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Identifier	Subject	Date	Office	Classification	Tags
06BUENOSAIRES798	ARGENTINA: NEGOTIATING A STATUS OF FORCES [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) POLOFF met April 4 with Minister Ricardo Boccalandro and Counselor Paulo Cavalleri in the MFA's Office of International Security (DIGAN) to discuss the text of the draft diplomatic note (ref. A) on a short-term Status of Forces [...]	2006-04-07 21:28:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	AR KTIA MARR MOPS MASS

06BUENOSAIRES83	DEMARCHE ON UN REFORM: THE WAY FORWARD [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-13 15:10:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KUNR PHUM UN ADCO AR
06BUENOSAIRES84	DUVALIER PASSPORT ISSUANCE [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana on January 10. The Ambassador underscored the potential dangers of Duvalier's return to Haiti and urged Taiana to express similar concerns to the IGOH. 2. (C) Taiana, who appeared not to be aware of the I [...]	2006-01-13 15:11:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM HA AR
06BUENOSAIRES85	REPORTING IRAN TO THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana on January 12. Argentine Deputy Foreign Minister Roberto Garcia Moritan was also in attendance. Drawing on points in reftel, which were left as a non-paper, the Ambassador urged the GOA to continue its effor [...]	2006-01-13 15:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL IR EU AR AORC
06BUENOSAIRES857	ARGENTINA: RICARDO LOPEZ MURPHY ON THE ECONOMY, [...] (C) Summary: On March 12, the Charge and Poloff (notetaker) met with opposition Recrear Party leader Ricardo Lopez Murphy that included a wide-ranging discussion on the state of the country and the opposition, President Nestor Kirchner, and Lopez Murphy's future plans. Lopez Murphy was criti [...]	2006-04-13 21:24:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES858	ARGENTINA: RICARDO LOPEZ MURPHY ON THE ECONOMY, [...] (C) Summary: On March 12, the Charge and Poloff (notetaker) met with opposition Recrear Party leader Ricardo Lopez Murphy that included a wide-ranging discussion on the state of the country and the opposition, President Nestor Kirchner, and Lopez Murphy's future plans. Lopez Murphy was criti [...]	2006-04-17 10:40:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES886	ARGENTINA ON PRESSURING IRAN [...] (C) Ambassador, accompanied by POLOFF, met with FM Jorge Taiana April 18 to discuss reftel points and asked for Argentina's support for a strong Chapter VII resolution requiring Iran to comply with the steps called for in the UNSC Presidential Statement and in past IAEA Board of Governor resol [...]	2006-04-19 14:17:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AORC EUN IAEA KNNP UNSC IR AR
06BUENOSAIRES887	ARGENTINA ON VENEZUELA'S TREATMENT OF AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Ambassador, accompanied by POLOFF, delivered reftel points April 18 to FM Jorge Taiana regarding the April 7 attack on Ambassador Brownfield and four similar attacks over the last seven months. Taiana had been unaware of the earlier incidents and thanked the Ambassador for bringing them t [...]	2006-04-19 20:32:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PGOV PREL PTER AR
06BUENOSAIRES902	ARGENTINA: LEADING KIRCHNER STRATEGIST ON POLITICS [...] (C) SUMMARY: DCM and POLOFF (notetaker) met April 18 with Juan Carlos Mazzon, President Nestor Kirchner's primary political campaign strategist. The DCM noted the overall positive nature of the bilateral relationship and took the opportunity to highlight our concerns on Venezuela. Mazzon s [...]	2006-04-21 18:59:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES903	ARGENTINA NAMES STRONG CHAVEZ ALLY AS AMBASSADOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOA announced April 18 that it was seeking acceptance from the Government of Venezuela to name former airline stewardess, union leader, congresswoman, and Chavez ally Alicia Castro as the new Argentine Ambassador to Venezuela. Castro, 56, is known as one of Chavez's most [...]	2006-04-21 19:15:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OVIP ENRG AR VZ
06BUENOSAIRES944	ARGENTINA: RICARDO LOPEZ MURPHY LOSES CONTROL OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to a Recrear political advisor, Ricardo Lopez Murphy is asking for a leave of absence as Recrear Party President and may leave the party following contentious internal elections that left Lopez Murphy isolated within his own party. Lopez Murphy's request for a leave of [...]	2006-04-26 21:43:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES97	A/S SHANNON MEETS WITH ARGENTINE PRESIDENT KIRCHNER [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-13 20:04:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS ENRG EPET AR
06BUENOSAIRES984	ARGENTINA PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR REACTION TO [...] (C) Bolivian President Evo Morales nationalized the country's oil and gas reserves by decree on May 1. The decree fulfilled one of Morales' most prominent campaign pledges, but the scope and speed of the decision came as a shock to Argentine officials and business representatives alike. GOA [...]	2006-05-02 21:59:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV ECON AR BL
06CAIRO1007	EGYPT: AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE, AMBASSADOR CONFERS [...] (C) Summary. The GOE publicly announced at approximately 1800 local time discovery of H5N1 avian influenza in birds in Egypt. After an emergency meeting with key officials, Prime Minister Nazif confirmed to the Ambassador that seven samples from three different governorates had tested positi [...]	2006-02-17 17:14:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	TBIO AMED CASC SENV EAGR EAID EG KFLU
06CAIRO1009	GOE OFFICIALS OFFER REBUTTAL TO JUDGES' CLUB ON [...] (C) In a February 19 meeting, senior Egyptian Justice Ministry officials strongly defended the recent move by the Public Prosecution to question four leaders of the Judges' Club, the group which functions as a professional association and lobbying group on behalf of Egypt's judges. 2. (C) A [...]	2006-02-19 16:32:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM KJUS EG
06CAIRO1144	EGYPT AND AFRICA: BACKGROUND NOTES FOR U.S.-EGYPT [...] (U) Assistant Secretary Frazer, your bilateral discussions February 24 with Egyptian MFA Assistant Minister for African Affairs Mohamed Higazy in Washington will offer an excellent chance to determine how Egypt and the U.S. may be able to cooperate to address regional conflicts like Darfur an [...]	2006-02-23 12:46:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD ECON EG SU
06CAIRO1185	IRAQ: SHEIKH OF AL AZHAR AND OTHER EGYPTIAN [...] (SBU) On February 25, during an unprecedented visit to the Iraqi Embassy in Cairo, Al Azhar's Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, Egyptian Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa, and Minister of Religious Endowments Hamdy Zaqzouq conducted a lengthy, televised press conference with Iraqi Charge Saad Ridha aimed at [...]	2006-02-26 14:51:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER EG IZ
06CAIRO1226	GOE OPENS A NEW INVESTIGATION AGAINST AYMAN NOUR [...] (C) Gameela Ismail, Ayman Nour's wife, and Hisham Kassem, the Ghad Party vice president, have confirmed wire service reports that the GOE has launched a new investigation against the imprisoned opposition leader. The new case stems from hitherto unreported allegations by an NDP member that [...]	2006-02-27 15:30:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EG
06CAIRO1232	A/S RADEMAKER'S BILATERAL NONPROLIFERATION [...] (C) Acting Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation Stephen Rademaker discussed Iran's nuclear weapons program with Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit and held bilateral nonproliferation discussions with the Assistant Minister for Multilateral Affairs Ambassador Na [...]	2006-02-28 07:43:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PGOV IS IR EG KNNP IAEA UNSC
06CAIRO1233	ISN A/S RADEMAKER DISCUSSES IRAN WITH ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) Summary: International Security and Nonproliferation Assistant Secretary Stephen Rademaker, joined by DCM Stuart Jones, discussed Iran and a proposed Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone (MEWMDFZ) with Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa on February 16. Moussa ackno [...]	2006-02-28 07:44:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IAEA EG IR IS KNNP
06CAIRO125	TACKLING CORRUPTION IN EGYPT [...] (C) The issue of corruption took on a higher profile in Egypt in late 2005, after a dearth of high profile cases in recent years. In December, a significant case with political implications emerged at the Egyptian TV and Radio Union, a cabinet shuffle resulted in the unexpected dismissal of s [...]	2006-01-08 14:26:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON KDEM EG
06CAIRO1251	NEW AYMAN NOUR/GAMEELA ISMAIL INVESTIGATION [...] (C) Gameela Ismail (wife of imprisoned Ghad Party leader Ayman Nour) informed Embassy early February 27 that because of a new criminal investigation of her and her husband (reftel),she might not be able to pass through exit control at Cairo International Airport in order to travel to an IRI [...]	2006-02-28 12:23:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL EG
06CAIRO1272	EGYPT: CODEL BERMAN MEETINGS WITH EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary. In a lengthy meeting with visiting Rep. Berman on February 20, Mubarak emphasized that Egypt does not trust Hamas but will work with the organizationÂ´s leadership in order to moderate its positions. Mubarak counseled strongly against a rapid withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq and d [...]	2006-02-28 14:38:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	OREP PREL PGOV EG KDEM
06CAIRO1295	DISCUSSION OF INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER WITH [...] (C) The Ambassador met on February 26 with Minister of Defense Field Marshal Tantawi in advance of Tantawi's March 5-10 trip to the U.S. and raised Egypt's potential violation of the Arms Export Control Act of 1976 through the treatment of third country patients at the International Medical C [...]	2006-03-01 14:19:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS EG
06CAIRO1297	SCENESETTER FOR DEFENSE MINISTER TANTAWI'S VISIT [...] (C) Summary: During his March 5-10 visit to Washington, Defense Minister Tantawi will seek Administration support for the current level of FMF funding. Tantawi feels that any USG concerns about the pace of democratic reform should be kept distinct from the mil-mil relationship, which he con [...]	2006-03-01 14:38:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS IS EG
06CAIRO1299	DARFUR: EGYPTIANS NOT OPPOSED TO UN FORCE; [...] (C) Presidential Spokesman Soliman Awad told the Ambassador late March 1 that press reports claiming President Mubarak and Libyan leader Qadhafi agreed February 28 in Miserata to oppose UN troops in Darfur were "wrong." While Qadhafi opposed UN forces in Darfur, Awad said, President Mubarak [...]	2006-03-01 18:21:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPKO EG LY SU UNSC
06CAIRO1318	IRAQ: EGYPT AND ARAB LEAGUE UNLIKELY TO RECEIVE [...] (C) MFA Spokesman and Deputy Assistant Minister Alaa Hadidi told Poloff March 1 that Egypt had no plans to welcome Muqtada Sadr to Egypt, nor had Sadr sought an invitation to visit the country (reftel). Hadidi shared that the GOE had been troubled by Sadr's recent visit to Jordan where he was [...]	2006-03-02 15:09:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KDEM KPAO EG IZ
06CAIRO1319	IRAN/IAEA: EGYPT AND U.S. "SEE EYE TO EYE," [...] (C) MFA Office Director for Disarmament Affairs Dr. Hossam Eldeen Aly conveyed to Emboff that Egypt saw "eye to eye" with the USG on dealing with Iran at the IAEA. After reviewing USG analysis (reftel) of the latest IAEA Director General's report and recommended elements to include in nation [...]	2006-03-02 15:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP EG IR IAEA
06CAIRO1351	NEXT STEPS FOR ADVANCING DEMOCRACY IN EGYPT [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: Sometime in the next six years, Egypt will undergo a leadership succession. The United States' goals for this succession should be to promote an opening to establish a representative government that will secure Egyptian stability, prosperity, and friendship for a gener [...]	2006-03-06 12:41:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM EG
06CAIRO1367	ARAB LEAGUE FOREIGN MINISTERS PREP FOR KHARTOUM [...] (SBU) Arab foreign ministers met in Cairo March 4-5 to prepare for a March 28-29 Arab League Summit in Sudan. Among the topics discussed were Iraq, Palestine, Sudan/Darfur, and Arab reform. We understand the meetings were generally uncontentious, with ministers agreeing to support the polit [...]	2006-03-06 16:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL PTER EG IS IZ UNSC
06CAIRO1398	EGYPT: DEMOCRACY ADVOCATE HALA MUSTAFA COMPLAINS [...] (C) At a March 3 reception at Air Attache,s residence, Hala Mustafa, a participant in the Secretary,s February 22 meeting with Civil Society leaders in Cairo, criticized the Embassy,s failure to respond to press reporting on the civil society meeting. She said that she had been singled out for [...]	2006-03-07 13:05:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM EG
06CAIRO1413	SUDAN: EGYPT PRESSING HARD TO RECONCILE POSITIONS [...] (C) Following up on the Ambassador's discussions with senior Presidential Advisor Soliman Awad (ref B),post delivered reftel demarche March 7 to MFA Assistant Minister for African Affairs Mohamed Higazy, stressing the importance of an African Union endorsement of a transition from the AU's M [...]	2006-03-07 16:49:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER UNSC EG SU
06CAIRO1450	SUDAN/DARFUR: EGYPT-LIBYA-SUDAN SUMMIT POSTPONED [...] (C) The DCM delivered ref A demarche late March 7 to Presidential Advisor and Spokesman Soliman Awad, emphasizing the importance of GOE support for the transition of the African Union's peacekeeping operation in Darfur to a UN PKO. Awad said that a planned three-way summit between President [...]	2006-03-08 15:46:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER UNSC KPKO EG SU LY
06CAIRO1451	SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT ROH AND DELEGATION PRESS [...] (C) On March 7, Presidential Spokesman and Senior Advisor to the President Soliman Awad briefed the DCM on Mubarak's March 6 meeting with South Korean President Roh. The two presidents, Awad said, discussed their respective peace processes. The Korean leader asked Mubarak to use his influen [...]	2006-03-08 15:58:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KNUC PARM EG KO
06CAIRO1489	EGYPT REACTS NEGATIVELY TO PROPOSED U.S.-INDIA [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-09 15:00:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG KSCA IN PARM EG KNNP
06CAIRO1555	JUDGES' CLUB LEADER DISCUSSES CONFRONTATION WITH [...] (C) Summary: Judge Mahmoud Khodeiry, Head of the Alexandria Judges Club and one of four senior Egyptian judges at the center of a dispute with the GOE over conduct of the 2005 parliamentary elections reports that Egyptian judges are under tremendous pressure from the GOE to participate in th [...]	2006-03-13 17:12:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EG KDEM PGOV PHUM
06CAIRO1558	EGYPT: KEY RULING PARTY FIGURE HEADING TO [...] (C) Summary: During a March 9 meeting, ruling party operative and Gamal Mubarak confidante Mohammed Kamal told the DCM he hoped to convince his American interlocutors during his upcoming trip to Washington that political reform in Egypt is not on the backburner. He claimed that preparations [...]	2006-03-14 06:47:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM EG
06CAIRO1636	JERICHO PRISON CRISIS PROMPTS CANCELLATION OF [...] (C) Summary. Local sources confirm that the Jericho prison crisis in the West Bank has prompted the postponement of an expected visit to Israel by Egyptian Intelligence Minister Omar Soliman scheduled to begin March 15, as well as the postponement of travel to Egypt by Palestinian President [...]	2006-03-15 14:37:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER ASEC KPAL EG IS
06CAIRO1676	JERICHO PRISON INCIDENT PROMPTS HARSH REACTION [...] (C) Presidential Spokesman and Senior Advisor Soliman Awad called the Ambassador late March 15 to share that a parliamentary committee had severely grilled a senior Ministry of Foreign Affairs official March 14 during an emergency session to address the Jericho prison incident. Awad explained [...]	2006-03-16 15:33:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL PTER ASEC UNSC EG IS
06CAIRO1678	EGYPT POSSIBLE UNAUTHORIZED END-USE: METROLOGY [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 7 below. 2. (C) Summary: The Office of Military Cooperation, Egypt (OMC-E) has discovered that the GOE is possibly engaging in an unauthorized end-use of FMF-purchased equipment at the Metrology Engineering Calibration Center (MECC) [...]	2006-03-16 15:47:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS EG
06CAIRO1680	JUDGES' CLUB - GOE DISPUTE LIKELY TO HEAT UP ON [...] (C) Summary: The March 17 national meeting of the Egyptian Judges' Club will likely attract significant national and international media attention, and will probably result in a defiant stance - prompted by the increasingly tense confrontation between the government and the judges' profession [...]	2006-03-16 17:21:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO1694	EGYPT: UPDATE ON POLITICAL PARTY DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) The resignation of prominent reform advocate Osama el-Ghazali Harb from the ruling NDP attracted considerable attention in the Egyptian media. In drawing up plans for a new liberal political party, Harb is pursuing what many frustrated Egyptian intellectuals have called for, though there [...]	2006-03-19 14:54:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO1696	THE SECOND U.S. - EGYPT CT JOINT WORKING GROUP [...] (C) Egypt hosted the second U.S.-Egypt Counterterrorism Joint Working Group on February 26, 2006. In a full day of talks, S/CT Amb. Crumpton and a six-member U.S. delegation discussed with the GOE's Inter-Ministerial Counterterrorism Committee the importance of a coordinated, interdisciplinary appr [...]	2006-03-19 15:04:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV KISL ASEC EG
06CAIRO172	SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY SILVERBERG'S [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Cairo warmly welcomes your visit. It has been difficult to gain Egyptian cooperation on UN reform. During his meeting with Ambassador Tahir-Kheli in December Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit signaled a willingness to compromise, but this has not yet materialized. The FM w [...]	2006-01-13 17:47:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KUNR PHUM IS IZ LE SY SU EG UN
06CAIRO1737	AMBASSADOR AND DEFMIN TANTAWI DISCUSS [...] (C) The Ambassador and Defense Minister Tantawi discussed the International Medical Center's treatment of third country nationals during their March 19 meeting (septel). Tantawi's senior advisor, MG Fouad Abdel Halim, told the Ambassador and Field Marshal that the MoD understands that State [...]	2006-03-20 15:11:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS EG
06CAIRO1745	EGYPT'S SMUGGLING INTERDICTION ON GAZA BORDER [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-21 12:29:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IS EG KPAL
06CAIRO1782	DEFMIN TANTAWI ON MFO, PSI, DEMOCRATIC REFORM AND FMF [...] (C) Summary: On March 19, the Ambassador and Defense Minister Tantawi discussed Iraq, Sudan, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB),and Tantawi's impressions of his recent visit to Washington. Tantawi reaffirmed the GOE view that for now, U.S. troops must remain in Iraq. On his meetings in Washington, Tantaw [...]	2006-03-23 07:50:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER IS EG KNNP
06CAIRO1809	EFFORTS TO VISIT AYMAN NOUR CONTINUE; APPEAL DATE [...] (C) Summary: The Embassy's attempts to visit imprisoned opposition leader Ayman Nour have been unsuccessful so far, but will continue. The Canadians are leading a new multilateral effort to see Nour, in which the U.S., Australia, and a number of EU countries are participating. Meanwhile, the [...]	2006-03-23 15:38:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO1811	SCENESETTER FOR GEN ABIZAID'S VISIT TO CAIRO [...] (C) GEN Abizaid, Embassy Cairo warmly welcomes your visit as an opportunity to review our agenda on regional security and the future of our FMF assistance to Egypt. President Mubarak believes, and the MoD's senior leadership will reiterate, that our mil-mil relationship is the cornerstone of [...]	2006-03-23 17:29:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS IS IZ IR EG SU KPAL KNNP
06CAIRO1883	EGYPT: FLASH AIRLINES CRASH REPORT RELEASE: NO [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-27 14:58:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAIR ECON EG
06CAIRO1885	RESTRUCTURING ESF ASSISTANCE TO EGYPT: U.S. [...] (C) Discussions between a joint USAID/State delegation with GOE ministers on March 20-21 moved forward considerably our efforts to restructure ESF. Specifically, the GOE: - appeared effectively, if not explicitly, to accept conditionality (via benchmarks) on future U.S. economic assistanc [...]	2006-03-27 15:50:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PGOV KDEM EG
06CAIRO1911	PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR ON SINIORA, AL SHARA'A, ARAB [...] (C) Mubarak with Lebanese PM: Presidential Advisor Soliman Awad told DCM on March 28 that during a March 23 meeting with President Mubarak, Lebanese PM Siniora complained about the lack of progress with Syria on the supply of weapons to Palestinians in Lebanon, on the establishment of diplo [...]	2006-03-28 16:28:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IS LE EG SY KPAL
06CAIRO2010	EGYPT: ACTIONS LOUDER THAN WORDS - GAMAL MUBARAK [...] (C) The public profile of Gamal Mubarak, presidential son and rising star in the ruling party, has increased in recent months. His appearance in late March on an evening talk show and a highly publicized visit to a Cairo slum have fueled speculation that an effort to succeed his father is movin [...]	2006-04-03 10:59:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EG
06CAIRO2013	EGYPT: VIOLENT CLIMAX TO WAFD LEADERSHIP DISPUTE, [...] (C) Summary: The dispute over the leadership of the Wafd, Egypt's "premier" opposition party, reached a bizzare and dramatic climax on April 1, when deposed leader Nomaan Gomaa, accompanied by armed supporters, stormed party headquarters and clashed violently with supporters of Mahmoud Abaza, w [...]	2006-04-03 12:22:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO2064	EGYPT FERRY DISASTER: ABSENT OWNER'S IMMUNITY [...] (C) The investigation into the early February sinking of the "Al Salam 98" passenger ferry in the Red Sea is ongoing, although preliminary GOE statements are assigning culpability to the still-missing captain. Egypt's upper chamber of parliament lifted ferry owner Mamdouh Ismail's parliamentar [...]	2006-04-04 13:48:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EWWT MARR EG
06CAIRO2100	DEFMIN TANTAWI WITH GEN ABIZAID ON IRAQ, HAMAS, [...] (C) Summary: In a March 29 meeting CENTCOM Commander GEN Abizaid and Minister of Defense Field Marshal Tantawi, joined by DCM Jones, discussed regional affairs, terrorism, military cooperation, and the International Medical Center (IMC). Tantawi (1) stressed the importance of a strong Sunni [...]	2006-04-05 14:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MASS IS IZ LE EG SY KPAL
06CAIRO2133	ARAB LEAGUE'S AMRE MOUSSA ON DARFUR AND HAMAS [...] (C) Summary: NEA Assistant Secretary David Welch and Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa discussed regional affairs, including Syria, Iraq, Darfur, and Hamas, during a chance meeting in the airport VIP lounge on April 4. On Israel/Palestine, Moussa said the League is urging Hamas to [...]	2006-04-06 16:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM IS SU EG KPAL
06CAIRO2134	EGYPT: A YEAR ON, GOE-JUDGES CLUB DISPUTE [...] (C) The confrontation between the GOE and Egypt's Judges Club continues to boil as it moves into its second year. The Judges Club has been militating for a new judiciary law that would guarantee independence it asserts is now lacking and has attacked the GOE's record on human rights and democr [...]	2006-04-06 16:34:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KJUS KDEM EG
06CAIRO2137	DARFUR: EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT MUBARAK'S MESSAGE TO [...] (C) Summary. According to a senior MFA contact, Egyptian President Mubarak's message to Sudanese President Bashir in Khartoum April 4 was that Sudan was not given a "blank check" at the Arab League summit for its Darfur policies. Mubarak reportedly pressed Bashir to quickly conclude a peace [...]	2006-04-09 05:54:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS PTER EG SU
06CAIRO2183	DEFENSE MINISTER TANTAWI ON IRAN, IRAQ, HAMAS, [...] (C) Summary: NEA Assistant Secretary Welch, accompanied by the Ambassador, discussed Iran, Iraq, Hamas, Sudan and the International Medical Center with Defense Minister Field Marshal Tantawi during an April 4 meeting. Responding to A/S Welch's caution on Iran's growing influence in the regi [...]	2006-04-11 11:29:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM SY IS IZ SU EG KPAL
06CAIRO2201	COURT VICTORY FOR EGYPTIAN BAHAIIS [...] (C) Summary: An April 4 court ruling appears to set an important legal precedent for the civil and legal rights of Egypt's tiny Bahai community. The court ordered the Ministry of Interior to issue identity cards and birth certificates to a Bahai family and to note their religion as Bahai on th [...]	2006-04-11 15:45:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM EG
06CAIRO2202	IRAQ: MUBARAK'S TELEVISED REMARKS CREATE [...] (C) Summary. Only three days ahead of an Arab League foreign ministerial meeting on Iraq, Egyptian President Mubarak created waves during an Al Arabiya television interview (Ref) aired April 8, in which he questioned the national loyalties of Iraq's and the region's Shiites. While President [...]	2006-04-11 16:41:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PTER EG IZ
06CAIRO2203	EGYPT: ASSISTANT SECRETARY WELCH'S APRIL 4 MEETING [...] (C) Assistant Secretary Welch and the Ambassador met with Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif on April 4. Welch briefed Nazif on U.S. regional priorities and encouraged Nazif to make a visit to the U.S. Nazif discussed Egypt's reform successes, noting that results in the economic sphere were [...]	2006-04-12 05:26:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EG
06CAIRO2228	IRAQ: ARAB LEAGUE FOREIGN MINISTERS APRIL 12 [...] (C) Arab League (AL) Secretary General Amre Moussa provided the Ambassador April 12 with a brief read-out of that day's Iraq "Follow-Up Committee" ministerial meeting in Cairo. Despite Iraq's decision to boycott the meeting, nine Arab foreign ministers agreed on three main points, Moussa sai [...]	2006-04-13 13:26:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS ASEC PTER EG IZ
06CAIRO224	EGYPT ON REFERRING IRAN TO THE UNSC: INCHING [...] (C) Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit told IO Assistant Secretary Silverberg on January 16 that if "compelled" to SIPDIS vote on whether the IAEA should refer Iran to the UNSC, he would do so to prevent another nuclear capable state in the region. Aboul Gheit qualified that he believes referra [...]	2006-01-17 07:57:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP EG IR IAEA UNSC
06CAIRO2267	EGYPT: SECTARIAN VIOLENCE IN ALEXANDRIA [...] (C) Summary: Attacks on Friday, April 14 against worshipers in three separate Alexandria churches killed one elderly Christian, wounded more than a dozen others and sparked a weekend of unrest. Clashes continued at a lower tempo on April 16 and the death that day of a Muslim injured April [...]	2006-04-16 15:35:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF ASEC EG
06CAIRO2335	EGYPT: UPDATE ON THE AYMAN NOUR CASE [...] (C) Summary: Ghad Party sources advise us that, despite some reports to the contrary, imprisoned opposition leader Ayman Nour is not facing an immediate threat to his health or welfare. However, they assert that prison authorities are making life more unpleasant for him, apparently in retali [...]	2006-04-18 14:43:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM EG
06CAIRO2337	PALESTINIAN FM ZAHAR'S VISIT TO CAIRO [...] (C) Summary: Palestinian FM Mahmoud Al Zahar met with Egyptian General Intelligence Service (EGIS) Director Omar Soliman and Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa during his April 15-17 visit to Cairo. Al Zahar did not meet with FM Aboul Gheit, or any other GOE officials. Al Zahar downp [...]	2006-04-18 15:18:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IS EG KPAL
06CAIRO2350	ARAB LEAGUE WITH U/S JOSEPH ON IRAN AND POLICY ON [...] (C) Arms Control and International Security U/S Robert Joseph and Arab League (AL) Secretary General Amre Moussa discussed Iran's nuclear program and the idea of a Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone (MEWMDFZ) in their April 13 meeting. U/S Joseph told Moussa that the Iran nucl [...]	2006-04-19 11:24:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM IS IR EG KNNP KPAL
06CAIRO2364	DEFMIN TANTAWI AND U/S JOSEPH DISCUSS IRAN, MIDDLE [...] (C) Minister of Defense Field Marshal Tantawi told Arms Control and International Security Under Secretary Robert Joseph April 13 that Egypt: shares U.S. concerns over Iran's effort to acquire nuclear weapons, will discuss possible measures to combat Iran's aims, resents threats of a possibl [...]	2006-04-19 14:57:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PTER EG IR KNNP
06CAIRO2417	U/S JOSEPH'S APRIL 13 MEETING WITH EGYPTIAN [...] (C) Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Robert Joseph met with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit in Cairo April 13 to discuss regional security issues. The meeting focused on efforts to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions, with U/S Joseph pressing for solid GOE s [...]	2006-04-23 08:28:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP KPAL EG IR IS
06CAIRO2435	PALESTINIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ZAHAR TO CAIRO, NO [...] (C) During an April 23 meeting with Senator Dodd (D-CT) and the Ambassador, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit reviewed GOE thinking on regional and bilateral topics (septel),and acknowledged reports that he did not meet with visiting Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud al Zahar dur [...]	2006-04-23 16:32:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EFIN KPAL EG IS MEPN
06CAIRO2436	EGYPT: OUTLOOK FOR POLITICAL REFORM [...] (C) While it may seem easy to be skeptical about the outlook for political reform in Egypt, the fact is that a process is underway, and it is a process entailing more than currently meets the eye. During his 2005 reelection campaign, Mubarak outlined a modest agenda for political reform. Th [...]	2006-04-23 17:24:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EG
06CAIRO2453	NORTH SINAI TERRORIST ATTACKS HIT MFO AND EGYPTIAN [...] (SBU) Two suicideattacks occurred at approximately 11:10 and 11:3 (local) April 26 in the vicinity of MFO's North Camp in the North eastern Sinai. In the first attack, a suicide bomber allegedly wearing a belt bomb threw himself on the hood of an unarmored MFO Chevy Blazer, shattering the wi [...]	2006-04-26 15:43:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL EG KMFO
06CAIRO2475	SCENESETTER FOR A/S HILLEN'S VISIT TO CAIRO [...] (C) Embassy Cairo warmly welcomes your visit and the opportunity to discuss security assistance, border security, regional cooperation, and the MFO with the GOE. The Defense and Foreign Ministers will likely press you for further assurance of the Administration's support for the current lev [...]	2006-04-27 14:00:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MASS MOPS KMFO EG IR IS KNNP KPAL
06CAIRO2493	EGYPT: JUDGES CLUB SUPPORTERS AND POLICE CLASH IN [...] (C) Summary: The disciplinary hearing for two leaders of the Judges' Club "revolt" against the GOE (reftels) ended today with a postponement of the verdict to May 11. Outside of the central Cairo court complex where the hearing took place, thousands of demonstrators voiced support for the jud [...]	2006-04-27 16:05:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO2500	SENATOR DODD'S APRIL 21-23 VISIT TO EGYPT [...] (C) Summary. During an April 21-23 visit to Egypt, Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) met Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the wife of imprisoned political figure Ayman Nour, a group of Egyptian civil society and business leaders, and attended a Coptic Easter Mass with the Ambassador. The Senator [...]	2006-04-27 16:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EG LE IR
06CAIRO2593	UPDATE ON RECENT SINAI TERROR ATTACKS [...] (C) Ten days after the April 24 terrorist attacks in Dahab and April 26 attacks against MFO units (reftels) the security situation in Sinai remains unsettled. Intensive police operations are continuing, particularly concentrated in the Jebel Maghara region, roughly 60 KM southwest of Al-Arish, [...]	2006-05-04 08:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV ASEC EG
06CAIRO2648	PM A/S HILLEN DISCUSSES FMF, SINAI SECURITY, IRAN, [...] (C) Visiting PM A/S Hillen, joined by the Ambassador, discussed Darfur, security assistance, Sinai security and regional cooperation with FM Aboul Gheit and Defense Minister Tantawi April 30. On Sudan, Aboul Gheit said that Egypt would only send more forces to Sudan with Khartoum's full suppo [...]	2006-05-07 15:06:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MASS UN EG IS IR SU KPAL KNNP KMFO
06CAIRO2671	GAMAL MUBARAK: DESPITE HIGH PROFILE, DOUBTS FROM [...] (C) Summary: On the eve of Gamal Mubarak's unpublicized visit to Washington, he remains a decidedly controversial figure inside Egypt. Since reftel's analysis of Gamal's standing, vehement public skepticism continues and we are even hearing murmurs of dissent from within his own circle. Comme [...]	2006-05-08 15:51:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EG
06CAIRO269	EGYPTIAN POSITION ON POSSIBLE IAEA REFERRAL OF [...] (C) Summary: Following the visits of Vice President Cheney and IO Assistant Secretary Silverberg, the GOE position on IAEA referral of Iran to the UNSC is still evolving. While GOE statements suggest some positive movement, Egypt continues to raise regional concerns and its desire for a Mi [...]	2006-01-18 16:45:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP IS IR EG IAEA UNSC
06CAIRO2702	SUDAN: EGYPT WELCOMES DARFUR PEACE DEAL, LOOKS TO [...] (C) Presidential Spokesman Soliman Awad told the Ambassador late May 8 that Egypt had publicly welcomed the peace deal between Darfur rebels and the Government of Sudan (GOS) signed in Abuja May 5. Awad said the Presidency issued a statement to the media welcoming the agreement(faxed to NEA/ [...]	2006-05-09 15:42:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PHUM EG SU
06CAIRO2723	EGYPT'S NATIONAL COMMITTEE MEETING ON THE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph four. 2. (C) MFA's Disarmament Director Dr. Hossam Aly told poloff that a recent National Committee meeting to review the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) (Refs A and B) included representatives of all relevant ministries, inc [...]	2006-05-10 10:42:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM EG KNNP
06CAIRO2761	ARRESTS OF PRO-DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS SPARK MORE [...] (C) The recent detention of several dozen secular democracy activists, including the influential blogger Alaa Saif Al-Islam, on charges of insulting the president, has fueled concern among our pro-democracy contacts that the GOE is engaged in a comprehensive effort to put a lid on political [...]	2006-05-10 14:26:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO2795	EGYPT: POLICE SUPPRESS DEMONSTRATIONS IN SUPPORT [...] (C) Summary: Over 1000 demonstrators turned out in Central Cairo to express solidarity with Egypt's Judges Club (JC) on May 11 as two members of the JC leadership faced another disciplinary board hearing to answer charges of slander after they exposed fraud in last fall's parliamentary electi [...]	2006-05-11 13:53:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO2796	CORRECTED COPY: EGYPT: POLICE SUPPRESS [...] (C) Summary: Over 1000 demonstrators turned out in Central Cairo to express solidarity with Egypt's Judges Club (JC) on May 11 as two members of the JC leadership faced another disciplinary board hearing to answer charges of slander after they exposed fraud in last fall's parliamentary electi [...]	2006-05-11 14:22:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO2933	SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY ZOELLICK'S VISIT TO EGYPT [...] (C) We look forward to welcoming you to Sharm El Sheikh. You come at a tense time for Egypt. The Mubarak regime has come under criticism for its heavy-handed response to protest demonstrations in each of the past two weeks. Also, judicial decisions are expected on May 18 in both Ayman Nour's app [...]	2006-05-16 15:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EG
06CAIRO2971	MAY 18 - CRUNCH TIME ON AYMAN NOUR/JUDGES CASES [...] (C) Summary: On May 18, Cairo's Central Court Complex, Dar al-Qada al-Aly, will be the focal point of two dramas currently dominating Egypt's domestic political scene. In one room, the Court of Cassation will hear the appeal of jailed opposition leader Ayman Nour. In another room, a discipli [...]	2006-05-17 15:52:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EG
06CAIRO2989	EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY CONCERNED OVER SECURITY [...] (C) During a May 15 luncheon, MFA Assistant Minister for American Affairs Ambassador Salama Shaker pressed the DCM on GOE security concerns for its Washington, D.C. mission (ref). Shaker reported continuing GOE anxiety over what it perceives as inadequate notification by D.C. and federal au [...]	2006-05-18 12:40:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ASEC EG
06CAIRO2991	SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY SNOW [...] (C) We look forward to welcoming you to Sharm El Sheikh. You come at a tense time for Egypt. The Mubarak regime has come under criticism for its heavy-handed response to demonstrations supporting jailed opposition leader Ayman Nour and judges who criticized corruption in the last election. Th [...]	2006-05-18 12:47:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EFIN EAID ETRD EG SU IS KPAL
06CAIRO3006	EGYPT: NOUR APPEAL DENIED, MIXED VERDICT IN JUDGES [...] (C) Summary: May 18 saw major developments in two key domestic political cases in Cairo. The conviction of imprisoned opposition leader Ayman Nour was upheld by Egypt's Court of Cassation, a decision led by a controversial judge in spite of the defense's citation of numerous technical flaws [...]	2006-05-18 15:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL EG
06CAIRO3007	EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ON DARFUR, UN REFORM, [...] (C) During a May 18 meeting requested by the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit offered his views on next steps in Darfur, UN reform, and countering the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Aboul Gheit said Egypt was in touch with Khartoum to urge its cooperation to resolve international [...]	2006-05-18 15:53:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC EG SU LE
06CAIRO3038	EGYPT: GAMAL MUBARAK'S U.S. VISIT STIRS [...] (C) Summary: Cairo is still buzzing a week after news broke over Gamal Mubarak's visit to the United States. The perception that Gamal attempted to conduct the visit "in secret" - only to be exposed by a chance White House sighting SIPDIS by a Jazeera correspondent, was a major focus of cri [...]	2006-05-22 14:10:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EG
06CAIRO3039	EGYPT: THE DAY AFTER THE AYMAN NOUR VERDICT [...] (C) Summary: To date, there has been more reaction in the Egyptian media to U.S. criticism of the rejection of Ayman Nour's appeal than reaction to the legal development itself. An Egyptian MFA spokesman expressed "amazement" at the U.S. criticism of the court's decision. The acting head of No [...]	2006-05-22 14:24:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM EG
06CAIRO305	EGYPT: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Nazif asked the Ambassador for help dealing with Congress, complaining that Egypt could not get a fair hearing. Particularly regarding Ayman Nour, the full story of the case needed to be communicated; "Nour is a crook." The Ambassador raised Egypt's reluctance to refer Iran to t [...]	2006-01-19 14:30:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ETRD
06CAIRO3106	EGYPT: MORE DEMONSTRATIONS PLANNED FOR MAY 25 [...] (C) Summary: Cairo-based anti-government activists are planning for a third Thursday in a row of demonstrations on May 25. The date is the first anniversary of the referendum amending the Egyptian constitution to permit multi-candidate presidential elections, marred at the time by police attac [...]	2006-05-24 15:17:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM EG
06CAIRO3119	THE DEPUTY SECRETARY,S MAY 20 MEETING WITH [...] (U) Classified by Economic and Political Counselor John Desrocher, reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) 2. (U) May 20, 2006; 11:45AM; Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt 3. (U) Participants: U.S. ---- The Deputy Secretary Ambassador Ricciardone NEA DAS Scott Carpenter D Executive Assistant Mike Matera D Se [...]	2006-05-25 08:44:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PTER KPAL IS XF
06CAIRO312	EGYPT: WAFD PARTY LEADER DEPOSED [...] (C) Summary: No'man Gom'a, the septuagenarian leader of the Wafd, Egypt's "preeminent" opposition party, was removed in a January 18 vote of the party's central board. Gom'a's supporters stormed the party headquarters in a failed attempt to disrupt the proceedings. Still, Gom'a and supporters [...]	2006-01-19 15:43:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM EG
06CAIRO313	CODEL WOLF DISCUSSES AYMAN NOUR, RELIGIOUS [...] (C) In a January 17 meeting with President Hosni Mubarak, Congressman Frank R. Wolf (R-VA) pressed the GOE on: --finding a solution to the Ayman Nour issue; --supporting and expanding religious freedom; --supporting US positions at the UN, especially with regard to Human Rights Commission [...]	2006-01-19 16:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF KISL IR SY EG OVIP

06CAIRO3135	POTENTIAL EGYPTIAN VIOLATION OF ARMS EXPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-25 11:55:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC KOMC EG
06CAIRO3139	PALESTINIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ZAHAR MAKES BRIEF [...] (C) En route to East Asia for another regional fund-raising tour and participation in an Arab-China ministerial gathering in Beijing, Palestinian Authority (PA) Foreign Minister Mahmud al Zahar visited Cairo May 24 where he met Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa. MFA Palestinian Affai [...]	2006-05-25 13:04:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EFIN MEPN KPAL EG IS
06CAIRO314	UPDATE ON THE AYMAN NOUR CASE [...] (C) Summary: The case of jailed opposition leader Ayman Nour was a focal point of discussions between visiting USG officials, the GOE, and private Egyptians in mid-January. Visiting Congressman Wolf raised the issue with President Mubarak, Interior Minister Adly, Justice Minister Aboul Leil, [...]	2006-01-19 16:51:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EG
06CAIRO3145	EGYPT REVIEWING USG REQUEST ON KYRGYSTAN'S MANAS [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-25 13:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS EG AF KG
06CAIRO3155	NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT MINISTERIAL FOCUSED MORE ON [...] (C) MFA UN Affairs Officer Karim Sherif told emboff May 25 that Egypt would not support the issuance of any statements at the upcoming Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) ministerial in Malaysia supportive of Iranian positions vis-a-vis its nuclear program. Egypt's positions toward Iran, he said, sho [...]	2006-05-25 14:43:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC UNGA EFIN EG
06CAIRO3161	EGYPT: MAY 25 DEMONSTRATIONS ANTI-CLIMACTIC, [...] (C) As of 1800 local time, May 25 demonstrations in central Cairo (reftel) had yielded a significantly smaller turn out than expected, contacts in Kefaya and other groups lamented. Approximately 150 activists turned out to participate in a midday anti-regime demonstration at the Bar Syndicate [...]	2006-05-25 15:30:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO3227	THE DEPUTY SECRETARY,S MAY 21 MEETING WITH [...] (U) Classified by: Minister-Counselor Michael H. Corbin, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) 2. (U) MAY 21, 2006; 12:45; Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt 3. (C) Participants: U.S. ---- The Deputy Secretary NEA DAS Scott Carpenter D Executive Assistant Mike Matera D Senior Advisor Rich Mills D Special [...]	2006-05-29 14:08:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON KDEM LE
06CAIRO3235	THE DEPUTY SECRETARY,S MAY 20 MEETING WITH GAMAL [...] (U) Classified by: Ambassador Francis J. Ricciardone, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) 2. (U) MAY 20, 2006; 5:30PM; Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt 3. (C) Participants: U.S. ---- The Deputy Secretary Ambassador Ricciardone NEA DAS Scott Carpenter D Executive Assistant Mike Matera D Special Assist [...]	2006-05-30 06:07:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EG
06CAIRO3236	EGYPTIAN METROLOGY CALIBRATION CENTER NO LONGER [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-30 06:47:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC KOMC EG
06CAIRO3243	THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MAY 21 MEETING WITH ISRAELI [...] (U) Classified by: Ambassador Francis J. Ricciardone, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) 2. (U) MAY 21, 2006; 2:30pm; Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt 3. (C) Participants: U.S. ---- The Deputy Secretary Ambassador Ricciardone NEA DAS Scott Carpenter D Executive Assistant Mike Matera D Senior Advisor [...]	2006-05-30 11:57:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KPAL IS
06CAIRO3264	CODEL KOLBE MEETINGS WITH EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS AT [...] (C) Summary. A series of senior Egyptian officials told CODEL Kolbe at the World Economic Forum (WEF) that a process of real political reform is underway in Egypt and that opposition political leader Ayman Nour's sentencing was not a political act. President Mubarak told the delegation th [...]	2006-05-30 13:12:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL EG
06CAIRO3267	CODEL KOLBE MAY 20 MEETING WITH PALESTINIAN [...] (C) Summary: In a May 20 meeting on the margins of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told House Foreign Ops Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Jim Kolbe and his delegation that, having had little choice but to allow Hamas to form a government [...]	2006-05-30 13:34:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS XF
06CAIRO3268	THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MAY 21 MEETING WITH TURKISH [...] (U) Classified by: Economic and Political Counselor John Desrocher, reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) 2. (U) May 21, 2006; 9:30AM; Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt 3. (U) Participants: U.S. ---- The Deputy Secretary NEA DAS Scott Carpenter D Executive Assistant Mike Matera D Senior Advisor Rich Mills [...]	2006-05-30 13:48:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ECON MOPS TU SU IR IZ EG
06CAIRO3271	EGYPT: WEF IN SHARM EL SHEIKH PUTS EGYPT IN A [...] (C) Summary. Egypt managed to successfully host its first regional World Economic Forum (WEF) from May 20-22 in the shiny new Sharm el Sheikh International Congress Center without significant public glitches. The most newsworthy events were the meeting between Palestinian President Abu Maze [...]	2006-05-30 15:13:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EG
06CAIRO3282	SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL GRIFFIN'S JUNE VISIT TO [...] (C) Embassy Cairo warmly welcomes your visit and the opportunity to discuss with you ways in which we might bolster our military cooperation with Egypt. The U.S.-Egyptian military partnership is the cornerstone of our strategic relationship. While both nations benefit from the relationship [...]	2006-05-31 09:59:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL MASS MOPS EG KPAL IS IZ SU
06CAIRO3293	AMBASSADOR URGES INTERIOR MINISTER ACTION ON [...] (C) In a May 31 meeting, Ambassador urged Interior Minister Habib Adly to respond seriously and quickly to recent allegations of excessive force against demonstrators and charges that detained demonstrators had been tortured: The GOE should investigate, announce the results, and, if there is e [...]	2006-05-31 16:54:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM EG
06CAIRO330	CODEL WOLF DISCUSSES AYMAN NOUR WITH GAMAL MUBARAK [...] (C) In a January 17 meeting with Gamal Mubarak, Congressman Frank R. Wolf (R-VA) pressed Gamal on Ayman Nour, religious freedom, and Egypt's support for the USG positions in international fora. In response to Rep. Wolf's request that the GOE work quickly to resolve the Ayman Nour matter, Ga [...]	2006-01-22 10:57:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM EG
06CAIRO3334	MEETING OF IRAQ'S NEIGHBORS IN TEHRAN UNLIKELY; [...] (C) MFA Spokeman and Cabinet staffer responsible for Iraq affairs, Alaa Hadidi, told poloff May 30 that Egypt opposed the holding of a meeting of Iraq's neighbors and Egypt in Tehran, as agreed at the last neighbors meeting in Istanbul, Turkey. Hadidi said the Iranians had recently proposed J [...]	2006-06-01 13:01:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EG IZ IR
06CAIRO3348	EGYPTIANS WELCOME U.S. WILLINGNESS TO ENGAGE IRAN [...] (U) Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit issued a statement June 1 welcoming reftel announcement and calling for the creation of a Middle East zone free of weapons of mass destruction. The full text of the statement follows. Begin text: Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit welcomed the statement by [...]	2006-06-01 14:48:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM IAEA EG IR IS KNNP
06CAIRO3349	PALESTINIAN FUNDING MECHANISM: EGYPT AND ARAB [...] (C) On May 30, drawing from ref A talking points, post described USG thinking on creation of a temporary funding mechanism for assistance to the Palestinian people to MFA Palestinian Affairs Director Randa Labib and Arab League Cabinet Chief of Staff Hesham Youssef May 31. Both parties were [...]	2006-06-01 14:58:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EFIN ECON EAID KPAL EG IS
06CAIRO3358	EGYPTIANS WELCOME U.S. WILLINGNESS TO ENGAGE IRAN [...] (U) Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit issued a statement June 1 welcoming reftel announcement and calling for the creation of a Middle East zone free of weapons of mass destruction. The full text of the statement follows. Begin text: Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit welcomed the statement by [...]	2006-06-01 15:09:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM IAEA EG IR IS KNNP
06CAIRO3375	AYMAN NOUR'S PRISON LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUSH [...] (C) During a May 28 meeting with DAS Scott Carpenter, Gameela Ismail, wife of imprisoned opposition leader Ayman Nour, passed a letter she had "smuggled" out of Torah Prison during a visit to her husband the day before. The salutation was left blank, according to Gameela, as a precaution in ca [...]	2006-06-01 15:31:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM PGOV EG
06CAIRO3419	EGYPTIAN DISARMAMENT OFFICE COMMENTS ON NAM [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, the MFA's Disarmament Office Director Dr. Hossam Aly told poloff June 4 that Egypt did work to moderate the NAM statement on Iran at the ministerial meeting in Malaysia. Dr. Aly said that the original proposed Ministerial Statement had been much worse and [...]	2006-06-04 14:00:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IAEA UNSC EG IR KNNP
06CAIRO3422	EGYPT: MFA TERMS IRI COUNTRY DIRECTOR'S PRESS [...] (SBU) In a phone call to the Ambassador (in Washington) on June 3, FM Aboul Gheit expressed his concern with statements attributed to IRI Country Director Gina London in an undated interview, which ran in the June 3 issue of Nahdat Misr, an independent daily newspaper. Following up on the F [...]	2006-06-04 15:34:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM EG
06CAIRO3482	DARFUR: EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT APPROVES INCREASE IN [...] (C) During a June 4 meeting, Foreign Ministry Cabinet staff member Ahmed Abul Zeid told poloff that Egyptian President Mubarak had recently approved a recommendation by the Egyptian Cabinet to increase the GOE's contribution of personnel to the African Union's Mission in Sudan (AMIS). Egypt h [...]	2006-06-06 10:39:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS UNSC EG SU
06CAIRO35	THE EGYPTIAN ECONOMY IN 2006 - CAN EGYPT SUSTAIN [...] (C) As noted in reftel, the Mubarak regime has clearly recognized the need for wholesale economic reform to avert a serious deterioration in employment prospects and living standards for Egypt's burgeoning population and to keep Egypt afloat in the global economy. Gamal Mubarak's Policy Secr [...]	2006-01-03 09:47:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV PREL EG
06CAIRO3508	ARAB LEAGUE CONDEMNS AMERICAN ACTIONS IN HADITHA, [...] (C) Following the June 4 issuance by the Arab League of a condemnatory statement (text below) regarding the actions of American soldiers in Haditha, Iraq, emboff complained to Arab League Spokesman Alaa Rushdy June 6 about the content of the statement, particularly since the incident was still [...]	2006-06-06 16:11:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS EG IZ
06CAIRO3556	EGYPT: JUDGES CLUB STORM OUT OF "CONSULTATION" AS [...] (C) Summary: The dispute between the Judges Club and the GOE, which prompted major demonstrations and a violent crackdown in May, is heating up again. Leaders of the Judges Club (JC) stormed out of a June 4 meeting with the Ministry of Justice, where they had been invited to consult on the GO [...]	2006-06-07 13:14:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO3557	GOE "FREEZES" ACTIVITIES OF IFES [...] (SBU) MFA Assistant Minister for American Affairs Salama Shaker convoked IFES Country Director Ben Goldsmith and Deputy Director Noreen Tadros on June 7. USAID/Cairo democracy and governance director and poloff (notetaker) joined the meeting at Shaker's request. Shaker, joined by her deputy [...]	2006-06-07 14:07:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID KDEM EG
06CAIRO358	CODEL WOLF MEETINGS WITH GOE MINISTERS [...] (C) In January 15 meetings with the Ministers of Interior, Justice, and Trade-Industry, as well as with senior MFA officials, Congressman Frank R. Wolf (R-VA) pressed the GOE on the Ayman Nour case, as well as religious freedom, support for the U.S. in international fora, and discussed regio [...]	2006-01-23 11:02:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OVIP KDEM PHUM KIRF EG IR MFA
06CAIRO3582	EGYPT: POLITICAL PARTY DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) Summary: Egypt's opposition party scene has witnessed two significant developments recently. Court consideration of a suit filed by the proposed Wasat Party, appealing the GOE's rejection of its license application, was postponed yet again to September. Leaders of the party, which has bee [...]	2006-06-08 18:04:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO3638	EGYPT ON JUNE 12-16 IAEA MEETING; VISIT OF ALI [...] (C) The Ambassador discussed with Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit June 11 the U.S. desire that Egypt make a strong statement at the upcoming IAEA Board of Governors meeting calling on Iran to accept the offer made by P5 governments and Germany. Referring to his discussions with the Secretary G [...]	2006-06-12 14:27:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IAEA MNUC IR EU EG KNNP
06CAIRO3672	IRAQ: ARAB LEAGUE AND EGYPT PRESSING AHEAD WITH [...] (C) Drawing from reftel talking points, emboff reviewed planning for the Arab League's Iraqi National Accord conference with Arab League Secretariat Chief of Staff Hisham Youssef on June 12. Citing political and security considerations on the part of unnamed Iraqi political figures, as well [...]	2006-06-13 15:22:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM ARABL EG IZ
06CAIRO3743	EGYPT VIEWS ON OIC MINISTERIAL [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-15 12:13:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR EG KNNP
06CAIRO3756	EGYPT: UN DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS [...] (C) Coordinating with Australian Embassy colleagues (New Zealand does not have an Embassy in Egypt) on reftel demarche, emboff met June 15 with MFA Human Rights Affairs Office Director Ihab Gamaleddin to discuss the draft UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DRIP). Drawing from [...]	2006-06-15 15:21:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EG
06CAIRO3757	EGYPT: NEW JUDICIARY LAW SENT TO PARLIAMENT [...] (SBU) Following the June 14 weekly Wednesday cabinet meeting, GOE spokesman Magdy Rady announced that the long-anticipated draft judiciary bill had been forwarded from the Council of Ministers to parliament for discussion and approval. Discussion of the draft will begin in the Shura Council o [...]	2006-06-15 16:17:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO3758	EGYPT: FIRST SESSION OF NEW HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (C) The Ambassador drew from reftel in separate meetings June 11 with Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit and June 13 with EGIS Chief Soliman, to stress the importance of Egyptian cooperation on UN and other multilateral issues. (Both senior officials have been urging us to advance a "strategic dial [...]	2006-06-15 16:22:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UNGA EG
06CAIRO3759	MUBARAK REACTS TO PRESS SPECULATION ON POLICY [...] (C) Presidential Advisor Soliman Awaad phoned Ambassador June 15 to convey President Mubarak's personal disavowal of an unattributed accusation reported that day in the influential weekly magazine al-Musawwar. The article (text below) reports last month's visit to the U.S. by the Egyptian Co [...]	2006-06-17 09:31:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	OPRC PREL PGOV KPAO PTER IZ EG
06CAIRO3794	EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER PROMISES "CONSTRUCTIVE" [...] (C) I conveyed ref A points to Egyptian Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit on June 19, making clear I was doing so on direct instructions from the Secretary. I reminded him that I had raised the same issue with him last week (ref B). Claiming he was not current on the state of play due to recent t [...]	2006-06-18 15:39:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MEPN KPAL EG IS
06CAIRO3818	(U) MUBARAK AND JORDANIAN KING ABDULLAH DISCUSS [...] (C) Presidential Foreign Policy Advisor Soliman Awad shared with the Ambassador June 19 scant detail regarding Mubarak's June 18 meeting with King Abdullah. The two leaders reportedly focused primarily on the Palestinian situation, sharing identical views on Hamas. They compared notes on ma [...]	2006-06-19 13:35:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL MEPN PTER EG JO IS
06CAIRO3819	SOMALIA: EGYPT LAMENTS U.S. DECISION TO "EXCLUDE [...] (C) During a June 19 meeting, MFA Assistant Minister for African Affairs Mohamed Higazy complained to poloff about what he termed Washington's decision to "exclude Arab participation" in a newly formed "Contact Group" to deal with the ongoing crisis in Somalia. Higazy questioned the selectio [...]	2006-06-19 13:43:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PTER EG SO
06CAIRO382	SECTARIAN VIOLENCE NEAR LUXOR [...] (C) Summary: The village of Udayssat, 23 km south of Luxor, witnessed sectarian strife on January 18-20, resulting in clashes and the murder of a Christian man and the death of a Christian boy in murky circumstances. As of January 23, a heavy police presence remains in the area. A leading [...]	2006-01-23 15:19:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM PINS KIRF KISL EG
06CAIRO3822	(C) EGYPT NON-COMMITTAL ON GUATEMALA'S BID FOR [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-19 15:06:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC UNGA EG GT VE
06CAIRO3836	EGYPT: RESPONSE TO MESSAGE ON TEMPORARY [...] (C) Drawing from reftel background and talking points, Poloff delivered on June 20 USG views regarding the Temporary International Mechanism (TIM) for donor funding to the Palestinians to MFA Palestinian Affairs Office Director Randa Labib. Labib shared that Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed A [...]	2006-06-20 14:22:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL EAID EG IS
06CAIRO3849	SOMALIA: ARAB LEAGUE TO HOLD MINISTERIAL MEETING [...] (C) The Arab League will hold a ministerial meeting in Khartoum, Sudan June 21-22, to discuss political and security developments in Somalia, according to senior Arab League contacts. League Secretariat staffer Talal Elameen (protect) told Poloff that the meeting of the League's 11-member So [...]	2006-06-21 09:12:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PTER ARABL EG SO
06CAIRO3875	EGYPT: UPDATE ON ACTIVIST DETENTIONS [...] (C) Bahey Eddin Hassan, Director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, confirmed to poloff June 21 press reports that influential blogger Alaa Saif Al-Islam will be released from GOE custody in the next few days. Al-Islam was detained on May 7 (ref A) with a number of other democra [...]	2006-06-21 15:49:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO3901	SCENESETTER FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL GONZALES [...] (C) The U.S. Mission in Egypt welcomes you and your delegation to Cairo. Your visit will advance the President's freedom agenda with Egypt by stepping up our engagement on the rule of law. In this context, we ask your help on four specific issues - the return of Egyptians detained by the USG [...]	2006-06-22 16:23:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CJAN KDEM EG
06CAIRO3923	ATTACK ON KEREM SHALOM CROSSING: EGYPTIAN [...] (C) On June 25, the Ambassador discussed the recent attack on Israeli forces at the Kerem Shalom crossing with Defense Minister Tantawi, Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit, and EGIS Deputy Gohar (in Minister Soliman's absence). All three agencies were obviously following events closely and they ha [...]	2006-06-25 15:38:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MOPS MEPN KPAL EG IS
06CAIRO3924	IRAQ: EGYPT LOOKING TO MOVE FORWARD ON BILATERAL [...] (C) Egyptian MFA Assistant Minister for Arab Affairs, Hani Khallaf, told poloff that Tehran is pressing to host a meeting of Iraq's neighboring countries (and Egypt) on July 8-9, and thought Saudi Arabia was encouraging Arab participation. Khallaf confirmed reports that the League would host [...]	2006-06-25 15:56:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER EFIN MOPS EG IZ
06CAIRO3966	SOMALIA: ARAB LEAGUE BRINGS SOMALI TRANSITIONAL [...] (C) Summary. Senior Arab League contacts Samir Hosni and Talal Elamine briefed poloff June 25 on outcomes of the Khartoum meeting of the Arab League's Somalia Committee with key Somali political leaders. In addition to providing Arabic texts of the June 22 Khartoum Communique (translations [...]	2006-06-26 12:01:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER EFIN MOPS EG SM
06CAIRO3975	EGYPT AND EUROPEANS FAIL TO FINALIZE NEW FRAMEWORK [...] (U) This message contains an action request. Please see paragraph seven. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) According to Egyptian and European contacts, significant disagreement on human rights and non-proliferation language derailed efforts to negotiate a new EU-Egypt bilateral Framewo [...]	2006-06-27 10:22:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID EFIN EG
06CAIRO4021	COURT RULING AGAINST NEWSPAPER EDITOR IBRAHIM EISSA [...] (C) Ibrahim Eissa, editor-in-chief of the independent weekly Al Dostour, and Sahar Zaki, a journalist for the same paper, were each sentenced on June 27 to one year in prison on charges of "publishing false news, insulting the President of the state and spreading controversial propaganda offend [...]	2006-06-29 03:44:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EG
06CAIRO4140	MEDIA CONTROVERSY OVER PROPOSED DRAFT OF NEW [...] (C) Summary: The Cabinet has approved a new Press Law and referred it to the Shura Council. The new draft law would substitute fines for imprisonment for journalists convicted of libel, but preserve jail time as an option for those who publish a newspaper illegally or who cast aspersions on t [...]	2006-07-05 11:19:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER KPAO KMDR OPRC EG AL AG
06CAIRO4168	EGYPT PREPARING TO HOST IRAQI OFFICIALS; FORMAL [...] (C) During the July 4 Embassy reception, poloff discussed Iraqi-Egyptian relations with Iraqi Embassy diplomatic attache, Amir Abbas (protect). Asked about upcoming senior visits between Cairo and Baghdad, Abbas shared that he was working with contacts at the Egyptian General Intelligence Se [...]	2006-07-05 14:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER EFIN ECON EG IZ
06CAIRO4169	EGYPTIAN VIEWS ON US-EGYPT STRATEGIC DIALOGUE [...] (C) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: On July 5, Ambassador, DCM, and EconCouns met with Minister for Foreign Affairs Aboul Gheit to discuss preparations for the US-Egyptian Strategic Dialogue meetings in Washington. Aboul Gheit had met the previous day with the Prime Minister and other cabinet memb [...]	2006-07-05 15:37:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD PHUM EG
06CAIRO4185	EGYPT "CONCERNED" BY NORTH KOREAN MISSILE TESTS; [...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche July 6 to MFA Cabinet staff member Moataz Zahran, stressing the importance of concerted international pressure on North Korea to curb its provocative missile tests and proliferation of missile parts and technology. Zahran acknowledged GOE concerns regarding [...]	2006-07-06 12:48:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PARM KNNP EG KN
06CAIRO4196	AYMAN NOUR UPDATE [...] (C) Poloff met July 5 with Gameela Ismail, wife of imprisoned Ghad Party leader Ayman Nour, and Amir Salem, Nour's long-time lawyer. Ismail stated she had visited Nour on July 1, and that, "his health and spirits are low." Nour, suffering from a toe infection that required surgery, requested [...]	2006-07-06 15:07:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM EG
06CAIRO4197	EGYPTIAN RAFAH/GAZA BORDER SITREP; UPDATE ON GOE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph six. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) Local sources report that the Egyptian and Palestinian Rafah terminals may open briefly July 6 or 7 to allow a limited number of Palestinians stranded inside the Egyptian border terminal to enter [...]	2006-07-06 15:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL MEPN PTER PHUM EG IS
06CAIRO4200	AG GONZALES MEETING WITH PRESIDENT MUBARAK [...] (C) In a July 1 meeting in his office, a cordial and receptive Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak discussed the ongoing Gaza crisis with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Mubarak described Hamas leadership as ""untrustworthy,"" and stressed that if the situation continues to escalate, it will [...]	2006-07-09 04:00:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS EG
06CAIRO4201	ATTORNEY GENERAL GONZALES MEETINGS IN CAIRO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In warm June 29 meetings with the Egyptian Ministers of Justice, Interior, and the Public Prosecutor, Attorney General Alberto F. Gonzales and his Egyptian interlocutors praised the close CT coordination between the USG and GOE, as well as overall cooperation on criminal and judic [...]	2006-07-09 04:00:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS EG
06CAIRO4241	HIGH-LEVEL GOE FOCUS ON TIP [...] (C) During his recent visit to Cairo (meetings reported septel),Attorney General Alberto F. Gonzales received assurances from President Hosni Mubarak and Public Prosecutor Counselor Maher Abdel Wahed that the GOE is actively engaged in combating Trafficking In Persons (TIP). In a July 1 meet [...]	2006-07-10 04:09:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCRM PJUS EG
06CAIRO4258	SUDAN: DARFUR'S MINI MENNAWI WARMLY WELCOMED IN [...] (C) Summary: Darfur rebel leader Mini Mennawi is currently in Cairo, Egypt with a large delegation from the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) faction he represents, preparing to depart for Washington, DC, where he expects to meet with President Bush and other senior USG officials. In Cairo, M [...]	2006-07-10 13:47:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID MOPS PTER KPKO EG SU CD
06CAIRO4259	MUSLIM-BORN CONVERTS TO CHRISTIANITY ALLEGE GOE [...] (C) Summary: Egypt's small community of Christians who have converted from Islam are subject to periodic harassment and occasional persecution by elements of the Egyptian security service. Recent discussions with members of this community, who identify themselves as "Muslim-born Believers" [...]	2006-07-10 14:19:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF EG
06CAIRO4282	IRAQ: ARAB LEAGUE TO HOST PREPARATORY MEETING [...] (C) Arab League staff members shared July 11 that the League would hold a preparatory meeting of Iraqi political figures July 25-28 in Cairo to plan for a National Reconciliation Conference (NRC) in Baghdad later this summer. A maximum of 30 Iraqis from all the major Iraqi political groups a [...]	2006-07-11 15:30:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID MOPS PTER EG IZ
06CAIRO431	IO A/S SILVERBERG DISCUSSES UN REFORM WITH MFA [...] (C) Summary: IO Assistant Secretary Silverberg discussed UN reform with Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit and Assistant Minister for Multilateral Affairs Naela Gabr on January 16. A/S Silverberg, accompanied by the Ambassador, urged Aboul Gheit to support management reforms and the creation of [...]	2006-01-25 15:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KPAL EG IS UNGA UNSC
06CAIRO432	ISRAELI FM TO MAKE EGYPT, FIRST VISIT ABROAD [...] (c) Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni will come to Egypt -- her first official trip outside of Israel as minister-- for a one-day visit February 1 at the invitation of Egyptian Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit. Israeli Ambassador to Egypt Shalom Cohen told Ambassador January 25 that the visit [...]	2006-01-25 16:31:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IS EG
06CAIRO4334	EGYPTIAN COMMENTS ON STRATEGIC DIALOGUE PLANNING [...] (C) SUMMARY: During the meeting between A/S Welch and Elliott Abrams and Egyptian Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit, arrangements for the upcoming July 18 Strategic Dialogue were discussed. Aboul Gheit expressed his preference for a press event at the start of the meeting to a press conference a [...]	2006-07-12 15:47:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EAID EG
06CAIRO4335	EGYPT: CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PROCESS MOVING [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a late-night July 11 meeting of Parliament, a day before the assembly concludes its current session and recesses until November, MP's completed their review and discussion of a consolidated report regarding a proposed package of new constitutional amendments. The expectation i [...]	2006-07-12 16:31:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM EG
06CAIRO4337	REFORMING THE USAID PROGRAM IN EGYPT: A DETAILED [...] (C) Summary: We propose an overhaul of our economic assistance programs for Egypt that would transfer funds directly to the Government of Egypt conditioned on successful performance on agreed benchmarks aimed at policy reforms. These reform efforts will focus on democracy and governance, heal [...]	2006-07-12 17:09:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID EG
06CAIRO4355	MUBARAK INTERVENES: NO JAIL FOR JOURNALISTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Journalists expressed relief after President Mubarak,s last-minute intercession with the People,s Assembly on June 11 to strike prison sentences for reporters who expose corruption from proposed legislation. But the amendments to the penal code raise fines for defaming public f [...]	2006-07-13 11:40:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER KPAO KMDR OPRC UK AL AG EG
06CAIRO4356	EGYPT SUPPORTIVE OF MIDDLE EAST RESOLUTION AT THE [...] (C) NEA Assistant Secretary David Welch and Deputy National Security Council Advisor Elliott Abrams discussed the draft UNSC resolution condemning military operations in Gaza with Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit and Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa during separate July 12 SIPDIS meetin [...]	2006-07-13 11:57:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MOPS KPAL KWBG UNSC EG IS
06CAIRO4377	SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY OF ENERGY BODMAN VISIT [...] (C) The U.S. Mission in Egypt warmly welcomes your visit to Cairo. It provides us the opportunity to enhance the investment climate and opportunities for U.S. corporations operating in Egypt's vital petroleum sector. Your meetings with Minister of Finance Yousef Boutros Ghali and Minister of [...]	2006-07-13 16:16:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON PGOV EG
06CAIRO4382	NEA ASSISTANT SECRETARY DAVID WELCH AND DNSA [...] (C) During a July 11-12 visit to Cairo, NEA Assistant Secretary Welch and Deputy National Security Advisor Elliott SIPDIS Abrams along with the Ambassador met separately with Egyptian Intelligence Chief Omar Soliman (sep channel),Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit, Arab League Secretary General Amre Mo [...]	2006-07-16 07:42:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER EAID MOPS KPAL EG IS
06CAIRO441	PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS: FORMAL EGYPTIAN REACTION [...] (C) The Egyptian Government is watching with intense concern as initial reports indicate a Parliamentary majority for the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas along with the possibility that the Islamic militant group could form the next Palestinian government. Embassy sources among Egyptian Gove [...]	2006-01-26 09:53:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KPAL EG IS
06CAIRO4495	EGYPTIAN ELECTRICITY TO GAZA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the June 28 Israeli strike knocking out Gaza's power station and the subsequent cuts in Israeli supply, Egypt has been providing 5 megawatts of emergency supply to Gaza, with plans to increase supply to 12 megawatts. In late June, prior to the strike, Egypt and the PA were [...]	2006-07-19 11:57:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PREL KPAL EG
06CAIRO4518	EGYPT: IMMINENT INCREASE IN GASOLINE PRICE? [...] (C) The Egyptian Cabinet has apparently approved an increase in the heavily-subsidized gasoline price, although specifics regarding the extent of the increase were not given. The Minister of Petroleum believes an announcement could come within days, although fears over domestic turbulence ami [...]	2006-07-20 14:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON PGOV EG
06CAIRO4612	EGYPT: LAUNCH OF NEW LIBERAL POLITICAL PARTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Shura Council member and former NDP Policies Committee member Osama al-Ghazali Harb, one of Egypt's most prominent liberal intellectuals, recently launched the Democratic Front Party (DFP),with the goal of offering, "an alternative to both the corruption and autocracy of the curr [...]	2006-07-27 14:14:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM EG PGOV
06CAIRO4680	TFLE01: INCREASING EGYPTIAN ANGER ABOUT LEBANON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Egyptians are increasingly angry about the violence suffered by Lebanese civilians as a result of Israeli military operations against Hizbullah, and public outrage has surged since the July 30 Israeli bombing of Qana. Calls for the expulsion of the Israeli and U.S. ambassadors are beco [...]	2006-07-31 14:26:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EG IS LE
06CAIRO4760	TFLE01: PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL COMMITTEE CONDEMNS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a July 31 emergency session, the "General Committee of Egypt's People's Assembly" condemned Israel's "war crimes" and "American complicity with Israel in preventing the UNSC for carrying out its role." The Arab and Foreign Affairs and National Security Committee of the Shura Counc [...]	2006-08-02 15:23:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV LE IS EG
06CAIRO4782	TFLE01: ARAB LEAGUE OFFICIAL ALLEGES U.S. LOSING [...] (C) Summary: Arab League Chief of Staff Hesham Youssef told poloff that in a meeting on August 2, the League's permanent delegates had expressed growing frustration with the failure to achieve a cease fire in Lebanon and agreed to seek an emergency meeting of the UN Human Rights Council to investig [...]	2006-08-03 12:12:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN PTER LE IS EG
06CAIRO481	EGYPT: WAFD PARTY TURMOIL CONTINUES [...] (C) The struggle for the leaderhip of the Wafd, Egypt's premier but faded opposition party, continues. Although, as reported reftel, the Wafd Party's central board voted on January 18 to remove Gomaa as Party President and install party Vice President Mahmoud Abaza as caretaker, Gomaa has man [...]	2006-01-26 16:38:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM EG
06CAIRO482	PALESTINIAN ELECTION RESULTS A "SURPRISE" TO [...] (C) During a January 26 meeting with poloff, MFA Cabinet staff member responsible for the peace process portfolio, Ezzedine Shukry-Fisher, and Palestinian Affairs Office Director Randa Labaib, expressed surprise that Hamas had done so well in the latest parliamentary elections. Noting that t [...]	2006-01-26 16:40:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL PTER KDEM EG IS MEPN
06CAIRO4829	EGYPT ON CONTINUING CHALLENGES TO AMIS TRANSITION [...] (C) MFA's Sudan Department Director Ambassador Maasoum Marzouk told poloff August 3 that ongoing references to Chapter VII and the International Criminal Court (ICC) in UN discussions on Darfur complicate efforts to convince Sudan to accept the AMIS transition to a UN mission. Marzouk said [...]	2006-08-06 15:07:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UN SU EG
06CAIRO4855	ARAB LEAGUE TO CONTINUE CONFIDENCE BUILDING BEFORE [...] (C) Summary: Arab League Chief of Staff Hesham Youssef said that although participants at the late July Iraq Reconciliation Preparatory Conference made progress on divisive issues, reconciliation will be a long process and circumstances, including security, are not yet conducive to scheduli [...]	2006-08-07 15:46:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IZ EG
06CAIRO4856	AYMAN NOUR DELAYS HEART SURGERY; GOE REFUSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Imprisoned Ghad Party leader Ayman Nour has returned to Torah Prison from Al Manial Hospital, and has not yet undergone needed heart surgery, as he was not satisfied with the surgical preparations. It is not clear when he will have the surgery. During an August 7 meeting at the P [...]	2006-08-07 16:30:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM EG
06CAIRO4899	EGYPTIAN LIBERALS PREDICT MOMENTUM FOR REFORM WILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Several of Embassy's liberal and activist contacts have expressed distress over American policy regarding Lebanon, as well as concern about the ramifications of the current crisis on Egyptian reform efforts. In a series of meetings with a range of reform-minded contacts, poloff w [...]	2006-08-09 08:54:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM IS LE EG
06CAIRO4939	GAMAL MUBARAK DISCUSSES BEIRUT TRIP, UPCOMING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Gamal Mubarak briefed Ambassador and visiting Congressman Darrell Issa August 9 on his August 8 visit to Beirut, at the head of a 70-member Egyptian "solidarity" delegation. He predicted that the Egyptian Parliament's new session (beginning in November) will be "the constitutional refo [...]	2006-08-10 17:27:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM LE IS EG
06CAIRO5019	UPDATING BILATERAL ASSISTANCE TO EGYPT: EGYPTIAN [...] (C) Ambassador, USAID Mission Director and Washington visitors met on August 2 with GOE Minister of International Cooperation Fayza Aboulnaga and other GOE ministers and officials regarding proposals to update the management of U.S. bilateral foreign assistance to Egypt. Aboulnaga labeled as [...]	2006-08-14 12:32:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EAID EG
06CAIRO5028	EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT REACTION TO UN SECURITY [...] (C) During an August 14 discussion of regional issues, MFA Assistant Minister for Arab Affairs Hany Khalaf shared with poloff the text (below) of an "oral message" from Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit that he said would be delivered in UN Security Council P-5 member state capitals and Israel. Th [...]	2006-08-14 13:28:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PTER EG LE IS
06CAIRO5031	ISRAELI EMBASSY ON STATUS OF RELATIONS WITH EGYPT [...] (C) Israeli Embassy Acting Deputy Chief of Mission Israel Tikochinski called on the DCM August 13 to discuss the status of Israel-Egypt relations. The GOI is pleased overall, he reported, with the GOE's bilateral response to the recent crises in Gaza and Lebanon. Nevertheless, according to Tikochin [...]	2006-08-14 15:00:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER ECON MEPN KPAL EG IS LE
06CAIRO5123	SUDAN: EGYPT RELUCTANT TO PRESS BASHIR ON UN FORCE [...] (C) The Ambassador spoke August 15 with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit and August 16 with Presidential Spokesman and Senior Advisor Soliman Awad to request that Egyptian President Mubarak press Sudanese President Bashir to accept a transition to a UN force in Darfur. Drawing from [...]	2006-08-16 15:38:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID UNSC PHUM EG SU
06CAIRO5126	SYRIAN PRESIDENT'S SPEECH BRUSHED OFF BY OFFICIAL [...] (C) Summary. The vitriolic August 15 speech by Syrian President Bashar Asad before the Syrian Journalists Union, elicited a predictable mixed reaction from Egyptians, with official sources largely brushing off its significance, pro-government media sources lashing back, and the general publi [...]	2006-08-17 05:22:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER EG SY LE
06CAIRO5168	AYMAN NOUR POSTPONES HEART SURGERY INDEFINITELY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Gameela Ismail, wife of imprisoned Al Ghad Party leader Ayman Nour, told poloff in an August 14 meeting that Nour has decided to "hold off" on cardiac surgery to replace his heart stents (ref A). According to Ismail, the Al Ghad party is organizing a September conference to mark [...]	2006-08-17 15:31:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO5207	ARAB LEAGUE MINISTERS SET TO MEET ON LEBANON ISSUE [...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche August 19 separately to MFA Cabinet staff member Nazih al Negeiry and Arab League Chief of Staff Hisham Youssef, ahead of an August 20 ministerial meeting at Arab League headquarters focused on Lebanon. Negeiry committed to delivering the message to Minister Aboul [...]	2006-08-20 14:47:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC MEPN EG LE
06CAIRO5237	EGYPT'S INTERIM RESPONSE ON NUCLEAR FUEL CONCEPT [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-21 14:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL IAEA UN EG
06CAIRO5240	ARAB LEAGUE FOREIGN MINISTERS MEET TO DISCUSS [...] (C) In an effort to be seen as "doing something," Arab League foreign ministers met in Cairo August 20 to address assistance for the reconstruction of Lebanon, to discuss reviving the Arab-Israeli peace process, to debate the utility of an Arab Summit, and to offer political support to Sudan. [...]	2006-08-21 14:40:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MEPN KPAL UNSC ARABL MOPS EG LE SY
06CAIRO5298	EGYPTIAN PARLIAMENTARY DYNAMICS: DEBATE SHIFTS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The current Egyptian parliament, populated by a majority of National Democratic Party (NDP) members and an energized Islamist minority, contains more opposition parliamentarians than any previous People's Assembly in Egyptian republican history. The presence of an activist and discipli [...]	2006-08-24 08:44:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EG
06CAIRO5314	PRIME MINISTER SAYS NO AMNESTY FOR NOUR [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-24 12:37:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO5317	SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL ABIZAID'S VISIT TO CAIRO [...] (C) Welcome back to Cairo. Your visit allows us to reaffirm our nations' strong mil-mil cooperation at a time when the broader bilateral relationship and the U.S. image on the Arab Street shows signs of strain due to the crisis in Lebanon. In meetings with governmental and non-governmental contacts [...]	2006-08-24 12:56:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PTER MOPS EG IS IZ IR SU LE KNNP
06CAIRO5362	ANTI-ISRAEL INITIATIVES FROM EGYPTIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the wake of the Lebanon crisis, Egyptian oppositionists across the political spectrum are concentrating their attention on anti-Israel initiatives, rather than their usual pro-reform efforts. Most notably, the Egyptian opposition movement Kefaya recently launched a "One Milli [...]	2006-08-27 13:37:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EG

06CAIRO5383	VENEZUELA PRESSING ARABS HARD ON UN SECURITY [...] (C) Venezuela is taking advantage of ongoing conflicts in Lebanon and Palestine, and Arab discontent with Israel and the U.S., to boost its chances of winning a seat on the United Nations Security Council in October. While neither Egypt nor the Arab League to our knowledge has committed to s [...]	2006-08-28 14:50:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC ARABL UNGA EG VE GT
06CAIRO5384	EGYPT: LIMITED CABINET RESHUFFLE [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a minor August 27 cabinet shake-up, a new Minister of Justice (Mamdouh Marei) and Minister of Local Development (Mohamed Abdel Salam Al Mahgoub) were named, and Minister of Planning Mohamed Othman given an additional economic development portfolio. Reformers are disappointed wi [...]	2006-08-28 16:31:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM EG
06CAIRO5389	EGYPTIAN AND ARAB LEAGUE ASSISTANCE FOR LEBANON [...] (C) According to MFA Cabinet staff member Ezzedine Shukry, Minister for International Cooperation Fayza Aboul Naga will represent Egypt at the August 31 Stockholm donors conference for Lebanon. MFA Deputy Assistant Minister for Arab Affairs Amal Mourad will also attend. Minister Aboul Naga [...]	2006-08-29 12:03:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID EG LE
06CAIRO5430	AMBASSADOR SCHULTE DISCUSSES IRAN WITH FM ABOUL [...] (C) U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN Mission in Vienna Ambassador Schulte discussed Iran's nuclear weapons program with Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit on August 28. Aboul Gheit warned Ambassador Schulte that the U.S. handling of Lebanon had strengthened Iran, that economic sanctions against Ir [...]	2006-08-31 10:33:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC EG IR LE IS KNNP
06CAIRO5459	GOE'S MIXED SIGNALS ON INTERNATIONAL NGO [...] (SBU) Summary: Internews, the U.S.-based media reform NGO, appears to have secured GOE approval to finalize its registration in Egypt, paving the way to start work with independent Egyptian media, supported by USAID. IRI, which continues to defer appointing a new country director, is taking a [...]	2006-08-31 15:09:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM EG
06CAIRO5496	ARAB LEAGUE MINISTERIAL DEMARCHE RECEIVED WITH [...] (C) The Charge delivered reftel demarche September 3 to MFA Assistant Minister Hani Khalaf, and separately to Arab League Chief of Staff Hisham Youssef. With regards to UNSCR 1701, both Khalaf and Youssef welcomed news of USG humanitarian and military support for Lebanon and registered stron [...]	2006-09-05 11:02:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MEPN UNSC UNGA ARABL EG
06CAIRO5527	EGYPTIAN VIEWS ON UPCOMING NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT [...] (C) During a September 5 meeting with MFA Office Director for Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Affairs, Osama Khalil, poloff delivered reftel demarche on topics expected to be discussed at a September 11-16 NAM Summit in Havana, Cuba. Khalil believed the summit would be uneventful, but noted the " [...]	2006-09-05 14:34:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA UNSC PHUM PTER EG CU VE GT
06CAIRO553	EGYPT: DEMARCHE ON FINAL NEGOTIATIONS ON STRATEGIC [...] (SBU) Summary. A GOE participant in the SAICM process reports that the GOE is supportive of U.S. positions regarding precaution, scope, a savings clause, and the Global Plan of Action. However, post does not expect the GOE delegation to vigorously promote these positions during the February [...]	2006-01-30 15:18:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV ETRD ECON PREL PGOV
06CAIRO5555	(C) VISIT TO EGYPT BY UN SECRETARY GENERAL KOFI [...] (C) Presidential Spokesman Soliman Awad briefed Charge on September 5 on UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's meeting with President Mubarak earlier that day. The meeting covered Annan's recent visit with Syrian President Asad, Lebanon, Sudan, and the Arab League initiative to involve the Securi [...]	2006-09-06 15:39:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC UNGA MEPN EG
06CAIRO5601	ARAB LEAGUE FOREIGN MINISTERS MEET IN CAIRO TO [...] (C) Arab foreign ministers met in Cairo September 5-6 for a regularly-scheduled session, mainly to discuss joint Arab positions on the topics of Lebanon, the Arab-Israeli peace process, and Sudan. A long list of less pressing items were also considered by ministers, but local contacts describ [...]	2006-09-07 14:49:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MEPN UNGA UNSC ARABL EG
06CAIRO561	EGYPT: SHAKE UP ANTICIPATED AT RULING NDP [...] (SBU) Reports that a substantial internal shake up of the ruling National Democratic Party was in the works gained momentum on January 30 when leading pro-government papers Akhbar and Gomhouriya repeated earlier claims by Al-Masry Al-Youm, Egypt's most prestigious independent daily, that an ND [...]	2006-01-30 16:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM EG
06CAIRO5619	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SECOND ROUND OF GUANTANAMO ARB [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-10 13:04:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KAWC PINR PREL EG
06CAIRO5708	READOUT OF BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY BECKETT'S [...] (C) UK Embassy Poloff Martin Hetherington provided emboff with a brief readout of UK Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett's September 7 visit to Egypt, where she met separately with President Mubarak, EGIS Chief Soliman, Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit, and Arab League Secretary General Amre Mouss [...]	2006-09-12 13:52:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MEPN KPAL PTER EG UK
06CAIRO5709	INCREASED DETENTIONS OF MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD MEMBERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Egyptian regime detained 38 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members in late August, including two senior members of the organization. These arrests are the latest in an apparent renewed government campaign against the MB that began last spring. Some analysts assess this as a GOE reac [...]	2006-09-12 14:51:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KISL KJUS EG
06CAIRO5748	DEFMIN TANTAWI AND GENERAL ABIZAID: STRENGTHEN [...] (C) In his August 30 meeting with CENTCOM Commander General Abizaid, Egypt's Minister of Defense Field Marshal Tantawi inquired about the possibility of sending U.S.-origin Egyptian armaments to support the Lebanese Army, which he characterized as very weak. General Abizaid agreed, and promi [...]	2006-09-13 14:57:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS PTER KPAL PHUM KNNP LE EG IR
06CAIRO5796	MFA OFFICIAL URGES HIGH-LEVEL USG CONTACT WITH GOE [...] (C) Summary: The MFA official in charge of registration of foreign NGOs has said the freeze on activities by IRI, NDI, and IFES, as well as the issue of their pending legal registration in Egypt, could best be resolved by a "high level" overture from the USG to the GOE. The official offere [...]	2006-09-14 13:52:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID KDEM EG
06CAIRO5799	EGYPTIAN-IRAQI RELATIONS UPDATE; IRAQ'S NEIGHBORS [...] (C) Egyptian MFA Spokeman Alaa Hadidi updated poloff on September 14 regarding Egypt's bilateral relations with Iraq, and on upcoming regional events involving Iraq. Hadidi confirmed reftel report that Egypt invited Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki to visit, but said he was unaware of specific pl [...]	2006-09-14 15:14:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNGA PTER EG IZ
06CAIRO58	EGYPT: NO UNHCR ACCESS TO SUDANESE DETAINEES [...] (C) UNHCR still has no access to the Sudanese being held by the GOE in temporary camps following a violent confrontation that occurred when GOE security forces ended the Sudanese group's three month protest over refugee policy. While the GOE has not formally declined UNHCR's access request, [...]	2006-01-03 17:12:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF CASC EG SU UNHCR
06CAIRO5865	EGYPT'S POLITICAL REFORM PROCESS: SAAD EDDIN [...] (C) Summary: Leading Egyptian democracy activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim confirmed that he is deeply disappointed by what he perceives as diminished USG support for democratic reform in the Middle East. Ibrahim is worried that the USG is pulling back from once clear support for democracy in the [...]	2006-09-19 11:10:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO5867	DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN EGYPT: SEPTEMBER [...] (C) In meetings with GOE and NGO contacts on September 10-11, DRL DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles and NEA DAS J. Scott Carpenter reaffirmed USG support for democracy in Egypt and underscored the importance of GOE respect for human rights. MFA officials asserted that the GOE is committed to real poli [...]	2006-09-19 12:06:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO5927	RAFAH BORDER UPDATE [...] (C) An Egyptian military official in the Liaison Agency with International Organizations (LAWIO) told poloff on September 20 that LAWIO is working closely with Israeli liaison counterparts, including General Udi Dekel, to coordinate the opening of the Rafah terminal in the near future. He s [...]	2006-09-21 10:30:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KPAL EG IS
06CAIRO6016	NO SURPRISES AT NDP PARTY CONFERENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The ruling National Democratic Party's annual party conference, convened under the banner "New Thinking ... and the Second Leap Towards the Future," closed on September 21, following three days of animated speeches, discussion panels, plenary sessions, and discourse on policy paper [...]	2006-09-25 12:34:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EG
06CAIRO603	SECURITY COORDINATOR LTG DAYTON DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary: U.S. Security Coordinator LTG Keith Dayton and the Ambassador discussed the recent Hamas election victory, Palestinian security, and Egyptian-Israeli border security with Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit, Defense Minister Tantawi, and Director of Military Intelligence Mowafi Februa [...]	2006-02-01 21:08:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KPAL MOPS EG IS
06CAIRO6038	MUBARAK FOCUSES ON NUCLEAR ENERGY IN EGYPT'S FUTURE [...] (C) Summary: At last week's National Democratic Party (NDP) conference, both President Mubarak and his son Gamal highlighted nuclear energy as an alternative to continued reliance on fossil fuels. Prime Minister Nazif convened the Supreme Council for Energy for the first time in 18 years to d [...]	2006-09-26 10:10:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PGOV TSPL KNNP EG
06CAIRO604	EGYPT AND IRAN/IAEA: PRESSING FOR REFERENCE TO [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-01 21:19:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP IR EG IAEA UNSC
06CAIRO6105	AYMAN NOUR SEEKS USG INTERVENTION; GAMEELA ISMAIL [...] (C) Summary: In a letter to A/S Welch, imprisoned Al Ghad party leader Ayman Nour requests USG intervention on his behalf with the GOE (presumably, President Hosni Mubarak),to grant Nour amnesty. In a related development, Nour's wife and lawyer deny that they signed the September 11, 2006 le [...]	2006-09-28 14:56:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO6132	SSIS MONITORING OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY NGOS [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-02 08:06:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EG KDEM KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL
06CAIRO6143	EGYPT "DISAPPOINTED" WITH U.S. POSITION AT [...] (C) Deputy Assistant Minister for Multilateral Affairs Ihab Fouzy, acting on Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit's instructions, summoned the DCM on October 1 to express Egypt's disappointment at the U.S. decision to oppose Egypt's "Application of Safeguards in the Middle East" resolution and to de [...]	2006-10-02 11:12:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IAEA IR EG KNNP
06CAIRO6171	AYMAN NOUR REQUESTS THE SECRETARY PUSH GOE FOR AN [...] (C) Summary: In a letter to the Secretary, imprisoned Al Ghad Party leader Ayman Nour requests that during her upcoming visit to Cairo, the Secretary advocate for his release as part of the traditional prisoner amnesty granted by President Mubarak on the October 6 national holiday. He notes his h [...]	2006-10-02 15:55:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO6172	SUDAN: EASTERN PEACE TALKS GOING WELL, DON'T [...] (C) Drawing from reftel background and talking points, poloff shared with MFA Cabinet staff member Ahmed Aboul Zeid on October 2 USG concerns regarding the direction of peace talks between the Government of Sudan and Eastern rebel groups currently taking place in Asmara, Eritrea. Aboul Zeid, [...]	2006-10-02 16:08:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PTER KDEM EG SU ER
06CAIRO6233	SOMALIA: ARAB LEAGUE MISSION TO SEEK REGIONAL, [...] (C) According to Arab League (AL) officials, an AL delegation is preparing to visit Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Eritrea, Sudan, and Somalia from roughly October 8 - 22. The visit is intended to prepare for the next round of AL-hosted talks in Khartoum on October 30. Salah Halima, Advisor to Sec [...]	2006-10-04 15:35:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER ARABL EG SO
06CAIRO6254	MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD HOSTS LARGE RAMADAN IFTAR [...] (C) Summary: The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) hosted a large Ramadan iftar on October 4, with guests including MB luminaries from across Egypt, as well as opposition party leaders, and even a prominent NDP parliamentarian. In remarks to the gathering, MB Supreme Guide Mahdi Akef outlined the MB's [...]	2006-10-09 13:56:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL KDEM EG
06CAIRO6294	SADAT NEPHEW STRIPPED OF PARLIAMENTARY IMMUNITY, [...] (C) Summary: Controversial independent parliamentarian Talaat Sadat (nephew of the late president) has publicly alleged that high-ranking military personnel, as well as then Vice-President Hosni Mubarak, were behind the 1981 assassination of President Anwar El Sadat. Talaat was subsequently c [...]	2006-10-10 12:04:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EG
06CAIRO6308	EGYPT UNDECIDED ON UN DECLARATION ON RIGHTS OF [...] (C) With the Australian Charge in the lead, poloff delivered reftel demarche on October 10 to MFA Human Rights Office Deputy Director Mai Khalil, describing U.S. concerns over the draft UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DRIP). Khalil shared that internal GOE deliberation on [...]	2006-10-11 09:06:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNGA PHUM KTIA EG
06CAIRO6325	GOP SCHIZOPHRENIC ON VENEZUELAN FUEL IMPORTS [...] SUMMARY. (C) GOP Energy policy remains divided as the Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MICI) pursues divergent paths to ensure an affordable supply of petroleum for Panama. MICI Vice-Minister Jose Paredes stated publicly that the new Panamanian state run oil company would not distribute fue [...]	2006-10-11 15:00:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER UNSC MOPS PHUM ARABL EG SU
06CAIRO6327	CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS: TIMELINE SET, BATTLE [...] (C) Summary: NDP officials expect President Hosni Mubarak to present his eagerly anticipated constitutional amendments package to the opening session of Parliament in mid-November. The People's Assembly will debate the proposed amendments for two months, and then vote; if the package is approv [...]	2006-10-11 15:57:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM EG
06CAIRO6328	EGYPT: NSC SENIOR DIRECTOR MICHAEL DORAN [...] (C) In an October 3 meeting with pro-reform Egyptians on the margins of the Secretary's visit to Cairo, NSC Senior Director Michael Doran reiterated the USG's commitment to supporting political reform and freedom in Egypt and BMENA. Yomn El-Hamaqi (a member of Egypt's Consultative Council and [...]	2006-10-12 06:45:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO6365	EGYPTIAN LIAISON CHIEF DISCUSSES BORDER GUARD [...] (C) Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) Liaison Chief MG Nagy reported that Egypt has sought assistance from a petroleum company (NFI) to bolster its tunnel detection tactics on the border with Gaza. Although Egypt and Israel began a tunnel detection discussion between engineers in e [...]	2006-10-15 10:27:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KPAL KTIP IS EG
06CAIRO6374	WE WILL NOT BE SILENT: CAIRO JUDGES CLUB READIES [...] (C) Summary: A leading member of the influential Cairo Judges Club (JC) detailed for poloff in an October 11 meeting JC plans to prepare recommendations regarding upcoming constitutional amendments. He noted that the Judges Club plans to be "activist" during this "critical period of constitut [...]	2006-10-16 09:10:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KJUS EG
06CAIRO6381	EGYPT HOSTS SENIOR FRENCH, SPANISH, AND ITALIAN [...] (C) Italian and French Embassy officials offered separate readouts on October 16 of a gathering in Cairo of senior diplomats from Rome, Paris, and Madrid the day before to discuss the Middle East peace process and related topics. Italian Embassy First Secretary Lamberto Moruzzi and French Emba [...]	2006-10-16 15:27:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MEPN UNSC KPAL EG IS FR SP IT
06CAIRO6442	GUATEMALA VS. VENEZUELA: ARAB LEAGUE SECRETARIAT [...] (C) The Charge called Arab League (AL) Secretariat Chief of Staff Hisham Youssef on October 17 to request League assistance with Guatemala's bid for a UN Security Council seat, and to complain about public remarks attributed to the AL's New York representative Yahya Mahmassani's - seemingly i [...]	2006-10-17 15:01:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC PTER ARABL EG GU VE
06CAIRO645	NDP SHAKE-UP CONSOLIDATES INFLUENCE OF GAMAL [...] (C) As anticipated reftel, President Mubarak, in his capacity as head of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP),ratified on February 1 a major shake-up of the party leadership. Old guard figure Safwat Sherif retained his position as party Secretary-General, but will have to share his aut [...]	2006-02-02 17:26:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM EG
06CAIRO6459	UNSCR 1718 WILL DEFINE EGYPT'S NORTH KOREA POLICY [...] (C) Poloff delivered ref A demarche on October 17 to MFA Cabinet Advisor for Asian Affairs Moataz Al Zahran, stressing USG concerns over North Korea's test of a nuclear device, and the importance of strict implementation of UNSCR 1718. Poloff emphasized resolution language on prevention of ma [...]	2006-10-18 14:48:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ASEC PNUK PTER EG NK
06CAIRO646	EGYPT HOSTS PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT AND ISRAELI [...] (C) Playing a central role in post-Hamas victory diplomatic contacts, Egypt hosted Palestinian President Abu Mazen and Israeli Foreign Minister Livni in Cairo February 1. Livni met one-on-one with Mubarak for nearly 2 hours, and was hosted by Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit for a joint press co [...]	2006-02-02 18:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KPAL EG IS MEPN
06CAIRO647	IRAN/IAEA: GOE PRESSES FOR REFERENCE TO ZONE FREE [...] (C) Following the Ambassador's discussion with Egyptian Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit on referring Iran to the UNSC on February 1 (Ref A.),ECPO MinCouns followed up with Americas' Affairs Assistant Minister el-Hefny February 2 (as the Ambassador had traveled to visit the Gaza border/MFO)(Ref [...]	2006-02-02 19:12:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM IR AORC EG KNNP IAEA EUC
06CAIRO6581	SPECIAL ENVOY NATSIOS'S OCTOBER 21 MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) Summary and comment: In separate October 21 meetings, Presidential Envoy for Sudan Andrew Natsios discussed next steps on Sudan with Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa and Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit. Moussa agreed the humanitarian situation in Darfur was bad but it [...]	2006-10-29 14:32:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PTER EAID EG SU
06CAIRO6582	SPECIAL ENVOY NATSIOS'S OCTOBER 21 MEETING WITH [...] (C) In an introductory meeting October 21, Intelligence Chief Omar Soliman reviewed Egyptian thinking on Sudan and Darfur with U.S. Presidential Envoy for Sudan, Andrew Natsios. Despite tense relations with Khartoum, Egypt is working to resolve the conflict in Darfur and to bolster the stabi [...]	2006-10-29 14:32:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PTER EAID EG SU
06CAIRO6593	MUBARAK'S VISIT TO RUSSIA AND CHINA: DIVERSIFYING [...] (C) With media attention focused on Mubarak's upcoming visit to Russia (Nov 1-4) and China (Nov 6-9),speculation is rife as to why he is going, and what message he is sending. While Egypt has solid reasons for expanding cooperation with both countries; the fact that Mubarak is throwing his we [...]	2006-10-30 10:01:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD ENRG EG RU CH KNNP
06CAIRO6595	MUBARAK INDICATES AMENDMENT 76 LIKELY TO BE CHANGED [...] (C) In an October 30 meeting with members of the National Democratic Party (NDP) parliamentary bloc, President Hosni Mubarak reportedly stated that he is open to amending contoversial constitutional Article 76. Presidential spokesman Suleiman Awad subsequently told the pres that the president [...]	2006-10-31 15:47:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM EG
06CAIRO6600	SADAT SENTENCED TO ONE YEAR OF HARD LABOR FOR [...] (SBU) Talaat El Sadat, controversial independent parliamentarian accused of "spreading false rumors and insulting the Armed Forces," was sentenced by a military tribunal on October 31 to one year of hard labor, and a fine of 200 Egyptian pounds (approximately $35). As reported reftel, follow [...]	2006-11-01 12:33:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO6677	EGYPT TO REVIEW DECISION ON UN COUNTER-TERRORISM [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche November 2 to MFA Cabinet Staff Member responsible for counter-terrorism issues, Mohamed al Shinnawy, requesting Egypt to consider a visit in the coming year by UN Counterterrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) staff. Shinnawy was unaware of the [...]	2006-11-02 15:01:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV UNGA PTER UNSC EG SA QA
06CAIRO6736	MFA PROTESTS USG COMMENTS ON SADAT CONVICTION [...] (C) On November 2, in a conversation with Assistant Minister for Americas Salama Shaker, DCM expressed USG concern over the sentencing of MP Talaat El Sadat to one year of hard labor (ref A),citing the November 1 statements of Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Sean McCormack. Shaker, no [...]	2006-11-06 15:41:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO6746	EGYPTIAN TABLOIDS CRITICIZE EMBASSY LES [...] (C) Summary: Two Egyptian tabloids with a history of spurious attacks on Egyptian human rights and democracy activists recently turned their sights on a senior Egyptian employee of post's Economic-Political Section, decrying his work on religious freedom and MEPI. Post sees no evidence at [...]	2006-11-07 09:22:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PREL KIRF EG
06CAIRO6748	EGYPT: MINISTER OF ELECTRICITY ON NUCLEAR, CUTTING [...] (SBU) Minister of Electricity and Energy (MOE) Hassan Younes reported on November 2 that the GOE has not yet finally decided to pursue nuclear power development, but may do so following the presentation of an economic analysis to a PM-chaired Supreme Council on Energy meeting on November 7. Th [...]	2006-11-07 09:29:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PGOV TRGY KNNP IAEA EG
06CAIRO6756	BAHA'I CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS: ATTENTION FOCUSED ON [...] (SBU) Summary: A November 20 judicial hearing will be the next episode in the long struggle of Egypt's Baha'is for citizenship rights. Any decision that results from the upcoming hearing will have ramifications for human rights and religious freedom in Egypt, but our contacts suggest that t [...]	2006-11-07 09:34:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI KIRF EG
06CAIRO6769	VISIT TO PRISONER NABIL SOLIMAN [...] (C) Poloff conducted a human rights monitoring visit to prisoner Nabil Soliman on November 5. Returned by the U.S. to Egypt in June 2002, Soliman was subsequently convicted of membership in the Islamic Jihad, and sentenced to five years in prison. He is being held at the Istiqbal Prison, a s [...]	2006-11-07 14:29:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER CASC KISL EG
06CAIRO6780	HISTORIC PARLIAMENTARY SESSION OPENS AGAINST TENSE [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE NEW SESSION OF EGYPT'S PARLIAMENT OPENS NOVEMBER 8 AGAINST A BACKDROP OF HEIGHTENED GOVERNMENT-OPPOSITION TENSIONS, AND EXPECTATIONS OF CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM. PRESIDENT MUBARAK IS EXPECTED TO DELIVER A SPEECH OUTLINING THE SPECIFICS OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS PACKAGE TO [...]	2006-11-08 11:39:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EG
06CAIRO6839	ARAB LEAGUE FOREIGN MINISTERS CALL FOR "LIFTING [...] (C) FOLLOWING A NOVEMBER 12 EXTRAORDINARY SESSION OF ARAB LEAGUE FOREIGN MINISTERS HELD IN CAIRO, THE GROUP ISSUED A STATEMENT (TEXT BELOW) PLEDGING TO "BREAK THE SIEGE" AGAINST THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, CALLING FOR AN INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION OF THE BEIT HANOUN ATTACK, THE SENDING OF INTERN [...]	2006-11-13 12:39:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MEPN KPAL UNSC UNGA ARABL EG IS
06CAIRO6846	(C) LEBANON: EGYPT BACKING PM SINIORA TO PURSUE [...] (C) THE AMBASSADOR SPOKE WITH EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AHMED ABOUL GHEIT NOVEMBER 13 TO URGE GOE SUPPORT FOR LEBANESE PRIME MINISTER FOUAD SINIORA, FOLLOWING THE RECENT RESIGNATIONS OF HIZBALLAH-AFFILIATED CABINET MINISTERS FROM THE LEBANESE GOVERNMENT. ABOUL GHEIT CONFIRMED TO THE AMBASSAD [...]	2006-11-13 17:35:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MOPS UNSC MEPN EG LE
06CAIRO6864	SADAT BROTHER APPRECIATES USG SUPPORT, ADVOCATES [...] (C) INDEPENDENT PARLIAMENTARIAN ANWAR EL SADAT (BROTHER OF IMPRISONED MP TALAAT EL SADAT, AND NEPHEW OF ASSASSINATED PRESIDENT ANWAR EL SADAT) DELIVERED A LECTURE TITLED "INDEPENDENTS IN THE PARLIAMENT" ON NOVEMBER 9 AT THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO. IN A BRIEF CONVERSATION WITH POLOFF ON [...]	2006-11-14 14:53:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KISL EG
06CAIRO6870	COURT HEARINGS OF TWO POLITICAL PARTIES DELAYED [...] (SBU) ON NOVEMBER 4, THE STATE COUNCIL COURT POSTPONED CONSIDERATION OF A SUIT FILED BY THE MODERATE-ISLAMIST WASAT ("MIDDLE") PARTY, APPEALING THE GOVERNMENT'S REJECTION OF ITS LICENSE APPLICATION, AND LIKEWISE POSTPONED A SIMILAR SUIT FILED BY THE NASSERITE AL KARAMA ("DIGNITY") PARTY. BOTH [...]	2006-11-15 14:48:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL EG
06CAIRO6878	FOLLOW-UP ON VISIT TO PRISONER NABIL SOLIMAN [...] (C) Pursuant to reftel, poloff approached the Torah Prison warden on November 5 regarding reinstating prisoner Nabil Soliman's family visitation rights (Note: Due to the low-quality of meals in Egyptian jails, many prisoners get most of their food from their families during regular visits; Sol [...]	2006-11-16 08:42:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER CASC KISL EG
06CAIRO6881	A/S WELCH DISCUSSES MIDDLE EAST PEACE, IRAQ WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: A/S Welch met with Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa on November 15 to discuss the Middle East peace process and Iraq. On the Israeli-Palestinian situation, Moussa encouraged reinvigorated U.S. leadership and promoted the international conference; A/S Welch responded t [...]	2006-11-16 09:49:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PRL PGOV PTER MORS UNSC EG IL LE IQ
06CAIRO6885	A/S WELCH DISCUSSES LEBANON, DARFUR WITH EGYPT'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: A/S Welch met with Egyptian Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit in Cairo on November 14. Aboul Gheit confirmed he will go to Addis Ababa November 16 to attend the UN/AU meeting. He reported that the Sudanese are willing to accept the proposed first and second packages of UN support [...]	2006-11-16 11:04:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PRL PGOV PTER MORS UNSC EG SU LE
06CAIRO6902	INCREASED ASSERTIVENESS OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD [...] (C) Summary: In recent weeks, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has been noticeably more assertive across the Egyptian political scene, demonstrating an increased tactical muscularity and confidence that markedly differs from the past. In a variety of proving grounds - parliament, labor elections, [...]	2006-11-19 11:55:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL EG
06CAIRO6904	MUBARAK SPEECH TO PARLIAMENT: LONG ON FORM, SHORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: IN A MUCH-ANTICIPATED NOVEMBER 19 SPEECH BEFORE A JOINT SESSION OF PARLIAMENT AND THE SHOURA COUNCIL, PRESIDENT HOSNI MUBARAK STRESSED THAT FORTHCOMING CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS WILL BE THE "BIGGEST AND WIDEST" SINCE 1980, BUT PROVIDED NO NEW DETAILS ON THE YET-TO-BE-UNVEILED PACKA [...]	2006-11-19 15:52:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EG
06CAIRO6936	CASH TO HAMAS CROSSES RAFAH BORDER [...] (C) LOCAL SOURCES TOLD EMBOFFS ON NOVEMBER 20 THAT TWO HAMAS MINISTERS HAD SUCCESSFULLY TRANSPORTED OVER FOUR MILLION DOLLARS INTO THE GAZA STRIP VIA EGYPT'S RAFAH CROSSING DURING THE PREVIOUS WEEK, DESPITE SENIOR-LEVEL GOE ASSERTIONS TO THE CONTRARY (REF A). EGYPTIAN INTELLIGENCE CHIEF OMAR [...]	2006-11-21 15:20:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MEPN EFIN ECON KPAL EG IS
06CAIRO6937	(C) SOMALI DIPLOMAT REPORTS ON ISLAMIST HASSAN [...] (C) Summary: Somali diplomat Ismail A. Hussein told poloffs on November 16 that Egyptian General Intelligence Service (EGIS) officials informed the Somali Embassy in Cairo about the visit of Somali Council of Islamic Courts (CIC) leader Hassan Dahir Aweys on the day of his arrival in Egypt. W [...]	2006-11-21 15:26:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER EG SO
06CAIRO6939	DARFUR: EGYPT AND ARAB LEAGUE PLEASED WITH AU-UN [...] (C) The Government of Egypt (GOE) and the Arab League Secretariat (AL) are pleased with the outcome of November 16 SIPDIS high-level consultations on Darfur held in Addis Ababa and hosted by the African Union (AU) and the United Nations (UN). GOE leaders and the Arab League are pressing th [...]	2006-11-21 16:06:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MOPS UNSC EG SU
06CAIRO6963	MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD DEPUTY LEADER: "I AM VERY [...] (C) SUMMARY: IN A TWO-HOUR LONG NOVEMBER 21 APPEARANCE AT THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF CAIRO, MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD (MB) DEPUTY SUPREME GUIDE MOHAMED HABIB DELIVERED A BRIEF LECTURE ON "THE RIGHTS OF CITIZENSHIP," AND THEN TOOK QUESTIONS FROM THE CROWD COVERING A RANGE OF TOPICS, FROM HIS VIEWS OF T [...]	2006-11-22 17:00:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KISL KDEM EG
06CAIRO6980	EGYPT: OMAR EFFENDI SALE SHOWS PRIVATIZATION [...] (C) Summary: The successful sale of government-owned retail chain Omar Effendi is a triumph for the GoE privatization program, overcoming public opposition and accusations of undervaluing a national icon. However, opponents of privatization from across the political spectrum criticized the sa [...]	2006-11-27 10:58:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV EIND EG
06CAIRO6984	IRAQ UPDATES: SENIOR-LEVEL VISITS AND OTHER [...] (C) Local contacts confirmed plans for Iraqi President Jalal Talabani to visit Egypt in mid-December, preceded by a visit by Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari December 3-4. In addition to advancing the President's visit, Zebari will represent Egypt at an Arab League ministerial meeting on [...]	2006-11-27 16:11:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PTER ARABL EG IZ
06CAIRO7001	HAMAS FIGURES VISIT CAIRO FOR TALKS ON NATIONAL [...] (C) Amidst a flurry of regional diplomatic activity, senior Hamas political leaders Khaled Misha'al and Prime Minister Haniyeh have been visiting Cairo for talks with Egyptian leaders on the formation of a National Unity Government and related issues. Misha'al, who visited Egypt from November [...]	2006-11-28 16:11:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MEPN PTER KPAL EG IS
06CAIRO7002	EGYPT NOT YET PREPARING REPORT ON NORTH KOREAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-29 08:28:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM UNSC KNNP EG KN
06CAIRO7008	EGYPT: CONGRESSWOMAN WATSON DISCUSSES REGIONAL [...] (C) ON NOVEMBER 27, VISITING CONGRESSWOMAN DIANE WATSON AND THE AMBASSADOR MET JOINTLY WITH PRIME MINISTER AHMED NAZIF, MINISTER OF INVESTMENT MAHMOUD MOHEILDIN, AND MINSTER OF TRADE AND FINANCE RACHID RACHID, WHO ALL STRESSED THAT RESOLVING THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI CONFLICT IS OF THE UTMOST IM [...]	2006-11-29 15:22:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BEXP EG IR IZ IS
06CAIRO7009	MUBARAK'S CHINA VISIT STRENGTHENS ECONOMIC, TRADE [...] (C SUMMARY: Egyptian President Mubarak and a delegation including most of his economic ministers visited Moscow and Beijing in early November. While the visit played in the press as a rebuke to the US, the delegation did conduct some real business while visiting both countries, China in pa [...]	2006-11-29 15:32:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD EFIN MNUC EPET AA CH RU EG
06CAIRO7012	ANOTHER HAMAS MINISTER HAND-CARRIES CASH TO GAZA [...] (C) EGYPTIAN SOURCES HAVE CONFIRMED PRESS REPORTING THAT PALESTINIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MAHMOUD AL-ZAHAR HAND-CARRIED TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS IN CASH ACROSS THE EGYPT-GAZA BORDER AT RAFAH ON NOVEMBER 28. AL-ZAHAR, WHO LEFT CAIRO FOR TEHRAN ON NOVEMBER 12 SHORTLY AFTER ARAB MINISTERS ANNOUNCED PLA [...]	2006-11-29 16:02:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER EFIN MEPN KPAL EG IS
06CAIRO7034	TROUBLE BREWING BETWEEN JUDGES CLUB AND JUSTICE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Tensions have been on the rise between Egypt's influential Judges Club and the new Minister of Justice for the past several months, with friction centering around the Minister's reported decision to halt payment of government subsidies to the reform-minded Club. Following strong [...]	2006-12-03 15:35:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KJUS EG
06CAIRO7040	DARFUR: EGYPT'S MFA OPTIMISTIC AFTER LATEST ROUND [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph seven. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) Egyptian MFA contacts expressed surprise at how "positive" the November 30 Darfur talks in Abuja had been, among members of the African Union's (AU) Peace and Security Commission (PSC). The MF [...]	2006-12-04 14:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MARR UNSC ARABL EG SU
06CAIRO7041	(C) SOMALI DIPLOMAT PROVIDES ARAB LEAGUE MINUTES [...] (C) Cairo-based Somali diplomat Ismail Hussein (strictly protect) provided poloff with an Arabic-language document purported to be an Arab League (AL) internal summary of November 2-3 meetings in Mogadishu between senior League staff and Somali Council of Islamic Courts (CIC) leader Sheikh Has [...]	2006-12-04 14:47:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER ARABL UNGA MARR EG SO
06CAIRO7071	MILITARY LIAISON DISCUSSES WEAKNESSES IN EGYPTIAN [...] (C) Summary: Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) Liaison Chief MG Nagy (protect) gave poloff an uncharacteristically candid assessment of the shortcomings in Egypt's counter-smuggling efforts in the Sinai during a December 4 meeting. Suggesting that the GOE could do more to combat s [...]	2006-12-06 12:38:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MARR KPAL EG IS
06CAIRO7100	(C) EGYPTIAN AND ARAB LEAGUE VIEWS ON SOMALIA [...] (C) Summary: Egypt, bilaterally and via its strong influence over the Arab League (AL),hopes to help stabilize Somalia and prevent Islamic extremists from taking over. Egypt appears to be hedging its bets with the powerful Council of Islamic Courts (CIC) in hopes of bolstering its more moder [...]	2006-12-07 16:09:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER UNSC MARR EG ET SO
06CAIRO7120	AYMAN NOUR'S HEART SURGERY REPORTEDLY DELAYED [...] (C) In a December 9 meeting with poloff, Gameela Ismail (wife of imprisoned Al Ghad Party leader Ayman Nour) reported that Nour had been moved to Qasr al Aini Hospital on December 6 for cardiac surgery to replace his stents from a previous operation. According to Ismail, after being brought to [...]	2006-12-12 15:26:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO7121	EGYPTIAN FM ABOUL GHEIT ON DARFUR [...] (C) In a meeting with Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit on December 12, the Ambassador cited recent public comments by President Mubarak as indicating apparent support of Bashir's effective rejection of the Abuja and Addis agreements regarding deployment of UN Forces to Darfur. Aboul Gheit [...]	2006-12-12 15:46:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KPKO AU UN EG SU
06CAIRO7123	STRAINS IN EGYPT-IRAQ RELATIONS DELAY TALABANI [...] (C) Summary: Iraq's Minister for Water Resources, Abdel Latif Rachid, told the Ambassador on December 10 that Iraqi President Jalal Talabani postponed an expected visit to Egypt over Iraqi perceptions that Egypt did not treat the visit with sufficient protocollary importance. FM Aboul Gheit [...]	2006-12-12 16:17:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER UNSC EG IZ
06CAIRO7124	ABOUL GHEIT URGES U.S. SUPPORT FOR LEBANON [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit and the Ambassador discussed Iraq, Iran, Syria and Lebanon in a December 12 meeting. Aboul Gheit strongly cautioned the U.S. not to engage Iran or Syria under current circumstances and repeated his call for the U.S. to "destroy the Iraqi mili [...]	2006-12-12 16:21:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PTER UNSC IR IZ EG LE SY
06CAIRO7142	STRAINS IN EGYPT-IRAQ RELATIONS DELAY TALABANI [...] (C) Summary: Iraq's Minister for Water Resources, Abdel Latif Rachid, told the Ambassador on December 10 that Iraqi President Jalal Talabani postponed an expected visit to Egypt over Iraqi perceptions that Egypt did not treat the visit with sufficient protocollary importance. FM Aboul Gheit [...]	2006-12-14 11:40:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER UNSC EG IZ
06CAIRO7165	ARAB LEAGUE'S AMRE MOUSSA TO SENATOR KERRY ON [...] (C) SENATOR JOHN KERRY MET WITH ARAB LEAGUE SECRETARY GENERAL AMRE MOUSSA ON NOVEMBER 15 TO DISCUSS EVENTS IN LEBANON, IRAQ, AND THE REGION. MOUSSA BRIEFED ON HIS LEBANON MEDIATION, CLAIMING LIMITED SUCCESS ON ELECTION-RELATED ISSUES, AND NOTED PLANS TO VISIT BEIRUT, DAMASCUS, AND SAUDI ARAB [...]	2006-12-17 15:42:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER UNSC EG LE
06CAIRO7171	MORE ARRESTS: GOVERNMENT-MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD [...] (C) Summary: The Egyptian security services arrested between 140-200 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members (many of them college students) between December 14-16. The dragnet included one of the most senior leaders in the MB's hierarchy. Detainees are reportedly being charged with "terrorism" and [...]	2006-12-18 16:41:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KISL PHUM EG
06CAIRO7199	SOMALIA: ARAB LEAGUE PRESSING FOR RESUMPTION OF [...] (C) Poloff discussed reftel demarche with Arab League Secretariat African Affairs Office Director Samir Hosny on SIPDIS December 20, urging the League to use its contacts with Somali Islamic Courts (CIC) and Transitional Federal Government (TFG) figures to help avoid military clashes, to r [...]	2006-12-20 12:09:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS MARR ARABL EG SO
06CAIRO7211	CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS: COMING SOON, BUT [...] (C) Summary: President Mubarak is expected to submit his long-awaited constitutional amendments package to the Egyptian legislature on December 25. While precise details of the substance of the proposed changes are still scarce, likely amendments can be roughly divided into four broad catego [...]	2006-12-21 10:12:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EG
06CAIRO7232	EGYPT COMMITTED TO IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1737; [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on December 24 to MFA Disarmament Affairs Office Director Hossam Aly, seeking Egyptian reactions to the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1737 and its likely impact on Iran's nuclear activities. Aly believed the final resolution language was caref [...]	2006-12-26 12:58:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP MNUC UNSC EG IR
06CAIRO7250	SUEZ CANAL ENJOYS RECORD YEAR, PLANS AHEAD [...] (SBU) Egypt's Suez Canal revenues will reach record levels for 2006, and sustained high energy prices and ever-increasing Chinese container traffic to the U.S. and Europe bode well for the strategic waterway's near future. Completion of an ongoing dredging program in 2007 will facilitate great [...]	2006-12-28 11:21:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EWWT ETRD EPET EG
06CAIRO7251	MUBARAK SUBMITS CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM PACKAGE TO [...] (C) On December 26, in accordance with procedural requirements for amending the Egyptian constitution, President Hosni Mubarak submitted to the People's Assembly and the Shoura Council a letter proposing the amendment of 34 constitutional articles. As anticipated reftel, the proposed changes [...]	2006-12-28 11:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM EG
06CAIRO7260	SOMALIA: EGYPT AND ARAB LEAGUE WORKING TO [...] (C) MFA Assistant Minister for African Affairs, Ambassador Marsoum Marzouk, detailed Egyptian concerns and responses to the current fighting between Ethiopian forces and the Somali Council of Islamic Courts (CIC). Responding to ref A demarche, Marzouk noted that Egypt was an unlikely transit [...]	2006-12-28 15:41:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MOPS EG SO
06CAIRO75	EGYPTIAN, EUROPEAN SOURCES CONFIRM RAFAH BORDER [...] (C) In separate conversations January 4, MFA Palestinian Affairs Office Director Randa Labib and European Union Deputy Director Oliver Nette confirmed that the Egyptian-Gaza border terminals at Rafah remain open, despite press reports that Gaza militants closed the PA-controlled terminal. Lab [...]	2006-01-04 17:02:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PTER KPAL EG IS
06CAIRO765	HAMAS DELEGATION ENDS CAIRO TALKS, CONTINUES [...] (SBU) A delegation of senior Hamas political figures wrapped up several days of talks in Cairo February 8, including a full day of internal deliberations February 6 among internal and external leaders of the Islamic organization. Press reports assert that part of the team departed for Gaza w [...]	2006-02-08 16:46:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL PTER EG IS MEPN
06CAIRO798	FERRY DISASTER: RIPPLES HITTING CAIRO [...] (C) The emerging picture of negligence on the part of the "Al Salam 98" crew and ownership, coupled with a GOE response perceived as ineffective, has caused tempers to flare among victims' families. Opposition politicians and press are casting the tragedy as an indicator of GOE corruption and [...]	2006-02-09 16:44:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EWWT MARR EG
06CAIRO799	DEFEATING VENEZUELA, SUPPORTING GUATEMALA FOR UN [...] (C) Post intends to raise the issue of Guatemala's UN Security Council candidacy when the Ambassador meets next with Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit, following the latter's return to Egypt from regional travel. Post will also engage with the Guatemalan Ambassador in Cairo to coordinate diplomat [...]	2006-02-09 16:52:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EG GT VE UN UNSC
06CAIRO800	DANISH CARTOON CONTROVERSY: GOE WORKING TO DEFUSE [...] (C) According to our European colleagues, GOE officials, and our own analysis, the GOE and Egyptian public remain deeply angered over the cartoon controversy and believe additional steps can be taken by the Danes to defuse the current tensions. The issue of physical security for the Danish an [...]	2006-02-09 18:05:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER ASEC EG DA

06CAIRO82	EGYPT CHANGES COURSE ON DEPORTING SUDANESE ASYLUM [...] (C) Following a series of high-level Embassy demarches, the GOE informed post late January 4 that Egypt will permit the UNHCR access to the 631 Sudanese detainees it plans to deport. Egypt will delay the deportations until January 8 to allow UNHCR staff to interview the detainees. UNHCR Cair [...]	2006-01-05 12:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EG SU PREF
06CAIRO83	PALESTINIANS BREAK THROUGH BORDER WITH EGYPT: TWO [...] (C) Summary: GOE contacts from the Foreign Ministry and Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) confirmed that on the evening of January 4, a group of Palestinians allegedly from the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade broke through the security wall between Egypt and Gaza allowing nearly 1,000 Pales [...]	2006-01-05 12:49:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL PTER EG
06CAIRO855	SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY RADEMAKER'S [...] (C) Embassy Cairo warmly welcomes your visit for nonproliferation discussions. Nonproliferation has been a key agenda item in the U.S.- Egyptian bilateral relationship in recent months, and expanding our dialogue will facilitate greater cooperation. Because Egypt takes seriously its role a [...]	2006-02-13 09:54:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IS IR EG KPAL KNNP IAEA
06CAIRO861	EGYPT: SENIOR JUDGE PREDICTS OUTCOME OF AYMAN NOUR [...] (C) During a meeting with several senior judicial officials on February 12, Judge Ahmed Khalifa (strictly protect),President of Egypt's Supreme Court of Appeals, pulled poloff aside to provide an apparently well-informed prediction about the legal case of imprisoned opposition leader Ayman No [...]	2006-02-13 13:42:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
06CAIRO862	EGYPT: GOE SET TO POSTPONE LOCAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: At the direction of President Mubarak, parliament is expected to pass shortly legislation that will postpone by two years local council elections which had been due in April. Senior GOE contacts put the move in the context of broader reforms that will overhaul and modernize Egyp [...]	2006-02-13 13:51:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM EG
06CAIRO87	EGYPT QUESTIONS RE-HATTING AFRICAN UNION MISSION [...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche January 5 to MFA Sudan Affairs Office Director Marsam Marzouk, seeking GOE support within the African Union (AU) to "re-hat" the AU's Darfur mission. Marzouk said that there was little support within Africa for such a move, as it signified AU "failure" in it [...]	2006-01-05 13:40:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS EG SU UNSC
06CAIRO941	FBI DIRECTOR MUELLERâ€™S VISIT TO EGYPTREF: CAIRO 493 [...] (C) During his February 8-9 visit to Egypt FBI Director Robert Mueller held a series of cordial and productive meetings with President Mubarak, Intelligence Chief Soliman, Interior Minister Adly, and State Security Director Abdel Rahman. The strength of the bilateral security relationship, and mean [...]	2006-02-15 07:44:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL KISL EG
06CAIRO968	ISRAELI DEFMIN VISITS CAIRO: MUBARAK DELIVERS [...] (C) According to Egyptian Presidential Advisor Soliman Awad, the visit to Egypt by Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz went extremely well. Awad told the DCM shortly after the conclusion of the February 14 visit that Mofaz's meeting with President Mubarak had been "very fruitful." The messa [...]	2006-02-15 15:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL EG IS MEPN
06CAIRO970	SUDAN/DARFUR: EGYPTIAN VIEWS ON RE-HATTING AMIS [...] (C) During a February 13 meeting with MFA UN Affairs Office Director Hani Saleem, poloff discussed GOE views on re-hatting the African Union's Darfur Mission (AMIS-II) to a UN operation (reftel). Saleem noted that Egypt had concerns regarding the impact that such a transition might have on th [...]	2006-02-15 16:05:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPKO EG SU UNSC
06CAIRO971	IRAQ: EGYPT AND ARAB LEAGUE WELCOME FINAL [...] (U) Following the public release February 17 of final election results by the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI),both the Government of Egypt and Arab League publicly welcomed the conclusion of Iraq's electoral process and called for the rapid formation of a government of nation [...]	2006-02-15 16:10:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PTER KPAO OPRC EG IZ
06CALCUTTA389	NORTHEAST INDIAN STATE OF MANIPUR EXPERIENCES ESCALATING [...] (C) SUMMARY. August 22-25 ConGen visited the Northeast Indian state of Manipur to assess the security situation and to follow the investigation of the August 16 grenade attack on the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) temple in Imphal (REFTELS). Manipur suffers from over 30 [...]	2006-09-01 13:50:00	Consulate Kolkata	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM ASEC CASC PGOV SOCI IN
06CALCUTTA413	SHADOW LINES - INDIA STRUGGLES WITH SECURITY ON ITS EASTERN [...] (C) Summary. Porous borders with Bangladesh and Burma present a serious threat to India's security that India so far has been unable to manage effectively. In West Bengal, politicians, intelligence, law enforcement, and academics all agree on the growing problem of Islamist infiltration int [...]	2006-09-13 12:11:00	Consulate Kolkata	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PREL BG IN NP PK
06CALCUTTA541	MUSLIMS LAMENT LACK OF JOBS, EDUCATION IN WEST BENGAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 8-9, Poloff visited the majority Muslim district of Murshidabad along the West Bengal-Bangladesh border to discuss socioeconomic and security concerns with district officials, local politicians, and journalists. Discussions echoed the findings of the Rajinder Sachar Com [...]	2006-12-03 17:03:00	Consulate Kolkata	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IN BG PGOV PTER
06CALCUTTA542	WEST BENGAL OFFICIALS TALK BANGLADESH, BORDER SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In light of recent political tensions in neighboring Bangladesh, post has engaged West Bengal state government officials on their views of the situation and the impact on the India-Bangladesh border. The government contacts had a general preference for the Awami League as they be [...]	2006-12-03 17:03:00	Consulate Kolkata	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PREF XD IN BG
06CALCUTTA543	TO KEEP CHINESE OUT, INDIA SEEKS CLOSER TIES WITH BURMA [...] (C) Summary: The GOI recently provided arms to Burma for use in counter-insurgency operations along the Indo-Burma border. The GOI hopes to stop the activities of especially violent insurgent groups the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and the United Liberation Front (UNLF),but the GO [...]	2006-12-04 11:59:00	Consulate Kolkata	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER IN BM
06CANBERRA1201	FURTHER AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE TO NATO GLOBAL [...] (C) Australia is willing to participate in NATO's Global Partnership but only under a flexible, informal arrangement that stresses practical cooperation and that avoids a new formal institutional structure, including fixed requirements for meetings and expenditure of resources. The GOA plans [...]	2006-08-08 10:27:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR AS
06CANBERRA1238	AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE ON BERN PROCESS JOINT/PARALLEL [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche request August 16 to Rachel White, Acting Branch Chief in the Human Rights and Indigenous Issues Section of DFAT,s International Organizations Division. She noted that the GOA would raise the issues separately, as part of their follow-up with the Chinese a [...]	2006-08-16 06:36:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	CH PGOV PHUM PREL
06CANBERRA1628	WESTERN AUSTRALIA MUSLIMS WORRY THAT MOSQUE [...] (C) Summary: West Australian police told Perth Consul General privately that they have no firm leads on the September 29 drive-by shooting at a northern Perth mosque, in which a single bullet narrowly missed women and children among the 400 worshippers at a Friday night service. No one was i [...]	2006-10-15 21:11:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KISL PTER AS
06CANBERRA577	AUSTRALIA DEPLOYS TROOPS, POLICE TO SOLOMON ISLANDS [...] (U) Prime Minister Howard announced on April 19 that Australia would deploy 110 Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel and about 70 police to Honiara to help maintain law and order in response to post-election rioting in the Solomon Islands capital (reftels). Four C-130 aircraft are preparin [...]	2006-04-19 06:40:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PGOV PINR PREL AS BP
06CARACAS1017	1001 STEPS TO OBTAINING A BOLIVARIAN DOCUMENT [...] (C) Poloff spent days battling Venezuelan bureaucracy to obtain a Venezuelan birth certificate for his child. The inefficient and Byzantine processes encountered by poloff plague Venezuelan government operations and have become an accepted element of Venezuelan society. Red tape drives weal [...]	2006-04-11 19:22:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV VE
06CARACAS1032	BRV IRRITATED BY AMBASSADORIAL OUTREACH ACTIVITIES [...] (C) VFM Maripili Hernandez convoked the Ambassador on April 12 to complain that his public diplomacy visits to poor communities were inadequately coordinated, and to suggest that we were collaborating with the independent media to provoke incidents during such visits. The Ambassador rejecte [...]	2006-04-17 19:14:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ASEC VE
06CARACAS1052	COPEI: LAST DITCH SCRAMBLE FOR REJUVENATION [...] (C) Venezuelan Christian Democratic party COPEI shuffled its executive after young party members revolted against the leadership of former secretary general Cesar Perez Vivas in March. Former international relations secretary Sadio Garavini told poloff the new leaders were good but criticize [...]	2006-04-18 18:19:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS1059	YOUNG POLITICO CHALLENGES GOVERNMENT, OPPOSITION [...] (C) Alexandra Belandia Ruizpineda is a 35-year-old leader of the small Caracas-based Grupo Cambio ("Group for Change") that gained notoriety in September 2005 for surreptitious placement of paper skeletons to protest Venezuela's deteriorating security environment. While the skeletons incident [...]	2006-04-20 13:12:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM SCUL VE
06CARACAS1085	STUDENTS "LAY DOWN FOR LIFE", POLITICS AS USUAL [...] (U) On April 22, streets throughout Caracas were overtaken by three separate protests; the most organized of the three led by university students protesting deteriorating public security conditions in Venezuela and the other two by pro-government and opposition factions. Despite competing eve [...]	2006-04-24 20:29:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM SCUL VE
06CARACAS1093	"URGENT" VENEZUELAN NATIONAL POLICE LAW DELAYED [...] (C) The National Police Corps Law, whose passage various deputies and Venezuelan government spokesmen have described as urgent, has been delayed again pending a review by the recently composed national committee for police reform. The law aims to centralize and militarize Venezuela's some 20 [...]	2006-04-25 18:40:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCRM VE
06CARACAS1096	VENEZUELA: RESPONSE ON TITLE III OF LIBERTAD ACT [...] (C) Post sees no evidence that the BRV has undertaken policies or actions to advance democracy, human rights, or fundamental freedoms in Cuba over the last six months. In fact, Venezuela has continued to provide financial support to the Castro regime and strengthen its trade relationship wit [...]	2006-04-25 18:42:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL VE
06CARACAS1104	HAITI'S PRESIDENT-ELECT MAKES BRIEF VISIT TO [...] (U) Haiti's President-elect Rene Preval arrived in Caracas April 24 for a brief bilateral meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, which included discussions on energy and implementing effective strategies for improving the country's social conditions. During a joint press conference f [...]	2006-04-26 13:19:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM VE
06CARACAS113	VENEZUELA'S OPPOSITION LOOKS FOR A FUTURE [...] (C) After basking in its self-perceived moral victory following the low turnout in the December 4 legislative elections and international observers' calls for a new National Electoral Council, the opposition is trying to figure out how to stay relevant and position themselves for the presid [...]	2006-01-18 17:51:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS1152	NEW VENEZUELAN ELECTORAL BOARD 4 TO 1 FOR CHAVEZ [...] (C) On April 28, the National Assembly completed selection of and swore in Tibisay Lucena, Sandra Oblitas, Vicente Diaz, German Yepez, and Janeth Hernandez as the new directors of the National Electoral Council (CNE),as well as their 10 alternates. Not surprisingly, the all-Chavista legisla [...]	2006-05-02 19:16:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS1169	IS CHAVEZ LOSING IT? [...] (C) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez' rhetoric has always been radical. Yet, up until the last six to 12 months, he reserved his most extreme statements for domestic audiences. Lately, he has flown off the handle in front of international microphones. He has criticized regional counterpar [...]	2006-05-03 16:38:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR VE
06CARACAS1173	VENEZUELAN LABOR DAY: TALE OF TWO MARCHES [...] (C) The twin marches held separately by the pro-government and opposition labor centrals May 1 in commemoration of Labor Day illustrate well the dilapidated state of organized labor in Venezuela. The National Workers' Union (UNT) was dedicated to anti-imperialism and saw a sea of crisp red te [...]	2006-05-03 19:33:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM SCUL VE
06CARACAS1174	TAKING THE BAIT: CHAVEZ CREATES ANOTHER [...] (C) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez started a diplomatic row with the Peruvian Government after Peruvian presidential candidate Alan Garcia questioned Chavez' "Bolivarian" credentials in late April. Chavez called Garcia a corrupt thief on April 28, adding that Garcia and Peruvian President [...]	2006-05-03 20:31:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE
06CARACAS1199	BRV REACTS TO COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] (C) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez blasted the Department's Country Report on Terrorism in almost real time April 28, claiming that the USG was the real terrorist state. The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry followed his remarks April 29 with a communique detailing alleged U.S. "terrorist" abus [...]	2006-05-04 20:46:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL VE
06CARACAS1207	NGO HIGHLIGHTS BRV'S USE OF ELECTORAL BLACKLISTS [...] (C) Opposition NGO Ciudadania Activa (Active Citizenry) produced the documentary "La Lista Tascon" ("The Tascon List"),a film that dramatically portrays the Venezuelan government's systematic persecution of persons who signed petitions against President Hugo Chavez in 2002-2004. The organiza [...]	2006-05-05 19:23:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM SCUL VE
06CARACAS1213	MURDER OF PRIEST PITS BRV AGAINST CHURCH [...] (C) The recent murder of Catholic Priest and senior official of the Venezuelan BishopsÂ´ Conference (CEV) has touched off another round of recriminations between the church and state. Father Jorge Pinango was found murdered in a seedy Caracas hotel room on April 24, two days after disappearing. A [...]	2006-05-05 19:42:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF KCRM VE
06CARACAS123	CATHOLIC CHURCH AND CHAVEZ ON A BUMPY RIDE [...] (C) The Catholic hierarchy in Venezuela is trying to re-establish a working dialogue with President Hugo Chavez, but the efforts are riddled with problems. Emotions were gushing during the World Peace Day mass on January 8, attended by the Vice President and other senior GOV officials. The E [...]	2006-01-19 15:02:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KIRF PHUM KDEM VE
06CARACAS1231	OAS EOM FINAL REPORT ON VENEZUELA ELECTIONS -- [...] (C) On April 25, the OAS electoral observation mission (EOM) quietly released its final report on the December 2005 legislative elections. The report, like the preliminary version, was less critical of the electoral process than the EU EOM (refs a and b). In general, most criticism of the g [...]	2006-05-08 20:28:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM OAS VE
06CARACAS1238	PDVSA: DIVERSIFICATION, CORRUPTION, AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The politicization of PDVSA appears to have an increasingly negative impact on how it carries out its operations and conducts long term planning. As a result of Bolivarian ideology, PDVSA appears to be making a concerted effort to shed itself of long-term supply contracts as well [...]	2006-05-09 12:29:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV VE
06CARACAS124	CARACAS WORLD SOCIAL FORUM IV/AMERICAS [...] (C) The Fourth World Social Forum (Americas Region) will take place January 24-29 in Caracas. GOV organizers say more than 100,000 representatives of NGOs and social movements have registered for the event, which is billed as a mirror event to the Davos World Economic Forum. Like its sister [...]	2006-01-19 15:06:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI SENV ELAB PHUM VE
06CARACAS1252	PARANOIA IN INTERNAL VENEZUELAN MILITARY DOCUMENT [...] (C) Embassy received from opposition contacts CD copies of two internal Venezuelan military powerpoint presentations that appear to date from around 2003. The presentations contain charts so complex, intricate, and overlapping as to be hardly readable. They portray revisionist history and [...]	2006-05-09 18:14:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR PREL VE
06CARACAS1262	ALIANZA POPULAR TOUTS ABSTENTION MESSAGE [...] (C) Veteran Christian Democrat politician Oswaldo Alvarez Paz has just completed his first year building his "Alianza Popular," a center-right micro-party that prefers to throw rocks at the 2006 presidential elections rather than participate with other opposition groups. Alvarez Paz denies he [...]	2006-05-10 19:12:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM VE
06CARACAS1266	GERMAN FOUNDATIONS FRUSTRATED IN VENEZUELA [...] (C) Major German foundations such as the Friedrich Ebert and Konrad Adenauer Stiftungs have been active in Venezuela for decades. In recent years their efforts have declined somewhat due to the extreme polarization of the Venezuelan society and the resultant reluctance of both sides to enter [...]	2006-05-10 19:27:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM SCUL VE
06CARACAS1276	BRAZIL STILL INTERESTED IN TUCANO SALES, PROPOSES [...] Actions requested - see para 12. Summary ------- 2. (C) Brazilian Ambassador Joao Carlos da Sousa Gomes, acting on instructions, proposed that we trade licensing for U.S. components in the Tucano aircraft for Brazilian support for Sumate with the BRV. That sounds like a bad trade to [...]	2006-05-11 19:24:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET PREL PTER BL BR IR VE UN CU
06CARACAS1287	VENEZUELAN CNE: "WE WILL NOT NEGOTIATE" [...] (C) In its first two weeks in office, the National Electoral Council's (CNE) initial actions suggest it will be similar to the previous one. The bid of the single pro-opposition member to head the National Electoral Junta and Electoral Registry Committee--and thus give some hope for independ [...]	2006-05-12 15:15:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS1291	BOLIVARIAN SPENDING UNSUSTAINABLE BELOW USD [...] (C) SUMMARY. Milton Guzman, the Vice President of Research with the Banco de Venezuela Santander Investment Group, said that if the Venezuelan oil basket price dropped to USD 40 per barrel (from the current USD 60.29 per barrel for April 2006),the current levels of BRV central government sp [...]	2006-05-12 18:36:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV VE
06CARACAS1363	PDVSA PUSHES FOR MORE CONTACT WITH USG [...] (U) Action requested. Please see paragraph 11. 2. (C) SUMMARY: PDVSA Vice President Luis Vierma suggested that senior USG and PDVSA officials meet on a regular basis to discuss a wide variety of energy issues. He also offered to host a week long visit for Departments of State and Energy [...]	2006-05-16 17:02:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV VE
06CARACAS1397	VENEZUELAN CATTLEMAN'S ASSOCIATION: VIEWS ON [...] (C) On May 10, Econoffs met with Genaro Mendez, President of the Venezuela's Cattleman's Association (Fedenaga). Mendez has been outspoken against the BRV on rural expropriations, criticizing the National Land Institute's (INTI) support of land invasions. Fedenaga has chosen to fight the BRV [...]	2006-05-17 16:56:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV VE
06CARACAS1400	SUDDEN DROP IN VENEZUELAN EXPORTS [...] (C) A senior ExxonMobil representative told Petroleum Attache on May 17 that Venezuelan crude exports have fallen by 300,000 barrels. (COMMENT: We believe, given the context of his remarks, that the representative meant per day. END COMMENT) The representative also stated ExxonMobil employee [...]	2006-05-17 18:02:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV VE
06CARACAS1417	NO SURPRISES IN BRV RESPONSE TO CT DESIGNATION [...] (C) The Department's May 15 announcement that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) is not fully cooperating in the global war on terrorism unleashed a series of scathing but typical responses from President Hugo Chavez and his senior mouthpieces. Chavez called the USG an "impotent empi [...]	2006-05-17 22:12:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PARM PTER VE
06CARACAS1445	TEMPERATURE RISES FOR STRATEGIC ASSOCIATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The National Assembly on May 16 approved amendments to the Organic Hydrocarbons Law (OHL) that raise income taxes on the strategic associations from 34 to 50 percent and introduced a 33.3 percent extraction tax. It appears that the six international oil companies (IOCs) that are [...]	2006-05-19 16:58:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV VE
06CARACAS1448	KEY DATES FOR VENEZUELAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION [...] (SBU) With a little under seven months before the December 3 presidential elections, key dates are coming up fast for the newly inaugurated National Electoral Council (CNE). On May 11, the CNE told opposition presidential candidates it would have electoral norms established by the end of Jul [...]	2006-05-19 20:08:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS1449	BOLIVARIANS IN THE OLD COUNTRY: CHAVEZ DOES EUROPE [...] (C) President Hugo Chavez conducted an array of state business and outreach to sympathizers during a six-country swing through Europe and North Africa, May 10-18. The trip began with Chavez getting a stern message on human rights from Pope Benedict XVI. In Rome, Chavez met with communist Ita [...]	2006-05-21 19:36:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM VE IT IZ AU AG UK VT
06CARACAS1468	DIVISIONS AND DISSENT IN CHAVISMO [...] (C) The diversity of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez' "Bolivarian Revolution" often makes it appear divided. For example, differences have emerged between the movement's civilians and soldiers, its democrats and dictators, and its ideologues and crooks. Nonetheless, these disputes have bee [...]	2006-05-22 20:33:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV VE
06CARACAS1469	HOW CHAVEZ MANAGES PROBLEMS [...] (C) SEPTEL addresses the divisions within President Hugo Chavez' administration and the dissent among his support base. This cable shows that Chavez has sought with some success to deflect his administration's failures by blaming the USG, chastising his own subordinates, and holding rallies [...]	2006-05-22 20:35:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE
06CARACAS1543	READY OR NOT HERE COMES THE OPPOSITION PRIMARY [...] (C) After months of planning, Sumate announced its intention to hold a primary to choose a single opposition candidate on July 16. As of May 22, 14 candidates have registered, including Julio Borges, one of the three best known possible candidates. The other two, Teodoro Petkoff and undecla [...]	2006-05-24 21:26:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS1544	VENEZUELA: PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE [...] (C) The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) employs a variety of mechanisms -- legal, regulatory, judicial, and rhetorical -- to harass the private media. Post will provide periodic press freedom updates to document these subtle yet effective tactics that reveal a repressive -- indeed, aut [...]	2006-05-25 10:17:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM SCUL VE
06CARACAS16	EVO MORALES VISITS VENEZUELA [...] (U) Bolivian President-elect Evo Morales arrived in Caracas January 3 for a brief visit that included paying homage to Simon Bolivar at the National Monument, a two-hour bilateral meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and a lengthy joint press conference in "Cadena Nacional." In addi [...]	2006-01-04 21:01:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS1612	FORMER OPPOSITION GOVERNOR HELD ON CORRUPTION [...] (U) Eduardo Lapi, the former opposition governor of Yaracuy State, was detained by state security police (DISIP) in the state capital of San Felipe on May 30 in relation to charges of corruption during his administration. Lapi had been accused in January of violating bidding procedures in awa [...]	2006-06-01 17:42:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM VE
06CARACAS1617	VENEZUELA: LUKEWARM REACTION TO STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] (C) The Ambassador called Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez on May 31, to deliver the points in reftel. The Ambassador conveyed our strong hope that the BRV would issue a public statement of support, publicly encourage Iran to suspend its enrichment and p [...]	2006-06-02 14:01:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM VE IR
06CARACAS1627	STUDENTS PROTEST IN MERIDA [...] (U) Student protests in Merida on May 24-25 turned violent, resulting in dozens of injuries and drawing the attention of top BRV officials in Caracas. A Supreme Court (TSJ) decision to suspend annual university elections ignited a battle pitting students and university officials on one side, [...]	2006-06-02 20:48:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SCUL SOCI VE
06CARACAS1628	WE LOVE CHAVEZ! WE WANT WATER! [...] (C) A peasant protest over a water shortage in the rural countryside outside of Caracas blocked a highway Polcouns and Poloff were traveling to attend an appointment on June 2. The angry residents of Portachuelo in Miranda State blocked the road for hours to draw attention to their plight of a [...]	2006-06-02 20:58:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI VE
06CARACAS1634	BRV TAKES AIM AT INDEPENDENT CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (C) Civil Society within Venezuela is raising serious concerns over the potential passage of a law designed to effectively eliminate NGOs in Venezuela as independent bodies (ref a). Embassy shares their concerns that if the law is passed in anything like its currently form it would severely [...]	2006-06-05 16:17:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS1639	VISAS DONKEY -- TASCON GUTIERREZ, LUIS [...] (C) Post requests SAO on the prudential revocation of the B1/B2 visa of Venezuelan citizen Luis Tascon (DPOB: 27AUG1968, Venezuela) on Foreign Policy grounds under INA 212(A)(3)(C). Post believes that his entry in the United States would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy conse [...]	2006-06-05 17:40:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	CVIS PGOV PREL PHUM ELAB KDEM PTER VE
06CARACAS1661	SUPREME COURT JUSTICE LOUDLY OBJECTS TO HIS REMOVAL [...] (C) On May 24, the Venezuelan Government's Moral Republican Council suspended Supreme Court Justice Luis Velasquez Alvaray for alleged mismanagement of public funds earmarked to purchase property for the construction of a judicial complex. His case is now with the National Assembly (AN),whi [...]	2006-06-06 22:22:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KJUS KDEM VE
06CARACAS1662	STATE MACHINERY DRIVING CHAVEZ' CAMPAIGN [...] (C) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez abuses state power and the public purse to benefit his reelection campaign. He has ordered public officials to get out the pro-Chavez vote, and his administration has forced them to participate in Chavista rallies. Through his control over off-budget ex [...]	2006-06-06 22:22:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS1665	LEADING OPPOSITION CANDIDATES SET DEADLINE FOR [...] (U) In a joint press conference June 5, leading opposition presidential candidates Julio Borges, Teodoro Petkoff, and Manuel Rosales announced their agreement to choose a single opposition candidate by July 31. They are also creating a commission comprised of a representative from each candi [...]	2006-06-07 16:55:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS1674	CHAVISTA LABOR FEDERATION DELAYS ELECTIONS -- AGAIN [...] (U) The pro-Chavez National Workers Union (UNT) held its second congress May 26-28 with the objective of setting a date for internal elections for the trade confederation. The congress was billed as a landmark event for the labor confederation because in the three years since the group's foun [...]	2006-06-07 21:24:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM VE
06CARACAS1680	AMBASSADOR VISITS CHAVEZ'S HOME STATE [...] (C) The Ambassador traveled to Barinas on May 18, visiting two USAID projects and a radio station, and meeting with the local bishop and civic leaders. Surprisingly, no untoward incidents marred the visit of the Ambassador to the heart of chavismo, Chavez's home state. The Ambassador reques [...]	2006-06-08 16:00:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC ECON EAGR EIND VE
06CARACAS1709	UPDATE ON PETROAMERICA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Petroamerica, the Chavez administration's initiative for Latin American and Caribbean energy integration, is composed of three parts: Petrocaribe (Caribbean),Petroandina (Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru),and Petrosur (Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay). In addition, the BRV h [...]	2006-06-12 15:36:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV VE
06CARACAS1712	UPDATE ON PETROCARIBE [...] (C) SUMMARY: During the past seven months, the BRV appears to have focused on building institutions such as joint venture companies to support the Petrocaribe initiative (Reftel A). Shipments of oil still appear to be relatively few in number. Although the lines between various BRV initiati [...]	2006-06-12 15:48:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV VE
06CARACAS1713	STUDENT-GOVERNMENT SHOWDOWN CONTINUES [...] (C) The dispute between university students and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) continues to fester. What started with violent protests at the University of the Andes (ULA) in Merida on May 24 over student union elections has devolved into a rhetorical war, waged mostly in the pre [...]	2006-06-12 16:45:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SCUL SOCI VE
06CARACAS1719	CNE DERAILS INDEPENDENT ELECTORAL REGISTRY AUDIT [...] (C) Via national broadcast June 8, National Electoral Council (CNE) President Tibisay Lucena announced the proposed audit of the electoral registry (REP) would proceed under the terms agreed to by seven Chavista universities and thus without the participation of the three independent universi [...]	2006-06-12 18:41:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS1736	VENEZUELA RESPONDS TO TIER 3 PLACEMENT [...] (C) After several days of working to arrange an appointment, Poloff delivered 2006 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) and mini-plan demarches to BRV Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Director for North American and Multilateral Affairs Yaneth Arocha on June 8. Poloff confirmed BRV's criticism of t [...]	2006-06-13 17:17:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM KWMN PHUM PREL SMIG VE
06CARACAS1739	CENTRAL BANK DIRECTOR'S VIEWS ON ECONOMIC AND [...] (C) Central Bank (BCV) Director Armando Leon told EconOffs May 31 that, despite first quarter BCV cumulative operational losses of USD 136 million, the BCV would end May and June 2006 without losses, and was working with the Finance Ministry to mitigate anticipated BCV financial losses in July [...]	2006-06-13 18:43:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV VE
06CARACAS1768	PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE [...] (C) This cable is the second in a continuing series of updates detailing the accelerating repression of freedom of expression by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV). As indicated in reftels, the BRV employs a variety of mechanisms - legal, economic, regulatory, judicial, and rhetorica [...]	2006-06-15 16:25:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM SCUL VE
06CARACAS1777	VISIT TO VENEZUELAN CATTLE FARM AND ECOLOGICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. On June 7-8, EconOffs visited Hato Pinero and Hato Paraima, large cattle ranches in Cojedes state. Hato Pinero, also an ecological preserve, has been under threat of expropriation but has not been occupied by squatters. Hato Paraima has squatters on over 60 percent of the proper [...]	2006-06-16 16:10:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV SENV VE
06CARACAS1779	NGO LAW ONE STEP CLOSER TO PASSAGE [...] (C) The National Assembly took the legislatively significant step of approving "in first discussion" the International Cooperation Law, which seeks to control foreign financing of Venezuelan NGOs and bring the entire sector under Bolivarian control. Speeches from the pro-Chavez deputies said [...]	2006-06-16 16:38:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM SCUL VE
06CARACAS1787	BOLIVARIANS READYING NEW ATTACK ON EDUCATION [...] (C) The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) is preparing new legislation that aims to increase State control over Venezuela's public and private schools. The law's most contentious issues are the requirement to include representatives of neighborhood "social organizations" on all school bo [...]	2006-06-19 15:46:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM SCUL VE
06CARACAS1837	MANUEL ROSALES: RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT, SLOWLY [...] (C) The campaign committee for Zulia Governor Manuel Rosales believes that, if he runs, the as-yet-undeclared candidate has a good shot at unifying the fractured opposition for the December presidential elections. Rosales is currently working with fellow opposition candidates Teodoro Petkoff [...]	2006-06-19 23:14:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM SCUL VE
06CARACAS1892	LONG KNIVES COME OUT FOR IMPEACHED TSJ JUSTICE [...] (C) On June 8, the National Assembly unanimously voted to remove Supreme Court Justice Luis Velazquez Alvaray. Velazquez Alvaray did not attend the legislative hearing, as was his right, citing fears of persecution and arrest. Post confirmed through DHS that he fled to Miami June 7 via Aruba, [...]	2006-06-23 15:08:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS1909	CHAVEZ TO "REVIEW" PRIVATE TV AND RADIO LICENSES [...] (C) President Chavez threatened on June 14 to review private television and radio licenses. Senior chavistas affirmed the President's call, claiming that private channels often violate the Venezuelan media law and even promote pornography. A prominent private television channel president t [...]	2006-06-23 21:43:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SCUL PHUM VE
06CARACAS1915	VIOLENCE RETURNS TO MERIDA UNIVERSITY [...] (U) After weeks of relative calm following violent protests by rival student factions at the University of the Andes (ULA),there was another violent confrontation on June 21, including a shooting. One opposition student leader was shot, three others were briefly detained, and yet another r [...]	2006-06-26 15:17:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SCUL SOCI VE
06CARACAS1996	REQUEST FOR FOLLOW-UP WITH BRV ON EMBASSY SECURITY [...] (C) Post has attempted to engage locally the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry and National Guard to improve host government response time to demonstrations at the Embassy. This action was prompted by a meager demonstration on June 6 of a few dozen people who were able to hamper Embassy activities f [...]	2006-06-30 22:30:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM SCUL VE
06CARACAS1997	PRIMARY MELTDOWN? [...] (C) Despite Sumate's June 27 announcement canceling the primary to choose a single opposition candidate, there is still time to organize the vote, according to Sumate President Alejandro Plaz. Plaz told the DCM that Sumate's announcement was meant to force the leading opposition candidates J [...]	2006-06-30 22:49:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS2005	PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE [...] (U) This cable is the next in a series of updates on the repressive tendencies of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) towards the freedom of press. As indicated in reftels, the BRV employs a variety of mechanisms - legal, economic, regulatory, judicial, and rhetorical - to harass the [...]	2006-07-03 20:08:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM SCUL VE
06CARACAS203	VENEZUELA: CNE PROCEEDS WITH BUSINESS AS USUAL [...] (C) The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) has no apparent plans to replace or restructure the National Electoral Council (CNE) in the near future, despite dismal voter confidence, OAS and EU observer recommendations, and calls by the opposition for change. On January 16, ruling party s [...]	2006-01-27 18:20:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS2032	VENEZUELAN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN THE BOLIVARIAN [...] (C) Catholic education may be dramatically scaled back if the new education law is passed. The new law will cut out traditional religious training in public schools and private religious schools, the latter as part of the broader Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's (BRV) campaign against non-g [...]	2006-07-07 20:09:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SCUL VE
06CARACAS2043	CHINESE AMBASSADOR ON US-PRC SUB-DIALOGUE ON [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met July 6 with PRC Ambassador Jiu Yijie to discuss A/S Shannon's meetings in Beijing last April (ref a). Ambassador walked Jiu through the PRC-Venezuela relationship, which is focused on energy, raw materials, and commercial issues. Ambassador suggested our two coun [...]	2006-07-10 15:46:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	OTRA PREL ETRD PGOV CH JA KS VE
06CARACAS2046	CAN HUMOR BEAT CHAVEZ? [...] (C) While the "serious" opposition candidates quibble over who will face President Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan super-comedian Benjamin Rausseo is mulling over a tongue-in-cheek presidential bid. Despite his plans to make a "three month fiesta" out of the campaign, Rausseo, known to Venezuelans as [...]	2006-07-10 15:47:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR VE
06CARACAS2047	THE BRV'S PROPOSED MINING SECTOR REFORM: CHAVEZ [...] (U) SUMMARY: On June 20, 2006, the Ministry of Basic Industries and Mines (MIBAM) proposed legislation in the National Assembly to reform Venezuela's mining laws and thereby empower the BRV to increase its control over the mining sector. Modeled on its reform of the petroleum sector, the bill [...]	2006-07-10 15:47:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EMIN EINV EIND VE
06CARACAS2063	CARACAS' VIEW OF SMARTMATIC AND ITS VOTING MACHINES [...] (C) The Venezuelan-owned Smartmatic Corporation is a riddle both in ownership and operation, complicated by the fact that its machines have overseen several landslide (and contested) victories by President Hugo Chavez and his supporters. The electronic voting company went from a small technol [...]	2006-07-10 18:01:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM VE
06CARACAS2065	VENEZUELA, COLOMBIA AND PANAMA INAUGURATE [...] (U) On July 8, 2006, Presidents Alvaro Uribe of Colombia and Martin Torrijos of Panama joined President Chavez to inaugurate the "Trans-Caribbean" Natural Gas Pipeline. To be constructed by Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) and Ecopetrol, Colombia's state oil firm, with private-sector supervision [...]	2006-07-10 18:01:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV VE
06CARACAS2085	UNIVERSITY DIRECTOR ON ELECTORAL REGISTRY AUDIT [...] (C) In a lunch on June 27, Simon Bolivar University rector Benjamin Sharifker told the Ambassador and PAO that the three main opposition candidates had asked the three rectors to reach an accommodation with the National Electoral Council (CNE) over their participation in a university-led aud [...]	2006-07-12 18:39:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS2095	VENEZUELA: CNE HAS YET TO MAKE HARD CONCESSIONS [...] (C) The National Electoral Council (CNE) is nearly two-thirds through its self-imposed schedule for deciding on the opposition demands it has received so far. Most of the CNE's decisions have ratified conditions agreed to in previous elections, such as eliminating the electronic voter lists, [...]	2006-07-13 18:13:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS2104	VENEZUELAN HARASSMENT OF NGOS - UPDATE [...] (C) The impending passage of the International Cooperation Law represents a major step towards Chavista control of Venezuelan NGOs. Even without the law's proposed regulations and limitations on the activities of NGOs, the Chavistas are instilling a high level of apprehension among organizatio [...]	2006-07-14 16:36:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM SCUL VE
06CARACAS211	US SUPPORT REQUESTED FOR VENEZUELAN DISASTER [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-30 16:25:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MASS VE
06CARACAS2131	DEMARCHE ON DPRK MISSILE LAUNCH [...] (C) Poloff delivered points contained in reftel to Yaneth Arocha, Office Director for the Vice Ministry of North American and Multilateral Affairs, on July 17. Poloff provided Arocha with a translated copy of the White House Statement on the missile launch. The BRV provided no substantive [...]	2006-07-18 14:34:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KN PARM KNNP VE
06CARACAS2132	61ST UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE [...] (C) Poloff met with Yaneth Arocha, Office Director for the Vice Ministry of North American and Multilateral Affairs, on July 17, to discuss possible attendance of senior BRV officials at the 61st UN General Assembly. Arocha said she could not make firm commitments, nor did she expect to be [...]	2006-07-18 14:35:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA VE
06CARACAS2141	SUMATE FOCUSSING AHEAD DESPITE NEW BRV PRESSURE [...] (C) On July 13, PolCouns met with Sumate President Alejandro Plaz to discuss the government's latest moves against the electoral NGO and their progress in organizing the primary. Although the trial against Sumate's leaders has been suspended since February 2006 (refs a-c),on July 12 the Nat [...]	2006-07-18 18:21:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM VE
06CARACAS2165	HUMAN TRAFFICKING NGO A.M.B.A.R. - PROGRESS REPORT [...] (C) Summary. Poloffs visited the Women's Association for Well-Being and Reciprocal Assistance (A.M.B.A.R.),a recipient of an Economic Support Fund (ESF) Grant approved by the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP). (reftel) Highlights of its volunteered three-month prog [...]	2006-07-21 12:11:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB KCRM KDEM KWMN PGOV PHUM SCUL SNAR VE

06CARACAS217	ZULIA GOVERNOR ACCUSED OF COUP PLOTTING [...] (C) Zulia Governor and potential presidential contender Manuel Rosales is engaged in heavy mudslinging with the mayor of Venezuela's second largest city, Maracaibo. Mayor Gian Carlo Di Martino accuses Rosales of traveling to Bogota to meet with Colombian military officials and exiled Venezue [...]	2006-01-30 18:19:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS2183	TEODORO PETKOFF'S PRESIDENTIAL BID MAY BE RUNNING [...] (C) PolCouns met with opposition presidential candidate Teodoro Petkoff's campaign manager Francisco Layrisse July 12 to discuss the campaign's progress and the recent rift between Petkoff, Sumate, and other leading contenders, Julio Borges and Governor Manuel Rosales, over the primary to cho [...]	2006-07-21 19:40:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS220	US SUPPORT REQUESTED FOR VENEZUELAN DISASTER [...] (C) Post strongly endorses the fulfillment of a Venezuelan Government request for Southcom to help update its disaster prevention operations center, a project that would cost about USD 170,000. In addition to its value in humanitarian terms, the project would serve as a timely contrast of U [...]	2006-01-30 19:59:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MASS VE
06CARACAS2215	CAPRILES TRIAL RETURNS TO SQUARE ONE [...] (C) Summary. On July 21, poloff attended the latest episode of the ongoing Henrique Capriles Radonski trial at Caracas's Palacio de Justicia (reftels). The Mayor of Baruta faces charges for allegedly inciting violence at a disturbance at the Cuban Embassy during the 2002 attempted coup. How [...]	2006-07-26 14:47:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM SCUL VE
06CARACAS2227	REFINERY FIRE FUELS RUMORS [...] (C) SUMMARY: A fire broke out at the Amuay Refinery, part of the Paraguana Refining Complex, the world's largest refinery, on July 17. Experts state the fire will result in a gasoline production curtailment of 100 to 120 thousand barrels per day and that it will take four to five months to re [...]	2006-07-27 14:41:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET ENIV VE
06CARACAS2238	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH EU TROIKA -- ELECTION [...] (C) During a lunch for EU Troika representatives at the Ambassador's residence July 26, Finnish Ambassador Mikko Pyhala said the EU received a formal invitation to observe the December 3 presidential elections. (Note: Venezuelan-based representatives of the OAS and Carter Center report they [...]	2006-07-28 15:20:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM EU OAS VE
06CARACAS226	ILO VISITS VENEZUELA, ORIT LEAVES [...] (C) The International Labor Organization (ILO) Direct Contact Mission visiting Venezuela told Poloff January 25 the Venezuelan government had promised, once again, to make necessary changes to laws governing unions to comply with ILO Agreement 87 on the Freedom of Association. Venezuelan Work [...]	2006-01-31 15:39:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM VE
06CARACAS2268	PDVSA PUMMELS JBIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: The PDVSA board scuttled a major gas project in March when it rejected project financing by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC),Japan's version of EXIM. The decision severely embarrassed JBIC and it is not clear if it will be willing to finance Venezuelan projects [...]	2006-08-01 13:23:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET ENIV VE
06CARACAS2272	VENEZUELAN ATTACKS ON PRESS CONTINUE [...] (C) This cable is the next in a series of updates on Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) harassment of and limitations on the freedom of press. The BRV uses the courts, government media outlets, regulations and verbal threats to create not only a system of government-imposed censorship, [...]	2006-08-01 17:41:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM VE
06CARACAS2275	CHAVEZ' GUIDE TO DISMANTLING THE JUDICIARY [...] (C) When President Hugo Chavez came to power in 1999, there was general dissatisfaction with the judicial system, which the Venezuelan public viewed as extremely corrupt. He used his mandate and his majority in the National Constituent Assembly to create laws that purported to make the judici [...]	2006-08-01 19:06:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KJUS KDEM VE
06CARACAS2279	NO SURPRISE ON CNE'S CAMPAIGN ADVERTISING AND [...] (C) The National Electoral Council announced on July 31 the regulations that will govern campaign publicity and advertising for during the presidential campaign period. The new regulations do not limit Chavez,s weekly Alo Presidente television address, nor will they restrict his use of "cad [...]	2006-08-02 22:29:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS2286	NO SURPRISE ON CNE'S CAMPAIGN ADVERTISING AND [...] (C) The National Electoral Council announced on July 31 the regulations that will govern campaign publicity and advertising for during the presidential campaign period. The new regulations do not limit Chavez,s weekly Alo Presidente television address, nor will they restrict his use of "cad [...]	2006-08-03 14:22:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS2297	PDVSA'S FOUNDATION CONTINUES TO ROT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Repairs at the Amuay refinery appear to be dragging as investigators look for evidence of sabotage. Crude destined originally for Amuay is being shipped to China. Production of roofing flux has stopped as a result of the fire, which could have a significant impact on the U.S. co [...]	2006-08-03 20:56:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET EINV VE
06CARACAS2321	VENEZUELA: OPPOSITION PRIMARY MAY PROVE UNNECESSARY [...] (C) Sumate's representatives have indicated publicly and privately that preparations for the opposition primaries scheduled for August 13 are on track, but may be scuttled if the leading opposition candidates are able to agree on a consensus candidate. Rumors, fueled by Zulia State Governor [...]	2006-08-04 21:23:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS2348	HARD-LINE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT MADURO NAMED [...] (C) Summary. According to a well-placed BRV official, President Chavez will soon name National Assembly president Nicholas Maduro, an anti-American aparatchik, to be his new Foreign Minister. Maduro can be expected to inject new, but continued hostile, energy into the Ministry of Foreign Aff [...]	2006-08-08 19:35:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS237	LIFE IN THE RED ASSEMBLY NOT THAT ROSY [...] (C) Newly elected Deputy Francisco Torrealba, a pro-Chavez union leader, told Poloff January 25 his initial impression of the all pro-Chavez National Assembly (AN) is that there is unity in objectives, but "discrepancies" on how to achieve them. Deputies receive little parliamentary training d [...]	2006-01-31 20:27:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM VE
06CARACAS2374	WHAT OUR FOREIGN ASSISTANCE IS REALLY DOING IN [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-10 14:56:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS2392	MANUEL ROSALES: CREDIBLE CANDIDATE, UNLIKELY WINNER [...] (C) Summary. Zulia Governor Manuel Rosales was named the opposition unity candidate for the December 3 election on August 9. Rosales is an experienced and tested politician who has secured the broad support of a significant portion of Venezuela's fractious opposition, is a serious presidentia [...]	2006-08-11 21:26:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS2393	CHAVEZ RETURNS, RESHUFFLES HIGH-LEVEL BRV POSTS [...] (C) President Chavez's return from his most recent world tour sparked a series of shifts in the BRV leadership. Several high-level officials have been moved, resigned, threatened to resign, or been replaced. Along with Nicolas Maduro's appointment as Foreign Minister (ref a),Chavez announce [...]	2006-08-12 11:16:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS2405	SUMATE ASKS FOR ASSISTANCE [...] (C) Action Request - Paragraph 7. 2. (C) Summary: Sumate continues to be under pressure, including threat of prosecution because of the USD 300,000 DRL grant. On August 4, Sumate board member Roberto Abdul asked poloff for a letter from the Department noting the return of the DRL funds. [...]	2006-08-14 21:00:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS2406	CHAVEZ ROMANCES THE CARIBBEAN TO GAIN UNSC VOTE [...] (C) Summary. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,s (BRV) bid for a seat on the UN Security Council will depend partially on the support of the fifteen CARICOM countries (almost half of the 33 Latin American votes). A CARICOM consensus in favor of support for Venezuela, while assumed by Pres [...]	2006-08-14 21:35:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL VE
06CARACAS2414	ACCION DEMOCRATICA DIVIDED OVER ELECTION [...] (C) Accion Democratica's (AD) public debate over whether to participate in the December 3 presidential election highlights continued internal leadership struggles. One faction, led by Secretary General Henry Ramos Allup, is firmly advocating a boycott of the vote, while a separate group is [...]	2006-08-15 14:15:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS2449	NEW NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT TO CARRY ON [...] (C) National Assembly (AN) Deputy and hard-line Chavista Cilia Flores was unanimously elected to the AN presidency. She replaces her common-law husband, Nicolas Maduro, following his resignation from the post on August 8 to assume his new role as Foreign Minister. President Chavez once again [...]	2006-08-17 18:30:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS2466	WHERE IS CARLOS ORTEGA?: BRV CAPITALIZING ON LABOR [...] (C) Summary. Carlos Ortega, the leader of the anti-Chavez Venezuela Workers Confederation (CTV),along with three jailed military officers, reportedly escaped August 13 from a maximum security military prison. Going on the offensive, the BRV is accusing the opposition of engaging in a "U.S.- [...]	2006-08-18 18:21:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB KDEM PHUM VE
06CARACAS2472	PRIMERO JUSTICIA POWER PLAYS COULD RISK OPPOSITION [...] (C) The latest public skirmish between Primero Justicia (PJ) President Julio Borges and now ousted Secretary General Gerardo Blyde raises questions about the future of the only growing opposition party, and provides fodder for the already well-armed President Chavez. On August 12, Borges' fac [...]	2006-08-18 21:16:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS2478	SUMATE UNDER SEIGE [...] (C) The National Assembly committee investigating Sumate released an August 15 report claiming Sumate committed tax evasion, fraud, foreign exchange law violations, false accounting, and treason, and called on the tax authority, foreign exchange commission, and banking officials to investigat [...]	2006-08-21 14:41:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM VE
06CARACAS2489	INSIDE BARRIO ADENTRO: THE BRV'S PRIMARY HEALTH [...] (SBU) Mision Barrio Adentro ("Inside the Neighborhood") is a network of BRV-sponsored primary health care modules largely staffed by Cuban medical personnel. Current statistics and financial information about this BRV program are very difficult to obtain. Venezuelan physicians' groups alleg [...]	2006-08-21 20:16:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON VE
06CARACAS2520	INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION LAW STALLED - FOR NOW [...] (C) A three part deterrence strategy which included civil society involvement, media pressure and diplomatic efforts dissuaded the National Assembly from approving the International Cooperation Law by the August 15th deadline it initially set for its passage. This law would effectively put [...]	2006-08-23 15:50:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM VE
06CARACAS2527	HUGO CASTRO?: THE TORCH PASSING VIEWED FROM [...] (C) Summary. The media images of President Chavez's August 13 visit with the ailing Fidel Castro have received wide press play in Venezuela. For many Venezuelans, they confirmed that Chavez aspires to succeed Fidel as the leader of the international socialist movement. Key Embassy contacts [...]	2006-08-23 20:40:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM VE
06CARACAS2535	THE FENCE CONTINUES TIGHTENING AROUND THE PRIVATE [...] (SBU) Two pieces of draconian draft legislation currently in the National Assembly - the Anti-Monopoly and Public Services Draft Laws - manifest the BRV's intention to further restrict and control the private sector. The draft Anti-Monopoly Law proposes replacing the existing anti-trust regu [...]	2006-08-24 21:19:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV VE
06CARACAS254	AMBASSADOR VISITS MARACAIBO JAN. 26 [...] (C) Maracaibo, Venezuela's second largest city and a current political hotspot, was the destination for the Ambassador's most recent in-country outreach program on January 26. During his visit the Ambassador presented scholarships to nine indigenous students on behalf of the Venezuelan-Amer [...]	2006-02-02 13:38:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS259	PRIMERO JUSTICA STRUGGLING TO STAY TOGETHER [...] (C) A long-brewing rivalry is threatening to weaken Primero Justicia (PJ) as Secretary General Gerardo Blyde and Chacao Mayor Leopoldo Lopez fight party president and presidential candidate Julio Borges and Baruta Mayor Henrique Caprilles for control of the party. To keep the party together, [...]	2006-02-02 14:40:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS260	BOLIVARIANS BRING OUT THE "RED CARPET" FOR WORLD [...] (C) The Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chavez put the best face on the Bolivarian Revolution to participants of the Sixth World Social Forum -- Americas Region (WSF) in Caracas January 24-29. The government did an adequate job at managing the unwieldy event, made both easier by low tu [...]	2006-02-02 15:41:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM VE
06CARACAS2620	CARACAS MAYORAL TIRADE HIGHLIGHTS POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary. Metropolitan Mayor Juan Barreto used the podium at an August 22 public event to obscenely berate the popular opposition mayors of Chacao and Baruta, Leopoldo Lopez and Henrique Capriles Radonski. Barreto's assault on two of Venezuela's most charismatic anti-Chavez leaders embar [...]	2006-08-30 20:23:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS2621	AD LEADERSHIP STILL AT WAR WITH ITSELF [...] (C) Accion Democratica (AD) is still divided over whether to boycott the December 3 presidential election. Secretary General Henry Ramos Allup rammed through a party SIPDIS line that it will abstain from the vote, but defections from the abstentionist camp, particularly at the rank and fil [...]	2006-08-30 20:29:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB KDEM PGOV VE
06CARACAS2625	FROM LAUGHS TO VOTES: EL CONDE DE GUACHARO'S [...] (C) Summary. Comedian-turned-politician Benjamin Rausseo (a.k.a., "El Conde de Guacharo") has launched a semi-serious, but long-shot independent presidential campaign (Reftel). So far, Rausseo has been better at attracting publicity than organizing a nation-wide, grassroots political campaign [...]	2006-08-30 21:28:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE
06CARACAS2626	SPECIAL COORDINATOR FOR VENEZUELA MCCARTHY'S [...] (C) Summary. Special Coordinator for Venezuela McCarthy and Charge called August 28 on MFA Vice Minister for North America Mary Pili Hernandez. McCarthy pressed the BRV for counter-narcotics and counterterrorism cooperation and urged the BRV to promote continued strong bilateral commercial t [...]	2006-08-30 21:33:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SNAR ECON PGOV AMGT VE
06CARACAS265	WSF: BOLIVARIAN HIJACK OR ANTI-IMPERIALIST FIZZLE? [...] (C) President Hugo Chavez probably fell short of dazzling anti-globalist activists during the January 24-29 World Social Forum (WSF) in Caracas. The six-day event ended without fanfare, suggesting that activists either were disenchanted with the progress of their yearly pow wow or annoyed by the Bo [...]	2006-02-02 17:57:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM VE
06CARACAS2655	VENEZUELA/CUBA: MORE TORCH-PASSING VIEWS [...] (C) Summary. Charge met August 25 with several Venezuelan Cuba experts to solicit informed views on the likely impact Fidel Castro's absence from the scene would have on Venezuela and President Chavez. The Venezuelan Cuba-watchers predicted that the death of Fidel Castro would be a severe ps [...]	2006-09-01 21:16:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV VE CU
06CARACAS2667	STRATEGIC ASSOCIATION MIGRATION: THE GAME'S AFOOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: After months of speculation, the BRV has contacted international oil companies (IOCs) with stakes in the Faja strategic associations to begin negotiations on migrating the associations to joint ventures in which PDVSA holds a majority stake. Although the BRV has spoken with indi [...]	2006-09-06 12:06:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET EINV VE
06CARACAS2682	SNAPSHOT OF VENEZUELAN MILITARY OFFICIALS IN [...] (C) President Chavez continues to stack Venezuelan civil society with military loyalists, and a uniformed presence extends from ministries to national banks to local government. Chavez' BRV is at a profound level a militaristic regime, characterized by a strict hierarchy. The pervasive presen [...]	2006-09-06 18:39:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS2684	MFA PLEDGES TO SPEED UP ACCREDITATION PROCESS; NO [...] (C) Summary. A/Management Counselor met September 1 with MFA Division Chief for Immunities and Privileges Alberto Armas to press reciprocity issues as a follow-up to Special Coordinator for Venezuela McCarthy's and Charge's August 28 meeting with MFA Vice Minister Hernandez (Ref A). Armas said [...]	2006-09-06 18:55:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	AMGT PREL SNAR VE
06CARACAS2692	FORMER FM ALI RODRIGUEZ NAMED AMBASSADOR TO CUBA [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez's designation of former foreign minister Ali Rodriguez as Ambassador to Cuba on August 31 demonstrates that Chavez continues to make Venezuelan-Cuban relations one of his top foreign policy priorities. It may also portend the BRV's determination to play an impor [...]	2006-09-06 21:12:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV VE CU
06CARACAS2693	THE BOLIVARIAN PLAYBOOK: WRITING A CONSTITUTION [...] (C) Post offers this look at President Chavez' Constituent Assembly in order to provide insight to other governments in the region that may follow a similar path (reftels). Chavez convoked in 1999 a Constituent Assembly that, in the end, provided Chavez with a constitution that abetted his [...]	2006-09-06 22:07:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS2718	BRV SPENDING GROWING BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS [...] (U) From 1999 to 2006, BRV central government expenditures in dollar terms increased 95 percent and BRV central government spending as a percentage of GDP increased from 25 to 37 percent (including off-budget spending). In bolivar terms, BRV spending increased 700 percent from 1999 to 2006. [...]	2006-09-07 20:45:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PGOV ECON VE
06CARACAS2740	OAS AMB. VALERO NAMED MFA VICE MINISTER FOR NORTH [...] (C) Summary. The BRV announced on September 5 that Jorge Valero, Venezuela's Ambassador to the OAS, will be the new MFA Vice Minister for North America. Valero replaces the self-professed Bolivarian "revolutionary" Mary Pili Hernandez. USOAS will have more up-to-date impressions of Valero, [...]	2006-09-08 18:03:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV VE
06CARACAS2762	GUILTY RULING IN "CASO KENNEDY" - BRV TRIES TO [...] (C) One of Caracas' more controversial criminal cases, the 2005 murder of three university students at a police roadblock, reached its pre-appellate conclusion August 31 with the sentencing of 24 police officers. The case epitomizes Venezuela's security problem, police corruption and resulti [...]	2006-09-11 20:17:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS2799	BRV: 61ST UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: HIGH-LEVEL [...] (C) As of 12 September, Post's Consular Diplomatic Window has received 213 applications for visas to travel to the 61st UN General Assembly. The 213 applications can be broken down as follows: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 42; Ministry of Defense, 138; Ministry of Communications, 32; and Min [...]	2006-09-13 20:00:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA VE
06CARACAS28	CHAVEZ MEDDLING CAUSES PERU TO WITHDRAW AMBASSADOR [...] (C) On January 3, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez pledged his support for leftist Peruvian presidential candidate Ollanta Humala, a move that prompted the GOP to withdra7 )43-"!33!$/2 4/ -%.%:5%,! &/2#/.35,4!4)/.3). ,)-!. ^5-!,!-!$% ! 3urprise appearance at a ceremony honoring the visit of [...]	2006-01-05 21:40:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS2825	BITS AND PIECES FROM THE HYDROCARBON SECTOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: PDVSA's books continue to be in complete disarray due to problems with tax authorities and the state petrochemical company. The BRV is pressing PDVSA to act as a central bank. PDVSA's recent shabby treatment of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has come back to [...]	2006-09-15 19:35:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET EINV VE
06CARACAS2826	VENEZUELA POLITICAL PROSECUTIONS: SIMONOVIS, [...] (C) On September 6, Poloffs attended the ongoing trial of former Caracas Metropolitan Police officials Ivan Simonovis, Henry Vivas, and Lazarro Forero, and eight other police officers, who are being charged as accomplices to murder for events related to the civil disturbances and the temporary [...]	2006-09-15 19:46:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS2827	ELECTION VIOLENCE: CHAVISTAS ATTACK ROSALES MARCHES [...] (C) Summary. While Venezuela has generally been less prone to electoral violence than its Andean neighbors, President Chavez may be starting to re-write Venezuela's unwritten election rules. Chavista rock-and-bottle attacks on Rosales campaign events in Vargas and in Caracas September 5 and [...]	2006-09-15 20:02:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM VE
06CARACAS2829	THE OUTSIDERS: BRV RECRUITMENT OF ROGUE STATES [...] (C) President Chavez' September 5-7 meeting with Belarussian government officials provides another example of the BRV's strategic partnerships with the most troublesome of bedfellows. In part through his extensive international travel schedule, Chavez has strengthened ties around the globe to [...]	2006-09-15 20:12:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE
06CARACAS2830	CHAVEZ AND THE GLOBAL CHESSBOARD [...] (U) With his eye towards increasing his international stature and gaining a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC),President Chavez is literally traveling to all ends of the earth. As a part of this strategy, and in addition to his visits and signing of multiple b [...]	2006-09-15 20:39:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV VE
06CARACAS2832	VENEZUELA REFUSES TO RECOGNIZE ELECTED MEXICAN [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez announced publicly September 12 that Venezuela does not yet recognize the elected Calderon government in Mexico. Chavez also criticized EU observer missions as having been excessively lax in Mexico and severe in Venezuela. Mexico and Venezuela, which downgraded [...]	2006-09-15 21:30:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV VE MX
06CARACAS2845	THE CHAVEZ CAMPAIGN: VICTORY, AT ANY COST? [...] (C) Summary. President Hugo Chavez' re-election campaign is a disturbing mix of retrograde authoritarian tactics and creeping totalitarian tendencies. Chavez and his close campaign team exercise tight control over a formidable, country-wide grassroots electoral organization and an administra [...]	2006-09-18 20:32:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM VE
06CARACAS2852	DIPLOMATIC CARGO IMPOUNDED [...] (C) The Venezuelan National Guard (GN) seized and opened part of an inbound U.S. Military Group (MILGP) shipment on August 23. The seized cargo consists of household effects (HHE) and commissary rations. A shipment of FMS materials ordered and purchased by the BRV and consisting of ejection [...]	2006-09-18 21:30:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ADPM MARR MASS PGOV PREL VE
06CARACAS2877	BRV ATTACKS ON A FREE PRESS CONTINUE UNABATED [...] (U) SUMMARY. This cable updates the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's (BRV) efforts to restrict freedom of press. As indicated in reftels, the BRV employs a variety of mechanisms - legal, economic, regulatory, judicial, and rhetorical - to harass the private media, inducing self-censorship [...]	2006-09-19 17:28:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SCUL KDEM VE
06CARACAS288	CHAVEZ MEETS WITH JEWISH LEADERS, OFFERS TO [...] (C) President Hugo Chavez met with Venezuelan Jewish community leaders January 31 in response to recent allegations of anti-Semitism against Chavez. Jewish leaders complained of anti-Semitic statements in official media; proposed legal punishments for anti-Semitic attacks; and expressed conce [...]	2006-02-03 19:52:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF KDEM VE IR
06CARACAS2881	CNPC'S VIEWS ON THE VENEZUELAN HYDROCARBON SECTOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: CNPC executives are frustrated with the migration of their former Operating Service Agreement (OSA) fields to joint ventures. They do not believe that CNPC is receiving any special treatment from the BRV and argued instead that they are in worse shape than a major American compa [...]	2006-09-20 14:00:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET EINV VE
06CARACAS289	UNHCR CONCERNED ABOUT REFUGEE SITUATION AT [...] (U) Over the last few years, the expansion and intensification of Colombia's conflict has forced an increasing number of Colombians to flee their homes in search of protection in neighboring countries. In Venezuela, officials estimate there are currently two to three million Colombian migrant [...]	2006-02-03 20:01:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF VE
06CARACAS2900	CHAVEZ HOSTSAHMADINEJAD: BRV FORGING EVER CLOSER [...] (C Summary. President Chavez hosted Iranian Presidet Ahmadinejad for a September 17-18 red carpet vsit to Venezuela, a follow-on to Chavez' July 29August 1 state visit to Iran. The two leaders reortedly signed 34, mostly commercial, accords aspart of a "strategic alliance" against American m [...]	2006-09-21 17:40:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON VE IR
06CARACAS2911	MEETING WITH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEPUTY CALIXTO [...] (C) Summary. MVR National Assembly Deputy and Chavez Campaign Coordinator in Maracaibo Calixto Ortega told PolCouns September 8 that President Chavez and his campaign team are remobilizing their nation-wide political machine and are confident of victory on December 3. PolCouns raised concern [...]	2006-09-22 12:37:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE
06CARACAS298	CHAVEZ CELEBRATES SEVEN YEARS IN POWER, GOES FOR [...] (C) In a six-hour presentation celebrating his seventh year in office on February 2, President Hugo Chavez enjoyed musical performances, conferred several awards, summarized his administration's accomplishments, announced the expulsion of the US Naval Attache, warned the Embassy against futur [...]	2006-02-06 19:15:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ECON ELAB SOCI VE
06CARACAS2983	POLLS SHOW ROSALES ADVANCING, BUT ABSTENTIONISM [...] (C) Pollster Alfredo Keller told PolCouns September 20 that while his latest poll indicates hard-core opposition support (32 percent) outranks that of hard-core Chavismo (25 percent),continued distrust in the electoral system will result in high abstention rates that will almost certainly al [...]	2006-09-29 21:12:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS2990	MINERS MASSACRED; MILITARY IMPLICATED [...] (C) SUMMARY. Military forces killed at least six miners in the La Paragua area of Bolivar state on September 22. The killings quickly elevated to a massacre in the public eye, and the number of killed miners could be as high as two dozen. Defense Minister Baduel's initial reaction was to [...]	2006-09-29 21:37:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM VE
06CARACAS2991	BRV TARGETS ROSALES ADVISOR [...] (C) Attorney General Isaias Rodriguez announced September 18 the re-opening of a 20-year-old police shooting case against Henry Lopez Sisco, a long-time confidant of opposition candidate Manuel Rosales. Sisco is a former DISIP Commander who allegedly participated in the 1986 shooting deaths [...]	2006-09-29 21:44:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM VE
06CARACAS2998	MONAGAS STATE: THE CHAVEZ MACHINE VS. STRUGGLING [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez dominates the political landscape of the eastern plains state of Monagas and at this stage appears likely to carry the state of over 480,000 registered voters by a wide majority. Chavez' pet infrastructure projects and social programs in the state are having onl [...]	2006-10-02 17:06:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE
06CARACAS3018	CHAVEZ CAMPAIGN TACTICS: MORE VIOLENCE, MORE [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez and his supporters continue to use coercive tools in the run-up to the December 3 presidential election. Chavistas attacked consensus opposition candidate Rosales' campaign events three times in the last two weeks of September, in addition to two previously repo [...]	2006-10-04 20:37:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB VE
06CARACAS3037	THE BRV SOAPBOX: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS THREE [...] (C) Summary. The National Assembly has passed three foreign policy resolutions in the last two weeks to lend political support to the Chavez administration's ever more radical foreign policy. On September 26, the National Assembly passed both a resolution praising President Chavez' September [...]	2006-10-06 20:01:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV VE
06CARACAS3038	PPT SECRETARY GENERAL: "ONE PARTY IS UN-DEMOCRATIC" [...] (C) Summary. During a September 26 meeting with PolCouns and Poloff, pro-Chavez Patria Para Todos (PPT) Secretary General and National Assembly Deputy Jose Albornoz criticized both the Chavez and Rosales campaigns, but expressed confidence that President Chavez would be re-elected. He accuse [...]	2006-10-06 20:16:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE
06CARACAS3042	VENEZUELAN IMPORTS SURGING AS ECONOMIC POLICIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With implicit BRV blessing, the Commission for the Administration of Foreign Exchange (CADIVI) has significantly increased foreign exchange authorizations in recent weeks, much of which have gone to fuel the on-going import binge in Venezuela. These purchases seem to contradi [...]	2006-10-06 21:12:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV VE
06CARACAS3066	EVEN VENEZUELA CONDEMNS NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TEST [...] (SBU) Embassy conveyed Ref A points regarding North Korea's nuclear test plans to MFA North American Affairs Director Yaneth Arocha prior to North Korea's October 8 announcement of a nuclear weapons test. In addition, Ambassador spoke on the phone with MFA Vice Minister for Asia and the Middl [...]	2006-10-11 14:29:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP VE KN
06CARACAS3068	CHAVEZ ANNOUNCES INTENTION TO CREATE A SINGLE [...] (C) Summary. During his September 9 campaign rally in Caracas, President Chavez announced his intention to hold a party conference in early 2007 to create a unified revolutionary party. Chavez has reiterated the need for such a single party at more recent campaign events. Leaders of parties [...]	2006-10-11 17:58:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE
06CARACAS3069	ROSALES RALLY GIVES OPPOSITION A BOOST [...] (C) Summary. Opposition candidate Manuel Rosales, October 8 "Avalanche" Rally in Caracas, the biggest opposition event since the 2004 presidential recall referendum, put some new life into Rosales' long-shot campaign. The opposition also demonstrated that it retains residual "street power" a [...]	2006-10-11 17:59:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL VE
06CARACAS307	ATTORNEY WARNS EMBASSY OF SPY CHARGES [...] (C) The attorney for five Venezuelan naval officers accused of espionage on behalf of the USG described to Poloff the details of the case being developed against his clients. Bastidas said the Bolivarian Government accessed e-mail accounts of the defendants and altered messages, including ones [...]	2006-02-07 20:13:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM VE
06CARACAS3131	MEP PRESENTS TERMS FOR STRATEGIC ASSOCIATION [...] (C/NF) Chevron Latin America Upstream President Ali Moshiri (strictly protect throughout) and ExxonMobil Venezuela (XM) President Tim Cutt (strictly protect throughout) paid separate calls on the Ambassador the week of September 29 to update him on the upcoming forced migration of the Faja st [...]	2006-10-17 20:09:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET VE
06CARACAS3164	MVR DEPUTY: CHAVEZ CAMPAIGN MOVING TO "NEXT PHASE" [...] (C) Summary. Francisco Torrealba, MVR National Assembly Deputy and member of Chavez' national campaign team, told PolCounselor and Poloff October 17 that the organization of Chavez' grass-roots supporters is now "90 percent" complete. Torrealba attributed a recent softening of the tone of the [...]	2006-10-19 21:23:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB VE
06CARACAS3171	SUMATE PREPARES FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION [...] (C) Summary - Ambassador met October 10 with the subdued, but determined leadership of election NGO Sumate to discuss the upcoming December 3 presidential election. Despite the ongoing threat of political persecution, Sumate is teaming up with the opposition to mount an ambitious election obs [...]	2006-10-20 16:51:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL VE
06CARACAS3173	INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS CONDEMN BRV'S RECORD [...] (U) SUMMARY. The Inter American Press Association sharply criticized Venezuela's track record on press freedom during its 62nd General Assembly, convened September 29 in Mexico City. Separately, on October 12, the Office of the OAS Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter- [...]	2006-10-20 20:01:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM VE
06CARACAS3174	MILITARY CLASHES WITH FISHERMEN, LEAVES NINE [...] (U) SUMMARY Violent clashes in the port of Guiria in Sucre state left nine fishermen injured on October 19. Fishermen took control of the port in early October, protesting the awarding of a contract to a new port administrator. Police and military forces, accompanied by state governor Ramo [...]	2006-10-20 21:39:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM VE
06CARACAS3175	OPPOSITION CANDIDATE MANUEL ROSALES' INNER CIRCLE [...] (C) Summary. While consensus opposition candidate Manuel Rosales continues to work with the "big tent" campaign team he announced on August 18, he relies more heavily on a smaller, less visible "kitchen cabinet" from his home state of Zulia. Former Zulia Governor Omar Barboza, for example, i [...]	2006-10-20 21:47:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR VE
06CARACAS3194	STAFFDEL MEACHAM BREAKFAST WITH DIPLOMATS [...] (C) Summary. Visiting Senate Staff Member Carl Meacham, accompanied by Ambassador and DCM, met October 23 with diplomats from Chile, Mexico, the UK, and Canada. The diplomats predicted President Chavez will win the December 3 presidential election, but said Rosales is running a strong campai [...]	2006-10-24 17:25:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC VE
06CARACAS3214	ROSALES ADVISOR: "WE'RE PULLING EVEN" [...] (C) Summary. Angel Emiro Vera, close advisor to consensus opposition candidate Manuel Rosales, told the DCM October 24 that the Rosales campaign is gaining momentum and could defeat President Chavez in a free and fair election. The Rosales campaign is focused on trying to win the December 3 [...]	2006-10-26 14:46:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE
06CARACAS3224	RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE HYDROCARBON SECTOR [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: ConocoPhillips received a term sheet on the strategic association migration at roughly the same time as Exxon Mobil and Chevron. The Ministry of Energy and Petroleum (MEP) has made it clear that it does not want state owned oil company PDVSA to operate the strategic associati [...]	2006-10-26 20:14:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET EINV VE
06CARACAS3238	KEY BRV ADVISOR ON UNSC RACE, POSSIBLE CABINET [...] (C) Ambassador and DCM met on October 27 with Rene Arreaza of the vice president's office, about our only reliable contact within the BRV. Arreaza said that the BRV had concluded it could not win a UNSC seat, and so was aiming at a seat-sharing arrangement with Guatemala. This would be an [...]	2006-10-27 21:33:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV VE GT UN
06CARACAS3239	ELECTORAL LOGISTICS CONTINUE TO FAVOR CHAVEZ [...] (C) The National Electoral Council's (CNE) preparations for the December 3 presidential election give President Chavez a significant electoral advantage. Four of the five CNE directors are pro-Chavez. The directors have consistently denied opposition requests, such as eliminating fingerprin [...]	2006-10-27 21:39:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS3240	STAFFDEL MEACHAM MEETS SUMATE LEADERS [...] (C) Visiting Senate Foreign Relations Committee Staff Member Carl Meacham, accompanied by USAID officer and poloff, met October 23 with the leadership of the electoral NGO Sumate. Sumate leaders predicted Chavez would likely win the December 3 presidential election through a combination of f [...]	2006-10-27 21:52:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS3241	STAFFDEL MEACHAM MEETS WITH CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (U) Carl Meacham, visiting Staffer for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, visited Caracas October 22-24. This cable addresses Meacham's meetings with several members of Venezuelan civil society, with whom he discussed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's ongoing global study on the [...]	2006-10-27 21:58:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM VE
06CARACAS3259	CTV WORKING FOR ROSALES [...] (C) Summary. The Venezuelan Workers Confederation (CTV) is bucking the abstentionist policy of its patron party, Accion Democratica (AD),and supporting the presidential campaign of consensus opposition candidate Manuel Rosales. The CTV can help staff Rosales' voter mobilization and poll watc [...]	2006-10-31 19:44:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB VE
06CARACAS3284	CHAVEZ DEMANDS MILITARY LOYALTY -- AND WARNS [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez' televised October 31 speech to a large group of senior military officials appeared to be a very public effort to cement the military's loyalty prior to the December 3 presidential election. Chavez accused the opposition of trying to conspire with unidentified m [...]	2006-11-01 21:58:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE
06CARACAS330	VENEZUELAN AGRARIAN LAND "REFORM": AMBITIOUS [...] (C) Venezuelan President HugoChavez' unrealistic goals for agrarian land refom--including the redistribution of 1.5 million hctares in 2006--are a smokescreen. It appears that the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Veneuela (BRV) has no plan to achieve its stated aims. Demand for rural [...]	2006-02-08 19:46:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SENV VE
06CARACAS3311	CHEVRON'S CRYSTAL BALL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Econ Counselor and Petroleum Attache (Petatt) met with Chevron Latin America President Ali Moshiri (strictly protect throughout) on October 31 to discuss a variety of issues in the hydrocarbon sector. Moshiri believes the BRV will face serious problems in 2008 as a result of a de [...]	2006-11-06 13:17:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET EINV VE
06CARACAS3313	ROSALES FOREIGN POLICY PLATFORM - CHIDING CHAVEZ [...] (C) Summary. Consensus opposition candidate Manuel Rosales has prepared a written foreign policy platform. It is a moderate and savvy alternative to President Chavez' anti-American foreign policy. Rosales pledges to prioritize relations with Latin America and "normalize" relations with the [...]	2006-11-06 16:33:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER ETRD VE
06CARACAS3318	UNSC DEFEAT: CHAVEZ TRYING TO SAVE FACE [...] (C) Summary. After publicly predicting that Venezuela would definitely win a rotational seat on the UN Security Council, President Chavez has been forced to backtrack systematically as Venezuela subsequently lost 46 (and tied one) UNGA ballots to Guatemala. Chavez and BRV officials are lamel [...]	2006-11-06 21:39:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV VE
06CARACAS3319	ROSALES CAMPAIGN ON THE MARCH [...] (C) Summary. While he still faces an uphill struggle to defeat President Chavez' electoral machine, consensus opposition candidate Manuel Rosales continues to campaign hard and intelligently. Rosales' November 4 city-wide Caracas march attracted several hundred thousand participants and his [...]	2006-11-06 22:11:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ELAB VE
06CARACAS332	CHAVEZ CONVOKES MEGA-MARCH, TARGETS "THE EMPIRE" [...] (C) President Chavez convoked a march of more than a million supporters February 4 to commemorate the anniversary of his failed 1992 coup. During his march speech and the following day's Alo Presidente broadcast, Chavez called on his supporters to unite and prepare themselves for what he pr [...]	2006-02-08 20:52:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SOCI VE
06CARACAS3346	BRV: DEMARCHE ON UNSCR 1718 OBLIGATIONS ON DRPK [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-08 14:15:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM XX VE
06CARACAS3347	BRV: DEMARCHE ON CUBA AND THE IBERO-AMERICAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-08 14:15:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CU EU PHUM VZ
06CARACAS3350	OPPOSITION RAISES DETENTION OF EX-GOVEROR LAPI AS [...] (U) SUMMARY. Eduardo Lapi, former opposition governor of Yaracuy state, remains in jail five months after his arrest for mismanagement of government funds (reftel). As Lapi faces prolonged pre-trial incarceration inconsistent with the treatment of other officials facing similar charges, op [...]	2006-11-08 16:35:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM VE

06CARACAS3351	NO LETTING UP: THREATS TO A FREE PRESS CONTINUE [...] (U) SUMMARY. This cable updates the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's (BRV) continuing efforts to stifle the media and to restrict freedom of press. As indicated in reftels, the BRV employs a variety of mechanisms - legal, economic, regulatory, judicial, and rhetorical - to harass the priv [...]	2006-11-08 17:03:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM VE
06CARACAS3353	BRV: DEMARCHE ON COUNTRY SPECIFIC HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Poloff verbally delivered points contained in ref a to Yaneth Arocha, Office Director of North American and Multilateral Affairs, on November 6. No substantive response is expected. BROWNFIELD [...]	2006-11-08 21:35:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KTIA UN VE
06CARACAS337	CATHOLIC RECTOR SAYS OPPOSITION MUST PLAY CHAVEZ' [...] (C) Catholic University Rector Luis Ugalde told A/Polcouns February 7 the opposition must see the presidential elections through despite the obstacles President Hugo Chavez is sure to throw up. Ugalde said Chavez' recent dialogues with the church and private sector are an obvious ruse designed [...]	2006-02-09 16:14:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF KDEM VE
06CARACAS339	SUMATE DIRECTORS HARASSED, FACING POSSIBLE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The case of four directors of Sumate accused of conspiracy for having accepted a US$30,000-grant from National Endowment for Democracy (NED) entered a dramatic new phase on February 7 when, after months of delays, a Caracas judge initiated the trial. In the clearly orchestrated [...]	2006-02-09 16:19:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM VE
06CARACAS340	SUMATE TRIAL: RECOMMENDED NEXT STEPS [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 6. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Unlike in the past, the current process against the NGO Sumate's leadership may result in their going to jail. Here in Caracas, we are in regular contact with Sumate, monitoring the hearings, engaging the press, and pressi [...]	2006-02-09 16:25:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM VE
06CARACAS3402	SERVICE COMPANIES FACE A NEW GAME: JOINT VENTURES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The BRV and PDVSA have announced in very vague terms that it expects service companies to enter into joint ventures in order to provide goods and services to PDVSA. It appears that the joint ventures will be limited to individual downstream projects at this point, but service com [...]	2006-11-15 14:14:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET EINV VE
06CARACAS3412	ELECTION RUMOR MILL IN HIGH GEAR [...] (C) Summary. Venezuela, a country with a tradition of conspiracy theories, is rife with election rumors. At least five different major themes are circulating in the rumor mill in Venezuela right now suggesting that President Chavez, opposition candidate Manuel Rosales, or the military will d [...]	2006-11-15 21:40:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE
06CARACAS3413	LULA BACKS CHAVEZ, CNE DIRECTOR AND OPPOSITION BALK [...] (U) During the inauguration of a second bridge connecting Venezuela and Brazil across the Orinoco River on November 13, Brazilian President Lula gave his strongest endorsement of President Chavez in years. Lula proclaimed that the same people that had elected him and the Presidents of Argent [...]	2006-11-15 22:12:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE
06CARACAS3425	FOREIGN MINISTER MADURO BLASTS PERUVIAN COUNTERPART [...] (C) Summary. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Maduro lashed out at the Peruvian government in the wake of Peruvian Foreign Minister Garcia Belaunde's reported reference to Venezuela's unsuccessful bid to secure a rotational UNSC seat. Maduro told reporters November 11 that his Peruvian counterpar [...]	2006-11-17 18:41:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV VE
06CARACAS3426	OAS AND EU EOMS SET, BUT PROSPECTS FOR ROBUST [...] (C) Summary. The BRV's deliberate policy of delay has successfully impeded effective, impartial international observation of the December 3 presidential election. After receiving an invitation to observe in June, the EU was not able to sign an MOU with the National Electoral Council (CNE) unt [...]	2006-11-17 18:52:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS3427	ELECTION UPDATE: ROSALES INROADS, STILL UPHILL [...] (C) Summary. Consensus opposition candidate Manuel Rosales continues to wage a strong, credible campaign against President Chavez. Rosales' political strength is now greater than the sum of the parts of the opposition that united behind him in August, and recent endorsements of his candidac [...]	2006-11-17 19:15:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE
06CARACAS3432	DEMARCHE ON BELARUS ANTI-U.S. RESOLUTIONS DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-20 14:25:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL BO VZ
06CARACAS3456	ROSALES' PLANS TO DETER/DETECT ELECTORAL FRAUD [...] (C) Summary. The Rosales campaign is preparing what appears to be well-organized and sophisticated electoral monitoring operations to deter and detect government fraud. Rosales' witnesses at election tables will be asked to help ensure that voting machines are not corrupted as well as transmi [...]	2006-11-22 22:07:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS3462	BARINAS STATE: OPPOSITION UNABLE TO CAPITALIZE ON [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez' campaign team announced that Chavez will hold one of his last major campaign rallies in his native state of Barinas. Chavez is an odds-on favorite to carry the western plains state of Barinas, but he is not running as strong as might be expected in a state wher [...]	2006-11-24 18:53:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS3465	CANDIDATE CHAVEZ CONTINUES TO THREATEN PRESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This press freedom report focuses on President Chavez's threats to Venezuela's independent media related to the December 3 presidential election. In response to media reporting of Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez's threats to PDVSA managers to support the Chavez re-election ca [...]	2006-11-24 20:53:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM VE
06CARACAS3466	ELECTION UPDATE: CAMPAIGN HEADS INTO THE FINAL [...] (C) With less than two weeks before the presidential election, both President Chavez and opposition candidate Rosales are trying to shore up their bases as well as attract undecided voters. President Chavez has considerable inherent advantages as he continues to inaugurate ambitious public wo [...]	2006-11-24 21:20:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS3476	CHAVEZ AND ROSALES MOBILIZE HUGE CROWDS IN FINAL [...] (C) Summary. Opposition candidate Manuel Rosales and President Chavez both held their last major campaign rallies in Caracas November 25 and 26, respectively. Rosales delivered a milestone stump speech November 25 to hundreds of thousands of supporters, easily his biggest campaign rally to d [...]	2006-11-27 21:48:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS3477	VENEZUELAN ELECTION UPDATE: SIX DAYS OUT [...] (C) Both opposition candidate Manuel Rosales and President Hugo Chavez took advantage of the last weekend of campaigning before the December 3 elections to stage some of the largest rallies seen in Venezuela in recent years. The OAS and EU electoral observation missions met with electoral offi [...]	2006-11-27 22:14:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM VE
06CARACAS3483	VENEZUELAN ELECTION UPDATE: FIVE DAYS OUT [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez continues to travel widely in Venezuela and open major public works projects during the final days of campaigning. Opposition candidate Manuel Rosales met November 27 with members of the European Union's Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) and publicly urged th [...]	2006-11-28 20:46:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM VE
06CARACAS3493	SHOW TRIAL RESUMES AMIDST ELECTION SEASON [...] (U) The trial of opposition mayor Henrique Capriles Radonski resumed November 27. The timing of the trial's resumption occurred as the country's attention is universally focused on the December 3 presidential elections. The case has languished in the BRV judicial system for over four years [...]	2006-11-29 21:20:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM VE
06CARACAS3495	CARABOBO STATE: ROSALES AND CHAVEZ CAMPAIGNS SEE [...] (C) Both the Chavez and Rosales campaigns claim they will win in the hotly-contested state of Carabobo, the state with the fourth largest number of voters. The Chavez campaign is focusing on its grassroots get-out-the-vote efforts to woo an estimated 30 percent of voters planning to abstain f [...]	2006-11-29 22:09:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS3501	ROSALES READIES ELECTORAL MACHINE FOR SUNDAY [...] (C) Summary. As the December 3 presidential vote nears, the Manuel Rosales campaign is still struggling to get its organization in place. Senior campaign officials insist their vote tabulation network will work faster than the National Electoral Council (CNE) on election day, though there ar [...]	2006-11-30 20:21:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM VE
06CARACAS3507	CHAVEZ DIRTY TRICKS, THE ROSALES "BUBBLE," AND THE [...] (C) Summary. Apart from a few rock-throwing attacks by Chavistas, the Rosales and Chavez campaigns have to date largely stayed away from each other. However, the December 3 presidential election will inevitably put ardent activists of both camps in close proximity. Both the Chavez and Rosale [...]	2006-11-30 22:05:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ASEC VE
06CARACAS3513	STATE OF VENEZUELAN ELECTORAL OBSERVATION EFFORTS [...] (C) Summary. The electoral observation missions (EOMs) have missed most of the key "lead-up" events in the electoral preparation process and have had to scale back previously planned activities. Post believes it to be very unlikely that they will be able to mount a comprehensive observation e [...]	2006-12-01 16:45:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE PREL
06CARACAS3516	VENEZUELAN ELECTION UPDATE: TWO DAYS OUT [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez and opposition candidate Manuel Rosales officially concluded their campaigns November 30 with press events and final rallies. Chavez claimed without proof that his government recently foiled an assassination attempt against Rosales aimed at discrediting Chavez. [...]	2006-12-01 17:05:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM VE
06CARACAS3518	CORRECTED COPY: STATE OF VENEZUELAN ELECTORAL [...] (C) Summary. The electoral observation missions (EOMs) have missed most of the key "lead-up" events in the electoral preparation process and have had to scale back previously planned activities. It will be very difficult for them to mount a comprehensive observation effort. In effect, they w [...]	2006-12-01 20:30:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE PREL
06CARACAS3529	CHEVRON'S TAKE ON VENEZUELA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The BRV is serious about maintaining OPEC production cuts. PDVSA owes Chevron USD 800 million in operating expenses for the Boscan field and seems incapable of paying operators of the joint ventures in a systematic way. Chevron has met with Rosales advisors and given advice on hy [...]	2006-12-03 18:07:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET EINV VE
06CARACAS3531	ELECTION UPDATE - DEC 3, CLOSE OF POLLS [...] (C) Summary. While the Venezuelan presidential election was conducted December 3 without major incidents, both the Chavez and Rosales campaigns have access to widely varying exit polls. We do not place much faith in any of these polls at this point. The National Electoral Council (CNE) is e [...]	2006-12-03 23:27:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM VE
06CARACAS3532	USAID/OTI VENEZUELA ELECTION RELATED ACTIVITIES [...] (C) During President Chavez' launch of his reelection campaign in February this year he stated that the real opposition was the Empire and not its Venezuelan lackeys, a position he has maintained throughout the campaign. In this environment, USAID/OTI has prudentially kept a low profile, av [...]	2006-12-04 14:17:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM VE
06CARACAS3547	TIME TO REDOUBLE OUR PRO-DEMOCRACY EFFORTS IN [...] (C) Summary. We understand the Deputies Committee asked in November whether Embassy has the needed resources to promote our country team strategy. We waited until after the Venezuelan presidential election to respond. The answer is that we are grateful for all resources made available, but i [...]	2006-12-05 17:16:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID KDEM VE
06CARACAS3548	VIEWS ON BARRIO ADENTRO FROM CUBAN DOCTORS [...] (C) Since August 2006, when DHS created the Significant Public Benefit Parole for Cuban Medical Personnel Program, over 80 Cuban doctors have applied for parole in Caracas. Over half filled out an anonymous, completely voluntary, written survey answering questions about Barrio Adentro (BA),t [...]	2006-12-05 17:29:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON VE
06CARACAS3557	CHAVEZ WELCOMES NICARAGUAN PRESIDENT-ELECT ORTEGA [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez received Nicaraguan President-Elect Daniel Ortega at Maiquetia International Airport December 5. Ortega is the first foreign leader to visit Venezuela after Chavez was re-elected December 3, albeit for a visit of less than 24 hours. In brief remarks to the pres [...]	2006-12-07 15:18:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV VE
06CARACAS3558	WORKING FOR THE MAN IN MARACAIBO [...] (C) SUMMARY: International oil company (IOC) executives paint a uniformly dismal picture of life as a partner with PDVSA in western Venezuela. Production at joint venture fields appears to be falling as costs escalate rapidly, private companies refuse to invest due to a lack of reimbursemen [...]	2006-12-07 15:21:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET EINV VE
06CARACAS3559	MIXED BAG FOR SERVICE COMPANIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Service company representatives in western Venezuela present a mixed picture when it comes to dealing with PDVSA. Companies that provide services report payment problems and administrative arrangements straight from the pages of Kafka. However, equipment companies frequently be [...]	2006-12-07 17:26:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET EINV VE
06CARACAS3571	VENEZUELAN ELECTIONS WRAP UP: OBSERVERS ENDORSE [...] (C) The OAS, EU, and domestic NGO Ojo Electoral observation missions released on December 4 and 5 their preliminary assessments of the presidential election. All congratulated the National Electoral Council (CNE) for providing adequate electoral conditions and abiding by its agreements, desp [...]	2006-12-08 14:47:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS3572	PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: WINNERS AND LOSERS [...] (C) Summary. The National Electoral Council (CNE) officially declared President Chavez the winner of the December 3 election on December 5; he was re-elected for six more years. While the presidential election did not usher in any tectonic shifts, it did reveal some clear winners and losers. [...]	2006-12-08 15:01:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL VE
06CARACAS3585	A NEW DIRECTION IN THE CAPRILES TRIAL? [...] (C) SUMMARY The trial of outspoken opposition mayor of Baruta (a Caracas municipality) Henrique Capriles Radonski resumed on December 6. Capriles is accused of unlawful entry and violation of international principles for his role in the events of April 12, 2002, at the Cuban Embassy. Polof [...]	2006-12-08 18:38:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PHUM VE
06CARACAS3598	VENEZUELAN ELECTIONS: ISSUES FOR FUTURE [...] (C) A comparison of the 2005 EU and OAS electoral observation missions' (EOM) reports and the 2006 missions' preliminary observations reveals the BRV has resolved less than half of the issues singled out last year. Some of the so-called improvements, such as the naming of a new National Elec [...]	2006-12-11 14:48:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS3604	POST-ELECTION: CAN ROSALES STAY THE COURSE? [...] (C) SUMMARY Although he lost to President Chavez by a substantial margin on December 3, Zulia Governor Manuel Rosales emerged from the presidential election as Venezuela's preeminent opposition leader. It remains to be seen whether the momentum Rosales enjoyed as a candidate will continue. [...]	2006-12-12 20:37:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL VE
06CARACAS3609	VENEZUELAN ELECTIONS: THE EMBASSY'S TAKE ON VOTING [...] (C) Post sent out roughly 40 observers to seven states and Caracas for the December 3 presidential election. Although they did not have official observer credentials, Embassy observers were able to enter approximately 75 percent of the roughly 120 voting centers visited. Emboffs were thus ab [...]	2006-12-13 13:51:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS3628	VENEZUELAN ELECTION SEASON MORE PEACEFUL THAN [...] (SBU) Before the December 3 presidential elections, isolated attacks on opposition challenger Manuel Rosales' campaign rallies in September and October suggested the likelihood of an increasing spiral of electoral violence (reftels). President Chavez' campaign tried to blame the opposition f [...]	2006-12-15 16:41:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS3633	OPPOSITION LEADER ROSALES PLANNING US VISIT [...] (C) The Ambassador spoke by phone December 14 with Zulia Governor Manuel Rosales, their first conversation since before Rosales' four-month campaign for the presidency as the opposition's consensus candidate. The Ambassador congratulated Rosales on a hard fought and skillful campaign. He als [...]	2006-12-15 21:15:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV VE
06CARACAS3646	CAPRILES ACQUITTED ON ALL CHARGES [...] (C) SUMMARY After four years and eight months, Baruta Mayor Henrique Capriles Radonski was acquitted December 15 of all charges stemming from incidents at the Cuban Embassy on April 12, 2002. The opposition mayor of Baruta municipality (a metropolitan Caracas borough where the U.S. Embassy [...]	2006-12-18 21:49:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM VE
06CARACAS3652	CAF PRESIDENT DISCUSSES INSTITUTION'S GROWING ROLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The President for the Andean Development Corporation (CAF) Enrique Garcia detailed recent successes and plans for the future at a meeting with Econoffs on December 13. Garcia noted the significant increase in CAF funding and its prominent development role in Latin America. Garcia [...]	2006-12-19 20:19:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN VE
06CARACAS3670	TWO YEARS AND LITTLE RESOLUTION IN DANILO ANDERSON [...] (C) Summary. After two years of searching for the intellectual authors of prosecutor Danilo Anderson's November 2004 murder, Attorney General Isaias Rodriguez' December 14 announcement of the so-called conclusive findings indicated the BRV is no closer to discovering the masterminds. Rodrigu [...]	2006-12-21 20:10:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS3671	THE DO-NOTHING NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF 2006 POISED TO [...] (C) Summary. The National Assembly, although composed entirely of pro-Chavez party members after the opposition boycotted the December 2005 parliamentary election, passed little important legislation in 2006. Among the more memorable National Assembly "Bolivarian accomplishments" of 2006 are [...]	2006-12-21 20:15:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PHUM PREL VE
06CARACAS3688	ECUADORIAN PRESIDENT-ELECT CORREA'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Summary. President Hugo Chavez hosted Ecuadorian president-elect Rafael Correa December 20-21. Both Chavez and Correa pledged to enhance bilateral economic integration, particularly energy cooperation. Chavez also said he would consider the request of Correa and Bolivian President Mora [...]	2006-12-27 17:13:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SNAR ETRD VE EC
06CARACAS374	CHAVEZ BASHES BLAIR [...] (C) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez launched into one of his customary tirades on February 8 after British Prime Minister Tony Blair offered measured criticism of his government. Chavez' diatribe against Blair is the latest example of Chavez' increasing tendency to provoke leaders in the i [...]	2006-02-10 18:36:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE
06CARACAS39	VENEZUELA BLAMES USG FOR DELAYED ANTI-DRUG [...] (C) Venezuelan Interior Minister Jesse Chacon blamed the USG January 4 for delays in normalizing the U.S.-Venezuelan counternarcotics relationship. Chacon complained that the accord had been hard to settle because "the DEA keeps modifying its text." (Note: the USG and GOV already have a b [...]	2006-01-06 16:03:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCRM VE
06CARACAS394	CURRENT STATUS OF OSA MIGRATIONS: NOT VERY PRETTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Progress on negotiations on the migration from operating service agreement (OSA) to joint venture companies continues to be bogged down over basic issues such as block reserves certification and value assessment, the formula for valuing crude production, and royalty calculations [...]	2006-02-14 15:26:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV VE
06CARACAS397	VENEZUELA: BOSTON GROUP FUTURE MURKY [...] (C) With the current climate of bilateral relations, post is not optimistic about the future of the US-Venezuelan bipartisan legislative forum, known as the Boston Group (BG). Even before President Chavez' February 2 and 4 speeches (ref a and b),post was unable to secure meetings with Natio [...]	2006-02-14 18:22:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS399	OPPOSITION MAYOR LOPEZ HELD FOR TWO HOURS BY GUNMEN [...] (C) On February 10, 20 armed gunmen forced their way into a college seminar at the University of Carabobo in which Chacao Mayor Leopoldo Lopez was speaking and threatened the mayor for nearly two hours. Government officials refused to respond, citing legal prohibitions from entering college [...]	2006-02-14 20:14:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS457	AMBASSADOR URGES EU/LATAM SUPPORT FOR SUMATE [...] (C) Ambassador convened a meeting of European and Latin American diplomats February 10 to discuss diplomatic steps to support the four Sumate directors charged with conspiracy, after it appeared some of the defendants might be detained pending the outcome of the trial. Ambassador reviewed USG [...]	2006-02-17 19:23:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM VE
06CARACAS458	IRANIAN PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION VISITS VENEZUELA [...] (U) On February 14, the Venezuelan National Assembly received a delegation of Iranian legislators, including the President of the Iranian Parliament Gholamali Haddad Adel. Adel emphasized that the governments of Venezuela and Iran were united in the fight against imperialism and committed to s [...]	2006-02-17 19:38:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE
06CARACAS460	BRV ON DEFENSIVE AFTER SECRETARY'S REMARKS [...] (C) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called U.S. officials "crazy" in response to Secretary Rice's criticism of the BRV on February 16. Suggesting that USG policy was inconsistent, he said the Secretary's remarks came after a "good conversation" between Assistant Secretary Shannon and Venez [...]	2006-02-17 21:11:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE
06CARACAS461	SUMATE REPRIEVE MAY BE BRIEF INDEED [...] (C) A Caracas appeals court accepted on February 9 a motion by lawyers for the four Sumate directors that vacates the entire process to date, and requires a new trial to be initiated. That new trial may not kick off until sometime between May and August, however Sumate's lawyers warned Polcoun [...]	2006-02-17 23:45:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM VE
06CARACAS473	WHAT TO EXPECT FROM CHAVEZ' PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN [...] (C) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez' history of dirty campaigning and his announcement that he is running against President Bush have several implications for how he will prepare for Venezuela's December 3, 2006 presidential election. Many of these actions violate the letter and spirit of [...]	2006-02-21 18:12:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE
06CARACAS480	NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TAKES UP CNE REPLACEMENT [...] (C) On February 7, the National Assembly (AN) began the process of appointing a new National Electoral Council (CNE) by naming 11 AN deputies to the candidate selection committee. The committee is currently receiving nominations for the committee's remaining 10 civil society members, who ar [...]	2006-02-21 20:44:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS484	NEW TRIBES MISSION COMPLYING WITH WITHDRAWAL ORDER [...] (C) The New Tribes Mission (NTM) has removed all of its personnel from indigenous tribal areas in compliance with the February 12 deadline given by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV). The Supreme Court (TSJ) on February 3 denied NTM's request for a stay of the Interior Ministry's Nove [...]	2006-02-22 19:07:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF KDEM CACS VE
06CARACAS492	AMBASSADOR DELIVERS IRAN DEMARCHE TO BRV MFA [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel points on Iran's nuclear program to Vice Foreign Minister for Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific Alcides Rondon on February 10. Rondon said the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) saw no evidence of non-peaceful purposes for Iran's nuclear program and cha [...]	2006-02-22 20:53:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM VE
06CARACAS493	BRV OFFICIALS DEMAND RESPECT FROM VISITING WHA/AND [...] (C) During an orientation visit by WHA/AND Director, Deputy Director, and Desk Officer, senior Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) officials echoed the common theme of wanting improved bilateral relations based on respect for sovereignty. Rene Arreaza, chief of staff to Vice President Rang [...]	2006-02-22 20:53:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM VE
06CARACAS495	CARACAS ARCHBISHOP RAISED TO CARDINAL [...] (U) The Vatican announced February 21 that Caracas Archbishop Jorge Urosa had been nominated by Pope Benedict XVI as Cardinal. Press reports said Urosa would be formally installed at a meeting of cardinals in the Vatican on March 24. Urosa, 63, is one of 15 new cardinals to be appointed in [...]	2006-02-23 10:56:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM VE
06CARACAS510	CHAVEZ PUSHES A STEP CLOSER TO PRESIDENT FOR LIFE [...] (C) During his weekly Alo Presidente television show President Chavez warned that if the opposition decided not to participate in the December 3 presidential election, he would convoke a referendum on whether he should run for re-election in 2013. If approved, Chavez could overturn the const [...]	2006-02-24 13:10:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS514	VENEZUELAN CORRUPTION CRACKDOWN: A DAY LATE, A [...] (C) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is making corruption a campaign issue, according to Presidential speeches and MVR strategy documents. National Assembly deputies have prioritized the passage of at least five laws dealing with corruption. The Venezuelan Government, however, has a poor r [...]	2006-02-24 16:54:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCRM VE
06CARACAS520	FREEDOM HOUSE - CATALYST FOR AN EMERGING HUMAN [...] (C) The Freedom House USAID project began operations in Venezuela in late 2004, in an environment of reported increases in human rights abuses and judicial impunity. The community of human rights organizations in Venezuela continues to be ill-equipped to deal with the unfolding scenario and [...]	2006-02-24 18:45:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PHUM VE
06CARACAS532	CHAVEZ RESHUFFLES CABINET MINISTERS [...] (C) On February 24, President Chavez swore in six new members of his cabinet, including the Minister of Light Industry and Commerce, Minister of Land and Agriculture, Minister of Labor, Minister of the People's Economy, the Minister of Food, and the newly created Minister of the Secretariat [...]	2006-03-02 16:24:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS535	AMBASSADOR HOSTS LUNCHEON FOR UNIVERSITY DIRECTORS [...] (C) The Ambassador hosted a luncheon on February 9 for administrators of several Venezuelan universities. In addition to expressing their eagerness for greater educational exchanges between Venezuelan and American universities, representatives also expressed concern that a proposed education [...]	2006-03-02 18:24:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE
06CARACAS536	NOOSE TIGHTENS AROUND VENEZUELAN PRESS [...] (C) The government stepped up its actions against the Venezuelan press recently in a concerted bid to muzzle the opposition media during this election year. Following a January 23 court ruling that severely limited the media's ability to report on the case of assassinated prosecutor Danilo And [...]	2006-03-02 18:25:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM VE
06CARACAS581	EMBASSY SAYS NIGERIA'S SUPPORT FOR BRV'S UNSC BID [...] (U) Venezuela's Vice-Minister for Africa Reinaldo Bolivar met February 24 with Nigeria,s Ambassador to Venezuela Samson Ayodole Adepoju. Following the meeting, the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported Adepoju saying he believed Venezuela would be accepted as a non-permanent member [...]	2006-03-03 19:03:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE
06CARACAS590	REQUEST FOR STATEMENTS CONDEMNING AL-ASKARIYA [...] (SBU) Ministry of Foreign Affairs Third Secretary for North America Robinson Zapata had no substantive response to reftel demarche requesting that host countries issue statements condemning the Al-Askariya shrine bombing. Zapata agreed, however, to pass talking points to Vice Minister for Nor [...]	2006-03-06 17:16:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KPOA PTER IZ
06CARACAS595	BRV COMMUNIQUES CONDEMN U.S. POLICY [...] (C) The Embassy received two written communiques from Venezuelan government officials the week of February 20, both condemning U.S. policy in Venezuela and demanding the cessation of U.S. "imperialist aggression." On February 7, the National Assembly passed a resolution condemning the expulsio [...]	2006-03-06 18:20:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE
06CARACAS598	VIVA ZULIA - CHAVEZ AGAIN HITS ROSALES [...] (C) Chavez accused the U.S. government March 5 of working behind the scenes to create a secessionist movement in Zulia to gain control of the state's rich oil industry. Chavez implicated the state's governor Manuel Rosales with the group and threatened Rosales with jail time if his accusations [...]	2006-03-07 15:11:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE
06CARACAS655	DEMARCHE ON SUPPORTING US-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR [...] (U) On March 9, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Third Secretary for North America, Robinson Zapata, had no SIPDIS substantive response to reftel demarche, regarding the US-India civil nuclear cooperation initiative. Robinson agreed, however, to pass talking points to Vice Minister for North Am [...]	2006-03-10 18:11:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG KSCA IN PARM KNNP ETTC
06CARACAS656	CHAVEZ USES INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY FOR EMBASSY [...] (C) An estimated 2,500 protesters, supported by prominent Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) officials, staged a demonstration at the Embassy on March 8 to protest the U.S. government's policies in Iraq. The group's leadership, National Assembly deputies Celia Flores and Desiree Santos, p [...]	2006-03-10 18:15:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC VE
06CARACAS662	BRV BACKS OFF ZULIAN SEPARATIST ALLEGATIONS "FOR [...] (C) Zulia state governor Manuel Rosales came out swinging March 7 against the separatist allegations launched against him by President Chavez on March 5. On his weekly television program "Alo Presidente", Chavez accused Rosales of working hand in hand with the United States to create a secessio [...]	2006-03-13 11:04:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
06CARACAS663	CHAVEZ APPOINTS NEW COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION [...] (C) In a press conference on March 9, Communications and Information Minister Yuri Pimentel announced that he would be replaced by current National Assembly Deputy and major player in the Movimienta Quinta Republica (MVR),Willian Lara. Lara said his ministry would be open to the media, but [...]	2006-03-13 13:07:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS664	JOURNALIST IMPRISONED PENDING CORRUPTION CHARGES [...] (C) Talk show host Gustavo Azocar was arrested March 6 in connection with a corruption investigation against him for allegedly defrauding the Tachira state lottery in 2000. A Tachira state court March 7 sustained the prosecution's argument that Azocar posed a flight risk because of his suppose [...]	2006-03-13 18:59:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM VE
06CARACAS666	CHAVEZ VS. BUSH 2006 [...] (C) An apparently authentic 2006 campaign plan for President Chavez's political party, the Movimiento Quinta Republica (MVR),has been circulating on the internet and reported on by the press. The plan includes campaign themes and objectives as well as strategies for communication and party [...]	2006-03-13 20:02:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS688	VENEZUELA'S NEW CARDINAL: CAUTIOUSLY [...] (C) On March 10, the Ambassador met with Archbishop (and Cardinal-designate) Jorge Urosa and the Papal Nuncio Giacinto Berlocco at the Nunciature in Caracas to discuss the current situation in Venezuela, as well as ways the Embassy and the Church might cooperate in the future. The Ambassador [...]	2006-03-14 20:50:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS698	ANOTHER TRANSPORTISTA PROTEST OUTSIDE EMBASSY [...] (U) The transport workers held a small peaceful demonstration on March 15 outside the Embassy. This, like the February 23 demonstration (ref a),was likely organized by the BRV. At about 1 pm roughly two dozen almost empty buses arrived at the Embassy. The caravan had been driving around t [...]	2006-03-16 11:59:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC KDEM PGOV VE
06CARACAS702	COPEI LEADERSHIP STEPS DOWN [...] (C) COPEI (Christian Democracy) President Eduardo Fernandez and Secretary General Cesar Perez Vivas resigned from their positions March 10 after the board rejected the party's annual report, according to press reports. Fernandez, a popular but figurehead leader, was gracious in his resignation [...]	2006-03-16 12:02:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM VE
06CARACAS703	VENEZUELAN ADVENTISTS ALSO UNDER BRV SUSPICION [...] (C) The Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Church is depicted in a government training film for "Ribas Mission" students as a fanatical religious sect that spreads terror among indigenous tribes and spies for the CIA, according a video shown to Emboffs by SDA officials February 21. SDA officials thou [...]	2006-03-16 12:02:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF KDEM VE
06CARACAS717	BRV PUMMELS THE PRESS AGAIN [...] (C) The BRV moved again against the opposition media, implicating a total of six journalists in legal actions in the past week. Two columnists at Caracas daily El Nacional and four local radio announcers at an Anzoategui state radio station were caught up in the latest sweep. The move follows [...]	2006-03-17 14:47:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM VE
06CARACAS718	VENEZUELAN OPPOSITION DEBATES BETWEEN CONDITIONS [...] (C) Since early January, the opposition has debated whether and how to unite forces for the December 3 presidential election. The current dilemma over whether to focus solely on securing transparent electoral conditions or to also choose a single opposition candidate has resulted in three pr [...]	2006-03-17 15:16:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS719	BRV REACTS TO EU OBSERVERS FINAL REPORT [...] (SBU) The EU international observation mission released its final report in Caracas on March 15. Observers met with government officials in advance to prepare them for the report. Government response has been relatively positive, although National Electoral Council President Jorge Rodriguez [...]	2006-03-17 15:34:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS720	URUGUAY PRESIDENT'S STATE VISIT TO VENEZUELA [...] (C) During his state visit to Venezuela March 14-15, Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez and President Chavez signed 12 cooperative agreements, discussed the revitalization of MERCOSUR, and held a joint press conference on free trade. The two also toured a shoe-manufacturing cooperative and [...]	2006-03-17 16:19:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD KDEM PGOV VE
06CARACAS735	NATIONAL RESISTANCE COMMAND READIES ABSTENTIONIST [...] (C) The opposition group National Resistance Command (CNR) is organizing nationwide to force a political crisis related to the December presidential elections, according to CNR leaders. If demands for transparent elections are not met by June 3 (at which time election law would require closure [...]	2006-03-20 18:42:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM VE
06CARACAS744	MAYOR CAPRILES -- THIS MAY BE MY LAST TRIP [...] (C) The Ambassador and PolCouns met with Baruta Mayor Henrique Capriles Radonski to discuss the Mayor's late March trip to Washington. Capriles had initially planned to travel later in the Spring, but the government has re-instituted criminal charges against him related to the April 12, 2002 [...]	2006-03-21 16:42:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
06CARACAS751	CHAVEZ' ANGER-BASED LEADERSHIP [...] (C) President Hugo Chavez currently faces the conundrum of whether he can maintain a leadership style of exploiting resentment among Venezuela's poor while extolling the benefits of a seven-year revolution, according to anti-Chavez psychiatrist Roberto de Vries. De Vries describes Venezuelans' emot [...]	2006-03-22 14:22:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM VE
06CARACAS756	TWO IVLP CANDIDATES DROP OUT AMIDST BOLIVARIAN [...] (C) A labor leader from the Confederation of Venezuelan Workers (CTV) and one from the National Workers Union (UNT) withdrew suddenly from the International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP) after one of them received threats from the government. CTV Executive Secretary Antonio Suarez said he [...]	2006-03-22 21:06:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM SCUL VE
06CARACAS757	SUMATE'S ALEJANDRO PLAZ REVIEWS ONGOING PROJECTS, [...] (C) PolCouns met with electoral NGO Sumate President Alejandro Plaz March 21 to discuss the progress of Sumate's audit of the electoral registry and his recent trip to Peru and the United States. Their temporary reprieve from trial is allowing them to re-focus on their electoral activities. [...]	2006-03-23 10:53:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM OAS VE
06CARACAS779	CHAVEZ ALLY AND FOE NOMINATED AS USUN PERM REP [...] (C) On March 21, President Chavez nominated Francisco Arias Cardenas as Venezuela's Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Arias was a comrade-in-arms of Chavez during the failed 1992 military coup against then President Carlos Andres Perez. Arias later split ways with Chavez accus [...]	2006-03-24 16:50:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS784	LOOMING OSA DEADLINE INCREASES UNCERTAINTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The BRV has stated that companies with Operating Service Agreements (OSA) must sign MOUs which commit them to sign joint venture agreements by April 1. Key issues still remain unresolved and it appears companies would waive rights if they signed the MOU. The BRV has stated it [...]	2006-03-24 21:01:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV VE
06CARACAS785	AMBASSADOR GETS DELAYED BY PROTESTERS IN GUARICO [...] (C) Ambassador Brownfield and Emboffs were tracked by an aggressive and ultimately violent group of protesters on March 22 during an outreach trip to the state of Guarico (though there were no injuries to Embassy personnel). A noon-hour press conference and lunch at a local club dragged into [...]	2006-03-27 10:40:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM SCUL EAID ASEC VE
06CARACAS839	BRV OFFICIALS TRADE CORRUPTION ACCUSATIONS [...] (C) Venezuelan officials are beginning to turn on each other as the government's pre-election anticorruption campaign heats up (REFTEL). Interior Minister Jesse Chacon has demanded an investigation of the Supreme Court's anticorruption crusader, Justice Luis Velazquez Alvaray, for public pu [...]	2006-03-27 18:50:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCRM VE
06CARACAS840	HIGHLIGHTS FROM OAS TIP MEETING [...] (U) On March 14-17, the Organization of American States (OAS) held its first Meeting of the National Authorities on Trafficking In Person (TIP) on Margarita Island, Venezuela. During their opening remarks, Attorney General, Isaias Rodriguez, and Venezuela'a Deputy Permanent Representative to t [...]	2006-03-27 21:15:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE
06CARACAS872	VICE MINISTER FOR NORTH AMERICA SANCTIONED AND [...] (C) On March 27, Venezuela's Supreme Court decided to lift a stay on a Comptroller General sanction against Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs for North America and International Organizations Mari Pili Hernandez for mishandling public funds. The Comptroller sanctions, if applied, would requi [...]	2006-03-30 16:59:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS874	VENEZUELA'S NEW LABOR MINISTER A LOYAL PROFESSIONAL [...] (C) In a rare departure for Venezuelan ministerial appointments, new Labor Minister Ricardo Dorado is a qualified and experienced expert in his field. Dorado most recently served as Vice Minister of Labor, often representing Venezuela at International Labor Organization (ILO) meetings. Thoug [...]	2006-03-30 17:48:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB PINR VE
06CARACAS880	AMBASSADOR DELIVERS ESF FUNDING TO LOCAL NGO [...] (U) In accordance with the Economic Support Fund (ESF) grant approved by the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, the Ambassador delivered on March 29 a check in the amount of USD 129,375 to Venezuelan NGO Women's Association for Well-Being and Reciprocal Assistance (AMBAR). ( [...]	2006-03-31 14:02:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SNAR VE
06CARACAS882	ZULIA GOVERNOR PROBES FOR USG SUPPORT TO [...] (C) Zulia Governor and possible presidential candidate Manuel Rosales asked the Ambassador March 30 what kind of support the USG was willing to give to the opposition given President Hugo Chavez' overwhelming advantage in the December 3 presidential elections. The Ambassador outlined Embassy [...]	2006-03-31 15:20:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM SCUL VE

06CARACAS903	TO BE OR NOT TO BE: INTERNATIONAL OBSERVERS IN [...] (C) We have carefully considered whether or not it makes sense for the USG to advocate (and possibly substantially fund) an international election observation mission (EOM) for the December presidential elections. While an EOM would likely act as a brake on Bolivarian electoral excesses, we [...]	2006-04-03 16:37:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM SCUL VE
06CARACAS904	NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PROPOSAL TO REGULATE NGO [...] (C) The National Assembly's Permanent Committee on Foreign Policy has put forth a proposal to regulate the activities of NGOs within Venezuela. It comes on the heels of another proposal in 2005 which surprised the NGOs, who technically have observer status on the committee. The previous pr [...]	2006-04-03 18:07:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
06CARACAS905	VENEZUELAN OIL PRODUCTION AND OUTLOOK [...] (C) SUMMARY: A number of private sector contacts believe that Venezuelan crude production has dropped to 2.3 million barrels per day. Conventional wisdom had placed production at 2.4 to 2.6 million barrels per day. PVDVSA has substantially increased its number of rigs but it does not appea [...]	2006-04-03 18:48:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV VE
06CARACAS909	LOOMING OSA DEADLINE INCREASES UNCERTAINTY [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-03 21:54:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV VE
06CARACAS910	OIL COMPANIES SIGN OSA CONVERSION MOU [...] (C) SUMMARY: Representatives from sixteen oil companies signed memorandums of understanding converting their operating service agreements (OSA) to joint ventures in a televised ceremony on March 31. ENI (Italy) and Total (France) did not sign a MOU and PDVSA has taken control of their fields. [...]	2006-04-03 23:21:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV VE
06CARACAS911	CHAVEZ'S MEDIA WAR WAGES ON [...] (C) The first quarter of this year saw another BRV offensive against the media -- one of the few remaining independent democratic institutions in Venezuela. The BRV launched a new series of high profile legal attacks targeting members of the opposition press, a Caracas court ruled in favor of [...]	2006-04-03 23:31:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO VE
06CARACAS913	BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: RUSSIAN CHOPPERS ARRIVE [...] (U) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez presided over the formal handover of three Russian MI-17 helicopters to the Venezuelan Army's helicopter battalion in Yaracuy State on April 3. The three aircraft, which arrived in Venezuela unassembled on February 21, are part of a contract Chavez annou [...]	2006-04-04 12:12:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MASS VE
06CARACAS939	PROTESTS BREAK OUT OVER YOUTH SLAYINGS [...] (U) Venezuelans were shocked by the April 4 discovery of the slain bodies of three young brothers and their driver who had been kidnapped in Caracas 41 days before. The kidnappers, alleged publicly to be Caracas Metropolitan Police officers, demanded a US$4.5 million ransom from the children' [...]	2006-04-06 10:49:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM SCUL VE
06CARACAS942	CHILD SLAYINGS DEMONSTRATIONS CONTINUE FOR SECOND [...] (C) The government has begun reacting to the spontaneous public outcry over the murder of three kidnapped children and their driver (Reftel). Venezuelan Interior Minister Jesse Chacon expressed his government's condolences late April 5 for the deaths amidst widespread pot-banging protests. [...]	2006-04-06 18:57:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM SCUL VE
06CARACAS959	MURDER PROTESTS DIE DOWN IN VENEZUELA [...] (C) After three days of mourning and protests over the tragic kidnap/murders of three Venezuelan-Canadian youths, Venezuela appears to be returning to normal. This latest spate of protests was unconventional in that it stemmed from social unrest rather than traditional political strife and th [...]	2006-04-07 20:55:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM SCUL VE
06CARACAS960	OSA CONVERSION: DUST STILL SETTLING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Companies are still negotiating significant provisions of their joint venture contracts. It is not clear if additional companies will drop out of the process. Negotiations on the signing of the conversion MOUs were down to the last minute. Vice Minister Mommer has stated his go [...]	2006-04-10 11:05:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV VE
06CASABLANCA1268	Ramadan in Casablanca: Why is This Year Different? [...] (C) Summary: According to press reports and personal observations, attendance at mosques throughout Casablanca during the month of Ramadan this year hit an all-time high and the number of youth present was unprecedented. Anti-Western rhetoric was not prominent in "official" mosques although i [...]	2006-11-03 15:26:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PGOV PINR PREL
06CASABLANCA1310	DESPITE LACK OF OFFICIAL ACCORD UNHCR EXPANDS RABAT OFFICE [...] (C) Summary: During a recent meeting at UNHCR's office in Rabat, Head of Office Johannes Van der Klaauw told Poloff that, although the GOM is dragging its feet on official recognition of the organization, he is pressing forward with plans to increase his staff and enlarge his office space. Th [...]	2006-11-27 09:21:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PREF SMIG MO
06CASABLANCA1330	SPECIAL ENVOY RICKMAN MEETS WITH JEWISH COMMUNITY LEADERS IN [...] (C) Summary: During a recent visit to Casablanca, the Department's Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, Gregg Rickman, met with leading members of Morocco's Jewish community to discuss various topics of concern. Candid conversations highlighted the community's anxiety over possi [...]	2006-12-22 10:32:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL MO
06CASABLANCA1333	RED ALERT FOR MIGRANTS IN MOROCCO [...] (SBU) Summary: A recent spate of incidents involving Moroccan security forces and sub-Saharan migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers has stirred fear and anxiety throughout the sub-Saharan population in Morocco. On December 23, Moroccan security officials rounded up more than 200 sub-Saharans [...]	2006-12-28 15:11:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PREF SMIG MO
06CASABLANCA316	WESTERN SAHARA: PERSPECTIVES OF CBM PARTICIPANTS [...] (SBU) Summary: During a three day visit to the Western Sahara, Poloffs and Cairo-based Regional Refugee Coordinator Cheyne had the opportunity to talk to participants in UN Confidence Building Measure's (CBM) family exchange visits from both sides of the berm (Septel from Cairo). On the mor [...]	2006-03-24 12:53:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PBTS PGOV PHUM PREF PREL
06CASABLANCA367	TAKING THE TEMPERATURE OF THE CASABLANCA BUSINESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Conversations with members of Casablanca's business community reveal an underlying discord between the economic priorities of the Government (and Palace) and the expectations of Casablanca's businessmen and entrepreneurs. While most business professionals we spoke with support t [...]	2006-04-07 15:43:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EIND ENIV PGOV MO
06CASABLANCA409	CASABLANCA SLUMS: IT'S NOT JUST SIDI MOUMEN ANYMORE [...] (SBU) Summary: On a recent visit to a local "bidonville" (Moroccan term for shantytown),Poloff and Econoff spoke with several young adults about life in Morocco, opportunities for youth, and their views of the United States. Officers also toured the bidonville, home to approximately 2,500 [...]	2006-04-25 14:45:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PGOV PHUM PINR PREL
06CASABLANCA418	YNNA HOLDINGS: A MULTI-NATIONAL MANAGED BY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ynna Holdings -- one of Morocco's largest and most successful privately owned industrial and financial groups -- is a family-owned multi-national with business practices strongly influenced by Islamic principles. Ynna-owned supermarkets and hotels sell neither alcohol nor tobac [...]	2006-04-27 13:19:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EIND MO
06CASABLANCA435	LEGAL GUIDELINES FOR MOROCCAN DOMESTICS IN THE [...] (SBU) Summary: More than two years after adopting a new Labor Code, Morocco is finally working to plug a gaping hole left by the Code, a hole through which thousands of children slip each year. Morocco's Director of Labor, Abdelaziz Adoum, confirmed to laboff this week that a draft proposal o [...]	2006-05-02 11:19:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	LAB MO PGOV PHUM
06CASABLANCA523	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES AML, SME LENDING WITH THREE [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Ambassador Riley met with the Chairmen of three of Casablanca's largest banks -- Moroccan-owned BMCE Bank Group, government controlled Banque Centrale Populaire and French-owned Soci,t, Generale -- on April 26th to discuss compliance with pending Government of [...]	2006-05-19 09:27:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN KTFN MO
06CASABLANCA637	THE PALACE AND MOROCCO'S BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: [...] (C) Summary: In demonstration of the palace's reach in business affairs, Morocco's oldest and largest professional business association will soon inaugurate a new president after an ostensibly free election. Since only one candidate, Moulay Hafid Elalamy, registered in time to run he is ass [...]	2006-06-12 09:08:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EIND ELAB ENIV ETRD MO PGOV
06CASABLANCA675	2006 TIP REPORT DEMARCHE: MOROCCO GENERALLY PLEASED [...] (U) On June 12 poloff met with MFA North American Division Chief Wassane Zailachi to deliver reftel demarche and English version of Morocco's 2006 TIP report. MFA America Desk Officer Alaaddine Benhadi also attended the meeting. Zailachi thanked poloff for the report and had no comment on U [...]	2006-06-19 16:33:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM KWMN MO PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG
06CASABLANCA676	NO HAWALAS PLEASE, WE'RE MOROCCAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite government denials, it appears "hawalas" and other informal money-transfer mechanisms are alive and well in Morocco. (Hawala, meaning "trust", is an informal money transfer system characterized by low cost and lack of transparency.) Government of Morocco (GOM) offici [...]	2006-06-20 09:57:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KTFN PTER MO
06CASABLANCA737	ISLAMIST PARLIAMENTARIAN OFFERS REGARDS BUT NO [...] (C) In recent weeks we have been meeting with Casablanca- based political party leaders to take the temperature in Morocco,s largest city on political preparations for the 2007 Moroccan Parliamentary elections. When we called for an appointment with Parliamentarian and Party of Justice and [...]	2006-06-29 14:29:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PGOV PREL
06CASABLANCA773	IT'S THE ISLAMISTS, NOT THE POLISARIO! CASABLANCA [...] (C) Summary: Conversations with Casablanca business and financial elites reveal different priorities and perspectives than political elites on the issue of the Western Sahara. Whereas government contacts emphasize resolution of the Western Sahara conflict as a national priority, Casablanca b [...]	2006-07-06 17:32:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PBTS PGOV MO
06CASABLANCA883	HACKING ISRAEL AND PIRATING MOVIES: TALES FROM THE MOROCCAN [...] (C) Summary: The black market still thrives in Casablanca despite the Intellectual Property Right (IPR) provisions of various bilateral and multilateral agreements to which Morocco is a party. Although there are occasional high profile arrests and confiscations of pirated goods by GOM author [...]	2006-08-01 09:25:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV MO
06CASABLANCA930	Casablanca Political Party Leaders Speak Out [...] (C) Summary: In an introductory round of calls on various Casablanca-based political party leaders and executive board members we heard many similar concerns regarding Morocco's upcoming 2007 elections. --Every political activist we encountered expressed an interest in the election poll con [...]	2006-08-09 14:28:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PGOV PINR
06CASABLANCA947	On the Edge of the Arab World Morocco Joins in the Fray [...] (C) Summary: As the fighting between Israel and Lebanon hits the one month mark, anti-American sentiments in Morocco's largest city are strong, and getting stronger. On Sunday, August 6, Casablanca witnessed a well-organized protest with tens of thousands of Moroccans marching in solidarity [...]	2006-08-14 12:06:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PGOV PINR
06CHENGDU1249	MIXED MESSAGES ON NARCOTICS TREATMENT IN KUNMING [...] (C) Summary. Officials from the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) in Beijing recently visited Kunming's Daytop Drug Abuse Treatment and Rehabilitation Center (Daytop) Director facilities to learn more about its treatment and counseling centers, in addition to methadone maintenance clinics and [...]	2006-12-07 12:06:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PGOV PHUM CH
06CHENGDU1253	NO MORE "IRON RICE BOWL" FOR TIBETAN GRADUATES [...] (SBU) Summary: The Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) recently announced it would be the last region in China to eliminate the "iron rice bowl" system of guaranteed lifetime employment in governmental organs and state enterprises. The announcement, as well as the results of recent civil service [...]	2006-12-13 09:57:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI PHUM PGOV SCUL CH
06CHENGDU1256	TAR PARTY SECRETARY TRIES TO PRESSURE NGOS [...] (C) Summary: Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the Tibetan Autonomous Regions (TAR) could be facing increasing difficulties, according to a scholar from the Tibet Academy of Social Science. The scholar described an internal document authored by TAR Party Secretary Zhang Qingli which d [...]	2006-12-14 06:41:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM EAID ECON PGOV CH
06CHENNAI954	QUESTIONS ABOUT TAMIL NADU/LTTE CONNECTIONS [...] C) SUMMARY: Despite the fact that Tamil Nadu is home to the largest population of Tamils in the world, there is virtually no support in the state for the LTTE. There is no financial support coming from the state, no significant supplies flowing from Tamil Nadu to the LTTE, and almost no public [...]	2006-05-15 10:59:00	Consulate Chennai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL PTER CE IN
06CHIANGMAI110	LOCAL THAI TAKE ON KNU AND KNLA ACTIVITIES IN REFUGEE CAMPS [...] (U) This message responds to reftel request for information about Karen National Union (KNU) and Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) activities in refugee camps along the Thai-Burma border. 2. (C) Chiang Mai seconds Bangkok (ref a) on the difficulty of getting concrete information about K [...]	2006-07-05 10:39:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV PREL TH
06CHIANGMAI120	THIRD ARMY COMMANDER CHALLENGES THAKSIN'S NORTHERN POWER [...] (SBU) Summary: The highest ranking military figure in northern Thailand, 3rd Army Commander Lt. Gen. Saprang Kalanamit, has been making headlines and winning bouquets with a series of speeches and appearances that stake out a confrontational political position in opposition to caretaker Pr [...]	2006-07-27 09:06:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TH
06CHIANGMAI139	NORTHERN THAILAND COMMENTS ON KARENNI NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE [...] (U) This cable provides supplemental information to Embassy Rangoon's more comprehensive response (ref. A) to Department's request for information on the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) in ref B. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Local RTG intelligence officials strongly dismissed links between the [...]	2006-08-22 08:25:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF PTER TH BM
06CHIANGMAI144	THAKSIN TERRITORY IS NO PLACE FOR A PROTEST [...] (C ) Summary: A tiny group of protestors at Prime Minister Thaksin's arrival in Chiang Mai on August 14 provoked major anger and retaliation from local pro-Thaksin political figures, who countered the embarrassment of even modest opposition in the Prime Minister's home town with posters th [...]	2006-09-01 03:22:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TH
06CHIANGMAI152	INVESTIGATION STALLED ONE YEAR AFTER MURDER OF ACTIVIST [...] (C) Summary: The 2005 murder of activist monk Phra Suphot Suwacho in Chiang Mai's Fang district remains unsolved, drawing comparisons with the fate of two other prominent Thai human rights activists. The stalled investigation has raised doubts about the government's commitment to resolving [...]	2006-09-15 04:29:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TH
06CHIANGMAI157	SUPPORT FOR THASKIN MUTED IN CHIANG MAI FOLLOWING COUP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although well known as a Thai Rak Thai (TRT) stronghold and home town of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, Chiang Mai showed no signs of unrest following the late-Tuesday military takeover of the government in Bangkok by a group calling itself the Council for Democratic Ref [...]	2006-09-20 11:22:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS ASEC TH
06CHIANGMAI159	AFTER HELPING TO PLOT COUP, THIRD ARMY COMMANDER CALLS THE [...] (C) Summary. The general in charge of northern Thailand came out blazing Friday with allegations that coup planning began months ago and that the former government wiretapped the Privy Council and the palace. He asserted a need to clear out Thaksin loyalists in the region and proposed that th [...]	2006-09-26 05:53:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM MOPS ASEC TH
06CHIANGMAI161	IRAQ IS ABOUT OIL, THAI ISLAMIC OFFICIAL TELLS NORTHERN [...] (C) Summary. Thailand's highest ranking Islamic official told northern Muslim leaders at a recent gathering that the U.S. invaded "Iraq because of oil; Iran is because of oil." In his remarks, the 91-year old Chularajamontri also praised the royal family, criticized the Pope and blamed the [...]	2006-09-27 04:12:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR OIIP OEXC TH
06CHIANGMAI60	ATTACK ON DEMOCRAT PARTY RALLY IN CHIANG MAI ESCALATES [...] (U) Summary: An attempted Democrat Party foray into Chiang Mai - known to all as Thaksin territory -- ended in chaos Thursday as pro-Thaksin supporters blocked roads and disrupted the party's rally at Chiang Mai University. Driven off the stage after only five minutes, Democrat Party lead [...]	2006-03-31 11:34:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TH
06CHIANGMAI79	NORTH KOREAN REFUGEES\â€™ UNDERGROUND RAILROAD MAKING MORE [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-25 05:07:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV TH KN
06COLOMBO1	FOREIGN MINISTER TO STRESS DEMOCRACY, NEED TO [...] (C) Summary. Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera plans to brief Secretary Rice on Sri Lanka's efforts to maintain its long democratic tradition as it grapples with a bloody, brutal terrorist challenge and to ask for a strong effort to ensure the LTTE is not raising funds in the U.S. He des [...]	2006-01-03 05:13:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINS KIRF CE LTTE
06COLOMBO1002	SRI LANKA WILL TAKE "APPROPRIATE DECISION" ON ICRC [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Sumedha Ekanayake, Assistant Director of U.N. and Multilateral Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on June 14. Ekanayake said his government had sent instructions to its delegation in Geneva, adding, "Sri Lanka will not associate itself with Syri [...]	2006-06-14 08:46:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PHUM ICRC CE
06COLOMBO1006	SRI LANKA: MONITORS HOPE TO PROCEED AS USUAL [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) chief Ulf Henricsson on June 14 to discuss the status of the monitors following the aborted meeting between the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) scheduled for June 8-9. (Reftel) He [...]	2006-06-14 11:01:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM CE
06COLOMBO1018	SRI LANKA: WORST LTTE ATTACK ON CIVILIANS SINCE [...] (C) Summary. Following a presumed LTTE mine attack on a crowded civilian bus near North-central Vavuniya on the morning of June 15 that killed at least 64 people (Ref A),the Sri Lanka military launched limited retaliation on LTTE targets south of Trincomalee, and Mullaitivu, headquaters of [...]	2006-06-15 12:33:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PGOV CE
06COLOMBO1020	SRI LANKA BROADLY ALIGNED WITH US POSITION ON DRIP [...] (C) Poloff joined New Zealand poloff (visiting from New Delhi) and Australian DCM and poloff June 15 in delivering reftel demarche to Sumedha Ekanayake, Assistant of UN and Multilateral Affairs at Sri Lanka's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ekanayake agreed with the points in the demarche and sa [...]	2006-06-16 05:42:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM CE
06COLOMBO1022	SRI LANKA: AIR STRIKES CONTINUE ON LTTE MILITARY [...] (C) Summary: Following a devastating presumed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) claymore mine attack on a civilian bus on June 15 and limited Sri Lanka military retaliation on Tiger sea and air targets the same day, air raids continued the morning of June 16. Monitors and authorities f [...]	2006-06-16 08:36:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PGOV CE
06COLOMBO1030	SRI LANKA: CEASEFIRE CONTINUES TO FRAY AFTER TIGER [...] (C) Summary: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and Sri Lankan Military continued to engage each other militarily June 16 - 18. According to the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM),the Sea Tigers launched a largely unsuccessful attack on a Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) base at Pesalai, Mann [...]	2006-06-19 12:22:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM PGOV MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1032	IMPENDING CHANGE IN GOVERNOR HOLDS PROSPECT FOR [...] (C) Summary: The unexpected resignation of Central Bank Governor Sunil Mendis, and the still unofficial announcement that he will be replaced by Senior Presidential Economic Advisor Nivard Cabraal, marks an opportunity for a weakened Central Bank to reassert its independence from Treasury Secr [...]	2006-06-20 09:07:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV CE
06COLOMBO1040	INDIAN HIGH COMMISSIONER SHARES OUR CONCERNS ON [...] (C) Ambassador called on Indian High Commissioner Nirupama Rao June 20 to discuss situation in Sri Lanka, possibility of a US-India joint demarche (ref a),and US proposals for international contact groups on LTTE financing and weapons procurement. Rao had just returned from a two-week vacation in [...]	2006-06-21 09:15:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IN CE
06COLOMBO1041	SRI LANKA: GROWING EVIDENCE THAT NAVAL PERSONNEL [...] (C) Summary: On June 17, during a military engagement between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) security forces (reftel) in Pesalai, on the Mannar peninsula in northwest Sri Lanka, at least thirty civilians were injured, one fatally, while taking sh [...]	2006-06-21 11:25:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1047	NORWEGIANS RUNNING OUT OF STEAM, EU MONITORS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Tigers insist monitors from EU-members states must leave, give 30-day window for transition. Future of the monitoring mission now extremely problematic, Norwegians will discuss it with other Nordics on June 28. Tigers upset about their treatment at Colombo airport while returning from [...]	2006-06-23 05:26:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM CE NO
06COLOMBO1048	SRI LANKA: OPPOSITION LEADER ASSESSES THE CONFLICT [...] (C) Summary. In a June 22 meeting with the Ambassador, Ranil Wickremesinghe, leader of the opposition United National Party (UNP),criticized the president's alliance with the Marxist Sinhalese chauvinist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP). Wickremesinghe felt the president's Sri Lanka Freedom [...]	2006-06-23 05:28:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CE
06COLOMBO1051	SRI LANKA: LOCAL NGOS INDICT LTTE, KARUNA, AND [...] (C) Summary. Poloff spoke with representatives from several of Sri Lanka's primary NGOs and think tanks June 21-22 to get their views on the military engagement between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) since a June 15 presumably-LTTE bus bombing [...]	2006-06-26 11:52:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1053	SRI LANKA: TIGER SUICIDE BOMBERS ASSASSINATE SRI [...] (C) Summary: At 7:45 AM on June 26, two presumed-Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) motorcycle-mounted suicide bombers killed Deputy Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Major General Parami Kulathunga and three soldiers in Pannapitiya, a suburb approximately 15 km from Colombo. Ku [...]	2006-06-26 12:16:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1090	SRI LANKA: NORTHERN GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES SPEAK [...] (C) Summary. The Government Agents of the northern districts of Jaffna and Mannar and the District Judge of Vavuniya spoke candidly with us in separate meetings June 28-30 about the ground situation in the majority-Tamil areas in which they serve, including military attacks on civilians and t [...]	2006-07-03 09:36:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1103	AMBASSADOR USES FAREWELL CALL ON PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary. During the Ambassador's July 4 farewell call, President Rajapaksa evinced confidence that his all-party effort will produce a viable document on the future of the country and made clear that he has no plans to ditch his radical political ally, the JVP. He listened carefully to [...]	2006-07-05 08:49:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM CE
06COLOMBO1107	SRI LANKA: PRESIDENT MAKES PEACE AND HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary. In a TV interview July 4, President Mahinda Rajapaksa called for the resumption of peace talks with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the wake of several Tiger attacks on security forces (Ref B). On July 3, a presumed Tiger explosion at a police checkpoint near Anurad [...]	2006-07-05 10:19:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1127	INDIAN FOREIGN SECRETARY GIVES BLUNT MESSAGE OF [...] (C) Summary. Indian Foreign Secretary Saran delivered a "tough love" message of support, remarkably similar to our own, to the Sri Lankan government during his visit here July 3-4. The Indians are increasingly concerned about "disarray" in the military establishment and believe President R [...]	2006-07-09 08:46:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IN CE
06COLOMBO1132	MALDIVES: REFORMS MOVING IN RIGHT DIRECTION, [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador visited Male' July 6 to pay farewell calls on President Gayoom, Maldivian government officials, and the Chairman of the opposition, currently under house arrest. All interlocutors focused on a possible referendum on presidential versus parliamentary forms of gove [...]	2006-07-11 04:21:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM MV
06COLOMBO1149	SRI LANKA: NEW HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTRY PUSHES [...] (C) Summary. On July 12, the newly-formed Ministry of Human Rights and Disaster Management headed by Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe hosted a briefing at which senior members of the armed forces and police updated the diplomatic corps on human rights training and the status of investigations of [...]	2006-07-13 09:29:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PTER MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1156	SRI LANKA: ALL-PARTY TALKS ON ETHNIC ISSUE RESUME [...] (C) Summary: On July 11, President Rajapaksa addressed both an All-Party Conference (APC),called to develop a solution to the ethnic conflict, and an Experts' Panel, drawn to provide constitutional and legal advice to the APC. The main opposition United National Party (UNP) did not attend t [...]	2006-07-14 05:08:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM CE
06COLOMBO1183	SCANDINAVIANS CONTINUE TO PRESS TIGERS ON EU [...] (C) Summary. The Scandinavians continue to try to get the Tigers to back down from their insistence that SLMM members from EU countries leave by September 1. After an unsuccessful trip to Kilinochchi by the Norwegian Charge' at the end of last week, a Swedish diplomat arrives today from Sto [...]	2006-07-19 10:44:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CE NO
06COLOMBO120	SRI LANKA TRUCE MONITORING MISSION TEMPORARILY [...] (C) Summary: On January 17 the Nordic-sponsored Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) announced the temporary suspension of operational activities in the eastern district of Trincomalee following an apparent Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) attack on a Sri Lanka Navy bus. Although no m [...]	2006-01-19 06:26:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM PGOV CE LTTE
06COLOMBO123	AMBASSADOR BRIEFS INDIANHIGH COMMISSIONER ON [...] (C) Ambassador hosted a one-on-on lunch for Indian High Commissioner Alok Prasad n December 22, hours after Prasad presented his credentials to President Rajapakse. The Ambassado told Prasad that he and his Embassy colleagues looked forward to working very closely with Prasad and his mission [...]	2006-12-22 10:05:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTE MARR CE IN
06COLOMBO1232	GOVERNMENT OF SRI LANKA SUPPORT FOR CONTACT GROUPS [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-27 10:47:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PTER MARR CE US
06COLOMBO1235	SRI LANKA: AIR FORCE ATTACKS IN THE EAST WHILE [...] (C) Summary. On the evening of July 26, the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) controlled areas of the eastern district of Trincomalee in an allegedly humanitarian effort to open a water supply to Tamil and Muslim civilians that the LTTE had blocked. The [...]	2006-07-27 11:32:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM MOPS PREF CE
06COLOMBO1246	SRI LANKA: FINNISH AND DANISH MONITORS PREPARE [...] (C) Summary. The government mounted a significant ground operation July 31 after Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) strikes on Liberation Tiger of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) targets continued through the weekend, with air-strikes killing eight lower-level Tiger leaders in the eastern Batticaloa and Trincomal [...]	2006-07-31 12:04:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1262	SRI LANKA: WATER-RELATED MILITARY ACTION CONTINUES [...] (C) Summary: Ground fighting in Sri Lanka's Eastern district of Batticaloa continued August 1 as Sri Lankan Army (SLA) forces attempted to gain control of an irrigation canal seized by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) (reftels). Air strikes also reportedly occurred the night of Jul [...]	2006-08-01 11:53:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM CE
06COLOMBO1266	SRI LANKA: VIOLENCE IN THE EAST INTENSIFIES [...] (C) Summary: The initial battle for control of an irrigation canal in the eastern Batticaloa District (reftels) gave rise to further military engagement August 1-2. Beginning the night of August 1, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) attacked 4 military camps in Muttur and surroundin [...]	2006-08-02 12:08:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER CE
06COLOMBO1274	SRI LANKA: EASTERN TOWN SEES CONTINUED CLASHES, [...] (C) Summary: Fighting between Sri Lankan Army security forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) that began as a battle over an irrigation canal (reftels) has spread to other parts of the east, with Muttur town in Trincomalee District seeing several clashes and 15 civilian deaths [...]	2006-08-03 13:07:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREF PHUM CE
06COLOMBO1286	SRI LANKA: HUMANITARIAN CRISIS GROWS AS EASTERN [...] (C) Summary. Recent violence following the LTTE's July 26 blocking of a critical water sluice near northeastern Trincomalee and subsequent ground and air military action spread into the central province August 7 when a seperate LTTE claymore mine attack killed a senior police superintendent in [...]	2006-08-07 13:28:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1292	SRI LANKA: NORWEGIANS BRIEF CO-CHAIRS ON NORTHEAST [...] (C) Summary. Norwegian Special Envoy Jon Hanssen-Bauer, Norwegian Ambassador Hans Brattskar, and Swedish Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) head Ulf Henricsson briefed Chiefs of Mission and Charges from the Co-chairs and Nordic monitor countries August 8 following their August 5-7 trips to th [...]	2006-08-08 13:48:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1295	SRI LANKA: BOTH PARTIES TAKE CREDIT FOR DAM [...] (C) Summary. Both the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) security forces and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) claimed to have opened the Mavilaru water dam on the evening of August 8, 19 days into their battle for control over the area. At this writing, two Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers had [...]	2006-08-10 10:32:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1301	SRI LANKA: FOREIGN MINISTER ASSURES NO RETURN TO [...] (C) Summary: Charge' delivered reftel demarche to Foreign Minister Samaraweera and Foreign Secretary Palihakkara August 10. Samaraweera said current military action would "not become a full-scale war." He said the government remained "committed to a negotiated settlement," but needed help g [...]	2006-08-10 13:17:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER CE
06COLOMBO131	U/S BURNS DISCUSSES PEACE PROCESS, IRAN AND UN [...] (C) Summary. Jayantha Dhanapala told U/S Burns that the security situation in Sri Lanka "looks bad," but that President Rajapaksa remains patient and is committed to a non-military solution. He agreed with Burns that Iranian behavior in the IAEA is unacceptable but cautioned that Sri Lanka [...]	2006-01-23 05:44:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM IAEA CE IR
06COLOMBO1313	SRI LANKA: SECURITY FORCES AND TIGERS ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Military engagement between the Government of Sri Lanka (SLA) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) spread on the evening of August 11 through the morning of August 12, marking the most significant military exchange between the parties since the February 2002 Ceasefire. Initial r [...]	2006-08-12 09:13:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM MOPS PREF CE
06COLOMBO1324	SRI LANKA: CLAYMORE EXPLOSION HITS PAKISTANI HIGH [...] (C) Summary: Two LTTE claymore mines planted in a three-wheeler exploded on a Security Task Force (STF) escort vehicle following the Pakistani High Commissioner's car on August 14 at approximately 1:20 PM. The blast occurred within 500 meters of the US embassy and killed seven, including four [...]	2006-08-14 13:37:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM CE
06COLOMBO1331	SCENE-SETTER FOR SCA PDAS MANN'S AUGUST 16 VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit comes at a particularly contentious and violent point in the Government of Sri Lanka's (GSL's) conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Low-level tit-for-tat violence plagued the north and the east over the last several months, and at the end of Jul [...]	2006-08-15 08:14:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM CE
06COLOMBO134	SRI LANKA: UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' MEETING WITH [...] (C) In a January 23 meeting with President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Under Secretary Burns, accompanied by the Ambassador, stressed U.S. support for Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) efforts toward a peaceful resolution to the conflict and urged Rajapaksa to ensure that Sri Lankan security forces would [...]	2006-01-23 15:15:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KUNR IR CE
06COLOMBO135	UNDERSECRETARY BURNS DISCUSSES PEACE PROCESS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 23, Undersecretary Burns met with Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera. The Foreign Minister told U/S Burns that Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) remains committed to negotiation and a peaceful solution despite continued provocation by the Liberation Tigers of T [...]	2006-01-23 15:36:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL IR CE
06COLOMBO1352	SRI LANKA: US REQUESTS INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS, [...] (C) One Amcit under the auspices of UNHCR and four non-Amcit US-funded humanitarian mine action officers are currently stranded in Government of Sri Lanka (GSL)-controlled Jaffna, seperated from the rest of the island by an expanse of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)-controlled terri [...]	2006-08-18 11:12:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO136	SRI LANKAN OPPOSITION LEADER GIVES FRANK [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 23 Under Secretary Burns and Ambassador Lunstead met with United National Party (UNP) leader and former Prime Minister and presidential contender Ranil Wickremesinghe. Wickremesinghe thanked U/S Burns for showing support for Sri Lanka and the peace process. The veteran [...]	2006-01-23 15:59:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER CE
06COLOMBO1361	SRI LANKA: FORTY-EIGHT THOUSAND DISPLACED IN [...] (C) Summary: The number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the northern Jaffna district rose to approximately 48,000 by August 20, according to UNHCR. Military engagement between the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE),which began August 11, h [...]	2006-08-21 10:17:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1363	SRI LANKA: LOCAL CO-CHAIR REPRESENTATIVES ASK [...] (C) Summary: Colombo representatives of the Tokyo Donors Co-Chairs Conference (US, EU, Norway, and Japan) met with Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and several members of his cabinet August 21 to reiterate the message from the August 11 Co-Chairs statement calling for an immediate cessati [...]	2006-08-21 12:22:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM CE
06COLOMBO1366	PRESSING GSL FOR CESSATION OF FIGHTING [...] (C) Summary: SCA PDAS Steven Mann visited Colombo August 16-17 as ground fighting between the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) security forces and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadres continued in the north and east (ref A). In meetings with President Rajapaksa, Foreign Minister Samar [...]	2006-08-22 07:23:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO137	U/S BURNS REVIEWS SRI LANKAN PEACE PROCESS WITH [...] (C) Summary. Norwegian peace facilitator Solheim told U/S Burns that the Sri Lankan peace process is at a crossroads and that a "major step forward" is essential. Burns expressed U.S. support for the Norwegian facilitation effort and compared notes with Solheim on the efficacy and vision of [...]	2006-01-23 16:10:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS CE NO
06COLOMBO1373	SRI LANKA: UPDATE ON EMBASSY ACTION TO EVACUATE [...] (SBU) A ship sailing under the flag of the ICRC is scheduled to depart the eastern port of Trincomalee August 24, arriving in Jaffna, in northern Sri Lanka, on August 25, pending the commitment of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to allow the ship to pass safely. Approximately 150 [...]	2006-08-22 10:49:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1379	SRI LANKA: LULL IN JAFFNA FIGHTING AS POLICE [...] (C) Summary: Police discovered and diffused a claymore bomb in a crowded Colombo marketplace on August 22. While fighting between Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) forces and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadres appeared to enter a lull on the Jaffna Peninsula on August 22-23, the Tige [...]	2006-08-23 08:20:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1380	SRI LANKA: POSITIVE RESPONSE TO SRI LANKAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-23 08:34:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM CE
06COLOMBO1399	SRI LANKA: IDP NUMBER CLIMBS TO 180,000 IN NORTH [...] (C) Summary: On August 22, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Country Representative Amin Awad briefed Charge' on population displacement in the North and East due to renewed military engagement between the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) forces and the Liberation Tigers of T [...]	2006-08-24 11:34:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1414	SRI LANKA: ICRC REQUESTS EMERGENCY FUNDING, TIGERS [...] (C) Summary: International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) Director General for Asia and the Pacific Reto Meister and Sri Lanka Head of Delegation Toon Vandenhove briefed Charge' on August 28 on current ICRC activities in Sri Lanka. Meister contended that the unofficial collapse of the Sri [...]	2006-08-29 09:38:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1416	SRI LANKA: BATTLE BEGINS FOR SAMPUR AS ICRC SHIP [...] (C) Summary: A ground battle for Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)-controlled Sampur, south of Trincomalee harbor in eastern Sri Lanka, began on August 27 as an ICRC-flagged ferry bearing 162 expatriates who had been stranded on the Jaffna peninsula arrived in Trincomalee. Government of [...]	2006-08-29 10:56:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1433	SRI LANKA: MONITORING MISSION RULES SECURITY [...] (C) The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) released a report on August 30 blaming Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) security forces for the execution-style murders of 17 Tamil employees of French NGO Action Against Hunger (Action Contre la Faim - ACF) on August 4 in Muttur, south of Trincomalee H [...]	2006-08-31 12:41:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1439	SRI LANKA: JOINT CHIEF OF STAFF CHAIRMAN CLAIMS [...] (C) Summary. Charge' met with Ministry of Defense (MOD) Chief of Defense Staff General Donald Perera on August 31 to reiterate that the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) should take the lead in stopping military action to provide "breathing space" for the GSL and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eel [...]	2006-09-01 10:48:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1443	MALDIVES: CROSS-PARTY COOPERATION YIELDS GENERALLY [...] (C) Summary: Following a July 19 meeting between the Government of the Republic of Maldives (GORM) and the opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) in Colombo, facilitated by the British High Commissioner, the two sides upheld commitments to move the reform agenda forward. In exchange for [...]	2006-09-05 05:44:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM MV
06COLOMBO1456	SRI LANKA: GOVERNMENT HAS CONTROL OF SAMPUR; LULL [...] (U) Sri Lankan media here widely reported Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) statements that its security forces took control of Sampur, the eastern coastal area from which the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) had launched attacks on the town of Trincomalee, its harbor, and surrounding areas [...]	2006-09-06 13:57:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1457	SRI LANKA: GOVERNMENT HAS CONTROL OF SAMPUR; LULL [...] (U) Sri Lankan media here widely reported Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) statements that its security forces took control of Sampur, the eastern coastal area from which the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) had launched attacks on the town of Trincomalee, its harbor, and surrounding areas [...]	2006-09-06 13:57:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM MOPS CE

06COLOMBO1461	BRITISH AND SRI LANKAN LEADERS DISCUSS POSSIBLE [...] (C) British High Commissioner in Colombo Dominick Chilcott briefed Co-Chair representatives September 6 on President Rajapaksa's August 31 meeting with Prime Minister Blair near London. The origin of the meeting, Chilcott explained, was a mutual recognition that the UK's experience in peacema [...]	2006-09-06 14:52:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM CE
06COLOMBO1465	SRI LANKA: GOVERNMENT AND LOCAL CO-CHAIR [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Samaraweera, Foreign Secretary Palihakkara, and Peace Secretariat Head Kohona SIPDIS met with local Co-Chair representatives at the Foreign Ministry September 7 to exchange views in the lead-up to the September 12 Co-Chair meeting in Brussels. Government of Sr [...]	2006-09-07 11:30:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1474	AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO SRI LANKAN [...] (C) Following Ambassador Blake's presentation of credentials on September 9, he met with President Rajapaksa to review bilateral relations and discuss the way forward to negotiations between the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The Ambassador r [...]	2006-09-09 11:47:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV CE
06COLOMBO1483	SRI LANKA: HEAVY FIGHTING AT FORWARD DEFENSE LINE [...] (C) Summary: In fighting that began September 9, Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) forces have pushed at least one kilometer into the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) side of the Forward Defense Line (FDL) at Muhamalai on the Jaffna Peninsula. Military sources indicate to us that the camp [...]	2006-09-11 10:56:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1508	SRI LANKA: GOVERNMENT STATES READINESS FOR PEACE [...] (C) Summary: In response to the Co-Chairs' statement following their September 12 meeting in Brussels that peace talks should take place in Oslo next month, the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) expressed readiness to engage in negotiations but strongly criticized an alleged lack of prior consul [...]	2006-09-13 13:46:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1509	SRI LANKA: LOCAL EMPLOYEE OF US NGO KILLED NEAR [...] (U) On the afternoon of September 11, a 31 year old Tamil employee of Seattle-based NGO World Concern was shot and killed on the outskirts of Trincomalee. The employee, Ragunathan Ramalingam, was a team leader for World Concern,s water sanitation activities north of Trincomalee. Amcit Kathle [...]	2006-09-14 02:51:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PTER CE
06COLOMBO1510	SRI LANKA: LOCAL EMPLOYEE OF US NGO KILLED NEAR [...] (U) On the afternoon of September 11, a 31 year old Tamil employee of Seattle-based NGO World Concern was shot and killed on the outskirts of Trincomalee. The employee, Ragunathan Ramalingam, was a team leader for World Concern,s water sanitation activities north of Trincomalee. Amcit Kathle [...]	2006-09-14 02:52:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PTER CE
06COLOMBO1517	SRI LANKA: GOSL APPRECIATES US SUPPORT FOR PEACE [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Blake made separate calls on September 14 to Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa and Foreign Secretary Palihakkara to brief them on the September 12 Co-chairs' meeting, encourage Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) attendance at peace negotiations, and discuss cooperation [...]	2006-09-14 11:27:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO152	SOLHEIM ON CEASEFIRE TALKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Norwegian facilitator Solheim told co-chairs chiefs of mission late January 25 that LTTE chief Prabhakaran had agreed to cease-fire talks in Geneva almost before Solheim opened his mouth in Kilinochchi. The Tigers told him that by agreeing to Geneva they wanted to help Norway and [...]	2006-01-26 05:08:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV CE
06COLOMBO1527	SRI LANKA: AMBASSADOR URGES PRIME MINISTER TO [...] (C) Ambassador Blake and the DCM met Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremenayake September 15 to encourage his government to negotiate a peaceful settlement with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The Ambassador urged the Prime Minister to seize the current "significant opportunity for [...]	2006-09-15 07:25:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM CE
06COLOMBO1528	SRI LANKA: MFA OFFERS READ-OUT OF PEACE [...] (C) On September 15, Ambassador Blake met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Additional Secretary Geetha de Silva, MFA Legal Advisor Rohan Perera, and Peace Secretariat Director Shanaka Jayasekara at their request. The Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) interlocutors briefed the Ambassador (and [...]	2006-09-15 11:41:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM CE
06COLOMBO1531	SRI LANKA: NAVY AND AIR FORCE SINK LTTE WEAPONS [...] (C) The Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) with the assistance of Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) kfir jets sunk an alleged LTTE weapons supply ship approximately 120 nautical miles off the eastern coast of Kalmunai, south of Batticaloa, on the afternoon of September 17. That morning, the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) sh [...]	2006-09-18 11:25:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1533	CO-CHAIR AMBASSADORS DISCUSS NEXT STEPS WITH LTTE [...] (C) Co-Chair Ambassadors met at Norwegian Ambassador Brattskar's residence on September 18 to hear Norwegian plans for engaging the LTTE and to discuss the development and delivery of private messages coming out of the Co-Chair meeting in Brussels. Brattskar opened by reporting that the GSL [...]	2006-09-18 12:15:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV CE
06COLOMBO1538	SRI LANKA: CROSS PARTY TALKS MAY YIELD COOPERATION [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 15 the governing Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) held the first in a series of talks with the opposition United National Party (UNP) to build consensus on a range of issues, including the peace process as a cornerstone for potential cooperation. After the initial d [...]	2006-09-19 11:48:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM CE
06COLOMBO1539	SRI LANKA: CHIEF CEASEFIRE MONITOR DESCRIBES [...] (C) Ambassador Blake called on the new Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) Chief, Major General Lars Solvberg, on September 19 to discuss the mission's operational structure and constraints since reducing the number of its monitors from approximately 60 to 30 on September 1 (reftel). (Note: T [...]	2006-09-19 11:49:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1540	SRI LANKA: MUSLIM MASSACRE; GSL INDICTS TIGERS, [...] (C) Summary: Responsibility for the September 18 murders of 10 Muslim laborers south of Arugam Bay on the eastern coast remains unclear. This lack of clarity highlights the need for an independent Sri Lankan institution that can investigate human rights cases and leads us to question the bes [...]	2006-09-20 10:09:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1543	ABDUCTIONS AND DISAPPEARANCES ON THE RISE [...] (C) Summary. Independent human rights watchers indicate that the number of abductions and disappearances has surged over the last three months in both the North and East and in Colombo, with an increase in extortion kidnappings in particular. No American citizens have been victims that we ar [...]	2006-09-21 02:26:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL PHUM CE
06COLOMBO1549	SRI LANKA: PRESIDENT RAJAPAKSA ASSEMBLING [...] (C) During his late August trip to London, President Rajapaksa contacted Amnesty International to seek advice on setting terms of reference for an independent, international body to examine allegations of human rights abuses in Sri Lanka. This move came in the midst of significant internation [...]	2006-09-21 12:06:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM CE
06COLOMBO1564	SRI LANKA: NAVY AIDED BY AIR FORCE SINKS SEA TIGER [...] (U) The Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) Media Center for National Security (MCNS) said that on September 24 the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) aided by the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) intercepted 25 "Sea Tiger" boats off the coast 50 miles north of Trincomalee, sinking 11. Independent media reported secur [...]	2006-09-25 10:51:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1578	CO-CHAIRS AMBASSADORS MEETING: READOUT OF [...] (C) Summary: Norwegian Amb Brattskar told Co-Chair Ambassadors in Colombo on September 26 that LTTE leader Tamilselvan had conveyed Prabakharan's decision that the LTTE is prepared to return to peace talks in Oslo in October. However, the LTTE also threatened that if the GSL is not ready to [...]	2006-09-26 12:21:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV CE
06COLOMBO1580	SRI LANKA'S HUMAN RIGHTS CHALLENGES AND IDEAS [...] (C) Summary: Several recent high profile human rights abuse cases in Sri Lanka cases have raised international concerns and underlined the current absence of strong indigenous Sri Lankan institutions to investigate these abuses and pressure the Sri Lankan judicial system to ensure credible pro [...]	2006-09-26 16:00:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM CE
06COLOMBO1581	HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER SAYS THE RIGHT THINGS, [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Blake met for an introductory call with Minister for Disaster Management and Human Rights Mahinda Samarasinghe on September 25 to urge the GSL to be more proactive in dealing with allegations of human rights abuses. Samarasinghe responded that he too is concerned about [...]	2006-09-26 16:01:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV CE
06COLOMBO1596	SRI LANKA: AIR FORCE STRIKES TIGER BASES, [...] (C) On September 25-26, the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) struck LTTE training camps in the northwestern district of Mannar, according to the National Security Media Center (NSMC). On September 27, Military spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe told poloff that the SLAF had successfully struck [...]	2006-09-28 13:07:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1597	SRI LANKA: MONITORING MISSION ACCUSES GSL AND LTTE [...] (C) Summary: Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) Head of Mission Major General Lars Solvberg addressed a 26 September report to Dr. Palitha Kohona of the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) Secretariat for Coordination of the Peace Process (SCOPP) and Mr. Pulidevan, Secretary General of the Liberat [...]	2006-09-28 13:21:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1601	SRI LANKA: MUSLIM LEADER HAKEEM SEEKS SEPARATE [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador called upon moderate Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) leader Rauf Hakeem on September 28. Formed in 1981 and registered as a political party in 1989, the SLMC is the largest party representing the Muslim electorate in Sri Lanka. A key opposition leader, Hakeem t [...]	2006-09-29 09:16:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1603	SRI LANKA: GSL SETS PUBLIC CONDITIONS FOR TALKS [...] (U) The Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) announced three conditions to return to peace talks with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE),government and independent press reported on October 1. Defense spokesperson Keheliya Rambukwella told the Sunday Times that the three pre-conditions wer [...]	2006-10-02 13:21:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1604	SRI LANKA: MONITORING MISSION BRIEFS SCA/INS [...] (C) Summary: SCA/INS Director Marcia Bernicat, on an orientation visit to Sri Lanka, met with Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) Press and Information Officer (PIO) Thorfinnur Omarsson on October 2. Omarsson expressed the monitors' fear that the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) will continue to [...]	2006-10-02 13:58:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1605	SRI LANKA: LTTE-PROXY PARTY EMPHASIZES [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador met with Tamil National Alliance (TNA) members of parliament Gajendakumar Ponnombalam, Suresh Premachandran, and Pathmini Sithamparanathan on September 29. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)-proxy members of parliament emphasized their concern for the "de [...]	2006-10-02 14:05:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1610	SRI LANKA: MARINE EXPEDITIONARY UNIT EXERCISE TO [...] (C) A Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Exercise is scheduled to take place in Sri Lanka October 22 to November 2. Embassy has requested that it include a significant human rights training component. We believe the exercise represents a valuable exercise opportunity for our forces and a chanc [...]	2006-10-03 08:18:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PTER PHUM CE
06COLOMBO1616	RESPECTED SRI LANKAN NGOS INSIST INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) On September 29, the Center for Policy Alternatives (CPA),a respected Colombo-based think-tank, provided the Embassy a copy of a statement it sent to delegates at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. The statement was signed by twenty-five reputable local NGOs, including the Internati [...]	2006-10-03 11:59:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM CE
06COLOMBO1617	SRI LANKA: INDEPENDENT PRESS HIGHLIGHTS EMERGING [...] (C) Summary: Two independent English weekly newspapers highlighted stories about the eastern LTTE-breakaway Karuna Faction on October 1. The Sunday Times published an interview with Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan, also known as Karuna Amman, who predicted that his former confidant, LTTE leader [...]	2006-10-03 12:00:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1619	AIDE MEMOIRE CONCERNING THE PROPOSED MANDATE OF [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent Ambassador an "aide-memoire" laying out the mandate for an International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IIGEP). This body is to monitor the work of the Commission of Inquiry the Government will task with investigating a series of serious human r [...]	2006-10-03 12:51:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER CE
06COLOMBO1620	NORWAY'S ENVOY "MODERATELY OPTIMISTIC" ABOUT [...] SUMMARY: (C) Norwegian mediator Hanssen-Bauer briefed Co-Chair Ambassadors on October 2 on his meetings with Sri Lankan government officials. He said that the GSL had denied media reports of preconditions for possible talks with the LTTE. The GSL would prefer November 10 or October 28 for t [...]	2006-10-03 13:02:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER CE
06COLOMBO1622	SRI LANKA: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR BASIL RAJAPAKSA [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met Presidential Advisor Basil Rajapaksa, younger brother to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, on October 4. After the Ambassador reviewed US priorities and initiatives in Sri Lanka, Rajapaksa spoke frankly about human rights issues, requesting that the United States a [...]	2006-10-04 11:53:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1626	SRI LANKA: SOME EXPATRIATE NGO EMPLOYEES ASKED TO [...] (C) Summary: Since 2005, NGO representatives have reported numerous obstacles to carrying out relief activities. On October 4, several newspapers ran a story on the latest impediment to NGOs: the GSL notified international staff of six international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) the [...]	2006-10-04 14:37:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM CE
06COLOMBO1627	LTTE TELL NORWEGIANS THEY ARE PREPARED FOR TALKS [...] (C) Summary: Norwegian Special Envoy Hanssen-Bauer briefed Co-Chairs Ambassadors on October 4 that during his October 3 meetings with Thamilselvan, the LTTE had agreed to talks without conditions in Oslo or Switzerland in October. However the LTTE is concerned the GSL may be tempted to press [...]	2006-10-04 15:18:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV CE
06COLOMBO1636	POSSIBLE NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TEST [...] (C) Ambassador reviewed reftel points with Foreign Secretary Palihakkara on 10/5/06 emphasizing the importance SIPDIS the U.S. attaches to Sri Lankan support for a possible Presidential statement from the UN Security Council. Palihakkara thanked the Ambassador for his presentation. He sai [...]	2006-10-05 11:41:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PREL PARM CE
06COLOMBO1650	SRI LANKA: RESETTLEMENT MINISTER VOWS NO REPEAT OF [...] (C) Ambassador Blake met with Minister of Resettlement A. Rishad Bathihudeen October 4 to discuss Sri Lanka's critical internally displaced persons (IDP) problem. The Resettlement Ministry is responsible for 300,000 pre-ceasefire conflict displaced persons and an additional 180,000-240,000 sin [...]	2006-10-06 09:55:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1651	PRESIDENT RAJAPAKSE AFFIRMS TO CO-CHAIRS SRI [...] (C) In a meeting with Co-Chair Ambassadors on October 9, Sri Lankan President Rajapakse confirmed the Government of Sri Lanka is ready to attend peace talks with the LTTE on October 28, does not plan a military offensive, but will defend itself. Norwegian Ambassador Brattskar told the Presi [...]	2006-10-09 09:45:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CE
06COLOMBO1661	SRI LANKA CONTINUES TO SUPPORT GUATEMALA FOR UNSC [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-10 12:40:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC UNGA GT VE CE
06COLOMBO1670	SRI LANKA: TIGERS TELL NORWAY A MAJOR GSL [...] (C) Summary: Norwegian Ambassador Hans Brattskar briefed Charge October 11 on his October 10 meeting with Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) political wing leader S.P. Tamilselvan in Kilinochchi. Tamilselvan confirmed the LTTE would attend talks with the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) in [...]	2006-10-11 12:48:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1692	SRI LANKA: LTTE CLAIMS A WIN IN ENGAGEMENT ON [...] (C) Summary: Over 100 Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers and an unknown number of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadres were killed in a two-day battle at the Forward Defense Line (FDL) in Muhamalai, Jaffna October 11-12. This was the highest one-day death toll since the 2002 ceasefire ag [...]	2006-10-13 10:40:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO172	SRI LANKA: LTTE-AFFILIATED CHARITY WORKERS [...] (C) The lull in violence since the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) agreed on January 25 to meet in Geneva in February for talks to strengthen the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) was marred January 30 by the reported abductions of five Tamil Rehabilitation O [...]	2006-01-31 12:35:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM PGOV CE
06COLOMBO1739	SRI LANKA AFFIRMS SUPPORT FOR GUATEMALA UNSC SEAT [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-20 08:43:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA UNSC GT VE CE
06COLOMBO1747	SRI LANKA: A/S BOUCHER ADVOCATES ACCESS FOR [...] (C) Summary: In his October 19-20 meetings with Government of Sri Lanka authorities, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Richard Boucher addressed the issues of access and safety for humanitarian organizations, and the Government's seeming public ambivalence towards them. W [...]	2006-10-24 02:51:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1752	SRI LANKA: A/S BOUCHER PRESSES GOVERNMENT TO MAKE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a two-day visit to Sri Lanka, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher SIPDIS pressed Sri Lankan government and opposition officials to put meaningful proposals on the table for future rounds of peace talks with the Tamil Tigers. Boucher assur [...]	2006-10-24 05:27:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER MARR CE
06COLOMBO1755	SRI LANKA: MAJOR PARTIES AGREE TO COOPERATE ON WAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and the main opposition United National Party (UNP) signed a Memorandum of Understanding on October 23 setting out a Common Minimum Program to resolve the conflict in the north and east and to address other national issues. Most significa [...]	2006-10-24 10:53:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1758	CO-CHAIR AMBASSADORS (MINUS US) URGE LTTE [...] (C) Summary: Co-Chair Ambassadors (minus Ambassador Blake) met on October 24 the LTTE delegation traveling to talks with the Government of Sri Lanka that are expected to begin in Geneva on October 28. The Co-Chairs urged the LTTE to seize the opportunity afforded by Geneva and exercise maximu [...]	2006-10-24 12:56:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CE
06COLOMBO1759	SRI LANKA: TAMIL TIGERS GOING TO GENEVA TALKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 18-20, nearly simultaneous visits by Assistant Secretary Boucher (ref a),Japanese peace envoy Akashi, and the Norwegian facilitator Hanssen-Bauer helped nudge both the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers toward opening a new chapter of negotiations on October 2 [...]	2006-10-25 06:09:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO176	SRI LANKA: MORE PRO-LTTE AID WORKERS REPORTED [...] (C) Summary: One day after January 31 reports that five Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO) staff members had been abducted near an Army checkpoint (Reftel),TRO reported that another three TRO personnel have disappeared en route from Batticaloa to Kilinochchi. The Sri Lanka Monitoring [...]	2006-02-01 11:52:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM PGOV CE
06COLOMBO1763	SRI LANKA: POLITICAL GROUPS, DIPLOMATS AGREE [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Rajapaksa told visiting Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher that the government should consult SIPDIS residents of Sri Lanka's Eastern Province as to whether they want to see their multi-ethnic region merged with the Tamil-dominated north. Rajapaksa envisioned a multi [...]	2006-10-25 11:24:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM CE
06COLOMBO1765	SRI LANKA: UN RAPPORTEUR CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: Calls are mounting for an international commission to investigate human rights abuses in Sri Lanka. The U.S.-based Human Rights Watch, the European Commission, and Amnesty International have recently expressed support for a call by Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudi [...]	2006-10-25 11:44:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1793	HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER URGES INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT [...] (C) Summary: Disaster and Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe hosted a meeting October 30 for Ambassadors and Heads of Mission from contributing countries to the International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IIGEP) that will monitor the work of the Presidential Commission of Inqu [...]	2006-10-30 14:06:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO180	SRI LANKA TO SUPPORT IAEA REFERRAL OF IRAN TO UNSC [...] (C) President Mahinda Rajapaksa called the Ambassador early February 2 to tell him that the cabinet had decided the night before to support the U.S. position on Iran and the IAEA by voting in the February 2 IAEA Board of Governors meeting to refer the issue to the United Nations Security Coun [...]	2006-02-02 09:32:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AORC IAEA KNNP CE IR
06COLOMBO1802	SRI LANKA: FRONT-LINE FIRE AS USUAL AFTER GENEVA [...] (C) Engagement between Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) security forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) continued this week after October 28-29 peace talks in Geneva between the two parties ended with no significant breakthroughs and failed to produce agreement on dates for a next [...]	2006-10-31 09:12:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1811	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SRI LANKA WILL "GENTLY PUSH" [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-01 11:53:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1812	SRI LANKA: LTTE DEBRIEFS CO-CHAIRS; GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) delegation gave a post-mortem on the Geneva talks to Co-Chair Ambassadors minus the U.S. this morning, November 1. Political Wing leader S.P. Tamilselvan claimed the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) had not heeded the LTTE's "humanitarian" [...]	2006-11-01 13:52:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1816	MALDIVIAN PRESIDENT GAYOOM PLEDGES TO SUSTAIN [...] (C) Summary: In a cordial 20-minute meeting with President Gayoom following the presentation of his credentials on October 30, Ambassador Blake pledged to work to strengthen US-Maldivian relations and urged the President to sustain Maldives' progress in its political Reform Roadmap. Gayoom [...]	2006-11-02 09:25:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KISL MV
06COLOMBO1824	SRI LANKA: NORWAY BRIEFS CO-CHAIR AMBASSADORS ON [...] (C) Norwegian Ambassador Brattskar briefed Co-Chair Ambassadors November 3 on the results of the Geneva Peace Talks between the Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE. Brattskar's briefing tracked closely with that provided by the Norwegians to Embassy Oslo (ref A). Following are some addition [...]	2006-11-03 09:46:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NO CE
06COLOMBO1827	MALDIVES: SOME HARD BUMPS ALONG THE ROAD TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: During his initial trip to the Maldives to present his credentials (ref a),Ambassador discussed the political reform process with several ministers and with the principal opposition figures. Assessments of the state of reform diverged widely: the government side portrayed the r [...]	2006-11-03 13:57:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL MV
06COLOMBO1828	SRI LANKA: AIR FORCE RAIDS TARGET KILINOCHCHI; [...] (C) Summary: The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) confirmed that the Sri Lankan Air Force (SLAF) bombed a target November 2 in Kilinochchi, the de-facto capital of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) controlled Vanni region. Several bombs hit close to the hospital there, causing da [...]	2006-11-03 14:44:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1838	THOUGHTS ON THE AGENDA FOR NOVEMBER 20-21 SRI [...] (C) Summary: As the Department prepares to host the November 20-21 Co-Chair meeting in Washington, Mission hereby offers some thoughts on the structure and substance of those discussions. The talks come on the heels of the unsuccessful meetings between the Government of Sri Lanka and the LT [...]	2006-11-06 13:50:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV CE
06COLOMBO1849	SRI LANKA: GOVERNMENT NAMES COMMISSION OF INQUIRY [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 6 Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa approved the appointment of a Commission of Inquiry to investigate human rights violations committed since August 2005, headed by outgoing Supreme Court Justice Nissanka Udalagama. The Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) announced t [...]	2006-11-07 12:45:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1852	SRI LANKA WILL CONTINUE TO IMPLEMENT UNSCR 1718 [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-07 13:11:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM ETTC KNNP MTCR KN UNSC CE
06COLOMBO1853	SRI LANKA: INDIA TO DELIVER SUPPLIESTO JAFFNA AT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following a request by the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) that the Government of India (GOI) provide urgent food aid to Jaffna, Indian Acting High Commissioner Manikkam confirmed to DCM on November 7 that the GOI would mobilize to ship supplies from Chennai. This "one-time gift" of [...]	2006-11-07 13:27:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1863	MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL SECRETARY: AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Ambassador met alone with Presidential Secretary (defacto National Security Advisor) Lalith Weeratunga on November 7 to register concern that the Sri Lankan military's recent military actions had become increasingly difficult to justify as "defensive." The U.S. wanted to continue to supp [...]	2006-11-08 13:12:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS CE
06COLOMBO187	SRI LANKAN PRESIDENT PLEDGES INVESTIGATION INTO [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 2 President Mahinda Rajapaksa telephoned the Ambassador to assure him of Government concern at the reported abductions of Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO) staff (Reftels) but reiterated that efforts to investigate were being hampered by lack of access to purp [...]	2006-02-02 11:51:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM PGOV CE
06COLOMBO1884	SRI LANKA: GOVERNMENT MORTAR FIRE KILLS 23 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Red Cross reported 23 civilians dead and 74 injured when government mortar fire hit a school housing internally displaced persons (IDPs) near the eastern town of Vakarai on November 8. Government officials confirmed the casualties, but said troops had been unaware of civilians [...]	2006-11-09 12:26:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1889	DEFENSE SECRETARY EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT POSSIBLE [...] (C) In a November 10 meeting with Defense Secretary Rajapakse, Ambassador expressed concern about growing indications the Sri Lankan military was taking disproportionate military action against the LTTE that jeopardized prospects for a return to peace negotiations. Peace Secretariat Director K [...]	2006-11-10 15:02:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PTER CE
06COLOMBO1895	UN SPECIAL ADVISOR ROCK EXPRESSES DEEP CONCERN [...] (C) Summary: In a November 13 briefing for Co-Chair and other selected Ambassadors, UN Special Advisor for Children Affected by Armed Conflict Allan Rock expressed his deep concern about forced abductions of children by the LTTE and the breakaway Karuna faction. Rock received many eyewitness [...]	2006-11-13 12:38:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV UN CE
06COLOMBO1896	SRI LANKA: TAMIL MP ASSASSINATED IN COLOMBO; [...] (C) SUMMARY: The assassination of a Tamil Member of Parliament in broad daylight in Colombo on November 10 provoked widespread outrage and condemnation. President Rajapaksa issued a forthright statement in which he mourned the death of Nadaraja Raviraj, whom he called a friend, and ordered a [...]	2006-11-13 13:15:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1909	SRI LANKA: SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS STAFF [...] (SBU) Keith Luse, Professional Staff Assistant to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN),visited Colombo November 9-10 to assess country team coordination on military issues and explore the security environment through meetings with prominent Sri Lankans. In meetings [...]	2006-11-14 12:52:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1910	MALDIVES: GOVERNMENT ACTION STYMIES PLANNED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) planned a November 10 demonstration in Male' to demand quicker constitutional reform. The Government of the Republic of Maldives (GORM) claimed the opposition would use the guise of a peaceful protest to possibly foment a coup. Se [...]	2006-11-14 12:58:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM MV
06COLOMBO1911	SRI LANKA: GOVERNMENT SECURITY FORCES IN CAHOOTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Batticaloa-based Karuna group, which split from the northern Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in March 2004, has opened political offices in Colombo, the east, and the northern town of Vavuniya. The group's public relations wing preaches the virtues of "devolution" and [...]	2006-11-14 13:03:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1913	BLAIR SPECIAL ENVOY SEES SOME PARALLELS BETWEEN [...] (C) Summary: In a luncheon discussion with Co-Chair Ambassadors and the Acting Indian High Commissioner on November 14 Prime Minister Tony Blair's Special Envoy Paul Murphy exchanged views on how the Northern Ireland peace process might be relevant for the Sri Lankan context. Murphy was th [...]	2006-11-14 13:06:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV CE EI
06COLOMBO1919	SRI LANKA: SCENESETTER FOR NOV. 20-21 CO-CHAIRS [...] (C) The November 21-22 meeting in Washington comes at a critical moment. Since the last Co-Chairs meeting on September 12 in Brussels, the situation in Sri Lanka has deteriorated markedly. The Washington meetings therefore mark a good opportunity to take a hard look at what more we can do t [...]	2006-11-15 15:02:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1920	FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS GSL PREPARED TO RETURN TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Samaraweera confirmed to Ambassador Blake that the Sri Lankan government was "absolutely" committed to resuming peace talks without negotiations. He appeared troubled by signs that international support for the government was flagging because of reports of serio [...]	2006-11-15 15:02:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1930	SRI LANKAN OPPOSITION LEADER: DEVELOPING PEACE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Opposition leader Wickremesinghe told Ambassador on November 16 that he was gravely concerned about the deterioration in the human rights environment in the country following the assassination of Tamil MP Raviraj. He said the government had a "siege mentality" about charges fro [...]	2006-11-16 11:36:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1946	SRI LANKA: GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES TRIAL OPENING OF [...] (U) The Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) announced November 20 it would open for a "trial run" the Muhamalai check-point on the A9 highway linking the Jaffna peninsula to the south of the island through the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) controlled Vanni. The A9 highway has remained clos [...]	2006-11-20 13:09:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1947	SRI LANKA: MILITARY ENGAGEMENTS ON FIVE FRONTS [...] (C) Summary: Military engagements between Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) security forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) continued in the north and east on November 18-19, including a sea battle off the coast of Mannar, firing at the Jaffna Forward Defense Line, and LTTE attack [...]	2006-11-20 13:12:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1951	SCENE SETTER FOR SRI LANKA ARMY COMMANDER [...] (C) Summary: General Sarath Fonseka, Commander of the Sri Lankan Army, will conduct a self-invited visit to Washington November 28-29 to meet with Department of State and Pentagon officials. Fonseka, the target of an April 2006 Tiger suicide-bombing attempt on his life, has pursued a hard-lin [...]	2006-11-21 05:07:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1958	SRI LANKA: MONITORING MISSION BACKS UN CLAIMS THAT [...] (C) Summary: On November 13, following a ten-day trip to Sri Lanka, United Nations Special Advisor for Children and Armed Conflict Allan Rock released a report alleging complicity between elements of the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) security forces and the Karuna faction (ref C). The Nordi [...]	2006-11-22 02:38:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO196	SRI LANKA: SPRING LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS MAY [...] (C) Summary: The Elections Commissioner has called for candidate nominations to Local Governments (LGs) to be submitted between February 9-16, with elections to fall four to six weeks afterward. A local NGO and the opposition United National Party (UNP) have filed court cases requesting a r [...]	2006-02-06 11:48:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CE
06COLOMBO1968	SRI LANKA: HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER LOBBIES AGAINST [...] (C) Summary: Disaster Management and Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe called a meeting for diplomatic representatives November 22 to highlight the Government of Sri Lanka's human rights initiatives. Samarasinghe's apparent objective was to head off an EU-sponsored human rights reso [...]	2006-11-24 06:45:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1972	SRI LANKA OPPOSITION LEADER AGREES ON NEED FOR [...] (C) Ambassador and Pol Chief met opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe on November 24 to brief him on the result of the November 20-21 Co-Chairs meeting in Washington. Ambassador Blake told Wickremesinghe that the Co-Chairs had concluded the Memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Wickreme [...]	2006-11-24 12:35:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1973	SRI LANKA MONITORING MISSION CONFIRMS CEASEFIRE [...] (C) Summary: Pol Chief met November 24 with Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) policy advisor (and occasional acting spokesperson) Helen Olafsdottir and Spokesperson Thorfinnur Omarsson to discuss recent cease-fire violation, the human rights situation, and the mission's current functioning [...]	2006-11-24 15:10:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1985	SRI LANKA: TIGER LEADER'S HEROES DAY SPEECH JUST [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his annual "Great Heroes' Day" speech, Tamil Tiger chief Prabhakaran castigated successive Sri Lankan governments for failing to keep promises to present a viable plan to settle Sri Lanka's decades-old ethnic conflict. He declared the 2002 Cease-Fire Agreement "defunct," but s [...]	2006-11-28 08:37:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1987	SRI LANKA SIGNS UP TO PROLIFERATION SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) notified the Embassy via diplomatic note of its intention to support the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI). The GSL cautioned that it will do so "consistent with its national laws and obligations under international law." Complete text [...]	2006-11-28 09:22:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1988	SRI LANKA SIGNS UP TO PROLIFERATION SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) notified the Embassy via diplomatic note of its intention to support the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI). The GSL cautioned that it will do so "consistent with its national laws and obligations under international law." Complete text [...]	2006-11-28 09:24:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1989	SRI LANKA SIGNS UP TO PROLIFERATION SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) notified the Embassy via diplomatic note of its intention to support the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI). The GSL cautioned that it will do so "consistent with its national laws and obligations under international law." Complete text [...]	2006-11-28 09:25:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1994	SRI LANKA: TAMIL TIGERS NOT TERMINATING CEASEFIRE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nordic monitors from the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission reported to the Embassy that the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) were not withdrawing from the 2002 Ceasefire Agreement with the government. LTTE chief negotiator Tamilchelvan told them his movement wants the SLMM mission to continue as [...]	2006-11-29 11:38:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO1995	SRI LANKA: LTTE LEADER'S HEROES' DAY SPEECH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader Prabhakaran,s annual November 27 Heroes' Day address (ref),media reports quoted Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa as discounting LTTE threats of resumed violence and calling on Prabhakaran to engage directly with him in talks [...]	2006-11-29 11:40:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM CE
06COLOMBO2010	SRI LANKA: ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON DEFENSE [...] (SBU) Unknown assailants, but most likely the LTTE ("Tamil Tigers"),attacked the motorcade of Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa (the brother of President Mahinda Rajapaksa) with explosives on December 1. The method of delivery was apparently a vehicle-borne "claymore" mine. According to [...]	2006-12-01 08:34:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV MOPS PREL CE
06COLOMBO2013	SRI LANKA: DEPUTY USTR URGES PRESIDENT TO IMPROVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, in a meeting on November 30, asked Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Karan Bhatia to help facilitate completion of a Millennium Challenge Compact for his country. Rajapaksa made it clear that Sri Lanka was prepared to drop controversial irr [...]	2006-12-01 10:25:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV EAID PGOV PREL PTER PHUM CE
06COLOMBO2014	HANSSEN-BAUER EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT CRITICISM OF [...] (C) Norwegian Special Envoy Jon Hanssen-Bauer met briefly with Co-Chair Ambassadors to compare notes before he begins a trip to Kilinochchi to meet with the LTTE on December 2. After two days of meetings with Government and civil society representatives in Colombo, he expressed concern about [...]	2006-12-01 11:12:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV CE
06COLOMBO2015	GOVERNMENT TO REVIEW ALL CONTACTS WITH LTTE [...] (C) Summary and Action Request: In the aftermath of the failed assassination attempt of Defense Secretary Rajapakse (ref a),the Government of Sri Lanka announced on December 3 that the Cabinet will decide on December 6 whether to revive the ban on contacts with the LTTE, which would effectiv [...]	2006-12-04 12:21:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV CE
06COLOMBO2020	SRI LANKAN FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS CABINET TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 5 meeting with Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera, Ambassador strongly urged the Sri Lankan government (GSL) to refrain from proscribing the LTTE ("Tamil Tigers," saying it would effectively put an end to the peace process. The Minister responded that the governm [...]	2006-12-06 12:48:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
06COLOMBO2021	SRI LANKA KEEPS PEACE PROCESS ALIVE; REINSTATES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Sri Lankan Cabinet reached a consensus not to react to the assassination attempt on Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa (ref a) by proscribing the SIPDIS LTTE. Instead, the President will issue an order reinstating provisions of the Prevention of Terrorism Act. However, [...]	2006-12-06 14:28:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
06COLOMBO2030	SRI LANKA: MINISTER GIVES ASSURANCES ON HUMAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 6 meeting, the Minister for Disaster Management and Human Rights gave Ambassador his readout of Cabinet deliberations over the promulgation of new powers for security forces in the fight against LTTE terrorism. He assured us, however, that the new regulations adeq [...]	2006-12-07 12:48:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL PTER CE
06COLOMBO2037	HANSSEN-BAUER RETURNS EMPTY HANDED FROM [...] (C) Summary: In a readout to Co-Chair Ambassadors the evening of December 8, Norwegian Special Envoy Jon Hanssen-Bauer reported that the LTTE had refused all four initiatives proposed the Government of Sri Lanka, including the idea of holding peace talks as soon as possible. The LTTE respon [...]	2006-12-10 04:06:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV CE

06COLOMBO2043	SRI LANKA: HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN JAFFNA DIRE [...] (C) Summary: During the Ambassador's December 7 visit to Jaffna, Government Agent Mr. K. Ganesh (protect throughout) expressed deep concern for the humanitarian situation in Jaffna, particularly with regard to nutrition and livelihoods. Since August 11, when the Tigers attacked the Governme [...]	2006-12-11 13:26:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
06COLOMBO2045	SRI LANKA: PROBABLE "YES" ON SUDAN SPECIAL SESSION [...] (C) Pol Chief demarched MFA multilateral section deputy director Gunesekara on December 8, who confirmed that Sri Lanka was leaning toward voting for the Finnish resolution. Gunesekara reported that the Sri Lankan Ambassador had weighed in with a favorable recommendation on the Finnish draft, [...]	2006-12-11 13:40:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	KTIA PHUM PREL SU UN CE
06COLOMBO2046	SRI LANKA: ALL PARTY REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) Summary: President Rajapaksa appointed a Panel of Experts (PoE),all lawyers, to draft constitutional recommendations for a "maximum devolution" proposal that can form the basis for talks with the LTTE. Some supporters of the governing Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and some Tamil lega [...]	2006-12-11 13:43:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PTER CE
06COLOMBO2050	SRI LANKA: JAFFNA UNIVERSITY STAFF, STUDENTS [...] (C) Summary: Jaffna Government Agent Mr. K. Ganesh hosted a panel discussion on December 7 with Jaffna University faculty and students and the Ambassador. Classes have been suspended at the University since August 11, when the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) attacked the crossing poin [...]	2006-12-12 11:17:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
06COLOMBO2051	SRI LANKA: AMBASSADOR TELLS FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador told Foreign Minister Samaraweera on December 11 that the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) is allowing the "Tamil Tigers" (LTTE) to exploit the serious humanitarian and human rights situation in Jaffna by alienating the local population from the government. While some of [...]	2006-12-12 13:05:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
06COLOMBO2052	SRI LANKA: ARMY SHELLS HIT VAKARAI IDPS, [...] (C) Summary: In a December 11 press release, the International Committee for the Red Cross confirmed the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) shelling December 8-11 killed up to 27 civilians in LTTE-controlled Vakarai and injured 30. About 35,000 civilians remain trapped in Vakarai where the LTTE and GSL s [...]	2006-12-12 13:17:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
06COLOMBO2054	HRC: SRI LANKA WILL NOT SUPPORT EXPERT MISSION TO [...] (C) Further to reftel, Pol chief followed up with MFA Multilateral Section Deputy Director Gunesekera on December 12. Gunesekera affirmed Sri Lanka was disposed to support the Finnish draft. However, she said that, according to her information, there was still no consensus in Geneva on the [...]	2006-12-13 02:28:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KTIA PREL SU UN CE
06COLOMBO2056	SRI LANKA: JAFFNA CIVILIANS FEAR SECURITY FORCES [...] (C) During the Ambassador's December 7 trip to Jaffna and a December 5-8 political section/USAID visit, Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) Human Rights authorities told us they have seen evidence that security forces intelligence units are working with paramilitary cadres belonging to Minister Dou [...]	2006-12-13 06:53:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
06COLOMBO2060	SRI LANKA: JAFFNA BISHOP CALLS FOR TOUGH MESSAGE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Blake met the Catholic Bishop of Jaffna on December 7 during his day trip to the northern peninsula. An outspoken Tamil rights advocate, the Bishop told the Ambassador that the international community will have to use "stick diplomacy" to persuade the Government of Sr [...]	2006-12-13 10:09:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
06COLOMBO207	DEMARCHE: DEFEATING VENEZUELA IN THE 2006 ELECTION [...] (C) On February 8, Ambassador Lunstead delivered Reftel demarche to Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary H.M.G.S. Palihakkara at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Palihakkara acknowledged the points concerning Venezuela as enumerated by the Ambassador and stated that his government would consider the [...]	2006-02-08 11:25:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CE
06COLOMBO2073	SRI LANKA: JAFFNA CALMER FOLLOWING AMBASSADOR'S [...] (C) Summary: Pol FSN spoke December 14 with Mr. Remidious, Legal Advisor and Acting Coordinator of the Human Rights Commission in Jaffna, Government Agent K. Ganesh, and the Jaffna Bishop Rev. Thomas Savundranayagam. Each interlocutor pointed out that since Ambassador Blake's December 7 visit [...]	2006-12-14 12:05:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
06COLOMBO2077	SRI LANKA: TAMIL PARTY URGES MORE TALKS BUT SAYS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting on December 14 with Ambassador and PolCouns, Members of Parliament from the Tamil National Alliance (TNA, which shares the political goals of the "Tamil Tigers"),criticized the report of an Experts' Committee on possible future power-sharing arrangements, but felt th [...]	2006-12-15 10:40:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
06COLOMBO2078	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES JAFFNA, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND THE [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met on December 15 with Basil Rajapakse, the brother and chief political advisor of President Rajapakse, to urge that the President address the deteriorating human rights situation and problems in Jaffna, and that the President urge as rapid consideration as possible [...]	2006-12-15 10:40:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV CE
06COLOMBO2081	SRI LANKA: INTERLOCUTORS MOURN BALASINGHAM AS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy's Tamil contacts, international observers and Sri Lankan political figures lamented the December 14 death in London of chief LTTE negotiator and theoretician Anton Balasingham (1938-2006). Members of Colombo's humanitarian and think-tank community stressed that Balasingh [...]	2006-12-15 10:40:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
06COLOMBO2082	SRI LANKA: INTERLOCUTORS MOURN BALASINGHAM AS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy's Tamil contacts, international observers and Sri Lankan political figures lamented the December 14 death in London of chief LTTE negotiator and theoretician Anton Balasingham (1938-2006). Members of Colombo's humanitarian and think-tank community stressed that Balasingh [...]	2006-12-15 10:40:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
06COLOMBO2083	SRI LANKA: MUSLIM PARTY SUPPORTS DE-MERGER OF [...] (C) Ambassador met December 11 with representatives of the All Ceylon Muslim Congress (ACMC),including Minister of Disaster Relief Services M.S.S. Ameer. The ACMC split from Rauf Hakeem's Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) (ref b) to support the ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP),although [...]	2006-12-15 10:40:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
06COLOMBO2084	SRI LANKA: INTERLOCUTORS MOURN BALASINGHAM AS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy's Tamil contacts, international observers and Sri Lankan political figures lamented the December 14 death in London of chief LTTE negotiator and theoretician Anton Balasingham (1938-2006). Members of Colombo's humanitarian and think-tank community stressed that Balasingh [...]	2006-12-15 10:43:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
06COLOMBO2087	PRESIDENT RAJAPAKSE REQUESTS DS ADVICE ON HIS [...] (C) Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse, brother of President Mahinda Rajapakse, contacted me to ask if the United States could advise the President and his security detail how they might improve all aspects of his security. The Secretary said the President had been impressed with the secur [...]	2006-12-18 04:12:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PTER CE
06COLOMBO2094	SRI LANKA: PRESIDENT FACES CHALLENGES IN BUILDING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 10, former Sri Lankan president Kumaratunga told a group of supporters she will return to politics, possibly making a bid to regain leadership of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP),currently headed by President Mahinda Rajapaksa. On Dec 12, the Marxist, Sinhalese n [...]	2006-12-18 12:13:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER CE
06COLOMBO2095	SRI LANKA: EASTERN UNIVERSITY VICE-CHANCELLOR [...] (C) Summary. Eastern University (Batticaloa) Vice-Chancellor S. Ravindranath disappeared from an area of heightened security in Colombo midday on December 15. Civil monitors and human rights activists allege that the LTTE-breakaway Karuna faction (TMVP),in collusion with state security forc [...]	2006-12-18 12:26:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
06COLOMBO2099	SRI LANKA: TWENTY-THREE STUDENTS ABDUCTED IN [...] (C) Summary: Twenty-three teenage students and two teachers were abducted from a private tutorial center in the Thirukovil area of the southeastern Ampara district on December 18 at approximately 10 p.m. The Government of Sri Lanka has blamed the "Tamil Tigers" (LTTE). Other interlocutors no [...]	2006-12-19 11:33:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
06COLOMBO2107	SRI LANKA: TIGERS APOLOGIZE FOR ABDUCTING 23 [...] (C) Summary: The "Tamil Tigers" (LTTE) apologized late December 19 for the December 18 "mistaken recruitment" of 23 students from a private tutorial center in Thirukovil, Ampara, releasing the abductees to the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) that evening. Humanitarian interlo [...]	2006-12-20 12:24:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV MOPS PREL CE
06COLOMBO2113	SRI LANKA: AMBASSADOR AND OPPOSITION LEADER [...] (C) Summary: On December 20, the Ambassador met with Ranil Wickremesinghe, leader of the major opposition United National Party (UNP),to discuss the prospects for a Sinhalese consensus on resolving Sri Lanka,s ethnic conflict. Wickremesinghe, who had met with President Rajapaksa earlier tha [...]	2006-12-21 12:49:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER CE
06COLOMBO212	DEMARCHE: PSI ENDORSEMENT BY THE 2/13 2006 ASTOP [...] (C) DCM joined Australian High Commissioner French, Japanese Ambassador Suda, British High Commissioner Evans and Canadian Charge' Shea in February 9 Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) demarche (reftel) on Foreign Secretary H.G.M.S. Palihakkara. French presented reftel points, focusing [...]	2006-02-09 08:08:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL KNNP XC CE
06COLOMBO2123	AMBASSADOR BRIEFS INDIAN HIGH COMMISSIONER ON [...] (C) Ambassador hosted a one-on-one lunch for Indian High Commissioner Alok Prasad on December 22, hours after Prasad presented his credentials to President Rajapakse. The Ambassador told Prasad that he and his Embassy colleagues looked forward to working very closely with Prasad and his miss [...]	2006-12-22 10:05:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MARR CE IN
06COLOMBO213	SRI LANKAN GOVERNMENT IN SERIOUS PREPARATIONS FOR [...] (C) The Ambassador's discussion with Health Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva, the head of the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) delegation to the February 22-23 ceasefire talks in Geneva, along with poloff's separate consultations with staff at the GSL Peace Secretariat, indicate that the new Gov [...]	2006-02-09 09:53:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL CE
06COLOMBO2135	SRI LANKA: OPPOSITION LEADER CONCERNED DE-MERGER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since October, the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) has discussed de-merging the north and east, currently administered as a single province per the 1987 Indo-Lanka Accords. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and its proxies have said a continued merger is an essential pre- [...]	2006-12-28 11:05:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
06COLOMBO230	SRI LANKA: GSL INSIDER PREDICTS PRE-GENEVA [...] (C) In a February 10 meeting with poloff, presidential advisor and younger sibling Basil Rajapaksa discussed Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) thinking and expectations in the run-up to talks on the ceasefire with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) scheduled for February 22-23 in Geneva. [...]	2006-02-13 11:08:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM CE
06COLOMBO235	MALDIVES WILL SUPPORT GUATEMALA FOR SECURITY [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-14 09:35:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN UNSC
06COLOMBO236	MALDIVES WILL LIKELY SUPPORT HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-14 09:39:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KUNR PHUM UN MV
06COLOMBO242	BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON RADHIKA COOMARASWAMY, [...] (C) Radhika Coomaraswamy, whose appointment as UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict was announced on February 7, has been a close and valued contact of the Embassy for more than two decades. She has been a long-standing and vociferous opponent of the Liberation Tigers o [...]	2006-02-16 07:14:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINR CE
06COLOMBO254	MALDIVES: POLITICAL SUSPICIONS FESTER WHILE [...] (C) During a February 10-13 DCM visit to Maldives (in conjunction with a port call by the missile destroyer USS McCampbell from the USS Ronald Reagan strike group),conversations with government officials and the opposition conveyed a sense of logjam in the political reform process as social [...]	2006-02-17 05:40:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL MV
06COLOMBO256	SRI LANKA: PRE-TALKS PREPARATIONS, POSTURING [...] (C) Ambassador's meetings with the three Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) Ministers who will participate in talks on the Ceasefire Agreement in Geneva February 22-23 indicate that the new Rajapaksa government is diligently preparing for its first face-to-face with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil [...]	2006-02-17 05:53:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER CE
06COLOMBO271	SRI LANKA: BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON INVESTMENT [...] (C) Rohitha Bogollagama, Sri Lankan Minister for Investment Promotion and Industries, is a colorful, aisle-crossing politician and lawyer whose bipartisan experience--as well as his involvement in a few sensational local scandals--may make him uniquely qualified for the delicate job of pres [...]	2006-02-21 11:43:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV EINV CE
06COLOMBO308	SRI LANKA: MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACKING ON [...] (C) With the conclusion on February 23 of the first round of talks between the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in three years, southern political parties are feverishly engaging in Monday morning quarterbacking to determine whether the GSL "won" or [...]	2006-02-27 13:18:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV CE
06COLOMBO338	NORWEGIAN AMBASSADOR HAPPY WITH GENEVA BUT SEES [...] (C) Summary. Norwegian Ambassador Brattskar told Colombo co-chairs reps March 2 that the Geneva talks had exceeded his expectations. An initially tense atmosphere had relaxed over time and made it possible for agreement on a joint statement. Brattskar is fairly confident the next round wil [...]	2006-03-02 11:35:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM CE NO
06COLOMBO340	SRI LANKAN GOVERNMENT DELEGATION MEMBERS' [...] (C) In separate conversations March 2, Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) delegation members John Gooneratne and Nivard Cabraal told emboffs they were generally pleased with the outcome of the February 22-23 talks with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Geneva. Both said they foresee [...]	2006-03-02 11:45:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER CE
06COLOMBO367	SUPPORTING THE U.S.-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-08 09:06:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG KSCA PARM KNNP ETTC IN CE
06COLOMBO373	SRI LANKA ALMOST CERTAINLY TO SUPPORT GUATEMALA [...] (C) The Ambassador demarched Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera March 8 on the need for Guatemala, not Venezuela, to obtain the Latin America seat on the UNSC this fall. Samaraweera said, "At the moment, we are thinking along the same lines. We are moving in that direction." He noted t [...]	2006-03-08 10:31:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC CE
06COLOMBO377	SRI LANKA: GSL MINISTERS DOWNPLAY COMPLEXITIES IN [...] (C) In a March 7 meeting with Health Minister and chief Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) negotiator Nimal Siripala de Silva and a March 8 meeting with Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera, the Ambassador stressed that the GSL must be proactive in upholding its commitments under the joint statem [...]	2006-03-08 10:53:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PHUM CE
06COLOMBO382	SRI LANKA: JVP INSISTS CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT MUST [...] (C) In a March 8 meeting, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) General Secretary Tilvin Silva and JVP MP Vijitha Herath told poloff that their party generally supported Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) talks with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Geneva February 22-23 but insisted that th [...]	2006-03-09 10:31:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINR CE
06COLOMBO4	IS SRI LANKA GOING BACK TO WAR - AND WHAT CAN WE [...] (C) SUMMARY: As the optimism and hope surrounding the four-year old ceasefire agreement (CFA) fade and a return to some sort of war becomes an increasing (but certainly not inevitable) possibility, the U.S. and the rest of the concerned international community need to consider how best to he [...]	2006-01-03 07:09:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS EFIN CE LTTE
06COLOMBO400	READY OR NOT, HERE THEY COME: (MOST) LOCAL [...] (C) Local government elections, scheduled to take place in most areas on March 30, have been embroiled in controversy and legal challenges since the deadline for nominations passed on February 16. Although the pro-Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has file [...]	2006-03-15 09:28:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CE
06COLOMBO408	SRI LANKA: DEFENSE SECRETARY CLAIMS NO GSL [...] (C) In a March 15 meeting with Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, the Ambassador stressed the importance of the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) upholding its commitment to restrain any armed group other than Government security forces from operating in GSL-controlled territory (Reftels). Acc [...]	2006-03-16 09:41:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS PHUM CE
06COLOMBO414	SRI LANKA MONITORING MISSION: SCORING THE GENEVA [...] (C) Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) Spokeswoman Helen Olafsdottir told poloffs on March 17 that the level of violence in the north and east had diminished dramatically since the February 22-23 talks between the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) [...]	2006-03-17 13:22:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM PGOV CE
06COLOMBO428	SRI LANKA: LTTE-BACKED STUDENTS BLOCK VICE [...] (SBU) Vehement protests by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)-affiliated Jaffna University Student Union (JUSU) have prevented Professor S. Ratnajeevan Hoole, who was appointed Vice Chancellor to the troubled university on March 9, from assuming his duties. President Mahinda Rajapak [...]	2006-03-20 11:41:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER PGOV SOCI CE
06COLOMBO445	MALDIVES: GROWING PAINS OF DEMOCRATIZATION [...] (SBU) Summary: During a March 14-16 trip to Maldives, poloff met government officials, political party leaders, and civil society representatives, all of whom expressed commitment to democratic reform but worry about its pace and implementation. All interlocutors responded positively to the [...]	2006-03-22 04:58:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR MV
06COLOMBO460	SRI LANKA: PRESIDENTIAL CONFIDANT (AND SIBLING) [...] (C) Basil Rajapaksa, confidant and advisor to his older brother President Mahinda Rajapaksa, told poloff on March 22 that in the second round of talks with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE),scheduled to be held in Geneva April 19-21, the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) wants to move [...]	2006-03-23 10:35:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM CE
06COLOMBO467	SRI LANKA: NORWEGIANS CONCERNED ABOUT PROSPECTS [...] (C) In a March 23 meeting, Norwegian emboffs expressed concern that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE),absent greater evidence that the Government is disarming the Karuna paramilitary and/or other confidence building measures, may pull out of talks with the Government of Sri Lanka ( [...]	2006-03-24 07:41:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PHUM CE
06COLOMBO470	SRI LANKA: NEW ANTI-LTTE TAMIL PARTY: A CREDIBLE [...] (C) Summary: A new Tamil umbrella political party hopes to pose an alternative to the pro-LTTE Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and to attract prominent non-LTTE Tamils, such as Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) misfit V. Anandasangaree and People's Liberation Front of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) chi [...]	2006-03-25 06:06:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER CE
06COLOMBO471	COLOMBO CO-CHAIRS HUDDLE IN FACE OF POST-GENEVA [...] (C) Summary. In the face of tepid performances by both the GSL and the LTTE in fulfilling their Geneva commitments, local co- chair representatives plan to beard each side in early April, after March 30 local government elections. That said, violence remains down which is quite encouraging [...]	2006-03-27 04:31:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM CE NO
06COLOMBO495	SRI LANKA: JVP GIVING ALL IT'S GOT IN SOUTHERN [...] (C) Poloff's March 26-27 visit to four southern districts suggested a sharp split in attitudes--if not in actual platforms--among the three largest parties in the run-up to March 30 local elections. The governing Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) is banking on traditional voter preferences for [...]	2006-03-29 10:41:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CE
06COLOMBO508	SRI LANKA: LTTE-KARUNA TENSIONS REMAIN HIGH IN [...] (C ) Summary: Following the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) talks with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Geneva in mid-February, the eastern district of Batticaloa has seen tension and turf battles between the LTTE and the breakaway Karuna faction. During a March 19-21 visit, [...]	2006-03-30 12:01:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV CE
06COLOMBO543	PRESIDENT AGREES CO-CHAIRS SHOULD DELIVER STRONG [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Rajapaksa agreed that Co-Chair Chiefs of Mission (minus the US) should travel to Kilinocchi to deliver message to Tigers that they need to engage seriously in Geneva talks, give up violence, and broaden Geneva agenda beyond the ceasefire agreement (CFA). Co-Chairs will [...]	2006-04-05 11:16:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV CE
06COLOMBO546	SRI LANKA: JVP SOLDIERING ON AFTER DISAPPOINTING [...] (C) In an April 3 meeting with poloff, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) General Secretary Tilvin Silva downplayed his party's dismal showing in March 30 local elections (Ref B). "We knew the SLFP (the governing Sri Lanka Freedom Party) was going to win," he insisted; "we're pleased with our res [...]	2006-04-05 12:29:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR CE
06COLOMBO55	SRI LANKA: ESCALATING VIOLENCE SHIFTS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The week of January 2 was quiet in the Jaffna peninsula where several attacks by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the last 30 days had claimed the lives of dozens of security forces (Ref B). However, the eastern district of Trincomalee became the new nexus of violence [...]	2006-01-09 11:39:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM CE LTTE
06COLOMBO553	SRI LANKA: INDEPENDENT COMMISSIONS IN LIMBO [...] (C) Summary: Political in-fighting, spearheaded by the Sinhalese nationalist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP),is hindering formation of the Constitutional Council, the multi-partisan body empowered to nminate members to independent watchdog authoritis like the Human Rights Commission (HRC),P [...]	2006-04-06 11:11:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL CE
06COLOMBO557	TIGERS NOT YET COMMITTED TO SECOND ROUND OF TALKS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam are not yet willing to commit to attending the second round of peace talks scheduled for April 19-20 in Geneva, according to Solheim and Hanssen-Bauer. While the Tigers want to stick to discussing the Ceasefire Agreement, the GSL wants to broa [...]	2006-04-07 06:04:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV CE
06COLOMBO591	NORWEGIAN GOVERNMENT LETTER TO SRI LANKA AND LTTE [...] (C) After Co-Chairs meeting April 12 (septel),Norwegian Ambassador Brattskar grabbed Ambassador privately to pass copy of letter which Norwegian International Development Minister Erik Solheim was sending to Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa. Brattskar said very similar letter would be sent to L [...]	2006-04-12 09:47:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV CE
06COLOMBO592	SRI LANKA: VIOLENCE, VERBIAGE THREATEN GENEVA TALKS [...] (U) Summary: After a brief moratorium on violence following the late January announcement of the first round of Geneva talks (Ref A),the all-too-regrettable pattern of tit-for-tat bloodshed between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and its armed rivals has resumed with a vengeance. [...]	2006-04-12 09:57:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER CE
06COLOMBO600	GOVERNMENT ASKS CO-CHAIRS FOR STRONG RESPONSE AS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Co-Chair ambassadors, minus the U.S., pushed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) hard in an August 10 meeting to make clear its commitment to "Geneva II" but the Tigers are focused on the "transportation issue" in which the GSL has refused to chopper Eastern Tigers to the [...]	2006-04-12 11:55:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV CE
06COLOMBO612	CO-CHAIRS DISCUSSION: STILL SLIM CHANCE FOR GENEVA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Co-Chair reps met in Colombo April 17. Problems on both sides led to failure of transport of Tiger leaders on Aug 15, but Tigers bear most blame. There is one last chance to arrange transportation by civilian helicopter, which could allow Geneva to take place April 24-25 as plann [...]	2006-04-17 09:24:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV CE
06COLOMBO613	CO-CHAIRS DISCUSSION: STILL SLIM CHANCE FOR GENEVA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Co-Chair reps met in Colombo April 17. Problems on both sides led to failure of transport of Tiger leaders on April 15, but Tigers bear most blame. There is one last chance to arrange transportation by civilian helicopter, which could allow Geneva to take place April 24-25 as pla [...]	2006-04-17 09:28:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV CE
06COLOMBO62	MALDIVES: ELEMENTS OF GOVERNMENT AT ODDS OVER [...] (C) Summary. On December 28, Sri Lankan police, apparently acting on a request from Maldivian authorities via Interpol, searched the Colombo office of the pro-opposition Minivan News for evidence that Minivan staff were engaged in seditious activities and/or gun-running. Although the search y [...]	2006-01-10 10:44:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR MV CE
06COLOMBO620	SRI LANKA: CLAYMORE MINES AND MOB VIOLENCE AS LTTE [...] (C) Summary. Violence and communal strife in the north and east continued over the long New Year holiday, killing at least another 40 people April 13-17 in Trincomalee, Jaffna and Vavuniya. An April 12 bomb blast in Trincomalee that appeared to target civilians--the first such incident since [...]	2006-04-17 13:34:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV CE
06COLOMBO630	SRI LANKA: DEATH OF CHILD SOLDIER IN LTTE ATTACK [...] (U) Summary. The death of an underage Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadre in a claymore mine explosion in North Vavuniya on April 13 has prompted an outcry from the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF),which has repeatedly asked the LTTE to free all child soldiers. [...]	2006-04-19 09:29:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM CE
06COLOMBO634	SRI LANKA: NORWEGIAN FACILITATORS SEE SLIGHT HOPE [...] (C) In an April 19 meeting with the Ambassador, Norwegian Special Envoy Jon Hanssen-Bauer and Norwegian Ambassador Hans Brattskar said they still held out some hope that talks in Geneva between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) might take place A [...]	2006-04-19 11:47:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV CE
06COLOMBO635	PROPOSED ANTI-CONVERSION LEGISLATION UNLIKELY TO [...] (U) After more than eighteen months in legislative limbo, the Buddhist monk-based Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) anti-conversion bill showed faint signs of life when the Speaker of Parliament appointed Wijedasa Rajapakse, the Minister of State for Banks, to head the parliamentary select committee [...]	2006-04-19 12:01:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM CE
06COLOMBO646	SRI LANKA: FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS "NEGATIVE [...] (C) Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera met with the Ambassador on April 20 to discuss latest developments on the peace process. Foreign Secretary H.M.G.S. Palihakkara and GSL Peace Secretariat head Palitha Kohona also participated in the meeting. The Foreign Minister said that he had "he [...]	2006-04-20 12:29:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL PHUM CE
06COLOMBO650	NORWEGIANS STILL TRYING TO BROKER DEAL AS APRIL 24 [...] (C) SUMMARY: LTTE told the Norwegians they cannot attend ceasefire talks in Geneva until transport is arranged for their leaders to attend a Central Committee meeting. Contrary to what the Tigers told the press, the Tigers did not insist on other conditions for talks. Norwegians are still try [...]	2006-04-21 06:19:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV CE
06COLOMBO654	SRI LANKAN PEACE PROCESS: WHAT CAN WE AND OTHERS [...] (C) Escalating violence by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) against both civilian and military targets, along with the Tigers' refusal to attend the second round of talks in Geneva, suggest that the LTTE may have decided that continuing the peace process, at least for now, does not [...]	2006-04-21 14:20:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PHUM CE
06COLOMBO656	LOCAL G8 COUNTER-TERRORISM ACTION GROUP ON [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-24 10:07:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER CE
06COLOMBO661	SRI LANKA: CLAYMORES, CYANIDE, AND CIVILIANS: [...] (C) The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) continued small-scale attacks against military and civilian targets in the north and east April 21-23, killing eleven members of the security forces and six Sinhalese villagers in separate incidents. For the second time in as many weeks, a Sinhal [...]	2006-04-24 12:38:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM CE
06COLOMBO662	MALDIVES: DESPITE REFORM ROADMAP, QUESTIONS ON [...] (U) Summary: On March 27 the Government of the Republic of Maldives (GORM) unveiled its much-hyped "Reform Roadmap" which calls for increased press freedom, a new constitution by June 2007, and a multi-party election in October 2008. Since then, however, little progress has been made and const [...]	2006-04-24 13:01:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM MV
06COLOMBO668	SRI LANKA: DEMARCHE ON ASIAN CANDIDATES TO UN [...] (SBU) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera and Foreign Secretary H.M.G.S. Palihakkara on April 20. The Ambassador stressed the US commitment to ensuring the effectiveness of the Human Rights Council and the need for the Asia group to support candidates [...]	2006-04-25 07:06:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KUNR UNHRC UN CE
06COLOMBO672	SRI LANKA: SUSPECTED LTTE SUICIDE BOMBER ATTEMPTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Army Commander Lt. General Sarath Fonseka was injured April 25 in an assassination attempt by a suspected Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide bomber at Army Headquarters in Colombo. As many as eight people, many of them members of Fonseka's security detail, may h [...]	2006-04-25 11:23:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV ASEC CE
06COLOMBO686	SRI LANKAN MILITARY LAUNCHES "LIMITED" RETALIATORY [...] (C) Following the attempted assassination of Army Commander Lt. General Sarath Fonseka in Colombo on April 25, Government security forces launched aerial and artillery strikes on Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) territory in the eastern district of Trincomalee late April 25 and the mor [...]	2006-04-26 13:06:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PHUM MOPS CE
06COLOMBO696	SRI LANKA: INITIAL REPORTS OF IDP OUTFLOWS [...] (SBU) Summary. April 27 reports by the pro-Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) website TamilNet alleging that as many as 40,000 civilians have fled the Trincomalee District since the Sri Lanka Military carried out aerial bombing raids cannot be confirmed. Trincomalee's Government Agent e [...]	2006-04-27 12:24:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PTER PHUM CE
06COLOMBO697	SRI LANKA: PRESIDENT CONFIRMS MILITARY OPERATIONS [...] (C) In an April 27 meeting with President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Charge' condemned the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) April 25 attempt on the life of the Army Commander and underscored strong US support for Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) efforts to find a peaceful resolution to the confli [...]	2006-04-27 12:32:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM CE
06COLOMBO713	SRI LANKA: TIGER TRANSPORT STILL ON TABLE AS [...] (C) Low-intensity conflict between Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) security forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) continued April 29-May 2, including an April 30 LTTE attack on camps run by the dissident Karuna faction on the Batticaloa-Polonnaruwa border. Despite the violenc [...]	2006-05-02 13:40:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS PGOV PHUM CE
06COLOMBO721	INDIANS STILL HOPING GENEVA TALKS CAN RESUME UNDER [...] (C) According to a local Indian diplomat, his government remains hopeful, despite the April 25 assassination attempt on Army Chief Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka, that the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) can engage the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in a second round of talks. To get the talks back [...]	2006-05-03 12:18:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV IN CE
06COLOMBO731	SRI LANKA: AMBASSADOR STRESSES NEED TO DEVELOP [...] (C) In separate May 4 meetings with Foreign Secretary H.M.G.S. Palihakkara and opposition United National Party (UNP) Deputy Leader Karu Jayasuriya, the Ambassador emphasized U.S. support for the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) and the need for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to giv [...]	2006-05-04 11:23:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM CE
06COLOMBO737	SRI LANKA HOPING FOR "POSITIVE RESPONSE" ON PSI [...] (C) The Ambassador presented reftel demarche to Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera on April 4 and raised it in a subsequent meeting with Foreign Secretary H.M.G.S. Palihakkara one day later. Palihakkara indicated that his Government was interested and said he hoped to have "a positive res [...]	2006-05-04 11:35:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC PARM KNNP PGOV PREL PHSA CE
06COLOMBO757	AKASHI GETS HARD LINE FROM TIGERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Tigers implied to Akashi they will not go to Geneva until Government stops all violence against Tamils. They insisted President Rajapaksa has the power to do so, but Akashi told us that the President has admitted some doubts about his control. END SUMMARY 2. (C) Japanese S [...]	2006-05-10 10:56:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM CE
06COLOMBO759	SRI LANKA: ICRC NOTES DISTURBING TRENDS SINCE [...] (C) In a May 9 meeting with poloff, ICRC Deputy Head of Mission Peter Krakolinig and Protection Coordinator Christoph Sutter said that they believed that their access to Government-held detainees is very good. Sutter estimated the number of detainees held under Emergency Regulations to whom [...]	2006-05-10 12:39:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER PGOV CE
06COLOMBO771	SRI LANKA: GOVERNMENT, HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS [...] (C) Since the April 7 assassination of a Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP-nominee in Trincomalee--and in tandem with stepped-up violence against Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) military targets--the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is increasingly attempting to depict GSL security forces [...]	2006-05-11 12:46:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER PGOV CE
06COLOMBO790	SCA PDAS CAMP PRESSES GSL ON POLITICAL PROPOSALS [...] (C) In separate May 15 meetings with Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera and Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) Peace Secretariat head Palitha Kohona, Principal Deputy Assistant SIPDIS Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Camp SIPDIS emphasized U.S. concern at the escalation [...]	2006-05-16 07:09:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL PHUM CE
06COLOMBO791	SRI LANKAN TRUCE MONITORS TELL SCA PDAS CAMP THEY [...] (C) In a May 15 meeting with Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Camp and SIPDIS Charge', members of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) said that the Mission plans to resume naval monitoring as soon as possible. In SLMM's view, the May 11 Se [...]	2006-05-16 07:57:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PTER CE
06COLOMBO792	SRI LANKA: SCA PDAS CAMP URGES DEFENSE SECRETARY [...] (C) In a May 15 meeting with Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Camp and Charge' underscored U.S. support for the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) but stressed the need for the Government to investigate thoroughl [...]	2006-05-16 08:45:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER MOPS PREL PGOV CE
06COLOMBO805	DUTCH AMBASSADOR REGISTERS LOCAL EU CONCERN WITH [...] (C) Dutch Ambassador Reynout Van Dijk called on Charge' May 17 in his capacity as the representative of the EU Presidency to complain about SCA PDAS Donald Camp's May 16 statement during a television interview in Colombo that the U.S. encouraged the European Union to list the Liberation Tige [...]	2006-05-17 10:07:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL CE EU
06COLOMBO843	SRI LANKA: NGO OFFICES TARGETED, LTTE EASTERN [...] (C) The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) deputy eastern military commander was one of several fatalities as violence continued in the embattled north and east May 20-21. Unknown perpetrators threw grenades into the offices of three international NGOs in a government-controlled town in [...]	2006-05-22 12:34:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PHUM EAID CE
06COLOMBO853	SCENESETTER FOR A/S BOUCHER VISIT TO TOKYO AND SRI [...] (C) Your visit to Tokyo and Sri Lanka comes during a tense period of increased violence and worrisome prospects for Sri Lanka's fragile ceasefire. Your visit gives us the opportunity to pursue two key goals - increased co-chair support to push the peace process forward, including seeking way [...]	2006-05-24 06:37:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON MARR OVIP PGOV PREL CE
06COLOMBO866	SRI LANKA: FROM INSIDE THE CONFLICT ZONE AND FROM [...] (C) In separate meetings on May 18 and May 23 a Tamil cleric from Jaffna and a Sinhalese Buddhist Cabinet Minister shared with poloff their assessments of the current situation and expectations for the future. Although their many differences in viewpoints, especially with respect to Governme [...]	2006-05-24 13:08:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM PGOV CE
06COLOMBO87	SRI LANKA: SEVEN POLICE ARRESTED IN [...] (SBU) Summary. On December 29, the media reported six police officers were arrested for having links to a drug baron. A seventh officer was arrested on January 3. These arrests appear to be the beginning of a larger-scale effort to clean police corruption, which law enforcement contacts and [...]	2006-01-12 10:58:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SNAR KCRM CE
06COLOMBO872	TOKYO CO-CHAIRS PRE-MEETINGS [...] (C) Summary: GSL representatives admit that at least some elements of armed forces may be cooperating with irregular armed groups. Government is trying to crack down on this, and is also trying to develop a proposal for a political settlement. EU will likely designate LTTE as terrorist group on May [...]	2006-05-25 11:53:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM CE NO
06COLOMBO88	SRI LANKA: SCENESETTER FOR THE JANUARY 23-25 [...] (C) Your visit to Sri Lanka comes as small-scale but recurrent aggression by the insurgent Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is exerting increasing pressure on a still-new and relatively untested Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) executive. President Mahinda Rajapaksa appears to lack a coh [...]	2006-01-12 11:20:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER CE
06COLOMBO906	SRI LANKA: ANTI-CONVERSION BILL MIRED IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The parliamentary select committee to discuss the Buddhist monk-based Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU)-sponsored bill proposing to outlaw "unethical conversions" began hearing testimony in May (Ref A). According to one member of parliament (MP) serving on the committee, the group i [...]	2006-05-31 12:15:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF CE
06COLOMBO933	A/S BOUCHER TALKS TOUGH ON TIGERS BUT PRESSES FOR [...] (C) Summary: Following his participation in the May 30 meeting of the Sri Lankan Donor Co-Chairs (US, EU, Norway, and Japan) in Tokyo, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher underscored the messages from the Tokyo Co-Chairs statement during a May 31 trip to Co [...]	2006-06-05 07:13:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM CE
06COLOMBO940	U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN; DEMARCHE ON NAM STATEMENT [...] (C) Ambassador delivered demarche requested ref (A) to Foreign Secretary Palihakkara June 5. Palihakkara said that he had not read the NAM document, and presumed that as usual this "112-member monster" had produced a lowest common denominator document. Ambassador said that did not seem to be t [...]	2006-06-05 11:49:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AORC IAEA KNNP UNSC IR CE
06COLOMBO941	SRI LANKA: TAMIL TIGERS THREATEN WITHDRAWAL AFTER [...] (C) On June 1, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) agreed to go to Oslo for June 8-9 talks with a Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) delegation led by Peace Secretariat Secretary General Palitha Kohona to discuss the role of the Scandanavian-led Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) despite e [...]	2006-06-05 12:25:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM CE

06COLOMBO970	SRI LANKA: AMBASSADOR STRESSES HUMAN RIGHTS AS [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-08 10:42:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM CE
06COLOMBO971	SRI LANKA CLOSE TO ENDORSING PSI [...] (C) Foreign Secretary Palihakkara told Ambassador June 8 that the MFA had "made some headway" on obtaining GSL consensus on participation in the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI). Palihakkara said that he had sent a letter to the Ministry of Defence and to the President's office stating [...]	2006-06-08 11:23:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM KNNP MNUC PREL CE
06COLOMBO976	SRI LANKA: POPULATION MOVEMENTS IN CONFLICT AREAS [...] (C) The unsteady security environment since April 2006, including ethnic communal incidents and military action, has led to displacement among Sinhalese, Muslim, and Tamil communities in the North and East of Sri Lanka. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) currently estima [...]	2006-06-09 06:00:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PTER PHUM CE
06COLOMBO990	SRI LANKA: LTTE REFUSES TO MEET GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) surprised most observers by derailing diplomatic efforts to salvage the peace process, refusing to hold talks on the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission June 8-9 in Oslo. Moreover, in the wake of the EU listing of the Tigers, the LTTE has said [...]	2006-06-12 11:24:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM PREL CE
06COLOMBO992	MALDIVES: MINIMAL PROGRESS ON REFORMS, BUT [...] (U) Summary: Following the Government of the Republic of Maldives (GORM) publication of a Reform Roadmap, the President's office issued a decree on freedom of assembly May 15 to complement the Roadmap and expand civil liberties. Nonetheless, police arrested over 120 demonstrators taking part [...]	2006-06-13 08:21:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM MV
06COLOMBO996	SRI LANKA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON PROLIFERATION [...] (C) Ambassador reminded Foreign Secretary Palihakkara June 13 that the US would like the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) to attend the June 23 Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) High-Level Political Meeting (HLPM) in Poland. Palihakkara stated that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had recomm [...]	2006-06-13 10:52:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM KNNP MNUC PREL KACT CE
06COLOMBO997	SRI LANKA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-13 11:35:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CE
06COLOMBO998	SRI LANKA: FOREIGN SECRETARY DISCUSSES OSLO, [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary Palihakkara and Peace Secretariat Chief and head of the Oslo delegation Kohona on June 13 in the wake of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's (LTTE) refusal to enter talks with the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) in Oslo on June 8-9 on t [...]	2006-06-13 11:36:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM CE
06COPENHAGEN1020	DANISH PARTICIPATION IN LEBANON FORCE GENERATION [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-31 10:45:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO LE DA
06COPENHAGEN1034	LEBANON: DENMARK BACKS FRENCH UNSCR DRAFT, WEIGHS [...] (C) The Danish government's approach to the Lebanon crisis continues to track with ours, emphasizing the need for a long-lasting solution that neutralizes the security threat posed by Hezbollah. An extraordinary meeting of the Danish parliament's foreign policy committee August 1 yielded broad [...]	2006-08-03 11:43:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC KPKO LE IS DA
06COPENHAGEN1050	LEBANON: DANES PLEASED WITH U.S.-FRENCH DRAFT, FM [...] (C) Danish MFA Middle East Head of Department Tomas Anker Christensen confirmed August 7 that Denmark offers its full support to securing a UN Security Council resolution on Lebanon on the basis of the U.S.-French agreed text, and as quickly as possible. Christensen expressed hope that Lebane [...]	2006-08-07 11:53:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC LE DA
06COPENHAGEN1060	DEMARCHE ON LEBANON SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-10 07:12:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC IS LE DA
06COPENHAGEN1094	LEBANON: DANISH CONTRIBUTION TO UNIFIL [...] (C) Denmark fully supports our view that new UNIFIL contributions must be deployed as quickly as possible, Danish MFA Head of Department for Middle East and Latin America Tomas Anker Christensen confirmed August 16, in response to ref (A) demarche. Christensen noted with alarm recent suggesti [...]	2006-08-16 10:17:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS UN LE DA
06COPENHAGEN1135	DANISH FM TO DISPATCH NEW MIDDLE EAST ENVOY [...] (C) The Danish MFA notified us August 24 that FM Per Stig Moeller has decided to send his new personal representative for the Middle East, outgoing Danish Ambassador to Turkey Christian Hoppe, to Beirut, Tel Aviv and Damascus early next week to review efforts to implement UNSCR 1701. MFA Middl [...]	2006-08-24 11:56:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS LE SY DA
06COPENHAGEN1355	DENMARK SUPPORTS TOUGH UNSC STATEMENT ON NORTH [...] (C) Danish MFA Head of Department for Asia (A/S-equivalent) Susan Ulbaek expressed full agreement with reftel points on North Korea's nuclear test threat, and indicated October 4 that the Danish UN mission in New York has been instructed to work toward "the strongest possible Presidential Stat [...]	2006-10-04 10:53:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP UNSC KN DA
06COPENHAGEN1366	DANISH PM REINFORCES NORTH KOREA MESSAGE WITH [...] (C) In a meeting October 6 with Chinese ambassador to Denmark Xie Hangsheng, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen underscored the importance of taking a coherent, coordinated and firm line in the UN Security Council in response to North Korea's nuclear test threat, and received assuranc [...]	2006-10-06 07:24:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM UNSC DA
06COPENHAGEN1372	DANES URGE QUICK PASSAGE OF NORTH KOREA SANCTIONS [...] (C) Denmark supports rapid UN Security Council adoption of our draft resolution on North Korea, Danish MFA Head of Department for Asia (A/S equivalent) Susan Ulbaek assured us October 10. Ulbaek expressed optimism that agreement could be reached in New York even later that day, but urged that, [...]	2006-10-10 11:01:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP UNSC KN DA
06COPENHAGEN1379	DANES BACK DPRK RESOLUTION, MAY CO-SPONSOR [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-12 09:25:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MNUC UNSC KNNP KN DA
06COPENHAGEN1389	DENMARK ON UPCOMING GAERC [...] (C) Summary: Danish MFA European Correspondent Michael Bach Petersen told us October 13 that next week's GAERC will seek conclusions on Sudan, the Western Balkans, the Middle East, Iran, Georgia, and North Korea. Petersen pointed to emerging EU splits on Sudan, Kosovo and Zimbabwe that could [...]	2006-10-13 10:19:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EU DA
06COPENHAGEN1414	DANES FIRM IN SUPPORT OF GUATEMALAN UNSC BID [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-19 08:28:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC GT VE DA
06COPENHAGEN1555	DANES WANT TO AVOID "TRAIN WRECK" ON TURKISH EU [...] (C) Summary: Denmark agrees that the current row over Turkish relations with Cyprus should not be allowed to result in Turkey's exclusion from the EU accession process, Danish MFA Director for EU Enlargement Lars Bo Moller declared to us November 22, even as the Danish government maintains that [...]	2006-11-22 11:38:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN TU CY DA
06COPENHAGEN262	KEEPING DENMARK ENGAGED IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) During a February 28 meeting, the Ambassador stressed to Defense Minister Gade the USG's strong interest in Denmark's continued contributions in Iraq. Gade said the Danish government will prepare a "white paper" in May that analyzes how Denmark can best continue to contribute to Iraq's se [...]	2006-03-01 09:33:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR IZ AF DA
06COPENHAGEN324	KEEPING DENMARK IN IRAQ: REQUEST FOR INTERAGENCY [...] (C) Summary. The Danish parliament in May will vote on a yet-to-be drafted government resolution to extend Denmark's contributions to Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and the NATO Training Mission (NTM-I) through the remainder of 2006. In preparation for what will be a difficult political challe [...]	2006-03-14 13:19:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR IZ DA
06COPENHAGEN336	MOHAMMED CARTOONS: DENMARK WILL NOT PROSECUTE THE NEWSPAPER [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-17 05:28:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PTER DA KDEM
06COPENHAGEN441	SCENESETTER FOR COALITION CONSULTATIONS WITH [...] (C) Summary. Embassy warmly welcomes S/I Deputy Deutsch and the interagency team for the April 7 coalition consultations with the Danish government. Despite flagging domestic support for the military effort in Iraq, implacable parliamentary opposition and the shock of Mohammed cartoon crisis, [...]	2006-04-04 12:34:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS DA IQ
06COPENHAGEN454	EMBASSY REITERATES NEED TO SHUT DOWN ROJ-TV [...] (C) Pol/Econ Counselor and Polmiloff called April 6 on MFA Foreign Policy Director Jens-Otto Horslund and Deputy Director Lars Bo Moeller to strongly urge the Danish government shut down Roj-TV and freeze its assets and those of related media companies (reftel). Pol/Econ Counselor stressed th [...]	2006-04-06 13:55:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL DA TU
06COPENHAGEN778	DENMARK EXTENDS ITS IRAQ DEPLOYMENTS BY ONE YEAR [...] (C) Summary. With a one-year extension of its deployments in Iraq until at least July 2007, Denmark remains one of the USG's most stalwart partners in Iraq. In addition to maintaining a battalion in southern Iraq, Denmark is boosting its generous reconstruction aid and offering to provide the [...]	2006-06-02 09:53:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR DA IZ
06COPENHAGEN973	DANES SAY EU CONSENSUS DOES NOT SUPPORT NICARAGUAN [...] (C) While Denmark shares U.S. concerns expressed in ref draft statement, it also will not break with the EU consensus that the release of a statement now is premature. MFA Head of Section for Latin America Erik Hoeg told Pol/Econ Counselor and PolOff July 17 that Denmark saw "very little to d [...]	2006-07-19 09:08:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM AORC PGOV PREL NU DA
06COPENHAGEN980	DENMARK: TRANSNISTRIA'S PROPOSED INDEPENDENCE [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-20 03:31:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	RS OSCE PBTS PREL DA
06COPENHAGEN986	DENMARK SUPPORTIVE ON ISRAEL/LEBANON STATEMENTS [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-21 07:32:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC IS LE DA
06COTONOU1112	BENIN: AMENDING CUBA EMBARGO RESOLUTION DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-08 13:43:00	Embassy Cotonou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNGA BN
06COTONOU603	BENIN: GOB DEMARCHED ON NAM STATEMENT AND OIC [...] (C) On June 19 Poloff delivered talking points in reftel demarches to Thomas Adoumasse, Director of International Organizations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Adoumasse, who said that no Benin representative would be present at the OIC Ministerial in Baku, personally attended the NAM meeti [...]	2006-06-21 10:51:00	Embassy Cotonou	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AORC KNNP UNSC BN
06COTONOU878	BENIN: NAM SUMMIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO MFA [...] (SBU) On September 5 Poloff demarched Mr. Bienvenue Houngbedji of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' International Organizations Office, and left behind reftel talking points as a non-paper. Houngbedji noted the USG positions on the issues raised in the reftel. 2. (C) On September 7 Ambassado [...]	2006-09-11 16:46:00	Embassy Cotonou	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM BN
06COTONOU893	BENIN: DEMARCHE ON NAM TOPICS DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-15 10:02:00	Embassy Cotonou	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA PTER PHUM BN
06COTONOU990	BENIN: WHEREABOUTS OF CHANTAL DE SOUZA IDOHOU [...] (C) Please see action request in Paragraph 6. 2. (C) On September 28 LTC Alassane BOURANDI, Director of Military Intelligence appointed by President Yayi, requested a meeting with Poloff. Bourandi began by asking if it were possible for the embassy to determine the whereabouts and internati [...]	2006-10-12 13:48:00	Embassy Cotonou	CONFIDENTIAL	OFDP CVIS KCOR PGOV PINR BN
06CURACAO336	VENEZUELANS COME "A-COURTIN'" TO CURACAO [...] (C) Summary. A high level Venezuelan Navy delegation led by CNO VADM Luis Chirinos Medina met with RADM Frank Sijtsma, Commander of Dutch Forces in the Caribbean, April 3. Sijtsma characterized the meeting as a "good step" in furthering naval cooperation with Venezuela in a follow up conversati [...]	2006-04-07 20:17:00	Consulate Curacao	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NA AA NL
06DAKAR1004	GUINEA-BISSAU: BORDER CALMING DOWN FOR NOW [...] (U) Fighting in northern Guinea-Bissau has mostly ended with all rebel bases overrun by the Bissau-Guinean military. A new wave of displaced flooded into isolated Susana during the final push, but others have begun returning home to Sao Domingos, where life is returning to normal. The World F [...]	2006-04-26 16:47:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PINS EAID PGOV PHUM PREL ECON PU SG
06DAKAR1011	WADE'S ELECTORAL PROSPECTS UNSURE IN EAST AND SOUTH [...] (C) Ten months before presidential and parliamentary elections, there is broad disenchantment with President Wade in Senegal's East and South. Were the election held now, he would likely lose in sparsely populated Tambacounda Region. In Kolda and Ziguinchor, he needs to discipline his ruling [...]	2006-04-26 18:39:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON SG
06DAKAR1021	SUDAN: BUILDING SUPPORT FOR NATO ASSISTANCE TO [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-27 15:57:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PKPO SU SG
06DAKAR1034	SENEGAL: COUNTER-TERRORISM ACTION GROUP MEETING ON [...] DELETE THIS MESSAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED MCN'S NEW MESSAGE SENT OUT WITH NEW MCN AND NEW DTG. DAKAR 00001034 002.4 OF 002 ZFR ZFR ZFR ZFR ZFR ZFR ZFR ZFR ZFR ZFR ZFR ZFR ZFR Â [...]	2006-04-28 11:26:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER SNAR CVIS KCRM KISL EAIR UN PU SG
06DAKAR1039	SENEGAL: COUNTER-TERRORISM ACTION GROUP MEETING ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The April 27 G8 Counter-Terrorism Action Group (CTAG) meeting in Dakar focused as much on narcotics as it did on ideological radicalization. DCM drew on Ref A talking points and briefed the CTAG on counter-terrorism training that we have conducted in 2006. DCM noted that we are [...]	2006-05-02 10:16:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER SNAR CVIS KCRM KISL EAIR UN PU SG
06DAKAR1086	TRAVEL, DARFUR, MCA AND U.S. ASSISTANCE ON WADE'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Wade asked the Ambassador to meet with him on May 4. The 30-minute meeting covered his upcoming trip to the United States, France and Switzerland; a potential official trip later this year to meet with President Bush and to sign the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) C [...]	2006-05-08 15:52:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OVIP EAID KMCA PHUM SG
06DAKAR1149	THERE'S TALK OF ANOTHER ELECTION POSTPONEMENT, BUT [...] (C) Some in the ruling Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) say poor logistics will require technical postponement of the February presidential and parliamentary elections to June 2007, past expiration of Wade's constitutional term. We have told them we would find that unacceptable. The opposit [...]	2006-05-15 15:33:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINS PINR SG
06DAKAR1169	INFANTICIDE IN SENEGAL [...] (U) Senegalese are appalled at increasing media reports of infanticide. Though the practice seems to be limited, actual statistics are shaky. Factors which might lead parents to resort to the practice include poverty, emigration of the father, incest, the Islamic practices of polygamy and e [...]	2006-05-17 11:31:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SOCI SG
06DAKAR1170	GUINEA-BISSAU: AMBASSADOR PRESENTS HER [...] (C) Ambassador Jacobs presented credentials to President Joao Bernardo "Nino" Vieira and met with Prime Minister Aristides Gomes; members of the diplomatic corps, human rights and development NGOs, UNOGBIS, the UNDP representative for de-mining, the Law Faculty, National Assembly, a cashew pr [...]	2006-05-17 11:32:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON SNAR PU
06DAKAR1204	PRIME MINISTER SALL COMMENTS ON MCA, ELECTIONS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 18, the Ambassador called on Prime Minister Macky Sall to discuss the status of the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) proposal, the Poverty Reduction Strategy Plan (PRSP) and election preparations. The Prime Minister stressed that the MCA Compact is the GOS, highest prio [...]	2006-05-18 17:04:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PINR PINS PREL KMCA KHDP SG
06DAKAR1205	FOUR HIGH LEVEL POLITICAL ARRESTS IN SENEGAL [...] (U) In the past two months, there have been a series of high profile arrests of political figures. Labor leader Ibrahima Sene (Reftel),Amath Dansokho, Secretary General of the Labor Party (PIT),Jean Paul Dias, head of the center right party BCG, and Pape Diouf, Mayor of the City of Bambey, [...]	2006-05-18 18:44:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINS KJUS SG
06DAKAR1256	DEMARCHES TO NAM/G-77 ON UN REFORM AND IRAN IN [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-24 17:08:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AORC KUNR UNSC UNGA IR SG
06DAKAR1264	THIRD MEETING OF THE UN HIGH LEVEL GROUP OF THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Wade opened the third meeting of the 15-member UN High Level Group of the Alliance of Civilizations on May 28. Like Turkish Minister of State Aydin and former UNESCO Secretary General Mayor before him, Wade spoke of both economic and religious divisions, warning that [...]	2006-05-30 10:46:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI PHUM PINS ECON KIRF KISL SMIG UNAUS IR
06DAKAR1265	THIRD MEETING OF THE UN HIGH LEVEL GROUP OF THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Wade opened the third meeting of the 15-member UN High Level Group of the Alliance of Civilizations on May 28. Like Turkish Minister of State Aydin and former UNESCO Secretary General Mayor before him, Wade spoke of both economic and religious divisions, warning that [...]	2006-05-30 10:49:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI PHUM PINS ECON KIRF KISL SMIG UNAUS IR
06DAKAR1279	SEVENTH HIGH LEVEL MEETING OF HEADS OF UN PEACE [...] (C) On May 29, UNSYG Special Representative for West Africa Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah told the Ambassador that he is traveling to Yaounde this week to try to broker a summit on demarcating the border between Cameroon and Nigeria on the Bakassi Peninsula. He also provided a summary of his May 12 [...]	2006-05-31 12:31:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PBTS SOCI KFLU XY CM
06DAKAR1292	AN INCIDENT OF PRE-ELECTORAL POLITICAL VIOLENCE [...] (U) On May 28, in Prime Minister Macky Sall's hometown of Fatick, the ruling Democratic Party of Senegal (PDS) youth movement mixed it up with followers of Serigne Mamoune Niasse, the partially blind marabout from nearby Kaolack who is backing ex-Prime Minister Idrissa Seck's presidential cam [...]	2006-06-01 12:08:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PGOV PHUM KDEM SG
06DAKAR1299	SENEGALESE REACTION TO U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] (C) On June 1, the Ambassador and DCM called on President Wade to deliver Ref A points orally, leaving him a copy of the transcript of the Secretary,s press conference. The Ambassador reminded Wade that they had discussed his planned visit to Iran when the Ambassador presented her credentials [...]	2006-06-01 14:27:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CH IR SG
06DAKAR1306	WADE SEEKS U.S. INTERVENTION WITH JAMMEH [...] (C) During the Ambassador,s June 1 meeting with President Abdoulaye Wade to discuss Iran (Ref A),he also raised relations with The Gambia (Ref B). Wade declared that he has no intention of taking over The Gambia; on the contrary, Senegal seeks good relations. He said he would like the Unit [...]	2006-06-01 16:32:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM GA SG
06DAKAR133	AN INAUSPICIOUS START FOR THE 2007 ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Every party involved with the 2007 legislative and presidential elections faces serious obstacles. President Wade is so concerned with ensuring a solid win that he is exploring ways to change Senegal,s electoral system and has approached former Prime Minister Seck,s camp, looking for a [...]	2006-01-19 16:39:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM SG
06DAKAR1364	GUINEA-BISSAU: INFORMATION ON OHCHR FIELD PRESENCE [...] (C) This cable responds to reftel requirement to provide an assessment of the effectiveness the Office of High Commissioner of Human Rights activities in Guinea-Bissau. Overall, the office appears competent and well-run, but should put more emphasis on what it identifies as the main human rig [...]	2006-06-08 08:52:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PU
06DAKAR1499	GUINEA-BISSAU: SECURITY SECTOR REFORM PLANS WILL [...] (C) GOGB and international partners continue to focus on security sector reform as the top priority for improving stability. There is still no date set for round table talks to raise funds, which have been delayed several times already. GOGB has a vision, but no clear plan, of what reform s [...]	2006-06-23 09:38:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR PU
06DAKAR154	GUINEA-BISSAU: THE LIGHTS ARE BACK ON, BUT WHERE'S [...] (C) The Vieira/Aristides Gomes Government continues to develop its program, and neither the Popular National Assembly (ANP) nor the Supreme Court seems anxious to bring the Government down. The African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC) continues to argue for [...]	2006-01-23 14:05:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PGOV PREL KDEM BR FR GV SG PU
06DAKAR1553	COUNTRY TEAM AID PROPOSALS FOR CASAMANCE [...] (C) The Country Team met June 14 to discuss ways to move the Casamance peace process forward. We raised two central questions. First was whether the Senegalese Government and MFDC rebel movement have sufficient political will to resolve the conflict. Second was whether USG money could mak [...]	2006-06-30 12:28:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON PGOV PINS SG
06DAKAR1554	MOODY RIVER: WADE'S STANDING IN THE NORTH [...] (SBU) We traveled along the Senegal River Valley, from the dust-ugly but sugar-prosperous city of Richard Toll; to opposition fief Podor, which President Wade is contesting by building public works; and to a poverty- distraught Matam that is asking what Wade has done for it lately. We visit [...]	2006-06-30 12:29:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB SOCI ECON PINS PINR SG
06DAKAR1586	NGO ASSESSMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN SENEGAL: [...] (C) NGOs describe Senegal as being at one of the most vulnerable points in its post-independence history in terms of fundamental freedoms of expression, movement and association. RADDHO, a prominent local human rights organization, points to judicial independence as the key issue facing Sen [...]	2006-07-05 16:53:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SG
06DAKAR1588	SENEGAL'S BOAT PEOPLE: MORE ORGANIZED AND HEADING [...] (U) The saga of Senegal's "boat people" continues, with reports of involvement by organized crime. With Europe grappling with the problem and tightening borders, Senegalese are talking about boats now being built to carry migrants to the United States. END SUMMARY. ORGANIZED CRIME ------ [...]	2006-07-05 18:06:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SMIG SOCI ECON PREL KCRM CV SP SG
06DAKAR160	REPORTING IRAN TO THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY [...] (SBU) On January 23, EmbOff delivered reftel points and supporting documents to senior Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials. 2. (C) On January 20, Senegalese Minister of Planning and Sustainable Development Mamadou Sidibe sought out Charge just before the cabinet and the diplomatic corps [...]	2006-01-23 17:58:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL AORC KNNP IR SG
06DAKAR1608	PRESIDENT WADE AGREES TO PUT HISSENE HABRE ON [...] (C) The African Union (AU) has asked Senegal to adjudicate the case of former Chadian leader Hissene Habre. President Wade has agreed, although under certain conditions. Human Rights Watch, the most vocal advocate of Habre's alleged victims, is optimistic, but is urging the international com [...]	2006-07-06 15:49:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KCOR KCRM CD SG
06DAKAR1740	SENEGAL,S ECONOMIC GROWTH: IS THE WINDOW OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senegal,s real GDP growth for 2006 is likely to fall short of earlier expectations. Production in key export sectors is down; fish, phosphate and peanut exports all face difficulties, and indications are that industrial sector output is below projected levels. According to loc [...]	2006-07-19 17:38:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EAID ENRG SG
06DAKAR1746	SENEGAL PLANS TO TACKLE ONGOING ENERGY CRISIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Government of Senegal (GOS) recently hosted a three-day workshop in the coastal town of Saly to diagnose the current energy crisis in the wake of the ongoing world market price increases that continue to negatively affect the Senegalese economy. The workshop featured energy [...]	2006-07-20 13:45:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EAID ECON EPET SG CH VE IR
06DAKAR1759	SENEGAL'S IRAN PROPOSAL [...] (C) President Wade asked to meet with me July 21 to follow up on earlier discussions regarding the situation in Iran. He indicated his primary objective in getting involved is to help avoid a military strike against Iran. He is willing to support stepped up economic sanctions, visa restrict [...]	2006-07-21 16:13:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KNNP IR SG
06DAKAR1760	TFLE01: PRESIDENT WADE CALLS FOR CEASEFIRE; [...] (C) On July 21, when the Ambassador met with President Wade, he called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Lebanon and Gaza. The previous day, Senegal's Lebanese community organized a protest against Israel,s attack on Hezbollah. Cheikh Monein al Zein, leader of the small Shia commun [...]	2006-07-21 17:00:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS ASEC MOPS PREL LE IS SG
06DAKAR1787	SENEGAL,S MCA TEAM HOSTS CIVIL SOCIETY FORUM; MCC [...] (C) Summary: On July 10, the Government of Senegal,s (GOS) &Agence pour la Mise en Oeuvre du Plateforme de Diamniadio8 (AMPMD),brought together representatives from civil society, the private sector, local government and donors to discuss Senegal,s compact development to date, solicit feedba [...]	2006-07-25 16:23:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PHUM ECON KDEM KMCA SG
06DAKAR1789	SENEGALESE-GAMBIAN RELATIONS ARE GOOD, BUT IS THE [...] (U) Following his July 22 meeting with Gambian President Yaya Jammeh in Banjul, Prime Minister Macky Sall told the press that Jammeh had agreed to support the Casamance peace process. 2. (C) Sall,s trip came shortly after President Abdoulaye Wade,s visit to The Gambia for the African Unio [...]	2006-07-25 17:41:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PINS GA SG
06DAKAR181	SECK CASE: DOES WADE NOW FEAR A TRIAL? [...] (C) Six months after his arrest, former Prime Minister Idrissa Seck is still in pre-trial detention. However, on January 24, the Government acted on a judge,s recommendation to drop the most serious charge against Seck, that of being a threat to national security. This could pave the way for [...]	2006-01-25 17:43:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM KJUS SG
06DAKAR1813	GUINEA-BISSAU HOSTS SUCCESSFUL CPLP SUMMIT [...] (U) Guinea-Bissau hosted a successful Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP) summit in Bissau. Member states renewed friendships and cultural ties and passed the Bissau Declaration, which spells out hefty development goals. In preparation for the event, the GOGB pulled off some ma [...]	2006-07-27 14:48:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON SCUL PU
06DAKAR1845	FRUSTRATED BY SLOW PACE OF MCA AND OTHER [...] (U) On July 27, President Abdoualye Wade held a press conference at which he confirmed his candidacy for the February 2007 presidential election, announced that he expects to sign the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) Compact in Washington in September, and highlighted his frustration with W [...]	2006-08-01 15:01:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID EINV KMCA SG
06DAKAR1854	61ST UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE [...] (SBU) Format is keyed to reftel. A. Attendance of the Head of State -- Abdoulaye Wade, President of the Republic of Senegal -- President Wade will travel to New York following the G-77 and G-15 meetings in Havana. -- Mrs. Viviane Wade will travel to New York with her spouse. -- W [...]	2006-08-02 13:31:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OVIP UNGA SG
06DAKAR1863	WADE GOING TO DARFUR AND KHARTOUM [...] (C) On August 2, Senior Minister for Foreign Affairs Cheikh Tidiane Gadio told diplomats that President Abdoulaye Wade will travel to Sudan, August 4-7. During his visit, he will travel to Darfur to meet with Senegalese peacekeepers. On August 6, he is scheduled to meet Sudanese President Uma [...]	2006-08-03 16:32:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO SU SG
06DAKAR1897	SENEGAL REACTS TO URGENT DEMARCHE ON LEBANON [...] (C) Since the Ambassador and Minister of Commerce Mamadou Diop Decroix were chairing a follow-up to the Fifth African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Forum, DCM delivered Ref A demarche to Acting Foreign Minister Claude Absa Diallo on August 8. Ambassador Diallo repeated Senegal's call for [...]	2006-08-08 12:42:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MOPS UN LE IS SG
06DAKAR1903	SUDAN SUMMIT TO TAKE PLACE IN DAKAR ON AUGUST 9 [...] (U) President Abdoulaye Wade has invited the Presidents of Sudan, Chad, Gabon and Tanzania, as well as the leaders of the Darfur rebel groups that did not sign the Abuja Darfur peace agreement (DPA) to Dakar for an August 9 summit. The ostensible aim is to achieve a lasting peace in Darfur an [...]	2006-08-08 14:23:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS KPKO CD IR SU SG
06DAKAR1914	SUDAN AUGUST 9 SUMIT IN DAKAR CANCELED [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-09 16:20:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PNS KPKO SU CD SG
06DAKAR1918	SUDAN AUGUST 9 SUMMIT IN DAKAR CANCELED [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-10 11:41:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS KPKO SU CD SG
06DAKAR1919	SUDAN AUGUST 9 SUMMIT IN DAKAR CANCELED [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-10 11:41:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS SU CD SG
06DAKAR1920	SUDAN AUGUST 9 SUMMIT IN DAKAR CANCELED [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-10 11:41:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS SU CD SG
06DAKAR1932	THE CASAMANCE: ECONOMIC RECOVERY AND POLITICAL [...] (C) The Ambassador visited the Casamance from August 2 through 5 to assess the peace process and the impact of USG development assistance to the region. After several failed attempts to initiate meaningful negotiations, the Casamance continues to hover in the realm of "no war, no peace." Rat [...]	2006-08-11 10:56:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PHUM EAID SG
06DAKAR1937	SENEGAL ON PROPOSED UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 3. 2. (C) On August 10, DCM delivered Ref A demarche to Ambassador Claude Absa Diallo and Ambassador Mankeur Ndiaye, the Secretary General and Director of Cabinet at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, respectively. PolOff separately made the [...]	2006-08-11 13:39:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM MOPS PREL UN IS LE SG
06DAKAR2000	SENEGAL'S JUDICIARY SHAKEN BY CORRUPTION SCANDAL [...] (U) After protracted, heated debate about the extent of corruption in Senegal, a scandal involving one of the most senior judges has come to light. An investigation launched by the Inspector General for the Judiciary (IGAJ) led to early retirement or transfers of the judges involved and pros [...]	2006-08-21 10:42:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PHUM KJUS SG
06DAKAR2001	MORE CANDIDACIES AND UNANSWERED QUESTIONS IN [...] (C) President Wade made official his intent to run for the presidency in 2007, as did Ousmane Kane, an international lawyer residing in New York, and Landing Savane, head of the AJ/PADS party. The Interior Ministry said that more than 75 percent of the cards have been produced for those who h [...]	2006-08-21 10:46:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM SG
06DAKAR2012	CASAMANCE: THE 2004 TRUCE HAS ENDED [...] (C) The December 30, 2004 truce that many Senegalese hoped would mark the end of a two-decade conflict has ended. Arguing that Movement of Democratic Forces of the Casamance (MFDC) factional fighting has created a situation in which the Senegalese Armed Forces (SAF) must intervene to re-estab [...]	2006-08-21 14:18:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREF PHUM PINS SG PU GA
06DAKAR2030	DIAS FATHER AND SON ARRESTED, QUESTIONED ABOUT [...] (U) Jean-Paul Dias, head of the center right party BCG, and his son, Barthelemy, leader of the "Socialist Vision" movement within the Socialist Party (PS),were both arrested last week in an unusual display of force. Jean-Paul Dias was detained in Rebeuss Prison until his health failed, at wh [...]	2006-08-22 18:22:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM CASC PINS KJUS SG
06DAKAR2088	GUINEA-BISSAU: PAIGC REQUIRED TO INVITE BACK [...] (U) SUMMARY: A Bissau-Guinean court ordered the lead opposition party, the Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC),to allow suspended members, such as President Vieira, Prime Minister Gomes, and others, to rejoin the party. This steps up the tempo of national reco [...]	2006-08-31 09:37:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON KDEM PU
06DAKAR2091	REFUGEE REFERRAL FOR GAMBIAN REFUGEE SIDI M. SANNEH [...] (C) Embassy Dakar requests authorization for a refugee referral to the U.S. Resettlement Program on behalf of Gambian refugee Sidi M. Sanneh and his wife and daughter, who took refuge in Dakar in 2006. Sanneh has presented evidence of persecution based on his position as former Secretary for [...]	2006-08-31 11:10:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM GA SG
06DAKAR2093	REFUGEE REFERRAL FOR SIERRA LEONE REFUGEE JOSEPH [...] (C) Embassy Dakar requests authorization for a refugee referral to the U.S. Resettlement Program on behalf of Sierra Leone refugee Joseph F.M. Sankoh, who took refuge in Dakar in March 2006. He, his wife and otehr family members previously took refuge in Guinea in 1997. The family joined him [...]	2006-08-31 11:53:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM SL GV SG
06DAKAR2115	ILLEGAL MIGRATION FROM SENEGAL: THE "TITANIC" [...] (C) The supposedly U.S.-bound "Titanic" and its alleged twin (Ref B) have disappeared. According to the "Titanic's" builder, it was financed by a Lebanese businessman, (living near Soumbediounne Market (a large artisanal and fish market)) in Dakar, while a Spanish national had commissioned t [...]	2006-09-01 17:45:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PHUM SMIG SOCI ECON PREL KCRM CV SP SG
06DAKAR2185	DRC ELECTIONS: PRESIDENT WADE REQUESTS U.S./EU [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-12 10:36:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PREL KPKO PGOV KDEM CG SG
06DAKAR2243	SUDAN'S PRESIDENT ASKS WADE TO CONTINUE HIS [...] (U) En route to Cuba, President Omar Ahmed El Bashir of the Sudan made a brief stop in Dakar on September 14, when he thanked President Wade for his interest in the Sudan and asked him to continue efforts to resolve the conflict in the Darfur region. Bashir thanked Wade for having played a si [...]	2006-09-15 14:54:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO SG SU
06DAKAR2246	GUINEA-BISSAU: RULE OF LAW RESOLVES TENSE SECURITY [...] (C) Two military officers were arrested August 28 for plotting to murder the Armed Forces Chief but were subsequently released for lack of evidence. In a separate incident reflecting the army's inability to control national territory, a Senegalese Movement of the Casamance Democratic Forces [...]	2006-09-18 09:29:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PGOV PREL KISL MARR PU SG
06DAKAR2255	PUSHING BUSH-DEBY MEETING, GOUDIABY SAYS THAT CHAD [...] (C) On September 15, Pierre Goudiaby Atepa, Counselor to Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade and prominent architect, came to see the Ambassador and DCM. Goudiaby, who used to work for Mobutu Sese Seko, now has several construction projects in Chad and says that he has become a friend and un [...]	2006-09-18 16:11:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS EPET ENRG PINR CD CH SA SG
06DAKAR2271	"RENTREE POLITIQUE 2006:" ARROGANCE, CALCULATION, [...] (C) Senegalese are returning from vacation to warnings that social equilibrium is in peril. President Wade's fiercest critics slander him in turn as a ruthless, scheming tyrant or vainglorious doddering relic. The opposition is wallowing in hapless self-pity, and the more histrionic among t [...]	2006-09-19 16:11:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI PINS PINR SG
06DAKAR2476	GUINEA-BISSAU: ENCOURAGING BUT NON-COMMITAL [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Bissau-Guinean Foreign Minister Antonio Isaac Monteiro on Oct. 13. The Foreign Minister was receptive and acknowledged the previous conversations he had with the Ambassador, Charge and PolOff on this topic. Monteiro understood the urgency of the matter [...]	2006-10-13 12:49:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC GT VE PU
06DAKAR2479	FIXER, HATCHETMAN, JAILBIRD, STATESMAN: FOUR [...] (C) Ex-Prime Minister Idrissa Seck, Abdoulaye Wade's "spiritual son" and strategist until he fired and jailed him, is testing popular support for his presidential bid in a pre-campaign tour of the regions. We had no direct contact with Seck since April 2004, but in the last three weeks we ha [...]	2006-10-16 11:34:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID ECON PINS PINR KDEM KMCA KHDP SG
06DAKAR249	UPDATE ON AFRICAN-MAURITANIANS IN SENEGAL [...] (C) African-Mauritanian leaders in northern Senegal told visiting Ambassador Joseph LeBaron and Dakar Political Counselor January 24 and 25 that they want organized repatriation as a group under international auspices, and insist on restoration of Mauritanian citizenship and full recovery o [...]	2006-02-02 15:48:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV PREL PHUM PINR MR SG
06DAKAR2507	UNSC ELECTION: SENEGAL STILL SUPPORTING GUATEMALA; [...] (C) On October 17, Charge called Senegalese Acting Foreign Minister Claude Absa Diallo and requested that Senegal continue to support Guatemala in the contest for the Latin American Security Council seat. Ambassador Diallo assured Charge of continuing support and said that she would follow u [...]	2006-10-17 11:26:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC GT VE SG PU

06DAKAR2517	GUINEA-BISSAU: SECURITY SECTOR REFORM WILL TOP [...] (C) Guinea-Bissau is hoping to raise over USD 350 million at the donor,s round table in November for a sweeping security sector reform and poverty reduction program. Indications from potential donors are that pledges will fall far short. The United Kingdom has provided technical experts to a [...]	2006-10-18 16:52:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR EAID PINS PREL PU UK

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