVER PUBLIC HEALTH MINISTER'S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Public Health Minister Dr. Suchai Charoenratanakul recently announced his resignation, effective at the end of this month, following several weeks of political in-fighting with another cabinet minister and party officials. The political fracas began earlier this month when [...] | 2005-10-12 09:59:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TH |
05BANGKOK6511 | DEMARCHE: BRINGING BURMA BEFORE THE UNSC - THAI [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-13 12:18:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV TH UNSC UNGA BURMA |
05BANGKOK6519 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 13, Ambassador Boyce paid a courtesy call on Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice Chidchai Vanasatidya. Chidchai was generally upbeat about the RTG's progress in addressing the Southern problem. He stated that the militants clearly wanted to provoke another maj [...] | 2005-10-14 02:27:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS PREF MY TH |
05BANGKOK6524 | DEMOCRACY PROMOTION STRATEGIES FOR EAP FOCUS [...] (C) Summary and introduction: Thailand is the most democratic country in the neighborhood, with a lively press and fiercely competed elections. Thailand's remarkable political development, after a long period of military rule, progressed in tandem with its impressive economic development, whi [...] | 2005-10-14 03:42:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL TH |
05BANGKOK6527 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CHARGE D'AFFAIRES SHARI [...] Embassy warmly welcomes visit of Charge d'Affaires Shari Villarosa and grants country clearance for Bangkok transit (October 21,29 and 31) and visit to Mae Sot refugee camp (October 30-31). Point of contact for the Bangkok transit portion of Charge Villarosa's travel is Political Officer Jer [...] | 2005-10-14 04:31:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT OTRA BM TH BURMA |
05BANGKOK6551 | JOINT DEMARCHE ON PSI DELIVERED IN THAILAND [...] (C) On October 14, in an attempt to prod Thailand into endorsing the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI),the Ambassador joined a group of Ambassadors from PSI countries led by Australia and including COMs from Canada, Japan, New Zealand, and the UK in a joint demarche on MFA Deputy Perm [...] | 2005-10-17 03:52:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PHSA PINS PTER TH PSI |
05BANGKOK656 | NORTH KOREAN ASYLUM SEEKER IN VIENTIANE [...] (C) Summary and comment. UNHCR/UNDP cannot issue a travel document for North Korean asylum seeker Anh, but is prepared to assist in resolving this case in terms of providing transportation within Thailand, housing, and other assistance agreed upon by concerned governments. ICRC Bangkok repre [...] | 2005-01-25 10:36:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREF PREL KN KS LA TH DPRK |
05BANGKOK6564 | THAILAND AND GI IN THE WTO [...] On October 17, Emboff met with Deputy Director General Wiboonlasana Ruamraksa of the Department of Intellectual Property, and Trademark Office Director Pajchima Thanasanti and presented talking points on upcoming WTO agriculture negotiations and geographical indications (GI) as requested in r [...] | 2005-10-17 08:44:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD KIPR WTO |
05BANGKOK6595 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: DEEP ANGER FOLLOWING TEMPLE [...] (C) SUMMARY/COMMENT: During the early morning hours of October 16 a Buddhist monk and two novices were killed during a brutal attack on a Buddhist temple in the far southern province of Pattani. In the wake of the incident, Prime Minister Thaksin has vowed swift justice against those involv [...] | 2005-10-18 11:14:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER TH |
05BANGKOK6596 | SECRETARY LEAVITT'S OCTOBER 10-11 VISIT TO THAILAND [...] (U) Summary: In meetings with interlocutors during his visit to Thailand October 10 and 11, HHS Secretary Leavitt underscored the importance of transparency and international cooperation in confronting the threat of avian influenza (AI) and in planning containment and pandemic preparedness ef [...] | 2005-10-18 11:26:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO OVIP PREL EAGR EAID TH |
05BANGKOK6618 | EMERGENCY DECREE EXTENDED [...] (U) Summary: On October 18, the Cabinet agreed to extend the Emergency Decree on Public Administration in Emergency Situations in the three southern border provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala for another three months. The move was expected. Opponents of the measures are criticizing t [...] | 2005-10-19 09:20:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM TH |
05BANGKOK6619 | SITUATION OF THREE CAMBODIANS WHO HAVE FLED TO [...] (C) Summary. UNHCR reported October 19 that it was very concerned about the three Cambodians from the Cambodian Watchdog Council who have fled to Thailand. UNHCR is worried that the Thai government may see the situation as similar to that of the 131 Thai who fled southern Thailand to Malaysia [...] | 2005-10-19 11:00:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF TH CM CAMBODIA |
05BANGKOK6627 | THAILAND TO MAKE SUPPORTIVE STATEMENT AT UNESCO [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-20 02:21:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD PHUM SCUL TH UNESCO |
05BANGKOK6639 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: THAILAND'S TROUBLED MALAYSIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Thai and Malaysian officials have been using increasingly un-diplomatic language in the press as tensions over the situation along the Thai/Malaysian border -- heightened by publicity surrounding 131 Thai "refugees" in Malaysia -- continue. Thai MFA officials acknowledge priva [...] | 2005-10-20 09:12:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER TH |
05BANGKOK6650 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR EAP/MLS THAI DESK [...] Embassy warmly welcomes visit of EAP/MLS Thailand desk officer Melanie Higgins and grants country clearance. Point of contact for the Bangkok portion of her travel is Political Officer Jim Cole (O) 02 205 4816 (C) 01 868-0498 (H) 02 287-4652. 2. Hotel reservations have been made at the C [...] | 2005-10-21 02:01:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TH |
05BANGKOK6653 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR: AMBASSADOR [...] (U) Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Ambassador Haslach and Mr. Herbert from October 27-29 2. (U) We understand that travelers made Hotel reservations at: Conrad Hotel, All Seasons Place 87 Wireless Road, Bangkok Tel: (66-2) 690-9999 Fax: (66-2) 690-9000 3. [...] | 2005-10-21 02:46:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA LA TH |
05BANGKOK6663 | THAIS PLAN FOR TAMIFLU PRODUCTION [...] Summary: The RTG is actively stockpiling the antiviral medicine Tamiflu and considering producing the drug in Thailand, with or without a license, in preparation for a possible avian flu pandemic. The RTG is procuring ingredients for production of the drug, but it is unclear if the Thai pha [...] | 2005-10-21 05:29:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR KIPR SENV TBIO TH |
05BANGKOK6693 | THAI GROUPS PRESS TO LIFT U.S. SHRIMP TARIFFS [...] On October 26, about forty persons representing various Thai shrimp farmer organizations held a press conference on the sidewalk outside of Embassy Bangkok, expressing concern about the outcome of the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) review of anti-dumping tariffs on Thai shrimp export [...] | 2005-10-25 05:34:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD ECON TH |
05BANGKOK6727 | THAI EXPECTED TO INVITE FORMER PRESIDENTS TO [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. The Thai government is planning a large commemoration ceremony on December 26 in memory of those who died in the 2004 tsunami. Post's consular section is already working with the families of victims and Americans who were affected [...] | 2005-10-26 06:55:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP CASC PREL EAID TH |
05BANGKOK673 | THAILAND REFOCUSES ON NATIONAL ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: Thailand continues its relief and reconstruction efforts in the wake of last month's tsunami, but the nation is also focusing on the approaching February 6 national elections. Almost 45 million Thais are expected to go to the polls. All 500 hundred parliamentary seats (400 co [...] | 2005-01-26 07:21:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TH TRT |
05BANGKOK6761 | THAILAND: PRIVATIZING EGAT UNLIKELY TO REFORM THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Shares of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) are to be sold in an initial public offering in November 2005. Partial privatization of this high-profile state-owned enterprise (SOE) enables the Royal Thai Government (RTG) a way to maintain momentum in imple [...] | 2005-10-27 09:15:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EINV EPET KPRV TH |
05BANGKOK6764 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: COORDINATED RAIDS ACROSS THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 26 small groups of militants launched a series of 49 apparently coordinated raids in rural areas throughout far southern Thailand. Four civilians and two militants were reported killed in the raids, which appear to have been focused on stealing weapons from village [...] | 2005-10-27 10:40:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PREL TH |
05BANGKOK6767 | CAMBODIAN ACTIVISTS URGENTLY SEEK REFUGEE STATUS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-27 10:59:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL CB TH CAMBODIA |
05BANGKOK6768 | ISRAEL AT UNGA - THAILAND RESPONSE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-27 11:39:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS TH UNGA |
05BANGKOK6797 | NO PROGRESS ON CAMBODIAN REFUGEES [...] (C) Polcouns spoke to MFA refugee contact Dusit Manapan regarding the Cambodian activists and the UNHCR request to process them for immediate resettlement. Dusit said that, after receiving calls from several embassies regarding this case yesterday, he had consulted within the MFA on the ques [...] | 2005-10-28 12:10:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM TH CB CAMBODIA |
05BANGKOK6798 | OPPOSITION POLITICIAN PESSIMISTIC ON SOUTH, PARTY [...] (C) Summary: A Democrat party MP gave downbeat assessments of his party's short term prospects, and of the security situation in the troubled South. The MP warned that the current government would be unable to resolve the problems in the South because it had completely lost the trust of the p [...] | 2005-10-28 12:10:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM TH |
05BANGKOK6813 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR EAP DEPUTY [...] (U) Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to DAS Eric John from Nov. 5 - Nov. 10, 2005. 2. (U) Hotel reservations have been made at: Conrad Hotel, All Seasons Place, 87 Wireless Road, Bangkok Tel: (66-2) 690-9999 Fax: (66-2) 690-9000 Room rate is $125.00 net (taxes and [...] | 2005-10-31 05:00:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TH |
05BANGKOK6817 | THAILAND GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT: RICE FOR ROLLING [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Royal Thai Government (RTG) has floated the idea of paying for four mass transit lines in the Bangkok metro area at a cost of about $5 billion with cash and agricultural products through barter deals negotiated with other governments. Agricultural commodities, however, are [...] | 2005-10-31 08:41:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR ELTN MASS TH |
05BANGKOK6843 | THAILAND REACTION TO EU AGRICULTURE PROPOSAL [...] Embassy delivered talking points on the EU agriculture proposal to the RTG Ministry of Commerce as requested in reftel. Ms. Sirinart Chaimun of the Ministry's Department of Trade Negotiations said that the RTG shared essentially the same view as the U.S. of the EU proposal and considered it t [...] | 2005-11-01 08:50:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EAGR EU TH |
05BANGKOK6844 | UNHCR PROPOSES OPTION FOR PETCHABOON HMONG [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see para 6. 2. (C) Summary: UNHCR apprised Ambassador Haslach of the situation of the almost 6000 Hmong would-be refugees encamped in Petchaboon province. Following a discussion of the difficulties of making a refugee determination, UNHCR proposed c [...] | 2005-11-01 09:19:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL TH |
05BANGKOK685 | NORTHEAST THAILAND: PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Poloffs recently (December 13-15, 2004) traveled to the Northeastern Provinces of Nakhon Raatchasima (Korat) and Chaiyaphum to visit with local politicians, provincial election commission officials and NGO and academic representatives. Pre-election campaigning and government p [...] | 2005-01-26 11:44:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM TH |
05BANGKOK6850 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: THE SLOW PROGRESS OF THE NRC [...] (C) SUMMARY: The RTG has moved slowly to implement fourteen interim recommendations, issued by the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC),to address violence in the South. While some of the interim recommendations may be of limited utility or impact, the thrust of the report is helpful, u [...] | 2005-11-01 09:42:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER TH |
05BANGKOK6852 | SUPRISE MOVE: MINISTERS SWAP JOBS TO QUELL TRT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a surprise move, Thailand,s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra promoted recently-resigned Public Health Minister, Dr. Suchai Charoenratakul to the position of Deputy Prime Minister, while moving the incumbent Deputy PM Phinit Charusombat into the slot previously held by Dr. [...] | 2005-11-01 09:46:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TH |
05BANGKOK6853 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: GOVERNMENT PRESSURED TO TAKE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 27 insurgents bombed a rail-line in Narathiwat province, derailing four cars on a passenger train. The bombing followed the dramatic series of weapons raids across far southern Thailand on October 26. According to some local observers the latest attacks demonstrate [...] | 2005-11-01 09:51:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER TH |
05BANGKOK6855 | OPPOSITION WINS 3 0F 4 THAI BY-ELECTIONS, BUT DOES [...] (C) Summary. Opposition parties may have won enough seats in the October 30th parliamentary by-election to initiate impeachment and censure moves against the ruling Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party government. Unofficial tallies have the opposition winning three of the four seats at stake despit [...] | 2005-11-01 09:58:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TH |
05BANGKOK686 | THAILAND: DEEP SOUTH UPDATE - JANUARY 26, 2005 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Violence continues in the far southern provinces of Thailand, in stark contrast to images of ongoing relief efforts in neighboring provinces. With the tsunami garnering less attention the media, violence in the deep South is again re-emerging as a central domestic political iss [...] | 2005-01-26 12:07:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER TH |
05BANGKOK687 | TAK BAI INDEPENDENT COMMISSION REPORT [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Independent Commission investigating the October 2004 Tak Bai incident has concluded that three senior security officials, including the Fourth Army Commanding General, failed to monitor their subordinates during the transfer of detainees from Tak Bai to a Pattani Army camp. [...] | 2005-01-26 12:30:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL TH HUMAN RIGHTS |
05BANGKOK6870 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO LT COL MUNIPALLI [...] (U) Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Lt. Col. Munipalli from Nov. 5 - Nov. 9, 2005 to participate in the U.S.- Thailand Strategic Dialogue. 2. (U) Hotel reservations have been made at: Conrad Hotel, All Seasons Place, 87 Wireless Road, Bangkok Tel: (66-2) 690-9999 [...] | 2005-11-02 08:08:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TH |
05BANGKOK6875 | 2005 HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY ACHIEVEMENT AWARD [...] I nominate Michael D. Sweeney for the 2005 Human Rights and Democracy Award. Mr Sweeney has spearheaded the Mission's initiatives on improving the human rights practices of the Royal Thai Government (RTG) and the expansion of democracy-related capacity-building programs. He has been a tire [...] | 2005-11-02 09:12:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | APER PHUM TH |
05BANGKOK690 | ICRC AND NORTH KOREAN ASYLUM SEEKER IN VIENTIANE [...] (C) Fred Grimm, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Head of Regional Delegation, told Embassy Bangkok today that ICRC is not/not willing to issue a laissez-passer (LP) to North Korean asylum seeker An Kyong Su. Grimm said that, after consultations with both the ICRC representa [...] | 2005-01-27 00:24:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREF PREL KN KS TH DPRK LA |
05BANGKOK6901 | THAI TELECOM SECTOR: NORWAY'S TELENOR BUYS OUT [...] (U) SUMMARY: On October 20, 2005, Norway's Telenor announced an indirect takeover of Thailand's UCOM and its mobile phone subsidiary Total Access Communications (TAC). The complex transaction paves the way for Telenor control of Thailand's second-largest mobile phone operator. The National T [...] | 2005-11-03 08:18:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECPS EINV ECON TH |
05BANGKOK6904 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: MORE BOMBS IN NARATHIWAT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 2 another series of bombs were set off in the far southern province of Narathiwat, temporarily knocking out power in the city. The attacks follow the series of raids on October 26 and the October 27 bombing of a rail-line in Narathiwat (reftels). On November 3 a s [...] | 2005-11-03 10:29:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PREL TH |
05BANGKOK6909 | BANGKOK FY06 REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL HUB WORKPLAN [...] Summary: In FY06, the Regional Environmental Office (REO) based in Bangkok will continue its broad range of activities in 25 countries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Three priority topics, however, will likely dominate the attention of this hub - avian influenza, efforts to combat illegal [...] | 2005-11-04 01:01:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ECON TBIO TPHY TH |
05BANGKOK6943 | THAILAND: FOLLOWING UP ON ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL [...] (SBU) Poloff passed reftel points to Chutintorn Gongsakdi, MFA Director of International Economic Policy, and Katanawadee Kalayanamit from the Peace, Security and Disarmament Division at MFA. Chutintorn received the points without comment. Katanawadee said that Thailand does not plan to de [...] | 2005-11-04 09:37:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PARM ETTC KSTC EAID ETRD ECIN TH APECO |
05BANGKOK6947 | CAMBODIAN OPPOSITION FIGURE MU SOCHUA PESSIMISTIC [...] (SBU) Summary. Cambodian opposition figure Mu Sochua told Western diplomats on November 3 that the general political atmosphere in her country was worsening and that additional Cambodian political activists would likely flee to Thailand. End summary. 2. (SBU) Sam Rainsy Party member Mu Soc [...] | 2005-11-04 11:31:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV CB TH CAMBODIA |
05BANGKOK6953 | THAI REACT TO "SECRET PRISONS" ARTICLE: WILL THAKSIN SUE THE WASHINGTON POST? [...] (C) Summary: The Thai government has issued heated denials of the Washington Post report of a secret CIA-run prison here, and has sought embassy assistance in responding to the accusations. After a local newspaper identified our VOA facility in northeast Thailand as the site of the prison, t [...] | 2005-11-04 12:14:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KPOW TH CIA |
05BANGKOK6954 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR PM/RSAT JANE BOCKLAGE [...] (U) Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Jane Bocklage from Nov. 5 - Nov. 9, 2005 to participate in the U.S.- Thailand Strategic Dialogue. 2. (U) Hotel reservations have been made at: Conrad Hotel, All Seasons Place, 87 Wireless Road, Bangkok Tel: (66-2) 690-9999 Fax: [...] | 2005-11-05 04:58:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA MARR MASS PREL TH |
05BANGKOK6958 | MORE CONTROVERSY WITH THE SELECTION OF THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Thailand,s anti-corruption process suffered a serious blow with the November 1 announcement of the selection of nine potentially biased nominees to serve in the government,s National Counter Corruption Commission (NCCC). Critics allege that most of the nominees have close [...] | 2005-11-07 01:45:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TH NCCC |
05BANGKOK6960 | UN ESCAP: REQUEST FOR TESTIMONY ON ASIAN [...] (U) This message is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (U) UN ESCAP has requested nominations of experts to participate in the Expert Group Meeting on Development Issues and Policies: Infrastructure Development, to be held in Bangkok, Thailand, December 14-15, 2005. The purpo [...] | 2005-11-07 03:05:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN AORC EAID TH |
05BANGKOK6978 | FORMER PRIME MINISTER ANAND CRITICIZES SURAKIART [...] (C) During a November 3 conversation with the Ambassador, National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) Head and former Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun derided Deputy Prime Minister (and former Foreign Minister) Surakiart Sathirathai's campaign to succeed Kofi Annan as next UN Secretary General. [...] | 2005-11-08 05:03:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TH |
05BANGKOK6979 | ANAND COMMENTS ON FINAL PHASE OF NRC'S PROCESS [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador called on National Reconciliation Committee (NRC) Head and former Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun on November 3 to discuss the NRC's wrap-up phase. Anand said that Thaksin still has no idea of the root causes of the problem and has used his aides and media infl [...] | 2005-11-08 05:09:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER TH NRC |
05BANGKOK6980 | NRC HEAD ANAND ON HIS CONVERSATIONS WITH MALAYSIAN [...] (C) Summary: During his visit to Malaysia last month, National Reconciliation Commission Head (NRC) Anand Panyarachun met with Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi and former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to discuss the Thai-Malaysian relations in context of the ongoing violence in Thailand's s [...] | 2005-11-08 05:28:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ML TH |
05BANGKOK7000 | EXPORTS REVIVE THAI ECONOMY [...] Summary: After a weak showing in the first quarter, the Thai economy has strongly recovered, achieving 4.4 percent GDP growth in the second quarter with even stronger growth anticipated for the second half. Exports account for almost all this growth as domestic consumption and private investme [...] | 2005-11-09 04:23:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD TH |
05BANGKOK701 | STAFFING ISSUES AT DAO BANGKOK [...] No summary [...] | 2005-01-27 06:00:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TH POL MIL |
05BANGKOK7014 | COMBATTING EXTREMISM [...] (C) Summary: The ongoing insurgency in the southern three provinces is the most significant manifestation of extremism in Thailand. The problem is primarily ethnic and to some extent separatist in its origin, rather than sectarian, although international, radical Islam is having an effect, b [...] | 2005-11-09 10:04:00 | Embassy Bangkok | SECRET | EAID KDEM PHUM PREL KMPI KPAO TH |
05BANGKOK7015 | EXILED BURMESE LABOR LEADER RETURNS TO THAILAND [...] (C) Summary: In the past week, the Embassy has been sorting out an unusual story involving U Maung Maung, the exiled Burmese trade union leader, and his return to Thailand on November 3 despite an apparent warning by Thai officials that he would not be allowed to re-enter the country. Maung [...] | 2005-11-09 11:14:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PGOV PREL ELAB TH BM |
05BANGKOK703 | THAILAND SUPPORTS TIMETABLE FOR WITHDRAWAL OF U.S. [...] (C) Reftel A requests Post query the RTG for its views of the planned withdrawal of U.S. military assets from the tsunami affected region. Utapao naval air base, which is SIPDIS located in Thailand, serves as the regional hub for Combined Support Force 536 (CSF 536). Nodes from that hub, [...] | 2005-01-27 06:37:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PREL MARR MOPS TH POL MIL |
05BANGKOK7030 | U.S.-THAI STRATEGIC DIALOGUE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 7 and 8, following up on the President's and Prime Minister Thaksin's commitment, senior U.S. officials met with Thai counterparts to inaugurate a bilateral dialogue on strategic and security issues. The U.S. side was lead by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Eri [...] | 2005-11-10 07:37:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR MASS PTER PREL KPAO TH |
05BANGKOK7033 | U.S.-THAILAND FTA: GOOD PROSPECTS FOR PROGRESS IN [...] (C) Summary: On the eve of the Round 6 FTA talks in London, prospects look good for making solid progress in most negotiating areas scheduled for discussion. There are signs that the mood here has shifted from passive resistance to a resigned, "let's get on with it" attitude. Even in financ [...] | 2005-11-10 09:09:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EINV TH |
05BANGKOK704 | PACOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL FARGO MEETING WITH PRIME [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra told PACOM Commander Admiral Thomas Fargo that last month's tsunami demonstrated the need for increased emphasis on SIPDIS disaster response in future Thai/US military exercises. During the January 19 meeting, Thaksin told Fargo that if the [...] | 2005-01-27 06:42:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID MOPS PREL TH POL MIL |
05BANGKOK7040 | THAILAND GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT: RICE FOR ROLLING [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Royal Thai Government (RTG) has floated the idea of paying for four mass transit lines in the Bangkok metro area at a cost of about $5 billion with cash and agricultural products through barter deals negotiated with other governments. Agricultural commodities, however, are [...] | 2005-11-10 09:48:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR ELTN MASS TH |
05BANGKOK7043 | THAI TELECOM SECTOR REFORM:PROSPECTS FOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: Royal Thai Government (RTG) plans to privatize the telecom operators TOT PCL (TOT) and CAT Telecom PCL (CAT) are finally moving forward. Several practical problems require resolution, however, before either enterprise will be able to effect an initial public offering (IPO) of s [...] | 2005-11-10 09:52:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECPS EINV ECON TH |
05BANGKOK7045 | A/S RADEMAKER'S MEETINGS AT THE ARF SEMINAR FOR [...] (C) Summary: The U.S. delegation at the ARF CBM Seminar on Missile Defense, held in Bangkok October 6 and 7, was led by Acting A/S for International Security and Nonproliferation Stephen Rademaker. In the plenary session and side meetings with numerous participants, Rademaker stressed three ke [...] | 2005-11-10 10:01:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PHSA PINS PTER TH ARF |
05BANGKOK706 | PACOM ADM FARGO'S MEETING WITH THAI FM SURAKIART, [...] (C) Summary: In their January 19 meeting, FM Surakiart told ADM Fargo that the U.S. had "won the hearts of Asians" with its rapid and massive relief to Thailand and other tsunami-devastated countries. He expressed pride in the SIPDIS Royal Thai Government's (RTG) contribution of quick appr [...] | 2005-01-27 07:02:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID MOPS PREL PGOV OVIP TH POL MIL |
05BANGKOK7073 | DISCUSSIONS ON SOUTHERN TROUBLES WITH OBSERVERS IN [...] (C) Summary: During a one day visit to Songkhla in southern Thailand, Thailand Desk Officer and Emboff met with several prominent local observers to discuss the causes and possible solution to the area's ongoing turmoil. The observers were opposition Democrat Party (DP) MP Niphon Bunyamane [...] | 2005-11-15 03:14:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER TH |
05BANGKOK7079 | THAI RESPONSE TO CODEX DEMARCHE [...] On November 8, Embassy presented talking points on infant formula standards for the upcoming Codex meeting in Bonn as requested in reftel. 2. Metanee Sukontarag, Director of the Office of Commodity and System Standards in the Ministry of Agriculture, responded via email that Thailand in p [...] | 2005-11-15 06:27:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD FDA |
05BANGKOK7086 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED- UNGA HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTIONS [...] (SBU) On November 10, Poloff delivered Reftel talking points to Mr. Peerasak Chantavarin, Director of the Social Division of the International Organizations Department of the MFA. Peerasak responded that he was familiar with the resolutions since he had received telephone calls from the Japane [...] | 2005-11-15 11:06:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV TH UNGA |
05BANGKOK7090 | PRIME MINISTER'S SENIOR ADVISOR PANSAK MEETING [...] (C) SUMMARY. DAS Eric John and Ambassador Boyce met with Pansak Winyarat, senior advisor to Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, on November 9 for open-ended discussions. Pansak's iconoclastic and uncensored views often give insights into the thinking of the Prime Minister. Discussion focus [...] | 2005-11-16 00:11:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF ETRD TH BURMA CAMBODIA |
05BANGKOK7091 | PRIVY COUNSELOR SURAYUD ON SITUATION IN SOUTHERN [...] (C) Summary. On November 10, Privy Counselor General Surayud Chulanont indicated to visiting DAS Eric John and the Ambassador that the Queen now has a better understanding of the situation in southern Thailand. He was critical, however, of the police -- suggesting that they still do not ha [...] | 2005-11-16 00:15:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR TH |
05BANGKOK7100 | AUDITOR-GENERAL SELECTION PROCESS TO BEGIN ANEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The continued controversy over the placement of an Auditor General reached a turning point on November 10th, when, after failing to receive a directive from Thailand's Constitutional Court, Thailand's State Audit Commission decided that the best course of action was to begin t [...] | 2005-11-16 03:30:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TH |
05BANGKOK7116 | DAS ERIC JOHN'S MEETING WITH FORMER FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary. In his meeting with EAP DAS Eric John and Ambassador Boyce, former Democrat Party Foreign Minister Surin Pitsuwan, a native of and Muslim MP from the South, reiterated his well-known pessimism on the situation in that region, but in newly negative terms. Surin also presented som [...] | 2005-11-16 08:19:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER TH BURMA |
05BANGKOK7123 | VILLAGERS KILLED IN RAID IN NARATHIWAT [...] (U) Insurgents killed 9 Muslim villagers during a nighttime raid in Ra Ngae district in Narathiwat province on November 16th. Eight people were also injured during the attack, five of them children. According to Embassy police sources, an entire family was among the victims. 2. (C) Ver [...] | 2005-11-16 09:27:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER TH |
05BANGKOK7124 | THAILAND: COURT SUSPENDS PRIVATIZATION OF [...] (U) SUMMARY: Thailand,s Supreme Administrative Court has ordered the Minister of Energy and EGAT Plc to suspend the initial public offering (IPO) of shares of the state-owned power producer,s stock scheduled for November 16-17, 2005. The Court,s decision represents an unexpected victory for [...] | 2005-11-16 09:36:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EINV EPET KPRV TH |
05BANGKOK7125 | IRAN RESOLUTION DEMARCHE - THAI RESPONSE [...] (C) Ambassador made reftel demarche points to MFA Permanent Secretary Krit Garnjana-Goonchorn on November 16. Permsec Krit responded that the Thai government normally supports no action motions on individual countries, except in the case of blatant abuses such as the massacres in Sudan. The [...] | 2005-11-16 10:16:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM TH |
05BANGKOK7142 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 3. 2. (U) DEA has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for the individuals listed below who will be new signatures for one of DEA's Host Cou [...] | 2005-11-17 08:03:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7143 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Flt.Lt. Kraiwan CHANCHALAD, Directorate of Armament, Air Support Command, [...] | 2005-11-17 08:04:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7144 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Wg.Cdr. Kamolratana SUTTABOOSAYA, Directorate of Medical Services, Air Su [...] | 2005-11-17 08:04:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7145 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for FltLt. Choosak KASATEWIT, Directorate of Civil Engineering, Air Support C [...] | 2005-11-17 08:05:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7146 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Cpt. Siri SANTONG, 12th Signal Battalion, King's Guard, who has been sele [...] | 2005-11-17 08:05:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7147 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Capt. Wasin BAMBUNGCHEEP, Naval Medical Department, who has been selected [...] | 2005-11-17 08:06:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7148 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for 1Lt. Araya SAYANHAVIKASIT, Ordnance School, who has been selected to atte [...] | 2005-11-17 08:06:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7149 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for MG Boonchu KIRDCHOK, who has been selected to attend the WCN N/A, Nationa [...] | 2005-11-17 08:06:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7150 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Cpt. Worachin Yaowarat, 2nd Engineer Battalion, King's Guard, who has bee [...] | 2005-11-17 08:06:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7151 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Cpt. Pongsatorn SUKRAPANNA, 22nd Cavalry Squadron, who has been selected [...] | 2005-11-17 08:07:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7152 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Cpt. Sitthisak MINWONG, 1st Infantry Division, King's Guard, who has been [...] | 2005-11-17 08:08:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7153 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Cpt. Waraporn JUNTORN, Special Warfare Center, who has been selected to a [...] | 2005-11-17 08:08:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7154 | THAILAND HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR: INTELLECTUAL [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) ILEA has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for individuals listed below, who have been selected to attend the Intellectual Prop [...] | 2005-11-17 08:08:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7155 | THAILAND HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR: POLICE COLONEL [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) DEA has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Police Colonel Anurak SAITHONG and Police Lt. Colonel Thanayos SUKRATANA who will [...] | 2005-11-17 08:08:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7156 | THAILAND HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR: CRIME SCENE [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) ILEA has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for individuals listed below, who have been selected to attend the Crime Scene Inves [...] | 2005-11-17 08:09:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7184 | EXCELLENT THAI-DPRK RELATIONS NOT SO USEFUL IN [...] (C) Summary. Allegations in a new book that North Korean abducted a Thai woman working in Macao in 1978 have grabbed local headlines and prompted Foreign Minister Kantathi to pledge government efforts to return her to Thailand. Thai officials, however, are finding their North Korean counterp [...] | 2005-11-18 04:21:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TH DPRK |
05BANGKOK7191 | UPDATE ON OPTIONS FOR THE PETCHABOON HMONG [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 11. 2. (C) Summary. During a November 15 meeting, UNHCR Deputy Regional Representative Raja Panday stated that he had made a new proposal to the Thai government on resolving the situation of the Petchaboon Hmong. The proposal is that the Th [...] | 2005-11-18 07:11:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL TH LA |
05BANGKOK7197 | THE KING AND HIM; THE OPPOSITION PLAYS THEIR KING [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION. Evidence suggests that Prime Minister Thaksin is alienating an ever-growing segment of the political class. The antipathy that started with NGOs and journalists is spreading; by some accounts, it includes many in the military leadership and reaches even to the [...] | 2005-11-18 08:42:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM TH TRT |
05BANGKOK7207 | RALLIES AGAINST VIOLENCE HELD IN YALA AND [...] (U) Crowds estimated at 5,000 to 6,000 persons gathered in the southern provinces of Yala and Narathiwat on November 17 to protest the murder by suspected separatists of a former militant, who was cooperating with the government, and his family (reftel). The crowds were made up of both Thai [...] | 2005-11-21 00:20:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER TH |
05BANGKOK7213 | THAI COURT TRIES "GAG ORDER" TO SHUT UP PROMINENT [...] (U) SUMMARY. The Thai Civil Court has issued Thaksin critic Sondhi Limthongkul a gag order, effectively banning him from criticizing the Prime Minister until libel suits against him can be litigated. Since his popular political television program was canceled in September, Sondhi has been doin [...] | 2005-11-21 00:20:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KPAO PINS PROP TH |
05BANGKOK7242 | PATTAYA: THAILAND'S EXTREME CITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The sea-side port city of Pattaya is one of Thailand's major tourist destinations, second only to Bangkok, and a significant contributor to the Thai economy. Attracted to the 'anything goes' reputation that centers around Pattaya's sleazy nightlife, over 4 million foreigners and 10 m [...] | 2005-11-22 07:14:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TH |
05BANGKOK7250 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IMO COUNCIL CANDIDACY [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-22 09:22:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TH |
05BANGKOK7253 | TENS OF THOUSANDS GATHER TO LISTEN TO SONDHI DISH [...] (C) SUMMARY. Defying a November 17 court order banning him from criticizing the PM, outspoken talk show host Sondhi Limthongkul continued with his weekly "mobile talk show" in Bangkok. The rally attracted an estimated 30-40,000 people. Sondhi detailed two heretofore new scandals, alleging that [...] | 2005-11-22 09:34:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KPAO PINS PROP TH |
05BANGKOK7268 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: THAILAND INTERESTED BUT [...] Poloff delivered Reftel demarche on November 21 to Ms. Patchanee Kithavorn, Director of the Latin America Division of the MFA Department of American and South Pacific Affairs. Patchanee told Poloff that she received Post's non-paper and that the RTG was sympathetic to the needs of the OAS Missi [...] | 2005-11-23 03:25:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PTER TH OAS |
05BANGKOK7272 | SCENESETTER FOR PACAF COMMANDER GEN HESTER'S VISIT [...] (C) General Hester, all of us in Bangkok look forward to your visit as an opportunity to advance a number of key U.S. foreign policy objectives. The Thai will likely ask you for your latest thinking on the future of our annual Cope Tiger Exercise. In addition to promoting issues directly a [...] | 2005-11-23 06:59:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PGOV PREL MARR MASS TH |
05BANGKOK7289 | THAILAND AMBITIOUS ON HONG KONG, BUT WARY [...] On November 22, Econoff met with Ms. Sirinart Chaimun, Director of the Bureau of Multilateral Trade Negotations in the Ministry of Commerce to discuss the RTG agenda for the upcoming WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong. The RTG is sending a thirty-plus person team to the Ministerial headed by Deputy [...] | 2005-11-23 09:45:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD KIRC KPAO OIIP TH WTRO |
05BANGKOK7301 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR: STAFFDEL [...] (U) Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. Frank Januzzi from 12/8 - 12/11, 2005 2. (U) Hotel reservations have been made at: Conrad Hotel, All Seasons Place, 87 Wireless Road, Bangkok Tel: (66-2) 690-9999 Fax: (66-2) 690-9000 Room rate is $125.00 net (taxes and [...] | 2005-11-25 04:14:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT TH |
05BANGKOK7305 | BESIEGED AUDITOR-GENERAL TALKS TO EMBASSY ABOUT [...] (C) Summary. Poloff spoke with Khunying Jaruwan Maintaka, the besieged Auditor-General of Thailand, on November 14th concerning her controversial situation and about corruption in Thailand. Although Jaruwan has avoided speaking to the press and stays out of the public eye, she gave Polo [...] | 2005-11-25 05:11:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL TH |
05BANGKOK7317 | COURT VICTORIES FOR RABBLE-ROUSING JOURNALIST [...] (U) SUMMARY. One week after Sondhi Limthongkul attracted nearly 40,000 people to Bangkok's Lumpini Park with his "mobile talk show", the businessman-turned-media defender won two significant legal victories, including a partial reprieve from last week's gag order on him and his associates. Mea [...] | 2005-11-25 10:15:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KPAO PINS PROP TH |
05BANGKOK7334 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON [...] Per reftel request, here are the results of posts inquiries into the bona fides of G.H. International. Company Profile Per the Thai Department of Business Development, Ministry of Commerce, G.H.International Co. Ltd is filed under registration number 1160/2517, dated 9 OCT 1974. Capital re [...] | 2005-11-28 06:29:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC TH BLUE LANTERN |
05BANGKOK7345 | SONDHI'S TENTH AND LARGEST RALLY TO DATE ATTRACTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Government critic Sondhi Limthongkul hosted his tenth "mobile talk show" from a monastery in Udon Thani. A crowd of approximately 50,000 gathered in Bangkok's Lumpini Park to listen to Sondhi offer revelations of new scandals concerning the Thai Rak Thai government. In the two-ho [...] | 2005-11-28 10:29:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KPAO PINS PROP TH |
05BANGKOK7364 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) DEA has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for individuals listed below from the Nong Kai Provincial Police who are scheduled to [...] | 2005-11-29 08:13:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7365 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Lt. Yuthanavi MUNGTHANYA, Sattahip Naval Base, who has been selected to a [...] | 2005-11-29 08:13:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7399 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for LTC Khunakorn KANA, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, w [...] | 2005-12-01 02:00:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7454 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: AMBASSADOR CALLS ON PRIVY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador called on Privy Counselor Palakorn Suanrath to discuss the situation in southern Thailand. Palakorn -- who served as director of the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Center (SBPAC) prior to its 2002 dissolution by Prime Minister Thaksin -- is known to be a cl [...] | 2005-12-02 07:57:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER TH |
05BANGKOK7458 | THAILAND TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (U) Summary: Recent activities have focused on child trafficking and child sex tourism in Thailand. A child sex tourism seminar was held in Bangkok under the auspices of the USG-supported Bali Process, with DHS/ICE representing the USG and providing a case study. The NGO IJM reports progres [...] | 2005-12-02 08:06:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KCRM KWMN PREF PREL SMIG PHUM EAID TH |
05BANGKOK7460 | CHINESE EMBASSY WANTS TO BUILD LINKS WITH U.S. [...] (C) Summary. As part of our ongoing effort to follow China's growing influence in Thailand, the Ambassador hosted a reception on December 1 for the PRC Embassy at the Residence. Chinese Ambassador Zhang Jiuhuan called for greater dialogue between the U.S. and China on a wide variety of iss [...] | 2005-12-02 08:43:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MASS MARR CH TH |
05BANGKOK7462 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: INSIDE THE ARMY'S HEARTS AND [...] Summary. (C) In a meeting with poloffs on 1 December, Royal Thai Army (RTA) civil affairs officer Lt. Col. Saniroj Thumayos explained the challenges facing the RTA's attempts to win the hearts and minds of the public in the violent South. Saniroj outlined RTG efforts to train and support Isl [...] | 2005-12-02 10:02:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PINR TH |
05BANGKOK7508 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON [...] Per reftel request, here are the results of Post's inquiries into the bona fides of Bangkok Helicopter Services Co., Ltd. and The General Aviation Co., Ltd. Company Profile per the Thai Department of Business Development, Ministry of Commerce: The Bangkok Helicopter Services Co. Ltd is filed [...] | 2005-12-07 06:40:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC TH BLUE LANTERN |
05BANGKOK752 | DPRK ASYLUM SEEKER -- MOVING FORWARD [...] (C) In response to reftel, Refcoord informed UNHCR Chief Protection Officer Kirsten Young on January 27 of the latest developments in the case of DPRK asylum seeker Anh and asked what assistance UNHCR would be able to provide in the resolution of this issue. Reiterataing earlier commitments m [...] | 2005-01-28 07:22:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV PREL ASEC KN KS LA TH DPRK |
05BANGKOK7523 | THAIS TO TAKE U.S. TO WTO OVER CONTINUOUS BOND [...] RTG trade officials decided December 6 to file a complaint against the U.S. in the WTO over a U.S. requirement that shrimp importers file a continuous bond to cover expected anti-dumping duties. Nadhawan Tanyongmas, Trade Officer in the Department of Foreign Trade, said RTG representatives i [...] | 2005-12-07 08:51:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD TH |
05BANGKOK7526 | PHARMACEUTICAL COSTS AND THE FTA [...] (U) Summary and Introduction: The prospect of strong "TRIPS-plus" patent provisions in a U.S.-Thailand Free Trade Agreement (FTA) has been a controversial issue in Thailand. Anti-FTA activists from NGOs and within the RTG claim that stronger patent protection for pharmaceutical products in an [...] | 2005-12-07 09:54:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR TH |
05BANGKOK7527 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: RTG QUIETLY REACHES OUT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD) has been quietly meeting in northern Malaysia and in Europe with purported leadership figures from some of the prominent southern Thai separatist groups -- including the Barisan Revolusi Nasional Coordinate (BRN-C) -- in an attempt to f [...] | 2005-12-07 09:55:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER TH |
05BANGKOK7529 | LUNCH WITH THAKSIN [...] (S) Summary: During lunch at the residence on December 7, Prime Minister Thaksin and I discussed the King's recent birthday speech, the situation in Thailand's south, the issue of extrajudicial killings, Thai-Malaysian relations, Burma policy, North Korea, the US-Thai Action Plan, Thailand's [...] | 2005-12-07 12:06:00 | Embassy Bangkok | SECRET | ETRD PGOV PHUM PTER TH BURMA CIA |
05BANGKOK7537 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) ILEA has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for the individuals listed below, who has been selected to attend the Leadership Dev [...] | 2005-12-08 02:44:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7555 | EMBASSY BANGKOK CONCERNS OVER ACES DATABASE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. After careful review at post, Embassy Bangkok believes the Abuse Case Evaluation System (ACES) database falls short of its announced goal (reftel C) of being a tool to "facilitate the management of human rights abuse allegations and compliance with the Leahy amendment guidelin [...] | 2005-12-09 03:18:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7571 | THAILAND: CODEL HASTERT JAN 13-16 [...] (U) Post grants country clearance and looks forward to a successful visit by CODEL Hastert. Control officer for the Bangkok portion of the visit will be: Political Officer Mark Lambert Office: 66-2-205-4729 Fax: 66-2-253-3876 Cell: 66-1-808-1056 Home: 66-2-285-6186 Email: LambertMB@ [...] | 2005-12-09 07:47:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN TH |
05BANGKOK7573 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: LABELING THE MILITANTS "BRN-C" [...] (C) SUMMARY/COMMENT: Thai officials and foreign observers have struggled to identify the militant movement responsible for the resurgent violence in far southern Thailand that has claimed over 1,000 lives since January 2004. The initial government response -- to blame criminals or local po [...] | 2005-12-09 08:14:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL TH |
05BANGKOK7574 | OLD FRIENDS, BAD DEALS, AND COMMUNITY RADIO: THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On December 1, Embassy Officers visited controversial community radio station 92.25. Station personnel reported that the station had started up operations a week after the August raid (Reftel A) and was now technically broadcasting their programs solely on the Internet, which we [...] | 2005-12-09 08:48:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PROP SOCI KPAO TH |
05BANGKOK7581 | HALF-BAKED IDEA FOR ZOO INCREASES DOUBT ABOUT THAI [...] (U) Summary: Chiang Mai's Night Safari Park, although set to open officially on January 1, opened privately on November 16 in a ceremony presided over by Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Controversial since its inception, for reasons including alleged substandard treatment of an [...] | 2005-12-13 00:25:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ECON PGOV PREL TH |
05BANGKOK7599 | IMET IN THAILAND -- KEY TOOL FOR ENGAGEMENT [...] The International Military Education and Training Program (IMET) has been a vital tool for almost 30 years to improve the Thai military's ability to develop core skills and competence. In addition to providing world-class training through a wide range of courses, IMET has helped us create a [...] | 2005-12-13 10:18:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV MARR MASS TH IMET |
05BANGKOK7613 | CODEL SMITH MEETS WITH PRIME MINSITER THAKSIN [...] (SBU) In a December 9 meeting, Codel Gordon Smith met with Prime Minister Thaksin at Government House. During the course of their forty-five minute conversation, The PM assured the Senators that completion of bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks with the U.S. is of paramount importance to [...] | 2005-12-14 04:15:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD TH |
05BANGKOK7644 | MATERIAL SUPPORT ISSUE COULD CRIPPLE U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary. Several positive changes have marked recent Thai policy toward the approximately 140,000 Burmese refugees located in nine camps along the Thai-Burma border. The Thai have agreed to the U.S. proposal to offer resettlement to the entire, 9,000-person camp of Tham Hin after reject [...] | 2005-12-15 09:26:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL TH BURMA |
05BANGKOK7645 | THAILAND TAKES A PASS ON ASEAN-KOREA FTA [...] (U) South Korea signed a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with ASEAN in Kuala Lumpur on December 13, with the notable absence of Thailand, which declined to sign. Thai leaders did sign a framework agreement for the FTA, but balked at the deal on trade in goods after South Korea insisted on exclusi [...] | 2005-12-15 09:47:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD TH |
05BANGKOK7649 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Maj. Thiratch SOMBUTSIRI, Directorate of Civil Affairs, who has been sele [...] | 2005-12-16 00:35:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7650 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for FLO Pornpote CHAICHANKUL, JAG, MOD, who has been selected to attend the W [...] | 2005-12-16 00:35:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7651 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for FS1 Watcharin SAI-IN, Directorate of Armament, Air Support Command, RTAF, [...] | 2005-12-16 00:36:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7652 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Lcdr. Amonthep THONGSIN, Amphibious Squadron, Royal Thai Fleet, who has b [...] | 2005-12-16 00:36:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7653 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Cpt. Pakawat KROBSORN, 2nd SF.BN.4th SF Regiment, who has been selected t [...] | 2005-12-16 00:36:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7654 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for 1Lt. Sunai JIRASOMBOON, Field Artillery Battalion, Artillery Center, who [...] | 2005-12-16 00:37:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7655 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Lcdr. Apirat SANGPETCHSONG, Somdejprapinklao Hospital, RTN, who has been [...] | 2005-12-16 00:38:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7656 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Capt. Ek-Art SILLAPACHARN, Royal Thai Marine Corps, who has been selected [...] | 2005-12-16 00:38:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH |
05BANGKOK7657 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Capt. Padermchai SUCONTHAMAT, Royal Thai Marine Corps, who has been selec [...] | 2005-12-16 00:38:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7658 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Cpt. Surachart RUANWONG, 1st Spec. Forces, BN, 1st SF Regiment, who has b [...] | 2005-12-16 00:39:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7668 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Flt.Lt. Karn VANIJAKA, Office of the Comptroller, RTAF, who has been sele [...] | 2005-12-16 05:47:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7669 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Ltc. Ruarob MUANGMAN, J-2/SCHQ, who has been selected to attend the WCN C [...] | 2005-12-16 05:48:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7670 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for LTC Khrongpon LOHACHALA, J-2/Schq., who has been selected to attend the W [...] | 2005-12-16 05:48:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7715 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) LEGATT has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Lt. Col. Surachate HAKPARN, who has been selected to attend the 225th Session a [...] | 2005-12-19 03:38:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7729 | THAILAND: 2005 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] (U) In 2005, Thailand continued to support domestic and international counterterrorism efforts. Thailand is a major beneficiary of US anti-terrorism assistance, with numerous Thai police and security officials participating in US-sponsored training courses. 2. (U) There were no acts of [...] | 2005-12-19 09:17:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC TH |
05BANGKOK773 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (SBU) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for 1Lt. Tongchai CHOBTHAM, Light Aviation, WCN 1171 who has been selected to atten [...] | 2005-01-31 00:55:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7731 | THAI FOREIGN MINISTER ON EAST ASIA SUMMIT AND [...] (C) Summary: During a December 16 conversation with the Ambassador, Thai Foreign Minister Kantathi Supamongkol gave an upbeat assessment of the December 14 inaugural East Asia Summit meeting in Kuala Lumpur. Kantathi said that the EAS put the Avian Flu challenge, cooperation against intern [...] | 2005-12-19 09:27:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TH BURMA |
05BANGKOK7732 | THAKSIN ALLY PAINTS GLOOMY PICTURE OF PM'S STANDING [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: I met with Deputy Prime Minister Surakiart Sathirathai on December 16, expecting to hear another campaign speech from the would-be UN Secretary General (ref C). Instead, Surakiart unexpectedly delivered a downbeat analysis of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's [...] | 2005-12-19 09:46:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TH TRT |
05BANGKOK774 | THAILAND: EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. (SBU) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting for 1Lt. Sothon RUKSASUP, Army Military Intelligence Command, WCN 1176 who has been [...] | 2005-01-31 00:55:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7749 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: VILLAGERS FORCE POLICE TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Media and Embassy sources offered differing accounts of a December 19 event in which a mob of Muslim villagers in Narathiwat apparently forced police to release two men held in connection with the shooting of a local official. The media reported that up to 1,000 villagers had ta [...] | 2005-12-20 09:08:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER TH |
05BANGKOK7750 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: BANGKOK MUSLIMS TRY TO BRIDGE [...] (C) Summary. In separate meetings with poloffs, officials from both the private Bangkok-based Islamic Center of Thailand and the government-affiliated Central Islamic Committee underscored their belief that the violence in the South is not a religious conflict and outlined their efforts to im [...] | 2005-12-20 09:09:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PHUM TH |
05BANGKOK7783 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: DECEMBER 8-9 VISIT OF STAFFDEL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) professional staffmember Frank Jannuzi visited the far southern Thai provinces of Songkhla and Yala as part of SFRC and Embassy Bangkok's ongoing effort to closely monitor the situation in that region. Jannuzi met with leading local gov [...] | 2005-12-21 09:25:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KPAO TH |
05BANGKOK7796 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EAP PDAS KATHLEEN STEPHENS [...] (U) Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to PDAS Stephens from January 26-January 31. 2. (U) Hotel reservations are being made per reftel request. 3. (U) Embassy point of contact is: Mark Lambert Work phone: (66-2) 205-4729 Home: (66-2) 285-6186 Cell phone: (66 [...] | 2005-12-22 05:11:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TH |
05BANGKOK7801 | THAILAND RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR AVIAN AND [...] (U) Post hereby provides updated responses to second avian influenza questionnaire contained in reftel A: A) PREPAREDNESS/COMMUNICATION -- DOES THE GOVERNMENT HAVE A PREPAREDNESS PLAN/STRATEGY FOR PREVENTING AVIAN FLU FROM BECOMING A PANDEMIC AND CONTAINING A PANDEMIC ONCE IT OCCURS? IF TH [...] | 2005-12-22 07:54:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL XX |
05BANGKOK7802 | ASEAN WILDLIFE ENFORCEMENT NETWORK LAUNCH: AN [...] (U) Summary: On December 1, representatives from nine of the ten ASEAN countries and the ASEAN Secretariat approved the launch of the ASEAN Wildlife Enforcement Network (ASEAN-WEN),a regional law enforcement network to combat illegal wildlife trafficking in Southeast Asia. The launch provid [...] | 2005-12-22 08:02:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV PREL KCRM XC TH |
05BANGKOK7803 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) NAS has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for the individuals listed below who have been selected to attend the Crime Scene Inv [...] | 2005-12-22 08:10:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7804 | THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Maj. Warisara JAIPIAM, Civil Affairs School, who has been selected to att [...] | 2005-12-22 08:14:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING |
05BANGKOK7918 | SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: DR. JAPAKIYA'S UNIVERSITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Dr. Ismail Lutfi Japakiya, Rector of the International Islamic University of Pattani, is one of the most prominent -- and controversial -- Muslim scholars in Thailand. The University he founded continues an ambitious expansion with the aid of Muslim charities and governments. J [...] | 2005-12-30 04:35:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KPAO TH |
05BANGKOK7920 | STATUS OF MISSING HMONG CHILDREN REMAINS UNCLEAR [...] (C) Summary. The current location and status of the 29 Lao Hmong children and teens reported arrested last month remains unclear. A National Human Rights Commission official believes that the children remain in immigration detention in Nong Khai, Thailand, while second hand reports from the L [...] | 2005-12-30 06:39:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PREF PREL PHUM TH LA KTIP |
05BANGKOK7921 | DIP NOTE DELIVERED ON AER [...] (U) On December 29, post delivered a diplomatic note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as requested in reftel. The diplomatic note was delivered after the RTG declined to withdraw its diplomatic note of December 29, 2004 stating its intention to withdraw from Articles IV and X of the Treaty [...] | 2005-12-30 07:02:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON TH |
05BANGKOK801 | THAILAND: PRE-ELECTION VIOLENCE AND ELECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: As the February 6 date for national parliamentary elections in Thailand draws closer we are seeing frequent allegations of vote buying and even some reports of poll-related killings. These activities have never been absent from the Thai electoral process in the past, but the [...] | 2005-01-31 10:19:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM TH |
05BANGKOK802 | AMBASSADOR-FM SURAKIART ON NORTH KOREAN ASYLUM SEEKER IN VIENTIANE [...] (C) On January 28, while in Phuket for Thai-hosted conference on a tsunami early warning system (EWS),the Ambassador spoke with Foreign Minister Surakiart about Ahn Kyong Su, the North Korean asylum seeker in Embassy Vientiane. The Ambassador noted that the Lao government would not allow tra [...] | 2005-01-31 10:20:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM ASEC KS KN TH DPRK LA |
05BANGKOK868 | THAILAND: NEWS AND NOTES ON THE ROYAL FAMILY [...] (SBU) On January 27, I attended the annual Prince Mahidol awards ceremony, which the King directly presides over. The annual awards, named in honor of the King's father, are presented to individuals who have made outstanding contributions in the fields of medicine or public health. Princes [...] | 2005-02-02 10:14:00 | Embassy Bangkok | SECRET | PGOV PREL TH |
05BANGKOK869 | THAILAND: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES THE SOUTH WITH KEY [...] (C) Summary: On January 27, I called on Pansak Vinyaratn, a principal advisor to Prime Minister Thaksin. Our conversation focused on the violence in southern Thailand and how the situation affects Thailand's ability to deploy additional troops to Iraq; how Thaksin is learning, slowly, to de [...] | 2005-02-02 10:15:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR TH |
05BANGKOK918 | POST REQUESTS TIMETABLE FOR PSYOP ASSESSMENT TEAM [...] (SBU) On December 9, 2004, the 5th Psychological Operations (PSYOP) Battalion Commander, 4th Psyop Group, briefed the DCM on the Rewards for Information/Military Support to Public Diplomacy Programs. These programs have been successfully used by AmEmbassy Manila to assist the Philippines Go [...] | 2005-02-04 01:39:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR TH POL MIL |
05BANGKOK948 | THAI ELECTIONS: PROMINENT DEMOCRAT PARTY [...] (C) Summary: Dr. Surin Phitsuwan, Democrat (DP) party luminary and former Foreign Minister under the Chuan Leekpai administration, is waging a tough fight for election to Parliament in a traditionally DP Nakhon Si Thammarat constituency. He faces a well-funded, younger Thai Rak Thai (TRT) [...] | 2005-02-04 09:22:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TH |
05BANGKOK953 | THAI ELECTIONS: PAPER TIGER CAN'T KEEP UP WITH THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy visits to Phijit and Phitsanulok provinces before the February 6 parliamentary election revealed that allegations of vote buying and other campaign violations have a basis in truth in Thailand's "Lower North." Local Election Commission officials and NGOs there are frustr [...] | 2005-02-04 14:00:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM TH |
05BANGKOK954 | ON THE EVE OF THAILAND'S GENERAL ELECTION: THE [...] (SBU) At first glance the Thai political landscape on the eve of the February 6, 2005 parliamentary elections looks cluttered. Thailand still has 39 registered political parties. Twenty parties have fielded "party list" candidates and 24 parties are entered in some of the 400 contests for " [...] | 2005-02-05 11:15:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TH |
05BANGKOK955 | CHAT THAI ELECTION PROSPECTS GOOD IN CENTRAL [...] (C) Summary. Chat Thai (CT) almost certainly will win all six parliamentary seat contests in Suphan Buri province in the February 6 election, although CT Leader Banharn Silpa-archa's son faces a formidable Thai Rak Thai (TRT) candidate. The effects of years of Banharn's ability to deliver "po [...] | 2005-02-06 10:28:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM TH |
05BANGKOK980 | THAI ELECTION: THAKSIN IN AN "AVALANCHE" [...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has won a massive mandate in the February 6 parliamentary election -- unprecedented in Thai history -- for a second term as Thailand's Prime Minister. The results are still unofficial (and won't be finalized for a few days),but reliable est [...] | 2005-02-07 11:29:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TH |
05BASRAH147 | DEMONSTRATING FOR THE VOTE - SOUTH OIL COMPANY WORKERS VOICE [...] (C) In a December 12 meeting with the Basrah Regional Embassy Office, Basrah Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) Manager Hazim Joda said that approximately 100 South Oil Company (SOC) workers held a demonstration at the Basrah Governorate because no arrangements have been made to [...] | 2005-12-13 08:58:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EPET KDEM IZ |
05BASRAH148 | IRAN PURSUING ACTIVE PUBLIC DIPLOMACY PROGRAM IN BASRAH, [...] (C) Summary. Iran is pursuing an aggressive public diplomacy campaign in Basrah and Maysan Provinces that includes programs similar to the State Department's public diplomacy (PD) programs: visitor programs, book fairs, book reprinting services, libraries and media training programs. In Nove [...] | 2005-12-15 10:09:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET | PREL PROP KPAO IZ |
05BASRAH149 | DESPITE MINOR HICCUPS, SUCCESSFUL ELECTION IN THE SOUTH [...] Summary: December 15 elections in Basrah and the other three southern provinces generally ran smoothly and without many signs of significant fraud or security incidents. Basrah Regional Embassy Office (REO) Iraqi Provincial Action Officers (IPAOs) visited three polling centers in the morning [...] | 2005-12-15 17:19:00 | REO Basrah | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM IZ |
05BASRAH150 | ENCOURAGING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND STABILITY IN DHI QAR ON [...] (U) SUMMARY: On December 12, Ambassador Khalilzad announced to the Dhi Qar Governor and Provincial Council (PC) the approval of $7.0 million in assistance for critical reconstruction projects in the water and electric power sectors and the building of several new roads. The projects will he [...] | 2005-12-17 11:04:00 | REO Basrah | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM EAID PGOV PINS ECON IZ |
05BASRAH152 | INFORMAL ELECTION-DAY POLL RESULTS IN THE SOUTH [...] (C) Summary. During the December 15 election REO Basrah partnered with Al-Manarah newspaper, Radio Shinasheel and the AFAQ Media NGO to conduct informal polling of Iraqi voters in the south. These three organizations conducted election-day polling in all four (4) southern provinces, using the [...] | 2005-12-19 13:29:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM IZ |
05BASRAH153 | TOUR D'HORIZON WITH BASRAH GOVERNOR MOHAMMAD [...] (C) Summary: In a December 20 meeting with REO Basrah's new regional coordinator, Basrah Governor Mohammad Mossibh Al Wahili touted the possibility of a national unity government in Baghdad. After being pressed on the question of the Fadhila party's loyalty to the United Iraqi Alliance (555) [...] | 2005-12-21 12:39:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM IZ |
05BASRAH154 | PROJECT MONEY JUMP-STARTS PRDCS IN MAYSAN AND DHI QAR [...] Summary: The Provincial Reconstruction and Development Committees (PRDC) in Maysan and Dhi Qar provinces met on December 19 and 20. Demonstrations over fuel price increases in both provinces threatened to disrupt the meetings, but Provincial Council members prevailed in making the meeting ta [...] | 2005-12-22 11:01:00 | REO Basrah | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON EAID IZ UN |
05BASRAH155 | REO BASRAH SUPPORT FOR PRIVATE MEDIA IN THE RUN-UP TO THE [...] Summary. REO Basrah programmed $145,000 in public diplomacy grant funds to media organizations for coverage of key election issues in the run-up to the December 15 national election. Al-Samawah, Al-Manarah, Shatt Al-Arab, Al-Haqeeqa and Basrah Politics newspapers and Radio Shinasheel each rec [...] | 2005-12-24 16:08:00 | REO Basrah | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO KDEM PGOV IZ |
05BASRAH156 | HOW THE 731 COALITION LOST THE SOUTH [...] (C) Summary: On December 26, the Basrah Regional Coordinator met with Gali Najm Muter, the Iraqi National Accord (731) representative in Basrah. Gali attributed the poor showing of 731 in Basrah and the other southern provinces in the December 15 election to intimidation campaigns run by th [...] | 2005-12-27 10:21:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PTER IZ |
05BASRAH157 | HOW THE 731 COALITION LOST THE SOUTH [...] (C) Summary: On December 26, the Basrah Regional Coordinator met with Gali Najm Muter, the Iraqi National Accord (731) representative in Basrah. Gali attributed the poor showing of 731 in Basrah and the other southern provinces in the December 15 election to intimidation campaigns run by th [...] | 2005-12-27 11:44:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PTER IZ |
05BASRAH158 | IT'S THE IRANIANS' FAULT - SOUTHERN SUNNIS' DISCONTENT WITH [...] (C) Summary: On December 27, the Basrah Deputy Regional Coordinator met with Haji Khalaf El Eisah, the head of the Iraqi Islamic Party (List 618) in Basrah and his deputy, Dr. Jamal. Both Haji Khalaf and Dr. Jamal stated they were upset with the way the parliamentary elections had been conduc [...] | 2005-12-28 10:12:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PTER IZ |
05BEIJING10421 | USTR/DOC DELEGATION MEETING WITH VFM YANG JIECHI [...] (C) During a June 23 meeting with Vice Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, Deputy USTR Josette Shiner and Acting Undersecretary of Commerce Tim Hauser stressed U.S. desire to address the trade deficit and intellectual property rights (IPR) though cooperation. They emphasized that the United States [...] | 2005-06-27 08:26:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL KIPR CH |
05BEIJING14582 | ADM FALLON AND GENERAL LIANG AGREE ON NEED FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Admiral Fallon and General Liang agreed on the need to improve bilateral mil-mil ties, but stated frank disagreements regarding the transparency of the Chinese military budget and the use of force to resolve the Taiwan question, during a cordial meeting September 6. Liang acknowl [...] | 2005-09-06 13:45:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PREL PINS CH |
05BEIJING5704 | REACTION TO DISSIDENT LIU XIAOBO'S ONLINE ARTICLE [...] (C) Post has been monitoring Chinese websites and checking with contacts to track the reaction in China to an online article by dissident Liu Xiaobo criticizing racist comments toward Secretary Rice expressed by some netizens on Chinese websites at the time of the Secretary's March visit. Liu, [...] | 2005-04-05 12:04:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SOCI CH |
05BEIRUT1123 | MGLE01: AMAL SUCCESSION: BERRI'S BITTER, FRUITLESS [...] (C) Summary. Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri, 67 years old, has not groomed a credible successor to lead his Amal Movement. Like almost every other Lebanese party, he has kept the line of succession murky to avoid threats to his own leadership. Berri expelled a popular Amal leader whom h [...] | 2005-04-06 15:35:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL LE PGOV |
05BEIRUT1322 | MGLE01: SYRIAN INTELLIGENCE MAY HAVE WORKED WITH [...] (S) Introduction and summary. Tyre businessman Qassim Daoud (strictly protect) provided econoff on April 19 with further details on Hizballah's "Mirsad-1" Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) flight into Israeli airspace on April 11 (reftel). Daoud has well-placed contacts in the southern Shia co [...] | 2005-04-25 15:26:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | LE MOPS PTER SY |
05BEIRUT2068 | MGLE1: LEBANON'S NEW PARLIAMENTARY LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Four major personalities will dominate the new Parliament. These leaders -- Saad Hariri, Walid Jumblatt, Hassan Nasrallah, and Michel Aoun -- have the votes and the voices they need to push for -- or to block --change. The men and women who counsel these figures will be among our chief [...] | 2005-06-24 16:29:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PINR |
05BEIRUT2153 | THE NEW AND IMPROVED NABIH BERRI SAYS THE RIGHT [...] (C) Newly re-elected Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, opening a 6/30 meeting with the Ambassador, growled about alleged USG attempts to "veto" his candidacy. But after this initial scratchy start, Berri turned uncharacteristically friendly and polemics-free, saying he wanted to set aside pol [...] | 2005-06-30 14:59:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PTER LE SY |
05BEIRUT2285 | MGLE01: BIOGRAPHY OF POTENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR [...] WE have learned that Prime Minister-designate Fouad Siniora has agreed with the two main Shiite political forces to name Fawzi Salloukh as Minister for Foreign Affairs. Salloukh is a retired diplomat and a moderate Shia figure with national standing as an independent intellectual. He is 74 y [...] | 2005-07-12 12:55:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR ECON SOCI LE |
05BEIRUT2293 | MGLE01: DAS DIBBLE MEETING WITH WALID JUMBLATT -- [...] (C) Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, defending (somewhat sheepishly) his public support for Hizballah, claimed to NEA DAS Dibble that doing so was the only obvious way to "cool down" Hizballah and "bring them inside." While this may involve paying lip service to Hizballah's loopy claim to the "S [...] | 2005-07-13 07:57:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PGOV KDEM PTER LE SY |
05BEIRUT2355 | MGLE01: MARONITE PATRIARCH ON CABINET FORMATION: [...] (C) The Maronite Patriarch suggested that, while he was trying to help Prime Minister-designate Siniora's efforts to form a Cabinet, he was at a loss as to what one of the principal obstacles, Michel Aoun, really wanted. Aoun's supporters might take to the streets if Aoun is left out of the [...] | 2005-07-18 16:08:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PTER LE SY |
05BEIRUT2386 | MGLE01: HIZBALLAH'S CABINET SHUFFLE [...] (C) Introduction and summary. Hizballah gained all its cabinet demands as Prime Minister-designate Fouad Siniora on July 19 announced his cabinet lineup that included Fawzi Salloukh as Foreign Minister, Trad Hamadeh as Labor Minister, and Hizballah member MP Mohammed Fneish as Energy and Wat [...] | 2005-07-20 14:53:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL KPAL LE PGOV PTER SENV |
05BEIRUT2425 | MGLE01--AMBASSADOR'S FIRST MEETING WITH FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: In his first meeting with the Ambassador, Fawzi Salloukh on 7/25 highlighted his long friendship with the United States, promised an open dialogue between the two countries, and tried to put a good face on future Lebanon-Syrian relations. Salloukh, a Shia from southern Lebanon, [...] | 2005-07-25 16:04:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | LE PGOV PREL PTER SY |
05BEIRUT2707 | MGLE01: NOTABLE LEBANESE SHIA INTELLECTUALS [...] (C) Summary: During a luncheon on August 21, Shia clerics gave the Charge and emboffs their views on the situation of the Shia community in the south. They addressed practical views on the problems facing the Shia community in southern Lebanon, namely the lack of access to water and reliab [...] | 2005-08-23 15:10:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ENRG KISL LE SENV |
05BEIRUT3084 | MGLE01: SPEAKER NABIH BERRI CALMS DOWN, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Coming only a day after his public outburst against PM Fuad Siniora and the Core Group meetings, the Nabih Berri who met the Ambassador and Poloff on 9/22 was notably calm and full of sweet reason. He insisted his only concern in voicing his displeasure was the well-being of L [...] | 2005-09-23 15:12:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | IS LE PGOV PREL SY |
05BEIRUT3122 | MGLE01: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: On September 27, Minister of Foreign Affairs Fawzi Salloukh met with Ambassador and Poloff to discuss the recent Lebanese meetings in the U.S. The Minister was in good spirits. He expressed his overall satisfaction with the reception he received in the U.S., including a side v [...] | 2005-09-27 15:09:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM LE PGOV PREL SY UNGA |
05BEIRUT3155 | MGLE1 MURR POINTS FINGER AT SYRIA AND REVEALS [...] (C) Summary: At least until the 7/12 assassination attempt against him, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Elias Murr was always seen locally as an insider's insider during the Syrian occupation. His credentials seemed perfect: son-in-law of President Lahoud, son of a prominent [...] | 2005-09-28 15:44:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KPAL LE PGOV PREL PTER SY |
05BEIRUT3291 | MGLE01: JUMBLATT'S STRAIGHT TALK [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the Ambassador on the afternoon of October 6, Druse leader Walid Jumblatt flatly stated his belief that the assassination of Rafiq Hariri, and the series of bombings committed since then, were the work of the Syrian regime, specifically Bashar Assad. His colle [...] | 2005-10-06 16:20:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | IS LE KPAL PGOV PREL PTER SY |
05BEIRUT3341 | MGLE01: A/S WELCH MEETING WITH LEBANESE FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: On October 12, NEA A/S Welch, accompanied by Ambassador and PolChief (notetaker),met with Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh at the Office of the Foreign Minister in Beirut. With respect to the UN Mehlis investigation into the murder of Rafiq Hariri, Salloukh said the G [...] | 2005-10-13 08:49:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM KPAL SY LE IS |
05BEIRUT3498 | MGLE01: FM SALLOUKH DISCUSSES MEHLIS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh was enthusiastic in his support of the Mehlis report findings, but was reluctant to send a Lebanese representative to next Monday's planned UNSC meeting of foreign ministers. He considers this meeting strictly an affair between Syria and the Sec [...] | 2005-10-26 16:53:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | IS KPAL LE PGOV PREL PTER SY |
05BEIRUT3658 | MGLE01: FURY IN BEIRUT AT BASHAR AL-ASAD'S [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: The full range of Lebanon's political spectrum has reacted angrily to Syrian President Bashar al-Asad's November 10 speech at Damascus University. Our contacts find the speech confrontational, threatening, and insulting. Most take special note of Asad's descr [...] | 2005-11-10 17:07:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER LE SY |
05BEIRUT3670 | MGLE01: DEFENSE MINISTER MURR SAYS ARMY UNABLE TO [...] (S) In a November 8 meeting with NEA DAS Elizabeth Dibble, the Ambassador, the defense attache, and econoff, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Elias Murr said that he is trying to transform the Lebanese military after 15 years of Syrian direction. He wanted to change the "Syrian me [...] | 2005-11-14 08:51:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | KPAL MARR MASS MCAP MOPS PGOV PTER SY LE |
05BEIRUT3818 | MGLE01: SPEAKER BERRI HALF-HEARTEDLY DEFENDS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Speaker Nabih Berri tried to explain Hizballah's November 21 attack on an Israeli position in the Blue Line village of Ghajjar as merely a response to Israeli military activity earlier in the month. Yet Berri indicated he understood that Hizballah's aggression in Ghajjar, and i [...] | 2005-11-29 08:45:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | IS LE PGOV PREL PTER SY |
05BEIRUT523 | NABIH BERRI AUDITIONS FOR ROLE AS RECONCILIATOR [...] (C) Add Lebanese Parliamentary Speaker Nabih Berri to the list of prominent Lebanese who seem genuinely shocked by Rafiq Hariri's murder a week ago. In a 2/21 meeting with the Ambassador that was free of his usual polemics and bombast, Berri vowed to play a moderating role on two fronts. Fi [...] | 2005-02-21 13:22:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER LE SY |
05BEIRUT541 | OPPOSITION A ROLL: FORCE CABINET TO QUIT, GET [...] (C) Chattering away at a 2/21 dinner hosted by Boutros Harb, leading members of the Christian opposition and Walid Jumblatt's bloc were visibly buoyed by what they saw as three victories earlier that day: the largest anti-Syrian demonstration in Lebanon's history, Parliament Speaker Nabih B [...] | 2005-02-22 15:47:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL PGOV LE SY |
05BEIRUT654 | Lebanon Biographies of Potential Prime Ministers [...] Followig are biographies of potential candidates to repace Prime Minister Omar Karami who resigned on Febuary 28, 2005. According to the 1943 National Pat and the 1989 Taif Accord, Lebanon's Prime Miniter must be a Sunni Muslim. Several names of poential candidates are being discussed i [...] | 2005-03-03 11:37:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR ECON LE |
05BEIRUT767 | MGLE01: PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER BERRI SEES SYRIANS [...] (C) Nabih Berri, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies and leader of the Shia Amal Movement, assured the Ambassador that Syrian forces would redeploy to the Biqa' Valley in short order and complete their withdrawal to Syria within months. Looking on the bright side, Berri claimed that Syria's de [...] | 2005-03-09 16:43:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PTER SY LE |
05BERLIN1318 | GERMAN VIEWS ON UN REFORM [...] (C) Poloff met recently with several German government officials to discuss Germany's current thinking on UN reform. The Germans continue to insist that they are interested in wide-ranging reform, and point to their active engagement in formulating the EU response to all of SYG Annan's propos [...] | 2005-04-20 15:38:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR GM UNSC |
05BERLIN2235 | FM FISCHER ON IRAN [...] (S) During a meeting on June 29 with visiting New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, Foreign Minister Fischer said he was extremely concerned about Iran after the election of President Ahmadinejad. He said no one expected Ahmadinejad's victory, least of all Iranian negotiators on the nuclear [...] | 2005-07-01 13:37:00 | Embassy Berlin | SECRET | IAEA KNNP MNUC PREL EU IR GM |
05BERLIN48 | GERMAN REQUEST FOR MILAIR TRANSPORT OF GERMAN [...] (SBU) Paragraph 3 below provides an informal translation of a diplomatic note from the German Foreign Ministry requesting USG agreement for transport of German Border Police (BGS) and Diplomats via US military aircraft (MilAir) between Ramstein Airbase and Baghdad. The BGS agents will be provi [...] | 2005-01-07 11:02:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR ASEC IZ GM |
05BERLIN65 | BUILDING ON NATO FOREIGN MINISTERIAL: GERMANY [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, on January 6 MFA Deputy NATO director Herbert Beck assured Embassy that Germany will continue to push other NATO allies increase their contributions to ISAF. When asked if he thought Germany would be able to persuade the Spaniards to provide a PRT in Qala-e [...] | 2005-01-07 16:17:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL AF GM NATO |
05BERN2360 | ADAMOV: SWISS COURT REJECTS U.S. REQUEST: ORDERS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-29 12:04:00 | Embassy Bern | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM CJAN PREL ENRG SZ RU |
05BOGOTA10027 | STRONG ECONOMIC OUTLOOK [...] Summary: Public support for the re-election of President Uribe generally focuses on the administration's security policy. The recent performance of the macro economy, however, suggests the President's economic policies have been likewise successful. While significant improvements in macro i [...] | 2005-10-25 18:49:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN CO |
05BOGOTA10037 | DEFINING JUSTICE AND PEACE LAW ELIGIBILITY [...] (C) In early October, Minister of Interior and Justice (MOI/J) Sabas Pretelt met with Minister of Defense (MOD) Camilo Ospina, Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo, and other high-level GOC officials to discuss the Justice and Peace (J&P) law eligibility of demobilized paramilitaries and ot [...] | 2005-10-25 21:04:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PTER PREL PGOV CO |
05BOGOTA10055 | VICE PRESIDENT SANTOS ELATED ABOUT REELECTION; [...] (C) Director of Andean Affairs Philip French and DCM Drucker called on Vice President Francisco Santos and MFA Acting Vice Minister for Bilateral Affairs Mauricio Gonzalez separately on October 19. Santos, speaking minutes after the announcement that the Constitutional Court approved reelecti [...] | 2005-10-25 22:23:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM CO EC |
05BOGOTA10060 | PEACE COMMISSIONER REPORTS ON DISCUSSIONS WITH AUC [...] (C) On October 21, Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo briefed Ambassador and WHA/AND Director Phil French on his discussions with AUC leaders regarding conditions for reinitiating negotiations on future demobilizations. AUC negotiators were skeptical of resuming negotiations if the GOC t [...] | 2005-10-26 11:47:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV CO |
05BOGOTA10061 | VICE PROSECUTOR GENERAL OTALORA REPORTS ON JUSTICE [...] (C) WHA/AND Director Phil French met with Vice Prosecutor General Otalora on October 20 to discuss the status of the Justice and Peace (J&P) Unit, the new oral accusatory justice system, and extradition. French recognized the significant progress made in Colombia on various bilateral fronts, [...] | 2005-10-26 11:47:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PGOV PREL PTER CO |
05BOGOTA10062 | COLOMBIA: WANTS CONSENSUS BUT NEEDS SECURITY [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarches to Summit of the Americas Coordinator Francisco Gonzalez on October 24. Gonzalez agreed that much progress was made at the October 3-7 SIRG, but that more negotiation is needed before the Summit Declaration can be signed. He was confident, however, that [...] | 2005-10-26 14:01:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KSUM CO OAS |
05BOGOTA10106 | ELN PEACE HOUSE AT ONE MONTH: INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) The "ELN Peace House" was inaugurated one month ago after the GOC and National Liberation Army (ELN) leadership released imprisoned ELN spokesperson Gerardo Antonio Bermudez Sanchez, AKA "Francisco Galan," for three months to help establish peace talks. Galan has spent his first month unde [...] | 2005-10-26 22:28:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR MOPS PHUM SNAR CO |
05BOGOTA10152 | COLOMBIA SUPPORTS HOLOCAUST REMEMBERANCE [...] (C) Poloff delivered ref demarches to Coordinator for the U.S. and Summit for the Americas Francisco Gonzalez on October 18. Poloff thanked the GOC for its co-sponsorship of Israel's Holocaust Remembrance resolution (ref A) and asked the GOC to encourage other countries to join in co-sponsor [...] | 2005-10-27 22:38:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA CO |
05BOGOTA10157 | UNHCR REPS CAUGHT IN FARC ATTACK ON VILLAGE IN [...] (C) UNHCR officials were caught in the crossfire of a Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) attack on a remote village in southern Putumayo Department near the Ecuador border October 23-24. UNHCR reps (none of whom were injured) were participating in a joint effort with the GoC to reg [...] | 2005-10-28 15:24:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PINS CO UN |
05BOGOTA10164 | CARAMAGNA POSITIVE ON OAS VERIFICATION MISSION'S [...] (C) WHA/AND Director Phil French met with Organization of American States (OAS) Verification Mission Director Sergio Caramagna on October 21 to discuss financial and political support for the mission. Caramagna explained that a lack of resources had limited the mission's capacity to assist the [...] | 2005-10-28 17:22:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PGOV PREL PTER CO OAS |
05BOGOTA10167 | Colombian Civil Aviation Response to Open Skies [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-28 18:41:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR CO |
05BOGOTA10176 | REQUESTS TO URGE EU TO TABLE MEANINGFUL [...] SUBJECT DEMARCHE WAS DELIVERED TO ANDRES ESPINOSA, TRADE ADVISOR TO THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE, AND RAFAEL BARBOSA, ADVISOR FOR THE DIRECTORATE OF ECONOMIC INTEGRATION, MINISTRY OF COMMERCE. ESPINOSA NOTED IN HIS RESPONSE THAT AS A MEMBER OF THE CAIRNS GROUP, THE GOVERNMENT OF COLOMBIA IS SE [...] | 2005-10-28 20:38:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR CO |
05BOGOTA10178 | VISA REVOCATIONS: A HARD HIT ON COLOMBIAN CRIMINALS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In recent months, the Consular Section's Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) revoked a large number of non- immigrant visas (NIV) granted to Colombian nationals who are members of violent gangs and terrorist organizations, wanted and captured narcotics traffickers, family members benefi [...] | 2005-10-28 20:47:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | KFRD CVIS ASEC KCRM KWMN SMIG CO KHUM |
05BOGOTA10204 | Colombian Civil Aviation Response to Demarche on [...] During an October 26 meeting with the Colombian Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Director General Fernando Sanclemente, DCM raised USG concerns regarding mandatory travel agent fees for airline ticketing. Sanclemente said he will be meeting with travel agency representatives next month, but du [...] | 2005-10-31 15:09:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR CO |
05BOGOTA10230 | FORMER PRESIDENT GAVIRIA HIGHLIGHTS PARAMILITARY [...] (C) Former President Cesar Gaviria told Polcouns October 28 that paramilitaries are threatening and intimidating Liberal Party candidates and office holders, and claimed President Uribe's efforts to combat such activities are conspicuous by their absence. The Liberal Party would continue to [...] | 2005-11-01 13:28:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER VE CO ELN FARC |
05BOGOTA10231 | URIBE'S PARTY CHIEF SAYS PRESIDENT NEEDS SOLID [...] (C) Juan Manuel Santos, President Uribe's hand-picked leader of the new Uribista political party ("Partido de la U"),told Polcouns October 28 it is imperative that Uribe win a solid working majority in March legislative elections. Only with an "ample and faithful" majority could Uribe pursue [...] | 2005-11-01 13:29:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER VE CO ELN |
05BOGOTA10232 | CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS JUDGED TO BE IMPROVING [...] (U) Colombian government officials, academics, and international military speakers discussed civil-military interaction at an Embassy co-sponsored seminar on October 26. Vice Minister of Defense Andres Penate reported that the civilian-military relations were "mature" and improving under the [...] | 2005-11-01 13:51:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV MARR MOPS PHUM SNAR CO |
05BOGOTA10238 | MANCUSO OUT, NEW SPOKESPERSONS FOR DEMOBILIZED [...] (C) Representatives of 11 demobilized Colombian United Self-Defense Groups (AUC) factions have removed Salvatore Mancuso as AUC spokesperson and replaced him with three leaders: Diego Murillo, AKA "Don Berna," Antonio Lopez, and Eduard Cobos, AKA "Diego Vecino." The AUC replaced Mancuso becau [...] | 2005-11-01 14:16:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PGOV PREL PTER CO AUC |
05BOGOTA10314 | GOC WILL GIVE REPARATIONS TO VICTIMS OF 1997 [...] (U) ON OCTOBER 12, FOREIGN MINISTER CAROLINA BARCO SAID COLOMBIA WOULD GIVE REPARATIONS TO THE VICTIMS OF THE 1997 MAPIRIPAN MASSACRE AND IN GENERAL FULFILL ITS INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS IN THE CASE, FOLLOWING THE INTER AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS DECISION AGAINST COLOMBIA IN THE MATTER, RE [...] | 2005-11-02 15:04:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM CO |
05BOGOTA10336 | NGOS SHARE CONCERNS OVER JUSTICE AND PEACE LAW AND [...] (SBU) On October 20, representatives from five leading human rights NGOs met with WHA/AND Director Philip French to provide their assessments of human rights conditions in Colombia. Three NGOs expressed concern over paramilitary demobilizations and the implementation of the Justice and Peace [...] | 2005-11-02 19:31:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PTER KJUS CO |
05BOGOTA10377 | COUNTERNARCOTICS PROGRAMS UNDER PUBLIC ATTACK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over the last few months our counternarcotics programs, particularly aerial eradication, have received substantial negative publicity and public comment. The discussion risks making the spray program even more of an issue in the upcoming Colombian elections than would normally b [...] | 2005-11-03 19:04:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR CO |
05BOGOTA10383 | GOC RESPONSE TO WTO SERVICES NEGOTIATION QUESTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-03 21:30:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD WTRO |
05BOGOTA10389 | NAS MONTHLY REPORT FOR SEPTEMBER 2005 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During the month, approximately 7,893 hectares of illicit crops were sprayed, giving a year-to- date total of 120,101 hectares of coca and 1,546 hectares of poppy sprayed. One contract spray aircraft pilot and a Counterdrug (CD) Brigade dog handler and his dog were killed duri [...] | 2005-11-04 11:49:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR SENV KCRM PTER CO |
05BOGOTA10390 | AUC LEADERS SEEK DEAL ON EXTRADITION [...] (C) Peace Commissioner Restrepo, para-friendly Senator Moreno de Caro, OAS Verification Chief Caramagna and National Commission on Reparations and Reconciliation member Jaime Jaramillo have all passed messages to the Ambassador suggesting that paramilitary leaders want to cut deals on extradi [...] | 2005-11-04 15:01:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PTER PREL PGOV CO |
05BOGOTA10391 | REPARATIONS COMMISSION MEMBER CRITICIZES HOSTILITY [...] (C) National Commission on Reconciliation and Reparations member Jaime Jaramillo said November 2 that the Commission's work is going well despite the frequent and transparent hostility of the Attorney General's office (procuraduria) representatives during Commission meetings. Jaramillo said [...] | 2005-11-04 15:06:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER CO |
05BOGOTA10392 | VICE PRESIDENT ON "POST-CONFLICT"; PROMINENT [...] (C) Vice president Francisco Santos said at a restorative justice conference November 2 that Colombia's paramilitary demobilization process was a "post-conflict situation" requiring deft management if Colombia was to avoid "the problems of Central America or the Southern Cone" on crime and hu [...] | 2005-11-04 15:09:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER CO FARC AUC |
05BOGOTA10396 | HISTORIC LOW TURNOUT FOR CARTAGENA MAYORAL [...] (C) On October 30, a record low number of Cartagena's residents voted to return controversial doctor-turned-politician Nicolas Curi to the mayor's office for a third, non-consecutive term. Seventy-eight percent of eligible voters stayed home during the special election. Curi's main opponent [...] | 2005-11-04 15:41:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PINR CO |
05BOGOTA10399 | PEACE COMMISSIONER ANNOUNCES GOC INTENTION TO [...] (C) On November 1, in an official communique, Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo declared that the GOC intended to hold the United-Self Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) to the December 31, 2005 demobilization deadline, or be met with military confrontation. He also announced that no AUC [...] | 2005-11-04 15:47:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PGOV PREL PTER CO |
05BOGOTA10419 | CD BRIGADE COMMANDER'S RECOMMENDATIONS ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a visit by NAS Bogota and INL personnel on October 27, the Counter Drug Brigade (CD BDE) Commander made twelve recommendations to improve the CD BDE's support to spray operations. His principal recommendations included standing up a fourth combat battalion with air asset [...] | 2005-11-04 20:05:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PTER MOPS CO |
05BOGOTA10447 | ILO REGIONAL REPS REQUEST U.S. FUNDING FOR [...] (U) On October 26, Director of the Andean Subregional Office for the International Labor Organization J. Ricardo Hernandez met with Political Counselor to review ILO's Colombia program and solicit continued U.S. support. The program has sought to promote dialogue between enterprise and labor [...] | 2005-11-04 22:55:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM PGOV CO ILO |
05BOGOTA10448 | ELN RELIGIOUS CEREMONY IN ECUADOR PREACHES [...] (U) On October 30, News Channel One (NoticieroUno) reported that several National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas had crossed the border into Ecuador to offer a Catholic mass to fellow Ecuadorian guerrillas. The footage showed ELN member alias "Diego Cristobal" preaching to roughly 30 people [...] | 2005-11-05 16:57:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL SOCI CO EC |
05BOGOTA10497 | CONSTITUTIONAL COURT RULING EXPECTED NOVEMBER 11 [...] Colombia's Constitutional Court is expected to rule Friday, November 11 on the Electoral Guarantees law, which sets out the presidential campaign "rules of the game" for incumbents seeking second terms. A leading weekly newspaper, which accurately predicted the Court's recent reelection deci [...] | 2005-11-07 20:21:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV CO |
05BOGOTA10498 | COLOMBIAN THINK TANK SEEKS TO ADVANCE ELN PEACE [...] (C) The consultative process underway between the National Liberation Army (ELN) and Colombian advisors is unlikely to lead to substantive peace talks with the GOC unless the international community, especially the United States, nudges the parties forward, according to Ideas for Peace (Ideas P [...] | 2005-11-07 20:30:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR MOPS PHUM SNAR CO |
05BOGOTA10565 | BODY OF AFRO-COLOMBIAN LEADER ORLANDO VALENCIA [...] (C) On November 2, a senior government official informed the Embassy that the GOC had positively identified the body of kidnapped Afro-Colombian leader Orlando Valencia, discovered on October 24 after a nine-day search (reftel). The GOC continues to investigate the circumstances surrounding hi [...] | 2005-11-09 13:42:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM CO |
05BOGOTA10640 | COLOMBIA LIKELY TO ABSTAIN ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-15 15:37:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNHRC CO |
05BOGOTA10641 | COLOMBIA: IRANIAN PRESIDENT'S INCREASING EXTREMISM [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-15 15:57:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM IR CO |
05BOGOTA10642 | COLOMBIA: NO SAFE HAVEN FOR ALEMAN DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-15 16:39:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM NU CO |
05BOGOTA10683 | MOD AND UN HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE SIGN ACCORD; GOC [...] On November 8, Minister of Defense Camilo Ospina Bernal and Director of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Colombia (OHCHR) Michael Fruhling signed a cooperation agreement on human rights training for the Colombian military that meets another of the High Commissioner fo [...] | 2005-11-16 11:41:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PHUM PREL CO |
05BOGOTA10686 | COURT APPROVES ELECTORAL GUARANTEES LAW; NO [...] (U) Summary: As expected, the Constitutional Court approved the electoral guarantees law, the final remaining legal hurdle to President Uribe's running in the May 28, 2006 presidential election. The Court made some changes to the original law, toughening campaign finance rules and limiting [...] | 2005-11-16 14:46:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR CO |
05BOGOTA1070 | SCENESETTER FOR CARTAGENA DONORS CONFERENCE, [...] (C) Embassy Bogota welcomes the U.S. Delegation, led by USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios, to Cartagena for the Feb. 2-4 follow-up conference to the London Declaration of July 2003 on international support for Colombia. This is a GOC-hosted meeting for the 24 London Declaration signatories p [...] | 2005-02-01 22:46:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PHUM CO |
05BOGOTA1071 | AUC'S SOUTHWESTERN ANTIOQUIA BLOC DEMOBILIZES [...] (U) The 126 members of the Self Defense Forces of Southwestern Antioquia demobilized on January 30, bringing the total number of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) members to have demobilized since December 2003 to 4,699. Senior paramilitary commanders Salvatore Mancuso and Erne [...] | 2005-02-02 13:46:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PHUM KJUS CO OAS |
05BOGOTA1078 | DCM MEETS WITH VICE-MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS [...] (C) On January 31, DCM met with GOC Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Camilo Reyes. Reyes had asked for the meeting as the first of what he hopes will be regular monthly meetings to discuss key bilateral issues and areas of mutual concern. In response to questions from the DCM, Reyes touched [...] | 2005-02-02 15:50:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ECON CO |
05BOGOTA1079 | SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY: THE U.S. [...] This is in response to reftel request. ---------------------------- Human Rights Strategy Report ---------------------------- 2. Although Colombia is a democracy, it has been ravaged by an internal armed conflict financed by drug trafficking and other criminal activities for over 40 year [...] | 2005-02-02 15:52:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV ELAB KDEM KPAO KSEP EAID CO |
05BOGOTA1081 | GOC LIKELY TO AUTHORIZE ELN MEETING WITH [...] (C) On January 29, GOC High Commissioner for Peace Luis Carlos Restrepo told Ambassador that the GOC was on the verge of an agreement with the National Liberation Army's (ELN) Central Command (COCE) to allow COCE representatives safe passage to Mexico to engage in face-to-face talks with Gover [...] | 2005-02-02 16:36:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL CO ELN |
05BOGOTA10845 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH PEACE BRIGADES INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) On November 4, the Ambassador met with four representatives of the human rights NGO Peace Brigades International (PBI). The Ambassador thanked PBI for its hard work and cooperation with the Embassy on relating sensitive human rights cases. PBI raised concerns about protection for labor l [...] | 2005-11-21 14:50:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM CO |
05BOGOTA10846 | DEMOBILIZATION TO RESUME; TIMETABLE UNDER [...] (C) The GOC and AUC negotiators have agreed to extend the December 31 deadline for the remaining demobilizations of approximately 10,000 paramilitaries for an additional period, expected to be no more than 60 days. Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo has reiterated that the new deadline mu [...] | 2005-11-21 15:25:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PGOV PREL PTER CO |
05BOGOTA10847 | DRUG CZAR WALTERS MEETING WITH MOD OSPINA AND [...] (U) November 10, 2005, 8:00-9:00, Ministry of Defense, Bogota 2. (U) Participants: U.S. ---- John P. Walters, Director ONDCP Patrick Ward, ONDCP A/D Richard O'Connor, ONDCP Julie Connor, Narcotics Affairs Section Director Col. Kevin Saderup, MilGroup Commander Col. Brian Butcher, D [...] | 2005-11-21 15:26:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PREL PGOV EAID CO |