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06QUITO2699 | FM CARRION'S POLICY BLUEPRINT: VANITY PROJECT OR [...] (C) Summary: Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Francisco Carrion on October 23 released the country's foreign policy whitepaper, the National Foreign Policy Plan 2006-2020 ("PLANEX"). An avowed attempt to focus the nation's foreign policy amidst constant domestic political turmoil, the PLANEX exer [...] | 2006-11-07 22:24:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO2714 | FEAR AND LOATHING IN ECUADOR: NERVOUS APPLAUSE FOR [...] (C) Summary: Substantial media attention given to the Department's approval of a 212(f) visa revocation for corruption of a prominent Ecuadorian politician, Xavier Neira, has elicited broad approval from opinion makers and the general populace. The impetus for the revocations, Neira,s corrupt [...] | 2006-11-08 20:55:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV KIPR CVIS PINR ETRD EINV EC |
06QUITO2739 | (C) NOBOA AND AMBASSADOR CLEAR THE AIR [...] (C) Summary: Presidential front-runner Alvaro Noboa called the Ambassador on November 8 to discuss his campaign and clear up any misunderstandings about his decision not to meet with foreign officials until after the election on November 26. He believed Venezuelan President Chavez' public r [...] | 2006-11-09 21:49:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO2812 | GOE TO VOTE YES ON IRAN, DPRK; ABSTAIN ON BELARUS [...] (SBU) PolChief conveyed Ref A points to Ambassador Gonzalo Salvador, MFA U/S for Multilateral Affairs, on November 15, and followed up on our November 8 approach on other pending UN human rights issues (Ref B). 2. (C) Salvador said Ecuador planned to follow the GRULAC consensus and planne [...] | 2006-11-16 13:40:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC BO EC |
06QUITO2894 | ELECTION: CAMPAIGN CLOSES, CLOUDS AHEAD [...] (C) Summary: The early campaign days of free computers, colorful flags, dancing and humorous jibes are over. Ecuador now must decide between two populist candidates that have both gone negative. Ecuadorian voters also must digest Correa's allegations of fraud and the prospect of a closely c [...] | 2006-11-24 21:04:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM EC |
06QUITO2991 | WAY FORWARD WITH THE CORREA GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: President-elect Correa's initial statements appear to signal openness to dialogue and some moderation of his early campaign rhetoric, although areas of potential tension clearly remain. The new Congress will be composed of mainly new faces, with a dramatically different party ma [...] | 2006-12-11 22:19:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO3020 | GOE PROTESTS RESUMPTION OF COLOMBIAN SPRAYING NEAR [...] (C) Colombia's resumption of aerial fumigation along the Ecuador-Colombia border has sparked a formal GOE protest and strong reaction from president-elect Correa. Foreign Minister Francisco Carrion called Colombia's decision an act of "hostility" and warned of a possible cooling in bilateral [...] | 2006-12-14 19:03:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO |
06QUITO3033 | FOUR NEW MINISTERS: CORREA TAPS POETS, [...] (C) Summary: On December 13 President-Elect Rafael Correa announced four new cabinet level ministers in a press conference on his way to visit Nestor Kirchner in Argentina: Maria Fernanda Espinosa will head the MFA; Raul Sagasti Lupera will be the new Industry Minister; Antonio Preciado will [...] | 2006-12-14 21:23:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO3048 | GOE SUSPENDS FOREIGN MINING OPERATIONS - [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Government of Ecuador (GOE) suspended the operations of two Canadian mining companies (one with U.S. investment) in the past week, in response to escalating community protests and violence. Some community residents, supported by domestic and foreign NGOs, have opposed mining [...] | 2006-12-15 22:27:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EMIN EINV EC |
06QUITO3062 | ENERGY INTEGRATION, AERIAL SPRAYING AND DEBT ON [...] (C) Summary. President-elect Rafael Correa has crisscrossed South America in recent weeks to establish contact with his counterparts in the region, pursuing Ecuadorian interest in oil refining and infrastructure projects under the guise of regional cooperation and integration. Basking in a [...] | 2006-12-19 22:58:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EPET EFIN EWWT EAIR EC CO |
06QUITO3072 | CORREA DEBT MANAGEMENT: ECUADORIAN OBSERVERS [...] (C) Summary. President-elect Correa and Economic Minister-designate Patino continue to talk about rescheduling Ecuador's external debt. However, former and current Ministry of Economy officials agree that Correa will be pragmatic and conclude that it is not in Ecuador's interest to default. [...] | 2006-12-20 10:08:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV KBIO PINR EC |
06QUITO308 | GOC LAMENTS INCURSION [...] (C) Summary: The GOC on February 2 regretted its possible accidental violation of Ecuadorian airspace and reiterated its respect for Ecuadorian sovereignty. The GOE privately welcomed the conciliatory response, but publicly called it "insufficient" and slow in coming. Colombian President A [...] | 2006-02-06 18:44:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO |
06QUITO321 | ECUADOR: PDAS SHAPIRO PROMOTES DEMOCRACY, TRADE [...] (C) Summary: WHA PDAS Charles Shapiro visited Quito January 18-20, meeting with President Alfredo Palacio, Foreign Minister Francisco Carrion, business leaders, the editorial board of Quito,s daily of record, members of the political elite and civil society leaders. He also met with Governo [...] | 2006-02-07 22:02:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD KDEM EC |
06QUITO374 | WELCOME BACK, GENERAL CRADDOCK [...] (C) Summary: Please accept my warm welcome on your return visit to Ecuador, General Craddock. This mission is mobilized to ensure a successful visit. Your visit comes at a sensitive time. We hope to use it to help defuse the inflamed dialogue with Colombia, advance information sharing with [...] | 2006-02-10 19:53:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO |
06QUITO406 | ECUADOR: WAR OF WORDS WITH COLOMBIA OVER, FOR NOW [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Francisco Carrion on February 12 announced an end to the temporary diplomatic contretemps brought on by the accidental violation of Ecuadorian airspace by Colombian military units on January 28. FM Carrion said that the GOE, having accepted the GOC,s February 1 [...] | 2006-02-13 22:23:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EC |
06QUITO471 | GOE FIRES UPON, DISMANTLES FARC BORDER CAMP [...] (C) Summary: Ecuadorian military units on February 18 encountered and dismantled a FARC encampment in the northern border province of Sucumbios. Two FARC trainees were captured during the raid, along with weapons, ammunition, and other logistical support items. In the wake of the find, Min [...] | 2006-02-22 23:04:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO |
06QUITO598 | SCENESETTER FOR FM CARRION VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Francisco Carrion will visit Washington to meet with Secretary Rice on March 23. The friendly but nationalist Carrion comes to Washington prepared to make a case for Ecuador. Carrion is concerned about current cuts in USG aid levels and will likely [...] | 2006-03-10 21:40:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EC |
06QUITO599 | GOE UNDECIDED ON GUATEMALA UNSC BID [...] (C) The Ambassador on March 9 delivered RefTel points on securing support for Guatemala's UNSC candidacy to FM Francisco Carrion. Carrion agreed with our views on Venezuela's potential disruptiveness, noting that the GOV had been very difficult to work with in the Andean Community (CAN). Ho [...] | 2006-03-10 21:52:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC UN EC |
06QUITO646 | GOE OBJECTS TO HRR [...] (SBU) Summary: FM Francisco Carrion objected to the recently published human rights report in a meeting with the Ambassador on March 10. Carrion said the U.S. had no right to judge Ecuador on human rights issues, and had not sufficiently credited the GOE with HR improvements since President [...] | 2006-03-16 16:28:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EC |
06QUITO673 | PALACIO STANDS FIRM, INDIGENOUS SUSPEND STRIKES [...] (C) Summary: President Palacio spoke to the nation on March 15, refusing to cede to indigenous striker demands to halt FTA negotiations. Subsequently, protesting highlands provinces and indigenous have suspended their strikes and are returning to their communities with most roads unblocked, [...] | 2006-03-17 20:47:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS EC |
06QUITO705 | CHEVRON CLOSE TO FILING BIT NOTICE [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador met March 17 with Chevron local representative Jaime Varela for an update of Chevron's legal cases. Varela gave the status of the case in the Lago Agrio court, the AAA arbitration, and the U.S. Federal Court case and said Chevron would soon file a notice requesting [...] | 2006-03-21 21:03:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ETRD ECON EC |
06QUITO712 | INDIGENOUS DEFIANT DESPITE STATE OF EMERGENCY [...] (C) Summary: President Palacio declared a state of emergency late on March 21 for four provinces and parts of Pichincha province. Most roads were open on March 22, and the GOE sought to dialogue with protest leaders. CONAIE leaders have vowed to continue their anti-FTA protests. Military i [...] | 2006-03-22 23:06:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EC |
06QUITO809 | HYDROCARBON LAW SPELLS TROUBLE FOR EVERYONE [...] (U) Summary. The Ecuadorian Congress passed a law March 29 that would require private oil companies with participation contracts in Ecuador to share additional revenue with the GOE. If President Palacio signs the law, the GOE could face numerous legal actions because it clearly changes the t [...] | 2006-03-31 18:41:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ETRD ECON PREL EC |
06QUITO818 | AMBASSADOR ENCOURAGES GREATER MARITIME COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met on March 30 with MFA Sovereignty U/S Diego Stacey and other MFA officials to discuss the recent rise in the use of Ecuadorian flagged fishing vessels to smuggle drugs and request additional bilateral cooperation to counter it. The Ambassador delivered a detail [...] | 2006-03-31 22:09:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR SNAR PTER EC |
06QUITO85 | MOD UPBEAT ON EVE OF COLOMBIA TALKS [...] (C) Summary: In a January 10 meeting the Ambassador conveyed to Defense Minister Oswaldo Jarrin USG support for greater high-level GOE-GOC security cooperation, and expressed USG concern over the GOE,S anti-glyphosate rhetoric. Jarrin said the fumigation issue was not on his agenda for upcom [...] | 2006-01-11 23:35:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL MARR SNAR PTER EC CO |
06QUITO889 | ECUADORIAN LAW VIOLATES CONTRACTS OF OIL COMPANIES [...] (C) Summary: President Palacio's partial veto of new hydrocarbons legislation makes passage of very bad legislation inevitable. Within thirty days, and more likely within two weeks, the legislation will come into force, violating the contracts of two U.S. oil companies (and four companies f [...] | 2006-04-10 22:52:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EINV EC |
06QUITO977 | VFM FRIENDLY BUT FIRM ON ECUADORIAN CONCERNS [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with visiting WHA/AND Director Philip French on April 18, Vice Foreign Minister Diego Ribadeneira expressed GOE commitment for continued bilateral cooperation, but stressed the view that the USG needs to take into account some of the unique pressures of Ecuador's sit [...] | 2006-04-20 22:18:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC ETRD EPET EINV ECON PGOV SNAR CO EC |
06RABAT1011 | CHINESE AMBASSADOR ON HU VISIT, WESTERN SAHARA, [...] (C) Summary: During a 75-minute meeting May 22, Chinese Ambassador Cheng Tao downplayed the significance of the April 23-25 visit to Morocco of Chinese President Hu Jintao, noting that the Chinese leadership visits Africa annually. Nevertheless Cheng said Morocco-China relations are good, and [...] | 2006-05-25 16:20:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD MO PBTS PGOV PREL |
06RABAT1032 | WESTERN SAHARA: GOM SATISFIED WITH HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: 2. (C) Polcouns called on MFA Director of UN and International Affairs Nasser Bourita May 24 for the GOM perspective on the May 15-18 visit to Morocco and the Western Sahara of the UN Human Rights Commission delegation. The five-person delegation was led by Christophe Girod [...] | 2006-05-30 19:06:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PBTS PHUM PREL |
06RABAT1041 | MOROCCO: IRAN SEEKS CHAIR OF IOM EXCOM [...] (C) Poloff contacted MFA Acting Director of United Nations and International Organizations Sidi Abdelfattah El Kadiri on May 31 to convey reftel USG opposition to Iran's candidacy for the Chairmanship of the Executive Committee of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Poloff also [...] | 2006-05-31 14:29:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SMIG IR AORC MO |
06RABAT1042 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT TO MOROCCO OF U/S KAREN [...] (C) The US Mission warmly welcomes your upcoming visit to Morocco. Your visit comes as we and the Moroccan government are further energizing the substantial reinvigoration of bilateral relations that has taken place since the May 2003 terrorist attacks in Casablanca. Since the 2003 attacks, [...] | 2006-05-31 18:49:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON KPAO MO PGOV PREL PTER |
06RABAT1050 | MEETING THE MORCHIDAT [...] (SBU) Following a flurry of misleading press reports indicating that the recently graduated female Islamic guides (morchidat) would be comparable to male imams, the Moroccan Council of Ulemas issued a fatwa on May 26 confirming Minister of Islamic Affairs' Ahmed Toufiq's statement that indeed [...] | 2006-06-01 13:55:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL MO |
06RABAT1087 | WESTERN SAHARA: CORCAS SEEKS US MEDIATION WITH [...] (C) Summary: During a 90-minute meeting with Ambassador Riley on May 31, President of the Royal Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS) Khalihenna Ould Er Rachid requested US help in starting a dialogue between CORCAS and the Polisario. Khalihenna said he had made informal contacts with the Pol [...] | 2006-06-06 10:57:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PBTS PHUM PREL |
06RABAT1137 | WESTERN SAHARA: WHAT'S HAPPENING IN TINDOUF? [...] (SBU) Two Sahrawi tribal leaders, Sheikh Abdi Salama Nafaa of Laayoune and Idrissi Belali from Smara, previously unknown to the embassy, called on Polcouns June 9 to seek US support for what they alleged were injustices being committed against members of the Rgiubat tribe, subgroup Layeshi (p [...] | 2006-06-12 18:42:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO MO PBTS PHUM PREL |
06RABAT1148 | WESTERN SAHARA: GENERAL MOSGAARD'S VIEWS [...] (C) Summary: MINURSO Force Commander General Kurt Mosgaard told the Ambassador June 8 that MINURSO continued to play an important role in moderating the Western Sahara conflict. He said tensions were up on both sides, and there was more talk of war within the Polisario, but MINURSO does not [...] | 2006-06-13 16:44:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO MO PBTS PHUM PREL |
06RABAT115 | GOM'S TOUGH MESSAGE TO IRAN [...] (C) Summary: Deputy FM Taieb Fassi Fihri told the Ambassador January 19 that Iranian Envoy Musavi would visit Morocco January 20 but would not be received by the King. Morocco would listen to Musavi but would express concern over Iranian behavior and warn Iran not to take advantage of turmoi [...] | 2006-01-24 14:48:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MO PGOV PREL |
06RABAT1151 | MOROCCO: HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (C) Poloff discussed reftel demarche regarding U.S. priorities and concerns at the UN Human Rights Council on June 13 with MFA Director for UN and International Organizations Nasser Bourita. Bourita agreed largely with the US position, emphasizing that the first session of the Council should [...] | 2006-06-14 09:14:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL |
06RABAT117 | WESTERN SAHARA: FASSI FIHRI ON JANUARY 18 [...] (C) During a January 19 meeting covering UN reform (septel) and Iran (Ref A),Deputy FM Fassi Fihri raised the Western Sahara, noting that he was "surprised" by remarks attributed to Ambassador Bolton at the Security Council's closed door briefing on the Western Sahara on January 18 "blaming" [...] | 2006-01-24 15:12:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO MO PBTS PGOV PREL |
06RABAT1190 | MOROCCO: JUNE 19-21 OIC MINISTERIAL MEETING IN BAKU [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche regarding Iran and a possible OIC resolution on the right of nations to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes on June 16 to MFA Chief of the Division of Arab and Islamic Organizations Hassan Hami. Hami noted that MFA Director General for Multilatera [...] | 2006-06-16 15:17:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR MO |
06RABAT1211 | MOROCCO: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL -- ANTICIPATED [...] (C) Charge discussed ref(a) demarche regarding USG concerns and priorities for the inaugural session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) on June 20 with MFA Secretary General Omar Hilale. MFA Director of UN and International Affairs Nasser Bourita accompanied Hilale. Charge emphasized the i [...] | 2006-06-20 17:06:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MO |
06RABAT1218 | WESTERN SAHARA: BASTAGLI URGES CONTINUATION OF CBMS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a June 16 meeting with the Ambassador, Special Representative for the Secretary General (SRSG) for Western Sahara Francesco Bastagli urged the Embassy to encourage Morocco to accept a revised list of scheduled flights to restart the suspended family visits program. Basta [...] | 2006-06-21 17:18:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PBTS PHUM PREL MO |
06RABAT1283 | MOROCCO: ENGAGING MED DIALOGUE COUNTRIES ON NATO'S [...] (C) Poloff met July 3 with MFA Bilateral Affairs officer Karim Halim to deliver reftel talking points on engaging Mediterranean Dialogue countries on NATO's Middle East Security Cooperation Center. Poloff stressed the July 5 NAC plus 7 meeting as an opportunity for Morocco to provide its vie [...] | 2006-07-03 18:01:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MARR MO |
06RABAT132 | IRAN: CODEL DUNCAN WEIGHS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 25, Codel Duncan, visiting Morocco January 24-26, stressed to Deputy FM Fassi Fihri US concerns with Iran's development of a nuclear program and encouraged Morocco to put its weight behind US and European efforts to reign in the Iranians within the framework of the UNS [...] | 2006-01-25 15:52:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PREL MO PGOV |
06RABAT133 | DEPUTY FM ON UN REFORM [...] (C) As instructed reftels, Ambassador called on Moroccan Deputy FM Taieb Fassi Fihri on January 19 to seek Moroccan support for US goals on UN reform. The Ambassador underlined that UN reform was an important issue for the US, and he was raising the issue at a senior level on instruction from [...] | 2006-01-25 15:54:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PBTS PGOV PREL |
06RABAT1341 | TFLE01: GOM ON SAUDI STATEMENT ON SECURITY [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-14 12:07:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAL KWBG MO PREL |
06RABAT1456 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR AMBASSADOR ZALMAY [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-31 16:49:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | JO TU IZ AMGT OTRA ASEC FR MO |
06RABAT1457 | IREX BRIEF TO THE MFA [...] (C) Summary: The PAO and IO met with Wassane Zailachi, Director of the North American, Mexico and Central America division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on July 26. The meeting included a discussion of the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI)-funded IREX regional project, sc [...] | 2006-07-31 16:51:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KPAO MO |
06RABAT1570 | DEMARCHE IN ADVANCE OF AUGUST 20 ARAB LEAGUE [...] (U) A/Polcouns delivered reftel A demarche to Mohammed Azeroual, Director General of Multilateral Relations and Global Cooperation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on August 19. Azeroual confirmed FM Benaissa's attendance at the Arab League meeting in Cairo on August 20 and the GOM's suppo [...] | 2006-08-19 12:21:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LE IS MO |
06RABAT1576 | MOROCCO-EU FISHING AGREEMENT SPARKS CONTROVERSY [...] (U) Summary: The new Morocco-EU fishing agreement was signed in Brussels on July 26, 2006, but must still be ratified by the Moroccan Parliament before taking effect. Ratification is expected to occur when Parliament reconvenes in October 2006, with implementation by early 2007. The agreeme [...] | 2006-08-22 15:45:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIS MO PBTS PGOV |
06RABAT1587 | DEMARCHE REQUEST ON U.S. CONCERNS ABOUT HUMAN [...] (C) A/DCM delivered reftel demarche to Abdelfetah Kadiri, assistant to the Director of United Nations and International Organizations in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on August 24. Kadiri noted that Morocco did pass the resolutions and that this decision was made because of the conflict [...] | 2006-08-24 11:53:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNHRC MO |
06RABAT1617 | MOROCCO: CANCELLATION OF FLIGHT TRANSPORTING TWO [...] (C) On August 29, Poloffs delivered reftel points to MFA Bilateral Affairs and Counterterrorism officer Karim Halim, formally notifying the GOM of the cancellation of the proposed flight that would have included two Moroccan national NLECs from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Morocco and several othe [...] | 2006-08-30 15:48:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PINR MO |
06RABAT1624 | CONSULTATIONS ON NUCLEAR FUEL SUPPLY ASSURANCES [...] (C) EconOff met with Nasser Bourita, Director of United Nations and International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on August 31 to discuss reftel. Bourita was well familiar with the initiative and had a copy of the concept paper. Bourita remarked that the US should not expect a [...] | 2006-09-01 09:42:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM |
06RABAT1631 | MOROCCAN MFA OFFERS OFFICIAL VERSION OF TERROR [...] (C) Summary: A senior MFA official invited in the Ambassador on September 1 to give him the GOM's formal version of the ongoing investigation of the Ansar El-Mahdi terrorist cell. Most of the briefing consisted of a summary of basic facts of the case already in the public domain. The officia [...] | 2006-09-01 18:44:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KISL MO |
06RABAT1632 | MOROCCO TIGHTENS AIRPORT SECURITY [...] (C) The arrest of four women, two married to pilots of the national carrier Royal Air Maroc, has resulted in increased security measures at all Moroccan airports. The women were arrested for involvement in the Ansar Al Mahdi terrorist cell, initially broken-up by Moroccan security forces on [...] | 2006-09-01 18:46:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR MO PINR PTER |
06RABAT1635 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED IN ADVANCE OF ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) A/Polcouns met on September 4 with Hassan Hami, Director of the Office of Arab and International Organizations Affairs at the Moroccan Foreign Ministry, to urge that the GOM use the occasion of the Arab League meeting in Cairo to press for implementation of UNSCR 1701, to support the trans [...] | 2006-09-05 13:43:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS LE MO |
06RABAT1643 | FURTHER ON MOROCCO'S NUCLEAR ENERGY PLANS [...] (C) Summary: Economic and Commercial Counselors called on National Electricity Office (ONE) Chairman Younes Maamur on August 18 in Casablanca to learn more about ONE's plans to develop nuclear energy to help meet Morocco's burgeoning demand for electricity, a program in which he had earlier t [...] | 2006-09-06 10:56:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON SENV MO |
06RABAT1697 | MOROCCO: NOTICE OF SECOND ROUND OF GUANTANAMO [...] (C) Poloffs met September 11 with MFA Bilateral Affairs and Counterterrorism Officer Karim Halim to notify the GOM of the start of the second round of Administrative Review Board (ARB) proceedings (reftel),which will include consideration of the cases of Moroccan nationals Ahmad Abdullah Al-W [...] | 2006-09-12 11:42:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINR PREL KAWC MO |
06RABAT1716 | DEMARCHE ON IRAN, DARFUR AND THE NAM SUMMIT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-14 15:03:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MO IR |
06RABAT1718 | UPPER HOUSE ELECTIONS LEAVE ESTABLISHMENT INTACT [...] (C) Summary: Traditional establishment parties prevailed on September 8 in the race for one-third of the seats in the Chamber of Councilors, Morocco's upper house of parliament. The Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) failed to gain any seats. However, given the elite and complex nat [...] | 2006-09-14 15:31:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MO |
06RABAT1733 | MOROCCO - KING'S "AGILE" RESPONSE TO VATICAN ISLAM [...] (C) Summary: Morocco has reacted strongly in protest to Pope Benedict's controversial remarks on Islam. The MFA confirmed to us that Morocco's Ambassador to the Vatican has been recalled for consultations. King Mohammed VI is also reported to have sent a written protest to the Vatican, but t [...] | 2006-09-18 17:38:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PREL MO |
06RABAT1764 | ARAB MAGHREB UNION - POSSIBLE UNGA MEETING [...] (C) Summary: The Political Director of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) confirmed to polcouns in a September 20 meeting that the AMU fully endorses the proposed AMU Ministerial on the margins of UNGA (reftel),but noted that AMU SYG Ben Yahia's physical absence from N.Y. (he has not been invited t [...] | 2006-09-21 16:20:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL |
06RABAT1766 | MOROCCO'S AMBASSADOR HEADED BACK TO VATICAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Morocco is sending its Ambassador back to the Vatican, five days after recalling him in protest over Pope Benedict's September 12 remarks about Islam. The controversy over the Pope's remarks appears to have already peaked in Morocco. Meanwhile, the state press agency has relea [...] | 2006-09-22 07:37:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL KIRF PREL MO |
06RABAT177 | CODEL DUNCAN MEETS WITH MINISTER DELEGATE FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: As part of a January 24-26 visit to Morocco, Codel Duncan met with Minister Delegate for Foreign Affairs Taieb Fassi Fihri and toured the Port of Casablanca on January 25. Fassi Fihri underscored Morocco's desire for fostering dialogue with the U.S. Congress and, by extension, [...] | 2006-02-03 10:18:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OVIP MO |
06RABAT1775 | WESTERN SAHARA: CORCAS HEAD TO BRING NOTHING NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: CORCAS Chairman Khalihenna Ould Er Rachid told Ambassador he would travel to Washington September 23, for meetings beginning September 25. He planned to focus on explaining Moroccan efforts and progress toward pulling together an autonomy plan for the Sahara. Ambassador repeate [...] | 2006-09-22 18:40:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PBTS PHUM PREL |
06RABAT1793 | MOROCCO: REQUEST FOR PERMISSION TO REFUEL [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (C) On September 25, poloffs notified the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USG's intent to repatriate Moroccan detainee Ben Moujan and the request to refuel the aircraft en route to other destinations (reftel). Counselor for Bila [...] | 2006-09-26 18:01:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PTER PREL MO |
06RABAT181 | VISITING THE PRISON IN LAAYOUNE, WESTERN SAHARA [...] (C) Summary: Prison conditions in Morocco and the Western Sahara are a major human rights concern and are frequently discussed by the USG and international human rights organizations. Poloff raised the possibility of visiting prisons throughout the country with the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) [...] | 2006-02-03 14:11:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PBTS MO |
06RABAT1875 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON POSSIBLE NORTH KOREAN TEST [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-06 18:59:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP KBNC PARM MO |
06RABAT1882 | MOROCCAN ULEMA PUSH QARADAWI OFF THEIR TURF [...] (C) Summary: Sheikh Qaradawi, the prominent Egyptian cleric, has been attacked by Moroccan newspapers this Ramadan after he issued a fatwa concerning interest-bearing loans in Morocco. The controversy put the Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD),which had hosted Qaradawi in Morocco [...] | 2006-10-10 10:50:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PGOV PREL EG |
06RABAT1883 | ISLAMISTS TAKE OFF ON ROYAL AIR MAROC [...] (C) Summary: The newspaper of the Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) has accused Royal Air Maroc (RAM) of "denying its employees the right to pray" and "forcing pilots to break their fasts." The charges are a disingenuous twist on recent administrative steps by the airline. The char [...] | 2006-10-10 10:54:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PTER MO |
06RABAT1951 | KING'S OPENING SPEECH TO PARLIAMENT FOCUSES ON [...] (C) Summary: In his annual speech to open parliament's fall session, King Mohamed VI on October 13 highlighted both his commitment to reform and determination to maintain overall control. He said next year's legislative elections must be open, transparent, and legitimate. He said the 2007 l [...] | 2006-10-18 19:12:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PREL PHUM ECON MO |
06RABAT197 | WESTERN SAHARA: MFA REVIEWS PARTY LINE, COMMENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On January 23, 2006 visiting NEA/MAG Morocco Desk Officer Robert Ewing and Poloff paid a courtesy call on MFA Director for UN Affairs Nasser Bourita. Bourita said he had to "correct some misunderstandings" concerning the Western Sahara and undertook a long argument ba [...] | 2006-02-07 16:20:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PBTS PGOV PREL MO |
06RABAT1974 | POLISARIO COMMANDER READY TO BEND BUT NOT BREAK [...] (C) At a Polisario "base" east of the berm separating Moroccan and Polisario forces, a Polisario Political/Military commander told an Embassy team and MINURSO commander October 12 that he and his comrades were flexible and prepared to talk, but could not compromise the Sahrawis' right to self- [...] | 2006-10-20 15:13:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS KPKO MA WI |
06RABAT1975 | POLISARIO COMMANDER READY TO BEND BUT NOT BREAK [...] (C) At a Polisario "base" east of the berm separating Moroccan and Polisario forces, a Polisario Political/Military commander told an Embassy team and MINURSO commander October 12 that he and his comrades were flexible and prepared to talk, but could not compromise the Sahrawis' right to self- [...] | 2006-10-20 15:24:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS KPKO MA WI |
06RABAT1976 | PHOSPHATE CONVEYER SABOTAGED IN WESTERN SAHARA [...] (U) Moroccan press has reported that the long conveyer belt which carries phosphate ore from mines at Bou Craa, about 70 KM south of Layoune, to Layoune port on the Atlantic coast was damaged by a sabotage attack October 10. Press reports blame the Polisario for the attack. 2. (C) During [...] | 2006-10-20 15:45:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL MA |
06RABAT1977 | MOROCCO AND UNSCR 1718 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-20 16:49:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP |
06RABAT1982 | WESTERN SAHARA FLAG FLAP: SEEING RED IN LAYOUNE [...] (C) Summary: During our visit to Western Sahara, embassy team heard from both sides about a high-profile dispute over the lowering of the Moroccan flag over MINURSO Headquarters. As reported in the press, this had prompted protests in front of MINURSO, and had complicated the often-testy relati [...] | 2006-10-23 12:21:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO MA WI |
06RABAT1983 | SAHRAWI ACTIVISTS OUTLINE GRIEVANCES AND POSSIBLE [...] (C) During a mid-October visit to Western Sahara, Sahrawi human rights activists indicated profound alienation from Moroccan authorities and deep skepticism about any autonomy package the GOM might be preparing, charging that human rights practices in the region were getting worse. They viewe [...] | 2006-10-23 13:05:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV KPKO MA WI |
06RABAT1984 | WESTERN SAHARA: TECHNOCRAT TAKES THE REINS OVER [...] (C) Summary: The newly appointed Wali (governor) of Layoune, territorial seat of Western Sahara, told visiting Embassy team he was sent to build up the Sahara rather than impose order. Polcouns underscored the U.S. view that an agreed settlement was the best way forward and emphasized that an [...] | 2006-10-23 13:30:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL MA WI |
06RABAT1987 | UNGA RESOLUTIONS ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND CHILDREN IN [...] (C) In an October 23 meeting with Nasser Bourita, the MFA's Director-General for UN and Multilateral Affairs, A/Polcouns urged that Morocco vote against items 63 (a) and 67 (b),in the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly (reftel). 2. (C) Bourita replied that Morocco understood U.S. c [...] | 2006-10-23 16:32:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | UNGA LE IS MA PHUM PTER |
06RABAT2 | ASYLUM SEEKERS OVERWHELM UNHCR IN RABAT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 30, Poloffs from Rabat and Casablanca met with UNHCR Head of Mission, Johannes van der Klaauw, at UNHCR headquarters in Rabat to discuss the status of refugee seekers in Morocco and UNHCR,s future plans. Van der Klaauw highlighted the challenges with the dramatic [...] | 2006-01-03 08:53:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB MO PHUM PREF PREL SMIG SOCI |
06RABAT2010 | (C-NE6-01369) POLISARIO COMMANDER READY TO BEND BUT NOT BREAK [...] (C) At a Polisario "base" East of the berm separating Moroccan and Polisario forces, a Polisario Political/Military commander told an Embassy team and MINURSO commander October 12 that he and his comrades were flexible and prepared to talk, but could not compromise the Sahrawis' right to self-d [...] | 2006-10-30 11:21:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PINR PGOV MO AG KPKO WI |
06RABAT2016 | WESTERN SAHARA: SENIOR MOROCCAN OFFICIAL UPBEAT [...] (C) Summary: In an October 27 telephone conversation, Minister Delegate Fassi Fihri told the Ambassador the GOM was upbeat on the status of the Western Sahara process following the visit of a senior Moroccan delegation to Washington earlier this month. Fihri seemed resigned to continuing Alge [...] | 2006-10-31 13:08:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO |
06RABAT2023 | MOROCCO AND THE NATO-MIDDLE EAST COOPERATION CENTER [...] (C) Embassy would like to take this opportunity to remind US Mission to NATO that, in addition to countries mentioned ref A, Morocco has also expressed tentative interest in hosting the NATO-Middle East Cooperation Center. Should other potential host countries decide in the end not to host th [...] | 2006-10-31 14:58:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PGOV PREL MARR MO |
06RABAT2087 | MOROCCAN APPROACH ON UNGA 3RD COMMITTEE [...] (C) Due to limitations of availability, Polcounselor raised ref A demarche with MFA IO/UN Director (A/S equivalent) Nasser Bourita early November 9, highlighting the importance of a strong stand on human rights against these major violators. Bourita thanked us for the information received in [...] | 2006-11-09 15:58:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MO |
06RABAT2103 | MOROCCAN CONCERNS ABOUT IRANIAN AND ALGERIAN [...] (C) Summary: T Senior Advisor Jim Timbie met with Nasser Bourita, Morocco's top International Organizations official, on October 31, to convey USG concerns about Iran and other items on the international non proliferation agenda. Bourita advised that the GOM shares the USG's concerns and said [...] | 2006-11-14 08:50:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC IAEA KNNP PREL MO IR |
06RABAT2144 | IRAN'S PROPOSED TECHNICAL COOPERATION WITH THE IAEA [...] (SBU) In a November 17 meeting, poloff urged Morocco, which sits on the IAEA Board of Governors, to oppose any technical cooperation with Iran that involves the heavy-water research reactor at Arak, drawing on points conveyed reftel. 2. (SBU) Noting that the GOM is also concerned about Ira [...] | 2006-11-17 17:20:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC KNNP MO IR |
06RABAT2176 | REVISIONS TO ELECTORAL CODE INTENDED TO STRENGTHEN [...] (C) Summary: Revisions to Morocco's electoral code passed on November 23 include a new threshold political parties must cross if they wish to compete in the 2007 parliamentary elections. This threshold could exclude a half dozen, and maybe more, of Morocco's 28 political parties, but the bill [...] | 2006-11-27 16:48:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM MO |
06RABAT22 | MISSION PLAN FOR ADVANCING DEMOCRATIC REFORMS IN [...] (U) Per ref A Action Request, Post submits the following quarterly assessment of its Democratic Reform Strategy as outlined in ref B. Our report is keyed to the Milestones (M) and Tactics (T) outlined in our strategy and provides an update through December 31, 2005. Update narratives contain [...] | 2006-01-05 14:43:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON KDEM PGOV SCUL KMPI MO |
06RABAT221 | CARTOON CONTROVERSY; NORDIC DIPLOMATS COMMENT; [...] (C) During a February 8 office call to discuss the aborted Nordic mission to Western Sahara (septel),Swedish and Norwegian Embassy First Secretaries Jonas Wendel and Lena Richter Strand told Polcouns that reaction so far against Nordic countries in Morocco in response to the cartoon controve [...] | 2006-02-09 15:28:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC KISL MO PGOV PREL |
06RABAT2218 | MOROCCO'S POLITICAL AND MATERIAL SUPPORT FOR IRAQ [...] (C) A senior MFA official confirmed to us that Iraqi FM Zebari is due in Morocco for a 2-3 day visit on December 8. The Moroccans cautioned the USG against allowing Iraqi Sunnis to become marginalized from the political process and to be wary of any Iranian role in stabilizing the country. The [...] | 2006-12-06 14:29:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MO IZ |
06RABAT222 | WESTERN SAHARA: GOM DEVELOPMENT PLANS ON TRACK [...] (C) Over dinner February 8, Ahmed Hajji, Director of the Agency for the Development of the Southern Provinces, told Polcouns that he was basically satisfied with implementation of the agency's five-year, USD 800 million plan launched in late 2004 to develop "the southern provinces," which incl [...] | 2006-02-09 16:25:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON MO PBTS PREL |
06RABAT2237 | ELECTORAL CODE AMENDMENT PASSED [...] (C) SUMMARY: After months of debate between the Ministry of Interior and the political parties, the amendments to the new electoral code have been adopted by Parliament. The new law bars parties that failed to win at least 3% of the vote in the 2002 elections from running in the 2007 election [...] | 2006-12-09 15:32:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM MO |
06RABAT2259 | MOROCCO/IRAQ: NO REVELATIONS BUT ZEBARI GETS [...] (C) MFA Director General for Middle East and International Organizations Mohammed Azeroual briefed Polcouns December 13 on the December 6-8 visit to Morocco of Iraqi FM Hoshiyar Zebari. Azeroual said Zebari paid a courtesy call on the Speaker of the Lower House of Parliament Abdel Wahed Radi [...] | 2006-12-14 12:32:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ IR SY MO |
06RABAT2286 | MOROCCO'S NEW POLLING LAW - A STEP BACKWARDS? [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Morocco (GOM) is considering a new law that would for the first time formally regulate polling and public opinion research. A copy of the draft bill obtained by the Embassy imposes a requirement that all public opinion polls be vetted and approved in advance by [...] | 2006-12-19 15:42:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM MO |
06RABAT2296 | URGING MFA TO REACH OUT ON SAHARA AND DEFEND [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-20 14:58:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHUM MO |
06RABAT2306 | GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR - PURSUIT OF TERRORIST [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-21 14:13:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KVPR PTER PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC KHLS MO |
06RABAT2337 | MOROCCAN JUSTICE MINISTER ON PRESS AND POLLING [...] (C) During a December 22 meeting with Moroccan Justice Minister Mohammed Bouzouba, the Ambassador urged that pending amendments to the press code encourage journalistic responsibility without impinging on freedom of expression. The Ambassador also expressed concern that a proposed law regulati [...] | 2006-12-26 17:18:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER EFIN MO |
06RABAT238 | WESTERN SAHARA: DISSIDENTS SAY NO TO AUTONOMY, NO [...] (C) Summary: Continuing our dialogue with Sahrawi civil society, emboffs and NEA/MAG Desk Officer met with a group of Sahrawi dissidents at the Laayoune home of prominent activist Mohammed Dadach for an hour the evening of January 25. The dissidents were members of the "Association for Sahr [...] | 2006-02-10 16:41:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PHUM MO |
06RABAT24 | MOROCCO'S EQUITY AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION [...] (C) Summary: The Equity and Reconciliation Commission's (IER) mandate ended November 30, bringing to a close the IER's almost two-year investigation into human rights abuses in Morocco between 1956 and 1999. The IER's final report was submitted to King Mohammed VI on December 1. On Decembe [...] | 2006-01-05 18:50:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM MO |
06RABAT240 | WESTERN SAHARA: MINURSO'S HOPES AND FRUSTRATIONS [...] (C) Summary: During NEA/MAG desk officer's January 23-27 visit to Morocco and the Western Sahara, Poloffs and desk officer met over dinner with Francesco Bastagli, the Secretary General's Special Envoy to the Western Sahara and SIPDIS MINURSO Chief of Staff Philippe Elghouyal on January 2 [...] | 2006-02-10 17:36:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO MO PBTS PGOV PHUM |
06RABAT248 | WESTERN SAHARA: NORDICS PONDER NEXT STEPS [...] (C) Swedish and Norwegian Embassy First Secretaries Jonas Wendel and Lene Richter Strand called on Polcouns February 8 for a read-out of the embassy's late January visit to Laayoune (Refs A-D),and in turn updated Polcouns on the latest Nordic thinking on how to respond to what they view as u [...] | 2006-02-13 15:57:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PBTS PHUM PREL |
06RABAT277 | G-8 EMBASSIES MEET ON MOROCCO COUNTERTERRORISM [...] (C) Summary: Representatives from G-8 embassies in Rabat discussed counter-terrorism efforts in Morocco at a Feb. 2 Counter-Terrorism Action Group (CTAG) meeting hosted by the Russian Embassy in Russia's capacity as G-8 president. Attendees spoke highly of GOM counter-terrorism efforts but ag [...] | 2006-02-17 09:52:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL KPAO SNAR MO |
06RABAT283 | WESTERN SAHARA: THE WALI EXPOUNDS ON THE CURRENT [...] (C) Summary: On January 25, NEA/MAG desk officer and emboffs met with Driss Sharqi, the Wali of the Laayoune region of the Western Sahara. The discussion covered autonomy (septel),Sahrawi demonstrations, the impact of the Equity and Reconciliation's (IER) final report, the development sit [...] | 2006-02-17 17:32:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PBTS MO |
06RABAT29 | REP. LANTOS DISCUSSES REGIONAL ISSUES, FREE TRADE, [...] (C) Summary: PM Jettou January 3 told visiting Rep. Tom Lantos that Morocco appreciates U.S. efforts in the Middle East and Iraq, where positive results are beginning to take shape, and that Morocco would continue to do its part in the war on terror. Jettou was also encouraged by the appro [...] | 2006-01-06 18:01:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON MA PGOV PHUM PREL PTER |
06RABAT290 | G-8 EMBASSIES MEET ON MOROCCO COUNTER TERRORISM [...] (C) Summary: Representatives from G-8 embassies in Rabat discussed counter-terrorism efforts in Morocco at a Feb. 2 Counter-Terrorism Action Group (CTAG) meeting hosted by the Russian Embassy in Russia's capacity as G-8 president. Attendees spoke highly of GOM counter-terrorism efforts but a [...] | 2006-02-17 17:36:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL KPAO SNAR MO |
06RABAT314 | ISRAELI LABOR LEADER VISITS MOROCCO FOR INTERNAL [...] (C) During a February 22 meeting with DCM, MFA Director General for Multilateral Affairs and Director for Arab and Islamic Affairs Mohamed Azeroual discussed the February 17 visit of Israeli labor party leader Amir Peretz to Morocco. Azeroual noted that Peretz -- whom he called a "Moroccan" as [...] | 2006-02-23 17:11:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS MO |
06RABAT316 | ALGERIAN AMBASSADOR BELKHEIR'S VIEWS ON WESTERN [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador hosted Algerian Ambassador Larbi Belkheir for an informal tea and conversation on the Western Sahara and Morocco-Algeria relations the afternoon of February 16. Belkheir had just returned from Algiers the previous day. Present were Algerian DCM Ginad Boumedienne, NE [...] | 2006-02-23 17:41:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO MO PBTS PGOV PREL |
06RABAT321 | SNAPSHOTS OF MOROCCO: MEKNES AND BACK TO RABAT [...] (U) Meknes, Morocco's seventh largest city with a population of more than half a million, is located an hour and one-half southeast of Rabat and is easily accessible by a modern toll road with little traffic and at a minimal cost (USD 3) for expatriates. The drive is through foothills and agr [...] | 2006-02-24 12:05:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM MO |
06RABAT330 | DELIVERY OF MESSAGE TO GOM ON TSCTI CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) On February 17, 2006 visiting NEA/MAG Office Director William Jordan delivered reftel message on Morocco's inability to participate in a seminar on terrorism in the trans-Sahara region cosponsored by the African Center for Strategic Studies (part of NDU) and the African Union (AU) to MF [...] | 2006-02-24 15:34:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER AG WI AU MO |
06RABAT331 | MOROCCO ON PALESTINIAN ASSISTANCE, MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) DCM met with newly promoted MFA Director General for Multilateral Relations and Director of Arab and Islamic Affairs Mohamed Azeroual February 21 to discuss reftel demarches regarding assistance to the Palestinian Authority (PA) and potential meetings with Hamas. DCM emphasized that a new [...] | 2006-02-24 15:36:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS KPAL MO |
06RABAT335 | FURTHER MOROCCAN VIEWS ON IRAN [...] (C) DCM used the opportunity of a February 21 meeting with MFA Director General of Multilateral Relations and Director of Arab and Islamic Affairs Mohamed Azeroual to discuss GOM views on Iran. (NB: Azeroual served as Moroccan Ambassador to Iran from 1993 to 2000 and speaks Farsi.) Azeroual s [...] | 2006-02-24 16:52:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MO |
06RABAT337 | MOROCCO: UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEURS' REPORT ON [...] (C) Poloffs met February 21 with MFA Director of United Nations and International Organizations Nasser Bourita to discuss reftel points on the UN Special Rapporteurs' report on Guantanamo. Poloff delivered to Bourita a copy of reftel points in non-paper format. In response, Bourita commented [...] | 2006-02-24 17:02:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAO MO PREL PTER |
06RABAT341 | WESTERN SAHARA: US INTERVENTIONS CONCERNING [...] (C) Ambassador Thomas T. Riley called Foreign Minister Benaissa to update him on the steps taken by the USG (reftel) regarding a potential Polisario organized march on the berm in the Western Sahara on February 27. The Ambassador informed the Foreign Minister that the Department of State, E [...] | 2006-02-24 19:02:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | AG KPKO MO PARM PBTS PINR PREL |
06RABAT344 | WESTERN SAHARA: MINURSO UPDATE AS OF MORNING OF [...] (C) Following up on reftels, Polcouns called MINURSO political officer Alexandyr Sporys the morning of February 27 for an update on weekend activity in Tifariti and a status report on expected activity in Tifariti and Tindouf on February 27 and 28 to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the foun [...] | 2006-02-27 12:02:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PBTS PHUM PREL |
06RABAT355 | WESTERN SAHARA: MINURSO REPORTS CONTINUED CALM IN [...] (C) MINURSO Political Officer Alexandr Sporys telephoned Polcouns at 8 pm local time February 27 to brief on the day's activities in Tifariti. Sporys said MINURSO peacekeepers based in Tifariti had observed part of the day's festivities in keeping with MINURSO's mandate. MINURSO estimated th [...] | 2006-02-28 13:00:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO MO PBTS PHUM PREL |
06RABAT360 | WESTERN SAHARA: MFA SAYS CBMS IN JEOPARDY [...] (C) During a February 22 meeting (reftel),MFA Secretary General Omar Hilale told Polcouns that the family visits program, a key element of the US-funded confidence-building measures in the Western Sahara, was in jeopardy as a result of politicization of the program by the Polisario. Hilale [...] | 2006-02-28 22:00:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PBTS PHUM PREL |
06RABAT385 | GROWTH CONSTRAINTS -- APPLYING RODRIK'S MODEL TO [...] (C) Summary and introduction: When judged against traditional "Washington Consensus" criteria (e.g. fiscal discipline, liberalization, privatization, and openness to investment) Morocco receives consistently high grades from international financial institutions and credit rating agencies. [...] | 2006-03-02 11:28:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID MO |
06RABAT386 | GROWTH CONSTRAINTS -- APPLYING RODRIK'S MODEL TO [...] (C) Summary and introduction: When judged against traditional "Washington Consensus" criteria (e.g. fiscal discipline, liberalization, privatization, and openness to investment) Morocco receives consistently high grades from international financial institutions and credit rating agencies. [...] | 2006-03-02 11:28:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID MO |
06RABAT389 | WESTERN SAHARA: PREPARING THE GOM FOR AUTONOMY [...] (C) Summary: In meetings with the MOI and MFA on February 17 in Rabat, and reiterated during the embassy's February 22 meeting with MFA SecGen Omar Hilale, visiting NEA/MAG Office Director William Jordan urged GOM officials to be expansive in their thinking on autonomy to make it real and cred [...] | 2006-03-02 14:27:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PBTS PHUM PREL |
06RABAT398 | MOROCCO: IS THE GOVERNMENT STRANGLING THE PRESS? [...] (C) Freedom of the press continues to be a significant political and human rights issue in Morocco, and the mission continues to discuss the issue with the GOM at high levels, and to raise concerns as we see them. The GOM's latest tack appears to be one of levying heavy fines on offending p [...] | 2006-03-03 15:23:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KPAO PGOV PHUM PREL PBTS MO |
06RABAT431 | WESTERN SAHARA: AUTONOMY, INTEGRATION, AND [...] (C) Summary: During the mission's last visit to the Western Sahara in late January, and in a subsequent conversation with the Mayor of Laayoune in Rabat, emboffs have had opportunities to engage with local officials, NGOs, and other contacts concerning their views on autonomy, integration, [...] | 2006-03-08 15:57:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PHUM MO |
06RABAT432 | PRESS FREEDOM: MOROCCO NEEDS TO AVOID A BLACK EYE [...] (C) During a March 2 meeting with MFA Director of Bilateral Affairs Youssef Amrani, DCM raised freedom of the press in Morocco, noting that recent actions against journalists in Morocco (reftels) appeared at odds with the country's increasing democratization. It appeared the GOM was taking a [...] | 2006-03-08 18:33:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PGOV PHUM PREL |
06RABAT433 | WESTERN SAHARA: DCM UNDERSCORES NEED FOR SERIOUS [...] (C) During a March 2 meeting with MFA Director of Bilateral Affairs Youssef Amrani, which also covered freedom of expression (Ref A),DCM underscored the need for Morocco to produce a serious, credible autonomy plan that could serve as the basis of negotiations with the Polisario as well as A [...] | 2006-03-08 18:36:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PBTS PHUM PREL |
06RABAT441 | AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON SECURITY CZAR YASSINE MANSOURI [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador called on Director General of the DGED (Direction General des Etudes and Documentation) on March 8 at DGED headquarters in Rabat. While ostensibly a courtesy call in recognition of Mansouri's appointment as head of DGED in 2005, the meeting provided the opportunity to [...] | 2006-03-09 18:22:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC MO PBTS PGOV PREL PTER |
06RABAT442 | DEPUTY FM FASSI FIHRI VENTS ON THE WESTERN SAHARA [...] (C) Ambassador telephoned Deputy FM Fassi Fihri midday on March 8 to inform him about the cancellation of A/S Welch's planned March 13-14 visit to Morocco. A fifty-three minute conversation ensued. Fassi Fihri pressed regarding the rest of the trip, and the Ambassador said A/S Welch still mi [...] | 2006-03-09 18:32:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PBTS PHUM PREL |
06RABAT461 | WESTERN SAHARA: MOROCCAN POLITICAL PARTIES KICK [...] (C) Summary and Comment: On March 10-11, the Islamist Party for Justice and Development (PJD),teaming up with the smaller Forces Citoyennes party (FC),held a conference at the Tour Hassan Hotel in Rabat entitled "Regionalization and Autonomy: Models and Options." International experts fro [...] | 2006-03-14 17:56:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PBTS PHUM PREL |
06RABAT48 | PJD'S OTHMANI ON PARTY SPLIT, WESTERN SAHARA, 2007 [...] (C) Summary: During a January 6 meeting with Emboffs, Islamist Party for Justice and Development (PJD) Secretary General Saad Eddin Othmani Othmani downplayed the reported split within the PJD describing it as a handful of individuals the party wanted to get rid of. He highlighted the party [...] | 2006-01-10 15:50:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PGOV PREL MO |
06RABAT484 | MOROCCO-TURKEY RELATIONS: A ROBUST AGENDA [...] (C) Summary: During a recent two-hour lunch with Polcouns, Turkish Embassy First Secretary Turker Ari painted a diverse portrait of Morocco-Turkish relations, touching on a series of planned and already executed high-level visits, extensive relations between the two countries' Islamist parti [...] | 2006-03-17 16:13:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KISL MAS MO PGOV PREL |
06RABAT497 | GOM PROPOSES HIGH LEVEL DELEGATION TO BRIEF [...] (C) Summary: Minister Delegate for Foreign Affairs Taieb Fassi Fihri told Ambassador Riley March 20 that he and Moroccan Amb. to the UN (and until recently Interior Minister) Moustapha Sahel proposed to travel to Washington this week or early next to brief U.S. officials informally on King [...] | 2006-03-20 19:22:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MO |
06RABAT498 | STAFFDEL PHELAN'S WESTERN SAHARA MEETINGS [...] (C) Summary: Staffdel Phelan and EconCouns visited Laayoune, Western Sahara on March 18 as swarms of workers readied the city ) festooned with Moroccan flags -- for King Mohammed VI's imminent arrival. MINURSO officials briefed Phelan on the mission's activities, previewed the draft SYG re [...] | 2006-03-21 08:29:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS OREP MO |
06RABAT50 | REP. LANTOS DISCUSSES IRAQ, IRAN, AND SYRIA WITH [...] (C) Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA) met with FM Benaissa for 90 minutes on January 4 at the MFA. Benaissa lauded US-Morocco relations and outlined many of the accomplishments of King Mohammed in the area of womens rights, equity and reconciliation, and press freedom. Benaissa was gloomy about Iraq, [...] | 2006-01-10 17:58:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD MO PGOV PREL PTER |
06RABAT507 | MFA, MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS OBJECT TO MEPI [...] (C) Summary: Minister-Delegate for Foreign Affairs Fassi Fihri and Communications Minister Benabdallah told Ambassador Riley March 20 that media outlets accepting MEPI grants or other foreign funding would constitute a violation of Moroccan law, punishable by fines and imprisonment. They e [...] | 2006-03-21 18:14:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MO KMPI KPAO PHUM PREL |
06RABAT516 | OFFICIAL MOROCCAN VIEWS ON REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT, [...] (C) Summary: Cairo-based Regional Refugee Coordinator Gerard Cheyne met with GOM officials during his March 3-10 visit to Morocco and Western Sahara to discuss the possibility of launching a limited resettlement program and the CBM family visit exchanges occurring in the Western Sahara. Chey [...] | 2006-03-23 10:28:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PBTS PREL PHUM UNHCR PGOV MO EG |
06RABAT519 | ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT: MOROCCAN RESPONSE [...] (C) DCM met March 22 with MFA Director General for Multilateral Relations Mohamed Azeroual to stress the importance of ref(a) issues for the upcoming Arab League (AL) meeting in Khartoum. Azeroual confirmed that FM Benaissa will lead the Moroccan delegation as King Mohammed is currently "busy [...] | 2006-03-23 16:13:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ SU MO |
06RABAT531 | MEPI MEDIA GRANTS PROGRAMS ALARM THE GOM; EMBASSY [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-25 03:47:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | OIIP PHUM SCUL KMPI KPAO KIRC MO |
06RABAT539 | WESTERN SAHARA: A TOUGH SPEECH CAPS A MOMENTOUS [...] (C) King Mohammed spent five days in the Western Sahara, March 20-25, his first visit to the disputed territory since March 2002. The timing of the visit, coming amidst a public consultation process on autonomy and private diplomacy by Moroccan Deputy FM Fassi Fihri with Paris and Washington, [...] | 2006-03-27 19:16:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PBTS PHUM PREL |
06RABAT540 | THE BERBER (AMAZIGH) IN MOROCCO, PART I [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff and PAO traveled from Rabat to Al-Akhawayn University, located in the foothills of the Middle Atlas mountain range, south to Erfoud in the anti-Atlas, west to Agdaz and north to Ouarzazate and through the High Atlas range to Marrakesh from March 10 through March 17 on a c [...] | 2006-03-28 11:06:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR MO |
06RABAT552 | WESTERN SAHARA: THE MFA HELPS UNVEIL THE NEW [...] (C) Summary: The MFA requested the Ambassador's attendance at a meeting on March 28 with MFA SecGen Omar Hilale and other Western Hemisphere ambassadors. The subject of the meeting was the King's recent speech (reftel) and the formation of the "Conseil Royal Consultatif pour les Affaires S [...] | 2006-03-28 17:40:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PBTS MO |
06RABAT557 | SPANISH AMBASSADOR ON WESTERN SAHARA, MIGRATION, [...] (C) Summary: Over lunch March 20, Spanish Ambassador Planas Puchades told Ambassador Riley that Spain continued to encourage Morocco to produce a credible autonomy plan for the Western Sahara. He dismissed alleged splits within the Polisario, suggesting the recently emerged faction "Line of Martyrs [...] | 2006-03-29 14:46:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PGOV PREL SNAR |
06RABAT558 | AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON NEW MINISTER OF [...] (C) Ambassador called on new Interior Minister Chakib Benmoussa the afternoon of March 28. Ambassador expressed appreciation for the strong relations between the USG and the ministry and encouraged the MOI to go forward with anti money laundering legislation as well as a letter of agreement [...] | 2006-03-29 15:06:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PBTS PGOV PHUM PREL PTER |
06RABAT561 | WESTERN SAHARA: INFORMAL MINURSO VIEWS ON CURRENT [...] (C) MINURSO Political Officer Alexander Sporys (please protect) visited Rabat March 22-24 for consultations with the P-5, Spanish, and South Africans at the request of SRSG Bastagli. Sporys called on Polcouns March 23. SRSG Bastagli is expected in Rabat for follow-on discussions in early Apr [...] | 2006-03-29 18:52:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO MO PBTS PHUM PREL |
06RABAT565 | MOROCCO'S POLITICAL PARTIES: LAPDOGS OR DEMOCRATS? [...] (C) Summary: The series of splits, mergers, and coups that have dotted Morocco's already fractured political landscape since November 2005 attest to the fact that posturing for the 2007 parliamentary elections is in full swing. They also speak volumes about the force that King Mohammed VI's [...] | 2006-03-30 16:41:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MO |
06RABAT567 | THE AMAZIGH (BERBERS),PART II: ERFOUD AND RISSANI [...] (C) Summary: This is the second in a series of cables drawn from a combined outreach and reporting trip by Poloff and PAO to the anti-Atlas from March 10-17. Erfoud is a medium-sized town, which is quickly becoming a tourist hub for the region, whereas Rissani is a small town on the road sou [...] | 2006-03-30 17:01:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PGOV PHUM PINR SCUL |
06RABAT607 | MFA DISCUSSES NATO AND THE UPCOMING HIGH-LEVEL [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 5. 2. (C) At an April 4 meeting with Ambassador Youssef Amrani, MFA Director-General of Bilateral Relations, the DCM discussed the GOM's understanding of its relationship with NATO. Amrani, who just returned from a positive experience at a NA [...] | 2006-04-05 12:27:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM MARR MO |
06RABAT615 | THE AMAZIGH (BERBERS),PART III: ASSOCIATIONS IN [...] (C) Summary: This cable is the third in a series of cables from a combined outreach and reporting trip by Poloff and PAO to the anti-Atlas (south side of the Atlas Mountains) from March 10-17. The area discussed is part of the Meknes-Tafilalt region (reftels) and, like the Erfoud area, it [...] | 2006-04-06 16:29:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR SCUL MO |
06RABAT616 | SEVENTEEN ACTIVISTS IN THE WESTERN SAHARA: BEATEN [...] (C) Summary: On April 3, seventeen Sahrawi prisoners were brought to court from Laayoune prison for their trials. According to the Polisario website and Sahrawi activist Brahim Afari who called Polcouns April 4, the prisoners were "severely beaten" in vans on the way to the court. One acti [...] | 2006-04-06 17:32:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN PBTS PHUM MO |
06RABAT617 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH PARTY FOR JUSTICE AND [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: The Ambassador met April 3 for an hour and a half with Islamist-referenced Party for Justice and Development (PJD) Secretary General (SYG) Saad Eddine Othmani at PJD party headquarters. The Ambassador was accompanied by Poloff while Othmani was joined by PJD Depu [...] | 2006-04-06 17:41:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PGOV PREL MO |
06RABAT633 | PARTY FOR JUSTICE AND DEVELOPMENT HOSTS CONFERENCE [...] (C) Summary: The Islamist Party for Justice and Development (PJD) hosted a conference March 31-April 1 on "U.S. Decision-Making and Its Impact on Moroccan-American Relations." Participants included party leaders as well as rank and file PJD members, select diplomats, academics and NGOs. Gues [...] | 2006-04-07 15:17:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PGOV PREL PHUM MO |
06RABAT635 | THE AMAZIGH (BERBERS),PART IV: WESTERN ANTI-ATLAS [...] (C) Summary: From March 10-17, Poloff and PAO were on a combined outreach and reporting trip in the anti-Atlas, south of the Atlas mountains on the edge of the Sahara Desert. This cable is the fourth in a series. The population of the western section of the anti-Atlas is larger, and, the as [...] | 2006-04-07 16:08:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR SCUL MO |
06RABAT637 | WESTERN SAHARA: BASTAGLI MAKES THE CASE FOR [...] (C) Summary: During an April 6 meeting with the Ambassador, SRSG Bastagli argued that tighter and more robust operations over the last six months had made MINURSO a more effective force. Violations of the ceasefire were down 50 percent. Confidence-building measures remained essential to UN [...] | 2006-04-07 16:40:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PBTS PHUM PREL |
06RABAT640 | MOROCCO: LEVERAGING UN TROOP CONTRIBUTING [...] (C) A/Polcouns met April 10 with MFA Director of International Organizations and UN Affairs Nasser Bourita to discuss reftel request to solicit Moroccan troop and/or equipment support for a UN peacekeeping operation (PKO) in Sudan. Bourita raised two issues with Moroccan participation in suc [...] | 2006-04-10 16:03:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO PGOV SU MO |
06RABAT662 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH SOCIALIST UNION OF POPULAR [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: The Ambassador met April 3 with for an hour with Socialist Union of Popular Forces (USFP) party leader and Minister of Territory Development, Water, and Environment Mohamed El Yazghi at the recently completed USFP party headquarters in Rabat. The Ambassador was [...] | 2006-04-13 16:50:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MO |
06RABAT663 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH NATIONAL RALLY OF [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: The Ambassador met April 5 with National Rally of Independents (RNI) party leader and former prime minister Ahmed Osman at his residence in Rabat. The Ambassador was accompanied by Poloff (notetaker),while Osman was unaccompanied. This is the fourth in a round o [...] | 2006-04-13 17:01:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MO |
06RABAT665 | ABU MAZEN VISITS MOROCCO; HAMAS NEXT? [...] (C) FM Benaissa invited Ambassador to the MFA the morning of April 13 to discuss the visit of Palestinian Authority President Abu Mazen (note: Abu Mazen arrived in Morocco April 12. King Mohammed held a dinner for him the evening of April 12 in Casablanca, attended by Arab diplomats and seni [...] | 2006-04-13 18:51:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PGOV PREL |
06RABAT668 | MISSION PLAN FOR ADVANCING DEMOCRATIC REFORMS IN [...] (U) Per ref A Action Request, Post submits the following quarterly assessment of its Democratic Reform Strategy as outlined in ref B. Our report is keyed to the Milestones (M) and Tactics (T) outlined in our strategy and provides an update through March 31, 2006. Update narratives contain bot [...] | 2006-04-14 11:24:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON KDEM PGOV SCUL KMPI MO |
06RABAT671 | WESTERN SAHARA: GOM CLAIMS IT'S NOT STALLING ON [...] (C) Following up on SRSG Bastagli's April 6 comment that Morocco had turned off a third attempted visit to the Western Sahara by the UN High Commission for Human Rights (reftel),Polcouns called MFA Director for UN Affairs Nasser Bourita the afternoon of April 13 to get the official Moroccan [...] | 2006-04-14 15:18:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PBTS PHUM PREL |
06RABAT676 | IS THERE AN AMAZIGH (BERBER) IDENTITY IN MOROCCO? [...] (C) Summary: While the constitution of Morocco recognizes ethnic and religious diversity, it is also clear that citizens are to think of themselves as Moroccan, not as members of separate ethnic or religious groups. Recent Amazigh history in Morocco (reftel A),however, points to the perse [...] | 2006-04-14 16:33:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR MO |
06RABAT714 | AMBASSADOR'S DEMARCHE ON POSSIBLE HAMAS VISIT [...] (C) As requested Ref B, the Ambassador called on Moroccan Deputy FM Taieb Fassi Fihri the afternoon of April 17 to follow up on his April 13 discussion with FM Benaissa regarding the possible visit of Hamas SecGen Khalid Mishal to Morocco (FM Benaissa is traveling in South America and was th [...] | 2006-04-19 15:42:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PGOV PREL PTER |
06RABAT718 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ISTIQLAL PARTY LEADER [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: The Ambassador met April 4 with Istiqlal party leader and Minister of State Abbas El Fassi at his residence over lunch. The Ambassador was accompanied by Polcouns, Poloff (notetaker),and PolLES, while El Fassi was joined by Istiqlal Upper House Caucus Leader an [...] | 2006-04-20 10:43:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PBTS PGOV PREL |
06RABAT719 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH POPULAR MOVEMENT UNION [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: The Ambassador met April 10 for one hour with Popular Movement Union (UMP) president and former Minister of Defense Mahjoubi Aherdane and UMP secretary general and Minister of Agriculture, Rural SIPDIS Development and Sea Fisheries Mohand Laenser at Aherdane's [...] | 2006-04-20 10:51:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD MO |
06RABAT722 | WESTERN SAHARA: AMBASSADOR PRESSES FOR CREDIBLE [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with Deputy FM Taieb Fassi Fihri for two hours the afternoon of April 17 to deliver points on the possible visit of Hamas SecGen Mishal (Refs A and B). Most of the meeting was consumed by a discussion on the Western Sahara, however, as Fassi Fihri recapped his re [...] | 2006-04-20 11:22:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PBTS PGOV PREL |
06RABAT728 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ARAB MAGHREB UNION SECRETARY [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met April 19 with Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) Secretary General Habib Ben Yahia to discuss the AMU's role in regional integration, the Western Sahara, counterterrorism and human rights. Ben Yahia explained that the AMU works well at the ministerial and technical levels wh [...] | 2006-04-20 17:51:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON MO PBTS PGOV PREL |
06RABAT729 | SECURITY COUNCIL ACTION ON WESTERN SAHARA [...] (C) Summary: Morocco is engaging in a disingenuous process to delay movement toward a negotiated settlement of the Western Sahara conflict. Its domestic consultations on autonomy for the Western Sahara cannot be taken seriously, and have thus far excluded those who might offer differing p [...] | 2006-04-20 18:44:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR KPKO UNUS MO AG |
06RABAT734 | WESTERN SAHARA: MOROCCANS NERVOUS ABOUT IMPENDING [...] (C) Deputy FM Fassi Fihri telephoned the Ambassador late afternoon April 20 to express concern about the contents of the SYG's report on the Western Sahara, soon to be released, as well as impending action on the Western Sahara by the UN Security Council. Fassi Fihri understood that the Secur [...] | 2006-04-21 11:27:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PBTS PHUM PREL |
06RABAT787 | MOROCCO: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CANDIDACY OF IRAN [...] (C) Poloff discussed reftel demarche April 27 with MFA Director for International Organizations and UN Affairs Nasser Bourita and urged Morocco to oppose the candidacy of Iran and other serious human rights abusers during the May 9 vote for the UN Human Rights Council. Bourita said that Iran [...] | 2006-04-27 11:05:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KUNR PHUM UNHRC PREL MO |
06RABAT816 | SCENESETTER FOR FM BENAISSA'S VISIT TO WASHINGTON [...] (C) FM Benaissa is coming to Washington May 2 after a bruising few weeks for Morocco on the Western Sahara. The latest UN resolution was a narrowly dodged bullet, from Morocco's point of view. The MFA in Rabat and Moroccan Embassy in Washington both lobbied vigorously to avoid a resolution [...] | 2006-04-28 16:41:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON MO PGOV PREL PTER |
06RABAT918 | CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN MOROCCO: IS IT ON THE [...] (C) Summary: Constitutional reform is regularly brought up by contacts and is occasionally a topic in the press. Reform, however, does not mean the entire constitution but rather portions of it which directly relate to the interest or interests of a particular group. Whereas Moroccans desc [...] | 2006-05-11 13:49:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR MO |
06RABAT970 | ICRC SEES PROGRESS WITH GOM ON HUMANITARIAN ISSUES [...] (SBU) Over lunch May 18, ICRC Regional Delegate Bernard Pfefferle told Polcouns the ICRC was generally pleased with progress on the humanitarian issues it is working with the GOM, and especially with progress on resolving the issue of the disappeared between Morocco and the Polisario Front. [...] | 2006-05-19 18:07:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PBTS PHUM PREL |
06RABAT986 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH PARTY OF PROGRESS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: The Ambassador met May 19 for one hour with Party of Progress and Socialism (PPS) secretary general Ismail Alaoui at the party's headquarters SIPDIS in Rabat. The Ambassador was accompanied by Poloff (notetaker),while Alaoui was joined by PPS executive commi [...] | 2006-05-23 12:03:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS MO |
06RANGOON1012 | PROGRESS ON TRANSNATIONAL TIP SLOWING [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-20 07:14:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KWMN KCRM PREL BM |
06RANGOON1013 | SURRENDER OF SHAN STATE ARMY-SOUTH BRIGADE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-20 07:22:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SNAR PINS BM |
06RANGOON1014 | BURMA,S NGOS OPERATING IN AN UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-20 08:56:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON EAID PREL BM |
06RANGOON1042 | KAYAH STATE - BURMANS IN AND KARENNIS OUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Catholic Bishop Sotero Phamo of Loikaw, the capitol of Kayah State, briefed Charg on July 21 on daily life in his diocese. Ethnic Burmans have taken over leadership of the state and businesses, backed by nearly a dozen Burmese Army battalions. Kayah residents, predominately ethn [...] | 2006-07-24 10:01:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON PREF PINS BM |
06RANGOON1057 | INSPIRING THOSE WHO SEEK CHANGE IN BURMA [...] (C) Summary: Ludu Sein Win shows what can be done in Burma today, contradicting the many who have concluded that nothing can be done. He defied his police monitors to write a well-articulated plea for change that appeared May 23 in the International Herald Tribune. Increasing desperation has [...] | 2006-07-25 10:07:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BM |
06RANGOON1061 | JOHNNY COMES MARCHING "HOME" TO BURMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOB confirmed rumors that Johnny Htoo, former child soldier and co-leader of Karen rebel faction "God's Army," surrendered to the SPDC with eight others on July 19. Along with his twin brother Luther, he briefly led local Karen compatriots to resist the Burmese Army in the la [...] | 2006-07-26 08:46:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS BM |
06RANGOON1065 | DISCORD AMONG BURMA'S KAREN INSURGENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The power vacuum created by the grave illness of Karen National Union (KNU) leader General Bo Mya has opened a serious split between the KNU and its armed faction, the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA). While the KNU feels pressured by exile groups to continue the fight, the [...] | 2006-07-27 10:30:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS ASEC BM |
06RANGOON1075 | BURMA'S WOMEN'S AFFAIRS FEDERATION TOUTS ITSELF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although the Myanmar Women's Affairs Federation (MWAF),an organization closely linked to the GOB, claims to prevent human trafficking and assist victims, its primary focus seems more geared to propaganda. Its small operating budget limits its effectiveness. The organization has [...] | 2006-07-31 09:42:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EAID KWMN BM |
06RANGOON1076 | CHINA WORRIED ABOUT DRUGS FROM BURMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: China's Political Section chief in Rangoon told emboffs that China does not consider trafficking in persons (TIP) between China and Burma to be a serious issue, but she called drug trafficking China's "number one headache," and indicated that illegal logging complicated bilateral [...] | 2006-07-31 10:27:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON SENV SNAR PREL BM |
06RANGOON1077 | MIN KO NAING TRIES TO UNIFY BURMA'S OPPOSITION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Min Ko Naing, former political prisoner and leader of the "88 Generation Students," used the July 19 Martyrs' Day holiday to show support for the NLD in an ongoing effort to mend the fractured relationship between the NLD and student groups. Min Ko Naing is taking on a more act [...] | 2006-07-31 10:57:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BM |
06RANGOON1097 | BURMA: THE REGIME HARDENS ITS POSITION ON ASEAN, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Burma's ruling Generals are the hardest of the hardliners. They have made decisions to harden their positions on ASEAN, the democratic opposition, and the ethnic minorities. Only high-ranking UN representatives may be allowed access to Aung San Suu Kyi; visiting ASEAN representa [...] | 2006-08-02 11:16:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM |
06RANGOON1098 | IMF TEAM VISITS BURMA FOR ARTICLE IV CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) Summary: An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team visited Burma July 10-21 for annual Article IV consultations. Charge met with them privately during their visit plus hosted a separate roundtable for the team with Burmese private sector business and economic observers. The IMF team re [...] | 2006-08-03 03:38:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PGOV IMF BM |
06RANGOON1115 | A BURMESE GENERAL GETS HIS COMEUPPANCE [...] (C) Summary: Charge and DATT met with LTG Myint Swe August 2 to see what kind of dialogue we could maintain. It became clear that Myint Swe's previously expansive view of his areas of authority (reftels) has been considerably reduced. Now he's just a general responsible for embassy security [...] | 2006-08-08 03:36:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BM |
06RANGOON1122 | POL TEMPLATE...DO NOT ERASE! [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-08 11:04:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM |
06RANGOON1123 | STUDENT ACTIVISTS COMMEMORATE THE 1988 UPRISING [...] (C) Summary: Over 500 democracy activists and supporters gathered in Rangoon on August 8, the 17th anniversary of the 1988 pro-democracy uprising, to commemorate their fallen comrades in a religious ceremony held at Thaikpan Monastery in Rangoon. The event, organized by the 88 Generation Stude [...] | 2006-08-08 11:15:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM |
06RANGOON1124 | BURMA: CHARGE MEETS WITH MINISTER FOR HOME AFFAIRS [...] (C) SUMMARY: After several requests and cancellations, Charge finally met with Minister for Home Affairs Maung Oo to stress the importance of meaningful progress toward democracy, the release of political prisoners, and greater access to Burma for journalists. The Minister lamented the West [...] | 2006-08-08 11:20:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM |
06RANGOON1136 | WA TURNING TO CHINA RATHER THAN BURMA [...] (SBU) Summary: The Wa are rapidly being pulled into China's orbit and will resist any new concessions to the Burmese regime that would restrict their current relative autonomy. While they will talk with the Burmese, the Wa have no intention of ever giving up their arms. The ban on opium cul [...] | 2006-08-10 07:40:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SNAR PREL BM |
06RANGOON1170 | BURMA: 11 AIDS ACTIVISTS AND 20 MONKS ARRESTED [...] (C) Summary: Eleven HIV/AIDS activists close to the 88 Students Generation Group were arrested August 13 for not properly registering to spend the night at a monastery where they were preparing a ceremony for HIV/AIDS victims. Members of Min Ko Naing's Students Group and the NLD gathered at t [...] | 2006-08-14 10:34:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KHIV PREL BM |
06RANGOON1195 | THREE DISEASES FUND DONORS MOVE AHEAD [...] (SBU) Summary: The new Three Diseases (3D) Fund in Burma should become operational by December 2006. The UN is recruiting Fund staff and the UK just announced a $38 million funding commitment to the 3D Fund, while the Netherlands committed one million euros. The six donor nations -- UK, EC, [...] | 2006-08-18 14:16:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID SOCI KHIV BM |
06RANGOON1216 | LOOKING FOR RICE IN BURMA [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOB closely monitors rising rice prices to avoid social unrest if Rangoon residents can't find, or can't afford, enough rice - Burma's staple food. Recent official efforts to control rice prices include a virtual ban on rice exports from May through July of this year and the [...] | 2006-08-23 02:56:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON PGOV BM |
06RANGOON124 | TECHNOCRATS WILLING TO ENGAGE ON AVIAN INFLUENZA [...] (C) Summary: The first visit of USAID's Regional Infectious Diseases Advisor based in Bangkok, prompted a rare level of access and engagement by GOB counterparts. Eager for information as well as support, experts at the Ministries of Health and, especially, Livestock and Fisheries discussed [...] | 2006-01-31 01:12:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL SOCI TBIO KFLU BM |
06RANGOON1241 | RESPONSES ON KARENNI NATIONAL DEFENCE ARMY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Little information is available about the Karenni National Defence Army (KNDA) outside of open sources. Post has no information or evidence that the KNDA has engaged in any activities that are considered acts of terrorism, nor has it posed any threat to U.S. national security or [...] | 2006-08-30 09:34:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS PREF PTER BM |
06RANGOON1269 | AUNG SAN SUU KYI IN GOOD HEALTH, BUT NOT FREE [...] (C) Summary: Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) had another meeting with her doctor on August 24, two and half months after she last saw him. According to Dr. Tin Myo Win (aka Douglas),she remains in good health and keeps busy with meditation, listening to the radio, and walking around her compound. H [...] | 2006-09-06 08:04:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BM |
06RANGOON1287 | RESPONSES ON CHIN NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR DEMOCRACY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post has no evidence that Chin National League for Democracy (CNLD) has ever planned or engaged in violence to achieve its objectives, nor that it poses any threat to the United States. The CNLD is an ethnic political party with no armed faction. The CNLD has held discussions wi [...] | 2006-09-08 06:40:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF PTER BM |
06RANGOON1288 | RESPONSES ON THE ARAKAN LIBERATION PARTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post has no information that the Arakan Liberation Party (ALP) has engaged in any activities that are considered acts of terrorism, nor do we have any information that it poses any threat to U.S. national security or to the security of U.S. nationals or allies. Little information [...] | 2006-09-08 06:50:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF PINS PTER BM |
06RANGOON1327 | PREPARING GAMBARI FOR HIS NEXT VISIT TO BURMA [...] (C) Summary: Post supports U/SYG Gambari's efforts to foster dialogue in Burma, but another trip stage-managed by the regime would be counterproductive. The regime's extension of Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest shortly after Gambari's last visit was a slap in the face of the UN. Gambari nee [...] | 2006-09-13 10:39:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM |
06RANGOON1346 | NGOS IN BURMA TRY TO STAY FREE OF INTERFERENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: Seven months after the GOB issued new guidelines designed to regulate international and local NGOs operating in Burma, no one is sure which rules apply to which NGOs, but most organizations continue to face increased scrutiny and restrictions on their activities. Lack of coordi [...] | 2006-09-18 06:46:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV EAID BM |
06RANGOON1354 | CHINESE IN RANGOON NOT EAGER TO MOVE NORTH [...] (SBU) Summary: the Charge d'Affaires a.i. and the Political Counselor of the Chinese Embassy told DCM on September 15 that China has no plans to move its embassy from Rangoon to Burma's isolated new capital. They believe that the Russians may take advantage of an upcoming visit by Russia's D [...] | 2006-09-18 09:50:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH BM |
06RANGOON136 | YAWN: BURMESE REGIME RECESSES NATIONAL CONVENTION [...] (C) Summary: The Burmese regime recessed its National Convention (NC) on January 31, ending the third session of an indefinite process to produce a new constitution that accords the military preeminent governing powers. The GOB did not announce a date to reconvene the NC, although a senior g [...] | 2006-02-01 09:07:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BM |
06RANGOON1360 | CHALLENGES IN REMOTE SOUTHERN CHIN STATE [...] (SBU) Summary: One visit to Mindat District in southern Chin State is enough to confirm it is one of the least developed areas in Burma. The impoverished majority Christian population faces widespread officially sanctioned religious discrimination. Lack of employment options remains a major [...] | 2006-09-19 05:10:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EAID ECON BM |
06RANGOON1361 | SPDC AND UNICEF DISCUSS CHILD SOLDIERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: SPDC Secretary-1 Lt. Gen. Thein Sein recently told UNICEF that Burma is making progress on reducing child soldiers in its military, although UNICEF admits it has no mechanism to verify these claims. The regime continues to refuse UNICEF's request for regular, unannounced visits to [...] | 2006-09-19 05:48:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KOCI BM |
06RANGOON1363 | RESPONSES ON KAYAN NEW LAND PARTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post has no information or evidence that the Kayan New Land Party (KNLP) has engaged in any activities that are considered acts of terrorism, nor has it posed any threat to U.S. national security or to the security of U.S. nationals or allies. The KNLP was a founding member of the [...] | 2006-09-19 08:51:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS PREF PTER BM |
06RANGOON1375 | BURMA'S FORMER POLITICAL PRISONERS PERSEVERE [...] (C) Summary: Years in Burmese prisons have not dampened the will of many political prisoners to work within the country to promote change. Despite a tough adjustment period to life on the outside, former prisoners once active in the pro-democracy movement still hold tightly to their beliefs. [...] | 2006-09-20 09:32:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID KPAO BM |
06RANGOON1376 | LITTLE PROGRESS ON FORCED LABOR IN BURMA [...] (C) Summary: ILO Burma Liaison Officer Richard Horsey said the GOB is making slow progress on the two outstanding issues raised at the June International Labor Conference (ILC): a moratorium on prosecutions of forced labor complainants, and agreement on a mechanism to handle forced labor compl [...] | 2006-09-20 10:32:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PHUM PGOV BM |
06RANGOON1377 | OPPOSITION ELATED BY UNSC ATTENTION TO BURMA [...] (C) Summary: The UNSC's decision to place Burma on its September agenda was greeted warmly by leaders of the National League for Democracy (NLD),student activists, and ethnic parties in Burma. The regime reacted by praising China, Russia, and other countries who opposed UNSC action and blast [...] | 2006-09-20 10:42:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BM |
06RANGOON138 | BURMA: WORLD VISION MOVES FORWARD AGAIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Six months ago, the future of World Vision International (WVI) aid programs in Burma looked bleak. The GOB had ordered WVI to close some projects and restricted expatriate staff from conducting field visits. In the past three months, however, the GOB's cooperation has measurably [...] | 2006-02-02 05:45:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PHUM PREL BM |
06RANGOON140 | BURMESE AND SHAN FORCES FIGHT IT OUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: A recent GOB "news" conference announced the surrender of elements of the insurgent Shan State Army - South in northern Shan State. However, the GOB neglected to mention that the surrender followed a serious battle, in which a DEA source claims the Shan killed dozens of Burmese A [...] | 2006-02-02 07:29:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS PREL BM |
06RANGOON1417 | NO MOVEMENT AT THE TOP IN BURMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 22, Agence France-Press (AFP) wire service reported that the regime's top two generals planned to hand over their military roles to subordinates. The report has so far proved to be groundless. GOB controlled media continue to show both commanders in uniform performin [...] | 2006-09-26 00:33:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV BM |
06RANGOON1432 | BURMA: TOP OPPOSITION LEADERS DETAINED BY REGIME [...] (C) Summary: At 6:30 a.m. on September 27, Police Special Branch officers came to the homes of the leaders of the 88 Generation Students -- Min Ko Naing, Ko Ko Gyi and Htay Kway -- and NLD MP elect U Hla Theing, and took all four to separate locations for questioning. SB questioned U Hla [...] | 2006-09-27 09:47:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BM |
06RANGOON1436 | BURMA: REGIME CONTINUES TO DETAIN OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: 88 Generation Student leaders Min Ko Naing, Ko Ko Gyi, and Htay Kywe remain in detention today at a Police Special Branch office in Rangoon. Min Ko Naing has been in contact with members of his group and communicated that he is being pressured to sign statements about the regime [...] | 2006-09-28 08:19:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BM |
06RANGOON146 | ILO REP PUSHING FOR GOB ACTION TO MATCH PROMISES [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Burma has reacted to international concern over their 2005 treatment of the ILO Liaison Officer (ref B),swiftly approving his latest request for in-country travel to look at forced labor issues and taking his personal security seriously for the first time. On th [...] | 2006-02-03 04:57:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV PREL PHUM BM |
06RANGOON1461 | (C) REGIME DETAINS TWO MORE PRO-DEMOCRACY LEADERS; [...] (U) SUMMARY: On September 30 the GOB detained two more leaders of the 88 Generation Students pro-democracy group. In a meeting with emboffs shortly before his arrest, 88 Generation leader Pyone Cho said their organization is preparing for the potential long-term detention or arrest of sever [...] | 2006-10-02 09:41:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BM |
06RANGOON1466 | REGIME MAKES IT HARDER TO DO BUSINESS IN BURMA [...] (U) Summary: Traders who still try to do business in Burma now face additional headaches from long customs clearance delays, visa uncertainties, and unpredictable new policies. The regime's surprise June crackdown on corruption within the Customs Department froze trans-border trade briefly and [...] | 2006-10-03 08:22:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV BM |
06RANGOON1472 | FATF TEAM INSPECTS GOB FINANCIAL SECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary: USG members of a Financial Action Task Force (FATF) team visiting Burma last week confirmed FATF will recommend that Burma be dropped from the Non Compliant Countries and Territories (NCCT) list at the upcoming FATF Vancouver plenary on October 12-13. FATF inspectors said GOB [...] | 2006-10-04 09:42:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV PTER ETTC KTFN BM |
06RANGOON1474 | UN REMAINS CAUTIOUS IN BURMA [...] (C) Summary. The UN Resident Coordinator (UNRC) in Burma shared with us yesterday an internal UN report on U/SYG Gambari's Friday September 29 UNSC briefing, which indicates that Gambari's next visit to Burma may focus more on continuing a dialogue with the ruling military regime than pushin [...] | 2006-10-04 10:54:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BM |
06RANGOON1475 | BURMA REGIME PRESSURES CEASE-FIRE GROUPS TO OPPOSE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Official GOB media is publishing daily notices by ethnic cease-fire groups that condemn the UNSC decision to place Burma on its agenda. Several cease-fire groups told us privately that they issued the notices under pressure and privately thanked the United States for its initiati [...] | 2006-10-04 14:58:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BM |
06RANGOON1485 | BURMA: UPDATE ON DETAINED PRO-DEMOCRACY LEADERS [...] (C) Summary: Nine days after the detention of Min Ko Naing, Ko Ko Gyi, and Htay Kywe and five days after the arrest of Pyone Cho and Min Zeya, the regime is taking a harder line, while public frustration is rising. Articles appearing today in the regime's mouthpiece daily paper indicate the [...] | 2006-10-05 10:04:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BM |
06RANGOON15 | INDEPENDENCE DAY: REGIME SUBDUED, OPPOSITION BUOYED [...] (C) Summary: The Burmese military regime and the democratic opposition commemorated Burma's independence anniversary on January 4 with sharply contrasting and separate events. The SPDC focused on criticizing those who oppose the regime and on heralding its own achievements since assuming powe [...] | 2006-01-05 10:52:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON PINS ASEC BM |
06RANGOON1512 | KACHINS BET ON THE NATIONAL CONVENTION PROCESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Kachin Independence Organization's (KIO) delegate to the National Convention believes the ethnics must try to strike the best possible deal with the regime via the National Convention and try to amend the constitution later, following a period of confidence building. He thinks [...] | 2006-10-13 04:17:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BM |
06RANGOON1518 | DEADLINE LOOMS FOR GOB ACTION ON FORCED LABOR [...] (C) Summary: ILO Liaison Officer Richard Horsey has been able to maintain regular contact with the Ministry of Labor over the past three months and has begun discussions on a mechanism to address forced labor charges in Burma. Horsey said the GOB's reaction to the draft text has been generally [...] | 2006-10-13 09:08:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON PGOV PHUM BM |
06RANGOON1519 | BURMA: MFA DEMARCHES CHARGE ON UNSC DISCUSSION [...] (U) On October 10, Deputy Director General of the MFA's International Organizations Division, U Hla Myint, called in the Charge d'Affaires to deliver a lackluster protest against U.S. comments during the September 29 UNSC discussion on Burma. Noting that the Foreign Minister had instructed h [...] | 2006-10-13 09:41:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BM |
06RANGOON152 | GOB PLANS DRACONIAN REGULATIONS FOR UN/NGOS [...] (C) Summary: The Burmese regime plans invasive new guidelines increasing its control over UN agencies and NGOs and further restricting the delivery of international assistance. If implemented, the draconian regulations would assign GOB ministries sweeping authority, including oversight of all [...] | 2006-02-06 10:02:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID BM |
06RANGOON1520 | KAYAH: A VIEW OF BURMA'S SMALLEST STATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite obstacles to travel, emboffs made a rare visit to Loikaw, capital of Kayah State, on September 26-29. Local businesspersons, religious leaders, and humanitarian workers described the very rigid controls by authorities on their movements and activities. Tourism is non-exi [...] | 2006-10-13 10:25:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS EAID BM |
06RANGOON1521 | A WHITE REVOLUTION IN BURMA? [...] (C) Summary: Detained pro-democracy leaders Min Ko Naing, Htay Kywe, and Ko Ko Gyi contacted members of their organization via cell phone on October 12, instructing them to begin demanding that the GOB release them. Meanwhile, the 88 Generation Students have obtained over 210,000 signatures [...] | 2006-10-13 10:39:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BM |
06RANGOON1536 | KNU AND SPDC RE-ESTABLISH COMMUNICATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The recent visit to Rangoon by a team representing the Karen National Union (KNU) was not to negotiate a cease-fire agreement, but to re-establish communication links for future negotiations with the regime. The KNU representatives said they would return in two to three weeks, but [...] | 2006-10-17 09:56:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS PREL BM |
06RANGOON154 | GOB PLANS DRACONIAN REGULATIONS FOR UN/NGOS [...] (C) Summary: The Burmese regime plans invasive new guidelines increasing its control over UN agencies and NGOs and further restricting the delivery of international assistance. If implemented, the draconian regulations would assign GOB ministries sweeping authority, including oversight of all [...] | 2006-02-07 00:58:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID BM |
06RANGOON1542 | THE DRY ZONE SPILLS OVER: FLOODS, AIDS AND TIP [...] (C) Summary: Recent heavy rains created havoc across Burma's central Dry Zone. Dams burst, Mandalay airport's main access road flooded, and many other roads washed away, leaving dozens of villagers drowned and transportation crippled. Excessive rains severely damaged peanut crops, a primary [...] | 2006-10-18 06:22:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON PGOV PHUM PREL GTIP SOCI BM |
06RANGOON155 | YAWN: BURMESE REGIME RECESSES NATIONAL CONVENTION [...] (C) Summary: The Burmese regime recessed its National Convention (NC) on January 31, ending the third session of an indefinite process to produce a new constitution that accords the military preeminent governing powers. The GOB did not announce a date to reconvene the NC, although a senior g [...] | 2006-02-07 01:20:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BM |
06RANGOON156 | BURMESE AND SHAN FORCES FIGHT IT OUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: A recent GOB "news" conference announced the surrender of elements of the insurgent Shan State Army - South in northern Shan State. However, the GOB neglected to mention that the surrender followed a serious battle, in which a DEA source claims the Shan killed dozens of Burmese A [...] | 2006-02-07 01:21:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS PREL BM |
06RANGOON157 | AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE GLOBAL FUND IN BURMA [...] (U) SUMMARY: Six Western donor countries seek to establish a new fund addressing Burma's "Three Diseases" of HIV/AIDS, malaria, and TB. A "formulation team" of consultants will visit Burma for three weeks in February to establish the parameters for the program, which the UN Office for Project [...] | 2006-02-07 02:58:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PHUM SOCI KHIV BM |
06RANGOON1571 | GOB DEFENDS ITS GUIDELINES ON HUMANITARIAN AID [...] (SBU) Summary: GAO Senior Analysts met with Burmese government officials during their 10-day visit to discuss the GOB's new guidelines for humanitarian assistance issued last February. The guidelines have caused confusion and apprehension in the IO/INGO/NGO community. The Director General of [...] | 2006-10-25 05:49:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EAID PREL BM |
06RANGOON1572 | MIN KO NAING MARKS HIS BIRTHDAY IN JAIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Min Ko Naing's family marked his October 18 birthday in Rangoon while he and four other 88 Generation Student leaders remained in regime detention. GOB media railed against the 88 Generation Students "wear white" campaign protesting the detentions, while Mandalay authorities rush [...] | 2006-10-25 06:01:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BM |
06RANGOON1588 | ILO SPECIAL ADVISOR DEPARTS BURMA EMPTY HANDED [...] (C) SUMMARY: ILO Special Advisor Francis Maupain briefed us on his unsuccessful negotiations with GOB officials on October 20-21 to try to establish a credible mechanism for ILO investigations of forced labor complaints. After reaching tentative agreement with the GOB permitting the ILO unfet [...] | 2006-10-25 08:38:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON PGOV PHUM BM |
06RANGOON1609 | TRYING TO GET A POLITICAL DIALOGUE GOING IN BURMA [...] (C) Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) confidants have proposed a means to resume a political dialogue, which UN U/SYG Gambari might suggest to Than Shwe when they next meet in Burma. Apparently ASSK wrote a letter to Than Shwe in 2004 proposing a way forward whereby she would step back from the NLD party [...] | 2006-10-30 08:42:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV BM UN |
06RANGOON1622 | BURMA TIGHTENS THE NOOSE ON ICRC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Shortly after the arrival of a new head of delegation for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC),the GOB informed the INGO that it could no longer work to support detainees in Burma directly, warned ICRC to stay away from border areas, and ordered two ICRC field offi [...] | 2006-11-03 05:28:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BM |
06RANGOON1624 | PRAYING FOR CHANGE IN BURMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The 88 Generation Students began a weeklong prayer campaign on October 29, calling on Burmese of all faiths to pray for the release of all political prisoners, as well as for flood victims in central Burma and for peaceful national reconciliation. The prayer campaign culminates on [...] | 2006-11-03 11:55:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BM |
06RANGOON1670 | BURMESE REGIME FILES CHARGES AGAINST OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: Reliable Embassy sources have told us that on November 6 the regime charged Min Ko Naing and the four other detained 88 Generation Student (88GS) leaders under the 1950 Emergency Provision Act, a catch-all law the regime uses to prosecute most political prisoners. The UN has not y [...] | 2006-11-09 10:33:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BM |
06RANGOON1678 | GAMBARI FINDS LITTLE GIVE IN BURMESE GENERALS [...] (C) Summary: UN Under Secretary General Ibrahim Gambari made a second visit to Burma November 9-12 to try to get a political dialogue going and increase the space for humanitarian assistance. It does not appear at this time that he made much, if any, progress. He met with Burma's senior mili [...] | 2006-11-13 10:01:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BM |
06RANGOON1701 | GAMBARI'S MEETINGS IN BURMA - UNCENSORED [...] (C) Summary: UN U/SYG Gambari delivered a strong message to Burma's senior generals that the regime must choose between taking concrete steps toward democracy or face further action in the UNSC, according to UN Resrep Charles Petrie. General Than Shwe angrily denied that there was a humanitar [...] | 2006-11-16 11:23:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BM |
06RANGOON1704 | EYES ON BURMA'S PRIZE: NATURAL GAS [...] (SBU) Summary: New oil and gas discoveries off Burma's northwestern coast have prompted intense international maneuvering as representatives from India, China, Thailand and South Korea vie for investment options, production contracts and purchasing rights to the resources. Although the GOB has [...] | 2006-11-17 02:49:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON PGOV BM |
06RANGOON171 | GOB SENDS MIXED MESSAGES ON UN/NGO RESTRICTIONS [...] (C) Summary: On February 7, the GOB issued new guidelines to UN agencies and INGOs regarding the delivery of international assistance in Burma. In contrast to a draft version of draconian new requirements issued a few days ago, the new guidelines appear "vague, redundant, and fairly non-contr [...] | 2006-02-07 10:34:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID BM |
06RANGOON1711 | CHINESE AMBASSADOR SPEAKS OUT ON BURMA [...] (C) Summary: During a long exchange with the Chinese Ambassador, Charge d'Affaires emphasized that the U.S. and China should use their cooperative and constructive relationship to work together to find mutually acceptable ways to promote change in Burma. The Chinese Ambassador emphasized Chi [...] | 2006-11-17 11:29:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BM |
06RANGOON1717 | BURMA: NLD REACTS TO GAMBARI VISIT [...] (C) Summary: During a short meeting with U/SYG Gambari during his November 9-12 visit to Burma, the NLD "Uncles" repeated their desire for a genuine dialogue with the regime. They told us Gambari seemed better briefed on the political situation in Burma this visit, in contrast to their meeti [...] | 2006-11-21 02:19:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BM |
06RANGOON1727 | ILO TAKES A HARD LINE ON BURMA [...] (C) Summary: ILO Liaison Officer Richard Horsey said the ILO Director General would deliver a letter on November 24 to SYG Annan and U/SYG Gambari, summarizing Burma's lack of progress on forced labor. The letter will state that Burma is not cooperating to find a mechanism to address forced [...] | 2006-11-27 11:50:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ELAB BM |
06RANGOON1741 | THAIS LOOKING FOR NEW DIRECTIONS IN BURMA [...] (C) Pol/econ chief met with Thai Embassy poloff Pornpan Mah November 28 to discuss Thai PM Surayud Chulamont's visit to Burma. Pornpan said Thailand is no longer willing to be on the front-line defending the regime's actions to the international community, but will in the future carefully co [...] | 2006-11-29 11:01:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BM |
06RANGOON1743 | ICRC WON'T GIVE UP ON BURMA [...] (C) Summary: The recent announcement by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) that the GOB was forcing them to close their five field offices in Burma was not timed to coincide with Gambari's briefing to the UN Security Council, ICRC officials insist. They issued the statement [...] | 2006-11-30 10:02:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID BM |
06RANGOON1762 | THE GOB'S LONG-WINDED DEFENSE AGAINST UNSC ACTION [...] (U) Summary: the GOB called a last-minute press conference in Nay Pyi Taw on November 29 to try to refute UNSC discussion of the regional threat Burma poses through the spread of refugees, diseases and narcotics to neighboring states. Two Cabinet Ministers, joined by a Deputy Minister and the [...] | 2006-12-01 11:21:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI SNAR BM |
06RANGOON1766 | AUNG SAN SUU KYI FINALLY SEES HER DOCTOR [...] (C) Summary: Dr. Tin Myo Win, aka Douglas, met with his most famous patient, Aung San Suu Kyi, on November 16, almost three months after his last visit August 24. He expects to see her again on December 21. He found her in good health, confirmed by an ultrasound examination. Douglas also re [...] | 2006-12-04 10:17:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BM |
06RANGOON1767 | BURMA REGIME AND KAREN MISTRUST CONTINUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent discussion between Karen delegates to the National Convention (NC) reveals that the ruling regime mistrusts both the Karen National Union (KNU) and the proxy army it created to fight the KNU, the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA). The KNU reportedly has invited the DKB [...] | 2006-12-04 10:38:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS BM |
06RANGOON1785 | BURMA: THE REGIME FINDS ITS OWN "88 GENERATION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-08 09:15:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BM |
06RANGOON1794 | BURMA: ICRC UPDATE [...] (C) ICRC Head of Delegation Pierre-Andre Conod told us today that, during a December 8 meeting in Nay Pyi Taw with the Minister of Home Affairs, he obtained permission to keep ICRC's five field offices open in Kyengtung, Taunggyi, Hpa-an, Moulmein, and Mandalay, but did not obtain permission [...] | 2006-12-12 10:56:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BM |
06RANGOON1803 | BURMA'S BUSINESS ENVIRONEMNT: "BETTER THAN [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOB's economic mismanagement continues to erode Burma's business environment. The regime makes unreasonable and arbitrary decisions with little thought of the economic consequences. For example, all business transactions must be conducted in the remote new capital of Nay [...] | 2006-12-18 06:50:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV BM |
06RANGOON1812 | OPPOSITION LEADER MISSES ANOTHER BIRTHDAY PARTY [...] (U) Summary: On December 18, friends and relatives marked the 45th birthday of Ko Ko Gyi, detained 88 Generation Students (88GS) leader, at a Rangoon monastery, making offerings to the monks and feeding approximately 800 supporters who participated. Military Intelligence monitored the event, [...] | 2006-12-19 08:21:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BM |
06RANGOON1814 | RESTRICTING PRAYERS FOR AUNG SAN SUU KYI [...] (C) SUMMARY: After Shwedagon Pagoda officials harassed worshippers in November at their weekly prayers for Aung San Suu Kyi, thirteen participants wrote a letter of complaint to regime leaders. Authorities ordered the worshippers to request advance permission for future prayers, but allowed t [...] | 2006-12-20 10:02:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BM |
06RANGOON1818 | BURMA PUMPS OIL AND GAS POTENTIAL FOR CASH NOW [...] (SBU) Summary: Development of Burma's oil and gas reserves continues apace, from existing facilities upgrades to new exploration deals. The government needs hard currency and correctly sees the sector as its best source of revenue. End Summary. Upgrades of Existing Facilities ------------ [...] | 2006-12-22 06:37:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV ENRG BM |
06RANGOON1828 | BURMA: THE KNU AFTER GENERAL BO MYA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The death of Karen insurgent leader General Bo Mya did not come as a surprise, but leaves the Karen National Union (KNU) without a strong, charismatic leader. Sidelined by poor health in recent years, Bo Mya continued to influence KNU leaders and policy. It is uncertain if the re [...] | 2006-12-27 04:27:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS BM |
06RANGOON1829 | BURMA: THREE ETHNIC TRAFFICKING VICTIMS RETURN [...] (U) SUMMARY: The recent case of three Kachin women who were trafficked to China to be brides for Chinese men illustrates how the lack economic opportunity for Burma's ethnic minorities makes them increasingly vulnerable to human traffickers. After being lured to the Chinese border by an acqua [...] | 2006-12-27 04:46:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KWMN PHUM BM |
06RANGOON206 | BURMESE PM GOES TO CHINA WITH A LONG SHOPPING LIST [...] (C) Summary: When he makes his first bilateral visit to China on February 14-18, Burmese Prime Minster Soe Win will seek an agreement on closer cooperation on drug trafficking, a donation of 100 used train cars, and Chinese views on the GOB's draft industrial zone law. These agenda items are in [...] | 2006-02-13 10:15:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON CH BM |
06RANGOON207 | NLD SHOWS UNITY WITH ETHNICS ON UNION DAY [...] (U) SUMMARY: At ceremonies marking Burma's 59th Union Day, the NLD quietly unveiled a new plan for national reconciliation. NLD Chairman U Aung Shwe said that the NLD would endorse the ruling SPDC (the State Peace and Development Committee) as a legitimate interim government if the SPDC agree [...] | 2006-02-13 10:50:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BM |
06RANGOON213 | REQUEST TO SEE AUNG SAN SUU KYI DENIED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Min Lwin, Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' (MFA) Americas Division, told the Embassy on February 13 that the Charge would not be allowed to meet with imprisoned NLD Secretary General Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) "at this moment" because she remains "under restriction." Min [...] | 2006-02-14 07:35:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM |
06RANGOON214 | U.S. DOLLAR MOVES UNDERGROUND IN BURMA [...] (SBU) Summary: Banks in China, Japan and Singapore are now refusing to handle Burma's government and commercial dollar-denominated business, forcing many companies to transfer their business transactions to their personal offshore accounts to keep cash flowing. Meanwhile, the ruling regime is [...] | 2006-02-14 07:40:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV BM |
06RANGOON223 | BURMA'S DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER WANTS TO TALK [...] (C) Summary: Charge met February 14 with Deputy Foreign Minster Kyaw Thu at his request. Repeatedly emphasizing his interest in assisting Charge feel comfortable in Burma, he leisurely addressed a wide range of topics, including the problems of inadequate food and slow construction in Pyinman [...] | 2006-02-16 05:38:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CASC PREL BM |
06RANGOON235 | BURMA'S VAST INTERNMENT CAMP: NORTHERN RAKHINE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a country where everyone is oppressed by the military, some are treated worse than others. In general, the ethnic minorities are treated worse than the ethnic Burman majority, and non-Buddhists face more restrictions on their religious practices. Charge visited Northern [...] | 2006-02-17 09:23:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PREL EAID BM |
06RANGOON248 | COMMUNAL RIOTS IN MAGWAY DIVISION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Communal rioting erupted between Buddhist and Muslim communities in central Burma on February 16. Sources report that three people died and ten others sustained injuries as Buddhist Burmans attacked Muslim and Indian shops, homes, and mosques. Authorities imposed a news blackou [...] | 2006-02-22 09:02:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS PREL ECON KISL BM |
06RANGOON249 | MORE FROM BURMA'S DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Foreign Minister Kyaw Thu requested Charge meet with him again February 22 - alone. He apparently wants to continue a dialogue (ref A),made more difficult by his move to Pyinmana and difficult to do by phone because, he said, others could be listening in. Again referrin [...] | 2006-02-22 23:33:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BM |
06RANGOON253 | AMERICAN CENTER HELPING NLD EDUCATE ACTIVISTS AND [...] (C) Summary: our American Center (AC) in Rangoon has attracted extra attention from both pro-democracy activists and the ruling regime as our programs reach more people. Representatives from Burma's National League for Democracy (NLD) contact the AC daily and regularly use our Information Re [...] | 2006-02-23 23:40:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KPAO BM NLD |
06RANGOON259 | BURMA: CONVERGING ON AI ISSUES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USAID's Regional Infectious Diseases Advisor, on a second visit to Rangoon, encouraged WHO and FAO to identify needs and strengthen their capacity to investigate and respond to AI outbreaks in Burma. The GOB updated its national response plan, but some responsible ministries st [...] | 2006-02-26 23:42:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI TBIO KFLU BM |
06RANGOON260 | BURMESE ARMY GETS TOUGH WITH CEASE-FIRE GROUPS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Burmese military recently detained four Kachin Independence Army (KIA) soldiers near Bhamo, Kachin State. The Burmese accused them of traveling outside their territory while armed. Separately, a Burmese unit opened fire on Shan State Army - North (SSA-N) troops inside the SS [...] | 2006-02-26 23:42:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINS BM |
06RANGOON27 | THE NLD SUGGESTS A TRIPARTITE "SUPREME BODY" [...] (C) Summary: Burma's leading opposition party, the NLD, recently floated a proposal for a "supreme leading body"--comprised of the military regime, political parties, and ethnic nationalities--to govern a transition to democracy. Although the NLD has no specific plan for the proposal, party [...] | 2006-01-09 09:59:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BM |
06RANGOON272 | ICRC WON'T GIVE UP ON BURMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirmed to international media on February 27 that Burma's ruling regime is now blocking ICRC access to the country's prisons and detention camps. ICRC officials told us on Feb. 28 that they publicly acknowledged their ongoing [...] | 2006-03-01 07:36:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BM |
06RANGOON287 | OPPORTUNITIES AND OBSTACLES IN MANDALAY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Embassy held a highly successful "Outreach Week in Mandalay" February 26-March 2. The Charge led over a dozen Embassy staff to Burma's second largest city and conducted a broad range of meetings and outreach activities with NGOs, business leaders, political parties, religi [...] | 2006-03-03 06:28:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM |
06RANGOON290 | MANDALAY: DIPLOMATIC VIEWS [...] (C) Summary: During an Embassy "Outreach Week in Mandalay" (ref A),the Charge called on the Indian and Chinese Consuls General to exchange views on local political and economic developments. Despite the close relationship that China and India enjoy with the Burmese regime, both Consuls need [...] | 2006-03-03 06:55:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD BM CM IN |
06RANGOON299 | MANDALAY: NON-BUDDHISTS NEED NOT APPLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: As part of our Mandalay Outreach Week (ref A),we met with Christian leaders in Mandalay on March 1 to discuss religious issues in central Burma. They described the tight restrictions local authorities place on religious meetings and church construction, as well as general GOB di [...] | 2006-03-06 08:35:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PREF BM SK |
06RANGOON3 | BURMESE REGIME CORRUPTS YOUTH AND COERCES SUPPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Charge met on Dec. 22 with NLD women leaders (including four Members-elect of Parliament) representing Rangoon, Mandalay, and Mogok cities; Bago Division; Karen State; Shan State; and Mon State. The NLD matriarchs, some who had snuck out of their homes, covertly boarded trains fo [...] | 2006-01-03 10:54:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI SNAR EAID ECON BM |
06RANGOON325 | YUDHOYONO VISIT TO BURMA: LIGHT AND FLUFFY [...] (C) Summary: Indonesian President Yudhoyono's March 1-2 visit to Burma appears to have been purely protocol and devoid of any substantive political message to regime leaders. SPDC Chairman Than Shwe gave the Indonesian President a standard recitation of regime achievements and its road map t [...] | 2006-03-08 10:54:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BM ID |
06RANGOON356 | ALL SMILES: INDIAN PRESIDENT VISITS BURMA [...] (C) Summary: For the second week in a row, a regional head of state visited Burma and allowed the ruling generals to bask in perceived legitimacy. Indian President Kalam's March 8-11 visit was the first-ever to Burma by an Indian head of state. The two countries concluded MOUs on petroleum [...] | 2006-03-16 06:43:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ECON EAID BM IN |
06RANGOON359 | BURMA AI OUTBREAK - MARCH 16 UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY. On March 15, NIAH Bangkok confirmed that chicken specimens from Burma tested positive for the H5N1 Avian Influenza virus (AI). The Bangkok laboratory faxed the information to the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries the same day, and at 9:00 p.m. on March 15, the GOB made its fir [...] | 2006-03-16 23:24:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM |
06RANGOON363 | SOMETIMES YOU FEEL LIKE A NUT [...] (SBU) Summary: Senior regime leaders, in their latest self-sufficiency scheme, have ordered Burmese around the country to plant seven million acres of physic nut in a misguided effort to reduce Burma's reliance on imported diesel fuel. This high profile campaign does not have any support from [...] | 2006-03-17 05:29:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV SENV EAGR BM |
06RANGOON366 | BURMESE IDPS AND REFUGEES NEED MORE HELP [...] (C) SUMMARY: A visiting PRM team discussed refugee and IDP issues with IOs and donor counterparts in Rangoon March 8-10. UNHCR described its activities in northern Rakhine State and efforts to improve access to eastern border areas. ICRC outlined its lack of access to prisons and labor camps, [...] | 2006-03-17 10:02:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM NGO |
06RANGOON368 | BURMESE FUTURE LOOKING DIRE [...] (C) Summary: Leon de Riedmattan, outgoing head of the Swiss NGO Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Burma, hosted a lunch March 15 for western Ambassadors. De Riedmattan, whose visa has been halted after nine years of efforts to promote national reconciliation, offered a grim assessment of th [...] | 2006-03-19 23:35:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID ELAB BM |
06RANGOON384 | FORMER POLITICAL PRISONER DIES IN BRUTAL ATTACK [...] (C) SUMMARY: A former political prisoner and student activist during the 1988 pro-democracy uprising, Thet Naing Oo, died on March 17 following a public beating by police and fire brigade officers. His family placed a death announcement in local newspapers and on March 20 held a funeral atten [...] | 2006-03-21 09:37:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BM NLD |
06RANGOON403 | BURMA GIVES ILO THE COLD SHOULDER [...] (C) Summary: Labor Minister U Thaung told ILO Special Advisor Francis Maupain that the GOB will not negotiate how it handles claims of forced labor and made it clear the GOB will not take any significant action to address the international community's forced labor concerns. According to ILO L [...] | 2006-03-24 06:41:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV PREL ECON BM |
06RANGOON406 | PYINMANA: THE EMPEROR'S NEW CAPITAL [...] (C) Summary: Months after announcing the sudden relocation of Burma's capital, the military regime continues efforts to build a new city to house thousands of civil servants who have already moved and are attempting to carry out government operations at remote, unserviced locations. There are [...] | 2006-03-24 08:00:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM |
06RANGOON419 | THE FRUSTRATIONS OF A BURMESE ECONOMIST [...] (SBU) Summary: U Myint, a retired UN economist, freely offers economic advice to regime leaders and democratic activists. He doubts senior leader Than Shwe receives any of it because he "does not listen to anyone." Were Than Shwe to heed Myint's advice, Burma would concentrate less on tradit [...] | 2006-03-28 06:40:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV BM |
06RANGOON43 | BURMESE ARMY RAIDS KACHIN CEASE-FIRE UNIT [...] (C) Summary: On January 2, a Burmese Army (BA) company, after sharing drinks and food with known members of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO),attacked and killed five members of the cease-fire group. Senior KIO and Burmese regime officials met on January 8 in Rangoon to discuss the [...] | 2006-01-11 09:18:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL MOPS SNAR ECON BM |
06RANGOON445 | BURMESE DON'T BUDGE FOR ASEAN [...] (C) Summary: Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid made a brief March 23-24 visit to Burma on behalf of ASEAN, but could only gain access to second-tier regime officials who recited the standard party line on the SPDC's road map to democracy. The Malaysian Embassy tells us that Hamid appeale [...] | 2006-03-31 10:57:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BM MY |
06RANGOON446 | EMBASSY'S MANDALAY WEEK - ONE MONTH LATER [...] (C) SUMMARY: One month after the Embassy's outreach week in Mandalay, the regime continues to react. Security officials interrogated 50 local residents who had contact with Emboffs during our February 27 - March 2 visit to outreach week in Mandalay, and the GOB ordered many Burmese newspapers [...] | 2006-03-31 11:08:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM |
06RANGOON451 | NLD AND ETHNICS: DIFFERING VIEWS ON FEDERALISM [...] (C) SUMMARY: During the recent PD-sponsored visit of a U.S. federalism expert, senior National League for Democracy (NLD) party leaders asserted that they do not consider ethnic minority states capable of properly forming and running their own subnational administrations in a post-transition [...] | 2006-04-03 09:31:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI SNAR EAID BM NLD |
06RANGOON452 | KACHIN YOUTH EVOLVE INTO A POLITICAL ENTITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In Burma's northernmost state, diverse political, religious, military, and ceasefire groups struggle to address the needs of the Kachin people, who face extensive discrimination from Burma's ruling military regime (ref A). One group of activists who seem to be breaking out and fo [...] | 2006-04-03 09:44:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI SNAR EAID BM |
06RANGOON456 | WAGE INCREASE DOES NOT APPEASE CIVIL SERVANTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Just three days before its annual military showcase on Armed Forces Day, the government announced a significant increase in public sector wages: a 400% jump for the lowest civil service positions and 1,167% for senior levels. Workers will receive the raises at the end of April. [...] | 2006-04-04 05:06:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV BM |
06RANGOON461 | NLD TRAINS MEMBERS ON HUMAN RIGHTS / AIDS AWARENESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 31, the National League for Democracy (NLD) completed the first module of its distance-learning "Human Resource and Development Program," an initiative of Aung San Suu Kyi. This course trained 96 NLD activists from throughout Burma. Embassy Rangoon helped the NLD plan t [...] | 2006-04-05 04:27:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BM NLD ASSK |
06RANGOON462 | SOMETHING BETTER THAN NOTHING:FIGHTING TIP IN BURMA [...] (SBU) Summary: High level GOB attendance gave the first anti-Trafficking in Persons National Seminar the visible support needed for lower level officials to implement Burma's new Anti-Trafficking Law. International NGOs had unprecedented input on the drafting process, the first time the curr [...] | 2006-04-06 09:13:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF ELAB SMIG KWMN KCRM BM |
06RANGOON477 | THE PRESSED, SUPPRESSED, AND OPPRESSED IN BURMA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOB continued its harassment of ordinary citizens as well as pro-democracy advocates through pressure, intimidation, arbitrary detention, arrest, and imprisonment. Scattered crackdowns of individuals around the country on various charges during late March demonstrate that t [...] | 2006-04-10 10:40:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BM |
06RANGOON521 | KAREN-BURMESE CLASHES CREATE REFUGEES AND IDP'S [...] (C) Summary: Over the last few weeks, Burmese Army units struck at over a dozen villages and roadside locations around the town of Bawgalagyi in northern Karen State in a new push to wrest control of the Karen hold there. According to an Embassy contact, this has resulted in a new wave of IDPs [...] | 2006-04-25 02:52:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PINS MOPS BM TH |
06RANGOON530 | NLD: REGIME NEEDS LEGITIMACY TO ADDRESS WOES [...] (C) Summary: In a departure from previous party policies, the NLD issued a statement on April 21 that emphasized Burma's urgent need for humanitarian assistance and underscored that the ruling military regime requires legitimacy in order to deal immediately with the "calamities and pandemics [...] | 2006-04-25 09:02:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BM |
06RANGOON543 | ANOTHER CHAT WITH BURMA'S DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Charge met with Deputy Foreign Minister Kyaw Thu on April 25 to continue discussions in the hope of gathering more insights into the opaque regime. He did not disappoint. We discussed a range issues from his recent trip to China to obtaining multiple entry visas for regional of [...] | 2006-04-26 04:40:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL APER BM CH |
06RANGOON56 | REGIME POSES OBSTACLES TO ICRC PRISON ACCESS [...] (C) Summary: The GOB has imposed new restrictions, including the meddling of regime-controlled organizations, that hamper the ability of ICRC to access and inspect the country's vast gulag of prison detention facilities and labor camps. These restrictions "have slowed down considerably the f [...] | 2006-01-17 10:28:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EAID PM |
06RANGOON576 | NLD BASHING TRUMPS COUNTERDRUG SUCCESSES [...] (C) Summary: According to attendees at an April 26 drug burn in eastern Shan State, the GOB's Minister of Information and other senior officials hijacked the law enforcement event to pursue an ongoing political campaign to paint exile groups as terrorists and to denigrate recent efforts by the [...] | 2006-04-28 10:20:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SNAR BM |
06RANGOON588 | CYCLONE MALA HITS HARD, DIES QUICKLY [...] (SBU) Summary: Burma dodged another bullet from Mother Nature when Cyclone Mala hit landfall on April 29, quickly weakened into a tropical storm, and then completely petered out. Before arriving on the western coast of Burma, however, the cyclone created substantial rainfall and heavy winds t [...] | 2006-05-01 11:01:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID SENV CASC BM |
06RANGOON591 | SOUTHERN KAREN FOCUS ON ECONOMIC WOES, NOT FIGHTING [...] (C) Summary: Local residents during our recent visit to the H'pa-An capital region of southern Karen State expressed no pressing concern with recent skirmishes between Burmese military and Karen National Union (KNU) units in the northern part of the state. Numerous contacts characterized the [...] | 2006-05-02 10:33:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS ECON PREL BM |
06RANGOON602 | RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR: "WE SEEK CLOSER TIES TO BURMA" [...] (C) Summary: The Russian Ambassador, a four-year veteran in Rangoon, described Russia and Burma as at the "beginning of a new stage in bilateral cooperation." The two countries recently exchanged senior level visitors "to reinvigorate relations." The Ambassador described sanctions as counte [...] | 2006-05-04 08:49:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MASS PHUM PGOV BM RS |
06RANGOON603 | GOB GRANTS UNHCR RENEWED ACCESS TO KAREN STATE [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 27, UNHCR signed an MOU with the Ministry of Border Areas reinstating access to southeast Burma, including Karen State. UNHCR's country representative, baffled but grateful for the GOB's reversal oQUNHCR access, said that his agency plans to establish a field presence [...] | 2006-05-04 08:55:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV PHUM PINS PREL BM |
06RANGOON612 | BORDERS OVER DEMOCRACY: INDIAN AMBASSADOR TO BURMA [...] (C) Summary: The Indian Ambassador dropped by May 4 to chat with Charge. He offered insights into how India views it relationship with Burma: by and large a friendly neighbor in comparison to Pakistan, Bangladesh, or China. While he agrees that political reform is needed and will come even [...] | 2006-05-05 11:04:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BM IN |
06RANGOON617 | ICRC: DIMINISHING ACCESS [...] (C) Summary: ICRC's Burma operations remain in a state of flux as the organization faces increased GOB restrictions on access to detention facilities and border areas. It must also cope with the interference of Government-affiliated organizations. To make matters worse, the Ministry of Healt [...] | 2006-05-08 10:34:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID BM |
06RANGOON622 | UNDP STRUGGLES INSIDE, AND OUTSIDE, BURMA [...] (C) Summary: UNDP officials told us that implementation of new GOB regulations for aid agencies and NGOs has been uneven and unpredictable. The GOB has not yet enforced compliance with the most restrictive of the new regulations, and some government entities have proven more flexible than ot [...] | 2006-05-09 08:58:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID BM |
06RANGOON624 | FOOD SHORTAGES AND ROADWORK IN NORTHERN KAREN [...] (C) Summary: A recent trip to Taungoo near northern Karen State provided a new dimension to the ongoing conflict between the GOB and the Karen National Union (KNU). The GOB has halted all transportation of food and other goods into the area of northern Karen, resulting in food shortages in K [...] | 2006-05-09 09:46:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PGOV PHUM ECON PREF BM |
06RANGOON650 | CABINET SHUFFLE: RIDE OF THE MAJORS-GENERAL [...] (C) Summary: The Burmese regime announced on May 15 its first senior GOB cabinet shuffle in over a year. In a series of nine orders, signed by SPDC Secretary-1 Lt Gen Thein Sein, the regime ousted two veteran Ministers, militarized the entire leadership of the Ministry of Immigration, split t [...] | 2006-05-16 11:12:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM |
06RANGOON679 | UN U/SG GAMBARI VISIT SURPASSES EXPECTATIONS [...] (C) Summary: UN Under Secretary General Ibrahim Gambari visited Burma May 18-20. He did manage to see Aung San Suu Kyi for 45 minutes, although no one had expected it. He also visited the senior generals in their new capital and heard promises of greater openness. Gambari downplayed the si [...] | 2006-05-22 10:48:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID BM UN |
06RANGOON698 | NORTH KAREN STATE - WHERE DO YOU RUN? [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Rangoon-based Karen contact who recently visited Taungoo discussed security conditions in nearby Karen State. Fighting erupted in northern Karen State in early 2006 after the Burmese army started moving into traditional Karen-controlled areas. Authorities established a food em [...] | 2006-05-26 07:45:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS PREF BM |
06RANGOON699 | ILO REP PESSIMISTIC BEFORE LABOR CONFERENCE [...] (C) Summary: On the eve of the annual International Labor Conference (ILC),ILO Liaison Officer Richard Horsey has seen no signals that the new openness that UN Under Secretary General Gambari thought he saw during his meeting with Senior General Than Shwe would extend to forced labor. Horsey [...] | 2006-05-26 09:58:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON PGOV PREL BM |
06RANGOON700 | NLD REACTION TO GAMBARI VISIT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-26 10:03:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM |
06RANGOON704 | UNFPA IN BURMA: MAINTAINING STATUS QUO [...] (SBU) UNFPA's efforts to build capacity among reproductive health care providers, provide contraceptives, raise awareness and conduct research have provided valuable, effective assistance at the local level. GOB involvement has been mainly supportive. The key issues to address at the upcomin [...] | 2006-05-30 07:09:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF SOCI BM |
06RANGOON707 | GOING IT ALONE IN SOUTHERN BURMA [...] (C) Summary: The Burmese government, having gained an upper hand over insurgents and perceiving no local political threats, generally neglects the southern Burmese seaport of Dawei. The coastal border region, however, blessed with a robust fishing industry and productive agricultural sector, [...] | 2006-05-30 09:27:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS PREL ECON EAID SOCI BM TH |
06RANGOON710 | ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS BACK: ASSK NOT RELEASED [...] (C) Summary: On May 26, the Burmese regime extended the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi, re-sealed the street that runs in front of her Rangoon compound, and detained several supporters. ASSK thus began the fourth consecutive year of her current confinement. ASSK's NLD party issued a statement [...] | 2006-05-30 10:35:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BM |
06RANGOON727 | NLD THANKS SECRETARY RICE FOR SUPPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Qe National League for Democracy (NLD) passed a letter to the Secretary via Embassy Rangoon. The text of the letter appears below; the Charge will hand carry the original to Washington this week. In a June 2 meeting, NLD leaders reiterated concern that the UNSYG may request his [...] | 2006-06-05 08:34:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OPDC BM |
06RANGOON73 | JAPAN QUIETLY NUDGES BURMA [...] (C) Summary: Hideaki Mizukoshi, Director of Southeast Asia in Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told Charge that he urged the GOB to activate a dialogue with the international community and start talking with Aung San Suu Kyi. He told the GOB that Burma's lack of progress on democracy and [...] | 2006-01-18 09:13:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BM |
06RANGOON732 | BURMA: DEMOCRACY AWAITS ANOTHER DAY [...] (C) Embassy Rangoon's Pol/Econ Chief departs post this week, ending a three-year tour and having spent six of the past eight years on Burma-related assignments. We asked him to share a few unvarnished views on the current situation. He observes that the prospect for meaningful improvement in [...] | 2006-06-05 10:33:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM |
06RANGOON738 | FORMER STUDENT LEADERS DISCUSS NEXT MOVES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former student activists and political prisoners Min Ko Naing and Ko Ko Gyi shared their views on U/SYG Gambari's visit and their own political strategies in a meeting on June 1. They praised USG efforts on Burma in the U.N., which they said would encourage the Burmese people. Th [...] | 2006-06-06 09:27:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BM |
06RANGOON745 | GOB RELEASES ONE LABOR RIGHTS PRISONER [...] (C) Summary: The GOB, facing increased scrutiny of its forced labor practices at the annual International Labor Conference (ILC) in Geneva, responded on June 6 by releasing Su Su Nway, who was imprisoned in 2005 in retaliation for bringing a successful forced labor lawsuit against authorities. [...] | 2006-06-07 10:04:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON PGOV BM |
06RANGOON752 | BURMA: REGIME TOUGHS GET TOUGHER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Recent actions by regime authorities show a trend of strengthened surveillance and control of movement and meeting by opposition parties and the general public. In May, Rangoon officials started a campaign to photograph all household members in selected Rangoon communities. Tow [...] | 2006-06-08 09:56:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF BM |
06RANGOON775 | DESPITE REGIME SECRECY, AUNG SAN SUU KYI RECOVERING [...] (C) Summary: According to National League for Democracy (NLD) officials and her doctor, NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi has now recovered from a recent illness that drew worldwide concern. Despite the ruling regime's tight control over information about her illness, which began on June 8, her do [...] | 2006-06-12 11:06:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM |
06RANGOON777 | AT THE BURMA/INDIA BORDER: CHINESE GOODS AND TIGHT [...] (SBU) Summary: A recent trip to the Burma/India border in Sagaing Division revealed that, as elsewhere, Chinese products dominate border trade. Tight official security in Tamu restricted our movement and access to Burmese citizens in this area where some insurgents remain active. Unlike som [...] | 2006-06-13 02:14:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL PGOV BM |
06RANGOON79 | REGIME TIGHTENS THE NOOSE ON U.N. ACTIVITIES [...] (C) Summary: The Burmese regime appears poised to curtail the residency of a UN-sponsored mediator and confidant of Aung San Suu Kyi and impose new restrictions on UN agencies and international NGOs. The UN agencies and INGOs have devised creative measures to adapt to restrictions, but the re [...] | 2006-01-19 03:09:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID BM |
06RANGOON799 | SPDC ROAD SHOW GOES TO KAREN STATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In another of its carefully choreographed road shows for local diplomats and hand-picked media, the Burmese ruling regime showcased its "peace and development" program in pacified areas of Karen State and characterized the Karen National Union as a "terrorist organization" solely [...] | 2006-06-14 11:43:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINS BM |
06RANGOON806 | SU SU NWAY: RELEASED TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY [...] (C) Summary: NLD activist Su Su Nway emerged from her surprise June 6 release from Insein Prison committed to continue her efforts to eliminate forced labor and gain freedom for other political prisoners. She faced isolation and threats in prison, but continued to fight for human rights at ev [...] | 2006-06-15 10:39:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PHUM PGOV PREL ECON BM |
06RANGOON816 | BURMESE CELEBRATE ASSK'S BIRTHDAY DESPITE CONTROLS [...] (SBU) Summary: Aung San Suu Kyi celebrated her 61st birthday within the walls of her compound in Rangoon, where she remains under house arrest. The NLD marked the day with a gathering of hundreds of supporters at party headquarters who attended a speaking competition, gave donations to the chi [...] | 2006-06-19 11:14:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM |
06RANGOON82 | BURMA'S PRO-AMERICAN KACHIN STATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Charge traveled to Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State in northernmost Burma, Jan 8-10 and met with interlocutors from a variety of different organizations representive of the Kachin people, one of Burma's seven main ethnic minority groups. She heard the same themes repeat [...] | 2006-01-20 00:03:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI SNAR PREL BM |
06RANGOON846 | GOB "PERMITS" EIGHT DEPUTY MINISTERS TO RETIRE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOB announced on June 16 the "retirement" of eight deputy ministers and one Supreme Court justice. Five of the retiring deputy ministers were military officers and two were ex-military. The GOB has not announced their replacements yet, but these retirements will create space f [...] | 2006-06-22 07:45:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM |
06RANGOON848 | KAREN STATE: JUST ANOTHER DRY SEASON OFFENSIVE? [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a GOB-organized trip for diplomats to Karen State June 8-10, a former Burmese Army battlefield commander recalled the Burmese Army's 1983-84 dry season offensive against the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and the KNLA's major miscalculation that enabled the Burmese [...] | 2006-06-22 08:58:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINS BM |
06RANGOON849 | ILO READY FOR GOB ACTION ON COMMITMENTS [...] (C) Summary: On June 20, immediately upon his return from the International Labor Conference (ILC),ILO Country Liaison Officer Richard Horsey requested a meeting with Labor Minister U Thaung to follow up on the commitments on forced labor made by the GOB in Geneva. Horsey singled out the USG [...] | 2006-06-22 10:19:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV ECON BM |
06RANGOON87 | FORMER STUDENT LEADERS: MOBILIZING THE MIDDLE [...] (C) Summary: Min Ko Naing and Ko Ko Kyi, former student leaders of Burma's 1988 pro-democracy movement, have become increasingly active in the year since their release from lengthy prison terms. GOB authorities have eased off their surveillance in recent months, prompting the two activists to [...] | 2006-01-23 11:06:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BM |
06RANGOON876 | BURMA MISSES A COPPER PLATED OPPORTUNITY [...] (C) Summary: Economic mismanagement keeps Burma from cashing in on the global rise in copper prices. The experiences of Ivanhoe, the Canadian firm in a joint venture with the GOB to extract and export copper, illustrate the difficulties most firms face doing business in Burma. End summary. [...] | 2006-06-27 10:08:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV ETRD BM |
06RANGOON887 | UN RANGOON PROBES FOR OPENING IN BURMESE LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Summary: Onder Yucer, the temporary UN Resident Coordinator in Rangoon met with Charge on June 27 to discuss his efforts to persuade the GOB to loosen restrictive guidelines on humanitarian organizations, as well as the UN's role in negotiating some sort of political transition. He met Ju [...] | 2006-06-28 09:44:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EAID PREL BM |
06RANGOON904 | BURMA READY TO START TALKING TO ILO [...] (C) Summary: The Deputy Minster of Labor told ILO Liaison Officer that the GOB is ready to begin discussions with ILO representatives in Geneva. ILO members at the recent International Labor Conference (ILC) deferred further action against the GOB on the condition that it resume talks to dev [...] | 2006-07-03 02:36:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON PGOV BM |
06RANGOON905 | JAPAN SHIFTS FOCUS FOR ASSISTANCE TO BURMA [...] (SBU) Summary: After giving assurances that it will channel official foreign aid in Burma through NGOs, the Japanese government continues to provide some targeted financial and technical assistance directly to the GOB. However, the bulk of its support goes through the UN. Japan thus remains B [...] | 2006-07-03 02:48:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV EAID BM |
06RANGOON911 | SMOOTH TRANSITION OF POWER IN KACHIN STATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the death of Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) Chairman Tu Jai, the Central Committee moved quickly to ensure a smooth leadership transition. Three rival Kachin factions participated in the funeral. Kachin sources expect the new leader, former Vice Chairman Lanyaw C [...] | 2006-07-03 06:20:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BM |
06RANGOON919 | ICRC DRAWS DOWN FURTHER [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Burma office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) plans to reduce further its expatriate and local staff in light of continued restrictions on independent prison visits and access to vulnerable populations in conflict zones in border areas absent any indicat [...] | 2006-07-03 10:52:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM NGO |
06RANGOON93 | HOME AFFAIRS MINISTER CUTS OFF NGOS [...] (C) Summary: The GOB's Ministry of Home Affairs, without explanation or advance warning, issued orders on January 20 to six international NGOs to cease their operations in northern Shan State. The six NGOs, who collaborate with UNODC on alternative income and harm reduction projects, are qui [...] | 2006-01-24 09:20:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID BM |
06RANGOON94 | NO REWARD FOR OPPOSING FORCED LABOR IN BURMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Labor advocate and pro-democracy activist Su Su Nway, jailed since October for her successful efforts to sue GOB officials on forced labor charges, recently spent time in a prison hospital for deteriorating health. Her lawyers have appealed her conviction and expect an initial ru [...] | 2006-01-24 10:04:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB PREL BM |
06RANGOON946 | NLD IN CENTRAL BURMA: TREADING WATER [...] (C) Summary: Facing repressive measures by regional authorities, the NLD struggles to maintain minimal activities in the key central divisions of Mandalay and Magwe. Elder party leaders shrugged off the effects of the SPDC's public campaign to coerce NLD resignations, but hope for "outside he [...] | 2006-07-06 04:55:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM NLD |
06RANGOON952 | LAMPOONING THE ECONOMY LANDS SHAN YOUTH IN JAIL [...] (C) Summary: Public lampooning of price hikes and the poor economy by youth during a recent festival in the Shan State landed eight, including a member of the regime,s mass-member organization Union Solidarity Development Association (USDA),in jail for presenting a security threat. While th [...] | 2006-07-06 08:38:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM |
06RANGOON964 | RELEASED POLITICAL PRISONER UNDER TIGHT WATCH [...] SUMMARY: The regime has increased its surveillance and harassment of prominent NLD Youth member Su Su New, released from prison a month ago. Security personnel will likely tightly monitor her to thwart her activities, but they will probably stop short of re-arresting her or restricting her m [...] | 2006-07-10 11:28:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM NLD |
06RANGOON970 | NLD RESIGNED ABOUT COERCED RESIGNATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-11 11:51:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM NLD |
06REYKJAVIK107 | ICELAND: SCENESETTER FOR MARCH 31 DEFENSE TALKS [...] (C) Summary: Since 3/15, when the U.S. announced the realignment of its force presence at Naval Air Station Keflavik (NASKEF),the Icelandic government has made its unhappiness with the decision plain. FM Haarde ) the government,s key decision maker ) is looking to the 3/31 talks to offer th [...] | 2006-03-29 11:16:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO MARR PREL PGOV KPAO IC |
06REYKJAVIK118 | ICELAND: 3/30-3/31 TALKS SET STAGE FOR NEW [...] (C) Summary: A U.S. interagency delegation met in Reykjavik 3/30-31 with senior Icelandic officials to describe the operational framework for the defense of Iceland following the upcoming realignment of Naval Air Station Keflavik (NASKEF). The Icelandic delegation expressed keen interest in [...] | 2006-03-31 18:22:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS IC |
06REYKJAVIK119 | ICELAND: COAST GUARD DIRECTOR SHUT OUT OF [...] (C) Summary: In informal conversation 3/31 Icelandic Ministry of Justice Deputy Permanent Secretary disclosed to Embassy that Coast Guard Director Georg Larusson has lost the confidence of Minister of Justice Bjarnason because he is not seen as a team player. This explains why decisions about [...] | 2006-04-03 18:00:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR PINR IC |
06REYKJAVIK125 | ICELAND SUPPORTS ENGAGING GEORGIA IN NATO'S [...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche on April 4 to Thordur Bjarni Gudjonsson, Icelandic MFA Head of Security and Disarmament Division. Gudjonsson affirmed that Iceland agrees with U.S. points and will support intensified dialogue (ID) on NATO membership with Georgia. A Georgian delegation head [...] | 2006-04-05 10:20:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL GG IC |
06REYKJAVIK140 | APRIL 2006 DEFENSE DISCUSSIONS: ICELAND'S RED [...] (C) Summary: Recent discussions with Icelandic Government personnel and the first three meetings of a bilateral working group managing base closure issues offer indications of GOI expectations for the EUCOM briefing 4/26 in Reykjavik. Although the Icelandic leadership understands the classifie [...] | 2006-04-24 11:28:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR MARR MASS IC |
06REYKJAVIK141 | ICELAND TO SUPPORT GUATEMALAN UNSC BID [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-24 14:26:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC GT UN VE IC |
06REYKJAVIK142 | AUSTRALIA GROUP: ICELANDIC LEGISLATION STUCK IN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-24 17:16:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL ETTC IC |
06REYKJAVIK143 | ICELAND: CAUTIOUS SUPPORT FOR NATO'S 'GLOBAL [...] (C) Post presented ref A points to Icelandic MFA Acting Political Director Thordur Bjarni Gudjonsson April 24. Gudjonsson stated that Reykjavik has not adopted a formal position on the U.S.-UK proposal for a NATO "Global Partnership," adding that: -- In principle, cooperation with NATO shou [...] | 2006-04-25 10:48:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO IC |
06REYKJAVIK150 | 4/26-27 DEFENSE TALKS: ICELAND LOOKS FOR [...] (C) Summary: EUCOM briefed Iceland Chief Defense Negotiator Albert Jonsson 4/26 on the Draft Concept Plan (the Conplan) for the Defense of Iceland. Jonsson responded 4/27 that the Conplan was fundamentally acceptable as a plan but did not go far enough toward meeting Iceland's political nee [...] | 2006-04-27 19:43:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS NATO IC |
06REYKJAVIK187 | ICELANDIC ACADEMIC CLAIMS U.S. BASE SHUTDOWN TIED [...] (C) Summary: An Icelandic historian's assertion that the U.S. would not be shutting down Naval Air Station Keflavik (NASKEF) had former PM and FM David Oddsson not retired from politics has excited the media and driven the country's leading politicians into a round of recriminations. The sugg [...] | 2006-05-26 18:06:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL KPAO ECA IIP IC |
06REYKJAVIK206 | ICELAND: TAPPED OUT ON TRUST FUND FOR NTM-I [...] (SBU) Post passed ref A talking points on pledging additional funds to the NATO Training Mission-Iraq to Icelandic MFA officials May 24 and discussed them with Acting Political Director Thordur Bjarni Gudjonsson June 9. Gudjonsson expressed surprise that Washington would be demarching Reykjavi [...] | 2006-06-09 15:58:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS IC |
06REYKJAVIK207 | NATO RESPONSE FORCE: ICELAND TO CONSIDER NEW [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-09 16:42:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO IC |
06REYKJAVIK218 | ICELANDERS AGREE PROCEDURAL ISSUES SHOULD BE FOCUS [...] (C) SUMMARY. In meetings with Embassy officials June 13 and 14, Icelandic MFA officials indicated agreement on most key issues for the June 19-30 first session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC). The Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples may prove to be a sticking point, as Nordic soli [...] | 2006-06-16 11:18:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL IC |
06REYKJAVIK98 | ICELAND: JUSTICE MINISTER FRUSTRATED -- AND [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with the Icelandic Justice Minister 3/22 as part of post's roll-out of the U.S. decision to remove fighter aircraft and CSAR helicopters from Naval Air Station Keflavik (NASKEF). The Minister expressed deep disappointment at the "unilateral" decision and listed [...] | 2006-03-22 16:01:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL MASS IC |
06RIGA1006 | (C) LATVIA INFORMED OF RESULTS FROM 2006 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-08 13:00:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA LG |
06RIGA518 | LATVIA ON WTO GENEVA MEETING [...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel points to Maija Manika, MFA U/S for Economic Issues June 28. Manika will accompany Economics Minister Stokenbergs to Geneva. Manika said that Latvia was among the EU member states urging a more flexible approach by the commission, but acknowledged that lar [...] | 2006-07-03 07:28:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL EUN WTO LG |
06RIGA519 | AMBASSADOR BAILEY'S MEETING WITH RUSSIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 29 meeting, Ambassador Bailey and Russian Ambassador Kalyuzhny discussed the security situation in Iraq; energy security; Latvian-Russian bilateral relations; the NATO Summit; the recent visit of Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga to the U.S.; and Russia's desire to [...] | 2006-07-03 07:28:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ENRG ECON WTO RS LG |
06RIGA524 | LATVIAN DEFMIN REASSURED ON ROTATAION OF LATVIAN [...] (C) Summary: As flagged by Embassy Baghdad, the Government of Latvia has been very concerned in recent days about what they believed to be a delay in the return home of their contingent rotating out of service in MNF-I. Thanks to quick coordination, we have been able to allay GOL concerns an [...] | 2006-07-05 14:47:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PGOV IZ LG |
06RIGA526 | LATVIA LOOKS TO MAJOR INCREASE IN DEVELOPMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY Latvia is shifting from being a recipient of foreign aid to being a donor. Their recently published development cooperation policy plan for 2007, envisions a roughly four-fold increase in development assistance, focused on Georgia and Moldova, with additional assistance to Ukrain [...] | 2006-07-06 07:54:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PREL PGOV GG MD LG |
06RIGA527 | PM'S CHIEF OF STAFF ON LATVIAN POLITICAL SCENE [...] (C) Summary: Latvia's October elections should produce a politial alignment similar to the coalition currently in office, although the nationalist Fatherland and Freedom could significantly increase its seats, according to the PM's chief of staff, Jurgis Liepnieks. Liepnieks, a consummate po [...] | 2006-07-06 07:55:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR LG |
06RIGA552 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PM ON 311 DESIGNATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Latvian Prime Minister Kalvitis greatly appreciated an advance briefing by Ambassador Bailey July 12 on U.S. Treasury decisions to sanction one Latvian bank for taking insufficient measures to combat money laundering and to lift the threat of sanctions on a second bank, bringing [...] | 2006-07-13 14:32:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL ETRD PHUM KCRM LG |
06RIGA566 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF ECONOMICS [...] (C) Summary: In a July 17 meeting, Ambassador Bailey and Economics Minister Stokenbergs discussed outstanding trade issues Liepajas Metallurgs and Coca-Cola, building bilateral trade links, and Latvia's relations with Russia. While we had little to offer on Liepajas Metallurgs, Stokenbergs wa [...] | 2006-07-18 14:38:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL PINR OFPD RS LG |
06RIGA573 | LATVIA IN AGREEMENT IN OPPOSITION TO [...] (C) Pol/Econ chief delivered reftel demarche July 19 to Vilmers Henins, A/S-level equivalent in the MFA for Russia and the former Soviet states. Latvia has "absolutely the same position" on this issue, he said, and agrees that Moscow is the key to resolving this. Henins expressed concern, ho [...] | 2006-07-20 08:15:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL OSCE MD RS LG |
06RIGA577 | NAZERBAYEV'S VISIT TO LATVIA [...] (C) Summary: The visit to Latvia by Kazakh President Nazerbayev was mainly focused on building economic ties between the two countries. The Kazakhs already have a heavy investment in a grain port in Latvia and would like to use the oil terminal at Ventspils to ship their oil. The two countri [...] | 2006-07-21 08:44:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG ECON OSCE RU KZ LG |
06RIGA628 | LATVIA ON DRAFT LEBANON UNSCR [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-07 13:20:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS UNSC LG |
06RIGA633 | SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE: LATVIAN MFA,S REACTION TO [...] (C) Summary: Latvia believes that the recent incident alleging that one of its diplomats in Minsk was distributing pornography was a set up meant to retaliate against Latvian support for Belarusian NGO's and Belarusian opposition forces, notably while Latvia was the EU presidency representa [...] | 2006-08-08 09:02:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM PINR EUN BO LG |
06RIGA653 | LEBANON/LATVIA/UNIFIL: POLITICALLY TOUGH, VERY [...] (C) Pol/econ chief and DATT delivered reftel points to Kaspars Ozolins, MFA A/S equivalent for security policy, and Signe Jansone, MFA A/S equivalent for the Middle East, on August 16. Ozolins, while noting Latvia's support for UNSCR 1701, stressed that Latvia's military forces are currently [...] | 2006-08-16 15:02:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR PREL UN LE LG |
06RIGA690 | LATVIA IN TUNE WITH BASIC PRINCIPLES ON KOSOVO [...] (C) Pol/econ chief drew from reftel points to brief Latvian PolDir Ilgvars Klava on our current thinking on Kosovo August 28. Klava said that Latvia was fully in agreement with the basic principles outlined by the USG and strongly supported Ahtisaari's mission. He underscored that Kosovo nee [...] | 2006-08-29 05:57:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS UNSC YI LG |
06RIGA698 | LATVIAN VIEWS ON POSSIBILITY OF EU/RUSSIA [...] (C) In a meeting with pol/econ chief August 28 on other issues, Latvian MFA PolDir Ilgvars Klava raised the topic of ongoing discussions in the EU on potential joint peacekeeping efforts with Russia. According to Klava, this topic would be discussed at the September 1 - 2 Gymnich. Klava said [...] | 2006-08-31 06:15:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS EUN RU LG |
06RIGA699 | BORIS YELTSIN'S VISIT TO LATVIA [...] (C) Summary: Boris Yeltsin's visit to Latvia to mark 15 years since the restoration of independence is viewed by GOL officials as another positive sign in relations with Moscow. Originally a private visit, both Latvian and Russian sources agree that it was upgraded at the request of President P [...] | 2006-08-31 10:39:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RU LG |
06RIGA719 | LATVIA FIRM ON NEED FOR FULL SERBIAN COOPERATION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-11 05:10:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KAWC SR LG |
06RIGA733 | LATVIA: MAINTAINING THE MOMENTUM ON LEBANON [...] (C) Pol/Econ Off met on September 11 with Signe Jansone, MFA A/S-level official responsible for the Middle East, to deliver demarche on maintaining momentum in Lebanon. Jansone agreed that it is very important not to return to the pre-conflict status quo in Lebanon. She said that it remains [...] | 2006-09-12 14:15:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PTER LE LG |
06RIGA738 | LATVIAN VIEWS ON GAERC [...] (C) Pol/econ chief delivered points in refs a and b to Veronika Erte, MFA A/S-level official responsible EU affairs September 13. Erte noted that the Latvian cabinet had approved Latvia's GAERC positions at a cabinet meeting on September 12, but nevertheless welcomed hearing USG views. There [...] | 2006-09-13 15:03:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EU LG |
06RIGA743 | LATVIA ON SYRIA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-14 15:07:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY LG |
06RIGA780 | LATVIA ON HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (C) Pol/econ chief delivered ref A points to Latvian MFA PolDir Ilgvars Klava on September 25. Klava, noting that Latvia was not a member of the HRC, took copious notes and nodded his head vigorously at several points, but did not give a formal indication of the GOL's position. He did, howev [...] | 2006-09-25 15:03:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN LG |
06RIGA792 | WHAT'S AT STAKE IN LATVIA'S ELECTIONS? [...] (C) Summary: While Latvia's parliamentary elections October 7 are unlikely to bring about a major near term change in foreign policy, the elections merit USG attention for two reasons. First, they will give us indication of whether Latvia will continue to press forward on efforts to strengt [...] | 2006-09-29 05:45:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL LG |
06RIGA832 | LATVIAN VIEWS ON GAERC - FOCUSED ON GEORGIA [...] (C) Pol/econ chief delivered reftel demarche to Veronika Erte, A/S-level official responsible for EU issues at the MFA, on October 12. The GOL adopted its GAERC positions in cabinet on October 10. Latvia will be represented at the GAERC by its Ambassador to the EU. 2. (C) Georgia - Althou [...] | 2006-10-12 14:04:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS EUN GG RU LE LG |
06RIGA847 | LATVIAN MFA ON BELARUS AND GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: Belarus has dropped the charges against the Latvian diplomat accused in July of distribution of pornography and transferred the evidence to Latvia under the bilateral mutual legal assistance treaty. While this should allow some stabilization in the bilateral relationship, includ [...] | 2006-10-17 11:09:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID BO GG RU LG |
06RIGA849 | LATVIA SUPPORTS FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1718 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-17 11:10:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KN LG |
06RIGA852 | LATVIA/RUSSIA: POSITIVE ATMOSPHERE AT AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary: The Latvian visit to Moscow October 13 to sign two bilateral agreements went well and the GOL was encouraged by the positive reception by Econ/trade minister Gref. Absent was the usual Russian complaints on treatment of ethnic Russians in Latvia. The Russians expressed a desire [...] | 2006-10-18 07:58:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ENRG GE RS LG |
06RIGA923 | SCENESETTER FOR BILATERAL BETWEEN PRESIDENT BUSH [...] (C) Mr. President, we are extremely honored that you will visit us November 28-29. Over two years into NATO and European Union membership, Latvia has emerged as a significant international player, despite its modest population and resource base. Latvia stands out as a successful post-Soviet [...] | 2006-11-06 16:04:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OVIP PRESIDENT LG |
06RIGA945 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY RICE'S PARTICIPATION IN [...] (C) Madame Secretary, we are extremely honored that you will visit us November 28-29. Over two years into NATO and European Union membership, Latvia has emerged as a significant international player, despite its modest population and resource base. Latvia stands out as a successful post-Sovi [...] | 2006-11-20 09:07:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OVIP SECRETARY RICE LG |
06RIYADH1 | PARDONED SAUDI DISSIDENT OUTLINES GRADUALIST [...] (C) Ali Al-Dumaini, one of the three reformers pardoned by King Abdullah in August, described himself and his colleagues as "reformers, not revolutionaries." Although in Al-Dumaini's view the Al Saud do not have a vision for reform, reformers are not seeking a new form of government but rath [...] | 2006-01-02 05:51:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SA |
06RIYADH123 | DHAHRAN DIGEST 4 [...] (C) One of post's Shi'a contacts, Mohammad Alltaleb, who doesn't mince words and, if his stories are true, is equally brazen in his actions, says he recently applied to the local branch of the Ministry of Social Affairs to start a self-help organization, with the goal of seeking MEPI funding. [...] | 2006-01-08 13:06:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV ENRG SCUL KWMN SA |
06RIYADH1377 | SHI'A "INDEPENDENTS" DISCUSS NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR [...] (C) A group of Shi'a independents again stressed to ConOffs their community's national identity, desire for reform in the Kingdom, and lack of political ties to Iran. They noted that the SAG is allowing the Shi'a community to build an active but small-scale and unofficial civil society, cente [...] | 2006-03-06 06:45:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF SA |
06RIYADH1380 | FEMALE SHI'A ACTIVIST: PRESSURE FOR REFORM MUST [...] (C) Summary: Aliya Al-Fareed (protect),longtime Shi'a political activist, discussed the state of reform in Saudi Arabia with PAO and PolOff in her home in Al-Safwa near Qatif. Al-Fareed was recently appointed to the National Society for Human Rights; she is the only woman among the five memb [...] | 2006-03-06 11:24:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL PINR KIRF KWMN SA |
06RIYADH1461 | SHI'A ACTIVIST SAYS SHIRAZIS ARE MODERATING [...] (C) Shi'ite political activist Mohammed Al-Shoyoukh told PolOff that Saudi Hezbollah countenances only "peaceful" means to achieve its social and political goals. He said that the "Shirazis," who include the most politically active Shi'a such as Hassan Al-Saffar and Jafar Al-Shayeb, have been [...] | 2006-03-08 08:10:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR SA |
06RIYADH1706 | SHI'A CIVIL SOCIETY, LOOKING TO THE STARS [...] (C) Summary: A meeting with the Qatif Astronomy Society on March 13th 2006 provided a snapshot of how civil society can operate in the Shi'a areas of Saudi Arabia. The Qatif Astronomy Society was begun locally with 12 founding members in February 2003, and has no license or official authoriza [...] | 2006-03-15 13:40:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KMPI KPAO KIRF SA |
06RIYADH1741 | SHI'A LEADER TAKING ADVANTAGE OF ALL OPPORTUNITIES [...] (C) Jafar Al-Shayeb, President and elected member of Qatif's municipal council and one of five people appointed to the Dammam branch of the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR),shared with CG and PolOff on March 15 his philosophy that "every positive initiative should be utilized." He d [...] | 2006-03-18 11:12:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KIRF SA |
06RIYADH186 | FEMALE CONSULATE STAFF PARTICIPATE IN EID CALLS [...] (C) For the first time in Consulate history, two female Mission staff members participated in most of the Consulate's calls over the recent Eid Al-Adha. Consulate staff traditionally call on the Emir of the Eastern Province (EP),the EP head of the Saudi Arabia National Guard (SANG),and a n [...] | 2006-01-18 10:04:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SCUL KWMN SA |
06RIYADH1920 | 'CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY' IS OFF-LIMITS FOR A [...] (C) Nawal Al Yousif (protect),a Shi'a journalist and founder of www.saudiyat.net, noted in a meeting with the PAO on March 17, 2006 that mentioning a constitutional democracy in her writing crossed a red line with the Saudi Ministry of Interior. "The Mubahith (Investigative Police) came to s [...] | 2006-03-21 09:03:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KMPI KIRF KPAO SA |
06RIYADH2682 | EP CORPORATE BANKER UPBEAT ABOUT IMPACT OF WTO [...] (SBU) Zaki Al-Yahya, Eastern Province-based Assistant General Manager in Samba's Corporate & Investment Banking Group, painted an upbeat picture about recent developments in the banking sector in a conversation with EconOff April 10. As a lender to many of the major EP businesses who serve as [...] | 2006-04-12 08:25:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV SA |
06RIYADH2683 | VISITING PRIEST DETAINED BY SAG IN DAMMAM, [...] (C) According to two sources in the Eastern Province's (EP's) expatriate Indian Roman Catholic community, a Catholic priest was detained by the SAG on April 5 while presiding over an evening service at a large compound or farm in Dammam. The priest, an Indian national from Kerala who was vis [...] | 2006-04-12 12:46:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF SA |
06RIYADH275 | ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE ON THE SHI'A "SHIRAZIS" [...] (C) Kamal Al-Khattee, son of a former Shi'a judge in Qaif, discussed with PolOff the evolution of the Shi'a faction known as the "Shirazis," who include Hassan Al-Saffar, Jafar Al-Shayeb, Tawfiq Al-Sayf, and others. According to Al-Khattee, they moved from Iran to Syria and elsewhere in the 1 [...] | 2006-01-23 07:38:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KIRF SA |
06RIYADH2840 | SAUDI SHI'A EXPRESS ANGER AT PRESIDENT MUBARAK'S [...] (U) In the week since President Mubarak remarked in an interview with Al-Arabiyya that Shi'a were "mostly loyal to Iran and not the countries they are living in," PolOff and PAO have asked many of post's Saudi Shi'a contacts about the Shi'a community's reaction. To a person, our contacts said [...] | 2006-04-18 12:13:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SA |
06RIYADH3147 | ARAMCO VP THINKS KARAN GAS DISCOVERY WILL PROVE "A [...] (C) Summary: Yousef Rafie, Saudi Aramco's Senior VP for Gas Operations, expanded on press reports of Aramco's recent discovery of gas in the Karan field, saying that the exploratory well was drilled into the first layer of the deep Khuff formation and was producing dry gas. He estimated res [...] | 2006-04-27 10:48:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV PREL SA |
06RIYADH3301 | CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE EP: THE ICE IS SLOWLY [...] (C) Government influence and oversight pervade the Eastern Province's (EP's) older civil society organizations. The SAG provides part of their funding, appoints or approves board members, and regulates their by-laws. Yet the ice is slowly breaking. The government is beginning to relinquish [...] | 2006-05-02 08:54:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI KMPI KDEM SA |
06RIYADH3306 | HASAWI SHI'A DETAIL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM VIOLATIONS, [...] (C) Summary: In separate conversations with PolOff in Al-Ahsa on April 25, two groups of Shi'a leaders and activists discussed discrimination and restrictions on their religious freedom, as well as steps they had taken to address some of these problems. Abdulaziz Al-Bahrany, the patient and [...] | 2006-05-02 13:05:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF SA |
06RIYADH3315 | HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE EASTERN PROVINCE: LIMITED [...] (C) Summary: Higher education in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia offers limited opportunities for students, particularly women and Shi'a. What is available is of questionable quality, suffering from centralized and religious control, poor student preparation, and difficulty in recruitin [...] | 2006-05-02 15:28:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI PGOV KMPI KPAO KIRF KWMN SA |
06RIYADH3346 | BUILDING CIVIL SOCIETY, ONE DISCUSSION AT A TIME [...] (C) Summary: In the past year, Consulate officers have observed increasing numbers of small civil society groups forming in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. Also notable is that many of the groups have started to cooperate and interact with each other in pursuit of larger goals. As an [...] | 2006-05-02 16:06:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI PGOV KPAO KMPI SA |
06RIYADH3491 | SAUDI-U.K. RELATIONS IMPROVING [...] (C) Summary. During a May 1 dinner, a British Polof who coordinated U.K. Embassy Riyadh,s recent high-level visits commented on the significant improvement in Saudi-U.K. relations over the past two years. He said that Saudi Arabia,s imprisonment and torture of five Britons from December 2 [...] | 2006-05-07 15:44:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON SA |
06RIYADH3589 | SHI'A CLERIC DISCUSSES SLOW BUT SIGNIFICANT [...] (C) In a meeting with PolOff on April 28, Shi'a cleric Faisal Al-Awami gave a broadly positive account of changes in Saudi Arabia over the past 10 to 15 years. Al-Awami, who, like many of his politically and religiously active Shi'a colleagues, studied in Iran and Syria starting in the early [...] | 2006-05-10 08:30:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SCUL KIRF SA |
06RIYADH3673 | QATIF MUNICIPAL COUNCIL MEMBER CONTINUES TO [...] (C) In a conversation with the CG on April 29, Isa Al-Muzel, an elected member of Qatif's municipal council, described his work at the council as "going well, but frustrating." He said that the biggest problem council members faced at the moment was rooting out institutionalized corruption i [...] | 2006-05-14 12:26:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR KIRF SA |
06RIYADH3720 | SAG DETAINS HARD-LINE SHI'A CLERIC RETURNING FROM [...] (C) Post contacts and the Saudi Shi'a-run Rasid News Network (www.rasid.org) report that the Saudi Mubahith detained Shi'a cleric Nimr Baqir Al-Nimr on the evening of May 11 as he was entering Saudi Arabia from Bahrain over the King Fahd Causeway. Al-Nimr is from Awamiya, a small oasis town [...] | 2006-05-15 12:35:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SA |
06RIYADH3766 | ARAMCO CONSULTANT DOUBTS ARAMCO CAN MOVE PAST 12.5 [...] (C) An American expatriate who is a senior consultant to Saudi Aramco on oil drilling operations told the CG recently that he doubted Aramco would be able to develop a maximum sustainable oil production capacity (MSC) "much beyond" 12.5 million barrels per day after 2009. (Note: Aramco's cur [...] | 2006-05-16 06:54:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON SA |
06RIYADH3852 | ARAMCO CEO: THE OIL ERA IS NOT OVER [...] (C) At a dinner on May 14 hosted by businessman Badr Al-Suwaidan, President and CEO of Al-Bilad, and attended by the CG and FCS Off, Abdullah Jumah, CEO of Saudi Aramco, commented in response to a query that U.S. energy policy is "confusing" and "has no logic." He claimed that the U.S. was s [...] | 2006-05-20 08:06:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PREL PINR SA |
06RIYADH3889 | DETAINED SHI'A CLERIC RELEASED; A SECOND [...] (C) The SAG released detained Shi'a cleric Nimr Al-Nimr in the evening of May 15, according to his brother Mohammed Al-Nimr. Al-Nimr had been in SAG custody since May 11 (ref A). A small delegation of family and others had met with the Eastern Province's vice governor, Prince Jiluwi, earlier [...] | 2006-05-20 14:22:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SA |
06RIYADH390 | REPORTING IRAN TO THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY [...] (C) Ambassador met with SAG U/S for Political Affairs Prince Turki Saud al-Kabir on January 28 to deliver reftel points and paper. (Note: FM Prince Saud al-Faisal was accompanying King Abdullah on four-country Asian travel and is not expected back in the Kingdom until 2/5.) Ambassador stress [...] | 2006-01-29 10:48:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL AORC SA IR |
06RIYADH3974 | BETWEEN OIL WELLS AND THE SEA: A POLITICIAN SHOWS [...] (SBU) "Over there you can see one of Aramco's wells," Nabih Al-Ibrahim, a Saudi Aramco engineer and an elected member of Qatif's municipal council, told PolOff and PAO, gesturing to his left as the group drove down the main access road into his home town of Awamiya off the Dhahran-Jubail high [...] | 2006-05-22 10:09:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI PINR SA |
06RIYADH3977 | CHRISTIAN EXPATRIATE DOCTOR TOLD TO LEAVE KINGDOM [...] (C) Mission and DRL contact Roy Markara told PolOff on May 18 that Dr. Florence Isaac, a Christian doctor of Indian origin who has been working in the Kingdom for a number of years, had her medical license suspended and was told by the SAG that she had to leave the Kingdom before June 16. Acc [...] | 2006-05-22 12:30:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF SA |
06RIYADH3978 | SAUDI REFORMER DISCUSSES THE CREDIBILITY OF [...] (C) Summary: Long-time reformer Ahmed Al Mulla discussed the current state of Saudi reform with the Consul General on March 28th 2006. Linking the loss of credibility of Saudi sheikhs with their cooperation with the government, he noted a new sheikh whose message is clear-- the Middle East suf [...] | 2006-05-22 12:39:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KIRF SA |
06RIYADH42 | AL-HASA SHI'A WELCOME U.S. INTERVENTION IN IRAQ, [...] (C) Members of the Shi'a community in Al-Hasa welcomed U.S. intervention in Iraq, saying an almost unqualified "thank you" during lunch with Acting CG and PolOff. Although noting some progress in the SAG's campaign against home-grown terrorism, they said that the government's campaign for to [...] | 2006-01-03 11:16:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER KISL SA KIFR |
06RIYADH4224 | SAG RELEASES ARRESTED FILIPINO CHRISTIAN [...] (C) Mrs. Minerva Cabel (strictly protect),wife of arrested Filipino Christian pastor Francisco Cabel (strictly protect),informed Poloff May 29 that her husband was released May 25 (reftels). She stated that the SAG had given her husband one month before they will deport the entire family. [...] | 2006-05-30 13:46:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF SA |
06RIYADH4231 | SAG DECREE ON RELIGIOUS POLICE GAUGES PUBLIC [...] (U) Recent media and Web site reports carried news of a decree issued by the Ministry of Interior May 24, which some interpret as an effort to curtail the seemingly unlimited and undefined authority of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, also known as the religi [...] | 2006-05-30 15:10:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KIRF PHUM SA |
06RIYADH4539 | EP SANG COMMANDER DISCUSSES IRAN, IRAQ [...] (C) Prince Mishari bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, commander of the Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG) in the Eastern Province (EP),told the CG on June 5 that he did not think the "problem between the world and Iran," as he described it, would come to war. The Iranians are "merchants," he [...] | 2006-06-07 12:09:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PINS SA |
06RIYADH4627 | COORDINATED MOVES: FOUR BROTHERS PLAY LOCAL EP [...] (C) Summary: At a lunch with Consulate staff on June 6, Yousef, Khalifa, Khalid, and Mohammed Al-Dossary, brothers with a variety of business interests and political activities (ref A),described several aspects of the Eastern Province (EP) political situation. Yousef said that EP Emir Princ [...] | 2006-06-11 06:44:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SA |
06RIYADH4638 | DEMARCHE ON HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DELIVERED TO SAG [...] (C) ADCM raised reftel points during 6/12 meeting with MFA Undersecretary for Political Affairs Prince Turki al-Kabir Al Saud. APolCouns attended as notetaker. U/S Turki expressed concern over reftel point referring to deferring Israel/Palestine discussion at inaugural HRC meeting, particula [...] | 2006-06-12 12:30:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL SA |
06RIYADH4723 | SHI'A CLERIC ASKS U.S. TO EXERT MORE INFLUENCE [...] (C) Sheikh Mohammed Hassan, introduced by a post contact as a leading Saudi follower of Karbala-based Ayatollah Mohammed Taqi Al-Mudarassi, told PolOff in a June 11 meeting that the U.S. should play a more active role in calling for reform in Saudi Arabia. "All reform in the Kingdom is taking [...] | 2006-06-13 08:37:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SA |
06RIYADH4724 | A LOVE FEST: THE "KING OF HEARTS" VISITS THE EP [...] (U) King Abdullah visited the Eastern Province (EP) June 10-12, provoking great public displays of adoration and allegiance and some private questioning about his commitment to reform. The King's agenda included a ceremonial opening of planned industrial city Jubail-II, launching of numerous [...] | 2006-06-13 09:35:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SA |
06RIYADH4775 | SAG RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE: JUNE OIC BAKU [...] (C) A/PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to Abdulrahman Al-Rassi, MFA Office Director for International Organizations. Al-Rassi will be the SAG representative at the OIC conference and was keenly interested in the US position reflected in the reftel demarche. In particular, he appreciated t [...] | 2006-06-14 14:58:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SA |
06RIYADH4776 | SAG RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON YEMENI GCC ASSISTANCE [...] (C) A/PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to Abdulrahman Al-Rassi, MFA Office Director for International Orgnizations. Al-Rassi confirmed that SAG agreed that providing financial assistance to Yemen through the GCC is important in ensuring regional stability. When asked whether they plan on pr [...] | 2006-06-14 14:59:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PTER SA |
06RIYADH4818 | SAG DEMARCHE RESPONSE: SUPPORT FOR GUATEMALA IN [...] (C) A/PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to Abdulrahman Al-Rassi, Office Director for International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on June 14. Al-Rassi noted the US position, and was interested to know the number of times that each country had served on the UN Security Counc [...] | 2006-06-17 14:08:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PGOV SA |
06RIYADH4914 | SAUDI HEZBOLLAH FIGURE OFFERS A SLIGHTLY TOUGHER [...] (C) In a May 28 meeting with PolOff and PolFSN, Ahmed Al-Nimr (Ahmed),brother and office manager of Shi'a cleric Sheikh Hassan Al-Nimr (Hassan),explained that Hassan would not meet with American diplomats because "he would lose the respect of people on the street, who would ask why he met w [...] | 2006-06-19 12:46:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PHUM SA |
06RIYADH4919 | REMAINS RETURNED, FAMILIES OF GTMO DETAINEES CALL [...] (U) Following the deaths of the three GTMO detainees, Abdulaziz Suleiman al-Rubaish, whose brother is currently detained at GTMO, contacted the Embassy and asked to meet with the Ambassador. PolMilOff met al-Rubaish at the Embassy front gate and accepted a letter addressed to President Bush f [...] | 2006-06-19 14:34:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL KPAO PGOV PREL MOPS PTER KAWC SA XF |
06RIYADH4961 | SAG NOTIFIED OF PSI WARSAW MEETING PARTICIPANTS [...] (C) On June 14 A/PolCouns gave Abdulrahman al-Rassi, Office Director for MFA's International Organizations Department, a list of Middle Eastern states the USG expects will participate in the June 23 Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) High Level Political Meeting in Warsaw, Poland. A/Pol [...] | 2006-06-20 11:30:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL KNNP XF |
06RIYADH4966 | NOTICE OF SECOND ROUND OF GUANTANAMO [...] (C) Post notified the Ministry of Foreign Affairs via diplomatic note on April 23 of the upcoming Administrative Review Board on the status of the Saudi detainees named in Reftel. We will notify the Department of any response from the SAG. OBERWETTER [...] | 2006-06-20 12:42:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINR PREL SA |
06RIYADH4967 | SAG NOTIFIED OF SECOND ROUND OF GUANTANAMO [...] (C) Post notified the Ministry of Foreign Affairs via diplomatic note on April 23 of the upcoming Administrative Review Board on the status of the Saudi detainees named in Reftel. We will notify the Department of any response from the SAG. OBERWETTER [...] | 2006-06-20 12:43:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINR PREL SA |
06RIYADH4997 | HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST ACCEPTS FORMAL ROLE ON HUMAN [...] (C) Ibrahim Al-Mugaiteeb, President of the unregistered Human Rights First Society, told the CG on June 17 that he had accepted a formal role with the government-affiliated Human Rights Commission (HRC) run by Dr. Turki Al-Sudairy. Al-Mugaiteeb said that Al-Sudairy had offered him a position [...] | 2006-06-21 04:41:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR PREL SA |
06RIYADH5036 | QATIF MUNICIPAL COUNCIL MEMBER ADVOCATES PATIENTLY [...] (C) In a June 29 meeting with PolOff, Dr. Riyadh Al-Mustafa, an elected member of Qatif's municipal council, detailed his and the council's efforts to improve Qatif's services and infrastructure. Al-Mustafa, whose constituency is the town of Qatif itself, said that the council's first priori [...] | 2006-06-23 08:10:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR SA |
06RIYADH5083 | INTERNET JOURNALISM CHANGING PERSPECTIVES AMONG EP [...] (C) Hussein Al-Alak, a Qatif-based journalist for online Rasid News Network (www.rasid.org; the premier Internet forum for Saudi Shi'a),discussed with PolOff and PAO on June 20 the growing influence of Internet journalism among the Shi'a. Because the government has permitted much greater fre [...] | 2006-06-25 08:36:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SCUL SA |
06RIYADH5111 | TRIBAL LEADER PLAYS POLITICS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE [...] (C) In a June 21 meeting with Consulate Dhahran and Embassy Manama PolOffs, Essa Al-Dossary, self-styled deputy sheikh of the Al-Dossary tribe in the Eastern Province (EP) and the Kingdom of Bahrain, described to PolOffs the nature of his influence on both sides of the causeway. Al-Dossary e [...] | 2006-06-26 12:59:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SA BA |
06RIYADH5114 | KING LAUNCHES ECONOMIC AND EDUCATION INITIATIVES [...] (C) Summary: King Abdullah recently completed his first national tour since becoming King. Traveling with his Cabinet, the King visited the Ha'il, Al Qassim, Medina and Eastern provinces promoting government support for economic, industrial, health and educational development of the regions [...] | 2006-06-26 14:21:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF SA |
06RIYADH5173 | A TALE OF TWO MUNICIPAL COUNCILS: THE DIVERGING [...] (C) Summary: Six months after the SAG announced its appointees to the municipal councils (reftel),the experiences of the Greater Dammam Municipal Council (GDMC) and the Qatif Municipal Council (QMC) illustrate two diverging paths in this experiment in partially elected local government. Th [...] | 2006-06-30 07:22:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SA |
06RIYADH5220 | 14 GUANTANAMO DETAINEES TRANSFERED TO SAUDI [...] (C) Summary and Comment: On June 25, 14 Guantanamo detainees were transferred to Saudi authority, including a non-Saudi citizen, Ahmad Sadik Turkestani. The Ministry of Interior (MOI) has told EmbOffs that all of the detainees will be further incarcerated in the Kingdom until the SAG rules [...] | 2006-07-02 13:28:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL KPAO PGOV PREL KAWC MOPS PTER SA XF |
06RIYADH5264 | SAG REQUESTS USG SUPPORT FOR FOREIGN MINISTER'S [...] (C) On July 2, Post received via diplomatic note a request from the Saudi Foreign Ministry seeking USG assistance to secure a temporary license from the Treasury Dept's Office of Financial Assets Control (OFAC) to allow Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal to fly aboard a private, corporate [...] | 2006-07-02 15:57:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SA |
06RIYADH5277 | MIXED SAUDI REACTION TO KUWAITI ELECTIONS [...] (U) On June 29, the Kuwaiti Parliament held elections, in which women were allowed to run as candidates and vote for the first time. There were twenty-seven women candidates, but none were elected. Saudi media reported mixed reactions to the results. Most Saudi media reported that the electi [...] | 2006-07-03 13:48:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SA |
06RIYADH5314 | DHAHRAN DIGEST 7 [...] (SBU) Dr. Abdullah Al-Kadi, director of Al Bir, the largest charitable organization in the Eastern Province (EP),estimated to the CG that there were 3.7 million residents in the EP, of whom 20 percent (740,000) were expatriates. Al-Kadi, a U.S.-trained architect and urban planner, has constr [...] | 2006-07-05 05:51:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET SOCI PINR PGOV SA |
06RIYADH5315 | DISCUSSION GROUPS GROW, CIVIL SOCIETY DEVELOPS [...] (C) Summary: Shi'a journalist Merza Al Khuwaildi discussed the range of new discussion groups in Saudi Arabia, in a June 28 meeting with the Consul General. Considered the vanguard of civil society in Saudi Arabia, these home-based, informal, grass-roots groups have enjoyed more freedom over [...] | 2006-07-05 06:12:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KIRF SA |
06RIYADH5316 | SETBACKS FOR SAUDI BUSINESSWOMEN IN THE EP [...] (C) Summary: Director of the Businesswomen's Committee at the Eastern Province Chamber of Commerce and Industry Hana Al-Zuhair recounted recent setbacks for businesswomen. In a meeting on June 27 2006, Al-Zuhair told the PAO about a mixed-gender meeting held at the Chamber in April, to discuss [...] | 2006-07-05 06:14:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KWMN KPAO SA |
06RIYADH5322 | IRAQI PRIME MINISTER VISITS KINGDOM ON FIRST TRIP [...] (C) Traveling on his first trip abroad as Prime Minister, Iraqi PM Nouri Al-Maliki visited Saudi Arabia July 1-2 seeking Saudi support for economic development, reconciliation, and improving security to stabilize Iraq. Saudi news sources reported that PM Maliki was received by the Crown Prin [...] | 2006-07-05 12:28:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IZ SA |
06RIYADH5451 | HASAWI SHI'A CONTINUE ADVOCACY EFFORTS IN RIYADH [...] (C) In separate meetings with PolOff and PAO on July 8, Hasawi Shi'a activists Sadeq Al-Ramadan and Mohammed Al-Jubran discussed Shi'a advocacy efforts with the SAG. Al-Ramadan mentioned that he was part of a small delegation that visited the Vice Minister of Information and several other min [...] | 2006-07-10 08:31:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI KIRF SA |
06RIYADH5456 | MAJLIS AL SHOURA REJECTS FUNDING FOR THE RELIGIOUS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-10 14:25:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KISL SA |
06RIYADH5513 | SHI'A TRADITIONALIST LAMENTS SHIRAZI ASCENDANCY IN [...] (C) Kamal Al-Khatti, a Riyadh-based social researcher formerly employed by Prince Abdulaziz bin Fahd and son of Qatif's late and revered Judge Abdulhamid Al-Khatti, told the CG and ConOffs that the Shirazis (ref A) now dominated Qatif and the Saudi Shi'a community politically, but that a laten [...] | 2006-07-11 11:51:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL SA |
06RIYADH5547 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR VISIT OF DEPUTY [...] (C) The U.S. Mission to Saudi Arabia welcomes and grants provisional country clearance for the visit of Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt and his delegation to Saudi Arabia on July 23. Due to recent severe budget cuts, the Mission must direct charge all visit support costs. Country cl [...] | 2006-07-12 08:23:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP EAID ECON EFIN PREL IZ SA |
06RIYADH5601 | SAUDI ARABIA ISSUES STATEMENT ON SECURITY [...] (U) NIACT precedence justified due to urgency of the message conveyed by the Government of Saudi Arabia. 2. (SBU) On July 14, the Saudi Foreign Ministry urgently contacted and delivered to the Ambassador the following official Saudi statement expressing its views on the situation in Palestine and [...] | 2006-07-14 00:19:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS KPAL KWBG SA |
06RIYADH5709 | SAUDI SHI'A REACT TO CRISIS IN LEBANON [...] (SBU) Based on Internet postings and conversations with contacts since the confrontation between Hezbollah and Israel erupted last Wednesday, Saudi Shi'a are unanimous in condemning Israel's response to Hezbollah's kidnapping of the two Israeli soldiers, and most Saudi Shi'a seem supportive of Hezb [...] | 2006-07-18 11:26:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SA |
06RIYADH5780 | US LOBBYING FIRM SEEKS GREATER VOICE FOR TAWAFUQ, [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. Please see paragraph five. 2. (C) Summary: Mark Alsalih, an Iraqi American from the Washington lobbying firm MITA, requested Embassy's assistance on July 17 to make an introduction to Director of the Saudi General Intelligence Presidency Prince [...] | 2006-07-19 15:14:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IZ SA |
06RIYADH5904 | TRANSFORMATIONAL DIPLOMACY IN THE EP: [...] (C) Opportunities abound in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province (EP) for ConGen Dhahran to expand its work with EP residents to help them transform Saudi Arabia's future. Since September 11, EP residents have claimed, and the SAG has tolerated, much greater latitude to discuss the country's and p [...] | 2006-07-25 08:50:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI KDEM SA |
06RIYADH5947 | SAG REMOVES SHI'A JUDGE IN QATIF [...] (SBU) The SAG removed Ghalib Al-Hammad as judge of the Shi'a court in Qatif, replacing him with associate judge Sulaiman Abu Al-Makarem effective July 19. Al-Hammad had only held the post for 7 months (ref B),and his abrupt sacking engendered speculation and criticism within the Shi'a commu [...] | 2006-07-26 11:23:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF SA PGOV PHUM |
06RIYADH5949 | SAG REMOVES SHI'A JUDGE IN QATIF [...] (SBU) The SAG removed Ghalib Al-Hammad as judge of the Shi'a court in Qatif, replacing him with associate judge Sulaiman Abu Al-Makarem effective July 19. Al-Hammad had only held the post for 7 months (ref B),and his abrupt sacking engendered speculation and criticism within the Shi'a commu [...] | 2006-07-26 11:23:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF SA PGOV PHUM |
06RIYADH5952 | KING ABDULLAH AND PRESIDENT MUBARAK DISCUSS [...] (C) King Abdullah and Egyptian President Mubarak met July 25 to consult on the Lebanon crisis. Stating that Saudi Arabia and Egypt hold identical views on the situation in Lebanon, both leaders called for an immediate cease-fire, warning that continued Israeli aggression could engulf the entire reg [...] | 2006-07-26 14:00:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER SENV LE SA |
06RIYADH6 | SAUDI HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST FREE TO TRAVEL, [...] (C) Summary: Ibrahim Mugaiteeb, President of the Saudi NGO, "Human Rights First" (HRF),informed poloff that the SAG had returned his Saudi passport, and will allow him to travel to Germany to receive medical attention. Mugaiteeb also stated that he had met with the chairman of the National [...] | 2006-01-02 11:42:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SA |
06RIYADH6003 | SAUDI RED CRESCENT TO SEND HUMANITARIAN CONVOY TO [...] (U) NIACT precedence justified by urgent operational information and alternate work week. This message responds to Lebanon Task Force and Embassy Tel Aviv requests for assurances and information, to be shared with the IDF, concerning the planned travel of a Saudi relief convoy to Lebanon. [...] | 2006-07-29 13:52:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LE EAID SA |
06RIYADH6005 | SAG RESPONSE: NEW YORK FORCE GENERATION MEETING [...] (C) Ambassador spoke with Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal July 29 by telephone to discuss reftel demarche, which Post had earlier transmitted via diplomatic note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Foreign Minister responded that the Saudis would not provide troops for peacekeeping effor [...] | 2006-07-29 15:20:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SA LE |
06RIYADH6037 | TFLE01: SAUDI HUMANITARIAN CONVOY STILL PLANNING [...] (C) NIACT precedence justified by urgent operational information and alternate work week. This message responds to Lebanon Task Force and Embassy Tel Aviv requests for assurances and information, to be shared with the IDF, concerning the planned travel of a Saudi relief convoy to Lebanon. [...] | 2006-07-29 20:45:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER EAID LE SA |
06RIYADH6038 | CONSERVATIVE SAUDI CLERICS DEBATE SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Last week, three revered Wahhabi sheikhs issued advisory opinions in their own capacity on the question of support for Hizballah. On July 17, prominent Wahhabi Sheikh Abdullah bin Jabreen issued an advisory opinion, reported as a fatwa declaring it impermissible for Muslims to s [...] | 2006-07-30 07:15:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KISL SA |
06RIYADH6040 | TFLE01: SAUDI HUMANITARIAN CONVOY TO BEIRUT [...] (C) NIACT precedence justified by urgent operational information and alternate work week. This message concerns the travel of a Saudi relief convoy to Lebanon. 2. (C) Poloff conveyed reftel E information to Emboff at the Saudi Embassy in Lebanon (Saudi POC) early on the morning of July 30 [...] | 2006-07-30 09:29:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER EAID LE SA |
06RIYADH6335 | TRIBAL LEADERS MAKE AMENDS THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Saudi press this week covered what is likely a regular, but nonetheless rarely reported event, the traditional process of reconciliation between two tribes engaged in a potentially violent dispute. Though such events are usually far from the local headlines and almost never the [...] | 2006-08-08 07:43:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SA |
06RIYADH6338 | EGYPTIAN DCM GIVES READOUT ON ARAB LEAGUE MEETING [...] (C) Egyptian DCM Hossam Kassem told the DCM on the evening of August 7 that the Arab League Foreign Ministers' meeting in Beirut had gone well from its members' point of view, and that there were three criticisms leveled against the draft UNSC resolution on Lebanon. The foreign ministers re [...] | 2006-08-08 13:30:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV LE SA |
06RIYADH6339 | SAUDI CONSERVATIVES CALL FOR BOYCOTT ON US [...] (C) SUMMARY: Beginning July 31, two prominent conservative websites posted articles calling for a boycott on U.S. consumer goods and services, ranging from fast-food franchises to shampoo brands, to begin on August 4. There was already an ongoing cellular telephone text messaging campaign. [...] | 2006-08-08 13:44:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECON ETRD SA LE |
06RIYADH6343 | SAUDI ACADEMIC WARNS THAT LEBANON FOMENTS EXTREMISM [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On August 6 a politically mainstream Saudi academic and journalist, Dr. Ali Sa'ad al-Musa, published an open letter to President Bush in the widely-read al-Watan newspaper, warning that he and millions of other moderates in the Middle East are becoming extremists as [...] | 2006-08-08 14:52:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR SA |
06RIYADH6372 | SAUDI OPPOSITION GROUP CALLS FOR FRIDAY PROTESTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The London-based, Saudi opposition group accused of having links to al-Qaeda, the Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia ('MIRA'),called for political gatherings to be held Kingdom-wide at 44 specified mosques beginning this Friday, August 11. MIRA, composed of religious conserva [...] | 2006-08-09 14:52:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KISL SA |
06RIYADH6440 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR VISIT OF DEPUTY [...] (C) The U.S. Mission to Saudi Arabia welcomes and grants provisional country clearance for a delegation led by Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt and Principal Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Ambassador James SIPDIS Jeffrey to visit the Kingdom August 14-15 to dis [...] | 2006-08-13 11:28:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP EAID ECON EFIN PREL IZ SA |
06RIYADH6473 | RIYADH RECORD: JULY 30-AUGUST 4 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The SAG provided humanitarian assistance to victims of the crisis in Lebanon through air and land convoys as well as increased financial assistance. The Saudi public's discontent increased with the SAG's perceived support for U.S. policy in Lebanon, and protesters of U.S. suppor [...] | 2006-08-14 13:41:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR SA |
06RIYADH6520 | ANTI-BUSH POEM EPITOMIZES CURRENT SAUDI PUBLIC MOOD [...] (C) BACKGROUND: Poetry runs in the blood of the Saudi people. They have historically utilized poetry to express public opinion over social, political, and cultural issues. They also use poetry to curry favor with their rulers, local and regional, as well as share their criticisms in an open forum. [...] | 2006-08-16 12:29:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR SCUL SA |
06RIYADH6571 | SAUDI COUNCIL OF MINISTERS WARNS TERRORISM HAS NO [...] (C) Summary: A headline on the front page of the August 15 edition of the English language Arab News read, "Kingdom Warns Against Linking Islam With Fascism," referring directly to President Bush's August 11 statement on the foiled terrorist plot in the U.K. President Bush's comment, that th [...] | 2006-08-19 13:03:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KISL SA |
06RIYADH6574 | SAUDI COUNCIL OF MINISTERS WARNS TERRORISM HAS NO [...] (C) Summary: A headline on the front page of the August 15 edition of the English language Arab News read, "Kingdom Warns Against Linking Islam With Fascism," referring directly to President Bush's August 11 statement on the foiled terrorist plot in the U.K. The Arab News article reported th [...] | 2006-08-19 16:02:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINR KISL SA |
06RIYADH6730 | COURTS IGNORE SHARIA RULING, ANNUL MARRIAGE BASED [...] (U) Three years and two children into a happy marriage, a Saudi couple in Al-Jouf, a city in the northern part of the Kingdom, have seen their marriage annulled on the grounds that it violated social custom. According to several media reports, the woman's half-brother filed the lawsuit in Aug [...] | 2006-08-24 18:40:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KISL PCUL SA |
06RIYADH6926 | UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL -- SAG SAYS SAME OLD, SAME [...] (C) Summary. Government of Saudi Arabia (SAG) MFA Human Rights POC Torki Al-Madi told Acting Political Counselor and PolOff during an August 16 courtesy call that the UN Human Rights Council is not an improvement on its predecessor, the UN Human Rights Commission, especially since the U.S. i [...] | 2006-08-30 11:12:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL SA |
06RIYADH6976 | POLITICAL POETRY PRAISES HEZBOLLAH [...] (C) Al Hayat newspaper published on August 26 a political poem entitled "Lebanon," which was written by Dr. Ghazi Al-Qusaibee, Minister of Labor and key advisor to Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah. Al-Qusaibee, a famous poet and writer in the Arab world, is commonly known as a [...] | 2006-09-04 06:38:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR KISL SA PHUM |
06RIYADH6980 | CONVERSATION WITH NEO-TRIBALIST WOMEN'S ACTIVIST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent media reporting about the rise in the number of official and unofficial female proselytizers in the Kingdom has generated much debate. The number of "unsanctioned" female preachers is increasing, and their lack of supervision by authorities breeds uncertainty about the me [...] | 2006-09-04 13:26:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PCUL PHUM KISL KWMN SA |
06RIYADH7058 | TERRORIST FINANCE: SAG ON ABOUSOFIAN, YASSIN [...] (U) This contains an action request at paragraph 6. 2. (C) Summary: MFA's counselor for counterterrorism, Abdulrahman Al-Ahmed, told us August 29 that it will take appropriate action on the 1267 Designation of Abousofian Abdelrazik. He asked for updates on the closing of the IIRO branch [...] | 2006-09-06 07:10:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KFTN PREL PTER ETTC SA ID RP |
06RIYADH7191 | RIYADH RECORD: AUGUST 19-31 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Youth summer camps in the Kingdom elicited controversy from one of their lectures on the negative aspects of the West and how Saudi journalists act as the West's "agents." The Ministry of Commerce licensed the first female engineer in Saudi Arabia; the hope is that many more wi [...] | 2006-09-12 13:44:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL KWMN SA |
06RIYADH7193 | PROPOSED CHANGE IN WOMEN'S PRAYER AREA IN MECCA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The General Presidency for the Two Holy Mosques Affairs issued a proposal on August 25 for shifting the prayer place of women within the circumambulation area -- the uncovered circle surrounding the Kaaba ("House of God"),which is called the mataf-- in the Grand Mosque of Mecca. [...] | 2006-09-13 05:07:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL KWMN |
06RIYADH7628 | SAUDI ATTENDANCE AT GCC+2 FOLLOW-UP MEETING IN [...] (C) On September 28, 2006, CDA Rundell delivered the reftel demarche to Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Nizur Obaid Mandani. Dr. Mandani confirmed that Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal will attend both the Secretary's October 2 meeting with King Abdullah in Jeddah and the GCC 2 Oct [...] | 2006-09-28 15:22:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SA |
06RIYADH7629 | DRL DAS ERICA BARKS-RUGGLES DISCUSSES POLITICS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) Erica Barks-Ruggles met with dozens of Saudi women representing a broad spectrum of opinions and backgrounds during her September 12-14 visit to Saudi Arabia. The Saudi women unanimously agreed that Saudi [...] | 2006-09-28 15:24:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KWMN SA |
06RIYADH7837 | SAUDI ARABIA OFFERS POSITION PAPER ON THE PEACE [...] (C) During Secretary Rice's October 2 visit to Jeddah, Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal provided the following position paper on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process to NEA Assistant Secretary Welch. 2. (C) Begin Text: Position Paper On the Peace Process October 2006 The danger [...] | 2006-10-04 16:29:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS SA |
06RIYADH8 | SHI'A JUDGE IN AL-HASA SEEKS GREATER RESOURCES [...] (SBU) Acting CG and PolOff paid an introductory call on Sheikh Mohammad Al-Luwaimi, President of the Shi'ite Endowments and Inheritance Court in Al-Hasa, on December 28. Al-Luwaimi is the only judge in the only Shi'ite court serving the Shi'a population of Al-Hasa, a governorate in the Easter [...] | 2006-01-02 13:33:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF KISL SA |
06RIYADH8173 | A/DCM DISCUSSES USG REVIEW OF SAUDI TEXTBOOKS WITH [...] (C) A/DCM solicited continued SAG cooperation in support of a USG review of Saudi textbooks during an October 9 meeting with Minister Plenipotentiary Hazem Karakotly, assistant to Director General for International Organization Affairs Ambassador Dr. Turki bin Mohammed Saud al-Kabir al Saud. [...] | 2006-10-15 15:49:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR KISL KIRF SA |
06RIYADH82 | AL-HASA BUSINESSMEN SEEKING GREATER INVESTMENT, [...] (SBU) Businessmen in Al-Hasa, a governorate in the Eastern Province (EP) that comprises a large oasis and extensive, oil-rich desert areas, told Acting CG and PolOff repeatedly over the course of a day-long visit on December 27 that Al-Hasa needs new investment, especially in infrastructure. [...] | 2006-01-04 15:35:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV EINV SA |
06RIYADH8233 | USG DISCUSSION WITH MINISTER OF COMMERCE [...] (C) Summary: On 20 September 2006, Ambassador James Oberwetter, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Trade and Director General of the U.S. Commercial Service (DG),Israel Hernandez, and Commercial Counselor, Nasir Abbasi met with Saudi Minister of Commerce and Industry, Hashim [...] | 2006-10-16 07:10:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON KIPR SA |
06RIYADH8234 | PRESIDENTIAL ADVOCACY LETTER DELIVERED TO KING [...] (C) Summary: On September 19, Department of Commerce Assistant Secretary for Trade Promotion, Israel Hernandez, delivered the President's letter advocating for two U.S. companies, Boeing and General Electric (GE),bid for the upgrade of Saudi Arabian Airline (Saudia) and the Royal fleet, to [...] | 2006-10-16 07:14:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ETRD BEXP PREL PTER MOPS SA |
06RIYADH8253 | ARABIAN CHEVRON,S VIEWS ON THE REFINERY DISPUTE [...] (C) This is a response to an action request, Ref B, for additional background for a 17 October meeting between P and Chevron CEO Reilly regarding a SAG disagreement with Kuwaiti plans to construct a refinery in the Partitioned Neutral Zone (PNZ) shared by the two countries. Executives from A [...] | 2006-10-16 16:03:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV PREL KU SA |
06RIYADH8395 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FRANCES FRAGOS [...] (C) The U.S. Mission to Saudi Arabia welcomes and grants provisional country clearance for Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (APHSCT),Homeland Security Council, Ms. Frances Fragos Townsend; Senior Director for Combating Terrorism Strategy, National Security [...] | 2006-10-21 10:37:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER KTFN ETTC PREL PGOV ECON SA |
06RIYADH8401 | THE SAUDI FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT I: STAB AT [...] (U) Summary: From September 16-19, Ahmed Elbashari, representative of the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN),and EconOff, met with senior management of the Saudi Arabia Financial Investigation Unit (SA FIU) to conduct a final on-site assessment [...] | 2006-10-22 09:56:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC SA |
06RIYADH8406 | THE SAUDI FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT III: [...] (U) Summary: From September 16-19, Ahmed Elbashari, representative of the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN),and EconOff, met with senior management of the Saudi Arabia Financial Investigation Unit (SA FIU) to assess the SA FIU for membership in [...] | 2006-10-22 11:32:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER KTFN ETTC SA |
06RIYADH8407 | THE SAUDI FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT IV: [...] (U) Summary: From September 16-19, Ahmed Elbashari, representative of the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN),and EconOff, met with senior management of the Saudi Arabia Financial Investigation Unit (SA FIU) to assess the SA FIU for membership in [...] | 2006-10-22 11:36:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER KTFN ETTC SA |
06RIYADH8414 | MAKKAH DECLARATION - WHERE HAVE ALL THE SHI'A [...] (U) Iraqi Sunni and Shi'a religious leaders signed on October 20 the "Makkah Declaration," which forbids Sunnis and Shi'a to kill each other (reftel). Many are likening the ten-point declaration to a "fatwa," or religious ruling, although the signatories have not described the document as suc [...] | 2006-10-24 13:41:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KISL IZ SA |
06RIYADH8432 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR SECRET SERVICE [...] (C) The U.S. Mission to Saudi Arabia welcomes and grants provisional country clearance for U.S. Secret Service Special Agents: Advance Team Christopher Caruso, Faisal Alshami and Ross Yerger; midnight shift team Gillian Penswick and Scott Keenan; and working shift James Brian Dunlop, Andrew Ad [...] | 2006-10-28 13:28:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER EFIN KTFN ETTC PREL SA |
06RIYADH8492 | REVISED COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FRANCES [...] (C) The U.S. Mission to Saudi Arabia welcomes and grants provisional country clearance for Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (APHSCT),Homeland Security Council, Ms. Frances Fragos Townsend; Director for Combating Terrorism Strategy, National Security Counci [...] | 2006-10-29 12:31:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER KTFN ETTC ECON SA |
06RIYADH8671 | KING'S "LANDMARK" TOUR OF SOUTHERN REGION YIELDS [...] (U) Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdul Azziz arrived in Najran on October 31 for his first visit to the region since ascending the throne. Najranis, who closed their shops and held a festival in honor of the King, prepared for months for the visit. In conjunction with [...] | 2006-11-04 15:32:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON PINR SA |
06RIYADH8718 | TERRORISM FINANCING COORDINATOR OFFICER [...] (C) Embassy Riyadh's Terrorism Finance Coordinating Officer (TFCO) is Robert Silverman, Economic Counselor, phone number (01) 488-3800, extension 4237 and email address RJSilverman@state.sgov.gov. The current Deputy TFCO is Lubaina Qaiyumi, Economic Officer, phone number (01) 488-3800, exte [...] | 2006-11-06 09:03:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER KTFN ETTC SA |
06RIYADH8788 | FOLLOW-UP ON DEMARCHES [...] (C) On November 6, Deputy Political Counselor (DPC) delivered reftels (A, B, C, D) demarches and talking points to Saudi MFA, International Organization Affairs, UNGA Issues, Mr. Talal Berri. The issues raised were: the UNGA Third Committee (Iran, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Burma, and North Kore [...] | 2006-11-07 13:03:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF KISL MOPS PINR PTER USUN |
06RIYADH8799 | SAUDI PUBLIC REACTION TO SADDAM HUSSEIN'S [...] (C) Saudi public reaction to the November 5 sentencing to death of Saddam Hussein has been mixed. While there are those who question the legality of Hussein's trial and the credibility of the proceedings, others agree with the verdict and sentencing. At the same time, some Saudis have expres [...] | 2006-11-08 10:14:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PTER IZ SA |
06RIYADH8840 | DRL DAS BARKS-RUGGLES MEETING WITH SAUDI MFA, MOJ, [...] (C) Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) Erica Barks-Ruggles met on September 12-13 with the Majlis Al-Shoura (MAS) and the Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Justice (MoJ). These meetings were follow-up to the July 25 - 27, 2006, meeting of [...] | 2006-11-14 05:34:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM OTRA PINR SA |
06RIYADH8841 | DRL DAS BARKS-RUGGLES MEETING WITH SAUDI HUMAN [...] (SBU) DRL DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles met the National Society for Human Rights, the Human Rights Commission, and the Human Rights First Society during her September 12-14 visit to Riyadh. Participants in all three meetings raised U.S. treatment of Homaidan Al-Turki (reftel)and Guantanamo Bay deta [...] | 2006-11-14 05:34:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM OTRA PGOV PHUM SA |
06RIYADH8860 | SAUDI MFA DEMARCHED ON UNGA RESOLUTIONS, CPC [...] (C) Deputy PolCouns demarched Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department of International Organizations, human rights lead, Abdulrahman Al-Rassj, on November 15 regarding Afghan Hajj flights (Ref A),Saudi Arabia's November 13 redesignation as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) (Ref B),and UN [...] | 2006-11-15 16:09:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL EAIR ECON KIRF UNHRC AF SA |
06RIYADH8863 | DELIVERY OF CASH COURIER TRAINING PROPOSAL [...] (C) On November 5, non-paper from reftel was delivered to Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Abdulrahman Al-Ahmed, Counselor for Counterterrorism matters. Simultaneously, non-paper was delivered through U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation's liaison channels to [...] | 2006-11-18 05:23:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER KTFN ETTC SA |
06RIYADH8921 | THE NEW SUCCESSION LAW PRESERVES THE MONARCHY [...] (C) SUMMARY: A SUCCESSION STRUGGLE AMONG THE AL SAUD FAMILY HAS LONG BEEN ONE OF THE GREATEST THREATS TO SAUDI ARABIA'S STABILITY. THE FIRST TWO SAUDI STATES COLLAPSED PARTIALLY AS A RESULT OF SUCCESSION PROBLEMS. FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF KING ABDULAZIZ IN 1953, A FIERCE POWER STRUGGLE AMON [...] | 2006-11-22 04:02:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR SA |
06RIYADH9031 | COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL MEETS WITH SAG REGARDING [...] (C) SUMMARY: At Post's invitation, Colorado Attorney General (AG) John Suthers visited the Kingdom from November 14-17 to explain the Homaidan Al-Turki case to King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, Saudi government officials, and the Al-Turki family. The very successful visit highlighted the [...] | 2006-12-09 14:47:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KPAO PINR KISL SA |
06RIYADH9056 | THE CAPITAL MARKET AUTHORITY'S NEED FOR ASSISTANCE [...] (U) Summary. From September 11-14, experts from the U.S. Securities and Exchange (SEC) provided a three-day technical assistance seminar on market oversight and enforcement strategies to Saudi Arabia's Capital Market Authority (CMA). The CMA freely shared information and actively engaged wit [...] | 2006-12-12 10:01:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON SA |
06RIYADH9068 | THE REHABILITATION OF KING SAUD AND HIS TRIBAL [...] (C) Saud bin Abudulaziz was the eldest surviving son of the Kingdom's founder Abudulaziz bin Abdulrahman Al Saud. He became Crown Prince and Viceroy of the Nejd in 1933. Upon his father's death in 1953, he became King. He was deposed by his brothers in 1964 and died in exile a few years lat [...] | 2006-12-13 13:01:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SA IZ |
06RIYADH9085 | DHAHRAN DIGEST 8 [...] (U) This cable is a continuation of a regular series of updates from the Eastern Province (EP) designed to capture some of the EP's local color and items of USG interest that are not necessarily appropriate for a topical cable. ---------------------------------------- PRINCE MOHAMMED BIN FA [...] | 2006-12-15 09:06:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET KIRF PA PGOV PHUM PREL SA |
06RIYADH9173 | ENTHUSIASTIC SHOURA COUNCIL ASKS SENATOR NELSON [...] (C) SUMMARY. Enthusiastic Majlis Al Shoura members acknowledged the positive U.S. - Saudi bilateral relationship but asked Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) during a meeting on December 17 for increased engagement by members of Congress with the Council. Meeting participants agreed that any enhance [...] | 2006-12-26 11:54:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PHUM KISL IZ SA |
06ROME1023 | ITALY: SLOW DOWN ON ID FOR GEORGIA [...] (C) Responding to reftel demarche on April 4, MFA NATO Office Head Gianni Bardini told polmiloff that Italy considers it premature to invite Georgia into Intensified Dialogue (ID) with NATO at the April 13 meeting between Georgia and the Allies. Bardini said that, while Italy is open to think [...] | 2006-04-04 15:54:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL GG IT NATO |
06ROME1025 | ITALY'S FLEDGLING ISLAMIC CONSULTATIVE COUNCIL [...] (C) Summary: Interior Minister Pisanu's hand-picked Muslim Consultative Council continues to be controversial after its first two meetings. Criticism by both the right-wing Northern League Party and some members of the Muslim community convinced Pisanu to cancel the next meeting until afte [...] | 2006-04-05 08:49:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PREL PGOV PTER IT HUMAN RIGHTS |
06ROME1083 | TRADE VICE MINISTER PLANS "COURAGEOUS" TRADE OFFER [...] (C) Summary. During an April 3 courtesy call by Ambassador Spogli, Trade Vice Minister Adolfo Urso was cautiously optimistic of a narrow center-right victory in this week's elections. He admitted that GOI positions on trade and the WTO have been driven by politics until now, but said a cent [...] | 2006-04-10 16:09:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ETRD IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS ITALIAN POLITICS |
06ROME1107 | NEXT STEPS IN ITALY'S CONTESTED ELECTION [...] (U) SUMMARY: In elections that showed Italy split down the political middle, center-left challenger Romano Prodi has apparently won a razor-thin majority over PM Silvio Berlusconi in the Italian Senate. His edge in the Chamber of Deputies was also close, but the voting bloc will be more subs [...] | 2006-04-11 16:33:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IT |
06ROME1115 | ITALY WAITS FOR VERIFIED ELECTION RESULTS: [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Opposition leader Romano Prodi has declared victory in Italy's parliamentary election while current PM Silvio Berlusconi has cautioned that infinitesimally close results call for caution until final results have been fully verified according to standard procedures. Two aspects [...] | 2006-04-12 13:13:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IT |
06ROME1162 | ITALY: CERTIFIED VOTE RESULTS EXPECTED SOON [...] (C) A consensus is developing that the Italian Court of Cassation will issue certified election results next Tuesday, April 18, though reports that the recount could take a few days longer persist. UDC Party Secretary Lorenzo Cesa told the press that election results would not change, and FI [...] | 2006-04-14 14:25:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS |
06ROME117 | ITALIAN MFA U/S MANTICA VISITS SOMALIA [...] (C) Summary. The Italian MFA's Undersecretary for Africa Alfredo Mantica met with Somali TFG PM Ali Gedi in Jowhar January 5, as Somali President Yusuf and Speaker of Parliament Hassan were signing the Aden Declaration in Yemen. According to the MFA, Gedi expressed support for the Declaratio [...] | 2006-01-12 16:14:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SO IT UN |
06ROME1174 | ITALY SUPPORTS CURRENT EU BURMA POLICY [...] (C) Summary. Poloff delivered reftel demarche April 13 to Nicola Tassoni, MFA Deputy Southeast Asia Office Director, presenting U.S. concerns regarding some of the statements made at the EC 2006 Burma/Myanmar Forum, and highlighting the importance the U.S. places on coordinating our Burma mess [...] | 2006-04-19 07:31:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | BM EAID EU PHUM PREF PREL IT |
06ROME1182 | ITALIAN VIEWS ON NATO GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP - [...] (C) Italy has a positive impression of the U.S. concept for a NATO Global Partnership and is interested in pursuing it further, but registered concerns about our presentation and approach, fearing we are moving too fast, without a clear enough sense of what partners want or expect, or of possib [...] | 2006-04-19 15:45:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR IT NATO EUN |
06ROME119 | IRAQ: ITALIANS WANT TO LEAD PRT, EVALUATING OTHER [...] (C) Summary. Italy would like to lead the PRT in Dhi Qar province, where it has considerable military and civilian experience. It sees this as a useful vehicle for an increasing focus on civilian activities as well as security training. Packaging the coalition's evolving role in Iraq in ter [...] | 2006-01-12 17:09:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PGOV IZ IT UNSC IRAQI FREEDOM |
06ROME1194 | GOI SUPPORTS USG POSITION ON RUSSIAN MEMBERSHIP IN [...] (C) Summary. Acting EcMin met April 12 with Carlo Tripepi, Senior Advisor for Non-proliferation and Trade Controls to the MFA's Director General for Economic Affairs, to deliver Refs A and C talking points and non-papers. Tripepi said the GOI position on Russian membership in the Australia G [...] | 2006-04-20 12:07:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MTCRE MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA RS IT |
06ROME1202 | ITALY: BERLUSCONI STAYS MUM ON PRODI WIN [...] (C) PM Silvio Berlusconi has not yet conceded victory to opposition leader Romano Prodi even after Italy's Court of Cassation officially confirmed the electoral victory for Prodi on April 19. In the wake of the court's confirmation, congratulatory calls from world leaders began to flow into P [...] | 2006-04-21 10:14:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IT |
06ROME1203 | ITALY: CODEL HYDE HEARS PLANS FOR A ROBUST [...] (C) Summary. Berlusconi U/S Gianni Letta told a visiting Codel Hyde delegation April 19 that, given a strong second-place showing in the elections, the center-right would play the part of a particularly robust opposition party when the new center-left government took office. He predicted t [...] | 2006-04-21 10:20:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OREP IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS |
06ROME1207 | PRODI AIDE SAYS NEW GOVERNMENT WILL FOLLOW EU [...] (C) Summary. Acting DCM told a senior Prodi advisor April 21 that the Center Left leader's phone conversation with the PA prime minister two days before had generated surprise and consternation in Washington, in view of US and EU policy against contact with senior Hamas officials. Prodi aide [...] | 2006-04-21 15:39:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR KPAL PTER PGOV XF IT |
06ROME1209 | ITALY: PRODI ADVISER TALKS GOVERNMENT FORMATION, [...] (C) A senior adviser to Romano Prodi says President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi has privately agreed to tap Prodi as PM-designate before Ciampi's term expires. If that happened, it could accelerate the government formation process by about two weeks, to mid-May. Levi also said he th [...] | 2006-04-21 17:33:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS KNNP PTER EUN IZ IR IT |
06ROME122 | AMBASSADOR PUTS DOWN MARKER WITH CENTER-LEFT ON [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador on January 11 told Daisy Party leader Francesco Rutelli that the Center-Left could not begin its relationship with the United States in a worse manner than to unilaterally declare a withdrawal of Italian troops from Iraq in the event of a Center-Left victory in the [...] | 2006-01-13 05:54:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IT IRAQI FREEDOM ITALIAN POLITICS ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS |
06ROME1221 | ITALY: PRODI ALLY LOOKS AHEAD ON IRAQ, HAMAS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Head of the Democrats of the Left (DS) International Affairs Office adviser and newly elected member of parliament Luciano Vecchi told Poloff that Prodi would strictly follow EU policy with regards to Hamas. Vecchi also confirmed the Center-Left position on Iraq, reaffirming that [...] | 2006-04-24 16:57:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS KPAL IZ IT |
06ROME1222 | ITALY SHARES U.S. VIEWS ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (C) April 11 PolMinCouns informed Giacomo Sanfelice, Deputy Director General for Political Multilateral Affairs, of Reftel A letter from Secretary Rice to FM Fini and explained the U.S. position on supporting candidate countries in the first UN Human Rights Council (HRC) elections. Poloff fol [...] | 2006-04-24 17:17:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KUNR OPDC PREL PHUM IT UNGA HUMAN RIGHTS |
06ROME1230 | ITALY BRIEFED ON U.S. KOSOVO POLICY [...] (C) April 20 Poloff briefed Raimondo de Cardona, MFA Balkans Office Director, and Maria Teresa di Maio, Kosovo Desk Officer, on U.S. Kosovo policy per reftel. De Cardona said it was useful to hear our policy laid out more comprehensively, noting that the GOI was already aware of the various c [...] | 2006-04-26 11:10:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV YI EU IT |
06ROME1246 | ITALY ON BOARD WITH NATO'S MIDDLE EAST SECURITY [...] (C) Summary. Italy, a co-sponsor of the Middle East Security Cooperation Center (SCC) proposal, is fully on board with the concept but concerned about presentation. Italy believes the SCC must be fully co-sponsored with participating Middle East countries and does not favor launching it at t [...] | 2006-04-26 13:16:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO MARR IT |
06ROME1261 | ITALIAN POLITICIANS REACT WITH GRIEF AND [...] (C) Italian politicians reacted with grief, solidarity, and condemnation April 28 following the killing of three Italians and a Romanian in Nasiriya. PM Berlusconi said he was deeply grieved by the deaths and center-left leader Prodi called it a tragedy for all of Italy. One center-left party [...] | 2006-04-28 05:10:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL UNSC PGOV EAID IZ IT |
06ROME1324 | ITALY UNCERTAIN LISTING TAMIL TIGERS WILL PROMOTE [...] (C) Poloff discussed Ref demarche on May 3 with the MFA's Enrico Valvo of the counter-terrorism office and Giuseppe Cinti, Soth Asian Office Director. Both officials fully agreed that the suicide bombing last month was an abhorrent escalation and said Italy would continue denouncing all forms [...] | 2006-05-04 13:03:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IT EUN |
06ROME1325 | ITALY WILL NOT VOTE FOR IRAN ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-04 13:08:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KUNR PHUM UNHCR PREL IT |
06ROME1335 | GOI PARTICIPATION IN TRANSATLANTIC ENERGY [...] (C) As instructed reftel, DCM and A/Ecmin met April 28 with Dutch DCM Joost Reintjes and Senior Economic Advisor Chris Schoenmakers to discuss European energy security issues and GON plans for a May 18 Conference on Transatlantic Energy Security. DCM Reintjes requested USG assistance in dete [...] | 2006-05-05 13:56:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ECON PREL IT EU |
06ROME1347 | IRAQ: ITALIAN MFA WARNS PRESSING TOO HARD ON QRF [...] (C) The Italian MFA does not foresee a change in Italy's policy of gradual troop reductions, in consultation with the Iraqis and coalition partners, in Iraq. Barring additional terrorist attacks, the MFA also does not expect major problems with funding renewal for the mission this summer. But [...] | 2006-05-05 16:14:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL UNSC PGOV EAID IZ IT |
06ROME1359 | ITALY CONSIDERING APPROACH TO NORTH KOREAN FLAGS [...] (C) Econoff and Poloff delivered Reftel A points and information on the Italian vessel using a North Korean flag to Federico Failla, MFA Office Director for the Far East, April 28, and urged the GOI to consider a law or regulation to make it illegal for Italian nationals and companies to use D [...] | 2006-05-08 10:47:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KN KNNP MNUC EWWT PHSA IT |
06ROME137 | FM FINI'S MESSAGE TO BELGRADE LANDS ON DEAF EARS [...] (C) Summary. Italian FM Fini's recent visit to Belgrade failed to persuade Serbian PM Kostunica to accept the possibility that a decision on Kosovo's status could result in anything other than broad autonomy. Kostunica is convinced that the international community would be prevented by inter [...] | 2006-01-13 16:44:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SR MW YI IT EUN |
06ROME141 | ITALY: ELECTORAL REFORM COULD BRING DIVIDED [...] (C) SUMMARY: In addition to impacts reported REF A and B, Italy's controversial electoral reform law introduces different systems for calculating results in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. In the Chamber of Deputies, the winning coalition receives a majority premium guaranteeing that [...] | 2006-01-17 09:47:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IT ITALIAN POLITICS ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS |
06ROME1410 | ITALY: GIORGIO NAPOLITANO ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE [...] (SBU) Senator for Life Giorgio Napolitano May 10 was elected Italy's 11th President of the Republic by a simple majority in the fourth round of voting. The center-right opposition, led by caretaker PM Silvio Berlusconi, did not support Napolitano's candidacy. Two of Berlusconi's coalition al [...] | 2006-05-10 16:16:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IT |
06ROME1450 | GOI LEADERS SAY ITALY WILL REMAIN STAUNCH ALLY [...] (C) Summary. PDAS Kurt Volker met May 8-9 with a cross-section of political and MFA representatives and stressed to elected GOI leaders the importance of continued cooperation on Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, the Balkans and other global issues. He said that Italy would remain an important ally b [...] | 2006-05-12 14:43:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM IAEA IT IZ IR SR |
06ROME1492 | ITALY CONTINUES TO SUPPORT HUMAN RIGHTS IN SYRIA [...] (C) Political Minister Counselor met May 16 with MFA Middle East Deputy Luca Del Balzo to deliver reftel, urging that the Italians speak publicly about the need for the SARG to improve its human rights record and release detainees. Del Balzo responded that the U.S., the EU and Italy were in [...] | 2006-05-17 11:31:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL SY IT HUMAN RIGHTS |
06ROME1518 | ITALY'S COMMUNIST CHAMBER LEADER WELCOMES USG [...] (C) Communist Renewal leader Fausto Bertinotti May 17 warmly welcomed his first official contact, as Italy's new Chamber of Deputies president, with the US Ambassador. He initiated an animated discussion of Italy's economic problems, and expressed cautious optimism that the new government co [...] | 2006-05-18 10:54:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | IT PGOV |
06ROME1519 | ITALY AND CUBA: NSC-DIRECTED REVIEW FOR LIBERTAD TITLE III SUSPENSION [...] (C) Summary. There have been few developments in Italy's relationship with Cuba in the past six months. Italy supported the EU's condemnation of recent acts of repudiation and subsequent demarches to the GOC, including protesting the harassment of dissident Martha Beatriz Roque. Italy did no [...] | 2006-05-18 12:34:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL IT CU ETRD |
06ROME1526 | PRODI RATCHETS UP RHETORIC ON IRAQ, NO NEW GROUND [...] (C) Summary. On May 18, Italian PM-designate Romano Prodi addressed the Italian Senate to lay out his government's political platform. Prodi reiterated his coalition's oft-stated opposition to the war, and said his government would propose to Parliament the return of Italian troops. He step [...] | 2006-05-18 17:36:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IT |
06ROME1527 | ITALY: A LOOK AT THE PRODI GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Romano Prodi and his cabinet of 25 ministers were sworn in May 17 by President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano. Political commentators immediately called the government composition "more left than center", but the vital ministries of Foreign Affairs, Interior, Defense, Economy and Just [...] | 2006-05-18 18:09:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IT |
06ROME1555 | COESPU: ITALIAN PROPOSALS FOR NEXT CANDIDATE [...] (U) This is an Action Request. See Paragraph 11. 2. (C) Summary: Italy recommends inviting Chile, Ghana, Nigeria, Serbia and Montenegro (SaM),and South Africa to participate in the Center of Excellence for Police Stability Units (COESPU) in Vicenza. In addition, Italy looks to the U.S. [...] | 2006-05-23 07:45:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO MARR MOPS PGOV PREL IT |
06ROME1580 | ITALY: DEFENSE MINISTER PARISI TELLS AMB. GOI [...] (C) In the Ambassador's May 23 introductory call on new Italian Defense Minister Arturo Parisi, Parisi stressed themes of friendship with the U.S., a desire to consult closely on all issues and to deal with the most sensitive ones frankly and away from the press. He assured the Ambassador of [...] | 2006-05-23 15:43:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO MOPS IZ AF IT |
06ROME1588 | ITALY WANTS TO BE MONTENEGRO'S MOST INFLUENTIAL EU [...] (C) Summary. Immediately after the Montenegrin referendum on independence, Raimondo De Cardona, director of the Balkans office of the MFA, told the Serbia and Montenegro ambassador Darko Uskokovic that Italy wants to become Montenegro's strongest EU partner and added that Montenegrin President [...] | 2006-05-24 13:37:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IT MW SR YI |
06ROME1603 | ITALY IN AGREEMENT ON DARFUR ACCORD, NOT EXPECTING [...] (C) Poloff met with Fabrizio Pignatelli, MFA Horn of Africa Office Director, May 11 to deliver Reftel A points encouraging Italy to restrict the issuance of visas to members of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM); and May 24 to deliver Reftel B points outlining issues for follow-up to the [...] | 2006-05-26 15:32:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID SOCI PINS SU IT |
06ROME1625 | ITALY: PM PRODI ON CIVILIAN COMMITMENT TO IRAQ, [...] (C) In a wide-ranging meeting with Senator Allen and the Ambassador on May 30, Italian PM Prodi said Italy was firmly committed to Iraq's future, but had to figure out how to end its military engagement while continuing to contribute to reconstruction and political development. He said he was [...] | 2006-05-31 14:52:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO MOPS EUN IZ AF IT |
06ROME1630 | ITALY ON U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] (C) DCM conveyed the main points of reftel demarche to MFA Chef de Cabinet Ferdinando Nelli Feroci and MFA Political Director Giulio Terzi on May 31. Terzi said the MFA had already seen the Secretary's statement, which it read with great interest, and EU High Representative Solana's reaction. [...] | 2006-05-31 16:59:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR IT |
06ROME1637 | IRAQ: ITALIAN LEADERS ASSESSING ITALY'S TROOP [...] (C) Summary. Italian leaders are evaluating Italy's troop presence in Iraq and seeking ways to reconcile the need to maintain a military presence for civilian force protection with the government's commitment to complete troop withdrawal. In separate discussions with Deputy FM Rutelli and De [...] | 2006-06-01 14:25:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL UNSC PGOV EAID IZ IT |
06ROME1666 | MTCR: GOI SUPPORTIVE OF UPDATED CONTROLS FOR [...] (C) A/EcMin delivered reftel letter from U/S Joseph to Carlo Tripepi, the MFA's Deputy Assistant Secretary-equivalent official in charge of Missile Technology SIPDIS Control Regime (MTCR) issues. Undersecretary Joseph's counterpart, MFA Director General for International Economic Affairs [...] | 2006-06-05 15:44:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC TSPA KSCA IT |
06ROME1726 | ITALIAN VIEWS ON JUNE GAERC [...] (C) Summary. The GOI is prepared to recognize Montenegro as an independent state following an EU statement on the results of the referendum but wants the international community to continue to focus on trafficking, organized crime and security issues after the dissolution of the union between [...] | 2006-06-09 14:22:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN KPAL YI MW IZ IT |
06ROME173 | SCENESETTER: YOUR MEETING WITH ITALIAN FM FINI [...] (C) This meeting is an opportunity for FM Fini and the Berlusconi government to showcase Italian foreign policy successes in advance of April elections. Fini will want to show the public that Italy's engagements abroad have advanced its national interests, enhanced its international standing, [...] | 2006-01-18 16:18:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS IT PGOV PREL ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS IRAQI FREEDOM ITALIAN POLITICS AFGHANISTAN UN |
06ROME1737 | ITALY SUPPORTS FMCT BUT NOTES CHALLENGES AHEAD [...] (C) Poloff delivered ref demarche and background materials on June 8 to Paolo Cuculi, from the MFA's Disarmament and Non-proliferation office. Cuculi took on board ref points and readily acknowledged that the Italian position fully supports the US draft text for achieving an FMCT. Ambassador [...] | 2006-06-12 08:14:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL IT |
06ROME1741 | AFGHANISTAN: ITALY PLANS INCREASED ISAF ROLE [...] (C) Summary. MFA Undersecretary Gianni Vernetti and other officials told the Embassy that Italy intends to increase its military presence in Afghanistan with more special operations forces, more troops for the Herat Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) and Forward Support Base (FSB),a new Trea [...] | 2006-06-12 13:10:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR PREL AF IT NATO |
06ROME1792 | MTCR: GOI RESPONSE TO U/S JOSEPH LETTER [...] (C) Embassy received June 12 the following response to Ref B letter from U/S Joseph, signed by Giandomenico Magliano, MFA Director General for Multilateral Economic Affairs. Text of letter follows. 2. (C) Begin text of Magliano letter to U/S Joseph. May 26, 2006. Dear Under [...] | 2006-06-16 13:46:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC KSCA MTCRE PARM PREL TSPA IT |
06ROME1849 | ITALY WORKING THROUGH EU ON VENEZUELA NGO LAW [...] (C) June 19 Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Acting South America Office Director Paolo Campanini, urging Italy to communicate its concerns with the Venezuelan NGO bill to Caracas. Poloff noted that the draft legislation was vague and would give great discretion to the GOV in hindering NGO [...] | 2006-06-22 14:21:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV VE EAID IT |
06ROME1851 | ROME VISITS HIGHLIGHT BALKAN ISSUES [...] (C) Summary. In separate visits to Rome June 20 by UN Special Envoy for Kosovo and Romanian FM Razvan Ungureanu raised the issues of Italian-Romanian cooperation in Iraq, Romanian entry into the EU and Kosovo. Italian FM D'Alema told Ungureau that Italy supported Romanian entry into the EU i [...] | 2006-06-22 15:16:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IT SR YI RO |
06ROME1879 | EUR/WE DIRECTOR ALLEGRONE'S VISIT TO ROME [...] (C/NF) Summary and Comment. In meetings with senior Italian political party advisors, journalists and officials in Rome June 20-23, Allegrone heard many of the new Prodi government,s multiple, often conflicting policy voices, especially on Iraq and Afghanistan. Many said this cacophony w [...] | 2006-06-27 07:07:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IT |
06ROME1947 | SERBIAN PM KOSTUNICA'S VISIT TO ROME [...] (C) Summary. Serbian PM Vojislav Kostunica visited Rome on July 6 to meet with PM Prodi, FM D'Alema, MOI Amato, President of the Chamber of Deputies Foreign Affairs Committee Ranieri, and President of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Dini. Kostunica told the Italians that Serbia would co [...] | 2006-07-06 14:21:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IT YI SR |
06ROME1954 | ITALIANS EXPRESS INTEREST IN GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO [...] (C) On July 7 DCM and Russian Charge d'Affairs Andrey Maslov delivered reftel points to Deputy Director General for Political Affairs Giacomo San Felice, G8 Director Giampaolo Cantini, and Director for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-proliferation Filippo Formica of the Italian MFA. San Fel [...] | 2006-07-07 14:26:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP PINR PINS PTER KNNP RU IT |
06ROME1957 | ITALIAN RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREAN MISSILE LAUNCHES [...] (C) Summary. MFA Office Director for East Asia Federico Failla and Office Director for Non-Proliferation Filippo Formica, July 7 expressed Italy's concern over the North Korean missile launches and highlighted the GOI's commitment to the EU position, which condemned the launches and called fo [...] | 2006-07-07 15:45:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KN PARM KNNP IT |
06ROME1992 | ITALIANS PROMISE TO DOWNPLAY PACE RESOLUTION ON [...] (C) MFA Balkans Office Director Raimondo De Cardona told Poloff that the PACE resolution calling for the abolishment of qualified majority voting and for a review of the entity structure, while unhelpful, was entirely irrelevant to Italy's Balkan policy. According to De Cardona, the Italian C [...] | 2006-07-12 14:30:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BK IT |
06ROME2017 | IRAQ COMPACT LOGISTICS INFORMATION FOR ITALY [...] (C) The Italian MFA confirms the presence of the three Italian delegates listed in reftel at the July 20 Iraq Compact and would like to accept the U.S. offer to provide transportation from Amman to the International Zone. The delegates' full information is as follows: - Minister Gianludovic [...] | 2006-07-17 10:01:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EINV IZ IT |
06ROME2099 | ICTY CHIEF PROSECUTOR CARLA DEL PONTE IN ROME [...] (C) Summary. On July 18, ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte visited Rome to discuss the new Serbian action plan for compliance with the tribunal. Del Ponte told the Italians that she expected the action plan to result in the arrest and transfer of Mladic to the tribunal. The Italians urge [...] | 2006-07-21 18:28:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SR YI IT |
06ROME2117 | BANK OF ITALY GOVERNOR DRAGHI MAPS WAY FORWARD ON [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting July 7 with Treasury Under Secretary for International Affairs Timothy Adams, Bank of SIPDIS Italy Governor Mario Draghi expressed his desire that USG SWIFT wire transfer monitoring continues, and proposed the G8 countries pass legislation legalizing monitoring of [...] | 2006-07-25 15:27:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IT |
06ROME2195 | ITALY: INVITATION TO BURMESE FM AN EU EXPERIMENT [...] (C) Poloff delivered Ref A demarche to Giuseppe Mistretta, MFA Office Director for Southeast Asia, August 2, stressing U.S. disappointment with the Finnish Government's decision to invite the Burmese Foreign Minister to the September ASEM meeting in Helsinki. Mistretta responded that the invit [...] | 2006-08-04 12:14:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM FI BU EUN IT |
06ROME2234 | ITALY OK WITH INFORMAL UN MIGRATION DIALOGUE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-09 07:28:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREF SMIG UNGA IT |
06ROME2285 | DEMARCHE ON UNSCR 1701: ITALY [...] (C) Pol M/C August 12 delivered ref points to Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema's vice chief of staff, Alfredo Conte. Conte noted that the Secretary and D'Alema had spoken by telephone the previous evening, shortly after agreement was reached on the draft resolution. He said the FM ha [...] | 2006-08-12 11:15:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS IS LE SY IT |
06ROME2288 | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MINISTER BERSANI CHARTS WAY [...] (U) Summary: In a courtesy call by Ambassador Spogli August 2, Economic Development Minister Pierluigi Bersani outlined his plans for further economic liberalization and identified barriers to reform. He expressed enthusiasm for the Ambassador's Partnership for Growth, and said Italian compa [...] | 2006-08-14 09:11:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD ENRG IT |
06ROME239 | IRAQ: ITALY-US-UK TRILATS, JANUARY 19, 2006 [...] (C) Summary. Italy confirmed it will lead a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Dhi Qar, for which it would provide its own security, and the UK previewed its plans for a PRT in Basra. U.S.-UK-Italy agreed on the concept for the PRTs as providing capacity-building for local authorities. [...] | 2006-01-26 08:02:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL UNSC PGOV IZ IT |
06ROME241 | ITALY PROTESTS IRAN DECISIONMAKING PROCESS [...] (C) The GOI January 25 expressed concern about the upcoming London meeting on Iran and the emergence of a P6 format for decisionmaking on the issue. To drive home its unhappiness about being sidelined, the GOI had blocked EU agreement that same day on EU-3 draft language regarding Iran. Whil [...] | 2006-01-26 15:33:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER IAEA IT IR |
06ROME2429 | D'ALEMA, LEBANON, AND ENGAGING ITALY [...] (C) Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema is emblematic of both the possibilities and challenges posed by Italy's center-left government. Prickly. Ex-Communist. Europeanist. Critic of Iraq war. Critic of alleged US unilateralism. Political opponent of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. [...] | 2006-08-30 14:25:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IT |
06ROME2434 | ITALIANS NOT OPPOSED TO KAZAKHSTAN'S OSCE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-30 15:53:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KZ KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE IT |
06ROME2489 | ITALY URGES SYRIA TO STOP ARMS FLOW [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Prodi sent his diplomatic adviser to Damascus September 6 with a message for Asad urging compliance with the terms of resolution 1701 and a halt in the arms flow to Lebanon. It was the latest in a series of direct Italian messages to Syria, coming on the heels of [...] | 2006-09-06 16:50:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MOPS EAID PHUM IS LE IT |
06ROME2535 | ICTY: ITALY CAUTIOUSLY SUPPORTS INCREASED PRESSURE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-08 14:46:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ICTY PINR PGOV PREL SR YI IT |
06ROME2547 | PRODI TO AFFIRM TO BEIJING: GOI RESPECTS ARMS [...] (C) Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi will travel to China September 13-18, stopping in Beijing, Nanjing, Canton, Shanghai, and Tianjin. In light of the upcoming trip, Poloff spoke with Assistant Diplomatic Advisor to the Prime Minister Sem Fabrizi September 7 to discuss the China arms embar [...] | 2006-09-11 15:06:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM EUN ETTC ETRD CH IT |
06ROME2568 | ITALIANS POSITIVE ON GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] (C) Summary. On September 7, ISN/WMDT officials Katsapis and Lehrman met with Italian MFA officials Filippo Formica, head of the nonproliferation office, Giampaolo Cantini, head of the counterterrorism office, and Carlo Mancini, a GOI expert on nuclear safety. Vladimir Proshin, Political Coun [...] | 2006-09-12 13:46:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KGIC PREL PGOV IT |
06ROME2593 | ITALY AT NAM SUMMIT [...] (C) Italy's observer to the NAM Summit in Havana, Sebastiano Cardi, a minister in the MFA Directorate General for Political Affairs, will be in Cuba for several days, beginning September 12. In light of the Italian presence at the meeting, Poloff spoke with Alessandro Busacca, a minister in t [...] | 2006-09-14 12:19:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINS KPKO UNSC KDEM PGOV SU CU IT |
06ROME2663 | ITALY: "CAPACITY TO PAY" KEY SCALE OF ASSESSMENTS [...] (C) Summary. Poloff met with Leonardo Bencini, Acting MFA UN Office Director, and Gabriella Biondi, UN office, September 19 to discuss the upcoming UN Scale of Assessments negotiations, as per reftel. Poloff stressed that the United States would not agree to a scale that eliminated or increas [...] | 2006-09-21 09:53:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KUNR AORC UNGA IT |
06ROME2697 | ITALIANS AGREE THAT UN HRC NEEDS TO BE EFFECTIVE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-25 15:08:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM UN IT |
06ROME2724 | PASSENGER DATA SHARING VIEWS AS OLD AGREEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Italy,s privacy authority reports EU member state privacy authorities are working toward a new U.S.-EU agreement on Passenger Name Records (PNR) to replace the current one expiring September 30. The new agreement reportedly will not differ in substance from the existing agreemen [...] | 2006-09-27 17:23:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC EAIR PTER AORC ICAO KTIA IT |
06ROME276 | ITALIAN ELECTIONS: PRODI LEADING THE RACE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent polls show that PM Silvio Berlusconi's center-right (CR) coalition has gained on Romano Prodi's center-left (CL) coalition. Prodi's lead has slipped from 8 percentage points last summer to 4.5 percentage points in January. In the last month, Berlusconi has set the tone of [...] | 2006-01-31 12:34:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS |
06ROME2780 | ITALIANS NEUTRAL ON SUPPORTING AMENDMENT TO CUBA [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to Leonardo Bencini, Director of the UN office of the Italian MFA, on October 3. Bencini noted that the EU regularly supports the Cuba Embargo resolution and would likely do so again. Bencini said that Italy's position on support for an amendment would be for [...] | 2006-10-03 15:47:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN UNGA PREL PHUM UN IT |
06ROME2871 | ITALIANS WANT TO CONTACT GROUP DISCUSSION ON [...] (C) Summary. Serbian president Boris Tadic visited Rome on October 10 and 11 to meet with Italian President Napolitano, PM Prodi, FM D'Alema, and MOD Parisi. Tadic expressed his hope that Serbia could become part of PfP, the EU and eventually NATO but noted that Serbia had experienced signif [...] | 2006-10-13 15:57:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ICTY SR YI IT |
06ROME2873 | ITALY DISCUSSING TIGHTENING OF VENEZUELA ARMS SALES [...] (C) Summary. Poloff met with Francesco Talo, MFA South America Office Director, and Paolo Campanini, South America Office, September 21 to inform Italy of the U.S. arms transfer policy to Venezuela, per Ref A, urging Italy to adopt similar measures. Talo noted that arms sales to Venezuela wer [...] | 2006-10-13 15:57:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PARM VE PREL OTRA IT |
06ROME2944 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3 CASE 05-944510; ORDER [...] (C) Econoff spoke by phone October 17 with Donato D'Angelantonio, Director General of Supplies for Elettronica SPA (foreign consignee and end-user),regarding reftel. According to D'Angelantonio, who provided extensive supporting documents (via fax),Elettronica cancelled May 19, 2005 the or [...] | 2006-10-24 13:06:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC KOMC IT |
06ROME2953 | ITALY: LEBANON RESOLUTIONS UNBALANCED, EU SEEKING [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-24 16:38:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER UNGA LE IS IT |
06ROME2961 | EGYPT SEEKS DETAILS ON FRENCH OFFER FOR MILITARY [...] (C) Summary. Under instructions from Cairo, Egyptian DCM Abu Bakr Hefny Mahnoud, called on Pol M/C Pearce and Poloff on October 24 to ask for information on a French-led initiative, in which the Italians along with several other Mediterranean countries participated, to increase military - m [...] | 2006-10-25 14:54:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV XF ZP NATO IT |
06ROME2982 | ITALYASKS FOR HELP ON URS LOGISTICS, [...] (C) Summary. PolMinCouns met with Italian Iraq Task Force coordinator De Martino on October 27 to deliver reftel points and discuss Italian URS logistics. De Martino told PolMinCouns that Italy would be represented at the October 31 Iraq Compact Meeting in Kuwait by the Italian Ambassador to [...] | 2006-10-27 15:34:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID NATO IZ IT |
06ROME2983 | ITALY HOPES MEPP DISCUSSIONS IN ALICANTE REALISTIC [...] (C) Political M/C and Poloff called on Italian MFA Near East Office Director Luciano Pezzotti October 25 to discuss Italy's upcoming participation in Middle East peace process discussions hosted by the Spanish. Pezzotti said Italy hoped to play a constructive role in focusing discussions on [...] | 2006-10-27 16:12:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV XF LE UN IT |
06ROME3016 | ITALY SEES LITTLE TRACTION IN EU FOR MORATINOS [...] (C) A senior MFA official November 2 provided Pol M/C with Italy's read on the recent Mediterranean Forum conference in Alicante, Spain. Luciano Pezzotti, director of the MFA's Middle East office, had accompanied FM D'Alema to the session. He said the GOI found the format of the meeting uns [...] | 2006-11-03 10:31:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL XF IT SP |
06ROME3032 | ITALY: UNGA COUNTRY SPECIFIC AND CUBA EMBARGO [...] (SBU) Poloff met with MFA Human Rights Office Director Laura Carpini November 6 to deliver Ref A demarche requesting Italian support on UNGA country specific human rights resolutions for Belarus and Uzbekistan. Carpini reported that Italy had decided November 3 to co-sponsor the U.S.-sponsore [...] | 2006-11-06 16:26:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KTIA UNGA UN CU IT |
06ROME3037 | ITALY ON SOMALIA: ARAB LEAGUE, CIVIL SOCIETY KEY [...] (C) Summary. Poloff met with MFA Somalia Coordinator Giancarlo Izzo November 3 and with Angelo Masetti, Spokesman for the Italy-Somalia Forum, October 26 to discuss the situation in Somalia. Izzo and Masetti agreed that the TFIs were weak, and that the CIC's goals were unclear. They both beli [...] | 2006-11-07 12:36:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SO IT |
06ROME3046 | IRAQ: NO CURRENT ITALIAN PLANS TO FORGIVE [...] (C) Summary: Government of Italy officials informed Emboffs that the GOI was not developing any plans to forgive the remaining 20 percent of debt that Iraq owes to Italy. A Ministry of Finance official explained this was due largely to legal constraints. Additionally, the MoF official exp [...] | 2006-11-08 16:41:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EFIN IZ IT |
06ROME3047 | IRAQ: NO CURRENT ITALIAN PLANS TO FORGIVE [...] (C) Summary: Government of Italy officials informed Emboffs that the GOI was not developing any plans to forgive the remaining 20 percent of debt that Iraq owes to Italy. A Ministry of Finance official explained this was due largely to legal constraints. Additionally, the MoF official exp [...] | 2006-11-08 16:41:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EFIN IZ IT |
06ROME3068 | ITALY WORKING ON UNSCR 1718 OBLIGATIONS REPORT TO [...] (C) Poloffs November 8 met separately with Filippo Nicosia, MFA East Asia Office, and Filippo Formica, Office Director for Non-Proliferation to deliver Ref A points requesting countries take steps to meet their obligations under UNSCR 1718 on DPRK Conventional Arms. Nicosia noted that, while [...] | 2006-11-13 15:32:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL XX KN UN IT |
06ROME3119 | TRANSNISTRA: ITALIANS SUPPORT CHANGING [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-20 12:14:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE EUN PREL MD RS UP IT |
06ROME3128 | KOSOVO: AHTISAARI, D'ALEMA AGREE TO NO FURTHER [...] (C) Summary. UN Special Envoy for Kosovo Martii Ahtisaari visited Rome to discuss the future of Kosovo with PM Prodi and FM D'Alema on November 17. D'Alema agreed with Ahtisaari that the status decision on Kosovo should not be delayed further than the end of January. D'Alema told Ahtisaari t [...] | 2006-11-20 16:41:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN YI SR IT |
06ROME3130 | SHARING DRAFT UNSCR TEXT ON IRAQ WITH ITALY [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-20 16:42:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL UNSC IZ IT |
06ROME3131 | ITALY WARNS SYRIA ON DESTABILIZING LEBANON [...] (C) Italy is concerned about possible Syrian-inspired efforts to destabilize Lebanon and PM Prodi has contacted President Bashar al-Asad with a message of warning. Despite the recent resignations of six cabinet ministers, Lebanese PM Siniora reportedly told the Italians he was confident in th [...] | 2006-11-20 17:39:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV XF IR LE IT |
06ROME3132 | ITALY: IRAN SANCTIONS UNAVOIDABLE, BUT ESCALATION [...] (C) MFA Middle East Director Cesare Ragaglini says there is now no choice on the Iran nuclear issue but to move forward with sanctions. This is a matter for some concern, though, because it will set in motion a process of escalation whose outcome is unpredictable. We should also be looking [...] | 2006-11-21 06:36:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV XF IR LE UNAUS KNNP IT |
06ROME3159 | ITALIANS CLOSE-MOUTHED ON AZADEGAN PROJECT IN IRAN [...] (C) Ecmin delivered ref A points regarding possible Italian investment in Iran's Azadegan oilfield to Amadeo Teti, Ministry of Foreign Trade Director General for Commercial Agreements, and Claudio Spinedi, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director General for Multilateral Financial and Eco [...] | 2006-11-22 14:46:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC EPET PREL IR IT |
06ROME3166 | ITALY QUINT MEETING "DAMAGE CONTROL"; ITALY SAYS [...] (C) Summary. The DCM delivered reftel points to senior MFA officials November 22 and underscored our concern regarding the Spanish MEPP Initiative and Italy's association with it. The Italians said they see the Quint meeting, which Italy is hosting November 24, as an opportunity to do "damag [...] | 2006-11-22 16:47:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV XF EUN IT |
06ROME3167 | ITALY SCENESETTER FOR DNSA ELLIOTT ABRAMS [...] (U) Embassy Rome warmly welcomes the visit of Deputy National Security Advisor for Global Democratization Strategy and Deputy Assistant to the President Elliott Abrams. Please find below background information to serve as a scenesetter for the visit. Country Clearance sent REFTEL A. Summary [...] | 2006-11-22 17:29:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV XF AF IR IZ LE IT |
06ROME3170 | ITALY CONCERNED RUSSIA WON'T ACCEPT [...] (C) The DCM and poloff delivered reftel points to MFA Political Director Terzi and OSCE Office Director Brunella Borzi on November 22. Terzi expressed a desire for consensus on the best text possible but voiced concern regarding probable Russian objections to tough language, especially parts [...] | 2006-11-24 12:30:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS EUN NATO OSCE MO GG RU IT |
06ROME3202 | GOI RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR MTCR CONSULTATIONS ON [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph four. 2. (C) Econ Counselor delivered ref A talking points November 30 to Carlo Tripepi, the MFA Deputy Assistant Secretary-equivalent official in charge of Missile Technology SIPDIS Control Regime (MTCR) issues. Tripepi reiterated [...] | 2006-11-30 16:39:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC KSCA IT |
06ROME3214 | ABRAMS ENGAGES ITALIANS ON MEPP, IRAN AND [...] (C) Deputy National Security Advisor Elliott Abrams November 27 engaged senior MFA officials, members of the Prime Minister's Office and (on background) journalists from Italy's leading dailies on Syria/Lebanon, the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP) and Iran. On Syria and Lebanon, he noted th [...] | 2006-12-01 12:27:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL XF IR LE UNAUS EUN IT |
06ROME3223 | SOMALIA: ITALY WANTS ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT TFI-CIC [...] (C) Poloff met with Italian MFA Somalia Coordinator Giancarlo Izzo November 30 to discuss the situation in Somalia and the possible deployment of a regional force. According to Izzo, Italy believed that the dialogue between the Transitional Federal Institutions (TFI) and the Council of Islamic [...] | 2006-12-04 15:04:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SO IT |
06ROME324 | GOI CLARIFIES SCAJOLA REMARKS ON UKRAINE-RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary. During a February 1 meeting with Econoff, Ministry of Productive Activities (MPA) Diplomatic Advisor Ambassador Gabriele Checchia backed away from MPA Minister Claudia Scajola's statement that Ukraine is "taking" Russian gas meant for Italy, and said Italy will support Ukrainian [...] | 2006-02-03 13:52:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON IT UP RU |
06ROME3246 | TERRORISM FINANCE: GOI REQUESTS USG VIEWS ON UNSCR [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 4. 2. (C) Cristina Collura, Director of the Ministry of Finance's Financial Crimes Prevention Office, gave Econoff November 16 the names of two naturalized Italian citizens who have petitioned the GOI for delisting from UNSCR 1267 designation. (Re [...] | 2006-12-07 09:34:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER IT |
06ROME3261 | ITALY: REGISTER OF DAMAGES SHOULD HAVE TECHNICAL [...] (C) Poloffs delivered reftel points to MFA Near East Deputy Office Director Daniele Bosio December 5 and Acting UN Office Director Leonardo Bencini December 6, noting U.S. concerns with the draft resolution to establish a register of damages related to the West Bank barrier. Poloffs emphasized [...] | 2006-12-07 17:10:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA IS IT |
06ROME3272 | D'ALEMA TO CODEL WEXLER: MIDDLE EAST NEEDS NEW PUSH [...] (C) Summary. Foreign Minister D'Alema told visiting Congressman Wexler that the international community must press Israelis and Palestinians to kick start a new phase in peace negotiations, beginning with a genuine cease-fire and exchange of prisoners. He speculated that NATO could be a poss [...] | 2006-12-12 11:26:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | AF IR IS IZ LE NATO PGOV PREL SY XF IT |
06ROME3276 | IRAN'S FLAWED ELECTIONS - ITALY [...] (C) Pol M/C and poloff delivered ref points December 4 and 11 to MFA Deputy Middle East Director Luca Del Balzo and Gulf Countries Office Director Bruno Campria. 2. (C) Pol M/C told Del Balzo that, as part of our effort to coordinate with Italy on Iranian issues, it would be important to [...] | 2006-12-12 13:52:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM IR IT |
06ROME329 | IRAN: ITALY STEADY ON REFERRAL, WANTS [...] (C) Italy supports the U.S. "100 percent" on the Iranian nuclear issue, including referral to the UN Security Council. MFA officials continue to stress to the Iranians the need to suspend enrichment activities to restore the confidence of the international community. While unhappy at Italy's [...] | 2006-02-03 14:43:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM EUN KNNP IR IT |
06ROME3295 | GOI FOLLOW-UP ON EXPORT OF MARINE DIESEL ENGINES [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) During a November 30 meeting with Econ Counselor, Carlo Tripepi, MFA Office Director responsible for Italian Munitions Exports (and former Director of the Office that oversees Italian participation in the Wassenaar Arrangement) [...] | 2006-12-14 15:07:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MARR ETTC IT IR |
06ROME3298 | ITALY AND CUBA: NSC-DIRECTED REVIEW FOR LIBERTAD [...] (C) Summary. There have been few developments in Italy's relationship with Cuba in the past six months. The Italian Embassy in Havana continued to meet regularly with opposition leaders as part of efforts to engage in intensified dialogue with civil society. Italy did not participate in exch [...] | 2006-12-14 17:29:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | CU ETRD ETTC PREL IT |
06ROME3312 | ITALIANS CAUTIOUS ON ISG RECOMMENDATIONS, PROPOSE [...] (C) Summary. Gianludovico De Martino, head of the MFA's Iraq Task Force, says many of the Iraq Study Group (ISG) recommendations, such as embedding coalition members inside police, military and institutional structures, have already been tried and found to be difficult to implement. Other rec [...] | 2006-12-15 18:28:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS IZ IT |
06ROME338 | ITALY FACING AN ENERGY CRISIS? [...] (C) Summary: An unexpectedly cold winter and miscalculation of the rate at which Italy consumes natural gas may mean that Italy will not have sufficient gas reserves to generate electricity for the remainder of the winter, according to knowledgeable Embassy sources. In a worst case scenari [...] | 2006-02-03 17:44:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET IT EUN |
06ROME342 | ITALY: CENTER-LEFT ASPIRES TO CRAFT MORE EUROPEAN [...] (C) Summary: If Italy's center-left coalition (the Union) wins this spring's national election, center left leaders are prepared to reorient Italy's foreign policy toward the EU, favor multilateral initiatives over bilateral or unilateral ones, and tone down Italy's relations with the US. R [...] | 2006-02-06 11:04:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IT |
06ROME343 | GOI SEEKS MORE BANG FOR THE BUCK FROM SHRINKING [...] (U) Summary: Facing budget cuts and a stagnant economy, the Government of Italy (GOI) will seek to leverage its defense spending to continue to gain access to cutting edge technologies as part of a broad effort to revive the Italian economy. The amount of technology transfer and job creatio [...] | 2006-02-06 11:27:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PGOV EFIN IT |
06ROME371 | ITALY: RUTELLI DISCUSSES CENTER-LEFT FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY. At a February 3 lunch with Daisy Party leader Francesco Rutelli, the Ambassador stressed the importance of NATO to the Transatlantic Alliance and registered our concern that a future center-left government not look to Europe at the expense of Italy's historically strong bilateral [...] | 2006-02-08 10:45:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS PGOV IZ IT ITALIAN POLITICS ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS |
06ROME374 | ITALY AGREES ON SOMALIA, REQUESTS USG CONTACT ON [...] (C) Summary. MFA Director General for Sub-Saharan Africa Armando Sanguini February 1 expressed his complete agreement with Reftel A points urging support for a meeting of Somalia's parliament, and briefed DCM Anna Borg on his recent trip to Asmara. Sanguini suggested more regular contact betw [...] | 2006-02-08 13:55:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL XW IT |
06ROME383 | KOSOVO: ITALIAN MFA CONCERNED ABOUT LACK OF [...] (C) Summary. The Italian MFA is concerned that US and UK messages to Belgrade regarding the final status of Kosovo may be creating high expectations among Kosovar Albanians and anxiety in Belgrade that could complicate negotiations. The Italians have the impression that US and UK messages may [...] | 2006-02-09 11:38:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SR YI IT |
06ROME427 | ITALY RECEPTIVE TO A/S SHANNON'S MESSAGE ON LATIN [...] (C) Summary. A/S Thomas Shannon February 3 outlined U.S. policy in the Western Hemisphere for Italian MFA Director General for the Americas Claudio Bisogniero and encouraged Italy to be our partner in engaging with Latin America during this delicate time for the region. Bisogniero was very r [...] | 2006-02-13 10:36:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL XM HA CU CA IT |
06ROME433 | ITALY SUPPORTIVE OF GUATEMALA'S UNSC BID [...] (C) WHA A/S Tom Shannon met with MFA Director General for the Americas Claudio Bisogniero February 3 (see Ref A) and urged Italy to support Guatemala's UN Security Council (UNSC) candidacy (per Ref B). Shannon shared our concerns regarding Venezuela's bid for the Latin America Group (GRULAC) s [...] | 2006-02-13 13:13:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNSC GT VE IT |
06ROME439 | DISPOSITION OF ELK RIVER SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL: [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: On February 6, the Ambassador received a letter from Gianni Letta, Under Secretary to the Council of Ministers requesting assistance SIPDIS to return to the United States 64 thorium-uranium bundles of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) originally from the Elk River, [...] | 2006-02-13 17:09:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG KNNP KSTC IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS |
06ROME450 | FINI-LAVROV MEETING: RUSSIA CAN PLAY A ROLE IN [...] (C) Summary. Antonio Cascio, an official in the Russia/Central Asian Department of the Italian MFA, told poloff that during a visit to Rome on February 7, Russian FM Lavrov told Italian FM Fini that Russia can play an important and constructive role in the Middle East. Lavrov told Fini the I [...] | 2006-02-14 15:59:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG RU IT |
06ROME452 | ITALY-IRAN ECONOMIC RELATIONS [...] (U) Summary: Italy is Iran's largest EU trading partner, with two-way trade totaling 2.91 billion euros in the first seven months of 2005, including 1.32 billion euros of Italian exports to Iran. Italy imports Iranian oil and gas and exports automobiles and electrical products to Iran. End [...] | 2006-02-14 16:35:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL IR IT |
06ROME453 | SCENESETTER FOR PM BERLUSCONI'S VISIT TO [...] (C) PM Berlusconi is seeking an election campaign bounce from his carefully timed visit to Washington to address a joint session of Congress and his meeting with the President. Elections are two months away and the campaign is in full gear following President Ciampi's dissolution of parliament [...] | 2006-02-15 05:37:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IT IQ ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS ITALIAN POLITICS |
06ROME460 | ITALIAN MINISTER FLAUNTS CARTOONS IN T-SHIRTS [...] (U) On February 14, Minister for Reforms Roberto Calderoli announced he had printed t-shirts emblazoned with the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad and would start wearing them. Calderoli is a member of the anti-immigrant Northern League party that is part of PM Berlusconi's center-rig [...] | 2006-02-15 12:38:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KISL ITALIAN POLITICS |
06ROME461 | PDAS VOLKER DISCUSSES STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP WITH [...] (C) Summary. On February 7, PDAS Kurt Volker visited Rome to meet with high-level GOI leaders to discuss Iran, Iraq, the cartoon controversy, the Ukrainian Energy Crisis, NATO, OSCE, Balkans, and UN Reform. Volker stressed the importance of Italy's contributions to global security and need fo [...] | 2006-02-15 12:39:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IT NATO OSCE UN GLOBAL DEFENSE |
06ROME483 | HAMAS: ITALY WEIGHS IN FOR ISRAEL WITH RUSSIANS [...] (C) Summary. PM Berlusconi reportedly has contacted Russian President Putin and urged that any visit of Hamas officials to Moscow be handled at as low a level as possible. Berlusconi made the call at the behest of Acting Israeli PM Olmert. End summary. 2. (C) A diplomatic advisor to Berl [...] | 2006-02-16 17:36:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR KPAL PTER PGOV XF IT |
06ROME494 | ITALY, VENEZUELA NOT NEGOTIATING NAVAL VESSEL SALE [...] (C) PolMinCouns delivered reftel demarche to MFA Director General for the Americas Claudio Bisogniero February 15. He noted public statements by the GOV defense minister suggesting that Venezuela might look to Italy.for submarines, urged the GOI not to contemplate such sales, and reviewed USG [...] | 2006-02-17 12:13:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PREL PARM VE IT EXPORT CONTROLS |
06ROME497 | MONTENEGRIN PARLIAMENT PRESIDENT IN ROME [...] (C) Summary. On February 16, President of the Montenegrin Parliament Ranko Krivokapic visited Rome ostensibly for personal reasons. He took the opportunity, however, to lobby contacts in Italy's Center-Left opposition parties and the Vatican to oppose a possible request by EU Envoy Miroslav [...] | 2006-02-17 15:30:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MW SR IT |
06ROME501 | ITALY: FASSINO WANTS THE FOREIGN MINISTRY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador spoke at length with Democrats of the Left (DS) Party Secretary Piero Fassino on February 16. Fassino told the Ambassador that he thought either he or Daisy President Francesco Rutelli would be Foreign Minister in a future center-left government. The Ambassador note [...] | 2006-02-17 17:29:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR IZ IT |
06ROME502 | ITALY: FASSINO WANTS THE FOREIGN MINISTRY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador spoke at length with Democrats of the Left (DS) Party Secretary Piero Fassino on February 16. Fassino told the Ambassador that he thought either he or Daisy President Francesco Rutelli would be Foreign Minister in a future center-left government. The Ambassador note [...] | 2006-02-18 10:27:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR IZ IT ITALIAN POLITICS ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS |
06ROME507 | ITALIAN MFA POLITICAL DIRECTOR VISIT TO BELGRADE [...] (C) Summary. MFA Political Director Giulio Terzi visited Belgrade on February 14 to deliver a bilateral message to the Belgrade leadership that the Contact Group was unified in its approach to the upcoming Kosovo status talks. Terzi also told PM Kostunica that both the Belgrade leadership and [...] | 2006-02-20 16:19:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SR MW YI IT |
06ROME536 | CARTOON-WEARING MINISTER RESIGNS [...] (C) Summary. Italy's Reforms Minister resigned February 18 following violent protests against the Italian consulate in Benghazi. The minister, Roberto Calderoli of the Northern League, had won notoriety for wearing T-shirts emblazoned with cartoons that had triggered protests in Islamic co [...] | 2006-02-21 18:14:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM KISL IT ITALIAN POLITICS ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS |
06ROME550 | ITALY: AN SPOKESPERSON SEES CENTER-RIGHT CLOSING [...] (C) The Ambassador met February 15 with National Alliance (AN) Party Spokesperson Andrea Ronchi. Ronchi told the Ambassador he was optimistic about the center-right's electoral chances and claimed they are only trailing the center-left by one or two percentage points. Ronchi said AN was firm [...] | 2006-02-22 16:12:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS |
06ROME584 | ITALY'S UNION COALITION PROGRAM: FAULT LINES ON [...] (C) Romano Prodi presented the center-left Union coalition's 281-page governing program on February 13. As opposed to establishing a concrete program for the Union coalition should it win the April 9 national elections, the document has been viewed by critics from both the right and the left [...] | 2006-02-24 15:46:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON MARR PARM MOPS ELAB EINV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS |
06ROME585 | ITALY: UN REFORM PARTNER, SUPPORTS GUATEMALA UNSC [...] (C) Summary. Italy continues to support UN Reform, including making the new Peacebuilding Commission an effective body, and creating a strong Human Rights Council. It also supports improving UN management, including a mandate review, according to MFA UN Reform Coordinator Alessandro Busacca. [...] | 2006-02-24 18:23:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR PHUM UNSC GT VE IT |
06ROME607 | IRAQ: ITALIANS FAVOR EXPANDED NATO TRAINING ROLE [...] (C) Summary. Italy strongly supports an expanded NATO training role in Iraq, which it believes will help both to increase the political legitimacy of international efforts in Iraq and to encourage broader participation in those efforts. With Italian elections in April and a tight budget, Ital [...] | 2006-02-28 08:23:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MARR MASS MOPS PINS IZ IT |
06ROME622 | ITALIANS "ASTONISHED" BY PROPOSED BELGIAN TRIP TO [...] (C) Summary. The Italian MFA expressed astonishment at the proposed visit by Belgian FM De Gucht to Belarus to observe the election monitoring process. The GOI shares USG concern about the signal the trip could send regarding ODHIR,s integrity. While the GOI has no plans to publicly or form [...] | 2006-03-01 12:40:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PHUM PREL BE IT |
06ROME638 | SYRIA EIB LOAN: ITALY WILL ALLOW LOAN TO PASS [...] (C) A/ECMIN and EconOff delivered reftel demarche February 28 to Ignazio Angeloni, Ministry of Finance Director General for International Financial Relations, and Sangante Filippo, Office Director for Bilateral Affairs with non-European Union countries. Angeloni was surprised to hear a Europ [...] | 2006-03-02 14:36:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN EINV EU IT PGOV PHUM PREL EUN |
06ROME71 | AFGHANISTAN ASSISTANCE: ITALIAN ENVOY SUGGESTS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-09 15:47:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID AF IT AFGHANISTAN |
06ROME724 | ITALIAN LEFT LEADER: BRIDGE TO WASHINGTON IS [...] (C) A prominent Italian center-left leader says it's time for European states to realize the days of individual state relations with the US are over. Massimo D'Alema, president of the Democrats of the Left (DS),Italy's largest center-left party, said transatlantic relations remain important [...] | 2006-03-09 06:13:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IT |
06ROME725 | ITALY: POLLSTERS GIVE EDGE TO PRODI BUT DON'T [...] (C) SUMMARY: A collection of five Milan-based pollsters agreed that PM Berlusconi's effective campaign had closed much of the gap with opposition leader Romano Prodi, even if they were split over whether this momentum would carry Berlusconi to victory on election day. Recent polls give Prodi [...] | 2006-03-09 06:13:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS |
06ROME726 | IMF MARCH 8 VOTE- ITALY WILL VOTE TO RESTORE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-09 06:14:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL IT |
06ROME756 | ITALY FOLLOWING SUMATE JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS [...] (C) Poloff met with MFA South America Office Director Piero Benassi March 1 to deliver reftel demarche. Noting the judicial harassment of non-governmental organization (NGO) Sumate, Poloff urged Italy to speak out in defense of the accused leaders, send observers to the trial, and convey to t [...] | 2006-03-10 11:42:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EU PGOV PHUM PREL VE IT |
06ROME768 | ITALIAN CENTER LEFT OFFICIAL SAYS NATO ESSSENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Democrats of the Left Member of Parliament and former U/S in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Umberto Ranieri told Pol M/C that his party considers NATO an essential pillar of international security. He assured us that far left radicals would not make foreign policy in a future c [...] | 2006-03-10 18:32:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PREL IZ IT NATO ITALIAN POLITICS ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS |
06ROME798 | ITALIAN ELECTIONS: THE SOUTHERN BATTLEGROUND [...] (C) Puglia, on Italy's southern heel, is a battleground region in Italy's April 9 elections. Although a traditional stronghold of the Center Right, it is an area where voters have handed Center Left politicians dramatic electoral gains in recent municipal and regional voting. Local pundits [...] | 2006-03-14 12:00:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS |
06ROME824 | INTERNATIONAL TRACING SERVICE: ITALY SENDS INITIAL [...] (U) Labor Counselor met February 27 and March 15 with Francesco De Stefani, Acting Director of the MFA's UN Office, to deliver reftel demarche and discuss Italy's participation in the International Tracing Service (ITS). De Stefani confirmed that MOD Colonel Sandro Tortoro has replaced Carlo [...] | 2006-03-16 10:11:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PREL KNAR IT EUN |
06ROME826 | ITALY STAYING OUT OF ARAB LEAGUE SUDAN DECISION [...] (C) Poloff met March 3 with MFA Horn of Africa Office Director Fabrizio Pignatelli to deliver reftel demarche. Poloff urged the GOI to approach the Arab League (AL) in advance of the March 28-29 summit to note the potential consequences of a Sudanese AL presidency, especially given the GOS's h [...] | 2006-03-16 10:36:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ SU IT |
06ROME834 | SCENESETTER FOR EUR DAS BRYZA'S MARCH 17 VISIT TO [...] (C) Embassy Rome welcomes the visit of EUR DAS Matthew Bryza to Rome March 17. DAS Bryza's visit comes in the midst of a natural gas shortage here in Italy that has caused gas delivery interruptions to industrial customers and highlighted the inadequacies of Italy's energy infrastructure; an [...] | 2006-03-16 13:14:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET ETRD IT |
06ROME839 | ITALY: CL PARLIAMENTARIAN PREDICTS CONTINUITY IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Marco Minniti, a former U/S of Defense under center-left (CL) Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema, termed Berlusconi's relationship with the U.S an asset that should be built upon and said there is no European security without the U.S. Minniti continued that the center-left is now in [...] | 2006-03-16 16:33:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS IS IT NATO ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS ITALIAN POLITICS |
06ROME85 | ITALY'S CENTER-LEFT PLANS IRAQ PULLOUT BY END OF [...] (C) Romano Prodi's international affairs adviser and spokesperson January 10 expressed confidence in a center-left victory in Italy's elections next April. He said that a Prodi-led government would announce immediately upon winning national elections its intent to withdraw from Iraq. Ricardo [...] | 2006-01-10 15:53:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IT EUN IRAQI FREEDOM ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS |
06ROME863 | ITALIAN ELECTIONS: THE POSSIBILITIES (PART I OF [...] (C) This cable is the first of two outlining possible post-election scenarios and our engagement with the center-left on various issues. Though opposition leader Romano Prodi holds a slight lead in opinion polls, it remains unclear whether he can hang on to defeat incumbent PM Silvio Berluscon [...] | 2006-03-17 17:34:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS IZ IT NATO ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS |
06ROME864 | ITALIAN ELECTIONS: WHAT IF THE CENTER-LEFT WINS? [...] (C) Summary. Septel outlines the possible outcomes of the April 9-10 Italian elections; as of now, the center-left has a slight edge in polling, suggesting neither the left nor the right will win with a large mandate. We predict: (1) budget constraints will challenge the next government's [...] | 2006-03-17 17:35:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS |
06ROME903 | SENDING SPENT ELK RIVER FUEL TO INDIA [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) As instructed reftel, the Ambassador wrote to Prime Ministry Under Secretary Gianni Letta February 28 that the United States could not accept the uranium-thorium spent nuclear fuel stored at the Trisaia Research Center (ITREC) in [...] | 2006-03-22 15:38:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG IT KNNP KSCA EUN |
06ROME904 | IRAQ: ITALIAN MFA SAYS PRT MOVING AHEAD REGARDLESS [...] (C) Italy's Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Dhi Qar province will be fully operational by the end of April. MFA officials are confident that, barring an unexpectedly large vote for the extreme left in Italy's April 9 election, a center-left election victory will not affect the current [...] | 2006-03-22 15:56:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PGOV EAID IZ IT UNSC IRAQI FREEDOM ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS |
06ROME915 | DEMARCHE CONCERNING PENDING ADOPTION CASES IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to ref A, Conoff contacted the GOI Ministry of Foreign Affairs on March 22 to raise the issue of pending Romanian adoption cases. According to Minister Giuseppe Panocchia, the GOI agrees with the U.S. that the rigid position of the Romanian government on the outstandi [...] | 2006-03-23 17:28:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KOCI CASC CVIS PREL SOCI RO IT EUN UN |
06ROME927 | POLITICAL REACTION TO PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT ON ITALY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Opposition candidate Romano Prodi called the Ambassador March 23 to question the appropriateness of the timing of our recent public announcement on Italy. His likely foreign minister should Prodi win the April 9-10 election called the Ambassador later the same day to "de-dramati [...] | 2006-03-24 16:15:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CASC AMGT IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS |
06ROME933 | ITALIANS TO DAS BRYZA: RUSSIA NOT READY FOR [...] (C) Summary. On March 17, DAS Bryza met with Deputy Diplomatic Advisor to PM Berlusconi Francesco Talo and MFA Director General Giulio Terzi to discuss Caucasus security issues and Russian Australia Group (AG) membership. Bryza told his interlocutors that the USG believed that Russian member [...] | 2006-03-27 12:16:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM NATO IT RU GG UP |
06ROME956 | ITALIANS OPEN TO EU VISA BAN AGAINST LUKASHENKA, [...] (C) Summary. On March 27, Poloff met with Antonino Cascio of the Eastern European Department of the Italian MFA to deliver reftel points. Cascio said the MFA is concerned that an extended visa ban, including a ban on Lukashenka, could prove to be ineffective and could backfire if Lukashenka [...] | 2006-03-29 16:05:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM CVIS EUN BO IT |
06ROME957 | ITALY SUPPORTS GOALS ON SUDAN FOR ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) March 22, Poloffs delivered reftel demarche to MFA Office Director for Middle East Regional Cooperation, Antonella Uneddu, and separately provided Sudan points to MFA Horn of Africa Office Director Fabrizio Pignatelli. March 24, Pignatelli responded that the MFA had contacted all Italian [...] | 2006-03-30 05:20:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ SU IT |
06ROME979 | ITALIANS URGE SLOW EXPANSION OF EU VISA BAN [...] (C) On March 31, PolMinCouns and Poloff met with Paolo Serpi, Director of the Eastern European Department of the Italian MFA, to get a readout of the measures the EU plans to implement against the Lukashenko regime. Serpi stated that the EU agreed to implement an expanded visa ban list agains [...] | 2006-03-31 15:30:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM CVIS BO IT |
06ROME997 | ITALY'S NORTHERN LEAGUE: THE CHALLENGE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Italy's Northern League faces two strategic challenges in the short and the long term: what to do if the pro-devolution referendum fails this summer and how to replace the party's founder and unquestioned leader Umberto Bossi, who is still weak after a devastating stroke two years [...] | 2006-04-03 08:38:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IT ITALIAN POLITICS |
06SANAA111 | AMBASSADOR AND FONMIN DISCUSS ZINDANI, IRAN, AND [...] (C) Summary. In a January 21 meeting, FonMin Abubakr al-Qirbi presented Ambassador with a copy of President Saleh's response to President Bush's December 30 letter protesting ROYG support for UN-designated terrorist financier Sheikh Zindani and HAMAS leader Khalid Mishaal (ref A). Qirbi con [...] | 2006-01-24 06:50:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EFIN ETTC YM KWAC COUNTER TERRORISM TERFIN |
06SANAA135 | IAEA/IRAN: YEMEN TO VOTE YES OR ABSTAIN ON [...] (C) Foreign Minister Abubakr al-Qirbi convoked the EU, Russian, and U.S. chiefs of mission on January 25 to discuss Yemen's position on Iranian nuclear issues. Qirbi said he learned a great deal from technical briefings he had received in Sanaa from the EU-3, and that the Republic of Yemen G [...] | 2006-01-25 12:01:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP IR YM IAEA |
06SANAA1359 | HAMEED AL-AHMAR: YEMEN'S NEXT KINGMAKER? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Hameed al-Ahmar, son of powerful tribal leader Sheikh Abdullah al-Ahmar, made his entry into Yemeni politics this year by increasingly distancing himself from his father's traditional alliance with President Saleh. To the surprise of many, Hameed has emerged as an articulate re [...] | 2006-05-22 09:52:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS KDEM YE |
06SANAA136 | YEMEN WILL RECEIVE BASHAR, DELIVER "TOUGH" MESSAGE [...] (C) Ambassador took the opportunity to deliver reftel points to FonMin Abubakr al-Qirbi on the sidelines of a reception for a visiting UK minister on January 24. Qirbi confirmed that the ROYG had "agreed" to allow Syrian President Bashar al-Asad to visit, but that the date had not yet been f [...] | 2006-01-25 12:02:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY YE |
06SANAA137 | YEMEN'S NATIONAL SECURITY BOARD "REVIEWING" GTMO [...] (C) Ambassador met briefly with National Security Board (NSB) Deputy Director Amaar Saleh and FonMin Abubakr al-Qirbi on the margins of a social event on January 24 and urged both to expedite the ROYG's immediate written response to post's November 2005 diplomatic note proposing the transfer o [...] | 2006-01-25 12:02:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KAWC YM COUNTER TERRORISM |
06SANAA1668 | GTMO ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW BOARD NOTIFICATION [...] (C) June 5, Poloff delivered ref A notification of Yemenis scheduled to go before the Guantanamo Administrative Review Board to Assistant Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Khaled al-Akwa. He accepted the notifications without comment. 2. (C) Akwa did provide a response to ref B notificati [...] | 2006-06-06 04:59:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KAWC YM |
06SANAA167 | BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN: MOD CHIEF OF STAFF [...] (C) Summary. During a January 18 meeting with OMC Chief, MG Mohammed Ali Al-Qassimi, Chief of Staff for the Armed Forces, expressed his appreciation to the USG for granting him access to Bethesda Naval Hospital (ref A). Qassimi, who returned to Yemen in December after six months of cancer t [...] | 2006-01-30 03:42:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MASS YM COUNTER TERRORISM |
06SANAA1687 | URGING PSI ENDORSEMENT DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-07 06:03:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MNUC KNNP YM |
06SANAA1688 | MENAFATF DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-07 06:04:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EFIN KTFN YM |
06SANAA1698 | TERROR TRIALS UPDATE: PROSECUTIONS CONTINUE [...] (U) Summary: In the past three months several terror-related cases have been adjudicated in the Special Penal Court (SPC) -- Yemen's special court for terror and state security crimes -- and/or presented to the Attorney General's Office (AG) for consideration. The cases in summary are: -- [...] | 2006-06-07 12:29:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC PGOV YM |
06SANAA1742 | RULING PARTY OFFICIAL COMMENTS ON ELECTIONS, LOCAL [...] (C) Summary. On May 31, Ambassador met with the ruling GPC party's new ASYG for Political and External Relations (and also Minister of Youth and Sports),Abd al-Rahman al-Aqwa. During the meeting, Aqwa informed Ambassador that a recent breakdown in negotiations (now back on track) between his [...] | 2006-06-12 13:42:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KMCA KMPI YM |
06SANAA1743 | JMP-GPC DEAL APPEARS IMMINENT [...] (U) On July 12, the opposition Yemeni Congregation for Reform party's (Islah) internet news service, "Sahwa.net," quoted Mohammed Qahtan -- Islahi Head of External Relations and spokesperson for the Joint Meetings Party opposition coalition (JMP) -- as saying that (year-long rocky) negotiation [...] | 2006-06-12 13:49:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KMCA KMPI PINR YM |
06SANAA1765 | GTMO ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW BOARD NOTIFICATION [...] (C) On June 13, Poloff delivered reftel notifications of Yemenis scheduled to go before the Guantanamo Administrative Review Board to Assistant Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Khaled al-Akwa. He accepted the notifications without comment. Krajeski [...] | 2006-06-14 09:05:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KAWC YM |
06SANAA1772 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: JUNE 19-21 OIC MINISTERIAL IN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-14 13:57:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MNUC IR YE |
06SANAA1773 | PRESIDENT SALEH ON SOMALIA'S ISLAMIC COURTS: LET'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Saleh and his Foreign Minister are urging dialogue between the USG and factions of the Islamic Courts not aligned with Al-Qaeda. The Courts are now a "fact on the ground" and we must seek to influence them now; if we wait until they take over Baidoa, we will have very [...] | 2006-06-15 08:29:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRS PTER SO YE |
06SANAA1813 | TRAIL OF DEBT LEADS TO PRESIDENT'S OFFICE AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. In early June, the Central Bank of Yemen (CBY) leaked a list of prominent figures with unpaid loans to Watani Bank, and recommended legal action be taken against them. The debt contributed to Watani's collapse, and the CBY is seeking repayment in order to honor commitments to de [...] | 2006-06-21 09:55:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ECPS PGOV KMPI YM |
06SANAA1832 | SALEH ADVISES GEN ABIZAID ON SOMALIA'S "NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Saleh told visiting CENTCOM Commander GEN John Abizaid on June 18 that Yemen had invited members of the Somali Islamic Courts (IC) and the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) to Sanaa for talks. The IC leadership answered that they would come "within a week." Saleh [...] | 2006-06-24 13:15:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS SO YE |
06SANAA1850 | SALEH AT DAD: DON'T PREACH TO US, FEED US! [...] (C) Summary. On June 25, NEA Deputy Assistant Secretary, Scott Carpenter, met with President Saleh and expressed disappointment with his comments during the opening ceremony of the Democracy Assistance Dialogue (DAD) conference being held in Sanaa June 25-26. Saleh, who started off by express [...] | 2006-06-26 08:28:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KMCA KMPI YM |
06SANAA1873 | THE SALEH SHOW: POLITICAL THEATER IN SANAA [...] (C) Summary. On June 24, President Saleh ended almost a year of speculation and announced his intention to run in September's Presidential election. Speaking before a peaceful mass rally in Sanaa, Saleh rescinded his July 2005 public pledge not to seek re-election, saying he was "respondin [...] | 2006-06-28 12:54:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM YM |
06SANAA1950 | GTMO ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW BOARD NOTIFICATION [...] (C) On July 5, Poloff delivered reftel notification of Yemenis scheduled to go before the Guantanamo Administrative Review Board to Assistant Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Khaled al-Akwa. He accepted the notification without comment. Khoury [...] | 2006-07-08 10:41:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KAWC YM |
06SANAA2 | KIDNAPPING UPDATE: SECURITY FORCES DEPLOY, ROYG [...] (C) Summary: Tribesmen continue to hold five Italian tourists hostage in the Sirwah mountains, 60 miles northeast of Sanaa. On January 2, the ROYG deployed 33 members of the Ministry of the Interior's Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU) to an area near where the hostages are believed to be held. T [...] | 2006-01-03 13:40:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ASEC YM COUNTER TERRORISM |
06SANAA2006 | MAVERICK FINANCE MINISTER CHARGES AHEAD ON REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Yemen's new Minister of Finance, Dr. Seif al-Asali, may march to the beat of a different drummer, but he appears to be making progress on reform following years of corruption by his predecessor. Under Asali's leadership, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) is implementing the first phas [...] | 2006-07-12 14:59:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EFIN ECON EAID PINR KMCA KMPI YM |
06SANAA212 | YEMENIS SUPPORTIVE OF SOMALI PARLIAMENTARY [...] (C) Ambassador delivered points contained in refs A and B to Foreign Minister Abubakr al-Qirbi during a January 16 meeting. Ambassador welcomed the efforts of Somali leaders, as well as facilitation efforts by the Republic of Yemen Government (ROYG),to hold a full parliamentary session insi [...] | 2006-01-30 12:52:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SO YM |
06SANAA2136 | YEMEN LNG ON FAST TRACK WITH SUPPORT FROM SALEH; [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a July 22 meeting with Econoff, Karim Abuhamad of the Yemen Liquid Natural Gas Company (YLNG) said that construction was underway on the LNG pipeline and that the project was back on schedule. The company is close to an agreement with the ROYG on resolving legal ownership of ga [...] | 2006-07-26 12:15:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EINV EPET ENRG YM |
06SANAA2149 | ELECTIONS UPDATE: DATE ANNOUNCED, CAMPAIGN SET TO [...] (U) After weeks of difficult negotiations and opposition threats to boycott the elections, preparations for Yemen's September 20 presidential and local council elections appear to be back on track. Over the last two weeks, Charge met with the ruling party, the opposition coalition, and elect [...] | 2006-07-30 12:39:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM YM |
06SANAA221 | UNITEL GSM BID IN DOUBT; OMANTEL POISED TO BENEFIT [...] (C) SUMMARY. After months of speculation, it is now certain that Unitel is unable to cover the cost of its bid offer for Yemen's third GSM license. Political connections continue to keep the company afloat, but most bets are now on Omantel to win the license. Although a legitimate operator, [...] | 2006-02-01 12:53:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EINV ECPS EIND YM COM |
06SANAA2230 | GTMO ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW BOARD NOTIFICATION [...] (C) On August 2, Poloff delivered reftel notification of a Guantanamo Administrative Review Board decision to continue detaining eleven Yemenis to Assistant Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Khaled al-Akwa. He accepted the notification without comment. Krajeski [...] | 2006-08-05 06:47:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KAWC YM |
06SANAA2255 | SANAA ATMOSPHERICS: LOCAL IMAMS CALL FOR JIHAD, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 30, President Saleh suggested in a televised interview with Al-Jazeera that Yemen and other Muslim countries should send volunteer fighters, as well as financial and material support, to the "resistance" against Israel in Lebanon and Palestine. Average Yemenis were stron [...] | 2006-08-07 08:41:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER EPET PINR KPAL KISL YM |
06SANAA226 | GTMO ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW BOARD NOTIFICATION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-01 12:59:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KAWC YM COUNTER TERRORISM |
06SANAA23 | ROYG TELLS UNITEL SHOW ME THE MONEY, BY THE END OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. On January 4 Ambassador met with Minister of Telecommunications, Abdul Malik al-Moalimi, to determine the current status of Yemen,s third GSM tender, particularly the ROYG's next move if tender winner Unitel fails to pay. He also offered assistance with creating an independent tel [...] | 2006-01-07 08:05:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | ECPS EINV KMPI PGOV YM ECON COM |
06SANAA2441 | AMBASSADOR FINDS STRONG ALLY IN MINISTER OF FINANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY. On August 14, Ambassador met Minister of Finance Dr. Saif Al-Asali who was strongly supportive of the U.S. position on Hezbollah. MOF suggested that Yemen was the best hope for the region in its example as an emerging democracy, and urged the United States to back reformers like [...] | 2006-08-19 11:08:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EFIN EAID EINV ETRD KMPI KMCA YM |
06SANAA2466 | OPPOSITION CANDIDATE: "IF THIS ELECTION WERE TO BE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Opposition presidential candidate Faisal bin Shamlan told Ambassador on August 19 that he considers corruption and poverty to be the most important issues for this campaign, but regretted that President Saleh refused to debate him publicly. Asked if the elections would be largel [...] | 2006-08-21 10:24:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM YE |
06SANAA2519 | GTMO ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW BOARD NOTIFICATION [...] (C) On August 23, Poloff delivered reftel notification of Yemenis scheduled to go before the Guantanamo Administrative Review Board to Assistant Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Khaled al-Akwa. He accepted the notification without comment. Krajeski [...] | 2006-08-26 15:02:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KAWC YM |
06SANAA2559 | UNDER YEMEN'S NEW CHIEF JUSTICE, THE PEOPLE'S [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ambassador met Yemen's Chief Justice Esam Abdul-Wahab al-Samawi for the first time on August 29, and discovered a youthful voice for reform and moderation. Samawi expressed the need for a clearer legal framework for trying suspected terrorists and would-be jihadis. As the newly a [...] | 2006-09-03 10:49:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR EAID KMCA KMPI YM |
06SANAA2570 | GTMO ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW BOARD NOTIFICATION [...] (C) On September 4, Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel notification of Yemenis scheduled to go before the Guantanamo Administrative Review Board to Marwan Noman, Diplomatic Attach, Foreign Minister's Office. He accepted the notification without comment. Krajeski [...] | 2006-09-04 13:10:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KAWC YM |
06SANAA2854 | FREEDOM AGENDA TAKES A MAJOR STEP FORWARD IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: September's open and competitive elections capped seven months of intensive USG pressure, coordinated with other donors and international NGOs, to bring about democratic and economic reforms in Yemen. While the road ahead is long, the Republic of Yemen Government (ROYG) has with [...] | 2006-10-04 13:15:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KMPI KDEM PTER YE |
06SANAA296 | YEMENIS DISCUSS AL QAEDA ESCAPEES: GOVERNMENT SOAP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post contacts, media outlets and websites are thus far treating the February 3 Al-Qaeda jailbreak as less of a national emergency and more as another peculiar power struggle within the ROYG. Contacts universally dismiss the ROYG's claim that the prisoners dug a tunnel and escape [...] | 2006-02-08 03:27:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV YM COUNTER TERRORISM DOMESTIC POLITICS |
06SANAA323 | WATANI BANK CASE UNEARTHS PERVASIVE CORRUPTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Central Bank announced its plan to liquidate Watani Bank. The decision is being appealed, but there appears to be little hope of rescuing the failed financial institution. Watani's Amcit General Manager, Dr. Hamdani, and seven others are being tried in Yemen's Specialized P [...] | 2006-02-11 10:20:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | ECPS EINV PGOV KMPI CASC YM ECON COM |
06SANAA330 | OPPOSITION TESTS LIMITS OF PRESIDENTIAL POWER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Parliament is preparing for its next session with a highly anticipated leadership race. Sheikh Abdullah al-Ahmar is widely expected to win re-election as Speaker, but reformers are looking to defeat President Saleh's candidates for the Deputy positions. Such a rebellion could r [...] | 2006-02-11 12:36:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM KMPI YM DOMESTIC POLITICS |
06SANAA342 | CABINET SHAKE-UP: IS REAL REFORM ON ITS WAY? [...] (C) Summary and Comment. On February 11, President Saleh announced a dramatic reshuffling of his 34-member cabinet, including replacing the Ministers of Defense, Finance, Oil, and Planning. Saleh's new cabinet, still led by Prime Minister Bajammal, includes 15 new ministers and two women. [...] | 2006-02-12 14:04:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV YM DOMESTIC POLITICS |
06SANAA3609 | WATANI BANK FAILURE THREATENS BROADER FINANCIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. In early December, the Central Bank of Yemen (CBY) declared Watani Bank insolvent, and initiated the first bank closure in Yemen's history. General Manager Dr. Hamdani, and other bank officials, were arrested and face charges of financial crimes against the state. Watani's futu [...] | 2006-01-02 10:35:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KMPI CASC YM COM |
06SANAA3610 | U.S. CONVENES DONOR GROUP TO CONFRONT CORRUPTION [...] (C) SUMMARY. Following Yemen's suspension from the Millennium Challenge Account Threshold Program (MCA),Ambassador gathered an informal group of key donors to discuss ways of jointly pushing for reform in Yemen. Declining performance in political and economic indicators has already led to a [...] | 2006-01-02 11:32:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EINV KMCA KMPI YM COM |
06SANAA3614 | KIDNAPPINGS IN YEMEN: THE ROYG FACES A DILEMMA [...] (C) Summary. On December 31, a former German government official and four of his family members were released unharmed after being kidnapped by tribesmen three days earlier in Shebwa province. The ROYG negotiated a peaceful settlement with the kidnappers, who had demanded the release of othe [...] | 2006-01-02 13:17:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC YM |
06SANAA3618 | AMBASSADOR AND FONMIN DISCUSS ZINDANI, KIDNAPPINGS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 2 meeting, FonMin Abubakr al-Qirbi told Ambassador that the ROYG had made a conscious decision to include UN-designated terrorist financier Abdul Majid Zindani in its official delegation to the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) meeting in Saudi Arabia, claimin [...] | 2006-01-03 09:32:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER YE COUNTER TERRORISM TERFIN |
06SANAA385 | AL-QA'IDA ESCAPE: COORDINATING MARITIME EFFORTS [...] (C) Summary: On February 11, Office of Military Cooperation (OMC) Chief and NAVCENT Liaison Officer (LNO) met with Yemeni military and coast guard officials to discuss maritime cooperation to capture 23 escaped al Qa'ida prisoners (ref A). Led by the Chief of Staff for the Yemeni Armed For [...] | 2006-02-15 11:05:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS PTER PHSA YM MARITIME SECURITY |
06SANAA388 | AMBASSADOR DELIVERS DEMARCHE ON DEFEATING [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-15 11:05:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL YM DEMARCHE |
06SANAA392 | SALEH ASSERTS CONTROL OVER PARLIAMENT: LEADERSHIP [...] (C) After months of maneuvering by reform-minded parliamentarians, President Saleh drew a line in the sand on February 15 and demanded loyalty. MPs re-elected Sheikh Abdullah al-Ahmar to a two-year term as Speaker with 240 yes votes and 12 blank ballots, and re-elected all three Deputy Spea [...] | 2006-02-15 13:06:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM YM DOMESTIC POLITICS |
06SANAA41 | ROYG STAGGERS FORWARD IN FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION [...] (C) SUMMARY. Yemen's Cabinet approved a new anti-corruption law, calling for the creation of an independent High Commission for National Corruption. Neither the extent of the Commission's powers nor its relationship to existing ROYG institutions -- or the newly created anti-corruption role fo [...] | 2006-01-08 13:08:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KMCA KMPI PGOV PINR PREL YM COM |
06SANAA419 | GTMO ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW BOARD NOTIFICATION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-21 07:05:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KAWC YM COUNTER TERRORISM |
06SANAA440 | ROYG ACCEPTS THE RETURN OF GTMO DETAINEES [...] (C) On February 21, Assistant Deputy Foreign Minister Khalid Al-Akwa presented DCM with the ROYG's long-awaited response to the proposed transfer of 13 Yemenis from Guantanamo Bay (ref A). In the diplomatic note, the ROYG agrees to accept 12 of the detainees proposed for transfer (ref B). [...] | 2006-02-22 09:56:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KAWC YM COUNTER TERRORISM |
06SANAA448 | TERROR TRIALS UPDATE: DEFENDANTS RELEASED AND [...] (U) On February 21, the Yemeni daily "al-Shura" reported that the Sanaa Special Penal Court ordered the release of Abdel Rauf Nassib, who had been tried and acquitted in 2004 of charges that he forged official documents for the USS Cole attackers (ref. A). Foreign press reports also stated tha [...] | 2006-02-22 14:32:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC PGOV YM COUNTER TERRORISM |
06SANAA455 | GTMO ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW BOARD NOTIFICATION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-25 13:32:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KAWC YM COUNTER TERRORISM |
06SANAA456 | IRAN: MAINTAINING PRESSURE AND SEEKING REGIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-25 13:33:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PREL PARM IR YM DEMARCHE |
06SANAA457 | DEMARCHE ON HOST COUNTRY MEETINGS WITH HAMAS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-25 13:34:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL YM DEMARCHE |
06SANAA481 | AIRBUS LIKELY TO EDGE OUT BOEING FOR YEMENIA DEAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador met with Captain Abdulhamid Al-Qadi, Chairman and CEO of Yemenia Airlines, the national airline of Yemen, on February 13, to make another push for Boeing in its contest against Airbus for the purchase of ten new airplanes (ref D). Ambassador reminded Al-Qadi that EXIM [...] | 2006-02-28 05:33:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON KTDB YM COM |
06SANAA537 | SALEH FEELS PRESSURE TO REFORM, RESPONDS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Yemen's recent cabinet reshuffle was brought about by, among other factors, coordinated pressure for reform by donor countries. On February 8, Post met with President Saleh, together with the Germans, British, and Dutch. The delegation pressed Saleh for specific actions to fight [...] | 2006-03-05 07:12:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KMCA KMPI YM |
06SANAA578 | GTMO ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW BOARD NOTIFICATION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-07 09:34:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KAWC YM |
06SANAA588 | AMBASSADOR AND NEW M/INFO DISCUSS NEW PRESS LAW [...] Summary: During Ambassador's February 22 introductory call on new Minister of Information (M/INFO),Hassan al-Lawzi, discussions centered around the proposed media law. The M/INFO noted that the proposed press law bill, as written, was designed to guarantee freedom of information and confided [...] | 2006-03-07 13:45:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KMPI KMCA YM |
06SANAA589 | NEW MHR HAISAMI ON REFUGEES, PRESS, AND THE MHR [...] (C) Summary: During a February 27 introductory call by Ambassador the new Minister of Human Rights (MHR),Khadijah Ahmed al-Haisami, expressed her views on Somali refugees, the new press law and her new role, which she promised to perform to the best of her ability. End Summary. 2. (C) On [...] | 2006-03-07 13:51:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KMPI KMCC PREF YM |
06SANAA649 | AN UNDECIDED JMP KEEPS ON POSTURING [...] (C) Summary. After a four-month dispute with the Supreme Council for Elections and Referendum (SCER),the Joint Meeting Parties (JMP) opposition party coalition continues to demand that the SCER balance thousands of its GPC-affiliated employees with JMP loyalists. The JMP claims that this wil [...] | 2006-03-14 10:44:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KMCA KMPI YM |
06SANAA815 | AMBASSADOR PUSHES FREEDOM AGENDA WITH PM BAJAMMAL, [...] (C) SUMMARY. On March 19, Ambassador met with Prime Minister Abdul Kader Bajammal to discuss the new cabinet and reform efforts. Ambassador congratulated Bajammal on the new cabinet and looked forward to future cooperation on political and economic reforms. Even though Yemen was a difficult [...] | 2006-03-21 12:49:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM ECON YM |
06SANAA835 | IMF OFFERS GLOOMY PROGNOSIS FOR YEMEN'S ECONOMY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 20, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed its Article IV Consultation for Yemen. In a briefing for donors, the Fund's macroeconomic projections were decidedly bleak, emphasizing an impending fiscal crisis caused by declining oil reserves and increased spending. [...] | 2006-03-25 13:56:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EFIN ECON EPET EINV KALR KMCA KMPI YM |
06SANAA843 | LNG STEAMS AHEAD; INVESTORS WONDER IF YEMEN IS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The biggest investment deal in Yemen's history is becoming reality. On March 6, Ambassador met Joel Fort, General Manager of the Yemen Liquid Natural Gas Company (YLNG) to discuss the status of the project. YLNG is currently finishing preparatory work for the pipeline and liquef [...] | 2006-03-26 07:13:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EINV EPET ENRG YM |
06SANAA89 | AMBASSADOR URGES ANSWER ON GUANTANAMO DETAINEE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-18 12:54:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER YM KWAC COUNTER TERRORISM |
06SANAA90 | REFERRING IRAN TO UNSC: AMBASSADOR DELIVERS [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel demarches to FonMin Abubakr al-Qirbi on January 16, noting particularly that Yemen's support in convening an IAEA Board of Governors meeting would be an important demonstration of the U.S.-Yemeni security relationship following President Saleh's November visit [...] | 2006-01-18 12:55:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PREL PARM IR YM DEMARCHE |
06SANAA91 | AMBASSADOR DELIVERS ZINDANI DEMARCHE TO FONMIN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-18 12:56:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EFIN ETTC SA YM DEMARCHE TERFIN |
06SANAA954 | CORRUPTION KEEPS UNITEL ON TOP IN GSM TENDER [...] (C) SUMMARY. On April 3, DCM met with Deputy Minister of Telecommunications, Abdullah Al-Hamami, to discuss the status of the ongoing GSM tender drama. (Ref A) In a candid discussion, the Deputy Minister stated that the law requires that the GSM license go to Unitel or to no one, despite Unit [...] | 2006-04-09 10:17:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECPS EINV KMPI PGOV PINR YM |
06SANJOSE1009 | FERNANDO BERROCAL, MINISTER OF PUBLIC SECURITY [...] (C) On May 8, 2006, Fernando Berrocal Soto was sworn in as Minister of Public Security and Government, along with the rest of Oscar Arias's cabinet. Berrocal has little background in security issues but extensive political and international experience, including two stints as Costa Rica's Per [...] | 2006-05-11 22:46:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR CS |
06SANJOSE1196 | FOREIGN MINISTER STAGNO SUPPORTIVE OF USG EFFORTS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-01 14:57:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CS |
06SANJOSE1264 | COSTA RICA'S GROWING FIREARMS PROBLEM [...] (C) Summary: Incoming Minister of Public Security Fernando Berrocal filed a formal complaint with the Attorney General's Office on May 30, 2006, based on the disappearance of over 100 weapons, including military assault rifles, grenades, and large quantities of ammunition, from the national a [...] | 2006-06-07 22:23:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM KCRM PINR ASEC CS |
06SANJOSE127 | COSTA RICA SEEKS TO AVOID CONSEQUENCES OF NOT [...] (C) President Pacheco on January 11 convoked his ministers of foreign affairs, foreign trade, and labor and the Costa Rican Ambassador to the U.S. to discuss with Ambassador and Polcouns the ramifications of the Nethercutt Amendment for Costa Rica. The GOCR officials were specifically concer [...] | 2006-01-19 14:10:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS ETRD EAID CS KICC |
06SANJOSE131 | ARIAS AND PACHECO ON THE NEXT GOVERNMENT OF COSTA [...] (C) Both President Pacheco and Oscar Arias, frontrunner to be the next president, said in separate meetings with CODEL Burton that they expect a better political climate in Costa Rica after the February 5 elections. Arias said that Costa Ricans have reason to be annoyed with the political cl [...] | 2006-01-19 20:58:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD VE CS |
06SANJOSE136 | COSTA RICA ON REPORTING IRAN TO THE UNSC [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-20 17:44:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP CS |
06SANJOSE1529 | DELAY LIKELY FOR NEW IMMIGRATION LAW [...] (C) President Oscar Arias has requested legislation that would delay the implementation of a law passed in October, 2005 designed to strengthen the immigration enforcement authority of Costa Rican Immigration (CRI) officials. The law is scheduled to take effect in August 2006. In all likeli [...] | 2006-07-11 15:12:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV PREF SMIG CS |
06SANJOSE156 | COSTA RICA DEMARCHED ON UN REFORM [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Langdale and visiting A/DAS David Lindwall delivered reftel demarche to Foreign Minister Tovar on January 17. Tovar was receptive to all of our points, but seemed most inclined to cooperate on reforms to the Human Rights Commission. End Summary. UNHRC ----- 2. (C [...] | 2006-01-24 13:55:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR PHUM ADCO CS |
06SANJOSE158 | PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE RICARDO TOLEDO SWIMMING [...] (C) In a meeting with Ambassador on January 9, President Pacheco's confidant and former chief of staff Ricardo Toledo tried to put the best light possible on his foundering presidential campaign--a difficult task considering he has not broken 5 percent in the polls and now appears to have sli [...] | 2006-01-24 14:21:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL ECON CS |
06SANJOSE159 | OSCAR ARIAS ON PRIORITIES FOR HIS GOVERNMENT [...] (C) An Arias Administration will make a priority of spending whatever political capital is necessary to ratify and implement CAFTA-DR. Arias offered to be helpful to the Untied States in the region, promoting free trade and opposing a leftward political drift. Arias seems unable to accept th [...] | 2006-01-24 14:34:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CS |
06SANJOSE1650 | A/S SHANNON VISITS TOP COSTA RICAN OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary: A/S Tom Shannon visited Costa Rica June 27-29, calling on key officials of the new Arias Administration as well as the International Relations Committee of the Legislative Assembly. A/S Shannon discussed security issues and prospects for ratification of the Central American Free [...] | 2006-07-28 19:27:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR CS |
06SANJOSE1747 | COSTA RICA ON CASTRO SUCCESSION [...] (C) Ambassador discussed reftel talking points with Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Stagno on August 4, 2006. Stagno indicated that he would discuss the situation with Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon when they were in Bogota, Colombia, on August 7 f [...] | 2006-08-09 22:36:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL CU CR |
06SANJOSE1841 | COSTA RICA DEFENDS EMBASSY MOVE TO TEL AVIV [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a public ceremony marking his administration,s 100 days in office, President Oscar Arias explained that his government,s decision to move its embassy from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv was not a slap to Israel, but was consistent with Costa Rica,s "respect" for UN resolutions and inte [...] | 2006-08-18 23:13:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS XK CS |
06SANJOSE1955 | COSTA RICA ON CUBAN TRANSITION: WE,LL DO IT OUR WAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 28, Ambassador and DCM called on FM Bruno Stagno to discuss how to further bilateral and regional cooperation in support of a democratic transition in Cuba. Stagno was receptive to the suggestion that Arias and the GOCR use Costa Rica,s "moral stature" to advocate chan [...] | 2006-09-01 17:24:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CU CI CS |
06SANJOSE2060 | SECURITY MINISTER ON DMA PARTICIPATION AND [...] (C) The GOCR has not decided to downgrade its participation in the upcoming Defense Ministerial of the Americas (DMA),according to Security Minister Fernando Berrocal; the minister told the Ambassador on September 8 that he saw no reason not to attend at least part of the DMA. On other issu [...] | 2006-09-14 23:06:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PGOV SNAR XK CS |
06SANJOSE2237 | SECURITY MINISTER TO VISIT U.S. SOUTHERN COMMAND [...] (C) Minister of Public Security Fernando Berrocal has requested Embassy assistance in organizing an official visit to U.S. Southern Command, preferably on Wednesday, November 15, 2006. The visit would coincide with an official visit with Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico that will take [...] | 2006-10-11 23:00:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PGOV SNAR CS |
06SANJOSE2320 | NATIONAL ANTI-CAFTA PROTEST OCTOBER 23-24 [...] (C) SUMMARY: A broad coalition of union and student groups is posed to square off against the GOCR October 23-24, protesting mostly CAFTA but also pay increases below the rate of inflation and the high cost of living. Both sides have much at stake. The anti-CAFTA forces want to shake GOCR r [...] | 2006-10-23 21:36:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ETRD PGOV ASEC CS |
06SANJOSE2371 | UNSC RACE: DUELING DIP NOTES IN COSTA RICA [...] (U) In the past week, both Venezuela and Guatemala continued their diplomatic lobbying efforts in Costa Rica for the 2007 GRULAC UNSC seat. In a circular Diplomatic Note dated 18 October (Ref A),the GOV reiterated that "it was maintaining and would maintain until the end" its candidacy, beca [...] | 2006-10-26 17:19:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC GT VE CS |
06SANJOSE2373 | POLICE DIRECTOR RESIGNS, REPLACED BY PILOT [...] (U) SUMMARY: On October 19, Police Director Osvaldo Alpizar Nunez resigned to face an investigation into charges he used official cellphones to make death threats against former policeman Alexis Ugalde. Alpizar is the first high-ranking official in the Ministry of Public Security to leave off [...] | 2006-10-26 18:29:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS PINR CS |
06SANJOSE2379 | COSTA RICAN IMMIGRATION DIRECTOR PLANS MAJOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Costa Rican Immigration Director Mario Zamora recently told us that months of intense work with 2nd Vice President Kevin Casas (a personal friend who also functions as Minister of Planning) were about to bear fruit in the form of fundamental reforms to the information systems and [...] | 2006-10-27 10:32:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREF KFRD CASC CS |
06SANJOSE2685 | SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENT ARIAS VISIT [...] (C) President Arias and his administration are making progress on the ambitious agenda outlined in his inaugural address. In October, long-planned, union-led national anti-CAFTA protests fizzled, a costly dockworkers, strike in a major port was resolved, and the legislature set a date certain [...] | 2006-11-28 23:14:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR ETRD ECON CS |
06SANJOSE2702 | PRESIDENT ARIAS ON HIS VISIT TO WASHINGTON [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 29, the Ambassador met with President Arias to discuss the latter,s upcoming visit to Washington. The Ambassador noted Arias,s position as a leader with regional stature, and suggested President Bush would be interested in Arias,s views on developments in Nicaragua [...] | 2006-12-01 21:41:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR ETRD ECON CS US |
06SANJOSE344 | DONATION TO IRAQI AND AFGHAN SECURITY FORCES: [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-14 21:01:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PINS PREL AF IZ CS |
06SANJOSE359 | COSTA RICANS PATIENTLY AWAIT ELECTION RESULTS, BUT [...] (C) Summary: Although the unofficial preliminary tabulations of election results show Oscar Arias to have won the February 5 election by more than 10,000 votes, the current interim, cumulative total of the official recount (which eleven days after the election has passed the half-way point) n [...] | 2006-02-16 18:06:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CS |
06SANJOSE443 | BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ON OSCAR ARIAS [...] (U) Oscar Arias Sanchez was elected on February 5, 2006, as the first repeat president in Costa Rica since 1970. Winning by a 1.12 percent margin (18,000 votes out of 1.62 million cast),Arias comes to office without the sweeping mandate he expected. He was permitted to run for president beca [...] | 2006-02-24 20:58:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PREL CS |
06SANJOSE444 | "MORAL POWER:" ARIAS AND NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (C) National security in an Oscar Arias administration will be pursued at three levels: (1) Internationally, Arias will use his prestige as a Nobel laureate to be an advocate for multilateralism, international law, and disarmament. (2) At home the principal external security issues will be [...] | 2006-02-24 21:13:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PREL MASS SNAR SMIG SOCI PBTS NI CS |
06SANJOSE488 | COSTA RICA: GUATEMALAN CAMPAIGN LOOKS WEAK FOR [...] (C) Summary: Costa Rica will support Guatemala's efforts to win the rotational Latin seat on the UNSC. The Foreign Minister and Director of Foreign Policy told us separately that Guatemala needs to campaign more aggressively, particularly in the Caribbean, and offered to assist. These offici [...] | 2006-03-03 20:53:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CS PGOC UNSC |
06SANJOSE58 | COSTA RICA'S RESPONSE ON THE JANUARY 9 MEETING ON [...] (C) Foreign Minister Tovar told us he would not sign a Mexican-authored communique on U.S. immigration proposals merely as a gesture of solidarity, especially if the document is "confrontational." End Summary. Costa Ricans Have Their Own Immigration Problems ------------------------------- [...] | 2006-01-09 21:37:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SMIG ECON ES NU HO EC DR CO GT CS |
06SANJOSE617 | IN LETTER TO SOLIS, ARIAS CALLS FOR NATIONAL DIALOG [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 17, daily newspaper La Nacion published in its entirety a letter from President-elect Oscar Arias to election runner-up Otton Solis, in which Arias calls upon Solis and his supporters to act in a manner befitting a mature democracy, and to work with Arias during the nex [...] | 2006-03-17 21:46:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ETRD CS |
06SANJOSE63 | NATIONAL SECURITY PLANNING WORKSHOP FOR COSTA RICA [...] (C) Tom: I am writing to seek your support for an inititiative to engage early on with the new Costa Rican leadership team before it enters office and while it is still forming its governing agenda. During my consultations in Washington before coming to post, I met with Dr. Richard Downie o [...] | 2006-01-10 15:53:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS MARR PREL CS |
06SANJOSE705 | COSTA RICA WILL SEEK PANAMANIAN SUPPORT FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-30 23:04:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC UN GT VE CS |
06SANJOSE706 | RODGRIGO ARIAS, MINISTER OF PRESIDENCY [...] (C) Rodrigo is the younger brother and by far the closest adviser to Oscar Arias. He is the only permanent member of Oscar's inner circle and has always been at his brother's side in business and politics. Since Oscar's divorce and the death of his mother, Oscar has come to rely even more on [...] | 2006-03-30 23:12:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CS |
06SANJOSE707 | FUTURE PUSC DEPUTIES STRESS IMPORTANCE OF "SOCIAL [...] (C) On May 29, Ambassador hosted all five deputies-elect of the Social Christian Unity Party (PUSC) for breakfast. They all expressed support for the Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) but were concerned about opposition from labor trade unions, some agricultura [...] | 2006-03-30 23:18:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ETRD CS |
06SANJOSE734 | URGING COSTA RICA TO ENDORSE PSI [...] (C) On April 3, Polcouns delivered reftel demarche to the MFA's Director General for Foreign Policy, Jose Joaquin Chaverri, emphasizing the importance of controlling the trade in WMD and missile-related materials and noting that endorsement of PSI was a statement of political support and did [...] | 2006-04-05 14:12:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL KNNP CS |
06SANJOSE88 | NATIONAL SECURITY PLANNING WORKSHOP FOR COSTA RICA [...] (C) Dear General Craddock: I am writing to seek your support for an inititiative to engage early on with the new Costa Rican leadership team before it enters office and while it is still forming its governing agenda. During my consultations in Washington before coming to post, I met with Dr [...] | 2006-01-13 13:39:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS MARR PREL CS |
06SANJOSE910 | COSTA RICA RESPONSE TO UNHRC - CANDIDACY OF IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-28 16:01:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | KUNR PHUM PREL CS |
06SANSALVADOR1027 | EL SALVADOR FINANCE MINISTER RESIGNS [...] (C) During a long conversation at his residence the evening of April 19, GOES Finance Minister Guillermo Lopez Suarez (strictly protect throughout) confirmed to Polcouns that he had, indeed, resigned his post, effective May 1. Lopez Suarez recounted how, on April 7, he had gone to see Preside [...] | 2006-04-20 19:48:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR ES ECON EFIN |
06SANSALVADOR109 | SACA TO ANNOUNCE 6TH CONTINGENT TO IRAQ; EXPRESSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Saca will inform the President January 13 that El Salvador will send a sixth contingent of troops to Iraq. The formal public announcement will come in early February. Saca told the Ambassador January 12 that he is concerned about two issues going into March 12 elections [...] | 2006-01-13 15:16:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ECIN SMIG ES HO IZ |
06SANSALVADOR1094 | DEMARCHE ON VENEZUELAN ATTACKS AGAINST U.S. [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-26 21:04:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ES VE |
06SANSALVADOR1118 | SALVADORAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PASSES WITNESS [...] (C) Summary: On April 26, the Salvadoran National Assembly finally passed a Witness and Victims Protection Law after more than a year of lobbying by the Embassy. The vote was 57-0, with 27 FMLN abstentions. The government's ARENA Party and the other right-of-center parties, as well as the mod [...] | 2006-04-27 20:32:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KCRM SNAR ES |
06SANSALVADOR1152 | SACA NAMES TACA VETERAN FINANCE MINISTER [...] (U) On April 23, President Saca named William J. Handal Minister of Finance, to replace Gullermo Lopez Suarez effective May 1. Handal is from the Department of Usulutan, the home of President Saca. Handal graduated from Southeastern Louisiana University with a Bachelor,s Degree in Economics [...] | 2006-05-02 15:16:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PINR ES |
06SANSALVADOR116 | NO GOOD OPTIONS ON CAFTA FOR EL SALVADOR: [...] (C) Foreign Minister Francisco Lainez and Minister of Economy Yolanda de Gavidia met the Ambassador in the evening of January 12 to continue the discussion of CAFTA implementation, in anticipation of a January 13 morning call from President Bush to President Saca. De Gavidia repeated that th [...] | 2006-01-13 21:38:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL ES CAFTA |
06SANSALVADOR1166 | EL SALVADOR PASSES HISTORIC GOVERNMENT ETHICS LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY: El Salvador's departing Legislative Assembly on April 25 unanimously approved a comprehensive and robust ethics law to oversee conduct of public sector employees across all branches of government, following an often-frustrating five-year Embassy effort to institute such legislat [...] | 2006-05-03 19:33:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ES PGOV KCOR |
06SANSALVADOR1177 | UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CANDIDATES (EL SALVADOR) [...] (U) Per reftel A instructions, diplomatic note from Secretary Rice to Foreign Minister Lainez was delivered to SIPDIS the GOES Foreign Ministry on April 24. 2. (C) On April 28, poloff discussed reftels with Mario Rivera, Multilateral Affairs Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affair [...] | 2006-05-04 14:34:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | KUNR OPDC PREL PHUM UNGA ES |
06SANSALVADOR1181 | SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT UNVEILS TIP VICTIMS SHELTER [...] (U) On the margins of the Regional Migration Conference being hosted by the Government of El Salvador (GOES),Minister of Governance Rene Figueroa announced at a May 3 press conference the unveiling of a GOES shelter for trafficking in persons victims. Figueroa stated that the shelter openin [...] | 2006-05-04 21:05:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KWMN PHUM PREL SMIG ES TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS |
06SANSALVADOR1193 | EL SALVADOR: LAST-MINUTE PASSAGE OF KEY LAWS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: In its final days in office prior to its May 1 replacement by newly-elected deputies, El Salvador's outgoing Legislative Assembly approved a number of significant constitutional reforms and other legislative measures, including a witness protection law. However, under Article 2 [...] | 2006-05-05 20:53:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ES PGOV PREL |
06SANSALVADOR1194 | UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL - CANDIDACY OF IRAN (EL [...] (C) On May 4, poloff spoke again with Mario Rivera, Multilateral Affairs Director for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Rivera stated that El Salvador was continuing to evaluate candidate countries, but assured poloff that the GOES was in opposition to the candidacy of Iran and other countrie [...] | 2006-05-05 20:55:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | KUNR PHUM PREL ES IR |
06SANSALVADOR1195 | EL SALVADOR: LETTER REGARDING HUMAN RIGHTS FROM [...] (C) On May 4, 2006, poloff met with Mario Rivera, Multilateral Affairs Director for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During the meeting, Rivera showed poloff a letter that the GOES had received from the North Korean Embassy in Mexico City requesting that the GOES oppose any motion regarding [...] | 2006-05-05 20:58:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ES KN |
06SANSALVADOR1214 | RELATIVE OF AMERICAN AIRLINES EMPLOYEE MAY HAVE [...] (U) According to an April 28 story in Salvadoran daily "El Mundo," the Salvadoran National Police is investigating a munitions cache found in a piece of luggage inspected and seized at Comalapa International Airport. Salvadoran National Police (PNC) Director Rodrigo Avila was quoted as sayin [...] | 2006-05-09 19:03:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM EAIR PTER SMIG ETTC ASEC ES |
06SANSALVADOR1228 | EL SALVADOR'S NEW SUPREME COURT JUSTICES [...] (U) Summary: As one of their final acts before conclusion of the Legislative Assembly session, the 2003-2006 Assembly on April 30 elected five new members to the Supreme Court (CSJ). The new justices appear ready to confront the problems of the judicial system and undertake needed reforms. [...] | 2006-05-10 15:05:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCOR ES |
06SANSALVADOR1260 | EL SALVADOR: INL MONTHLY ACTIVITIES REPORT FOR [...] (U) The following summarizes Embassy INL activities in April 2006. ------ ILEA ------ 2. (U) From April 4 to 6, the PNC hosted the second annual regional gang conference attended by representatives from Mexico, Central America, and the United States. The conference provided a forum to [...] | 2006-05-12 15:03:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PINR PINS PREL SNAR KCRM KIPR KJUS ES |
06SANSALVADOR1352 | REDUCING THE MURDER RATE COMPLICATED BY POLITICS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The citizens of El Salvador are outraged by numerous murders occurring daily in this country. Police Director Avila is trying to professionalize his police force, but he lacks sufficient manpower and equipment. Yesterday, President Saca announced that his administration will seek [...] | 2006-05-23 15:32:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KCRM KJUS ES ASEC |
06SANSALVADOR138 | POST SUPPORTS GOES REQUEST FOR DHS ASSISTANCE RE [...] (C) On September 2, 2005, DHS Acting U/S Randy Beardsworth visited El Salvador to discuss the mechanics of the Secure Borders Initiative (SBI) with Salvadoran officials. During these discussions, U/S Beardsworth noted that SBI required the GOES to issue travel documents for deportable Salvad [...] | 2006-01-18 17:45:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PTER KCRM ES GANGS ACCELERATED DEPORTATION |
06SANSALVADOR1430 | EL SALVADOR: DEMARCHE REGARDING U.S. STATEMENT ON [...] (C) Ambassador and Acting DCM met with President Saca, Foreign Minister Lainez, and Presidential Private Secretary Charlaix this afternoon and delivered reftel demarche talking points. President Saca stated that he shared our concerns about Iran, and that his government would support the U.S. [...] | 2006-05-31 22:14:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ES IR PGOV PREL |
06SANSALVADOR1455 | IRAN SEEKS CHAIR OF IOM EXCOM (EL SALVADOR) [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-02 18:38:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SMIG AORC ES |
06SANSALVADOR1456 | EL SALVADOR SUPPORTIVE OF USG POSITION AT OAS GA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-02 18:56:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ES |
06SANSALVADOR1530 | EL SALVADOR: INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION IN IRAQ [...] (C) Poloff discussed reftel B talking points June 9 with MFA's Director for Asia, Africa and Oceania Affairs, Milton Magana, who indicated that he would discuss the matter with representatives of the Ministry of Defense. 2. (C) Comment: As outlined in reftel A, at a May 24 meeting with U [...] | 2006-06-09 20:39:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS IZ ES |
06SANSALVADOR1643 | EL SALVADOR: FMLN'S "FULL-COURT PRESS" AGAINST [...] (C) SUMMARY: The hard-left opposition party Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) has launched an offensive against the Salvadoran Government's proposed Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) project. An FMLN delegation to be led by FMLN Deputy Jose Salvador Arias plans to travel to [...] | 2006-06-23 21:31:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ES PGOV PREL KMCA |
06SANSALVADOR1702 | EL SALVADOR: GOES FINALLY "GETTING IT" ON CRIME? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Barclay met June 27 with President Tony Saca to underscore U.S. concern about El Salvador's worsening crime problems; the President indicated that he intends to make crime his number-one priority during his remaining three years in office. A flurry of recent activity [...] | 2006-07-03 18:04:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ES PGOV PINR PREL |
06SANSALVADOR1736 | EL SALVADOR: SACA TIES FMLN TO POLICE MURDERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In violent July 5 protests at the University of El Salvador (UES),one or more snipers associated with radical leftist protesters assassinated two Civilian National Police (PNC) officers from the PNC's elite riot-control unit (PNC/UMO),and wounded at least 10 other officers. P [...] | 2006-07-06 23:03:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ES PGOV PREL PTER |
06SANSALVADOR1823 | NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL MAKING A GOOD FIRST IMPRESSION [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 20, 2006, the Salvadoran Legislature elected Felix Garrid Safie as Attorney General of the Republic (FGR). Safie was nominated after his predecessor, Belasario Artiga, failed to garner enough support for his reelection bid. With only two months on the job, Safie has a [...] | 2006-07-18 17:23:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PGOV SNAR KCRM KJUS ES |
06SANSALVADOR1849 | EL SALVADOR: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH FMLN LEADERS ON MCA AND JULY 5 POLICE KILLINGS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a July 12 luncheon that had been planned with leaders of the opposition Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) prior to the July 5 murders of Civilian National Police riot-cotrol (PNC/UMO) officers at the National University (UES),Ambassador Barclay discussed the p [...] | 2006-07-21 18:05:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ES PGOV PREL PTER KMCA |
06SANSALVADOR1874 | P5+1 INCENTIVE PACKAGE FOR IRAN (EL SALVADOR) [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-26 17:42:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL AORC ES |
06SANSALVADOR1962 | (C) UNGA-RELATED QUESTIONS (EL SALVADOR) [...] (C) El Salvador's Permanent Representative to the United Nations is Carmen Maria Gallardo de Hernandez (DPOB November 28, 1949; San Salvador). Gallardo is married with two children; her husband is Xavier Hernandez, a Coca-Cola executive. Ms. Gallardo de Hernandez is the sister of Cecilia Ga [...] | 2006-08-09 19:26:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ES PINR |
06SANSALVADOR2008 | EL SALVADOR: FMLN'S LAST MODERATE REFLECTS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a wide-ranging discussion with poloff, moderate FMLN Legislative Assembly Deputy Hugo Martinez commented on the deadly July 5 violence tied to the FMLN (reftel B),and speculated on his party's prospects for the 2009 presidential elections. The conciliatory tone of Martinez's mes [...] | 2006-08-14 20:12:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ES PGOV PREL |
06SANSALVADOR2056 | THREE MONTHS INTO HER TERM, SAN SALVADOR'S FMLN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Little more than three months into her term as Mayor of San Salvador, the FMLN's Violeta Menjivar suffers approval ratings of only 45 percent. A crisis in trash collection has turned many urban streets into foul-smelling and unsanitary garbage dumps. Heavy rains have caused di [...] | 2006-08-21 17:47:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ES PGOV PREL CH SOCI |
06SANSALVADOR210 | EL SALVADOR: FMLN LEADER SCHAFIK HANDAL DEAD AT 75 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Longtime FMLN leader and 2004 presidential candidate Schafik Handal died suddenly Tuesday afternoon, January 24 from a heart attack as he returned from Bolivia. With six weeks to go until nationwide elections, Handal's death may provide a temporary rallying point and boost for F [...] | 2006-01-27 13:50:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ES PGOV PREL |
06SANSALVADOR2204 | EL SALVADOR: SACA'S RATINGS SLIP AS SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a poll publicized September 7 and 8 in leading daily La Prensa Grafica, President Saca's ratings, while still relatively high, are continuously declining in the face of citizens' growing concerns about violent crime and sluggish economic growth. Saca's personal charisma is i [...] | 2006-09-08 18:43:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ES KCRM PGOV PREL |
06SANSALVADOR2249 | SALVADORAN LAW ENFORCEMENT OVERWHELMED BY VIOLENTSTREET [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-13 18:05:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PINR PINS KCRM KJUS ES |
06SANSALVADOR2369 | EL SALVADOR: NEW ANTI-TERRORISM LAW A MESSAGE TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Late on September 21, the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly passed new counterterrorism legislation; the ruling ARENA party and their center-right PCN allies were joined by the Christian Democrats (PDC) for a total of 50 votes in favor of the new law, despite vociferous opposition [...] | 2006-09-27 12:54:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ES KJUS PGOV PTER KTFN |
06SANSALVADOR2371 | MONEY LAUNDERING CHARGES AGAINST SALVADORAN [...] (C) On September 25, the financial crimes division of the Salvadoran National Police (DAN) arrested the wife and mother-in-law of (substitute) Congressman Roberto Silva Pereira of the National Conciliation Party on charges of bribery and money laundering. A local bank manager implicated in the [...] | 2006-09-27 15:32:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR EFIN PGOV PINS KCRM ES |
06SANSALVADOR2508 | EL SALVADOR: FMLN "PRESIDENCIABLES" FOR 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY: With two and a half years to go until the 2009 presidential election, speculation is emerging with regard to who will be the candidate of the opposition Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN). Orthodox-hardliner leader Schafik Handal was beaten soundly in 2004 by ARENA [...] | 2006-10-16 21:32:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ES PGOV PINR PREL |
06SANSALVADOR2526 | POLL UNDERSCORES AMBASSADOR'S CONCERNS ON CRIME [...] (U) Summary: Results from a CID-Gallup poll publicized October 17 in leading daily El Diario de Hoy demonstrate that Salvadorans share the Ambassador's deep concern that spiraling violent crime threatens El Salvador's continued economic development and the consolidation of its democratic in [...] | 2006-10-18 19:35:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ES KCRM PGOV PREL |
06SANSALVADOR2661 | PRESIDENT SACA ESTABLISHES ANTI-CRIME COMMISSION [...] (C) In the wake of the Ambassador's October 16 speech calling for immediate action to stop crime, followed by pressure from leading members of the business community and ex-President Calderon Sol, the Saca administration has inaugurated a new Anti-Crime Commission, which will make recommenda [...] | 2006-11-03 20:52:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCRM KJUS ES |
06SANSALVADOR2766 | SACA'S COMMISSION CHATS WHILE MURDER RATE RISES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOES released new figures on November 14 that show murders are up in October over September, rising to 339 homicides last month alone. The Saca Administration paradoxically responds that the numbers are not entirely negative. They point to the fact that the murder rate is d [...] | 2006-11-16 17:54:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ES KCRM PGOV PREL KHLS |
06SANSALVADOR2803 | EL SALVADOR: AMBASSADOR DELIVERS MESSAGE ON IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-22 14:43:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL UNSC IZ ES |
06SANSALVADOR2872 | EL SALVADOR: LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY REMOVES IMMUNITY [...] (C) On November 29, the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly voted 82-0 to remove the immunity of Alternate Deputy Roberto Silva Pereira (National Conciliation Party - PCN) to allow for his prosecution on money laundering and bribery charges. The removal of Silva's immunity came two days after a S [...] | 2006-11-30 17:18:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR EFIN PGOV KCOR ES |
06SANSALVADOR2873 | EL SALVADOR'S NEW POPULIST THREAT ? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Populist 41-year-old Mayor Wil Salgado of San Miguel (El Salvador's third-largest city) has publicly expressed his intention of running for president in the March 2009 national elections. Although a Salgado national victory in 2009 is highly unlikely, his popularity in the natio [...] | 2006-11-30 18:44:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR PINR ES |
06SANSALVADOR2900 | EL SALVADOR TO ACCEPT E TRAVEL DOC, STILL UNSURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 4 the Ambassador, accompanied by poloff notetaker, met with Foreign Minister Lainez to follow up on the two major proposals the USG has presented to the GOES on the issue of the deportation of Salvadoran criminals. Lainez agreed orally to accept the ICE-E Travel Docum [...] | 2006-12-05 20:33:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCRM KJUS CASC KHLS |
06SANSALVADOR2921 | SALVADORAN DESIRE FOR UN SECRETARY GENERAL'S [...] (C) Foreign Minister Francisco Lainez contacted Charge February 8 to outline the importance the GOES places on new UN Secretary General Ban Kim's attendance at January 16 ceremonies marking the fifteenth anniversary of the Peace Accords that ended the nation's 12-year armed conflict, and to a [...] | 2006-12-08 21:28:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ES PGOV PREL |
06SANSALVADOR2922 | EL SALVADOR: MIDTERM CABINET SHUFFLE ADDRESSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Halfway through his five-year term, President Saca has created a new Ministry of Public Security and Justice to combat the nation's spiraling violent crime. Rene Figueroa, until now Minister of Governance, will head the new ministry, while former Vice Minister Aguilar will remai [...] | 2006-12-08 21:48:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ES PGOV PREL |
06SANSALVADOR2953 | EL SALVADOR: ASSEMBLY VOTES FOR ONE YEAR EXTENSION IN IRAQ [...] (U) Late on December 14, El Salvador's Legislative Assembly passed a resolution extending the authorization for Salvadoran participation in the Multinational Forces-Iraq through December 31, 2007. The measure passed with 49 votes in favor (ARENA, National Conciliation (PCN),and Christian D [...] | 2006-12-15 15:57:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MARR MASS IZ ES |
06SANSALVADOR2972 | FMLN CONVENTION GOES STALINIST, LOOKING AHEAD TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In its December 17 national convention, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) Party (with the attendance of 526 delegates known as party militants) overwhelmingly voted into effect new "reforms" whereby open primaries will be abolished, and incumbent party leaders [...] | 2006-12-19 19:57:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ES PGOV PREL PTER |
06SANSALVADOR315 | EL SALVADOR: FIVE WEEKS FROM ELECTION, ARENA LEAD [...] (C) Summary: Latest polls indicate that the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) retains the lead in both mayoral and Legislative Assembly races, but its lead over the opposition Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) has narrowed slightly. There is no indication thus far that [...] | 2006-02-07 21:37:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ES ELECTIONS |
06SANSALVADOR318 | EL SALVADOR: POST'S VIEWS ON DISASTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Temporary Protected Status status should be extended for El Salvadoran beneficiaries currently residing and working in the United States. El Salvador's ongoing recovery from the 2001 earthquakes and the 2005 eruption of the Santa Ana volcano is incomplete. Current conditions p [...] | 2006-02-07 21:51:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ES PGOV PHUM PREF PREL SMIG |
06SANSALVADOR407 | UPDATE ON MCDONALD’S CONTRACTUAL DISPUTE [...] (C) Summary. On December 7, 2005, an appeals court ruled that McDonald's had illegally terminated its contract with a local franchisee on July 1, 1996, and therefore owed him $24 million in losses and damages. McDonald's is appealing the decision, but the composition of the chamber that will hear t [...] | 2006-02-16 20:55:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV PREL ES |
06SANSALVADOR413 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF SALVADORAN PRESIDENT SACA [...] (C) President Elias Antonio "Tony" Saca will meet with the President February 24, shortly before El Salvador's March 12 national congressional and mayoral elections. Saca hopes the meeting with the President will further aid his party's chances in the elections, and help him soundly defeat the [...] | 2006-02-17 17:20:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ES PGOV PREL OVIP ETRD MARR MASS KMCA |
06SANSALVADOR418 | VIOLENCE SPIRALS IN EL SALVADOR/GOVERNMENT GRASPS [...] (C) Summary and Comment: In 2005, El Salvador eclipsed Colombia as the country with the highest homicide rate per capita in the Western Hemisphere. The GOES has responded to the epidemic of gang violence with a variety of initiatives that have thus far failed to stem the tide of violence. The [...] | 2006-02-17 17:34:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PINS PREL PTER SNAR KCRM ES GANGS |
06SANSALVADOR447 | FMLN INVOLVES CUBA AND VENEZUELA IN SALVADORAN [...] (C) Summary and Comment: President Saca and other high-ranking GOES officials have recently raised concerns with Ambassador and other Embassy contacts that Cuba and Venezuela are helping the FMLN in the March 12 national elections for deputies and mayors. There are now clear indications tha [...] | 2006-02-22 20:06:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER VE CU ES ELECTIONS |
06SANSALVADOR450 | EL SALVADOR: ALL BUT ONE SUSPECT IN SOTO MURDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: A sentencing tribunal on February 17 absolved two of three suspects accused in the November 5, 2004 murder of AmCit labor activist Gilberto Soto. One man was convicted in the crime and will likely be sentenced Friday. Prosecutors will appeal the court's findings to the Supreme [...] | 2006-02-22 21:00:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ES KJUS PGOV PHUM PREL |
06SANSALVADOR454 | SALVADORAN POLICE SHIFT STRATEGY AGAINST DRUG [...] (C) On February 18, elements of the Salvadoran Anti-Narcotics police arrested 155 low-level drug dealers for trafficking in narcotics. This raid occurred as part of a larger operation designated Plan Hawk (Halcon),which has netted 426 drug dealers in the last six weeks. Normally, ninety per [...] | 2006-02-23 15:20:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS SNAR KCRM KJUS ES |
06SANSALVADOR455 | SALVADORAN PRESIDENT SACA DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT [...] (C) During a lengthy February 23 evening meeting with Polcouns, one Saca cabinet member and two key presidential advisers recounted how stressed Saca is over the March 12 national elections and over recent polls showing Saca and his ARENA party are not faring as well as they expected. Asked [...] | 2006-02-23 15:47:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ES ELECTIONS |
06SANSALVADOR504 | EL SALVADOR: SAN SALVADOR MAYOR OPINES ON [...] (C) During a February 24 informal lunch at the DCM's residence, incumbent San Salvador Mayor Carlos Rivas Zamora, accompanied by his wife Silvia, talked with DCM and poloff about upcoming elections and other subjects. He began by outlining his recent visit to the United States, during which [...] | 2006-02-28 21:01:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ES PGOV PREL |
06SANSALVADOR52 | EL SALVADOR: GOES VIEWS REGARDING UPCOMING MEXICO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador has on several recent occasions discussed with Salvadoran Foreign Minister Francisco Lainez a planned January 9 meeting on U.S. immigration policy to be held in Mexico City; it will likely include foreign ministers of Mexico, Central America, and the Dominican Rep [...] | 2006-01-09 12:54:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ES MX PGOV PREL IMMIGRATION |
06SANSALVADOR623 | ELECTION REPORT: THE WESTERN PROVINCES OF [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-07 20:33:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ES |
06SANSALVADOR65 | ECONOMIC MINISTER TELLS AMBASSADOR SPS SYSTEM NOT [...] (C) Salvadoran Minister of Economy Yolanda de Gavidia, accompanied by Ambassador to the United States Rene Leon, told Ambassador Barclay in a January 6 meeting that El Salvador would not be ready by February 1 to recognize U.S. sanitary and phytosanitary standards (SPS) systems as equivalent [...] | 2006-01-10 14:12:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL ES CAFTA |
06SANSALVADOR656 | IMPLEMENTATION OF CAFTA-DR OFF TO ROUGH START FOR [...] (C) Summary. Entry into force of the CAFTA-DR for El Salvador on March 1 has led to problems for the Salvadoran apparel industry. The industry reports hundreds of containers delayed at U.S. ports by U.S. Customs due to unfamiliarity with new rules and changed documentation requirements. Th [...] | 2006-03-13 14:41:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD KTEX ES CAFTA |
06SANSALVADOR712 | EL SALVADOR: ELECTIONS A QUALIFIED SUCCESS FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The ruling Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) party made gains in the March 12 nationwide municipal and Legislative Assembly elections, apparently garnering 34-35 Legislative Assembly seats and 144 (55 percent) of the nation's 262 city halls. The opposition Farabundo Marti [...] | 2006-03-16 19:31:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ES PGOV PREL |
06SANSALVADOR77 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES MIGRATION, MORALES, AND FMLN [...] (C) Ambassador Barclay spoke for 45 minutes on January 10 with Foreign Minister Francisco Lainez regarding the January 9 regional meeting on migration held in Mexico. (Note: The meetings had been originally scheduled to treat both energy and migration issues, but in response to Lainez's suggest [...] | 2006-01-11 14:47:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | SMIG PREL PGOV ES MX VE BL IMMIGRATION |
06SANSALVADOR832 | UNDERSECRETARY HUGHES' MARCH 17 MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes met with President Tony Saca on the morning of March 17 to discuss national and regional politics as well as bilateral issues. President Saca's remark that the United States and El Salvador were "amigos siempre" became a public t [...] | 2006-03-28 18:45:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL ETRD KMCA PGOV ES |
06SANSALVADOR849 | SEEKING PANAMANIAN SUPPORT FOR GUATEMALA'S 2006 UN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-29 20:35:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL |
06SANSALVADOR853 | FMLN MAYORS MOVE FORWARD ON OIL IMPORT AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary: On March 20, an association of FMLN mayors formalized an arrangement with Venezuela's PDVSA to import Venezuelan fuel on preferential terms. Allegedly a proposal of now-deceased FMLN leader Schafik Handal, the government-mayor deal has been accepted by the economic and politi [...] | 2006-03-29 22:02:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL ES VE |
06SANSALVADOR956 | EL SALVADOR: INL MONTHLY ACTIVITIES REPORT FOR [...] (U) The following summarizes Embassy INL activities in February 2006. Unless otherwise indicated, all statistics refer to the month of February 2006. ------- ILEA ------- 2. (U) From February 20 to 24, instructors from ICE presented ILEA-sponsored training on financial crimes investiga [...] | 2006-04-11 13:20:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PINR KCRM KJUS ES |
06SANTIAGO1000 | FOREIGN MINISTRY OFFICIAL SAYS BACHELET IS ""70 PERCENT THERE ON OPPOSING VENEZUELA'S UNSC CANDIDACYOFFERS OBSERVATIONS ON BACHELET'S STYLE [...] (C) Summary: A mid-level, well-connected Foreign Ministry official told the Embassy on May 11 that in his view President Bachelet was ""70 percent there"" on opposing Venezuela's UNSC candidacy. Acknowledging how difficult it is to know what Bachelet is thinking, because of her close-to-the-vest [...] | 2006-05-12 21:07:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC PINR VZ CI |
06SANTIAGO1042 | PRESIDENT BACHELET TOUTS CHILE'S TIES WITH EUROPE [...] (C) Summary: President Bachelet traveled to Spain, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Austria May 8-14 on her first official visit to Europe as president. During a state visit in Spain, Bachelet and Spanish President Zapatero signed a "strategic alliance agreement." After visiting Chilean PKO troops in [...] | 2006-05-17 21:48:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV VZ CI |
06SANTIAGO1058 | OAS PERMREP MAISTO DISCUSSES OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Summary: OAS PermRep Maisto outlined USG objectives for the OAS General Assembly during meetings with senior Foreign Ministry officials on May 16. Foreign Ministry Director General for External Relations Portales agreed to consider the U.S. non-paper on introducing a resolution during the [...] | 2006-05-18 20:26:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OAS PGOV SOCI VZ CI |
06SANTIAGO1060 | CHILEAN CONGRESS EXTENDS CHILEAN PRESENCE IN HAITI [...] (C) Summary: Chile's Senate voted on May 17 to extend Chile's troop deployment in Haiti beyond June 30 for six months. The GOC is not required to seek another congressional vote to extend the deployment for an additional six months as long as a UN mandate is in place, according to a Chilean S [...] | 2006-05-18 21:21:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN HA CI |
06SANTIAGO1092 | CHILE: TRIPARTATE DEMARCHE ON DECLARATION ON THE [...] (C) Summary: On May 18, Deputy Chief of Mission and the Ambassadors of New Zealand and Australia delivered reftel demarche and background papers to Amira Esquivel, Director of Human Rights for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Esquivel said the GOC shared our concerns about approving such a g [...] | 2006-05-23 13:59:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL AU NZ CI |
06SANTIAGO1105 | GUATEMALAN AMBASSADOR ON DISCUSSION WITH FM FOXLEY [...] (C) Guatemalan Ambassador Antonio Castellanos requested a meeting with the Ambassador on May 22 to discuss Guatemala's UNSC candidacy. Castellanos said he had just spoken with Gert Rosenthal, Special Advisor to Guatemalan Foreign Minister Briz, who had just spoken with Chilean Foreign Ministe [...] | 2006-05-23 20:13:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PGOV CI GA |
06SANTIAGO1108 | TRIPARTATE DEMARCHE FINDS CHILE NOT READY TO [...] (C) Summary: At the request of the Spanish Embassy, on May 19, Ambassador accompanied his Polish and Spanish counterparts in a joint demarche urging the GOC to accede to the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI). Foreign Ministry Director General Carlos Portales said the MFA needed time to [...] | 2006-05-24 12:43:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL KNNP CI |
06SANTIAGO1110 | NEW CHILEAN AMBASSADOR TO VENEZUELA [...] (U) The Chilean press reported on May 23 that the Venezuelan government had extended agrement to Claudio Huepe, Chile's ambassador-designate to Venezuela. Huepe, a member of Chile's centrist Christian Democrat party and a government spokesman under former President Lagos (2000-02),lived in V [...] | 2006-05-24 12:44:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CI VZ |
06SANTIAGO1197 | U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] (C) The Ambassador briefed Foreign Minister Foxley on the U.S. statement on Iran on May 31. He asked the GOC to issue a public statement of support, to encourage Iran to suspend its enrichment and reprocessing activities, and to keep the spotlight on Iran. Foxley welcomed the statement and sa [...] | 2006-05-31 23:08:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CI IR |
06SANTIAGO130 | CHILE: GOC UNWILLING/UNABLE ON ARTICLE 98; [...] (C) Summary: U.S. and GOC officials conducted a digital video conference (DVC) on January 18 to explore ideas towards managing relations after Chile ratifies the Rome Statutes creating the International Criminal Court (ICC). International Security and Nonproliferation Assistant Secretary Rad [...] | 2006-01-20 16:09:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS CI |
06SANTIAGO151 | CHILE AND MEXICO TO SIGN STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP [...] (C) Foreign Ministry North American Affairs Deputy Director Alex Geiger confirmed to Poloff on January 23 that Chile and Mexico would sign "a strategic partnership agreement" during Mexican President Fox's visit to Chile on January 25-26. Geiger, who earlier had characterized the accord as an [...] | 2006-01-23 20:54:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SOCI CI ME |
06SANTIAGO1650 | ISRAELI VIEW OF CHILE AND CONFLICT IN LEBANON [...] (C) Summary. Israeli Ambassador David Cohen met the Ambassador August 1 to ask if the U.S. had formally approached Chile about participating in a multi-national force in Lebanon. Ambassador replied we he not made any formal approaches, but had been sounding out Chilean thinking. Cohen brief [...] | 2006-08-02 14:47:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CI IS VE LE |
06SANTIAGO166 | INTERIM RESPONSE TO PROPOSAL FOR SOFA PROTECTIONS; [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 4. 2. (C) Foreign Ministry Special Policies Director Luis Winter telephoned poloff January 25 to advise that the MFA was prepared to send the Embassy a diplomatic note accepting the U.S. proposal regarding protections for U.S. personnel involved [...] | 2006-01-25 14:48:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL MOPS PGOV CI |
06SANTIAGO1667 | CHILE: STATUS OF SOUTH AMERICAN REGIONAL DUBLIN [...] (U) In answer to reftel's inquiry, Spain did host a South American Mini-Dublin Regional Group meeting on November 15, 2005 in Santiago. Post did not attend the meeting. To date, there has not been a subsequent Mini-Dublin meeting in Santiago. 2. (C) Prior to the November 2005 meeting, Post [...] | 2006-08-04 14:36:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR CI SP UK FR NL |
06SANTIAGO1675 | BACHELET'S IDEA OF REGIONAL INTEGRATION: IS IT [...] Summary: Beginning in her campaign last fall, President Michelle Bachelet made clear she would focus on domestic issues and improving Chile's relations within the region. Historical border disputes, the threat of domestic instability in Bolivia and Peru, economic uncertainty in Argentina, and [...] | 2006-08-04 20:16:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CI |
06SANTIAGO170 | PRESIDENT-ELECT BACHELET: ASSERTING INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) Summary: President-elect Michelle Bachelet has gotten off to a quietly assertive start following her victory over Alianza opposition's Sebastian Pinera in the January 15 presidential run-off election. Her initial public statements and meetings appear designed to show her intention to govern i [...] | 2006-01-25 20:32:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI PINR CL |
06SANTIAGO171 | CHILE: PSI ENDORSEMENT STILL NOT FINAL [...] (C) Poloff delivered Ref. A demarche and non-paper to Foreign Ministry Special Policies Counselor Jaime Contreras and Americas Desk Officer Beatriz de la Fuente on January 17. Post also provided a copy to Claudio Ortiz, advisor to the Minister of Defense. In delivering the demarche to the Fo [...] | 2006-01-25 20:58:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PREL PHSA KNNP CI |
06SANTIAGO1827 | CHILE-PERU FTA: MORE THAN JUST TRADE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chile and Peru signed August 22 a Free Trade Agreement that expands their current Economic Complementation Agreement (ACE 38). The FTA adds three new chapters to ACE 38 and the promise of further chapters as well. For Chile, the FTA with Peru is part of an effort to create a bloc [...] | 2006-08-24 20:49:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD CI PE |
06SANTIAGO198 | CHILE: CONCERNED ABOUT IRAN'S NUCLEAR AMBITIONS [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel talking points to Foreign Ministry Special Policies Counselor Jaime Contreras, and MFA/North American Affairs Desk Officer Beatriz de la Fuente on January 18. Contreras told Poloff the following day that Chile was concerned about Iran's nuclear ambitions, explainin [...] | 2006-01-30 19:46:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL AORC IR CI |
06SANTIAGO2269 | FOXLEY: CHILE NOT INTERESTED IN UNSC SEAT, [...] (C) Foreign Minister Foxley told visiting senior SFRC staffer Meacham Chile is not a candidate for the UNSC seat, said its decision to abstain had been proven correct by the ongoing stalemate between Guatemala and Venezuela, and that Chile would continue to play the role of "honest broker" in [...] | 2006-10-27 22:18:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | IO PGOV PREF UNGA CI |
06SANTIAGO2278 | CHILE'S PREPARATION FOR APEC SUMMIT [...] (C) E/POL Counselor October 27 paid a courtesy call on Ambassaador Fernando Schmidt, Director of the MFA's Office for Asian Affairs, and discussed with him, inter alia, Chile's preparations for the upcoming APEC summit in Hanoi. Describing APEC as one of the preeminent fora in which world lead [...] | 2006-10-31 11:59:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL CI |
06SANTIAGO2344 | AMBASSADOR COUNTERS BACHELET'S COMPARISON OF [...] (C) Summary. President Bachelet has very publicly drawn parallels between the recently approved U.S. border fence with Mexico and the Berlin Wall (reftel). The Ambassador expressed his concern over her comments to Paulina Veloso, Secretary General of the Presidency, and Foreign Minister SIP [...] | 2006-11-08 19:06:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM SMIG CI |
06SANTIAGO235 | DEFENSE MINISTER SHOWS NO FLEXIBILITY ON ARTICLE [...] (C) Summary: On January 25, Chilean Minister of Defense Jaime Ravinet told DOD Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs Peter Rodman that he did not see how the GOC could negotiate an Article 98 agreement of the kind we were seeking. Recognizing that sanctions under the American [...] | 2006-02-02 21:23:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR MASS OVIP CI |
06SANTIAGO2378 | U.S.-CHILE RELATIONS: A PREFERENCE FOR ORGANIZED [...] (C) Two senior MFA officials note Chile's reluctance to adopt a high-profile leadership role in the region, arguing for a ""just as effective"" behind the scenes reliance on Chile's ""soft power."" They are pleased to put the issue of Chile's UNSC vote behind them and suggest that the U.S.-Chile r [...] | 2006-11-15 19:02:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CI |
06SANTIAGO2403 | CHILE GAMBLES ON CASINO EXPANSION [...] (C) Summary. Chile hopes to attract more tourism by expanding its casino industry to a total of 22 casinos by 2008. The GOC has vetted bidding casinos for ties to organized crime before granting contracts. However, there appears to be little thought given to the potential increase in crime [...] | 2006-11-17 19:41:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PGOV PTER SNAR CI |
06SANTIAGO241 | FOREIGN MINISTRY ACCEPTS PROPOSAL FOR MILITARY [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph five. 2. (C) On February 1, Post received a diplomatic note from the Foreign Ministry granting the regime of privileges and immunities for administrative and technical personnel of diplomatic missions established by the Vienna Convention on Dipl [...] | 2006-02-03 14:42:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL MASS MOPS CI |
06SANTIAGO2499 | RESERVATIONS ON PROPOSED TEXT OF PROTECTIONS FOR [...] This is an action request. See paragraph 6. 2. (C) Summary: Foreign Ministry Legal Affairs advisor Alejandra Quezada told Poloff November 30 the GOC had nearly completed its legal review of the USG's request for protections for DOD personnel temporarily in Chile for agreed upon exercise [...] | 2006-12-04 19:25:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR PREL CI |
06SANTIAGO2525 | IS CHILE AN ECONOMIC TIGER OR JUST A BIG HOUSE CAT? [...] (C) Summary: Chile continues to attract foreign direct investment, but largely to a few traditional sectors such as mining and electricity. Potential value-added sectors which will be key to Chile's attaining the next stage of development attract almost no foreign investment. Thus far, Chile [...] | 2006-12-06 18:44:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PREL CI |
06SANTIAGO253 | PRESIDENT-ELECT BACHELET TASKS CABINET TO BEGIN [...] (C) Summary: President-elect Michelle Bachelet delivered to her cabinet on January 31 the priority initiatives for the first 100 days of her administration. Bachelet subsequently told the press that her cabinet had until February 20 to review the initiatives and identify creative ways to impl [...] | 2006-02-03 18:52:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SOCI CI |
06SANTIAGO255 | CHILE: TOUGH ANALYSIS AND CONCRETE PROPOSALS FOR [...] (C) Summary: Senior Chilean defense officials briefed visiting Assistant Secretary of Defense Rodman on the Chilean military's view regarding Haiti during the Defense Consultative Committee (DCC) talks in Santiago on January 25. Chilean MOD Undersecretary for War Gabriel Gaspar said that the [...] | 2006-02-03 21:09:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MARR MOPS UN HA CI |
06SANTIAGO257 | CHILE: APEC PRIORITIES FOR 2006 [...] (C) Summary: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) will not have an APEC Senior Official until after the March 11 inauguration of incoming President Michelle Bachelet (ref B). The acting APEC Senior Official and his technical team told econoffs February 2 that Chile would like to work closely [...] | 2006-02-06 10:35:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | APECO KFLU SENV ETRD CI |
06SANTIAGO260 | CHILE: PSI STALLED AT TOP POLICY LEVEL [...] (C) Foreign Ministry Director of Special Policies Luis Winter told EPOL Counselor on January 29 that a Chilean decision to endorse the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Statement of Interdiction Principals (SOP) was effectively stalled at the policy level at the Foreign Ministry. Winte [...] | 2006-02-06 17:04:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PREL PHSA PARM CI |
06SANTIAGO2606 | CHILEAN OPPOSITION EMBRACES THE FOREST, BUT WANTS [...] (C) Likely 2009 rightist presidential candidate Pablo Longuiera recognizes that in a country where consensus on major issues reigns across the political spectrum, the opposition faces a difficult task in seeking to regain power. The task is made all the harder because Chile is "profoundly lef [...] | 2006-12-20 20:43:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CI |
06SANTIAGO2661 | SEARED BLEU: THE SOCIALIST CONVICTIONS OF [...] (C) Eight months into her term as Chile's President, the core socialist principles that guide Michelle Bachelet are very much in evidence. Her administration's first budget emphasized increased spending on education and health care and she has expended much political capital on social issues such [...] | 2006-12-29 12:56:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CI |
06SANTIAGO272 | CHILE REAFFIRMS WILLINGNESS TO RESETTLE CUBAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Chile reaffirmed its willingness to resettle up to 28 protected Cuban migrants currently at Guantanamo in a meeting today with visiting PRM Officer and Consul General, and will provide the migrants appropriate residence and work permits. The Chileans expect to be ready to interview [...] | 2006-02-07 18:59:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | SMIG PREF PREL CI CU GUANTANAMO |
06SANTIAGO382 | CHILEAN LEFTIST WELCOME EVENT FOR PRESIDENT EVO [...] (U) As reported today in both major Chilean newspapers, the "Chile-Bolivia Re-Encounter Committee" has announced its intention to hold a massive public reception for Bolivian President Evo Morales. The proposed event could take place in the National Stadium on March 10 at 6:00 PM, one day be [...] | 2006-02-22 22:40:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OVIP PGOV BL CI INAUGURATION |
06SANTIAGO383 | FOREIGN MINISTER WALKER DISCUSSES BACHELET [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Craig Kelly met with outgoing Foreign Minister Ignacio Walker on February 21, 2006 to discuss the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Article 98, and participation in Haiti's peacekeeping operation. End Summary. ICC AND ARTICLE 98 2. (C) Walker expressed disa [...] | 2006-02-22 22:40:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS PGOV HA CI |
06SANTIAGO384 | FOREIGN MINISTER WALKER RESPONDS TO U.S. DEMARCHES [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Craig Kelly presented reftel demarches on elections to the UN Security Council and Hamas to Foreign Minister Ignacio Walker on February 21, 2006. Walker deferred any response on the question of Chile's support for Guatemala in the upcoming UNSC elections to the Bachele [...] | 2006-02-22 22:40:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CI UNSC |
06SANTIAGO405 | DIPLOMATIC NOTE FROM CHILEAN FOREIGN MINISTRY ON [...] (U) Embassy received Diplomatic Note 41 from the Ministry of Foreign Relations (Multilateral Policy Directorate) on February 17, 2006, in reference to the Government of Chile's candidacy of Ms. Maria Soledad Weinstein for the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB). The GOC note touched [...] | 2006-02-28 13:27:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | OPDC SNAR CI PBIO |
06SANTIAGO415 | BACHELET TO FORM NEW MINISTRY OF PUBLIC SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: President-elect Michelle Bachelet intends to establish a Ministry of Public Security, with a still to be defined mandate over funds and administration of all domestic security forces. The main goal is to improve coordination between the Carabineros (national police) and PICH ( [...] | 2006-03-01 13:16:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV PINR CI |
06SANTIAGO428 | CHILE: BACHELET ANNOUNCES NEW CABINET [...] (C) On March 1, President-elect Michele Bachelet announced the names of the undersecretaries in her new cabinet -- essentially the second tier of the executive branch of the government. Her choices follow the same pattern set by the appointment of cabinet members, combining new faces with exp [...] | 2006-03-02 10:42:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TBIO PREL SOCI CI |
06SANTIAGO446 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY'S VISIT TO CHILE [...] (C) Summary: You arrive in Santiago on the eve of the historic inauguration of Chile's first female president, Michelle Bachelet. Since her run-off election on January 15, President-elect Bachelet has named a gender-equal and technically sound cabinet. It is a cabinet not subject to the cont [...] | 2006-03-03 17:30:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PGOV PREL ECON ETRD CI |
06SANTIAGO447 | GUATEMALA/VENEZUELA: CHILEAN MFA RECOMMENDING "NO [...] (C) Summary: Outgoing Chilean MFA political director Carlos Portales told Ambassador on March 2 that the MFA's recommendation to the new government on the Guatemala/Venezuela UNSC issue is to hold off on a decision. The Ambassador reiterated our concern about any rush to judgment in favor of [...] | 2006-03-03 17:51:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC GT VE CI |
06SANTIAGO488 | CHILE SAYS NO IMMINENT DECISION ON UNSC VOTE [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador delivered ref A's talking points on the UNSC non-permanent seat candidacies of Venezuela and Guatemala to current Foreign Minister Walker and incoming Foreign Minister Foxley. Walker and Foxley said they understood the importance of this vote to Washington policyma [...] | 2006-03-08 21:14:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | UNGA PREL CI IO VE |
06SANTIAGO525 | PRESIDENT BACHELET COMMITS TO MAINTAINING CHILEAN [...] (C) Summary: President Bachelet told the Secretary on March 11 that Chile intended to keep its peacekeeping troops in Haiti beyond June 30. Haitian President-elect Preval reportedly received similar assurances from Bachelet during their March 12 meeting. The Bachelet administration plans to [...] | 2006-03-14 19:47:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC MARR MOPS CI HA |
06SANTIAGO541 | BACHELET EXPRESSES DESIRE FOR CONSENSUS CANDIDATE [...] (U) President Bachelet told the press on March 13 that Chile would prefer that the GRULAC nations agree on a consensus candidate for the UNSC seat, rather than arrive at the vote with two candidates. In response to a question as to whether the GOC would support Venezuela's candidacy, Bachelet [...] | 2006-03-15 20:05:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC VE GT CI |
06SANTIAGO549 | SENIOR FOREIGN MINISTRY OFFICIAL DISCUSSES HAMAS [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Ministry Director for Middle East Affairs Luis Palma told EPOL Counselor on March 16 that he believed isolating Hamas now could complicate Middle East peace efforts. Chile believes the international community should respect "the democratic will of the Palestinian people" [...] | 2006-03-17 11:11:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL CI |
06SANTIAGO561 | CHILE: SUPPORTIVE OF MOST CICTE GOALS; CONCERNED [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Ministry Special Policies Director Luis Winter told EPOL Counselor that Chile supported most of the U.S. goals for CICTE VI, but would like to discuss further the declaration language on "shared responsibility." Chile was satisfied with CICTE's performance to date, and wo [...] | 2006-03-17 21:57:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL MARR OAS CI |
06SANTIAGO562 | CHILE: FOREIGN MINISTRY OFFICIAL DISCUSSES ICC [...] (U) Director for Special Policies at Chile's Foreign Ministry, Ambassador Luis Winter, told EPOL Counselor and Poloff that the Chilean Congress would likely ratify the International Criminal Court (ICC) at an early opportunity. Winter said the GOC would also introduce legislation allowing it [...] | 2006-03-17 21:59:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC PTER MARR CI |
06SANTIAGO577 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES VENEZUELA'S UNSC CANDIDACY, [...] (C) Summary: Acting Foreign Minister Alberto Van Klaveren told the Ambassador on March 20 that Chile had not taken a position on Venezuela's UNSC candidacy. Van Klaveren said the Bachelet administration was interested in pursuing a long-term SOFA with the U.S. and other countries. He observe [...] | 2006-03-20 22:27:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC MARR MOPS CI HA |
06SANTIAGO612 | 13 FORMER MILITARY OFFICERS INDICTED IN [...] (C) Summary: On March 21 presiding judge Victor Montiglio filed murder charges against 13 former Chilean Army officers in the Pinochet-era "Caravan of Death" case, whereby military officials traveled the length of Chile in 1973, killing a number of suspected dissidents. Eleven of the thirteen [...] | 2006-03-23 21:32:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KCRM CI |
06SANTIAGO614 | BRITISH EMBASSY REPORTS CHILEAN CONCERNS OVER [...] (C) A British Embassy colleague told EPOL Counselor on March 22 that a British contact at the Chilean Foreign Ministry (who we suspect is a senior official in the Multilateral Affairs Directorate) appeared increasingly worried about negative U.S. reaction if Chile were to support Venezuela for [...] | 2006-03-23 22:05:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC CI VZ |
06SANTIAGO630 | SCENESETTER FOR CNO AND C3F VISITS TO CHILE [...] (C) Summary: Your arrivals in Santiago follow shortly on the historic inauguration of Chile's first female president, former Defense Minister Michelle Bachelet. In foreign policy, Bachelet has declared a focus on strengthening ties with neighbors, while maintaining important relations with th [...] | 2006-03-27 11:14:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD MARR MASS OVIP PGOV PREL CI |
06SANTIAGO65 | SENIOR FOREIGN MINISTRY OFFICIAL EXPRESSES [...] (C) Foreign Ministry Director General for External Relations Carlos Portales (the MFA's number three official) asked to see the Ambassador on January 10. Portales wanted to discuss Chilean concerns regarding Haiti in the aftermath of the June 7 death of the Brazilian military commander of MIN [...] | 2006-01-11 19:39:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC KDEM CI HA |
06SANTIAGO77 | CHILE SUPPORTIVE ON UN REFORM INITIATIVES [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Ignacio Walker told the Ambassador on January 11 that Chile generally supported U.S. positions on administrative reform, the creation of the Human Rights Council, and the development of the Peace-building Commission. Walker stated Chile would continue to work clo [...] | 2006-01-12 18:01:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR PHUM UN ADCO CI |
06SANTIAGO81 | CHILE: FM WALKER DISCUSSES HAITI, ARTICLE 98 AND [...] (C) Summary: Chilean Foreign Minister Ignacio Walker reiterated the GOC's concerns about threats against MINUSTAH in Haiti during his January 11 meeting with the Ambassador. He asked the U.S. to deny visas to the Haitians who were behind those threats. Walker also provided the Ambassador a m [...] | 2006-01-12 21:14:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UN AR BR VE BL CI |
06SANTIAGO847 | CHILE WILL SUPPORT COUNTRIES COMMITTED TO HUMAN [...] (C) Ambassador Amira Esquivel, Human Rights Director in the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told Poloff on April 21 the U.S. could count on Chile to support only those countries which are truly committed to human rights for the UN Human Rights Council. Esquivel noted, however, the GOC h [...] | 2006-04-21 20:36:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | KUNR OPDC PREL PHUM UNGA CI |
06SANTIAGO861 | AMBASSADOR AND CHILEAN SENATORS EXCHANGE VIEWS ON [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador exchanged views on Venezuela, Article 98 and ICC ratification with Chilean senators on April 19. The senators lauded recent Codel visits to Chile and pressed for regular meetings between U.S. and Chilean legislatures. Socialist Party Senator Gazmuri expressed conc [...] | 2006-04-24 21:30:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC CI VZ |
06SANTIAGO863 | COORDINATED INTERNATIONAL MESSAGE ON THE LOCAL [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to Foreign Ministry Haiti Desk Officer Jorge Schindler on April 24. Schindler agreed it was important that local elections in Haiti take place by September, and that the international community needed to identify the resources to hold elections. Schindler co [...] | 2006-04-25 13:12:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HA CI |
06SANTIAGO876 | NSC-DIRECTED COUNTRY-BY-COUNTRY REVIEW REGARDING [...] (C) Post provides the following information in response to Ref. A request. Responses are keyed to the specific questions identified in Ref. A, paragraph 5. Ref. B is Post's response to previous requests. Nature of Investments --------------------- 2. (U) The most significant private-se [...] | 2006-04-26 20:16:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU CI |
06SANTIAGO879 | DONORS TO SUPPORT OAS ELECTION EFFORTS IN GUYANA [...] (C) Poloff orally delivered reftel points to Foreign Ministry Deputy Director for Multilateral Affairs Jose Manuel Lira on April 26. Lira agreed it was important for the international community to support OAS efforts to get the electoral process back on track. He confirmed the GOC already ha [...] | 2006-04-27 17:00:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OAS KDEM PGOV CI GY |
06SANTIAGO907 | CHILE NOT READY TO DECLARE FOR THE PROLIFERATION [...] (C) Prompted by the Ambassador's call to Foreign Ministry Director General Carlos Portales (number three in the MFA),Director for Special Policies Luis Winter contacted EPOL Counselor on May 3 to confirm Portales' receipt of Ambassador's reftel A demarche on the Proliferation Security Initi [...] | 2006-05-03 18:31:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL KNNP CI |
06SANTIAGO908 | CHILE: BOLIVIA GAS NATIONALIZATON PROMPTS [...] (C) Summary. Chile's government has reacted cautiously in public to Evo Morales' move to nationalize Bolivia's natural gas. Chile's media has reported unemotionally on the events in Bolivia, but editorials have expressed concern about regional effects. In private, Chilean officials are worri [...] | 2006-05-03 18:44:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET EINV PREL CI BL BR CU VE |
06SANTIAGO910 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES VENEZUELA'S UNSC CANDIDACY [...] (C) The Ambassador called on Foreign Ministry Director General for External Relations Carlos Portales on May 2, to discuss the GOC's views on Venezuela's UNSC candidacy following Foreign Minister Foxley's recent meetings in Washington (reftel). The Ambassador noted that our information indica [...] | 2006-05-03 19:53:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL CI VZ |
06SANTIAGO917 | IRAN'S CANDIDACY FOR THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel points urging Chile to oppose Iran's candidacy for the Human Rights Council to Foreign Ministry Director General for External Relations Carlos Portales on May 3. Portales (the MFA's number 3 official) did not address Iran's candidacy specifically, but said [...] | 2006-05-04 12:21:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | KUNR PHUM UNHRC PREL CI IZ |
06SANTIAGO919 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ELECTION-RELATED ASSISTANCE [...] (C) The Ambassador followed-up Post's earlier demarche on international assistance for election efforts in Haiti with Foreign Ministry Director General for External Relations Carlos Portales on May 3. Portales reiterated that the GOC had not yet initiated internal discussions about whether it [...] | 2006-05-04 12:21:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HA CI |
06SANTIAGO929 | PRESIDENT BACHELET TO VISIT EUROPE [...] (SBU) In her first trip to Europe as president, Michelle Bachelet will travel to Spain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Austria during the week of May 8-14. Bachelet is scheduled to depart Santiago on May 8 and travel to Spain for a state visit on May 9-10. After a brief stop in Bosnia and Herze [...] | 2006-05-04 16:54:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PGOV CI VZ SP |
06SANTIAGO93 | CHILE: MINISTER OF DEFENSE BRIEFS CODEL MCCONNELL [...] (C) Summary: Chilean Minister of Defense Jaime Ravinet told members of CODEL McConnell January 12 that Chile was the United States' "most reliable partner in the region." Ravinet shared his concerns about neighboring countries' leftward drift and their propensity to use Chile as a straw man. [...] | 2006-01-15 20:20:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR MASS OVIP CI |
06SANTIAGO945 | PRESIDENT BACHELET REQUESTS SENATE AUTHORIZATION [...] (U) Chilean leading daily "El Mercurio" reported on May 5 that President Bachelet formally had requested the Chilean Senate extend Chilean peacekeeping troops in Haiti for an additional six months beyond June 30. According to the press, the Senate Foreign Relations and Defense Committees are [...] | 2006-05-05 20:37:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS UN CI HA |
06SANTIAGO955 | AMBASSADOR URGES GOC TO OPPOSE IRAN'S CANDIDACY [...] (C) Following up on his earlier demarche (reftel B),the Ambassador telephoned Chilean Deputy Foreign Minister Alberto Van Klaveren on May 8 to urge Chile to oppose Iran's candidacy for the Human Rights Council. Van Klaveren reiterated Chile's position of supporting only those countries commi [...] | 2006-05-08 20:08:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | KUNR PHUM UNHRC PREL CI IZ |
06SANTIAGO957 | SCENESETTER FOR AETC/CC VISIT TO CHILE (U) [...] (C) Summary: Your arrivals in Santiago follow shortly on the historic inauguration of Chile's first female president, former Defense Minister Michelle Bachelet. In foreign policy, Bachelet has declared a focus on strengthening ties with neighbors, while maintaining important relations with th [...] | 2006-05-08 20:18:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD OVIP PGOV MARR CI PREL |
06SANTODOMINGO1099 | SEEKING PANAMANIAN SUPPORT FOR GUATEMALA'S 2006 UN [...] (C) Ambassador on March 30 met and discussed reftel talking points with Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso. Morales Troncoso said he would call Panamanian Vice President/Foreign Minister Samuel Lewis Navarro to discuss the potential negative consequences of Venezuela's membership on the [...] | 2006-03-31 21:22:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC DR PM |
06SANTODOMINGO1224 | DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #6: PLD SEES BRIGHT ELECTION [...] (U) This is the 6th cable in a series reporting on the May 16 congressional and municipal elections in the Dominican Republic: PLD Sees Bright Election Prospects, Shady Election Board (C) At breakfast with the Ambassador and Embassy officers on April 5, Presidential chief of staff Danilo [...] | 2006-04-12 11:38:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL DR |
06SANTODOMINGO1363 | COMMERCE VS. STEWARDSHIP: BATTLE OF THE DOMINICAN [...] (U) During President Fernandez's recent European trip, French investors proposed to him a USD600 million tourism investment in Bahia de las Aguilas, a pristine undeveloped beach area located inside the protected Jaragua National Park in the Southwest. Dominican Secretary of Tourism Felix "Fe [...] | 2006-04-25 11:16:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | DR PGOV SENV |
06SANTODOMINGO1465 | DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #9: PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS LOOK [...] (C) This is the 9th cable in a series reporting on the Dominican Rrepublic's May 16 congressional and municipal elections: (C) Presidential Hopefuls Look to 2008 and Beyond (U) As the Dominican Republic prepares to hold congressional and municipal elections May 16, prominent persons in [...] | 2006-05-03 20:24:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | DR PGOV |
06SANTODOMINGO1468 | U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL GONZALES AT OAS JUSTICE [...] (SBU) Summary. On April 24 and 25, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales attended the 6th Regular Meeting of Ministers of Justice and Attorneys General of the Americas (REMJA-VI),held in Santo Domingo. A hour-long conversation with President Leonel Fernandez provided suggestions for improv [...] | 2006-05-04 11:15:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL PTER SNAR KCRM KJUS OAS DR TD VE |
06SANTODOMINGO1519 | CORRECTED COPY -- DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #9: [...] (U) This is the 8th cable in a series reporting on the Dominican Rrepublic's May 16 congressional and municipal elections: Presidential Hopefuls Look to 2008 and Beyond (U) As the Dominican Republic prepares to hold congressional and municipal elections May 16, prominent persons in the m [...] | 2006-05-09 15:28:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | DR PGOV |
06SANTODOMINGO168 | HAITIAN MIGRANT DEATHS REVEAL WEAK BORDER CONTROLS [...] (C) Summary. The January 11 death by suffocation of 24 illegal Haitian migrants has triggered a Dominican Government response that includes a formal apology to Haitian authorities, a presidential promise to seek justice with the formation of a "blue-ribbon" investigative committee, and the ne [...] | 2006-01-13 23:12:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | DR ELTN HA KJUS MARR PREF PREL SOCI |
06SANTODOMINGO1751 | SCENESETTER FOR THE SECRETARY: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, [...] (C) Summary. President Leonel Fernandez and his party have just triumphed in mid-term elections in this pro-United-States, lower-middle income developing country in the Caribbean. Democracy is both young and fragile. Fernandez wants to use his mandate to build a modern state, and he has cal [...] | 2006-05-30 20:38:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PGOV PREL ETRD OAS DR |
06SANTODOMINGO1858 | DOMINICAN PRESIDENT SYMPATHETIC TO U.S. DIPLOMATIC [...] (C) On June 2 the Ambassador opened his private meeting with Dominican President Leonel Fernandez with a description of the U.S. initiative with European nations concerning Iran and nuclear enrichment issues. The issue had preempted attendance of the Secretary of State at the annual general a [...] | 2006-06-05 11:11:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC IAEA KNNP UNSC IR DR |
06SANTODOMINGO1898 | DOMINICAN PRESIDENT FERNANDEZ - VISIONS FOR THE [...] (SBU) Summary. On June 2 President Leonel Fernandez described to the Ambassador his ambitions for the two years remaining in his term, including a "democratic revolution" including grassroots consultations on institutional change. He asked for a friendly hearing and "some modest concession" t [...] | 2006-06-06 19:46:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ETRD KDEM KIPR DR |
06SANTODOMINGO1912 | DEPUTY SECRETARY,S TOUR D,HORIZON WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary. Dominican President Fernandez used a wide-ranging meeting with the Deputy Secretary June 4 to elicit support from within his own implementation team to take the steps needed to bring CAFTA-DR into force by August. Urged by the Deputy Secretary to support Guatemala for a seat o [...] | 2006-06-07 15:18:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL PGOV KCRM KIPR KUNP HA DR |
06SANTODOMINGO1918 | NEW UN SRSG FOR HAITI SHARES HIS FIRST IMPRESSIONS [...] (C) Summary and Comment: New United Nations SRSG for Haiti Edmond Mulet told WHA PDAS Shapiro June 4 that he had come away from his first two days on the job with the sense that it was urgent for President Preval to be able to show some results that the population could see. He hoped that t [...] | 2006-06-07 19:30:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL HA |
06SANTODOMINGO1921 | CORRECTED COPY: NEW UN SRSG FOR HAITI SHARES HIS [...] (C) Summary and Comment: New United Nations SRSG for Haiti Edmond Mulet told WHA PDAS Shapiro June 4 that he had come away from his first two days on the job with the sense that it was urgent for President Preval to be able to show some results that the population could see. He hoped that t [...] | 2006-06-08 11:05:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL HA |
06SANTODOMINGO2244 | DOMINICAN PRESIDENT SAYS GOVERNMENT READY TO [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 7, President Leonel Fernandez told the Ambassador that he wants CAFTA-DR to enter into force in July, saying that there is no need to wait for the new Congress to take office in August to pass required legislation. He said that CAFTA is part of his long term strategic [...] | 2006-07-10 11:48:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | DR ETRD KIPR |
06SANTODOMINGO2314 | FERNANDEZ SUPPORTS GUATEMALA FOR THE SECURITY [...] (C) On July 13, Ambassador Hertell spoke to President Fernandez regarding the UNSC seat (reftel). Fernandez responded that the Dominican Republic will support Guatemala's bid, but also mentioned to Ambassador Hertell that if consensus is not reached, Fernandez would like to see the Dominican [...] | 2006-07-14 22:41:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | GT PREL UNGA VE UNSC UN |
06SANTODOMINGO2375 | DOMINICAN PRESIDENT DISCUSSES TAX ON SALE OF [...] (C) Summary: A delegation of nine executives from Verizon USA (VZ) met with a similar size delegation from the Dominican government in the presidential palace. Mr. John Diercksen, (JD) Executive VP for Strategy, Development & Planning, headed the VZ delegation. President Fernandez (PF) le [...] | 2006-07-21 21:12:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECPS DR EINV ETRD |
06SANTODOMINGO238 | DOMINICANS ORGANIZING PRE-OAS-ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Dominican Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso told the Ambassador and visitng WHA Deputy Assistant Secretary Patrick Duddy on January 12 that the Dominicans are SIPDIS hoping to organize a summit meeting of U.S.-friendly presidents on May 28-29, the week before the OAS General Asse [...] | 2006-01-23 11:07:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL OPDC DR OAS HA |
06SANTODOMINGO2552 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC LACKS POSITION ON P5+1 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-08 18:53:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL AORC IR EU DR |
06SANTODOMINGO263 | DOMINICAN ELECTION BOARD CHIEF ON ELECTORAL [...] (U) Summary. Dominican Central Electoral Board president Luis Arias told the Ambassador on January 18 that civil society criticism of a proposal to use 500 Brazilian-produced electronic voting machines is misguided. Arias welcomes the prospect of international observation of the election and [...] | 2006-01-25 15:49:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | DR KDEM PGOV PREL |
06SANTODOMINGO267 | DOMINICANS WILL INVITE PRESIDENT BUSH TO MAY 28-29 [...] (C) The Dominican Foreign Minister is moving quickly to mobilize heads of state for a "counter-Petrocaribe" summit in late May and hopes to get Latin American partners to help persuade President Bush to attend. 2. (C) Dominican Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Tronocos reiterated to the Amb [...] | 2006-01-25 20:22:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | DR ENRG IN KTIA OVIP PGOV PREL |
06SANTODOMINGO268 | REPORTING IRAN TO THE UNSC - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC [...] (C) Embassy delivered reftel demarche as a nonpaper, seeking support for reporting Iran to the UN Security Council, to MFA director of UN affairs Michelle Cohen on January 20 (as soon as we received the official Spanish language version of the points). Cohen on January 25 informed us she had [...] | 2006-01-25 20:39:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL IR DR EUN AORC |
06SANTODOMINGO2908 | DOMINICAN PRESIDENT FERNANDEZ'S CONFERENCE ON THE [...] (U) Summary. On September 8-9 President Fernandez is hosting a national conference with roughly 300 public and private participants from the electricity sector. The conference will focus on a report presented to President Fernandez in March 2006 by Adam Smith International (ASI) regarding t [...] | 2006-09-11 11:09:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON DR |
06SANTODOMINGO2941 | DOMINICAN SUPREME COURT PRESIDENT SUBERO ISA CONFIRMS CORRUPTION, COMPLEMENTS COOPERATION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-13 16:45:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS KJUS KCOR DR |
06SANTODOMINGO2958 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT FERNANDEZ: NAM [...] (SBU) In a September 9 meeting with President Fernandez, the Ambassador delivered Reftel demarche on the NAM Summit, emphasizing the importance the United States places on the UN Security Council membership, terrorism, democracy, and the Middle East. 2. (C) Regarding the Security Council ra [...] | 2006-09-14 18:11:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | DR PREL UNGA PTER PHUM CU |
06SANTODOMINGO2962 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER: [...] (U) Ambassador Hertell met with Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso on September 12 to introduce Post's new DCM, Roland Bullen. Dominican Under Secretary Jose Manuel Trullols and POLOFF also attended. 2. (C) Following pleasantries, the Ambassador raised the CAFTA-DR implementation pro [...] | 2006-09-14 18:11:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | DR PGOV PREL HA |
06SANTODOMINGO3000 | DOMINICAN POLITICS III #4: THE PRSC IN DECLINE [...] This is the fourth cable in our series on Dominican politics in the third year of the administration of President Leonel Fernandez. The PRSC in Decline - - - - - - - - - - - (SBU) The Dominican Social Christian Reform Party (PRSC) is badly split and in search of justification for its conti [...] | 2006-09-19 20:21:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | DR PGOV PREL |
06SANTODOMINGO3022 | DOMINICAN POLITICS III #5: PRIMER ON THE PRD PARTY [...] This is the fifth cable in our series on Dominican politics in the third year of the administration of President Leonel Fernandez. PRIMER ON THE PRD PARTY (C) Despite major defeats in the 2004 presidential and 2006 legislative elections, the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) remains the [...] | 2006-09-22 11:08:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | DR PGOV PREL PINR |
06SANTODOMINGO3086 | FERNANDEZ CRIME INITIATIVES CREDITED FOR DROP IN [...] (U) SUMMARY: Violent crime statistics for the month of August showed a significant reduction in the country's homicide rate, which many attribute to the success of President Fernandez's July anti-crime initiatives. Of note is the low incidence of extrajudicial killings carried out by police i [...] | 2006-09-27 20:39:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | DR CASC PGOV PHUM SOCI ASEC KCRM |
06SANTODOMINGO3105 | DOMINICAN POLITICS III #6: GOVERNMENT THROWS THE [...] (U) This is the sixth cable in our series on Dominican politics in the third year of the administration of President Leonel Fernandez. (U) On September 28, Education Minister Alejandrina German made corruption allegations against Milagros Ortiz Bosch, a presidential candidate and senior lead [...] | 2006-09-29 16:01:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV DR |
06SANTODOMINGO3179 | DOMINICAN PRESIDENT ASKS FOR "WAIVER" ON [...] (U) Action request, para 4. 2. (C) The Ambassador used a one-on-one meeting with Dominican President Leonel Fernandez on October 5 to raise point-by-point reftel demarche on the Department's requirement that individuals recently appointed as Consul General New York and Consul General San [...] | 2006-10-06 17:38:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC CVIS OFDP PREL DR |
06SANTODOMINGO3282 | HAITIANS IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - - THEY JUST [...] (U) SUMMARY: Unfulfilled promises, nationalistic rebuffs and outright distortions continue to characterize the Dominican response to international concerns over the country's treatment of its largely undocumented Haitian minority. Despite repeated pledges, the government has failed to comply [...] | 2006-10-18 20:37:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | DR PHUM PGOV PREF SMIG ASEC UNHCR IOM HA |
06SANTODOMINGO3285 | ELECTRICITY SERIES #1: WHO'S GOT THE POWER IN THE [...] (U) This is the first cable of a series on the politics surrounding the electricity sector and why politics and not economics is the cause of the electricity crisis in the Dominican Republic. Contending institutions oversee Dominican electricity policy and regulation. Recent changes suggest [...] | 2006-10-19 11:21:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PREL EFIN DR |
06SANTODOMINGO3320 | DOMINICAN POLITICS III #7: ANECDOTES FROM EARLY [...] This is the seventh cable in our series on Dominican politics in the third years of the administration of President Leonel Fernandez. (U) The presidential election in the Dominican Republic will not take place until May 2008; however, intra-party maneuvering has already begun in earnest. We [...] | 2006-10-23 21:00:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | DR PGOV PREL |
06SANTODOMINGO3329 | DOMINICAN POLITICS III #8: HIPOLITO MEJIA SUPPORTS [...] (U) This is the eighth cable in our series on Dominican politics in the third year of the administration of President Leonel Fernandez. (C) During a tour d'horizon of the local political scene, former president Hipolito Mejia (2000-2004) told the Ambassador that his Dominican Revolutionary P [...] | 2006-10-25 15:42:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | DR PGOV PREL ECON EFIN |
06SANTODOMINGO3417 | DOMINICAN CONGRESS REJECTS 1999 AIR TRADE AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary. On October 17, the Dominican House of Representatives refused to ratify the 1999 Air Trade Agreement with the United States. Congressmen said the consensus was that the agreement is harmful to the interests of the country. The official report contained language recommended by [...] | 2006-11-02 15:03:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAIR DR |
06SANTODOMINGO344 | DOMINICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL TO RUN FOR SENATE; [...] (C) Summary: On January 26 Dominican Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito previewed for the Ambassador that, at the request of his political party (the ruling PLD),he will take a three-month leave of absence to run for senator from Santiago in the May 16 election. He is responding to [...] | 2006-02-01 13:57:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV DR SNAR KJUS KCOR EFIN PHUM NU HA |
06SANTODOMINGO3545 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC REVIEWS ANTI-ISRAEL UNGA [...] (C) On November 16, Economic-Political Counselor and poloff presented Ref A points concerning the November 17 special session to Deputy Secretary of State Alejandra Liriano and Undersecretary of State (and functional Chief of Staff) Jose Manuel Trullols. Trullols remarked immediately on the o [...] | 2006-11-20 17:38:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNGA UNHCR UN KTIA BO IS DR |
06SANTODOMINGO3601 | DOMINICAN POLITICS III, 11: SANTIAGO: CRIME, PARTY [...] (C) Summary. The early November visit of POLOFFs to Santiago (est. population 700,000),the Dominican Republic's second largest city, provided some surprises, but also confirmed many of the trends we see in Santo Domingo. The Mayor openly admitted having "ghost employees" on the payroll, whil [...] | 2006-11-29 20:13:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KJUS VE DR |
06SANTODOMINGO3644 | DOMINICAN POLITICS III #12: FERNANDEZ AT HIS [...] (U) This is the twelfth cable in our series on Dominican politics in the third year of the administration of President Leonel Fernandez. Dominican Politics III, #12: Leonel Fernandez at the Fail-Safe Point (SBU) A president who won in 2004 with 57 percent of the vote and enjoyed 70 percen [...] | 2006-12-05 11:10:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | DR PGOV PREL |
06SANTODOMINGO3679 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - CUBA: REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION [...] (C) Summary. In response to para 6 Ref A, Embassy finds there has been no marked change in the Dominican Republic's situation with regard to Cuba since our last two reports (Ref B and C). The Dominican Republic has very few investments in Cuba. No bilateral trade agreement exists between th [...] | 2006-12-08 11:00:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | CU ETRD ETTC PREL DR |
06SANTODOMINGO409 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES HAITI [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-07 22:12:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL DR HA |
06SANTODOMINGO655 | DONATIONS TO IRAQI AND AFGHAN SECURITY FORCES - [...] (C) On February 16 the Ambassador reiterated to Dominican President Fernandez the USG request that the Dominican Republic contribute 10-12 staff officers to support operations in Afghanistan. The Ambassador emphasized the symbolic value of a Dominican donation, coalition solidarity and the bi [...] | 2006-02-24 20:57:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR DR AF MASS MOPS PINS PREL |
06SANTODOMINGO656 | DOMINICAN PRESIDENT FERNANDEZ REQUESTS INFORMATION [...] (C) On February 16 the Ambassador informed Dominican President Leonel Fernandez that credible reports of Dominican navy corruption made it undesirable to authorize a sale of four 46-foot patrol boats for use by the Dominican Navy. He suggested that the sale of the four vessels might be justif [...] | 2006-02-24 20:57:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | BEXP DR EFIN EXIM SNAR MARR |
06SANTODOMINGO657 | DOMINICAN PRESIDENT FERNANDEZ ON HAITI, BORDER [...] (C) Summary: On February 16 President Fernandez told the Ambassador he expects Haitian President-elect Preval will pay his first foreign visit to the Dominican Republic. Fernandez expressed keen interest in the possibility of President Bush's attendance at a May 30-31 regional summit in Santo [...] | 2006-02-24 20:58:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL DR HA EXIM SNAR KCOR KJUS PHUM ETRD |
06SANTODOMINGO658 | REQUEST FOR STATEMENTS OF CONDEMNATION OF THE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-24 21:28:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ DR PGOV KDEM KPAO PTER |
06SANTODOMINGO659 | MESSAGE ON HOST COUNTRY MEETINGS WITH HAMAS - [...] (C) Embassy provided reftel points to MFA Africa and Middle East director Jose Juan Hernandez Cimadevilla on February 24. Hernandez noted that the Dominican Republic has no relations with the Palestinian Authority (PA) and has no plans for contacts with or diplomatic recognition.of the PA. He [...] | 2006-02-24 22:00:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL DR |
06SANTODOMINGO841 | DOMINICAN FOREIGN MINISTER ON MAY 30-31 SUMMIT, [...] (C) Recommendation and action request -- see para 6. 2, (C) Summary: Meeting with the Ambassador March 6, Dominican Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso previewed his March 14-15 visit to Washington regarding two planned events in the Dominican Republic: a May 30-31 regional summit, t [...] | 2006-03-09 14:59:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | DR PREL OAS OPDC |
06SANTODOMINGO977 | DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #3: PRESIDENT'S CHIEF OF STAFF [...] (C) This is the 3rd cable in a series reporting on the Dominican Republic's 2006 congressional and municipal elections:. President's Chief of Staff Previews Elections, Questions Ethics - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Secretary of the Presidency Danilo Medi [...] | 2006-03-21 16:49:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV DR PREL KCOR SNAR PHUM |
06SAOPAULO1143 | BG VIEWS BOLIVIAN GAS CONTRACT AS UNACCEPTABLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sao Paulo-based British Gas (BG) Executive Vice President for South America Rick Waddell called DPO on Oct. 20 to discuss ongoing gas contract negotiations with the Bolivian Government. Due to a series of unrealistic demands, Waddell deemed the Bolivian model contract completely [...] | 2006-10-24 19:39:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON BR BL |
06SARAEVO2307 | BOSNIA ON ELECTION EVE - EVOLUTION, REVOLUTION, [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-29 12:20:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
06SARAJEVO1020 | BOSNIA: RELIGION AND POLITICS APPEALING MIX FOR [...] (C) Summary: The Catholic Church in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has long been politically involved in issues surrounding Croat returns, specifically the question of who is primarily to blame for the low numbers of Bosnian Croat refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) who returned to [...] | 2006-05-09 13:13:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI BK |
06SARAJEVO1066 | BOSNIA: THE VIEW FROM THE RS PRIVATIZATION AGENCY [...] (C) Summary: New legislation to review past RS privatizations (reftel) has shone the spotlight on the RS Directorate for Privatization (DfP). However, the intense focus on process misses the broader point: Many entity-owned companies are little more than a pile of liabilities by time they [...] | 2006-05-15 14:14:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV BK |
06SARAJEVO1075 | BOSNIA: LITTLE PROGRESS IN POST-SANCTION TREBINJE [...] (C) Summary: One year after Lautenberg sanctions on the municipality were lifted, the eastern Republika Srpska (RS) municipality of Trebinje shows very little progress in a number of critical areas. The working relationship between Mayor Dobroslav Cuk (a member of the opposition Alliance for I [...] | 2006-05-16 14:13:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KCRM PGOV PHUM PREL BK |
06SARAJEVO1096 | BOSNIA: REPUBLIKA SRPSKA PRIME MINISTER RECEPTIVE [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging discussion on May 15 (political issues reported septel),the Ambassador thanked Republika Srpska (RS) Premier Milorad Dodik for his quick action on several USG-sponsored economic priorities, including revenue allocation, corporate profit tax legislation, and r [...] | 2006-05-18 05:54:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV BK |
06SARAJEVO1126 | HIGH REP ANNOUNCES MAJOR NEW ECONOMIC INITIATIVE [...] (C) Summary: High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling (CSS) has decided to make small and medium enterprise (SME) development an OHR priority. To this end, he has instructed that an "SME cell", staffed by both local hires and secondees, be established in OHR with the initial goal of [...] | 2006-05-19 13:04:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECIN PREL BK |
06SARAJEVO1148 | BOSNIA: POLICE REFORM FOUNDERING ON ROCKY SHORES [...] (C) SUMMARY. On May 3, the Police Reform Directorate (PRD),by majority vote, approved a plan for a a single police structure consisting of two tiers (state and local) with budget and legislation at the state-level (BiH Parliament). Republika Srpska (RS) PM Milorad Dodik has publicly oppose [...] | 2006-05-22 17:25:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PTER KCRM KJUS BK |
06SARAJEVO1149 | AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL SPURIOUSLY CLAIMS ILLEGAL [...] (C) Summary: On May 10, Amnesty International (AI) issued a report on the global arms trade. In the report, AI erroneously alleges that hundreds of thousands of small arms and light weapons (SA/LW) and associate ammunition were clandestinely shipped from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) to Iraq [...] | 2006-05-22 17:34:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PREL BK |
06SARAJEVO1169 | BOSNIA: SILAJDZIC OFFICIALLY ELECTED HEAD OF SBIH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Haris Silajdzic officially returned to the Bosnian political scene on Sunday May 21st, when he succeeded Safet Halilovic as the Chairman of the Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina (SBiH). Silajdzic was unanimously elected by the delegates in attendance at the second SBiH party con [...] | 2006-05-25 08:43:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BK |
06SARAJEVO1174 | BOSNIA: BREAKAWAY CROAT "HDZ 1990" BUILDS ITS [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Breakaway ethnic Croat "HDZ 1990" made a dramatic entry into BiH politics on April 26, when it co-opted enough key parliamentary votes to block constitutional reform. Since then, it has tried to ride on the momentum as it builds local party structures. Lacking def [...] | 2006-05-25 13:07:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BK |
06SARAJEVO1194 | BOSNIA: MUTED REACTION TO MONTENEGRO REFERENDUM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Initial reactions by BiH politicians to the results of the Montenegrin independence referendum, announced May 23, have been largely positive and calm in both entities. As Montenegro was one of the six quasi-autonomous constituent republics of the former Yugoslavia, virtually al [...] | 2006-05-26 15:27:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BK |
06SARAJEVO1195 | BOSNIA: HIGH REPRESENTATIVE DELIVERS "100 DAYS" [...] (U) SUMMARY. In an effort to rally the parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) to pass significant pre-election reforms, High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling delivered his "100 days" speech on May 24. The theme referred to what Schwarz-Schilling has seen during his first 100 da [...] | 2006-05-26 15:31:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BK |
06SARAJEVO1197 | BOSNIA: BRCKO DISTRICT AND COUNCIL OF MINISTERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a May 25 meeting with Brcko District Mayor Djapo, the staff of the Sarajevo-based Brcko District Office, and representatives of the BiH Council of Ministers (joined by the Supervisor, her legal advisor, and OHR staff),Ambassador pressed for additional concrete progress to br [...] | 2006-05-26 17:25:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BK |
06SARAJEVO1230 | BOSNIA: PM CAVES ON INVESTIGATING FATE OF SERBS IN [...] (C) Summary: On May 25, the BiH Council of Ministers decided to form a state commission to investigate "the truth about the suffering of all citizens of Sarajevo" from 1992-1995. Although Bosnian Serb leaders had long pushed for a commission to investigate the deaths and disappearances of Sara [...] | 2006-06-01 11:40:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI BK |
06SARAJEVO1231 | BOSNIA: AFTER MONTENEGRO, BIH SERBS TAKE UP [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the wake of the Montenegro referendum, Bosnian Serbs have raised the possibility of a vote here that would determine whether the Republika Srpska (RS) remains part of the Bosnian state. Statements May 27 by RS Premier Milorad Dodik speculating on the possibility of a referend [...] | 2006-06-01 14:00:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BK |
06SARAJEVO1235 | BOSNIA: POLICE REFORM STATE OF PLAY [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Police Reform Directorate (PRD) held its 12th and 13th meetings on May 24 and 31 with the Republika Srpska (RS) representative (RS police director Smajlovic) in attendance solely as an observer. RS PM Dodik revoked full RS participation in the PRD, in part because of its Ma [...] | 2006-06-02 09:54:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PTER KCRM KJUS BK |
06SARAJEVO1275 | BOSNIA: BIH OFFICIALS UNHAPPY OVER NEWS OF U.S. [...] (C) Summary: Bosnian leaders, particularly those from Bosniak Muslim parties, were unhappy and apprehensive about the news, delivered per reftel, that the U.S. troop presence in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) would be diminished in the coming months and the U.S. presence at Eagle Base, Tuzla, [...] | 2006-06-05 11:45:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | OPDC PREL BK NATO |
06SARAJEVO1276 | SUBJECT: BOSNIA: CAVIC HINTS ON SDS CANDIDATES, [...] (C) Summary: Republika Srpska (RS) President Dragan Cavic told Embassy May 30 that he will likely again be the candidate of the Serb Democratic Party (SDS) for the post of RS President in BiH general elections scheduled for October 2006. (The SDS, whose founder was Radovan Karadzic, has been [...] | 2006-06-05 11:59:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BK |
06SARAJEVO1279 | BOSNIA: STATE COURT BALANCES 2007 BUDGET, BUT [...] (C) Summary: On May 24 the BiH State Court Registry presented international donors with a realistic plan to balance the 2007 budget and keep the War Crimes Chamber going. This presentation came as a result of collective donor pressure on the Registry to face the fiscal reality that pledges at [...] | 2006-06-05 16:38:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | KAWC EAID PHUM PREL BK |
06SARAJEVO1329 | BOSNIA: STATE COURT ORDERS WAR CRIMINAL ZELENOVIC [...] (U) On June 9 an international judge at the BiH State Court ruled that accused war criminal Dragan Zelenovic should be transferred immediately to The Hague for trial. The State Court based its ruling on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) indictment, the INTERP [...] | 2006-06-09 17:44:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | KWAC PHUM PGOV PREL RS BK |
06SARAJEVO1451 | BOSNIA: NEW REPUBLIKA SRPSKA POLICE DIRECTOR - [...] (C) The Republika Srpska (RS) confirmed the appointment of relatively unknown Uros Pena as the new RS Police Director on June 23, replacing controversial former director Dragomir Andan. Andan resigned in April under pressure from ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte, who accused Andan of cr [...] | 2006-06-27 14:55:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KJUS PTER PGOV PINR PREL BK |
06SARAJEVO1464 | BOSNIA: JUNE PIC AGREES ON OHR CLOSURE TIMELINE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: At the June 22-23 meeting of Peace Implementation Council (PIC) Steering Board Political Directors in Sarajevo, the Steering Board agreed to begin preparations for the closure of OHR in June, 2007. The Steering Board agreed to "review and confirm" this decision at the Feb/March [...] | 2006-06-29 13:08:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BK |
06SARAJEVO1473 | BOSNIA: HARRIERS HIT POLITICAL TARGET [...] (SBU) Two U.S. AV-8B Harrier jump jets assigned to the USS Iwo Jima visited Sarajevo on June 26 as part of a coordinated Embassy-NATO HQ effort to increase the visibility of U.S. bilateral engagement with Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The Ambassador and NATO HQ Commander Brigadier General We [...] | 2006-06-30 12:35:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PREL BK |
06SARAJEVO1479 | BOSNIA: COUNCIL OF EUROPE PARLIAMENTARY [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe's (PACE) June 29 resolution on Bosnian Constitutional reform has been topic number one on the minds of BiH politicians, and has dominated the media here. [...] | 2006-06-30 16:13:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BK |
06SARAJEVO1499 | BOSNIA: BRCKO WORKING GROUP AGREES ON WAY FORWARD [...] (U) SUMMARY. On June 20-21 the Ambassador convened the second meeting of the Brcko District Working Group, aimed at establishing political and legal mechanisms to regularize Brcko's status in relation to the state institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Representatives came from the C [...] | 2006-07-05 13:09:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BK |
06SARAJEVO1695 | BIH REACTIONS TO THE CRISIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST: [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Israeli-Lebansese crisis, and the broader Middle East conflict are garnerning an increasing amount of public and political attention in BiH. Government statements and media reports are generally factual and correct, but some local public figures have begun to manipulate the [...] | 2006-07-28 17:11:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV ASEC IS LE SY BK |
06SARAJEVO1700 | LEADING SDA FIGURE PLEDGES ASSISTANCE FOR SOFA [...] (C) PolMilOff met the morning of July 28 with Halid Genjac, parliamentarian and member of the Party for Democratic Action (SDA) presidency, to discuss continuing delays in the ratification of the U.S.-BiH Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). The BiH House of Representatives ratified the agreem [...] | 2006-07-31 06:01:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR BK |
06SARAJEVO1747 | BOSNIA: POLICE REFORM AND RS PM DODIK [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Police Reform Directorate (PRD) held its 16th meeting on July 26 and is close to an agreement on the basic model, but without Republika Srpska (RS) input, because the official RS representative is an observer-only. Prior to the meeting, the Ambassador discussed police reform [...] | 2006-08-03 17:47:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PTER KCRM KJUS BK |
06SARAJEVO1751 | RS OFFICIALS PLEDGE ICTY COOPERATION TO SWCI [...] (U) Summary and Comment: On July 28 and from August 1-2 Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson met with GBiH and Republika Serpska (RS) officials in Sarajevo and Banja Luka. Both GBiH and RS officials affirmed their commitment to ICTY cooperation, and all agreed with Ambas [...] | 2006-08-04 11:42:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | KWAC PHUM PGOV PREL BK |
06SARAJEVO1762 | BOSNIA: RS POLITICIANS SHARPLY REJECT SANADER [...] (U) In the media August 2 and 3, Serb member of the BiH Tri-Presidency Borislav Paravac and Republika Srpska (RS) President Dragan Cavic sharply and publicly rejected Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader's proposal that Croatia host an international conference on the future of BiH. Paravac im [...] | 2006-08-04 15:09:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HR BK |
06SARAJEVO1772 | BOSNIA: BRCKO'S ITA BATTLE PROMPTS RETURN TO THE [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) A previously scheduled July 28 meeting between International Community members of the Brcko District working group was disrupted by the Indirect Taxation Authority Governing Board's (ITA GB) decision to change the allocation of r [...] | 2006-08-04 17:28:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BK |
06SARAJEVO1773 | CORRECTED COPY: RS OFFICIALS PLEDGE ICTY [...] (U) This cable replaces Sarajevo 1751 (ref. A). This cable has been cleared by S/WCI Ambassador Williamson's office. 2. (U) Summary and Comment: On July 28 and from August 1-2 Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson met with GBiH and Republika Serpska (RS) officials in Sa [...] | 2006-08-07 08:03:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | ICTY KAWC PHUM PGOV PREL BK |
06SARAJEVO1776 | RS PREMIER DODIK MUSES ON SERBIAN AND BIH [...] (C) Summary: On the margins of July 28 discussions with RS Prime Minister Milorad Dodik on ICTY cooperation (REFTEL),Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson and CDA Cefkin also raised Kosovo and asked about the upcoming Bosnian elections. According to Dodik, the Serbian pu [...] | 2006-08-07 08:38:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | UNMIK ICTY KAWC PGOV PREL AL YI BK |
06SARAJEVO1826 | BOSNIA: A ROUGH SEMESTER AHEAD AS NATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: Our tranformational diplomacy in Bosnia and Herzegovina will confront a number of challenges over the next months: -- The Kosovo final status talks, as did the Montenegro referendum, will provide Bosniaks and Serbs, in particular, additional means to radicalize the political [...] | 2006-08-10 18:34:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BK |
06SARAJEVO1860 | BIH POLITICIANS CHOOSE HIGH-ROAD IN RESPONSE TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Political reaction to the bombing of Former BiH President Alija Izetbegovic's grave, with the exception of one Serb-based party, has been surprisingly measured in this pre-election period. Although the investigation into the attack has yielded few results, some groups, including [...] | 2006-08-14 17:24:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR BK |
06SARAJEVO1892 | BOSNIA - IVANIC SHARES THOUGHTS ON DOMESTIC ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: At an August 16 meeting, Mladen Ivanic, Foreign Minister and leader of the Republika Serpska-based Party for Democratic Progress (PDP),shared with us his thoughts on the October elections, Brcko and police reform. Ivanic predicted that the elections would not result in major chan [...] | 2006-08-18 07:54:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL BX |
06SARAJEVO1916 | BOSNIAN ELECTIONS - THIS TIME THEY COUNT [...] (U) This is the second in a planned series of election-related telegrams. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Since 1996, Bosnia has been generally successful in forging a democratic process under close supervision of the international community. However, this year's elections, in our judgment, the country's [...] | 2006-08-21 11:14:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
06SARAJEVO1980 | BOSNIA - HIREP LAYS OUT POLICE REFORM STRATEGY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 24, OHR High Representative Schwartz-Schilling and Head of the EU Police Mission Coppola briefed key Ambassadors, including the U.S., about police reform. Schwartz-Schilling announced that he planned to conduct political negotiations on police reform, but only on the ba [...] | 2006-08-29 10:09:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KCRM KJUS BI |
06SARAJEVO1982 | BOSNIAN PRESS "BREAKS" STORY OF EAGLE BASE CLOSURE [...] (SBU) On August 30, nearly one month after the BiH Council of Ministers publicly announced the U.S. decision to vacate Eagle Base in Tuzla, the daily newspaper Oslobodjenje ran an "exclusive" front page story under the headline "American Army to Leave Bosnia by the End of the Year." Despite th [...] | 2006-08-30 16:41:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR OPDC PREL NATO BK |
06SARAJEVO2042 | TUNISIAN DEPORTATION: BOSNIAN AUTHORITIES OVERCOME [...] (C) Summary: On August 30, Bosnian authorities executed their second successful removal of a foreign national deemed to be a security risk. The operation was carried out in full accordance with domestic and international laws, and required virtually no USG hand-holding. During the operation, [...] | 2006-09-05 06:50:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KHLS SMIG PREL PGOV XI TU BK |
06SARAJEVO2060 | BOSNIA: NATIONAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN CHARACTERIZED [...] (C) SUMMARY: September 1, the first official day of the campaign season in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was characterized by high-profile events emphasizing ethnic interests. Serb and Croat parties are seeking the support of their electorates by courting patrons in Belgrade and Zagreb. The Bosni [...] | 2006-09-06 10:16:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV BK |
06SARAJEVO2086 | UNSCR 1695: BOSNIA SUPPORTS IMPLEMENTATION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-11 10:48:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KNNP MNUC WMD CT KPAO PTER KNAR KS |
06SARAJEVO2097 | NAM RESOLUTION DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO MFA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-11 16:47:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | IR PHUM PREL PTER IAEA UNSC BK |
06SARAJEVO2111 | BOSNIA: PM DODIK CLAIMS HE'LL MODERATE RHETORIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a September 11 meeting with Republika Srpska (RS) Prime Minister Milorad Dodik, Ambassador delivered ref A letter from Under Secretary Burns to PM Dodik, and underscored USG concerns over Dodik,s comments on Kosovo during his recent visit to Belgrade. Dodik claimed his me [...] | 2006-09-13 09:34:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BK YI UNMIK |
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