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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Effective from January 1983
The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign
Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)
Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
Effective from May 1983
Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Effective from August 1983
The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)
Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
Effective from March 1983
The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
Effective from October 1997
Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)
The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc
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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
Effective from April 1984
Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)
Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:
* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).
Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
Effective from July 2001
Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Effective from August 1989
Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOM: Chief of Mission
Effective from March 2004
Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCRM: Criminal Activity
Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
Effective from May 1991
Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
Effective from December 2007
Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
Effective from August 1986
Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
Effective from May 2007
Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
Effective from September 2006
Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
Effective from June 2000
Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
Effective from August 2006
Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)
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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
Effective from January 1999
Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.
(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
Effective from August 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
Effective From October 1999
Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Effective from April 1984
Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
Effective from February 1984
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
Effective from May 2000
Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
Effective from November 1984
Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Effective from August 1996
Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
Effective from March 1993
Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)
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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
Effective from February 1983
Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
Effective from October 1997
Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)
Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
Effective from July 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
Effective from June 1984
Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
Effective from September 2008
Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
Effective from November 1995
Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
Effective from June 1995
Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
Effective from January 1983
Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
EXCHANGE OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
Effective from January 1983
Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
Effective from October 1999
Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
Effective from January 1983
A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)
The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
Effective from January 1983
Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
Effective from January 1985
The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)
People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
Effective from January 1983
The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
Effective from March 1995
The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)
The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN
SECRET
SECRET//NOFORN
UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
By year:
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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Effective from January 1983
The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign
Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)
Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
Effective from May 1983
Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Effective from August 1983
The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)
Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
Effective from March 1983
The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
Effective from October 1997
Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)
The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc
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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
Effective from April 1984
Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)
Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:
* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).
Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
Effective from July 2001
Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Effective from August 1989
Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOM: Chief of Mission
Effective from March 2004
Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCRM: Criminal Activity
Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
Effective from May 1991
Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
Effective from December 2007
Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
Effective from August 1986
Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
Effective from May 2007
Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
Effective from September 2006
Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
Effective from June 2000
Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
Effective from August 2006
Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)
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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
Effective from January 1999
Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.
(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
Effective from August 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
Effective From October 1999
Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Effective from April 1984
Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
Effective from February 1984
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
Effective from May 2000
Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
Effective from November 1984
Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Effective from August 1996
Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
Effective from March 1993
Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)
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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
Effective from February 1983
Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
Effective from October 1997
Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)
Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
Effective from July 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
Effective from June 1984
Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
Effective from September 2008
Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
Effective from November 1995
Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
Effective from June 1995
Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
Effective from January 1983
Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
EXCHANGE OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
Effective from January 1983
Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
Effective from October 1999
Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
Effective from January 1983
A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)
The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
Effective from January 1983
Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
Effective from January 1985
The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)
People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
Effective from January 1983
The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
Effective from March 1995
The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)
The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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FORWHA FP FPC FR FRA FRANCIS FRANCISCO RODENAS RUIZ FRANCISCO VILLA URBALEJO FRAZER FRB FREDOM FREEDOM FRELIMO FRIED FRN FRU FSC FSI FT FTA FTAA FWS GA GAERC GAMES GANGS GAO GARCIA GASPAR GATES GATT GAZA GAZPROM GB GBSLE GC GCC GCCC GE GEF GEORGE GERARD GESKE GF GG GH GI GIPNC GIWI GJ GKGIC GL GLOBAL GM GN GO GOG GOI GOMEZ GON GOVPOI GPGOV GPI GPOI GPOV GR GREGG RENE WALTER GRQ GS GT GTIP GTMO GTREFTEL GU GUAM GUANTANAMO GUIDANCE GUILLERMO GUTIERREZ GV GWI GY GZ GZIS HA HAMID KARZAI HARRIET HARRY HAWZ HCOPIL HDP HE HEAVEN HEBRON HECTOR HELGERSON HERCEGOVINA HG HHS HI HIGHLIGHTS HIJAZI HILARY HILLARY HILLEN HIPC HIV HIZ HK HKSX HL HLSX HN HNCHR HO HOA HOSTAGES HPKO HR HRC HRCS HRICTY HRIGHTS HRKSTC HSI HSTC HSWG HT HTCG HTSC HU HUD HUM HUMAN HUMANITARIAN HUMANR HUMANRIGHTS HUMOR HUMRIT HUNRC HURI HURRICANE HYDE HYLAND HYMPSK HZ IA IACHR IACI IACO IACW IADB IAEA IAES IAHRC IAIE IAII IASA IATTC IAZ IBB IBD IBET IBPCA IBRB IBRD IC ICAC ICAO ICC ICCAT ICCROM ICES ICJ ICRC ICRS ICSCA ICTR ICTY ID IDA IDB IDLI IDLO IDP IDR IE IEA IEAB IEF IF IFAD IFC IFIN IFM IFO IFR IFRC IG IGAD IGF IHO IICA IINS IIP IK IL ILAB ILC ILEA ILO IMC IMET IMF IMMIGRATION IMO IMSO IMTS IN INAUGURATION INCB IND INDO INF INFLUENZA INL INMARSAT INNP INPFC INR INRA INRB INRD INRO INRPAZ INS INSC INT INTEL INTELLECTUAL INTELSAT INTERNAL INTERPOL INV INVI IO IOC IOM IP IPET IPGRI IPK IPPC IPR IPROP IQ IQNV IR IRAN IRAQ IRAQI IRAQI FREEDOM IRC IRCE IRDB IRE IRL IRLE IRM IRMO IRNB IRPE IRQEGION IRS IS ISA ISAAC ISAF ISCA ISCON ISLAMISTS ISLE ISN ISNV ISO ISPA ISPL ISRAEL ISRAEL RELATIONS ISRAELI ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISSUES ISTC IT ITA ITALIAN ITALY ITECIP ITEIND ITELTN ITER ITF ITIA ITRA ITRD ITU IUCN IV IVIANNA IWC IWI IX IZ IZAORC JA JABER JAM JAMES JAPAN JAT JAWAD JCIC JE JEAN-PIERRE BEMBA JEFFERY JEFFREY JENDAYI JHR JI JIMENEZ JIMENEZ CHILDREN JK JKUS JM JN JO JOHANNS JOHN JOHN BOEHNER JOHNNIE JONATHAN CHAMAN JOSE ANGEL ALZUGUREN PERURENA JOSE NEY MILA ESPINOSA JOSE RAMOS HORTA JOSEPH BIDEN JP JS JSRP JUAN JULIAN RENE KIRCHOFF JUS JY KA KACP KACT [+] KACW KADM KAID KALM KALR KANSOU KAPO KARIM WADE KATRINA KAUST KAWC [+] KAWK KAWL KAWS KAWX KAYLA KBCT KBDS KBEM KBIO KBNC KBTC KBTR KBTS KBWG KCCP KCEM KCERS KCFC KCFE [+] KCGC KCHG KCIP [+] KCIS KCM KCMA KCMR KCOG KCOM [+] KCOR [+] KCPS KCRCM KCRI KCRIM KCRM [+] KCRN KCRO KCROM KCROR KCRP KCRS KCRT KCSA KCSI KCSY KCUL KCUM KCVM KCWI KDCM KDDEM KDDG KDE KDEM [+] KDEN KDET KDEV KDGOV KDGR KDHS KDM KDMR KDP KDRG [+] KDRL KDTB KDUM KE KEAI KEANE KEBG KECF KEDEM KEDM KEDU KEIM KEM KEMPI KEMR KEMS KEN KENV KERF KERG KESO KESP KESS KEVIN KFAM KFCE KFE KFEM KFGM KFIN KFIU KFLD KFLO KFLU KFOR KFPC KFRD [+] KFRP KFSC KFTFN KFTN KG KGCC KGCN KGHA KGHG [+] KGIC [+] KGICKS KGIT KGIV KGKG KGLB KGOR KGOV KH KHDP KHGH KHIB KHIV [+] KHJUS KHLS [+] KHMN KHOURY KHPD KHSA KHSL KHUM KI KIBL KICA KICC KICCPUR KICR KICT KID KIDE KIF KIFR KIIC KIIP KIL KILS KIMMITT KIMT KIND KINF KINL KINP KINR KINT KIPR [+] KIPT KIRC KIRD KIRF [+] KIRL KIRP KIS KISC KISK KISL [+] KISM KISR KITA KIVP KIVR KJAN KJRE KJU KJUS [+] KJUST KJWC KK KKIV KKNP KKOR KKPO KLAB KLAP KLBO KLEG KLFLO KLFU KLHS KLIG KLIP KLPM KLSO KLTN KM KMAC KMAR KMCA [+] KMCC KMCR KMDR [+] KMEPI KMFO KMGT KMIG KMNP KMOC KMPF KMPI KMPIO KMPL KMPP KMPT KMRD KMRS KMSG KMVP KMWN KN KNAO KNAP KNAR KNDP KNEI KNEP KNET KNMP KNN KNNA KNNB KNNC KNNF KNNO KNNP [+] KNNR KNOP KNP KNPP KNPPIS KNPR KNPT KNRG KNRV KNSD KNUC KNUP KO KOC KOCI KOCM KOEM KOGL KOLY [+] KOM KOMC KOMCCO KOMCSG KOMH KOMO KOMS KOR KOSOVO KOUYATE KPA KPAD KPAI KPAK KPAL [+] KPALAOIS KPAM KPAO [+] KPAS KPBT KPDD KPEM KPEO KPER KPET KPIN [+] KPIR KPKO [+] KPKP KPLS KPMI KPMO KPO KPOA KPOKO KPOL KPOP KPOV KPOW KPPAO KPPD KPRD KPRM KPRO KPROG KPRP KPRV KPSC KPTD KPTS KPWG KPWR [+] KQ KQM KQRDQ KR KRAD [+] KRAL KRCIM KRCM KRCS KRD KRDP KREC KREF KREISLER KREL KRF KRFD KRFR KRG KRGY KRIC KRIF KRIM KRKO KRM KRMS KRV KRVC KS KSA KSAC KSAF KSCA [+] KSCI KSCS KSCT KSEAO KSEC KSEI KSEO KSEP KSI KSIA KSKN KSLG KSMT KSOC KSOCI KSPA KSPR [+] KSRE KSTC KSTCC KSTCPL KSTH KSTS KSTT KSUM [+] KSUP KT KTAO KTBD KTBT KTCRE KTDB KTDD KTDM KTER KTEX KTFIN KTFM KTFN [+] KTFR KTFS KTIA [+] KTIP [+] KTLA KTNBT KTNF KTPN KTRD KTRF KTSC KTSD KTTB KTTC KTTP KU KUAE KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR [+] KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG [+] KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN [+] KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG 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 OASCC OASS OAU OBAMA OBS OBSP OCBD OCEA OCED OCHA OCII OCRA OCS OCSE ODAG ODC ODIP [+] ODPC OECD OECS OECV OES OESC OEXC [+] OEXP OF OFDA OFDC OFDP [+] OFDPQIS OFFICIALS OFPD OFSO OGAC OGIV OHCHR OHI OHIP OI OIC OICCO OIE OIF OIG OIIP [+] OIL OIM OLY OLYAIR OLYMPICS OM OMAR OMB OMIG OMS ON ONA OPAD OPBAT OPC OPCD OPCR OPCW OPDAT OPDC [+] OPDP OPEC OPET OPIC OPID OPOC OPPC OPRC [+] OPREC OPREP OPS OPSC OPVIP ORA ORC ORCA ORECD ORED OREG OREP [+] ORGANIZED ORP ORTA ORUE OSAC OSCE OSCI [+] OSD OSEC OSHA OSIC OSTA OSTRA OTA OTAR OTHERSASNEEDED OTP OTR OTRA [+] OTRABL OTRAO OTRAZ OTRC OTRD OUALI OVIP [+] OVP OXEC OXEM OZ PA PAARM PAC PACE PAGE PAGR PAHO PAIGH PAK PAL PALESTINIAN PAMQ PAN PANAM PAO PAR PARALYMPIC PARCA PAREL PARK PARLIAMENT PARM [+] PARMS PARN PARP PARR PARTIES PARTM PARTY PAS PASS PATRICK WARREN MAHURIN PATTY PAUL PAUM PB PBGT PBIO PBK PBOV PBPTS PBS PBST PBT PBTS [+] PCI PCON PCOR PCRM PCUL PD PDA PDD PDEM PDIP PDOV PDRG PE PEACE PEACEKEEPINGFORCES PEDRO PEL PELOSI PEMEX PENA PENV PEPFAR PEPR PER PEREZ PERL PERM PERSONS PET PETER PETERS PETR PETRAEUS PETROL PF PFIN PFLP PFOR PFOV PG PGGOC PGIC PGIV PGKV PGO PGOC PGOF PGOG PGON PGOR PGOT PGOV [+] PGOVE PGOVQL PGPV PGREL PGREV PGV PH PHALANAGE PHARM PHAS PHEM PHIM PHM PHSA [+] PHU PHUH PHUM [+] PHUMHUPPS PHUN PHUS PHYTRP PI PIA PICES PIF PIN PINB PIND PINER PINF PING PINL PINO PINOCHET PINR [+] PINS [+] PINT PINV PIR PIRF PIRN PJUS PK PKAO PKBL PKFK PKISL PKK PKMN PKNP PKO PKPA PKPAL PKPO PKPRP PKST PL PLAB PLAN PLEC PLN PLO PLUM PM PMAR PMAT PMDL PMIG PMIL PMIN PMR PMUC PN PNAT PNET PNG PNIR PNNL PNR PNRG PNS PNUC PNUK PNUM PO PODC POG POGV POINS POL POLG POLI POLICY POLINT POLITICAL POLITICS POLM POLMIL POLS POLUN POREL PORG POSTS POTUS POUS POV POWELL PP PPA PPAO PPD PPEF PPEL PPKO PPOL PQL PQM PRC PRE PREC PRED PREF [+] PREG PREJ PREK PREL [+] PRELEVU PRELM PRELPLS PRELTBIOBA PREM PREO PREP PRER PRES PRESIDENT PRESL PREV PREZ PRF PRFE PRFL PRGO PRGOV PRIL PRIVATIZATION PRL PRLE PRM PRO PROB PROCESS PROG PROL PROLIFERATION PROP [+] PROPERTY PROTECTION PROTESTS PROV PROVE PRT PRTER PRWL PS PSA PSCE PSEC PSEPC PSHA PSI PSNR PSO PSOC PSOCI PSOE PT PTBS PTE PTEL PTEP PTER [+] PTGOV PTIA PTR PTRD PU PUAS PUBLIC PUNE PUNR PUOS PV PVIP PVOV PVPR PVTS PWBG PWMN PY QA QADRI QEL QI QIZ QM QT QU QUAN QUOC RA RAED RAFAEL RAID RAMON RAMONTEIJELO RAS RATIFICATION RAY GUEVARA MILTON RBI RCA RCMP RE REA REACTION REALTIONS RECIN REF REFORM REFPAN REFUGEE REFUGEES REGION REGIONAL REID REIN REINEMEYER REL RELAM RELATIONS RELFREE RELIGIOUS REMON RENAMO RENE PREVAL REO REPORT REUBEN RF RFE RFIN RFREEDOM RGOV RGY RHUM RI RICE RICHARD RIGHTS RIGHTSPOLMIL RIMC RIVERA RL RLA RM RMA RO ROBERT ROBERT JOSEPH RODHAM RODRIGUEZ ROK ROME ROOD ROSS ROW ROY RP RPEL RPTS RQ RR RRB RREL RS RSO RSOX RSP RSZ RTT RU RUEHZO RV RW RWANDA SA SAAD SAARC SABAH SACU SADC SAFE SAIR SAIS SALOPEK SAMA SAN SANC SANR SAO SARB SARGSIAN SARS SASC SASEC SASIAIN SB SBA SC SCA SCCC SCE SCENESETTER SCHUL SCI SCIENCE SCNV SCOI SCOL SCOM SCPR SCRM SCRS SCRSERD SCUL [+] SCVL SD SE SEC SECDEF SECI SECRET SECRETARY SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV [+] SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI 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 TNDG TNGD TO TOPEC TORRIJOS TOURISM TP TPHY [+] TPKO TPP TPSA TPSL TR TRAD TRADE TRAFFICKING TRBIO TRBY TRD TREAS TREASURY TREATY TREL TRG TRGV TRGY [+] TRIO TRSY TRT TRV TRY TRYG TRYS TS TSA TSLP TSPA [+] TSPL TSRL TSRY TSY TT TTFN TU TURKEY TV TVBIO TW TWRO TX TY TZ TZBY UA UAE UAID UAM UB UDEM UE UEU UG UGA UK UKR UKRAINE UM UMIK UN UNA UNAF UNAIDS UNAMA UNAMSIL UNAORC UNAUS UNBRO UNC UNCC UNCDF UNCDN UNCHC UNCHR UNCHS UNCITRAL UNCND UNCOPUOS UNCRED UNCRIME UNCSD UNCSW UNCTAD UNDC UNDEF UNDOF UNDP UNECE UNEF UNEP UNESCO UNFA UNFC UNFCYP UNFF UNFICYP UNFIYCP UNFPA UNGA UNGAPL UNGO UNHCR UNHRC UNICEF UNIDCP UNIDO UNIDROIT 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AA AADP AALC ABDALLAH FETHI ABDULHADI ABDULRAHMEN ABER ABLD [+] ABLDG ABLG ABMC ABT ABUD AC ACABQ ACAO ACBAQ ACCELERATED ACCOUNT ACDA ACEC ACKM ACOA ACOTA ACS ACTION ADANA ADB ADCO ADCP ADEL ADEP ADIP ADM ADMIRAL ADPM ADRC AE AEC AECL AEGR AEIR AEM AEMED AEMR [+] AER AESC AF AFAF AL HOURANI AFARI AFDB AFDIN AFFAIRS AFGHAN AFGHANISTAN AFIN [+] AFL AFLU AFOR AFR AFSA AFSI AFSN AFU AFZAL AG AGAO AGENDA AGENGA AGIT AGMT AGOA AGR AGRI AGRIC AGRICULTURE AGS AGUILAR AGUIRRE AHMED AI AIAG AID AIDAC AIDS AIEA AIHRC AIN AINF AINFCY AINR AINT AISG AIT AJ AK AL ALAB ALAMI ALANAZI ALBE ALEXANDER ALI ALIREZA ALJAZEERA ALL ALNEA ALOUNI ALOW ALOWAR ALVAREZ AM AMAT AMB AMBASSADOR AMCHAM AMCHAMS AMCT AME AMED AMEDI AMEMR AMER AMERICAS AMEX AMG AMGE AMGMT AMGT [+] AMIA AMLB AMPR AMT AMTC AMTG AN ANARCHISTS ANC AND ANDREW LEE WATKINS ANET ANTITERRORISM ANTOINE GHONDA ANTONIO ANTXON AO AOCR AODE AOIC AOMS AOPR AORC [+] AORD AOREC AORG AORL AOWC AP APCS APDC APEC APECO APER [+] APR APRC APRM AQ AR ARAB ARABBL ARABL ARABLEAGUE ARAS ARC ARCH ARENA AREP ARF ARG ARM ARMITAGE ARMS ARNOLD FREDERICK MORRIS AROC ARR ARRMZY ARSO AS ASA ASAC ASC ASCC ASCE ASCEC ASCH ASE ASEAN ASEC [+] ASECARP ASECE ASECM ASECSI ASECVE ASED ASEDC ASEG ASEK ASES ASEX ASFC ASIC ASIG ASIR ASJA ASO ASOC ASPA ASR ASSEMBLY ASSK ASSSEMBLY ASUP AT ATFN ATPDEA ATRA ATRD ATRN AU AU-1 AUC AUNR AUSGR AUSTRALIAGROUP AV AVERY AVIAN AVIANFLU AVIATION AW AX AY AZ AZE B. BA BAGHDAD BAIO BAKOYANNIS BALKANS BAPOL BARACK BASHAR BATA BAYS BB BBG BBSR BC BCW BCXP BD BE BEAN BELLVIEW BEN BERARDUCCI BESP BEXB BEXP [+] BEXPC BEXPPLM BEXT BF BFIF BFIN BFIO BG BGD BGMT BH BHUM BI BIC BIDOON BIH BILAT BIMSTEC BINR BIO BIOS BIOTECH BIOTECHNOLOGY BIT BITO BK BL BLR BLUE BLUNT BM BMENA BMGT BMOT BN BNUC BO BOIKO BOL BOND BOQ BORDER BOSNIA BOU BOUCHAIB KAKA BOUTERSE BP BPIS BPTS BR BRIAN BRITNEY BRITNY BRPA BRUSSELS BS BSSR BT BTA BTC BTIO [+] BTIU BTRA BTT BU BUD BULGARIA BURMA BURNS BUSH BUY AMERICA BV BW BWC BX BXEP BY BZ CA CAC CACM CACS CAFTA CAIO CAJC CAMBODIA CAN CAPC CARC CARE CARIB CARICOM CARSON CAS CASA CASC [+] CASCC CASCR CASE CASTILLO CAVO CB CBC CBD CBE CBG CBIS CBM CBSA CBTH CBW CCSR CCY CD CDB CDC CDCC CDCE CDG CDI CE CEA CEC CEDAW CEN CENSUS CENTCOM CENTRIC CEUDA CF CFE CFED CFG CFIS CFSP CG CGEN CGOPRC CH CHAD CHALLENGE CHAO CHAVEZ CHELIDZE CHENEY CHERTOFF CHG CHIEF CHN CHR CHR-1 CHRISTIAN CHRISTOF CHRISTOPHER CI CIA CIAT CIC CICTE CIDA CIO CIP CIS CITEL CITES CITIBANK CITT CIVAIR CIVS CJ CJAN [+] CJUS CK CKGR CKOR CL CLEARANCE CLINTON CLMT CLO CLOK CM CMAE CMFT CMGT [+] CMP CMT CN CNAR CNARC CNC CNO CO CODEL COE COL COLIN COLLECTIVE COLOMBO COM COMESA COMMERCE CON CONAWAY CONDOLEEZZA CONDOLEEZZA RICE CONEAZ CONG CONGO CONGRINT CONS CONSULAR CONTROL CONTROLS CORRUPTION COSI COUNTER COUNTER TERRORISM COUNTERTERRORISM COUNTRY COUNTRYCLEARANCE CP CPA CPAS CPC CPCTC CPPT CPUOS CQ CR CRIM CRIME CRIMES CRISTINA CRM CROATIA CROS CRS CRUZ CS CSCE CSEP CSIS CSW CT CTBT CTER CTERR CTM CTR CTRYCLR CU CUCO CUIS CUL CUSTODIO CV CVIA CVIC CVIS [+] CVISU CVPR CVR CW CWC CWCM CWG CX CY CYNTHIA CYP CYPRUSARMS CZ DA DAC DAFR DAN DANFUNG DANIEL DAO DARFR DARFUR DAVID DAVID LEE HOWES DAVID WELCH DAVID WILLIAM RAY DB DC DCDG DCG DCHA DCI DCM DCOM DCRM DE DEA DEAX DEFENSE DEFENSEREFORM DELTAVIOLENCE DEM DEMARCHE DEMARCHES DEMETRIOS DEMOCRATIC DENNIS DEOC DEPORTATION DEPT DEPT FOR DS COMMAND CENTER DESI DHA DHLAKAMA DHLS DHRF DHS DHSX DIEZ DIPLOMACY 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06ABIDJAN1004 | COTE D'IVOIRE: TOXIC WASTE SCANDAL UNFOLDS [...] (U) Summary. The illegal dumping of toxic waste at eleven open-air garbage sites around the city of Abidjan has reportedly left three people dead and led some 1,500 others to seek treatment for symptoms of nausea, rashes, fainting, diarrhea and headaches. The dumping has generated public pro [...] | 2006-09-08 17:44:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SENV ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN1005 | COTE D'IVOIRE: POLITICAL REACTIONS TO [...] (C) Reactions to the resignation: Minister of Cooperation and African Integration Albert Mabry Toikeuse told the Ambassador in a private meeting yesterday that Prime Minister Banny did not tell his ministers before he announced their resignation on September 7 (reftel). New Forces spokes [...] | 2006-09-08 17:51:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IV |
06ABIDJAN1006 | COTE D'IVOIRE: POLITICAL REACTIONS TO [...] (C) Opposition UDPCI party leader and Minister of Cooperation and African Integration Albert Mabri Toikeuse told the Ambassador that Prime Minister Banny did not consult with his ministers before he announced the cabinet's resignation on September 7 (reftel). New Forces (NF) spokesman Sid [...] | 2006-09-08 18:28:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IV |
06ABIDJAN1027 | COTE D'IVOIRE: VISIT BY AFRICAN UNION CHAIRMAN [...] (U) Sassou Nguesso, President of the Republic of Congo and current Chairman of the African Union (AU),visited Abidjan September 10-12. He met individually with each of the five principal Ivoirian political leaders: President Gbagbo, principal opposition party leaders Bedie and Ouattara, a [...] | 2006-09-12 15:14:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN1036 | COTE D'IVOIRE: TENTH MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Summary. The tenth meeting of the International Working Group (IWG) produced a somewhat bolder than usual communique challenging the African Union (AU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to devise new, better transition arrangements to take effect after October. T [...] | 2006-09-14 11:02:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN1037 | THE CYCLES OF THE IVOIRIAN POLITICAL CRISIS [...] (C) Cote d'Ivoire is currently at an impasse, which is the most vulnerable point in the cycle that characterizes the political crisis. The cycle is composed essentially of four stages. First, the principal political actors sign a new agreement to relaunch the political process. Secondly, the [...] | 2006-09-14 16:26:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IV |
06ABIDJAN1042 | COTE D'IVOIRE SITREP 15 SEPTEMBER 2006, 1430 GMT [...] (U) A number of roadblocks were established in Abidjan on the morning of September 15. By early afternoon, some of these had been dismantled although roadblocks remained primarily in the Riviera district of Abidjan, where the Embassy is located. A group of about 50 protesters gathered in the [...] | 2006-09-15 15:56:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC SENV CASC IV |
06ABIDJAN1043 | GBAGBO HARDENS RHETORIC ON PEACE PROCESS [...] (U) In a September 14 speech to senior officers and other members of the Ivoirian Defense and Security Forces (FDS) that was later televised, President Gbagbo delivered a hard-line, uncompromising message on the peace process. Gbagbo averred that he had made numerous compromises (including 23 [...] | 2006-09-15 16:10:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IV |
06ABIDJAN1050 | COTE D'IVOIRE: PRIME MINISTER FORMS A NEW [...] (U) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Banny has formed a new cabinet, replacing the former Ministers of Transport and Environment, dividing the Ministries of Justice and Interior in twoministries each, and naming two new Secretaries of State, a rank slightly below that of minister. Thus, the new cabin [...] | 2006-09-18 16:35:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN1069 | USITC STUDY ON SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: FACTORS [...] Per reftel instructions, post is making inquiries with the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, the Ministry of the Environment, and industry sources for available publications and will advise when we have a response, probably by early October. Please refer to ABIDJAN 3 [...] | 2006-09-22 16:51:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD IV |
06ABIDJAN1070 | COTE D'IVOIRE: EVENTS AND RHETORIC HEATING UP AS [...] (C) Summary. Events and rhetoric are heating up but proceeding largely as expected as October 31 approaches. The local press is reporting that the September 20 meeting in New York chaired by Secretary General Annan and attended by key African leader and all the key Ivoirian political leaders [...] | 2006-09-22 16:52:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN1083 | IVOIRIAN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS LAUNCH SURPRISE [...] All air traffic at Abidjan airport was halted September 26 when Cote d'Ivoire's national air traffic controllers, the local branch of ASECNA, launched a strike. Union contacts told us the strike was called to protest "inappropriate working conditions", which included outdated radar equipment [...] | 2006-09-26 16:25:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | CI EAIR ECON ELAB FAA PREL |
06ABIDJAN1084 | COTE D'IVOIRE: BANK EMPLOYEES GO ON STRIKE [...] On September 27, the National Union of Employees of the Banking and Financial Establishments in Cote d'Ivoire (SYNABEFA-CI) went on strike for 72 hours, making good on a threat issued on July 25 (reftel A). To maximize the impact, the strike was evidently timed to coincide with the monthly d [...] | 2006-09-27 13:39:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EFIN PGOV IV |
06ABIDJAN1088 | COTE D'IVOIRE: UPDATE ON AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS', [...] Air Traffic Controllers: As of 1500 GMT September 27th, the strike of the 27 Ivorian employees of the Agency for Aeronautical Security in Africa (ASECNA),which operates air traffic control at Abidjan's airport, was suspended for one month, allowing a full resumption of both domestic and inte [...] | 2006-09-28 14:03:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ELAB PREL ASEC IV ECON |
06ABIDJAN1093 | COTE D'IVOIRE'S PALM OIL SECTOR [...] Summary. Cote d'Ivoire's palm oil production has increased steadily in recent years, and its exports have nearly doubled. However, it still accounts for only one percent of world production and half of one percent of world exports. Palm oil also directly accounted for less than 1 percent o [...] | 2006-09-29 16:39:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD ECON IV |
06ABIDJAN1094 | COTE D'IVOIRE'S PALM OIL SECTOR [...] Summary. Cote d'Ivoire's palm oil production has increased steadily in recent years, and its exports have nearly doubled. However, it still accounts for only one percent of world production and half of one percent of world exports. Palm oil also directly accounted for less than 1 percent o [...] | 2006-09-29 16:39:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD ECON IV |
06ABIDJAN1099 | COTE D'IVOIRE: WORLD BANK'S CHIEF OF MISSION [...] (C) Summary. The World Bank's Chief of Mission Doffonsou told EconChief September 28 that the Ivorian Government has failed to make headway on its $348 million (m) in arrears to the Bank, and that without action, that sum continues to steadily mount. While the government has been offered the [...] | 2006-10-02 15:49:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL ECON IV ASEC |
06ABIDJAN1105 | GBAGBO AND SUPPORTERS ADOPT A TOUGHER LINE IN [...] (C) Summary. Tensions are running higher in Abidjan as President Gbagbo's mandate nears its end and in the run-up to the October 6 ECOWAS meeting on Cote d'Ivoire. President Gbagbo and his supporters, particularly FPI President N'Guessan, have adopted a tougher, uncompromising stance, and t [...] | 2006-10-03 16:50:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN1108 | COTE D'IVOIRE: CUSTOMS AGENTS RELEASED [...] (SBU) In the afternoon of October 3, 2006, three Customs Agents who were arrested in connection with the toxic waste pollution scandal on September 7 (reftel A) were released on bail after a strike, threatened since September 26, commenced on the morning of October 3. 2. (SBU) The strike [...] | 2006-10-04 10:31:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EAIR PREL IV ECON ASEC |
06ABIDJAN1113 | COTE D'IVOIRE: ABIDJAN-BASED REGIONAL [...] (U) Summary. The Abidjan-based regional stock market (BRVM) recently hosted the EconChief to discuss the current expansion of the bourse, its potential, limitations, and its place in the evolution of the market economy in Francophone West Africa. Reflecting the regional understanding that Co [...] | 2006-10-04 17:28:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN IV |
06ABIDJAN1114 | ABIDJAN-BASED REGIONAL STOCK MARKET [...] (U) Summary. The Abidjan-based regional stock market (BRVM) recently hosted the EconChief to discuss the current expansion of the bourse, its potential, limitations, and its place in the evolution of the market economy in Francophone West Africa. Reflecting the regional understanding that Co [...] | 2006-10-05 08:57:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN IV |
06ABIDJAN112 | GBAGBO USES ARTICLE 48 POWERS TO EXTEND NATIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The January 27 extension by Presidential decree of the Mandate of the National Assembly (NA) has further weakened Prime Minister Banny, and continued President Gbagbo's challenge to the International Community. The New Forces, who do not have any deputies in the assembly, have [...] | 2006-02-01 15:51:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN1133 | COTE D'IVOIRE: TEXTILE AND APPAREL PRODUCTION [...] (U) Per REF A request, Post provides the following information on Cote d'Ivoire's textile and apparel production sector. 2. (U) The National Statistical Institute's (INS) Division of National Accounts (INSAE) provided the following statistics on total industrial production and total text [...] | 2006-10-06 17:27:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KTEX IV |
06ABIDJAN1134 | COTE D'IVOIRE: USITC STUDY ON SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA [...] Per reftel B instructions, post has compiled information on the below industries. Please refer to Ref C for information on the Stock Market Exchange with regard to the request for information on financial services. Included in this cable is information on the banking sector. 2. Banking: [...] | 2006-10-06 18:26:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD IV |
06ABIDJAN1150 | COTE D'IVOIRE: FORCES NOUVELLES COMMUNICATIONS [...] (C) Summary: FN Spokesman Lobognon expressed deep disappointment at the outcome of the Abuja Summit on Cote d'Ivoire, suggesting it would allow President Gbagbo to drag his feet on the identification process for yet another year. Lobognon added that Gbagbo acted to obstruct the consensus adop [...] | 2006-10-12 15:48:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN1153 | EXXONMOBIL TELLS GOV'T IT INTENDS TO SELL [...] (SBU) ExxonMobil Regional Director John A.C. Bell, along with Regional Manager Frederic Dauvergne and local Director General Manar Sall met with EconChief on October 10 to discuss the company's announcement to the government of Cote d'Ivoire that it intends to sell its stake in its Ivorian f [...] | 2006-10-13 15:10:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EINV ASEC PREL IV ECON |
06ABIDJAN1173 | GOVERNMENT CREATES 133 JUDGESHIPS TO RESUME AND [...] (U) President Gbagbo has signed a decree creating 133 judgeships throughout Cote d'Ivoire, in areas controlled by both the government and the New Forces. The decree was signed on October 5 but only published on October 17, on the eve of the AU Peace and Security Council meeting on Cote d'Ivoi [...] | 2006-10-18 17:29:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ASEC KPKO IV |
06ABIDJAN1190 | TRADE AGREEMENT COMPLIANCE AND MONITORING [...] The Economic Section and the Foreign Commercial Section at Post jointly monitor trade agreements and respond to foreign trade barrier complaints. The Section's two Economic Officers determine responsibilities for specific cases as they emerge, working in concert with the regional FCS Officer [...] | 2006-10-25 09:45:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD |
06ABIDJAN1206 | PREPARATION OF 2007 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT [...] TRADE SUMMARY: The U.S. trade deficit with Cote d,Ivoire was $1.1 billion in 2005, an increase of $477 million from $597 million in 2004. U.S. goods exports in 2005 were $124 million, up 4.9 percent from the previous year. Corresponding U.S. imports from Cote d,Ivoire were $1.2 billion, up 6 [...] | 2006-10-30 12:50:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EFIN IV |
06ABIDJAN1207 | COTE D'IVOIRE - TENSE BUT CALM AND LIKELY TO [...] (C) Cote d'Ivoire remains tense on the eve of the end of the current one-year mandate of President Gbagbo and Prime Minister Banny and a new UNSC resolution for the country. While there is no doubt that both Gbagbo and Banny's terms will be extended, doubts and fears linger over the relative a [...] | 2006-10-30 14:27:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO UNSC IV |
06ABIDJAN1212 | LIBERIAN REFUGEE REPATRIATION ENTERS NEW PHASE [...] (U) Summary: Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) for West Africa traveled to Liberia from October 10-19 to discuss ongoing Liberian refugee repatriation efforts. UNHCR figures show that a total of 80,617 Liberian refugees returned between November 2004 and September 28, 2006 and th [...] | 2006-10-31 15:12:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM LI IV |
06ABIDJAN1216 | DEMARCHE ON CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION, NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION OBLIGATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-31 17:14:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IV NOTAG |
06ABIDJAN1217 | DEMARCHES ON UNGA RESOLUTIONS REGARDING THE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-31 17:18:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA LE IS PHUM PREL PTER IV |
06ABIDJAN1228 | COTE D'IVOIRE: INITIAL REACTIONS OF POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary. The streets of Abidjan were calm in the wake of the adoption of UNSCR 1721 (reftel) and the business of the country's economic capital went on without incident. Ambassador Hooks and Emboffs sought out the initial impressions of major political groups and figures, and found amon [...] | 2006-11-03 16:58:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IV |
06ABIDJAN1234 | COTE D'IVOIRE: UN HIGH REP FOR ELECTIONS DISCUSSES [...] (C) SUMMARY. Gerard Stoudmann, UN High Representative for Elections, is cautiously optimistic that elections in Cote d'Ivoire will happen in 2007, but that positive scenario will require all the parties to exhibit substantially more political will than they have shown heretofore. He caution [...] | 2006-11-06 16:00:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IV |
06ABIDJAN1237 | PRESIDENT GBAGBO: FULLY COMMITTED TO ELECTIONS [...] (C) President Gbagbo invited the Ambassador on November 6 to the Presidential Residence to express appreciation for the support of the United States in protecting the Constitution of Cote d'Ivoire during the negotiation of Resolution 1721 in the UN Security Council. President Gbagbo also said [...] | 2006-11-07 14:01:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IV |
06ABIDJAN1242 | APPRECIATION AND GRATITUDE FROM PRESIDENT GBAGBO [...] Following is the unofficial translation of a letter dated November 2, 2006 addressed to President Bush from President Laurent Gbagbo. A copy of the letter was sent by fax to Embassy Abidjan from the office of the Secretary General of Cote d'Ivoire. Begin translation: From the President of t [...] | 2006-11-08 08:20:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC IV |
06ABIDJAN1250 | OPPOSITION PARTIES UNHAPPY WITH UNSCR 1721; PM [...] (C) Summary. The Ivorian political class continues to react to UNSCR 1721 and the President's ongoing efforts to shape the political terrain to his liking. Both the Forces Nouvelles (NF) and major unarmed opposition parties expressed disappointment with 1721, specifically the decision to av [...] | 2006-11-09 14:05:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IV UN |
06ABIDJAN1251 | RESIDENTS OF YOPOUGON ROUT PRO-GOV'T MILITIA [...] (SBU) On November 3, residents of the Azito neighborhood in the populous Yopougon suburb of Abidjan engaged in a daylong battle with members of a pro-government militia, the Groupe des Patriotes pour la Paix (GPP),and eventually succeeded in ejecting them entirely. Long-simmering tensions e [...] | 2006-11-09 14:32:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC IV MARR PREL |
06ABIDJAN1253 | FRENCH ECONOMIC COUNSELOR ADDRESSES COTE [...] (SBU) Econ Chief met with French Economic and Commercial Counselor Jean Dolle at the French Embassy on November 8. Dolle began by discussing French economic interests in Cote d'Ivoire, which, despite the political crisis and its resultant effects on the economy, remain strong. Economic act [...] | 2006-11-09 14:52:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON IBRD IV PREL |
06ABIDJAN1255 | GOVERNMENT $144M IN ARREARS ON WAR BONUSES, [...] (SBU) While the payment of regular salaries is current for both civil servants and military personnel (which includes the FANCI, the Gendarmerie and the National Police) as of October 31, 2006, according to sources within the Ministry of Defense, the Government of Cote d'Ivoire is 12 months o [...] | 2006-11-09 17:05:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PGOV PREL EFIN IV |
06ABIDJAN1256 | COTE D'IVOIRE: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON DPRK ENTITY [...] (S) On November 8, Econ Chief delivered talking points in reftel to Ambassador Bernard TANOH BOUTCHOUE, Director of United Nations and Specialized Institutions Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2. (S) TANOH indicated that Cote d'Ivoire takes its UN obligations seriously and op [...] | 2006-11-09 17:15:00 | Embassy Abidjan | SECRET | PARM PREL IV |
06ABIDJAN1257 | COTE D'IVOIRE: DEMARCHE RE U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) On November 8, Econ Chief delivered relevant talking points from reftels to Ambassador Bernard TANOH BOUTCHOUE, Director of the Office of United Nations and Specialized Institutions Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2. (C) Speaking frankly, and drawing upon his eight years [...] | 2006-11-09 17:16:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNGA CU IV |
06ABIDJAN1258 | COTE D'IVOIRE: DEMARCHE ON COUNTRY SPECIFIC HUMAN [...] (C) On November 8, Econ Chief delivered relevant talking points from reftels to Ambassador Bernard TANOH BOUTCHOUE, Director of the Office of United Nations and Specialized Institutions Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2. (C) Speaking frankly, and drawing upon his eight years [...] | 2006-11-09 17:18:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KTIA UNHCR IV UNGA |
06ABIDJAN1263 | IVORIAN POULTRY INDUSTRY CRIES FOWL AS GOVERNMENT [...] On November 2, 2006, the Ministry of Animal Husbandry and Fisheries announced a plan to slash the tariff on poultry imports by 50% (from 22.5% to 11.5%). The announcement followed the October 31 Council of Ministers, which recommended taking &all necessary measures to supply the poultry mark [...] | 2006-11-13 16:19:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EIND ELAB EAGR IV |
06ABIDJAN1276 | UNION OF STATE-OWNED NEWSPAPER THREATENS STRIKE [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 30, 2006 the board of influential government-owned newspaper Fraternite Matin (FratMat) dismissed Director General Honore De Yedagne (close to the FPI) and replaced him with Leon Lebry Francis, an ally of PM Banny. On November 6 the union for employees at FratMat, [...] | 2006-11-16 15:55:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB IV |
06ABIDJAN1277 | DEMARCHE ON ANTI-U.S. RESOLUTIONS [...] (C) POL/ECON Counselor delivered ref A demarche to Ambassador Bernard Tanoh Boutchoue,Director of the Office of United Nations and Specialized Institutions Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on November 16. We strongly urged Cote d'Ivoire to vote against the three anti-U.S. resolutio [...] | 2006-11-16 17:25:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BO IV PHUM |
06ABIDJAN1300 | COTE D'IVOIRE: AMBASSADOR'S DECLARATION FOR [...] During the last year, both disarmament of former combatants from the 2002 rebellion and the identification and registration of voters failed to materialize. As such, Cote d'Ivoire remains divided into three parts: the government-held south, the rebel- held north, and the UN controlled Zone o [...] | 2006-11-24 10:37:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PREF IV |
06ABIDJAN1303 | COTE D'IVOIRE: AMBIGUOUS ROLE OF THE SECURITY [...] (C) Summary. The armed forces are playing a very ambiguous role in Cote d'Ivoire's political process. No one trusts the security forces: not President Gbagbo, not Prime Minister Banny, and not the public. FANCI (Armed Forces of Cote d'Ivoire) Chief of Staff Mangou's loyalty to Gbagbo goes w [...] | 2006-11-24 14:36:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PREL ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN1306 | NINE TURKEYS DIE OF H5N1 AVIAN INFLUENZA JUST IN [...] On November 20, the National Institute for Public Hygiene in Cote d'Ivoire (INHP) confirmed results by the National Laboratory for Agricultural Development (LANADA) on November 17 of another instance of H5N1 Avian Influenza (AI) in Cote d'Ivoire. Culling began November 21, as 76 birds were s [...] | 2006-11-24 17:07:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO EAGR EMED CONS IV |
06ABIDJAN1314 | STATE PRIMARY SCHOOLS SHUT DUE TO TEACHERS' STRIKE [...] On November 9, 2006, the Primary School Teachers, Movement for the Defense of their Rights, known as Mouvement des Instituteurs pour la Defense de leurs Droits (MIDD),launched a strike to protest the government's failure to grant USD 80 (CFAF 40,000) per month in housing allowances for prima [...] | 2006-11-28 11:45:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PREL KPKO IV |
06ABIDJAN1316 | GBAGBO HEADED FOR COLLISION COURSE WITH OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: President Gbagbo unexpectedly reinstated three senior officials who were implicated in the toxic waste disaster but are stalwarts in Gbagbo's FPI (Ivoirian Popular Front) party. He also sacked the director general of the state-owned newspaper, Fraternite Matin, for carrying a r [...] | 2006-11-28 18:02:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SENV ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN1317 | PM BANNY: THE TANDEM WITH GBAGBO IS BROKEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Banny told the Ambassador on November 28 that Cote d'Ivoire is again in crisis: the tandem with President Gbagbo has not been working well since UN Resolution 1721 was adopted November 1 and is now broken. The PM said he was not even informed of the decrees that [...] | 2006-11-29 12:11:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | IV PGOV |
06ABIDJAN1323 | UN TRYING TO SORT OUT RECENT VIOLENCE IN DUEKOUE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Francois Sonon, Head of the Duekoue Field Office for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA),confirmed five deaths as a result of ethnic clashes between local Guere and Burkinabe in several villages just north of Duekoue in the Zone of Confidence (ZOC). [...] | 2006-11-29 17:29:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF IV |
06ABIDJAN1331 | PRESIDENT GBAGBO WILL NOT DISMISS PRIME MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the Ambassador on November 30, President Gbagbo made the following points: -- he will not fire Prime Minister Banny, although he did not appreciate the PM's communiqu7 dealing with presidential decrees; instead, he fired the Director of the radio and televi [...] | 2006-12-04 15:38:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | IV PGOV |
06ABIDJAN1334 | AMBASSADOR VISITS FN-HELD NORTHEAST; QUIET, BUT [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Hooks led a small delegation of Emboffs and the DATT on a tour of northeastern towns Bondoukou and Bouna. While government-held Bondoukou and FN-held Bouna are peaceful compared to other areas of the country, Bondoukou is notably more prosperous and Bouna's administ [...] | 2006-12-04 17:10:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON CONS IV |
06ABIDJAN134 | COTE D,IVOIRE'S TRANSITION: STRUGGLING TO GET OFF [...] (C) Summary. The October 6 decision by the African Union (AU) that President Gbagbo should remain as head of state and a new Prime Minister be appointed to bring the country to disarmament and elections has failed to generate the hoped-for momentum among the Ivoirian actors. The peace proces [...] | 2006-02-08 14:32:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO ASEC EFIN IV |
06ABIDJAN1342 | SUDAN: URGING COTE D'IVOIRE'S ABSENCE FROM AFCARPAC [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-06 15:10:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS SOCI SU IV |
06ABIDJAN1343 | PROPOSAL FOR UN SECURITY COUNCIL PERMREPS TO VISIT [...] (C) I believe it would be most useful for the Permreps or acting Permreps of the P-5 to come to Abidjan, to deliver in person a message of support for UN Security Council Resolution 1721. Though he nominally welcomed UNSCR 1721, President Gbagbo has said from the outset that it contains attac [...] | 2006-12-06 15:14:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UNSC ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN1345 | COTE D'IVOIRE: FINANCE MINISTRY OFFICIALS SIGNAL [...] (C) Summary. Finance Ministry officials are telling us that Cote d'Ivoire does not intend to pay the balance of the arrears Cote d'Ivoire owes the World Bank. Bank staff tell us the Bank would be willing to accept partial repayment, but will not resume normal assistance until it receives th [...] | 2006-12-07 07:28:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IMF IV PGOV PREF |
06ABIDJAN1346 | COTE D'IVOIRE: FINANCE MINISTRY OFFICIALS SIGNAL [...] (C) Summary. Finance Ministry officials are telling us that Cote d'Ivoire does not intend to pay the balance of the arrears Cote d'Ivoire owes the World Bank. Bank staff tell us the Bank would be willing to accept partial repayment, but will not resume normal assistance until it receives th [...] | 2006-12-07 07:29:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IMF IV PGOV PREF |
06ABIDJAN1347 | COCOA STRIKE ENDS WITH HARDLY A WHIMPER, [...] (C) Summary. The strike in the cocoa sector has come to a quiet, almost stealthy end although most of the putative demands made by strikers remain unaddressed. The harvest is proceeding, and a good crop is expected. According to industry observers, the government was essentially able to b [...] | 2006-12-07 07:31:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON AID PREL IV |
06ABIDJAN1349 | GBAGBO ROCKING THE BOAT; OPPOSITION STICKS TOE IN [...] (U) After a tumultuous week in the political landscape with Gbagbo's takeover of both the State-owned newspaper Fraternite Matin and state Radio and Television (RTI),and his reinstatement of three senior offials who were implicated in the toxic waste disaster but are Gbagbo cronies, this week [...] | 2006-12-07 16:52:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL IV UN |
06ABIDJAN1351 | ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF PLAYING THE ROLE OF MEDIATOR? [...] (U) Today the local press widely reported that Armed Forces of Cote d'Ivoire (FANCI) Chief of Staff General Philippe Mangou met with lead opposition leader Professor Alphonse Djedje Mady on December 6th. Mangou reportedly wants to calm the increasingly acrid political environment in Abidjan b [...] | 2006-12-07 17:05:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN IV |
06ABIDJAN1355 | ELEVENTH MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP [...] (C) Summary. At the eleventh meeting of the International Working Group (IWG),Prime Minister Banny sought to persuade the group that significant progress has been made to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1721, especially on re-launching identification, returning civil servants to the [...] | 2006-12-08 14:20:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC UNSC IV |
06ABIDJAN136 | MORE ON VIOLENCE IN GUIGLO AND VULNERABILITY OF [...] (C) The humanitarian community is still reeling from the violent attacks that took place mid-January in Guiglo against their offices and staff. Providing basic emergency assistance to the camps of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Guiglo is the top priority, but security ov [...] | 2006-02-08 16:30:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREF PHUM WFP IV LI |
06ABIDJAN1360 | TERRORIST LISTS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-11 09:18:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER |
06ABIDJAN1364 | MEDIATION TEAM TO BRIEF ECOWAS AND AU LEADERS ON [...] (C) General Jean Marie Michel Mokoko, the Special Representative for the Presidency of the African Union, informed the Ambassador on December 11 that the Mediation Group, composed of himself, D/SRSG Abou Moussa, HRE Gerard Stoudmann and ECOWAS Chairman Chambas will be meeting this week with [...] | 2006-12-12 16:51:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | IV PGOV |
06ABIDJAN1372 | COTE D'IVOIRE: MILITARY REPORTS ALLEGED COUP PLOT [...] (C) Summary. On December 12 the press spokesman of the defense and security forces announced that a coup plot had been uncovered, involving the assassination of President Gbagbo, the armed forces chief of staff, and several other top security force commanders. The man accused of being the ma [...] | 2006-12-13 12:26:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV ASEC PREL IV |
06ABIDJAN1376 | COTE D'IVOIRE: POLITICAL PROCESS DRIFTING [...] (C) Summary. Well into the second month of Cote d'Ivoire's second year of transition to postponed elections, the political process continues to drift. President Gbagbo is essentially ignoring UN Security Council Resolution 1721 and defying the peace process, and the political opposition has [...] | 2006-12-14 14:28:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN1377 | OPPOSITION ACKNOWLEDGES IMPOTENCE IN THE FACE OF [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador December 11, Alphonse Djedje Mady, spokesman for the RHDP (Rally of Houphouetists for Democracy and Peace) coalition of opposition parties, acknowledged the opposition's frustration and lack of resolve to fight against President Gbagbo and his FPI (Ivoiria [...] | 2006-12-14 14:31:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN IV |
06ABIDJAN1393 | COTE D'IVOIRE: 2006 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] General Assessment: Cote d'Ivoire does not engage in any major counterterrorism efforts as terrorist groups are not known to be present and thus terrorist activity is not a percieved threat in this country. Cote d'Ivoire has been in the throes of a political-military crisis since 2002 which [...] | 2006-12-19 16:53:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER ASEC PGOV IV |
06ABIDJAN1400 | COTE D'IVOIRE - UPDATE ON THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-20 11:20:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID IV |
06ABIDJAN1402 | GBAGBO OFFERS PROPOSALS, NOT SOLUTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a speech made December 19 evening, President Gbagbo offered five proposals designed to bring the country out of crisis: (1) direct talks with the Forces Nouvelles (FN) rebels aimed at encouraging them to disarm and free the country; (2) elimination of the Zone of Confidence; ( [...] | 2006-12-21 09:18:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN IV |
06ABIDJAN1404 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK, SOLENTA DHL [...] Econ Chief visited Solenta DHL at Abidjan airport as requested in reftel to inquire into application number D366138 registered on 10/26/2006 (OEA/532 M.Hames/Doris Johnson) for a attitude inertial sensor, model 7003360-946. 2. Econ Chief spoke to Business Development Manager Helen Bergoun [...] | 2006-12-21 10:22:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC IV |
06ABIDJAN1405 | COTE D'IVOIRE: FN LEADER SORO PUSHES FOR BANKS TO [...] (C) Summary. Forces Nouvelles leader Guillaume Soro took surprise advantage of a December 11 courtesy call by Econ Chief and Econ/Pol JO to FN HQ in Bouake to make a very public push to reopen the banking sector in FN-held territory. Soro also sharply criticized President Gbagbo for his un [...] | 2006-12-21 11:28:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN IV |
06ABIDJAN1406 | DIAMOND MINING IN COTE D'IVOIRE'S NORTH-CENTRAL [...] (C) Summary: In the north-central region of Cote d'Ivoire near Korhogo, diamonds are mined using traditional methods of searching riverbeds with sieves. The yield from this particular region is small--perhaps a few hundred stones a month collectively--and offers a subsistence living for the [...] | 2006-12-21 16:15:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN IV |
06ABIDJAN1417 | IRAN --INFORMATION REGARDING UNSCR 1737 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-27 11:02:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | MNUC KNNP IV |
06ABIDJAN1430 | COTE D'IVOIRE: GBAGBO GAMBLES WHILE THE POLITICAL [...] (C) As 2006 comes to an end, the Cote d,Ivoire peace process continues to drift. President Gbagbo is waiting for rebel FN (New Forces) leader Guillaume Soro to respond to the five "proposals" he unveiled December 20 (Reftel). The pro-opposition newspaper Le Patriote reported December 27 that [...] | 2006-12-28 16:15:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN150 | COTE D'IVOIRE: MOVING THE PEACE PROCESS FORWARD [...] (C) Since 2002, the Cote d'Ivoire peace process has gone through multiple mediators and mediations including Lome, Linas-Marcoussis, Accra, and Pretoria. Each has petered out in turn, leaving Cote d'Ivoire far short of reunification, disarmament, and elections. Per reftel, the new government [...] | 2006-02-12 08:03:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN179 | ECHOES OF ARETHA FRANKLIN: THE REBELS WANT RESPECT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador made a three-day trip to Bouake and Korhogo, in New Forces (FN) territory in the North, to urge the ex-rebels to help move the political process forward. We found a relatively relaxed security environment and a population whose most pressing concerns were not the [...] | 2006-02-17 10:30:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN190 | COTE D'IVOIRE: FOURTH MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Banny briefed the fourth meeting of the International Working Group (IWG) on his plans to adopt the IWG's road map as his government's work plan. In light of the four days of street disturbances in reaction to the previous IWG's stance on the National Assembly, it [...] | 2006-02-22 14:45:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNAUS IV |
06ABIDJAN199 | COTE D'IVOIRE: SORO AND GBAGBO TO MEET FEBRUARY 27 [...] (C) On February 22, Sidike Konate, spokesperson for the New Forces (NF),called on the Ambassador to inform him that a meeting between President Gbagbo and NF Secretary General Guillaume Soro is scheduled to take place February 27. There will also be a second meeting between Gbagbo and all thr [...] | 2006-02-23 16:27:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN217 | COTE D'IVOIRE: POLITICAL LEADERS' SUMMIT MEETING [...] (U) The meetings that were scheduled to take place February 27 between President Gbagbo and New Forces Secretary General Guillaume Soro; and between Gbagbo, Soro, former Prime Minister Ouattara and former President Bedie (reftel) did not happen, because of a disgreement over security arrangeme [...] | 2006-02-28 14:06:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC KPKO IV |
06ABIDJAN226 | COTE D'IVOIRE: 2006 TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) Since a September 2002 coup attempt that evolved into a civil war, Cote d'Ivoire has been partitioned in two with the government maintaining control of the south and the ex-rebel New Forces controlling the north. Tensions between the two sides have lessened since the appointment of a new [...] | 2006-03-01 16:49:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB IV |
06ABIDJAN227 | COTE D'IVOIRE: ILO-UNHCR TO PUBLISH REPORT ON [...] (SBU) Summary: ILO and UNHCR will publish a report on the exploitation of refugee and displaced children in Cote d'Ivoire almost two years after its completion. ILO-UNHCR identified labor and sexual exploitation as the two main forms of exploitation for refugee and displaced children in Cot [...] | 2006-03-01 16:50:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PREL EAID SOCI IV |
06ABIDJAN228 | COTE D'IVOIRE: POLITICAL LEADERS HOLD SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary. Cote d'Ivoire's five principal political leaders met in Yamoussoukro February 28, the first such meeting since the current crisis began in 2002. They reaffirmed their commitment to the Pretoria Agreement and to holding elections as scheduled, and agreed on six sets of issues: im [...] | 2006-03-01 16:50:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN238 | COTE D'IVOIRE: TRANSPORTATION MINISTER PROMISES [...] (U) On March 1 the Minister of Transport, Innocent Anaky Kobanan (who is from the opposition Movement of Forces for the Future (MFA) party),announced the introduction of a new "single ticket" system for public transportation (mini-busses and taxis). In addition to the single ticket system, th [...] | 2006-03-03 14:25:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN246 | COTE D'IVOIRE: FRENCH FORCES CONFRONT IVOIRIAN [...] (U) Most newspapers reported March 3 the French Defense Minister's official letter of protest to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan regarding recent incursions of Ivoirian military forces into the Zone of Confidence (ZC) separating the government-controlled south from the rebel-controlled north. [...] | 2006-03-06 14:15:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC CI |
06ABIDJAN255 | ALASSANE OUATTARA RESTRUCTURES THE RDR [...] (U) On March 4-5, presidential candidate and former Prime Minister Alassane Ouattara's political party, the RDR (Rally of Democratic Republicans),met at the UN-protected Golf Hotel in Abidjan, to restructure the party and increase the number of leadership positions at the top. More than 700 [...] | 2006-03-08 15:22:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN261 | COTE D'IVOIRE: ELECTORAL COMMISSION DEADLOCK IS [...] (U) On March 7, the outgoing executive board of the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) met with the incoming board, to officially hand over governance of the board. 2. (U) This formalizes the agreement that was reached at the February 28 Yamoussoukro summit of Cote d'Ivoire's four princ [...] | 2006-03-09 16:50:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOVE PREL ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN284 | REBEL LEADER GUILLAUME SORO RETURNS TO ABIDJAN [...] (U) New Forces (FN) leader Guillaume Soro arrived in Abidjan from the northern rebel capital of Bouake on March 14 around 1100, via UN helicopter. He met with President Gbagbo around noon, immediately after arriving, and then met with Prime Minister Charles Banny. In the evening he met with [...] | 2006-03-15 17:20:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN315 | COTE D'IVOIRE: VISIT OF DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY [...] (C) Deputy Assistant Secretary Linda Thomas-Greenfield made a very productive visit to Abidjan March 15-17. She met with leaders and top officials from all parts of the political spectrum. Her Ivoirian interlocutors praised highly the intensity of U.S. engagement here, and appealed for even [...] | 2006-03-23 16:57:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IV |
06ABIDJAN316 | SUBJECT: COTE D'IVOIRE: IVOIRIAN WORKERS, PARTY [...] (C) On March 20, PIT (the Ivoirian Workers, Party) suspended its participation in the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC),to protest the fact that the highest-ranking position it was given on the IEC's Executive Board was Deputy Treasurer. In the previous IEC, PIT held the position of Tre [...] | 2006-03-23 16:57:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN317 | COTE D'IVOIRE: EXAMS FINALLY HELD IN THE NORTH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 27 children in the New Forces (NF) controlled zone finally started taking the exams that will allow them to progress to the next level of their education. Since February 2004 the pro-Gbagbo Minister of Education had been refusing to allow the exams to be held unti [...] | 2006-03-23 16:57:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN320 | COTE D'IVOIRE: FIFTH MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Summary. The International Working Group (IWG) held a largely uneventful fifth meeting March 17. Prime Minister Banny, UN High Representative for Election (HRE) Monteiro, and the new Chairman of Cote d'Ivoire's Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) gave presentations. Some element of dr [...] | 2006-03-24 16:21:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN332 | COTE D'IVOIRE: PEACE IS IN THE AIR, FOR THE MOMENT [...] (C) Summary. Peace is in the air. Prime Minister Banny has an impressive list of accomplishments, and political leaders seem to have set their minds on elections. Still, there is a daunting list of tasks yet to be completed, including issuing national identification cards and registering vo [...] | 2006-03-30 15:43:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN339 | COTE D'IVOIRE: EXAMS FINALLY HELD IN THE NORTH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 27 children in the New Forces (NF) controlled zone finally started taking the exams that will allow them to progress to the next level of their education. Since February 2004 the pro-Gbagbo Minister of Education had been refusing to allow the exams to be held unti [...] | 2006-03-31 14:12:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN361 | OIL SPILL OFF IVORY COAST [...] (C) Summary. An oil spill off the coast of Ivoiry Coast caused by the Canadian oil company CNR has largely been cleaned up. However, the Minister of Environment told the Ambassador he was unhappy with uncommunicativeness from CNR and alleged that Ivoirians close to the Presidency who are [...] | 2006-04-04 08:37:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV ENRG EPET |
06ABIDJAN368 | COTE D'IVOIRE: TROUBLED COCOA SECTOR [...] (C) Summary. Cote d'Ivoire's 2005-2006 cocoa harvest looks to be up slightly from last year. The share of the world market price that is going to the farmers is higher than last year but still only 50 percent. Another 37 percent goes in taxes and fees to the government and to four cocoa sup [...] | 2006-04-06 10:51:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR EIND PGOV IV |
06ABIDJAN369 | COTE D'IVOIRE: THE UPS AND DOWNS OF THE PEACE [...] (C) Summary. As expected, The peace process is going through ups and downs. Pro-Gbagbo militias are threatening to take to the streets as they did in January, this time over the sequencing of identification vis a vis disarmament. Preliminary results indicate that only about 20 percent of st [...] | 2006-04-06 15:40:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN395 | COTE D'IVOIRE: AVIAN INFLUENZA FALSE ALARM [...] Several animals were found dead with symptoms similar to Avian flu in the north of Cote d'Ivoire the week of April 6; sixteen chickens, two ducks, and two dogs that apparently ate the carcasses of the dead poultry. A World Health Organization (WHO) satellite office in Bouake, the northern ca [...] | 2006-04-19 07:56:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO ECON IV |
06ABIDJAN409 | COTE D'IVOIRE: PRIME MINISTER'S UPCOMING VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Banny told the Ambassador that the primary objective for his upcoming visit to Washington is to request assistance for Cote d'Ivoire's peace process from the World Bank and the IMF. The Ambassador underscored the urgency of moving forward with identification and d [...] | 2006-04-21 14:19:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN414 | COTE D'IVOIRE: SIXTH MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) At the sixth meeting of the International Working Group (IWG),the group was alarmed to hear from a series of senior Ivoirian officials in charge of various aspects of the peace process that the political process is once again at an impasse and that hardly any progress has been made toward [...] | 2006-04-21 16:38:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN417 | COTE D'IVOIRE: CONTROVERSY OVER IDENTIFICATION [...] (C) Summary. A bitter dispute over how to identify who is an Ivoirian lies at the heart of Cote d'Ivoire's current political crisis. No new identifications have been registered since 2003, and no identity cards have been issued since 1999. Prime Minister Banny has made resuming the identifi [...] | 2006-04-24 15:59:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN428 | COTE D'IVOIRE: STUDENT UNION STAGES STREET PROTESTS [...] (SBU) The Cote D'Ivoire Federation of University and High School Students (FESCI) staged street demonstrations in Abidjan April 25 to demand an end to the current teachers strike. The government-owned but generally factual newspaper Fraternite Matin estimated the number of protesters at 1500. [...] | 2006-04-26 15:15:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC PREL IV |
06ABIDJAN433 | COTE D'IVOIRE: SUSPECTED CASES OF AVIAN FLU [...] Several birds found dead in Abidjan have been tested at the state-owned Institute Pasteur in Abidjan for H5N1 Avian Flu. However, officials have not yet confirmed the presence of the virus in Cote d'Ivoire. Additional samples were sent for testing to a lab in Italy on April 24. The cases were [...] | 2006-04-27 11:54:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED EAGR IV TBIO |
06ABIDJAN442 | COTE D'IVOIRE: PRESENCE OF AVIAN FLU ALL BUT [...] Initial results from several birds found dead in Abidjan have tested positive for H5N1 Avian Influenza (AI). Screening for the virus was performed by two labs, the Insitut Pasteur in Abidjan and in Paris. Ministry officials are waiting for final confirmation from the United Nations Food and [...] | 2006-04-28 16:58:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO EAGR EMED IV |
06ABIDJAN447 | COTE D'IVOIRE: GBAGBO ISSUES COMBATIVE STATEMENT [...] (C) On April 25 President Gbagbo issued a statement through his press spokesman laying out his views on how the country should move forward toward elections. The statement was typical of Gbagbo: combative, defensive, disingenuous and hardly presidential. Gbagbo denied that he had agreed at th [...] | 2006-05-03 16:41:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN458 | FORMER PRESIDENT BEDIE: EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON THE [...] (C) Former President Henri Konan Bedie, who was ousted in a coup in 1999, has little strategy for negotiating an end to the political crisis in Cote d'Ivoire beyond demanding that the international community asssume responsibility for security and for organizing new elections. He recognizes [...] | 2006-05-05 14:17:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IV |
06ABIDJAN460 | COTE D'IVOIRE: RECENT ATTACKS IN THE WEST PROVE [...] (C) Summary: UN agencies are concerned by a continuing series of inter-ethnic attacks that have occurred in recent weeks in western Cote d'Ivoire, mostly around the town of Bangolo. The attacks have resulted in several deaths, injuries, and some internal population displacement. The UN rep [...] | 2006-05-05 16:31:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF KPKO PHUM IV |
06ABIDJAN473 | YOUNG PATRIOT LEADER BLE GOUDE: DRESSING UP HIS [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador on May 8, Charles Ble Goude, President of the Young Patriot movement, stressed that he is trying to convert the Young Patriots into a more mature political force. He explained that he is now the President of COJEP, a coalition of patriotic forces, and he [...] | 2006-05-09 16:31:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IV |
06ABIDJAN475 | COTE D'IVOIRE: SIXTH MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) At the sixth meeting of the International Working Group (IWG),the group was alarmed to hear from a series of senior Ivoirian officials in charge of various aspects of the peace process that the political process is once again at an impasse and that hardly any progress has been made toward [...] | 2006-05-09 17:11:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN483 | THE FPI AFTER SIX YEARS IN POWER [...] (C) Summary. President Gbagbo,s ruling FPI party is feeling defensive, with little to show after almost six years in power. The party came into office in the flawed 2000 elections with a sweeping agenda of socialist reform. It has achieved few of them while failing to address the fundamenta [...] | 2006-05-11 16:55:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN493 | COTE D'IVOIRE: THIRTY-SIX CONVICTED FOR JULY 2005 [...] (U) Summary: On May 5, an Ivoirian Military Tribunal convicted and sentenced 36 individuals to terms ranging from two to 15 years for their role in the July 2005 attacks on Agboville and Anyama, two towns located respectivly 70 and 7 KM North of downtown Abidjan. During the attacks, 24 people [...] | 2006-05-12 16:42:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO ASEC AEMR IV |
06ABIDJAN495 | GOCI TO LAUNCH PILOT IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM ON MAY [...] (SBU) Summary. The Prime Minister,s office and a New Forces (FN) representative have told us that on May 18 the government will begin a pilot population identification program at seven locations in government and FN territory and in the Zone of Confidence. End summary. 2. (SBU) Francois K [...] | 2006-05-12 16:58:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO ASEC PREL IV |
06ABIDJAN500 | PRIME MINISTER DISCUSSES IDENTIFICATION [...] (U) SUMMARY. On May 14, Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny addressed the nation on the televised evening news and confirmed reports that the Ministry of Justice will begin pilot identification programs on May 18. Banny also announced that identification and disarmament (DDR) would occur sim [...] | 2006-05-15 13:33:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN504 | COTE D'IVOIRE: MORE VIOLENCE IN WEST [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-15 17:24:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC KPKO IV |
06ABIDJAN51 | COTE D'IVOIRE: GBAGBO SHOWS BANNY WHO'S BOSS [...] (C) While the pretext for the current unrest is the International Working Group's recommendation that the mandate of the National Assembly not be extended, it is clear that the real aim is to undermine Prime Minister Banny. We have indeed heard that the National Assembly's mandate is a "red l [...] | 2006-01-18 16:29:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN515 | MORE DETAILS ON PILOT IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM [...] (U) Summary: More details about the pilot identification process emerged on May 15, during a press conference by the Minister of Justice, Mamadou Kone. The pilot identification program will target anyone over 13 years of age who is without documents. Once the pilot phase has ended, the Mini [...] | 2006-05-17 15:31:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC KPKO IV |
06ABIDJAN523 | PILOT ID PROGRAM GETS OFF TO A GLACIAL START IN [...] (C) The pilot identification program got off to an inauspicious start with only one petitioner appearing in the Port Bouet district of Abidjan on the morning of May 18, the first day of the program. About thirty Young Patriots showed up around 9:00, along with sanctioned Young Patriot leader [...] | 2006-05-18 15:01:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC KPKO IV |
06ABIDJAN526 | PRELIMINARIES TO DISARMAMENT PROCESS TO BEGIN SOON [...] (SBU) The Chiefs-of-Staff of the New Forces (FAFN) and Ivoirian (FANCI) militaries agreed on May 17 to start assembling troops in preparation for a disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) program. The NF will gather troops at two sites (at Botro, in the far northeast, and Bouna, [...] | 2006-05-19 16:09:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC KPKO EFIN IV |
06ABIDJAN532 | COTE D'IVOIRE: STATUS OF PILOT ID PROGRAM [...] Summary: The second and third day of the pilot identification program ran smoothly in all seven sites both north and south. After the first day, pro-Gbagbo militias ceased their disruptive activities against the program in the south and the population appears to be gaining confidence in the [...] | 2006-05-23 10:49:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ASEC KPKO IV |
06ABIDJAN549 | YOUNG PATRIOTS CONTINUE TO OCCUPY HIGH SCHOOL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Congress of Young Patriots (COJEP),the leading faction of the Young Patriots youth militia and headed by Ble Goude, continues to occupy the headquarters of the Secondary School Teacher,s Union (SYNESCI). Despite complaints to the Ivorian government, COJEP remains in place [...] | 2006-05-24 16:25:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ELAB PGOV ECON EFIN IV |
06ABIDJAN55 | COTE D'IVOIRE: OBASANJO AND GBAGBO ISSUE [...] (U) Nigerian President Obasanjo made a brief visit to Abidjan the evening of January 18, and met at the airport with President Gbagbo. Also present were Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny, UN Special Representative of the Secretary General Pierre Schori, South African Special SIPDIS Repres [...] | 2006-01-19 15:42:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN554 | COTE D'IVOIRE: SEVENTH MEETING OF THE [...] (C) Summary. The International Working Group (IWG) held a largely uneventful seventh meeting on May 19. Prime Minister Banny, UN High Representative for Elections (HRE) Studeman, Ivoirian Chief of Staff General Mangou, and New Forces Chief of Staff Bakayoko, along with the head of the Elect [...] | 2006-05-26 09:57:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN560 | UNION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS REMAIN ON STRIKE [...] (U) Summary: The National University Teachers' Union (Coordination Nationale des Enseignants du Superieur et des Chercheurs, CNEC) has been on strike since March 14, with the exception of a two-week truce from April 28 through May 12 while the union met with members of the Prime Minister's of [...] | 2006-05-26 15:38:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV ECON EFIN IV |
06ABIDJAN568 | COTE D'IVOIRE: PILOT IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM [...] (U) Summary: From May 18 through 24, 4810 applicants were interviewed at seven sites in the pilot identification program. A total of 2601 birth certificates and 2188 certificates of nationality were approved after interviews averaging 40 minutes per person. The pilot identification program [...] | 2006-05-30 16:48:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ASEC KPKO IV |
06ABIDJAN583 | COTE D'IVOIRE: PILOT IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM [...] (U) Summary: From May 18 through 24, 4810 applicants were interviewed at seven sites in the pilot identification program. A total of 2601 birth certificates and 2188 certificates of nationality were approved after interviews averaging 40 minutes per person. The pilot identification program [...] | 2006-06-02 09:36:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ASEC KPKO IV |
06ABIDJAN589 | COTE D'IVOIRE: UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS CALL [...] (U) The coordination of university professors known as Coordination Nationale des Enseignants du Superieur et des Chercheurs (CNEC),has called a two-week truce after meeting with Prime Minister Banny on May 29. While the Prime Minister was not able to promise a salary increase, which is CNE [...] | 2006-06-02 16:35:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PGOV ECON EFIN IV |
06ABIDJAN590 | COTE D'IVOIRE: UNION OF PUBLIC SECTOR HEALTH [...] (U) On May 31, the union of senior public sector health personnel, Syndicat National des Cadres Superieurs de la Sante de Cote d,Ivoire (SYNACASS-CI),threatened to go on strike on June 15 if their demands regarding salary and rank within the civil service are not met. The SYNACASS-CI consis [...] | 2006-06-02 16:37:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PGOV ECON EFIN IV |
06ABIDJAN60 | COTE D'IVOIRE: THIRD MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Summary. The subject that came in for the most discussion at the January 15 meeting of the International Working Group (IWG) was the future of the National Assembly, whose mandate expired December 16. Heads of delegation reached an initial consensus to recommend that the Assembly remain [...] | 2006-01-20 16:34:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN606 | COTE D'IVOIRE: ACOTA COORDINATOR VISIT SUMMARY [...] (U) Summary: ACOTA Program and Policy Coordinator, Chip Beck (Coordinator),visited Abidjan 13-14 May 2006 for a visit to, and an exchange of information with, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) Headquarters Staff. He received a general briefing from the Senior [...] | 2006-06-07 14:46:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MASS IV |
06ABIDJAN613 | COTE D'IVOIRE: FINAL NUMBERS FROM PILOT ID PROGRAM [...] (U) The Ivorian government announced the official figures for the pilot identification process which ended on May 27. The official figures are: 5003 applicants were interviewed, 3907 birth certificates were granted, and 3137 certificates of nationality were approved. The analysis of the pilo [...] | 2006-06-08 15:20:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ASEC KPKO IV |
06ABIDJAN616 | FESCI UNDER SERGES KOFFI: THE FIRST YEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: FESCI (Federation of High School and University Students of Cote d'Ivoire) was created by President Gbagbo and other professors in 1992 at the birth of Cote d'Ivoire's multi-party system to give students a voice in the new political environment. It rapidly degenerated into a maf [...] | 2006-06-09 14:09:00 | Embassy Abidjan | SECRET//NOFORN | KPKO PREL PGOV ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN623 | COTE D'IVOIRE: ELECTORAL COMMISSION STRUGGLES [...] (C) Summary: Four months away from the October date by which Cote d'Ivoire's postponed presidential elections are supposed to be held, the CEI (Independent Electoral Commission) has ambitious, probably unrealistic plans to carpet the country with thousands of polling stations and train tens o [...] | 2006-06-09 17:45:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN627 | COTE D'IVOIRE: INFORMATION ON OHCHR FIELD PRESENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: The UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is represented in Cote d'Ivoire by the Division of Human Rights (HR),which is part of the larger UN Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI). Its overarching mission is to promote human rights in Cote d'Ivoire. The HR works in a [...] | 2006-06-12 14:08:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL IV |
06ABIDJAN633 | COTE D'IVOIRE: UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS RESTART [...] (U) The group of university professors known as Coordination Nationale des Enseignants du Superieur et des Chercheurs (CNEC) has again commenced an unlimited strike after a two-week truce in which it considered the options put forth by the Council of Ministers (ref A). On June 9, the members [...] | 2006-06-13 17:10:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV ECON EFIN IV |
06ABIDJAN647 | COTE D'IVOIRE: START OF DISARMAMENT MAY BE DELAYED [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-16 14:54:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PREL IV |
06ABIDJAN648 | COTE D'IVOIRE: PRIMARY AND SECONDARY PUBLIC [...] (U) Summary: On June 15, primary and secondary public school teachers began unlimited strikes to protest the lack of government response to their demands for a housing allowance and salary increases. The government did not respond to a three-day strike held from June 6 to June 8 by the Coll [...] | 2006-06-16 14:54:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV ECON EFIN IV |
06ABIDJAN649 | COTE D'IVOIRE WILL SUPPORT NEW RED DIAMOND EMBLEM [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-16 14:58:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL PHUM ICRC IV |
06ABIDJAN652 | DEMARCHES ON NAM AND OIC STATEMENTS ABOUT IRAN'S [...] (C) POL/ECON Counselor and Deputy POL/ECON Counselor delivered a demarche June 16 to Ambassador Bernard Tanoh Boutchoue, Director for the United Nations and Specialized Agencies at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, expressing U.S. disappointment with the statement on Iran's nuclear program that [...] | 2006-06-16 15:37:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC KNNP UNSC IV IR |
06ABIDJAN658 | COTE D'IVOIRE: DISARMAMENT OF WESTERN MILITIAS [...] (C) Despite assurances we were given June 16 by Director of Operations for Disarmament Jean-Paul Malan that there were just a few obstacles left to mediate and that disarmament of the western militias would likely begin on June 17 (reftel),the militias continue to refuse to begin even the firs [...] | 2006-06-19 15:59:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO PREL IV |
06ABIDJAN686 | COTRE D'IVOIRE: EIGHTH MEETING OF THE [...] (C) Summary. At the eighth meeting of the International Working Group (IWG),Prime Minister Banny gave a long, evasive presentation seeking to reassure the group that he is determined to succeed in bringing the country to elections, while IWG members tried to pin him down on why so little pro [...] | 2006-06-28 15:23:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO IV |
06ABIDJAN688 | OPPOSITION DEPUTIES RETURN TO NATIONAL ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Summary. Opposition deputies agreed to return to the National Assembly on June 23 in order to receive salaries that had been withheld for three months by the FPI president of the Assembly. The denouement of what should have been a relatively minor affair is a victory for President Gbagbo [...] | 2006-06-29 13:27:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IV |
06ABIDJAN691 | UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS END STRIKE, SECONDARY [...] (SBU) Summary. Close on the heels of his success in resolving the impasse over the return of opposition deputies to the National Assembly (reftel),President Gbagbo reinforced his standing as a decisive leader by persuading striking university professors (reftels) to return to work. Secondar [...] | 2006-06-29 17:52:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV IV |
06ABIDJAN694 | COTE D'IVOIRE: PRIME MINISTER,S PEACE TRAIN STUCK [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Banny's peace train is stuck for the moment at the disarmament station. The Armed Forces of Cote d'Ivoire (FANCI) say they have completed the initial, pre-regroupment phase of the disarmament, where combatants are assembled at designated sites under their own comma [...] | 2006-06-30 11:29:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO EFIN IV |
06ABIDJAN713 | NEW FORCES PREVENTED FROM MEETING PRESIDENT [...] (U) On July 4, a delegation of New Forces (NF) soldiers led by Chief-of-Staff General Soumailo Bakayoko was refused entry to the Prime Minister's office (Primature) prior to a scheduled meeting with President Gbagbo. Gbagbo wrote the NF last week, inviting the NF military (FAFN) to meet with h [...] | 2006-07-05 17:33:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO IV |
06ABIDJAN718 | COTE D'IVOIRE: UN SECRETARY GENERAL CHAIRS [...] (C) Summary. UNSYG Annan chaired a mini-summit on Cote d'Ivoire in which participants set several deadlines to accelerate key elements of the peace process, including identification, DDR, and organization of elections. There was no discussion of possible scenarios if presidential elections [...] | 2006-07-06 18:16:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN723 | UNHCR CLOSES TABOU TRANSIT CENTER [...] SUMMARY: RefCoord traveled to Tabou, Cote d'Ivoire, on June 27-30 to meet with UNHCR officials regarding their repatriation efforts and the pending closure of the Tabou Transit Center (TC). RefCoord also traveled to several surrounding villages and met with refugee representatives. Although [...] | 2006-07-07 12:49:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM PREL IV |
06ABIDJAN731 | PRIME MINISTER ON PLANS FOR REGISTRATION OF [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Banny, accompanied by his Justice Minister, convoked ECOWAS ambassadors and several members of the International Working Group (IWG) to Yamoussoukro on July 9 for a hastily-scheduled meeting on his government's plans to launch a program, scheduled to begin on July [...] | 2006-07-11 07:44:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO IV |
06ABIDJAN758 | LATEST ON CORA DE COMSTAR U.S. BUSINESS DISPUTE [...] (SBU) The Ivoirian Telecommunications Agency (ATCI) announced last week that it had revoked Cora de Comstar's cell phone license because of non-use of the license by Cora. The unexpected decision follows the signing of a draft, non-binding agreement in February 2006 between Western Wireless an [...] | 2006-07-14 16:32:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD IV EINV |
06ABIDJAN759 | COTE D'IVOIRE: IDENTIFICATION PROCESS OFF TO A [...] (C) Summary: The launching of itinerant courts to document the approximately four million unregistered people in Cote d'Ivoire has gotten off to a shaky start. On top of administrative problems, the leader of President Gbagbo's Ivoirian Popular Front (FPI) party has called upon Gbagbo's fo [...] | 2006-07-14 16:53:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN760 | COTE D'IVOIRE: THE EFFECTIVENESS OF UN EFFORTS TO [...] (U) Sylvain Roy, Chief Conduct and Discipline Officer at the UN Operation in Cote D'Ivoire (ONUCI),briefed us July 12 on ONUCI's efforts to combat sexual abuse and exploitation (SEA). He explained that the Conduct and Discipline Team (CDT) is a newly formed unit; he himself arrived in Decembe [...] | 2006-07-14 17:21:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO IV |
06ABIDJAN771 | COTE D'IVOIRE: TEACHERS RESUME STRIKE [...] (SBU) Primary and secondary school teachers, who suspended their strike June 20 after meeting with President Gbagbo (ref A),are threatening to resume the strike July 18. The teachers said at the time that their demands had not been met but that they would suspend the strike to allow for furth [...] | 2006-07-18 13:09:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB ASEC KPKO IV |
06ABIDJAN778 | COTE D'IVOIRE: PRO-GBAGBO MILITIAS CONTINUE TO [...] (C) The local press July 18 was full of reports of incidents throughout the government-controlled areas of the country where pro-Gbagbo Young Patriots militias successfully blocked the "audiences foraines" -- itinerant courts -- from going forward with the identification process (reftel),inc [...] | 2006-07-18 16:06:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN779 | COTE D'IVOIRE: GOVERNMENT MISSES DEADLINE TO CLEAR [...] (U) Cote d'Ivoire missed a July 17 deadline to clear its arrears with the World Bank in time for the Bank to approve its USD 100 million contribution to the funding for Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) at its July 27 Board meeting. 2. (C) Cote d'Ivoire's arrears with the [...] | 2006-07-18 16:14:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON IBRD KPKO ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN782 | COTE D'IVOIRE: SITUATION REPORT: YOUNG PATRIOTS [...] (C) Beginning early this morning at about 0600 local, Young Patriot militias erected a series of roadblocks at main road and intersections throughout Abidjan to protest the mobile identification teams launched by Prime Minister Banny. The roadblocks, which increased in size and number throu [...] | 2006-07-19 14:54:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC CASC IV |
06ABIDJAN783 | COTE D,IVOIRE SITUATION REPORT - 1700 GMT JULY 19, [...] (SBU) As of late afternoon, roadblocks in the Abidjan districts of Riviera (where Embassy is located),Cocody, and Deux Plateaux, where most Embassy personnel reside, have been dismantled or shut down. The airport remains open and we understand that Air France is flying tonight. An Embassy v [...] | 2006-07-19 17:00:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN788 | COTE D'IVOIRE: NINTH INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP [...] (C) Summary. The International Working Group (IWG) held a largely uneventful ninth meeting July 20. The Prime Minister sought to reassure the group that his peace train is on track and moving forward, but once again he was long on promises and short on specifics. The communique from this m [...] | 2006-07-21 15:35:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN789 | COTE D'IVOIRE: TEACHERS' STRIKE WIDELY IGNORED [...] (SBU) The strike by elementary and secondary school teachers that was supposed to resume on July 18 (ref A) was widely ignored. While Mamadou Soro, the leader of the teacher,s group calling for the strike, was quoted in the newspapers as saying over 70 percent of teachers boycotted, all othe [...] | 2006-07-21 16:07:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PREL KPKO IV |
06ABIDJAN804 | SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED IN CLASHES OVER ID PROCESS [...] (SBU) Summary. Several people were killed and more than twenty injured over the weekend in Divo during violent confrontations at protests aimed at blocking the "audiences foraines" -- itinerant hearings -- from going forward with the identification process. Opposition party leaders are enco [...] | 2006-07-24 16:24:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC PREL KPKO IV |
06ABIDJAN810 | PRIME MINISTER BANNY ATTEMPTS TO ADDRESS CONCERNS [...] (C) Summary. The Prime Minister spoke to the nation last night on the mobile identification process, addressing concerns raised by the President's FPI party and its supporters intent on disrupting the process. The PM made clear that the mobile teams are essential to the peace process and the [...] | 2006-07-25 15:38:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC PREL KPKO IV |
06ABIDJAN812 | COTE D'IVOIRE: BANK EMPLOYEES REPORTEDLY POSTPONE [...] (C) On July 25, leaders of the union representing all bank employees in Cote d'Ivoire told us they had postponed a three-day strike that the union had threatened to start on July 26. This decision was reportedly made after the banking sector employers' association offered fresh talks. Union [...] | 2006-07-25 16:09:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB EFIN PGOV ASEC KPKO IV |
06ABIDJAN819 | CORA INVESTMENT DISPUTE NEAR RESOLUTION? [...] (SBU) Summary. A joint delegation of representatives of Cora shareholders and the Ivoirian government expressed strong optimism to the Ambassador July 26 that the Cora dispute is very close to a final resolution. They will meet with the Prime Minister about this July 27. The Ambassador welc [...] | 2006-07-26 15:51:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD PREL IV |
06ABIDJAN820 | PRIME MINISTER: HELP KEEP PRESIDENT GBAGBO ON [...] (C) On July 25 Prime Minister Banny asked the Ambassador to use his influence to help keep President Gbagbo in the political process, especially on the issue of identification of citizens. The PM asserted that he never takes a decision without consulting with President Gbagbo and getting Gba [...] | 2006-07-26 16:23:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | IV PGOV PREL |
06ABIDJAN832 | UN CLOSELY FOLLOWING IDENTIFICATION PROCESS [...] (C) Summary. The United Nations is monitoring the progress of the registration of undocumented Ivoirians, in preparation for elections, and gave a briefing for embassies and international organizations July 25. Reportedly, almost all of the teams sent into rebel-held areas in the north are o [...] | 2006-07-27 17:00:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC KPKO IV |
06ABIDJAN837 | FPI WANTS CONSULTATIONS, NOT CONFRONTATION [...] (C) Senior members of President Gbagbo's FPI party have met twice with the Ambassador in the past week to discuss the issue of identification. They emphasized that they want to resolve their differences with Prime Minister Banny through consultations, not confrontation in the streets. They [...] | 2006-07-28 15:11:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | IV PGOV |
06ABIDJAN838 | NEW UNHCR REPRESENTATIVE TAKES UP DUTIES IN COTE [...] (C) Summary: Saber Azam, UNHCR's new Representative to Cote d'Ivoire, met with Ambassador Hooks on July 21. Azam stated his main objective will be to complete the Liberian repatriation process by June 2007. Ambassador Hooks affirmed U.S. support for the humanitarian community in Cote d'Ivo [...] | 2006-07-28 15:21:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | REF PHUM PREL IV |
06ABIDJAN839 | MODEST START TO DISARMAMENT OF WESTERN MILITIAS; [...] (U) On July 26, the disarmament/dismantling of ex-combatant, pro-Gbagbo militias got underway in the western town of Guiglo in the presence of Prime Minister Banny, DDR Commission (PNDDR) chief Ouassenan Kone, and UN officials. Approximately 150 militias reported to the demobilization site to [...] | 2006-07-28 17:02:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC KPKO IV |
06ABIDJAN854 | COTE D'IVOIRE: SECURITY AND MILITIA FORCES WAGE [...] (U) On the morning of Monday, July 31, national security forces of the Command Center for Security Operations (CECOS) fought a battle with members of the armed, pro-Gbagbo Patriotic Group for Peace (GPP) and Young Patriots militia in the busy downtown district of Plateau in Abidjan, after the [...] | 2006-08-01 17:31:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV ELAB EFIN IV |
06ABIDJAN857 | WESTERN MILITIAS DISARMAMENT UPDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-01 18:59:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN86 | COTE D'IVOIRE: ONE WEEK LATER [...] (C) SUMMARY. One week after protesters and the Young Patriots took over the streets of Abidjan, the city has ostensibly returned to normal. President Gbagbo's Ivoirian Popular Front (FPI) party has withdrawn its threat to quit the government, businesses are open again, and the city almost f [...] | 2006-01-26 14:48:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON IV |
06ABIDJAN874 | COTE D'IVOIRE: UN BRIEFS AGAIN ON IDENTIFICATION [...] (C) Summary: The UN Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (ONUCI) reports that in the first two weeks of the current identification operation, there were just over 35,000 applications for registration in one form or another, from the estimated four million undocumented Ivoirians and foreigners born her [...] | 2006-08-03 16:47:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC KPKO IV |
06ABIDJAN876 | COTE D'IVOIRE: PARTIAL DISMANTLEMENT OF MILITIAS [...] (C) Summary. The dismantling of pro-Gbagbo militias in western Cote d'Ivoire continues to experience problems. It appears that only a fraction of the militia members are included in this program, and very little real disarmament has yet taken place. End Summary. 2. (C) The dismantling of [...] | 2006-08-04 11:25:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN883 | COTE D'IVOIRE: AVIAN INFLUENZA IN SAN PEDRO [...] On June 10, five chickens and a wild bird were discovered dead in an industrial rubber plantation near the port city of San Pedro, 500 km southwest of Abidjan. According to a July 20 report published by the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, the specimens tested on June 28 by the National Agricult [...] | 2006-08-07 15:06:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO EAGR EMED IV |
06ABIDJAN885 | COTE D'IVOIRE: UN SUSPENDS DISMANTLEMENT OF [...] (C) Summary: The UN confirms reports that it has halted the dismantlement of militias in Guiglo over the weekend. A UN official told us that tension in Guiglo remained high as some 1000 militia members from other towns continued their protests over the weekend. Although officially the UN cl [...] | 2006-08-08 18:19:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN903 | COTE D'IVOIRE: GBAGBO REINS IN IDENTIFICATION [...] (C) Summary. President Gbagbo has declared that the mobile courts carrying out the identification process can only issue birth certificates, not a second category of identification document that provisionally establishes Ivoirian nationality. In reaction, the rebel New Forces suspended their [...] | 2006-08-10 12:36:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN906 | HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL FOR LIBERIAN REFUGEES IN [...] (U) Summary: Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) visited Guiglo from August 1-3 to meet with UNHCR field representatives and visit the Nicla Refugee Camp for Liberian refugees. There are approximately 10,500 Liberian refugees in the northern Refugee Welcome Zone (ZAR),of which 5,987 [...] | 2006-08-11 15:16:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL IV |
06ABIDJAN911 | COTE D'IVOIRE: TENSIONS CONTINUE WITHIN MARITIME [...] (U) On August 8, Maritime Police officers announced in a press conference that on August 4 Minister of Transport Anaky Kobenan (leader of the MFA, an opposition party) had issued the payment of bonus arrears in the amount of USD 234,000 (CFAF 117 million) and suspended Director General for M [...] | 2006-08-11 18:55:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC ELAB EFIN |
06ABIDJAN926 | COTE D'IVOIRE: PEACE TRAIN SLOWS TO A CRAWL [...] (C) The Cote d'Ivoire peace train has slowed to a barely perceptible crawl. Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR),dismantling of militias, and identification of Ivoirian nationals are supposed to be proceeding concomitantly but instead they are bogging down concomitantly. DDR [...] | 2006-08-18 10:40:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN927 | COTE D'IVOIRE: TEACHERS WITHHOLD EXAM [...] (U) As of August 18, public secondary school teachers in the government-controlled zone are refusing to release results from the baccalaureate exam (required for entry to university) until they are paid for grading them. (Note: Exams in the rebel-controlled zone are scheduled to start Augus [...] | 2006-08-18 17:04:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV IV |
06ABIDJAN928 | COTE D'IVOIRE: NEW FORCES AND POLITICAL [...] (U) On August 17, leaders of the political opposition and the rebel New Forces (FN) met in Daoukro (home of ex-president Bedie) to consult on the current political situation. All the major party leaders were present: ex-president Henri Konan Bedie, leader of the PDCI (Democratic Party of Cot [...] | 2006-08-18 17:09:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN947 | COTE D'IVOIRE: GETTING THE PEACE PROCESS BACK ON [...] (C) Summary. What can the United States do to try to break the current gridlock in the Cote d'Ivoire peace process? We suggest that the United States consult with France and the UK and together with those governments jointly approach the African Union (AU) to urge that African leaders re-en [...] | 2006-08-24 10:48:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO PGOV ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN955 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR MS. CILIA DE COCK [...] Post warmly welcomes the visit of Ms. Cilia De Cock and grants country clearance for travel to Abidjan from AUGUST 29, 2006 TO SEPTEMBER 02, 2006. 2. The purpose of the trip is to visit cashew processors in the southern parts of Cote d'Ivoire (OLAM in Dimbokro) and to participate in the Ca [...] | 2006-08-25 09:14:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | IV |
06ABIDJAN963 | COTE D'IVOIRE: INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP MEETING [...] (U) The next meeting of the International Working Group (IWG) has been postponed from September 1 to September 8. In his letter notifying IWG members of the change, Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Pierre Schori explained that it was made at the request of Prime Minster [...] | 2006-08-25 15:51:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN964 | COTE D'IVOIRE: EXAM RESULTS ANNOUNCED, STRIKING [...] On August 22, 2006, the Ministry of Education announced the results of the baccalaureate exam (required for entry from secondary school to university) held July 25-28 in the government-controlled zones. Out of 119,256 students who took the exam, 48,168 students passed. The Ministry was only [...] | 2006-08-25 16:13:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PGOV IV |
06ABIDJAN991 | COTE D'IVOIRE: UPCOMING SUMMITS IN YAMOUSSOUKRO [...] (C) Summary. So far President Gbagbo is saying he will not attend the Secretary General's September 20 mini-summit on Cote d'Ivoire in New York, but he might change his mind under pressure from the Secretary General and his African counterparts. Prime Minister Banny and all the opposition le [...] | 2006-09-01 16:50:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO PGOV ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN992 | COTE D'IVOIRE: INTERIOR MINISTER REFUSES BRIBE, [...] (U) On Thursday August 24, General Adolphe Babi, the Ivorian Police Inspector General, announced at a press conference the arrest of Sergeant Zie Guillaume, who was charged with offering a bribe of approximately USD 226,000 (CFAF 113 million) to the Interior Minister in exchange for acceptin [...] | 2006-09-01 16:59:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IV |
06ABIDJAN997 | COTE D'IVOIRE: GOVERNMENT RESIGNS OVER ILLEGAL [...] (U) On September 6, Prime Minister Banny publicly submitted the resignation of his government and President Gbagbo publicly accepted it. Banny said that he felt obliged to resign because of mounting public anger over the illegal dumping of toxic wastes at several sites around Abidjan. The was [...] | 2006-09-07 12:20:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SENV IV |
06ABUDHABI1001 | MEDIA REACTION: P&O PORTS DEAL; HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT; [...] SUMMARY: A UAE COLUMNIST IN "AL-ITTIHAD" WRITES THAT US REJECTION OF THE P&O DEAL CONVEYED A NEGATIVE MESSAGE TO ALL ARABS AS WELL AS TO THE UAE. A COLUMNIST IN "AL-KHALEEJ" COMMENTED ON THE DOS HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT BY STATING THAT IT ACCUSES MANY COUNTRIES, INCLUDING THOSE WHO ARE CONSIDERED [...] | 2006-03-15 12:54:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR AE TC |
06ABUDHABI1006 | UAE PREPARED TO DISCUSS CHARITIES AT MENA-FATF [...] (C) The UAE Central Bank will represent the UAE at the March 20-21 MENA-FATF plenary in Cairo, and Central Bank officials are prepared to discuss the UAE's implementation of the MENA-FATF charities white paper. This discussion will likely focus on the same themes that Abdulrahim al-Awadi, the [...] | 2006-03-15 13:11:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KTFN AE UAE |
06ABUDHABI1023 | UAE: CALLING FOR THE RELEASE OF AKBAR GANJI [...] (C) In a meeting with UAE MFA U/S Abdullah Rashid al-Noaimi March 18, Ambassador delivered reftel points and together with DRL DAS Barks-Ruggles urged the UAE to join other states in sending Iran a clear message in support of Iranian journalist and political prisoner Akbar Ganji's release. At [...] | 2006-03-18 10:15:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI IR AE |
06ABUDHABI103 | REPORTING IRAN TO THE UNSC DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) On January 16, Pol Chief met with MFA Director for International Organizations Yacub al-Hosani to deliver ref A points on U.S. views regarding the Iran nuclear issue, and texts of both the EU-3 Foreign Ministers' Statement and the Secretary's Statement on Iran's resumption of uranium SIP [...] | 2006-01-17 11:47:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL IR EU AORC AE UN |
06ABUDHABI104 | DEMARCHE ON UN REFORM DELIVERED [...] (C) Pol Chief called on MFA International Organizations Director Yacub al-Hosani January 16 to preview UN reform points (refs A, B). Ambassador has requested a meeting with Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed to discuss UN reform and other issues. 2. (C) Al-Hosani [...] | 2006-01-17 11:51:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR PHUM ADCO AE UN |
06ABUDHABI1044 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY [...] SUMMARY: A COLUMNIST IN "AL-KHALEEJ" DESCRIBED THE NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGIES REPORT AS A REPORT THAT CONSISTS OF EVERYTHING EXCEPT A STRATEGY. AN "AL-KHALEEJ" EDITORIAL NOTED THE U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGIES REPORT FOLLOWS THE NEW CONSERVATIVES' DISASTROUS IDEOLOGIES AND WONDERED WHY [...] | 2006-03-18 13:38:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR AE KPAO TC |
06ABUDHABI106 | INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL BOARD ELECTION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-17 11:52:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC AE UNCND UN |
06ABUDHABI1076 | UAEG RECOMMITS TO SCREENING AND PROTECTING TIP [...] (C) Summary: Between March 17-19, Ambassador and CG Dubai engaged senior-level UAEG officials to discuss TIP issues and the importance of making a firm commitment to address the specific problem of trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Ambassador highlighted the need to identify [...] | 2006-03-20 14:22:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | TAGS |
06ABUDHABI108 | DEMARCHE ON LONDON CONFERENCE ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (SBU) Pol Chief discussed ref A points with MFA International Organizations Director Yacub al-Hosani January 16. Al-Hosani said the UAEG had not yet determined who will represent the UAE at the conference on Afghanistan, but that the UAEG will support Afghanistan and the objectives of the Af [...] | 2006-01-17 13:05:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN KDEM PGOV PREL AF AE |
06ABUDHABI1103 | UAE RED CRESCENT: "AID TO NEEDY, NOT TERRORISTS" [...] (SBU) Summary. In response to the March 20, 2006 New York Times Article, "Emirates Aided Kin of Palestinian Militants," the Chairman of Board of the UAE Red Crescent Authority (RCA) told Ambassador on March 21 that the RCA's policy is to fund needy children and that it does not aid families o [...] | 2006-03-21 15:43:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PTER KTFN PHUM IS PA AE TC UAE |
06ABUDHABI1104 | LABOR UNIONS WILL NOT ALLOW FOREIGNERS TO VOTE, [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 8. 2. (C)Summary: On March 15, Econchief and Econoff met with Dr. Khalid Al Khazraji U/S of Labor in the Ministry of Labor Affairs (MOL) and Mohammed Al Zaabi Director of International Relations to discuss recent labor developments. An amendm [...] | 2006-03-22 08:33:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON ETRD AE |
06ABUDHABI1119 | MEDIA REACTION: TEHRAN AND WASHINGTON [...] SUMMARY: A SAUDI COLUMNIST IN "AL-ITTIHAD" WONDERS WHY WASHINGTON HAD TO RESORT TO ITS ENEMY IRAN AND NOT TO ITS ARAB ALLIES TO RESOLVE IRAQ'S ISSUES. AN EDITORIAL IN "AL- ITTIHAD" CLAIMS PRESIDENT BUSH'S RECENT SPEECH SHOWS THAT ZIONIST INFLUENCE CONTROLS THE WHITE HOUSE. A UAE COLUMNIST I [...] | 2006-03-22 12:34:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO AE TC |
06ABUDHABI1120 | DESIGNATION OF AL-MANAR, LEBANESE MEDIA GROUP, AND AL-NOUR [...] (C) Ambassador met with MFA U/S Abdullah Rashid al-Noaimi March 22 to inform him of the USG´s intent to designate domestically al-Manar Television, the Lebanese Media Group, and al-Nour Radio as Specially Designated Global Terrorists under Executive Order 13224. Ambassador noted that the designa [...] | 2006-03-22 12:34:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC ETTC KPAO AE |
06ABUDHABI1122 | UAEG REPORTS ADDITIONAL TRAFFICKING PROSECUTIONS, [...] (U) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has provided the following trafficking-related statistics as was mentioned reftel. Post is awaiting additional prosecutions statistics from the Emirate of Dubai where the majority of sex trafficking prosecutions take place. ------------- Camel Jockeys - [...] | 2006-03-22 12:48:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL AE TAGS |
06ABUDHABI1123 | HAMAS' KHALED MESHAAL VISITS UAE [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Presidential Affairs Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan received Hamas political chief Khaled Meshaal March 22. According to Foreign Ministry U/S Abdullah Rashid al-Noaimi, the UAEG had originally been reluctant to host Meshaal but decided that it was important to emp [...] | 2006-03-22 12:53:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL WE GZ IS AE |
06ABUDHABI1126 | ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) Ambassador met with MFA U/S Abdullah Rashid al-Noaimi March 22 to raise four key issues that will be on the Arab League agenda: Darfur, Iraq, Israeli-Palestinian situation, Arab reform (ref A). On the situation in Darfur, Ambassador highlighted the need to move quickly to end the violence [...] | 2006-03-22 13:34:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IR IS GZ WE SU AE |
06ABUDHABI1129 | STATUS OF U.S.-UAE MLAT NEGOTIATION [...] (C) Summary. Upon learning that the UK has nearly concluded an MLAT and extradition treaty with the UAEG, Embassy sounded out UK colleagues on how they have proceeded. We have informed the MFA that following its response to our May 2005 diplomatic notes regarding unresolved requests and judi [...] | 2006-03-22 14:23:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM PGOV UK AE |
06ABUDHABI1199 | ABU DHABI OVERHAULS TRANSPORTATION SECTOR [...] (U) The Abu Dhabi Government Restructuring Committee recently announced the establishment of an Abu Dhabi Department of Transport (DOT),headed by Khalfan Ghaith Al Muhaibi. Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council chairs the r [...] | 2006-03-27 09:25:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR EWWT PREL ECON AE |
06ABUDHABI1202 | SCENESETTER FOR U/S JOSEPH VISIT TO THE UAE [...] (S/NF) Summary. Embassy welcomes you back to the UAE to secure UAE endorsement the Proliferation Security Initiative Statement of Interdiction Principles (PSI SOPs) and to continue the dialogue regarding our concerns about Iran's nuclear ambitions. Since your visit in October 2005, Embassy a [...] | 2006-03-27 11:15:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC PARM PREL IR AE |
06ABUDHABI1214 | PROMOTION OF EMPOWERMENT PROJECTS FOR UAE WOMEN [...] DURING THE PAST TWO WEEKS, THE UAE HAS ANNOUNCED SEVERAL PROJECTS TO EMPOWER UAE WOMEN IN THE POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL FIELDS. THESE INITIATIVES ARE AIMED AT CREATING BETTER OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN TO OCCUPY LEADERSHIP POSITIONS IN ALL SECTORS OF THE SOCIETY, ESPECIALLY IN THE POLITICAL [...] | 2006-03-28 08:54:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KWMN KMPI AE |
06ABUDHABI1219 | EXXON GETS 28% OF UPPER ZAKUM [...] (U) On March 27, Exxon Mobil signed agreements with the Emirate of Abu Dhabi's Supreme Petroleum Council and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) for a 28% stake in the Upper Zakum field as of January 1, 2006. ADNOC's stake in the field drops from 88% to 60% and the Japan Oil Development [...] | 2006-03-28 13:54:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EINV AE |
06ABUDHABI1222 | DRL DAS BARKS-RUGGLES HEARS UAE VIEWS ON IRAN [...] (C) Summary: On March 18, Ambassador and DRL DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles met with MFA U/S Abdullah Rashid al-Noaimi to discuss Iran and other bilateral issues. Iran is proceeding full speed ahead to develop its nuclear program, but al-Noaimi advised against adopting just a confrontational approac [...] | 2006-03-29 06:37:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR AE |
06ABUDHABI1223 | DRL DAS BARKS-RUGGLES VISITS UAE [...] (C) Summary: DRL DAS Barks-Ruggles' March 15-18 visit to the UAE provided an opportunity to urge government action on a long-awaited amendment that would allow the creation of trade unions, as well as further movement on domestic political reforms and progress in combating human trafficking. [...] | 2006-03-29 06:49:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM ELAB AE |
06ABUDHABI1227 | AUSTRALIA-UAE FTA: NATURAL RESOURCES A CONCERN [...] (C) On March 29, Australia's lead Australia-UAE negotiator Stephen Deady (First A/S Trade Development Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) gave EconChief a quick update on the results of the March 27-29 negotiating round. He described the week as "reasonable," but with no breakt [...] | 2006-03-29 10:32:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON AS AE |
06ABUDHABI1232 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: VISIT OF NEA A/S DAVID [...] SUMMARY: The March 27-29 visit of David Welch, US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, to the UAE received prominent coverage in all UAE Arabic and English dailies. Abu Dhabi TV carried a 7-minute interview on the daily program News of the Day with A/S Welch commenting on S [...] | 2006-03-30 16:35:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR AE KPAO OVIP |
06ABUDHABI1233 | A/S WELCH MEETING WITH UAE STATE SECURITY DIRECTOR [...] (S/NF) Summary: NEA Assistant Secretary David Welch consulted with UAE State Security Director Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed al-Nahyan March 29 on regional developments, and specifically on Iran, Iraq, and Hamas. A/S Welch was accompanied by Ambassador and Rear Admiral Robert Moeller, Director of P [...] | 2006-03-31 12:04:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL KPAL IR IZ GZ WE AE |
06ABUDHABI1268 | TRANSIT OR TEMPORARY DETENTION OF SOMALI PIRACY [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-02 13:05:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PHSA SO AE |
06ABUDHABI1301 | UAE CHARITY REGULATION: EMIRATE-LEVEL, NOT FEDERAL [...] (C) Summary. The UAE does not have a unified federal system of charity oversight or regulation. Charity regulation is ultimately the responsibility of each of the seven emirates. The Ministry of Social Affairs (MSA) licenses and monitors charities in Abu Dhabi, and any charity that is licen [...] | 2006-04-04 11:15:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PTER KTFN PHUM AE |
06ABUDHABI1327 | UAE REFORM STRATEGY: QUARTERLY PROGRESS UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: Since the January 2 submission of the quarterly UAE Democratic Reform Strategy update (ref A),there have been additional developments. During the period January 1-March 31, the UAEG created a Cabinet-level Ministry of State for Federal National Council Affairs that its new minis [...] | 2006-04-04 13:55:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPAO KDEM KMPI AE |
06ABUDHABI1329 | UAEG REGISTERS CONCERN OVER TENSION BETWEEN [...] (C) Summary: On March 29, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Ronald Neumann, visited Abu Dhabi and met with MFA U/S Abdullah Rashid al Noaimi. Al Noaimi expressed concern about growing tension between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and suggested including India in trilateral talks to ease the fricti [...] | 2006-04-04 15:14:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AF PK AE |
06ABUDHABI1340 | HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH CRITICIZES THE UAE'S TREATMENT [...] (U) Summary: On March 30, Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report urging the UAEG to take immediate steps to end abusive labor practices. The report focuses heavily on the plight of foreign construction workers who often end up in &debt bondage.8 HRW also urged the UAEG to expand its staff [...] | 2006-04-05 12:52:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON ETRD PHUM AE |
06ABUDHABI1341 | SUDAN: LEVERAGING UN TROOP CONTRIBUTING COUNTRIES [...] (C) The Embassy delivered reftel points to the MFA as a diplomatic note April 3 and followed up with MFA Director for International Organizations Yacub al-Hosani April 5. Al-Hosani told Pol chief that he was not aware that the UN had approached the UAE to date with a request for assistance, an [...] | 2006-04-05 13:28:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU KPKO AE |
06ABUDHABI1342 | NATO SOLDIER SENTENCED TO 80 LASHES FOR OFFENSES [...] (SBU) On April 3, a Shari'a court in the northern emirate of Sharjah sentenced Estonian Master Sergeant Andrei Korol to one month in jail and 80 lashes for crimes committed at Sharjah International Airport on February 23. Korol was sentenced to 40 lashes and time served for public intoxicatio [...] | 2006-04-05 13:52:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PHUM NATO AE EN |
06ABUDHABI135 | UAE: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2006 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-18 12:41:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV AE USTR OPIC |
06ABUDHABI138 | UAE: SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary: Two years after a USG interagency team visited the UAE to discuss an agreement on remote sensing, the UAE's chief proponent of acquiring a remote sensing system, UAE Chairman of Space Reconnaissance Programs Colonel Mahash al-Hameli, says there is still a strong desire to work wit [...] | 2006-01-19 13:36:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC KSTC PARM PREL AE |
06ABUDHABI1401 | SCENESETTER FOR HOMELAND SECURITY AND [...] (S) Summary. Embassy Abu Dhabi looks forward to welcoming you to the UAE on April 23. In the aftermath of the controversy of the Dubai Ports World acquisition of P&O, your assurances to Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ),your host for the visit, that the USG values the UA [...] | 2006-04-10 14:23:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PINS ASEC EPET MCAP KPAL AE IZ IR |
06ABUDHABI1405 | ETIHAD FLYING TO KENNEDY, ABU DHABI AIRPORT [...] (SBU) Summary. Etihad Airways recently reported to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rep that it has decided to fly to Kennedy, instead of Newark as was previously reported. Econoff and FAA rep met with several members of the Supervision Committee for the Expansion of the Abu Dhabi Inter [...] | 2006-04-11 11:34:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PREL ECON AE |
06ABUDHABI1406 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. IMAGE; IRAN AND THE REGION; [...] Summary: A columnist in "Al-Ittihad" explains why America is deeply hated by Arabs and Muslims stating that respecting human's humanity is the only way for America to resolve these issues. "Al-Khaleej" expressed concerns for Gulf security. "Al-Khaleej" asserted that freedom and democracy ne [...] | 2006-04-11 11:57:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR AE TC |
06ABUDHABI1409 | PREPARING FOR 2ND U.S./UAE JTFCC [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met with UAE Central Bank Governor Sultan Nasser al-Suweidi on April 11 to discuss details of the upcoming U.S./UAE Joint Terrorist Finance Coordinating Committee (JTFCC) that will be held during Treasury U/S Stuart Levey's trip to the UAE on April 30. Al-Suweidi commi [...] | 2006-04-11 12:44:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KTFN AE |
06ABUDHABI1416 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH [...] SUMMARY: A UAE columnist in "Al-Khaleej" calls a recent report on labor rights in the UAE from Human Rights Watch a credible report that should not be ignored or misinterpreted. He calls on the UAE authorities to open a dialogue with the organization and tackle problems related to labor issu [...] | 2006-04-11 13:37:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO AE TC |
06ABUDHABI1422 | UAE FM TELLS U/S JOSEPH: "USE UAE AS LAST RESORT" [...] (S/NF) Summary. Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Robert Joseph and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan (AbZ) met April 8 to discuss Iran's proliferation and regional ambitions. U/S Joseph conveyed that the United States considers Iran a serious threat [...] | 2006-04-12 12:07:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM ETTC MCAP IR AE |
06ABUDHABI1437 | OECD PROGRAMS ON GOOD GOVERNANCE AND INVESTMENT IN [...] (U) Summary: On April 9, Ambassador met with Richard Hecklinger, Deputy Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD),to discuss the MENA-OECD Initiative on Governance and Investment for Development. The initiative, which began in February 2005, is a r [...] | 2006-04-15 07:48:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OECD ECON EFIN AE |
06ABUDHABI1471 | UAE SHI'A AND THEIR LOYALTIES [...] (C) Summary: With rising international tension over Iran's quest for nuclear power, and persistent reports of Iranian influence in Iraq's internal affairs, the UAE's Shi'a minority have been doing a lot of soul-searching, according to sect members and their acquaintances. While we have heard [...] | 2006-04-15 11:56:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PHUM KISL PREL PINR IR AE |
06ABUDHABI1472 | TREASURY U/S QUARLES VISIT TO UAE [...] (C) Summary. During Treasury Under Secretary Quarles' March 22 meetings, his interlocutors stressed their belief that the U.S. - UAE relationship was strong and that government investors in the UAE would continue to invest in U.S. assets, despite DP World. Over ninety-eight percent of the Ce [...] | 2006-04-15 12:01:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EINV ETRD ECON AE |
06ABUDHABI1520 | UAE MAKES PRIVATE ENDORSEMENT OF PSI [...] (U) This message contains an action request in para 3. 2. (C) The Embassy received a diplomatic note from the UAE MFA April 15 endorsing the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) and its Statement of Interdicting Principles. In response to our query about whether the endorsement was publ [...] | 2006-04-17 10:29:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL KNNP AE |
06ABUDHABI1531 | UAE CONFIRMS SUPPORT FOR SUDAN, AU MISSION IN [...] (C) Pol chief met with MFA Deputy Director for Arab Affairs Ahmed Besais April 17 to follow up on the issue of re-hatting the peacekeeping troops in Darfur (refs A, B). Besais told Pol chief the UAE supports the Arab League's "Khartoum Declaration" that affirms support for the African Union's [...] | 2006-04-17 13:12:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO SU AE |
06ABUDHABI1538 | MEDIA REACTION: US, ISRAEL AND PALESTINE/IRAN [...] Summary: A columnist in "Al-Khaleej" states that the support and patronage of the United States supports Israel's campaigns against the Palestinians. "Al-Bayan" complains about the biased support the U.S. gives to Israel. An op-ed in "Al-Bayan" renounces the double-standard of U.S. nuclear [...] | 2006-04-18 06:35:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR AE KPAO TC |
06ABUDHABI1573 | MEDIA REACTION: ARABS AND HUMAN RIGHTS/ [...] Summary: A columnist in "Al-Ittihad" explains why Arabs usually fail human right's assessments stating that their culture does not carry such values. A female columnist in Al-Bayan comments on Iran's nuclear capabilities stating that Iran, instead of focusing on nuclear technology, should wo [...] | 2006-04-19 10:26:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO AE TC |
06ABUDHABI16 | UAE REFORM STRATEGY: THIRD QUARTERLY UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: Since the September 30 submission of the quarterly UAE Democratic Reform Strategy update (ref A),there have been several positive developments in our reform strategy (ref B). Most notably, on December 1, President Khalifa announced that a form of limited elections will be held f [...] | 2006-01-02 14:05:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL PGOV KPAO KMPI AE |
06ABUDHABI1610 | MESSAGE TO GULF DONORS ON ASSISTANCE TO THE PA; [...] (C) On April 19 DCM delivered ref A points on Gulf Donors with information on the new U.S. Palestinian Assistance Package to MFA U/S Abdullah Rashid Al-Noaimi, who was curious to know how our response to Qatar following its recent $50M donation to the PA had gone over. On April 22 DCM delivere [...] | 2006-04-23 10:54:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN KWBG PGOV AE |
06ABUDHABI1637 | MEDIA REACTION: DUBAI PORTS/IRAQ [...] Summary: A UAE columnist in "Al-Khaleej" comments on the oppressive way the Dubai Ports deal was handled by the American media and politicians. He concludes that despite of all these failures, globalization will continue. "Al- Khaleej" asserts that the American occupation of Iraq is the pro [...] | 2006-04-23 14:08:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR AE KPAO TC |
06ABUDHABI1644 | UAE'S PRIVATE ENDORSEMENT OF THE PSI [...] (C) On April 22 Ambassador passed ref A points to UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan who expressed no objection to sharing UAE's private endorsement with the other government in the region that has privately endorsed PSI (Oman) and with other interested Gulf countries in order t [...] | 2006-04-24 10:44:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL KNNP AE |
06ABUDHABI1716 | UAE FM EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT IRAN'S NUCLEAR [...] (U) Speaking at a press conference in Kuwait April 25, UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan expressed concern about Iran's nuclear program, while urging a peaceful resolution, as reported today by the Arabic dailies "Al Khaleej" and the semi-official "Al Ittihad," as well a [...] | 2006-04-26 11:02:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAO KU AE IR |
06ABUDHABI1718 | UAE CONDEMNS DAHAB BOMBING [...] (U) UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan has sent a cable of condolence to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak condemning the bomb attack in Dahab on April 24. The state news agency, WAM, reported that in his cable President Khalifa reiterated the UAE's solidarity with Egypt in confr [...] | 2006-04-26 11:47:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PTER EG AE |
06ABUDHABI1723 | MINISTER OF LABOR PROVIDES UPDATES ON THE LABOR LAW [...] (C) Summary: On April 23, Ambassador and Econoff met with UAE Labor Minister Dr. Ali bin Abdullah Al Ka,abi to discuss labor issues, including the strengthening of labor laws in the UAE. Al Ka,abi updated Ambassador on the proposed amendment to the labor law permitting a labor association, r [...] | 2006-04-29 10:56:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PHUM PREL ETRD AE |
06ABUDHABI1724 | TOWNSEND DISCUSSES REGIONAL STABILITY, [...] (C) Summary. During an April 22 lunch meeting with Frances Fragos Townsend, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (APHSCT),and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MbZ),Townsend and MbZ discussed counterterrorism cooperation. Townsend stressed [...] | 2006-04-29 12:43:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINS EPET ETTC MCAP IR AE IQ |
06ABUDHABI1725 | SCENESETTER FOR COUNTERTERRORISM COORDINATOR [...] (S) Summary. Embassy Abu Dhabi looks forward to welcoming you to the UAE on May 7. U.S. and UAE officials have had a number of productive meetings on the topic of counterterrorism, the most recent of which came on April 22, when Fran Townsend, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security [...] | 2006-04-29 13:15:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PINS ASEC EPET MCAP IR IZ AE |
06ABUDHABI1742 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: "AL BAYAN" EXCLUSIVE WITH [...] Summary: Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul claims that Ankara refused an American nuclear reactor in exchange for providing facilitative assistance to the U.S. in its confrontation with Iran. Gul noted that a military option to end the impasse is very unlikely simply because Iran possess [...] | 2006-04-30 14:14:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
06ABUDHABI176 | TEXTBOOK CASE: DUBAI CUSTOMS; RE-DELIVERY AND [...] (SBU) Summary. On January 17, Dubai Customs allowed Iranian vessel M/V Iran Baluchestan, suspected of transporting dual-use items, to leave Port Rashid for Iran. Despite requests from the Embassy and Consulate, Dubai did not authorize the inspection of the container, claiming that it had no l [...] | 2006-01-22 14:21:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC PARM PREL AE |
06ABUDHABI1772 | UAEG FTA CONCERNS POST-DUBAI PORTS WORLD [...] (C) Summary. The UAEG views the upcoming investment chapter talks as crucial to the success of an FTA, especially in light of the recent Dubai Ports World episode. On April 22, Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan (AbZ) told visiting Assistant to the President for Homeland Security an [...] | 2006-05-01 10:44:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EINV EPET EFIN AE |
06ABUDHABI1775 | UAE TELECOM UPDATES [...] (SBU) Summary. On April 19, econoff met with Mohammed Gheyath, Technical Affairs Manager of the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA),to discuss UAE telecom initiatives. Gheyath said the TRA is planning to allow a third internet service provider (ISP) in the UAE and is also consideri [...] | 2006-05-02 07:29:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECIN PHUM ECON AE |
06ABUDHABI1790 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAN/IRAQ [...] Summary: A columnist in "Al-Bayan" explains why the U.S. will not strike Iran. "Al-Khaleej" blames the occupation for Iraq's growing problems and feels the end of the occupation will bring an end to the militias. A columnist in "Al-Bayan" described the Gulf countries' rising concern with t [...] | 2006-05-02 12:37:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR AE KPAO TC |
06ABUDHABI1797 | SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILLEN'S VISIT [...] (S) Summary: Embassy Abu Dhabi looks forward to welcoming you to the UAE on May 15-16. Your visit will be an opportunity to build on recent Iran discussions between U.S. and UAE officials, particularly Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Joseph's April 8 meeting with U [...] | 2006-05-03 11:47:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MCAP MARR MASS MNUC IR AE |
06ABUDHABI183 | IAEA DONOR CONFERENCE ON DECOMMISSIONING IRAQ'S [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-23 12:57:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC KNNP OTRA AE IAEA |
06ABUDHABI1835 | UAE LEADERS RECEIVE IRAN'S ALI LARIJANI [...] (C) UAE President Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan and Vice President/Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum separately received Secretary General of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani May 3. According to local press reports, President Khalifa ur [...] | 2006-05-03 12:47:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS KPAO IR AE |
06ABUDHABI19 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. PUBLIC DIPLOMACY EFFORTS/PALESTINE [...] SUMMARY: Arab columnists are critical of U.S. public diplomacy efforts. Al-Khaleej urges Palestinian authorities to take stronger control of the resistance and not just make statements condemning resistance groups. End Summary. 2. Under the headline "Brainwash", Jafar Mohamed Ahmed, a col [...] | 2006-01-02 14:24:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR AE KPAO TC |
06ABUDHABI1903 | UAE RESPONSE TO IRANIAN EFFORT TO REASSURE GCC [...] (U) On May 6, UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) spoke to the press at the conclusion of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) consultative summit in Riyadh. According to WAM, the UAE's official news agency, when asked if the GCC had received any assurances from Iran that its n [...] | 2006-05-08 13:20:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM IR AE |
06ABUDHABI191 | UAEG RE-DRAWS ITS BORDER WITH SAUDI ARABIA [...] (U) Ratcheting up its public stance on the border issue, the UAEG,s 2006 Yearbook includes a map of the UAE with re-drawn borders with Saudi Arabia. In a departure from earlier yearbooks, the map (both hard copy and internet version) shows the UAE's territory extending to Qatar. The book dev [...] | 2006-01-23 13:26:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS EPET PGOV ETRD ECON SA AE |
06ABUDHABI192 | READOUT ON WASHINGTON FTA INVESTMENT DISCUSSION [...] (C) Summary: We have reached out to Minister of Economy Sheikha Lubna Al-Qasimi and Ministry of Finance and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority contacts to get their thoughts on the January 16-17 Washington discussions on the investment chapter of the FTA and to urge them to keep up forward momen [...] | 2006-01-23 13:26:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON EFIN TC |
06ABUDHABI1927 | UAE STOCK MARKET DOWN [...] (U) Summary: The UAE's two stock markets, like others in the region, are experiencing a sharp drop from the high prices of 2005. GCC investors, especially Saudis, are reportedly withdrawing from the UAE market and investors are nervous about increasing Iranian-U.S. tensions. The U.S. stock [...] | 2006-05-10 11:33:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON AE EINF |
06ABUDHABI1928 | UAE WILL CONSIDER CWC CHALLENGE INSPECTION HOST [...] (C) On April 30, Director for Nonproliferation Policy in the office of the Secretary of Defense, Dr. David Cooper (OSD/ISP/CbtWMD&NP/NPP),met with MFA Director of International Organizations, Yacoub al-Hosani, to discuss the outstanding bilateral Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) challenge in [...] | 2006-05-10 11:34:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PGOV AE |
06ABUDHABI1930 | S/CT COORDINATOR CRUMPTON DISCUSSES [...] (S) Summary: During a May 7 meeting, Department of State Coordinator for Counterterrorism Henry Crumpton and UAE State Security Director Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed al-Nahyan discussed counterterrorism cooperation and the need to find new ways to coordinate intelligence activities and counter-terror [...] | 2006-05-10 11:52:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PTER PINS PREL KISL KPAL IR IZ AE |
06ABUDHABI1931 | ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT IN THE UAE [...] (U) Summary. The UAE still implements the primary Arab League boycott on Israel, but abides by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) policy of not implementing the secondary or tertiary aspects of the boycott. Despite this policy, there have still been instances of prohibited boycott requests af [...] | 2006-05-10 11:53:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KBCT ABLD PHUM AL AE PIRF |
06ABUDHABI1932 | S/CT COORDINATOR CRUMPTON DISCUSSES [...] (S) Summary: During a May 7 meeting with UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan (AbZ),Department of State Coordinator for Counterterrorism Henry Crumpton and Ambassador received a readout of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) leaders' 8th consultative summit, held a day earl [...] | 2006-05-10 12:11:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PTER PINS PREL KISL KPAL KWBG PK AF LE JO |
06ABUDHABI1948 | UAE THINK TANK DIRECTOR SPEAKS OUT ON IRAN, IRAQ, [...] (C) Summary: On May 10, al-Ittihad, a semi-official Arabic daily, published an exclusive interview with Jamal Sanad al-Suwaidi, Director General of the Abu Dhabi-based quasi-governmental think tank, Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR). Al-Suwaidi, an honorary Major Gene [...] | 2006-05-10 14:48:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IR IZ AE |
06ABUDHABI1993 | UAE SUPPORTS U.S. CANDIDATE FOR INCB ELECTION [...] (U) On May 13, the Embassy received a diplomatic note supporting U.S. candidate Melvin Levitsky's re-election to the International Narcotic Control Board elections. 2. (U) Begin diplomatic note: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs presents its compliments to the Embassy of the United States o [...] | 2006-05-14 13:30:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR AORC PREL AE |
06ABUDHABI1994 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAN/PALESTINE/UAE FTA/REFORM IN THE [...] SUMMARY: A columnist in "Al-Bayan" cautions the use of military force against Iran. An editorial in "Al-Khaleej" says it is disgraceful for the U.S. to provide Israel with Weapons of Mass Destruction while preventing the Arabs from providing the Palestinians with basic support. A UAE colum [...] | 2006-05-15 09:41:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi |