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SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SILVASANDE SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR SNUC SO SOC SOCI SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIO SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOMALIA SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STEPHEN HADLEY STET STP STR STUDENT SU SUCCESSION SUFFRAGE SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SUSAN SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THOMAS THOMMA THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN 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KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LOPEZ LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MANUEL SERGIO GONZALEZ MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARANTIS MARIA MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS MATT MAYA MB MBM MC MCA MCAP MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCAIN MCCONNELL MCCP MCGRAW MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEETINGS MENDIETA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL FELIPE CANAHUATI YACAMAN MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIKE MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMED HESHAM ELDIN YOUSSEF MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS MORALES MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURAD MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NADIA NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEGROPONTE NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICHOLAS NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC 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07BUCHAREST378 | PRIME MINISTER TARICEANU EXPELS PD MINISTERS FROM [...] (SBU) Summary. Prime Minister Tariceanu has followed up his 4/1 announcement that he intended to dissolve the ruling alliance with President Basescu's Democratic Party (PD) by submitting a list of nominees for a reshuffled cabinet the following day. The portfolios have been divided between th [...] | 2007-04-03 12:02:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RO |
07BUCHAREST388 | ROMANIA’S RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON RESETTLEMENT OF GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] (C) Deputy Polcons delivered per instructions reftel demarches (B-D) on April 4, to MFA Director for OSCE, Council of Europe and Human Rights Brandusa Predescu. In response to Predescu's inquiry, Deputy Polcons confirmed that this demarche was separate from earlier ones (ref a). Predescu said she u [...] | 2007-04-05 12:05:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL KAWC PHUM RO |
07BUCHAREST412 | AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH NEW FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: In a get-acquainted meeting with the Ambassador, new Foreign Minister Adrian Cioroianu stressed that continuity of policy and close ties with the United States would be the hallmark of his tenure. He assured the Ambassador that Romania was "not in a hurry" to withdraw all forces [...] | 2007-04-11 14:55:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RO |
07BUCHAREST443 | SENIOR PSD DEPUTY HREBENCIUC: WE HAVE THE VOTES TO SUSPEND, ALTHOUGH I'D RATHER NOT [...] (C) Summary: Senior PSD political strategist Viorel Hrebenciuc confirmed that the clock has begun ticking on the process that will result in a vote to suspend the President. He insisted that the anti-Basescu bloc had the votes to suspend the President, but suggested to Emboffs that if Basescu were [...] | 2007-04-18 14:32:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RO |
07BUCHAREST444 | STAGE SET FOR PARLIAMENTARY SESSION ON SUSPENDING [...] (C) Summary: The stage is set for joint session of parliament April 19 to decide on the removal of President Basescu. Ever the wily poker player, Basescu has gotten momentum from a Constitutional Court advisory ruling that he is not guilty of seriously infringing his constitutional powers. [...] | 2007-04-18 14:44:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RO |
07BUCHAREST452 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH NEW INTERIOR MINISTER CRISTIAN DAVID [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met with new Interior Minister Cristian David to review and maintain major areas of cooperation. David assured the Ambassador of the government's continued commitment to anti-corruption reforms in Justice and Home Affairs. He also requested additional U.S. assistance o [...] | 2007-04-19 15:04:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KJUS PREL PINR PTER RO |
07BUCHAREST453 | PARLIAMENT SUSPENDS PRESIDENT BASESCU [...] (C) Summary: The Romanian Parliament on April 19 voted 322 to 108 (10 abstentions) to suspend President Traian Basescu for 30 days. The suspension should go into effect April 20 after the Constitutional Court notes the decision and it is published in the Official Gazette. Basescu's staff a [...] | 2007-04-19 15:55:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR RO |
07BUCHAREST454 | PRESIDENT BASESCU TO AMBASSADOR: "A BLACK DAY FOR [...] (C) In a telephone conversation after the parliamentary suspension vote April 19, President Basescu told Ambassador that he was "probably" not going to honor his pledge to resign immediately if he were suspended. Basescu cited current press speculation that the PSD, PNL, and other anti-Bases [...] | 2007-04-19 15:59:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RO |
07BUCHAREST457 | PSD HEAD MIRCEA GEOANA ON THE PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Ambassador accompanied by Polcouns met with PSD head Mircea Geoana April 20. The meeting was at Geoana's request. Geoana began by stating that he had tried his utmost to find an amicable solution short of suspending President Basescu. He had met with Basescu twice, and had undertaken the [...] | 2007-04-20 12:21:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RO |
07BUCHAREST463 | PM TARICEANU: DON’T PUT ALL YOUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Tariceanu told Ambasssador that he was personally disappointed with the ongoing domestic turmoil in Romania, but also claimed he had received a vote of confidence from European Commission President Barroso. Tariceanu was concerned about reports that the USG was being "mo [...] | 2007-04-24 12:50:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RO |
07BUCHAREST469 | EXPERTS QUESTION NEW JUSTICE MINISTER'S COMMITMENT [...] (C) Summary: Embassy contacts working to advance anticorruption and justice reform expressed doubts concerning new Justice Minister Tudor Chiuariu's commitment to reform. Two experts, one with the European Commission Delegation in Romania and the other from the Ministry of Justice, evinced ne [...] | 2007-04-27 07:54:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KJUS PREL RO |
07BUCHAREST475 | MFA REQUESTS "MINISTERIAL LEVEL" PARTICIPATION FOR [...] (SBU) MFA Director for OSCE, Council of Europe and Human Rights Brandusa Predescu on April 23 briefed OSCE member embassies on the current status of the planning for the "High-Level Conference on Combating Discrimination and Promoting Mutual Respect and Understanding: Follow-up to the Cordoba [...] | 2007-04-27 13:33:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM OSCE PREL SOCI SP RO |
07BUCHAREST477 | ON ROMANIA,S PARTICIPATION IN THE IRAQ COALITION [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu is expected to push for a political decision by mid-May within the Supreme Council on National Defense (CSAT) to withdraw all Romanian troops from Iraq. The Prime Minister has asked Foreign Minister Cioroianu and Defense Minister Melescanu [...] | 2007-04-27 17:06:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER IZ RO |
07BUCHAREST491 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH NEW JUSTICE MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: The newly appointed Liberal Justice Minister Tudor Chiuariu appeared confident and eager to signal his readiness to fight corruption and support judicial reform. He insisted that he would be more effective than his predecessor, the popular Monica Macovei, because he would work mo [...] | 2007-05-02 14:45:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KJUS PREL RO |
07BUCHAREST512 | WHAT'S AT STAKE: SCENE-SETTER FOR YOUR VISIT TO [...] (C) When you arrive next week, Romania will be in the middle of an unprecedented 30-day suspension period for President Basescu. Barring further surprises in this soap opera, a May 19 national referendum will decide his fate; odds are he will be returned to office, perhaps by a wide margin. [...] | 2007-05-04 16:15:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RO |
07BUCHAREST519 | MISTAKES WERE MADE -- ROMANIAN PARLIAMENT CAPS US [...] (SBU) A joint session of Parliament on May 2 passed a decision that not only approved the entry and stationing of U.S. military forces on Romanian territory but unexpectedly also capped at 3,000 the total number of U.S. troops for the ten-year duration of the December 2005 U.S.-Romanian Defense [...] | 2007-05-07 16:18:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL PGOV RO |
07BUCHAREST52 | LUSTRATION: SECURITATE RECORDS HANDED OVER BUT [...] (SBU) Summary. President Basescu announced December 29 that the intelligence services have completed the transfer of the archives of the former communist political police, the Securitate, to the National Council for the Study of Securitate Archives (CNSAS). At his urging, the Supreme Council f [...] | 2007-01-17 12:47:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR SOCI KJUS RO |
07BUCHAREST532 | LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST [...] (C) Post found no information to indicate that the below named individual has been involved in or accused of any human rights abuses pursuant to the Leahy Amendment-mandated human rights checks requirements. Post requests that the Department check its records for any information indicating inv [...] | 2007-05-10 16:36:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM MASS MARR PINR RO |
07BUCHAREST538 | LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST [...] (C) Post found no information to indicate that the below named individual has been involved in or accused of any human rights abuses pursuant to the Leahy Amendment-mandated human rights checks requirements. Post requests that the Department check its records for any information indicating inv [...] | 2007-05-14 12:21:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PINR PGOV SNAR |
07BUCHAREST540 | REFERENDUM POLITICS: BY FAIR MEANS OR FOUL [...] (C) Summary: A national referendum will be held May 19 to decide whether President Basescu will be returned to office or permanently removed. Despite Prime Minister Tariceanu's pledges to conduct a clean referendum in accordance with existing legislation, he and other opponents of Basesc [...] | 2007-05-14 14:14:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RO |
07BUCHAREST554 | ASSESSMENT OF ROMANIA ON UNHRC ELECTION [...] (C) In my estimation, Romania will not support Belarus's bid for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council. That said, Romania will not/not take an overtly visible role to block Belarus unless it can do so as a footnote in support of U.S. or preferably an agreed European Union position. While R [...] | 2007-05-15 12:51:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC RO |
07BUCHAREST556 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ANTICORRUPTION DIRECTORATE CHIEF DANIEL MORAR [...] (C) Summary: In a May 14 meeting, National Anticorruption Directorate Chief Daniel Morar described to Ambassador the negative effects of recent actions by Parliament and the new Romanian Justice Minister in undercutting the effectiveness of anticorruption prosecutions. Morar said parliamentarians w [...] | 2007-05-16 04:42:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCOR KJUS RO |
07BUCHAREST574 | FALSE START: JUSTICE MINISTER ATTEMPTS TO DISMISS [...] (C) Summary: A heavy-handed attempt by Justice Minister Chiuariu to remove Romania's top anti-corruption prosecutor has been blocked for now by the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) . The CSM decision effectively prevents the anti-Basescu coalition from gaining control over anticorruption [...] | 2007-05-21 04:31:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS KCOR RO |
07BUCHAREST582 | LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST [...] (C) Post found no information to indicate that the below named individual has been involved in or accused of any human rights abuses pursuant to the Leahy Amendment-mandated human rights checks requirements. Post requests that the Department check its records for any information indicating inv [...] | 2007-05-21 15:16:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM MASS MARR PINER RO |
07BUCHAREST583 | LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST [...] (C) Post found no information to indicate that the below named individual has been involved in or accused of any human rights abuses pursuant to the Leahy Amendment-mandated human rights checks requirements. Post requests that the Department check its records for any information indicating inv [...] | 2007-05-21 15:17:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM MASS MARR PINR RO |
07BUCHAREST585 | ROMANIA'S CANDIDATE FOR OSCE HIGH COMMISSIONER ON [...] (C) Embassy on 21 May 2001, received a note dated 23 April 2007, addressed to Secretary Rice from Foreign Minister Adrian Cioroianu seeking U.S. support for Romania's candidate to be the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Liviu Bota. We note that Romania first raised Bota's candidac [...] | 2007-05-22 08:53:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PHUM PREL KDEM RO |
07BUCHAREST60 | ROMANIA: GOALS FOR INFORMAL NATO MINISTERIAL [...] (C) Acting Pol Chief on January 16 discussed NATO Ministerial goals (ref a) with MFA Political Director Ovidiu Dranga and NATO Office Deputy Director Ana Tinca. Pol Chief noted the excellent bilateral discussion between Foreign Minister Ungureanu and Under Secretary Burns held on the margins [...] | 2007-01-18 16:09:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO MOPS MARR MCAP RO |
07BUCHAREST628 | RFG: MFA SEEKS WASHINGTON VISIT TO DISCUSS CFE [...] (SBU) This is a request for guidance; see para 4. 2. (C) State Secretary for European Affairs Adrian Vierita on May 29 told Charge that he would like to visit Washington the week of June 4 to consult on the upcoming CFE Extraordinary Conference. Vierita said the request for consultations [...] | 2007-05-30 14:17:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE PREL PGOV PARM MARR MCAP RU RO |
07BUCHAREST631 | LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST [...] (C) Post found no information to indicate that the below named individual has been involved in or accused of any human rights abuses pursuant to the Leahy Amendment-mandated human rights checks requirements. Post requests that the Department check its records for any information indicating invo [...] | 2007-05-31 11:09:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM MASS MARR PINR RO |
07BUCHAREST655 | ROMANIA'S DRAFT ENERGY STRATEGY - A MIXED BAG [...] (C) The Ministry of Economy and Finance released a draft of the national energy strategy for public comment on May 18. The draft strategy outlines the GOR's priorities in developing its energy profile (e.g. nuclear, thermal, hydro, renewable),privatizing remaining state-owned energy assets, [...] | 2007-06-04 15:24:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EINV RO |
07BUCHAREST656 | CFE: ROMANIA'S VIEWS ON JUNE 12 EXTRAORDINARY [...] (C) Polmiloff discussed contents of ref a on June 1 with HLTF Rep and Director for Non-Proliferation, Arms Control, and Combating Terrorism, Mihaela Vasiu and with CFE action officer Dana Marca, and followed up on June 4 after they had an opportunity to consult with GOR inter-agency contacts. [...] | 2007-06-04 16:06:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE PREL PARM OSCE RU RO |
07BUCHAREST665 | AMBASSADOR'S JUNE 5 MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Adrian Cioroianu on June 5 in advance of Cioroianu's visit to Washington next week. While in Washington, Cioroianu will stress Romania's continued commitment to our strategic partnership, to reform and to combating corruption, and to making t [...] | 2007-06-07 07:56:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RO |
07BUCHAREST670 | SAME BED, DIFFERENT DREAMS: AMBASSADOR'S MEETINGS [...] (C) Summary: President Basescu told the Ambassador that in the aftermath of the failed attempt to remove him as President, he could no longer work with Prime Minister Tariceanu. He was now working on two fronts to replace the Tariceanu government--either through a bid to re-create a coalition [...] | 2007-06-07 12:40:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RO |
07BUCHAREST677 | YOUR MEETING WITH ROMANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ADRIAN [...] (C) Your meeting with Romanian Foreign Minister Adrian Cioroianu on June 13 affords us a golden opportunity to influence the thinking of a new, untested Minister on issues important to us. More importantly, it underscores our support for a close partnership with Romania, whatever the politic [...] | 2007-06-11 14:08:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RO |
07BUCHAREST685 | LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING CABLE [...] (C) Post found no information to indicate that the below named individual has been involved in or accused of any human rights abuses pursuant to the Leahy Amendment-mandated human rights checks requirements. Post requests that the Department check its records for any information indicating invo [...] | 2007-06-12 13:58:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM MASS MARR PINR RO |
07BUCHAREST686 | LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING CABLE [...] (C) Post found no information to indicate that the below named individual has been involved in or accused of any human rights abuses pursuant to the Leahy Amendment-mandated human rights checks requirements. Post requests that the Department check its records for any information indicating invo [...] | 2007-06-12 14:11:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM MASS MARR PINR RO |
07BUCHAREST687 | LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING CABLE [...] (C) Post found no information to indicate that the below named individual has been involved in or accused of any human rights abuses pursuant to the Leahy Amendment-mandated human rights checks requirements. Post requests that the Department check its records for any information indicating invo [...] | 2007-06-12 14:12:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM MASS MARR PINR RO |
07BUCHAREST747 | EC FRUSTRATED BY NEW ROMANIAN CORRUPTION AGENCY'S [...] (C) Summary. Romania's National Integrity Agency (ANI),the last major anti-corruption effort that the GOR promised before acceding to the EU, was formally established last month. While the European Commission is unhappy with Romanian backsliding in the fight against corruption, its monitor [...] | 2007-06-27 15:46:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KJUS PREL RO |
07BUCHAREST761 | UNINOMINAL REFORM IN PARLIAMENT: DEAD ON ARRIVAL? [...] (C) Summary. Despite widespread popular support and a unified draft law ostensibly supported by all the three major Romanian political parties-PSD, PNL, PD-Embassy interlocutors from all political stripes have been telling us that uninominal electoral reform is doomed to failure and that the curren [...] | 2007-07-02 06:17:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RO |
07BUCHAREST778 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN HRC 5TH SESSION [...] (C) D/Pol chief delivered ref a demarche on July 3 to MFA Director for OSCE and Human Rights Affairs Brandusa Predescu. Predescu noted that the EU members were working from a common position to obtain the compromises necessary to keep the HRC process moving forward. She hoped the U.S. would [...] | 2007-07-05 15:19:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL EUN UNHRC RO |
07BUCHAREST784 | PARTING SHOT: FORMER JUSTICE MINISTER CRITICIZES [...] (C) Summary: Former Justice Minister Macovei provided a downbeat assessment of recent GOR efforts on the anticorruption front, alleging attempts to weaken the National Anticorruption Directorate; to direct state funds toward private interests; and to use anticorruption funding from the EU and [...] | 2007-07-06 14:28:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS KCOR MA RO |
07BUCHAREST787 | ROMANIA: IRAQI AMBASSADOR MURAD SHARES WITNESS [...] (C) Iraqi Ambassador Abdel Murad sent a letter following up his earlier one (reftel) regarding the death of his father-in-law during an incident involving U.S. troops in Baghdad last Christmas. He confirmed that his Baghdad relatives are staying with him in Bucharest, and they have yet to re [...] | 2007-07-09 06:22:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR PREL PGOV RO |
07BUCHAREST79 | AMBASSADOR'S JANUARY 23 MEETING WITH FM UNGUREANU [...] (C) Summary: On January 23, Ambassador and Foreign Minister Ungureanu discussed the upcoming NATO Informal Meeting of Foreign Ministers, Kosovo, and Romania's bid for the 2008 NATO Summit. Ungureanu has become increasingly involved in promoting Romania's offer to host the NATO Summit in 2008 [...] | 2007-01-24 16:24:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR NATO SB RO |
07BUCHAREST797 | "I NEED A SILVER BULLET": AMBASSADOR'S MEETING [...] (C) Summary: PSD head Geoana told the Ambassador that he wanted to encourage Romanian politicians to bring their infighting under control and to reach a "minimum common understanding" on a common agenda in order to ensure the success of the 2008 Bucharest NATO Summit. Geoana acknowledged the [...] | 2007-07-10 14:25:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RO |
07BUCHAREST846 | PSD: INTERNECENE TENSIONS ERUPT ON THE EVE OF [...] (C) Summary. Vasile Dancu, a PSD Vice President and senior party strategist, has tendered his resignation from the party leadership. Dancu,s departure follows a month of rising factional strife within the PSD, a struggle that came to a head over Bucharest leader Marian Vanghelie,s proposals to [...] | 2007-07-19 14:58:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON RO |
07BUCHAREST856 | ROMANIA: DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS IN [...] (C) Deputy Polcouns delivered on 23 July reftel demarche to MFA Director for East Europe and Central Asia Ambassador Gheorghe Magheru. Magheru was in agreement with the U.S. points and expressed special interest in the strategic context for the U.S. demarche (i.e., the importance of making s [...] | 2007-07-24 15:11:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM OSCE PGOV PHUM PREL EUN AJ RO |
07BUCHAREST858 | JUSTICE MINISTRY'S NOTE REQUESTING ASSISTANCE ON [...] (SBU) Embassy received by fax on July 20, the below note regarding the case of Mohammad Munaf from the Romanian Justice Ministry (MOJ) sent to us upon the recommendation from the MFA. The MOJ note cites the 1999 bilateral agreement with the United States on judicial assistance in seeking U,S, [...] | 2007-07-25 15:22:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC IZ PGOV PREL KJUS RO |
07BUCHAREST86 | PSD,S GEOANA ATTACKS FROM THE REAR, AS TWO PALACES [...] (SBU) Summary: In one of the rockier political moments since Prime Minister Tariceanu and President Basescu came to power, the opposition parties under Social Democrat leader Mircea Geoana, Conservative Party president Dan Voiculescu and Greater Romania party head Vadim Tudor have initiated [...] | 2007-01-26 17:57:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RO |
07BUCHAREST876 | ROMANIA'S FOREIGN POLICY AT MID-YEAR: THE CALM [...] (C) Summary: President Basescu is back in charge with a new, stronger presidential mandate, and he has reasserted himself into almost all aspects of day-to-day foreign policy formulation. Consequently, Prime Minister Tariceanu and his new cabinet have been marginalized by Basescu on key [...] | 2007-07-31 08:27:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR RO |
07BUCHAREST897 | MONEY AND POLITICS: WHO REALLY OWNS ROMANIA? [...] (C) Summary. Romania's transition from communism and the ensuing privatization of state enterprises hugely benefited a small group of individuals with connections to the immediate post-Communist regime and/or the ubiquitous Securitate. Some of these individuals leveraged information and relati [...] | 2007-08-03 14:45:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECON RO SOCI |
07BUCHAREST911 | LASZLO TOKES CHALLENGES UDMR LEADERSHIP AND [...] (C) Summary: Romania's ethnic Hungarian party (UDMR),the Liberals' coalition partner government, risks failing to meet the five percent electoral threshold in upcoming elections, starting with this fall's European Parliamentary race. The candidacy of controversial Bishop Laszlo Tokes could di [...] | 2007-08-10 14:45:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KJUS PREL RO |
07BUCHAREST940 | SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION: GEOANA ANNOUNCES [...] (C) Summary: An informal PSD strategy meeting August 14 reportedly developed into a gripe session among party leaders unhappy with the party's current strategy of "constructive opposition" (e.g., silent support for the ultra-minority Tariceanu government.) A brief session apparently ended with PSD [...] | 2007-08-17 14:57:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RO |
07BUCHAREST947 | RFG: GOR CONSIDERING NATO STRATEGIC AIRLIFT [...] (C) This message is a request for guidance. See para 3 below. 2. (C) MFA NATO Directorate Deputy Director Ana Tinca on August 21, raised with Polmiloff a request for USG position on the prospects for the GOR to advance at NATO a proposal for developing Romania's Strategic Airlift Capabili [...] | 2007-08-21 14:59:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MCAP NATO PREL RO |
07BUCHAREST978 | ROMANIA ON KOSOVO NEXT STEPS [...] (C) Summary: Romania's Kosovo policy is largely driven from the top, especially by President Basescu's office which continues to adhere to the view that no solution can be imposed on Belgrade and Pristina without damaging the fundamental OSCE principles of territorial integrity. Romanians al [...] | 2007-08-27 14:52:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EU KV NATO YI RO |
07BUDAPEST100 | SPRING TRAINING: POLITICAL SEASON BEGINS WITH [...] (C) Summary: With Parliament preparing to reconvene and both Prime Minister Gyurcsany and FIDESZ leader Orban planning to give major addresses in the coming weeks, the political season is set to resume. Despite Orban's long absence (or perhaps because of it) FIDESZ has been making the most n [...] | 2007-01-23 16:33:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KDEM |
07BUDAPEST101 | HUNGARIAN UPDATE FOR JANUARY 26 INFORMAL NATO [...] (C) USAID hosted a PRT for senior GoH interagency representatives in Budapest January 23. Post capitalized on the meeting to review reftel points with representatives from the MFA's Office of Security Policy, highlighting our commitment to provide significant new resources and our call on Al [...] | 2007-01-24 08:03:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PINS PREL MARR MOPS |
07BUDAPEST1043 | HUNGARY AT THE ALL-STAR BREAK [...] (C) Our contacts across the political spectrum are looking forward to a long summer break following the conclusion of Parliament's spring session on June 25. 2007 has brought few breakthroughs thus far, and many foresee a "hot fall" after the slow summer "cucumber season." 2. (C) The gov [...] | 2007-06-27 09:50:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM HU |
07BUDAPEST1051 | THE SIDE OF THE ANGELS: ORBAN ON ENERGY SECURITY, [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see para 10 for action request. 2. (C) An energetic and upbeat Viktor Orban met with Ambassador Foley June 27 to discuss energy security, the transatlantic relationship, and Cuba (domestic political issues septel). ENERGY SECURITY: SUPPORTING THE [...] | 2007-06-27 14:06:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG PGOV HU |
07BUDAPEST1059 | ORBAN ON ORBAN: FIDESZ PRESIDENT ON THE OPPOSITION'S LEADERSHIP AND STRATEGY [...] (C) Meeting with Ambassador Foley June 27 to discuss energy security and the transatlantic relationship (septel),FIDESZ president Viktor Orban also reviewed his plans to "professionalize" the party leadership and his strategy for the months - and years - ahead. BUDAPEST UNDERGROUND 2. [...] | 2007-06-29 05:35:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM HU PINR |
07BUDAPEST1078 | CUBA CONFERENCE DRAWS SUPPORT ACROSS PARTY LINES [...] (SBU) The Cuba Conference planned by the GoH and hosted by the International Center on Democratic Transition (ICDT) June 26 - 29 received favorable press coverage and strong statements of support across Hungary's political spectrum. 2. (SBU) In addition to the formal schedule, which highl [...] | 2007-07-03 07:07:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PHUM HU |
07BUDAPEST1097 | NEVER A BOAST OR A BRAG: WHAT WE (OVER)HEARD AT [...] (SBU) Post's commitment to active but non-partisan outreach was rewarded with a stellar turn-out by contacts across the political spectrum at the Fourth of July reception. 2. (SBU) Prime Minister Gyurcsany attended his first July 4th reception as PM, the latest signal of his desire to aff [...] | 2007-07-06 11:29:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN ENRG HU |
07BUDAPEST1150 | CONFIDENT VERES AGAINST OMV-MOL MERGER; BULLISH ON [...] (U) This message contains an action request. See paragraph 4. 2.(C) Summary: In a relaxed lunch meeting with Ambassador Foley, Finance Minister Janos Veres and State Secretary Almos Kovacs frankly discussed their desire to sidetrack the OMV/MOL merger and their interest in developing a sy [...] | 2007-07-16 12:10:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN ENRG HU |
07BUDAPEST1157 | HUNGARIAN FOREIGN POLICY UNDER FIRE [...] (U) Just over a year since the second Gyurcsany administration took office, parties, think tanks and the media are evaluating the performance of the government during a turbulent year that many say has changed the dynamics of politics more than any other since the system change. Although the [...] | 2007-07-17 12:47:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HU |
07BUDAPEST1164 | A/S FRIED'S DISCUSSIONS ON BILATERAL RELATIONS, [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings with MFA State Secretaries Laszlo Varkonyi and Ivan Udvardi, Assistant SIPDIS Secretary Fried commended GoH activism on Cuba and called for SIPDIS similar leadership on issues including Russia and energy security. Varkonyi formally requested a meeting f [...] | 2007-07-18 09:38:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM HU |
07BUDAPEST117 | BLOGGER-IN-CHIEF: HUNGARIAN PRIME MINISTER'S BLOG [...] (C) Post offers the following information, keyed to the questions posed in reftel: 2. (C) We see minimal policy impact to PM Gyurcsany's blog to date. It has not, for example, blunted criticism of the government's often opaque approach to reforms, and is more often a review of Gyurcsany' [...] | 2007-01-30 09:38:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR |
07BUDAPEST1179 | HUNGARIAN VIEWS ON UPCOMING GAERC [...] (C) Hungarian preparations for the upcoming GAERC finds significant harmony with US positions on key issues. Kosovo remains in the Hungarian spotlight with concerns over possible impact on ethnic Hungarians in the Vojvodina with the inevitability of Kosovo's independence. Encouraging the EU to [...] | 2007-07-20 14:36:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN ENRG ETRD ETTC KPAL PGOV PREL SOCI HU |
07BUDAPEST1214 | WITH ALL DELIBERATE SPEED: CABINET MINISTER KISS [...] (C) Summary: Cabinet Minister Kiss met with Ambassador Foley and DCM July 25 to review the state of playing on the government's reform agenda. Kiss embraced the challenge of improving dialogue on the issues, professing confidence in the recent coalition agreement and downplaying friction both [...] | 2007-07-27 09:49:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON HU |
07BUDAPEST1238 | ENTER STAGE LEFT: REFERENDUM OPENS THE DOOR FOR [...] (C) As the Constitutional Court conducts what may be the final review of questions formulated by the opposition to challenge elements of the Gyurcsany government's reform agenda, the upcoming referendum may increasingly present an opportunity for the PM's rivals within the MSZP to rationalize [...] | 2007-07-31 14:45:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM HU |
07BUDAPEST1298 | KOKA ON REFORM, RUSSIA, AND VISION FR FUTURE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-09 12:47:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON HU EU RU |
07BUDAPEST130 | HUNGARY REQUEST FOR USG OPINION ON SALE OF [...] (C) This is an action request. See paragraph 4. 2. (C) On January 31 Security Policy and Non-proliferation Department desk officer Zoltan Papp provided the following non-paper to poloff and requested our assistance regarding the sale and transfer of armor piercing anti-tank missiles to th [...] | 2007-01-31 15:42:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL HU |
07BUDAPEST1341 | FROM SIMONYI TO SOMOGYI: CHANGES AT THE HUNGARIAN [...] (U) In a brief meeting with Ambassador Foley August 15, Hungarian Ambassador-designate Ferenc Somogyi outlined his priorities for his upcoming tour. Visa Waiver: A Milestone ) Not a Finish Line 2. (C) Welcoming recent progress on the Visa Waiver front, Somogyi accentuated the positive w [...] | 2007-08-16 09:55:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM ENRG ECON |
07BUDAPEST135 | BEST SERVED COLD: ORBAN ON REFORM, ENERGY [...] (C) Summary: As guest of honor at a dinner hosted by Ambassador Foley January 30, a charming and measured FIDESZ President Viktor Orban criticized the Gyurcsany government's implementation of its austerity package, questioned its commitment to reform, and called for EU action on energy secur [...] | 2007-02-01 13:39:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KDEM |
07BUDAPEST136 | PRT TRAINING ON TIME AND ON TARGET [...] (SBU) Nearly 50 Hungarian military and law enforcement officers, diplomats, and development experts attended a seminar on PRT operations January 22 - 23. The seminar, consisting of a detailed overview for senior officials in Budapest January 22 and an in-depth, interactive session at a Hunga [...] | 2007-02-01 14:22:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS EAID ECON |
07BUDAPEST1377 | SHADES OF ORANGE: DIFFERENCES OF OPINION WITHIN [...] (C) Summary: FIDESZ Party Vice-Presidents Mihalj Varga and Zoltan Pokorni voiced sharply divergent views on issues ranging from the upcoming referendum to the party's leadership structure in separate meetings with Ambassador Foley. As Orban's deputy, Varga largely voiced the party line; Poko [...] | 2007-08-27 14:47:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM HU |
07BUDAPEST1383 | YOUTH MOVEMENT: THE PARTIES TARGET YOUNG VOTERS IN [...] (SBU) With the 2009 European Parliamentary elections fast approaching, Hungary's political parties are working hard to identify and mobilize potential supporters. GENERATION WHY? 2. (C) The parties are principally focusing on the same narrow band of young voters, with officials across t [...] | 2007-08-28 12:55:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM HU |
07BUDAPEST1468 | WAKE ME WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS: PARLIAMENT RETURNS [...] (C) Summary: The running debate over the Magyar Garda has generated more heat than light as Parliament prepares to return to session September 10 (ref a). This issue remains a potential flashpoint, but members on both sides of the aisle are pledging cooperation on key issues even as they expe [...] | 2007-09-09 08:04:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ECON ENRG HU |
07BUDAPEST1474 | "A STUPID ANSWER" ... AND A SMART STATEMENT: [...] (SBU) Addressing the diplomatic corps on September 6, FIDESZ leaders including party president Orban affirmed their commitment to "democratic and non-violent" opposition, specifically denouncing the Magyar Garda as "a stupid answer" and the radical right as a "danger to society." He declared [...] | 2007-09-10 12:21:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM HU |
07BUDAPEST1486 | SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES: PARLIAMENT - AND PROTESTORS [...] (SBU) The opening day of Parliament's fall session was marked by strong rhetorical exchanges between the parties and the return of demonstrators to the streets as a crowd estimated at over 1,000 gathered in front of the Parliament to protest government policy on the sale of public assets. P [...] | 2007-09-11 13:31:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM HU |
07BUDAPEST1487 | AN ISLAND OF CONSENSUS: CODEL SIRES FINDS STRONG [...] (SBU) Summary: Senior officials across Hungary's political spectrum pledged strong support for efforts to "bring democracy to Cuba and to bring Cuba to democracy" in meetings with Codel Sires August 29 ) 30. Members of the delegation encouraged Hungary to take an active role within the EU an [...] | 2007-09-11 14:20:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM HU |
07BUDAPEST1534 | HOMECOMING KING: PRESIDENT SARKOZY'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) French President Sarkozy completed a brief but high-profile visit to Hungary September 14, including meetings with President Solyom, Prime Minister Gyurcsany, and opposition leader Orban as well as an address to the Hungarian Parliament. His meetings and public statements were highligh [...] | 2007-09-17 15:17:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM |
07BUDAPEST155 | PAPER TIGER: GYURCSANY'S TREATISE ON REFORM [...] (U) As Hungary prepares for Parliament's opening session February 12, Prime Minister Gyurcsany released a 5-page supplement in the publication Nepszabadsag outlining the rationale behind his reforms. That outline was itself based on a dense 23-page document entitled "Facing the Facts: on mist [...] | 2007-02-06 12:10:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON HU |
07BUDAPEST1579 | THE RESIDUE OF DESIGN: FOREIGN VISITS, MUTED [...] (C) Confronting a week fraught with political risks during the anniversary of last year's demonstrations, the Gyurcsany government has rebounded strongly. 2. (C) This week's demonstrations have been non-violent, with attendance dwindling with each passing day. Demonstrators themselves hav [...] | 2007-09-24 14:35:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KDEM HU |
07BUDAPEST1580 | FORWARD DEFENSE: HUNGARY CONSIDERS LEGISLATION TO [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see para 9 for action request. 2. (SBU) Parliament is reportedly poised to adopt legislation that will provide added protection against the foreign takeover of strategic industries. THE MOL LAW 3. (SBU) Sources within the government and the op [...] | 2007-09-24 14:36:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG HU |
07BUDAPEST1582 | ALL THE PRIME MINISTER'S MEN: WHO'S WHERE ON [...] (SBU) As reform continues to dominate the political landscape, clearer divisions are emerging within the governing coalition and among the party leaders. 2. (C) Within the government, Prime Minister Gyurcsany remains most visibly associated with the package of reforms that commonly bear h [...] | 2007-09-24 15:46:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KDEM PINR HU |
07BUDAPEST163 | THE GREAT BARRIER BEEF: OPPOSITION MP'S "CIVIL [...] (C) Opposition leader Viktor Orban lead approximately 100 MPs from his own FIDESZ party and their Christian Democrat (KDNP) coalition partner in an attempt to dismantle a security fence around the Parliament building February 2. Proceeding en masse from an opposition caucus, the MPs succeeded in di [...] | 2007-02-08 07:07:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON HU KDEM ASEC |
07BUDAPEST1699 | HUNGARIAN RESPONSE TO U.S. POSITION ON PROPOSED [...] (C) Discussing the reftel draft resolution, the MFA Security and Non-Proliferation Deputy Department Head, Gabor Horvath, stated the GOH will review any proposed EU position before establishing an official position. Horvath said that if a consensus EU position is put forward, Hungary would f [...] | 2007-10-11 13:08:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MNUC UNGA HU |
07BUDAPEST1714 | DEMARCHE ON IRAN IN ADVANCE OF THE OCTOBER 15-16 [...] (C) MFA EU and Foreign and Security Policy Department Head, Zsolt Pataki, provided Hungarian views on reftel demarche with Charge d'Affaires on 12 October. Pataki stated that the EU has already developed language agreeing to start discussions regarding additional sanctions related to Iran's n [...] | 2007-10-15 06:51:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR HU |
07BUDAPEST1722 | DASD CAGAN'S TALKS WITH THE HUNGARIANS [...] (C) Summary. DASD Cagan discussed the upcoming Iraqi Coalition Conference and the potential Hungarian Operational, Mentoring and Liaison Team (OMLT) contribution to the Dutch PRT in meetings with senior Hungarian MOD, MFA and Parliamentary Defense Committee representatives. Stressing the imp [...] | 2007-10-15 10:50:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PGOV PREL NATO NL HU |
07BUDAPEST1723 | GYURCSANY STAYING PUT AND GOING PUBLIC ON REFORM [...] (C) Summary: Anti-corruption efforts remain at center stage as the opposition has tabled an 8-point program in response to PM Gyurcsany's controversial proposal to "bleach the black economy." Coalition insiders report considerable discontent with PM Gyurcsany as the Zuschlag scandal (reftel) [...] | 2007-10-15 11:27:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM HU |
07BUDAPEST174 | HUNGARIAN VIEWS ON ENSURING EFFECTIVE [...] (C) Ambassador Foley delivered reftel demarche to Foreign Minister Kinga Goncz February 8 (other issues septel). Recently returned from a trip to the Middle East including stops in Jordan, Israel, and the West Bank, Goncz described the situation as "heartbreaking," with the level of frustrati [...] | 2007-02-08 15:51:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP EFIN HU |
07BUDAPEST175 | HUNGARIAN REACTION TO LETTER TO ENCOURAGE V-10 [...] (C) Post delivered reftel letter at the MFA on the margins of Ambassador Foley's meeting with Foreign Minister Kinga Goncz February 8. 2. (C) FM Goncz seconded Ambassador Foley's strong endorsement of the Ahtisaari plan, describing it as a "good basis for engagement." She emphasized the [...] | 2007-02-08 15:52:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV |
07BUDAPEST1756 | FURIOUS MANEUVERING ON ANTI-CORRUPTION: PARTIES [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Gyurcsany has tabled a broad array of anti-corruption reforms before Parliament ... with the explicit threat of moving to a public referendum in the absence of their support. Despite continued complaints within his governing coalition that he is trying to divert a [...] | 2007-10-22 13:42:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM HU |
07BUDAPEST177 | SCENE-SETTER FOR WHA P/DAS SHAPIRO'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Your visit coincides with the first parliamentary session of the year, which will likely bring renewed friction between the center-left coalition government of Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany and the opposition, led by former PM Viktor Orban. The running battle over the government's refo [...] | 2007-02-09 07:19:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HU |
07BUDAPEST1774 | PRECEDENTED VIOLENCE: DEMONSTRATIONS RETURN ... [...] (C) Violence returned to the streets of Budapest as intermittent clashes broke out between the authorities and anti-government protestors October 22. The demonstrations were far less serious in duration and intensity than the protests of last fall and this spring ) due largely to a combinati [...] | 2007-10-26 15:59:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC |
07BUDAPEST1784 | 2 GUYS NAMED KAROLY: NEW FACES WIELD NEW INFLUENCE [...] (C) Both the government and the opposition are paying unaccustomed attention to the substance and the stylistics of foreign policy. This has been particularly evident in their realignment of personnel, with the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and FIDESZ turning to two ironically similar staffer [...] | 2007-10-30 15:14:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR HU |
07BUDAPEST1794 | SMALL SACRIFICES: THE PLIGHT OF THE SMALL PARTIES [...] (C) Summary: As the MSzP and FIDESZ remained locked in their long-standing competition, the junior coalition partner SzDSz and independent opposition party MDF are searching for traction as all parties begin the long road to the 2010 elections. The SzDSz continues to lose altitude, and the MD [...] | 2007-11-05 09:51:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM HU |
07BUDAPEST1818 | STRESS FRACTURES: MP'S CROSS PARTY LINES ... AND [...] (SBU) A rare breakdown in party discipline occurred during Parliament's session on November 5, when MPs from the governing MSzP broke ranks to oppose a measure proposed by the Gyurcsany government regarding the imposition of property taxes. Making matters even stranger, opposition MPs rushed [...] | 2007-11-08 14:55:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KDEM HU |
07BUDAPEST1819 | HUNGARY SUPPORTS CONTINUED EU HUMAN RIGHTS ACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-08 14:57:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | UNGA PHUM HU |
07BUDAPEST1829 | HUNGARY: KOKA ON TROUBLED COALITION, PARTY POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: In a private meeting with Ambassador Foley November 8, Minister of Economy and SzDSz Party President Janos Koka expressed his pessimism over the prospects for further reform and cast doubts on continued coexistence with a fractured MSzP. He admits, however, that his party has fe [...] | 2007-11-13 15:07:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL HU |
07BUDAPEST1831 | ADJUSTING FIRE: HOW THE PARTIES ARE ADAPTING [...] (SBU) As Parliament enters the last month of its 2007 session, some clear trends are emerging regarding the evolving organization of both the government and the opposition. SPEED KILLS 2. (C) The government has demonstrated impressive resilience in its recent legislative offensive, mov [...] | 2007-11-14 09:56:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM HU |
07BUDAPEST1850 | MR. KOSTUNICA GOES TO BUDAPEST [...] (C) Summary: In a visit described as "neither as bad as we feared or as positive as we hoped," Serbian Prime Minister Kostunica met with Hungarian officials in Budapest November 13. Prime Minister Gyurcsany encouraged Kostunica to engage fully in finding a diplomatic solution to the question [...] | 2007-11-16 13:11:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL HU SR KO |
07BUDAPEST1855 | HUNGARIAN COMMENTS IN ADVANCE OF NOVEMBER'S EU [...] (C) Andras Dekany, Head of MFA's EU Relations and Crisis Situations Section, provided Embassy the GoH views on several reftel agenda items for the upcoming EU Foreign Ministers' meeting November 19-20. Beginning with the Chinese arms embargo issue, Dekany believes this will not be an agenda [...] | 2007-11-16 16:06:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HU |
07BUDAPEST186 | HUNGARY'S RESPONSE TO GAERC FEBRUARY 12-13 FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Foreign and Security Policy Department Deputy Andras Dekany told poloff on 9 February that FM Goncz will primarily discuss Kosovo status at the February 12-13 GAERC meeting. The FM will also brief the other GAERC FMs re her recent travel to the Middle East. Though not likel [...] | 2007-02-09 15:19:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD |
07BUDAPEST1871 | HUNGARIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON DEMOCRACY IN [...] (C) MFA Latin-America desk officer, Szilard Teleki, discussed reftel demarche with PolOff on 16 November. Teleki stated that the MFA has no official position on the current political situation in Venezuela. Teleki recognized the concerns raised in the demarche, but commented that Chavez is [...] | 2007-11-21 13:28:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM HU |
07BUDAPEST1872 | HUNGARIAN SUPPORT FOR FURTHER SANCTIONS ON BURMA [...] (C) Hungarian MFA Asia/Pacific Department Counselor, Laszlo Takacs, provided response to ref A demarche on 19 November. Having recently attended the 46 nation Asia/Europe conference in China (ref B),Takacs commented that Burma was a key discussion topic. He stated that there was a growing c [...] | 2007-11-21 13:30:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ETRD EFIN HU |
07BUDAPEST1877 | TRIANGULATION UNDER FIRE: A STEP BACK TOWARD THE [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see para 10 for action request. 2. (C) A number of recent steps indicate continued efforts by the GoH to chart a course between Washington and Moscow. These latest steps include moves back toward the East in what will likely be a continuing series of [...] | 2007-11-21 15:54:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG RU HU |
07BUDAPEST1882 | 19TH CENTURY NERVOUS BREAKDOWN: SHADES OF THE PAST [...] (SBU) Our contacts across the political spectrum are still talking about the thought-provoking visit of foreign affairs columnist and commentator Robert Kagan November 19 ) 20. In a series of meetings with officials in and out of government, highlighted by remarks before a joint session of [...] | 2007-11-26 15:07:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG HU |
07BUDAPEST1889 | KOKA: TRAVELS SHOW NABUCCO POSSIBLE; LEADERSHIP [...] (SBU) Summary: Fresh from a trip to Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan, Economic Minister Janos Koka stressed the need to kick-start work on Nabucco, reviewed his plans to meet with European Energy Commissioner Piebalgs in Brussels on Thursday, November 29, and underscored the urgent need fo [...] | 2007-11-28 08:29:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON HU EU |
07BUDAPEST1950 | PAINTING HUNGARY BY NUMBERS: THE REALITY AND THE [...] (C) Summary: Center-left think-tank DEMOS, &Hungary,s Strategic Audit 20078 casts light on the dark picture of Hungary,s broad social and political trends. In compiling data from a broad range of sources, DEMOS has confirmed that there is more than just a grain of truth to the stereotype of [...] | 2007-12-13 12:55:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI ECON HU |
07BUDAPEST1956 | ANOTHER FINE MESS: LOOKING BACK ON 2007; FORWARD [...] (C) Summary: Parliament's December recess will bring to a close a fractious fall and a frustrating year. 2007 has seenmore motion than forward movement. The embattled Gyurcsany government has been able to take the initiative only episodically, but the opposition has been unable to force them [...] | 2007-12-14 14:14:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ECON HU |
07BUDAPEST199 | LET THE GAMES BEGIN: PARLIAMENT RETURNS [...] (C) Summary: Parliament returned for its first session of 2007 on February 12. Although the formal docket called for discussion of issues ranging from the Riga Summit to the confirmation of Constitutional Court judges, the event was dominated by Prime Minister Gyurcsany's opening address and [...] | 2007-02-13 09:04:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM ECON HU |
07BUDAPEST226 | BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH [...] (C) Never at a loss for a national holiday fraught with historical significance, Hungary approaches the March 15 anniversary of its 1848 Revolution with many in the opposition eager to cast their own confrontational policies as resistance to an unjust government. Although PM Gyurcsany has as [...] | 2007-02-15 15:16:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM ASEC HU |
07BUDAPEST248 | RHETORICAL QUESTIONS: ORBAN'S STATE OF THE NATION [...] (C) FIDESZ Party President Viktor Orban gave a fiery "State of the Nation" address to an invited group of several hundred party representatives in Budapest February 16 (ref a). NEW MAJORITY VS. NEW ARISTOCRACY 2. (C) The speech represented a clear escalation in the opposition's rhetoric. [...] | 2007-02-21 14:59:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM ASEC HU |
07BUDAPEST266 | SCENE-SETTER FOR DAS DI CARLO'S VISIT TO BUDAPEST [...] (C) The integration of the Balkans into the Euro-Atlantic community remains an issue of bipartisan consensus despite Hungary,s fractious domestic political dynamic. All parties supported NATO and EU accession and see the International Community's presence as key to stability in the Balkans an [...] | 2007-02-23 10:00:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HU |
07BUDAPEST276 | MAN OF THE HOUR: MSZP CONGRESS ELECTS PM GYURCSANY [...] (C) PM Gyurcsany asked for and received a strong mandate to lead the MSZP, winning the party presidency with over 89 percent of the vote during the February 24-25 party congress. As predicted, Defense Minister Imre Szekeres and Gyurcsany confidante Ference Juhasz were elected as the party's [...] | 2007-02-26 16:03:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM HU ASEC |
07BUDAPEST282 | CANDID IN CAMERA: FIDESZ FACTION LEADER NAVRACSICS [...] (C) Summary: FIDESZ Parliamentary Faction Leader Tibor Navracsics outlined his ongoing efforts to shift the party's focus from politics to policies in a meeting with Ambassador Foley February 23. Navracsics downplayed the prospects for "fireworks" initiated by FIDESZ on March 15, detailed the [...] | 2007-02-27 10:21:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM HU |
07BUDAPEST289 | HUNGARY'S POSITION ON IRAN EXPORT CREDIT INSURANCE [...] (C) America Desk officer Andras Bacsi-Nagy told poloff on 22 February that the GOH will support the consensus of EU member states in terminating export credit insurance to Iran for "dual use items only." According to Mr. Bacsi-Nagy, the GAERC council will take up this issue again at the next [...] | 2007-02-27 12:58:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL PGOV HU |
07BUDAPEST292 | HUNGARY COMMENTS ON IAEA TALKING POINTS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-27 15:30:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP KDEM PREL PGOV IR HU |
07BUDAPEST32 | HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT RATIFIES US-EU PASSENGER [...] (U) On December 22, the Hungarian Parliament formally ratified a government act operationalizing the US-EU Agreement on Passenger Data Sharing, thus formalizing its prevous agreement to implement the accord in practice. 2. (C) The text of the government act was modified slightly from its [...] | 2007-01-10 11:51:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL HU |
07BUDAPEST333 | GUIDANCE REQUEST: POTENTIAL MILITARY TRANSFER TO [...] (C) This is an action message. Please see para 6 for action request. 2. (SBU) MFA Director for Non-Proliferation Andras Toth called PolEcon Counselor March 5 to discuss an "urgent and discreet issue." 3. (C) He explained that the GoH is currently considering a Libyan request to purc [...] | 2007-03-06 06:11:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR HU LY |
07BUDAPEST343 | STRATEGIC WITHDRAWAL: HUNGARY'S FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary: The MFA's efforts to prepare new foreign policy strategy have pleased few in or out of the Ministry, with academics involved in the project complaining of little strategic guidance and less bureaucratic coordination. Foreign Minister Goncz has elected to post various portions of [...] | 2007-03-06 15:25:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HU |
07BUDAPEST350 | DAS DI CARLO'S CONSULTATIONS IN HUNGARY [...] (C) Summary: DAS Di Carlo's visit to Budapest March 1 - 2 updated key GoH decision-makers and opinion-leaders on our Balkan agenda, highlighted by our commitment to moving forward on final status for Kosovo to promote the entire region's integration into Euro-Atlantic structures. Hungarian of [...] | 2007-03-07 12:02:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MOPS HU |
07BUDAPEST354 | AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 MINUTES: PM GYURCSANY'S [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Gyurcsany addressed the diplomatic corps March 7 in his first "annual review" of Hungarian foreign policy. The event follows closely on the heels of a comprehensive but criticized study by the MFA (ref a),and sought to link constructive engagement abroad to conti [...] | 2007-03-08 10:03:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM HU |
07BUDAPEST389 | THE QUEST FOR THE CENTER: THE MDF SETS ITS SIGHTS [...] (C) The opposition Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF) reelected party leader Dr. Ibolya David in a well-organized event March 11. Receiving over 80% of the vote for her fifth term - but not the three-year mandate she had reportedly sought - David set the party's goal as 10% of the vote in the [...] | 2007-03-13 09:47:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM ECON HU |
07BUDAPEST392 | GYURCSANY AND THE MSZP: STABLE, NOT SYNONYMOUS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-14 06:30:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM HU |
07BUDAPEST415 | SCENESETTER FOR DAS PEKALA'S VISIT TO BUDAPEST [...] (C) Domestic politics continue to dominate Hungary's public discourse. Parliament is back in session, and the parties are evaluating the impact of the March 15 demonstrations on what all regard as a critical year. Recently elected as President of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP),Prime Mi [...] | 2007-03-21 06:30:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM HU |
07BUDAPEST417 | THIS OLD HOUSE: NEW CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR SIMOR ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Newly-appointed Governor Andras Simor met with Ambassador Foley March 19 to discuss his priorities for the Central Bank (MNB). He believes the economy is stable and the Bank sound, noting his intention to focus primarily on improving communication with the government, the oppo [...] | 2007-03-21 08:48:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN HU |
07BUDAPEST418 | BY THE HUNGARIANS, FOR THE HUNGARIANS, AND WITHOUT [...] (C) Few preconceived notions are as closely held than the Hungarian obsession with their declining numbers. With the memory of Trianon never far away, the prospect of losing identity as well as territory is alarming to many Hungarians. So alarming, it seems, that the facts may not get in the [...] | 2007-03-21 10:15:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM HU |
07BUDAPEST447 | HUNGARY'S VIEW ON EXTENSION OF THE OCCUPIED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-23 15:34:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM HU |
07BUDAPEST45 | INITIAL GOH REACTION TO PRESIDENT'S POLICY ADDRESS [...] (SBU) Ambassador Foley reviewed the essential elements of the President's January 10 announcement on Iraq policy with MFA State Secretary Laszlo Varkonyi January 11 per reftel, emphasizing our support for the Iraqi government's actions to promote stability, bolster the economy, and achieve nat [...] | 2007-01-11 16:01:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PGOV PREL IZ |
07BUDAPEST466 | INFORMATION REGARDING THE ADOPTION OF UNSCR 1747 [...] (C) Ambassador Foley reviewed reftel demarche with MFA State Secretary Ivan Udvardi March 26 (other issues septel),leaving behind a non-paper for the GoH's reference. 2. (C) Udvardi expressed his appreciation for the update, conveyed his congratulations for securing unanimous support for [...] | 2007-03-26 14:57:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP EFIN IAEA PARM MNUC TRGY AORC UNSC |
07BUDAPEST467 | DEMARCHE TO SUPPORT UN KOSOVO PROPOSALS [...] (C) Ambassador Foley delivered reftel demarche in a meeting with MFA State Secretary Ivan Udvardi March 26 (other issues septel). 2. (C) Udvardi expressed Hungary's recognition that "monitored independence" "along the lines of the Ahtisaari plan" is the likely outcome of the current proce [...] | 2007-03-26 14:58:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HU |
07BUDAPEST504 | READOUT OF DAS PEKALA'S BUDAPEST CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) Summary: EUR Deputy Assistant Secretary Mark Pekala used his March 25-27 visit to Budapest to underscore to GOH decision-makers, advisors and opinion leaders our commitment to a continued strong relationship with Hungary based on shared principles and values. He also provided an interview [...] | 2007-04-02 11:53:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CVIS KDEM ENRG HU |
07BUDAPEST509 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL LOWEY'S VISIT TO BUDAPEST [...] (U) Embassy Budapest looks forward to your visit and provides the following information in preparation for your arrival. 2. (C) Domestic politics continue to dominate Hungary's public discourse. Parliament is back in session to open what all regard as a critical year, and the parties are [...] | 2007-04-03 08:03:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM HU |
07BUDAPEST517 | HUNGARY: RESETTLEMENT OF TWO ADDITIONAL GUANTANAMO [...] (C) Embassy Budapest assesses the likelihood of a favorable response to reftel request to be highly remote. 2. (C) The GoH has discussed the resettlement of several dozen Cuban refugees from Guantanamo at the highest levels and is reportedly giving the proposal favorable consideration. M [...] | 2007-04-04 14:29:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | KAWC PTER PREL PHUM |
07BUDAPEST518 | EXCESS BAGGAGE: FOREIGN POLICY AND DOMESTIC [...] (C) Summary: Foreign policy issues are playing an increasingly prominent role in Hungary's political discourse, with key questions highlighted by energy security challenging domestic issues for attention. The opposition is dedicating significant time, attention, and effort to its attacks on t [...] | 2007-04-04 15:03:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HU |
07BUDAPEST532 | BETTER THAN (CONSERVATIVELY) EXPECTED: FINANCE [...] (C) A relaxed and upbeat Finance Minister Veres told Ambassador Foley April 4 that deficit reduction efforts are exceeding the GoH's conservative projections, with the GoH lowering the 2006 budget deficit to 9.2% of GDP rather than the anticipated 10.1%. He noted that the GoH was cautiously [...] | 2007-04-10 09:28:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN HU |
07BUDAPEST632 | COVERING THE WATERFRONT: NATIONAL BANK CHAIRMAN ON [...] (C) Summary: Hungarian Central Bank (MNB) Chairman Andras Simor shared his views on Hungary's economic trends and their political impact with G-8 Ambassadors April 17. He expressed particular concern re Hungary's lagging growth rate, the continuing challenge of reforming attitudes as well as [...] | 2007-04-25 14:17:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV HU |
07BUDAPEST636 | HUNGARY'S REPRESENTATION AT COALITION CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-25 15:07:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER |
07BUDAPEST639 | CONVENTIONAL WISDOM: FIDESZ APPROACHES ITS PARTY [...] (C) FIDESZ and party president Viktor Orban appear stable in advance of the party Congress on May 5. All indications are that Orban will remain unchallenged for now, and that the party will make a "political declaration" but will not announce any long-term policy platform at the meeting. Aft [...] | 2007-04-26 09:09:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL PGOV KUM HU |
07BUDAPEST667 | CUBAN EMBASSY INFORMALLY PROTESTS MCCARRY VISIT [...] (C) According to MFA U.S. Desk officer Andras Bacsi-Nagy, a Cuban Embassy official approached an MFA official at a reception on 26 April to protest Hungary's policies on Cuba as well as MFA meetings with Cuban Transition Coordinator Caleb McCarry. In a meeting with poloff on 27 April, Bacsi- [...] | 2007-04-30 13:19:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM HU |
07BUDAPEST69 | COLD COMFORT: POLITICAL DEBATE HIGHLIGHTS [...] (C) The shut-off of the oil pipeline from Russia and renewed sparring between the Gyurcsany government and the opposition have placed Hungary's ambivalent relationship with Moscow at center stage as the government returns from its holiday break. "THE MERRIEST BARRACKS IN GAZPROM" 2. (U [...] | 2007-01-17 14:23:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL RU HU PGOV ECON |
07BUDAPEST70 | MFA ON CUBA, AFGHANISTAN, AND RUSSIAN OIL CUT-OFF [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Foley met with MFA State Secretary Varkonyi January 11 to review the state of play on SIPDIS key issues following her return from the EUR Chiefs of Mission Conference. Varkonyi outlined GoH initiatives to promote a democratic transition in Cuba, including the addit [...] | 2007-01-17 15:34:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR PHUM KDEM ECON |
07BUDAPEST71 | MFA ON CUBA, AFGHANISTAN, AND RUSSIAN OIL CUT-OFF [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Foley met with MFA State Secretary Varkonyi January 11 to review the state of play on SIPDIS key issues following her return from the EUR Chiefs of Mission Conference. Varkonyi outlined GoH initiatives to promote a democratic transition in Cuba, including the addit [...] | 2007-01-17 15:35:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR PHUM KDEM ECON |
07BUDAPEST732 | CENTRIFUGAL FORCE: STRAIN WITHIN THE COALITION [...] (C) Summary: Surveying the current state of play within the governing coalition, outgoing SZDSZ party president Gabor Kuncze told Ambassador Foley that there is perceptible distance - and potential conflict - between Prime Minister Gyurcsany and newly-elected SZDSZ leader Janos Koka. Kuncze [...] | 2007-05-10 11:49:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON HU |
07BUDAPEST736 | HUNGARY: DEAL NEEDED ON OECD ENLARGEMENT AND [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-10 15:50:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON OECD EUN HU |
07BUDAPEST754 | HUNGARIAN VIEWS ON CUBA TRANSITION [...] (U) Senior officials across Hungary's political spectrum expressed gratitude for USG engagement and strong support for our efforts to "create space" for a democratic transition in Cuba in meetings with Cuba Transition Coordinator Caleb McCarry May 6 - 7. 2. (C) Throughout his meetings, Mc [...] | 2007-05-14 07:12:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM HU |
07BUDAPEST76 | MFA LOOKS FORWARD TO JANUARY 26 NATO MINISTERIAL [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see para xxx for action request. 2. (C) Ambassador Foley reviewed the latest USG thinking on Afghanistan and Kosovo with MFA Political Director Ivan Udvardi in preparation for the upcoming meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers in Brussels January 26. A [...] | 2007-01-18 10:58:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS EAID |
07BUDAPEST777 | KOSOVO: DEMARCHE ON KOSOVO UNSC ACTION [...] (U) Ambassador Foley delivered reftel demarche in a meeting with MFA State Secretary (Political Director-equivalent) Ivan Udvardi May 15. 2. (C) Udvardi evinced little surprise at the broad outlines of our policy but did seek confirmation that passage of a resolution in May is our objective [...] | 2007-05-16 09:40:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HU |
07BUDAPEST778 | UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL (UNHRC) ELECTION: [...] (U) Ambassador Foley delivered reftel demarche in the context of a May 15 meeting with MFA State Secretary (Political Director-equivalent) Ivan Udvardi (other issues septel). 2. (C) Udvardi expressed his complete agreement with our support for Bosnia's candidacy, stating flatly that "Hungar [...] | 2007-05-16 09:47:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM HU |
07BUDAPEST788 | KOKA IN COMMAND: ECONOMY MINISTER OUTLINES REFORM [...] (C) A confident and conversant Economy Minister and SZDSZ party president Janos Koka outlined his views on the GoH's reform agenda and reviewed the SZDSZ party's prospects in a meeting with Ambassador Foley May 15. Koka cast his efforts to "rebuild the SZDSZ nation-wide" as a means to "comple [...] | 2007-05-16 14:09:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ENRG |
07BUDAPEST815 | VERES: REFORMS ON TRACK [...] (C) Summary: In a brief May 16 meeting to discuss the recently released International Monetary Fund (IMF) Report on Hungary (Ref),Finance Minister Veres expressed confidence in ongoing reforms, noting the successful, quiet (without prompting any of the recent demonstrations or other strong [...] | 2007-05-21 14:57:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL HU |
07BUDAPEST818 | HUNGARY: CLEANING HOUSE AT THE MINISTRY OF [...] (C) Long beleaguered Minister of Justice Jozsef Petretei and Head of the Police Security Service General Jozsef Dobozi resigned on June 20, followed on May 21 by National Security Service head General Lajos Galambos, amidst a flurry of police impropriety scandals that converged in the proceedi [...] | 2007-05-21 15:49:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KUM ASEC HU |
07BUDAPEST823 | FROM A WHISPER TO A SCREAM: FIDESZ PARTY CONGRESS [...] (C) Summary: FIDESZ president Viktor Orban was reelected by an overwhelming margin at a May 19 - 20 party convention where sweeping invective against the Gyurcsany government competed with substantive policy discussion. The party worked hard - and in large part successfully - to place itself [...] | 2007-05-22 14:05:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON HU |
07BUDAPEST865 | SPEECH IMPEDIMENT: GYURCSANY'S INFAMOUS GAFFE ONE [...] (C) The first anniversary of PM Gyurcsany's now-infamous address to an MSZP party meeting has not passed without comment, as both the government and the opposition have used the occasion to reiterate their points and to recast their running debate. "NOW YOU DON'T TALK SO LOUD; NOW YOU DON'T [...] | 2007-05-30 13:43:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HU |
07BUDAPEST866 | DISTORTED REFLECTIONS: THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE [...] (C) Hungary's political parties leave the spring convention season with their leadership either reaffirmed (FIDESZ and the MDF) or realigned (MSZP and SZDSZ). Although the parties are intent on minimizing their internal divisions, there is an ironic gap between the current party presidents a [...] | 2007-05-30 13:51:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR HU |
07BUDAPEST883 | RUSSIA'S HUNGARIAN OFFENSIVE [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see para 6 for guidance request. 2. (C) In a May 25 interview with the Hungarian publication Magyar Hirlap May 25, former Russian PM and current Chamber of Trade and Industry President Yevgevni Primakov disavowed any Russian intention to interfere in [...] | 2007-06-01 08:54:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL RU HU |
07BUDAPEST910 | HUNGARY RESPONDS TO DEVELOPING A UNIFIED ALLIANCE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche points to MFA Security and Non-proliferation Department head Gyorgy Molnar, department deputy Vilmos Hamikus and department NATO expert Gabor Marosfi on June 4. According to Molnar, Hungary agrees with our positions noting that Russia withdrawing from the [...] | 2007-06-05 10:28:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE NATO PARM PREL HU |
07BUDAPEST947 | PAY ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN: [...] (C) FIDESZ Parliamentary Faction Leader Tibor Navracsics is rapidly emerging from relative obscurity to national political prominence. He is amassing influence within the party for his mastery of the issues and assuming a higher public profile as the opposition's spokesperson in Parliament. [...] | 2007-06-11 09:50:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR HU |
07BUDAPEST962 | THE CRITICS AGREE: THE GROWING CHORUS OF CRITICISM [...] (C) Opposition figures, government insiders, and outside observers are increasingly vocal in their criticism of the substantive content and the bureaucratic process of Hungary's foreign policy. KICK ME 2. (C) The growing discontentment makes for strange bedfellows. Both Alexandra Dobo [...] | 2007-06-12 14:14:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR HU |
07BUDAPEST98 | HUNGARY'S POSITION ON OSLO CLUSTER MUNITIONS [...] (C) GOH officials say that Hungary will accept the Government of Norway's (GON) invitation to attend the February 22-23 Oslo conference per reftel. MFA Director of Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Policy Andras Toth told POL off on 22 January that the GOH will attend the conference "in ord [...] | 2007-01-23 14:58:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PARM PREL NATO |
07BUDAPEST992 | BLUE DANUBE: POLITICAL COMMENTATORS' MEETING WITH [...] (C) Former Secretary Albright's breakfast with Hungarian political commentators June 14 reflected consensus across the political spectrum that Hungary is still struggling practically and psychologically with the responsibilities of its accession into the Euro-Atlantic mainstream. 2. (C) O [...] | 2007-06-19 09:31:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM HU |
07BUENOSAIRES1000 | ARGENTINA: SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD [...] (U) Embassy Buenos Aires keys the responses below to reftel A questions. 2. (SBU) NATURE OF INVESTMENTS THAT ARGENTINA BUSINESSES HAVE IN CUBA. The GOA imposes no requirement to register foreign direct investment and the Embassy has been unable to uncover any major investment by Argentine [...] | 2007-05-22 09:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ETTC PHUM AR CU |
07BUENOSAIRES1004 | ARGENTINA IN PLAY: RE-ENGAGING ON ECONOMIC AND [...] (C) We need to re-engage with Argentina on broad economic policy and debt management issues. This re-engagement should be both with GoA officials and with this nation's vibrant and diverse civil society and media. In the big picture, Argentina is in play. We should not abandon the field to th [...] | 2007-05-22 18:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EFIN EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1008 | FED GOVERNOR KROSZNER DISCUSSES GOA ECONOMIC [...] (C) During a March 16 meeting with Federal Reserve Governor Kroszner and Ambassador Wayne, GoA Economy Minister Miceli outlined the GoA's incipient effort to implement medium/long term economic planning, now that the financial crisis and default are five years in the past. She described the G [...] | 2007-05-23 13:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1025 | MEETING WITH ARGENTINE DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER: [...] (C) Summary: Argentine Deputy Foreign Minister Roberto Garcia Moritan invited Ambassador to coffee May 22. He wanted to verify that the incident between security details during the Washington visit of Argentine First Lady Cristina Kirchner was behind us and would have not negative aftereffe [...] | 2007-05-23 19:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AR IR VE |
07BUENOSAIRES1030 | ARGENTINE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE SUPPORTS TIP AND [...] (C) On May 22, Ambassador Wayne met with Argentine Speaker of the House Alberto Balestrini and Vice President of the House Patricia Vaca Narvaja. They underscored the importance of the bilateral relationship and continued cooperation in providing security to Argentines and Americans alike i [...] | 2007-05-24 13:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PRGOV ECON ELAB KCRM PHUM SMIG KWMN ASEC |
07BUENOSAIRES1045 | GARCIA MORITAN'S VIEWS ON UN REFORM AND UNHRC [...] (C) Summary. On May 24, Ambassador Wayne hosted a lunch in honor of new Argentine Ambassador to the United Nations Jorge Arguello, with Deputy Foreign Minister Garcia Moritan present, among others. The Ambassadors discussed the importance of UN reform and stressed the need to work together [...] | 2007-05-24 21:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNHRC UNAUS PHUM KNNP PARM AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1046 | ARGENTINA: CIVAIR TURBULENCE ON THE GROUND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Argentina has been seized recently with media stories alleging unsafe skies and a "broken" civil aviation regime, with some analysts and pilot and controller groups weighing in to support this charge. What began with a March 1 electrical storm that knocked out the primary radar se [...] | 2007-05-24 21:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAIR AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1070 | ARGENTINA'S AIRPORTS OPERATOR ON HIGH AIRPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador met on May 18 with Ernesto Gutierrez, President of Aeropuertos Argentinas AA000 (AA2000),the private company that holds the 30-year concession to run 32 major Argentine airports. Gutierrez is a leading Argentine businessman, with extensive contacts and experience in [...] | 2007-05-31 13:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV EAIR BEXP AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1080 | FED GOVERNOR KROSZNER IN ARGENTINA; HIGHLIGHTS [...] (C) Fed Governor Kroszner highlighted globalization's impact on international capital flows and yield curves in speeches and roundtable meetings with central bank, government, and private sector representatives during his May 15-16 visit to Buenos Aires. Issues raised during roundtables inclu [...] | 2007-06-01 20:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1083 | ARGENTINE CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT TELLS FED GOV [...] (C) Argentine Central Bank President Redrado assured Fed Governor Kroszner and Ambassador that the GoA would make it through October elections without a sharp increase in inflation. However, he said post-election adjustments were needed to bring the inflation rate down and ensure a soft landi [...] | 2007-06-01 20:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1088 | ARGENTINA: SHOWDOWN FOR BUENOS AIRES MAYOR: [...] (C) SUMMARY: Center-right leader Mauricio Macri (PRO) was the clear winner of the first round of voting for mayor of Buenos Aires city on June 3, but the Kirchner administration can also claim victory, as its candidate, National Education Minister Daniel Filmus came in second. This has push [...] | 2007-06-04 19:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1125 | ARGENTINE SENATE PASSES COUNTER-TERRORISM FINANCE [...] (C) The Argentine Senate passed the draft anti-terror and counter terrorism finance (CTF) bill on June 6. There are positive indications that the lower house -- Chamber of Deputies -- will consider the law soon, but it is unclear whether it will be able to pass the bill prior to the Financial [...] | 2007-06-07 18:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN EFIN PTER SNAR ETTC PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1151 | GOA SUPPORTS PRESERVING ALL MANDATES AND BROAD [...] (C) On June 11, Poloff delivered reftel points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director of Human Rights Gabriela Quinteros and Third Secretary Alexis Am. Quinteros stated that the GOA, in principle, supports the continuation of all country-specific and thematic mandates at the UN Human [...] | 2007-06-12 18:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC UNAUS AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1183 | ARGENTINE CONGRESS EXPEDITES PASSAGE OF COUNTER [...] (SBU) The Argentine Chamber of Deputies passed the GoA's draft counter-terrorism and counter-terrorism finance law on June 13, just one week after it passed the Senate on June 6. Neither house made changes to the government's draft, so the law will go directly to the office of the President for [...] | 2007-06-15 17:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN EFIN PTER SNAR ETTC PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1185 | GOA REACTION TO TIP REPORT [...] (C) Summary. While there has been no public GOA reaction yet, GOA private reaction to the USG's 2007 TIP report was very negative. Vicente Espeche Gil, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary for Bilateral Affairs, called the report "unhelpful" and Interior Minister Anibal Fernandez ex [...] | 2007-06-15 22:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PGOV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1236 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR WAYNE'S JUNE 20 & 21 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 20 and 21 Ambassador Wayne received governors of two key border provinces. Presidential candidate and Neuquen Governor Jorge Sobisch described the main themes of his long-shot presidential run. Jujuy's Governor EduardoFellner stated his continuing commitment to anti- [...] | 2007-06-25 18:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1240 | ARGENTINA: MACRI IS NEW BUENOS AIRES MAYOR: [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Kirchner's image of political invulnerability has been shaken by two local elections, but he is still far ahead in presidential election polls. Center-right leader Mauricio Macri (PRO) is the new mayor of Buenos Aires city, having won the runoff election on June 24 by [...] | 2007-06-26 14:27:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1245 | INTERIOR MINISTER ON STATUS OF ANTI-TIP LEGISLATION [...] (C) Summary. On June 25, Ambassador Wayne called on Interior Minister Anibal Fernandez to discuss the status of TIP legislation and ongoing counternarcotics cooperation in the Tri-Border Area (TBA),the Department's offer to conduct a counterterrorism assessment of Argentina (reported septel [...] | 2007-06-27 14:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PGOV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1246 | GOA INTERIOR MINISTER ON COUNTERNARCOTICS AND [...] (C) Summary. On June 25, Ambassador Wayne called on Interior Minister Anibal Fernandez to discuss ongoing counternarcotics (CN) cooperation in the Tri-Border Area (TBA),the Department's offer to conduct a counterterrorism (CT) assessment of Argentina, and status of TIP legislation (reporte [...] | 2007-06-27 14:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PGOV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES126 | ARGENTINA: "ELATED" OVER HAGUE PULP MILL DECISION [...] (U) SUMMARY: The International Court of Justice in the Hague denied on January 23 Uruguay's request to force Argentina to stop blocking vital roads and bridges linking the neighboring countries, finding that the circumstances of the case "are not such as to require the exercise of its power. [...] | 2007-01-25 15:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1286 | ARGENTINA: "PINGUINA" FOR PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: First Lady and Senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will be the official candidate of the GoA for president in October, replacing her husband, current President Nestor Kirchner. Fernandez de Kirchner's candidacy was widely anticipated after months of intimation from the Ca [...] | 2007-07-03 09:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1301 | ECONOMY MINISTER DECLINES INVITE TO URUGUAY [...] (C) Economy Minister Felisa Miceli and Ambassador discussed on July 3 the Minister's invitation to participate in upcoming meetings in Uruguay with Treasury Secretary Paulson and other Ministers from the region. Although Miceli expressed interest, her staff confirmed on July 5 that the Minist [...] | 2007-07-05 20:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1302 | AMBASSADOR'S JULY 3 MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met July 3 with Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana before the signing of the CivAir Agreement (septel) to discuss a range of issues. Taiana noted that the GoA has focused its foreign policy primarily on regional issues and South American integration - a difficult task. He [...] | 2007-07-06 09:56:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PARM ETRD PTER KCRM |
07BUENOSAIRES1327 | AMBASSADOR MEETING WITH AMIA FRIENDS AND FAMILY [...] (C) Summary. On July 10, Ambassador Wayne, accompanied by Legal Attache and poloff, met with representatives from the Friends and Families of victims of the 1994 Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) terrorist attack (FAV). The Ambassador praised the FAV's efforts to keep the memory o [...] | 2007-07-11 17:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV KJUS AR FBI IS |
07BUENOSAIRES1341 | DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER LOOKING FOR BILATERAL [...] (C) Summary: This is an Action Message: please see para. 7. On July 11, Deputy Foreign Minister Roberto Garcia Moritan invited Ambassador to a confidential discussion on the "future" of bilateral relations. He and Undersecretary for Foreign Relations Vicente Espeche Gil raised the need for [...] | 2007-07-13 16:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1352 | (C) GOA FOILS ETON PARK INVESTMENT BID: CORRUPTION [...] (C) Major U.S. investment fund Eton Park's two year effort to buy a minority stake in Argentina's regulated electricity transmission grid from Brazil's Petrobras offers a snapshot of GoA machinations to favor local -- and presumably more easily controlled -- capital investment in strategic [...] | 2007-07-15 22:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ENRG BEXP VZ AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1353 | IOM COUNTRY REP ON IOM'S AND THE GOA'S ANTI-TIP [...] (C) Summary. On June 29, Ambassador Wayne met with Eugenio Ambrosi, International Organization for Migration (IOM) Country Representative to talk about IOM's efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) and improve the lives of migrant populations in Argentina. (Septel will cover Ambassa [...] | 2007-07-16 12:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PGOV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1359 | DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES VENEZUELA IN [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting July 11 with Ambassador, Deputy Foreign Minister Garcia Moritan discussed GoA's continuing belief that it is better to have Venezuela on the inside of MERCOSUR, although this is not an easy task. GoA's primary interest in including Venezuela is stability, commercial [...] | 2007-07-16 22:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD SNAR AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1360 | ECONOMY MINISTER MICELI RESIGNS, REPLACED BY [...] (SBU) GoA Economy Minister Felisa Miceli, dogged by scandal following the discovery of over $60,000 in cash in her office, has resigned. Chief of Cabinet Minsiter Alberto Fernandez announced Miceli's subordinate, Secretary of Industry and Trade Migueil Peirano, will be named to replace her fo [...] | 2007-07-16 22:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1379 | OAS SYG INSULZA ON VENEZUELA [...] (C) On July 18, Ambassador met over breakfast in Buenos Aires with visiting OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza. Insulza told Ambassador that, as Secretary General, he feels it important to show the OAS is making every effort to work with Venezuela at this time. He said he believes th [...] | 2007-07-18 20:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV VE AR |
07BUENOSAIRES139 | ECONOMIC MINISTER ON MERCOSUR SUMMIT AND [...] (C) During a January 24 meeting focused primarily on Paris Club issues (septel),Economic Minister Miceli told the Ambassador that the recent Mercosur summit in Rio had its tense moments, but had finished with the clear understanding that Mercosur priorities can not be subordinated to the inte [...] | 2007-01-25 20:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ENRG EINV EMIN ETRD BEXP AR |
07BUENOSAIRES140 | ARGENTINA STRIKES DEBT DEAL WITH SPAIN, CONTINUES [...] (C) Economic Minister Felisa Miceli and new Finance Secretary Sergio Chodos forcefully argued the GoA case for a SIPDIS Paris Club restructuring deal during a January 24 meeting with the Ambassador. Miceli said the GoA and Spain had completed a separate deal on the repayment of Argentina's [...] | 2007-01-25 20:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1414 | ARGENTINA: FIRST LADY LAUNCHES CANDIDACY FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: First Lady and Senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner officially launched her candidacy for president of Argentina at a ceremony in her home town on July 19. Fernandez's speech outlined three "pillars" that have served as the foundations of her husband President Nestor Kirc [...] | 2007-07-20 20:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR ECON |
07BUENOSAIRES1415 | ARGENTINE ENERGY SHORTAGE - A CRISIS FORETOLD [...] (SBU) A combination of an unusually cold winter, unseasonably low water levels at hydro-electric facilities, and a 5-year post-crisis legacy of under-investment in basic electricity and natural gas infrastructure has resulted in significant energy shortages in Argentina. The consequence: Ove [...] | 2007-07-20 21:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EINV EPET ECON AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1416 | PUT THEM ON TRIAL: SUPREME COURT OVERTURNS PARDONS [...] (C) Summary and Comment. On July 13, the Argentine Supreme Court overturned a 1989 presidential pardon granted by then President Carlos Menem to General Santiago Omar Riveros, former military official who is accused of crimes against humanity for heading up clandestine detention centers dur [...] | 2007-07-20 22:14:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS MARR AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1459 | US FIRMS AND LABOR MINISTER TOMADA DISCUSS CSR AND [...] (C) Summary. On July 24, Ambassador Wayne hosted a roundtable meeting with Labor Minister Carlos Tomada and representatives from U.S. companies to discuss the Labor Ministry's initiative to promote formal employment and decent jobs as well as U.S. companies' corporate social responsibility [...] | 2007-07-27 19:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ELAB AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1476 | ARGENTINA TO WORK CLOSELY ON TIP ISSUES [...] (C) On July 30, poloff delivered reftel points to MFA Deputy Director for International Organizations Ana Berta and U.S. Desk Officer Hernan Santivanez. Berta stated that while the Argentine government does not appreciate the "paternalistic" nature of the TIP report, it is committed to work [...] | 2007-07-31 18:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PGOV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES148 | AMBASSADOR WAYNE'S JANUARY 25 MEETING WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 25, Ambassador Wayne called on Secretary General of the Presidency (President Nestor SIPDIS Kirchner's chief of staff) Oscar Parrilli. Parrilli said that the GOA is committed to serving as a positive example of democracy in the region and tries to demonstrate democr [...] | 2007-01-26 20:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1496 | NEW ARGENTINE ECONOMY MINISTER PEIRANO: [...] (C) New Economy and Production Minister Miguel Peirano was elevated from his Secretary of Industry and Trade and Small Business post in the same Ministry to replace Felisa Miceli on July 17. Miceli had resigned abruptly after a scandal involving the discovery of $100,000 in cash in her office [...] | 2007-08-01 19:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EFIN PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1502 | BUENOS AIRES MAYOR TELERMAN ON CITY AND NATIONAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an August 1st meeting with Ambassador, Buenos Aires Mayor Jorge Telerman expressed his personal affinity for the U.S. and said he thought U.S.-Argentine relations were "like the swing of a pendulum" and would move in the other direction eventually. Telerman offered his vi [...] | 2007-08-02 20:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1517 | CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR CALLS ARGENTINE ECONOMIC [...] (C) The GoA's "fiscal policies are not sustainable past this year," Central Bank (BCRA) President Martin Redrado (PROTECT) told Ambassador during their July 31 meeting. He warned of increasing problems if Argentina maintained its domestic demand-driven growth policies (he noted the BCRA estim [...] | 2007-08-03 20:05:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1519 | KIRCHNERS: PRESENT AND FUTURE [...] (C) Summary: In recent group and individual discussions with G-8 and Spanish Ambassadors, all agreed that Cristina Kirchner is trying to convey more interest in international affairs and to show that she is listening to concerns expressed by others. But her proposals for how she will govern [...] | 2007-08-03 20:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EFIN ETRD AR SP GM MX |
07BUENOSAIRES1544 | ARGENTINA: KIRCHNER TRIES TO DOWNPLAY CHAVEZ VISIT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Argentine President Nestor Kirchner received Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on August 6 to finalize Venezuela's purchase of US$500 million in Argentine bonds and to sign a number of energy accords, including the joint construction of a $400 million LNG receiving terminal in [...] | 2007-08-08 20:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR VZ |
07BUENOSAIRES1673 | AMBASSADOR WAYNE MEETS CRISTINA'S RUNNING MATE, WITNESSES THE BOOM IN MENDOZA, ARGENTINA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-24 18:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | AR ECON PGOV PREL SOCI |
07BUENOSAIRES1684 | ARGENTINA: CHACO SENATOR CAPITANICH DISCUSSES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 9, Ambassador Wayne received Senator Jorge Capitanich, a pro-Kirchner candidate for governor in the poor northern province of Chaco. Capitanich described the main themes of his gubernatorial campaign and the lack of critical infrastructure in his province. He exp [...] | 2007-08-27 12:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1685 | NEXT STEPS ON THREE PLUS ONE MECHANISM AND TBA [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) In Ref B, Embassies Buenos Aires, Asuncion and Brasilia recommended expanding the Three Plus One mechanism (3 1) to encompass other illicit activities and sources of illicit financial flows, while continuing to give preeminence t [...] | 2007-08-27 12:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER EFIN PREL PGOV SNAR KTFN PA BR AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1709 | ARGENTINE MINISTER OPEN TO BROADER 3 + 1 DIALOGUE [...] (C) Ambassador asked Argentine Minister of the Interior (MOI) Anibal Fernandez August 27 about his views on dealing with terrorist threats and other serious problems in the Tri-border area (TBA). He asked the Ministe his views on the potential benefits of addressing a broader scope of issue [...] | 2007-08-29 20:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KTFN AR BR PA |
07BUENOSAIRES171 | ARGENTINA: SCENESETTER FOR UNDER SECRETARY BURNS [...] (C) Summary: Embassy in Buenos Aires and I warmly welcome you and your delegation to Argentina February 8-9. While not always seeing eye to eye with the USG, the Kirchner administration continues to be an important partner on a wide range of security issues, from non-proliferation and militar [...] | 2007-01-30 21:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1730 | ARGENTINA: ELECTIONS 2007 WEEKLY ROUNDUP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Election season is in full gear now that there are less than 60 days to presidential elections on October 28. The opposition further damaged its image this week when the highly-publicized effort to join the candidacies of center-left leader Elisa Carrio and center-right lead [...] | 2007-08-31 11:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR ECON |
07BUENOSAIRES1745 | NEW ECONOMY MINISTER ON PARIS CLUB, DOHA TALKS, [...] (C) New Economy Minister Miguel Peirano emphasized to the Ambassador his interest in resolving the Paris Club impasse, supported Canada's IMF reform proposals, agreed to deal with disputes involving U.S. interests, and affirmed Argentina's commitment to broad trade liberalization in an August 2 [...] | 2007-08-31 20:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1776 | ARGENTINE-URUGUAYAN PULP MILL DISPUTE: FINNISH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Finnish Embassy believes that despite the bilateral frictions that the Argentina-Uruguay pulp mill dispute has created, the mill project will open as scheduled in October with a minimal possibility of violence. The Embassy discounts as spurious Argentine environmental ac [...] | 2007-09-06 19:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV SENV PREL SOCI FI UY AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1777 | ARGENTINA'S PRESUMPTIVE NEXT PRESIDENT: OPEN TO A [...] (C) Cristina Kirchner appears headed to be Argentina,s next President. While she will not likely break significantly from the policies of her husband, it looks like she will be much more interested in international affairs and more attentive to relations with other countries, including the Un [...] | 2007-09-06 19:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1785 | ARGENTINE ECONOMY MINISTRY OFFICIALS AGREE TO [...] (C) Econoff delivered reftel demarche on supporting plans to clear Liberia's IMF arrears to new Economy Ministry Chief of Advisors Javier Alvaredo and new Undersecretary of Finance Juan Carlos Barboza on September 5. Econoff also outlined issue in general terms over the telephone to Secretary [...] | 2007-09-07 15:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1802 | ARGENTINA: AMIA DICUSSES INTERPOL GA VOTE STRATEGY [...] (C) Summary. On September 4, Ambassador Wayne met with the President of the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) Luis Grynwald and other AMIA officials to discuss AMIA's strategy to ensure that the INTERPOL General Assembly (GA) votes to uphold its Executive Committee's (EC) decision [...] | 2007-09-10 17:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV KJUS AR FBI |
07BUENOSAIRES1809 | IMF CANDIDATE STRAUSS-KAHN LOBBIES FOR ARGENTINE [...] (C) Dominique Strauss-Kahn, France's candidate for Managing Director of the IMF, capped a four-country tour through Latin America with two days of meetings in Buenos Aires. French Embassy officials called the meetings with GoA officials "surprisingly cordial," particularly with President Kirc [...] | 2007-09-11 17:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES182 | CLASH AT INTERPOL LEADS TO HEIGHTENED TENSIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. On January 22, an Argentine delegation, led by MFA Ambassador Guillermo Gonzalez and including AMIA special prosecutors, met at Interpol headquarters in Lyon with Secretary General Noble and other Interpol officials to argue their case for issuing Red Notices for the [...] | 2007-01-31 17:05:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV KJUS AR FBI |
07BUENOSAIRES1826 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT SIGNS NATIONAL ANTI-MONEY [...] (C) In a high-profile ceremony on September 11, President Kirchner signed the GoA's new "National Agenda" on money laundering and terrorism financing. The Agenda is designed to serve as the roadmap for the GoA to improve coordination and enforcement on anti-money laundering and counter-terror [...] | 2007-09-12 20:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN EFIN PTER SNAR ETTC PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES184 | ARGENTINA: SCENESETTER FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL [...] (C) Introduction and Summary: Embassy Buenos Aires warmly welcomes you and your delegation to Argentina February 6-7. While the Kirchner administration does not always see eye to eye with the USG, it continues to be an important partner in fighting transnational crime, drug and human trafficki [...] | 2007-01-31 20:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER SNAR KJUS PHUM AR |
07BUENOSAIRES185 | ARGENTINA TO ALLOW IRAQ TO REESTABLISH EMBASSY [...] (C) The Argentine government plans to inform the Iraqi government in February, that the GOA would allow the GOI to reopen its Embassy in Buenos Aires "sometime in March", Vice Foreign Minister Roberto Garcia Moritan told the Ambassador in a meeting on January 30. Garcia Moritan stressed that [...] | 2007-01-31 20:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OFDP KCOM AR IQ |
07BUENOSAIRES186 | GOA URGES GREATER SENIOR-LEVEL ENGAGEMENT ON HAITI [...] This is an action request. See para 3. 2. (C) Argentine Vice Foreign Minister Roberto Garcia Moritan called for increased senior-level dialogue on Haiti during a January 30 meeting with Ambassador. He extended a dinner invitation to Under Secretary for Political Affairs Burns with Arge [...] | 2007-01-31 22:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL EAID PGOV EFIN UNAUS HA EUN |
07BUENOSAIRES1862 | ARGENTINA: ELECTIONS 2007 WEEKLY ROUNDUP: [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ticket slates for the national elections on October 28 are now final. First Lady and presidential front-runner Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is still leading the polls with a comfortable lead over the next-closest candidate and stands to benefit from her husband's increased [...] | 2007-09-17 15:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR ECON |
07BUENOSAIRES187 | GOA URGES GREATER SENIOR-LEVEL ENGAGEMENT ON HAITI [...] This is an action request. See para 3. 2. (C) Argentine Vice Foreign Minister Roberto Garcia Moritan called for increased senior-level dialogue on Haiti during a January 30 meeting with Ambassador. He extended a dinner invitation to Under Secretary for Political Affairs Burns with Arge [...] | 2007-01-31 22:46:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL EAID PGOV EFIN UNAUS HA EUN |
07BUENOSAIRES1883 | ARGENTINA'S FIRST COUPLE VISITS NEW YORK: HE SAYS [...] (C) Summary: President Nestor Kirchner and First Lady, Senator, and presidential candidate Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will travel to New York September 23-29, where Kirchner will address the UNGA and Cristina will address the Council of Americas. (Septel reports Senator Kirchner's Sept [...] | 2007-09-20 20:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1884 | ARGENTINA REQUESTS ADVANCE NOTICE OF FUTURE [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 7. 2. (C) Summary. On September 18, CDA was called in by the MFA's Under Secretary for Bilateral Relations Vicente Espeche Gil to discuss the Department's 2007 International Religious Freedom Report. Espeche Gil reiterated GOA concerns that it [...] | 2007-09-20 20:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV OPRC KIRF KPAO CASC AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1888 | CRISTINA IN HER WORDS: WILL ARGENTINA'S [...] (C) Summary. A well-briefed, confident Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) described her policy priorities to the Ambassador on September 20, a few days before she departs for a five-day program in New York. Although she defended GOA positions on controversial economic issues, CFK expressed a stro [...] | 2007-09-21 14:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL OVIP EFIN EINV EAIR AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1892 | ARGENTINA: FRUSTRATED EXXON-MOBIL PUTS ASSETS IN [...] (C) After 96 years in Argentina, Exxon-Mobil is shopping its refining and retail assets. Company officials call this part of a region-wide "internal valuation exercise" that follows Exxon's recent decision to exit the Venezuelan market. It also reflects growing company frustration with a com [...] | 2007-09-21 16:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV EPET ENRG ECON VZ AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1893 | ARGENTINA: ELECTIONS 2007 WEEKLY ROUNDUP: [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Argentine opposition candidates are publicly calling on the GOA to invite the OAS to send international observers for the October 28 elections. The opposition's demand is not resonating with the Argentine media or public, and it appears unlikely the GOA will ask for internat [...] | 2007-09-21 17:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1931 | ARGENTINA'S PRESIDENT CALLS ON IRAN TO COOPERATE [...] (C) Summary: Media pundits, Jewish groups, and Argentine government officials uniformly praised President Kirchner's strong call during his September 25 address to the UN General Assembly for the Government of Iran to cooperate fully with Argentina's justice system in the investigation of the [...] | 2007-09-26 20:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1946 | ARGENTINA PREPARED TO SUPPORT U.S. ON BOLIVIA, [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche on encouraging Bolivia, Colombia, and Paraguay to pay their delinquent dues to the Financial Action Task Force for South America (GAFISUD) on September 26 to Justice Minister Alberto Iribarne. Iribarne agreed that GAFISUD members should encourage the d [...] | 2007-09-28 18:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1952 | ARGENTINA: ELECTIONS 2007 WEEKLY ROUNDUP: [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senator and Victory Front (FPV) presidential candidate Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner continued her foreign-policy based campaign with a trip to New York City, where she pitched Argentina to Wall Street investors. Back home, she launched an interactive website aimed at attra [...] | 2007-09-28 19:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR ECON |
07BUENOSAIRES1964 | ARGENTINE JUSTICE MINISTER PROPOSES OVERHAUL OF [...] (C) GoA Justice Minister Alberto Iribarne briefed the Ambassador September 26 on his draft proposal to reform the federal criminal justice system (other discussion topics reported Ref A and septel). The reforms, based on the recommendations of a Special Commission, aim to alter the rules of e [...] | 2007-10-02 13:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON SNAR KJUS KCRM EAID KCOR PHUM |
07BUENOSAIRES1972 | AMBASSADOR WAYNE'S MEETING WITH UNHCR REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary. Cristian Koch-Castro, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Regional Representative for Southern Latin America, called on the Ambassador to discuss UNHCR's activities in Argentina and the region. Koch-Castro explained that UNHCR has made it a priority to strengthen the cap [...] | 2007-10-03 13:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF AR BR CI UY BL PE |
07BUENOSAIRES1980 | ARGENTINE PUNDITS: RESTORING PUBLIC CONFIDENCE KEY [...] (C) Summary. A group of top political and economic analysts maintain that the main challenges facing Argentina's next administration are restoring confidence in public institutions; reining in inflation and labor demands for higher wages; and improving juridical certainty to attract greater [...] | 2007-10-04 12:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KLAB KCOR AR |
07BUENOSAIRES1994 | ARGENTINA: ELECTIONS 2007 WEEKLY ROUNDUP OCTOBER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The latest polls confirm that Senator and Victory Front (FPV) presidential candidate Cristina Kirchner maintains a healthy lead over her closest challengers. Senator Kirchner's campaign continues to focus on foreign policy and travel, while downplaying domestic issues. The op [...] | 2007-10-05 15:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2015 | ARGENTINA: GETTING READY FOR THE OCTOBER 28 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Over 20 million Argentines are expected to turn up at polling stations on October 28 to cast their votes for president, vice president and, in many locations, for governor, mayor and legislative offices. If required, a second presidential round would be held on November 25. [...] | 2007-10-10 13:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2021 | ARGENTINA: GOA PR OFFENSIVE ON INFATION [...] (C) Inflation has become a polarizing campaign issue in the Argentine presidential campaign, with controversy surrounding its real rate of increase, underlying causes, and the methodologies used by the GOA. Many Argentine economists have developed their own "true" inflation indicators and, in [...] | 2007-10-10 18:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES205 | AMIA UPDATE: ARGENTINA LIKELY TO REQUEST QUIET USG [...] (C) SUMMARY. DCM met February 1 with MFA Ambassador Guillermo Gonzalez (who has the lead on the AMIA case) to discuss GOA strategy to prepare for the March Interpol Executive Committee meeting that will likely decide whether Red Notices will be issued for the arrest of the nine suspects in t [...] | 2007-02-02 20:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV KJUS AR FBI |
07BUENOSAIRES2059 | REDUCED EXPECTATIONS: ARGENTINA SEEKS LOW PROFILE [...] (C) The GoA delegation to the annual IMF/World Bank meetings, led by Economy Minister Miguel Peirano and Central Bank President Martin Redrado, will arrive in Washington under instructions from President Kirchner not to say or do anything controversial, given the proximity of Argentina's Octob [...] | 2007-10-17 20:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2080 | WORLD BANK LOOKS TO INCREASE FOOTPRINT IN [...] (C) New World Bank Country Director Pedro Alba told Ambassador that he will wait to see what reforms the next Argentine government implements before deciding whether to develop a new country assistance strategy (CAS) or just issue a progress report on the current CAS. The existing CAS is focu [...] | 2007-10-22 19:53:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2086 | ARGENTINA: WIDE MARGIN PREDICTED FOR FIRST LADY'S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With less than one week before the October 28 presidential elections in Argentina, First Lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) has a commanding lead, according to ten local polls published on October 21. Senator Kirchner seems poised to win by a large margin over the range [...] | 2007-10-23 14:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2094 | ARGENTINA LIKELY TO SUPPORT USG ON NO-ACTION [...] (C) In response to Embassy demarches that relayed points in reftel A, Argentina's Acting Director for International Organizations Manuel Fernandez Salorio told poloff that the GOA will likely support the USG on no-action motions and country-specific resolutions at the United Nations Third Com [...] | 2007-10-24 16:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2100 | ARGENTINA: TERRORIST FINANCE DEMARCHES DELIVERED [...] (C) Econoff conveyed the pre-notification demarche on the USG designation to the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee of seven Iraqi individuals (Ref A) on October 10 to Jose Ignacio Tobella, Acting Director, Office of Terrorism Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As per reftel instructions, Econoff [...] | 2007-10-25 14:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2101 | ARGENTINA LIKELY TO TAKE MIDDLE GROUND ON U.S. [...] (C) On October 23 poloff delivered ref A points to Eduardo Zuain, MFA Counselor who covers indigenous rights issues. Zuain replied that the GOA will not support our request to suspend ongoing negotiations on the OAS Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DRIP). However, he indicate [...] | 2007-10-25 15:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIA PHUM PREL UN AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2119 | ARGENTINE JUSTICE MINISTER DISCUSSES TIP, MONEY [...] (C) Introduction: This cable covers and provides updates on issues that Justice Minister Alberto Iribarne and the Ambassador discussed during their recent meeting (reftels). They include: 1) status of Trafficking in Persons legislation and Justice Ministry efforts to push for its passage; 2) [...] | 2007-10-26 16:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KTFN SNAR KJUS KCRM PHUM KWNM |
07BUENOSAIRES2121 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH INCOMING BUENOS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Wayne met former federal judge Guillermo Montenegro, who was enthusiastic about his new position as Minister of Security-elect of Buenos Aires City, outlining political and bureaucratic challenges he anticipates in his "first executive assignment." He spoke openly abo [...] | 2007-10-26 18:18:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR KJUS PGOV PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2137 | BRAZILIAN AMBASSADOR TO ARGENTINA ON ELECTIONS AND [...] (C) Ambassador Wayne met October 29 with Brazilian Ambassador to Argentina Mauro Vieira (protect). Following are highlights: 2. (C) Cristina Fernandez' election: Vieira had arranged for President Lula to call Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) at 2100 October 28 to offer congratulatio [...] | 2007-10-29 19:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2138 | ARGENTINE ECONOMY MINISTRY OFFICIALS SEE [...] (C) Economy Minister Peirano told Ambassador he will hold off discussing bilateral or multilateral issues until the dust settles from the October 28 elections. He called his participation in the IMF/World Bank meetings a success, and he expects improved cooperation and coordination with those [...] | 2007-10-30 09:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2142 | STATUS OF POST ADVOCACY FOR HUMAN [...] (C) Ambassador and Emboffs have devoted major resources to raise and investigate the human rights (and anti-Semitism) case of Argentine citizen Eduardo Saiegh (victim in 1980 of kidnapping, torture, and expropriation -- Reftels). The Ambassador has raised the case at high levels, and Econ/Pol [...] | 2007-10-30 13:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PHUM AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2191 | REACTION IN ARGENTINA TO POSITIVE NOVEMBER 7 [...] (C) Summary: Argentine officials, Jewish organizations, and private citizens lauded the Interpol General Assembly's (GA) overwhelming vote for the issuance of international capture notices for five current and former Iranian government officials and one Lebanese Hizballah member wanted in con [...] | 2007-11-08 20:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL AR IR BR |
07BUENOSAIRES2198 | ARGENTINE SUPPORT FOR FATF STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] (C) Econoff delivered Ref A demarche on FATF's statement on Iran November 7 to Dr. Juan Felix Marteau, the Argentine government's National Coordinator for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism finance (AML/CTF). Marteau, who reports directly to the Minister of Justice, is the GoA's repr [...] | 2007-11-09 19:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN EFIN PTER PREL PARM MNUC AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2204 | ARGENTINE FM TAIANA ON HIS MEETING WITH THE [...] (C) In the course of an October 26 discussion of other issues (reftels),Argentine FM Taiana told the Ambassador he was very pleased by his meeting with the Secretary at UNGA as well as separate encounters with U/S Burns and A/S Shannon. He characterized it as a very "frank" conversation, notin [...] | 2007-11-14 19:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2206 | DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN: CRISTINA'S NEW CABINET [...] (C) Summary: President-elect Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) announced a new cabinet November 14 that will look very much like her husband's. The early announcement was sparked by infighting among cabinet factions. The limited changes suggest strongly that any evolution in policies und [...] | 2007-11-14 21:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN EINV MARR PINR AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2212 | CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT PUSHES GOA DOHA NEGOTIATORS [...] (C) On November 12, Ambassador urged Argentine Central Bank President Martin Redrado to engage within the GoA to moderate Argentina's "rejectionist" position in Doha Round talks. Redrado confided that he had already intervened on the subject with the Foreign Minister and GoA trade negotiators [...] | 2007-11-15 08:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD WTRO ECON EAGR EINV PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2216 | IDB PRESIDENT MORENO OFFERS INSIGHTS INTO THE [...] (C) IDB President Luis Alberto Moreno urged the Kirchners to rebuild their relationship with the USG during his November 5-6 visit to Buenos Aires. Moreno relayed this to Ambassador November 6, noting that President-elect Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) seemed to understand that USG supp [...] | 2007-11-15 15:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN EAID AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2217 | GAFISUD AND ARGENTINA SEEK U.S. HELP TO AVOID [...] (C) In separate conversations, GAFISUD's Executive Secretary Alejandro Montesdeoca and Argentina's National SIPDIS Coordinator Dr. Juan Felix Marteau expressed grave concerns to Emboffs that GAFISUD (South American Financial Action Task Force) would be forced to suspend Bolivia's membership [...] | 2007-11-15 16:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN EFIN PTER PREL PARM MNUC AR BL CO PA |
07BUENOSAIRES222 | AMBASSADOR WAYNE'S JANUARY 31 MEETING WITH CHIEF [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 31, Ambassador Wayne called on Chief of Cabinet Alberto Fernandez. Ambassador Wayne talked through four areas for more work: cooperation on security issues (narcotics trafficking, counterterrorism); support for democracy; creating a more inviting investment climate an [...] | 2007-02-05 20:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2223 | PULP MILL DISPUTE: GUARDEDLY HOPEFUL THAT [...] (C) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY. Concerns over the pulp mill dispute have calmed down in Buenos Aires, despite the sharp words and protests generated last weekend when Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez gave the order to commence operations November 9 at the pulp mill in Fray Bentos, western Urug [...] | 2007-11-16 13:53:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EINV SENV UNGA AORC FI UY AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2225 | CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT ON PARIS CLUB, ICSID [...] (C) During a November 11 meeting, Ambassador urged Central Bank (BCRA) President Martin Redrado(protect strictly) to use his considerable influence to steer the debate within the GoA on developing a workable Paris Club proposal and on paying ICSID arbitral awards. Discussions on Argentina's po [...] | 2007-11-16 15:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2268 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH BUENOS AIRES VICE [...] (C) Ambassador Wayne met with Buenos Aires City Vice Mayor-elect Gabriela Michetti to discuss incoming Mayor Mauricio Macri's key policy priorities and challenges. She noted that increasing city revenue is a top priority, as the city's budget deficit makes it difficult to invest in public i [...] | 2007-11-29 17:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2272 | GAFISUD WILL SUSPEND BOLIVIA, COLOMBIA, PARAGUAY [...] (C) The Executive Secretary of GAFISUD (the South American Financial Action Task Force),Alejandro Montesdeoca, told TreasAttache November 29 that Bolivia, Colombia, and Paraguay will have their membership in GAFISUD suspended as of December 1. Following Bolivia and Paraguay's recent partial [...] | 2007-11-30 13:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN EFIN PTER PREL PARM MNUC AR BL CO PA |
07BUENOSAIRES2283 | ARGENTINA: DEMARCHE ON NIE ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR [...] (C) DCM and PolOff delivered reftel talking points to Argentine Undersecretary for Bilateral Relations Ambassador Vicente Espeche-Gil and Deputy Director of the MFA's Office of International Security, Nuclear and Space Issues, Minister Ricardo Bocalandro on the afternoon of December 3. DCM lef [...] | 2007-12-03 20:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP MNUC PARM AR IR |
07BUENOSAIRES2286 | (C) ARGENTINA REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III [...] (U) Embassy Buenos Aires keys the responses below to reftel A questions. 2. (SBU) NATURE OF INVESTMENTS THAT ARGENTINA BUSINESSES HAVE IN CUBA. The GOA imposes no requirement to register foreign direct investment and the Embassy has been unable to uncover any major investment by Argentine n [...] | 2007-12-04 11:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ETTC PREL ETRD CU AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2291 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES SAIEGH CASE WITH [...] (C) Summary. On November 29, the Ambassador met with Secretary for Human Rights Eduardo Luis Duhalde to raise the SIPDIS case of Argentine citizen Eduardo Saeigh, a Jewish Argentine citizen who in 1980 was kidnapped, tortured and dispossessed of a bank he owned during Argentina's 1976-83 [...] | 2007-12-04 19:14:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PHUM AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2292 | INCOMING ARGENTINE ECONOMY MINISTER PRIORITIZES [...] (C) Incoming GOA Economy Minister Martin Lousteau, in a December 3 meeting with Ambassador, said his initial priorities will be to resolve the longstanding Paris Club impasse and to take concrete steps to improve Argentina's investment climate to attract needed FDI. Lousteau introduced Hugo S [...] | 2007-12-04 20:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | AR ECON EFIN ETRD |
07BUENOSAIRES2317 | BANCO DEL SUR LAUNCHED IN BUENOS AIRES DECEMBER 9 [...] (C) As his last official act in office, President Nestor Kirchner hosted five other South American Presidents for the December 9 signing of the "Founding Act of the Bank of the South" (Banco del Sur). In their public remarks, the Presidents and President-elect Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner e [...] | 2007-12-10 18:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL AR BL BR CO EC PA UY VE |
07BUENOSAIRES2345 | ARGENTINE FUROR CONTINUES OVER U.S. ALLEGATIONS [...] (C) The GOA has repeatedly suspended Ministerial-level contacts and has cut off some law enforcement contacts with the USG in wake of the continuing furor (ref a) over DOJ allegations that $800,000 intercepted August 4 by Argentine officials was a BRV cash contribution for Cristina Kirchner's (CFK) [...] | 2007-12-14 19:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR CJAN ECON ASEC KJUS VE AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2361 | G7 AMBASSADORS ON MIAMI ARRESTS: [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador briefed the Ambassadors and Charges of Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom on the December 11 arrest of three Venezuelans and one Uruguayan in Miami on charges of operating as unregistered foreign agents. Ambassado [...] | 2007-12-19 12:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR CJAN KJUS ASEC KPAO VE AR |
07BUENOSAIRES2375 | ARGENTINA'S AMBASSADOR-DESIGNATE TO THE U.S. TERMS [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine media broadcast remarks critical of the U.S. by the GOA's Ambassador-designate to Washington (ref C),Hector Timerman, who said "politically relations with the U.S. are very bad" because certain "sectors linked to DOJ and U.S. intelligence agencies" were troubled by Ar [...] | 2007-12-20 19:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | OFDP PREL CJAN SNAR KJUS ASEC KCOR VE AR |
07BUENOSAIRES247 | ARGENTINA: IF THE FACTS DON,T FIT, PURGE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Perceived heavy handed government intervention in the economy took on a more serious turn with last week's firing of the chief officer responsible for inflation data at the GoA's statistical agency (INDEC),an institution long admired for its independence and integrity. The media [...] | 2007-02-08 15:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV ENRG ELAB PGOV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES249 | AMIA RED NOTICES: DOJ OFFICIALS DISCUSS WITH MFA [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Visiting DOJ Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher and Criminal Division Deputy Assistant Attorney General Bruce Swartz met February 7 with MFA Under Secretary for Foreign Policy Ambassador Cappagli, MFA SIPDIS AMIA-lead Ambassador Gonzalez and other senior MFA of [...] | 2007-02-08 18:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV FBI AR |
07BUENOSAIRES262 | ARGENTINE FOREIGN MINISTER ASKS USG SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Argentine Foreign Minister Taiana and Vice FM Garcia Moritan asked visiting U/S Burns and A/S Shannon for strong USG support for GOA requests for Interpol Red Notices on nine suspects in the 1994 AMIA bombing. U/S Burns expressed steadfast support for the GOA's pursuit of justic [...] | 2007-02-12 09:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV FBI AR IR |
07BUENOSAIRES263 | ARGENTINE FOREIGN MINISTER ASKS USG SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Argentine Foreign Minister Taiana and Vice FM Garcia Moritan asked visiting U/S Burns and A/S Shannon for strong USG support for GOA requests for Interpol Red Notices on nine suspects in the 1994 AMIA bombing. U/S Burns expressed steadfast support for the GOA's pursuit of justic [...] | 2007-02-12 09:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV FBI AR IR |
07BUENOSAIRES276 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH LABOR MINISTER TOMADA [...] (C) Summary: On February 6, Minister of Labor Carlos Tomada told Ambassador that Argentina welcomes an exchange of ideas and best practices. The Minister discussed GOA efforts to reform its pension system, provide job training programs, and encourage greater levels of formal employment. He [...] | 2007-02-12 21:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ELAB AR |
07BUENOSAIRES285 | ARGENTINA TO REVIEW GLOBAL NUCLEAR TERRORISM [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-13 17:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KGIT KNNP PREL AR BR OM KS SN SF IAEA |
07BUENOSAIRES36 | ARGENTINA: CAMPAIGN SEASON NOW OPEN [...] (U) SUMMARY: Former Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna announced January 4th his candidacy for the October presidential elections, but declined to comment on any political alliances he may form with opposition parties. Lavagna is the first in 2007 to announce his intention to run in the Octobe [...] | 2007-01-10 16:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES369 | LATIN AMERICAN CANDIDACIES FOR THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] Acting PolCouns spoke with Federico Villegas, head of the MFA,s human rights office, to raise reftel concerns and urge Argentina to reconsider standing for re-election to the HRC. Villegas noted our concerns but stated that Argentina had carefully considered its options and is firm in its decis [...] | 2007-02-26 19:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM AR |
07BUENOSAIRES376 | (C) U.S.- ARGENTINE RELATIONS: DR. JEKYL AND MR. [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Argentina's President Nestor Kirchner is trying to stake out a position for himself close to Chavez yet still working well with the U.S. on issues important to Argentina. With domestic political advantage and 2007 elections in mind, we expect Kirchner to continue the balanc [...] | 2007-02-27 21:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON VZ AR |
07BUENOSAIRES383 | ARGENTINE ECONOMY MINISTER TALKS PARIS CLUB, [...] (C) Economy Minister Felisa Miceli asked for U.S. assistance to resolve Argentina's arrears situation with Paris Club creditors during a February 9 meeting with Assistant Secretary Tom Shannon. Miceli explained that Argentina's lack of an IMF agreement blocked its access to a normal Paris Clu [...] | 2007-02-28 14:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES402 | U/S BURNS AND FM TAIANA DISCUSS REGIONAL STABILITY [...] (C) U.S. Participants: Under Secretary for Political Affairs R. Nicolas Burns Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon Ambassador Early Anthony Wayne DCM Mike Matera William McIlhenny, Member, Policy Planning Council (S/P) Heide Bronke, P Special Assistant D [...] | 2007-03-01 21:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR CU HA VZ BZ |
07BUENOSAIRES403 | U/S BURNS IN ARGENTINA: DISCUSSES U.S. INVESTMENT [...] (C) Summary. U/S Burns and A/S Shannon, accompanied by Ambassador, met February 9 with Minister of Planning and Infrastructure Julio De Vido and discussed the public controversy over Embassy support for a proposed U.S. company's investment, broader investment concerns, and respective pli [...] | 2007-03-01 21:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EINV ENRG ETRD EPET PGOV BL VE AR |
07BUENOSAIRES406 | U/S BURNS AND A/S SHANNON FEBRUARY 9 MEETING WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Under Secretary Burns and Assistant Secretary Shannon, accompanied by Ambassador, met February 9 SIPDIS with Cabinet Chief Alberto Fernandez. During a brief drop-by, President Kirchner welcomed U/S Burns and A/S Shannon and thanked them for their visit. Fernandez ex [...] | 2007-03-02 16:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EINV ETRD BL CU AR |
07BUENOSAIRES411 | ARGENTINA: FEBRUARY 9 BURNS/SHANNON MEETING WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-02 21:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PTER AA ASEC ETRD IAEA CU HA |
07BUENOSAIRES413 | (C) KIRCHNER STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS: A [...] (C) SUMMARY: In what amounts to an annual state of the union address, President Kirchner opened the GOA Congress's 2007 session on March 1 with a two hour, 15-minute speech, touting his administration's economic achievements, its "regained" political independence, and taking shots at the usua [...] | 2007-03-02 22:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON AR |
07BUENOSAIRES422 | (C) SUPPORTING THE AMIA TERROR INVESTIGATION AT [...] (C) In anticipation of a senior level interagency meeting early this week, I would like to restate the importance of the USG supporting the efforts of Argentina's prosecutors to pursue justice in the 1994 AMIA terrorist bombing case. I understand the need for full debate of the sensitive issue [...] | 2007-03-05 21:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV KJUS AR FBI |
07BUENOSAIRES444 | ARGENTINA: THE BATTLE FOR BUENOS AIRES [...] (U) SUMMARY: Buenos Aires is set for a short, intense, and important mayoral campaign. Current Buenos Aires Mayor Jorge Telerman has announced that the city elections will be held on June 3, 2007, several months earlier than expected. Telerman's move has forced nationally important, center-r [...] | 2007-03-08 14:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES465 | ARGENTINA: CHAVEZ'S ANTI-BUSH RALLY [...] (U) SUMMARY: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez led an inflammatory anti-Bush, anti-imperialism rally on March 9 in Buenos Aires in which he called President Bush a "political cadaver." Argentine President Nestor Kirchner allowed the rally to take place but was careful to distance himself from [...] | 2007-03-10 17:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC AR VZ CU BO UR |
07BUENOSAIRES484 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSES ANTI-TERROR TRAINING, [...] (SBU) Ambassador took advantage of a March 2 meeting with Interior Minister Anibal Fernandez to present him with a copy of the 2007 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR),to discuss an upcoming Anti Terrorism Assistance Program (ATA) needs assessment visit and to ask him to as [...] | 2007-03-14 14:46:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR ASEC AR |
07BUENOSAIRES503 | G-8 AMBASSADORS WANT TO HANG TOUGH ON PARIS CLUB [...] (C) The German Embassy hosted a March 13 meeting of Ambassadors representing Argentina's top ten Paris Club creditors. Spain justified its bilateral treatment of its 2001 loan to Argentina, but promised solidarity on other bilateral debt. Participants generally agreed that: 1) an IMF comfort [...] | 2007-03-15 20:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES505 | PARIS CLUB STILL IN THE NEWS IN ARGENTINA, AND GOA [...] (C) The Ambassador spoke March 14 with Cabinet Chief Alberto Fernandez to clarify Fernandez' statement to the press that Argentina was "very close" to concluding a Paris Club deal. The Ambassador noted that negotiations were stalled and big differences remained over the role of the IMF. Fern [...] | 2007-03-15 20:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES520 | ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT WELCOMES AMIA DECISION [...] (C) Summary: On March 15, Interpol Executive Committee (EC) recommended by consensus the issuance of Red Notices against five Iranian officials and one Hizballah - Islamic Jihad Organization (IJO) leader wanted in connection with the July 18, 1994 suicide bombing of the Argentine-Israeli Mutua [...] | 2007-03-19 09:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV KJUS AR FBI |
07BUENOSAIRES538 | DEMARCHE: BUILDING INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-21 12:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM AR |
07BUENOSAIRES54 | ARGENTINA'S RIO MERCOSUR SUMMIT PRIORITIES [...] (C) President Chavez's inaugural comments and nationalization of key industries have cast a shadow on Argentina's participation in the upcoming January 18-19 Mercosur Summit in Rio. Key GoA officials have commented that "Venezuela is not the model" for Argentina or for Mercosur. Venezuela's [...] | 2007-01-12 20:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES55 | ARGENTINA'S RIO MERCOSUR SUMMIT PRIORITIES [...] (C) President Chavez's inaugural comments and nationalization of key industries have cast a shadow on Argentina's participation in the upcoming January 18-19 Mercosur Summit in Rio. Key GoA officials have commented that "Venezuela is not the model" for Argentina or for Mercosur. Venezuela's [...] | 2007-01-12 20:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES550 | CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT REDRADO PRIVATELY WARNS GOA [...] (C) During a March 16 meeting, Argentine Central Bank (BCRA) President Martin Redrado (STRICTLY PROTECT) told the Ambassador that GoA officials had not/not formally approached him to discuss the prospect of using BCRA reserves to capitalize the Banco del Sur, the Venezuelan proposed regional d [...] | 2007-03-22 10:40:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EAID ENRG EAGR ETRD AR VZ |
07BUENOSAIRES57 | ARGENTINA: PULP MILL PROTESTS UPDATE [...] (U) SUMMARY: A group of Argentine pulp mill protesters (asambleistas),piqueteros, and various other leftist groups demonstrated January 12 in Buenos Aires for the first time against the paper mill under construction by Finnish firm Botnia in neighboring Uruguay. Some of the demonstrators ma [...] | 2007-01-12 20:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC AR |
07BUENOSAIRES576 | K MAY WANT GOOD RELATIONS, BUT GOA DEFENSIVE OF [...] (C) Summary. "Kirchner truly believes that the USG abandoned Argentina," Deputy Foreign Minister Garcia Moritan told the Ambassador on March 20 in an attempt to explain why Kirchner allowed Venezuelan President Chavez to host an anti-US rally in Buenos Aires during President Bush's visit to [...] | 2007-03-23 21:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR VZ BO UR |
07BUENOSAIRES58 | ARGENTINA: FORMER PRESIDENT ISABEL PERON ARRESTED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ex-President Maria Estela Martinez de Peron (known as Isabel Peron) reportedly has been arrested in Madrid, Spain pursuant to a request from Mendoza judge Raul Acosta for suspicion of involvement in forced disappearances in 1976. The arrest warrant was sent to Interpol to reque [...] | 2007-01-12 20:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR PHUM |
07BUENOSAIRES603 | ARGENTINA ENDS FALKLANDS/MALVINAS OIL AND GAS [...] (C) Summary: On March 27, Foreign Minister Taiana announced that the GOA would end a 1995 accord with the UK aimed at encouraging cooperation on oil and gas exploration around the Falklands/Malvinas islands. He maintained, however, that the GOA will continue to abide by the 1989-1990 sovereig [...] | 2007-03-29 00:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PMIL KTIA AR UK |
07BUENOSAIRES621 | ARGENTINA: FOREIGN MINISTER SEES WAY AHEAD ON [...] (C) Summary: "Let's put recent events behind us and move forward on our positive agenda" Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana told Ambassador Wayne March 29, offering no rebuttal to the Ambassador's conveyance of Washington's serious displeasure with the GoA decision to allow Chavez's March 9 anti-US [...] | 2007-03-30 20:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PARM MARR ECON AR |
07BUENOSAIRES642 | ARGENTINE FINANCE SECRETARY CHODOS ON MEETINGS [...] (C) GoA Finance Secretary Sergio Chodos and Finance Undersecretary Alejandra Scharf discussed with Econoffs on March 27 their impressions of Chodos' March 18 bilat in Guatemala with U.S. Treasury officials. Chodos expressed Economic Minister Felisa Miceli's interest in meeting with Treasury S [...] | 2007-04-05 15:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES65 | ARGENTINA'S ECONOMIC CRISIS LEGACY: FIRST IN ICSID [...] (SBU) Now, five years after Argentina,s December 2001 economic implosion and the largest sovereign default in world history, considerable attention remains focused on over $20 billion in outstanding claims by holders of defaulted Argentine bonds. Less well appreciated is the over $13 billion [...] | 2007-01-12 20:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ECON EFIN AR |
07BUENOSAIRES675 | SPANISH AMBASSADOR ESTRELLA ON REPSOL, RADARS AND [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 8. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) Ambassador met April 4 with Spanish Ambassador to Argentina Estrella (protect). Estrella had recently been the target of false leaks to the daily paper Clarin which alleged that President Kirchner h [...] | 2007-04-10 19:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR SP KSTC KFPC |
07BUENOSAIRES677 | MINISTER OF DEFENSE STRESSES POSITIVE RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: In a March 23 meeting with Ambassador Wayne, and again on March 28 with visiting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Stephen Johnson, Defense Minister Nilda SIPDIS Garre stressed the importance of the bilateral relationship with the U.S. and training and exchange opportunities [...] | 2007-04-10 19:56:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES680 | ARGENTINE ECONOMY MINISTER SEEKS BILAT WITH [...] (C) On April 9, Economy Minister Felisa Miceli requested Ambassador's support in arranging a bilat with Treasury Secretary Paulson during upcoming IMF/World Bank meetings to SIPDIS discuss Paris Club and other bilateral economic issues. While still rejecting any IMF role, Miceli and Finance [...] | 2007-04-10 21:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES687 | ARGENTINA: K CAMPAIGNING ON CONFRONTATION? [...] (C) SUMMARY: While opposition politicians are busy conducting their pre-campaigns, President Nestor Kirchner, with an overwhelming lead in all the polls, remains mum about whether he will run for reelection in October. Kirchner associates and rumors favor First Lady Senator Cristina Fernan [...] | 2007-04-11 19:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES70 | FM TAIANA AND PLANNING MINISTER DEVIDO ON MERCOSUR [...] (C) Summary. Planning Minister and influential presidential advisor Julio De Vido told Ambassador January 15 that Bolivia's membership application is the most important item for the January 19 Mercosur Summit in Rio, but that Brazil-Argentine relations will dominate substantive economic dia [...] | 2007-01-17 12:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON EINV PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES726 | AMBASSADOR AND INTERIOR MINISTER REVIEW SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY. On April 13, Ambassador Wayne and Interior Minister Anibal Fernandez met to review the broad range of bilateral security cooperation. Ambassador noted success of Operation ""Todo Inclusivo,"" a DEA-supported effort to target cocaine trafficking out of Ezeiza airport and Fernandez [...] | 2007-04-13 21:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER SNAR PARM AR |
07BUENOSAIRES78 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT KIRCHNER SENDS [...] (C) On December 20, Argentine President Kirchner sent the GoA's draft anti-terrorism and counter-terrorism finance bill to Congress. The GoA took this action in order to comply with Financial Action Task Force (FATF) demands, and avoid sanctions. Post lobbying contributed to this significant [...] | 2007-01-17 20:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN EFIN PTER SNAR ETTC PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES794 | FIRST LADY SENATOR CRISTINA FERNANDEZ DE KIRCHNER [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 20, Ambassador Wayne called on First Lady and Senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to discuss her upcoming May 3 trip to Washington. The Ambassador raised three issues that people may raise during her visit: 1) Argentina's position on support for democracy and press [...] | 2007-04-24 14:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER AR |
07BUENOSAIRES795 | FIRST LADY SENATOR CRISTINA FERNANDEZ DE KIRCHNER [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 20, Ambassador Wayne delivered reftel points to First Lady and Senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and noted that during her May 3 visit Washington interlocutors might raise this issues as well as the status of draft legislation on counterterrorism finance and anti- [...] | 2007-04-24 15:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VZ AR |
07BUENOSAIRES799 | ARGENTINE FIRST LADY EXPECTS CONGRESS TO PASS [...] (C) First Lady and Senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner told Ambassador on April 20 that she expects the Argentine Congress to pass draft legislation criminalizing trafficking in persons (TIP) by May or June at the latest, especially given that the Senate had already approved one version of [...] | 2007-04-24 21:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PGOV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES80 | FM TAIANA ON ECUADORIAN PRESIDENT CORREA [...] (C) Summary: Correa represents "a new generation of Latin American leaders" Foreign Minister Taiana told the Ambassador in a meeting on January 16. He asserted that Correa is "not Chavez" and has demonstrated a willingness to negotiate early on, citing Correa's success in negotiating an ag [...] | 2007-01-17 21:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR EC CO AR |
07BUENOSAIRES800 | FIRST LADY SENATOR CRISTINA FERNANDEZ DE KIRCHNER [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 20, Ambassador Wayne delivered reftel points to First Lady and Senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and noted that during her May 3 visit Washington interlocutors might raise this issues as well as the status of draft legislation on counterterrorism finance and anti- [...] | 2007-04-25 11:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VZ AR |
07BUENOSAIRES801 | ARGENTINE CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT ARGUES CASE FOR [...] (C) During an April 18 meeting to discuss the May 15 visit of Federal Reserve Governor Randall Kroszner to Argentina, Central Bank (BCRA) President Martin Redrado asked for Ambassador's help in explaining to Washington that the Argentine economy is still going through a post-crisis transition [...] | 2007-04-25 11:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON AR |
07BUENOSAIRES803 | ARGENTINA: SENATE PRESIDENT JOSE PAMPURO ON THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 23, Ambassador Wayne called on President Pro Tempore of the Senate Jose Pampuro, who said he expects to accompany First Lady Cristina Kirchner on her May 3 trip to Washington. The Ambassador raised three issues that people may raise during their visit: 1) Argentina's p [...] | 2007-04-25 12:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER AR |
07BUENOSAIRES806 | RCTV: EMBASSY OUTREACH TO GOA AND LEGISLATIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The government of Argentina is not likely to make any overt efforts on the RCTV issue. Ambassador Wayne will seek to raise the issue again with Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana, but it seems that the GOA will not do more than say they have privately and politely raised the issue. [...] | 2007-04-25 17:05:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SCUL VE AR |
07BUENOSAIRES808 | AMBASSADOR'S APRIL 24 LUNCH WITH BRAZILIAN [...] (C) Ambassador met April 24 with Brazil's Ambassador to Argentina, Mauro Viera, to discuss the April 26-27 visit of President Lula to Argentina (after Lula's visit to Chile). Following are highlights of the discussion: 2. (C) Brazil-Argentine Relations: Friday morning, Lula will meet pr [...] | 2007-04-25 18:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EFIN ENRG AR BR |
07BUENOSAIRES81 | FM TAIANA ON IRAQ: DECISION ON IRAQ EMBASSY WILL [...] (C) Summary. On January 16, the Ambassador briefed Foreign Minister Taiana on the President's new Iraq strategy and urged the GOA to allow the Iraqi government to reestablish its Embassy in Buenos Aires. Taiana expressed hope that the USG is successful in Iraq and added that although the G [...] | 2007-01-17 21:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OFDP KCOM AR IQ |
07BUENOSAIRES814 | ARGENTINE MOJ CALLS ANTI-TIP LAW A PRIORITY; [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met with Minister of Justice Alberto Iribarne on April 26 and sponsor of anti-TIP legislation, Deputy Stella Cordoba, on April 27, to underscore the importance of passing anti-TIP legislation. Ambassador urged Iribarne to lend his support to pass draft legislation no [...] | 2007-04-25 22:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG AR |
07BUENOSAIRES838 | ARGENTINA'S INTERIOR MINISTER REQUESTS TIP [...] (C) On April 30, Thomas Fuentes, the FBI's Special Agent in Charge of International Operations, and Ambassador met with Interior Minister Alberto Fernandez to discuss Fernandez's May 3-4 trip to Washington. Fernandez indicated that he would be interested in receiving a briefing on how the U [...] | 2007-04-30 16:46:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PGOV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES844 | SKANSKA GAS PIPELINE SCANDAL ROCKS KIRCHNER [...] (C) A blossoming corruption scandal is coming closer to linking kickbacks from contractors on a natural gas pipeline expansion public works project to senior GoA Planning Ministry and energy regulatory officials. Multiple judicial investigations and relentless media and opposition party atte [...] | 2007-04-30 21:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EINV ECON ENRG PREL SW AR |
07BUENOSAIRES855 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR WAYNE'S APRIL 30 MEETING [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 30, Ambassador Wayne called on Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana to discuss First Lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's May 3 trip to Washington and other issues. (Taiana had planned to join her, but it now appears he will not.) The Ambassador highlighted the importance of [...] | 2007-05-02 20:32:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER AR VZ |
07BUENOSAIRES862 | MEETINGS WITH ARGENTINE INTERIOR MINISTER AND [...] (C) On April 30, Minister of Interior Anibal Fernandez met for over an hour with the Ambassador, FBI Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of International Operations, Tom Fuentes and LEGATT to discuss trafficking in persons, upcoming USG training programs, and next steps on the AMIA case. Minister F [...] | 2007-05-03 11:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PGOV |
07BUENOSAIRES864 | ARGENTINA: FOREIGN MINISTER TAIANA ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 30, Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana briefed Ambassador Wayne on his recent trip to, and Argentine relations with, Mexico, as well as President Kirchner's meeting with Brazilian President Lula Ignacio da Silva. Taiana, who accompanied First Lady Cristina Kirchner to Mexico [...] | 2007-05-03 11:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR MX BR |
07BUENOSAIRES881 | MEETINGS WITH ARGENTINE JUSTICE MINISTER AND [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met separately with Minister of Justice Alberto Iribarne on April 24 and Prosecutor General Esteban Righi on April 27 to discuss upcoming USDOJ consultations and training seminars; GOA efforts to introduce judicial reform; trafficking in persons (ref A); and passage [...] | 2007-05-04 21:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KJUS FBI AR |
07BUENOSAIRES906 | ARGENTINA: CRISTINA FOR PRESIDENT AND OTHER HOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: With just over five months until the presidential elections in October, President Nestor Kirchner has yet to announce whether he will run for reelection, or as many speculate, whether his wife, Senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, will run for the office. Respected journalis [...] | 2007-05-10 15:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES907 | ARGENTINE DRAFT COUNTER TERRORISM FINANCE LAW [...] (C) It appears increasingly uncertain that the Argentine Congress will pass pending counter-terrorism finance legislation prior to the June 2007 Financial Action Task Force (FATF) deadline, despite strong support from within the GoA, the private sector, and even within Congress. The main obst [...] | 2007-05-10 16:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN EFIN PTER SNAR ETTC PREL AR |
07BUENOSAIRES913 | AMBASSADOR'S ASSESSMENT ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (C) Early May 11, I contacted Deputy Foreign Minister Roberto Garcia Moritan to raise reftel points. Garcia Moritan emphatically stated that Argentina would not vote for Belarus for the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). He asked that convey to U/S Burns that he is personally involved in the [...] | 2007-05-11 12:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC |
07BUENOSAIRES914 | LABOR MINISTER ON RESTARTING DIALOGUE WITH FMCS, [...] (C) Summary. On May 2, the Ambassador met with Labor Minister Carlos Tomada and discussed ways to restart a bilateral dialogue on labor mediation and enhance cooperation on corporate social responsibility. The Minister offered some critical remarks on management of the current strikes in Sa [...] | 2007-05-11 13:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PRES PGOV ELAB AR |
07BUENOSAIRES928 | C-TN7-00406: ARGENTINE POSITIONS ON SAMPLE SHARING [...] (U) Emboff met on May 10, 2007 with Argentine Ministry of Health official Dr. Hugo Fernandez to clarify Argentina's positions on Reftel questions. Argentina has to date been an eager partner on the full spectrum of pandemic preparedness cooperation. Dr. Fernandez was unable to address many of [...] | 2007-05-11 19:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR KFLU AR |
07BUENOSAIRES93 | AMIA UPDATE: NISMAN TRAVELS TO LYON WITH [...] (C/NF) LEGATT and the Department of Justice's Office of International Affairs (OIA) have reviewed the GOA's revised application for Interpol arrest warrants ("Red Notices"),which AMIA Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman gave to LEGATT on January 17. LEGATT advises that the 9-page application [...] | 2007-01-19 22:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV KJUST AR IR FBI |
07BUENOSAIRES94 | ARGENTINA TO ATTEND HAITI KEY PLAYERS MEETING, [...] Summary. (C) Argentina supports a 12-month renewal of MINUSTAH's mandate and has demarched China in Beijing, New York, and Port-au-Prince urging them to do the same, Under Secretary for Latin America Policy Agustin Colombo Sierra SIPDIS told A/Polcouns on January 19 in response to reftel [...] | 2007-01-19 22:32:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL EAID PGOV EFIN UNAUS HA EUN |
07BUENOSAIRES958 | ARGENTINE VICE PRESIDENT SCIOLI ON U.S. RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and DCM had a very productive three-hour discussion with Argentine Vice President Daniel Scioli. Scioli said he foresaw a natural partnership between Argentina, Latin America and the United States in the economic development and integration of the hemisphere and base [...] | 2007-05-15 20:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
07BUENOSAIRES965 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETS WITH TIP ACTIVIST TRIMARCO AND [...] (C) Summary. On May 4, Ambassador Wayne met with Susana Trimarco, an activist fighting against trafficking in persons (TIP) in Argentina and recent State Department International Woman of Courage award winner (REF A). Part of the meeting was filmed by Pablo Milstein, a local award-winning [...] | 2007-05-17 08:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PGOV AR |
07BUENOSAIRES976 | MEDIA MAGNATE GRIPES TO THE AMBASSADOR ABOUT [...] (C) In a lunch punctuated by misgivings about the Kirchner Administration, ailing Clarin giant Hector Magnetto conveyed to the Ambassador that his vigor has not waned, despite a throat cancer that has diminished his ability to communicate. As the Ambassador was feted by Clarin's top brass, May [...] | 2007-05-17 19:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAO OPRC PREL KMDR AR |
07BUENOSAIRES977 | ARGENTINA WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN IRANIAN REACTOR [...] (C) Reftel asked addressees to urge host governments and their domestic nuclear industries to refuse to submit bids for the construction of two new reactors in Iran. To that end, ESTH met with Heriberto Jose Boado, the Argentine Atomic Energy Commission's Director of Institutional Relations; w [...] | 2007-05-17 19:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP IR MNUC PARM ENRG AR |
07BUENOSAIRES978 | SKANSKA SCANDAL TAKES DOWN FIRST TWO OFFICIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Skanska-gate has its first two official victims. On May 16, Cabinet Minister Alberto Fernandez announced the firing of the President of ENARGAS (the GoA's natural gas regulatory authority) and the Manager of Nacion Fideicomisos (the public trust established to structure pri [...] | 2007-05-17 21:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EINV ENRG PREL ECON SW AR |
07BUJUMBURA201 | DAS SWAN VISIT TO BURUNDI: TACKLING OBSTACLES TO [...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with Deputy Assistant Secretary(DAS) for African Affairs, James Swan, SIPDIS Burundian President Nkurunziza expressed appreciation for the continued support of the American people and emphasized Burundi,s commitment to political and economic stability. During a [...] | 2007-03-21 15:51:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL BY |
07BUJUMBURA204 | BURUNDI: NEW FNL DEMANDS COULD STALL REINTEGRATION [...] (U) Summary: During meetings with Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for African Affairs, James Swan, the SIPDIS Government of Burundi (GOB) responded to U.S. concerns about stagnation in the Joint Verification and Monitoring Mechanism (JVMM) initiative due to new PALIPEHUTU-FNL demands. Th [...] | 2007-03-22 11:30:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL BY |
07BUJUMBURA206 | BURUNDI'S DEFENSE MINISTER: TROOPS IN SOMALIA [...] (C) Summary: During a March 12 meeting with Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for African Affairs, James Swan, Burundi,s Minister of Defense, Lt. Gen Germain Niyoyankana, projected that with U.S. logistical and financial assistance, Burundi could be ready to deploy troops to Somalia within two [...] | 2007-03-22 13:17:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PARM PGOV PREL BY SO |
07BUJUMBURA215 | BURUNDI RENEWS APPEAL FOR U.S. SUPPORT FOR TROOPS [...] Action Request Para 8. 2. (C) Summary: Burundi renewed its request for donor support for Burundian plans to send peacekeepers to Somalia, providing donors on March 23 with a specific list of needs. Minister of Defense Germain Niyoyankana told Charge on March 26 that Burundi would rely on [...] | 2007-03-26 14:41:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PARM PREL BY SO |
07BUJUMBURA237 | BURUNDI CEASE FIRE AT CRITICAL JUNCTURE [...] (C) Summary: Burundi's cease fire agreement with the rebel PALIPEHUTU-FNL has stalled. Visiting South African analyst Jan van Eck (protect) warned that the accord could collapse because the South African facilitators had assured the FNL that certain outstanding issues could be discussed in B [...] | 2007-03-30 12:37:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PINR BY SF |
07BUJUMBURA241 | BURUNDI CEASE FIRE AT CRITICAL JUNCTURE [...] (C) Summary: Burundi's cease fire agreement with the rebel PALIPEHUTU-FNL has stalled. Visiting South African analyst Jan van Eck (protect) warned that the accord could collapse because the South African facilitators had assured the FNL that certain outstanding issues could be discussed in B [...] | 2007-04-02 09:58:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PINR BY SF |
07BUJUMBURA244 | POSSIBLE BURUNDIAN DEPLOYMENT TO SOMALIA [...] (U) Action Request Para 4. 2. (U) Burundi is prepared to send troops expeditiously to Somalia in support of the African Union mission there (AMISOM),but it recognizes it cannot do so without substantial support. Burundi's minister of Defense, Germain Niyonyankana, estimates that his min [...] | 2007-04-02 12:22:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PARM PREL BY SO |
07BUJUMBURA265 | POSSIBLE BURUNDIAN DEPLOYMENT TO SOMALIA [...] (U) Action Request Para 4. 2. (U) Burundi is prepared to send troops expeditiously to Somalia in support of the African Union mission there (AMISOM),but it recognizes it cannot do so without substantial support. Burundi's minister of Defense, Germain Niyonyankana, estimates that his min [...] | 2007-04-05 14:17:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PARM PREL BY SO |
07BUJUMBURA268 | BURUNDI TALKS WITH FNL TO CONTINUE IN PRETORIA? [...] (C) The South African facilitation mission has proposed to hold a special set of talks between the Government of Burundi (GOB) and the rebel PALIPEHUTU-FNL in Pretoria, according to South Africa's Institute for Strategic Studies analyst Jan van Eck. In a conversation on April 6, Van Eck priv [...] | 2007-04-09 12:00:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PINR BY SF |
07BUJUMBURA289 | UN PEACEBUILDING COMMISSION VISIT TO BURUNDI [...] (C) Summary: The UN Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) has identified four priority areas in which to work in Burundi, according to a delegation which visited Bujumbura April 11-14. The PBC is now preparing an integrated peacebuilding strategy which will focus on good governance, rule of law, se [...] | 2007-04-17 15:30:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KPKO SOCI UNGA PREL BY |
07BUJUMBURA36 | BURUNDI'S RULING PARTY SETS CONGRESS DATE; WILL [...] (C) Summary: The CNDD-FDD party Congress is tentatively scheduled for February 6. Although party head Hussein Radjabu originally sought to place one of his allies at the helm of a committee to prepare for the conference, the CNDD-FDD's spokesperson subsequently announced that Radjabu's pick [...] | 2007-02-03 11:40:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM MARR BY |
07BUJUMBURA38 | BURUNDI: IS RADJABU'S POLITICAL FATE HANGING IN [...] (C) Summary: The power struggle between Burundian strongman Hussein Radjabu and the country's President continues to dominate headlines, as government journalists report that the President's office has barred one of his key allies, Communications Minister Ramadhan Karenga, from entering gover [...] | 2007-02-03 11:41:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PINR BY SA |
07BUJUMBURA413 | BURUNDI: CHANGES IN PRESIDENT'S SENIOR STAFF [...] (U) Burundi's President Nkurunziza announced on May 31 changes in his two most senior staff positions. The new Chief of Cabinet, Melchior Wagara, replaces Martin Mbazumutima. The new Deputy Chief of Cabinet, Jean-Bosco Ndikumana, replaces Melchiade Nzopfabarushe, who left the position more t [...] | 2007-06-05 10:52:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BY |
07BUJUMBURA422 | BURUNDI: CHANGES IN PRESIDENT'S SENIOR STAFF [...] (U) Burundi's President Nkurunziza announced on May 31 changes in his two most senior staff positions. The new Chief of Cabinet, Melchior Wagara, replaces Martin Mbazumutima. The new Deputy Chief of Cabinet, Jean-Bosco Ndikumana, replaces Melchiade Nzopfabarushe, who left the position more t [...] | 2007-06-06 10:21:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BY |
07BUJUMBURA423 | BURUNDI: CHANGES IN PRESIDENT'S SENIOR STAFF [...] (U) Burundi's President Nkurunziza announced on May 31 changes in his two most senior staff positions. The new Chief of Cabinet, Melchior Wagara, replaces Martin Mbazumutima. The new Deputy Chief of Cabinet, Jean-Bosco Ndikumana, replaces Melchiade Nzopfabarushe, who left the position more t [...] | 2007-06-06 10:21:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BY |
07BUJUMBURA460 | AU ASSESSES BURUNDI'S CAPABILITIES FOR SOMALIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: African Union (AU) military leaders visited Burundi on June 10-13 to assess Burundi's readiness for participation in the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM). AU Major General Benonbuta Biraaro and his team inspected two battalions and met with Minister of Defense Lieutenant [...] | 2007-06-15 11:32:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR BY |
07BUJUMBURA513 | BURUNDI'S PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES CABINET CHANGES [...] (C) Summary. President Nkurunziza announced new appointments in seven ministries, and announced the creation of a new Ministry, the Ministry of Regional Integration and Cooperation. They mark the third round of new appointments in the Nkurunziza government since early June 2007. Two of Buru [...] | 2007-07-16 16:17:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PINR PREL BY |
07BUJUMBURA538 | FNL FLEES BURUNDIAN PEACE PROCESS IN DRAMATIC [...] (U) SUMMARY: The National Force for Liberation (FNL),the last hold-out rebel group, has fled the negotiating table and Bujumbura in a severe rupture of the year long attempts to implement a June 2006 cease-fire agreement. The 25 member negotiating team has been reduced to three members of the [...] | 2007-07-26 10:43:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PINR PREL BY |
07BUJUMBURA543 | BURUNDI'S CNDD-FDD PARTY SEEKS USG HELP IN [...] (C) Summary: On July 26, the President of Burundi,s ruling National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) party, Jeremie Ngendakumana, appealed to Ambassador Moller for assistance in resolving the government,s impasse with Burundi,s major politic [...] | 2007-07-27 15:13:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL BY |
07BUJUMBURA565 | BURUNDI FORMER MINISTER ADVOCATES RADJABU'S [...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting on August 6, National Council for the Defense of Democracy - Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) party member and former Minister of Commerce and Industry Jean Bigirimana claimed that the political malaise plaguing Burundi's government can be alleviated [...] | 2007-08-08 13:21:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL BY |
07BUJUMBURA574 | BURUNDI PRESIDENT BEING ADVISED BY HIGH-LEVEL [...] (C) Members of Burundi's political and civil society are consistently suggesting that President Pierre Nkurunziza is being manipulated by a small group of advisors who are strongly connected to the military wing of Nkurunziza's ruling CNDD-FDD party. Embassy officers have been told by well- [...] | 2007-08-16 14:56:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL BY |
07BUJUMBURA626 | BURUNDI MAKING EFFORTS TO MEET IMF DEMANDS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Local International Monetary Fund (IMF) representative Israel de la Piedra met with Ambassador Moller on August 30th to discuss the Government of Burundi's (GOB) progress on meeting short term IMF goals required for funds dispersal. De la Piedra expanded on actions undertaken to [...] | 2007-08-31 10:24:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | BY PGOV PINR PREL |
07BUJUMBURA714 | IMF GUARDEDLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT BURUNDI 2008 BUDGET [...] (U) SUMMARY: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) representative to Burundi called a meeting of the principal donor representatives to review the progress the Government of Burundi (GOB) is making in terms of meeting conditional provisions of the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility. The ag [...] | 2007-10-05 14:23:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PARM PREL PGOV BY |
07CAIRO1029 | EMBASSY CAIRO ASSESSMENT OF CHILD PROSTITUTION AND [...] (C) Embassy Cairo has met with key Egyptian civil society advocates for women's and children's issues, and has reviewed the available literature on trafficking. We have seen no evidence that confirms that child prostitution and forced or temporary marriages are occurring on any significant, [...] | 2007-04-11 11:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCRIM KWMN EG |
07CAIRO1049 | ALLEGATIONS OF POW KILLINGS DURING 1967 WAR [...] (C) The controversy sparked by an Israeli documentary film alleging that 250 Egyptian POWs were killed by the IDF at the end of the 1967 war has dropped from the front pages, but remains close to the surface and will likely continue as a source of irritation in the bilateral relationship with [...] | 2007-04-12 16:52:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MEPN KPAL PHUM EG IS |
07CAIRO1097 | EGYPT MOVES AHEAD ON CHILD PROTECTION, SUPPORTED [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOE's National Council for Childhood and Motherhood is drafting legislation for new child protection measures which include tough new anti-trafficking articles. USAID is poised to provide major technical and programmatic support to the Council and its partners as Egypt t [...] | 2007-04-16 15:14:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KWMN KCRM EG |
07CAIRO1125 | EGYPTIANS REVIEWING DEBT RELIEF FOR IRAQ [...] (C) Poloff and Treasury Attach made reftel demarche to Amal Mourad, Foreign Ministry Deputy Assistant Minister for Arab Affairs, on April 16. Mourad was well-briefed on the issue of Iraqi debt and knew Finance Minister Boutros-Ghali had discussed the issue with Iraqi authorities and Treasury [...] | 2007-04-17 13:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAID EG IZ |
07CAIRO1128 | MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD TO CONTEST SHURA ELECTIONS, [...] (C) Summary: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has announced it will run "no more than twenty candidates" in the June Shura Council elections, and, despite a recent constitutional change banning "any political activity or political parties" based on religion, the group still plans to campaign using i [...] | 2007-04-17 15:16:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL KDEM PHUM EG |
07CAIRO1170 | SNAPSHOT OF UPCOMING LEGISLATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: EGYPT'S PARLIAMENT WILL CONSIDER AN ARRAY OF SIGNIFICANT POLITICAL LEGISLATION DURING ITS CURRENT SESSION (WHICH ENDS APRIL 24 FOR THE SHURA COUNCIL, AND JULY 15 FOR THE PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY),AS WELL AS IN THE SUBSEQUENT SESSION (BEGINNING NOVEMBER 15). SEVERAL OF THE LAWS ARE THE L [...] | 2007-04-19 16:32:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL KJUS PTER EG |
07CAIRO1188 | AMBASSADOR SATTERFIELD DISCUSSES IRAQ WITH [...] (C) Ambassador Satterfield discussed security and political developments in Iraq, as well as preparations for the International Compact on Iraq and expanded Neighbors conferences in separate April 19 meetings with Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit and Arab League (AL) Secretary General Amre [...] | 2007-04-23 10:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KPAL IZ IR EG |
07CAIRO1189 | EGYPT COUNSELS DIALOGUE ON DARFUR, NOT SANCTIONS; [...] (C) Summary: During an April 22 meeting to deliver ref demarches, MFA Assistant Minister for African Affairs Maasoum Marzouk said Egypt would commit "large numbers" of troops for the UN Darfur peacekeeping operation (DPKO) once an effective political solution is reached between the government [...] | 2007-04-23 10:50:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KPKO EG SU |
07CAIRO1204 | EGYPT PLEASED WITH MALIKI VISIT, MUBARAK EXPRESSES [...] (C) Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki is in Egypt April 22-24 to meet the Egyptian leadership and to begin the process of normalizing strained relations, overcoming mutual suspicions, discussing commercial opportunities, and preparing for upcoming international meetings on Iraq. Maliki has [...] | 2007-04-23 15:15:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MOPS ECON EFIN EG IZ |
07CAIRO1207 | NAZIF READOUT ON BASHIR AND DARFUR: COOL AND [...] (C) Prime Minister Nazif on April 23 told the Ambassador that his recent meeting with Sudanese President Bashir and Vice President Ali Osman Taha in Khartoum had been "cool." Bashir was "unreceptive" and "not interested in cooperating" on the issues Nazif raised, including Darfur. Nazif said [...] | 2007-04-23 15:59:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KPKO EG SU |
07CAIRO1242 | EGYPT TELLS HAMAS TO HALT GAZA ROCKET ATTACKS [...] (C) Egypt has warned Hamas to halt rocket attacks from Gaza against Israel, according to wire service and other reports. These reports are consistent with information provided to Embassy Cairo by senior GOE security officials. Note: The Jerusalem Post and the independent Cairo daily Al-Mas [...] | 2007-04-26 15:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MEPN MOPS KPAL EG IS |
07CAIRO1276 | RESPONDING TO EGYPT'S CRACKDOWN ON THE MUSLIM [...] (C) The GOE has ratcheted up its campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) by arresting two MB parliamentarians on April 29. At least 300 members of the banned Islamist organization have been detained since December, 40 of whom (including the group's third-most senior leader) will face mil [...] | 2007-04-30 14:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL PHUM EG |
07CAIRO1279 | DARFUR: ARAB LEAGUE CHIEF RESPONDS TO [...] (C) The Ambassador had the opportunity on April 30 to discuss with Arab League Secretary General Moussa a recent Congressional Resolution on Darfur that explicitly criticizes the Arab League over the conflict there. Moussa conveyed that he was personally affronted by the resolution, and said [...] | 2007-05-02 09:31:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON UNSC MOPS EG SU |
07CAIRO1330 | VISIT TO PRISONER NABIL SOLIMAN [...] (C) Poloff conducted a human rights monitoring visit to prisoner Nabil Soliman on May 6. 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 now being held at the Torah Liman Prison, a [...] | 2007-05-07 08:58:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER CASC KISL EG |
07CAIRO1360 | SUDAN: EGYPTIANS PROPOSE UN/AU ENVOYS DRAFT A [...] (C) During a May 9 meeting, MFA Cabinet staff member responsible for African affairs Ahmed Abu Zeid told poloff that the foreign minister was putting the final touches on an oral message on Darfur which would be transmitted later the same day. The message would be addressed, he said, to Secr [...] | 2007-05-09 13:46:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EG SU |
07CAIRO1361 | COURT RULES AGAINST MILITARY TRIBUNALS FOR MUSLIM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: ON MAY 8, EGYPT'S SUPREME ADMINISTRATIVE COURT OVERTURNED THE FEBRUARY PRESIDENTIAL DECREE THAT ORDERED 40 MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD MEMBERS TO STAND BEFORE A MILITARY TRIBUNAL, AND RULED THAT THE MB DEFENDANTS BE RELEASED IMMEDIATELY. THE WIDESPREAD EXPECTATION AMONG OUR JUDICIAL CON [...] | 2007-05-09 13:58:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL PREL KDEM PHUM EG |
07CAIRO1380 | SOMALIA: EU ENVOY VISITS CAIRO, HEARS ARAB VIEWS [...] (C) New European envoy for Somalia, Jean-Christophe Belliard, was in Cairo May 8-9 for meetings with senior officials at the Egyptian Foreign Ministry and Arab League to discuss ways forward on the political track in Mogadishu. UK poloff Martin Hetherington told emboff on May 9 that Belliard [...] | 2007-05-10 14:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER ARABL EG SO |
07CAIRO1381 | EGYPT'S POSITION ON BELARUS'S CANDIDATURE FOR UNHRC [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-10 16:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL EG UNHRC |
07CAIRO1386 | SUDAN: EGYPT'S SLIPPERY DARFUR PLEDGE AND [...] (C) Summary: The GOE is awaiting UN response on its seemingly robust offer of troops for the AU/UN Heavy Support Package (HSP) for Darfur. However, as with past Egyptian offers for Darfur, the UN's Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) is unlikely to fully accept this offer. The GOE h [...] | 2007-05-10 16:23:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC KPKO EG SU |
07CAIRO1388 | SUDAN: EGYPT'S SLIPPERY DARFUR PLEDGE AND [...] (C) Summary: The GOE is awaiting UN response on its seemingly robust offer of troops for the AU/UN Heavy Support Package (HSP) for Darfur. However, as with past Egyptian offers for Darfur, the UN's Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) is unlikely to fully accept this offer. The GOE h [...] | 2007-05-13 04:11:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC KPKO EG SU |
07CAIRO1395 | ALEXANDRIA JUDGES CLUB CHIEF ON ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a recent meeting, Mahmoud Khodiry (head of the Alexandria Judges Club, a respected judicial figure and frequent critic of the GOE),criticized the curtailment of a judicial role in Egypt's elections, opining that, "the government has no interest in truly free elections, so has [...] | 2007-05-13 09:43:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KDEM EG |
07CAIRO1406 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH LEGAL AND PARLIAMENTARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: IN A MAY 10 MEETING WITH THE AMBASSADOR, MINISTER OF STATE FOR LEGAL AND PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS MUFEED SHEHAB NOTED THAT THE GOE PLANS TO MOVE FORWARD ON REVISING THE CURRENT CHILDREN'S LAW TO INCLUDE TOUGH NEW ANTI-TRAFFICKING PROVISIONS. SHEHAB WELCOMED CONSULTING WITH THE EMBAS [...] | 2007-05-13 14:13:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KWMN KCRM PTER EG |
07CAIRO1408 | SUPREME ELECTORAL COMMISSION TO BE FORMED, SHURA [...] (C) Summary: Following vigorous parliamentary debate, on May 10 the People's Assembly approved several elections-related changes to the 1956 Political Rights Law, including the creation of a new Supreme Electoral Commission (SEC) to oversee Egypt's electoral contests. Opposition lawmakers bi [...] | 2007-05-13 15:18:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL EG |
07CAIRO1417 | PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION IN EGYPT [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION IS THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM OF EGYPTIAN POLITICS. DESPITE INCESSANT WHISPERED DISCUSSIONS, NO ONE IN EGYPT HAS ANY CERTAINTY ABOUT WHO WILL SUCCEED MUBARAK, OR HOW THE SUCCESSION WILL HAPPEN. MUBARAK HIMSELF SEEMS TO BE TRUSTING TO GOD AND [...] | 2007-05-14 14:23:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM EG |
07CAIRO1427 | CONVERSION TO CHRISTIANITY REMAINS PROBLEMATIC IN [...] (C) Conversion to Christianity, or any faith other than Islam, remains an intensely problematic issue in Egypt, despite constitutional protection of the principle of freedom of religion. An April 24 court decision against the right of 45 Muslim citizens (who were born Christians) to re-conve [...] | 2007-05-15 14:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF EG |
07CAIRO144 | MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ANNOUNCES INTENT TO FORM [...] (C) Summary: Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders have publicly announced the organization's intent to form a political party within "a few weeks," an unprecedented step for the 79-year old organization. The new party would reportedly be "a civil party with an Islamic reference," and will not submi [...] | 2007-01-18 16:02:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KISL EG |
07CAIRO1442 | IRAN: "SURPRISING" OVERTURE TO EGYPT BY AHMEDINEJAD [...] (C) Wire services reported late on May 15 that Iranian President Ahmedinejad, upon return from a visit to Oman and the Emirates, responded to an Egyptian reporter's question by saying Tehran was prepared to restore full diplomatic relations with Egypt that "very day" were the Egyptian governm [...] | 2007-05-16 13:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER EG IR |
07CAIRO1443 | SUDAN: NDA LEADER MIRGHANI TO RETURN TO KHARTOUM, [...] (C) Offering a read-out of his May 7 meeting in Cairo with Sudanese President Omar Bashir, National Democratic Alliance (NDA) head and Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Chief Mohamed Osman Al Mirghani told emboffs that he received Bashir's support for a plan to organize a national reconciliation [...] | 2007-05-16 15:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC KPKO EG SU |
07CAIRO1457 | JUSTICE MINISTER: WELCOMES CONSULTATION ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: ON MAY 16 THE AMBASSADOR PRESSED JUSTICE MINISTER MAMDOUH MAREI FOR ANY LEGAL RELIEF FOR THE IMPRISONMENT OF AYMAN NOUR. MINISTER MAREI PUSHED BACK, ARGUING THAT THE GOE WOULD UNDERMINE ITS JUSTICE SYSTEM IF IT GRANTED RELIEF TO NOUR OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF THE LAW. AS A LIFELON [...] | 2007-05-17 13:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER KDEM EG |
07CAIRO1488 | EGYPTIANS DISMISS IDEA TO OPEN IRANIAN-EGYPTIAN [...] (C) Summary: Amid continuing press speculation about a warming in Iranian-Egyptian relations, Egyptian trade and diplomatic officials dismiss the likelihood of the establishment of an Iranian-Egyptian Chamber of Commerce. A senior MFA official told PolCons separately that the only person who [...] | 2007-05-21 13:40:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EG IR |
07CAIRO1491 | LEBANON: EGYPTIAN INFLUENCE ON SOUTH AFRICA AND [...] (C) Poloffs delivered reftel demarche to MFA Cabinet Staff Member Nazih Al Negeiry on May 21, seeking Egyptian help in pressing South Africa and Indonesia to support a UN Security Council Chapter VII-based tribunal for Lebanon. Negeiry said that Indonesia may abstain on a UNSC vote, and that E [...] | 2007-05-21 16:12:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC EG LE |
07CAIRO15 | ARRESTS OF MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD MEMBERS CONTINUE; [...] (C) SUMMARY: The mid-December arrests of between 140-200 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members (reftel) have been followed by further detentions of an estimated 58-67 MB members in recent days, coupled with the reported closure of some MB-owned businesses. In the wake of the December 10 Al-Azhar U [...] | 2007-01-04 11:38:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL PHUM KDEM EG |
07CAIRO1502 | AYMAN NOUR'S APPEAL FOR HEALTH PAROLE DEFERRED [...] (SBU) Egypt's State Council, the judicial body to which imprisoned Al Ghad Party leader Ayman Nour had appealed for a health-based release, ruled on May 22 that a governmental medical committee that had previously issued a report on Nour's health (reftel),should review the "contradictions" in [...] | 2007-05-22 15:31:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
07CAIRO1503 | ASSISTANT MINISTER OF DEFENSE REJECTS US OFFER OF [...] (C) The OMC Chief asked the Assistant Minister of Defense for Policy MG Mohammed Al Assar and the Assistant Minister for Armament MG Fouad Abd el Halim on May 21 if Egypt is prepared to proceed with the US proposal to use FMF to fund a border security assessment. MG Al Assar said Egypt reje [...] | 2007-05-23 04:00:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KPAL EG IS |
07CAIRO1526 | END USE MONITORING LIAISON POSITION FOR EGYPT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-23 14:33:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KTTC EG |
07CAIRO153 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH WIFE OF AYMAN NOUR [...] (C) IN A CAREFULLY CHOREOGRAPHED JANUARY 17 MEETING AT THE DCM'S RESIDENCE, GAMEELA ISMAIL TOLD THE AMBASSADOR THAT THE HEALTH OF HER HUSBAND, AYMAN NOUR, CONTINUES TO DETERIORATE, AND THAT PRISON OFFICIALS HAVE NOT APPROVED HIS REQUEST TO SEE NON-PRISON PHYSICIANS. ACCORDING TO ISMAIL, ONLY P [...] | 2007-01-21 15:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM EG |
07CAIRO1531 | EGYPT: TRADE MINISTER HINTS AT BROADER POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: In a pointed and wide-ranging speech to the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt, Trade and Industry Minister Rachid Rachid called for reform of Egyptian education, infrastructure, energy policy, and other areas far removed from his trade portfolio. The ambitious speech encoura [...] | 2007-05-24 06:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PINR PREL EG |
07CAIRO1543 | DARFUR: "OPERATIONAL ISSUES SHOULD BE WORKED OUT [...] (C) Summary: Poloff delivered ref A/B demarches to MFA Cabinet Advisor Ahmed Abu Zeid on May 24. Abu Zeid warned of potential fallout from pressing Khartoum too hard on "operational issues" related to the AU/UN Darfur peace keeping operation; issues he felt should be worked out by UN/AU/GOS e [...] | 2007-05-24 11:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC KPKO EG SU |
07CAIRO160 | EGYPT DISCUSSING NATIONAL POSITION ON CLUSTER [...] (C) Poloff discussed the movement to develop a legally binding treaty to restrict the use of cluster munitions (CM) with MFA's Director of Disarmament Dr. Hossam Aly on January 22. Dr. Aly said that representatives of several ministries discussed CM at a recent "National Committee" meeting [...] | 2007-01-22 13:47:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL NATO EG |
07CAIRO1602 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF INTERIOR ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: IN A WIDE-RANGING MAY 29 MEETING WITH MINISTER OF INTERIOR HABIB EL ADLY, THE AMBASSADOR AGAIN PUSHED THE GOE TO CHANGE ITS POLICY OF LISTING ONLY THREE RELIGIONS ON NATIONAL ID CARDS, AND ASKED THAT THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR (MOI) ENSURE THE SAFETY OF RECENTLY RELEASED CONVERT TO [...] | 2007-05-30 17:58:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KIRF KDEM KWMN KCRM EG |
07CAIRO1603 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF INTERIOR ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: IN A WIDE-RANGING MAY 29 MEETING WITH MINISTER OF INTERIOR HABIB EL ADLY, THE AMBASSADOR AGAIN PUSHED THE GOE TO CHANGE ITS POLICY OF LISTING ONLY THREE RELIGIONS ON NATIONAL ID CARDS, AND ASKED THAT THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR (MOI) ENSURE THE SAFETY OF RECENTLY RELEASED CONVERT TO [...] | 2007-05-30 18:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KIRF KDEM KWMN KCRM EG |
07CAIRO1625 | SURPRISE HEARING DENIES AYMAN NOUR'S RELEASE ON [...] (SBU) IN A SURPRISE MAY 31 HEARING AT THE NEW CAIRO FELONIES COURT, A REPORTED REQUEST BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR ABDEL MEGUID MAHMOUD (EGYPT'S ATTORNEY GENERAL EQUIVALENT) TO RELEASE IMPRISONED AL GHAD PARTY LEADER AYMAN NOUR ON HEALTH GROUNDS WAS REFUSED. THE HOPES OF NOUR'S FAMILY AND LAWYER HAD [...] | 2007-05-31 11:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM EG |
07CAIRO1641 | CODEL PRICE MEETING AT PARLIAMENT ELICITS PUBLIC [...] (SBU) IN A MAY 27 MEETING AT THE PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY, PRESIDED OVER BY SPEAKER FATHI SUROUR, CODEL PRICE MET WITH SEVERAL EGYPTIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS, INCLUDING HEAD OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD (MB) PARLIAMENTARY BLOC MOHAMED SAAD AL KATANI, NDP PARLIAMENTARY LEADER ABDEL AHAD GAMALEDDIN, AL WAFD LEADER [...] | 2007-05-31 14:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KISL EG |
07CAIRO1678 | SOMALIA: EGYPT, ARAB LEAGUE WANT COURTS MODERATES [...] (C) Summary: Poloff delivered ref A demarche on June 3 to both MFA Cabinet Advisor Ahmed Abu Zeid and Arab League Secretariat advisor Zeid Sabban. Abu Zeid said that Egypt SIPDIS supports including moderate members of the now defunct Council of Islamic Courts (CIC) in reconciliation talks, [...] | 2007-06-04 11:03:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL ARABL EG SO |
07CAIRO1682 | NEW LIBERAL POLITICAL PARTY APPROVED, AFFILIATED [...] (C) Summary: Egypt's Political Parties Committee on May 24 approved the registration of the Democratic Front Party (DFP),a new liberal group led by prominent intellectuals Osama Al Ghazali Harb and Yehya Al Gamal. The party's broad goals for the next six months are to build a "nationwide ins [...] | 2007-06-04 12:58:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL EG |
07CAIRO1690 | EGYPT: GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED PRESS SLAMS DOHA [...] (C) Editorials in the GOE-controlled press (Refs A-C) have strongly criticized the May 27-29 conference in Doha on "Democracy and Political Reform in the Arab World." The attacks have singled out the Doha meeting's most prominent Egyptian participant, Egyptian-American democracy activist Sa [...] | 2007-06-05 11:22:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM EG QA |
07CAIRO1717 | SHURA COUNCIL ELECTIONS OVERVIEW [...] (C) Summary: Elections for one-third of the seats in Egypt's Shura Council (upper parliamentary chamber) will be held on June 11, with run-offs to be conducted as needed on June 18. With minimal participation by legal opposition parties, attention is focused on the 19 races in which National [...] | 2007-06-07 08:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KISL EG |
07CAIRO172 | DARFUR: ARAB LEAGUE TO CONTRIBUTE USD 15 MILLION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-24 05:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EFIN ARABL EG SU |
07CAIRO1727 | EGYPT: REACTION TO PRESIDENT BUSH'S PRAGUE SPEECH [...] (C) THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT, AND GOVERNMENT-DOMINATED MEDIA, HAVE REJECTED PRESIDENT BUSH'S JUNE 5 SPEECH IN PRAGUE, PARTICULARLY THE CALL FOR THE RELEASE OF AYMAN NOUR. THE FOREIGN MINISTER AND THE PARLIAMENT'S FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE TOOK EXCEPTION TO THE REFERENCE TO AYMAN NOUR. THE ST [...] | 2007-06-07 12:40:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EG |
07CAIRO1737 | EGYPTIANS WELCOME PALESTINIAN TRADE, GAZA EXPORT [...] SUMMARY: (C) EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE-SECTOR CONTACTS SAY THEY WELCOME INCREASED TRADE WITH PALESTINIANS, INCLUDING A TRADE CORRIDOR FOR GAZA EXPORTS THROUGH EGYPT. MERCHANTS IN THE NORTH SINAI CAPITAL OF EL-ARISH ARE ALREADY DOING SMALL-SCALE BUSINESS WITH PALESTINIANS WHO MANAGE TO P [...] | 2007-06-07 15:38:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL KWBG KPAL IS EG |
07CAIRO174 | EGYPT ACCEPTS INVITATION TO VISIT IRAN'S NUCLEAR [...] (C) Poloff raised reftel concerns over Egypt's decision to accept Iran's invitation to visit Iranian nuclear sites with MFA's Director of Disarmament Dr. Hossam Aly on January 22. Dr. Aly said that Egypt is well aware of the various ways in which Iran will seek to exploit the visit, but FM [...] | 2007-01-24 05:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM IAEA ENERG EG IR KNNP |
07CAIRO175 | RAFAH BORDER GATES RE-OPEN TEMPORARILY; EGYPT MAY [...] (SBU) Embassy contacts at the Egypt/Gaza border confirmed on January 23 that both the Egyptian border crossing at Rafah and the Palestinian border terminal opened on January 22 for civilian crossings, and would remain open on January 23. The contacts said that approximately 1,600 Palestinians [...] | 2007-01-24 05:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON EAID KPAL EG IS |
07CAIRO176 | LEBANON, PARIS III CONFERENCE: EGYPTIAN [...] (C) MFA Deputy Assistant Minister for Arab Affairs, Amal Mourad, told poloff on January 22 that Egyptian Finance Minister Yousef Boutros-Ghali would lead Egypt's delegation to the upcoming Paris III conference on Lebanon, departing Cairo on January 24 and returning on January 26. Boutros-Ghal [...] | 2007-01-24 05:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN EG LE |
07CAIRO1777 | LOW TURNOUT IN SHURA COUNCIL ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) THE MEDIA AND DOMESTIC EGYPTIAN CIVIL SOCIETY MONITORS, ALONG WITH EMBASSY OFFICERS AND THIRD COUNTRY DIPLOMATS, REPORTED LOW VOTER TURN-OUT, A SIGNIFICANT SECURITY PRESENCE IN SELECT AREAS, AND AN ISOLATED INCIDENT OF VIOLENCE DURING THE JUNE 11 ELECTIONS FOR 77 SEATS OF THE 264-MEMBE [...] | 2007-06-11 15:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
07CAIRO1793 | AYMAN NOUR APPRECIATIVE OF PRESIDENT'S PRAGUE [...] (C) In a positive June 10 meeting with Gameela Ismail, wife of imprisoned Al Ghad party leader Ayman Nour, and Amir Salem (Nour's lawyer),Ismail told poloff that Nour is "deeply appreciative" that the President mentioned him in his June 5 speech in Prague. Ismail read to poloff a letter from [...] | 2007-06-12 10:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EG |
07CAIRO1822 | DAS GRAY DISCUSSES ARAB ISSUES WITH MFA ASSISTANT [...] (C) During a June 13 meeting on regional topics with MFA Assistant Minister for Arab Affairs Hany Khallaf, NEA Deputy Assistant Secretary Gordon Gray discussed Egypt-Iraq relations, Iran, Libya, and the situation in Gaza. Khallaf said that Baghdad recently requested agrement from the GOE on [...] | 2007-06-14 09:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL EG IZ IR LY |
07CAIRO1823 | SHURA COUNCIL ELECTIONS: NDP "WINS" SWEEPING [...] (C) Summary: The official results of the June 11 Shura Council elections, released amid widespread claims of fraud, are that the ruling National Democratic Party won 59 seats (out of the 77 seats in contention). The opposition Taggamu Party won one. No Muslim Brotherhood (MB) candidates won [...] | 2007-06-14 10:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM EG |
07CAIRO1832 | DAS GRAY DISCUSSES MULTI-NATIONAL FORCE AND [...] (C) On June 13, NEA Deputy Assistant Secretary Gordon Gray discussed the potential for a draw-down in the U.S. troop contribution to the Multi-National Force and Observers (MFO) with MFA Acting Assistant Minister for Legal Affairs and Treaties Hussein Mubarak. The meeting was convened at Muba [...] | 2007-06-14 14:45:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KMFO KPAL EG IS |
07CAIRO1833 | DAS GRAY DISCUSSES QUARTET MEETING, REGIONAL [...] (C) During a June 14 meeting with Arab League Cabinet Chief of Staff Hesham Youssef, NEA Deputy Assistant Secretary Gordon Gray discussed Israel/Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Darfur, and Western Sahara. Youssef outlined League views on the upcoming Quartet meeting in Cairo, reiterating the League [...] | 2007-06-14 14:50:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL EG IS IZ SU |
07CAIRO1855 | SAAD EDDIN IBRAHIM ACCUSED OF ESPIONAGE AND [...] (U) Egyptian newspapers reported on June 18 that renowned Egyptian-American democracy activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim (SEI),recently the target of a smear campaign in Egypt's government-backed press for his attendance at President Bush's June 5 Prague speech (reftel),has been accused of "damagin [...] | 2007-06-18 10:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM EG |
07CAIRO1879 | REMOVING AL-ZAWRAA AND MANAR FROM ARABSAT [...] (C) Poloff delivered demarche to Arab League Chief of Staff Hisham Youssef on June 11, ahead of a ministerial meeting of Arab Information Ministers expected to convene in Cairo from June 20-24. Poloff focused on the Arab League's role as founder of the ArabSat organization. 2. (C) Yousse [...] | 2007-06-19 14:39:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC KPAO PTER EG IZ LE |
07CAIRO1889 | AFRICOM CONSULTATIONS IN EGYPT [...] (C) Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Ryan Henry, accompanied by an interagency delegation, briefed Egyptian Ministry of Defense (MoD) officials on USG planning for AFRICOM on June 12. The MoD delegation included the Assistant Minister of Defense for Policy, MG Al Assar, [...] | 2007-06-20 14:18:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MOPS EG |
07CAIRO1911 | DARFUR: MEETING WITH CAIRO-BASED JEM LEADER [...] (C) Summary and action requested: In a June 20 introductory meeting with Cairo-based Sudanese Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) Presidency Chief of Staff Gammali Hassan Galaleddin, Galaleddin requested further contact with the USG and emphasized that "peace is our only option" in Darfur. G [...] | 2007-06-21 13:15:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC KPKO EG SU |
07CAIRO1931 | AYMAN NOUR'S WIFE EXPECTS POSITIVE RULING ON JUNE [...] (C) In a June 22 meeting, Gameela Ismail, wife of imprisoned Al Ghad Party leader Ayman Nour, told poloff that she expects a "ruling in Nour's favor," at a June 26 hearing of Nour's appeal for health-based parole. Ismail is optimistic because the presiding judge at the State Council, Mohamed [...] | 2007-06-24 14:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM EG |
07CAIRO1933 | GOE-BEDOUIN TENSION OVER SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT [...] (C) Tension between the Bedouin of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and the GOE has remained high since late April when up to 2,000 Bedouin staged a sit-in on Egypt's border with Israel, alleging that GOE security and development policies discriminate against them. Despite several meetings between B [...] | 2007-06-25 06:47:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM EG |
07CAIRO197 | MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD PARLIAMENTARY BLOC LEADER CALLS [...] (C) Summary: The parliamentary leader of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB) made a recent public statement indicating a desire to initiate a "constructive dialogue" with Western governments, including the USG. Meanwhile, opposition press and Cairo think tanks are rife with rumors that some recent [...] | 2007-01-24 16:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL KDEM EG |
07CAIRO1988 | EGYPT: MORE CORRUPTION CHARGES, AD HOC RESPONSE [...] (C) Summary: A recent report of a Shura Council member arrested for smuggling, corruption accusations in the People's Assembly by a Muslim Brotherhood (MB) legislator against businessmen affiliated with the National Democratic Party (NDP),and suspicions about the bidding process for a govern [...] | 2007-07-01 11:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KCOR PINR EG |
07CAIRO2008 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES PRIME MINISTER ON ARREST OF [...] (C) In a meeting June 28 with Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, the Ambassador emphasized USG concerns that Amr Tharwat's imprisonment was inconsistent with the Egyptian constitutional guarantee of free worship and could pose difficulties for bilateral relations. Ambassador noted that Tharwat, a m [...] | 2007-07-02 07:26:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KIRF PINR EG |
07CAIRO2015 | AMBASSADOR URGES GOE TO PROVIDE DEBT RELIEF FOR [...] (C) Meeting June 28 with Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, Ambassador urged the GOE to restart negotiations to provide debt relief for Iraq and move toward fulfilling its commitment under the International Compact on Iraq (ref A). 2. (C) Nazif responded that the GOE is still considering the iss [...] | 2007-07-02 10:43:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL IZ EG |
07CAIRO2035 | DARFUR: EGYPT STILL RETICENT ON DEPLOYING TROOPS, [...] (C) Summary: Poloffs delivered ref A demarche to MFA Cabinet Advisor Ahmed Abu Zeid on July 1. Abu Zeid confirmed that Sudanese President Bashir's acceptance of the UN/AU hybrid force lowered a barrier to deploying peacekeepers, but that deployment of Egyptian troops still depends on the "con [...] | 2007-07-03 12:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO UNSC MASS EG SU |
07CAIRO2080 | CONGRESSMEN TOUR EGPYT'S RAFAH BORDER; EGYPTIANS [...] (SBU) CODEL McCollum, comprising Betty McCollum, (D) Wisconsin, Lincoln Davis (D) Tennesee, and staff toured Egypt,s Rafah Terminal and border on July 3. Major General Nagy Kamal, from the Egyptian Department of Military Intelligence (DMI),briefed on anti-smuggling efforts and escorted the t [...] | 2007-07-05 13:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PTER EG IS |
07CAIRO2093 | DARFUR: CAIRO-BASED SLM/A-UNION FRONT OUTLINES ITS [...] (C) Summary: On July 5, Cairo-based Youssef Hassan Youssef Abdullah, leader of the Sudanese Liberation Movement/Army - Union Front (SLM/A-UF),outlined his goal to reunify the factions of the former SLM/A into a single face in peace negotiations with the Sudanese government. His new group's [...] | 2007-07-08 14:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO UNSC MASS EG SU |
07CAIRO2100 | FIRST TRANCHE OF AMMUNITION TRANSFER COMPLETE [...] (C) Embassy confirmed with Embassy Beirut that the first tranche of the third party transfer of ammunition from the Government of Egypt to the Government of Lebanon (refs) is complete; all four Jordanian Air Force C-130 flights landed and offloaded a total of 768 155 millimeter rounds July 8. [...] | 2007-07-09 11:42:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EG LE |
07CAIRO2109 | SUDAN: SADIQ AL MAHDI TO WASHINGTON IF U.S. "READY [...] (SBU) During a July 5 courtesy call at his Cairo office, Sadiq Al Mahdi, head of the Sudanese opposition National Umma Party, Imam of the Ansar, and former prime minister of Sudan told poloff that he might visit Washington for consultations on Sudan, but only if U.S. officials are "ready to lis [...] | 2007-07-09 13:39:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO UNSC MASS EG SU |
07CAIRO214 | EGYPT, ARAB LEAGUE WANT AFRICAN UNION FORCE, [...] (C) Summary: With the impending withdrawal of Ethiopian forces from Somalia, Egypt and the Arab League are encouraging deployment of an African Union (AU) peace-keeping operation (PKO) as soon as possible. Both are also pressing for national reconciliation, to include members of the Islamic C [...] | 2007-01-25 16:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAO PGOV PTER EG SO |
07CAIRO2195 | EGYPT: DEAL WITH ISRAEL ON SUDANESE REFUGEES STILL [...] (C) Despite Israeli press reports on an Israeli-Egyptian deal for Israel to return Sudanese refugees who illegally entered Israel through the Sinai to Egypt, GOE officials deny that such a deal has been concluded. On July 11, MFA Cabinet Advisor for U.S. Affairs Ahmed El Fadly told poloff that [...] | 2007-07-16 14:18:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PTER EG IS SU |
07CAIRO220 | DARFUR: EGYPTIANS PREPARED TO OFFER TROOPS, APCS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-28 09:28:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS EG SU |
07CAIRO2200 | AMENDING THE NGO LAW AND REVAMPING THE BREAD [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Social Solidarity Ali El-Moselhy informed the Ambassador that he had initiated GOE studies to revise the NGO Law (84/2002). The Ambassador pressed Moselhy to seek an amended NGO law that protects and expands freedom of association and operations by all legitimate n [...] | 2007-07-17 13:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
07CAIRO2241 | SUDANESE OFFICIAL, JEM REPRESENTATIVE ON IBRAHIM [...] (C) On July 19, poloff discussed with Sudanese Embassy Political Counselor Mohamed Al Rashid the peace agreement between the Government of Sudan (GOS) and Ibrahim Yehia Abdul Rahman, representing a faction of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). Local press had reported that this agreement [...] | 2007-07-19 14:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO UNSC MASS EG SU |
07CAIRO2242 | AMRE MOUSSA REVIEWS SITUATION IN LEBANON [...] (C) Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa told the Ambassador in a July 17 meeting (reftel) that "time is running out," and that there is a lot of groundwork to be done before the Lebanese presidential election (required to be held by mid-November). At the same time, he expressed the hope [...] | 2007-07-19 16:32:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LE SY IS |
07CAIRO2243 | EGYPTIAN MOD ON BORDER GUARD FORCE AT RAFAH [...] (C) Major General Mohamad Said El Assar (Advisor for Policy to Defmin Field Marshal Tantawi) called Ambassador July 17, and again on July 19, to request that the USG press the Israelis to engage directly with the MOD, through Egyptian-Israeli military liaison channels, regarding the number of [...] | 2007-07-19 16:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER EG IS |
07CAIRO2279 | GCC+2 MEETING THEMES - EGYPTIAN VIEWS [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Alaa Al-Hadidy, Minister Plenipotentiary for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, July 22. Hadidy agreed that objectives in reftel (i.e. Iraq, Lebanon, the Israel-Palestinian conflict, WMD proliferation, and terror) should all be addressed at the meeting, [...] | 2007-07-24 16:12:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EG |
07CAIRO2290 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF [...] (C) The Ambassador, A/USAID Director John Groarke, USAID Strategy, Coordination and Support Director Steffi Meyer and econoff met with Minister of International Cooperation Fayza Aboul Naga on July 19 to discuss ESF. Aboul Naga noted that if ESF levels decline to $150-200 million annually be [...] | 2007-07-25 14:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID EG |
07CAIRO2292 | STATE SECURITY RESPONDS TO REPORTED MISTREATMENT [...] (C) Summary: State Security Investigations Service (SSIS) Brigadier General Mohamed Youssef told A/Polcouns that Egyptian security personnel had not/not mistreated Muslim-born convert to Christianity Shaymaa Mohamed El-Sayed during her July 16-23 detention and that, upon her release from po [...] | 2007-07-25 16:27:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF EG |
07CAIRO2306 | FM ABOUL GHEIT ON GOE MEETING WITH NORTH KOREAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-26 15:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EG KN |
07CAIRO2320 | EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS: INTERDICTION OF SUDANESE DUE [...] (C) Summary: Emboffs pressed for a more humane GOE approach to migrants and asylum seekers attempting to enter Israel with MFA contacts on July 25, reinforcing points on July 29 per ref A demarche. Separately, emboff informed the UNHCR/Cairo office of our request for UNHCR/Geneva to take the [...] | 2007-07-29 15:00:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL EG IS SU |
07CAIRO2321 | STRANDED PALESTINIANS BEGIN TO DEPART RAFAH FOR [...] (C) Egyptian military intelligence told Assistant Army Attache who was visiting North Sinai on July 29 that 101 Palestinians, among the estimated 6000 who have been stranded in Egypt since the June 9 closure of the Rafah border crossing with Gaza, have begun to make their homeward journey. [...] | 2007-07-29 15:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM KPAL IS EG |
07CAIRO2332 | POPE SHENOUDA III ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, RELATIONS [...] (C) The Ambassador raised religious freedom issues with the Coptic Orthodox Pope, Shenouda III, on July 26. In an extended and unusually substantive response, Shenouda addressed his concerns about some "critical" matters, including controversies over conversion as well as what he alleged wa [...] | 2007-07-30 10:15:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF KISL EG |
07CAIRO2365 | EGYPT WELCOMES UNSCR 1769 ON DARFUR PEACEKEEPING [...] (SBU) On August 1, MFA Cabinet Advisor for African Affairs Ahmed Abu Zeid told poloff that Egypt welcomes UN Security Council Resolution 1769 authorizing the UN/AU hybrid force for Darfur (UNAMID). Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit is planning to release a statement to that effect, he said, [...] | 2007-08-01 14:08:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO UNSC MASS EG SU |
07CAIRO2440 | EGYPT: GROWING ECONOMIC RELATIONS WITH CHINA [...] (C) Summary: Egyptian-Chinese relations have expanded over the last several years, primarily in the economic realm. Egypt is courting Chinese trade and investment but is wary that China could undercut Egypt in low-cost, labor-intensive sectors, complicating Egyptian efforts to combat persistent [...] | 2007-08-07 14:22:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD EINV ECON CH EG |
07CAIRO245 | PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS MOVING FORWARD [...] (C) Summary: The Egyptian parliament, having accepted "in principle" President Hosni Mubarak's constitutional amendments package, will discuss its specifics and language in committee over the next two months, before the full People's Assembly and Shoura Council resume debate on the issue on M [...] | 2007-01-29 16:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM EG |
07CAIRO2455 | GOE BEGINS CONSULTATIONS TO REMOVE STRUCTURES [...] (C) A Ministry of Defense official with direct knowledge of Gaza border security issues told poloff on August 6 that GOE security services had started deliberations over the possible removal of buildings located closest to Egypt's border with Gaza. He said that to improve tunnel detection an [...] | 2007-08-08 09:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KPAL IS EG |
07CAIRO2459 | NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VP ON HUMAN [...] (C) The Ambassador raised a range of human rights and religious freedom issues with National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) Vice President Ahmad Kamal Aboul Magd. In addition to reviewing recent religious conversion controversies, Ayman Nour, military tribunals against the Muslim Brotherho [...] | 2007-08-08 16:15:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF EG |
07CAIRO2497 | NOTIFICATION TO GOE OF UPCOMING ARB III PROCEEDINGS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-12 14:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PINR PREL PTER EG |
07CAIRO2511 | AL GHAD PARTY WOES [...] (C) Summary: In a potential death-blow to Ayman Nour's Ghad Party, on July 31 Egypt's Political Parties Committee (PPC) ruled that Musa Mustafa Musa, an alleged government-backed rival of Nour's, be named leader of the party. This was the culmination of two years of legal wrangling between N [...] | 2007-08-13 14:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM EG |
07CAIRO2520 | MUSLIM-BORN CONVERT TO CHRISTIANITY DESCRIBES [...] (C) Marian Elly Salib Abdel Masih, a Muslim-born convert to Christianity formerly known as Shaymaa Mohamed El-Sayed, met with poloff on August 12 to discuss her July detention by the police in Alexandria (reftel). Marian provided details about her conversion to Christianity, her resultant a [...] | 2007-08-14 11:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF EG |
07CAIRO2537 | EGYPT: UPDATE ON IRI, NDI, AND IFES SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) On August 4, the Assistant Minister for American Affairs, Hatem Seif Al-Nasr, convoked the Ambassador to complain "on instructions" about IRI activities in Egypt. Al Nasr charged that IRI Country Director, Keith Kidd, had been traveling in the governorates and maintained a heavy schedule [...] | 2007-08-15 14:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
07CAIRO2559 | EGYPT SEEKS TO CONTINUE USE OF AWGA-NITZANA FOR [...] (C) A representative of the Liaison Agency with International Organizations (LAWIO) told poloff during an August 15 meeting at the Awga-Nitzana border crossing that Egyptian-Israeli coordination for the return of 6,372 Palestinians to Gaza (via Israel) during the period July 29-August 12 was [...] | 2007-08-16 13:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER KPAL EG IS |
07CAIRO2560 | KHARTOUM CDA FERNANDEZ MEETS WITH DUP [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-16 13:38:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SU |
07CAIRO2577 | RUMORS OF A CABINET RESHUFFLE AND CHANGES TO [...] (C) Summary: Cairo is abuzz with rumors of a looming cabinet reshuffle, with conjecture focusing on expected changes in the ministries of Justice, Social Solidarity, Culture, Housing, and perhaps a change of the Prime Minister. Speculation also abounds about an imminent shake-up in the leader [...] | 2007-08-20 06:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EG |
07CAIRO258 | COUNTRY TEAM ASSESSMENT ON RELEASE OF NIGHT VISION [...] (C) Description: The USG has offered the GOE two excess defense article OSPREY Class Mine Hunter Craft under the Naval Vessels Transfer Act of 2005. The US Navy transferred these ships to the Egyptian Navy (EN) in January 2007. The following Night Vision Devices (NVDs) are routinely included [...] | 2007-01-30 14:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS MCAP EG |
07CAIRO2581 | EGYPT: MINISTER FOR SOCIAL SOLIDARITY DISCUSSES [...] (C) In an August 15 meeting with Minister of Social Solidarity (MSS) Ali Al-Moselhy, USAID Acting Director followed up on the Ambassador's July meeting with Moselhy (ref A),and expressed USG concern about the new draft NGO law. Press reporting about the yet-to-be-publicized new law suggest [...] | 2007-08-20 09:26:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM EG |
07CAIRO2584 | MOD CALLS DEPLOYMENT OF BORDER GUARD FORCES AN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-20 12:23:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EG IS |
07CAIRO2601 | DINNER WITH DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS: FRUSTRATION, [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging three-and-a-half hour-long August 15 dinner, a group of five leading Egyptian democracy activists told the Ambassador and Pol-Econ Minister-Counselor that Egypt's domestic "deterioration" across the board has resulted in increased frustration and anger on the part [...] | 2007-08-22 09:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM EG |
07CAIRO2603 | KHARTOUM CDA FERNANDEZ' AUGUST 14 MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary and introduction. Visiting Khartoum Charge d'Affairs Alberto Fernandez met with Hisham Yousef, Chief of Staff to Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa, on August 14 in Cairo. Yousef expressed optimism that Darfur is "on the right track" and has a better chance of successful r [...] | 2007-08-22 13:21:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SU |
07CAIRO2622 | (U) EGYPT: CHRISTIAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER [...] (C) Summary: Yousef Sidhom, a Christian publisher and chief editor of Watany newspaper, told the Ambassador that recent public debates in Egypt over conversion away from Islam are a "healthy" development. Sidhom opined that any direct public intervention by the USG in this complex and sens [...] | 2007-08-23 11:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR KIRF EG |
07CAIRO2627 | EGYPT MONTHLY MILITARY WRAP-UP [...] (C) Emboffs discussed border security, prospects for a secure communications agreement, plans for the 2007 Military Cooperation Committee (MCC) meetings, political release of defense systems, and BRIGHT STAR (BS) with Assistant Minister of Defense for Policy MG Al Assar, Assistant Minister of [...] | 2007-08-23 14:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EAID EG IS |
07CAIRO2642 | MUBARAK SAYS PEACE SUMMIT LACKS FRAMEWORK [...] (U) During an exclusive interview with the Chief Editor of Akhbar el-Youm on August 25, President Mubarak said that the framework for the proposed fall Middle East peace summit has not yet been drawn up. He said "Egypt supports the necessity of consensus around all the outstanding cases for [...] | 2007-08-27 12:34:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IS EG |
07CAIRO2654 | EGYPT'S MUFTI ON U.S. VISIT, IRAQ, REFORMING [...] (C) Summary: In a 90-minute meeting on August 26, the Ambassador and the Mufti of the Republic, Dr. Ali Goma'a, discussed the Mufti's possible travel to the U.S. and Canada in December, and a mid-August meeting in Cairo of Iraqi Sunni and Shi'a leaders with Egyptian Muslim leaders, orchestrated [...] | 2007-08-28 14:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL PTER KIRF IZ EG |
07CAIRO2669 | GAMAL MUBARAK ADVISOR DISCUSSES EGYPT'S ASSISTANCE [...] (C) Mohamed Farnawany, senior advisor to Gamal Mubarak, told poloff on August 27 that the GOE is not happy that the USG never responded to the ESF proposal to create an endowment. Poloff reminded Farnawany that the U.S. did respond, explaining the difficulties with the concept. Farnawany said [...] | 2007-08-29 14:34:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID EG |
07CAIRO2683 | MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD: GOVERNMENT CRACKDOWN [...] (C) Summary: The Egyptian government's campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is continuing, with the recent arrests of a prominent moderate official, two MB parliamentarians, and other senior officials, upping the ante. The latest detentions occur against the backdrop of the ongoing mi [...] | 2007-08-30 12:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL KDEM PHUM EG |
07CAIRO2691 | STATUS OF PALESTINIANS HELD IN THE SINAI [...] (C) A Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) contact has refuted press reports alleging that 180 Palestinians being held in camps in the Sinai have launched a hunger strike. He said that the Palestinians, who are detained because they lack legal papers and permission to remain in Egypt ( [...] | 2007-08-30 14:08:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM KPAL EG IS |
07CAIRO2726 | ECONOMIC REFORMS SHOWING RESULTS, BUT SLOWING [...] (U) Summary and introduction: Since 2004, the Nazif government has cut tariffs and tax rates, fixed the current exchange system and eliminated the black market, rationalized fiscal cash managements with its Single Treasury Account, partially privatized and recapitalized the banking sector, [...] | 2007-09-06 14:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID PGOV EG |
07CAIRO2729 | EGYPT TO STUDY IAEA/IRAN PLAN OF ACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-06 14:13:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP IAEA IR EG |
07CAIRO2730 | ARAB LEAGUE MINISTERS: MIDDLE EAST PEACE MUST BE [...] (U) During its September 5 annual ministerial meeting, Arab League (AL) foreign ministers confirmed their support for President Bush's proposed meeting for Middle East peace, but stressed a comprehensive approach producing tangible results. AL Secretary General Amre Moussa said in a press con [...] | 2007-09-06 14:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL EG IS IZ XP |
07CAIRO2731 | EGYPT'S MFA DELIVERS NON-PAPER ON PEACE SUMMIT [...] (C) During a meeting with Economic and Political Minister Counselor on September 6, foreign ministry spokesman Ambassador Hossam Zaki delivered a non-paper (see para two) reflecting Egypt's views on the peace summit proposed by President Bush, and asked the Embassy to forward it to the Secret [...] | 2007-09-06 14:26:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IS EG SY LE |
07CAIRO2734 | EGYPT: RULING PARTY TRIES, WITH PARTIAL SUCCESS, [...] (C) The Cairo representative of the International Republican Institute (IRI),Keith Kidd, told us on September 2 that senior members of the National Democratic Party were attempting to prevent individual NDP members from taking part in an "offshore" training session organized in Morocco for [...] | 2007-09-06 14:43:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM EG |
07CAIRO2736 | EGYPT ASKS USG SUPPORT AT IAEA ON "ALL" OF THE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-06 15:23:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP IAEA IR EG IS |
07CAIRO2751 | EGYPT: PRISON SUICIDE OF KEY AYMAN NOUR WITNESS [...] (C) According to unnamed GOE sources quoted in press accounts, the September 6 death in prison of Ayman Ismail Hassan, who played a pivotal role in the GOE's prosecution of opposition leader Ayman Nour in 2005 (reftel),has been ruled a suicide by hanging. Ayman Nour's supporters are, howeve [...] | 2007-09-10 14:59:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
07CAIRO2781 | EGYPT'S FOREIGN MINISTER NOT FLEXIBLE ON IAEA [...] (C) On September 13, the Ambassador urged Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit to work towards a consensus agreement with Israel on the "Application of IAEA Safeguards in the Middle East" resolution and the "Israeli Nuclear Threat" (INT) agenda item. He said the U.S. did not see the p [...] | 2007-09-13 16:03:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP IAEA EG IS |
07CAIRO2787 | MINISTER OF TRADE RACHID ON QIZ, WHEAT AND [...] (C) In a September 13 meeting with Ambassador, Egyptian Minister of Trade and Industry Rachid Rachid confirmed reports we have heard from the Israeli embassy here that Egypt and Israel have agreed to reduce the required Israeli content in Egyptian exports from the QIZs from 11.7 to 10.5 perc [...] | 2007-09-16 06:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV EG |
07CAIRO2798 | EGYPT: INPUT ON DISCUSSIONS OF THE COMPLEMENTARY [...] (C) Per reftel request regarding Egypt's planned participation in the mid-November Community of Democracies ministerial in Mali, on September 16 the staff of Ambassador Raouf Saad, the MFA's BMENA coordinator (who also handles CD matters),told poloff that the MFA "had just received notificati [...] | 2007-09-16 15:03:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KISL EG |
07CAIRO2799 | EGYPT: ACTIVISTS RALLY TO PROTEST CLOSURE OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Leaders of Cairo's human rights and democracy activist community rallied on September 16 at a downtown demonstration to protest the GOE's September 8 closure of the Association for Human Rights and Legal Aid (AHRLA),apparently for accepting foreign funding, including from th [...] | 2007-09-16 15:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EAID EG |
07CAIRO2800 | EGYPT - SEPTEMBER MILITARY WRAP-UP [...] (C) The Chief of the Office of Military Cooperation ("OMC Chief") discussed the annual Military Cooperation Committee (MCC) meeting, the slow disbursement of FMF, border security and prospects for a secure communications agreement with Assistant Minister of Defense for Policy MG Al Assar and [...] | 2007-09-16 15:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS MARR EAID EG |
07CAIRO2801 | DEFENSE MINISTER TANTAWI ON MIL-TO-MIL RELATIONS [...] (C) On September 16, Minister of Defense Field Marshal Tantawi and the Ambassador discussed the impact of the FMF debates on the overall relationship, the state of mil-to-mil relations, border security, the under-disbursement of FMF in FY07, and the peace process. Tantawi said that the U.S. [...] | 2007-09-16 15:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID KPAL EG IS |
07CAIRO2809 | AYMAN NOUR APPRECIATIVE OF AMBASSADOR'S RECENT [...] (C) On September 16, a handwritten letter from imprisoned Al Ghad Party leader Ayman Nour was delivered to poloff's residence by Nour's wife, Gameela Ismail. The letter thanks the Ambassador for his recent public comments on Nour's case, both at a September 9 American Chamber of Commerce event [...] | 2007-09-17 10:34:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM EG |
07CAIRO2816 | EGYPT SEIZED WITH GROWING AFRICAN MIGRANT PROBLEM [...] (C) Summary: Pol Econ Minister Counselor delivered refs A and B demarches to MFA Counselor for Refugee Affairs Mohamed Fathi on September 16. Fathi described continued active GOE interagency efforts to develop a comprehensive solution to the issue of African migrants attempting to reach Israe [...] | 2007-09-17 16:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM EG IS |
07CAIRO2825 | MUBARAK HEALTH RUMORS LEAD TO CRIMINAL CHARGES FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Reporting in the independent daily Al Dostour on rumors of President Mubarak's poor health have led to a criminal suit against its editor-in-chief, Ibrahim Eissa, in the Supreme State Emergency Criminal Court. The complaint, filed by State Security prosecution on September 11 [...] | 2007-09-18 16:22:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPAO PHUM EG |
07CAIRO2827 | EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY DOWNPLAYS SIGNIFICANCE [...] (SBU) Egyptian government-owned press reported on September 18 that Iranian Assistant Foreign Minister Abbas Iraq was holding talks with Egyptian Foreign Ministry officials. Iraq was to meeting MFA Assistant Minister for Asian Affairs Hussein Darar and Assistant Minister for Multilateral Affa [...] | 2007-09-18 17:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EG IR |
07CAIRO2841 | MUBARAK'S LEGAL ADVISOR ON UPCOMING LEGISLATION [...] (C) In a September 19 meeting, presidential legal advisor Mohamed Dakroury discussed a range of upcoming legislation with DCM and poloff. In addition to his influential position as "the president's lawyer," through which he appears to have a drafting or oversight role for virtually all new Egy [...] | 2007-09-19 15:26:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PTER KJUS EG |
07CAIRO2855 | SEEKING ARAB SUPPORT FOR LEBANON BORDER MISSION [...] (C) DCM and poloff delivered points in reftel to Arab League and the Egyptian MFA September 19-20. The Arab League welcomed USG interest on providing technical assistance for the Syrian-Lebanese border, but was wary of deploying personnel immediately. The MFA was supportive in principle, bu [...] | 2007-09-20 15:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EG LE |
07CAIRO2871 | EGYPT IN TRANSITION: SADAT AND MUBARAK [...] (C) Egypt faces uncertainty as it moves towards a post-Mubarak future. It has been almost exactly twenty-six years since Egypt last faced such a transition. Although one could argue that some of the elements that led to the dramatic events of September and October 1981 are back in place -- sho [...] | 2007-09-23 16:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR EG |
07CAIRO2881 | MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD: GOVERNMENT PREVENTS ANNUAL [...] (SBU) For the first time in approximately twenty years, the government has prohibited the annual Ramadan iftar (fast-breaking meal) hosted by the leadership of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB). Reportedly, the Interior Ministry refused to grant the MB permission to hold the yearly event ( [...] | 2007-09-24 15:33:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KISL KDEM EG |
07CAIRO2889 | TRADE MINISTER'S POLITICAL AMBITIONS INFLUENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Trade and Industry Rachid Rachid, a leader of the cabinet's economic reformers, has been hesitant this year to confront bureaucratic opposition to key reform priorities. At the same time, he has laid out a bold public vision for the future of economic reform in Egypt [...] | 2007-09-25 09:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID ETRD EAGR PINR PREL IS EG |
07CAIRO2896 | OPPOSITION NEWSPAPER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF SENTENCED TO [...] (SBU) On September 24, the editor-in-chief, his deputy, and a journalist from the "Al Wafd" newspaper (the mouthpiece of Al Wafd, Egypt's oldest liberal political party),were sentenced to two years in prison by the Al Warak Court of Misdemeanors, for "having published untrue information which [...] | 2007-09-25 15:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAO PHUM KDEM EG |
07CAIRO2932 | EGYPT: MFA'S BMENA REPRESENTATIVE DISCUSSES FORUM [...] (C) Charge called on Ambassador Raouf Saad, FM Aboul Gheit's Coordinator for Reform Initiatives, on September 24 to discuss the planning for the Forum for the Future (FFF). Saad indicated that he personally plans to attend the upcoming sub-ministerial in Berlin (reftel). Saad made clear tha [...] | 2007-10-01 08:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KMPI KDEM PINR GM EUN |
07CAIRO2936 | EGYPT: TRIAL OF INDEPENDENT EDITOR ADJOURNS [...] (SBU) After a brief October 1 hearing, the Bulaq Misdemeanors Court ordered a postponement in the trial of Ibrahim Eissa, editor of the Dustur independent daily newspaper, until October 24. Eissa is facing charges of spreading false rumors about the health of President Mubarak, and having c [...] | 2007-10-01 14:11:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO EG |
07CAIRO2937 | EGYPT HOPING NEW MEASURES LESSEN MIGRANT FLOW TO [...] (C) Summary: The MFA's refugee point-man says that his primary mission is to avoid any civil unrest from Egypt's large refugee and migrant population. He said he was "privately uncomfortable" about his government's August decision to accept 48 Africans from Israel, who had illegally crossed t [...] | 2007-10-01 14:35:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PHUM EG IS SU |
07CAIRO2943 | MFA RESPONSE ON ENTRY OF 80-90 ENTERING GAZA FROM [...] (C) PolEcon MinCons and Poloff queried Egyptian MFA Cabinet Advisor Hosam Zaki October 1 over recent press reports that 80-90 Gazans had entered Gaza from Egypt. Zaki acknowledged that the Palestinians had apparently crossed into Gaza, but said that he would have to consult with other GOE age [...] | 2007-10-02 07:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS KWBG IS EG |
07CAIRO2951 | EGYPT COMMENTS ON IAEA CONFERENCE OUTCOME [...] (C) MFA Disarmament Office Director Aly Sirry told poloff on September 30 that the recent IAEA General Conference outcome on the Middle East Safeguards resolution and the Israeli Nuclear Threat (INT) agenda item signaled a lack of substantive commitment to establishing a nuclear weapons free [...] | 2007-10-02 14:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IAEA KNNP IS EG IR |
07CAIRO2953 | DARFUR REBEL GROUPS MEET IN CAIRO [...] (C) Summary: Sudanese Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) Spokesman Ahmed Hussein's push for consultations between Darfur groups appears aimed at giving the JEM a primary role in the upcoming Libya negotiations with the Sudanese government. According to Hussein (visiting Cairo),previous talk [...] | 2007-10-02 15:46:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC KPKO EG SU |
07CAIRO3001 | EGYPT: UPDATED DEMOCRACY STRATEGY [...] (C) Our fundamental reform goal in Egypt remains democratic transformation, including the expansion of political freedom and democratic pluralism, respect for human rights, and a stable, democratic and legitimate transition to the post-Mubarak era. While our programs in the areas of judicial reform [...] | 2007-10-09 15:00:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KMPI EG |
07CAIRO3003 | EGYPTIAN MFA ON EGYPTIAN-SYRIAN RELATIONS, THE [...] (C) MFA Cabinet Advisor on the Levant Nazih el Naggary told poloff October 9 that recent GOE overtures to get Syria a seat at the fall peace meeting are partly an effort to empower moderates in the Bashir regime. He said that Syrian advisors are divided on whether Syria should attend. The m [...] | 2007-10-09 16:16:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EG LE |
07CAIRO3017 | THE IMPACT OF CONDITIONING EGYPT'S FMF [...] (C) Congressman Obey's proposal to condition USD 200 million of FMF for Egypt on progress on border security, judicial independence and police reform continues to vex senior GOE officials. Assistant Minister of Defense MG Mohamed Al Assar and a member of Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit's Cabine [...] | 2007-10-10 15:13:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID EG |
07CAIRO3018 | RESPONDING TO THE LIKELY CONVICTION OF MUSLIM [...] (SBU) The military trial of 40 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members has lurched along sporadically since April 26, in fits of stops and starts. Observers, the defendants' family members, and sometimes even defense lawyers have been barred from the court, which convenes at a military base outside o [...] | 2007-10-11 08:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KISL KDEM EG |
07CAIRO3026 | EGYPT: OCTOBER MILITARY WRAP-UP [...] (C) Embassy Cairo's OMC Chief discussed border security and his recent meetings on FMF with members of Congress with Assistant Minister of Defense for Armament MG Fouad abd el Halim, Assistant Minister of Defense for Policy MG Mohamed el Assar, and American Affairs Chief MG Ahmed Mo'taz on Oct [...] | 2007-10-11 11:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID MASS MARR EG IS |
07CAIRO3070 | Cancelled cable [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-18 10:07:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | NOTAG |
07CAIRO3080 | GAMAL MUBARAK: CONCENTRATING ON RULING PARTY AS [...] (C) Summary: Over the past several months, presidential son and National Democratic Party (NDP) assistant secretary general Gamal Mubarak has focused his energies on re-vitalizing the party. With no military background to draw on as his power base (the army being the traditional source of Egy [...] | 2007-10-18 14:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM EG |
07CAIRO3101 | EGYPTIAN FOREIGN, INTELLIGENCE MINISTERS URGE [...] (C) Summary: Egyptian Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit and Intelligence Chief Soliman encouraged Sudanese President Bashir and Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) President Salva Kiir to maintain Sudanese unity during their October 17 Khartoum-Juba visit, according to MFA Cabinet Advisor fo [...] | 2007-10-22 12:58:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO UNSC MASS EG SU |
07CAIRO3115 | EGYPT AND ARAB LEAGUE ON LEBANON BORDER MISSION [...] (C) Poloff delivered points (reftel A) October 23 to Hisham Yousef, Chief of Staff to Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa, and conveyed strong USG support for Lebanese PM Siniora's proposed Arab-EU monitoring mission. Yousef agreed that Lebanese sovereignty is critical, and said that Sin [...] | 2007-10-23 16:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EG LE |
07CAIRO3118 | MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD: DRAFT PARTY PLATFORM [...] (C) Summary: The recent release of a markedly conservative draft political party platform has unleashed a wave of criticism against the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB),and highlighted internal tensions between the moderate and conservative wings of the Islamist organization. In a highly unu [...] | 2007-10-24 10:16:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KISL KDEM EG |
07CAIRO3124 | EGYPTIAN MFA DOWNPLAYS MUBARAK COMMENTS ON [...] (SBU) Poloff spoke with MFA Spokesman and Senior Cabinet Advisor Hosam Zaki October 24 regarding press reports implying President Mubarak was willing to facilitate Hamas-Fatah negotiations based on his October 22 interview with Austrian newspaper "Der Standard." He said that Mubarak had said [...] | 2007-10-24 16:21:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EG IS |
07CAIRO3129 | MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD: UNUSUAL FORWARD-LEANING [...] (SBU) In an October 13 press interview, prominent Muslim Brotherhood (MB) moderate and Political Bureau member Essam El Erian surprised MB officials and other observers alike with forward-leaning comments on Israel that seemed to break with the MB's traditional strong anti-Israel stance. El E [...] | 2007-10-25 10:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KISL KDEM IS EG |
07CAIRO3134 | EGYPT: "NO" TO UNAMID AVIATION SUPPORT AND [...] (SBU) On October 24, emboffs urged Assistant Minister of Defense for Armament Major General Fouad Abd Al Halim and Assistant Minister of Defense for Policy Major General Mohamed Al Assar to reconsider providing aviation support and transport assets for the UN/AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID),per [...] | 2007-10-25 12:40:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV MARR MASS MOPS EG SU |
07CAIRO3137 | MUBARAK'S POSITION ON LEBANESE ELECTIONS [...] (C) The Ambassador got a read-out from Presidential Advisor Soliman Awaad on the October 21 visit of Lebanese Army Commander Michel Sleiman. According to Awaad, Sleiman thanked Mubarak for Egyptian military assistance (i.e. the delivery of ammunition in July for use in the confrontation with [...] | 2007-10-25 15:23:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LE EG |
07CAIRO3161 | PRESIDENT MUBARAK ANNOUNCES EGYPT WILL ESTABLISH [...] (SBU) President Mubarak announced on October 29 that Egypt will establish a number of nuclear power stations to generate electricity. Following the inauguration of a power plant in North Cairo, Mubarak said Egypt will "prepare the program for building several nuclear power stations," noting [...] | 2007-10-30 09:52:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG IAEA EG |
07CAIRO3168 | OCTOBER 25 MEETING WITH AYMAN NOUR'S WIFE [...] (C) In an October 25 meeting with poloff, Gameela Ismail (wife of imprisoned Ghad party leader Ayman Nour) said that on October 20 Nour,s blood pressure had shot up, and he started having heart palpitations. She rushed to Torah Prison, together with a cardiac specialist, Dr. Mahmoud Hassanein [...] | 2007-10-30 15:54:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM EG |
07CAIRO318 | AYMAN NOUR FOCUSED ON LEGAL TECHNICALITIES, NOT [...] (C) In an apparent response to A/S Sean McCormack's January 23 comments regarding a health-based release for Ayman Nour, the imprisoned Al Ghad Party leader has indicated in a letter to Ambassador Ricciardone (full text below) that his current strategy is to pursue legal exoneration (vice rele [...] | 2007-02-05 15:33:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM EG |
07CAIRO3190 | EGYPT ALLEGEDLY DEPORTS SUDANESE MIGRANTS RETURNED [...] (SBU) Commenting on Israeli press reports that Egypt had deported five of the 48 mostly-Sudanese Africans whom Israel had returned to Egypt in August, and who had previously illegally entered Israel from the Sinai (reftel),UNHCR/Cairo Spokeperson Abeer Etefa told poloff on October 31 that the [...] | 2007-11-01 14:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PHUM EG IS SU |
07CAIRO3198 | AMRE MOUSSA ON IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker met with Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa October 26th in Cairo. Moussa said that Arabs share USG interests for a secure, stable Iraq, and that Iraqi reconciliation is critical. He agreed that Arab leaders should do more to support the [...] | 2007-11-05 10:26:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EG IZ |
07CAIRO3218 | GOE AND ARAB LEAGUE READOUTS OF LEBANON SIDE [...] (C) Nazih el Neggary, MFA Cabinet advisor on Syria-Lebanon, gave a readout to poloff of the Lebanon side meeting in Istanbul, as well as an assessment of the Lebanese political state of play, on November 5. Neggary said the GOE was pleased with the meeting and the strong statement against int [...] | 2007-11-07 11:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LE EG |
07CAIRO3223 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED IN SUPPORT OF ARGENTINA'S [...] (U) As requested in reftel, Embassy has confirmed that an Egyptian Ministry of Interior (MOI) delegation is attending the Interpol General Assembly meeting in Marrakech, Morocco from November 5 to 8. 2. (C) On November 7, Poloff spoke to Argentina's Ambassador to Egypt, Luis Enrique Cabba [...] | 2007-11-07 16:11:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PTER ASEC PREL PGOV EG IR |
07CAIRO3228 | THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S GENERAL [...] (C) Summary: The November 3-6 General Conference of Egypt's ruling party held few surprises, with the main news of the event being a change to the party's mechanism for selecting a presidential candidate: a 45-member committee was formed, from among whose ranks will be chosen the National Dem [...] | 2007-11-08 15:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM ECON ENRG PINR EG |
07CAIRO3238 | EGYPT DOES NOT CONFIRM DEPORTATION OF SUDANESE [...] (C) Summary: The MFA's lead on refugee issues Tarek El Maaty refused to confirm press reports that Egypt had refouled to Sudan five of the group of 48 African migrants that Israel returned to Egypt in August. Nonetheless, El Maaty argued that Egypt has the right to do so for "national securit [...] | 2007-11-13 13:34:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL EG IS SU |
07CAIRO3260 | MUBARAK MEETS ABBAS, TALABANI; EGYPTIANS CONTINUE [...] (SBU) President Mubarak hosted several Arab leaders visiting Cairo for the Arab Olympics November 11-13. Mubarak met Palestinian Authority President Abbas, Saudi King Abdullah, Jordanian King Abdullah II, and hosted a lunch with Iraqi President Talabani, Sudanese President Bashir, and Yemeni P [...] | 2007-11-14 16:27:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EG IZ XF IS |
07CAIRO3261 | AMRE MOUSSA TO DAMASCUS; ARAB LEAGUE OFFICIAL [...] (U) Arab League Cabinet Advisor and Spokesman Alaa Roushdy told us November 14 that Secretary General Amre Moussa's travel to Damascus that evening would focus on the planned Annapolis meeting and Lebanon. Moussa will meet with President Assad, Vice President Shara, and FM Moallam. 2. (C) [...] | 2007-11-14 16:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS EG LE |
07CAIRO3280 | TERRORIST FINANCE: CAIRO FOLLOW-UP ON ILLICIT CASH [...] (U) This cable responds to the request for more information regarding illicit cash couriers, as requested in REF A. Much of this information is included in the INCSR. 2. (U) The executive regulations of the AML law (from 2002) and the Banking Law (from 2003) address the issue of bulk cash [...] | 2007-11-18 14:38:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL PTER EG IS |
07CAIRO3283 | HEARINGS BEGIN IN NEW CASES AGAINST EGYPTIAN [...] (SBU) As reported reftel, Saad Eddin Ibrahim (SEI),the prominent Egyptian-American democracy activist, is facing four separate lawsuits for "spreading false news," espionage, and attempting to harm Egypt's economy by calling for cuts in U.S. assistance to Egypt. On November 18, the first hear [...] | 2007-11-19 10:14:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM EG |
07CAIRO3292 | SUDAN: CAIRO-BASED OPPOSITION LEADERS MAHDI, [...] (C) Summary: In separate Cairo meetings with Sudanese opposition figures Mohamed Osman Al Mirghani and Sadiq Al Mahdi, both emphasized that current USG efforts on Sudanese unity are overly-focused on the National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM),leaving [...] | 2007-11-20 11:47:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EG SU |
07CAIRO3300 | MUBARAK POSITIVE AFTER OLMERT MEETING; MFA [...] (U) President Mubarak gave positive comments following his November 20 meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. He noted that the meeting falls on the 30th anniversary of former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's visit to Jerusalem, and said that it is time now for Egypt to push for pe [...] | 2007-11-20 17:46:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS EG |
07CAIRO3308 | USACE TUNNEL EXPERTS PROPOSE TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS [...] (C) A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)-led team of tunnel detection experts visited Egypt's border with Gaza on November 15 to assess whether technical equipment would assist the Ministry of Defense in detecting and exploiting tunnels used in smuggling. The team presented its preliminar [...] | 2007-11-21 15:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MASS MARR MOPS |
07CAIRO3309 | DEFMIN TANTAWI ON BORDER SECURITY, BRIGHT STAR, [...] (C) U.S Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander Admiral William J. Fallon discussed security assistance, border security, and EXERCISE BRIGHT STAR with Minister of Defense Field Marshal Tantawi on November 18. Tantawi and the senior MoD officials joining him: (1) confirmed Egypt's interest in ho [...] | 2007-11-21 15:52:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EAID MASS MARR MOPS KPAL EG IS |
07CAIRO3329 | FOREIGN MINISTER ABOUL GHEIT DISCUSSES IRAQ, [...] (C) U.S. Central Command Commander, Admiral William J. Fallon discussed Iraqi security and the upcoming Annapolis conference with Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit on November 18. Aboul Gheit asked whether it would be possible to widen the participation in PM Maliki's government and express [...] | 2007-11-26 11:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KPAL MOPS EG IS IZ IR |
07CAIRO3330 | IRAQI CHARGE ON PROPSECTS OF AMBASSADORIAL EXCHANGE [...] (C) We met November 25 with Iraqi Charge d'Affaires Saad Ali. He gave a positive readout of Iraqi President Talabani's recent visit to Cairo (reftel). Ali assessed that the Egyptians were slowly moving out of a "wait and see" strategy with respect to Iraq, and that the Talabani visit, as we [...] | 2007-11-26 11:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EG IZ |
07CAIRO3333 | MOD INDICATES WILLINGESS TO SIGN LOR FOR [...] (C) As a result of the recent visit and recommendations of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers counter-tunneling experts (reftel),MoD Assistant Minister of Defense for Armament MG Fouad told OMC MG Collings on November 25 that Minister of Defense Field Marshal Tantawi had agreed to sign a proposed L [...] | 2007-11-26 15:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MASS MARR MOPS EG |
07CAIRO3341 | TAGAMMU PARTY LEADER: I WILL CLOSE DOWN THE IBN [...] (C) Summary: In a November 26 meeting with Rifaat Said, president of the opposition Tagammu party (a leftist, socialist-leaning party),Said told us he plans to follow through with a libel lawsuit against Saad Eddin Ibrahim (SEI),the prominent Egyptian-American democracy activist who is curre [...] | 2007-11-27 14:34:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PHUM EG |
07CAIRO3342 | DEMARCHE ON U.S.-IRAQ BILATERAL RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-27 15:00:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL PGOV IZ EG |
07CAIRO336 | SPY SPANDAL INVOLVING CANADA, EGYPT, AND ISRAEL [...] (C) A SPY SCANDAL INVOLVING AN EGYPTIAN-CANADIAN CITIZEN AND THREE ISRAELIS BECAME PUBLIC ON FEBRUARY 4. STATE SECURITY ARRESTED AN EGYPTIAN-CANADIAN IN JANUARY WHEN HE RETURNED TO CAIRO ON A FAMILY VISIT FOR SPYING ON EGYPTIAN CITIZENS IN TURKEY AND CANADA ON BEHALF OF ISRAEL. CANADIAN EMB [...] | 2007-02-07 12:12:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PTER MEPN EG IS CA |
07CAIRO3385 | APPROXIMATELY 700 PALESTINIANS ENTER EGYPT AT [...] (C) MG Nagy Kamal, Chief of the Directorate of Military Intelligence Liaison Agency with International Organizations, said that approximately 700 Palestinians forcibly entered the Rafah border crossing terminal from Gaza on December 3. He said the Egyptian terminal manager quickly calmed the [...] | 2007-12-03 13:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER KPAL EG IS |
07CAIRO3390 | SINAI SMUGGLING INCENTIVES INCREASE UNDER STIFLED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Pent-up economic pressure for trade with the Palestinians is fueling smuggling between North Sinai and Gaza, residents and officials in the governorate told us on a visit to El-Arish and Sheikh Zuwayed Nov. 28-29. END SUMMARY. ------------------------------------ Hard Times, U [...] | 2007-12-03 15:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PTER PINR PREL KPAL KWBG EG IS XF |
07CAIRO3391 | ARAB LEAGUE SYG MOUSSA ON ANNAPOLIS FOLLOW-UP, [...] (C) Summary: Freshly returned from Annapolis, Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa spoke with us December 1. The SIPDIS conversation focused on next steps in the Israeli-Arab engagement, Iraq, Lebanon, and Iran. He conceded that fear is the real reason the Arab League has not returne [...] | 2007-12-03 15:38:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IZ LE SY IS EG |
07CAIRO3407 | "1,000 PLUS" HAJJ PILGRIMS ENTER EGYPT AT RAFAH [...] (C) An official at the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) Liaison Agency with International Organizations (LAWIO) estimated that over 1,000 Hajj pilgrims crossed the Egypt-Gaza border at Rafah on December 4. Although some of pilgrims traveled from Rafah to the Nuweiba port to board f [...] | 2007-12-05 13:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER KPAL EG IS |
07CAIRO3411 | EGYPT ADVISED OF NIE ON IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-06 05:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP IR EG |
07CAIRO3412 | DEMARCHE: ENCOURAGING RAPID LEBANESE PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) We delivered the reftel demarche to MFA Cabinet Advisor for the Levant Nazih Neggary December 6. Neggary said the GOE position is in line with ours, i.e. for a rapid election without additional conditions. He agreed that the March 14 majority should not be pressed to make any more compro [...] | 2007-12-06 08:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL PGOV IR LE EG |
07CAIRO3413 | RIOT POLICE SURROUND VIGIL ON SECOND ANNIVERSARY [...] (SBU) On December 5, we attended a candle-light vigil at the Ghad party's central Cairo headquarters, marking two years since former Ghad party leader and presidential candidate Ayman Nour was imprisoned. (Note: Nour was remanded to temporary custody on December 5, 2005, and officially sentenc [...] | 2007-12-06 11:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM EG |
07CAIRO3422 | EGYPTIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD CHANGES ITS TUNE: [...] (C) Summary: The ideological architect and former leader of Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ),Sayid Imam al-Sharif, jailed in Egypt since 2004, recently issued an 111-page book, published in full in 15 installments in a leading Egyptian independent daily newspaper, detailing "revisions" to his pre [...] | 2007-12-06 14:54:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV KISL PHUM EG |
07CAIRO3423 | EGYPT´S FY 2009 ESF: PROPOSED BUDGET FOR D&G [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: After a great deal of deliberation, in which Embassy Cairo participated fully, the inter-agency agreed to allot $66.5m for democracy and governance programs in Egypt for FY08 and $75m for FY09. These figures represent annual totals of our support for civil society -- b [...] | 2007-12-06 15:07:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV EG |
07CAIRO3425 | DARFUR: EGYPT READY TO HOST REBELS, DEPLOY [...] (SBU) MFA Cabinet Advisor for African Affairs Ahmed Abu Zeid told us December 6 that Egypt stands ready to host an "Arusha-style" meeting for Darfur rebel unity if the international community calls for it to do so. Discussing the December 4 meeting in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El Sheikh be [...] | 2007-12-06 15:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO UNSC MASS EG SU |
07CAIRO3427 | ARAB LEAGUE AND GOE ON LEBANESE PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Ambassador raised with Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa today (December 6) the need for a rapid Lebanese Presidential election. Moussa said he understood the Lebanese were working into the evening on a deal that would allow the election to proceed on December 7. He agreed the el [...] | 2007-12-06 17:14:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL PGOV LE EG |
07CAIRO3465 | DINNER WITH A WAFDIST: ANATOMY OF THE DIRTY [...] (C) Summary: At a recent dinner with lawyer and leading opposition Wafd party member Essam Shiha, who plans to run in a December 26 parliamentary by-election for a vacant seat in the People's Assembly, we were given a look into the realities of playing politics in Egypt, replete with tales of [...] | 2007-12-12 13:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM EG |
07CAIRO3469 | EGYPT'S PLANS ON RETURN OF HAJJIS TO GAZA STILL IN [...] (C) A Directorate of Military Intelligence official told us that plans to facilitate the return of approximately 2,000 Hajjis to Gaza are unresolved. They said the GOE wishes to use Karem Shalom to return the pilgrims, but that no agreement has been reached. During a briefing at the Rafah bor [...] | 2007-12-12 16:13:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM KPAL EG IS |
07CAIRO3480 | A/S FRAZER PRESSES EGYPT ON SUDAN, SOMALIA [...] (C) Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer met ith her MFA counterpart, Assistant Foreign Minister for African Affairs Shamel Nasser, on November 25, to discuss Sudan and Somalia. Nasser argued that the security situation in Somalia had been better under the Islamic Courts Unio [...] | 2007-12-13 15:54:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EG SU SO |
07CAIRO3483 | RULING PARTY HEAD ON IRI AND POLITICAL PARTIES [...] (C) Summary: In a December 11 meeting, Safwat El Sherif (secretary-general of the ruling National Democratic Party and speaker of the Shura Council, Egypt's upper parliamentary house) qualified his previous public criticism (reftel) of the International Republican Institute's (IRI) activities i [...] | 2007-12-13 16:31:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ EG |
07CAIRO3498 | EGYPTIAN PUBLIC SENTIMENT TOWARD PALESTINIANS [...] (C). Summary. Although the Palestinian cause remains a primary political issue in Egypt, there are indications that attention to it is decreasing among younger Egyptians. The constant violence following the outbreak of the intifada in 2001 and recent intra-Palestinian fighting are factors. [...] | 2007-12-17 08:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS EG |
07CAIRO3518 | MFA ON LEBANON AND EGYPTIAN DELEGATION TO TEHRAN [...] (C) MFA Cabinet Advisor for Iran Mahmoud Afifi told us December 17 that the December 11 visit of Assistant Minister for Asian Affairs Hussein Derar was to reciprocate the September 18 visit to Egypt of an Iranian delegation (led by Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs A [...] | 2007-12-17 17:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LE SY EG IR |
07CAIRO3526 | REFORMIST JUDGE ON NEW JUDICIARY LAW, SUCCESSION, [...] (C) Summary: In a December 11 meeting Hisham Bastawisi told us that new legislation focused on financing of the judiciary must, by law, be passed by June 2008. One of the two judges at the center of the spring 2006 judges' crisis and a vocal advocate for judicial independence, Bastawisi under [...] | 2007-12-23 13:43:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KJUS PHUM KDEM EG |
07CAIRO3527 | THE APPARENT DEMISE OF AYMAN NOUR'S AL GHAD PARTY [...] (SBU) The opposition party Al Ghad, previously led by now-imprisoned former presidential candidate Ayman Nour, appears to have been neutalized. On December 9, Musa Mustafa Musa, an apparent government-backed rival of Nour's, reportedly won the final court ruling regarding the leadership dispu [...] | 2007-12-23 13:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM EG |
07CAIRO3542 | EGYPT REACTS TO CONGRESSIONAL CONDITIONS ON US [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the Eid, Egyptian reaction to Congressional conditioning of US assistance has become more pronounced. Privately, GOE officials have expressed anger but hope that the Secretary will waive the conditionality. On December 23, Minister for Foreign Affairs Aboul Gheit told Am [...] | 2007-12-27 12:12:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL KPAL EG IS XF |
07CAIRO3562 | MUBARAK SPEAKS OUT AGAINST SYRIA IN LEBANON [...] (C) Egyptian FM Aboul Gheit emphasized to Ambassador and a visiting Congressional delegation led by Senator Voinovich December 31 that Egypt was taking a firm public stance supporting election of a Lebanese president. Aboul Gheit cited Mubarak's December 30 joint press conference with French [...] | 2007-12-31 16:13:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SY LE EG |
07CAIRO378 | GERMAN CHANCELLOR MERKEL VISITS EGYPT [...] (C) SUMMARY: GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL VISITED CAIRO FEBRUARY 3 - 4 TO DISCUSS MIDDLE EAST REGIONAL ISSUES AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS. ACCORDING TO A GERMAN EMBASSY CONTACT, MERKEL AND EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT MUBARAK AGREED ON THE NEED FOR A PALESTINIAN NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT. ON THE ECONOMY, [...] | 2007-02-12 14:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN MEPN ETRD EG GE |
07CAIRO389 | RENEWING THE ARTICLE 98 AGREEMENT WITH EGYPT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-13 11:15:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR KTIA EG |
07CAIRO412 | GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE: AYMAN NOUR NOT IN NEED OF [...] (C) Gameela Ismail, wife of imprisoned Al Ghad Party leader Ayman Nour, told poloff on February 12 that a governmental medical committee charged with evaluating Nour's physical condition has determined that his health is "stable." The committee found that Nour's life "is not in danger, as lo [...] | 2007-02-14 13:38:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM EG |
07CAIRO432 | EGYPT: RELEASE OF CLERIC ABU OMAR [...] (C) An Egyptian MFA official has confirmed that Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr (aka "Abu Omar") was released from detention on March 11, and is currently at his family home in Alexandria. While MOJ, State Security, and Public Prosecutor personnel refused to comment on the case, Deputy Assistant Fo [...] | 2007-02-15 15:22:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM IT EG |
07CAIRO469 | EGYPT CONSIDERING UTILITY OF IGAD SUMMIT ON [...] (C) EGYPT IS AWARE OF PLANS BY KENYA, AS CHAIR OF THE INTER-GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY FOR DEVELOPMENT (IGAD),TO HOST A SUMMIT IN COMING WEEKS TO FOCUS ATTENTION ON IMPLEMENTATION OF SUDAN'S COMPREHENSIVE PEACE AGREEMENT (CPA). THE GOE IS CONSIDERING A FORMAL RESPONSE TO THE SUMMIT PROPOSAL, BUT [...] | 2007-02-20 17:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID EG SU |
07CAIRO47 | HIGH COURT DENIES REGISTRATION TO TWELVE ASPIRING [...] (C) SUMMARY: ON JANUARY 6, EGYPT'S SUPREME ADMINISTRATIVE COURT DENIED THE PETITIONS OF TWELVE ASPIRING POLITICAL PARTIES WHICH WERE APPEALING THE GOVERNMENT'S REJECTION OF THEIR APPLICATIONS TO BE FORMALLY LICENSED. SUCH DECISIONS, COMBINED WITH THE HEAVY-HANDED APPROACH OF THE GOVERNMENT TO [...] | 2007-01-08 15:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KISL EG |
07CAIRO474 | U/S JOSEPH AND EGYPTIAN MINISTER OF ENERGY DISCUSS [...] (U) February 3, 2007; 1030 hrs; Cairo, Egypt 2. (SBU) PARTICIPANTS: U.S. ---- Under Secretary Robert Joseph Ambassador Ricciardone ISN Assistant Secretary John Rood T Senior Advisor Jim Timbie DOE/NNSA Deputy Administrator Will Tobey Economic Officer Kevin Roland (Embassy notetaker) [...] | 2007-02-21 14:47:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG KNNP PARM EG |
07CAIRO519 | EGYPTIAN PLANNING FOR NPT PREPCOMM MEETING [...] (C) The MFA's Disarmament Office Director told poloff on February 22 that Egypt plans to submit a paper addressing Middle East issues at the upcoming NPT Preparatory Committee meeting for the 2010 Review Conference to focus the debate on Israel and the 1995 Resolution. Stressing that the pap [...] | 2007-02-26 14:03:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP IAEA PREL EG IS IR |
07CAIRO542 | GAZA MARINE GAS FIELD: EGYPT DEAL UNLIKELY [...] (C) As a prelude to his meeting with NEA A/S Welch in Washington on February 27, British Gas (BG) Head of International Government and Public Affairs provided Econoff with an update on the current status of BG's efforts to develop the Gaza Marine offshore gas field. The update was a follow-up [...] | 2007-02-28 12:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON KPAL EG IS GZ |
07CAIRO559 | EGYPTIAN PLANS FOR MARCH 3-4 ARAB LEAGUE FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: MFA Deputy Assistant Minister for Arab Affairs Hani Khallaf says that Egypt will take a cautious approach towards the Palestinian National Unity Government at the upcoming Arab League Foreign Ministers meeting and withhold final judgment until after the NUG is formed. Egypt will [...] | 2007-03-01 14:00:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG PINR EG IZ SU IR LE XF IS |
07CAIRO572 | IRAQI FOREIGN MINISTER ZEBARI ON REGIONAL [...] (C) Iraqi Foreign Minister Zebari told the Ambassador on March 3 that he was working with the Egyptian government and UNHCR to ease residency requirements for the growing number of Iraqis in Egypt. On Egypt-Iraq relations, Zebari said he had selected a candidate for Ambassador to Cairo, but [...] | 2007-03-05 06:07:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF ARABL EG IZ |
07CAIRO579 | (C) ROMANIAN PRESIDENT OFFERS EGYPT NUCLEAR [...] (C) Romanian President Basescu visited Egypt February 21-22 and met privately with President Mubarak, Prime Minister Nazif, Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa, Egyptian economic ministers, local business leaders, and others. Basescu reportedly offered Egypt access to Romania's nuclear [...] | 2007-03-05 10:50:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON KNNC EG RO |
07CAIRO582 | ARAB LEAGUE FOREIGN MINISTERS DISCUSS IRAQ, [...] (SBU) In anticipation of an upcoming annual Arab Summit, scheduled for late March in Saudi Arabia, foreign ministers of the Arab League (AL) met in Cairo on March 3-4 to prepare the summit agenda and discuss a variety of pressing regional issues. Among those issues were the Arab-Israeli confl [...] | 2007-03-05 11:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ARABL KPAL EG IS IZ |
07CAIRO607 | EGYPTIAN NAMED TO SENIOR UN MANAGEMENT POST; BIO [...] (U) A senior Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs official, Mohamed Shaaban, has been named by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon as the Under Secretary General for General Assembly and Conference Management. Shaaban had most recently served as Egypt's National Coordinator for Reform Initiativ [...] | 2007-03-07 07:31:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNGA PINR EG |
07CAIRO613 | EGYPT'S REPORT TO THE UNSC-IRANIAN COMPLIANCE WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-07 11:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP UNSC IR EG |
07CAIRO622 | UK'S COUNTER-PROLIFERATION HEAD DISCUSSES NPT [...] (C) The UK's Director of Counter-Proliferaton Paul Arkwright gave Emboffs a brief readout of his NPT Prepcom discussions with GOE and Arab League officials on March 5. At the MFA, Arkwright met with Deputy Assistant Minister for Multilateral Affairs, Ihab Fouzy; Director of the Disarmament O [...] | 2007-03-07 14:38:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL EG IR IS |
07CAIRO624 | FUROR OVER ALLEGED ISRAELI 1967 EGYPTIAN POW [...] (SBU) Paralleling the growing public outcry in Egypt over an Israeli documentary film accusing the Israeli military of massacring several hundred Egyptian POWs during the 1967 war, the GOE has ratcheted up its official reaction by threatening Israel with legal action if it does not investigate [...] | 2007-03-07 16:19:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER KPAL EG IS |
07CAIRO671 | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS: MAJOR DECISIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: THE THIRTY-FOUR PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS BEFORE EGYPT'S PARLIAMENT WILL BE PUT TO A LEGISLATIVE VOTE BY MARCH 20, AND SUBSEQUENTLY TO A NATION-WIDE REFERENDUM ON OR ABOUT APRIL 4. THE ACTUAL TEXTS OF THE AMENDMENTS ARE NOT YET PUBLIC (AS THEY ARE REPORTED [...] | 2007-03-12 10:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM EG |
07CAIRO715 | MFA COMMENTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] (C) In a March 11 meeting with visiting NEA DAS Scott Carpenter and the DCM, Assistant Foreign Minister for North American Affairs Hatem Saif El-Nasr elaborated on Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit's strident criticism of the Department's Human Rights Report. (Note: In widely reported comments t [...] | 2007-03-14 11:13:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KDEM EG |
07CAIRO721 | LABOR ANXIETY MAY OPEN DOOR TO UNION [...] (C) The anxious state of organized labor in Egypt over privatization, economic reform, and global trends may present opportunities for engaging the GOE on democratization and worker rights. Sensing this, the International Labor Organization (ILO) is advancing a proposal to promote democratiza [...] | 2007-03-14 13:58:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON PGOV PHUM EAID ETRD EG |
07CAIRO724 | GOE DENIES REGISTRATION FOR INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: The GOE has adopted a new harder line against the registrations of the International Republican Institute (IRI),National Democratic Institute (NDI),and IFES, the USAID-funded political parties institutes whose registration applications have been frozen by the GOE since June 2 [...] | 2007-03-14 16:33:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EG |
07CAIRO736 | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS: APPROVED BY SHURA [...] (SBU) Summary: Egypt's Shura Council approved President Mubarak's constitutional amendments package on March 13; the 34 proposed amendments will be debated and voted upon by the People's Assembly on March 18-20, followed by an April 4 national referendum. An unusual joint statement signed by [...] | 2007-03-15 13:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL EG |
07CAIRO748 | NEA DAS CARPENTER DISCUSSES EGYPTIAN REFORM WITH [...] (C) Summary: In meetings on the Egyptian constitutional amendments with NEA DAS Scott Carpenter during a March 9-11 visit, several independent analysts said that Egypt's constitutional amendment process had been flawed by the GOE and NDP's tight control over the process. These critics asse [...] | 2007-03-18 10:19:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EG |
07CAIRO749 | NEA DAS CARPENTER DISCUSSES CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) In meetings on the Egyptian constitutional amendments with NEA DAS Scott Carpenter during a March 9-11 visit, GOE and NDP officials asserted that the process, however imperfect, was nevertheless a genuine reform process that will pave the way for new legislation which has the potential t [...] | 2007-03-18 10:21:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
07CAIRO795 | CONTACT WITH MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD PARLIAMENTARY [...] (C) On March 19, Muslim Brotherhood (MB) parliamentary bloc leader Mohamed Saad al Katatni came to the Embassy's Consular section for a visa interview. His visa application had been submitted earlier in the day, under cover of a diplomatic note from the MFA (a normal procedure for a parliament [...] | 2007-03-20 14:54:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KISL KDEM EG |
07CAIRO806 | AYMAN NOUR FILES NEW REQUEST FOR MEDICAL RELEASE [...] (SBU) Summary: Based on a government medical report that references the possibility of imprisoned Al Ghad party leader Ayman Nour's "sudden death," Nour is filing a new lawsuit requesting that he be released on medical grounds. Despite noting the risk of "sudden death," and long-term degenerat [...] | 2007-03-21 13:08:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM EG |
07CAIRO855 | REFERENDUM: RULING PARTY OFFICIAL DETAILS GET OUT [...] (C) Summary: In an unprecedented March 24 meeting at party headquarters in central Cairo, steel magnate and National Democratic Party (NDP) secretary for organization Ahmed Ezz hosted poloff and pol-FSN for an hour-long briefing on the NDP's "Get Out the Vote" campaign in advance of the March 2 [...] | 2007-03-26 05:45:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL EG |
07CAIRO865 | A/S WELCH'S MARCH 20 MEETING WITH ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) In a March 20 meeting with NEA Assistant Secretary Welch, Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa discussed the upcoming Arab summit and Arab-Israeli peace issues. Welch pressed Moussa for ideas on how to help Israel and the Palestinians get back to the negotiating table. Welch urged Mo [...] | 2007-03-26 14:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ARABL KPAL MEPN IZ GZ LE EG |
07CAIRO866 | CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM: VOTER TURNOUT MINIMAL [...] (C) IT APPEARS THAT ONLY NEGLIGIBLE NUMBERS OF VOTERS TURNED OUT FOR THE MARCH 26 NATIONAL REFERENDUM ON EGYPT'S AMENDMENTS TO THIRTY-FOUR CONSTITUTIONAL ARTICLES. THERE HAVE BEEN NO REPORTS OF VIOLENCE, AND PROTESTS APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN LIMITED TO SMALL DEMONSTRATIONS AT A FEW LOCATIONS IN CA [...] | 2007-03-26 16:32:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM EG |
07CAIRO870 | NATIONAL REFERENDUM: OFFICIAL RESULTS RELEASED [...] (SBU) On March 27, Minister of Justice Mamdouh Marei, in his capacity as head of the Egyptian Supreme Elections Commission, announced the official results of the March 26 national referendum on President Mubarak's constitutional amendments package. The government results are as follows: - [...] | 2007-03-27 11:46:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM EG |
07CAIRO90 | EGYPTIAN REACTIONS TO PRESIDENT BUSH'S JANUARY 10 [...] (C) Reaction to President Bush's January 10 Iraq speech has so far been muted from both official and private sources, yet the general tenor of opinion among contacts and media sources is one of pessimism that an additional twenty thousand U.S. troops will end the violence in Iraq. During a J [...] | 2007-01-11 17:16:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS EG IZ |
07CAIRO971 | EGYPT CONSIDERING GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-04 12:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KNNP EG |
07CAIRO99 | AYMAN NOUR STILL WANTS HEART SURGERY; REQUESTS USG [...] (C) Summary: Gameela Ismail (wife of imprisoned Al Ghad Party leader Ayman Nour) asserted to poloff that Nour is still in need of cardiac stent replacement surgery, but that State Security officials have deemed he does not require an operation. Ismail gave poloff a letter to the Secretary from [...] | 2007-01-15 15:19:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM EG |
07CANBERRA1018 | DEMARCHE ON HEAVY-CALIBER AMMUNITION FOR LEBANESE [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Adrian Lochrin, Director for Defence Policy and Liaison, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) on July 5, emphasizing the urgency of the issue for the Lebanese Armed Forces and the need for a rapid response. 2. (SBU) Lochrin advised the GOA [...] | 2007-07-05 06:11:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PARM PREL LE AS |
07CANBERRA1480 | AUSTRALIA DRAWS UP TARGETED SANCTIONS AGAINST BURMA [...] (C) Jeannie Henderson, Director of the Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Burma Section, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, briefed poloff on the sanctions the Government of Australia is currently contemplating in response to the Burmese government's bloody crackdown on recent protests. 2. [...] | 2007-10-04 07:20:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNSC BM AS |
07CANBERRA1496 | AUSTRALIA RESPONSE TO AGREEMENT ON SECOND PHASE [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel points and paper to Andrew Willis, Acting Director for Korean Affairs, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT),on October 5. 2. (U) Willis referred to Foreign Minister Downer's media release the previous day in which Downer welcomed the agreement on "Seco [...] | 2007-10-05 08:14:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP EAID |
07CANBERRA1547 | DUTCH, CANADIAN AMBASSADOR'S VIEWS ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (C/REL AUS, UK, CANADA) At our quarterly U.S.-UK-Canada-Netherlands lunch on October 19, Dutch Ambassador to Australia Niek van Zutphen commented that senior Dutch officials were sincere in voicing continuing support for the Netherland's troop commitment in Afghanistan, but faced formidable do [...] | 2007-10-19 07:20:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR PREL PGOV AS |
07CANBERRA1560 | AUSTRALIA SET TO IMPOSE ECONOMIC SANCTIONS ON 418 [...] (C) In a meeting with poloffs on October 23, Jeannie Henderson, Director of the Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Burma Section, DFAT, advised that Foreign Minister Downer had agreed to a recommendation to impose targeted financial sanctions against 418 individuals associated with Burma's military r [...] | 2007-10-23 07:19:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM CVIS ETRD AS BM |
07CANBERRA1561 | AUSTRALIA: ENCOURAGING SUPPORT FOR DEMOCRACY IN [...] (U) Poloffs presented ref demarche to Jeannie Henderson, Director of the Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Burma Section, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT),on October 23. 2. (C) In a preliminary reaction to the points, Henderson noted that Australia ended its programs in Burma speci [...] | 2007-10-23 07:20:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM AS BM |
07CANBERRA1576 | AUSTRALIA COMMITTED TO PARTICIPATE IN ASIA PACIFIC [...] (U) Arthur Spyrou, Director of the United Nations and Commonwealth Section, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, confirmed to POLCOUNS during an October 26 meeting that Australia was commited to participate in the Asia Pacific Democracy Partnership (APDP). Jonathan Richardson, Australia's [...] | 2007-10-26 07:13:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM AS |
07CANBERRA1603 | AUSTRALIAN IRAQ DEPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS DEPENDENT [...] (C) Australia's requirements to deploy forces to Iraq following expiry of the MNF-I mandate will depend heavily on which party forms the government following the November 24 election. The Liberal/National Coalition government under Prime Minister John Howard has been solidly behind the missio [...] | 2007-11-02 06:34:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL AS PM |
07CANBERRA1662 | AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON DEMOCRACY IN [...] (SBU) We presented reftel demarche points to John Owens, Assistant Secretary for Canada and Latin America, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on November 20. Owens was joined by John M.L.Woods, Director for the Canada and Latin America Section, and Philip C.W.Lowday, Executive Officer. [...] | 2007-11-20 07:11:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM AS VE |
07CANBERRA1697 | RUDD ANNOUNCES NEW CABINET [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd announced his 20-member Cabinet November 29. It is a talented line-up that strikes a balance between different regions and the Labor Party's left and right-wing factions. Rudd honored his undertaking to retain his core economic team - Julia Gilla [...] | 2007-11-29 07:42:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR ECON ETRD AS |
07CANBERRA1717 | AUSTRALIA RESPONSE TO NIE ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM [...] (C) DCM delivered Ref A unclassified non-paper and points to David J. Ritchie, Deputy Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT),on December 4. Ritchie was joined by Olivia Borthwick, Director, Middle East Section. (Other Mission personnel conveyed the classified version separ [...] | 2007-12-04 05:07:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM KNNP IR AS |
07CANBERRA1721 | CSIRO'S PERSPECTIVE ON WIRELESS PATENT LEGAL [...] (C) Summary: The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation's (CSIRO) ongoing defense in U.S. courts of its wireless patent against alleged infringers is unusual but not unprecedented. CSIRO is open to negotiating a settlement of its case. The $4/unit royalty that CSIRO has [...] | 2007-12-05 05:26:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KIPR AS |
07CANBERRA1724 | PM AA/S MULL'S CALL ON AUSTRALIAN DFAT DEPUTY [...] (C) During a November 30 call by Acting Assistant Secretary Stephen Mull (reftel),David J. Ritchie, Deputy SIPDIS Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade SIPDIS (DFAT),said new Trade Minister Simon Crean wanted to examine the U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement as part [...] | 2007-12-06 00:45:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD AS |
07CANBERRA1744 | U/S BURNS' 12/4 MEETING WITH AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE MINISTER [...] (C) Under Secretary Nicholas Burns, accompanied by the Ambassador, called on newly sworn-in Minister for Defence Joel Fitzgibbon on December 4. Fitzgibbon reaffirmed the Rudd government's commitment to the alliance with the United States, asserted his government's long-term commitment to Afgh [...] | 2007-12-11 23:33:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS KNNP PREL AS |
07CANBERRA1763 | AUSTRALIA'S RESPONSE TO CLUSTER MUNITIONS DEMARCHE [...] (C) Pol/Mil Officer delivered reftel demarche on cluster munitions December 17 to Dr. Ada Cheung of the Arms Control and Counter-Proliferation Branch in DFAT's International Security Division. Australia remains in agreement with the USG position on cluster munitions, particularly on the need [...] | 2007-12-18 00:06:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PARM PREL AS |
07CANBERRA1788 | RUDD SHAKES UP AUSTRALIA'S FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced that he will change the structure and responsibilities of parts of Australia's civil service to better enable him to oversee the implementation of his policy agenda. He has broken up and created new Cabinet Departments, and has merged the [...] | 2007-12-21 04:03:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV AS |
07CANBERRA266 | AUSTRALIA TO DEPLOY ADDITIONAL MILITARY TRAINERS [...] (SBU) The Government of Australia, in a National Security Committee of Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, February 14, approved a recommendation to deploy an additional 70 Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel to assist in training Iraqi Army forces. 2. (C) Robert Garran, Assistant Secretary [...] | 2007-02-20 07:08:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR PREL AS IZ XF ZP |
07CANBERRA334 | AUSTRALIA - JAPAN JOINT DECLARATION ON SECURITY [...] (U) This message contains an action request - please see para 6 below. 2. (C) On March 5, DFAT North Asia Division First Assistant Secretary (FAS) Peter Baxter and Japanese Embassy SIPDIS Minister-Counselor Shinichi Hosono briefed DCM on the Australia - Japan Joint Declaration on Securit [...] | 2007-03-05 07:28:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR KTIA ASEC PREL AS JA |
07CANBERRA472 | AUSTRALIAN READ-OUT OF PIF FOREIGN MINISTER'S [...] (C) Summary: Australia was very pleased with the outcome of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Foreign Minister's meeting on March 16. GOA officials strongly favor early elections in Fiji, and are examining modalities for making electoral preparations in the absence of a Parliament. They have s [...] | 2007-03-28 04:14:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM FJ AS |
07CANBERRA519 | AUSTRALIAN FM DOWNER URGES IRANIAN FM MOTTAKI TO [...] (C) On April 3, Deputy Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade David J. Ritchie gave the DCM a readout of Foreign Minister Downer's March 29 telephone conversation with Iranian Foreign Minister Mottaki regarding the 15 British naval personnel seized by Iran. 2. (C) According to Ritchie, Down [...] | 2007-04-03 06:02:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PTER INRA IR IQ AS |
07CANBERRA609 | AUSTRALIA ON EAST TIMOR ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although the Fretilin Party candidate won the most votes in the first round of East Timor's April 9 presidential election, it appears the party has lost considerable support and will be hard-pressed to increase its vote totals for the second round, according to the East Timor desk [...] | 2007-04-20 07:23:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM TT AS |
07CAPETOWN253 | CHINESE TEXTILE QUOTA A BUST? [...] (U) Summary. South Africa's two-year "emergency" quota on Chinese textile and clothing imports was implemented in January 2007 to fend off a flood of inexpensive, low-quality Chinese imports that had battered the local clothing and textile industry (reftel). According to import data, indust [...] | 2007-10-03 14:37:00 | Consulate Cape Town | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD CN SF |
07CARACAS1003 | VULNERABILITIES OF THE VENEZUELAN ECONOMY [...] Summary: (C) Although Venezuela has a strong external position, we continue to maintain that the economy is very vulnerable in the next 12-30 months due to increasing economic distortions (caused by increasing statist/retrograde economic policies) that will eventually lead to an economic/finan [...] | 2007-05-22 15:15:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN |
07CARACAS1008 | CHAVEZ WORKING ON MANY FRONTS, SLOW TO USE [...] (C) Summary: Since January, President Chavez has tried to radicalize and deepen his "revolution" on many fronts, nationalizing key sectors of the economy, politicizing the armed forces, pushing the creation of a single revolutionary party, and strengthening ties with countries such as Iran, B [...] | 2007-05-22 21:29:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS1011 | CTV TO WAGE ILO CREDENTIAL FIGHT/PDVSA BEGINS [...] (C) Summary. The opposition-linked Confederation of Venezuelan Workers (CTV) plans to contest the seating of leaders of the pro-government National Workers Union (UNT) at the May 30-June 15 International Labor Conference in Geneva. CTV Secretary General Manuel Cova, in his capacity as an inte [...] | 2007-05-23 18:59:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PHUM PGOV EPET ENGR EINV VE |
07CARACAS1014 | MORE RCTV SOLIDARITY MARCHES AS MAY 28 APPROACHES [...] (C) Summary. Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) supporters took to the streets once again May 19 to protest the BRV's decision to revoke the broadcasting license of Venezuela's oldest and most popular television network, making it the largest demonstration since the December 2006 elections. Sepa [...] | 2007-05-23 20:53:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM ELAB VE |
07CARACAS1015 | PPT: WHAT DOESN'T DESTROY US, MAKES US STRONGER [...] (C) Summary: A perhaps over-optimistic Patria Para Todos (PPT) Secretary General and National Assembly Deputy Jose Albornoz told PolCouns May 18 that he was confident his party would survive the current pressure to join Chavez' United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV),and would eventually [...] | 2007-05-24 12:58:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS1016 | RCTV CLOSURE: UNSUBSTANTIATED RUMORS OF VIOLENCE [...] (C) Summary. The Caracas rumor mill is in full gear as the BRV's announced May 28 date for the closure of independent broadcaster RCTV approaches. Most of these rumors are being fueled by President Chavez and other senior BRV officials who have alleged for several months that the opposition, [...] | 2007-05-24 19:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC PREL PHUM VE |
07CARACAS102 | CONOCOPHILLIPS' CUBAN CONCERNS [...] (U) Action Requested: Please see Paragraph 5. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Petroleum Attache (Petatt) met with ConocoPhillips (CP) executives at their request to discuss a recent visit by a Cuban delegation to the Petrozuata strategic association. CP is concerned that PDVSA will try to use Petrozuata [...] | 2007-01-17 21:01:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ETTC ECON CU VE |
07CARACAS1030 | FAJA NEGOTIATIONS: NO NEWS IS BAD NEWS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The BRV and international oil companies (IOCs) have not started negotiations to migrate the four Faja strategic associations despite the rapidly approaching June 26 deadline. ExxonMobil (XM)(strictly protect throughout) will send the BRV and PDVSA a red-lined draft contract. Howe [...] | 2007-05-25 20:21:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON ASEC VE |
07CARACAS1053 | BILKING THE BRV [...] (C) SUMMARY: Venezuela's currency control regime and fixed exchange rate, administered by CADIVI, have become huge wealth generators for Venezuelans and foreigners playing the unregulated parallel market. As has been the case with previous currency control regimes in Venezuela, the current sy [...] | 2007-05-30 18:25:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
07CARACAS1054 | RCTV CLOSURE, BRV FUELS GROWING INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: After 53 years on the air, Radio Caracas Television (RCTV),Venezuela's oldest network, ceased broadcasting at midnight May 28 and was replaced with state-run, "public service" station TVes. Despite the shutdown, RCTV's problems with the BRV continue unabated. RCTV management acc [...] | 2007-05-30 18:56:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM SCUL VE |
07CARACAS1055 | RCTV CLOSURE: PROTESTS ENDURE, TEST BRV [...] (C) Summary: Pro-RCTV marches have continued since May 27 as university students and other RCTV supporters have held protests around the country, blocking major roads. While typically not large--up to several thousand participants--the demonstrations are widespread, occurring in Caracas and in [...] | 2007-05-30 19:07:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS1062 | FIFTH DAY OF NATIONWIDE RCTV SOLIDARITY MARCHES [...] (C) Summary. On the fifth day of widespread and peaceful demonstrations, students and opposition groups took to the streets to register their displeasure with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's (BRV's) decision to close independent broadcaster Radio Caracas Television (RCTV). The governmen [...] | 2007-05-30 21:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV SCUL SOCI VE |
07CARACAS1068 | RCTV PROTESTS CONTINUE, BRV CONTINUES PRESSURE [...] (C) Summary: On May 31, students and other opposition groups continued protests over the closure of RCTV. Chavez supporters have sought to intimidate and attack marchers, and at least one student may have died as a result of clashes. National Assembly Deputy and Chavista march organizer Dario [...] | 2007-05-31 21:53:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
07CARACAS1073 | PODEMOS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEPUTY: TOO MUCH CHAVEZ [...] (C) Summary. National Assembly (NA) Deputy Ricardo Gutierrez told PolCouns May 29 that his pro-Chavez party Podemos is interested in reopening a dialogue with Embassy officials. Gutierrez predicted that Podemos will weather President Chavez' condemnation for not joining the Venezuelan presid [...] | 2007-06-01 14:30:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL VE |
07CARACAS1082 | THE MARCH THAT WASN'T, MORE WEEKEND MARCHES PLANNED [...] (C) Summary. For the sixth straight day, Caracas university students continued protesting the BRV closure of Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) on June 1. Their planned demonstration to the National Assembly was temporarily blocked by security forces and later postponed until June 5. Students ma [...] | 2007-06-01 21:43:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV SCUL SOCI VE |
07CARACAS1086 | RCTV PROTESTS ENTER SECOND WEEK [...] (C) Summary: Peaceful pro-RCTV protests continued into their second week. The students' medium term ability or desire to sustain the demonstrations remain unclear. Up to 10,000 students marched to the Supreme Court without incident June 4 and are planning to march to the National Assembly J [...] | 2007-06-04 21:44:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS1089 | CHAVEZ TO DECREE CUBAN-STYLE NATIONAL POLICE LAW [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez announced May 22 that he would soon decree a National Police Law that, among other things, would call for a new community police force. The announcement comes just as the National Assembly was finishing work on a final draft of the law, and further highlights th [...] | 2007-06-05 14:06:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
07CARACAS109 | CHAVEZ GOVERNMENT SEEKING BROAD LEGISLATIVE POWERS [...] (C) Summary. Per President Chavez' request at his January 10 inauguration (Reftel),the National Assembly is already preparing an enabling law that would give Chavez legal authority to issue executive decrees in ten substantive areas over the next 18 months. Chavez would assume broad powers [...] | 2007-01-18 16:35:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON VE |
07CARACAS1100 | THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The government closure of RCTV on May 28 took the only remaining opposition voice off the free airwaves in Venezuela; opposition-oriented 24-hour news station Globovision remains on the air, but is only available in parts of Caracas, Valencia, and Maracaibo without a cable or sate [...] | 2007-06-05 20:40:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
07CARACAS1107 | GOVERNOR ROSALES: SEEKING INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT [...] (C) Summary. Zulia Governor and de facto opposition leader Manuel Rosales briefed the Ambassador June 1 on Rosales' ongoing efforts to persuade other Latin American governments that the "democratic deficit" in Venezuela is a regional problem. Rosales considers his May 21-22 visit to Panama a [...] | 2007-06-06 17:26:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM VE |
07CARACAS1117 | PEACEFUL PROTESTS CONTINUE, GLOBOVISION ON TRIAL [...] (C) Summary. Ten days after the closure of Radio Caracas Television (RCTV),university students continue to protest peacefully in support of the network and freedom of expression. Thousands of university students marched June 6 to the Attorney General's office, making it the largest pro-RCTV [...] | 2007-06-06 21:55:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SCUL VE SOCI ASEC KDEM |
07CARACAS112 | STATOIL'S OPTIMISM FADES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-18 20:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1127 | PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE [...] (C) Summary. This press freedom update comes on the heels of the BRV-imposed May 28 shutdown of Radio Caracas Television (RCTV). Despite ceasing its broadcasts, RCTV continues to operate internally and is enduring for the moment, although recent Supreme Court (TSJ) rulings could jeopardize R [...] | 2007-06-08 17:00:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV SCUL SOCI ASEC VE |
07CARACAS1128 | UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: GIVE DEMOCRACY A CHANCE [...] (C) Summary. The various student demonstrations against the closure of RCTV have coalesced into a surprisingly resilient democratic movement. Over the last two weeks, they have forced President Chavez to shift gears from accelerating his "socialist revolution" to shoring up his base and defe [...] | 2007-06-08 18:54:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM SCUL ASEC VE |
07CARACAS1145 | CHAVEZ' NEW PARTY: INFLATED NUMBERS AND DEEP [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez is boasting that over five million voters have joined his new party, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). While the PSUV is on track to be the country's largest political party, PSUV promoters appear to be inflating the membership rolls. The membersh [...] | 2007-06-12 17:44:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
07CARACAS1157 | EXXONMOBIL AND CONOCOPHILLIPS DISCUSS FAJA [...] (C) SUMMARY: ExxonMobil (XM) and ConocoPhillips (CP) in a series of meetings on June 12 stated the June 26 deadline for negotiations on migrating the four Faja strategic associations as well as the profit sharing agreement projects to PDVSA-controlled joint ventures appear to be firm. Compani [...] | 2007-06-14 12:28:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1191 | HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS OUTLINE GROWING CONCERNS [...] (C) SUMMARY. WHA Special Coordinator for Venezuela Deborah McCarthy met June 13 with human rights defenders, representing various prominent local NGOs. The participants outlined the particular challenges Venezuelan NGOs face compared to other human rights organizations in the region; discusse [...] | 2007-06-15 20:23:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV SOCI VE |
07CARACAS1192 | BRV DISPUTES 2007 TIER 3 TIP REPORT RANKING [...] (SBU) In meetings with USG officials and in the press, BRV officials reacted angrily to the Department's designation of Venezuela as a Tier 3 country in the 2007 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report released June 12. -- During a June 13 meeting between Vice President of the National Assembly [...] | 2007-06-15 20:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV VE |
07CARACAS1193 | UN NUEVO TIEMPO: BUILDING IN VENEZUELA; LOBBYING [...] (C) Summary. Un Nuevo Tiempo (UNT) leaders told visiting Special Coordinator for Venezuela Deborah McCarthy June 14 that they were happy with their party's initial efforts to become a nationwide opposition party. They noted that the party now had strong leaders in all states and is working ha [...] | 2007-06-15 21:23:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM VE |
07CARACAS1194 | IRAN SANCTIONS, UNSCR 1747 AND VENEZUELA [...] (C) PolCouns met with BRV Ministry of Popular Power for Foreign Affairs (MPPFA) Director for North America and Multilateral Affairs Yaneth Arocha on June 14 to raise Venezuelan implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1747. Drawing from the points in refs A and B, PolCouns [...] | 2007-06-15 21:41:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PREL UNSC ETTC PARM VE IR |
07CARACAS1197 | CNPC: DON'T BELIEVE WHAT YOU READ IN THE PAPERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) executives stated recent press reports of the formation of a new joint venture are exaggerated. The executives stated negotiations over the migration of Sinovensa, the entity that produced Orimulsion, to a PDVSA-controlled joint [...] | 2007-06-18 14:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON CH VE |
07CARACAS1218 | S/C MCCARTHY'S MEETINGS WITH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND [...] (C) Summary: In separate events, Special Coordinator for Venezuela Deborah McCarthy met June 13 with National Assembly (NA) First Vice President Desiree Santos Amaral, NA Foreign Relations Committee President Saul Ortega, Vice Foreign Minister for North American and Multilateral Affairs Jorge [...] | 2007-06-19 14:25:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS1234 | ANTI-TIP NGO A.M.B.A.R. - FINAL REPORT [...] (SBU) Poloff visited the local anti-trafficking NGO Women's Association for Well-Being and Reciprocal Assistance (A.M.B.A.R.) May 18, a recipient of an Economic Support Fund (ESF) Grant approved by the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP),to receive the organization's f [...] | 2007-06-21 20:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SNAR VE |
07CARACAS1249 | RECALL REFERENDA FIZZLES [...] (C) Summary: The recall referendum effort was largely a non-event as neither the opposition, nor the government actively engaged in the process. Very few voters participated in the June 16-18 petition drive to collect signatures for recall referenda against nine governors, some 100 mayors, [...] | 2007-06-22 21:17:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS1251 | STUDENTS SHIFT FOCUS TO PRO-DEMOCRACY THEMES, BRV [...] (C) SUMMARY. Three weeks after the closure of Radio Caracas Television (RCTV),Venezuela's oldest independent broadcaster, students maintain pressure on the BRV via peaceful protests in support of freedom of expression and other positive themes, such as university autonomy. More student-led d [...] | 2007-06-22 21:26:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM SCUL ASEC VE |
07CARACAS1272 | S/C MCCARTHY'S MEETINGS WITH VENEZUELAN MEDIA AND POLITICAL FIGURES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-25 21:07:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM VE |
07CARACAS1281 | EXXONMOBIL AND CONOCOPHILLIPS EXIT VENEZUELA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The BRV held a signing ceremony on June 26 to convert the remaining private sector oil projects into PDVSA-controlled joint ventures. Representatives from Chevron, Total, Statoil, BP, ENI, Inelectra and Sinopec signed memorandums of understanding (MOU) for their respective invest [...] | 2007-06-26 20:44:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS130 | EU DCMS ON QUICKENING PACE OF BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION [...] (C) Key EU DCMs based in Caracas analyze the general situation in Venezuela almost exactly as we do, seeing Chavez as increasingly moving to accrue all power to the executive and silence independent voices, in violation of democratic norms. The Caracas HOMs have recommended that Brussels ap [...] | 2007-01-22 18:52:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EU VE |
07CARACAS1306 | JOURNALISTS, STUDENTS COMMEMORATE "DAY OF THE [...] (SBU) Tens of thousands of Venezuelans participated in peaceful demonstrations nationwide on June 27 to commemorate the "Day of the Journalist" and to mark the one-month anniversary of the BRV-imposed shutdown of Radio Caracas Television (RCTV). In Caracas, the National Press Workers' Union o [...] | 2007-06-28 21:17:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI VE |
07CARACAS1314 | CHEVRON, EXXON, AND CNPC COMMENT ON RECENT EVENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chevron claims the final deal to migrate the Hamaca strategic association to a joint venture was a good one from its perspective. The project's area was not reduced and Chevron personnel will occupy key posts in the new joint venture. In addition, all investment decisions require [...] | 2007-07-02 11:58:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1335 | CHAVEZ' DOMESTIC POPULARITY LARGELY UNSCATHED BY [...] (C) Summary: Although recent polls suggest a majority of Venezuelans disagreed with President Chavez' shutdown of Radio Caracas Television (RCTV),the decision does not appear to have significantly hurt his popularity rating. According to Datos polling firm, 67% of respondents--mostly poor an [...] | 2007-07-03 19:05:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS134 | ECONOMIC RAMIFICATIONS OF CHAVEZ' ENABLING LAW: [...] (C) Summary. The National Assembly unanimously passed preliminary approval of the Ley Habilitante ("Enabling Law") during a special emergency session on January 18. When fully approved, probably on January 24, the Enabling Law will permit Chavez to control the economic pulse of the country. [...] | 2007-01-22 21:24:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV PGOV VE |
07CARACAS1340 | AMBASSADOR'S FINAL GAB WITH FOREIGN MINISTRY [...] (C) Summary - In a farewell meeting BRV Vice Foreign Minister Valero and Ambassador discussed five possible avenues for an early dialogue between the BRV and the Ambassador's successor. The Ambassador noted that long-standing difficulties involving official visas and accreditation, aviation a [...] | 2007-07-04 14:10:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR PGOV PHUM CONS VE |
07CARACAS135 | CHAVEZ TO U.S.: "GO TO HELL" [...] (C) Summary. An extremely confident President Chavez resumed his weekly "Alo Presidente" television broadcast January 21 after a four-month campaign/inauguration hiatus. During the nearly six-hour broadcast, Chavez lashed out against a USG expression of concern about a pending Enabling Law, a [...] | 2007-01-22 22:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1352 | BRV MARKS INDEPENDENCE DAY WITH "PATRIOTISM, [...] (C) Summary. The BRV commemorated the 196th anniversary of Venezuela's Independence Day on July 5 with a civil-military parade and an extraordinary session at the National Assembly (NA). During the parade, members of the pro-government communal councils marched alongside members of the Boliv [...] | 2007-07-06 20:48:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS1361 | CHAVEZ AND AHMADINEJAD CONTINUE TO DEEPEN TIES [...] (C) Summary: During his June 30-July 2 visit to Iran, President Chavez publicly agreed to help Iranian President Ahmadinejad by selling gasoline to Iran. While details of the deal were not published, its impact will not be immediate as the shipments could take up to 40 days to arrive in Ira [...] | 2007-07-09 14:05:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM VE IR |
07CARACAS1365 | A PEAK INSIDE CITGO [...] (C) SUMMARY: A senior Citgo representative stated the sale of two asphalt refineries has been delayed due to concerns over supply contracts. Citgo president Alejandro Granado has adopted an extravagant lifestyle and is not accessible to employees. Citgo executives focus on the company's fuel o [...] | 2007-07-09 19:56:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1368 | SUMATE SETTING OUT A NEW COURSE [...] (C) Summary: During a July 6 meeting, Sumate President Alejandro Plaz told Poloff about the electoral NGO's "Plan ABC," whereby Sumate volunteers will work with leaders in poor Chavista neighborhoods nationwide to help them identify and resolve community problems while instilling awareness of [...] | 2007-07-10 14:46:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS1382 | AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL TRIP TO MARACAIBO [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador traveled to Maracaibo, Zulia state June 26-27 to meet with local leaders, visit social programs, and meet with the press during his farewell visit. He called on San Francisco Mayor Saady Bijani and President of the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference Monsignor Ubaldo Sa [...] | 2007-07-11 14:24:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON VE |
07CARACAS1384 | THE MILITARY MOVES FURTHER RED [...] (C) The July 6 replacement of Defense Minister Raul Isaias Baduel with Gustavo Rangel Briceno does not bode well for the future of the Venezuelan Armed Forces (FAN). Baduel, a long-time supporter of Chavez, was perhaps the last remaining cabinet member to make even mild statements contradic [...] | 2007-07-11 16:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PROV PREL VE |
07CARACAS1393 | FURTHER DETAILS ON THE FAJA MIGRATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: PDVSA has done a better than expected job running the Cerro Negro upgrader. However, it has requested BP supply additional personnel. BP is happy with the governance terms it received. The remaining international oil companies (IOCs) may still have the right to go to arbitratio [...] | 2007-07-12 20:05:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1419 | VENEZUELA: CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM BACK TO FRONT [...] (C) Summary: After saying in early May that constitutional reform was not a priority for this year, President Chavez surprised everyone by announcing two months later that he would present his proposed changes in the second half of July. Around the same time, an alleged draft of one of his [...] | 2007-07-17 15:32:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
07CARACAS1432 | PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE [...] (SBU) This press freedom update outlines new and sustained efforts by the BRV to curtail freedom of expression in Venezuela. After removing Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) from public access television, the BRV has launched another round of attacks in an effort to damage the network's credibi [...] | 2007-07-18 15:11:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM SCUL VE |
07CARACAS1434 | OIL TRADING: SKELETONS IN PDVSA'S CLOSET [...] (C) SUMMARY: A senior PDVSA executive who was forced into retirement in March 2007 stated PDVSA exports 38 million barrels of oil per month excluding crude from the former Faja strategic associations. President Chavez ordered PDVSA to stop exporting to the United States before the November el [...] | 2007-07-18 15:58:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS146 | VFM VALERO ON BILATERAL DIALOGUE [...] (C) The Ambassador met with VFM Valero on Jan 19 to discuss possible topics for bilateral dialogue, following up on his earlier discussion with FM Maduro. We also took the opportunity to clear out some pending bilateral issues; of those the most interesting BRV response came on reciprocity, [...] | 2007-01-23 15:41:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL US VE |
07CARACAS1465 | CHAVEZ LASHES OUT AT CHURCH LEADERS -- AGAIN [...] (C) Summary. Catholic Church officials on July 7 issued a pastoral letter strongly criticizing the Chavez government and questioning the need for proposed changes to the 1999 Constitution. The Venezuelan president responded by denouncing Venezuela's Catholic bishops publicly, while lauding C [...] | 2007-07-23 21:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SCUL VE |
07CARACAS1466 | PDVSA'S "IMPORTANT OPERATIONAL EMERGENCY" [...] (C) SUMMARY: Luis Vierma, PDVSA's Vice President for Exploration and Production, testified before the Comptroller Committee of the National Assembly on July 18 that PDVSA was facing an "important operational emergency" due to the failure of two bid rounds for drilling rigs. PDVSA's rig count [...] | 2007-07-23 21:32:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1467 | THE OIL SECTOR AND THE PUBLIC BIDDING LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Service companies have long complained that the Public Bidding Law has greatly decreased the effeciency of PDVSA's operations. A legal expert describes the law as "sub-standard" and politicized. Private sector partners in joint venture companies have argued the law does not appl [...] | 2007-07-23 21:35:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS147 | POLITICAL PRISONERS -- UPDATE ON SIMONOVIS, VIVAS, [...] (C) PolOff observed January 18 the latest session of the trial of former Caracas Metropolitan Police officials Ivan Simonovis, Henry Vivas, Lazaro Forero, and eight other former police officers, who are being charged as accomplices to murder for events related to the civil disturbances and the [...] | 2007-01-23 16:29:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS148 | CHAVEZ CONFRONTS CATHOLIC CHURCH; EPISCOPAL [...] (C) Summary. Venezuelan Catholic Church leaders have become increasingly vocal defenders of democratic freedoms since President Chavez' re-election on December 3, 2006. In recent statements to the media and via formal Episcopal Conference communiques, they have repeatedly expressed concerns [...] | 2007-01-23 16:47:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM VE |
07CARACAS1481 | CONOCOPHILLIPS DISCUSSES ITS NEXT MOVES [...] (C) SUMMARY: ConocoPhillips (CP) has presented a proposal to the BRV setting out what it considers to be fair compensation for its expropriated assets. Energy Vice Minister Bernard Mommer stood up CP executives as well as Chinese Petroleum Corporation executives in Houston last week. CP want [...] | 2007-07-26 20:40:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1483 | OUTGOING DEFENSE MINISTER QUESTIONS 'SOCIALIST' [...] (C) Summary. The Venezuelan president swore-in a new cadre of pro-Chavez military leaders to head the Venezuelan Armed Forces (FAN) on July 18 during a televised ceremony. His picks include hard-line Chavista and former head of the National Reserve and Mobilization Command Gustavo Rangel Bric [...] | 2007-07-27 14:25:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR PREL VE |
07CARACAS149 | CHAVEZ' NEW CABINET: BIOS ON ECONOMIC MINISTERS [...] (SBU) Summary: President Hugo Chavez swore in new cabinet ministers on January 8 for six key economic portfolios: the Ministry of Finance (Reftel A),a newly-formed Ministry of Telecommunications, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the [...] | 2007-01-23 19:38:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV VE |
07CARACAS15 | THE GLOVES ARE OFF: CHAVEZ SAYS HE WILL CLOSE RCTV [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Chavez on December 28 made his strongest statement yet threatening the broadcasting license of major opposition television outlet Radio Caracas Television (RCTV). During a New Year's address to the Armed Forces, Chavez stated unequivocally that RCTV's license for ove [...] | 2007-01-04 13:00:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM VE |
07CARACAS1526 | CHARGE'S MEETING WITH VICE MINISTER VALERO-JULY 30 [...] (C) Summary. Foreign Ministry Vice Minister Valero told Charge July 30 that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) wants more dialogue with the USG, so long as the USG "respects our sovereignty." Valero raised U.S. financing of Venezuelan NGOs, energy and commercial relations, consular r [...] | 2007-08-01 19:55:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER SNAR VE |
07CARACAS1527 | UNSC SANCTIONS ON IRAN: VENEZUELA RECALCITRANT [...] (C) Charge raised reftel points July 30 with Jorge Valero, Vice Minister of North American and Multilateral Affairs at the Ministry of Popular Power for Foreign Affairs. Charge reminded Valero of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's (BRV's) obligations with respect to Iran-related UNSCRs and [...] | 2007-08-01 20:00:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL IR VZ |
07CARACAS1555 | SUPREME COURT GRANTS RCTV TEMPORARY RELIEF [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Supreme Court (TSJ) approved a last-minute injunction August 1 to grant cable network Radio Caracas Television International (RCTV) temporary relief from closure. The decision follows a July 26 announcement by Minister of Telecommunications (CONATEL) Jesse Chacon requiring R [...] | 2007-08-03 20:26:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM SCUL VE |
07CARACAS157 | OIL COMPANIES WEIGH THEIR OPTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: All six international oil companies (IOCs) with stakes in the four strategic associations met with the BRV last week and received a written proposal regarding the transition to PDVSA controlled joint ventures. The BRV is expected to give companies its estimates on the value of t [...] | 2007-01-24 13:52:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1577 | CHEVRON DISCUSSES JOINT VENTURES' STRUCTURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Due to concerns over Washington's understanding of its Venezuelan investments and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Chevron met with Post on August 7 to discuss the nature of its Venezuelan investments. Chevron's two joint ventures are equity companies that are subject to Venezue [...] | 2007-08-08 16:41:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1597 | JEFE SUPREMO: HUGO CHAVEZ'S PERSONALITY CULT [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez and his supporters are devoting considerable resources to construct a cult of personality for the Venezuelan president (see Embassy Caracas website on Siprnet for accompanying photo essay). Flattering images of the Venezuelan president dominate government buildi [...] | 2007-08-10 19:15:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI VE |
07CARACAS161 | SUMATE SEES TOUGH YEAR AHEAD [...] (C) PolCouns and PolOff met with Sumate President Alejandro Plaz and Director Roberto Abdul January 17 to discuss their views of developments and plans for 2007. Pleased with the significant expansion of their volunteer network engendered by their activities during the 2006 presidential campa [...] | 2007-01-24 18:59:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS1611 | CHAVEZ' CONSTITUTION REWRITE: BATTLE LINES FORMING [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez continues to promote major changes to the 1999 Constitution, but has delayed releasing to the National Assembly a formal package of proposals. Simmering opposition to the elimination of presidential term limits and further centralization of power has forced the V [...] | 2007-08-14 12:20:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM VE |
07CARACAS1617 | BRV SENDING MIXED MESSAGES ON DIALOGUE WITH USG [...] (C) SUMMARY. BRV officials have privately expressed interest in working with the incoming Ambassador on a practical agenda, but President Chavez' recent public remarks appear to preclude cooperation. During a televised August 2 speech, Chavez dismissed the possibility of dialogue under the c [...] | 2007-08-14 19:03:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV VE |
07CARACAS162 | ANGRY MOB BURNS CARACAS POLICE STATION [...] (SBU) Angry neighbors set fire on January 17 to a police station after the alleged shooting death of a teenage boy in police custody. The seventeen year old was detained by the Metropolitan Police in the "Silsa Catia" neighborhood, part of "23 de enero," an improvished district and Chavez str [...] | 2007-01-24 19:03:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM VE |
07CARACAS1622 | PDVSA: NEW LIFE IN THE EMBERS? [...] (C) SUMMARY: The president of the Petroleum Chamber of Venezuela believes significant new investments will occur in the Faja in the near future beginning with de-bottlenecking projects in the existing upgraders. Leading candidates for new projects in the Faja are Petrobras, Shell, and the Chi [...] | 2007-08-14 20:31:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1628 | LABORING UNDER CHAVEZ' ECONOMIC PLANNING [...] (SBU) Summary: Since 2005 the BRV has tightened the noose around the Venezuelan private sector by steadily approving rigorous labor laws, including the Organic Law on Prevention, Work Conditions, and Work Environment (Lopcymat),a laundry list of nearly impossible to fulfill labor regulations. [...] | 2007-08-15 22:04:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON PGOV EINV VE |
07CARACAS1635 | CHAVEZ PROPOSES "SOCIALIST" CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES [...] (C) Summary. After numerous delays (reftels),President Chavez finally proposed significant "socialist" changes to the 1999 Constitution in a lengthy August 15 speech at the National Assembly. As expected, Chavez framed his controversial proposals as giving more power to the people. He also [...] | 2007-08-16 20:54:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM VE |
07CARACAS1637 | IV PARTICIPANTS AND USAID PARTNERS OUTED, AGAIN [...] (C) During a presentation before the National Assembly (NA) August 1, Amcit Eva Golinger and Mario Silva, host of the stridently Chavista television show "La Hojilla," accused 33 former International Visitors (IV) Program participants and several USAID partners of working on behalf of the USG t [...] | 2007-08-17 11:41:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SCUL VE |
07CARACAS1649 | VENEZUELA: FEEDBACK ON WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE [...] (C) Per reftel, Poloff met August 18 with Fredery Calderon (protect throughout),president of the NGO "For the Caracas That's Possible" (Por la Caracas Posible),to solicit feedback regarding his participation in the July 9 White House Conference on the Americas. Calderon's organization coord [...] | 2007-08-20 13:00:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | KSUM KPAO VE |
07CARACAS1655 | SINCOR'S ROCKY TRANSITION TO PETROCEDENO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Strategic association Sincor's transition to Petrocedeno, a PDVSA-controlled joint venture, has been fraught with labor problems. Labor union members have blocked the road to the upgrader 33 days so far this year. Approximately 100 employees have quit their jobs. A work plan is [...] | 2007-08-20 20:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1664 | SERVICE COMPANIES DISCUSS CURRENT OPERATING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Service companies report an increase in the number of signed contracts with PDVSA. The increase is despite the fact that service company bids frequently include substantial premiums. However, PDVSA's ability to implement new projects appears to be quite limited. At this point, [...] | 2007-08-21 13:29:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1671 | CHAVEZ' NEW PARTY PLAGUED BY ORGANIZATIONAL [...] (C) Summary. The organization of aspiring members of President Chavez' United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) into neighborhood "battalions" has been plagued by confusion and poor attendance. Scant grassroots party activity to date raises serious doubts that the PSUV has almost six millio [...] | 2007-08-22 17:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM VE |
07CARACAS1672 | CONOCOPHILLIPS UPDATE: STILL FAR APART [...] (C) Econ Counselor and Petroleum Attache met with ConocoPhillips (CP) Latin America President Roy Lyons (strictly protect throughout) and Government Affairs Manager Alex Martinez (strictly protect throughout) on August 22 to discuss the current status of CP's negotiations on compensation for e [...] | 2007-08-22 19:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1680 | CHAVEZ REACHES OUT TO COLOMBIA; BUT BORDER SPAT [...] (C) Summary. Despite President Chavez's historically rocky relationship with Colombia, he has made an effort of late to reach out to the Uribe government, particularly through his offer to be a key mediator in the negotiations for a humanitarian exchange with the FARC. The importance of comm [...] | 2007-08-23 19:31:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MARR ETRD VE |
07CARACAS1686 | THE TEFLON EFFECT: CHAVEZ EVADES SUITCASE SCANDAL [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez so far seems to have escaped largely unscathed by the fallout from the seizure in Buenos Aires of $800,000 cash carried by a U.S.-Venezuelan businessman. Using a variety of public relations tactics, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) has managed to defle [...] | 2007-08-24 15:07:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM VE |
07CARACAS169 | VENEZUELAN FREE PRESS FACES AN EVEN MORE RESOLUTE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since turning the calendar to 2007, President Chavez has ratcheted up his vitriol - and promised concrete actions - against opposition media outlets, including but not limited to RCTV (reftel). He is also focusing his attention on his own house, dictating not just what, but al [...] | 2007-01-25 13:31:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM VE |
07CARACAS1690 | PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE [...] (C) Summary. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) is employing a variety of mechanisms to harass opposition-oriented journalists and independent media outlets. Journalists, particularly former International Visitor (IV) Program participants, have been harassed and accused of fomenting [...] | 2007-08-24 16:06:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SCUL VE |
07CARACAS1703 | STUDENT MOVEMENT PREPARING FOR RENEWED ACTIVISM [...] (C) Summary. After a long summer lull, student activists recently formed a new student parliament to coordinate pro-democracy student efforts nation-wide this fall. Law students Stalin Gonzales, Yon Goicochea, and Jose Caricote were elected to lead Venezuela's opposition student movement ove [...] | 2007-08-27 14:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL VE |
07CARACAS1718 | ROUND ONE OF CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM DEBATE [...] (C) Summary. In the days following President Chavez' rollout of his proposed constitutional revisions, debates are already taking shape as to the reform process. Chavez' opponents, still divided over whether or not to participate at all, have been unsuccessful in their initial attempt to inf [...] | 2007-08-28 20:22:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SCUL VE |
07CARACAS1727 | CHAVEZ' CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES: STRATEGIC [...] (C) Summary. Local constitutional experts are focusing public attention on the fact that the language President Chavez proposes to delete from the 1999 Constitution is as problematic as the new language he proposes to insert. Chavez' constitutional changes would remove language that promotes [...] | 2007-08-30 20:38:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
07CARACAS1742 | POLITICAL POLARIZATION: VENEZUELA'S DIVIDED [...] (C) Summary. Venezuelan society has become increasingly politically polarized as a result of President Chavez' "with me or against me" tone of governance. Controversial constitutional reform proposals and his efforts to implement an increasingly radical "revolutionary" program in the Bolivar [...] | 2007-09-04 19:04:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PINR PREL VE |
07CARACAS175 | USAID/OTI WATCHDOGS START TO SHED LIGHT [...] (C) In October of 2005, the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) began implementation of a USAID/OTI funded project to develop a grants program to support watchdog organizations. Although the Bolivarian "Revolution" is failing its citizens in many ways, there are few reputable organiz [...] | 2007-01-26 14:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM VE |
07CARACAS1755 | DEFORESTATION IN VENEZUELA: MISSION TREE OR [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite Chavez' pro-environment rhetoric and support for replanting thousands of trees through his Mission Tree ("Mision Arbol"),deforestation rates have not abated. Lack of transparency and enforcement of environmental laws have undermined BRV progress, and Venezuela now find [...] | 2007-09-05 18:23:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV ECON PGOV VE |
07CARACAS1765 | BP: STABILITY BEGINS TO EMERGE FROM CHAOS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Cerro Negro's acreage has been reduced from 290 square kilometers to 210 and BP paid the BRV 50 million USD in notes as part of the reduction. Cerro Negro operations are running in a surprisingly smooth manner and PDVSA is not moving senior managers around as much as it did befor [...] | 2007-09-06 20:08:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1771 | CATHOLIC CHURCH PREPARING TO OPPOSE CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) Papal Nuncio Giacinto Berloco told the Ambassador September 6 that the Catholic Church is concerned with the "radical direction" of Chavez' proposed constitutional changes. Berloco said he expected the bishops would be critical in their evaluation of the proposals in an October communique [...] | 2007-09-07 19:43:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL VE |
07CARACAS1773 | SCENESETTER FOR WHA/AND CHACON VISIT - SEPT 12-14 [...] (C) Embassy welcomes the September 12-14 visit of WHA/AND Director Arnold Chacon. Your visit comes on the heels of Ambassador Duddy's arrival at post on August 29 and after the June 11-15 visit of Special Coordinator for Venezuela McCarthy. Since winning re-election in December 2006, Preside [...] | 2007-09-07 20:07:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON VE |
07CARACAS1776 | CHAVEZ' NEW PARTY: DISCIPLINING DISCUSSION [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez continues to face serious internal challenges to his efforts to forge a single pro-government party, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). Most recently, Chavez' new PSUV discipline committee stripped Francisco Ameliach, Chavez' 2006 presidential campa [...] | 2007-09-07 20:43:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS1804 | PRO-CHAVEZ PARTY CRITICIZES CHAVEZ' CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) Summary. Leaders of the small, but prominent, pro-government party Podemos outlined their objections to President Chavez' proposal for constitutional changes at a September 7 Caracas party event. Podemos Secretary General Ismael Garcia argued that Chavez' proposals give more power to the [...] | 2007-09-11 21:56:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
07CARACAS1805 | PERUVIAN AMBASSADOR ON VENEZUELA'S RE-ENTRY INTO [...] (C) Speaking "unofficially" Peruvian Ambassador Luis Santa Maria Calderon told the Ambassador during an initial courtesy call September 10 that Peru would probably welcome Venezuela's reintegration into the Andean Community of Nations (CAN),but prefers that Venezuela be re-admitted as an asso [...] | 2007-09-12 14:00:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD VE |
07CARACAS1808 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH CONOCOPHILLIPS [...] (C) SUMMARY: ConocoPhillips (CP) and the BRV's positions on the valuation of CP's expropriated assets differ by a factor of six or seven to one. PDVSA continues to honor two long-term supply contracts that supply CP refineries in the U.S. CP believes an arbitration case would take five to se [...] | 2007-09-12 15:22:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1814 | CHAVEZ' REFORM PACKAGE PASSES SECOND READING [...] (SBU) The National Assembly (NA) overwhelmingly approved President Chavez' constitutional reform package during the second of three readings on September 11, bringing it one step closer to passage and a national referendum tentatively scheduled for early December. The proposed changes, however [...] | 2007-09-13 16:55:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
07CARACAS1816 | BRAZILIAN AMBASSADOR ON VENEZUELA'S MERCOSUR [...] (C) Brazilian Ambassador Joan Carlos Souza-Gomes told the Ambassador during a September 11 courtesy call that Brazil continues to push for Venezuela's Mercosur accession. Ambassador Souza-Gomes said Brazil believes Chavez is easier to contain within Mercosur than outside of it, and that Brazil [...] | 2007-09-13 21:02:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PGOV VE |
07CARACAS182 | CHAVEZ THREATENS TO PNG AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary - During a lengthy speech at a swearing-in ceremony on the evening of January 25, President Chavez threatened to expel the Ambassador. Chavez said, "Mr. Ambassador, if you keep interfering in Venezuelan affairs, you could be declared persona non grata (PNG) and would have to lea [...] | 2007-01-26 20:17:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM VE |
07CARACAS183 | BRV BEGINS TO REAP WHAT IT HAS SOWN [...] (C) SUMMARY: PDVSA reportedly told tax authorities in August 2006 that it was unable to pay its royalties and taxes due to cash flow problems stemming from social development expenditures. President Chavez' recent statements regarding an increase in gasoline prices appear to stem from PDVSA's [...] | 2007-01-26 20:22:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS184 | CHAVEZ'S NEW CABINET: A LOOK AT SOME NEW MINISTERS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. President Chavez swore in a new cabinet of hard-line loyalists on January 8. His picks include a number of his party's, the Fifth Republic Movement (MVR),National Assembly (NA) deputies who gave up their seats to assume the ministry positions. The ideological and political te [...] | 2007-01-26 20:55:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL VE |
07CARACAS1846 | WHA/AND DIRECTOR'S VISIT: CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES [...] (C) Summary. A wide range of Embassy contacts discussed Chavez' proposed constitutional changes September 12-14 with the Ambassador and visiting WHA/AND Director Chacon. There is widespread consensus among analysts, pro-Chavez and opposition politicians, and third country diplomats that Chav [...] | 2007-09-18 17:38:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV VE |
07CARACAS186 | CUBA COMES TO TOWN [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Hugo Chavez received Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage on January 24 with fanfare but without pubic announcement prior to Lage's arrival. Lage's presentation of a letter purportedly written by Fidel Castro to Chavez gave Chavez the opportunity to publicly trumpet Cast [...] | 2007-01-26 22:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE |
07CARACAS1864 | BRV TIGHTENS THE VISA SCREWS ON FOREIGN JOURNALISTS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-20 20:30:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM VE |
07CARACAS1894 | AHMADINEJAD TO VISIT VENEZUELA FOLLOWING UNGA [...] (SBU) On September 24, during his longest "Alo, Presidente" television broadcast to date (eight hours and fifteen minutes),President Chavez confirmed press reports that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit Venezuela on September 26. Ahmadinejad is expected to give a speech at the [...] | 2007-09-24 21:06:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM IR VE |
07CARACAS1913 | CHAVEZ' CONSTITUTIONAL PACKAGE: OPPOSITION DIVIDED [...] (C) Summary. Less than ten weeks before a constitutional referendum, Venezuela's opposition parties remain splintered as to how to oppose President Chavez' sweeping reforms. Leading opposition parties advocate voting "no" while more hard-line opposition parties promote abstention. Opposition [...] | 2007-09-27 15:36:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
07CARACAS1914 | CHAVEZ MEETS WITH FAMILIES OF AMERICAN CITIZEN [...] (SBU) President Chavez met with the family members of Amcit FARC hostages Keith Stansell, Thomas Howes, and Marc Gonsalves the evening of September 25. Paloma Diaz, the sister of FARC prisoner in Colombia, and Yolanda Pulecio, mother of Colombian/French hostage Ingrid Betancourt, were also pr [...] | 2007-09-27 15:36:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM CO VE |
07CARACAS1936 | UNT LOBBIES EU, PLANS MEETING WITH OAS TO RAISE [...] (C) Summary. Former presidential candidate Manuel Rosales and Un Nuevo Tiempo (UNT) party leaders are actively sharing their concerns about the anti-democratic nature of Chavez' proposed constitutional changes with foreign governments and the OAS. Zulia Governor Rosales briefed 13 European A [...] | 2007-09-28 20:49:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
07CARACAS1937 | CHAVEZ AND AHMADINEJAD: PROUD TO BE BROTHERS IN [...] (U) On the evening of September 27, 2007 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited President Chavez at the Miraflores, Presidential Palace. Arriving in Caracas from La Paz, Bolivia, in an aircraft provided by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV),Ahmadinejad received full formal ho [...] | 2007-09-28 22:15:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL IR VE |
07CARACAS1947 | BRV PREPARING NEW SOCIALIST CURRICULUM: DETAILS TBD [...] (C) Summary. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) recently released for selective comment a new 500-page curriculum designed to reinforce President Chavez' ill-defined "Socialism in the XXI Century." The BRV is planning to make new government textbooks available in December and implemen [...] | 2007-10-02 15:38:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI PHUM ELAB VE |
07CARACAS1948 | SERVICE COMPANIES FACE USG IRANIAN AND CUBAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Baker Hughes (BH) has three contracts with PDVSA in various stages of execution that they believe appear to violate USG Iranian and Cuban sanctions legislation. According to BH, other U.S. service companies have similar contracts that raise the same issues. BH will meet with PDVS [...] | 2007-10-02 16:17:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON PREL KFPC ETTC CU IR VE |
07CARACAS1969 | NGOS CITE WORRISOME HUMAN RIGHTS PATTERNS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Several prominent local human rights organizations recently released critical reports on the human rights situation in Venezuela. These studies document patterns of human rights violations, often allegedly involving Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) officials, agents, and sy [...] | 2007-10-04 22:04:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM VE |
07CARACAS1977 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH CHEVRON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chevron remains optimistic on Venezuela and believes that the Chavez administration has begun to realize that it cannot divorce Venezuela from the United States. Chinese oil company CNPC has approached Chevron about signing a cooperation agreement for projects in Venezuela. Chevro [...] | 2007-10-09 11:57:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS1985 | AMBASSADOR DUDDY PRESENTS CREDENTIALS COPIES TO [...] (C) A pleasant but disengaged Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro, accompanied by North America Vice Foreign Minister Jorge Valero, received Ambassador Duddy,s copies of letters of credence and recall in his office Saturday, Oct 6. During the 20-minute meeting the Ambassador noted the FM,s Octobe [...] | 2007-10-09 19:46:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV VE |
07CARACAS1998 | LOCAL RECALL ELECTIONS: MIXED RESULTS IN LOW-KEY [...] (C) Summary: The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) held ten local recall elections in various parts of Venezuela on October 7. According to the preliminary results from the National Electoral Commission (CNE),four mayors, two Chavistas and two from the opposition, as well as one regio [...] | 2007-10-11 13:47:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS201 | OPPOSITION SEVERELY CHALLENGED, LOOKING LONG TERM [...] (C) Still stinging from its tenth consecutive electoral defeat since 1998, the opposition is plagued by infighting, the need to rebuild, disillusioned supporters, and an inability to effectively confront President Chavez' plans to push his "socialist" agenda. Accion Democratica (AD),which m [...] | 2007-01-30 16:10:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS2010 | VENEZUELA AND CUBA -- CONFEDERATION? [...] (C) Summary - President Chavez visited Cuba October 13-14, reportedly spending four hours with Fidel Castro. Chavez hosted his weekly Alo Presidente television program, in honor of Che Guevara, from Santa Clara, Cuba. The program included a video tape of his meeting with Castro as well as an [...] | 2007-10-15 21:54:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM SCUL VE |
07CARACAS2013 | THE BRV'S PROPOSED ECONOMIC CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Chavez' proposed economic changes to the constitution included in his reform package (Reftel A) are breathtaking in both scope and ambition. The draft proposals give Chavez, inter alia, the broad constitutional authority to consolidate his vision of a socialist model [...] | 2007-10-16 20:07:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV VE |
07CARACAS2034 | VENEZUELAN DAILY ALLEGES BRV PLAN FOR SUPPORT TO [...] (C) Summary. Venezuela daily "El Universal" recently published an article claiming that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) has, as part of its Plan for Socio-Economic Development 2007-2013, the stated goal of promoting "alternative groups" in Mexico and Central America. The report ap [...] | 2007-10-18 15:56:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS2050 | CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM - GETTING WORSE AND WORSE. [...] (C) Late on Friday October 12 the Venezuelan National Assembly's Mixed Commission on Constitutional Reform announced the addition of 25 amendments to the constitution, on top of the 33 proposed by President Chavez on August 15 (Ref A). While a few of the changes are fairly innocuous, many wil [...] | 2007-10-19 22:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KIPR PHUM KDEM ECON VE |
07CARACAS2058 | FEAR, LOATHING, AND STATE PATERNALISM IN MERIDA [...] (C) Summary. University administrators, opposition parties, and civil society leaders in the university city of Merida increasingly fear the growing authoritarianism of President Chavez. University of Los Andes (ULA) administrators believe the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) will put [...] | 2007-10-22 22:16:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI KDEM VE |
07CARACAS206 | GOVERNOR ROSALES AND EPISCOPAL CONFERENCE EAGER [...] (SBU) Action Request -- See Paragraph 12. 2. (C) Summary. During the Ambassador's January 23-24 visit to Maracaibo, Zulia Governor and former presidential candidate Manuel Rosales expressed strong interest in enhancing programs of cooperation with his state administration. Rosales said he [...] | 2007-01-30 21:35:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PHUM PGOV SNAR VE |
07CARACAS2071 | PRINTING PRESS RAIDED, ANTI-REFORM MATERIAL SEIZED [...] (SBU) State Intelligence (DISIP) and Military Intelligence (DIM) police officials raided the Impresos Chirivel printing press in San Diego, Carabobo state October 23 in order to confiscate anti-constitutional reform promotional material. The seized goods, which read "No to constitutional reform [...] | 2007-10-25 11:56:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SCUL VE |
07CARACAS2074 | AGRICULTURE EXPERTS PREDICT CORN, WHEAT, AND MILK [...] (SBU) Summary: Milk, white corn and wheat which make up Venezuela's three most consumed products (milk, pre-cooked corn meal, and pasta),are all facing worsening or impending shortages. Global price increases combined with local price controls have led to the current milk shortage and an eme [...] | 2007-10-25 19:06:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR ALOW VE |
07CARACAS2076 | CHAVEZ' NEW PARTY: A LABORIOUS BIRTH [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez' United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) is finally scheduled to hold its Founding Party Congress on November 2 after repeated postponements. The PSUV will not establish party policies or select leaders, however, until early 2008, well after the referendum on [...] | 2007-10-25 21:00:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM VE |
07CARACAS2077 | UNIVERSITY STUDENTS PROTEST CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS [...] (U) In spite of a steady rain, violent pro-Chavez counter-protesters, delayed permits, and National Guard roadblocks preventing additional student protesters from entering Caracas, some 20,000 students marched through downtown Caracas October 23 protesting Chavez' proposed constitutional refor [...] | 2007-10-25 21:07:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM VE |
07CARACAS2084 | PARALLEL DOLLAR RATE CONTINUES RAPID CLIMB [...] (C) The parallel rate for dollars has jumped sharply in recent months, increasing 65 percent in the last six months from 3,700 bolivares (Bs)/USD on April 26 to 6,180 Bs/USD on October 26. Reasons for the increase include increasing liquidity and general unease about the constitutional reform [...] | 2007-10-26 20:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
07CARACAS2089 | BRV AND CATHOLIC CHURCH AT ODDS OVER CHAVEZ' [...] (C) Summary. The Venezuelan Catholic Conference of Bishop's recently-released document entitled "Called to Live in Liberty" strongly criticizes President Chavez' proposed constitutional changes. The bishops call Chavez' efforts to construct a "socialist state" discriminatory, anti-democratic [...] | 2007-10-26 20:50:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
07CARACAS2091 | PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE [...] (C) Summary. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) continues to systematically harass independent media outlets and restrict freedom of expression. The BRV appears determined to find grounds to sanction opposition-oriented cable news network Globovision through a series of bizarre accus [...] | 2007-10-26 20:51:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SCUL VE |
07CARACAS2094 | PRO-CHAVEZ MEDIA ESCALATE RHETORICAL ATTACKS ON [...] (C) Summary. A pro-government daily accused Jewish rabbis and Mossad agents October 29 of conspiring against the Chavez government. These unfounded assertions come on the heels of a government-run television network talk show asserting without proof that Jewish businessmen are funding student [...] | 2007-10-29 17:41:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV VE |
07CARACAS2099 | CHAVEZ ACCEPTS AMBASSADOR'S CREDENTIALS, OFFERS [...] (C) In a surprisingly cordial October 29 meeting, the Ambassador presented his credentials to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias. President Chavez repeatedly stressed during the 35 minute discussion that the United States and Venezuela were not enemies and that his door was open "24 hours [...] | 2007-10-30 19:32:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SNAR PREL VE |
07CARACAS21 | VENEZUELA STRONGLY CONDEMNS EXECUTION OF SADDAM [...] (SBU) In a press release January 3, the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the execution of Saddam Hussein, which it called "a political crime produced by an illegitimate foreign occupation." The BRV couched its objection not only as a rejection of the death penalty, but also of [...] | 2007-01-04 17:56:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL VE |
07CARACAS2103 | CONOCOPHILLIPS HEADS TO ARBITRATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: ConocoPhillips (CP) Chairman, President and CEO James Mulva told the Ambassador on October 30 that CP will file an arbitration claim with ICSID against the BRV. Negotiations regarding compensation have proved unsuccessful to date but CP still holds out hope that the BRV may eventu [...] | 2007-10-31 13:24:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS2104 | LUKOIL DEEPLY PESSIMISTIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to a senior Lukoil executive, Lukoil is highly pessimistic about investment opportunities in Venezuela. The Russian company is particularly concerned about constitutional reforms such as the definition of private property and the six hour workday. In addition, the comp [...] | 2007-10-31 13:25:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS2120 | STUDENTS AND ANTI-REFORM SECTORS PROTEST [...] (C) Summary. Over 20,000 university student leaders and anti-reform protesters marched to the National Electoral Council's (CNE's) headquarters November 1 to petition the CNE to postpone the referendum until February 2008. After arriving at the CNE, some student delegates were refused access [...] | 2007-11-02 15:21:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC KDEM PHUM VE |
07CARACAS2124 | LEGISLATURE PASSES CHAVEZ' CONSTITUTIONAL PACKAGE; [...] (C) Summary. The National Assembly (NA) voted overwhelmingly November 2 to approve President Chavez' proposed, sweeping constitutional changes and conveyed the approved text to the National Electoral Council (CNE) the same day. The formal 30-day referendum campign has now begun, with the CNE [...] | 2007-11-02 21:35:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
07CARACAS2128 | PETROCEDINO'S COMPLICATED BIRTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The creation of Petrocedino, the joint venture formed from the former Sincor strategic association, poses a variety of challenges for its private sector participants. The new company will extract and upgrade extra-heavy crude oil in the Faja region. Venezuelan state oil company [...] | 2007-11-05 16:53:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON ELAB VE |
07CARACAS2130 | NEW TAX ON FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS IMPLEMENTED WITH [...] Summary: (C) On November 1 the BRV imposed a 1.5 percent tax on institutional financial transactions through December 31, 2008. The BRV's unveiling of this tax was particularly clumsy, as the government had to modify its original decree to prevent the collapse of key financial transactions [...] | 2007-11-05 17:31:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
07CARACAS2132 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH VICE FOREIGN MINISTER VALERO [...] (C) Ambassador Duddy and PolCouns met November 2 with BRV Vice Foreign Minister Jorge Valero and MFA Director for North America Affairs Yaneth Arocha at the CMR to review bilateral relations. This was the first meeting with BRV officials since the Ambassador's October 29 discussion with Chavez [...] | 2007-11-05 19:55:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS2134 | CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM CAMPAIGN BEGINS WITH [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez held a peaceful November 4 mass rally to mobilize support for his proposed constitutional reform package. Chavez accused reform opponents of trying to destabilize his government and urged government officials to be more "firm" with university demonstrators. Some [...] | 2007-11-05 21:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ASEC VE |
07CARACAS2136 | SPANISH ENVOY RAISES PROPERTY RIGHTS WITH FM MADURO [...] (C) Summary. Spain's Secretary of State for Iberoamerica, Trinidad Jimenez, visited Caracas October 31. In addition to a lengthy meeting with Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro, she met President Chavez, leaders from political parties (PODEMOS, Accion Democratica, Primero Justicia, Un Nuevo Tie [...] | 2007-11-06 15:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SP VE |
07CARACAS2142 | STUDENT LEADERS: "WE WILL REMAIN IN THE STREETS," [...] (C) SUMMARY. University student leaders vowed to continue with street actions to protest the December 2 constitutional referendum during a November 5 press conference. They announced plans to march to the Supreme Court November 7 to request that the referendum be postponed until February 2008. [...] | 2007-11-06 21:38:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ASEC VE |
07CARACAS2143 | INCREASES OF FOOD PRICES AND SUBSIDIES IN VENEZUELA [...] (U) SUMMARY: Venezuela continues to face shortages in milk and wheat products. The BRV has taken steps to subsidize powdered milk imports and has directed that wheat products be made with a combination of wheat and other cereal grains to increase quantities. The BRV also established a produ [...] | 2007-11-06 21:58:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON VE |
07CARACAS2144 | AMBASSADOR DUDDY'S VISITS VALENCIA TO PROMOTE THE [...] (SBU) Ambassador Duddy's visit to the industrial city of Valencia on October 31 to November 1, 2007 included meetings with the three largest American auto manufacturers in Venezuela, American owned agricultural feed conglomerate Protinal, three of the largest industrial and commercial chambers [...] | 2007-11-06 22:11:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV VE |
07CARACAS215 | MFA REJECTS NEGROPONTE'S COMMENTS [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) issued a January 30 press release criticizing Deputy Secretary-designate Negroponte's remarks to the Senate SIPDIS Foreign Relations Committee earlier the same day. The MFA release states that Negroponte "represents a real threat to peace and dem [...] | 2007-01-31 22:18:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV VE |
07CARACAS2152 | CHAVEZ SUPPORTERS FIRE ON OPPOSITION STUDENTS [...] (C) Summary. Supporters of President Chavez opened fire on opposition demonstrators November 7, seriously injuring at least two students. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) officials accuse opposition demonstrators of trying to "lynch" pro-Chavez students on campus, while opposition stud [...] | 2007-11-08 16:38:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM ASEC VE |
07CARACAS2158 | BRV DERIDES BADUEL, OPPOSITION REACTS SLOWLY [...] (SBU) Summary: President Hugo Chavez and other senior Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) officials wasted no time in harshly criticizing ex-Defense Minister Raul Baduel for his November 5 press conference urging Venezuelans to vote "NO" in the constitutional referendum. On the other hand, [...] | 2007-11-09 17:12:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
07CARACAS2162 | CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM: POLLS SAY CHAVEZ STILL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Local polls have focused on three issues in the lead-up to the December 2 constitutional referendum: likely participation rates, overall support for the referendum, and the popularity of specific reforms. Polls indicate that while Chavez' electoral camp does not necessarily enjoy [...] | 2007-11-09 22:18:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE |
07CARACAS217 | INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION VS. THE BRV [...] (C) Summary: International arbitration will become increasingly important to foreign investors as Chavez moves forward with his selective nationalizations and disputes over "prompt, adequate, and effective compensation" arise. Foreign investors have three options to avail themselves of arbitr [...] | 2007-02-01 15:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV PGOV ECON VE |
07CARACAS2172 | CHAVEZ MEETS FARC REP, SANDBAGS COLOMBIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Hugo Chavez met November 8 with FARC representative Ivan Marquez and Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba. Although highly anticipated, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) gave the Colombian government no official prior notification. In an unstructured press availa [...] | 2007-11-13 21:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER CO VE |
07CARACAS2173 | WEAK TURNOUT FOR OPPOSITION "NO" MARCH, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The November 11 march convoked by opposition parties advocating voting "No" in the December 2 constitutional referendum failed to generate a significant show of public support. Turnout for the event was likely hurt by a fractured anti-reform movement, recent well attended student [...] | 2007-11-13 22:11:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SCUL VE |
07CARACAS2174 | JEWISH COMMUNITY UNDERSCORES GROWING CONCERNS [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador met November 9 with fifteen Jewish community leaders to reinforce the USG's commitment to promoting religious freedom in Venezuela. All of the Jewish organization representatives expressed concern that President Chavez's government is fomenting anti-Semitism in Ven [...] | 2007-11-13 22:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL VE |
07CARACAS218 | CONOCOPHILLIPS MEETS WITH ENERGY VICE MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: ConocoPhillips (CP) executives met with Energy (MEP) Vice Minister Bernard Mommer on January 31 to discuss the shipment of Cuban oil to the Petrozuata upgrader and the migration of the Petrozuata and Hamaca strategic associations to PDVSA controlled joint ventures. Mommer stated [...] | 2007-02-01 15:45:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS2181 | THE BRV PUTS THE BRAKES ON CAR IMPORTS [...] (C) Summary: On October 31, the BRV issued a resolution requiring all auto importers to obtain a license from the Ministry of Popular Power for Light Industry and Commerce (MILCO) for vehicle imports. The resolution also stipulates that all imported and locally assembled vehicles must run on [...] | 2007-11-14 19:53:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD VE |
07CARACAS2186 | BRV BOND OFFERINGS TARGET PARALLEL DOLLAR MARKET [...] (C) Summary: The Ministry of People's Power for Finance (MPPF) recently announced a new series of dollar and bolivar-denominated debt issuances for the coming five months. The BRV's stated reason for these issuances was to optimize its debt profile and cover upcoming amortizations. Local an [...] | 2007-11-15 17:03:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
07CARACAS2187 | CHAVEZ KEEPS SPAT WITH SPAIN GOING [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Hugo Chavez, as well as his political supporters and detractors, are attempting to make political hay out of King Juan Carlos' royal rebuke of Chavez on November 10 at the Iberoamerican summit. The King's "why don't you shut up" sound bite is receiving extensive airpla [...] | 2007-11-15 19:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE |
07CARACAS219 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY HANDS CHAVEZ BROAD LEGISLATIVE [...] (C) Summary. The National Assembly (NA) gave final approval January 31 to an omnibus Enabling Law that provides President Chavez with broad authority to issue executive decrees over the next 18 months in eleven areas, including energy. President Chavez is expected to promulgate the measure wi [...] | 2007-02-01 16:26:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PHUM VE |
07CARACAS2195 | CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM: PLAYERS AND THEIR POSITIONS [...] (C) Summary. The December 2 constitutional referendum is a highly polarized political battle between President Chavez and his extensive base on one side and opposition parties, university demonstrators, Catholic bishops, and important sectors of civil society on the other. President Chavez's [...] | 2007-11-16 19:05:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
07CARACAS2201 | CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM: KELLER POLL SAYS "NO" [...] (C) SUMMARY. Emboffs met November 16 with pollster Alfredo Keller of Keller and Associates to discuss the December 2 referendum on President Chavez' sweeping constitutional changes. Keller said that based on his current polls the "No" vote appears to be gaining support among Chavistas despite [...] | 2007-11-19 17:38:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE |
07CARACAS2203 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: FATF STATEMENT AND GUIDANCE ON [...] (C) Emboffs delivered Ref A demarche on the recent Financial Action Task Force (FATF) decisions concerning Iran to Yaneth Arocha, Director of the MFA's Office of North American Affairs, and, separately, to Francisco Canela, Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit (UNIF) at the Superintend [...] | 2007-11-19 20:50:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MNUC ECON EFIN VE |
07CARACAS2207 | CHINA LOANS VENEZUELA USD FOUR BILLION TO BE [...] (U) SUMMARY: BRV President Hugo Chavez and PRC Vice Minister of the National Committee and Reform Zhang Xiaoqiamg presided over a televised signing ceremony for energy, financial and technology agreements on Tuesday, November 6, 2007 at the presidential palace. The main agreement established [...] | 2007-11-20 14:34:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET CH VE |
07CARACAS2211 | PRO-CHAVEZ PPT PARTY: GRUDGING SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) Summary. The small pro-Chavez party Patria Para Todos (PPT) is reluctantly supporting President Chavez's proposed, sweeping constitutional changes. PPT leaders told PolCouns that Chavez's constitutional package is a "tough sell" within Chavismo, and they predict that it will only narrowly [...] | 2007-11-20 21:15:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SNAR VE |
07CARACAS2212 | CHAVEZ VISITS IRAN: THE FOURTH TIME IN TWO YEARS [...] (C) On November 19, President Chavez visited Tehran for the fourth time since 2005 and the sixth time since 1998. During the five-hour stop-over, Chavez and his entourage of five ministers and the mayor of Caracas met with President Ahmadinejad and Iranian officials. According to media report [...] | 2007-11-20 21:51:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL IR VE |
07CARACAS2214 | OPPOSITION UCV STUDENT BLOC WINS LANDSLIDE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Opposition-oriented candidates easily won student elections held November 16 at the public Central University of Venezuela's (UCV) campuses nationwide. Student voters elected a new president to the Federation of UCV Colleges (FCU),representatives for each college, and student de [...] | 2007-11-21 14:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SCUL VE |
07CARACAS2215 | BRV APPOINTS DISMISSED JUDGES TO DIPLOMATIC POSTS [...] (SBU) The Foreign Ministry of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) appointed three dismissed appellate court judges to diplomatic posts in Europe and Latin America in late October. Judge Belkis Cedeno is the new consul general to Vigo, Spain. Judge Maikel Moreno is the new commercial [...] | 2007-11-21 14:28:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE |
07CARACAS2225 | REFERENDUM CAMPAIGN UPDATE-NOVEMBER 21-23 [...] (C) SUMMARY. Pro-government and opposition university students across the country organized demonstrations in support of and against President Chavez' reform package November 21. Opposition student leaders announced that university students will not participate in the opposition's march Novem [...] | 2007-11-23 21:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS2226 | CHAVEZ ELECTORAL MACHINE KICKS INTO HIGH GEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Chavez' government and the "Yes" campaign are increasingly one and the same in the run-up to the December 2 referendum on Chavez' proposed, sweeping changes to the constitution. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) is injecting significant personnel and resources [...] | 2007-11-23 21:21:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL VE |
07CARACAS2228 | BALANCE OF PAYMENTS DATA MAY FORESHADOW CHALLENGES [...] (C) Summary: The Central Bank of Venezuela's (BCV's) third quarter balance of payments data illustrate two important trends: a declining volume of petroleum exports and rapidly growing imports. Imports over the first three quarters of 2007 have grown a hefty 36 percent relative to the same p [...] | 2007-11-26 12:57:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EPET VE |
07CARACAS2229 | VENEZUELA: VISIT OF G/TIP'S BARBARA FLECK [...] (C) SUMMARY. Barbara Fleck, Reports Officer for the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP),and Emboffs met with Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) officials and NGOs October 19-23 to discuss the government's anti-trafficking efforts. MFA officials agreed to facilitate [...] | 2007-11-26 14:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM KWMN VE |
07CARACAS2231 | CHAVEZ' COLD WAR WITH COLOMBIA AND SPAIN [...] (C) Summary: President Hugo Chavez publicly announced November 25 that he was putting relations with Colombia "in the freezer" following his dismissal as mediator between Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) by Colombian President Uribe. Describing Uribe with a strin [...] | 2007-11-26 16:31:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER CO VE |
07CARACAS2238 | REFERENDUM CAMPAIGN UPDATE-NOVEMBER 23-26 [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez raised for the first time the possibility of defeat at the polls on December 2. Chavez' statements, however, appear aimed more at galvanizing his base than admitting weakness. The Venezuelan Episcopal Conference issued a statement reiterating its concerns about t [...] | 2007-11-27 10:55:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS2245 | REFERENDUM CAMPAIGN UPDATE-NOVEMBER 27 [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez reminded his supporters November 26 that a loss for the "No" vote would not end his government or the Bolivarian Revolution. Opposition parties and university students continue to try to mobilize their supporters to participate in the December 2 referendum, emp [...] | 2007-11-27 22:35:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS2254 | REFERENDUM CAMPAIGN UPDATE-NOVEMBER 27-28 [...] (C) Summary: Political polarization is increasing in the lastweek of campaigning before the December 2 referendm on President Chavez's proposed constitutional eform. A large gap in police coverage allowed pr-reform thugs to storm the fences of Andres Bell Catholic University (UCAB) while stu [...] | 2007-11-28 23:41:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS2258 | REFERENDUM CAMPAIGN UPDATE-NOVEMBER 28-29 [...] (C) SUMMARY. The "No" bloc held its end-of-campaign rally in downtown Caracas November 29, and initial indications are it is the largest anti-reform rally thus far. Embassy contacts note that the "No" bloc still lacks sufficient electoral witnesses to provide coverage outside of Caracas on e [...] | 2007-11-29 20:48:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS2260 | STOCK EXCHANGE STRUGGLES FOR RELEVANCE AS STATE [...] (C) Summary: The Caracas Stock Exchange (BVC) has fallen 37 percent this year in the face of nationalizations and the advance of Chavez' socialist economic agenda. BVC management is turning to the BRV to breathe life back into the exchange, asking that the BRV sell some shares in nationalized [...] | 2007-11-30 14:21:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
07CARACAS2262 | FINAL "NO" CAMPAIGN RALLY YIELDS HIGH TURNOUT [...] (C) Summary: The "No" block successfully mustered a significant public show of support in its November 29 Caracas rally. As many as 100,000 voters attended the final "No" rally before the December 2 constitutional referendum, one of the opposition's biggest crowds in recent history. Univers [...] | 2007-11-30 15:12:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS2263 | VENEZUELA'S CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM: A STEP TOWARDS [...] (C) Summary: The BRV's proposed constitutional reform removes unambiguous constitutional protections from intellectual property rights (IPR). The removal of these protections give the BRV more constitutional flexibility to walk away from its IPR obligations or pass anti-IPR laws that would vi [...] | 2007-11-30 16:35:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | KIPR ETRD VE |
07CARACAS2268 | VENEZUELA: TITLE III OF LIBERTAD ACT [...] (C) In response to REF A tasking, Post sees no evidence that the BRV has undertaken policies or actions to advance democracy, human rights, or fundamental freedoms in Cuba over the past year. On the contrary, President Hugo Chavez is Fidel Castro's closest ally and has repeatedly and publicly [...] | 2007-11-30 20:30:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC CU VE |
07CARACAS2269 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TO SELECT NEW OMBUDSMAN, [...] (C) Summary. The National Assembly (NA) is expected to name a new Human Rights Ombudsman, Attorney General, and Comptroller in the coming weeks. Together these positions make up the "Public Power" branch of government, also known as the Moral Republican Council (CMR). The CMR's Candidate Eva [...] | 2007-11-30 20:41:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV VE |
07CARACAS2270 | THE REFERENDUM -- AND AFTER: WHAT TO WATCH [...] (C) Summary. The December 2 constitutional referendum is proving to be President Chavez's most difficult electoral test since the 2004 recall referendum, but the Venezuelan president and his supporters still enjoy significant electoral advantages. Both the "Yes" and "No" camps are battling t [...] | 2007-11-30 23:13:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM VE |
07CARACAS2271 | REFERENDUM CAMPAIGN UPDATE-NOVEMBER 29-30 [...] (C) Summary: Following the November 29 final, substantial rally of the "No" camp, President Chavez canceled a planned visit to Ecuador. Instead, he prepared for his final "Yes" campaign speech on November 30 rally, while his Zamora Command alleged domestic conspiracies to reject a "Yes" vic [...] | 2007-12-01 15:00:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM VE |
07CARACAS2272 | CHAVEZ ALLEGES USG ELECTION INTERFERENCE; [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez told a mass rally November 29 that his electoral battle to win approval of sweeping proposed constitutional changes in the December 2 referendum is really a struggle against the United States and its opposition "lackeys" in Venezuela. As expected, Chavez has ram [...] | 2007-12-01 18:34:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV VE |
07CARACAS2273 | REFERENDUM ELECTORAL CONDITIONS A POTENTIALLY [...] (C) Summary: While not a main focus of the referendum campaign, widespread concern over electoral conditions remains, and could become a central issue if the opposition, which believes it has a chance to win, refuses to accept a result which has the no vote losing by a sizable margin. The N [...] | 2007-12-01 18:52:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS2274 | CHAVEZ LOSES CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM [...] (C) Summary. The National Electoral Council (CNE) announced at 1:19 a.m. on December 3 that President Chavez and his supporters failed to win public approval for proposed, sweeping changes to the 1999 Constitution. According to the CNE announcement, Venezuelans voted down both blocks of the 6 [...] | 2007-12-03 17:51:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL VE |
07CARACAS2284 | WHY CHAVEZ' CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM FAILED [...] (C) Summary: Chavez's defeat in the December 2 constitutional referendum is a rejection of the aggressive, radical agenda which he tried to impose this year. Chavez's sweeping proposals kept many of his supporters from voting, and lead many to vote against him. They also energized new sourc [...] | 2007-12-04 20:47:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS2290 | A DEFIANT CHAVEZ DECLARES INTENTION TO REVISIT [...] (C) Summary. After appearing more statesmanlike in his December 4 concession speech, President Chavez lashed out at the opposition during a December 5 news conference, calling the "No" camp's electoral win in a December 2 constitutional referendum a "Pyhrric" and "sh-tty" victory. Chavez decl [...] | 2007-12-06 20:40:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE |
07CARACAS2294 | CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM: WINNERS AND LOSERS [...] (C) Summary. Venezuelan democracy is the big winner after voters rejected President Chavez' proposed anti-democratic changes to the 1999 Constitution on December 2. There are still few real checks on Chavez' power, but Chavez will be unable to legally impose much of his desired elements of a [...] | 2007-12-07 14:54:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
07CARACAS2303 | SIFTING THROUGH THE REFERENDUM RUMOR MILL [...] (C) Summary: Since the polls closed on the December 2 constitutional referendum, Caracas has been rife with rampant rumors about the accuracy of the results and Chavez's willingness to quickly accept defeat. While we may never know the real story of events, the opposition has publicly and pr [...] | 2007-12-07 20:29:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS231 | AMBASSADOR'S LUNCH WITH TEODORO PETKOFF [...] (C) In a lunch with the Ambassador January 30, long-time leftist and opposition figure Teodoro Petkoff shared his view of the post-election period. While he believed that Chavez would be in power for some time, Petkoff thought the Venezuelan President's aggressive political agenda was planti [...] | 2007-02-02 20:57:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS2325 | CNE UPDATES REFERENDUM RESULTS AND RE-CERTIFIES [...] (U) National Electoral Council (CNE) President Tibisay Lucena released the "final" results of the December 2 constitutional referendum late on December 7 based on 94 of the returns. She reiterated that both blocks of proposed changes to the 1999 Constitution had been defeated. Although some [...] | 2007-12-11 18:01:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
07CARACAS2327 | JEWISH GROUP PROTESTS POLICE SEARCH OF CARACAS [...] (C) Summary. Venezuelan police searched the Caracas Hebrew Center compound in the early morning of December 2, several hours before polling stations opened for the constitutional referendum. The police had a warrant to search for drugs and weapons; they found nothing and left. The Venezuelan [...] | 2007-12-11 19:09:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV VE |
07CARACAS2330 | PRESSURE MOUNTS ON VENEZUELA'S EXCHANGE CONTROL [...] (C) Summary: The BRV's exchange control system appears to be coming under increasing pressure, as a persistent and large gap between the official and parallel exchange rates makes acquiring dollars at the official rate the best business in town. Contacts note that CADIVI is falling further b [...] | 2007-12-12 14:48:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
07CARACAS235 | CHAVEZ'S SELF-CORONATION; GOES AFTER ELECTRICITY, [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Chavez promulgated the omnibus Enabling Law February 1, an instrument that gives him effectively unlimited power to rule by decree in eleven vaguely-defined areas for the next eighteen months. He then engaged in a rambling four-hour follow-on press conference in whic [...] | 2007-02-02 21:54:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KDEM VE |
07CARACAS2350 | AMBASSADOR MEETS GOVERNOR ROSALES [...] (C) Zulia Governor and unsuccessful presidential candidate Manuel Rosales told the Ambassador on December 13 he was optimistic regarding the opposition's chances to win additional mayoral and governor positions in October 2008, but recognized the opposition faced significant hurdles. He was [...] | 2007-12-14 19:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS2351 | BRV CALLS ANTONINI INDICTMENTS A U.S. PLOT [...] (C) Summary. In a December 12 press release Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro denounced the Justice Department's arrest of three Venezuelans and one Uruguayan as "a U.S. plot to smear progressive governments in South America". Information and Communication Minister William Lara later told a gov [...] | 2007-12-14 19:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV VE |
07CARACAS2355 | PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE -- DECEMBER 17 [...] (C) Summary. In the period leading up to and immediately following President Chavez' failed efforts to reform the 1999 constitution, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) continued to systematically harass and threaten independent media outlets and restrict freedom of expression. The op [...] | 2007-12-17 17:57:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SCUL VE |
07CARACAS2362 | WISHING AWAY THE PARALLEL RATE: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY [...] (U) The National Assembly on December 13 approved a law revising the 2005 law on illicit foreign currency transactions. The new law, which will go into effect pending presidential approval and publication in the Official Gazette, continues to allow the bond transactions on which the parallel [...] | 2007-12-18 15:48:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
07CARACAS2363 | LULA: TOUCH AND GO IN CARACAS TO DISCUSS TRADE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Brazilian President Lula Da Silva, accompanied by approximately 130 Brazilian business leaders paid a five-hour visit to Caracas on December 13, and met with President Chavez and other senior BRV officials. Nine agreements were signed in the areas of health, agriculture, energy, [...] | 2007-12-18 15:59:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD ENRG EINV VE BR |
07CARACAS2364 | OPPOSITION LOOKS TOWARD 2008 [...] (C) Summary: Bolstered by its first electoral victory in nine years, the opposition is preparing for the 2008 state and municipal elections, where it hopes to take back a few governorships and mayoral posts. Mainstream opposition parties Un Nuevo Tiempo (UNT),Primero Justicia (PJ) and Copei [...] | 2007-12-18 16:49:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS2367 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY APPOINTS LOYALISTS AS NEW HUMAN [...] (C) Summary. The National Assembly (NA) appointed new members to the "Public Power" branch of government on December 13. Gabriela Ramirez will serve as Human Rights Ombudsman, Luisa Ortega Diaz as Attorney General, and Clobosbaldo Russian will serve a second seven-year term as Comptroller. [...] | 2007-12-18 22:40:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV VE |
07CARACAS2370 | CHAVEZ RAMBLES ON ANNIVERSARY OF BOLIVAR'S DEATH [...] (C) In a six-hour speech on December 17 from the Pantheon (where Simon Bolivar is entombed),a clearly unhappy President Chavez delivered a particularly rambling discourse in which he attacked in succession "the Empire" (United States),Spain, Colombia and the international press. Speaking on [...] | 2007-12-19 11:26:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL VE |
07CARACAS2371 | AMBASSADOR'S DISCUSSION WITH BARUTA MAYOR HENRIQUE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-19 11:26:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS2380 | NEW BOLIVAR, SAME OLD ECONOMY [...] (C) Summary: The BRV is finalizing plans to change the denomination of its currency. Beginning January 1, 2008, one new bolivar (known during the transition period as the bolivar fuerte, or "strong" bolivar) will be worth 1000 old bolivars. Venezuela's Central Bank has provided what appears [...] | 2007-12-20 19:22:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV VE |
07CARACAS2381 | FOOD VULNERABILITIES: BRV POLICY RESPONSES CRACK [...] (SBU) Summary: Thanks to growing demand, inflation, strict price controls and other retrograde BRV economic policies, rolling shortages of basic food staples persist. To try to cope the BRV has rolled out massive open-air markets known as MegaMercals (frequented primarily by poor Venezuelans),[...] | 2007-12-20 19:58:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR VE |
07CARACAS2386 | PUBLIC REPORTING UNDERESTIMATES RISING HOMICIDE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Venezuelan newspaper, El Universal, reported that 315 violent deaths occurred in Caracas during the first two weeks of December, an average of 15.5 per day. The chief coroner (protect) at the Caracas morgue told Poloff that the actual rate was closer to one per hour. El Un [...] | 2007-12-21 12:57:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM VE |
07CARACAS2388 | CHAVISTA GOVERNOR LEADS PROTEST AT U.S. EMBASSY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Cojedes State Governor Jhonny Yanez Rangel led a small and peaceful protest on December 20 in front of the U.S. Embassy against the arrest of three Venezuelans implicated in the Antonini "valijagate" case. Governor Rangel held a press conference outside the mission and read al [...] | 2007-12-21 19:45:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC PGOV VE |
07CARACAS2398 | CHAVEZ'S PLAN AND URIBE'S BURDEN TO RECOVER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Hugo Chavez outlined a plan designed to secure the release of three hostages of the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) in a December 26 press conference. The plan calls for the participation of international observers from Venezuela and six other countries [...] | 2007-12-27 15:15:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER CO VE |
07CARACAS2403 | FOR NOW: CHAVEZ' POST-REFERENDUM OPTIONS [...] (C) Summary. In the wake of his constitutional referendum defeat, President Chavez declared his intention to continue to pursue changes to the constitution, but he has not specified how or when. Amending the constitution is required to make major political changes, such as the elimination of [...] | 2007-12-27 20:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE |
07CARACAS2404 | BRV HARASSMENT OF POLITICAL OPPONENTS [...] (C) Summary. Despite the Christmas release of retired Army General Francisco Uson from a military prison, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) continues to use the judicial system to intimidate its high profile opponents. The BRV recently initiated hearings against ex-judge Monica Ferna [...] | 2007-12-27 21:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV VE |
07CARACAS241 | JAPANESE AMBASSADOR WORRIED ABOUT INVESTMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with Japanese Ambassador Matsui, at Matsui's request, on February 2 to discuss the current investment environment in Venezuela. Matsui was clearly concerned about the Japan Bank for International Cooperation's (JBIC) one billion USD loan to PDVSA. Matsui opin [...] | 2007-02-05 21:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS2410 | OPERATION TO RECOVER THREE FARC HOSTAGES BEGINS [...] (SBU) President Chavez personally kicked off what he called "phase one" of "Operation Emmanuel" on December 28 to facilitate the release of three FARC hostages. Chavez led the team of international commissioners from Caracas to the Santo Domingo airfield in the western state of Tachira on his [...] | 2007-12-28 22:09:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER CO VE |
07CARACAS242 | FM MADURO CONTINUES ATTACKS ON NEGROPONTE [...] (SBU) For the third time in two weeks, Minister of Foreign Affairs (FM) Nicolas Maduro attacked Deputy Secretary-designate John Negroponte, calling him a "confessed SIPDIS and convicted drug dealer". Maduro launched the latest round of insults February 4 at a Caracas military parade marking [...] | 2007-02-05 21:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE |
07CARACAS243 | VENEZUELA: JUSTICE COWED [...] (C) During the opening of the Supreme Court's 2007 judicial year, Chief Justice Omar Mora laid the legal foundation for President Chavez' "socialist" agenda, and called on the entire judicial system to support Chavez' vision. Most of the initiatives Mora announced to transform the court syst [...] | 2007-02-05 21:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS245 | ROSALES CALLS FOR UNITED FRONT AGAINST [...] (C) Summary. Zulia Governor and de facto opposition leader Manuel Rosales tried to rally opposition to President Chavez and recapture some of his lost momentum in a combative February 1 speech in Caracas. Rosales said that his Un Nuevo Tiempo (UNT) would unite with several other mainstream op [...] | 2007-02-05 22:00:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV VE |
07CARACAS25 | CHAVEZ NAMES JORGE RODRIGUEZ VP AND PEDRO CARRENO [...] (C) Summary. President Hugo Chavez named former National Electoral Council (CNE) President Jorge Rodriguez to replace Jose Vicente Rangel as Vice President and Fifth Republic Movement (MVR) National Assembly deputy Pedro Carreno to replace Jessie Chacon as Interior and Justice Minister on Jan [...] | 2007-01-04 21:33:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE |
07CARACAS256 | CARDINAL PREDICTS FURTHER BRV PRESSURE ON CHURCH [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador had lunch February 1 with Cardinal Jorge Cardenal Urosa Savino at the Papal Nuncio's residence. The Venezuelan Cardinal predicted continued Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) pressure against the Catholic Church, noting that the BRV is trying to wrest control of the [...] | 2007-02-06 21:30:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM VE |
07CARACAS264 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY CEDES POWER TO CHAVEZ [...] (C) On January 31, the Venezuelan National Assembly (AN) passed the Omnibus Enabling Law, which gives unlimited power to legislate to President Chavez for 18 months. With this act, the 100-percent pro-Chavez National Assembly eagerly and completely abdicated its responsibility as an independe [...] | 2007-02-07 21:18:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS302 | AES AND BRV REACH AGREEMENT ON ELECTRICIDAD DE [...] (C) Summary: AES Corporation and the BRV have reached a deal for the sale of Electricidad de Caracas (EDC),Venezuela's largest private energy company. The BRV will pay AES 739 million U.S. dollars for its 82.14 percent interest in EDC and will buyout minority shareholders at the same price [...] | 2007-02-12 20:05:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EINV PGOV VE |
07CARACAS306 | CHAVEZ PREPARING MAJOR CHANGES TO CONSTITUTION [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez intends to make profound "socialist" changes to the 1999 Constitution via a constitutional "reform" process this year. Chavez says this effort will "complement" the executive decree-laws that he can issue over the next 18 months courtesy of the Enabling Law (Ref [...] | 2007-02-13 16:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EINV ECON ENRG VE |
07CARACAS329 | VENEZUELA: EU DIPLOMAT CONCERNED ABOUT RCTV AND [...] (C) EU First Secretary Denis Daniilidis (protect) told Poloff February 7 that the EU Commission is increasingly concerned about President Chavez' push to implement his "socialist revolution." Daniilidis said the EU mission is organizing a trip to Brussels for Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) [...] | 2007-02-15 13:57:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM EU VE |
07CARACAS35 | CHAVEZ PRESSING AHEAD WITH A SINGLE [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez has announced that his intention to form a single "revolutionary" party early in 2007 is firm, although he has not yet specified exactly when or how he plans to form the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). Chavez and other leaders of the ruling Fifth Rep [...] | 2007-01-05 21:31:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE |
07CARACAS357 | PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE [...] (SBU) This press freedom update comes in the wake of President Chavez assuming the power to draft and promulgate decree-laws via an Enabling Law passed January 31 by the National Assembly (reftel b). We expect Chavez and the BRV to continue employing a variety of mechanisms - legal, economic, [...] | 2007-02-16 21:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM SCUL VE |
07CARACAS359 | SHELL'S OIL SECTOR OUTLOOK: WAIT AND SEE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Shell has been monitoring the strategic association migration negotiations closely and will base future investment decisions on their outcomes. It believes the strategic association partners' decision not to engage the BRV and offer opening negotiating positions was a grave erro [...] | 2007-02-16 21:29:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS361 | VENEZUELA: CHAVEZ PICKS NEW CHIEF JUSTICE [...] (C) On February 7, Chavez' hand-picked candidate, Luisa Estella Morales, was elected Chief Justice of the Venezuelan Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ). Morales, who also sits on the President's constitutional reform committee, retained the presidency of the TSJ Constitutional Chamber and, as [...] | 2007-02-20 02:02:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KJUS VE |
07CARACAS363 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICE: "THERE IS NO JUSTICE IN [...] (C) Perhaps the sole remaining opposition-leaning Supreme Court Justice Blanca Rosa Marmol bluntly told Poloff during a February 13 meeting that justice no longer existed in Venezuela, as the BRV had fired, intimidated, or co-opted once independent judges, and packed the judiciary with sympat [...] | 2007-02-21 11:20:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS VE |
07CARACAS38 | CNPC'S VENEZUELAN WOES [...] (C) SUMMARY: CNPC executives stated Sinovensa, the joint venture between PDVSA and CNPC that produces Orimulsion, no longer produces the product on orders of the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum (MEP). CNPC views the situation as an expropriation and has reserved its rights to arbitration. T [...] | 2007-01-08 14:04:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS411 | OIL NATIONALIZATION DECREE RAISES QUESTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Chavez stated on February 26 that the oil nationalization decree required the four strategic associations, the three profit sharing agreements, the Chinese Orimulsion company Orifuels Sinoven S.A. and any other companies "that carry out commercial activities in the Faja [...] | 2007-02-27 16:09:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS423 | ACTION REQUEST: BRV QUERIES ON MILITARY [...] (C) This is an Action Request; See Paragraph 3, and action recommendation in Paragraph 5. 2. (C) BACKGROUND: In May 2006 the Department announced that the BRV was not fully cooperating with the global war on terrorism. As a result, the USG, though the Arms Export Control Policy, "suspende [...] | 2007-02-28 19:25:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PGOV PM PREL VE |
07CARACAS426 | BRV PUBLISHES OIL NATIONALIZATION DECREE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The oil nationalization decree, which was published on February 26 but publicly available on February 27, requires the four strategic associations, the three profit sharing agreements, the Chinese Orimulsion company Orifuels Sinoven S.A. and any related entities "that carry out c [...] | 2007-03-01 16:16:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS446 | HOW, WHY VENEZUELA'S 2007 ENABLING LAW DIFFERS [...] (C) The BRV frequently tries to argue that the Enabling Law (Ley Habilitante) passed January 31 giving Chavez broad power to legislate by decree for the next 18 months is no different from past decree laws. A review of previous Enabling Laws, however, shows that the current law is much broad [...] | 2007-03-02 19:11:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS448 | INSIGHT INTO 3.5 BILLION USD JAPANESE LOAN TO PDVSA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mitsui & Co. Ltd., Marubeni Corporation, and the Japan Bank of International Cooperation (JBIC) announced the closing of an agreement with PDVSA on February 23 for 3.5 billion USD, 15 year loan facilities in exchange for contracts that gave both companies rights to negotiate and [...] | 2007-03-02 20:05:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS472 | STATOIL: VERY ANNOYED VIKINGS [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to Statoil, the three key issues in the strategic association migrations are compensation, governance, and taxes. Statoil believes it has six months to negotiate the terms of the migration. Financing arrangements will not be a serious issue. Senior BRV energy official [...] | 2007-03-05 20:41:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS473 | EU AND DOMESTIC OBSERVERS RELEASE FINAL ELECTION [...] (C) The recently released European Union (EU),Ojo Electoral, and Sumate final observation reports on the 2006 presidential election reinforced criticisms of the preliminary versions (Ref A). All criticized President Chavez for his illegal use of government resources in the campaign, BRV off [...] | 2007-03-05 20:43:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS474 | CHAVEZ: NEGROPONTE A "PROFESSIONAL ASSASSIN" [...] (SBU) President Chavez launched his latest round of anti-American insults March 4 as a special guest on the first edition of former-Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel's new Sunday television talk show, "Jose Vicente, Today." Chavez called the Deputy Secretary a "professional assassin," and ac [...] | 2007-03-05 20:46:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE |
07CARACAS502 | VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT DECLARES THE PRESIDENT [...] (C) The National Assembly criticized the President's upcoming trip to Latin America by unanimously adopting a resolution on March 6 that declares the President "persona non-grata" in Latin America and rejects any attempts by him to thwart regional integration and counter Venezuela. Senior Ve [...] | 2007-03-08 15:01:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS504 | EXXONMOBIL: OUT BY JULY 1? [...] (C) SUMMARY: ExxonMobil (XM) appears to be edging closer to going to arbitration with the BRV over the migration of the Cerro Negro strategic association. However, it still holds out hope that it will be able to sell its stake in the association. XM does not expect to be in Venezuela by July [...] | 2007-03-08 15:35:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS511 | MITSUBISHI GOES AFTER MAJOR REFINERY DEAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Mitsubishi trading company is putting together a USD 1.795 billion financing deal tied to the deep conversion project at the Puerto La Cruz refinery. The company believes the deal will come to fruition in one to two years. Mitsubishi also is involved in the shipment of base [...] | 2007-03-08 20:04:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON JA VE |
07CARACAS52 | CHAVEZ NAMES A "YES" CABINET/PREVIEWS HIS [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez used the televised January 8 swearing-in ceremony for his new cabinet to preview his plans to steer his government toward "socialist" reforms, including expropriations of privatized industries and the revision of Venezuela's commercial code. He also harshly crit [...] | 2007-01-09 21:02:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR VE |
07CARACAS526 | CUBAN OIL CONCERNS RESURFACE [...] (U) Action Requested. Please see paragraph 10. 2. (C) SUMMARY: A senior PDVSA official indicated that the Petrozuata upgrader, which is operated by ConocoPhillips, would be required to process non-Venezuelan crude in the near future. It is not clear where the crude would come from, but [...] | 2007-03-09 16:06:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS528 | BP: TRYING TO KEEP A STIFF UPPER LIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: The USD 250 million in crude that BP and Total received for the Jusepin field was based on capital recovery rather than book or market value. The deadline for negotiations on the strategic associations appears to be June 26 instead of May 1. BP is concerned about support service [...] | 2007-03-09 17:17:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS53 | TO THE MAT: CHAVEZ TAKES ON INSULZA AND CHURCH [...] (C) SUMMARY In a blustery January 8 address to commemorate the swearing-in of his new cabinet (septel),President Chavez again declared that the non-renewal of RCTV's broadcast license was "irreversible." Chavez lashed out at two actors who urged reconsideration of the RCTV decision, OAS S [...] | 2007-01-09 21:06:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM VE |
07CARACAS534 | CHAVEZ AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: DUELING GOSPELS [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez recently renewed his public attacks on the Catholic Church by contrasting the attitude of his "good friend" San Cristobal Bishop Mario Moronta with the "oligarchs" of Venezuela's Episcopal Conference. Chavez highlighted Bishop Moronta's exhortation in a pastora [...] | 2007-03-12 13:54:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM VE |
07CARACAS542 | BRV RESPONDS TO HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] (SBU) BRV officials reacted angrily to the Venezuela section of the March 6 release of the Department's 2006 Human Rights Report, but their response has been overshadowed by other events. BRV Human Rights Ombudsman German Mundarain said the USG lacked the "moral authority" to speak on human r [...] | 2007-03-12 20:49:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL VE |
07CARACAS55 | IRAN - BRV VIEWS ON UNSCR 1737 [...] (C) PolCouns delivered the points on UN Security Council Resolution 1737 regarding Iran's nuclear and missile programs (reftel) to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director for North American and Multilateral Affairs Yaneth Arocha. Uncharacteristically for the Bolivarian Ministry of Foreign Affair [...] | 2007-01-09 21:30:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC KNNP KDGOV VE |
07CARACAS554 | THE FIFTH MOTOR OF THE REVOLUTION SHIFTS INTO [...] (U) Summary: On February 28, Minister of Popular Power for Participation and Social Development David Velazquez and other senior BRV officials announced the BRV's intention to form 32,000 new communal councils (Consejos Comunales) during a crowded inaugural kick-off in Caracas. These new coun [...] | 2007-03-14 13:00:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON VE |
07CARACAS567 | PRO-CHAVEZ PARTIES PUT BRAKES ON FORMATION OF A [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez' efforts to impose the formation of a United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) on pro-Chavez parties has sparked significant, public divisions among his supporters. The main Chavista party, the Fifth Republic Movement (MVR),is on board with the PSUV, but three [...] | 2007-03-15 15:42:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM VE |
07CARACAS569 | VENEZUELA: A NEW TIME LAUNCHES NATIONALLY [...] (C) Zulia Governor and former opposition presidential candidate Manuel Rosales launched his Zulia-based Un Nuevo Tiempo (UNT, or A New Time in English) as a national "alternative opposition" party March 3. The new UNT incorporates Rosales' trusted Zulian advisers and popular Caracas personal [...] | 2007-03-15 19:15:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS584 | THE ANTI-BUSH "SHADOW TOUR": CHAVEZ ON THE [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez visited Argentina, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Jamaica March 8-13 in an obvious, but in our view unsuccessful, effort to upstage the President's March 8-14 visit to Latin America (Refs B-D). Upon his return to Venezuela, an unusually defensive Chavez appeared [...] | 2007-03-19 14:36:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV VE |
07CARACAS587 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SETS AGENDA [...] (C) Despite ceding almost total legislative power to President Chavez in late January, the National Assembly (NA) has incorporated 26 laws into its legislative agenda, in addition to Chavez' planned constitutional amendments. The agenda includes some important, controversial laws, such as th [...] | 2007-03-19 16:49:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS59 | CHAVEZ ANNOUNCES PLANS TO NATIONALIZE STRATEGIC [...] (SBU) President Chavez took the opportunity during the swearing-in ceremony for new ministers on January 8 to announce plans to "nationalize telecommunications and strategic areas such as water, (and) electrical energy." He added, "all that was privatized, nationalize them" and specifically s [...] | 2007-01-09 22:10:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV EPET EINV VE |
07CARACAS591 | STUDENT LEADER SEEKS ASYLUM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Opposition student leader Nixon Moreno emerged from nine months of hiding and petitioned for political asylum March 13 at the Papal Nunciature. The BRV is pursuing criminal charges against Moreno for attempted murder and threatening a policewomen during student clashes at the U [...] | 2007-03-19 21:41:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SCUL SOCI VE |
07CARACAS610 | VENEZUELA SIGNS TREATY WITH TNT ON SHARED GAS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Chavez and Trinidad and Tobago (TNT) Prime Minister Patrick Manning signed an accord to unify the reserves of two offshore gas fields on March 20. The accord is the first unitization agreement signed in the Western Hemisphere. The agreement will permit both countries [...] | 2007-03-22 17:24:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS616 | CHAVEZ BLASTS PRO-CHAVEZ PARTIES FOR NOT DISSOLVING [...] (C) Summary. During a March 18 television broadcast, President Chavez strongly criticized and questioned the political loyalty of three prominent pro-Chavez parties, Podemos, Patria Para Todos, and the Communist Party. He urged them to either dissolve and merge into his proposed United Soci [...] | 2007-03-22 21:09:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM VE |
07CARACAS617 | VENEZUELA: A NEW TIME BUILDING SLOWLY [...] (C) Omar Barboza, Un Nuevo Tiempo (UNT) party President and confidant of Zulia Governor and de facto opposition leader Manuel Rosales, reviewed the UNT's organizational plans for PolCouns and PolOffs on March 20. Only three weeks into its transition as a national party (Ref A),UNT leaders a [...] | 2007-03-22 21:18:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
07CARACAS62 | CHAVEZ' SWEARING IN: "SOCIALISM OR DEATH" [...] (C) Summary. At his carefully choreographed January 10 inauguration ceremony, President Chavez staunchly defended and elaborated on his plans to enact profound "socialist" changes in Venezuela as the embodiment of the "will of the people." The Venezuelan president reiterated his intention to [...] | 2007-01-10 21:20:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM VE |
07CARACAS634 | ACTION REQUEST: CLOSURE OF VMAO [...] (C) This is an Action Request -- see Paragraph 3. 2. (C) Post requested February 28 guidance on the status of the Venezuelan Air Force's purchases currently in the pipeline and regarding the removal of items in the Venezuelan Military Acquisitions Office (VMAO) in Miami, Florida. Based on [...] | 2007-03-26 18:16:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PGOV PM PREL VE |
07CARACAS637 | VENEZUELAN JEWISH COMMUNITY COURTS INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Summary. The Confederation of Jewish Associations in Venezuela (CAIV) attracted considerable international support and media attention for its 40th anniversary celebration on March 24. Argentine First Lady and Senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner electrified the audience of several hu [...] | 2007-03-26 21:43:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL VE |
07CARACAS655 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEMANDS U.S. WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ [...] (C) Summary. The National Assembly passed a March 20 resolution calling for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. and coalition troops from Iraq. This latest resolution comes on the heels of a February 22 resolution condemning U.S. "war preparations" against Iran (reftel). Having conceded to Chav [...] | 2007-03-28 21:29:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV VE IZ |
07CARACAS657 | CHAVEZ USHERS IN NEW WAVE OF LAND EXPROPRIATIONS [...] (U) Summary: During his weekly television program "Alo Presidente" on March 25, Chavez announced the expropriation of 16 estates totaling 330,796 hectares (800,000 acres) of "idle land" in seven Venezuelan states. He added that the armed forces would confiscate and help run an additional 13 [...] | 2007-03-29 14:55:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV VE |
07CARACAS659 | BRV DRAMATICALLY REDUCES EXXONMOBIL'S OPTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The BRV dramatically reduced ExxonMobil's (XM) options in the strategic association migration negotiations by ruling out the sale of XM's stake in Cerro Negro to third parties. The BRV also stated that the only Citgo/PDVSA asset that could be used to compensate XM is the Chalmet [...] | 2007-03-29 18:53:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS66 | BRV CONTINUES PRESSURING OIL COMPANIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The BRV ordered strategic associations to cut production in order to meet OPEC cuts. The order violates the associations' contracts. Continued rhetoric about nationalization raises questions about the development of the Faja. END SUMMARY. ----------------------- ADDING INSU [...] | 2007-01-11 19:28:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS666 | SERVICE COMPANIES: THE NOOSE BEGINS TO TIGHTEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: PDVSA is considering the formation of one or more service companies that will compete directly with the private sector. In addition to this threat, service companies still face payment delays and a myriad of administrative hurdles in dealing with PDVSA. As a result, private sec [...] | 2007-03-30 17:34:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS686 | MEETING WITH BANKING SUPERINTENDENT: MONEY [...] (C) Econoffs met with Banking Superintendent Trino Diaz and Director of Venezuela's Financial Intelligence Unit (UNIF) Francisco Canela March 29 to discuss the sector's outlook and to follow-up several anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism finance demarches (refs A and B). Diaz was confide [...] | 2007-04-02 20:44:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KTFN VE |
07CARACAS688 | PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE [...] (SBU) This press freedom update comes in the wake President Chavez' plans to "deepen" his revolution and implement "21st century socialism" despite increasing international scrutiny. Within this context, the BRV continues its attacks against independent media outlets. We expect Chavez to con [...] | 2007-04-02 21:30:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM SCUL VE |
07CARACAS689 | JAILED OPPOSITION GOVERNOR ESCAPES [...] (SBU) Summary. Eduardo Lapi, former opposition governor of Yaracuy state, reportedly escaped from San Felipe prison late March 31 or early April 1. Lapi, who was identified as a political prisoner in the 2006 Country Report on Human Rights Practices, was arrested in May 2006 on corruption c [...] | 2007-04-02 21:50:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
07CARACAS699 | CHAVEZ TAKES AIM AT UNION AUTONOMY/CTV PREPARES [...] (C) Summary. During his March 24 speech to promote the creation of a single, pro-government party, President Chavez called union autonomy a "capitalist trap" and demanded that unions join his proposed United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) as part of a "workers front." Manuel Cova, Secret [...] | 2007-04-04 17:56:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PHUM PGOV VE |
07CARACAS700 | CNPC'S TAKE ON RECENT BILATERAL AGREEMENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: CNPC was guardedly optimistic about the recent signing of bilateral petroleum agreements between China and Venezuela (Reftel A). CNPC believes the BRV is still open to foreign investment in the hydrocarbon sector. However, the company is frustrated with negotations to migrate Si [...] | 2007-04-04 21:18:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS701 | VENEZUELAN ARMY HOSTS U.S. MILITARY DELEGATION [...] (C) SUMMARY. An eight person U.S. Army delegation attended a March 26-30 Conference of American Armies (CAA) seminar on Disaster Relief in Venezuela, the first U.S. military delegation hosted in-country since 2003. U.S. participants were generally well received. Failure to conduct the exerci [...] | 2007-04-04 21:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PGOV PM PREL VE |
07CARACAS709 | AN - TSJ SHOWDOWN MASKS FIGHT FOR SPOILS, CONTROL, [...] (C) A dispute between the National Assembly (NA) and Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) began in late March when the NA condemned a controversial TSJ Constitutional Chamber decision to modify an article of the Venezuelan tax law and opened an investigation that could lead to the justices' impe [...] | 2007-04-10 16:10:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS71 | CHAVEZ'S WAY AHEAD: WORDS TO DEEDS [...] (C) SUMMARY In the wake of President Chavez's January 10 swearing-in, Post offers the following preliminary assessment of how Chavez intends to unfold his "socialist" project in coming months. Chavez has been foreshadowing most of these moves, and we take him at his word. Untethered by vo [...] | 2007-01-12 11:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM VE |
07CARACAS721 | CONOCOPHILLIPS HANGS TOUGH FOR NOW [...] (C) SUMMARY: ConocoPhillips (CP) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jim Mulva told Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez that CP will turn over operational control of the Petrozuata and Hamaca strategic associations as well as the Corocoro project in the Gulf of Paria on May 1. CP will not contin [...] | 2007-04-11 20:58:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS725 | VENEZUELA: POLITICAL PRISIONER CONDITIONS WORSEN [...] (C) There are indications that the BRV is stepping up its efforts to demean, discourage, and disillusion its political prisoners. Former police commissioners Ivan Simonovis, Lazaro Forero, and Henry Vivas launched a hunger strike April 10 to protest the deplorable conditions in the prison to [...] | 2007-04-12 14:59:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM VE |
07CARACAS733 | ENERGY MINISTER RAMIREZ' MAY 3 SPEECH IN HOUSTON [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see Paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez is scheduled to give a major speech on May 3 at the 2007 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas. The speech will occur two days after PDVSA assumes operational control of the four strat [...] | 2007-04-12 21:23:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS763 | CAPRILES BACK IN COURT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Opposition mayor of Baruta municipality Henrique Capriles Radonski appeared in appeals court April 16, following the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's (BRV) decision to appeal a lower court's ruling to acquit him December 15. The prosecution argued Capriles failed to impede the [...] | 2007-04-17 20:33:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM VE |
07CARACAS766 | CHAVEZ PRESSES RADICAL AGENDA DURING FIFTH [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez exploited the April 11-13 commemorations of the fifth anniversary of the short-lived April 2002 coup to convey some of his most extreme political positions to date, and to buttress "Bolivarian" myths. Specifically, the Venezuelan president ruled out any meaningfu [...] | 2007-04-18 12:46:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM VE |
07CARACAS777 | CHAVEZ PRAISES IRANIAN ASSISTANCE AND DEFENDS [...] (SBU) Summary. President Chavez continues to increase his political support for Iran and facilitate Iran's plans to establish closer relations with the rest of Latin America. Chavez vigorously defended Iran's nuclear ambitions at a recent international women's conference hosted by the Bolivar [...] | 2007-04-18 20:48:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS781 | THE FIRST SOUTH AMERICAN ENERGY SUMMIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Chavez described the First South American Energy Summit (Summit),which was held on Margarita Island on April 17, as a "perfect summit." Chavez ducked a fight with Brazil over ethanol and used the event to showcase his vision of South American integration -- effectively [...] | 2007-04-18 23:09:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON ENRG EPET EINV VE |
07CARACAS789 | VENEZUELA CONDEMNS POSADA CARRILES' RELEASE ON BAIL [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez, Foreign Minister Maduro, and the National Assembly have all condemned a U.S. federal judge's decision to order Luis Posada Carriles' release on bail. They have also reiterated the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's (BRV's) demands that Posada Carriles be extrad [...] | 2007-04-20 21:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER VE |
07CARACAS805 | 2007 VENEZUELA RECALL PROCESS: A PRIMER [...] (SBU) Summary. Venezuela's constitution permits the recall of elected officials through a petition and referendum process. Venezuelans exercised this mechanism most notably in 2004, in seeking to recall President Chavez. Venezuelans continue to use this constitutional authority actively; the [...] | 2007-04-24 12:22:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS812 | POOR TURNOUT AT RCTV SOLIDARITY MARCH [...] (C) Summary. The highly publicized April 21 opposition demonstration to protest the government's decision to revoke independent television station Radio Caracas Television's (RCTV's) broadcasting license on May 28 failed to generate a significant show of public support. The march's coordinato [...] | 2007-04-24 21:04:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM SCUL VE |
07CARACAS820 | CHAVEZ' SINGLE PARTY: BY UNITING, HE DIVIDES [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez is aggressively forging ahead with his proposal to forge a single pro-government party, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). Swearing in over 16,000 red-shirted party promoters on April 19, Chavez announced that a party inscription drive to attract ove [...] | 2007-04-26 15:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
07CARACAS823 | INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS TO BRV: RCTV CLOSURE [...] (C) SUMMARY. As the May 28 deadline for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's (BRV's) closure of independent television station Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) approaches, prominent international organizations, legislative bodies, and local support groups are becoming more vocal. Numerous in [...] | 2007-04-26 19:14:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM SCUL VE |
07CARACAS825 | OIL COMPANIES SIGN "MOU'S" TRANSFERRING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ten foreign oil companies signed documents on April 25 transferring operational control of their respective projects to PDVSA or one of its affiliates. Chevron and ExxonMobil broadly differ in their interpretations of the nature of the documents. The documents do not deal with a [...] | 2007-04-26 20:35:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS83 | BRV RAISES STAKES IN THE FAJA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez announced at a press conference on January 15 that the BRV would enact a law that "nationalized" the four strategic associations in the Faja. Ramirez's comments appeared to confuse the concepts of "control" and "nationalization" to take advantage o [...] | 2007-01-16 15:49:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS833 | CHEVRON PROVIDES MORE DETAILS ON MOU [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chevron believes production at the Hamaca strategic association will decline 30% due to morale issues related to uncertainty among employees. Chevron expects the BRV to adopt a more private sector friendly hydrocarbons policy by 2009 due to production declines and fiscal pressure [...] | 2007-04-27 18:51:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS84 | CANTV'S PRESIDENT DISCUSSES NATIONALIZATION WITH [...] (C) Summary: Econoffs met with CANTV President Gustavo Roosen and senior staff on January 11 to get their take on Chavez, plans to nationalize the Venezuelan telecommunications giant, of which Verizon owns 28.5 percent. Roosen noted that Chavez surprised everyone with the timing of his annou [...] | 2007-01-16 15:56:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECPS ENRG PGOV VE |
07CARACAS843 | POLITICAL PARTIES AND LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS APPEAL [...] (C) Summary. Opposition political parties and judicial NGO Foro Penal capitalized on the presence of regional heads of state at the April 17 Energy Summit to draw attention to President Chavez and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's (BRV's) authoritarian tendencies. Opposition politicians m [...] | 2007-04-30 21:56:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM SCUL VE |
07CARACAS861 | CHAVEZ: WORKERS UNITE - BEHIND ME! [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez blasted pro-government union leaders in televised April 30 and May 1 speeches and appealed directly to workers to foster unity by joining his new United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). Leaders of both the opposition Confederation of Venezuelan Workers (CTV) [...] | 2007-05-03 18:01:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
07CARACAS866 | BRV STEPS UP PROSECUTION AND HARASSMENT OF [...] (C) Summary: Since the five-year commemoration of Chavez' temporary ouster in April 2002, the BRV appears to be taking a harder line against political prisoners. The deplorable prison conditions (Ref A) for ex-police commissioners Ivan Simonovis, Henry Vivas, and Lazaro Forero, and the eight [...] | 2007-05-03 20:06:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM VE |
07CARACAS869 | IMF AND WORLD BANK: SO LONG AND THANKS FOR THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 30, President Chavez announced that Venezuela would withdraw from the IMF and World Bank. The announcement, which followed action taken in March by Venezuela to pay off the last of its IMF and World Bank debt and continued negotiations regarding a Bank of the South, tr [...] | 2007-05-03 22:23:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN VE |
07CARACAS90 | FM MADURO INSULTS NEGROPONTE [...] (U) On January 12, Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro called U.S. National Intelligence Director John Negroponte a "criminal" after Negroponte expressed concern over the state of democracy in Venezuela and Bolivia during a hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Grossly misch [...] | 2007-01-16 22:49:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE |
07CARACAS906 | THE THIRD MOTOR OF CHAVEZ' REVOLUTION: [...] (C) Summary. President Hugo Chavez and his brother Adan Chavez, are leading ambitious Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) efforts to transform the country's educational system from top to bottom. The proposed reforms and a public education "Morality and Enlightenment" campaign are designe [...] | 2007-05-04 20:16:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB SOCI VE |
07CARACAS907 | PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-04 21:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM SCUL VE |
07CARACAS91 | CHAVEZ AND AHMADINEJAD UNITE TO SAVE THE WORLD [...] (U) President of Iran Mohammed Ahmadinejad kicked off a Latin American tour with a short (hours-long) January 13 stop in Caracas to visit with President Chavez. The trip marks Ahmadinejad's second trip to Caracas in less than six months, having also visited with Chavez in September of last y [...] | 2007-01-16 22:49:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM VE |
07CARACAS92 | RCTVQ,S LAST DITCH FIGHT AGAINST BRV CLOSURE [...] (C) Summary: In a January 11 lunch with ChargQ, Polcouns and A/PAO, RCTV President Marcel Granier outlined his plans for a last ditch defense against the closure of RCTV. He believes he has a strong case under both domestic and international law, but doubts the fairness of the former and e [...] | 2007-01-16 22:53:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM VE |
07CARACAS920 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FORMER VP RANGEL - MAY 4 [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador met former Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel May 4 and probed as to how the USG could best initiate a pragmatic, bilateral dialogue with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV). Rangel said President Chavez wants dialogue, but U.S. criticism of BRV policies un [...] | 2007-05-08 15:12:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV VE |
07CARACAS931 | CHAVISTAS USE RECALL REFERENDA TO SETTLE SCORES [...] (C) Summary: In late 2006, most of Venezuela's governors, mayors, and local legislators completed the mid-point of their term, at which point they became vulnerable to being recalled. The National Electoral Council has approved requests to initiate recall proceedings against more than 200 mo [...] | 2007-05-09 21:18:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS949 | MFA LAUNCHES PUBLIC RELATIONS BLITZ ON RCTV [...] (C) SUMMARY. Minister of Popular Power for Foreign Affairs Nicolas Maduro convoked the diplomatic corps May 8 to outline the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's (BRV's) justifications for revoking the broadcasting license of independent media outlet Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) on May 28. Th [...] | 2007-05-11 14:21:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM SCUL VE |
07CARACAS967 | UPDATE ON THE FAJA STRATEGIC ASSOCIATION MIGRATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: International oil companies (IOCs) believe PDVSA's assumption of operational control on May 1 went relatively smoothly. IOCs stated production numbers are holding stable, but the companies believe PDVSA will begin having problems operating the upgraders by the end of the year. A [...] | 2007-05-15 13:12:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON ELAB VE |
07CARACAS968 | PSUV MEMBERSHIP DRIVE STARTS SLOW, PICKS UP WITH [...] (C) Summary. Over one million voters have reportedly joined President Chavez' United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) during the first three weekends of party registration. With only three more weekends left in the PSUV's initial membership drive, the PSUV may fall short of Chavez' outsize [...] | 2007-05-15 13:20:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB PREL VE |
07CARACAS978 | EU PLANS RESPONSE TO RCTV CLOSURE [...] (C) Summary: The international protest against the closure of independent media outlet Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) may be aided if the European Union (EU),which has so far been quiet, adds its voice to the chorus of dissent. Five EU Parliamentarians will visit Venezuela May 16-18 and are [...] | 2007-05-17 18:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM VE |
07CARACAS988 | VENEZUELAN PRODUCTION AND OPERATING TRENDS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Private sector contacts place overall Venezuelan production at 2.1 to 2.3 million barrels a day, down from previous estimates of 2.4 to 2.6. The BRV has lifted OPEC production cuts on the four Faja strategic associations. PDVSA has been unable to find additional drilling rigs d [...] | 2007-05-18 20:34:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS990 | BATTLE OVER RCTV'S CLOSURE HEATS UP [...] (C) Summary. RCTV lost the first of its legal appeals to fend off the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's (BRV's) plans to close the independent broadcaster on May 28. Battlelines are hardening between the BRV and proponents of RCTV and freedom of expression. The BRV is forcing private statio [...] | 2007-05-18 21:01:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM ELAB VE |
07CASABLANCA117 | ELECTIONS WILL NOT AFFECT MOROCCAN ECONOMY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In general, Casablancans feel that Morocco's political parties lack well-defined economic platforms as they go into the final three months before the September parliamentary election. This is due in part to the fact that many parties are old and have no tradition of presenting e [...] | 2007-06-22 16:38:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KDEM MO |
07CASABLANCA118 | ALGERIA WEEK IN CASABLANCA PROMOTES ECONOMIC EXCHANGE, HOPE [...] (SBU) Summary: June 26 to July 1 marks Algeria Week in Casablanca, where Algeria is staging a week-long exhibition to promote business and investment opportunities between Morocco and Algeria. While the attendance of key royal family members and senior GOM officials at a lavish kick-off event [...] | 2007-06-29 15:03:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL EFIN KDEM AG MO |
07CASABLANCA180 | NORTHERN MOROCCO ELECTORATE EXPECTS LITTLE FROM ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: In Al Hoceima, on Morocco's Mediterranean coast, estimates of voter turnout vary. Most believe participation will be low, and will not exceed 50 percent. Those interviewed said they would cast their votes based on family and tribal connections or what a candidate had done for the [...] | 2007-09-06 17:28:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL MO |
07CASABLANCA181 | VOTE BUYING IN HAHA AND OTHER [...] (C) Summary: During a recent visit to three coastal cities and numerous villages south of Casablanca, Poloff and PD FSN discovered a general lack of interest for the upcoming parliamentary elections, despite the fact that campaign season was in full swing. The dearth of enthusiasm was bla [...] | 2007-09-06 19:03:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PGOV PINR PREL KDEM |
07CASABLANCA195 | DEMYSTIFY THE MOROCCO-U.S. FTA TO PROMOTE IT [...] (SBU) Summary: The Morocco-U.S. FTA has brought many successful results, but Moroccan and American companies continue to seek ways to better understand and take advantage of it. While many Moroccans remain uncertain of how and if they can benefit from the FTA, many Americans remain unaware of [...] | 2007-10-03 16:43:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD EFIN MO |
07CASABLANCA207 | CASABLANCA: POST-ELECTION TALK OF THE TOWN [...] (SBU) Summary: Casablanca, with its diverse population, represents a cross-section of Morocco and reactions here to the recent elections and formation of a new government are revealing. While voter turnout across the country was only 37 percent, it was an embarrassing 27 percent in Casablanca. [...] | 2007-10-26 16:30:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PGOV PINR PHUM |
07CASABLANCA208 | CASABLANCA BUSINESS BUZZ: SEVERAL GOOD MINISTERS, FEW EXPECTAT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: CasablancaQs business community finds the selection o ----------------------------- SEVERAL WELL-CHOSEN MINISTERS ----------------------------- 2. (C) Although most Moroccans expressed disappointment with the select 3. (SBU) Salaheddine Mezouar, former Minister of Indust [...] | 2007-10-26 17:20:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KDEM MO |
07CASABLANCA209 | CASABLANCA BUSINESS BUZZ: SEVERAL GOOD MINISTERS, FEW EXPECTAT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: CasablancaQs business community finds the selection o ----------------------------- SEVERAL WELL-CHOSEN MINISTERS ----------------------------- 2. (C) Although most Moroccans expressed disappointment with the select 3. (SBU) Salaheddine Mezouar, former Minister of Indust [...] | 2007-10-26 17:22:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KDEM MO |
07CASABLANCA210 | CASABLANCA BUSINESS BUZZ: SEVERAL GOOD MINISTERS, FEW EXPECTAT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: CasablancaQs business community finds the selection o ----------------------------- SEVERAL WELL-CHOSEN MINISTERS ----------------------------- 2. (C) Although most Moroccans expressed disappointment with the select 3. (SBU) Salaheddine Mezouar, former Minister of Indust [...] | 2007-10-26 17:25:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KDEM MO |
07CASABLANCA211 | CASABLANCA BUSINESS BUZZ: SEVERAL GOOD MINISTERS, FEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Casablanca's business community finds the selection of the government's new ministers encouraging on the whole. Many were particularly pleased with the new Finance Minister, Salaheddine Mezouar, who has a solid reputation as a capable practician. Despite finding many ministers [...] | 2007-10-27 13:54:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KDEM MO |
07CASABLANCA37 | CREATING JOBS OR JUST SKEPTICISM IN MOROCCO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Moukawalati, the GOM's job creation initiative, offers young entrepreneurs loans, guidance and training to start their own businesses, with the ultimate goal of lowering unemployment. The program has been slow to get off the ground since its launch nearly seven months ago. This [...] | 2007-02-27 17:27:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KDEM MO |
07CASABLANCA57 | GENUINE EFFORTS TO CURB COUNTERFEIT IN MOROCCO? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Difficulties encountered over the past year by the Consumer and Brand Protection Group (CBPG),a working group formed by several multi-national consumer goods companies to address the prevalence of counterfeit merchandise in Morocco, highlights the challenge of practically implemen [...] | 2007-03-20 14:19:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KDEM MO |
07CASABLANCA64 | MOROCCANS UNEASY THREE WEEKS AFTER BOMBING [...] (SBU) Summary: Three weeks after an Islamic extremist accidentally blew himself up outside an internet caf in the city's notorious slum, Sidi Moumen, the streets of Casablanca remain tense. Since the evening of March 11, when a 23-year-old unemployed Moroccan detonated a belt of explosives he [...] | 2007-04-04 10:05:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PGOV PINR PREL |
07CASABLANCA66 | BANK CEO SAYS OPTIMISM JUSTIFIED IN MOROCCO [...] (C) SUMMARY: When it comes to Morocco, optimism characterizes the view of Othman Benjelloun, chairman and CEO of BMCE Bank. He attributes Morocco's positive environment to a healthy banking sector, a cooperative-minded Central Bank, and a booming economy. BMCE itself is doing well, and will soo [...] | 2007-04-04 18:11:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KDEM MO |
07CASABLANCA79 | CASABLANCA ON THE MORNING AFTER [...] (C) Summary: Tuesday's events in Casablanca continue to reverberate locally, provoking comment and concern at all levels in the city. The events, as described by police sources here, are now broadly known. Police continue to search for more suspects with possible links to Tuesday's incidents [...] | 2007-04-12 15:10:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PGOV PINR PREL |
07CASABLANCA85 | Varied Reactions to Bombings in Casablanca [...] (SBU) Summary: Nearly six weeks after the first in a series of suicide bombings that shook Casablanca, residents of the city are still grasping for explanations. Finding themselves at a loss for answers, many citizens are reacting to the recent explosions at the U.S. Consulate and privately-ru [...] | 2007-04-27 13:11:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PGOV PINR PREL |
07CHENGDU100 | LOCAL RELIGIOUS FIGURES ON ISLAMIC RESURGENCE IN CHINA'S [...] (C) Summary: During a series of informal discussions in southern Yunnan Province along China's borders with Vietnam and Laos, local Muslim leaders described with pride the resurgence of Islam in their communities. A recently-completed mosque and religious training school in Najiaying has attr [...] | 2007-04-12 06:00:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI PHUM KIRF CH |
07CHENGDU12 | AIDS IN TIBETAN AREAS OF SICHUAN PROVINCE [...] (C) Summary: During a recent conference on "Social Changes and Development in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) and other Tibetan Areas," a researcher from the Sichuan Provincial Ethnic Research Institute said the HIV/AIDS situation in Tibetan areas of Sichuan Province has grown more seriou [...] | 2007-01-11 07:58:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | TBIO EAID ECON PHUM PGOV CH |
07CHENGDU123 | HOMEOWNER ASSOCIATIONS -- A MODEL FOR GRASSROOTS GOVERNANCE [...] (C) Summary: Consulate contacts recently described the role of homeowner associations in rights protection at the local level, referring to them as a central point for democratic reforms in China. The homeowner rights movement in Chengdu, which began in 2004, recently resulted in the establis [...] | 2007-05-10 09:29:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL CH |
07CHENGDU124 | CHINA'S YUNNAN PROVINCE BUILDS OUT TO SOUTHEAST ASIA [...] (C) Summary: Yunnan officials in southwest China see construction of new road, river, and rail links with neighboring ASEAN countries as the key to ending their mountainous and landlocked province's long history of isolation and stimulating economic growth. While provincial authorities disag [...] | 2007-05-15 04:02:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PGOV SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU126 | YUNNAN HOUSE CHURCH CHRISTIANS LEFT ALONE BY GOVERNMENT WHEN [...] (C) Summary: According to two foreign missionaries and a Chinese Christian, the atmosphere for Yunnan house church Christians has improved in recent years and believers are able to worship with little government interference compared to other areas of China, if they are careful to maintain a d [...] | 2007-05-18 06:15:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI SCUL KIRF CH |
07CHENGDU128 | SICHUAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS [...] (C) Summary: Sichuan rights activist Zeng Jianyu was recently sentenced to two years in jail for allegedly "trumped up" charges of business fraud. Zeng was reportedly the first popularly elected deputy to a county-level People's Congress in 1992 and well known for his activism on land, envir [...] | 2007-05-18 07:54:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI SCUL CH |
07CHENGDU13 | HOW "HARMONIOUS" ARE SICHUAN'S TIBETAN AREAS? [...] (C) Summary: Social unrest in Tibetan areas of Sichuan Province was serious in the first half of 2006, according to an ethnic Tibetan researcher from the Tibet Study Institute of Sichuan University. Ten "mass incidents" involving over 800 people principally stemmed from conflicts in caterpill [...] | 2007-01-11 07:59:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU137 | SICHUAN TIBETAN MONASTERIES: TRYING TO GET THE STORY [...] (C) Summary: During recent meetings that were tightly scripted and filmed at five Buddhist monasteries in Tibetan areas of western Sichuan, abbots and local Religious Affairs Bureau officials gave us the party line in response to questions on specific human rights cases and restrictions on rel [...] | 2007-05-31 07:22:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV CH |
07CHENGDU14 | ON THE ROAD THROUGH SICHUAN'S ABA PREFECTURE [...] (C) Summary. During a recent unofficial visit by Congenoff to Sichuan's Aba Prefecture (an ethnic Tibetan area),head monks at two temples complained of heavy-handed oversight by the Religious Affairs Bureau (RAB),and police and military presences were heavy. Although the prefecture seat of [...] | 2007-01-11 08:00:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PHUM SCUL SENV CH |
07CHENGDU142 | MEETINGS CONDEMNING THE DALAI LAMA HELD IN QINGHAI [...] (U) On May 31 Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported that the head of Dungkyab Monastery in Gade County (Chinese: Gande) in Golog Tibetan Prefecture of Qinghai Province was forced to resign for refusing to sign documents condemning the Dalai Lama. The 70-year-old abbot, Khenpo Tsanor reportedly ackn [...] | 2007-06-05 02:52:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV CH |
07CHENGDU143 | SICHUAN RESEARCHER ON CHALLENGES TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT [...] (C) Summary: Sichuan Province, the third largest in China, ranks only tenth in terms of economic development, according to Wang Xiaogang (strictly protect),Deputy Director of the Sichuan Development Research Institute. While the purpose of "Scientific Development" is to bridge the gap betwe [...] | 2007-06-05 07:49:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV CH |
07CHENGDU146 | THE "BALANCES" OF A HARMONIOUS SOCIETY: PERSPECTIVES OF A [...] (C) Summary: In a recent meeting, the Director of the Sichuan Institute of Political Science said the core of the Chinese Government's Harmonious Society guiding philosophy is the balancing of various interests so everyone can enjoy the fruits of development. In addition, Harmonious Society [...] | 2007-06-06 09:20:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SCUL CH |
07CHENGDU148 | SICHUAN RESEARCHER CLAIMS "GREAT IMPROVEMENT" IN CHINA'S [...] (C) Summary: Ruan Zhixiao (strictly protect),a researcher in the Media Research Institution of the Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) said there has been "great improvement" in China's media environment, including the coverage of sensitive topics, but that there are still limits. He [...] | 2007-06-08 09:35:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SCUL PHUM KPAO CH |
07CHENGDU152 | LOCAL ISSUES DRIVE DISTURBANCES IN SOUTHWEST CHINA [...] (C) Summary: Early summer has seen the occurrence of several public disturbances in southwest China. Efforts by authorities to crack down on illegal vendors brought many people onto the streets in Chongqing, and a similar case in Chengdu resulted in the severe beating of a bystander. Although [...] | 2007-06-15 03:18:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU157 | CONVERSATIONS IN NORTHERN TIBET [...] (C) Summary: Consulate Chengdu recently accompanied the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on a project monitoring trip to some of the highest and most remote areas of the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR). The TAR Foreign Affairs Office (FAO) said it valued U.S. NGO pr [...] | 2007-06-25 07:58:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ECON PGOV EAID SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU158 | SOCIAL DISTURBANCES FLARE UP IN TIBETAN AREAS [...] (SBU) Summary: In recent weeks there have been three separate social disturbances in Tibetan areas inside and outside the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR). Accounts of the incidents were originally reported in the international press. Recently, Post was able to confirm and learn more details [...] | 2007-06-25 09:03:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ECON PGOV SOCI SCUL CH |
07CHENGDU159 | BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILES OF TIBET AUTONOMOUS REGION FOREIGN [...] (C) During a recent seven-day road trip through Nagchu Prefecture in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR),Consulate had over 40 hours of "quality" time to dialogue with the TAR Foreign Affairs Office (FAO) official assigned to accompany us to remote field sites. In the course of our trip, in [...] | 2007-06-26 03:46:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL CH |
07CHENGDU161 | CHENGDU PATRIOTIC CHURCH LEADER COOPERATING WITH AMERICAN [...] (C) Summary. A local leader of China's officially-sanctioned Three Selves Patriotic Movement (TSPM) Christian Church and two local American English teachers discussed their cooperation in using expatriate-taught "English camps" and similar programs as a means to introduce local residents to Ch [...] | 2007-06-28 08:58:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SCUL SOCI KIRF CH |
07CHENGDU182 | TWO MORE MASS INCIDENTS IN CHONGQING [...] (C) Summary. Coming hard on the heels of a spate of recent "mass incidents," (reftel),two more demonstrations in Chongqing appear to have involved thousands of people. One was sparked by the unsolved murder of a middle school student, the other by land takings for industrial development. In [...] | 2007-07-13 08:55:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU19 | GAY AND LESBIAN CHENGDU [...] (C) Summary. Although Chengdu has been nicknamed "gay paradise," gays here still face considerable challenges, and official, social, and family pressures are often sufficiently intense to keep many local gays in the closet. The situation of lesbians is even more difficult, perhaps due to high [...] | 2007-01-22 05:46:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI EAID PGOV PHUM SCUL TBIO CH |
07CHENGDU192 | TAKING A STROLL DOWN "TIBET STREET" [...] (C) Summary: A recent visit to "Tibet Street" in the Sichuan provincial capital of Chengdu underscored the neighborhood's role as a magnet for a mostly transient or floating population of ethnic Tibetans, which may number as many as 300,000 during any given year. Some of the area's denizens s [...] | 2007-07-23 02:03:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU195 | TIBETAN LOCAL PARTY SECRETARY SACKED AFTER OUTBREAK OF [...] (C) According to Consulate contacts, west Sichuan Ganzi Prefecture Party Secretary Dorje Rabten was removed from his post following a violent clash on July 13 between two neighboring Tibetan townships (Sumdo and Danba) over caterpillar fungus harvesting rights. The contacts confirmed a July 18 [...] | 2007-07-24 05:40:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU203 | PRESENTING CHENGDU'S COLORFUL FIRST PAKISTANI CONSUL [...] (C) Summary: Recently arrived to assume his duties in Chengdu, Pakistan's first consul general to southwest China may have been picked for his current assignment due to his experience in Burma and military background. The JF-17 fighter aircraft jointly developed and produced by China and Paki [...] | 2007-08-03 01:01:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR MASS PK CH |
07CHENGDU206 | VIOLENCE FLARES ANOTHER YEAR AT LOCAL TIBETAN FESTIVAL [...] (C) Summary. Protests and arrests again marked the opening of a popular festival in Litang in western Sichuan's Ganzi Prefecture, with tensions between ethnic Tibetans and Han Chinese reportedly high. Travelers, local contacts, and the media also report sporadic violent incidents in other ar [...] | 2007-08-03 06:10:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PHUM CH |
07CHENGDU210 | SECURITY FORCES STEP UP PRESENCE IN LITANG FOLLOWING [...] (C) Several local contacts in Litang told us August 6 that People's Armed Police (PAP) personnel are out in force throughout the town and its surrounding county following a protest that occurred August 1 at the annual Litang Horse Race Festival when a Tibetan nomad, Runggye Adak, seized a micro [...] | 2007-08-06 09:36:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM CH |
07CHENGDU219 | TENSIONS SPREADING FROM TIBETAN TOWN OF LITANG?; ANOTHER [...] (C) Summary: Although local officials may be keen for it not to affect the tourist trade, tensions remain high in the town of Litang in the west of China's Sichuan Province following the arrest of Runggye Adak, a Tibetan nomad who publicly called for the return of the Dalai Lama. Roadblocks a [...] | 2007-08-13 05:52:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM CH |
07CHENGDU220 | SICHUAN OFFICIALS RESPOND TO TIBETAN "LITANG AUGUST 1 [...] (C) Summary: Officials in China's Sichuan Province hope the experience and reputation for toughness of newly-appointed local Party Secretary Liu Daoping will lead to a "calm" resolution of recent ethnic Tibetan disturbances in Ganzi prefecture. In addition to Runggye Adak, another individual [...] | 2007-08-14 07:30:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM CH |
07CHENGDU230 | SOUTHWEST CHINA'S TIBETAN AREAS - SIMMERING TENSIONS AND [...] (C) Summary: Ethnic Tibetan areas of Sichuan and Yunnan are under increased security pressure from government authorities in the wake of demonstrations in the town of Litang in western Sichuan's Ganzi Prefecture that were set off by the arrest of a man calling for the return of the Dalai Lama [...] | 2007-09-06 09:26:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI SCUL CH |
07CHENGDU231 | POLITICAL CONTROL INCREASING IN SICHUAN'S GANZI PREFECTURE [...] (C) Summary: Local sources indicate that officials in Sichuan's Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture are implementing new measures directed at affirming the loyalty of government and religious figures in the prefecture following the "August 1 Litang Incident" (reftel). End summary. 2. (C) [...] | 2007-09-07 08:15:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI SCUL CH |
07CHENGDU235 | TRYING TO DISCUSS RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AT TIBET'S TASHILHUNPO [...] (C) Summary: While doing everything possible to dodge our questions during a recent meeting choreographed by the Lhasa Foreign Affairs Office (FAO),a high-ranking monk/official of the Tashilhunpo Monastery in Shigatse did acknowledge that the over decade-long dispute between Chinese authoriti [...] | 2007-09-24 03:58:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU236 | HIV/AIDS AND POLITICAL CONTROLS IN ONE OF TIBET'S MOST [...] (C) Summary: While optimistic their outreach efforts can have a positive impact, Swiss Red Cross representatives in China's Tibetan prefecture of Shigatse believe that a continued overall lack of education and awareness about HIV/AIDS, the spread of prostitution in the wake of increased number [...] | 2007-09-25 08:54:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | KHIV PGOV SOCI ECON CH |
07CHENGDU237 | DETENTION OF TIBETAN STUDENTS IN GANSU; LITANG SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: A Congen contact originally from the area confirmed up to seven ethnic Tibetan boys between the ages of 14-18 were arrested and likely remain in detention in the Ganan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of China's Gansu Province for writing pro-Dalai Lama slogans. According to the cont [...] | 2007-09-25 10:02:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV CH |
07CHENGDU239 | PORTRAIT OF A "HELP TIBET CADRE" [...] (C) Summary: A two-week road trip in remote western areas of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR),throughout which we were closely accompanied by both Tibetan and Han Chinese officials, gave the Consulate a rather unique opportunity to experience firsthand the sometimes tense working dynamic at [...] | 2007-09-27 03:13:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CH |
07CHENGDU243 | EVEREST AND BEYOND -- A RARE GLIMPSE INTO WESTERN TIBET [...] (C) Summary: The remote western areas of China's Tibetan Autonomous Region are a mixture of active military facilities, sensitive religious sites, and vulnerable archeological ruins. The Everest Base Camp, at which a People's Armed Police station was recently added, has become a rather squalid [...] | 2007-10-09 04:29:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR ECON CH |
07CHENGDU247 | CHINA RAMPS UP "PATRIOTIC EDUCATION" OF TIBETANS IN WESTERN [...] (C) Summary: Local contacts confirm Ganzi Prefecture government authorities in China's western Sichuan Province are making an all-out effort to implement a political cleanup of the majority Tibetan area in the wake of public disturbances that occurred during August. "Patriotic education" sess [...] | 2007-10-10 09:56:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM CH |
07CHENGDU252 | ETHNIC TIBETANS REACT TO DALAI LAMA'S GOLD MEDAL [...] (C) Summary: Despite stepped-up security, a number of ethnic Tibetans both inside the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) and in other areas of southwest China reacted to the Dalai Lama's Congressional Gold Medal by praying in monasteries and by setting off firecrackers. Unconfirmed reports indi [...] | 2007-10-19 09:06:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM CH |
07CHENGDU255 | FARMLAND TO FOREST IN SICHUAN: TIME FOR REEVALUATION? [...] (C) Summary. With an uneasy eye on the province's grain supply, Sichuan authorities are taking another look at the province's "Farmland to Forest Conversion" (tui geng huan lin, or FFC) program, originally implemented in 1999. Although authorities claim that the program has brought substantia [...] | 2007-10-25 09:23:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELAB EAGR PGOV SENV SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU269 | ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL STRESSES ON THE RISE IN THREE [...] (C) Summary: The Three Gorges Reservoir area of Chongqing may be under increasing environmental and social strains. Local authorities are devoting increased attention to the problems of landslides and erosion in resettled areas and recently formed a "specialized research group" to study "geol [...] | 2007-11-26 09:14:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR ELAB PGOV SENV SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU274 | KUNMING CHURCH FLOURISHES DESPITE RESTRICTIONS [...] (C) Summary: According to the co-pastors of an officially-registered church in southwest China, while person-to-person proselytizing remains severely restricted, the number of Protestants in the city is growing rapidly. The city of Kunming, including subordinate adjacent counties, has 360 a [...] | 2007-11-30 06:43:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU285 | ENCOUNTER WITH SOUTHWEST CHINA PROPAGANDA OFFICIAL [...] (C) Summary: Openly disparaging of the Communist Party's standard propaganda manual, a young Kunming City propaganda department official in southwest China told us of his hopes to work his way up to a comfortable job in a state enterprise. Among other "pearls of wisdom," the widely available [...] | 2007-12-07 09:44:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CH SOCI |
07CHENGDU286 | KUNMING CATHOLIC NUNS TRY TO REBUILD [...] (C) Summary: According to a nun presiding over a group of ten sisters at the Kunming Sacred Heart Church in southwest China's Yunnan Province, local religious affairs authorities are in general more difficult to work with than their counterparts to the north in Sichuan. The church was able, [...] | 2007-12-07 09:57:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF CH |
07CHENGDU289 | REINCARNATION BEFORE DEATH: MORE COMMON THAN YOU THINK [...] (C) Summary: The Dalai Lama's recent statement that he may choose a successor before his death drew accusations from self-styled protectors of religious orthodoxy in the Chinese Communist Party that the Dalai Lama was breaking with Tibetan tradition. According to Congen's Tibetan Buddhist relig [...] | 2007-12-12 03:39:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU290 | ALONG THE CHINA-BURMA BORDER: WWII, DRUGS, HIV, AND JADE [...] (C) Summary: Common ethnic linkages, villages that hug or even straddle the border, a visa-free regime for local residents, spotty security controls, and corruption appear to facilitate a wide-open atmosphere in areas along China's border with Burma. One stretch of road outside the Chinese po [...] | 2007-12-12 09:08:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PGOV SOCI SNAR CH |
07CHENGDU297 | A PRC SCHOLAR LOOKS AT LHASA'S FLOATING POPULATION [...] (C) Summary: The July 2006 opening of the Qinghai-Tibet railway greatly boosted access to the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) for both tourists and migrant workers, accelerating economic growth and ethnic Han immigration to the TAR. Sichuan University Tibetology Department PhD student Bao Do [...] | 2007-12-20 02:23:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ELAB PHUM SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU298 | THE TAR'S FLOATING POPULATION, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THE [...] (C) Summary: The completion of the Qinghai-Tibet railroad has accelerated the outsider-driven development of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). Numerous official, academic, and other sources indicate that during at its peak the floating population is at least half of Lhasa's permanent reside [...] | 2007-12-20 03:02:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ELAB PHUM SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU30 | SOUTHWEST CHINA LEADERSHIP CHANGES FROM THE "PRINCELING" [...] (C) Summary: Discussing the prospects of key local government leaders, a well-connected Congen contact suggested it is possible Chengdu Party Secretary Li Chuncheng's promotion hopes could be somewhat dented due to real estate-related corruption in the city. New Sichuan Party Secretary Du Qin [...] | 2007-01-31 08:22:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PINR CH |
07CHENGDU300 | CHINA NGO PROJECTS AND STRATEGIES: THE NATURE CONSERVANCY [...] (C) Summary: While the Nature Conservancy (TNC) believes the overall environment for non-governmental organizations to operate in China has been noticeably more difficult during the last few years than during the late 1990's, the increased focus by central and local government authorities on [...] | 2007-12-20 07:43:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV PGOV PHUM SOCI CH |
07CHENGDU31 | SICHUAN PARTY SCHOOL ON IMPLEMENTATION OF "HARMONIOUS [...] (C) Summary: Officials from the Sichuan Province Party School and Organization Department said the Harmonious Society doctrine represents a significant change from the "class struggle"-oriented Marxism that was the former ideological focus of Party member education. While actual implementati [...] | 2007-02-01 07:29:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CH |
07CHENGDU32 | GUIZHOU LACKS RESOURCES TO COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (C) Summary: A women's issues NGO-founder and researcher from the Guizhou Academy of Social Sciences recently told Congenoff that Guizhou Province -- one of China's poorest -- lacks both human and financial resources to fight trafficking in persons. Guizhou faces a serious problem with traff [...] | 2007-02-01 07:41:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KTIP CH |
07CHENGDU33 | ORANGE GROVES AND CORRUPTION ALONG THE YANGTZE [...] (U) This cable contains business sensitive information - please protect accordingly. 2. (C) Summary. During a recent visit by Consul General and Congenoff to Chongqing's Zhongxian County, U.S. investors in a citrus cultivation project described the many trials and tribulations of trying to [...] | 2007-02-01 09:21:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR PGOV SENV CH |
07CHENGDU34 | SOUTHWEST CHINA MUSLIM POPULATION GROWING [...] (SBU) Summary: Poor environmental and living conditions where many Muslims live in China's northwest have contributed to the expansion the Muslim population in the country's southwest provinces. Almost all of Sichuan Province's 200 Imams receive both religious and Arabic language training fro [...] | 2007-02-02 07:04:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF CH |
07CHENGDU35 | CHONGQING ATTORNEY'S FIGHT FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary: During a recent discussion with us on the challenges he faces trying to advocate for the rights of migrant workers, former People's Liberation Army soldier and Chongqing attorney Zhou Litai stressed that economic and political realities are putting the viability of his law firm [...] | 2007-02-02 07:34:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON PGOV PHUM CH |
07CHENGDU43 | SICHUAN SCHOLARS ON HARMONIOUS SOCIETY'S ROLE IN POLITICS, [...] (C) Summary: Scholars from the Sichuan Academy of Social Science described to a visiting EAP Desk Officer how the Harmonious Society "guiding philosophy" is being implemented at the provincial level. The policy plays an important role in democratic experiments at the local level, including r [...] | 2007-02-08 09:04:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI PHUM KIRF CH |
07CHENGDU44 | GUIZHOU'S CATHOLIC CHURCH [...] (C) Summary: The Vatican has approved the upcoming ordination of a new bishop for Guiyang, according to a seminarian at the Guiyang North Catholic Church. While Guiyang has few underground Catholic churches, "patriotic" Catholic leaders in Guizhou Province hope to "unite with" underground [...] | 2007-02-09 06:27:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRD CH |
07CHENGDU58 | GUIZHOU GRASSROOTS NGOS FOCUS ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT [...] (C) Summary: Grassroots NGOs working on rural development in Guizhou Province have identified education of migrant children, health care, and rural governance as three primary areas of focus. One NGO trains teachers and volunteers who serve the needs of hundreds of migrant children in unregis [...] | 2007-02-27 08:57:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID ELAB SOCI SCUL CH |
07CHENGDU77 | URGING TAR FAO DIRECTOR GENERAL TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ON [...] (C) Summary: The Consul General and Beijing Polmincouns urged Director General of the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) Foreign Affairs Office (FAO) Ju Jianhua to provide information on the Chinese investigation of the September 30, 2006 shooting (reftel) of border crossers by Chinese border gu [...] | 2007-03-22 01:36:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID SOCI SCUL CH |
07CHENGDU86 | TAR FAO RESPONSES ON SEPTEMBER 2006 SHOOTING AT NATULA PASS [...] (C) Summary: During a recent Consulate visit to Lhasa, the Director of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) Foreign Affairs Office (FAO) promised to provide us with a written copy of an "official statement" on the September 2006 shooting of a Tibetan nun at the Natula Pass. After our return to [...] | 2007-03-29 08:56:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV CH |
07CHENGDU89 | INDICATIONS OF SOCIAL TENSIONS IN TIBET [...] (C) Summary: During a recent reporting trip to the Tibetan Autonomous Region, Consulate contacts detailed several examples of religious, inter-ethnic, and Tibetan/Han business disputes. While reports of conflicts between government officials and religious believers receive more international [...] | 2007-04-06 06:31:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ECON PGOV SCUL CH |
07CHENGDU90 | TAR OFFICIALS TOUT BENEFITS OF NOMAD RESETTLEMENT PROGRAMS [...] Summary: According to government officials in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR),policies to resettle Tibetan nomads and pastoralists are not only good for the grassland, but are also good for the people because they improve living conditions and access to education and health care. In the [...] | 2007-04-06 06:43:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PHUM PGOV CH |
07CHENGDU91 | VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESETTLED [...] (C) Summary: In the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR),local Poverty Alleviation, Animal Husbandry and Labor Bureaus are responsible for carrying out the job skills and vocational training programs that complement nomadic and pastoral resettlement policies. Officials acknowledge that changing [...] | 2007-04-06 08:28:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PHUM PGOV CH |
07CHENGDU94 | DEMOLITION OF HOUSING CONTINUING AT LARGE TIBETAN MONASTERY [...] (C) Summary: A reincarnate lama from one of Sichuan's largest and fastest growing Tibetan Buddhist monasteries said local authorities are under orders to control and reduce the number of monks and nuns there. The monastery currently houses 5,000 monks and 3,000 nuns, and local work teams are [...] | 2007-04-09 05:42:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV CH |
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