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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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07USUNNEWYORK1027 | UPDATE ON DARFUR PEACEKEEPING DEPLOYMENT NOVEMBER [...] (C) SUMMARY. Key Points: --US DPKO Under Secretary General Guehenno met with Sudanese Major General Maghzoub on November 11th in Addis Ababa in an effort to find a way forward with UNAMID deployments. Guehenno briefed the Security Council on November 14 on the details of his meetings. -- [...] | 2007-11-15 21:55:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PGOV PREL SU UNC UN KPKO |
07USUNNEWYORK1029 | UN - STRENGTHENING DPA - RECENT DEVELOPMENTS [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) During the course of Fifth Committee deliberations this past week, Mission Experts have been approached by a number of their counterparts in other Missions, including our friends and allies e.g., UK, Germany, Japan and Austral [...] | 2007-11-15 22:48:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PREL UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1032 | UNSC REFORM: PLENARY DEBATE HIGHLIGHTS [...] (U) Summary. During the annual UNGA plenary debate on UNSC reform, held November 12-14, only Germany expressed continued support for the original G-4 (Germany, Japan, Brazil, and India) proposal, while India unilaterally proposed several new elements for expansion and accused the UNSC of mul [...] | 2007-11-16 16:36:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KUNR |
07USUNNEWYORK1034 | NEW UN ROLE IN IRAQ [...] (C) Amb Khalilzad met November 9 with UK national Andrew Gilmour, currently deputy director for political, peacekeeping and humanitarian affairs for SYG Ban's office. Gilmour is transferring shortly to UNAMI to work as senior political adviser to SRSG Steffan de Mistura. He sought the meetin [...] | 2007-11-16 20:23:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IZ |
07USUNNEWYORK104 | UN CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-07 21:30:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EU SENV UNEP |
07USUNNEWYORK1041 | FURTHER ON SOMALI PIRACY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-16 22:18:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | SO PGOV IMO KCRM UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK1046 | LEBANON: SYG BRIEFS ON VISIT TO BEIRUT [...] (C) During a meeting with Amb Khalilzad on November 19 (other issues covered septel),SYG Ban Ki-Moon said that he had emphasized during his November 15-16 visit to Beirut that Lebanon must hold presidential elections on time to elect a candidate "broadly acceptable" to all Lebanese. Ban said [...] | 2007-11-19 21:59:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC SY IS LE |
07USUNNEWYORK1047 | BURMA: SYG SAYS CHINA NOW WHOLEHEARTEDLY SUPPORTS [...] (C) During a November 19 meeting with Amb Khalilzad (other issues covered septel),SYG Ban Ki-Moon professed uncertainty about his Special Advisor Ibrahim Gambari's participation in the East Asian and ASEAN Summits. Ban reported that although the Singaporean Foreign Minister had initially aske [...] | 2007-11-20 13:43:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PHUM BM |
07USUNNEWYORK1052 | DARFUR: SYG BAN SAYS BRAZIL AND SPAIN WILL [...] (C) During a November 19 meeting with Amb Khalilzad (discussion of Lebanon and Burma covered in septels),SYG Ban Ki-Moon noted that UN Special Envoy Eliason would brief the Security Council next week on developments in Sudan. In the meantime, the SYG noted that he was somewhat encouraged by [...] | 2007-11-20 21:01:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KPKO SU |
07USUNNEWYORK1053 | LEBANON: SYG BAN PESSIMISTIC ON ELECTION SOLUTION [...] (C) During a luncheon with UNSC PermReps on November 20, SYG Ban Ki-Moon reported that he had telephoned Lebanon's Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri at about 12:15 p.m. EST that day to urge him to work towards a solution in Lebanon's upcoming presidential election. Berri claimed he had not yet m [...] | 2007-11-20 21:37:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KDEM UNSC SY LE |
07USUNNEWYORK1054 | BAN DISAPPOINTED ASEAN BLOCKS GAMBARI [...] (C) At his monthly lunch with the PermReps of the Security Council, SYG Ban expressed his strong disappointment in the decision to cancel the presentation by his Special Adviser on Burma, Ibrahim Gambari, to the East Asian and ASEAN Summits. Prompted by Amb Khalilzad, Ban also reported Speci [...] | 2007-11-20 21:58:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC BM |
07USUNNEWYORK1055 | UN/SUDAN SANCTIONS: LONDON CONSIDERING [...] (C) This is an action request, please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) Prompted by Qatar's stated interest in pursuing Security Council sanctions on JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim and SLM faction leader Abdelwahid el-Nur for their failure to attend the UN/AU-led Darfur mediation talks in Sirte, Libya, as [...] | 2007-11-21 20:05:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC ETTC SU PGOV |
07USUNNEWYORK1058 | UN/SUDAN SANCTIONS: CHINA, RUSSIA, INDONESIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Sudan Sanctions Committee met on October 9, October 30, and November 7 to discuss the recommendations on improving the sanctions regime contained in the Panel of Experts' September report, which included an embargo on the sale of aircraft to the GOS and targeted sanctions on [...] | 2007-11-21 20:54:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC ETTC SU PGOV |
07USUNNEWYORK1061 | UPDATE ON DARFUR PEACEKEEPING DEPLOYMENT FOR 21 [...] (C) SUMMARY. Key Points: --Deployment Update: Chinese officials informed UN Under Secretary General Guehenno that the first elements of 135 SIPDIS engineers would deploy on or about 24 November as part of the Heavy Support Package (HSP). DPKO Force Generation Services (FGS) expects that w [...] | 2007-11-21 21:06:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PGOV PREL SU UNC UNAUS KPKO |
07USUNNEWYORK1065 | P-5 DISCUSS SUDAN, BURMA [...] SUMMARY: The P-5 PermReps met on November 21 to discuss Sudan and Burma. On Sudan, the P-3 PermReps advocated for additional pressure on the Sudanese to accept the UNAMID force composition. Ambassador Khalilzad said the challenge was determining how to press and/or incentivize the Sudanese a [...] | 2007-11-23 16:44:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BU SU |
07USUNNEWYORK1067 | NEXT STEPS ON PIRACY OFF SOMALIA [...] (U) This is an action request. See paras 2-3. 2. (C) Per reftels, at the request of Ambassador Khalilzad, Secretary General Ban transmitted to the Security Council SIPDIS letters from the International Maritime Organization (IMO) requesting the Council's further engagement to help combat [...] | 2007-11-26 20:46:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | SO PGOV IMO KCRM UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK1070 | GA ADOPTS RESOLUTION ON INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL [...] (U) The General Assembly, November 26, adopted a draft resolution "Report of the International Criminal Court" (A/62/L.13) without a vote. The resolution was introduced by the Permanent Representative of the Netherlands who announced that in addition to the 99 co-sponsors listed in the draft, [...] | 2007-11-27 20:19:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA ICC |
07USUNNEWYORK108 | UN ASKS USG TO RECONSIDER ITS REQUIREMENT THAT [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: Representatives from the UN's Office of Legal Affairs (OLA),the UN Travel and Transportation Service, and UNDP met with representatives of USUN's Host Country and Legal sections on January 30 to express the UN's serious concerns regarding the USG determinati [...] | 2007-02-08 19:28:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS OFDP UN AF |
07USUNNEWYORK1081 | SYG BAN TALKS TOUGH ON SUDAN, PRAISES ANNAPOLIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a one-on-one meeting with Amb. Khalilzad on Nov. 28, SYG Ban reacted positively to the Secretary's planned CPA ministerial (reftel) and said he would be more vocal in criticizing Sudanese President Bashir if Sudan did not improve its cooperation on implementation of the Darfur [...] | 2007-11-28 17:40:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC SU SR AA |
07USUNNEWYORK1083 | UN REITERATES PLEA FOR U.S. HELP TO RELEASE [...] BEGIN SUMMARY: (C) On November 21, UN lawyers pressed USUN legal officers to respond to the UN's 2005 request for the United States to secure the release of funds the Japanese government donated to the UN in 2005 for humanitarian projects in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (refs). The Bank of [...] | 2007-11-28 20:33:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | OFDP UN WE JA |
07USUNNEWYORK1084 | UN ON BURMA GROUP OF FRIENDS (CORE GROUP) [...] (C) Summary: USUN consulted November 27 with Gambari's special assistant Erwan Pouchous on the prospective formation of a Core Group on Burma. Pouchous said Gambari now believes the group should function as a "Group of Friends" and its goal should be to build international consensus on next [...] | 2007-11-28 22:46:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC BM |
07USUNNEWYORK1092 | UPDATE ON DARFUR PEACEKEEPING DEPLOYMENT FOR 29 [...] (C) SUMMARY. Key Points: --Deployment Update: China has deployed the 135 engineers first elements of its engineer company that is part of the Heavy Support Package (HSP). DPKO Force Generation Services (FGS) expects that with the exception of the Bangladeshi Formed Police Unit (FPU),this wi [...] | 2007-11-29 22:24:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PGOV PREL SU UNC UN KPKO |
07USUNNEWYORK1093 | SOLANA TELLS BAN EU WILL MAKE STRONG POLITICAL [...] (C) On November 28, Ambassador Khalilzad met with the EU's Javier Solana to discuss Kosovo. Solana reported that he had met earlier in the day with SYG Ban Ki-Moon to tell him that when the EU holds its summit on December 14, he will push for a strong political statement that "the EU is ready [...] | 2007-11-29 23:29:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KV YI UNMIK |
07USUNNEWYORK1104 | UN EXPLAINS STAFFING DECISIONS AT INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Per ref A, Poloff spoke with UN Department of Political Affairs (DPA) Deputy Division Director for Europe and Latin America Martha Doggett on November 29 about staffing at the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). Poloff emphasized U.S. interest in ensuring the e [...] | 2007-11-30 20:54:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KUNR GT |
07USUNNEWYORK1108 | UNGA: OPPOSING UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH ANTI-ISRAEL [...] (C) This is an action request. See paragraphs 2-3. 2. (C) Per reftel, each year USUN works to reduce support from member states for three UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolutions that extend the mandates of three bodies in the UN that are biased against Israel. On November 26, the UNGA's Fo [...] | 2007-11-30 22:34:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL KWBG PHUM PREF UNGA IS |
07USUNNEWYORK1116 | LEBANON: BRAMMERTZ DEPARTS UNIIIC WITHOUT THE [...] (C) Summary. During a bilateral meeting with Amb Khalilzad on December 3, departing head of the UN International Independent Investigation Commission (UNIIIC) Serge Brammertz revealed that while he hoped to identify the "physical perpetrators" of the Hariri assassination "within a few months," [...] | 2007-12-05 00:07:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
07USUNNEWYORK1117 | GAMBARI BRIEFS KHALILZAD ON BURMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: During Ambassador Khalilzad's meeting with UN Special Advisor on Burma Ibrahim Gambari December 4, Gambari identified two "sticking points" that were slowing the dialogue: the regime's resistance to Aung Sun Suu Kyi's request to address the subject of the draft constitution and [...] | 2007-12-05 00:22:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM |
07USUNNEWYORK1119 | SE NATSIOS URGES ENHANCED PRC ENGAGEMENT ON CPA, [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a November 26 meeting with Chinese PermRep Guangya Wang, U.S. Special Envoy for the Sudan Andrew Natsios urged the Chinese to be more proactive in encouraging Sudan's Government of National Unity to demonstrate flexibility on implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreem [...] | 2007-12-05 15:14:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SU MOPS |
07USUNNEWYORK1120 | UN SPECIAL ENVOY OUTLINES NEXT STEPS ON DARFUR [...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S. Special Envoy for the Sudan Andrew Natsios told UN Special Envoy Jan Eliasson November 26 that the UN-AU, rather than the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS),must take the lead in promoting a convergence of the Darfur rebel positions. Natsios warned that hard-line SPLM elem [...] | 2007-12-05 15:19:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SU MOPS |
07USUNNEWYORK1121 | SYG BAN SUPPORTS KOSOVO END GOAL BUT WANTS TO [...] (C) SYG Ban told Ambassador Khalilzad in a tete-a-tete breakfast on December 5 that he supports the end goal of coordinated independence for Kosovo, is willing to reconfigure UNMIK and will not vitiate a coordinated declaration of independence by Kosovo. However, Ban said he hopes he is not p [...] | 2007-12-05 18:03:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL UNMIK KV YI |
07USUNNEWYORK1128 | SYG BAN ON AFGHANISTAN, LEBANON, SUDAN, BURMA AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a one-on-one meeting with AMB Khalilzad on December 5, SYG Ban said he is ready to accommodate the U.S. on Paddy Ashdown's candidacy as SRSG for Afghanistan, but could not accept a dual UN-NATO appointment. Ban agreed to issue a statement urging the Lebanese to move forward wit [...] | 2007-12-05 21:18:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SU MOPS |
07USUNNEWYORK1132 | UPDATE ON DARFUR PEACEKEEPING DEPLOYMENT FOR 6 [...] (C) SUMMARY: --Deployment Update: China Engineers and Bangladeshi Formed Police Unit (FPU),remain the only HSP units arriving in calendar year 2007. --TCC Update: Still no firm pledge of helicopters or transport units. --Contracting Issues: UN plans to assume Operations and Maintenanc [...] | 2007-12-06 22:45:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PGOV PREL SU UNSC KPKO MOPS |
07USUNNEWYORK1133 | LEBANON: BELLEMARE WILL EMULATE BRAMMERTZ'S [...] (C) Summary. During a meeting with Amb Wolff on December 5, incoming UNIIIC head and Prosecutor-designate of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon Daniel Bellemare recognized the sense of frustration among Council members about not receiving much information on the state of UNIIIC's investigation. [...] | 2007-12-07 14:50:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
07USUNNEWYORK1137 | U/S ROOD BRIEFS UN SECRETARY-GENERAL ON IRAN/NIE [...] (C) Summary: On December 6, Undersecretary John Rood briefed Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the recent National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran. Rood stressed that the NIE does not diminish USG concerns regarding Iran,s nuclear weapons program and, if anything, heightens our concerns. T [...] | 2007-12-07 19:52:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM IR MNUC KNNP |
07USUNNEWYORK1138 | MAJOR DONORS TO LEBANON SPECIAL TRIBUNAL DECIDE ON [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY: In the UN's second meeting with major donors and potential donors to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon ("Tribunal") on December 5 (reftel),UN Under-Secretary for Legal Affairs Nicolas Michel announced that the UN and the Dutch had initialed the text of a Headquarters Agree [...] | 2007-12-07 20:44:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
07USUNNEWYORK114 | SECURITY COUNCIL EXPANSION: WIDE DIFFERENCES [...] (SBU) Summary: The General Assembly's Open Ended Working Group on Security Council expansion and reform, meeting for the first time this year, accepted GA President Khalifa's suggestion to proceed via five separate consultations on "key issues" related to Council reform. Facilitators will beg [...] | 2007-02-09 19:37:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK1152 | SERBIAN FM STICKS TO CALLING FOR MORE NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) Summary: On December 7, Serbian FM Vuk Jeremic told Ambassador Wolff that Belgrade is happy with the work of the Troika, but criticized what he said were unhelpful U.S. statements during the process about independence for Kosovo. Jeremic said Belgrade wants to continue negotiations with [...] | 2007-12-11 21:12:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK KV YI UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK1154 | UN REPORTS PROGRESS WITH GOS ON UNAMID DEPLOYMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: SYG Deputy Chief of Staff Kim Won Soo and DPKO Darfur Planning Director Mike Gaoutte told AMB Wolcott on December 10 that the UN and the Government of the Sudan (GOS) made progress on resolving outstanding UNAMID deployment issues during a December 8 meeting in Lisbon. According t [...] | 2007-12-11 22:10:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SU MOPS |
07USUNNEWYORK1159 | MNF RESOLUTION: POSITIVE REACTION TO US/UK TEXT [...] (C) On December 12, the Security Council met at experts level to discuss the draft UK/US resolution extending for 2008 the mandates of the Multinational Force in Iraq (MNF-I),the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI) and the International Advisory and Monitoring Board (IAMB). Significantly, no del [...] | 2007-12-13 00:56:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IZ |
07USUNNEWYORK1160 | USE OF RECIPROCITY IN THE UN CONTEXT [...] (C) The Permanent Mission of Eritrea to the United Nations has been seeking to sell its current office space in New York and use the proceeds of sale to purchase alternate, smaller office premises along with a new official residence. The Department denied Eritrea's requests of February 2003, [...] | 2007-12-13 13:51:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | OFDP UN ER |
07USUNNEWYORK1166 | UPDATE ON DARFUR PEACEKEEPING DEPLOYMENT FOR 13 [...] (C) SUMMARY: -- HSP Deployment update: Equipment for the Chinese engineering unit is still in transit. Bangladesh and Nigeria have not yet provided a load list from which the UN can contract air movement. The UN is conducting a PDV with Pakistan this week. Egypt has submitted a load list and [...] | 2007-12-13 22:48:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PGOV PREL SU UNSC KPKO MOPS |
07USUNNEWYORK1167 | IRAQI PERMREP PROPOSES CHANGES TO MNF UNSCR [...] (C) Summary and Action Request: Upon receipt of revised text from Washington (ref e-mail),Amb Khalilzad met with Iraqi PermRep Bayati December 13 to provide him with the UK/US revision to the resolution to extend through 2008 the authorities for MNF-I, DFI, and the IAMB (reftels). For his [...] | 2007-12-14 00:11:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IZ |
07USUNNEWYORK1176 | UN: UNAMID WILL BE AMIS IN BLUE BERETS IN FIRST [...] (C) SUMMARY: UN A/SYG Edmond Mulet told the Security Council on December 13 that UN-GOS meetings in Lisbon and Khartoum had resulted in the release of UNAMID communications equipment impounded at al-Fasher airport, an agreement from the GOS to accept helicopters from any country approved by th [...] | 2007-12-14 23:17:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SU MOPS |
07USUNNEWYORK1186 | SOUTH AFRICA CRITICIZES 1540 TO UK EXPERT [...] (C) Begin Summary: Nick Low, Head of the Nuclear Issues Section in the United Kingdom's Counter Proliferation Department, recently discussed issues relating to resolution 1540 (2004) with Abdul Minty, Deputy Director General for non-proliferation issues in South Africa's Department of Foreig [...] | 2007-12-19 21:05:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK1190 | UN/LIBERIA SANCTIONS: SECURITY COUNCIL REVIEWS [...] (C) Per resolution 1731 (2006),the UN Security Council reviewed Liberia sanctions during a closed meeting on December 14. Qatari PermRep and Chairman of the Liberia Sanctions Committee Nassir al-Nasser delivered a summary of Committee discussions and the views of the Liberia Panel of Experts [...] | 2007-12-20 16:09:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC UNSC PGOV LI |
07USUNNEWYORK1191 | UN/SUDAN SANCTIONS: SECURITY COUNCIL MEMBERS [...] (C) On December 7 Italian PermRep and Chairman of the Sudan Sanctions Committee Marcello Spatafora reported to the Security Council on the Committee's discussion of the Sudan Panel of Experts, October report, which examined the implementation of the sanctions regime over the past year. The Cha [...] | 2007-12-20 16:12:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC ETTC SU PGOV |
07USUNNEWYORK1193 | UNGA: REPORT ON AFRICAN DELEGATIONS AT THE 62ND GA [...] (SBU) Gerald Scott is again serving as Senior Area Advisor for Africa at USUN during the regular session of the General Assembly. These are his personal reflections on African participation as the regular session of the 62nd GA draws to a close. (Note that while in the UN context the African [...] | 2007-12-20 18:02:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINR PINS ECON XW XY ZF ZU |
07USUNNEWYORK12 | HOLOCAUST DENIAL RESOLUTION STRATEGY [...] (C) Now that the Security Council has adopted resolution 1737 regarding Iran's nuclear program, USUN has taken stock of the possibilities for introducing a resolution condemning Iran's denial of the holocaust (reftels). In discussions with Israel, Germany and the UK of options for General Ass [...] | 2007-01-10 19:24:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNGA IR IS GM EUN |
07USUNNEWYORK1200 | UPDATE ON DARFUR PEACEKEEPING DEPLOYMENT FOR 20 [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 9. 2. (C) SUMMARY: -- HSP Deployment Update: Equipment for the Chinese engineering unit is still in transit; Bangladesh and Nigeria have not yet provided a load list from which the UN can contract air movement. The UN concluded a pre-d [...] | 2007-12-20 21:12:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PGOV PREL SU UNSC KPKO MOPS |
07USUNNEWYORK1204 | KOSTUNICA: SERBIA WILL "DO MUCH MORE" THAN DECLINE [...] (C) Summary: On the eve of the Security Council's session on Kosovo (reported septel) Serbian Prime Minister Kostunica offered Ambassador Khalilzad a familiar mix of legalisms and ethnic nationalism in arguing against a non-negotiated solution to Kosovo's status. Kostunica said Serbia is prep [...] | 2007-12-21 18:48:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC UNMIK KV YI |
07USUNNEWYORK1209 | 62ND UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC [...] (U) This cable was prepared by Ambassador Joan Plaisted, who served as Senior Area Adviser for East Asia and the Pacific to the 62nd United Nations General Assembly. 2. (U) Support from East Asian and Pacific Island (EAP) countries was essential for achieving U.S. objectives in this 62nd UN [...] | 2007-12-26 16:13:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | BP BX CB CH ECON FJ FM ID JA KR KS LA MG |
07USUNNEWYORK1210 | UN: 62ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY SESSION: SOUTH ASIA WRAP [...] (U) Joe Melrose served as the Senior Area Advisor for the 62nd UN General Assembly for South and Central Asia. The following is his summary of the UNGA as it pertained to South and Central Asia. The South and Central Asian states did not provide the drama of some other regions or even of [...] | 2007-12-26 16:35:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AF BG CE IN KG KZ NP PHUM PK PREL TI TX |
07USUNNEWYORK1218 | UNGA 62: DEALING WITH WESTERN EUROPE [...] (U) Robert Smolik served as the Senior Area Adviser for Western Europe during the main session of the 62nd UN General Assembly. The following is his summary of the UNGA as it pertained to the region. 2. (C) Throughout this 62d UN General Assembly our EU partners have not always proven effec [...] | 2007-12-27 12:58:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNGA US XG XH XT ZB |
07USUNNEWYORK122 | SE AHTISAARI AND AMBASSADOR WOLFF STRATEGIZE ON [...] (C) Summary: In a February 8 meeting Special Envoy Ahtisaari and Acting Permrep Wolff discussed the way ahead on the Kosovo status process including taking Ahtisaari's package to the Security Council and work that will follow. Wolff explained that the Russians were continuing to play for ti [...] | 2007-02-12 17:20:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
07USUNNEWYORK1221 | UPDATE ON DARFUR PEACEKEEPING DEPLOYMENT FOR 27 [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 3, 6 and 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY: --Deployment Update: Chinese Engineers and Bangladeshi Formed Police Unit (FPU) are the only Heavy Support Package units arriving in calendar year 2007. UN DPKO expects the remainder of the HSP units [...] | 2007-12-28 13:25:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PGOV UNSC AF SU |
07USUNNEWYORK1225 | USUN VIEWS ON SECURITY COUNCIL REFORM [...] (C) Summary and comment. With inter-governmental negotiations on Security Council reform set to begin in 2008, a serious debate has begun on Council expansion. We are closer than we have been in several decades to the prospect that a formal proposal for expansion could be put to a vote. We d [...] | 2007-12-29 02:22:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR UNSC JA BR IN GE |
07USUNNEWYORK125 | AMBASSADOR WALLACE MEETS WITH UNFPA EXECUTIVE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-12 22:55:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KFPC KN KNNP KUNR PINR PREL UNDP UNFPA |
07USUNNEWYORK134 | DPKO U/SYG GUEHENNO BLAMES SLOW DARFUR PROGRESS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. Assistant-Secretary Silverberg met with United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) Under-Secretary-General (SYG) Guehenno on February 8 to discuss Department concerns on Darfur progress, including candidates for Special Representative and Force Commander for the h [...] | 2007-02-15 21:04:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU UNSC KPKO |
07USUNNEWYORK144 | AMBASSADOR WOLFF RAISES HIZBALLAH RE-ARMAMENT WITH [...] (C) Summary. During a meeting with UN Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Marie SIPDIS Guehenno on February 20, Ambassador Wolff and IO A/S Silverberg raised strong USG concerns of arms smuggling into Lebanon and claims by Hizballah SYG Nasrallah that his organization [...] | 2007-02-21 19:01:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC KPKO IS SY LE |
07USUNNEWYORK149 | A/S SILVERBERG'S MEETING WITH SLOVAK FM KUBIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a February 20 meeting with Slovak FM Jan Kubis, IO A/S Silverberg and Acting Permrep Wolff advised FM Jan Kubis that the U.S. would not look favorably on any Slovak action that undermined UN Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari's proposals on Kosovo in the Security Council. Kubi [...] | 2007-02-22 23:33:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER UNSC SU KPKO |
07USUNNEWYORK15 | SE NATSIOS' MEETING WITH JAN ELIASSON [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a January 5 meeting with Presidential Special Envoy Andrew Natsios, UN Special Envoy Jan Eliasson said his immediate priorities for addressing the Darfur crisis were reducing the ongoing violence and finding a way to restart the political process. Natsios listed actions by [...] | 2007-01-11 22:05:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER UNSC SU KPKO |
07USUNNEWYORK152 | UN DEMOCRACY FUND: ALLEGATIONS OF WASTE AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. As the UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF) Office claims to have commenced disbursements of donors' funds to projects overseas, USUN has made repeated requests for transparent accounting and reports on project management. We have not yet received an adequate response. In the meantime, a [...] | 2007-02-26 14:20:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL |
07USUNNEWYORK156 | DARFUR: USG AND UN GET READY TO TEST BASHIR [...] (C) SUMMARY. A/S Silverberg expressed on February 20 to UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Guehenno U.S. support for UN candidates for leadership positions in the Darfur hybrid operation. The A/S also pushed for deployment of advance elements of the Heavy Support Package (HSP) in ord [...] | 2007-02-27 23:45:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL SU UNSC KPKO |
07USUNNEWYORK159 | UN/RWANDA SANCTIONS: RWANDA SEEKS US SUPPORT FOR [...] (U) This is a guidance request, please see paragraph 7. 2. (C) USUN Sanctions Unit Chief was approached by Rwandan First Counselor Nicholas Shalita on February 23 to request that the United States support a new resolution to modify the arms embargo on Rwanda. The Rwandans are consulting wit [...] | 2007-02-28 19:18:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC ETTC RW |
07USUNNEWYORK162 | UNSC CONDEMNS TERRORIST BOMBINGS IN IRAN, LEBANON [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 7. 2. (C) Summary and comment. The UN Security Council approved a press statement condemning two bus bombings in Lebanon on February 13, another press statement condemning the bombing of a bus carrying Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) [...] | 2007-03-01 15:42:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC LE IR |
07USUNNEWYORK17 | NEW YORK UPDATE ON BURMA UNSCR [...] (U) USUN placed the revised text of the draft Burma UNSCR (ref A) "in blue" the afternoon of January 11. The Russian delegation, which currently holds the Council presidency, has scheduled a vote for 3:30 p.m. on January 12. Veto Threats ------------ 2. (C) Amb Wolff met with Chinese [...] | 2007-01-12 01:20:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM |
07USUNNEWYORK173 | MAKING TALIBAN SANCTIONS RELEVANT [...] (U) This is an action cable. Please see paragraph 10. 2. (C) SUMMARY: This cable provides a status report on implementation of UNSCR 1735, a resolution drafted by the USG which calls for updating the Taliban sanctions list to enhance its utility as a relevant and potent tool to combat the [...] | 2007-03-02 23:18:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC EFIN UNSC PREL PGOV KTFN PTER AF |
07USUNNEWYORK174 | UNSC/IRAN: ITALIAN PR ASKS FOR EARLY OPPORTUNITY [...] (C) Italian Permanent Representative Marcello Spatafora called on Ambassador Wolff on the evening of Friday March 2, to stake an Italian role in negotiations on the follow-up Iran resolution. Spatafora said that he was acting on instructions from PM Prodi, and had made the same request to UK [...] | 2007-03-02 23:29:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP IR IT |
07USUNNEWYORK175 | ISRAELI MILITARY BRIEFS UN ON HIZBALLAH REARMAMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: ON MARCH 1 ISRAELI BRIGADIER GENERAL YOSSI BAIDATZ BRIEFED THE UN AND SELECTED DELEGATIONS, INCLUDING MEMBERS OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL AND TROOP CONTRIBUTING COUNTRIES TO UNIFIL, ABOUT REARMAMENT OF HIZBALLAH. USING AERIAL IMAGERY AND CITING "HUNDREDS" OF TRUCK MOVEMENTS SINCE A [...] | 2007-03-03 00:26:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IS SY IR LE |
07USUNNEWYORK190 | VISITING UNIFIL OFFICER DESCRIBES SITUATION IN [...] (C) Summary. Visiting UNIFIL political advisor Cornelia Frank (please protect) told USUN March 8 that while UNIFIL takes Israeli reports of arms smuggling and Hizballah refortification south of the Litani river seriously, it has thus far found little evidence to fully substantiate these alleg [...] | 2007-03-09 22:51:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO UNSC IS SY LE |
07USUNNEWYORK193 | DARFUR DEPLOYMENT: THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK [...] (C) SUMMARY. Most every element of Darfur deployment is frustrated by political and physical realities: supporting infrastructure for light support package (LSP) military and civilian officials is inadequate, and AMIS has refused to integrate even the relative few who have arrived; constructio [...] | 2007-03-12 10:59:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU UNSC KPKO |
07USUNNEWYORK198 | UN/SUDAN SANCTIONS: P5 AMBASSADORS DISCUSS SUDAN [...] (C) UK PermRep Emyr Jones Parry convened a meeting of P5 Ambassadors on March 6 to discuss imposing new sanctions on Sudan. In attendance were Chinese PermRep Wang, Russian PermRep Churkin, French Political Counselor Nicolas de Riviere, and USUN Ambassador Sanders. Jones Parry argued that i [...] | 2007-03-12 23:49:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC ETTC SU |
07USUNNEWYORK2 | HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL: BALLOTING CONSIDERATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-04 21:41:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PHUM PREL UNGA KUNR |
07USUNNEWYORK213 | UNSC/IRAN: P5 RESOLUTION INTRODUCED [...] (SBU) Summary: On behalf of the P5, on March 15 the UK introduced a draft resolution on Iran to the Security Council following the IAEA's report of February 22 of Iranian non-compliance with resolutions 1696 and 1737. The draft resolution builds upon the sanctions established by 1737, includ [...] | 2007-03-16 00:58:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IR |
07USUNNEWYORK215 | SLOVAKIA WILL NOT DISCUSS STATUS ISSUES DURING [...] (C) On March 14, USUN Political Minister-Counselor William Brencick met with Slovak Political Coordinator Michal Mlynar to deliver reftel points regarding the scheduled March 21 UNSC meeting on UNMIK. Brencick emphasized that we hoped for a strong statement of support for Ahtisaari and his p [...] | 2007-03-17 00:56:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV YI UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK218 | ISRAELI MFA IO HEAD RONNY YA'AR OUTLINES POSSIBLE [...] (C) Summary. During a lunch meeting with IO A/S Silverberg, NEA DAS Danin, and Ambassador Wolff on March 13, senior Israeli MFA official Ronny Ya'ar expressed concerns about SYG Ban Ki-Moon's planned travel to Damascus in April, possible references to new UN conclusions about the sovereignty [...] | 2007-03-19 17:45:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KPKO KPAL LE SY IS |
07USUNNEWYORK225 | WESTERN SAHARA: INVITATIONS DELIVERED TO MOROCCO [...] (C) USUN delivered reftel invitation to the Moroccan Mission to the UN March 19 and are awaiting a response. We were unable to deliver the same invitation to Polisario Front Representative Ahmed Boukhari until March 20 as he would not accept the invitation without permission from Secretary-Ge [...] | 2007-03-20 22:23:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC MO AG |
07USUNNEWYORK229 | UNSC/IRAN: INFORMALS MARCH 20 [...] (C) Summary: Security Council Ambassadors discussed the draft Iran resolution in "informal informals" on Tuesday, March 20. The UK hosted the meeting in response to requests from Council members for more information on the P-5's "political framework" to address the Iranian nuclear issue and i [...] | 2007-03-21 15:57:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KNNP IR |
07USUNNEWYORK23 | UNDP CONFIDENTIAL AUDITS EXPOSE SYSTEMATIC [...] This is an action request. See para 4. 2.(C) Summary. Ambassador Wallace led a USUN MR team to visit UNDP on January 11, 2007. At the meeting, UNDP made available three internal audits from the years 1999, 2001 and 2004, for USUN's on site review. Per reftel, USUN was allowed access to the i [...] | 2007-01-13 00:08:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KFPC KN KNNP KUNR PINR PREL UNDP |
07USUNNEWYORK233 | CLIMATE CHANGE RIFT BETWEEN UNFCCC AND [...] (C) Comments to the media March 21 by Yvo de Boer, Executive Director of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat in Bonn, fly in the face of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon's directives quashing the idea SIPDIS of a "climate change summit" and have sparked a frenz [...] | 2007-03-22 16:52:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON SENV UNCSD UNEP |
07USUNNEWYORK235 | POLISARIO RESPONSE TO INVITATION TO U.S. HOSTED [...] (C) On instruction from the Polisario Leadership, Polisaro New York Representative Ahmed Boukhari delivered March 22 the Polisario response (text in para 2) to the March 20 invitation to a U.S.-hosted meeting with Morocco on the Western Sahara. Boukhari's only comment was that the Polisario w [...] | 2007-03-23 14:56:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC MO AG |
07USUNNEWYORK236 | UN DEMOCRACY FUND BEGINS MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Following up reftel, USUN has worked with a consultant to the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services and others to reassess management practices of the UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF). The UNDEF Executive Director has initiated a number of corrective steps, including a commitment t [...] | 2007-03-23 18:37:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL |
07USUNNEWYORK246 | CLIMATE CHANGE TOP PRIORITY FOR INCOMING UNGA [...] (U) At a luncheon hosted by German Ambassador Matussek on March 26, incoming GA President Srgian Kerim (former Foreign Minister of Macedonia) identified climate change as his top priority for the 62nd General Assembly session. Other areas of focus were UN reform, the results of the High Leve [...] | 2007-03-27 16:29:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | UNGA ECON SENV |
07USUNNEWYORK260 | PRESSING POLISARIO TO DROP ITS PRECONDITION FOR [...] (C) Per instructions, Ambassador Sanders March 29 delivered (Ref A) points to Polisario New York representative Ahmed Boukhari encouraging the Polisario to drop its precondition that the Baker Plan be the basis for any discussions held with Morocco. Boukhari said he would forward the message [...] | 2007-04-03 14:42:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AG WI MO |
07USUNNEWYORK261 | PRESSING POLISARIO TO DROP ITS PRECONDITION FOR [...] (C) Per instructions, Ambassador Sanders March 29 delivered (Ref A) points to Polisario New York representative Ahmed Boukhari encouraging the Polisario to drop its precondition that the Baker Plan be the basis for any discussions held with Morocco. Boukhari said he would forward the message [...] | 2007-04-04 14:28:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AG WI MO |
07USUNNEWYORK266 | INCOMING GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT SRGJAN KERIM [...] (C) Summary: Incoming President of the General Assembly (PGA),Srgjan Kerim of Macedonia, previewed his agenda for 62nd General Assembly in a meeting April 2 with Ambassador Miller at USUN. Kerim intends to take up residence in New York immediately after the May GA elections, and hopes to [...] | 2007-04-05 12:26:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV UNGA ECON EAID KUNR |
07USUNNEWYORK268 | UNSC/DARFUR: SE NATSIOS MEETINGS ON APRIL 2 [...] (C) SUMMARY. Special Envoy of the President for Sudan Andrew Natsios met on April 2 with United Nations leadership to discuss the state of play in New York on Darfur in the wake of the Arab League Summit in Riyadh. Despite a sense of frustration at Sudanese President Bashir's continued stall [...] | 2007-04-05 16:11:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU UNSC KPKO |
07USUNNEWYORK272 | UN/DARFUR: POTENTIAL SYG-DPKO DIVIDE ON DARFUR [...] (C) SUMMARY. There seems to be a crack of daylight between the thinking of United Nations (UN) Secretary-General (SYG) Ban Ki-moon and Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) leadership regarding next steps on dealing with the Sudanese Government of National Unity (GNU) on Darfur. Despite [...] | 2007-04-09 19:53:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU UNSC KPKO |
07USUNNEWYORK273 | RUSSIA OBSTRUCTIVE AS UNSC CONSIDERS PROPOSAL FOR [...] (C) Special Envoy Ahtisaari briefed the Security Council on April 4 on the Kosovo status process and detailed his reasoning for recommending that Kosovo become an independent state. The format of the meeting was decided only 90 minutes before Ahtisaari began his presentation, largely because [...] | 2007-04-09 21:25:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK UNSC YI |
07USUNNEWYORK277 | MICHEL SHARES THOUGHTS ON ESTABLISHING HARIRI [...] (U) Ambassador Wolff, accompanied by Ambassador Chris Ross (USUN/POL) and USUN LegalOff, met with UN Legal Counsel Nicolas Michel and two members of his staff April 9 to explore the UN's understanding of the state of play on establishment of the tribunal envisaged in UN Security Council Resol [...] | 2007-04-11 08:26:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PGOV PTER KCRM SY LE |
07USUNNEWYORK282 | UN/SUDAN SANCTIONS: COMMITTEE MEETS WITH EXPERTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Sudan Panel of Experts briefed the Sudan Sanctions Committee on April 10 on its interim report, which highlighted ongoing violations of the arms embargo by the rebels and the GOS, and GOS offensive overflights in Darfur and use of white aircraft bearing the UN logo, all of whic [...] | 2007-04-11 21:47:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC ETTC SU PGOV |
07USUNNEWYORK283 | WOLFF-FASSI FIHRI MEETING AND SUBSEQUENT CONTACTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: April 11 was a day of intense activity on the Moroccan Western Sahara initiative. In a meeting with Ambassador Wolff, MFA Minister Delegate Fassi Fihri requested US assistance in helping solidify Moroccan public and political party opinion in support of this initiative by convinc [...] | 2007-04-11 22:14:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC MO AG WS |
07USUNNEWYORK293 | USUN PERSPECTIVE ON CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (C) In the absence of a unifying focal point, climate change debates in the UN system are proliferating at a dizzying rate, with unpredictable and unwanted ramifications. This cable outlines strategies that USUN proposes to adopt in encouraging sensible and efficient UN handling of this conten [...] | 2007-04-14 09:55:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV ECON UNCSD |
07USUNNEWYORK3 | USUN SURVEYS SECURITY COUNCIL MEMBERS ON KOSOVO [...] (C) SUMMARY: USUN has surveyed the UN missions of Security Council members for views on the way forward on the Kosovo status process. We found Belgium, Slovakia, and France expecting and supporting eventual Kosovo independence but concerned about how the Security Council could facilitate th [...] | 2007-01-05 00:05:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | UNMIK YI PGOV PREL |
07USUNNEWYORK30 | DARFUR: P-3 AND DPKO FOCUS ON AU SUMMIT [...] (C) SUMMARY. P-3 principals and DPKO chief Guehenno agreed on January 15 that the January 29-30 African Union Summit presents an important opportunity for achieving clarity on the way forward in Darfur. USUN and UKUN principals pushed Guehenno to use scheduled high-level UN-AU meetings on Jan [...] | 2007-01-17 22:25:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF KPKO CD SU |
07USUNNEWYORK305 | UN/SUDAN SANCTIONS: FRENCH SEEK US REACTION ON [...] (C) Action Request: On March 15 the French shared with USUN Sanctions Unit a list of individuals that Paris would support for additional targeted sanctions in Sudan (Ref email). During the April 17 P3 meeting on the joint US-UK draft Sudan sanctions resolution, French PolOff Clement LeClerc r [...] | 2007-04-19 18:06:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC ETTC SU PGOV |
07USUNNEWYORK311 | ALGERIAN PERMREP CONFIRMS POLISARIO ACCEPTANCE OF [...] (C) Summary: In an April 19 meeting with Ambassador Sanders, Algerian PermRep Yousfi confirmed that the Polisario has agreed to enter into direct negotiations with Morocco provided the invitation to negotiations is couched in the language of paragraph 47 of the Secretary-General's April 13 Rep [...] | 2007-04-20 19:39:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC AG WI MO |
07USUNNEWYORK319 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: MICHEL REPORTS TRIP AND P-3 [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 18. 2. (C) BEGIN SUMMARY: Per reftel, USUN Ambassador Wolff met with UN Legal Counsel Nicolas Michel on April 24 and followed up on April 25 to discuss the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. In response to Ambassador Wolff,s questions, Michel reported th [...] | 2007-04-25 00:11:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC SY LE |
07USUNNEWYORK32 | CHINESE THREATEN VETO OF MINUSTAH MANDATE ABSENT [...] (C) Following up on earlier conversations (ref A),Chinese PolMinCouns Li Junhua approached USUN PolMinCouns on January 16 to provide an update on PRC concerns about renewing the mandate of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) given Haiti's support for Taiwan at the UN. After notin [...] | 2007-01-18 00:38:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KPKO CH TW HA |
07USUNNEWYORK320 | UNSC/DARFUR: DPKO DISCUSSES HYBRID COMMAND AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an April 16 meeting with United Nations (UN) Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) Under-Secretary-General (U/SYG) Jean-Marie Guehenno, the USG pushed for clarity on issues of command and control of the third stage of the three-phase Darfur peacekeeping plan outlined in [...] | 2007-04-25 00:28:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU UNSC KPKO |
07USUNNEWYORK322 | UNSC BEGINS DISCUSSION ON UN CONTINGENCY PLANNING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following an April 24 briefing by UN officials, EU delegations led by France, Belgium and Italy voiced objections to allowing the UN to begin contingency planning for a peacekeeping operation in Somalia. The U.S., Slovakia, Congo, Ghana, South Africa and African Union (AU) Perman [...] | 2007-04-25 16:46:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL SO |
07USUNNEWYORK325 | TALKING WITH UN ABOUT FIXING UNAMI [...] (C) Summary: During an April 26 meeting with UN Under Secretary-General Lynn Pascoe, Ambassador Wolff raised U.S. SIPDIS concerns about UNAMI, including the human rights report on Iraq released April 25 and the mission's credibility problem with the government of Iraq. Pascoe admitted "we [...] | 2007-04-26 23:49:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IZ |
07USUNNEWYORK330 | KOSOVO: DPKO BRIEFING ON IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR [...] (C) Summary. In a briefing to the Security Council on the eve of its trip to Kosovo, U/SYG Guehenno delivered a briefing on implementation of UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1244. Guehenno cited progress across the board and stated that by any objective evaluation Kosovo was now a much [...] | 2007-04-27 22:51:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC UNMIK YI |
07USUNNEWYORK338 | MICHEL PREVIEWS COUNCIL BRIEFING ON LEBANON [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY: PER REFTEL, AMBASSADOR WOLFF URGED UN LEGAL COUNSEL MICHEL ON APRIL 30 TO USE HIS MAY 2 BRIEFING TO THE SECURITY COUNCIL TO CONVEY HIS CONCLUSION THAT THE LEBANESE PARLIAMENTARY PROCESS TO RATIFY THE TRIBUNAL AGREEMENT HAD REACHED AN IMPASSE AND TO EMPHASIZE THE NEED FOR C [...] | 2007-05-01 00:54:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC LE |
07USUNNEWYORK344 | AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD'S INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following his formal presentation of credentials, AMB Khalilzad met with SYG Ban Ki-Moon and his top deputies to discuss U.S. policy objectives at the UN. SYG Ban emphasized the need for strong U.S. support to move forward on UN capacity building and listed Iraq, Kosovo, Darfur and Leb [...] | 2007-05-02 18:07:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL PGOV UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK347 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: MICHEL BRIEFS COUNCIL AND [...] (C) Summary. In a forthright briefing to the Security Council on May 2, UN Legal Counsel Nicolas Michel said his April 17-21 trip to Beirut to help facilitate Lebanese ratification of the UN-GOL agreement and statute establishing the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon had yielded no concrete res [...] | 2007-05-03 02:34:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
07USUNNEWYORK349 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: P-3 PERMREPS MEET GOL ADVISOR [...] (C) Summary. During a meeting with P-3 PermReps on May 3, GOL senior foreign policy advisor Mohammad Chattah reported that while UNSC delegates with whom he had met were generally positive about the need to establish the tribunal, several expressed concerns about the international legal implic [...] | 2007-05-04 00:54:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
07USUNNEWYORK35 | GOJ SEEKS DISCONTINUATION OF UNDP DPRK PROGRAM AND [...] This is an action request. See para 5. 2. (C) On January 19, 2007, Ambassador Wallace hosted a meeting requested by Japanese Ambassador Koji Tsuriola (Director General for Global Affairs) and Minister Kazuo Sunaga regarding the DPRK. Ambassador Tsuriola explained the GOJ position as a p [...] | 2007-01-22 15:15:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KFPC KN KNNP KUNR PINR PREL UNDP |
07USUNNEWYORK352 | KOSOVO AT UNSC: RUSSIANS ARGUE FOR DELAY LEADING [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Khalilzad suggested to Russian PermRep Churkin on May 4 that the just-concluded Security Council trip to Kosovo seems to have established a solid Council majority in favor of the Ahtisaari package leading to independence for Kosovo. The ambassador framed the Kosovo iss [...] | 2007-05-07 13:02:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK360 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: SYG BAN FORGOES TRIP TO BEIRUT [...] (C) During a meeting with Ambassador Khalilzad on May 8, SYG Ban said he would not/not travel to Beirut to make a last-ditch push for Lebanese ratification of the UN-GOL tribunal agreement and statute. Ban said he is not/not asking for more time for diplomatic efforts to find a Lebanese solut [...] | 2007-05-09 23:05:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC SY LY |
07USUNNEWYORK372 | ISLAMABAD OIC MEETING COULD ENDORSE BOSNIA FOR [...] (C) Mission has learned from Pakistani Ambassador Akram (currently in Islamabad) that there is a strong possibility that the OIC meeting convening May 15 in Islamabad could endorse Bosnia,s candidacy for the Human Rights Council. Akram indicated that he would be willing to move for the endors [...] | 2007-05-14 20:53:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA PHUM |
07USUNNEWYORK376 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: P-3 DISCUSS DRAFT RESOLUTION AND [...] (C) Summary. During a meeting on May 11, P-3 PermReps told SYG Ban that the Council should act on the tribunal as soon as possible after it receives a clear request from the GOL and the SYG endorses the GOL position. Noting he planned to speak with PM Siniora on May 14, Ban reported that Syri [...] | 2007-05-14 23:37:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
07USUNNEWYORK378 | MOUSSA DISCUSSES IRAQ WITH AMB KHALILZAD [...] (C) Summary: In a May 11 meeting with Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa that focused exclusively on SIPDIS Iraq, Ambassador Khalilzad urged Arab League involvement that would reassure the Iraqi Shia and comfort the Iraqi Sunni and help create an Iraqi identity based not on sectarianis [...] | 2007-05-15 00:49:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC IZ |
07USUNNEWYORK381 | IRAN SANCTIONS EXEMPTIONS FOR BANK SEPAH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Per instruction, USUN met separately May 14 and May 16 with the German and the Italian Missions to discuss their exemption notifications submitted to the Iran Sanctions Committee regarding the unfreezing of certain assets for Bank Sepah's use (Frankfurt/Main and Italian branches r [...] | 2007-05-17 15:21:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC EFIN UNSC PREL MNUC PARM IR |
07USUNNEWYORK385 | UN/SUDAN SANCTIONS: COMMITTEE DISCUSSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: During the May 9 and 15 meetings of the Sudan Sanctions Committee China, Russia, Indonesia, Qatar, and Congo insisted that progress in the peace process made further sanctions inappropriate, while USUN, the UK, France, Belgium, and Slovakia expressed support for broader sanctions. [...] | 2007-05-17 23:22:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC ETTC SU PGOV |
07USUNNEWYORK392 | UNSC LUNCH WITH SYG BAN: LEBANON, IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Khalilzad hosted the monthly lunch for Security Council Perm Reps with the Secretary-General. In addition to updating the Council on SIPDIS his discussions on Iraq and Afghanistan, SYG Ban used the opportunity to follow-up on Lebanese PM Siniora's letter requesting [...] | 2007-05-19 00:40:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IQ LE AF SY |
07USUNNEWYORK397 | UN/DRC SANCTIONS: DRC, BURUNDI, RWANDA, UGANDA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The DRC Sanctions Committee met on May 11 with representatives from the DRC, Burundi, Rwanda, and Uganda to seek their further cooperation with the Group of Experts (the panel responsible for identifying violations of the arms embargo and other measures). DRC, Rwanda, and Uganda [...] | 2007-05-21 20:06:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | CG ETTC PGOV PREL UNSC KPKO |
07USUNNEWYORK40 | HANDLING THE DPRK AT THE UNDP EXECUTIVE BOARD [...] This is an action request. See para 9. 2.(C) Ambassadors Wolff, Wallace and Miller met with UNDP Administrator Kemal Dervis and his senior management team Monday to discuss the way forward on DPRK. We have tentative agreement, subject to Department approval, on a package that in principle s [...] | 2007-01-23 00:24:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KFPC KN KNNP KUNR PINR PREL UNDP |
07USUNNEWYORK405 | P5 WITH BAN, 5/18: SUDAN, DPKO RESTRUCTURING AND [...] (C) Summary. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with P-5 Ambassadors on May 18. Ban noted that he had some way still to go to complete his high level appointments. He urged the Council to be cautious in moving forward with sanctions against Sudan lest it undermine the current "credible progr [...] | 2007-05-23 00:24:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KUNR AORC UNGA SU |
07USUNNEWYORK407 | SYG ASKS USG TO HOLD OFF ON SUDAN SANCTIONS [...] (C) This cable contains a recommendation; please see paragraph 6. 2. (C) In a May 23 meeting, United Nations Secretary-General (SYG) Ban Ki-moon gave Ambassador Khalilzad the "good news" that he and African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Konare had agreed earlier in the day on the draft [...] | 2007-05-24 00:13:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU UNSC KPKO |
07USUNNEWYORK411 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: DRAFT UNSCR DOES NOT YET HAVE [...] (C) P-3 PermReps, joined by Slovakia, agreed mid-afternoon May 24 that we do not currently have nine confirmed votes in favor of the draft Chapter VII resolution on the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. (Although USUN subsequently learned that we have support from a majority of Security Council c [...] | 2007-05-24 23:43:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
07USUNNEWYORK412 | PALESTINIANS SEEK SECURITY COUNCIL ACTION ON A [...] (C) In a May 23 meeting he requested on an urgent basis, Palestinian Permanent Observer Riyad Mansour said that a delegation representing the Arab League, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC),and the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) would shortly request a meeting with Ambassador Khalil [...] | 2007-05-25 00:38:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK416 | KOSOVO: MOSCOW HARD LINE SOFTENING IN NEW YORK? [...] (C) Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Churkin reiterated Moscow's official hard line on Kosovo to Ambassador Khalilzad, who replied that Moscow offers no basis for discussion. Churkin essentially agreed, suggesting that Ambassador Khalilzad and he leave aside red lines for the moment a [...] | 2007-05-29 14:25:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC YI |
07USUNNEWYORK417 | ARAB LEAGUE, OIC, NAM DELEGATION SEEKS SECURITY [...] (C) As anticipated reftel, a joint Arab League/OIC/NAM delegation met May 25 meeting with Ambassador Khalilzad in his capacity as President of the Security Council to request Security Council action to bring an end to the violence in Gaza. The delegation, headed by Egyptian PR Maged Abdelaziz [...] | 2007-05-29 18:52:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK423 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: VOTE SCHEDULED FOR MAY 30 [...] (C) The UN Security Council discussed the draft resolution on the Special Tribunal for Lebanon for the second time during closed consultations on May 29. After P-3 PermReps explained the revisions made to the draft resolution in response to concerns raised during UNSC consultations on May 25, [...] | 2007-05-29 23:46:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
07USUNNEWYORK429 | INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA [...] (C) Summary: In a conversation with the UN Legal Counsel, Amb Wolff again urged that the Secretary General delay filling the soon to be vacant ICTY Prosecutor's job in order to allow time to identify another suitable UN position for the UN International Independent Investigation Commission (U [...] | 2007-05-31 23:51:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | KAWC KJUS UN XT ZL XF |
07USUNNEWYORK430 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE SOMALIA PKO CONTINGENCY PLANNING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Sanders told DPKO's Africa Division chief that proper planning and preparation for a UN peacekeeping operation are essential to support any progress in the Somali political process. Titov reported that DPKO has begun limited military planning and will present a "range [...] | 2007-06-01 14:50:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL SO MOPS |
07USUNNEWYORK435 | NO SUPPORT FOR UNSCR 1706 AS HYBRID BASIS FOR [...] (C) Ambassador Khalilzad convened a June 1 meeting of the Security Council Permanent Three Members to deliver ref A points. Participating in the meeting were UK Permanent Representative (PR) Emyr Jones Parry, UN Counsellor Paul Johnston, French Charge Jean-Marie Lacroix, French Counsellor Nic [...] | 2007-06-01 20:54:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | CD CT PREL SU UNSC KPKO |
07USUNNEWYORK441 | HAITI: COUNCIL ENDORSES MULET'S LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Summary. During closed UNSC consultations on Haiti on May 30, Special Representative of the Secretary-General Edmund Mulet hailed recent GOH/MINUSTAH success in combating gangs and securing Cite Soleil, but warned that the international community must "stay the course" and avoid a "premat [...] | 2007-06-04 20:53:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC KPKO HA |
07USUNNEWYORK442 | KOSOVO: CHURKIN CHAFES AGAINST SHORT MOSCOW LEASH [...] (C) SUMMARY. Russian Ambassador to the UN Churkin shared Moscow's latest hard line guidance on Kosovo with Ambassador Khalilzad on June 4. Churkin said Moscow wants: no reference to SYG Special Envoy Ahtisaari's proposal in the Security Council resolution; at least a year of further Belgrade-P [...] | 2007-06-04 21:06:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC YI |
07USUNNEWYORK447 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO ALGERIA ON PRESSING [...] (C) Ambassador Sanders delivered reftel demarche June 4 to Algerian PermRep Youcef Yousfi, stressing the importance of maintaining the momentum established by UNSCR 1754, underscoring the expectation that the parties will engage seriously and show flexibility as they work through their differe [...] | 2007-06-05 21:32:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC WI AG MO AF |
07USUNNEWYORK448 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO MAURITANIA ON PRESSING [...] (C) During a June 4 courtesy by Mauritanian PermRep Mohamed Ould Tolba, Ambassador Khalilzad delivered reftel points, stressing the importance of the Security Council's Western Sahara initiative and inviting Mauritania to encourage the Polisario to participate positively in the June 18-19 talk [...] | 2007-06-05 22:35:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC WI AG MO AF |
07USUNNEWYORK449 | DPKO BRIEFING ON DRC, JUNE 4 [...] Confidential - entire text. 2. (C) Summary: DPKO USG Guehenno briefed the P3 plus 2 concerning the situation in the DRC. He was particularly concerned by the lack of progress towards a stable solution to the political difficulties of the Kivus (especially the role of Rwanda and the need fo [...] | 2007-06-05 22:44:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | BE CG FR PGOV PHUM PREL RW UK UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK459 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO POLISARIO TO COME TO TALKS [...] (C) Ambassador Sanders delivered reftel demarche June 6 to Polisario New York Rep Ahmed Boukhari, stressing the importance of maintaining the momentum established by UNSCR 1754 and underscoring the expectation that the parties will engage seriously and show flexibility as they work through the [...] | 2007-06-08 15:57:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC WI AG MO AF |
07USUNNEWYORK469 | ERITREA-ETHIOPIA BORDER IMPASSE: DEMARCHE RESPONSE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Per reftel instructions, PolMinCouns and Poloff discussed the Eritrea-Ethiopia border impasse with Norwegian Deputy Permanent Representative Juul in the run-up to the November 27 deadline for demarcation by coordinates as imposed by the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC). [...] | 2007-06-11 22:23:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AF AU ER EU PGOV PREL UNSC KPKO ET |
07USUNNEWYORK480 | KOSOVO: TIME FOR A GUT-CHECK [...] (C) SUMMARY. A P-3 meeting on Kosovo today found the UK and French United Nations missions without clear guidance from London and Paris about next steps in the face of resolute Russian opposition to the Ahtisaari settlement proposal. Both thought the recent Quint political directors meeting [...] | 2007-06-14 16:53:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC YI |
07USUNNEWYORK485 | UN MOVES TO SET UP LEBANON TRIBUNAL [...] (U) Ref A described UN preparations for the Lebanese Tribunal. In a June 6 meeting, UN officials told USUN officers that they were working quietly to put arrangements in place for full implementation of resolution 1757 but were conscious of the fact that its provisions would not be effective [...] | 2007-06-15 00:21:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM LE PREL PTER UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK486 | SECURITY COUNCIL STALEMATE ON IRANIAN STATEMENTS [...] (C) Summary and Action Request: Efforts to obtain a Security Council press statement condemning Iranian President Ahmadinejad's June 3 remarks threatening Israel's existence have foundered over Indonesian opposition, first announced to the Council on June 8. In a second Council discussions o [...] | 2007-06-15 14:55:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS IR |
07USUNNEWYORK497 | CHURKIN CONTINUES TO SAY NO ON AUTOMATICITY [...] (C) Summary: During a June 18 meeting at the Russian Mission, Ambassador Churkin yielded no ground on Russia's objection to Kosovo independence unless agreed by Serbia. Churkin stressed that the recent Quint meeting in Paris had "left a bad taste" in Russia's mouth as it gave the impression th [...] | 2007-06-20 00:29:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC UNMIK YI |
07USUNNEWYORK499 | (ICTY) YUGOSLAV WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL PROSECUTOR [...] (U) Summary: In a farewell call, ICTY Prosecutor Carla del Ponte described her work and plans for the months between now and September when her resignation from the Tribunal takes effect. Earlier she told the Security Council that, "the fact that four persons remain at large, in particular, [...] | 2007-06-20 15:16:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ICTY KAWC KJUS SR XH MW |
07USUNNEWYORK502 | ISRAELI GENERAL DISCUSSES UNIFIL IN NEW YORK [...] (C) Israeli Brigadier General Udi Dekel visited New York June 13-20 to share with P-5 delegations and the UN secretariat an updated Israeli assessment of Hizballah SIPDIS activities in the UNIFIL area of operations (AO). While commending UNIFIL's valuable role in disrupting Hizballah's fr [...] | 2007-06-20 22:48:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IS SY LE |
07USUNNEWYORK512 | WAN WALSUM'S PRIVATE READOUT ON JUNE 18-19 WESTERN [...] (C) Summary: In a June 20 meeting, Peter Van Walsum, the mediator of the June 18-19 Western Sahara peace negotiations, told USUN and NEA that the talks between Morocco and the Polisario had gone as well as he could have hoped. He said the role of pro-Moroccan Sahrawis in the talks was unhelpfu [...] | 2007-06-22 23:57:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL WI AG MO |
07USUNNEWYORK513 | ALGERIAN READOUT ON JUNE 18-19 WESTERN SAHARA TALKS [...] (C) Summary: In a June 20 meeting with USUN and NEA, Algerian negotiators present at the June 18-19 Western Sahara peace talks praised the talks' atmospherics and results, complimented Van Walsum on his handling of the negotiations, and patted themselves on the back for the role that they had [...] | 2007-06-22 23:59:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL WI AG MO |
07USUNNEWYORK515 | UN PLANS FOR LEBANON TRIBUNAL CRYSTALLIZE [...] (U) Summary. In a June 22 discussion, UN Legal Counsel Nicolas Michel described progress on implementing UN Security Council resolution 1757, which brought the provisions of the Tribunal Agreement between the UN and Lebanon into force on June 10. Michel and his task force have focused on the [...] | 2007-06-25 17:12:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM LE PREL UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK539 | AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD'S LUNCH WITH SYG BAN KI-MOON [...] (C) During a June 26 lunch, Ambassador Khalilzad and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon discussed: the UN Reform Group, SIPDIS UNDP and DPRK, the Capital Master Plan, personnel issues, Ban's Washington trip, and the Terms of Reference for the Blair appointment. 2. (C) On the Reform Group: [...] | 2007-07-02 14:07:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK544 | PORTUGAL'S PERMREP ON KOSOVO: SIX MONTHS OF TALKS, [...] (C) Summary: In a lunch meeting on June 27, Portuguese Permrep Joao Salgueiro and Ambassador Wolff discussed strategies for achieving supervised independence for Kosovo. Salgueiro expressed reservations about scenarios involving unilateral recognition, was opposed to putting a Security Counci [...] | 2007-07-03 12:19:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC UNMIK YI |
07USUNNEWYORK545 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ENCOURAGING ENGAGEMENT ON [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Sanders delivered reftel demarche points July 2 to Polisario New York Rep Ahmed Boukhari urging serious and substantive Polisario engagement in the upcoming August talks with Morocco, underscoring international expectations of real progress between the parties, and notin [...] | 2007-07-03 13:35:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC WI AG MO |
07USUNNEWYORK546 | EXEMPTIONS TO IRAN SANCTIONS [...] (C) The Iran Sanctions Committee met on June 29, at the request of Italy, to discuss exemptions to the assets freeze. In response to USUN REFTEL points, Italy agreed fully that there should be no "business as usual" for sanctioned individuals and entities (specifically Bank Sepah). That said [...] | 2007-07-03 14:53:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP ETTC EFIN UNSC PREL MNUC PARM IR |
07USUNNEWYORK550 | UN AND U.S. AGREE TO SEEK TO EXPAND UNAMI MANDATE [...] (C) Summary: On June 26, S/I Ambassador David Satterfield led a discussion with the UN on Iraq (including the UN's role in Iraq) as part of an ongoing high-level dialogue. Both the U.S. and the UN agreed that the UN's mandate in Iraq should be updated and expanded, wherever possible. The UN e [...] | 2007-07-03 21:56:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IZ |
07USUNNEWYORK554 | PROPOSED APPOINTMENTS OF PROSECUTORS FOR THE [...] This is an action request. Please see Para 5. 2. (C) UN Under-Secretary General for Legal Affairs, Nicolas Michel, informed USUN on July 6, that the Secretary General plans to take action to extend the terms of the current Prosecutors for the ICTR and ICTY. The Statutes of the Tribunal [...] | 2007-07-06 20:50:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ICTY KAWC KJUS PGOV PREL |
07USUNNEWYORK563 | AU/UN HYBRID IN DARFUR: NARROWING DIFFERENCES [...] (C) This message updates on the current state of play in pre-negotiations on the draft Security Council resolution likely to be tabled July 11 by the UK and Ghana mandating the African Union (AU) - United Nations (UN) hybrid peacekeeping operation in Darfur. This message contains a recommendat [...] | 2007-07-11 00:49:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU UNSC KPKO |
07USUNNEWYORK573 | U.S. OFFICIALS BRIEF UNSYG ON PRESIDENT'S CLIMATE [...] (C) White House CEQ Chairman Connaughton and Under Secretary Dobriansky briefed UN Secretary-General Ban on the SIPDIS President's May 31 climate change initiative (reftel) during a June 18 meeting at the UN. Connaughton and Dobriansky clarified the USG goals and how the initiative would c [...] | 2007-07-13 19:19:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KGHG SENV PREL KPKO SU |
07USUNNEWYORK578 | RUSSIA TRASHES MINIMALIST KOSOVO DRAFT RESOLUTION [...] (C) SUMMARY. Russian PermRep Churkin told co-sponsors of a revised draft resolution on Kosovo that Moscow's initial reaction to their text was thoroughly dismissive. He read guidance from Moscow characterizing the draft as calling for negotiations that would be mere formalities leading to aut [...] | 2007-07-13 22:16:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC YI |
07USUNNEWYORK595 | SECURITY COUNCIL PUTS KOSOVO RESOLUTION ON HOLD [...] (C) SUMMARY. Following an hour of closed Security Council consultations during which Russia made clear an intent to veto the latest draft resolution on Kosovo if it were brought to a vote, sponsors of the resolution announced to the press that they would "put on hold discussions of a new reso [...] | 2007-07-20 22:31:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC YI |
07USUNNEWYORK6 | SE NATSIOS' MEETING WITH UN DPKO GUEHENNO [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a January 5 meeting with Special Envoy Andrew Natsios, UN DPKO U/SYG Jean Marie Guehenno said the UN is making progress in implementing phases one and two of the Addis/Abuja framework. Full implementation, however, will require greater clarity on the UN/AU hybrid command ph [...] | 2007-01-09 22:41:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER UNSC SU KPKO |
07USUNNEWYORK601 | SECRETARIAT DELIVERS TOUGH UNSCR 1701/LIBAT [...] (C) Summary. During closed consultations on the SYG,s latest UNSCR 1701 report as well as the report of the Lebanon Independent Border Assessment Team (LIBAT) on July 18, UNSCO Michael Williams spoke at length about the need for greater progress on the issue of prisoners, compliance with the a [...] | 2007-07-24 20:06:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER UNSC KPKO IS SY LE |
07USUNNEWYORK619 | UN/DRC SANCTIONS: UNANIMOUS COUNCIL SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Peruvian PermRep Jorge Voto-Bernales, who is the chairman of the DRC Sanctions Committee ("the Committee"),briefed the Security Council on June 23 on the occasion of the Committee's annual sanctions review. There was Council consensus that the sanctions regime--which consists [...] | 2007-07-27 23:18:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | DRC PREL UNSC PGOV ETTC |
07USUNNEWYORK623 | DARFUR RESOLUTION: DPKO COOL TO PROPOSED TIMELINE [...] (C) SUMMARY. USUN presented Department's proposed edits to the Darfur hybrid draft resolution to UN Peacekeeping Undersecretary Guehenno and asked that he consider carefully our proposed phasing-in of UN ownership of the hybrid as a reasonable reflection of the realities of the AMIS-UNAMID tra [...] | 2007-07-28 01:10:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL |
07USUNNEWYORK63 | DPKO URGES PRESSURE ON BASHIR, KONARE TO ASSURE [...] (C) SUMMARY. USUN Ambassador Sanders delivered ref A points to United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) Assistant Secretary-General (A/SYG) Hedi Annabi on January 25, stressing our interest in helping DPKO to identify and deploy as early as possible any and all elements of t [...] | 2007-01-26 00:41:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL SU KPKO |
07USUNNEWYORK651 | COUNCIL ADOPTS LEBANON STATEMENT AFTER QATAR [...] (C) The UN Security Council adopted a Presidential Statement (PRST) on August 3 in response to the Secretary-General's latest report on the implementation of SIPDIS resolution 1701 as well as the report of the Lebanon Independent Border Assessment Team (full text of PRST below). The PRST w [...] | 2007-08-08 23:14:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC KPKO SY IS LE |
07USUNNEWYORK664 | ACTION REQUEST: ADDRESSING THE UN'S REQUEST FOR [...] (C) Summary and Comment. In a Presidential Statement (PRST) adopted on August 3 (reftel),the UN Security Council reiterated its support for the Secretary-General,s request that Israel provide the UN detailed data on its use of cluster bombs in south Lebanon to aid in UN de-mining efforts. T [...] | 2007-08-10 23:12:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KPKO LE IS |
07USUNNEWYORK666 | UN/1267 SANCTIONS: USUN SEEKING GUIDANCE ON [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) During an August 13 meeting with Algerian PermRep Youcef Yousfi, USUN Ambassador Jackie Sanders raised the Algerian Mission's August 3 request to the Al-Qaeda/Taliban Sanctions Committee to designate for targeted sanctions Abd [...] | 2007-08-14 00:09:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AL ETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK667 | FRENCH PERMREP PLEDGES TO WORK CLOSELY WITH USUN [...] (C) Amb Khalilzad greeted newly-arrived French PermRep Jean-Maurice Ripert for a courtesy call on August 10. Ripert began the meeting by declaring bluntly that U.S.-French relations "are not what they should be," and that although the two countries might disagree, the "ways of disagreement sh [...] | 2007-08-14 15:52:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KPKO UNSC IR KO LE SU |
07USUNNEWYORK670 | VAN WALSUM'S READOUT OF SECOND ROUND OF WESTERN [...] (C) Summary: In an August 13 meeting with Ambassador Sanders, UN/SYG Personal Envoy Peter Van Walsum said that the second round of Western Sahara negotiations had shown some engagement by the parties on peripheral substantive issues including natural resources and local administration, but t [...] | 2007-08-15 14:24:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC MO AG WI |
07USUNNEWYORK671 | ALGERIAN READOUT ON AUGUST 10-11 WESTERN SAHARA [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Ambassador Sanders, members of the Algerian delegation to the second round of the Manhasset talks between Morocco and the Polisario on Western Sahara expressed lower expectations of the progress of the talks than they had after the initial round. The Algerians s [...] | 2007-08-15 14:33:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC WI AG MO |
07USUNNEWYORK679 | UPDATE ON UN REFERENCES TO TAIWAN [...] (C) Upon his return to New York August 13, UN SYG Ban met with Amb Khalilzad to discuss a range of issues. On the issue of UN language on the status of Taiwan, Ban said he realized he had gone too far in his recent public statements, and confirmed that the UN would no longer use the phrase " [...] | 2007-08-16 15:14:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK680 | UN SYG BAN ON NEW AFGHANISTAN ENVOY [...] (C) Returning to New York August 13, UN SYG Ban met with Amb Khalilzad to discuss a number of issues, including the proposed new UN envoy for Afghanistan. Ban said there is as yet no consensus on whether to appoint an additional envoy. He noted that the Europeans are in disagreement about the [...] | 2007-08-16 15:39:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AF |
07USUNNEWYORK685 | DPKO REJECTS ISRAELI CLAIMS OF NEW WEAPONS FLOWS [...] (C) Summary. During UNSC consultations on UNIFIL's mandate on August 16, DPKO A/SYG Hedi Annabi acknowledged that the situation in south Lebanon had changed as a result of recent attacks against UNIFIL, but rejected Israeli claims of Hizballah refortification and illegal weapons transfers int [...] | 2007-08-16 23:35:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC KPKO IS LE |
07USUNNEWYORK686 | UN PROPOSAL TO CARVE INVESTIGATION OUT OF OIOS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Secretary-General has proposed to extract investigative responsibility from the UN Office of Internal Oversight (OIOS) and to create a new separate and independent entity to conduct investigations. A select group of Member States, including the U.S., with whom SYG Ban shared h [...] | 2007-08-17 13:50:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC |
07USUNNEWYORK708 | BRZAK/LUBBERS SEXUAL HARASSMENT CASE [...] (C) Ambassador Khalilizad met on August 24 with the UN Secretary General to discuss the Brzak case, making points SIPDIS contained reftel. The Secretary General said he would meet with his UN Legal team to discuss the options for dealing with this case. Subsequently, the UN Office of Legal [...] | 2007-08-27 22:22:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN |
07USUNNEWYORK711 | GAMBARI SEEKS INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT ON BURMA [...] (C) UN Envoy to Burma Ibrahim Gambari conducted three trips in July and August to build international support for pressure on the Burmese regime. Gambari sought to create consensus in support of his good offices mandate that he can exploit to obtain results on his next trip to Burma, tentat [...] | 2007-08-28 14:37:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM BM |
07USUNNEWYORK713 | UN ANNOUNCEMENT OF IRAQ AND SUDAN SRSGS [...] (C) UN SYG Ban phoned Amb Khalilzad August 28 to report that he had received agrement from GOS President Bashir to appoint Ashraf Qazi as SRSG for the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS). This decision frees Ban to announce the appointment of Staffan di Mistura as SRSG for the UN Assistance Mission [...] | 2007-08-28 23:16:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNAUS IZ |
07USUNNEWYORK715 | MEETING WITH THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO [...] 4 (b) and (d). Â [...] | 2007-08-29 23:02:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | OFDP CG UN |
07USUNNEWYORK718 | PROPOSED RAPE RESOLUTION AT UNGA 3RD COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-31 22:21:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI UNGA KFEM |
07USUNNEWYORK725 | GAMBARI TO BRIEF SECURITY COUNCIL ON BURMA [...] (C) Summary: During a September 5 meeting of the Security Council to finalize the program of work for September, Amb Wolff successfully rebuffed a Chinese request to delete the program's "footnote" reference to Burma, and confirmed Council agreement to receive a briefing during the month fr [...] | 2007-09-06 00:01:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM |
07USUNNEWYORK74 | SYG BAN PROPOSES RESTRUCTURING OF DPKO [...] (U) Secretary-General Ban has proposed restructuring the Secretariat to downgrade the Department of Disarmament SIPDIS Affairs (DDA) and split the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) into two distinct departments. Ban has asked the GA to give its blessing to the proposals, which he [...] | 2007-01-30 22:22:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC KUNR KPKO UN UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK745 | GEORGIA PROPOSES NEW IDEAS FOR NEW YORK ACTION ON [...] (C) Summary: On June 7, Ambassador Wolff and Georgian Permrep Alasania discussed next steps in reaction to the August 6 attack on Georgia. Alasania proposed holding some type of panel discussion in which the two Independent Expert Group (IEG) teams and Russian experts could participate inste [...] | 2007-09-12 22:07:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC GG |
07USUNNEWYORK748 | HAITIAN PERMREP PLEDGES HAITI WILL NOT PROVOKE [...] (C) During a meeting on September 10, Haitian PermRep Leo Merores told Poloff he did not expect China to object to a one-year extension of the mandate of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) when it expires on October 15, 2007. (Note: China threatened to veto MINUSTAH's mandate in [...] | 2007-09-13 14:51:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC KPKO CH TW HA |
07USUNNEWYORK749 | UNIFIL COMMANDER GRAZIANO MAINTAINS THAT SOUTH [...] (C) During consultations in New York September 4-7 with the UN, troop contributing countries (TCC),members of the Security Council, and other interested delegations, UNIFIL Force Commander Graziano declared that Hizballah's arms pose the greatest threat to stability in Lebanon. But he mainta [...] | 2007-09-13 18:28:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KPKO UNSC SY IS LE |
07USUNNEWYORK750 | UNAMID IMPLEMENTATION UPDATE AND TIMELINE [...] (C) SUMMARY: DPKO Military Planning Division Acting Director Major General (MG) Five briefed UNSC Military Advisors September 10 on UNAMID implementation. Topics included current status of deployments of the AMIS battalions, the Light Support Package (LSP),the Heavy Support Package (HSP) an [...] | 2007-09-13 19:46:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PGOV PREL SU UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK760 | SYG BAN URGES UNSC TO EXTEND MINUSTAH MANDATE FOR [...] (U) During UNSC consultations on September 13, SYG Ban reported on his August 1-2 visit to Haiti and appealed to delegates to seize an "historic opportunity" to make progress in that country by staying the course and avoiding early disengagement. Recounting how he had walked through Cite Sole [...] | 2007-09-17 17:26:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO UNSC HA |
07USUNNEWYORK763 | BAN ON DARFUR, IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, QUARTET [...] (C) During his monthly lunch with Security Council PermReps September 17, SYG Ban promised an increased UN role in Afghanistan and Iraq and reported the Italians may provide the aviation assets necessary to support UNAMID deployment. He also said the September 23 Quartet meeting should not be [...] | 2007-09-18 00:13:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KPAL SU AF IZ |
07USUNNEWYORK768 | DARFUR: UN-P3 SHARE UNAMID DEPLOYMENT CONCERNS [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 10. 2. (C) SUMMARY. P3 representatives pushed UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations Under Secretary-General Guehenno for rapid deployment of UNAMID forces to Darfur and strategized about support for African troop contributing countries [...] | 2007-09-19 22:31:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL |
07USUNNEWYORK779 | INDIAN UNSC REFORM GAMBIT: LOTS OF SOUND AND FURY, [...] (C) Summary. The last few meetings of the 61st UNGA session of the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on UNSC reform, held between September 11-14, featured much more controversy than usual in the fourteen-year history of the working group. After President of the General Assembly (PGA) Khalifa [...] | 2007-09-21 16:04:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KUNR IN JA PK IT |
07USUNNEWYORK799 | NEW UN ENVOY TO IRAQ OUTLINES FIRST STEPS [...] (C) Summary: On September 26, Ambassador Khalilzad met with Staffan de Mistura, the UN's newly-appointed Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). The Ambassador underscored strong U.S. support for de M [...] | 2007-09-27 21:54:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM IZ |
07USUNNEWYORK8 | UNSC/BURMA: U.S. TABLES BURMA RESOLUTION [...] (C) Summary: The U.S. formally tabled the draft resolution on Burma (reftel) in the Security Council on January 9, citing the need to empower the Secretary-General and his envoy to encourage the Burmese regime to take the concrete steps needed to address the international community's concerns. [...] | 2007-01-10 02:35:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM |
07USUNNEWYORK802 | SYG BAN ON BURMA AND ZIMBABWE [...] (SBU) Ambassador Khalilzad met with Secretary General Ban briefly on September 27. Topics included Burma, Zimbabwe and the prospects for a U.S. candidate for controller of the UN (septel). BURMA ----- 2. (C) Secretary General Ban told Ambassador Khalilzad on September 27 that Special A [...] | 2007-09-28 16:46:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC BM ZI |
07USUNNEWYORK810 | IRAQI STATEMENTS ON MNF EXTENSION [...] (U) Recent press reports quote Iraqi Foreign Minister Zebari as stating: "We will ask the (Security) Council to include an article that allows Iraq to enter into negotiations with the United States to reach long-term security arrangements to meet Iraq's security needs bilaterally." Deputy Fo [...] | 2007-10-01 23:54:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IZ |
07USUNNEWYORK814 | UNSC ADOPTS PRST CONDEMNING DARFUR ATTACK [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Security Council adopted a presidential statement condemning the September 29 killing of 10 AMIS peacekeepers at a camp near Haskanita, South Darfur (please see paragraph 6 for PRST text). The PRST adoption followed two days of heated Security Council debate on October 1 and 2 [...] | 2007-10-03 21:13:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL |
07USUNNEWYORK815 | U/SYG PASCOE SAYS UN CYPRUS PLANS DEPEND ON [...] (C) Summary: In a September 27 meeting with visiting EUR DAS Matt Bryza, UN U/SYG Lynn Pascoe said that if President Papadopoulos of Cyprus loses the election in February then he will push to appoint a new special envoy for the Cyprus conflict and work on brokering a new settlement plan. Pas [...] | 2007-10-04 13:33:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC CY GG |
07USUNNEWYORK821 | UN PROGRESSES ON SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOR LEBANON [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: UN Office of Legal Affairs (OLA) officers told USUN October 3 and October 4 that the UN wants to move quickly this month to appoint the next Commissioner of the UN International Investigation Commission (UNIIIC),who would also serve as the Prosecutor for [...] | 2007-10-05 21:17:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PGOV PTER KCRM SY LE |
07USUNNEWYORK827 | 62ND UNGA: SIXTH COMMITTEE- UN SECRETARIAT NOTE [...] (C) USUN Legal Adviser contacted ASyG for Legal Affairs Larry Johnson October 5 to advise him, per reftel, that the United State would prefer that the UN not issue its draft note on "Criminal Accountability of United Nations Officials and Experts on Missions" as an official document. Johnson [...] | 2007-10-08 13:58:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK831 | GAMBARI DISCUSSES NEXT STEPS ON BURMA [...] (C) Summary: In a one-on-one meeting October 8, Special Adviser Gambari told Ambassador Khalilzad that he needed staff to follow up on his recent mission to Burma and that he planned to form a core group comprised of the U.S., China, Japan, India, the Russian Federation, Singapore (as ASEAN ch [...] | 2007-10-09 13:29:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC BM |
07USUNNEWYORK839 | AMBASSADOR DAILEY MEETS WITH UN COUNTERTERRORISM [...] (C) Begin summary and introduction: On September 28, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Counterterrorism Dell Dailey met with the United Nations' Counter Terrorism Implementation Task Force Director Robert Orr; Counter Terrorism Committee Chair Amb. Arias; UNSCR 1267 Committee Chair Amb. Verbeke, an [...] | 2007-10-09 23:41:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK848 | SYG BAN BRIEFS USUN ON CAPITAL MASTER PLAN [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (C) In a meeting on October 5, SYG Ban briefed Ambassador Khalilzad on his revised strategy for the UN's Capital Master Plan (CMP) -- the renovation of the UN's New York headquarters which is necessary in part to bring UN buildings [...] | 2007-10-10 23:01:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ACABQ UNGA KUNR |
07USUNNEWYORK856 | HARIRI SATISFIED WITH PACE OF UN EFFORTS TO SET UP [...] (C) Summary. During an October 8-9 visit to New York, Lebanese MP Sa'ad Hariri held meetings with UN SYG Ban Ki-Moon, other Secretariat officials, and UNSC members that focused largely on the need to speed up the set up of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. Ambassador Khalilzad met Hariri on [...] | 2007-10-11 22:04:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
07USUNNEWYORK868 | RUCKER WANTS LEGAL SCRIPT [...] (C) In a meeting with Ambassador Wolff on October 11, UNMIK SRSG Rucker said he had been holding meetings with the Department of Political Affairs (DPA) and the Office of Legal Affairs (OLA) to discuss concerns regarding Kosovo future status. He said that in these meetings he had emphasized [...] | 2007-10-15 22:15:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | KV PGOV PREL UNSC YI SR |
07USUNNEWYORK881 | P5 DISCUSSES SUDAN AND BURMA [...] (C) Summary. During a P-5 meeting on October 16, Ambassador Khalilzad, supported by his British and French counterparts, pressed Russian PR Churkin and Chinese DPR Liu for coordinated pressure on Sudan to cooperate with UNAMID deployment, and to work together to get UN Special Adviser Gambari [...] | 2007-10-18 15:42:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC BM |
07USUNNEWYORK882 | UNGA PRESIDENT PROPOSES MECHANISM TO MOVE FORWARD [...] (C) During a meeting with Ambassador Khalilzad on October 17, President of the UN General Assembly (PGA) Srgjan Kerim proposed that he convene a "Group of Friends" to agree on the modalities and the substantive elements for the inter-governmental negotiations on UNSC reform set to begin in the [...] | 2007-10-18 19:19:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK883 | DARFUR: LSP HANDOVER CONCLUDED, AMIS SUPPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: USUN carried out reftel instructions on October 17, executing a Light Support Package (LSP) handover document and delivering a note verbale detailing extended U.S. assistance to AMIS during the transition to UNAMID. UN officials were fully cooperative regarding the handover docume [...] | 2007-10-18 22:10:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SU |
07USUNNEWYORK886 | SYG BAN PRESSES SUDAN TO ACCEPT HYBRID FORCE IN [...] (C) During a meeting with Ambassador Khalilzad on October 18, SYG Ban Ki-Moon said he had urged AU Chair Konare, as well as Nigerian, Egyptian, Senegalese, and Rwandan officials, to press Sudanese President Bashir to accept the hybrid troops on offer. He also said he plans to urge South Afric [...] | 2007-10-19 14:27:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SU |
07USUNNEWYORK888 | UN LEGAL COUNSEL REPORTS CONTINUING PROGRESS ON [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY: UN Legal Counsel and Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs (OLA) Nicolas Michel updated Ambassador Wolff on October 17 on the UN's work to make the Special Tribunal for Lebanon operational soon. Michel reported that the selections panel for the judges and prosecutor w [...] | 2007-10-19 16:06:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PGOV PREL PTER KCRM SY LE |
07USUNNEWYORK890 | RUSSIANS SEEK ADOPTION OF WORKING PAPER ON [...] (U) Action Request: para 8. 2. (U) BEGIN SUMMARY: The Russians have circulated a paper, entitled "Working paper on the basic conditions and standard criteria for the introduction and implementation of sanctions and other coercive measures," (A/AC.182/L.114/Rev.2) and proposed that the G [...] | 2007-10-19 16:29:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK896 | U.S. RAPE RESOLUTION: STATE OF PLAY AS OF OCT. 19 [...] (U) Summary: The United States tabled its anti-rape resolution in the UNGA Third Committee on Wednesday. The resolution has attracted considerable opposition from certain African, Middle Eastern, and other delegations who correctly perceive it as targeting, inter alia, the Government of Suda [...] | 2007-10-20 01:06:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC UN UNGA KWMN SOCI |
07USUNNEWYORK901 | AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD MEETS WITH PGA KERIM TO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-23 13:59:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC KUNR UNGA UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK909 | FALKLANDS: ARGENTINA SUGGESTS UNGA ACTION TO FORCE [...] (C) On instructions from Buenos Aires, Argentine PermRep Jorge Arguello approached Amb Wolff on October 22 to indicate that Argentina is "thinking" of sponsoring action in the UNGA to encourage UK-Argentina negotiations on the issue of sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) during the [...] | 2007-10-24 13:31:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AR UK |
07USUNNEWYORK918 | U.S. AND JAPAN DISCUSS BURMA, AFGHANISTAN, DPRK, [...] (C) Summary. At Japanese request, Amb Khalilzad and Japanese PermRep Yukio Takasu held a wide-ranging consultation on October 22 on issues currently before the UNSC as well as on UN reform. On Burma, Takasu urged increased pressure on the regime, but argued against actions which risk losing [...] | 2007-10-25 20:22:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KUNR BM AF KS IR |
07USUNNEWYORK924 | IAN MARTIN BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL ON NEPAL [...] (C) Summary: During an October 25 update for the Security Council, Ian Martin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the UN Mission in Nepal SIPDIS (UNMIN),told Council members that the recent postponement of Constitutional Assembly elections had thrust Nepal into "the [...] | 2007-10-26 22:01:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC NP |
07USUNNEWYORK927 | SYG BAN: UN NEEDS HELP WITH BASHIR, UNAMID [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: SYG Ban Ki-Moon told AMB Khalilzad in a October 25 meeting that the UN needs assistance in convincing Sudanese President Bashir to cooperate with UNAMID deployment and to convince troop contributing countries to provide additional aviation and transport capabili [...] | 2007-10-29 14:55:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SU MOPS |
07USUNNEWYORK931 | BAN WANTS U.S. HELP TO ENGAGE SAUDIS WITH BASHIR [...] (C) Over lunch on October 29, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and Ambassador Khalilzad discussed Sudan, Burma and UN reform (septel). ----- SUDAN ----- 2. (C) SYG Ban said he was losing patience with President Bashir. Ban has asked a wide range of member states including South Africa [...] | 2007-10-29 22:44:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC BM SU |
07USUNNEWYORK941 | UNGA PRESIDENCY 2008: THWARTING GRULAC CONSENUS [...] (U) This is an action request. See paras 2 & 7. 2. (C) Summary. Many GRULAC permreps remain uneasy about the prospects of Nicaragua emerging as the GRULAC candidate for (and likely occupant of) the 2008 UNGA Presidency (PGA),but are reluctant to take action to identify an alternative. Ba [...] | 2007-10-31 22:40:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK949 | SYG BAN VENTS DARFUR FRUSTRATION [...] (C) SUMMARY. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Security Council's Perm 5 that he has become "personally angry" with Sudanese President Bashir for lack of cooperation on UNAMID force generation and for lack of implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. Urging the [...] | 2007-11-01 21:49:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK951 | UPDATE ON DARFUR PEACEKEEPING DEPLOYMENT NOVEMBER [...] (C) Summary: Darfur deployment update: --AMIS Force Commander has yet to request in writing that contracted US military advisors continue in their current positions; --The first of the High Ranking Operational & Technical Advisory Team (HROTAT) visits began this week with UN personnel trav [...] | 2007-11-01 23:12:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AF SU UNC KPKO UN |
07USUNNEWYORK952 | ANTI-RAPE RESOLUTION UPDATE [...] (C) Negotiations on the text of the U.S.-initiated anti-rape resolution are heading into the end-game. Over 50 countries, including the European Union and others from various regions, have signed on as co-sponsors of a compromise text that asks for action to eliminate rape generally, "includi [...] | 2007-11-01 23:36:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI PHUM KFEM UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK957 | LIBERIA SEEKS U.S. GUIDANCE ON MEETINGS WITH PA [...] (U) See action request in paragraph 4. 2. (C) Liberian Permanent Representative Milton Barnes met with AMB Khalilzad on November 11 to discuss President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's mid-November state visit to Israel. AMB Barnes said that the Liberian Ministry of Foreign Affairs had instructed [...] | 2007-11-05 21:19:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IS LI |
07USUNNEWYORK963 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: URGING UNSC ACTION AGAINST [...] (C/NF) AMB Khalilzad delivered reftel points on November 6. SYG Ban agreed to distribute the July 5 letter from International Maritime Organization (IMO) Secretary General Mitropoulos to the Security Council. Ban said he supported Security Council action to address the worsening piracy situ [...] | 2007-11-06 21:55:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | SO PGOV IMO KCRM UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK964 | DPKO U/SYG GUEHENNO TRAVELING TO ADDIS FOR MEETING [...] (C) UN SYG Ban informed Amb Khalilzad Nov 6 that U/SYG for Peacekeeping Guehenno is traveling shortly to Addis Ababa to meet with Sudanese Major General Maghzoub to discuss technical issues related to the implementation of UNAMID. Ban and Guehenno are cautiously optimistic that this meeting c [...] | 2007-11-06 22:17:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SU |
07USUNNEWYORK965 | AUSTRALIA WANTS UNSC MANDATE FOR MNF-I FOR SEVERAL [...] (C) During a meeting with Amb Khalilzad on November 2, Australian PermRep Robert Hill said his government would want a Chapter VII UNSC mandate for its troops in Iraq for several years to come (other issues reported septel). Hill was reassured by Amb Khalilzad that the UNSC would extend the C [...] | 2007-11-07 14:14:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC AS PM IZ |
07USUNNEWYORK97 | KOSOVO: USUN RUNS INTERFERENCE AT UN FOR AHTISAARI [...] (C) SUMMARY. USUN has delivered strong messages at several UN levels making clear our conviction that Special Envoy Ahtisaari should have the last word on the composition of his own settlement proposal and report. UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) Europe Director Harland reassur [...] | 2007-02-02 23:03:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL YI UNMIK |
07USUNNEWYORK972 | FINDING FUNDING FOR UN COMPOUND IN IRAQ [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 14. SUMMARY AND COMMENT ------------------- 2. (C) Absent U.S. intervention, the UN will soon begin the process of requesting Member State approval of approximately 190 million dollars under the UN's 2008-2009 regular budget for const [...] | 2007-11-07 23:03:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IZ |
07USUNNEWYORK974 | UPDATE ON GAMBARI'S VISIT TO BURMA [...] (C) UN U/SYG Lynn Pascoe told Ambassador Wolff in a November 7 telephone conversation that Special Adviser Ibrahim Gambari was departing Nay Pyi Taw November 8 for Rangoon, where he planned to meet with Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK),the NLD Executive Committee and the UN Country Team. Gambari will [...] | 2007-11-08 11:59:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM |
07USUNNEWYORK976 | RUSSIA COMPLAINS ABOUT ISAF RENEWAL [...] (C) Russian DPR Dolgov, emphasizing that he was acting on instructions, informed Amb Wolff November 8 that Moscow remained troubled by the negotiating process for UNSCR 1776, the Security Council resolution adopted in September that extended ISAF's authorization for another year. Russia beli [...] | 2007-11-08 22:23:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC AF |
07USUNNEWYORK980 | UPDATE ON DARFUR PEACEKEEPING DEPLOYMENT NOVEMBER 8 [...] (C) SUMMARY: AMB Wolcott met with DPKO U/SYG Guehenno November 8 to discuss UNAMID deployment. Guehenno reported that Sudanese Major General had backpedaled on his promise to meet in Addis Ababa after the UN communicated that the meeting would be primarily technical and not an opportunity to [...] | 2007-11-08 23:25:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PGOV PREL SU UNC UN KPKO |
07USUNNEWYORK985 | AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD'S MEETING WITH SYG'S PERSONAL [...] (C) Ambassador Khalilzad met November 2 with the Secretary-General's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Peter SIPDIS van Walsum, who, following the October 31 renewal of the MINURSO (Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara) mandate, was consulting the "parties" (Morocco and the Polisar [...] | 2007-11-09 16:51:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC AG MO WI |
07USUNNEWYORK997 | BUILDING THE UN'S LONG-TERM COMPOUND IN BAGHDAD [...] (C) Summary: USUN and UK poloffs met November 8 with representatives from the UN,s Departments of Political Affairs, Safety and Security, and Management to discuss the development of the UN,s proposal to build an integrated compound in Baghdad. The compound is intended to serve as the headqu [...] | 2007-11-09 20:05:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK999 | DPKO: SUDAN QUIETLY SLOWING COMPONENTS OF UNAMID [...] (C) SUMMARY: UN Department of Peacekeeping Officials have reported to USUN that the Government of Sudan (GOS) is hindering UNAMID deployment in a variety of ways. Per DPKO, Sudanese officials have delayed agreement on force composition, failed to facilitate land and water rights in many areas [...] | 2007-11-09 22:50:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SU MOPS |
07VATICAN102 | VATICAN: FORMER FOREIGN MINSITER TO BE ISLAM CZAR [...] (C) Pope Benedict XVI has appointed former FM Jean Louis Tauran as President of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue, the lead Vatican department for relations with non-Christian faiths, including Islam. The move restores the autonomy of a Council that Benedict had placed und [...] | 2007-06-28 14:37:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI KIRF PTER LE VT |
07VATICAN103 | VATICAN APPOINTS IRAQ, CHINA EXPERT TO KEY SLOT [...] (C) Pope Benedict has named Archbishop Fernando Filoni the Holy See's "Sostituto" or "Substitute", the number three position at the Vatican. Filoni will have regular access to the pope and will communicate closely with many of the Roman Curia offices. Filoni has extensive diplomatic experienc [...] | 2007-07-03 12:34:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI KIRF IZ CH VT |
07VATICAN104 | IRAQ: CHALDEAN PATRIARCH SUPPORTS CHRISTIAN AREAS [...] (C) Summary: Monsignor Philip Najim, Representative of the Chaldean Catholic Church to the Holy See and the Chaldeans' European representative, told us June 25 that the Patriarch supports the idea of a revitalization plan for tradition Christian areas in northern Iraq. The Chaldeans, who rem [...] | 2007-07-03 13:21:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PGOV KIRF PHUM IZ VT |
07VATICAN106 | HOLY SEE FEARS ISRAEL BACKING OFF COMMITMENTS [...] (C) Holy See officials say that Israel is backing off commitments it made during a May plenary session on the Fundamental Agreement between the two sides. Vatican sources told us the Israelis had promised to set dates immediately for a strict schedule of ongoing negotiations, but have now re [...] | 2007-07-09 15:07:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM SOCI IS VT |
07VATICAN11 | POPE RAPS MAPUTO PROTOCOL, PLAN OF ACTION [...] (U) Pope Benedict XVI criticized the Maputo Protocol and related Plan of Action (reftels and septel) in his high-profile January 8 address to diplomats accredited to the Holy See. Addressing "attacks on life", the pope said that such attacks "do not even spare regions with a traditional cultu [...] | 2007-01-10 09:44:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL VT |
07VATICAN111 | VATICAN EXPECTS STRONG REACTION TO POPE'S LETTER TO CHINESE [...] (C) Summary: According to Holy See MFA Country Director for PRC Rota Graziosi, the Pope's China Letter has undercut the standing of the Government of China in "administering" the Catholic Church in China and as a result, the Holy See expects a strong, but perhaps, moderated reaction sometime [...] | 2007-07-12 16:10:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF SOCI PREL PGOV CH VT |
07VATICAN127 | HOLY SEE: LEBANESE ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary. Lebanese ambassador to the Holy See told Amb. Rooney September 11 that the Holy See values its contacts with the US but feels US should listen more closely to Vatican views. The recent visit of the Syrian deputy PM was mishandled by the Vatican, which failed to deliver a clear mess [...] | 2007-09-14 09:32:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LE VT |
07VATICAN133 | HOLY SEE: CARDINAL TAURAN ON LEBANON AND POPE'S EVOLVING [...] (C) Summary. Cardinal Tauran, the new head of Vatican interreligious dialogue and one of the Holy See's Lebanon experts, told Ambassador September 12 that Pope Benedict has changed his mind in some ways about Islam, and now sees a new basis for relations based on shared fundamental values. Ta [...] | 2007-09-25 07:18:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL VT LE |
07VATICAN135 | HOLY SEE: BACKGROUND ON MEETING OF SUDANESE PRESIDENT WITH [...] (C) Summary. The Holy See's point man on Sudan provided DCM September 26 with some background to the recent meeting of Sudanese President Bashir with Pope Benedict XVI; the meeting went well, according to the Vatican. End summary. 2. (SBU) DCM spoke briefly September 26 with Monsignor France [...] | 2007-09-27 07:35:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL VT |
07VATICAN136 | HOLY SEE: CARDINAL MARTINO ON IRAN, IRAQ, OTHER SUBJECTS [...] (C) Summary. Cardinal Martino, head of two Holy See agencies (Justice and Peace, and Migrants) spoke with Ambassador September 25 on a variety of subjects, including Iraq, Iran, Papal travel to the US, Secretary Rice, TIP, and his own travel. Martino pointed out that his candor on Iraq was ac [...] | 2007-09-27 09:22:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL VT |
07VATICAN138 | A/S DESUTTER ENGAGES HOLY SEE ON NONPROLIFERATION, [...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary for Verification, Compliance, and Implementation Paula DeSutter, in a September 13 meeting with Holy See Deputy Foreign Minister-equivalent Monsignor Pietro Parolin, reviewed the status of various arms control negotiations currently underway and stressed the [...] | 2007-09-28 16:42:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL IAEA MNUC KNNP IR VT IS |
07VATICAN139 | HOLY SEE: DISCUSSING FATHER RYDZYK [...] (C) Summary. Department's Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues met key officials from the Holy See and the Redemptorist order to discuss the case of Radio Maryja and the impact of Father Rydzyk's anti-Semitic remarks on Polish restutition efforts. Church officials spoke cautiously but took caref [...] | 2007-10-01 08:54:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SOCI PHUM SCUL PL VT |
07VATICAN150 | VATICAN SECRETARY OF STATE TO VISIT CUBA [...] (U) Summary: Secretary of State Bertone is likely to visit Cuba in January of 2008. Bertone's visit would coincide with the 10th anniversary of John Paul II's historic visit, and is intended to assess social and religious developments since then. The Vatican continues to favor dialogue as a [...] | 2007-10-17 07:31:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM SOCI KIRF CU VE VT |
07VATICAN165 | CORRECTED COPY: VATICAN-AFFILIATED INSTITUTE HAILS LETTER [...] (C) Summary: The president of the Vatican-affiliated Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies has hailed "A Common Word", the letter that 138 Muslim scholars have recently addressed to the Pope and other prominent Christian leaders inviting them to a theological dialogue, as an unprecedented an [...] | 2007-11-09 08:49:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM SOCI KIRF VT |
07VATICAN17 | VATICAN: MARTINO SEES END NEAR FOR CASTRO; AMBASSADOR URGES [...] (C) Holy See Justice and Peace Council President Cardinal Martino told the Ambassador January 16 that he had heard from contacts the same morning that Fidel Castro had peritonitis and was edging even closer to death. The Ambassador emphasized to Martino and to Holy See FM Mamberti the need for [...] | 2007-01-16 17:23:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI CU VT |
07VATICAN170 | HOLY SEE: PDAS SATTERFIELD'S MEETING WITH FM MAMBERTI ON [...] (C) Summary. During a November 15 meeting in Rome, NEA PDAS/Iraq Coordinator Satterfield and Holy See foreign minister Mamberti discussed Lebanon and other Middle Eastern issues. Satterfield and Mamberti agreed on the priority of supporting the democratic process in Lebanon to ensure the elect [...] | 2007-11-21 09:40:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL XF VT |
07VATICAN171 | BRIGITTINE SISTER DESCRIBES FIDEL'S HEALTH, RELIGIOUS [...] (C) Summary. A prominent Rome-based nun who is on good terms with Fidel Castro told Ambassador about her recent trip to Cuba, Fidel's health, improving conditions for religion in Cuba, and relations with Cardinal Ortega. End summary. 2. (C) Ambassador and DCM called on Mother Tekla Famig [...] | 2007-11-21 09:59:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CU VT |
07VATICAN172 | HOLY SEE UPSET ABOUT ISRAELI SINGLE-ENTRY VISA POLICY FOR [...] (U) Summary: The Holy See is upset about new Israeli visa policies that effectively limit the ability of the Church to serve the needs of Catholics in the Holy Land. The new Israeli visa policy comes at a time when Vatican diplomats are already expressing frustration over the lack of progress [...] | 2007-11-21 10:02:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KIRF IS VT |
07VATICAN177 | VENEZUELA DEMARCHE DELIVERED: HOLY SEE SHARES USG CONCERNS [...] (C) Summary: The Holy See shares USG concerns about the proposed constitutional reforms in Venezuela and supports statements made by the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference and by the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM). As CELAM speaks for all of Latin America bishops' conferences, the Hol [...] | 2007-11-28 08:55:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF VE VT |
07VATICAN178 | CORRECTED COPY: VENEZUELA DEMARCHE DELIVERED: HOLY SEE [...] (C) Summary: The Holy See shares USG concerns about the proposed constitutional reforms in Venezuela and supports statements made by the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference and by the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM). As CELAM speaks for all of Latin America bishops' conferences, the Hol [...] | 2007-11-28 09:19:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF VE VT |
07VATICAN180 | HOLY SEE PLEASED ABOUT SAUDI KING MEETING WITH POPE, [...] (C) Summary: a Vatican official with first-hand knowledge of the recent meeting between the Pope and King Abdallah characterized the Saudi monarch's visit as an important step in the development of Saudi-Holy See relations. The Holy See continues to press for greater religious freedom in Sau [...] | 2007-11-30 09:17:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF SA VT |
07VATICAN183 | HOLY SEE FRUSTRATED OVER NEGOTIATIONS WITH ISRAEL [...] (C) Summary: The Holy See is frustrated over lack of progress in reaching agreements with Israel regarding property and other rights of the Church in Jerusalem and the Holy Land. The Holy See blames the Government of Israel for the negotiations' impasse, and is now allowing Vatican officials [...] | 2007-12-03 17:33:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF IS VT |
07VATICAN2 | POPE BENEDICT XVI'S STRONG WORLD PEACE DAY MESSAGE [...] (C) Summary. Pope Benedict XVI's first World Peace Day message, released in December, contains strong arguments of both religious and political nature. The 14-page document entitled "The Human Person, The Heart of Peace" follows some familiar philosophical themes, but also reflects Benedict's [...] | 2007-01-03 18:36:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SOCI VT |
07VATICAN20 | VATICAN: VIETNAM AND CHINA CHURCH ISSUES FRONT AND CENTER [...] (C) Summary: The Holy See intends to hold meetings on January 19 and 20 with key Catholic officials to formulate a common policy toward China in response to the recent illicit ordinations by the GoC. In related news, unofficial Vatican sources have confirmed that Pope Benedict will receive V [...] | 2007-01-18 16:56:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV CM VM VT |
07VATICAN26 | HOLY SEE: DEPUTY FM DISCUSSES MIDDLE EAST, CHINA, [...] (C) Summary. Deputy FM Parolin discussed a number of countries with visiting EUR/WE Director Allegrone on January 24. The Holy See was unsatisfied by its recent talks with Israel on a Final Agreement. Parolin sought information about the funding situation for the Palestinian Authority. He wa [...] | 2007-01-29 07:57:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL VT |
07VATICAN28 | HOLY SEE READOUT ON VIETNAM PM VISIT [...] (C) Summary. Last week's meeting between the Pope and Vietnamese PM Dung went well, according to a Vatican diplomat. The initiative for the visit came from Dung, who considered the meeting very important. The GOV increasingly recognizes the value of the role the Church can play in the country [...] | 2007-01-29 13:11:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL VT VM |
07VATICAN29 | HOLY SEE: RELATIONS WITH EAST TIMOR [...] (C) During a January 29 conversation with charge d'affaires, the Holy See's desk officer for Southeast Asia and Oceania (protect) discussed the October 2006 visit to Rome of East Timor Prime Minister Ramos-Horta, during which he met Pope Benedict XVI. The official shared his view of the gover [...] | 2007-01-29 14:14:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL VT TT |
07VATICAN30 | PRC - HOLY SEE RELATIONS IN FLUX; VATICAN CONVENES CHINA [...] (C) Summary: The Vatican convened a two-day meeting on January 19 and 20 to address its China policy. The meeting, presided over by Cardinal Secretary of State Bertone, sought to formulate a unified policy toward China to address the continuing challenges presented by the GoC including a spa [...] | 2007-01-29 16:39:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV CH VT |
07VATICAN37 | HOLY SEE: THREATS TO PRESS FREEDOM IN VENEZUELA [...] (C) DCM spoke February 6 with Monsignor Marcel Smejkal, the Holy See official responsible for Andean countries, about Venezuela. DCM emphasized reftel points on recent GOV actions to curtail the freedom of the press. DCM reminded Smejkal (who is relatively new to his position) of Embassy's fr [...] | 2007-02-07 15:12:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM VT VE |
07VATICAN47 | HOLY SEE: NEA DAS DANIN DISCUSSES LEBANON AND MIDDLE EAST [...] (C) Summary. NEA DAS Danin discussed Lebanon, Israel/Palestinians, and Holy See relations with Israel with Deputy FM Parolin on Febaruary 23. On Lebanon, Danin shared the USG analysis of the situation, and clarified USG perspective on Syria's role. Parolin emphasized the need for Christian u [...] | 2007-03-01 10:28:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LE VT |
07VATICAN5 | DRL A/S LOWENKRON CONSULTS WITH HOLY SEE ON RELIGIOUS [...] (C) Summary: DRL A/S Lowenkron's December 21 meeting with deputy FM Parolin focused largely on religious freedom matters in Vietnam, Lebanon, Turkey, Venezuela, and Cuba. Parolin explained the Holy See's strategy for increasing religious freedom in problem countries and provided details of th [...] | 2007-01-05 12:26:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI CH CU LE TU VM VT |
07VATICAN51 | VATICAN: PUTIN'S VISIT MAINLY CEREMONIAL [...] (C) Vatican officials told us March 1 that President Putin's March 13 visit to Pope Benedict XVI (ref a) would be a short "get-acquainted" session, as it would be the first meeting between the two men. No meeting had yet been scheduled for Putin with Cardinal Secretary of State Bertone. Off [...] | 2007-03-05 16:02:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM SOCI RS VT |
07VATICAN53 | VATICAN PLEASED WITH SFEIR COMMENTS ON UNITY [...] (C) Monsignor Franco Coppola, Holy See Secretariat of State Middle East Director, told us March 8 that he was pleased with recent strong statements by the Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir calling for unity among Christians in Lebanon. Coppola did caution, however, that these and other stat [...] | 2007-03-09 16:28:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LE VT |
07VATICAN54 | CARITAS IN CHINA: QUIETLY GROWING [...] (C) Summary: A March 6-7 Vatican-hosted Caritas Internationalis meeting on China revealed that Caritas is making small but significant strides in providing support to the Chinese poor with the tacit approval of some local Chinese officials. While there will be no immediate move to establish a [...] | 2007-03-12 18:48:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF SOCI PREL PGOV CH VT |
07VATICAN55 | CARITAS COMMITTED TO DPRK OPERATIONS [...] (C) The Holy See's aid and development agency, Caritas International, is committed to its programs in North Korea. Caritas South Korea has assumed control of the program from Caritas Hong Kong and is slowly overcoming transition problems. Since 1995, some US$33 million has been spent on Caritas [...] | 2007-03-15 14:12:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI KN KS XB PHUM KIRF VT |
07VATICAN58 | ZIMBABWE: HOLY SEE TO SPEAK OUT? [...] (U) This telegram contains a recommendation and action request below. --------------- Background -------------- 2. (C) Post noted in early February that the Holy See was considering speaking out on Zimbabwe (reftel). The issue is now on the front burner. A senior cardi [...] | 2007-03-20 10:17:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM SOCI ZI ZU SF UK VT |
07VATICAN59 | HOLY SEE APPRECIATES PROGRESS IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Holy See MFA Director for Afghanistan Murphy received with interest several fact sheets on reconstruction efforts in the country and encouraged us to keep up our efforts to publicize the positive strides that have been made. With few Catholics and no diplomatic representation in Afghanis [...] | 2007-03-20 15:59:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PHUM SOCI PTER VT |
07VATICAN61 | CHINA: POPE'S EASTER LETTER ON HOLD? [...] (C) Summary: According to Holy See MFA Country Director for PRC Rota-Graziosi, the Vatican will not release its much-anticipated Papal letter to Chinese Catholics at Easter time, as was expected. Rota-Graziosi could not say when it would be released. The letter will purportedly address the [...] | 2007-03-21 18:18:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF SOCI PREL PGOV CH VT |
07VATICAN63 | HOLY SEE ON VENEZUELAN ASYLUM CASE OF NIXON MORENO [...] (C) Summary. Charge raised case of Nixon Moreno with the Holy See deputy foreign minister Parolin, who confirmed March 23 that Moreno is in the Papal Nunciature in Caracas. Parolin said Moreno would probably eventually go to a third country such as Canada; the GOV is presently opposed but mi [...] | 2007-03-23 15:06:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM VE VT |
07VATICAN64 | ZIMBABWE: HOLY SEE WAITING FOR OK FROM BISHOPS [...] (C) In response to ref (b) points, Holy See deputy foreign minister equivalent Pietro Parolin told the Charge March 23 that the Holy See was considering speaking out further on Zimbabwe, but felt compelled to wait until it got the "green light" from the Zimbabwe bishops to do so. He noted t [...] | 2007-03-23 15:41:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI KIRF PGOV PREL ZI VT |
07VATICAN65 | HOLY SEE: PUTIN'S MEETINGS AT THE VATICAN [...] (C) Summary. President Putin's visit to the Holy See and his first meeting with Pope Benedict XVI evoked positive statements from both sides and contributed to warming relations between the Holy See and the Russian Orthodox Church. Little information has emerged about Putin's one-on-one with [...] | 2007-03-23 17:36:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL VT |
07VATICAN69 | LEBANON: AMBASSADOR PRESSES HOLY SEE [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador pressed Holy See deputy FM Parolin on bolstering Lebanon, and Patriarch Sfeir, during an April 3 meeting. Parolin indicated that the Holy See remained unconvinced that an envoy could be effective at this time. He drew ambassador's attention to recent strong statements [...] | 2007-04-04 08:50:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL VT |
07VATICAN70 | HOLY SEE REMAINS CONCERNED ABOUT THE MAPUTO PLAN [...] (C) Ambassador and DCM called on Monsignor Pietro Parolin, the Holy See's Undersecretary for Relations with States (i.e. deputy foreign minister) April 3 and raised ref a points, asking for Vatican help in resisting the Plan's language on diverting HIV/AIDS funding and on abortion. Parolin rec [...] | 2007-04-04 10:31:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SOCI VT |
07VATICAN71 | HOLY SEE COMMENTS ON ISRAELI/PALESTINIAN CONFERENCE, [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador and DCM discussed the Holy See-Israel Fundamental Agreement during a meeting with Holy See deputy FM Parolin, and also discussed the Holy See's participation in a recent UN event in Rome addressing Palestinian rights. Parolin said the recently postponed plenary sessio [...] | 2007-04-04 10:38:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS VT |
07VATICAN72 | ZIMBABWE: HOLY SEE STILL WAITING FOR BISHOPS [...] (C) Ambassador and DCM again discussed Zimbabwe with Monsignor Pietro Parolin, the Holy See's Undersecretary for Relations with States (i.e., deputy foreign minister) on April 3. Pointing to the strong statements made in recent days by Catholic bishops in Zimbabwe, Ambassador urged the Holy [...] | 2007-04-04 10:39:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL VT ZI |
07VATICAN76 | POPE BEMOANS SITUATION IN IRAQ; SPEAKS OUT ON ZIMBABWE [...] (C) Pope Benedict claimed "nothing positive" was coming from an Iraq "torn apart by continual slaughter" in his widely-publicized Easter address April 8. Following intensive lobbying by Post, the pontiff broke the Holy See's silence on Zimbabwe, decrying the "grievous crisis" in that country [...] | 2007-04-10 16:05:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI KIRF IZ ZI LE SU VT |
07VATICAN8 | VATICAN: IRAQ AMBASSADOR ON IRAQ INTERNAL AFFAIRS [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi Ambassador to the Holy See Albert Yelda met with Embassy Officers along with a visiting Embassy Baghdad Officer December 29 to discuss a range of internal Iraqi matters. Yelda commented on the Saddam Hussein trial and execution, USG engagement with Syria, former PM Allawi, [...] | 2007-01-08 14:50:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER SY IZ VT |
07VATICAN81 | HOLY SEE: AMBASSADOR PRESSES VATICAN ON IRAQ [...] (C) The Ambassador raised ref (a) points on Iraq with the Holy See's Secretary for Relations with States (FM equivalent),Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, April 20. The Ambassador emphasized the many positive developments that have occurred in various parts of Iraq. He acknowledged that much work [...] | 2007-04-26 13:44:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL VT |
07VATICAN84 | HOLY SEE: NEA A/S WELCH APRIL 24 MEETING WITH FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary. NEA A/S Welch met Holy See FM Mamberti April 24. Welch urged Mamberti to consider sending a papal envoy to Lebanon and to press Patriarch Sfeir to be as active as possible. Welch expressed concern about the situation in Palestinian areas, the unhelpful role of Syria, and recent [...] | 2007-05-04 08:10:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL VT |
07VATICAN85 | PAPAL VISIT TO BRAZIL: A PREVIEW [...] (SBU) Pope Benedict XVI travels to Brazil May 9-13 to open a plenary session of the council of Latin American and Caribbean bishops conferences (CELAM). The three most recent continental meetings (Colombia 1968, Mexico 1979, and Dominican Republic 1992) provided direction for the Catholic Chur [...] | 2007-05-06 13:05:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF ECON SCUL SOCI BR VT XM |
07VATICAN86 | SANT'EGIDIO PESSIMISTIC REGARDING PRC --HOLY SEE RELATIONS [...] (C) Valeria Martano of the Vatican-linked Sant'Egidio Community believes China-Holy See relations are stuck in neutral in the short to mid-term because the Chinese do not see a clear benefit to formalizing relations with the Holy See. China's economic clout on the international trade front tak [...] | 2007-05-09 00:21:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM CH VT |
07VATICAN90 | HOLY SEE GEARS UP FOR ISRAELIS [...] (C) The Holy See will host a May 21 plenary session addressing issues related to the 1993 Fundamental Agreement with Israel. The Vatican still hopes for a breakthrough in the stalemated negotiations, but negotiator Fr. David Jaeger told us he feared that the Israelis would not bend on proper [...] | 2007-05-18 14:42:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI KIRF IS VT |
07VATICAN93 | HOLY SEE ENCOURAGED BY TALKS WITH ISRAEL [...] (C) Vatican officials were encouraged by the May 21 plenary session with Israel on the Fundamental Agreement (FA) between the Holy See and Israel. While there were no major breakthroughs, officials told us that the Israelis engaged on the issues in a way they had not done before. One import [...] | 2007-05-24 15:56:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI KIRF PHUM IS VT |
07VATICAN96 | HOLY SEE EMPHASIZES BALANCE BETWEEN JUSTICE AND [...] (C) Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson met with officials from the Holy See and from Vatican-affiliated NGO Sant'Egidio May 22 regarding war crimes issues. The Holy See concurred with Williamson's assessment that a one-size-fits-all approach was sub-optimal when addre [...] | 2007-06-13 14:11:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KAWC SOCI VT RW BY SU CG |
07VATICAN99 | IRAQ: CHRISTIANS FLEEING FORCED CONVERSIONS [...] (C) Summary: Monsignor Philip Najim, Representative of the Chaldean Catholic Church to the Holy See and the Chaldeans' European representative, told us in a May meeting that Christians were continuing to flee Iraq in large numbers due to an active campaign of forced conversions to Islam and t [...] | 2007-06-21 19:21:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PGOV KIRF PHUM IZ SW VT |
07VIENNA1016 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH CHANCELLOR GUSENBAUER [...] (C) In a cordial one-hour meeting with Ambassador McCaw on April 16, Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer said that the Balkans would remain Austria's top foreign policy priority. In particular, his government was committed to a robust participation in a prospective EU ESDP mission in Kosovo to implem [...] | 2007-04-18 14:27:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU PTER IZ AF YI |
07VIENNA1036 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: APRIL 23-24 GAERC AND EU [...] (SBU) EconPolCouns delivered ref (a) points on the GAERC agenda and ref (b) points on EU Cuba policy to Austrian MFA European Correspondent Andreas Riecken on April 20. 2. (C) Riecken made the following substantive comments: -- Central Asia: There will be no decisions on Central Asia [...] | 2007-04-20 12:21:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN ETRD PGOV PHUM CU AU |
07VIENNA1054 | OMV CONFIRMS GAS DEAL WITH IRAN [...] (SBU) OMV Spokesman Thomas Huemer confirmed to us on April 23 that the Austrian energy company had signed a "Heads of Agreement" with the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) to participate in the further development of the South Pars Gas Field in the Persian Gulf. Huemer added that Iranian pr [...] | 2007-04-23 14:39:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET EINV ETTC AU IR |
07VIENNA1068 | (ILSA) OMV REVEALS DETAILS OF IRANIAN GAS DEAL [...] (C) Ambassador met separately on April 24 with OMV CEO Wolfgang Ruttenstorfer and with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Political Director, Thomas Mayr-Harting, to convey the USG's strong disapproval of OMV's recent Heads of Agreement with the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) to participa [...] | 2007-04-25 12:02:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETTC PREL EPET EINV AU IR |
07VIENNA1088 | NEW WAY FORWARD ON IRAQ: POST VIEWS ON AUSTRIAN [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Vienna assesses the prospects of Austrian participation in military missions in Iraq as nil. The Austrian government remains willing to participate in Iraqi police training (although not inside Iraq). The GOA also supports commercial engagement in the more secure areas [...] | 2007-04-27 11:24:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER IZ AU |
07VIENNA1162 | DETAINEE RESETTLEMENT -- AUSTRIA: EXPAT [...] (U) The following responses are keyed to reftel information requests. 2. (C) Embassy Vienna POCs on resettlement issues are as follows: Deputy Chief of Mission Scott Kilner kilnersf@state.gov, kilnersf@state.sgov.gov 43-1 31339-2415 Economic Unit Chief Phillip Nelson nelsonpr@state [...] | 2007-05-04 15:33:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINR AU |
07VIENNA1197 | UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL -- AUSTRIA OPPOSES BELARUS [...] (SBU) EconPolCouns delivered reftel demarche on May 8 to Engelbert Theuermann, the head of the Austrian MFA's Human Rights Bureau. 2. (C) Theuermann said that while EU lobbying efforts on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) did not name Belarus, the criteria that the EU Political and Securi [...] | 2007-05-09 08:41:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC AU |
07VIENNA1231 | SCENE SETTER FOR THE SECRETARY'S VISIT TO VIENNA, [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-11 13:06:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU |
07VIENNA1239 | AUSTRIA: RESPONSE ON INFORMATION EXCHANGE AT [...] (C) EconPolOff discussed reftel demarche on May 9 with Alexander Benedict from the Austrian Foreign Ministry's Department of Arms Control, Disarmament, and Non-Proliferation and urged the GoA to make a presentation at the upcoming Australia Group (AG) Plenary meeting. Benedict mentioned that [...] | 2007-05-11 13:57:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL CBW AU |
07VIENNA1241 | AUSTRIA ON THE MAY 14-15 EU FOREIGN MINISTERS [...] (SBU) EconPolCouns delivered reftel points on May 10 to Andreas Riecken, the Austrian MFA's European Correspondent. Riecken made the following substantive comments. 2. (SBU) Riecken noted that the May GAERC will include meetings of Defense and Development Cooperation Ministers. Defense Mi [...] | 2007-05-11 14:17:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL EUN AU |
07VIENNA1275 | PUTIN TO VISIT VIENNA MAY 23 [...] (C) The Austrian MFA's Assistant Secretary-level Director for Central and Eastern Europe, Hannes Porias, told us the Austrians intended to "send messages" on a range of important issues during Russian President Vladimir Putin's May 23-24 bilateral visit to Vienna. 2. (C) Porias said the s [...] | 2007-05-15 09:35:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR RU AU |
07VIENNA1276 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA ON KOSOVO UNSC ACTION [...] (SBU) EconPolCouns delivered reftel demarche on May 15 to Hannes Porias, the Austrian MFA's assistant secretary-level Director for Central and Eastern Europe. 2. (C) Porias said Austria supports the Ahtisaari package completely, and would like to see as clear a resolution as possible emer [...] | 2007-05-15 09:48:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV YI AU |
07VIENNA1282 | AUSTRIA ON EU CUBA POLICY -- DISCUSSIONS [...] (C) During a May 14 meeting, EconPolCouns discussed the state of EU discussions of its policy toward Cuba with Austrian MFA Americas Director Rudolf Lennkh and Latin America chief Andreas Melan. With ref (b) in mind, we reviewed ref (a) points, stressing that this is not the time to soften t [...] | 2007-05-15 12:47:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EUN CU AU |
07VIENNA1328 | AUSTRIA: REVIEW OF LIBERTAD ACT SUSPENSION [...] (SBU) To date, the only Austrian foreign investment in Cuba is a Havana brewery (Salm Brau),established in 2003. Since the signing of the Austrian-Cuban Agreement on Investment Protection in 2001, Cuba has actively lobbied to attract Austrian investment in the tourism and hospitality sectors [...] | 2007-05-21 15:05:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ERD ETTC PREL CU AU |
07VIENNA1342 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO AUSTRIA: IRANIAN LIGHT WATER [...] (C) EconPolCouns and EconUnit Chief delivered reftel talking points on May 16 to Kurt Pribil and Heinrich Traumueller, Co-Executive Directors of Austria's Financial Market Authority. Traumueller characterized the Iranian Mission's use of its diplomatic account as a repository for bidders on [...] | 2007-05-22 10:15:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL EFIN KNNP IR AU |
07VIENNA1419 | SCENESETTER FOR U/S HUGHES' VISIT TO VIENNA, JUNE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-29 14:11:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | OTRA KPAO PREL PGOV AU |
07VIENNA1466 | AUSTRIA OPPOSES PROPOSED RUSSIAN DRAFT OF OSCE [...] (C) On June 1, EconUnit Chief met with Margit Waestfelt, Austria's Head of the Permanent Mission to the OSCE, to present USG points in reftel regarding the Russian proposal for an OSCE "charter." Waestfelt said Austria agreed with the USG position that the experts group had a limited mandate [...] | 2007-06-01 14:22:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PREL KTIA PGOV AU |
07VIENNA1605 | AUSTRIAN RESPONSE: JUNE 18-19 GAERC [...] (U) Acting EconPol Counselor delivered reftel points on June 14 to Andreas Riecken, the MFA's European Correspondent. Riecken offered the following observations: 2. (C) Cuba: Riecken does not expect much discussion, as Council Conclusions have already been drafted at the working level. [...] | 2007-06-15 14:48:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETRD ETTC KPAL PARM PGOV PREL SOCI AU |
07VIENNA1648 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO AUSTRIA: MISSING/DETAINED [...] (C) Acting EconPol Counselor met on June 13 with Ralph Scheide, the Head of the MFA's Middle East and Africa Division (A/S-level) to convey USG concerns (reftel) about the recent pattern of harassment of AmCits in Iran. Scheide expressed support for the USG position, adding that he had recen [...] | 2007-06-20 15:38:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM IR AU |
07VIENNA1649 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO AUSTRIA: ADDITIONAL U.S. [...] (C) Acting EconPol Counselor met on June 14 with Caroline Gudenus, Head of the MFA's Sub-Saharan Africa Division (DAS-level),to discuss recent USG sanctions and press for Austrian support for targeted bilateral and/or EU sanctions on Sudan. Gudenus expressed skepticism as to the efficacy of [...] | 2007-06-20 16:53:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ETTC UN SU AU |
07VIENNA167 | KOSOVO STATUS PROCESS TIMELINE -- AUSTRIA IN [...] (SBU) Charge delivered reftel demarche on January 24 to Austrian MFA Political Director Thomas Mayr-Harting. Embassy had previewed the message to the MFA's EU affairs office on January 19. 2. (C) Charge stressed that it was crucial that the EU and U.S. maintain unity in backing UN Specia [...] | 2007-01-24 16:07:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU AU |
07VIENNA180 | AUSTRIA ON AFGHANISTAN AT THE JANUARY 26 INFORMAL [...] (SBU) Charge presented reftel demarches on January 24 to Austrian MFA Political Director Thomas Mayr-Harting. Embassy had previewed ref (a) material on January 19 to Mayr-Harting's office. 2. (C) Mayr-Harting confirmed that Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik would attend the minis [...] | 2007-01-25 13:02:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PINS PREL MARR MOPS AF PK AU |
07VIENNA181 | HALTING EXPORT CREDITS TO IRAN: AUSTRIAN MFA VIEWS [...] (SBU) Charge delivered reftel demarche on January 24 to Thomas Mayr-Harting, the Austrian MFA's Political Director. 2. (C) Mayr-Harting began his response by expressing appreciation for the United States' willingness to find a compromise that had ensured the adoption of UNSCR 1737. There [...] | 2007-01-25 13:39:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN MNUC EXIM UNSC OECD IR AU |
07VIENNA1828 | AUSTRIA UNCERTAIN ABOUT TRANSFERRING SURPLUS [...] (C) Acting Econ-Pol Counselor met on July 6 with Ralph Scheide, Head of the MFA's Africa and Middle East Division (A/S-equivalent) to request that Austria consider providing reftel ammunition to the Lebanese Armed Forces. Acting Econ-Pol Counselor pointed out that the latest inventory availa [...] | 2007-07-10 12:47:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PREL AU LE |
07VIENNA1926 | AUSTRIAN RESPONSE: JULY 23 GAERC [...] (U) PolUnit Chief delivered reftel points on July 19 to Christine Moser, the MFA's Deputy European Correspondent, who offered the following observations: 2. (C) Kosovo: Kosovo will top the agenda. Member states should emphasize that the EU is united in its support for the Ahtisaari plan. [...] | 2007-07-20 15:10:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETRD ETTC KPAL PGOV PREL SOCI AU |
07VIENNA2111 | OMV CEO RUTTENSTORFER DISCUSSES IRAN, NABUCCO, MOL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-10 12:33:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ETTC EINV PREL AU IR HU |
07VIENNA2325 | AUSTRIA MISSILE DEFENSE: FURTHER EMBASSY ACTION [...] (C) Embassy discussions with MOD, MFA, and diplomatic contacts suggest some governmental disagreement on handling the missile defense (MD) issue as well as a degree of disarray within the Defense Ministry. For domestic political reasons, the MD issue could continue to rumble in Austria. An Em [...] | 2007-08-31 15:21:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KNNP AU |
07VIENNA2326 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: TRAVEL BAN ON SYRIAN ACTIVIST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-31 16:08:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KDEM SA SY AU |
07VIENNA2366 | AUSTRIA'S POSITION ON IAEA ISSUES: ISRAEL [...] (C) Summary. Austria supports a consensus outcome that would eliminate the Israel-specific agenda at the IAEA BoG and expects the EU to work toward this outcome. However, Austria is unlikely to raise any concerns regarding the Iran-IAEA "work plan" at the BoG. Rather, it wishes to protect I [...] | 2007-09-10 16:08:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC AADP AROC KNNP KDEM PARM PREL IAEA AU |
07VIENNA2413 | AUSTRIAN NUCLEAR DIPLOMACY [...] (C) Summary. Austria will propose a multilateral system for managing the nuclear fuel cycle at next week's opening of the IAEA General Conference (GC); sees no need (and little realistic chance) for a third UNSCR on Iran's nuclear program and was uncomfortable with the EU Presidency's Septembe [...] | 2007-09-14 12:36:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP ENRG MNUC PREL UN AU |
07VIENNA2423 | NABUCCO MOVING FORWARD, BUT STILL LOOKING FOR [...] (C) OMV Gas CEO Werner Auli told Acting DCM and EconUnit Chief on September 11 that the Nabucco gas pipeline project was moving forward, with the imminent announcement of a 6th shareholder and the appointment of an EU Nabucco Coordinator to "manage Brussels." Auli argued that Nabucco had the [...] | 2007-09-17 12:43:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET EINV AU |
07VIENNA243 | HALTING EXPORT CREDITS TO IRAN: AUSTRIAN MOF VIEWS [...] (C) Following up Charge's meeting with the Austrian MFA (ref A),DCM and Econ Unit Chief delivered ref B demarche on January 31 to Thomas Wieser, Director General of the Ministry of Finance's Economic Policy and Financial Markets Directorate. Wieser noted that Austria's stock of medium- and [...] | 2007-02-02 09:36:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN MNUC EXIM UNSC OECD IR AU |
07VIENNA2430 | EU BORDER MISSION FOR LEBANON: AUSTRIA IN THE EU [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-18 13:24:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS LE SY EUN AU |
07VIENNA244 | SWIFT: AUSTRIA IN HOLDING PATTERN [...] (C) On January 31, DCM and Econ Unit Chief met with Thomas Wieser, the Ministry of Finance's Director General for Economic Policy and Financial Markets, and Birgit Ertl, MoF Adviser, to inquire about Austria's latest thinking on SWIFT. Ertl, who is the MoF's POC for SWIFT, said that the GoA h [...] | 2007-02-02 09:37:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER KTFN PREL |
07VIENNA2453 | AUSTRIA SCRUTINIZING LETTERS OF CREDITS FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-20 10:11:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETRD ETTC PREL IR AU |
07VIENNA2489 | AUSTRIA, ESDP, AND BATTLEGROUPS: ANOTHER CHALLENGE [...] (C) Austria's expected early November final cabinet decision to assign troops to EU battlegroups has already prompted one dust-up between the Defense and Foreign Ministries, with FonMin Plassnik opposing DefMin Darabos' statement that Austrian troops could only deploy on an EU mission under a [...] | 2007-09-26 08:51:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP EU AU |
07VIENNA2534 | INFORMING AUSTRIA OF U.S. NUCLEAR [...] (U) On the margins of the IAEA General Conference (GC),Will Tobey, Dep. Administrator for Nonproliferation of the National Nuclear Security Administration NNSA) at DoE, met with senior Austrian MFA officials to discuss U.S. nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament programs, as well as key non [...] | 2007-09-28 14:49:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG KNNP MNUC AU |
07VIENNA2578 | AUSTRIA REJECTS FRENCH CALL FOR TOUGHER EU [...] (C) French Embassy DCM van Rossum has confirmed Austrian media reports that Austria has rejected Foreign Minister Kouchner's proposal for tougher EU sanctions on Iran. Van Rossum described a letter form Kouchner to his EU colleagues as calling on them to use the Oct. 15 GAERC to add additional [...] | 2007-10-09 05:58:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP FR UK GE AU |
07VIENNA2596 | IRAN SANCTIONS: AUSTRIA REJECTS EU ACTION [...] (U) Econ/Pol Counselor and Poloff called on Austrian MFA Deputy PolDir and Near East Division Chief Ralph Scheide October 10 to discuss Iranian sanctions policy. Emboffs raised three concerns: Austrian objection of consideration of expanded sanctions or other diplomatic action until after the [...] | 2007-10-11 06:28:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP IR EU FR AU |
07VIENNA2602 | AUSTRIAN VIEWS ON IRAN AT 10/15 GAERC [...] (C) Austrian MFA European Correspondent Andreas Riecken reported to Econ/Pol Couns Oct. 11 that Austria will reluctantly support the draft conclusions on Iran drawn up by the French, British and Germans and endorsed by HighRep Solana. He also reported that he expects the entire Council to end [...] | 2007-10-12 08:20:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KNNP IR EUN AU |
07VIENNA2603 | AUSTRIAN POSITIONS AT AND EXPECTATIONS OF 10/15 [...] (C) Summary. According to the Austrian MFA European Correspondent (EC),the WTO/DDA negotiations have been dropped from the agenda of the 10/15 GAERC. He expects only perfunctory discussion of Libya and Russia. The MEPP discussion will focus on a German proposal to develop an EU action plan [...] | 2007-10-12 08:26:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD ETTC KPAL EUN AU |
07VIENNA262 | COOPERATION ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS: AUSTRIAN RESPONSE [...] (C) EconPolOff discussed reftel demarche on February 2 with Alexander Benedict from the Austrian Foreign Ministry's Department of Arms Control, Disarmament, and Non-Proliferation. Benedict said Austria is very concerned about the negative humanitarian impact of cluster munitions (CMs) and e [...] | 2007-02-05 15:47:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PARM PREL NATO AU |
07VIENNA2687 | MUSLIM INTEGRATION IN AUSTRIA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-25 13:21:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER SMIG AU |
07VIENNA2722 | AUSTRIAN MFA ON BURMA AT EU-ASEAN SUMMIT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-31 09:44:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV BM AU |
07VIENNA2759 | GTMO DETAINEES: AUSTRIA SEES "RATHER BLEAK" [...] (C) DCM and Econ/Pol Counselor met 11/5 with Austrian Chancellor Gusenbauer's diplomatic advisor, Bernhard Wrabetz, to review Austrian thinking on accepting GTMO detainees. Wrabetz had accompanied Chancellor Gusenbauer to the EU Summit in Lisbon on October 18-19, on the margins of which both t [...] | 2007-11-07 07:19:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINS PHUM PREL AU |
07VIENNA2780 | AUSTRIA: ODIHR MONITORING OF RUSSIAN ELECTION [...] (C) Econ/Pol Counselor met Nov. 9 with Austrian OSCE PermRep Margit Waestenfelt to discuss reftel demarche. Waestenfelt seemed at a loss as to how to respond to the Russian "game." She expected the Russians to continue to drag the process out and make it impossible for even the 70 observers i [...] | 2007-11-09 18:00:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM RS AU |
07VIENNA2787 | AUSTRIA'S FREEDOM PARTY: SUCCEEDING WITH NEGATIVE [...] (C) The Austrian political climate appears to be tilting o the advantage of the far-right Freedom Party, whse blend of nationalism, social conservatism, an economic populism appeals to that segment of the population unnerved by immigration, loss of soveeignty to the EU, and globalization-driv [...] | 2007-11-14 11:06:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV AU |
07VIENNA2816 | NOVEMBER GAERC: AUSTRIAN PRE-BRIEF [...] (U) Per reftel, Econ/Pol Couns met Nov. 16 with Austrian MFA European Corespondent Andreas Riecken to discuss plans for the upcoming GAERC. Following are Riecken's comments: Summits ------- 2. (C) Riecken reported that there will be no discussion of the content of the China and India su [...] | 2007-11-16 14:24:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EU AU |
07VIENNA2829 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES CHANCELLOR ON AUSTRO-IRANIAN [...] (C) Ambassador McCaw used her Nov. 20 farewell call on Chancellor Gusenbauer to convey again U.S. unhappiness with OMV's South Pars gas deal with Iran. The Ambassador stressed how unhelpful the deal was to the international diplomatic effort to stop Iran's uranium enrichment program. She note [...] | 2007-11-20 14:54:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PREL IR AU |
07VIENNA2836 | AUSTRIAN VIEWS ON IAEA REPORT ON IRAN [...] (C) Summary. Austria recognizes and is disappointed by Iran's failure to cooperate fully with the IAEA and expects leading EU states in IAEA BOG to issue a statement expressing many of the themes identified by the U.S. End Summary. El Baradei Report ----------------- 2. (C) Econ/Pol Co [...] | 2007-11-21 07:28:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC IAEA IR PARM AORC EU AU |
07VIENNA2841 | MINORITY RIGHTS AND DIVISIVE POLITICS IN CARINTHIA [...] (C) EconPolOff met November 17 with Dr. Marjam Sturm, head of the "Central Association for Slovenes", in Klagenfurt to discuss the situation of the Slovene minority in Carinthia province. Sturm averred that Slovenes are reasonably content in Carinthia, except for the rhetoric of certain local [...] | 2007-11-21 16:06:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL PHUM SMIG AU |
07VIENNA2851 | OMV'S IRAN DEAL: CRACKS IN THE ARMOR? [...] (U) According to Austrian press, Minister of Economics Martin Bartenstein told the November 22 European Competition Council that Iranian gas was a "no-go" for the Nabucco pipeline. Bartenstein reportedly noted that USG support for Nabucco depended on excluding Iranian gas from the Euro 5 bil [...] | 2007-11-27 08:01:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL PGOV EPET EINV AU IR |
07VIENNA2856 | AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL MEETING WITH AUSTRIAN [...] (U) On Thanksgiving Day, Amb. McCaw had an hour-long one-on-one farewell call with FonMin Plassnik. The following is based on the readout provided to CDA Kilner. Annapolis --------- 2. (C) At the time of the meeting, Austria had not yet been invited to the Annapolis MEPP conference. Pl [...] | 2007-11-27 10:50:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AU |
07VIENNA2874 | OMV LOOKS TO RUSSIAN GAS FOR NABUCCO [...] (C) In a recent meeting with Emboffs, Reinhard Mitschek, OMV's Managing Director for Nabucco Gas Pipeline International, expressed concern that Azerbaijan could not provide enough gas by itself for Nabucco's initial phase in 2012. Nabucco would therefore turn to Russia to supply half of the [...] | 2007-11-29 16:50:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET AU |
07VIENNA2875 | ADDITIONAL EU DESIGNATIONS OF IRANIAN ENTITIES AND [...] (C) On November 29, EconPol Counselor and EconUnit Chief delivered reftel points to Thomas Baier, Head of the MFA's Multilateral International Law Division, and to Yvonne Desmedt-Tonic from the MFA's Energy and Nuclear Safety Division. Emboffs urged the GoA to support EU designation of addit [...] | 2007-11-29 16:59:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC KNNP PARM IR EU AU |
07VIENNA2879 | ALBERT ROHAN ON KOSOVO, AUSTRIA, AND THE EU [...] (C) In the run-up to Dec. 10, Charge and Pol/Econ Couns met 11/29 with former Deputy to UN Kosovo Envoy Ahtisaari to discuss Austria's Kosovo stance and Rohan's perspective on EU deliberations over recognition and the dispatch of an EU civilian mission to an independent Kosovo. 2. (C) Reg [...] | 2007-11-30 13:21:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KV AU |
07VIENNA2890 | OMV DEFENDS OIL CONTRACTS WITH THE KRG [...] (C) During a November 30 meeting with Emboffs, OMV's Vice President for Business Development, Peter Seitinger, defended OMV's recent signing of two production sharing agreements (PSAs) with the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG). Seitinger argued that the PSAs were entirely in line with the Ir [...] | 2007-12-04 08:10:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET EINV ECON IZ AU |
07VIENNA2920 | U.S.-AUSTRIA C/T COOPERATION: INTERIOR MINISTRY [...] (C) USG and Austrian Interior Ministry officials met Nov. 10 to carry forward the discussions initiated by Austrian Interior Minister Platter during his Oct. 24-25 visit to Washington on enhanced U.S.-Austrian counter-terrorism (C/T) cooperation. The Austrian side also presented a series of p [...] | 2007-12-10 15:42:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL AU |
07VIENNA3005 | SYRAIN PRESIDENT ASAD'S DEC 17 MEETING WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-21 09:38:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY AU |
07VIENNA304 | AUSTRIA: NEXT STEPS ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (SBU) EconPolCouns met with Thomas Hajnoczi, the Austrian MFA's A/S-level Director for Political Military Affairs, to present ref (a) points on next steps on Afghanistan. 2. (C) Hajnoczi reiterated ref (b) message that Austria does not have the capacity to enhance its military presence in [...] | 2007-02-08 13:37:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS NATO PINS PREL AF AU |
07VIENNA370 | TOUR D'HORIZON WITH NEW AUSTRIAN CHANCELLOR'S [...] (C) 1. SUMMARY: Bernhard Wrabetz, the Diplomatic Advisor to new Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer, told DCM and visiting EUR/AGS Director Moon that the Chancellor's foreign policy will feature marked continuity with his predecessor's. Austria will continue to work through the EU and mu [...] | 2007-02-13 10:10:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU |
07VIENNA380 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES NABUCCO, EXPORT CONTROLS, [...] (C) During a February 8 meeting with Minister of Economics Martin Bartenstein, the Ambassador thanked the GoA for its cooperation on export controls, but asked the GoA to remain vigilant about Iranian proliferation activities. Bartenstein told the Ambassador that Turkey remained the most diff [...] | 2007-02-13 17:13:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETTC ENRG ETRD WTRO AU |
07VIENNA415 | AUSTRIA ON PKO IN SOMALIA [...] (SBU) EconPolCouns presented ref (a) demarche on February 14 to Austrian MFA Middle East and Africa Director Ralph Scheide and Africa head Caroline Gudenus. 2. (C) Gudenus said the Somalia mission (AMISOM) was extremely important, and Austria would back the EU's extension of support to th [...] | 2007-02-15 15:53:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS KPKO PHUM PREL EUN SO AU |
07VIENNA510 | AUSTRIA: RESPONDING TO RUSSIAN THREATS AGAINST [...] (C) On February 26, DCM presented reftel points to MFA Secretary General Johannes Kyrle, and to MFA Middle East A/S SIPDIS Ralph Scheide. DCM asked for Austrian understanding of and support for the U.S. plans to deploy missile defense assets in Poland and the Czech Republic. DCM stressed [...] | 2007-02-28 11:18:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL AU |
07VIENNA512 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO AUSTRIA ON IAEA REPORT ON [...] (C) On February 26, DCM outlined USG views, per reftel, on Iran's non-compliance with UNSCR 1737 to Johannes Kyrle, the MFA's Secretary General and to Ralph Scheide, the MFA's Middle East and Africa Director. Scheide stressed that Austria continues to fully support the EU-3. As for Austrian [...] | 2007-02-28 12:36:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP AU IR |
07VIENNA522 | AUSTRIAN RESPONSE: DEMARCHING THE EU IN ADVANCE OF [...] (C) On February 28, Acting EconPol Counselor delivered reftel paper to Andreas Riecken, the MFA's European Correspondent. Riecken commented on the following issues: 2. (C) WESTERN BALKANS: Riecken welcomed the recent decision to extend the mandate of the Office of the High Representative [...] | 2007-03-01 12:55:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN AU IR |
07VIENNA584 | AUSTRIAN SUPPORT FOR U.S. MTCR UAV/CRUISE MISSILE [...] (C) EconPolOff delivered reftel demarche on March 2 to Alexander Benedict from the Austrian MFA's Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Department. Benedict said that his department would review the revised proposal, but he did not foresee any problems in endorsing the proposal. Mc [...] | 2007-03-06 15:11:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC KSCA MNUC TSPA |
07VIENNA657 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: ASEAN EFFORTS TO PROMOTE [...] (SBU) EconPolCouns delivered reftel demarche on March 16 to Austrian MFA Asia Director Nikolaus Scherk. 2. (C) Scherk said there had been some sentiment among the Asians to avoid an explicit reference to Burma/Myanmar in the chairman's statement concluding the March 14-15 Nuremberg EU-ASE [...] | 2007-03-16 12:36:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM BM EUN AU |
07VIENNA688 | AUSTRIA SUPPORTS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ACTION ON [...] (SBU) EconPolCouns delivered refetl demarche on March 19 to Austrian MFA Human Rights Director Engelbert Theuermann. Theuermann said Austria is only an observer at the UN Human Rights Council, but plays an active role. He said Austria has an embassy in Zimbabwe, and therefore has followed de [...] | 2007-03-20 11:00:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM UNSCR PREL ZI EUN AU |
07VIENNA701 | OMV CEO: NABUCCO KEY FOR EUROPE'S ENERGY SECURITY [...] (C) During a recent lunch with Ambassador, OMV CEO Wolfgang Ruttenstorfer emphasized that obtaining a sufficient supply of Azeri gas is the key for the start-up of Nabucco. Without Azeri gas, OMV would have to look for other possible suppliers--Iran and Russia--that would not be good alternat [...] | 2007-03-20 19:10:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET EINV AU |
07VIENNA720 | FORMATION OF A PALESTINIAN NATIONAL UNITY [...] (SBU) EconPolCouns presented reftel points on March 21 to Franz Josef Kuglitsch, the Austrian MFA's acting Middle East Director, and Wolfgang Lapuh, the MFA's DAS-level Near East Director. 2. (C) Kuglitsch and Lapuh confirmed press reports that Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik ha [...] | 2007-03-21 15:45:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL KPAL PGOV KWBG PREL IS AU |
07VIENNA721 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: BUILDING INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) EconPolCouns presented ref (a) demarche on March 21 to Gerhard Weinberger, the Austrian MFA's Acting Africa Director. 2. (C) Consistent with ref (b),Weinberger said Austria shares our views on the political, economic and security problems in Zimbabwe. He said that in a recent tel [...] | 2007-03-21 16:09:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ZI AU |
07VIENNA728 | NABUCCO PIPELINE: OMV STILL BULLISH ON 2012 STARTUP [...] (C) During a March 20 meeting with EconUnit Chief, the Managing Director of the Nabucco Pipeline consortium, Reinhard Mitschek, said that the project remains on track to begin operations in 2012. Nabucco is still looking to take on a major European gas company to help finance the project. Re [...] | 2007-03-22 10:18:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET EINV AU |
07VIENNA832 | AUSTRIA ON THE MARCH 30-31 FOREIGN MINISTERS [...] (SBU) EconPolCouns delivered reftel points on March 29 to Anreas Riecken, the Austrian MFA's European Correspondent. Riecken responded substantively as follows. 2. (C) Western Balkans: The discussion will focus on Kosovo, Riecken said. It is very clear that the EU supports Martti Ahtisa [...] | 2007-03-30 08:08:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN KPAL PREL XG IS IR ZI AU |
07VIENNA85 | AUSTRIAN RESPONSE ON IRAN CIVIL SOCIETY AND [...] (C) On January 11, Acting Econ/Pol Counselor met with Helfried Carl, the MFA's Deputy Director in the Middle East and Africa Division, to outline USG democratization programs for Iran and to inquire about similar Austrian efforts. Carl welcomed the information, adding that it would be importa [...] | 2007-01-17 09:53:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO AU IR |
07VIENNA857 | AUSTRIA FULLY SUPPORTS UN KOSOVO PROPOSALS [...] (SBU) Charge delivered ref (a) demarche on March 28 to Johannes Kyrle, the Austrian MFA's Secretary General. EconPolCouns also discussed the issue with MFA European Correspondent Andreas Riecken on March 29. 2. (C) Kyrle agreed that EU unity in support of Martti Ahtisaari's report is esse [...] | 2007-03-30 14:03:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNMIK UN YI EU AU |
07VIENNA858 | AUSTRIA ON GUANTANAMO PRISONERS [...] (C) Charge delivered refs (a) and (b) points on March 28 to Johannes Kyrle, Secretary General in the Austrian Foreign Ministry. Charge stressed that governments -- like Austria's -- that have been urging the U.S. to close guantanamo could help us do just that by accepting a small number of pr [...] | 2007-03-30 14:05:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM PINR KAWC XG AU |
07VIENNA917 | PALESTINIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ABU AMR VISITS VIENNA [...] (SBU) In response to an invitation by Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik, Palestinian National Unity Government (NUG) Foreign Minister Ziad Abu Amr visited Vienna for meetings on April 4. Abu Amr said publicly that Israel is "not ready for serious peace negotiations." At the same tim [...] | 2007-04-05 14:58:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IS AU |
07VIENNA919 | UKRAINIAN PM YANUKOVYCH ASKS AUSTRIAN CHANCELLOR [...] (U) Austrian media has prominently reported on Ukrainian Prime Minister Yanukovych's April 5 news conference, in which he announced that he had asked Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer to mediate the political crisis in Ukraine. Austrian press reports quoted Yanukovych as pointing to Austr [...] | 2007-04-06 11:11:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU UP |
07VIENNA988 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FORMER CHANCELLOR [...] (C). Summary. Amb. McCaw, accompanied by DCM, recently called on OVP Parliamentary Leader (and former Chancellor) Wolfgang Schuessel to discuss a range of bilateral issues. Schuessel defended FM Plassnik's recent GAERC and Gymnich statements on missile defense, and described the SPO as "boxe [...] | 2007-04-16 12:47:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU |
07VIENTIANE110 | DIPLOMATIC TOUR OF RESETTLED HMONG; WHERE ARE ALL [...] (C) Summary: An MFA-led February 8 tour of one Hmong area near Vientiane proved little about the situation of resettled Hmong in Laos -- especially former insurgents. Only one family of five from the group of 52 economic migrants had been returned to the well-to-do area visited. However the [...] | 2007-02-12 10:33:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KWMN LA PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG TH |
07VIENTIANE12 | REPRESENTATIVE MCCOLLUM MEETS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Summary: During her first visit to Laos, Representative Betty McCollum met with a series of senior Lao National Assembly (NA) officials, including Madame Pany Yathotu, NA Vice President as well as member of the ruling party's Politburo, members of the NA,s Foreign Affairs Committee, and th [...] | 2007-01-08 10:31:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | LA OREP PGOV PHUM PREF PREL SMIG SOCI TH |
07VIENTIANE139 | CORRUPTION IN LAOS: THE CLOSER YOU LOOK, THE [...] (C) Summary. Corruption in Laos is endemic. At a recent governance and anti-corruption workshop in Vientiane, sponsored by the World Bank, donor and non-governmental organization (NGO) representatives met to discuss the current situation. While there are some positive trends, such as the w [...] | 2007-02-20 10:34:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV KFRD CASC SNAR LA |
07VIENTIANE144 | UNHCR AND ICRC REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Bangkok-based representatives of both UNHCR and ICRC to review the recent spurt of issues relating to the problems the Government of Laos (GOL) has with its Hmong minority. Both UNHCR and ICRC help hold keys to resolving Hmong issues, from the decades-old [...] | 2007-02-22 09:29:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | LA PGOV PHUM PREF PREL SMIG |
07VIENTIANE205 | LAO GOVERNMENT AGREES TO LET 21 HMONG GIRLS RETURN [...] (C) Summary: During bilateral talks in Luang Prabang on March 8, the Lao Foreign Minister told his Thai counterpart that twenty-one girls from the Petchabun settlement in Thailand had been &found8 living with relatives in Laos and would be allowed to return to their families if they wished. T [...] | 2007-03-13 11:07:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PGOV PREL LA TH |
07VIENTIANE219 | EAP/MLS DIRECTOR,S MEETING WITH MFA DIRECTOR [...] (C) Summary: Visiting EAP/MLS director Robert Rapson met with Europe and Americas Director General Southam at the foreign ministry. Both Rapson and Southam expressed general satisfaction about improving U.S.-Lao ties, despite what Southam characterized as ups and downs over the years. Raps [...] | 2007-03-19 09:20:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF CASC PHUM PGOV LA |
07VIENTIANE228 | CHINA'S GOLDEN CITY IN NORTHERN LAOS [...] (C) Summary. The recent opening of a Chinese casino and hotel complex in Luang Namtha Province along the Lao-China border is symbolic of growing Chinese influence in northern Laos. Although only 20 percent of the planned ten-year project has been completed thus far, this first phase amounts [...] | 2007-03-20 10:13:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV KCRM ECON ETRD SMIG SOCI ELTN ECIN PREL |
07VIENTIANE25 | NEW INFORMATION ON NORTH KOREANS DETAINED IN LAOS: [...] (C) Summary: South Korean Embassy Counsellor Lee told Poloffs January 11 that five North Korean refugees detained almost a month in northern Laos had been released by local authorities. The five are on their way to Vientiane from where the South Korean Embassy expects them to depart quietly t [...] | 2007-01-11 08:45:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC KN KS LA PHUM PREF PREL SMIG |
07VIENTIANE259 | CHINESE RUBBER, SINO-LAO SCHOOLS, AND OTHER [...] (C) Summary: Due to what one NGO director in Luang Namtha Province described as a "gold rush" mentality, almost every village in the province is growing rubber for export to China. The Chinese have launched a "propaganda campaign" taking credit for the replacement of poppy with rubber. So [...] | 2007-03-30 10:04:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR EINV ECON ECIN ELTN ETRD SMIG KRCM PHUM |
07VIENTIANE288 | VIENTIANE DIPLOMATS DISCUSS HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: Representatives of "like-minded" countries and international organizations in Vientiane, including the United States, EU, France, Australia, UNICEF, UNDP, and others, met to review recent events on the human rights front, including the recent visit by EU Parliamentarians to Laos. [...] | 2007-04-06 06:32:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS LA PGOV PHUM PINR PREF PREL TH |
07VIENTIANE296 | MISDIRECTED MAIL COMPLICATES NORTH KOREAN [...] (C) Summary: South Korean Counsellor Miyon Lee told DCM April 9 that she was hopeful that three North Korean asylum seekers who have been detained in Laos since November 2006 would be released in the next day or two. The situation took a "tricky" turn, she said, when the Lao police misdirec [...] | 2007-04-09 11:04:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PGOV PHUM LA KN KS |
07VIENTIANE300 | INTOLERANCE FOR CHRISTIANS PERSISTS IN LAOS [...] (SBU) Summary: Christians in Bolikhamsay Province's Nakun Village have faced pressure from local officials and have been "reeducated" numerous times as a result of their religious activities. Christians in Xunya Village, Luang Namtha Province, have reportedly been prevented from practicin [...] | 2007-04-10 09:59:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM SCUL SOCI EINV CASC PREL LA |
07VIENTIANE323 | LAO GOVERNMENT MEETING ON NORTH KOREAN CHILDREN [...] (C) Summary: South Korean Embassy Counsellor Miyon Lee told us on April 19 that senior Lao government officials would soon meet to decide on the fate of three North Korean children who have been detained in Laos since November 2006. She said that the Lao have made it a condition of the chi [...] | 2007-04-19 10:15:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM PGOV LA KN KS JA |
07VIENTIANE338 | NEW WAY FORWARD ON IRAQ: MAINTAINING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-26 04:09:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER IZ LA |
07VIENTIANE364 | UNHCR'S ERIKA FELLER DISCUSSES HMONG ISSUES; LAO [...] (C) Summary: The visit of UNHCR's lead protection official, Erika Feller, haS provided insight into Hmong issues including what may happen to the 152 Hmong (plus three babies) being held in Thailand's Nong Khai Province. Unfortunately, we are concerned UNHCR may be overestimating the ability o [...] | 2007-05-04 09:32:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM LA |
07VIENTIANE382 | UNHCR MEMBER VOTE: LAO POSITION [...] (C) Ambassador presented text of non-paper on upcoming UNHRC membership voting, including USG support for Slovenia and Bosnia as preferred members vice Belarus, to Lao Vice Foreign Minister Phongsavath Boupha on May 10. The Vice Foreign Minister said the Ministry would consider the U.S. posit [...] | 2007-05-10 10:04:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC LA |
07VIENTIANE383 | SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS LOOKING TO EXPAND IN LAOS [...] (C) Summary: The Seventh Day Adventists have had an active church in Laos since 1974. There are approximately 1,250 Adventists country-wide, with the largest concentration in Vientiane Municipality. With only one church structure, most Adventists in Laos meet in house churches. While the [...] | 2007-05-11 03:08:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM SCUL SOCI PREL LA |
07VIENTIANE390 | AES LOSES BID FOR MEKONG HYDROPOWER PROJECT IN [...] (C) Summary: CH Karnchang Public Company of Thailand (CK) was awarded the right conduct a feasibility study to develop a 1260 megawatt (MW) run of the river hydropower plant in Xayabury by the Government of Laos (GOL). According to an article in the Vientiane Times May 8, the GOL and CK signe [...] | 2007-05-11 08:58:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETRD EINV EWWT ECON SENV PREL LA |
07VIENTIANE416 | AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL; HMONG ISSUES; ARF [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador used the opportunity of a farewell call on one of MFA's more sophisticated Vice Ministers, and the Lao Senior Official for ASEAN and ARF affairs, to present the most recent Department demarche on ARF issues. VFM Bounkeut expressed support for the USG ISM proposals, [...] | 2007-05-21 08:27:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KNNP LA PINR PREF PREL PTER ARF |
07VIENTIANE442 | AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALLS WITH SENIOR LAO [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador's farewell calls with senior Lao officials were marked by appreciation for her role in moving the bilateral relationship forward on traditional areas of cooperation (MIA accounting, opium eradication, and unexploded ordnance removal) while breaking ground on new are [...] | 2007-05-26 09:06:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ETRD LA MOPS PGOV PHUM PREL SNAR |
07VIENTIANE453 | LIKE-MINDED GROUP FAVORS INDIVIDUAL DEMARCHES ON [...] (C) Summary: At a May 30 meeting of representatives of like-minded countries, the Charge proposed a joint demarche requesting international access to recent Hmong returnees from Thailand per Ref A. The other embassy representatives agreed that these concerns should be raised with the Lao g [...] | 2007-05-30 10:23:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | LA PGOV PHUM PREF PREL TH GE |
07VIENTIANE454 | UPDATE ON PROTESTANTS IN BOLIKHAMSAI AND VIENTIANE [...] (C) Summary: There have been reports indicating that several ethnic Khmu Christians in Bolikhamsai Province's Nakun Village were forcibly moved May 15 to another village in the same district. The Lao Evangelical Church (LEC) has indicated that five heads of households were forced by local [...] | 2007-05-30 10:23:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM SCUL SOCI PREL LA |
07VIENTIANE476 | AUTHORITIES IN NORTHERN LAOS WORRIED ABOUT HMONG [...] (C) Summary: Vietnamese Hmong immigrants are resettling in northeastern Laos from Vietnam and are becoming a growing concern among local authorities trying to control one of Laos' most remote borders. The Government of Laos (GOL) has repatriated some recent arrivals but appears to lack the [...] | 2007-06-06 09:51:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | SMIG PGOV SNAR LA VM XC |
07VIENTIANE477 | GOL WORRIED ABOUT MARIJUANA TRAFFICKERS IN [...] (C) Summary: Provincial officials in Bolikhamxai Province are worried that they are losing control of eastern border districts to drug traffickers producing marijuana for commercial export. These districts are populated by upland minorities including Hmong and Khamu. The officials stated t [...] | 2007-06-06 09:59:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | LA PGOV SNAR VM |
07VIENTIANE508 | READOUT FROM JAPANESE DCM ON LAO PRIME MINISTER'S [...] (C) Summary: Japanese DCM Kazuhiro Fujimura provided the Charge with an overview of the mid-May summit in Tokyo between the Lao and Japanese prime ministers. He said that the Japanese had pressed the Lao unsuccessfully at a meeting before the summit to support the UNGA human rights resolutio [...] | 2007-06-18 09:39:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LA JA KN |
07VIENTIANE52 | LAO VIEWS ON ASEAN'S CEBU SUMMITS [...] (SBU) Summary: MFA ASEAN Department Deputy Director General Songkane told P/E Chief the main Lao priorities at the recent ASEAN Summits in Cebu were to reinforce support for a proposed rail extension into Laos and for Lao hydropower projects. He welcomed a proposed third bridge across the Mek [...] | 2007-01-22 06:42:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECIN ELTN ETRD LA PREL PTER SMIG |
07VIENTIANE525 | LAO GOVERNMENT CAUTIOUSLY WELCOMES U.S. ARRESTS [...] (C) Summary: Lao government officials appear to have been pleased and surprised by the June 4 arrests of Hmong-American General Vang Pao and others on suspicion of plotting violent action aimed at overthrowing the Lao government. However, the Philippines Ambassador, who talked to Lao gover [...] | 2007-06-25 09:23:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS ASEC CASC SCUL SNAR CH LA US |
07VIENTIANE558 | CABINET RESHUFFLE INCLUDES NEW FACE AT FINANCE [...] (C) Summary: In a cabinet reshuffle announced by the Prime Minister at the closing of the National Assembly, Finance Minister Chansy Phosikham was named to replace Somphet Thipmala as governor of Vientiane Province. Chansy's former deputy, Somdy Douangdy, became finance minister. Somphet b [...] | 2007-07-11 09:45:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON EFIN ENRG LA |
07VIENTIANE567 | POWER COMPANY RESPONDS TO CRITICAL REPORT AT THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 27-28 the Government of Laos (GOL) and the Nam Theun Power Company (NTPC) held the second annual Nam Theun II (NT II) stakeholders' meeting in Thakek, Laos to discuss the situation at the World Bank funded project. The GOL and NTPC provided a large amount of information, [...] | 2007-07-13 09:47:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ENRG EWWT ECON PREL LA |
07VIENTIANE6 | MANAGING POSSIBLE DPRK REFUGEES IN VIENTIANE [...] (C) Summary: Following receipt of reftel, which outlines steps Embassy Vientiane should take if approached by a North Korean asylum seeker, DCM and Pol/Econ Chief met with Republic of Korea (ROK) Embassy Counsellor Miyon Lee. Ms. Lee provided updates on recent cases of North Korean asylum se [...] | 2007-01-05 08:33:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | LA PHUM PREF PREL SMIG TH |
07VIENTIANE601 | ENSURING ROBUST IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSC-IMPOSED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-27 09:35:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP LA PARM PREL |
07VIENTIANE639 | LAO MFA SPOKESMAN CONTINUES HARD LINE TOWARD HMONG [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Spokesman Yong Chanthalangsy showed no flexibility in Lao Government positions regarding the Lao Hmong in Thailand in a lengthy conversation with Pol/Econ Chief. Yong said the "humiliation" of the Lao officials involved in the failure to repatriate 150 Hmong from Nong Khai i [...] | 2007-08-10 10:51:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | LA PGOV PHUM PREF PREL |
07VIENTIANE640 | "LIKE-MINDED" DIPLOMATIC GROUP DISCUSSES HMONG [...] (C) SUMMARY: A recent meeting of the "like-minded" diplomatic group revealed a strong consensus in support of coordinated pressure on the Lao to improve conditions for the Hmong ethnic minority and to provide greater access to returnees and Hmong areas. The situations of the 5 boys from the g [...] | 2007-08-10 11:22:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | LA PGOV PHUM PREF PREL TH |
07VIENTIANE767 | MFA ASEAN OFFICIAL DESCRIBES ACTIVE LAO ROLE ON [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Charge on Burma, Deputy Director General for ASEAN Songkane Luangmuninthone said that Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith had intervened with the Burmese Foreign Minister at UN Special Envoy Gambari's request to urge the Burmese to a [...] | 2007-10-12 09:48:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV LA BM ASEAN |
07VIENTIANE780 | PRIME MINISTER RAISES CONCERNS ON HMONG WAIVER [...] (C) During the Ambassador's introductory call on Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh, both the Ambassador and the Prime Minister expressed satisfaction with recent improvements in bilateral cooperation. The Prime Minister pressed for the lifting of restrictions on U.S. Export-Import Bank ope [...] | 2007-10-18 11:06:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EFIN CVIS LA US BM ASEAN |
07VIENTIANE816 | LAO FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES BURMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lao Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Thongloun told the Ambassador on November 2 that had pushed Burmese Foreign Minister Win on the need for rapid movement forward on the "roadmap" process. According to Thongloun, Win said completion of the constitutional referendum, the f [...] | 2007-11-05 09:59:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | BM LA PGOV PREL |
07VIENTIANE829 | SOUTH KOREAN DCM DISCUSSES NORTH KOREAN PREMIER'S [...] (C) Summary: The South Korean DCM told the DCM on November 9 that Lao officials had described the November 4-7 visit of North Korean Premier Kim Yong Il as very successful. The Lao Prime Minister praised North Korea's handling of Korean peninsula issues. Lao officials described Premier Kim [...] | 2007-11-09 11:10:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EINV LA KN KS |
07VIENTIANE85 | CONSIDERING "MATERIAL SUPPORT" FOR THE HMONG; LIST [...] (C) The issue of determining who provided "material support" in the case of the Lao Hmong is very complicated. Below (para 5),we provide the Embassy's list of bombings and other attacks in Laos during the past several years. In virtually all cases, the identities of the perpetrators are diff [...] | 2007-02-02 08:04:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC LA MOPS PGOV PREF PREL PTER |
07VIENTIANE888 | DPRK CITIZENS ENTER SWEDISH EMBASSY COMPOUND IN [...] (C//NF) On Friday, December 7, 2007, at approximately 1230 hrs. (Vientiane Time) Consular Officer Michael Scharding received a telephonic message from the Administrative Counselor at the Swedish Embassy in Vientiane - Birgitta Holmstrom. Ms. Holmstrom informed Mr. Scharding that, at approxim [...] | 2007-12-10 09:33:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PREL LA KN |
07VIENTIANE896 | UPDATE ON DPRK CITIZENS AT SWEDISH EMBASSY [...] (U) This cable includes an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) Summary: Swedish Charge Aberg told the Ambassador that she and her colleague had met with a senior MFA official who suggested, as long as the North Koreans left Laos, that his government was not concerned about their [...] | 2007-12-12 10:04:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC KN LA PREL SW |
07VIENTIANE897 | SCENE SETTER FOR THE VISIT OF ADMIRAL KEATING [...] (C) I and the Vientiane Country Team are delighted to welcome you and your team to Laos. The Lao agreed to a far broader range of meetings with senior officials than they did for Admiral Fallon who visited in July 2006. I believe that they have made a strategic decision to begin a step-by-ste [...] | 2007-12-12 10:35:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | KPOW LA MARR MOPS OVIP PGOV PREL |
07VILNIUS129 | LITHUANIA SANGUINE ABOUT ICELANDIC PEACEKEEPER [...] (C) We met with Ambassador-at-Large Gediminas Serksnys February 20 to encourage the GOL to demarche Iceland against the withdrawal of its mobile patrol team from Afghanistan at the end of April 2007. Serksnys expressed only mild disappointment at the loss of the Mobile Liaison Observation Tea [...] | 2007-02-23 13:39:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL IC AF LH DA HR UK CA NATO |
07VILNIUS13 | LITHUANIA STRUGGLING TO MEET SCHENGEN REQUIREMENTS [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania is in a race to meet Schengen requirements by early 2008, the anticipated date of Schengen expansion. Despite a contracting and spending spree in December 2006, Lithuania will struggle to meet the early 2008 deadline for implementation of Schengen requirements at its [...] | 2007-01-08 10:01:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EUN LH |
07VILNIUS142 | RUSSIA: LITHUANIA'S FAVORITE ANXIETY [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania's relationship with Russia continues to affect Lithuania's foreign policy and much of its domestic politics. Fifteen years after independence, Lithuania is still a teenager, struggling -- sometimes rashly -- to demonstrate its independence. Nevertheless, most Lithuani [...] | 2007-02-28 10:26:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LH RU EUN |
07VILNIUS167 | SNIPISKES CEMETERY UPDATE: NEW DIGGING CAUSES [...] (C) SUMMARY. The sudden appearance of heavy machinery and a large new hole in the area of a former Jewish cemetery burst into the media the week of March 5. The media attention to a scuffle involving a local rabbi may turn out to be a silver lining to an otherwise terrible incident: other mem [...] | 2007-03-09 15:37:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SCUL LH |
07VILNIUS191 | STATE SECURITY CHIEF'S RESIGNATION: IT AIN'T OVER [...] (C) Summary: A March 15 parliamentary vote rejected the resignation of State Security chief Arvydas Pocius, despite a previous decision by the same body that he was not capable of doing the job. Pocius remains in the job, but his position is weak and probably untenable. End Summary. 2. ( [...] | 2007-03-16 15:50:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV LH |
07VILNIUS217 | LITHUANIA ASKS FOR HELP WITH THE OECD ENTRY PROCESS [...] (C) Summary: MFA Undersecretary Zygmimantas Pavilionis summoned the Ambassador on March 26 to complain that the USG was not promoting Lithuania's candidacy for the OECD. Pavilionis said that Lithuanian President Adamkus would press for Lithuanian entry during an upcoming visit to Paris. He s [...] | 2007-03-27 10:34:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN OECD EUN LH |
07VILNIUS219 | LITHUANIA AGREES WITH GYMNICH TALKING POINTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: We delivered reftel points to Gediminas Kasputis of the MFA's Common Foreign and Security Policy Division on March 28. Kasputis said that the GOL's positions were nearly identical to our positions. Kasputis asked for clarification on several points, and gave details on Lithuania [...] | 2007-03-27 14:37:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN KPAL PREL XG IS IR ZI LH BO |
07VILNIUS234 | HAVANA AND MADRID PRESS LITHUANIA TO ESTABLISH [...] (C) Lithuania continues to receive pressure, both from within the European Union and from the Castro regime itself, to establish diplomatic relations with Cuba. 2. (C) MFA Americas Division Director Jonas Paslauskas told CDA April 2 that Spain's AMB Fidel Lopez Alvarez demarched the GOL [...] | 2007-04-04 11:53:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CU LH |
07VILNIUS239 | LITHUANIA SEEKS TO CORONATE A NATIONAL ENERGY [...] (C) Summary: The GOL has promulgated a draft law that outlines Lithuania's participation in the construction and operation of a new nuclear power plant. The legislation, which requires parliamentary approval, calls for the merger of three energy companies to create a national energy champion [...] | 2007-04-05 11:49:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL ECON EUN XG LH |
07VILNIUS247 | GUANTANAMO REFUGEES: LITHUANIA FAVORABLY DISPOSED [...] (U) This is an action request. See para five. 2. (C) Following up on his conversation with the Ambassador (ref a),MFA Under Secretary Pavilionis told CDA April 3 that the GOL has made the political decision to accept a small number of detainees from the Guantanamo facility as requested [...] | 2007-04-06 15:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM PINR KAWC LH |
07VILNIUS25 | LITHUANIA ON IRAN: SUPPORTING DEMOCRACY WITHOUT [...] (C) We delivered ref A points to Jurate Ramoskiene, First Secretary in the MFA's Africa and Middle East Division, on SIPDIS January 11. She said that the GOL is "absolutely" supportive of a "two-dimensional approach" to Iran, including both sanctions and pro-democracy efforts. She said t [...] | 2007-01-11 17:07:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPAO PREL IR LH PL |
07VILNIUS277 | LITHUANIA ON GAERC: CONCERNS ABOUT RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania's priority at the April 23-24 GAERC will be to suggest postponing the cooperation agreement with Russia until the GOR explains the Druzhba pipeline closure. The FM will also intervene to discuss his recent trip to Central Asia and to discuss the US-EU Summit declaratio [...] | 2007-04-20 16:13:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL ETRD EPET EUN LH |
07VILNIUS281 | LITHUANIA: READY FOR NATO HLG MAY 3 MEETING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-23 14:17:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV NATO MNUC NPG LH |
07VILNIUS290 | PAKSAS'S PARTY WINS VILNIUS MAYORSHIP [...] (C) SUMMARY. The new mayor of Vilnius is Juozas Imbrasas, a strong supporter of impeached ex-president Rolandas Paksas and member of the Paksas-led Liberal Democratic Party. His election is a first step toward re-establishing Paksas and his party as significant political players. End Summary. [...] | 2007-04-26 15:36:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR LH |
07VILNIUS306 | LITHUANIAN PLANS TO EXTEND IGNALINA NUCLEAR POWER [...] (C) Summary: The GOL may ask the EU to approve extending the life of Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant's (INPP) second unit, which is scheduled to be shut down no later than December 31, 2009 in accordance with Lithuania's EU accession treaty. (Note: Unit One was shut down in 2004.) The GOL and [...] | 2007-05-02 14:44:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL ECON EUN XG LH |
07VILNIUS309 | LITHUANIAN PARTICIPATION IN THE NEW WAY FORWARD IN [...] (C) We have been working intensely with the GOL to maintain the Lithuanian troop presence in Multinational Division South East (MND-SE) since the February announcements of British and Danish troop drawdowns from Basra. Following what appeared to be internal wrangling over what Lithuania's nex [...] | 2007-05-03 08:57:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER IZ LH |
07VILNIUS322 | LITHUANIA MAY INTERVENE ON MOLDOVA AT MAY 14 GAERC [...] (C) Summary: Lithuania may intervene at the May 14 GAERC on Moldova. The GOL sees little chance of making progress towards a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement with Russia given the current climate. They have suspicions that the secretive negotiations concluded between Russia and Moldova [...] | 2007-05-09 13:32:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN ETRD KPAL LH RS MD |
07VILNIUS330 | LITHUANIA WILL NOT SUPPORT BELARUS FOR HRC SEAT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-10 15:28:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM LH BO SI BK |
07VILNIUS331 | LITHUANIA AGAINST BELARUS FOR HRC; MIXED ON BOSNIA [...] (C) We delivered ref A and B points to Darius Staniulis, head of the MFA's Human Rights and NGOs Division, on May 10. He said the GOL opposes Belarus's bid to become a member of the HRC. He characterized as "very unlikely" the prospect that Belarus would succeed, and noted the recent UNGA res [...] | 2007-05-11 11:14:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL LH BO |
07VILNIUS340 | DAS DAVID KRAMER'S MAY 11 VISIT TO VILNIUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 11, EUR DAS David Kramer provided the GOL an account of his recent visit to Belarus and delivered the message that the USG and its allies must keep pressure on Belarusian President Lukashenko until he takes concrete steps toward reform. His GOL interlocutors were skeptical [...] | 2007-05-16 07:02:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LT BO UP |
07VILNIUS379 | SNIPISKES CEMETERY UPDATE: EXPERTS' GROUP MEETINGS [...] (C) SUMMARY. International and Lithuanian experts issued a unanimous statement on May 17 warning that current construction almost certainly falls within the confines of the old Jewish cemetery in the Snipiskes neighborhood of Vilnius. They called for more study and a halt of construction unt [...] | 2007-05-25 15:11:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SCUL LH |
07VILNIUS393 | LITHUANIAN DEFENSE MINISTER REQUESTS HELP IN [...] (C) On May 28, Ambassador Cloud and Defense Attache met with Lithuanian Minister of Defense Juozas Olekas (other issues discussed to be provided septel). Olekas requested U.S. help in getting Lithuanian Joint Tactical Air Controllers (JTAC) certified by NATO. He said that some of Lithuania's [...] | 2007-06-01 11:36:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL PGOV EAID LH AF |
07VILNIUS395 | ANTI-GAY RALLY IN VILNIUS DRAWS EU'S ATTENTION [...] (U) Summary: An anti-homosexual rally in downtown Vilnius on May 25, originally planned to coincide with a pro-diversity rally, drew a small, non-violent crowd. The City of Vilnius' decision to prevent the European Commission-sponsored pro-diversity and gay pride rally from taking place has [...] | 2007-06-01 14:43:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM LH |
07VILNIUS401 | (C) LITHUANIAN DEFENSE MINISTER CONFIRMS DRAW-DOWN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Cloud reiterated the U.S. preference that the GOL leave a platoon of troops in Iraq to Lithuanian Defense Minister Juozas Olekas on May 28. Olekas said that, after deliberations with President Adamkus and FM Vaitiekunas, the GOL has decided to keep some staff officers [...] | 2007-06-04 15:00:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL PGOV EAID LH |
07VILNIUS438 | (C) LITHUANIA TO INTERVENE ON NEIGHBORHOOD POLICY [...] (C) Summary: Lithuania plans to intervene on neighborhood policy at the June 18-19 GAERC. The GOL is happy with the German Presidency's handling of this issue, but still has some points to add to the conclusions. Lithuania expects a shortened period of discussion for all agenda items to save [...] | 2007-06-13 11:06:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN ENRG ETRD ETTC KPAL PARM PGOV PREL LH |
07VILNIUS467 | NEW HEAD OF LITHUANIA'S STATE SECURITY DEPARTMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY. President Adamkus signelQXbVQw77u candidacy on June 5. END SUMMARY. Bio Note -------- 2. (C) Malakauskas has been a close embassy contact for several years. Since 2004, he has been head of Lithuania,s Special Investigations Service (Lithuanian acronym STT). He is intell [...] | 2007-06-27 10:08:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV LH |
07VILNIUS47 | LITHUANIA'S PLANS FOR GAERC: ENERGY AND [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania's Foreign Minister plans to intervene at the January 22-23 GAERC on European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) and external energy policy. The GOL supports the UN envoy in Kosovo and agrees that strengthening sanctions and promoting democracy are both needed in Iran. End Summa [...] | 2007-01-19 15:59:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG EAID EUN LH |
07VILNIUS511 | LITHUANIA DECIDES TO KEEP PLATOON IN IRAQ, WILL [...] (C) Summary: On July 9, President Adamkus told the Ambassador that Lithuania will meet its commitments in Iraq. He explained that decisions by the Danes and the British to reduce their presence in MNF-southeast forced the Lithuanians to do some restructuring of their presence. President Adamku [...] | 2007-07-12 07:27:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS MARR IZ LH |
07VILNIUS519 | LITHUANIAN FM TO SPEAK ABOUT WTO AND KOSOVO AT [...] (C) We delivered reftel points to Vyta Naujokaityte of the MFA's Common Foreign and Security Policy Division. Naujokaityte told us that FM Petras Vaitiekunas's briefing book is still being prepared for the July 23 GAERC. He plans to make a short statement about Kosovo and the WTO. 2. (C) N [...] | 2007-07-17 12:24:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN ENRG ETRD ETTC KPAL PGOV PREL SOCI LH |
07VILNIUS542 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF THE LITHUANIAN [...] (C) As part of President Adamkus's decision to maintain a combat platoon on Iraq, he tasked Foreign Minister Vaitiekunas and Defense Minister Olekas to travel to Washington to discuss Lithuania's role in Iraq. MNF-Iraq has given the Lithuanian military a variety of options and promised needed [...] | 2007-08-01 08:01:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL PGOV MOPS MARR IZ LH |
07VILNIUS573 | LITHUANIA PREPARES TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVO WITHOUT [...] (C) We delivered reftel points to Giedre Gelezeviciene of the MFA's European Union Enlargement Division. Gelezeviciene said that Lithuanian FM Petras Vaitiekunas had said that one country could not hold the process hostage as Kosovo moves towards independence. She said that the GOL would foll [...] | 2007-08-10 10:30:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KV YI UN PGOV EU LH |
07VILNIUS595 | LITHUANIAN RESPONSE TO U.S. NON-PAPER ON ADAPTED [...] (C) We delivered reftel non-paper to Algis Dabkus, Director of the Security Policy Department at the MFA. Dabkus expressed surprise at the fast-paced timeline. He said that the GOL has always been willing to ratify the Adapted CFE Treaty once the Istanbul Commitments are met. 2. (C) Dabkus [...] | 2007-08-20 14:56:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO KCFE PARM PREL LH |
07VILNIUS614 | SNIPISKES CEMETERY UPDATE: IS THE TIDE TURNING? [...] (C) Summary. On August 27, Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas announced a reorganization of the Working Group on the former Jewish cemetery in the Snipiskes neighborhood of Vilnius so that it consists of more senior staff and has a more responsible chairman. The Working Group has until Septem [...] | 2007-08-29 12:05:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SCUL LH |
07VILNIUS626 | LITHUANIA WILL FOCUS ON RUSSIA ISSUES AT GYMNICH [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania plans to focus on Russia for the September 7 GYMNICH meeting. FM Vaitiekunas will argue that problems of individual EU member states with Russia should be approached as collective EU problems. He will also seek to take the agenda focus off of a Partnership and Cooperat [...] | 2007-09-05 10:59:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PGOV PREL YI RS CH IN LH |
07VILNIUS629 | U.S.-BALTIC A/CFE MEETING IN VILNIUS, AUGUST 30 [...] (C) Summary: U.S. HLTF Representative Deputy Assistant Secretary Karin L. Look led CFE consultations with Estonia, SIPDIS Latvia, and Lithuania on August 29 and 30, 2007 in Vilnius, Lithuania. On 29 August with Lithuanian MFA Under Secretary Pavilionis and on 30 August with all three Baltic [...] | 2007-09-07 05:36:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO KCFE PARM PREL ZB RS |
07VILNIUS648 | LITHUANIA'S CORRUPT MEDIA HURTS EVERYONE, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Some media outlets in Lithuania, newspapers especially, extort politicians and businessmen using rewards of positive coverage and the threat of negative coverage. Media corruption damages media credibility, undermines Lithuania's democratic institutions, and intimidates politicia [...] | 2007-09-13 13:26:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON KCOR LH |
07VILNIUS704 | SNIPISKES CEMETERY UPDATE: ONE STEP FORWARD... [...] (C) Summary. On September 18, the Prime Minister and his cabinet agreed that construction on or near the former Jewish cemetery in the Snipiskes neighborhood of Vilnius should be stopped and further study done. On September 27, however, the responsible agency -- the Cultural Heritage Departme [...] | 2007-10-02 12:21:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SCUL LH |
07VILNIUS729 | LITHUANIA ON THE OCTOBER 15-16 FOREIGN MINISTERS [...] (C) Begin Summary. Lithuania's priority at the October 15-16 GAERC will be to express concerns about Russia prior to the EU-Russia summit in Portugal later this month. The FM also may intervene to discuss concerns about the EU's new treaty reform, to express support for strong pressure on Bu [...] | 2007-10-12 14:23:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD ETTC KPAL LH RS IR |
07VILNIUS742 | USPASKICH RETURNED FROM RUSSIA, RUNNING FOR [...] (C) Summary. On September 26, Viktor Uspaskich -- businessman turned politician, former Economy Minister, and fugitive for his alleged fraudulent use of campaign funds -- returned from Moscow to Lithuania. He was immediately detained and is currently under pre-trial house arrest for six mont [...] | 2007-10-18 08:12:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR LH RS |
07VILNIUS775 | LITHUANIA CONSIDERS HOW TO HELP WITH THE CUBAN [...] (C) We delivered reftel points to Head of the America's Division of the MFA, Lina Gubreviciute, on October 24. Gubreviciute told us that although Cuba is not a high-profile issue for Lithuania the MFA might be interested in cooperating on one or more of the projects in reftel. She said that t [...] | 2007-10-30 12:13:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | UNGA PHUM CU LH |
07VILNIUS783 | SUPPORTING ARGENTINA'S REQUEST FOR INTERPOL [...] (C) Lithuania will send a representative to the INTERPOL General Assembly meeting in Morocco on November 5. Argentina's diplomatic representation for Lithuania is provided by its mission in Finland. We contacted Embassy Helsinki for help determining if our assistance would be beneficial. [...] | 2007-10-31 12:48:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC KJUS PREL PGOV LH IR |
07VILNIUS784 | LITHUANIA PLANS TO IMPLEMENT FATF GUIDANCE ON IRAN [...] (C) On October 29 we met with Donatas Ziugzda, Head of the MFA's Arms Control, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Division to discuss reftel. Ziugzda promised to consider the information and discuss it with the head of the Threat Analysis, Crisis Management and International Operations Divisi [...] | 2007-10-31 13:05:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MNUC ECON LH |
07VILNIUS786 | LITHUANIA WILL REVIEW US DESIGNATIONS OF IRANIAN [...] (C) We discussed reftel points with Donatas Ziugzda and Rigale Karciauskaite of the MFA's Arms Control, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Divison on October 26. They planned to contact Lithuania's EU representative office in Brussels with reftel information. They suggested that Lithuania cou [...] | 2007-10-31 15:17:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PREL PARM EFIN LH |
07VILNIUS791 | LITHUANIAN IRAQ DEPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS [...] (C) Summary. We have conducted an assessment of the legal and political challenges posed to Lithuania by the expiration of a UN Chapter VII mandate per ref A. We conclude that the GOL will not raise any legal concerns, but we believe the political opponents of participation in Iraq will use t [...] | 2007-11-02 15:39:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL IZ LH |
07VILNIUS792 | LITHUANIA LIKELY TO SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDACY FOR [...] (C) On October 30 we met with Dr. Irena Skardziuviene, Head of the MFA's UN and Council of Europe Division and on October 31 we saw the Ministry of Transport's Director of the Water Transport Department, Juozas Darulis and Deputy, Livita Kretkovskiene to discuss reftel. Skardziuviene said the [...] | 2007-11-02 15:43:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC EWWT PHSA LH |
07VILNIUS796 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH MINISTER OF ECONOMY [...] (U) Begin summary. In an October 25 meeting, Economy Minister Vytas Navickas told the Ambassador that the capacity of the new Ignalina nuclear power plant (INPP) would not be known until the environmental impact assessment was completed at the end of 2008. He expressed confidence that, despi [...] | 2007-11-05 13:34:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON LH |
07VILNIUS805 | LITHUANIAN PREPARATIONS FOR MID-NOVEMBER IAEA [...] (C) We provided Department views per reftel to Rimgaile Karciauskaite and Dovydas Spokauskas of the MFA's Arms Control, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Division November 5. Spokauskas informed us that he would likely represent the GOL at the IAEA Board of Governors Meeting on November 22-23 [...] | 2007-11-08 13:32:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA AORC LH IR |
07VILNIUS809 | LITHUANIA IMPLEMENTED FATF GUIDELINES AND WILL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-09 13:45:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MNUC ECON EFIN LH |
07VILNIUS811 | LITHUANIA HOPING TO MOVE AHEAD ON ENERGY ISSUES [...] (C) Summary. DCM met November 7 with Darius Degutis, MFA, Ambassador at Large, Economic Security Policy Department. Degutis's direct responsibilities include international energy projects such as the proposed Polish & Swedish power bridges and the new Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP). H [...] | 2007-11-13 06:56:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET LH |
07VILNIUS826 | LITHUANIA CONCERNED ABOUT VENEZUELA, BUT UNLIKELY [...] (C) We delivered reftel points to Darius Staniulis, Head of the MFA's Human Rights and NGOs Division, on November 15. He agreed that some of the proposed constitutional changes were troubling and some were "totalitarian." He said, however, that the GOL is not very active in Latin America and [...] | 2007-11-16 15:43:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM LH VE |
07VILNIUS828 | EU'S LACKLUSTER PROGRESS ON BIOTECH NOT WORRISOME [...] (C) Begin summary. In separate meetings on November 13 and 14 we met with Environment, Foreign Affairs, and Agriculture Ministry officials to deliver reftel demarche. Our GOL interlocutors support the introduction of biotech in some cases. However, they all cited negative public opinion as [...] | 2007-11-16 16:02:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ETRD LH |
07VILNIUS829 | LITHUANIA WILL FOCUS ON GEORGIA FOR NOVEMBER 19 [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania's focus for the November 19 GAERC will be Georgia. FM Vaitiekunas plans to try to convince other EU members that Georgia needs more support now, not less. He will push for a statement urging other countries not to intervene in Georgia's domestic political affairs. On [...] | 2007-11-16 16:12:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PREL PGOV GG IR PK BM LH |
07VILNIUS848 | LITHUANIAN WILL FOLLOW THE EU FLOW ON BURMA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-21 15:29:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ETRD EFIN LH |
07VILNIUS853 | LITHUANIA UNLIKELY TO SUPPORT ANY UNAPPROVED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-27 15:17:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ETRD TBIO LH |
07VILNIUS87 | LITHUANIA CRITICAL OF EU'S AVIATION EMISSIONS PLANS [...] (C) Minister of Environment Kundrotas told the Ambassador on January 24 that he was not in favor of the EU's proposal to include aviation emissions in the emissions trading scheme (ETS). He stressed that the EU's proposed scheme would harm Lithuania's plans to expand its air transport sector. [...] | 2007-02-07 09:15:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON SENV LH EUN |
07VILNIUS877 | LITHUANIAN PRIORITIES FOR THE DECEMBER 10 GAERC [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania will seek to include a statement on energy security in the summit conclusions at the GAERC meeting on December 10. FM Vaitiekunas will also emphasize the importance of helping Moldova and the inadequacy of the Black Sea Energy group for the countries in the European Nei [...] | 2007-12-10 13:26:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM LE SY LH |
07VILNIUS878 | LITHUANIA'S GOVERNMENT UNDER STRESS [...] (C) Summary. The opposition Conservative party has begun calling for early elections in Lithuania. The Social Democrats, who lead the minority governing coalition and who also used to have the support of the Conservatives, have been hurt by increasing inflation and allegations of poor planning [...] | 2007-12-10 15:19:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV LH |
07VILNIUS88 | FEBRUARY GAERC: LITHUANIA FOCUSED ON KOSOVO, [...] (C) Lithuania's FM does not plan any interventions for the February GAERC, but is supportive of U.S. positions. In the lead-up to the GAERC, Lithuania focused on Kosovo, Afghanistan, and setting the stage for a March European Council that focuses on the Lisbon strategy and the energy sector. [...] | 2007-02-07 11:35:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD LH EUN AF |
07WARSAW1098 | YOUR JUNE 8 VISIT TO POLAND AND MEETING WITH [...] (C) Mr. President. The Polish people and government, as well as I and my entire staff, are looking forward to your June 8 visit as a sign of the importance you attach to our close partnership with Poland, and for the boost it will give the relationship as we embark on negotiations to place a [...] | 2007-05-11 16:28:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR ECON MARR PL |
07WARSAW1147 | POLAND'S NAIMSKI TELLS DAS BRYZA KRAKOW SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: Poland's Deputy Minister of Economy Piotr Naimski told visiting DAS Bryza that the Krakow Summit had four important results: The governments reached a political decision that a Caspian-Odessa-Brody-Plock-Gdansk (COBPG) oil pipeline should be constructed and that an Intergovernme [...] | 2007-05-16 08:53:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ECON PREL PO KZ UR LI AJ GG RS |
07WARSAW1162 | POLAND-KOSOVO: GOP STRONGLY IN FAVOR OF PROMPT [...] (C) Pol External Chief on May 15 delivered reftel demarche on Kosovo UNSC action to Piotr Siebeneichen, Balkans Unit Chief in the MFA European Department. Siebeneichen reiterated his government's strong support for the Ahtisaari Report and an expeditious resolution of the Kowovo status questi [...] | 2007-05-17 13:18:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PL YI |
07WARSAW1163 | POLAND-IRAQ: INFORMING THE GOP OF LEADERSHIP [...] (C) DCM delivered reftel demarche during the week of May 14 in separate meetings with MFA U/S Witold Waszczykowski, PM's foreign policy adviser Amb. Andrzej Sados and Presidential Chief of Staff Elzbieta Jakubiak. The Polish side expressed appreciation for the political message on transfer of [...] | 2007-05-17 13:48:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR PL IQ GG |
07WARSAW1165 | POLAND: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON THE GROWING [...] (C) Political Counselor delivered reftel on May 17 to Jacek Hinz, Deputy Director of the America,s Division responsible for Latin America at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. PolCouns reviewed U.S. concerns over increasing ties between Iran and Venezuela, emphasizing growing economic and poli [...] | 2007-05-17 14:05:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PHUM MASS ECON PTER IR VE PL |
07WARSAW1204 | POLAND: LIBERTAD ACT RESPONSE [...] (C) Post is not aware of any Polish investment in Cuba and bilateral trade is very small. In the first eleven months of 2006 Poland exported $18.0 million in goods to Cuba and imported $0.2 million from Cuba. Exports for the first 11 months of 2005 were $10.4 million while imports were $3.2 [...] | 2007-05-24 10:31:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL PO CU |
07WARSAW121 | POLES WILL PURSUE TRANSPETROL STAKE [...] (C) Summary. Polish oil pipeline operator PERN will make a last ditch effort to negotiate a deal with Yukos International to purchase its share of Transpetrol in Slovakia. The GOP fully supports PERN's efforts, as control of Transpetrol by a non-Russian entity is a major energy security go [...] | 2007-01-19 15:34:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PL SO RS PREL |
07WARSAW1218 | START OF MISSILE DEFENSE NEGOTIATIONS IN POLAND: [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 24, A/S John C. Rood's U.S. delegation began negotiations on a Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) agreement with Poland's team headed by Deputy Foreign Minister, Witold Waszczykowski. The Poles outlined specific concerns with the U.S. draft BMD agreement. However, they stres [...] | 2007-05-25 10:54:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PL |
07WARSAW1221 | POLAND-IRAQ: FOREIGN MINISTER EXPRESSES CONCERN [...] (C) Polish Foreign Minister Anna Fotyga called Ambassador in on Friday, May 25, to discuss the changes in the leadership structure of the Multi-National Division Center South (MND-CS) in Iraq, in particular the decision to create a new command (MND-C) that would assume command of MND-CS elemen [...] | 2007-05-25 15:35:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR PL IQ GG |
07WARSAW1265 | POLES ADVISED AGAINST MANPADS TO GEORGIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Polcouns delivered reftel demarche, advising that Poland not sell MANPADS to Georgia, to Ambassador Tadeusz Chomicki on May 29. Chomicki appreciated hearing the U.S. position, but politely cautioned that, "This decision rests with the highest authorities in Poland." As if to pre [...] | 2007-05-31 14:31:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MASS ETTC PGOV PREL GG PL |
07WARSAW1281 | INCREASE IN WALK-IN TRAFFIC TO WARSAW'S CONSULAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the last year Warsaw,s consular section has seen an increase in both the number and diversity of walk-ins seeking asylum or refugee status in the United States. The majority of cases continue to come from neighboring countries, primarily Belarus. However, recent applicants ar [...] | 2007-06-01 14:32:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | CMGT PREF PHUM ASEC RSOX PL |
07WARSAW1295 | POLES OPPOSE RUSSIAN AGENDA FOR CFE EXTRAORDINARY [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche by poloff, Polish MFA's expert on the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty, Mieczyslaw Kozinski, labeled Russia's agenda "a non-starter," and called for "NATO solidarity" to oppose Russian goals for the 12-15 June Extraordinary Conference under t [...] | 2007-06-04 14:21:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE NATO PARM PREL PL |
07WARSAW1338 | WILL POLAND USE ITS VETO ON THE EU CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) Warsaw has had a slew of EU leaders pay a visit on the eve of the June 21 EU Summit in Berlin on a constitutional convention. Last week Italian PM Prodi had brutally frank talks with the Polish President and PM. According to a senior Italian diplomat, Prodi called his meeting with PM Kac [...] | 2007-06-08 11:46:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PL |
07WARSAW1382 | POLAND-EU: GOP THOUGHTS ON THE JUNE 18-19 GAERC [...] (C) Pol External Chief delivered reftel GAERC demarche June 14 to Pawel Herczynski, Deputy Director, MFA EU Department. Please find below Herczynski's responses on individual agenda items. 2. (C) Cuba: Herczynski noted that the PSC had decided June 13 after a long and bitter discussion to [...] | 2007-06-15 13:56:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN PL |
07WARSAW1383 | MISSING/DETAINED AMCITS IN IRAN: POLAND UNDERTAKES [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see para 4. 2. (C) After Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Juliusz Gojlo, MFA Head of the Iraqi Task Group, PolCouns was asked to meet June 15 with Gojlo and Iran Deskoff Andrzej Lysiak to discuss a related demarche made by the Iranian Embassy. Ly [...] | 2007-06-15 14:14:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM IR PHUM EUN PL |
07WARSAW1398 | GIERTYCH ATTACKS ON SOCIAL ISSUES, BUT KACZYNSKIS [...] (U) Summary. The far-right Catholic nationalist League of Polish Families (LPR) party has been using controversial wedge issues such as abortion and gay rights in an attempt to re-capture the support of voters who largely chose Law and Justice (PiS) in the 2005 election. But LPR head Roman [...] | 2007-06-18 13:46:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR PL |
07WARSAW1428 | IRANIANS TELL POLES THAT SITUATION OF DETAINED [...] (C) MFA Iraq Task Force Chief Juliusz Gojlo informed PolCouns June 21 that he had met the previous day with a counselor from the Iranian Embassy to inquire about the status of American citizens detained in Iran (Ref A) and to provide Iran our views on the "Irbil Five"--the Iranians detained i [...] | 2007-06-21 10:02:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM IR PHUM EUN PL |
07WARSAW1430 | MISSILE DEFENSE: POLAND'S PLAN FOR JUNE 25 TALKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 21, Robert Kupiecki, Director of Security Policy, Polish MFA, briefed DCM and Poloff on Poland's plan for the June 25 Missile Defense (MD) negotiations in Washington D.C. Kupiecki cautioned that, despite earlier indications, Poland would not present counter drafts of the [...] | 2007-06-21 17:14:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PL |
07WARSAW1521 | POLAND PROBABLY NOT IN A POSITION TO PROVIDE AMMO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-06 11:42:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS MARR MOPS PGOV PREL LE NZ AS NATO EU PL |
07WARSAW163 | KOSOVO STATUS TIMELINE: POLAND FULLY ON BOARD [...] (C) Pol External Chief delivered reftel demarche on the Kosovo status timeline on January 18 to Piotr Siebeneichen, Chief of the Balkans Division in the MFA Europe Department. Siebeneichen said the Polish and U.S. positions were nearly identical; Poland strongly supported Un Special Envy Ahtis [...] | 2007-01-26 10:26:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV EU PL |
07WARSAW166 | POLISH FM ON AFGHANISTAN AND INFORMAL NATO [...] (C) Per reftels, Ambassador met January 25 with FM Fotyga to discuss Poland's engagement in Afghanistan. (Reftel demarches were delivered to the MFA Security Policy Department upon receipt, but the Polish response was deferred until FM Fotyga herself could meet with Ambassador.) Given Poland [...] | 2007-01-26 11:06:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MARR MOPS AF PL |
07WARSAW1664 | WITH COALITION IN TATTERS AFTER ONE YEAR OF PM [...] (C) Summary: With his coalition in tatters Prime Minister Jarek Kaczynski on July 27 pulled back -- at least for the moment -- from calling early elections. Many PiS leaders discount opinion polls and believe they could once again come out ahead in elections. More importantly, Kaczynski ma [...] | 2007-07-27 15:51:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PL |
07WARSAW1699 | MISSILE DEFENSE: POLES PROPOSE SEPTEMBER FOR NEXT [...] (C) In an August 2 meeting with Charge and poloff, Poland's lead Missile Defense (MD) negotiator, Witold Waszczykowski, indicated that the next round of MD negotiations should occur on September 10, agreeing with his principle advisor, Robert Kupiecki, who said this was a "realistic meeting d [...] | 2007-08-03 09:22:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PL |
07WARSAW1715 | CORRECTED COPY: MISSILE DEFENSE: POLES PROPOSE [...] (C) In an August 2 meeting with Charge and poloff, Poland's lead Missile Defense (MD) negotiator, Witold Waszczykowski, indicated that the next round of MD negotiations should occur on September 10, agreeing with his principle advisor, Robert Kupiecki, who said this was a "realistic meeting d [...] | 2007-08-07 10:15:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PL |
07WARSAW1731 | INTERIOR MINISTER LOBS ACCUSATIONS AFTER BEING [...] (U) Summary: The firing of Interior Minister Janusz Kaczmarek August 8 caught the political world by surprise and revealed perhaps greater internal disarray in the governing Law and Justice (PiS) party than was suspected even when insider Ludwig Dorn resigned as Interior Minister six months [...] | 2007-08-09 14:44:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PL |
07WARSAW1745 | PIS INSIDER SAYS ELECTIONS "PROBABLE" AFTER [...] (C) In the wake of the August 8 firing of Interior Minister Janusz Kaczmarek, part of the fallout of the July firing of Deputy Prime Minister Andrzej Lepper, there is once again serious talk of early elections, but there has yet to be any concrete action to set the process in motion. As expe [...] | 2007-08-10 14:15:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PL |
07WARSAW1755 | KACZYNSKIS END TURBULENT COALITION AND PREDICT [...] (SBU) President Lech Kaczynski and his brother Prime Minister Jarek Kaczynski put an end August 13 to a turbulent 15-month coalition government, saying early elections were inevitable and would take place toward the end of October. Prime Minister Kaczynski fired all ministers from the League [...] | 2007-08-13 15:40:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PL |
07WARSAW1759 | GETTING READY FOR SEPTEMBER 6-7 TALKS ON MISSILE [...] (C) In an August 14 meeting with DCM and Pol Intern, Robert Kupiecki -- principal advisor to Poland,s lead Missile Defense (MD) negotiator Witold Waszczykowski -- promised a Polish draft text on an MD basing agreement in a few days. Kupiecki assured us that the Polish draft text on security c [...] | 2007-08-14 15:23:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PL |
07WARSAW1760 | POSSIBLE ELECTIONS: INITIAL OUTLOOK AND PROGNOSIS [...] (C) Summary: Early elections now seem more likely than at any other time since Law and Justice (PiS) won the parliamentary and presidential elections in 2005, but are still not completely certain. No action will be taken in moving forward on a resolution to dissolve the Sejm until Septembe [...] | 2007-08-14 15:24:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON MARR PL |
07WARSAW1764 | DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON KOSOVO'S NEXT STEPS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-16 12:49:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | KV YI UN PGOV EU PREL PL |
07WARSAW1793 | MISSILE DEFENSE: POLES DELIVER DRAFT SITE AGREEMENT [...] (C) On August 20, Andrzej Kremer, Director of the Legal and Treaty Department, Polish MFA, delivered Poland's counter-draft of the Missile Defense basing agreement along with amplifying comments to DCM. He was careful to describe how this document fits into the broader scope of our bilateral [...] | 2007-08-20 15:02:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PL |
07WARSAW181 | POLAND-EU: POLISH FM FOTYGA'S VIEWS ON JANUARY [...] (C) PolExt Chief delivered Ref B and C pre-GAERC demarches January 17 to Pawel Herczynski, Deputy Director of the MFA EU Department. Herczynski was unable to coordinate a response within the MFA before the January 22 GAERC. However, Post provides below post-GAERC comments by FM Fotyga at a Ja [...] | 2007-01-26 16:10:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ENRG EUN PL |
07WARSAW1814 | DEFMIN TELLS REP TURNER THAT POLES AIM TO "BUY" [...] (C) While speaking on Missile Defense issues, Defense Minister Aleksander Szczyglo expressed Poland's desire to purchase "modern" air defense missile systems from the U.S. in a meeting with Congressman Michael Turner, member of the HASC, on August 17. Ambassador, DATT and Ministry of Defense [...] | 2007-08-22 15:41:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MAS PREL PL |
07WARSAW1817 | POLISH INSIGHT ON THE NEW AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche by poloff on August 9, Krzysztof Debnicki, Afghanistan Desk Officer at Polish MFA, expressed support for the new U.S. policy and, to assist our preparation, offered the following rhetorical questions: - When compensating farmers who forsake poppy production, [...] | 2007-08-23 15:20:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PINS PREL MARR MOPS SNAR AF |
07WARSAW1826 | RUMORS FLY AS CALENDAR IS SET FOR DISSOLVING [...] (C) Summary. Political turmoil continues in Poland as three separate motions for dissolving parliament are under consideration. Sejm Marshall Ludwik Dorn set the vote on dissolution for September 7. With a razor thin majority, the motion may pass, setting the stage for October elections; al [...] | 2007-08-27 05:18:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MASS PL |
07WARSAW1843 | LOT AIRLINE MANAGEMENT ON CHALLENGING POLISH [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-28 13:24:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON PL |
07WARSAW1867 | POLISH AVIATION OFFICIAL: "WE HAVE SURRENDERED OUR [...] (U) Econoff met with Grzegorz Kruszynski, president of the Polish Civil Aviation Office on August 28 to discuss the upcoming International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) General Assembly. Kruszynski said he would be a delegate to the General Assembly, taking place in Montreal, Canada, [...] | 2007-08-31 12:34:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON ETRD PL |
07WARSAW1886 | POLAND AHEAD OF U.S. ON SUPPORTING GEORGIA AT OSCE [...] (C) On September 5, Poloff demarched Elzbieta Beziuk of Polish MFA on supporting Georgia at the September 6 OSCE meeting (ref a). After offering Poland's complete cooperation at the September 6 meeting, Beziuk turned the tables and expressed three Polish aspirations on Georgia issues. One, [...] | 2007-09-05 13:23:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS OSCE PL |
07WARSAW1901 | POLISH BUSINESSMEN STAYING ABROAD WHILE KRAUZE [...] (C) Summary: David Ensor told us that the Polish investors in his company, Mercuria Energy, are staying out of Poland while the GOP investigates Polish businessman Richard Krauze. Ensor stated that the company is afraid that during the likely upcoming election campaign that PiS will use a [...] | 2007-09-06 14:40:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PREL PO ES RS GM |
07WARSAW1916 | PARLIAMENT DISSOLVED, MINISTERS FIRED, ELECTIONS [...] (U) Summary: The Polish Parliament voted to dissolve itself by a wide majority on September 7, setting the stage for early elections. President Kaczynski as expected set the election date for October 21. The political fur is already flying in what is expected to be a brutal campaign. Civic [...] | 2007-09-10 15:04:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR PL |
07WARSAW1930 | POLAND-NATO/GEORGIA: GOP AN ACTIVE PROPONENT OF [...] (C) On the margins of September 6-7 U.S.-Polish Missile Defense negotiations, Pol External Chief shared reftel points on the NAC visit to Georgia (including points intended for "cool" and cold" posts) with MFA Security Policy Director Robert Kupiecki, who fully agreed with the U.S. position tha [...] | 2007-09-12 13:05:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO GG PL RS |
07WARSAW1932 | POLAND'S MARITIME MINISTRY: ADRIFT AT SEA [...] (U) Classified by Economic Counselor Richard Rorvig, reasons 1.4 b, d 2. (C) Ambassador Ashe, accompanied by econoff, paid a courtesy call on new Minister of Economy Grobarczyk on September 5. During the meeting, Grobarczyk seemed unfamiliar with basic facts about Polish shipping. He [...] | 2007-09-12 15:14:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT ETRD PREL PO PINR |
07WARSAW1938 | POLAND:MISSILE DEFENSE NEGOTIATIONS, ROUND THREE [...] (C) SUMMARY: A/S John C. Rood's U.S. delegation conducted a productive third round of negotiations on Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) with Poland's team headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski on September 6-7 in Warsaw. The two sides exchanged views on the strategic context of [...] | 2007-09-13 08:15:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PL |
07WARSAW1944 | POLES THINK IT'S TOO EARLY FOR AN EU BORDER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-13 14:33:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SY IS LE EUN |
07WARSAW1975 | POLAND AND NORDSTREAM TALKING PAST EACH OTHER [...] (C) Summary: Polish interlocutors continue to tell post that they oppose the construction of the proposed Nordstream gas pipeline from Russia to Germany. They complain that the Nordstream company announces information to the press rather than discussing it with the Ministry of Economy. Oppo [...] | 2007-09-19 14:35:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET ETRD PL RS EN XH XG PREL |
07WARSAW1981 | POLAND ENERGY: PIPELINES, MERGERS, STORAGE, GAS [...] (C) Summary: Poland continues to pursue the construction of the Odessa-Brody Plock oil pipeline and GOP officials will meet with counterparts from Georgia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan in Tbilisi on September 26. The Ministry of Economy opposes the merger of PKN Orlen and Lotos Refinery because [...] | 2007-09-20 13:52:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET ETRD PL PREL |
07WARSAW1988 | POLAND CAN NOT CONTRIBUTE TO SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOR [...] (C) Acting Econ Counselor delivered reftel talking points to Olga Zawadzka-Kucharska of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Department of Development Assistance (Polish AID). Ms. Zawadzka-Kucharska explained that her department had already allocated all of its voluntary contributions for the 200 [...] | 2007-09-21 14:48:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC LE PL PTER |
07WARSAW2003 | AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ AT ISSUE IN POLAND'S NATIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Polish military participation in Afghanistan and Iraq has become an issue in the snap elections set for October 21 (REF A),with leading opposition party Civic Platform (PO) expressing doubts about continuing deployments. Defense Minister Aleksander Szczyglo has recommended that [...] | 2007-09-25 12:49:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PL |
07WARSAW2033 | RACE TIGHTENS IN CLOSING WEEKS [...] (C) Summary. With elections in three weeks, the Kaczynski political machine is humming, effectively sidelining its main opposition and counting on its strength in rural areas to deliver what would be an electoral first in post-communist Poland: re-election. The Kaczynskis have managed to s [...] | 2007-10-01 15:21:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PL |
07WARSAW2063 | POLES SUPPORT U.S. OPPOSITION TO DE-ALERTING OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-05 13:57:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MNUC UNGA |
07WARSAW2082 | KRAKOW,S PO LEADER PREDICTS PO LOSS [...] (U) This cable was drafted by ConGen Krakow. 2. (C) Summary: Krakow,s PO leader (and lead candidate on the PO list),Senator Jaroslaw Gowin, told Poloff on October 5 that his party will probably lose the coming parliamentary elections, both in Krakow and the nation. In Gowin,s view, the [...] | 2007-10-10 13:42:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PL |
07WARSAW2091 | POLAND: MFA OFFICIAL REVIEWS GAERC AGENDA; [...] (C) Summary: PolCouns met October 11 with Pawel Herczynski, MFA Deputy Director for EU Affairs, to review reftel issues in advance of the October 15-16 EU Foreign Ministers meeting. While most of his comments were predictable, Herczynski added a new twist on Poland's approach to EU-Russia [...] | 2007-10-11 14:19:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PREL PGOV ETRD ETTC KPAL WTO PL |
07WARSAW2101 | TUSK COMING ON STRONG, BUT IS IT TOO LITTLE TOO [...] (U) Summary: With polls flip flopping between the ruling Law and Order (PiS) and main opposition Civic Platform (PO),the October 12 debate between PM Kaczynski and PO's Donald Tusk may prove decisive in a tight race. After weeks of running an anemic and lackluster campaign, Tusk came out s [...] | 2007-10-15 14:11:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PL |
07WARSAW2104 | CFE: POLAND SUPPORTS PARALLEL ACTION, BUT DOUBTS [...] (C) Poland supports the U.S. proposal for parallel action on the A/CFE but has noted that since the Russians labeled it "insufficient" there is no basis for Poland to pursue ratification at this time. On October 11, in the wake of the of the informal CFE seminar held by all 30 state parties O [...] | 2007-10-16 09:35:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM NATO KCFE PL |
07WARSAW2128 | MUD-SLINGING CAMPAIGN DRAWS TO A CLOSE WITH [...] (C) Summary: Poles will go to vote this Sunday with increasingly stark campaign ad messages of "disaster" in the health sector, a fresh corruption scandal carefully timed for maximum political impact, and a dash of anti-Semitism to add to the campaign. The final week has seen spirited mud-s [...] | 2007-10-19 10:15:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR PL |
07WARSAW2136 | URBAN VOTERS DELIVER LANDSLIDE VICTORY TO CIVIC [...] (C) Summary: The opposition Civic Platform (PO) won a decisive victory over ruling Law and Justice (PiS),as urban and youth voters, motivated apparently by PO leader Donald Tusk's decisive debate with PM Jarek Kaczynski, and by PiS's over-the-top campaign tactics, turned out in high numbers. [...] | 2007-10-22 14:06:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EFIN MARR PL |
07WARSAW2142 | CIVIC PLATFORM GOVERNMENT LIKELY TO LEAVE IRAQ, [...] (C) Summary: With their victory clear, Civic Platform (PO) leaders are making public statements on a wide range of foreign policy objectives, including their party's position on Polish deployment in Iraq. Reflecting widespread popular dissatisfaction with the Iraq war, PO consistently has ca [...] | 2007-10-23 14:44:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EFIN ECON MARR PL |
07WARSAW2154 | ACTION REQUEST: LETTER FROM MFA PROPOSES [...] (C) ACTION REQUEST: Post requests that the Department respond positively to the Polish government's invitation to participate in a Polish-U.S. seminar on export controls in Tbilisi, Georgia as outlined in the letter text quoted below. END ACTION REQUEST. 2. (C) Background: Ambassador re [...] | 2007-10-26 09:46:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MASS ETTC PGOV PREL GG PL |
07WARSAW2188 | POLAND'S IRAQ DEPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poland faces significant political and legal obstacles to continuing its Iraq deployment beyond 2008, especially without an applicable United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR). Civic Platform (PO),which won the October 21 parliamentary elections and is certain to form [...] | 2007-11-02 16:04:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL IZ PL |
07WARSAW2212 | POLISH PHARMACEUTICALS: PROGRESS AT LAST [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ministry of Health finally issued an update to its list of drugs eligible for reimbursement from the National Health Service. The list was great news for the industry. Twenty-one innovative active substances were added. Also, a new law that went into effect on September [...] | 2007-11-08 14:40:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KIPR TBIO ETRD PL |
07WARSAW2224 | TUSK DESIGNATED AS NEW POLISH PM [...] (U) Summary. President Lech Kaczynski designated Donald Tusk as Poland's next prime minister on November 9, as expected. Tusk promised to unveil his recommended cabinet tomorrow, November 10. Presidential advisor Michal Kaminski confirmed that the cabinet should be sworn into office on Fri [...] | 2007-11-09 17:12:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PL |
07WARSAW2243 | ADDRESSING POLISH DISAPPOINTMENT OVER GAGOR'S NATO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although reactions vary in intensity, Poland,s foreign and security affairs community is clearly disappointed over the November 14 defeat of Polish Chief of the General Staff Gen. Franciszek in his bid to become Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (CMC). A significant minorit [...] | 2007-11-15 16:39:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR NATO PREL PL |
07WARSAW2246 | NEW POLISH FM SIKORSKI AND MOD KLICH LIKELY TO [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel non-paper on November 15 to Pawel Herczynski in the MFA's EU Department, in anticipation of the November 19-20 GAERC in Brussels. Herczynski said he was "99% sure" that Poland would be represented by new FM Radek Sikorski, who would be accompanied by new Minister o [...] | 2007-11-16 11:38:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PREL PGOV PL |
07WARSAW2266 | POLES FORMULATING PLAN FOR JOINT EXPORT CONTROL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-23 11:31:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL ETTC MASS PGOV GG PL |
07WARSAW2274 | PM TUSK WINS VOTE OF CONFIDENCE IN PARLIAMENT [...] (C) Summary: As expected, PM Donald Tusk won a vote of confidence in the Polish Sejm on November 24, winning 238 votes (230 are necessary). Tusk presented his governmental expose to the Sejm on November 23, outlining an ambitious agenda that includes health sector reform, infrastructure imp [...] | 2007-11-27 16:31:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PL |
07WARSAW2289 | MFA OFFICIAL PESSIMISTIC ON CHANGE IN CUBA [...] (C) Emboffs met with Daniel Gromann, Deputy Director of the MFA's Americas Division, and until August 2007, Poland's Charge d'Affaires in Havana. Gromann spent six years in Havana, and was Charge for his final two years. He played an instrumental role with respect to setting up the video co [...] | 2007-11-29 14:32:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PHUM PREL CU PL |
07WARSAW231 | POLAND: MOE ATTEMPT TO STOP OIL TANKER LOADING [...] (C) Summary: J&S Executives report that Minister of Economy Wozniak requested that the company not load an oil tanker during the recent Druzba oil pipeline shutoff, a request the company denied. J&S currently supplies 50% of Poland's crude, but is diversifying in Europe, the U.S. and Canad [...] | 2007-02-02 15:23:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PL RS UR NO |
07WARSAW234 | POLAND: ENERGY UPDATE [...] (U) This is an action cable, see paras 5, 7, 8 2. (C) Summary. The GOP continues to pursue the purchase of Transpetrol assets from Yukos International. The GOP remains concerned that the government of Slovakia will not support a GOP purchase. The GOP started negotiating a contract fo [...] | 2007-02-05 07:44:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL PO RS UP KZ AG GM |
07WARSAW2341 | POLES TO FOCUS ON KOSOVO, EASTERN DIMENSION AT [...] (C) POLOFF passed reftel talking points to Pawel Herczynski, in the MFA's EU Department. Herczynski said the December 9-10 GAERC will focus primarily on Kosovo and EU Neighbors policy. Herczynski said that the GOP will be very disappointed if the EU fails to speak in one voice with respect [...] | 2007-12-07 15:14:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PL |
07WARSAW2355 | NEW ENERGY CZAR WANTS MORE ECONOMIC LIBERALISM IN [...] (C) Adam Szejnfeld, the newly appointed Secretary of State in the Economics Ministry responsible for energy affairs, told the DCM that he wants to bring more economic liberalism into Poland's energy policy. Szejnfeld said he will review over the next three months the various energy projects p [...] | 2007-12-11 14:54:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET EINV PL |
07WARSAW2368 | CLUSTER MUNITIONS: POLES WANT TO COUNTER OSLO [...] (C) In response to Poloff's deliver of reftel demarche, Andrzej Suda of the Security Policy Department at the MFA, underscored Poland's support for the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) and urged immediate action to counter the growing momentum of the Oslo process. Suda noted that Oslo [...] | 2007-12-13 14:36:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL NATO |
07WARSAW2381 | POLAND'S REACTOR FUEL RETURN PROGRAM: REACHING [...] (C) Summary: Poland's stalled reactor fuel return program may finally be getting underway, thanks to an executive order establishing a new inter-ministry coordinating group. However, the Poles estimate transferring their reactor fuel waste to Russia could take until 2016 or 2017, beyond the [...] | 2007-12-17 13:25:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP KTIA TRGY ENGR PARM PL |
07WARSAW2395 | POLAND'S PRACTICAL APPROACH TO RECONCILIATION WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: For practical reasons, the new Polish government is committed to improving relations with Russia (ref A) without abandoning core principles on democracy and energy security. Prime Minister Donald Tusk's decision to stop opposing Russian OECD membership was the first in a series o [...] | 2007-12-19 10:36:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG ETRD KDEM PL RS |
07WARSAW246 | DEMARCHE TO GOP ON DEPUTY PM LEPPER'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Charge delivered the points from reftel to MFA Americas Director Andrzej Jarosinski, saying that the United States did not intend to interfere in the GOP's internal politics, but that we were concerned and saddened that Deputy PM and Minister of Agriculture Andrzej Lepper would receive an [...] | 2007-02-05 15:53:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PL |
07WARSAW247 | DEPARTURE OF DEFMIN RADEK SIKORSKI: RESIGNATION OR [...] (C) SUMMARY. PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski accepted February 5 the resignation of DefMin Radek Sikorski, only hours after the MOD spokesman announced that Sikorski had submitted it. Although it will not be clear how Sikorski's departure might affect U.S. interests until a successor is named, the chang [...] | 2007-02-05 16:05:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PL |
07WARSAW258 | NEW DEFMIN ALEKSANDER SZCZYGLO, A LOYAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: 44-year-old Aleksander Szczyglo, Head of the Presidential Chancellery and a loyal protege and confidante of President Lech Kaczynski (Ref A),will succeed Radek Sikorski (Ref B) February 7 as Poland's Minister of Defense. By acknowledging Sikorski's concerns over the control of mi [...] | 2007-02-06 15:54:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PL |
07WARSAW308 | "THIRD TWIN" RESIGNS FROM INTERIOR; REPLACED BY [...] (U) The uproar over Ludwik Dorn's unexpected departure from government continued as his replacement, Janusz Kaczmarek, was sworn in February 8 as the new Minister of Interior (MSWiA). As reported reftel, Dorn's departure from MSWiA may signal a crack in the PiS inner circle, a group long dist [...] | 2007-02-08 15:51:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PL |
07WARSAW315 | POLISH FM ON HALTING EXPORT CREDITS TO IRAN [...] (C) Ambassador delivered Reftel demarche on Iran Export Credits to Polish FM Anna Fotyga on January 25. Fotyga responded that the GOP took the Iran sanctions very seriously and would make every effort to ensure compliance with UNSCR 1737. She could not promise at present that Poland would t [...] | 2007-02-09 13:20:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN MNUC PL IR EXIM UNSC OECD |
07WARSAW316 | POLAND-EU: FM FOTYGA REQUESTS THAT U.S. MONTHLY [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to MFA officials, FM Anna Fotyga has requested that her briefing book for every GAERC include the text of the monthly U.S. pre-GAERC demarches. Fotyga has become fully engaged in Poland's relations with the EU and clearly values U.S. views, and our cooperation with MFA [...] | 2007-02-09 14:02:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ETRD EUN PL |
07WARSAW317 | POLAND: DELIVERY OF LETTER TO ENCOURAGE V-10 [...] (C) Political External Chief delivered Ref B letter from PDAS Volker and DAS DiCarlo February 9 to MFA European Department Director for forwarding to MFA U/S Krzysztof Szczerski, who is both the current Political Director and the U/S supervising EU and European issues. Chmielewski indicated t [...] | 2007-02-09 14:50:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN YI PL |
07WARSAW319 | FATAH-HAMAS GOVERNMENT: POLAND STRONGLY SUPPORTS [...] (C) Pol External Chief delivered reftel demarche on the Fatah-Hamas national unity government on February 9 to Pawel Herczynski, MFA EU Department Deputy Director. Herczynski commented that the U.S.views were fully consistent with Quartet principles, and therefore they reflected EU policy as [...] | 2007-02-09 15:34:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL KPAL KWBG PREL IS PL |
07WARSAW320 | POLAND'S ECONOMY STARTS TO HIT ITS STRIDE [...] (U) Poland's GDP rose 5.8 percent in 2006 to $337 billion, according to the National Statistics Agency, the best performance since 1996. Growth was propelled by a 5.8 percent rise in domestic demand, sharply increased EU funds inflows, and surging investment (up 16.7 percent). Profiting from [...] | 2007-02-09 15:43:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PL |
07WARSAW321 | POLAND: SURVEYING EU MEMBERS ON THEIR IRAN CIVIL [...] (C) Post apologizes for the delay in responding to Reftel demarche on Iran Civil Society and Democracy programming. Due to internal reorganization and a near 100 percent turnover in staff, The Polish MFA Department for Africa & Middle East was unable to meet with us over the past several weeks [...] | 2007-02-09 15:45:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO EUN PL |
07WARSAW355 | KACZYNSKIS SEEK TO SOLDIER ON DESPITE CRACKS IN [...] (C) Summary. There is a crisis atmosphere within the government as President and Prime Minister Kaczynskis' most loyal political lieutenants are squabbling publicly. Even for the Kaczynskis, who have overseen a government buffeted by crisis (much of their own making),the resignations last [...] | 2007-02-14 16:11:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PL |
07WARSAW387 | POLAND: ENSURING EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF UN [...] (C) Political External Chief delivered Ref A talking points February 9 to Juliusz Gojlo, Iran/Iraq Team Chief in the MFA Middle East Africa Department. Gojlo undertook to distribute the U.S. views to the Polish interagency for comment, but warned that it could take some time to provide a resp [...] | 2007-02-20 09:01:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP EFIN PL |
07WARSAW395 | POLAND (QUIETLY) ENDING NORTH KOREAN LABORER [...] (C) On February 16, Poloff met with Piotr Mierecki, Director of the Department of Migration Policy at the Ministry of Interior. Mierecki indicated that the GOP has taken a decision internally to end the North Korean work program, under which 25 North Korean welders are working at the Gdansk S [...] | 2007-02-21 09:12:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ELAB EZ KN PL |
07WARSAW431 | POLAND: RESPONDING TO RUSSIAN THREATS AGAINST [...] (C) Charge shared reftel points February 22 with MFA U/S Witold Waszczykowski, explaining that this was the approach the USG was taking to inform allied and friendly European governments of our Missile Defense plans and to reassure them in the wake of strongly negative Russian rhetoric in recen [...] | 2007-02-23 15:26:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | EZ MARR PREL PL |
07WARSAW500 | POLAND-EU: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE IN ADVANCE OF THE [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to MFA EU Department Deputy Director Pawel Herczynski, the March 5-6 GAERC will be heavily focused on energy and climate issues, in advance of the March 8-9 European Council (EC) meeting. Emissions standards will be the most difficult part of the discussion. Herczynski [...] | 2007-03-01 15:56:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ETRD EUN ENRG PL IR |
07WARSAW583 | YUSHCHENKO AND KACZYNSKI DISCUSS ENERGY, EU: TALK [...] (C) Summary: Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and Polish President Lech Kaczynski focused on the Odessa-Brody pipeline project as well as Ukrainian aspirations for greater engagement with the EU during their March 7 meetings in Plock, Poland. Yushchenko's subsequent call for dialogue wi [...] | 2007-03-09 15:45:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON SENV EINV ETRD EAGR PL |
07WARSAW610 | POLAND QUIETLY SUPPORTS US-EU OPEN SKIES AGREEMENT [...] (C) Econoff delivered reftel demarche to Malgorzata Alberti, Head of the International Agreements Division of the Civil Aviation Office. Pawel Moniak, a specialist in the International Agreements Division, and the Polish representative during the most recent negotiations in Brussels was als [...] | 2007-03-13 16:15:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAIR KTIA PREL EU PL |
07WARSAW648 | POLAND-OSCE: GOP REQUESTS U.S. SUPPORT FOR HCNM [...] (C) MFA Security Policy Director Robert Kupiecki informed DCM on March 14 that Poland had formally nominated former Polish Foreign (Adam) Daniel Rotfeld to the position of OSCE High Commissioner for National Minorities (HCNM). Noting Rotfeld's close association and cooperation with the U.S. f [...] | 2007-03-15 16:09:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM OSCE PINR PL |
07WARSAW691 | POLAND-GERMANY: (C-RE7-00514) MERKEL'S SPRING [...] (U) German Chancellor Angela Merkel's March 16-17 visit to Poland was deemed a great success by both sides, and could prove an important step in warming previously frosty bilateral relations (reftel). By declaring opposition to the claims of German WWII expellees on Polish land Merkel earned [...] | 2007-03-20 15:46:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV PINR ENRG PL GM |
07WARSAW748 | POLAND SUPPORTS AHTISAARI'S PLAN, BUT EXPRESSES [...] (C) DCM met March 27 with Krzysztof Szczerski, Under Secretary of State for Europe at Polish MFA, to deliver SIPDIS reftel Demarche on Kosovo. (Note: Neither Minister nor Deputy Minister were available.) Szczerski stated "Poland is for the Ahtisaari plan," but then went on to outline "a f [...] | 2007-03-27 14:33:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNMIK UN YI EU PL |
07WARSAW764 | POLES PONDER ACCEPTING GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] (C) Witold Waszczykowski, Under Secretary of State Polish MFA, indicated that Poland may be prepared to consider accepting Guantanamo detainees in response to DCM delivery of reftel demarche on March 28. Waszczykowski asked how many detainees we might want Poland to take and when. Without m [...] | 2007-03-30 06:46:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM PINR KAWC XG PL |
07WARSAW797 | POLISH FOREIGN MINISTER CONSIDERING GUANTANAMO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-04 14:38:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM PINR KAWC XG PL |
07WARSAW86 | POLAND: DAS BRYZA'S MEETING WITH DEPUTY ECONOMICS [...] (C) Summary: EUR DAS Bryza and Polish Deputy Minister of Economy Naimski discussed a deal for gas for Azerbaijan and Georgia that would relieve both countries of their dependence on Russian gas, and exchanged views on the political situation in Georgia. Naimski restated his opposition to t [...] | 2007-01-12 15:59:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON PREL RS GG AJ KZ LH LG EN LO PL |
07WARSAW865 | FM FOTYGA DECLINES TO TAKE TO-BE FREED GUANTANAMO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-13 11:52:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM PINR XG PL |
07WARSAW979 | POLAND-MISSILE DEFENSE: DELIVERY OF DRAFT BMD [...] (C) DCM delivered draft Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) agreement text (Ref A) on April 26 to MFA U/S Witold Waszczykowski, along with previously provided site map attachments originally provided to the GOP on January 25 (Ref B). Waszczykowski acknowledged receipt of the draft and undertook t [...] | 2007-04-27 17:05:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PL |
07WELLINGTON141 | NZ PONDERS FUTURE FIJI, SOLOMONS POLICIES [...] (C) Summary. PM Clark strongly supports the timeline and processes recently discussed by Australian, New Zealand, and US officials to encourage Fiji's return to democracy. The GNZ believes that the upcoming Pacific Island Forum (PIF) Eminent Person's Group report on Fiji will be key to deter [...] | 2007-02-14 01:54:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV XB XV FJ NZ |
07WELLINGTON146 | NEXT STEPS WITH ALLIES ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: The GNZ understands the pressures for more resources in Afghanistan and will review carefully our request for additional NATO/ISAF commitments. Current NZ Defence Force (NZDF) deployments to Afghanistan will likely be extended through September 2009, but GNZ will probably not i [...] | 2007-02-15 21:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PINS PREL PGOV NZ |
07WELLINGTON219 | NEW ZEALAND RESPONSE TO UNSCR 1737 SANCTIONS ON IRAN [...] (C) Summary: New Zealand is on track to implement UNSCR 1737 measures against entities and individuals linked to Iran's nuclear program. Phil Goff, Minister of Defense and Disarmament, recently delivered a strong message to the government of Iran stressing that it must comply with UNSCR 1737 an [...] | 2007-03-09 21:21:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP UNSC ETRD EFIN PGOV PREL AORC TRGY IR NZ |
07WELLINGTON221 | NEW ZEALAND EXTENDS AFGHAN DEPLOYMENTS FOR ONE YEAR [...] (C) Summary: The New Zealand Cabinet today approved the extension of current NZDF deployments to Afghanistan for one year, through September 2008, vice the two years that MoD requested (reftel). The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) told post that the Cabinet wanted the chance to [...] | 2007-03-12 05:07:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PINS PREL PGOV NZ |
07WELLINGTON229 | GNZ PREPS FOR PACIFIC ISLAND FORUM [...] (C) Summary: The March 15 PIF Foreign Ministers meeting will have a limited role for Fiji, in part to ensure that interim PM Bainimarama cannot complain that members acted behind Fiji's back. The GNZ believes the outlook is good for PIF ministers to agree that Fiji should abide by the EPG [...] | 2007-03-15 18:42:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NZ XV FJ |
07WELLINGTON237 | NEW ZEALAND PLEASED WITH PIF MEETING OUTCOMES [...] (C) Summary: The GNZ believes the March 16 Pacific Island Forum (PIF) Foreign Ministers meeting offered Fiji's interim government clear carrots and sticks for a return to democratic elections within 18-24 months, as recommended by the PIF Eminent Persons Group (EPG). New Zealand was very ple [...] | 2007-03-20 05:33:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NZ FJ |
07WELLINGTON272 | NZ AMBASSADOR HEADS TO PYONGYANG [...] (C) Summary: During her April 3-7 trip to Pyongyang, NZ's Ambassador to North Korea, Jane Coombs, will carry a letter from Foreign Minister Peters urging the DPRK to comply with the Six Party Talks. She will also note the GNZ's willingness to contribute to the second tranche of energy assis [...] | 2007-04-02 05:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KNNP KNAR NZ |
07WELLINGTON285 | GNZ SHARES DRAFT OF ITS ACTION PLAN AGAINST HUMAN [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 29, GNZ shared with DCM and Poloff a draft of its national action plan against human trafficking. From an operational standpoint, NZ government agencies already have an effective program in place to prevent trafficking. The "Action Plan" seeks to further improve inte [...] | 2007-04-10 05:44:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB NZ |
07WELLINGTON290 | NEW ZEALAND ON IRAQ COMPACT SIGNING [...] (SBU) As requested reftel, Embassy conveyed information about the May Iraq Compact signing to New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) Officials Darryl Dunn, Director of the Middle East and Africa Division, and Carl Worker, Director of the Americas Division. 2. (C) Dunn to [...] | 2007-04-11 19:24:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN PREL PGOV UN NZ |
07WELLINGTON302 | GNZ WORRIES BAINIMARAMA IS IN A HOLE AND STILL [...] (C) The GNZ worries that interim PM Bainimarama is increasingly fragile and his actions risk throwing the country into armed conflict. Heather Riddell, Director of the Pacific Division, calls Bainimarama's measures restricting the Great Council of Chiefs (GCC) "loopy." Bainimarama has now cu [...] | 2007-04-13 06:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL FJ NZ |
07WELLINGTON305 | POTENTIAL FOR NZ FOREIGN MINISTER-GOVT SPLIT OVER NZ-CHINA [...] (C) A source close to Foreign Minister Winston Peters, whose New Zealand First Party seriously lags in the polls, says Peters may openly voice his opposition to New Zealand's free trade deal with China in an effort to secure the loyalty of his voter base. Although the dispute could strain the [...] | 2007-04-15 19:19:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV NZ |
07WELLINGTON308 | DEMARCHE TO GNZ ON TOKELAU AND SWAINS ISLAND [...] (C) Summary: As instructed Reftel, PE Couns met with Tokelau Administrator David Payton to request that the GNZ publicly reaffirm that Tokelau does not/not have claim over any American Samoan island presently administered by the United States, including Olohega, or Swains Island. Payton con [...] | 2007-04-17 20:03:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NZ |
07WELLINGTON316 | COOPERATING WITH GNZ TO SHORE UP WEAK COOKS VESSEL [...] (U) This contains action recommendations at paras 12-13. 2. (C) Summary: Embassy is concerned that recent Coast Guard seizures of Cook Island vessels in the Caribbean indicate that weaknesses in the Cooks' vessel registry are being exploited by organized crime. The GNZ is worried, too, hav [...] | 2007-04-19 05:13:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PREL PGOV CW NZ |
07WELLINGTON361 | DEFENSE AND TRADE MINISTER PHIL GOFF'S TRIP TO [...] (C) Summary: New Zealand's Minister for Defense and Trade Phil Goff sees his May 9-11 visit to Washington as a chance to build on the positive momentum created by PM Helen Clark's March visit (Ref A). On the Defense side, Goff will express hope that both countries can continue to identify j [...] | 2007-05-08 03:57:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD MARR NZ |
07WELLINGTON391 | NEW ZEALAND ON WORLD ORGANIZATION FOR ANIMAL [...] (C) This message contains an action request, at para 5. 2. (C) Summary: Until today (May 24),the GNZ had intended to abstain on the OIE resolution that would require Taiwan to participate under the name Taiwan, China. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) have now heard from t [...] | 2007-05-24 06:01:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAGR AORG TW CH NZ |
07WELLINGTON394 | NZDF TO PROVIDE P-3 ORION TO PSI EXERCISE [...] (C) NZDF Director of International Defence Relations Wayne Higgins told Emboffs today that Chief of Defence Force Mataparae has approved an NZDF P-3 Orion's participation in a regional, Operations Expert Group (OEG)-led PSI exercise, to be held in Japan October 15-18. The decision was made fo [...] | 2007-05-25 07:10:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NZ |
07WELLINGTON400 | EAP/ANP DIRECTOR MCGANN'S MAY 21 VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary: During his May 21 visit to Wellington, EAP/ANP Office Director C. Steven McGann and GNZ counterparts agreed to work towards firm messages on Fiji, the Solomon Islands, Pacific Island Forum (PIF) reform, and other regional issues at October's PIF meetings in Tonga. They also exch [...] | 2007-05-29 22:35:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD MARR EAGR OVIP KCMR EWWT KTIA |
07WELLINGTON436 | DEMARCHE REGARDING SHANGHAI COOPERATION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-13 23:55:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NZ |
07WELLINGTON442 | GNZ ON NATO/ISAF REQUESTS [...] (C) Acting DCM and A/P-E couns delivered reftel request to Paul Ash, Deputy Director of the Security Policy and Disarmament Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. We conveyed Washington's appreciation for New Zealand's continued positive role in Afghanistan. 2. (C) Ash sa [...] | 2007-06-15 01:53:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PINS PREL MOPS MARR AF NZ |
07WELLINGTON496 | DEMARCHE FOR LEBANESE ARMED FORCES: TRANSFERRING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-06 05:49:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PREL |
07WELLINGTON560 | NEW ZEALAND REACTION - CORRECTING UN REFERENCES TO [...] (C) Acting PolEcon Counselor Tom Walsh delivered demarche points (reftel) to Jo McLeod, Policy Officer in the North Asia Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on August 2. 2. (C) The MFAT officials said that they have taken our recommendation under advisement but that they [...] | 2007-08-05 20:03:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CH TW AS NZ UN |
07WELLINGTON589 | NEW ZEALAND - DUBAI BID FOR AUCKLAND AIRPORT RUNS [...] (C) A Dubai company's bid to purchase New Zealand's biggest airport has encountered strong public opposition to sale of "the family silver" to a foreign company. While anti-Arab sentiment plays some part, the real root of the opposition lies in the popular perception that the government botc [...] | 2007-08-14 21:02:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV EAIR PREL NZ AE |
07WELLINGTON653 | ASIA DEMOCRACY PARTNERSHIP PITCHED TO NEW ZEALAND [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 23 and 24, National Security Council Senior Director William Inboden and Senior Advisor Paul Lettow from the State Department's Global Affairs Bureau briefed the U.S. proposal for an "Asia Democracy Partnership" (ADP) (reftel) to the Ministry of Justice (MOJ),the Ministry [...] | 2007-08-30 19:47:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM NZ KDEM |
07WELLINGTON658 | BGEN TOOLAN (OSD) VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND [...] (C) Summary. Brigadier General John Toolan's visit marked the highest level OSD visit to New Zealand in years. The General met with the leadership of the New Zealand Defense Force and Ministry of Defense, including Chief of Defense Force (CDF) LTGEN Jerry Mateparae, Secretary of Defense Jo [...] | 2007-09-04 23:03:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NZ |
07WELLINGTON680 | DISCUSSION WITH COOK ISLANDS DEPUTY PM ON MARITIME [...] (C) During a recent visit to Auckland, Cook Islands Deputy Prime Minister Sir Terepai Maoate, along with Associate Minister Junior Maoate (his son) and CEO Ratu Mato, met with the Ambassador and Auckland CG. Maoate explained that the Cooks are anxious to expand their thin economic base beyon [...] | 2007-09-17 23:50:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT EMIN KTIA PBTS PREL SNAR XB XV NZ SW |
07WELLINGTON686 | NEW ZEALAND: ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL'S MEETINGS [...] (U) Assistant Secretary Hill has cleared this message, which was drafted by ConGen Auckland and approved by Embassy Wellington. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) Assistant Secretary Hill's New Zealand interlocutors emphasized the need to ensure that, as New Zealand approaches national e [...] | 2007-09-19 04:04:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD PARM KNNP NZ XV AF KN FJ TT |
07WELLINGTON704 | EAP/ANP DIRECTOR MCGANN'S SEPTEMBER 12-13 MEETINGS [...] (C) Summary. Following the successful US-NZ Partnership Forum (reftel),ANP Director McGann visited Wellington on September 12-13 for discussions with MFAT and MOD officials covering a range of bilateral issues with an emphasis on the Pacific Islands. On Guam, McGann urged MFAT officials to [...] | 2007-09-26 04:51:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR NZ US |
07WELLINGTON742 | NEW ZEALAND WILL PURSUE PROPOSED RESOLUTION ON [...] (C) On October 10, P/E Counselor met with Carolyn McDonald, Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade's Disarmament Division, Deputy Director Jillian Dempster, and Policy Officer Raylene Liufalani regarding the USG position on New Zealand's draft resolution on de-alerting of nucl [...] | 2007-10-10 22:23:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MNUC PREL UNGA NZ |
07WELLINGTON751 | NEW ZEALAND'S PRIORITIES FOR UPCOMING PACIFIC [...] (C) Summary. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade's (MFAT) Pacific Division views Fiji's return to democracy, the status of RAMSI in the Solomon Islands, and support for the Regional Integrated Framework (RIF) as the GNZ's key issues for discussion at the PIF. New Zealand worries that [...] | 2007-10-11 19:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM NZ |
07WELLINGTON763 | NATIONAL PARTY DEFENSE POLICY CONTINUES LABOUR [...] (SBU) Summary. National's recent "discussion paper" on foreign policy, trade, and defense, committed the party to continue the rebuilding of the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) initiated by Labour PM Clark. National MP Wayne Mapp argued that it was Labour who began its term in 1999 by acce [...] | 2007-10-16 18:46:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PGOV PREL NZ US |
07WELLINGTON791 | SUPPORTING ARGENTINA'S REQUEST FOR INTERPOL [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, Pol/Econ Counselor spoke with an Argentine Embassy official, who related that the Government of Argentina's Ministry of Foreign Affairs had discussed the issue of the red notices with the New Zealand Embassy in Buenos Aires. The Argentine Embassy in Wellin [...] | 2007-11-02 04:21:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KJUS PREL NZ |
07WELLINGTON806 | NEW ZEALAND TO REMAIN TOUGH ON BURMA [...] (C) Pol/Econ Counselor met on November 5 with Bernadette Cavanaugh, the newly arrived head of the SouQast Asian office at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) to discuss Burma and next steps for the GNZ. Cavanagh related that her office has been working on a proposal for the gov [...] | 2007-11-09 01:45:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ASEAN BM NZ |
07WELLINGTON866 | NEW ZEALAND AND US MIL-TO-MIL COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary. During a December 4-5 visit to New Zealand, OSD New Zealand Director Jessica Powers and PACOM New Zealand Desk Officer Rick Bairett reviewed US-NZ military cooperation, discussed the implementation of a new notification policy covering eight areas of mil-to-mil engagement, and [...] | 2007-12-19 00:29:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NZ |
07YAOUNDE1036 | CAMEROON: "BIYA WILL SOON MAKE DECISIVE CHANGES TO [...] (C) Summary. Flush with an overwhelming parliamentary majority, President Biya will move quickly and decisively to prove he is serious about rooting out corruption and improving governance, predicted Gregoire Owona in an August 13 lunch with Charge and Poloff. Owona, a senior official at t [...] | 2007-08-17 07:18:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KCOR EAID CM |
07YAOUNDE1090 | CAMEROON PRIME MINISTER SEEKS USG INPUT FOR [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Ephraim Inoni asked Charge on September 4 to share the list of personnel suggestions that then-Ambassador Marquardt provided during his July 6 farewell call on President Biya (ref B). Inoni said Biya wanted to consult the list before making final decisions for u [...] | 2007-09-04 13:04:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCOR CM |
07YAOUNDE1097 | UNPRECEDENTED PUBLIC DISSENT IN CAMEROON'S RULING [...] (SBU) Summary. The longstanding image of President Paul Biya's ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM) as a disciplined monolith was shaken when veteran CPDM official and National Assembly representative Adama Modi publicly opposed the CPDM's candidate during August 31 elections [...] | 2007-09-05 12:36:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCOR PINR CM |
07YAOUNDE1109 | CAMEROON: BOLD STROKE FOR COMPETENCE, [...] (C) Summary. President Biya on September 7 ordered a major cabinet reshuffle, dismissing 14 ministers -- including a number of the most notoriously corrupt and inept -- and refashioning two ministries to create a Ministry of Finance and a Ministry of Economy, Planning and Rural Development. [...] | 2007-09-10 13:47:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR PREL PINR CM |
07YAOUNDE1208 | CAMEROON'S RE-RUN ELECTIONS: PREP IMPROVES, MAJOR [...] (C) Summary: On September 30, Cameroon held re-run elections for 17 parliamentary seats following a Supreme Court ruling that invalidated the July 22 election results for these seats because of gross irregularities. The ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM) did predictably we [...] | 2007-10-05 08:39:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KMCA EAID CM |
07YAOUNDE1211 | CAMEROON: TOURS D'HORIZON WITH PM AND INTERIOR [...] (C) Summary: In an October 4 courtesy call by the Ambassador, Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralization Hamidou Yaya Marafa acknowledged failings in Cameroon's electoral process (but thought ELECAM was not a good fix),described serious security concerns on the border with [...] | 2007-10-05 15:18:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | CM PGOV PREL ASEC ECON KMCC |
07YAOUNDE1234 | CAMEROON CORRUPTION INVESTIGATIONS: RECENT [...] (C) Summary and action request. The Ambassador's recent meetings with Cameroon Vice PM/Minister of Justice Amadou Ali and Canadian High Commissioner Jean Pierre LaVoie provided new information relevant to USG participation in Government of Cameroon (GRC) anti-corruption investigations (ref [...] | 2007-10-15 13:06:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR PREL PGOV CM |
07YAOUNDE1235 | CAMEROON CORRUPTION INVESTIGATIONS: WHO IS DOOH [...] (C) Summary. Francis Dooh Collins is Justice Minister Ali's chosen interlocutor with foreign governments regarding the anti-corruption investigation Ali is spearheading (reftels). Although some of Dooh Collins' outlandish claims have given us reason to doubt his credibility, he has succeed [...] | 2007-10-15 13:08:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR PREL PGOV CM |
07YAOUNDE1236 | CORRUPTION: CAMEROON SUBMITS MUTUAL LEGAL [...] (C) Summary. Cameroon's Minister for Justice has signed a mutual legal assistance (MLA) request asking the USG to provide information from USG records and American institutions relevant to corrupt acts committed by Cameroonian officials. We anticipate that USG officials will identify a num [...] | 2007-10-15 13:10:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR PREL PGOV CM |
07YAOUNDE1271 | SARKOZY-BIYA SUMMIT: A FRENCH VIEW FROM CAMEROON [...] (C) Summary. Less than one week after returning from UNGA and a protracted stay in Geneva, President Paul Biya left October 22 for Paris, where he will attend UNESCO's general conference and meet on October 26 with French President Sarkozy for the first bilateral meeting between the two pre [...] | 2007-10-24 15:13:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SENV KCRO KPKO CM FR |
07YAOUNDE1308 | CAMEROON: BIYA STILL AN ENIGMA AFTER 25 YEARS [...] (C) Summary: Nationwide events on November 6 will fete the anniversary of Cameroonian President Paul Biya's 25 years in office. Biya survived over two decades filled with political turmoil and economic crisis. While preserving unity and a measure of stability, he has performed poorly in g [...] | 2007-11-02 13:41:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | CM PREL PINR ECON KCOR PGOV PHUM TBIO |
07YAOUNDE1315 | CAMEROON: COUP JITTERS [...] (C) Summary. In an October 30 meeting with the Ambassador, the Dutch and British Chiefs of Mission said they would report to their capitals the allegations of a coup attempt or staged coup attempt in Cameroon. The source of this information is of questionable reliability and coup rumors ar [...] | 2007-11-06 06:21:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | CM KCOR MOPS PGOV PINR PREL |
07YAOUNDE1374 | CAMEROON'S FIU SEEKS CLOSER TIES WITH US [...] (SBU) This is an action request for INL. See para. 5. 2. (SBU) In a November 14 conversation with Poloff, Hubert Nde Sambone, the Director of Cameroon's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) said he was eager to build working relationships with USG counterparts and to begin the process of jo [...] | 2007-11-21 12:49:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN EAID ECON EFIN KCOR PTER CM |
07YAOUNDE1391 | CAMEROON: GOVT PRACTICES ON INFO COLLECTION, SCREENING AND [...] (C) Below are responses to reftel information request on the Government of the Republic of Cameroon (GRC) information collecting, screening and sharing. A. Immigration Data Base ------------------------- 2. (C) The GRC does not have a computerized database system that tracks entry and [...] | 2007-11-26 06:24:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | KVPR PTER PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC KHLS SNAR CM |
07YAOUNDE1428 | HYDROMINE: AMERICAN DEAL-MAKER FOR CAMEROON'S [...] (SBU) Summary: Hydromine, an American project developer partnered with mining companies from the UAE and India, has been working since 2004 to develop Cameroon's multi-billion dollar bauxite resources and related infrastructure, including a railroad and deep water port. While the Prime Min [...] | 2007-12-06 12:22:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | CM ECON EMIN ETRD EINV ECOM PGOV PINR |
07YAOUNDE1441 | CAMEROON: VIEWS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL [...] (C) Summary. In a November 27 courtesy call by the Ambassador, President of the Cameroon National Assembly Cavaye Yeguie Djibril offered little vision for parliament and revealed suspicions regarding the benefits of free trade. As the President of the National Assembly, Djibril is first in li [...] | 2007-12-07 09:12:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PINR CM |
07YAOUNDE1447 | CAMEROON: VIEWS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Summary. In a November 27 courtesy call by the Ambassador, President of the Cameroon National Assembly Cavaye Yeguie Djibril offered little vision for parliament and revealed suspicions regarding the benefits of free trade. As the President of the National Assembly, Djibril is first in lin [...] | 2007-12-11 10:53:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PINR CM |
07YAOUNDE1478 | CAMEROON: IS BIYA PREPARING TO CHANGE THE [...] (U) This is an action message (see para 9). 2. (C) Summary. Almost immediately after President Paul Biya returned from his October 26 meeting with French President Nicholas Sarkozy, officials at all levels of the ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM) began calling for a con [...] | 2007-12-19 08:58:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | CM PGOV PINR PREL SOCI |
07YAOUNDE1479 | CAMEROON: IS BIYA PREPARING TO CHANGE THE [...] (U) This is an action message (see para 9). 2. (C) Summary. Almost immediately after President Paul Biya returned from his October 26 meeting with French President Nicholas Sarkozy, officials at all levels of the ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM) began calling for a con [...] | 2007-12-19 08:58:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | CM PGOV PINR PREL SOCI |
07YAOUNDE1496 | UN OFFICIAL SEEKS USG SUPPORT TO PRESSURE [...] (C) Summary: The Director of the Africa Division, UN Department of Political Affairs, Sammy Kum Buo (of Cameroonian origin),recently encouraged Ambassador to help convince A/S Jendayi Frazer and former UNSG Kofi Annan to engage President Biya about the need to plan for succession when his [...] | 2007-12-27 12:29:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | CM PGOV PREL |
07YAOUNDE1497 | CAMEROON'S JUSTICE MINISTER ON CORRUPTION LEGAL [...] (C) Ambassador joined the Canadian and Dutch COMs on December 18 for a joint meeting with Cameroonian Vice Prime Minister/Minister for Justice Amadou Ali focused on the GRC's request for legal assistance (ref b) in pursuing overseas bank accounts of Cameroonians tied to corruption. Explainin [...] | 2007-12-27 12:29:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR PGOV PREL CM |
07YAOUNDE179 | CAMEROON'S DIPLOMATS: IN THE COUNTRY'S DISSERVICE, [...] (C) The recent death of Cameroon's long-serving Ambassador to the E.U. resparked recurring public and media commentary on Cameroon's dramatically stagnant diplomatic corps. More than a dozen Cameroonian ambassadors have occupied their positions for more than 10 years, several have been in p [...] | 2007-02-13 11:47:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | CM CVIS KCOR KFRD PINR PREL NI |
07YAOUNDE227 | CAMEROON: POSSIBLE SUCCESSORS TO PRESIDENT BIYA [...] (SBU) President Biya's 74th birthday (February 13, 2007) revived speculation about who might succeed him, especially if were not to complete his term in office (which ends in 2011). The latest round of succession talk began last year following his spring 2006 illness (Ref. A),and his final [...] | 2007-02-22 13:05:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV CM KCOR |
07YAOUNDE382 | IMF/WORLD BANK MISSION GIVES CAMEROON HALF-HEARTED [...] (C) Summary. IMF Mission Chief Dan Ghura said publicly on March 15 that Cameroon's performance is "globally" on track, but the IMF's bland public pronouncements obscure some shortcomings in Cameroon's financial governance. Most troubling was the relapse in 2006 of extra-budgetary spending [...] | 2007-03-27 10:51:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL KCOR ECPS CM EPET |
07YAOUNDE442 | CAMEROON GETS CORRUPTION WATCHDOG, BUT WILL IT [...] (C) Summary. One year after establishing the National Anti-Corruption Commission (CONAC),President Biya on March 15 nominated a slate largely consisting of ruling CPDM party apparatchiks to CONAC's Coordination Committee. It will be headed by Paul Tessa, a longtime Presidency confidante. [...] | 2007-04-09 13:28:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR PGOV ECON PREL CM |
07YAOUNDE445 | CAMEROON: BIYA ON ELECTIONS AND WAR AGAINST [...] (C) Summary: President Biya claims he is still hard at work against corruption, and that he will fire and arrest some of his most corrupt ministers (and his incompetent transport minister) before election day. Finding lieutenants who are both clean and competent seems to be a huge challeng [...] | 2007-04-09 16:25:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | CM PREL PGOV KCOR PINR |
07YAOUNDE493 | CAMEROON OPPOSITION LEADER ON ELECTIONS, [...] (SBU) Bernard "Ben" Muna, head of the newly formed opposition coalition Alliance of Progressive Forces told Charge April 16 that he feared "generalized violence" if the July legislative and municipal elections are fraught with fraud. Pointing to violence that has broken out recently among ru [...] | 2007-04-17 16:26:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CM KCOR PINR |
07YAOUNDE667 | KENYA AIR CRASH PUTS CAMEROON'S GOVERNANCE [...] (C) Summary. The May 5 crash of Kenya Airways flight 507 (reftels) brought to stark relief some of the worst characteristics of governance in Cameroon. Although the event would have challenged even a capable government, Cameroon's response was hampered by many of the same factors that impe [...] | 2007-05-29 11:19:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR EAIR PREL CM PGOV |
07YAOUNDE731 | CAMEROON: HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS IN DEBT RELIEF HAVE [...] (C) Summary. Seven years after the beginning of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) debt relief process, the hundreds of millions of dollars specifically allocated for pro-poor development projects have had "no impact" according to the Cameroonian official charged with piloting the p [...] | 2007-06-07 08:24:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KCOR PREL PGOV EAID CM |
07YAOUNDE732 | CAMEROON: USG SHOULD AVOID ASSOCIATION WITH [...] (C) We believe that fundamental USG interests are undermined when USG officials -- and those of other groups of which we are members -- associate publicly with Polycarpe Abah Abah, Cameroon's current Minister of Economy and Finance and undisputed paragon of corruption. Abah Abah is a master [...] | 2007-06-07 08:49:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR EFIN PREL CM PINR |
07YAOUNDE741 | WHILE NOT PRETTY, CAMEROON'S ELECTION PREP IS [...] (C) With less than fifty days before voters go to the polls on July 22, the Government of Cameroon's handling of critical elements of the pre-election period has been marred with procedural irregularities. Some observers are questioning the government's commitment to democratic reform, poin [...] | 2007-06-08 10:39:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCOR PHUM CM |
07YAOUNDE904 | CAMEROON ELECTIONS: THE NEXUS BETWEEN CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary. High-level corruption is intrinsic to democratic politics in Cameroon. With Cameroonians going to the polls on July 22, critical USG interests in improving governance and democratic processes are affected by the nexus between grand corruption and the financing of political part [...] | 2007-07-20 16:51:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR PGOV PREL PHUM PINR EAID CM |
07YAOUNDE910 | CAMEROON ELECTIONS: DISAPPOINTING AT FIRST BLUSH [...] (C) Summary. Cameroon on July 22 held dual legislative and municipal elections; initial, anecdotal reports indicate that President Biya's ruling party will hold onto its strong majority in the National Assembly and in municipal councils throughout much of the country. Though it is too early [...] | 2007-07-23 13:39:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KCOR PINR EAID CM |
07YAOUNDE951 | CAMEROON ELECTIONS: SHINE COMES OFF RULING PARTY [...] (C) Summary. Less than two weeks after the ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM) party claimed crushing victories in July 22 parliamentary and legislative elections, a strengthening chorus of complaints from opposition and civil society groups and even discord within the CPDM [...] | 2007-08-02 06:55:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KCOR PINR EAID CM |
07YAOUNDE993 | CAMEROON ELECTIONS AREN'T OVER UNTIL THE SUPREME [...] (SBU) Summary. More than two weeks after the July 22 parliamentary and municipal polls, the official ballot count is complete. The results will not be released, however, until the Supreme Court has rendered decisions on 103 complaints filed by various political parties. Many observers spe [...] | 2007-08-07 11:56:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCOR EAID CM |
07YEREVAN1000 | EUR DAS BRYZA'S VISIT YIELDS UPDATES ON NK, [...] (C) SUMMARY: DAS Bryza's intense day of meetings in Yerevan July 30 touched important bases with top GOAM and opposition leaders. The visit was aimed at bilateral business, but Nagorno-Karabakh deliberations nonetheless dominated meetings with the President and Foreign Minister. On Turkey, [...] | 2007-08-07 10:58:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO AM TU IR |
07YEREVAN1012 | CDA CALL ON ENERGY MINISTER RAISES IRAN, NUCLEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY. CDA met August 6 with Energy Minister Armen Movsisian to discuss the Armenian nuclear power plant (ANPP) and Armenia's economic relations with Iran. Movsisian assured that the GOAM aims to close the plant by the target date (2016). He believed that Armenia's only option is to [...] | 2007-08-09 05:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON ETTC PREL PARM IR AM |
07YEREVAN1015 | ARMENIA DISMAYED BY RUSSIAN POSITION ON CFE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenian strategists are unanimously chagrined by Russia's plan to withdraw from the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty, believing that a functioning CFE is very much in Armenia's national interests to restrain a regional arms race. FM Oskanian and MFA experts tell us t [...] | 2007-08-09 12:26:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM AM RU |
07YEREVAN102 | ARMENIA LOOKS FOR MOVEMENT TOWARD RE-OPENING [...] (C) During a January 30 meeting with CDA, DFM Arman Kirakossian indicated that the GOAM would consider a signal from Turkey that opening the border was not contingent on a Nagorno-Karabakh settlement as "encouragement" to negotiate seriously normalization of relations between the two countries [...] | 2007-01-30 13:41:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU AM |
07YEREVAN1032 | TOUCHING ALL THE BASES: DAS BRYZA'S MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bryza's opposition party meetings pointed up the sharp contrast between the two, with Heritage on the upswing, and Orinats Yerkir seeming like a spent force. The parliament speaker, typically, delivered a windy oration of questionable relevance on Armenia's constitution. Bryza [...] | 2007-08-16 03:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AM TU |
07YEREVAN1050 | EX-PRESIDENT TER-PETROSSIAN TESTING THE COME-BACK [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA's courtesy call on Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP) found the former president candid, in high spirits, and eagerly exploring his chances to unify Armenia's opposition under his own banner for the 2008 presidential election. LTP evaluated his chances as slender, but worth trying, gi [...] | 2007-08-24 13:11:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN1055 | RULING PARTY CANDIDATE WINS COMMANDING PLURALITY [...] (C) Polling and vote tabulation proceeded fairly smoothly during the August 26 special election for the district 15 parliamentary seat. The Republican candidate was declared the winner with about 46 percent. His formerly-Prosperous Armenia rival came in second with almost 29 percent. The Da [...] | 2007-08-28 02:48:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN106 | GOAM ACTIVE ON TIP NATIONAL ACTION PLAN, RAISING [...] (C) Charge d'affaires presented the interim TIP report to Armenian DFM Arman Kirakossian January 30, a week later than first planned, because Kirakossian had had to travel abroad. CDA emphasized the progress Armenia had made, and pointed out that its relatively positive interim assessment was l [...] | 2007-01-31 11:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | HSTC PHUM PREL PGOV KCRM KWMN SMIG AM |
07YEREVAN1069 | OPPOSITION PARTY INTRODUCES BILL TO RECOGNIZE [...] (U) Fresh from his stinging defeat in the TEC 15 parliamentary election, on August 28 Heritage Party leader Raffi Hovannisian introduced a bill into parliament which would extend Armenian recognition to the self-declared "Republic of Nagorno Karabagh." To date, no country, including Armenia, [...] | 2007-08-30 05:11:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN1105 | ARZUMANIAN DETENTION EXTENDED TO TWO MORE MONTHS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former FM Aleksander Arzumanian's AmCit wife, called on CDA August 31 to brief him on the status of the case. Arzumanian remains in the National Security Service (NSS) lock-up, under investigation for money-laundering. Coincidentally, on the same day, the courts approved an add [...] | 2007-09-05 10:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN114 | DAS BRYZA DISCUSSES ELECTIONS WITH NGOS, [...] (C) Visiting EUR DAS Bryza received two previews of the upcoming parliamentary elections on January 26. Opposition leaders predicted that the May elections would be the worst yet in Armenia's post-Soviet history, and complained that U.S. and European leaders had done too little to push for de [...] | 2007-02-01 13:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN1197 | CDA FINDS CATHOLICOS A CONSTRUCTIVE VOICE ON TOUGH [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA called on Armenian Catholicos Karekin II September 27 to discuss the church leader's five-week visit to the United States, which begins September 30. CDA conveyed that at the moment a meeting with President Bush appeared unlikely. The Catholicos expressed disappointment, rem [...] | 2007-09-28 12:23:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KIRF OVIP AM |
07YEREVAN1241 | SCENESETTER FOR PM SERZH SARGSIAN'S WASHINGTON [...] (C) Prime Minister Serzh Sargsian's visit to Washington October 17-23 is his chance to see and be seen with Washington leaders in the run-up to his February 2008 presidential election bid. With his extensive defense and security background, Sargsian now needs to show himself as a world leade [...] | 2007-10-16 02:43:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OVIP SERZH SARGSIAN KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN1244 | PRESIDENT KOCHARIAN PROMISES ANSWER ON IRAQ TROOP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Initially opposed, Kocharian eventually agreed to consider DOD's request to "enhance" Armenia's contribution to Iraq. His goal, if he agreed, was to keep the change as low-profile as possible. He will get back to us in eight to ten days. He wants to check whether a new legisla [...] | 2007-10-16 11:54:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL MARR MASS IZ AM |
07YEREVAN1247 | A DEEPLY SKEPTICAL KOCHARIAN AGREES TO HEAR OUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Kocharian made clear to CDA his profound disbelief in Turkey's sincerity on rapprochement, but grudgingly agreed to hear out any Turkish proposal. Kocharian complained at length about past bad faith from Turkey, and said he considers talking with Turkey a lost cause for [...] | 2007-10-16 13:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TK AM |
07YEREVAN1251 | DASD CAGAN RECEIVES QUALIFIED AGREEMENT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: DASD Cagan's Yerevan visit October 11 got positive signals from the Armenian government on doubling its Iraq contingent to 100 and taking on a new fixed-site security mission. Sargsian requested, however, that CDA Perina present the request directly to President Kocharian, who [...] | 2007-10-17 06:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR PREL AM IZ |
07YEREVAN1274 | IRANIAN PRESIDENT'S VISIT LOW-KEY, BUSINESS-LIKE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA called on FM Oskanian for an immediate readout of President Ahmadinejad's visit. Oskanian said that the Iranian delegation's early departure (a fact which dominated local media coverage) was at the Iranian side's request, and that only vague explanations were offered of urge [...] | 2007-10-23 13:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM ETRD EINV ENRG KNNP IR AM |
07YEREVAN1278 | DISMISSED ARMENIAN JUDGE CRIES FOUL [...] (C) Fired judge Pargev Ohanian told us his October 16 dismissal by President Kocharian was politically motivated, and a clear indication that judicial independence is nonexistent in Armenia. Ohanian had garnered public fame for dismissing prosecution charges against Armenian businessmen, who [...] | 2007-10-24 11:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL AM |
07YEREVAN1282 | JUDGE OHANIAN BROUGHT DOWN BY CORRUPTION [...] (C) The case of fired judge Ohanian (reftel) came up during a conversation with David Harutyunian (protect). Harutyunian currently chairs the parliamentary committee on State and Legal Affairs, but was justice minister prior to the May 2007 elections. Harutyunian confirmed that top law enfo [...] | 2007-10-25 11:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KJUS KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN1311 | MINING ARMENIA'S TEGHUT FOREST - AN INEVITABILITY? [...] (C) The GOAM is set to approve a much-criticized clear-cutting and strip-mining operation in the Teghut Forest. Critics, decrying environmental damage, have asserted that the GOAM,s approval process fails to meet international commitments, and violates Armenian law. Suspicions of official cor [...] | 2007-11-01 08:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | AM ECON ENV |
07YEREVAN133 | NATO REVIEW PLEASED WITH ARMENIA IPAP PROGRESS, [...] (C) NATO international staffers gave Armenia high marks on implementation of their Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) during a February 2 briefing to Chiefs of NATO Missions in Yerevan. Frank Boland, NATO's Staff Director of Force Planning, said that the review was "very positive" and [...] | 2007-02-07 08:33:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR NATO AM |
07YEREVAN1347 | DELIVERING MCC SCORECARD TO PM, WITH A SIDE ORDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA called on Prime Minister Sargsian to present the MCC FY08 scorecard, and discuss its implications. He acknowledged the message that Sargsian had heard in Washington from MCC CEO Danilovich, that Armenia should not be "punished" for having graduated to a higher national income [...] | 2007-11-12 14:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN1359 | PM STAFF GIVE AND TAKE ON TURKEY, ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: A/DCM had a long and fruitful conversation with two of PM Sargsian's close advisers. The two men affirmed the PM's desire to start a process to reconcile with Turkey, even before he become president. They agreed that a string of recent events against pro-opposition figures damag [...] | 2007-11-19 04:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM TU IR AM |
07YEREVAN1361 | KOCHARIAN GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO ARMENIAN TROOP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armen Gevorkian, Chief of Staff to President Kocharian, informed CDA on November 16 that Kocharian has agreed to authorize an Armenian troop enhancement in Iraq. The additional troops, however, will not be deployed before Armenia's February 19 presidential election. Gevorkian adde [...] | 2007-11-19 10:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR PREL AM IZ |
07YEREVAN1362 | AUTHORITIES DOG ARMENIAN TV STATION FOR COVERAGE [...] (C) On November 7, Emboffs visited GALA TV in Gyumri to learn more about its ongoing run-in with authorities, widely attributed to GALA's October 14 airing of a critical speech by former president Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP). According to GALA's owner, the authorities' threats before airing the [...] | 2007-11-19 10:44:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN1363 | UN 3RD COMMITTEE: ARMENIA WITH US ON N.KOREA, [...] (C) Polchief spoke with MFA International Organizations director Dziunik Agahjanian, conveying demarche points (reftels). Aghajanian affirmed that Armenia remains committed to voting just as it did on these issues last year. Specifically, Armenia will vote for a "no action" resolution on Ir [...] | 2007-11-19 12:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNGA UN AM |
07YEREVAN1376 | RENEWING THE MESSAGE ON IRAN CONCERNS [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA conveyed Ref A points to the Foreign Minister, Energy Minister, and presidential chief of staff, while A/DCM conveyed to senior staff of the prime minister (Ref B). All interlocutors insisted Armenia had no intention to build infrastructure capable of exporting Iranian gas [...] | 2007-11-26 14:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC EFIN ENRG KNNP IR TU AM |
07YEREVAN1383 | THE TER-PETROSSIAN SCENARIO: A LONG SHOT, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ex-president Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP) has become the leading opposition candidate for president. His chances of success -- whether at the ballot box or with a street protest strategy after the fact -- remain small, but he should not be dismissed prematurely. LTP enjoys unique [...] | 2007-11-27 16:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PHUM ASEC KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN1394 | ANOTHER BROADSIDE FROM THE PRESIDENT'S OFFICE ON [...] (C) Presidential Chief of Staff Armen Gevorkian called in CDA November 27 to renew Kocharian's visceral objections to Radio Liberty (RL) programming which, according to Gevorgian, has been "turned into a mouthpiece for (former President) Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP) by the director of the RL Arme [...] | 2007-11-30 09:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN1423 | BOMB ROCKS OUTSPOKEN OPPOSITION PAPER IN YEREVAN [...] (C) An outspoken opposition newspaper was bombed in the early hours on December 13. Nobody was in the offices of the stridently pro-Ter-Petrossian &Chorrord Ishkhanutyun8 (Fourth Estate) newspaper when the bomb went off, and no injuries were reported. The editor-in-chief suggested the author [...] | 2007-12-14 11:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL AM |
07YEREVAN1438 | CEC CHAIRMAN BRUSHES OFF KEY PARTS OF U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA, accompanied by AIDoff and Polchief, called on Central Election Commission Chairman Garegin Azaryan in a bid to persuade Azaryan not to refuse key elements of USAID implementer IFES' election assistance program. Azaryan was stubborn, smug, and unmoved. He suggested, speciou [...] | 2007-12-18 03:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID PREL PHUM KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN1439 | BRIEFING THE PRESIDENCY ON EXIT POLLS, IFES/CEC [...] (C) SUMMARY: USAID briefed presidential aide Vigen Sargsian, at government request, about plans for a USAID/IRI-sponsored exit poll for the upcoming presidential election. Sargsian pressed for more details about the methods and partners involved, and expressed great skepticism both personall [...] | 2007-12-18 03:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO OSCE AM |
07YEREVAN1445 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON MISSING AMCIT ROBERT LEVINSON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-18 11:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS CASC PGOV PHUM PREL IR AM |
07YEREVAN1448 | CDA RAISES DEMOCRACY PROGRAM CONCERNS WITH PRIME [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA and polchief called on the PM December 4 to discuss our ongoing election assistance programs (highlighting IRI plans to conduct an exit poll),raise concern about residence permits for USAID anti-corruption program staff, and to review the Radio Liberty (RL) issue with the PM [...] | 2007-12-18 12:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PGOV EAID KDEM KPAO AM |
07YEREVAN1467 | ARMENIA: PRESIDENCY STILL UNDECIDED ABOUT IRI [...] (C) Although less hostile to the idea of an exit poll during the upcoming presidential election than he was a week ago, Presidential aide Vigen Sargsian still expressed significant concerns about the poll's format and possible fall-out. After being briefed by IRI staff on the poll's technical [...] | 2007-12-21 13:42:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO OSCE AM |
07YEREVAN1482 | OPPOSITION LEADER DECRIES BIASED OPINION POLL, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Presidential candidate Artur Bagdasaryan invited the Charge to lunch to voice his deepening concerns about the upcoming presidential election. He complained that overwhelmingly biased media coverage, the combination of expensive air time and campaign spending limits, and "black [...] | 2007-12-28 13:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM AM |
07YEREVAN149 | ARMENIAN REPLY TO TURKEY ON COMMISSIONS STILL IN [...] (C) CDA and Pol/Econ chief met February 8 with DFM Kirakossian to ask whether/when Armenia would respond to the GOT's latest proposal on bilateral dialogue (i.e. the "commissions" proposal). Kirakossian noted that the recent Erdogan-Saakashvili-Aliyev meeting to celebrate their deal to build [...] | 2007-02-09 12:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU AM |
07YEREVAN164 | GOAM DISPATCHES INVITATION TO ODIHR ELECTION [...] (C) DFM Armen Baibourtian phoned CDA on February 15 to confirm that the invitation for OSCE's ODIHR to monitor elections had been signed and was being sent over immediately to the OSCE Office in Yerevan. Baibourtian said that the letter was signed on February 14 by FM Oskanian and would be se [...] | 2007-02-15 12:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
07YEREVAN165 | ANALYSTS WORRIED, GOVERNMENT UNCONCERNED ABOUT [...] (C) GOAM officials' mild public statements about the finalizing of the Kars-Akhalkalki-Baku railway agreement (ref A) belie the significant resentment and frustration they feel about it. Newspapers have been abuzz with analysts' gloomy predictions of further Armenian isolation, and harsh crit [...] | 2007-02-15 13:25:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG TU AM |
07YEREVAN186 | DASD MACDOUGALL'S MEETING WITH DEFMIN SARGSIAN, [...] (C) During a February 16 meeting with Armenian Defense Minister Sargsian, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Jim MacDougall praised Armenia's progress in defense reform, thanked Armenia for its contribution to coalition operations in Iraq, and encouraged Sargsian to consider sending a conti [...] | 2007-02-22 10:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
07YEREVAN192 | PROSPEROUS ARMENIA PARTY CONGRESS A SUCCESS, REAL [...] (C) Prosperous Armenia (PA),the new oligarch-founded party that has taken Armenia's political scene by storm (but whose agenda is still unclear),held its long-awaited pre-election congress on February 15. The congress hall was packed, and also drew a number of sour-faced senior government o [...] | 2007-02-23 11:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN242 | OPPOSITION CALLS COURT RULING ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO [...] (SBU) In response to an application submitted by President Robert Kocharian, the Armenian Constitutional Court has ruled as unconstitutional a law requiring Public TV and Radio to broadcast parts of National Assembly sessions. The opposition claims that, after recent announcements of what the [...] | 2007-03-02 13:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV OPRC AM KPAO |
07YEREVAN266 | KOCHARIAN'S CHIEF OF STAFF SEEKS TO EJECT NDI FROM [...] (C) Armen Gevorgian, President Kocharian's Chief of Staff, told NDI Country co-Directors on March 6 that NDI should shut down their operations until after the May 12 elections. Gevorgian, assuming that NDI Armenia had arranged for a senior oppositionist to visit Washington in February, said [...] | 2007-03-07 14:55:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID AM |
07YEREVAN272 | CONCERN OVER PROPOSED IFC LOAN TO ARMAVIA [...] (C) Econoff recently met with local International Finance Corporation (IFC) head Nerses Karamanukian to raise post's concern about a proposed USD 11 million loan to Armenian national air carrier Armavia. Over the past year, Armavia has been plagued by financial problems and the company is ow [...] | 2007-03-09 13:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAIR PGOV AM |
07YEREVAN273 | IRAQ NEIGHBORS CONFERENCES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-09 13:49:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OIC UN IZ AM |
07YEREVAN274 | KURDS' PRO-OCALAN PROTEST LUKEWARM [...] (C) About a dozen dilapidated buses bearing posters of Kurdish militant Abdullah Ocalan pulled into the capital March 9 to protest Ocalan's imprisonment. The passengers were Yezidis from villages not far from Yerevan. The National Security Service (NSS) was aware of the protest, but was unab [...] | 2007-03-09 14:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER AM |
07YEREVAN305 | PROMISE OF PROSPERITY RESONATES WITH VILLAGERS IN [...] (SBU) The crocuses are blooming in Yerevan, but it is still winter in the remote villages of Armenia's Shirak province. Though construction dust has displaced the February slush in the relatively well-heeled capital city, Shirak villagers are still burning dried bars of cow dung for heat and [...] | 2007-03-15 08:01:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM AM |
07YEREVAN307 | MCC VP HEWKO DRIVES HOME COST OF BAD ELECTIONS [...] (C) During his March 8-9 visit to Yerevan, MCC Vice President for Operations John Hewko praised Armenia's implementation of the MCC Compact while sending a clear message that in order to remain eligible for funding, elections in May must be a "significant improvement towards full compliance wi [...] | 2007-03-15 09:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KMCA AM |
07YEREVAN323 | IRAN-ARMENIA PIPELINE DEMARCHE--FM OSKANIAN FINDS [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA delivered reftel points March 15 to a surprised and non-plussed FM Oskanian. Oskanian hoped Washington would understand Armenia's difficult neighborhood, and thus its imperative to obtain Iranian gas as an alternative to the unreliable supply line of Russian gas. Oskanian pr [...] | 2007-03-16 13:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL ENRG EPET EINV IR AM |
07YEREVAN328 | IRAN-ARMENIA GAS PIPELINE: GOAM REPLIES TO OUR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The MFA called in CDA March 19 to present Armenia's reply to Ref A demarche (see para 5 for full text of MFA non-paper),three hours before Presidents Kocharian and Ahmadinejad formally opened the pipeline. The most significant point in their reply is that "there is no more imp [...] | 2007-03-19 12:19:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL ENRG EPET EINV IR AM |
07YEREVAN331 | ARMENIAN GAS COMPANY COMMENTS ON IRAN-ARMENIA [...] (C) On March 16, we met with ArmRusGasProm (ARGP) General Director Karen Karapetyan to discuss the Iran-Armenia pipeline, Russian ownership of ARGP and future developments in the Armenian energy sector. Karapetyan reported that the "second phase" of the Iran-Armenia pipeline would be complete [...] | 2007-03-19 13:50:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PREL EPET ETTC EINV IR AM |
07YEREVAN343 | FM OSKANIAN BRIEFS US ON IRANIAN PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Oskanian called in CDA to provide a readout of the Iran-Armenia pipeline opening, and the presidents' bilateral meeting on the margins. Oskanian said that the GOAM had kept the event "as low-key as possible" and that Ahmadinejad had also been restrained in his remarks. Presid [...] | 2007-03-22 08:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL ENRG EINV EPET MNUC IAEA IR AM |
07YEREVAN344 | FM OSKANIAN SKEPTICAL OF TURKISH INTENTIONS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Oskanian told us March 21 that a deputy culture minister would lead the GOAM's delegation to the Aktamar church opening March 29. He said the Catholicos would also send representatives of the Armenian church from Echmiadzin, as perhaps would the Armenian Patriarch in Istanbul [...] | 2007-03-22 08:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM TU AM |
07YEREVAN356 | CABINET DISSOLVED WITH PM MARGARIAN'S DEATH, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The prime minister's sudden death March 25 automatically dissolved the cabinet. Sources tell us that President Kocharian will appoint an acting PM--possibly Serzh Sargsian--to lead a caretaker government. The constitutional timeframe for replacing a deceased prime minister in th [...] | 2007-03-26 13:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV AM |
07YEREVAN361 | ARMENIA-TURKEY: PM FUNERAL AND AKTAMAR CHURCH [...] (C) SUMMARY: DFM Kirakossian told us March 27 that Deputy Culture Minister's delegation to Aktamar Church opening departed by bus early March 27 in order to reach the March 29 ceremony in time. GOT offers to allow a direct air link did not arrive in time for this to be a viable option. Sep [...] | 2007-03-27 12:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU AM |
07YEREVAN362 | UNSCR 1747 DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO DFM KIRAKOSSIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-27 13:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL EFIN MNUC TRGY AORC KNNP UNSC IAEA |
07YEREVAN383 | IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1747 WITH RESPECT TO BANK [...] (C) On March 30, Pol/Econ Chief and EconOff met with Armenian Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) director Nerses Yeritsyan to discuss GOAM implementation of UNSCR 1747 (ref A). We mentioned that EUR DAS Bryza has raised our Iran concerns March 28 with President Kocharian and FM Oskanian (septel [...] | 2007-03-30 13:01:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PARM KNNP IR AM |
07YEREVAN385 | PRESIDENT KOCHARIAN DISCUSSES IRAN, TURKEY, AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenian President Kocharian met for over an hour with EUR DAS Bryza following the funeral of PM Margarian on March 28. On Iran, Kocharian explained that Armenia, in its precarious geopolitical situation, must carefully think through the consequences of every step it takes with it [...] | 2007-03-30 13:22:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM IR AJ AM |
07YEREVAN406 | ARMENIA REQUESTS UZBEK HELP TO LOCATE ESCAPED [...] (C) The Armenian Police has renewed its request for assistance from Uzbek law enforcement in locating a convicted trafficker who escaped from an Armenian prison in early 2006. The trafficker, Anush Zakharyants, is an ethnic Armenian citizen of Uzbekistan, who is believed to be hiding in Samar [...] | 2007-04-04 13:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | HSTC PHUM PREL PGOV KCRM KWMN SMIG AM |
07YEREVAN412 | NO SURPRISES HERE - DEFMIN SARGSIAN NAMED PRIME [...] (U) In a widely anticipated move, President Kocharian announced April 5 that Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian would replace Prime Minister Andranik Margarian, who died suddenly on March 25 (ref A). Sargsian stepped down from his position as defense minister, where he has served for approximatel [...] | 2007-04-05 12:39:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AM |
07YEREVAN419 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RIBBON CUTTING AT THE NATANZ [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-09 12:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MNUC AORC KNNP IAEA UNSC IR AM |
07YEREVAN443 | BOOM! EXPLOSIONS MARK THE FIRST WEEK OF ARMENIA'S [...] (C) Early in the morning on April 12, two bombs exploded in close succession at Prosperous Armenia offices in Yerevan's Avan and Kanaker neighborhoods. President Kocharian's office quickly condemned the bombings, which caused physical damage but no injuries, and Yerevan police are investigati [...] | 2007-04-12 11:33:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV AM |
07YEREVAN45 | ARMENIA BACKS OUR IRAQ POLICY, AND WILLING TO DO A [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenia's Foreign and Defense Ministers each expressed solid support for our Iraq policy, and for the President's announced changes in Iraq strategy. Both agreed that our Iraq strategy cannot be allowed to fail, and reaffirmed Armenia's commitment to sustain its troop deployment [...] | 2007-01-12 13:56:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MASS KPAO AM IR IZ AF GR YI |
07YEREVAN459 | HARD TIMES FOR AGRC LEAVES OTHER INVESTORS WORRIED [...] (C) The Armenian Gold Recovery Company (AGRC),plagued by allegations of tax evasion and failure to report profits, appears to be the latest casualty of rising gold prices and a possible Russian push to increase economic ties with Armenia. After a difficult confrontation with the Ministry of [...] | 2007-04-16 13:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ECON PREL AM |
07YEREVAN47 | FONMIN OSKANIAN CONFIRMS MAY 12 ELECTION DATE; [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 12 meeting to update the Foreign Minister on Iraq strategy (septel),CDA and Pol/Econ Chief were able to cover a range of issues, including election planning, Nagorno-Karabakh, the Ambassador-designate Hoagland's nomination, Armenia-Turkish relations, and Iran. As of [...] | 2007-01-12 14:11:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PBTS AM AJ IR |
07YEREVAN486 | AS ELECTIONS APPROACH, BROADCAST MEDIA BECOME [...] (SBU) As Armenia's May 12 parliamentary elections approach, Armenian broadcast media have begun giving more air time to opposition figures. While opposition politicians had previously complained about unequal access to the broadcast media and presidential control of television stations (ref A [...] | 2007-04-20 13:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KMDR KPAO AM |
07YEREVAN490 | NEWSPAPER PUBLISHES OPPOSITION CONVERSATION WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 21, Golos Armenii a government-leaning Russian language newspaper, published a transcript of a clandestinely-recorded conversation between an opposition leader and a British diplomat. The piece claimed that the opposition politician -- former parliament speaker and Ori [...] | 2007-04-23 12:23:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN534 | ARMENIA: USING USG ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS TO LEVERAGE [...] (C) Our assistance programs aimed at helping Armenia achieve cleaner elections are big news here. Thanks to a strong Public Diplomacy effort, we have largely dispelled early concerns about whether Armenians should be suspicious that we seek to foment a "color revolution" and have built under [...] | 2007-05-02 11:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID PHUM AM |
07YEREVAN555 | ODIHR MISSION HEAD DISCUSSES PRE-ELECTION [...] (C) CDA met May 2 with Ambassador Boris Frlec, the head of OSCE/ODIHR,s Election Observation Mission (EOM) for a discussion on the pre-election period in Armenia. Frlec evaluated the pre-election period as broadly competitive, despite flaws. He saw a relatively even playing field, albeit wh [...] | 2007-05-03 10:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM OSCE AM |
07YEREVAN556 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-03 11:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM AM |
07YEREVAN559 | ARMENIA POLITICAL PARTY PRIMER [...] (C) SUMMARY: This cable provides a basic reference to the political parties in the May 12 parliamentary race. Out of seventy-four registered political parties in Armenia only 24 parties and one bloc registered to participate in the parliamentary election, and two have since dropped out. END [...] | 2007-05-04 03:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN560 | KOCHARIAN ACCUSES BAGHDASSARIAN OF BETRAYAL [...] (U) President Kocharian blasted opposition leader Artur Baghdassarian during an address to local university students on April 27, accusing him of "betrayal." "I don't want to use legal terms. For me, this is a real manifestation of betrayal," Kocharian told students at Yerevan State Universi [...] | 2007-05-04 03:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN564 | ARMENIA ELECTIONS: KOCHARIAN CONVOKES OSCE CHIEFS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 3, President Kocharian convoked all Chiefs of Mission of OSCE Member States resident in Yerevan regarding the upcoming parliamentary elections. He sought to convey to the dip corps that his administration was doing all it could to ensure an election process which should me [...] | 2007-05-04 12:39:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE AM |
07YEREVAN571 | VAYOTS DZOR REPUBLICANS STRONG FOR ELECTION DAY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An Embassy pre-election trip to the sparsely-populated Vayots Dzor province on 27 April found an electoral calm much attributed to the popularity of the Republican marzpet (governor) headquartered in Yeghanadzor and the relatively favorable image he exudes of the Republican Par [...] | 2007-05-07 11:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN572 | CDA CALLS ON NEW DEFMIN [...] (C) Charge d'affaires and DATT paid a courtesy visit to new Defense Minister Mikayel Harutyunian on May 4, the first such visit since the former chief of staff had assumed the post (reftel). The DefMin expressed his dissatisfaction with the new Human Rights Report language on Nagorno-Karabakh [...] | 2007-05-07 11:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR AM |
07YEREVAN585 | GEGHARKUNIK MARZ PREPARES FOR ELECTIONS [...] (C) Post dispatched two officers on April 26 and 27 to the Gegharkunik region, which wraps around Armenia's largest body of water -- Lake Sevan. Gegharkunik region, like every other region of Armenia outside of the capitol, is in dire economic straits. Summer tourism to Lake Sevan, potato far [...] | 2007-05-08 12:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | AM KDEM PGOV PHUM |
07YEREVAN586 | ARMENIAN ELECTIONS: VIEWS FROM ARAGOTSOTN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Characterizing the pre-election campaigning as "boring," governmental, non-governmental, political party and international observers in the Aragotsotn region of Armenia foresee a parliamentary election devoid of significant fraud in their area. Interlocutors tell us that there [...] | 2007-05-08 12:40:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN587 | INCREASING TENSIONS EXPECTED IN LORI, MORE [...] (C) Embassy officers on May 4 visited Vanadzor (Lori Region),the largely-impoverished third-largest city of Armenia to examine pre-election conditions. Typically, pro-government officials claimed there were no problems in the run-up to 12 May while opposition and NGO figures noted otherwise [...] | 2007-05-09 11:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM ASEC AM |
07YEREVAN588 | FM OSKANIAN DEFENDS VISA REFUSAL OF TURKISH OSCE [...] (C) CDA and the German Ambassador each protested (during a scheduled meeting with CDA and EU chiefs of mission late May 8),Armenia's refusal to grant visas to Turkey's contigent of seconded OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission short-term observers (STOs). Each associated themselves with [...] | 2007-05-09 11:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM OSCE TU AM |
07YEREVAN591 | CHARGE'S ASSESSMENT ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (C) Based on conversations with foreign ministry officials and Armenia's previous voting record on Belarus, we expect that Armenia will support Belarus' candidacy even once Bosnia enters the race. Dzunik Aghadjanian, head of the MFA's International Organizations Department, told us May 10: "It [...] | 2007-05-10 12:19:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC AM |
07YEREVAN592 | PRO-GOVERNMENT NEWSPAPERS EXPRESS RULING ELITE'S [...] (C) In the weeks leading up to the May 12 parliamentary election, two pro-government newspapers regularly published articles highly critical of the United States and other Western missions and NGOs. Hayots Ashkhar and Golos Armenii newspapers have denounced the United States for interfering i [...] | 2007-05-10 12:55:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KPAO AM |
07YEREVAN594 | ARMENIA'S SOUTHERNMOST REGION ON ELECTIONS: SO [...] (C) In a late April visit to Syunik marz, the most remote and one of the poorest of Armenia's regions, Poloffs learned that the voting public is engaged and is generally looking forward to the May 12 polls. This despite a widespread sense of intimidation amongst the populace and trepidation to [...] | 2007-05-11 06:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN607 | ARMENIAN ELECTION SCENESETTER [...] (C) The stage is set for this election to go far better than other recent polls in Armenia, but we have not, by a long shot, seen a fundamental change in political culture here, and things could still go very wrong on Election Day. We are cautiously optimistic that Armenia's parliamentary ele [...] | 2007-05-11 13:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN608 | OPPOSITION FIGURE'S ARREST DRAWS PROTEST MARCHERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The May 7 arrest of a minor oppostion personality led to a protest march on the National Security Service headquarters May 9. Police were poorly prepared for the unscheduled event. When several officers unwisely interposed themselves in front of -- then got swallowed by -- the c [...] | 2007-05-11 13:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM ASEC AM |
07YEREVAN609 | OBSERVERS GIVE ARMENIA'S ELECTION A PASSING GRADE, [...] (C) Armenia's Parliamentary elections took place on May 12. Preliminary results show a strong victory by PM Sargsian's Republican Party. These same early results show that the new oligarch-led "Prosperous Armenia" party ran a distant second and three other parties -- including two oppositi [...] | 2007-05-13 14:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN639 | HCOC INREACH: ARMENIA WILL MAKE ITS DECLARATION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-16 10:43:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA MTCRE AM |
07YEREVAN640 | JUDGING ARMENIA'S ELECTIONS - GOOD ENOUGH, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: We judge Armenia's May 12 election an improvement over previous elections, although this is faint praise. The combined International Election Observation Mission has issued an upbeat preliminary assessment. ODIHR seemed to feel keenly the institutional pressures. If the Europe [...] | 2007-05-16 11:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN642 | PM SARGSIAN'S REPUBLICANS STRENGTHEN HOLD ON POWER [...] (C) Armenia's ruling Republican Party, led by PM Serzh Sargsian, is set to have a slim majority in the new National Assembly to be seated May 31. Results will not be made official until May 19, but it seems clear that the Republicans will take 68 out of 131 seats of the new parliament. Runn [...] | 2007-05-16 12:54:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ASEC KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN649 | WITNESS DIES DURING INTERROGATION [...] (C) On May 12 Levon Ghulyan died under controversial circumstances while being questioned by the police as a presumed witness of a deadly gunfight on May 9 near the restaurant he owned. The police initially claimed that, during the interrogation, Ghulyan fell to his death while trying to esca [...] | 2007-05-18 11:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV AM |
07YEREVAN658 | PM SARGSIAN HOPES FOR "BIG TENT" COALITION [...] (C) PM Sargsian told CDA on May 17 that he plans to form as large a coalition as he can, to include the new pro-government Prosperous Armenia (PA) party as well as former coalition partner ARF-Dashnaktsutyun (the Dashnaks). Armenia's constitution gives him until the end of June to propose his [...] | 2007-05-21 13:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM AM |
07YEREVAN659 | GLOBAL GOLD MINING: A YEAR OF... [...] (C) Global Gold Corporation (GGC) is an international gold mining company with operations in Armenia and principal offices in Connecticut. For the past few years, GGC has been involved in an at-times hostile dispute with the GOAM and more specifically with the Armenian Minister of Nature Protection [...] | 2007-05-22 03:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ECON PGOV OPIC AM |
07YEREVAN660 | BIO REPORT FOR NERSES YERITSYAN, ACTING HEAD OF [...] (C) Nerses Yeritsyan is the Senior Advisor to the Chairman of the Central Bank (CBA) and has been acting head of the Bank's Financial Intelligence Unit since its founding in 2005. He served for two terms on the CBA Board and still plays a leading role in many of the bank's non-FIU initiative [...] | 2007-05-22 03:50:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON INRB AM |
07YEREVAN661 | TRAFFICKING VICTIMS HELD IN GEORGIA RETURNED TO [...] (C) Two alleged Armenian trafficking victims who had been held in a Georgian jail for six months returned to Armenia May 17, and are in the care of an active anti-trafficking NGO. Anti-trafficking activists hailed the return of Anna Harutyunyan and Lianna Krasnova as a textbook case of good c [...] | 2007-05-22 11:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KWMN KCRM HSTC GG AM |
07YEREVAN662 | "WE ARE NOT BORN YESTERDAY": OSCE/ODIHR OBSERVER [...] (C) SUMMARY: OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission (EOM) chief of mission, Ambassador Frlec, and deputy COM, Ian Gorvin, were markedly more sour on Armenia's May 12 election in a dinner at CDA's residence, and less-markedly so in the semi-public forum of their last OSCE member state chiefs [...] | 2007-05-23 05:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM OSCE AM |
07YEREVAN677 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RUSSIAN DRAFT OF OSCE "CHARTER" [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-25 07:11:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PREL KTIA PGOV AM |
07YEREVAN689 | ARMENIA WILL SUBMIT UNSCR 1747 IMPLEMENTATION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-30 04:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM ETTC UNSC IR AM |
07YEREVAN691 | CDA'S LUNCH WITH DEPUTY PG AND ANTI-TIP WORKERS [...] (C) We gathered together post's most reliable anti-TIP interlocutors in the Armenian government for a May 29 lunch at the CDA's residence. The guest list included Deputy Prosecutor General Gevorg Danielyan and two other members of the PG's staff, as well as the heads of the MFA's Internationa [...] | 2007-05-30 07:38:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KWMN KCRM HSTC AM |
07YEREVAN709 | ELECTION FRAUD COMPLAINTS PROCEED ON SEVERAL TRACKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Four opposition parties have filed election complaints with the Constitutional Court, calling for the May 12 elections to be voided. Their contention is that sufficient irregularities occurred to invalidate the election. The Constitutional Court hearing is scheduled to begin Jun [...] | 2007-05-31 12:31:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM AM |
07YEREVAN713 | HR DEFENDER GIVES US GHULYAN DEATH CASE UPDATE [...] (C) The government-appointed Human Rights Defender (or ombudsman) Armen Harutyunyan told us at a May 31 meeting that the Yerevan city prosecutor had responded to his inquiry regarding the Ghulyan case (death in police custody, see reftel). Harutyunyan had asked prosecutors, after our May 17 i [...] | 2007-06-01 03:54:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV AM |
07YEREVAN754 | LAWYERS: DEATH IN CUSTODY CASE PROCEEDING FAIRLY [...] (C) Lawyers for defenestrated businessman Levon Ghulyan told us June 6 that the case seemed to be proceeding fairly, and that they did not have any concerns regarding the pre-investigation process thus far. Results of an independant autopsy by international experts are still not available, ho [...] | 2007-06-08 10:33:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM AM |
07YEREVAN755 | CDA RAISES ENERGY SECURITY,NUCLEAR POWER, AND IRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: We met with Energy Minister Movsissian June 1 to explore Armenia's current plans and thinking with regard to replacing the Soviet-era Armenian Nuclear Power Plant (ANPP). Press reports had suggested Armenia had made deals with Russia for the construction of a new nuclear plant, [...] | 2007-06-08 11:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ENRG ETTC PARM ETRD AM IR |
07YEREVAN764 | PRESIDENT NAMES NEW CABINET, A LOT LIKE THE OLD ONE [...] (U) President Robert Kocharian named the new cabinet in a decree published late June 8; well ahead of the Constitutional deadline. The Constitution requires that the new cabinet must submit its program to the National Assembly within 20 days, i.e. by June 28. the parliament will then have fi [...] | 2007-06-11 13:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN777 | KOCHARIAN PLEDGES CONTINUED REFORM TO MCC'S [...] (C) In a June 12 meeting with President Kocharian, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) CEO Ambassador John Danilovich said that the good progress toward international standards shown during Armenia's May 12 parliamentary elections was good news for MCC and would certainly be welcomed by MC [...] | 2007-06-14 13:10:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN782 | FM OSKANIAN ON PUTIN'S GABALA STATION MISSILE [...] (U) Several Armenian media outlets quoted Foreign Minister Oskanian's comments on the Gabala idea during his interview on Kentron television. Oskanian commented that he saw no physical danger to Armenia from the proposed project, noting that the facility would only be a radar station, not an [...] | 2007-06-15 12:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KMDR AM AJ RU |
07YEREVAN783 | CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM RESTRUCTURES INVESTIGATIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenian law enforcement is grappling with a major restructuring that strips the powerful Prosecutor General's or "Procuracy" organization of all its investigative functions and staff, transferring the investigators themselves into police agencies. The reform is an excellent one [...] | 2007-06-15 12:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC KJUS KCRM KDEM KTIP HSTC |
07YEREVAN788 | KOCHARIAN DEAD SET AGAINST ATTENDING BSEC SUMMIT [...] (C) On June 16, Charge raised the issue of Armenia's attendance at the upcoming BSEC Summit with President Kocharian. Kocharian said that there was "absolutely no way" he would consider attending. In fact, he would have preferred that FM Oskanian also skip the event, but relented under Oska [...] | 2007-06-18 09:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO OSCE TU AM |
07YEREVAN794 | ARMENIAN COURTS RULE ON ELECTION VIOLATION CASES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenian courts continue to deliver verdicts for election fraud, with a total of six cases, affecting 15 individual defendants, now adjudicated. Verdicts have now been announced in five more cases. Three persons were sentenced to imprisonment for one or two years; one person wa [...] | 2007-06-18 13:14:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS AM |
07YEREVAN815 | IRAN-ARMENIA PIPELINE DEMARCHE; MEDIA REPORT U.S. [...] (C) CDA and Pol/Econ chief delivered Ref A demarche points to FM Oskanian June 13. CDA also emphasized the continuing diplomatic and public relations disaster that Armenia's Iran engagement represents, given the context of UNSCRs and international consensus on the need to isolate Iran. He po [...] | 2007-06-22 13:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETTC PREL KMDR IR AM |
07YEREVAN827 | NATO OFFICIAL UPBEAT ON ARMENIA'S IPAP PROGRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: NATO's special Caucasus representative found much to praise after his June 21-22 visit. Top Armenian officials affirmed strong political commitment to defense reform goals and the NATO relationship, and IPAP benchmarks are on or ahead of schedule. END SUMMARY 2. (C) TOU [...] | 2007-06-27 11:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM MARR NATO AM |
07YEREVAN840 | PRESSING THE CASE AGAINST LAW AIMED AT RADIO [...] (SBU) CDA worked the phones June 27-28 to raise our concerns about pending legislation that appears aimed at shutting down RFE/RL broadcasts in Armenia. He spoke with president chief of staff Armen Gevorgian, twice with State and Legal Affairs Committee chair David Harutyunian, and finally w [...] | 2007-06-29 01:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO AM |
07YEREVAN870 | RADIO LIBERTY REPRIEVE: PARLIAMENT VOTE FAILS FOR [...] (SBU) Controversial draft amendments to the Radio and TV Law and State Duty Law (reftels),apparently aimed at RFE/RL, died in the National Assembly when the chamber failed to maintain a quorum. Sixty-six votes were necessary for the drafts to pass, the chamber was one voting-member shy, as a [...] | 2007-07-06 12:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN888 | NEW CDA CALLS ON DFM KIRAKOSSIAN: RADIO LIBERTY, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Charge d'Affaires met Deputy Foreign Minister Kirakossian for initial GOAM courtesy call, (with FM Oskanian abroad),which then delved into substance. Kirakossian said he and his minister fully agreed with us on Radio Liberty, but urged CDA to raise it at higher levels. Kirakoss [...] | 2007-07-12 05:53:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM HSTC KTIP AM TU |
07YEREVAN896 | PRIME MINISTER ENCOURAGING ON RADIO LIBERTY; NOT [...] (C) CDA paid an introductory courtesy call on Prime Minister Serzh Sargsian July 12, accompanied by DCM and pol/econ chief. Sargsian joked that he had expected to get a permanent U.S. Ambassador, but failing that, he was very pleased to see CDA in Yerevan again. CDA affirmed that Washingto [...] | 2007-07-13 10:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS MASS EAID KDEM AM IR |
07YEREVAN901 | CDA DISCUSSES PARLIAMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS IN [...] (C) CDA's introductory courtesy call on National Assembly Chairman Tigran Torossian focused, after initial pleasantries, on the embassy's plans for a new phase of assistance to the newly-elected parliament. Torossian allowed that he had not been completely satisfied with the previous iteratio [...] | 2007-07-16 07:11:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
07YEREVAN902 | MFA ENGAGED ON POSSIBLE RESETTLEMENT OF [...] (C) Emboffs informally sounded out MFA International Organizations Director, Dziunik Aghajanian, July 11 about Armenia's attitude toward the possibility of resettling Iraqi-Armenians in Armenia, as mentioned ref A. We noted our understanding that the UNHCR was in preliminary discussions about [...] | 2007-07-16 11:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL SMIG EAID AM IZ XF |
07YEREVAN914 | FM OSKANIAN DISCUSSES RADIO LIBERTY, NDI, IRAN, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his initial call July 16, CDA renewed our concerns about forced stoppage of Radio Liberty (RL) broadcasts, but mentioned that the Prime Minister's reply had been somewhat encouraging on this. He highlighted ongoing Washington concerns about Armenia's relationship with Iran, [...] | 2007-07-17 13:49:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO AM TU IR |
07YEREVAN935 | KOCHARIAN ON RADIO LIBERY, NDI, HR CASES, IRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an almost 90 minute introductory call by the CDA, President Kocharian defended his positions on Radio Liberty, NDI, and human rights cases in a friendly but unbending manner. He was determined to move Radio Liberty broadcasts from state radio to a private network, but emphat [...] | 2007-07-23 14:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO AM IR |
07YEREVAN939 | IRANIAN FM VISIT PROMPTS WEAK DEFENSE FROM FM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iranian FM Mottaki was received by Armenia's president, prime minister, and foreign minister, and energy minister during his July 20 visit to Yerevan to take part in the 7th annual Armenian-Iranian inter-governmental economic commission. Armenian leaders were unhelpfully positive [...] | 2007-07-24 14:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KMDR IR AM |
07ZAGREB1000 | WITNESSES FAIL TO APPEAR AT WAR CRIMES ICTY [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The ICTY prosecutor's office (OTP) has sent a strongly-worded letter to the GOC's Ministry of Justice (MOJ) expressing concern about the progress of the Ademi-Norac war crimes case, which resumed again the week of October 29. To date, about 45 percent of witnesses for [...] | 2007-11-07 13:14:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KAWC HR |
07ZAGREB1006 | OSCE: CAN WE CLOSE THE CROATIA MISSION? [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-13 09:15:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PREL HR |
07ZAGREB1009 | CROATIAN RESPONSE ON MID-NOVEMBER IAEA REPORT [...] (C) PolOff reviewed reftel points with Ambassador Mario Horvatic, Croatia's IAEA Governor, on November 8. Horvatic said that Croatia agrees that the IAEA Work Plan could represent a positive step toward resolution of the crisis, but "only if Iran implements its commitments." He appreciated ou [...] | 2007-11-14 12:48:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM IR HR IAEA AORC |
07ZAGREB101 | GOC COMMITTED TO ADRIATIC LNG PROJECT [...] (C) Summary: Croatian Assistant Minister of Economy for Energy Zeljko Tomsic told Econ Off that Croatia remains committed to building an LNG terminal on the Adriatic coast, despite press rumors that the project may be in jeopardy. Tomsic said that the GOC is very concerned about energy securi [...] | 2007-01-29 15:23:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON HR ENERGY |
07ZAGREB1011 | NATO ROAD SHOW VISIT TO CROATIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: USNATO PermRep Victoria Nuland led an inter-agency "NATO Road Show" visit to Zagreb on November 9. President Mesic, Prime Minister Sanader, Foreign Minister Kitarovic and Defense Minister Roncevic all expressed confidence to the U.S. delegation that Croatia was well-prepared for [...] | 2007-11-15 09:59:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MASS NATO HR |
07ZAGREB1014 | ELECTIONS 2007 - THE HDZ AT A GLANCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As part of our series of pre-election reporting (REFS A and B),this cable looks at the prospects for the ruling HDZ to remain in power. Less than ten days before November 25 parliamentary (Sabor) elections, the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) remains locked in a dead he [...] | 2007-11-16 11:49:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV HR |
07ZAGREB1021 | ELECTIONS 2007: PROFILE OF THE MAIN CHALLENGER -- [...] (C) SUMMARY: This cable, part of our series (ref A) leading up Croatia's November 25 parliamentary elections, looks at the prospects for the opposition Social Democratic Party, the only serious challenger to the ruling HDZ. Having entered the election season confident it would oust the HDZ, t [...] | 2007-11-20 08:37:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES |
07ZAGREB1026 | LUNCHEON WITH PRESIDENT MESIC TO DISCUSS BALKAN [...] (C) President Mesic, accompanied by his foreign policy advisors Budimir Loncar and Tomislav Jakic, hosted Ambassador Bradtke and POL chief for lunch on November 20. The discussion focused on Loncar's meeting with Serbian President Tadic in Belgrade on November 14. Tadic had floated a proposa [...] | 2007-11-21 11:45:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HR SR BK |
07ZAGREB1027 | CROATIA: RESPONSE FOR INFORMATION ON HOST [...] (SBU) Embassy Zagreb provides the following responses to reftel request for information regarding Croatia's policies toward and capabilities for collection of biographic and biometric data for terrorist screening purposes. Responses are keyed to questions in reftel. The information provided [...] | 2007-11-21 15:07:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | KVPR PTER PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC DHLS HR |
07ZAGREB1029 | ELECTIONS 2007: WHEN DOES A WIN BECOME A VICTORY? [...] (SBU) This cable is the final one in Post's series of pre-election reports leading up to Croatia's November 25 parliamentary (Sabor) elections. Polls indicate Croatia's November 25 elections are too close to call. One certainty is that neither of the two largest parties -- the ruling Croatia [...] | 2007-11-23 14:04:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HR |
07ZAGREB1030 | OSCE MADRID MINISTERIAL - DEMARCHE DELIVERY [...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche to Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Pjer Simunovic November 20. Simunovic was particularly appreciative of language calling for OSCE to close or minimize its mission in Croatia. This is clearly Zagreb's top priority in Madrid, but Simunovic stressed tha [...] | 2007-11-23 14:22:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PREL PGOV PHUM |
07ZAGREB1033 | CROATIAN REACTION TO IAEA DIRECTOR GENERAL'S [...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche to Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Pjer Simunovic November 15 and discussed issue with him again November 20. Simunovic agreed that IAEA Director General ElBaradei's report was not one to celebrate, revealing little new information about Iran's current [...] | 2007-11-23 15:06:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM AORC HR |
07ZAGREB1036 | INITIAL RESULTS OF CROATIA'S ELECTIONS: RULING [...] (U) With 95 percent of precincts reporting, the unofficial results from Croatia's November 25 parliamentary elections show the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) won 61 seats within Croatia, while the rival Social Democratic Party (SDP) won 56. The HDZ has also likely won 5 seats for repr [...] | 2007-11-26 12:48:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HR |
07ZAGREB1041 | PAKISTAN NUCLEAR FACILITY: GOC SEEKS ADVICE ON [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. Please see para 4. 2. (C) Head of MFA's Department for International Security Sanja Bujas-Juraga requested USG guidance from EconOff November 28 regarding renewal of a services export license for Croatian nuclear scientists to offer technical training in "Sym [...] | 2007-11-28 13:50:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM ETTC PREL PK HR EXPORT CONTROL |
07ZAGREB1048 | HDZ LOOKING MORE LIKELY TO FORM GOVERNING [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: SDP Vice-President Antunovic told the Ambassador on November 28 that her party still believes they "have a chance" to form the government, and have not given up. But other contacts, including SDP advisor Grdesic, increasingly indicate that it is more likely the HDZ w [...] | 2007-11-29 14:27:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HR |
07ZAGREB1054 | MILANOVIC REPLACES JURCIC AS SDP'S CANDIDATE FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-30 14:46:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HR |
07ZAGREB1062 | FM KITAROVIC ON OSCE MADRID MINISTERIAL [...] (U) Ambassador and PolChief had lunch on December 5 with FM Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic and State Secretary Hido Biscevic, subsequent to their return from the OSCE Ministerial in Madrid, and to follow up on FM Kitarovic's bilateral meeting there with U/S Burns. 2. (C) Kitarovic and Biscevic sa [...] | 2007-12-06 08:54:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OSCE SR SW BE HR |
07ZAGREB1065 | CROATIA'S FISHING ZONE - A TRAIN WRECK IN THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Croatian Peasants' Party (HSS) and its 6 seats in parliament are nearly certain to be a member of any governing coalition formed after Croatia's November 25 elections. The HSS has said a primary condition for its joining any coalition is application of Croatia's Protected Ec [...] | 2007-12-06 15:04:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIS SENV PREL PGOV HR |
07ZAGREB1068 | PEASANT PARTY PERSPECTIVE ON COALITION NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) PolChief met with Stanko Grcic, Secretary General of the Croatian Peasants' Party (HSS),to discuss on-going coalition negotiations between the HSS, its electoral partner the Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS) and the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). The HSS, with six seats in th [...] | 2007-12-10 14:03:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HR |
07ZAGREB1073 | CROATIAN RESPONSE ON KOSOVO POINTS [...] (SBU) POL Chief on December 11 delivered reftel points to Neven Pelicaric, Assistant Foreign Minister with responsibility for Southeast Europe and relations with the EU. 2. (C) Pelicaric confirmed what we have heard repeatedly from Croatian officals; Croatia would "not be the very first to d [...] | 2007-12-13 10:23:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HR SR KO |
07ZAGREB1092 | TWENTY SIX ARRESTED FOR CORRUPTION IN LAND [...] (C) Summary: The Croatian Office for the Suppression of Corruption and Organized Crime (USKOK) arrested 26 people on December 11 following a year-long corruption sting in the Zagreb land registry office. The accused include six employees of the land registry, several court officials, lawyers [...] | 2007-12-20 15:13:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KCOR HR |
07ZAGREB122 | CROATIA AND SLOVENIA AT ODDS OVER MARITIME [...] (C) Summary: The long-standing dispute between Croatia and Slovenia over their maritime boundary flared up this week when the GOC renewed a 2001 concession to its national oil and gas company INA for exploration in the Northern Adriatic. With rhetoric that was more heated than usual in this [...] | 2007-02-02 15:56:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EWWT ENRG ECON HR SI REGIONAL ISSUES |
07ZAGREB149 | CROATIANS FULLY SUPPORTIV ON AHTISAARI PLAN FOR [...] (C) Drawing on reftel points, DCM February 2 briefed MFA Assistant Minister for Europe Neven Pelicaric about US views on the Ahtisaari proposal on Kosovo's final status. 2. (C) Pelicaric said the GOC would fully support the Contact Group position on the issue. He felt this was an excellent [...] | 2007-02-09 14:59:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV YI HR REGIONAL ISSUES |
07ZAGREB158 | CROATIA OFFERS COMPROMISE ON KEY REFUGEE ISSUES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: At a February 2 meeting near Dubrovnik, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin officials met with OSCE, UNHCR and EC reps to plan the wrap-up of the "Sarajevo Process," a regional approach to refugee issues involving targets set by each country (the individual "R [...] | 2007-02-13 09:15:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV HR REFUGEES |
07ZAGREB159 | CROATIAN PROSECUTOR LEADS THE REGION IN "PALIC [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Chief State Prosecutor Mladen Bajic told Ambassador Bradtke and Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson on February 7 that he has transferred evidence in five war crimes cases to Belgrade War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic under an October 2006 [...] | 2007-02-13 09:56:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM HR WAR CRIMES |
07ZAGREB167 | PRESIDENTIAL SPARRING IN THE PRESS OVER ANNUAL [...] (SBU) In a sharply worded statement February 12, Croatian President Mesic expressed "unpleasant surprise" at Italian President Napolitano's remarks at the annual February 10 Italian commemoration of ugly WWII-era massacres of Italians by Yugoslav anti-fascist Partisans. The Croatian press in [...] | 2007-02-14 14:54:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IT HR REGIONAL ISSUES |
07ZAGREB168 | CROATIAN PRESIDENT SUPPORTS AHTISAARI PLAN FOR [...] (U) Ambassador met July 13 with President Stjepan Mesic to discuss the Ahtisaari plan for Kosovo final status. Other issues covered septel. 2. (C) The Ambassador began by noting that he had been in touch with US Kosovo envoy Frank Wisner, who had expressed appreciation for presidential f [...] | 2007-02-14 15:03:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HR YI REGIONAL ISSUES |
07ZAGREB218 | CROATIAN PM NOT OPTIMISTIC ABOUT USG HOPES FOR [...] (C) Ambassador and DCM met March 2 with PM Ivo Sanader to discuss the way ahead on Bosnian constitutional reform, promoting the existing package of US-brokered reform measures as laid out in ref A. 2. (C) Sanader said the USG-supported revisions would not succeed and would be a divisive ele [...] | 2007-03-05 15:03:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM PINR BK EUN HR REGIONAL ISSUES |
07ZAGREB225 | CROATIAN PM TELLS AMBASSADOR CROATIA SUPPORTS [...] (C) During a meeting on other subjects (septel) March 2, Croatian PM Ivo Sanader told the Ambassador that Croatia completely supported the Ahtisaari plan on Kosovo's final status. Belgrade was upset with the GOC over their public support for Ahtisaari, which Sanader said he regretted, but San [...] | 2007-03-06 12:50:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN HR YI REGIONAL ISSUES |
07ZAGREB243 | MORE COORDINATION AGAINST MONEY LAUNDERING BUT [...] (C) Summary: The recent establishment of an inter-ministerial working group on money laundering is a positive development in Croatia's weak institutional framework for tackling economic crime. The aim of the new working group, comprised of eleven different ministries, agencies and offices is [...] | 2007-03-09 10:29:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KCOR KTFN HR |
07ZAGREB258 | CROATIA NORMALIZING RELATIONS WITH MONTENEGRO [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Since Montenegro's independence in 2006, Croatian leaders have moved quickly to normalize relations with Podgorica. This positive dialogue intensified in 2007 with official visits to Montenegro by PM Ivo Sanader and Speaker of Parliament Vladimir Seks, and was capped [...] | 2007-03-16 10:29:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KAWC MW HR REGIONAL ISSUES |
07ZAGREB259 | LIBYA: GOC SEEKS ADVICE ON CONVENTIONAL ARMS [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. Please see para 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Agency Alan, the MoD's arms marketing agency, has unofficially approached Post seeking guidance on conventional arms sales to Libya. Alan General Manager Ivan Nekic told PolOff February 28 that he believes the L [...] | 2007-03-16 14:36:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM ETTC PREL LY HR ARMS CONTROL |
07ZAGREB364 | DAS BRYZA'S ZAGREB MEETINGS WITH GREEK AND [...] (C) Summary: EUR DAS Matt Bryza met with Greek Minister of Development Dimitris Sioufas and Bulgarian Minister of Economy and Energy Rumen Ovcharov on the margins of an April 3 energy conference in Zagreb. Both Sioufas and Ovcharov expressed concern over what they perceive as mixed signals co [...] | 2007-04-16 09:50:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PREL GR BU AJ RS TU TX |
07ZAGREB404 | PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR CONFIRMS PUTIN CROATIA VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Tomislav Jakic, Foreign Policy Advisor to Croatian President Mesic, confirmed in an April 23 meeting with DCM that Russian President Putin will visit Croatia June 23-24. The centerpiece of the visit will be a regional energy summit that the GOC has organized, inviting heads of st [...] | 2007-04-24 14:33:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG HR RS |
07ZAGREB407 | CROATIA'S INA: OTHER SOURCES EXIST FOR LNG [...] (C) Summary: Following up on reports of Austrian OMV's LNG deal with Iran, Econ Off spoke to Stevo Kolundzic, Senior Advisor to the Chairman of Croatia's national oil and gas company INA about the reports. Kolundzic said that there are many other potential sources of LNG for the Croatian proj [...] | 2007-04-25 12:08:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL ECON HR IR |
07ZAGREB408 | (C) CROATIAN PM CONSIDERS INVITING KARZAI [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (C) Prime Minister Ivo Sanader told Ambassador April 25 that he was considering inviting Afghan President Karzai to the July 6-7 "Croatia Summit" - the second annual such conference with a Euro-Atlantic integration theme. PM Sanader and Croatian President [...] | 2007-04-25 14:16:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO HR AF |
07ZAGREB422 | NEW FORWARD ON IRAQ: CROATIA'S CONTRIBUTION [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: While politically unable to make direct troop contributions to operations in Iraq, the GoC has offered weapons and training courses to the NATO Training Mission in Iraq (NTM-I) (ref C),provides police trainers to the Jordan International Police Training Center (JIPTC) [...] | 2007-04-30 11:18:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER IZ HR DEFENSE REFORM |
07ZAGREB45 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES JANUARY 26 INFORMAL NATO [...] (C) Drawing on Ref A, the Ambassador discussed Afghanistan with Croatian Foreign Minister Grabar-Kitarovic on January 17. The Ambassador stressed the challenges that NATO would face with the spring thaw in Afghanistan and the importance of allies and partners delivering on promises made on A [...] | 2007-01-17 15:19:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PINS PREL MARR MOPS AF PK HR |
07ZAGREB450 | CROATIA TO BACK SLOVENIA, WILL SNUB BELARUS AT MAY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-09 15:23:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC HR HUMAN RIGHTS |
07ZAGREB455 | UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL (UNHRC) ELECTION - CROATIA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-10 14:45:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC HR |
07ZAGREB460 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY DAN FRIED'S MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) Summary: EUR Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried met April 5 with Croatian PM Sanader, President Mesic, and FM Grabar-Kitarovic to exchange views on Croatia's NATO aspirations, Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and other regional issues. 2.(U) A/S Fried and Ambassador met April 5 with PM Ivo San [...] | 2007-05-10 16:03:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN NATO HR YI BK OSCE |
07ZAGREB475 | NUCLEAR MEASURING EQUIPMENT TO INDIA: GOC SEEKS [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. Please see para 5. 2. (C) Head of MFA's Department for International Security Sanja Bujas-Juraga requested USG guidance from PolOff May 10 regarding a pending export license application from Croatian company "Sistemprojekt" to export a CryoBIND T magnetic ac [...] | 2007-05-15 15:40:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM ETTC PREL IN HR NON PROLIFERATION |
07ZAGREB501 | PM SANADER ACCEPTS INVITATION TO A3 LUNCH WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-22 14:58:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP POTUS PREL HR AL MK |
07ZAGREB507 | PRESIDENT'S A-3 LUNCH SCENESETTER - SANADER [...] (C) Still enjoying the afterglow of his highly successful White House visit last October, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader is very much looking forward to seeing President Bush again at the A-3 leaders lunch in Tirana June 10. The PM views his relationship with the President as key to Croatia's int [...] | 2007-05-23 15:11:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS MARR NATO HR |
07ZAGREB51 | ADVISOR TO PRESIDENT MESIC TO VISIT KOSOVO AND [...] (C) President Mesic's Special Advisor for International Relations Budimir Loncar told the Ambassador January 17 that he will travel to Kosovo next week to have discussions with Albanian and Serb leaders. This trip, according to Loncar, resulted from a visit to Zagreb by a group of Serb mayors [...] | 2007-01-18 13:18:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU OPDC HR |
07ZAGREB540 | AMBASSADOR BRIEFS PM ON BOSNIA MEETINGS IN [...] (C) Drawing on points provided by EUR/SCE, Ambassador and DCM briefed PM Ivo Sanader and MFA State Secretary Hidajet Biscevic June 1 about the meetings held in Washington the week of May 21 between State Department officials and Bosnia-Herzegovina politicians Milorad Dodik and Haris Silajdzic [...] | 2007-06-04 13:57:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BK HR |
07ZAGREB551 | CROATIAN PM SEEKS CLOSURE OF ZAGREB OSCE MISSION, [...] (C) MFA State Secretary Hidajet Biscevic gave Ambassador May 31 a "confidential" non-paper (text para 8) advocating closure of the Croatia OSCE mission and proposing a mechanism to ensure that war crimes trials are monitored. 2. (C) The non-paper commits the GOC to fulfill remaining obliga [...] | 2007-06-05 15:42:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OSCE KAWC HR |
07ZAGREB561 | U/S NICHOLAS BURNS' MAY 10-11 MEETINGS WITH [...] (U) Undersecretary Burns met with Macedonian President Crvenkovski, Turkish Economy Minister Babacan, Bulgarian PM Stanishev and Moldovan President Voronin May 10 and 11 on the margins of the Zagreb SEECP Summit. Macedonia --------- 2. (C) Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski sought U/S [...] | 2007-06-08 10:26:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OSCE NATO HR MK TU BU MD |
07ZAGREB565 | U/S NICHOLAS BURNS' MAY 10-11 MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) Summary: Undersecretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns visited Zagreb May 10-11 to consult with Croatian leaders and attend the Summit of the Southeast European Cooperation Process (septel). He met with PM Sanader, President Mesic, and FM Grabar-Kitarovic, and had several bilatera [...] | 2007-06-08 13:09:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAIR OSCE NATO HR YI BK SR |
07ZAGREB596 | CROATIAN PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR ON PUTIN VISIT, [...] (C) DCM met with Tomislav Jakic, foreign policy advisor to Croatian President Mesic, on June 15 to discuss Russian President Putin's upcoming visit to Zagreb. Putin will visit Zagreb on June 24 to participate in a "Regional Energy Summit" organized by President Mesic's office. DCM inquired ab [...] | 2007-06-19 10:11:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON PREL HR RS |
07ZAGREB602 | PROSECUTOR BACKS UP WAR CRIMES ARRESTS IN VUKOVAR [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Vukovar police arrested six ethnic Serbs June 5 on suspicion of involvement in the torture of soldiers and civilians in the village of Luzac in 1991. Local Serb politicians claimed the arrests were politically motivated and called on Post and others in the internati [...] | 2007-06-21 15:53:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KAWC PGOV HR WAR CRIMES |
07ZAGREB608 | PRESIDENT OF MONTENEGRO VIEWS ON KEY ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a relaxed June 22 lunch in Podgorica with Charge Barnes and visiting Ambassador Bradtke, Montenegro President Vujanovic discussed bilateral, regional, and domestic issues. Vujanovic, who had just returned from the Southeastern Europe Energy Summit in Zagreb, described Rus [...] | 2007-06-26 15:01:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HR MW |
07ZAGREB643 | CROATIAN STATE PROSECUTOR DESCRIBES CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary and Comment: The June arrest of eight employees of the Croatian Privatization Fund (Fund) on charges of corruption marks a significant improvement in both the political will and the capacity of the Croatian government to fight corruption. The Fund has long been viewed as a font of [...] | 2007-07-03 15:51:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KPRV KCRM HR |
07ZAGREB669 | A/S FRIED'S MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER SANADER [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a July 7 meeting with Prime Minister Sanader on the margins the of the "Croatia Summit," EUR Assistant Secretary Fried welcomed the Summit as evidence of Croatian leadership in Southeastern Europe. Sanader reviewed his efforts to gain support for the closure of the OSCE Missi [...] | 2007-07-11 15:06:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG OSCE HR |
07ZAGREB670 | SDP NOMINATES JURCIC AS CANDIDATE FOR PRIME [...] (C) SUMMARY: The opposition Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP) has nominated economics professor and Former Minister of Economy Ljubo Jurcic as its candidate for Prime Minister. Although not altogether new in Croatia, the idea of separating the role of PM from that of Party President wa [...] | 2007-07-12 09:41:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES |
07ZAGREB68 | CROATIAN POLITICIANS PUT POSITIVE SPIN ON SERBIAN [...] (U) Croatia's political leaders have unanimously portrayed results in Serbia's January 21 elections (reftel) as positive for the region. Reacting quickly to allay any domestic concerns over the Serb Radical Party's plurality, PM Ivo Sanader stressed that the results offered the chance for for [...] | 2007-01-23 14:24:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SR HR |
07ZAGREB722 | PAKISTAN SMALL ARMS SALE: GOC SEEKS ADVICE ON [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. Please see para 3. 2. (C) Head of MFA's Department for International Security Sanja Bujas-Juraga requested USG guidance from PolOff July 27 regarding a pending export license application from Croatian company "HS Produkt" to export 9mm pistols to the private [...] | 2007-07-30 15:22:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM ETTC PTER PK HR NON PROLIFERATION |
07ZAGREB73 | CROATIA CONCERNED ABOUT CLUSTER MUNITIONS [...] (C) Drawing from reftel, DCM discussed cluster munitions with MFA Assistant Minister for International Organizations and Security Pjer Simunovic January 22. 2. (C) Simunovic said he would be representing the GOC at the Oslo conference February 22-23. Simunovic said that given Croatia's exp [...] | 2007-01-23 15:42:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS PARM HR |
07ZAGREB736 | PM ASSURES SOFA APPROVAL AT END OF AUGUST [...] (C) Following the failure of the Croatian cabinet to provide final approval of the text of the Status of Forces Agremeent at its last session before a two week summer break, the Ambassador spoke August 3 with Ministry of Foreign Affairs State Secretary Biscevic to express his disappointment an [...] | 2007-08-06 11:05:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR HR DEFENSE REFORM |
07ZAGREB74 | CROATIA SUPPORTS US OBJECTIVES FOR JANUARY 26 [...] (SBU) Following up on the Ambassador's conversation with Foreign Minister Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic (ref B) on the January 26 NATO meeting on Afghanistan, DCM raised USG ministerial goals (ref A) with Pjer Simunovic, Assistant Foreign Minister for International Organizations and Security, who [...] | 2007-01-23 16:10:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO HR |
07ZAGREB752 | KOSOVO NEXT STEPS -- CROATIAN REACTION [...] (U) DCM delivered reftel points to MFA Asst Minister for International Organizations and Security Pjer Simunovic in August 8 introductory call. Simunovic stressed GoC support for the strategy, pointing out that the GoC's overriding interests related to Kosovo's future are stability and the fu [...] | 2007-08-09 12:57:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KV PREL YI UN EU HR REGIONAL ISSUES |
07ZAGREB763 | CARDINAL MCCARRICK'S VISIT TO CROATIA [...] (SBU) Cardinal McCarrick,s very successful visit to Zagreb sent a strong message of continued United States engagement on Bosnia and reassured Croatian leaders that the U.S. is working with the Bosnian Croats as we seek move ahead on constitutional and police reform. 2. (SBU) In spite of th [...] | 2007-08-16 11:21:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM HR BK |
07ZAGREB766 | US CARDINAL REACHES OUT TO CROATS [...] (C) Summary and Comment. The August 12-14 visit of Theodore McCarrick, Emeritus Cardinal of Washington, to Croatia reassured Croatian leaders that the U.S. is engaged in Bosnia and Herzegovina and interested in the situation of Croats there. McCarrick heard from Croatian leaders that Bosnia [...] | 2007-08-17 15:20:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | HR CROATIA PGOV PHUM PREL |
07ZAGREB789 | FIXED-WING FIGHTERS: TIME TO ENGAGE CROATIANS ON [...] (C) Since my arrival just over a year ago, I have repeatedly stressed to GoC officials that, as a future NATO member, Croatia did not need to procure fixed-wing fighter aircraft. I, along with my DAO and ODC staff, have argued consistently that the GoC could rely on NATO partners for air poli [...] | 2007-08-27 08:05:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS MOPS NATO HR DEFENSE REFORM |
07ZAGREB791 | MEETING WITH OSCE CIO PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR [...] (C) Former Croatian FM Miomir Zuzul told the Ambassador on August 25 that his recent visit to Georgia and Moscow had convinced him that it was a Russian missile that was involved in the August 6 incident he had been asked to investigate by the OSCE Chairman in Office. Particularly after visiti [...] | 2007-08-27 14:56:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS OSCE GG RU HR |
07ZAGREB820 | GOC TO APPROVE SOFA IN SEPTEMBER, BUT ASKS TO SIGN [...] (C) The Ambassador spoke on September 6 with Hido Biscevic, State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a close advisor to PM Sanader. Biscevic said that Sanader had told him on September 5 that the Government would give final approval to the proposed Status of Forces Agreement (SO [...] | 2007-09-06 14:03:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR HR NATO |
07ZAGREB827 | CROATIAN RESPONSE ON IAEA POINTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: As both FM and Ambassador were traveling on September 7, P/E Chief presented reftel A and B points to Assistant Foreign Minister Pjer Simunovic and Croatia's IAEA Governor Mario Horvatic. Croatia supports the US position on the IAEA Action Plan, but does not plan to speak at the B [...] | 2007-09-10 14:33:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC IR IAEA AORC HR PREL |
07ZAGREB832 | CROATIA SEEKS ADDITIONAL GAS IMPORTS [...] (C) Summary: Although Croatia has ample supplies of natural gas to meet current demand, increasing consumption, combined with dwindling domestic production and static imports, means the country could face shortfalls in the coming years without new sources of supply. Demand is forecast to ex [...] | 2007-09-11 15:03:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON PREL HR RS |
07ZAGREB850 | CROATIAN PRESIDENT MESIC ACCEPTS INVITATION TO [...] (C) This is an action request - see para 4. Presidential Counselor Budimir Loncar told the Ambassador and DCM September 12 that President Mesic had received an invitation to meet with Iranian President Ahmedinejad during their mutual visits to the UNGA in New York, and that Mesic had accepted [...] | 2007-09-14 14:17:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP HR IR |
07ZAGREB855 | CROATIAN PRESIDENT MESIC SPEAKING OUT ON THREATS [...] (C) In separate conversations on September 12 and 13, Presidential Counselor Budimir Loncar and Presidential Foreign Policy Advisor Tomislav Jakic discussed with us Croatian President Mesic's recent discussions with key Bosnian figures. Both said that Mesic had met with B-H Presidency Member [...] | 2007-09-17 10:47:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HR BK |
07ZAGREB876 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED - MESIC-AHMADINEJAD MEETING [...] (C) Prior to departing for EUR Energy Conference in Istanbul on September 20, Ambassador telephoned President Mesic,s Foreign Policy Advisor Loncar to carry out demarche (ref A) on the planned meeting between Mesic and Iranian President Ahmadinejad Drawing on points in para two of reftel, Am [...] | 2007-09-21 12:33:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP IR HR |
07ZAGREB908 | CROATIA SHOCKED BY ICTY VERDICT ON "VUKOVAR 3" [...] (U) SUMMARY: The ICTY ruling on 27 September against the so-called "Vukovar Three," former Yugoslav army officers accused of war crimes in Vukovar, caused widespread shock, disbelief, and anger in Croatia. One officer received 20 years imprisonment, but another, who personifies the crime for [...] | 2007-09-28 12:10:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KAWC PREL HR ICTY |
07ZAGREB920 | READ-OUT OF MESIC - AHMADINEJAD UNGA MEETING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-05 13:46:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP IR HR |
07ZAGREB932 | CROATIAN PRESIDENTIAL FOREIGN POLICY ADVISOR [...] (C) In a discussion with visiting EUR/SCE Director Chris Hoh on October 4, President Mesic's foreign policy advisor Tomislav Jakic stressed that Croatia's interest was that Serbia be convinced not to react too harshly against states that recognize an independent Kosovo. Croatia, Jakic said, w [...] | 2007-10-11 14:42:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL HR SR AA |
07ZAGREB941 | DAS DICARLO'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT MESIC [...] (C) EUR DAS Rosemary DiCarlo met with Croatian President Stjepan Mesic on October 12. DAS DiCarlo praised Croatia's efforts to prepare for NATO membership, and noted that public opinion in favor of NATO was rising in Croatia, and that Mesic's personal support for NATO membership had played an [...] | 2007-10-16 07:50:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL HR BH SR |
07ZAGREB985 | CROATIA WILL SUPPORT REQUEST FOR RED NOTICE [...] (C) Post delivered reftel to Chief of National Criminal Police at the Ministry of Interior, Darko Dundovic, who is Head of Delegation to the INTERPOL General Assembly. Dundovic was familiar with the case and told Post that the GOC would support the GOA request and EC position. He indicat [...] | 2007-11-05 07:37:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC IR PREL PTER |
07ZAGREB999 | UNANNOUCED VISIT TO ZAGREB BY B-H PRESIDENCY [...] (C) Presidential Advisor Budimir Loncar told the Ambassador on November 5 that B-H Presidency member Zeljko Komsic had made an unannounced visit to Zagreb on the previous day to meet with Croatian President Stjepan Mesic. Komsic came with only one aide and without even bodyguards, in hopes tha [...] | 2007-11-06 15:24:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BK HR |
08ABIDJAN120 | PATH TO TRANSPARENT ELECTIONS FRAUGHT WITH [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met on February 19 with Independent Electoral Commission (Commission Electorale Independante - CEI) President Mambe to discuss the status of election preparations. Some progress has been achieved. Mambe told Ambassador all political actors have accepted the 2000 electo [...] | 2008-02-21 12:13:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV IV |
08ABIDJAN130 | PETROLEUM SECTOR IN COTE D'IVOIRE - AMBASSADOR'S [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met with Kassoum Fadika, Director General of state-owned PETROCI for a tour d'horizon of the energy production business in Cote d'Ivoire. Fadika discussed production problems that he says have limited oil production to 50,000 b/d and described the cost structure of [...] | 2008-02-26 12:06:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ECON EFIN EINV PREL PGOV IV |
08ABIDJAN133 | CHINESE VIEWS ON COTE D'IVOIRE [...] (C) Summary. Chinese Embassy Political Counselor Fulin Ma told Pol/Econ section chief February 25 that he thinks elections will take place in 2008, most likely between August and October. Ma believes there is a real chance for President Gbagbo to win transparent elections due to the average [...] | 2008-02-28 16:34:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IV CH |
08ABIDJAN166 | COTE D'IVOIRE PAYS WORLD BANK ARREARS; IMF SEES [...] (C) Summary. The World Bank announced in late February that the Government of Cote d'Ivoire has paid its portion of its arrears clearance package, paving the way for renewed assistance. The IMF announced that with the arrears clearance package in hand, it will proceed aggressively with a P [...] | 2008-03-12 14:20:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL IMF IBRD IV |
08ABIDJAN171 | AMBASSADOR MEETS AFDB PRESIDENT KABERUKA, [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met with African Development Bank (AfDB) President Donald Kaberuka on February 28th during the latter's swing through Abidjan to sign a $25 million post conflict grant and ahead of an AfDB delegation trip to Abidjan by Members of the Bank's Board of Directors. Kaberu [...] | 2008-03-12 16:32:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID PREL IBRD IMF AFDB IV |
08ABIDJAN274 | RESIDENT IMF, WORLD BANK HEADS DISCUSS EARLY HIPC [...] (C) Summary. In an April 18 meeting, IMF ResRep Phillipe Eugume defended the notion of an early HIPC Decision Point, noting Cote d'Ivoire's heavy indebtedness and already negative cash position with the IFIs, but acknowledged substantial shareholder reluctance to proceed with such a course [...] | 2008-05-02 08:10:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID IMF IBRD PGOV PREL IV |
08ABIDJAN286 | MINISTER OF PLANNING DISCUSSES HIPC, RELATIONSHIP [...] (C) Summary: Cote d,Ivoire,s Minister of Plan has established a timetable to ensure that his country is ready to be considered for a HIPC decision point by the end of 2008. The Minister fears that Cote d,Ivoire may lose the opportunity to benefit from debt relief under the HIPC initiative if [...] | 2008-05-06 15:01:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IMF IBRD EAID PGOV PREL IV |
08ABIDJAN336 | PRESIDENT KICKS OFF 2000 SESSION OF NATIONAL [...] (SBU) President Gbagbo presided over the April 30 opening ceremony of the first session of the 2008 National Assembly, held in the political capital of Yamoussoukro. Two hundred parliamentarians attended the ceremony. National Assembly president and ruling Ivoirian Popular Front party (Front [...] | 2008-05-28 08:54:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL UN IV |
08ABIDJAN337 | OBSERVANCE OF NOVEMBER 30 ELECTION DATE FEASIBLE [...] (SBU) Summary. AF/W Director Thomas Dougherty held meetings in Abidjan May 15-16 with representatives from across Cote d'Ivoire's political spectrum. His conversations indicate that the political will exists to observe the scheduled November 30 election date and that it is technically feasib [...] | 2008-05-28 14:14:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL EAID IV |
08ABIDJAN346 | AF/W DIRECTOR DOUGHERTY DISCUSSES FINANCING THE [...] (C) Summary: State AF/W Director Thomas Dougherty discussed the pivotal question of financing for the end of crisis package ("sortie de crise" in French) with a number of key interlocutors during his May 14-18 visit to Abidjan. Interlocutors discussed Cote d'Ivoire's Highly Indebted Poor Coun [...] | 2008-05-29 16:34:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV AFDB EAID ECON IMF IBRD IV PREL |
08ABIDJAN396 | THE NEW BLE GOUDE [...] (C) Summary. Charles Ble Goude, leader of COJEP (PanAfrican Congress of Young Patriots),is one of three Ivorians under United Nations (UN) Security Council sanctions. However, an offensive seems to be underway, bolstered by the presidential camp, to re-shape Ble Goude's public image and portr [...] | 2008-06-18 16:29:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR SOCI UN IV |
08ABIDJAN398 | (C) KOUCHNER VISIT SIGNALS WARMING RELATIONSHIP, [...] (C) Summary. The June 14-15 visit of French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner to Cote d'Ivoire is a signal of warmer bilateral relations, but full normalization will not occur until Ivorian presidential elections are held. Kouchner told President Gbagbo that France will work with whichever ca [...] | 2008-06-18 17:51:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IV FR |
08ABIDJAN439 | COTE D'IVOIRE: JUSTICE FOR THE RICH AND POWERFUL [...] (C) Summary. Cote d'Ivoire's judicial system is broken and not likely to be fixed soon. The President of the Ivorian Bar Association told Ambassador that the judiciary is filled with corrupt judges. Court decisions are not published and judges' copies of their decisions are sent to persons out [...] | 2008-07-07 18:40:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR KDEM KJUS PGOV IV |
08ABIDJAN459 | NEW FORCES MUTINY IN TOWNS OF SEGUELA AND VAVOUA [...] (C) Summary. New Forces troops in the center-west towns of Seguela and Vavoua rioted on June 28. The troops in Seguela called for the reinstatement of their former Commander, Zachariah Kone, who had been removed by Prime Minister Soro in May. The soldiers in Vavoua protested the government's [...] | 2008-07-14 13:02:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP MARR PGOV IV |
08ABIDJAN492 | PARTIES IN FN-HELD TERRITORIES ORIENTED AROUND [...] Summary. DCM, Econ Chief and Political Specialist traveled July 15-18 to Seguela and Bouake in Forces Nouvelles-held territory. During the course of the trip, Emboffs met with representatives of the country's three major political parties (FPI, RDR, PDCI). Discussions with party representat [...] | 2008-07-25 15:31:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM IV |
08ABIDJAN500 | BACKGROUND ON FN MUTINY IN SEGUELA [...] (C) Summary. DCM, ECON Chief and Political Specialist met with senior Forces Nouvelles military leaders during a recent visit to Bouake and Seguela, flashpoint of recent FN violence. Emboffs had unusually frank meetings with FAFN Chief of Staff Bakayoko and Deputy Chief of Staff Wattao, und [...] | 2008-07-29 15:41:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI IV |
08ABIDJAN51 | STATUS OF IDENTIFICATION PROCESS [...] (C) Summary. The Government of Cote d'Ivoire is moving forward on the identification process, which is a critical stage in the implementation of the Ouagadougou Political Agreement (OPA) and at the heart of the country's political crisis. All 111 audiences foraines teams that are to issue bir [...] | 2008-01-23 15:54:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IV |
08ABIDJAN520 | FORCES NOUVELLES VIEWS ON IDENTIFICATION, [...] (C) Summary. During a recent Embassy visit to Bouake and Seguela, senior interlocutors from the Forces Nouvelles (FN) and regional leaders of the RDR political party raised concerns about how the process of identification would proceed. FN political leaders went to great lengths to reject [...] | 2008-08-04 10:37:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI IV |
08ABIDJAN521 | LACK OF FUNDING HAMPERS DDR PROCESS [...] (C) Summary: Senior military officers from the Forces Nouvelles (FAFN) confirmed to Emboffs during a recent trip to Bouake and Seguela that substantial progress is being made in regrouping FAFN troops but funding to ensure the smooth reintegration of former combatants is lacking. FAFN leader [...] | 2008-08-04 12:30:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR EAID PREL PHUM IV |
08ABIDJAN522 | THE FORCES NOUVELLES AND THE DIAMOND TRADE IN [...] (C) Summary. During a recent visit to Bouake and Seguela, Emboffs probed the issue of whether control of the region's diamonds was a factor in the recent clash between factions of the Forces Nouvelles (FAFN). Emboffs met with Deputy FAFN Chief Wattao, who said that the Forces Nouvelles wer [...] | 2008-08-04 13:18:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN PGOV MARR KCOR PREL ECON IV |
08ABIDJAN591 | PDCI SAYS TRANSPARENT ELECTIONS IN 2008 A MUST, [...] (C) Summary. In a September 2 meeting, PDCI (Democratic Party of Cote d'Ivoire) Secretary General Alphonse Djedje Mady told Ambassador that Cote d'Ivoire must hold elections in 2008. If it does not, the Ouagadougou Political Agreement (OPA) will be defunct and a new government framework will [...] | 2008-09-04 18:07:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IV |
08ABIDJAN614 | 2008 HUMAN RIGHTS PRIORITIES [...] (C) Ambassador delivered demarche in reftel on September 8 to Cote d'Ivoire's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Alcide Djedje, who was in Abidjan. 2. (C) Poloff delivered demarche in reftel on September 9 to Etienne Kindia, Deputy Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dep [...] | 2008-09-09 17:30:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN IV |
08ABIDJAN62 | COTE D'IVOIRE ADOPTS BUDGET ON TIME; IMF, WORLD [...] (C) Summary. Cote d'Ivoire adopted its 2008 budget in late December 2007, fulfilling a key demand from the international financial institutions engaged in ongoing assistance negotiations with the government. The budget is 8.5 percent higher than that of 2007, reflecting higher personnel co [...] | 2008-01-28 16:51:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IDA IMF PGOV PREF USTR EITI IV |
08ABIDJAN63 | UNOCI CONCERNED ABOUT DDR PROCESS [...] (C) Jean Marc Tafani, the new chief of the United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) Office of Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) described the government's DDR plan as ambitious and fragile and noted it could increase instability. Tafani expressed concern about lack [...] | 2008-01-28 17:02:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MCAP PREL PGOV IV |
08ABIDJAN77 | AMBASSADOR MEETS FORMER PRESIDENT BEDIE [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met on January 31 with Henri Konan Bedie, former President of Cote d'Ivoire and current leader and presidential candidate of the Democratic Party of Cote d'Ivoire (Parti Democratique de la Cote d'Ivoire - PDCI). Bedie expressed doubt about whether President Gbagbo is tru [...] | 2008-02-01 18:18:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IV |
08ABIDJAN8 | IMPLEMENTING PEACE AGREEMENT INCREASES TENSION IN [...] (C) Summary: As the government of Cote d'Ivoire takes action to implement DDR-related provisions of the Ouagadougou Political Agreement (OPA),deep lying fissures are surfacing. Violent confrontations in the north over the past few weeks have exposed rifts within the Forces Nouvelles between [...] | 2008-01-04 19:17:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MCAP PGOV EAID IV |
08ABIDJAN813 | AMBASSADOR TELLS FINANCE MINISTER DEBT RELIEF [...] (C) Summary. In a November 6 meeting, Ambassador told Economy and Finance Minister Charles Diby that Cote d'Ivoire must show stronger fiscal performance to reach the Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) decision point. Diby explained extra-budgetary spending on public works projects in Yamous [...] | 2008-11-14 17:57:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV IV |
08ABIDJAN822 | PRESIDENT GBAGBO DISCUSSES ELECTION DELAY, DDR ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: In a November 13 meeting with Ambassador, President Gbagbo said he was disappointed that elections have been postponed again but does not see what he can do to speed up the process; the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) needs to work more quickly and effectively. He was calm a [...] | 2008-11-19 15:40:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM EAID IV PGOV |
08ABIDJAN870 | WAR OF WORDS OVER DISARMAMENT PROCESS LINKED TO [...] (C) Summary. President Gbagbo's political party, the FPI, and Prime Minister Soro's Forces Nouvelles (FN) movement have clashed verbally over the past few weeks with the FPI insisting, once again, that disarmament be completed before elections and the Forces Nouvelles accusing the FPI of wanti [...] | 2008-12-11 08:42:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IV |
08ABIDJAN879 | FORCES NOUVELLES SPOKESMAN DISCUSSES DISARMAMENT [...] (C) Summary: Moussa Dosso, who headed the Forces Nouvelles (FAFN) delegation that met with President Gbagbo on Dec. 9, told Ambassador that the FPI wants a truncated disarmament process which is unacceptable to the FAFN. Dosso said that after 5-6 years of loyal service, the FAFN cannot ask its [...] | 2008-12-16 17:25:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR KDEM EAID IV |
08ABIDJAN893 | UPDATE ON COCOA GOVERNANCE AND LABOR ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary. The Cocoa and Coffee Sector Management Committee (CGCC) named by President Gbagbo in September (ref A) has already run afoul of industry leaders. Its setting of a relatively high "indicative" farmgate price for cocoa beans led to a brief disruption of the market, and its decisi [...] | 2008-12-23 10:26:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON ELAB EFIN PGOV PHUM IV |
08ABIDJAN90 | G/TIP AMBASSADOR LAGON VISIT TO COTE D'IVOIRE [...] (U) Summary: G/TIP Ambassador Mark Lagon met with government officials, NGO leaders, and UN officials during his January 23-24 visit to Abidjan. Ambassador Lagon told his interlocutors that the USG comes in partnership to address trafficking in persons and stands ready to consult on legal and [...] | 2008-02-06 18:24:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SMIG UN IV |
08ABIDJAN97 | AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK ON ENGAGEMENT WITH [...] (C) Summary. African Development Bank (AfDB) Official Representative to Cote d'Ivoire Ngardinga Sangbe discussed with Embassy officials Cote d'Ivoire's recently passed 2008 budget, the country's arrears with the AfDB and the HIPC process, expressing confidence that arrears can be settled, b [...] | 2008-02-08 14:35:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IDA IMF PGOV PREF USTR EITI IV |
08ABUDHABI1000 | UAEG WANTS TO DISCUSS PATRIOTS [...] (C) Summary: On September 1, Post delivered reftel demarche on the U.S. decision to offer Patriot deployment to the UAE. A basic presentation to the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince's office soon brought the issue to the attention of the Air Force leadership, with whom we discussed the deployment in g [...] | 2008-09-04 11:21:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS MCAP PINS AE |
08ABUDHABI1004 | UAE NOT ENTHUSIASTIC TO PRESS HUMAN RIGHTS AT UNGA THIRD [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-05 16:28:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM AE |
08ABUDHABI1011 | UAE MEGA PROJECTS: UNCERTAIN SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS [...] (C) The leadership of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi is using its vast wealth to build international name recognition, play "catch-up" with Dubai, and secure a prosperous future for its citizens. The numerous mega projects underway in Abu Dhabi (refs A, B, C and D) and Dubai (refs H and I) represen [...] | 2008-09-08 08:34:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV SENV PGOV SOCI PHUM AE US |
08ABUDHABI103 | PROPOSED CTF DATES AND EXPORT CONTROL LAW UPDATE [...] (SBU) The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs formally notified post via diplomatic note that it welcomed holding a proposed Counterproliferation Task Force meeting in February and requested a proposed agenda for the meeting. The UAE, however, declined the proposed seaport interdiction training p [...] | 2008-01-24 13:07:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC KSTC ENRG PARM PREL AE |
08ABUDHABI1062 | ADNOC LOOKS TO NEW TECHNOLOGIES (AND NEW POLICIES) TO MEET [...] (C) Summary: Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) is exploring the application of new technologies to increase the supply of natural gas to the domestic market. ADNOC officials report that the company is developing nitrogen injection capacity as well as testing the impact of temporary reduc [...] | 2008-09-22 03:51:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PGOV AE |
08ABUDHABI1079 | EYES ON THE MARKET, EMIRATIS PUT ON THEIR GAME FACES [...] (C) Summary. With extensive investments in the US and around the world, Emiratis are carefully following the turmoil in the world economy and local markets. While most are publicly saying recent developments in the US economy will not have a significant impact here, both public and private inv [...] | 2008-09-23 14:01:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV PGOV AE |
08ABUDHABI1086 | UAE REQUESTS US COMMENTS ON DRAFT NUCLEAR LAW [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-25 11:51:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | IAEA PARM MNUC ENRG AE |
08ABUDHABI1141 | ABU DHABI INVESTORS CIRCUMSPECT ON FINANCIAL CRISES [...] (C) Summary. The continued decline of local and international stock markets, combined with tight liquidity, has Abu Dhabi investors concerned but not panicked. Most of the large private investors have balanced portfolios whose declines have been less dramatic. However, smaller investors are s [...] | 2008-10-09 13:04:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV PGOV AE |
08ABUDHABI119 | NATO SECGEN WELL RECEIVED IN ABU DHABI [...] (SBU) Summary: In a brief visit to Abu Dhabi January 24, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer gave a lecture on the goals of the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI),met senior UAEG officials to discuss potential areas or cooperation, and gave an upbeat briefing to NATO Ambassadors [...] | 2008-01-29 14:35:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MASS MARR AE |
08ABUDHABI120 | UAE PROPOSING EXPERT LEVEL CONSULTATIONS ON [...] (SBU) On January 29, Econchief discussed the UAE's proposed expert-level visit to the US to discuss peaceful nuclear cooperation with Abu Dhabi Executive Affairs Authority Director of Economic Affairs David Scott (refs b and c). Scott proposed sending a UAE delegation to the U.S. in the Febru [...] | 2008-01-29 14:35:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP ENRG PARM PREL AE |
08ABUDHABI121 | UAE PROPOSING EXPERT LEVEL CONSULTATIONS ON [...] (SBU) On January 29, Econchief discussed the UAE's proposed expert-level visit to the US to discuss peaceful nuclear cooperation with Abu Dhabi Executive Affairs Authority Director of Economic Affairs David Scott (refs b and c). Scott proposed sending a UAE delegation to the U.S. in the Febru [...] | 2008-01-29 14:35:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP ENRG PARM PREL AE |
08ABUDHABI1217 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH MOROCCAN FM FASSI-FIHRI; [...] (C) Meeting on the margins of the October 18-19 Forum for the Future ministerial in Abu Dhabi, Deputy Secretary Negroponte and NEA A/S Welch held a cordial exchange with Moroccan Foreign Minister Fassi-Fihri on three core issues: the Forum for the Future, the Western Sahara negotiation process [...] | 2008-10-22 12:27:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KMPI XI MO MR WI |
08ABUDHABI1218 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH UAE FOREIGN MINISTER: [...] (C) Summary: On the margins of the Forum for the Future ministerial in Abu Dhabi October 19, UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) recited to Deputy Secretary Negroponte UAE concerns about U.S. visas for medical cases, an irritant in the context of very favorable relations overall. O [...] | 2008-10-22 12:35:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER CVIS PK IR IZ AE |
08ABUDHABI122 | NATO SECGEN WELL RECEIVED IN ABU DHABI [...] (SBU) Summary: In a brief visit to Abu Dhabi January 24, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer gave a lecture on the goals of the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI),met senior UAEG officials to discuss potential areas or cooperation, and gave an upbeat briefing to NATO Ambassadors [...] | 2008-01-29 14:35:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MASS MARR AE |
08ABUDHABI1225 | ABU DHABI EYEING INVESTMENT IN DUBAI [...] (C) Summary. While the international financial crisis may bring a slowdown to the UAE (Ref A),Abu Dhabi residents seem confident their financial future is secure. Financial insiders report that the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority remains flush with cash despite its paper losses. Everyone is [...] | 2008-10-23 14:09:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV PGOV AE |
08ABUDHABI1271 | UK PM BROWN PROMOTES BUSINESS AND ENERGY TIES WITH UAE [...] (C) Summary. In an October 5 briefing for G8 and EU ambassadors, the UK ambassador denied press reports that Prime Minister Gordon Brown had pressed the UAEG for a financial commitment to the international bailout during his November 3 visit to the UAE. Rather, Brown discussed the challenges f [...] | 2008-11-06 12:58:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV ENRG PGOV UK AE |
08ABUDHABI1297 | NEW PAKISTANI AMBASSADOR TO THE UAE A LONG-TIME BHUTTO ALLY [...] (C) In a November 9 courtesy call, incoming Pakistani Ambassador Khursheed Ahmed Junejo described his long-term affiliation with the late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, describing himself as the mayor of her town, and a party confidant during a "20 year" association. He claimed so many trips b [...] | 2008-11-10 12:39:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PK AE |
08ABUDHABI1302 | LEVERAGING FATF STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-13 04:49:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL EFIN KNNP AE |
08ABUDHABI1306 | UAE STILL NOT ENTHUSIASTIC TO PRESS HUMAN RIGHTS AT UNGA [...] (C) POL Chief pressed ref A points with MFA Director for International Organizations Yacub al-Hosani on November 13, emphasizing the need for a principled stand against "no action" motions that prevent a vital review of human rights violations and the need to address the severe human rights ab [...] | 2008-11-13 13:42:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM IR MB KN AE |
08ABUDHABI1331 | UAE LABOR MINISTER NOTES MEASURED PROGRESS ON TREATMENT OF [...] (C) Summary: UAE Labor Minister Saqr Ghobash told the Ambassador that electronic payment of wages and enhanced living conditions are key labor concerns. He is trying to persuade banks to assist in creating accounts for workers to facilitate an enforceable electronic payment regime. Living co [...] | 2008-11-20 12:40:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ELAB PHUM AE |
08ABUDHABI135 | ABU DHABI TO OPEN SHELTER FOR TIP VICTIMS [...] (U) The UAE National Committee to Combat Human Trafficking, in collaboration with the UAE Red Crescent Society, announced plans January 13 to open a shelter in Abu Dhabi to aid victims of human trafficking and exploitation. The projected opening of an Abu Dhabi shelter follows the 2007 opening [...] | 2008-01-31 14:03:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ELAB PREL PGOV KMPI AE |
08ABUDHABI136 | U.S. ENGAGEMENT WITH MIDDLE EAST STATES ON NUCLEAR [...] (C) Post appreciates the opportunity to provide input on planned U.S. engagement with select countries in the Middle East that have expressed a serious interest in developing a peaceful nuclear power program. We agree that an early positive engagement is key to both demonstrating that countri [...] | 2008-01-31 15:22:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP ENRG PARM PREL AE |
08ABUDHABI1360 | THE UAE FINANCIAL SITUATION AND THE KUBLER ROSS MODEL [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Abu Dhabi - Consulate General Dubai cable. 2. (C) Summary. The UAE, Dubai in particular, appears to be moving rapidly through the five stages of grieving identified in the Kubler-Ross model. While most Emirati contacts initially claimed that global financial cr [...] | 2008-11-26 07:30:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV ENRG PREL PGOV AE |
08ABUDHABI1371 | PIRACY CONCERNS NOTED TO UAEG [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-01 11:05:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PBTS PHSA MOPS AE |
08ABUDHABI1385 | PROJECT FINANCE A CHALLENGE FOR ABU DHABI DEVELOPMENT [...] (C) Summary. The global economic downturn and related liquidity crisis is beginning to impact Abu Dhabi-based companies' ability to obtain reasonably-priced project finance. The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) says its monthly cash flow will easily meet its development plans, despite f [...] | 2008-12-04 11:43:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV ENRG PGOV AE |
08ABUDHABI1392 | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT EXTENDS FNC TERM WITHOUT NEW [...] (SBU) Summary: Amendments to the UAE constitution announced December 2 extend the term of the advisory Federal National Council (FNC) from two years to four, essentially delaying further elections to that body while incrementally expanding its role. Also announced was a limitation on the comm [...] | 2008-12-10 12:29:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM KMPI AE |
08ABUDHABI1405 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON PIRACY CONTACT GROUP [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-14 15:21:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PBTS PHSA MOPS AE |
08ABUDHABI1418 | CROWN PRINCE'S MEETING WITH SENATOR BAUCUS [...] (C) Summary. During his December 13-15 visit to the UAE (reported septel),Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) discussed the UAE's strategic vision with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MbZ). Baucus noted his amazement with the UAE's progress. MbZ presented an overview of the [...] | 2008-12-18 07:59:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV OREP PREL PARM KPAL CVIS IR AE |
08ABUDHABI1430 | SENATOR BAUCUS'S VISIT TO THE UAE [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Abu Dhabi - Consulate General Dubai cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) During his December 13-15 visit to the United Arab Emirates, Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) and accompanying delegation from the Senate Finance Committee staff met with senior government and financi [...] | 2008-12-21 09:17:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV ETRD ENRG OREP PREL SENV PARM KNNP AE |
08ABUDHABI1439 | UAE REACTION TO PIRACY CONTACT GROUP [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-22 12:23:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PBTS PHSA MOPS AE |
08ABUDHABI1440 | MINISTRY OF EDUCATION DISMISSED EIGHTY THREE EMIRATI TEACHERS [...] (C) Summary: In 2007, eighty three Emirati teachers were unexpectedly reassigned from the Ministry of Education to other ministries for alleged Islamist tendencies. In a recent conversation with PolOff, two of the teachers lamented the dismissal of Emirati nationals from a school system domi [...] | 2008-12-22 12:27:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREF SOCI AE |
08ABUDHABI1443 | UAE FOREIGN MINISTER SPENDING CHRISTMAS EVE IN BETHLEHEM [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-22 14:08:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OTRA OVIP AE |
08ABUDHABI147 | DELIVERED COMMENTS ON UAE NUCLEAR POWER WHITE PAPER [...] (SBU) On February 3, Econchief and TDY PolEconoff met with David Scott, Abu Dhabi Executive Affairs Authority Director of Economic Affairs; Hamad Al-Kaabi, Executive Affairs Authority (and MFA); Ali Al-Frayhat, General Counsel for the Executive Affairs Authority; Mohammed Al-Hamadi, GM of the [...] | 2008-02-04 12:02:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PREL PARM ECON AE |
08ABUDHABI148 | U.S. ENGAGEMENT WITH MIDDLE EAST STATES ON NUCLEAR [...] (C) Post appreciates the opportunity to provide input on planned U.S. engagement with select countries in the Middle East that have expressed a serious interest in developing a peaceful nuclear power program. We agree that an early positive engagement is key to both demonstrating that countri [...] | 2008-02-04 12:02:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP ENRG PARM PREL AE |
08ABUDHABI158 | UAE FORMALLY CONCURS WITH GSD MARCH 11 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-05 12:54:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS AE |
08ABUDHABI171 | UAE VIEWS ON KOSOVO'S STATUS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-07 14:08:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNMIK UN YI EU AE |
08ABUDHABI173 | HEAD OF UAE TIP COMMITTEE SHARES PROGRESS REPORT [...] (U) Charge d'Affaires, ADCM, and POLOFF met February 5 with UAE Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs and head of the UAE National Committee to Combat Human Trafficking, Dr. Anwar Gargash, to discuss the upcoming 2008 TIP report, TIP-specific training, the Dubai and Abu Dhabi s [...] | 2008-02-07 14:26:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ELAB PREL PGOV PREF SMIG KMPI KCRM KWMN AE |
08ABUDHABI187 | UAE MFA ON SUPPORT FOR LEBANON TRIBUNAL [...] (C) On February 10, Charge queried UAE Minster of State for Foreign Affairs Mohammed Hussain al-Sha'ali about the apparent UAE commitment of $5 million to the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon (ref A). Al-Sha'ali said he thought the commitment was firm, but wanted to know the precise mechanism [...] | 2008-02-11 13:38:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EFIN EINV LE AE |
08ABUDHABI188 | LOBBYING FOR KOSOVO RECOGNITION [...] (C) On February 10, the Charge met with UAE Minster of State for Foreign Affairs Mohammed Hussain al-Sha'ali to discuss, among other issues (septel),the need for as many nations as possible to recognize an independent Kosovo soon after independence is announced. Al-Sha'ali acknowledged our a [...] | 2008-02-11 13:49:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU AE |
08ABUDHABI189 | UNIFIL LOBBYING FOR ARAB SUPPORT [...] (C) The Charge pressed UAE Minster of State for Foreign Affairs Mohammed Hussain al-Sha'ali February 10 on the need for a continued Arab presence in UNIFIL, a prospect complicated by the impending withdrawal of Qatari forces. Asked to consider a UAE contribution, al-Sha'ali said frankly, "may [...] | 2008-02-11 13:56:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL QA LE AE |
08ABUDHABI190 | MFA MINSTATE VIEWS ON IRAN [...] (C) The Charge took the opportunity of a February 10 meeting with UAE Minster of State for Foreign Affairs Mohammed Hussain al-Sha'ali to emphasize the importance of keeping pressure on Iran through UNSC deliberations on potential sanctions, also noting the USG stance not to comment extensivel [...] | 2008-02-11 14:17:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC IAEA IR AE |
08ABUDHABI222 | UAE PRIME MINISTER'S QUICK VISIT TO TEHRAN AND [...] (C) Summary: UAE Prime Minister, Vice President, and Ruler of Dubai Mohammed bin Rashid embarked on a sudden visit to Tehran and Damascus February 18, taking the Foreign Minister (an Abu Dhabi royal) in his entourage. Public explanations of the visit are benign and innocent, and we heard fr [...] | 2008-02-19 14:58:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OVIP IR SY AE |
08ABUDHABI289 | DAS KENT PATTON DISCUSSES DEMOCRATIC REFORM IN UAE [...] (C) Summary: On a February 24-25 visit to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, DAS Kent Patton spoke with government leaders and civil society figures about expanding political space in the UAE. With MFA he focused on fall 2008 plans for Forum for the Future meetings in Abu Dhabi, stressing the importance [...] | 2008-03-05 06:09:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KMPI KPAO ELAB AE |
08ABUDHABI304 | MLAT STAGNANT WITHOUT CREATIVE APPROACH [...] (C) Post received a diplomatic note dated February 12 stating yet again that the UAE looked forward to negotiation of a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) in tandem with negotiation of an Extradition Treaty and a Treaty on Legal and Judicial Assistance in Civil and Commercial Matters. The [...] | 2008-03-09 17:18:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV KCRM AE |
08ABUDHABI377 | EMBASSY CONVERSATION WITH UAEG ON SHARLA'S CITY OF HOPE [...] (C) In March 25, 2008 conversation with MinState for Foreign Affairs (and Chairman of National Committee to Combat Human Trafficking) Anwar Gargash, Charge emphasized the very positive experiences both the Embassy and ConGen have had with Sharla Musabih's City of Hope, with the shelter having [...] | 2008-03-25 13:55:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PREF KCRM KWMN ASEC ELAB AE |
08ABUDHABI391 | UAE REPORT ON MAYROW [...] (C) Action request. Please translate UAEG submitted paper on the results of the Mayrow investigation (ref a). 2. (C) On March 27, MFA International Organizations Director Yacub Al-Hosani passed Econchief two Mayrow related papers. The first responded to specific information passed during ( [...] | 2008-03-27 14:26:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL ETTC AE |
08ABUDHABI393 | UAEG ASKED TO ASSIST IRAQI REFUGEES [...] (C) Summary: Senior Coordinator for Iraqi Refugee Issues Ambassador James Foley met in Abu Dhabi March 26 with MFA Assistant Under Secretary for Political Affairs Tariq al-Haidan and Secretary General of the UAE Red Crescent Society Dr. Saleh al-Taee to press the case for more robust support [...] | 2008-03-28 03:37:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PHUM EAID IZ AE |
08ABUDHABI405 | GUARDIAN'S POWER PROBLEMS REFLECT UAE SHORTAGES [...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S. Counsel for Guardian Industries (a U.S. firm with a USD 150 million float glass plant in Ras Al-Khaimah (RAK) suffering from lack of a reliable electricity supply) contacted post for information on pipeline networks in the UAE that could supply gas to RAK (to help power [...] | 2008-04-01 15:09:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EINV AE |
08ABUDHABI407 | UAE QUIET ABOUT TROOP PRESENCE IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: Although the BBC, likely with UAEG approval, broadcast the presence of UAE forces in Afghanistan on a March 28 report, no signs of the story have appeared in local media. Internet comment, often quite scathing, is being generated by the BBC report and reflects some angst that t [...] | 2008-04-02 04:01:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MASS PHUM EAID AF AE |
08ABUDHABI45 | UAE EVALUATING NUCLEAR POWER [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 12. 2. (C) sUMMARY: The UAE is evaluating the development of peaceful nuclear power. UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (ABZ) summoned nuclear supplier states' ambassadors on January 10 to present a white paper and soli [...] | 2008-01-10 14:27:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG KNNP ECON EINV AE |
08ABUDHABI510 | BOUCHER DISCUSSES PARIS CONFERENCE ON AFGHANISTAN WITH UAE [...] (C) Ambassador Boucher discussed Afghan development needs and the June 12 Paris conference with United Arab Emirates (UAE) Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan in Abu Dhabi April 15, citing funding needs of $12 to $15 billion. Abdullah said joint Gulf Cooperation Council contribution [...] | 2008-04-24 05:14:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAID AF AE |
08ABUDHABI535 | A/S WELCH AND KHALDOON AL-MUBARAK DISCUSS INVESTMENTS, IRAN [...] (C) Summary: On April 20, Mubadala CEO Khaldoon Al-Mubarak told A/S Welch that he was seeing a slightly improved political risk for investment in the U.S. than he had in the summer and that ADIA's work with the U.S. Treasury and Singapore to develop best practices for Sovereign Wealth Funds wa [...] | 2008-04-30 04:09:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ECON PREL EPET ENRG IR AE |
08ABUDHABI574 | MFA on Status of Export Control Law Amendment [...] (C) On May 8, MFA International Organizations Director Yacub Al-Hosani told Econchief that the UAE Cabinet's Legislative Committee should meet in the next week to review the amended export control law. Al-Hosani did not have many details to share, explaining that the law was with UAE Foreign M [...] | 2008-05-08 09:23:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL ETTC AE |
08ABUDHABI613 | LEBANON: UAE WILLING TO BE OPTIMISTIC ON DOHA TALKS [...] (C) In a May 19 discussion of reftel points on Lebanon, the Charge stressed to MFA Under Secretary Saif Sultan al-Aryani that the USG supports ongoing Arab League mediation and condemns Hizballah attempts to force negotiations at gunpoint. Al-Aryani agreed that Hizballah's weapons were a prob [...] | 2008-05-19 10:36:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LE AE |
08ABUDHABI619 | ABU DHABI CROWN PRINCE STRESSES EDUCATION IN [...] (C) Summary: Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince told Secretary of Education Spellings May 18 that education is vital to overcoming the influence of Islamic extremism in the Middle East. Youth immunized early in life with a balanced perspective are better able to adapt and contribute to a diverse yet [...] | 2008-05-20 08:30:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER SCUL AE |
08ABUDHABI631 | IRAQI CHARGE NOTES UPCOMING VISIT BY TARIQ [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-22 15:28:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ AE |
08ABUDHABI647 | UAE REVIEW OF THE LIBERTAD ACT [...] (SBU) Cuba and the UAE maintain diplomatic relations, but neither country has an embassy present in the other country. The Cuban ambassador is resident in Cairo, Egypt. 2. (C) Embassy responses to ref a questions follow. -- Has the host country worked to promote the advancement of democra [...] | 2008-05-28 13:16:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU AE |
08ABUDHABI65 | FRENCH SIGN MULTIPLE AGREEMENTS WITH ABU DHABI -- [...] (C) Summary: During a brief visit to Abu Dhabi January 15, French President Sarkozy concluded a number of agreements on security, nuclear, and cultural cooperation. Chief among them was an anticipated agreement to assist Abu Dhabi's plans for a civilian nuclear program (ref A),and an unexpe [...] | 2008-01-16 14:18:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MASS ENRG KNNP FR IR AE |
08ABUDHABI668 | SYRIAN PRESIDENT VISITS UAE [...] (C) On his fourth official visit to Abu Dhabi as Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad met UAE President Khalifa June 1 for yet another "brotherly" discussion reportedly focused on closing Arab ranks on regional issues and seeking expanded investments in Syria. The visit follows within days of UAE [...] | 2008-06-03 03:36:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY AE |
08ABUDHABI71 | LEBANON SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FUNDING [...] (C) Ambassador delivered ref A non-paper on funding for a special tribunal for Lebanon to UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) on January 17. AbZ reviewed the paper carefully and took note of the sums required for the tribunal. Without responding directly whether the UAE might contr [...] | 2008-01-17 13:36:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LE AE |
08ABUDHABI72 | UAE RELAYS IYAD ALLAWI'S REQUEST FOR PERSONAL [...] (C) During a January 17 farewell call by the Ambassador, UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) passed a note and long list of names which he said followed up on a discussion Ambassador Crocker had while in Abu Dhabi last November (reftel). The document stresses Dr. Iyad Allawi's requ [...] | 2008-01-17 14:00:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS OVIP IZ AE |
08ABUDHABI757 | UAE APPROACH TO FOREIGN ASSISTANCE [...] (C) The following answers to ref A (para four) questions are based on Post understanding of UAE foreign aid trends and are developed without specific inquiries to the UAEG. Conclusions are therefore Post's considered judgment rather than stated UAEG goals. (Comment: Post is uncomfortable wit [...] | 2008-06-26 15:11:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ECIN PHUM ECON EFIN PGOV AE |
08ABUDHABI791 | UPDATE ON UAE'S NUCLEAR POWER PLANS [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 10. 2. (C) Summary: Econchief and TDY Econoff met with Executive Affairs Authority Director of Economic Affairs David Scott and EAA member Hamad Al-Kaabi on July 1 to discuss UAE progress on the Section 123 Nuclear Cooperation Agreement and t [...] | 2008-07-06 04:59:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG KNNP ECON EINV AE |
08ABUDHABI851 | UAE RELIEVES MINISTER OF DUTIES UNDER CORRUPTION CLOUD [...] (U) Summary: On July 27, 2008, UAE President Khalifa relieved Minister of State Dr. Khalifa Bakheet al-Falasi of his duties after the latter was referred for prosecution for allegedly mishandling the assets of a deceased business partner. End summary. 2. (SBU) After some speculation in th [...] | 2008-07-28 12:26:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV AE |
08ABUDHABI892 | SPECIAL ENVOY RICKMAN HIGHLIGHTS NEED FOR TOLERANCE TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Gregg Rickman took the opportunity of a July 21-24 visit to the UAE to stress the need for tolerance, interfaith engagement, and a balanced portrayal of Jews in the press and media. Citing examples of anti-Semitism and the dama [...] | 2008-08-07 13:31:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM IS AE |
08ABUDHABI974 | ABU DHABI NUCLEAR POWER AUTHORITY CONCERNED THAT USG VIEWS [...] (C) Summary: Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation officials told Emboffs August 27 that they were concerned that comments attributed to USG officials could disadvantage US private sector participation in the UAE's nuclear energy program. Officials stressed that they hope to see strong US parti [...] | 2008-08-28 08:47:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM ENRG PGOV PREL KNNP AE |
08ABUDHABI977 | UAE COMMENTS ON RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF SOUTH OSSETIA AND [...] (C) The Charge presented reftel points condemning Russia's recognition of the two breakaway republics to Assistant Under Secretary for Political Affairs Tariq al-Haidan August 27. Al-Haidan, the most senior MFA official on duty this week, agreed that Russia was erroneously comparing the situat [...] | 2008-08-28 10:55:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG RU AU |
08ABUDHABI978 | UAE MFA ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION AT UNGA [...] (C) On August 27, the Charge engaged Assistant Under Secretary for Political Affairs Tariq al-Haidan on the question of Kosovo, stressing ref A points that Kosovo's independence was not a legal issue that the ICJ might usefully resolve. Stating (as Under Secretary al-Aryani had on August 5, r [...] | 2008-08-28 10:57:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNGA KV AE |
08ABUDHABI983 | UAE MFA VIEW ON MAURITANIA [...] (C) Post delivered reftel points on Mauritania via diplomatic note, reinforced in an August 27 conversation with Assistant Under Secretary for Political Affairs Tariq al-Haidan. The senior diplomat on duty, al-Haidan told the Charge and A/DCM that MFA had been visited by the Mauritanian Ambas [...] | 2008-08-28 13:22:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MR AE |
08ABUJA1019 | NIGERIA: LIBERTAD ACT AND CUBA REVIEW [...] (U) In response to reftel action request, please find the following Mission Nigeria answers regarding Nigeria and Cuba's relationship. 2. (C) The Nigerian government (GON) does not appear to have made public statements or undertaken other governmental actions, such as resolutions in the nat [...] | 2008-06-03 08:46:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL NI |
08ABUJA1040 | NIGERIA: NAPTIP PLEASED WITH TIP REPORT AND [...] (C) Poloff delivered a copy of the eighth annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP). Director of Investigations and Monitoring, and second in command at the agency, Mr. Muhammad Babandede, was pleased that Nigeria r [...] | 2008-06-05 16:08:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KCRM KWMN KPAO SMIG ELAB NI |
08ABUJA1062 | NIGERIA: YAR'ADUA DOES "MEDIA CHAT" [...] (U) SUMMARY. On May 29, President Yar'Adua conducted a live television "media chat" to mark the one year anniversary of his administration as well as to celebrate Nigeria's Democracy Day (a national holiday commemorating the country's return to democracy on May 29, 1999 after 16 years of mili [...] | 2008-06-09 10:56:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ENRG NI |
08ABUJA1079 | NIGERIA: NEW EFCC CHAIR AFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Sanders paid a courtesy call on newly confirmed (June 5) Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairwoman Farida Waziri on June 10, where she underscored the importance the U.S. places on the EFCC maintaining its vigor and fight against corruption, noting tha [...] | 2008-06-11 13:43:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EFIN KCOR NI |
08ABUJA1083 | NIGERIA: GAMBARI TO LEAD NEW NIGER DELTA COMMITTEE? [...] (C) Poloff met May 19 with Dr. Sam Amadi, a Special Assistant to Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe. Amadi said that Vice President Goodluck Jonathan's office is planning a "Consultative Steering Committee" (CSC) on the Niger Delta, which would be led by Professor Ibrahim Gambari, a Nigerian diplo [...] | 2008-06-11 15:59:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV NI |
08ABUJA1107 | NIGERIA DISAPPOINTED ABOUT USG WITHDRAWAL FROM UN [...] (C) On June 11, PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to Ambassador M.K. Ibrahim, Director of the Second United Nations Division in the International Organizations Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ambassador Ibrahim has been one of Nigeria's representatives to the United Nations Hu [...] | 2008-06-13 12:22:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM NI |
08ABUJA112 | NIGERIAN & ECOWAS EFFORTS TO COMBAT WEST AFRICAN [...] (SBU) In response to reftel, Post provides the following information concerning Nigerian and ECOWAS efforts to combat drug trafficking. This cable has been cleared by DEA/Lagos and Legatt/Lagos. ------- NIGERIA ------- 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Nigeria remains a hub of narcotics trafficking a [...] | 2008-01-17 13:28:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCRM SNAR EAID SOCI NI |
08ABUJA1150 | IRAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] PolOff delivered reftel demarche and nonpaper on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Iran and the U.S. response to Maria Laose, Deputy Director of the First United Nations Division at the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on June 2. Ms. Laose oversees IAEA and nuc [...] | 2008-06-16 14:59:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM IR IAEA PREL NI |
08ABUJA1151 | NIGERIA: MOVES TO CREATE NEW OPPOSITION PARTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff met May 17, 28 and 29 with politicos who claim that members of various opposition parties and disaffected members of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are planning to join forces and attempt to create a new opposition party to confront the PDP. Though the allegedly [...] | 2008-06-16 15:18:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM NI |
08ABUJA1180 | NIGERIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON JUNE 19 ROUNDTABLE [...] (C) On June 18, 2008, Post delivered reftel demarche to Charles A. Ononye, Director of the First United Nations Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ononye assured Poloffs that he would contact Nigeria's United Nations representative and ask him to attend the Roundtable. Ononye also [...] | 2008-06-18 14:50:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU SADC MO ZI NI |
08ABUJA1184 | NIGERIA: AMCIT ABDUCTED FROM TIDEWATER SHIP, BONGA [...] (C) Summary: Over night June 18 ) June 19, two attacks happened in the southern area of Nigeria, at the Bonga Oil platform off the shore of Lagos and in the Niger Delta area near Escravos, where one Amcit is confirmed to have been taken hostage. Both Embassy Abuja and Consulate Lagos are eng [...] | 2008-06-19 14:23:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC EPET ASEC PREL NI |
08ABUJA119 | NIGERIA: ANOTHER MEETING ON ELECTION REFORM [...] (C) Summary: Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua held a "consultative meeting on the electoral process" at the Presidential Villa in Abuja January 16. Participants included state governors, legislators, political parties, representatives of the Independent National Electoral Commission ( [...] | 2008-01-18 09:28:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM NI |
08ABUJA1201 | NIGERIA: BAKASSI WITHDRAWAL AND REFUGEE ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: On June 18, 2008, Polcouns and Poloff met with Tony Eze, Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) East and Central Africa Division, to discuss the MFA's views of the August 14 completion of Nigeria's withdrawal from the Bakassi peninsula. Eze affirmed the GON's overall c [...] | 2008-06-23 15:16:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PREF SMIG KDEM CM NI |
08ABUJA1248 | NIGERIA: UN ENVOY GAMBARI'S CONCERNS ON NIGER [...] (C) Summary: In a June 24 late evening meeting with United Nations Special Envoy, Professor Ibrahim Gambari (strictly protect),he told Ambassador that things are "really falling apart" on the Niger Delta Summit, and that it would be impossible to hold meetings in July 2008, or even by year's [...] | 2008-06-27 06:25:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NI |
08ABUJA1275 | NIGERIA: IMPASSE ON TEMPORARY IMPORT LICENSES [...] (C) Summary: Following the removal of the previous Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) and sustained advocacy with NCS by the Mission, it appears that U.S. companies operating in Nigeria providing oil services to the major oil production companies have received approvals [...] | 2008-07-03 07:59:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET PREL EAID ETRD NI |
08ABUJA1292 | ISRAELI MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO NIGERIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 1, 2008, Poloff and Air Attache visited Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria Moshe Ram to discuss Israeli military assistance to Nigeria. Ram said there was no bilateral agreement between the two nations, but private Israeli security companies were indeed involved in Nigeria, an [...] | 2008-07-03 14:58:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MCAP MARR MASS PGOV PINR PINS IS NI |
08ABUJA1294 | NIGERIA: CODEL BERMAN MEETING WITH VICE PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Codel Berman discussed bilateral relations, Zimbabwe, regional peacekeeping, the situation in the Niger Delta, and prospects for economic growth with Vice President Goodluck Jonathan. The Vice President lauded bilateral relations and called for increased investment in Nigeria [...] | 2008-07-03 15:53:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET EINV ENRG EAGR OREP NI |
08ABUJA1312 | NIGERIA: IS GAMBARI ON HIS WAY OUT? [...] (SBU) Press reports from July 7 editions of several major Nigerian newspapers claim that UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari will be asked to step down from his position as chairman of the Niger Delta Summit Steering Committee (reftels). With headlines saying that "Yar'Adua Drops Gambari" (Daily Trust) [...] | 2008-07-09 13:43:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV NI |
08ABUJA1315 | NIGERIAN ELECTORAL REFORM COMMITTEE COMPLETES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nigeria's Electoral Reform Committee (ERC) completed its public hearings on June 27, 2008. The ERC visited 14 major cities in all six of Nigeria's geo-political zones to receive recommendations from the general public, governments, political parties, electoral commissions, securi [...] | 2008-07-10 07:52:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM NI |
08ABUJA1330 | ZIMBABWE: DEMARCHE TO NIGERIA REGARDING UNSC [...] (C) Following receipt of ref e-mail, Polcouns spoke with Ambassador Daniel Hart, Senior Special Advisor to Foreign Minister Maduekwe, and briefed him on the issue and our desire to enlist Nigerian co-sponsorship of the draft UNSC resolution on Zimbabwe. He told Hart that Ambassador Sanders wa [...] | 2008-07-11 12:54:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC NI ZI |
08ABUJA1331 | NIGERIA: EFCC CHAIR WAZIRI'S FIRST MONTH, SOME [...] (C) SUMMARY. One month after Farida Waziri's June 5 Senate confirmation as new Chairwoman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) the jury is still very much out on Waziri's true intentions and any fallout her leadership choices will have on the EFCC as an institution; we belie [...] | 2008-07-11 13:17:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCOR KCRM NI |
08ABUJA1332 | ZIMBABWE: AMBASSADOR AND NIGERIAN FORNMIN ON UNSC [...] (C) Ambassador met with Nigerian Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe on July 11 to discuss and demarche on co-sponsoring a draft UN Security Council Chapter VII sanctions resolution on Zimbabwe introduced in the Council on July 3 (Poloff notetaker). Ambassador expressed appreciation for Nigeria's s [...] | 2008-07-11 14:11:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC NI ZI |
08ABUJA1337 | NIGERIA: UNHCR AND ICRC ON BAKASSI WITHDRAWAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Per reftel A, Post contacted United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) representatives in Abuja to discuss the plight of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the Bakassi Peninsula and to ask about contingency plans [...] | 2008-07-15 08:01:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PREF SMIG KDEM ICRC UNHCR CM NI |
08ABUJA1346 | NIGERIAN SENATE PRESIDENT WINS APPEAL, NAMED [...] (U) July 15th, the Appeals Court in Jos announced that Nigerian Senate President David Mark had won his bid to overturn the decision of the Makurdi election tribunal, which had nullified his election and ordered a rerun in two districts. The Appeals Court determined that the lower tribunal had [...] | 2008-07-15 16:22:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV NI |
08ABUJA1348 | NIGERIA: BUHARI AIDE ON TRIBUNAL, ELECTORAL [...] (C) Summary. Abubakar Buba Galadima (strictly protect),Organizing Secretary for All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) Presidential candidate Buhari, told PolCouns, PolOff, and PolFSN on July 9 that he believed the Nigerian Supreme Court will uphold the 2007 election of President Yar'Adua when it [...] | 2008-07-16 11:18:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV NI |
08ABUJA1356 | NIGERIA: FONMIN ON NIGER DELTA, EFCC [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador met with Nigerian Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe on July 11 to demarche on Zimbabwe (Refs A and B). She also took the occasion to execute requested demarche on the Niger Delta, and address U.S. concerns over recent redeployments at the Economic and Financial Crimes Com [...] | 2008-07-16 14:23:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM KCOR NI |
08ABUJA1398 | NIGERIA: KEY POINTS FROM GENERAL WARD'S VISIT - [...] (C) The Ambassador and visiting Africa Commander General Ward had a private meeting on July 23 with Nigerian Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe (FonMin) at his home on the margins of the 2008 AFRICA Endeavor exercise. The FonMin had returned late on the evening of July 22 from a recently convened [...] | 2008-07-24 12:33:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN EINV MASS MARR NI |
08ABUJA142 | PRESIDENT YAR,ADUA ON: RIBADU MISSTEP, PFIZER, [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador had a January 3, 2008 audience with Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to discuss a range of issues, mostly notably the current political environment and outcry surrounding the December 27, 2007, announcement by the GON to transfer to a study tour Nigeria's Econ [...] | 2008-01-23 15:40:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EFIN EINV NI |
08ABUJA1434 | DEMARCHE TO NIGERIA RE ZIMBABWE TALKS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-25 13:49:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SADC ZI NI |
08ABUJA1435 | NIGERIA: REINFORCING THE MESSAGE ON IRAN TO SELECT [...] (C) On July 25, the Ambassador took advantage of a previously scheduled meeting between Under Secretary for Economic Affairs Jeffery and Nigerian Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe to present reftel demarche concerning the Iran issue at the forthcoming NAM Foreign Ministers' meeting. The Ambassado [...] | 2008-07-25 14:12:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM TRGY IR NI |
08ABUJA1465 | NIGERIA: WAZIRI REQUESTS ASSISTANCE, CHANCE TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador met with EFCC Chairwoman Farida Waziri on July 21, noting USG concerns about Waziri personally, her ability to strengthen the EFCC, and recent personnel redeployments. The Ambassador stressed Waziri's need to prove her bonafides to the U.S. through concrete results. [...] | 2008-07-29 17:59:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EFIN KCOR NI |
08ABUJA1467 | NIGERIA: YAR'ADUA COMMITTED TO BAKASSI WITHDRAWAL [...] (U) With the August 14 transfer of the Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon under the Greentree Agreement fast approaching, the GON has stepped up public statements expressing its commitment to go ahead with the handover. On July 25, President Yar'Adua stated at the credentialling of the new Cameroo [...] | 2008-07-30 14:44:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS PHUM EAID MOPS PREF MASS SOCI |
08ABUJA1481 | NIGERIA: U/S JEFFERY'S MEETING WITH FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: In a July 25 meeting, U/S Jeffery and FonMin Maduekwe discussed US technical support for efforts to improve the Nigerian power sector, changing attitudes in Nigeria toward corruption, and the GoN's desire to improve the business climate and encourage investment in Nigeria. The Am [...] | 2008-07-31 06:50:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID ENRG EPET EINV NI |
08ABUJA1494 | BAKASSI: NIGERIAN FEDERAL COURT ISSUES INJUNCTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 31, a Federal Court in Abuja issued an injunction to postpone the August 14 scheduled handover to Cameroon of the disputed Bakassi Peninsula, pending resolution of a suit to stop the transfer or compensate residents. Senator Jubril Aminu (strictly protect),Chair of the Se [...] | 2008-08-01 14:57:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHSA PGOV NI CM |
08ABUJA152 | PRESIDENT YAR'ADUA ON: PFIZER AND AFRICOM [...] In a short phone call to Ambassador late January 21 just prior to his departure for the Davos Summit in Switzerland, Nigerian President Yar'Adua made the following points on next steps on Pfizer and his position on AFRICOM and a possible visit to Nigeria by the AFRICOM Combatant Commander (COCO [...] | 2008-01-24 14:05:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EFIN EINV NI |
08ABUJA1543 | NIGERIA: GON BALANCING BAKASSI HANDOVER, COURT [...] (C) On July 31, a Federal High Court in Abuja issued an injunction to postpone the August 14 scheduled handover to Cameroon of the disputed Bakassi Peninsula, pending resolution of a suit to stop the transfer or compensate residents. Poloff spoke on August 4 to Special Advisor to the Presiden [...] | 2008-08-05 16:34:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS PHSA NI CM |
08ABUJA1549 | NIGERIAN MFA SAYS BAKASSI HANDOVER PROCEEDING AS [...] (C) On August 6, A/DCM spoke with Amb. Chike Anigbo, MFA African Affairs Department Director (A/S equivalent) to discuss whether the handover of the Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon might be delayed by the court case against the handover recently filed by Bakassi residents (see ref A). Anigbo ins [...] | 2008-08-06 16:21:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS PHSA ASEC CM NI |
08ABUJA1550 | NIGERIA: IBORI ASSOCIATE APPOINTED TO PRESIDENT'S [...] (C) Summary. Internet news site Sahara Reporters broke the news on July 31 that former Delta State Governor James Ibori's former Commissioner of Finance David Edevbie was appointed Principal Secretary to President Umaru Yar'Adua. Ibori (as reported reftels) is under investigation in Nigeria a [...] | 2008-08-06 17:05:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCOR KCRIM NI |
08ABUJA1551 | NIGERIA: FORMER EFCC OFFICIALS DEMOTED, [...] (C) SUMMARY. There have been three separate actions taken this week against former officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Press reported on August 6 that members of the State Security Service (SSS) visited the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIP [...] | 2008-08-06 17:28:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EFIN KCOR KCRM NI |
08ABUJA1573 | NIGERIA: EFCC DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO ATTORNEY [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings August 7, CDA presented reftel demarche expressing our concerns about developments at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to Attorney General (AG) Michael Aondoakaa and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Baba Gana Kingibe. She [...] | 2008-08-08 17:12:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EFIN KCOR SNAR NI |
08ABUJA1574 | NIGERIA: EFCC DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO WAZIRI [...] (C) Summary: Charge delivered reftel demarche to Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairwoman Farida Waziri on August 8. Waziri called the USG position "unfortunate" and maintained that much of the issue with USG concerns is perception. She expressed concern for how cases were [...] | 2008-08-08 17:22:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EFIN KCOR KCRM NI |
08ABUJA1587 | NIGERIA: MAURITANIA DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (U) Charge d'Affaires briefly delivered reftel demarche to Minister of Foreign Affairs Ojo Maduekwe at the conclusion of a previously scheduled meeting on August 8. Charge noted approvingly President Yar'Adua's public denouncement on August 6, which stated "Nigeria would not recognize any cha [...] | 2008-08-11 11:19:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NI |
08ABUJA1595 | NIGERIA: EFCC DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO MFA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Charge d'Affaires delivered reftel demarche on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to Minister of Foreign Affairs Ojo Maduekwe on August 8. The FonMin had already received the information from the demarche through a dispatch from the Nigerian Embassy in Washington [...] | 2008-08-11 17:00:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCOR EFIN SNAR NI |
08ABUJA1600 | NIGERIA: DELTA OFFICIALS BRIEF U/S JEFFERY ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Officials from Delta and Rivers states briefed Under Secretary Jeffery July 24 during his visit to Abuja on the current situation in the Niger Delta, specific security concerns, oil bunkering, and what each government is doing in response to increased lawlessness in the area. R [...] | 2008-08-12 09:48:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN NI |
08ABUJA1626 | BAKASSI HANDOVER [...] (SBU) Embassy Abuja has no problem with the proposed statement in para 8 of reftel. 2. (C) We are, however, concerned that attempting to build a public diplomacy campaign around the Bakassi handover might be seen by the GON as less than helpful, and strengthen the view among some Nigerians [...] | 2008-08-13 16:13:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS PHSA KPAO NI CM |
08ABUJA1632 | NIGERIA-CAMEROON: BAKASSI HANDOVER PROCEEDS [...] (C) Summary: The transfer of authority over the Bakassi Peninsula happened as scheduled on August 14. GON Attorney General (AG) Michael Aondoakaa headed the Nigerian delegation, and GRC Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice Ahmadu Ali led that of Cameroon. The ceremony took place in [...] | 2008-08-15 06:26:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS PHSA NI CM |
08ABUJA1636 | NIGERIA: PRESS COVERAGE FOLLOWING AUG 14 BAKASSI [...] (SBU) In the first day following Nigeria's handover of the disputed Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon, press coverage was considerably less than the days preceding the handover and the rhetoric was noticeably reduced. Articles instead focused predominantly on reporting the details of the handover [...] | 2008-08-15 13:01:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS PHSA NI CM |
08ABUJA1665 | WAZIRI RESPONDS TO DEMARCHE ON GON BACKSLIDING [...] (C) Summary. Embassy received a written response from Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairwoman Farida Waziri to Ref B demarche, which was delivered on August 8 (Ref A). Post found two of Waziri's claims particularly questionable: a professed ignorance of corrupt formern off [...] | 2008-08-21 13:37:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCOR KCRM NI |
08ABUJA1670 | NIGERIA: SHAKE-UP IN PRESIDENTIAL STAFF [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 18, Presidential spokesman Olusegun Adeniyi, announced a shake-up in the Presidential staff, including the elimination of the Office of the Chief of Staff. The move was perhaps the first in a series of long-rumored changes to improve effectiveness and accountability th [...] | 2008-08-21 16:52:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV NI |
08ABUJA1671 | SWEEPING CHANGES IN NIGERIA'S MILITARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 21, the GON announced long-awaited changes in Nigeria's top military personnel, including Chief of Defense Staff (CDS),Chief of Naval Staff, Chief of Army Staff, and Chief of Air Staff. Replacing General Azazi as CDS is former Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Dike, now p [...] | 2008-08-22 06:21:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MORG MILI MPOL NI |
08ABUJA1715 | NIGERIA: ELECTORAL REFORM COMMITTEE RECEIVES [...] (C) Summary: On August 13, The Guardian newspaper reported that President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua announced a four month extension of the Electoral Reform Committee's (ERC) mandate. The deadline extension is not surprising given the committee's delay of several months before beginning its work and [...] | 2008-08-28 16:54:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM NI |
08ABUJA1737 | NIGERIAN MFA DENIES IRANIAN-NIGERIAN NUCLEAR DEAL [...] (C) Rabiu Shehu (protect),Director of the Office of MFA Minister of State Alhaji Tijjani Kaura (who nominally headed the Nigerian delegation in talks with the Iranians),emphatically denied to PolOff on August 29 that Nigeria had entered into any sort of nuclear agreement or signed a memorand [...] | 2008-09-02 06:35:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM KNNP PINR PINS KFPC ENRG ETTC MNUC KSTC |
08ABUJA177 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED RE: LIBYAN PARTICIPATION IN [...] (C) On January 3, RAO Chief discussed Libyan participation in the Trans Sahara Counter Terrorism Partnership (TSCTP) with the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency Ambassador Tony Imohe per reftel. Ambassador Imohe expressed his appreciated for the consultation, and said he had [...] | 2008-01-26 07:03:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PINR NI |
08ABUJA178 | PDP: WINDS OF CHANGE? [...] (C) Post reported (reftels) that forces within the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) were hoping to gradually reduce former President Obasanjo's control over the party and his influence on the government, but that steps to reduce his influence had to be taken slowly and gradually. The PD [...] | 2008-01-26 07:03:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM NI |
08ABUJA182 | FRAUDSTERS IN THE NIGERIAN NASS? YAR,ADUA SUPPORTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senator Nuhu Aliyu, Chair of the Committee on Security & Intelligence and retired Deputy Inspector General of Police, sent shock waves through the National Assembly (NASS) and country during a debate on the direction and tempo of the GON's war on corruption. Senator Aliyu threaten [...] | 2008-01-29 15:43:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCOR KCRM NI |
08ABUJA1822 | NIGERIAN FONMIN COMMENTS ON YAR'ADUA'S HEALTH [...] (C) During a September 8 meeting with Foreign Minister Maduekwe, DRL A/S Kramer asked if President Yar'Adua was back from Saudi Arabia and was any better. Maduekwe said the President had indeed returned to Nigeria on Saturday morning, though the Minister had not seen him personally. He claime [...] | 2008-09-08 16:13:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NI |
08ABUJA1829 | NIGERIA: KINGIBE OUT, DEFMIN AHMED IN AS SECRETARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 8, a press release from the Presidential Villa announced that Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Babagana Kingibe had been fired, and was to be immediately replaced by Minister of Defense Mahmud Yayale Ahmed. Ahmed's successor at the Ministry of Defen [...] | 2008-09-09 16:07:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV NI |
08ABUJA183 | NIGERIA: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION TRIBUNAL MAY CLOSE [...] (C) Summary: Closing arguments in the consolidated Atiku/Buhari challenge to Nigeria's April 2007 presidential election will be heard February 4, at which time the justices of the Presidential Election Tribunal will set a date to deliver their verdict. Lawyers for both the petitioners and re [...] | 2008-01-29 16:51:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM NI |
08ABUJA1836 | NIGERIA: DRL A/S KRAMER, DAS KRILLA MEET ELECTORAL [...] (C) Summary: On September 8, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor David Kramer and DAS Jeffrey Krilla met with eight members of the Electoral Reform Committee (ERC) including the committee chairman, former Chief Justice Muhammadu Uwais. They discussed the ERC's p [...] | 2008-09-10 14:29:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM NI |
08ABUJA1838 | NIGERIA: DRL A/S KRAMER, DAS KRILLA MEET INEC [...] (C) Summary: On September 9 Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor David Kramer and DAS Jeffrey Krilla met with Chairman Maurice Iwu and four additional members of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Though the purpose of the meeting was to expres [...] | 2008-09-10 15:25:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM NI |
08ABUJA184 | ALIYU WILL NOT PUBLICLY NAME FRAUDSTERS IN NASS [...] (C) SUMMARY: PolOff and INLOff met with Nuhu Aliyu, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Security and Intelligence, to discuss his recent disclosure that he had overseen fraud investigations of current members of the National Assembly while he served as Deputy Inspector General of Police in cha [...] | 2008-01-30 08:10:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KCOR KCRM NI |
08ABUJA1844 | DRL A/S KRAMER MEETS NIGERIAN FONMIN MADUEKWE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) David Kramer and DAS Jeffrey Krilla met with Nigerian Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe to discuss Nigerian involvement in peacekeeping, Sudan, the UN Human Rights Council, the Niger Delta and coordinating positi [...] | 2008-09-11 11:11:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM MASS MARR MCAP KNNP KPKO KUNR |
08ABUJA1847 | NIGERIA: A/S KRAMER VISITS NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor David J. Kramer met with National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Executive Secretary, Mrs. Kehinde Foloshade Ajoni, during a September 8-9 visit to Abuja. Discussions focused on the role of the Commission in polic [...] | 2008-09-11 15:19:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV AF NI |
08ABUJA1848 | NIGERIA: A/S KRAMER AND DAS KRILLA MEET MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a September 8-9 visit to Abuja, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, David J. Kramer and DAS Jeffrey Krilla met with Minister of Interior Major-General Godwin Abbe to discuss prison congestion and conditions, access to legal representation and [...] | 2008-09-11 15:32:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV CASC NI AF |
08ABUJA1870 | NIGERIA: BILATERAL RELATIONS POST-EFCC DEMARCHE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 14 and September 15 respectively, Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe and newly appointed Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Mahmud Yayale Ahmed. Both Maduekwe and Ahmed expressed their comments and concerns about our bilateral relation [...] | 2008-09-17 16:04:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL EFIN KCROR KCRM MARR MASS NI |
08ABUJA1874 | NIGERIA: ECONOMIC ADVISOR SAYS NIGERIA WILL [...] (C) Nigeria's Chief Economic Advisor (CEA),Dr. Tanimu Yakubu Kurfi, and CEA Desk Officer for Food and Security and U.S. Affairs Engr. Waziri Ahmadu, joined Ambassador and Acting DCM for a two-hour working dinner at the CMR on September 15. In the course of the dinner conversation, Dr. Yakubu [...] | 2008-09-17 16:38:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PREL PGOV EAGR EFIN EAID NI |
08ABUJA1887 | GOVERNMENT SHUTS CHANNELS TV AFTER REPORT THAT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 16, democracy in Nigeria took another step backward with the shutting down of the private broadcast outlet Channels TV after it reported that President Yar'adua may resign on health grounds after completing the upcoming reshuffle of his cabinet, which is now scheduled [...] | 2008-09-22 06:41:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECPS KDEM KPAO OPRC NI |
08ABUJA1898 | POLITICAL MANEUVERING DELAYS DECISION ON PICK FOR [...] (C) Governor of Bayelsa State, Timpre Silva, told Ambassador September 17 that the position of the Niger Delta (ND) Minister, in the recently created ND Ministry, is causing a lot of political jockeying. The ND Ministry was created recently by ailing President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua as part of [...] | 2008-09-22 12:17:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM KDEM NI |
08ABUJA1899 | NIGERIAN TERRORISM BILL PASSES 2ND SENATE READING, [...] (U) Summary: On September 16, the Nigerian Senate voted to send counterterrorism legislation to an ad-hoc committee comprised of members of the Senate National Security & Intelligence, Judiciary and Foreign Affairs committees, after passing its second reading. The ad-hoc committee, headed by [...] | 2008-09-22 12:27:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINS PINR PGOV KCRM KHLS KTFN EPET NI |
08ABUJA1907 | NIGERIA: MEND DECLARES CEASEFIRE FOLLOWING WEEK OF [...] (SBU) Following a September 13 raid by the Joint Task Force (JTF) on the Elem Tombia area (south of Port Harcourt, Rivers State),the armed group MEND (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta) mounted a week-long string of attacks against oil interests in the Niger Delta region. Howev [...] | 2008-09-22 16:10:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM EPET KDEM NI |
08ABUJA1924 | AMBASSADOR IN KWARA STATE: INFLUENTIAL EMIR SPEAKS [...] (SBU) Summary. During a September 21-22, 2008, trip to Kwara State, Ambassador Sanders paid a courtesy visit on the well-respected and influential Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Kolapo Sulu Gambari. The Emir, a former appeals court judge and cousin of UN Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari, stepped o [...] | 2008-09-26 14:18:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KJUS NI |
08ABUJA1928 | NIGERIA: IAEA BOARD ELECTION DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche on September 26 to Maria Laose, Deputy Director of the First United Nations Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, strongly urging Nigerian support for Afghanistan's candidacy for election to the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy A [...] | 2008-09-30 14:22:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PARM IAEA MNUC NI |
08ABUJA1932 | NIGERIA: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH CHIEF CLARK TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 25, Ambassador received Bayelsa traditional leader Chief Edwin K. Clark at the residence to discuss recent developments in the Niger Delta. During the 90-minute discussion, the aging Ijaw leader and former Minister of Information under former military leader General [...] | 2008-10-02 13:57:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV NI |
08ABUJA1951 | NIGERIA: MITEE DISCUSSES NIGER DELTA TECHNICAL [...] (C) During their three hour September 30 meeting (other subjects covered in septel) the Ambassador (accompanied by Poloff, notetaker) and Ledum Mitee, Chairman of the new Niger Delta Technical Committee (NDTC),discussed the committee's outreach. Mitee reported that the NDTC has received over [...] | 2008-10-06 07:05:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV NI |
08ABUJA1952 | NIGERIA: NIGER DELTA TECHNICAL COMMITEE CHAIRMAN [...] (C) Summary: During their three hour September 30 meeting the Ambassador (accompanied by Poloff, notetaker) and Ledum Mitee, Chairman of the new Niger Delta Technical Committee (NDTC),discussed the committee's mandate to review past reports and submit a comprehensive report to the Vice Presid [...] | 2008-10-06 07:05:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV NI |
08ABUJA1953 | NIGERIA: OFFICERS TRAVEL NORTH TO HOST IFTARS [...] (U) Summary: The Acting Deputy Chief of Mission, two Poloffs, Econoff, and two PolFSNs traveled to Kano and Kaduna on September 3 and 4 to host Iftar dinners for members of each community. Approximately 50 guests from the government, business sector, academia, and civil society were invited to [...] | 2008-10-06 07:05:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KIRF KISL KPAO SCUL NI |
08ABUJA1957 | NIGERIA: PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTEES TAKE AN OATH OF [...] (U) On September 23 some seventy political office holders within the presidency publicly took an oath of secrecy at the insistence of President Yar'Adua. On September 24, presidential spokesman Olusegun Adeniyi downplayed the oath, maintaining some of the advisors were never formally sworn in [...] | 2008-10-06 07:06:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KHUM NI |
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