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08BAGHDAD1670 | COR SPEAKER MASHADANI DISCUSSES HURDLES WITH SOFA [...] (C) Summary. Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker Mahmoud Mashadani told PolCouns on May 30 that opposition amongst Iraq's political leaders to provisions of the SOFA is growing and that most controversial are issues touching on the status of bases, air space, immunity and visa issues, and [...] | 2008-06-02 07:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1676 | KOUCHNER MEETS CG PETRAEUS, LAUDS SPECTACULAR [...] (C) Summary: French FM Kouchner congratulated MNF-I Commanding General (CG) Petraeus on "spectacular" progress in Iraq during an hour-long June 1 meeting held at the Guest House on President Talabani's Karrada compound. Also attending were S/I Satterfield, and, for the French, Ambassador Je [...] | 2008-06-02 16:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1681 | ISCI'S AMAR AL-HAKIM ON SFA/SOFA, ELECTORAL [...] (C) Summary: In a June 2 meeting, Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) heir apparent Amar al-Hakim told S/I Satterfield and NSC Senior Director McGurk that he and ISCI support a bilateral security pact based on the principle of mutual respect for sovereignty. As long as that principle is h [...] | 2008-06-03 10:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD1684 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: GOVERNORATE ELECTION OFFICER [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-03 13:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS KCRS KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD1701 | NINEWA: WESTERN SUNNIS STILL BOTHERED BY KURDISH [...] (C/REL ACGU) Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) actions in western Ninewa remain the biggest point of political conflict, according to a cross-section of Sunni Arabs based around the Rabia'a border crossing. In a series of late May meetings with Special Advisor on Northern Iraq Affairs Ambassador [...] | 2008-06-04 18:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM EAID PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1705 | NINEWA PLAIN: DIVERSE COMMUNITIES WANT JOINT [...] (C) Summary and comment: May 27-30 meetings by USAID and Senior Advisor Krajeski in the Ninewa Plain area, home to significant Christian, Yezidi, Shia Shabak, Turkmen, Kurdish and Arab populations, focused on the state of internally displaced persons (IDP) in Ninewa, the possible uses by USAID [...] | 2008-06-05 07:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD1707 | NINEWA: SUNNI IDPS RETURNING TO TAL AFAR [...] (C/ REL ACGU) Ninewa PRT Western Branch Office PRTOFFS met on May 29 with the Tal Afar-based committee charged with facilitating the return of approximately 3,100 Sunni families displaced during conflict with the city's Shia majority since 2004. Tal Afar's Mayor Najim and senior representati [...] | 2008-06-05 08:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM MARR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1720 | PRESIDENT TALABANI DISCUSSES KIRKUK AND ELECTIONS, [...] (C) President Talabani told S/I Satterfield in a June 4 meeting that Iraq is ready to conclude arrangements fo its proposed bilateral commissions with Egypt and Turkey, and said that early July would be a good time for Turkish PM Erdogan to visit Iraq. Talabani argued for staggered elections [...] | 2008-06-05 17:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ TU EG |
08BAGHDAD1727 | PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS UPDATE [...] (C) The issue of how to handle elections in Kirkuk province now poses the biggest obstacle to speedy passage of the provincial election law. The requirement to hold district and sub-district elections within six months of provincial elections will probably be dropped; there is controversy ove [...] | 2008-06-06 17:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1733 | UNAMI PRESENTS DISPUTED INTERNAL BOUNDARIES PHASE [...] (C) Summary: United Nations Mission to Iraq (UNAMI) presented its analysis of four initial districts and an overview paper describing its Disputed Internal Boundaries (DIBs) process and methodology to the Presidency Council, Prime Minister Maliki and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime M [...] | 2008-06-07 09:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1743 | DPM BARHAM SALIH CALLS UNAMI REPORTS "STUPID" [...] Summary: (C) Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih (Kurd, PUK) told Senior Adviser Krajeski on June 8 that he was unhappy with United Nations Mission to Iraq (UNAMI)'s Phase I reports on Disputed Internal Boundaries (DIBs),provided by UNAMI to the Presidency Council, Prime Minister and Kurdistan [...] | 2008-06-09 07:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1761 | WASIT'S ISCI OFFICE TAKES AN INDEPENDENT TACK AS [...] (C) Summary. PRT Team Leader met June 7 at al Kut's ISCI headquarters building with Wasit ISCI party chief Ahmed al Hakim for a friendly discussion that saw the ISCI chief emphasizing the extent to which USG and ISCI interests intersect in Wasit, revealing ISCI's plan to run with a slate pepp [...] | 2008-06-10 09:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1763 | MEETING BETWEEN S/I AMBASSADOR SATTERFIELD AND [...] (C) Summary: In a June 8 meeting with S/I Satterfield, Deputy Speaker Sheikh Khalid Attiya said that most remaining obstacles to a new election law can be resolved, but that there is no agreement on the division of seats for the Kirkuk council. Delaying the election there might be the most [...] | 2008-06-10 18:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD177 | AMIDST THREATS, A GLIMPSE OF COURAGE IN BAGHDAD [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a raw and revealing moment following the assassination of a colleague and direct threats against another, a close-knit group of Iraqi officials in Baghdad demonstrated January 22 their determination to continue fighting corruption and militia profiteering in an essential servi [...] | 2008-01-23 18:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR PINS PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD179 | MINISTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS ON PRISONS AND COR HR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim on January 19 criticized living conditions she observed during a recent unannounced visit to the Ministry of Justice (MOJ)-operated Khadamiya women,s prison that she undertook at PM Maliki's request. She said that while some inmates alleged [...] | 2008-01-23 20:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM KJUS PGOV PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD1807 | SADRISTS SPURN ELECTIONS - OR DO THEY? [...] (U) The press is reporting June 14 comments by senior Sadrist Trend officials announcing that the movement will not take part in provincial elections expected before the end of the year. Seeking to reinforce the notion of the Sadr Trend as pure guardians of Iraqi sovereignty, Salah al-Obeidi, [...] | 2008-06-15 16:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1814 | ICI: BAGHDAD MEETINGS ON WAY FORWARD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In separate Baghdad meetings UNAMI and the ICI secretariat have laid out somewhat different visions of the way forward on ICI commitments made at Stockholm. Section three of the ICI annual report, titled "Investing in the Future," laid out several of these commitments in the p [...] | 2008-06-16 10:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID IZ |
08BAGHDAD1826 | RRT ERBIL: KRG OIL MINISTER ON UPCOMING [...] (C) Summary: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Minister of Natural Resources Dr. Ashti Hawrami expressed cautious optimism that KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani's upcoming meetings with PM Maliki in Baghdad could lead to passage of some hydrocarbon legislation "by October." This optimism [...] | 2008-06-17 12:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV EPET IZ |
08BAGHDAD1830 | RRT ERBIL: NEA-I DIRECTOR DISCUSSES MINORITY [...] (C) Special Representative on Minorities in Iraq, NEA-I Director Richard Schmierer met June 11 and 12 Iraq with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) officials, Christian leaders, and other minority communities that have taken refuge in the KRG. Clear themes emerged, demonstrating the opportun [...] | 2008-06-17 13:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR KIRF VT IZ |
08BAGHDAD1831 | REACTION TO UNAMI DISPUTED INTERNAL BOUNDARIES [...] (C) Summary: Senior Adviser's June 10-12 talks with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) leaders in Erbil following United Nations Assistance Mission to Iraq (UNAMI)'s submission to the GOI and KRG of its initial Disputed Internal Boundaries (DIBs) reports on June 5 revealed general dissatisf [...] | 2008-06-17 13:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1838 | MFA GOSSIP ON POSSIBLE KEY DIPLOMATIC POSTINGS [...] (C) During a June 17 meeting on embassy property issues (septel),Ambassador Srood Najib (strictly protect),MFA Director for Americas Affairs, shared gossip on possible Iraqi Ambassadorial assignments to a number of key diplomatic posts. According to Ambassador Najib, those on the inside tr [...] | 2008-06-17 16:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1843 | COUNCIL OF REPS BALKS AT BUDGET SUPPLEMENTAL [...] (C) Summary and comment: Government spending in Iraq needs to be authorized by the Council of Representatives (COR). Only one supplemental spending bill, that to establish DPM Salih's Higher Reconstruction Committee and provide it with USD 5 billion for unspecified projects, has been submitted [...] | 2008-06-18 08:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV KCOR IZ |
08BAGHDAD1852 | SWEDISH AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ ON REFUGEES, SIDA [...] (C) Summary: In a June 17 meeting with the Charge, Swedish Ambassador to Iraq (resident in Amman) Niclas Trouve provided updates on implementation of the Swedish-Iraqi refugee "Return Agreement" (which he said is running smoothly) and the status of reopening an Embassy in Baghdad (expected to b [...] | 2008-06-19 10:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF SW IZ |
08BAGHDAD1871 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: UN STEPS UP EFFORTS IN SAMARRA [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary. The United Nations (UN) has dramatically increased its activity in Samarra over the last several months. The main focus of UN activities in Samarra has been on reconstruction of the Golden Mosque. While the increased activ [...] | 2008-06-20 14:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ |
08BAGHDAD19 | A HARD COR BATTLE OVER PROVINCIAL POWERS? [...] (C) Summary: Of all the legislation that Iraq's Council of Representatives (CoR) will grapple with in 2008, none will do more to shape the future of Iraq politically than the Provincial Powers law. Because Iraq's Constitution is deliberately ambiguous about the balance of power between Iraq's [...] | 2008-01-02 17:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD190 | WASIT IHEC LEADER PREDICTS ELECTIONS IN 2008 [...] (C) Summary. In a January 23 meeting with Wasit PRT Team Leader and Poloffs, Wasit Director of the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) Haydar Abd Allawi said he expected elections to happen in 2008 and expressed a strong preference for an open-list system. He maintained his office [...] | 2008-01-24 12:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1901 | PRT MAYSAN: LOCAL OFFICIALS REQUEST EDUCATION AND [...] (C/REL MCFI) Summary: on June 17, representatives from Majar al-Kabir (MAK) city and al-Bhtera village, accompanied by Maysan governor's advisor Zaid Khalaf al-Hoshi, met with the PRT at Tallil Air Base. The MAK area education representative, inspector for education, agriculture representativ [...] | 2008-06-23 06:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PGOV SOCI IZ |
08BAGHDAD1921 | MOHR: 5000 AMNESTY RELEASES, PROBLEMS WITH HJC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim said on June 19 that her ministry has confirmed that amnesty releases around the country reached almost 5,000. Her estimates are far greater than our numbers, as they include previously unavailable numbers from the Ministry of Interior, whic [...] | 2008-06-23 18:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD1929 | EMBASSY AND MFA CLARIFY LINES OF COMMUNICATION ON [...] (C) On June 17, Pol and Management Counselors met with Ambassador Srood Najib, MFA's Americas Director, to review recent developments related to turning over USG-occupied property in the International Zone (IZ) to the MFA as sites for future foreign embassies. In particular, POL and MGT Counse [...] | 2008-06-24 16:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AMGT ABLD IZ |
08BAGHDAD193 | ERBIL: KURDISTAN REGIONAL PRESIDENT MASOUD BARZANI [...] (C) Summary. In response to extensive criticism by NGOs (both local and international) and local journalists, Kurdistan Regional President Masoud Barzani rejected the Press Law bill passed by the Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA) on December 11. He returned the bill on January 15 to the KNA [...] | 2008-01-24 16:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPAO IZ |
08BAGHDAD194 | FADHILA PARTY BOSS SOUNDS OFF ON MALIKI, [...] (C) Summary: Shia Fadhila Party legislative bloc leader Hassan al-Shammari told the Ambassador January 22 that the recently-passed De-Baathification Law and prospective passage of a draft Provincial Powers bill are "false victories" and should not be mistaken for signs of political progress. D [...] | 2008-01-24 18:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD1947 | PRODDING THE IRAQIS TOWARDS PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) The Ambassador, UNAMI SRSG Staffan de Mistura, and UK Ambassador Christopher Prentice agreed at a June 24 meeting on a way forward to prod the Iraqis into reaching consensus on how to handle elections in Kirkuk so that the draft provincial election law can pass and provincial elections be [...] | 2008-06-25 14:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD195 | NINEWA: MOSUL UNDER CURFEW AFTER MASSIVE JANUARY [...] (U) This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. Mosul Tense After Explosion --------------------------- 2. (C/REL ACGU) On January 23, a large explosion in the Zanjali neighborhood in northwestern Mosul killed at least 25 Iraqi civilians, 3 Iraqi Army (IA) soldiers, an [...] | 2008-01-24 19:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV EAID PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1953 | PRIME MINISTER MOVES TO ADDRESS CHRISTIAN NEEDS [...] (C) George Bakoos, an Iraqi-Christian political advisor to Prime Minister (PM) Maliki, reported to Emboff June 25 that he has been tapped by the PM to serve on a new GOI committee tasked with "determining and following-up on all the needs of the Christian community in Iraq." The committee is [...] | 2008-06-25 15:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KIRF PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1954 | MOHR BEGINS NEW MASS GRAVE INVESTIGATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Ministry of Human Rights team began a new series of mass grave investigations in Najaf two weeks ago and has so far recovered 70 remains, all Kurdish victims during the Saddam regime. They recently discovered a secondary site, which they think contains Shi'a victims. The tea [...] | 2008-06-25 17:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PINS KJUS IZ |
08BAGHDAD196 | PRT NINEWA: MOSUL UNDER CURFEW AFTER MASSIVE [...] (U) This is a PRT Ninewa reporting cable. Mosul Tense After Explosion --------------------------- 2. (C/REL ACGU) On January 23, a large explosion in the Zanjali neighborhood in northwestern Mosul killed at least 25 Iraqi civilians, three Iraqi Army (IA) soldiers, and wounded over 170 ci [...] | 2008-01-24 19:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV EAID PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1962 | NON-MUSLIM ENDOWMENTS DIRECTOR PLEADS FOR ACCESS [...] (C) During a meeting with Poloff, Abdullah Alnoufali, Director of the Iraqi Non-Muslim Endowments Office, said he was satisfied with the size of his budget which is dedicated primarily towards restoring and maintaining Christian worship sites; what is hampering the Endowment's work is that t [...] | 2008-06-26 15:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KIRF PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD1968 | KIRKUKI GROUPS WEIGH IN ON PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS, [...] (C) Summary. Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq Tom Krajeski visited Kirkuk with United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) Political Director Andrew Gilmour to gauge reactions to recent debates over Kirkuk,s provincial elections and UNAMI,s work on disputed internal boundaries. Turkome [...] | 2008-06-27 13:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KIRF IZ |
08BAGHDAD1969 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: LOCALS CHAFE AT PROVINCIAL [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary and Comment: The tight hold that the governing clique from the Juboori tribe keeps on the Salah ad Din (SaD) provincial capital project contracting process is a bone of contention for district officials and citizens in Salah [...] | 2008-06-27 13:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS ECON KCRS IZ |
08BAGHDAD1974 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: VP HASHEMI VISITS SAMARRA [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: On June 22, Sunni Vice President Tareq Al-Hashemi made an unannounced visit to Samarra in southern Salah ad Din province to deliver a message of support for reconstruction efforts. Hashimi is the most senior GOI official to [...] | 2008-06-28 12:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ |
08BAGHDAD1989 | NECHIRVAN BARZANI ON SOFA, OIL LAW, ELECTIONS, [...] (C) Summary: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani, accompanied by Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) official Rowsch Shaways and KRG Oil Minister Ashti Hawrami, on June 26 met with the Ambassador, Special Assistant to the President Brett McGurk, Econ Minister-Cou [...] | 2008-06-29 08:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD199 | NINEWA: MOSUL UNDER CURFEW AFTER MASSIVE JANUARY [...] (C/REL ACGU) On January 23, a large explosion in the Zanjali neighborhood in northwestern Mosul killed at least 25 Iraqi civilians, 3 Iraqi Army (IA) soldiers, and wounded over 170 civilians, according to local Ministry of Health (MOH) sources. The casualty total will likely change as recovery [...] | 2008-01-25 03:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV EAID PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2 | COR FIRST DEPUTY SPEAKER ON BUDGET, INVESTMENT [...] (C) Begin Summary: On December 31, one day following the conclusion of the Council of Representatives (CoR) holiday recess, First Deputy Speaker Khalid Attiyah told EMIN he expects the 2008 federal budget to pass within the next two weeks. Claiming that the CoR had yet to receive from the Coun [...] | 2008-01-02 06:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD20 | A GREAT BARGAIN IN BAGHDAD: DOURA MARKET REVIVES [...] (U) The Doura Market in Baghdad's Rashid district -- formerly one of the city's most dangerous areas -- has experienced a rebirth over the course of the past six months due to significant gains in security for residents of the Doura neighborhood. The improvements are visible and measurable. [...] | 2008-01-02 17:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPAO ECON IZ |
08BAGHDAD200 | NINEWA: MOSUL UNDER CURFEW AFTER MASSIVE JANUARY [...] (U) This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) reporting cable. Mosul Tense After Explosion --------------------------- 2. (C/REL ACGU) On January 23, a large explosion in the Zanjali neighborhood in northwestern Mosul killed at least 25 Iraqi civilians, three Iraqi Army (IA) [...] | 2008-01-25 03:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV EAID PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2000 | FORMER BASRAH IP CHIEF MISSES OLD LIFE [...] (C) Summary: During a June 24 dinner, former Basrah IP Chief MG Jalil expressed frustration over his transfer to Baghdad. He credited the GOI offensive in March for improving security in Basrah, but predicted that JAM would regain its strength as the government shifted its attention elsewher [...] | 2008-06-29 13:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD201 | SALIH TO CODEL: "PLEASE DON'T PULL THE PLUG ON [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih on January 15 urged Codel Davis (Reps. Lincoln Davis (D-TN),Tim Walberg (R-MI),John Barrow (D-GA),Marsha Blackburn (R-TN),Brad Miller (D-NC) and Niki Tsongas (D-MA)) against a precipitous U.S. withdrawal from Iraq. He enumerated security g [...] | 2008-01-25 12:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2011 | PRT MAYSAN HITS THE STREETS OF AMARAH [...] (C/REL MCFI) Summary: PRT leader (TL) made a watershed visit to Amarah, the capital of Maysan province, on June 27 via U.S. military convoy. Amarah was calm, with an impressive array of Iraqi Army (IA) and Iraqi Police (IP) elements visible on the streets. City residents were circulating nor [...] | 2008-06-30 02:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PGOV IR MOPS |
08BAGHDAD202 | TALABANI ON EARLY EXECUTIVE COUNCIL BUSINESS, [...] (C) Iraqi President Jalal Talabani discussed the Executive Council (formerly known as the "3 1") and other topics in an informal dinner on January 20 with the Ambassador. He said the Council plans to shrink the Council of Ministers by nearly half, but also to reincorporate most of the blocs [...] | 2008-01-25 12:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2024 | IRAQIYYA VENTS OVER IRAN, PROVINCIAL ELECTION [...] (C) Summary and Comment: A group of Iraqiyya leaders assembled by former PM Iyad Allawi for a June 29 meeting with Special Advisors Krajeski and Gray were vociferously anti-Iran and blamed the U.S. for what they claimed is Iran,s current political and economic domination of Iraq. They compl [...] | 2008-07-01 07:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2029 | JULY 1 ELECTIONS LAW UPDATE [...] (C) POL/C met July 1 with CoR Speaker Mashadani, who was obliged to take the election law off the CoR,s agenda both because Deputy Speaker Aref Tayfur was delayed in getting to the session, and -- more importantly -- because the parties remain stuck on Kirkuk. Mashadani said that unless progre [...] | 2008-07-01 14:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD203 | SRSG'S STRATEGY ON IRAQI PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS AND [...] (C) Summary: On January 18, Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) for Iraq Staffan de Mistura met with the Ambassador to discuss the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq's (UNAMI) plan of action to fulfill its expanded mandate under Resolution 1770. Topics included i [...] | 2008-01-25 13:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN IZ |
08BAGHDAD2032 | MAIN SUNNI BLOC INCHES CLOSER TO DEAL TO RETURN [...] (C) Government spokesman Ali Dabbagh on June 30 announced that PM Maliki and VP Hashimi worked out a compromise deal to return the Tawafuq Front - the main Sunni Arab bloc in Parliament - to its cabinet seats. A list of cabinet nominees was reportedly agreed to by the two leaders, including [...] | 2008-07-01 15:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2034 | ICRC REGRETS DYSFUNCTION AND POSSIBLE CORRUPTION [...] (C) Senior Refugee Coordinator met with ICRC Iraq Head of Delegation Juan Pedro Schaerer and Delegate Bryan Tisdall in Amman June 17 to discuss ICRC,s difficult relations with the Iraq Red Crescent Organization. Schaerer noted that he had met with IRCO President Dr. Said al Hakki on June 11 i [...] | 2008-07-02 12:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ICRC IZ |
08BAGHDAD2035 | ANBAR PROVINCIAL COUNCIL CHAIRMAN SHARES [...] (C) Summary: Meeting with the Ambassador on July 1, Anbar Provincial Council Chairman Dr. Abdulsalam Abdullah Mohammend Al-Ani discussed ideas to improve relations between the central and provincial government, the Anbar Provincial Council's (PC) ongoing struggle with the Ministry of Interior [...] | 2008-07-02 17:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PTER PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2045 | ECA A/S AMERI FROM AMBASSADOR ERELI [...] (C) Assistant Secretary Ameri: As the new Public Affairs Counselor at Embassy Baghdad, I have been on the ground now for about a month. In that time, it has become clear to me that U.S.-Iraqi relations are at an important crossroads and that the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs can ha [...] | 2008-07-03 02:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAO PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2048 | PRT DIYALA: FEMALE SUICIDE BOMBERS - A WORRISOME [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: The recent spate of female suicide bombers in Iraq presents serious challenges for the Iraqi Security Forces. There have been 23 reported cases nationwide this year alone, a significant increase from eight reported attacks in 200 [...] | 2008-07-03 07:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PINS PTER SOCI IZ |
08BAGHDAD205 | ANBARIS RAISE CONCERNS OVER KARBALA BOUNDARY [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: At a January 20 meeting in Ramadi, Anbar Governor Ma'amoun Sheikh Ahmad Abu Risha, the leader of the "Iraq Awakening Movement," and several other local notables raised their concerns with the Ambassador over putative Shi'a attempts on [...] | 2008-01-25 13:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PTER PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2060 | NUNCIO AFFIRMS IRAQI CHRISTIANS WANT TO STAY, NOT [...] (C) Summary: The Papal Nuncio to Iraq, Archbishop Chullikat, affirmed on July 3 that most Christians wished to remain in Iraq. He declared the trend toward emigration reversible, with generating employment opportunities the best remedy for their hardships. He called for Christians to be int [...] | 2008-07-04 12:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM SOCI IZ |
08BAGHDAD2077 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: I-CERP BUILDING MORE THAN [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable coordinated with the partner Brigade 1/101 BCT. Summary ------- 2. (C) The Iraqi - Commanders Emergency Response Program (I-CERP) has been a great success in Salah ad Din province, helping to quickly address critical project implementation [...] | 2008-07-06 07:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS ECON EAID KCRS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2079 | JULY 4 UPDATE WITH SPEAKER MASHADANI ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-06 08:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2085 | DPM BARHAM SALEH TO CODEL HIRONO: WE ARE MAKING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh told CODEL Hirono Iraq is making significant progress toward standing up its own security forces, reconciling politically, and developing economically, but the country nevertheless needs continued USG assistance to cement the gains. Saleh said t [...] | 2008-07-06 12:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV IZ PREL MARR |
08BAGHDAD2087 | AMBASSADOR CROCKER'S MEETING WITH IRAQI [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi Constitutional Monarchy Party leader Sharif Ali bin al-Hussein told the Ambassador he has been approached by Sunni Sahwa leaders for advice on dealing with the U.S. and the upcoming provincial elections. Sahwa leaders, he said, worried that the U.S. does not trust them and [...] | 2008-07-06 14:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2089 | DECLARING THEIR INDEPENDENTS: WASIT PARTIES RUSH [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Wasit party officials from ISCI, the Sadrist Trend, INA, Fadilah, and Da'wa outlined their provincial election strategies in recent meetings with the PRT. While a Sadrist PC member said he would join the list of another party as an [...] | 2008-07-06 14:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2090 | CBI: NEW RULES, STIFF FINES, MORE EFT, HIGH [...] (C) Summary: Central Bank of Iraq officials believe that a soon-to-be released Ernst and Young audit will demonstrate improved CBI performance. New CBI rules that take effect on July 1 will impose stiff fines on banks that fail to meet monthly reporting and statement-reconciliation requiremen [...] | 2008-07-06 14:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IZ |
08BAGHDAD2096 | PRACTICAL RESPONSES TO URGENT MINORITY CONCERNS [...] (C) Post is stepping up efforts to galvanize Government of Iraq (GOI) attention on the needs and vulnerabilities of non-Muslim minorities as part of a longer-term effort to ensure their secure and prosperous future in Iraq. While USG economic assistance has long benefited minority communities [...] | 2008-07-07 06:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD210 | PM'S ADVISOR SAYS POLITICAL WILL NEEDED TO PASS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Dr. Thamir Ghadban, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's chief advisor on oil and hydrocarbons legislation, told Under Secretary Reuben Jeffery that political will is needed to agree on the draft hydrocarbon framework law (HFL). Ghadban enumerated six issues that he believes have sti [...] | 2008-01-25 15:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON ENRG PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2104 | TRADE MINISTER: WE CAN FUND PDS IN 2008 WITH A USD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Trade Minister Abdul Falah al-Sudani told Emboffs July 1 that the Ministry of Trade (MoT) would be able to fund 90 percent of the Public Distribution System (PDS) for the remainder of 2008 with the USD 2 billion in supplemental appropriations Finance Minister Bayan Jabr indicated [...] | 2008-07-07 12:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR EFIN POL |
08BAGHDAD2106 | JULY 7 PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS UPDATE: NO SOLUTION [...] (C) Speaker Mashadani's "small group" of Arab, Turcoman and Kurdish CoR members has not reached agreement; it may ask for more time. Mashadani has announced his intention to force a CoR vote on July 15. The Turcoman position appears to have evolved to accepting either "32-32-32-4" or a mo [...] | 2008-07-07 13:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2112 | HELSINKI II ROLL-OUT IN BAGHDAD: MUCH ADO ABOUT [...] (U) On July 5, organizers and participants in the "Helsinki II process" for Iraq presented their results in a brief public ceremony. Their agreement, negotiated and signed by senior members of numerous political blocs, consists of 17 principles and 15 implementing mechanisms. The principles [...] | 2008-07-07 16:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2114 | NINEWA: PROVINCIAL ELECTION PREPARATIONS MOVING [...] (C) Preparations for provincial elections in Ninewa are moving forward well, with the Governorate Electoral Office (GEO) beginning to work closely with the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) to coordinate security for voter registration sites and election sites. Most people in Ninewa are ready to vo [...] | 2008-07-08 02:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID IZ KDEM PGOV PREL PINR |
08BAGHDAD2115 | RRT ERBIL: VOTER REGISTRATION PREPARATIONS IN [...] (C) Summary: Erbil Governorate Electoral Officer, Handreen Muhammed Salih, told RRTOff and IFES Liaison Officer June 30 that the Independent High Electoral Commission's (IHEC) centralized approach to hiring, message development, and approving costs hampers his office's abilities to organize [...] | 2008-07-08 06:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PTER EAID IZ |
08BAGHDAD2121 | POST-MNF-I SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS FOR UNAMI [...] (C/REL MCF-I UN) Summary: Pursuant to reftel, EmbOffs and MNF-I officers met June 26 with UNAMI staff to discuss modalities for providing security to UNAMI if UNSCR 1790 expires on December 31, 2008. A follow-up meeting took place July 1. We heard that the maintenance of U.S.-led security [...] | 2008-07-08 11:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS MASS MARR UNSC IZ |
08BAGHDAD2122 | PENDING LEGISLATION WOULD FURTHER PLACE CORRUPTION [...] (C) Pending legislation before the COR would codify control by the Prime Minister,s office over Iraq,s Inspectors General (IG,s) and the Commission on Integrity (COI),two of the GOI,s politically independent, albeit nascent, anti-corruption agencies. Current drafts of the legislation would e [...] | 2008-07-08 12:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR KCRM PGOV EAID PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2130 | PRT DIYALA: PRE-ELECTION POWER GRAB SUSPECTED - [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) Sunni members of Diyala's Provincial Council (PC) have informed PRT officials that Shi'a politicians in the town of Hib Hib illegally forced a City Council vote last week to oust the Mudiyar (City Manager) from office wit [...] | 2008-07-09 06:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINR KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2132 | PRIVATE SECURITY CONTRACTORS/CPA 17: STATE OF PLAY [...] (C) Various CoR members and staffers involved in legislation to regulate PSCs are giving widely varying accounts of the status of the legislation. Versions range from a vote next week, through a merged bill only after the August-September break, to a claim that the decision in principle to m [...] | 2008-07-09 07:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2134 | DE-BAATH AMENDMENTS AND COMMISSIONERS PENDING [...] (C) Member of Parliament Rashid Azzawi, (Sunni/Arab, Tawafuq, Iraqi Islamic Party) explained to Poloffs on July 6 the state of play regarding the law on Accountability and Justice which passed last February but has been neither implemented nor amended until now. Azzawi confirmed that the Pr [...] | 2008-07-09 11:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2137 | IRAQI PLANS TO FACILITATE NAVIGATION IN THE KHOR [...] (C/REL MNFI) A proposed memorandum of understanding (MOU) on improving navigation in the Khor Abdullah waterway is awaiting Prime Ministerial approval, Deputy Foreign Minister Hamoud told us on July 7. Citing the importance of the waterway, Hamoud expressed confidence the Prime Minister wil [...] | 2008-07-09 13:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL MARR MOPS IZ KU IR |
08BAGHDAD2139 | NINEWA: DIVERSITY OF VIEWS FROM ASSYRIAN CHRISTIAN [...] (C) In a July 3 meeting with PRT and US Army civil affairs personnel, Mayor of Tal Kaif District (and Provincial Chairman of the Assyrian Democratic Movement) Basim Bello said Assyrians in Ninewa Province feel intimidated by the Kurds and suffer from a lack of essential services. Bello said t [...] | 2008-07-09 15:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2140 | PRT ANBAR: VOTER REGISTRATION - GETTING THE WORD [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) PRT members met with the head of the Sunni Endowment in Anbar Province, Sheikh Abdullah Jallal al-Faraj, to discuss upcoming voter registration and to propose that the Sunni Endowment utilize the traditional Friday evening [...] | 2008-07-09 17:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PTER KDEM SOCI UNSC IZ |
08BAGHDAD2145 | VOTER REGISTRATION TO BEGIN AT LAST [...] (C) The 30-day voter registration process will start on July 15. Potential problems include lack of accessibility and lack of information. We have been working with UNAMI and the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) for months to forestall such problems. There have been concerns that [...] | 2008-07-10 08:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2146 | NORWEGIAN AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ ON SECURITY, [...] (C) In a July 8 courtesy call with Ambassador Crocker, Norwegian Ambassador Mette Ravn (resident in Amman) remarked on the clear difference in the improved security atmosphere she felt on this trip to Baghdad for the IRFFI Donors, Committee meeting as compared to her first visit last December [...] | 2008-07-10 08:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NO IZ |
08BAGHDAD2147 | TURKISH ENVOY OZCELIK PREVIEWS ERDOGAN VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Turkish envoy to Iraq Murat Ozcelik, on the evening of July 8, met with the Ambassador to preview Prime Minister Erdogan's visit to Baghdad, scheduled for July 10. Ozcelik gave an overview of the bilateral committee of ministers that Erdogan and Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki will a [...] | 2008-07-10 08:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR ECON TU IZ |
08BAGHDAD2148 | AMBASSADOR'S JULY 7 MEETING WITH PAPAL NUNCIO [...] (C) Archbishop Chullikatt, papal nuncio to Iraq, acknowledged that the Iraqi Christian community faced many challenges, but believes that these could be overcome with the right kind of support and assistance. According to Chullikatt, Iraqi Christians' number one concern is security, followed [...] | 2008-07-10 11:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2150 | RRT ERBIL: KNA DEPUTY SPEAKER UPSET WITH SRSG DI [...] (C) Summary and comment: Dr. Kemal Kerkuki, Deputy Speaker of the Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA) and head of the KNA Article 140 Committee, told RRTOff July 6 that UN SRSG Staffan di Mistura has tried to reach him by telephone, but he refused the calls. Kerkuki claimed di Mistura had "li [...] | 2008-07-10 14:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD2153 | TALABANI ON SOFA, IRAQI FOREIGN RELATIONS, KEY [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met on July 7 with President Jalal Talabani and Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih. Talabani called for a specific USG-GOI plan for countering Iranian opposition to the Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA) and Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA),but praised recent st [...] | 2008-07-11 02:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2157 | NINEWA PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR VISITS TAL AFAR AND [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: On July 5, Ninewa Governor Duraid Kashmoula, accompanied by Ninewa Vice Governor Khasro Goran, the Provincial Directors General of Water and Electricity, a local journalist, the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment (3 ACR) Commanding Officer and the PRT Leader, visited the [...] | 2008-07-11 11:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD2162 | SEVENTH IRFFI DONORS MEETING [...] (C) Summary: The International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq's Seventh Donor Committee Meeting in Baghdad on July 7, the first major international conference in Baghdad since 2007, was hailed by Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih as an indication of the growing confidence in Iraq's fu [...] | 2008-07-11 13:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2164 | OPPORTUNITIES FOR TERRORIST EXTORTION AS [...] (C) Summary: Marketing restrictions act as a drag on legitimate economic activity and enhance the attractiveness of the cement black market to terrorist and criminal extortion. The state-owned Northern Cement Company (NCC) consists of six profitable cement plants that employ approximately 3, [...] | 2008-07-11 14:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD2174 | SWEDISH AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ ON T-WALLS, PROGRESS OF [...] (C) Summary: In a July 5 meeting, Swedish Ambassador to Iraq (resident in Amman) Niclas Trouve accepted Ambassador Crocker,s apology for the manner in which the transportation of a generator through the Swedish Embassy,s construction site in Baghdad was handled. He provided an update on ongoi [...] | 2008-07-13 08:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF SW IZ ASEC |
08BAGHDAD2175 | AMBASSADOR'S JULY 9 MEETING WITH CHALDEAN [...] (C) Chaldean Patriarch Cardinal Emmanuel Karim Delly thanked the Ambassador for all he has done for Iraqis of all religions. He noted the security situation had perceptibly improved for minorities over the past months, although fear remained pervasive. Delly emphasized the need to focus on t [...] | 2008-07-13 09:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2180 | KRG NEGOTIATOR ON HYDROCARBONS LAW [...] (C) Summary: KRG senior adviser Dr. Rosch Shaways met July 9 with EMIN to discuss Kurdish positions on the hydrocarbon and related legislative proposals. Shaways presented scaled-back Kurdish requirements for a hydrocarbon package: an independent federal-regional regulatory body to set st [...] | 2008-07-13 12:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2187 | PRT WASIT:OPENING OF YOUTH AND SPORTS CENTERS [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Three Youth and Sports Centers located in Badrah, Numaniyah, and Al Kut were opened with elaborate ceremonies on July 9 by the Minister of Youth and Sport Jassim Mohammad Ja'far, along with the Wasit Governor and Provincial Council Chai [...] | 2008-07-13 13:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR |
08BAGHDAD2189 | UNITED NATIONS TO EXPAND TO NAJAF, COLLOCATE WITH [...] (C) Summary. On June 30, Najaf Team Leader (TL) met with Siddharth Chatterjee, Chief of Staff to the United Nations Special Representative for Iraq, to discuss next steps to establish a UN presence at FOB Endeavor, collocated with the PRT. The UN selected Najaf as their operational center for [...] | 2008-07-13 13:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO IZ |
08BAGHDAD2191 | MUTHANNA: PC CLASH SHOWS POTENTIAL FOR ELECTIONS [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: A recent clash between rival tribal members on the Muthanna Provincial Council (PC) nearly degenerated into inter-communal violence in late June. Although the standoff was eventually resolved peacefully, the incident underscore [...] | 2008-07-14 05:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2192 | MOST OK'S TUWAITHA PAYMENT DEAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraq's Minister of Science and Technology (MOST) Fahmi agreed in principle to make a contribution of USD 7 million to defray part of Defense Department transport costs of the uranium from Tuwaitha to Canada, with the funds to be used in the I-CERP account; DOD needs to send shipm [...] | 2008-07-14 08:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG KNNP PARM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2202 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH SUNNI WAQF CHIEF AHMED [...] (C) Summary: In their first formal meeting, Sunni Waqf Chief Ahmed Abdel Ghaffur al-Samaraie detailed for the Ambassador a number of reconciliation projects he is directing to bring Sunni political voices back into the Iraqi political process. He said he has worked to strengthen the Sahwa gro [...] | 2008-07-14 14:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2204 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: GEO REPORTS VOTER REGISTRATION [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) During a July 14 meeting, Salah ad Din (SaD) Governorate Election Officer (GEO) Hatim Abdulhamid provided PRT/CF officials with an upbeat assessment of the state of voter registration readiness in the province. He [...] | 2008-07-14 15:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS KDEM KCRS SOCI IZ |
08BAGHDAD2206 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES SFA/PROTOCOL WITH VP [...] (C) In a brief July 14 meeting, Ambassador Crocker outlined for Vice President Tariq Hashimi the U.S. approach to the Strategic Framework Agreement and protocol to be taken up by the Executive Committee that evening. Ambassador Crocker said that on July 12 he and PM Maliki had discussed the i [...] | 2008-07-15 07:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2209 | ERBIL: DE MISTURA SAYS KRG STILL COMMITTED TO [...] (C) Summary: UN SRSG Staffan de Mistura met in mid-July with Kurdish officials in the wake of the release of his Phase I reports on Disputed Internal Boundaries (DIBs) and the criticism of the process those reports had caused. De Mistura remained confident that the Kurdish leadership will s [...] | 2008-07-15 11:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD221 | IRAQI PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS UPDATE PART 1: [...] (C) Summary: Post believes nationwide provincial elections can occur in 2008. Technical preparations for elections are broken down into three areas: voter registration, Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) capacity building, and Governorate Electoral Office (GEO) capacity building [...] | 2008-01-26 07:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2211 | AMBASSADOR CROCKER'S MEETING WITH COUNCIL OF [...] (C) Mashadani confirmed he intends to bring the provincial elections law to an item-by-item vote on July 15. He expects passage if he gets a quorum. Mashadani was gloomy about Sunni parties' prospects in the elections, as they lack money compared with Shia parties that are, he said, fueled b [...] | 2008-07-15 17:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2212 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES SFA/PROTOCOL WITH VP [...] (C) In a brief July 14 meeting, Ambassador Crocker outlined for Vice President Tariq Hashimi the U.S. approach to the Strategic Framework Agreement and protocol to be taken up by the Executive Committee that evening. Ambassador Crocker said that on July 12 he and PM Maliki had discussed the i [...] | 2008-07-16 04:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2221 | NINEWA: KURDS USE SERVICES, SECURITY, AND [...] (C) Kurds make up 15 to 40 percent of Ninewa,s population, yet dominate much of the political and security apparatus across the province. Their influence benefits many areas, particularly in northern and eastern Ninewa, which have better security, economic development, and service delivery th [...] | 2008-07-17 08:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KIRF PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2228 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH AL-IRAQIYYA LEADER AYAD [...] (C) Summary: In a July 13 lunch hosted by Ambassador Crocker, al-Iraqiyya bloc leader and former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi told Ambassador Crocker that he was not against an SFA/SOFA with the United States in principle, but that he and other parliamentary bloc leaders wanted more clarity from [...] | 2008-07-17 16:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2233 | DAWA TANZIM LEADER ON BASRAH AND FEDERALISM, [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Dawa Tanzim COR members Dr. Abdulhadi al-Hassani and Qassim al-Sahlani July 16 at the Dawa Tanzim party's COR office, Hassani spoke about his recent trip to Basrah, expressing dismay at the lack of reconstruction in Iraq's second city while intimating that Basra [...] | 2008-07-18 12:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2234 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES WAY AHEAD ON MUJAHEDIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador met July 9 with the Head of the Iraq Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC),Juan-Pedro Schaerer, to discuss a way ahead on the status of the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) at Camp Ashraf. The ICRC is consulting with USG and GOI stakeholders and appe [...] | 2008-07-18 12:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINS PTER ICRC IZ |
08BAGHDAD224 | VP ADEL ON BUDGET, NEW CABINET, SECURITY, REGIONS, [...] (C) Summary: Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told the Ambassador January 24 that Prime Minister Maliki continues to obstruct passage of the 2008 GOI budget, but it is unlikely that the budget would need to be submitted for an additional, time-consuming cabinet vote prior to final parliamentary [...] | 2008-01-26 10:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2240 | PRT DIYALA: DAUGHTERS OF IRAQ PROGRAM LAUNCHES IN [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) On July 13, more than 80 women attended the graduation ceremony for the first group of the Daughters of Iraq (DOI) program to complete their training in Diyala province. The Daughters of Iraq (DOI) program - similar to [...] | 2008-07-19 08:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | POL PREL ECON PTER PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2241 | NINEWA: KRG-AFFILIATED ASSYRIAN LEADERS, SHABAK [...] (C) As part of an ongoing outreach effort to minority communities in Ninewah Province, PRT leader met separately with two prominent Assyrian Christians and four Shabak political activists. All were concerned about threats to their communities and sought continued USG engagement on the way fo [...] | 2008-07-19 10:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF ECON EPET ENRG PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD2242 | BASRAH'S RELIGIOUS MINORITY LEADERS HOPE FOR [...] (C) Summary: Senior Advisor for Southern Affairs Gordon Gray and REO incoming and outgoing directors met on July 15 and 16 with Father Emad and Abdel Kareem al-Khazraji, the leaders of Basrah's minority Christian and Sunni communities. Both leaders expressed dismay over the widespread emigrat [...] | 2008-07-19 11:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2243 | BASRAH SECURITY COMMANDERS: SITUATION IMPROVED, [...] (C) In separate July 16 meetings with Senior Advisor for Southern Affairs Gordon Gray and incoming and outgoing REO Directors, Basrah's Iraqi Army and Iraqi Police leadership proudly noted the security improvements following the March 2008 'Charge of the Knights' operation but warned of danger [...] | 2008-07-19 12:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PTER PGOV MCAP IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2260 | NINEWA: UNAMI VISITS NINEWA TO ASSESS DISPUTED [...] (C) Summary: Working-level UNAMI officials are recommending that the disputed Ninewa district of Tel Keif be split between Ninewa and the KRG, and that Shekhan go to the KRG. They believe that Tal,Afar needs further study and that Sinjar should remain with Ninewa. The UNAMI team met with [...] | 2008-07-21 03:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2267 | US BUSINESS LEADERS SHARE PERSPECTIVES ON IRAQI [...] (C) Business leaders told the Ambassador, DUSD Paul Brinkley, and EMIN during a visit to Baghdad that they were encouraged by the improving security situation in Iraq. Fertilizer producer CF Holdings, for example, is interested in establishing a fertilizer plant to utilize large quantities of [...] | 2008-07-21 11:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EINV ETRD SCUL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2268 | BASRAH GOV CRITICAL OF GOI AND SAFA AL-SAFI [...] (C) Summary: In a July 15 meeting with Senior Advisor for Southern Affairs Gordon Gray and incoming and outgoing REO Directors, Basrah Governor Mohammad Musabeh al-Waeli said the security situation had improved since the March 2008 Operation Charge of the Knights (COK). He decried Iranian i [...] | 2008-07-21 12:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2269 | BASRAWI CLERIC HOPES FOR POLITICAL CHANGE [...] (C) Senior Advisor for Southern Affairs Gordon Gray, joined by incoming and outgoing REO Directors, met on July 14 with Shi'a cleric and businessman Sayid Abdel Musawi. Musawi was generally positive about Basrah's future, favorably comparing its economy to that of its neighbors and acknowled [...] | 2008-07-21 14:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2271 | NINEWAH: PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS CHIEF SAYS SECURITY [...] (C) Despite security incidents affecting four Voter Registration Centers (VRCs) since July 15, the registration process in Ninewa is going &better than expected," according to Governorate Electoral Office (GEO) Director Abdel Haleq. In a July 17 meeting, Abdel Haleq told us he has employed a [...] | 2008-07-21 17:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2273 | MUTHANNA GATHERING SHOWS POTENTIAL OF ORGANIZED [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (C/REL USA, MCFI) Summary: Over 900 sheikhs from tribes stretching from Wasit to Basra gathered July 16 in Muthanna under the auspices of two emerging political parties, the Assembly of the Middle Euphrates and the Sheikhs' Council of Southe [...] | 2008-07-22 07:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS KU IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD2276 | KARBALA DROUGHT MASKS DEEPER WATER WOES [...] (C) Summary: Water, Karbala,s most precious resource, has become increasingly scarce in recent years, posing challenges to continued economic development in the province. Drought is the apparent culprit, with below-average rainfall during the past several years. Water scarcity is also the pro [...] | 2008-07-22 11:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SENV EAGR PREL PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2277 | FUTURE OF I-ESC IN QUESTION [...] (C) The National Security Adviser (NSA) formally proposed that the Prime Minister dissolve the weekly Baghdad-focused "Executive Steering Committee" (I-ESC) meeting of service ministries and senior coalition representatives. The NSA plan is to replace the I-ESC with an expanded forum on post- [...] | 2008-07-22 14:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2279 | PRT MAYSAN: MUNICIPAL OFFICIALS LIST IMMEDIATE [...] (U) This is a PRT Maysan reporting cable. Summary and Comment: -------------------- 2. (C) The Director General (DG) of Municipalities and Director of Maysan (Amarah) Municipalities identified solid waste collection and disposal as a top priority during a July 15 meeting with PRT Munic [...] | 2008-07-23 05:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINS ECON EAID IZ |
08BAGHDAD2281 | TUSSLE FOR KIRKUK OIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent events at the Kirkuk oil field threaten to increase tensions between the Kurdish Region and the GOI. Both the KRG and the GOI are making tentative moves to assert greater control over the disputed oil resources. END SUMMARY The Khormala Dome ----------------- 2. (SBU [...] | 2008-07-23 06:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD229 | PRT-WASIT: WASIT SHAYIKHS DISCUSS SAHWA AL IRAQ [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (C) On 18 January, ten Shi'a shaykhs from Wasit told PRT and CDR 214 FB that they intend to establish a branch of Sahwa al Iraq (SAI) in Wasit Governorate. The group was led by Shaykh Raheem Bader Abood Al Hatem and included Shaykh Alwan Abd al R [...] | 2008-01-27 09:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2296 | KRG PRESIDENT BARZANI PLEDGES COOPERATION ON [...] (C) Summary: During Ambassador's July 20 trip to Erbil, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani said he is ready to travel to Baghdad within the week to discuss the Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA) with PM Maliki. Ambassador noted the KRG's improved relations with Tur [...] | 2008-07-23 19:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM ECON EPET ENRG PHUM PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD2297 | VP HASHIMI, AMB CROCKER, CG PETRAEUS DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: In a July 18 dinner hosted at his residence for Ambassador Crocker and General Petraeus to discuss how to promote better relations between the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) and Coalition Forces (CF) in Anbar Province, IIP Secretary-General and Iraqi Vice President Hashimi, IIP MPs, an [...] | 2008-07-23 19:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS PMIL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2298 | HARIRI VISIT FURTHERS OPENING TO ARAB NEIGHBORS, [...] (C) Summary: Lebanese MP and Future Movement leader Saad Hariri on July 17 briefed Ambassador Crocker and General Petraeus at the end of his one-day visit to Baghdad and Najaf. Hariri viewed the trip as an opportunity to increase contacts and understanding between his Saudi allies and both t [...] | 2008-07-23 19:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2299 | PM MALIKI OPENS NAJAF INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN [...] (U) This is a PRT Najaf reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. On July 20, Prime Minister Maliki made an inaugural flight to Najaf International Airport (NIA) in a ceremony widely attended by Shia political and religious elite from the Middle Euphrates region. NIA is not yet open for business [...] | 2008-07-24 03:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EAIR IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD23 | PRT MAYSAN: IA OFFICIALS SHARE SECURITY CONCERNS [...] (U) This is a PRT Maysan reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: In private and official discussions the Iraqi Army 10th Division Commander and his Maysan Brigade Commander expressed concern over the security situation in al-Amarah since the December 12 bombing. They advised that an ongoing se [...] | 2008-01-03 06:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IR IZ PGOV |
08BAGHDAD2300 | FIRST WEEK OF VOTER REGISTRATION RUNS SMOOTHLY [...] (C) Summary: Iraq has just completed its first week of voter registration on July 22, and although there were a few hiccups on the first day, overall the process has run smoothly. So far, over 150,000 people have checked their names at voter registration centers, including almost 2,000 int [...] | 2008-07-24 05:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL |
08BAGHDAD2305 | ELECTION LAW FALLOUT: KURDS RAGE, ARABS REJOICE, [...] (C) Summary: The surprise passage on July 22 of a controversial draft of the provincial election law (Reftel) has infuriated the Kurds, emboldened Sunni and Shia Arabs, marked the overflow of simmering anti-Kurdish sentiment, and set the stage for a Presidential veto and further talks in the [...] | 2008-07-24 13:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2307 | BABIL: PM FORMING SUPPORT COUNCILS WITH TRIBAL [...] (U) This is a PRT Babil reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: In a July 22 meeting, Sheikh Ali Shnan disclosed to REO Hillah Deputy Team Leader (DTL) recent steps taken by Prime Minister Maliki's office to establish "Support Councils" in Babil province and throughout the country. The Babil coun [...] | 2008-07-24 14:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2308 | IN PROMOTING RETURNS TO HURRIYA, GOI GRAPPLES WITH [...] (C) Summary. The Implementation and Follow-Up Committee for National Reconciliation (IFCNR) Chairman Mohammad Salman on July 13 convened the Iraqi Army (IA) generals responsible for the Baghdad district of Hurriya and MNF-I to discuss the prospect for returns of IDPs and refugees to that area. [...] | 2008-07-24 14:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID IZ PGOV PREF |
08BAGHDAD2311 | PRIVATE BANKING IN IRAQ "DOING WELL" [...] (C) Summary: Private banks are "doing well" in Iraq, according to a leading banker, but many challenges remain. Over the past three years the average capital of private banks has risen from approximately USD 6 million to over USD 40 million. Private banks in Iraq, particularly those that are [...] | 2008-07-24 15:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2326 | PAPAL NUNCIO ASSESSES FEASIBILITY OF RESTORING [...] (C) Embassy and 1BCT (Brigade Combat Team)/4ID - ePRT Baghdad-1 facilitated a joint visit with Papal Nuncio Archbishop Francis Chullikatt on July 22 to explore the condition of Chaldean and other Church facilities in Baghdad's Doura neighborhood. The Nuncio's primary purpose was to assess t [...] | 2008-07-26 11:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2327 | DHI QAR HUMAN RIGHTS DIR: SITUATION DETERIORATING [...] (C) Summary: The human rights situation is "deteriorating, with some areas of improvement," according to Dhi Qar Ministry of Human Rights Office Director Mohammad Radhi Bahar. In a July 17 meeting with the PRT, Bahar outlined a number of areas in which the PRT could work jointly with the Of [...] | 2008-07-26 11:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV |
08BAGHDAD2329 | MAYSAN GOVERNOR: I AM A SADRIST [...] (C) Summary: "I am a Sadrist," said Maysan Governor Adil al-Maliki in a July 24 meeting with MND-C DCG-S COL Smith and poloffs at the governor's office in Amarah. During a wide-ranging conversation Maliki expressed concerns, which he said were shared by the Maysani public, over the "militari [...] | 2008-07-26 16:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ PTER MOPS PINS |
08BAGHDAD2330 | BAQUBAH SUNNI LEADERSHIP FEAR ARREST IN UPCOMING [...] (C) Summary. Sunni political figures in the Diyala Provincial capital of Baqubah have expressed strong reservations about upcoming Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) led operations in Baqubah. In conversations with Diyala ePRT they expressed their belief that the operations are a pretext for the ar [...] | 2008-07-26 18:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2332 | THE NEW VOICE OF THE SADR CITY DISTRICT COUNCIL [...] (C) Summary: In recent weeks, the Sadr City District Council (DC) has shown new life as it asserts its independence from malign actors and provides a voice for the district's two million residents. Since the June 17 ousting of Sadrist puppet Abd Al Hussein Jabara as DC Chairman and the subse [...] | 2008-07-27 08:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2348 | MOHR TELLS AMBASSADOR GOI DOES NOT SUPPORT HUMAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim told the Ambassador on July 22 that the GOI does not support human rights and threatens to undermine her ministry in its work with the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK) and detention facilities. She sought guidance from the Ambassador on how to deal wi [...] | 2008-07-28 06:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KJUS PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2355 | MAYSAN IA OFFICERS: OPS GOING WELL, BUT GOVERNOR [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) operations in Maysan went "better than planned," said 10th Iraqi Army (IA) Division Deputy Commander Brigadier General Jabar Nehma and 38th Brigade Deputy Commander Colonel Mustafa Khydair in a July 24 meeting with MND-C DCG-S COL Smith and poloffs. Th [...] | 2008-07-28 15:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2357 | TIME RUNNING OUT ON PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY/COMMENT: There was more drama surrounding Iraq's provincial election law on July 28 as Parliament Speaker Mashadani collapsed during the legislative session and was rushed to the hospital. Meanwhile, the main political blocs achieved little apparent progress on bridging the impass [...] | 2008-07-28 15:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2358 | VP ADEL AND ISCI CHAIR HAKIM: WE'LL TRY TO BROKER [...] (C) Summary: Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told the Ambassador on July 24 that he and President Talabani had vetoed the recently-passed Provincial Election Law and that ISCI would work with the Kurdish Alliance and other CoR blocs to find a solution to the Kirkuk election issue. He said th [...] | 2008-07-28 15:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD2360 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ESSENTIAL SERVICES WITH NEW [...] (C) Summary: New Deputy Prime Minister Dr. Rafaie Essawi told the Ambassador and Econ Minister Counselor on July 24 that he "would spare no effort" to improve the delivery of essential services to the Iraqi people, and would make the necessary organizational changes and personal intervention [...] | 2008-07-28 15:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2361 | MAYSAN SHEIKH SKEPTICAL OF U.S. ASSISTANCE [...] (U) This is a PRT Maysan reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) In a candid hour-long discussion, prominent Maysani Sheikh Sa'adoon Bani al-Lami expressed frustration with the pace of assistance to Maysan, and told us that it was up to the U.S. to choose whether it is committed to May [...] | 2008-07-28 16:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2362 | ZEBARI PROMISES UNAMI RENEWAL LETTER [...] (C) PolMinCouns July 27 conveyed to FM Zebari reftel suggested text for the necessary GOI letter requesting renewal of UNAMI's mandate. Zebari noted that Iraq's UN Mission in New York had already informed the MFA on the need to transmit a letter to the UN prior to Security Council action on t [...] | 2008-07-28 17:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UK UN IZ |
08BAGHDAD2368 | LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY OF MOI CRIMES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although there is much evidence of torture and abuse in Ministry of Interior (MoI) detention facilities and police stations, no one has been sentenced and imprisoned in 2008. The MoI Inspector General's office and Human Rights office seem to have little power to do anything more [...] | 2008-07-29 07:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PINS KJUS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2379 | KARBALA: ARE THE KIDS ALRIGHT? [...] (C) Summary: Iraqis in and out of government have shared with PRT officers their concerns about Karbala's youth. Contacts describe Karbala's youth as relatively well-educated, increasingly distrustful of religious and tribal authority, and often difficult to reach in Sunni-Shia reconciliation [...] | 2008-07-29 14:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2380 | KKRG SECURITY CHIEF ON JULY 28 SUICIDE BOMBING AT [...] (C) Summary: The KRG's security chief Masrour Barzani told Senior Advisor Krajeski July 29 that the investigation into the July 28 bombing in Kirkuk has uncovered evidence of Turkomen complicity. S/A Krajeski cautioned against provocative public statements until we know definitively what hap [...] | 2008-07-29 14:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PTER TU IZ |
08BAGHDAD2387 | VOTER APATHY IN EASTERN BAGHDAD [...] (C) Summary: Anecdotal evidence from ePRT engagements as well as other organizations operating in eastern Baghdad indicate that while residents are knowledgeable about the voter registration process and the current political impasse over the elections law, their interest in or willingness to [...] | 2008-07-30 13:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD239 | "THE STREET IS STRONGER THAN PARLIAMENT:" SADRIST [...] (C) Summary: As a harbinger of Sadrist Trend hostility to a prospective USG-GOI long-term strategic relationship (LTSR) agreement, Sadrist Deputy Governor of Karbala Jawad al-Hasnawi told us January 24 that if Trend efforts to quash parliamentary approval of the agreement were to fail (a highl [...] | 2008-01-27 18:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2391 | IDP AND REFUGEE RETURNS CONTINUE IN BAGHDAD, BUT [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: Since late 2007, the UN estimates that 110,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees have returned to Iraq, primarily to Baghdad. However, the UN concedes that return data are not precise, particularly as not all retur [...] | 2008-07-30 14:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2398 | CARDINAL DELLY MEETING WITH PM VERY POSITIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Cardinal Delly on July 30, Prime Minister Maliki said the GOI would offer protection for Iraqi Christians and would ensure that they live in a stable and secure environment. According to a GOI press statement released after the meeting, the GOI will provide ne [...] | 2008-07-31 14:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2399 | NEW COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER SOUNDS BOTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In our first meeting with him July 30, the GOI's new Minister of Communications, Farouk Abdel Qadir Abdel Rahman (Tawafuq/IIP),told EMIN of his vision for the Ministry. Abdel Rahman, who was confirmed last week with the other Tawafuq additions to the GOI (reftel A),told EMIN he [...] | 2008-07-31 15:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECPS ECON EINT |
08BAGHDAD2402 | SECURITY OPERATION BENEVOLENT DIYALA STARTS [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) On July 28, Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) launched Benevolent Diyala, the security operation designed to sweep residual terrorist elements and supporters from Diyala province. The ISF blockaded the provincial capital Baqub [...] | 2008-08-01 09:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR MOPS PTER ECON IZ |
08BAGHDAD2403 | DIYALA PREPARES FOR POTENTIAL HUMANITARIAN ISSUES [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: The Provincial Council committee in charge of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) is working with the Director General for Migration to prepare for any potential humanitarian crises created by the current Iraqi-led security operat [...] | 2008-08-01 09:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | POL PREL ECON PTER MOPS EAID PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2411 | PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS LAW UPDATE; UNAMI STRIVES FOR [...] (C) With the CoR ready to take up the provincial elections law again on Sunday, August 3, the U.S. and UN are working hard to facilitate a solution to the key remaining obstacle to a deal on a new Iraqi election law, the treatment of Kirkuk. An Iraqi "wise men's" group has been working sinc [...] | 2008-08-01 12:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2420 | SALAH AD DIN REACTION TO KIRKUK PC VOTE: KIRKUK [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) Anecdotal evidence from PRT discussions with provincial officials and residents of Salah ad Din (SaD),who are overwhelmingly Sunni, indicates strong opposition and growing anger over the Kirkuk Provincial Council's [...] | 2008-08-03 18:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2422 | ELECTION LAW STALLED AS BLOC LEADERS NEGOTIATE [...] (C) Summary: Late on August 3, the highly anticipated vote in the Council of Representatives (CoR) to resolve the vetoed articles in the Provincial Election Law (PEL) stalled while members awaited instruction from their bloc leaders who were in intense negotiations led by the UN and the U.S. [...] | 2008-08-04 08:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2424 | S/I SATTERFIELD DISCUSSES IZ PROPERTIES, FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: S/I Satterfield and Management Counselor Austin-Ferguson met August 2 with Ambassador Srood Najib, the MFA's point person on the transfer of U.S.-held properties in the International Zone (IZ). The discussion focused on the various IZ properties currently in Department of State ( [...] | 2008-08-04 11:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | AGMT ABLD PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2427 | IRAQI-KUWAITI BILATERAL ISSUES [...] (C/REL MNFI) In an August 2 meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Foreign Minister Muhammad Hamoud discussed the state of relations between Iraq and Kuwait with Senior Advisor for Southern Iraq Affairs Gordon Gray. Addressing a wide range of border and other bilateral issues, Ham [...] | 2008-08-04 12:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL MARR MOPS IZ KU IR |
08BAGHDAD2429 | PRT ANBAR: ANBAR VOTER REGISTRATION ECLIPSES 2005 [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: Anbar Governate Electoral Office (GEO) Director Khalid Rijab Abdul-Razak told the PRT that more than 46,600 Anbaris have verified their names on the list of the Province's pre-registered voters. At six percent of eligible voters [...] | 2008-08-04 12:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PTER KDEM SOCI UNSC IZ |
08BAGHDAD243 | NINEWA/MOSUL EXPLOSION: CURFEW LIFTED, MARKETS [...] (C/REL ACGU) On January 26 Ninewa Governor Kashmoula lifted the all-day curfew imposed on Mosul after the massive explosion of January 23. Shops and markets are open. PRT Leader met January 27 with the Governor, Vice-Governor, other provincial officials, and Zuhair Al-Chalabi, the Director G [...] | 2008-01-28 02:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER EAID PREL SCUL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2432 | SPANISH FOREIGN MINISTER MORATINOS CONSIDERING [...] (C) Newly arrived Spanish Ambassador Francisco Elias de Tejada told Ambassador Crocker August 1 that Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos is considering a visit to Baghdad in the coming weeks. Elias de Tejada said Madrid wants to strengthen relations with Iraq and sees a high-visibility visit by [...] | 2008-08-05 03:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2439 | MOJ AL-SAFI "SHOCKED" BY WOMEN'S PRISON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Acting Minister of Justice Safa al-Safi accompanied an MNF-I and Embassy inspection visit on August 2 to Kadhamiya Maximum Prison and Kadhamiya Women's Prison in Baghdad. At Kadhamiya Maximum, a high-value detainee prison that is monitored by ICITAP officials five days a week, a [...] | 2008-08-05 07:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD244 | NINEWA/MOSUL EXPLOSION: CURFEW LIFTED, MARKETS [...] (C/REL ACGU) On January 26 Ninewa Governor Kashmoula lifted the all-day curfew imposed on Mosul after the massive explosion of January 23. Shops and markets are open. PRT Leader met January 27 with the Governor, Vice-Governor, other provincial officials, and Zuhair Al-Chalabi, the Director G [...] | 2008-01-28 02:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER EAID PREL SCUL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2440 | NATIONAL INVESTMENT COMMISSION LOOKING FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although still not officially confirmed in his position, National Investment Commission (NIC) Chairman-designate Ridha continues to court European and regional investors and insists that he enjoys the PM's full confidence. End Summary. 2. (SBU) Presumptive NIC Chairman Ahmed R [...] | 2008-08-05 07:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV EFIN |
08BAGHDAD2441 | WASIT ISF OFFICERS WARN BORDER IS COMPLETELY OPEN [...] (C) In a July 29 meeting with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray, 41st Fires Brigade Commanding Officer Colonel Richard Francey, and PRT members, Wasit's chief security officials complained about political and judicial resistance to Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) operations and warned that the border wi [...] | 2008-08-05 07:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2444 | WASIT GOV: PEOPLE WANT CHANGE [...] (C) "People want change," said Wasit Governor Abdel Latif Turfa in a July 29 conversation with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray and PRT Team Leader. Although Turfa declined to offer any prediction over election results, he said the Sadrists were unpopular, while Prime Minister Maliki had gained Sun [...] | 2008-08-05 07:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2446 | WASIT SADRIST: THERE IS NO MORE JAM [...] (C) "The character of the GOI justifies Sadrist resistance," claimed Sadrist Provincial Council (PC) Member Ahmed Ebrah in a July 29 meeting with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray and PRT members. However, Ebrah claimed that Sadr's June 13 statement was tantamount to a dissolution of Jaysh al-Mahdi [...] | 2008-08-05 07:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2447 | SOUTHWEST TRIBES BEGINNING TO AWAKE [...] (C) Summary: The south's tribes are poised to play a significant role in the provincial elections. On July 30 and 31 Senior Advisor Gordon Gray met with leaders of three emerging tribal-based political parties, two of which - the Sheikhs' Council of Southern Tribes and the Mid-Euphrates Alli [...] | 2008-08-05 07:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2448 | SADR STATEMENTS: RIFLES FOR SOME, "JIHAD OF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-05 08:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD2458 | PROVINCIAL ELECTION LAW IN FLUX AS NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) Summary: As of mid-day August 6, Council of Representatives (CoR) discussions continue on a UNAMI proposed compromise text for Provincial Elections. Shi'a and Kurdish bloc leaders have indicated their agreement with the compromise, which would postpone elections in Kirkuk to no later than [...] | 2008-08-06 11:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2464 | COR FAILS TO PASS PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS LAW, PASSES [...] (SBU) On August 6, the Council of Representatives (CoR) passed the 2008 budget supplemental, but failed to vote on the provincial elections law. It then recessed until September 9. Speaker Mashadani ordered the creation of a committee to find a compromise solution on Kirkuk, and promised t [...] | 2008-08-06 17:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON IZ |
08BAGHDAD2467 | MOVING THE GOI TOWARD INCLUDING ANTI-ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Deputy Health Minister will instruct MOH officials to change the standard wording of procurement and other contracts in a way that will eliminate Arab League Boycott (ALB) language, replacing it with language that does not violate U.S. anti-Boycott legislation. End Summary. [...] | 2008-08-07 07:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD KPBT PREL EFIN IZ |
08BAGHDAD2473 | THE POWERS OF JULY 22 BLOC: ONE HIT WONDER? [...] (C) Summary: On July 29, Dr. Habib Jabir Habib, an independent Shia Council of Representatives (COR) member and political analyst for the pan-Arab daily newspaper, Al-Sharq al-Awsat, told Poloff that the Kirkuk issue united the "Powers of July 22" to pass the (subsequently vetoed) Provincial [...] | 2008-08-07 10:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL |
08BAGHDAD2474 | BASRAH GOVERNOR: REGIONS FORMATION IMMINENT [...] (C) Summary: "We are in the last steps" to making Basrah a region, said Governor Waeli in an August 6 conversation with poloffs. Waeli said the necessary signatures had already been collected and expressed confidence that the delay over the passage of the elections law would provide further [...] | 2008-08-07 11:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2488 | VISION AND MISSION STATEMENT FOR SADR'S [...] (C) As reported in Ref A, Muqtada al-Sadr's July 28 public statement divided his Jaysh al-Mehdi (JAM) militia into two groups: an unarmed group that performs "thought jihad" and an armed resistance cell to battle "the Occupation." On August 5, the Sadrist movement issued a six-page pamphlet th [...] | 2008-08-07 15:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD249 | NINEWA: MOSUL UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT PROPOSES BROAD [...] (S/REL ACGU) Summary: Mosul University President Dr. Obay al-Dewachi told us he was open to broad cooperation with the PRT. Although the university was a bastion of the Ba'athist system and is a known safe haven for terrorists, as one of the best universities in Iraq the PRT will begin immedia [...] | 2008-01-28 07:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV EAID PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2492 | KARBALA PREPARES FOR SHABANIYAH [...] (C) Summary: Seeking to avoid a repeat of the deadly violence that marred last year's Shabaniyah (a Shia observance commemorating the twelfth imam's birth, which this year is on August 17),Karbala officials are tightening security throughout the province. Seven thousand additional police and [...] | 2008-08-08 03:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER SOCI KISL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2495 | DEPUTY SPEAKER ATTIYA HAS GAME-PLAN FOR PROVINCIAL [...] (C) Iraqi parliament deputy speaker Attiya told PolCouns on August 8 that he wanted to convene the special committee charged with finding a solution to the impasse on the Kirkuk-related article of the provincial elections law "immediately, tomorrow." He proposed a two-track approach to the [...] | 2008-08-08 10:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD250 | VP ADEL ON LTSR AND PENDING LEGISLATION [...] (C) Summary: Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told Political Counselor on January 28 that the GOI Political Committee for National Security (PCNS) discussed the GOI long-term strategic partnership (LTSR) negotiating framework during a January 26 meeting, agreeing that negotiations would be hand [...] | 2008-01-28 12:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2503 | (C) PRT SALAH AD DIN: ANTI-KURD SENTIMENT [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) Disappointment in the stalled elections process and increased resentment among Salah-ad-Din (SaD) Arabs toward the Kurds spurred a sheik-led demonstration march in SaD on August 7 to call for elections. SaD Arabs als [...] | 2008-08-10 07:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2505 | SURVEY OF SOUTHERN POLITICAL ENTITIES [...] (U) This is a joint Baghdad - PRT - REO reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: 229 political entities (individual candidates and parties) registered in the southern provinces for the upcoming provincial elections. The number and composition of the entities is another manifestation of widesprea [...] | 2008-08-10 12:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR |
08BAGHDAD2511 | IRAQI MINISTER OF DEFENSE: NEXT STOP, NINEWA [...] (C) SUMMARY: POL-MIL Minister-Counselor and her incoming successor met with Iraq Minister of Defense (MoD) Abdul Qadr August 6 to discuss security developments in Iraq. Citing with approval the current operation in Diyala, MoD said his plan was to next turn to Ninewa "to clean it out." He sai [...] | 2008-08-11 03:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL MARR MOPS IZ TU IR |
08BAGHDAD2518 | MAYSAN GOVERNOR PLAYS IT COOL WHILE SHEIKHS RUN HOT [...] (C) Summary: Maysan Governor Adil al-Maliki said all the right things in an August 9 meeting with PRT Team Leader (TL) at the Governor's offices in downtown Amarah. The Governor expressed satisfaction with security gains in the province as a result of Operation Tidings of Peace and the presen [...] | 2008-08-11 07:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ PTER MOPS PINS |
08BAGHDAD2520 | REPERCUSSIONS OF PROVINCIAL ELECTION DELAY [...] (C) Summary: Parliament's recess August 6 without passing a provincial election law makes provincial elections unlikely before the end of 2008. Based on discussions with Iraqi contacts (including extensive input from PRTs),it is clear that many Iraqis were disappointed but not surprised. The [...] | 2008-08-11 08:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2523 | NINEWA: PRT AND MILITARY COLLEAGUES SURVEY KEY [...] (SBU) Summary: PRT Ninewa, with the technical expertise of the 156th Engineer Detachment, 94th Engineer Battalion, 18th Engineer Brigade, completed the first engineered site survey of the Dair Mar Elia Chaldean Monastery. This effort was supported by the Iraq State Board of Antiquities and H [...] | 2008-08-11 13:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SCUL EAIR PINR PREL MARR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2525 | NINEWA: YEZIDI SPIRITUAL LEADER PLEADS FOR HIS [...] (C) Summary: The spiritual leader of the Yezidi faith told us that his community's security depends on its remaining within the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) area. Citing the KRG's commitment to secular governance and its superior record of ensuring religious minority rights, he pleaded w [...] | 2008-08-11 13:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD253 | SITREP 1: JAN 28 FIRE AT CENTRAL BANK OF IRAQ [...] (C) This situation report includes information available as of 1600 Baghdad local time. Around 0100 on January 28 a massive fire broke out in the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) main building that rendered it unusable. The fire, the source of which has yet to be determined, gutted almost the entir [...] | 2008-01-28 15:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN |
08BAGHDAD2531 | IRAQ: POLMIL MINSCOUNS MEETS GENERAL ABUD [...] (C) During an August 6 meeting, Baghdad Operations Center commander General Abud told POL-MIL Minister Counselor and her incoming successor that GOI knows Special Groups (SG) are armed and funded by Iran. He explained the GOI is unwilling to state so publicly in a direct manner, but would do s [...] | 2008-08-11 15:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL MARR MOPS IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD2536 | DIYALA ) PROVINCIAL COUNCIL VOTES UNANIMOUSLY TO [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable 2. (C) SUMMARY. Diyala,s Provincial Council has voted unanimously to dismiss Provincial Director of Police Ghanem al Quraishi. The immediate cause of the vote was al Quraishi,s decision on August 9 to reactivate his July 30 decision to drastical [...] | 2008-08-11 16:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2539 | PAPAL NUNCIO CLAIMS DECREASING SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Special Advisor Krajeski and PolOffs on August 7, Papal Nuncio Archbishop Chullikatt claimed that there is decreasing support within the Christian community in northern Iraq for an autonomous zone as the solution to problems of security and marginalization. Fr [...] | 2008-08-12 06:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF KREF IZ |
08BAGHDAD254 | SENIOR DAWA OFFICIAL ON LTSR, SADRIST "GHOSTS," [...] (C) Summary: Senior Dawa Party CoR member Haidar al-Abadi told us January 27 that CoR ratification of any long-term strategic relationship (LTSR) agreement will likely turn on provisions governing legal immunity and the U.S. military's ability to arrest and detain Iraqi citizens. He claimed th [...] | 2008-01-28 17:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2544 | NINEWA: REOPENING OF MOSUL AIRPORT A KEY PRIORITY [...] (C) Summary: The re-opening of Mosul's civilian airport is a key priority in the economic development of Ninewa Province, both for short-term job-creation and for longer-term economic growth. Working with our partners in 1AD and 3ACR, and Embassy Baghdad, we are engaging the GOI in order to r [...] | 2008-08-12 10:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2545 | LEGAL CLAIMS AGAINST IRAQI ASSETS: WHAT NOW? [...] (C) An interagency team led by Principal Deputy Legal Adviser Joan Donoghue traveled to Baghdad July 18-24 to discuss with GOI officials the protection of Iraq's assets, the settlement of Iraq's remaining Saddam-era debt and commercial claims, and the resolution of Saddam-era personal injury s [...] | 2008-08-12 13:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD2553 | JORDAN'S KING ABDULLAH VISITS BAGHDAD [...] (C) The long awaited, once postponed, and highly secretive visit to Baghdad of Jordan's King Abdullah successfully took place August 12. On the ground for a relatively short time, Abdullah held a one hour meeting with PM Maliki (Deputy PM Barham Salih, National Security Advisor Mowaffaq al- [...] | 2008-08-13 12:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ JO |
08BAGHDAD2555 | IRAQ: MOI INTEL DEPUTY SAYS COOPERATION BETWEEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: At an August 12 meeting with POL-MIL Minister-Counselor and S/CT Regional Coordinator, the Iraqi Ministry of Interior's Deputy Chief of Intelligence said he considered cooperation between Syria and Iran to be a serious problem, including the likely return to Iraq of Special Groups [...] | 2008-08-13 12:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR TU IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2575 | SOUTH ANGRY WITH KURDS ABOUT KIRKUK, ELECTIONS LAW [...] (C) In meetings with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray August 5-7, leaders in Babil and Najaf expressed disgust with Kurdish actions related to the provincial elections law, especially the July 31 vote by the Kirkuk Provincial Council (PC) threatening annexation to the Kurdistan region (KRG). Both Sh [...] | 2008-08-14 03:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2587 | BABIL SHEIKHS PLAY KEY ROLE IN TRIBAL POLITICAL [...] (C) Meetings between Senior Advisor Gordon Gray and city council and tribal leaders in North Babil Province, carried out August 6-7, indicate that local tribal sheikhs are working actively with their counterparts in southern and western provinces to coordinate efforts in the upcoming provincia [...] | 2008-08-14 13:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2588 | A NEW GOI BIG PLAYER IN OIL? [...] (C) The Ministry of Industry and Minerals is reportedly seeking to expand into both upstream and downstream oil and gas projects, including technical service joint ventures with the oil majors. In addition, MIM wants to increase its role in mineral exploitation and transportation infrastructur [...] | 2008-08-14 15:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EMIN EIND EINV IZ |
08BAGHDAD259 | GOI MISHANDLES HIT AND RUN INCIDENT [...] (C) Summary: A January 15 traffic incident involving Iraqi Chief Justice Medhat,s Protective Security Detail (PSD) and an Iraqi Army (IA) checkpoint led to death and injury, with school children among the victims. Iraqi authorities initially denied any involvement, claiming that a taxi had c [...] | 2008-01-29 11:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2590 | BABIL: SONS OF IRAQ TRANSITION KEY TO CONTINUED [...] (SBU) Separate walkabouts through the towns of Jurf as Sakhr (August 6) and Iskandariyah (August 7) -- both organized by the 4th Battalion/3rd Division -- indicated a security situation markedly improved from the previous year but still fragile. Local politicians and tribal leaders expressed [...] | 2008-08-14 15:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS MOPS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2593 | A GRIM VIEW FROM TIKRIT [...] (C) Summary: An Iraqi-American community leader based in Tikrit, Salaheddin province, recently warned that public alienation from the local government was approaching dangerous levels. Hatem Mukhlis (strictly protect) described the provincial government as dominated by members of the Jabouri [...] | 2008-08-14 16:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2595 | MUTHANNA SHEIKHS ASK FOR U.S. ASSISTANCE [...] (C) Summary: Two Muthanna sheikhs asked for U.S. assistance to combat Iranian interference in separate August 12 and 13 meetings with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray. While Sheikh Hakim Khashan presented a detailed political strategy and said he had formed alliances throughout central and southe [...] | 2008-08-15 10:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2596 | MOHR TO LEAD DRAFTING OF GOI HUMAN RIGHTS STRATEGY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Human Rights (MoHR) will lead GOI efforts on drafting a national human rights strategy based on a report MoHR completed in July outlining the principles for a national strategy. DRL granted $500,000 to American University (AU) to assist the MoHR and other min [...] | 2008-08-15 13:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2606 | (U) KARBALA RECEIVES NATIONAL INVESTMENT CHIEF [...] (C) SUMMARY: NATIONAL INVESTMENT COMMISSION (NIC) CHAIRMAN DR. AHMED RIDHA MET WITH POLITICAL AND BUSINESS LEADERS IN KARBALA ON AUGUST 5. HIS PREPARED REMARKS CONCERNING THE IMPERATIVE OF BOOSTING INVESTMENT IN THE PROVINCE WERE DELIVERED WITH EVIDENT CONVICTION AND APPEARED TO BE WELL RECE [...] | 2008-08-17 06:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ECON PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2607 | NINEWA: SOME HAMDANIYA CHRISTIANS ARGUE FOR LOCAL [...] (C) Summary: During meetings in Mosul with Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq Tom Krajeski, Iraqi Assyrian groups from Hamdaniya District in Ninewa Province expressed varying views on the desirability of an autonomous Christian region and affiliation with the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG). [...] | 2008-08-17 07:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2612 | BLOODY THUMBPRINT ASIDE, NOT MUCH NEW IN SADR'S [...] (C) Summary: Issued on a Sadrist website and read aloud during Friday August 15 sermons at Sadrist-controlled mosques throughout Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr's "oath of allegiance" was purportedly signed and sealed with his own bloody thumbprint, and Sadr asked his followers to take a similar blood oa [...] | 2008-08-17 13:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD2613 | KIRKUK: S/A KRAJESKI FINDS NO COMPROMISE IN KIRKUK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior Advisor Thomas Krajeski traveled to Kirkuk August 13 to engage political leaders on the failed passage of the Provincial Elections Law and to encourage compromise from all sides toward a workable solution for the troubled province. Kurdish leaders made clear their desire [...] | 2008-08-17 14:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL TU IZ |
08BAGHDAD2618 | NINEWA: IMPROVED DOMESTIC AND IMPORTED KEROSENE [...] (C) Summary: Over the last two winters, Ninewa residents suffered from a severe shortage of kerosene, which they use for cooking and home heating in the province's sub-freezing winters. Hoping to avoid the long fuel lines and exorbitant black market kerosene rates of 2006 and 2007, provincial [...] | 2008-08-17 15:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET ENRG PGOV PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD2628 | THE AMBASSADOR'S DINNER WITH PROMINENT SHI'A [...] (C) Summary: A prominent Shi'a cleric told the Ambassador August 13 that Iraqis perceive significant security improvements, but stressed that regional engagement against foreign fighters would be key to sustaining this progress. Sayyed Mohammed Bahr al-Uloom and his two sons, politicians in th [...] | 2008-08-18 06:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KISL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2629 | MOH AGREES TO ANTI-ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT LANGUAGE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Health has agreed to eliminate Arab League Boycott (ALB) language in all future procurement contracts. With this breakthrough, two of three areas in which the GOI had been using contracting language that violated U.S. anti-ALB legislation (trademark applications a [...] | 2008-08-18 07:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD KPBT PREL EFIN IZ |
08BAGHDAD2632 | NINEWA: UPDATE ON AL-MISHRAQ SULFUR PLANT [...] (C) According to the facility's deputy manager, the al-Mishraq Sulfur Plant north of Qayyarah, Ninewa, has sold almost the entire stockpile of sulfur that had been mined before a catastrophic fire closed the plant in 2003. The deputy manager reported that the unrefined 70 to 80 percent pure s [...] | 2008-08-18 07:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PGOV EPET EINV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2638 | OIL MINISTRY RENEGOTIATING CHINESE CONTRACT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 11, the Ministry of Oil announced that it would renegotiate terms of a 1997 contract with the China National Petroleum Company to develop the Ahdab oil field in Wasit province. On August 17, Oil Minister Shahristani left on an overseas trip that reportedly would includ [...] | 2008-08-18 14:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2643 | KARBALA CELEBRATES SECURE SHABANIYAH [...] (SBU) Summary: Karbala officials and residents alike are breathing a sigh of relief after the annual Shabaniyah observance, which culminated in the early morning hours on September 17, passed without incident within the province (although violence was recorded in other provinces among pilgrim [...] | 2008-08-18 15:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL SOCI KISL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2644 | (C) PRT SALAH AD DIN: REPORT FROM THE GOVERNORS, [...] (C) The Salah ad-Din (SaD) Deputy Governor Abdullah Hussein al-Jubara met with the PRT to discuss the results of the August 4-7 Baghdad conference for all provincial governors, which he and the Governor attended. SaD agenda items included: 1) increasing provincial budget allocations; 2) estab [...] | 2008-08-19 03:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2645 | (C) PRT SALAH AD DIN: SAD SIGNS CONTRACT FOR [...] (C) On 11 August, Salah ad-Din (SaD) Province signed a contract with a Turkish company for the construction of a commercial airport and industrial area east of Tikrit. Provincial leaders expect the airport project to be a tremendous boon to the provincial economy, serving as a means for prospe [...] | 2008-08-19 03:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON IR IZ KCRS PGOV PINS PREL PTER |
08BAGHDAD2657 | NINEWA: PROVINCE CONTINUES TO LEAD THE WAY IN [...] (C) Summary: Registration Voter totals in Ninewa exceed those of all other provinces, due partly to an aggressive information campaign organized by head elections official Abdel Khaleq al-Dabagh. Registering IDPs has been a particular priority, although progress has been slower. Serious secu [...] | 2008-08-19 17:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2658 | MEK ASSURANCES RECEIVED FROM THE GOVERNMENT OF IRAQ [...] (C) On August 18, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) provided a Diplomatic Note (text at para 3) regarding assurances of humane treatment for Mujahedin e-Khalq residents of Camp Ashraf, in response to our diplomatic note dated July 18 (ref B). The assurances are nearly identical to the re [...] | 2008-08-20 03:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PINS KJUS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2660 | ERBIL: NEW KURDISH COMMITTEE ON ARTICLE 140, AND [...] (C) Summary: KRG Minister of Extra-Regional Affairs Mohammed Ihsan told RRT Deputy Team Leader (DTL) that all previous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) committees on Article 140 have been abolished, and one committee, called the High Committee on Article 140 (Committee),has been establish [...] | 2008-08-20 06:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD2661 | GRAND AYATOLLAH FAYYADH ON ELECTIONS [...] (C) On August 4, senior Shi'a cleric Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Ishaq al-Fayyadh issued a statement asserting his neutrality in the upcoming provincial elections, claiming that he did not support any list or favor any particular party. Lamenting the disappointing performance of the parties tha [...] | 2008-08-20 09:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2664 | QADISIYAH UNDER PIC - PROVINCIAL ISCI CONTROL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-20 12:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2666 | NINEWA: ASSYRIAN MAYOR SAYS QARA QOSH IS SAFE AND [...] (C) Summary: Nisan Yousif, the Assyrian Christian mayor of Qara Qosh, in Hamdaniya district, described his town as safe and secure, yet also apathetic about upcoming provincial elections. With regard to the Article 140 process, Yousif expressed a personal preference that Qara Qosh remain part [...] | 2008-08-20 13:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KIRF PHUM KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2683 | A MONTH AFTER PIC - WHAT,S DIFFERENT ABOUT [...] (C/NF) Summary: Coalition Forces transferred authority in Diwaniyah (Qadisiyah) Province to Provincial Iraqi Control (PIC) on July 16 after months of negotiations, assessments, poltical maneuvering, and a last-minute weather delay. Though not always a certainty, the Polish-led Coalition Force [...] | 2008-08-21 14:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2688 | NINEWA: ASSYRIAN CHRISTIAN LEADERS DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: The Assyrian Catholic communities of Kermalais and Bartala in northeast Ninewa are focused on their future political status and the security of their communities. Their stated demand for some form of autonomy under the Article 140 process reflects a desire for control of local g [...] | 2008-08-21 15:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD269 | CHALABI VIEWS ON THE PITFALLS OF DE-BA'ATH [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with PolCouns on January 24, Dr. Ahmed Chalabi, the current Commissioner of the Higher National De-Ba'athification Committee and the Chair of the PM's Essential Services Committee, shared his views on the passage of the Law of Accountability and Justice. While noting [...] | 2008-01-30 06:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2699 | ASSIGNMENT OF DIPLOMATIC ZONE PROPERTIES: GOI [...] (C) Summary: We have been pushing the Iraqi government to allocate definitively properties for foreign embassies, but the process here is slow-moving and contentious at best. PolMinCouns and MGT Counselor met with Ambassador Srood Najib of Iraq's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on August 19 t [...] | 2008-08-22 11:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2702 | PARLIAMENTARY ALLIANCE FRAGILE AMIDST KURD-SHI'A [...] (C) SUMMARY: While bitter feelings linger toward the Kurds over the election law/Kirkuk impasse, mainstream Shi'a political leaders (particularly ISCI) appear to recognize that their political self-interest requires a continuation of their alliance with the Kurds. Kurdish interlocutors have v [...] | 2008-08-22 11:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2703 | PARLIAMENTARY ALLIANCE FRAGILE AMIDST KURD-SHI'A [...] (C) SUMMARY: While bitter feelings linger toward the Kurds over the election law/Kirkuk impasse, mainstream Shi'a political leaders (particularly ISCI) appear to recognize that their political self-interest requires a continuation of their alliance with the Kurds. Kurdish interlocutors have v [...] | 2008-08-22 11:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2704 | CONFIDENT TO SUNNI ARAB VICE PRESIDENT BLAST PRIME [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-22 12:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2707 | PRT SALAH AD-DIN: SAD VOTER REGISTRATION GOING [...] (C) Voter registration in Salah ad Din (SaD)is proceeding smoothly, but many other SaD residents are uninformed about the elections and not aware that voter registration is taking place, SaD Governorate Electoral Officer (GEO) informed PRT members on August 18 The GEO believed many people who [...] | 2008-08-22 13:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2708 | CONFIDANTE TO SUNNI ARAB VICE PRESIDENT BLASTS PM [...] (C) Summary: A senior advisor to (Sunni) Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi complained August 21 that Prime Minister Maliki, emboldened by the success of this spring's security operations in Basra and Sadr City, was increasingly dropping the pretense of partnership with the ruling coalition's Sunn [...] | 2008-08-23 11:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2712 | MOPDC MINISTER BABAN ON MATCHING, BUDGET [...] (C) Summary: At an August 18 meeting with Ambassador Ries and Ambassador Wall (CETI),Minister of Planning and Development Cooperation (MoPDC) Ali Baban said that DPM Barham Salih was circulating a draft letter related to the "commitment to obligate funds" for GOI ministerial approval. Baban o [...] | 2008-08-24 06:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EPET PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2714 | SAMARRA RECONSTRUCTION EXTENDS BEYOND GOLDEN MOSQUE [...] (C) Reconstruction of the Al-Askari Mosque continues to advance. The Shi'a Mosque recently opened to local citizens for the first time since the terrorist bombing in February 2006. Additionally, reconstruction efforts are now expanding more noticeably beyond the Mosque with an increased focus [...] | 2008-08-24 10:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2720 | NEED TO GENERATE PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF AL QAEDA,S [...] (C) Summary: Al Qaeda activity in Iraq over the last four weeks has shown that the organization is changing its tactics in response to the blows it has been dealt by the surge. We have seen a pattern of attacks using suicide bombers to target each of Iraq,s ethnic communities in an attempt to [...] | 2008-08-24 12:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV KISL KPAO IZ |
08BAGHDAD2724 | SINIORA/ABDULLAH: A TALE OF TWO VISITS [...] (C) Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's August 20 visit to Baghdad ran longer than expected and focused on economic (trade, investment, and reduced-tariff oil sales) rather than political issues. Meeting with the Secretary on August 21, a clearly pleased Prime Minister Maliki praised th [...] | 2008-08-25 06:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2728 | MIDDLE EAST QUINT POLICY PLANNING DIALOGUE: IRAQ [...] (C) Speaking with PolMinCouns August 21, Foreign Minister Zebari welcomed participation in a Middle East policy planning meeting with Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. He thought Iraqi participation would help improve Iraqi relations with those states. The notional agenda looked acceptable to [...] | 2008-08-25 09:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV JO SA EG IZ |
08BAGHDAD2730 | SUNNI CHARGES GOI "DOING AL-QAEDA A BIG FAVOR" [...] (C) Summary: Dhia Mahdi (strictly protect),a senior aide to (Sunni Arab) Deputy Prime Minister al-Issawi, recently complained that the GOI had "(done) Al-Qaeda a big favor" through its recent security operations in Diyala province, which he alleged targeted Sunni political rivals rather than [...] | 2008-08-25 11:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS MOPS KISL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2738 | CHRISTIAN ACTIVIST: GRATIFIED THE "U.S. IS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Asserting that intra-Iraqi Christian discord is the result of political competition between church leaders, CoR Speaker Mashadani's human rights advisor urged the USG to engage with nonpolitical lay people. She complained that the government was not providing adequate assistan [...] | 2008-08-26 06:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM SOCI IZ |
08BAGHDAD2739 | MINISTER OF STATE SEEKS TO PULL PROVINCES INTO [...] (C) "We must teach the provinces the meaning of centralization," the new Minister of State for Governorate Affairs told PolMinCouns and DepPolCouns (notetaker) during their August 24 courtesy call. Mrs. Khulud Sami 'Azarah Al Ma'jun, who was confirmed in late July to fill a long vacant cabine [...] | 2008-08-26 06:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2740 | KIRKUK ELECTION DEBATE CONTINUES TO CAUSE [...] (C) Summary: There has been no parliamentary action to develop a new election law since the August 6 parliamentary recess. The parliament seems unlikely to take any action before the first week of September at earliest. The Kirkuk issue remains a thorny one, and an influential Shia Coaliti [...] | 2008-08-26 08:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2741 | A GREEN LINE AND A RED LINE DIVIDE THE SHIA AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kurdish-Shia Islamist tensions about Kirkuk complicate passage of a new election law but also reflect a deeper dissatisfaction among some important Shia Islamists about Kurdish policies. An influential Shia parliamentarian ranted to us on August 24 about alleged Kurdish selfis [...] | 2008-08-26 10:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2751 | NINEWA: A CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CONSIDERS ITS FUTURE [...] (C) Summary: Two prominent Assyrian Christian leaders in Tel Kaif district told the PRT they want to remain a part of Ninewa Province, believing that the KRG is increasingly authoritarian, likely to split on tribal lines, and more prone to Islamic extremism than is currently apparent. By cha [...] | 2008-08-27 07:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2758 | MAYSAN DA'WA HEAD: WE ARE THE PEACEMAKERS [...] (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Latif Abud, the head of the Da'wa party in Maysan and a Provincial Council (PC) leader, painted his party as a major conciliator in an August 26 meeting with the PRT. He expressed cautious satisfaction with improved security since Operation Good Tidings of Peace and empha [...] | 2008-08-27 17:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2759 | PRT DIYALA: PROTESTS IN KURDISH AREA AMID CALLS [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Demonstrators at Khanaqin, a Kurdish majority city on the Iranian border, protested August 26, against the possible deployment of Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) elements near the city as part of "Operation Benevolent Diyala." [...] | 2008-08-27 18:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2764 | CENSURED PC MEMBER LEADS ANTI-CORRUPTION [...] (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Hakim Khazal Khashan, the recently censured Provincial Council (PC) Integrity Chairman, led a peaceful demonstration in Samawah on Aug 24 protesting government corruption. Violence was anticipated, but did not materialize. Chief among the group's demands were an indepe [...] | 2008-08-28 08:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ EFIN |
08BAGHDAD2768 | WORLD BANK OFFICIALS ON ENERGY STRATEGY, WORLD [...] (C) SUMMARY: While the World Bank has the expertise to assist the Iraqi Government develop a national energy strategy and believes a strategy is important, working level staff in the World Bank's headquarters will not expend resources on this effort until the GOI demonstrates a genuine commit [...] | 2008-08-28 13:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG SENV EFIN IZ |
08BAGHDAD2769 | IRAQ MINISTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SEEKING [...] (C) Minister of Science and Technology (MOST) Ra'id Fahmi Jahid told EMBOFFs on 25 August that one of the Government of Iraq's biggest problems is that the Ministries have no effective mechanism to coordinate their strategies. Fahmi said he thus requested the UNCTAD science, technology, and i [...] | 2008-08-28 13:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | TPHY SENV TRGY TSPL PARM ENRG KGIT KNNP KSCA |
08BAGHDAD2770 | ELECTRICITY MINISTER OBTAINS RUSSIAN SUPPORT; [...] (C) SUMMARY: Outgoing Coordinator for Economic Transition in Iraq (CETI) Ambassador Charles Ries and incoming CETI Ambassador Marc Wall met with Electricity Minister Karim Wahid al-Hasan on August 24. Karim, who had just returned from Moscow, reported that the Russians would be sending a te [...] | 2008-08-28 14:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EINV PREL RS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2771 | PM MOVING TO REINSTATE BAGHDAD DEPUTY MAYOR NAEEM [...] (C) Summary: Sadrist-linked Naeem Aboub al Kaby looks poised for reinstatement as Deputy Mayor of Baghdad by order of Prime Minister Maliki. Naeem,s return follows his politically motivated dismissal in February 2008. Baghdad Provincial Council (PC) Chairman Mueen has voiced disapproval of [...] | 2008-08-28 14:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2781 | SUNNI ARAB INSIDER WARNS PM MALIKI WILL REIGNITE [...] (C) Summary: Tens of thousands of Sunni Arab "Sons of Iraq" and Sahwa ("Awakening") fighters, who were instrumental in pushing Al-Qa'ida out of Anbar Province, and on the defensive elsewhere, will not be absorbed into the Iraqi Security Forces and vocational training programs as projected, a [...] | 2008-08-29 12:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PTER MOPS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2782 | MALIKI CONFIDANTE CAREFUL ON SOFA AND DISPUTES [...] (C) SUMMARY: One of Prime Minister's closest confidantes told us August 28 that the Prime Minister will keep asserting the Baghdad government's right to deploy the Iraqi army up to the Green Line. He acknowledged Kurdish sensitivities over towns like Khanaqin and Kirkuk but insisted they a [...] | 2008-08-29 12:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2783 | SUNNI SHEIKHS FEELING EXCLUDED FROM THE PROCESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Many Sunni tribal views of the GOI are defined by perceptions of corruption, and the belief that political and sectarian motives drive a Shi'a-dominated government that utilizes the Iraqi Security Forces (both police and military) as a political tool. Sunni tribal contacts are ge [...] | 2008-08-29 12:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD2785 | MUTHANNA BORDER AUTHORITIES CONCERNED OVER GOI [...] (C/REL USA, GBR) Summary: Iraqi Military officials complained of dwindling resources from the central government, poor infrastructure, and aggressive and pervasive Iranian influence throughout Iraq in August 26 meetings with U.S. officials. A high-ranking general, who was responsive to both [...] | 2008-08-29 14:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2788 | WASIT GOVERNOR ENDORSES NOV 1 PIC [...] (C) Summary: "I do not want a political decision on PIC, but I believe it should happen before the end of 2008," said Wasit Governor Abdel Turfa, referring to the transfer to Provincial Iraqi Control (PIC) in an August 14 meeting with U.S. officials. He endorsed a U.S. proposal to put Wasit o [...] | 2008-08-31 06:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2792 | ERBIL: MORE BELLIGERENT KURDISH RHETORIC SIGNAL [...] (C) Summary: Increasingly heated rhetoric from Kurdish interlocutors is a sign of the strain placed on the Shia/Kurdish alliance following the failed effort to pass the provincial elections law and the GOI demand that the 34th Peshmerga unit withdraw from Diyala. In an August 21 meeting, a [...] | 2008-08-31 11:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2795 | PRT ANBAR: ANBAR PROVINCE ON THE EVE OF PIC [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) Security responsibility in Anbar Province is scheduled to be transferred from the Coalition Forces (CF) to Iraqi national and provincial authorities in a ceremony in Ramadi on September 1. Called Provincial Iraqi Control [...] | 2008-08-31 13:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PTER PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2796 | MAYSAN FADILAH HEAD: WE'RE 100 PERCENT IRAQI [...] (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Ali Kadhem Khalaf, the leader of Fadilah in Maysan and a deputy Provincial Council (PC) chairman, presented his party as nationalistic, anti-extremist, anti-militia, and free of foreign influence in an August 30 meeting with PRT leader. He provided additional color on t [...] | 2008-08-31 14:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD280 | FM ZEBARAI ON NEIGHBORS PROCESS; SFA FRAMEWORK; [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a January 29 meeting, Foreign Minister Zebari told PolCounselor he expected a complete round of Neighbors Working Group meetings to take place in February and a Baghdad PrepCon (level to be determined) to be held in March. He said another top MFA priority was to appoint car [...] | 2008-01-30 18:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2801 | NINEWA: SHEBAK LEADERS FROM BARTALA TOWN RESIST [...] (C) Summary. Shebak political leaders from Bartala town told us that they prefer to remain a part of Ninewa Province in an August meeting. Shebak Democratic Assembly representatives said that the short-term security benefits of existence under KRG control are not worth the dangers of the com [...] | 2008-09-01 15:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER ECON KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2802 | GENERAL OTHMAN TALKS TRIBES, SECURITY, IRAN [...] (C) General Othman, Commander of the Iraqi Army (IA) 8th Division (responsible for all five Middle Euphrates provinces),spoke openly with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray on August 27 regarding political dynamics in the region, particularly developments that will impact the security situation. Key [...] | 2008-09-01 15:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2803 | BASRA GOV WAELI MAKES CASE FOR ONE-PROVINCE REGION [...] (C) Basra Governor Wa'eli (Fadhilah) confidently outlined for Senior Advisor Gordon Gray on August 30 the progress made toward forming a regional government in Basra. The Governor emphasized that Basra would pursue a referendum on a one-province region in early 2009, with the possibility of a [...] | 2008-09-01 15:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2804 | ENGAGING GOI ON DRAFT UNSCR FOR TERRORIST [...] (C) Per Reftel A instructions, Econoff met August 31 with MFA Deputy IO Director Mohammed al-Humaimidi to urge the GOI to accept a different formulation of preamble Paragraph 10 of subject draft UNSC resolution, and to seek GOI agreement on the list of seven names provided by the USG for inclu [...] | 2008-09-01 15:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC EFIN PREL PTER IZ RU UK |
08BAGHDAD2807 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR GENERAL DAVID [...] (C) Post requests country clearance for General David Petraeus and delegation to travel to Paris 22-27 September 2008. The purpose of the visit is to meet with French leadership to discuss strategic goals and opportunities for cooperation. 2. (C) REQUEST TRAVEL CLEARANCES FOR THE FOLLOW [...] | 2008-09-01 15:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | OTRA APER FR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2808 | DEMARCHE EXPRESSING OPPOSITION TO RUSSIAN [...] (SBU) On September 1, Deputy Political Counselor delivered reftel points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs U/S for Policy Planning Labeed Abbawi. Abbawi said he would pass the points to Foreign Minister Zebari's office. BUTENIS [...] | 2008-09-01 15:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2809 | ERBIL: S/A KRAJESKI MEETS WITH ANGRY KRG LEADERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: KRG officials are frustrated with the stagnation in the implementation of Article 140, dismayed about recent Iraqi Army attempted deployments into Khaneqin and other disputed territories, and fearful for their future within a federal Iraq if the perceived anti-Kurd sentiment gro [...] | 2008-09-01 16:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2811 | NIC CHAIRMAN OPTIMISTIC DESPITE CHALLENGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: National Investment Commission (NIC) Chairman-Designate Ridha continues to aggressively court foreign investors, even though the GOI has not promulgated implementing regulations for the 2006 Investment Law to support his mission. Ridha is creative and well-intentioned, but he is [...] | 2008-09-02 06:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ETRD PGOV ECON IZ |
08BAGHDAD2815 | ERBIL AND KIRKUK: MURDER AND INTIMIDATION [...] (C) Summary: Credible death threats from the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) and the Iranian intelligence service may force one of the Kurdistan Region's boldest independent media outlets, Lvin magazine, to move its operations to Europe, according to Lvin's Editor-in-Chief Ahmad Mira. Mira [...] | 2008-09-02 12:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD2819 | CETI: DPM BARHAM SALIH WANTS CONTINUED [...] (C) Summary: At his introductory meeting with EMIN Wall on September 1, DPM Barham Salih provided a tour d'horizon of economic issues. He noted that Iraq is in a transitionQperiod; key challenges include: political reorganization (including the status of Kirkuk),energy -- especially hydroc [...] | 2008-09-02 14:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN ETRD EAID ECON |
08BAGHDAD2820 | DIYALA STANDOFF RECEDES BUT GOI-KRG TENSIONS [...] (C) The standoff in the northeastern Diyala province town of Khanaqin between Kurdish Peshmerga and the Iraqi Army (IA) forces appears to have passed its most dangerous phase, but an armed showdown between KRG and GOI security forces in this or another disputed territory remains a threat. Dep [...] | 2008-09-02 14:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2828 | NINEWA: MINORITY COMMUNITY REPRESENTATIVES SHARE [...] (C) Summary: Ninewa,s minority communities are divided between and among themselves over the article 140 process. Some claim that their communities will be better off under Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) rule; others prefer to remain part of Ninewa Province. Some cite the KRG as their pri [...] | 2008-09-03 03:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2829 | MINORITIES COMMITTEE ON CONFERENCE PLANNING, WHAT [...] (C) Summary: While there is general consensus among Iraq's Christians on economic and cultural issues requiring ameliorative GoI action (e.g., de-Islamicising the national educational curriculum and removing religious identification from national ID cards),the community is divided on polit [...] | 2008-09-03 06:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2830 | LIGHTING A FIRE UNDER IRAQ'S WTO ACCESSION PROCESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GoI continues to make halting progress toward WTO accession. The Council of Representatives has approved some WTO-compatible legislation, but several complicated bills (including IPR, TBT, and SPS) are either stalled in the drafting phase or stuck with the Iraqi WTO Nationa [...] | 2008-09-03 09:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON TWRO USTR BEXP IZ |
08BAGHDAD2831 | SUNNI LEADER PESSIMISTIC ABOUT GOI INTENTIONS WITH [...] SUMMARY (C) According to Sahwa leader Abu Azaam, the GOI and Shi,a have opposed Sahwa and the Sons of Iraq (SOI) since its establishment, and transitioning the Sahwa to GOI administration would lead to its dissolution. This will increase the sense of betrayal among Sunni Arabs, and could lead [...] | 2008-09-03 12:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD2832 | SISTANI CALLS ON IRAQIS TO REGISTER TO VOTE [...] (U) On August 27, Grand Ayatollah Ali Husayni al-Sistani called on Iraqis to register to vote in the upcoming provincial elections. Through a statement delivered by an official representative of the Najaf-based cleric, Sistani "called on Iraqis to register their names as the (electoral) list i [...] | 2008-09-03 14:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KISL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2837 | PRT DIYALA: KURDS AND SUNNIS CLAIM GOI SECURITY [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) Top Kurdish and Sunni political leaders in Diyala view the recent security operations in the province (Operation Benevolent Diyala) as a GOI sectarian campaign designed to suppress Kurdish and Sunni participation in the [...] | 2008-09-04 07:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | POL PINS PHUM MOPS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2838 | PRT DIYALA: IRAQI ARMY ACTIONS IN KHANAQIN RAISE [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) Diyala Provincial Council Chairman Ibrahim Bajellan (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, PUK) told us that negotiators, who have met the past few days in Baghdad, have worked to defuse the tense confrontation between Kurdish fo [...] | 2008-09-04 14:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | POL PREL PTER PINS PINR MOPS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2854 | IRAQI DINAR CASH CRUNCH: TIGHT BUT MANAGEABLE [...] (C) Summary: Iraq's vastly increased public spending combined with bureaucratic delays in the purchase of new cash supplies by the Central Bank of Iraq, an antiquated and not-yet interconnected banking sector, and continued reliance on cash payments for government salaries has caused a cash c [...] | 2008-09-05 10:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2862 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: KIRKUK ISSUE HEIGHTENS TENSIONS [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) For Salah ad Din (SaD) residents, the Kirkuk Provincial Council's (PC's) call for Kirkuk to join the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has proved to be a very emotive issue. This is a particularly sensitive issue [...] | 2008-09-05 19:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PTER PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2864 | NINEWA - DROUGHT PUSHES AGRICULTURAL SECTOR TO [...] (C) Summary. Ninewa,s farmers are facing the fourth year of a serious drought and need agricultural inputs for next season and basic subsistence until then. Farmers, especially in the Sunni western regions, feel abandoned by the provincial and central governments. Our experience thus far ha [...] | 2008-09-06 06:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR SENV EAID PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2868 | DIWANIYAH: DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE SHEIKHS [...] (C) Summary: Sheikh Hussein al-Shaalan, arguably the most influential tribal sheikh in Diwaniyah and a member of the Council of Representatives (CoR),met with the PRT on September 3. Shaalan was critical of both his Kurdish colleagues for disrupting the passage of the elections law and of P [...] | 2008-09-06 13:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2869 | NINEWA: HAMDANIYA MAYOR ARGUES THE SKY IS NOT [...] (C) Summary: The Assyrian Christian mayor of Ninewa,s Hamdaniya district told us that security in his community is sufficient and that there is less to the debate over whether to affiliate with the Kurdish region or Ninewa province than meets the eye. Mayor Nissan Karumi professes no allegi [...] | 2008-09-06 15:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2875 | SOUTH PREPARES FOR PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS; ISCI AND [...] (C) In a series of discussions with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray, leaders of all major Shi'a political affiliations expressed a preference that provincial elections occur in December 2008, though they doubt that the soon-to-reconvene Council of Represenatives (CoR) will pass a law in time for el [...] | 2008-09-07 08:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD288 | IRAQI PARLIAMENT SPEAKER MASHADANI ON PROVINCIAL [...] (C) Summary: COR Speaker Mashadani told us on January 30 that he expects the Provincial Powers law to pass the CoR on February 4. He does not agree with those arguing that a date for elections should be in the law but does believe that elections should be held as soon as possible, hopefully [...] | 2008-01-31 11:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINR PROV |
08BAGHDAD2883 | MAYSAN SADRISTS, ISCI PRESS U.S. TO PRESSURE THE [...] (C) Sadrist and ISCI provincial leaders in Maysan asserted to Senior Advisor Gordon Gray on September 3 that they are not associated with militias and that they want to work with the U.S. to promote security and development. Sadrist leaders leveled sharp criticisms at Prime Minister Maliki, c [...] | 2008-09-07 11:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2884 | BAGHDAD CAPITAL LAW WORKING GROUP MAY CALL FOR NEW [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to apparent inaction within the Council of Representatives (CoR),a group of Baghdad stakeholders has taken the initiative and started discussions on a draft Baghdad Capital Law (BCL). Although passage is a constitutionally mandated requirement, the BCL has fallen [...] | 2008-09-07 13:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD289 | NINEWA: KURDS AND ARABS TAKING STEPS TOWARD [...] (C/REL ACGU) Summary: Provincial Vice Governor and President of the Ninewa Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) Khasro Goran told PRT Leader January 21 that the Kurdish parties had made strides with the Arab Sunni parties in Ninewa Province in working together toward political reconciliation. Gor [...] | 2008-01-31 12:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ECON PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2898 | CETI: MOT AL-SUDANI DISCUSSES TARIFFS, WTO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi Trade Minister Al-Sudani told EMIN that the GOI remains fully committed to WTO accession, even though some in government "who still cling to a regime mentality" continue be skeptical about the process. He confirmed once again that reform of the Public Distribution System wou [...] | 2008-09-08 14:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EINV EAGR ECON IZ |
08BAGHDAD2902 | IRAQI OIL MINISTER'S FAILED RAID ON SOUTH OIL [...] (SBU) In a September 4 decision, Oil Minister Shahristani appointed Jabbar al-Luaibi to a new position within the Ministry of Oil that will oversee the new Maysan Oil Company, the South Gas Company, and the South Oil Company, rather than simply reinstating him to his old position as director g [...] | 2008-09-08 16:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2905 | IRAQI REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT: UPWARD TREND [...] (C) Summary: The arrival of the UAE Ambassador to Iraq on September 4 - the first Arab Ambassador to return to Iraq in several years - and the apparently imminent posting of a Bahraini ambassador later this month provide a concrete demonstration that Iraq's engagement with its Arab neighbors [...] | 2008-09-09 05:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ BA AE |
08BAGHDAD2906 | IRAQ PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE CHAIRS ON CAPACITY [...] (C) Summary: Council of Representatives (COR) Economic Committee Chairman Haider al-Abadi and COR Finance Committee Chairman Ayad al-Sammarai told EMIN in separate meetings that the overall situation in Iraq has greatly improved. Abadi warned that these improvements have led Iraqis to have hig [...] | 2008-09-09 07:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELAB EPET PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD291 | PROGRESS IN TRANSFER OF IRAQ SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: The fourth quarterly meeting of the High Level Working Group held January 24 to discuss the Joint Committee for Accelerating the Transfer of Iraq Security indicated progress. Consistent Iraqi themes were to reduce the number of supporting committees either through closure or con [...] | 2008-01-31 15:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PGOV MOPS PTER PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2912 | IRAQ MOVING FORWARD WITH NATIONAL ENERGY STRATEGY [...] (C) Iraqi PM Advisor Thamir Ghadhban informed Energy Attach on Sept. 4 that efforts were underway to advance Iraq's National Energy Strategy (NES). Mr. Ghadhban said a five member Committee has been formed to develop the NES, with Ghadhban the Chairman and the Ministers respectively of Oil, El [...] | 2008-09-09 11:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EMIN ENRG IZ |
08BAGHDAD2915 | CHINESE EMBASSY ON WASIT OIL DEAL AND BUSINESS IN [...] (C) Summary: Negotiations between the Iraqi Ministry of Oil and the China National Petroleum Company to develop the al-Ahdab oil field in Wasit province are not yet complete, despite an August signing ceremony in Beijing, said Chinese Embassy Economic and Trade Counselor Zhue Yuesheng on Sept [...] | 2008-09-09 13:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON EAID PREL PINR CH IZ |
08BAGHDAD2926 | COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES RETURNS THIS WEEK TO [...] (C) The Iraqi Parliament started its fall session on September 9 with an agenda that its deputy speaker called quote really hot unquote. The Council of Representatives will meet every day but Fridays for the rest of September in order to make progress on a list of urgent legislation that in [...] | 2008-09-10 09:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2927 | IRAQI DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AL-ISSAWI ON ESSENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Rafi Al-Issawi met with EMIN Ambassador Wall on September 8. A confident Al-Issawi assured EMIN of his continued focus on the need to improve the Goverment of Iraq,s (GOI) delivery of essential services, including energy and water, as well as improving [...] | 2008-09-10 10:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET ENRG EAID PGOV PREL EAGR TU IZ |
08BAGHDAD2929 | PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS: ELECTIONS IN 2008 [...] (C) Summary: Senior Iraqi election commission (IHEC) officials told us September 9 that they require 135 days of lead time between passage of an election law and the holding of elections to organize credible provincial elections. They indicated that January 2009 was the earliest date an ele [...] | 2008-09-10 11:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD293 | BLUEBLOOD SHIA CLERIC COMMENTS ON "BACKWARD" [...] (C) Summary: Scion of a prominent Najafi clerical family and related to both Grand Ayatollah Sistani and Moqtada al-Sadr, Emad Klanter told us January 30 that bumbling Iraqi politicians fail to make progress of any sort but actively encourage a public perception of "American Occupation" throug [...] | 2008-01-31 15:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2930 | PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS: ELECTIONS IN 2008 [...] (C) Summary: Senior Iraqi election commission (IHEC) officials told us September 9 that they require 135 days of lead time between passage of an election law and the holding of elections to organize credible provincial elections. They indicated that January 2009 was the earliest date an ele [...] | 2008-09-10 12:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD2944 | FINANCE MINISTER JABR ON KUWAIT DEBT ISSUES: LET'S [...] (U) This is an action request, please see para seven. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi Finance Minister Jabr told EMIN September 11 that "as a politician" he hoped that the Kuwaiti government would understand (and hear from the USG) that the future relationship between the people of Iraq and Kuwait i [...] | 2008-09-11 18:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN ECON KU IZ |
08BAGHDAD2953 | TENSIONS SIMMER BETWEEN ANBAR,S GOVERNOR AND THE [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) Long submerged tensions between the Provincial Council (PC) and Governor Ma'amoun surfaced in Ramadi September 9, with a threat to remove Ma'amoun from office unless he improves essential services. Published minutes of a [...] | 2008-09-13 14:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD296 | SADRIST SWEEP OF SOUTH NOT A GIVEN [...] (C) This is a joint Baghdad POL - ePRT, PRT, and REO reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Contrary to popular opinion, it is not a foregone conclusion that the Sadrist Trend will sweep the southern governorates in the next round of provincial elections. Numerous PRT engagements suggest that [...] | 2008-02-01 13:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2960 | GOI LAUNCHES PROPERTY RESTITUTION PROGRAM; POLICE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOI's policy on property restitution and evictions coincides with improved security in some neighborhoods and has the potential to encourage increased returns of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and refugees to those districts. According to the GOI, over 7,500 families, [...] | 2008-09-14 10:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PGOV EAID IZ |
08BAGHDAD2963 | IRAQI-KUWAITI BILATERAL ISSUES [...] (C/REL MNFI) Deputy Foreign Minister Hamoud told us on September 11 the Kuwaiti Prime Minister would visit Iraq shortly after Ramadan concludes. He said a proposed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on clearing the Khor Abudllah waterway of shipwrecks remained 'stuck' in the Prime Minister's [...] | 2008-09-14 15:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL MARR MOPS IZ KU IR |
08BAGHDAD2968 | DPM SALIH PLEDGES TO TRY TO DEFUSE KHANAQIN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Although the Kurds say they have complied with the August 30 agreement by withdrawing additional "new" Peshmerga from the Khanaqin area, the situation remains tense. DPM Barham Salih agreed to continue defusing the situation. Salih believes that Prime Minister Maliki,s decision [...] | 2008-09-15 09:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD2972 | KARBALA'S PROVINCIAL INVESTMENT COMMISSION [...] (C) Summary: Karbala's Provincial Investment Commission (PIC) is composed of seven university professors who focus more on where investments should be placed than on how to accommodate and advocate for investors. Because the PIC has as yet received no funding from Baghdad, it relies on its me [...] | 2008-09-15 13:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ETRD ECON IZ |
08BAGHDAD2973 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR GENERAL DAVID [...] (SBU) Post requests country clearance for General David Petraeus and delegation to travel to London, United Kingdom on 27 September- 1 OCT 2008. The purpose of the visit is to meet with English Leadership to discuss strategic goals and opportunity for cooperation. 2. (SBU) REQUEST TRAVEL [...] | 2008-09-15 13:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | APER OTRA IZ UK |
08BAGHDAD2975 | PARLIAMENT YANKS IMMUNITY AFTER DEPUTY VISIT TO [...] (C) Sunni Arab Parliamentarian Mithal Alusi told us September 14 that the Parliament had stripped him of his parliamentarian immunity after a bare knuckle exchange between him and other deputies earlier that day. Alusi said that the fight had started when several deputies accused him of brea [...] | 2008-09-15 15:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD298 | SUCCESSFUL ICRC VISIT TO CAMP BUCCA [...] (C) An ICRC inspection team visited the MNF-I Theater Internment Facility at Camp Bucca January 8-28. This trip, the first major ICRC inspection of Camp Bucca since November 2006, came after several months of high-level pressure on the ICRC, including direct requests from Ambassador Crocker an [...] | 2008-02-01 15:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PHUM PREL PTER ICRC IZ |
08BAGHDAD2981 | IRAQ-IRAN BORDER NEGOTIATIONS TO MOVE AHEAD - MAYBE [...] (C) Iraq and Iran appear ready to commence work soon to resolve outstanding border issues, assuming PM Maliki and other key GOI constituencies give the political green light and make available necessary funding. Senior MFA officials who participated in late-August bilateral talks in Tehran s [...] | 2008-09-16 09:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD2984 | SADR CITY UPDATE: BOSS SHAMA,S RETURN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-16 11:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD2987 | SEPTEMBER 13TH CAR BOMB IN AD-DUJAYL: A SETBACK [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) A car bomb exploded in the predominantly Shi'a Ad-Dujayl district of Salah Ad Din (SaD) province on September 13, 2008, shattering a period of relative calm and economic improvement over the past year. According to [...] | 2008-09-16 12:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD2988 | MASHADANI: JULY 22 BLOC AND KIRKUK ARE CRITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY Parliament Speaker Mahmoud Mashadani told the Ambassador September 10 that he had formed a special committee to resolve the provincial elections law standoff. He claimed that the primary concerns of the July 22 bloc involve the status of Kirkuk, the need for special elections for t [...] | 2008-09-16 12:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ KU |
08BAGHDAD299 | ARTICLE 140: WHERE ARE WE NOW? [...] (C) Summary: The issue of Article 140 and the status of Kirkuk and the disputed territories is solidly in the middle of the national debate, although there are significant disagreements on all sides in terms of addressing this complex problem. A fair, transparent and agreed resolution to the [...] | 2008-02-01 16:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2990 | IRAQ CBI GOVERNOR ON POST-SBA RELATIONS, CASH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with EMIN and Treasury Attache September 14, Central Bank Governor Sinan Shabibi offered a tour d'horizon of issues concerning the CBI. Shabibi looked forward to the final tranche of Paris Club debt write off. He was open to a follow on "precautionary" Standby Agreem [...] | 2008-09-16 13:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN EAID IZ |
08BAGHDAD2996 | WOMEN'S AFFAIRS MINISTER CRITICIZES MALE-DOMINATED [...] (C) Minister of State for Women's Affairs (MoSWA) Dr. Nawal Hamed Majed Al-Samara'e did not mince words in her criticism of Iraqi politicians and the male-dominated GOI. Al-Samara'e asserted that few men in the GOI regard women's issues as even a second-tier priority and believes the exploita [...] | 2008-09-17 09:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD2997 | BAYJI OIL REFINERY DEALING WITH HFO AND CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary: On September 10, 2008, senior Ministry of Oil (MoO) officials, accompanied by Embassy and MNF-I staff, visited Bayji Oil Refinery (BOR) and discussed the situation at the refinery, including measures to cope with a build-up of heavy fuel oil (HFO) levels, which currently restrict [...] | 2008-09-17 11:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ETRD IZ PREL SY TU |
08BAGHDAD300 | DOWN BUT HARDLY OUT: ISCI 2008 ELECTION PROSPECTS [...] (U) This is a joint southern PRT, REO, ePRT and Baghdad POL reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Public opinion is turning against the religious parties, including Da'wa, ISCI, and the Sadr Trend, throughout the south. This reflects widespread disappointment with the performance and corrupti [...] | 2008-02-01 18:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD3003 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: SAD DEPUTY GOVERNOR FOCUSED ON [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) The Salah ad Din (SaD) Deputy Governor Abdullah Hussein al-Jubara told PRT officers that private sector investments and development are the best way to create further economic progress in SaD. Abdullah reported that [...] | 2008-09-18 09:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ETRD PGOV ECON IZ |
08BAGHDAD3004 | A TALE OF TWO NEIGHBORHOODS - IDP RETURNS IN [...] (C) Summary: In the past two months, security gains and GOI evictions of illegal tenants have contributed to return of internal displaced persons (IDP) in Baghdad, but progress is far from uniform. Hurriya, a district in western Baghdad, and Doura, on the city's southern flank, both suffere [...] | 2008-09-18 09:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF IZ |
08BAGHDAD3006 | UNPRECEDENTED BILL AIMS TO ADDRESS CHRISTIAN [...] (C) Non-Muslim Endowments Office Director Abdullah Al-Naufali and associates are drafting a new law that will aim to protect the personal status rights of Christians. According to one of the drafting committee lawyers, the nearly completed draft will be submitted to the Shura Council by the e [...] | 2008-09-18 10:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3007 | PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS LAW: MORE CHURNING BUT NO [...] (C) A parliamentary committee came close to agreement September 16 evening on language for the disputed Kirkuk election language of the draft provincial elections law. Proposed changes by Arab and Turcoman members about this disputed text for Article 24 of the draft law scuttled consensus a [...] | 2008-09-18 10:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3008 | ANBAR'S AWAKENING AT TWO YEARS [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) The Anbar's "awakening movement" was founded in September 2006, a date that arguably marks the turning point in the battle against Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). It is now a political party, the Iraq Awakening Conference (Muatam [...] | 2008-09-18 14:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3009 | VISIT REQUESTED BY HOLY SEE LIKELY TO LEAD TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 10, the Holy See asked the USG to arrange for a human rights attorney from Rome to meet with former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, who was the highest ranking Christian in Saddam Hussein,s government and is now on trial before the Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT). On S [...] | 2008-09-18 15:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI IZ |
08BAGHDAD3021 | FORMER PM ALLAWI: IRAQ NEEDS PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: During a September 15 meeting, Iyad Allawi, former Prime Minister and current leader of the secular "Iraqiya" parliamentary bloc, told the Ambassador that Iraq needs its political leaders to develop a greater consensus about key issues like provincial elections, constitutional re [...] | 2008-09-19 10:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3024 | WASIT ISCI PARTY CHIEF SLAMS DA'WA, SADRISTS, AND [...] (C) Summary. PRT met on September 14 at al-Kut's ISCI headquarters building with Wasit ISCI party chief Ahmed al-Hakim. Al-Hakim is vehemently critical of Da'wa and the tribal support council concept, and mildly negative about ISCI's electoral prospects given public irritation over the lack [...] | 2008-09-19 13:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3026 | EMBASSY PRESSES GOI TO RESTORE ALUSI'S IMMUNITY [...] (C) Following the Parliament's decision September 14 to remove Mithal Alusi's parliamentary immunity after Alusi's visit to Israel and public criticism of Iraq politicians' ties to Iran (reftel),the DCM expressed USG concern over this action to the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff Tariq Abdu [...] | 2008-09-19 15:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3029 | NINEWA: GEO PREDICTS HIGH TURNOUT FOR PROVINCIAL [...] (C) Summary: The GOI,s chief elections officer in Ninewa Province is optimistic that Sunni Arab participation in provincial elections will be high. GEO Director Adel-Haleq Dabbagh based his optimism on local conversations he has had with Sunni leaders and the more than half million Ninewa ci [...] | 2008-09-21 11:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3032 | KARBALA: TRIBAL FEUD RESOLUTION IN OFFING [...] (C) Summary: Resolution of the long-simmering dispute between Shi'a tribes in Karbala's eastern Ayn al-Tamr district and Sunni tribes in neighboring al-Rahaliyah in al-Anbar Province now appears possible. In response to a request from PRT Karbala, a prominent mediator has brought leaders fro [...] | 2008-09-21 14:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PREL PINR IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD3035 | NINEWA: MURDER OF ASSISTANT GOVERNOR WILL FURTHER [...] (C) Summary: Assailants gunned down Ninewa's Assistant Governor for Technical Affairs September 17 outside his mosque. Shamil Younis was a prominent Sunni Arab working for Governor Kashmoula and a close contact of PRT Mosul. A distraught Kashmoula told us that Younis was the seventeenth of [...] | 2008-09-21 16:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL PHUM KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3038 | MOD REINSTATEMENT INITIATIVE BRINGS IN THOUSANDS [...] (C) Summary: The Iraqi Ministry of Defense initiated September 6 a program to reinstate or retire remaining officers and NCO's from the pre-2003 Iraqi Army. The initiative is being administered jointly by the Ministry of Defense and the Prime Minister's Implementation and Follow-up Committee [...] | 2008-09-22 05:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD3040 | SENIOR AYATOLLAH JITTERY ABOUT U.S. SECURITY RAMP [...] (C) Summary: Ayatollah Hussein Al-Sadr, Baghdad's senior Shi'a cleric, warned PMIN on September 19 that the Iraqi government was extremely fragile and would be quickly toppled if the U.S. withdrew forces too quickly. Generally supportive of the U.S., he criticized the USG's current course and [...] | 2008-09-22 05:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD3041 | CHRISTIAN CONFERENCE PLANNING MOVING FORWARD [...] (C) Summary: The senior officials responsible for organizing the MFA,s Christian Conference are confident that the Prime Minister,s Office will soon approve their proposed list of planning committee members. In the meantime, they are moving forward with drafting the conference,s agenda, wh [...] | 2008-09-22 07:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3045 | DIPLOMATIC UPDATE: MOMENTUM ON ARAB AMBASSADORS, [...] (C) Summary: According to a senior MFA official, Syria's appointment of an ambassador to Iraq might set the stage to enable the two countries to engage on security and other issues. The official is hopeful that the Syrian ambassador-designate's intelligence background will advance Neighbor [...] | 2008-09-22 12:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR SY |
08BAGHDAD3052 | KARBALA ISF COMMANDER OUSTED [...] (C) Summary: Karbala ISF commander MG Ra'ad Shaker Jawdat al-Hasnawi has been ousted. He reportedly will be reassigned to serve as IP chief for Diyala Province. Ra'ad's take-no-prisoners style and penchant for self-promotion apparently were viewed by Da'wa Party rival Governor Aqeel Mahmoud [...] | 2008-09-22 14:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD3054 | BASRAH REGIONAL COURTHOUSE NEARING COMPLETION [...] (C) Summary: The Army Corps of Engineers Gulf Region South (GRS) will complete construction of the new Basrah Regional Courthouse on September 25 and plans to transfer possession to the Iraqi government on that date. After some debate, the Iraqi High Judicial Council (HJC) has agreed to ass [...] | 2008-09-23 12:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3063 | DEMISTURA VISIT TO IRAN: OPPOSITION TO SOFA, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior Iranian leaders told SRSYG DeMistura during his recent visit to Iran that, given improved security conditions, there is no longer a need for a foreign troop presence in Iraq. The Iranians were adamantly opposed to the U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) and said [...] | 2008-09-23 15:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PTER |
08BAGHDAD3065 | IRAQI OIL MINISTRY'S PENDING HUMAN RESOURCES CRISIS [...] (SBU) Summary: With the retirements in the next few years of its top cadre, who are on one-year waivers of the mandatory 63-year-old retirement age, the Ministry of Oil will lose a generation that has the international exposure and experience to lead the Ministry during a period when it restr [...] | 2008-09-24 06:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EAID SOCI PGOV KPAO IZ |
08BAGHDAD3066 | SRSG DEMISTURA ON PROSPECTS FOR PROVINCIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: SRSG DeMistura told the Ambassador that revalidating the 2005 election law could work as a Plan B if the CoR does not pass a new election law, but that IHEC would still need 135 days to prepare for an election. He said that IHEC could promulgate regulations under the 2005 law t [...] | 2008-09-24 06:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM TU |
08BAGHDAD3067 | DPM SALIH ON 2009 BUDGET, OIL LAW, AND A NEW [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 16. 2. (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih told EMIN September 22 that he would like to host a second session of Dialogue on Economic Cooperation before the end of 2008 to bring both senior U.S. government and business leaders [...] | 2008-09-24 07:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ENRG EPET PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD307 | ZEBARI URGES INCREMENTAL ACTION ON 140; COMPLAINS [...] SUMMARY. (C) In a short January 31 meeting, Foreign Minister Zebari told Special Adviser Pearce that to create momentum that would facilitate resolution in areas with more complex problems, the USG and UNAMI should focus their Article 140-related work on disputed territories where the issue [...] | 2008-02-02 14:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3070 | UNAMI CONTEMPLATING GREATER ROLE IN FACILITATING [...] (C) Summary: In the face of some skepticism from UN Headquarters, SRSG de Mistura believes the UN should be more proactive in ameliorating tensions between Baghdad and Erbil. He is worried by rising Arab-Kurd tensions, concerned by news of a reported Turkish-Iranian agreement to stifle Kurdi [...] | 2008-09-24 08:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UN IZ |
08BAGHDAD3082 | PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS LAW PASSES COUNCIL OF [...] (SBU) The provincial election law passed the Council of Representatives on September 23, after unanimous approval of compromise language on the final sticking point about the eventual election in Kirkuk province. The Council also voted on other items that had been vetoed by the Presidency Co [...] | 2008-09-24 15:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3086 | GOI ON NEIGHBORS PROCESS SECURITY WORKING GROUP: [...] (C) Deputy Foreign Minister Labeed Abbawi told Political Military Counselor and Deputy Political Counselor September 18 that the GOI is moving ahead on plans to host the next Expanded Iraq Neighbors Ministerial meeting in Baghdad in November. He said that Jordan had just notified the MFA tha [...] | 2008-09-25 08:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3087 | INSPECTORS GENERAL SEEK TO CLARIFY THEIR ROLES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Numerous Iraqi Inspectors General (IGs) have voiced to us confusion about their oversight role and frustration with other Iraqi entities either at the ministerial or national level to usurp the IGs' monitoring authorities. How the IGs develop is subject to pending legislation [...] | 2008-09-25 09:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR KCRM PGOV EAID PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3089 | MAYSAN WANTS PRIVATE INVESTMENT, BUT IN WHAT? [...] (C/REL MCFI) Summary: In a September 20 meeting with seven members of the Investment Committee of Maysan,s Provincial Council,s (PC) and the head of the provincial Chamber of Commerce, the Maysanis presented a unified plea for PRT assistance in attracting foreign private investment to the prov [...] | 2008-09-25 11:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD IZ |
08BAGHDAD3097 | DPM SALIH ON: THE SOFA, KURDISH ISOLATION, THE [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met September 20 with DPM Barham Salih for an exchange of views that included: the status of the SOFA negotiations, increasing Kurdish isolation, the crisis of confidence resulting from recent tensions between the Kurds and the GOI, and the need to tackle the core issu [...] | 2008-09-25 17:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EINV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3106 | IRAQ NEIGHBORS PROCESS: UNAMI PLANNING FOR [...] (C) Summary: GOI preparations are moving forward for an expanded neighboring countries ministerial in Baghdad this fall but, according to a senior UNAMI advisor, the Neighbors Process is a weak mechanism that falls short of its goals. This is due, he said, to the lack of a coherent Iraqi re [...] | 2008-09-26 11:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET PREF IZ TU SY JO |
08BAGHDAD3107 | TOP SHI'A LEADER DEMANDS DECENTRALIZATION, FRETS [...] (C) Summary: Baghdad is not delivering, complained Ammar Al-Hakim, leader-in-waiting of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI),the country's largest Shi'a political grouping. The government's failure to deliver services and distribute resources points to the need for wholesale decentraliza [...] | 2008-09-26 12:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KISL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3139 | ERBIL: KURDISTAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY (KDP) POLITBURO [...] (C) Summary: In a September 23 courtesy call, KDP Politburo head Fadhil Merani expressed the view that a political solution could be found to resolve the Article 140 impasse, and stated that in the absence of agreement, a delay was better than resorting to violence. He made a number of obse [...] | 2008-09-28 12:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3142 | PRT WASIT: SADRIST PC MEMBERS DELIVER DOCUMENT TO [...] Prepare for the coming religious state 2. Prepare the people spiritually 3. Guide society by spreading a correct Islamic awareness 4. Teach people about God and Islamic laws 5. Spread social equality and justice through the Islamic system 6. State and spread human rights according to Isl [...] | 2008-09-29 08:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD3143 | MOVING FORWARD FROM UNMOVIC/UNSCR 1762: THE BALL [...] (C) Responding to reftel points on Iraq's normalization of its civil nuclear program and lifting UNSCR restrictions, Minister of Science and Technology (MoST) Ra'id Fahmi told EMIN that "the ball is in Iraq's court." Betraying limited understanding of the international nonproliferation regime, [...] | 2008-09-29 08:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | TPHY SENV TRGY TSPL PARM ENRG KGIT KNNP KSCA |
08BAGHDAD3148 | FINALLY, SIX IRAQI AMBASSADOR APPOINTMENTS TO [...] (C) Summary: While Foreign Minister Zebari has been in New York, the Prime Minister's office announced the pending retirement of two dozen members of the Iraqi MFA and the Prime Ministry also named six ambassadors to states in the region. The naming of six ambassadors is an important gestur [...] | 2008-09-29 16:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3160 | NEXT STEPS FOR MINORITIES IN PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) has agreed to assist parliament with resolving the issue of minority representation for the upcoming provincial council elections. UNAMI is hoping that this can be achieved through a political agreement and an election commi [...] | 2008-10-01 07:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF IZ |
08BAGHDAD3165 | POPULAR KARBALA ISF COMMANDER SURVIVES OUSTER [...] (C) Summary: Karbala ISF commander MG Ra'ad Shaker Jawdat al-Hasnawi,s reassignment as security chief in Diyala Province was rescinded. In response to Provincial Council pressure, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki reversed an earlier decision to transfer Ra'ad. Ra'ad is credited with ushering [...] | 2008-10-01 10:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD317 | MAKHMOUR REFUGEE CAMP: BREAKING THE LOGJAM [...] (C) Post believes that there now exists an opportunity to make progress on the closure of Makhmour refugee camp, given a more positive attitude by the GOI, and what appears to be political breathing space in Ankara. Post read with great interest Ref A on the probability of closing Makhmour re [...] | 2008-02-04 08:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL IZ TU |
08BAGHDAD3172 | UNAMI TO OPEN OFFICE IN RAMADI [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary. A UNAMI delegation led by Special Representative for the Secretary de Mistura visited Ramadi on September 29 to announce the formal opening of UNAMI operations in the province. The delegation met with Governor Ma'amoun and some tw [...] | 2008-10-01 14:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL IO IZ |
08BAGHDAD3175 | IRAQ READY TO PAY $300 MILLION TO SETTLE KUWAIT [...] (C) Summary: On September 29, EMIN and Treasury Attache met with Finance Minister Jabr to discuss Kuwait's efforts to attach GOI assets, transfer of assets from the USG to the GOI, and the 2009 budget. Jabr said the GOI was willing to pay $300 million to settle claims by Kuwait Airways, not th [...] | 2008-10-02 02:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3188 | RETURNEE PROCESSING IN EASTERN BAGHDAD [...] (C) Summary: The recently-opened returnee registration center in Karada has processed approximately 3,000 returnee families to the entire Baghdad province since it opened in late July, a rate of 100-200 per day. These are in addition to the 5,600 returnee families that the MoDM has registered [...] | 2008-10-02 15:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF IZ |
08BAGHDAD3189 | IRAQI ARMY COMMANDEERS RETURNEE PROCESSING IN [...] (C) Summary: The Iraqi Army's Karkh Area Command (KAC) has established a Returnee Processing Center (RRC-West) to address IDP returns. RRC-West is in its fourth week of assisting returnees move back into their western Baghdad homes. The KAC assumed the lead in this process, after it assess [...] | 2008-10-03 03:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF IZ |
08BAGHDAD3192 | MUTHANNA TRIBAL LEADERS SUPPORT FOR SOFA, [...] (C) Summary: A delegation of Shia tribal leaders from southern Iraq told Special Advisor Gray on September 24 they supported the SOFA and expanded relations with the U.S. and expressed concern about Iranian influence in the South. The sheikhs looked forward to the upcoming provincial electi [...] | 2008-10-03 11:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3194 | UNAMI WANTS TO DECONFLICT ARTICLE 140 REPORTS FROM [...] (C) Summary: The UN will finish its Article 140 reports on the Disputed Internal Boundaries (DIBs) issues by early November, but UNAMI Deputy Gilmour told S/A Krajeski October 2 that they want to avoid disturbing the political atmosphere prior to conclusion of U.S.-Iraq SFA negotiations. He h [...] | 2008-10-03 13:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UN IZ |
08BAGHDAD3195 | DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ESSAWI CONCERNED ABOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Riad Al Essawi, meeting September 25 with Senior Refcoord and PolMinCouns, voiced dismay at the GOI,s paltry assistance to Iraqi refugees, but is unlikely to be able to influence the GOI to boost assistance. Essawi expressed concern about whether the GOI wa [...] | 2008-10-03 13:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID IZ PGOV PHUM PREF |
08BAGHDAD3211 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: POLITICAL TENSIONS INCREASE AS [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. SUMMARY ------------ 2. (C) As provincial elections approach, the PRT is hearing more complaints of political infighting, and accusations against provincial officials in Salah ad Din (SaD). One key duel is between two of the most powerful [...] | 2008-10-05 06:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD3218 | NEW ARAB AMBASSADORS TO IRAQ: SETTING PARAMETERS [...] (C) Action Request: This message provides Embassy Baghdad's assessment of logistical and other support we are able to offer newly arriving ambassadors from neighboring Arab countries. We seek the Department's concurrence with this approach and request that Embassies Abu Dhabi, Amman, Manama, [...] | 2008-10-05 15:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3219 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES WAY FORWARD ON MINORITIES [...] (C) Summary: According to the Papal Nuncio to Iraq, Iraq's Christian religious leadership is stunned and distressed over the exclusion of Article 50 from the Provincial Elections Law (PEL),which would have guaranteed minority quotas in provincial councils (Ref A). He noted that Christian l [...] | 2008-10-05 15:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KIRF PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3231 | PRT KIRKUK: IFTAR CELEBRATIONS REFLECT BOTH [...] (C) Summary: At a 25 September PRT-hosted iftar that brought together community leaders from all ethnicities in Kirkuk Province, attendees had the opportunity to socialize and to share views on the just-passed provincial election law. The overall tone was optimistic. Arabs were most positi [...] | 2008-10-06 14:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3232 | IRAQI PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS TIMELINE UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: Shortly after parliament passed the provincial election law, UNAMI Chief Electoral Advisor Sandra Mitchell began working closely with the Independent High Electoral Council (IHEC) and the International Electoral Assistance Team (IEAT) to develop a timeline to hold provincial el [...] | 2008-10-06 15:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3238 | D PRESSES PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER ON SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: Speaker Mashadani told DepSec Negroponte that a majority in the parliament supported the bilateral security agreement, but that many deputies would not support it publicly. Noting that other countries benefit from security agreements with the U.S., he said the continued American [...] | 2008-10-07 05:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3239 | IRAQ'S ARAB ENGAGEMENT: EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) On October 5 with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Aboul Gheit made a surprise visit to Baghdad. Accompanied by Egyptian Oil Minister Sameh Fahmy, Aboul Gheit met with Prime Minister Maliki, Foreign Minister Zebari and Defense Minister Mufriji in Baghdad. He then traveled with Zebari to [...] | 2008-10-07 07:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ EG |
08BAGHDAD3240 | IRAQIS CONDEMN PKK ATTACK ON TURKISH ARMY OUTPOST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Both GOI and Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) leaders were quick to publicly condemn the October 3 evening terrorist attack by Kongra-Gel (PKK) rebels on a Turkish military outpost situated on the Iraq-Turkey border. KRG leaders firmly denied a subsequent Turkish accusation that [...] | 2008-10-07 08:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER IZ TU |
08BAGHDAD3244 | DWINDLING SABAEAN-MANDAEAN COMMUNITY VICTIMIZED BY [...] (C) Zahroon Toma, Sabaean-Mandaean Representative in the Non-Muslim Endowments Office, told Poloff on October 5 that he holds out no hope that the killers of several members of a Mandaean family will ever be caught, much less brought to justice. The Ministry of the Interior (MoI) is investig [...] | 2008-10-07 14:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3250 | IRAQ ATTENDING ISTANBUL TRILATERAL GAS TALKS; [...] (C) Oil Minister Husayn al-Shahristani assured EMIN Wall October 6 that a Ministry of Oil (MoO) Director General would attend the October 12 U.S.-Turkey-Iraq trilateral meeting on natural gas in Istanbul. He noted that, in general, the process of consultations with Turkey needed to be streaml [...] | 2008-10-08 09:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ENRG TU IZ |
08BAGHDAD3251 | PRT WASIT: LOCAL LEADERS ALONG IRANIAN BORDER: [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Local leaders, in towns along and near the Iraq- Iran border, report stable security situation voiced concerns about government services and local economic development. The upcoming provincial elections provoked criticism of the c [...] | 2008-10-08 10:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3252 | BULGARIAN AMBASSADOR: WE WANT TO SUPPORT IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: Bulgaria is proud of its service in the Coalition and wants to remain engaged in Iraq, regardless of the probable departure of its 155 troops from Iraq at the end of the year, according to Bulgarian Ambassador Valeri Ratchev. Ratchev, who has just begun a three week visit to Bagh [...] | 2008-10-08 12:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ BG |
08BAGHDAD3258 | NINEWA: MINORITY COMMUNITIES OPPOSE DELETION OF [...] (C) Summary: Shaikhan Christians aligned with the Assyrian Democratic Movement (ADM) are angry over the omission of minority set-asides in the recently-adopted provincial election law. In a September 30 meeting in Tel Keif, they said that, although they prefer a form of &virtual autonomy,8 [...] | 2008-10-09 06:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KIRF IZ |
08BAGHDAD3263 | SAHWA LEADER ABU AZZAM AN AMBITIOUS POLITICAL [...] (C) Sahwa leader Thamir Al Tamimi, aka Abu Azzam, said that the Sahwa issues are not yet over for the government of Iraq (GOI),despite his own claims in the press that the process is going smoothly. This is not the only time Abu Azzam has issued contradictory statements weeks. He has also [...] | 2008-10-09 12:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD3269 | KIRKUK: DEPUTY SECRETARY NEGROPONTE HEARS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During Deputy Secretary Negroponte's October 4 visit to Kirkuk, local political leaders expressed support for the provincial elections law and denounced the removal of Article 50 that contained quotas for minority representation. They also demonstrated support for the committee t [...] | 2008-10-09 14:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3282 | ZFR ZFR ZFR MINISTER OF INTERIOR REITERATES GOI [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-10 14:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PHUM PINR IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD3283 | ENCOURAGING LARGER WORLD BANK AND IMF IRAQ PRESENCE [...] (U) This is an action message, see para three. 2. (C) We believe the upcoming Bank/Fund meetings in Washington, which will be attended by Iraqi Finance Minister Jabr and Central Bank of Iraq Governor Shabibi, present a golden opportunity to press the World Bank and IMF to increase thei [...] | 2008-10-10 16:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID OFDP IZ |
08BAGHDAD3288 | AYATOLLAH TELLS NEGROPONTE: U.S. MUST STAY UNTIL [...] (C) Baghdad's leading Shi'a cleric Ayatollah Hussein Al Sadr told Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte October 6 that the United States and Iraq are "working toward a greater good" to establish a "strong, free, and prosperous" Iraq, but he urged the U.S. to "ensure we reach this goal," an [...] | 2008-10-11 13:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3291 | DPM ISSAWI TO DEPUTY SECRETARY: "IRAQI DEMOCRACY [...] (SBU) On October 6, Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte met with Deputy Prime Minister for Essential Services Rafae Issawi in the DPM's Residence. Ambassador Marc Wall, Coordinator for Economic Transition in Iraq, and Sunni Tawafaq parliamentarians Salman al-Jumaili and Dhafer al-Ani al [...] | 2008-10-12 10:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ECON IZ |
08BAGHDAD3294 | IRAQI CLERICS AND THE BILATERAL SECURITY AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Recent conversations with prominent Iraqi Islamic clerics revealed support for a bilateral security agreement from several interlocutors, but another expressed strong reservations. In our conversations, only one prominent Islamic figure indicated a willingness to publicly advocat [...] | 2008-10-13 06:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL MOPS IZ |
08BAGHDAD3295 | WASIT PROVINCIAL COUNCIL (PC) CHAIR: WASIT [...] (U) This is a Wasit PRT reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) In a slew of recent meetings and phone conversations with PRT, Wasit PC Chair Mohammed Hassan Jabbar, a friendly but normally circumspect PRT contact, has been increasingly frank with TL about his displeasure with Governor [...] | 2008-10-13 07:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3296 | SWEDISH ENGAGEMENT WITH IRAQ INCREASING; SWEDISH [...] (C) Summary: Sweden has made a large commitment to Iraq and intends to do more, particularly as it looks ahead to its July 2009 European Union (EU) Presidency. In an October 8 meeting, visiting Swedish Ambassador Niclas Trouve and Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Deputy Director G [...] | 2008-10-13 07:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EINV ETRD IZ SE |
08BAGHDAD3305 | IRAQI DPM SALIH ON OIL PRODUCTION AND OIL MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with EMIN, Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih complained bitterly about the performance of Minister of Oil Shahristani. Salih is worried by signs that output from the southern oil fields is declining, although he does not anticipate short-term cash flow problems. H [...] | 2008-10-14 06:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV PGOV PREL KU IZ |
08BAGHDAD3309 | IRAQ OIL MINISTER ON OIL INVESTMENTS, KRG, FUEL [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting with EMIN, Iraqi Oil Minister Shahristani blamed international oil firms for the end of negotiations on short-term contracts, and said the Ministry of Oil (MoO) would try to raise crude oil production by 250,000-300,000 barrels per day by 2009 on its own. Shahris [...] | 2008-10-14 08:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG MOPS EINV PGOV PREL KU IZ |
08BAGHDAD3310 | ERBIL: DEPUTY SECRETARY DISCUSSES SOFA, PKK [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 4 meeting in Sulaymaniyah with Iraq's Presidency Council and Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih, Iraq President Jalal Talibani told visiting Deputy Secretary Negroponte and Ambassador Crocker that the Presidency Council would propose adding Article 50 (election quo [...] | 2008-10-14 08:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD3311 | IRAQI TURKOMAN ALLEGE KURDISH MISRULE AND US BIAS [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi Turkoman both in and out of government in late September broadly agreed that Kurdish oppression is their community's largest problem and that the U.S. sytematically discriminates against Turkoman and in favor of Kurds. Contacts generally criticized the Iraqi Turkoman Front [...] | 2008-10-14 08:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD3329 | IMPROVING IRAQI DELIVERY OF ESSENTIAL SERVICES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With significant improvements in security, the Iraqi public is becoming increasingly impatient with electricity and fuel shortages and deficiencies in delivery of essential services. The GOI must be seen as recognizing the problem and working to improve essential services. To d [...] | 2008-10-16 10:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI EINV ECON ENRG IZ |
08BAGHDAD333 | IRAQI PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS UPDATE PART 2: [...] (C) Summary: We believe Iraq will have the technical capability to conduct credible, nationwide provincial elections in early fall of 2008. However several political obstacles must be overcome over the next seven months, including the passage of a well-crafted elections law, a start to reso [...] | 2008-02-05 17:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3330 | MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS ON MOSUL RECONSTRUCTION [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Communications Farouk Abdul-Rahman claims to have spent all of the USD 100 million provided by the Central Government for reconstruction in Mosul. He said that Provincial Government budget-execution lags behind, and he has asked Prime Minister Maliki to reassign some [...] | 2008-10-16 10:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV EAID ECPS EINT EINV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3331 | MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS ON MOSUL RECONSTRUCTION [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Communications Farouk Abdul-Rahman claims to have spent all of the USD 100 million provided by the Central Government for reconstruction in Mosul. He said that Provincial Government budget-execution lags behind, and he has asked Prime Minister Maliki to reassign some [...] | 2008-10-16 10:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV EAID ECPS EINT EINV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3341 | SAHWA LEADER TO AMB CROCKER: WE MUST HAVE [...] (C) Sheikh Ahmed Abu Risha, the leader of Anbar's Iraqi Awakening Conference (Sahwa) party, and prominent Anbari politician Sa'adoun Duleimi, told Ambassador that Anbar province needs investment from U.S. companies. Sheikh Ahmed bemoaned the current weak state of the economy in Anbar, partic [...] | 2008-10-16 15:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3350 | MUTHANNA: LEADING SHEIKH OFFERS TO ORGANIZE SHI,A [...] (C) On October 11 Muthanna-based Sheikh Abu Chefat reaffirmed his desire to see the SOFA approved by the Iraqi government and offered to mobilize his tribal colleagues to build support for the agreement. Chefat,s discussion with PRT leader took place in the context of follow-up to a September [...] | 2008-10-18 13:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3353 | CHRISTIAN POLITICIANS COOPERATE ON ARTICLE 50 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-19 09:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3355 | JORDAN'S NEW AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ: WE'RE COMMITTED [...] (C) Jordan's new Ambassador to Iraq, Nayef Fantoul al-Zeidan, told Ambassador Crocker October 18 that Jordan sees Iraq's stability as key to its own. Al-Zeidan, who arrived October 15 and presented credentials to Foreign Minister Zebari and President Talabani October 16, said that King Abdu [...] | 2008-10-19 11:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ JO |
08BAGHDAD3357 | CHRISTIAN POLITICIANS COOPERATE ON ARTICLE 50 [...] (C) Summary: Iraq's two Christian parliamentarians, political bloc leaders, and other minority representatives are redrafting Article 50, which was excluded from the Provincial Elections Law (PEL) parliament passed on September 24 (reftel). (Note: Article 50 would have established set-aside [...] | 2008-10-19 15:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3373 | NINEWA: CHRISTIAN IDPS FLEE MOSUL FOR SAFER [...] (C) Summary: Christian IDPs who fled Mosul in the last two weeks are currently out of grave danger and there is currently no humanitarian crisis. It appears that local authorities in the safe-haven communities, with assistance from UNHCR and NGOs, have the capacity to supply food, water, an [...] | 2008-10-21 13:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF MOPS PTER KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3381 | SOUTHERN OIL EXPORT PIPELINES: IRAQ'S ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: More than ninety percent of Iraq's revenues come from its crude oil exports. Iraq's southern export pipelines account for greater than eighty percent of that total. The two 48-inch pipelines feeding the Al Basrah Oil Terminal (ABOT) platform were installed in 1975 with a 20 y [...] | 2008-10-22 07:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV PGOV PREL SENV EWWT IZ |
08BAGHDAD3382 | SOUTHERN OIL EXPORT PIPELINES: IRAQ'S ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: More than ninety percent of Iraq's revenues come from its crude oil exports. Iraq's southern export pipelines account for greater than eighty percent of that total. The two 48-inch pipelines feeding the Al Basrah Oil Terminal (ABOT) platform were installed in 1975 with a 20 y [...] | 2008-10-22 07:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV PGOV PREL SENV EWWT IZ |
08BAGHDAD3385 | SECRETARY LEAVITT PRESSES PM MALIKI FOR QUICK [...] (C) In their October 20 meeting in Baghdad, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt and Iraq Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki agreed on the importance of continued U.S.-Iraq health cooperation in "solidifying" the two countries' partnership. Encouraging quick passage of the S [...] | 2008-10-23 10:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | TBIO PREL PGOV OVIP SOCI IZ |
08BAGHDAD3397 | IRAQ OIL MINISTER LAUNCHES FIRST LICENSING ROUND [...] (C) Summary: During an October 13-14 session in London, Oil Minister Husayn al-Shahristani presented terms and conditions for 20-year Technical Service Contracts to develop six oil fields and two gas fields to representatives of the 41 oil and gas companies that had qualified to bid. The cont [...] | 2008-10-24 14:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3402 | RRT ERBIL: ADVISOR TO PRESIDENT BARZANI CITES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Kurdistan Region's chief advisor on Turkish matters believes that the recent killing of 15 Turkish soldiers by PKK forces increased public and military pressure on the Turkish government and so precipitated the revival of the dialogue between Turkey and the Kurdistan Regiona [...] | 2008-10-25 10:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR PTER TU IZ |
08BAGHDAD3412 | MAYSAN: SUB-PROVINCIAL LEADERS ENGAGE WITH PRT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-26 10:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IR IZ PGOV PINR |
08BAGHDAD3418 | IRANIAN AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ VISITS SAMARRA [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah Ad Din reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) The Iranian Ambassador to Iraq recently paid an unannounced visit to the Al-Askari (Golden) Mosque in Samarra, Salah Ad Din (SAD) province. The Mayor of Samarra complained to PRT SaD that there had been no advance [...] | 2008-10-26 15:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINR IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD342 | IRAQ EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE - FEBRUARY 1 [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Maliki chaired the Baghdad Security Plan (Fardh al Qanoon ) FAQ) Iraq Executive Steering Committee (I-ESC) on 1st February. The meeting included much discussion of the role that that the decentralization and the private sector can play in Iraq's development - incl [...] | 2008-02-06 08:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON IZ PGOV |
08BAGHDAD3423 | HUMAN RIGHTS IMPROVEMENTS IN INTERIOR AND DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary: Due to recent changes in their organizational structures, the Human Rights Offices in the Ministries of Defense (MoD) and Interior (MoI) now face fewer restrictions in pursuing their human rights agendas. The Human Rights Directorate in the MoD was placed under the ministry's [...] | 2008-10-27 09:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3424 | NINEWA: SMALL-SCALE RETURNS TO MOSUL OF CHRISTIAN [...] (C) Summary: The commander of Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) in Ninewa, LTG Riyad, told us October 26 that 130 displaced Christians have returned to the city. Ninewa governor Kashmoula said all Christian civil servants who work in Provincial Hall are back on the job. One of his deputies told u [...] | 2008-10-27 13:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD3425 | PM'S COMMISSIONS TO INVESTIGATE ATTACKS ON [...] (C) In an October 27 meeting with poloffs, Gorges Bakoos, Political Advisor for Christian Affairs to Prime Minister Maliki, intimated that Kurdish politics lay behind the attacks on Christians in Mosul earlier this month. He provided no specific evidence, but cited the interest of "political [...] | 2008-10-27 14:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KIRF IZ |
08BAGHDAD3430 | MAYSAN: SUNNI DPM PROMISES RENEWED GOI ASSISTANCE [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Admitting previous GOI neglect, Sunni Deputy Prime Minister Dr. Rafae al-Issawi promised a crowded auditorium of provincial, local, and tribal leaders on October 22 that the GOI would fully back reconstruction and basic se [...] | 2008-10-28 06:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD3431 | KARBALA ISF COMMANDER SHOWN THE DOOR [...] (C) Summary: Karbala ISF commander MG Ra'ad Shaker Jawdat al-Hasnawi, whose ouster by Governor Aqeel Mahmoud al-Khazali on September 22 was reversed days later by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, has been shown the door. He departed Karbala in mid-October following Aqeel's survival of a no-co [...] | 2008-10-28 06:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD3432 | WASIT PC CHAIR AND GOVERNOR TRADE SHOTS [...] (C) Summary. Wasit Provincial Council (PC) Chair Mohammed Hassan Jabber remains very much at odds with Governor Abd al-Latif Hamad Tarfah over the allocation of the 2008 ARDP budget. The battle has been joined and Jabber's grousing has included PIC terms as a target of opportunity. In the las [...] | 2008-10-28 07:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD3433 | UNAMI COMMEMORATION FEATURES KARBALA PRT SPEAKER, [...] (U) At an October 25 commemoration of the U.N.,s 63rd anniversary, Karbala PRT Team Leader was among several speakers asked to give remarks. Others included Karbala Governor Aqueel Mahmoud Kareem al-Khazali and Provincial Council Chairman Abd al-Yasiri. The Iranian consul Ridha Kodha Ward [...] | 2008-10-28 07:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD3439 | SECURITY FOR THE 233RD USMC BIRTHDAY-BAGHDAD, IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: Per REFTEL, Embassy Baghdad,s Emergency Action Committee (EAC) convened on 11/26/2008 to assess the security risk of hosting a USMC Birthday Ball at the New Embassy Compound (NEC) on 11/10/2008. The EAC concurred that the event could be conducted with minimal risk given that it [...] | 2008-10-28 11:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | AMGT ASEC KMSG |
08BAGHDAD3444 | EPET, ENRG, PGOV, EINV, IZ [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-28 16:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG IZ |
08BAGHDAD3446 | BRIEF MOVEMENT OF IRAQI HYDROCARBONS LAW [...] (C) Summary: The long-delayed Hydrocarbons Framework Law saw brief movement in recent days; it is not yet clear if this signifies a genuine thaw and some possibility of the legislation actually moving toward approval in the near future. The bill was unexpectedly forwarded to Parliament late l [...] | 2008-10-29 06:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PGOV EINV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3447 | BAGHDAD BUDGET EXECUTION PROBLEMS START AT THE [...] (C) Summary: Baghdad's municipal authorities, at the lowest level, suffer from a host of weaknesses that sharply constrain their ability to deliver essential services effectively. The list is long: insufficient budgets and resources, poor management skills, human resource deficiencies, limit [...] | 2008-10-29 07:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3448 | SALAH AD DIN OFFICIAL: GREATER DECENTRALIZATION [...] (U) This is a Salah Ad Din PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: According to Salah-ad-Din (SaD) Provincial Council (PC) member Suleiman Yousif Ahmad, limited provincial authority over budgets and projects contributes to local residents' lack of confidence in the SaD PC. He maintains that [...] | 2008-10-29 07:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID EFIN IZ |
08BAGHDAD3453 | IRAQ GROPING FOR LONG-TERM NATIONAL PLAN FOR [...] (C) Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) officials told EmbOffs on October 23 that while MoST and Ministry of Health (MoH) officials have agreed to try and import new Cobalt-60 (Co-60) sources to meet short-term demands for cancer therapy (reftel),they have as yet not reached a consensus [...] | 2008-10-29 13:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | TBIO KNNP PGOV OVIP SOCI IZ |
08BAGHDAD3456 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: IRANIAN VICE PRESIDENT VISITS [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) Summary: Iranian Vice President Mohammad Javad Ali Akbari visited the Golden Mosque in Samarra October 24, accompanied by the Iraqi Minister of Youth and Sports. This is the second visit by a high-ranking Iranian official this month; local [...] | 2008-10-30 06:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD3457 | MUTHANNA: CIU CHIEF SAYS IRANIAN-BACKED HIT [...] (U) This is a Muthanna PRT reporting cable 2. (C) Summary: Brigadier General Ali, Muthanna,s Criminal Investigative Unit (CIU) Chief told PRT in two late October meetings that alleged hit squads funded by the Iranian government have entered Muthanna and are preparing to strike during prov [...] | 2008-10-30 06:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | POL PGOV EFIN IZ |
08BAGHDAD3465 | PM PROMISES TO PROVIDE A "SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT" TO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-31 13:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ UN |
08BAGHDAD3467 | IRAQI HYDROCARBONS LEGISLATION: PERHAPS STILL [...] (C) Summary: There are conflicting stories about why the hydrocarbons legislation briefly moved to parliament in recent days. Confusion also remains about which is the "right" version of the law. Parliamentary Committee on Oil and Gas Chairman Ali Balo believes that a political decision on h [...] | 2008-10-31 15:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PGOV EINV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3468 | DEFENSE UNDER SECRETARY EDELMAN MEETS LEADERS OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman engaged Arab, Turkoman and Christian provincial leaders of Kirkuk on 20 October 2008 to discuss ethnic cooperation and Article 23 of the provincial elections law. Kurdish leaders declined to attend due to the inclusion of Sheik A [...] | 2008-11-01 06:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD347 | NINEWA: WEST MOSUL SHEIKHS EXPRESS DISSATISFACTION [...] (C/REL ACGU) Summary: Sheikhs from west Mosul, an area of the city where terrorists are entrenched, told PRTOff and military representatives January 30 that only through provincial elections would the city see progress. The current provincial government focused only on small repair projects [...] | 2008-02-06 12:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINR EAID IZ |
08BAGHDAD3474 | BASRA LEADERS VOICE QUIET SUPPORT FOR SOFA [...] (C) Summary: Basra politicians, security officials, and community leaders voiced quiet support for the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) during a visit October 26-29 by Gordon Gray, Senior Advisor for Southern Iraq Affairs. Basrah Governor Mohammed Wa'eli predicted that the SOFA would lead to [...] | 2008-11-02 02:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD3476 | PLANNING MINISTER BABAN'S BUDGET AND ICI CONCERNS [...] (C) EMIN and Minister of Planning and Development Cooperation (MoPDC) Ali Baban met October 26 and discussed Baban's concerns about the 2009 budget, the International Compact with Iraq (ICI),and future assistance. Baban believes that the GOI's favoring the operational portion of the pared-do [...] | 2008-11-02 05:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAID EFIN IZ |
08BAGHDAD3479 | UNHCR DOUBLES PROGRAMMING AND SUPPORTS RETURNS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Assistant UN High Commissioner for Refugees for Operations Judy Cheng-Hopkins briefed the Ambassador October 28 on UNHCR,s new strategy to sharply increase engagement inside Iraq to support returns. Ambassador Crocker encouraged UNHCR to continue direct engagement with the Iraq [...] | 2008-11-02 11:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PHUM PREF PREL |
08BAGHDAD3480 | WASIT: DAWA COURTING TRIBAL SHEIKHS [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (C //REL TO USA, ACGU) Summary: On October 18, Al Kut's Special Weapons and Tactics (KSWAT) leader Major Aziz hosted a meeting of tribal sheikhs from across Wasit Province. While nominally a security-related meeting set up by Aziz to gain tribal [...] | 2008-11-02 12:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD3487 | UNAMI INTERESTED IN "GRAND BARGAIN" FOR KIRKUK, [...] (C) Summary: In a November 2 meeting with S/A Krajeski, UNAMI's Andrew Gilmour said UNAMI will finish its second round of reports on the disputed internal boundaries (DIBs) areas by mid-December, but delay issuing them until after the provincial elections because of the currently tense politic [...] | 2008-11-03 10:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM UN IZ |
08BAGHDAD3488 | PRINCE OF THE MARSHES ON SOFA AND MAYSAN,S FUTURE [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: In a wide-ranging discussion, prominent Maysani Sheikh Abed al-Kareem al-Mohammedawi of "Prince of the Marshes" fame explained that he was pitching the SOFA to local and tribal leaders to counter attempts by Iran and others [...] | 2008-11-03 12:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD3492 | MUTHANNA: IRANIAN IRON AND STEEL INVESTMENT [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna Reporting Cable. 2. (C/REL) SUMMARY: Muthanna Provincial Investment Committee (PIC) Chairman Adel Dakhel al-Yasiri told local media that the PIC has nearly completed negotiations with an Iranian company to build a 100 million USD iron and steel plant near t [...] | 2008-11-03 15:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD35 | NINEWA: BETTER SUPPLY AND MANAGEMENT REDUCE SOME [...] (C/REL AUS, GBR, CAN) Summary: Black market benzene and diesel prices in Mosul have fallen since August but still remain above the government price for each fuel. Increases in benzene supply, a slight seasonal reduction in benzene demand, and improved Iraqi discipline and management of fuel [...] | 2008-01-03 15:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET ENRG PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3506 | CHRISTIAN LEADERS DISAPPOINTED IN QUOTAS OUTCOME; [...] (C) Several prominent Christian leaders expressed bitter disappointment over the single-seat minority quotas in the Provincial Elections Law (PEL) passed on November 3 (reftel),and several minority groups issued a joint protest statement on November 4. While all were frustrated, views on [...] | 2008-11-05 11:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3508 | IRAQIS WELCOME OBAMA VICTORY, BUT EXPRESS CONCERN [...] (C) Summary: In discussions following the November 4 election of Barack Obama, Iraqi contacts have reacted positively but cautiously. While some expressed surprise at Obama's victory, all contacts were congratulatory and positive, recognizing the historic significance of the election of the [...] | 2008-11-05 17:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD351 | DHI QAR: OFFICE OF THE MARTYR SADR TELLS PRT TO [...] This is a PRT Dhi Qar reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: January 30, Dhi Qar PRT met with Sheikh Haider Ali Ghizi, the head of the Office of the Martyr Sadr (OMS) in Nassiriyah. Ghizi mirrored PRT views that training should be a "top priority" for the province. Ghizi called for the PRT [...] | 2008-02-06 13:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR PINR PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD3511 | KRG VIEWS ON SOFA, MALIKI, KIRKUK, MOSLAWI [...] (C) Summary: In a November 5 meeting, KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani was critical of PM Maliki's "double game" on the SOFA but believes Iraqi leaders will eventually sign it. He told how KRG President Masoud Barzani disappointed his Iranian hosts on his most recent visit to Tehran by p [...] | 2008-11-06 13:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PTER MOPS TU IZ |
08BAGHDAD3513 | ARAB LEAGUE TO SEND OBSERVERS TO MONITOR [...] (C) The Arab League (AL) plans to send 70-80 election observers to Iraq for the January 2009 provincial elections, according to newly arrived AL Ambassador Hani Al-Khallaf. In a November 5 meeting with Ambassador Crocker, Al-Khallaf said that Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission (IHE [...] | 2008-11-06 15:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ EG |
08BAGHDAD3516 | RRT ERBIL: DISSENSION IN PUK POLIBURO [...] (C) Summary. Four distinguished PUK members living abroad fiercely condemned the party's leadership for its corruption, its violation of democratic principles, and its mismanagement of government affairs. The group,s stated goal is not to create a new party, but rather to further the cause [...] | 2008-11-07 13:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD3517 | KARBALA WELCOMES IRANIAN TOURISTS BUT WARY OF [...] (C) Summary: Karbala business leaders and government officials discussed their concerns about Iranian influence and reliance on tourism revenue from Iranian pilgrims in a visit November 2-3 by Senior Advisor Gordon Gray. Governor Aqeel al-Khazali (Da,wa) hinted that the Iranians were behind [...] | 2008-11-07 13:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER EFIN IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD3526 | SUNNI AND SHIA POLITICIANS EXPRESS OPPOSING VIEWS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Secretary's Senior Coordinator for Iraqi Refugee Issues, Ambassador James Foley, visited Baghdad October 22-27 to review Iraqi refugee admissions and special immigrant visa (SIV) programs and to assess the role the U.S. can play in facilitating refugee and IDP returns. Dep [...] | 2008-11-08 12:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID IZ PGOV PHUM PREF PREL |
08BAGHDAD3527 | KARBALA OFFICIALS SEEK TO BALANCE FOREIGN [...] (C) During a November 2-3 visit to Karbala, Senior Advisor Gordon Gray discussed investment in the province with several local leaders, including Governor Aqeel Mahmoud Kareem al-Khazali (Da'wa),three members of the Karbala Provincial Council (PC),and Restaurant and Hotel Association Presiden [...] | 2008-11-08 12:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CASC PINR IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD353 | DIWANIYAH PRT: GOVERNOR REACHES OUT TO PRT [...] (C) Summary: During a January 30 meeting with PRToffs, Diwaniyah Governor Al-Khudari stressed that he wants to improve cooperation between his government, coalition forces and the PRT and would like to see more private, particularly U.S., investment in the province. He focused on the needs o [...] | 2008-02-06 15:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3530 | UAE AMBASSADOR: OUR PRESENCE BOOSTS IRAQI [...] (C) Summary: The growing presence of Arab Ambassadors in Baghdad is boosting Iraqi confidence that improved security will last and that Iraq's neighbors are committed to its future, according to the UAE Ambassador to Iraq. UAE engagement on the economic front is also expanding, with large [...] | 2008-11-09 04:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD EINV IZ AE |
08BAGHDAD3538 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES CHRISTIAN LEADERS TO [...] (C) During a November 5 meeting, the Ambassador pressed four Christian leaders to consolidate the gains from the November 3 Article 50 vote and avoid the Sunni disaster of 2005 by not boycotting the upcoming provincial elections. The Ambassador acknowledged that the paucity of seats allocated [...] | 2008-11-09 10:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD354 | BAGHDAD PC CHAIRMAN FIGHTS TO STAY ON TOP [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary. The Chairman of the Baghdad Provincial Council, Mueen al-Khademy (ISCI/Badr) is working overtime to shore up his position in the increasingly uncertain environment of provincial politics in Baghdad. Chairman Mueen must prepare for [...] | 2008-02-06 18:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PINR PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD3549 | KARBALA SECURITY STABLE; MILITIAS DISCREDITED [...] (C) Karbala's security situation remains good, with no sign that militia-inspired violence, which last flared in 2007, will return. Nevertheless, the province -- which local officials reckon as "the world Shi'a capital" -- remains a tempting target for malefactors. During a November 3 meeting [...] | 2008-11-10 08:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KJUS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD355 | JANUARY 2008 UPDATE ON IRAQ'S INTERNALLY DISPLACED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The latest reports on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from the United Nations (U.N.) Cluster F and Iraqi Ministry of Displacement and Migration (MoDM) show an increase in the number of IDPs in the past 3 months. This increase likely reflects a lag in data processing and a spi [...] | 2008-02-07 06:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PGOG PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3550 | KARBALA STIRRED BY PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Karbala is beginning to stir in response to news that the Prime Minister wants to hold provincial elections on January 31. Government and religious authorities are encouraging participation, while the security forces are focusing on protecting the process. In a rare show of unity, Da'wa [...] | 2008-11-10 09:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3551 | GOI PLEDGES $50 MILLION OVER TWO YEARS TO FUND NEW [...] (C) UNAMI SRSG Staffan de Mistura told us (and the Prime Minister's office confirms) that the Prime Minister has agreed to contribute $25 million towards the construction of the new UNAMI compound in 2009. The GOI will also pay an additional $25 million in 2010 for a total of $50 million ov [...] | 2008-11-10 10:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3556 | ICRC VISITS MEK; PM LEGAL ADVISOR ON MEK LEGAL [...] (C) Summary: ICRC officials met with EmbOffs on November 4 to discuss their second visit to Camp Ashraf, during which they noted the Mujahedin el-Khalq (MEK) members' desperation over the impending transfer of security authority. The ICRC team delivered letters from family to some members, [...] | 2008-11-10 16:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS PREF IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD3558 | KARBALA: NOT MUCH SOFA TALK [...] (SBU) SOFA is not a hot topic in Karbala. Among the Provincial Reconstruction Team,s (PRT,s) contacts who have a view on the matter, opinions range from hardline nationalism ("Send all the Americans home now") to profit-oriented pragmatism ("Let Washington pay to stay however long it wants") [...] | 2008-11-11 11:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD3560 | MAYSAN GOVERNOR DESCRIBES INTER-SHIA TENSIONS, [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Maysan,s Sadrist Governor Adel Mohder Maliki described tensions between Shi'a elements as he detailed a November 5 attack on Iraqi Police (IP) elements south of Maysan and a subsequent attack on the Amarah Office of the Mart [...] | 2008-11-11 13:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD3562 | NAJAF: ISCI LOOKS STRONG BUT FACES WELL-ORGANIZED [...] (C) Summary. Days before the release of the open list candidates for January provincial elections, the relative surface calm of Najaf,s ISCI domination of the provincial government is beginning to reveal turbulent anti-ISCI undercurrents. ISCI officials, led by Deputy Governor Abtan, continu [...] | 2008-11-11 13:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3563 | MAYSAN: THE VIEW FROM RESTIVE MAJAR AL-KABIR [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Stating &we have great needs,8 Majar al-Kabir (MAK) city officials told PRT PolOff that they have almost no modern infrastructure and all sectors are in need of assistance. City officials cited these and other problems as t [...] | 2008-11-11 13:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD3564 | IRAQ-KOREA ECONOMIC RELATIONS -- SECURITY STILL A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Korean Embassy Counselor Kwang Yong Chung said, during an October meeting with EconOffs, that virtually the only Korean business activity in Iraq is in the KRG, with the Korean National Oil Company holding interests in eight exploration and production blocks. One problem hamperi [...] | 2008-11-11 14:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD EINV ENRG EPET EAID KS IZ |
08BAGHDAD3565 | ENVIRONMENT MINISTRY GETS BOOST FROM NEW LAW [...] (C) Minister of Environment Narmin Othman told EmbOffs on November 3 the Council of Representatives (CoR) had ratified the new law establishing the Ministry of Environment (MoEnv). She claimed the Prime Minister told the Cabinet to enlarge MoEnv funding, "even if it means taking money away fro [...] | 2008-11-12 04:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV EPET EWWT ECIN KHDP KRAD KSCA IZ |
08BAGHDAD3566 | IRAQ PRESSES FOR OIL FOR FOOD MEETING [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 7. 2. (C) EMIN met November 10 with Ambassador Srood Najib, Director of the Iraqi MFA Americas Department, to discuss the Oil-for-Food (OFF) program. This was EMIN's first meeting and Najib, who has covered this issue for years, spent much of his t [...] | 2008-11-12 07:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN UNSC UN IZ |
08BAGHDAD3567 | KIRKUK ARABS LINE UP BEHIND AHMED OBEIDI IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Arab leaders in Kirkuk chose Ahmed Obeidi to represent their interests to the committee established under Article 23 of the Provincial Elections Law to make recommendations on the future of Kirkuk. Obeidi has formed secretive "cells" to collect information on issues such as jo [...] | 2008-11-12 07:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3569 | SHEIKH CLAIMS IRAQI TRIBES ASKING SAUDIS FOR [...] (C) In a November 10 meeting, Muthanna tribal sheikh Hakim Khazal Khashan repeated his claims to Senior Advisor Gordon Gray that he is working with Anbar sheikh Abu Risha to develop a common platform for tribal parties running in the provincial elections. (See reftels for background.) Hakim [...] | 2008-11-12 08:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SA IZ |
08BAGHDAD357 | IMPLEMENTATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS ON PERSONAL [...] (C) This cable is the third update of Embassy Baghdad,s implementation of the relevant eighteen recommendations of the Secretary,s Panel on Protective Services. The following recommendations have been implemented by Post (reftel D): A. (C) Kennedy Recommendation 12 - Joint Review Board B. ( [...] | 2008-02-07 07:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | AMGT ASEC PREL PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD3571 | KARBALA: MUQTADA AL-SADR PREACHES PATIENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: The PRT recently obtained a half-page flyer from Muqtada al-Sadr that was being distributed near the al-Husayn and al-Abbas shrines in Karbala. In the half-page, photocopied message, Muqtada urges his followers to "practice calmness with the government -- but not with the occupi [...] | 2008-11-12 09:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL KISL PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD3579 | THE NATIONAL INVESTMENT COMMISSIONER WHO NEVER WAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI dismissed National Investment Commission Chairman-Designate Ahmed Ridha the first week in November. Ridha had become deeply unpopular in senior Iraqi political circles, and rumors of his possible removal had been circulating for many weeks. Thamir Ghadban, head of the PM [...] | 2008-11-12 11:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ECON PGOV IQ |
08BAGHDAD358 | INTERNATIONAL COMPACT WITH IRAQ: BAGHDAD PROGRESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Both the GOI and UNAMI are working to enhance the prospects of meeting the benchmarks outlined in the International Compact with Iraq (ICI). The GOI is building the size and capacity of the small ICI secretariat, and has embarked upon a serious effort to pull together its dr [...] | 2008-02-07 08:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN EAID EAGR IR |
08BAGHDAD3580 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IRAN AND BURMA HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) On November 12 we contacted the MFA's Deputy Director for International Organizations, Mohammed Alhmaimidi, to convey reftel request that Iraq be absent for the upcoming UNGA Third Committee votes on the Iran Human Rights no-action motion and substantive resolution, and that Iraq vote ag [...] | 2008-11-12 11:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3585 | STATE OF FREEDOM OF PRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Journalists and freedom of press organizations in Baghdad raised concerns during recent meetings about the decreasing independence of the media and continued violations against the press. They said a lack of freedom of press hinders journalists' ability to report independent [...] | 2008-11-12 13:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS IZ |
08BAGHDAD3586 | MITHAL ALUSI REMAINS DEFIANT DESPITE THREATS [...] (C) SUMMARY: As of November 9, 2008, Iraqi Parliamentarian Mithal Alusi remained vigilant in the face of threats against him and his party, and said ISCI operatives have approached his personal security detail. Alusi retains approximately 70 security guards, and reported threats and intimidati [...] | 2008-11-12 13:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3587 | RRT ERBIL: LVIN EDITOR DETAILS KDP ATTEMPT TO KILL [...] (C) During a November 5 meeting with Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq Krajeski, Sulaimaniya-based Lvin Magazine Editor-in-Chief Ahmad Mira provided details on what he said was a recent attempt by the KDP to kill him. Mira explained that PUK Asayeesh officers told him they arrested two men Sep [...] | 2008-11-12 13:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS KDEM SOCI SCUL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3589 | UNAMI'S DE MISTURA CONCERNED OVER POSSIBLE PRT [...] (C) In a brief meeting with the visiting Joint Campaign Plan Assessment Team (JCPAT) on October 20, UNAMI SRSG Staffan de Mistura expressed considerable concern over the negative impact of possible military/PRT drawdowns on UNAMI operations in the provinces. He pointed out that UNAMI's expa [...] | 2008-11-12 13:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3590 | NINEWA CHRISTIANS SLOWLY RETURN [...] (C) Estimates of the number of Mosul Christians killed in early-October attacks range between eight and 15, with military sources (ISF and CF) giving lower figures than the Christian IDPs who fled the city. Since then, a well-coordinated humanitarian assistance effort has provided for appro [...] | 2008-11-12 13:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3591 | USG-FUNDED DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAMS [...] (U) This cable was drafted jointly by Embassy Baghdad and visiting DRL staff from Washington. 2. (SBU) Summary: Poloffs and visiting DRL officers conducted an intensive round of field visits to DRL-funded democracy and human rights projects in Iraq from Oct 14-22, touring and meeting wit [...] | 2008-11-13 06:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3596 | SIX INSPECTORS GENERAL RELIEVED OF DUTIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Council of Ministers issued orders in mid-October firing one Inspector General and putting five others into early retirement following performance audits of the IGs conducted by the Board of Supreme Audit. Another IG expects to be relieved of his duties, while the head of the [...] | 2008-11-13 12:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR KCRM PGOV EAID PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3599 | EUJUST LEX TO EXPAND HUMAN RIGHTS TRAINING IN 2009 [...] (C) Summary: An EU Integrated Rule of Law Mission for Iraq (EUJUST LEX) team spent ten days in Baghdad examining how best to restructure its current training programs for the extension of its mandate in mid-2009. For the next mandate, the EUJUST LEX program for Iraq wants to offer more sub [...] | 2008-11-13 14:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS PREL EU IZ |
08BAGHDAD360 | PRT-WASIT; MEETING WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-07 08:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3600 | CHRISTIAN ELECTION BOYCOTT THREATS: A ROAD TO [...] (C) Christian religious and political leaders continue to sound off against the paucity of guaranteed seats -- one each for Baghdad, Basrah, and Ninewa -- allocated to them following the Council of Representatives' November 3 vote on Article 50. The threat of a boycott of the provincial elec [...] | 2008-11-13 14:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3601 | CHRISTIAN ELECTION BOYCOTT THREATS: A ROAD TO [...] (C) Christian religious and political leaders continue to sound off against the paucity of guaranteed seats -- one each for Baghdad, Basrah, and Ninewa -- allocated to them following the Council of Representatives' November 3 vote on Article 50. The threat of a boycott of the provincial elec [...] | 2008-11-14 03:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3602 | BASRA REGION FORMATION SUPPORTERS SUBMIT [...] (C) Summary: On November 10, allies of Basra Governor Mohammed Wa'eli (Fadhilah) submitted 35,000 signatures in favor of a referendum to form a one-province Basra Regional Government. Several additional steps will be needed, however, to force a referendum, and it is unlikely that a referendu [...] | 2008-11-14 03:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3614 | WASIT SADRISTS FRACTURING; SOME MAY SUPPORT PRIME [...] (C) In separate November 9 discussions with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray in Wasit, Sadrist Provincial Council (PC) member Ahmed Hassan E'barah and independent PC Chairman Hassan Jabbar described further splits among Sadrists in Wasit and other southern provinces. E'barah, who recently delivered [...] | 2008-11-14 13:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD363 | QASSIM DAOUD ON POSSIBLE ALLIANCE TO END ALL [...] (C) Summary: Shia Independent CoR member Qassim Daoud told us February 5 that he has had several meetings in recent days with senior ISCI leaders about the formation of a "National Front" CoR grouping that would alter Iraq's current political landscape and end the government of Prime Minister a [...] | 2008-02-07 14:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3630 | IRAQI GOVERNMENT REQUESTS AUSTRALIA, ROMANIA, EL SALVADOR AND ESTONIA PROVIDE "NON-COMBAT ASSISTANCE" BEYOND 31 DECEMBER [...] (C) On November 13, Iraqi National Security Advisor (NSA) Dr. Mowaffaq Rubaie issued invitation letters to Australia, El Salvador, Estonia and Romania, thanking them for their "selfless sacrifices in assisting Iraq in establishing itself as a democracy" and inviting their continued support and [...] | 2008-11-16 08:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS IZ ES RO AS EN |
08BAGHDAD3631 | SHIA FADHILAH PARTY SUPPORTIVE OF SOFA, SEEKS [...] (C) Summary: Continuing his intensive diplomatic outreach to gather support for the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA),the Ambassador updated the Fadhilah party's Secretary-General, Hashim al-Hashimi; Council of Representatives (CoR) bloc leader Hassan al-Shimmari; and CoR member Karim Yacoubi [...] | 2008-11-16 10:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3632 | KIRKUK LEADERS' DISCUSSIONS WITH SPECIAL ADVISOR, [...] (U) This is a PRT Kirkuk reporting cable. 2. (C) This is the first of two cables on November 10 meetings Senior Advisor (S/A) Krajeski had with Kirkuki Arab, Turkmen, and Kurdish provincial leaders' views on Kirkuk-specific issues. This cable reports on Kirkuki comments on the SOFA and A [...] | 2008-11-16 10:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3633 | COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER NOT KEEN ON INDEPENDENT [...] (C) Summary: Iraq Minister of Communications Farouk Abdel Qadir told ECOUNS on November 5 that "Iraqi people suffer from poor quality of service," so the Ministry of Communications (MoC) must provide not only infrastructure and clear laws, but also strict monitoring of service quality. Admitti [...] | 2008-11-16 11:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON ECPS KINT IZ PGOV PREL |
08BAGHDAD3634 | MAYSAN DEPUTY PC CHAIR LAUDS CONTINUED USG PRESENCE [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Da,wa provincial party head and Deputy Provincial Council Chair Latif Abud Kaseem told PRT members that Maysan has benefited from the increased USG presence in the province, and emphasized the need for continuing USG traini [...] | 2008-11-16 12:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR PINR EINV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3638 | KIRKUK LEADERS' DISCUSSIONS WITH SPECIAL ADVISOR, [...] (SBU) This is the second of two PRT Kirkuk cables reporting meetings of Senior Advisor (S/A) Krajeski with Kirkuki Arab, Turkmen, and Kurdish provincial leaders. This message reports their views on the dispute over agricultural land contracts under Article 140, and on Prime Minister Maliki's [...] | 2008-11-16 14:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3639 | KARBALA TRIBES DEMONSTRATE IN FAVOR OF SUPPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: Approximately 1,500 tribesmen demonstrated in downtown Karbala on the morning of November 15 to show their support for the Support Councils favored by Prime Minister Maliki and his provincial protege, Governor Aqeel Mahmoud al-Khazali. The demonstration -- apparently organized [...] | 2008-11-16 14:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI IZ |
08BAGHDAD3643 | ELECTION COMMISSIONERS ASSURE AMBASSADOR BASRAH [...] (C) Summary: Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) Chair Faraj al-Haydari and Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Judge Kasim al-Aboodi told the Ambassador on November 11 the Basrah region formation initiative (reftel) would not derail provincial elections and that preparations for [...] | 2008-11-18 02:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3649 | TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT DISCUSSES THE [...] (SBU) Summary: During a pull-aside at the Dialogue on Business and Investment Climate (DBIC) on November 1, 2008, Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt met with the Government of Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister for Services, al-Issawi, and members of his staff. Discussion focused on al-Issa [...] | 2008-11-18 13:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID IZ |
08BAGHDAD3650 | TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT MEETS WITH SRSG [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 1, 2008, Treasury Deputy Secretary Robert Kimmitt, accompanied by Deputy Assistant Secretary Andrew Baukol and Treasury Attache Ged Smith, met with UN Secretary General Special Representative Staffan de Mistura and members of his team in the United Nations offices [...] | 2008-11-18 13:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID PREF IZ |
08BAGHDAD3652 | TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT,S DISCUSSIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy Secretary of Treasury Robert Kimmitt had a series of meetings with key Iraqi economic officials at events surrounding the Dialogue on Business and Investment Climate (DBIC),including a large dinner hosted by Finance Minister Bayan Jabr at his home in the International [...] | 2008-11-18 14:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN EAID IZ |
08BAGHDAD3653 | D/S KIMMITT AND MINISTER SHAHRISTANI REVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 1, 2008, Treasury Deputy Secretary Robert Kimmitt, accompanied by Deputy Assistant Secretary Andrew Baukol and Treasury Attache Ged Smith, met with Hussain al-Shahristani, Iraq's Minister of Oil at his office in the International Zone. A wide range of topics were [...] | 2008-11-18 14:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EFIN ENRG IZ |
08BAGHDAD3654 | LOCAL TRIBAL SUPPORT COUNCIL SHEIKHS STAGE [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (C/REL) Summary: On November 15, a variety of influential tribal leaders incited a demonstration to protest recent Kurdish statements against the tribal Support Councils (SC). The peaceful demonstration of more than 1,000 people was designed to [...] | 2008-11-19 05:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3655 | KARBALA, IRAN DUEL OVER PILGRIMS [...] (C) Summary: In October, after Karbala's Hotel and Restaurant League raised prices on Iranian visitors to the province, Tehran reportedly closed access by its own citizens to two of the three major border crossings used by pilgrims. The flow of Persian pilgrims into Iraq fell from an average [...] | 2008-11-19 06:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD3664 | DIWANIYAH RESIDENTS' OPINIONS ON PROPOSED SOFA [...] (SBU) Summary: This cable summarizes comments about the proposed SOFA agreement made to the PRT by Diwaniyah city residents, including local officials. Some remarks were made during meetings scheduled by the PRT for other purposes, while most were made during conversations with PRT Locally Em [...] | 2008-11-19 14:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD3665 | KIRKUK: IRAQI TURKMEN FRONT CUTS LOOSE MINOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Leaders of the Iraqi Turkmen Front (ITF) have decided to dissolve their coalition with other Turkmen political parties. ITF leaders apparently think the ITF brand is strong enough they can go it alone in the upcoming provincial elections. The main cause of the split was financi [...] | 2008-11-20 03:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL TU IZ |
08BAGHDAD3673 | MAYSAN GOVERNOR'S ADVISOR TO BE SADRIST CANDIDATE [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Sadrist Zaid Khalaf al-Hoshi, Maysan Provincial Director of Reconstruction and Development and close advisor to the Governor, admitted to PRT Team Leader (TL) that he will be the Sadrist candidate for Governor of Maysan. [...] | 2008-11-20 12:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD3677 | ANBAR GEO: PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS WILL GO WELL [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The Anbar Governorate Electoral Office Director (GEO) believes upcoming provincial elections will go well in Anbar. The GEO is conducting public meetings in Anbar to educate candidates in the parties and the public about [...] | 2008-11-21 07:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3678 | NEW GOI AMNESTY LAW VOTED DOWN BY MINISTERS [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Maliki proposed a new amnesty law during the November 4 Cabinet meeting, but ministers voted against it during the November 18 Cabinet meeting. According to Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim, although the PM was supporting the law, key ministers spoke agains [...] | 2008-11-21 12:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PINS PHUM PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD3679 | NAJAF SADRISTS DISORGANIZED BUT STILL HAVE [...] (C) Security in Najaf Province remains stable, but recent IED attacks suggest that the province's Sadrist militants are still active, albeit weakened. In a series of meetings with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray on November 17-18, local Iraqi Security Forces (ISF),politicians, and tribal sheikhs [...] | 2008-11-21 13:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KISL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3695 | SENIOR SISTANI REP IN DHI QAR EXPRESSES CITIZEN [...] (C) Summary: PRT met with Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani,s senior representative in Dhi Qar, Sayyid Majeed Jassim, on November 18. Sayyid Majeed and PRT had agreed at a previous lunch to collaborate to assist mosques in poor neighborhoods. After discussing the mosque project, Sayyid Majeed expressed [...] | 2008-11-23 13:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3699 | SOFA: VIEWS FROM OUTSIDE THE GREEN ZONE -- IRAQIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Three longstanding Iraqi contacts, representing a cross-section of Iraqi society (director-general, police chief, and tribal sheikh) based outside the Green Zone, said Iraqi people wanted, and deserved, more details on the SOFA under discussion in the Iraqi parliament. The grou [...] | 2008-11-23 16:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PREL |
08BAGHDAD371 | PRT MAYSAN: GENERAL MEHDI ANGLES TO BE NEXT POLICE [...] (C) On 01 February 2008, the Maysan PRT met with Major General Mehdi al-Gharrawi at his Baghdad residence. Mehdi, a former commander of the Public Order Brigade in Fallujah, hails originally from Maysan province and also has a home in al-'Amara. Discussion focused on security in Maysan, notab [...] | 2008-02-08 15:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3710 | IRAQ-TURKEY-U.S. DECIDE TO ESTABLISH COORDINATING [...] (C) The November 19, Baghdad, Turkey/Iraq/U.S. security trilateral on combating the PKK resulted in an agreement to form a trilateral committee to be based in Baghdad within ten days to share intelligence and discuss operational coordination and also saw successful participation by KRG repres [...] | 2008-11-25 05:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ TU PREL MARR GR |
08BAGHDAD3712 | SONS OF IRAQ TRANSITION IN BAGHDAD [...] (C) Summary. Transition of Sons of Iraq contracts and payment of the 50,135 registered Baghdad SOI is nearly complete, with only a few reports of dicrepancies or problems. Beginning in December, the GOI will proceed with SOI registration in Diyala, Qadisiya, Wasit and Babil in preparation f [...] | 2008-11-25 08:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD3722 | WASIT: SADRIST LEADER SUPPORTS SOFA, MALIKI [...] (C / / REL TO USA, ACGU) Summary: Over 1,000 people participated in a November 20 pro-SOFA rally in Kut, organized by Sheikh Mohammed Reda al-Numani, an associate of Prime Minister Maliki and a long-time friend of the al-Sadr family. On the preceding day, PRT, 41st Fires Brigade, and Iraqi A [...] | 2008-11-25 13:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD3723 | KARBALA'S TRIBES AND THE SUPPORT COUNCILS [...] (C) Summary: Karbala's tribes are an enduring source of order and security. They participate in the tribal Support Councils initiated by Prime Minister Maliki, but should be viewed as "rented" rather than "owned" by the Da'wa Party. Tribal backing, key to candidates' success in the provincial [...] | 2008-11-25 13:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI IZ |
08BAGHDAD3725 | COR PASSES HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION LAW [...] (SBU) Summary: The Iraqi parliament passed the previously languishing High Commission of Human Rights law on November 16. After little movement since the February 13 second reading and some opposition since then, the law passed with the vast majority of the votes, likely due to members' fo [...] | 2008-11-25 15:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS IZ |
08BAGHDAD3729 | IRAQI OIL MINISTER STRIKES A DEAL ON KRG OIL [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi and KRG officials have reached a preliminary deal that will allow the first oil from KRG fields to be exported. Critical details, including final agreement on revenue sharing, apparently remain to be finalized. The deal does not cover the broader question of the hydrocarbo [...] | 2008-11-25 17:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PGOV EINV EFIN IZ |
08BAGHDAD3736 | IRAQ BORDER SECURITY WORKING GROUP OVERSHADOWED BY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The third session of the Iraq Neighbors Border Security Working Group (BSWG) produced little forward motion toward practical measures to improve security on or within Iraq's borders, although its final communiqu did include some proposed measures that will be helpful if implemente [...] | 2008-11-26 17:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER IZ SY TU IR |
08BAGHDAD3744 | SUPPORT COUNCILS: WHAT THEY ARE [...] (U) In recent months, Support Councils (majilis al-isnad) established by Prime Minister Maliki in various regions have become an important and controversial part of Iraq's political landscape. Their implications for the United States range from the strategic (the balance of central and provi [...] | 2008-11-28 15:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI IZ |
08BAGHDAD3751 | DA'WA RISING IN THE PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS? [...] (C) Prime Minister Maliki's Da'wa party appears poised to make gains in the provincial elections in Najaf and Wasit provinces at the expense of its Baghdad coalition partner, ISCI. November meetings between Senior Advisor Gray and candidates in these provinces indicate that almost everyone ex [...] | 2008-11-29 15:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3752 | KARBALA: OFF THE SOFA, ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL [...] (C) Summary: With the SOFA having been approved by the Council of Representatives (CoR),Provincial Council (PC) candidates in Karbala are poised to launch their campaigns. Few incumbents, including Da'wa-affiliated Governor Aqeel Mahmoud al-Khazali, are running directly under the aegis of es [...] | 2008-11-29 17:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD3758 | MUTHANNA OFFICIALS' MEASURED OPINION OF TRIBAL [...] (C) Local government officials in Muthanna expressed their concerns about the legality of how the Maliki government established the tribal support councils (SCs) to Senior Advisor Gray during his November 24-25 visit, while tribal sheikhs stressed how important SCs are to assuring a voice for [...] | 2008-11-30 11:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI IZ |
08BAGHDAD3759 | MUTHANNA GOVERNOR AND PC CHAIRMAN DISCUSS [...] (C) The governor and Provincial Council chairman told Senior Advisor Gray and Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Muthanna staff on November 24 that the elections will be successful and free of violence, the SOFA agreement should pass, and foreign investment will continue to be a top priorit [...] | 2008-11-30 11:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI IZ ECON EINV |
08BAGHDAD3763 | EPRT BAGHDAD: IDP RETURNS IN SAB AL BOUR -- [...] (C) SUMMARY: Two years ago, Sab al Bour was a virtual ghost town, with fewer than 2,000 people of a population that had numbered 58,000 in 2003 (and an almost equal mix of Sunni and Shia). The village could now be a model of reconstruction and reconciliation for other Iraqi cities. Over 3,5 [...] | 2008-11-30 16:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PREL PREF |
08BAGHDAD3771 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: INDEPENDENT MEDIA FACE [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Government officials and insurgents continue to intimidate and harass journalists in Salah ad Din (SaD). Many journalists associate themselves with powerful clients who can offer protection, such as political part [...] | 2008-12-01 15:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KPAO PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD3772 | SUPPORT COUNCILS MAY IGNITE KIRKUK'S POWDER KEG [...] (U) This is a PRT Kirkuk reporting cable. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) On November 3, a delegation of Arab leaders from Kirkuk province met with PM Maliki in Baghdad to propose forming Tribal Support Councils (referred to as "Majlis Al Isnad") in Kirkuk province. Arab leaders claim [...] | 2008-12-01 16:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3773 | SISTANI PRESSURES IRAQI GOVERNMENT TO CONDUCT SOFA [...] (C) We have seen various statements in recent days claiming to represent Grand Ayatollah Sistani's dissatisfaction with the bilateral SoFA recently approved by the Iraqi parliament. Some of the reporting appears to be false. However, a sermon by a Sistani aide that noted problems - from the [...] | 2008-12-01 16:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3774 | SALAH AD DIN PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS PART I: PARTIES [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Political entities in Salah ad Din (SaD) province have been working intensively to forge alliances for upcoming provincial elections. The Governor, Deputy Governor, and Provincial Director of Police (PDOP) a [...] | 2008-12-01 17:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD3775 | SALAH AD DIN PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS PART II: [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) In addition to National Sunni Arab political entities, Shi'a and Kurdish parties, representing minority populations in Salah Ad Din (SaD) province, are preparing for provincial elections there (ref C). Form [...] | 2008-12-01 17:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD3776 | KRG DIVIDED: SPECIAL ADVISOR KRAJESKI DISCUSSES [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil reporting cable. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) During Senior Advisor Krajeski's recent visit to the Kurdistan Region, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and non-KRG interlocutors suggested that the power struggle between the two dominant Kurdish political pa [...] | 2008-12-01 18:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3782 | PARLIAMENT'S REFORM RESOLUTION PRESENTS REBUKE TO [...] (C) Summary and Comment: On November 27 Iraq's parliament passed a non-binding political reform resolution in conjunction with the U.S. - Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) and Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA). This resolution was a key element of a political deal to reassure the Sunni [...] | 2008-12-02 14:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3784 | THE SIMMER BEFORE THE BOIL? SPECIAL ADVISOR [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil reporting cable. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Senior Advisor (S/A) for Northern Iraq Thomas Krajeski engaged Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and non-KRG interlocutors on KRG relations with the Government of Iraq (GOI),upcoming provincial elections, arti [...] | 2008-12-02 16:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3789 | IRAQI POLITICS: SHIFTING ALLIANCES AND THE [...] (C) Summary: The grueling Iraqi political debates that eventually yielded consensus on the provincial elections law and the ratification of the Status of Forces Agreement pointed to an evolution in Iraqi politics in late 2008 as opposed to the way they worked in 2004-06. The contrasts are ge [...] | 2008-12-03 12:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3791 | IRAQI POLITICS: SHIFTING ALLIANCES AND THE [...] (C) Summary: The grueling Iraqi political debates that eventually yielded consensus on the provincial elections law and the ratification of the Status of Forces Agreement pointed to an evolution in Iraqi politics in late 2008 as opposed to the way they worked in 2004-06. The contrasts are ge [...] | 2008-12-03 12:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3795 | KUWAITI AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ ON THE TASKS AHEAD [...] (C) Kuwaiti Ambassador to Iraq, Ali Al-Mou'min, told Senior Advisor Gordon Gray November 29 that Iraq and Kuwait must move quickly -- at least on issues where they agree in principle -- to show their respective publics the benefits of strengthened bilateral ties. Al-Mou'min expressed some f [...] | 2008-12-04 06:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS IZ KU IR |
08BAGHDAD3796 | GOI DELIVERS ASSURANCES TO MEK, TAKES CUSTODY OF [...] (C) Summary: A GOI delegation led by Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim conveyed the GOI's humanitarian assurances to the USG to the Camp Ashraf (Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK)) leadership during a November 26 visit. The GOI had been reluctant to officially convey the assurances, concerned tha [...] | 2008-12-04 06:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS PTER PINS PREF IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD3804 | HIGH COMMISSIONER GUTERRES BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON [...] (C) November 25, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres met with the Ambassador to discuss UNHCR's assessment of refugee returns to Iraq, the plight of internally displaced persons and the UN's plan to increase activities countrywide. High Commissioner Guterres announ [...] | 2008-12-04 12:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3806 | KARBALA: JAAFARI'S CAMPAIGN STARTS EARLY [...] (C) Summary: Former Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari's National Reform Party (Islah) papered three Karbala neighborhoods with handbills on December 1. Other parties here plan to sue Islah for jumping the gun; the official start date for campaigning is December 15. Among Islah's candidates [...] | 2008-12-04 12:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI IZ |
08BAGHDAD3807 | IRAQ WTO ACCESSION UPDATE: BACK TO SQUARE ONE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Customs and tariff legislation, a key but politically sensitive component of Iraq's WTO Legislative Action Plan, is once again apparently stalled within the Ministry of Finance (MOF). An exhaustive tariff schedule is nearly ready. However, senior MOF officials oppose the schedul [...] | 2008-12-04 12:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3808 | KURDISH WAR OF WORDS WITH MALIKI ESCALATES OVER [...] (C) Summary/Comment: A war of words between Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG),precipitated by Maliki's plan to create Tribal Support Councils in areas disputed by the KRG and the GOI, has steadily escalated in the past week, drawing attention to a range [...] | 2008-12-04 13:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3818 | A TALE OF TWO TRADE SHOWS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over back-to-back weeks in November, the Iraqi Ministry of Trade (MOT) hosted two dramatically different trade shows. The six-day International Investment and Reconstruction Workshop (IIRW),aimed at both entrepreneurs and the average Iraqi consumer, showcased Iraqi products and [...] | 2008-12-05 12:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PREL EINV PINR IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD3819 | TURKISH ENVOY DISCUSSES VISIT OF PRESIDENT GUL TO [...] (C) During a two-week stint in Iraq in which he focused mainly on supporting efforts to gain a U.S.-Iraqi security agreement, Turkish Special Envoy for Iraq Murat Ozcelik told the Ambassador that leading Shi'a cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani agreed to a visit by Turkish President Gul to [...] | 2008-12-05 14:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ TU PREL |
08BAGHDAD3826 | ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT: MAINTAINING IRAQ'S "UNDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Embassy continues to make progress on its action plan concerning the Arab League Boycott (ALB) of Israel. To date in 2008, U.S. firms have reported five requests from Government of Iraq (GOI) entities to comply with this foreign boycott, down significantly from previous yea [...] | 2008-12-07 07:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KBCT ETRD PREL EFIN ECON EINV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3827 | MAYSAN: FADHILAH LEADER UPBEAT ON ELECTIONS [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Ali Kadhem Khalaf, Fadhilah provincial party head and one of two Deputy Provincial Council Chairmen, told the PRT that future elections will strengthen democracy in Iraq as newly-elected local and provincial officials continue to imp [...] | 2008-12-07 09:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON EINV KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3833 | KARBALA SECURITY FORCES IN HUMAN RIGHTS SPOTLIGHT [...] (C) Summary: Karbala's Iraqi Police (IP) commander has suspended from duty 134 personnel, including six senior officers, for alleged human-rights abuses. The local head of former Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari's Islah (Reform) Party has also claimed that police beat and verbally abused 12 [...] | 2008-12-07 15:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KJUS IZ |
08BAGHDAD3835 | ENCOURAGING CREDIBLE VOICES TO COUNTER VIOLENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Few places have suffered the ravages of violent extremism more than Iraq. There is a wealth of powerful and persuasive Iraqi voices that speak out against this violence. In coordination with Mission elements, the Multinational Force Iraq (MNF-I) and Provincial Reconstruction Tea [...] | 2008-12-08 11:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPAO IZ |
08BAGHDAD3842 | MUTHANNA OVERVIEW OF PRESS FREEDOM AND HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Muthanna Province, while not suffering from high-profile overt violations of human rights and press freedom, shows serious deficiencies in each area. The province's media are controlled by either the national government, p [...] | 2008-12-10 09:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3843 | MUTHANNA'S ONLY PRISON: OVERCROWDED AND [...] This is a Muthanna PRT reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: The PRT's acting Rule of Law (RoL) Advisor conducted an initial capacity and needs assessment at Muthanna's only prison and found an old, overcrowded, and ill-equipped facility. The prison's management is eager to accept coalition [...] | 2008-12-10 09:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | POL PGOV EFIN IZ |
08BAGHDAD3844 | NINEWA: KEROSENE SHORTAGE THREATENS AGAIN [...] (C) Over the last two winters, Ninewa residents suffered from a severe shortage of kerosene, which they use for cooking and home heating in the province's sub-freezing winters. Despite efforts by the Director of the Northern Oil Products Distribution Company (NOPDC) to obtain either larger al [...] | 2008-12-10 09:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET ENRG PGOV PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD3845 | KIRKUK: CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS FORCE OBEIDI TO [...] (C) Summary: Ahmed Obeidi from the Iraqi Republican Gathering (IRG) was removed as Coordinator of the Arab Unity Bloc (AUB) in Kirkuk, due to allegations of stealing IRG funds targeted to the AUB. Obeidi's membership in the IRG was also revoked. Sheikh Khary al-Assi took his place as the new [...] | 2008-12-10 09:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD3849 | MAYSAN MARSH PRINCE DISCUSSES POST-SOFA ISSUES [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: In a December 6 meeting with PRT members, prominent Maysani Sheikh Abed al-Kareem al-Mohammedawi (aka the Prince of the Marshes) lauded the timely passage of the SOFA and recommended that the U.S. should now look for opportu [...] | 2008-12-10 09:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINR KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3851 | CORRECTED COPY: MAYSAN MARSH PRINCE DISCUSSES [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: In a December 6 meeting with PRT members, prominent Maysani Sheikh Abed al-Kareem al-Mohammedawi (aka the Prince of the Marshes) lauded the timely passage of the SOFA and recommended that the U.S. should now look for opportu [...] | 2008-12-10 12:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINR KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3852 | AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD BRIEFS VP HASHIMI ON IRAQI [...] (C) On December 2, U.S. Representative to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad told Iraqi Vice-President Tariq al-Hashimi that Iraq must request a new United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution to extend Chapter VII protection over its financial assets. Claiming that "no one is satisfied [...] | 2008-12-10 12:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3853 | KHALILZAD AND ISCI LEADER AL-HAKIM DISCUSS IRAQI [...] (C) Summary: Leading Shi'a politician Abdelaziz al-Hakim, president of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI),told visiting USUN Amb. Khalilzad that his party would step up political reform efforts in the coming year, hinting that ISCI might support a vote of no-confidence against the Mali [...] | 2008-12-10 12:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD3855 | AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD DISCUSSES PROTECTION OF IRAQI [...] (C) On December 1, U.S. Representative to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad discussed with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki next steps to protect Development Fund for Iraq (DFI) assets through a new United Nations Security Council resolution (UNSCR). Khalilzad urged Iraq to quickly submit a dr [...] | 2008-12-10 13:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IZ |
08BAGHDAD3860 | BABIL: WILL MODERATE SADRISTS EMERGE IN ELECTIONS? [...] (SBU) Summary: Senior Sadrist leaders in Babil Province believe that a more moderate Sadrist presence may emerge if Muqtada al-Sadr's followers comply with his recent directive to participate in the upcoming provincial elections. Da'wa provincial leaders are hopeful about the prospects for co [...] | 2008-12-11 08:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3861 | SADRIST MAYSAN PC CHAIR: WE WANT TO WORK WITH THE [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Meeting with the PRT and Coalition Forces Commanders on December 4, Sadrist Maysan Provincial Council (PC) Chairman Abdul Jabbar Wahid Homaydi expressed the PC's appreciation for U.S. reconstruction assistance. He said th [...] | 2008-12-11 08:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD3870 | BASRA REGION REFERENDUM SUPPORTERS SEEK SIGNATURES [...] (C) Meetings held in early December between Senior Advisor Gray and a range of Basra leaders suggest that organizers of one-province region formation will have difficulty gathering enough signatures to force a referendum and are unlikely to achieve their ultimate objective of winning a referen [...] | 2008-12-11 13:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ IR |
08BAGHDAD3874 | RRT ERBIL: BUYING SOCIAL CONSENSUS IN THE KRG [...] (U) This is an Erbil Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Government oversight over religious affairs and civil society organizations in the Kurdistan Region is cemented by financial ties that bind these organizations to the government in a client/ [...] | 2008-12-11 14:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD3875 | NINEWA: GEO CHAIRMAN CONCERNED OVER PROVINCIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-11 15:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3880 | FIVE COMMITTEE TALKS - POSSIBLE ROADMAP FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. Participants in the Five Committee Talks on constitutional issues have told us the process has been positive, hard-hitting and honest. Heightened Shia-Kurd tensions, the confrontation in Khanaqin (reftel A,B,C and D) led to a Kurdish President Barzani visit to Baghdad at the end [...] | 2008-12-12 13:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3881 | FIVE COMMITTEE TALKS - POSSIBLE ROADMAP FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. Participants in the Five Committee Talks on constitutional issues have told us the process has been positive, hard-hitting and honest. Heightened Shia-Kurd tensions, the confrontation in Khanaqin (reftel A,B,C and D) led to a Kurdish President Barzani visit to Baghdad at the end [...] | 2008-12-12 14:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3893 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: PLOT THICKENS IN DEPUTY [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Questions surround the potential disqualification of Salah ad Din (SaD) Deputy Governor Abdullah Hussein Jebara from running as a candidate in the upcoming provincial elections. The Government of Iraq's (GOI) Commission on [...] | 2008-12-14 06:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3896 | VP MAHDI PRAISES POLITICAL BLOCS FOR OVERCOMING [...] (C) U.S. Representative to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad on December 1 reported to Iraqi Vice President Adil Abd al-Mahdi that Iraq must request a new United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution to protect its financial assets. Mahdi characterized the post-SoFA political environme [...] | 2008-12-14 09:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IZ |
08BAGHDAD3897 | URGING U.S. NGOS TO OBSERVE IRAQI PROVINCIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-14 10:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD39 | ANBAR POLITICAL LEADERS DISCUSS POLITICAL AND [...] (C) Summary: Four Anbari leaders met with the Ambassador December 31, to highlight the newly formed Anbar Higher Committee (AHC) as a conflict-resolution mechanism in the province. Anbar is eager to pursue an economic zone (EZ),perhaps in the city of al-Qaim. The Anbaris noted the lack of [...] | 2008-01-04 14:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD3903 | INSPECTOR GENERAL UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following an article in the New York Times suggesting a slew of firings and early retirements of Iraq's Inspectors General (IGs) were politically motivated, the heads of the Commission on Integrity (COI) and the Board of Supreme Audit (BSA) strenuously defended the integrity of t [...] | 2008-12-14 11:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR KCRM PGOV EAID PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3905 | SADR CITY: WITH U.S. COMBAT TROOP DRAWDOWN AHEAD, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraq's Sadr City, home to almost 40 percent of Baghdad's total population of five million, has benefited from dramatically improved security since last spring's joint coalition and Iraqi Security Force (ISF) efforts to stabilize the area. The area also stands, since then, as a t [...] | 2008-12-14 12:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ PREL |
08BAGHDAD3918 | WASIT TRIBES, SHEIKHS AND THE ELECTIONS [...] (C / / REL TO USA, ACGU) Summary: In meetings with the PRT held December 5 and 7, leading representatives from three Wasit tribes explained Prime Minister Maliki's growing popularity in terms of his ability to provide security and stand up to Iran. Sheikhs who were active in the province's S [...] | 2008-12-15 07:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3919 | MAYSAN: ISCI DEPUTY GOVERNOR ON SECURITY AGREEMENT [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Maysan Deputy Governor Abdul Hussein Abdul Radha (ISCI) told PRT members ON December 3 that the recent ratification of the Security Agreement (SA) would ensure stability in Iraq and facilitate bilateral [...] | 2008-12-15 07:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PTER PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD392 | NINEWA: BAGHDAD JUDGES COMPLETE ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ninewa Major Crimes Court (MCC),which tries the most difficult terrorism and corruption cases, completed another successful panel in Mosul. With strong support from the PRT, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment and 1st Armored Division, senior Baghdad judges returned January 22 to [...] | 2008-02-10 15:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KJUS IZ |
08BAGHDAD3921 | NINEWA: ADM TO PARTICIPATE IN PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: The Assyrian Democratic Movement (ADM) will participate in the upcoming provincial elections. Deacon Adid Yusif al-Sahq of Shaikhan said that ADM will contest the seat reserved for the Christian minority, although it has yet to decide whether it will field candidates for seats no [...] | 2008-12-15 07:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3922 | BASRA RELIGIOUS AND ETHNIC MINORITIES SHARE COMMON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-15 11:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3926 | HJC REJECTS EFFORT TO REFORM PERSONAL STATUS LAW [...] (C) Summary: The Higher Judicial Council (HJC) has rejected a Ministry of Human Rights (MoHR)-drafted amendment that would have abrogated a provision in the 1972 Personal Status Law that requires minors to convert to Islam if one of their parents converts to Islam. The MoHR had sought the [...] | 2008-12-15 16:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV KJUS IZ |
08BAGHDAD3929 | BASRA RELIGIOUS AND ETHNIC MINORITIES SHARE COMMON [...] (C) Senior Advisor Gordon Gray and REO Director met with leaders of Basra's minority Christian, Sunni, and ethnic African communities during three separate meetings November 30 to December 2. Leaders of all three communities called for job creation, expressed caution toward regionalism, and [...] | 2008-12-16 12:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV KDEM PHUM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3931 | SRSG AND AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD DISCUSS IRAQI [...] (C) Summary: UNAMI SRSG Staffan de Mistura and U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad strategized ways to assist Iraq with Chapter 7 status as well as UNAMI's future in Iraq at a December 2 meeting. Ambassador Khalilzad pointed out three separate issues with Ch [...] | 2008-12-16 12:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD3932 | KEY BABIL SHEIKH ON SUNNI PERSPECTIVES, BABIL [...] Summary (C) In a two-hour meeting on December 10 with PRT Leader and DCG-S, Sunni Sheikh Adnan Janabi painted a largely positive picture of the Sunni community's outlook in Babil. His candidate slate of largely Sunni tribal sheikhs has engaged in discussions with a wide variety of other parti [...] | 2008-12-16 13:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ECON IZ |
08BAGHDAD3933 | INCREASING FINANCIAL PRESSURE ON IRAN - JOINT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Italian, French, British and US Chiefs of Mission (COM) delivered subject demarche to Iraqi Foreign Minister (FM) Zebari, emphasizing their governments' unified commitment to implementing rigorously all relevant UNSC, EU and bilateral sanctions and to pressuring Iran to turn away [...] | 2008-12-16 14:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN MNUC IR GM KNNP |
08BAGHDAD3942 | ABU GHRAIB IDPS: A NEW DAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former residents of Abu Ghraib qada (district) highlight improvements after years of sectarian violence, ruthless attacks by Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and heavy-handed counterattacks led by Brigadier General Nassir al-Hiti's "Muthana" Brigade. Despite five months of targeted house [...] | 2008-12-17 07:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD3956 | FINANCE MINISTER JABR ON BUDGET ISSUES, GE [...] (C) Summary: At an informal dinner on December 12 with CETI and the newly-arrived Treasury Attache, Finance Minister Jabr described a "shadow budget" that would trim expenditures by USD 8 billion by noting that "we are in a crisis." He noted that while he would facilitate the sale of General [...] | 2008-12-18 12:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON IZ |
08BAGHDAD3977 | PM VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE ON HOLD FOR NOW [...] (C) SUMMARY. There is plenty of talk about a no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Maliki, but it appears unlikely that his opponents will force action any time soon. There was more discussion about removing Maliki among the Kurdish, Sunni Arab and one Shia Islamist party during the Musl [...] | 2008-12-19 16:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD3992 | SALAH AD-DIN ANALYSIS: TRIBAL POLITICS IN LOCAL [...] (C) Tribal influence will play an important role in the upcoming provincial elections in Salah ad Din (SaD). That said, there are substantial divisions within the tribes, and limits on the ability of leaders to mobilize political support. The influence of most sheikhs or tribal leaders is lo [...] | 2008-12-21 07:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SOCI IZ |
08BAGHDAD3994 | (C) PRT SALAH AD DIN: IRANIAN INVOLVEMENT IN [...] (SBU) Over the last six months, Samarra residents have grown increasingly concerned that Iranian interests are coordinating to influence the reconstruction of the Al Askari shrine (Golden Mosque) in Samarra, as well as the overall development of the city itself. People fear that the GOI and [...] | 2008-12-21 11:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD3999 | PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS ON TRACK, BUT CHALLENGES [...] (C) Summary: Preparations for the January 31 provincial elections are on track. Iraq's electoral commission has overcome political pressure and in-fighting among the commissioners to approve ballot design and the methodology for seat allocation, although the quota for female representation [...] | 2008-12-22 10:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD400 | ANBAR PROVINCIAL COUNCIL RECOMMENDS LEGAL ACTION [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: The Anbar Provincial Council (PC) voted February 9 to recommend prosecuting two local figures, Hameed Al-Heiss and Sheikh Ali Hatim Suleiman, for allegedly threatening to use violence to loosen the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) grip on po [...] | 2008-02-11 09:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD4004 | SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS A CONCERN FOR BAGHDAD'S [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT Reporting Cable. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Provincial elections in Baghdad involve big numbers, a wide range of conditions and complicated planning -- like most things in the capital area. Over 2,400 candidates will compete for the 57 positions comprising the next Baghdad [...] | 2008-12-22 14:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PREL |
08BAGHDAD4005 | MINISTER OF FINANCE ON NON-SOVEREIGN DEBT ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: EMIN and TREASATT reviewed the status of Iraq's non-Paris Club country sovereign debts in a meeting with Minister of Finance Jabr on December 17. Iraq owes between USD 50-80 billion to non-Paris Club countries, though some of these countries, such as China and Poland are modeling [...] | 2008-12-22 14:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON IZ |
08BAGHDAD4007 | CONTROVERSY OVER SPEAKER MASHHADANI COMMENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Shia and Kurdish parliamentarians are demanding the ouster of Speaker Mashhadani because of his insulting comments last week, delaying a vote on an Allied security agreement. Mashhadani's political future looks grim as he loses his Sunni allies with every controversial outburst [...] | 2008-12-22 16:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD401 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: NEW PROVINCIAL RECONCILIATION [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) Summary: During its inaugural meeting on February 6, members of the recently-formed 24-member Salah ad Din (SaD) Provincial Committee for the Promotion of National Reconciliation - the provincial-level equivalent of the GoI's Implem [...] | 2008-02-11 10:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER ECON PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD4014 | IRAQI OIL MINISTER ON HIS MEETING WITH KRG [...] (C) Summary: Oil Minister Shahristani told UN Ambassador Khalilzad December 1 that oil issues took up "only 10 percent" of his two-hour meeting with KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani on November 24 (ref A),but that he and Barzani had agreed to allow Ministry of Oil employees back to work [...] | 2008-12-23 08:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PGOV EINV EFIN IZ |
08BAGHDAD4019 | PARLIAMENT APPROVES ALLIED FORCES RESOLUTION AFTER [...] (C) SUMMARY. Shia, Kurd and Sunni parliamentarians successfully joined together in forcing mercurial Speaker Mahmoud Mashhadani to resign his position as speaker and member of the Iraqi Parliament. And while most of the day was taken up with behind-the-scenes negotiations to oust him from powe [...] | 2008-12-23 18:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ MARR PGOV PREL |
08BAGHDAD4042 | RRT ERBIL: ANOTHER INDUSTRY ENDANGERED BY KRG [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The sole foreign insurance broker in the Kurdistan Region (KR) says that he would like to provide a wider array of insurance products to the Kurdish market, but has faced numerous hurdles due to the party/family-dominated Kurdistan Regional Government's vested interest in margin [...] | 2008-12-28 08:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EFIN PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD4046 | SADR CITY'S NATIVE SON AND HIS SHOES: MUTED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Reactions in Sadr City to its native son's Muntader al-Zaidi's shoe-throwing incident during President Bush's recent press conference in Baghdad led to varied -- though mostly muted -- reactions in the capital's largest district, home to approximately 40 percent of the city's pop [...] | 2008-12-28 13:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PREL |
08BAGHDAD4058 | SUMMING UP IRAQ'S YEAR OF ANTI-CORRUPTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih declared in January that 2008 was to be Iraq's year of combating corruption but Iraq has made only incremental gains in doing so. Salih issued an 18-point plan to fight administrative corruption that was issued in the PM,s name, of which four [...] | 2008-12-29 14:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR KCRM PGOV EAID PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD4064 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: APPREHENSION OVER COMING SOI [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Provincial leaders are concerned that the upcoming transition of responsibility for Sons of Iraq (SOI) contracts from Coalition Forces (CF) to the Government of Iraq (GOI) could undermine security improvements in Salah ad Din ( [...] | 2008-12-30 14:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ |
08BAGHDAD4067 | AMBASSADOR AND DPM SALIH DISCUSS FALLING OIL [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador and EMIN delivered a letter from Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt to Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih on December 28. In a wide-ranging discussion, Salih noted with alarm that the GOI's oil exports in 2009 will most likely not exceed 1.6 million barrels per day [...] | 2008-12-30 15:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL PGOV KCOR EPET IZ |
08BAGHDAD4075 | PROMINENT MUTHANNA CANDIDATE ACCUSES FOES OF VOTE [...] (U) This is a Muthanna PRT reporting cable. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Independent Provincial Council (PC) member Hakim Khazal Khashan is campaigning in earnest for re-election. In a meeting with the PRT Muthanna Team Leader, Hakim discussed his party's list, alleged that provincial officials are u [...] | 2008-12-31 13:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | POL PGOV PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD4076 | MUTHANNA SHEIKH SAYS TRIBAL SUPPORT COUNCILS [...] (U) This is a Muthanna PRT reporting cable 2. (C) SUMMARY: PRT Team Leader met with Sheikh Abu Chefat to discuss current political issues in Muthanna, including Tribal Support Council (SC) activities in the province. Chefat stated that despite the lack of Provincial Council (PC) support, [...] | 2008-12-31 13:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | POL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD409 | GOI SEEKS LOCAL AND PROVINCIAL SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) PM Reconstruction Advisor Haq al-Hakim told us on February 7 that the GOI expects reconstruction on the Shia Golden Mosque of Samarra to be in full swing by October or November 2008. EmbOffs joined a delegation led by al-Hakim to Samarra in Salah ad Din (SaD) Province for February 6 me [...] | 2008-02-11 19:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID IZ |
08BAGHDAD429 | IRAQ EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE - FEBRUARY 8 [...] SUMMARY: In place of an absent PM Maliki, Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih chaired the 8 February Iraqi Executive Steering Committee (I-ESC) in support of the Baghdad Security Plan (Fardh Al Qanoon - FaQ). The meeting featured calls to limit political and religious interference menacing co [...] | 2008-02-13 14:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON IZ PGOV |
08BAGHDAD430 | FCO'S HOWELLS:BRITISH ELECTORATE MONITORING IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a February 9 meeting, UK Foreign Office Minister of State Kim Howells told Ambassador Crocker that he had not gotten the sense from intense U.K. Cabinet discussions that the British were going to relinquish responsibility in Basrah. Howells was clear, however, that the U.K. [...] | 2008-02-13 15:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ UK |
08BAGHDAD431 | SMALL KURDISH PARTIES TAP FRUSTRATION WITH KDP AND [...] (C) Summary: Islamist and other small parties in Iraqi Kurdistan are attempting to exploit growing public frustration with the dominant Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). Based on anecdotal evidence, the two parties appear to be losing popularity, though [...] | 2008-02-13 19:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD433 | IRAQ AWAKENING MOVEMENT CHOOSES NEW DEPUTIES, [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: The Anbar-based Awakening Movement of Iraq took a step toward transforming itself from a tribal security force into a political party February 12 when 300 supporters met to elect new deputy leaders and to signal their intention to att [...] | 2008-02-14 14:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD436 | CLC JOB PLANS WIN EARLY BACKING IN BAGHDAD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Government of Iraq (GoI) officials won initial support from Baghdad Mayor Saber Al-Assawi and Baghdad Provincial Council Chairman Mueen Al-Khademy for two new employment plans for Concerned Local Citizens (CLCs) during a series of meetings in late January and early February. Bot [...] | 2008-02-14 15:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PINR PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD438 | VP ADEL ABDEL MEHDI: SISTANI "VERY NERVOUS" ABOUT [...] (C) Summary: Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told the Ambassador on February 10 that his recent meetings in Najaf with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani and Iraq's other three leading Shia clerics revealed great unease over current economic and social conditions in Iraq, but the four Maraja offer [...] | 2008-02-15 10:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD44 | ALI AL-ADEEB CONFIRMS THAT DA'WA WILL SUPPORT [...] (C) Ali al-Adeeb, the Da'wa party bloc leader at the CoR, told us January 2 that Da'wa would support the Accountability and Justice Law (i.e., the de-Ba'athification Law) when it comes to a vote, adding that Da'wa would like to see the law amended -- not for substantive reasons, but to persuade [...] | 2008-01-05 11:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD449 | INITIAL ANALYSIS OF COR-APPROVED 2008 FEDERAL [...] (C) Begin Summary: After more than two and a half months of legislative branch deliberations, the Council of Representatives (CoR) voted to pass the 2008 General Federal Budget law on February 13 as part of an overall package which included Amnesty and Provincial Powers laws. The Presidency Co [...] | 2008-02-15 16:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD450 | IRAQI PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS UPDATE PART 3: TIMING [...] (C) Summary: Passage of "The Law of the Governorates Not Organized Into a Region (Provincial Powers)" on February 13 has set into motion a timetable for holding provincial elections in Iraq this year. While we believe the elections deadline as outlined in the law is overly ambitious given its [...] | 2008-02-16 05:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD451 | SRSG DE MISTURA ON HYDROCARBONS/ARTICLE 140, AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 14 SRSG Staffan de Mistura discussed with A/DCM Ries U.S. and UN approaches toward the GOI to promote movement on the hydrocarbons laws, which will be necessary to open political space for progress on Article 140 issues. Additionally they discussed the upcoming first [...] | 2008-02-16 07:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PGOV PHUM PREF PREL IR |
08BAGHDAD457 | PRT ANBAR: ANBAR POLITICAL FIGURES DEMAND COUNCIL [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Sheikh Ali Hatim Suleiman and Hameed Al-Heiss aired their grievances with the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) in a meeting with MNF-West and the PRT at Camp Fallujah on February 16. Both disavowed any support for political violence, alt [...] | 2008-02-17 17:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINS KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD459 | UNAMI CHIEF ON ELECTIONS AND UPCOMING MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: UNAMI Special Representative of the Secretary General to Iraq Staffan de Mistura told the Ambassador on February 15 that UNAMI's decision to assist the CoR in filling eight vacant Governorate Electoral Office (GEO) director positions, rather than firing all GEO directors and selec [...] | 2008-02-18 05:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD470 | NEA/DAS BUTLER MEETING WITH FM ZEBARI [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a February 14 meeting, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told NEA DAS Lawrence Butler that he thought Iran postponed the trilat scheduled for February 15 because of the February 12 assassination in Damascus of Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyah. Zebari confirmed that Iranian Pre [...] | 2008-02-19 07:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD471 | FINE TUNING OUR POSITION ON OIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Oil has announced plans to sign technical service agreements in 2008 with major international oil companies to increase production in its giant oil fields. While comprehensive legislation to protect the interests of foreign companies doing business in Iraq will [...] | 2008-02-19 08:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD472 | EPRT FALLUJAH: CITY COUNCIL BECOMING LEGITIMATE [...] (U) This is a joint ePRT Fallujah/POL reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Nearly non-existent only eight short months ago, the Fallujah City Council (FCC) is developing into a legitimate governing force that is building political capacity and driving economic development in Fallujah. The Co [...] | 2008-02-19 08:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID IZ |
08BAGHDAD473 | GOI FIGHTS KEROSENE CORRUPTION, MILITIA RACKETS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sayid Nemah Jabour of the office of the Iraqi National Security Advisor told poloff February 15 that the new Project Clean Delivery (PCD) kerosene distribution system had significantly diminished militia revenue from the theft and sale of kerosene. Jabour said that an Iraqi inte [...] | 2008-02-19 10:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PINR PINS PTER IZ PGOV |
08BAGHDAD477 | THE PROVINCIAL POWERS LAW: A HARD COR BATTLE WON, [...] (C) Summary. CoR members passed the provincial powers law February 13 as part of an omnibus package with the 2008 budget and amnesty law. Among the three pieces of legislation, the provincial powers law was the most controversial, as it delineates the authorities between Iraq's central and [...] | 2008-02-19 14:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD480 | IRAQ CABINET DEFERS KOSOVO RECOGNITION; PREFERS TO [...] (C) On February 19, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told PolCounselor that Kosovo recognition was the first item on that morning's Cabinet meeting agenda and the Cabinet generally was in favor of recognition. However, several (unidentified) participants argued that Iraq should not get out a [...] | 2008-02-20 02:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KFLO AEMR ASEC CASC MARR PREL PINR AMGT YI |
08BAGHDAD484 | AFTERMATH OF DE-BA'ATHIFICATION LAW PASSAGE [...] (C) Summary: Although the Law of Accountability and Justice was ratified by the Presidency Council on February 3 and awaits publication in the official gazette, the GoI still has a significant amount to accomplish before the law can be implemented in any meaningful way. VP Hashimi's unrealized [...] | 2008-02-20 07:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD485 | VP ADEL MULLING VETO OF PROVINCIAL POWERS LAW [...] (C) Summary: In a February 19 meeting, the Ambassador urged Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi to put aside misgivings about the recently-passed Provincial Powers law and not to veto the bill, a move that would also block enactment of the 2008 GOI budget and an Amnesty law (all were approved as a [...] | 2008-02-20 11:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD49 | CODEL COLEMAN DISCUSSES 2008 OUTLOOK WITH HAKIM [...] (C) On January 5 CODEL Coleman (Sens. Norm Coleman (R-MN),John Cornyn (R-TX),Johnny Isakson (R-GA)) met with ISCI Leader Abd al-Aziz Al-Hakim. MPs Hadi al-Amri and Redha Taki also attended the meeting. Hakim opened by saying 2007 ended on a better note than it began, citing a "20-25%" dec [...] | 2008-01-07 13:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IR IZ PGOV |
08BAGHDAD495 | IRAQ'S COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES [...] (C) Its powerful constitutional role notwithstanding, Iraq's parliament remains a weak institution. Its problems are Iraq's problems: deep-seated sectarian, ethnic and personal animosities that inhibit and frequently prevent compromise, cooperation and agreement. Given the magnitude of thes [...] | 2008-02-21 09:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON IZ |
08BAGHDAD50 | SEEKING KUWAITI CONCURRENCE ON MNF-I SALVAGE [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 7. 2. (C) Summary. On December 18, 2007, the Kuwaiti Navy ordered two vessels contracted by the Multi-National Force in Iraq (MNF-I) to depart disputed waters in the Khawr Abd Allah (KAA) waterway. These contracted vessels were surveying tw [...] | 2008-01-07 15:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT KU MARR MCAP MOPS PBTS PINS PNAT PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD501 | BAGHDAD ZOO -- RESPITE FROM THE URBAN JUNGLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Baghdad Zoo has reportedly become the most popular destination for family outings in Baghdad. Attendance increased dramatically in 2007, and continues to rise. The Zoo Director told visiting poloff on February 11 that approximately 8,000 people visit the Zoo every weekend, with fam [...] | 2008-02-21 13:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD503 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: PROVINCIAL COUNCIL AND ITS [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) After months of meeting sporadically and without achieving quorum, the Salah ad Din Provincial Council (PC) has been increasingly active, meeting with quorum and efficiently conducting its business. PC Chairm [...] | 2008-02-21 15:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS PINR KCRS IZ |
08BAGHDAD509 | NEIGHBORS PROCESS: UNAMI ROLLS UP ITS SLEEVES [...] (C) SUMMARY: At his February 20 introductory call at Embassy Baghdad, Ambassador Gerard Sambrana, Special Political Advisor to SRSG de Mistura, exchanged views on the Neighbors Process with PolMil M/C and PolCouns. Sambrana communicated de Mistura,s commitment to try to improve the "process" [...] | 2008-02-22 09:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EG IR IZ KU TU UN SY |
08BAGHDAD518 | CHIEF JUSTICE OFFERS VIEWS ON AMNESTY [...] (C) Summary: At a February 20 meeting with members of the MNF-I and Embassy communities, Iraqi Chief Justice Medhat al-Mahmoud offered his views on the recently passed General Amnesty Law. Commenting that the entire law could not be applied to those in MNF-I detention, he reiterated that arti [...] | 2008-02-22 16:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD528 | NINEWA: TIGRIS BRIDGE CLOSURES SQUEEZE KURDISH [...] (C/REL ACGU) Insurgent attacks in the last year on Tigris River bridges north of Mosul have constrained the Kurdish Democratic Party's (KDP) ability to deliver food and fuel from Dohuk province to the contested Sinjar District of Western Ninewa, in which the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) [...] | 2008-02-24 02:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON MARR PREL PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD53 | SALIH AND RUBAIE SAY 2008 THE YEAR OF ECONOMIC, [...] (C) Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih and National Security Advisor Muwaffaq al-Rubaie met January 5 with Senators Norm Coleman, John Cornyn, and Johnny Isaksen in Salih,s home. All agreed that Iraq has made important security strides in the last year, a fact which Salih hoped the Senators [...] | 2008-01-08 17:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD533 | BAGHDAD EPRT: SHEIKH ALI-HATEM SPEAKS ON AQI, [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-24 12:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER SOCI SCUL IZ |
08BAGHDAD537 | BAGHDAD EPRT: SHEIKH ALI-HATEM SPEAKS ON AQI, [...] (U) This is a Baghdad 2 E-PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: During a February 12 meeting with MNF-I Officers and E-PRT Team Leader, Sheikh Ali Hatem al-Suleiman, a controversial Anbar Province figure, condemned the February 11 VBIED attack against him, which he attributed to AQI, and de [...] | 2008-02-24 17:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER SOCI SCUL IZ |
08BAGHDAD539 | DPM SALEH'S GRAND BARGAIN--KURDS NEED SUNNIS; [...] (C) During a two-and-one-half hour discussion on February 20, Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Barham Saleh told Ambassador Crocker and Special Adviser Pearce that both Massud and Nechirvan Barzani would shortly arrive in Baghdad for lengthy stays. Saleh emphasized that the USG must act as the mae [...] | 2008-02-25 02:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08BAGHDAD54 | CODEL COLEMAN URGES VP HASHIMI TO CONSIDER [...] (C) Summary: CODEL Coleman pressed VP Hashimi on national reconciliation on January 5. VP Hashimi responded he is open to compromise to enable Tawafuq's return to the GOI, but blamed PM Maliki for the lack of progress. VP Hashimi hopes the IIP-KRG Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will be a g [...] | 2008-01-08 17:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD542 | THE STATE OF JUSTICE IN MAYSAN PROVINCE [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: Maysan PRT met with Maysan Chief Justice, Ja,afer Mohsin Ali Mahmoud, the province's driving force on rule of law, in order to discuss upcoming training this March. Chief Justice Ja'afer is. Chief Justice Ja,afer highlighted t [...] | 2008-02-25 11:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD544 | IRAQ EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE - FEBRUARY 15 [...] SUMMARY: An assertive Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki chaired the 15 February Iraqi Executive Steering Committee (I-ESC) in support of the Baghdad Security Plan (Fardh Al Qanoon - FaQ). The meeting featured praise of FaQ on its one year anniversary; discussions of remedies to the shortage of [...] | 2008-02-25 13:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON IZ PGOV |
08BAGHDAD553 | ABDEL AZIZ AL-HAKIM ON "TIRESOME" SADRISTS, IDPS, [...] (C) Summary: Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) Chairman Abdel Aziz al-Hakim told the Ambassador on February 24 that, despite contrary claims by "tiresome" Sadrists, the ISCI-Sadrist non-aggression agreement remains valid, though Hakim remains concerned about Sadrist thuggery and militia v [...] | 2008-02-26 07:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD556 | AL-SISTANI REPRESENTATIVE CONTINUES CRITICISM OF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-26 12:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD557 | MINISTER OF HOUSING AND CONSTRUCTION EXPLAINS [...] (C) In a cordial 90 minute meeting on February 24, Minister of Housing and Construction Bayan Diyazee told Ambassador Charles Ries, the Coordinator for Economic Transition in Iraq, and Major General Kevin Bergner, Deputy Chief of Staff for MNF-I Strategic Effects, that foreign investment was a [...] | 2008-02-26 13:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV EFIN SOCI IZ |
08BAGHDAD562 | BAGHDAD: LOCAL COUNCILS AND ESSENTIAL SERVICES [...] (U) This is a Baghdad PRT reporting cable. 2. (U) Summary. Recent security gains and progress toward reconciliation have opened a window for greater cooperation between local councils and the authorities responsible for delivering services to Baghdad residents. As national leaders work to [...] | 2008-02-26 16:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PINS PTER KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD573 | VP ABDEL MEHDI VETOS PROVINCIAL POWERS LAW [...] (C) Summary: On February 26, Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi vetoed on constitutional grounds the Provincial Powers Law passed February 13 as part of a three-item package by Iraq's Council of Representatives (CoR). The other two items of the package -- a 2008 GOI budget and an Amnesty bill -- [...] | 2008-02-27 19:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD575 | BAGHDAD: RIVALRY HEATS UP AMONG SHIA PARTIES [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Over 75 percent of Baghdad's ISCI-dominated Provincial Council (PC) voted February 19 to dismiss Baghdad's three Deputy Mayors, one of whom was the highest-ranking Sadrist in Baghdad's city government. PC members announced publicly that the Amanat needs more "effort and [...] | 2008-02-28 02:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PINS PTER KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD578 | GOI BEGINS TO MAKE SOME PROGRESS IN IMPROVING [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI has begun to make some progress on addressing overcrowding in the juvenile justice system in Baghdad. The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (MOLSA) has identified a suitable site and has begun planning for a new juvenile facility in the 9 Nissan neighborhood and has b [...] | 2008-02-28 08:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM KJUS PGOV PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD583 | AYATOLLAH HUSSEIN AL-SADR ON IRAQ'S POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: In a February 27 dinner meeting held in his house adjacent to Baghdad's Kadhimiyah Shia shrine, Ayatollah Hussein al-Sadr lamented to the Ambassador that Iraq is poorly led by its political class, warned that Arab-Kurd tensions are increasing, and complained of markedly increasing [...] | 2008-02-28 13:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD585 | NINEWA: IRAQI GOVERNMENT SAYING THE RIGHT THINGS [...] (C/REL ACGU) Summary and Comment: The Iraqi Government is focused on Mosul security and reconstruction. The massive explosion in January in West Mosul's Zanjali market and ongoing military operations served as catalysts to focus the Iraqi Government at the highest level on the critical import [...] | 2008-02-28 14:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID PREL ECON MARR IZ |
08BAGHDAD586 | PRT KIRKUK: KURDISH BROTHERHOOD VIEWS ON THE [...] (U) This is a Kirkuk Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) Summary and Comment: Kirkuk Provincial Council members Ali Al-Salhi and Awad M. Ameen (Kirkuk Brotherhood League-KBL) told us February 14 that the KBL had accepted the Turkman bloc's request to resume negotiations [...] | 2008-02-28 14:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD587 | ZEBARI THINKS TURKS WANT BUFFER ZONE IN NORTHERN [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a February 28 meeting, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told PolCounselor Matthew Tueller and NSC Senior Director for Iraq and Afghanistan Brett McGurk that he held "direct, candid and open" discussions with Turkish PM Advisor Ahmet Davutolgu's during Davutoglu's February 27 [...] | 2008-02-29 07:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08BAGHDAD59 | MANAGING CLC ACTIVITIES [...] (C) Post has met with MNF-I to discuss REF B cable. This is a joint DOD/DOS/USAID response. There is no longer a requirement for USAID to execute any pilot program under the Community Stabilization Program (CSP) for former Concerned Local Citizens (CLCs). Receipt by DOD of the USD 155 millio [...] | 2008-01-09 02:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID IZ MARR PTER |
08BAGHDAD593 | U/S JEFFERY MEETS WITH IRAQI FINANCE MINISTER TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a February 26 meeting with U/S for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Reuben Jeffery and Iraqi Finance Minister Bayan Jabr, Jabr indicated his main goals for 2008 are to secure debt relief from Gulf state debtors, restructure state banks, and further increase budget exe [...] | 2008-02-29 14:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ENRG |
08BAGHDAD595 | DE-BA'ATH PUBLISHED -- CLOCK NOW TICKING [...] (C) Summary: Two separate sources report that the Law of Accountability and Justice (De-Ba'ath Reform) was published in the official gazette approximately two weeks ago (around February 14). Its publication begins the countdown on a 60-day (or 90-day) window for former Ba'athists covered by t [...] | 2008-02-29 18:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD596 | ZAAB TRIANGLE: EXPANDED PRT OPERATIONS TARGET KEY [...] (C) The Zaab Triangle, a region bounded by the Tigris and Zaab rivers in southern Ninewa and northern Salah ad Din provinces, is a focal point of counter-insurgency operations. In collaboration with PRT Salah ad Din, and with superb support from the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment, PRT Ninewa [...] | 2008-02-29 18:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON MARR EAID IZ |
08BAGHDAD601 | FOREIGN MINISTER PROVIDES AHMEDINEJAD VISIT [...] SUMMARY. During a February 28 meeting, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told Political Counselor Matt Tueller and NSC Senior Director for Iraq and Afghanistan Brett McGurk that he would urge the Iranians to avoid making inflammatory statements directed at the United States during President Ah [...] | 2008-03-01 07:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD602 | IRAQ EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE - FEB 22 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Maliki and Deputy Prime Minister Salih co-chaired the Iraqi Executive Steering Committee (I-ESC) in support of the Baghdad Security Plan (FaQ). The meeting featured PM Maliki calling for the reestablishment of defunct neighborhood councils in Sunni areas; the deci [...] | 2008-03-01 08:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON IZ PGOV |
08BAGHDAD608 | PRT NINEWA: VP HASHIMI FOCUSES ON POLITICAL [...] (U) This is a PRT Ninewa reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C/REL ACGU) Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashimi visited Ninewa on February 23 and 24 to meet with provincial government and security officials, members of his Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP),university students and professors, an [...] | 2008-03-02 02:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PINR EAID MARR IZ |
08BAGHDAD613 | AMBASSADOR'S MARCH 1 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) In a March 1 meeting with the Ambassador, President Talabani said the Turkish withdrawal from the north opens the door for a political solution; said he hopes to visit Turkey March 10-12 to talk frankly with them about the PKK as well as come away with an agreement to restart the trilateral [...] | 2008-03-02 11:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD615 | HUGE SHIA ARBA'EEN COMMEMORATION REFLECTS [...] (C) Summary: As many as several million Iraqi and foreign Shia pilgrims converged on the central Iraq city of Karbala February 26-29 to mark the end of the symbolic forty-day "Arba'een" commemoration to honor the seventh-century death of Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad who is ento [...] | 2008-03-02 13:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL IZ |
08BAGHDAD620 | PRT NINEWA: PROVINCIAL BUDGET EXECUTION: HARD-WON [...] This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Despite corruption in provincial budget execution in 2006 and delays in 2007, Ninewa was the first province to submit its 2008 capital budget to the Government of Iraq, for which it received special [...] | 2008-03-03 08:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD631 | AHMADINEJAD VISIT MOSTLY PR; STRONG SIGNAL THAT [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's overnight visit largely confirmed its advance billing as a PR exercise. The substance, centered around the signing of seven MOUs, including a USD 1 billion loan package, will require time to evaluate. The trip did send a strong visual that shoul [...] | 2008-03-03 18:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD636 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: PROVINCIAL OFFICIALS BRACE FOR [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) With the clock ticking on the implementation of the Accountability and Justice Law, Provincial leaders have begun to look ahead at how they can make their case to Baghdad on how and why the law should b [...] | 2008-03-04 12:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ |
08BAGHDAD638 | SOME PROGRESS ON HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY: The High Commission on Human Rights law received its second reading in the Council of Representatives (CoR) on February 13, almost a year after its first reading. According to members of the CoR Human Rights Committee, the third and final reading should take place shortly after t [...] | 2008-03-04 13:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD642 | SRSG DE MISTURA DISCUSSES UNAMI'S PLANS ON ARTICLE [...] (C) Summary: On February 20, Counselor Eliot A. Cohen met with Staffan de Mistura, Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) to the UN Assistance Mission for SIPDIS Iraq (UNAMI),to discuss UNAMI's plans for negotiating disputed internal boundaries and assisting with provinci [...] | 2008-03-05 02:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD647 | OIL MINISTER PRESENTS DEVELOPMENT PLAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Oil has presented to the Council of Ministers his three-part plan for oil field development in the absence of a national hydrocarbon law: to sign 2-year technical service agreements in 2008 with major international oil companies (IOCs) to increase production in f [...] | 2008-03-05 08:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON ENRG IZ |
08BAGHDAD649 | IRAQ EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE - FEB 29 [...] Summary. PM Maliki and DPM Salih co-chaired the 29 February 2008 IESC in support of the Baghdad Security Plan (Fardh Al-Qannon). The meeting featured lengthy discussion of steps being taken to improve electricity in Baghdad, PM Maliki's number one priority. More optimism than usual was sou [...] | 2008-03-05 13:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON IZ PGOV |
08BAGHDAD65 | NINEWA: SUCCESSFUL HAJJ FLIGHTS CREATE HOPES FOR [...] (C) Sumamry: Mosul Airport in December successfully processed thousands of Hajj pilgrims, arousing a sense of local pride and hope that commercial flights will continue for the betterment of the Ninewa economy. While there are many logistical hurdles to dividing Ninewa,s airport and airspace [...] | 2008-01-09 15:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV EAIR EAID IZ |
08BAGHDAD650 | THE IRAQI FPS - A MISSING SECURITY LINK? [...] SUMMARY: Prior to the fall of Saddam's regime, the Facility Protection Services (FPS) was directly controlled by the Ministry of Interior (MoI) but was decentralized during the CPA's administration. The MoI has recently introduced a FPS Reform Law that is considered critical in guaranteeing [...] | 2008-03-05 13:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ MCAP PGOV PINS |
08BAGHDAD656 | IRAQ OIL MINISTER OUTLINES PLANS TO U/S JEFFERY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Oil (MOO) Shahrishtani, in a February 25 meeting, told Under Secretary of State Jeffery that the MOO and the Cabinet are prepared to proceed with the February 07 draft hydrocarbon law (HCL),but said that the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) should cancel its post-F [...] | 2008-03-05 15:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET IZ |
08BAGHDAD658 | WHY VP ABDEL MEHDI REFUSED TO SIGN THE PROVINCIAL [...] (C) Summary: Vice President Abdel Mehdi plans to send Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker Mashadani a paper outlining sixteen specific objections to the Provincial Powers Law (PPL),along with proposed changes. While there is nothing in VP Abdel Mehdi's paper that would necessarily delay [...] | 2008-03-05 16:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD659 | AL-FADHILA BLOC CHAIRMAN, OFFICIALS WEIGH IN ON [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Embassy officials on March 4 at the Council of Representatives, al-Fadhila bloc chairman Hassan al-Shammari and other al-Fadhila CoR members expounded on several topics, including Vice-President al-Mehdi's recent veto of the Provisional Powers Law, the feasibility [...] | 2008-03-05 16:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL IZ |
08BAGHDAD66 | KURDS STILL SEEKING CHANCE TO REPLACE MALIKI [...] (C) Summary: Kurdish leaders have agreed not to remove Prime Minister Maliki in the short term, but have little faith in him and probably would move to replace him if not for the Secretary,s strong message that Iraqi leaders must focus on issues instead of personalities. While that message r [...] | 2008-01-09 15:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD660 | PRT KIRKUK: THE TURKMAN BLOC PRESENTS ITS DEMANDS [...] (U) This is a PRT Kirkuk reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary. At a February 24th negotiation session, the Turkman bloc, led by Ali Mahdi, presented again its seven item demand list in the hope of using President Talibani's recent endorsement as a lever to success. The negotiation session wa [...] | 2008-03-05 20:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD661 | PRT KIRKUK: NEGOTIATIONS TO END TURKMAN BOYCOT OF [...] (U) This is a PRT Kirkuk reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) The Kirkuk Brotherhood List (KBL) met with the Turkman Bloc on March 2 to continue discussions on a resolution to the Turkman Bloc's boycott of the Kirkuk Provincial Council. The KBL arrived prepared to sign on five of [...] | 2008-03-05 20:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM IZ |
08BAGHDAD663 | PRT NINEWA: RAIN AND JOBS - NOT SECURITY - ARE [...] (U) This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. Summary ------- 2. (C/REL ACGU) Even as the 29 February kidnapping of Chaldean Christian Archbishop Faraj Rahu from a neighborhood in east Mosul remains unresolved, community leaders and municipal officials in the outlyi [...] | 2008-03-06 13:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV EAGR PGOV PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD665 | VP ADEL ABDEL MEHDI ON VETO, SFA, AND AHMADINEJAD [...] (C) Summary: In a March 4 meeting, Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi defended his decision to veto the Provincial Powers Law (PPL) and said he would work closely with CoR leaders and bloc heads to effect a compromise bill that would be passed by the Presidency Council without another CoR vote. [...] | 2008-03-06 13:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD67 | TIME FOR TALKS BETWEEN KRG AND TURKEY [...] (C) Summary: Despite their strong reaction to Turkish airstrikes, including Massoud Barzani,s refusal to meet Secretary Rice (reftel),Iraqi Kurdish leaders are continuing SIPDIS to implement the anti-PKK measures they had previously imposed. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Kurdistan Regio [...] | 2008-01-09 15:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD679 | TALABANI ON HIS UPCOMING VISIT TO TURKEY [...] (C) In a March 4 meeting with the Ambassador, President Talabani confirmed he will visit Turkey March 7-9, accompanied by a large number of ministers, emphasized his desire to re-establish trilateral (Iraq-Turkey-U.S.) discussions while acknowledging the need for bilateral channels, and said h [...] | 2008-03-07 12:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08BAGHDAD680 | PRESIDENT TALABANI DISCUSSES DISSATISFACTION [...] (C) In a March 4 meeting with the Ambassador, President Talabani said he will meet with PM Maliki on March 5 to talk about the impasse surrounding Tawafuq,s return to the government, and said he understood that many in the IIP leadership are dissatisfied with Hashimi and plan to talk to Maliki [...] | 2008-03-07 12:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD684 | THE PARTY OF PRIME MINISTERS: DAWA UNITY REMAINS [...] (C) Summary: The Islamic Dawa Party, the grandfather of Iraq's Shia religious-based political parties, is no stranger to division, and the latest fissure pits a faction led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki against a smaller but scrappy camp headed by former Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaffri. F [...] | 2008-03-08 09:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD691 | PRT NINEWA: MOSUL MUSEUM, CLOSED AND WITH A [...] (C) PRT Leader, Public Affairs Officer, and other PRT staff visited the Mosul Museum February 21 to meet Museum Director Muzahem Hussein (please protect) and assess conditions at this important cultural institution, which has been closed since 2003 because of security. The museum is housed in [...] | 2008-03-08 19:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SCUL EAIR PINR PREL MARR IZ |
08BAGHDAD692 | MONEY, DEATH, AND LIES: SHIA MODERATE ON SOUTHERN [...] (C) In a March 6 meeting with Poloff, Sheikh Abid Faisal identified positive and negative aspects to the prospect of provincial elections. Although he acknowledged public appetite for governmental change, he said the power of the religious parties made it likely they would consolidate their [...] | 2008-03-09 07:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD699 | PRT WASIT: WASIT'S MODERATE ALTERNATIVES [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary. Poor performance from elected representatives and the likely demise of the closed list system may open the door a crack to Wasit independents. At least three small self-described &technocrat8 groups are seeking to organize, educ [...] | 2008-03-09 13:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD702 | PRT KIRKUK: DEPUTY GOVERNOR RECEIVES OFFICIAL [...] (U) This is a PRT Kirkuk reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Governor Rakan Saeed Ali Radwan al-Jubori received his official duties and authorities in an official communiqu from Kirkuk Governor Abdul Rahman Mustafa Fatih on February 27. The document cites each responsibility in ver [...] | 2008-03-09 21:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD705 | NSA RUBAI ON SOFA, SFA, AND GETTING APPROVAL [...] (C) In a wide-ranging March 5 conversation, National Security Advisor (NSA) Muwaffaq al-Rubai shared his views on the Strategic Framework (SF) and the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with Embassy PolMil MinsCouns Marcie Ries and NSC's Brett McGurk. Rubai stressed the delicate political clim [...] | 2008-03-10 03:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR ECON IZ |
08BAGHDAD706 | IRAQI NSA RUBAI ON AHMEDI-NEJAD'S VISIT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-10 03:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PRGO IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD713 | PDS INEFFICIENT, BUT POTENTIAL ELECTORAL AND [...] (C) Summary. For Iraqis, timely and full receipt of their Public Distribution System (PDS) benefits is a Government of Iraq (GOI) performance indicator. The World Food Program estimates that 60 percent of Iraqis wholly or partially depend on PDS rations; deliveries, however, are often late, [...] | 2008-03-10 12:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD726 | UPDATE ON AMNESTY IMPLEMENTATION [...] (C) Summary: The General Amnesty Law passed by the COR on February 13 is now in effect, and Chief Justice Medhat al-Mahmoud continues to issue implementing regulations that address only administrative aspects of the law. Already families and concerned individuals have lined up at courthouses [...] | 2008-03-11 18:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD727 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: LOCAL AND PROVINCIAL OFFICIALS [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Local district and subdistrict governments have over the last several months shown increasing signs of engagement with the Salah ad Din Provincial Government and a commitment to meeting the basic needs of thei [...] | 2008-03-11 19:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ |
08BAGHDAD730 | AMBASSADOR AND FM DISCUSS SFA AND SOFA PREPARATION [...] (C) In a March 3 meeting with Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Ambassador Ryan Crocker delivered the U.S. concept for diplomatic rollout of the Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA) and the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). It was apparent that the Iraqis were thinking of the SFA and SOFA as [...] | 2008-03-12 07:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR IZ |
08BAGHDAD732 | ONE HAND CANNOT CLAP: SADR'S PERIOD OF ISOLATION [...] (C) In a March 7 statement Shi'a leader Muqtada al-Sadr distanced himself one step further from contemporary Iraqi politics, telling his followers he was in a state of "corporeal separation" due to their continuing disobedience. Immediately afterwards Sadrist leaders sought to reassure confus [...] | 2008-03-12 09:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD734 | SHAWAYS GUARDED ABOUT SFA/SOFA PROCESS [...] (C) In a March 8 meeting, KDP Baghdad Representative (and former Deputy Prime Minister) Rosch Shaways told Ambassador Crocker, Senior Advisor to the Secretary on Iraq Satterfield and NSC Senior Director for Iraq and Afghanistan McGurk that KRG leadership was prepared to take positive, practi [...] | 2008-03-12 09:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD742 | UNAMI SRSG DISCUSSES ELECTIONS, ANKARA TRIP, SOFA [...] (C) Summary: On March 9, the Ambassador met with UNAMI Special Representative (SRSG) Staffan de Mistura upon his return from Ankara. The Ambassador and the SRSG discussed the veto of the Provincial Powers Law, provincial elections, and the SRSG,s thoughts on a way forward. De Mistura said [...] | 2008-03-13 11:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD743 | IRAQ EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE - MARCH 7 [...] (C) Summary. In the absence of Prime Minister Maliki, the Minister of Defense Abdul Qadir (MoD) Chaired the Iraqi Executive Steering Committee (IESC) in support of the Baghdad Security Plan (FaQ). The meeting featured complaints from representatives of Sadr City about the extremely poor state [...] | 2008-03-13 12:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON IZ PGOV |
08BAGHDAD744 | TALABANI'S ANKARA VISIT STRESSES PKK, GOI-GOT [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi President Talabani met on March 10 with Ambassador Crocker, S/I Satterfield, Pol-Mil Minister-Counselor Ries, and NSC Senior Director McGurk. Talabani told the Ambassador he was quite satisfied with his visit to Turkey and especially with progress on Northern Iraq. In fran [...] | 2008-03-13 12:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD755 | DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER ON GOI PLANS FOR REFUGEE [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a March 13 meeting, Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad Haj Hamoud said that the Iraqi Ambassador in Amman would disburse the USD 8 million Iraq had pledged to help its refugees in Jordan within a day or two, but did not mention any additional GOI funding initiatives for refugees. [...] | 2008-03-13 18:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PHUM PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD756 | KIRKUK BOYCOTT NEGOTIATIONS STALL [...] (U) This is a PRT Kirkuk reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The Turkman Bloc met with the Kirkuk Brotherhood List (KBL) on March 9 as part of their ongoing negotiations to end the 15 month-long boycott of the Kirkuk Provincial Council by the Turkman Bloc. Negotiations stalled after the tw [...] | 2008-03-14 09:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD764 | ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT: STRATEGY FOR IRAQ [...] This is an action request (see para 16). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Iraq's status as a "boycotting country" under the League of Arab States' boycott of Israel (Arab League Boycott -- ALB) has been listed as "under review" since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom in March 2003. Some elements in [...] | 2008-03-14 12:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KBTC ECON ETRD PREL EFIN IZ |
08BAGHDAD782 | AL-FADHILA AND THE REGIONS LAW: STAY TUNED. [...] (C) Summary: On Tuesday, March 11, Poloff met with Dr. Basim al-Hechaimi, a member of the Council of Representatives (COR) from the al-Fadhila bloc. During this informal and cordial meeting, Dr. Basim opined on several topics, including Vice-President Adil Abd al-Mehdi's recent veto of the Pro [...] | 2008-03-15 13:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD784 | ARAB PARLIAMENTARY SUMMIT FLAUNTS KURDS' [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Arab Parliamentary Union (APU)'s semi-annual conference convened March 11-13 in Erbil. Kurdistan Regional Government officals called the event immensely important for the Kurdish region for three reasons: it advertised Erbil as an investment haven, demonstrated the KRG's comm [...] | 2008-03-15 14:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD789 | TRADE MINISTRY PLANS RADICAL PDS REFORM 2008-2010 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Trade (MoT) has indicated that the Public Distribution System (PDS) will remain essentially untouched this year, fully funded either through the 2008 budget alone or with supplemental appropriations as well. The MoT has, however, provided Emboffs a cogent plan it [...] | 2008-03-16 08:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON EFIN IZ PGOV |
08BAGHDAD802 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: SAMARRA HAS NEW CITY COUNCIL [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) After weeks of backroom maneuvering, and with the full support of the Provincial Council (PC),Samarra has a new 21 member City Council (CC) that was selected by the consensus of the Samarra Mayor, local Sheik [...] | 2008-03-17 12:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ |
08BAGHDAD803 | MFA U/S HAMOUD ON THE KHWAR ABD ALLAH WATERWAY [...] (C) Deputy PolMil Counselor passed to MFA Undersecretary Hamoud on March 15 proposed points for inclusion in an Iraqi-Kuwaiti MOU on the salvage operation related to the Khwar Abd Allah waterway project. Also conveyed was the information contained in ref A regarding Kuwaiti willingness to mee [...] | 2008-03-17 12:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PBTS PTIA IZ KU |
08BAGHDAD805 | PENSION REFORM IMPLEMENTATION ONGOING, REINSTATED [...] (C) Begin Summary: Ali Awayed Abbas, head of the Pension Reform Steering Committee and Director General for the State Pension Department, told Econoffs March 13 that the first pension payments incorporating the new benefit formula as outlined in the pension amendment passed by the Council of R [...] | 2008-03-17 12:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD807 | BAHA AL-ARAJI: LACK OF TIMELINE IS BIGGEST U.S. [...] (C) Summary: In a March 16 meeting with Poloffs, Sadr Trend bloc leader Baha al-Araji acknowledged common U.S. and Sadrist interests but catalogued a long list of what he said were mistakes in America's handling of the post-regime period. Foremost among these, he claimed, is the failure to s [...] | 2008-03-17 14:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD817 | DIWANIYAH GOVERNOR AND PC CHAIR TALK [...] (C) Summary: PRT Team Leader, REO Hillah RSO, and PRT Offs met with Diwaniyah Governor Khudari (ISCI) on March 9 to discuss the overall situation in Diwaniyah province, future engagements between the governor and PRT, the need for economic development, and the prospect of provincial election [...] | 2008-03-18 11:39:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR |
08BAGHDAD823 | PRT ANBAR: EMBASSY KABUL DCM DISCUSSES AWAKENING [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar Reporting Cable. 2. (C) Summary: On March 12, Embassy Kabul DCM, Ambassador Chris Dell, met with Sheikh Ahmad, the leader of the tribal-based anti-Al Qaeda Awakening Movement of Iraq (SAI),to discuss the origins and success of SAI and what lessons could potentially [...] | 2008-03-18 15:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINS IZ |
08BAGHDAD830 | MEETING WITH GOI/MFA ON MAKHMOUR REFUGEE CAMP [...] (C) Summary: In a March 15 meeting with MFA U/S Hamoud, MNF-I DCS for Strategic Effects and Deputy PolMil Couns briefed Hamoud on their March 6 trip to Makhmour Refugee camp, and sought to get GOI views on closing the camp and the way ahead. Hamoud suggested that the GOI, GOT and UNHCR meet [...] | 2008-03-19 06:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PREF PREL |
08BAGHDAD831 | PRT MAYSAN: JAM AND THE TRIBES, URBAN-RURAL DIVIDE [...] (U) This is a PRT Maysan reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: The extent of Mahdi Army influence on dense urban and sparse rural populations in Maysan remains in dispute. Most evidence points to an elected and JAM-dominated provincial government controlling Maysan,s urban centers balanced ag [...] | 2008-03-19 08:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD832 | WARKA BANK REQUESTS U.S. CORRESPONDENT BANKING [...] (U) This cable contains an action request, see para 8. - - - - Summary - - - - 2. (C) Mohammed Kemal Issa, Deputy Managing Director for International Affairs at Warka Bank, asked EMIN during a March 7 meeting for our help in encouraging U.S. banks to form correspondent banking relations [...] | 2008-03-19 09:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD841 | COR SPEAKER MASHADANI CALLS ARAB PARLIAMENTARY [...] (C) This is an action request, see para 5. 2. (C) Summary: Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker Mahmoud Mashadani hailed the Arab Parliamentary Union (APU) Conference as a success in his meeting with the Ambassador on March 15. Mashadani recounted his discussions with representatives o [...] | 2008-03-19 14:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD844 | PRT KIRKUK: ASAYISH DETAINEES FACE POSSIBLE [...] (U) This is a PRT Kirkuk reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: The Iraqi Chief Justice has agreed to begin reviewing 229 cases of Asayish detainees in Sulimaniyah for possible transfer to Kirkuk. The Kirkuk Chief Judge has received a written order from the Chief Justice to begin reviewing t [...] | 2008-03-19 18:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM PGOV PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD845 | TUWAITHA YELLOW CAKE SALE NEGOTIATIONS UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Energy Attache Parks (Parks) (together with Energy Officer Albert Walgreen (3/7) and MNFI's Colonel Henderson (3/14)) met with Science & Technology Minister Fahmi (Fahmi) on March 7 and 14, respectively, to receive updates on GOI's sale contract negotiations for the yellow cake ma [...] | 2008-03-20 05:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PARM PREL EXEC POL |
08BAGHDAD848 | VP ABD AL-MEHDI ON INVESTMENT ISSUES, CORRUPTION, [...] (C) Summary: On Friday, March 14, the Ambassador met with Vice President Adel Abd al-Mehdi at the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) compound in Baghdad. During the meeting, the Ambassador and Adel discussed a host of issues, including foreign investment in Iraq, the activities of the GOI [...] | 2008-03-20 06:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD849 | UNAMI SRSG VISITS NAJAF [...] (C) Summary: On March 11, UNAMI Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Staffan de Mistura made a quiet, one-day visit to Najaf, Iraq's holiest city and home of the much-revered Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. The SRSG and Deputy for Political Affairs Andrew Gilmour provided [...] | 2008-03-20 08:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD850 | VISIT TO MAKHMOUR REFUGEE CAMP [...] (C) MNF-I coordinated a March 8 visit for senior UNAMI, Embassy, and PRT Ninewa officials to the UNHCR refugee camp in Makhmour, Ninewa Province. Refugee representatives at the camp said the residents unanimously want to return to Turkey. Local Kurdish Iraqi officials said the camp and its r [...] | 2008-03-20 09:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PREF PREL |
08BAGHDAD851 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: ANXIETIES BUILD AMID QUESTIONS [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) With anxieties building as the April 14 application deadline set in the Justice and Accountability Law approaches, Salah Ad Din (SaD) provincial officials have begun to collect data on former Firqah and Shuba [...] | 2008-03-20 11:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ |
08BAGHDAD854 | VP HASHIMI ON TAWAFUQ'S RETURN: THE PROBLEM IS [...] (C) Summary: VP Tariq al-Hashimi told the Ambassador on March 16 "the problem is not with us" with respect to negotiations for Tawafuq's return to the GOI. Other parties also fed up with PM Maliki, he said, include Iraqiyya, the Kurds, the Sadrists, and the Fadhila Party. On the Strategic Fra [...] | 2008-03-20 14:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD859 | UNAMI ELECTIONS PREPARATIONS [...] (C) Summary: On March 16, UNAMI election advisors Sandra Mitchell and Richard Gee apprised representatives of the diplomatic community of the status of UNAMI's elections assistance programs. Sandra Mitchell broke down the assistance into two tracks -- political and technical. On the polit [...] | 2008-03-20 17:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD864 | CODEL LEVIN MEETING WITH VP ABD AL-MEHDI [...] (C) Summary: On Sunday, March 16, CODEL Levin met with Vice-President Adel Abd al-Mehdi at the Hakim Compound in Baghdad. In a civil yet frank exchange, Senator Levin and Adel discussed a host of topics. Focusing initially on the political and security environment in Iraq, Senator Levin pres [...] | 2008-03-21 13:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL OREP IZ |
08BAGHDAD867 | NEXT STEPS ON PROVINCIAL POWERS [...] (C) On March 19, 2008 the Presidency Council released a statement announcing that after deliberations with the leaders of the Council of Representatives (CoR) and party blocs, it has unanimously decided to withdraw its objections to the Provincial Powers Law (or PPL; see ref A). It is our und [...] | 2008-03-21 14:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ PGOV POL |
08BAGHDAD87 | TALABANI ON RESTARTING THE 3+1 AND MODERATING [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih on January 9 met with the Ambassador on the occasion of Talabani,s return to Baghdad from the Kurdistan region. Talabani said he is ready to move forward on the 3 1 mechanism now that all the principals are bac [...] | 2008-01-12 16:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
08BAGHDAD878 | IRAQI PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS: OBSTACLES BUT A WAY FORWARD [...] (C) Summary: The withdrawal of the Presidency Council veto of the Provincial Powers Law (septel) has removed one potential obstacle to rapid progress on an electoral law when the Council of Representatives convenes in late March. However, significant legislative, logistical, and political hu [...] | 2008-03-23 14:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD881 | RRT ERBIL: DOHUK PROVINCIAL COUNCIL CHAIRMAN ON [...] (C) RRTOff met with the Chairman of Dohuk's Provincial Council (PC),Dr. Fadl Omar, on March 19 in Dohuk City, in order to discuss the March 17 meeting in Erbil among the Chairmen of the three Kurdish PCs (i.e. Erbil, Sulaimaniyah and Dohuk). At that meeting, the Kurdish PC leaders agreed to [...] | 2008-03-23 16:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD894 | WARKA BANK REQUESTS U.S. CORRESPONDENT BANKING [...] (U) This cable contains an action request, see para 8. - - - - Summary - - - - 2. (C) Mohammed Kemal Issa, Deputy Managing Director for International Affairs at Warka Bank, asked EMIN during a March 7 meeting for our help in encouraging U.S. banks to form correspondent banking relations [...] | 2008-03-25 16:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD895 | NEXT STEPS ON PROVINCIAL POWERS [...] (C) On March 19, 2008 the Presidency Council released a statement announcing that after deliberations with the leaders of the Council of Representatives (CoR) and party blocs, it has unanimously decided to withdraw its objections to the Provincial Powers Law (or PPL; see ref A). It is our und [...] | 2008-03-25 16:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ PGOV POL |
08BAGHDAD897 | CODEL LEVIN MEETING WITH VP ABD AL-MEHDI [...] (C) Summary: On Sunday, March 16, CODEL Levin met with Vice-President Adel Abd al-Mehdi at the Hakim Compound in Baghdad. In a civil yet frank exchange, Senator Levin and Adel discussed a host of topics. Focusing initially on the political and security environment in Iraq, Senator Levin pres [...] | 2008-03-25 16:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL OREP IZ |
08BAGHDAD898 | UNAMI SRSG VISITS NAJAF [...] (C) Summary: On March 11, UNAMI Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Staffan de Mistura made a quiet, one-day visit to Najaf, Iraq's holiest city and home of the much-revered Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. The SRSG and Deputy for Political Affairs Andrew Gilmour provided [...] | 2008-03-25 16:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD899 | TUWAITHA YELLOW CAKE SALE NEGOTIATIONS UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Energy Attache Parks (Parks) (together with Energy Officer Albert Walgreen (3/7) and MNFI's Colonel Henderson (3/14)) met with Science & Technology Minister Fahmi (Fahmi) on March 7 and 14, respectively, to receive updates on GOI's sale contract negotiations for the yellow cake ma [...] | 2008-03-25 16:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PARM PREL EXEC POL |
08BAGHDAD9 | HAKIM OPTIMISTIC ABOUT 2008 IN MEETING WITH AMB [...] (C) Summary: In a December 31 meeting with the Ambassador, ISCI leader Abdul Aziz al-Hakim agreed that significant security, economic, and political progress had been made in 2007. He expressed hope that provincial elections would be held in 2008 but was noncommittal over the possibility of [...] | 2008-01-02 11:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD90 | DE FACTO NON-IMPLEMENTATION OF ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy's quiet diplomacy on the issue of Iraq's implementation of the Arab League Boycott (ALB) has borne fruit. The Council of Ministers (CoM) has agreed to allow trademark applications submitted by PepsiCo to be registered, and the first five were officially registered on Jan [...] | 2008-01-13 06:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EFIN IZ |
08BAGHDAD903 | RRT ERBIL: DOHUK PROVINCIAL COUNCIL CHAIRMAN ON [...] (C) RRTOff met with the Chairman of Dohuk's Provincial Council (PC),Dr. Fadl Omar, on March 19 in Dohuk City, in order to discuss the March 17 meeting in Erbil among the Chairmen of the three Kurdish PCs (i.e. Erbil, Sulaimaniyah and Dohuk). At that meeting, the Kurdish PC leaders agreed to [...] | 2008-03-25 16:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD906 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: ANXIETIES BUILD AMID QUESTIONS [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) With anxieties building as the April 14 application deadline set in the Justice and Accountability Law approaches, Salah Ad Din (SaD) provincial officials have begun to collect data on former Firqah and Shuba [...] | 2008-03-25 16:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ |
08BAGHDAD907 | VISIT TO MAKHMOUR REFUGEE CAMP [...] (C) MNF-I coordinated a March 8 visit for senior UNAMI, Embassy, and PRT Ninewa officials to the UNHCR refugee camp in Makhmour, Ninewa Province. Refugee representatives at the camp said the residents unanimously want to return to Turkey. Local Kurdish Iraqi officials said the camp and its r [...] | 2008-03-25 16:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PREF PREL |
08BAGHDAD908 | VP ABD AL-MEHDI ON INVESTMENT ISSUES, CORRUPTION, [...] (C) Summary: On Friday, March 14, the Ambassador met with Vice President Adel Abd al-Mehdi at the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) compound in Baghdad. During the meeting, the Ambassador and Adel discussed a host of issues, including foreign investment in Iraq, the activities of the GOI [...] | 2008-03-25 16:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD910 | PRT KIRKUK: ASAYISH DETAINEES FACE POSSIBLE [...] (U) This is a PRT Kirkuk reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: The Iraqi Chief Justice has agreed to begin reviewing 229 cases of Asayish detainees in Sulimaniyah for possible transfer to Kirkuk. The Kirkuk Chief Judge has received a written order from the Chief Justice to begin reviewing t [...] | 2008-03-25 16:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM PGOV PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD912 | WARKA BANK REQUESTS U.S. CORRESPONDENT BANKING [...] (U) This cable contains an action request, see para 8. - - - - Summary - - - - 2. (C) Mohammed Kemal Issa, Deputy Managing Director for International Affairs at Warka Bank, asked EMIN during a March 7 meeting for our help in encouraging U.S. banks to form correspondent banking relations [...] | 2008-03-25 16:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD914 | UNAMI ELECTIONS PREPARATIONS [...] (C) Summary: On March 16, UNAMI election advisors Sandra Mitchell and Richard Gee apprised representatives of the diplomatic community of the status of UNAMI's elections assistance programs. Sandra Mitchell broke down the assistance into two tracks -- political and technical. On the polit [...] | 2008-03-25 16:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD916 | VP HASHIMI ON TAWAFUQ'S RETURN: THE PROBLEM IS [...] (C) Summary: VP Tariq al-Hashimi told the Ambassador on March 16 "the problem is not with us" with respect to negotiations for Tawafuq's return to the GOI. Other parties also fed up with PM Maliki, he said, include Iraqiyya, the Kurds, the Sadrists, and the Fadhila Party. On the Strategic Fra [...] | 2008-03-25 16:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD917 | IRAQI PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS: OBSTACLES BUT A WAY [...] (C) Summary: The withdrawal of the Presidency Council veto of the Provincial Powers Law (septel) has removed one potential obstacle to rapid progress on an electoral law when the Council of Representatives convenes in late March. However, significant legislative, logistical, and political hu [...] | 2008-03-25 16:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD918 | IRAQI PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS: OBSTACLES BUT A WAY [...] (C) Summary: The withdrawal of the Presidency Council veto of the Provincial Powers Law (septel) has removed one potential obstacle to rapid progress on an electoral law when the Council of Representatives convenes in late March. However, significant legislative, logistical, and political hu [...] | 2008-03-25 16:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD92 | PROVINCIAL OPERATIONS CENTERS CHANGING THE PREMISE [...] (C) On December 16th, Basrah become the second province to transfer to Provincial Iraqi Control (PIC) with a federally-mandated provincial operations command in charge of the province,s security forces. Established in several volatile provinces by Prime Minister Maliki, these operations comma [...] | 2008-01-13 11:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PREL IZ |
08BAGHDAD920 | MALIKI TAKES ON BASRAH MILITIA [...] (C) Prime Minister Maliki on 24 March traveled to Basrah to announce the beginning of military operations to regain control of the city from armed militias. Interior Minister Bolani, Defense Minister Abdul Qadar and Minister of State for National Security Waeli are with the PM. Fighting between [...] | 2008-03-26 02:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PINS PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD926 | IRAQ OIL MINISTRY ASKS BIDS FOR 3-D SEISMIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 24 Iraq's Ministry of Oil (MOO) announced, via its website, its request for tenders (RFT) for technical assistance for three specific oil and gas fields, the Akkas Gas Field, Kirkuk Oil Field, and Rumaila Oil Field. (COMMENT: Thamir Ghadban on 3/24 informed Parks and G. H [...] | 2008-03-26 11:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET IZ |
08BAGHDAD928 | BASRAH/BAGHDAD SITUATION REPORT: MARCH 25-26, [...] (U) The following is a situation report on Basrah, Baghdad, and the southern provinces as of 14:00 local time, drawn from Embassy contacts, REO Basrah, and local press reporting. PM Taking Control in Basrah --------------------------- 2. (C) At present, PM Maliki, Defense Minister Abdel [...] | 2008-03-26 13:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PINS PTER IZ |
08BAGHDAD930 | FADHILA AND THE REGIONS LAW: DRINKING FROM THEIR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-26 16:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL IZ |
08BAGHDAD931 | VP HASHIMI TO CODEL MARSHALL: WE ARE STRUGGLING, [...] (C) Summary: VP Tariq al-Hashimi told CODEL Marshall (Jim Marshall, D-GA; Christopher Shays, R-CT; Ted Poe, R-TX; and Patrick Henry, R-NC) on March 22 Tawafuq did not participate in PM Maliki's National Reconciliation Conference (Tuesday, March 18) because "he did not receive an official noti [...] | 2008-03-26 18:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD948 | JAM CONTROLLING BAGHDAD'S SHIA NEIGHBORHOODS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Jaysh Al-Mahdi (JAM) militants have seized control of many of Baghdad's Shia neighborhoods, according to Embassy, Baghdad PRT, and Baghdad EPRT contacts. JAM has taken over key streets and public spaces, limiting movement between and within Shia-majority neighborhoods on both sid [...] | 2008-03-27 21:48:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD95 | TRADE MINISTER PLANS LIMITED PDS REFORM IN 2008 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Trade Abdul Falah al-Sudani met with EMIN and Econoff January 11 to discuss his plans for the Public Distribution System (PDS) in 2008. Notwithstanding recent calls in the Council of Representatives (CoR) for greater PDS funding, the Trade Minister expects to receive [...] | 2008-01-13 13:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAGR IZ PGOV |
08BAGHDAD951 | HAKIM AND S/I DISCUSS BASRAH, PROVINCIAL [...] (C) Summary: In a March 27 meeting with S/I Satterfield, ISCI leader Abdel Aziz al-Hakim agreed that the current ISF offensive needs to be seen as directed against criminals rather than any particular party. Hakim was vague on the particulars of the election law, saying only that it needed t [...] | 2008-03-28 09:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD961 | FADILA ON THE SADRIST INSURRECTION: MILITARY [...] (C) In a telephone conversation with Poloff on March 28, Dr. Basim al-Hechaimi, Fadila bloc and COR member, shared his opinions on the Sadrist insurrection with Poloff. Stating that a "military solution is not the answer," Dr. Basim suggested that a parliamentary committee be formed to resolve [...] | 2008-03-28 18:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KISL IZ |
08BAGHDAD97 | ERBIL: KRG PRESIDENT AND PM CRITICIZE GOI [...] (C) During their meetings on January 6 in Erbil with U.S. Senators Norm Coleman (R-MN),John Cornyn (R-TX) and Johnny Isakson (R-GA),the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) President and Prime Minister expressed their continued strong support for national reconciliation and passage of a natio [...] | 2008-01-13 17:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER TU IZ |
08BAGHDAD976 | SPECIAL IESC MEETING MARCH 29 [...] (C) Summary. Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih chaired a special session of the Iraq Executive Steering Committee (IESC) in support of Operation Fardh al-Qanoon (FAQ) at his residence March 29. Normally a weekly session held on Fridays, the March 28 session had been cancelled. During this [...] | 2008-03-30 18:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON MOPS IZ |
08BAGHDAD981 | NINEWA: CLOSE COOPERATION BETWEEN TURKISH [...] (C) Over the past six months, Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Ninewa and the Turkish Consulate General for northern Iraq, based in Mosul, have combined efforts across a variety of fields to advance our common interests for stability, development and peace in Ninewa. We have been fortunat [...] | 2008-03-31 11:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PREL ECON TU IZ |
08BAGHDAD988 | PRT SALAH AD DIN: SALAH AD DIN CLAMORS FOR [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: With the withdrawal of the veto of the Provincial Powers Law by the Presidency Council, Salah Ad Din leaders, as well as the public, are enthusiastically anticipating provincial elections. Interlocutors almost without [...] | 2008-03-31 16:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINS KCRS IZ |
08BAGHDAD989 | ASSET TRANSFER: MINFIN AND EMIN AGREE WAY FORWARD [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Ries met on March 27 with Finance Minister Byan Jabr and MoF Advisor Azez Jafar at Adnaan Palace in Baghdad. A wide range of topics were covered, with particular emphasis on the issue of transferring the substantial assets built by the U.S. in Iraq. Jabr resisted EMI [...] | 2008-03-31 16:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN IZ |
08BAGHDAD991 | COUNCIL OF MINISTERS SECRETARY-GENERAL DISCUSSES [...] (C) During their weekly meeting at the Council of Ministers Secretariat (COMSEC) on March 31, 2008, Council of Ministers Secretary-General Ali Ala'aq and Poloff followed up on several issues that had been raised in a previous meeting (Reftel). Ala'aq told Poloff the COM had some issues with [...] | 2008-03-31 17:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
08BAGHDAD994 | MINFIN SUPPORTS BASRAH HUMANITARIAN RELIEF, WANTS [...] (C) Summary: In a March 31 meeting, Iraqi Minister of Finance Jabr told EMIN that he would make funds available to address the immediate humanitarian needs created by the violence in Basrah as well as to create short-term employment opportunities. In addition, the GOI supplemental budget prop [...] | 2008-04-01 05:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL PGOV PTER ETTC IZ |
08BAGHDAD996 | SURREAL END TO KIDNAPPING OF GOI SPOKESMAN [...] (C) Poloffs, the director of the Embassy Office of Hostage Affairs (OHA),and MNF-I Colonel Timothy Clapp of the Energy Fusion Cell greeted a gleeful Dr. Tahseen Sheikhly as he arrived at Assassins Gate on March 31 at 2100, minutes after his kidnappers released him. Sheikhly, Government of I [...] | 2008-04-01 08:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM IR IZ |
08BAGHDAD997 | MINISTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS ON NEW CLAIMS COMMITTEE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 25, the Ambassador met with Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim. They discussed a variety of issues, including the impending establishment of a central claims committee; the need for minorities to be represented in the elections and in the provincial councils; allega [...] | 2008-04-01 08:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | KHUM KDEM IZ |
08BAKU1012 | SOCAR WILLING TO PROVIDE GAS TO GEORGIA BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to Azerbaijan's State Oil Company, Azerbaijan is prepared to provide necessary volumes of gas to Georgia during the winter months, but prefers to do so on more commercial vice concessionary terms. According to SOCAR and BP Azerbaijan sources, Georgian winter gas needs a [...] | 2008-10-22 12:10:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AZ ENRG GA |
08BAKU1013 | AZERBAIJAN: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ELECTIONS, [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador reviewed with President Aliyev's International Relations Advisor Novruz Mammadov USG comments on Azerbaijan's October 15 presidential election and shared observations on the assessment of the elections by international observers. The U.S. will continue to support a [...] | 2008-10-22 13:03:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM AJ |
08BAKU1029 | POPULAR AZERBAIJANI MOSQUE MAY REOPEN [...] (C) On October 27, a Baku municipal court ruled in favor of the Abu Bakr Mosque in its case against the local Narimanov police station, which sought to keep the mosque closed. The decision may allow the mosque's religious leaders to re-open. Per reftels, local authorities closed the popular [...] | 2008-10-28 10:31:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF AJ |
08BAKU1038 | VISIT TO JAILED JOURNALIST SAKIT ZAHIDOV [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 27 Embassy official visited jailed journalist Sakit Zahidov in prison colony #14 south of Baku along with representatives from the OSCE, and French and Norwegian Embassies. Zahidov, who is serving a sentence for drug possession stemming from a 2006 arrest that many ob [...] | 2008-10-29 12:21:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
08BAKU1039 | PRESIDENT ALIYEV TELLS BENS HE SEEKS GREATER US [...] (C) Summary: Just ahead of his inauguration, President Aliyev told visiting U.S. business executives that Azerbaijan is a force for stability in an insecure neighborhood. During his second administration, Nagorno-Karabakh will remain "issue number one." By occupying Azerbaijan's territories, [...] | 2008-10-29 12:22:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ AM |
08BAKU1049 | ELECTION WRAP-UP WITH CENTRAL ELECTION COMMISSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 31 Embassy officials met with Central Election Commission Chairman Mazahir Panahov to wrap up issues related to Azerbaijan October 15 presidential election. Overall, Panahov was proud of CEC's work during the election period and grateful for the aid received from the [...] | 2008-11-03 12:17:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
08BAKU1050 | NEW CABINET OF MINISTERS ALMOST SAME AS OLD [...] (U) SUMMARY: On October 31 Azerbaijan completed the process of appointing the next cabinet of ministers after the October 15 presidential election. According to Azerbaijan's constitution, all ministers must resign after a president is inaugurated. The President then appoints a prime ministe [...] | 2008-11-03 12:27:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR AJ |
08BAKU1062 | GOAJ MAY TAKE RADIO LIBERTY AND VOA OFF AIRWAVES [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 4 Embassy officials met with Nushiravan Maharramov, Chairman of the National Television and Radio Council, regarding his announcement that foreign broadcasters would be banned from Azerbaijan's airwaves starting in 2009, including Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and V [...] | 2008-11-06 07:29:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
08BAKU1068 | PRESIDENT ALIYEV, COMMERCE DEPUTY SECRETARY [...] (C) Summary: President Aliyev told Commerce Deputy Secretary Sullivan October 28 that economic reform and diversification would be among his top priorities in a second term. The GOAJ, while facing lower oil prices and declining revenues, will continue to promote the Azerbaijan Investment Com [...] | 2008-11-07 11:55:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV ENRG PREL PGOV AJ |
08BAKU1083 | MINISTER SHARIFOV DISCUSSES EPC, BUDGET AND ECONOMY [...] (C) Summary: Azerbaijan Minister of Finance Sharifov heads to Washington next week for EPC meetings and WTO discussions with views on the international financial crisis -- and lower oil prices -- formed in part by Russian Minister of Finance Kudrin, who recently hosted a CIS financial summit. [...] | 2008-11-12 08:53:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV EIND PGOV AJ |
08BAKU1089 | EXPORT-IMPORT BANK DIRECTOR VISIT BUILDS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Export-Import Bank Director Bijan Kian visited Baku October 13-16 to follow-up on his February 2008 trip, checking in on U.S. based companies, their partners and projects, and to reassure interlocutors of the Bank's ability to continue to support those projects in spite of the rec [...] | 2008-11-13 12:52:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV EFIN EAGR ECIN AJ |
08BAKU1091 | AZERBAIJAN BEGINNING TO CONSIDERING FUTURE NUCLEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Special Envoy Frank Mermoud met with the Minister of Emergency Situations during his November 10-14 trip to Baku. They discussed successful past projects, as well as areas for future cooperation and trade in both goods and services, including possible projects for soil remediati [...] | 2008-11-14 13:05:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ENRG EFIN PARM ECIN SENV |
08BAKU1094 | SENATOR CORKER MEETS MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 11 the Ambassador held a dinner for Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) and five members of Azerbaijan's parliament. These MPs represent a wide range of political opinions. While all guests agreed that Azerbaijan has to further reform its education system and to fight corrupt [...] | 2008-11-17 04:52:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
08BAKU1097 | BAKU ENERGY SUMMIT ADVANCES U.S. EURASIAN ENERGY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 13-14 Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev hosted the IV Energy Summit in Baku, following up on previous energy summits in Krakow (May 2007),Vilnius (October 2007) and Kyiv (May 2008). Prominent attendees included the Heads of State of Turkey, Georgia, Ukraine, Lithuan [...] | 2008-11-17 13:54:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG AJ TK |
08BAKU1100 | EDITOR SAYS USG DEFENSE FOR FOREIGN BROADCASTS [...] (C) Summary: During lunch with the Ambassador, leading independent daily Zerkalo editor Elchin Shikhlinsky characterized efforts to preserve foreign radio broadcasts as a do-or-die moment for Azerbaijan,s media. Providing a rather bleak overview for the prospects of free-and-fair media, he p [...] | 2008-11-18 10:32:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | AJ KDEM PGOV PREL |
08BAKU1108 | FIRST MEETING WITH NEW ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: During his November 11-12 visit to Baku Senator Corker met with the newly appointed Minister of Economic Development Shahin Mustafayev. In his first meeting with USG officials, the new minister stuck closely to his prepared talking points, emphasizing GOAJ plans to improve the [...] | 2008-11-20 11:22:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV EFIN EAGR ECIN AJ |
08BAKU1118 | TRANSCOM GEN MCNABB MEETS AZERBAIJANI DEFENSE [...] (C) On November 18 Commander USTRANSCOM General Duncan McNabb, met Azerbaijani DefMin General Colonel Safar Abiyev to discuss GOAJ support for overland transport of supplies to U.S. and Coalition forces in Afghanistan. Abiyev responded favorably to the concept, but steered the discussion on al [...] | 2008-11-25 09:55:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AF AM AJ IZ TX KZ |
08BAKU1125 | AZERBAIJAN HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST HOSTS GEORGIA [...] (C) Poloff met with prominent Azerbaijan Human Rights activist Novella Jafaroglu (aka Novella Jafarova) about preparations for the upcoming (partially USG-funded) regional meeting she is co-sponsoring in Istanbul. Jafaroglu has an international reputation as a women,s rights and human rights [...] | 2008-11-26 07:36:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM AM GG RU AJ |
08BAKU1127 | DRAFT POTUS LETTER TO PRESIDENT ALIYEV [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-26 13:44:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ ENRG |
08BAKU1130 | SPECIAL ENVOY SADA CUMBER,S VISIT TO AZERBAIJAN [...] (C) Summary: On 21-22 November, U.S. Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Sada Cumber met with Azerbaijan's envoy to the OIC Deputy Foreign Minister (DFM) Vagif Sadikhov. The DFM was receptive to Special Envoy Cumber,s call for increased Azerbaijani leadership b [...] | 2008-11-28 11:56:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KISL IR AJ |
08BAKU1131 | SPECIAL ENVOY CUMBER'S MEETING WITH THE LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Summary: On 22 November, U.S. Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Sada Cumber met with Gamet Suleymanov, head imam of the Abu Bakr mosque, and the lawyer representing the mosque, Javanshir Suleymanov. The participants outlined the long and short range history [...] | 2008-11-28 12:26:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KISL KIRF IR AJ |
08BAKU1135 | DRL A/S KRAMER BATTLES WITH PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: On November 18 DRL A/S David Kramer and the Ambassador met with Head of the Presidential Administration Ramiz Mehdiyev. After A/S Kramer explained U.S. requests for more media freedom in Azerbaijan, Mehdiyev first read a detailed list of unfulfilled GOAJ expectations from the Un [...] | 2008-12-01 05:15:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM AJ |
08BAKU1136 | DRL A/S KRAMER, PRESIDENT ALIYEV DEBATE PACE OF [...] (C) Summary and Comment: On November 18 DRL A/S David Kramer and the Ambassador met with President Ilham Aliyev for a two-hour discussion of democracy and human rights issues. Most of the discussion centered on the deteriorating state of media freedom in Azerbaijan, including the jailed journal [...] | 2008-12-01 05:15:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM AJ |
08BAKU1138 | USAID ADMINISTRATOR FORE - PRESIDENT ALIYEV [...] (C) Summary: In a November 24 meeting with USAID Administrator Henrietta Fore, President Aliyev welcomed intensified cooperation with USAID, especially in five key areas: water and sanitation, agriculture, IT/telecoms, environmental remediation and anti-corruption. Azerbijan,s leadership fee [...] | 2008-12-01 07:18:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO AJ |
08BAKU1140 | AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT GIVES GREEN LIGHT FOR [...] (C) Commander USTRANSCOM General Duncan McNabb and Ambassador Derse met Azerbaijani President Aliyev in Baku on November 17 to discuss proposed overland transport of supplies through Azerbaijan to U.S. and Coalition forces in Afghanistan. The President responded enthusiastically to the concep [...] | 2008-12-02 03:50:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AF AJ IZ TX KZ |
08BAKU1147 | PRESIDENT GUL TELLS SECRETARY BODMAN OF SOUTHERN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a November 13 meeting with President Gul, Energy Secretary Bodman stressed U.S. support for the region and the Southern Corridor, with Gul expressing appreciation for USG support and noting its importance to future projects. Gul indicated that Turkey and Azerbaijan are close t [...] | 2008-12-03 12:34:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ TU ENRG |
08BAKU1148 | DRL A/S KRAMER: DIALOGUE ON DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: On November 19 DRL A/S David Kramer and the Ambassador attended a marathon meeting at the Foreign Ministry with a wide range of government and non-government officials, chaired by a Deputy Foreign Minister, on the full realm of democracy and human rights issues. Attendees gave b [...] | 2008-12-04 04:27:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM AJ |
08BAKU1152 | LATVIA TO PUSH FOR EU EASTERN PARTNERSHIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 1 the Ambassador met with the Latvian MFA's Undersecretary of State Peteris Ustubs to discuss the EU's proposed Eastern Partnership. Ustubs stressed that while it is a multilateral proposal, all six countries will not receive the same engagement. Expanded EU engage [...] | 2008-12-05 07:24:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM LG AJ |
08BAKU1153 | BBG VISIT TO BAKU TO SUPPORT USG BROADCASTERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 3 a delegation from the Broadcasting Board of Governors and Radio free Europe/Radio Liberty visited Baku to discuss the GOAJ's possible removal of Voice of America and Radio Liberty broadcasts from national frequencies. The delegation met with the chairman of the Nat [...] | 2008-12-05 08:26:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
08BAKU1156 | IRAN/AZERBAIJAN: DISPARATE IRANIANS NETWORK AT [...] (C) Baku Iran watcher met for two and a half hours on December 3 with prominent Azerbaijani human rights activist Novella Jafaroglu and fourteen other Azerbaijan residents who had just returned from participating in a November 28-30 Iran-Turkey-Azerbaijan women,s rights conference in Istanbul [...] | 2008-12-05 09:14:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL TU AZ IR |
08BAKU1157 | AZERBAIJAN: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR GUARDEDLY [...] (C) Ambassador Derse, accompanied by EUR/CARC Office Director Baxter Hunt, met Novruz Mammadov, chief foreign policy advisor at the Presidential Apparat, on December 3. Ambassador unequivocally warned Mammadov that closure of United States-sponsored broadcasting in Azerbaijan would cause a ser [...] | 2008-12-05 09:20:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ |
08BAKU1168 | CORRECTED COPY -- FORMAL REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 6. 2. (U) On November 26, 2008 the U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) identified the National Iranian Oil Company (aka NIOC),Naftiran Intertrade Company Ltd (aka NICO) and Naftiran Intertrade Company Co. SARL [...] | 2008-12-12 12:08:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ IR ENRG |
08BAKU1178 | AZERBAIJANI OFFICIAL EVASIVE ABOUT WHETHER VOA AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 15 PAO met with National Television and Radio Council Chairman Nushiravan Maharramov to hand over a letter from the Broadcasting Bureau of Governors and restate the USG expectation that the NTRC will not during its December 25 meeting follow through on threats to rem [...] | 2008-12-17 12:32:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
08BAKU1183 | AZERBAIJAN: POSSIBLE REFERENDUM ON PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: Several recent reports have surfaced in the Azerbaijani press of proposals in the Milli Majlis (Parliament) for a referendum on removing the constitutional prohibition against an individual serving more than two terms as president, which at present requires President Aliyev to st [...] | 2008-12-18 11:30:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM AJ |
08BAKU1185 | AZERBAIJAN: PARLIAMENT CALLS REFERENDUM ON TERM [...] (C) Summary: As expected (Reftel),the Milli Majlis today approved a measure calling for a referendum on changing Azerbaijan's constitution to remove the present two-term limit on the President. For such a referendum to pass, over fifty percent would have to vote for passage in a turnout of [...] | 2008-12-19 12:16:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM AJ |
08BAKU1186 | AZERBAIJAN: WHERE WE ARE WITH SHAH DENIZ PHASES [...] (C) SUMMARY (CONT): As 2008 ends, the 16-month long stasis surrounding the marketing of Shah Deniz Phase Two (SD2) gas continues, as Turkey and Azerbaijan remain unable to agree on a gas marketing mechanism which would allow them to agree on volumes, prices, and transit. Price negotiations f [...] | 2008-12-19 13:33:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ ENRG TU |
08BAKU1192 | AFGHAN ELECTION SECURITY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-23 11:25:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MORS MARR AJ |
08BAKU1193 | AFGHAN ELECTION SECURITY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-23 11:25:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MORS MARR AJ |
08BAKU1195 | AZERBAIJAN: CENTRAL AZERI PLATFORM IN ACG OIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: After having been shut down since September 17, the Central Azeri (CA) Platorm in Azerbaijan's offshore ACG oil mega-field has begun to resume production, leading to an overall increase of production in the ACG field to approximately 690,000 bpd. However, limits on handling any [...] | 2008-12-23 12:53:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ ENRG |
08BAKU1205 | AZERBAIJAN: READOUT OF PRESIDENT ALIYEV NOVEMBER [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to the Italian Ambassador to Azerbaijan, during President Aliyev's November 25 visit to Italy he expressed a clear preference for the Turkey-Greece-Italy pipeline project over the Nabucco one, citing it as achievable in the short-term. It is unclear to Embassy how accu [...] | 2008-12-30 12:34:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ ENRG TK |
08BAKU122 | SCENESETTER FOR S/CT FRANK URBANCIC'S VISIT TO BAKU [...] (C) Frank: My team and I look forward to your February 13-16 visit. Your visit provides a valuable opportunity to address key security issues with the GOAJ, particularly extending our non-intelligence CT cooperation and pushing the GOAJ to address its energy infrastructure gaps. 2. (C) [...] | 2008-02-11 14:03:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV ENRG KTFN KISL AJ |
08BAKU126 | CORRECTED COPY OF SCENESETTER FOR S/CT FRANK [...] (C) Frank: My team and I look forward to your February 13-16 visit. Your visit provides a valuable opportunity to address key security issues with the GOAJ, particularly extending our non-intelligence CT cooperation and pushing the GOAJ to address its energy infrastructure gaps. 2. (C) [...] | 2008-02-12 12:59:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV ENRG KTFN KISL AJ |
08BAKU127 | AZERBAIJANI MINDEF REQUEST USG ASSISTANCE IN [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 2. 2. (C) During a meeting between Minister of Defense Safar Abiyev and Ambassador Derse on February 12, Abiyev officially requested USG assistance to locate a downed MiG-29 fighter jet, which crashed into the Caspian Sea in late January. He ad [...] | 2008-02-12 14:02:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS MOPS AJ |
08BAKU128 | THE ELECTION MONITORING CENTER RECEIVES [...] (SBU) On February 12, the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) approved the Election Monitoring Center's (EMC's) registration application. This was the EMC's seventh registration application; the NGO previously had applied for registration six times over the past five years. The MOJ denied each of the [...] | 2008-02-12 14:21:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAID AJ |
08BAKU129 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: LIKELY AZERBAIJANI REACTION [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel points on Kosovo's anticipated declaration of independence in a February 12 meeting with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov (other topics septel). Noting that he had discussed this issue with EUR Assistant Secretary Fried in Munich, Mammadyarov [...] | 2008-02-12 14:39:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS UNAUS UNMIK OSCE AJ |
08BAKU135 | EU TROIKA VISIT FOCUSES ON ENERGY, DEMOCRACY AND [...] (C) Summary: During a February 4 visit to Baku, the EU Troika opened the European Commission Delegation and discussed energy, democracy and human rights and the NK conflict with President Aliyev and Foreign Minister Mammadyarov. Foreign Minister Mammadyarov and EU embassy contacts separatel [...] | 2008-02-13 13:39:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ENRG EAID AJ |
08BAKU136 | AZERBAIJAN ENERGY PLAYERS GIVE STATUS UPDATE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Key Azerbaijan energy interlocutors agree the key to timely development of the Shah Deniz Stage Two gas project is settling issues of gas transit through Turkey. BP and Statoil claim that the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) is moving too slowly in signing commercial cont [...] | 2008-02-13 15:49:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL PGOV PBTS TU AJ |
08BAKU140 | AZERBAIJAN'S OIL COMPANY UPBEAT ON COOPERATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: SOCAR President Abdullayev was very upbeat upon hearing of Turkmen President Berdimuhamedov's willingness to increase bilateral cooperation with Azerbaijan and looked forward to follow up discussions with the USG as soon as possible. He denied European charges that SOCAR was no [...] | 2008-02-14 14:36:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG PBTS TU TX AJ |
08BAKU146 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: AZERBAIJANI REACTION TO [...] (C) DCM delivered ref a points regarding possible Russian recognition of Abkhazia in a February 15 meeting with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Khalaf Khalafov. Noting that Georgia is a neighbor with whom the GOAJ maintains close cooperation on a number of areas of mutual, strategic inter [...] | 2008-02-15 13:18:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS GG RU YI AJ |
08BAKU147 | AZERBAIJAN KEEPING WARY EYE ON ARMENIAN ELECTIONS, [...] (C) Summary: Senior Azerbaijani leaders are keeping a wary eye on Armenia's February 19 presidential election, worrying that the hotly contested election could have implications for the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. Minister of National Security Mahmudov confirmed that the GOAJ has information [...] | 2008-02-15 13:49:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PGOV PINR AM AJ |
08BAKU150 | AZERBAIJANI REACTION TO KOSOVO'S INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) The GOAJ's initial response to Kosovo's declaration of independence is to reject Kosovo's decision. MFA spokesperson Khazar Ibrahimov's February 18 statement was the first official reaction to Kosovo's independence. In the statement, Ibrahimov characterized Kosovo's independence as a "u [...] | 2008-02-19 13:47:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS KPAO AJ |
08BAKU151 | AZERBAIJANI REACTION TO KOSOVO'S INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) The GOAJ's initial response to Kosovo's declaration of independence is to reject Kosovo's decision. MFA spokesperson Khazar Ibrahimov's February 18 statement was the first official reaction to Kosovo's independence. In the statement, Ibrahimov characterized Kosovo's independence as a "u [...] | 2008-02-19 13:47:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS KPAO AJ |
08BAKU152 | GTIP VISIT TO AZERBAIJAN, JANUARY 28-31, 2008 [...] (C)Summary: From January 28-31, 2008, Jennifer Schrock Donnelly, Foreign Affairs Officer, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP),visited Baku to meet with local NGOs, International Organizations and GOAJ agencies that deal with the issue of trafficking in persons in [...] | 2008-02-20 11:29:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL OTRA KCRM KWMN CY AJ |
08BAKU154 | FARHAD ALIYEV'S HEALTH SEEMINGLY STABLE, NO SIGNS [...] (C) More than two weeks since jailed former Minister of Economic Development Farhad Aliyev's February 5 transfer to the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) Boyuk Shore medical facility (reftel),there is no evidence that he suffered a heart attack. ICRC Protection Coordinator Susana Lopez (strictly pro [...] | 2008-02-20 14:10:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM AJ |
08BAKU159 | IRAN REPORTEDLY LAUNDERING MONEY IN AZERBAIJAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-21 14:57:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL ECON EFIN PTER IR AJ |
08BAKU160 | KOSOVO DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO AZERBAIJANI DEPUTY [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Deputy Foreign Minister Azimov on February 20 (FM Mammadyarov was out of the country). Despite Azerbaijan's opposition to Kosovo's independence, Azimov said, he had instructed the MFA to be "measured" in its public statements, making only two [...] | 2008-02-21 15:28:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS UN AZ |
08BAKU163 | THE EMPRESS HAS NO CLOTHES: A LOOK AT THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: A 2007 press report speculating that a "new" pro-government party, the Democratic Azerbaijan World Party, was being created to support the First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva's 2013 presidential bid continues to resonate, creating rumors that Aliyeva is launching a move against the rulin [...] | 2008-02-22 13:42:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PINR AJ |
08BAKU164 | VISIT OF AZERBAIJANI MINISTER OF DEFENSE TO IRAN [...] (C) Azerbaijani Minister of Defense Safar Abiyev visited Iran February 18-19, his first visit to the Islamic Republic since 2004. During a February 12 meeting with the Ambassador, Abiyev noted that he was preparing for the trip. In addition to Iranian Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar [...] | 2008-02-22 14:03:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PREL IR AJ |
08BAKU167 | OPPOSITION JOURNALIST PHYSICALLY ASSAULTED IN [...] (C) On February 22, two unknown assailants physically assaulted opposition Azadliq newspaper correspondent Agil Khalil. According to Khalil on February 25, on February 22 he was the newspaper's investigative journalist on duty; at approximately 1700, he received reports that trees were being [...] | 2008-02-25 15:18:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM AJ |
08BAKU185 | IDEAS FOR PROMOTING A U.S.-AZERBAIJAN-TURKEY [...] (U) This is a joint message from Embassies Ankara and Baku. 2. (C) Embassy Ankara and Embassy Baku provide the following informal suggestions to follow up with EUR A/S Fried's December 2007 speech at the Mayflower Hotel on a strategic partnership among the U.S, Turkey, and Azerbaijan. Bo [...] | 2008-03-04 13:27:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS PHUM ENRG TU AJ |
08BAKU186 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES AG, ENERGY AND CARGILL WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY. At a February 28 meeting with Prime Minister Rasizadeh, the Ambassador discussed the importance of developing the non-energy sector, especially the agricultural sector, and offered U.S. assistance to the GOAJ in implementing its new agricultural strategy. The Ambassador also rais [...] | 2008-03-04 13:27:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR PREL PGOV ETRD AJ |
08BAKU187 | DFM AZIMOV REQUESTS USG SUPPORT ON [...] (C) Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov requested a meeting with Ambassador Derse on February 29 to discuss Azerbaijan's pending UNGA resolution "on the situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan" (other topics septel). European embassies were similarly summoned to a gr [...] | 2008-03-04 13:55:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS UN AZ |
08BAKU191 | AZERBAIJAN: AMBASSADOR MANN TALKS ENERGY WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Aliyev seeks enhanced cooperation with Turkmenistan on offshore energy development, and is willing to be minority partner with the GOTX in developing the Serdar-Kapaz field. Aliyev seeks concrete action from Turkmenistan showing it is interested in such cooperation, an [...] | 2008-03-05 08:17:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ TU TX ENRG |
08BAKU192 | AZERBAIJAN WITHDRAWING PEACEKEEPERS FROM KOSOVO [...] (U) This is an action request; see paragraph 5. 2. (C) The Azerbaijani Parliament voted on March 4 to withdraw its 34 peacekeepers from Kosovo. The decision has been expected for several days, as local press and several MP's publicly stated as early as February 26 that President Aliyev r [...] | 2008-03-05 11:26:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS MARR MASS MOPS KPAO AJ |
08BAKU193 | CI/KR RESPONSE FOR AZERBAIJAN FOR S/CT [...] (C) The Embassy provides the following response to ref A's request for information on Azerbaijan's critical infrastructure (CI) and key resources (KI),which would "have an immediate and deleterious effect on the United States" if destroyed. Embassy recommends that Azerbaijan's primary energ [...] | 2008-03-05 11:28:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS ENRG AJ |
08BAKU202 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY TO THE OIC [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA OIC desk officer Elmar Alizada on March 4. Alizada was grateful for the information, noting that Deputy Foreign Minister Sadikov, who covers OIC issues, was interested in obtaining information about Sada Cumber. The Ambassador is also sending a le [...] | 2008-03-06 10:17:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OIC AJ |
08BAKU203 | PRESIDENT HIGHLIGHTS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE [...] (SBU) At a February 11 conference on the State Program for the Economic Development of the Regions, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev outlined a long list of successes and accomplishments, stating that the government's program has been 98 percent fulfilled. The President highlighted the foll [...] | 2008-03-06 11:20:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV AJ |
08BAKU204 | CORRECTED COPY: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S. SPECIAL [...] (U) This is a corrected version of Baku 00202. 2. (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA OIC desk officer Elmar Alizada on March 4. Alizada was grateful for the information, noting that Deputy Foreign Minister Sadikov, who covers OIC issues, was interested in obtaining information a [...] | 2008-03-06 12:08:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OIC AJ |
08BAKU206 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON AMBASSADOR SWING'S IOM DG [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-06 13:21:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OIC AJ |
08BAKU210 | EMBASSY BAKU INFORMATION ON THE OIC SUMMIT IN DAKAR [...] (C) Per ref a, poloff informed the MFA of Sada Cumber's recent appointment. The Embassy also has communicated Cumber's interest in meeting with either Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov or Deputy Foreign Minister Vagif Sadikov. Both Azerbaijani officials will be at the conferenc [...] | 2008-03-07 11:19:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC SG OIC AJ |
08BAKU211 | UPDATE ON U.S. MISSLE DEFENSE TALKS WITH RUSSIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-07 12:04:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS NATO AJ RU |
08BAKU217 | KOSOVO SOLIDARITY REQUEST DELIVERED TO AZERBAIJAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-07 12:49:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC UNMIK PGOV YI EU KV AJ |
08BAKU218 | AZERBAIJAN: BTC PARTNERS APPROVE EXPANSION, ACG [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 6 the BTC Partners voted to approve expansion of the BTC pipeline from one to one point two million barrels per day (mmbd),despite strong opposition from the Government of Azerbaijan. Earlier, the ACG Partners had agreed to "provisionally and without prejudice" change [...] | 2008-03-07 14:31:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ ENRG |
08BAKU219 | AZADLIQ NEWSPAPER EDITOR SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS' [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 7, Baku's Yasamal District Court convicted opposition Azadliq newspaper Editor-In-Chief Ganimat Zahid of hooliganism and inflicting minor bodily harm and sentenced him to four years' imprisonment. In the same hearing, the court convicted Vusal Hasanov, the other party i [...] | 2008-03-07 15:58:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM AJ |
08BAKU224 | AZERBAIJAN: AMBASSADOR MANN TALKS ENERGY WITH FM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Eurasian Energy Coordinator Ambassador Mann told Foreign Minister Mammadyarov that BTC expansion was "imperative." On Turkmenistan, Mann said President Aliyev and Azerbaijan could provide a good example to Berdimuhamedov of how to invite foreign energy companies into a productive [...] | 2008-03-11 07:58:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ TX ENRG |
08BAKU230 | AMBASSADOR URGES AZERBAIJAN TO CONSIDER ADDITIONAL [...] (C) During a March 1 meeting with President Aliyev, the Ambassador told President Aliyev that the U.S. would be asking ISAF coalition countries to increase their participation in Afghanistan, and that she would pass options on how to do so to the MFA. Aliyev said that he would consult FM Mam [...] | 2008-03-11 13:52:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF AJ |
08BAKU231 | PRESIDENTIAL CHIEF OF STAFF RAMIZ MEHDIYEV PLEDGES [...] (C) Summary: In a March 3 meeting, the Ambassador reviewed with Presidential Chief of Staff Ramiz Mehdiyev the criteria the U.S. would consider as it evaluates Azerbaijan's October presidential election. She also briefed Mehdiyev on the planned USD 3 million in election-related assistance ac [...] | 2008-03-11 14:22:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EAID AJ |
08BAKU232 | AZERBAIJAN: AMBASSADOR MANN DISCUSSES EUROPEAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Referring to Shah Deniz Stage Two, ACG Associated and Deep Gas and the offshore "Umid" field which Socar is developing, President Aliyev said that Azerbaijan will have much gas available for export. He told Ambassador for Eurasian Energy Diplomacy Mann that "it was important for [...] | 2008-03-12 05:54:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ ENRG |
08BAKU241 | AZERBAIJANI JEWISH LEADERS PUSHING REPEAL OF [...] (C) Summary: Several local Azerbaijani Jewish activists are seeking to lobby the U.S. Government to annul the Jackson-Vanik amendment of the 1974 Trade Act of the United States. There appears to be some level of coordination between the Jewish activists and the GOAJ in this effort, which tr [...] | 2008-03-13 06:09:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ETRD KIRF AJ |
08BAKU242 | AZERBAIJAN: SOCAR PRESIDENT SAYS ANY PUBLICITY BAD [...] (C) SUMMARY. State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) continues to seek a 'zero publicity' policy in relation to its efforts to strengthen energy ties with Europe. Specifically, Socar President Abdullayev asked that USG officials not refer publicly to the current GOT-GOAJ dispute over tas tran [...] | 2008-03-13 06:14:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ ENRG |
08BAKU250 | SENATOR BROWNBACK'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT ALIYEV [...] (C) Summary: In a February 20 meeting with Senator Brownback, President Aliyev affirmed Azerbaijan's commitment to developing new Caspian gas reserves and export routes to Europe in spite of increasing pressure from Russia and Iran. He said that continued U.S. support would be key to these i [...] | 2008-03-14 06:41:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG ECON ETRD PBTS AJ |
08BAKU251 | AZERBAIJANIS SEEK REPEAL OF SECTION 907 IN [...] (C) Summary: In separate February 20 meetings, the AmCham Board of Directors, Deputy Foreign Minister Pashayev and a group of reform-minded MPS told Senator Brownback (R-KS) that Azerbaijan sought to deepen its ties with the United States. In recognition of Azerbaijan's growing partnership [...] | 2008-03-14 06:43:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS ENRG ECON KPAO AJ |
08BAKU252 | AZERBAIJANI RELIGIOUS OFFICIAL DISCOUNTS RELIGIOUS [...] (C) Summary: Pol/Econ Chief met with State Committee on Work with Religious Associations (SCWRA) Chief Hidayat Orujov on March 3 to raise concern with the GOAJ's selective harassment of several religious groups. Orujov sought to rebut our concerns by pointing to the groups' lack of registra [...] | 2008-03-14 08:29:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF AJ |
08BAKU256 | NATO ROSE-ROTH SEMINAR ATTRACTS DIVERSE [...] (C) SUMMARY: NATO's 68th Rose-Roth Seminar, focused on "Security in the Caspian Region," was held in Baku March 6-8. Speakers included a range of parliamentarians, scholars and government officials from Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia; this was the first time that Central Asian states [...] | 2008-03-14 10:24:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARK MASS PBTS NATO AJ |
08BAKU257 | AZADLIQ NEWSPAPER JOURNALIST STABBED; [...] (SBU) On March 13 at approximately 2000, opposition Azadliq newspaper correspondent Agil Khalil was stabbed near his heart by four assailants. The 25-year old Khalil survived, although he lost a significant amount of blood and underwent minor surgery. As of COB on March 14, he remained in th [...] | 2008-03-14 11:44:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM AJ |
08BAKU262 | AZERBAIJAN: 2007 HRR ROLLS OUT TO MIXED REACTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a March 12 press event, the Ambassador rolled out the 2007 Human Rights Report to a group of human rights activists, representatives of the Human Rights Ombudswoman's office, and Parliament's Human Rights Commission Chair. Although the Human Rights Commission Chair questioned [...] | 2008-03-17 13:38:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM PBTS KPAO AJ |
08BAKU263 | AZERBAIJAN: TGI SAYS IT IS MOST VIABLE PROJECT FOR [...] (U) This is an action request; see para 12. 2. (C) SUMMARY. A representative of the Italian Energy Company Edison argued that of the three pipeline projects vying for volumes of Shah Deniz Phase Two (SD2) gas, the Turkey-Greece-Italy (TGI) project is the most commercially viable. Given t [...] | 2008-03-18 08:51:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ ENRG |
08BAKU268 | UPDATE ON STABBED AZERBAIJANI JOURNALIST [...] (C) Agil Khalil, the Azadliq newspaper corespondent who was stabbed and subsequently hospitalized on March 13 (reftel),reports that his physical condition is improving, although he remains weak. Acting Azadliq Editor Azer Ahmedov, speaking on behalf of Khalil, told us that Khalil left the C [...] | 2008-03-19 11:30:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AJ |
08BAKU270 | PRESIDENTIAL PARDON DISAPPOINTS HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) President Aliyev pardoned 59 prisoners on March 18, in a step that was widely expected by local human rights activists. The pardon is linked to the Novruz holiday, which is the most important holiday for the majority of Azerbaijanis. In the past, President Ilham Aliyev and former Pres [...] | 2008-03-19 11:44:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AJ |
08BAKU275 | AZERBAIJAN'S NK UNGA RESOLUTION UNDERSCORES [...] (C) Summary: The March 14 UNGA vote on Azerbaijan's "Situation in the Occupied Territories of Azerbaijan" resolution reflects the GOAJ's broader attempt to underscore Azerbaijan's fundamental redlines in the Minsk Group negotiations and to find additional tools outside of the Minsk Group to [...] | 2008-03-19 13:44:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS PHUM AJ |
08BAKU277 | LOOKING TO ARMENIA,"AZERBAIJAN NOW SYMBOL OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: A clearly pleased President Aliyev branded the recent Armenian Presidential elections "a fraud," the incoming and outgoing Armenian President "criminals," and said that the sham elections and subsequent violence, where the Armenian government was forced to kill its own people, al [...] | 2008-03-25 05:22:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ TX AR ENRG |
08BAKU279 | ACTION REQUEST: AZERBAIJAN REQUESTS CONFIRMATION [...] (U) This is an action request; see para 5. 2. (SBU) On March 19, the Embassy received a diplomatic note from the GOAJ, requesting that the U.S. "confirm officially and in written form its adherence to respect and support of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the Republic of Azer [...] | 2008-03-25 12:07:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS AJ |
08BAKU280 | DAS BRYZA PROMOTES DEMOCRACY AGENDA WITH FM [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate March 4-5 meetings with Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and Presidential Chief of Staff Ramiz Mehdiyev, EUR/DAS Bryza reviewed election assistance and the issue of our bilateral democracy dialogue agenda with Azerbaijan, underscoring the importance of democratic ref [...] | 2008-03-26 05:55:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM AR GA AJ |
08BAKU281 | DAS BRYZA'S MEETINGS WITH POLITICAL PARTIES, CIVIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a March 4-5 visit to Baku, EUR/DAS Bryza met separately with a group of Islamic commentators, members of the Karabakh Forum (an informal association of prominent commentators),and leaders of many of Azerbaijan's prominent political parties. The Islamic commentators agreed [...] | 2008-03-26 06:10:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL PBTS KDEM KIRF KISL AJ |
08BAKU282 | DAS BRYZA DISCUSSES ENERGY COOPERATION WITH FM [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a March 4-5 visit to Baku, EUR/DAS Bryza discussed energy cooperation in separate meetings with Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, Minister of Economic Development Heydar Babayev, and Deputy Speaker of Parliament Valeh Alasgarov. Bryza briefed Mammadyarov on his recent e [...] | 2008-03-26 06:40:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PGOV PREL AJ |
08BAKU283 | HEADSCARVES IN AZERBAIJAN [...] (C) Summary: A small but growing segment of Azerbaijani women wear an Islamic headscarf (hijab). While there is no ban against women wearing the hijab at government offices or universities, there are regular instances of local officials harassing women who choose to wear a headscarf; several [...] | 2008-03-26 08:31:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS PHUM KIRF AJ |
08BAKU284 | AZERBAIJANI MUSLIM IVP'ER CAUGHT UP IN MNS [...] (C) Azerbaijani Islamic commentator Elshad Miri told the Embassy that Ministry of National Security (MNS) officers raided his office on February 27, shortly after he returned from the U.S., where he participated in an International Visitors Program (IVP) for Azerbaijani Muslim believers. Miri [...] | 2008-03-26 11:07:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF KISL KPAO AJ |
08BAKU290 | IMPRISONED AZERBAIJANI BAPTIST PASTOR IS PARDONED [...] (C) President Aliyev pardoned Baptist pastor Zaur Balaev on March 18, as part of a broader presidential pardon timed to the start of Novruz (ref a). Balaev was arrested on May 20, 2007 on charges of resisting and attacking police in the northwestern village of Aliabad (ref b). Since Balaev's [...] | 2008-03-27 12:58:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF AJ |
08BAKU291 | UPDATE ON SOFAZ, AZERBAIJAN'S OIL FUND [...] (C) SUMMARY. Since its creation in 1999, the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ) has acted as Azerbaijan's energy revenue sterilizer and long-term savings vehicle. With current assets in excess of USD 2.5 billion (expected to grow to USD 6 billion this year, and USD 10 billion by 2010, based [...] | 2008-03-28 08:41:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ENRG PREL AJ |
08BAKU292 | REQUEST FOR U/S JEFFREY TO VISIT BAKU IN [...] (U) This is an action request. See Paragraph 2. 2. (U) Embassy Baku requests that Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Reuben Jeffery III consider visiting Azerbaijan June 3-4, in conjunction with the June 3-6 International Caspian Oil and Gas Exhibition and Confer [...] | 2008-03-28 09:04:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OVIP AJ ENRG |
08BAKU293 | REQUEST FOR U/S JEFFERY TO VISIT BAKU IN [...] (U) This is an action request. See Paragraph 2. 2. (U) Embassy Baku requests that Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Reuben Jeffery III consider visiting Azerbaijan June 3-4, in conjunction with the June 3-6 International Caspian Oil and Gas Exhibition and Confer [...] | 2008-03-28 10:03:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OVIP AJ ENRG |
08BAKU3 | AZERBAIJAN'S INCREASINGLY CONFIDENT FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary: In the past few years and especially the last year as oil revenues have come on-line, the GOAJ has adopted a strikingly more confident and activist foreign policy. The GOAJ's new activism is reflected in a high volume of foreign visits to and from Azerbaijan, the large number o [...] | 2008-01-03 10:18:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS ENRG KDEM AJ |
08BAKU302 | U.S.-AZERBAIJAN DEMOCRACY DIALOGUE [...] (C) David, I would like to congratulate you on your appointment and invite you to Azerbaijan at your earliest convenience to continue the bilateral dialogue on democracy and human rights that Barry Lowenkron initiated in December 2006 at President Aliyev's suggestions. This forum, led on the [...] | 2008-03-31 11:33:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF AJ |
08BAKU309 | EFFORTS TO UNIFY THE WORLD AZERBAIJANIS CONGRESS [...] (C) Summary: World Azerbaijanis Congress (WAC) President Ghulamriza Sabri-Tabrizi characterized a recent Brussels meeting of the WAC Board of Directors to finalize details of the reunification of the Demokratik Dunya Azerbaijan Kongresi (the North America-based faction of the WAC led by Ahmad [...] | 2008-04-02 12:32:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KDEM IR AJ |
08BAKU312 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IMPLEMENTING UNSCR 1803 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-02 14:15:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MNUC KNNP AJ |
08BAKU320 | UPDATE ON AZERBAIJANI FRUSTRATION WITH CO-CHAIR [...] (C) Summary: Public attention on the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries' vote against Azerbaijan's "Situation in the Occupied Territories of Azerbaijan" UNGA resolution continues, as do GOAJ official statements and some orchestrated political activities. While the issue has gradually slipp [...] | 2008-04-04 11:13:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS PHUM KPAO AJ |
08BAKU322 | AZERBAIJAN ECONOMY CONTINUES EXPANSION IN 2007; [...] (C) SUMMARY: Azerbaijan's economic performance in 2007 showed increasing resilience and strength as GDP grew by more than 25 percent, a slight moderation in previous years' growth of more than 30 percent. Azerbaijan's growth prospects remain closely linked to oil prices, given that the energy [...] | 2008-04-04 11:41:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL ETRD AJ |
08BAKU336 | UPDATES IN THE CASE OF STABBED JOURNALIST AGIL [...] (SBU) Over the past week, the GOAJ has been taking action in connection with the February 22 and March 13 attacks on opposition Azadliq newspaper correspondent Agil Khalil (reftels). On April 1, police arrested Natiq Allahverdiyev, the owner of the Olive Gardens, in connection with the Februa [...] | 2008-04-07 14:12:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM AJ |
08BAKU35 | CODEL SHUSTER RAISES ENERGY, IRAN, DEMOCRACY AND [...] (C) Summary: During a friendly January 10 meeting, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and CODEL Shuster discussed a wide range of issues including strengthening the U.S-Azerbaijan partnership, energy, Iran, Azerbaijan's growing regional role, and the Farhad Aliyev case. President Aliyev outli [...] | 2008-01-15 11:48:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG EPET PTER PBTS KDEM ECON AJ |
08BAKU352 | AZERBAIJAN'S COORDINATION COUNCIL CREATES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies (MCIT) Coordination Council has sparked allegations of censoring information on the internet. The MCIT's Head of Internet, Services and Development Department Gulmammadov clarified that the Council serves as MCIT Ministe [...] | 2008-04-10 13:24:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PHUM EINT KPAO AJ |
08BAKU353 | CANDIDATES BEGIN JOCKEYING FOR PRESIDENTIAL RACE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Six months out from Azerbaijan's October presidential election, four contenders have thrown their hats in the ring to run against incumbent President Ilham Aliyev, who seeks a second -- and per the Azerbaijani Constitution, final -- term in office. The presidential hopefuls inclu [...] | 2008-04-10 13:49:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
08BAKU354 | OSCE MEDIA REPRESENTATIVE BLASTS "UNFORTUNATE [...] (C) Summary: OSCE Media Freedom Representative Haraszti capped off an April 6-9 visit to Baku with a press conference in which he blasted an "unfortunate trend" of pressure against Azerbaijani journalists, and specifically blamed Prosecutor General Garalov for a "disgraceful" propaganda camp [...] | 2008-04-10 14:09:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AJ |
08BAKU358 | PRESIDENTIAL CHIEF OF STAFF RAMIZ MEHDIYEV LAYS [...] (C) Summary: In an April 8 meeting with the Ambassador, Presidential Chief of Staff Ramiz Mehdiyev, echoing President Aliyev (ref a),laid down a tough new line on democracy assistance. He said that the National Democratic Institute must conduct joint training for pro-government and oppositi [...] | 2008-04-11 16:20:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EAID AJ |
08BAKU359 | PRESIDENTIAL CHIEF OF STAFF RAMIZ MEHDIYEV [...] (C) Summary: In an April 8 meeting with the Ambassador, Presidential Chief of Staff Ramiz Mehdiyev expressed the GOAJ's strong disappointment with the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs' "no" vote on Azerbaijan's UNGA resolution regarding Nagorno Karabakh and the occupied territories. Stressing that [...] | 2008-04-11 16:24:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS AM AJ |
08BAKU366 | AZERBAIJAN: PLANS TO IMPROVE ELECTORAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: With Azerbaijan's presidential election set for October 15, the GOAJ already is making technical preparations. Through dialogue with the Council of Europe's Venice Commission, the GOAJ is preparing changes to the electoral code and the law on freedom of assembly. Both pieces of [...] | 2008-04-16 14:10:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
08BAKU371 | SCENESETTER FOR U/S JEFFERY'S APRIL 22-23 VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary: Energy continues to figure prominently in Azerbaijan's geostrategic vision, economic development, and partnership with the United States. President Aliyev and his senior advisors have repeatedly expressed their commitment to working with the U.S. on a new phase of energy coopera [...] | 2008-04-17 13:46:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ENRG PGOV PBTS AJ |
08BAKU376 | LEGAL CONFERENCE SEEKS TO BOLSTER AZERBAIJAN'S [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-18 11:51:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS AM AJ |
08BAKU377 | PRESIDENT ALIYEV REJECTS CRITICISM ON MEDIA [...] (C) Summary: In an April 15 meeting with visiting Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) President Jeff Gedmin, President Aliyev firmly denied that Azerbaijan has any problems in the area of media freedom, and accused the U.S. of applying a "double standard" in its criticisms. The Preside [...] | 2008-04-21 13:26:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PBTS KDEM KISL AJ |
08BAKU38 | PRESIDENT ALIYEV DISCUSSES DEMOCRACY AND FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: During a January 9 meeting with Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL),President Aliyev said he was confident about winning the October Presidential election, due to his government's accomplishments and the opposition's inability to introduce fresh faces. Aliyev said Azerbaijan is [...] | 2008-01-15 12:31:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG EPET MARR MASS PTER KDEM AJ |
08BAKU383 | FATA-ALIYEV MEETING - APRIL 16, 2008 [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a cordial one-hour meeting with visiting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy Daniel Fata on April 16, President Aliyev delivered a direct plea for greater US support for Azerbaijan's security in the face of growing regional pressures, especiall [...] | 2008-04-23 08:19:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS MARR MASS ENRG AJ |
08BAKU389 | AZERBAIJAN'S HEAD OF CUSTOMS CLARIFIES STATUS OF [...] (C) In an April 23rd conversation with the Ambassador, Aydin Aliyev, Chairman of Azerbaijan's Customs Service, provided further details on the Russian shipment halted at the Astara border crossing (reftel). Aliyev said that per usual GoAJ procedures, Customs has the right to allow goods to en [...] | 2008-04-23 13:26:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MNUC KNNP IR RS AJ |
08BAKU390 | AZERBAIJAN OPPOSES RUSSIAN MOVES TO UPGRADE [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered ref a demarche to Foreign Minister Mammadyarov during an April 22 meeting with visiting Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Reuben Jeffery III (other topics septel). Mammadyarov responded that Azerbaijan supports Georgia's territorial in [...] | 2008-04-23 13:26:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS GG RS AJ |
08BAKU392 | FATA-MAMMADYAROV MEETING - APRIL 16, 2008 [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an April 16 meeting with Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy Daniel Fata, Foreign Minister Mammadyarov underscored increasing volatility in the region and pressure from Azerbaijan's neighbors, especially in connection with Azerbaijan's commitmen [...] | 2008-04-24 06:04:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS MARR MASS ENRG AJ |
08BAKU395 | AZERBAIJAN: TGI FIGHTING NABUCCO, EU AND TURKEY [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to Edison SpA Business Manager Elio Ruggieri, one of the main executives involved in promoting the Turkey-Greece-Italy (TGI) gas pipeline, TGI needs nine bcm/a of Shah Deniz Two gas for sanctioning. The minimum amount it sought was six bcm/a, although this limited amou [...] | 2008-04-25 08:54:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AJ ENRG |
08BAKU397 | AGIL KHALIL FRUSTRATED BY GOAJ'S "BLACK PR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a April 24 meeting, opposition Azadliq newspaper correspondent Agil Khalil told Poloff that the GOAJ's investigation into his case was "fake and biased." He said he would not participate in further questioning or in court should the case go to trial. Khalil expressed frustra [...] | 2008-04-25 13:14:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM AJ |
08BAKU404 | DEPUTY FM AZIMOV SHARPLY CRITICIZES MINSK GROUP [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to the French Charge on April 24, Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov sharply criticized the Minsk Group Co-Chairs and France in particular during an April 23 meeting with the EU heads of mission. Azimov claimed that the Co-Chairs had not made any effort to [...] | 2008-04-29 05:43:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | AJ PBTS PGOV PREL |
08BAKU412 | MOJ APPEALS TO REVOKE REGISTRATION AND SHUT DOWN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 28, the USAID-supported Election Monitoring Center (EMC) received notification that the Ministry of Justice has filed an appeal to revoke EMC's registration and disband the organization. The preliminary hearing is set for May 5. According to EMC's lawyer, the Ministry [...] | 2008-04-30 15:20:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAID AJ |
08BAKU415 | EU PROGRESS REPORT ON AZERBAIJAN INTENTIONALLY [...] (C) Summary: According to European diplomats, the European Commission's first report on Azerbaijan's implementation of the European Neighborhood Policy Action was intentionally "soft" on Azerbaijan's democracy and human rights record. EC Head of Delegation Alan Waddams chalked up the soft a [...] | 2008-05-01 07:01:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM AJ |
08BAKU416 | AZERBAIJAN: NABUCCO CONTINUES TO WORK FOR SHAH [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to Nabucco Pipeline General Manager Reinhard Mitschek, the Nabucco Pipeline Consortium is increasingly focusing on the commercial mechanism the Shah Deniz consortium will devise to market its gas. To break the Turkish transit deadlock, it is contemplating offering Turke [...] | 2008-05-01 09:08:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ ENRG |
08BAKU42 | CONGRESSMAN WEXLER REVIEWS REGIONAL, DOMESTIC [...] (C) Summary: During a January 9 meeting with Congressman Wexler, Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov provided an overview of Azerbaijan's relations with Iran and Russia, suggesting that Azerbaijan would be willing to play a mediating role between the U.S. and Iran. In separate January 9 me [...] | 2008-01-16 13:09:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IR RU AJ |
08BAKU422 | MOLDOVAN PRESIDENT PURSUES ECONOMIC TIES DURING [...] (C) Summary: During an April 23-24 visit, Moldovan President Voronin focused on economic issues, including a new agreement to have Azerbaijani specialists examine Moldovan oil and gas reserves. They also discussed possible Azerbaijani investment in the privatization of Moldovan industries, th [...] | 2008-05-02 07:29:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENERG ECON AJ |
08BAKU429 | IFIS WORRY ABOUT INCREASED INFLATION, PLEASED BY [...] (C) SUMMARY: At an April 30 lunch with the Ambassador Derse, local representatives from the International Financial Institutions worried about the impact of increased GOAJ spending, including stepped-up transfers from the State Oil Fund to the consolidated budget. The 2008 supplemental budge [...] | 2008-05-02 13:28:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL AJ |
08BAKU432 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES PRE-ELECTION ENVIRONMENT WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an April 28 meeting, a group of key civil society leaders discussed the pre-election environment and briefed the Ambassador on their plans for the October 15 presidential election. The group believes that the media environment is the biggest problem in the pre-election enviro [...] | 2008-05-05 12:33:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
08BAKU434 | BUSHEHR LIGHTWATER REACTOR-BOUND EQUIPMENT [...] (C) Further to reftels regarding the stranded Busheher lightwater-reactor bound nuclear equipment that was being held on the Iranian-Azerbaijani border at Astara, On May 2 Poloff spoke with Azerbaijani MFA First Secretary for Arms Control and Disarmament Yusuf Mammadaliyev. Mammadaliyev said [...] | 2008-05-05 13:08:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP IAEA PARM MNUC AORC UNSC IR AJ |
08BAKU44 | AZERBAIJAN'S INTENTIONAL AMBIGUITY TOWARD NATO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Government of Azerbaijan (GOAJ) has not publicly defined its ultimate goal with respect to NATO membership, nor do we expect it to do so. Azerbaijan's NATO policy appears to be movement toward the organization while intentionally remaining silent on the question of ultimatel [...] | 2008-01-17 08:52:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARK MASS PBTS NATO AJ |
08BAKU442 | ACTION REQUEST: U.S. SUPPORT FOR UNITED NATIONS [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (C) The Executive Director of Azerbaijan's State Oil Fund (SOFAZ) Shahmar Movsumov called Ambassador Derse this morning to thank the United States for its support for the Azerbaijan-sponsored United Nations resolution on Extractive Indust [...] | 2008-05-08 11:10:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL AJ |
08BAKU444 | POLITICAL PARTIES FOCUS ON PARALLEL VOTE [...] (C) Summary: During a May 1 meeting, the Ambassador briefed Azerbaijan's major political parties on our planned USD 3.2 million in assistance programs to support a free and fair presidential election. The parties welcomed the assistance, focusing on the parallel vote tabulation (PVT) as an e [...] | 2008-05-08 15:35:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EAID AJ |
08BAKU446 | U/S JEFFERY MEETS WITH KEY AZERBAIJANI MINISTERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an April 22 visit to Baku, Under Secretary for Economic, Energy, and Agricultural Affairs and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs Reuben Jeffery III discussed with the Foreign Minister and State Oil Company president the importance of gas transit and securing Caspia [...] | 2008-05-12 05:26:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL PGOV AJ |
08BAKU447 | AZERBAIJAN: SENIOR OFFICIALS REACT STRONGLY TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior GOAJ officials have reacted unusually harshly to recent USG statements criticizing Azerbaijan's lack of political will to resolve its separatist conflict, its imprisonment of journalists and especially, comparing Azerbaijan's record on democracy unfavorably to that of Arm [...] | 2008-05-13 13:06:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | AJ PGOV PHUM PREL |
08BAKU454 | ELECTION MONITORING CENTER DEREGISTERED AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 14, a Baku court ordered the deregistration and annulment of the Election Monitoring Center (EMC),based on an appeal filed by the Ministry of Justice (MOJ). It is unclear how the MOJ will attempt to enforce the decision, as it is an unprecedented step in Azerbaijan. The [...] | 2008-05-14 12:12:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM EAID AJ |
08BAKU461 | GOVERNMENT "SHARKS" PUSH LARGE AMERICAN INVESTOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a sign of the difficult business environment in Azerbaijan, a major foreign investor has decided to sell its investment and leave Azerbaijan. Russia's Baltika Breweries, a subsidiary of Carlsberg, announced the purchase of Baku Castel on May 15. CEO of the local brewery Baku C [...] | 2008-05-16 12:59:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EFIN KCOR PREL PGOV AJ |
08BAKU466 | JUSTICE MINISTRY TAKES ACTION FOLLOWING COURT [...] (SBU) According to the NDI Baku Acting Country Director, on May 19, Ministry of Justice (MOJ) court bailiffs visited the Election Monitoring Center's (EMC's) main office in Baku, demanding that the EMC's secretary sign a statement that the office was the EMC's official office. When she refused [...] | 2008-05-21 04:45:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM EAID AJ |
08BAKU467 | PRESIDENT ALIYEV SHARES HIS VISION WITH U/S JEFFERY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an April 22 conversation with U/S Jeffery and Ambassador Derse, President Aliyev said that he was seeking "greater clarity" from the Nabucco countries as to their real intentions, and from Turkmen President Berdimuhamedov on how active the GOTX will be in seeking energy cooper [...] | 2008-05-21 06:32:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ ENRG |
08BAKU478 | SCENESETTER FOR SCA A/S BOUCHER,S MAY 30 VISIT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Building on the success of the BTC and SCP pipelines, Azerbaijan could become a still more important producer and transit country for Capsian energy reserves. Several key issues must be resolved. Azerbaijan is working quietly with Turkmenistan to improve their relationship, sett [...] | 2008-05-23 11:56:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ ENRG |
08BAKU482 | INITIAL READOUT OF TURKMEN PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan President Berdimuhamedov's May 19-20 visit to Baku was a significant step in the ongoing improvement of bilateral relations. According to SOCAR President Abdullayev, although the two heads of state seems to have reached no specific agreement on offshore energy devel [...] | 2008-05-23 15:04:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ ENRG TX |
08BAKU483 | ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN: MIXED MESAGES FROM THE [...] (C) Summary: On May 23, the President's senior legal advisor told the Embassy that the USAID-funded Election Monitoring Center (EMC) would not be allowed to conduct election monitoring following the recent court decision to de-register and disband the organization. In contrast, on May 15 in [...] | 2008-05-23 15:19:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | AJ PGOV PREL |
08BAKU494 | AZERBAIJAN SCENESETTER FOR SPECIAL ENVOY FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Building on the success of the BTC and SCP pipelines, Azerbaijan could become a still more important producer and transit country for Caspian energy reserves. Several key issues must be resolved. Azerbaijan is working quietly with Turkmenistan to improve their relationship, sett [...] | 2008-05-30 04:31:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | AJ PGOV PREL ENRG |
08BAKU496 | KOREAN COMPANIES FACE CHALLENGES IN AZERBAIJAN'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although the press has reported that South Korean companies are winning major construction and transportation deals, the Baku-based Director of the Korean Ministry of Construction and Transportation Yong Seog Kim reports that Korean companies are facing problems in concluding the [...] | 2008-05-30 10:43:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KCOR EFIN ETRD AJ |
08BAKU51 | AZERBAIJAN PRESIDENT TELLS SENATOR LUGAR HE WANTS [...] (C) Summary: In a January 14 meeting with Senator Lugar, President Aliyev said that the Turkmen President is moving too slowly on trans-Caspian gas discussions while at the same time continuing to sign deals with Russia. Aliyev said that he needs a political signal in the next six months to [...] | 2008-01-18 12:08:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG MARR AJ RS IR |
08BAKU511 | PRESIDENTIAL CHIEF OF STAFF STILL STEWING OVER [...] (C) Summary: Presidential Chief of Staff Ramiz Mehdiyev used a May 27 meeting with visiting NDI Regional Director Laura Jewett and the Ambassador to lay out in stark terms the Azerbaijani Government's continuing anger over recent public statements by U.S. officials that were critical of Azer [...] | 2008-06-02 14:17:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAID AJ |
08BAKU524 | AZERBAIJAN ADOPTS NEW LAW ON FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY, [...] (C) Summary: On May 30 and June 2, the Azerbaijani Parliament adopted amendments to the law on freedom of assembly and electoral code. OSCE experts believe that the new law on freedom of assembly, if properly implemented, will meet Venice Commission standards. The changes to the electoral [...] | 2008-06-05 11:06:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL AJ |
08BAKU535 | AZERBAIJAN: TURKEY NAKHCHIVAN SUMMIT A SUCCESS, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Initial press accounts indicate that Azerbaijani President Aliyev and Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan's June 4 meeting in the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan was successful, with the two countries announcing that their positions coincide "in all spheres." However, SOCAR Vice Pre [...] | 2008-06-09 13:19:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ ENRG TK |
08BAKU541 | PRESIDENT ALIYEV "HURT" BY U.S. CRITICISMS, SEEKS [...] (C) Summary: On May 30, President Aliyev bluntly detailed his personal sense of "hurt" over statements by the Secretary and President that were critical of Azerbaijan's democracy and human rights record. He views the statements as part of a trend -- the UNGA vote, the Presidential statement [...] | 2008-06-10 11:25:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS ENRG AJ |
08BAKU547 | NORTH-SOUTH DIVIDE SPLITS WORLD AZERBAIJANIS [...] (C) Summary: Azerbaijani Member of Parliament Sabir Rustamxanli and current World Azerbaijanis Congress (WAC) President Ghulamriza Sabri-Tabrizi are both claiming leadership of the organization and organizing rival annual congresses. The organization's split appears to be driven by differen [...] | 2008-06-12 10:40:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KDEM IR AJ |
08BAKU550 | AZERBAIJAN: TOTAL AND SOCAR AGREE TO EXPLORE, [...] (C) SUMMARY. French Energy Company Total has signed an agreement with SOCAR to explore and develop the Absheron offshore field, expected to be a gas-condensate field. Total believes that production from the field could begin o/a 2015; it has not provided an estimate of the field,s possible r [...] | 2008-06-13 09:41:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ ENRG |
08BAKU552 | AZERBAIJAN: SE GRAY'S MEETINGS WITH FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy C. Boyden Gray, accompanied by EUR DAS Matthew Bryza, Eurasian Energy Coordinator Ambassador Steven Mann, Ambassador Richard Hoagland, and Ambassador Anne Derse, met separately with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and Energy Minist [...] | 2008-06-17 10:19:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG PINR PGOV PREL AJ TX |
08BAKU553 | PRESIDENTIAL CHIEF OF STAFF CONTINUES TO EXPRESS [...] (C) Summary: Presidential Chief of Staff Ramiz Mehdiyev told visiting EUR DAS Bryza that, as a strategic partner, Azerbaijan expects the U.S. to take a more active role in resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) conflict. Mehdiyev said greater U.S. activism and pressure is needed to balance Rus [...] | 2008-06-17 10:24:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS KDEM AJ |
08BAKU557 | PROMINENT AZERBAIJAN MEDIA RIGHTS ACTIVIST BEATEN [...] (C) Summary: On June 14, Emin Huseynov, director of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Security (IRFS),was arrested and beaten by an unidentified, non-uniformed individual. Huseynov was detained while covering a commemoration of Che Guevera's birthday, along with 21 other participant [...] | 2008-06-17 12:54:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AJ |
08BAKU559 | SCENESETTER FOR DRL A/S KRAMER'S VISIT TO BAKU, [...] (C) Summary: President Aliyev and his closest advisors are still perturbed over what they perceive as a series of slights from the USG, which they view as inconsistent with our bilateral partnership. They are expressing their anger through a new, tough line on democracy and human rights iss [...] | 2008-06-18 08:34:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KCOR AJ |
08BAKU560 | SCENESETTER FOR DRL A/S KRAMER'S VISIT TO BAKU, [...] (C) Summary: President Aliyev and his closest advisors are still perturbed over what they perceive as a series of slights from the USG, which they view as inconsistent with our bilateral partnership. They are expressing their anger through a new, tough line on democracy and human rights iss [...] | 2008-06-18 08:34:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KCOR AJ |
08BAKU565 | AZERBAIJAN PRESIDENT SAYS ENERGY COOPERATION MUST [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a June 2 meeting with Special Coordinator for Eurasian Energy Ambassador Steve Mann, President Aliyev said the recent visit of Turkmen President Berdimuhamedov helped moved forward the bilateral relationship, which could well lead to expanded cooperation on energy sector devel [...] | 2008-06-18 11:24:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | AJ ENRG PGOV PREL TU TX |
08BAKU566 | AZERBAIJAN: SOCAR TELLS SE GRAY EVERYONE WANTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. SOCAR President Rovnaq Abdullayev told a USG delegation on June 2 that in addition to competition among the Nabucco, TGI and TAP pipeline projects for Shah Deniz Phase Two gas, Turkey, Israel, Iran and Russia have each individually notified SOCAR that they wish to purchase all o [...] | 2008-06-18 11:36:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG AJ TX TK |
08BAKU584 | AZERBAIJAN: RWE, TGI, OMV, DEPA ALL SAY 'TIME IS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Companies involve with TGI and Nabucco, two of the three pipelineprojects seeking to buy Shah Deniz Phase Two gas agree that the next six months are crucial for rogress in the Southern Corridor project, and that main stumbling block currently is the issue of gas transit through T [...] | 2008-06-20 14:20:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AJ ENRG |
08BAKU585 | AZERBAIJAN: PENDING BREAKTHROUGH IN TURKMENISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Aliyev told the Ambassador on June 20 that the June 19 Ashgabat visit of a delegation headed by SOCAR President Rovnaq Abdullayev went well, and that Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan "may have some news on gas soon." In a separate conversation, SOCAR Marketing Vice-President [...] | 2008-06-20 15:22:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG AJ TX TU |
08BAKU591 | AZERBAIJANI POLICE DISRUPT JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES' [...] (C) On June 11, police reportedly broke up a Jehovah's Witnesses' service in Lokbatan, a Baku suburb. Baku-based Jehovah's Witnesses representative Leonid Moroz told us approximately 15-20 uniformed and non-uniformed police officers raided the service, which was being held in a private apart [...] | 2008-06-23 10:34:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF AJ |
08BAKU599 | OSCE/ODIHR ELECTION EXPERTS RECOMMEND OBSERVATION [...] (C) Summary: OSCE/ODIHR election experts conducted a needs assessment June 17-20, in preparation for Azerbaijan's October 15 presidential election. Although they were concerned by problems in the pre-election environment (particularly with regard to media freedom and freedom of assembly),th [...] | 2008-06-25 14:25:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE AJ |
08BAKU6 | PRESIDENT ALIYEV OUTLINES PLNS FOR STATE FUNDING [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 13, President liyev issued a decree outlining a plan to provid state funding to NGOs and creating a Council fo State Support of NGOs. This decree was issued as a follow-up to the President's July 27 decree initially proposing the GOAJ's new NGO concept (reftel). The [...] | 2008-01-04 09:52:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHU KDEM AJ |
08BAKU602 | PRESIDENT ALIYEV PITCHES AZERBAIJAN AS STRONGER [...] (C) Summary: In a May 24 meeting with CODEL Schiff, President Aliyev outlined Azerbaijan's cooperation with the U.S., highlighting contributions in security, counter-terorrism and energy security, and contrasting them to Armenia's continuing dependence on Russia. He said Azerbaijan seeks gr [...] | 2008-06-26 08:49:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS KDEM PHUM AM AJ |
08BAKU603 | AZERBAIJANI POLICE IMPRISON BAPTIST PASTOR [...] (C) Baku-based Baptist representative Ilya Zenchenko told the Embassy that Baptist pastor Hamid Shabanov has been detained by police in the northwestern village of Aliabad. Police arrested Shabanov on June 20 after searching his residence and finding a handgun. Shabanov, Shabanov's family me [...] | 2008-06-26 09:07:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF AJ |
08BAKU604 | CONGRESSMAN ADAM SCHIFF AND AZERBAIJANI FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a May 24 meeting with Representative Schiff and the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Mammadyarov underscored Azerbaijan's interest in an early peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) conflict and the benefits that increased cooperation with a rapidly developing Azerbaija [...] | 2008-06-26 10:45:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS AM AJ |
08BAKU61 | OPPOSITION JOURNALIST RECEIVES SIX-YEAR PRISON [...] (SBU) On January 21, the Court of Grave Crimes convicted opposition Bizim Yol newspaper correspondent Mushvig Huseynov of accepting a bribe (Criminal Code article 331),and sentenced him to six years' imprisonment. In addition to the prison sentence, the court banned Huseynov from engaging in [...] | 2008-01-24 08:56:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KCOR AJ |
08BAKU620 | AZERBAIJAN'S SOCAR UPBEAT ON TURKMENISTAN; WORRIED [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 24 meeting, SOCAR President Rovnaq Abdullayev told the Ambassador that during a recent meeting in Ashgabat he had outlined to Turkmenistan President Berdimuhamedov a vision of bilateral energy cooperation between the two countries. Berdimuhamedov struck him as a reasona [...] | 2008-06-30 13:18:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ TK ENRG |
08BAKU621 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ELECTION PREPARATIONS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 25 meeting with the Ambassador, Central Election Commission (CEC) Chairman Panahov reviewed preparations for Azerbaijan's October presidential election, including voter education and efforts to improve the voter lists. He defended recent changes to the electoral cod [...] | 2008-06-30 13:21:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
08BAKU624 | AZERBAIJAN'S RELATIONSHIP WITH RUSSIA IN THE LEAD [...] (C) Summary: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will make his first state visit to Baku on July 3-4, following on the heels of recent stops in Azerbaijan from the head of Gazprom Alexei Miller, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Grigoriy Karasin, and Speaker of the Lower House of the Duma Boris G [...] | 2008-07-02 04:46:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS ENRG RU AJ |
08BAKU629 | P-1 REFERRAL FOR U.S. RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM: [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Embassy has identified Azerbaijani journalist Agil Khalil as a candidate for the U.S. Resettlement Program as a Priority One referral. Khalil submitted a written request for refugee resettlement in the U.S. to the Embassy. In this request, Khalil alleges that he is in dange [...] | 2008-07-02 12:48:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV PHUM KDEM CVIS AJ |
08BAKU630 | AZERBAIJAN STATOIL EXEC SAYS SD1 AND SD2 WILL BE [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to a Baku-based StatoilHydro executive, issues relating to the new price of Shah Deniz Phase One gas being sold to Turkey will be solved contemporaneously with agreement of sales of volumes of Shah Deniz Phase Two to Turkey. According to him, there are features of the S [...] | 2008-07-02 13:02:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ TU ENRG |
08BAKU638 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE [...] (SBU) On July 1 the Ambassador met with Eldar Namazov, head of the "For the Sake of Azerbaijan" forum, and a likely candidate in the October presidential election. Namazov requested this meeting in advance of his trip to Washington, D.C. during the week of July 7, which is sponsored by the [...] | 2008-07-03 11:07:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM AJ |
08BAKU639 | PACE REPORT HIGHLIGHTS CONCERNS ABOUT AZERBAIJAN'S [...] (SBU) On June 24, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) approved resolution 1614, which serves as a "scorecard" on the state of Azerbaijan's democratic institutions. The resolution's overall tone is critical of Azerbaijan's track record, citing the "deteriorating" human [...] | 2008-07-03 11:08:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AJ |
08BAKU646 | RUSSIAN PRESIDENT MEDVEDEV DISCUSSES ENERGY AND NK [...] (C) Summary: During his July 3-4 visit to Baku, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev discussed energy and Nagorno-Karabakh with President Aliyev. Despite the usual public rhetoric of friendly relations, public statements from the leaders and press reporting indicate that no substantive agreement [...] | 2008-07-07 13:39:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PGOV ENRG RU AJ |
08BAKU649 | EEB/CBA MERMOUD DISCUSSES EPC AND COMMERCIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In meetings with GOAJ officials, Special Representative for Economic and Business Affairs Frank Mermoud proposed a September 8 meeting of the Economic Partnership Commission; Minister of Finance Sharifov indicated that the date could be difficult due to GOAJ budget preparation [...] | 2008-07-08 06:11:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV KCOR PREL AJ |
08BAKU651 | DEMARCHE ON KOSOVO RECOGNITION DELIVERED, [...] (C) The Embassy delivered the points in reftel on the importance of recognizing Kosovo via a letter from the Ambassador to Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov. Given the GOAJ's foreign policy focus on the conflict over the status of Nagorno-Karabakh and its concerns about Kosovo b [...] | 2008-07-08 08:24:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU KPKO KV AJ |
08BAKU652 | DRL A/S KRAMER URGES PRESIDENT ALIYEV TO IMPROVE [...] (C) Summary: In a very frank June 27 meeting, DRL A/S Kramer urged President Aliyev to "turn an area of friction into an area of improvement" in the bilateral relationship by taking concrete steps to address Azerbaijan's human rights problems. Although initially cool and somewhat testy, Pre [...] | 2008-07-08 08:47:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PBTS AJ |
08BAKU658 | DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary: DRL A/S Kramer and Foreign Minister Mammadaryov conducted the fourth round of the DRL-led U.S.-Azerbaijan Democracy and Human Rights Dialogue on June 27 in Baku. Mammadyarov defended Azerbaijan's recent electoral changes as in keeping with European standards and agreed that imp [...] | 2008-07-09 07:01:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS KIRF PBTS AJ |
08BAKU667 | AZERBAIJAN INCREASES 2008 BUDGET WITH LARGE [...] (C) SUMMARY: With the May 2 approval of the 2008 supplemental budget by Parliament, the Government of Azerbaijan (GOAJ) increased expenditures by USD 3.7 billion, raising total expenditures to USD 12.2 billion. In order to fund the dramatic increase in expenditures, the GOAJ will increase th [...] | 2008-07-10 07:27:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD ENRG EFIN AJ |
08BAKU67 | PRESIDENTIAL CHIEF OF STAFF RAMIZ MEHDIYEV REVIEWS [...] (C) Summary: In a January 14 meeting with visiting EUR DAS Matt Bryza, Presidential Chief of Staff Ramiz Mehdiyev repeated long-standing policy that Azerbaijan is prepared to give Nagorno Karabakh "the highest autonomous status" but cannot agree to "give territory to Armenia." Arguing that [...] | 2008-01-28 06:32:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS KDEM PHUM AJ |
08BAKU671 | AZERBAIJAN SCENESETTER FOR JULY 14 VISIT OF [...] (C) Your second visit to Baku comes on the heels of your early June participation in the Fifteenth Annual Caspian Oil and Gas Exhibition and Conference (ref A),and your subsequent early July letter to President Aliyev providing input for next steps we can take together to pursue joint USG-GOAJ ene [...] | 2008-07-11 09:30:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ ENRG TU |
08BAKU674 | PRESIDENT ALIYEV SAYS NO COUNTRY HAS RIGHT TO [...] (C) Summary: In a speech delivered to the biannual conference of all Azerbaijani heads of diplomatic missions, President Aliyev pushed for a strong public diplomacy effort to bolster Azerbaijan's position in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, presented a confident vision of Azerbaijan's place in [...] | 2008-07-11 15:05:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ |
08BAKU675 | PRESIDENT MEDVEDEV'S VISIT MEANT TO TELL [...] (C) Summary: According to the Russian Ambassador to Baku Vasily Istratov, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to Baku had one major purpose: to convey the message to the GOAJ that "Azerbaijan matters" to Russia. Defining the new relationships as "same book, different page," Istratov c [...] | 2008-07-11 15:19:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS ENRG RU AJ |
08BAKU679 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF JAILED [...] (C) On July 10 the Ambassador met with Jamil Hasanli, Member of Parliament and Chairman of the Committee Defending the Rights of Farhad Aliyev, and Elton Guliyev, a lawyer for Farhad Aliyev. Hasanli began the meeting with a discussion of the difficult situation facing journalists in Azerbaij [...] | 2008-07-15 06:55:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KJUS PGOV PHUM AJ |
08BAKU682 | AZERBAIJAN: JUDICIAL PRESSURE AGAINST AGIL KHALIL [...] (C) Summary: In an expected outcome, a Baku court found Sergey Strekhalin guilty of attacking opposition Azadliq newspaper correspondent Agil Khalil on March 13 and sentenced him to 18 months imprisonment. The proceedings, which Western observers agree resembled a show trial, were peppered [...] | 2008-07-16 13:19:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AJ |
08BAKU686 | OIL FUND AGAIN REQUESTS U.S. SUPPORT TO BRING [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 5. 2. (C) The Executive Director of Azerbaijan's State Oil Fund (SOFAZ) Shahmar Movsumov called Ambassador Derse July 11 to ask that the United States now support bringing the Azerbaijan-sponsored United Nations resolution on Extractive Industrie [...] | 2008-07-17 12:48:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL AJ |
08BAKU687 | OPPOSITION MUSAVAT RALLY BROKEN UP BY POLICE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 11 a rally outside the Baku Mayor's Office organized by the Musavat Party was violently disrupted by the police. This rally was the first test of the GOAJ's implementation of its newly amended law on freedom of assembly. The continued inability of opposition parties t [...] | 2008-07-17 14:42:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KJUS AJ |
08BAKU692 | AZERBAIJAN: PRO-IRANIAN SHIA NETWORKS TARRING [...] (C) Summary: U.S. exchange participant and graduate of an Iranian theological institute Muslim Elshan Mustafayev told the Embassy that pro-Iranian Shia networks in Azerbaijan have stepped up their criticism of Azerbaijani Shias who travel to the U.S. or maintain contact with Western embassie [...] | 2008-07-21 09:21:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF AJ |
08BAKU698 | TWO NEW ECHR JUDGMENTS AGAINST GOAJ [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 10 the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) delivered two new judgments against the GOAJ. The judgments in both Hajibeyli v. Azerbaijan and Rahmanova v. Azerbaijan found that the GOAJ had violated the plaintiff's right to a fair and timely trial, along with other violati [...] | 2008-07-22 12:08:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KJUS PHUM AJ |
08BAKU699 | OSCE CONDUCTS ELECTION TRAINING FOR EXCOMS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: During the week of July 7 the OSCE Office in Baku, in cooperation with the GOAJ, conducted a series of trainings for the Heads of the Regional Executive Authorities and the Chairmen of the Constituency Election Commissions. These trainings focused on the illegality of interference [...] | 2008-07-22 13:43:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
08BAKU70 | RUMORS SWIRL OF MINISTER OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since his 2005 appointment as Minister of Economic Development, Heydar Babayev's political influence and personal financial wealth have been growing. Many attribute his appointment to his close personal relationship with President Ilham Aliyev; the two studied in Kyiv and are ru [...] | 2008-01-28 11:39:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ETDR ECON WTRO PINR PGOV KCOR PREL AJ |
08BAKU700 | OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION MEETING DEMARCHE-AZERBAIJAN [...] (C) Per reftel request, PolOff delivered USG concerns and comments to Zaur Ahmadov, Human Rights Attache at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). 2. (C) Ahmadov thanked the Embassy for the points, describing the non-paper as "a very good paper," and offered comments on a number of the iss [...] | 2008-07-23 05:42:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM OSCE PREL PHUM |
08BAKU702 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON DESIGNATION OF IRANIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-23 09:34:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM KNNP EFIN IR AJ |
08BAKU714 | DEMARCHE ON IAEA BOARD OF GOVERNORS SEAT DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-31 05:23:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | IAEA KNNP PREL KZ SY AORC AJ |
08BAKU715 | ACTION REQUEST: REVIEW OF AZERBAIJAN'S MILITARY [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) The Embassy has completed an informal translation of Azerbaijani's military doctrine. This translation has been sent to PM, EUR/CARC, and OSD Policy. The Embassy requests that State and DoD facilitate a timely technical revie [...] | 2008-07-31 06:28:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AJ |
08BAKU719 | AZERBAIJAN,S SOCAR DISCUSSES TURKMEN NEXT STEPS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a July 16 conversation, SOCAR Marketing Vice-President Elshad Nassirov and Eurasian Energy Coordinator Steven Mann discussed prospects for an "early gas" project getting Turkmen gas to Azerbaijan, with both agreeing that the first, and key, step was the Turkmen President makin [...] | 2008-07-31 15:26:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG AJ TX |
08BAKU721 | AZERBAIJAN RECEIVES (ANOTHER) TURKMEN DIP NOTE RE [...] (C) In a July 16 meeting, GOAJ MFA Ambassador-at-Large for Energy Shamil Aleskerov showed Eurasian Energy Coordinator Ambassador Steve Mann a diplomatic note recently received from the Government of Turkmenistan. The diplomatic note said that the Turkmen government expressed a decisive protest [...] | 2008-08-01 03:19:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ TU TX |
08BAKU726 | AZERBAIJAN PRESIDENT, SPECIAL ENVOY GRAY DISCUSS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a July 14 meeting with Special Envoy Gray, President Aliyev sought USG views on how to best proceed on the Southern Corridor project. SE Gray reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to work with Turkey and the EU to enable gas transit. To entice Turkmenistan into shipping gas west, [...] | 2008-08-04 10:30:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON ENRG EPET PGOV PINR PREL AZ TU |
08BAKU728 | SOCAR VP, SE GRAY DISCUSS NEXT STEPS RE TURKEY [...] (C) SUMMARY: SOCAR Marketing Vice-President Elshad Nassirov, one of President Aliyev's key energy advisors, told SE Gray that selling any more than four billion cubic meters (bcm) of Shah Deniz Phase Two gas (SD2) to Turkey would "kill the Southern Corridor project." He said Turkey sought ei [...] | 2008-08-05 04:42:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON ENRG EPET PGOV PINR PREL AZ TU |
08BAKU729 | BOEING TO SELL ADDITIONAL AIRCRAFT TO AZERBAIJAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 4, Boeing Regional Sales Director Serdar Gurz, visiting from London, reported a successful upgrade of Azerbaijan Airlines's (AZAL's) aircraft order from a total of five aircraft (three 787s and two 737-900s) to a total of eight aircraft: two 787s, two 767-300ERs, and fou [...] | 2008-08-05 04:43:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINT EAIR AZ TX |
08BAKU73 | AZERBAIJANI DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER REVIEWS [...] (C) Summary: During a December 28 meeting with the Ambassador, Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov remained noncommittal on a U.S. request to deploy an additional company to Iraq and a provision of a battalion for Afghanistan in the context of a potential TEP offer. Azimov said President Al [...] | 2008-01-29 05:05:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MASS PBTS IZ AJ |
08BAKU730 | ANOTHER OPPOSITION MUSAVAT RALLY BROKEN UP BY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 1 the opposition Musavat party attempted to hold another rally in front of the Baku Mayor's Office, but the event was immediately broken up by the police. No excessive force was used by police when detaining thirteen people. The rally was intended to draw attention to [...] | 2008-08-05 06:13:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM AJ |
08BAKU731 | TURKISH FETULLAH GULEN NETWORK'S PRESENCE IN [...] (C) Summary: The Fetullah Gulen network is one component of Azerbaijan's Islamic scene. The network's Turkish orientation and emphasis on establishing quality educational institutions has enabled it to establish a presence in Azerbaijan. "Chag Oyretim" ("Modern Education") -- a private Tur [...] | 2008-08-05 10:29:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KIRF AJ |
08BAKU733 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES PRE-ELECTION AZERBAIJAN WITH [...] (C) Summary: EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby won President Aliyev's commitment to launch an EU democracy dialogue with Azerbaijan, but met some resistance from the Foreign Minister, who suggested expanding the theme of the discussions. Azerbaijan's leaders have [...] | 2008-08-05 12:46:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL ENRG AZ |
08BAKU737 | OSCE CHAIRMAN IN OFFICE REPRESENTATIVE BRIEFS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 30 the Special Envoy of the OSCE Chairman in Office Heikke Talvitie briefed the OSCE member country Ambassadors about his trip to Baku. He discussed the OSCE's role in resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and its role in observing elections. In his meeting with Presi [...] | 2008-08-06 11:11:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM AJ |
08BAKU757 | AZERBAIJAN-IRAN COOPERATE ON NATURAL GAS, CONSIDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Azerbaijan-Iran natural gas relationship is expanding and will continue to be strategically important to both countries. This opinion was conveyed to polecon officer in separate meetings with Azerigaz Vice-Chairman, Nazim Sadmed-zadeh; State oil Company of Azerbaijan Vice P [...] | 2008-08-11 11:49:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | AJ IR ENRG PREL PGOV |
08BAKU761 | AZERBAIJAN SCALES BACK PRODUCTION, LOOKS FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-12 04:43:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG AJ GG TU |
08BAKU763 | AZERBAIJAN ELECTIONS 2008: MAJOR OPPOSITION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Three major opposition forces in Azerbaijan-- Azadliq bloc, Musavat Party, and Azerbaijan Democratic Reform Party-- have announced that they will not participate in October's presidential election. While these parties no longer have a stQg base of support in the country, as the [...] | 2008-08-12 10:37:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM AJ |
08BAKU765 | AZERBAIJAN OIL & GAS EXPORT WOES: BAKU-SUPSA, SCP [...] (C) BP External Affairs and Policy Forum Manager Seymour Khalilov briefed Embassy officers August 12 on developments in oil and gas production and transport in light of fire damage to the BTC pipeline and the Russia-Georgia conflict over South Ossetia. Khalilov confirmed that the BTC fire was [...] | 2008-08-13 04:38:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET EINT PREL AZ TU |
08BAKU768 | AZERBAIJAN'S LOW-PROFILE RESPONSE TO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-13 14:03:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG AJ |
08BAKU77 | AZERBAIJAN'S OPAQUE PROCUREMENT SYSTEM [...] (C) Summary: Although Azerbaijan is in the midst of a massive public investment program to overhaul its physical and social infrastructure, the GOAJ does not have a transparent tendering system to administer this program. Formal tendering -- done by the State Procurement Agency -- usually is [...] | 2008-01-30 06:58:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD PGOV KCOR AJ |
08BAKU773 | IRANIAN STUDENTS IN BAKU SPEAK OUT [...] (C) SUMMARY The Iranian public is keen for more opportunities to engage with the United States. Three Iranian students studying in Baku conveyed this sentiment to polecon officer during two wide-ranging discussions on life in Iran. Polecon officer outlined the ways the USG reaches out to the [...] | 2008-08-15 05:26:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | AZ PGOV PREL |
08BAKU774 | SNAPSHOT: AZERBAIJAN-IRAN BORDER ACTIVITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Cross-border activity between Azerbaijan and Iran at the pedestrian and truck crossing in Astara seems fairly limited but has increased over the past few years. Continued expansion is projected at both locations as Iranians seek more opportunities in Azerbaijan and as trade expa [...] | 2008-08-15 09:10:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | AJ PREL PGOV |
08BAKU787 | AZERBAIJAN'S SOCAR: OIL & GAS TRANSIT THROUGH [...] (C) Embassy officers met August 20 with State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) Deputy Vice President Vitaliy Baylarbayov to discuss oil and gas production and transport in light of the ongoing security crisis in Georgia. Baylarbayov offered the following observations on specific export routes [...] | 2008-08-21 04:10:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET EINT PREL AZ TX TU |
08BAKU789 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES VP VISIT, PRESSES [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador August 6 highlighted to Head of the Presidential Apparat Remiz Mehdiyev the historical significance of the Vice President's upcoming visit to Azerbaijan. The Ambassador also pressed Mehdiyev on free and fair presidential elections, including the need for internati [...] | 2008-08-21 09:31:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KDEM PHUM AJ |
08BAKU79 | AZERBAIJAN UPBEAT ON TURKMAN RELATIONS AFTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: In conversations with the Ambassador, GOAJ officials were highly positive about he January 17 GOAJ-GOTX Intergovernmental Commission meeting and the bright prospects they now see to accelerate the improvement in relations with Turkmenistan. Ascribing improved relations largely to [...] | 2008-01-30 13:36:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | AJ TU PREL PGOV ENRG |
08BAKU790 | AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT: I DIDN’T STAND BEHIND [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 19, President Aliyev told visiting British Petroleum CEO Inglis that Azerbaijan is taking quiet steps to support Georgia, although Aliyev himself did not publicly support the Georgian President. For example, Azerbaijanis are repairing a critical rail bridge destroyed by the R [...] | 2008-08-22 04:03:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETRD PREL AJ RU TR |
08BAKU792 | AZERBAIJAN:IRANIAN BANK MELLI A SMALL,ACCOUNTABLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 14, National Bank of Azerbaijan (NBA) officials Rufat Aslanli, Management Board Deputy Governor, and Futulla Alakbarov, Credit Deputy Director, told polecon officer Iran's Bank Melli, represented in Baku by one branch, is an accountable, transparent, and cooperative ins [...] | 2008-08-22 04:04:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | AJ MOPS PGOV PREL |
08BAKU796 | TURKISH PRIME MINISTER ERDOGAN PITCHES CAUCASUS [...] (C) Summary: Turkish Embassy First Secretary Cem Ornekol told the Embassy the goal of Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan's August 20 visit to Baku was to gain Azerbaijan's support for Turkey's proposed Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Platform. Ornekol said President Aliyev was receptive to th [...] | 2008-08-22 13:23:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV PHUM PREL TU AJ IR |
08BAKU797 | SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR LUGAR'S AUGUST 24-25 VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Baku warmly welcomes Senator Lugar back to Azerbaijan. This visit comes at a particularly critical time, during the ongoing Georgia-Russia conflict and in the wake of several public USG-GOAJ bilateral disagreements. While the GOAJ, and President Aliyev in particular, ha [...] | 2008-08-22 14:58:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | AJ GG PGOV PREL OTRA |
08BAKU804 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF THE VICE PRESIDENT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The unfolding Russia-Georgia conflict has critical and sensitive ramifications for Azerbaijan. In particular, President Aliyev worries about the implications of the crisis in terms of resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and its impact on Azerbaijan's westward oil and gas exp [...] | 2008-08-25 15:47:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | OTRA CHENEY RICHARD AJ GG |
08BAKU81 | EEB/CBA SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE MERMOUD DISCUSSES [...] (SBU) In a meeting January 22 with visiting Department of State Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs Frank Mermoud, Minister of Emergency Situations (MES) Heydarov reiterated his interest in sending a working level delegation of experts led by a deputy minister to the U.S. [...] | 2008-01-31 04:10:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD EFIN AJ |
08BAKU810 | FOREIGN MINISTER: AZERBAIJAN PRESSING FOR A [...] (C) In an August 26 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said that President Ilham Aliyev on August 20 had encouraged Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan to sign a direct agreement with Turkmenistan to purchase gas at Turkmenistan's border. This proposal follows a simila [...] | 2008-08-27 06:13:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL TR TX AJ |
08BAKU812 | FOREIGN MINISTER: RUSSIAN INVANSION SENDS MESSAGE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Foreign Minister told the Ambassador August 26 that the Russian invasion of Georgia was primarily intended to send a message to the U.S. that Russian power in the region "is back." He warned that Russian insistence on buffer zones in Georgia around the conflict areas will af [...] | 2008-08-27 13:51:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | AJ ENRG GG PREL RS |
08BAKU813 | PRESIDENT ALIYEV DISCUSSES GEORGIA, ENERGY WITH [...] (C) Summary: President Aliyev told Senator Lugar August 25 that his visit to Azerbaijan was very important and timely, coming on the heels of a stopover in Tbilisi. Azerbaijan, the President said, was first to send assistance to Georgia and will continue to do so, despite grave errors and "ir [...] | 2008-08-28 03:52:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KDEM PHUM AJ |
08BAKU815 | BP BRIEFS SENATOR LUGAR ON CASPIAN ENERGY [...] (C) Summary: The Russia-Georgia conflict, according to BP, may be forcing Azerbaijan to re-examine needs for regional stability and security, perhaps with leaders concluding that a large foreign presence in Azerbaijan and the region is necessary to create an environment of greater security, predict [...] | 2008-08-28 08:57:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET EINT PREL AJ TX TU GG |
08BAKU816 | AZERBAIJAN: GEORGIAN AMBASSADOR HIGHLIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: Georgian Ambassador Nikoloz Natbiladze told the Ambassador on August 26 that Russian President Medvedev's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia was a "shocking" figleaf for an "occupation." Natbiladze argued that Russia's goal is to change Georgia's government and gain influ [...] | 2008-08-28 11:20:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG AJ |
08BAKU820 | HUMAN RIGHTS IN AZERBAIJAN: PROGRESS AND PROBLEMS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 26 President Aliyev announced a pardon of 96 prisoners. Among these prisoners was Rasim Akberov who was arrested in 2000 on coup-plotting charges and sentenced to 15 years. Akberov was widely considered a political prisoner, and also quite ill. Also included in the p [...] | 2008-09-02 06:48:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
08BAKU821 | AZERBAIJAN: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR FEARS RUSSIA'S [...] (C) Summary: President Aliyev's International Relations Advisor sees Russian actions in Georgia as "the beginning of a new era," with Azerbaijan's energy export routes, and consequently, the country's independence and sovereignty, ultimately at risk. Russia's acts were premeditated, with a g [...] | 2008-09-02 10:09:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KPKO MARR AJ GG RU |
08BAKU831 | UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE DELIVERED TO AZERBAIJAN [...] (SBU) Embassy officers delivered reftel to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Security Affairs Department Chief Galib Israfilov on September 5. Israfilov said the GOAJ generally is against "no-motion" actions, with selective exceptions. For example, the GOAJ has supported "no-motion" actions on Ira [...] | 2008-09-05 11:45:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN |
08BAKU833 | AZERBAIJAN: VICE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE WELL [...] (SBU) Summary: Vice President Richard Cheney's September 3-4 visit to Baku was widely seen as significant and timely given concerns about energy and security in the wake of the Russian invasion of Georgia. Azerbaijan's media gave extensive and decidedly positive coverage to VP Cheney's visit [...] | 2008-09-05 13:38:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS PHUM ENRG KIRF AJ |
08BAKU836 | AZERBAIJAN'S 2008 ELECTION: ISLAM UNLIKELY TO [...] (C) Summary: According to local contacts, Islam is unlikely to be a significant political factor during the October 15 presidential election. Our contacts told us that while Islam is growing as a religious, cultural, and social phenomenon, there is little political space for appeals to reli [...] | 2008-09-08 10:54:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF AJ |
08BAKU837 | DEMARCHE ON KOSOVO ICJ UNGA RESOLUTION DELIVERED [...] (C) Embassy officers delivered reftel demarche on Serbia's proposal to seek an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice regarding Kosovo to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Security Affairs Department Chief Galib Israfilov on September 5. Israfilov said the GOAJ's position is "not [...] | 2008-09-08 11:03:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNGA KV AJ |
08BAKU845 | WORLD BANK TO NAME AZERBAIJAN NUMBER ONE REFORMER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Echoing comments relayed by GOAJ officials and other observers in Baku, World Bank officials told Ambassador recently that Russia's real target in Georgia was Azerbaijan's oil and gas assets. Even outside the energy sector, the conflict has had a negative impact on Azerbaijan's [...] | 2008-09-09 12:51:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV EFIN EAGR ECIN AJ |
08BAKU850 | AZERBAIJAN'S 2008 ELECTION: FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Summary: Azerbaijani performance in assuring freedom of assembly has been positive from the standpoint of new legislation and presidential statements. The Venice Commission positively assessed Azerbaijan's revised law on freedom of assembly. From a legal and technical point of view, th [...] | 2008-09-10 12:22:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AJ |
08BAKU852 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ELECTION, GEORGIA WITH HUMAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 29, leading Azerbaijani human rights activists Novella Jafaroglu-Appelbaum, Saida Gojamanly, and Saadat Benanyarly discussed with the Ambassador their concern over the conflict in Georgia and the threat it poses for Azerbaijan. In a surprising twist, they explained that [...] | 2008-09-10 13:48:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ GG |
08BAKU856 | MAJOR OPPOSITION PARTIES SIGN JOINT BOYCOTT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 5 the heads of the five largest opposition parties signed a public statement boycotting the October 15 presidential election. This represents a step forward in organization for the normally fractured opposition. Discussions with opposition party leadership reveal, [...] | 2008-09-11 11:59:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG RS AJ |
08BAKU86 | AZERBAIJAN: STATE OIL COMPANY COMMITTED TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In 2006 President Aliyev issued a decree mandating a five-year effort to clean up the notoriously polluted Azerbaijani environment. As part of these efforts, in January 2008 the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) created a new position, Vice-President for Ecology. The newly [...] | 2008-01-31 10:28:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON SENV PGOV PREL AJ |
08BAKU865 | AZERBAIJAN PRESIDENT SAYS JOINT EFFORTS MUST [...] (C) Summary. In a September 9 meeting with a USG delegation headed by Special Envoy C. Boyden Gray, President Aliyev said he was pleased with Vice-President's Cheney's recent visit, in which he and the Vice President agreed that a strong bilateral relationship was even more important followin [...] | 2008-09-12 12:59:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ TX ENRG TU |
08BAKU867 | TURKISH ENERGY MINISTER FOCUSED ON IRAQI GAS FOR [...] (C) Summary. In a September 9 meeting with Special Envoy C. Boyden Gray, GOT Energy Minister Hilmi Guler stressed that his focus was on solving Turkey's short-term gas needs. Between Iraqi and Turkmen gas, Iraqi gas seemed a more realistic option, and he sought USG help in ensuring that gas [...] | 2008-09-12 13:14:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ TU TX ENRG |
08BAKU868 | SOCAR STILL SEEKING SOLUTIONS FOR TURKISH TRANSIT [...] (C) Summary: SOCAR continues to seek to find a way to convince Turkey to allow transit to Europe for its Shah Deniz Phase Two gas. However, according to SOCAR Marketing Vice-President Elshad Nassirov, Turkey continues to insist as a prelude to granting transit that Azerbaijan must sell it an [...] | 2008-09-12 13:49:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ TU TX ENRG |
08BAKU870 | TURKISH PRESIDENT GUL SEEKS TO REASSURE [...] (C) Summary: Turkish President Gul's September 10 visit to Baku probably focused on reassuring the GOAJ and the general public that Gul's attendance at a soccer match in Yerevan would not degrade Turkey's "special relationship" with Azerbaijan. The GOAJ almost certainly is nervous about a t [...] | 2008-09-15 05:19:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM TU AM AJ |
08BAKU879 | AZERBAIJAN: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER DISCUSSES THE [...] (C) Summary: Head of the President's Socio-Political Department Ali Hasanov described for the Ambassador a highly successful and productive visit to the United States in August, including attendance at the Democratic National Convention in Denver and meetings in Washington, DC. Hasanov pledg [...] | 2008-09-17 07:23:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
08BAKU880 | AZERBAIJAN: LITTLE PROGRESS ON CASPIAN [...] (C) Summary: During a September 15 meeting, Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov related that no progress in resolving the Caspian delimitation issue resulted from the latest meeting of the five Caspian state working group held in Baku on September 4-5. He claimed, however, that construc [...] | 2008-09-17 12:52:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL AJ IR TX |
08BAKU881 | DEMARCHE ON CONTRIBUTIONS TO AFGHAN ARMY DELIVERED [...] (C) Embassy delivered reftel demarche on contributions to the Afghan army to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Security Affair Department Chief Galib Israfilov on September 16. Israfilov said Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov recently visited Afghanistan, where he met with a variety of Afghan off [...] | 2008-09-17 12:53:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PREL NATEU MOPS MARR AJ |
08BAKU882 | SEARCHING FOR FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY IN BAKU [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 9, the Mayor of Baku announced a list of eleven locations throughout the city of Baku that are approved for the holding of demonstrations during the presidential election period. The major opposition parties have announced their displeasure with the approved sites, d [...] | 2008-09-17 13:18:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
08BAKU883 | AZERBAIJAN: GAS LEAK SLASHES OIL PRODUCTION IN [...] (C) According to BP Azerbaijan Vice-President for Communications and External Affairs Seymour Khalilov, at 0820 hours Baku local time Central Azeri Offshore oil platform workers noticed gas bubbles "about one-third the size of soccer balls" coming to the water's surface around the platform. S [...] | 2008-09-17 13:28:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | AJ CASC ENRG PGOV PREL |
08BAKU884 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ELECTION ENVIRONMENT WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 4 Ambassador Jose-Luis Herrero Ansola of the OSCE Office in Baku briefed OSCE member state ambassadors on the Office's election-related activities, including training for regional leaders (ExComs) on non-interference in the election and the importance of freedom of a [...] | 2008-09-17 13:32:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ |
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