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05NEWDELHI6846	GOI MINISTER: NO THIRD FRONT, UPA TO PUSH FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: GOI Minister and Congress leader Jaipal Reddy told A/DCM on September 2 that the US-India relationship was welcomed "across the political spectrum" in India, despite some insincere sniping from the opposition. While the Left Front has staked out opposition to some UPA efforts, it [...]	2005-09-06 14:55:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EINV EFIN ECON PREL ELAB IN

05NEWDELHI6847	INDIAN MINISTER: NEPAL'S KING UNREPENTANT, BUT GOI [...] (C) Summary: Indian Minister Jaipal Reddy told us that Nepal's King Gyanendra was unrepentant in a discussion at the August 29 SAARC information ministers' meeting. The King is hoping India will blink, but it will not, Reddy said. In the meantime, he argued, the Maoists are gaining ground an [...]	2005-09-06 15:03:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PGOV IN NP
05NEWDELHI6903	BHUTAN FEARS MAOISTS IN REFUGEE CAMPS [...] (C) Summary: Bhutanese MFA officials expressed concern over Maoist intrusions into refugee camps in Nepal and indicated the government's main priority is keeping radical elements out of Bhutan during August 24-25 meetings with Poloff and Econoff in Thimphu. The MFA reiterated the Royal Govern [...]	2005-09-07 12:19:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PGOV PHUM IN NP BT
05NEWDELHI6915	INDIAN DEPUTY NSA UPBEAT ON PAKISTAN, HESITANT ON [...] (C) Summary: Deputy NSA VK Nambiar told A/DCM and Poloff on September 7 that he was optimistic the Indo-Pak peace process would continue to make slow progress, and looked forward to PM Manmohan Singh's meeting with President Musharraf during the UNGA summit. Nambiar highlighted instability i [...]	2005-09-08 08:39:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KNNP IN IR PK BG INDO PAK
05NEWDELHI6929	MDA: INDIA SUPPORTS PROTOCOL, BUT NO PLANS TO PUSH [...] (U) A/DCM delivered reftel demarche to Joint Secretary (UN Political) Sanjiv Arora on September 6. Arora promised to confer with his UN Economic and Social (UNES) counterparts, but had no substantive comment. 2. (C) Poloff followed up with Deputy Secretary (UNES) Gopal Baglay on Septembe [...]	2005-09-08 12:18:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL IN IS SZ GOI UN
05NEWDELHI6931	DEMARCHES DELIVERED: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, [...] (U) This is an Action Request. Please see para 8. 2. (C) Summary: A/DCM and Poloff called on new MEA Joint Secretary (UN Political) Sanjiv Arora on September 6 and SIPDIS delivered Refs A and B demarches, underlining the importance in the new US-India relationship for India to be seen [...]	2005-09-08 12:21:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID ECIN PHUM KDEM KUNR IN AF UNGA GOI
05NEWDELHI6994	INDIA-EU,UK SUMMITS: THE SINCEREST FORM OF FLATTERY [...] (U) Summary: Tony Blair wrapped up two days of EU and UK summits on September 8, leaving behind an EU-India joint action plan, British and European support for Indian ITER participation, a framework agreement on Galileo, and UK assent to increased civil nuclear cooperation. Trade representatives [...]	2005-09-09 14:40:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD EINV KPKO KDEM KNNP PHUM IN UK EU IR GM
05NEWDELHI708	INDIAN EXPECTATIONS FOR THE PAC-2 BRIEFING [...] (C) The classified briefing on the Patriot PAC-2 missile defense (MD) system, currently scheduled for February 22 or 23, has generated a great deal of interest within the Indian government, with senior GOI officials hopeful that this will be the beginning of a broader MD relationship with the U [...]	2005-01-28 11:37:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS IN NSSP
05NEWDELHI7083	DEMARCHE ON LTTE ACTIVITIES DELIVERED TO GOI [...] (C) We delivered Ref A demarche on September 8 to MEA Director (Americas) Sanjay Bhattacharyya and Deputy Secretary (Sri Lanka) Anupam Ray, both of whom accepted it without substantial comment. We pointed out that our giving the GOI this demarche was more about demonstrating our resolve to c [...]	2005-09-13 08:54:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV IN CE
05NEWDELHI709	INDIA REINVENTING NSA POSITION [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 11. 2. (C) Summary: MK Narayanan, formally named on January 25 as India's new NSA, will be a different kind of National Security Adviser than his high-profile, powerful predecessors, JN Dixit and Brajesh Mishra. After several weeks of debat [...]	2005-01-28 11:41:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PINS PREL PGOV IN PK
05NEWDELHI7100	SCENE-SETTER FOR MEETINGS WITH MANMOHAN SINGH & NATWAR SINGH IN NEW YORK [...] (C) Summary: Madame Secretary, your meetings this week with (we hope) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Foreign Minister Natwar Singh provide an occasion to sketch the real challenges we face in implementing legislative actions necessary for us to fulfill the civil nuclear vision of the July 18 Jo [...]	2005-09-13 12:49:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IN
05NEWDELHI719	FIRST INDIA-CHINA STRATEGIC DIALOGUE MODEST BUT [...] (C) Summary: The January 24 strategic dialogue between China and India "did not accomplish much," but did provide insight into China's view of the world, Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran told the DCM on January 27. From New SIPDIS Delhi's perspective, the dialogue illustrated China's [...]	2005-01-28 13:04:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM IN CH
05NEWDELHI7194	INDIA DECLINES INVITATION TO EXPORT CONTROL [...] (U) Indian export control officials will not attend the international export control conference in Stockholm, Sweden, Sept. 20-22, because of other commitments at that time, MEA Under Secretary for Disarmament and International Security Nutan Kapoor told PolMilOff on Sept. 14. 2. (C) Comm [...]	2005-09-15 09:10:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KSTC MASS ETTC IN
05NEWDELHI7197	BLAIR SUPPORTS INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR COOPERATION AND [...] (C) Summary: In a briefing on the September 7-8 India-EU Summit, British High Commissioner Sir Michael Arthur emphasized the UK's support for civil nuclear cooperation with India, the success of the UK's effort to play up its European personality during this visit, and the excellent personal [...]	2005-09-15 09:38:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD EINV EAID KDEM KNNP PHUM IN UK EU IR GM NSSP
05NEWDELHI72	INDIAN INITIATIVES TO FURTHER HIGH TECH, BIOTECH, [...] (C) Summary: Despite changes in key USG interlocutors, the GOI hopes to preserve momentum on high-tech trade and other cooperation under the Next Steps in Strategic Partnership (NSSP) umbrella and is looking to Washington for similar signals. In a December 29 meeting with PolCouns and Pol-M [...]	2005-01-04 13:08:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETTC KNNP TRGY IN NSSP
05NEWDELHI7230	WHITHER THE BJP? [...] (C) Summary: Well-documented divisions (reftels) have recently prevented the BJP from fulfilling its role as India's leading opposition party and led to a string of electoral defeats. The latest "crisis" was the expulsion and reinstatement of BJP leader Madan Lal Khurana. The core issue is [...]	2005-09-15 13:03:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR IN PK
05NEWDELHI7241	EDUCATION IN A HIMALAYAN KINGDOM: ANOTHER FACET OF [...] (U) Summary: During Poloff's August 22-25 visit to Bhutan, our interlocutors insisted that Bhutan is committed to educating its children by providing free schooling for all. Primary school enrollment stands at 87.8 percent. The government's decision in the 1950s to use English as the medium [...]	2005-09-16 09:23:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF SCUL PHUM IN BT
05NEWDELHI7259	INDO-PAK UNGA MEETING POSITIVE, NO FIREWORKS [...] (C) Summary: The September 14, four-hour Manmohan Singh-Musharraf dinner meeting and joint statement on the sidelines of UNGA continued the positive bilateral vibe even if it did not produce new deliverables, MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan/Iran/Afghanistan) Dilip Sinha told us during a Septemb [...]	2005-09-16 13:13:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PHUM PGOV IN PK AF INDO PAK UNGA
05NEWDELHI7261	NUCLEAR ISSUES OVERSHADOWED NATWAR'S TRIP TO IRAN [...] (C) Summary: MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan/Iran/Afghanistan) Dilip Sinha complained to CDA and Poloff during a September 15 office call that nuclear proliferation issues overshadowed in the press the rest of Foreign Minister Natwar Singh's September 2-4 trip to Iran. The trip's substantive fo [...]	2005-09-16 13:36:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG EPET KNNP PARM PINR IN IR UK GM
05NEWDELHI73	LODI GYARI INFORMS INDIA OF PLANS FOR TIBETAN [...] (C) On January 3, the Dalai Lama's Special Representative Lodi Gyari told Ambassador Mulford that he had briefed MEA Joint Secretary (East Asia) Ashok Kantha that same day on Dharamsala's intention to relocate 10,000 Tibetan refugees from India and Nepal to the US. He emphasized that he had [...]	2005-01-04 13:26:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PHUM IN CH NP
05NEWDELHI7345	ALL EYES ON VAJPAYEE AS ADVANI AND RSS TUSSLE [...] (C) Summary: The BJP's leadership conclave in Chennai ended with a bang when LK Advani picked a very public fight with the Hindu right-wing RSS over the future ideological direction of the party. On September 18, Advani finally submitted to RSS pressure to resign (in December) as party pres [...]	2005-09-20 12:38:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PINR PREL PTER IN PK BG
05NEWDELHI7400	RISING BANGLADESHI MIGRATION IN INDIA AND THE [...] (C) As India grows increasingly concerned about Islamic extremism in Bangladesh, there is a rising paranoia about the number of Bangladeshi migrants, the nature of a more radicalized Islam that they bring to border areas, and changes in political demographics in the Northeast. This problem i [...]	2005-09-22 11:41:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS SMIG PTER BG IN
05NEWDELHI7421	BREAKING INDIA'S PSI LOGJAM [...] (U) This is an action request for Department L/LEI. See para 7. 2. (C) Summary: To gain GOI support for the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) we should quickly respond to GOI concerns about the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation (SUA) Convention [...]	2005-09-23 10:54:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHSA KNNP IN UK PSI
05NEWDELHI7432	UNFOUNDED "THIRD FRONT" RUMORS HINT AT CONGRESS [...] (C) Summary: Persistent rumors in Indian political circles that the Left Front (LF) is conspiring with the Samajwadi Party (SP) of Mulayam Singh Yadav to construct a "third front" capable of unseating the present United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government are unfounded. The LF benefits fr [...]	2005-09-23 11:26:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IN
05NEWDELHI749	HIGH TURNOUT IN FIRST ROUND OF J&K LOCAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: Consolidating the pattern set in other recent state elections, Kashmiris turned out in large numbers in municipal elections in North Kashmir on January 30, defying terrorist intimidation and a separatist-led boycott campaign, and demonstrating that they want to have a greater say i [...]	2005-01-31 12:18:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM IN PK
05NEWDELHI7493	INDIAN GOVERNMENT AGGRESSIVELY DEFENDING ITS VOTE ON IRAN [...] (C) Summary: India's decision to support the US/EU resolution on Iran at the IAEA was the most important signal so far of the UPA's commitment to building a transformed US-India relationship. To counter the domestic backlash, the GOI launched an aggressive campaign to explain to its domestic con [...]	2005-09-26 13:06:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KNNP IR IN
05NEWDELHI7494	GOI CONSIDERING RUSSIAN THRUST IN CENTRAL ASIA [...] (C) Summary: As India perceives a shift by Central Asian nations toward their Soviet roots and increased competition from China, the GOI is taking a new look at how to orient its foreign policy in the region. Frustrated with the slow progress expanding influence in its extended neighborhood a [...]	2005-09-26 13:07:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EPET ETRD MOPS CN PK AF IN
05NEWDELHI7505	NEPALESE MAOISTS STILL TOP CONCERN FOR GOI [...] (C) Summary: The GOI still sees the Maoists as its chief concern in the ongoing crisis in Nepal, MEA told us on September 27. However, the GOI believes the cease-fire could be a sign of progress toward an ultimate political solution, if the Maoists prove sincere in their professed commitment [...]	2005-09-27 08:00:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MASS KDEM IN NP PK CH
05NEWDELHI756	INDIA ON IRAQI ELECTIONS: CONGRATULATE AND [...] (C) Summary: Despite the GOI's deliberately low-profile public and material support in the run-up to the Iraqi elections, Indian government, media, and commentators welcomed the completion of Iraq's first election. In a January 31 statement, the Indian MEA called the elections a "noteworthy [...]	2005-01-31 13:18:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IN IZ
05NEWDELHI757	STRATEGIC DIALOGUE WITH CHINA JUST THE BEGINNING, [...] (C) Summary: "If China had proposed a strategic dialogue a few years ago, we would have been wary," MEA Joint Secretary (East Asia) told PolCouns and Poloff on January 31, SIPDIS adding that the PRC now seems willing to engage with India on issues of global importance. Echoing Foreign Secr [...]	2005-01-31 13:46:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IN CH
05NEWDELHI759	RESTORING MOMENTUM TO OUR NSSP RELATIONSHIP [...] (C) MEA Joint Secretary Americas Jaishankar called in DCM and PolCouns on January 31 to reiterate his earlier message (reftel) regarding the likely impasse in our Next Steps in Strategic Partnership (NSSP) relationship if we are not able to achieve buy-in from key GOI scientific agencies that f [...]	2005-01-31 14:26:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP ETTC TSPA IN NSSP
05NEWDELHI7693	INITIAL INDIAN OUTREACH TO THE NUCLEAR SUPPLIERS [...] (C) Summary: India has begun to lobby Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) members in advance of the 19-20 October meeting of the Consultative Group (CG),MEA Joint Secretary for Disarmament and International Security Hamid Ali Rao told PolCouns and PolMilOff on 3 Oct. So far, the GOI has engaged [...]	2005-10-03 12:18:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG KNNP IS IN NSSP
05NEWDELHI7752	GOI ON ICJ ELECTIONS DEMARCHE, ITALIAN COESPU [...] (SBU) Summary: PolCouns and Poloff delivered Ref A demarche on ICJ elections, discussed Ref B plans for funding travel of Indian students to Italy's Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units, and reviewed the way forward for cooperation on UN reform in an October 5 conversation with MEA [...]	2005-10-05 10:10:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO KUNR IN IT UNSC UNGA GOI
05NEWDELHI7759	CONGRESS MOVES TO CALM COALITION JITTERS [...] (C) Summary: The virulent criticism by the Left Front (LF) and the opposition BJP of India's anti-Iran vote in the IAEA and their efforts to politicize the debate on economic reform has caught many Congress leaders by surprise, and fed rumors that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) governm [...]	2005-10-05 12:21:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON ELAB KISL PREL PINR EINV IR IN
05NEWDELHI7767	SECOND ANNUAL SOUTH ASIA POLITICAL REPORTING [...] (U) Summary: The September 29 South Asia Political Reporting Officers' Conference in New Delhi brought together almost 50 officers and FSNs from Indian consulates, South Asian countries, the broader region and Washington to discuss recent developments. Participants discussed the July 18 Indo [...]	2005-10-05 13:11:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER BD PK NP IN
05NEWDELHI7777	HOME SECRETARY UPBEAT ABOUT DECLINE IN TERRORISM, [...] (U) ACTION REQUEST FOR S/CT IN PARA 8. 2. (C) Summary: In an October 3 meeting with the Ambassador following an MLAT signing ceremony, Home Secretary VK Duggal was moderately upbeat over the security situation in Kashmir, noting that the situation was calm enough for the valley to welcome [...]	2005-10-06 08:25:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PTER CASC CJAN IN PK NP GOI
05NEWDELHI7794	GOI J&K POINTMAN CAUTIOUSLY UPBEAT ON INDO-PAK, [...] (C) Summary: In an October 4 meeting with visiting US Ambassador to Islamabad Ryan Crocker, GOI Interlocutor on Kashmir NN Vohra was generally upbeat on Indo-Pak relations and said that Islamabad is sending positive signals on Kashmir, but Musharraf is not doing enough to combat cross-border [...]	2005-10-06 11:37:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV PBTS IN PK INDO PAK
05NEWDELHI7797	GOI: NO BASHAR VISIT PLANNED, BUT SYRIA MUST DO [...] (C) Summary: India's West Asia Envoy C Gharekhan told us he is unaware of plans for Syrian President Bashar al-Asad to visit New Delhi, but agreed that Damascus is eager to exploit any opportunity for high-level visits to dispel its deep isolation. Syria must do more for its own sake and Iraq [...]	2005-10-06 13:09:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER IN SY IZ
05NEWDELHI7803	HOME SECRETARY OPTIMISTIC ON PAKISTANI TIES, BUT [...] (C) Summary: Reviewing India-Pakistan relations for visiting US Ambassador to Islamabad Ryan Crocker, Home Secretary VK Duggal observed on October 4 that Indo-Pak SIPDIS relations are generally "on the upswing," but lamented the lack of concrete evidence of a change of Pakistani intentions [...]	2005-10-07 05:37:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV IN PK INDO PAK
05NEWDELHI7909	CONGRESS ON DEFENSIVE OVER SUPREME COURT DECISION [...] (C) Summary. On October 7, the Indian Supreme Courts ruled that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) May 22 dissolution of the Bihar State Assembly and its declaration of President's rule was unconstitutional. However, the Court refused to cancel the October 18-November 19 state elections, [...]	2005-10-11 12:12:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KJUS PHUM PREL IN
05NEWDELHI792	INDIA RESPONDS QUICKLY TO NEPAL KING'S ACTIONS; [...] (S) Summary: Expressing "grave concern" over the King's decision to dissolve the multiparty government in Nepal, and calling the action "a serious setback to the cause of democracy," New Delhi responded swiftly and with unusual firmness to the February 1 developments in Kathmandu. In a statem [...]	2005-02-01 11:48:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MASS EAID PREF ASEC IN NP
05NEWDELHI796	CONGRESS SET TO WIN IN HARYANA BUT THE VICTORY [...] (C) Summary: Pundits, journalists, and politicians agree that Congress will emerge victorious in Haryana's February 3 Legislative Assembly elections, winning from 60 to 80 seats in the 90 member Assembly. Growing disgust with the misrule and corruption of the ruling Indian National Lok Dal (I [...]	2005-02-01 13:52:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON IN
05NEWDELHI7967	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: BRINGING BURMA BEFORE THE UNSC [...] (C) Deputy PolCouns and Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MEA Director (UN Political) Sangeeta Mann on October 13, who said she would provide a response after consulting with her regional office. Post will continue to follow up with GOI officials. 2. (U) Visit New Delhi's Classified We [...]	2005-10-13 13:21:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV BM UNSC UNGA
05NEWDELHI7990	TFPK01: KASHMIRIS SEEK LOWERING OF BORDERS AS [...] (C) Summary: PM Singh and the senior Indian leadership have moved swiftly following the October 8 earthquake to show Kashmiris that India shares their grief and would help them, but relief efforts have been slow to reach some areas. The quake is having its impact in Kashmiri politics, too, wit [...]	2005-10-14 10:55:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID AEMR KISL PTER PBTS PK IN
05NEWDELHI8007	MEA "VERY SUPPORTIVE" OF AFGHAN SAARC MEMBERSHIP [...] (C) In an October 14 meeting with PolCouns and Poloff, MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Dilip Sinha -- after reading Reftel demarche -- said the GOI is "very supportive" of Afghanistan joining SAARC. Sinha reported that the GOI has raised this topic repeatedly with the GOA, [...]	2005-10-14 12:47:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD IN AF XD
05NEWDELHI8010	MEA FORMULATING "MORE ACTIVE ROLE" IN SRI LANKAN [...] (C) Summary: The MEA's Deputy Secretary for Sri Lanka Anupam Ray told us that New Delhi is concerned about the deteriorating situation in Sri Lanka, and has decided the ""time has come"" for India to start ""taking a higher profile in Sri Lanka."" The GOI does not, however, wish for a facilitatio [...]	2005-10-14 13:31:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MASS CE IN
05NEWDELHI8011	INDIA AND BANGLADESH TRADE SPITBALLS IN INDIAN [...] (C) Summary: In the past two weeks, India and Bangladesh have been fighting a war of words in the press over Bangladeshi allegations of Indian involvement in the August 17 blasts and the arrest of five Bangladeshi criminals in Kolkata At a September 30 press conference, concluding an otherwi [...]	2005-10-14 13:35:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KCRM KWMN BG IN
05NEWDELHI8012	MEA LARGELY UPBEAT ON INDO-PAK, BUT QUAKE NO [...] (C) Summary: In an October 14 meeting with PolCouns and Poloff, MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Dilip Sinha judged that it was too soon to assess the damage the October 8 earthquake dealt to terrorism in Kashmir, although he cautioned that the terrorists' setbacks may only [...]	2005-10-14 14:26:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MOPS ENRG PBTS ETRD IN PK INDO PAK
05NEWDELHI8049	INDIA'S OUTREACH AND ADHERENCE TO NSG [...] (C) Outlining India's efforts to seek support for the July 18 Civil Nuclear Agreement in advance of the upcoming NSG meeting, MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) S. Jaishankar passed copies of presentations the GOI was making to NSG member states to Charge, PolCouns, and PolMilOff on October 14 (c [...]	2005-10-17 12:43:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP ENRG IN NSSP
05NEWDELHI8053	GROWING FEARS OF AN INDECISIVE OUTCOME AS BIHAR [...] (SBU) Summary: Bihar goes to the polls tomorrow, October 18, in its second set of State elections in less than nine months. Over 500 candidates made their last efforts over the past weekend to sway voters, in what all observers believe will be a close election. However, the Rashtriya Jana [...]	2005-10-17 13:35:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IN
05NEWDELHI8054	RAJASTHAN PROVIDES NO LET-UP IN UNRELENTING BAD [...] (C) Summary: Rajasthan has joined a long list of places where BJP fortunes are on the wane. Vasundhara Raje pulled off a stunning upset victory to become Chief Minister in 2003 and many thought her administration would be one of the rare "success stories" for the embattled BJP. However, her [...]	2005-10-17 13:37:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON SCUL PINR IN
05NEWDELHI8073	J&K ATTACK WILL DEEPEN GOI ANGER OVER TERRORISM [...] (C) Summary: Terrorists affiliated with Pakistan-based al-Mansoorian (a front name used by Lashkar-e-Tayyiba) on October 18 conducted a daytime suicide attack on a secure residential compound in Srinagar, killing the J&K Education Minister and two security personnel. This attack appears desi [...]	2005-10-18 10:09:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL IN PK
05NEWDELHI8120	INDO-PAK "DISASTER DIPLOMACY" SOFTENING BORDERS [...] (C) Summary: Terrorism aside (Ref A),the diplomatic vibes of disaster diplomacy are resonating well in India. The GOI warmly welcomed Musharraf's October 18 decision to permit "any amount" of Kashmiris from J&K to cross the LoC into Pakistani Kashmir to assist with earthquake reconstruction [...]	2005-10-19 11:56:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EAID ECPS PBTS IN PK INDO PAK
05NEWDELHI8162	INDIA'S STANCE ON IRAN AND THE IAEA CONTINUES TO [...] (SBU) Summary: The spate of media and political criticism touched off by the GOI's decision to vote with the US and the EU3 (UK, France, and Germany) at the September 24 IAEA meeting on Iran is increasing rather than dying down. Foreign Secretary Saran recently summoned Ambassadors from the EU3 to [...]	2005-10-20 12:37:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KNNP ENRG IR IN
05NEWDELHI8188	UIGHUR RESETTLEMENT: GOI UNLIKELY TO RESPOND [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) S Jaishankar told the Charge on October 15 that the GOI would consider the US request for assistance in resettling Uighur detainees, but suggested that the answer would be no. "You know why," he added. Comment ------- [...]	2005-10-21 13:00:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL PTER KAWC PHUM PREF PINR IN
05NEWDELHI8231	JASWANT SINGH BELIEVES THE UPA IS INCAPABLE OF MANAGING THE INDO/US RELATIONSHIP [...] (C) Summary: Meeting with U/S Burns and the Ambassador in New Delhi on October 21, former Foreign Minister and BJP leader Jaswant Singh expressed wholehearted support for the India/US agenda and its many components, but reading between the lines, that support was actually qualified. Singh seemed [...]	2005-10-24 10:56:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PGOV PINR IN PK IR
05NEWDELHI8237	U/S BURNS AND F/S SARAN CLARIFY POSITIONS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: U/S Nicholas Burns' meeting with GOI Foreign Secretary Saran on U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation SIPDIS clarified differing perceptions on how to sequence each side's fulfillment of obligations in order to build sufficient confidence in the other side's executive and legisl [...]	2005-10-24 11:30:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KNNP ENRG IN
05NEWDELHI8245	BURNS-SARAN OCTOBER 21 MEETING ON BILATERAL ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: Much progress was made in the October 21 opening meeting in Delhi between Under Secretary for Political Affairs Burns and Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran which reviewed the US-India joint ventures launched at the July 18 Summit. Both agreed that the two sides must ensure that smal [...]	2005-10-24 11:45:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MASS EAID EAGR ENRG EINV KNNP ETRD EAIR ETTC ECPS TSPA TBIO TSPL CVIS KDEM SENV IN PK US
05NEWDELHI8247	NEPAL, AFGHANISTAN, AND IRANIAN TERRORISM: FOREIGN [...] This message contains an ACTION REQUEST for SA. Please see para 11. 2. (C) Summary: Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran and his regional Joint Secretaries told visiting U/S for Political Affairs Nick Burns on October 22 that the GOI would announce that day the opening of several points along t [...]	2005-10-24 12:01:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MASS EAID ENRG PHUM IN NP AF PK CH CE BM TH
05NEWDELHI825	NEPAL SITUATION "WORST CASE SCENARIO" FOR INDIA [...] (C) Summary: King Gyanendra's decision to dissolve the government is a "worst case scenario," driving the Maoists and the political parties together, undermining the monarchy, and muzzling politicians rather than the Maoists, MEA Joint Secretary (Nepal and Bhutan) Ranjit Rae told PolCouns and [...]	2005-02-02 12:45:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MASS EAID PREF ASEC IN NP
05NEWDELHI8253	INDIA OPENS LOC TO HELP PAKISTAN DESPITE TERROR [...] (U) Summary: Consistent with the PM's admonition to find ways to make the Line of Control (LoC) less relevant and facilitate quake relief, the GOI is putting aside fears that terrorists will seize the advantage even as it creates camps along the LoC to provide food, shelter, and medical attent [...]	2005-10-24 13:25:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV PINR PHUM EAID IN PK INDO PAK
05NEWDELHI8255	U/S BURNS MEETS AMCHAM (INDIA) ON DEFENSE SALES [...] (C) Warning, Contains Business Proprietary Information. Please protect accordingly. 2. (C) SUMMARY: In U/S Burns' meeting with AMCHAM (India) on October 22, U.S. defense company representatives suggested that there needs to be a breakthrough in the U.S. procurement cycle and sales approach [...]	2005-10-25 01:01:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON MARR MASS IN
05NEWDELHI826	REACTING TO NEPAL, INDIA WILL NOT ATTEND THE SAARC SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: The MEA announced on February 2 that India will not attend the SAARC Summit scheduled for February 6-7 in Dhaka. Both publicly and privately, GOI officials cited both King Gyanendra's actions in Nepal on February 1, and the security situation in Dhaka following the violence of J [...]	2005-02-02 12:59:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IN BG PK NP SAARC
05NEWDELHI8380	GOI TRYING TO SALVAGE ISRAEL RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Indian-Israel relations have hit a rough patch because of a recent lack of direction on the part of the ruling UPA government in New Delhi, but both sides say they intend to restore better ties. Over the next few weeks, Congress party leadership will affirm India's interest in m [...]	2005-10-28 11:06:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IN IS
05NEWDELHI8394	LEFT RAISES THE STAKES IN CONFRONTATION WITH [...] (C) Summary: On October 27, after a four month hiatus, the Left Front (LF) deigned to meet their Congress coalition partners again in their formal Coordination Committee, but instead of being cowed by their recent pummelling in the press, the Communists were even more combative and rigid, an [...]	2005-10-28 12:19:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ETRD PREL SCUL PINR EINV ELAB SOCI IN
05NEWDELHI8397	SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY SNOW'S VISIT TO INDIA [...] (C) Mr. Secretary, I want to warmly welcome you to India, a vibrant, diverse, multi-ethnic, multifaceted democracy -- much like our own in important respects -- that is emerging as an economic powerhouse and has growing global ambitions. Your visit will help set the stage for President Bush's [...]	2005-10-28 13:32:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON BEXP PGOV PREL IN US
05NEWDELHI840	ABU SALEM EXTRADITION UPDATE [...] (C) In a February 1 conversation with Poloff, Portuguese DCM Frederico Nascimento confirmed recent Indian press reports stating that his country's Supreme Court had rendered a decision to permit the extradition of Abu Salem to India. He noted that this decision allows the extradition of Salem [...]	2005-02-03 08:25:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV IN PO
05NEWDELHI8510	DESPITE TERROR BLAST, NEW KASHMIR CHIEF MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite a suicide car bombing that killed five, Cabinet Affairs Minister and Sonia Gandhi close aide Ghulam Nabi Azad became Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir November 2, as per a 2003 power-sharing agreement between Congress and former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed's PD [...]	2005-11-04 09:53:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL KDEM PHUM PBTS PTER ASEC PK IN
05NEWDELHI8535	THE UPA DESCENDS DEEPER INTO THE VOLCKER REPORT [...] (C) Summary: The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government continued to descend into the quagmire created by the release of the Volcker Report (reftels),while its embattled Foreign Minister has veered to the left in a desperate attempt to win support from the Left Front (LF). The UPA has [...]	2005-11-07 12:43:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ETTC EPET KCRM IN IR
05NEWDELHI8537	GOI FINDS NEUTRON SOURCE IN MUMBAI CONTAINER [...] (C) MEA Director (Americas) gave PolCouns a note on October 7 detailing further radiation measurements that the GOI's Atomic Energy Regulatory Board carried out on the suspect shipping container following USG requests for additional scrutiny (reftels). According to the note, after negative r [...]	2005-11-07 14:02:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ETRD KNNP PREL IN IAEA
05NEWDELHI858	EXPLAINING INDIA'S ANGER OVER DEVELOPMENTS IN NEPAL [...] (C) Summary: New Delhi's surprisingly angry reaction to developments in Nepal underlines the serious mid to long-term implications the GOI believes King Gyanendra's actions will have on Nepal, India, and the GOI's larger foreign policy objectives. From New Delhi's perspective, the King has s [...]	2005-02-03 12:17:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MASS EAID PREF ASEC IN NP CH
05NEWDELHI859	GOI REWARDS BHUTANESE KING AS GUEST OF HONOR AT [...] (C) Summary: The Government of India (GOI) rewarded Bhutanese King Jigme Singye Wangchuck for conducting military operations in December of 2003 against Indian militants hiding out in Southern Bhutan by making him the guest of honor at Republic Day. During the King's January 24-28 visit, th [...]	2005-02-03 12:24:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PHUM IN NP BT UNHCR
05NEWDELHI860	INDIAN INTEREST, AND HESITATION, ABOUT MARITIME [...] (C) Summary: Despite skepticism from some strategic commentators, the Indian government continues to express interest in the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) and other maritime security programs, but will not join PSI unless the matter of the Core Group is resolved. In the latest sign [...]	2005-02-03 12:25:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHSA ETRD EWWT XD XO IN NSSP
05NEWDELHI8627	IRAQI CHARGE CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC ON INDIA [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi Charge Muayad Hussain told A/DCM on November 9 that while he was unhappy at former FM Natwar Singh's parting criticism of Iraq's government (reftel),he remained optimistic about continued engagement with the GOI. The Indian Petroleum Minister has proposed a renewal of the [...]	2005-11-09 12:43:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG KDEM PTER IN IZ
05NEWDELHI8682	AMBASSADOR TAHIR-KHELI URGES GOI LEADERSHIP ON [...] (C) Summary. In her second round of consultations with senior MEA officials on November 14, Special Advisor on UN Reform Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli discussed areas of common consensus on UN reform and urged the GOI to take leadership and build coalitions of support before the review of the [...]	2005-11-15 11:53:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PHUM IN UNSC GOI
05NEWDELHI8711	THE COMMUNISTS THREATEN THE UPA AGAIN OVER [...] (U) While addressing campaign meetings in Kerala on November 15 Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Prakash Karat and Communist Party of India (CPI) SIPDIS General Secretary AB Bardhan demanded that the GOI change its stance in the IAEA regarding Iran's nuclear program. Bo [...]	2005-11-16 12:27:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL IN IR
05NEWDELHI8712	MDA DEMARCHE ON ADDITIONAL GENEVEA PROTOCOL [...] (U) Acting Political Counselor delivered Ref A demarche to Director (UN Political) Sangeeta Mann, who confessed she was not aware of the issue, thanked the USG for the information conveyed, and promised a more substantive response once she ascertained the GOI position. 2. (C) Comment: Man [...]	2005-11-16 12:34:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL IN IS SZ
05NEWDELHI8741	CONGRESS PUSHES THE LEFT TO MOVE TOWARD COMPROMISE [...] (U) On November 15, Communist leaders from the CPI(M) and CPI demanded that the GOI reverse its position and vote with Iran at the November 24 IAEA meeting or "face the consequences," but left the door open for face-saving "consultations," (ref A). On November 16, the GOI took advantage of t [...]	2005-11-17 12:31:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KNNP MNUC IN IR
05NEWDELHI8746	FOREIGN SECRETARY SARAN URGES USG TO CORRECT [...] (C) Summary: In his November 15 meeting with Senior Advisor on UN Reform Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran expressed general GOI support for most SIPDIS of the USG's UN reform agenda, with some minor disagreement on the oversight mechanisms. He reinforced the GO [...]	2005-11-17 12:36:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PHUM IN UNSC GOI
05NEWDELHI8748	DUE TO INTERNAL POLITICS, INDIA RELUCTANT ON IRAN [...] (C) Charge delivered reftel demarche to Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran during a November 15 meeting with Special Advisor on UN Reform Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli. Saran promised to examine the issues raised, but pointed out that India is already in a difficult position with Iran (as a result [...]	2005-11-17 12:41:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM MNUC KNNP IN IR
05NEWDELHI8749	OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: GOI PROPOSES US OBSERVER STATUS AT SAARC [...] (U) For SA: SEE ACTION REQUEST PARA 8. 2. (C) Summary: In a surprise development, the GOI has told us that it would welcome US participation as an Observer to SAARC. At a South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit briefing on November 16, MEA Joint Secretary (SAARC) P.K. [...]	2005-11-17 13:25:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ECIN AORC BG SL NP PK ML BU IN SAARC
05NEWDELHI8750	FS SARAN GIVES AMBASSADOR MORIARTY READOUT OF [...] Summary (C) In a 16 November meeting, Indian Foreign Secretary Saran and visiting Ambassador Moriarty discussed SIPDIS the worrying political climate in Nepal. The Ambassador described options for increasing pressure on the King to reach out to Nepalese political parties to counter growing [...]	2005-11-17 13:48:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PGOV MOPS ECON IN
05NEWDELHI8751	KASHMIRIS QUIETLY APPRECIATIVE OF INDIAN ARMY AND [...] (C) Summary: Indian Kashmiris have been quietly appreciative of the way the Army, J&K state government, Indian NGOs, and Indian businesses and citizens provided relief following the October 8 earthquake. Immediately following the quake, soldiers threw themselves into rescue efforts and opene [...]	2005-11-17 15:44:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PBTS KISL PTER EAID MOPS PK IN
05NEWDELHI8772	GOI WORKING ON EXPORT CONTROLS IN ADVANCE OF HTCG [...] (C) Charge Blake delivered points from Reftel A to MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) Jaishankar on November 18th, emphasizing the importance of India harmonizing its control lists with international standards. Jaishankar responded that he would follow up with issue experts in MEA. Charge noted [...]	2005-11-18 09:57:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP ETRD ETTC IN NSSP
05NEWDELHI8791	INDIANS WORRY LASHKAR TERRORISTS ARE THRIVING IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Apprehension is mounting in India about Pakistan-based terrorist groups' exploitation of relief efforts to enhance their capabilities, recruitment, and operations against India. Indians are also noticing with alarm that terror groups such as the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jammat- [...]	2005-11-18 12:43:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PBTS KISL MOPS PINS EAID ASEC PK IN
05NEWDELHI8795	GOI COMMENTS REGARDING PERM REP SEN'S REMARKS ON UNSC REFORM [...] (C) Visiting Senior Advisor on UN Reform Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli raised Reftel A points in separate meetings with MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) Jaishankar and Media Advisor to the Prime Ministers Office Sanjay Baru on November 17. In both meetings, our interlocutors underlined that PermRep N [...]	2005-11-18 12:50:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KUNR IN UNSC UNGA GOI
05NEWDELHI8799	INDIA'S NAM BAGGAGE STILL HOLDING IT BACK ON UN [...] (C) Summary: At a November 17 meeting with Senior Advisor on UN Reform Ambassador Tahir-Kheli, Deputy National Security Advisor Nambiar insisted that India's "stereotype as a representative of developing countries" at the United Nations will hinder its ability to play a leading role with the [...]	2005-11-18 14:17:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PHUM IN UNSC GOI
05NEWDELHI8809	PM SINGH SHUFFLES PORTFOLIOS SLIGHTLY [...] (SBU) In an anti-climax, the GOI announced November 18 that it had reallocated Cabinet portfolios between the sitting Cabinet Ministers rather than expanding the Cabinet as expected. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh retained the External Affairs Ministry. Jaipal Reddy moved from Information an [...]	2005-11-21 11:42:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL ECON IN
05NEWDELHI8844	CONGRESS FACING A DOMESTIC "PERFECT STORM" [...] (C) Summary: With Parliament set to convene on November 23, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government is reeling from assaults from its left and right and faces a series of political events that could undermine its stability, including the UPA defeat in the important Biha [...]	2005-11-22 14:02:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EPET ETTC KCRM IN IR
05NEWDELHI8845	INDIA DOUBTS NEPALESE MAOIST/POLITICAL PARTY [...] (C) Summary: Recent press reports of a breakthrough between Nepalese Maoists and political parties are not true, outgoing MEA Joint Secretary (North) Ranjit Rae insisted on November 22, acknowledging nonetheless that the two sides have met in Delhi to discuss a solution to the ongoing crisis. [...]	2005-11-22 15:34:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PGOV MOPS ECON IN NP
05NEWDELHI8856	CONGRESS DREADS IMPENDING SUPREME COURT JUDGMENT, [...] (C) Summary: Congress is facing a major political mess of its own making as it waits for a Supreme Court judgment that may rule its actions in Bihar to have been unconstitutional, with potentially dire consequences. When Congress moved precipitously to head off the formation of BJP/NDA gover [...]	2005-11-23 10:59:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS KDEM PGOV PINR IN
05NEWDELHI8891	IRAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED, EU-3 ALSO PUSHING [...] (C) PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to Joint Secretary (Disarmament and International Security) Hamid Ali Rao on November 23, emphasizing the importance of India conveying through a strong national statement that the international community remains seriously concerned about Iran's nuclear [...]	2005-11-23 12:42:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP AORC IN IR
05NEWDELHI8892	INDIA CAUTIOUSLY WELCOMES NEW SRI LANKAN PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: The GOI called Mahinda Rajapakse's victory in the November 17 Sri Lankan Elections a ""wake-up call for India"" and plans to use the new President's upcoming visit to New Delhi to stress the importance of maintaining the Cease-Fire Agreement while continuing India's already close rela [...]	2005-11-23 12:54:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MASS CE IN
05NEWDELHI8893	INDIAN REPORTS BREAKTHROUGH IN BHUTAN/NEPAL [...] (C) Summary: The agreement reached in Dhaka between the RGOB and GON to restart the Joint Verification Process and allow for the return of Category 1 and 4 refugees from the Khudunabari refugee camp was a significant and positive step, outgoing MEA Joint Secretary (North) Ranjit Rae told PolCou [...]	2005-11-23 13:14:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PHUM PTER IN NP BT
05NEWDELHI8928	INDIAN FOREIGN SECRETARY FRETS ABOUT JIHADI [...] (C) This is an action request. Please see para 5. 2. (C) Indian Foreign Secretary Saran summoned the Charge on November 24 to register concern about several dimensions of international relief activities in Pakistani Kashmir. Saran's delivery of the non-paper in para 5 was low key and respe [...]	2005-11-25 11:34:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MOPS EAID IN PK INDO PAK
05NEWDELHI8933	INDIA COMMITTED TO RE-BUILD AFGHANISTAN DESPITE [...] (U) Anger in India is mounting following the November 19 kidnapping and subsequent murder by the Taliban of MR Kutty, one of 290 Border Roads Organization employees who have been working on the GOI-funded Zaranj-Delaram road in Nimruz Province, Afghanistan. The discovery of Kutty's throat-sli [...]	2005-11-25 12:13:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL EAID MARR MASS PBTS AF IN PK
05NEWDELHI9029	RGOB: NEED CATEGORY 1 AND 4 REPATRIATION AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Bhutan is ready to accept category 1 and 4 refugees from the Khudunabari camp, but needs Nepal to agree to the proposal in writing, which Nepal seems unwilling to do, Bhutanese Ambassador Tshering stated in a December 1 meeting with PolCouns and PolOff. The Ambassador reported t [...]	2005-11-30 11:22:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PTER PHUM IN BT NP
05NEWDELHI9031	KASHMIRI LEADERS SHARE PERSPECTIVES WITH CODEL [...] (SBU) Kashmiri political leaders and human rights advocates described in differing viewpoints the problems facing Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and emphasized the need for redoubled peace efforts between India and Pakistan during a November 28 meeting with CODEL Burton and embassy officers. Mirwa [...]	2005-11-30 11:27:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER KISL PBTS PHUM OREP IN PK
05NEWDELHI9080	GOI "CONSTRUCTIVELY ENGAGED" IN BURMA, UPBEAT ON [...] (C) Summary: MEA J/S (Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Myanmar) Mohan Kumar was candid about India's need to continue engaging in Burma and optimistic that PM Singh had begun to "clear the air" during his bilateral meeting with President Zia in Bangladesh. Acknowledging Indian competition with the [...]	2005-12-01 12:30:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER BG BM IN SA

05NEWDELHI9127	INDIAâ€™S DEMOCRACY AND ECONOMY MINIMIZE EXTREMIST [...] (C) India's over 150 million Muslim population is largely unattracted to extremism. India's growing economy, vibrant democracy, and inclusive culture, encourage Muslims to seek success and social mobility in the mainstream and reduces alienation. With Indian Muslim youth increasingly comfortable in [...]	2005-12-02 12:54:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PGOV KDEM PINR PTER SCUL IN
05NEWDELHI9128	NEW ALLEGATIONS BREATHE LIFE INTO NATWAR OIL [...] (C) Summary: The NDA's anti-UPA, anti-Natwar Singh campaign got a new lease on life December 2 when longtime Natwar Singh confidant (and serving Indian Ambassador to Croatia) Aneil Mathrani claimed in a television interview that the former Foreign Minister was deeply and personally involved [...]	2005-12-02 12:55:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL PHUM PTER EPET ETTC IN
05NEWDELHI9133	INDO-RUSSIAN SUMMIT TUNED TO DEFENSE COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary: The GOI hopes to expand Indo-Russian defense and space cooperation at the December 4-6 Sixth Annual Summit in Russia, but a sluggish economic relationship is dragging down bilateral ties. President Putin and Prime Minister Singh are expected to sign four agreements on defense In [...]	2005-12-03 03:50:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG EPET PGOV KNNP MASS IN
05NEWDELHI9139	INDIAN GOVERNMENT REQUESTS USG ASSISTANCE TO URGE [...] (C) Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran contacted DCM on December 3 to request the USG's help with the mission of Indian Special Envoy Virendra Dayal to Iraq in connection with the GOI's ongoing investigation into the naming of Former Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh and the Congress Pa [...]	2005-12-05 06:18:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET IN IZ PREL
05NEWDELHI9164	FS SARAN CALLS FOR ENHANCED BHUTAN TIES [...] (C) Summary: India and Bhutan have a vital stake in each other's well-being and greater economic, security and cultural ties will benefit both countries, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran argued during an unusual December 3 seminar focused on Bhutan. Underlining the growing GOI concern about con [...]	2005-12-05 14:19:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGREL PBTS ECIN ETRD PREF PTER PGOV IN BT NP
05NEWDELHI9205	INDO-JAPANESE INTERESTS CONVERGING AHEAD OF EAST [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Singh is heading to Kuala Lumpur for the December 14 East Asian Summit (EAS) at a time of rapid improvement in Indo-Japanese relations that may finally overcome the sense on both sides of unfulfilled potential. In a December 2 meeting with PolCouns, MEA's Asia Co [...]	2005-12-06 12:57:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECIN ETRD ENRG TRGY KNNP CH JA IN ASEAN
05NEWDELHI9207	IN DIVIDED PUNJAB, DIPLOMACY DANCES TO A BHANGRA [...] (SBU) Summary: Drawn together by shared historical, cultural, and ethno-linguistic ties, the Indian state of Punjab and Pakistan's Punjab province continue to forge deeper relations even as Delhi-Islamabad rapprochement has slowed. This message details recent progress in people-to-people con [...]	2005-12-06 13:10:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PBTS SCUL IN PK
05NEWDELHI922	INDIA SUSPENDS MILITARY PIPELINE TO NEPAL, WORRIES [...] (C) With NSA Narayanan unavailable until February 7, the Ambassador used a February 4 meeting with Foreign Secretary Saran to convey reftel points detailing our goals and strategy in Nepal. He also addressed these issues in broad brush during a pull aside with Foreign Minister Natwar Singh. [...]	2005-02-04 13:46:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID MASS NP IN RS
05NEWDELHI9231	GOI INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO ADDRESS COMMUNAL [...] (C) Summary: Over stringent opposition from BJP-ruled states, the Congress government devised a bill to prevent the outbreak and spread of communal rioting by allowing New Delhi to intervene in any state experiencing communal violence. On December 5, the UPA unexpectedly diluted the bill t [...]	2005-12-07 12:39:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PHUM KISL IN
05NEWDELHI9245	INDIA FACES GROWING NAXALITE MENACE [...] (C) Summary: Despite India's rapidly expanding economy, Naxalite groups in poor rural areas and their educated urban sympathizers continue to spread and have extended their areas of influence into 12 states, proving they can launch spectacular attacks on government facilities. The GOI has respon [...]	2005-12-08 08:36:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL PHUM PTER KCRM ASEC SCUL IN NP
05NEWDELHI9345	PMO MINISTER CITES DOMESTIC POLITICS IN PSI DEBATE [...] (C) The Ambassador used a December 9 meeting with Prithviraj Chavan, Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office, to press for early presentation of India's plan for separation of its civilian and military nuclear facilities and to continue our advocacy of Indian participation in the Pro [...]	2005-12-12 12:56:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC MOPS IN PSI
05NEWDELHI9376	IS THE BJP READY FOR A REVIVAL? PERHAPS [...] (C) Summary: The BJP is undergoing churnings that suggest that it could regain its political legs. Supporters of this position point to the recent NDA electoral victory in Bihar, and the decision to expel perennial troublemaker Uma Bharati as signs that the party is putting its internal pro [...]	2005-12-13 13:08:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL PHUM EPET ETTC ECON IN
05NEWDELHI940	INDIAN REACTIONS TO THE IRAQ ELECTION REFLECT [...] (C) Summary: The reaction of India's political parties and major newspapers to the January 30 election in Iraq predictably reflected their political orientations. The UPA government saw the election as a step forward, but unveiled no new initiatives or specific plans for greater engagement. [...]	2005-02-07 09:44:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PGOV PINR PREL PTER SCUL IN IZ
05NEWDELHI9409	GOI INTERESTED IN US SPONSORED IMO DONOR CONFERENCE [...] (U) Poloff delivered Ref A demarche to MEA D/S (Disarmament and International Security) Naveen Srivastava, who commented that the Ministry of Defense had indicated interest in such a conference. 2. (C) PolCouns followed up with Joint Secretary (DISA) Hamid Ali Rao on December 14, who also [...]	2005-12-14 13:23:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHSA PBTS EWWT PTER GM IN KS
05NEWDELHI9434	INDIA JOINS ASEAN'S TOUGHER LINE ON BURMA [...] (U) Summary: After many months of wishy-washy Indian posturing on Burma, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called publicly for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and encouraged the GOB to move towards democracy on his return from the East Asia Summit. Speaking after a meeting with Burmese PM Soe Win in [...]	2005-12-15 12:46:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL PHUM IN BM ASEAN
05NEWDELHI9484	SARAN: NEPAL'S KING PROMISES OUTREACH TO PARTIES [...] (C) Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran told the Ambassador on December 15 that Nepal's King Gyanendra committed to "some initiative with the political parties" during his December 13 audience in Kathmandu. The monarch accepted Saran's argument that he was isolating himself and contributing to the [...]	2005-12-16 12:33:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MASS IN NP
05NEWDELHI9486	PM SINGH ABLY DEFENDS RECIPROCAL NATURE OF INDO/US [...] (C) Summary: The BJP latched onto a leftist Parliamentary question on the July 18 civil nuclear agreement in an attempt to score points against the UPA. BJP heavyweights Yashwant Sinha (former Foreign Minister) and Sushma Swaraj asserted that the agreement was "stalemated," and that the US [...]	2005-12-16 12:42:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL ETTC KNNP MNUC ENRG IN
05NEWDELHI9488	GOI WELCOMES IRAQ ELECTIONS [...] (U) On December 16, the DCM and D/PolCouns held a media briefing on the Iraqi elections, emphasizing the high voter turnout, the low levels of violence, and eager participation from Sunni voters who largely boycotted earlier elections. The December 15 polls were the most free and open ever see [...]	2005-12-16 13:10:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM EAID IN IZ
05NEWDELHI9489	NARAYANAN BULLISH ON INDIA'S CIVIL NUCLEAR [...] (C) Summary: On the eve of FS Saran's departure for the December 21 Civil Nuclear Working Group meeting in Washington, NSA MK Narayanan told the Ambassador that Saran is bringing India's finished plan for civil/military nuclear separation in the hope that Congress will pass the required legis [...]	2005-12-16 14:17:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP ENRG ETTC IN
05NEWDELHI9504	BHUTAN KING TO ABDICATE IN 2008, DEEPENING [...] (U) Wire services and the on-line Bhutanese newspaper Kuensel.com reported on December 18 that King Jigme Singye Wangchuck announced he would abdicate the throne to the well-regarded and modest Crown Prince (known in Bhutan as the Chhoetse Penlop) Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck in 2008. Kuens [...]	2005-12-19 11:55:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR IN NP BT
05NEWDELHI9514	GOI SIFTING POTUS DELIVERABLE IDEAS, FINALIZING [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Secretary Saran's priority for his Washington visit, aside from presenting India's proposals for separation of its nuclear program, is to begin detailed consultations on deliverables for the upcoming POTUS visit, MEA official Jaishankar told the Charge on December 19. Jai [...]	2005-12-19 12:49:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OVIP KNNP TRGY TNGD EAGR ENRG MARR MASS IN
05NEWDELHI9516	NSA NARAYANAN FOCUSED ON POTUS VISIT, NSG, AND [...] (C) Summary: Ahead of FS Saran's meeting with Burns on December 21, NSA Narayanan shared his priorities for the POTUS visit to India and his take on progress at the East Asia Summit and GOI policy on Burma in a December 16 meeting. He listed progress on the civil nuclear agreement and initi [...]	2005-12-19 12:57:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL ENRG PHUM PTER BM IN
05NEWDELHI9527	THE TRIBAL BILL - A UPA ATTEMPT AT SOCIAL [...] (C) Summary: India's forest dwelling tribals (aboriginals largely residing in Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Orissa, Chhattisgarh Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra) are caught in a vise between greedy forest mafias and the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist),which hopes to enlist them into its vio [...]	2005-12-20 10:04:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PHUM KCRM ASEC SCUL SENV KSCA TSPL
05NEWDELHI9592	GOI'S TAKE ON CHINA'S ROLE IN DEVELOPING THE [...] (C) Summary: In a December 16 meeting on India's relationship with Central Asia and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO),MEA J/S Jaimini Bhagwati (Eurasia) suggested that India and the US should look for opportunities to advance our shared interests in the region. Bhagwati speculated [...]	2005-12-20 13:24:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL KDEM MOPS CH IN PK RS
05NEWDELHI961	LOOKING TO REASSERT A MID-EAST ROLE, INDIA [...] (C) Summary: On February 2, the MEA announced the appointment of retired career diplomat Chinmaya Gharekhan as Special Envoy for West Asia and the Middle East Peace Process. In creating this position, the GOI signaled its hope to raise New Delhi's profile in the Gulf, where India has an unde [...]	2005-02-07 13:02:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG PINR IS IZ IN
05NEWDELHI9750	GOI TURNING PESSIMISTS ON NEPAL [...] (C) Summary. GOI officials told us on December 27 that developments in Kathmandu since Foreign Secretary Saran's early December visit have made them less hopeful of a resolution any time soon to the continued political stalemate in Nepal. Hardening of the positions of both the Palace and th [...]	2005-12-27 12:21:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PTER MASS IN NP CH
05NEWDELHI9751	INDIA READY TO PUSH HARDER ON BHUTAN REFUGEES [...] (C) Summary: The GOI is ready to take a more proactive role in prodding Bhutan to resolve the long-running refugee problem, an MEA official told A/DCM and Poloff on December 27. Bhutan's King had previously informed New Delhi of his plan to abdicate in 2008 following elections, and India is [...]	2005-12-27 12:26:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF KDEM PGOV ENRG IN BT
05NEWDELHI9761	THE BJP ATTACKS UPA FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary: The BJP leadership, meeting in Mumbai on December 26-27, continued its twisting foreign policy trajectory, issuing a public statement on ""The UPA's Mismanagement of our Foreign Policy,"" that was so shrilly critical of Congress initiatives that it drew a public rebuke from former Pr [...]	2005-12-28 09:04:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IN
05NEWDELHI9771	MEA LOOKS AHEAD TO PAKISTAN TALKS, SEEKS [...] (C) Summary: Speaking on December 27, MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan/Afghanistan/Iran) Dilip Sinha judged that the GOP is dragging its feet in implementing agreed-upon confidence-building measures and presenting its own ideas in a "half-baked" manner, but was confident that relations would mud [...]	2005-12-28 12:39:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL EAID EPET ELTN MOPS KDEM KNNP IN PK AF IR INDO PAK
05NEWDELHI997	NEW NSA SIGNALS COMMITMENT TO US-INDIA [...] (C) Summary: In his first meeting with the Ambassador since his elevation as National Security Adviser, MK Narayanan identified progress in US-India relations as one of the three or four top priorities that the PM has tasked him to focus upon. Although Narayanan was uninformed about Phase 2 o [...]	2005-02-08 12:49:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC PTER BG NP IN PK US
05NICOSIA1585	CHANGING THE FRAME: HOW WE TALK ABOUT THE CYPRUS [...] (C) Summary: Since the referenda on the Annan Plan in April 2004, our rhetorical position on the Cyprus issue has been clear and consistent. We support the UN SYG and his Mission of Good Offices. We believe the Annan Plan represented a fair and viable settlement. And, we want the Greek Cyp [...]	2005-09-29 12:17:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC CY
05NICOSIA1617	"AND FOR MY NEXT TRICK...": REVISITING THE CYPRUS [...] (C) Summary: Although the end result of the EU's October 3 decision on Turkey was positive, the tortuous negotiations on the framework and the "counter declaration" highlight the implications that the unresolved Cyprus dispute has for U.S. interests across a wide range of issues. While the p [...]	2005-10-04 13:16:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CY
05NICOSIA1813	DOING MORE WITH TURKISH CYPRIOTS ON ISSUES OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. The United States policy of supporting economic development in the Turkish Cypriot community has an important role to play in support of a resolution of the Cyprus problem -- however, closer cooperation with the Turkish Cypriots can also help advance other issues of broader natio [...]	2005-11-15 06:29:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID ECON KCRM EFIN PTER KHLS CVIS
05NICOSIA1886	TURKISH CYPRIOTS UNVEIL NEW SCHEME FOR GREEK [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Turkish Cypriot administration has drafted a new law that would significantly alter the way in which the "TRNC" handles claims for restitution or compensation for Greek Cypriot property, which makes up between 80 and 90 percent of the land in the north. In response to an Apr [...]	2005-11-30 09:31:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CY TU PHUM PREF COE ECON
05NICOSIA1955	SUBJECT: "SETTLERS" AND CITIZENSHIP: THE [...] (C) Summary: Questions of "settler status" and ROC citizenship have become increasingly entwined, further complicating an already contentious issue that lies close to the core of the Cyprus dispute. Issues of citizenship, status, and the definition of a "settler" are of more than academic [...]	2005-12-14 11:49:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV UNSC CY
05NICOSIA2006	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON CONTINUING CONCERNS OVER [...] (C) On December 21, poloff delivered reftel demarche on Russian NGO law to Elena Rafti in the MFA's European Affairs Division. Rafti had no substantive response, but promised to pass the message forward for consideration. SCHLICHER [...]	2005-12-23 09:34:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL
05NICOSIA2007	KIDS THESE DAYS: WHAT DO GREEK CYPRIOT YOUNG [...] (C) Summary: In the April 2004 referendum on the Annan Plan for a Cyprus settlement, Greek Cypriots in the 18-24 age group voted "No" by a margin of nine-to-one. Both anecdotal impressions and polling data lead to the conclusion that, on balance, young Greek Cypriots take a harder line on t [...]	2005-12-23 11:32:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM CY
05NICOSIA2024	AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALLS ON THE TURKISH [...] (C) Summary: On December 27, Ambassador Schlicher paid introductory calls on key players in the Turkish Cypriot leadership --"President" Mehmet Ali Talat, "Prime Minister" Ferdi Sabit Soyer, and "Foreign Minister" Serdar Denktash -- to discuss the current state of play on the Cyprus issue and [...]	2005-12-28 15:06:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CY
05NICOSIA2037	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON FEMIP LOAN TO SYRIA [...] (C) On December 28, Poloff delivered the reftel demarche concerning The Facility for Euro-Meditteranen Investment and Partnership's (FEMIP) loan to Syria to Stelios Makriyiannis in the MFA's Political Affairs Division. Makriyiannis had no substantive response, but promised to pass the messag [...]	2005-12-30 12:07:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EFIN PREL PGOV
05NICOSIA291	CIVILIAN-MILITARY RELATIONS IN NORTH CYPRUS: [...] (C) SUMMARY. With roughly 25,000 troops in Cyprus and a history of interference in Turkish Cypriot politics, the Turkish military exercised considerable sway in many spheres of civilian life in the north. The army has kept a low profile, however, since the 2003 elections that brought the pro [...]	2005-02-18 15:16:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CY TU PHUM PINR ECON
05NICOSIA304	SHIP VISIT TO CYPRUS: CALLING IN THE NORTH IS A [...] (C) SUMMARY. Embassy Nicosia supports a visit by the USN to the Republic of Cyprus (south),but opposes a ship visit to north Cyprus under the current circumstances. The Republic of Cyprus has hosted many visits by the United States Navy (USN) over the years without incident. The Cyprus go [...]	2005-02-23 13:19:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	CY TU PREL MOPS MARR
05NOUAKCHOTT762	WHY DID MAHMOUD ABBAS VISIT MAURITANIA? [...] (U) On July 2, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made his first official visit to Mauritania. Spending roughly 24 hours, he met with President Taya and toured Nouakchott,s port. The two men reportedly discussed Abbas' recent trip to the US, including discussions he had had with President B [...]	2005-07-07 10:34:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM MR IS
05OTTAWA1134	HAS THE CAMPAIGN STARTED? [...] (C) Summary: The phony war between the Conservatives and Liberals broke out into open trench warfare April 13 as the PM turned a direct question on his relationship with a key figure in the sponsorship scandal into an attempted grilling of Conservative leader Harper on the Conservative health [...]	2005-04-15 12:15:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	CA PGOV PREL
05OTTAWA1190	INTERNATIONAL POLICY STATEMENT CALLS FOR ENHANCED [...] (C) Summary: Ottawa unveiled its long-awaited International Policy Statement today, which the government pledged would give Canada a more prominent place on the world stage and provide needed focus to its first-ever effort to integrate defense, diplomacy, development aid, and trade. The docum [...]	2005-04-19 21:21:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	CA MARR PGOV PREL AID KCRS
05OTTAWA1226	CANADA: DEMARCHE ON FUNDING AFGHANISTAN'S [...] (C) In a conversation on April 20 with Foreign Affairs Canada contacts (please protect),poloff was told privately that GoC financial assistance to the Afghanistan elections could be in the range of CDN 5-10 million (approximately USD 4-8 million). The amount of the contribution is expected t [...]	2005-04-22 19:44:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID AF CA UNSC
05OTTAWA1371	PARLIAMENTARY MELTDOWN WHILE THE SHARKS CIRCLE [...] (C) Summary: The Conservatives continue to press the Liberals to allow a vote in the House of Commons that would let them attempt to bring down the government, but the Liberal leadership has thus far skillfully maneuvered around the circling sharks. Speaker Milliken announced today that the [...]	2005-05-06 13:42:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	CA PGOV NDP
05OTTAWA1386	SEEKING SUPPORT FOR U.S. APEC RADIOACTIVE SOURCES [...] (C) Reftel points were delivered on May 2 to the APEC Unit of Foreign Affairs Canada's International Economic Relations and Summit Division (EER),the International Crime Division (AGC) and the Regional Security Office (IDC). In a follow up discussion on May 6, AGC's Katie McLaurin informed pol [...]	2005-05-09 14:28:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSTC EAID CA APECO
05OTTAWA1410	CANADA ON ISAF CAVEATS [...] (C) Though Canada has not/not provided a formal response to ref b demarche, the GOC's position on ISAF-related caveats was discussed on the margins of the April 27 US-Canada polmil talks. Paul Chapin, Director General for Security Policy at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC) explained that the cavea [...]	2005-05-10 19:58:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR AF CA NATO FAC
05OTTAWA1411	DEVIL'S LAKE: CONTAINING THE DAMAGE [...] (C) Summary - The U.S. and Canada are clearly on a collision course over Devils Lake, one that could have been avoided in a number of ways over the past two years. We continue to believe that a reference to the International Joint Commission (IJC) would have been the most constructive approa [...]	2005-05-10 20:14:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV CA
05OTTAWA1413	SCENE-SETTER FOR CANUS ARMED FORCES COUNCIL [...] (C) CANADA-U.S. POL-MIL RELATIONS. PRIME MINISTER MARTIN LEADS A MINORITY GOVERNMENT THAT OPERATES WITH EXTREME CAUTION AND LACKS STABILITY. MARTIN,S OVERRIDING CONCERN IS POLITICAL SURVIVAL AS HE FACES A POTENTIAL NO-CONFIDENCE, VOTE 18 OR 19 MAY WHICH MANY BELIEVE WILL LEAD TO ELECTIONS BE [...]	2005-05-11 11:39:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV
05OTTAWA1487	NATO-AFGHANISTAN: ISAF CAVEATS [...] (C) In a diplomatic note (No. IDR0258) dated May 17, 2005, Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC) provided a formal response to our demarche on ISAF caveats (ref (c)),delivered April 5,2005. Text follows: 2. (C) Begin text. Canada recognizes the potentially detrimental effect national caveats ca [...]	2005-05-17 19:27:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR AF CA NATO
05OTTAWA1491	CONSERVATIVE DEFECTION DEALS HEAVY BLOW TO HARPER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Before an audience of stunned journalists, PM Martin announced May 17 that Conservative MP Belinda Stronach has crossed the floor to join the Liberal Caucus and Cabinet as the Minister for Human Resources and Skills Development. She will also hold special responsibility for Demo [...]	2005-05-17 21:40:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	CA PGOV
05OTTAWA1497	NATO-AFGHANISTAN: CIVILIAN COMPONENTS OF PRTS [...] (C) Post delivered ref demarche to Foreign Affairs Canada on May 5; however, it is only recently that we have been able to reach officers in the North American and Euro-Atlantic Security and Defence Relations Division (IDR). Our key contacts have been unavailable due to a convergence of travel [...]	2005-05-18 16:49:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR AF CA NATO
05OTTAWA1502	US-CANADA POLMIL TALKS: FIRST IN A DECADE [...] (SBU) On April 27, Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC) hosted the first US/CAN political-military consultations in more than a decade. The day-long talks opened with each side providing an overview of its recently released national defense policy/strategy. Topics covered in the talks included cont [...]	2005-05-18 21:59:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PK IN CA
05OTTAWA1528	MARTIN SURVIVES BUDGET VOTE, WILL THE TORIES STAND [...] (C) Summary: The Liberal government survived a budget vote May 19 by a one vote margin, the first time in Canadian history that the Speaker had to vote to break a tie. The impending cliffhanger kept Ottawa buzzing for a week and now leaves MPs to return to their ridings for the long weekend a [...]	2005-05-24 11:49:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	CA PGOV PREL NDP
05OTTAWA1607	CANADIAN REACTIONS TO ETHIOPIAN POST-ELECTION [...] (C) POLMINCOUNS and POLOFF met May 27 with FAC Deputy Director for Southern and Eastern Africa Stephen Moran and Ethiopia Desk Officer Curtis Ajmani, to discuss post-election Ethiopia and Sudan. On Sudan, Moran mentioned that Canada has set up an interagency task force comprised of individuals [...]	2005-05-27 20:57:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	CA ET PREL KDEM PGOV PHUM
05OTTAWA1676	CANADA: REVIEW FOR TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD ACT [...] (U) Poloff met with Louise Branch, Deputy Director of the Caribbean and Central America Division at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),and Ghislain Chaput, FAC Desk Officer for Cuba, on May 25, to discuss recent Government of Canada policies and actions to advance democracy, human rights, and fund [...]	2005-06-03 17:51:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ETTC PREL CU CA
05OTTAWA1681	LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES REGROUP, WAIT FOR THE [...] (C) Summary: It appears that the most likely scenario now is an early spring election following the end of year release of the Gomery report. Both sides have settled in for what amounts to a 10-month campaign, with the Liberals appearing much better organized and focused. The Conservatives c [...]	2005-06-03 20:03:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CA PREL
05OTTAWA1697	DEMARCHE REQUEST: NATO: AIRLIFT TO THE AFRICAN [...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche points on Friday, June 3, to Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC) Sudan Task Force Director Wendy Gilmour and NATO Deputy Director Isabelle Poupart. FAC forwarded the points to the NATO policy office at National Defence. Promising us a "more definitive answer" late [...]	2005-06-06 14:49:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR SU CA NATO
05OTTAWA1713	LIBERAL MP QUITS CAUCUS OVER HANDLING OF SAME-SEX [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-06 21:05:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CA
05OTTAWA1734	CANADA: APPEAL TO DONORS FOR HAITIAN ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff and Econoff met with a combined Foreign Affairs Canada and CIDA team led by FAC Director for the Caribbean and Central America Christian Lapointe June 7 to discuss the Haitian elections budget and the general situation in Haiti. Canadian officials feel it is important f [...]	2005-06-08 15:42:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	HA AORC EAID EFIN PGOV PREL
05OTTAWA1735	DEMARCHE REQUEST TO ENCOURAGE NICARAGUA TO DESTROY [...] (C) Following-up on reftels June 7, Regional Security Affairs (IDC) desk officer Anne-Marie Spain at Foreign Affairs Canada informed polmiloff that Canada believes that "all actors, not just the Government of Nicaragua" should be approached regarding MANPADS destruction. Spain said that while [...]	2005-06-08 17:27:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PARM PREL PTER MASS CA
05OTTAWA1776	DEMARCHE: DELIVERABLES FOR THE US-EU INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Charge delivered reftel talking points to Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Peter Harder June 7 and Poloff followed up with FAC Deputy Director for the Middle East Ann Flanagan-Whalen June 8. We were told that it is not clear whether Minister Pettigrew will be attending the Brussels meet [...]	2005-06-10 20:40:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PREL PGOV EAID EIND ECON CA
05OTTAWA1799	CANADA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON MDA AND A RESPONSE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche concerning full membership for the Israeli National Society (MDA) in the International Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement, to Allisa Golberg, deputy director of the human rights division at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),on June 13. Golberg referred to the me [...]	2005-06-14 17:29:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC PHUM PREF PREL IS SZ CA ICRC
05OTTAWA1800	CANADA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON ALLEGED TERRORIST [...] (C) Poloff discussed reftel, concerning the possible extradition of alleged terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, with Rana Burley, Desk Officer for Venezuela at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),on May 31. Burley thanked us for the opportunity to review the legal situation involving Posada, noted tha [...]	2005-06-14 17:31:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PHUM EAIR KJUS VE CU CA
05OTTAWA1857	CANADA: IRANIAN NOMINEE TO BE AMBASSADOR IN OTTAWA [...] (C) Charge delivered reftel demarche, regarding the appointment of Ahmad Azizi as Iran's ambassador to Canada, to Peter Boehm, Assistant Deputy Minister (North America) at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),on June 20. Boehm, referring to the conversation last week between Under Secretary Nichol [...]	2005-06-20 20:31:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR CA
05OTTAWA1902	SCENE-SETTER FOR AIRMEN TALKS NORTH, OTTAWA, [...] (C) CANADA-U.S. POL-MIL RELATIONS. PRIME MINISTER MARTIN LEADS A MINORITY GOVERNMENT THAT OPERATES WITH EXTREME CAUTION AND LACKS STABILITY. MARTIN,S OVERRIDING CONCERN IS POLITICAL SURVIVAL AS HE FACES A POTENTIAL NO-CONFIDENCE, VOTE 18 OR 19 MAY WHICH MANY BELIEVE WILL LEAD TO ELECTIONS BE [...]	2005-06-23 15:47:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM
05OTTAWA1911	WASSENAAR BILAT MEETING WITH CANADA ON MAY 3 [...] (SBU) Summary: NP/ECNP led an interagency delegation to Ottawa to hold bilateral consultations with Canada on various Wassenaar issues. The U.S. and Canada agreed to work together in an effort to make progress on enhancing controls over items of terrorist use; individual reporting of items Ve [...]	2005-06-23 19:07:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM CA PREL ETTC
05OTTAWA1975	LETTER ON PSI CORE GROUP DELIVERED TO CANADA [...] (C) Undersecretary Joseph's letter was delivered on June 27 to Assistant Deputy Minister for International Security Jim Wright, with a copy to Rob McDougall, Director of Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament Division (IDA) at Foreign Affairs Canada. In a follow-up conversation on Ju [...]	2005-06-29 17:30:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL KNNP CA
05OTTAWA2023	CANADA ON RUMORS OF ARISTIDE'S DESIRE TO RETURN TO [...] (C) DCM and PolOff shared reftel talking points with FAC Director General for Latin America and the Caribbean Jamal Khokhar and Caribbean and Central America Director Christian Lapointe. Khokhar said "we are on the same sheet" with regards to Aristide, and Canada's consistent message has been [...]	2005-07-06 16:11:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	BR HA PREL UNSC
05OTTAWA2032	EXECUTIVE ORDER BLOCKING PROPERTY OF WMD [...] (C) Polmiloff informed Nonproliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament Deputy Director Marina Laker of the new Executive Order on Jun 30 and provided additional details in a follow-up meeting on July 5. Laker welcomed USG's supplemental background and said she would convey the information to A [...]	2005-07-07 14:15:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL PGOV MNUC EFIN ETTC CA
05OTTAWA2109	TREASURY SECRETARY SNOW VISIT TO CANADA [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-12 19:31:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ENRG EAID ETRD KTFN ECON CA JA NI
05OTTAWA2455	LIBERTAD TITLE IV IMPLEMENTATION: ADDITIONAL [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-15 15:57:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	CA CU CVIS ETTC ETRD PREL EINV
05OTTAWA2650	CANADIAN VIEWS ON CHAVEZ AND THE SOCIAL CHARTER [...] (C) DCM spoke with Jamal Khokhar, FAC Director General for Latin America and the Caribbean, to elicit Canada's views on Chavez and the Social Charter. Khokhar said that prior to the event, Venezuelan Ambassador Perez was called in for Canadian officials to deliver the message that the way Ven [...]	2005-09-02 21:10:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	BH GY MX XM KSUM SOCI
05OTTAWA2659	CANADA SHARES USG VIEWS ON ZIMBABWE VOTE IN IMF [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-06 19:18:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PREL CA ZI IMF
05OTTAWA2677	TFUS01 - CANADA: AMBASSADOR JOINS PRIME MINISTER [...] (U) Ambassador Wilkins thanked Prime Minister Martin privately and Canadians publicly for their support to victims of Katrina at a ceremony in Halifax seeing off the four Canadian ships deploying for the Gulf of Mexico with relief supplies. Along with CG Halifax, US Naval Attache and DCM, [...]	2005-09-07 18:30:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON AEMR ASEC CASC MARR AMGT US CA
05OTTAWA269	A/S RADEMAKER'S DISCUSSIONS WITH CANADIANS ON CWC [...] (C) SUMMARY. During consultations in Ottawa on January 11, Assistant Secretary for Arms Control Stephen Rademaker and AC/PDAS Frank Record discussed with Canadian Foreign Affairs (FAC) and National Defense officials progress on the BTWC and CWC. Discussion of Canada's prospective participat [...]	2005-01-28 17:47:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM CA CWC BWC FAC
05OTTAWA2691	CANADA SHARES CONCERNS ON UNITED NATIONS SUMMIT [...] (C) Poloff presented reftel demarche points to Marie-Isabelle Massip, Director of the United Nations and Commonwealth Affairs Division of Foreign Affairs Canada. Massip said that Canada agrees with the U.S. on the importance of arriving at a strong outcome document and has instructed its deleg [...]	2005-09-07 21:33:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CA UNGA
05OTTAWA2702	CANADIAN VIEWS ON CONTINUING MOMENTUM FOR HAITIAN [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche September 8 to DG for the Caribbean, Central American and the Andes Christian LaPointe, who also introduced members of a newly created office on Haiti. He explained that Foreign Affairs Canada finally accepted that Haiti was going to be a significant issue [...]	2005-09-08 21:26:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	HA CA PGOV PREL KCRS
05OTTAWA2708	CANADA: DOESN'T OPPOSE DECLARATION ON INNOVATIVE [...] (C) As reported refs A and B, the GOC shares many of our goals at the upcoming High level event, although priorities differ and there remain areas of disagreement. With regard to the declaration being circulated by Algeria, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany and Spain, the GOC has not yet taken a [...]	2005-09-09 17:03:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	ECIN EAIR EAID EFIN CA UNGA
05OTTAWA2726	UNCERTAINTY THE OPERATIVE WORD AS PARLIAMENT SET [...] (C) Summary: The Canadian Parliament is scheduled to resume on September 27, amidst a political climate that is best defined by uncertainty. PM Martin has the option to prorogue Parliament, which would end the current session and reset the agenda by calling for a new session and an early con [...]	2005-09-09 20:49:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	CA PGOV PREL
05OTTAWA2748	IRAN/IAEA: CANADA CALLS IN IRANIAN CHARGE [...] (C) In a September 12 meeting with Charge on another matter, Assistant Deputy Minister (ADM) for International Security Policy Jim Wright took the opportunity to underline Canada's frustration with Iran and its snubbing of the IAEA. Wright reported that he had just called in the Iranian Charge [...]	2005-09-13 17:19:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL PHUM CA IR IAEA
05OTTAWA2768	U.S. PROPOSALS TO ENABLE CIVIL NUCLEAR COOPERATION [...] (C) In a meeting on September 14, Pol M/C and polmiloff solicited Canada's engagement and support to advance civil nuclear cooperation with India by the Nuclear Suppliers Group; they emphasized that this was a top priority of President Bush. Emboffs left reftel non-paper outlining obligations [...]	2005-09-15 13:04:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP IN CA
05OTTAWA2837	TERRORIST FINANCE - OTTAWA: GOC TO DESIGNATE [...] (U) Reftel announced USG plans to designate the entity ELEHSSAN under E.O. 13224 and urged other governments to do the same. We explained that we would not be notifying this listing to the UN 1267 Committee. 2. (C) During a meeting on September 20, post was informed by Foriegn Affairs Can [...]	2005-09-21 19:46:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETTC PREL PTER CVIS KVPR KTFN CA
05OTTAWA286	S/CRS AMBASSADOR PASCUAL,S OTTAWA CONSULTATIONS: [...] (C) Summary: In consultations January 20 with colleagues from Foreign Affairs Canada, Defense, and the Prime Minister,s Office, Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS) Ambassador Carlos Pascual broke new ground in sharing ideas and seeking synergy for shared efforts to impr [...]	2005-01-28 20:38:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	MCAP PREL PGOV CA KCRS START FAC
05OTTAWA2891	COMBATING EXTREMISM IN CANADA [...] (C) HOST GOVERNMENT EFFORTS TO MINIMIZE EXTREMISM -- Canada seeks to minimize extremism among its immigrant population through a stated policy commitment to building an inclusive society that is tolerant of religious, ethnic, racial and cultural diversity. In 1971, Canada became the first c [...]	2005-09-26 22:01:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM KPAO PHUM CA
05OTTAWA290	CANADA: TIMETABLE FOR WITHDRAWAL OF US MILITARY [...] (C) DND Office of Peacekeeping Director, Colonel Denis Thompson, and desk officer Joey Cloutier told us on January 27 that they foresaw "no problems" with the projected departure of U.S. military assets from the tsunami-affected region. They noted that Canadian relief efforts had been focused [...]	2005-01-28 22:20:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL CA
05OTTAWA3012	CWC: HOST COUNTRY AGREEMENT/ARRANGEMENT WITH CANADA [...] (C) Polmiloff met with Foreign Affairs Canada officials and a Department of National Defence representative on October 7 to deliver reftel message and text. Meeting participants were CWC National Coordinator Bob Brooks, Senior Advisor for Industry Issues Adrian Ghita-Duminica, Nonproliferatio [...]	2005-10-07 19:19:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	KTIA PARM PREL CA
05OTTAWA302	DEMARCHE ON NPT 2005 REVCON DELIVERED TO CANADA [...] (C) As instructed in reftel, nonpaper was delivered to FAC Nonproliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament Division Deputy Marina Laker on January 31, 2005. Laker expressed appreciation for USG's efforts to initiate consultations early in the process. She said she would be circulating the U.S [...]	2005-02-01 13:32:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM CA IAEA FAC
05OTTAWA3022	DEMARCHE: BRINGING BURMA BEFORE THE UNSC [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-07 21:20:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	BM PREL PHUM PGOV CA UNSC UNGA
05OTTAWA304	A/S RADEMAKER,S MEETINGS WITH CANADIANS ON ARMS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During a day of consultations in Ottawa on January 11, Assistant Secretary for Arms Control Stephen Rademaker and AC/PDAS Frank Record exchanged views with Canadian Foreign Affairs (FAC) and National Defense officials on U.S. and Canadian arms control and disarmament policy. [...]	2005-02-01 18:52:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM CD CA NPT FAC
05OTTAWA3116	CANADA OPEN TO "CREDIBLE" AND "DEFENSIBLE" MODUS [...] (C) Polmiloff delivered reftel demarche points to Terry Wood, Deputy Director for Nuclear Non-Proliferation (IDN) at Foreign Affairs Canada on October 18. Wood expressed appreciation for timely briefing materials in light of last week's discussions at the G-8 Senior Group meeting in London, a [...]	2005-10-18 18:11:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM KNNP PREL CA IN
05OTTAWA3120	CANADA ON U.S. POLICY TOWARD BELARUS -- ENGAGE [...] (C) Poloff shared U.S. views on democratization toward Belarus with Habib Massoud, Deputy Director at Foreign Affairs Canada for Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldavia. Massoud was grateful for the readout of U.S. intentions in Belarus and explained how Canada views its role in the region. As part o [...]	2005-10-18 20:13:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	BO KDEM PREL PHUM EAID PGOV CA SCRS
05OTTAWA3127	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PREMIER CHAREST: QUEBEC [...] (C) Summary: Quebec Premier Charest has told us that Quebec, Ontario and BC are trying to develop a common negotiating position and, if the U.S. makes the "right decision" on October 28, will push PM Martin to go back to the table. The provinces are looking at a combination domestic tax/tar [...]	2005-10-19 19:00:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD CA
05OTTAWA3153	TERRORIST FINANCE - OTTAWA: GOC REQUESTS US VIEWS [...] (C) The GOC has received a letter from Interpal's UK solicitors reiterating the request for delisting. A similar letter in June, 2004 was sent to Canada and, they believe, to the US and Australia. They wonder if we have also recieved the 2005 letter. If so, the GOC would welcome knowing th [...]	2005-10-20 21:14:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETTC PREL PTER CVIS KVPR KTFN CA
05OTTAWA3169	CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION IN TELECOMS [...] (U) This message summarizes key views of Canadian players on the challenges of critical infrastructure protection in North America's telecom sector. It is based on a series of interviews held by Mission staff in September-October 2005 in Ottawa and Toronto with government and industry repres [...]	2005-10-21 19:54:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	EIND PTER ECON CA SPP
05OTTAWA3173	CANADA TO FOLD DART UNDER NATO UMBRELLA FOR [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-24 16:38:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	AEMR ASEC EAID MASS PGOV PREF PREL PK CA NATO
05OTTAWA3179	CANADA: NORAD AGREEMENT NEGOTIATIONS, ROUND I [...] (U) On September 21, 2005 in Ottawa, a U.S. negotiating team led jointly by the Departments of State and Defense met with Canadian counterparts in the first round of discussions to renew the Agreement for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD),due to expire on May 12, 2006. U. [...]	2005-10-24 18:31:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL CA NORAD
05OTTAWA3229	POSSIBLE SHIFT IN CANADA'S UNGA ANTI-ISRAEL [...] (C) As requested in reftel, poloff met with Wendy Drukier, Deputy Director of United Nations and Commonwealth Affairs Division, and Anne Flanagan Whalen, Deputy Director of the Middle East Division, at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC) on 28 October to discuss Canada's upcoming vote on extending the [...]	2005-10-28 21:25:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CA IS UNGA
05OTTAWA3230	CANADA COSPONSORS HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE RESOLUTION [...] (U) As requested in reftel, poloff met with officials from Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC) on October 28 to discuss Canada's co-sponsorship of the Holocaust Remembrance resolution. Canadian participants included Ann Flanagan Whalen, Deputy Director of the Middle East Division, Wendy Drukier, Dep [...]	2005-10-28 21:26:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CA IS UNGA

05OTTAWA3283	US-EU-CANADA DISCUSSIONS OF IRAN (CORRECTED [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 26, NEA DAS Gordon Gray and a U.S. delegation met with senior EU Commission and Canadian officials in Ottawa to exchange views on Iran and discuss prospects for addressing human rights and security-related concerns. Topics covered included Iran's internal situation, [...]	2005-11-03 20:34:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP PARM IR CA
05OTTAWA3293	CANADIANS INVITED TO NAIROBI; GOC FUNDING POSSIBLE [...] (C) Post extended reftel invitation to the Prime Minister's Special Advisory Team (SAT) on Sudan through Lt. Col. Brad Bergstrand, Military Advisor to the Sudan Task Force at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC). Currently, the Team is planning a trip to Darfur but will not be on the ground in the [...]	2005-11-04 17:36:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PREF PHUM CA SU
05OTTAWA3397	CANADA SUPPORTS MDA'S INCLUSION AND IS READY TO [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel on 15 November to Alexandra MacKenzie in the Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Response Group at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC). 2. (C) MacKenzie emphasized the importance of ensuring the success of the Geneva conference, as well as the adoption by consensus of [...]	2005-11-15 17:39:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PREF AORC IS SZ CA ICRC
05OTTAWA3400	US-EU TROIKA CONSULTATIONS ON MIDDLE EAST [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 26 in Ottawa, NEA DAS Gordon Gray and a U.S. delegation exchanged views with EU Troika officials on developments in Iran and countries in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. Tri-lateral consultations with the EU and Canada on Iran are reported reftel. END SUMMARY. [...]	2005-11-15 20:14:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP IR IZ
05OTTAWA3414	OTTAWA RESPONSE: TITLE IV ADDITIONAL SHERRITT [...] (SBU) Econoff met yesterday with officials from Foreign Affairs Canada and International Trade Canada to inform them that six additional Sherritt International executives have been found subject to the provisions of Title IV of the Libertad Act (ref SECSTATE 208609). The Canadian officials re [...]	2005-11-17 15:33:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	CA CU CVIS ETRD ETTC PREL EINV
05OTTAWA3438	OECD SECRETARY GENERAL SELECTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-18 22:27:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETRD PREL
05OTTAWA3511	WTO DOHA ROUND - CANADA: LOOKING TOWARD HONG KONG [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite differences on the details, notably over the future of Canada,s single desk Canadian Wheat Board, Canadian WTO negotiators see themselves as working in close cooperation with the U.S. on the elements of a package for Hong Kong. They stress that they have not given up o [...]	2005-11-28 17:45:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRC KPAO EAGR ECON ETRD OIIP WTRO
05OTTAWA3518	CANADA: SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD ACT [...] (C)Summary: While Canada has a long history of economic engagement with Cuba, it has supported U.S. efforts to address Cuban human rights issues in international fora and has practiced a consistent, if cautious, policy of maintaining ties with dissidents and pressing Cuba on human rights iss [...]	2005-11-28 22:08:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	CU ETRD ETTC PREL
05OTTAWA3540	CANADA ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT RUSSIAN DRAFT NGO LAW [...] (U) Polcons and Poloff delivered reftEl on 28 November to Tom MacDonald, Director General of the Central, East and South Europe Bureau and Gilles Breton, Deputy Director, Eastern European Division at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC). . 2. (C) According to MacDonald, the GoC shares many of t [...]	2005-11-30 17:54:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL CA RS
05OTTAWA3571	CANADA: MEASURES AGAINST WMD PROLIFERATION FINANCE [...] (SBU) Post faxed ref (A) points to Foreign Affairs Deputy Director for Nonproliferation, Deborah Paul, and UN, Human Rights and Economic Law officer Catrina Ventura on November 28. 2. (C) In a subsequent conversation, Ventura acknowledged the importance of fulfilling Canada's obligations u [...]	2005-12-02 17:08:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PTER PREL EWWT MNUC CA
05OTTAWA3572	CANADA'S FOREST INITIATIVE: LESS THAN MEETS THE EYE [...] (SBU) Summary: While it does raise subsidy concerns, there appears to be much less than meets the eye in the GOC,s November 24 announcement of a new CAD 1.5 billion (USD 1.27 billion) forestry package. In particular, the CAD 800 million figure for loan insurance appears to be a political mi [...]	2005-12-02 17:09:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	CA ETRD
05OTTAWA3578	CANADA: CONCURS ON STRONG LANGUAGE FOR [...] (C) Polmiloff conveyed reftel concerns to Isabelle Poupart, Foreign Affairs Deputy Director for NATO and OSCE, the morning of December 1. Poupart was taken aback by USG perception that Canada was "reluctant to endorse" the proposed text on Moldova, indicating that such a posture would contrav [...]	2005-12-02 21:38:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KCFE CA NATO
05OTTAWA3580	QUAD MEETING ON SRI LANKA IN OTTAWA [...] (C) Summary: A Quad meeting was held in Ottawa November 29 on Sri Lanka on the margins of scheduled meetings on Bangladesh and Pakistan. The participants expressed concern over the downward spiral in the peace process and slackening international attention to Sri Lanka. The participants agr [...]	2005-12-02 22:54:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	AS CA KDEM PGOV PREL PTER SL UK
05OTTAWA3611	(C) CANADA SHARES CONCERNS ABOUT VENEZUELA ARMS [...] (C) We delivered oral demarche points to Foreign Affairs Deputy Directors Christine Cadieux (Regional Security) and Harold Hickman (Andean Region),and National Defence Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs Col. Mike Hache, on November 18 and 21, respectively. FAC and DND officials acknowled [...]	2005-12-07 20:02:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MARR MASS CA VE
05OTTAWA3650	RUSSIAN NGO LAW - THE ART IS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel to Gilles Breton, Deputy Director of the Eastern Europe and Balkans Division at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC). 2. (C) Breton emphasized that, since our last discussion (reftel B),Vladimir Lukin, the Russian Parliament's ombudsman for human rights issues, has [...]	2005-12-13 17:45:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL CA RS
05OTTAWA3741	CANADA'S CONTINUING CONCERNS OVER RUSSIAN NGO LAW [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel to Gilles Breton, Deputy Director of the Eastern Europe and Balkans Division at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC) on 22 December 2005 and shared the USG talking points prepared for delivery in Moscow. --------------------------------------- Transparency Limits Corrup [...]	2005-12-22 21:02:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL RS CA
05OTTAWA3760	CANADA SUPPORTS BLUE LINE PEACE BUT HAS LITTLE [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel to Peter McRae, Director of the Middle East Division at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC) on 29 December 2005. 2. (C) McRae agreed with the American position of encouraging Syria and Iran to end their support for rejectionist groups in southern Lebanon as well as t [...]	2005-12-29 20:23:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV LE IS SY CA
05OTTAWA395	CANADIAN POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: THE [...] (SBU) Summary: A tan, rested, and combative Parliament returned this week ready to get down to business. The buzz on Parliament Hill was higher than normal as the MPs -- energized by their enhanced role in the minority government -- begin to tackle a host of divisive issues. While most agree [...]	2005-02-09 14:07:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EFIN CA KCRS
05OTTAWA428	A KINDER, GENTLER BLOC QUEBECOIS TAKES TO THE ROAD [...] (C) Summary: Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe has taken his message of the advantages of separation on a quiet, but successful tour of Canada, and now plans to take the message abroad. While gaining little direct support for separatism, he has improved the Bloc,s public image and his nati [...]	2005-02-11 12:42:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CA
05OTTAWA437	CANADA,S DIMINISHING PRESENCE ON WORLD STAGE -- [...] (C) Summary: A recent report reflecting the views of world leaders and policymakers on Canada's slippage in global clout has caused a small stir here. The paper by the former President of Bombardier International posits that Canada should put muscle behind its human security agenda by creat [...]	2005-02-11 17:46:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL HA CA UNGA MEPP
05OTTAWA448	CANADA SHARES CONCERNS OVER VENEZUELA'S WEAPONS [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche on February 11, FAC South America Division Director Jose Herran-Lima told polmiloff that Canada shares USG concerns about the course Chavez is taking and will find a way to convey those concerns to the Venezuelan government. He said that the GOC is conductin [...]	2005-02-14 13:02:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL VE CO CA
05OTTAWA494	PM MARTIN,S SEARCH FOR A "BIG IDEA" IN [...] (C) Summary: The Government lost its first vote February 15 when the Opposition Parties banded together to vote against two pieces of legislation that would have divided the Foreign Affairs Ministry from the Department of International Trade. The move took PM Martin,s Liberals by surprise, ha [...]	2005-02-16 21:44:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MCAP PREL CA
05OTTAWA530	HYDRO-QUEBEC MOVES TO ENHANCE SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: In the wake of the intrusion into two Hydro-Quebec generating facilities by television journalists, Thierry Vandal, Hydro-Quebec President for Production, called DCM February 18 to provide an update on steps which the company is taking to improve security. Vandal also expressed [...]	2005-02-18 19:06:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PGOV TRGY CA
05OTTAWA531	CANADA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE CONCERNING MEXICO [...] (C) Poloff delivered demarche (per reftel) regarding Mexico's regional human rights initiative and our concerns that this might serve to undermine Cuba-specific (or other country-specific) resolutions at the UN's Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to Katherine Verrier-Frechette, Senior Human Ri [...]	2005-02-18 19:08:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM MX CA CHR
05OTTAWA578	IRAN/IAEA: CANADA SUPPORTS USG APPROACH FOR [...] (C) Polmiloff conveyed reftel points to Foreign Affairs Deputy Director for Nuclear Nonproliferation Terry Wood on February 24, encouraging Canada to make a national statement. Wood said he was pleased to see that the USG's assessment of the upcoming BOG briefing on Iran tracked with Canada's [...]	2005-02-24 18:46:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL TRGY MNUC CA IAEA
05OTTAWA603	GOC HINTS THAT IT WILL SOON AUTHORIZE ALASKA GAS [...] (C) Summary: Top Canadian officials have indicated their desire to move quickly on northern pipeline issues, providing clues on which permitting process Canada will use to authorize its section of the Alaska Gas Pipeline. In a series of meetings with a delegation led by Alaska Governor Frank [...]	2005-02-25 20:06:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ETRD EPET CA NPA
05OTTAWA641	U.S.-CANADA CONSULTATIONS IN PREPARATION FOR THE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The U.S. and Canada held consultations on February 14 in Ottawa in preparation for the upcoming session of the CHR. Both sides agreed that engaging Mexico before the CHR in a tri-lateral meeting would be important, particularly if Mexico goes forward with an initiative that coul [...]	2005-03-01 19:13:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV CA CHR
05OTTAWA680	TERRORISM FINANCE: OTTAWA - 2005 UPDATE NO. 2 - [...] (SBU) Following please find Embassy Ottawa's response to reftel questions on terrorist financing. (A) Amount of assets frozen, forfeited or seized (in US dollars) by host government pursuant to UNSCR Resolutions 1267 and 1373, the legal authority under which the action was taken (legislativ [...]	2005-03-03 21:03:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN KVPR EFIN PTER ETTC PREL CVIS CA
05OTTAWA747	MDA: DEMARCHE REQUEST ON CONFERENCE ON MDA [...] (C) Poloff followed up on reftel demarche with Peter McRae, Director of the Middle East and North Africa Department of Foreign Affairs Canada, on March 10. McRae said that in principle Canada supports the convening of a conference for Magan Adom David membership in the Red Cross/Red Crescen [...]	2005-03-10 17:35:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	IS RS CA AS PHUM PREL PREF ICRC
05OTTAWA825	CANADA: RESPONSE TO SOMALIA - IGAD DEPLOYMENT PLAN [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche concerning the possible deployment of troops by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in Somalia to Jamieson Weetman, Somalia desk officer at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),on March 17. Weetman thanked us for the points, and indicated that [...]	2005-03-18 19:36:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SO CA FAC
05OTTAWA851	CANADA: CHR-61 RESOLUTION ON CUBA [...] (C) Poloff delivered the reftel demarche concerning the draft of a resolution on Cuba that the U.S. intends to introduce at the 61st session of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR-61),to Pamela Moore, human rights officer at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),on March 14. Moore thanked us for th [...]	2005-03-22 14:51:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM CU CA CHR FAC
05OTTAWA904	CANADA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON MDA AND PRESSING [...] (C) Poloff discussed ref a demarche concerning Magen David Adom (MDA) membership in the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement, with Claudie Senay, Human Rights Officer at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),on March 24. As indicated ref b, Senay reiterated that Canada strongly supports the convening of a [...]	2005-03-29 16:52:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF AORC IS GM CA ICRC MDA FAC
05OTTAWA933	PROPOSED AGENDA FOR 2005 U.S.-CANADA [...] (C) Polmiloff conveyed Acting Assistant Secretary Likins' acceptance of the invitation to attend the first U.S.-Canada pol-mil consultations in Ottawa to Barbara Martin, Foreign Affairs Canada Director of North American and Euro-Atlantic Security and Defence Relations Division (IDR),on March 3 [...]	2005-03-30 23:19:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS CA IDR LTG
05OTTAWA944	LETTER FROM SECRETARY RICE TO FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Secretary Rice's letter to Foreign Minister Pettigrew regarding Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr was delivered by polmiloff on March 30 through the Foreign Intelligence Division (ISI) at Foreign Affairs Canada. ISI staff subsequently confirmed hand-delivery of the letter to the Foreign Mini [...]	2005-03-31 18:25:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	OPDC PTER KAWC PHUM PINR CA
05OTTAWA951	CANADA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON THE OSLO DONOR'S [...] (C) Emboffs delivered reftel demarche to counterparts at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) on March 30. In a follow-up conversation with poloff, Suehila Elkateb, Sudan Desk Officer at FAC, advised that it was likely that either Foreign Affa [...]	2005-03-31 19:15:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	SU PREL EAID ECON CA FAC CIDA
05PANAMA1205	PANAMA AND CUBA: NSC-DIRECTED REVIEW REGARDING [...] (SBU) Embassy Panama offers the following information and analysis in response to Reftel A tasking. CUBA AND PANAMANIAN POLITICS 2. (C) Currently GOP and Cuba maintain only consular relations. Full diplomatic relations between the GOP and Cuba have not been reestablished since Cuba broke [...]	2005-06-06 21:51:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PGOV PM PREL POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
05PANAMA1343	PANAMA RECEPTIVE TO USG PRIORITIES FOR UN REFORM [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-21 17:48:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	KUNR PREL PGOV AORC PM UNSC POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
05PANAMA1352	AS HIS POPULARITY PLUMMETS, PANAMANIAN PRESIDENT [...] (C) Apparently surprised by the persistence of anti-CSS (Social Security) reform agitation following passage of a June 1 reform bill (see Reftel),and as one poll placed his approval rating at just over 20%, Panamanian President Martin Torrijos on June 16 proposed a 90-day social security refo [...]	2005-06-21 22:38:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD PM POL CHIEF
05PANAMA1377	PANAMA PRESIDENT TORRIJOS BOWS TO LABOR PRESSURE [...] (C) In a surprise move on the evening of June 21, as anti-CSS (social security) strikes that no one thought would last more than a few days were set to enter their fifth week, President Torrijos announced that he would "suspend" writing regulations for the June 1 CSS reform law (Law 17),pendin [...]	2005-06-24 21:26:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON PM VE POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
05PANAMA1415	PANAMA PRESIDENT TORRIJOS'S POPULARITY NOSE-DIVES [...] (C) Panama President Martin Torrijos's popularity plummeted in the wake of the June 1 passage of the Social Security (CSS) reform package pushed through the National Assembly by his Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD). Less than one in four Panamanians now believe that Torrijos is doing an a [...]	2005-07-01 21:24:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
05PANAMA1416	PANAMA AND CUBA SET TO REESTABLISH DIPLOMATIC TIES [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-01 21:31:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD PM CU POL CHIEF
05PANAMA1423	SENIOR PANAMANIAN OFFICIALS TO VISIT CARACAS JULY [...] (C) Vice President/Foreign Minister Samuel Lewis called POL Counselor July 5 to let us know that he plans a one-day visit to Venezuela tomorrow, July 6, to meet with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez to "review" the bilateral relationship. Minister of Government and Justice Hector Aleman [...]	2005-07-05 20:39:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EPET PM POL CHIEF
05PANAMA1496	PANAMA-VENEZUELA RELATIONS STUCK ON INTERNAL [...] (C) Panamanian concerns about suspected Venezuelan meddling in Panama's internal politics and domestic headaches due to high oil prices prompted Panamanian Vice President/Foreign Minister Samuel Lewis and two GOP cabinet officials to meet Venezuelan Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez in Caracas on Jul [...]	2005-07-14 16:46:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EFIN EAIR EPET PM VE OAS IDB POL CHIEF
05PANAMA1553	(C) VISAS DONKEY: CORRUPTION 212(F) VISA [...] (C) Embassy Panama is seeking a security advisory opinion under section 212(f) of the Immigration and Naturalization Act in accordance with Presidential Proclamation 7750, suspending entry into the United States and revoking the visa of Winston Spadafora (DPOB: 22 DEC 1941; Panama). Embassy [...]	2005-07-22 22:00:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PM POL CHIEF
05PANAMA1584	PANAMA ON UNSC REFORM: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-27 20:20:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KUNR PGOV PM UNSC UNGA POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
05PANAMA1613	PANAMANIAN COMPTROLLER GENERAL DANI KUZNIECKY [...] (C) Disturbed by an administration he sees as rudderless and by President Torrijos's lack of attention to his reform agenda, especially anti-corruption, Comptroller Dani Kuzniecky is considering throwing in the towel. Kuzniecky's defection would deprive Torrijos of one of his most able refor [...]	2005-08-02 15:10:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EFIN PM POL CHIEF
05PANAMA1651	PANAMA: GITMO TALKING POINTS DELIVERED TO MFA [...] (C) PolOff delivered GITMO talking points to MFA Deputy International Organizations and Commissions Director Nubia Lezcano on August 2. PolOff emphasized that detainees are held at Guantanamo Bay for security reasons and that interrogations of inmates have provided over 4,000 reports of actionab [...]	2005-08-08 19:01:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL KPAO PGOV PREL LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
05PANAMA1711	UNHCR UNHAPPY WITH PANAMANIAN REFUGEE POLICY [...] (C) UNHCR Representative Gonzalo Vargas Llosa believes the Torrijos government is starting down the same path as the previous Moscoso administration in failing to meet its international obligations under the 1951 UN Refugee Convention. One never-ending issue is that the Government of Panama (GOP) [...]	2005-08-17 19:11:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PREL PHUM PM
05PANAMA1729	PANAMANIAN INSIDERS ACCUSE TORRIJOS GOVERNMENT OF [...] (SBU) This message is the first in a three"part series on views of the Torrijos administration's performance as it approaches its September 1 first anniversary. SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION """""""""""""""""""""""" 2. (C) Martin Torrijos's reform"m [...]	2005-08-19 22:23:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD PINR PM POL CHIEF
05PANAMA1818	PANAMA FOREIGN MINISTRY ADVISOR NILS CASTRO ON [...] (C) On August 22, PolOff met with senior MFA advisor Nils Castro, former Ambassador to Mexico, to discuss GOP's August 20 re-establishment of full diplomatic relations with Cuba and GOP objectives in its petroleum negotiations with Venezuela. Castro, who recently spent two days in Caracas wit [...]	2005-09-02 23:02:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PM POL FOREIGN
05PANAMA1948	PANAMA TURNING TOWARD TAIWAN [...] (C) Panamanian President Martin Torrijos's last-minute September 22 announcement that he would attend a September 26 Taiwan-Central America Summit in Managua comes on the heels of First Vice President and Foreign Minister Samuel Lewis's September 19 remarks to Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxi [...]	2005-09-23 23:06:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PM CM TW POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
05PANAMA1975	PANAMANIAN PRESIDENT AND FM ON CASTRO, CHAVEZ, AND [...] (C) Summary: President Torrijos told WHA DAS Fisk and Ambassador that his government is under intense domestic pressure to strike a cheap oil deal with Chavez. The GOP hopes to address this by enticing Mexico to become a counterweight by offering similar oil deals. Torrijos believes that Ch [...]	2005-09-29 22:18:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON PM POL CHIEF
05PANAMA1976	PANAMA PLEDGES SUPPORT ON NICARAGUA [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 29, Panamanian President Torrijos told WHA DAS Fisk and Ambassador Eaton that he shares our concerns about developments in Nicaragua and urged the U.S. to maintain a broad range of contacts and channels with the entire spectrum of Nicaraguan political parties and pl [...]	2005-09-29 23:07:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PM POL CHIEF
05PANAMA2004	GOP WINS BIG AGAINST CHINESE-OWNED PANAMA PORTS [...] (C) Summary: The GOP and Panama Ports Company (PPC) agreed on September 8 to reverse a highly questioned move by the former Moscoso administration in 2002 that freed PPC from its contractual obligations to pay $22.2 million annually plus a variable annual payment of 10% of its gross annual in [...]	2005-10-05 12:59:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	EWWT ETRD ECON PREL PM CH ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
05PANAMA2020	PANAMA,S ATTORNEY GENERAL PLEDGES FULL COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary. Panama,s Attorney General pledged to cooperate fully with the USG as the case against former Nicaraguan President Aleman goes before a judge on November 23. There are opportunities for the USG to assist Panamanian prosecutors as they prepare for the November hearing. An arres [...]	2005-10-06 20:30:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SNAR PGOV PINR PM POL CHIEF
05PANAMA2025	INTERAGENCY TEAM DISCUSSES SECURITY COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary: Panamanian President Torrijos and his principal national security advisors met with a visiting USG interagency delegation September 29 and agreed to pursue enhanced information sharing, improve border security cooperation, and develop a mechanism for closer bilateral security coo [...]	2005-10-07 16:19:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SNAR PINR PINS MARR PM POL CHIEF
05PANAMA2141	PANAMA'S BUSINESS LEADERS FRET THAT INEQUALITY MAY [...] (C) Summary: Worried that Panamanians can no longer "live in Switzerland and Haiti at the same time," local business leaders blame Venezuelan and Cuban-influenced agitators for stalling the GOP's reform agenda and for flirting with anarchy. In recent meetings with the Ambassador, these busin [...]	2005-10-24 18:43:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PREL PM ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
05PANAMA2162	PANAMANIAN OFFICIALS OPTIMISTIC THAT CANAL [...] (SBU) This message is the second in a three-part series on views of the Torrijos administration's performance as it passes its September 1, 2005 first anniversary. Part One (Reftel A) evaluated the performance of the Panamanian government (GOP),citing the views of critics outside and inside the [...]	2005-10-27 14:21:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD ECON PM POL CHIEF
05PANAMA2309	PANAMA AND CUBA: NSC-DIRECTED REVIEW REGARDING [...] (SBU) Embassy Panama offers the following information and analysis in response to Reftel A tasking. CUBA AND PANAMANIAN POLITICS 2. (C) On August 20, 2005, the GOP and Cuba reestablished full diplomatic ties with the signing of diplomatic notes in Havana, Cuba (Reftel C). Prior to the re [...]	2005-11-25 21:06:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PGOV PREL PM CU POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
05PANAMA234	PANAMANIANS PONDER BOLIVARIAN CIRCLES AND [...] (C) Despite recent press reports and speculation about Venezuelan-inspired Bolivarian Circles in Panama, threatening language from Venezuelan president Chavez that Venezuelan "terrorists" are using Panama as a base, and Panama-Venezuela discussions about oil and other commercial links (to be [...]	2005-02-01 22:29:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SNAR MARR PINS ENRG EPET PM VZ POL CHIEF
05PANAMA2392	TOUR D'HORIZON WITH PANAMANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over a 3-hour private dinner December 5 at the Residence, Ambassador held a wide-ranging discussion with Panamanian Foreign Minister (FM) Samuel Lewis Navarro on subjects including U.S. concerns about the integrity of the Panamanian judicial system (including the recent revocati [...]	2005-12-09 19:35:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD PM POL CHIEF
05PANAMA2463	PANAMA MOVES CLOSER TO NAMING NEW SUPREME COURT [...] (C) As a civil society evaluative commission released its December 19 report on 72 self"nominated candidates for two high"court vacancies, Supreme Court Magistrate Adan Arjona predicted that President Torrijos probably would choose "serious" people for the job. (See para 4.) Torrijos is expecte [...]	2005-12-21 20:41:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PM
05PANAMA352	PANAMA FOREIGN MINISTER'S VIEWS ON THE CANDIDACY [...] (C) Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Samuel Lewis on February 14 to discuss the OAS Secretary General race, per reftel instructions. Bringing Spanish and English versions of WHA PA's suggested op-ed article, she explained to Lewis that she preferred to deliver the text directly to him rather [...]	2005-02-16 21:41:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD PM POL CHIEF
05PANAMA698	YOUR VISIT TO PANAMA [...] (C) When I heard of your plan to visit Panama on April 10 my Embassy immediately began making preparations to welcome you. I personally have been looking forward to meeting you and working with you. Recently Panama has been the focus of intense Washington interest and we have had the honor to ho [...]	2005-03-29 19:51:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PREL MOPS PM POL CHIEF
05PANAMA778	PANAMA ATTORNEY GENERAL TESTS TORRIJOS [...] (C) Panama's independent Attorney General Ana Matilde Gomez may have put the government of Martin Torrijos in an uncomfortable position in March when she asked the Supreme Court to reopen two three-year-old bribery investigations into a government contract for Centro Multimodal, Industrial y d [...]	2005-04-07 18:48:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
05PANAMA779	CODEL RENZI MEETS PANAMANIAN PRESIDENT MARTIN [...] (C) In a cordial April 1 meeting with President Martin Torrijos and Vice President Lewis, Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Arizona) said that the USG must get Panamanian government (GOP) concessions on Canal procurement and the right of U.S. citizens to engage in retail trade to bring the bilateral Free Trade A [...]	2005-04-07 19:45:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ETRD PREL EPET PM VZ POL CHIEF
05PANAMA810	PANAMA'S SUNTRACS: UNION OR POLITICAL PROTEST [...] (C) Recalling the September 2003 street violence sparked by the firing of Social Security (CSS) director Juan Jovane (reftels A, B, C),Panama is collectively holding its breath as the GOP prepares to release its proposed CSS reforms. The SUNTRACS construction union and its labor confederation CO [...]	2005-04-11 21:13:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ELAB PINR SOCI PM CU VE LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
05PANAMA909	PANAMA: CHINA AND TAIWAN TEND THEIR GARDENS AS [...] (C) China had high hopes of replacing Taiwan as Panama's diplomatic partner, given the supposed pro"China tilt of President Torrijos's PRD government, in power since 9/1/2004. Also, Taiwanese diplomats worried that China could use the Mar del Sur public relations disaster (that grew out of the Ta [...]	2005-04-22 20:27:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PGOV ETRD EWWT PM CH TW VE POL CHIEF
05PANAMA959	PANAMA ARRESTS EIGHT DARIEN POLICE IN TIP [...] (C) In a vital advance of Panama's anti-TIP agenda, in late March Anti-corruption Prosecutor Maribel Cornejo detained eight National Police (PNP) officers and one private citizen on charges of rape, commercial sexual exploitation, and corruption of minors in Darien Province. The alleged victims [...]	2005-04-28 21:15:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG PM LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
05PARAMARIBO725	Possible Venzuelan Meddling [...] (C) A member of Desi Bouterse's National Democratic Party (NDP) claims Bouterse is receiving funding and tacit political support from Venezuela. End summary 2. (C) A member of the Mission has been told by a self described member of the NDP that former military dictator Desi Bouterse has made [...]	2005-11-07 18:05:00	Embassy Paramaribo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS NS
05PARAMARIBO736	AMBASSADOR RAISES ARTICLE 98 WITH NEW FOREIGN [...] (U) During a November 10 meeting with Suriname's recently installed Minister of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Lygia Kraag-Keteldijk, the Ambassador emphasized the USG's ongoing desire to sign an Article 98 agreement with Suriname, clarified possible points of misunderstanding, and provided sample agr [...]	2005-11-14 17:55:00	Embassy Paramaribo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR EAID NS
05PARAMARIBO745	Iran Resolution Third Committee Vote [...] (SBU) Ambassador spoke with Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Frederick Boekstaaf, on Tuesday, November 15 regarding Iran Resolution Third Committee. She urged Suriname to oppose no action motion and to support Iran resolution. Noting Suriname's membership in OIC, she asked [...]	2005-11-17 15:35:00	Embassy Paramaribo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM NS UNHRC
05PARAMARIBO766	RESOLVING SURINAME'S DEBTS [...] (C) The Governor of the Central bank is embarrassed by the debt owed to the USG and would like to find a way to clear the books. See action request at para 6. End Summary. 2. (C) The widely respected Governor of Suriname's Central Bank, Andre Telting, sought the Ambassador out at a dinner h [...]	2005-11-28 17:44:00	Embassy Paramaribo	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON ETRD PREL NS
05PARAMARIBO790	SURINAME TO SIGN ARTICLE 98? [...] (C) Summary: Surinamese President Venetiaan announced in an appearance before the National Assembly on December 6 that Suriname intends both to join the International Criminal Court (ICC) and to sign an Article 98 agreement with the United States. A subsequent conversation with the Presiden [...]	2005-12-07 17:50:00	Embassy Paramaribo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR EAID NS
05PARAMARIBO831	SOUTHCOM VISIT SUCCESSFULLY FOSTERS CLOSER [...] (U) Summary. General John Craddock, Combatant Commander of U.S. Southern Command, visited Suriname for six hours on December 16 and made office calls to President Ronald Venetiaan, Minister of Defense Ivan Fernald, and Commander of the Armed Forces Colonel Ernst Mercuur. He also had lunch wi [...]	2005-12-20 19:38:00	Embassy Paramaribo	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS PREL PGOV EAID NS
05PARAMARIBO836	FUTURE BRIGHT AS STATE-OWNED OIL COMPANY TURNS 25 [...] (U) On December 13 Suriname's state-owned oil company, Staatsolie, celebrated its 25th anniversary and said farewell to the man who has led the company since the beginning, Eddy Jharap. In his retirement speech Jharap highlighted the company's financial success and described the highs and low [...]	2005-12-23 11:56:00	Embassy Paramaribo	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON KTDB PREL NS
05PARIS1014	SOCIALIST PARTY KICKS OFF CAMPAIGN TO VOTE "YES" [...] (U) Summary: France's Socialist Party (PS) kicked off ahead of schedule a campaign intended to promote a "yes" vote among left-leaning voters in the referendum on the proposed EU Constitution tentatively scheduled for next June. Among the slogans chosen for this campaign is "Yes to a stronge [...]	2005-02-17 12:47:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB FR PGOV PINR PREL SOCI
05PARIS103	IRAN/EU3: GUARDED FRENCH REACTION TO U/S BOLTON [...] (C) On January 5, MFA Disarmament Office Deputy Veronique Vouland informed us that the MFA had taken on board U/S Bolton's letter re Iranian processing activities (reftels). She said they had not been surprised by the letter, but she also did not indicate whether France agreed with our assessm [...]	2005-01-06 17:28:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM KNNP PREL FR
05PARIS1038	FRANCE/COMOROS: AZALI VISIT [...] (C) Embassy Africa watcher met February 16 with Remi Marechaux, MFA DAS-equivalent for southern Africa and the Indian Ocean, for a read-out on Comoran President Azali Assoumani's January 31-February 2 official visit to France. Marechaux said that the visit was largely symbolic, as part of an [...]	2005-02-17 17:52:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CN XO FR
05PARIS1039	DARFUR ACCOUNTABILITY: AMB. PROSPER'S DISCUSSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: France remains committed to referring those responsible for violations of international humanitarian and human rights law in Darfur to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The USG proposal for a hybrid UN/AU tribunal raises French concerns over universal standards of justice, [...]	2005-02-17 18:14:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KJUS KAWC SU FR
05PARIS1041	STOCKTAKING WITH FRENCH PRESIDENCY DIPLOMATIC [...] (C) Summary: DCM spoke with President Chirac's Diplomatic Advisor Maurice Gourdault-Montagne (MGM) February 17 to review French position on key issues in advance of President Bush's February 21 meeting with President Chirac and the subsequent meetings with NATO and EU leaders. Gourdault-Monta [...]	2005-02-17 18:43:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR SY IR LE NATO
05PARIS1055	FRENCH FORMER PRESIDENT GISCARD D'ESTAING ON [...] (C) Former French President Giscard d'Estaing, over lunch February 16, told Ambassador Leach that he had been impressed by Secretary Rice on her recent visit to Paris. He thought that following the Iraqi elections and the constitution of an Iraqi government, France would be more open to assi [...]	2005-02-18 12:04:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR TU IZ SY UK EUN LB PINT
05PARIS107	SYRIAN FORMER HOSTAGE IN IRAQ FILES LAWSUIT [...] (C) Summary and comment: French officials, in preliminary comments to us, stressed the strictly private nature of a lawsuit filed in a French court by a Syrian former hostage in Iraq, who accused named U.S. military officials of torture and war crimes during the weeklong period he was in MNF-1 [...]	2005-01-06 18:55:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM IZ FR
05PARIS1082	FRENCH ON FEB. 21 GAERC [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel A) points to MFA DAS-equivalent for Common Foreign and Security Policy Pascal LeDeunff on Feb. 11 and followed up in conversation Feb. 18. LeDeunff emphasized that ministers would spend the bulk of the Feb. 21 GAERC in preparing for the EU summit with President Bus [...]	2005-02-18 18:04:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IR UP MD SU CG SR BK FR
05PARIS1084	EU CHINA ARMS EMBARGO: EXPANDING ON FRENCH DEFENSE [...] (C) During the course of a meeting on an unrelated issue with Mr. Camille Grand, Diplomatic Advisor to Defense Minister Alliot-Marie, we inquired about the minister's comments in the recent Financial Times article entitled "France urges end to China arms embargo." We noted our confusion over [...]	2005-02-18 18:53:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM ETTC PREL FR EUN
05PARIS1085	ADDITIONAL FRENCH THOUGHTS FOR NATO SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: MFA and Presidency advisors preparing for next week's February 22 NATO summit told us that the EU -- not NATO - is best placed to handle police and gendarme training for the Iraqis. In line with the comments made by French Presidency Diplomatic Advisor Maurice Gourdault-Montagne [...]	2005-02-18 19:09:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL FR NATO EUN
05PARIS1106	AMBASSADOR CHALLENGES SOCIALISTS ON EU [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Leach and DCM Wolff February 21 expressed concern to the Socialist Party (PS) leadership about the negative message on U.S.-EU relations contained in the party's campaign material in support of a yes vote on the EU constitution in France's late spring referendum. In c [...]	2005-02-22 14:09:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV FR EUN
05PARIS1114	FRANCE RESERVED ON MEK REPATRIATION REVIEW PANEL [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-22 15:28:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PGOV PTER ASEC IR IZ FR PREM
05PARIS1139	CODEL SMITH MEETS CHIRAC, FRENCH OFFICIALS, JANUARY 31, 2005 [...] (C) Summary: During their January 31st stop in Paris, Senators Smith, Biden, Leahy, Chambliss, Shelby and Hatch discussed the status of the bilateral relationship, Iraq, Iran proliferation, Afghanistan, the EUÂ´s arms embargo on China, and anti-Semitism in France in separate meetings with French [...]	2005-02-23 11:44:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PREL KNNP MARR IZ AF FR
05PARIS1142	ARNAUD LAGARDERE ON BOEING/AIRBUS, CHIRAC AND THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador hosted Lagardere group CEO (and EADS shareholder) Arnaud Lagardere at lunch February 18. Discussion focused on Lagardere/EADS business plans, Boeing/Airbus, President Chirac and media industry developments. Lagardere had unvarnished criticism for President Chirac. On Ai [...]	2005-02-23 12:12:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EAIR SCUL FR WTRO USTR
05PARIS1178	FRENCH HAVE NOT RECEIVED RUSSIAN PROPOSAL ON [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-24 14:35:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PBTS MD FR OSCE
05PARIS1197	MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): [...] (C) On February 24, EST Counselor presented paper contained in reftel regarding proposed agenda topics for the 2005 MTCR Plenary Information Exchange to French MFA MTCR Point-of-Contact David Bertolotti. Bertolotti appreciated the receipt of the document and he will prepare it soonest as a PO [...]	2005-02-24 17:47:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	FR KSCA PARM PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA
05PARIS1233	IRAN/IAEA: FRANCE WILL RAISE IRAN AT THE FEB 28 [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-25 17:33:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	IR KNNP PARM PREL TRGY MNUC IAEA
05PARIS1264	FRANCE'S FOURTH FINANCE MINISTER IN A YEAR: [...] (C) France Telecom CEO, Thiery Breton, has been named as new Minister of Finance, Economy and Industry, replacing Herve Gaymard. Breton, an admired and politically astute technocrat and business executive, had been approached to replace Nicolas Sarkozy as Finance Minister in November 2004 bu [...]	2005-02-28 16:47:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EFIN PREL FR
05PARIS1268	ELYSEE ON POSSIBLE THREAT TO LEBANESE OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: Presidential Middle East Advisor Dominique Boche summoned us February 28 to pass on urgent, unverified threat information that possible sniper attacks might take place at the planned Lebanese opposition demonstration today in Beirut's Martyr's square. The targets of the possible [...]	2005-02-28 17:49:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LE SY FR
05PARIS1304	FRENCH INFORMED OF FINAL DETERMINATION OF [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-01 17:08:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KAWC PINR PREL FR
05PARIS1306	SARKOZY WATCH: FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER DE CHARETTE [...] (C) Summary: In a remarkable initiative, the new head of international relations of the governing UMP party, former Foreign Minister Herve de Charette called on Ambassador Leach March 1 offering a hand of friendship and cooperation. Charette applauded the positive results of U.S. policies across th [...]	2005-03-01 17:30:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR PINT
05PARIS1382	FRANCE: POSITIVE ON TSA INTERMODAL DIALOGUE, TEPID [...] (C) SUMMARY: In February 24 meetings with TSA International Programs Assistant Administrator David Tiedge, French officials -listened to U.S. concerns about Emergency Amendment implementation, agreed to continue discussion, but sidestepped new commitments; -agreed to continue discussion [...]	2005-03-03 12:34:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR PTER FR
05PARIS1393	GOF WELCOMES POSTPONEMENT OF ASAD VISIT TO VIENNA [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-03 13:44:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	AU SY PREL ECIN LE FR
05PARIS1401	FRENCH HOSTAGE VIDEO RAISES SPECULATION ON A [...] (SBU) The March 1 release of a videotape showing missing French journalist Florence Aubenas pleading for assistance from a pro-Syrian French MP has plunged the GoF into its second Iraq hostage crisis in recent months and sparked widespread French press speculation of a Syria hand in Aubenas' k [...]	2005-03-03 17:40:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ FR SY LE

05PARIS1477	FRENCH REACT POSITIVELY TO DEMARCHE ON DRC ARMS [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA AF PDAS Elisabeth Barbier on March 7 expressed general agreement with reftel demarche on the DRC arms embargo resolution, accepting that MONUC did not need to take on additional responsibilities. She also responded favorably to the proposed flight reporting provision but sa [...]	2005-03-07 16:26:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC MARR KPKO CG FR UNSC
05PARIS1484	GOF SUPPORTS U.S. LINE ON FULL, IMMEDIATE SYRIAN [...] (C) Summary: MFA officials stressed agreement with U.S. views on seeking full and immediate Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon, but voiced caution on Hizballah. We note that French public statements on Syrian withdrawal hedge slightly on the question of full withdrawal before elections and the Fr [...]	2005-03-07 18:06:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SY LE FR
05PARIS1510	FRENCH DISCUSS OSCE ISSUES WITH RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT [...] (C) Summary: Following a meeting March 7 with Alexander Grushko, Director of the Russian MFA's European Cooperation Department, A/S-equivalent for Security Affairs Philippe Carre told POL M/C he believed the Russians may understand they had gone too far in their efforts to diminish the OSCE, a [...]	2005-03-08 13:54:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR PGOVE RU OSCE
05PARIS1515	MDA:FRENCH RESPONSE ON CONFERENCE FOR MDA [...] (C) Poloff presented reftel talking points to MFA IO Middle East expert Alice Guitton February 25. On March 4, during a discussion of Israeli participation in other international organizations (septel),MFA DAS-equivalent Jean-Pierre Lacroix told us that France favored Magen David Adom (MDA) [...]	2005-03-08 14:51:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PREF IS FR ICRC
05PARIS1525	AUSTRALIA GROUP DEMARCHE TO THE FRENCH CONCERNING [...] (C) On 04 March 2005, Embassy EST officer delivered points provided reftel on U.S. proposals for the April 2005 Australia Group (AG) Plenary to French Ministry of Foreign Affairs point-of-contact for AG matters, Etienne Sur. After reading the non-paper, Sur commented that the U.S. proposals [...]	2005-03-08 16:43:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PARM PREL FR CBE
05PARIS1527	FRANCE WILL ISSUE PRESS STATEMENT REACTING TO ICTY [...] (C) On March 8, POL M/C delivered reftel demarche encouraging press statements on the ICTY indictment of Ramush Haradinaj to Jean-Francois Terral, A/S-equivalent for Russia, the former Soviet space, and the Balkans. Terral agreed with the necessity of issuing a press statement, and shared a co [...]	2005-03-08 17:44:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KAWC SR YI FR ICTY
05PARIS1528	MFA SAYS FRANCE-GERMANY-RUSSIA-SPAIN MARCH 18 [...] (C) During a March 8 meeting with Jean-Francois Terral, the MFA's A/S-equivalent for Russia, the former Soviet space and the Balkans, POL M/C raised news of a March 18 meeting in Paris of the French, German, Russian and Spanish leaders. Terral said the meeting should be viewed in the context of [...]	2005-03-08 18:00:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR RU
05PARIS1542	FRANCE: EU CHINA ARMS EMBARGO, CODE OF CONDUCT AND [...] (C) Summary: Our MFA contact reported that internal EU negotiations on the modalities of a strengthened Code of Conduct were completed, while discussions on the "toolbox" were almost done. This GOF export control expert reaffirmed the belief that the EU China Arms Embargo would be lifted befo [...]	2005-03-09 10:32:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL MARR CH FR
05PARIS1569	TERRORISM INVESTIGATING JUDGE COMMENTS ON CORSICAN [...] (C) Summary: The French government has the upper hand in its decades-long battle against Corsican separatists, said terrorism investigating judge Gilbert Thiel, but it is still too early to speak of an end to separatist-linked violence. Regarding the other facets of his portfolio, Breton separ [...]	2005-03-09 16:53:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER FR
05PARIS1588	JAPANESE EMBASSY ON CHIRAC VISIT TO JAPAN, EU ARMS [...] (C) Summary: On March 8, 2005, Japanese DCM confirmed to DCM that President Chirac will visit Japan officially March 26-28. Chirac, who will be accompanied by a French business delegation and Commerce Minister Loos, will attend the 2005 Aichi Expo and later meet with PM Koizumi and the Empero [...]	2005-03-10 11:23:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR ETTC JA FR EUN
05PARIS1611	FRANCE "CAUTIOUS" ON EU-LED BMO MISSION, RECEIVE [...] (C) Pierre Cochard, DAS-equivalent for Russia and the former Soviet states, told Poloff March 10 that France was not firmly opposed to a EU-led BMO in Georgia, but that it was being "cautious" based on the swirl of other options available and ESDP funding constraints. Cochard bemoaned the lac [...]	2005-03-10 17:04:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS RS GG MD FR OSCE
05PARIS1612	FRENCH RESPONSE TO ALGERIAN UNCHR RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-10 17:34:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL FR AG MO WS UN
05PARIS1613	FRENCH POLYNESIA: NEW PRESIDENT, UNCERTAIN FUTURE [...] (SBU) Summary: Following relatively smooth by-elections on February 13, the Polynesian National Assembly elected pro-independence candidate Oscar Temaru president of French Polynesia on March 3 by a vote of 29 to 26 (with two ballots left blank). Temaru's election brings to a close more than [...]	2005-03-10 17:52:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PNAT FR FP XV
05PARIS1614	FRENCH RESPONSE ON PROPOSED JOINT DEMARCHE ON [...] (C) Embassy Africa watcher shared reftel points February 26 on a proposed joint demarche to troop contributing countries (TCCs) with MFA IO Africa expert Clement Leclerc. 2. (C) While Leclerc's initial reaction was guardedly positive, in a subsequent meeting March 4, he told us that the am [...]	2005-03-11 08:07:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PHUM KCRM KPKO CG FR MONUC
05PARIS1617	FIRST FRANCO-POLISH SUMMIT, FEB. 28, ARRAS, FRANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Chirac hosted Polish President Kwasniewski and several ministers for the debut Franco-Polish summit in Arras (northern France) on Feb. 28. French media emphasized that Paris and Warsaw "sealed their reconciliation" (Le Figaro, Mar. 1) at the summit. Both the MFA desk for [...]	2005-03-11 10:25:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR PL
05PARIS1667	FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER VEDRINE ON "DECISIVE YEAR" [...] (C) Summary: Former Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine told Ambassador Leach March 11 that Europe was beginning to ask itself whether the Bush Administration's pursuit of democracy and reform in the Arab world and elsewhere might be bearing fruit. Elections in Iraq and the Palestinian territories, [...]	2005-03-14 11:40:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM KWBG IS SY LE IZ IR FR EUN
05PARIS1698	CHINA ARMS EMBARGO: FRENCH POSITIONS UNCHANGED [...] (C) As per reftel instructions, we raised with MFA DAS-level Director for East Asia Marc Abensour the upcoming visit to Europe of the Chinese Foreign Minister Li and reiterated the U.S. position against the lifting of the EU arms embargo, as well as our concerns on human rights, and the need f [...]	2005-03-14 17:27:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CM FR EUN
05PARIS1708	APRIL 2005 AUSTRALIA GROUP PLENARY DEMARCHES: [...] (C) On 11 March 2005, Embassy EST officer delivered reftels non-papers on U.S. Government (USG) proposals in advance of the April 2005 Australia Group (AG) Plenary to French Ministry of Foreign Affairs point of contact for AG matters, Etienne Sur. After reading points in non-papers, Sur firs [...]	2005-03-15 12:11:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PARM PREL FR CBE
05PARIS1711	FRANCE: UPDATE ON TRANSFERRED GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-15 12:41:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KTIA KAWC PHUM PINR OPDC PREL FR
05PARIS1716	GOF CONTINUES TO ADVISE IRAN AGAINST INTERFERENCE [...] (C) We discussed reftel points on Iranian interference in Iraq with MFA Iraq desk officer Renaud Salins March 11. Salins confirmed to us that the GoF continued to regularly remind Iran of its responsibilities of non-interference in Iraq and the need for Iran to play a constructive role as Iraq [...]	2005-03-15 14:01:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEC IZ IR FR
05PARIS1720	FRENCH RESPONSE TO CUBA RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-15 15:28:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM FR CU CHR
05PARIS1721	FRENCH RESPONSE TO UNCHR 61 DEMARCHE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Poloff delivered reftel A demarche to Francois Vandeville, responsible for human rights in the United Nations and International Organizations bureau at the MFA. Vandeville welcomed the U.S. intention to participate "vigorously" in the sixty-first session of the Commission on Hum [...]	2005-03-15 15:42:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL FR UNCHR
05PARIS1727	FRENCH RESPONSE ON MARCH 16 GAERC DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-15 16:12:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL PTER HR CH LE KPAL RS GG FR SY EUN
05PARIS1733	FRANCE "CAUTIOUS" ON EU-LED BMO MISSION [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-15 17:44:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ZJ RS GG PBTS FR EUN OSCE
05PARIS176	PLUTONIUM DISPOSITION: RESPONSE TO FRENCH [...] (SBU) On January 10, EST Counselor delivered Ambassador Guhin's letter and talking points contained reftel to Veronique Vouland, Deputy to Francois Richier, and Sebastien Jaunet, both in the Sub Directorate for Disarmament and Nuclear Non-Proliferation. (Messrs. Dahan and Richier were both u [...]	2005-01-10 18:57:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	FR TRGY MNUC PARM ENRG
05PARIS1797	FRANCE: INTERAGENCY BRIEFING TEAM ON GUANTANAMO [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-17 16:04:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KAWC PINR PREL FR
05PARIS1802	DAS CARPENTER'S MARCH 9 CONSULTATIONS WITH SENIOR [...] (C) Summary and comment: During March 9 discussions with visiting NEA DAS Scott Carpenter, senior French officials expressed full GoF support for U.S. objectives on reform in the Broader Middle East and North Africa (BMENA),but stressed their continued desire to keep our messages separate and [...]	2005-03-17 16:47:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PHUM KMPI LE IZ SY EG KPAL FR
05PARIS1805	FRENCH WELCOME DEMARCHE ON GBAGBO [...] (C) Embassy Africa watcher met March 15 with Nathalie Delapalme, FM Barnier's Africa advisor, to share the elements of the demarche on Ivoirian President Gbagbo (reftel) and to discuss the situation in Cote d'Ivoire generally. 2. (C) Delapalme welcomed the demarche on Gbagbo, noting that Fr [...]	2005-03-17 16:53:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IV FR
05PARIS1806	TOGO: BARNIER AND DE BONNECORSE ATTEND EYADEMA'S [...] (C) Nathalie Delapalme, FM Barier's Africa advisor, told us March 15 that Barnier had met briefly with Faure Gnassingbe and "other Togolese personalities" while representing France at the funeral of President Gnassingbe Eyadema (reftel). Delapalme would not be drawn out on the substance of Ba [...]	2005-03-17 16:54:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TO FR
05PARIS1807	VILLEPIN'S POLICE ADVISOR DISCUSSES FRENCH [...] (C) Summary: Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin's cabinet advisor on the police said March 15 that the French security establishment is going through a period of "synthesis," in which reforms proposed over the past decades are gradually finding their place within standard operating proced [...]	2005-03-17 17:45:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER FR PGOV KJUS
05PARIS1823	MOD ADVISOR UPBEAT ON BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP; SEES [...] (C) Summary: Defense Minister Alliot-Marie's Diplomatic Advisor Bertrand Besancenot provided Political Minister-Counselor with a readout of the Minister's March 9-10 visit to the United States. He described at length the positive tone in the bilateral relationship, as reflected in Alliot-Mari [...]	2005-03-18 10:13:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM CH FR NATO EUN
05PARIS1832	SOMALIA/IGAD: FRENCH MFA AGREES WITH U.S. POSITION [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-18 13:55:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SO FR
05PARIS1834	IRAN HOSTS CONFERENCE MARCH 5-6 TO SHOW ITS [...] (C) MFA Deputy Director for Policy Planning Philippe Errera (please protect) provided us with a brief readout of Iran's March 5-6 conference entitled "Nuclear Technology and Sustainable Development," sponsored by the Iranian Center for Strategic Research (CSR),the Foreign Ministry, the Atomic [...]	2005-03-18 15:11:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MNUC IR FR
05PARIS1883	GOF SAYS RUSSIA-FRANCE-GERMANY-SPAIN MARCH 18 [...] (C) Summary: Laurent Bili, President Chirac's technical advisor on pol/mil and Russia issues, told POL M/C March 21 that the meeting between the Russian, French, German and Spanish leaders on March 18 focused primarily on EU-Russia relations, with the goal of concluding negotiations on the "Fo [...]	2005-03-21 17:39:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR RS FR EUN
05PARIS1916	U.S. EMBASSY DEMARCHE ON AUSTRALIA GROUP REGIONAL [...] (C) On 22 March 2005, Embassy EST officer delivered reftel non-paper on U.S. actions to implement Australia Group (AG) decisions on regional nonproliferation to French Ministry of Foreign Affairs point of contact for AG matters, Etienne Sur. After reading points in non-paper, Sur thanked EST [...]	2005-03-23 10:03:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL ETTC FR CBW AUSGR
05PARIS1935	PREVIEW OF CHIRAC'S MARCH 25-28 JAPAN TRIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Chirac leaves March 25 for a three-day visit to Japan, at which the main topics of bilateral discussion will be ITER and the EU's China arms embargo, according to French officials. Also to be discussed are North Korea, Iraq, the EU-3's negotiations with Iran, Japan's [...]	2005-03-23 14:22:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TRGY FR JA IZ
05PARIS1936	CHIRAC'S AFRICA ADVISOR RELAXED ON TOGO, WORRIED [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to President Chirac's Africa advisor, the situation in Togo is not worrisome. He believes that the elections will produce a winner, probably Faure Gnassingbe, who will be accepted by the population. In the case of an opposition win, ECOWAS will ensure that the milita [...]	2005-03-23 14:31:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TO IV CG FR
05PARIS1959	FRENCH RESPONSE ON ISRAEL'S MEMBERSHIP IN GROUPS [...] (C) SUMMARY: France is resistant to Israel's participation in political consultation groups in UN bodies outside New York, believing that there is no automatic right of participation outside of natural geographic groupings, and is reluctant to establish such a precedent. (Israel's "temporary [...]	2005-03-24 10:57:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC ELAB KIPR IS FR WIPO ILO
05PARIS1998	PARTY OFFICIAL IN CHARGE OF SOCIALIST PARTY 'YES' [...] (C) At a meeting with PolOff on March 16, Francois Rebsamen, Mayor of Dijon and Socialist Party (PS) official in charge of the party's campaign to mobilize left-leaning voters to vote 'yes' in the upcoming referendum on the EU Constitution, acknowledged that the "Yes, for a strong Europe agai [...]	2005-03-24 16:17:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ELAB EU FR PGOV PINR SOCI
05PARIS2006	CHIRAC WINS EU COUNCIL'S BACKING ON HOT-BUTTON [...] (C) Summary: Playing on collective nervousness over polls suggesting that French voters could reject the draft EU constitution in the May 29 referendum, President Jacques Chirac persuaded fellow EU heads of state and government March 22 to send back to the drawing board the Commission's "serv [...]	2005-03-24 18:22:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ELAB FR EUN
05PARIS203	GOF OFFICIALS UPBEAT ON PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS, BUT [...] (C) Summary: GoF officials are stressing to us privately their high degree of satisfaction with Palestinian elections, but express concern that the post-elections follow-up will focus too much on what is demanded of the Palestinian side without pressing Israel to make gestures to the new Pale [...]	2005-01-11 16:50:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS FR
05PARIS2034	EX-GTMO DETAINEES UPDATE: 6 IN PRETRIAL DETENTION [...] (C) The Paris Court of Appeal on March 25 ordered ex-GTMO detainee Ridouane Khalid imprisoned pending investigation of charges of "criminal association with a terrorist enterprise." Returned to France on March 7, Khalid had been released on March 11, though he remained under judicial watch. [...]	2005-03-25 16:12:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL FR PTER KJUS KAWC
05PARIS2039	FRANCE ON VARIOUS UN/HR/CHR ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff met March 23 with Beatrice le Fraper du Hellen, DAS-equivalent for Human Rights in the MFA's United Nations and International Organizations bureau, to discuss several UN, human rights, and CHR-related issues. End Summary. Cuba ---- 2. (C) In discussing the proposed [...]	2005-03-25 16:48:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL FR UNCHR
05PARIS2041	MUBARAK IN PARIS: CHIRAC URGES KEEPING PRESSURE [...] (C) Summary: Receiving Egyptian President Mubarak in Paris 24, President Jacques Chirac stressed the necessity of maintaining pressure on Syria until it withdraws its armed forces and intelligence services fully from Lebanon, before elections this spring. Mubarak, who had met Syrian Presiden [...]	2005-03-25 18:40:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV AORC KWBG EG FR
05PARIS2052	MUBARAK IN PARIS: CHIRAC URGES KEEPING [...] (C) Summary: Receiving Egyptian President Mubarak in Paris March 24, President Jacques Chirac stressed the necessity of maintaining firm pressure on Syria until it withdraws its armed forces and intelligence services fully from Lebanon, before elections this spring. Mubarak, who had met Syr [...]	2005-03-29 10:57:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV AORC KWBG EG FR
05PARIS208	NEGATIVE FRENCH RESPONSE TO U.S. PROPOSALS ON [...] (C) Summary and comment: Senior MFA officials, stressing that they had consulted with the Elysee, rejected the U.S-proposed inclusion of a preambular reference to UNSCR 1559 in the draft renewal resolution for UNIFIL (ref a),which they described as counterproductive to our shared goal of pres [...]	2005-01-11 19:33:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL FR
05PARIS2085	EU REFERENDUM: FRENCH POLLSTERS ASSESS TREND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: After two recent polls showed that a majority of those who had decided would reject the EU Constitution in a May 29 referendum, we met with pollsters to get their assessment of this trend. We wanted to determine if the change was just a passing phase related to rece [...]	2005-03-29 17:05:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EU PGOV FR ELAB SOCI
05PARIS209	CHIRAC LOOKS FORWARD TO 2005: THE TONE CHANGES, [...] (U) SUMMARY. During his traditional New Year's address to the diplomatic corps in Paris January 6, President Chirac stated his desire for good relations with the U.S. and extended "friendly wishes" to President Bush in advance of his inauguration (President Bush and UN Secretary General Kofi A [...]	2005-01-12 08:33:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PTER EAIR SENV FR
05PARIS2110	FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON OSLO DONORS' [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA AF Assistant Secretary Joubert on March 29 said that Xavier Darcos (Minister-Delegate for Cooperation, Development, and Francophonie) would likely lead the GOF delegation to the April 11-12 Oslo Donors' Conference on Sudan (reftel),although no final decision had been made. [...]	2005-03-30 14:25:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID ECON KJUS KAWC SU FR
05PARIS2158	DRC: MFA OFFICIALS COMMENT ON SRSG SWING AND [...] (C) At a March 29 meeting with Embassy Africa watcher largely devoted to Sudan/Darfur (Reftel),MFA A/S-equivalent for Africa Bruno Joubert and DAS-equivalent Jean-Christophe Belliard offered comments on Amb. Swing's tenure as SRSG (France was very supportive of his efforts) and elections in [...]	2005-03-31 14:06:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM CG FR
05PARIS2162	(C) GENERAL AOUN ON LEBANON DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) Summary and comment: At the Department's recommendation (reftel),DCM met with former Lebanese Armed Forces Commander General Michel Aoun at the latter's request March 29. Throughout the hour-long discussion, Aoun stressed his status as the most long-standing opponent of Syria's occupatio [...]	2005-03-31 14:56:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SY LE PTER FR
05PARIS2201	COTE D'IVOIRE: OUATTARA SAYS IT MAY BE TIME FOR [...] (C) Embassy Africa watcher met March 31 with RDR leader Allasane Dramane Ouattara at Ouattara's Paris office to deliver a message from the Secretary responding to Ouattara's message of congratulations on her appointment. 2. (C) Ouattara's office, located at 124 Avenue Victor Hugo, has no ex [...]	2005-04-01 15:48:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IV FR
05PARIS2205	'YES' VS. 'NO' -- THE FRENCH REFERENDUM DEBATE [...] (SBU) The deepening debate in France over the EU Constitution has highlighted the divisions within the center-right and center-left coalitions that dominate the country's political scene. Overall, to be in favor of the proposed Constitution is seen as supporting business-as-usual -- to favor [...]	2005-04-04 05:16:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ELAB EU FR PGOV PINR SOCI
05PARIS2220	READOUT OF CHIRAC'S MARCH 26-28 OFFICIAL TRIP TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The MFA, the Japanese Embassy here, and the French High Commissioner for Science all provided readouts to Embassy on President Chirac's March 26-28 trip to Japan. According to our interlocutors and the press, Chirac and PM Koizumi continued to express opposing views on both the EU' [...]	2005-04-04 11:31:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TRGY FR JA CH TW
05PARIS2263	AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL MEETING WITH FOREIGN [...] (C) In a thirty-minute farewell call April 5 with Foreign Minister Barnier, Ambassador Leach reviewed improvements in the U.S.-French relationship, noting that Barnier had played an important role in improving communications with Washington. He regretted that the Pope's death prevented Barnie [...]	2005-04-05 13:55:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR
05PARIS2270	FRENCH VIEWS ON NEW U.S. SOUTH ASIA STRATEGY [...] No summary [...]	2005-04-05 15:53:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS IN AF PK FR
05PARIS2305	SENIOR FRENCH OFFICIALS DISCUSS LEBANON NEXT STEPS [...] (C) Summary and comment: Presidential Middle East Advisor Dominique Boche stressed strong French support for holding Lebanon's elections on time and expressed concern over Syrian/loyalist delay tactics during discussions with visiting NEA DAS Carpenter April 5. The MFA issued a tough statem [...]	2005-04-06 16:23:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SY LE FR
05PARIS2391	APRIL 5 KHATAMI VISIT TO FRANCE [...] (C) Summary: French officials described President Chirac's April 5 discussion with Iranian President Khatami as cordial and focused largely on Lebanon, the Israeli-Palestinian question, and, to a lesser extent, the nuclear issue, which was the main topic of the FM Barnier-FM Kharrazi discussion [...]	2005-04-08 15:10:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR SY LE MNUC PARM FR
05PARIS2394	APRIL 7 LARSEN MEETINGS WITH FRENCH OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary: French Elysee and MFA officials reported that UN Envoy Larsen, during April 7 meetings in Paris, emphasized the absolute centrality of holding Lebanon's elections on schedule, for which he proposed creation of a 10-12 member committee composed equally of opposition and loyalists to [...]	2005-04-08 15:18:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SY LE FR UNSC
05PARIS2399	(C) CWC/BWC: MEETING OF CLOSE ALLIES, PARIS, [...] (C) Summary: Close Allies (U.S., UK, France, Germany) met to coordinate actions for the upcoming OPCW Executive Council meeting and to review both joint and bilateral efforts on compliance, Article VII implementation, financial/personnel matters and CW destruction. Discussion on BWC primarily [...]	2005-04-08 15:35:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL TBIO CBW
05PARIS2414	AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL MEETING WITH INTERIOR [...] (C) Summary: In a 30-minute farewell call April 8 with Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin, the Ambassador complimented the excellent level of U.S.-French counter-terrorism cooperation, emphasized the need for progress on biometric passports as soon as possible, encouraged Villepin to visi [...]	2005-04-11 10:34:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR PGOV PTER
05PARIS2444	NATO-AFGHANISTAN: FRANCE OPPOSED TO CAVEATS, BUT [...] (C) We conveyed on April 4 reftel points requesting that France lift its ISAF caveats to Camille Grand, Diplomatic Advisor in the MOD Cabinet, and to Xavier Chatel, NATO-ISAF desk officer at the MFA. They both observed that France is in principle opposed to caveats and pointed to French NATO [...]	2005-04-11 17:28:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR AF FR NATO
05PARIS2471	AUSTRALIA GROUP: FRENCH GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO USG [...] (C) In response to 11 March 2005 Embassy EST officer demarche regarding U.S. Government (USG) proposals in advance of the April 2005 Australia Group (AG) Plenary, EST officer received a 11 April call from French Ministry of Foreign Affairs BWC desk officer, Gabriel Bernier. He informed EST o [...]	2005-04-12 15:01:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA FR SY GR
05PARIS248	ELYSEE MIDDLE EAST ADVISOR ON UNIFIL RENEWAL, [...] (C) Summary and comment: The Elysee appears solidly behind the MFA in opposing a preambular reference to UNSCR 1559 in the UNIFIL renewal resolution, though it suggests greater flexibility than the MFA on asking DPKO to review UNIFIL's force structure (ref b). During a January 12 meeting, Pre [...]	2005-01-13 15:56:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LE SY PTER PINR FR UNSC
05PARIS2483	GOF WEIGHING RESPONSE TO UNRWA EMERGENCY APPEAL, [...] (U) This message contains an action request for Washington in para 4. 2. (C) We discussed reftel talking points on the 2005 UNRWA emergency appeal with MFA action officer for UN/Middle East issues Alice Guitton April 12, urging a sizable French contribution to help alleviate Palestinian ref [...]	2005-04-12 16:28:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF KPAL PREL FR EUN
05PARIS2555	FRENCH AGREE ON NEED TO SUPPORT GAZA [...] (C) We discussed reftel talking points on President Bush's April 11 meeting with Israeli PM Sharon and the need for the U.S. and EU to send similar messages supporting Gaza disengagement with FM Barnier's Middle East Advisor Christophe Guilhou and MFA DAS-equivalent for the Levant Christian Jo [...]	2005-04-14 17:35:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KWBG IS GZ FR WB
05PARIS2601	FRANCE SUPPORTS DRAFT SHIP BOARDING AMENDMENT TO [...] No summary [...]	2005-04-15 17:03:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM PREL KTIA PHSA EWWT FR
05PARIS2603	FRENCH DENY ANY PLANS TO SELL FIGHTER AIRCRAFT TO [...] (U) Reftel FBIS reports quoted Taiwan and Hong Kong press reports that France intends to sell 210 Mirage 200-9CS fighter aircraft, along with 1,200 MICA missiles and 180 alternative engines, as part of a 12 billion euros defense trade package. The sale allegedly was agreed to last December 20 [...]	2005-04-15 17:06:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM ETTC CH FR EUN
05PARIS2631	ELYSEE CAUTIOUS BUT ENCOURAGED ON MIKATI [...] (C) Presidential Advisor on the Middle East Dominique Boche expressed cautious optimism on the appointment of Najib Mikati as Lebanese PM-designate, during a discussion with poloff April 18. On the one hand, Boche conceded that Mikati's background and ties to Syrian President Bashar al-Asad w [...]	2005-04-18 16:42:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER LE SY FR
05PARIS2660	SAUDI CROWN PRINCE VISIT FOCUSES ON LEBANON, CLOSE [...] (C) Summary and comment: GoF contacts report that Lebanon and Syria were the main topics of Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah's recent meetings with President Chirac, with both sides agreeing on the need for full Syrian withdrawal, rapid formation of a Lebanese government and holding of free and fai [...]	2005-04-19 17:56:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SA SY LE ECON PARM FR
05PARIS2661	SECOND FRENCH DEMARCHE ON SECURITY CONCERNS IN [...] (U) This message contains an action request for Washington, see para 5. 2. (C) MFA DAS-equivalent for Iraq/Iran/Arabian Gulf Affairs Antoine Sivan, during a previously scheduled meeting with poloff April 18, raised security problems involving the French embassy in Baghdad, which he said wil [...]	2005-04-19 17:56:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ FR
05PARIS2726	TOGO: FRENCH MFA HOPING FOR CREDIBLE ELECTIONS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA DAS-equivalent for West Africa Foucher on April 20 discussed elections in Togo. He said that France opposed Germany's efforts to have the EU call for postponing the elections. He predicted that there would inevitably be fraud during the elections but hoped that it would no [...]	2005-04-21 16:23:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TO FR
05PARIS2765	GOF UNLIKELY TO MAKE SIZABLE CONTRIBUTION TO UNRWA [...] No summary [...]	2005-04-22 16:29:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF KPAL FR
05PARIS2789	MFA OFFICIAL DISCUSSES CAR, GUINEA-BISSAU, GUINEA [...] (C) MFA DAS-equivalent for West Africa Bruno Foucher discussed his portfolios with Africa Watcher on April 20. Ref A reports his discussion of Cote d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso; Ref B reports his remarks on Togo. Foucher offered brief comments on other countries his office oversees. 2. (C) [...]	2005-04-25 17:38:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CT PU GV FR
05PARIS2793	FRENCH RAISE CONTINUED CONCERNS ON BAGHDAD AIRPORT [...] (C) Senior French MFA and Presidency officials raised continuing concerns over access to the Baghdad airport road, on the margins of highly constructive discussions on Iraq with Senior Advisor and Coordinator for Iraq Ambassador Richard Jones April 25 (septel). Presidential Advisor on the Mid [...]	2005-04-26 07:26:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ FR
05PARIS285	SUA CONVENTION: FRANCE NOT FULLY ON BOARD WITH [...] (C) We delivered January 11 ref A points on proposed U.S. nonproliferation amendments to the Convention against the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation (SUA) January 11 to Veronique Vouland, MFA deputy director for disarmament and nuclear nonproliferation. Sh [...]	2005-01-14 14:34:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM PREL KTIA PHSA EWWT FR
05PARIS2863	EU CONSTITUTION DOMINATES AGENDA OF FRANCO-GERMAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Chirac and Chancellor Schroeder used the fifth meeting of the Council of Franco-German ministers to support Chirac's efforts to highlight the benefits of the EU to a skeptical French public in the run-up to the French May 29 referendum on the draft EU constitutional tr [...]	2005-04-27 15:52:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GM FR NATO EUN
05PARIS2901	TOGO: MFA DIVIDED OVER GOF REACTION TO ELECTIONS [...] (C) At a National Day reception at the South African Embassy April 27, MFA PDAS-equivalent Elisabeth Barbier commented to Africa watcher on the situation in Togo, sighing wearily "one more crisis." Referring to the MFA statement of April 25, which described the elections as having proceeded u [...]	2005-04-28 16:39:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TO FR
05PARIS2944	APRIL 29 BARNIER-AOUN MEETING [...] (U) This message contains an action request for Washington in para 5. 2. (C) During an April 29 meeting with visiting NEA DAS Elizabeth Dibble, MFA A/S-equivalent for North Africa/Middle East Jean-Francois Thibault offered a brief readout of FM Barnier's meeting earlier that day with former [...]	2005-04-29 18:29:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SY LE FR
05PARIS2945	FRENCH CONFIRM BROAD SUPPORT FOR U.S. GOALS ON [...] (C) Summary and comment: Senior French MFA and Presidency officials confirmed broad support for U.S. goals for the planned U.S.-EU conference on Iraq, during April 25 discussions with Senior Coordinator on Iraq Ambassador Richard Jones. French officials echoed U.S. views on the need for incl [...]	2005-04-29 19:06:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ FR
05PARIS2946	GOF AGREES ON NEED SUSTAIN PRESSURE ON SYRIA, WITH [...] (C) Summary: Senior MFA and Elysee officials described the GoF as fully agreeing with our message on sustaining pressure on Syria (reftel),except for two points: the timing of Hizballah disarmament, with France favoring a gradual approach, and EU designation of Hizballah, which France continu [...]	2005-04-29 19:07:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SY LE PTER FR
05PARIS2967	MFA DISCUSSES VISIT OF ARMENIAN PRESIDENT AND [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-02 14:09:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	FR PGOV PREL RS
05PARIS2974	PM RAFFARIN'S APRIL 21-24 TRIP TO CHINA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Building on the high-profile exchange of French and Chinese presidential visits last year, Prime Minister Raffarin focused his late April visit mostly on economic issues and cultural affairs. His statement that China's March anti-secession law is "compatible" with the French pos [...]	2005-05-02 16:58:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON FR CH
05PARIS299	YAWER-CHIRAC MEETING HIGH ON ATMOSPHERICS, BUT LOW [...] (C) Presidential Advisor for Middle East Andre Parant gave us a brief, but upbeat readout January 14 of President Chirac's meeting and working lunch with Iraqi Interim Government (IIG) President Ghazi al-Yawer January 13. (Note: Yawer met with FM Barnier and the President of the National Ass [...]	2005-01-14 18:41:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ FR
05PARIS3013	FRANCE RECEIVES GUIDANCE ON U.S.-RUSSIA MANPADS [...] (C) Poloff delivered points on U.S.-Russia MANPADS arrangement (reftel A) to French MFA Office for Disarmament's Small Arms/Light Weapons (SA/LW) action officer, Jean-Francois Guillaume on April 15 and again on April 22. Guillaume told poloff the MFA appreciated being informed on the matter ad [...]	2005-05-03 15:56:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	RS KHDP MARR PARM PREL PTER FR
05PARIS3014	NEW FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO FINLAND GERARD CROS [...] (C) According to the official GoF "Daily Bulletin" on May 2, Gerard Cros will be the next French Ambassador in Helsinki. Although Cros has been involved in work on the Congo Basin Forest partnership, he appears to have been essentially without a job since being replaced as MFA Africa Director [...]	2005-05-04 07:57:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR FI PBIO FR CROS GERARD
05PARIS3053	CHARGE CAUTIONS LEBANESE GENERAL AOUN AGAINST [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with former Lebanese armed forces commanding General Michel Aoun in Paris May 4, three days before Aoun's scheduled return to Lebanon May 7, Charge cautioned Aoun on the need to maintain Lebanese opposition unity and to do nothing to delay the conduct of May 29 elect [...]	2005-05-04 18:05:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LE FR
05PARIS3087	TOGO: BOKO IN FRANCE [...] (C) During a May 6 discussion on Togo with visiting staffdel Flynn, MFA PDAS-equivalent Elisabeth Barbier told Embassy Africa watcher that former Togolese Interior Minister Boko had arrived in France the evening of May 5. Barbier was reluctant to provide details, and said that the GoF would be [...]	2005-05-06 16:21:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TO FR
05PARIS3088	FRANCE FAVORS RATIONALIZING WEST AFRICA UN [...] (C) Embassy Africa watcher raised ref B points on authorizing the UNSYG to transfer peacekeeping units among existing missions in West Africa with MFA AF PDAS-equivalent Elisabeth Barbier and MFA IO DAS-equivalent Jean Pierre Lacroix on May 6. 2. (C) Barbier, while noting that IO had the le [...]	2005-05-06 16:28:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO SL LI IV UK FR UNSC
05PARIS3146	DARFUR: FRENCH PREFER EU MISSION, BUT WOULD [...] (C) Summary: A senior MFA official confirmed France's preference for an EU assistance mission to the African Union (AU) in Darfur. While the French approach is still evolving, MFA officials believe the EU should continue to build on its existing assistance efforts to the AU (AMIS). Towards th [...]	2005-05-10 14:41:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS SU FR NATO EUN
05PARIS3156	USUNESCO: FRANCE PULLS OUT THE STOPS ON [...] (C) Classified by Andrew C. Koss, Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Mission to UNESCO in Paris, REASON-1.4D. 2. (C) Summary: France has made it clear that passage of a cultural diversity convention at this fall's UNESCO General Conference is a top foreign policy priority. The push for incre [...]	2005-05-10 16:39:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	SCUL ETRD UNESCO
05PARIS3232	DARFUR: FRENCH POSITION ON NATO ROLE [...] (C) Drawing on reftel points, Charge raised a possible NATO role in Darfur with MFA Political Director Stanislas de Laboulaye May 11. Charge said French opposition to a NAC meeting with AU SYG Konare was not consistent with FM Barnier's assurances that Paris would not object to a NATO role in [...]	2005-05-12 10:41:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS SU FR EUN
05PARIS3235	LEBANON: FRENCH VIEWS ON POLITICAL SITUATION [...] (C) MFA Political Director Stanislas de Laboulaye provided Charge with French views on the situation in Lebanon during a May 11 meeting on NATO's role in Darfur (septel). Laboulaye reaffirmed that the GoF would have preferred that General Aoun had stayed in Paris, and that FM Barnier had urged [...]	2005-05-12 11:04:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV LE FR
05PARIS327	VISITING AF/W DEPUTY DIRECTOR DISCUSSES COTE [...] (C) Summary: During a January 10 meeting with visiting AF/W Deputy Director Larry Andre, French MFA DAS-equivalent for West Africa Bruno Foucher stressed deep GoF pessimism on Cote d'Ivoire (CdI). GoF demarches to regional leaders prior to the Libreville Summit called for African Union (AU) [...]	2005-01-18 15:40:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV XY FR
05PARIS3379	FRANCE APOLOGIZES FOR MIX-UP BARRING U.S. MILITARY [...] (C) A wrong call by a low-level French official was quickly reversed when we brought it to the attention of the MOD and MFA. At issue was the participation of Col. Ernest Herold, Chief of the Embassy's Office of Defense Cooperation, in the annual study trip sponsored by the Direction Generale [...]	2005-05-17 17:02:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PINR CH FR NATO
05PARIS3401	IRAQ: POTENTIAL PROGRESS ON FRANCE'S GENDARME [...] C) During the course of a meeting with MOD contacts on May 13, we learned that Iraq has responded to France's bilateral offer to train Iraqi security forces, which President Chirac had conveyed to then IIG President Yawer last January. According to Captain Devaux, a MOD desk officer for NATO i [...]	2005-05-18 12:42:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS IZ FR EUN NATO
05PARIS3414	NO ALGERIAN REQUEST TO FRANCE FOR NUCLEAR PROGRAM [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-18 16:51:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP TRGY AORC ENRG AG FR IAEA
05PARIS3441	(C) OECD: CHINA CONTINUES PRESSURE AGAINST [...] (C) Chinese Embassy officials have continued to press the OECD Secretariat to oppose Taiwan's applications to join committees as observers. In conversations on May 11 and May 18, the officials, including the Embassy's Commercial Counselor, requested that the OECD notify member country delegat [...]	2005-05-19 14:54:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON CH TW
05PARIS3463	G-8: FRENCH QUESTIONS ON REGIONAL DIALOGUE FOR [...] (U) This contains a request for guidance, see paragraph 5. 2. (C) Per ref request, Econ Chief discussed reftel talking points with Foreign Ministry G-8 Officer, Cyril Pierre. Pierre, was unaware of any prior discussion of such a regional dialogue on Afghanistan in the broader discussions [...]	2005-05-20 08:50:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL AF FR
05PARIS3485	(C) REQUEST FOR SECDEF ADVOCACY ON GE PROPULSION [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Embassy Paris believes that Secretary Rice's and Secretary Gutierrez' advocacy letters in support of General Electric's bid to provide gas turbines to equip the join French-Italian Multi-Mission Frigates (known as FREMM) were useful in signaling high-level USG [...]	2005-05-20 14:45:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	BEXP ETRD PREL FR

05PARIS3486	PRELIMINARY FRENCH REACTION TO U.S. VIEWS ON [...] (C) Summary: In preliminary comments on the U.S. nonpaper on an international framework of support for Lebanon (reftel),Presidential Middle East Advisor Dominique Boche confirmed GoF support for an international meeting on Lebanon but cautioned that we should remain discreet in preparations t [...]	2005-05-20 15:24:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SY LE FR
05PARIS3491	FRENCH ON MAY 23-24 GAERC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff delivered reftel points on May 16 and spoke with MFA deputy chief for Common Foreign and Security Policy Pascal LeDeunff on May 19. LeDeunff described Sudan as "incontestably the most important" subject the GAERC will tackle; said that the EU-3 will seek EU support for th [...]	2005-05-20 16:57:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	CH PREL SU MARR MOPS PARM KNNP MNUC FR EUN NATO
05PARIS3521	POLICY PLANNING DIRECTOR KRASNER DISCUSSES RUSSIA, [...] (C) Summary: Visiting Policy Planning Director Stephen Krasner and S/P Deputy Barry Lowenkron met in Paris April 19 with French MFA Center for Analysis and Prediction (CAP) Director Pierre Levy and his deputy, Philippe Errera for discussions of Russia's drift towards authoritarian rule; democ [...]	2005-05-23 15:56:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RS XF XI FR
05PARIS357	NATO/AFGHANISTAN: FRENCH UNDECIDED ON STAGE II [...] (C) Summary: Responding to Ref A demarche for building on NATO foreign minister's meeting, French officials have reiterated their reservations on Provisional Reconstruction Teams (PRT) and are holding off on taking a decision to contribute a quick response force (QRF) for Stage II Forward Supp [...]	2005-01-19 17:32:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL AF FR NATO
05PARIS3591	UNSC: ISSUES FOR FRENCH PRESIDENCY IN JUNE [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA IO DAS-equivalent for political affairs Jean-Pierre Lacroix reviewed with poloff May 23 issues likely to be raised during France's June presidency of the U.N. Security Council. IRAN 2. (C) Lacroix said that the big question for the UNSC in June would be the terms of deba [...]	2005-05-24 16:50:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO FR UNSC
05PARIS3625	FRANCE'S EU REFERENDUM: "NO" HAS THE MOMENTUM AS [...] (C) Summary: When President Chirac addresses a national audience May 26 to urge a vote in favor of the EU constitution three days later, he may be talking to an electorate that has largely made up its mind -- to vote no. Opinion polls and many of the country's sharpest political commentators [...]	2005-05-25 17:43:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL FR EUN
05PARIS364	EU-CHINA ARMS EMBARGO: LATEST FRENCH THINKING [...] (C) Following recent EU discussions on lifting the EU arms embargo on China (ref C),we spoke with Jacques Maillard, MFA DAS-equivalent for export controls, with respect to French thinking on this issue. Maillard said that the EU had already decided in December to lift the arms embargo by the [...]	2005-01-20 11:46:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR ETTC PREL FR EUN
05PARIS3668	FRANCE IN EUROPE: WHAT'S AT STAKE IN THE MAY 29 [...] (C) Summary: Whether they accept or reject the draft EU constitution three days from now, French voters May 29 will have a major effect on their country's ability to influence the course of EU policy, and the future of the European Union. Win or lose, Jacques Chirac is unlikely to give up hi [...]	2005-05-26 16:50:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON FR EUN
05PARIS3759	MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): MAY 26, [...] (C) EST Counselor participated in the May 26 MTCR Points-of-Contact (POC) meeting held at the South Korean Embassy in Paris and delivered the substance of points contained in reftel. 2. (C) The POC Session began with a briefing - based on a "first draft summary report" - by French MFA POC [...]	2005-05-31 15:15:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	FR KSCA PARM PREL MNUC TSPA ETTC
05PARIS3766	MFA ON ALGERIAN RELATIONS WITH FRANCE AND MOROCCO, [...] Summary: MFA DAS-equivalent for the Maghreb Anne Mohsen, during a recent meeting with us, described French relations with Algeria as unaffected by controversy over the 1945 Setif massacre, with progress on track towards conclusion of a bilateral friendship treaty by year-end. Mohsen suggested [...]	2005-06-01 10:28:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AG WS MO TS FR
05PARIS3796	FRANCE TO HELP LIBYA WITH IAEA-MONITORED NUCLEAR [...] (C) Summary: In response to a Libyan request, France is studying how it might assist Libya with its Russian-built Tajoura plant. No formal agreement has been signed yet, but Libyans have asked for assistance in producing radio isotopes for medical and industrial use, as well as aid in using th [...]	2005-06-01 15:22:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM KNNP ENRG LY FR IAEA
05PARIS3813	CHIRAC GAMBLES AGAIN, ALLYING HIS PROTEGE AND HIS [...] (C) In choosing former Foreign and Interior Minister and long-time collaborator Dominique de Villepin to head his new government, and center-right rival Nicolas Sarkozy to be its number two, President Chirac is attempting to unite the main factions that divide France's center-right in response [...]	2005-06-02 12:01:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON
05PARIS3844	SA/LW NEGOTIATIONS ON MARKING AND TRACING: FRANCE [...] (C) Summary: France plans to work with its EU partners on Small arms and light weapons (SA/LW) negotiations, but in an effort to reach consensus, is prepared to take a more pragmatic bilateral approach. The French end game is to obtain an agreement on dealing with the illicit trade in SA/LW, [...]	2005-06-02 16:52:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PARM FR
05PARIS3878	FRANCE: NEW GOVERNMENT LINE UP [...] (SBU) The new French government led by Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, with Nicolas Sarkozy as Minister of the Interior (reftel) was formally announced by the Elysee palace the evening of Thursday, June 2. The new government, significantly smaller than the one it replaces (31 versus 43 [...]	2005-06-03 16:31:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ELAB FR
05PARIS3921	FRENCH OPPOSE RETURN TO EU SANCTIONS AGAINST CUBA [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points on June 3 and followed up with a conversation on June 6 with Pascal LeDeunff, head of the French MFA's Common Foreign and Security Policy office, the unit that prepares French input for the GAERC meetings. LeDeunff took note of the U.S. position, but emphasi [...]	2005-06-06 16:12:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM NL CU FR EUN
05PARIS3923	FRANCE: SUPPORT FOR CONTINUED SUSPENSION OF TITLE [...] (C) Summary and comment: France adheres to the EU's Common Position on Cuba, and the GOF monitors the human rights situation in Cuba closely. MFA officials have consistently stressed that they share both the U.S. assessment of the human rights situation and the U.S. goal of supporting peacef [...]	2005-06-06 16:40:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC ETRD FR CU
05PARIS3924	FRENCH REACTIONS TO ETHIOPIAN POST-ELECTION PERIOD [...] (C) Embassy Africa watcher discussed developments in Ethiopia with MFA AF DAS-equivalent Jean-Christophe Belliard June 6. Belliard recounted that he had recently discussed Ethiopia with NSC Africa Advisor Courville and UK FCO AF A/S-equivalent in London. During that meeting, he said, there w [...]	2005-06-06 16:51:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PGOV PHUM ET FR
05PARIS3989	FRENCH JUDICIARY TO INVESTIGATE GUANTANAMO [...] (C) Summary: A Paris appeals court recently ordered two investigating judges, Sophie Clement and Nathalie Frydman, to investigate charges that ex-Guantanamo detainees Nizar Sassi and Mourad Benchellali (currently in pretrial detention in France) were "illegally arrested and arbitrarily detained [...]	2005-06-08 16:37:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR PTER KJUS
05PARIS4039	CONTINUED FRENCH CONCERNS ON BAGHDAD AIRPORT ROAD [...] (U) This message contains a guidance request in para 4. 2. (C) On the margins of a June 7 discussion on deliverables for the U.S.-EU conference on Iraq (septel),MFA DAS-equivalent for Iraq/Iran/Arabian Gulf Affairs Antoine Sivan raised continuing GoF security concerns on access to the Bag [...]	2005-06-09 16:46:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PTER IZ FR
05PARIS4042	MDA: FRENCH RESPONSE TO SWISS CIRCULAR NOTE ON [...] (C) Poloff raised the issue of support for convening a diplomatic conference in October to adopt a Third Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions June 7 with Beatrice le Fraper du Hellen, MFA IO DAS-equivalent for human rights and humanitarian issues. After consulting with MFA IO Director [...]	2005-06-09 17:02:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC PHUM PREF PREL IS SZ FR ICRC
05PARIS4043	DELIVERABLES FOR U.S.-EU IRAQ CONFERENCE: NO NEW [...] (C) Summary and comment: The GoF will not be announcing new assistance for Iraq at the June 22 U.S.-EU conference, which FM Douste-Blazy is likely to attend. MFA officials responded somewhat defensively to our points encouraging additional French support for Iraq, and stressed that the Bruss [...]	2005-06-09 17:25:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID EIND ECON FR IZ EUN
05PARIS4067	SCENESETTER FOR TREASURY SECRETARY SNOW'S JUNE 15 [...] (C) We warmly welcome your visit and look forward to your assistance in moving forward the deep and complex relationship we enjoy with France. As a member of the G8 and the UN Security Council with extensive ties to former colonies around the world, France plays a prominent role in the intern [...]	2005-06-10 13:17:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV EIND ETRD EFIN FR
05PARIS407	FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON MARKING AND TRACING [...] SUMMARY. On January 20, poloff met with Jean-Francois Guillaume, the MFA Action Officer responsible for small arms and light weapons nonproliferation, who explained that the French will support European initiatives at the second negotiation session of the UN Program of Action on Small Arms an [...]	2005-01-21 19:02:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM FR UN
05PARIS408	FRANCE SHARES U.S. CONCERNS ON IRANIAN [...] No summary [...]	2005-01-21 19:15:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ IR FR
05PARIS409	CHIRAC WINS ONE IN HIS BATTLE WITH SARKOZY FOR THE [...] (C) Summary: President Jacques Chirac has won a significant skirmish in his on-going battle with arch-rival Nicolas Sarkozy, currently president of the governing Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party. At a "surprise appearance" at a caucus of UMP National Assembly deputies, Chirac demanded [...]	2005-01-21 19:47:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	EU FR PGOV
05PARIS4095	FRENCH ON JUNE 13 GAERC [...] (C) Poloff spoke with MFA Common Foreign and Security Policy deputy chief Pascal LeDeunff on June 6 about the upcoming GAERC, and followed up with reftel (A) points on June 7 and reftel (D) points on June 10. Reftel B notes that the French continue to oppose reimposing measures against the Cu [...]	2005-06-10 15:32:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CM IR IZ LE YI PARM FR EUN
05PARIS4103	TOGO: MEETING WITH FORMER MINISTER BOKO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Togo's former Interior Minister Francois Boko visited the Embassy on June 8 to discuss his visa request and prospective travel to the U.S. He also discussed events in Togo, stating that he had little faith that Faure was truly committed to democratic reform. He discussed the [...]	2005-06-10 15:50:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SNAR TO FR
05PARIS4105	FRENCH RESPONSE TO HAITIAN ELECTIONS BUDGET [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA DAS-equivalent for Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean Gilles Bienvenu June 8. Bienvenu lamented the rising electoral costs and noted that poor choices had been made in the process. He indicated that while the EU would supplement its cont [...]	2005-06-10 16:20:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC EAID EFIN PGOV PREL FR HA UN
05PARIS4106	STAFFDEL TALWAR DISCUSSES LEBANON/SYRIA, IRAN/EU-3, AND IRAQ WITH SENIOR FRENCH OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary: Visiting SFRC Professional Staff Member Puneet Talwar met separately with MFA NEA A/S-equivalent Jean Francois-Thibault and Presidential Middle East/Americas advisor Dominique Boche June 3 and discussed Lebanon/Syria, EU-3 negotiations with Iran, and Iraq. Thibault expressed con [...]	2005-06-10 17:29:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL XF IZ IR LE FR
05PARIS4119	A/S FRIED MEETING WITH FRENCH OPINION LEADERS [...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Daniel Fried met a small group of French opinion leaders June 7 to discuss next steps following France's rejection of the European constitution. A/S Fried emphasized that, although the U.S. did not have a position on the Constitut [...]	2005-06-13 12:27:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR
05PARIS4141	POLICY PLANNING CHIEF LEVY ON WHY AND WHAT NEXT OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 10 discussion with visiting acting NIC Chairman David Gordon and NIO for Europe Ambassador Richard Kauzlarich, Pierre Levy, the head of the MFA's policy planning staff, offered his assessment of the reasons for and implications of France's "no" vote on the EU constitution [...]	2005-06-13 16:07:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR EUN
05PARIS4152	FRENCH DISCUSS UN REFORM ISSUES WITH NEWT GINGRICH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former House Speaker Gingrich's May 31-June 1 visit to France, in his capacity as Co-Chair of the U.S. Institute for Peace's Task Force on the UN, offered an opportunity for GOF officials to provide views on UN reform issues. On the issue of Security Council enlargement, the F [...]	2005-06-14 08:27:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AORC PHUM FR UNSC
05PARIS4153	ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRIED'S PARIS MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: A Europe turned inward in the wake of the rejection of the EU constitution by voters in France and the Netherlands would set back U.S.- EU cooperation in meeting global challenges, and would be unwelcome, visiting Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried told President Chirac's Diplomatic [...]	2005-06-14 09:56:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR EUN
05PARIS4154	ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRIED'S PARIS MEETING WITH MFA [...] (C) Summary: MFA Political Director Stanislas de Laboulaye told visiting Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried June 8 that French and Dutch voters' rejection of the EU constitution had precipitated a crisis in European affairs. This was not the EU's first such set-back, but it was serious and woul [...]	2005-06-14 09:58:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR EUN
05PARIS4235	CHIRAC TO PRESS HIS ATTACK ON THE BRITISH REBATE [...] (C) Summary: President Jacques Chirac, licking his wounds in the wake of French voters' rejection of the EU constitution May 29, will attempt to negotiate results at the June 16-17 European Council that bolster his sagging popularity at home and demonstrate that he "heard the message" of the [...]	2005-06-15 17:43:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR EUN
05PARIS426	GOF OFFICIALS ON BAGHDAD SECURITY CONCERNS, GOF [...] (C) Summary: MFA A/S-equivalent for Middle East/North Africa Jean-Francois Thibault stressed GoF security concerns regarding its personnel in Baghdad, during an introductory meeting with Pol/MC January 21. Noting that he had been instructed to raise the issue, Thibault asserted that increasi [...]	2005-01-24 17:50:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR IZ FR
05PARIS4307	FRENCH REACTION TO EU ENERGY DIALOGUE WITH IRAN [...] (C) EconOff delivered reftel demarch to Jean-Claude Nolla, Deputy Director for Energy and Transport (DAS-equivalent) in the MFA Economic Directorate. Nolla was unaware of the recent pronouncements by Francois Lamoureaux, the European Commission's DG for Energy. Nolla promised to look into it, [...]	2005-06-17 14:54:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	IR EPET ETTC PARM PREL
05PARIS4311	UN REFORM: AMB. TAHIR-KHELI'S FRANCE CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In June 15 consultations in Paris with senior GoF officials, the Secretary's Senior Advisor on UN Reform, Amb. Tahir-Kheli, reviewed U.S. and GoF positions on the UN reform process. French priorities for reform include development, environmental governance, peace and security inc [...]	2005-06-17 16:11:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KUNR AORC PGOV PHUM SENV FR UNGA UNSC
05PARIS433	FRENCH NOTIFIED OF LATEST ENEMY COMBATANT STATUS [...] No summary [...]	2005-01-25 08:59:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KAWC PINR PREL FR
05PARIS439	FRANCE AND WEST AFRICA [...] (C) SUMMARY: This is the last of a series of messages (reftels) briefly summarizing French relations with African nations. For the last two years, France's Africa policy has, of necessity, been focused on the crisis in Cote d'Ivoire. Two years after France hosted the Linas-Marcoussis and Kleb [...]	2005-01-25 13:27:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BN UV CV GA GH GV PU IV LI ML MR NG NI SG SL TO XY FR
05PARIS4466	FRANCE: GOF READY TO ADVANCE SELECTEE EMERGENCY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 22 meeting with GOF officials, Emboffs received assurances that the GOF would work to resolve the remaining issues in Selectee Emergency Amendment (EA) implementation. After a review of prior progress and outstanding issues on the range of aviation EAs, the Embassy agree [...]	2005-06-24 16:58:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR PTER FR
05PARIS4558	FRANCE ON CUBA [...] (C) Summary: US Interest Section Havana Principal Officer Designate Michael Parmly met June 27 with MFA WHA A/S-equivalent Daniel Parfait to discuss the French position on Cuba. Parfait underlined that the French share our overall assessment of the Castro regime; however, they favor a slight [...]	2005-06-29 13:42:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL FR CU
05PARIS4562	PRELIMINARY FRENCH REACTION TO EXECUTIVE ORDER ON [...] (C) We shared June 28 reftel talking points with the MFA's Disarmament Office Deputy Veronique Vouland, previewing the planned release of the Executive Order on proliferation financing and asking for French support. Vouland, accompanied by disarmament desk officer Etienne de Gonneville, took [...]	2005-06-29 16:12:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MNUC ETTC IR FR
05PARIS4644	FRENCH MUSLIM COUNCIL ELECTION RESULTS [...] (C) Summary: The French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) held elections June 19, with Interior Minister Sarkozy lauding an estimated 85% turnout rate. The Morocco-linked National Federation of French Muslims (FNMF) consolidated its position as the leading group within the CFCM, winning an a [...]	2005-07-01 13:50:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KISL AL MO FR
05PARIS4655	PSI: FRENCH MFA RESPONSE TO U/S JOSEPH ON STATUS [...] (C) We delivered on June 24 the reftel letter from Undersecretary Joseph informing MFA Political Director Laboulaye of the U.S. wish to dissolve the PSI Core Group by June 30 through silence procedure. On June 30, Laboulaye's office conveyed to us his response for U/S Joseph, in which Laboula [...]	2005-07-01 15:48:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MNUC PREL KNNP FR
05PARIS4659	FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER'S JULY 5 VISIT TO [...] (C) Upon his appointment as foreign minister June 2, much of the French press and many political pundits (fed by, among others, disdainful career diplomats at the MFA) wrote off Philippe Douste-Blazy as a dilettante. His lack of foreign policy experience, it was said, and penchant for currying [...]	2005-07-01 16:55:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR FR
05PARIS4661	FRENCH RESPONSE TO NICARAGUAN MANPADS DEMARCHE [...] (C) Poloffs delivered demarche (ref A) June 20 to MFA desk officer for small arms and light weapons (SA/LW) Jean-Francois Guillaume and July 1 to MFA DAS-equivalent for Central America and the Caribbean Gilles Bienvenu. Guillaume indicated that the GOF is focused on the destruction of arms i [...]	2005-07-01 17:06:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PARM PREL PTER MASS FR
05PARIS4705	COUNSELOR ZELIKOW'S CONSULTATIONS WITH FRENCH MFA [...] (C) Summary: Counselor Zelikow reviewed general themes in U.S. foreign policy with MFA Political Director Stanislas Laboulaye and senior ministry officials. The June 28 meeting took place in conjunction with the Counselor's anti-terrorism consultations in Paris (septel). In response to a Fren [...]	2005-07-06 12:04:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MNUC CH IR IS FR PETER
05PARIS4713	COUNSELOR ZELIKOW'S CONSULTATIONS WITH PRIME [...] (C) Summary: Counselor Philip Zelikow met June 27 with Christophe Farnaud, PM de Villepin's acting diplomatic advisor, to discuss a range of issues, including ways to further US-French C/T cooperation and the importance of strengthening US-French strategic and political dialogue. Farnaud said [...]	2005-07-06 14:18:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER FR
05PARIS4716	FRENCH WILL DEMARCHE SOUTH AFRICA ON ARISTIDE [...] (C) MFA AF PDAS-equivalent Elisabeth Barbier told Embassy Africa watcher July 5 at the Ambassador's July 4th reception that the GoF would approach the SAG to express concern about former Haitian President Aristide's desire to return to Haiti. 2. (C) Africa watcher checked with Remi Marechaux [...]	2005-07-06 15:37:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL HA SF FR
05PARIS472	EU3-IRAN - FRENCH READOUT OF PARIS AGREEMENT [...] (C) We met January 24 with MFA A/S-equivalent Director for Strategic Affairs and Disarmament Philippe Carre, who travels to Washington January 26-28 for consultations in the Department, the NSC, and DOD/OSD. In response to our questions on the EU3-Iran January 17-18 talks, Carre gave us a rea [...]	2005-01-26 16:19:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL IR FR
05PARIS4751	PDAS CHENEY MEETS WITH MFA'S A/S-EQUIVALENT [...] (C) Summary: NEA PDAS Liz Cheney met July 1 with Jean-Francois Thibault, the MFA's A/S-equivalent for the Middle East, and focused on Lebanon while also briefly touching on Iran. The two agreed that July 25 and 26 should be the next dates for a Core Group meeting in Beirut. They also agreed [...]	2005-07-07 15:48:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LE SY EAID PTER MOPS FR
05PARIS4755	CHAD: FRENCH VIEWS POST-REFERENDUM [...] (C) In a meeting with MFA AF PDAS-equivalent Elisabeth Barbier on July 1 to discuss various Africa issues, Embassy Africa watcher raised the situation in Chad after the June 6 referendum. Barbier responded that the MFA was concerned about the situation and that the French Ambassador to Chad s [...]	2005-07-07 16:41:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	CD FR PGOV PREL SU
05PARIS4760	PS FIRST SECRETARY FRANCOIS HOLLANDE UNDERWHELMS [...] (C) Summary: Francois Hollande, First Secretary of France's deeply fragmented Socialist Party (PS),on June 30 presented his take on a variety of French, EU and foreign policy issues to an informal "Circle of Ambassadors" group, attended by Charge. Hollande's analysis impressed participants as [...]	2005-07-08 08:57:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL FR
05PARIS4801	UZBEKISTAN: FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to MFA IO central Asia action officer Alice Guitton July 5 and followed up with Uzbekistan desk officer Bertrand Buchwalter July 8 as Guitton was unreachable. Buchwalter said that the MFA's Eastern European division still needed to coordinate a final position [...]	2005-07-08 16:34:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UZ KG FR UNSC
05PARIS4803	DEMARCHE ON G-4 FRAMEWORK RESOLUTION ON UN REFORM: [...] (C) PolMinCouns made ref A points to MFA IO Director Jean-Maurice Ripert July 8. Ripert said that the GOF understands the U.S. position on both the substance of the G-4 proposal, and on the process to get to both UNSC enlargement and other necessary UN reforms. While understanding our ration [...]	2005-07-08 16:42:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR UNSC
05PARIS4830	FRENCH DEMARCHE TO SOUTH AFRICA ON ARISTIDE [...] (C) MFA Southern Africa DAS-equivalent Remi Marechaux called Embassy Africa watcher July 11 to report that the French DCM in Pretoria had raised Aristide's activities in South Africa with the SAG July 8. Marechaux said that the DCM met with DFA DDG for Americas and Europe Ndumiso Ntshinga, wh [...]	2005-07-11 15:19:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL HA SF FR UNSC
05PARIS4833	COTE D'IVOIRE: FRENCH VIEWS POST-PRETORIA II [...] (C) Embassy Africa watcher met with MFA AF PDAS-equivalent Elisabeth Barbier on July 1, to discuss various African issues (Paris 4660 re Aristide/South Africa, Paris 4755 re Chad) including the situation in Cote d'Ivoire after the Pretoria II agreement. Barbier stated that she believed the ag [...]	2005-07-11 16:03:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IV SF FR
05PARIS4868	FRENCH DEPUTIES PROTEST INCARCERATION OF NYT [...] (U) SUMMARY: French National Assembly members Pierre Lellouche and Francois Loncle visited the Embassy July 12 to protest the imprisonment of New York Times journalist Judith Miller. They also requested access to Miller in prison. Following the meeting Lellouche and Loncle met across the str [...]	2005-07-12 16:47:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KJUS FR
05PARIS487	VISITING CHALDEAN ARCHBISHOP OF TEHRAN ON [...] (C) Visiting Chaldean Archbishop of Tehran Ramzi Garmou (protect) offered impressions of the difficult situation of Christians in Iran and Iraq during a meeting with poloff January 14. (Note: Garmou had contacted poloff to seek Embassy assistance in applying for a NIV to attend the National P [...]	2005-01-27 10:13:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM IR IZ FR
05PARIS488	THE FRENCH ON AFGHANISTAN: SYNERGY NOT INTEGRATION [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a series of meetings on January 21 and 22, Coordinator for Afghanistan Ambassador Maureen Quinn and a State, Department of Defense/OSD and JCS team met with several representatives from the French MFA, MOD and Elysee (President's office) to discuss the French outlook and comm [...]	2005-01-27 10:14:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SNAR EAID AF FR NATO
05PARIS4897	FRENCH AGREE WITH USG POSITION ON EMERGENCY [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-13 15:45:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD KPAL IS FR UNGA UNSC
05PARIS490	IMMUNITY FOR CHIRAC:TRIAL BALLOON OR OVER-ZEALOUS [...] (C) A coterie of Chirac supporters wasted no time last week in shooting down a proposal to accord former presidents senator-for-life status. The initiative was widely seen as an effort to protect Chirac from party funding charges once he leaves office by extending him the immunity from prose [...]	2005-01-27 10:49:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI FR
05PARIS4916	UZBEKISTAN: FRANCE WORKING THROUGH EU, OSCE [...] (C) MFA IO action officer Nicolas Kassianides called poloff July 15 to provide further details on the GoF response to our demarche (Refs A and B) regarding action by the UNSC and the UNSYG on the situation in Uzbekistan and of Uzbek refugees in Kyrgyzstan. Kassianides said that while the GoF [...]	2005-07-15 16:12:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UZ KG FR UNSC
05PARIS4918	NABIL SHAATH ON UNGA SEPARATION BARRIER ISSUE, [...] (C) Following reftel report that FM Douste-Blazy would raise French concerns about an emergency special session at UNGA on the separation barrier, PA DPM Nabil Shaath confirmed to the DCM July 14 that Douste-Blazy had indeed raised the issue with him. Shaath said he would report GOF concerns [...]	2005-07-15 16:16:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IS FR UNGA UNSC
05PARIS4919	SPEAKING TO FRENCH MUSLIM LEADERS ABOUT TERRORIST [...] (C) Post maintains an active dialogue with leaders in the French Muslim community. During the past year, Poloffs have met with the leadership of the three main organizations within the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM),which was established in 2003 as the main interlocutor of the GOF [...]	2005-07-15 16:34:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO PREL PTER KISL FR
05PARIS4920	FRENCH RESPONSE ON JULY 18 GAERC [...] (U) We delivered reftel points on July 6 to Caroline Ferrari, sous-directeur for EU External Relations, and Jean-Louis Falconi, Chief of the MFA's CFSP unit. We discussed the points with Ferrari on July 8 and with Falconi on July 15. Turkey ------ 2. (C) Ferrari noted that she expecte [...]	2005-07-15 16:57:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL IR LE SY TU UZ FR UN
05PARIS4954	CHIRAC'S BASTILLE DAY INTERVIEW: A WEAKENED [...] (SBU) Fighting to re-establish his relevance, President Chirac began the now traditional Bastille Day interview of France's President by casting himself as the leader of France's anti-terrorism effort. Thereafter, in the hour-long exchange with two leading TV anchorpersons, Chirac focused on [...]	2005-07-18 15:08:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON
05PARIS4977	MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME: 06 JULY [...] (C) Summary: On 6 July 2005, Embassy EST officer attended a meeting of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Points of Contacts (POCS) held at the Korean Embassy in Paris. This meeting focused on preparations for the September MTCR Plenary in Madrid. 2. (C) Summary, Continued: [...]	2005-07-19 12:02:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC FR KS KSCA MNUC PARM PREL TSPA MTCRE
05PARIS5004	MFA UNCERTAIN ON TRANSNISTRIA CONFERENCE, [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting July 18 with POL M/C and Poloff, Jean-Francois Terral, the MFA's A/S-equivalent for the Balkans, Russia and the former Soviet space, said France was studying our ref A demarche supporting a multilateral conference on the Transnistria conflict, but was uncertain of its [...]	2005-07-19 15:04:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	OPDC PARM PBTS PHUM PREL PGOV MD FR UZ EUN OSCE
05PARIS5041	U.S.-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR COOPERATION INITIATIVE - [...] (U) On July 19, EST Counselor read points contained reftel regarding U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative to Messrs. Nicholas Roche and David Bertolotti, both of the Division of Disarmament and Nuclear Nonproliferation in the Foreign Ministry. They took careful notes, asked question [...]	2005-07-20 16:03:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	IN KNNP ENRG ETTC PARM PREL FR
05PARIS5045	PARIS VISIT OF CDU LEADER MERKEL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The front-page photos of CDU leader and Germany's probable next Chancellor Angela Merkel and UMP president and Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy in today's IHT and FT illustrate the tantalizing prospect that the pair holds for European commentators. The reality, however, is that [...]	2005-07-20 16:56:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR GM EUN
05PARIS5093	PS FIRST SECRETARY FRANCOIS HOLLANDE UNDERWHELMS [...] (C) Summary: Francois Hollande, First Secretary of France's deeply fragmented Socialist Party (PS),on June 30 presented his take on a variety of French, EU and foreign policy issues to an informal "Circle of Ambassadors" group, attended by Charge. Hollande's analysis impressed participants [...]	2005-07-22 13:00:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL FR
05PARIS5106	FRENCH RESPONSE TO VENEZUELA DEMARCHE [...] (C) Summary: Poloff delivered ref A demarche July 20 to MFA Venezuela desk officer Hedi Picquart. Picquart said that the GOF shared many of our concerns about the Chavez government, particularly in light of recent GOV activities regarding the French oil company Total. At least for the time [...]	2005-07-22 15:26:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR VE
05PARIS5113	GOF FULLY SUPPORTS OUR APPROACH ON SYRIAN-LEBANESE [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-22 16:27:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SY LE ECON ETRD FR
05PARIS5130	FRENCH WILL RAISE OBJECTIONS TO CHINESE REJECTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-25 13:19:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ETTC PREL FR KFIN UNSC
05PARIS5143	NEA/PI DIRECTOR ROMANOWSKI PROMOTES GREATER [...] (C) Summary: NEA/PI Director Alina Romanowski stressed the need for greater complementarity and information sharing between U.S. and French efforts to promote reform in the Broader Middle East, during a July 18-20 visit to Paris. French officials were receptive to Romanowski's emphasis on comp [...]	2005-07-26 10:04:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PHUM EAID XF FR KMEPI
05PARIS5157	FRANCE WILL REVIEW THEIR POSITION ON LANGUAGE IN [...] (C) On July 25, the DCM delivered reftel demarche on problematic language in the UNSCR 1267 successor resolution to MFA Political Director Stanislas de Laboulaye. Laboulaye made three points: 1) the U.S. and France have been working well in this area and need to continue doing so; 2) particul [...]	2005-07-26 13:55:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC PTER EFIN FR UNSC KTFIN
05PARIS5194	FRENCH WILL SUPPORT IRAQ RESOLUTION ON TERRORIST [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-27 16:53:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ FR UNSC
05PARIS521	PRESIDENT CHIRAC'S PROSPECTS FOR 2005 AND BEYOND [...] (C) Although, President Chirac lost some ground with France's electorate on domestic policy issues during 2004, he more than made up for it -- finishing the year with a strong public image -- by his performance on foreign policy issues. His projection of himself as a proud President, standing [...]	2005-01-28 11:52:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ELAB ECON FR
05PARIS5214	RESPONSES TO EU-3 REQUESTS - FRANCE [...] (C) During introductory calls July 28, incoming and outgoing DCMs provided reftel response to the EU-3's July 20 questions regarding the proposal to Iran to MFA Political Director Laboulaye. Laboulaye already had received substance from the French embassy in Washington. He commented only t [...]	2005-07-28 13:58:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KNNP FR
05PARIS5220	UPDATE ON FRENCH TRAINING OFFERS FOR IRAQ, [...] (C) Summary and comment: The French have begun contributing to the EU "JUSTLEX" program, with 40 Iraqi police officers now in France for a one-month rule of law training program, the first tranche of a group of 175 slated to receive such training. MFA contacts report less progress, however, [...]	2005-07-28 16:50:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS PINS IZ FR
05PARIS5232	AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON FINANCE MINISTER BRETON [...] (C) SUMMARY. Finance Minister Breton underlined to Ambassador Stapleton his commitment to press for economic reforms, including tax reform, as a way to stimulate economic growth in France. He emphasized his "great love" for the United States and called himself a great friend of the United S [...]	2005-07-29 11:22:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL FR
05PARIS5239	UNSCR 1540 -- FRANCE ALL FOR PROMOTING 1540 [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-29 15:18:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL MNUC FR
05PARIS5241	FRENCH MFA UPDATE ON MAGHREB ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting with visiting NEA/MAG Acting Director William Jordan, MFA DAS-equivalent for the Maghreb Christian Testot reported continued difficulties with the Algerian government over a February 2005 French law lauding achievements from the French colonial period, with Algeria [...]	2005-07-29 16:32:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AG MO TS LY FR
05PARIS5263	PM SHARON VISIT HERALDS SYMBOLIC UPTURN IN [...] (C) Summary and comment: Israeli PM Sharon's successful July 26-29 visit to France was marked by warm atmospherics and ostentatious emphasis on improving bilateral relations from both sides, with many French media outlets heralding a new "honeymoon" in French-Israeli relations. The GoF, in we [...]	2005-08-01 17:17:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IS KPAL SY IR PTER PARM FR
05PARIS5298	FRENCH REACTIONS TO ITER SUCCESS [...] (C) Summary: French officials are almost uniformly positive about succeeding in the negotiations to secure the south of France as the home for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). Despite claims - many by French science bloggers -- that French disproportionate, fi [...]	2005-08-02 15:57:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	TRGY ENRG ECON PGOV FR KNUC
05PARIS5301	ALLAN HUBBARD'S CALL ON FINANCE MINISTER BRETON [...] (C) SUMMARY. Finance Minister Breton underlined to National Economic Council Director Allan Hubbard and Ambassador Stapleton his commitment to press for economic reforms, in large part by "educating" the French public. Breton believes that France should enjoy growth of 3.0% per year and that [...]	2005-08-03 08:00:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL FR
05PARIS5307	VILLEPIN STIRS THE POT ON TURKISH EU ACCESSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an August 2 radio interview, PM Villepin appeared to raise the bar for French support for the opening of accession negotiations with Turkey scheduled to begin October 3, saying that, "It doesn't appear to me conceivable that such a negotiation process can be opened with a count [...]	2005-08-03 11:13:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR TU EUN
05PARIS5335	ALLAN HUBBARD'S CALL ON INTERIOR MINISTER SARKOZY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Stapleton and National Economic Council Director Allan Hubbard met with Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy on August 1. Sarkozy expressed his admiration for President Bush and said he looked forward to the opportunity to tackle France's economic and social problems with th [...]	2005-08-04 10:27:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV FR
05PARIS5350	FURTHER CLARIFICATION OF VILLEPIN'S STATEMENT ON [...] (C) Summary: Challenged to explain Prime Minister de Villepin's August 2 remarks on Turkish accession to the EU (reftel),MFA Acting European Director and Assistant to the PM's EU Advisor defended them as a justified response to the Turkish statement on its non-recognition of Cyprus. Both o [...]	2005-08-04 16:40:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR EUN
05PARIS5352	FRENCH MFA OFFICIAL VIEWS MAURITANIA COUP AS [...] (C) GOF MFA DAS-equivalent for West Africa Bruno Foucher on August 4 said that France viewed Mauritania's coup as "consolidated" (i.e., concluded). He said that the key remaining question involved Mauritanian forces which remain loyal to President Taya and are conducting anti-terrorist oper [...]	2005-08-05 07:29:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ASEC PINR MOPS CASC MR FR
05PARIS5385	FUEL SUPPLY ASSURANCES PACKAGE DELIVERED TO FRENCH [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-05 16:25:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM FR
05PARIS5386	FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER'S VISITS TO CHAD AND NIGER [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to an MFA official, Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy's stops in Chad and Niger late in July allowed him to (1) exchange views with Chad President Deby on Sudan issues (France to provide refugee-related support to Chad; Deby skeptical of the international communi [...]	2005-08-05 16:28:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CD NG FR
05PARIS5441	ECONOMIC PATRIOTISM, ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE, AND [...] (C) As reported reftel, the GOF continues to enact elements of Parliamentarian Bernard Carayon's "economic intelligence" program, as prescribed in his 2003 report. An important next step will be debate and ultimately passage of legislation (inspired by the U.S. Exon-Florio laws) which would [...]	2005-08-10 09:55:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ECON EIND PGOV FR
05PARIS5459	THE FUTURE OF FRANCE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA [...] (C) SUMMARY: France faces several challenges to its traditional leadership role among its former colonies and Africa's other francophone countries. We foresee a gradual decline of French influence in Africa, based on generational change, an increased willingness on the part of Africans to l [...]	2005-08-11 12:09:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM XA FR
05PARIS546	FRENCH VIEWS ON BAKASSI, CAMEROON ECONOMIC [...] (C) During Ambassador Marquardt's Paris consultations January 28, Michel de Bonnecorse, President Chirac's advisor on African affairs, stressed the importance of persuading Nigerian President Obasanjo to comply with the ICJ ruling on Bakassi. 2. (C) Bonnecorse said that at the Francophonie [...]	2005-01-28 17:53:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS CM NI FR
05PARIS547	FRENCH ON JANUARY 31 GAERC [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche points to MFA CFSP deputy Pascal LeDeunff on Jan. 18 and followed in conversation with LeDeunff Jan 28. LeDeunff noted that the French are awaiting "with enthusiasm" the visits to Europe of both President Bush and Secretary Rice. With regard to the Presid [...]	2005-01-28 17:56:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM EAID KPAL BK CU IR IZ UP CH FR EUN
05PARIS5471	FRENCH DENY CHIRAC MESSAGE TO PAPADOPOLOUS; REMAIN [...] (C) Summary: Both Presidency and MFA contacts have denied Cypriot press reports that President Chirac last week passed a message to Cypriot President Papadopoulos in which he argued that EU accession talks with Turkey should not begin until Ankara recognized the Government of Cyprus, and asked [...]	2005-08-11 18:04:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR TU EUN
05PARIS548	GOF TO WELCOME IRAQI ELECTIONS AS IMPORTANT STEP [...] (C) Summary: The GoF is likely to welcome the January 30 Iraqi elections as an important step, but not with the same adjectives as Washington. French officials, while expressing concern over the conditions under which elections are taking place, stress that it is not in the GoF's interest to [...]	2005-01-28 18:20:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ FR

05PARIS5489	FRANCE SUPPORTS EFFORT TO ENSURE PEACEFUL GAZA [...] (C) We discussed ref (a) points on the need to ensure a peaceful Gaza disengagement with MFA DAS-equivalent for Levant/Israeli-Palestinian affairs Christian Jouret August 10. Jouret fully concurred with U.S. views on the critical importance of Gaza disengagement and the urgent need to ensure [...]	2005-08-12 16:30:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV IS GZ FR
05PARIS5608	GOF: ISAF U.N. MANDATE STRONG ENOUGH AS IS; [...] (C) On August 9 poloff spoke with MFA Afghanistan Desk Officer, Cyril Gerardon, who said that the MFA was still studying the mandate in conjunction with MOD officials to determine what changes, if any, would need to be made. On August 18 poloff met with Alexandra Novosseloff of the MOD offic [...]	2005-08-19 15:22:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	AF MARR PREL FR NATO UNSC
05PARIS5610	TURKISH READOUT OF ARPAKAN-FRENCH CONSULTATIONS ON [...] (C) Summary: Turkish Deputy Under Secretary Apakan's August 17 and 18 discussions with officials in FM Douste-Blazy's and PM de Villepin's cabinets provided no new clarity on French motives and intentions. The French rehearsed familiar arguments about the need to take French public opinion [...]	2005-08-19 17:18:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR TU CY
05PARIS579	FRENCH "EXPLAIN AND REASSURE" ON TRIP TO RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Barnier and Defense Minister Alliot-Marie visited Russia January 20-21 for bi-annual security consultations with their counterparts. The consultations drew higher-than-expected visibility from the French press, although an MFA contact told us that the meetings fo [...]	2005-01-31 15:19:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR RU
05PARIS5818	CHIRAC DEFINES FRENCH FOREIGN POLICY IN ANNUAL [...] (C) Summary: President Chirac delivered a speech August 29 to France's assembled ambassadors in an annual event this year focused on France's policy toward the EU in the wake of the failed May 29 referendum on a constitutional treaty. As such, it was clearly aimed more at reassuring French c [...]	2005-08-29 17:01:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MNUC PTER FR EUN UNSC
05PARIS5861	MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): U.S. [...] (C) On August 30, ESTH/NP Counselor provided French MTCR Point-of-Contact David Bertolotti subject paper on high performance steels for missile applications for the September Madrid MTCR Plenary Information Exchange session. Bertolotti said that while he would distribute it, he considered it [...]	2005-08-30 16:00:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	KSCA PREL PARM MNUC ETTC TSPA FR
05PARIS5864	FRENCH RESPONSE ON SEPT 1-2 GYMNICH: CHIRAC AND FM [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to Pascal LeDeunff, deputy of the MFA's Common Foreign and Security Policy unit, the French have tabled a paper for discussion on Turkey at the September 1-2 EU Gymnich meeting. LeDeunff told us Aug. 30 that FM Douste-Blazy will meet with President Chirac Aug. 31 to de [...]	2005-08-30 17:07:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL PREL IR CH TU IZ VE CY FR EUN
05PARIS5926	GOF CAUTIOUSLY SUPPORTIVE IN PUBLIC, PRIVATELY [...] (C) Summary and comment: The initial GoF public reaction to presentation of the Iraqi constitution has been low-key and stressed GoF support for the Iraqi political process (vice the constitution itself),and the need for Iraqi authorities to build support for the document from all of Iraq's p [...]	2005-08-31 17:58:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ FR
05PARIS5942	FM DOUSTE-BLAZY'S SPEECH TO FRENCH AMBASSADORS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: FM Douste-Blazy kicked off the August 30 second session of the annual Ambassadors' Conference with a more detailed elaboration or "road map" for President Chirac's foreign policy "grand orientation" of the previous day (reftel). On relations with the U.S., Douste-Blazy said th [...]	2005-09-01 13:48:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU FR EUN UNSC
05PARIS5943	POSITIVE INITIAL FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON [...] (S) Poloff discussed reftel points on isolating Syria at UNGA with MFA desk officer for Syria/Lebanon Remy Bouallegue and MFA desk officer for UN/Middle East Affairs Salina Grenet on August 31. Bouallegue reiterated that the GoF would not receive Syrian officials at UNGA and was maintaining it [...]	2005-09-01 13:57:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV SY FR
05PARIS598	MFA ROUND-UP ON BILATERAL ECONOMIC ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior economic policy officials at the MFA have noted their relief at the three-month "cease fire" over the Airbus/Boeing case but explain that contrary to the U.S. views, they believe the soon to be developed A350 would be covered by the 1992 aircraft agreement. They explained [...]	2005-01-31 17:11:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD KIPR EAID EFIN TRGY PREL FR
05PARIS5990	USUNESCO: CULTURAL DIVERSITY JUGGERNAUT [...] (C) This cable is classified by DCM Andrew Koss, for reasons: 1.4 (b) and (d). Is UNESCO in the throes of mass hysteria --------------------------------------------- -- 2. (C) Summary: A picture is beginning to emerge of French and EU pressure on other UNESCO members to get the draft [...]	2005-09-02 14:04:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	SCUL ETRD EU CJAN UNESCO
05PARIS601	FRANCE WELCOMES IRAQI ELECTIONS AS VICTORY FOR [...] (C) Summary: Senior French officials publicly welcomed Iraq's election as a victory for the Iraqi people and the international community, while voicing caution on future necessary steps in Iraq's political transition, including an eventual withdrawal of foreign troops. President Chirac told v [...]	2005-01-31 18:26:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ FR
05PARIS6031	PRESIDENT CHIRAC HOSPITALIZED WITH "LIMITED [...] (C) Summary: President Jacques Chirac was admitted to a military hospital in Paris on the evening on Friday, September 2 for what doctors are calling a "minor vascular accident" that slightly impaired vision in one of his eyes. According to media reports, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin [...]	2005-09-06 18:11:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON
05PARIS6033	A/S FRIED'S MEETING WITH EUROPEAN DIRECTOR BRIATTA [...] (C) Summary: French MFA A/S equivalent Briatta told A/S Fried September 2 that he was "reasonably optimistic" that the EU could work out a declaration on Turkey that would allow accession negotiations to begin as scheduled on October 3, so long as the Greeks and Cypriots did not insist on new [...]	2005-09-07 07:15:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR TU EUN NATO
05PARIS6076	EUR A/S FRIED DISCUSSES MIDDLE EAST ISSUES WITH [...] (C) Summary and comment: EUR A/S Fried discussed U.S. BMENA strategy, Syria/Lebanon, and Israeli-Palestinian issues with senior French MFA and Presidency officials September 1-2. MFA NEA A/S-equivalent Thibault concurred that both the November Forum for the Future and Barcelona Summit need to [...]	2005-09-08 08:01:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL XF SY LE KMPI KDEM IS KPAL KPAO FR
05PARIS6090	P-3 COMPROMISE ON DEVELOPMENT CAN RESCUE OUTCOME [...] (C) Salvaging the Outcome Document (OD) for the High Level Summit hinges on P-3 compromise, in the view of Quai d'Orsay action officer Nicolas Kassianides. At a September 7 meeting with poloff to discuss reftel demarche, Kassianides emphasized that finding mutually acceptable language on dev [...]	2005-09-08 14:01:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PINR EAIR EAID EFIN FR UNGA
05PARIS6113	EUR A/S FRIED AND GERMAN POLITICAL DIRECTOR [...] (C) Summary: A/S Dan Fried met with German Political Director Michael Schaefer September 1 in Paris, just prior to the latter's departure for the EU's Gymnich in Cardiff. Schaefer noted the EU3 considered the Paris Agreement negotiations to have ended, given that Iran had resumed conversion ac [...]	2005-09-09 09:21:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP PARM FR NATO EUN
05PARIS6125	EUR A/S FRIED'S SEPTEMBER 1 MEETINGS WITH SENIOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 1, EUR A/S Daniel Fried met separately with French MFA Political Director Stanislas de Laboulaye, A/S-equivalent Director for Strategic Affairs Philippe Carre, and Presidential Diplomatic Advisor Maurice Gourdault-Montagne. They discussed Iran, NATO, the EU, Russia, [...]	2005-09-09 14:22:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PARM UP FR NATO EUN RU
05PARIS6133	MORE FRENCH THOUGHTS ON IAEA COMMITTEE ON [...] (C) MFA official covering IAEA issues Hugues de Longevialle shared with us September 7 some additional comments on U.S. proposals for the Committee on Safeguards and Verification. His general assessment was that the MFA agreed with many of our proposals. He also shared the following thoughts [...]	2005-09-09 16:19:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM TRGY ENRG FR IAEA
05PARIS619	AVIATION SECURITY: DOES NO-FLY MEAN "NO FLY?" [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Paris applauds Washington agencies' development of joint criteria for the inclusion of names on the Transportation Security Administration-managed No-Fly list (REF EMAIL). Rigorously applied criteria should greatly enhance the credibility of the list while ensuring it is [...]	2005-02-01 16:38:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR PTER FR
05PARIS6231	UNESCO: AMBASSADOR'S 9/2 MEETING WITH DG [...] (C) Summary. On September 2, Ambassador Oliver met with UNESCO Director-General Koichiro Matsuura to discuss the Convention on Cultural Diversity, a call for no new instruments at the upcoming General Conference in October, management issues at a UNESCO field office in Brazil, oil for food, a [...]	2005-09-14 10:45:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ETRD SCUL KPAO UNESCO EUN
05PARIS6297	FM DOUSTE-BLAZY VISIT TO PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES [...] (C) Summary: MFA officials offered a generally upbeat readout of FM Douste-Blazy's September 6-8 visit to Palestinian territories and Israel, during which he announced new French bilateral aid for Gaza, with a potential value of 40 million euros. Douste-Blazy stressed to Palestinian officials [...]	2005-09-15 14:33:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS FR
05PARIS6303	FRENCH AGREE ON NEED TO CONTINUE HAITIAN ELECTION [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to the new team of MFA officials responsible for Haiti issues: Pierre-Alain Coffinier, DAS-equivalent for Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean; Cecile Merle, Haiti desk officer; and Benoit Guidee, UN desk officer covering Haiti. Coffinier underlined [...]	2005-09-15 15:28:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR HA KCRS
05PARIS6328	FRENCH SAY AGREEMENT NEAR ON EU DECLARATION ON [...] (C) Summary: French MFA DAS-equivalent Ferrari expressed optimism on September 15 that the EU would soon come to full agreement on the text of a declaration on Turkish non-recognition of Cyprus. She downplayed the risks of a Cypriot veto, while indicating that France would continue to suppo [...]	2005-09-16 14:09:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR TU CY EUN
05PARIS6333	RESETTLEMENT OF GUANTANAMO UIGHURS - FRANCE [...] (C) DCM discussed reftel request with MFA Director of Cabinet Pierre Vimont, September 16. Vimont said the GOF would "study" the request and promised a rapid response. Vimont said that, if France were in principle able to accept some/all of the Uighurs, it would be helpful to have more deta [...]	2005-09-16 15:43:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL PTER KAWC PHUM PREF PINR FR
05PARIS6335	EUR/RPM DIRECTOR CONSULTATIONS -- FRENCH CONCERNS [...] (C) Summary: French MFA and MOD NATO experts told EUR/RPM Director Jim Warlick that closer cooperation with the U.S. was needed in order to resolve issues at NATO before they were turned over to the Military Committee. The French welcomed U.S. efforts to expand our transatlantic dialog, as ex [...]	2005-09-16 15:53:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL MOPS FR NATO OSCE
05PARIS6336	SANT'EGIDIO OUTLINES AFRICAN DIPLOMATIC OUTREACH [...] (SBU) Summary: Community of Sant'Egidio representatives reviewed their diplomatic outreach in Africa during meetings with Africa Watcher on the margins of the Community's 19th annual congress in Lyon, France, September 11-13. Sant'Egidio's 1992 role in brokering peace negotiations to end the [...]	2005-09-16 16:37:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PHUM MZ TO IV RW CG SU FR
05PARIS6342	SEPTEMBER 11-12 VISIT OF INDIAN PM SINGH TO FRANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY. On September 16, poloff met with MFA India desk officer to discuss Indian PM Manmohan Singh's meetings with the French President, Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and others September 11-13. The meetings, aimed at strengthening an already close bilateral relationship between [...]	2005-09-16 17:44:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG KNNP PARM IN IR PK UK GM FR
05PARIS6376	(U) USUNESCO: COUNTERING THE CULTURAL [...] (C) Summary. With the UNESCO general conference starting on October 3 and the General Conference Legal Committee scheduled to meet that first week, things are rapidly coming to a head. Several delegates have indicated that strong pressure in their capitals may help us to build a ground swel [...]	2005-09-20 06:21:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	SCUL ETRD EU UNESCO
05PARIS6391	U.S. PROPOSALS TO ENABLE CIVIL NUCLEAR COOPERATION [...] (C) The French govenment supports the U.S. initiative to achieve civilian nuclear cooperation with India. In that regard, Foreign Ministry officials urge fastidious cooperation with the U.S. in advance of the upcoming Nuclear Suppliers Group meeting to be in the best position to address conc [...]	2005-09-20 11:56:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PREL PARM
05PARIS6434	FRENCH EFFORTS TO BOLSTER ABUJA TALKS ON DARFUR [...] (C) Like the USG, France took steps to dissuade Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) leader Menes Menawi from staging a rival conference in Darfur during the Abuja round of talks that began September 15, Sudan deskoff Jeremie Robert told Africa Watcher in a September 20 meeting (ref A). The Quai [...]	2005-09-21 14:20:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PINR EAID PREF SU FR UNSC
05PARIS6439	FRENCH REACTION TO GERMAN ELECTION RESULTS; MOSTLY [...] (C) Summary: By and large, French politicians have interpreted the results of the German elections through purely partisan lenses -- and with an eye on the 2007 presidential elections in France. They find in this weekend's results across the Rhine primarily cautionary lessons against party [...]	2005-09-21 15:04:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR GM EUN
05PARIS6442	FRENCH SUPPORT LISTING LTTE BUT WARY OF "TIMING" [...] (C) On September 20, we delivered reftel demarche encouraging an EU listing of the LTTE as a terrorist organization to Julien Deruffe, the MFA's senior desk officer for counter-terrorism. Deruffe said the French inter-agency process had concluded that LTTE met EU criteria for being listed as [...]	2005-09-21 15:52:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KTFN PREL PTER CO FR
05PARIS6486	MFA DISCUSSES COORDINATING ASSISTANCE ON BELARUS [...] (C) Summary: Aurelia Bouchez_, the MFA's DAS-equivalent for Russia and the former Soviet space, welcomed reftel demarche on promoting democratic and election reforms in Belarus, although she wondered how effective external broadcasts would be given the technical difficulties of transmitting ra [...]	2005-09-22 16:14:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID KDEM PREL BO FR RU
05PARIS651	GOF WELCOMES MARONITE PATRIARCH VISIT TO PARIS; [...] (C) Summary: The GoF continued high-profile outreach to Lebanon's opposition with the January 28-29 visit to Paris of Maronite Patriarch Sfeir, who met with President Chirac and FM Barnier and had a historic, private meeting with Paris-based Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun. Chirac s [...]	2005-02-02 13:45:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LE SY FR UNSC
05PARIS6530	DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO FRENCH GOVERNMENT ON NORTH [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel nonpaper to MFA desk officer for North Korea, Clea LeCardeur, on September 21 and to MFA action officer for Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) David Bertolotti and MFA Conventional Weapons action officer Jean-Francois Guillaume on September 22. Bertolotti said [...]	2005-09-23 15:11:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MNUC KNNP FR EUN
05PARIS6547	(C) USUNESCO: CULTURAL DIVERSITY CONVENTION, [...] (C) At the final negotiating session in Paris on the draft cultural diversity convention, Israel was one of the few countries to stick with the US. (Ref A) 2. (C) On Thursday, newly arrived Israeli Ambassador to UNESCO David Kornbluth gave Ambassador Oliver a read-out of his courtesy call o [...]	2005-09-23 16:29:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	SCUL ETRD EU UNESCO
05PARIS6576	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Summary: At a September 21 meeting with Ambassador Stapleton, President of the National Assembly and leader of the Gaullist faction in the ruling Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party Jean-Louis Debre brushed aside assertions that U.S.-French relations are on the mend and foresaw, inste [...]	2005-09-26 14:45:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB EU FR GM SOCI PINR ECON
05PARIS6579	"FRANCE HASN'T KNOWN A DECADE WITHOUT TERRORISM" [...] (C) Summary: Although he acknowledged the danger of being "pessimistic by profession," Christophe Chaboud, the Ministry of Interior's new counter-terrorism head, told POL M/C and Poloff September 23 that he believed terrorism was a serious and evolving long-term threat. France had been a victi [...]	2005-09-26 15:54:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV FR
05PARIS6580	MFA AND ELYSEE UPBEAT ON CORE GROUP MINISTERIAL, [...] (C) Summary and comment: Elysee and MFA officials described the September 19 Lebanon Core Group ministerial as a success, and expressed relief that consideration of a draft UNSCR on arms transfers to Lebanon had been dropped from the agenda. Gof officials expressed similar satisfaction that m [...]	2005-09-26 16:03:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LE SY PTER FR UNSC
05PARIS6633	FRENCH MFA ON NEXT STEPS FOR EU [...] (C) Summary: MFA DAS-equivalent for EU institutional affairs Setton told us September 27 that FM Douste-Blazy's September 23 proposal, at the governing center-right party's conference on Europe, for a two-speed Europe was "personal" not GOF policy. (The same holds true for Interior Minister [...]	2005-09-27 16:37:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR PINR EUN
05PARIS665	FURTHER FRENCH REACTION TO IRAQ ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary and comment: During a brief February 2 discussion with us on Iraq's recent elections, the Presidency's new Middle East advisor stressed two points: 1) the need to ensure Sunni inclusion in the political process, which remains precarious, and 2) the need to help the new Iraqi autho [...]	2005-02-02 15:46:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ FR
05PARIS6694	FRENCH WARY OF ISAF/OEF COMMAND PROPOSAL AND [...] (C) Summary. According to the MOD Policy Director, France can live with the NATO proposal for an ISAF/OEF integrated, but still dual-hatted command, so long as there is clear differentiation between the OEF and ISAF missions. It is for this reason that Defense Minister Alliot-Marie continues [...]	2005-09-29 16:14:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS AF FR NATO
05PARIS6709	(C) USUNESCO: CULTURAL DIVERSITY CONVENTION, [...] (C) Classified by Andrew C. Koss, Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Mission to UNESCO in Paris, reason 1.4 (b and (d). 2. (C) The EU group at UNESCO has decided to play hardball with Israel on the cultural diversity convention. 3. (C) As reported reftels, the French have been putting stro [...]	2005-09-29 17:16:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	SCUL ETRD EU UNESCO
05PARIS6735	TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER (TFCO) [...] (SBU) Embassy Paris' Terrorist Financing Coordinating Officer (TFCO) is Otto H Van Maerssen, Unit Chief for Financial Affairs in the Economic Section. (E-mail: vanmaerssenOH@state.gov. Tel: 33-43-12-24-33 and Fax: 33-43-12-20-22 ). 2. (SBU) Deputy TFCO is Political Officer Peter Kujawin [...]	2005-09-30 13:41:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN KVPR PTER EFIN ETTC PREL FR
05PARIS6741	FRENCH ON OCTOBER 3 GAERC [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel A points on September 27 to MFA deputy for CFSP Pascal Le Deunff and DAS-equivalent for enlargement and European neighborhood policy Caroline Ferrari, and followed up in conversation September 30. 2. (C) Both LeDeunff and Ferrari echoed comments in reftel B that [...]	2005-09-30 14:15:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	BO GG HR IZ KDEM KPAL PREL RS TU UP MD FR EUN
05PARIS6744	ALAIN MADELIN SEEKS U.S. SUPPORT FOR HIS CANDIDACY [...] (C) At a meeting with Ambassador Stapleton on September 6, former French Finance Minister Alain Madelin solicited U.S. support for his candidacy to head the OECD. Madelin stressed his commitment to reform of the OECD along the lines of the U.S. proposal to that end. Madelin also made the case [...]	2005-09-30 16:10:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EU FR IO PGOV PINR SOCI
05PARIS675	MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME: 19 JANUARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a 19 January 2005 meeting of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Points of Contacts (POCS) at the residence of the Norwegian Ambassador to France, members were provided with updates and had constructive discussions of a wide-range of MTCR issues. These included a [...]	2005-02-02 18:29:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC FR KS KSCA MNUC PARM PREL TSPA MTCRE
05PARIS6759	REQUEST FOR UK TO HOST G-8 BIOTERRORISM EXPERTS [...] (C) On September 30, ESTH Officer delivered talking points contained in REFTEL to Etienne Sur, responsible for chemical and biological disarmament at the MFA. Although message was passed to Mr. Sur, Gabriel Bernier, outgoing biological weapons specialist attended. Mr. Sur understood the point [...]	2005-10-03 12:26:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER TBIO EAGR FR
05PARIS676	UMP LEADERS BRICE HORTEFEUX AND BERNARD ACCOYER -- [...] (C) The views of two leading members of the ruling, center-right Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party highlight how the unresolved rivalry between Nicolas Sarkozy and President Chirac for leadership of the center-right is dividing the UMP's elite of elected officials. Brice Hortefeux is a [...]	2005-02-03 05:44:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB SOCI FR
05PARIS6810	COMBATING EXTREMISM IN FRANCE [...] (C) Summary: The U.S. and France enjoy a strong and healthy relationship in matters related to combating violent extremism, especially as regards the investigative side. Intelligence, law enforcement and judicial exchanges and cooperation are ongoing and effective, and the French government's [...]	2005-10-04 11:01:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM KPAO EAID PHUM KMPI PTER FR
05PARIS6887	FRENCH ILL AT EASE ON DARFUR, CHAD, AND THE [...] (SBU) DAS-Equivalent Helene Le Gal and Sudan Desk Officer Jeremie Robert singled out recent violence in Darfur, cross-border attacks into Chad by militia with possible government backing, African Union representative Kingibe's strong criticism of Khartoum, and Chad's rebuke to Sudanese author [...]	2005-10-06 11:44:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PGOV PREF PREL PHUM KAWC PINR SU CD FR
05PARIS6890	DIALOGUE WITH MUSLIM MODERATES AND MAGHREB [...] (C) Summary: In the context of ongoing Muslim outreach (refs),Ambassador recently visited the Paris Mosque, paid separate courtesy calls on ambassadors from Morocco and Algeria -- the two leading countries of origin for the majority of French Muslims -- and met with a French-Tunisian author [...]	2005-10-06 13:13:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KISL PTER FR
05PARIS6903	U/S DOBRIANSKY SEEKS COORDINATION WITH FRENCH [...] (C) SUMMARY: U/S for Democracy and Global Affairs Dobriansky met with French MFA Director Jean-Maurice Ripert (IO A/S-equivalent) September 30 to discuss democracy promotion, the challenge in Venezuela, coordinated action against avian flu, and prospects for a solution on use of the Israeli [...]	2005-10-06 17:42:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KSCA SOCI AMED KDEM PGOV KUNR VE IS FR UNGA IRC
05PARIS6908	FRENCH ON BURMA/UNSC DEMARCHE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on October 6 to MFA Burma desk officer Franck Vermeulen and UN/IO desk officer Benoit Guidee. Guidee offered as a "first response" (noting that the French mission to the UN was presenting the same response in New York) that the French are completely open t [...]	2005-10-07 09:10:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV BM FR UNSC UNGA
05PARIS6933	HIZBALLAH MP APPEALS FRENCH AL-MANAR BAN; MEETS [...] (C) Summary: In the coming weeks, the Conseil d'Etat, France's highest administrative court, will release a decision on Hizballah satellite television station al-Manar's appeal of its 2004 ban from broadcasting into France. Two Lebanese deputies, Hassan Fadlalah of Hizballah and Abdallah Farh [...]	2005-10-07 16:03:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER FR LE
05PARIS6934	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH DEFENSE MINISTER: FRENCH [...] (C) Summary: In an introductory meeting with the Ambassador, Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie conveyed French support for NATO operations in Kosovo and Afghanistan, as well as the NATO Response Force (NRF). The minister emphasized that NATO and European defense (ESDP) are not mutually ex [...]	2005-10-07 17:09:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS AF FR NATO
05PARIS6936	BLAIR-CHIRAC MEET, LOOKING PAST DISAGREEMENTS TO [...] (C) In an October 7 meeting between EUR PDAS Kurt Volker and French MFA Director for European Cooperation, Gilles Briatta, Briatta spoke about the discussion that took place earlier in the day between British PM Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac. Briatta said that during their m [...]	2005-10-07 17:37:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN UK FR EUN
05PARIS6938	PDAS VOLKER HEARS FRENCH VIEWS ON AFRICA [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUESTS: EUR PDAS Volker met AF PDAS-Equivalent Barbier and DAS-Equivalent Le Gal October 6 to discuss areas of converging interest in Africa. Barbier struck a positive note of appreciation for ongoing cooperation and consultations. France shared U.S. views on Sudan [...]	2005-10-11 06:28:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ASEC KPKO PINR IV ZI LI SU FR
05PARIS6984	60TH UNFC: FRANCE AGREES AD HOC COMMITTEES A BAD [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-11 17:04:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	CA MX AORC PARM PREL MNUC
05PARIS6985	FRENCH INITIAL REACTION TO U.S. DEMARCHE IS [...] (C) In his October 6 and 7 meetings in Paris with MFA A/S-Equivalent Director for Strategic Affairs Philippe Carre and MOD Diplomatic Advisor Bertrand Besancenot, EUR/PDAS Kurt Volker raised the SEEBRIG deployment to Afghanistan under ISAF. The intial French reaction was positive, although our [...]	2005-10-11 17:15:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR AF FR NATO
05PARIS7104	MFA RESPONSE ON URGING PA PRESIDENT ABBAS TO SEIZE [...] (C) We discussed reftel points encouraging the GoF to urge PA President Abbas to seize the opportunity on Gaza disengagement with Herve Besancenot, MFA DAS-equivalent for Levant/Israeli-Palestinian issues, and Christophe Guilhou, Cabinet Advisor to FM Douste-Blazy on Middle East issues, on O [...]	2005-10-17 17:01:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KPAL IS FR
05PARIS7124	FRENCH ON CHAVEZ VISIT TO PARIS [...] (C) PolOff discussed reftel points with MFA Venezuela Desk Officer Lionel Paradisi on October 17 following an October 7 meeting on Venezuela that included MFA WHA A/S-equivalent Daniel Parfait, DAS-equivalent Michel Pinard, and Paradisi (septel). The GoF confirmed that Chavez will visit Pari [...]	2005-10-18 13:52:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV FR VE
05PARIS7145	FRENCH CUBA POLICY: HAVE THEY SEEN THE LIGHT? [...] (C) MFA Cuba Desk Officer Eric Chaux provided a readout to Poloff October 17 on the October 11 meeting between French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy and Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque. Chaux echoed the official press release in stating that the visit was "devoted exclusivel [...]	2005-10-19 10:12:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM FR CU
05PARIS7174	POSITIVE GOF REACTION TO IRAQI REFERENDUM [...] (C) Summary: FM Douste-Blazy issued a positive public statement October 17 welcoming the results of the October 15 Iraqi constitutional referendum. While the FM's statement was not overly effusive, he welcomed and commended the conditions under which the referendum took place. MFA contacts r [...]	2005-10-19 18:00:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ FR UNSC
05PARIS7195	GISCARD D'ESTAING ON FRENCH POLITICAL SCENE, [...] (C) On October 18 former President Giscard d'Estaing hosted Ambassador Stapleton to breakfast -- and to a magisterial presentation of French history and the current political scene, along with trenchant observations on Europe and transatlantic relations. Giscard said he believes that post-Iraq [...]	2005-10-20 13:52:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	FR PREL EUN POLINT
05PARIS7197	FM DOUSTE-BLAZY MEETS AMBASSADOR STAPLETON, URGES [...] (SBU) Foreign Minister Douste-Blazy welcomed Ambassador Stapleton to France during a October 13 courtesy call that had been repeatedly deferred by scheduling problems at the Quai d'Orsay. Joining FM Douste-Blazy were WHA A/S-Equivalent Parfait and Americas Advisor Dore; DCM Karl Hofmann and [...]	2005-10-20 14:10:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KSCA SOCI AMED FR
05PARIS7198	DARFUR TURMOIL DARKENING THE OUTLOOK FOR CHAD [...] (C) France is not currently advocating a Chadian conference on Darfur, Africa A/S Equivalent Bruno Joubert declared during an October 17 meeting with Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs Theresa Whelan. SIPDIS Joubert informed Africa Watcher that the Quai d'Orsay was s [...]	2005-10-20 14:13:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM SU CD FR
05PARIS7201	MFA READOUT ON PA PRESIDENT ABBAS, LEBANESE PM [...] (C) Senior MFA officials told us PA President Abbas raised three main points in his October 17 meeting with President Chirac: the need to give Abbas support and more time in addressing Hamas participation in January elections; the need to relaunch the roadmap; and the need to improve daily livi [...]	2005-10-20 15:46:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IS KPAL FR LE SY PTER UNSC
05PARIS7202	U/S BURNS DISCUSS INDIA NONPRO, BALKANS, CENTRAL [...] (C) Summary: Under Secretary Burns met with Russian DFM Sergei Kislyak on October 19 in Paris to discuss, among other issues, India nonproliferation, the Balkans (especially Kosovo),and Secretary Rice's recent trip to Central Asia. Kislyak raised Russian concerns regarding access for its dipl [...]	2005-10-21 08:27:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SR IN FR KO
05PARIS7220	GOF NEARS COMPLETION OF WHITE PAPER ON [...] (C) The GOF continues to finalize its white paper on terrorism and internal security (ref B). On October 20, Poloff contacted Louis Blin, the MFA's office director-equivalent for terrorism and security, for an update. Blin said the GOF was in a period of "synthesis," in which the inter-agenc [...]	2005-10-21 13:22:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER FR
05PARIS7225	FRENCH RESPOND TO U.S. BELARUS POLICY DEMARCHE, [...] (C) On October 20, Poloff spoke with Aurelia Bouchez, DAS-equivalent for Russia and the former Soviet space, to discuss reftel demarche on U.S. policy toward Belarus. Bouchez said France was pleased with U.S./EU cooperation regarding Belarus, and called for further in-depth consultations durin [...]	2005-10-21 14:15:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM EAID PGOV BO FR EUN
05PARIS7275	CONTINUED FRENCH OBJECTIONS TO FOUNDATION/FUND FOR [...] (U) This message contains an action request in para 7. 2. (C) Summary: In response to ref a-b demarches, senior MFA and Elysee officials continue to voice objections to the Foundation and Fund for the Future, relying chiefly on G-8 institutional arguments put forth in the October 7 letter f [...]	2005-10-25 08:35:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID EFIN EINV PGOV PHUM EU FR
05PARIS7305	FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON MEHLIS REPORT: FM [...] (C) We briefed senior MFA officials on the U.S. demarche to UNSC capitals on the Mehlis report (reftel) October 25, urging the participation of French FM Douste-Blazy at the October 31 UNSC ministerial. French MFA IO A/S-equivalent Jean-Maurice Ripert suggested to visiting IO A/S Kristin Silv [...]	2005-10-25 17:17:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV SY LE FR
05PARIS7329	NATO SUPPORT TO PAKISTAN - FRANCE ALSO [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-26 14:59:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR AEMR EAID MASS PREF FR EUN NATO
05PARIS7330	FRENCH VIEWS ON INTERNET GOVENANCE [...] (C) Summary and comment: The French coordinator for all WSIS issues told us he hopes the U.S. posture does not preclude a "dialogue" on internet governance. He expressed concern about the use and (mis)understanding of the words "oversight" and "regulation" pointing out that the latter has a [...]	2005-10-26 15:00:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ECPS EINT ETRD ECON ETTC FR
05PARIS734	FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES IRAQ, IRAN [...] (C) Summary: Senator John Kerry (D-MA) completed a nearly two-week trip that had taken him to Iraq, major Middle East capitals, the Palestinian territories, Berlin and London, with a stop in Paris and meetings with President Chirac (septel) and Foreign Minister Barnier January 14. Barnier sh [...]	2005-02-04 17:26:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IZ IS FR
05PARIS7352	FRENCH MFA READOUT ON CHAVEZ VISIT, COLOMBIA, AND [...] (C) Summary: MFA DAS-equivalent for South America provided a frank and unapologetic readout October 24 of French policy toward Venezuela and the recent visit of President Chavez. The MFA highlighted France's economic interests in Venezuela, downplayed concerns about human rights, regional st [...]	2005-10-27 11:12:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR VE BL CO
05PARIS7360	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MICHEL ROCARD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former prime minister Michel Rocard received Ambassador Stapleton October 24. Fresh off the early-October publication of his new book, "If the Left Had Known," and a recent trip to China, Rocard sees the November congress of his Socialist Party (PS) as a historic opportunity. Offer [...]	2005-10-27 15:56:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR
05PARIS7392	FRENCH ON BURMA UNSC - BENIN [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-28 12:48:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BM FR UNGA UNSC
05PARIS7396	FRENCH RESPONSE TO SAFE HAVEN DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-28 16:14:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCRM FR NU
05PARIS7397	IRAQ: GOF REACTION TO CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM [...] (C) We delivered ref A statement October 28 to Bernard Chappedelaine, the MFA's Iraq desk officer, and also asked him if France would not consider any additional bilateral programs for Iraq, given the approval of the referendum on the constitution. Chappedelaine raised the long-standing Frenc [...]	2005-10-28 16:47:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV IZ FR
05PARIS7398	GOF CONDEMNS IRANIAN PRESIDENT'S ANTI-ISRAEL [...] (C) Poloff met October 28 with Benoit Knopper, the MFA's desk officer for Iran, to deliver reftel talking points on the Iranian President's increasing extremism. Knopper noted the GOF's statements condemning the Iranian President's rhetoric. Furthermore, Knopper said, the MFA had convoked in [...]	2005-10-28 17:13:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM IR FR
05PARIS7399	LATEST GOF THINKING ON MEHLIS REPORT, SYRIA/LEBANON [...] (C) Summary: On October 28, Herve Besancenot, the MFA's DAS-equivalent for Egypt/Levant, offered latest French thinking on the Mehlis report and other related issues. Besancenot said France was focused on gaining unanimity for a draft resolution in the Security Council, and was willing to comp [...]	2005-10-28 17:45:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR LE SY UNSC
05PARIS7439	ISRAELI FM SHALOM VISITS PARIS, TOULOUSE [...] (C) Summary: Israeli FM Sylvan Shalom concluded a 3-day visit to France on Saturday, October 29 after visiting Paris and Toulouse. Although Shalom's visit was planned as the latest in a series of bilateral efforts to improve the Israeli-French relationship, international issues predominated, [...]	2005-10-31 15:04:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR IS FR
05PARIS7461	UNGA-SC FRICTION FESTERING, FRENCH WARN A/S [...] (C) Summary: A/S Silverberg, joined by DCM and PolMinCounselor, met with IO A/S-Equivalent Ripert and a French IO team October 25 for an exchange of views on UN reform. Ripert urged the U.S. to stake out a more visible position on the Peace Building Commission and to lay down "red lines," th [...]	2005-11-02 14:40:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KPKO SU FR UNSC UNGA
05PARIS7496	MFA EMPHASIZES COOPERATIVE SPIRIT ON DRAFT IRAQ [...] (U) This message contains a guidance request in para 4. 2. (C) Poloff discussed the new Iraq UNSCR (reftel) November 2 with MFA UN/Iraq desk officer Nicolas Kassianides, who had sent instructions on the draft text earlier in the day to the French UN Mission in New York. Kassianides stressed [...]	2005-11-03 13:26:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL IZ UNSC
05PARIS7506	FRENCH SAY BENIN UNDER "STRONG PRESSURE" ON BURMA [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-03 15:24:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BN BM FR UNSC
05PARIS7521	FRENCH REACTION TO DEMARCHE FOR EU GAERC [...] (SBU) Deputy Political Minister-Counselor met November 3 with MFA Common Foreign and Security Policy CFSP unit deputy director Pascal Le Deunff to receive an informed French reaction to ref A and B demarches for the November 7 meeting of EU foreign ministers. The points were also shared with [...]	2005-11-03 17:02:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR EAID BO KPAL IZ SY YI EAGR MK ETRD EUN
05PARIS7525	PARIS RIOTS CONTINUE FOR 7TH NIGHT [...] (SBU) Summary: The rioting that began October 27 in Paris' "inner city" suburbs has persisted, every night, for a week so far. Running battles between riot police and rampaging youth have pitted tear gas and rubber bullets against taunts, stones, trash fires and car burnings. The accidenta [...]	2005-11-03 18:00:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KISL FR
05PARIS7597	MFA ON IRAQ DEVELOPMENTS: MORE OF THE SAME [...] (C) Summary: During a November 4 discussion, MFA DAS-equivalent for Iraq/Iran Antoine Sivan affirmed that the GoF will view the next Iraqi government as fully sovereign, but gave no indication that the GoF will increase its assistance to Iraq after December elections. Sivan expressed satisfac [...]	2005-11-07 17:41:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ IR FR
05PARIS7599	RAMPAGE IN FRANCE CONTINUES FOR 11TH DAY [...] (C) Summary: Notwithstanding massive deployments of police and President Jacques Chirac's assurances that "the absolute priority is to reestablish security and public order," violent unrest in France intensified through the weekend, with November 6 marking the eleventh night of arson and clas [...]	2005-11-07 18:12:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KISL FR
05PARIS7626	FORMER PM JOSPIN DEFLECTS SPECULATION ABOUT [...] (C) Over lunch with Ambassador Stapleton on November 2, former prime minister Lionel Jospin said that desire for change, along with widespread disappointment with the record of President Chirac and the center-right, "puts things in place" for a center-left victory in 2007. However, he also cau [...]	2005-11-08 13:35:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON
05PARIS7675	FRENCH MFA OFFICIAL ON IRAN: REMAIN FIRM, DON'T [...] (C) Summary and comment: MFA DAS-equivalent for Iran/Iraq Arabian Gulf Affairs Antoine Sivan assessed the Ahmadi-Nejad government as weakened by internal debate within Iran and lacking competence and experience, during a recent discussion with us. Sivan speculated that Ahmadi-Nejad's recent s [...]	2005-11-09 16:06:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV IR FR
05PARIS7682	THE FRENCH INTEGRATION MODEL: GOING UP IN SMOKE? [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Continuing violent unrest in France -- only now diminishing after thirteen intense days -- has very publicly brought to light the ugly reality of France's persistent failure to integrate its immigrant population. Importantly, the violence has not taken on religious ove [...]	2005-11-09 18:47:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KISL SOCI ELAB FR
05PARIS7683	THE FRENCH VIEW IN INITIATING THE KABUL AGENDA [...] (C) On November 8 poloff discussed reftel points with MFA Afghanistan desk officer, Cyril Gerardon. Gerardon explained that France agreed with U.S. views as outlined in the points, and said he was glad to see the prominence given to the United Nations' key leadership role in the country. He [...]	2005-11-10 10:55:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PREL EAID ECON EFIN PGOV
05PARIS77	GOF WON'T BE JOINING INTERNATIONAL MISSION FOR [...] (C) Poloff reviewed reftel points urging French support for the International Mission for Iraq Elections (IMIE) with MFA Iraq desk officer Bernard Chappedelaine January 5, after delivering reftel points to the GoF December 29. Chappedelaine reported that the GoF did not plan to participate in [...]	2005-01-05 17:31:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PROP PHUM IZ FR
05PARIS7745	FRENCH-IRAQI RESEARCHER DESCRIBES RECENT RAMADAN [...] (C) Summary: A local French-Iraqi anthropologist, Hosham Dawod (protect),briefed us on a recent visit to Qom, Iran, reportedly at the invitation of supporters of Ayatollah Sistani. Dawod, who is a former IVLP participant and an expert on Iraqi tribes and Shi'ism, told us he spent 12 days in [...]	2005-11-14 17:45:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV PINR IR IZ FR
05PARIS7769	UNESCO: DIRECTOR GENERAL PROMISES TO SPEAK OUT [...] (C) Summary. During a October 25 office call, UNESCO Director General Koichoro Matsuura promised Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations Kristen Silverberg that he would speak out publicly if any UNESCO Member State misused the Convention on the Protection and Promotion o [...]	2005-11-15 14:33:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	SCUL ETRD CJAN FR UNESCO

05PARIS7777	ASSAULT OF FRENCH JOURNALIST IN TUNISIA PROMPTS MEDIA OUTCRY, DOMESTIC CRITICISM OF GOF HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-16 09:53:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM TS FR
05PARIS7779	FRENCH CUBA POLICY: WAITING FOR A GESTURE [...] (C) In a November 15 meeting with Deputy Political Counselor and PolOff, MFA DAS-equivalent for Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean Pierre-Alain Coffinier clarified the French position on Cuba in the aftermath of FM Perez Roque's visit October 11 (reftel). Coffinier characterized the [...]	2005-11-16 11:23:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM FR CU
05PARIS7787	MFA EUROPEAN DIRECTOR NOT OPTIMISTIC ON EU BUDGET [...] (C) Summary: MFA EU Affairs A/S-equivalent Briatta told us November 15 that he was not optimistic the EU would reach a budget deal by year's end, in part because of Blair's weakened domestic standing, and notwithstanding the UK's fears of increasing isolation within the EU and growing unhapp [...]	2005-11-16 15:45:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD FR ECON PGOV EUN
05PARIS7792	FRANCE ON CHAD: DEBY'S THE MAIN MAN [...] (C) Summary: For Michael Deslaimes, the French MFA Chad and Togo Desk Officer, Idriss Deby's Presidency is "indispensable" to the tenuous stability of a hodgepodge country in continual tribal ferment. Deslaimes told Africa Watcher November 15 that Deby is the right choice -- the only option [...]	2005-11-16 16:16:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV EFIN CD FR
05PARIS7813	FRENCH RELUCTANT TO DEPLOY EU GENDARMERIE TO HAITI [...] (C) Summary and Comment: The French are reluctant to send the EU Gendarmerie to Haiti in support of upcoming elections for a number of reasons. The primary concern they cite is that the EU Gendarmerie is not yet ready to deploy, and won't be until sometime in 2006. Additionally, the GoF is w [...]	2005-11-17 13:40:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL KPKO FR HA EUN
05PARIS7831	FRENCH LUKEWARM TO SUPPORTING PARAMILITARY [...] (C) Pol/MC and PolOff delivered reftel points November 16 to MFA A/S-equivalent for WHA Daniel Parfait, DAS-equivalent for South America Michel Pinard, and Venezuela desk officer Lionel Paradisi. Parfait stated that the French did not share our analysis of the success of the disarmament camp [...]	2005-11-17 16:31:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PTER FR CO OAS
05PARIS7835	ANALYZING THE CIVIL UNREST -- THE ISLAMIC FACTOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The perpetrators of the urban rampaging (refs) in France are by and large of Arab-African and Black-African background. In most cases, they are also Muslims, raising the question as to what extent their religious affiliation helps explain the explosion in France's immigrant subu [...]	2005-11-17 17:19:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON
05PARIS7871	RECOMMENDATION OF WAIVER FOR FRANCE OF LIBERTAD [...] (C) Summary and comment: France adheres to the EU's Common Position on Cuba, and the GoF monitors the human rights situation in Cuba closely. MFA officials have consistently stressed that they share both the U.S. assessment of the human rights situation and the U.S. goal of supporting peacef [...]	2005-11-18 14:38:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ETTC FR CU
05PARIS7896	FRENCH ON NOVEMBER 21 GAERC - ISRAELI/PALESTINIAN, [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel points on November 16 to MFA CFSP deputy Pascal LeDeunff and European Affairs DAS-equivalent for EU External Relations Caroline Ferrari, and discussed them with LeDeunff November 18. Embassy Middle East watcher discussed points on November 16 with MFA DAS-equival [...]	2005-11-18 17:03:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD IZ KPAL PREL SR SY UP YI FR EUN
05PARIS7899	MFA CABINET MIDDLE EAST ADVISOR ON DOMESTIC [...] (C) Summary: MFA Cabinet advisor on Maghreb/Arabian Gulf issues Francois Thoizy, during a November 17 discussion on GoF policy in the Gulf and Maghreb (septel),offered unusually frank observations on domestic integration and discrimination issues, referring frequently to his status as the fir [...]	2005-11-18 19:00:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KISL SOCI PINR XF
05PARIS7920	FRENCH THINK TANKER ON VISIT TO IRAN [...] (C) Summary: French think-tanker Francois Gere, who claims to have extensive ties to the local Iranian Embassy as well as the Quai and Israeli Embassy met with us November 18 to report on his recent trip to the Isfahan nuclear facility at the Iranian government's invitation. Gere -- who many [...]	2005-11-21 16:06:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR MNUC IR PINR KNUP
05PARIS7922	GOF DECLINES TO MAKE PUBLIC APPEAL OR PRESSURE [...] (C) Summary: MFA contacts report the GoF is disinclined to make a public appeal or demarche the SARG on the arrest of Syrian democracy activist Kamal Labowani, citing questions about Labowani's character and describing the Mehlis investigation as a more pressing priority. Elysee contacts were [...]	2005-11-21 16:38:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV SY LE FR
05PARIS7953	FRENCH SUPPORT BRINGING BURMA BEFORE THE UNSC [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-22 14:12:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM BN BM FR UNSC
05PARIS7954	FRANCE SUPPORTIVE ON ADDITIONAL GENEVA PROTOCOL, [...] (C) Poloff met November 21 with MFA DAS-Equivalent Beatrice Le Fraper du Hellen to encourage more vocal French engagement on behalf of the draft Third Additional Protocol, particularly with Francophone African states. Le Fraper responded that France had been working closely with the Swiss in [...]	2005-11-22 14:14:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM AORC PREF IS SZ FR ICRC
05PARIS7961	MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME: 20 OCTOBER [...] (C) Summary: On 20 October 2005, ESTH/NP officer attended a meeting of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Points of Contacts (POCS) at the Spanish Embassy in Paris. This meeting focused on reviewing results of the September MTCR Plenary in Madrid and on briefing partners on the a [...]	2005-11-22 15:22:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC FR KS KSCA MNUC PARM PREL TSPA MTCRE
05PARIS8029	NATO - FRENCH STILL RETICENT ON USE OF NAC-R [...] (C) Summary: On November 21, MOD Strategic Affairs officer Colonel Creux provided a very positive readout of Strategic Affairs Director Jean Ponton d'Amecourt's October 31 meetings at the Pentagon, the NSC, and the Department. While outstanding issues remain with the Pentagon, most notably the [...]	2005-11-25 14:54:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR FR NATO EUN
05PARIS8072	DNSA ABRAMS' 11/22 MEETINGS WITH SENIOR FRENCH MFA [...] (C) Summary: November 22 discussions between Deputy National Security Advisor (DNSA) Elliott Abrams and senior French officials focused on Syria/Lebanon, Iran, and Israeli-Palestinian issues, with Morocco, Iraq, and BMENA discussed in passing. Presidency officials predicted Syrian non-coopera [...]	2005-11-29 10:07:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR IR IS IZ KDEM KPAL LE MO PARM SY
05PARIS8075	FRANCE TO FOLLOW EU LEAD ON NGO DRAFT LAW DEMARCHE [...] (C) On November 22, Poloff delivered ref A demarche regarding a new Russian draft law on NGOs to Aurelia Bouchez, the MFA's DAS-equivalent for Russia and the former Soviet space. On November 29, Charles Denier, senior desk officer for Russia, told Poloff that France was, like the U.S., very c [...]	2005-11-29 11:24:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS PHUM PINR
05PARIS8088	SARKOZY'S SECURITY ADVISOR DISCUSSES RECENT [...] (C) Summary: Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy's security advisor, a 20-year plus veteran of the French National Police, said the recent unrest had taken the security establishment by surprise, but that the massive yet moderate response of the police prevented a major crisis of public order. [...]	2005-11-29 13:50:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER FR PGOV
05PARIS81	DONOR SUPPORT FOR TSUNAMI RELIEF: FRANCE [...] (SBU) Summary. Working level French officials dealing with the tsunami are very pleased with and thankful for the excellent cooperation with the USG. France will be represented "most likely at the ministerial level" at the 11 January Geneva donors' conference, however the GOF has not decide [...]	2005-01-05 17:36:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	AEMR EAID EFIN PREL FR
05PARIS8150	DEMARCHE ON PRESIDENT'S IRAQ SPEECH: FRENCH [...] (C) Poloff discussed the President's major policy speech on Iraq and the just-released U.S. strategy paper on Iraq with MFA DAS-equivalent for Iraq/Iran/Arabian Gulf affairs Antoine Sivan and MFA Iraq desk officer David Cvach November 30. Sivan welcomed our briefing, and said he would incorp [...]	2005-12-01 09:47:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PGOV IZ
05PARIS8171	NOVEMBER 28-29 VISIT OF IRAQI FM ZEBARI [...] (C) Summary and comment: MFA contacts described the November 28-29 visit of Iraqi FM Zebari as a success, but did not suggest that the visit will herald an increase in modest French assistance levels to Iraq. FM Douste-Blazy reportedly stressed to Zebari GoF support for an inclusive political [...]	2005-12-01 17:09:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID IZ SY IR FR
05PARIS8172	NAC COMMUNIQUE: DESPITE RESERVATIONS, FRANCE IS [...] (C) On December 1, we delivered ref A points to Arnaud Roux, MFA Counselor following the CFE/Istanbul discussions and who also will be present at the NAC on December 2. Roux confirmed that he was aware of the debate on the use of "either" versus "or" paragraph proposals. He expressed some su [...]	2005-12-01 18:01:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KCFE FR NATO
05PARIS8173	MFA CABINET ADVISOR ON FRANCO-GERMAN RELATIONS AND [...] Summary: FM Douste-Blazy's advisor for Franco-German relations Heldt and German Ambassador Neubert, speaking about German Chancellor Merkel's November 23 inaugural visit to France, both predicted continuity in the Franco-German relationship while emphasizing more a marriage of reason than of [...]	2005-12-01 18:29:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR GM PINR EUN
05PARIS8240	FRENCH REMAIN UNDECIDED ON MACEDONIA'S EU CANDIDACY [...] (C) Poloff discussed reftel B points with MFA DAS-equivalent for External Community Relations Caroline Ferrari. Ferrari said that the GOF has not yet decided if it will support the granting of candidate status to Macedonia as recommended on November 9 by the Commission. Ferrari said that the [...]	2005-12-05 16:27:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL GM FR MK DA EUN
05PARIS8246	FRENCH REACTION TO E.O. 13382 DESIGNATIONS [...] (C) We delivered ref points to the Asset-Freezing Directorate in the Ministry of Economy. We spoke with Vincent Guitton, Head of the Services, Investment and IPR Division in the Ministry of Economy, who took note of the information but expressed skepticism that France could do anything about [...]	2005-12-05 17:18:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PARM KTFN FR
05PARIS8313	TEXT OF LETTER FROM PRESIDENT OF COUNCIL OF EUROPE [...] (U) Action request -- see para 5. 2. (U) Post received on December 6, 2005 faxed copy of a letter to the Secretary from the President of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly, Renee van der Linden. The transmittal sheet attached to the letter from van der Linden's Chief of Staf [...]	2005-12-07 16:54:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EU PTER PINR PHUM FR
05PARIS8353	UNESCO: FRENCH CANDIDATE REPORTEDLY HAS LEAD [...] (C) Classified by Andrew, C. Koss, Charge, U.S. Mission to Unesco in Paris, reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) Summary. Corridor rumors place Francoise Riviere, the French chief of staff to UNESCO Director General (DG) Matsuura, as the leading candidate among the 320 applicants to replace retiring A [...]	2005-12-08 17:17:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	SCUL FR UNESCO
05PARIS8373	A CONVERSATION WITH CHIRAC'S AFRICA ADVISER [...] (C) Summary: Michel de Bonnecorse, head of the "Africa Cell" at the Elysee Palace that advises the French President, described the 12/2-12/4 Africa-France Summit in Bamako as a strategic, historic project, encouraged a high-level USG presence for the January meeting of the International Worki [...]	2005-12-09 16:23:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ASEC EAID TO GH IV FR UNSC
05PARIS8426	FRENCH APPEAR DISINCLINED TO RESETTLE UIGHERS [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-13 14:01:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KAWC PHUM PREF FR
05PARIS8435	GOF OFFICIALS CONDEMNS TUENI ASSASSINATION; [...] (C) Summary: The GoF immediately condemned at the highest levels the assassination of Gebran Tueni and issued strong public statements calling on the international community to redouble efforts to ensure full implementation of relevant UNSCR's, confirming GoF readiness to help the GOL, and payi [...]	2005-12-13 18:36:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SY LE FR
05PARIS8441	FRENCH OFFICIALS STRESS THE POSITIVE TO IRAQ [...] (C) Summary and comment: Senior Presidency and MFA officials stressed GoF support for Iraq's political process and the Arab League reconciliation effort during December 5 meetings with visiting Deputy Senior Iraq Advisor Deutsch. French officials expressed willingness to help support Iraqi rec [...]	2005-12-14 11:33:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID IZ FR
05PARIS8456	UNESCO: Ambassador meets with DG to review US- [...] Summary: The Ambassador's December 6 meeting with UNESCO DG Matsuura focused primarily on three topics: U.S. engagement with UNESCO in the wake of UNESCO's adoption in October of the cultural diversity convention; the importance of increasing the number of U.S. staff at UNESCO and including an [...]	2005-12-14 16:28:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC SCUL SKI UNESCO FR
05PARIS8457	FRANCE TO DELIVER DEMARCHE ON RUSSIAN NGO LAW [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-14 16:39:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RS FR
05PARIS8461	NON-COMMITTAL GOF RESPONSE ON WELCOMING IRAQI [...] (C) Summary and comment: The GoF and local Iraqi embassy have no public events planned in conjunction with Iraq's December 15 elections. GoF officials stress that the GoF will wait and see how the elections unfold, paying particular attention to voter participation levels, before pronouncing [...]	2005-12-14 18:30:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID IZ FR
05PARIS8462	COUNCIL OF EUROPE ON ALLEGATIONS OF SECRET [...] (C) Summary: Council of Europe Secretary General Davis warned the Ambassador December 12, citing NATO "unresponsiveness" to repeated written queries, that he intended soon "to go public" with respect to the alleged use of KFOR-run detention centers in Kosovo for secret CIA secret prisons (this [...]	2005-12-15 06:13:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR FR EUN
05PARIS8483	GOF CONTINUES TO DECLINE COMMENT ON BOUTEFLIKA'S [...] (C) The GoF continues to stonewall on the health situation of Algerian President Bouteflika, who has been hospitalized in Paris since November 27 (reftels). During a December 13 discussion with poloff, MFA DAS-equivalent for the Maghreb Christian Testot reiterated he could provide no informatio [...]	2005-12-16 07:03:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AG FR
05PARIS8503	USUNECO: INTERNAL OVERSIGHT FINDS SERIOUS [...] After receiving a series of e-mails from the UNESCO Iraq office based in Amman alleging mismanagement and corruption, the DCM met December 13 with John Parsons (strictly protect),a UK national who heads UNESCO's office of internal oversight. (Note: Parsons spent a year in Washington on sec [...]	2005-12-16 14:08:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	UNESCO
05PARIS8509	USUNECO: INTERNAL OVERSIGHT FINDS SERIOUS [...] After receiving a series of e-mails from the UNESCO Iraq office based in Amman alleging mismanagement and corruption, the DCM met December 13 with John Parsons (strictly protect),a UK national who heads UNESCO's office of internal oversight. (Note: Parsons spent a year in Washington on sec [...]	2005-12-16 15:43:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	UNESCO FR BR PK SZ JO
05PARIS8511	ELYSEE TAKING GRIM VIEW ON CHAD [...] (C) Summary: The Elysee "Africa Cell" that advises President Chirac believes President Deby's Chad is undergoing a major crisis, with a near-term coup and territorial disintegration conceivable scenarios. Deby has lost Zarghawa confidence, according to Elysee adviser Labriolle, because he h [...]	2005-12-16 17:17:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV EFIN EPET CD FR
05PARIS8512	FRANCE WELCOMES IRAQI ELECTIONS, BUT SUGGESTS IRAQ [...] (C) The following is an informal translation of the French MFA spokesman's December 16 statement on Iraq's elections: Begin text. France welcomes the important mobilization of all the components of Iraqi society during the December 15 election for the National Assembly and marks its satisf [...]	2005-12-16 18:37:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ FR
05PARIS8544	MFA CAUTIOUS ON UNSCR 1644, SYRIA/LEBANON NEXT [...] (C) Summary: MFA DAS-equivalent for Syria/Lebanon Herve Besancenot welcomed the UNSC's unanimous adoption of UNSCR 1644, but expressed concern that international efforts to pressure Syria are losing momentum while the SARG is increasingly emboldened that it can wait out the U.S. and France ove [...]	2005-12-20 06:12:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER SY LE FR
05PARIS8603	FRANCE SIGNS 80 PERCENT DEBT REDUCTION AGREEMENT [...] (U) On December 21, the GoF signed a bilateral debt reduction agreement with Iraq, in accordance with Paris Club terms agreed to in November 2004. The agreement offers an 80 percent cancellation of Iraq's debt between 2005 and 2008, disbursed in three tranches linked to implementation of Iraq [...]	2005-12-22 11:00:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN EAID IZ FR
05PARIS8605	FRENCH HOPEFUL ON ALTERNATIVE TO SUDANESE AU [...] (C) MFA Sudan Desk Officer Jeremie Robert confirmed to Africa Watcher that France remains hopeful that a Congo-Brazzaville candidacy may avert the fiasco of a possible Sudanese African Union (AU) Presidency after the January 2006 summit in Khartoum. Chirac's Africa Adviser Michel de Bonnecorse [...]	2005-12-22 11:28:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PHUM CF SU AU FR
05PARIS8631	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FORMER EU COMMISSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Ambassador Stapleton on December 21, former EU Commission president Jacques Delors underlined his feeling that Europe is currently in a deep crisis, in part because of the lack of visionary European leadership, but also because of Europeans' hostility to EU enlar [...]	2005-12-23 10:35:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR EUN
05PARIS8673	SYRIA: FRANCE'S THOUGHTS ON EIB LOAN [...] (C) Summary. French officials tell us that the EIB loan to improve Syria's rural telephone network was approved unanimously on 13 December. While the Foreign Ministry was unaware and regretted the news that the loan had been approved, Finance Ministry officials said they see no scope for ov [...]	2005-12-28 17:32:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EFIN PREL FR SY
05PARIS8683	GOF RESPONDS NEGATIVELY TO UIGHER RESETTLEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-29 14:47:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER FR KAWC PHUM PREF
05PARIS8684	FRANCE CONTENT TO OBSERVE RUSSIAN-UKRAINE GAS [...] (C) Summary. French officials agree that the Russia- Ukraine gas dispute bears watching, but do not believe that intervention by European officials recommending gradual market solutions is warranted at this time. They suspect that commenting now might even be counterproductive. Dismissing co [...]	2005-12-29 15:45:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON PREL UP RS FR
05PARIS8698	AFGHANISTAN COMPACT IN LONDON: PRELIMINARY FRENCH [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel points to Jerome Walter, Counselor for Multilateral and Bilateral Financial Affairs at Cooperation (AID-equivalent),Ramon Fernandez, in Tresor's Office of Multilateral Affairs and Development, and to Afghanistan desk officer, Cyril Gerardon at the MFA. Fernandez an [...]	2005-12-30 13:09:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL AF
05PARIS879	REVIEW OF ISSUES RAISED IN SECSTATE MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) In a February 10 meeting with MFA Cabinet Director Vimont (protect),DCM discussed follow up to issues raised during Secretary's meetings in Paris February 8. Vimont said the French side had been pleased by the visit and the level of discussion with the Secretary. Review of specific issue [...]	2005-02-11 12:03:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR IR IZ SY
05PARIS888	FRANCE SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. INITIATIVE TO STRENGTHEN [...] (C) On February 10, Hugues de Longevialle, MFA disarmament specialist responsible for IAEA issues, provided us with initial feedback on our initiative to strengthen the IAEA (reftel),which we had conveyed earlier in the week. Longevialle cautioned that a more formal French reaction was still [...]	2005-02-11 17:00:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM TRGY AORC FR IAEA
05PARIS89	IAEA: FRANCE HAS NOT TAKEN A DECISION ON A THIRD [...] (C) In the absence of MFA DAS-equivalent director for disarmament issues Francois Richier, we presented reftel demarche December 21 to the desk officer covering the office during the holidays. On January 5, we met with Richier's deputy, Veronique Vouland-Aneini, who voiced skepticism that IAE [...]	2005-01-06 11:36:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM AORC PREL FR IAEA
05PARIS920	IRAN-EU3: FRENCH RESPONSE TO U/S BOLTON'S LETTERS [...] (C) Late on 11 February, French MFA Political Director Stanislas de Laboulaye's office provided us with an advance copy of Laboulaye's response to U/S Bolton on the issue of Iranian violations of the November EU3 agreement with Iran. We were told a hard copy would follow under cover of diploma [...]	2005-02-14 15:17:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM FR
05PARIS952	TOGO: FRENCH SUPPORTERS OF EYADEMA INVOLVED IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Reftel notes the current involvement of two French figures in the succession controversy following Togolese President Eyadema's death, Charles Debbasch and Michel Scarbonchi. Both are well-known longtime supporters and advisors of the former President, and both have had recent [...]	2005-02-15 14:34:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PINR TO FR
05PARIS953	GOF CONDEMNS HARIRI ASSASSINATION, CALLS FOR [...] (C) Summary and comment: GoF officials reacted with shock and indignation to the assassination of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri February 14, with President Chirac calling for an international investigation to establish responsibility and punish the perpetrators. FM Barnier described the bo [...]	2005-02-15 15:34:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LE SY FR
05PARIS964	FRENCH DELAYING TACTICS ON EU DESIGNATION OF [...] (C) Summary and comment: Despite multiple appeals from the U.S. and Israel, the GoF appears likely to seek a delay in EU designation of Hizballah as a terrorist organization at the EU Clearinghouse meetings February 16. The chief GoF preoccupation appears to be the perceived complicating effe [...]	2005-02-15 18:21:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ETTC EFIN LE SY FR EUN
05PARIS974	FRENCH OFFICIAL DISCUSSES BORREL AFFAIR, WIDOW [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA DAS-equivalent for East Africa Jean-Christophe Belliard informed us on February 14 that Djibouti FM Farah's health was recovering following his stroke but that he would remain hospitalized for several weeks and would not be able to meet with FM Barnier on February 17 as ear [...]	2005-02-16 10:38:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID MARR SCUL DJ FR
05PARIS993	FRANCE ON U.S. VENEZUELAN CONCERNS [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Venezuelan Desk Officer Hedi Picquart on February 16. Picquart did not have an immediate formal response to U.S. concerns about Russian weapons sales to Venezuela, but indicated that he would pass our points to French embassies in Moscow, Caracas, and B [...]	2005-02-16 15:25:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL FR VE CO
05PORTAUPRINCE1072	HAITI ELECTIONS: ELECTION NEWS ROUND-UP (APRIL 16, [...] (U) I. ELECTION SECURITY (Para. 2) II. PARTY ALLIANCES: CONSTANTLY SHIFTING (Paras. 3-5) III. PARTY CONVENTIONS FILL MONTH OF APRIL (Paras. 6-11) IV. MORE POSSIBLE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES (Paras. 12-13) V. CEP COMMISSIONS (Paras. 14-15) I. ELECTION SECURITY ---------------- [...]	2005-04-19 11:46:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID HA
05PORTAUPRINCE1084	HAITI ELECTIONS: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH OAS [...] (C) Ambassador Foley met with Ambassador Denneth Modeste and newly arrived OAS elections unit chief Elisabeth Spehar April 13, to discuss the current status of the Haitian electoral process. Ambassador Foley opened the meeting by affirming that the USG is categorically committed to the curren [...]	2005-04-19 18:37:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID HA
05PORTAUPRINCE1087	CONGRESSMAN DELAHUNT DISCUSSES HAITI POLICE REFORM [...] (C) Summary: During his April 15-16 visit to Port-au-Prince, Representative William Delahunt (D-MA) met with CIVPOL Commissioner Dave Beer and Haitian National Police (HNP) Director General Leon Charles to discuss the nature of violence in Haiti and the threat insecurity poses for the election [...]	2005-04-20 11:05:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC HA
05PORTAUPRINCE1088	UNSC LEAVES HAITI WITH MIXED EMOTIONS AHEAD OF [...] (C) Summary: The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) concluded on April 16 a four-day fact-finding visit to Haiti during which they met with IGOH officials, MINUSTAH leadership, political party and civil society leaders. UNSC members reaffirmed the international community's support for the [...]	2005-04-20 11:05:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL HA MINUSTAH
05PORTAUPRINCE1280	HAITI: NEPTUNE PROCLAIMS "FREEDOM OR DEATH" AS [...] (C) Summary. The health of former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune continues to deteriorate as a result of his continued hunger strike waged in protest of his prolonged detention. Neptune resumed the hunger strike after being transferred from the UN Argentine hospital to an annex of the National P [...]	2005-05-09 15:35:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL HA
05PORTAUPRINCE1300	HAITI'S BISHOPS WEIGH IN ON ELECTIONS, ATTEMPT TO [...] (C) Summary: In the past month, the Catholic Bishops Conference has weighed in publicly to encourage participation in upcoming elections and to warn priests against taking active political roles. One statement calls upon voters to choose their leaders wisely, recommends parties to form alli [...]	2005-05-10 15:35:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM HA
05PORTAUPRINCE1335	PROTESTANT HAS GOOD SHOT AT HAITIAN PRESIDENCY IF [...] (SBU) Summary: Pastor Chavannes Jeune of the National Union of Christians for the Renovation of Haiti (UNCRH) discussed his pending candidacy for president with the Ambassador. Jeune said UNCRH would field candidates at all levels and there was "extraordinary consensus" that the Protestant [...]	2005-05-12 19:32:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HA
05PORTAUPRINCE1353	HAITI: SUPREME COURT ANNULS KEY PART OF RABOTEAU [...] (C) Summary. On May 9, the Haitian Supreme Court issued an unexpected ruling that effectively annulled one part of the 2000 Raboteau trial. The decision, on procedural grounds, annuls the convictions of the 15 people who were actually present during the proceedings, but leaves unclear whethe [...]	2005-05-13 18:45:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL HA
05PORTAUPRINCE1356	HAITIAN POLICE CHIEF ON U.S. DONATED WEAPONS, [...] (C) Summary: Haitian National Police (HNP) Director General (DG) Leon Charles told Charg Griffiths on May 9 that he was working to withdraw 21 long-guns donated by the USG in August 2004 from use and hand them over to U.S. custody. He requested, however, to maintain a handful of the weapons in [...]	2005-05-13 18:57:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC HA
05PORTAUPRINCE1459	HAITI: CORE GROUP ALARMED BY SLOW PACE OF [...] (C) Summary: UN and OAS elections advisors treated Core Group members to an alarming appraisal of the pace of elections preparations during a marathon meeting on May 20. The appraisal suggested that the government, CEP, and international community face an almost impossible task in meeting the [...]	2005-05-25 20:36:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM HA
05PORTAUPRINCE1460	MINUSTAH SCALING DOWN OPERATIONS IN STILL VOLATILE [...] (C) Summary: MINUSTAH military leaders provided Core Group members an update of the situation in Cite Soleil on May 20. The presentation was notably void of achievement and indicated force rotations would oblige MINUSTAH to scale back their footprint in the zone at a time when the area has bec [...]	2005-05-25 20:37:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC HA MINUSTAH
05PORTAUPRINCE1487	HAITIAN PRIVATE SECTOR PANICKED BY INCREASING [...] (C) Summary: Fritz Mevs, a member of one of Haiti's richest families and a well-connected member of the private sector elite, told Poloff on May 13 that business leaders are exasperated by the lack of security in the vital port and industrial zone areas of Port-au-Prince and are allegedly armi [...]	2005-05-27 19:47:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC ECON EWWT
05PORTAUPRINCE1515	FRENCH COUNSUL TO HAITI KILLED IN CARJACKING [...] (SBU) Summary: On the evening of 05/31/2005 (precise time unknown),Pierre Henri-Mourral, French Honorary Consul to Haiti based in Cape Haitian, was shot and killed by unknown assailants. Henri-Morrual was returning to Cape Haitian, where he owns a prominent hotel, from a visit to Port au P [...]	2005-06-01 19:04:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PTER
05PORTAUPRINCE1564	HAITI: NEED HELP WITH UN AND JORDAN TO BOLSTER [...] (C) Summary and Action Request: The performance of many MINUSTAH troops has been feeble. We hope that the ongoing troop rotation will bring a more robust response to the worsening instability. The Jordanian contingent has been one of the most ineffective forces here. Embassy requests that t [...]	2005-06-06 17:16:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS ASEC HA MINUSTAH
05PORTAUPRINCE1597	CIVPOL COMMISSIONER EXPRESSES FRUSTRATION WITH HNP COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary: CIVPOL Commissioner Dave Beer told PolOff and Embassy Police Advisor on June 2 that he had abandoned attempts at a "unified command" of MINUSTAH military and CIVPOL forces and had freed his Formed Police Units (FPUs) from static positions to focus on roving patrols. Beer also comp [...]	2005-06-07 18:38:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC HA
05PORTAUPRINCE1599	MINUSTAH AND HNP RAID BEL AIR; GANGS RETALIATE; [...] (C) Summary: In response to the May 31 attack on a downtown public market (ref A) and subsequent threats by gangs to commit similar acts throughout Port-au-Prince, the Haitian National Police (HNP) and MINUSTAH conducted a joint operation in Bel Air June 4 that reportedly resulted in 7 deaths [...]	2005-06-07 19:57:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC HA MINUSTAH
05PORTAUPRINCE1625	HAITIAN POLICE DIRECTOR RESPONDS TO EMBASSY [...] (C) Summary: Amid escalating violence and doubts surrounding the ability of the IGOH to ensure stability, Haitian National Police (HNP) Director General (DG) Leon Charles explained that he was having difficulty complying with Post's request to relinquish 21 long-guns to U.S.-controlled bunker [...]	2005-06-10 19:31:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC HA
05PORTAUPRINCE1628	HAITI: BAR ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT ON IGOH'S FAILURE TO ADDRESS JUDICIAL REFORM AND SECURITY ISSUES IN THE COUNTRY [...] (C) Summary: Poloff discussed the deplorable state of the judiciary, prolonged pretrial detention, and the deteriorating security situation in Haiti with Port-au-Prince Bar Association president Gervais Charles. Charles acknowledged that the Haitian judicial system faces inherent structural and pro [...]	2005-06-13 13:52:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR HA
05PORTAUPRINCE1664	HAITIAN-AMERICAN ENTREPRENEUR SIMEUS: A PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: Haitian-American businessman Dumas Simeus declared his intention to run for President during a lively discussion with the Ambassador on June 10. Simeus, a self-made millionaire currently residing in Texas, said he would manage Haiti like a business and lead the country by example, [...]	2005-06-15 18:26:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL HA
05PORTAUPRINCE1665	HAITI: CERTIFICATION REPORT CARD, 2005 [...] (U) Following is the narcotics certification report card 2005 for Haiti, requested reftel. 2. (U) The Interim Government of Haiti (IGOH) worked closely with the United States Government (USG) throughout 2004 to help bolster Haiti's ability to combat narco-trafficking. The highest levels of [...]	2005-06-15 18:31:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PREL SNAR HA
05PORTAUPRINCE1789	AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON NEW MINISTER OF JUSTICE [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Foley called on newly appointed Minister of Justice Henri Dorleans on June 30 (reftel). The meeting centered on the top priorities facing the Minister in the next few months, mainly: the case of former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune, judicial reform, prolonged pretrial detentio [...]	2005-07-05 19:54:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC HA
05PORTAUPRINCE1790	HNP BRIEF ON DREAD WILME GANG INFORMATION [...] (C) Summary: A Haitian National Police (HNP) contact recently provided a copy of an investigation supposedly conducted by an outside consultant to the HNP on the subject of Cite Soleil gang leader, Dread Wilme. The document, dated May 2005, gives a brief background of Wilme, his weapons, activ [...]	2005-07-06 14:07:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC HA
05PORTAUPRINCE1791	JUDICIAL POLICE DIRECTOR DISCUSSES GANGS WITH DCM [...] (C) Summary: Newly (re-)appointed Director General of the Judicial Police Michael Lucius summarized the Haitian National Police (HNP) response to gang-led criminality in a conversation with the DCM on July 1. Lucius accused pro-Aristide former employees of state-owned enterprises (such as Tele [...]	2005-07-06 14:12:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC HA
05PORTAUPRINCE1796	HAITI: DREAD WILME KILLED; HNP MORE ACTIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY. MINUSTAH troops reportedly killed wanted gang leader Dread Wilme and an unspecified number of his associates in an operation on July 6. In addition, over the past two weeks, authorities have made numerous important arrests and killed several big name bandits in Port-au-Prince. [...]	2005-07-06 19:20:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL HA
05PORTAUPRINCE2391	OUTLOOK BLEAK FOR NEPTUNE [...] (C) During the September 20 Core Group meeting (septel),UN Human Rights Office head Thierry Fagart presented his analysis of the case against Neptune (NOTE: His facts were based on radio reports and his justice ministry contacts; he had yet to see the investigating judge's report analyzed by [...]	2005-09-21 20:16:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL HA
05PORTAUPRINCE2392	HAITIAN PM REFUSES TO RESHUFFLE CEP; UPDATES ON [...] (C) Summary: PM Latortue told visiting S/CRS Carlos Pascual and WHA Patrick Duddy on September 7 that the Electoral Council (CEP) could not simply be brushed out of the way. He argued that UN Elections chief Gerardo LeChevailier lacked the necessary political finesse and was not the right pers [...]	2005-09-21 20:16:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC HA
05PORTAUPRINCE2568	HAITI: SOCCER MATCH UPDATE [...] (U) The Haitian National Police (HNP) has completed its investigation into the August 20 events at a USAID-funded soccer match in Martissant (reftel). In a press conference on October 11, HNP Director General Mario Andresol announced in a press conference that a total of 15 officers would face [...]	2005-10-14 20:13:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC HA
05PORTAUPRINCE2569	HAITI ELECTIONS: PROGRESS AND A LOOMING PROBLEM [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Latortue announced October 13 the following measures aimed at moving forward elections preparations: (1) The creation of a Director General (DG) in charge of a new electoral Support Committee, (2) the passage of a decree removing the Supreme Court from the appeals [...]	2005-10-14 20:23:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM HA
05PORTAUPRINCE2576	RELATIONS AMONG MINUSTAH, HNP LEADERS NO [...] (C) Summary: MINUSTAH and HNP command rotations have injected a new set of personalities into top-level security decision-making in Haiti: Incoming MINUSTAH military forces commander Bacellar is more thoughtful and methodical than the excitable former General Heleno; UNPOL Commissioner Muir is [...]	2005-10-18 19:04:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC HA MINUSTAH
05PORTAUPRINCE2593	CORE GROUP FOCUSED ON ELECTORAL PROGRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a Core Group meeting on October 14, Special Representative of the Secretary General Juan Gabriel Valdes told participants that the IGOH had named Jacques Bernard as the Director General of the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP). Bernard, a former banker and agrobusinessman [...]	2005-10-18 19:46:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC HA
05PORTAUPRINCE2605	HAITIAN JUDICIAL REFORM CONTINUES [...] (C) Summary: Philippe Lamarche, head of the USAID-funded program with the National Center for State Courts (NCSC),briefed emboffs on October 3 on recent achievements within the Ministry of Justice. A technical advisor from NCSC in September had conducted an observation mission of the minis [...]	2005-10-19 18:39:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KJUS HA
05PORTAUPRINCE2609	OPL'S PAUL DENIS UNSYMPATHETIC TO SIMEUS CANDIDACY [...] (C) On October 19, Charge called on Presidential Candidate Paul Denis, former Lavalas leader and current head of OPL (Struggling People's Organization) to discuss electoral strategy and the current political climate. Denis stated that he views the Commission on Nationality as a good thing, [...]	2005-10-19 19:15:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HA
05PORTAUPRINCE2617	HAITIAN NATIONALITY COMMISSION CREATES ELECTIONS [...] (C) Minister of Justice Henri Dorleans told the Charge October 18 that the newly formed "Commission on Nationality" (reftel) would not delay the elections. Dorleans, who heads the group, explained that the commission was established by the IGOH to examine the nationality of all candidates for [...]	2005-10-21 16:28:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC HA
05PORTAUPRINCE2618	HAITI ELECTIONS: SIMEUS VOWS FIGHT TO STAY IN RACE [...] (C) Summary. Presidential candidate Dumarsais Simeus met with Charge d,Affairs Carney on October 18 to discuss his campaign, the controversy regarding his dual nationality, and the general status of elections preparations. Simeus judged that the Supreme Court had settled the issue of dual n [...]	2005-10-21 17:17:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL HA
05PORTAUPRINCE2634	HAITI'S ELECTIONS DG TAKES LEAD, WILL OTHERS FOLLOW [...] (C) Summary. Electoral Director General Jacques Bernard is working to streamline elections preparations and ignoring unworkable by-laws developed for the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) and the newly-formed electoral support committee. Bernard expects the CEP to issue the final approved [...]	2005-10-24 19:56:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL HA
05PORTAUPRINCE2649	CHARLES HENRI BAKER: SAVING THE SINKING SHIP [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 24, Charge met with independent presidential candidate Charles Henri "Charlito" Baker at his request. Baker, a light-skinned Haitian who has been dismissed by some as the candidate of the elite, claims that the average Haitian cares not about skin color but about who [...]	2005-10-26 18:40:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HA
05PORTAUPRINCE2653	HAITI: NEPTUNE/LA SYRIE CASE UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: Appeals filed by co-defendants in the La Syrie case involving former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune have suspended further action by the court. Citing legal technicalities, Minister of Justice Henri Dorleans rejected a new proposal to release the former PM either on bail or on his o [...]	2005-10-27 18:45:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KJUS HA
05PORTAUPRINCE2667	HAITI ELECTIONS: DECEMBER 18 TARGET DATE FOR FIRST [...] (C) Summary: MINUSTAH, the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) authorities, and CEP Director General Jacques Bernard aim to hold the first round of national elections on December 18, and have tentatively chosen January 29 for the runoff and local elections. To meet this target, the CEP must st [...]	2005-10-28 15:42:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM HA
05PORTAUPRINCE2765	FORMER PRESIDENT LESLIE MANIGAT WAITING FOR CALL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting on October 31, former President Leslie Manigat told Charge that he is a natural consensus candidate around whom numerous parties will rally to counter what will likely be a strong showing from fellow ex-President Rene Preval. Manigat said that FUSION and OPL are s [...]	2005-11-08 10:26:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HA
05PORTAUPRINCE2766	RENE PREVAL ASKS FOR HELP WITH DISARMAMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a meeting on November 2, ex-President and current Presidential hopeful Rene Preval told Charge that several gang leaders in Cite Soleil are "tired, afraid and looking for a way out." According to Preval, up to six of these persons are prepared to pursue disarmament and demo [...]	2005-11-08 10:26:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HA MINUSTAH
05PORTAUPRINCE2774	HAITI ELECTIONS: PM COMMITS TO NATIONALITIES [...] (C) Summary: According to Prime Minister Latortue and CEP Director General Jacques Bernard, the Committee on the National of Candidates (CENC) will formally recommend by November 8 that the CEP eliminate Dumarsais Simeus and Samir Mourra (and minor candidate Joel Borgella) from the final list [...]	2005-11-08 13:59:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM HA
05PORTAUPRINCE2786	S/CRS DIRECTOR PASCUAL MEETS WITH CEP DG BERNARD [...] (C) Summary. S/CRS Director Ambassador Carlos Pascual met Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) Director General Jacques Bernard on November 3 in Port-au-Prince to assess progress toward organizing elections. Bernard reaffirmed that a first round on December 18 was still possible, though he allo [...]	2005-11-09 15:09:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL HA

05PORTAUPRINCE2792	HAITI ELECTIONS: SUPPORT COMMITTEE MEMBERS RESIGN [...] (U) Citing "lack of support from the executive (branch)," the six members of the electoral support committee submitted a collective letter of resignation to the Interim Government of Haiti (IGOH),the Council of Wise Persons, and the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) on November 4 and made [...]	2005-11-09 16:42:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL HA
05PORTAUPRINCE2824	HAITI ELECTIONS: PRESIDENTIAL LIST DONE, CALENDAR [...] (C) Summary. The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) on November 11 released the final list of 38 presidential candidates, excluding dual-nationals Dumarsais Simeus and Samir Mourra With this step taken, CEP and MINUSTAH leadership and technical experts are finalizing logistical planning and [...]	2005-11-14 20:58:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL HA
05PORTAUPRINCE2865	HAITI WILL VOTE FOR THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Interim Government of Haiti (IGOH) Prime Minister Latortue told the DCM he instructed the Haitian delegation to vote in favor of the U.S.-sponsored resolution on Turkmenistan and the E.U.-sponsored resolution on Uzbekistan. End Summary. 2. (C) DCM spoke with Haitian Inter [...]	2005-11-21 19:59:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HA
05PORTAUPRINCE2916	HAITI: NOVEMBER 22 NEPTUNE/JEAN-JUSTE VISIT [...] (C) Poloff visited former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune at the Pacot Prison Annex on November 22. Despite his continued hunger strike, now approaching day 200, Neptune appeared stronger than he did on the last visit of October 27. Neptune reported that his personal physician had not seen him in [...]	2005-11-28 12:16:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL HA
05PORTAUPRINCE2917	SUBJECT: NEW CEP BYLAWS GIVE DG MORE POWER [...] (C) Summary: The Prime Minister November 21 distributed a text of an executive order with new bylaws for the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) that were marked in pen as published November 17. The new bylaws rearrange the CEP by eliminating the operational and executive committees, the CEP [...]	2005-11-28 12:17:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM HA
05PORTAUPRINCE2942	HAITI: UPDATE ON ARRESTS OF TWO TOP POLICE [...] (C) Summary: Director General of the Judicial Police (DCPJ) completed the criminal investigation into the August 20 soccer match operation in Martissant and submitted the report to the Port-au-Prince State Prosecutor's office on November 7. The complete report contains over 900 pages of inte [...]	2005-11-30 16:49:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL HA
05PORTAUPRINCE2945	HAITI ELECTIONS: POLITICAL PARTY LANDSCAPE [...] (SBU) Introduction: The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) officially sanctioned 45 parties to participate in upcoming elections. Traditionally, most, if not all, of the political parties have been vehicles to catapult an individual into the office of the presidency. Larger, more establis [...]	2005-11-30 17:34:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HA
05PORTAUPRINCE2989	HAITI ELECTIONS: PREVAL'S MEETING WITH CDA CARNEY, [...] (SBU) Summary: Former President Rene Preval expressed satisfaction with the January 8 election date in a meeting with Charge d'Affaires Carney on November 29. He expressed confidence that he was the leading candidate, attributing his popularity to his previous term and his attempts to impro [...]	2005-12-05 19:07:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HA
05PORTAUPRINCE2994	HAITIAN CANDIDATES' OBSTINATE PURSUIT OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Nine Haitian political parties, essentially comprising an anti-Preval front, have agreed to support the presidential candidate among them who advances to the second round. The agreement includes Charles Henry Baker, who had previously been excluded from discussions of party [...]	2005-12-06 20:09:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HA
05PORTAUPRINCE3019	HAITI ELECTIONS: SUPREME COURT MOVES IN FAVOR OF [...] (U) The Haitian news media reported on December 8 that the Supreme Court has "requested" that the (Provisional Electoral Council) CEP reinstate Haitian-American Dumarsais Simeus on the list of eligible presidential candidates. The Supreme Court does not have a quorum of five -- the death of Ju [...]	2005-12-09 12:51:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL HA
05PORTAUPRINCE3041	HAITI ELECTIONS: OUR ROLE IN ENSURING SUCCESS [...] (C) I want to highlight for you the most problematic issues remaining to be resolved and outline how we can best work through these issues. We updated the broader status of critical tasks in reftel. In essence, at the time the Haitians are getting their act together, the international player [...]	2005-12-13 17:48:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM HA
05PORTAUPRINCE3042	HAITI: NEPTUNE REAFFIRMS RESOLVE TO CONTINUE [...] (C) Summary: During a December 12 visit from poloff, former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune appeared more agitated and bitter than in recent months. While he remains intellectually sharp, he seemed physically weaker since the last visit on November 22 (reftel). During the 60-minute visit, Neptu [...]	2005-12-13 19:39:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL HA
05PORTAUPRINCE3059	IMPLICATIONS OF A PREVAL PRESIDENCY [...] (C) Summary. Former President Rene Preval is the acknowledged front-runner in the Haitian presidential race, and his past association with Aristide and Lavalas the central issue of the campaign. His victory is not a foregone conclusion: his rivals have only begun to expend significant campai [...]	2005-12-14 19:42:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM HA
05PORTAUPRINCE3060	HAITI: JEAN-JUSTE CALLS FOR HUMANITARIAN RELEASE [...] (C) Summary: Despite a frantic action alert campaign launched by supporters of Gerard Jean-Juste suggesting he has leukemia, he appeared strong and in good health during a visit by poloff on December 12. The recently suspended priest is requesting that the IGOH release him on medical grounds [...]	2005-12-14 19:55:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL HA
05PORTAUPRINCE3093	REGINALD BOULOS AIMS TO ENGINEER PREVAL'S DEFEAT [...] (C) Summary. Haitian chamber of commerce president and political activist Reginald Boulos is conducting weekly polling that shows Preval with a commanding lead over Charles Henri Baker and Leslie Manigat. He is disappointed that the parties in the "Political Entente for Democracy and Modern [...]	2005-12-20 14:21:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM HA
05PORTAUPRINCE3128	UNDERSECRETARY BURN'S DECEMBER 20 VISIT TO HAITI [...] Summary: In Haiti December 20, Undersecretary of State Burns encouraged the Interim Government of Haiti (IGOH) and others to abide by the electoral calendar and conduct the first round on January 8. The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) Director General noted the only way voters could know [...]	2005-12-28 14:49:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HA
05PORTAUPRINCE3150	JEAN-JUSTE REFUSES TREATMENT OFFER, NO CHANGE IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Imprisoned priest Gerard Jean-Juste continues to refuse an offer by Haitian Prisons Director Marc Wilkens Jean to transfer him to Canape Vert hospital for treatment of his swollen lymph nodes. Emboff visited Jean-Juste at the Prison Annex in Pacot on December 29. Jean-Juste co [...]	2005-12-30 19:46:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ASEC HA
05PORTAUPRINCE688	HAITI'S NORTHERN EX-MILITARY TURN OVER WEAPONS; [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 13, more than 300 members of Haiti's demobilized military in Cap-Haitien turned over seven weapons and boarded buses to the capital. Interim Prime Minister Latortue called the event a significant step forward in implementing the September 18 agreement (ref B) and said [...]	2005-03-15 13:28:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HA
05PORTAUPRINCE689	DG CHARLES UPDATE ON EX-FADH IN THE HAITIAN NATIONAL POLICE [...] (C) Summary: During a March 9 meeting with the DCM, Haitian National Police (HNP) Director General Leon Charles said that the group of ex-FADH competing for slots in the 17th promotion would be the last group of former military integrated into the HNP this year. Charles also agreed to make sur [...]	2005-03-15 13:35:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCRM PHUM PREL ASEC HA
05PORTAUPRINCE713	HAITI: POLITICAL PARTIES MOVE TOWARD ELECTIONS PACT [...] (C) Summary: With the help of a Norwegian-funded think tank, Haitian political parties are negotiating a "code of conduct" for participating in elections later this year. The agreement under discussion would commit signatories to approximately a dozen general guidelines covering campaign "fa [...]	2005-03-16 20:10:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL HA
05PORTAUPRINCE718	HAITI ELECTIONS UPDATE - REVISED BUDGET SHOWS [...] (SBU) Summary: MINUSTAH and OAS technical advisors have provided a revised budget estimating the costs for Haiti's upcoming elections at just under $61 million, leaving a projected funding shortfall of approximately $22 million based on current pledges from the IGOH and international donors [...]	2005-03-17 16:34:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID HA
05PORTAUPRINCE776	LAVALAS TORN BETWEEN BOYCOTTING ELECTIONS AND [...] (C) Summary: The Lavalas movement remains divided between leaders who argue for moving beyond Aristide and participating in elections this fall, and those who continue to call for Aristide's return and threaten a boycott of elections if their hard-line conditions are not met. The division is [...]	2005-03-22 19:42:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL HA
05PORTAUPRINCE795	SUPREME COURT REJECTS TRANSFER OF NEPTUNE/PRIVERT [...] (C) Summary: The Haitian Supreme Court rejected March 18 a motion to transfer from St. Marc to Port-au-Prince the linked cases of former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune and co-defendant former Interior Minister Jocelerme Privert. Both are charged with involvement in the February 2004 massacre in [...]	2005-03-23 20:48:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL HA
05PORTAUPRINCE870	HAITIANS MARK 18TH ANNIVERSARY OF CONSTITUTION [...] (C) Summary: Two separate violent incidents took place in Port-au-Prince on 29 March, the 18th anniversary of the ratification of the Constitution of 1987. Ex-military gang leader Jean Rene Anthony (aka Grenn Sonnen) renewed his call for a guerrilla campaign against Haitian officials and MINU [...]	2005-03-30 16:57:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR ASEC HA UN
05PORTAUPRINCE871	HAITIAN NATIONAL POLICE POISED TO TACKLE REBEL [...] (C) Summary: Following another attack against his officers on March 27, Haitian National Police (HNP) Director General (DG) Leon Charles told Ambassador on March 29 that the HNP was preparing to undertake three significant operations in the coming days to root out violent gang leaders and their [...]	2005-03-30 17:58:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC HA
05PORTAUPRINCE928	UPDATE ON HNP TRAINING AND CONTROL SYSTEMS [...] (C) Summary: In a set of written answers to questions submitted by post to the Director General (DG) of the Haitian National Police (HNP) on March 7, Leon Charles confirmed the process under which 200 ex-FADH were to integrate into the 17th promotion in April, and outlined the verification process [...]	2005-04-05 19:28:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCRM HA
05PRAGUE1004	CZECHS REPORT RUSSIAN PROTEST OVER DONATION TO [...] (U) Action request: see para 4. 2. (C) Czech MOD Director of Security Policy Borkovec told DATT on July 1 that the Russians had formally protested the planned Czech donation of small arms and grenades to the EUCOM-led Georgia Security and Stability Operations. The Russian MOD on June 30 c [...]	2005-07-01 14:47:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS MOPS PREL EZ GG RU
05PRAGUE1006	IN-DEPTH READOUT OF EU'S CUBA COMPROMISE [...] (C) Following the June 13 GAERC on Cuba, Post received a comprehensive record of the internal EU discussion in a document given to us by our interlocutors at the MFA. This document is the Czechs' written record of what transpired at the meeting. We have translated it and are sending it to W [...]	2005-07-01 16:04:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EU EZ CU
05PRAGUE1007	CZECH RESPONSE ON UN REFORM [...] (C) Summary. On June 20, PolCouns delivered ref A demarche on U.S. priorities for UN reform to Mr. Jan Kara, Director of the UN Department at the MFA. In addition, we referred Mr. Kara to the June 16 On-the-Record briefing on UN reform delivered by the Under Secretary and followed up with a [...]	2005-07-01 16:08:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EZ EUN
05PRAGUE1008	CZECH MOD STAFF CONFIRM PLANS FOR EXTENSION OF [...] (C) Summary: Czech MOD senior officials offered assurances that plans for extension of the Czech military police trainers currently in Iraq are continuing, and that the contingent would remain in its current status, i.e., part of MNF-I, but with the hope that they would "eventually" be move [...]	2005-07-01 17:00:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS MASS IZ EZ
05PRAGUE1023	CZECH PM IN CHINA FOCUSES ON BUSINESS, DODGES THE [...] (C) Summary. On July 7, ADCM met with Ivan Busniak, foreign policy advisor to the Prime Minister, to discuss Czech PM Jiri Paroubek's recent visit to Japan and China. In Japan, discussions focused on increasing Japanese investment and UN Security Council Reform. In China, the dialogue was [...]	2005-07-08 18:06:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EINV ETRD CH EZ EUN JP
05PRAGUE1059	CZECH RESPONSE TO JULY 18 GAERC DEMARCHE [...] (C) On July 14 we delivered reftel demarche to Mr. Petr Kaiser, the new Director of the Common Foreign and Security Policy Department at the Czech MFA. Kaiser offered the following views on items that will be on the agenda of the July 18-19 GAERC meeting: A. Turkey: Kaiser was reluctant t [...]	2005-07-14 16:37:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EZ EUN
05PRAGUE106	ADDITIONAL TECHNICAL INFORMATION ON POTENTIAL SALE OF CZECH PASSIVE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM TO PAKISTAN [...] (C) Reftel reported the request of the Czech government for the U.S. government's opinion on the potential sale of a passive surveillance system (PSS) to the Air Force of Pakistan. This cable offers additional technical and background information on the system. Note: ref A mistakenly made r [...]	2005-01-21 14:14:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC KSTC PARM PREL PINR PK EZ
05PRAGUE1130	CZECH DEPUTY PM JAHN CONSIDERS JOINING CSSD AND [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting with the Ambassador, Czech Deputy Prime Minister Martin Jahn offered views on his possible political future, potential political scenarios heading into next summer's elections, and the fate of economic legislation. Jahn confirmed that PM Paroubek has asked him [...]	2005-07-29 14:27:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PINR EZ
05PRAGUE1136	CZECH'S WELCOME U.S. RESPONSE TO BAGHDAD CONVOY [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-02 13:46:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IZ PGOV EZ
05PRAGUE1145	U.S. ANSWERS MFA CONCERNS ABOUT EXPORTS OF CZECH [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-03 14:41:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	KOMC PREL IZ PGOV EZ AF
05PRAGUE1167	CZECH MFA: 10,000 ASSAULT RIFLES FOR PRIVATE USE? [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-09 16:29:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	KOMC PREL PGOV EZ
05PRAGUE1198	CZECH NGO, PEOPLE IN NEED, LAUNCHES NEW PROGRAM [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-16 11:34:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	CU EAID IZ PREL
05PRAGUE1203	CZECH OPPOSITION ON 05 CAMPAIGN, 06 ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY. One hundred days after new PM Jiri Paroubek took office, and 10 months before parliamentary elections, three shadow ministers from the main opposition party, the Civic Democrats (ODS),shared with the Ambassador their expectations for the time remaining before next June's election [...]	2005-08-17 13:57:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EZ
05PRAGUE1222	ISAF: CZECHS AGREE ON MANDATE, BUT CAUTIOUS ON [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-22 06:16:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL AF EZ NATO UNSC
05PRAGUE1236	CZECH ASSAULT RIFLES TO GO TO THE U.S., POSSIBLY [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-23 15:22:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	KOMC PREL PGOV EZ
05PRAGUE1243	CZECHS QUESTIONING TURKISH ACCESSION, BUT LIKELY [...] (C) Summary: Czech public and official position on Turkey's EU accession has softened noticeable from late last year, when the GOCR came out clearly in favor. A petition opposing Turkish accession received 12,000 signatures last month; the Foreign Minister this week published an editorial sa [...]	2005-08-25 08:50:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU EZ EUN
05PRAGUE1245	CZECHS ON SEPTEMBER 1-2 GYMNICH POINTS [...] (C) Pol-Econ Chief met August 25 with Czech MFA Director for CFSP Issues, Petr Kaiser, to discuss ref A points in advance of the September 1-2 EU Foreign Ministers Gymnich meeting. Kaiser noted that HMG had not yet circulated a final agenda for the meeting, but he expects it will cover most [...]	2005-08-25 14:09:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EZ EUN
05PRAGUE1247	CZECH CABINET APPROVES 2006 FOREIGN DEPLOYMENTS [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-25 15:17:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	EZ MOPS PREL PGOV AF IZ YI BK
05PRAGUE1256	CZECHS ON GYMNICH/TURKEY/CROATIA: NOT YET FIRMLY [...] (C) Summary: The Czechs continue to deliberate their position on Turkish EU accession and to send mixed signals. Visiting Turkish MFA officials last week heard what they wanted to hear: the GOCR supports the Oct 3 starting date and will not impose new conditions. But during an Aug 29 speech [...]	2005-08-29 15:08:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU HR EZ EUN
05PRAGUE126	CZECH REQUEST FOR USG TRANSPORT OF ARMORED [...] (U) Action request in para 5. 2. (C) Summary: The Czech government requests USG assistance in transporting two armored vehicles to Baghdad. The vehicles will be used by protective forces guarding the Czech ambassador and other Czech diplomats in Baghdad. The Czechs are prepared to cover [...]	2005-01-27 16:30:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL EZ IZ
05PRAGUE1275	CZECH CORRUPTION FIGHTER UNDER ATTACK BY JUSTICE [...] SUMMARY. (C) In the midst of a very public battle between Justice Minister Pavel Nemec and the Supreme State Prosecutor (Attorney General) Marie Benesova, Benesova's number two, Deputy Attorney General Jaroslav Fenyk, contacted the Embassy to air grievances and his version of events. Fenyk pro [...]	2005-09-01 15:26:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	EZ KCOR
05PRAGUE128	CZECH VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF THE JANUARY 31 GAERC [...] (U) On January 27, conveyed reftel points concerning issues to be raised at the January 31 meeting of the GAERC to Michal Strouhal, Director of the Common Foreign and Security Policy Department at the MFA. Strouhal's responses follow: A. (C) TSUNAMI RELIEF: Strouhal said the EU member st [...]	2005-01-27 17:15:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PTER EAID KPAL CU IR IZ UP CH EZ EUN
05PRAGUE1302	EMBASSY BAGHDAD DCM ENGAGES THE CZECHS ON IRAQ [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-07 13:07:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	EZ IZ PGOV PREL
05PRAGUE1304	EU/TURKEY: CZECHS REMAIN FAVORABLE, BUT NOT FIRM; [...] (C) Summary: The Czechs continue to support moving forward with the Oct 3 negotiations on Turkish accession. They are engaged in negotiating the EU's counter-declaration, with the focus not on recognition but the modalities of the Customs Union, i.e, restrictions at Turkish ports. The Czechs [...]	2005-09-07 16:15:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU EZ EUN
05PRAGUE1327	CZECH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHES CONCENRING THE MISSILE [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-13 14:03:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC EZ KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA MTCRE
05PRAGUE1339	INDIA NUCLEAR DEMARCHE - CZECHS THINK EUROPE [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-15 15:29:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EZ IN KNNP PARM EUN
05PRAGUE1349	CZECH ARMS TRANSFERS TO GEORGIA: PRACTICAL STEPS [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-19 05:43:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV GG EZ PREL RS
05PRAGUE1407	CZECHS ON OCT 3 GAERC [...] (C) Summary. The Czechs are optimistic that the upcoming GAERC will find a way forward on Turkey. The GOCR has formally stated that they support launching talks with Turkey without establishing a privileged partnership or other status as an option. They also insist that there is no linkage w [...]	2005-09-30 16:51:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EZ TU EUN
05PRAGUE1422	CZECHS AGREE -- THE TAMIL TIGERS ARE A TERRORIST [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-03 15:46:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL EZ
05PRAGUE1426	CZECHS REQUEST GUIDANCE ON PLANNED DPRK DEL VISIT [...] (U) Action request - see para 8. 2. (C) Summary: A DPRK delegation plans to visit the Czech Republic later this month on a trip organized by the head of the Czech Communist Party (and vice speaker of Parliament). The tentative itinerary includes a visit to the Temelin nuclear power plant. [...]	2005-10-04 15:10:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PREL ENRG KN EZ
05PRAGUE1447	CZECH SOCIAL DEMOCRATS BEGIN TO CONSIDER COMMUNIST [...] (C) Summary: The Czech government under PM Jiri Paroubek, in order to secure passage of priority legislation, is beginning to break the long-standing taboo against cooperation with the Communist party. Debate over two high-profile pieces of legislation, along with a change in the Communist [...]	2005-10-07 17:26:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EZ
05PRAGUE1455	IRAQ PRESIDENT JALAL TALABANI'S VISIT TO CZECH [...] (C) Summary. Iraqi President Talabani's visit to Prague focused on symbolism and achieved little in the way of concrete improvements to the robust Czech-Iraqi relations. The GOCR promised to continue supporting transition efforts, and will take steps to increase business ties. Negotiations [...]	2005-10-12 13:15:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN ETRD EZ IZ
05PRAGUE1461	CZECH REPLY TO UNESCO CULTURAL DIVERSITY CONVENTION [...] (C) Pol-Econ Chief delivered Secretary's letter to Czech FM Svoboda on the UNESCO Cultural Diversity Convention (ref A) to MFA Political Director Martin Povejsil on Oct 13. Povejsil was familiar with USG positions from previous discussions (ref B). He stated that the Czechs believe the Conven [...]	2005-10-13 13:47:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD OPDC PREL SCUL EZ UNESCO BHUM EUN
05PRAGUE1498	VERA-E - BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END USE [...] (C) Foreign consignee, ERA A.S. (ERA) is familiar to the United States Government. A sample of some of the USG reporting on the company's systems can be found in Refs B-L. 2. (C) Embassy Prague closely follows ERA,s license applications to the GOCR for export of the VERA-E system. During hi [...]	2005-10-19 09:50:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	KOMC ETTC EZ
05PRAGUE1502	NEWS REPORTS OF IRAN TRADE EMBARGO NOTHING NEW TO [...] (SBU) A Reuters press report on October 20, which claimed that Iran has stopped the imports of goods from the Czech Republic, Britain, South Korea and Argentina, was not new news to the Czech government. According to the Reuters report, the Iranians imposed the trade embargo in an effort to p [...]	2005-10-20 14:27:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC EZ IR ERTD
05PRAGUE1572	CZECHS ON NOV 7 GAERC [...] (C) Summary. The Czechs support tough measures against Syria, Belarus, and Cuba, but do not have the full support of their EU partners. On Iraq, the Czechs will continue their mission independent of any EU mission. In the Balkans, Czechs support the open door policy. However, due to enlarge [...]	2005-11-04 09:01:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EZ EUN
05PRAGUE1573	CZECHS SAY YES TO IRAQ RESOLUTION, AND NO TO SWISS [...] (C) Summary. The Czechs are grateful the U.S. shared the text of the draft Iraq resolution at an early stage, and are optimistic the resolution will pass. On the Swiss proposal for reform of the UNSC working methods, the Czechs will oppose it. End summary. 2. (SBU) Pol-Econ Chief and [...]	2005-11-04 09:20:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM EZ UNSC UNGA
05PRAGUE1575	CZECH COMMUNIST PARTY: STILL HERE AND [...] Summary: (C) Czech Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek has recently turned to the Communist Party (KSCM) for parliamentary support on key legislation. This, along with the speculation that next June's general election might lead to a minority Social Democrat-led government that relied on the Communis [...]	2005-11-04 09:50:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EZ
05PRAGUE1581	CZECHS ON PAKISTAN RELIEF AND REHABILITATION [...] (U) DCM met November 11 with Czech Deputy Foreign Minister Tomas Pojar to discuss Czech assistance to Pakistan. Pojar, who was until recently Director of the Czech NGO People in Need, provided the following information: -- Czech government assistance to date totals approximately $4.5 milli [...]	2005-11-04 15:44:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PHUM PREL PK EZ
05PRAGUE1586	CZECH DRAFT LABOR CODE: APPEALS TO THE COMMUNISTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a political move that has brought together the Social Democrat and Communist parties and could cool investment in the Czech Republic, Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek has made his union-friendly Labor Code a "super priority" that he wants passed before the elections in June 20 [...]	2005-11-08 12:51:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB EZ
05PRAGUE1589	CZECHS ON CHINA, RUSSIA, AND BEING HEARD IN THE EU [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting with visiting EUR/ERA Director Peter Chase, the Czech MFA's Political Director offered the following: -- The Czech Republic played a leading role within the EU to prevent lifting of the China arms embargo, but in the context of PM Paroubek's growing closeness with [...]	2005-11-09 15:10:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EZ CH RS CU LE SY ENRG ECON EFIN
05PRAGUE1590	CZECHS ON TRANSFORMING DEMOCRACIES [...] (C) Summary: The Czech MFA's Director for Transformation Cooperation believes that many international efforts to foster democratic change -- including in particular those of the EU -- suffer because the funding mechanisms chosen impede the chances for success. She believes that donors need to b [...]	2005-11-09 15:12:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EZ CU UP GG MD SR BK IZ BO BM
05PRAGUE1600	CZECH REACTION TO U.S. PROPOSAL TO ENABLE CIVIL [...] (C) On 9 November, PolOff met with Pavel Klucky, new MFA deputy director for international organizations with primary responsibility for non-proliferation, and reviewed Ref demarches. Klucky stated that the Czech government was in general agreement with the U.S. proposal, noting the potential [...]	2005-11-10 12:24:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	IN KNNP PARM PREL
05PRAGUE1601	CZECHS PROVIDE RECIPE FOR DEMOCRACY IN BELARUS [...] (C) Summary. The Czechs have been working for years to promote democracy in Belarus. Thus, talking to the Czechs about Belarus is like preaching to the choir. The Czech MFA, in the words of their Transition Promotion Unit Coordinator, supports U.S. policy toward Belarus without hesitation. She [...]	2005-11-10 14:55:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PHUM KDEM PGOV BO EZ EUN
05PRAGUE1608	CZECH RESPONSES TO OECD SECGEN SELECTION, ACTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Econoff met November 10 with Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs Department of Multilateral Economic Relations Deputy Director Pavel Klima to deliver reftel A and B demarches. Klima said that during the July 21 Polish state visit, the Prime Minister signaled GOCR support former Po [...]	2005-11-10 18:07:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	ECIN ECON EFIN EZ EINV
05PRAGUE1623	CZECHS ON NOV 21 GAERC [...] (C) Summary. The primary focus of the Nov 21 GAERC will be the EU budget. The Czechs support the Luxembourg Compromise, but pragmatically believe no compromise will be reached in the upcoming GAERC (or even this year). The Czechs generally support EU efforts in the Middle East, the Balkans, and [...]	2005-11-18 16:21:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EZ EUN
05PRAGUE1657	SCENESETTER FOR EUR DAS PEKALA'S VISIT TO PRAGUE [...] (C) Summary: Czechs this month marked the 16th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. As you will see during your visit this week, the country has embraced a pro-transatlantic foreign policy, with the Czech government and NGOs playing a significant role in efforts to promote democratic transf [...]	2005-11-28 15:58:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EZ
05PRAGUE1658	CZECH COUNTRY REVIEW FOR WAIVER OF TITLE III OF [...] (C) Summary. The Czech Republic is a staunch supporter of democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms in Cuba. For years it sponsored the annual Cuba human rights resolution in the UNCHR, and even though it is no longer a member of the Commission, it supports the Cuba country-specific re [...]	2005-11-29 06:10:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	CU PHUM ETTC PREL EZ
05PRAGUE1660	CZECH REPUBLIC: SOLICITING SUPPORT FOR UN REQUEST [...] (C) Poloff and DATT Nov 23 delivered reftel points to Zdenek Borkovec, Policy Director of the MOD,s Strategic Planning Division. The Czechs are unable to provide aircraft. As reported Ref B, Defense Minister Kuehnl has requested U.S. air transport for a visit to Iraq due to the Czechs' own ina [...]	2005-11-29 10:40:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL IZ EZ UN
05PRAGUE1680	CZECH PM ANNOUNCES HIS OWN KOSOVO POLICY [...] (U) Following a November visit to the Balkans, Czech PM Jiri Paroubek made the surprise announcement that the best solution to Kosovo's status would be a separation along ethnic lines. Paroubek floated the idea in a press interview on his return from the November 18-21 visit to the region. He [...]	2005-12-05 11:58:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL YI EZ
05PRAGUE1686	CZECH REPUBLIC'S MACROECONOMIC FAIRYTALE AND MIXED [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Czech Republic is enjoying unprecedented GDP growth (5.1 percent in 2Q 2005),doubling of foreign direct investment from 2004 to 2005 (to USD 10 billion),the first trade surplus since the country's birth (USD 2 billion or 1.7 percent of GDP) and a possible budget surplus. On [...]	2005-12-06 15:12:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ELAB ETRD EZ PGOV
05PRAGUE1687	CZECHS ALSO CONCEREND ABOUT RUSSIAN NGO LAW [...] (C) The Czech Republic shares USG concerns about the draft Russian NGO law, and is interested in coordinating with the U.S. on practical measures that will result in changes to the legislation. Embassy discussed reftel points in recent weeks with MFA Director General for European Bilateral Rel [...]	2005-12-06 16:30:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	EZ RS PGOV PHUM PINR PREL
05PRAGUE1688	DAS MARK PEKALA FINDS COMMITTED ALLIES IN PRAGUE [...] (U) Action requests in paragraphs 25 and 26. 2. (C) Summary. DAS Mark Pekala traveled to Prague November 30-December 1 to meet with Czechs actively working to promote democracy and human rights in Cuba, Belarus, and elsewhere; and to discuss Czech policy priorities on neighboring countries, [...]	2005-12-07 06:58:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PHUM EUN CU PGOV EZ
05PRAGUE169	CZECH ON FUTURE OF IRAQ COALITION; POSSIBILITY OF [...] (C) Pol-Econ Counselor and DATT raised ref A points on future of Iraq coalition with Czech MFA and MOD Security Policy Departments. The Czechs welcomed the information provided about current thinking on the coalition. They noted, of course, that the Czech parliament had just approved the ext [...]	2005-02-07 08:29:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL IZ EZ NATO
05PRAGUE1704	CZECHS SEEK INFORMATION ON U.S. PLANS FOR UN HUMAN [...] (U) Action request in paragraph 4. 2. (C) Polec Chief and Poloff met December 7 with Veronika Stromsikova, Czech MFA's Director of Human Rights Department, and her deputy, Jan Kaminek. Stromsikova said the Czechs are planning their strategy for UN human rights resolutions in 2006, and would [...]	2005-12-09 15:22:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	UN PHUM EZ
05PRAGUE1707	IRANIAN PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION VISITS PRAGUE BUT [...] (C) Summary: The recent visit of an Iranian parliamentary delegation to Prague left a trail of conflicting claims and counterclaims between the Iranians and their Czech hosts. Closer investigation has revealed that most Czech officials remain skeptical about Iran, and the Iranians were unsucce [...]	2005-12-09 16:36:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	EZ PREL PGOV ETRD PINR KNNP IR
05PRAGUE1716	CZECH FM WILL RAISE RUSSIAN NGO LAW WITH PUTIN [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel talking points December 9 to Czech MFA Russia Desk Officer, Josef Broz, and also delivered courtesy copies to Jaromir Plisek, MFA Director General of Territorial Section 1 (including Russia and Eastern Europe),and MFA Human Rights Director, Veronika Stromsikova. [...]	2005-12-14 16:13:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL RS EZ
05PRAGUE1720	DEMARCHE TO CZECH REPUBLIC: CONDEMNING THE [...] (C) On December 13, Poloff delivered the texts of the President's and the Secretary's statements on the assassination of Lebanese MP Gebran Tueni to Katerina Moravcova, Deputy Director of the Czech MFA Middle East and Africa Department and Pavel Koblizka, Head of the MFA's Mediterranean Unit. [...]	2005-12-15 13:29:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	AU LE PGOV PREL PTER SY
05PRAGUE1721	CZECHS WANT TO ADD CUBA TO U.S.- EU DEMOCRACY [...] (U) Action request in paragraph 5. 2. (C) In a meeting with poloffs December 7, Edita Hrda, Czech MFA Director of the Department of Americas, said the Czechs strongly support the U.S.- EU Democracy Initiative. To maximize the results of the initiative, the Czechs think the U.S. and EU shoul [...]	2005-12-15 13:49:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PHUM EUN CU PGOV EZ
05PRAGUE1727	CZECH CIVIC DEMOCRATS (ODS): RIGHT OF CENTER, LEFT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. At the start of 2005, the Czech Republic's senior opposition party, the center-right Civic Democrats (ODS),had a comfortable lead in the polls. The party, as well as the public, assumed ODS would easily win next June's election and form a right-of-center government after eight [...]	2005-12-15 17:08:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EZ
05PRAGUE1732	NOTWITHSTANDING INTERPOL NOTICES, UZBEK REFUGEES [...] (C) Post has learned that the 15 Uzbek refugees selected for resettlement in the Czech Republic arrived in the Czech Republic December 15 (although this information has not yet been made public). 2. (C) This number includes six refugees who are the subject of Interpol "diffusion notices" is [...]	2005-12-16 13:19:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF PREL EZ UZ
05PRAGUE174	CZECH PLANS TO REMAIN THE GADFLY IN THE EU'S CUBA [...] (C) Summary. While the Czechs eventually agreed with the EU's proposal to lift the restrictive measures against Cuba at last week's GAERC meeting, they are continuing to fight for EU approval of a detailed plan for structured dialogue with dissidents and hope to establish criteria to use as a [...]	2005-02-07 15:35:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EZ CU EUN
05PRAGUE183	CZECH GOVERNMENT UNDER PRESSURE TO IMPROVE TRADE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Czech government has been looking at ways to improve its anemic trade ties to Iran. The Iranians have limited Czech imports in retaliation for broadcasts of the Prague-based Radio Farda as well as legislation passed in 2000, at U.S. request, to bar supplies to the Bushehr n [...]	2005-02-08 16:04:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL EZ IR
05PRAGUE184	CZECH PM STANISLAV GROSS: SHROUDED IN CONTROVERSY [...] (C) Summary. Czech Prime Minister Stanislav Gross is under increasing pressure from the opposition and the public to explain the unclear origin of money used in 1999 to purchase the family's luxury Prague apartment, or to resign. His inability to explain his source of financing for the apart [...]	2005-02-09 06:32:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EZ
05PRAGUE221	CZECHS SUPPORT EU DESIGNATION OF HIZBALLAH AS [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-15 16:45:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PTER EFIN EZ EUN
05PRAGUE232	FUTURE OF CZECH GOVERNMENT IN QUESTION AS JUNIOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. The simmering debate about shady financing of PM Gross's apartment escalated into a crisis for the Czech government on Feb 15 when Miroslav Kalousek, head of the junior coalition partner Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL),threatened to call for Gross's resignation, and the head of t [...]	2005-02-16 18:14:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EZ
05PRAGUE241	CZECHS AND GAERC MEETING: PREPARING TO SPEAK OUT [...] (C) Summary: The Czech Republic plans to use the Feb 21 GAERC meeting to lead EU members to designate Hizballah as a terrorist organization. The Czechs are also working towards taking a leading role in the EU debate over the China arms embargo. The Czechs share our optimism about improving [...]	2005-02-17 15:51:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ETTC CH IR UP MD HR KPAL EZ EUN
05PRAGUE26	CZECH MEP ON REPAIRING US-EUROPE RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary. Longtime embassy contact and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Jana Hybaskova termed herself shocked by the depth of anti-American feeling she has found at European institutions such as the Council and Commission, including knee-jerk reactions opposing any U.S. involvement [...]	2005-01-06 06:34:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IZ EZ MEPP
05PRAGUE260	CZECHS SOLICIT U.S. OPINION ON ARMS SALES TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs is beginning to get a number of requests from Czech arms firms wanting to sell weapons and ammunition to the government of Afghanistan. The Czech Republic has no diplomatic mission in Afghanistan, and consequently [...]	2005-02-23 13:11:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	AF EZ PARM
05PRAGUE318	CZECH GOVERNMENT SOLICITS US OPINION ON ARMS SALES [...] (C) SUMMARY. THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. The Czech Republic has extensive surpluses of arms and ammunition left over from the days of the Warsaw Pact. Licensing authorities at the MFA are recieving many requests from Czech arms dealers to sell the surplus munitions to the governments in Afgh [...]	2005-03-04 11:33:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM AF IR EZ
05PRAGUE337	(C) RUSSIAN MISSILES FOR US NAVY COMING FROM [...] (C) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPH 4. The US Navy has for some time been planning an open commercial purchase of 23 KH-31 (or MA-31) Russian sea-skimming missiles from a Czech arms dealer. It has come to our attention that the missiles are coming from Belarus, via a series of complicated [...]	2005-03-09 06:49:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS PREL EZ UP BO RS
05PRAGUE346	CZECHS SUPPORT U.S. POSITION ON LEBANON [...] (SBU) Summary. In a meeting with DCM Hillas, Czech Deputy Minister for Bilateral Relations Petr Kolar and Czech Ambassador to Lebanon Marek Skolil stated that the Czech Republic agrees with the U.S. position about the complete withdrawal of Syrian forces from Lebanon. The Czech MFA issued [...]	2005-03-09 15:58:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PINS PINR SY LE EZ
05PRAGUE348	WHAT IF THERE IS A MINORITY CSSD GOVERNMENT? [...] (C) On March 6, PM Stanislav Gross won a decisive vote of confidence from the Social Democrats Central Committee, but the ongoing crisis in the ruling three party coalition government has not ended and is likely to erupt anew after the Easter Congress of the Social Democrats (CSSD). Christian [...]	2005-03-10 10:28:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EZ
05PRAGUE356	(C) US NAVY POTENTIAL PURCHASE OF RUSSIAN MISSILES [...] (C) Poloff was shown March 10 the request for an export license filed by the Czech firm that is working to provide an initial shipment of 23 Russian-made sea-skimming missiles (KH-31) to the US Navy. The application showed the name and address of the firm in Minsk that was supplying the missiles, b [...]	2005-03-10 16:26:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS PREL EZ BO RS UP

05PRAGUE376	CZECHS ON GAERC, CHINA ARMS EMBARGO, HIZBALLAH AND [...] (C) Summary. On March 14, we met with Mr. Michal Strouhal, Director of the Common Foreign and Security Policy Department in the Czech MFA, to discuss the GAERC (ref a),China Arms Embargo (ref b),and visit of Syrian FM to Europe (ref c). We also delivered the statement on U.S. support of t [...]	2005-03-15 14:38:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC PTER HR CH LE KPAL SU RS GG EZ IR EUN
05PRAGUE377	CZECHS ON IRANIAN INTERFERENCE IN IRAQI POLITICS [...] (C) On March 14, we met with Mr. Pavel Mrazek in the Czech MFA Middle East Department to discuss Iranian interference in Iraqi politics (reftel a). We also delivered the non-paper on Hizballah (ref b) and the statement on USG support for EU-3 diplomacy on Iran (ref c),which are discussed mo [...]	2005-03-15 14:40:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEC IZ IR EZ
05PRAGUE44	CZECH POSITION ON EU CUBA POLICY [...] (C) Summary: The Czech MFA appreciates reftel effort to remind European capitals of the real issues at stake in the EU debate over its common Cuba policy. Czech efforts are currently focused on establishing a meaningful format for the structured EU dialogue with the opposition. The Czech re [...]	2005-01-10 15:49:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CU EZ EUN
05PRAGUE469	CZECH PM GROSS SURVIVES NO-CONFIDENCE VOTE WITH [...] (C) Summary: Czech PM Gross survived a no-confidence vote on April 1 thanks to abstentions from the Communist Party. Further resignations from Gross's cabinet are likely, and it is possible that the remaining coalition partner, Freedom Union, will withdraw. Despite his victory, there are inc [...]	2005-04-01 14:30:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EZ
05PRAGUE470	(C) CZECH GOVERNMENT OFFICIALLY SAYS NO TO SALE OF [...] (C) The Czech government has formally denied the license request of a Czech arms dealer to broker the sale of Russian KH-31 missiles, now in the possession of a state-run firm in Belarus, to the U.S. Navy. Poloff was told April 1st that the MFA licensing office had on March 31 sent a formal letter [...]	2005-04-01 14:50:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS PREL BO EZ RS
05PRAGUE499	GWOT ASSESSMENT: POST FEEDBACK FOR CZECH REPUBLIC [...] (C) The Czech Republic, despite the weak coalition government that came into power after the June 2002 elections, has been a stauch supporter of the GWOT and has responded admirably to USG requests for troop contributions to Iraq and Afghanistan, and is actively providing economic, humanitari [...]	2005-04-07 13:42:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL EZ
05PRAGUE514	CZECH ENTER DEBATE ON EU CHINA ARMS EMBARGO [...] (C) Summary. The Czech Republic is beginning to speak out against the immediate removal of the EU China arms embargo. Growing European debate over the timing and modalities of any removal of the embargo is allowing the Czechs to play a more active role in the debate and, the Czechs believe, s [...]	2005-04-11 16:43:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MASS CH EZ
05PRAGUE534	UPDATE ON CZECH DIPLOMATIC AND RECONSTRUCTION [...] (C) Summary. On April 14, we met with Ivo Silhavy, Director of the Middle East Department at the MFA, to discuss the latest developments in Iraq. Silhavy described Czech-Iraqi relations as "very good and very intense," building on prior contacts with the Iraqi Minister of Culture and new Ir [...]	2005-04-14 14:32:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID EZ IZ IS
05PRAGUE547	CZECH GOVERNMENT CRISIS: PULLING BACK FROM THE [...] (C) SUMMARY The agreement on a new version of the old government, reached by the chairmen and vice-chairmen of the three coalition parties after 8 hours of negotiations late on the night of April 13, was rejected 15 hours later by the leadership of CSSD, the main party in the coalition. Jan [...]	2005-04-15 16:06:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EZ
05PRAGUE572	THE "NEW" CZECH GOVERNMENT: OLD WINE IN AN OLD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The three parties in the Czech ruling coalition have agreed to end a three-month government crisis and renew their cooperation. If the current proposal is accepted this weekend by the central committee of the main coalition party, the CSSD, PM Gross would resign next week and [...]	2005-04-20 15:45:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EZ
05PRAGUE603	CZECH GOVERNMENT CRISIS MOSTLY RESOLVED AS PM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY The crisis that began 14 weeks ago with an inquiry into the funds used by Czech Prime Minister Gross to purchase a luxury flat is nearly at an end. Gross has resigned and Jiri Paroubek, formerly his Minister for Regional Development, has replaced him at the head of a three-part [...]	2005-04-26 15:56:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EZ
05PRAGUE633	CZECHS SUPPORT U.S. POSITION ON SYRIAN WITHDRAWAL [...] (C) Czech MFA Director of Middle East Department Ivo Silhavy told Acting DCM on Apr 28 that the GOCR fully shares USG positions outlined reftel: complete Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon remains a priority; June elections in Lebanon require international support; and the EU ought to designate H [...]	2005-04-28 15:45:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAO LE SY EZ
05PRAGUE64	THE MOUSE THAT ROARED: CZECH EFFORTS IN THE MIDDLE [...] (C) Summary. During a January 10 lunch discussion, MFA Director of Middle East Affairs Ivo Silhavy discussed the Czech role in the Middle East Peace Process and upcoming elections in Iraq. The Czechs see the Middle East as an area where they can play a role as an honest broker, making use of [...]	2005-01-12 12:11:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IZ EZ IS
05PRAGUE66	DSACEUR LETTER ON NTM PAVES WAY FOR CZECH [...] (C) According to President Klaus' office, the Czech government in its weekly cabinet session on January 12 decided to seek a parliamentary mandate for the continued deployment of the Czech company of MPs in southern Iraq. The MOD was charged with preparing the draft for presentation to parl [...]	2005-01-12 16:40:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL MOPS EZ IZ
05PRAGUE814	EXPELLED CZECH POLITICIAN SAYS CUBA UNDERESTIMATED [...] (C) Summary. On May 25, we met with Czech Senator Karel Schwarzenberg, who was one of the European politicians deported from Cuba during last week's opposition gathering in Havana (see reftel). Schwarzenberg who did have an opportunity to meet with some dissidents prior to his expulsion, st [...]	2005-05-27 11:36:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM EZ CU EUN
05PRAGUE822	NEW CZECH GOVERNMENT: GOOD FIRST IMPRESSIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: New Czech PM Jiri Paroubek, who won a vote of confidence on May 13 (ref A),has gotten off to a stronger than expected start. His foreign policy looks to be a continuation of that of the previous Gross Government, marked by support for transatlantic policies. Notwithstanding his [...]	2005-05-27 14:46:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EZ
05PRAGUE833	CZECH VIEWS ON DEBATE OVER CHANGES TO EU'S CUBA [...] (U) This is an action message, please see paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary. The Czechs expect the June review of EU Cuba policy to result in a number of tougher measures, although the package will remain less robust than it was before the current policy was adopted earlier this year. The ex [...]	2005-06-02 13:41:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CU EZ EUN
05PRAGUE841	CZECHS TO STICK WITH EU ON SA/LW NEGOTIATIONS [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-05 13:33:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EZ PREM
05PRAGUE842	EU REFERENDUM DEFEATS INTENSIFY CZECH DOMESTIC [...] (C) Summary: Not surprisingly in a country where the government has declared passage of the EU constitution the reason for its existence, and whose President has staked out a position as one of Europe's leading critics of the agreement, the French and Dutch "no" votes have only amplified dome [...]	2005-06-05 15:01:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECIN EZ EUN
05PRAGUE858	LIBERTAD ACT: CZECH REPUBLIC [...] (C) As discussed in ref D reply to the previous Libertad Act tasking, the Czech Republic is one of the staunchest European defenders of Cuban dissidents and a proponent of U.S. policy towards Cuba. Refs A C detail Czech efforts to toughen the EU policy towards Cuba in a manner that will sup [...]	2005-06-06 14:27:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC CU EZ
05PRAGUE860	CZECH DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER ON EU AND ARMS [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-07 09:32:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC EZ EUN
05PRAGUE869	CZECHS DISAPPOINTED WITH EU CUBA NEGOTIATIONS; [...] (C) The Czechs are very disappointed with their inability to win support for tougher EU measures towards Cuba. MFA Cuba Desk officer Petr Mikyska confirmed assessments provided to USEU by Solana's office (ref A) from this week's COLAT and PSC meetings. Mikyska said that, despite their optimis [...]	2005-06-08 09:08:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CU EZ EUN
05PRAGUE888	CZECH RESPONSE TO JUNE 13 GAERC DEMARCHE [...] (C) On June 9, we discussed the points in ref A demarche with Mr. Michal Strouhal, Director of the Common Foreign and Security Policy Department at the Czech MFA. Strouhal provided the following responses: A. Kosovo: Strouhal emphasized the importance of the EU playing an active role in th [...]	2005-06-10 13:33:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CH CU EZ EUN
05PRAGUE889	CZECH ARMS SALES/DONATIONS TO IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN [...] (U) ACTION REQUEST, SEE PARAGRAPH 4. 2 (C) As the western-most country in the Soviet bloc, then Czechoslovakia became the forward ammo depot for any potential invasion of Western Europe.That fact, combined with the recent draw-down in the number of Czech troops from over 130,000 to roughly [...]	2005-06-10 13:36:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PM EZ
05PRAGUE892	CZECH PROPOSAL FOR PASSIVE RADAR SYSTEM TO VIETNAM [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-13 08:45:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC KSTC PARM PINR PREL EZ VM PK
05PRAGUE896	CZECH DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER KOLAR ON IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Czech republic is promoting former Czech Ambassador to the US Alexandr Vondra to become the Special EU Representative to Bosnia, and has garnered the support of Slovakia and Poland. The Czechs are presenting a proposal on the EU on dealings with Cuba which includes developmen [...]	2005-06-13 15:04:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CVIS PINR EAID IZ BK EZ EUN
05PRAGUE94	ODS SECOND-IN-COMMAND PETR NECAS AN IDEOLOGICAL [...] (C) Summary. The December 2004 election of main opposition Civic Democratic Party (ODS) long-time defense expert and ideological visionary Petr Necas to the number two position in the party strengthens Chairman Mirek Topolanek's leadership team and bodes well for future direction of ODS. The [...]	2005-01-19 17:02:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL PGOV MARR EZ
05PRAGUE981	CZECH FM ON IRAQ, VISAS AND DOMESTIC POLITICS [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador met with Czech FM Cyril Svoboda on June 27 primarily to discuss an extension of the Czech military police unit in Iraq through 2006 (UN reform issues covered septel). Svoboda said that the GOCR intended to ask the parliament to extend the troop deployment this fa [...]	2005-06-29 11:22:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV CVIS EZ IZ
05PRETORIA1493	SOUTH AFRICAN PARKS OFFICIAL ON ELEPHANT CULLING [...] (C) Summary. The top conservation official at South African National Parks confirmed the accuracy of press reports on his recent, well-publicized statement on the necessity of culling in order to manage the elephant population in the Kruger National Park. He reached this conclusion based o [...]	2005-04-15 08:39:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV SOCI ECON SF
05PRETORIA2177	SOUTH AFRICA ON ICAO LEADERSHIP DEMARCHE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Per reftel, Econoff delivered the USG non-paper to relevant South African government officials. Department of Transport (DOT) Chief Director of Air Transport Regulation Godfrey Selepe said South Africa supports a review of Council President and Secretary General roles at the Int [...]	2005-06-03 05:15:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR EINV ETRD ECON SF
05PRETORIA2599	OPPOSITION TO MBEKI'S POLICIES AT ANC CONFERENCE [...] (U) Summary: There appeared to be a popular revolt by provincial representatives against South African President Thabo Mbeki's proposed program to legislate a dual economy and redesign the ruling ANC party on the first day (June 30) of a four-day ANC National General Council (NGC) conference [...]	2005-07-01 15:46:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ELAB ECON PINR SF
05PRETORIA2854	SOUTH AFRICA INTENSIFIES ENGAGEMENT IN ZIMBABWE; [...] (C) Summary. Over the last ten days, South Africa has become increasingly concerned about the deteriorating economic situation in Zimbabwe and has intensified its diplomatic activity to find a solution to the crisis. Deputy President Mlambo-Ngcuka traveled to Zimbabwe July 13 and met with Zi [...]	2005-07-19 14:25:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ECON EFIN KDEM ZI SF
05PRETORIA2948	MBEKI CONFIRMS SOUTH AFRICA CONSIDERING BAILOUT [...] (U) Summary. Following a three-day cabinet retreat, President Mbeki confirmed publicly that South Africa was considering lending Zimbabwe funds to pay its IMF arrears. Mbeki said that intense discussions with the Government of Zimbabwe on a bailout had not been concluded, and that some condit [...]	2005-07-26 04:55:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM ECON ZI SF KFIN
05PRETORIA2952	SOUTH AFRICA: CHINESE OBJECTIONS TO UN RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-26 10:22:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ETTC PREL KTFN SF CH KFIN UNSC
05PRETORIA2983	SOUTH AFRICA FORMULATES BAILOUT PLAN FOR ZIMBABWE [...] (C) Summary. The South African Presidency, the National Treasury, the Reserve Bank (SARB),and the Department of Agriculture are key players in putting together the bailout plan for Zimbabwe. The clear objective is to keep Zimbabwe from being expelled from the IMF. The National Treasury is [...]	2005-07-27 15:07:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON EAID CH ZI SF
05PRETORIA3141	CABINET GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO ZIMBABWE LOAN; [...] (U) The South African Cabinet announced August 3 that it is "open" to providing assistance to Zimbabwe, including "provision of a loan facility in relation to Zimbabwe's obligations to the International Monetary Fund" (full Cabinet statement on Zimbabwe loan at para 5). Government spokesman J [...]	2005-08-05 04:53:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ECON KDEM ZI SF
05PRETORIA3477	SOUTH AFRICA: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH MINISTER OF [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Frazer and DCM met with Minister of Minerals and Energy Lindiwe Hendricks on August 22 to discuss the path forward on nuclear energy bilateral cooperation. Ambassador Frazer framed U.S.-South African cooperation on nuclear energy in the context of the broader bilate [...]	2005-08-26 14:28:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP ENRG TRGY OPDC SF
05PRETORIA3543	SOUTH AFRICA DENIES PAYING ZIMBABWE'S IMF BILL; [...] (C) Per reftel A, the IMF reported to the USG August 29 that Zimbabwe paid $120 million toward its IMF debt. South African Department of the Treasury officials that Post contacted August 30-31 were unaware of any South Africa payments on behalf of Zimbabwe to the IMF. Zimbabwean Central Bank [...]	2005-08-31 16:29:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ECON KDEM ZI SF
05PRETORIA3628	GONO SAYS NO ADDITIONAL IMF PAYMENT; SEEKS [...] (C) Summary: Zimbabwe will not/not make an additional $50 million payment to the IMF before the September 9 Executive Board meeting, according to Zimbabwe Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono. Gono would like to meet with U.S. officials on the margins of his IMF consultations in Washington, but [...]	2005-09-08 15:07:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ECON EFIN KDEM ZI SF
05PRETORIA423	SOUTH AFRICA: MONEY LAUNDERING AND CASINOS [...] (U) Summary. Although the gambling industry comprises a small portion of its GDP, South Africa has a relatively large gambling industry in global terms. South Africa operates an advanced system of casino regulation over its 32 casinos. The National Gambling Board conducts continual inspection [...]	2005-01-31 15:17:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR EFIN SOCI SF
05PRETORIA425	DTI OFFICIAL DISCUSSES MNC EQUITY OWNERSHIP [...] (C) Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Director of Black Economic Empowerment Jeffrey Ndumo explained to Econoff in a January 26 meeting that an imminent Statement on Ownership for Multinationals would not provide a blanket exemption to black economic empowerment equity requirements for [...]	2005-01-31 15:28:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ETRD ECIN ECON SF EFIN
05PRETORIA4297	SAG MAKES NO PROGRESS ON STALEMATE WITH IRAN [...] (C) Ali Larijani, Iranian Secretary of Supreme National Security Council (SNSC),visited South Africa October 19 for consultations on Iran's nuclear dossier with President Mbeki and Abdul Minty, DFA Deputy Director General and SAG Representative on the IAEA Board of Governors. Minty told A/ [...]	2005-10-24 12:44:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KNNP IR SF IAEA
05PRETORIA4340	NIA IMPLICATED IN ANTI-MBEKI SPYING [...] (C) Summary: National Intelligence Agency Director General Billy Masetlha and two of his deputies on October 21 were suspended by Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils after NIA was accused of spying on Saki Macozoma, a prominent businessman and ally of President Thabo Mbeki. Press reports al [...]	2005-10-27 06:29:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SF
05PRETORIA4419	SOUTH AFRICA: WASSENAAR MEMBERSHIP [...] (C) Following up on CDA's discussion with Deputy Foreign Minister Pahad (ref B),DepPolCouns presented ref A materials to DFA Deputy Director for Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Michiel Combrink on November 2nd. Combrink was surprised and pleased to learn of the U.S. decision to su [...]	2005-11-02 11:47:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL ETTC SF
05PRETORIA4436	ZIMBABWE LOAN TALKS RESUME; AGREEMENT NEAR [...] (C) Summary. Talks on the proposed South African loan to Zimbabwe resumed November 3 in Cape Town, according to ICG analyst Sydney Masamvu. The two sides have agreed on the economic conditions, but are still negotiating the political terms. Mugabe has reportedly given Reserve Bank Governor [...]	2005-11-03 14:54:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ZI SF
05PRETORIA4438	SOUTH AFRICAN COMPANIES IMPLICATED IN IRAQI [...] (U) Adding to SAG/ANC woes over the domestic political fall-out from President Mbeki's firing of former Deputy President Zuma for alleged corruption (Ref A),South African companies reportedly are implicated in the scandal-ridden UN Iraqi oil-for-food program. The Iraqi Government under Saddam [...]	2005-11-03 17:21:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ETRD PINR IZ SF
05PRETORIA4473	SOUTH AFRICA: POST ASSESSMENT OF CASH COURIER [...] (U) Post responses follow below according to subheadings on Ref A. The Border and the Legal Environment ------------------------------------ 2. (SBU) South Africa maintains declaration systems at all border points for cash and other goods. The South African Revenue Service (SARS) requir [...]	2005-11-01 18:53:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL SF
05PRETORIA4590	SOUTH AFRICA WILL SEEK USG SUPPORT FOR LOCAL [...] (C) Summary. South Africa will seek USG support for its expanding capacity-building program in southern Sudan, according to DFA Director Graham Maitland (please protect). The SAG is still discussing the proposal internally and will likely present it to Washington in the "coming weeks." South [...]	2005-11-18 10:15:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL SU SF
05PRETORIA762	SOUTH AFRICA: UPDATE ON PBMR [...] (C) Summary. PBMR, Ltd. executives told Econoff that their project would not be sidelined by a recent court decision requiring the Department of Environment and Tourism to enter into another round of stakeholder consultations on an environmental impact assessment concerning their pebble bed mo [...]	2005-02-18 15:35:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG KNNP TRGY CH FR SF
05PRETORIA807	SAG OFFICIAL COMMENTS ON JANUARY OPEN SKIES TALKS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Department of Transport Director for Aviation Regulation Godfrey Selepe described January Open Skies talks in Washington D.C. as "positive" and "encouraging." Selepe still plans to resume talks during a July visit to the United States. He supports an open dialogue throughout t [...]	2005-02-24 04:45:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ETRD ECON SF
05PRETORIA966	INFORMAL DISCUSSION OF G8 SUMMIT WITH THE [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Frazer told Foreign Affairs officials that the Monterrey agreements represent the correct blend of policies and initiatives to support growth in Africa. This view would again govern the U.S. approach to the G8 Summit. The U.S. had already exceeded its Monterey commi [...]	2005-03-08 07:18:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID EFIN ETRD SF
05QUEBEC101	PARTI QUEBECOIS CONGRESS: ROADMAP TO SOVEREIGNTY, MAYBE [...] (c) Summary: A coalition of widely varying political ideologies, the Parti Quebecois (PQ) is united in the goal of sovereignty but divided on how to achieve this. The Party's "hard core" stresses Quebec's francophone identity and wants a declaration of independence immediately after victory [...]	2005-06-17 13:18:00	Consulate Quebec	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON CA
05QUEBEC135	PREMIERS BANFF MEETING, AUG. 10-12 [...] (C) Summary: The Council of the Federation, a provincial/territorial forum initiated by Quebec Premier Charest in 2003, will hold its first meeting of 2005, in Banff, August 10-12. Initially greeted with skepticism, the Council proved its worth last fall when it succeeded in hammering out an [...]	2005-08-08 14:56:00	Consulate Quebec	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON CA
05QUEBEC190	FORMER PQ HEAD LANDRY SUMS UP HIS SUCCESSOR [...] (c) Summary: In a Nov. 16 breakfast with CG, former PQ leader and Quebec Premier Bernard Landry expressed support for newly elected PQ leader Andre Boisclair. He characterized the controversy of Boisclair's past cocaine use as "over and done with," but warned that if any new revelation of cri [...]	2005-11-17 23:12:00	Consulate Quebec	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CA
05QUEBEC46	QUEBEC IMMIGRATION POLICY AT A CROSSROADS? [...] No summary [...]	2005-04-11 20:40:00	Consulate Quebec	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI SMIG PGOV PREL EFIN ECON CA MO AG TS
05QUEBEC75	QUEBEC FEDERALISTS: SEEKING MORE FROM OTTAWA [...] (SBU/NOFORN) Summary: In a May 17 meeting with Quebec City CG, Quebec Minister for Canadian Intergovernmental Affairs Benoit Pelletier was upbeat about the government of Quebec's success in negotiating deals to its advantage with the federal government. At the same time, he expressed support [...]	2005-05-19 18:39:00	Consulate Quebec	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV CA
05QUEBEC79	QUEBEC PQ CONVENTION: SOVEREIGNTISTS LIKELY TO SUPPORT [...] (c) Summary: Former Quebec Premier and current Parti Quebecois (PQ) chief Bernard Landry is widely expected to overcome discontent with his leadership within the PQ and win a renewed mandate at the Party's Province-wide convention June 3-5, in Quebec City. After he lost the Premiership to Jea [...]	2005-05-26 22:33:00	Consulate Quebec	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON CA
05QUEBEC91	QUEBEC OPPOSITION LEADER BERNARD LANDRY STEPS DOWN [...] (C) Summary: Falling short of his self-imposed target of 80 percent in a June 4 vote of confidence at the Parti Quebecois convention, PQ leader Bernard Landry announced to a stunned audience his immediate retirement from political life. Saying he needed "solid, unequivocal, massive" support [...]	2005-06-06 05:59:00	Consulate Quebec	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CA
05QUITO1000	EMBASSY RECOMMENDS 3C FINDINGS FOR ISAIAS BROTHERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: William and Roberto Isaias, former chiefs of Filanbanco bank and among Ecuador's richest men, fled Ecuador in 1999 after absconding with over $100 million in government bailout funds. They used their ill-gotten wealth to buy safe passage from Ecuador and later pressured prosecu [...]	2005-05-02 23:21:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CVIS EFIN KCOR EC
05QUITO1018	EMBASSY 90-DAY GOALS, CHALLENGES UNDER PALACIO GOVT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In word if not always in deed, Ecuador's Lucio Gutierrez administration qualified as pro-American. President Alfredo Palacio's most definitely does not. Brought to power by street mobs ("forajidos") clamoring for change, Palacio's closest advisor and Cabinet stalwart is gringo-b [...]	2005-05-04 21:31:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR KDEM SNAR PTER ECON ASEC EC CO
05QUITO1021	NEW POLICE CHIEF A US ALLY [...] (C) Summary: New National Police Chief Jose Antonio Vinueza told the Ambassador his priorities would be to restructure the police force, combat narco-trafficking, and restore the police's reputation. Vinueza vowed to continue to be a strong US ally. He said relations with the military were [...]	2005-05-04 22:03:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
05QUITO1024	ECUADORIAN JOINT CHIEF VOWS CONTINUED U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: Positive atmospherics surrounded the Ambassador's initial call on new Ecuadorian Joint Forces Commander Admiral Manuel Zapater, the admiral recalling fondly their years-earlier meetings in Guayaquil. Zapater promised continued Ecuadorian security collaboration with the United S [...]	2005-05-04 22:55:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS PREL SNAR PTER EC CO
05QUITO1047	NEW TRADE MINISTER SOUNDS REASONABLE [...] (SBU) Summary: In separate meetings with the Ambassador and AID, Ecuador's new Minister for Trade Oswaldo Molestina said he wanted an FTA with the USG, but was most concerned about the agricultural negotiations. He said that he intended to keep lead FTA negotiator Cristian Espinosa on board, [...]	2005-05-06 19:49:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PGOV EINV ECON PINR EC
05QUITO1054	MINISTER OF FINANCE ON FISCAL POLICY: AMBASSADOR'S [...] (C) Summary: In his first meeting with the Ambassador, Ecuador's new Minister of Economy and Finance Rafael Correa made clear that he intends to implement a policy far removed from the responsible fiscal management of his two most-recent predecessors. Correa said he expects the IFIs to back [...]	2005-05-06 21:57:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON EC
05QUITO1060	MFA LEERY OF CEDING JURISDICTION OVER SMUGGLING [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a May 10 call on Acting Foreign Minister Marcelo Fernandez, the Charge requested the GoE waive jurisdiction over the F/V Simon Bolivar, an Ecuador-flagged fishing vessel interdicted May 8 while smuggling four tons of cocaine. In his demarche, the Charge revealed the Bolivar [...]	2005-05-11 22:00:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
05QUITO1097	ECUADOR: BIOS: NEW MINISTER OF LABOR IS UNION [...] (SBU) Summary: The President swore in Galo Chiriboga Zambrano as Minister of Labor on May 11, completing his Cabinet. Chiriboga, who was pushed by union leaders, took office pledging to strengthen worker rights and fight child labor, while also increasing competitiveness. Chiriboga's appoi [...]	2005-05-12 21:43:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ELAB EC
05QUITO1100	ECUADOR: DEMOCRATIC DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? [...] (C) Summary: The political scene is coming alive with voices, new and old, providing different prescriptions for Ecuador's democratic ills. Congress on May 11 ejected four more of its members, tossing due process to the wind in the face of threatened protests on May 12. As the first test of [...]	2005-05-13 13:54:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EC
05QUITO1169	GOVERNMENT CHANGE FURTHER HINDERS ARTICLE 98 [...] (C) SUMMARY: With the rise to power of President Alfredo Palacio, Article 98's chances in Ecuador sunk from bad to worse. Palacio's right-hand man, Minister of Government Mauricio Gandara, laid down an early marker, claiming there would be "no immunity for U.S. soldiers" during this governm [...]	2005-05-18 23:02:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS MARR SNAR PTER EC CO KICC
05QUITO1177	ECUADOR: FM AND MINDEF MEETINGS [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met separately with FM Parra and MinDef Espinosa on May 19. Parra expressed hope for the strongest possible relations with the U.S., and pledged MFA support for successful FTA negotiations. He expressed GOE discomfort with language in the draft OAS resolution, sa [...]	2005-05-19 23:05:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR MASS PINR SNAR EC
05QUITO1181	ECUADORIAN FISCAL POLICY: LIVING ON THE EDGE [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Economy and Finance Rafael Correa inherited a relatively responsibly-managed fiscal situation from his predecessors. If he continues their policies, he should be able to meet his budget without great difficulty. However, his early statements to the press have damage [...]	2005-05-20 18:06:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON EC
05QUITO121	ECUADOR UNDECIDED ON OAS SYG, SUPPORTS [...] (C) In response to Reftel regarding U.S. support for Francisco Flores's OAS secretary general (OAS SYG) candidacy, Charge January 19 called on Roberto Betancourt, the Ecuadorian MFA's third-ranking official and ambassador-designate to the United States (FM Patricio Zuquilanda was unavailable [...]	2005-01-19 20:09:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AORC EC OAS
05QUITO1244	OASGA: FM TO HEAD ECUADOR'S DELEGATION [...] (C) MFA Director of Multilateral Affairs and International Organizations Benjamin Villacis told PolOff on May 31 that Ecuador had not yet decided which candidate Ecuador would support for Deputy Secretary General at the OAS General Assembly in Fort Lauderdale (June 5-7). He said the MFA had [...]	2005-05-31 21:55:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC PGOV PREL EC
05QUITO1256	PRESIDENT PALACIO SENDING MIXED SIGNALS [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting which failed to inspire great confidence in his leadership ability or vision, President Palacio told the Ambassador on May 31 that his government is focused on achieving durable political reforms. Palacio expressed continued concern about disloyalty in the police an [...]	2005-06-01 22:25:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MOPS KCRM EC
05QUITO1257	PRESIDENT PALACIO ON IMF, FTA AND HEALTHCARE [...] (C) Summary. In a May 31 meeting with the Ambassador, President Palacio, a heart surgeon, discussed his ambitious national health care plan. He also told the Ambassador to pay little attention to the exuberance of youth displayed by Palacio's Minister of Economy and Finance Rafael Correa. In [...]	2005-06-01 22:27:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV ETRD EPET EFIN EC
05QUITO1274	VP READY TO DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary: Vice President Alejandro Serrano Aguilar discussed his role as coordinator of national dialogue with the Ambassador, including plans for the upcoming public dialogue process and referendum that the GOE is planning to hold by December 11. Serrano also discussed his past experien [...]	2005-06-03 19:51:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
05QUITO1340	GUTIERREZ RETURN JUST ONE OF PALACIO'S PROBLEMS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Forty-five days young, the Alfredo Palacio government has hit its first snags. Two cabinet ministers resigned this week (Septel) amidst charges they owed money to the state. One other is backpedaling over accusations he conspired to depose former President Lucio Gutierrez. Mil [...]	2005-06-09 23:09:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EC
05QUITO1344	FORMER FM FACING POSSIBLE CONGRESSIONAL CENSURE [...] (C) Summary: The president of Congress has publicly threatened to bring charges against Former Foreign Minister Patricio Zuquilanda, who lost his position with ex-President Gutierrez' ouster, for violating Ecuador's sovereignty by allowing the US military to sink decrepit Ecuadorian flagged [...]	2005-06-10 14:51:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
05QUITO1404	WELCOME TO ECUADOR, GENERAL CRADDOCK [...] (U) On behalf of Mission Ecuador, General, please accept a warm welcome on your second visit to this fascinating South American nation. Regrettably, your tight schedule forced an agenda trimming -- we initially had you traversing Ecuador's border with Colombia -- but we'll file that itinerary [...]	2005-06-16 13:39:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
05QUITO1445	RESPONDING TO ECUADOR'S GOVERNANCE CRISIS [...] (C) Summary: Following the April 20 change in government, the US Mission underwent a two-month process to gather data and analyze the deeper causes of instability affecting Ecuador's governance. Mission sections and agencies, led by the Ambassador, met on June 14 to discuss our short and lo [...]	2005-06-20 21:58:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
05QUITO1506	ECUADOR'S PARTICIPATION IN MERCOSUR SUMMIT [...] (U) Summary: On June 18 Alfredo Palacio embarked on his first international visit as president of Ecuador, arriving in Asuncion, Paraguay, for the 28th Mercosur Summit. He went with two main objectives: to form and strengthen bilateral ties with other South American countries, and to publicl [...]	2005-06-24 19:59:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
05QUITO1534	FARC ATTACKS FURTHER ALIENATE QUITO, BOGOTA [...] (C) SUMMARY: News of the FARC's lethal attacks in southern Putumayo June 25 spawned a counterproductive but oh-so-Ecuadorian response from politicians in Quito. Rather than condemning the narcoterrorists and acknowledging that border security requires bilateral cooperation, Palacio administ [...]	2005-06-29 15:15:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR SNAR PTER EC CO
05QUITO1635	BORDER SECURITY DOMINATES PALACIO-URIBE DISCUSSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Amidst a perception of frayed bilateral relations -- due mainly to GoE leaders' anti-Colombia outbursts -- Presidents Alfredo Palacio and Alvaro Uribe briefly met July 7 in Costa Rica. Media here claimed the session was substance-lite and lasted only fifteen minutes; an MFA con [...]	2005-07-12 22:59:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SNAR PTER EC CO
05QUITO1663	GOE CONSIDERING CHAVEZ LOAN [...] (C) Summary: The Palacio government may be considering a $500 million loan from Venezuela, after visits to Caracas by FM Parra and MinFin Correa. The GOE is apparently considering turning to Chavez to fill a looming budgetary gap caused by investor lack of confidence in Correa, the possibili [...]	2005-07-14 22:58:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EFIN EC
05QUITO1715	ECUADOR: MIXED SIGNALS ON CHAVEZ DEAL [...] (C) Summary: Press reports suggest Ecuador is ready to sign agreements with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on financing and oil deals, despite President Alfredo Palacio's public denials that any GOE decision has been taken. Privately, however, Palacio administration officials are telling u [...]	2005-07-20 23:35:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EFIN ENRG EC
05QUITO1734	MORE FINANCIAL PRESSURE ON ECUADOR [...] (C) Summary. Opting for the path of least resistance, President Palacio issued a partial veto of the bill to refund social security (IESS) reserve funds, but proposed to refund the reserve funds anyway. The major immediate difference between the congressional bill and the Palacio proposal is [...]	2005-07-22 19:56:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV PREL EC
05QUITO1736	GOE REFUTES USG VIEWS ON BELGIAN FUNDING OF CUBAN [...] (C) ACDM made reftel points to MFA U/S for Bilateral Affairs Susan Alvear on July 22. 2. (C) Alvear countered our views with the "beggars can't be choosers" argument, saying that with USG and IFI assistance ever-shrinking, the GOE must turn to other donors to meet its social needs. It wa [...]	2005-07-22 21:10:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PHUM PREL EC
05QUITO1786	ECUADOR TILTING TOWARD SUPPORTING G-4 RESOLUTION [...] (C) The Italian Ambassador informed the Charge on July 29 that FM Parra had called him to discuss the G-4 resolution. After earlier saying the GOE would abstain, Parra now said that President Palacio had decided to support the G-4 resolution. Palacio's decision came after a call (date unspec [...]	2005-07-29 19:11:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EC UNSC UNGA
05QUITO1804	PALACIO SNUBS VENEZUELAN FM [...] (C) Summary: FM Antonio Parra, acting without the President's knowledge or consent, reportedly arranged an August 3 lunch for President Palacio with Venezuelan FM Ali Rodriguez. Palacio only found out about the invitation the evening of August 2 from his adviser Luis Herreria and quickly ca [...]	2005-08-03 22:22:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC VE
05QUITO1817	ECUADOR: GITMO TALKING POINTS DELIVERED [...] (C) Charge delivered talking points in reftel A to Palacio on August 3 during a private session with the President (reftel B). Palacio promised to review them. 2. (C) Guayaquil PolOff and Quito PolIntern delivered talking points in reftel A to MFA Subsecretary for Bilateral Affairs Aleja [...]	2005-08-05 18:48:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL KPAO PGOV PREL EC
05QUITO1926	PRES. PALACIO ON NEW AMB. TO U.S., REPLACEMENT FM [...] (C) Summary: President Alfredo Palacio told the Charge that he would name career diplomat Luis Gallegos Chiriboga to be Ecuador's Ambassador to the U.S. shortly. He also said he intended to replace FM Parra with another career Ecuadorian and UN diplomat, Diego Cordovez. End Summary. 2. [...]	2005-08-17 23:37:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EC
05QUITO1931	PRES. PALACIO CONSIDERS, THEN REJECTS VISIT TO CUBA [...] (C) Summary. On August 17, President Palacio shared with Charge his inclination to attend a ceremony in Havana for graduating Ecuadorian medical students on August 20. Doing so would boost his international standing, he said, offering Latin America an alternative regional leader to Hugo Chav [...]	2005-08-18 12:40:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR CU EC
05QUITO1978	PALACIO: I NEED YOUR HELP [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Charge on August 22, President Palacio asked for U.S. assistance with the international financial institutions to ensure that Ecuador could meet its October financing requirements. He expressed frustration with unrest in the oil patch and with the intelligence [...]	2005-08-23 00:26:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EFIN VE EC
05QUITO20	WHO WILL LEAD ECUADOR'S CONGRESS? [...] (U) SUMMARY: January 5 marks the mid-point of the congressional term in Ecuador; on that date, legislators will elect a president, two vice presidents, and the membership of 18 committees to lead Congress until January 2007. The presidential race, pitting opposition (ID) and pro-government [...]	2005-01-04 15:21:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
05QUITO2008	FM PARRA TO CARACAS SOCIAL CHARTER EVENT, NOT TO [...] (C) PolChief conveyed reftel points to acting MFA U/S for Multilateral Affairs, Carmen Larrea on August 24. 2. (C) Larrea confirmed that FM Parra would attend the August 28 OAS Social Charter event in Caracas. 3. (C) According to Larrea, the GOE is in accord with the U.S. position tha [...]	2005-08-26 13:24:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	KSUM SOCI PGOV EC
05QUITO2049	SCANDAL TARNISHES PALACIO GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: President Palacio has moved quickly to stem the damage caused by a widening forgery and position-selling scandal by firing implicated advisors inside the office of the presidency. Coming on the heels of damaging strikes, the scandal has weakened the Palacio government's image [...]	2005-09-02 14:18:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
05QUITO2057	A FIRST MEETING WITH PALACIO [...] (C) Summary: In their first substantive discussion, President Palacio told the Ambassador that he sees himself as a counterweight to Venezuela's Chavez; that he intends to take a hard line to keep civil order in Ecuador; that he believes the international financial institutions (IFIs) will s [...]	2005-09-02 19:41:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EFIN ECON VE EC
05QUITO2060	AMBASSADOR MEETS GOVERNMENT MINISTER GANDARA [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador paid a courtesy call on Minister of Government Mauricio Gandara on September 1. Gandara, a lightning rod for growing criticism of the Palacio government, made light of the chorus of calls for his impeachment. In a cordial and wide-ranging discussion, Gandara bla [...]	2005-09-02 20:23:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EC
05QUITO2088	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH FM PARRA [...] (C) Summary: In an initial office call, the Ambassador thanked FM for the GOE's generous offer of disaster assistance to the U.S., and requested patience while international assistance offers are considered. She urged dialogue with Colombia to resolve important bilateral issues and promote [...]	2005-09-08 16:43:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID ECON EC UNGA
05QUITO2092	MUSICAL CHAIRS MOVES INTO HYPERSPEED: TRADE TO [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Commerce Oswaldo Molestina told Ambassador he would be designated as the new Minister of Government (police, security forces, congressional relations) late on September 8. One of his deputies, Jorge Illingworth, would take over as Minister of Commerce and Manuel Chir [...]	2005-09-08 23:48:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PGOV PREL EC
05QUITO2207	IMPROVING ECUADOR-COLOMBIA RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Communication and relations between President Palacio and President Uribe remain good, highlighted by recent GOE action against the FARC here. But the GOE continues to insist that aerial spraying of pesticides be suspended along the border while a new study is prepared. Palaci [...]	2005-09-27 21:04:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC

05QUITO2241	NEW GOVERNMENT MINISTER AN IMPROVEMENT [...] (C) Summary: On September 26, the Ambassador discussed pending political reforms with new Minister of Government Oswaldo Molestina. She also enlisted Molestina's continued support for the successful conclusion of an FTA and new leadership combating trafficking in persons (TIP). President [...]	2005-09-30 15:33:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EC
05QUITO2359	GUTIERREZ RETURNS TO JAIL, PALACIO SOWS UNCERTAINTY [...] (C) Summary: Ex-president Lucio Gutierrez returned to Ecuador on October 14 and was promptly arrested and incarcerated in Quito. Perhaps more destabilizing was an announcement the same day by President Alfredo Palacio proposing a national constituent assembly over congressional opposition. [...]	2005-10-18 15:17:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL EC
05QUITO236	ANOTHER DEFECTION FROM GUTIERREZ'S INNER CIRCLE? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Tired and forlorn, Presidential Legal Advisor and close Embassy contact Carlos Larrea informed Poloffs January 27 that President Lucio Gutierrez was feeling growing pressure from legislative allies for cabinet and policy changes. The PRE party sought ministerial positions from [...]	2005-01-28 22:12:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM PREL PHUM EC
05QUITO2409	PALACIO'S ASSEMBLY PROPOSAL BLOCKED BY TRIBUNAL [...] (C) Summary: The rejection of President Palacio's referendum proposal to convoke a national constituent assembly by the electoral tribunal was swift and has forced the GOE to reevaluate its options to promote reform. Signals from Congress are mixed, with some calling for new talks with the P [...]	2005-10-21 22:43:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS EC
05QUITO2442	CONGRESS OFFERS, AND PALACIO RESISTS, ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Summary: President of Congress Wilfredo Lucero met with President Alfredo Palacio October 24 to relay lawmakers' support for a constitutional assembly, but not a more powerful constituent assembly as favored by Palacio. The constituent assembly -- intended for times of complete governmen [...]	2005-10-26 22:13:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS KDEM EC
05QUITO2463	PALACIO CONSIDERS COMPROMISE, CONGRESS APPEALS TO [...] (C) Summary: President Alfredo Palacio told the Ambassador on October 27 that he was considering sending a new referendum proposal to Congress which would allow voters to decide between constituent and constitutional assemblies to make political reform. The Ambassador urged strict adherence [...]	2005-10-28 19:16:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL EC
05QUITO2506	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH MFA [...] (C) Summary: In her initial meeting with Foreign Minister (FM) Francisco Carrion on November 1, the Ambassador reaffirmed the importance of respecting constitutional bounds for reform, urged the MFA to revitalize the GOE inter-ministry working group on TIP, and reminded the FM that the GOE,s [...]	2005-11-04 18:06:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL EC
05QUITO2573	GOE STUDIES PERU MARITIME CLAIMS [...] (C) Summary: The Peruvian Congress' recent passage of maritime border legislation affecting Chile (Ref A) has sparked intense review by the GOE of the issue. Thus far, the GOE's official response has been cautious and measured, maintaining that the Peruvian measure does not affect the Ecuad [...]	2005-11-10 22:06:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV EC
05QUITO2578	PROCURADOR'S INVOLVEMENT IN OXY AND OTHER MATTERS [...] (C) Summary: At Occidental Petroleum's (Oxy) and the GOE's request, EconOffs met with Ecuador Solicitor General (Procurador General) Jose Maria Borja November 7, to lay the groundwork for Borja's buy-in to the ongoing discussions between Oxy and members of the GOE. Recently, Oxy has had its m [...]	2005-11-10 22:50:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ECON PGOV EC
05QUITO2607	IRAN: GOE AGAINST NO ACTION, FAVORS UNSC REFERRAL [...] (C) The DCM delivered RefTel points on November 15 to MFA U/S for Multilateral Affairs Mauricio Montalvo, requesting GOE support in opposing the no action motion against the pending human rights resolution on Iran. The DCM stressed the importance of maintaining the Third Committee's credibil [...]	2005-11-15 22:17:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM EC UNHRC
05QUITO2662	COLOMBIA OFFERS OLIVE BRANCH ON SPRAYING [...] (C) Summary: Ecuadorian Vice FM Diego Ribadeneira and Colombian Vice FM Comilo Reyes met in Quito on November 17 to review key bilateral issues for the December 7 ministerial meeting. As predicted, the meeting primarily focused on northern border security issues including migration, refugees [...]	2005-11-21 21:45:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS PTER SNAR CO EC
05QUITO2715	ECUADOR: MONITORS FOR BOLIVIAN ELECTIONS [...] (C) PolOff delivered RefTel points on November 29 to MFA Director of Bilateral Affairs Rafael Veintimilla. GOB diplomats declined our invitation to jointly deliver the points, but asked that we share the outcome. Veintimilla said that the GOE is supportive of the need to see Bolivia strengt [...]	2005-11-30 15:26:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
05QUITO2724	MFA'S COOLER HEADS ON COLOMBIA, PERU [...] (C) Summary: Vice Foreign Minister Diego Ribadeneira told the Charge on November 30 that FM Francisco Carrion would like to pay an official visit to Washington in January or February. Ribadeneira, who took office in October when Carrion replaced outgoing FM Antonio Parra, highlighted the im [...]	2005-11-30 22:29:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL EC
05QUITO2748	PRESIDENT PUSHES "PLAN B" FOR REFERENDUM [...] (C) Summary: After being rebuffed by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal and Congress, President Palacio on December 1 announced he had issued a decree ordering the Supreme Electoral Tribunal to hold a referendum on January 22. The referendum would ask voters whether to convoke a national assem [...]	2005-12-02 19:58:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL EC
05QUITO2750	ECUADOR REVIEW REGARDING TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD [...] (C) In response to reftel request, Post provides the following information regarding trade and other relations between Ecuador and Cuba. Trade between the two countries is not extensive. In 2004, Ecuador exports to Cuba, mostly oil, totaled $14,437,920 (CIF) and Ecuadorian imports from Cuba [...]	2005-12-02 20:48:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PREL CU EC
05QUITO2795	ENGAGING ECUADOR ON BOLIVIA [...] (C) Summary: The DCM expressed USG concerns about the potential effects of upcoming Bolivian elections with Vice Foreign Minister Diego Ribadeneira, who offered his personal views on the subject. End Summary. 2. (U) After expressing USG concerns about the potential for destabilizing eff [...]	2005-12-08 22:10:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BO EC
05QUITO2814	FIRST LADY: CABINET SHAKEUP COMING SOON [...] (C) Summary: First Lady Maria Paret de Palacio called on the Ambassador on December 9 to share President Palacio's intended Cabinet changes in advance of a public announcement which she implied was imminent. The First Lady said Palacio wished to assure the USG that Alfredo Castillo, his choi [...]	2005-12-09 23:02:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL ECON EC
05QUITO282	GUTIERREZ (AGAIN) RECONSIDERING AMBASSADORIAL [...] (C) Despite Lucio Gutierrez informing a nationwide TV audience January 3 that MFA diplomat Roberto Betancourt was his choice to head Ecuador's embassy in Washington (Ref A),the Ecuadorian president is now having second (actually, third) thoughts. At their February 3 meeting, Gutierrez told [...]	2005-02-04 14:38:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EC
05QUITO2822	ECUADOR-COLOMBIA TALKS ADVANCE ON BROAD RANGE OF [...] (C) Summary: The meeting between FM Francisco Carrion and his Colombian counterpart Carolina Barco which took place here on December 7 is being touted by the GOE and the Colombian Embassy here as a success. Both governments committed to increasing security measures along the border region, [...]	2005-12-12 19:37:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS MASS SNAR PTER EC CO
05QUITO2970	PALACIO APPOINTS FOUR NEW MINISTERS [...] (U) Summary: Following weeks of speculation, President Palacio on December 29 named new economic, education, health and housing ministers. The most significant change to USG interest is the naming of flower sector businessman Diego Borja as Minister of Economy and Finance, replacing Magdalen [...]	2005-12-30 14:30:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON EFIN PREL EC
05QUITO370	ECUADOR'S NEW AMB-DESIGNATE TO U.S. CONFIRMED: [...] (C) Summary: Former Finance Minister Mauricio Pozo has been offered and has accepted the position of Ambassador to the United States, according to reliable sources. We expect to received a request for agrement for Pozo during the week of February 21. Pozo is well and favorably known to the [...]	2005-02-15 22:58:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EC
05QUITO377	ECUADOR NOT RUNNING FOR ECOSOC [...] (C) PolOff met with MFA Director for Human Rights Julio Prado on February 15 and conveyed talking points encouraging Ecuador to continue its candidacy for ECOSOC and the Commission on the Status of Women. Prado said Ecuador's term on ECOSOC ended on December 31, 2004. After analyzing the iss [...]	2005-02-16 17:28:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL CU EC UNGA
05QUITO418	ATTACK ON JESUITS ANOTHER SELF-INFLICTED FIASCO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GoE's Social Welfare Ministry (MBS) February 10 ordered "dissolved and liquidated" the Mariana de Jesus Foundation (FMJ),a Quito-based, Jesuit-operated charitable organization. Days later, Ministry staff and police attempted to physically take possession of the FMJ facilit [...]	2005-02-18 20:45:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM EC
05QUITO42	MFA WINS PRESIDENT'S EAR; BETANCOURT TO WASHINGTON [...] (U) This telegram contains an action request; please see Paragraph 4. 2. (C) President Lucio Gutierrez, in January 3 comments to Ecuador's Channel 1 television, revealed his candidate to head the GoE's embassy in Washington: Roberto Betancourt, currently the MFA's subsecretary (U/S equiv [...]	2005-01-06 19:48:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EC
05QUITO491	CNIES UPDATE: REQUESTING A ONE-MONTH REPRIEVE [...] (C) Embassy Quito seeks a one-month delay before the USG disables the CNIES system -- in whole or in part -- in Ecuador. 2. (C) In recent weeks, we have seen the Ecuadorian Air Force (FAE) CNIES-energized, and worry that "flipping the switch" now could be counter-productive to negotiation [...]	2005-03-02 12:40:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR MOPS PREL EC EARI
05QUITO534	A DEFENSIVE GUTIERREZ BLASTS CRITICS [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Lucio Gutierrez feels justified in criticizing Ecuador's political opposition, calling his public rebuttals valid tit-for-tat. "If I don't respond to their allegations," he told the Ambassador March 7, "the people will believe them." Gutierrez attributed opposition e [...]	2005-03-08 21:58:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
05QUITO559	LATEST FARC COMMUNIQUE SMACKS OF PAYBACK [...] (C) SUMMARY: A FARC communique that essentially threatened President Lucio Gutierrez "to keep his end of the bargain or else" hit Ecuadorian presses March 10. Early reactions were as expected: the GoE dismissed the remarks out-of-hand, while a handful of consulted ex-Ecuadorian military re [...]	2005-03-10 23:15:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SNAR PTER EC CO
05QUITO590	OPENING ADDITIONAL ARTICLE 98 FRONTS [...] (C) DEAL REMAINS FAR OFF: With Guinea-Bissau's February 2 signing, 99 countries have reached Article 98 agreements with the United States. Regrettably, we doubt it's Ecuador that cracks the century mark. Despite our numerous and varied overtures, the GoE continues to consider Article 98's [...]	2005-03-15 16:59:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SNAR PTER EC CO KICC
05QUITO60	GOE NOTES USG CONCERN OVER SUPREME COURT CHANGES; [...] (C) Summary: MFA U/S for Multilateral Affairs and the GOE's designate for Ambassador to the U.S., Roberto Betancourt, invited the DCM to his office on January 10 to inquire about recent statements by the Embassy spokesman. The DCM stood by the statements as an accurate reflection of USG conc [...]	2005-01-10 22:54:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
05QUITO601	OXY - PROCURADOR RENEWS CONTRACT NULLIFICATION [...] (C) Summary. Ecuador's Procurador March 14 once again called for the nullification (caducity) of Occidental Petroleum's (Oxy) contract and seizure of Oxy's assets. We told GOE Presidential Advisor Carlos Larrea (as we had other GOE officials numerous times before) that the USG would react v [...]	2005-03-15 22:32:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EINV EPET ECON EC
05QUITO61	GOVERNMENT MINISTER SHARES (BIZARRE) VIEWS [...] (C) Summary: In a December 7 tour d'horizon with the Ambassador and DCM, Government Minister Jaime Damerval expressed willingness to cooperate to combat trafficking in persons. He also shed (sometimes disturbing) light on his thinking on a range of other issues, including the drug war, the [...]	2005-01-10 22:57:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
05QUITO652	EMBASSY LOBBYING HARD FOR CUBA RESOLUTION [...] (C) Summary: We understand the critical need for Ecuador to support the UNHRC resolution on Cuba and the impact every country has on the outcome. Historically Ecuador has abstained on the issue of Cuba. The GOE is politically unstable and considers Cuba a sensitive issue. Given the situat [...]	2005-03-22 23:09:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM CU EC CHR
05QUITO661	GUTIERREZ TO CARACAS: WILL HE OR WON'T HE? [...] (U) SUMMARY: For a month the Embassy has heard rumors that Ecuador President Lucio Gutierrez would travel to Caracas and meet Hugo Chavez. Confirmation has proved difficult, however; Gutierrez himself swears the trip dates have slipped until autumn. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) Guayaquil's El U [...]	2005-03-23 16:59:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EC VE
05QUITO666	CNIES UPDATE: ECUADOR DISMISSES STOCK TEXT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Attempting to dissipate confusion and spur movement on CNIES negotiations, Embassy officers called on Ecuadorian Air Force (FAE) leaders March 22 and worked through the USG boilerplate line-by-line. The FAE remains convinced, however, that current agreement language does not re [...]	2005-03-23 22:41:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR MOPS MASS PREL EC EARI
05QUITO667	SOME PROGRESS ON OXY [...] (C) Summary The Procurador has, perhaps inadvertently, helped to create some momentum toward resolution of Occidental Petroleum's (Oxy) disputes with the GOE (reftel). Washington and Embassy efforts to move the parties to negotiate seem to also be paying some dividends. Still, PetroEcuador Pr [...]	2005-03-25 22:05:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ETRD EPET ECON EC
05QUITO680	GUTIERREZ SAYS NO TO CARACAS TRIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: E... id: 29636 date: 3/28/2005 21:35 refid: 05QUITO680 origin: Embassy Quito classification: CONFIDENTIAL destination: 05QUITO661 header: This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available. ----------------- header ends [...]	2005-03-28 21:35:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EC VE
05QUITO682	PUSHING GUTIERREZ TO VOTE YES ON CUBA [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Lucio Gutierrez has assured that Ecuador will "no worse than" abstain on the upcoming UN Human Rights Commission resolution on Cuba. A yes vote appears a political Pandora's box, he believes, likely to unite and embolden his many detractors across the political spectru [...]	2005-03-28 22:30:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV EC CU
05QUITO705	ECUADOR: MORE CHAOS IN CONGRESS [...] (C) Summary: Despite conciliatory overtures by President Gutierrez to resolve the Supreme Court issue, confrontation flared again in Congress on March 30 over the selection of a new Attorney General. The battle over the new Attorney General has temporarily crowded out debate over the Presid [...]	2005-03-30 22:27:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS EC
05QUITO721	FM FIRM ON CUBA ABSTENTION, BUT WILLING TO TALK [...] (C) Summary: FM Patricio Zuquilanda indicated to the Ambassador on March 31 that the GOE will again abstain from voting on the upcoming U.S. resolution on human rights in Cuba. He also requested a meeting in Washington with Secretary Rice on the margins of the OAS extraordinary SIPDIS se [...]	2005-03-31 22:57:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM CU EC CHR
05QUITO729	ECUADOR: EX-PRES BUCARAM CLEARED TO RETURN [...] (C) Summary: Supreme Court President Guillermo Castro absolved ex-president Abdala Bucaram of pending corruption charges on March 31, paving the way for Bucaram's return from self-imposed exile. Castro's order was immediately challenged, and will be appealed. Bucaram's supporters immediate [...]	2005-04-01 17:14:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC EC
05QUITO744	ECUADOR: STAYING THE COURSE [...] (C) Summary: Former president Abdala Bucaram's precipitous return to Ecuador has brought government stability issues again to the fore. Bucaram remains a government ally, but we believe the controversial decision by the Supreme Court President will provoke a reaction by the opposition aimed [...]	2005-04-04 23:01:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC EC
05QUITO764	ECUADOR: POLITICAL TEMPERATURE RISING [...] (C) Summary: Anti-government protests flared in Quito on April 5, continued on April 6, and are likely to continue April 7. Thus far the GOE has reacted with restraint, using tear gas to disperse protesters attempting to forcibly enter Congress. A national strike was convoked by the opposit [...]	2005-04-06 23:14:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC EC
05QUITO773	WELCOME TO ECUADOR, GENERAL MYERS [...] (U) On behalf of the Mission Ecuador team, General, please accept a hearty welcome to Ecuador. Into your three hour stop we have packed a bilat with GoE President Lucio Gutierrez, a press conference with your joint chief counterpart, and a working lunch with the Ecuadorian high command; the [...]	2005-04-07 22:17:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PGOV MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC
05QUITO779	FINAL PUSH FOR GOE VOTE ON CUBA [...] (C) With the UN Human Rights Commission scheduled to vote on the Cuba resolution April 14 or 15, our campaign to swing Ecuador to "yes" has reached the home-stretch. In the last 10 days, Embassy efforts have included: -- Calling on GoE President Lucio Gutierrez (Ref B). Gutierrez promised [...]	2005-04-08 21:56:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV EC CU
05QUITO781	ECUADOR: DIALOGUE UNDERWAY, STRIKE POSTPONED ONE [...] (C) Summary: The government and opposition appear closer than ever to resolving the Supreme Court issue. However, they may not achieve congressional passage of a measure to do so before April 13, the new start date for an indefinite strike in the capital and Azuay province. Still in play ar [...]	2005-04-08 22:54:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC EC
05QUITO789	CJCS VISIT SUPPORTS DEMOCRACY, IMPROVED MIL-MIL [...] (C) Summary: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Richard Myers' April 11 visit to Quito advanced bilateral relations with Ecuador by signaling our continued commitment to military cooperation, and supported our pro-democracy and pro-stability agenda at a sensitive moment. To President Gutierre [...]	2005-04-12 18:35:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
05QUITO794	ECUADOR: FACTS ON SUCCESSION AND STATE OF EMERGENCY [...] (C) Summary: With political instability a chronic problem in Ecuador, and in the face of imminent anti-government strike action, we are providing background information on constitutional provisions for a presidential declaration of a state of emergency and for presidential succession. The G [...]	2005-04-12 22:04:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
05QUITO795	ECUADOR: DIALOGUE OVER; TIME TO STRIKE [...] (C) Summary: Congress tried but failed to pass legislation to resolve the Supreme Court issue on April 12. Quito opposition leaders will therefore try to close down the capital in protest, starting early on April 13. How long the "general strike" will last is not clear. The private sector [...]	2005-04-12 22:56:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC EC
05QUITO797	ECUADOR WILL ABSTAIN ON BELARUS AND CUBA, BUT NOT [...] (C) Summary: The GOE will vote against any no-action motion in Geneva, but will firmly abstain from voting on Belarus and Cuba resolutions, according to MFA officials. The only country-specific resolution the GOE will vote for relates to North Korea. End Summary. 2. (C) PolChief accompa [...]	2005-04-13 12:54:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM BO CU EC
05QUITO798	OXY: SERIOUS DIALOGUE WITH GOE [...] (C) Summary. President Gutierrez's assignment of a close advisor to resolve commercial disputes seems to have energized GOE efforts. Ambassador and Embassy officials continue to encourage dialogue between the parties. Serious discussions and information trading represent the first real prog [...]	2005-04-13 12:54:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ETRD EPET ECON EC
05QUITO799	ECUADOR WILL ABSTAIN ON BELARUS AND CUBA, BUT NOT [...] (C) Summary: The GOE will vote against any no-action motion in Geneva, but will firmly abstain from voting on Belarus and Cuba resolutions, according to MFA officials. The only country-specific resolution the GOE will vote for relates to North Korea. End Summary. 2. (C) PolChief accompa [...]	2005-04-13 12:54:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM BO CU EC
05QUITO805	ECUADOR: STRIKE FIZZLES, BACK TO DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary: Strike activities organized by municipal and provincial leaders in the capital took place generally peacefully on April 13, but did not close the city as intended. Protests attracted far fewer participants than an earlier, February 16 protest march. Strike organizers claimed v [...]	2005-04-13 23:12:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC EC
05QUITO835	ECUADOR: PUBLIC DISGUSTED WITH POLITICIANS [...] (C) Summary: President Gutierrez missed an opportunity for conciliation after the opposition failed to turn great crowds out for the protest strike on April 13. His recent intemperate statements led the opposition to court (and nearly attract) PRIAN support for a new, blatantly partisan pr [...]	2005-04-15 22:32:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC EC
05QUITO836	ECUADOR: PRESIDENT DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY IN [...] (C) Summary: President Lucio Gutierrez declared an indefinite state of emergency in a national televised address at 21:30 local on April 15. Embassy personnel are accounted for and safe. Military units have not yet appeared in the streets, where spontaneous demonstrations sprang up to prot [...]	2005-04-16 06:27:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC EC
05QUITO839	GUTIERREZ CLAIMS EMERGENCY DECLARATION BANK-RELATED [...] (C) Summary. President Gutierrez April 15 declared a state of emergency, suspending the Supreme Court and certain constitutional rights of Ecuadorians (septel). According to GOE sources, one of the reasons given for the declaration was that the Ecuadorian Supreme Court was about to arrest di [...]	2005-04-16 14:09:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EFIN PREL ECON EC
05QUITO840	ECUADOR STATE OF EMERGENCY: SITREP 2, 1300 HRS [...] (C) Summary: Demonstrations in Quito petered out early April 16. As of 0900, the city was calm, but police contacts report likely large gatherings commencing shortly after nightfall. The Ambassador reconvened the Country Team at 1000 hrs to discuss the situation on the streets, the safety [...]	2005-04-16 19:32:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC EC
05QUITO842	ECUADOR: PRESIDENT ENDS STATE OF EMERGENCY [...] (C) Summary: President Lucio Gutierrez revoked the state of emergency declared on April 15 the following day. Anti-government citizen protests continued after the lifting of the emergency, though generally peacefully. The political situation here remains fluid--a special session of Congress [...]	2005-04-17 19:54:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC EC
05QUITO850	EXHAUSTED GUTIERREZ JUSTIFIES EMERGENCY, OUTLINES [...] (C) SUMMARY: A fatigued President Lucio Gutierrez met with the Ambassador over breakfast April 18 and discussed the now-withdrawn state of emergency (Reftels) and his plans for reducing political temperatures. Gutierrez defended the April 15 decree, but claimed security conditions had improv [...]	2005-04-18 22:19:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC EC
05QUITO852	ECUADOR: POLITICAL SITUATION UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: The political situation remains fluid in the wake of President Lucio Gutierrez' lifting of the state of emergency. In an emergency session on April 17, Congress unanimously revoked its December 2004 reorganization of the Supreme Court and adjourned until April 19, when it is ex [...]	2005-04-18 23:02:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC EC
05QUITO854	ECUADOR: POLITICAL SITUATION UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: The political situation remains fluid in the wake of President Lucio Gutierrez' lifting of the state of emergency. In an emergency session on April 17, Congress unanimously revoked its December 2004 reorganization of the Supreme Court and adjourned until April 19, when it is ex [...]	2005-04-19 15:35:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC EC
05QUITO855	STATE OF EMERGENCY: USG OUTREACH CRITICAL [...] (C) Summary: After the declaration of a state of emergency by President Gutierrez on the evening of April 15, Embassy Quito and Consulate Guayaquil, working with other USG colleagues, acted quickly to encourage GOE restraint and non-violence. The Mission team (including several Embassy sect [...]	2005-04-19 17:33:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
05QUITO857	ENGAGING THE DIPCORPS ON ECUADORIAN STABILITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Representatives from Quito's largest foreign missions gathered April 18 to discuss the ongoing political crisis in Ecuador. UN Judicial Rapporteur Leandro Despouy, who visited Ecuador March 13-18 (Ref A),weighed in via conference call. As non-US diplomats here are wont to do, [...]	2005-04-19 21:14:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EC OAS
05QUITO868	ECUADOR: POLITICAL SITUATION UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: Following a night of persistent protests centered on the Presidential Palace, in which one journalist died, the situation in Quito remains extremely volatile. Protests are ongoing and expected to grow. The Ambassador met with the President early on April 20 to urge a bold signa [...]	2005-04-20 17:57:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC EC
05QUITO869	PROFILE OF VICE PRESIDENT ALFREDO PALACIO [...] (C) Summary: Vice President Alfredo Palacio became Vice President in 2002 and hoped to reform health care and provide free coverage for the poor. He has publicly criticized Gutierrez on numerous occasions, going so far as to call him a dictator just days ago. Palacio, a green card holder, h [...]	2005-04-20 18:38:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EC
05QUITO871	ECUADOR: POLITICAL SITUATION UPDATE AS OF 2:45 [...] (C) Summary: At 1:15 p.m., Congress voted to replace President Gutierrez with Vice President Alfredo Palacio. The military has announced the withdrawal of its support for President Gutierrez. Protests, which formerly met with police resistance, turned celebratory with news of Gutierrez's d [...]	2005-04-20 21:51:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC EC
05QUITO872	ECUADOR'S POLITICAL CRISIS CONTINUES [...] (C) Summary: The political crisis in Quito is ongoing with new protests against the Congress and newly sworn-in President Alfredo Palacio. The military high command has privately expressed concern but not moved decisively against the protests. We have urged respect for life and property bu [...]	2005-04-20 23:13:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC EC
05QUITO878	ECUADOR: THE WAY FORWARD [...] (C) Summary: The dismissal by Congress of President Lucio Gutierrez on April 20 and the swearing in of President Alfredo Palacio has shifted the political landscape. Palacio took office sounding notes of contrast with his predecessor, including respect for the constitution and the letter of [...]	2005-04-21 16:52:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC EC
05QUITO879	ECUADOR: IS A PALACIO GOVERNMENT SUSTAINABLE? [...] (C) Summary: A Palacio government could prove sustainable in the short term (1-3 months),but will come under increasing pressure to call new elections after its first month. End Summary. 2. (C) Key factors behind this judgment: -- Palacio has the support of the military and police hi [...]	2005-04-21 18:00:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC EC
05QUITO881	ECUADOR'S ADMINISTRATION CHANGE: CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Opinions differ here on whether Congress's dismissal of ex-President Gutierrez was constitutional. In play is whether Ecuador's supreme law required a simple or two-thirds majority to remove the chief executive on "abandonment of office" charges. With few demanding Gutierrez's [...]	2005-04-21 19:44:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM EC
05QUITO882	ECUADOR: FATE OF USG INTERESTS [...] (C) Summary: It is too early to know how a Palacio government would handle key issues on the USG agenda, but based on Palacio's history and early public statements, it appears very likely that FTA negotiations would be set back, and that Ecuador might well withdraw from the negotiations, whi [...]	2005-04-21 20:24:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC KCRM ELAB EC
05QUITO885	TENTATIVE SUPPORT FOR PALACIO [...] (U) Summary. The Embassy continues its outreach on all fronts, revealing tentative support for Palacio throughout Ecuador. Many "supporters" note that Palacio has a tough road ahead of him as public pressure mounts to hold elections soon and rid Ecuador of corruption and partisan politics. E [...]	2005-04-21 22:35:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC EC
05QUITO886	BIO INFO ON NEW CABINET MINISTERS: PART 1 [...] (U) Summary: On the afternoon of April 21, President Palacio swore in the first members of his new Cabinet: Secretary General of the Administration Luis Herreria Bonnet, SIPDIS Minister of Government Mauricio Gandara Gallegos, Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Parra Gil, Minister of Defe [...]	2005-04-21 22:54:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EC
05QUITO894	ECUADOR: INITIAL CONTACTS WITH NEW GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: Initial contacts indicate that the Palacio government is greatly concerned about possible OAS actions and seeks USG recognition, and would welcome a visit by an OAS delegation. They are also intimidated by the very forces of popular discontent that brought them into office, and [...]	2005-04-22 20:13:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC EC
05QUITO895	ECUADOR: POLITICAL SITUATION UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: On April 22, the new Minister of Defense Anibal Solon Espinosa named a new military high command. The Embassy has begun outreach to the new government's Cabinet, though not at the Ambassadorial level. Congress is expected to reconvene on April 26, possibly in Guayaquil. There [...]	2005-04-22 20:13:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC EC
05QUITO897	ECUADOR: ENGAGING THE NEW GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: The Palacio government is gradually consolidating its hold on power, and beginning to send disturbing signals on issues. With ex-President Gutierrez still in the country, the situation remains unsettled--it is far from clear how long this government will last. In line with the [...]	2005-04-23 20:47:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC EC
05QUITO898	ECUADOR: GUTIERREZ GONE, NEXT STEPS [...] (C) Summary: Ex-president Lucio Gutierrez departed Ecuador for Brazil early on April 24, after being granted safe passage by the GOE. Reaction has been muted thus far, with no demonstrations reported on a sunny Sunday when most Quitenos were more occupied by soccer rather than politics. Gut [...]	2005-04-24 20:28:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC EC
05QUITO900	ECUADOR TO REVERSE ECONOMIC POLICY? [...] (U) Summary: Public pronouncements by and reports from private meetings with the new Ecuadorian Minister of Finance and Economy suggest that the GOE's economic policy will be making a U-turn. Fiscal responsibility is to be replaced with increased social spending. The intent to pay off debt [...]	2005-04-25 16:28:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EC
05QUITO911	BIO INFO FOR NEW GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS: PART 2 [...] (U) Summary: On April 25, President Palacio named Minister of Education Consuelo Yanez Cossio, Minister of Tourism Maria Isabel Crespo, Minister of Sports Omar Cevallos, Minister of Health Wellington Sandoval and Presidential Communication Secretary Carlos Cortez. Elsa de Mena will return t [...]	2005-04-25 22:08:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EC
05QUITO914	ECUADOR: POSITIVE INITIAL MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: In a cordial encounter with the Ambassador on April 25, President Alfredo Palacio stressed his personal links to the U.S., and his wishes for normal and open relations with the USG. He asked the Ambassador to publicly express support for his government. Palacio welcomed Embassy [...]	2005-04-25 23:42:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC EC
05QUITO919	WHY DID GUTIERREZ FALL? [...] (C) Summary: Early analyses of the overthrow of Gutierrez in Ecuador in the U.S. press and elsewhere have relied on facile, but erroneous comparisons between Ecuador and Venezuela or Bolivia. In most, either Gutierrez or Palacio is Ecuador's Chavez. In fact, little can be understood about [...]	2005-04-26 14:10:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EC
05QUITO932	ECUADOR: FM PARRA OPENS BILATERAL DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary: In a cordial one-on-one encounter on April 26, FM Antonio Parra Gil told the Ambassador that, by natural inclination and necessity, Ecuador seeks good relations with the United States. He offered open and honest dialogue with the USG, and pledged to address specific issues in su [...]	2005-04-26 20:15:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SNAR PINR EC
05QUITO934	ECUADOR: TENSIONS LOWER, GOE REGROUPS [...] (U) Summary: With the situation in Quito approaching normalcy, the Ambassador met with FM Antonio Parra on April 26. Convening for the first time since swearing in President Palacio on April 20, Congress met in Quito to vote in a new Congress president, and debate purging its ranks of ethic [...]	2005-04-26 21:41:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ASEC EC
05QUITO945	FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS NERVOUS ABOUT ECUADOR'S [...] (C) Summary. Our meetings with the financial and business sectors reveal uneasiness with the fiscal policies being espoused by the new Minister of Finance, Rafael Correa (Reftel). The international financial institutions (IFIs) found Correa,s proposed economic remedies to be nave and outdated [...]	2005-04-27 20:03:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EFIN EC
05QUITO947	ECUADOR: OAS ON THE GROUND, QUITO CALM [...] (SBU) Summary: Quito is relatively calm, with a very small protest reported on April 27. The OAS mission arrived late on April 26 and began meetings with the government and others the following day. The Ambassador met with the new Defense Minister on April 27. For the first time in recent [...]	2005-04-27 22:17:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ASEC EC
05QUITO970	ECUADOR: MINGOV LOSING SLEEP [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Ambassador, an unfocused Minister of Government Mauricio Gandara discussed his mostly theoretical goals for the (maximum) 18 months remaining for the Palacio government. His top priorities were police reform and a referendum to propose a constitutional ass [...]	2005-04-28 20:06:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
05QUITO976	ECUADOR: EMBASSY CONTINUES OUTREACH, OAS CONTINUES [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met separately with Minister of Government Mauricio Gandara and First Lady Maria Paret de Palacio on April 28. The OAS delegation continued its round of meetings with political parties, indigenous, civil society groups, jurists, and ex-presidents, and will meet wi [...]	2005-04-28 22:33:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PINR EC
05QUITO978	WELCOMING FM PARRA TO WASHINGTON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ecuador's new foreign minister, Antonio Parra, will travel to Washington to participate in the election of the next OAS Secretary General (slated for May 2). Parra, currently in Santiago for the Community of Democracies gathering, arrives in Washington May 1, accompanied by a [...]	2005-04-29 19:50:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EC OAS
05QUITO983	BIO INFO FOR NEW GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS: PART 3 [...] (U) Summary: Pablo Rizzo was named Minister of Agriculture on April 29. President Palacio has yet to name Ministers of Labor and Energy. Below is biographical information for the following new Cabinet members and government officials: First Lady Maria Beatriz Paret de Palacio, Vice FM Mar [...]	2005-04-29 22:02:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EC
05RABAT1052	WESTERN SAHARA: ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS [...] (C) Summary: The economy of Western Sahara is based almost entirely on fishing for export, which employs two-thirds of the local workforce, along with small bits of mining, agriculture and tourism. Existing infrastructure is good and cash flow is buoyed by a large military presence, tax brea [...]	2005-05-18 15:31:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIS ETRD MO PGOV PINR PREL WS EINV PBTS
05RABAT1070	KING MOHAMMED VI LAUNCHES MAJOR ECONOMIC GROWTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a nationally televised address on May 18, King Mohammed VI announced a major government initiative to combat poverty, create jobs, improve infrastructure, and open the Moroccan economy. The speech's timing -- almost to the day of the second anniversary of the May 16, 2003 [...]	2005-05-19 16:12:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV KMCA KMPI ELAB EAID MO
05RABAT1072	MOROCCO POLITICAL HIGHLIGHTS [...] (C) Norwegian Ambassador Returns: Emboffs were pleased to greet the freshly groomed and chastened Norwegian ambassador, Arne Aasheim, at Norway's National Day reception on May 17. Aasheim returned to Morocco on May 15 after being recalled to Oslo on May 4 to clarify public remarks on the We [...]	2005-05-20 12:18:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV KMPI PREL PHUM MO MOROCCO POLITICAL HIGHLIGHTS
05RABAT1115	WESTERN SAHARA: MINURSO SAYS GOM HOLDING UP CBMS [...] (C) MINURSO Chief of Staff Philippe Elghouayel told A/DCM May 27 that the UN was in the unusual position of having adequate funding (thanks in part to the US contribution of USD 700,000, A/DCM noted) to go forward with confidence-building measures in the Western Sahara but lacked a green ligh [...]	2005-05-27 14:31:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PBTS PREL
05RABAT1118	WESTERN SAHARA: POLICE USE VIOLENCE TO PUT DOWN [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy contacts in Laayoune confirm news reports that significant demonstrations have taken place in Laayoune between May 21-25. More than twenty persons have reportedly been arrested and as many are reported to be injured, some seriously. Large numbers of police and milita [...]	2005-05-27 17:47:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO MO PBTS PHUM PREL
05RABAT1129	WESTERN SAHARA: UPDATE ON DEMONSTRATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Spanish FM Moratinos reached out to both Moroccans and Algerians in an attempt to restore "calm" to the situation in the Western Sahara, holding separate bilateral meetings with GOM and GOA officials in Luxembourg May 30, and indicated his government's intention to stay engaged in [...]	2005-05-31 17:11:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO MO PBTS PHUM PREL
05RABAT1162	US-MOROCCAN MILITARY CONSULTATIONS: THE MOROCCANS [...] (C) Summary: The third annual US-Morocco Defense Consultative Committee took place in Rabat on May 18-19, 2005, led on the US side by ASD Peter Rodman and on the Moroccan side by Minister Delegate to the PM in Charge of the Administration of National Defense Mr. Abderrahmane Sbai. During the [...]	2005-06-03 17:27:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	AG ETRD IZ KPKO MARR MO PGOV PREL PTER SNAR
05RABAT1169	MOROCCO ON MESSAGE TO THE ARAB LEAGUE AND REGIONAL [...] (C) Poloff met June 2 with MFA Director of Arab and Islamic Affairs Mohamed Azeroual to discuss ref(a) demarche regarding the opening of an Israeli liaison office in Rabat, the closure of the Central Boycott Office (CBO) in Damascus, and support for resolving the membership of Magen David Adom [...]	2005-06-07 11:27:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	IO IS IZ LE PREL SY MO
05RABAT1177	POLISARIO SELLING OIL EXPLORATION PERMITS IN [...] (C) Summary: The Polisario "government" of the putative Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) has issued a call for bids on oil exploration licenses over the length of the Western Sahara territory, including offshore zones where U.S. firm Kerr McGee has been operating under Moroccan licenses [...]	2005-06-07 19:01:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PBTS MO WS
05RABAT1250	GEEKS AND GEEZERS: MOROCCO'S GENERATIONAL DIVIDE [...] (C) SUMMARY: A new generation of Moroccan leaders is emerging, characterized by their formative Anglo-Saxon experiences, entrepreneurial and pro-American outlook, high levels of education and technical skills, and strong, well-informed political opinions. They are eager, even impatient, to bo [...]	2005-06-15 17:03:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EAID PGOV KMPI MO
05RABAT1721	WESTERN SAHARA CBMS: MORE BACK AND FORTH [...] (C) Summary: MFA Director of Multilateral Affairs Mohamed Loulichki (tapped to be Morocco's next Ambassador in Geneva) briefed Polcouns August 15 on the substance of the GOM's proposed reply to UNHCR concerning the confidence-building measures (in particular the family visit program) for the [...]	2005-08-16 18:50:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PBTS PHUM PREL
05RABAT1752	MOROCCO POLITICAL HIGHLIGHTS [...] (U) Through a series of messages addressed to world leaders, King Mohammed expressed his satisfaction with the withdrawal of Israeli settlers from the Gaza strip, according to official Moroccan news agency, Maghreb Arabe Presse (MAP). The King called Palestinian President Abbas on August 16 t [...]	2005-08-19 15:54:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PGOV PHUM PREL SNAR

05RABAT1767	SENATOR LUGAR'S MEETING WITH KING MOHAMMED [...] (C) Summary: Senator Lugar met for 40 minutes with King Mohammed the afternoon of August 19 in Tetouan, northern Morocco. The King thanked Senator Lugar for US intervention in freeing the remaining POWs from Tindouf. Lugar encouraged the King to use the release as an opportunity to make pr [...]	2005-08-23 07:30:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD MO PBTS PGOV PHUM PREL MAS

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