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SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SILVASANDE SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR SNUC SO SOC SOCI SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIO SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOMALIA SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STEPHEN HADLEY STET STP STR STUDENT SU SUCCESSION SUFFRAGE SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SUSAN SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THOMAS THOMMA THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN 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KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LOPEZ LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MANUEL SERGIO GONZALEZ MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARANTIS MARIA MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS MATT MAYA MB MBM MC MCA MCAP MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCAIN MCCONNELL MCCP MCGRAW MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEETINGS MENDIETA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL FELIPE CANAHUATI YACAMAN MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIKE MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMED HESHAM ELDIN YOUSSEF MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS MORALES MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURAD MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NADIA NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEGROPONTE NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICHOLAS NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC 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08BRATISLAVA145 | GUIDANCE REQUEST ON AEY EXPORT LICENSE APPLICATION [...] (U) This cable contains a short-fuse policy guidance request, please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) The GoS expects to reach a decision this week on an Export License Application submitted by AEY Inc. of Miami Beach, Florida. Recent press reports have alleged the company engages in untoward busine [...] | 2008-04-01 11:57:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | KOMC ETTC LO |
08BRATISLAVA148 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES FOR NATO SUMMIT SUCCESS, [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Obsitnik met on March 31 to discuss U.S. priorities for the NATO Summit and to register his concern regarding an interview Prime Minister Fico gave to Czech television on March 30 in which he stated that the Slovak "government" was opposed to missile defense and that [...] | 2008-04-02 10:14:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO LO AF PHUM |
08BRATISLAVA160 | ZUBKOV VISIT HIGHLIGHTS SLOVAKIA'S ECONOMIC TIES [...] (C) Summary - Russian Prime Minister Zubkov's April 3-4 visit to Slovakia primarily focused on strengthening the broader economic and energy relationship, but lacked a big announcement on gas or nuclear cooperation that many had expected. Trade between the two countries has increased considera [...] | 2008-04-10 14:11:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PREL LO RU |
08BRATISLAVA161 | UKRAINIANS PRESSING SLOVAKS TO BATCH CASPIAN CRUDE [...] (C) The Ukrainian pipeline operator UkrTransNafta is aggressively pushing a one-day trial to "batch" 40,000 tons of Caspian crude from Brody in Ukraine to the Kralupy refinery in the Czech Republic. The goal, according to Bratislava-based UkrTransNafta representative Mikulas Rakovsky, is to t [...] | 2008-04-10 14:19:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET LO RU UP |
08BRATISLAVA163 | SLOVAKIA PREPARED TO RESETTLE EIGHT CUBAN MIGRANTS [...] (C) The Director of Slovakia's Ministry of Interior (MOI) Office of Migration, Bernard Priecel, confirmed to Poloff on April 7 that Slovakia will take steps within the next month to resettle eight Cuban refugees currently living at Guantanamo. The GOS accepts USG offers to provide for transpo [...] | 2008-04-10 15:30:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF SMIG PHUM CU LO |
08BRATISLAVA17 | SLOVAKIA SUPPORTIVE OF SYRIAN NATIONAL COUNCIL [...] (C) Charge delivered reftel points to Ambassador Marian Tomasik, Director of the Asia, Africa and Middle East Directorate at the MFA on January 8. Tomasik agreed fully on the need to shine the light on the Syrian regime's human rights violations and thought that the GOS would be able to say so [...] | 2008-01-10 16:49:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM LO SY |
08BRATISLAVA175 | RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON RUSSIAN RELATIONS WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-21 16:27:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | GG LO PREL RS |
08BRATISLAVA18 | SLOVAKIA SUPPORTIVE OF SYRIAN NATIONAL COUNCIL [...] (C) Charge delivered reftel points to Ambassador Marian Tomasik, Director of the Asia, Africa and Middle East Directorate at the MFA on January 8. Tomasik agreed fully on the need to shine the light on the Syrian regime's human rights violations and thought that the GOS would be able to say so [...] | 2008-01-10 16:49:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM LO SY |
08BRATISLAVA183 | SLOVAKS FORMALLY EXPRESS CONCERN OVER RUSSIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-24 19:24:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | GG LO PREL RS |
08BRATISLAVA187 | DEFENSE MINISTER GETS OUT AHEAD ON AFGHANISTAN; PM [...] (C) Slovak Defense Minister Jaroslav Baska announced publicly April 23 that Slovakia plans to increase its troop commitment in Afghanistan to 250-280 by 2010 and that the contingent could, at some future date, also include Slovak Special Forces. (Note: the current deployment is 69 and will re [...] | 2008-04-28 06:32:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO LO AF |
08BRATISLAVA188 | DEFENSE MINISTER GETS OUT AHEAD ON AFGHANISTAN; PM [...] (C) Slovak Defense Minister Jaroslav Baska announced publicly April 23 that Slovakia plans to increase its troop commitment in Afghanistan to 250-280 by 2010 and that the contingent could, at some future date, also include Slovak Special Forces. (Note: the current deployment is 69 and will re [...] | 2008-04-28 06:32:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO LO AF |
08BRATISLAVA206 | SLOVAKIA WILL WEIGH POST-REFERENDUM STATEMENT ON [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to Drahomir Stos at MFA's Territorial Department for Asia and Oceania on May 2. Stos said Slovakia didn't plan to release a statement before the Burmese Constitutional referendum, but actively supported the April 29 GAERC conclusions on Burma. Citing Slovakia' [...] | 2008-05-05 14:42:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BM LO |
08BRATISLAVA208 | SLOVAKIA'S UNHRC CANDIDACY [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel points to Denisa Frelichova at MFA's UN and International Organizations Department on May 2. Frelichova was familiar with U.S. concerns related to the UNHRC, which U.S. PermRep Khalizad shared with MFA State Secretary Diana Strofova during meetings in New York the we [...] | 2008-05-06 08:40:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC LO |
08BRATISLAVA231 | SLOVAKIA REAFFIRMS SUPPORT FOR LEBANESE GOVERNMENT [...] (C) DCM, in the absence of the Ambassador who was traveling in-country, delivered reftel points to MFA State Secretary Olga Algayerova on May 16 (FM Kubis is in Peru). Algayerova reaffirmed Slovakia's support for the Government of Lebanon and the March 14 movement, and said Slovakia will conti [...] | 2008-05-16 15:30:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LE SY IR LO |
08BRATISLAVA232 | SLOVAKIA SHARES NATO INTEROPERABILITY CONCERNS IN [...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief and DATT delivered reftel points to Director of the MFA Disarmament Office (and Slovak delegation lead for Oslo Process negotiations) Karol Mistrik, as well to the MOD representative to the talks, Captain Petrasik. Mistrik and Petrasik stated that the core of their negotiat [...] | 2008-05-16 17:19:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MARR NATO LO |
08BRATISLAVA237 | FM KUBIS LUNCH WITH NATO AND EU AMBASSADORS ON MAY [...] (C) Foreign Kubis invited NATO and EU Ambassadors to a working lunch on May 20, 2008, and offered the Slovak government's views on Afghanistan, Kosovo, Belarus, the EU and other subjects. Afghanistan ----------------- 2. (C) Kubis said he would personally attend the June 12 conference i [...] | 2008-05-22 06:19:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LO PARM |
08BRATISLAVA239 | USING SLOVAKIA'S ELECTION TO THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Slovakia's election on May 21 to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) is seen here as a significant step in the country's effort to carve out a bigger space for itself in the international arena. Following its successful tenure on the UN Security Council (2006-7),the HRC bid was the logical [...] | 2008-05-22 15:05:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN PHUM LO |
08BRATISLAVA240 | GAERC MEETING: SLOVAKIA HOPES TO BECOME "LEADER ON [...] (C) Poloff delivered Ref A points to MFA European Correspondent Albin Otruba on May 22. In preparing for the upcoming GAERC, FM Kubis is, according to Otruba, putting the greatest effort into a speech on his recent trip to Afghanistan (Ref B). Otruba speculated that the Foreign Minister wants [...] | 2008-05-23 10:59:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PHUM PREL PGOV ZL IR IZ IS SY LE SO AF |
08BRATISLAVA266 | STRAINS SURFACE (AGAIN) IN FICO-KUBIS RELATIONSHIP [...] (C) Summary. Following a burst of media coverage suggesting that Foreign Minister Kubis's days in office could be numbered, signs of strained relations between Prime Minister Fico and FM Kubis were apparent, once again, during Fico's June 3 visit to the MFA. According to a senior MFA official [...] | 2008-06-06 12:09:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LO |
08BRATISLAVA274 | PROGRESS ON TRANSPETROL NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) Summary: The Slovak government is moving forward with discussions to buy back the 49 percent stake in the Transpetrol oil pipeline from Netherlands-based Yukos Finance. Both sides have completed valuations and are scheduled to begin pricing negotiations on June 17 in London. A few legal [...] | 2008-06-11 14:02:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET LO RU |
08BRATISLAVA276 | SLOVAK GOVERNMENT APPROVES NEW MANDATE AND [...] (C) Summary. The GoS approved a proposal on June 11 to increase Slovakia's contribution to ISAF up to a total of 246 soldiers, including 24 troops who will operate without geographical caveats. Defense Minister Baska has said he plans to increase the number of Slovak troops serving in ISAF to [...] | 2008-06-11 16:05:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ISAF NL LO |
08BRATISLAVA28 | AMBASSADOR OBSITNIK'S COURTESY CALL ON INTERIOR [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Obsitnik and Interior Minister Robert Kalinak discussed the Visa Waiver Program, border security, fighting extremism, and controversial pending NGO legislation in a 90-minute conversation January 17 -- including a 20 minute one-on-one. Minister Kalinak welcomed plans fo [...] | 2008-01-23 16:21:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM LO CVIS |
08BRATISLAVA281 | JUNE GAERC: SLOVAKIA SUPPORTS LIFTING SANCTIONS ON [...] (C) Summary. Poloff delivered reftel points to MFA European Correspondent Albin Otruba on June 12. Otruba predicted the GAERC will drop Restrictive Measures against Cuba, but also will send a strong pro-democracy message. Slovakia supports this stance, with the proviso that there be an annual [...] | 2008-06-12 15:42:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PHUM PREL PGOV CU LO |
08BRATISLAVA290 | AMBASSADOR OBSITNIK'S MEETING WITH FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary. In a one-on-one meeting on June 18, Ambassador Obsitnik and Foreign Minister Kubis had a wide-ranging discussion that touched on Kosovo, Afghanistan, Slovak-Hungarian relations, the Lisbon Treaty, energy issues and the Foreign Minister's role and future. Kubis noted GOS support [...] | 2008-06-18 15:06:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO KVIR EU LO |
08BRATISLAVA310 | EUR DAS BRYZA'S JULY 1 VISIT TO BRATISLAVA [...] (C) Summary. EUR DAS Matt Bryza, accompanied by Ambassador Obsitnik and Pol-Econoff, met with Slovak Foreign Minister Jan Kubis on July 1 for a wide-ranging dicussion on Armenia-Azerbaijan, Georgia-Abkhazia, Turkmenistan and the Nabucco gas pipeline, Transpetrol, increased transparency in Ukr [...] | 2008-07-03 18:50:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET PREL AM AJ GG TX UP RS PL |
08BRATISLAVA316 | SLOVAK-HUNGARIAN RELATIONS: NO BREAKTHROUGHS ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-09 15:44:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LO |
08BRATISLAVA32 | AMBASSADOR OBSITNIK'S COURTESY CALL ON FORMER [...] (C) Summary. In a cordial and lively one-hour conversation, former Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda outlined his strategy for wooing voters back to his party, the Social Democratic and Christian Union (SDKU). In an series of public meetings throughout the country over the next several months, [...] | 2008-01-24 13:42:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | LO PO PREL PGOV |
08BRATISLAVA324 | SDKU CHAIRMAN DZURINDA: HOLDING ON TO THE REINS [...] (C) Summary. During a farewell call by the DCM on July 9, SDKU Chairman Mikulas Dzurinda outlined SDKU's strategy for promoting the party in the face of a resilient and popular government. Dzurinda acknowledged that simply criticizing PM Fico and the government was not working, and that SDK [...] | 2008-07-11 10:03:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LO |
08BRATISLAVA334 | JUSTICE MINISTER HARABIN UNDER FIRE [...] (C) Summary. Justice Minister Harabin, a former Supreme Court Justice and of Meciar's HZDS, is under fire for his reported ties to Baki Sadiki, believed to have been the head of an Albanian drug-smuggling ring in the 1990's. Sadiki escaped prosecution on drug trafficking charges, but was to [...] | 2008-07-16 11:45:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LO |
08BRATISLAVA338 | AMBASSADOR SCHULTE'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador to the UN and International Organizations in Vienna, Gregory Schulte, conducted consultations July 9 with the Slovak Government regarding Iran's nuclear activities and Syria's clandestine program. Ambassador Schulte met with President Gasparovic, senior officials from [...] | 2008-07-21 16:14:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL IAEA LO SY IR |
08BRATISLAVA341 | FORMER AMBASSADOR TO U.S. ON SLOVAK PLANS FOR [...] (C) During a cordial one-on-one luncheon July 25 with Ambassador Obsitnik, former Ambassador to the U.S., Rasto Kacer, stated that he had been told by a well-connected source that PM Fico has made a secret deal with Russia to resell a portion of the Transpetrol pipeline after the GOS purchases [...] | 2008-07-29 07:12:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG EPET LO RU |
08BRATISLAVA342 | PM FICO RIDING HIGH...SO, WHAT AILS HIM? [...] (C) Summary. By most measures, Robert Fico has enjoyed great success in his two years as Slovakia's Prime Minister. Buoyed by economic statistics that are the envy of his regional counterparts, Fico's popularity is extraordinarily high among voters (ranging between 42-48 percent). Unemploymen [...] | 2008-07-30 16:00:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LO |
08BRATISLAVA349 | SLOVAK SUPPORT FOR TURKISH EU ACCESSION [...] (C) Acting Director of the MFA's Third Territorial Department, Eva Ponomarenkova, confirmed on July 29 continued GOS support for Turkey's EU accession, noting that Slovakia's experience underscored the importance of an "EU perspective" as a motivating factor for critical reforms. Although the [...] | 2008-07-31 16:59:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LO EU TU |
08BRATISLAVA35 | SLOVAKS TO NEGOTIATE FOR TRANSPETROL STAKE [...] (C) Summary - In a January 18 meeting with the Ambassador, Economy Minister Lubomir Jahnatek said that the GOS has resumed its efforts to buy back the 49 percent Transpetrol stake from Dutch-based Yukos Finance (YF). Jahnatek stated that he had concurrence from the Russian side to go ahead wit [...] | 2008-01-25 15:30:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PREL LO RS |
08BRATISLAVA350 | MFA OFFICIALS CAUTIOUS ON CUBA, SEEKING WAYS TO [...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief reviewed reftel points with Dusan Kristofik, Director of the MFA'S America's division, on July 30. Kristofik pointed out that Slovakia covers Colombia and Venezuela from its embassy in Brasilia, so it tries to take advantage of contacts in multilateral settings to reinforce [...] | 2008-07-31 17:16:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER LO CU EU |
08BRATISLAVA36 | SLOVAKIA WOULD SUPPORT TOUGHER SANCTIONS ON BURMA [...] (C) Poloff discussed reftel points with MFA EU Correspondent Alexander Micovcin on January 25. Micovcin took detailed notes and promised to share and discuss the points with his colleagues. Micovcin confirmed Slovakia's willingness in principle to support additional, targeted sanctions against [...] | 2008-01-25 15:49:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD PHUM BM LO |
08BRATISLAVA373 | SLOVAKIA SUPPORTIVE OF TIGHTER EU SANCTIONS ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-12 07:34:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD BM LO |
08BRATISLAVA377 | SLOVAK MFA EXPRESSES DEEP CONCERN REGARDING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-12 17:47:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG RU LO |
08BRATISLAVA382 | TFGG01: SLOVAKIA WILL URGE RUSSIAN WITHDRAWAL BUT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-14 13:43:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PHUM OSCE UN GG RS LO |
08BRATISLAVA384 | TFGG01: FM KUBIS: SLOVAK GOVERNMENT NOW UNITED ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-15 15:50:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PHUM OSCE UN GG RS LO |
08BRATISLAVA390 | GASPAROVIC'S REASSURANCES ON GEORGIA CONTRAST WITH [...] (C) Ambassador met with Slovak President Gasparovic August 19 to underscore the U.S. position on Georgia (reftel and previous); to urge continued constructive Slovak engagement within NATO, the EU, and the OSCE; and to note that the U.S. disagreed with Prime Minister Fico,s unhelpful public st [...] | 2008-08-20 09:36:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR EAID RS GG LO |
08BRATISLAVA40 | OPPOSITION APPEARS TO HAVE HELD UP LISBON TREATY [...] (C) Slovakia's parliament -- despite PM Fico's urging -- postponed the planned January 30 vote on ratification of the EU Lisbon Treaty 30 due to the opposition's insistence that the government withdraw its draft press law. Parliament postponed further consideration until January 31, and may h [...] | 2008-01-30 16:47:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM LO |
08BRATISLAVA405 | SEPTEMBER GYMNICH: SLOVAKIA SUPPORTS U.S. LINE ON [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel points to the MFA's EU Correspondent, Albin Oltruba, and also shared them with the Directors of the Balkan and CIS offices. Oltruba noted that Georgia would be the main focus of the meeting, with continued planning and consultation on the scope and timing [...] | 2008-09-04 16:11:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EU LO GG RU |
08BRATISLAVA407 | HARABIN RECALL DEBATE MARKS NEW LOW IN SLOVAK [...] (C) Summary. During a futile attempt by the opposition to recall Justice Minister Stefan Harabin, members of the ruling coalition engaged in some of the basest ad hominem attacks, including blatant anti-Semitic rhetoric, that we can recall. The crux of the opposition's charge, led by former Ju [...] | 2008-09-10 15:54:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV LO |
08BRATISLAVA412 | SLOVAK RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON ISAF'S [...] (C) DCM delivered reftel points to new Slovak MFA Political Director, Ambassador Igor Slobodnik. Slobodnik, who recently completed a five-year tenure as Slovakia's first NATO PermRep, was receptive and expressed understanding of the need to move this topic into the NAC, even if the Military C [...] | 2008-09-12 14:26:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO LO AF |
08BRATISLAVA418 | SLOVAK CONSULTATIONS WITH RUSSIAN OFFICIALS: MORE [...] (C) Summary. PM Fico hosted Russian Deputy Prime Minister Secin for an interministerial working lunch on September 10. In a subsequent press conference, Secin and Fico confirmed that the "Slovak-Russian intergovernmental Committee" would henceforth meet quarterly, vice twice yearly, to intensif [...] | 2008-09-19 06:52:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO RU LO GA |
08BRATISLAVA42 | FICO TO EU: WE'LL RATIFY LISBON TREATY [...] (C) Prime Minister Fico met with EU ambassadors on January 30 to calm their fears about Lisbon Treaty ratification hours after the PM postponed the ratification vote in parliament due to opposition demands that Fico withdraw his controversial new press law draft as a precondition for its suppo [...] | 2008-01-31 16:37:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM LO |
08BRATISLAVA423 | SLOVAK REACTION TO "NO BUSINESS AS USUAL IN THE [...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief met September 22 with Juraj Podhorsky, Director of the MFA's Security Policy Division, to deliver reftel points. Podhorsky said that the GOS would give serious consideration to U.S. views as outlined reftel, but that it had not yet taken a position regarding the advisabilit [...] | 2008-09-22 15:45:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL GG RS LO |
08BRATISLAVA446 | SCENESETTER FOR THE PRESIDENT'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) I met with President Gasparovic September 30, and from his perspective the timing of his visit to Washington could not be more auspicious. The trip will link him in the minds of Slovak voters with accession to the Visa Waiver Program, one of the brightest spots in our bilateral relations. [...] | 2008-10-02 12:26:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO LO |
08BRATISLAVA450 | HSPD-6 AGREEMENT SIGNED [...] (C) On October 2, 2008, Ambassador Obsitnik and Slovak Minister of Interior Robert Kalinak met and signed the "Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Slovak Republic for the Exchange of Screening Information Concerning Known or Suspected Terr [...] | 2008-10-02 15:59:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | CMGT CVIS KHLS KTIA PREL LO |
08BRATISLAVA455 | THE AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT GASPAROVIC [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met September 30 with President Gasparovic, in preparation for the Slovak leader's October 9 visit to the White House. While Slovak entry into the Visa Waiver Program would obviously be one positive topic of the meeting, to ensure a successful visit the Ambassador urge [...] | 2008-10-06 15:34:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LO |
08BRATISLAVA462 | SLOVAKIA WILL SUPPORT ICJ REFERRAL ON KOSOVO IN [...] (C) DCM delivered reftel demarche to Eva Ponomarenkova, Director of the MFA's Balkan Section, on October 6. Ponomarenkova said that the Slovaks would join an EU-wide approach in the unlikely event one emerged, but in the absence of consensus would vote to support an ICJ referral on Kosovo. [...] | 2008-10-08 16:07:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KV UN LO |
08BRATISLAVA463 | SYRIAN FM MOALLEM'S VISIT TO BRATISLAVA [...] (C) Summary. At the SARG's request, Syrian FM Moallem stopped in Bratislava on September 30 for a meeting with Foreign Minister Kubis en route to Damascus from the UNGA. According to Klara Novotna, Director of the MFA Office for Middle East and African Affairs, FM Kubis raised with Moallem t [...] | 2008-10-09 11:29:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY LO EU |
08BRATISLAVA487 | MOVING SLOVAKIA CLOSER TO "YES" ON KOSOVO [...] (C) Although the Government of Slovakia shows no signs of softening its opposition to Kosovo's independence, per my recent consultations with you and Assistant Secretary Fried, I plan to use recent key recognitions, i.e., by Montenegro, Portugal and Macedonia, to press the Slovaks toward a more [...] | 2008-10-24 13:59:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LO KVIR |
08BRATISLAVA492 | MFA RESPONSE TO BOSNIA DEMARCHE SUGGESTS SLOVAKIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-28 16:18:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EU BH LO |
08BRATISLAVA496 | SECRETARY CHERTOFF'S OCTOBER 28 VISIT TO BRATISLAVA [...] (C) Summary. The October 28 visit of Secretary of Homeland Security Chertoff to Bratislava successfully completed Slovakia's long effort to qualify for entry into the Visa Waiver Program. During the six-hour stop, Chertoff met with President Gasparovic and Interior Minister Kalinak, with who [...] | 2008-10-30 11:00:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CVIS LO |
08BRATISLAVA500 | FINDING OF 3A2 INELIGIBILITY FOR SUSPECTED SLOVAK [...] (U) This is an action item, see para 6. 2. (C) Post sometimes encounters visa applicants who are believed to be members of organized crime syndicates. Currently, Post has one open case involving such a figure and wishes to ensure that the provisions of 9 FAM 40.31 N5.3 -- Application of I [...] | 2008-10-31 15:18:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM CVIS LO |
08BRATISLAVA507 | SLOVAK-HUNGARIAN TENSIONS RISK DAMAGING [...] (C) Introduction and Summary: Only two months after Prime Ministers Fico and Gyurscany dined together in Brussels, Slovak-Hungarian relations have reached a new low in the post-Meciar period. Actions by Slovak riot police against unruly Hungarian fans at a November 1 soccer match and subseque [...] | 2008-11-04 16:04:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM LO HU |
08BRATISLAVA528 | SERIES OF SLOVAK-HUNGARIAN FLARE-UPS FORCE PRIME [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the soccer match in Dunajska Streda on November 1 when Hungarian hooligans were expelled from the arena with surprising (some say excessive) force by Slovak police (reftel),several subsequent events involving ethnically fueled extremism have forced the rhetoric-slinging of [...] | 2008-11-14 14:05:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HU LO |
08BRATISLAVA547 | SLOVAKIA CLAMPS DOWN ON GAS PRICES [...] (U) A new law aimed at Slovak natural gas monopoly SPP gives the government a veto over price hikes. The law is the latest installment in a long-running dispute over SPP's attempts to raise consumer gas prices, in which Fico has publicly lambasted SPP's foreign shareholders, who hold manageme [...] | 2008-11-21 12:45:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ECON ENRG LO |
08BRATISLAVA549 | SLOVAK-HUNGARIAN RELATIONS: LOTS OF MEETINGS, [...] (C) Summary. Charge and Pol/Econ Chief met on November 19 with the special advisor to Prime Minister Fico and Foreign Minister Kubis for Slovak-Hungarian relations, former Foreign Minister Pavol Hamzik. Hamzik stated that nationalist leader Jan Slota is "damaging Slovak foreign policy and Slo [...] | 2008-11-21 15:45:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM LO HU |
08BRATISLAVA558 | SLOVAKIA SUPPORTS SUSTAINMENT OF ANA VIA TRUST FUND [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel points to Minister of Foreign Affairs Jan Kubis on November 28. Slovakia fully supports incorporating sustainment into NATO's current Afghan National Army (ANA) Trust Fund, according to Kubis. 2. (C) Kubis said Slovakia has provided material assistance direct [...] | 2008-11-28 14:19:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS NATO AF LO |
08BRATISLAVA559 | SLOVAK OFFICIAL: "UKRAINE AS READY FOR NATO AS WE [...] (SBU) Summary. USNATO Director for Defense Planning John R. Hoag discussed Ukraine's prospects for NATO accession during a courtesy call with the Director of the Security Policy Department at Slovakia's MFA, Juraj Podhorsky, on November 19. Podhorsky compared Ukraine's readiness for a MAP fav [...] | 2008-11-28 14:22:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR UA LO |
08BRATISLAVA560 | NAC MINISTERIAL: SLOVAKIA SUPPORTIVE OF GEORGIA [...] (C) Ambassador met Foreign Minister Jan Kubis on November 28 to discuss the upcoming NATO Ministerial (septel reports Slovak views on NATO support for the Afghan National Army). Both the Ambassador and Kubis acknowledged that recent stories in the European press had led to some misconceptions [...] | 2008-11-28 15:35:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO GA UA LO |
08BRATISLAVA562 | SLOVAK OFFICIAL: "UKRAINE AS READY FOR NATO AS WE [...] (SBU) Summary. USNATO Director for Defense Planning John R. Hoag discussed Ukraine's prospects for NATO accession during a courtesy call with the Director of the Security Policy Department at Slovakia's MFA, Juraj Podhorsky, on November 19. Podhorsky compared Ukraine's readiness for a MAP fav [...] | 2008-12-01 09:22:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR UA LO |
08BRATISLAVA567 | GOS RUSHES PENAL CODE AMENDMENT TO TOUGHEN STANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Shortly after Slovak PM Fico and Hungarian PM Gyurcsany's November 17 meeting, Justice Minister Harabin submitted an amendment to the penal code which introduces the concept of "extremism" for the first time. Human rights NGOs immediately objected, as the draft amendment was ins [...] | 2008-12-02 16:44:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HU LO |
08BRATISLAVA570 | SLOVAK RESPONSE TO GAERC DEMARCHE [...] (C) Summary. Poloff delivered reftel points to Albin Otruba, European Correspondent at the MFA. Otruba said the Slovak delegation is most interested in the topics related to the western Balkans, and particularly Serbia and Kosovo. With respect to the Middle East and the WTO, Otruba predicted th [...] | 2008-12-04 15:42:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EU LO |
08BRATISLAVA580 | SLOVAK PROSECUTORS UNDER PRESSURE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-12 08:06:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCRM LO |
08BRATISLAVA582 | SLOVAK TELECOMS REGULATOR: I WAS FIRED FOR HONESTY [...] (C) The head of the Slovak telecommunications authority was removed by Parliamentary vote last week, following a dispute over the contract to build the infrastructure for digital television broadcast. Branislav Macaj (PROTECT) alleges that he was ordered by the highest levels of government to [...] | 2008-12-12 15:37:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECPS EINV KCOR PREL LO |
08BRATISLAVA584 | SLOVAKIA: REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF [...] (C) We offer below the responses to questions asked by reftel regarding Slovakia's Cuba policy. 2. (C) Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? A: In our view, Slovakia has worked to advance human rights and democracy [...] | 2008-12-15 14:39:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CU LO |
08BRATISLAVA592 | CUBIC: WE COULDN'T YELL AT MOD FOREVER [...] (C) Summary. On November 28, the Slovak Government reversed an earlier commitment and notified the Ambassador that it would not renew its contract for defense-advisory services with the American consulting firm Cubic. Don Madison, Director of Cubic programs in Slovakia, and Jeff Guild, an empl [...] | 2008-12-19 13:59:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PINR LO |
08BRATISLAVA593 | PRESIDENT GASPAROVIC RETURNS TEXTBOOK LAW TO [...] (C) During a December 18 meeting with President Gasparovic, Ambassador raised Slovak-Hungarian relations and Slovak engagement in Afghanistan. Ambassador urged President Gasparovic to sign the compromise "textbook" law, which calls for the inclusion of both Hungarian and Slovak place names in [...] | 2008-12-19 14:04:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO PHUM LO |
08BRATISLAVA602 | PRESIDENT GASPAROVIC RETURNS TEXTBOOK LAW TO [...] (C) During a December 18 meeting with President Gasparovic, Ambassador raised Slovak-Hungarian relations and Slovak engagement in Afghanistan. Ambassador urged President Gasparovic to sign the compromise "textbook" law, which calls for the inclusion of both Hungarian and Slovak place names in [...] | 2008-12-30 09:52:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO PHUM LO |
08BRATISLAVA83 | GOS KOSOVO RHETORIC: MORE SOUND THAN FURY [...] (C) Summary and comment. Although the general reaction among most Slovak politicians, media and the public to Kosovo's declaration of independence has been relatively restrained, top officials from governing coalition parties, including the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister Caplovic, and [...] | 2008-02-26 07:30:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV YU KO LO |
08BRATISLAVA88 | AMBASSADOR OBSITNIK'S FEBRUARY 26 MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador and Foreign Minister Kubis discussed Kosovo, Afghanistan, Missile Defense and Iran on February 26. FM Kubis said the GOS had begun discussions with the Canadians regarding additional deployments in Afghanistan, and that the GOS hoped to be in a position to preview this [...] | 2008-02-28 13:24:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LO PARM |
08BRATISLAVA9 | DRAFT LAW ON NGOS DEEMED SIGNIFICANT THREAT BY [...] (C) Slovakia's NGO community has launched a full-scale campaign seeking the withdrawal of a sweeping new draft Ministry of Interior law strictly regulating NGOs. According to leading NGO representatives, one of the most damaging aspects of the draft text, published December 11, is a requireme [...] | 2008-01-08 13:31:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV LO |
08BRATISLAVA95 | SLOVAK RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON VWP NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) Deputy Chief of Mission delivered reftel points to Director of the MFA Americas Office, Dusan Kristofik, on March 4. Kristofik expressed complete agreement with the message and appreciation for the timing of the demarche, as MFA and Interior Ministry officials were scheduled to meet that [...] | 2008-03-04 15:45:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | CMGT CVIS EUN KJUS KPAO PGOV PREL PTER |
08BRATISLAVA96 | SLOVAKIA SANGUINE ABOUT EU DEVELOPMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-04 16:45:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CU EUN LO |
08BRIDGETOWN123 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSED KOSOVO, ARTICLE 98, CUBA, AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a February 21 meeting with the Ambassador, St. Lucian PM King reemphasized his support for Kosovo independence and Article 98, although the GOSL has yet to act on either issue. In discussing the deliverables from the June 2007 Conference on the Caribbean, King's advisor expla [...] | 2008-02-27 18:35:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KTIA ETRD PBTS XL |
08BRIDGETOWN124 | PETROCARIBE #35: ST. KITTS AND PETROCARIBE [...] (SBU) Summary: St. Kitts and Nevis has begun preparations for hosting the Fifth Petrocaribe Summit. Meanwhile, the Venezuelan energy initiative appears to be gaining momentum in the country, following the first successful delivery of Petrocaribe fuel in December 2007 and evolving plans for the [...] | 2008-02-28 18:25:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL PGOV PINR XL VE |
08BRIDGETOWN220 | ST. VINCENT: PM'S (FIRST) RAPE CASE HIJACKED BY [...] (C) Summary: The judge reviewing the Director of Public Prosecutions' (DPP's) February decision to "discontinue" the rape case against Prime Minister Gonsalves has ruled that the DPP acted properly and within the parameters of the law. The lawyers for the accuser have appealed the case, and ha [...] | 2008-04-01 12:40:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV INRB PHUM PREL ASEC XL VC |
08BRIDGETOWN229 | ST. VINCENT RULE OF LAW SLUMPING, ECONOMY GRINDING [...] (C) Summary: On the heels of the much-publicized rape case against the Prime Minister which was discontinued by the prosecution (Ref A),rule of law in St. Vincent and the Grenadines has been given a public black eye. With the murder rate among the highest in the world, meanwhile, crime is pe [...] | 2008-04-03 19:13:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON SNAR PREL PHUM ASEC XL VC |
08BRIDGETOWN319 | FURTHER POLITICAL SHAKE-UP IN ST. LUCIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Three members of parliament in St. Lucia are threatening to leave the ruling United Workers Party if their demands, which include the dismissal of a competent, but disliked, appointed member of cabinet and the reinstatement of a politically unpopular figure, are not met. If they [...] | 2008-05-16 21:59:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EINV ETRD KTIA ST XL |
08BRIDGETOWN332 | CHINA'S POLITICAL INVESTMENT IN EC PAYS DIVIDENDS [...] (C) PM David Thompson's May 7-9 visit to Beijing highlights China's increasing engagement in the Eastern Caribbean to improve economic and business ties and increase aid. The visit, which generated new economic and business ties and increased aid, was seen as successful by commentators, who [...] | 2008-05-22 18:50:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CPAS CVIS EINV OFDP PINR SNAR CH XL |
08BRIDGETOWN58 | ST. VINCENT POLICE OFFICER ALLEGES RAPE BY PRIME [...] (U) This cable is an action request; please see Para 5. 2. (C) Summary: On January 30, 2008 a prominent lawyer and key Embassy contact called PolOff to request help with a legal case in which a St. Vincent police officer alleges that SVG Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves raped her. The contact [...] | 2008-01-31 20:20:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV INRB PHUM PREL XL VC |
08BRIDGETOWN584 | RAPE VICTIM DROPS CASE; GONSALVES SET FOR [...] (C) Alleged rape victim and police constable Michelle Andrews, who filed rape charges against Prime Minister Gonsalves in January, replaced her lawyers and discontinued all legal proceedings against the Prime Minister in a snap decision that caught her previous legal counsel completely by surp [...] | 2008-09-25 14:29:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL XL |
08BRIDGETOWN585 | DOMINICA: THE POLITICS OF ENERGY [...] (SBU) Dominica media outlets recently reported threats of unspecified punitive action by the government against the U.S.-owned monopoly electricity provider DOMLEC Corporation over rising energy costs. At the same time, the government has announced its intention to build a new power plant wi [...] | 2008-09-25 18:59:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ENRG EINV PREL XL |
08BRIDGETOWN588 | REGIONAL SECURITY AND EXPROPRIATION CASE HEADLINE [...] (U) Prime Minister Denzil Douglas of St. Kitts and Nevis provided lukewarm assurances of his country's support on key upcoming human rights issues at the UNGA during a September 18 meeting with the Ambassador. The Ambassador also urged the PM to bring closure to the long-standing Angelus prope [...] | 2008-09-26 20:00:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV PREL MASS XL |
08BRIDGETOWN591 | USS FARRAGUT ANCHORS OUTREACH EVENTS IN ST. LUCIA [...] (C) A three-day port call by the USS Farragut formed an ideal platform for community outreach events by the Ambassador and the Farragut's crew, and afforded an opportunity to engage with regional prime ministers who were in town for an OECS heads of government meeting. While a promised Artic [...] | 2008-10-01 17:54:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS PREL MARR XL |
08BRIDGETOWN62 | "ALBA" GAINS MOMENTUM IN THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN, [...] (SBU) Summary: Following the participation of three Eastern Caribbean heads of government at the sixth Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) summit in Caracas in late January 2008, the organization's influence in the region is making headlines and appears to be picking up steam. Domin [...] | 2008-02-01 17:59:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PREL PGOV PHUM PINR XL VE |
08BRIDGETOWN63 | AMBASSADOR OURISMAN TALKS CRIME, "ALBA," CULTURE [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging discussion over breakfast, Ambassador Ourisman and St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves covered the crime situation in St. Vincent, the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA),the state of the region's primary air carrier (LIAT),t [...] | 2008-02-01 18:00:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL ECON EINV XL NU VE |
08BRIDGETOWN646 | AMBASSADOR RAISES CARICOM LETTER WITH PM GONSALVES [...] (C) The Ambassador used the occasion of St. Vincent's National Day celebration to call Prime Minister Gonsalves to account over an inflammatory letter he sent to CARICOM leaders on September 24. In the letter, Gonsalves expressed support for irresponsible accusations by the Venezuelan Ambas [...] | 2008-10-28 18:14:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV XL |
08BRIDGETOWN67 | QUARRY CONNDRUMS IN DOMINICA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica (GOCD) is attempting to revamp the quarry industry. Currently, the quarry industry is unregulated, leading to critical environmental degradation and undercharged royalties on land use. The quarry industry, along with the proposed [...] | 2008-02-01 21:32:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN EAID ETRD EINV XL DO PGOV |
08BRIDGETOWN690 | ST. VINCENT OPPOSITION IN A DISMAL STATE [...] (C) St. Vincent's New Democratic Party (NDP) is dispirited and mired in self pity, and appears incapable -- despite potential openings -- to mount any serious opposition to Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves. The party's lackluster leadership has had difficulty targeting their criticisms and maki [...] | 2008-11-21 17:51:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR XL |
08BRIDGETOWN691 | EARTH, WIND AND FIRE: ST. KITTS GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) The early success of a geothermal project in Nevis, a budding interest in wind energy, and a shortage of suitable land is diminishing the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis' (GOSKN) earlier interest in pursuing bio-fuels. Nevis,s geothermal reservoir, which is capable of generating more [...] | 2008-11-21 17:51:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL EINV KTDB IR XL |
08BRIDGETOWN699 | BARBADOS - DOIN' THE CABINET SHUFFLE [...] (SBU) A comprehensive cabinet reshuffle announced November 24 saw only five of Barbados, thirteen cabinet positions remain unchanged. The move, sold as a positive step to put the right people in the right places by the Prime Minister, was predictably criticized by the opposition. Despite the [...] | 2008-12-02 20:19:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL XL |
08BRIDGETOWN700 | BARBADOS - DOIN' THE CABINET SHUFFLE [...] (SBU) A comprehensive cabinet reshuffle announced November 24 saw only five of Barbados, thirteen cabinet positions remain unchanged. The move, sold as a positive step to put the right people in the right places by the Prime Minister, was predictably criticized by the opposition. Despite the [...] | 2008-12-02 20:19:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL XL |
08BRIDGETOWN701 | EASTERN CARIBBEAN DRAGGING FEET ON DEPORTEE [...] (c) In recent weeks, we have become aware of a string of cases in which prospective deportees from Eastern Caribbean (EC) countries have been unable to return to their country of citizenship because of delays from their U.S.-based consulates in processing required travel documents. As a res [...] | 2008-12-02 20:21:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS KCRM CVIS PREL XL |
08BRIDGETOWN706 | ST LUCIA CORRUPTION CASE AGAINST FREDERICK HEADS [...] (SBU) The long-running saga of the Minister Richard Frederick's corruption case appears headed towards a final resolution. Frederick lost his action for dismissal of charges against him relating to evasion of taxes for the importation of a vehicle, and the case is finally headed to trial. I [...] | 2008-12-03 17:30:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | OECS POL PGOV PINR PHUM PINS XL |
08BRIDGETOWN714 | REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD [...] (C) Responses keyed to reftel questions: - Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? No. Dominica has not taken steps to advance democracy and human rights in Cuba. Dominica regularly participates in annual CARICOM-Cu [...] | 2008-12-10 20:26:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU XL |
08BRIDGETOWN715 | ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA: SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF [...] (C) At the 2008 CARICOM-Cuba Summit, Antigua and Barbuda publicly declared its commitment to deepening its relationship with Cuba further through increased bilateral collaboration and exchange in a number of areas such as renewable energy, sports, health, education, agriculture, engineering, d [...] | 2008-12-10 20:27:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL PINR PGOV CU BB XL |
08BRIDGETOWN716 | BARBADOS: SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD [...] (C) Barbados and Cuba enjoy a close relationship. At the 2008 Caribbean Community-Cuba Summit, Barbados publicly declared its commitment to deepening its relationship further through increased bilateral collaboration and exchange in a number of areas such as renewable energy, sports, health, [...] | 2008-12-10 20:35:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL PINR PGOV CU BB XL |
08BRIDGETOWN717 | REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD [...] (C) Responses keyed to reftel questions: - Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? No. St. Kitts and Nevis has not taken any steps to advance democracy and human rights in Cuba. - Has the host country made public [...] | 2008-12-10 20:50:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU XL |
08BRIDGETOWN718 | REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD [...] (C) Responses keyed to reftel questions: - Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? No. St. Lucia has not taken steps to advance democracy and human rights in Cuba. St. Lucia regularly participates in annual CARICOM- [...] | 2008-12-10 20:54:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU XL |
08BRIDGETOWN720 | REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD [...] (C) Responses keyed to reftel questions: - Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? No. St. Vincent and the Grenadines has not sought to advance democracy and human rights in Cuba. - Has the host country made publ [...] | 2008-12-10 21:02:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ERTD ETTC PREL CU XL |
08BRIDGETOWN721 | DOMINICA CABINET RESHUFFLE AMID CORRUPTION CONCERNS [...] (SBU) Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit announced on November 19 a cabinet reshuffle designed to curb allegations of widespread corruption among his cabinet ministers. The reshuffle fueled speculation among the opposition that early elections are likely to be announced for the middle [...] | 2008-12-11 11:30:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL XL |
08BRIDGETOWN725 | HIGH COURT DECISION GIVES ST. KITTS A NEW CHANCE [...] (U) In an effort to develop its tourism industry with large-scale projects that can create jobs, generate visitors, and lure high-end investors, the government of St. Kitts and Nevis (GOSKN) has taken to expropriating land from smaller, individual investors under its eminent domain laws and s [...] | 2008-12-12 18:41:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | KIDE EINV PREL XL |
08BRIDGETOWN726 | ANTIGUAN AUTHORITIES BRACING FOR RECESSION [...] (C) Summary: Despite the current global economic crisis, the Antiguan government remains bullish on tourism, and several large tourism real estate development projects continue to move forward. The effect of the global crisis has yet to affect the real estate market, largely due to the ongoi [...] | 2008-12-12 19:48:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EFIN CVIS EINV OFDP PINR XL |
08BRIDGETOWN751 | SECURITY, ECONOMY, HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN [...] (C) In her farewell call on St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Denzil Douglas, the Ambassador highlighted successes in building cooperation between our countries during her tenure and expressed her hope for continued close cooperation in the future. The Ambassador cited ongoing cooperation o [...] | 2008-12-30 18:34:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EINV MASS PHUM XL |
08BRIDGETOWN752 | SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND KOSOVO ON AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Ambassador Ourisman paid a farewell call on an engaging Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer of Antigua and Barbuda December 16. Spencer told the Ambassador she will be missed and praised her service to the U.S. and its relations with the region. The Ambassador called Spencer,s attention to op [...] | 2008-12-31 15:31:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV XL ZL |
08BRIDGETOWN78 | ST. VINCENT: RAPE CHARGES AGAINST PM GONSALVES [...] (U) This cable is an action request; please see Para 8. 2. (C) On February 4, 2008 the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in St. Vincent and the Grenadines "discontinued" the criminal rape case filed against St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves. The case was earl [...] | 2008-02-06 20:38:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV INRB PHUM PREL XL VC |
08BRIDGETOWN93 | PRIORITY LOBBYING FOR KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE: EC [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Ourisman carried out ref b demarche February 13 by calling the Prime Ministers of Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, St. Luia, St. Kitts and Nevis, and St. Vincent and theGrenadines, and meeting with Barbados PM Thompso on the same day. Embassy Grenada raised the issue wit [...] | 2008-02-14 16:14:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK SR XL |
08BRUSSELS100 | IRAN'S NSA JALILI SNUBBED BY EU OFFICIALS BUT SET [...] (C) During his visit to Brussels the week of January 21 en route to Davos, Iran's National Security Advisor Said Jalili is scheduled to address an open session of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee. However, the European Commission and Council Secretariat have refused Jalili' [...] | 2008-01-18 13:57:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MNUC UNSC ETTC KNNP IR EUN BE |
08BRUSSELS1015 | BURMA: EU AGREES THAT FURTHER ASSISTANCE DEPENDS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 26, USEU Poloff delivered reftel points to Seamus Gillespie at the European Commission (EC). He agrees with our points and stressed the need for close cooperation. He raised two issues that the EC sees as problematic: Restrictions on the World Food Program (WFP) a [...] | 2008-07-03 16:53:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID BM EUN |
08BRUSSELS1021 | EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT: MEDVEDEV GETS A GOOD REVIEW [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-07 15:49:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ENRG ETRD ETTC EINV ECON PBTS EUN |
08BRUSSELS1022 | BELGIUM COURT OF APPEALS REDUCES SENTENCES FOR [...] (C) Belgian MFA Anti-Terrorism Coordinator Andre Ceulemans told PolCouns both he and Johan Delmulle, the Federal Prosecutor, were "astonished by" and "not pleased with" the June 26 Court of Appeals ruling reducing the sentences of five defendants found guilty in January 2008 in the Degauque [...] | 2008-07-07 15:51:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER SOCI PREL PGOV BE |
08BRUSSELS1033 | BELGIANS SUPPORT CONTINUED NEGOTIATIONS ON ARAB [...] (C) According to Christophe De Bassompierre in the MFA UNSC office, the Belgians agree, and have already sent instructions to their UN delegation, to urge continued negotiations on points included in reftel. However, the Belgians think settlement activities should be halted. Thus, if there [...] | 2008-07-09 09:35:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | IS PREL UNSC BE |
08BRUSSELS1046 | BELGIANS MAY RELUCTANTLY GIVE FUNDS FOR NTM-I, BUT [...] (C) Poloff discussed reftel points with Belgian MFA NATO desk officer Frederic Meurice, who expressed surprise at NATO's continuing insistence on training Iraqi security forces in Iraq. He noted the Belgian reservations about supporting the Iraq war and pointed out that Belgium has always sp [...] | 2008-07-11 12:31:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO IZ BE |
08BRUSSELS1055 | FRIENDS OF BELARUS: ELECTIONS AND KOZULIN [...] (C) Summary. On July 3, EUR A/S Daniel Fried participated in an informal gathering of the informal Friends of Belarus contact group to encourage continued Transatlantic policy cooperation. The meeting was convened by the Lithuanian Political Director on the margins of the U.S.-EU Political [...] | 2008-07-14 08:24:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG PHUM KDEM EUN BO |
08BRUSSELS1059 | U.S.-EU TROIKA ON TERRORIST FINANCING, MAY 23, 2008 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Charities, cash couriers, and UN sanctions reform were the focus of the May 23 bi-annual U.S.-EU Troika meeting on Terrorist Financing in Brussels. The EU will consider the U.S. proposal for a financial sanctions workshop program to address combating terrorist abuse of the non [...] | 2008-07-14 15:49:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | CE EAID EFIN ETTC EUN FR KCRM KTFN PINR PREL |
08BRUSSELS1071 | LETERME TENDERS HIS RESIGNATION - KING ALBERT HAS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With no institutional solution in the offing, Prime Minister Yves Leterme (CD&V - Christian Democrat and Flemish Party) tendered his resignation to King Albert II around 2300 hours July 14. King Albert is now "taking the resignation under consideration," according to the offi [...] | 2008-07-15 16:22:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BE |
08BRUSSELS1072 | ADMINISTRATOR FORE DISCUSSES KOSOVO, POST-LISBON [...] (C) Summary: European Commission (EC) Director-General for Enlargement Michael Leigh thanked USAID Administrator and Director for Foreign Assistance Henrietta Fore on July 11 for the U.S. pledge to Kosovo at the donors' conference, adding that the EU and U.S. will need to continue to work wit [...] | 2008-07-16 10:30:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ZL EUN |
08BRUSSELS1090 | U.S.-EU AFRICA TROIKA ADDRESSES SUDAN, CHAD, HORN, [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-17 08:46:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF EUN |
08BRUSSELS1094 | BELGIUM'S DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER HOPES TO KEEP THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Didier Reynders told the Ambassador that Prime Minister Yves Leterme gave him only a half hour notice that he would be submitting his resignation to the King. Leaders of the five coalition parties are in discussions with the two green [...] | 2008-07-17 15:29:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EFIN BE |
08BRUSSELS1117 | JUNE 26 U.S.-EU TROIKA MEETING ON DRUG ISSUES [...] (C) U.S. and European Union (EU) officials discussed counter-drug trends and developments during a wide-ranging U.S.-EU Troika Meeting on Drug Issues on June 26. The discussions demonstrated considerable convergence on these issues, including strategies to use at Commission on Narcotic Drugs [...] | 2008-07-22 15:46:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV PREL SNAR EUM |
08BRUSSELS1120 | QUAD POLDIRS ON GEORGIA-ABKHAZIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-23 11:05:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS KINR EAID ECON EUN GO XH |
08BRUSSELS1129 | BELGIANS ALREADY ON ALERT FOR POSSIBLE DUAL-USE [...] (C) Poloff presented reftel points to Filip de Clercq in the MFA's Non-Proliferation and Export Controls Office. De Clercq said although he did not have any information about the company mentioned reftel, Belgium already considers firms or possible "front companies" based in Malaysia as high [...] | 2008-07-24 12:48:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MTCRE PREL ETTC IR MY BE |
08BRUSSELS1130 | BELGIANS AGREE IT IS IMPORTANT TO KEEP PRESSURE ON [...] (C) POLCOUNS discussed talking points reftel with MFA Head of the Latin America Office, Amb. Jan Van Dessel. Van Dessel fully agreed it is important to keep pressure on the FARC. He noted there should be more U.S.- EU cooperation on the whole range of problems, from narcotics interventions [...] | 2008-07-24 14:09:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | COL VE HR EUN PTER AF SNAR PGOV PREL BE |
08BRUSSELS1137 | A/S FRIED URGES RAPID EU-UN TRANSITION IN KOSOVO [...] (C) Summary: EUR Assistant Secretary Fried emphasized to a group of EU Political and Security Committee Ambassadors and, separately, to EU Director General Robert Cooper that the EU must do more to quickly resolve UNMIK-EULEX transition arrangements for Kosovo and should not waste the opportun [...] | 2008-07-25 09:07:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN UNMIK KV |
08BRUSSELS1149 | AMBASSADOR ENGAGES BARROSO AND JOUYET ON IRAN, [...] (C) SUMMARY: At her presentation of credentials on July 22, the Ambassador met successively with Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, and French State Secretary Jean Pierre Jouyet. Both somewhat deflected attempts by the Ambassador to pin the EU down to action on Iran san [...] | 2008-07-28 17:52:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD EUN IR KV FR |
08BRUSSELS1168 | DELIVERY OF LETTER ON COMMISSION-FUNDED [...] (C) Mission International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) Counselor delivered a scanned copy of the letter signed by INL Assistant Secretary David Johnson regarding two European Commission-funded initiatives in Bolivia (REFs A to C) on July 29 to Commission Head of Unit Carel Edwa [...] | 2008-07-29 13:15:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV PREL SNAR EUM |
08BRUSSELS1234 | BURMA: SOLANA DISCUSSES BURMA WITH TIMOR-LESTE [...] (C) While delivering demarche on the JADE act legislation (ref A),Leo Schulte-Nordholt, South-East Asia Desk Officer at the EU Council Secretariat, briefed us on the July 22 visit to Brussels of the president of Timor-Leste, Jos Ramos-Horta. Shulte-Nordholt participated in a breakfast with H [...] | 2008-08-11 09:50:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ETRD PREL ETTC KINR EUN TM |
08BRUSSELS1244 | THE AMBASSADOR MEETS RELEX COMMISSIONER [...] (C) Summary: During the Ambassador's introductory call on the morning of August 8, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Commissioner for External Relations (RELEX) reported that CFSP High Rep Solana was irked that Georgian President Saakashvili had seemed so calm in their August 7 telephone call and had no [...] | 2008-08-12 17:50:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS ENRG EAID ETTC KWBG EUN GG XF |
08BRUSSELS1245 | TFGG01: GAERC LIKELY TO SUPPORT FRENCH MEDIATION [...] (C) Summary: Read-outs from back-to-back PSC and COREPER II meetings held August 12 indicate that there may not be formal Conclusions from the GAERC on August 13. Rather, there will likely be a French EU Presidency declaration representing EU consensus for support for its mediation efforts, [...] | 2008-08-12 18:05:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG RU |
08BRUSSELS1256 | TFGG01: EU FOREIGN MINISTERS SUPPORT FRENCH [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-13 19:34:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN GG RU |
08BRUSSELS1257 | AMBASSADOR SILVERBERG MEETS EU POLICY PLANNING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-13 19:39:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENGY EUN GG BO SY |
08BRUSSELS1260 | TFGG01: GEORGIA CRISIS: BELGIUM SEES NEXT STEPS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Belgium, as with other EU members, continues to be concerned about the agreement reached between Russia and Georgia. Belgium agrees on the urgency of establishing a mechanism to support international observers in Georgia, with reliance on the OSCE observers already on the grou [...] | 2008-08-14 11:04:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL PGOV RU GO PBTS BE |
08BRUSSELS1276 | TFGG01: AMBASSADOR MEETS EU ENLARGEMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-18 18:25:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN GG RU TU YI |
08BRUSSELS1278 | TFGG01: BELGIUM OFFERS MIL OBSERVERS FOR OSCE'S [...] (C) The military adviser to Minister of Defense Pieter De Crem informed us that the GoB is consulting with OSCE about the latter's efforts to expand its group of military observers in Georgia from the current eight to a possible one hundred and has offered to contribute ten Belgian military of [...] | 2008-08-19 11:20:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OSCE MOPS PREF GG RU BE |
08BRUSSELS1287 | BELGIUM, IN THE UNSC CHAIR THIS MONTH, WANTS UNSYG [...] (C) MFA Security Council Coordinator Rudi Brieven, accompanied by Attache for Middle East and North Africa Laura Poletto, received Poloff to discuss the referenced demarche on August 19. Brieven said that the GoB follows events in North Africa, especially Morocco and Algeria, very closely, be [...] | 2008-08-20 08:07:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL PGOV PBTS MO WI BE |
08BRUSSELS1308 | MEDIA MISINTERPRET BELGIUM'S AIR CHIEF ON NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: A (possibly innocent) misinterpretation of Belgian Air Force Chief's comments about the F16 forthcoming deployment to Kandahar by a big Belgian paper has been corrected firmly by DefMin De Crem, but not without cost, the cost being future GoB maneuverability on maybe someday having [...] | 2008-08-26 05:12:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS AF NATO BE |
08BRUSSELS1337 | TFGG01 - DEMARCHE REQUEST ON BELGIAN MFA (CURRENT [...] (C) SEE URGENT DEVELOPMENT IN PARA 4 (BELOW). The MFA of Belgium, which this month chairs the UNSC, is in the process of refining its instructions to Amb. Jan Grauls in New York for today's emergency UNSC meeting that is being convened at the request of the Government of Georgia. Before Polof [...] | 2008-08-28 13:10:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL GG BE |
08BRUSSELS1340 | NATO MEDITERRANEAN DIALOGUE SOFA: BELGIUM AGREES [...] (C) On August 29, POL/E Counselor delivered the referenced points and proposed MED-D SOFA Exchange of Letters (EoL) to Pol De Witte, Director of Security Policy and Patrick Duray, Legal Counsel, both of the Belgian MFA. 2. (C) Both De Witt and Duray agreed that Belgium does not support [...] | 2008-08-29 09:03:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL EUN BE |
08BRUSSELS1343 | SERBIA'S KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION AT UNGA: BELGIUM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Belgium as directed its UN Mission in New York either to vote against the Serbian UNGA resolution to refer the issue of Kosovo's independence to the ICJ or to abstain. Belgium will make its choice based on supporting EU and western unity on the issue. This is despite the Belgi [...] | 2008-08-29 14:16:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNGA KV BE PINR |
08BRUSSELS1345 | DAS MERKEL DISCUSSES RUSSIA, BELARUS, UKRAINE, [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Assistant Secretary David Merkel discussed Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova with EU officials in Brussels August 24 and 25. EU officials discussed their expectations for an extraordinary European Council meeting on Georgia and Russia September 1. Just back from Mins [...] | 2008-08-29 14:16:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN OSCE UK RU BO MD GG |
08BRUSSELS1354 | DE GUCHT SEPT 3 TRIP TO MOSCOW; EXCHANGE WITH [...] (C) De Gucht September 3 Call in Moscow on Lavrov - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - -- - - -- - - - - - - -: During a September 2 call on MFA Deputy Cabinet Chiefs Fons Borginon (multilateral affairs) and Thomas Lambert (European bilateral affairs, who attended the September 1 EU Summit),they expl [...] | 2008-09-02 17:00:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PREL PGOV GG RS YI AF PK BE |
08BRUSSELS1366 | BELGIAN MFA FINDS IDEA OF BIG EXPANSION OF AFGHAN [...] Summary: Without committing the GOB, Renier Nijskens of the Belgian MFA received reftel demarche, regarding expanding the Afghan National Army (ANA),favorably. He warned that such an increase in manpower must be implemented intelligently so that money spent is not wasted. He said that curr [...] | 2008-09-04 06:04:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR AF BE |
08BRUSSELS137 | IRAN'S JALILI GETS TOUGH RECEPTION FROM EU [...] (C) During a January 23 visit to Brussels, Saeed Jalili, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator met with mixed success at the EU. He achieved the desired form and access, including prestigious meetings with top officials as well as high profile press coverage. On substance, however, Jalili made no [...] | 2008-01-25 16:23:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC KNNP PHUM IR EUN |
08BRUSSELS1377 | A/S FRIED DISCUSSES KOSOVO WITH EU OFFCIALS [...] (C) Summar: In meetings with EU officials on Kosovo Setember 3, Assistant Secretary Fried emphasized hat EULEX deploy rapidly throughout Kosovo, hihlighted the dangers of any possible deal linking EULEX deployment in the north to an abstention on the ICJ vote, and announced that the U.S. was [...] | 2008-09-04 16:05:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN KV UNMIK |
08BRUSSELS1379 | GEORGIA/RUSSIA: A/S FRIED MEETS QUAD POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: A/S Fried met with political directors of the UK, Germany and France Sept. 3 to discuss potential EU-U.S. next steps with Russia to achieve their implementation of the Ceasefire on Georgia. French Deputy Political Director Veronique Bujon-Barre (Araud did not attend) said Presiden [...] | 2008-09-05 09:54:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG EUN |
08BRUSSELS1390 | FM DE GUCHT ENCOUNTERS RESOLUTE FM LAVROV IN MOSCOW [...] (C) Summary: Russian FM Lavrov told Belgian FM De Gucht September 3 that OSCE monitors would not be acceptable in South Ossetia, unless South Ossetian de facto president Kokoity approves them, nor would Russian troops be withdrawn from South Ossetia and Abkhazia because those troops are there [...] | 2008-09-05 18:18:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BE GG RU |
08BRUSSELS1412 | UNGA 3RD COMMITTEE 2008 HUMAN RIGHTS PRIORITIES -- [...] (C) SUMMARY: Speaking both as the Human Rights person at the Belgian MFA and as a participant in the EU Working Group on Human Rights meeting of September 4-5, Francine Chainye told Poloff Judith Heimann: --There were no surprises in our demarche talking points (reftel) except for Belarus (see [...] | 2008-09-11 15:26:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN EU BE |
08BRUSSELS1419 | FORTHCOMING EU FONMIN MEETING (GAERC) SEPTEMBER [...] (SBU) On September 12, MFA Director for EU External Affairs Filip David told Poloff Heimann the following: 2. (C) Zimbabwe David said that the COREPER (i.e., EU Permreps)-drafted conclusions of the forthcoming GAERC included extending the EU sanctions beyond what they are now -- though Davi [...] | 2008-09-12 14:04:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EU PHUM PREL ZI SO TU YI RS BE PGOV ZL |
08BRUSSELS1420 | GOB NOT EAGER TO SEE ISAF ROLE EXPANDED TO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-12 14:35:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO MOPS MARR AF BE |
08BRUSSELS1457 | FOREIGN MINISTER DE GUCHT'S SENIOR CABINET OFFICER [...] (C) Summary: During a September 19 call on Belgian MFA Deputy Head of Cabinet for Bilateral Affairs Thomas Lambert, Poloffs received the Belgian take on reftel demarche, PM Leterme's current trade and investment trip to Sochi, Russia, and the EU's evolving energy policy. The GoB was well aware [...] | 2008-09-19 16:10:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG RU BL VE BE |
08BRUSSELS1458 | EU URGES RESTRAINED RESPONSE TO CHAVEZ, SUPPORTS [...] (C) Summary: EU Council Secretariat and French Presidency interlocutors were supportive, though not always optimistic, about efforts to resolve the Bolivian crisis through dialogue. On September 19, the French Presidency issued a statement that, among other things, encouraged La Paz to "maint [...] | 2008-09-22 07:25:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN BL VE |
08BRUSSELS1464 | BELGIUM: "NO BUSINESS AS USUAL" DOESN'T EXCLUDE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Pol De Witte, the Director for Security Policy and NATO Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. De Witte said that Belgium takes a more "moderate line" than the U.S. on NATO-Russia meetings and sees value in dialogue. Poloff argued that Russia's re [...] | 2008-09-22 15:44:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL GG RS BE |
08BRUSSELS1473 | PM LETERME LOSES FLEMISH MAJORITY BUT GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In protest at the agreement to defer discussion of institutional reforms in Belgium, the New Flemish Alliance Party (N-VA) withdrew from its alliance with Prime Minister Yves Leterme's Christian Democratic Party (CD&V). The leaves Leterme without a Flemish majority in his own [...] | 2008-09-23 13:41:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | POL PGOV BE |
08BRUSSELS1474 | TWO ANTI-KABILA EXTRA-PARLIAMENTARY POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since mid-June, an Embassy Poloff with a previous posting in Kinshasa has been sought out separately by the heads of two different Congolese political groups (Union Socialiste Congolaise and the Movement des Patriots Congolais). These groups did not participate in the electoral [...] | 2008-09-23 15:12:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CG BE |
08BRUSSELS1493 | FRIENDS OF BELARUS ASSESS POLICY IN LIGHT OF NEW [...] (C) On September 15, EUR DAS David Merkel and U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Belarus Jonathan Moore participated in a Friends of Belarus meeting convened at the Lithuanian Permanent Mission to the EU, in Brussels. Other participants included EU Political Directors and other senior officials from L [...] | 2008-09-24 15:55:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETTC CVIS EUN BO |
08BRUSSELS1496 | BELGIAN MOD ON PLANS FOR THE MILITARY IN 2009 [...] (C) Summary: Belgian troops are operating in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Chad and the Congo. The Ministry of Defense is developing a strategy for 2009 that foresees increases in the Belgian participation in Afghanistan and in the EU Battle Group, but a pullback in Lebanon. Although Defense [...] | 2008-09-25 11:57:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR BE AF LE CG CD KV |
08BRUSSELS1533 | ITALIAN PSC AMBASSADOR REVIEWS GEORGIA DEPLOYMENT, [...] (C) Summary: Italian PSC Ambassador Andrea Meloni and his counselors covered a range of high priority topics at a lunch hosted for Charge, Political Minister-Counselor and Deputy Minister-Counselor. Meloni described the start-up of the deployment to Georgia of the approximately 265 EU mo [...] | 2008-10-01 14:17:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR EUN PTER |
08BRUSSELS1540 | FRENCH MOVING THE EU-CUBA DIALOGUE FORWARD [...] (C) Summary: France is working to start an EU political dialogue with the Government of Cuba before the Czech Republic takes over the EU Presidency in January 2009. EU Council and Member State interlocutors in the course of separate conversations in late September assured us that human rig [...] | 2008-10-02 12:34:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN EAID CU |
08BRUSSELS1541 | WHITHER MACEDONIA? - EU OFFICIALS PESSIMISTIC [...] (C) Summary: In meetings with new U.S. Ambassador to Macedonia Phil Reeker September 23, a wide range of EU officials provided a bleak assessment of Macedonia's prospects for Euro-Atlantic integration in the near term. EU officials attributed the current state of affairs to continued Greek i [...] | 2008-10-02 14:00:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN MK GR KV |
08BRUSSELS1558 | FLEMISH POLITICAL PARTIES: CD&V GOVERNMENT SAVED [...] (C) Summary: Flemish Christian Democrat (CD&V) International Affairs Secretary Peter Gijsels provided Poloff a broad read out of his party's domestic challenges steering the national coalition government and its view of the trans-Atlantic relationship. Just two weeks ago, the government of CD [...] | 2008-10-08 10:54:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS AF BE |
08BRUSSELS1565 | EUROPEAN COMMISSION PLANNING SOMALIA MARITIME [...] (C) Summary: The European Commission's Critical Maritime Routes initiative is intended to help improve security along key shipping corridors by providing aid to countries to enhance vessel tracking and information sharing. Initially conceived only for the Malacca Straits, the Commission is [...] | 2008-10-09 05:46:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS EWWT XA XF XC AID |
08BRUSSELS1566 | EUROPEAN COMMISSION PLANNING SOMALIA MARITIME [...] (C) Summary: The European Commission's Critical Maritime Routes initiative is intended to help improve security along key shipping corridors by providing aid to countries to enhance vessel tracking and information sharing. Initially conceived only for the Malacca Straits, the Commission is [...] | 2008-10-09 05:46:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS EWWT XA XF XC AID |
08BRUSSELS1569 | EULEX KOSOVO: PROGRESS ON DEPLOYMENT BUT POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Ambassador October 7, EULEX Kosovo Head of Mission Yves de Kermabon reported that deployment was in full swing, with approximately 450 personnel on the ground. De Kermabon said that EULEX would reach an "initial operating capability" - capable of assuming th [...] | 2008-10-09 12:04:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN UNMIK KV |
08BRUSSELS1573 | U.S.-EU ENLARGEMENT TROIKA: CROATIA [...] (C) Summary: Meeting with us to discuss Croatia as part of the working level "Enlargement and Countries Negotiating Access to the EU" dialogue or troika, October 8, our EU counterparts reported they were "very pleased" with accession negotiations. The Commission reported that statistics relat [...] | 2008-10-09 18:50:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN HR |
08BRUSSELS1589 | EU-CUBA DIALOGUE SCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER 16 [...] (C) Summary: EU interlocutors tell us that an EU-Cuba political dialogue is scheduled to take place at foreign minister level this Thursday, October 16, in Paris. The EU assures us that human rights and democracy issues will be part of the dialogue. The Cuban Government has made last-minute [...] | 2008-10-14 16:37:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN CU |
08BRUSSELS1590 | EU NOT EXPECTING LISBON TREATY BREAKTHROUGH [...] (SBU) Summary: EU Interlocutors told us in separate conversations over the past two weeks that Irish Prime Minister Cowen will not present a plan for Lisbon Treaty ratification at this week,s European Council meeting, but instead will briefly present Dublin,s understanding of why the first [...] | 2008-10-14 18:12:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PREL PGOV ECIN EI |
08BRUSSELS1599 | AFTER THE FINANCIAL EARTHQUAKE: A NEW BANKING [...] (C) While a large part of the francophone bourgeoisie in Brussels is still reeling from the fire sale of the country's largest bank, Fortis, to BNP Paribas last week, Belgian officials and Flemish politicians are fighting vigorously to strengthen Dexia and KBC, the only two remaining large Be [...] | 2008-10-17 11:31:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV BE |
08BRUSSELS1600 | JHA HAPPENINGS [...] (U) This is the inaugural edition of "JHA Happenings," a periodical on United States - European Union cooperation on transnational crimes and terrorism, which comprise the Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) portfolio in European Union (EU) circles. We intend for these updates to complement the Mi [...] | 2008-10-17 12:47:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV PREL SNAR EUN |
08BRUSSELS1618 | BELGIUM: EXTRADITION AND MLAT RATIFICATION PROCESS [...] (C) PolEconOff spoke with MFA Counselor for Justice and Legal Issues Peter Claes (Directorate General for European Cooperation and Coordination) on September 30, October 9, and October 14 to discuss the status of the Extradition and MLAT ratification process. Claes indicated the European Comm [...] | 2008-10-20 11:15:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | CJAN EUN KCRM KJUST KTIA PGOV PREL BE |
08BRUSSELS1624 | BELGIUM: "CREDIBLE AFGHAN ELECTIONS ARE MORE [...] (C) Summary: The GOB is concerned that the USG is not doing enough to curb participation in Afghan elections and government by corrupt individuals. It would like to see agreement on ways to improve the credibility of the election process and quality of candidates among the NATO Allies before [...] | 2008-10-21 11:10:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MARR AF BE |
08BRUSSELS1627 | AMBASSADOR SILVERBERG,S CONVERSATION WITH SPANISH [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Silverberg and Spanish PermRep to the EU Carlos Bastarreche Sagues discussed a range of issues during a courtesy call on September 29. Bastarreche described an EU that had made considerable progress since his first posting to Brussels in 1979, but that still struggled [...] | 2008-10-21 13:39:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR SENV ECON |
08BRUSSELS1634 | A TALE OF TWO CRISES: SENIOR BELGIAN FINANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: At one point in the middle of the on-going crisis in Belgium's banking sector, according to a top Finance Ministry official, Belgium narrowly avoided a bank run. The financial crisis is already being used by the francophone socialists against the francophone liberals who contr [...] | 2008-10-22 09:10:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV BE |
08BRUSSELS1639 | CHINA: HU JIA RECEIVES THE EU'S SAKHAROV HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: In a move sure to anger China, the European Parliament (EP) voted to award its annual Sakharov Human Rights Prize to prominent Chinese activist Hu Jia on October 23. Commission sources report they have been besieged by Chinese demarches calling on them to distance the Commission [...] | 2008-10-23 16:34:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL EUN CH |
08BRUSSELS1641 | A/S FRIED MEETING WITH EU DIRECTOR GENERAL ROBERT [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY: A/S Fried used his October 22 meeting with EU Director General Robert Cooper to press for the EU to keep pressure on the Russians to comply with their obligations under the cease fire. While Cooper indicated that he believed the EU would unfreeze its discussions with the R [...] | 2008-10-24 09:53:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR EUN PHUM |
08BRUSSELS1649 | BELGIUM LIKELY TO VOTE YES ON DE-ALERTING, ABSTAIN [...] (C) Summary: Belgium intends to vote yes on the UN First Committee resolution on de-alerting after abstaining in 2007. It will not co-sponsor the resolution, but it does want to increase pressure on nuclear weapons states to disarm. It would like to see more attention paid to targeting of nuc [...] | 2008-10-24 16:05:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MNUC UNGA PREL BE |
08BRUSSELS165 | SCA ADVISOR DEUTSCH SEEKS SUPPORT FROM EC AND EIB [...] (C) Senior Economic Advisor for South and Central Asian Affairs Robert Deutsch met with European Commission, European Investment Bank, and KfW Bank officials January 23 - 24 in Brussels to discuss the Central to South Asia Regional Electricity Market (CASAREM). European Commission (EC) Head o [...] | 2008-02-01 14:34:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EU EAID OSCE AF TI TX UZ XG ZK PK |
08BRUSSELS1660 | BELGIUM:ENGAGING EU ON BOSNIA [...] (C) MFA Director for Southeast Europe Luc Liebaut provided to Poloff October 27, an informative and lengthy readout of European thinking on Bosnia. Liebaut said the EU and Belgium were largely in agreement over the main points in reftel demarche, with a slightly nuanced view of the 5-Plus-2 a [...] | 2008-10-28 11:09:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV BK EU BE |
08BRUSSELS1661 | EU-CUBA DIALOGUE FOCUSED ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND [...] (C) Summary: EU officials spoke positively about the renewal of the EU-Cuba dialogue at foreign minister level on October 16 and the re-launching of development cooperation on October 24. On October 16, FMs Kouchner, Schwartzenberg, and Commissioner Michel discussed the human rights situatio [...] | 2008-10-28 15:46:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM CU ENRG ETRD EINV KDEM EUN XL EAID |
08BRUSSELS1663 | RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO EU ON GEORGIA, ENERGY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-28 16:43:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ENRG EFIN MARR RU GG EUN |
08BRUSSELS1669 | SOLANA'S MIDDLE EAST ADVISOR PROVIDES READ-OUT OF [...] (C) Summary: Christian Jouret, Middle East Advisor to EU/HR Javier Solana, provided Deputy Political M-C with an extensive read-out of Solana's recent trip to Syria, indicating Solana's continued wariness of Syrian President Assad, while noting some desire by the French, in particular, to m [...] | 2008-10-29 15:24:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EU PHUM PREL SY |
08BRUSSELS1675 | BELGIUM AND THE FINANCIAL CRISIS: THE LAST BANK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over the past six weeks, Belgium has had its top two banks either dismembered or transformed nearly beyond recognition. The final Belgian bank, too, was just given a government rescue package. The saga of how this happened points to failings in bank management, mis-steps and [...] | 2008-10-30 12:21:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON BE |
08BRUSSELS1679 | NEW EUPOL HOM WOULD LIKE TO DEPLOY THROUGHOUT [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 24 the new EUPOL Head of Mission, Police Commissioner Kai Vittrup, met with USEU Ambassador to discuss his mission, now that the PSC has approved the doubling of personnel and reassessed the mandate. Vittrup said that EUPOL would like to deploy to the Czech PRT in [...] | 2008-10-30 15:50:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | AF BO EUN GG MARR MOPS PARM PGOV PREL RS |
08BRUSSELS1682 | BURMA: EU ADDITIONAL VIEWS ON BURMA'S GLOBAL FUND [...] (C) Per REF A instructions, Poloff reviewed U.S. position on the Global Fund in Burma with Andreas List, Burma Desk Officer at DG External Relations. Drawing upon REFTEL points, Poloff stressed the importance of obtaining a commitment from the Burmee Government up front in the Global Fund ap [...] | 2008-10-31 11:11:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KHIV PREL PHUM SOCI ETRD BM EUN |
08BRUSSELS1693 | CRISIS IN THE CONGO: BELGIAN FM DEGUCHT'S MEETING [...] (C) Summary: On November 4 the Belgian MFA briefed European Union, Canadian, Japanese, South African, and U.S. Embassies on FM Karl De Gucht's November 1 meeting with Rwandan President Paul Kagame. After providing the meeting points, the MFA Africa team offered Belgian views on the situation [...] | 2008-11-04 16:57:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CG BE |
08BRUSSELS1697 | EU ENERGY COMMISSIONER TO SEEK &POLITICAL ACCORD8 [...] (C) Andris Kesteris, Chef de Cabinet to the Energy Commissioner said Andris Piebalgs would be visiting Ankara and Baku November 6 and 7 to promote the opening of the Southern Corridor. Piebalgs does not seek to sign any deals but rather to reach an informal political agreement with Erdogan. [...] | 2008-11-05 16:44:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET EU |
08BRUSSELS1702 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH BELGIAN FINANCE MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Belgium's Finance Minister Didier Reynders expects the EU's number one goal in the November 15 Finance Summit to be to build collaborations between governments and with the IMF over the coming weeks. The rescue of Fortis by Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg is an example [...] | 2008-11-06 08:45:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN BE |
08BRUSSELS1715 | IRAN: EU SEEKS TO BOLSTER PUBLIC DIPLOMACY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent conversations with European Commission, Council, and Member State representatives indicate that while the will exists to expand their current Iran-related public diplomacy programming, a number of factors are slowing the EU's ability to implement such programs. The absenc [...] | 2008-11-10 06:13:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV SCUL IR KDEM KPAO OEXC OIIP |
08BRUSSELS1720 | EU OUTLINES TRANSATLANTIC PRIORITIES FOR PDAS RIES [...] (U) EU officials took advantage of the timing of EUR PDAS Marcie Ries's Nov. 4-6 visit to Brussels to outline Europe's priorities in working with the incoming Obama administration. Building on consensus reached by EU foreign ministers at the November 3 informal Gymnich meeting on transatlantic [...] | 2008-11-10 16:03:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN |
08BRUSSELS1725 | PIEBALGS OPTIMISTIC FOLLOWING VISITS TO TURKEY AND [...] (C) Ambassador Silverberg and Special Envoy Gray met with EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs on November 11 to discuss his November 5-7 visit to Ankara and Baku. Piebalgs expressed his gratitude for the efforts of the USG to open the Southern Corridor and added the Turks appreciated the O [...] | 2008-11-12 12:23:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET EUN |
08BRUSSELS1727 | EUROPEAN COMMISSION SHARES U.S. CONCERNS OVER [...] (C) European Commission officials agreed with U.S. concerns over the threatened expulsion of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) personnel from Bolivia. They expressed hope that the decision was still open to change, given the void that such a situation would present in law enforcement effo [...] | 2008-11-13 06:04:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV PREL SNAR KDEM EUN BL |
08BRUSSELS1732 | BELGIUM NON-COMMITTAL ON CRITERIA-BASED CONTROL OF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-13 16:04:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETTC KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY IAEA BE |
08BRUSSELS1733 | BELGIUM: EXPULSION OF DEA FROM BOLIVIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-13 16:59:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL SNAR BL BE |
08BRUSSELS1734 | PDAS RIES DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN, CONGO, RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary: Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Marcie Ries met on November 5 with Vincent Mertens de Vilmars, Director for International Relations at the Ministy of Defense of Belgium. Mertens is a close advisor of Minister of Defense Pieter De Crem and a former Ambassador to Russia from B [...] | 2008-11-13 17:38:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR BE AF CG GG RU UP |
08BRUSSELS1740 | EU OUTLINES TRANSATLANTIC PRIORITIES FOR PDAS RIES [...] (U) EU officials took advantage of the timing of EUR PDAS Marcie Ries's Nov. 4-6 visit to Brussels to outline Europe's priorities in working with the incoming Obama administration. Building on consensus reached by EU foreign ministers at the November 3 informal Gymnich meeting on transatlantic [...] | 2008-11-14 13:13:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN |
08BRUSSELS1741 | EU WILL RESUME TALKS WITH RUSSIA [...] (SBU) Summary. Per reftel instructions, USEU spoke to French presidency, Council Secretariat, and Commission contacts about how the EU will deal with Russia at the November 10 GAERC and at the November 13-14 EU-Russia summit. All contacts told us that the EU would resume talks with Russia on [...] | 2008-11-14 13:56:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD RU GG EUN |
08BRUSSELS1746 | CONGRESSMAN WEXLER'S MEETING WITH BELGIAN MFA [...] (C) Summary: On November 12, Congressman Robert Wexler, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Europe, met with Dirk Achtens, Director General for Bilateral Affairs of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Vincente Van Assche, Secretary to the Director General. B [...] | 2008-11-17 16:16:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BE AF IS RU GG UP |
08BRUSSELS1749 | BELGIUM AND THE CONGO PART TROIS: MFA CONTACTS [...] (C) Summary: PolEconCouns and Poloff joined MFA Congo Contacts for a wide ranging discussion on Belgium's latest efforts to end the crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Our contacts said Foreign Minister De Gucht would fly to New York November 25 and 26 to attempt to bolster the MO [...] | 2008-11-18 18:04:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG BE |
08BRUSSELS1766 | BELGIUM: OPPOSING UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH [...] (C) Poloff received feedback November 21 on reftel demarche from Belgian MFA UN Security Council interlocutor covering Middle East issues, Cristophe De Bassompierre. De Bassompierre cautioned the U.S. not to expect any significant change in Belgian or E.U. voting patterns on Israel-Palestine [...] | 2008-11-21 17:21:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA IS PA LE SY BE |
08BRUSSELS1772 | BELGIAN FOREIGN MINISTER DE GUCHT ENDURES TOUGH [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht (Open VLD) is living through one of the rockiest periods of his political life, but he is generally expected to survive and see it through to the June 2009 parliamentary elections. He is accused of passing inside information to his wife, who benefi [...] | 2008-11-21 17:49:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BE CG |
08BRUSSELS1773 | EU CONCERNED ABOUT SITUATION IN NICARAGUA BUT MAY [...] (C) PolOff delivered REF A demarche to the French EU Presidency on November 21, encouraging the EU to press for a recount of the disputed November 9 Nicaraguan municipal elections. French Latin America counselor Valerie Liang-Champrenault voiced the French EU Presidency's concern about the s [...] | 2008-11-21 18:06:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | XK UAID ETRD EUN |
08BRUSSELS1774 | A/S FRIED AND ROBERT COOPER DISCUSS KOSOVO, [...] (C)SUMMARY: In successive meetings at the European Union on November 20, EUR Assistant Secretary Dan Fried and Ambassador Kristen Silverberg obtained consent from the French Presidency and Robert Cooper of the EU Council Secretariat that the UNSYG Statement on Kosovo should include both the si [...] | 2008-11-24 11:19:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KK GG BK EUN |
08BRUSSELS1781 | EUR A/S FRIED AND AMBASSADOR ENGLISH MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) Summary: On the heels of the November 19 Peace Implementation Council (PIC) meeting in Brussels, A/S Dan Fried and U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) Charles English met successively with the following key BiH political leaders: Republika Srpska Prime Minister Milorad Dodik; [...] | 2008-11-25 13:29:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BK EUN |
08BRUSSELS1796 | EU SEEKS MORE INFORMATION ABOUT PAKISTAN DONORS [...] (C) Political Officer spoke with European Commission RELEX Head of Unit for Afghanistan and Pakistan David Tirr and Desk Officer for Pakistan Heino Marius on November 26 concerning reftel demarche. Tirr said that the Commission would like additional information before making any decisions regar [...] | 2008-11-26 18:02:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN IBRD IMC PK |
08BRUSSELS180 | VISIT OF S/WCI AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON TO BRUSSELS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson visited Brussels January 8 and 9 to discuss war crimes issues with EU and Belgian officials. Discussions focused on current operations of war crimes tribunals, judicial development programs in Rwanda, and the general fut [...] | 2008-02-05 09:13:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL EUM |
08BRUSSELS1806 | BELGIUM: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON AFGHAN NATIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-01 14:06:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | AF MARR MOPS NATO PREL BE |
08BRUSSELS1808 | EU'S EASTERN PARTNERSHIP HOPES TO RECOGNIZE [...] (SBU) Summary: According to EU officials and the Czech Permanent Representation, the European Commission will release the first week in December a report containing proposals for the Eastern Partnership program first proposed by Poland and Sweden in May 2008. The report will recommend signi [...] | 2008-12-01 16:32:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EU PREL |
08BRUSSELS1820 | BELGIUM PUSHES FOR AN EU BRIDGING FORCE FOR THE [...] (C) MFA Congo Desk told Poloff December 2 that FM De Gucht would attempt to gauge Allied interest in an EU bridging force for the Congo at today's NATO Ministerial. Belgium is looking to see if other partners are ready. Belgium wants to be part of a force but cannot take the lead. Should a f [...] | 2008-12-02 16:18:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CG BE |
08BRUSSELS1821 | BELGIUM WILLING TO JOIN CONSENSUS ON AMENDED NSG [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-02 16:22:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETTC KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY BE |
08BRUSSELS1823 | BELGIUM:TRABELSI EXTRADITION UPDATE [...] (C) The Belgian MOJ advised Post November 27 that if everything goes smoothly, the GOB may have a final decision on the extradition of Nizar Trabelsi's by the end of the summer. 2. (C) Summary of Case for internal use only: Lieve Pellens, Federal Prosecuting Office spokesperson, confirmed [...] | 2008-12-02 16:45:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER CJAN CVIS KCRM BE |
08BRUSSELS1824 | U.S.-EU TROIKA CONSULTATIONS ON DISARMAMENT AND [...] (C) Acting Assistant Secretary Patricia McNerney of the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN) led the U.S. delegation to the semi-annual U.S.-EU Troika consultations on disarmament and nonproliferation (CODUN/CONOP). The discussions covered a wide range of subjects in th [...] | 2008-12-02 18:36:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM KNNP EUN IR KN SY RS CH MY |
08BRUSSELS1826 | BELGIUM: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON HELSINKI OSCE [...] (U) Emboff delivered reftel points on the upcoming Helsinki OSCE Ministerial on December 1 to Mr. Thierry Vuylsteke, the Ministry of Foreign Affair's Director of its OSCE Department. 2. (C) Vuylsteke, who has followed OSCE issues since 2001 and will be part of Belgium's approximately 15 [...] | 2008-12-03 13:08:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PREL PHUM KDEM GG RU BE |
08BRUSSELS1828 | BELGIUM SIGNS CONVENTION ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS [...] (C) On December 2, Poloff delivered reftel information on the United States position on the Convention on Cluster Munitions to Werner Bauwens, Director of the MFA Office of Non-Proliferation and Export Controls. Bauwens said that Belgium will sign the CCM on December 3 in Oslo. According to [...] | 2008-12-04 14:12:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETTC KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY BE |
08BRUSSELS1858 | BELGIUM: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON ILLICIT DIAMOND [...] (U) Economic officer delivered reftel demarche in a meeting on December 5 to Mr. Henk Mahieu, General Counsellor for Economic Issues, Ms. Karla Basselier, attache for Kimberley Process Issues, and Ms. Annick de Smedt, attache for Zimbabwean affairs, all from the Belgian Ministry of Foreign A [...] | 2008-12-08 11:20:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ECON EFIN ASEC ZI |
08BRUSSELS1864 | BELGIUM:COUNTRY BY COUNTRY REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION [...] (C) Belgium maintains diplomatic relations with Cuba through its Embassy in Havana and the Cuban Embassy in Brussels. FM De Gucht has not considered Cuba a priority during his ministry. No high level visits have taken place since Louis Michel was Foreign Minister from 1999-2003. Belgium has [...] | 2008-12-10 16:24:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU BE |
08BRUSSELS1865 | POSSIBLE EU ELECTION MONITORING IN AFRICA FOR 2009 [...] (C) On December 1, European Commission official Stefano Gatto (protect) of DG RELEX shared the following list of African countries, in priority order, whose national elections the European Union is likely to observe during 2009. The EU observes elections in areas where the Organization for [...] | 2008-12-10 17:11:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EUN XA |
08BRUSSELS1875 | INL ASSISTANT SECRETARY DISCUSSES THREATENED [...] (C) INL Assistant Secretary David Johnson briefed European Commission Deputy Director-General (DDG) for Relations with Asia and Latin America Joao Aguiar Machado and Commission Bolivia Desk Officer Nicola Murray on the threat by Bolivian President Evo Morales to expel Drug Enforcement Administ [...] | 2008-12-12 14:29:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV PREL SNAR EUN BL |
08BRUSSELS1879 | DISCUSSIONS AT NOVEMBER 14 U.S.-EU TROIKA MEETING [...] (C) Discussions at the November 14 U.S.-European Union (EU) Troika meeting on Drug Issues confirmed U.S.-EU convergence on most drug issues. Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) Affairs David Johnson led the inter-agency U.S. Delegation as a sign [...] | 2008-12-12 15:30:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV PREL SNAR EUN |
08BRUSSELS1882 | BELGIUM UNDERSTANDS PROBLEM OF TECHNICAL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-12 16:11:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA SY TRGY BE |
08BRUSSELS1884 | BURMA: SANCTIONS IDEAS WELL RECEIVED; WILL DECIDE [...] (C) Summary: USEU Mission officers delivered points and non-paper on Burma sanctions (REF A)to Commission and Council interlocutors, as well as French, Czech, and UK External Relations (RELEX) experts. EUR PDAS Ries flagged the issue separately at the U.S.-EU Task Force meeting on December [...] | 2008-12-12 16:24:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETTC EAID EFIN PREL PGOV BM EUN |
08BRUSSELS1885 | BELGIAN MFA MORE REALISTIC THAN OPTIMISTIC ON [...] (C) According to MFA Congo Desk Officer Koen Adam, the Belgian government took note of the Rwanda - DRC statements from the December 4-5 Goma meeting. The GOB recognized several positive statements, and appreciated the goals to which the two countries committed. Belgium is realistic, however [...] | 2008-12-12 18:04:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CG RW BE |
08BRUSSELS1886 | AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL WITH BELGIAN FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Belgium's Foreign Minister is still seeking participation by other European countries in providing a bridging military force for Eastern Congo. He views Congo as a failed state with the potential to be come another Somalia and believes failed states will be the biggest challen [...] | 2008-12-14 07:21:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAIR BE XF |
08BRUSSELS1887 | BELGIAN FOREIGN MINISTER REMAINS OPTIMISTIC ON EU [...] (C) Summary: The Belgian MFA was optimistic the morning of December 12 that the EU would deploy an ESDP mission in Congo eventually, despite continued opposition from key member states. The MOD was less optimistic after French President Sarkozy's statement late afternoon that Europe cannot be [...] | 2008-12-15 09:34:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS PHUM CG BE |
08BRUSSELS1891 | BELGIUM: DEMARCHE REQUEST ON UNSC SOMALIA PIRACY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-15 14:44:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT SO BE |
08BRUSSELS1899 | EU PONDERS MILITARY OPTIONS FOR DR CONGO [...] (C//NF) Summary: During the week of December 8, the EU Council Secretariat prepared a list of options for an EU response to UN SG Ban Ki-Moon's request for an EU "bridging force" in the DRC. Foreign ministers discussed these options on December 11 at a dinner on the margins of the European C [...] | 2008-12-16 06:11:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CG XA MOPS EUN |
08BRUSSELS1922 | PM LETERME UNDER FIRE FOR ALLEGED INTERFERENCE [...] (U) Summary: Prime Minister Yves Leterme is facing allegations that he or his cabinet tried to pressure a Belgian appeals court to rule in favor of the government in a major case brought by angry Fortis Bank shareholders to stymie the bank's sale to Bank PariBas. In response to media critic [...] | 2008-12-18 15:50:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EFIN BE |
08BRUSSELS1929 | REQUEST FOR SECURITY SUPPORT FOR AFGHANISTAN [...] On December 17, Poloff delivered reftel demarche and non-paper seeking security support for 2009 Afghan elections to Vincent Mertens de Vilmars, Head of the Diplomatic Department at the Ministry of Defense and to Alain Hanssen, Deputy Director of the South Asia Department of the Ministry of F [...] | 2008-12-18 16:38:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF BE |
08BRUSSELS1930 | BELGIUM NOTIFIED OF FRIED-ANTONOV MEETING ON CFE [...] (C) On December 15, Poloff delivered reftel notification of the planned Fried-Antonov meeting in Geneva on December 17 to Francois De Kerchove, deputy director of the Department of Security Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. De Kerchove said that the news of the Fried-Antonov meeting [...] | 2008-12-18 17:48:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE PREF PARM NATO RS BE |
08BRUSSELS1933 | LETERME HANGS ON THROUGH "FORTISGATE" [...] (C) After December 18, a day of drama in the House of Representatives and in Yves Leterme's government, Leterme remains Prime Minister for the time being. Leterme's letter to the Minister of Justice detailing contacts with the husband of one of the judges in the Fortis case and with the "subs [...] | 2008-12-19 15:37:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EFIN BE |
08BRUSSELS1937 | EU LAUNCHES ANTI-PIRACY OPERATION DESPITE [...] (C//NF) Summary: The EU has launched its counter-piracy operation ATALANTA and has begun escorts off the coast of Somalia. USEU contacts suggest the force will comprise four to five ships on station throughout the year, plus three maritime patrol aircraft and supply ship support. While ten [...] | 2008-12-22 06:20:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER XA XW SO EUN |
08BRUSSELS1943 | LETERME'S LAST CRISIS: KING STALLS LETERME'S [...] (C) Summary: PM Yves Leterme offered his government's resignation to King Albert II December 19 after members of his Cabinet were implicated in attempting to influence judges. The King did not accept the resignation, and met with Flemish Christian Democrat (CD&V) Chairperson Marianne Thyssen [...] | 2008-12-22 16:00:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS AF CG BE |
08BRUSSELS1953 | WITH GOVERNMENT'S RESIGNATION, THE SEARCH FOR A [...] (C) Summary: The King accepted the Leterme government's resignation December 22. The government now goes into caretaker status until a new coalition is negotiated or new elections are held. The King has asked former PM Wilfried Martens to act as a go-between and look for options in forming a [...] | 2008-12-24 10:17:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR AF BE |
08BRUSSELS1959 | KING ASKS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE VAN ROMPUY TO FORM [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-29 10:35:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BE |
08BRUSSELS224 | DEPLOYMENT OF EU FORCE TO CHAD HANGS IN BALANCE [...] (C) Summary: France is fully committed to deploying the EU military force to Chad/CAR (EUFOR) and appears to have the backing of HiRep Solana, the Slovenian Presidency, and others, according to contacts at the EU and various member state PermReps. But Austria and Sweden are increasingly hesit [...] | 2008-02-08 18:16:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF ESDP CD EUN |
08BRUSSELS238 | DEMARCHE TO BELGIANS ON KOSOVO [...] (C) Embassy spoke February 11 with Thomas Antoine, the Belgian MFA's Director for the Balkans, regarding immediate recognition of Kosovo after it declares independence and participation in an International Steering Group (ISG) that will be established to support Kosovo's democratic developmen [...] | 2008-02-12 13:55:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL YI BE |
08BRUSSELS240 | DEMARCHE TO BELGIANS ON KOSOVO AND THE OSCE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-12 14:29:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EU OSCE PGOV PREL UNAUS UNMIK YI BE |
08BRUSSELS294 | EU: TRYING TO FORGE CONSENSUS ON EUROPEAN PATH [...] (C) According to EU and member state contacts, 26 (save Cyprus) member states likely will recognize Kosovo by the end of the year. The Romanian PSC Ambassador floated to the Charge a proposal that would have Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece simultaneously recognizing Kosovo independence before [...] | 2008-02-22 17:21:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID EUN KV |
08BRUSSELS306 | PIEBALGS UPBEAT ON EU ENERGY SECURITY [...] (U) Summary. EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs was surprisingly optimistic about Nabucco and European gas supply diversification in general during a February 22 meeting with Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Matthew Bryza and Special Envoy Gray. Piebalgs point [...] | 2008-02-27 11:41:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET ETRD EU |
08BRUSSELS314 | OMV ARGUES FOR ACCESS TO IRANIAN GAS FOR NABUCCO [...] (C) Summary. In a February 21 meeting with Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Matthew Bryza and Econ Officer, OMV CEO Wolfgang Ruttenstorfer argued that the Nabucco project is at a critical stage, with his most important concern being gas supplies. Ruttenstorfer la [...] | 2008-02-29 10:56:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET ETRD EU RS IR |
08BRUSSELS317 | DAS BRYZA AND EU OFFICIALS AGREE: PROGRESS ON [...] (C) EU officials and DAS Bryza agreed that the UN should take advantage of the opportunity a new Cypriot president offered to energize negotiations on Cyprus. EU accession negotiations on Turkey will continue its moderate pace under the Slovene and French presidencies, with two or even three [...] | 2008-02-29 13:35:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EUN CY TU |
08BRUSSELS356 | U.S.-EU TROIKA DISCUSSIONS ON EAST ASIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Glyn Davies led the U.S. side in the East Asia session of the U.S.-EU COASI Troika meetings on February 20. The EU side was led by Ambassador Janez Premoze, Director for Asia in the Slovenian MFA, [...] | 2008-03-07 14:21:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN CH KN KS BM XB |
08BRUSSELS378 | U.S.-EU TROIKA MEETING ON LATIN AMERICA [...] (C) SUMMARY. WHA PDAS Craig Kelly participated in the March 5 U.S.-EU troika meeting on Latin America in Brussels. PDAS Kelly updated participants on the Colombia/Ecuador situation and the EU delegation noted that Colombian VP Santos would be meeting with EU HiRep Solana the evening of March [...] | 2008-03-11 14:05:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV XK XL XM UEU |
08BRUSSELS381 | FEITH TO PSC: MAINTAIN EULEX DEPLOYMENT TO ALL OF [...] (C) ICR/EUSR Pieter Feith briefed Political and Security Committee (PSC) ambassadors March 11 on Kosovo. Feith stressed that UNMIK must do its job, particularly in northern Kosovo, in order to maintain conditions for deployment of EULEX. Feith asked for full PSC support for deploying EULEX [...] | 2008-03-11 16:40:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO EUN KV |
08BRUSSELS382 | U.S. COORDINATOR FOR COUNTER-NARCOTICS AND RULE OF [...] (C) U.S. Coordinator for Counter-Narcotics and Rule of Law in Afghanistan, Ambassador Thomas A. Schweich, briefed Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR),General Bantz J. Craddock March 6 on the drug situation in Afghanistan. Schweich noted increased correlation between insecurity and poppy [...] | 2008-03-11 18:11:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV PREL SNAR EU |
08BRUSSELS388 | NSC'S WILSON AND EU DISCUSS U.S.-EU SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: In a series of meetings with EU officials March 5 and 6, Damon Wilson, NSC Senior Director for European Affairs, said the upcoming U.S.-EU Summit should focus on global issues where the transatlantic partnership has led to tangible results. Kosovo independence, development and di [...] | 2008-03-14 14:13:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CVIS EUN |
08BRUSSELS39 | EU DEMARCHE RESPONSE ON SUDAN JOINT MILITARY UNITS [...] (SBU) Contacts at the European Commission and Council Secretariat were receptive in principle to requests to help SIPDIS Sudan establish military Joint Integrated Units (JIU),but said no internal EU discussions have yet taken place on the issue. Poloff delivered reftel points Jan. 10 to An [...] | 2008-01-10 15:04:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SU EUN |
08BRUSSELS395 | FOLLOW-UP ON INVITATION TO ISTANBUL PROSECUTOR'S [...] (SBU) Embassy LEGATT spoke with Belgian Federal Prosecutor Johan Delmulle March 12 about Belgian attendance at the roundtable for European prosecutors to be co-hosted by the Turkish Ministry of Justice and the Resident Legal Advisor in Ankara and originally scheduled for March (ref B). Delmu [...] | 2008-03-17 11:05:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL BE |
08BRUSSELS41 | PROSPECTS BLEAK FOR SERBIA SAA AT JANUARY GAERC [...] (SBU) During visit a visit to Brussels on January 8, Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic emphasized that signing a Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) with the EU during the January 28 GAERC and EU-Serbia troika meetings would give a boost to Tadic ahead of the second round of Serbi [...] | 2008-01-10 15:54:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EUN ICTY SR |
08BRUSSELS410 | DAS KRAMER AND AMB STEWART DISCUSS BELARUS WITH EU [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-18 17:55:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID ECON ENRG OSCE EUN BO XH |
08BRUSSELS411 | EU: COMMISSION TO DELAY MINSK OPENING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-19 11:37:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID ECON ENRG OSCE EUN BO XH |
08BRUSSELS425 | DEMARCHE ON REFERENDUM IN BURMA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-20 12:37:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM BM BE |
08BRUSSELS444 | YVES LETERME FORMS NEW BELGIAN GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Yves Leterme assumed office as Belgian Prime Minister March 22 amidst speculation about how long his government will last and how contentious will be the next wave of institutional reform talks. Leterme's Flemish nationalist election partner (NV.A) has given him until mid-July t [...] | 2008-03-25 16:57:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BE |
08BRUSSELS445 | EU RESPONDS TO DEMARCHE ON BURMA REFERENDUM, [...] (C) Summary: The Council Secretariat's Burma officer has said that the EU will continue its calls for minority group participation in Burma's political process and will reiterate its support for Gambari and the UN's Good Offices. Internally, the debate over the EU's common position on Burma h [...] | 2008-03-25 17:16:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EFIN EUN BM |
08BRUSSELS458 | BELARUS: EU TRENDING TOWARD ENGAGEMENT WITH REGIME [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-27 15:10:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON ETTC OSCE EUN BO XH |
08BRUSSELS467 | BELGIUM ARTICULATES ITS POSITIONS GOING INTO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a tour d'horizon on issues to be discussed at the Bucharest summit, Belgium's Political Director for Multilateral Affairs told PolCouns on March 27 that: (1) CFE must survive; Belgium (GOB) welcomed Acting U/S Fried's continued openness in dealing with Russia on its concerns [...] | 2008-03-28 16:31:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO MARR KFE RS GG MD BE |
08BRUSSELS494 | BELGIUM: COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR THE VISIT [...] COUNTRY CLEARANCE IS GRANTED FOR THE APRIL 9-11, 2008 VISIT TO BRUSSELS, BELGIUM OF JOHN P. WALTERS, DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY (ONDCP) AND DELEGATION, INCLUDING BRIAN BLAKE, ONDCP DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF; PATRICK M WARD, ONDCP ACTING DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR SUPPLY REDUC [...] | 2008-04-03 12:59:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | BE EUN OVIP PREL SNAR |
08BRUSSELS501 | DEMARCHE TO BELGIAN GOVERNMENT ON BELARUS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-04 12:58:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | BO PHUM PREL BE |
08BRUSSELS532 | BELGIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ASSIST IRAQI REFUGEES -- [...] (C) PolCouns delivered reftel points April 8 to Jan Meuleman, Attach, Directorate-General for Development Cooperation, Special Programs in the Belgian Ministry for Cooperation and Development. Meuleman thinks Belgium intends to again contribute money to UNHCR this year, but said budget disc [...] | 2008-04-09 05:24:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL EAID IZ SY BE |
08BRUSSELS535 | EU: NO LARGE INCREASE IN IRAQI REFUGEE ASSISTANCE [...] (C) Summary: EU officials told Ambassador James Foley, Senior Coordinator for Iraqi Refugee Issues, in meetings April 1-2 that the Commission is looking at only modest increases over 2007 for assistance to Iraqi refugees and IDPs in 2008. The EC,s reasons include obstacles to monitoring assis [...] | 2008-04-09 05:24:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL EUN |
08BRUSSELS54 | AFGHANISTAN: EU OFFICIALS SUPPORT ASHDOWN AND [...] (C) Summary: Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman and State Department Counselor Eliot Cohen met with EU Council Secretariat officials January 8 in Brussels to discuss Afghanistan. EU Director General for External Political and Military Affairs Robert Cooper told Edelman and Coh [...] | 2008-01-11 16:19:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | AF AID BE EU EUN IO PGOV PREL PTER SNAR NATO |
08BRUSSELS560 | TAKING STOCK OF EUROPEAN COMMISSION ASSISTANCE IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The dramatic increase in annual European Commission (EC) assistance from EUR 19 million per year (2002-2006) to EUR 50 million (2007-2010) underscores the EC's deepening commitment to development in Pakistan. Programs are implemented through a mix of project and sector support, i [...] | 2008-04-14 15:24:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID EUN PK |
08BRUSSELS579 | US-BELARUS TALKS IN BRUSSELS ON BILATERAL TENSIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-17 15:31:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CASC ODIP ETTC EUN BO XH |
08BRUSSELS580 | EU: PM MALIKI MEETS WITH EU LEADERS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki and his delegation met with European Union leaders in Brussels on Wednesday, April 16. Both European Commission President Barroso and Council HiRep Solana, in separate meetings, highlighted the need for: Iraqi national reconciliation, provincial electio [...] | 2008-04-17 15:31:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG EAID PGOV IZ EUN |
08BRUSSELS582 | BELGIUM CLARIFIES ITS ROLE IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the context of opposition calls reported in the media for Belgium to press NATO partners for a clear "exit strategy" from Afghanistan, DCM and PolCouns called on MFA Political Director for Bilateral Affairs Dirk Achten on April 9 to clarify Belgium's position. Achten said [...] | 2008-04-18 05:01:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS NATO EAID AF BE |
08BRUSSELS583 | EUROPEAN COMMISSION ASSISTANCE FOR IRAQ SET TO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-18 05:02:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL PGV IZ EUN |
08BRUSSELS610 | EU RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ARAB MAGHREB UNION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The EU considers the Maghreb an area of high priority due to its proximity, its historic ties to Member States, and the role of Maghreb immigrants in the EU. While the EU shares U.S. concerns on CT issues, its primary focus is promoting trade, development and human rights. In Janu [...] | 2008-04-23 05:17:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID AG LY MO MR TS EUN XI |
08BRUSSELS640 | EC ON INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT CONFERENCE ON [...] (C) Summary: The European Commission would like to coordinate with the United States in the lead-up to the June 12 International Support Conference on Afghanistan. Commission contacts agree (and have made this point to the French government) that the total pledge must surpass the $10.5 billion [...] | 2008-04-25 15:48:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AF EU EAID ECON EFIN EUN KDEM |
08BRUSSELS647 | BELGIAN MFA ON ZIMBABWE: AGREE ON SERIOUSNESS OF [...] (C) Acting P/E Counselor delivered the points in reftel to Guy Trouveroy, Director, African Affairs, at the Belgian Foreign Ministry. Trouveroy replied that Belgium "agrees on the seriousness of the situation" in Zimbabwe and of the need to do more. 2. (C) He said the demarche was timely [...] | 2008-04-28 15:02:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC ZI BE AU |
08BRUSSELS682 | DEMARCHE ON BURMA'S CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-06 16:06:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PGOV PHUM PREL BM BE |
08BRUSSELS684 | BELGIAN LEADERS TRY TO AVOID A GOVERNMENT CRISIS: [...] (C) SUMMARY: Belgium's political parties are again locked in intense negotiations over a plan to redistrict the Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde (B-H-V) province. The change, proposed and supported by the Flemish parties, would divide the multi-lingual region surrounding the capital into a large Flemi [...] | 2008-05-07 10:35:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BE |
08BRUSSELS698 | IN BELGIAN POLITICS, CARPE DIEM MEANS SEIZE THE [...] (SBU) Summary: After much concerted effort, the governing parties managed to avoid a political crisis over the redistricting of Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde (ref). The extended maneuvers over B-H-V have tarnished the image of PM Leterme and caused leaders of the major parties to lose face, but t [...] | 2008-05-09 13:50:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BE |
08BRUSSELS700 | U/S FRIED URGES EU TO SUPPORT KOSOVO, GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: Acting U/S Fried urged PSC Ambassadors May 7 to resist Russian pressure and continue integrating Kosovo and Georgia into the Euro-Atlantic sphere. He criticized UNMIK's slow transition of authority to EULEX in Kosovo, and emphasized that discussions between the Serbian government [...] | 2008-05-09 14:30:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETTC KNNP EFIN BO GG RS IR EUN |
08BRUSSELS709 | DEMARCHE TO BELGIUM:FRENCH UNSC RESOLUTION ON BURMA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-13 15:04:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM BE |
08BRUSSELS714 | EU DISCUSSES CONCERNS, FUTURE OF EULEX KOSOVO [...] (C) Summary. EU and member state officials discussed their operational and political concerns regarding the stalled UNMIK-EULEX transition with South Central European Affairs Office Director Chris Hoh on the margins of U.S.-EU Western Balkans consultations (to be reported septel). EU poli [...] | 2008-05-14 08:47:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNMIK EUN KV |
08BRUSSELS719 | BELGIAN MINISTERS VISIT DRC [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-14 14:47:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BE DRC CH |
08BRUSSELS729 | U.S.-EU NONPROLIFERATION AND DISARMAMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-16 09:59:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL EUN PTER KN IR IN CH |
08BRUSSELS761 | EU RE: LEBANON: BUILDING ON ARAB LEAGUE EFFORTS [...] (C) Post delivered reftel points to EU Council Desk Officer for Lebanon Colin Scicluna on Thursday, May 15. The EU strongly supports Arab League efforts. The May 15 statement issued by EU HiRep Javier Solana welcomed the Arab League initiative as a demonstration of solidarity with the Lebano [...] | 2008-05-20 15:31:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LE SY IR |
08BRUSSELS777 | PDAS VOLKER DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN, KOSOVO, [...] (C) Summary: PDAS Kurt Volker discussed Afghanistan, Kosovo, Georgia, and Iran at a lunch May 19 with Director General for Political and Military Affairs Robert Cooper and other EU officials. Cooper outlined EU priorities for the June 12 Support Conference for Afghanistan, including the need [...] | 2008-05-23 12:49:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PGOV NATO BO EUN GG IR MARR MOPS |
08BRUSSELS819 | BELGIUM DIPLOMATS IN DISARRAY OVER CONGO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Diplomatic relations between Belgium and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are at a low point as Congolese officials reacted negatively to recent public comments Belgian Foreign Minister Karel de Gucht made regarding poor governance, lack of transparency, corruption and [...] | 2008-05-30 15:24:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM DRC CH BE |
08BRUSSELS833 | SUBJECT: EU STRATEGIC ENERGY ISSUES: LOOKING [...] (C) Summary. In meetings with visiting EEB Deputy Assistant Secretary Douglas Hengel, EU officials said that they were committed to diversifying their sources and routes for gas into the EU but agreed that the EU,s professed aim to speak with one voice on external policy had not yet been a su [...] | 2008-06-03 05:38:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET EUN EINV |
08BRUSSELS881 | LUNCH SESSION OF TRANSATLANTIC ECONOMIC COUNCIL [...] (C) Summary: At the May 13 U.S.-EU Transatlantic Economic Council meeting in Brussels, principals held a private lunch where they discussed how to combat protectionism, responses to food crises, biotechnology and biofuels, and our respective approaches to Russia. On combating protectionism, p [...] | 2008-06-11 13:10:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN EAGR EIND EINV EFIN ENRG ETRD EUN RU |
08BRUSSELS897 | BELGIUM SUPPORTS AND WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points June 12 to Hendrik Van de Velde, MFA Middle East Peace Process office. Van de Velde said Belgium is very supportive of the efforts for the Berlin Conference goals and they intend to pledge 100,000 to 200,000 Euros at the conference. He said Belgium also s [...] | 2008-06-13 07:41:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG PBTS PHUM IS BE |
08BRUSSELS913 | EU DISCUSSES U.S. PARTICIPATION AND WAY FORWARD [...] (C) Summary: EU civilian operations planning officials are optimistic that EU-UNMIK cooperation will soon be back on track and EULEX deployment will begin in larger numbers. Although questions about legal jurisdiction will pose challenges, EU officials expressed confidence that the EU and U [...] | 2008-06-17 05:31:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PREL KJUS EUN UNMIK KV |
08BRUSSELS952 | EU WORKING ON A GAS TRANSIT DEAL WITH TURKEY [...] (C) Summary. After working level discussions with Turkey last week, the EU Commission is optimistic they may be nearing an agreement with Turkey on gas transit. Turkey appears willing to drop its hold-up tactics, allow direct contracting between gas consumers and gas suppliers, will require [...] | 2008-06-24 07:45:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET EU |
08BRUSSELS962 | DIRECTOR WALTERS DISCUSSES DRUG FLOWS AND [...] (C) During his recent visit to Brussels, the Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP),John Walters, discussed a wide range of drug issues with European Union (EU) counterparts and media. He briefed EU officials and journalists on U.S. domestic counter-drug e [...] | 2008-06-25 12:58:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP KCRM PREL SNAR PTER EUM BE CO MX |
08BRUSSELS991 | ENCOURAGING SUPPORT FOR UN 1267 SANCTIONS AND [...] (C) Charge delivered the requested points to Wilm Geurts of the MFA's UN Directorate on the Security Council. Geurts said that Belgium is very supportive and fully committed. The challenge is to get 1735 fully implemented by member states. 2. (C) Belgium is satisfied with UNSCR 1735 al [...] | 2008-06-30 13:53:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC AG BE |
08BRUSSELS997 | EULEX KOSOVO POLICE STAFFING GAPS AND TRANSITION [...] (C) Summary: EU officials described for member and third state contributors current EULEX shortfalls in specialized police capabilities including sniper and SWAT teams, K9 units and Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) units at a June 30 workshop in Brussels. Emphasizing that it had been the m [...] | 2008-07-01 10:26:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO EUN UNMIK KV |
08BUCHAREST100 | ROMANIA ON BOARD WITH LEBANON DEMARCHE; ON SYRIA [...] (C) POLOFF delivered ref b demarche (and note verbale) on February 6 to MFA Director for Middle East and Africa Mihail Dobre. Dobre said Romania was "on board" with the U.S. points in support of Lebanon. He added that although it was too early to give a figure for Romania's financial support [...] | 2008-02-07 14:40:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EFIN EINV LE SY RO |
08BUCHAREST1009 | (C) MFA SECRETARY OF STATE BUGA -- SOMETHING IN 24 [...] (C) Romania,s MFA Secretary of State Iulian Buga (accompanied by Director General Legal Affairs Cosmin Dinescu) asked for an urgent meeting today with Charg to discuss the critical time constraints for permitting Romania to maintain its troops in Iraq. Buga noted that National Security Adviso [...] | 2008-12-23 15:49:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS IZ RO UK AS EN ES |
08BUCHAREST112 | ROMANIA CONSIDERS ENACTING THE SAFEGUARD CLAUSE ON [...] (C) Prime Minister Calin-Popescu Tariceanu has asked Minister of the Environment Attila Korodi to take preliminary steps toward enacting a provisional safeguard clause to ban planting of MON 810 Bt corn, according to local agricultural biotechnology industry representatives. They speculate tha [...] | 2008-02-11 15:55:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON ETRD KPAO TBIO RO |
08BUCHAREST117 | BLAND JUSTICE: JUDICIAL INSIDERS DECRY WEAK EC [...] (C) Summary: A recent European Commission interim report on judicial reform in Romania provoked disappointment in many judicial circles, with pro-reform activists hoping for a sharper rebuke of recent backsliding. Based on comments from many local contacts, we have prepared a "parallel report" [...] | 2008-02-13 13:03:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN KCOR KJUS PGOV PREL RO |
08BUCHAREST120 | CLUSTER MUNITIONS: ROMANIA NOT ATTENDING OSLO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-15 10:44:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PARM PREL NATO UN RO |
08BUCHAREST140 | ROMANIA: ROMPETROL'S DINU PATRICIU ON ENERGY IN [...] (C) In a meeting with econoffs on February 6, Dinu Patriciu, Romania's richest man and CEO of the Rompetrol oil company, discussed his views on regional energy security and the announced deal between Gazprom and Serbia to sell a 51% stake in NIS, the Serbian state-owned oil company. According [...] | 2008-02-21 11:28:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EINV PGOV RO |
08BUCHAREST141 | ROMANIA: KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) EMBOFF delivered ref. a demarche on February 20 to MFA State Secretary for Europe Raduta Matache; FM Cioroianu was traveling in Israel at the time. Matache noted that Romania was not going to recognize Kosovo's independence, referring to public comments and commitments made by President Ba [...] | 2008-02-21 15:08:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU KV RO |
08BUCHAREST163 | ROMANIA WILL ALLOW MALDIVES DRAFT RESOLUTION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-29 15:52:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | KGHG MV PGOV PHUM PREL UNHRC |
08BUCHAREST181 | ISAF CONTRIBUTION REQUEST DELIVERED [...] (C) On February 28, PolOffs and DATT met with Daniel Ionita, Director of the NATO Department at the MFA to deliver reftel request for additional ISAF contributions. Ionita reassured EmbOffs that Romania remained committed to the mission in Afghanistan. He expected that both the quantity and [...] | 2008-03-07 16:08:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF RO |
08BUCHAREST216 | ROMANIA STEADFAST ON ENERGY SECURITY, BUT WARY OF BEING ISOLATED [...] (C) With concerns growing that it is being out-maneuvered, the Government of Romania (GOR) has stepped up its energy diplomacy over recent weeks in an effort to parry perceived advances for Russia's "South Stream" natural gas pipeline project. While neighboring countries rushed to conclude agreemen [...] | 2008-03-17 05:36:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EINV ECON PREL PGOV RO |
08BUCHAREST237 | FORD RETURNS TO ROMANIA AFTER 60 YEARS [...] (U) SUMMARY. Ford Motor Company and the Government of Romania formally completed Ford's takeover of the Automobile Craiova autoplant at a ceremony on March 21 involving Prime Minister Calin Popescu-Tariceanu and ranking Ford Europe officials, along with President Traian Basescu and the Ambass [...] | 2008-03-24 16:04:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ECON PGOV PREL RO |
08BUCHAREST250 | ROMANIAN TIMELINE FOR IRAQ COALITION PARTICIPATION [...] (C) POLMILOFF met with MFA Director General for Global Affairs Petru Dumitru on March 27, along with MFA Middle East Director Dobre and three MOD representatives. Dumitru had requested the meeting in order to discuss Romania's legislative timeline for continued legal authority for Romanian mi [...] | 2008-03-28 14:11:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS IZ RO |
08BUCHAREST253 | NATO SUMMIT 2008: ROMANIA CONCURS ON U.S. AIR [...] (C) Mission received at 22:40, March 31, the following Note Verbale registering the GOR's concurrence to reftel diplomatic note regarding U.S. Air Force support for the period of the NATO Summit in Bucharest. 2. (C) Begin Text: No. C1-1/1173 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania [...] | 2008-04-01 06:48:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIA MCAP NATO PREL RO |
08BUCHAREST260 | POSITIVE RESPONSE TO DIPNOTE ON TRANSITING US [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-03 08:34:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIA MCAP NATO PREL HR HU RO |
08BUCHAREST293 | EXPERIENCED CAREER DIPLOMAT CHOSEN AS NEW ROMANIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Just three days after the abrupt resignation of Foreign Minister Adrian Cioroianu, veteran career diplomat Lazar Comanescu was sworn in as the new Foreign Minister at an April 14 ceremony attended by President Basescu and PM Tariceanu. Comanescu is an experienced professional d [...] | 2008-04-15 14:54:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RO |
08BUCHAREST311 | ROMANIA: FRUSTRATION WITH EU PARTNERS ON ENERGY [...] (C) Summary. Visiting DAS Matthew Bryza's April 3 meeting with Prime Minister Tariceanu's Chief of Staff, Ambassador Mihnea Constantinescu, and Romanian Ambassador to the U.S., Adrian Vierita, exposed Romania's frustration with the EU's reluctance to think strategically about energy security. [...] | 2008-04-18 14:59:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EINV PGOV PREL RO |
08BUCHAREST315 | ETHNIC HUNGARIAN PARTIES FACE NEW ELECTION CHALLENGES [...] (C) Summary: Ethnic Hungarian political contacts predicted that the UDMR and the rival Magyar Civic Party (PCM) would not be able to reach an accommodation before the registration deadline for candidates in the upcoming June 1 local elections. They predicted that both sides saw the electionas a bel [...] | 2008-04-22 06:17:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RO |
08BUCHAREST325 | AMBASSADOR MEETS NEW JUSTICE MINISTER PREDIOU -- [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met on April 22 with new Justice Minister Predoiu, to discuss bilateral cooperation on arrests and extraditions, concerns about maintaining strong IPR enforcement, and alarm over the final remaining bad amendment to the Romanian criminal and penal code that would e [...] | 2008-04-24 10:30:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD CJAN RO |
08BUCHAREST337 | AMBASSADOR MEETS NEW FOREIGN MINISTER COMANESCU: A [...] (C) Summary: During the Ambassador's April 25 courtesy call on newly-appointed Romanian Foreign Minister Lazar Comanescu, the Minister underscored his interest in developing a close, personal relationship with the Ambassador as well as his intent to put special emphasis on building a strong [...] | 2008-04-29 15:02:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CVIS RO |
08BUCHAREST35 | A VIEW FROM BUCHAREST: ROMANIA AND MOLDOVA [...] (C) Summary: Calling Moldova a "geopolitical riddle," MFA Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia Amb. Gheorghe Magheru told Emboffs on January 10 that Romania is taking the long view in its relationship with its Moldovan neighbors. Despite a partly successful effort in 2007 by Romania's [...] | 2008-01-16 16:07:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL RO MO |
08BUCHAREST357 | CABINET MEMBER TRIES HIS LUCK IN LOCAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Education Cristian Adomnitei announced April 21 he would take leave from the ministry to commit himself fully to the campaign for the mayor of Iasi, one of the more important Romanian cities. In a discussion with PolOffs on April 22, Adomnitei unveiled the backdoor man [...] | 2008-05-07 14:56:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV RO |
08BUCHAREST371 | RFG ON TIMELINE FOR IRAQ COALITION POST-CHAPTER [...] (C) This is a request for guidance; see para 4. 2. (C) Summary: As Romania moves closer to the Supreme Council for National Defense (CSAT) meeting at the end of June that will make the recommendations to Parliament for the level of Romania's forces deployed abroad in 2009, the MFA and MOD [...] | 2008-05-15 13:45:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS IZ RO |
08BUCHAREST422 | ROMANIA: LEADERS TELL FORMER SECRETARY ALBRIGHT [...] (C) Summary: Romania wants continuing U.S. commitment to the bilateral partnership and stability in U.S. policy toward Eastern Europe and the Black Sea region following U.S. elections this fall, leaders told visiting former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on May 22. President Traian Ba [...] | 2008-05-30 14:33:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EINV ENRG MARR RO |
08BUCHAREST431 | ROMANIA: STATE COUNSELOR BRIEFS ON ENERGY SECURITY [...] (C) Summary. In a May 19 meeting with EconOff, State Counselor to the Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Constantin Ciupagea shared the Romanian Government's current thinking on LNG, pipelines, and the proposal for a consolidated state energy company. Ciupagea reiterated Romania's support f [...] | 2008-06-02 09:00:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENIV ENRG PGOV PREL RO |
08BUCHAREST435 | ROMANIA: U.S.-EU SUMMIT DECLARATION'S FOCUS ON [...] (C) POLOFF delivered Reftel points on May 30 to MFA Director General for European Affairs Stefan Tinca and Director for U.S. and Canada Eugen Mihut. Tinca said that the next MFA coordination meeting would be held June 3, and he did not see any problems with supporting the U.S. on its Latin Am [...] | 2008-06-02 14:25:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PREL PHUM CU RO |
08BUCHAREST450 | ROMANIA: TURKISH AMBASSADOR ON LNG AND NABUCCO [...] (C) Summary. In a June 2 meeting with the Ambassador, Turkish Ambassador to Romania Ayse Sinrilioglu said that LNG transit through the Bosporus straits to service a proposed LNG plant in Constanta would be viewed negatively by the Turkish Government. She urged the U.S. to focus instead on l [...] | 2008-06-05 09:23:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENIV ENRG PGOV PREL RO TU |
08BUCHAREST471 | ROMANIA ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL AND THE U.S. [...] (C) POLOFF delivered reftel points on June 10 to MFA Director for Human Rights Razvan Rotundu. Rotundu was well aware from reporting by Romania's representatives in Geneva of the U.S. decision to cease its observer status, and said that he was sympathetic with the U.S. points. He pointed out [...] | 2008-06-12 13:07:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL RO |
08BUCHAREST475 | ROMANIA ON BERLIN CONFERENCE IN SUPPORT OF [...] (C) POLOFF delivered reftel demarche on June 13 to MFA Director General for Political Affairs Stefan Tinca. Tinca reported that Foreign Minister Comanescu would be attending the Berlin Conference. However, he added that Romania would be more focused on identifying possible project areas among [...] | 2008-06-13 13:49:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG PBTS PHUM IS EUN RO |
08BUCHAREST513 | ROMANIA: PROFESSIONALS AND POLITICIANS DIFFER ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-23 13:08:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV RO SENV |
08BUCHAREST52 | DEFENSE MINISTER: A "CHANGE OF FOCUS" FOR ROMANIA [...] (U) Defense Minister (and acting Justice Minister) Teodor Melescanu on January 18, predicted that Romania would begin this year "the process of disengagement from the Iraqi theater." Romania, he said, would use the period after the April NATO Summit to begin a consultation process with the "in [...] | 2008-01-22 14:11:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MARR IZ RO |
08BUCHAREST561 | ROMANIA AND MOLDOVA: WARY NEIGHBORS, HESITANT [...] (C) SUMMARY: GOR interlocutors, including President Basescu, have made clear that prospects for concluding a border regime treaty between Romania and Moldova prior to parliamentary elections and the selection of a new Moldovan president are very low, even if there have been some limited posit [...] | 2008-07-11 14:22:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | MD PBTS PGOV PREL RO |
08BUCHAREST564 | ROMANIA: LNG IN CONSTANTA IMPORTANT, BUT OK TO GO [...] (SBU) Summary. EconOff meet recently with Viorel Palasca, State Secretary at the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF),and then accompanied visiting USTDA country manager for Romania Jamie Merriman to a follow-up meeting with working-level staff from the MEF, Romgaz, and the Ministry of For [...] | 2008-07-14 07:09:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV RO |
08BUCHAREST57 | SECOND SURVEY OF IRAQ DEPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS: [...] (C) Emboffs raised Ref. A points with newly-installed MFA Director for Middle East and Africa, Mihail Dobre, who was accompanied by the (also) new Iraqi desk officer. Dobre offered an initial response--with appropriate caveats--regarding the political situation (Romania is in an extensive ele [...] | 2008-01-24 12:48:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS IZ RO |
08BUCHAREST576 | ROMANIA: UNCHANGED SUPPORT FOR THE EXPANDED NATO [...] (C) Though the GOR fully appreciates the issues raised in reftel demarche and supports the NATO Training Mission-Iraq (NTM-I) program objectives, there are no plans to increase Romanian personnel committed to NTM-I, according to MFA NATO Director Ana Tinca. Tinca also noted that the current nu [...] | 2008-07-21 11:55:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO IZ RO |
08BUCHAREST583 | ROMANIA AGREES: NEED CONCRETE ACTIONS FROM SARG [...] (C) Summary: MFA Middle East Director Dobre said that Romania's policy towards Syria is based on the expectation for concrete actions and accomplishments before political concessions can be offered. End Summary. 2. (C) POLOFF delivered reftel demarche on July 24, to MFA Director for Middl [...] | 2008-07-24 15:49:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SY LE RO |
08BUCHAREST633 | NOT HUNGRY: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR DISCUSSES RECENT [...] (C) Summary: Presidential Advisor Chiritoiu acknowledged shortcomings in the PD-L's recent election campaign, including overconfidence and running a candidate who evinced insufficient enthusiasm in running for the Bucharest Mayoral post. He denied rumors of a PD-L rapprochment with the PNL, n [...] | 2008-08-08 13:27:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RO |
08BUCHAREST634 | ROMANIA ON RC-SOUTH CIVILIAN-MILITARY PLANNING AND [...] (C) POLMILOFF delivered reftel demarche on August 8, to MFA acting-Director for Security Policy Daniel Ionita. Ionita thanked the U.S. for the proposal, noted that Romania strongly supports the plan for developing an RC-South Civil-Military Planning and Coordination Cell (CMPCC),consistent wi [...] | 2008-08-08 14:35:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS AF RO |
08BUCHAREST639 | ROMANIA STATEMENT; NAC POINT DELIVERED [...] (U) The Supreme Council for National Defense (CSAT) met on August 9 to review Romania's position on the events occurring in Georgia. President Basescu presided over the discussion that released the following statement: "The evolution of the frozen conflicts in the Caucasus and Black Sea Bas [...] | 2008-08-11 14:04:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PARM KCFE RU GG RO |
08BUCHAREST67 | ANOTHER ZERO-SUM YEAR: SENIOR PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR [...] (C) Summary: A senior Basescu advisor said that the President will not compromise on the appointment of the next Justice Minister, and would continue to hold out for a nonpolitical candidate. He justified the hardball tactics that the Presidency had deployed against Justice Minister nominee N [...] | 2008-01-25 17:06:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RO |
08BUCHAREST687 | BASESCU TELLS SEN. LUGAR ROMANIA FACING HARD [...] (C) President Traian Basescu told Senator Richard Lugar on August 27 that he fears that Russian recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, coming in the wake of U.S./European recognition of Kosovo, has begun a process which threatens to unravel the existing international legal architecture and [...] | 2008-08-29 08:26:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG ECON MD GG RS RO |
08BUCHAREST707 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE - ROMANIA CONCERNED WITH RUSSIAN [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel talking points and non-paper on Georgia to Daniel Ionita, Director of NATO/Security Affairs at Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on September 4, 2008. 2. (C) Ionita emphasized the need for a unified EU approach to dealing with Russia in the region. He said th [...] | 2008-09-05 11:55:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV |
08BUCHAREST727 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: GAERC TALKING POINTS AND [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel talking points and non-paper on September 10 to Daniel Ionita, Director for Security Policy, and Cosmin Onisii, Director of the U.S. and Canada Division, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania. 2. (C) Commenting on the September 5-6 Foreign Ministers' Mee [...] | 2008-09-12 13:42:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV |
08BUCHAREST754 | ROMANIA: NABUCCO IS BEST, LNG IS GOOD, BUT SOUTH [...] (C) Summary. Visiting U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) Director Larry Walther and Director for European and Eurasian Affairs Dan Stein heard a strong message of Romanian support for the Nabucco pipeline project in separate meetings at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Ministr [...] | 2008-09-23 14:11:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PGOV PREL RO |
08BUCHAREST771 | ROMANIA: DOMESTIC TERRORISM DESIGNATIONS DIFFICULT [...] (C) EconOff met on September 23rd with Elena Paris, Unit Chief in the Office for the Implementation of International Sanctions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),to deliver reftel demarche regarding a U.S. Domestic Designation under E.O. 13438. Paris explained that the Government of Ro [...] | 2008-10-01 12:15:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC PTER PREL PGOV KTFN RO |
08BUCHAREST789 | ROMANIA: PUBLIC SECTOR WAGE BATTLE THREATENS TO [...] (SBU) Summary. Last week's parliamentary vote to increase national teacher salaries by an eye-popping 50 percent has thrust the Government of Romania (GOR) into a fierce wrestling match with labor unions less than two months before November 30 elections. Prime Minister Tariceanu's governmen [...] | 2008-10-08 13:45:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV RO |
08BUCHAREST804 | ROMANIA: "TIME IS RUNNING OUT ON LEGAL FRAMEWORK [...] (C) At the end of an October 16 meeting with POLMILOFF, MFA Director for Strategic Affairs Daniel Ionita said that he needed to convey quietly his concern that time was running out on a legal framework for Romania to maintain its troops in Iraq. Ionita clarified that this was not/not an issue [...] | 2008-10-17 14:29:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIA MARR PGOV PREL SOFA RO |
08BUCHAREST832 | PRESIDENT BASESCU VISITS DAMASCUS TO PROMOTE [...] (SBU) POLOFF met with MFA Middle East Director Mihai Dobre on October 23 to obtain a readout from President Basescu's two-day trip to Syria (10/20-21). Dobre noted that Basescu was invited by President Bashar al-Assad to begin the process of renewing Romanian-Syrian commercial ties that had [...] | 2008-10-28 13:57:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY XF RO |
08BUCHAREST838 | ROMANIA: TEACHER WAGE HIKE DELAYED, BUT POLITICAL BATTLE CONTINUES AS MARKET ANALYSTS FRET [...] (SBU) The Government of Prime Minister Calin-Popescu Tariceanu threw down the gauntlet with public sector unions on October 28 by issuing an emergency ordinance that postpones implementation until April 1, 2009 of the new law granting teachers a 50 percent salary increase (reftel). The ordinance wa [...] | 2008-10-30 15:37:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV RO |
08BUCHAREST851 | JEWISH CEMETERY DESECRATION: A PROFESSIONAL JOB? [...] (SBU) On October 22, vandals destroyed 131 graves in Bucharest's main Jewish cemetery. The desecration was a brazen and systematic attack targeting the most valuable and elaborate tombstones in the graveyard, with damages estimated at one million dollars. The Romanian Prime Minister and Minist [...] | 2008-10-31 15:35:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV RO |
08BUCHAREST857 | PD-L SECRETARY GENERAL BLAGA ON ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: PD-L Secretary General Blaga said that recent internal polls suggest his party will win 38 percent of votes in the upcoming parliamentary elections, with the rival PSD and PNL taking 32 and 15 percent, respectively. Blaga provided a detailed overview of election dynamics and argued [...] | 2008-11-06 15:17:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RO |
08BUCHAREST867 | ROMANIA: DEMARCHE ON FATF STATEMENTS AND IRAN [...] (SBU) EconCouns delivered reftel demarche on Financial Action Task Force (FATF) statements on Iran to Cristina Mezdrea and Laura Gradinaru of the Office for Implementation of International Sanctions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on November 3, and subsequently to Adrian Cosmescu, D [...] | 2008-11-10 14:51:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL EFIN KNNP RO |
08BUCHAREST88 | LNG TERMINAL AN APPEALING PROSPECT AS ROMANIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. A team of U.S. investors led by ETG International (www.etgint.com),a natural gas transport company and UGI (www.ugicorp.com),a natural gas marketing and distribution company, hope to construct an LPG and LNG terminal at the port of Constanta on Romania's Black Sea Coast. Proje [...] | 2008-02-01 15:41:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EINV EFIN PREL RO |
08BUCHAREST900 | MOD STATE SECRETARY: IGNORE THE CAMPAIGN RHETORIC, [...] (U) This is an action message, see Para 4. 2. (C) MOD State Secretary Dobritoiu invited the DCM (accompanied by DATT, ODC and Polcouns) for a meeting November 18. His message was simple: "We're all grownups here, please don't get too excited about some of the electoral rhetoric (and media [...] | 2008-11-18 15:45:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR IZ RO |
08BUCHAREST906 | PNL, PSD LEGISLATORS: BASESCU'S GOT THE MOJO IN [...] (C) Summary: In separate conversations, two prominent legislators-one PSD, the other PNL-noted signs of an incipient PSD stampede to form a post-election coalition with Basescu's PD-L. They agree that the PSD cannot stay out of office for another four years and has to join the next government at al [...] | 2008-11-20 14:48:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RO |
08BUCHAREST920 | ROMANIA'S ECONOMY SET FOR A LANDING, BUT HOW HARD? [...] (C) The forward momentum in Romania's red-hot economy is already slowing and will definitely hit the brakes in 2009, government officials and outside analysts told visiting U.S. Treasury representatives last week. Still, while Romania can expect sharply lower growth due to the global downturn, the [...] | 2008-11-25 15:48:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EIND ETRD PGOV PREL RO |
08BUCHAREST927 | AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prior to being awarded the highest honor Romania bestows on civilians, the Star of Romania Grand Cross on November 25, 2008, the Ambassador and President Basescu met for 45-minutes to discuss procurement of F-16s, development of the Constanta port for commercial as well as naval [...] | 2008-11-26 10:01:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR SOCI RO |
08BUCHAREST931 | ELECTION-TIME ANGER, ANGST IN HUNGARIAN-MAJORITY [...] (C) During a recent visit to ethnic Hungarian areas in Transylvania, UDMR leaders said they would join a new government no matter which party won the elections. However, they admitted the PD-L was not their first choice as a coalition partner due to conflicts over the issue of Hungarian autono [...] | 2008-11-26 15:18:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV RO |
08BUCHAREST942 | ROMANIAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS: THE MORNING [...] (SBU) The Central Election Bureau (BEC) has yet to release the final official results from the November 30 parliamentary elections pending formal receipt of the official results from four counties. However, the BEC on December 2 released a "final but still unofficial" set of results (which inc [...] | 2008-12-02 15:47:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RO |
08BUCHAREST951 | ROMANIA ON KOSOVO RECOGNITION [...] (C) POLOFF delivered reftel demarche on 5 December to MFA Director General for Political Affairs Stefan Tinca. The talking points, including a request for Romania to recognize an independent Kosovo, elicited the following reaction: "What has changed? The grueling exercise of compromising on [...] | 2008-12-05 14:52:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KV RO |
08BUCHAREST961 | ROMANIA: BURGEONING BUDGETARY BLUES [...] (SBU) As negotiations among the political parties over the shape of a new coalition government enter their second week, the economic news in Romania is a study in contrasts. Eurostat announced on December 5 that Romanian GDP growth reached 9.1 percent in the third quarter (July-September),th [...] | 2008-12-09 13:51:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV PGOV RO |
08BUCHAREST964 | ROMANIA: DEMARCHE RESPONSE ON CUBA LIBERTAD ACT [...] (C) In response to questions in reftel, the Government of Romania (GOR) has worked to promote democracy and human rights in Cuba and has only a limited trading relationship with the island. Relations between the two countries are complicated by an outstanding trade dispute, in which the GOR b [...] | 2008-12-10 06:49:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU RO |
08BUCHAREST965 | ROMANIA: SUPPORTS US IAEA EFFORTS WITH REGARD TO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-10 06:58:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA SY TRGY RO |
08BUCHAREST97 | CONSTITUTIONAL COURT DECLARES LUSTRATION LAW [...] (C) Summary. The process of lustrating communist-era collaborators received an unexpected blow January 31 when the Constitutional Court ruled that the law establishing the National Council for the Study of Securitate Archives (CNSAS) is unconstitutional. The CNSAS had been a controversial body [...] | 2008-02-05 15:29:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM RO |
08BUCHAREST971 | STAMPEDING INTO COALITION, PERHAPS INTO A TRAP [...] (C) Summary: PSD Deputy Georgian Pop confirmed that the PSD would support Teodor Stolojan as the next Prime Minister (Note: Basescu just made this selection public in an afternoon broadcast),but said that two key remaining sticking points were the PSD's insistence on excluding the UDMR from t [...] | 2008-12-10 15:15:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG RO |
08BUCHAREST973 | PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR ON NEW GOVERNING COALITION: [...] (C) Summary: Senior Presidential Advisor Sebastian Lazaroiu confimed that President Basescu had accelerated the formation of a new cabinet to avoid creating a sense of political drift that might have resulted if no new government were in place during the extended holidays. He was ambivalent a [...] | 2008-12-11 12:16:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RO |
08BUCHAREST986 | IRAQI CONTINUED PRESENCE LEGISLATION IS [...] (C) In a blunt conservation with POLMILOFF, MFA Director General Anca Mantulescu on 12/17 expressed extreme frustration with the lack of support from the U.S. regarding helping Romania to meet conditions that would continue its force presence in Iraq. When POLMILOFF asked whether the MFA had [...] | 2008-12-17 12:23:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS IZ RO ES AS EN UK |
08BUCHAREST998 | MOD ASKS IF THE PROPOSED IRAQI EOL STILL MAKES [...] (C) MOD Secretary of State (Deputy Defense Minister) Corneliu Dobritoiu met with U.S. and UK Embassy officers on 12/19 to raise in more depth concerns with the state of play regarding the continued presence of Romanian troops in Iraq. The meeting with the U.S. (Charge, POLMIL, ARMATT, and ODC [...] | 2008-12-19 16:01:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL PGOV RO IZ |
08BUDAPEST1000 | EAVESDROPPING; CONFIDENCE DROPPING: DOMESTIC [...] (SBU) Although largely eclipsed by the recent shocks to the stock and bond markets (septel),Hungary's domestic espionage scandal continues to expand in scope and could further complicate economic triage efforts. 2. (C) Although criminal charges against the suspect firm, UD Zrt, reportedl [...] | 2008-10-14 15:13:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON HU |
08BUDAPEST1005 | THE UPSIDE OF MELTDOWN: POLITICAL OPPORTUNITY AND [...] (C) As Hungary's markets continue their rough ride (septel),Prime Minister Gyurcsany has seized on this weekend's "National Summit Meeting" as a means to address both Hungary's immediate economic challenges as well as his own long list of political problems. Designed to bring together Hunga [...] | 2008-10-17 09:01:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EFIN HU |
08BUDAPEST1006 | THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS HITS HUNGARY [...] (SBU) Following years of high budget deficits and other economic policy mistakes, together with a high reliance on foreign currency-denominated loans, Hungary finds itself particularly vulnerable to the secondary effects of the financial crisis - the increasing cost and drying up of credit, lo [...] | 2008-10-17 09:04:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL HU |
08BUDAPEST1058 | SPECIAL ENVOY GRAY TALKS PIPELINES, CLIMATE POLICY [...] (C) SUMMARY: During his two-day trip to Budapest to take part in an energy conference, Special Envoy Gray held a series of meetings with regional energy officials and experts. These conversations revealed that despite recent Russian diplomatic and financial setbacks, Gazprom and its partner [...] | 2008-11-06 12:49:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PGOV SENV KGHG HU |
08BUDAPEST1059 | THE WOLF FROM THE DOOR...AND THE ELEPHANT IN THE [...] (C) Summary. With the immediate crisis seemingly averted and with discussions underway with the IMF, EU, and the World Bank on the details of the international stabilization package, the economic debate in Hungary is beginning to shift toward a closer examination of the steps the government is [...] | 2008-11-06 13:38:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL HU |
08BUDAPEST107 | PM'S FOREIGN POLICY ADVISOR ON KOSOVO, AZERBAIJAN [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Gyurcsany's Foreign and Security Policy Advisor, Ambassador Karoly Banai, updated Ambassador Foley on Hungary's policy re Kosovo and Azerbaijan in a meeting January 31. KOSOVO: MAKING IT CLEAR TO MOSCOW 2. (C) Banai noted that PM Gyurcsany had called in the Russian [...] | 2008-01-31 16:15:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL RU AZ ECON ENRG HU |
08BUDAPEST1078 | HUNGARIAN VIEWS ON NOVEMBER 10-11 FOREIGN [...] (U) MFA EU External Relations and Crisis Situations Section Head Andras Dekany provided the following comments to PolOff on November 7 for the GAERC meeting scheduled for November 10-11. 2. (C) Russia: The main question is: has Russia miscalculated its strategy on Georgia? There are sig [...] | 2008-11-10 12:46:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN RU GG AF HU |
08BUDAPEST1082 | NRC CHAIRMAN MEETING WITH HUNGARIAN NUCLEAR ENERGY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chairman Dale Klein met with representatives of the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority (HAEA),addressed the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and visited Hungary's new radioactive waste facility from September 22-25, 2008. Chairman Klein emphasized [...] | 2008-11-12 05:59:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETTC TRGY KNNP IAEA KTIA CVIS HU |
08BUDAPEST1099 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: LEVERAGING FATF STATEMENT ON [...] (SBU) Embassy delivered ref a demarche to Ministry of Finance Department of International Relations Head of Unit Dr. Krisztina Kovacs and Ministry of Foreign Affairs European Legal Department Head of Unit Szilvia Balasz. Both ministries were aware of the FATF guidance, and noted the recent EU [...] | 2008-11-18 10:11:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL EFIN KNNP HU |
08BUDAPEST1103 | CRISIS ON LAYAWAY: THE POLITICAL IMPACT OF THE [...] (SBU) Although the Parliament continues to debate the implementing measures necessitated by Hungary's agreements with the IMF and EU (ref a),contacts are beginning to cautiously survey the longer-term landscape after weeks of crisis management. CONTROLLING THE NARRATIVE 2. (SBU) For t [...] | 2008-11-18 15:21:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON HU |
08BUDAPEST1108 | BANKS SAY NO TO STATE ASSISTANCE...FOR NOW [...] (U) The IMF 12.5 billion euro stand-by loan to Hungary includes provisions to help increase the equity and liquidity of banks in Hungary. The "banking sector package" includes a HUF 300 billion (approx. USD 1.5 billion) Capital Base Enhancement Fund to increase banks' capital adequacy ratio to [...] | 2008-11-21 15:34:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL HU |
08BUDAPEST1118 | PRIME MINISTER GYURCSANY AMBIGUOUS ON NABUCCO, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Hungarian Prime Minister Gyurcsany continued to play both advocate and devil's advocate for the Nabucco pipeline at an energy summit in Baku on November 14. He argued forcefully for Nabucco on the grounds of its importance to European energy security, based on his comments to re [...] | 2008-11-24 16:37:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PGOV HU |
08BUDAPEST1139 | WAITING FOR THE OTHER SHOE TO DROP: THE IMPACT OF [...] (C) Summary. Although there is little agreement among experts regarding Hungary's growth rate for 2009, most business leaders remain pessimistic about the future. Some sectors in the real economy have already begun experiencing the negative effects of Hungary's economic slowdown, while other [...] | 2008-11-26 14:20:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL HU |
08BUDAPEST1143 | BOKROS AND SIMOR: A "GEEK CHORUS" FOR ECONOMIC [...] (C) With the minority socialist government stuck in the refrain that it is pursuing "all the economic reforms the public is willing to accept," and the leading opposition FIDESZ party often resorting to populist rhetoric rather than practical alternatives, there is a vacuum of prominent Hungar [...] | 2008-11-28 15:20:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL PINR HU |
08BUDAPEST1149 | INL A/S JOHNSON DISCUSSES AFGHAN AND HUNGARIAN [...] (C) Summary: INL A/S David Johnson stopped in Budapest October 27, on the tail end of a trip to Afghanistan and the Balkans. He spoke at INL,s Budapest International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA),met with Hungarian MFA officials to discuss Afghanistan counter-narcotics (CN) issues, and atte [...] | 2008-12-01 13:44:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PREL PGOV HU |
08BUDAPEST115 | MINISTER KAKOSY COMMITTED TO REFORM, CONCERNED [...] (C) Summary: In a first official meeting with Ambassador Foley, recently appointed Minister of Economy and Transport Csaba Kakosy outlined minority coalition party SzDSz plans for tax reform, highlighted potential problems with health reform, and underscored Hungary's complex energy challenge [...] | 2008-02-04 14:55:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG ECON HU |
08BUDAPEST1151 | HUNGARY TO SIGN CONVENTION ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-02 11:31:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM NATO MOPS PREL HU |
08BUDAPEST1157 | HUNGARIAN FOCUS AT THE HELSINKI OSCE MINISTERIAL [...] (C) MFA Deputy Director of the International Organizations and Human Rights Department, Zoltan Pecze, discussed reftel with PolOff on December 2. Pecze stated that Foreign Minister Goncz will directly address the Medvedev Security Treaty proposal during her speech at the December 4-5 Ministe [...] | 2008-12-03 13:49:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OSCE RU HU |
08BUDAPEST1158 | INDIAN SUMMER: HUNGARY MOVES FROM A HURRY TO [...] (C) Summary: With the winter recess in sight, the Gyurcsany government is congratulating itself on the passage of the 2009 budget and the adoption of minor changes in Hungary's tax structure. But the international stabilization package has provided only a tenuous degree of stability, and eco [...] | 2008-12-04 10:45:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EFIN HU |
08BUDAPEST1174 | HUNGARIAN MFA APPRISED OF SYRIA'S TECHNICAL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-09 14:31:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA TRGY HU |
08BUDAPEST1180 | HUNGARY: COUNTRY REVIEW ON RELATIONS WITH CUBA [...] (C) The DCM met with MFA's America's Department Director Szilveszter Bus on December 9 to discuss ref A. Post views Hungary as a strong supporter of democracy development in Cuba. Although the GoH has joined the EU consensus on lifting the embargo, they view the U.S. approach as appropriate [...] | 2008-12-10 12:14:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ETTC HU |
08BUDAPEST1186 | LETTER FROM PM GYURCSANY TO PRESIDENT BUSH [...] (C) Following is the text of a letter dated December 10, 2008 from Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany in response to a letter from President Bush. 2. (U) Begin Text Dear Mr. President, Allow me to confirm that I fully agree with the statements you have made in your recent letter regardi [...] | 2008-12-12 16:04:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PGOV HU |
08BUDAPEST1188 | GOH FINALIZING PLANS FOR NABUCCO SUMMIT [...] (U) SUMMARY: GoH continues to make progress, mainly due to the efforts of its Special Ambassador for the Nabucco project, Mihaly Bayer, in organizing the Nabucco Summit it will host in January. Bayer has already secured numerous high-profile commitments to attend the Summit, but several imp [...] | 2008-12-15 10:51:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PGOV HU |
08BUDAPEST1192 | A WINTER OF DISCONTENT: WORKERS STRIKE AGAINST [...] (SBU) As Parliament is preparing to finish its Autumn session with the passage of a leaner 2009 budget bill, a growing number of current and planned transportation industry and public sector employee strikes are disrupting daily life in Hungary, and increasing pressure on the cash-strapped go [...] | 2008-12-16 06:55:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL ELAB HU |
08BUDAPEST1207 | HUNGARIAN HCOC REQUEST [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 3. 2. (C) MFA Security and Non-proliferation Section Chief Mark Horvath requested a meeting with PolOff December 16 to discuss the current status of U.S.-Russian discussions related to the Joint Data Exchange Center. Commenting that the current [...] | 2008-12-18 13:25:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL RS HU |
08BUDAPEST1208 | HUNGARY'S VIEW ON UNESCO DIRECTOR-GENERAL ELECTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-18 13:27:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNESCO HU |
08BUDAPEST1212 | HUNGARY - NO PLANS FOR FURTHER FINANCIAL SUPPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-18 13:33:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC HU |
08BUDAPEST1213 | PRESIDENT SOLYOM'S INJUDICIOUS ACTIVISM [...] (C) Summary: The chorus of complaints regarding Prime Minister Gyurcsany has largely but not completely obscured the mixed reviews received by President Laszlo Solyom. Seen as principled by his supporters and pedantic by his critics, Solyom has tested the boundaries of his largely ceremonial [...] | 2008-12-19 06:06:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KBIO HU |
08BUDAPEST1216 | HUNGARIAN/SLOVAKIAN RELATIONS - A LONG AND WINDING [...] (U) Summary. This is joint Embassy Budapest-Embassy Bratislava cable. Despite several, recent high-level meetings between Hungarian and Slovak officials, significant challenges remain to address minority-rights issues and extremism on both sides of the border. Following an impromptu Novemb [...] | 2008-12-19 15:39:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM LO HU |
08BUDAPEST122 | GET THE REF OUT: THE PARTIES APPROACH THE REFERENDUM [...] (C) Summary: The parties are getting an early start on the spring political season by finalizing preparations for a March 9 referendum on key elements of the government's austerity package. Riding high on recent polling data, the opposition is casting the referendum as a de facto vote of no co [...] | 2008-02-06 17:01:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KDEM HU |
08BUDAPEST123 | SCENE-SETTER FOR UNDER SECRETARY JEFFERY'S VISIT [...] (C) As Parliament returns from its winter recess, Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany will likely begin 2008 where he ended 2007: with his governing coalition under pressure, his domestic reforms under siege and his foreign policy orientation under question. Your meetings in Budapest will help i [...] | 2008-02-07 10:40:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ENRG HU |
08BUDAPEST124 | AVERTING CHECKMATE ON HUNGARIAN-TURKMEN ENERGY [...] (U) This is a joint guidance request from Embassies Ashgabat and Budapest. 2. (U) Embassies Ashgabat and Budapest request urgent guidance to avert the conclusion of a pending energy supply contract between Turkmenistan and Hungary which could be concluded within days. The contract, negot [...] | 2008-02-07 13:30:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG HU |
08BUDAPEST147 | HUNGARY DENIES MILLANDER-TURKMENISTAN DEAL [...] (C) Ambassador Foley met February 12 with Ambassador Karoly Banai, Foreign and Security Policy Advisor to Prime Minister Gyurcsany. "UNSTABLE" MIDDLEMAN; "ALARMING" LETTER 2. (C) Ambassador Banai listened intently to reftel points, asking for our understanding of the volume of gas repor [...] | 2008-02-12 14:22:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG HU |
08BUDAPEST148 | MFA CONFIRMS INTENTION TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVO IN THE [...] (C) Summary: DCM delivered reftel demarches to MFA State Secretary (Political Director) Szent-Ivanyi February 12. SIPDIS Szent-Ivanyi confirmed that the GoH is prepared to recognize Kosovo within the first tranche of EU member states, estimating that it could take formal action within 10 ) [...] | 2008-02-12 16:55:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KO HU |
08BUDAPEST155 | MUSICAL CHAIRS; DISCORDANT VOICES: PARLIAMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Although it was only opening day, Hungarian MPs ) and protestors - were in mid-season form as the spring session began February 11. The governing coalition reaffirmed its support for PM Gyurcsany's health care reforms amidst heated rhetoric, but talk of a cabinet "pre-shuffle" [...] | 2008-02-14 13:18:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM HU |
08BUDAPEST165 | HUNGARIAN RESPONSE TO CONCERNS ON OSLO PROCESS TO [...] (C) Deputy Security and Non-Proliferation Department Head, Gabor Horvath, discussed reftel with PolOff on February 15. Horvath stated that the Hungarians, based on presentations they received at NATO, have already "mandated" their Ambassador in New Zealand, representing Hungary at the Febru [...] | 2008-02-15 16:33:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | AF MOPS PARM PREL NATO HU |
08BUDAPEST183 | HUNGARY ON MACEDONIA'S NATO ASPIRATIONS AND NAME [...] (C) Marianne Berecz, SE Europe, Western Balkans and CIS Department Head and Gabor Horvath, Deputy Security and Non-Proliferation Department Head, discussed reftel with PolOff on January 15. Ambassador Berecz underlined Hungary's support for the Nimetz process, commenting that Greece's approa [...] | 2008-02-21 06:35:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL GR MK HU MARR |
08BUDAPEST195 | THE PARTY LINE: WHAT PM GYURCSANY'S SUPPORTERS ARE [...] (C) With his personal popularity ratings still mired well below 20 percent as he nears the half-way point of his term, Prime Minister Gyurcsany appears to be playing small ball in an effort to gradually recoup his standing with the public (REF A). Key elements of his public message will lik [...] | 2008-02-26 09:22:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG KDEM HU |
08BUDAPEST225 | TRYING TO HEAD NORTH: NEGOTIATING THE POST-SOUTH [...] (C) We are bracing ourselves for another rough patch with the GoH in the aftermath of Prime Minister Gyurcsany's latest trip to Moscow. ACTIONS AND REACTIONS 2. (C) Having secured the EU's acquiescence with Commissioner Piebalgs' tepid public statement of "understanding," the GoH will [...] | 2008-02-29 16:00:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG PGOV KDEM HU |
08BUDAPEST245 | STRONG RHETORIC BUT MILD INTEREST AS REFERENDUM [...] (C) Summary: As voters prepare for this weekend's referendum throughout Hungary's 19 megye (regional districts),opinion leaders on both sides have been escalating their rhetoric. Despite the intensity of their comments, last-minute polling indicates softening turn-out and the general sense [...] | 2008-03-07 07:02:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM HU |
08BUDAPEST261 | THE NO'S HAVE IT: PUBLIC REFERENDUM REJECTS REFORM [...] (C) Summary: Record turn-out of 50.5 percent and overwhelming majorities voting against 3 elements of the government's reform agenda gave the opposition a clear victory in Hungary's national referendum March 9. With 82 ) 84 percent of respondents expressing opposition to the payment of nomin [...] | 2008-03-10 14:00:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM ECON HU |
08BUDAPEST267 | CONFIRMED BUT CAVEATED: HUNGARY PREPARING FOR [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador March 9 (other issues septel),the Prime Minister's Foreign Policy Advisor confirmed that the GoH intends to recognize Kosovo on March 19. Ambassador Banai commented, however, that he would have to check with Foreign Minister Goncz regarding her most rec [...] | 2008-03-12 13:55:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KO HU |
08BUDAPEST270 | SQUATTER'S RIGHTS: THE GYURCSANY GOVERNMENT AFTER [...] (C) Summary: The Gyurcsany government is struggling to go on with business as usual in the aftermath of its losses in the March 9 referendum. Unfortunately, business as usual involves an opposition with the political momentum, party members with a personal grudge, and policy initiatives wit [...] | 2008-03-13 08:16:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ENRG HU |
08BUDAPEST28 | HUNGARIAN REQUEST: HAGUE CODE OF CONDUCT AGAINST [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) MFA Security and Non-Proliferation Deputy Head of Department, Gabor Horvath, requested a meeting with PolOff on 7 January to discuss a UNGA First Committee issue related to the Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC). Hor [...] | 2008-01-10 10:39:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | KACT PARM PREL UNGA RU HU |
08BUDAPEST317 | CENTRIFUGAL FORCE: QUESTIONING THE COALITION [...] (C) Strains within ) and between - the MSzP and the junior coalition partner SzDSz are becoming visible as they approach their respective spring meetings. 2. (C) Ironically, Prime Minister Gyurcsany may be the less lame duck despite the results of the March 9 referendum (reftel). Despite [...] | 2008-03-26 10:51:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HU |
08BUDAPEST339 | HUNGARY URGED TO WEIGH IN WITH GREECE ON NATO [...] (C) Ambassador Foley delivered reftel points in a three-pronged approach to senior Hungarian Government officials in the Prime Minister's Officer, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense on March 31. The Prime Minister's Foreign Policy Advisor, Karoly Banai, advised that, [...] | 2008-04-01 10:13:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO PGOV HU |
08BUDAPEST341 | DANCING ON THE JETTY: HEALTH MINISTER OUT; [...] (C) Summary: Toil and trouble continues within the coalition as the MSzP and the SzDSZ continue to head toward a divorce they may not want but may not be able to avoid. Prime Minister Gyurcsany's decision to dismiss unpopular Health Minister Agnes Horvath of the SzDSz has sparked a confrontat [...] | 2008-04-01 14:08:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM HU |
08BUDAPEST354 | ECONOMIC LEADERS: MINORITY GOVERNMENT, REFORMS ON [...] (C) Summary: Economic leaders, led by Finance Minister Veres and National Bank Governor Simor, appear to be moving on with preparations for a minority government under the continued leadership of Prime Minister Gyurcsany. The government changes are of particular concern from an economic per [...] | 2008-04-04 15:45:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON HU |
08BUDAPEST37 | COLD FEET ON KOSOVO?: MFA FLOATS THE LEAD BALLOON [...] (C) There are disturbing signs that the GoH is considering a partial recognition approach toward Kosovo. In a meeting with visiting former Ambassador Richard Holbrooke February 7, Foreign Minister Goncz solicited his opinion regarding the potential "recognition of the state but not of its so [...] | 2008-01-10 16:45:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KO HU |
08BUDAPEST373 | THE SICK MAN ... AND THE SICK COUNTRY [...] (C) Hungary's political institutions risk grinding to a halt just as leading economic indicators reflect the realities of a stagnant economy. This correlation of public opposition to reform, continued gridlock in Parliament, growing concerns on the economic front, and the prospect of deepr s [...] | 2008-04-10 11:34:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KDEM HU |
08BUDAPEST391 | TWENTY QUESTIONS: FIDESZ TURNS 20 [...] (C) Summary: FIDESZ celebrates its twentieth anniversary in a position of unprecedented popularity, having channeled broad public discontent with the Gyurcsany government's policies to build an imposing lead in opinion polls. A movement long before it became a political party, FIDESZ's iden [...] | 2008-04-17 07:54:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREV KDEM PHUM HU |
08BUDAPEST392 | BELABORING THE POINT: COALITION CRISIS IN SLOW [...] (C) Summary: Although the governing coalition continues to move through what one observer has termed "the slowest-moving crisis in history," both insiders and outside observers believe that several possible scenarios are gradually emerging. They include a protracted period of minority gover [...] | 2008-04-17 08:42:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KDEM HU |
08BUDAPEST401 | THAT WHICH GOVERNS LEAST: HOW WOULD A MINORITY [...] (SBU) The atmosphere remains one of uncertainty regarding "the day after" the break-up of the coalition even as the SzDSz's April 27 departure date approaches. WHIPPING A MINORITY GOVERNMENT INTO SHAPE 2. (C) Barring a dramatic outcome to what has been a very ponderous crisis, Hungary w [...] | 2008-04-17 13:41:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HU |
08BUDAPEST409 | HUNGARIAN ENERGY CONSULTATIONS WITH DAS BRYZA, [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: EUR DAS Matthew Bryza visited Budapest on April 7-8 for energy discussions with the GOH, opposition leaders and Hungarian energy company MOL. While the GOH recently signed an agreement with Russia on Gazprom's South Stream pipeline project, the government also h [...] | 2008-04-22 14:36:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON HU |
08BUDAPEST41 | SPRING TRAINING: SCOUTING REPORTS FOR 2008 [...] (SBU) Although Parliament will not return until February 11, early signals from the parties indicate that the long winter recess will lead to an active spring. RULE NOTHING OUT ( EVEN THE RULES? 2. (C) In a meeting with visiting Ambassador Richard Holbrooke January 8, FIDESZ Party Presi [...] | 2008-01-11 16:53:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM ECON HU |
08BUDAPEST412 | HUNGARY LOOKS TO EU TO PRESS RUSSIA ON CREEPING [...] (C) MFA Deputy Russian and Balkans Department Head Istvan Ijgyarto discussed reftel with PolOff on April 21. Ijgyarto commented that the recent Russian "mechanism" initiative was a "two-track" message. First, for the U.S., NATO, and the EU, Kosovo's declaration of independence has consequence [...] | 2008-04-23 09:27:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GG RS HU |
08BUDAPEST429 | HUNGARIAN COMMENTS ON APRIL 28-29 FOREIGN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-28 09:31:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HU |
08BUDAPEST442 | GRAY AREA; DARK HORSES: GOVERNMENT RESTRUCTURING [...] (SBU) With the overwhelming vote of the SzDSz's national committee on April 27 confirming the party leadership's decision to leave the governing coalition, Hungary has entered the uncharted waters of minority government. SzDSz: GOING, GOING, GONE 2. (SBU) With some discussion but report [...] | 2008-04-29 15:00:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR HU |
08BUDAPEST445 | FINANCE MINISTER ON THE FATE OF REFORM AND THE [...] (C) Meeting the day after a major restructuring of the Gyurcsany government (reftel),Finance Minister Janos Veres emphasized the GoH's continuing commitment to structural reform, expressed concern over the political impact of an impasse over the 2009 budget, and outlined his recent discussio [...] | 2008-04-30 13:55:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PREL ENRG HU |
08BUDAPEST468 | HUNGARIAN COMMENTS ON BURMA'S UPCOMING REFERENDUM [...] (C) PolOff discussed reftel with the MFA Asia/Pacific Department Head Gyula Petho on May 6. Petho acknowledged and expressed agreement with reftel's concerns about referendum's legitimacy, drawing reference to both the EU and UNSC statements on the issue. He believes the referendum will proc [...] | 2008-05-07 06:44:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM HU |
08BUDAPEST480 | HUNGARY AND CLUSTER MUNITIONS -- FOCUS ON [...] (C) MFA Deputy Security and Non-Proliferation Department Head, Gabor Horvath, discussed ref A with PolOff on May 7. Acknowledging the potential impact on interoperability and joint military actions, Horvath reiterated the Hungarian position outlined previously (ref B) - "Hungary can only suppo [...] | 2008-05-09 15:25:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PARM PREL NATO HU |
08BUDAPEST485 | DAY ONE: MINORITY GOVERNMENT WINS APPROVAL FOR [...] (SBU) Marshaling a surprising majority, the Gyurcsany government secured Parliamentary approval for its government restructuring proposal (ref a) May 13. 2. (SBU) Confronting what many observers here cast as a crucial test of his ability to govern in the absence of a parliamentary majorit [...] | 2008-05-15 09:54:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM HU |
08BUDAPEST492 | NABUCCO: PARTNER NATIONS LOSING PATIENCE WITH ONE [...] (C) SUMMARY: A gathering of Nabucco Consortium member countries, together with potential supplier states Azerbaijan and Iraq, at an Ambassador-hosted luncheon on May 9, revealed continuing concern on old themes: the ability of Caspian nations to supply gas; Turkey's intentions, whether transit [...] | 2008-05-19 14:22:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON HU |
08BUDAPEST513 | HUNGARIAN COMMENTS ON THE MAY 26-27 FOREIGN [...] (U) See guidance request at paragraph three. 2. (C) MFA EU External Relations Section Chief, Andras Dekany, discussed reftel agenda with PolOff on the upcoming GAERC meeting May 26-27, and provided the following comments: - Belarus and Iran: they will not be discussion topics. - Ira [...] | 2008-05-23 14:56:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV HU |
08BUDAPEST528 | HUNGARY SUPPORTS U.S. LATIN AMERICA AND MISSILE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-30 14:41:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM HU |
08BUDAPEST537 | SCENE-SETTER FOR THE VISIT OF DAS JUDY GARBER [...] (SBU) Your visit comes as the parties run out the clock on Parliament's spring session before the long summer "cucumber season." With the dissolution of the MSzP-SzDSz coalition following the national referendum on elements of Prime Minister Gyurcsany's reform agenda, the government is now f [...] | 2008-06-02 09:30:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON HU |
08BUDAPEST550 | SUMMER RERUNS: A PAUSE IN THE (IN)ACTION [...] (C) The traditional summer "cucumber season" will be longer than usual this year, with Parliament scheduled to be on recess from June 9 through September 15. Although the Parliament has passed bills on issues ranging from our bilateral data-sharing agreement to Papa Airbase in recent days, t [...] | 2008-06-05 10:33:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM HU |
08BUDAPEST57 | HUNGARY: EU-ORIENTED ENGAGEMENT ON BELARUS [...] (C) Summary: Hungarian Belarus Office Director Ambassador Ferenc Kontra outlined a restrained, incremental approach to Belarus engagement, as Hungary prepares to formally open its embassy in Minsk. Regarding the ICDT Belarus Task Force, Kontra indicated that task force activities to date ha [...] | 2008-01-15 15:49:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BO HU |
08BUDAPEST588 | THE WILD CARD: THE SZDSZ ELECTIONS AS THE LATEST [...] (C) Former Environment Minister Gabor Fodor's defeat of incumbent Janos Koka as SzDSz Party President is the latest variable in the Hungarian political equation. Contacts in both the MSzP and FIDESZ tell us that the coming months will largely depend on which of Fodor's many public statements [...] | 2008-06-13 10:13:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV HU |
08BUDAPEST592 | CAMPAIGNING WITHOUT AN ELECTION: THE PARTIES SHIFT [...] (C) As the MSzP and FIDESZ meet in closed session this week to map out strategy for the months ahead, both parties find themselves, in the words of FIDESZ VP Mihalj Varga, "campaigning without an election." SUMMERTIME BLUES 2. (C) In comments following the MSzP party leadership's meeti [...] | 2008-06-13 13:14:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON HU |
08BUDAPEST602 | HUNGARY WILL ATTEND THE JUNE 24 BERLIN CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-18 07:30:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PREL PBTS PHUM HU |
08BUDAPEST639 | PLAYING WITH THE MARGINS: FEW SIGNS OF LIFE IN THE [...] (C) Following their recent meeting to discuss the fall legislative agenda, there appears to be little stomach among the MSzP leadership for further reforms. Party VP Imre Szekeres confides that there is at least "full consensus" within the party about one thing: "reversing our present strate [...] | 2008-06-25 11:48:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EINV HU |
08BUDAPEST69 | SLEDDING UPHILL: THE PUBLIC MOOD RE REFORM [...] (C) When Parliament returns from recess to begin its spring session in February, debate will return inevitably to the Gyurcsany government's reform agenda. Although Prime Minister Gyurcsany has pledged "smooth and steady progress," observers predict that the MSzP will tolerate minor modifica [...] | 2008-01-18 15:55:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KDEM HU |
08BUDAPEST691 | RIDING THE RANGE AND MENDING FENCES: GYURCSANY'S [...] (C) The GoH is working to mend fences with the U.S. through a series of moves highlighted by Prime Minister Gyurcsany's trip to Central Asia July 7 ) 9. 2. (C) According to Foreign and Security Policy Advisor Karoly Banai, the trip was designed to demonstrate that Hungary is committed to [...] | 2008-07-10 14:06:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG PGOV HU |
08BUDAPEST697 | HUNGARY WILL CONTINUE LIMITED SUPPORT TO NATO [...] (C) MFA NATO and Security Policy Division Head Peter Sztaray discussed reftel with PolOff on July 11. Sztaray stated that the MFA "wants to maintain a footprint in Iraq" and is in discussion with the MOD to allow three trainers in the NTM-I to remain in place. He noted that, currently, more [...] | 2008-07-11 14:40:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO HU |
08BUDAPEST720 | HUNGARY'S RUSSIA POLICY: RETHINKING ... OR [...] (C) Throughout the course of recent briefings, GoH officials have changed their tune slightly with regard to Hungary's Russia policy. Increasingly, their approach appears to be one which admits Hungary's economic interest in expanding trade but which underscores Budapest's enduring commitmen [...] | 2008-07-22 11:03:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL HU |
08BUDAPEST735 | HUNGARY'S NABUCCO AMBASSADOR: LOTS OF MOTION, [...] (C) Summary: Over lunch with the Ambassador, Mihaly Bayer, Hungary's Nabucco Ambassador, reviewed PM Gyurcsany's recent trip to Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan--focusing on the PM's call for a Nabucco Summit--and laid out his plans for the coming months. Bayer has traveled almost continuously sinc [...] | 2008-07-24 13:52:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON HU |
08BUDAPEST750 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: REALISM IN DEALING WITH THE [...] (C) Ref demarche was delivered on July 25, 2008, to Ambassador Laszlo Szabo of the Hungarian MFA Department for Africa and the Middle East. Szabo noted that Hungary was "not a pioneer" in reaching out to regimes like the Syrian Arab Republic Government (SARG) and that Hungary's foreign policy [...] | 2008-07-28 12:21:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SY HU |
08BUDAPEST764 | HUNGARIAN SUPPORT FOR AFGHANISTAN MISSION AFTER [...] (C) Following the second death of a Hungarian soldier in Afghanistan in just over a month, reaction from the media, opposition parties and high-ranking politicians has been largely measured, with criticism aimed at the soldiers' funding and training rather than questioning Hungarian participat [...] | 2008-07-30 15:26:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HU |
08BUDAPEST771 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: EUROPEAN UNION MEMBERS ON [...] (C) Ref talking points were delivered on July 31 to GoH Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials Marta Varkonyi, Head of the EU Enlargement Unit, and Zsuzsa Nora Vincze, Turkey desk officer. Hungary welcomed the July 30 decision by the Turkish Constitutional Court regarding the ruling Justice and [...] | 2008-08-01 15:19:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV TU EUN HU |
08BUDAPEST778 | CRUEL SUMMER: POLITICS IN SLOW MOTION [...] (C) There are few signs of life during Hungary's long summer break. Government and party officials have departed en masse for vacation ) leaving one staffer in the Prime Ministry to question exactly who is acting in Prime Minister Gyurcsany's absence ) and one contact notes that political de [...] | 2008-08-05 09:03:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KDEM HU |
08BUDAPEST799 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NEW BURMA SANCTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-08 08:46:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ETRD BM HU |
08BUDAPEST807 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. PROPOSAL FOR STRONG NAC [...] (C) Ref talking points were delivered on August 11 to Vilmos Hamikus, Acting State Secretary for Political Affairs at the GoH Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Hamikus agreed with the main principals of the talking points, namely the need for a cease fire and cessation of hostilities, however he also no [...] | 2008-08-11 11:56:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE NATO PARM RU GG HU |
08BUDAPEST809 | THE GOH CONTINUES A DEFICIT REDUCTION DIET [...] (C) Financial analysts generally agree that the current government has neither the ability nor the appetite to enact economic reforms that will address underlying causes of slow economic growth in Hungary. As Oriens Consulting Group Partner and former OPT Bank Research Director Tamas Vojnits [...] | 2008-08-12 09:00:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV HU EFIN |
08BUDAPEST813 | TFGG01: DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO HUNGARY REGARDING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-13 04:45:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RU GG HU |
08BUDAPEST814 | ANTI-ROMA INCIDENTS CONTINUE THROUGH THE SUMMER [...] (C) Summary. New Molotov cocktail attacks against Roma families and an anti-Roma cartoon in a satirical publication are two of the latest examples of an escalating trend of anti-Roma activities which, although carried out by only a small fraction of the population, have not triggered strong p [...] | 2008-08-13 09:03:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV HU |
08BUDAPEST821 | TFGG01: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RUSSI... [...] (U) This is an action request. See Paragraph 6. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Ref points were delivered on 14 August to GoH Ministry of Foreign Affairs State Secretaries Dr. Jeno Faller and Vilmos Hamikus. Charge also delivered ref points to Ambassador Karoly Banai, Chief Foreign and Security Policy Advisor to t [...] | 2008-08-14 16:47:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PHUM OSCE UN GG RS HU |
08BUDAPEST83 | SLEDDING UPHILL ... AND SLIDING BACK DOWN: THE [...] (C) When Parliament returns from recess to begin its spring session in February, debate will return inevitably to the Gyurcsany government's reform agenda. Although Prime Minister Gyurcsany has pledged "smooth and steady progress" and is reportedly preparing legislation on party financing an [...] | 2008-01-24 16:32:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KDEM HU |
08BUDAPEST837 | TFGG01 HUNGARY - WHERE THEY STAND ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite similarities to the 1956 Soviet invasion, the Hungarian Government has been reluctant to go further in its criticism of Russia than the EU-NATO consensus statements supporting Georgia. With the Prime Minister notably silent on the issue, President Solyom finally stepped f [...] | 2008-08-22 14:29:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PHUM OSCE UN GG RS HU |
08BUDAPEST844 | HUNGARY'S QUIET DIPLOMACY ON SOUTH OSSETIA AND [...] (C) Summary. The Hungarian Government will continue to work through their NATO and EU fora rather than directly confront the "difficult partner" Russia on the Georgia conflict. Prime Minister Gyurcsany will attend the EU's September 1 special meeting on Georgia, looking to draw a red-line ba [...] | 2008-08-26 16:15:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS GG |
08BUDAPEST849 | HUNGARY WILL NOT RECOGNIZE SOUTH OSSETIA AND [...] (C) In discussion of ref A with PolOff on August 27, MFA Russia and Balkans Deputy Department Head Istvan Ijgyarto called attention to Foreign Minister Goncz's comments today that Hungary will not recognize the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. He also provided the official MFA res [...] | 2008-08-27 16:09:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG RU HU |
08BUDAPEST852 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. WILL NOT SIGN THE NATO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-29 10:33:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL EUN HU |
08BUDAPEST858 | HUNGARY ON UPCOMING EU COUNCIL MEETING RE [...] (C) The Foreign Minister's Chief of Staff briefed Ambassador Foley on the positions Hungary intends to forward at the upcoming EU Council meeting. Hungary will praise the French presidency for its activism, support the EU statement condemning the recognition of the disputed regions, demand fu [...] | 2008-08-29 16:48:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OSCE UN GG RS HU |
08BUDAPEST876 | OFF AND RUNNING ... IN CIRCLES: TAX REFORM DEBATE [...] (C) Although Parliament is not set to reconvene until September 15, Prime Minister Gyurcsany's tax reform proposal (SEPTEL) has already been criticized by the public, questioned by economic analysts, and rejected by his most important political constituency: his former coalition partners in t [...] | 2008-09-04 16:16:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON HU |
08BUDAPEST881 | HUNGARY TO FOLLOW EU LEAD ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION [...] (C) Reftel talking points were discussed on September 2 with Rita Silek of the GoH Ministry of Foreign Affairs Legal Department, which is responsible for all ICJ issues. Silek agreed with many of the points made in reftel, namely the uncertainty and instability that the continued discussion of [...] | 2008-09-05 13:53:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA UN KV HU |
08BUDAPEST888 | HUNGARIAN COMMENTS ON UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY THIRD [...] (C) MFA UN International Organization Department Desk Officer Krisztina Kovacs discussed Reftel with PolOff on September 4. Kovacs expressed Hungary's general support for the U.S. agenda and said that Hungary expects to be more actively engaged during the 2008 session. This increased involve [...] | 2008-09-08 09:56:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN HU |
08BUDAPEST891 | DAS MERKEL SCENESETTER FOR BUDAPEST [...] (SBU) Welcome to Budapest. Your visit comes as the Hungarian Government slowly re-engages following the long summer "cucumber season" and offers an excellent opportunity for discussion of Georgia, energy security and the way forward on relations with Russia. While Hungary remains a committed [...] | 2008-09-08 16:20:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENGR HU |
08BUDAPEST895 | THE FIELDS OF FRIENDLY STRIFE: PM CALLS FOR MSZP [...] (SBU) In a move characterized as desperate by his opponents and clever by his supporters, Prime Minister Gyurcsany has called for an extraordinary session of the Socialist Party Congress on September 27. 2. (C) With his tax plan in limbo (reftel) and calls for his resignation once more in [...] | 2008-09-09 16:06:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV HU |
08BUDAPEST899 | EXPERTS' PARADISE: THE ARGUMENTS AND THE ODDS FOR [...] (C) Summary: A government of experts remains a persistent topic of conversation as prolonged gridlock continues to erode public confidence in Hungary's political class. Currently championed by the SzDSz, a government of experts is constitutionally possible but would likely not be politically [...] | 2008-09-12 14:48:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV HU |
08BUDAPEST903 | HUNGARY CAUTIOUS ON AMENDING ISAF OPLAN CN ANNEX [...] (C) Discussing reftel with PolOff on September 11, MFA's Security and Non-proliferation Department Afghan desk officer Margit Szucs stated that Hungary believes there is sufficient flexibility in the current OPLAN to allow for more efficient and effective operations without amendment. Undersco [...] | 2008-09-15 14:22:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MOPS MARR HU AF |
08BUDAPEST904 | RESPONSE TO QUESTIONS RE HUNGARIAN POLITICS [...] (C) Post's responses are keyed to Department's inquiries: A) From the context of the conversation, we read Navracsics' remarks re the impact of "strategic decisions" as referring to a negative public reaction to FIDESZ's efforts to articulate specific policy recommendations. We note that [...] | 2008-09-15 16:08:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV HU |
08BUDAPEST913 | RETURN TO NOWHERE: PARLIAMENT BEGINS ITS FALL [...] (U) Parliament reconvened on September 15, beginning its fall session with a dry session on a very rainy day in Budapest. 2. (SBU) Prime Minister Gyurcsany's opening remarks ) preceded by the usual walk-out by FIDESZ MPs - focused on his government's commitment to improving education and [...] | 2008-09-17 16:15:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV HU |
08BUDAPEST924 | HUNGARY REQUESTING ASSISTANCE TO SUSTAIN AFGHAN [...] (C) MFA Security and Non-proliferation Department Head Vilmos Hamikus discussed reftel with PolOff on September 17. Responding to the request to prioritize troops and trainers rather than for financial support, Hamikus said the Hungarian PRT in Pol-e-Komri was ready to provide training, and he [...] | 2008-09-22 12:26:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MARR HU AF |
08BUDAPEST930 | CONTINUOUS LOOP: HUNGARY TWO YEARS AFTER "THE [...] (C) This old joke remains unfortunately topical. Two years after the public disclosure of Prime Minister Gyurcsany's notorious "lies" speech, the political debate remains heated in tone but largely frozen in time. The lingering specter of the speech remains, as do lasting public suspicions [...] | 2008-09-23 13:29:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM ECON HU |
08BUDAPEST934 | HUNGARY - WANTED OR NOT IN IRAQ? [...] (C) MFA Security and Non-proliferation Department Head Vilmos Hamikus discussed reftel with Pol/Off September 22. Hamikus commented that although the Hungarians plan to keep their current NTM-I, three-person team in Iraq through the end of 2009 based on requests at the Bucharest summit, they [...] | 2008-09-23 16:16:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS NATO HU |
08BUDAPEST936 | HUNGARY ON NO BUSINESS AS USUAL IN THE NRC [...] (C) MFA NATO Section Chief Peter Sztaray discussed reftel with PolOff on September 23. Sztaray agreeing that the NRC meetings should not be held, initially commented that the Prepcom meetings would provide an avenue for discussion on areas of mutual NATO/Russia concern. Acknowledging the re [...] | 2008-09-23 16:38:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO RS HU |
08BUDAPEST940 | DAS MERKEL'S CONSULTATIONS IN BUDAPEST [...] (SBU) Summary. During his September 9-11 visit to Budapest, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Russia David Merkel focused on energy and the Russia/Georgia conflict with a broad range of senior Hungarian officials. Encouraging greater visible support for Nabucco and a slow down/suspension of Sou [...] | 2008-09-24 15:42:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET RS GG UP HU |
08BUDAPEST946 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY RICE: FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (SBU) Foreign Minister Goncz arrives in Washington after a banner week for the GOH. With the approval of the last in a series of agreements needed to join our visa-waiver program and final steps toward a deal on the Papa airbase, Budapest can celebrate the achievement of two longstanding goal [...] | 2008-09-25 15:57:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PGOV HU |
08BUDAPEST950 | COALITION OF THE UNWILLING: THE MSZP AND THE SZDSZ [...] (SBU) Following a succession of publicized meetings and a series of private contacts, the MSzP and the SzDSz appear to have moved from open conflict to ambiguous accord. 2. (U) In public comments following a meeting with SzDSz Party President Gabor Fodor September 23, Prime Minister Gyurc [...] | 2008-09-29 14:08:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV HU |
08BUDAPEST954 | CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM IN HUNGARY: ROAD TO [...] (C) It is an open secret among Hungarians that their politicians spend ten times more than the legal limit allowed for a campaign, often circumventing the law by conducting transactions with "bags full of cash" before every election. But this political imperative levies a high price on busines [...] | 2008-09-29 14:17:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV HU |
08BUDAPEST964 | THE WALLS HAVE EARS: DOMESTIC ESPIONAGE [...] (U) Accusations continue to circulate as Hungary's Prosecutor-General and domestic intelligence service investigate expanding charges of domestic espionage. SURVEILLANCE: ANY NUMBER CAN PLAY 2. (C) Though allegations of surveillance by ) and against ) the government are standard fare i [...] | 2008-10-01 12:46:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR HU |
08BUDAPEST965 | CAN THE CENTER HOLD?: HUNGARY'S SMALL PARTIES [...] (SBU) Hungary's "independent opposition parties" find themselves locked in conflict for centrist voters, fighting for what little oxygen is left from the raging conflict between the MSzP and FIDESZ. THE SZDSZ: INTERNAL BLEEDING 2. (SBU) In the past weeks, the SzDSz has lost both public [...] | 2008-10-01 12:51:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV HU |
08BUDAPEST992 | SCENE-SETTER FOR VISIT OF DAS MANISHA SINGH [...] (SBU) Welcome to Budapest. Your visit comes as the minority government's attention is largely focused on the passage of its 2009 budget and tax bill in Parliament. Hungary's economic problems, reform fatigue and sharp partisan divisions have resulted in considerable political gridlock. Embat [...] | 2008-10-10 12:13:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL HU |
08BUENOSAIRES1009 | ARGENTINE CABINET CHIEF RESIGNS AND IS REPLACED BY [...] (C) Summary and introduction: After months of rumors of his impending departure, Argentine Cabinet Chief Alberto Fernandez (AF) stepped down July 23 and has been replaced by Sergio Massa, the 36-year-old mayor of suburban Tigre and Kirchner protege. Another top GOA official announced there w [...] | 2008-07-23 23:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1011 | MID-YEAR STATUS REPORT ON BILAT ECONOMIC ISSUES: [...] (C) This cable provides status of bilateral economic issues: Paris Club, holdouts, ExImBank tolling agreement, Post advocacy and ICSID cases, as well as updates on GoA/IMF relations and GoA finances. New Economy Mnister Carlos Fernandez supported his predecessor's Paris Club proposal to make [...] | 2008-07-24 20:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1013 | ARGENTINA: CABINET RESHUFFLE- THE MORE THINGS [...] (C) Summary: Argentine media and commentators are interpreting Cabinet Chief Alberto Fernandez's (AF) departure on July 23 as an indication that President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) administration will not be changing its hardline policy tactics. Left-of-center Critica ran a full [...] | 2008-07-24 22:05:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES103 | RESOURCE NATIONALISM IN ARGENTINA [...] (U) Post's response to Reftel A inquiry about the presence of resource nationalism in Argentina is tracked to reftel questions. --------------------------------------------- ----- EXAMPLES OF ACTIONS/POLICIES MOTIVATED BY RESOURCE NATIONALISM --------------------------------------------- -- [...] | 2008-01-30 16:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | AR ENRG EFIN ECON EMIN EINV EPET PGOV EAGR |
08BUENOSAIRES1038 | (C) ARGENTINA: SENATE PRESIDENT SAYS CRISIS JUST [...] (C) Summary: Senate President Pampuro told the Ambassador on July 24 that the GOA is in a delicate situation, tension is high throughout the government and society, and the crisis is just beginning. He said it is far from clear that a congressional majority can be pulled together at present f [...] | 2008-07-25 23:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1045 | ARGENTINA: CLARIN GROUP SHARES CONCERNS ABOUT [...] (C) ACCORDING TO ARGENTINE MEDIA REPORTS, THE GOA INTENDS TO SEND ITS PROPOSALS FOR REFORMING PRINT, RADIO, TV AND CABLE MEDIA TO CONGRESS IN AUGUST. MANY IN THE MEDIA REMAIN CONCERNED ABOUT THE BILL, BUT FEW, IF ANY, MORE THAN THE CLARIN MEDIA GROUP, ITS REPORTED TARGET. CLARIN GROUP EXECUT [...] | 2008-07-29 11:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAO ECON PREL PHUM KDEM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1048 | FOREIGN BANKERS PESSIMISTIC ABOUT THE FUTURE IN [...] (C) Foreign financial sector representatives gave visiting Treasury DAS Brian O'Neill a pessimistic assessment of the state of the Argentine economy and prospects for improvements in GoA economic policies during a July 11 meeting. They agreed on the likelihood of a sharp economic deceleration [...] | 2008-07-30 19:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1080 | ARGENTINA: PRESIDENT DEFENDS ADMINISTRATION IN [...] (SBU) Summary: On Saturday, August 2, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) defended her administration's policies in her first press conference in her eight-month tenure. This was a departure from the Kirchners' longstanding media strategy, which has irked the media by not holdin [...] | 2008-08-05 09:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1115 | ARGENTINA: KIRCHNER INSIDER CARLOS ZANNINI ON THE [...] (C) Summary. "We must abandon pre-conceived notions about each other...and work to identify new areas of cooperation," President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) Legal and Technical Secretary Carlos Zannini told Ambassador Wayne and Carl Meacham, Senior Professional Staff Member of th [...] | 2008-08-09 12:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAGR ECON EINV EFIN PHUM PINR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1124 | ARGENTINA'S CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT CONCERNED ABOUT [...] (C) Central Bank Governor Martin Redrado called his central bank,s aggressive response to the June/July run on Argentine bank deposits wholly successful in staunching the outflow and in punishing currency speculators. This rsponse included the sale of $3.5 billion in dollar reserves over a 60 [...] | 2008-08-11 21:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV PREL OREP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1150 | ARGENTINA: CANDID TALK FROM BUENOS AIRES MAYOR MAURICIO MACRI ON CURRENT POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Senior Professional Staffer of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Carl Meacham and the DCM, Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri criticized the Kirchners for pushing their policies to the limit and spoke directly about concerns that President Cristina Fernandez de K [...] | 2008-08-14 20:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAGR ECON ETRD EFIN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1159 | ARGENTINA: MEETING WITH PRO-U.S./PRO-KIRCHNER [...] (C) Summary: On August 13, Chaco Governor Jorge Capitanich, a close ally of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK),said the administration faces four big challenges: 1) tackling inflation, 2) reducing subsidies; 3) repaying the Paris Club debt; and 4) setting the future agenda in the [...] | 2008-08-15 22:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1165 | INFLUENTIAL COMMENTATOR ON ARGENTINA'S UNSETTLED [...] (C) Summary: In an hour-long conversation on August 15, leading political analyst Joaquin Morales Sola (JMS) described the Argentine government as struggling to get by with short-term solutions and as being dangerously out of touch with Argentine society. He said that he believes that Preside [...] | 2008-08-19 14:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1176 | ARGENTINA: NEW DETAILS ON ANTONINI-WILSON'S [...] (C) Summary: On August 12, 2008, Hector Fernando Colella, President of Argentine courier firm OCA S.A., provided Emboffs with new details concerning the charter flight brought Guido Alejandro Antonini-Wilson and the now in-famous cash stuffed suitcase to Buenos Aires. Colella's business partner, [...] | 2008-08-20 17:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PREL SNAR KCOR VZ AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1178 | ARGENTINE RESPONSE TO U.S. REQUEST FOR GREATER [...] (C) On June 30, ESTOff met with the Executive Director of the National Commission on Aerospace Activities (CONAE),Dr. Conrado Varotto and CONAE Secretary General Felix Menicocci, to deliver Ref set of conditions regarding the Argentine space launch vehicle (SLV) program. Varotto took care [...] | 2008-08-21 18:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KSCA PARM PREL ETTC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1180 | ARGENTINA: AGRARIAN FEDERATION ON CURRENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Nicolas Bossio, Private Secretary to the President of the Argentine Agrarian Federation (FAA),sees new-found solidarity in Argentina's agricultural sector, embodied by the coordinating Liaison Table ("Mesa de Enlace"),a committee comprised of the four agricultural entities th [...] | 2008-08-21 23:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAGR ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1197 | ARGENTINE SPACE AGENCY DESIRE TO INCLUDE [...] (C) On 01 August, Executive Director of the National Commission on Aerospace Activities (CONAE),Dr. Conrado Varotto and CONAE Secretary General Felix Menicocci, made a request to broaden the scope of an existing End-User request related to the Argentine SAOCOM satellite project. Per Var [...] | 2008-08-26 18:14:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KSCA PARM PREL ETTC |
08BUENOSAIRES1202 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH NEW ARGENTINE CABINET CHIEF [...] (C) Summary: On August 26, the Ambassador had a warm and encouraging meeting with new Argentine Cabinet Chief Sergio Massa, 36, who replaced Alberto Fernandez as the senior member of the cabinet. Displaying the vigor and charm for which he is well-known, Massa pointedly said his operating sty [...] | 2008-08-27 20:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ETRD PTER PINR SNAR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1215 | ARGENTINE SENATORS SEE OPPORTUNITY AND RISKS IN NEW POLITICAL LANDSCAPE REF: [...] (U) Summary: Argentine Senate president Pampuro again privately criticized the government's handling of the agricultural sector crisis, while government and opposition senators in three separate meetings described a changed political landscape in Argentina to visiting SFRC Professional Staff Membe [...] | 2008-08-29 16:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN EINV PINR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1220 | GOA ECONOMIC OFFICIALS DEFEND MODEL, PROMISE TO [...] (C) A Buenos Aires Council of the Americas (CoA) conference convoked key members of the GoA's economic team, including new Chief of Cabinet Sergio Massa, Central Bank President Martin Redrado, and Economy Minister Carlos Fernandez. To an audience of domestic and international business leaders [...] | 2008-08-29 21:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD EAGR PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1221 | A/S SHANNON'S AUGUST 27 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: In a frank and friendly fifty-minute conversation, President Fernandez de Kirchner shared her views with A/S Shannon on Paraguay and Bolivia. She said she would work to support President Lugo and agreed to work quietly with us on Bolivia. She shared plans for her travel to NYC [...] | 2008-09-02 13:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM BL PA AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1224 | ARGENTINA: PRESIDENT KIRCHNER ANNOUNCES THAT GOA [...] (C) President Kirchner (CFK) announced today that Argentina would pay $6.7 billion in Paris Club (PC) debt out of central bank reserves. It remains unclear whether the GoA intends to repay its PC debt in full or simply pay down arrears (the most recent Paris Club Secretariat data shows Argenti [...] | 2008-09-02 23:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1239 | ARGENTINA ENDS ITS MILITARY JUSTICE SYSTEM [...] (C) Summary: The Argentine Senate on August 6 completed the legislative journey for a law abolishing the Argentine military justice system, a change pressed forward by Minister of Defense Garre. The step fulfills a promise Argentina made to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and res [...] | 2008-09-05 14:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM MARR PGOV PREL KJUS AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1244 | ARGENTINA WILL SUPPORT KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION AT [...] (C) Poloff conveyed reftel points to Ambassador Raul Ricardes, General Director for Multilateral Affairs in Argentina's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),and separately to Maria Fernanda Canas, the MFA's Sub-Director for North American Affairs, on September 4. Ricardes was accompanied by Min [...] | 2008-09-05 19:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA KV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES126 | REQUEST FOR DEPT GUIDANCE ON EDUARDO SAIEGH CASE [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 5. 2. (SBU) Summary. The Ambassador has raised with cabinet-level GOA officials the case of Mr. Eduardo Saiegh, an Argentine citizen who in 1980 was kidnapped, tortured and dispossessed of a bank he owned during Argentina's 1976-83 military dictat [...] | 2008-02-04 10:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1270 | FED GOVERNOR KROSZNER HEARS LITANY OF LOCAL [...] (C) During a visit that coincided with the Argentine President's surprise announcement that the GoA would pay Paris Club debts (reftels),Federal Reserve Bank Governor Randall Kroszner received a pessimistic message about the future of the Argentine economy from industrialists, economists, ban [...] | 2008-09-11 15:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1274 | ARGENTINE CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT PROPOSES REGIONAL [...] (C) U.S. Federal Reserve Bank Governor Randall Kroszner pointed to signs that slowing growth and higher inflation in advanced economies are beginning to impact emerging markets during his keynote speech at the Argentine Central Bank's (BCRA) annual monetary and banking conference. He argued t [...] | 2008-09-12 18:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1282 | ARGENTINA'S RESPONSE TO REQUESTS FOR BRIEFINGS ON [...] (C) Pursuant to reftel, ESTCouns and ESTOff met with Executive Director of the Argentine National Commission on Aerospace Activities (CONAE) Dr. Conrado Varotto and CONAE Secretary General Felix Menicocci on 10 September 2008, to firm up plans for bilateral discussions on the status of the [...] | 2008-09-15 13:32:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KSCA PARM PREL ETTC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1286 | GOA PUSHES FORWARD ON PARIS CLUB REPAYMENT, [...] (C) Amid media rumors of internal debate over President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's pledge to pay the Paris Club, GoA officials continue to move the proposal forward. Central Bank President Martin Redrado and Finance Secretary Hernan Lorenzino confirm that CFK has approved a plan to begin [...] | 2008-09-15 22:40:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES129 | ARGENTINA PERSPECTIVES [...] (SBU) Summary: As part of outreach efforts during recent friction in U.S.-Argentine relations, Ambassador held one-on-one discussions with key players on the Argentine scene. In each, he explained the U.S. perspective on discord over the Miami court case and on bilateral relations. Inte [...] | 2008-02-04 15:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EINV EPET KPAO KCOR MARR VZ AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1300 | ARGENTINA: MORE SWIPES AT U.S., BUT LITTLE [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine Justice Minister Fernandez stepped up his critique of the U.S. prosecution of Venezuelan Franklin Duran amidst signs that pro-Kirchner activists are also raising the volume against the USG. Even on increased volume, however, the GOA is adding little to its already weak [...] | 2008-09-17 14:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR KCRM VZ AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1303 | EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT USING [...] (C) Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's September 2 announcement that the GoA intends to use Central Bank reserves to pay Paris Club debt has spawned a local debate over the various legal and financial ramifications of using reserves for this purpose. The main issues relate to [...] | 2008-09-17 21:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1314 | ARGENTINA: ARMY CHIEF BENDINI, A KIRCHNER ALLY, [...] (C) Summary: Argentina's Cabinet Chief Sergio Massa announced late on September 18 that General Bendini, Army Chief of Staff for the past five years, had resigned. The resignation and its acceptance by the President followed by only hours the decision of a Federal Appeals Court in Comodoro Ri [...] | 2008-09-19 21:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM MARR KCOR SNAR PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1316 | ARGENTINA: CMS INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION CASE END [...] (SBU) Bank of America's Blue Ridge distressed asset investment fund in May 2008 purchased a final ICSID (international arbitration) award judgment against the GoA from CMS Energy with a face value of roughly US$ 180 million along with CMS' 23% equity stake in TGN, a major Argentine natural gas [...] | 2008-09-22 16:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ENRG ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1362 | (C) ARGENTINE MEDIA MAGNATE ON MEDIA LAW, AND THE [...] (C) Summary. Jose Aranda, Vice Chairman of the media conglomerate Clarin Group, told Charge that the GOA's attempt to promote a new Media Law (ref B) was likely on hold for several months, given GOA's more pressing priorities and a weakened position in the GOA Congress. He cited Clarin's "sol [...] | 2008-10-02 21:14:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ECPS PREL KPAO KMDR EINT AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1374 | ARGENTINA: GOA STRUGGLES TO RESPOND TO [...] (SBU) A "Coordinating Table" chaired by Chief of Cabinet Sergio Massa and including senior Economy Ministry, Central Bank, and financial sector regulatory officials is to meet today, October 7, to organize GoA-wide management of currency, trade, budget, and debt policies in response to the int [...] | 2008-10-07 20:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1377 | ARGENTINE ECONOMISTS PREDICT GLOBAL ECONOMIC [...] (C) Three prominent Argentine economists told visiting WHA DAS Chris McMullen October 2 that the global financial crisis will have a bigger impact on Argentina's real economy than its financial sector, due to the country's relative isolation from international capital markets. They noted that [...] | 2008-10-08 14:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1393 | ARGENTINA: SAN LUIS GOVERNOR SAYS GOA LACKS MASTER [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Wayne met with San Luis Governor and 2007 presidential candidate Rodriguez Saa on October 1. A dissident Peronist and critic of the Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) administration, Rodriguez Saa expressed his frustration at the current political situation, alleg [...] | 2008-10-09 18:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1395 | GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS COMPLICATES ARGENTINE PARIS [...] (C) Rumors are circulating in Argentina that the GoA will delay payment of Paris Club debts (Reftel) due to concerns about weakening the Central Bank at a time of great economic and financial uncertainty. The press on October 8 & 9 quoted Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo confirming the GoA [...] | 2008-10-09 19:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1396 | GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS COMPLICATES ARGENTINA'S [...] (C) The global financial crisis is complicating negotiations between private foreign banks and the GoA over the reopening of both the debt exchange to Holdout bondholders and the simultaneous debt swap for bonds coming due 2009-2011. GoA and Citibank contacts confirm that no deals are possibl [...] | 2008-10-09 19:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1397 | CITIBANK-ARGENTINA PRESIDENT HIGHLIGHTS IMPACT OF [...] (C) Citi-Argentina President Juan Jose Bruchou (protect) told Ambassador October 7 that the Argentine banking sector is starting to feel the pinch of the global financial crisis and accompanying flight to quality. While providing assurances that the Argentine financial sector is reasonably st [...] | 2008-10-09 19:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1420 | ARGENTINA: AMIA PROSECUTOR DESCRIBES IMPENDING [...] (C) Summary: Alberto Nisman, Argentina's Special Prosecutor to investigate the 1994 terrorist attack against the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA),called on the Ambassador October 14, 2008 to provide advance notice of what he said would be the first civil action to be advanced again [...] | 2008-10-15 22:53:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KJUS PGOV PREL EFIN IR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1478 | GOVERNMENT OF ARGENTINA THINKING OUT LOUD ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Five Argentine Cabinet Ministers joined a host of other public and private figures October 9 to launch a two-day workshop on Argentine narcotics policies, offering the first serious public dialogue on decriminalization of consumption since President Fernandez de Kirchner mooted t [...] | 2008-10-27 21:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PREL PGOV EFIN KJUS PHUM SOCI AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1489 | BRAZIL-ARGENTINA COORDINATE ON G-20, DIFFER ON [...] (C) On October 27, Brazilian Ambassador to Argentina Mauro Vieira (protect strictly) told the Ambassador that while Brazil and Argentina differed on the proper trade policy response to the current economic crisis, Brazil would be patient with its neighbor and would work to encourage a constru [...] | 2008-10-29 19:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD MARR MOPS PGOV PREL AR BR |
08BUENOSAIRES1490 | METLIFE EXEC FORESEES DIRE CONSEQUENCES FOR [...] (C) MetLife's head of Latin American operations, Oscar Schmidt (PROTECT),told Ambassador Wayne October 28 that he expected major economic upheaval in Argentina if the Argentine Congress fails to achieve rapid passage of the GoA's bill to nationalize the private pension system. The longer and [...] | 2008-10-29 20:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1491 | ARGENTINE CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT CRITICIZES MANNER [...] (C) In an exceptionally candid conversation, amid false rumors of his impending resignation, Central Bank (BCRA) President Martin Redrado confirmed to Ambassador October 24 that only four GoA officials made the decision to nationalize the private pension system, and commented that the decision [...] | 2008-10-29 20:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1493 | ARGENTINE CENTRAL BANK AND ECONOMY MINISTRY [...] (C) The Argentine Central Bank (BCRA) is taking the lead on preparing briefing material for President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) participation in the November 15 G-20 meeting, BCRA President Redrado told Ambassador October 24. While not in a position to guarantee how CFK will use [...] | 2008-10-30 16:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1497 | ARGENTINA: POST RESPONSE TO INFORMATION GATHERING [...] (C) Post provides the following response to Ref A request for information on Argentina in advance of the November 15 G-20 meeting in Washington. Relevant financial and political reporting from October provided reftels. I. Key Objectives and Priorities/Desired Outcomes of the Summit: Presi [...] | 2008-10-30 20:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1521 | ARGENTINE PENSION NATIONALIZATION STATUS: [...] (C) The Argentine government's plan to nationalize the private pension system continues to dominate headlines and drive domestic market developments. Argentina's lower house is expected to pass the GoA's draft bill November 6 or 7, albeit with the GoA reportedly agreeing to modifications, inc [...] | 2008-11-04 20:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1533 | ARGENTINE OFFICIALS PRIVATELY ADMIT PARIS CLUB [...] (C) Senior Argentine government (GoA) and Central Bank (BCRA) officials privately confirm to Post what local and foreign press have taken as a given for weeks: in the current crisis environment, the GoA has put its Paris Club payment, debt exchange with private "holdout" bondholders, and a lin [...] | 2008-11-05 20:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1543 | ARGENTINE SUPPORT FOR OCTOBER 2008 FATF STATEMENTS [...] (C) EconOff delivered reftel demarche November 7, 2008, to GoA National Coordinator for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism finance Alejandro Strega. Strega, who reports to Argentina's Minister of Justice Anibal Fernandez, is Argentina's representative to the Financial Action Task For [...] | 2008-11-07 21:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN EFIN PTER PREL PARM MNUC KNNP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1551 | ARGENTINA WEIGHS IN WITH URUGUAY AND BRAZIL ON [...] (C) Poloff raised ref A points with Counselor Silvia Cao, of the Argentine MFA's Office of Human Rights on November 10. Cao indicated that she would pass to her superiors our request to weigh in with GRULAC members on the no-action motions as well as the underlying resolutions condemning the [...] | 2008-11-13 12:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM AR BZ UY CO |
08BUENOSAIRES1572 | POST FOLLOW-UP ON ARGENTINE SUPPORT FOR OCTOBER [...] (C) Following on Post's November 7 delivery of Ref A demarche to Alejandro Strega, the GoA's National Coordinator for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism finance (Ref B),EconOff delivered same message on November 14 to Zenon Biagosch, Vice Superintendent of Financial Institutions at t [...] | 2008-11-18 15:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN EFIN PTER PREL PARM MNUC KNNP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1583 | ARGENTINE NATIONALIZATION OF PRIVATE PENSION [...] (C) The Argentine Senate appears ready to pass the government's plan to nationalize Argentina's private pension system on November 20. The main U.S. company involved, MetLife, is "frustrated, angry, and disappointed," its officials told the Ambassador November 17. Met's priorities now are to [...] | 2008-11-19 19:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1653 | ARGENTINA: GOA CHARGES AES AFFILIATE WITH [...] (C) Argentine Planning Minister De Vido convoked Ambassador December 2 to inform him that that the GoA plans to take civil and criminal action against AES Corporation for tax evasion and intentional decapitalization of its Edelap electricity distribution subsidiary. De Vido emphasized that th [...] | 2008-12-03 19:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ECON EFIN BEXP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1680 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT SIGNS PENSION NATIONALIZATION [...] (C) Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner signed into law on December 4 her audacious plan to nationalize the country's private pension system. The law officially entered into force December 9. Contrary to early expectations that the GoA would have a tough fight getting it throu [...] | 2008-12-11 11:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1682 | ARGENTINA: FISCAL SOLVENCY CONCERNS REMAIN, [...] (C) The Argentine government's nationalization of the country's private pension system entered into force December 9, giving the GoA access to about US$25 billion in financial assets and US$4 billion in annual contributor payments. Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) ha [...] | 2008-12-11 18:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1697 | RELOCATING DEA PERSONNEL FROM BOLIVIA TO OTHER [...] (C) The following information is provided in response to questions in reftel A regarding the relocation of three DEA positions from Embassy La Paz to Embassy Buenos Aires. 2. (C) As reported in reftel B, on November 14, 2008, Ambassador Wayne advised Minister of Justice Anibal Fernandez tha [...] | 2008-12-15 20:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR AR BO BR CH PA PE |
08BUENOSAIRES170 | ARGENTINA'S SPACE LAUNCH VEHICLE PROGRAM: THE [...] (C) This cable provides the Embassy's recommendation for policy change regarding longstanding USG opposition toward Argentina's space launch vehicle (SLV) program. We believe that opposition, based on Argentina's 1992 assurances that it would not develop a space launch vehicle ""for the fo [...] | 2008-02-13 12:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCR KSCA PARM TSPL PREL MNUC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES172 | ARGENTINA: PUTTING SECURITY COOPERATION BACK ON [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met February 12 with Minister of Justice and Security Anibal Fernandez for the first time since Miami court proceedings relating to the Antonini Wilson suitcase scandal put a chill on relations in mid-December. Ambassador reiterated that the focus of the case is on vio [...] | 2008-02-13 18:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS KWNM SNAR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES173 | ARGENTINA: PUTTING SECURITY COOPERATION BACK ON [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met February 12 with Minister of Justice and Security Anibal Fernandez for the first time since Miami court proceedings relating to the Antonini Wilson suitcase scandal put a chill on relations in mid-December. Ambassador reiterated that the focus of the case is on vio [...] | 2008-02-14 10:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS KWNM SNAR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES178 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH CHIEF CABINET [...] (C) Summary: On February 12, Ambassador lunched with Argentina's Chief Cabinet Minister Alberto Fernandez (AF) in the first in a newly initiated series of monthly lunches developed to help manage U.S.-Argentine relations. Topics covered included working with A/S Shannon and others to foster [...] | 2008-02-14 17:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EINV EPET KPAO KCOR MARR VZ AR |
08BUENOSAIRES196 | ARGENTINA'S FORMER PRESIDENT KIRCHNER LOOKS TO [...] (C) Summary and introduction: Just two months out of office, Argentina's ex-president Nestor Kirchner is still very much in the limelight. Kirchner is moving to revive and take control of the Justicialist Party (PJ),commonly referred to as the Peronist Party in honor of its founder, Juan Do [...] | 2008-02-19 18:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ELAB AR |
08BUENOSAIRES216 | ARGENTINE MOD GARRE AND AMBASSADOR REVIEW BROAD [...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: The Ambassador called on Argentine MOD Nilda Garre February 19 to review ongoing and future cooperation. Garre expressed interest in enrolling Argentine personnel in U.S. courses related to civil-military relations, peacekeeping operations and peace maintenance [...] | 2008-02-21 18:53:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS AR |
08BUENOSAIRES229 | CODEL ENGEL PRESSES ARGENTINE ECONOMY MINISTER ON [...] (C) During a February 21 meeting with new Argentine Economy Minister Martin Lousteau, Representatives Engel (D-NY),Green (D-TX),Hinchey (D-NY),Weller (R-IL),and Foxx (R-NC)) pressed Lousteau to provide GoA positions on three issues of increasing importance to Congress: 1) prospects of nego [...] | 2008-02-25 18:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL PGOV PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES236 | ARGENTINA AND BRAZIL TO COOPERATE ON URANIUM [...] (C) Presidents Fernandez de Kirchner and Lula announced February 22 that Argentina and Brazil will create binational commissions to investigate how the two countries can best cooperate in the enrichment of uranium and in the development of nuclear power plants. The announcement appeared to tak [...] | 2008-02-26 13:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP ENRG IAEA OTRA PREL ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES259 | ARGENTINA HOSTS MINISTERIAL IN PREPARATION FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: South American and Arab nations held a ministerial in Buenos Aires February 20-21 to prepare for their upcoming bi-regional summit in the final quarter of 2008 in Doha, Qatar. A senior MFA official assured the DCM in advance that the ministerial would be attended by moderate [...] | 2008-02-29 16:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN ENRG MARR PARM PBTS PNAT SCUL SENV |
08BUENOSAIRES268 | ARGENTINA ON IRAN'S IAEA NONCOMPLIANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-03 18:27:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL IAEA IR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES284 | ARGENTINA: GOA INTERNAL SQUABBLE OVER INFLATION [...] (SBU) The Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) chose not to address public concern over high levels of inflation or the raging debate over the accuracy and reliability of GoA inflation measures in her March 1st State of the Nation Speech. Just days before CFK,s speech, Chi [...] | 2008-03-05 15:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES288 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT TO VENEZULA: ENERGY,AG THEMES [...] (SBU) President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her Planning Minister Julio De Vido will meet March 6 in Caracas with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on her way to the Rio Group summit in the Dominican Republic and a visit to Argentine peacekeeping troops in Haiti. Following Bolivia's Feb [...] | 2008-03-06 07:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET ENRG EAGR VZ AR |
08BUENOSAIRES320 | (U) ON A ROLL: ARGENTINE FOREIGN MINISTRY FACES [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine Vice FM Roberto Garcia-Moritan reportedly offered his resignation to FM Taiana March 11. Although he claimed the resignation was motivated by "personal matters" after almost 40 years in Argentina's foreign service, the press attributes his move to a string of public r [...] | 2008-03-13 14:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES358 | ARGENTINA COMMEMORATES 1992 ISRAEL EMBASSY BOMBING [...] (SBU) On March 17, the GOA and the Israeli government held a ceremony commemorating the 16th anniversary of the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires. During the event, Minister of Justice Anibal Fernandez gave a candid and critical assessment of the GOA's investigation into the [...] | 2008-03-20 08:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PGOV PREL PTER AR FBI IS |
08BUENOSAIRES367 | ARGENTINA: FBI'S AD FUENTES DISCUSSES COOPERATION [...] (SBU) Summary: During his March 5-6 visit to Argentina, FBI Assistant Director Tom Fuentes met with senior officials of the Argentine government, the Argentine Jewish community, the Province of Cordoba, and the city of Buenos Aires to discuss ongoing U.S.-Argentine security cooperation. Those [...] | 2008-03-20 16:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV KJUS SNAR KCRM ASEC AR FBI |
08BUENOSAIRES376 | ARGENTINA: FARMERS' STRIKE SPREADS TO THE CITIES [...] 1. (C) Summary: In her toughest domestic test to date, President Christina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) turned up the temperature on March 25 in the two-week old confrontation with Argentina's rural sector over increased export taxes. In her first public comments on the strike, CFK denounced th [...] | 2008-03-26 18:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON PGOV ENRG EPET AR |
08BUENOSAIRES386 | ARGENTINA: BACK FROM THE BRINK - RURAL SECTOR AND [...] (C) Summary: The GOA and Argentina's four main rural sector organizations have apparently worked out an understanding leading to a short "truce" and direct negotiations with a view to ending the 15-day-old rural sector strike (ref a). Negotiations are supposed to begin early March 28. The G [...] | 2008-03-28 17:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR PGOV ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES387 | ARGENTINA: BACK FROM THE BRINK - RURAL SECTOR AND [...] (C) Summary: The GOA and Argentina's four main rural sector organizations have apparently worked out an understanding leading to a short "truce" and direct negotiations with a view to ending the 15-day-old rural sector strike (ref a). Negotiations are supposed to begin early March 28. The G [...] | 2008-03-28 17:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES390 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR WAYNE AND MINISTER OF [...] (C) Summary: On March 26, Ambassador met with Argentina,s new Interior Minister, Florencio Randazzo. The Minister spoke at some length about the ongoing rural sector strikes (reftels),stating that this is the most difficult time that either Kirchner has faced, but is an opportunity for both [...] | 2008-03-28 19:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES398 | ARGENTINA: NO DIALOGUE, MORE ROADBLOCKS [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentina's farm sector decided late March 28 to continue its strike (now in its third week) following the failure of initial discussions with the GOA to make any headway on the sector's main demand of suspending increased agricultural export taxes for 90 days. The rural sector [...] | 2008-04-01 00:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON PGOV PHUM PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES403 | ARGENTINA: AMCHAM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE DEPLORES [...] (C) Members of the American Chamber (AmCham) Executive Committee are concerned by the GoA,s confrontational response to the nation's agricultural crisis, arguing that policy-making concentrated in a small, closed group of senior GoA officials (President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, her hus [...] | 2008-04-01 19:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD BEXP PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES413 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR WAYNE BUILDS BRIDGES WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador had a cordial meeting with congressional deputies Carlos Kunkel and Luis Ilarregui, of the Kirchners' National Victory Front (FPV). Kunkel, known for his rabid outbursts (sometimes directed at the USG and the Ambassador) in defense of the Kirchners, emphasized th [...] | 2008-04-03 14:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES421 | (U) ARGENTINA: STRIKE'S ECONOMIC COSTS VS. ITS $$ [...] (C) Now that the Argentine farm sector,s strike measures have been lifted, at least for 30 days (Ref A),it is worth examining just why the GoA chose this particular moment to boost export taxes, and what economic costs the three-week strike have imposed on the Argentine economy. In our view, [...] | 2008-04-04 16:14:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR EINV ETRD AR |
08BUENOSAIRES43 | FM TAIANA OFFERS INSIGHTS INTO COLOMBIAN HOSTAGE [...] (C) Summary. During a January 10 meeting with Ambassador Wayne, Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana offered his assessment of the release of FARC hostages in Colombia. He expressed appreciation for the USG's public statement praising the release of the hostages. Taiana also praised Colombian Pre [...] | 2008-01-11 16:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER CJAN SNAR ASEC KJUS VZ CO AR |
08BUENOSAIRES439 | ARGENTINA'S PRESIDENT CFK OFF TO A ROUGH START [...] (C) Summary: President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) had a rough first four months in office. Her administration has produced few new policy initiatives or concrete policy successes. CFK's term has been marked by two serious crises, one foreign and one domestic. Both were exacerbat [...] | 2008-04-08 19:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAGR ECON PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES441 | ARGENTINA: SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY SHANNON'S APRIL 10-11 VISIT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-08 23:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | AR ECON EFIN PGOV PHUM PREL PTER SNAR |
08BUENOSAIRES463 | ENGAGING ECONOMY MINISTER LOUSTEAU ON PARIS CLUB, [...] (C) Treasury Secretary Paulson's April 11 meeting with Economy Minister Martin Lousteau offers an opportunity to engage the senior GoA official charged by President Kirchner with resolving Argentina's pariah status in international capital markets. Lousteau is in a fight for his political lif [...] | 2008-04-10 13:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES471 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES TIP AND CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary: On April 7, the Ambassador met with Argentina's National Ombudsman Dr. Eduardo Mondino. The Ombudsman spoke at length about the independence of his office, which he said has occasionally incurred the rancor of both Kirchner Administrations. His portfolio includes the protection [...] | 2008-04-14 10:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI EFIN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES493 | ARGENTINA OFFICIALS EAGER TO STRENGTHEN ANTI-TIP [...] (C) On April 10, Argentine Justice Minister Anibal Fernandez informed visiting WHA Assistant Secretary Tom Shannon and Ambassador Wayne that he was very pleased with the April 9 Congressional passage of anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) legislation. He indicated that he was eager to begin w [...] | 2008-04-16 21:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PGOV ASEC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES496 | ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT TAKEN BY SURPRISE AS CHAVEZ [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Government of Venezuela's (GOV) announcement that it would nationalize Venezuela's largest steelmaker, Ternium Sidor, majority-owned by Argentine interests, has rattled local markets and complicated the relationship between Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (C [...] | 2008-04-17 17:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV EIND ETRD AR VE BR MX |
08BUENOSAIRES514 | ARGENTINA: NESTOR KIRCHNER POISED TO ASSUME [...] (U) Summary: It appears that former President Nestor Kirchner (NK) and his list will run unopposed to lead Argentina's Justicialist "Peronist" Party (PJ). April 19-20 news reports say PJ officials disqualified a second list of candidates, indicating former president NK's slate will likely w [...] | 2008-04-21 20:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES515 | ARGENTINA URGES SUPPORT FOR ITS CANDIDACY TO UN [...] (C) The Argentine MFA convoked all resident Ambassadors April 17 to solicit support for Argentina's candidacy to the UN Human Rights Council in the May 16 vote. The meeting followed up on the MFA's January Diplomatic Note announcing the candidacy, which was forwarded via e-mail to WHA/BSC in [...] | 2008-04-21 20:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNHRC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES519 | PRESIDENT CRISTINA KIRCHNER ON BILATERAL RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary. In a very friendly April 10 meeting, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) indicated great pleasure at the warm reception which President Bush had given Argentina's new Ambassador and expressed support for the vision of U.S. policy in the region described by A [...] | 2008-04-22 16:04:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EINV EPET KPAO KCOR MARR VZ |
08BUENOSAIRES520 | ARGENTINE CABINET CHIEF SUPPORTS IMPROVED [...] (C) Summary. Argentine Cabinet Minister Alberto Fernandez told A/S Shannon on April 10 that he firmly supports the improvement in bilateral dialogue and cooperation, saying "we need to have good relations with the USG." Fernandez placed high priority on attracting U.S. investment and on reso [...] | 2008-04-22 16:46:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EINV EPET KPAO KCOR MARR VZ AR |
08BUENOSAIRES531 | THE ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT AND THE MEDIA: BIASED [...] (C) Summary: Argentine government is continuing its crusade to pressure the media group Clarin over allegedly biased reporting, and questioning its powerful position in the print, TV, cable and radio. While others in the media share concerns about Clarin's dominant position, observers genera [...] | 2008-04-23 19:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EINV KPAO KCOR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES540 | ARGENTINA POISED FOR RESUMPTION OF AGRICULTURAL [...] (C) Summary: The 30-day truce called by Argentine farmers in their conflict with the GOA may come to an end without a negotiated solution to address the agricultural sector's grievances. Agricultural sector contacts tell us that lack of progress in the negotiations is bringing Argentina close [...] | 2008-04-25 09:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAGR EIND ETRD ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES547 | ARGENTINE ECONOMY MINISTER MARTIN LOUSTEAU RESIGNS [...] (C) Economy Minister Martin Lousteau tendered his resignation April 24 following the Kirchners' rejection of a series of orthodox anti-inflationary measures he proposed. These measures included boosting domestic prices and reducing subsidies for utilities, cutbacks in public spending on infras [...] | 2008-04-25 18:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES549 | IDB PRESIDENT ON ARGENTINA: WORSENING INFLATION [...] (C) IDB President Moreno told Ambassador April 21 that his two takeaways from his latest visit to Argentina are that inflation appears to be getting out of control and there is increasing willingness to stand up to the Kirchners. Moreno noted that high commodity prices are saving Argentina, bu [...] | 2008-04-25 19:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN EAID AR |
08BUENOSAIRES56 | AMBASSADOR RAISES ARGENTINA INVESTMENT CLIMATE [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador raised with Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana U.S. companies' concerns about Argentina's investment climate during their January 10 meeting (reftels). He informed Taiana that the USG is closely monitoring Argentina's dispute with CMS Gas Transmission, and expressed co [...] | 2008-01-15 18:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EINV ECPS EPET EMIN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES57 | ARGENTINA ON KOSOVO STATUS [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel points to Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana on January 10. Taiana indicated that the MFA would consider the matter, but noted that Kosovo is a complex issue. He asked whether European support for Kosovo independence included Spain. The Ambassador replied that we [...] | 2008-01-16 07:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO PBTS UNMIK PGOV YI ER AR |
08BUENOSAIRES571 | ARGENTINA CAUGHT OFF GUARD BY 4TH FLEET [...] (C) SUMMARY: ARGENTINE MFA DIRECTOR FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND NUCLEAR AFFAIRS, AMBASSADOR ELSA KELLY, CALLED DCM APRIL 29 TO ASK FOR DETAILS REGARDING NAVAL OPERATION'S APRIL 24 PRESS RELEASE ANNOUNCING THE RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF THE U.S. FOURTH FLEET. AT A MEETING WITH POST MILGP COMMANDE [...] | 2008-04-30 22:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES572 | ARGENTINE FLAG CARRIER AEROLINEAS FOCUS OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Aerolineas Argentinas (AR) has again become the focus of GOA and Government of Spain (GOS) tensions amidst public accusations by AR Spanish owners Marsans and GOS officials of "harassment" of the carrier. Marsans and the GOS accuse AR unions and some GOA officials of pressing f [...] | 2008-05-02 10:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON EINV ELAB AR SP |
08BUENOSAIRES589 | ARGENTINA: A/S SHANNON MEETS WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary: April 11 A/S Shannon and Ambassador Wayne agreed with Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana and his team to revive and modify a mechanism for bilateral dialogue. The approved concept sets out two additional bilateral meetings under the 1997 "Framework of Understanding between [...] | 2008-05-06 15:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EINV PTER TSPL ETRD SNAR SCUL |
08BUENOSAIRES598 | ARGENTINA CONFIRMS CANDIDACY FOR UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) On May 6, Polcouns delivered ref A demarche to Martin Romero in the Argentine MFA's Directorate for International Organizations (DIOIN). Polcouns expressed U.S. concern about the performance of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC),including its tendency to focus on Israel while simultan [...] | 2008-05-06 21:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC UNGA AR |
08BUENOSAIRES629 | ARGENTINA INFLATION CONTROVERSY: GOA TO LAUNCH NEW [...] (C) The GoA plans to roll out a "new and improved" consumer price index (CPI) in June to allow national statistics agency INDEC to recover some of its lost credibility. The new index will measure a narrower basket of goods and services and will allow product weightings to be changed frequentl [...] | 2008-05-12 16:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV AR EFIN |
08BUENOSAIRES651 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ARGENTINE POLITICS WITH [...] (U) Summary: The Ambassador met May 12 with conservative politician Ricardo Lopez-Murphy, who came in third place in the 2003 presidential election but only in seventh, with one percent of the vote, in 2007. Lopez-Murphy shared his views on Argentina's current political and economic situation [...] | 2008-05-15 21:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES660 | ARGENTINA MENDS AIRLINE DISPUTE; HESITATES ON [...] (C) Summary: On May 16, Spanish Ambassador to Argentina Estrella (protect strictly) told the Ambassador that the Government of Argentina (GOA) and Spanish company Marsans have reached agreement over how to handle ownership of Aerolineas Argentinas and Austral Airlines. He said agreement was [...] | 2008-05-16 21:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EINV EAIR BEXP KNNP MNUC NPT PARM |
08BUENOSAIRES663 | ARGENTINA'S NEW PAPER "CRITICA" UNDER GOVERNMENT [...] (C) JORGE LANATA, ONE OF ARGENTINA'S MOST ACCOMPLISHED JOURNALISTS, CALLED ON AMBASSADOR WAYNE MAY 15 TO ASK FOR SUPPORT AS HIS RECENTLY LAUNCHED PAPER, "CRITICA," IS BEING SUBJECTED TO A GOVERNMENT CAMPAIGN TO CUT OFF FINANCIAL BACKING AND IN OTHER WAYS COMPLICATE OPERATIONS UNLESS IT MODERAT [...] | 2008-05-16 22:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAO OPRC KMDR PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES664 | ARGENTINA ON THE OSLO PROCESS [...] (C) Summary: The Argentine Foreign Ministry theoretically supports a total ban on cluster munitions but, in fact, expects and is counting on a decision of partial prohibition. Nor does the MFA anticipate a finalized draft to come out of the Dublin meeting, anticipating it will take until the [...] | 2008-05-16 23:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PARM PREL NATO UN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES666 | ARGENTINA ON THE OSLO PROCESS [...] (C) Summary: The Argentine Foreign Ministry theoretically supports a total ban on cluster munitions but, in fact, expects and is counting on a decision of partial prohibition. Nor does the MFA anticipate a finalized draft to come out of the Dublin meeting, anticipating it will take until the [...] | 2008-05-19 12:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PARM PREL NATO UN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES681 | ARGENTINA: AGRICULTURE SECTOR STRIKES TAKE [...] (C) Summary: The agricultural crisis that has dominated headlines for the past two months has knocked the administration of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) back on its heels. Faced with plummeting poll numbers that indicate a lack of confidence in CFK's government and society-wide conce [...] | 2008-05-20 13:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAGR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES691 | ARGENTINA: SPACE LAUNCH VEHICLE UPDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-21 15:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCR PARM PREL ETTC TSPL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES702 | ARGENTINA: AMIA PROSECUTOR REQUESTS ARREST OF MENEM AND OTHERS FOR ""LOCAL CONNECTION"" COVER-UP REF: A. 1998 BUENOS AIRES 05826 B. 2004 BUENOSAIRES 2540 C. BUENOS AIRES 646 AND PREVIOUS [...] (C) Summary: Alberto Nisman, Argentina's Special Prosecutor to investigate the 1994 terrorist attack against the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, has requested the arrest of former President Carlos Menem, former federal judge Juan Galeano, and [...] | 2008-05-22 22:53:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV KJUS AR FBI |
08BUENOSAIRES710 | ARGENTINA ON BRAZILIAN SOUTH AMERICAN SECURITY [...] (C) Informal discussions with military, MOD and MFA contacts on Brazil's South American Security Council proposal indicate the Brazilians have not consulted in any detail with the Argentines, who are not clear on what the Brazilians are proposing. GOA contacts discount that the proposed Counci [...] | 2008-05-23 20:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES712 | ARGENTINA'S CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT AVERTS [...] (C) Argentine Central Bank (BCRA) President Martin Redrado told Ambassador May 19 that the mini-run on Argentine banks and on the peso in early May proved that the "wounds are still open" from the 2001/2002 crisis. Apparently accelerating inflation and the GoA's failure to resolve the now thr [...] | 2008-05-23 20:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD AR |
08BUENOSAIRES713 | (C) ARGENTINA REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III [...] (U) Embassy Buenos Aires keys the responses below to reftel A questions. 2. (SBU) NATURE OF INVESTMENTS THAT ARGENTINA BUSINESSES HAVE IN CUBA. The GoA imposes no requirement to register foreign direct investment, and the Embassy has been unable to uncover any major investment by Argentine [...] | 2008-05-23 20:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ETTC PREL ETRD CU AR |
08BUENOSAIRES748 | ARGENTINA'S JUDICIAL BRANCH INCREASINGLY SUBJECT [...] (SBU) Summary: President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is cementing control over the judicial branch by legislating discretion and political criteria into judicial processes. New legislation approved on May 21 increases executive branch influence over the filling of vacant judgeships, and a [...] | 2008-05-30 17:46:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KJUS KCOR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES754 | NEW ECONOMY MINISTER STILL GETTING UP TO SPEED [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador paid a courtesy call on newly appointed Economy Minister Carlos Fernandez May 28, highlighting Paris Club and advocacy on behalf of U.S. investors as key issues to discuss in future meetings. The Minister said he is getting up to speed on the issues, but is mostly foc [...] | 2008-05-30 21:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES775 | ARGENTINA DISAPPOINTED WITH TIP REPORT, BUT [...] (C) Summary. Per refs A and B, the Ambassador met June 3 with Argentine Minister of Justice Anibal Fernandez to share an embargoed copy of the 2008 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. Minister Fernandez thanked the Ambassador for sharing the report, and immediately launched into a discuss [...] | 2008-06-04 20:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ELAB KCRM PHUM SMIG KWMN PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES776 | GOA PRESIDENT, OTHERS, DEFEND POLICIES RESTRICTING [...] (C) Ambassador and Emboffs raised the points provided in Ref A (Request to End Food Staple Export Restrictions),Ref B (Agricultural Biotechnology as a Tool to Fight Hunger),and Ref C (The President's Global Food Security Initiative and Trade) demarches with the President, Foreign Minister, an [...] | 2008-06-05 12:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES787 | ARGENTINA TIGHTENS CONTROLS ON AGRICULTURE EXPORTS REF: BUENOS AIRES 766 AND PREVIOUS Classified By: Ambassador E. Anthony Wayne for reasons 1.4 (B) and (D). [...] (C) SUMMARY: The president of Cargill Argentina met with the Ambassador on June 4 to discuss concerns about the rising stream of regulations to increase GOA control of agricultural exports. The new regulations are being issued without consulting the major exporters and with little regard to pos [...] | 2008-06-06 20:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAGR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES791 | LA NACION TO AMBASSADOR WAYNE: MORE MEDIA PRESSURE [...] (C) Julio and Fernan Saguier, owner-editors of La Nacion, the most influential paper among Argentina's business and educated elite, met with Ambassador Wayne to express concerns that media pressure from the GOA is bad and growing worse. They argued that that former president Nestor Kirchner is [...] | 2008-06-09 15:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | KMDR KPAO OPRC PGOV PHUM PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES827 | ARGENTINA: NO END IN SIGHT FOR 100-DAY FARM CRISIS [...] (C) Summary: In what could prove an important step in diffusing the 100-day old farm crisis, President Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) announced on June 17 that she would be sending a bill this same day to the legislature on the question of the increased agricultural export taxes for debate and vot [...] | 2008-06-17 21:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAGR ECON EFIN INVI AR |
08BUENOSAIRES834 | ARGENTINA: FARM DEBATE(?) MOVES TO CONGRESS [...] (C) Summary: President Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) took a step back from the precipice on June 17 and bought herself some breathing room in the 100-day old farm crisis by announcing she was sending the question of the sliding scale of export taxes ("retenciones") as a bill to congress for deba [...] | 2008-06-18 18:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAGR ECON EFIN INVI AR |
08BUENOSAIRES84 | IDB EXECUTIVE VP ZELIKOW ON ARGENTINA PROGRAM; [...] (C) During a January 10 meeting with Ambassador, IDB Executive Vice President Daniel Zelikow supported increasing the lending ceiling to Argentina, particularly for private sector and sub-national projects, while acknowledging the need to assuage concerns of other IDB member countries. Zelikow [...] | 2008-01-25 13:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID AR |
08BUENOSAIRES841 | ARGENTINA: DELIVERY OF BOLIVIA SECURITY CONCERNS [...] (C) On June 18th, Ambassador delivered reftel demarche and talking points to Argentine MFA U/S for Bilateral Affairs, Vincente Espeche Gil. Ambassador explained that the USG was approaching a "group of friends" (Brazil, Argentina and Columbia) and U/S Shannon had spoken to Argentine Ambassador [...] | 2008-06-19 22:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC BL KDEM PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES842 | (C) ARGENTINE FARM CRISIS: "100 DAYS OF [...] (C) Summary: President Fernandez de Kirchner's June 17 decision to send the polemic grain export fee/tax ("retenciones") issue to congress for debate and vote was met here with guarded optimism and a palpable sense of relief. However, her bellicose speech at the June 18 pro-government rally o [...] | 2008-06-20 10:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAGR ECON ETRD EFIN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES893 | MACRI AND SCIOLI ON THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN [...] (C) Summary: South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford and the CDA met with Argentina's two most prominent center-right politicians, Buenos Aires Governor Daniel Scioli and Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri on June 12. Scioli, formally allied with the Kirchner government, appeared haggard and [...] | 2008-06-27 20:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAGR ECON ETRD EFIN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES894 | ARGENTINA TO HOST 35TH MERCOSUR SUMMIT: LIGHT [...] (C) Argentina will host a July 1 Mercosur Summit of member and associate member leaders, preceded by a June 30 Minster-level Mercosur Council meeting. The Summit culminates a lackluster six-month Argentine presidency of Mercosur marked by national preoccupation with turmoil in the domestic ag [...] | 2008-06-30 09:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAGR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES911 | ARGENTINA: VISITING G/TIP AMBASSADOR PRESENTS [...] (C) Summary. "The United States wants to be Argentina's partner in fighting trafficking in persons (TIP),not a judge", visiting Ambassador-at-Large and Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons Mark P. Lagon told Argentine Minister of Justice Anibal Fernandez durin [...] | 2008-07-01 23:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES948 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH YOUNG, DYNAMIC [...] (C) Salta Governor Juan Manuel Urtubey (protect) told the Ambassador that the export taxes imposed on the agricultural sector are hindering economic growth and thus negatively affecting his province. While close to President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Urtubey was clearly feeling local pr [...] | 2008-07-10 09:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON SOCI AR BL |
08BUENOSAIRES963 | ARGENTINA: BATTLE LINES DRAWN [...] (C) Battle Lines Formed: The sides are drawn for battle in Argentina's agricultural dispute. Farmers and the government are calling followers together for a show of force in Buenos Aires on Tuesday July 15, the day before a decisive vote in the Senate on a bill to approve the government's ag [...] | 2008-07-14 20:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAGR ECON EFIN EINV ASEC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES968 | ARGENTINA: SPECIAL ENVOY RICKMAN RAISES SAIEGH [...] (C) Summary. On July 2, visiting Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism Dr. Gregg Rickman met with Eduardo Saiegh, an Argentine Jew who gave up his bank under duress, after being kidnapped and tortured for a week by the military dictatorship in 1980. Saiegh reviewed the p [...] | 2008-07-15 20:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES980 | ARGENTINA: VP COBOS VOTES AGAINST KIRCHNERS IN AG [...] (C) Summary: After 18 hours of debate, Argentine VP Cobos broke a 36-36 tie in the Senate with his vote against the government's bill sanctioning the increase in agricultural export duties it had unilaterally announced March 11. The agricultural sector welcomed the news, although the congres [...] | 2008-07-18 09:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAGR ECON EINV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES984 | ARGENTINE CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT TO TREASURY DAS [...] (C) Argentine Central Bank (BCRA) President Martin Redrado told Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary Brian O'Neill July 11 that he was greatly concerned about the direction of the U.S. and world economies, and the impact on Argentina and Latin America, and called for stronger G-3 statements of [...] | 2008-07-18 14:46:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD AR |
08BUENOSAIRES990 | ARGENTINA: SPECIAL ENVOY PAYS HOMAGE TO AMIA [...] (SBU) Summary. On July 3, Dr. Gregg Rickman, Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, visited the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) headquarters to pay homage to the victims of the 1994 terrorist attack. He then met with the Executive Boards of both the AMIA and the Del [...] | 2008-07-18 21:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF PTER KJUS FBI AR IR VE |
08BUENOSAIRES994 | GOA NATIONALIZES ARGENTINA'S FLAGSHIP AIRLINE [...] (SBU) On July 21, Argentina's Minister of Planning Julio De Vido and Secretary of Transport Ricardo Jaime signed an agreement with Marsans, Spanish owner of Argentine flag carrier Aerolineas Argentina (AA) and its sister carrier Austral (together referred to as AA),to transfer management and [...] | 2008-07-22 10:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON EINV AR SP |
08BUJUMBURA183 | DAS SWAN SUPPORTS SOUTH AFRICAN MEDIATION WITH THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During his visit to Burundi to facilitate the Tripartite Plus meetings taking place March 24 - 27, Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, James Swan met separately with President Pierre Nkurunziza, First Vice President Yves Sahinguvu, and Minister of Defense, Lt. Gene [...] | 2008-04-08 16:04:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BY |
08BUJUMBURA336 | AF/C DIRECTOR WYCOFF GETS AN EARFUL OF BURUNDI'S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During June 3-6 meetings with Director for Central African Affairs Karl Wycoff, Burundian government, NGO and civil society interlocutors said that: - the repatriation of significant numbers of refugees could help Tanzania,s government consider residency, citizenship and long [...] | 2008-06-27 09:23:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC EAID PGOV PINR PREL BY CG RW |
08BUJUMBURA646 | BURUNDI WILL CONSIDER DELAYING SUPPORT FOR UNESCO [...] (C) In a December 15 meeting with PolOff, the Director for International Organizations in the Ministry of External Relations, Ambassador Adolphe Nahayo, agreed that strong managerial skills and competent leadership are essential for the Direcor-General of UNESCO. He said Burundi would consi [...] | 2008-12-16 13:02:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNESCO BY |
08CAIRO1005 | MFA "DISAPPOINTED" WITH NPT PREPCOM [...] (C) MFA Deputy Director for Disarmament Ahmed El-Shandawily told us May 18 that Egypt was "disappointed" with the outcome of the April 28-May 9 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) PrepCom in Geneva because the GOE believes the PrepCom did not make sufficient progress toward implementing the [...] | 2008-05-18 13:14:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KNPP IS EG |
08CAIRO1009 | FM ABOUL GHEIT, S/I SATTERFIELD DISCUSS LEBANESE [...] (C) Summary: On the morning of May 11, Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit lamented to Ambassador Satterfield and the Ambassador that the Arab League (AL) would not be united at the May 11 Foreign Ministers Meeting in Cairo to discuss the Lebanese crisis. The Foreign Minister said that although Hizb [...] | 2008-05-19 13:26:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PTER LE EG |
08CAIRO1010 | AYMAN NOUR UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: In recent meetings with imprisoned Al Ghad party leader Ayman Nour's lawyer and wife, we were told that, despite recent press reports indicating a deterioration in Nour's health, his health condition is "stable." Nour's wife asked that the USG continue to advocate for Nour's relea [...] | 2008-05-19 13:58:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO1019 | EGYPT'S COPTIC LEADER ON RELATIONS WITH ISLAM, THE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-20 14:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI KIRF KISL EG |
08CAIRO102 | EGYPTIAN COPTIC ACTIVISTS EXPLAIN PROBLEMS WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-22 16:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM EG |
08CAIRO103 | GOE FRUSTRATED BY GAZA ESCALATION [...] (C) Summary. Egyptian MFA and MOD contacts expressed concern on January 22 over the current Gaza crisis. They tell us that the recent Israeli closures, and subsequent pressure at Rafah crossing, has put the GOE in a very difficult position, facing criticism both at home and from Arab states. [...] | 2008-01-22 16:34:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS EG |
08CAIRO1034 | PROPOSED COUNTRY TEAM SCENARIO FOR CONCLUDING THE [...] (C) Summary: As the USG moves forward to conclude the unresolved issues stemming from the unfortunate Global Patriot incident -- delivery of the investigative report's executive summary to the GOE, compensation and condolences to the victim's family and a U.S. apology -- we want to ensure clos [...] | 2008-05-21 14:52:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MOPS EG |
08CAIRO1035 | MOI DISCUSSES EGYPTIAN MEDIA REGULATION [...] (C) SUMMARY. During Ambassador Scobey,s May 13 introductory call on Information Minister Anas Al Fekki, the much-criticized Minister indicated he plans to vigorously enforce the Arab League,s Broadcast TV "code of ethics," that he and his Saudi counterpart spearheaded several months ago at a [...] | 2008-05-21 15:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPAI EG |
08CAIRO1047 | SISYPHUS ON THE HILL: THE OPPOSITION PARTIES OF [...] (C) Summary: Officially, there are 23 opposition parties registered in Egypt. Most of these are either one-man operations with no meaningful support, or government-controlled showpieces unrecognizable as "opposition" (one opposition candidate endorsed President Hosni Mubarak in the 2005 presid [...] | 2008-05-22 12:45:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM EG |
08CAIRO1049 | PRESIDENTIAL SON RAISES HIS PROFILE [...] (C) Summary: Presidential son and presidential aspirant Gamal Mubarak has noticeably amped his public activities over the past few weeks. Gamal's unusual spate of press interviews, as well as his marked criticism of President Bush's May 18 speech in Sharm Al Shaykh, may be part of a purposefu [...] | 2008-05-22 14:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS EG |
08CAIRO1050 | EGYPTIAN MINISTER OF CULTURE'S ANTI-ISRAELI REMARKS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-22 14:26:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KIRF UNESCO EG IS |
08CAIRO1067 | CODEL BAIRD MEETS WITH EGYPTIAN LEADERS ON MARGINS [...] (C) Summary: Codel Baird discussed Egyptian and regional issues with Egypt's political and business leaders on the margins of the May 18 - 20 World Economic Forum (WEF) in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. President Mubarak, Intelligence Chief Omar Soliman, and presidential son Gamal Mubarak focused on [...] | 2008-05-27 11:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EG |
08CAIRO107 | UPROAR OVER EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RESOLUTION [...] (SBU) Summary: Senior GOE officials have loudly protested the European Parliament's (EP) January 17 passage of a resolution sharply critical of Egypt's human rights record. Among other things, the resolution calls for the immediate release of imprisoned former Al Ghad party leader and presiden [...] | 2008-01-23 10:22:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM EU EUN EG |
08CAIRO1079 | GLOBAL PATRIOT: DECEASED'S FAMILY MEMBERS VISIT [...] (C) Summary: We received an unannounced visit May 27 from two relatives of the widow of Mohammed Affifi. Affifi was the Egyptian boatman killed in the March 24 Global Patriot incident. Mohammed Fathi Mohammed, an attorney, said that the family prefers to settle compensation issues directly wit [...] | 2008-05-28 03:58:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL EG |
08CAIRO1085 | EGYPTIAN MFA ASSESSMENT OF THE DOHA AGREEMENT FOR [...] (C) Egyptian MFA reaction to the May 20 Lebanese National Dialogue agreement in Doha was positive, and our MFA interlocutors praised Qatar,s role. All agreed that the Doha agreement was the best that could have been expected. That said, there are competing internal MFA analyses on what the re [...] | 2008-05-28 10:50:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LE SY EG |
08CAIRO1088 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ICT MARKET WITH MINISTER OF [...] (C) Summary: In a May 26 introductory call on Minister of Communications and Information Technology Tarek Kamel, the Ambassador praised the role of the Ministry and of information and communications technology (ICT) market growth in Egypt's economic development, inquired about GOE plans to pro [...] | 2008-05-28 14:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECPS ECON ETRD KIPR EG |
08CAIRO1113 | AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL WITH AMRE MOUSSA [...] (C) The Ambassador and Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa discussed Iraq, Lebanon, the Israeli-Palestinian situation, and the USG's regional democracy strategy in her May 31 introductory call. Moussa said that the Arab League continues to see "eye to eye" with the USG on the need for a [...] | 2008-06-02 10:35:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ LE IS EG |
08CAIRO1117 | GLOBAL PATRIOT: REQUESTING FORMAL GUIDANCE TO [...] (C) Summary: In conversations June 1, Assistant Minister of Defense for Policy MG Mohammed Al-Assar told us that the GOE is expecting a very large compensation payment to the family, but would not say how much. Al-Assar also said that he hoped that NAVCENT Commander Cosgriff would visit Egypt [...] | 2008-06-02 15:15:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MOPS EG |
08CAIRO1118 | GLOBAL PATRIOT: REQUEST FOR FORMAL GUIDANCE TO [...] (C) Summary: In conversations June 1, Assistant Minister of Defense for Policy MG Mohammed Al-Assar told us that the GOE is expecting a very large compensation payment to the family, but would not say how much. Al-Assar also said that he hoped that NAVCENT Commander Cosgriff would visit Egypt [...] | 2008-06-02 15:52:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MOPS EG |
08CAIRO1129 | EGYPTIAN COURT UPHOLDS HIV SENTENCES [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-04 12:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KHIV UN EG |
08CAIRO1149 | DEMARCHE REGARDING EGYPTIAN BLOGGERS DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-08 07:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KMPI EG |
08CAIRO1175 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH EGYPTIAN FREEDOM HOUSE [...] (C) On June 2, the Ambassador met with nine Egyptian journalists and activists who recently returned to Egypt from the U.S. where they participated in Freedom House's New Generation of Advocates Fellowship program. Meeting participants included: Shaima Aboul Kheir (Journalist, Al Dustour n [...] | 2008-06-09 08:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KMPI KDEM EG |
08CAIRO1176 | EGYPT EXPRESSES FRUSTRATION WITH THE UN'S 1267 [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 6. 2. (SBU) Summary: Egypt is one of several countries which has submitted names to the U.N. Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 regarding Al Qaida and Taliban associated entities. Egypt has had 13 names pending with the Committee [...] | 2008-06-09 11:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EG ETRD IR PGOV |
08CAIRO1180 | GAZA BORDER: GOE DOWNPLAYS JUNE 6 HAMAS [...] (C) On June 8, MFA Palestinian Affairs Director Badr Abdelatty downplayed the June 6 Hamas demonstration at the Palestinian Rafah border crossing, describing it as a "normal" and "predictable" way for Hamas to try to pressure Egypt on the current tahdiya ("calming") talks. Abdelatty said that [...] | 2008-06-10 06:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KPAL EG |
08CAIRO1228 | MUFTI'S VIEWS ON RECENT SECTARIAN INCIDENTS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-15 11:23:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI KIRF PHUM KISL EG |
08CAIRO124 | RAFAH CROSSING STILL OPEN; EGYPTIAN ANGER CONTINUES [...] (C) Summary. People continue to cross the Gaza-Egypt border line without GOE customs or immigration formalities as of 1600 local, January 24. The GOE has established a heavy security presence in the area. Presidential Advisor Soliman Awad told the Ambassador January 23 that the current crisi [...] | 2008-01-25 17:39:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IS EG |
08CAIRO1241 | S/P DIRECTOR GORDON, MG AL-ASSAR DISCUSS BILATERAL [...] (C) Summary: In a June 5 discussion, Assistant Minister of Defense for Policy MG Mohammed Al-Assar told S/P Director Gordon that Egypt is a strategic partner for the U.S., and criticized Congress' attempt to condition aid funds as "narrowly focused." Al-Assar claimed that conditionality hamp [...] | 2008-06-16 07:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL EAID KPAL IR IS EG |
08CAIRO1258 | EGYPT'S APPROACH ON ERITREAN ASYLUM-SEEKERS [...] (U) This is an action cable. For action requested, see paragraph 11. 2. (C) Summary: On June 18, the Ambassador raised with Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit USG concern over continuing reports that Egypt is deporting Eritreans likely eligible for refugee protections to Eritrea. Aboul Gh [...] | 2008-06-18 15:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM EG ER |
08CAIRO1259 | GLOBAL PATRIOT: REPORT SUMMARY DELIVERED; NEXT [...] (U) This is an action request; please see para 9. 2. (C) Summary: On June 17, U.S. Fifth Fleet and NAVCENT Commander VADM Kevin J. Cosgriff presented a letter describing the U.S. Fifth Fleet investigation's findings and a summary of the investigative report to Assistant Minister of Defense [...] | 2008-06-18 16:08:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MOPS EG |
08CAIRO1271 | CODEL RAHALL, DEFENSE MINISTER DISCUSS THE GAZA [...] (C) Summary: Codel Rahall, comprised of Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV),Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA),Rep. Ray LaHood (R-IL),Rep. Charlie Melancon (D-LA),Rep. John Linder (R-GA) and Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA),met with Defense Minister Tantawi June 1, accompanied by the Ambassador and OMC Chief. Rep. [...] | 2008-06-19 11:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MARR IQ IS EG |
08CAIRO1277 | GLOBAL PATRIOT: DEFENSE MINISTER TERMS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-19 15:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MOPS EG |
08CAIRO1307 | SPECIAL ENVOY WOLCOTT DELEGATION, GOE OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary and comment: Ambassador Jackie Wolcott, Special Envoy for Nuclear Nonproliferation, led an interagency delegation to Cairo June 8-9 to discuss civilian nuclear energy cooperation with current and former Electricity Ministry and Atomic Energy Authority officials, the MFA, and PGESC [...] | 2008-06-24 04:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON KNNP BEXP EG |
08CAIRO1315 | MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ELECTIONS: SOME INTERNAL [...] (C) Summary and comment: Late May elections for the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's (MB) highest body elevated five new members to the Guidance Council, among them two MB parliamentarians, an unprecedented move for the group. Some analysts herald the exclusion of a prominent MB moderate from th [...] | 2008-06-24 14:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM KISL PINR EG |
08CAIRO1316 | EGYPT: HEADING OFF FUTURE FORCIBLE RETURNS OF [...] (U) This is an action cable. Please see paragraphs 2 and 3 for action requested. 2. (C) It is too soon to tell if Egypt's recent forced repatriation of Eritreans likely eligible for refugee protections (ref B) is a one-time occurrence or portends a full-scale reversal of Egypt's so-far gen [...] | 2008-06-25 11:45:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PREL EG ER |
08CAIRO1322 | EGYPT: LIMITED UNHCR ACCESS TO ERITREAN ASYLUM [...] (C) On June 23, we again pressed MFA Deputy Assistant Minister for Refugees Tarek El Maaty for the GOE to cease forced repatriations of Eritrean asylum seekers and to allow UNHCR complete access to those held in Egyptian custody. El Maaty, uncomfortable and defensive, stressed that most of the [...] | 2008-06-25 14:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PREL EG ER |
08CAIRO1339 | NEW JUDICIAL LAW: A STEP BACK ON JUDICIAL [...] (C) Summary: In the final week of the 2007-2008 parliamentary session, the Egyptian People's Assembly approved several amendments to the Judicial Authorities law. Both the process and substance of the new legislation has been criticized - publicly by the reform-minded Egyptian Judges Club, and [...] | 2008-06-26 14:45:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KJUS EG |
08CAIRO136 | EGYPT-GAZA BORDER UPDATE: JANUARY 27 [...] (C) As of January 27, Palestinians continued to come and go from Egypt without undergoing customs or immigration procedures for the fifth consecutive day while security forces attempted to control only parts of the border and to limit visiting Palestinians' movement to the area between Al Ari [...] | 2008-01-27 16:24:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KPAL EG IS |
08CAIRO137 | EGYPT SEES RE-OPENING RAFAH AS SOLUTION TO BORDER [...] (C) Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman and senior advisor Hossam Zaki told the CDA on January 27 that Egypt's political vision for solving the Gaza border crisis is to find a solution where "everyone wins something, but the PA comes out a bigger winner than Hamas." For the Israelis this wo [...] | 2008-01-27 17:22:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KPAL EG IS |
08CAIRO1403 | GLOBAL PATRIOT: PDASD COULTER, MG AL-ASSAR [...] (U) This message includes an action request; please see para 13. 2. (C) Summary: Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Michael Coulter met with Assistant Minister of Defense MG Mohammed Al-Assar June 26 and July 1 to discuss resolving the outstanding issues related to the March 2 [...] | 2008-07-04 09:13:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MOPS EG |
08CAIRO1416 | CODEL ACKERMAN MEETINGS WITH MUBARAK, SULEIMAN, [...] (C) Summary: In separate June 28 meetings with President Hosni Mubarak, EGIS Director Omar Suleiman, and FM Ahmed Aboul Gheit, CODEL Ackerman and the Ambassador discussed Israeli-Palestinian developments (focusing on Egypt's goals for building upon the current "calming period"),Egypt's region [...] | 2008-07-07 13:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF KISL KPAL EAID ENRG IS |
08CAIRO1425 | EMBASSY CAIRO PLANS FOR FY 2008 D&G SPENDING [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Working in a political environment that is increasingly hostile to reform and openness, our strategy is to exploit opportunities to promote political reform and human rights, both in partnership with civil society and where possible with reform elements within G [...] | 2008-07-08 09:26:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KDEM PHUM PGOV PREL ELAB EG |
08CAIRO1480 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: KEEPING THE PA AFLOAT [...] (C) We raised points in reftel with Barakat Leithy, MFA Acting Director of Palestinian Affairs, on July 13. Leithy told us that the GOE strongly supports the Palestinian Authority and recognizes its financial challenges. Egypt is also facing increasing budgetary pressures. Nevertheless, Lei [...] | 2008-07-14 14:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPAL PREL ECON KWBG EG |
08CAIRO1483 | SUDAN: ARAB LEAGUE, EGYPT ON ICC INDICTMENTS [...] (C) Arab League Secretariat Advisor for African Affairs Zeid Sabban told us on July 15 that Secretary General (SYG) Amre Moussa had come to a "mutual understanding" with United Nations (UN) SYG Ban Ki-Moon and African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Jean Ping in Paris July 14 regarding the I [...] | 2008-07-15 12:31:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EG SU |
08CAIRO151 | DARFUR: CAIRO-BASED SLM/A-UNION FRONT WANTS LARGER [...] (SBU) In a January 27 meeting at their request, Youssef Hassan Youssef Abdallah and Ahmed Hassan Mohamed of the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army-Union Front (SLM/A-UF) asked us to lobby the UN and AU envoys to include SLM/A-UF representatives in their meetings when they next approach Darfur rebe [...] | 2008-01-29 10:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO UNSC MASS PINR EG SU |
08CAIRO1515 | EGYPT: TRADE MINISTER DISCOURAGES POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Trade and Industry Rachid Mohammed Rachid told the Ambassador in an introductory call that Egyptian reformers would view a free-trade agreement with the United States as a catalyst for reform, arguing that the 2006 U.S. decision to back away from the launch of free-tra [...] | 2008-07-17 06:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EG |
08CAIRO1516 | AMBASSADOR VISITS THE GAZA BORDER; RAFAH CROSSING [...] (C) Summary: On a July 13 visit to the Egypt-Gaza border, the Ambassador attended a briefing by Liaison Agency with International Organizations (LAWIO) Chief MG Nagy and toured the border area. In the briefing, MG Nagy outlined the political and security reasons that he said compel Egypt to [...] | 2008-07-17 08:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KPAL MASS IS EG |
08CAIRO1517 | GLOBAL PATRIOT: VICTIM'S RELATIVES INQUIRE INTO [...] (C) On July 14, two relatives of the widow of Mohammed Affifi, the victim in the Global Patriot incident, called us unexpectedly to request a meeting, saying that they had traveled from Port Suez to Cairo to see us. Before the meeting, we advised MOD U.S. Affairs Deputy Chief Colonel Abdullah [...] | 2008-07-17 08:34:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MOPS EG |
08CAIRO1518 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES LOCAL ECONOMY, SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: During the Ambassador's visit to North Sinai July 13, she discussed local economic and political issues with the governor, governorate officials, MPs and businesspeople. Governor Mohammed Abdel Fadeel Shousha said that unemployment in Gaza and in North Sinai fuels smuggling thro [...] | 2008-07-17 08:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID PINR PGOV IS EG |
08CAIRO1528 | GOE AND ARAB LEAGUE ON JULY 19 MINISTERIAL ON [...] (SBU) Arab League Secretariat Advisor for African Affairs Zeid Sabban told us on July 17 that the Arab League would try to tread a "middle road" in its upcoming July 19 ministerial on the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor's recommendation to indict Sudanese President Bashir, but tha [...] | 2008-07-17 15:13:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EG SU |
08CAIRO1529 | MIC'S ABOULNAGA REVIEWS BILATERAL ASSISTANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador and USAID Mission Director spent two hours with MIC Minister Aboulnaga on July 17 reviewing the state of play on both the Egyptian position on the proposed ESF levels for 2009 and on Democracy and Governance programming. Aboulnaga confirmed that MIC will not sign an [...] | 2008-07-17 15:19:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL KDEM EG |
08CAIRO1537 | MFA ON NATO VISIT TO CAIRO, EGYPTIAN VIEWS OF NATO [...] (C) Summary: MFA Deputy Director for European Security and Strategy Mohammed Orfi briefed us July 8 on NATO Assistant SYG Martin Erdmann's mid-June meeting with MFA Assistant Minister for Europe Fatima Zara (ref),saying that the two sides moved toward signing an MOU on exchanging classified [...] | 2008-07-20 10:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL NATO IS EG |
08CAIRO1541 | ARAB MINISTERIAL BACKS SUDAN VS. ICC [...] (SBU) The Arab League called International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Ocampo's request for an arrest warrant against Sudanese President Bashir "unbalanced" in a statement after its July 19 ministerial on the subject, but stopped short of calling on the UN to use its power to stay the [...] | 2008-07-20 14:03:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EG SU |
08CAIRO1560 | PARLIAMENTARY MINISTER DETAILS COMING LEGISLATION [...] (C) Summary: In a July 20 meeting, Minister of State for Parliamentary and Legal Affairs Mufeed Shehab detailed for the Ambassador priority legislation that will come before Egypt's parliament when the new legislative session opens in mid-November. According to Shehab, Egypt's delayed anti-ter [...] | 2008-07-22 14:23:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO1565 | AYMAN NOUR NOT RELEASED ON NATIONAL HOLIDAY [...] (C) In a customary gesture of mercy, on July 23 (a national holiday which celebrates the anniversary of Egypt's 1952 revolution),President Hosni Mubarak granted amnesty to 1,587 prisoners who had served over half of their sentences. Former opposition presidential candidate Ayman Nour, who has [...] | 2008-07-24 11:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO1567 | EGYPT: ESSENTIAL INTERESTS IN THE NILE BASIN AND [...] (C) Summary: Egyptian officials emphasize that Egypt is a leader not only in the Arab world but also in Africa. Outside of projecting regional weight, though, Egypt's core interests in Africa center on maintaining security of Nile water resources and managing the often illegal flow of people a [...] | 2008-07-24 12:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF SENV EWWT EAGR EG ET SU SO |
08CAIRO16 | AYMAN NOUR UPDATE AND LETTER TO POTUS [...] (C) Summary: In a December 30 meeting, Gameela Ismail, wife of imprisoned Ghad Party leader and former presidential candidate Ayman Nour, told us that Nour's health is currently "ok" and that he hopes to be released in one of the traditional holiday amnesties granted by President Hosni Mubarak [...] | 2008-01-03 11:42:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO1629 | BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI ON HUMAN RIGHTS, RELIGIOUS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-30 11:50:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF KISL EG |
08CAIRO1637 | CODEL KERRY MEETING WITH PRESIDENT MUBARAK [...] (C) Summary: On July 2, Senator Kerry and the Ambassador discussed regional developments with President Hosni Mubarak, including Zimbabwe, Sudan, Iraq, Iran, and Israel-Palestine. Mubarak said that Egypt was working to find a solution in Sudan, but preferred to do so "quietly." Mubarak warned [...] | 2008-07-31 10:08:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL PHUM AU EG IR IS SU |
08CAIRO1647 | DARFUR REBELS IN EGYPT ROUND-UP [...] (C) Summary: Since the GOE expelled prominent representatives of the relatively active and well-organized Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) after the JEM attack on Khartoum in May 2008, the Darfur rebels remaining in Cairo seem a less active bunch. The most prominent remaining group seems t [...] | 2008-07-31 14:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PHUM EG SU |
08CAIRO168 | EGYPTIANS, GAZANS SEEK ALTERNATIVE TO BORDER CHAOS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: From business leaders to currency traders to hungry guys with empty gas cans, Egyptian residents of North Sinai and their self-invited guests from Gaza stressed during our visit January 28-30 that economic and humanitarian pressure will continue to cause eruptions across the bo [...] | 2008-01-31 14:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAL PREL ETRD PTER KWBG EG |
08CAIRO171 | MIC'S ABOUL NAGA "EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED" BY [...] (C) Charge, USAID mission director, and econ counselor (notetaker) met with Minister for International Cooperation Fayza Aboulnaga to discuss next steps on the U.S. economic assistance program to Egypt. Charge explained that for FY 2009, the Administration's budget request for $200 million [...] | 2008-01-31 16:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PGOV EG |
08CAIRO1716 | SENIOR MFA OFFICIAL ON ZIMBABWE AND EGYPTIAN [...] (C) Summary: In a July 31 meeting with Hatem Seif al Nasser, Assistant Foreign Minister for American Affairs, the Ambassador pressed the GOE to play a constructive role with Zimbabwe, to help ensure that March 29 election results are respected. A wide-ranging discussion on Egyptian internal p [...] | 2008-08-07 11:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KIRF PHUM ZI EG |
08CAIRO1749 | RESULTS OF ARAB LEAGUE FACT-FINDING MISSION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-10 08:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL DJ ER EG |
08CAIRO1761 | RESULTS OF ARAB LEAGUE FACT-FINDING MISSION ON [...] (C) Summary: Arab League African Affairs Director Samir Hosni led an Arab League fact-finding mission to the Djibouti-Eritrea border on May 9-11. Members of the group met with Djiboutian officials, but Eritrean officials refused to meet with them. The committee found that Eritrean troops we [...] | 2008-08-10 13:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL DJ ER EG |
08CAIRO1762 | VOLUNTARY RETURN OF IRAQIS FROM CAIRO TO BAGHDAD [...] (SBU) Summary. The Iraqi Embassy in Cairo and the Cairo office of the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) confirmed August 10 media reports that approximately 1000 Iraqis, many of whom have UNHCR refugee status, will return to Iraq from Egypt this week. The Iraqi Embassy, Egyptian Minist [...] | 2008-08-10 15:02:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL IZ EG |
08CAIRO1794 | AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON THE EGYPTIAN FUND FOR [...] (C) The Ambassador called on Ambassador Neveen Ashmawy, Secretary General of the Egyptian Fund for Technical Cooperation with Africa (EFTCA) on August 10. EFTCA provides technical experts, training courses and aid donations to assist in the development of sub-Saharan African countries. EFTCA [...] | 2008-08-18 05:18:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID EG |
08CAIRO1833 | DELIVERY OF RESPONSE TO ARAB LEAGUE "SOLUTION [...] (SBU) We conveyed the U.S. position on the Arab League's solution package to Samir Hosni, Director of the Arab League's African Affairs Office on August 7 (ref A). We also encouraged the Arab League to press the Government of Sudan to take positive, concrete steps to improve the situation in [...] | 2008-08-20 10:40:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SU AL EUN |
08CAIRO1855 | EGYPTIAN OIL MINISTER BULLISH ON RESERVES, [...] (C) Summary: Egyptian Minister of Petroleum Sameh Fahmy told the Ambassador in an introductory call Aug. 21 that Egyptian oil and gas reserves exceed most estimates and will increase with new technology, including a speculative plan by an American company for a novel way to exploit hard-to-rea [...] | 2008-08-21 14:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET EMIN ENRG EINV PGOV PREL EG |
08CAIRO1862 | FOREIGN MINISTER AGREES TO HOST REGIONAL "QUINTET" [...] (C) In an August 24 meeting with Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the Ambassador raised the concept of a sub-ministerial strategic planning dialogue, to include Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq, and the United States. She highlighted that the discussions would focus on long-term strategic [...] | 2008-08-24 14:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ EG |
08CAIRO1876 | FOREIGN MINISTER ON GEORGIA, IRAQ, AND U.S. [...] (C) Summary: In an August 24 meeting, Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit told the Ambassador he had not yet read the report and recommendations of an MFA team that recently traveled to Baghdad to assess security conditions in preparation for the potential return of an Egyptian ambassador. He [...] | 2008-08-25 13:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID KIRF RU GG IZ EG |
08CAIRO1877 | EGYPT'S VIEWS ON WAY FORWARD FOR SUDAN [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Egypt (GOE) is extremely concerned about the future of a unified Sudan. Egypt supports the Arab League's initiative for Sudan, (reftels A, B) but is uncertain whether it will produce any results. The GOE opposes the ICC indictment of Sudanese President Bashir [...] | 2008-08-25 13:51:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU EG |
08CAIRO1889 | PROMINENT REFORMIST JUDGE PLANS TO LEAVE EGYPT [...] (C) Summary: Reformist Court of Cassation justice Hisham Bastawisi plans to leave Egypt in early September and spend approximately two years working as a legal advisor in Kuwait. Bastawisi is Egypt's most prominent advocate for increased judicial independence, whose leadership of the Judges Clu [...] | 2008-08-26 13:13:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM KJUS EG |
08CAIRO190 | EGYPT: SECRETARY BODMAN DISCUSSES CIVILIAN NUCLEAR [...] (C) Summary: During his January 23 visit to Cairo, Secretary of Energy Bodman reinforced to official and SIPDIS commercial audiences the need to pursue energy security through diversity, increase electricity supply to fuel global economic growth, and invest in increased efficiency and rene [...] | 2008-02-04 15:42:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EWWT SENV EG |
08CAIRO1920 | EGYPT: NO POSITION YET ON RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF [...] (C) On August 28, ECPO Minister Counselor, together with British and Japanese DCMs (who had received nearly identical instructions),delivered reftel demarche to MFA spokesman and senior cabinet advisor Hossam Zaki. A very sober Zaki listened attentively. He said that Egypt took all issues of [...] | 2008-08-28 14:22:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EG GG RU |
08CAIRO1921 | GOE TO OPEN RAFAH AUGUST 30-31 BEFORE RAMADAN [...] (C) LAWIO Chief MG Nagy told us August 28 that the GOE plans to open the Rafah crossing on a temporary basis August 30 and 31 to allow Egyptians stranded in Gaza to return to Egypt, and to allow Palestinians in Egypt to return to Gaza. MG Nagy said the opening will also allow Palestinians worki [...] | 2008-08-28 15:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KPAL EG |
08CAIRO1922 | GLOBAL PATRIOT: AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CONDOLENCE [...] (C) The Ambassador, accompanied by OMC Chief, presented condolence payment checks totaling 750,000 Egyptian pounds ($141,000) August 28 to the widow, mother, 6 year-old daughter and 1 year-old son of Mohammed Affifi who was killed in the March 24 Global Patriot incident. In a meeting at the S [...] | 2008-08-28 16:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MOPS EG |
08CAIRO1933 | MUBARAK-BARAK DISCUSSIONS FOCUS ON FINAL STATUS [...] (C) Presidential Advisor Soliman Awad briefed the Ambassador August 27 on President Mubarak's August 23 discussions with visiting Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Awad described Barak's visit as "fruitful," focusing on two main issues: Gaza, and Israeli-Palestinian final status discussio [...] | 2008-09-01 15:52:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IS EG |
08CAIRO1940 | ARAB LEAGUE AND EGYPTIAN MFA ON IRAQ, LEBANON, AND [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-02 14:23:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL IS IZ SU EG |
08CAIRO1963 | EGYPTIAN ASSISTANCE TO SOUTH SUDAN: AN EYE ON THE [...] (C) Summary: The principal liaison officer at the Government of South Sudan's (GOSS) liaison office in Cairo, Parmena Makuet Mangar, told us that the Government of Egypt (GOE) maintained good relations with the GOSS, and was funding and working on various development projects in southern Sudan [...] | 2008-09-07 14:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID SU EG |
08CAIRO1965 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED IN PREPARATION FOR THE [...] (C) Summary: On September 4, we delivered ref A points to Arab League (AL) Chief of Staff Hisham Youssef and separately to GOE MFA Cabinet Advisor Mahmoud Affifi. On Israeli-Palestinian issues, Youssef called for more progress on the ground and criticized the lack of an Israeli settlement fr [...] | 2008-09-07 15:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LE IS KPAL IAEA IZ SY MR XF |
08CAIRO1980 | APPARENT PROGRESS IN NEGOTIATIONS FOR A MARITIME [...] (U) ACTION REQUEST IN PARAGRAPH 4. 2. (SBU) After two years of advocacy in support of a U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) visit to Egyptian ports to review compliance with the International Ship and Port Security (ISPS) standards, Embassy Cairo notes a possible change of attitude from relevant GOE a [...] | 2008-09-09 14:00:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT PREL EG |
08CAIRO1981 | FM ABOUL GHEIT RAISES CONCERNS OVER WEST BANK [...] (C) MFA Cabinet Advisor for Israeli-Palestinian Affairs Ahmed Hafez (please protect) briefed us September 5 on Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit's August 31 meeting in Cairo with Israeli MFA DG Aharon Abramovich. Hafez described the meeting's atmosphere as "positive," and stressed that the Egyptia [...] | 2008-09-09 14:42:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IS EG |
08CAIRO1991 | SEPTEMBER 8-9 ARAB LEAGUE MINISTERIAL FOCUSES ON [...] (C) Summary: Arab League (AL) Chief of Staff Hisham Youssef briefed the diplomatic corps September 10 on the September 8-9 Arab League Ministerial, stressing that the discussions focused on pessimistic assessments of progress on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. According to Youssef, Palesti [...] | 2008-09-10 15:24:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL LE IS IZ SY MR XF SU EG |
08CAIRO2001 | EDITOR OF UNLICENSED PAPER RECEIVES ONE YEAR [...] (C) On September 10, a court sentenced Ahmed Bakr Selim, editor of the largely unknown newspaper "Al Qahira Al Yoym" ("Cairo Today") to one year in prison for publishing and distributing the paper without a license. According to Egyptian state media, the court granted Selim bail on $1,850 pen [...] | 2008-09-14 06:03:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM KPAO EG |
08CAIRO202 | MFA ON LEBANON SUPPORT, IRAN RELATIONS [...] (C) We delivered demarche on Lebanon (reftel a) and note verbale to MFA Cabinet advisors Hossam Zaki and Nazih Neggary on January 4. They told us the GOE fully supports Lebanon and an immediate presidential election. They said that the GOE agrees that the tribunal needs to be supported, and t [...] | 2008-02-05 14:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM EFIN EINV SY LE IR EG |
08CAIRO2027 | EGYPTIAN TYCOONS' CRIMINAL CASES ADD TO DISTRUST OF PRIVATE SECTOR [...] (C) Summary: Some of Egypt's leading captains of industry are under investigation in a range of criminal cases from relatively routine suspicions of bribery to the violent killing of a former girlfriend. The Egyptian stock market was buffeted by murder-for-hire accusations against regime insider Ta [...] | 2008-09-15 13:07:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KCRM PGOV EINV EG |
08CAIRO2037 | EGYPT ON UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY THIRD COMMITTEE 2008 [...] (C) We met on September 14 with Deputy Assistant Foreign Minister for Human Rights Wael Aboulmagd to urge the Egyptians to support U.S. human rights priorities at the upcoming meeting of the United Nations General Assembly (reftel). While Aboulmagd did not address the substance of the countr [...] | 2008-09-16 12:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KIRF KISL UN OIC EG |
08CAIRO204 | EGYPT: CHAD SITUATION "COMPLICATED," WILL CONSIDER [...] (C) We asked MFA Cabinet Advisor for African Affairs Ahmed Abu Zeid for the GoE to demarche the Sudanese government to cease its support Chadian rebels on February 6. Per reftel demarche, we stressed that the Sudanese were providing more support to Chadian rebels than before, inflaming an alre [...] | 2008-02-06 09:58:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF CH EG SU |
08CAIRO2053 | RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON ASYLUM SEEKERS IN EGYPT [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. Please see paragraph 7. 2. (C) Summary. We delivered the demarche on asylum seekers in Egypt to Tarek el-Maaty, Deputy Assistant Foreign Minister for Refugees (reftel A). El Maaty stated that the GOE regrets the deaths of those on the border, bu [...] | 2008-09-18 15:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL IS ER EG |
08CAIRO2072 | REPORT ON EGYPTIAN DISSIDENT'S HEALTH APPARENTLY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-22 12:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2078 | NDI MAKING PROGRESS WITH LOW-PROFILE APPROACH [...] (C) Summary: National Democratic Institute (NDI) resident representative Lila Jaafar told us September 16 that in spite of NDI's lack of official registration, the organization provided training and publications to local NGOs over the past year by adopting a low-profile posture and informing [...] | 2008-09-22 14:50:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EAID EG |
08CAIRO2079 | ARAB LEAGUE WORKING WITH AFRICAN UNION TO ADDRESS [...] (C) Summary: According to senior officials at the Arab League and African Union, the two bodies are working closely to address key issues in Sudan, Somalia and Mauritania. AL SYG Amr Moussa and AU SYG Jean Ping head an Arab Ministerial committee on Darfur, and AU Peace and Security Commission [...] | 2008-09-22 15:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU SO MR IT QA EG |
08CAIRO2098 | NAZIF AFFIRMS IMPORTANCE OF ESF, PLEDGEST CONTINUED REFORM [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-25 13:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO211 | GAZA BORDER UPDATE - FEBRUARY 6, 2008 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-06 14:46:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER IS EG |
08CAIRO2122 | APPEALS COURT CONVICTS AND SENTENCES INDEPENDENT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-29 11:21:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2133 | RESPONSE TO SELF-DEPLOYMENT OF EGYPTIAN TROOPS TO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-30 13:50:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO MASS SU EG |
08CAIRO2135 | EGYPT REACTS TO 2008 RELIGIOUS FREEDOM REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-30 14:22:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2141 | FM ABOUL GHEIT VISITS BAGHDAD [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-05 12:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET IZ EG |
08CAIRO2152 | MUBARAK COMMUTES SENTENCE OF INDEPENDENT EDITOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-07 13:16:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2153 | REFORM FATIGUE AT THE HOUSING MINISTRY Classified By: Ambassador Margaret Scobey for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) ------- Summary ------- [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-07 14:40:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID EFIN EG PGOV KDEM PREL |
08CAIRO2156 | ABOUL GHEIT'S IRAQ VISIT SUCCESSFUL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-07 15:14:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET IZ EG |
08CAIRO2177 | AYMAN NOUR'S WIFE ON POTUS LUNCH AND MUTED GOE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-14 11:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS IO EG |
08CAIRO2188 | ARAB LEAGUE COS UPBEAT ON IRAQ [...] (C) Arab League Chief of Staff Hisham Yousef told the DCM October 13 that he believes the situation in Iraq is improving. "We all can say that Iraq is on the right track now. The question is how to accelerate the pace of developments to get better results," Yousef said during the DCM,s introductory [...] | 2008-10-14 16:02:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ SY EG |
08CAIRO2197 | SYG MOUSSA ON IRAQ, SUDAN AND ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-15 15:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL MARR IS SU IZ EG |
08CAIRO2198 | COURT FINES JOURNALISTS FOR INSULTING AL-AZHAR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-15 16:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2199 | DECISION IN FOUR EDITORS' APPEAL EXPECTED DECEMBER [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-15 16:11:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2209 | EGYPTIAN COPTIC PRIEST JAILED IN LEGAL DISPUTE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-16 15:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI KIRF EG |
08CAIRO2210 | FM ABOUL GHEIT ON IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-16 16:27:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET IZ EG |
08CAIRO2224 | GAMAL MUBARAK ON ECONOMIC ISSUES AND THE BILATERAL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-20 15:40:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN EG |
08CAIRO2251 | A FIRST IN EGYPT: COURT SENTENCES SEXUAL ASSAULT [...] (C) Summary and comment: On October 21, for the first time in Egyptian history, a Cairo court heard a sexual assault case, and sentenced truck driver Sherif Gomaa Gibrial to three years in prison for groping 27-year-old female film director Noha Rushdie in June 2008. Rushdie told us that the [...] | 2008-10-23 15:26:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KWMN SOCI EG |
08CAIRO2256 | A/S WELCH MEETING WITH SYG MOUSSA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-26 15:19:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL IS EG |
08CAIRO2260 | NEW NGO FORMED TO ADDRESS POLICE BRUTALITY AND [...] (C) Summary and comment: Dr. Ihab Youssef, Secretary-General of the new NGO "Police and People for Egypt," told us October 16 that he recently founded the NGO to improve relations between the police and the public following recurring incidents of police brutality and torture. The NGO, establ [...] | 2008-10-27 10:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2266 | THE VIEW FROM THE AHWA: THE TALK OF TOWN IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite ubiquitous complaining about life's difficulties, and justified laments about pervasive corruption and the widely loathed Mubarak government, the denizens of Cairo's famed coffeehouses seem satisfied merely to grouse about their grievances, with no thought of taking any [...] | 2008-10-28 13:46:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM SOCI SCUL PGOV ECON PHUM KISL EG |
08CAIRO2271 | REFUGEE PROTESTS OUTSIDE UNHCR CAIRO OFFICE [...] (C) Summary: UNHCR's Deputy Regional Representative told us October 27 that recent refugee protests, outside the Cairo UNHCR office have grown and become more vocal. Refugees and asylum seekers are upset by the lack of resettlement options and the insufficiency of UNHCR's financial and healthca [...] | 2008-10-29 14:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV PREL SU SO EG |
08CAIRO2275 | MFA ADVISOR AND PDAS FELTMAN DISCUSS REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary: NEA PDAS Feltman and MFA Senior Advisor Hossam Zaki discussed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, the global financial crisis, and Iraqi debt relief during an October 26 meeting in Cairo. Zaki said that recording progress on Israeli-Palestinian negotiations is [...] | 2008-10-30 07:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EFIN ECON KPAL IZ IS SY IR EG LE |
08CAIRO2277 | PA ENVOY SHAATH ON INTRA-PALESTINIAN [...] (C) Nabil Shaath, leader of the Fatah delegation to the intra-Palestinian talks in Cairo, briefed the Ambassador on progress in an October 28 courtesy call. He reported that the Egyptians have moved the planned Palestinian reconciliation meeting from November 9 to November 10 in order to acco [...] | 2008-10-30 12:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL IS SY IR TC JO EG |
08CAIRO2280 | COURT FINES MEDIA COMPANY FOLLOWING BROADCAST OF [...] (C) Summary and comment: On October 26, a court fined the owner of the Cairo News Company (CNC) media transmission firm 150,000 Egyptian pounds (about USD 27,000) and confiscated some of its equipment for operating without licenses. The GOE had shut CNC down shortly after the company provided [...] | 2008-10-30 14:15:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2297 | ACTIVISTS PRESENT DIFFERING VIEWS ON REFORM [...] (C) Summary: Visiting NEA PDAS Jeffrey Feltman met October 26 with political activists to discuss the current state of reform in Egypt, and opportunities for the U.S. to promote democracy. The activists mostly agreed that the current climate in Egypt is disappointing, citing income dispariti [...] | 2008-11-02 15:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2310 | NO SURPRISES AT RULING PARTY CONFERENCE [...] (C) Summary: On November 1-3, nearly three thousand delegates participated in the annual conference of Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party (NDP.) Convened under the banner "New Thinking for Our Country's Future," the conference heard a robust-looking President Mubarak pledge to continue w [...] | 2008-11-04 14:12:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ECON EG |
08CAIRO2316 | ARAB LEAGUE SYG MOUSSA DISCUSSES REGIONAL ISSUES [...] (C) Summary. Arab League Secretary General Moussa discussed Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the global financial crisis during an October 26 meeting with visiting NEA PDAS Feltman and the Ambassador. Moussa said that the situation in Lebanon has improved markedly [...] | 2008-11-05 12:21:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL LE SY IZ EG |
08CAIRO2319 | EGYPT ORGANIZING REGIONAL ANTI-PIRACY EFFORTS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-05 14:18:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PBTS EWWT MOPS SU SO ER SA JO DJ |
08CAIRO2339 | OPPOSITION AL-GHAD PARTY HEADQUARTERS TORCHED [...] (C) Summary: What had been a legal dispute between rival factions of opposition Al Ghad ("Tomorrow") party founded by imprisoned opposition leader Ayman Nour, turned violent when supporters of a pro-government wing of the party marched on the party's headquarters, controlled by Nour supporter [...] | 2008-11-10 14:43:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO234 | CHAD: EGYPTIAN LEADERS SAY CHAD, SUDAN EQUALLY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-10 07:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF CH EG SU |
08CAIRO2341 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PASSING THE RESOLUTION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-12 13:27:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM IR BM KN EG |
08CAIRO2343 | THE ARAB LEAGUE ON SUDAN [...] (C) Summary: The Arab League (AL) Advisor on Africa Affairs said the AL is pleased with the progress that the Government of Sudan (GoS) has made on the AL's Solution Package, based on his meetings with numerous Sudanese leaders in November (reftel A). He highlighted Sudan's improved relations [...] | 2008-11-12 15:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU EG |
08CAIRO2349 | EGYPT'S BAHA'I: FAVORABLE RULINGS BUT NO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-13 14:42:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2350 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: TORCHING OF OPPOSITION AL-GHAD [...] (C) On November 12, we demarched MFA Deputy Assistant Minister for Human Rights Wael Aboulmagd on the November 6 torching of Al-Ghad party headquarters (ref A). We expressed particular concern that the headquarters of an opposition party was destroyed, and that according to some reports, the [...] | 2008-11-13 15:22:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2376 | SENIOR MOD ADVISOR ON MILITARY COOPERATION, [...] (C) On November 17, visiting NEA/ELA Office Director Nicole Shampaine met with Assistant Minister of Defense MG Mohammed Al-Assar to discuss military cooperation and regional security. Shampaine encouraged Egypt to take advantage of a new American administration and Congress by exploring way [...] | 2008-11-19 14:02:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS MARR IS IZ IR EG |
08CAIRO2382 | EGYPT'S SECOND EVER SEXUAL ASSAULT CASE: ONE-YEAR [...] (C) Summary and comment: On November 17, in Egypt's second ever sexual assault case, a Cairo court convicted and sentenced a 19 year-old man to one year in prison on charges of sexual assault for the highly publicized October 2 attempted rape and groping of three women in front of a large cro [...] | 2008-11-19 14:21:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KWMN SOCI EG |
08CAIRO2384 | EGYPT'S VIEWS ON BORDER SHOOTINGS AND REFUGEE [...] (C) Summary: The Director of the Egyptian MFA's Refugee Office, Tarek el-Maaty, told us on November 13 that he was frustrated with a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report condemning Egypt for the shooting of migrants on the Egypt-Israel border. He blamed the U.S. and Israel for asking Egypt to secu [...] | 2008-11-19 14:43:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL PGOV SU ER SO EG |
08CAIRO2402 | NO EVIDENCE OF UP-FRONT RESIGNATIONS IN EGYPT'S [...] (C) Summary: Despite concerns expressed by international workers' rights organizations that factories in Egypt's Special Export Zones (SEZ) require workers to submit undated resignations as a pre-condition of employment, NGOs report that this practice is not prevalent in Egypt's Qualifying [...] | 2008-11-24 12:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PHUM ETRD EG IS |
08CAIRO2405 | AFTER A THAW, DECREASING GOE TOLERANCE FOR PRESS FREEDOM [...] (C) Summary and comment: The consensus among observers of press freedom in Egypt is that following a high-water mark for openness in 2005, the GOE has been tightening its grip on the press, particularly over the past year through court cases, detentions and the revocation of licenses. With sever [...] | 2008-11-24 13:14:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2420 | OPPOSITION AL-GHAD PARTY VP PROVIDES ADDITIONAL [...] (C) Summary and comment: On November 16, Al-Ghad party Vice-President Wael Nawara described for visiting NEA/ELA Office Director Nicole Shampaine the November 6 torching of the party's headquarters in greater detail than his initial account (ref B). Nawara displayed newspaper photos that sho [...] | 2008-11-25 15:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2424 | WAFD PARTY LEADERS U.S. "INTERFERENCE" IS [...] (C) A November 20 meeting with 15 leaders o the liberal opposition party Al Wafd began withWafd members questioning Ambassador Scobey extenively about President-elect Obama's foreign polic plans, particularly relating to the Israeli-Palstinian conflict, and lauding the U.S. electionsas a democr [...] | 2008-11-26 09:50:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM EAID EG PGOV PREL |
08CAIRO2428 | SECTARIAN ATTACK ON CHURCH NEAR CAIRO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-26 14:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF KISL SOCI EG |
08CAIRO2429 | EGYPT PREPARES FOR GAZAN HAJJ PILGRIMS [...] (C) MFA Deputy Director for Palestinian Affairs Barakat Leithy told us November 26 that the Egyptians are preparing for approximately 3200 Hajj pilgrims to transit Egypt from Gaza en route Saudi Arabia. This is an increase of approximately 1000 from last year. Leithy said that GOE policy is [...] | 2008-11-26 15:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KPAL IS EG |
08CAIRO2430 | ANGER BOILS OVER IN ASWAN [...] (U) On November 22, police in the Upper Egypt city of Aswan shot and killed Abdel Wahab Abdel Razek at his home while searching for a suspected drug dealer. According to press reports, police officials said Razek fired at officers who then shot and killed him. In a November 25 public stateme [...] | 2008-11-26 15:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2435 | EGYPT ANXIOUS TO ENGAGE ON PIRACY AND SOMALIA [...] (C) Summary: The Egyptian MFA's point man on Somalia told us on November 24 that Egypt wants to collaborate with the USG to address the growing piracy issue in the region. Egypt is looking for direction from the U.S. on areas for potential cooperation and prefers that Saudi Arabia be included [...] | 2008-11-30 12:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM EWWT SO SA ER EG |
08CAIRO2438 | ARAB LEAGUE SUPPORTS ABBAS; DOES NOT CONDEMN HAMAS [...] (C) Summary. The Arab League Ministerial meeting of November 26 resulted in explicit support for PA President Abbas to remain in office until the intra-Palestinian conflict is resolved and parliamentary and presidential elections are able to be held. There was no explicit reference to Hamas [...] | 2008-11-30 15:16:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL IS SY EG |
08CAIRO2442 | ABOUL GHEIT CALLS ARAB LEAGUE MINISTERIAL [...] (C) In a November 29 meeting, Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit gave Ambassador his assessment of the recent Arab League ministerial on Palestinian reconciliation. Aboul Gheit stated that overall it was successful, particularly in getting the AL ministers to endorse the view that Abu Mazen's pres [...] | 2008-12-01 12:27:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EWWT KPAL EG |
08CAIRO2452 | JOURNALISTS FACE TRIAL FOR VIOLATING GAG ORDER ON [...] (C) Summary and comment: Two editors and three journalists from independent newspapers are expected to go on trial December 4 for violating a November 16 gag order on publishing details of the current public court case against regime insider Hisham Talaat Mustafa for allegedly ordering the mu [...] | 2008-12-02 16:02:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2454 | GOE PREVENTS ACTIVIST FROM TRAVELING TO THE YOUTH [...] (C) On December 2, Egyptian State Security briefly detained Al-Ghad opposition party member and activist Ahmed Nassar at the Cairo airport before releasing him, and specifically banned him from traveling to the December 3-5 Alliance for Youth Movements Summit in New York. Nassar told us that [...] | 2008-12-02 16:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO EG |
08CAIRO2457 | JOINT DEMARCHES ON INCREASING DIPLOMATIC PRESSURE [...] On December 2 DCM joined with UK, German, French and Italian counterparts to deliver reftel Iran demarches to MFA Deputy Minister Wafa Bassim. By prior agreement, UK DCM took the lead in presenting the non-paper and talking points on financial pressure on Iran (ref A) and Italian DCM presente [...] | 2008-12-03 13:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL KNOP MNUC IR EG |
08CAIRO2460 | ARAB LEAGUE TOYING WITH IDEA OF A JOINT ARAB FORCE [...] (C) Zeid al-Sabban, Advisor to the Arab League (AL) SYG, told us on December 1 that the AL is thinking about creating a ""joint Arab force,"" which could be deployed in places of conflict similar to United Nations and African Union forces. He said that this idea arose after the December 20 conf [...] | 2008-12-03 15:14:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EWWT AL EG |
08CAIRO2461 | ARAB LEAGUE FOCUSING ON ICC CASE, OUT OF THE LOOP [...] (C) Summary: The Arab League (AL) SYG's advisor on African Affairs recently returned from The Hague, where he discussed the ICC indictment against Sudanese President Bashir. The AL feels it is important to enact Article 16 of the Rome Statue, before the ICC judges reach a decision, to preserve [...] | 2008-12-03 15:18:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM AL SU QA EG |
08CAIRO2462 | GOE APPARENTLY ALLOWS SECOND ACTIVIST TO TRAVEL TO [...] (C) Summary and comment: April 6 Movement activist Ahmed Saleh (reftels) told us the morning of December 3 that GOE security officials allowed him to proceed to his Egypt Air flight to New York after they briefly pulled him out of the departure lounge to hold his passport and search his bags. [...] | 2008-12-03 16:00:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO EG |
08CAIRO247 | A/S WELCH'S FEBRUARY 6 MEETING WITH AMRE MOUSSA [...] (C) Summary. NEA Assistant Secretary David Welch met Feb 6 with Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa. Moussa said that the Arab League and the U.S. "are in the same boat" in Iraq, and argued against a precipitous troop withdrawal. On Lebanon, Moussa will continue to push for implementati [...] | 2008-02-11 07:42:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LE IS IZ EG |
08CAIRO2475 | EGYPT UNHAPPY WITH ITS ROLE IN RESOLVING SUDAN [...] (C) Summary: The Egyptian MFA's cabinet advisor for African Affairs, Ahmed Abu Zeid, told us the Government of Egypt (GOE) sent a letter to UN SYG Ban expressing its dissatisfaction with the work of UN Special Envoy for Darfur Yipene Bassole. Egypt is unhappy that Bassole and the Qatari Govern [...] | 2008-12-04 14:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN SU EG |
08CAIRO2476 | HAJ PILGRIMS IN GAZA; GOE AWAITING HUMANITARIAN [...] (C) Summary. The GOE has opened Rafah crossing for approximately 3100 inbound Haj pilgrims (reftel a),but the MFA reports that Hamas continues to block movement of the pilgrims inside Gaza, and that so far none have crossed into Egypt. The GOE is increasing public criticism of Hamas over th [...] | 2008-12-04 14:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL IS QA EG |
08CAIRO2478 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH UNHCR'S REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Saad Al Attar, UNHCR's Regional Representative in Cairo on November 25. Al Attar told the Ambassador about UNHCR's challenges to meet its responsibilities given a lack of funding, the situation of Iraqi refugees in Egypt, and UNHCR's dealings with the Gove [...] | 2008-12-04 15:08:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL PGOV SU ER IZ EG |
08CAIRO2479 | KOSOVO'S REPRESENTATIVE IN EGYPT FRUSTRATED WITH [...] (C) Summary: Beqir Ismaili, the Government of Kosovo's (GOK) spokesman in Islamic countries, told us on November 30 that he was frustrated with officials from both the Government of Egypt (GOE) and his own GOK. He said that Egyptian MFA officials still had not responded to his mid-November re [...] | 2008-12-04 15:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KO EG |
08CAIRO2481 | AMBASSADOR AND MOD DISCUSS IRAQ, PIRACY, AND [...] (C) Summary: During a December 6 meeting, Ambassador and Minister of Defense Field Marshal Tantawi discussed regional security issues, including the new U.S.-Iraq security agreement, Iran, combating piracy, Palestinian reconciliation, and the upcoming Military Cooperation Committee (MCC) mee [...] | 2008-12-08 08:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS MARR MOPS IZ IR IS KPAL SO EG |
08CAIRO2484 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETINGS WITH PARLIAMENTARY LEADERS [...] (C) Summary: In recent meetings at the Egyptian People's Assembly with parliamentary speaker Fathi Surour and chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee Mustafa el Fekki, the parliamentarians previewed Egypt's legislative priorities for the new parliamentary session (which began mid-November),[...] | 2008-12-11 13:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF PTER KDEM IZ EG |
08CAIRO2491 | ANTI-CORRUPTION NGO FILES THREE LAWSUITS AGAINST [...] (C) Summary and comment: Engi El-Haddad, Director of the Egyptian Accountability Center (EAC),an NGO that focuses on fighting corruption, told us December 11 that her organization has filed three lawsuits against the government to coincide with United Nations Anti-Corruption Day on December [...] | 2008-12-11 15:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV EG |
08CAIRO2497 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: UNSCR ON ANNAPOLIS PROCESS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-14 14:16:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PGOV PREL UNSC EG |
08CAIRO2502 | MFA ON GAZA, HAMAS, AND RECENT DEMONSTRATIONS [...] (C) Summary. MFA Cabinet Advisor for Israel-Palestinian Affairs Ahmed Hamshari told us December 15 that Egyptian embassies worldwide had recently faced demonstrations criticizing the GOE over the humanitarian situation in Gaza. The protests appear to be in response to blockage of Hamas-sponso [...] | 2008-12-15 13:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL PINR IR IS EG |
08CAIRO2515 | COPTS ON SECTARIAN STRIFE IN UPPER EGYPT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-17 06:00:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER PGOV ECON KIRF KISL SOCI EG |
08CAIRO2525 | EGYPT TAKING STEPS TO ADDRESS AND COMBAT HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Mark Lagon, the Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, visited Egypt on November 14-17 and met with numerous Egyptian government officials, UN organizations, representatives, and NGO leaders involved in combating trafficking-in-persons (TIP [...] | 2008-12-18 14:07:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SMIG PREF ASEC KFRD KCRM KWMN ELAB PREL |
08CAIRO2528 | NO EVIDENCE OF EXTENSIVE USE OR ABUSE OF FOREIGN [...] (SBU) In recent visits to Egyptian factories participating in the Qualifying Industrial Zone (QIZ) program, we saw no evidence of the extensive or abusive use of foreign workers. On November 19, we visited two large QIZ factories located in the Tenth of Ramadan Special Economic Zone (SEZ); t [...] | 2008-12-18 15:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ETRD PHUM PREL PGOV EG IS JO |
08CAIRO2542 | ACTIVISTS CRITICIZE THE GOE, CALL FOR NEW U.S. [...] (C) Summary: On December 13, civil society activists and a political oppositionist discussed with Codel Dorgan Egypt's current political and economic problems, and the future of U.S. policy toward Egypt. Former independent parliamentarian Anwar Essmat El-Sadat asserted that U.S. aid to the GO [...] | 2008-12-21 15:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO255 | DEFMIN TANTAWI SAYS EGYPT READY TO MEET ISRAEL AND [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Defense Tantawi told A/S Welch February 7 that he would welcome a visit by Israeli Defense Minister Barak or Amos Gilad to discuss moving forward with solving the Gaza border crisis. Tantawi said that he personally would not object to four-way talks involving the PA, [...] | 2008-02-11 15:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MARR KPAL EG IS |
08CAIRO2558 | MFA CONFIRMS HAMAS ACCEPTANCE OF 24-HOUR CEASEFIRE [...] (C) MFA Deputy Director for Palestinian Affairs Barakat Leithy confirmed December 23 that Hamas had accepted a 24 hour "ceasefire" that went into effect the evening of December 22. Leithy said that Hamas and most other Palestinian factions had agreed to cease rocket fire into Israel, but that [...] | 2008-12-23 14:23:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL IS EG |
08CAIRO2576 | EGYPT TO JOIN CONTACT GROUP ON SOMALI PIRACY [...] (U) On December 28, Assistant Foreign Minister Wafaa Bassim "officially" informed the Ambassador that Egypt will join the Contact Group on Somali Piracy (CGSP). The Egyptian decision followed our demarche delivered on December 23 to Abdelhammed Marzouk, Deputy Assistant Minister for South and [...] | 2008-12-30 13:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM EWWT PGOV USUN SO EG |
08CAIRO2577 | MINISTER OF PARLIAMENTARY AND JUDICIAL AFFAIRS ON [...] (C) In a cordial December 23 meeting, Minister of State for Parliamentary and Judicial Affairs Mufeed Shehab previewed Egypt's 2008-2009 legislative agenda for the Ambassador. Shehab confirmed that the Political Rights Law will be amended to add 56 new seats (2 per province) in the People's A [...] | 2008-12-30 13:32:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KIRF KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2578 | CODEL HASTINGS' CAIRO MEETINGS [...] (C) Summary: In December 6 meetings, senior Egyptian government officials told Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) that the incoming U.S. administration should focus on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process "from day one." FM Ahmed Aboul Gheit told Hastings that the Barcelona Process has been completely dis [...] | 2008-12-30 13:40:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS OSCE PHUM KCRM OREP EUN PREF |
08CAIRO2581 | FOREIGN MINISTER DESCRIBES EGYPTIAN HUMANITARIAN [...] (C) Just prior to CODEL Dorgan's meeting with President Mubarak on December 14 (septel),Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, in response to a question from Senator Dorgan, said that the situation in Zimbabwe was dire, especially with the outbreak of cholera there, and that Egypt was sending em [...] | 2008-12-30 13:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL PGOV EG ZM |
08CAIRO2583 | EMBASSY TRYING TQLT EGYPTIAN REFOULEMENT OF [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Cairo is engaging with the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),Egyptian State Security (SSIS),and UNHCR to halt the Government of Egypt's (GOE) forced repatriation of Eritrean migrants. On December 23, the Ambassador asked the MFA to give UNHCR access to the Eritr [...] | 2008-12-30 15:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL ER EG |
08CAIRO2584 | UNESCO DIRECTOR GENERAL - NEXT STEPS [...] (C) Summary. Egyptian Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni's candidacy to be Director General of UNESCO will likely create a serious irritant in our bilateral relationship with the Egyptians, as well as a public diplomacy challenge here and in other Arab states. We have made clear our position an [...] | 2008-12-30 15:43:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNESCO SCUL EG |
08CAIRO2585 | EGYPT: GAZA ROUND-UP FOR DECEMBER 30 [...] (SBU) On December 28, an estimated 100 Palestinians entered Egypt through a breach along the Egypt-Gaza border. Egyptian forces repelled the crowds, but at least one Egyptian security officer and several Palestinians were killed. The border is reportedly quiet today and breaches have been r [...] | 2008-12-30 16:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL IS EG |
08CAIRO272 | A/S WELCH'S FEB 7 MEETING WITH FM ABOUL GHEIT [...] (C) Summary. A/S Welch met with Egyptian Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit February 7. The two agreed that a breakthrough in Lebanon was unlikely, and that the Lebanese government and institutions needed to be supported by the international community. Aboul Gheit reported that the GOE was sealing [...] | 2008-02-12 14:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IS LE EG |
08CAIRO281 | EGYPT DENIES REFOULEMENT OF SUDANESE RETURNED FROM [...] (C) Summary: MFA Deputy Assistant Minister for Refugees Tarek El Maaty told us on February 12 that in late December 2007, Egypt had released the group of 48 African migrants that Israel had returned to Egypt in August 2007 after they illegally crossed the Sinai border into Israel, and that none [...] | 2008-02-13 16:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL EG IS SU |
08CAIRO34 | MUBARAK WARNS AGAINST DEPARTURE OF U.S. FORCES [...] (C) Summary: President Mubarak told the Ambassador and visiting Congressman Steven Israel (D-NY) on January 6 that withdrawing American forces from Iraq now would be a "big, big mistake." Separately, visiting Iraqi Foreign Minister Zebari -- leaving his own, earlier meeting with Mubarak -- [...] | 2008-01-08 16:59:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EG IZ |
08CAIRO346 | NOUR'S ASSETS REPORTEDLY TO BE TURNED OVER TO [...] (SBU) Egypt's Political Parties Committee (PPC),chaired by ruling party head and Shoura Council speaker Safwat El Sherif, on February 19 reportedly issued a decision turning various assets of Ayman Nour (the imprisoned former presidential candidate and leader of the opposition Ghad party) ove [...] | 2008-02-21 15:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO354 | AYMAN NOUR'S WIFE ON ASSETS ISSUE AND NOUR'S [...] (C) Summary: In a February 22 meeting, Gameela Ismail (wife of imprisoned former Ghad party leader Ayman Nour),told us that she believes the government "is taking a step back" with regard to turning over some of Nour's assets to his government-backed rival and current leader of the Ghad party [...] | 2008-02-24 14:23:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO357 | ARAB LEAGUE ON LEBANON, KOSOVO, IRAQ [...] (C) Arab League Chief of Staff Hisham Yousef told us February 24 that Secretary General Moussa will lead an Arab League delegation to Beirut later in the day as a "last ditch effort" to secure an agreement prior to the next scheduled Lebanese parliamentary session on February 26. Yousef said [...] | 2008-02-24 15:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PARM PINR UNMIK YI LE IZ EG |
08CAIRO359 | AYMAN NOUR'S WIFE ON ASSETS ISSUE AND NOUR'S [...] (C) Summary: In a February 22 meeting, Gameela Ismail (wife of imprisoned former Ghad party leader Ayman Nour),told us that she believes the government "is taking a step back" with regard to turning over some of Nour's assets to his government-backed rival and current leader of the Ghad party [...] | 2008-02-25 10:32:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO362 | ENCOURAGING EGYPTIAN ATTENDANCE AT THE ARAB [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-25 11:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ EG |
08CAIRO389 | LOCAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS PRIMER [...] (C) Summary and Comment: On April 8, Egypt will hold its first Local Council Elections (LCE) in six years. Polls will be held nationwide, with an estimated 50,000-52,000 seats up for grabs. The National Democratic Party (NDP),which is currently conducting its first-ever "primaries" to select [...] | 2008-02-27 13:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM EG |
08CAIRO390 | SUDAN: NEW ARAB LEAGUE ENVOY DESCRIBES HIS MANDATE [...] (C) Summary: Recently-appointed Arab League Special Envoy for Sudan Salah Halima told us February 26 that his primary mission is to focus on humanitarian assistance and development in Darfur. Halima advised the USG to "respect Sudanese sovereignty," in order to improve the USG-GOS relationsh [...] | 2008-02-27 13:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EG SU |
08CAIRO397 | IMPACT OF ARAB LEAGUE MEDIA PROJECT UNCLEAR, BUT [...] (C) Summary. It is unclear how the Arab League "Media Project," adopted February 11 at a conference of Arab League Information Ministers, will affect media in Egypt and the region, but it could serve as a basis for governments, including the GOE, to impose media restrictions. An Arab League [...] | 2008-02-27 16:15:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV EG |
08CAIRO399 | ADDRESSING MIC´S OBJECTIONS TO D&G FUNDING FOR "UNREGISTERED" NGOS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 17, we received a letter from Minister of International Cooperation Fayza Aboulnaga directing USAID to cease funding four American and six Egyptian organizations. These groups received democracy and governance (D&G) grants under USAID´s direct grants program in the last [...] | 2008-02-28 10:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PREL KDEM EG |
08CAIRO41 | EGYPT: DARFUR TROOP DEPLOYMENT HIGHLIGHTS INTENT [...] (SBU) Egypt is beginning to deploy its almost 700 signals, transport, and engineering troops to Darfur as part of the Heavy Support Package (HSP) for the UN/AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID). MFA Cabinet Advisor for African Affairs Ahmed Abu Zeid told us on January 6 that the necessary equipment f [...] | 2008-01-10 14:31:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PGOV UNSC EG SU |
08CAIRO411 | SPECIAL ENVOY WILLIAMSON ASKS EGYPT TO PRESS SUDAN [...] (C) Summary: Meeting on February 24, Special Envoy to Sudan Richard Williamson asked Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit to press the GOS to drop its obstruction to UN/AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) deployment. Aboul Gheit said that the GOE shares the USG's interest in stabilizing Darf [...] | 2008-03-02 07:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EG SU |
08CAIRO419 | EGYPTIAN GAS EXPORTS TO ISRAEL: STILL IN TESTING [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The El Arish - Ashkelon gas pipeline is still in the testing phase, but should be ready for full-scale exports "very soon." Continued violence in Gaza will increase the opposition's calls to scrap gas exports to Israel, as well as increasing the issue's resonance amon [...] | 2008-03-02 15:38:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON PREL EG IS |
08CAIRO429 | EGYPTIAN REACTION TO ANTI ISLAM VIDEO (C-DI8-00223) [...] (C) Per reftel request, we detail below various Egyptian reactions to the anticipated upcoming release of Dutch MP Geert Wilder's short film: - Ministry of Foreign Affairs: On February 22, MFA spokesman Hossam Zaki released a statement noting that, "Egypt is closely following all relevant de [...] | 2008-03-04 14:45:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR KISL EG |
08CAIRO450 | AYMAN NOUR LETTER TO AMBASSADOR: I WANT AN [...] (C) Summary: In a verbose six-page handwritten Arabic letter to the Ambassador, delivered to the Embassy late on March 3, imprisoned former Al Ghad party leader Ayman Nour makes clear his preference that, "if there has been no specific and serious talk" from the GOE about his being released, t [...] | 2008-03-06 14:26:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO452 | GAZA BORDER UPDATE: NO CHANGE IN BORDER GUARD [...] (C) Military sources told us March 4 that the February 26 media coverage sourced to Israeli officials that Egypt had doubled its Border Guard Force (BGF) numbers along the Egypt-Gaza border is completely innaccurate. The sources told us that the Egyptians have not increased their BGF numbers, [...] | 2008-03-06 16:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KPAL IS EG |
08CAIRO484 | EGYPT WELCOMES AFRICOM [...] (C) AFRICOM Commander General William Ward met Egyptian Chief of Staff LTG Sami Enan and Assistant Minister of Defense MG Mohamed El-Assar on at the Ministry of Defense on February 17. During the hour-long meeting, which included DASD Whelan, OMC Chief, and ECPO minister counselor, GEN Ward e [...] | 2008-03-11 10:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR EG |
08CAIRO489 | CONVERSATION WITH MFA ON RECENT DETENTIONS OF MB [...] (C) DCM raised the recent arrests of approximately 450-700 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) affiliated Egyptians with MFA Assistant Minister for American Affairs Hatem Saif el Nasser on March 11. During a courtesy call for visiting NEA PDAS Jeff Feltman, we told Nasser that the timing of the arrests, [...] | 2008-03-12 08:02:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EG |
08CAIRO494 | EGYPTIAN ASPIRATIONS FOR PRESIDENCY OF THE HUMAN [...] (C) DCM (joined by visiting NEA PDAS Feltman) raised reftel points with MFA Assistant Minister Hatem Seif al Nasser on March 11 (Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit was on travel). Nasser confirmed that the Egyptians were interested in the presidency of the UN Human Rights Council, but had no detail [...] | 2008-03-12 15:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL EG |
08CAIRO495 | LOCAL ELECTIONS LEAD-UP: ARRESTS CONTINUE, [...] (SBU) Summary: In the lead-up to Egypt's April 8 local council elections, dozens of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) campaign workers and candidates continue to be arrested daily. An estimated 400-700 MB members have been detained in the past five weeks. On March 10, the MB announced that it had aimed [...] | 2008-03-12 16:43:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KISL EG |
08CAIRO505 | ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT UPDATE [...] (C) The expected number of Arab heads of state at the March 28-30 Arab League Summit in Damascus may be increasing. MFA Cabinet Advisor Nazih Neggary told us March 13 that the Egyptian Embassy in Damascus had reported that the Syrian MFA had very recently briefed Arab ambassadors in Damascus o [...] | 2008-03-13 14:27:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LE SY EG |
08CAIRO52 | CODEL PRICE MEETS WITH ABOUL GHEIT [...] (C) Summary. FM Aboul Gheit told visiting Codel Price January 6 that the GOE recognizes that the Administration is trying to advance the Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, but warned that continuing Israeli settlement activity would scuttle progress. He urged that USG security measures not d [...] | 2008-01-13 14:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS IZ EG |
08CAIRO534 | EGYPTIAN MFA RECEIVES HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT AND [...] (SBU) We met on March 12 with Wael Aboul Magd, Deputy Assistant Foreign Minister for Human Rights Affairs, and delivered a copy of the 2007 Human Rights Report for Egypt. He had not yet seen the report. He told us he will review the report and get back to us with informal comments, which he s [...] | 2008-03-17 16:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV PTER KISL EG |
08CAIRO542 | MOD CONTINUES TO RESIST PERMITTING COAST GUARD [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-18 16:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EG EWWT PARM PGOV PREL PTER |
08CAIRO560 | MUBARAK SPEECH: SLIGHT INCREASE OF PRESSURE ON [...] (SBU) President Mubarak's March 18 Moulid el Nabi (Birthday of the Prophet) speech focused in large part on Islamic values, which Mubarak asserted were under attack both from non-Muslims (i.e. the "blasphemous cartoonists") as well as from radical Muslims who "give a reason for others to accus [...] | 2008-03-19 15:50:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS LE EG |
08CAIRO562 | THE SCHIZOPHRENIA OF THE EGYPTIAN MUSLIM [...] (C) Summary: The ongoing debate over the draft party platform of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has exposed in an unprecedented manner the cross-cutting fault lines within the 80-year old Islamist organization. The dichotomy within the MB's leadership - highlighted by contradictory sta [...] | 2008-03-20 11:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL KDEM EG |
08CAIRO567 | PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER ON U.S. VISIT, AYMAN NOUR, [...] (C) Summary: In a March 12 meeting with the Ambassador, Speaker of the Egyptian People's Assembly, Ahmed Fathi Surour, highlighted his satisfaction with his early March visit to Washington. He complained about Congressional focus on imprisoned former Al Ghad party leader Ayman Nour, and deta [...] | 2008-03-23 12:40:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO569 | ARAB LEAGUE'S HISHAM YOUSEF ON SUMMIT AND "YEMENI [...] (C) Arab League Chief of Staff Hisham Yousef told us March 23 that the number of heads of state to attend the Arab League Summit in Damascus is not yet final, and he expects it will be in play up until the day of the summit (i.e. March 29). Yousef said that planning for this year's summit "was [...] | 2008-03-23 15:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SY LE IS EG |
08CAIRO574 | EGYPT NUCLEAR POWER UPDATE: CONSULTANT [...] (C) Bids for an international consultant to advise Egypt's civilian nuclear power program are due on May 15, and the GOE expects its draft nuclear legislation, which is currently under review by the IAEA, to reach the floor of parliament in March or April. The MFA told us that Egypt will not f [...] | 2008-03-24 13:23:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG KNNP ECON PREL EG |
08CAIRO58 | LATEST MUBARAK COMMENTS AND EGYPTQN MFA THINKING [...] (U) President Mubarak, touring Upper Egypt on January 13, demanded implementation of the steps delineated in the Arab League statement of January 6. He called upon the Lebanese people to end their disagreements for the sake of their country. He said that if the current crisis continues that [...] | 2008-01-14 15:52:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LE SY EG |
08CAIRO581 | U.S. NAVAL SHOOTING INCIDENT NEAR THE SUEZ CANAL; [...] (C) Summary: On March 24 at approximately 6:00 p.m., the Global Patriot, a cargo ship on short-term charter to the U.S. Navy that was staged to enter the southern end of the Suez Canal for transit to the Mediterranean, reported that it fired warning shots in the direction of three unidentified [...] | 2008-03-25 17:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL EG |
08CAIRO602 | UPDATE ON U.S. NAVY INCIDENT AT SUEZ (CORRECTED [...] (C) Summary: On March 25 our NCIS officer witnessed the autopsy of the apparent victim in the March 24 incident at Suez involving a U.S. Navy-chartered vessel. The wounds appear consistent with the 50-caliber warning shots fired from the "Global Patriot" (ref B). NAVCENT NCIS will send a te [...] | 2008-03-27 09:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PGOV EG |
08CAIRO609 | SUEZ UPDATE: INVESTIGATION, COMPENSATION AND [...] (C) Summary: As of March 27, embassy NCIS officer is conducting an investigation in Egypt. The MOD has agreed to provide autopsy results, but refused to provide the bullet fragments from the deceased's body. FM Aboul-Gheit publicly criticized the U.S. over the incident March 27, and complai [...] | 2008-03-27 16:18:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL EG |
08CAIRO610 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: URGING PSI ENDORSEMENT PRIOR [...] (C) We delivered ref A demarche March 27 to MFA Counselor for Arms Control and Disarmament Omar Amr Youssef and passed non-paper points. Youssef said he would pass the message to other concerned GOE agencies, but cautioned us "not to be optimistic" that Egypt would be able to endorse PSI withi [...] | 2008-03-27 16:54:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PHSA PREL KNNP XI EG |
08CAIRO611 | POSSIBLE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SYMPATHIES AMONG [...] (U) Summary: On March 15, we accompanied a DRL Program Officer on a monitoring visit to a DRL-funded governance project in Minya, a city in Upper Egypt. The project, implemented by the US-based NGO "Street Law International" and its local partner, the Assiut Human Rights Association (AHRA),[...] | 2008-03-27 17:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID KDEM KISL EG |
08CAIRO612 | ARCENT COMMANDER LOVELACE DISCUSSES BRIGHT STAR [...] (C) Summary. On March 9, U.S. Army Central Command (ARCENT) Commanding General LTG James Lovelace made his introductory calls on MOD Chief of Staff LTG Sami Enan and MOD Training Division Chief Major General Mohammed Hisham. LTG Enan said that the size of the joint U.S.-Egyptian BRIGHT STAR e [...] | 2008-03-30 12:32:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PINR PREL MASS EG |
08CAIRO621 | EGYPTIANS GLOOMY AND RESTIVE BECAUSE OF ECONOMIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Rising food prices, long bread lines, working-class economic woes and a daily dose of bad news are contributing to a sense among Egyptians that their country is in trouble. Whether they blame their government, the United States or even at times themselves, Egyptians are unhappy [...] | 2008-03-31 08:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR ECON KDEM MARR PGOV PHUM PREL EG |
08CAIRO641 | ARAB LEAGUE BRIEFING ON DAMASCUS SUMMIT [...] (SBU) Summary Arab League Chief of Staff Hisham Yousef briefed diplomats on the Arab League Summit (held in Damascus March 29-30) on March 31. Yousef said that the tone of the summit was "conciliatory," but acknowledged that Arab-to-Arab relations have become frayed on a number of fronts and [...] | 2008-03-31 15:40:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LE SY IS EG XF |
08CAIRO677 | LOCAL ELECTIONS LEAD-UP: RULING PARTY DOMINATES [...] (C) Summary: We do not expect any surprises from Egypt's April 8 local elections. Due to the government's widespread blocking of oppositionists from registering as candidates, only a total of 962 opposition candidates, including just 20 from the Muslim Brotherhood (MB),have made it onto the [...] | 2008-04-03 16:42:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO678 | EGYPTIAN MFA ON BASRAH, EGYPTIAN AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ [...] (C) MFA Spokesman and Senior Advisor Hossam Zaki told Minister Counselor April 3 that the Foreign Ministry decided not to issue a statement concerning events in Basrah since it involved "Shia on Shia fighting." MinCouns noted that Maliki had used ISF, not sectarian forces, to take on the Sadri [...] | 2008-04-03 16:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EG IZ |
08CAIRO679 | EGYPTIAN MFA ON ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT, SYRIA-LEBANON [...] (C) Summary: In the wake of a disappointing Arab League summit, Hossam Zaki said that Egypt is urging Syria to behave more responsibly in solving intra-Arab problems. He reported that Syrian president al-Assad told the summit that Syria will not address the "Lebanon problem" until a "legitima [...] | 2008-04-03 16:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EG LE SY XF |
08CAIRO680 | EGYPTIAN MFA ON MUBARAK MEETING WITH ABBAS, [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-03 16:45:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL EG JO XF |
08CAIRO690 | SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FORD'S CAIRO MEETINGS ON [...] (C) Summary: On March 13, Special Representative for Nuclear Nonproliferation Christopher Ford discussed the upcoming April-May Nonproliferation Treaty PrepCom with MFA Assistant Minister for Cabinet Affairs Ambassador Wafaa Bassim and Arab League Director for Multilateral Affairs Wael Al-As [...] | 2008-04-06 14:08:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | IAEA KNPP AORC PARM PREL IS EG |
08CAIRO698 | ARAB LEAGUE OFFICIAL ON SYG MOUSSA'S VIENNA TRIP, [...] (C) Summary: Arab League Disarmament Department Director Wael Al-Assad told us April 3 that Arab League SYG Amr Moussa plans to visit Vienna April 16 and 17 to discuss the Arab Group's draft IAEA General Conference "Israeli Nuclear Threat" (INT) resolution, and would be interested in meeting [...] | 2008-04-07 15:12:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | IAEA MNUC PARM KNNP PREL IS IR EG |
08CAIRO699 | EGYPT'S INTERIOR MINISTRY ANNOUNCES NO APPEAL IN [...] (C) According to media reports, Egypt's Ministry of Interior (MoI) announced that the government will not appeal the January 24 Cairo Administrative Court ruling granting three members of Egypt's Baha,i minority the right to obtain government identification documents (ref B). According to th [...] | 2008-04-07 15:33:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF EG |
08CAIRO701 | NEA DAS BUTLER DISCUSSES IRAQ WITH ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) Visiting NEA DAS Butler discussed Iraq issues with Arab League Chief of Staff Hisham Yousef April 6. DAS Butler gave an overview of the current situation, including in Basrah, where the GOI had managed an overall gain of territorial control. Yousef claimed that Arab states are willing to [...] | 2008-04-08 06:35:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ SY KV EG |
08CAIRO702 | EGYPT MFA SPOKESMAN DISCUSSES IRAQ WITH DAS BUTLER [...] (C) Visiting DAS Lawrence Butler discussed Iraq with MFA Spokesman and Senior Advisor Hossam Zaki on April 6. Zaki confirmed that Egypt plans to send an ambassador to Baghdad, but only after President Mubarak is convinced that Maliki is serious about reaching out to the Arabs, and is satisfied [...] | 2008-04-08 06:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EG IZ |
08CAIRO712 | MFA READOUT OF PM SINIORA VISIT [...] (C) Lebanese Prime Minister Siniora, touring the region to maintain Arab support for his government, updated President Mubarak, PM Nazif, and FM Aboul Gheit April 6 and 7 on the situation in Lebanon. MFA Cabinet Advisor Nazih Neggary told us April 7 that Siniora was concerned that the Arab Lea [...] | 2008-04-08 14:38:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LE SY EG |
08CAIRO720 | LOCAL ELECTIONS MARKED BY LOW TURNOUT, RULING [...] (C) Summary: The April 8 elections for 52,000 local council seats were marked by dramatically low turnout, a result of the usual apathy of the Egyptian electorate combined with the call for a boycott by the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). Embassy officers observing the elections nationwide saw numer [...] | 2008-04-09 11:52:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM EG |
08CAIRO721 | MUBARAK'S NUCLEAR PROTOCOL WITH RUSSIA: [...] (C) Summary: Contacts in the GOE and Egyptian academia have described President Mubarak's late March visit to Russia as "routine," including the Egyptian-Russian nuclear energy protocol signed during the visit. While the nuclear energy protocol and other agreements for Egyptian-Russian cooper [...] | 2008-04-09 11:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG EPET ETRD KNNP EG RU |
08CAIRO730 | EGYPT: LEADING KEFAYA ACTIVIST DETAINED [...] (SBU) On the evening of April 9, Egyptian police detained George Ishaaq, a founder and leading member of the opposition "Kefaya" (Enough) movement (also known as the "Egyptian Movement for Change"),and are currently holding him in the Tagammu al Khamis State Security Prosecutor's facility. No [...] | 2008-04-10 11:02:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR EG |
08CAIRO735 | RUMORS OF CABINET SHUFFLE ABOUND [...] (C) Amidst growing popular and media agitation against rising prices and occasional shortages of bread and fuel, rumors have started again (ref) in Cairo that a cabinet shuffle will occur roughly two weeks after the April 8 local elections. During the Ambassador's April 6 farewell call, Prim [...] | 2008-04-10 14:27:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EG |
08CAIRO737 | DIMMING PUBLIC FOCUS ON SUEZ INCIDENT; UPDATE ON [...] (C) The March 24 Suez incident that resulted in the death of Mohammed Fouad Affifi has generally been supplanted in the Egyptian press and the public's awareness by more pressing domestic concerns, such as the violent clashes between police and protestors April 6-7 in Mehalla that resulted in a [...] | 2008-04-10 15:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PARM PGOV PREL EG |
08CAIRO738 | GOE ANXIETY OVER THE GAZA BORDER [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-10 15:35:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KPAL IS EG |
08CAIRO739 | EGYPT'S HIV ARRESTS AND CONVICTIONS [...] (U) According to media reports, on April 9 five HIV positive Egyptian men were convicted of "the habitual practice of debauchery" andsentenced to three years in prison. The debauchey charges stem from alleged homosexual conduct. awyers for the men intend to appeal the conviction but are not op [...] | 2008-04-10 16:27:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KHIV EG |
08CAIRO741 | COUNTRY TEAM ASSESSMENT FOR THE TRANSFER OF 2000 [...] (C) Description: The Government of Egypt has requested procurement of 2,000 TOW-2A missiles. 2. (C) Reason the purchaser desires the articles or services: a. Egypt has an immediate need to replenish its TOW missile inventory. The shelf-life of all of Egypt's 17,346 Basic TOW, ITOW, a [...] | 2008-04-13 05:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS MARR EG |
08CAIRO742 | COUNTRY TEAM ASSESSMENT FOR THE TRANSFER OF 120MM [...] (C) Description: The Government of Egypt has requested procurement of 15,500 120mm HE-T main-gun rounds, 200 dummy rounds, and 100 cutaway rounds. The dummy and cutaway rounds are for training purposes only. 2. (C) Reason the purchaser desires the articles or services: The Egyptian Army [...] | 2008-04-13 05:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS MARR EG |
08CAIRO762 | NOTE VERBALE ASKING U.S. TO DISSUADE ISRAEL FROM [...] (C) MFA Spokesman and Senior Advisor Hossam Zaki gave DCM para 2 English language note verbale April 14. Zaki said the note is from Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit for the Secretary. We are e-mailing a scanned copy to NEA/ELA, the NEA/FO and the Operations Center. 2. (C) Begin note verbal text [...] | 2008-04-15 05:13:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL IS EG |
08CAIRO77 | EGYPT UNDECIDED ABOUT SUPPORTING KOSOVAR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-17 11:27:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNMIK EG YI |
08CAIRO776 | GOE HAS NO OBJECTION TO FRENCH PROPOSAL FOR [...] (C) MFA Lebanon Director Nazih El-Negary told us April 15 that FM Aboul Gheit has no objection to a French proposal to organize an April 22 meeting on Lebanon on the margins of the Iraq neighbors conference in Kuwait. The French are planning to invite the U.S., Egypt, the Arab League, Saudi Ar [...] | 2008-04-15 16:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LE FR EG |
08CAIRO777 | GAZA BORDER: MFA DOWNPLAYS REPORTED HAMAS ATTACK [...] (U) Pro-government Al-Ahram reported April 15 that Hamas has completed preparations for a potential three-pronged attack against Egyptian security forces on the Gaza border. According to Al-Ahram, the attack would take the form of small arms and mortar fire against Egyptian forces, exploding t [...] | 2008-04-15 16:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL IS EG |
08CAIRO783 | MAHALLA RIOTS: ISOLATED INCIDENT OR TIP OF AN [...] (C) Summary: Egyptians are uneasy about the April 6 and 7 anti-government riots in Mahalla, which featured thousands of unemployed youth battling riot police in the streets of the Nile Delta mill-town (refs B-D). The violent demonstrations followed on an opposition-organized general strike on A [...] | 2008-04-16 10:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM EG |
08CAIRO785 | MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD MILITARY TRIBUNAL ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary: In the latest installment of the GOE's ongoing crackdown against the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB),the military tribunal against forty MB members issued verdicts on April 15, nearly one year after the trial started in April 2007. Fifteen defendants were acquitted, but the ot [...] | 2008-04-16 14:08:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM PGOV KISL EG |
08CAIRO792 | INTERIOR MINISTER ON MAHALLA RIOTS, DETENTIONS OF [...] (C) Summary: In an April 15 farewell call with Interior Minister Habib El Adly, the Ambassador raised USG concern about the recent detentions of opposition activists, as well as the tough sentences handed down that day against 25 senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) by a military trib [...] | 2008-04-17 10:32:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM PGOV KISL EG |
08CAIRO796 | COUNTRY TEAM ASSESSMENT OF THE TRANSFER OF (112) [...] (C) Description: In Ref A and B, the GOE requests 112 AN/PVS-7B NVG and 30 Spare Image Intensifier Tubes to support Border Guard Force operations. The spare Image Intensifier Tubes will allow the Ministry of Defense to maintain NVGs in their inventory. 2. (C) Reason the purchaser desires [...] | 2008-04-17 15:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PASS MARR EG |
08CAIRO84 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY OF ENERGY BODMAN VISIT [...] (C) Egypt is addressing the mushrooming energy demands of its growing economy and population, but tackling the problem will require aggressive action on energy subsidies, increased conservation, and maximization of finite hydrocarbon reserves. In addition to its plans for civilian nuclear pow [...] | 2008-01-17 15:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECPO KNNP PREL EG |
08CAIRO842 | EGYPTIAN NPT PREPCOM POSITIONS [...] (C) Summary. MFA Disarmament Director Aly Sirry told us April 22 that Egypt wants the April 28-May 9 Geneva Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) PrepCom proceedings to make progress toward recognizing concerns regarding Israel's nuclear program. Sirry said that Egypt would view such progress as a s [...] | 2008-04-23 15:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL IR IS EG |
08CAIRO843 | EGYPT'S MFA ON APRIL 6 DETAINEES, BAHA'IS, CT LAW [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-23 15:46:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV PTER KISL EG |
08CAIRO85 | DEFMIN TANTAWI WARNS THAT CONDITIONING FMF WILL [...] (C) On December 31, 2007, Minister of Defense Field Marshal Mohamed Tantawi told the Ambassador and visiting CODEL Voinovich that conditioning U.S. military assistance to Egypt would harm bilateral relations, and would not be understood by members of military or the average Egyptian. Egypt has [...] | 2008-01-17 15:24:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS PTER KPAL IR IZ IS EG |
08CAIRO863 | ARAB LEAGUE, EGYPTIAN IAEA GENERAL CONFERENCE [...] (C) Arab League (AL) Disarmament Department Director Wael Al-Assad told us April 21 that AL SYG Moussa's April 17 meeting with Ambassador Schulte in Vienna (reftel) was "very good, open and frank." He said that after an AL draft resolution for the fall IAEA GC is circulated shortly, the Arab [...] | 2008-04-24 15:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KNNP IAEA IS EG |
08CAIRO920 | NAZIF DISCUSSES D&G FUNDING, REFORM IN EGYPT [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador made an introductor call on Prime Minister Nazif on April 29, accompanied by econ counselor (notetaker). The two discussed the need to continue an economic dialogue, as well as continued US support for democracy in Egypt, Egyptian political reform, US funding for ci [...] | 2008-05-05 09:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ETRD KIPR KDEM EG |
08CAIRO931 | MINISTER FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION RENEWS [...] (U) This is an action message. See paragraph 16 for action requested. 2. (C) SUMMARY; The Ambassador paid an introductory call on Minister for International Cooperation Fayza Abulnaga on May 4, accompanied by USAID Mission Director and Econ Counselor (notetaker). During the meeting t [...] | 2008-05-05 14:52:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PREL PGOV ENRG KDEM EG |
08CAIRO938 | PM NAZIF, CODEL TIERNEY DISCUSS [...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif met March 24 with Representatives John Tierney (D-MA),James Moran (D-VA),Maurice Hinchey (D-NY),Betty McCollum (D-MN),Keith Ellison (D-MN),Barbara Cubin (R-WY) and then-Ambassador Ricciardone. PM Nazif praised President Bush's efforts to achieve [...] | 2008-05-06 12:12:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON IS EG |
08CAIRO941 | OUTREACH TO EGYPTIAN DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) Embassy Cairo continues to actively support and promote the President's Freedom Agenda. We are in close contact with the wide range of Egypt's political oppositionists, democracy and human rights activists, and journalists from independent and opposition newspapers, as well as bloggers wh [...] | 2008-05-07 08:22:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO965 | ADDRESSING AFRICAN MIGRANTS/REFUGEES AND KILLINGS [...] (C) Summary: GOE interlocutors provide a varied and contradictory explanation of when force can be used against migrants seeking to cross illegally from Egypt into Israel, but all say that GOE security personnel use deadly force due to the difficulty of distinguishing between migrants and ter [...] | 2008-05-11 14:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PREL EG ER IS SU |
08CAIRO968 | MINISTER OF INTERIOR ON COUNTER-TERROR LAW, [...] (C) Summary: In a May 7 introductory meeting with the Ambassador, Interior Minister Habib Al Adly offered no indication as to whether the Egyptian government will enact new counter-terror legislation by May 31, or instead simply re-extend the existing Emergency Law, in force since 1981. Adly i [...] | 2008-05-12 12:39:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER PGOV PREF EG |
08CAIRO970 | MFA ON TEMPORARY RAFAH OPENING, SOLIMAN VISIT TO [...] (C) MFA Palestinian Affairs Director Badr Abdelatty confirmed May 12 that, in consultation with Israel, the GOE opened the Rafah border crossing temporarily between May 10-12 to allow several hundred injured and sick Palestinians into Egypt for medical treatment, and to permit Palestinian stud [...] | 2008-05-12 14:00:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KPAL IS EG |
08CAIRO971 | STATE OF PLAY REGARDING EGYPT'S PLANNED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-12 15:08:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PINS PTER EG |
08CAIRO976 | PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER ON AYMAN NOUR, [...] (C) Summary: In a May 8 introductory call with the Ambassador, Speaker of the People's Assembly Fathi Surour complained about imprisoned former Al Ghad party leader Ayman Nour's "continuous criticism" of the Egyptian government, alleging that it did not allow for the "correct atmosphere" to be [...] | 2008-05-13 13:34:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EG |
08CAIRO977 | EGYPT ALLEGEDLY DEPORTS JEM IN RESPONSE TO [...] (C) Egypt has deported several Darfur rebels from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the Sudanese Liberation Army Abdulwahid Nour faction (SLA/Nour) after the unsuccessful JEM raid on Khartoum (reftel),according to contacts in Darfur rebel groups in Cairo. Osama Mohamed El Hassan, S [...] | 2008-05-13 15:12:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EG SU |
08CAIRO983 | MFA OFFICIALS ON AL LEBANON DELEGATION, AL [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings May 13, MFA Senior Advisor and Spokesman Hossam Zaki and MFA Cabinet Director for Lebanon Nazih El-Negary briefed us on current plans for the Qatari-led Arab League (AL) Delegation to Beirut, and the dynamics at the May 11 AL Ministerial. Zaki said that the A [...] | 2008-05-14 12:39:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PTER LEB EG |
08CAIRO996 | CENTRAL BANK OF EGYPT WARNS FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS [...] (C) Per reftel, Post delivered non-paper to relevant Egyptian authorities regarding UN Security Council Resolution 1803 regarding Iran, the FATF advisory on Iran, and we urged Egyptian authorities to warn their financial institutions to step up vigilance on all activities with any bank domicile [...] | 2008-05-15 12:54:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EG ETRD IR PGOV EINV |
08CAIRO997 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: INTEROPERABILITY CONCERNS IN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-15 13:00:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PARM PREL NATO UN EG |
08CAIRO999 | ARAB LEAGUE OFFICIAL ON NPT PREPCOM, PLANS FOR [...] (C) Summary: On May 15, Arab League Disarmament Department Director Wael Al-Assad told us that the NPT Geneva PrepCom that ended May 9 did not make any progress on steps toward implementing the 1995 NPT Review Conference Middle East Resolution. He said that the Arab League would like to see p [...] | 2008-05-15 15:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KNPP IS EG |
08CANBERRA1005 | AUSTRALIAN VIEWS ON REVISED CIV-MIL CELL FOR [...] (C) Australia is broadly supportive of the revised Civil-Military Planning and Coordination Cell concept but will not be ready to deploy staff by the November 1 target. In other comments on the revised concept paper, the GOA acknowledged the requirement for flexibility in the role and responsi [...] | 2008-10-02 09:34:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS NATO PREL AF AS |
08CANBERRA103 | AUSTRALIAN DEFENSE TEAM TO VISIT U.S. RE IRAQ [...] (C) David Hallett, Director for Iraq, International Policy Division, Australian Department of Defense, outlined GOA thinking about the nature of arrangements Australia will need to govern deployment of Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel and civilian contractors in Iraq when the current r [...] | 2008-02-07 06:01:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL KTIA AS |
08CANBERRA1037 | AUSTRALIA ANNOUNCES NEW SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN; [...] (C/REL AUS) Addressing Parliament on October 15, Foreign Minister Smith announced Australia would impose new travel and financial sanctions against Iran, with immediate effect, that go beyond requirements of United Nations Security Council resolutions. The sanctions, similar to those previous [...] | 2008-10-15 06:17:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL EFIN AS |
08CANBERRA1075 | NEW NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION/DISARMAMENT GROUP [...] (C) Commissioners at the inaugural meeting of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND) in Sydney October 19-21 agreed on an ambitious work program involving seven meetings in different capitals over the course of the next 18 months, and production of 20 [...] | 2008-10-24 07:10:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM AORC PREL KNNP AS |
08CANBERRA1119 | CORRECTED COPY - AUSTRALIA AND FATF IRAN STATEMENT [...] (U) This message replaces Canberra 1117. 2. (SBU) In response to points raised in reftel, DFAT International Legal Branch Sanctions and Transnational Crime Section Director Peter Scott told us on November 5 that Australia, a member of FATF, has issued a circular on the Australian Transac [...] | 2008-11-05 06:28:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KNNP PARM PREL AS |
08CANBERRA1197 | FILM/TV INDUSTRY FILES COPYRIGHT CASE AGAINST [...] (C) Summary: On November 20 several media companies filed legal action against Australia's #3 internet service provider (ISP) iiNet, seeking a ruling that iiNet has infringed copyright by not taking reasonable steps to prevent unauthorized use of films and TV programs by its customers. This i [...] | 2008-11-30 23:13:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | KIPR ECPS ECON ETRD AS |
08CANBERRA1202 | AUSTRALIAN VIEWS ON DECEMBER ASEAN MEETINGS IN [...] (C) Australia expects only modest outcomes from the ASEAN meetings in Thailand during mid December, to include adoption of the ASEAN Charter and the development of the Human Rights Body, but believes these achievements could be threatened by Thailand's current political tensions. In the ASEAN [...] | 2008-12-01 09:26:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN EFIN AS |
08CANBERRA1207 | AUSTRALIA SHARES CONCERNS ON PROTECTIONISM [...] (C) GOA shares US concerns about protectionism in some G20 members. Australia has already made approaches in several G20 capitals, and is ready to cooperate closely with US. DFAT said the UK should be added to the list of countries taking protectionist steps because of how it has raised i [...] | 2008-12-02 07:05:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETRD PREL ECON WTRO AS |
08CANBERRA1281 | AUSTRALIA CONSIDERS SUPPORT FOR AFGHAN ELECTIONS [...] (C/NF) Deborah Stokes, First Assistant Secretary, South and West Asia, Middle East and Africa Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, told DCM on December 16 that Australia is very conscious of the importance of suppoQing the Afghan elections. The request for election support for [...] | 2008-12-16 06:17:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF AS |
08CANBERRA1290 | AUSTRALIA CLARIFIES CLUSTER MUNITIONS ISSUES FOR [...] (C/NF) Gerry McGuire, Director, Arms Control and Counter-Proliferation Branch, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT),confirmed Australia's interpretation of Article 21 of the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) in a follow-up meeting held December 17. McGuire advised that Austral [...] | 2008-12-18 02:51:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MOPS PREL AS |
08CANBERRA1292 | AUSTRALIA AWAITING SOFA DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) Poloff delivered information from reftel to the director of the Iraq section at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Lloyd Broderick, on December 18. Broderick said Australia is awaiting developments. One issue that is repeatedly raised by the Australian negotiating team in Baghda [...] | 2008-12-18 06:28:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | AS EN ES IZ MARR MOPS PGOV PREL UK RO NATO |
08CANBERRA181 | ADVANCING THE U.S. POSITION FOR CHANGE IN CUBA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-25 05:51:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | AS CU EU PGOV PREL |
08CANBERRA198 | AUSTRALIA GROUP: PLENARY INFORMATION EXCHANGE AND [...] (SBU) Polmiloff provided the general and Australia-specific points in reftel to Michael Kourteff, Acting Director for Counter-Proliferation, and Alexandra Jones, Executive Officer, Counter-Proliferation Section, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on February 27. (The delay in delivery of [...] | 2008-02-27 06:09:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL ETTC AS |
08CANBERRA199 | WELLINGTON CLUSTER MUNITIONS MEETING OUTCOMES [...] (C/NOFORN) The meeting in Wellington of the Oslo Process on cluster munitions was fraught with drama, Dr. Ada Cheung, Executive Director, Arms Control and Counter-Proliferation Branch of DFAT's International Security Division reported to Poloff on February 27th. Nevertheless, progress was mad [...] | 2008-02-27 21:03:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MOPS PREL AS |
08CANBERRA209 | AUSTRALIAN ASSISTANCE FOR UN ACTION ON SOMALIAN PIRACY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-29 05:07:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS KCRM AS PREL |
08CANBERRA225 | AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE ON ASSISTANCE FOR UN ACTION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-05 03:46:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL KCRM AS |
08CANBERRA230 | AUSTRALIA MULLS ADDITIONAL INPUTS TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Beyond Australia's contribution of an Operational Mentoring and Liaison Team (OMLT) to be embedded with the Afghan National Army's (ANA) Kandak battalion in Afghanistan's southern province of Oruzgan, which Defense Minister Fitzgibbon previewed for the Ambassador and later announced in Par [...] | 2008-03-06 05:59:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF AS |
08CANBERRA247 | AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE ACQUISITION CHIEF REASSURES [...] (C/NOFORN) In a meeting with Ambassador McCallum and other Embassy staff on March 17, Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Procurement, Mr. Greg Combet, indicated that the GOA will probably not abandon any U.S. defense contracts, other than the recently terminated contract with Kaman Corporation [...] | 2008-03-17 07:34:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL MCAP AS |
08CANBERRA258 | AUSTRALIAN POLICE AID TO AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ [...] (C/NF) Ahead of the NATO Summit in Bucharest, Australia is considering deploying a small force of Australian Federal Police to southern Afghanistan to focus on counternarcotics. To assist Iraq enhance its policing capability, Australia is reviewing options for training outside Iraq, including i [...] | 2008-03-18 05:45:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS SNAR PTER PREL AS |
08CANBERRA30 | KOSOVO: AUSTRALIA RECOGNITION TO FOLLOW US, EU [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see para 5 below. 2. (C) Summary: The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) will recommend recognition of Kosovo in the early stages, but only "in good company", that is, after the US, most of the EU and Canada. The issue will be put f [...] | 2008-01-14 06:12:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNAUS UNMIK PGOV YI EU |
08CANBERRA301 | AUSTRALIA'S IMPLEMENTATION OF FINANCIAL PROVISIONS [...] (C) Australia recently completed updating laws and regulations designed to facilitate its implementation of financial and other provisions of Iran-related Security Council resolutions, including UNSCR 1803. Australian banks are fully compliant with the measures, which entered into force on M [...] | 2008-03-27 05:54:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EFIN ETTC PARM KNNP MNUC AS |
08CANBERRA302 | AUSTRALIA'S IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DUAL USE ITEM [...] (SBU) We presented Ref A demarche and non-paper to Valerie Grey, Director for Arms Control, and Peter Scott, Director for Sanctions and Transnational Crime, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on March 25. 2. (C) Our GOA interlocutors welcomed the points and non-paper. Grey assured [...] | 2008-03-27 06:16:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MNUC KNNP AS |
08CANBERRA337 | AUSTRALIAN IMPLEMENTATION OF TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS [...] (C) Poloff presented Ref A points and a request for the status of Australia's implementation of travel-related provisions of UNSCRs 1737, 1747 and 1803 to Peter Scott, Director for Sanctions and Transnational Crime, International Legal Branch, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on April [...] | 2008-04-04 06:13:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC KNNP IR AS |
08CANBERRA370 | CONSERVATIVE PARTIES PONDER A MERGER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The November election loss has created unprecedented momentum for a merger between the Liberal and National parties (who are in coalition at the federal level). The departure of former Prime Minister and Liberal Party leader John Howard, who opposed a merger, and the situation [...] | 2008-04-10 05:58:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV AS |
08CANBERRA374 | AUSTRALIA TO DOUBLE ASSISTANCE TO PAKISTAN [...] (C) Officials from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) confirmed plans to double assistance to Pakistan through 2010. GOA aid is expected to increase from approximately US $23M to US $46M. This growth continues a [...] | 2008-04-11 04:50:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PK AS |
08CANBERRA394 | ERITREAN AMBASSADOR DISCUSS BORDER DISPUTE WITH [...] (C) Summary: Eritrean Ambassador Andeab Ghebremeskel told the Ambassador on April 15 that the border situation between his country and Ethiopia is at an "impasse." Ghebremeskel complained that Ethiopia has reneged on the legal decision on the boundary demarcation made by the Eritrea-Ethiopia [...] | 2008-04-16 07:35:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | ER ET PREL |
08CANBERRA462 | AUSTRALIA ANNOUNCES AID PACKAGE FOR BURMA [...] (U) Foreign Minister Smith announced May 7 that Australia would provide AUD 3 million (USD 2.84 million) in humanitarian aid to Burmese victims of Cyclone Nargis. The package includes up to AUD 1 million (USD 0.94 million) for Australian NGOs with capacity on the ground to provide immediate e [...] | 2008-05-07 08:58:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID CASC PHUM PGOV BM AS |
08CANBERRA540 | AUSTRALIA SEEKS TO PUT RELATIONS WITH JAPAN BACK [...] (C/NF) Foreign Minister Smith's May 8-9 visit to Tokyo was only partly successful in repairing the damage to the relationship caused by the whaling controversy. He sought to nuance Australia's anti-whaling stance, backing away from earlier threats to initiate international legal action again [...] | 2008-05-23 07:19:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SENV EFIS MARR JA AS |
08CANBERRA570 | AUSTRALIAN OFFICIAL WILL ATTEND APDP LAUNCH [...] (C) Poloff spoke on June 3 to Evan Gallagher, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) action officer on the Asia Pacific Democracy Partnership (APDP),regarding reftel request for participants for a meeting and election-observation mission in Ulaanbaatar. Gallagher said that DFAT would [...] | 2008-06-03 07:05:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM AS |
08CANBERRA674 | REQUEST FOR RESETTLEMENT OF GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] (C) Polcouns and poloff delivered reftel demarche to Craig Chittick, Assistant Secretary, United States Branch, of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). Chittick said the decision of the Australian Government - taken by the Cabinet after advice from all relevant government agenci [...] | 2008-07-03 05:47:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | KDRG PHUM PINR PTER AS |
08CANBERRA684 | DEMARCHE ON UNSCR 1803 IRISL CARGO INSPECTION [...] (C) During Acting Assistant Secretary's June 30 nonproliferation consultations in Canberra (ref B),she raised the importance of robust implementation of the inspection provisions of UN Security Council Resolution 1803 (ref A),including cargos of aircraft and vessels of Iran Air Cargo and Isl [...] | 2008-07-07 07:33:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL ETRD AS |
08CANBERRA685 | GUIDANCE REQUEST: ALLEGATION USG SOUGHT TO TEST [...] (U) This is an action request - please see paragraph 4 below. 2. (SBU) Australian newspapers, quoting recently declassified Australian government documents, carried stories over the July 4 weekend alleging the U.S. Government had asked the Australian government in 1963 to permit aerial tes [...] | 2008-07-07 07:49:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PINS PREL AS |
08CANBERRA69 | U.S.-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR COOPERATION: DRAFT POLICY [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4 below. 2. (C) We furnished demarche points (reftel) to Tim Bryson, Acting Director for Arms Control, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on January 25. In recounting to Bryson that the U.S. had circulated a draft of the edited policy s [...] | 2008-01-25 06:29:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PARM TRGY KNNP AS |
08CANBERRA71 | AUSTRALIA: DEMARCHE ON ENERGY INVESTMENTS IN BURMA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-25 07:00:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ETRD AS |
08CANBERRA713 | AUSTRALIA KEEPING ITS COUNSEL ON INDIA-IAEA [...] (C) Assistant Secretary for Arms Control and Counter-Proliferation Ian Biggs told us July 15 that Foreign Minister Smith and Prime Minister Rudd are currently reviewing a recommendation from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on the Australian position on the Indian nuclear safeguards [...] | 2008-07-15 07:04:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL ETTC IN AS |
08CANBERRA740 | DFAT OFFICIALS COMMENT ON BAINIMARAMA'S ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: DFAT Fiji Section officials told Polcouns and Poloff on July 22 that in their view Commodore Frank Bainimarama's postponement of elections until at least 2010 will further alienate him from most Fijians and exacerbate chances of political clashes on the island. PNG and Fiji Se [...] | 2008-07-23 01:30:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | AS FJ PREL |
08CANBERRA824 | MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME -- NEXT STEPS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-18 07:06:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | AS ETTC KSCA MTCRE PARM PREL |
08CANBERRA899 | PM RUDD OFFERS LONG-TERM STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT OF [...] (SBU) In a September 9 speech to a national veterans organization, Prime Minister Rudd provided a long-range forecast of key developments and challenges in the Asia-Pacific region through the middle of the 21st century on which Australian security strategy and defense capabilities and force s [...] | 2008-09-10 08:29:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP PREL AS |
08CANBERRA947 | AUSTRALIA TO INVESTIGATE SHOOTING OF AFGHANISTAN [...] (SBU) The Australian government maintains that responsibility for the death of Chora District Governor Rozi Khan, killed during a September 18 shooting incident that involved Australian Special Forces in southern Afghanistan, has not yet been determined. The GOA announced it is cooperating wi [...] | 2008-09-19 08:22:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL AF AS |
08CANBERRA983 | AUSTRALIAN WEEKLY POLITICAL ROUNDUP 2008-7 [...] (C/NF) The most recent quarterly Newspolls suggest Australian Labor Party (ALP) state governments in Queensland and South Australia are in trouble. After preferences, the ALP leads the Liberal National Party (LNP) 51-49 in Queensland in the first Newspoll taken since the Queensland Liberals a [...] | 2008-09-26 07:06:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV AS |
08CAPETOWN230 | FREEDOM FRONT MP BEMOANS LACK OF ELECTION RESOURCES [...] (C) Summary: Freedom Front Plus (FF ) Member of Parliament Pieter Groenewald on November 19 told PolOffs that while he thought the party would make strides in next year's national election, possibly doubling its five-member parliamentary delegation, he was pessimistic about the party's ability [...] | 2008-11-24 13:09:00 | Consulate Cape Town | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SF |
08CAPETOWN251 | CAMPAIGN FINANCE: VIEW FROM THE WESTERN CAPE [...] (C) Summary: South African political parties are in full fundraising mode as next year's national election nears, and Western Cape campaign finance watchers and insiders see little change from past elections, at least for established parties. The ruling African National Congress (ANC),already [...] | 2008-12-22 13:25:00 | Consulate Cape Town | CONFIDENTIAL | SF PGOV PHUM ECON |
08CAPETOWN47 | ID LEADER DE LILLE BELIEVES ZUMA GOING TO JAIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prominent opposition leader Patricia de Lille believes ANC President Jacob Zuma will likely be convicted on fraud and corruption charges. De Lille doubts Zuma's trial, scheduled to begin in August, will be complete before the national parliamentary elections in March/April 2009 [...] | 2008-03-07 09:27:00 | Consulate Cape Town | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SF |
08CARACAS1000 | OPPOSITION STILL DIVIDED ON MOST STATE AND LOCAL [...] (C) Summary. Mainstream opposition parties announced consensus candidates for only seven of 22 gubernatorial races in November in a July 15 press conference. While predicting they would announce many more consensus gubernatorial and mayoral candidates before registration begins August 5, opp [...] | 2008-07-18 23:03:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
08CARACAS102 | AD-HOC BRV CONFISCATIONS FURTHER THREATEN FOOD [...] (C) Summary: During the period of January 21 - 23, the Venezuelan National Guard seized more than 500 tons of food produced by Polar, Venezuela's largest food processing company, claiming that the food was being smuggled illegally to Colombia or "hoarded." According to Polar representatives, [...] | 2008-01-25 19:53:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV EAGR VE |
08CARACAS1024 | CHAVEZ BUYS ARMS AND INVITES RUSSIAN NAVY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Communications Minister Andres Izarra on July 22 denied local media reports that President Hugo Chavez offered to base Russian troops at a military facility in Venezuela and that Chavez' arms deal with Russia has swollen to almost USD 30 billion. [...] | 2008-07-23 22:21:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP PGOV PREL RU VE |
08CARACAS1042 | STRUCTURED NOTES RESOLUTIONS: TARGETED AT VARGAS? [...] (C) Summary: Our contacts point to Banco Occidental de Descuento (BOD) president Victor Vargas as the primary target of recent BRV resolutions ordering banks to divest themselves of structured notes within 90 days (ref A). They claim the regulatory action was taken following a business dispu [...] | 2008-07-28 20:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PGOV VE |
08CARACAS1058 | DRUG SUMMIT AND GO-IT-ALONE DRUG RHETORIC [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Interior and Justice Ramon Rodriguez Chacin will represent the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) at an August 1 regional drug summit in Cartagena hosted by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. According to sources at the Colombian Embassy, the BRV ignored the invita [...] | 2008-07-31 16:17:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER SNAR VE CO |
08CARACAS1060 | INTERNATIONAL PRESSURES MOUNTS ON BRV TO DECIDE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) is growing increasingly defensive as international bodies are calling for it to rule on the constitutionality of disqualifying 272 candidates from running for public office in the November state and local elections. The Inter-American Co [...] | 2008-07-31 22:10:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM VE |
08CARACAS1061 | CHAVEZ ANNOUNCES INTENTION TO NATIONALIZE BANCO DE [...] (SBU) President Chavez announced on July 31 his intention to nationalize Banco de Venezuela, one of Venezuela's four largest banks, currently owned by the Spanish Grupo Santander. According to press reports, Chavez suggested three reasons for this move: first, the government "could use a ba [...] | 2008-07-31 22:28:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
08CARACAS1062 | PRO-CHAVEZ FORCES STILL DIVIDED (NOT JUST THE [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez and his United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) have been publicly feuding with small pro-government parties, such as Patria Para Todos (PPT) and the Communist Party (PCV),over the selection of consensus candidates for the November state and local elections. [...] | 2008-08-01 11:24:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
08CARACAS1078 | AMBASSADOR VISITS ANZOATEGUI AND NUEVA ESPARTA [...] (C) Summary. During a July 25 - 29 visit to Anzoategui and Nueva Esparta, the Ambassador met with local political leaders and media. Almost all interlocutors were in agreement that pro-opposition Nueva Esparta Governor Morel Rodriguez was a near lock to be re-elected in November's gubernato [...] | 2008-08-01 19:51:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET ECON SNAR KPAO VE NL TD |
08CARACAS108 | PDVSA WAKES UP TO ITS PRODUCTION PROBLEM [...] (C) SUMMARY: PDVSA's volume committee, which normally works on production planning, is aggressively pressuring joint venture partners and service companies to increase crude oil production. In order to facilitate production increases, the BRV is attempting to streamline administrative proced [...] | 2008-01-28 21:44:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
08CARACAS1080 | BRV DEPORTS FARC GUERRILLA [...] (C) FARC chief of borders and finance, Gabriel Culma Ortiz A.K.A. "Guillermo" was turned over to Colombian authorities at the Tachira - Santander border on the evening of July 31. According to Colombia, Ortiz was a member of the unit responsible for the loss of Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other [...] | 2008-08-01 20:57:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER VE CO |
08CARACAS1089 | STUDENT LEADER BECOMES CABINET MINISTER [...] (SBU) President Chavez announced Sunday the appointment of pro-government student leader Hector Rodriguez as Minister of Popular Power for the Office of the President. Rodriguez replaces Jesse Chacon, who is the United Socialist Party of Venezuela's (PSUV's) candidate for mayor of the Sucre bo [...] | 2008-08-04 21:29:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR |
08CARACAS1090 | ENABLING LAW ENDS WITH A BANG OF UNKNOWN [...] (U) Under the broad powers of an enabling law ("Ley Habilitante") that expired July 31 (or August 1, depending on one's interpretation),President Chavez has decreed 26 new laws. The titles of these laws were published in the official Gazette dated July 31 and available August 1. The text o [...] | 2008-08-04 21:36:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV VE |
08CARACAS1093 | VISIT OF SPECIAL COORDINATOR FOR VENEZUELA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Special Coordinator for Venezuela Robinson visited Caracas July 21-25. Editor Teodoro Petkoff, Chacao Mayor Leopoldo Lopez, and third-country Ambassadors told him separately that they believed President Chavez's recent public overture to the USG on counter-narcotics cooperation w [...] | 2008-08-05 22:31:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR VE |
08CARACAS1094 | CHAVEZ THREATENS FOURTH FLEET - AGAIN [...] (C) During the August 3 broadcast of his "Alo, Presidente" talk show, President Chavez accused the U.S. FOURTH FLEET of having a riverine capability in order invade Venezuela. The Venezuelan Commander-in-Chief promised that any U.S. brown water ships entering Venezuelan waters would soon be [...] | 2008-08-06 15:38:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP PGOV PREL VE |
08CARACAS1095 | SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS COMPTROLLER'S INELIGIBLES [...] (C) Summary. The Supreme Court ruled August 5 that the Comptroller may declare persons ineligible to run for office based on administrative sanctions. The ruling essentially ends the opposition's effort to obtain collective judicial relief from a government measure that disproportionately af [...] | 2008-08-06 22:58:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KJUS VE |
08CARACAS1099 | BRV DEFENSIVE ABOUT MERCOSUR HUMAN RIGHTS VISIT [...] (SBU) Uruguayan congressional deputy and president of the MERCOSUR parliament's Human Rights Commission, Adriana Pena arrived on August 6 in Caracas. All local media covered her arrival at the airport. Members of the Venezuelan National Assembly (NA),Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro and othe [...] | 2008-08-07 21:24:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE |
08CARACAS1100 | UPDATE ON CONOCOPHILLIPS NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: After an August 4 meeting with members of the BRV negotiating team, ConocoPhillips (CP) is less optimistic about the outcome of the compensation negotiations for its expropriated assets in Venezuela. Senior BRV officials indicated that, after review of CP's proposed valuation of [...] | 2008-08-07 21:32:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
08CARACAS1103 | STATE OF BRV-ISRAEL RELATIONS C-NE8-00834 [...] (SBU) This cable is a response to State 064659 (C-NE8-00834) requesting details on Israeli relations with Venezuela. 2. (C) Summary. Relations between the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) and Israel are severely strained. Bilateral relations, cool for the last several months, show [...] | 2008-08-07 22:29:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON IS VE |
08CARACAS1111 | VENEZUELA FORMALLY REJECTS TSA AIRPORT SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since late 2006, Post has attempted to obtain an official response to TSA's request for airport inspections in Venezuela. Following four diplomatic notes, a letter from the current Ambassador, and multiple meetings over the years, the response finally arrived on August 7. Post re [...] | 2008-08-08 20:18:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON PGOV MARR VE ASEC |
08CARACAS1114 | INELIGIBLE LIST AND ENABLING LAW FALLOUT INCREASING [...] (C) Summary. The Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Comptroller's ineligible list and President Chavez's July 31 issuance of 26 far-reaching decree-laws are generating growing international and domestic opposition. In an August 8 briefing, Chacao Mayor Leopoldo Lopez urged local diplomats [...] | 2008-08-08 22:49:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM VE |
08CARACAS1127 | CHAVEZ' ECONOMIC DECREES STRENGTHEN EXECUTIVE [...] (C) Summary: The laws decreed by President Chavez July 31 further consolidate executive control over the economy. In the specific area of food supply and the more general area of consumer protection, they give the Executive broad command and control powers and greater expropriation authoritie [...] | 2008-08-12 21:47:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAGR ELAB PGOV VE |
08CARACAS1135 | BANCO DE VENEZUELA EXECUTIVE EXPECTS RAPID CLOSE [...] (C) Banco de Venezuela (BdV) Vicepresident and Chief Economist Milton Guzman (strictly protect throughout) shared with EconCouns on August 12 his expectation that the BRV's nationalization of BdV, announced by President Chavez July 31 (ref A),would be completed in three to six weeks. "The g [...] | 2008-08-13 20:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
08CARACAS1142 | CHAVEZ REJECTS ANTI-SEMITISM CHARGE IN MEETING [...] (C) SUMMARY. A delegation of Jewish leaders, led by World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald Lauder, visited Venezuela August 12 - 13 and met with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. According to the President of the Confederation of Israelite Associations of Venezuela (CAIV),Chavez reje [...] | 2008-08-14 22:40:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KIRF VE |
08CARACAS1143 | PUBLIC ADMIN DECREE ALLOWS CHAVEZ TO APPOINT [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Organic Decree on Public Administration, one of the 26 laws promulgated by President Chavez on the last day of the now-expired Enabling Law, allows him to appoint like-minded regional leaders. It is widely believed the decree will be used selectively to neutralize opposition [...] | 2008-08-15 13:20:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM VE |
08CARACAS1146 | VENEZUELAN ECONOMY FALTERING AS ELECTION SEASON [...] (C) Summary: Venezuela's economy appears increasingly fragile as campaigning begins to heat up for regional elections in November. The feeling of boom times has worn off in the face of increasing inflation, slower growth, tighter credit, and slowing consumption. The BRV has focused economi [...] | 2008-08-15 17:12:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV VE |
08CARACAS1155 | PRO-GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION PARTIES ACHIEVE [...] (C) Summary. The opposition reached agreement on consensus gubernatorial candidates in 19 of 22 races by August 12, the last day for the registration of gubernatorial and mayoral candidates. Chavez's United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) enjoys the consensus support of smaller pro-gover [...] | 2008-08-18 14:04:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
08CARACAS1160 | BRV BLAMES U.S. FOR GEORGIA CONFLICT [...] (SBU) The BRV Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued an August 14 press release asserting that the United States "planned, prepared, and ordered" the Georgian military offensive against the break-away region of South Ossetia. The statement continued, "The international community was once again w [...] | 2008-08-18 16:00:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RS GG VE |
08CARACAS1170 | VENEZUELA OFFERED CEMEX A LOWER PRICE THAN ITS [...] (C) On August 19 Venezuelan Vice President Carrizalez announced that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) had successfully negotiated the purchase of cement companies Lafarge and Holcim but had failed to reach an agreement with Mexico's Cemex. National Guard troops took possession of Ce [...] | 2008-08-19 22:15:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD EIND PGOV VE |
08CARACAS1177 | GM FACES CONTINUED LABOR PROBLEMS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite its intention to re-open its assembly plant on August 18, General Motors (GM) de Venezuela remains closed in the face of a plant takeover by radical workers who have refused to accede to either a court order ordering them to grant the company access or to pressure from th [...] | 2008-08-21 12:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV EIND ELAB PGOV VE |
08CARACAS119 | CNE REJECTS OPPOSITION REQUEST TO HOLD AMNESTY [...] (C) Summary. National Electoral Council (CNE) President Tibisay Lucena rejected an opposition request to convoke a referendum on an alternative amnesty bill proposed by civil society groups. Lucena said the authority to issue amnesty decrees had been delegated to President Chavez under the E [...] | 2008-01-30 20:20:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE |
08CARACAS1191 | CHAVEZ ACCUSES PRESIDENT BUSH OF BEING INTOXICATED [...] (SBU) President Chavez called President Bush, "the face of the Venezuelan opposition," and said he deserved a "gold medal for drunkenness" during an August 21 interview with a Venezuelan state television talk show. During the live coverage, Chavez presented still photos of President Bush view [...] | 2008-08-22 23:44:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR VE |
08CARACAS1192 | SEN. SPECTER URGES BRV TO INCREASE COOPERATION [...] (C) SUMMARY. During his August 22 meeting with Foreign Minister Maduro, Senator Specter urged the BRV to tone down its rhetoric against the United States and increase bilateral communication and cooperation on issues of mutual concern, such as counternarcotics. The Senator urged the Ministe [...] | 2008-08-22 23:54:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PGOV PREL SNAR VE |
08CARACAS1197 | BRV SEEKS NULLIFICATION OF INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Lawyers associated with the government filed a brief on June 12 before the Supreme Court seeking nullification of a key clause in Venezuela's Investment Law as well as a reinterpretation of the Constitution. Article 22 of Venezuela's Investment Law is currently interpreted to [...] | 2008-08-25 16:34:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV PREL PGOV VE |
08CARACAS1200 | VENEZUELAN CEMENT NATIONALIZATIONS DESIGNED TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: A senior executive from the Swiss cement company Holcim, nationalized by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) as of August 18, suggested that the BRV had rushed to nationalize the cement sector after months of relative inactivity out of a desire to claim ownership of a key [...] | 2008-08-26 16:33:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD EIND PGOV VE |
08CARACAS1206 | PPT AND CHAVEZ: A TENUOUS ALLIANCE [...] (C) Summary. National Assembly Second Vice President and Patria Para Todos Secretary General Jose Albornoz told PolCouns August 19 that he expects President Chavez to initiate "an opening" with the USG after the U.S. presidential election and Venezuela's November state and local elections. A [...] | 2008-08-27 18:54:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV VE |
08CARACAS1210 | SENATOR SPECTER ENGAGES A BROAD CROSS SECTION OF [...] (SBU) Summary. During his August 19-23 visit to Caracas, Senator Arlen Specter engaged leaders from religious, business, cultural, political and official government circles. A central theme for Venezuelans in all discussions was the importance of the upcoming November 23 elections in determ [...] | 2008-08-28 15:13:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR OVIP VE |
08CARACAS1215 | VENEZUELA MEDIA UPDATE: PROPOSED MEDIA LAW, OTHER [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) continues to undermine independent media. A telecommunications bill is rumored to be in the works that will severely curtail free press in Venezuela, giving the executive branch the ability to control the flow of radio, TV, internet, an [...] | 2008-08-28 20:32:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE |
08CARACAS1217 | ARAGUA GOVERNOR: OPPOSITION MUST STRIVE FOR [...] (C) Summary. Aragua Governor Didalco Bolivar, of the formerly pro-Chavez party Podemos, told the Ambassador August 22 that he expects the opposition to win five or six governorships and over 130 mayorships in November. Bolivar stressed that such electoral gains should be considered a signifi [...] | 2008-08-28 22:58:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MCAP VE |
08CARACAS1224 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETINGS IN COLONIA TOVAR AND VALENCIA [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador traveled August 29-30 to Colonia Tovar and Valencia. Aragua State Governor Didalco Bolivar and Colonia Tovar Mayor Esteban Bocaranda underscored that tourist town Colonia Tovar's economic success is due to private sector dynamism, not the small amount of government [...] | 2008-09-02 20:33:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR VE |
08CARACAS1225 | BRV DEFENDS COUNTERDRUG EFFORTS; CHAVEZ THREATENS [...] (C) Summary. Senior Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) officials are vigorously defending the BRV's counter-drug efforts and accusing the USG of being complicit in the international drug trade. During his August 31 "Alo, Presidente" broadcast, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called ONDC [...] | 2008-09-02 20:57:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR VE |
08CARACAS1231 | CHAVEZ OUTFLANKS CONSTITUTION [...] (C) Summary. The Organic Law of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (LOFAB) was among the 26 decrees enacted into law by President Hugo Chavez on July 31 the last day of his special powers to rule by presidential fiat under the Enabling Law. In addition to resurrecting defeated constitution [...] | 2008-09-03 17:56:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP PGOV PREL VE |
08CARACAS1237 | VENEZUELA THREATENS TO ELIMINATE U.S. AIRLINES' [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 28 the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed receipt of a Diplomatic Note reiterating the August 8 statement to the Venezuelan Charge in Washington that TSA would issue a Public Notice on September 8 if the Venezuelan Government continues in its refusal to all [...] | 2008-09-04 19:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON PGOV MARR VE ASEC SNAR |
08CARACAS124 | CHAVEZ PREPARING FOR STATE AND LOCAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez is urging his supporters to unite in preparation for gubernatorial elections in 22 states and mayoral elections in over 300 municipalities in late 2008. However, during his January 27 "Alo, Presidente" broadcast, Chavez threatened to expel any of his supporters [...] | 2008-01-30 21:07:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE |
08CARACAS1245 | BRV ENACTS CREDIT CARD LAW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Legislation approved by the National Assembly on September 4, (posited as necessary for public order and social interest) codifies existing regulations and promulgates new ones for the credit card industry in Venezuela. Among its most significant clauses, the law prohibits ba [...] | 2008-09-05 21:37:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL EINV PGOV VE |
08CARACAS1246 | VENEZUELA: CONOCOPHILLIPS NEGOTIATIONS STALL [...] (C) SUMMARY: ConocoPhillips Latin America President Roy Lyons met with EconCouns September 5 to report that, following a September 4 meeting with the Venezuelan Government (BRV) negotiating team, negotiations on compensation for its expropriated assets in Venezuela have broken down and no futu [...] | 2008-09-05 23:02:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
08CARACAS1256 | JUSTICE AND INTERIOR MINISTER CHACIN RESIGNS [...] (SBU) Justice and Interior Minister Ramon Rodriguez Chacin resigned September 8, leaving Tarek el Aissami as Acting Minister. This was the embattled Chacin's second stint as Minister, serving first in 2002 and then again from January - September 2008. Chacin told the local media that he was [...] | 2008-09-08 21:31:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR PINR VE |
08CARACAS1263 | CHAVEZ ANNOUNCES NAVAL EXERCISE WITH RUSSIA - MAYBE [...] (SBU). President Hugo Chavez hedged regarding a possible joint Naval exercises in November with visiting Russian vessels. During the September 7 episode of his Sunday television show "Alo Presidente," Chavez admitted Venezuela "was not ready" to host a port visit and exercise in September o [...] | 2008-09-09 21:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP MOPS PGOV PREL RU VE |
08CARACAS1266 | VENEZUELA ANNOUNCES CUTS TO U.S. AIR CARRIER [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 10 Venezuela's civil aviation authority (INAC) informed the three U.S. carriers with operations in Venezuela that INAC would cut an undetermined number of their flights to and from the United States in retaliation for the September 8 Transportation Security Administra [...] | 2008-09-10 22:41:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON PGOV MARR VE ASEC |
08CARACAS1271 | CHAVEZ CLAIMS ANOTHER U.S. COUP PLOT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-11 21:33:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE |
08CARACAS1272 | OPPOSITION UNITES BEHIND CARACAS MAYORAL [...] (C) Summary. Opposition parties named Alianza Bravo Pueblo (ABP) leader Antonio Ledezma September 9 their consensus candidate for the Caracas mayorship. Ledezma also picked up the personal endorsement of Chacao Mayor Leopoldo Lopez, who had led early polls in the same race, but whom the Comp [...] | 2008-09-12 13:02:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
08CARACAS1274 | CHAVEZ EXPELS U.S. AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez announced the expulsion of the Ambassador and recall of the Venezuelan Ambassador in Washington during two televised political rallies the evening of September 11 (Ref A). Chavez said he was expelling the "Yankee Ambassador" to show solidarity with the Bolivian [...] | 2008-09-12 16:18:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CASC PGOV ASEC VE |
08CARACAS1276 | VENEZUELA: EMBASSY DISCUSSES TSA NOTICE WITH MFA [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 11, Emboffs discussed the September 8 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Public Notice with representatives of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's (BRV) Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Emboffs urged that the BRV not proceed with threatened flight redu [...] | 2008-09-12 19:46:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON PGOV MARR ASEC VE |
08CARACAS1278 | ACCUSATIONS FLY, ARRESTS BEGIN, INVESTIGATIONS TO [...] (C) Summary: As President Hugo Chavez accused businessmen, media outlets, opposition leaders, active duty and retired military of conspiring in a U.S. backed coup plot the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DIM) confirmed the arrest of four persons for "inciting rebellion." National Assem [...] | 2008-09-12 21:55:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL VE |
08CARACAS1279 | FM MADURO: BRV WILL REEVALUATE RELATIONS WITH USG [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a short televised September 12 press conference Foreign Minster Nicolas Maduro read from a communique saying the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) will submit the U.S.-Venezuela bilateral relationship to "an intense process of reevaluation." The communique also include [...] | 2008-09-12 21:59:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC VE |
08CARACAS1284 | BRV OFAC DESIGNATIONS OVERSHADOWED BY EXPULSIONS, [...] (SBU) The designations of three BRV officials as FARC supporters by the Office of Foreign Assets Control have been largely overshadowed by President Chavez's bellicose rumblings about support for Bolivian President Morales. Chavez made a series of statements on state media September 12 - 14 d [...] | 2008-09-16 14:26:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BL CO VE |
08CARACAS129 | SUPREME COURT: JUSTICE SHOULD SERVE THE REVOLUTION [...] (SBU) At the opening of the 2008 Supreme Court session on January 28, the two senior justices who addressed the crowd made it clear that the Venezuelan courts exist to serve the Bolivarian revolution. While not chanting "Uh, Ah Chavez No Se Va!" (Chavez Don't Leave!) as the justices did at the [...] | 2008-01-31 21:49:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PGOV PREL VE |
08CARACAS1293 | VENEZUELAN NATIONAL GUARD HARASSES DELTA FLIGHT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 14, Delta Airlines Corporate Security contacted the Embassy to report that Delta crew members going through security for their September 13 flight felt threatened by Venezuelan National Guard comments to the point that the captain ordered a second, precautionary secur [...] | 2008-09-17 13:16:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | VE CASC ASEC MARR PGOV ECON EAIR |
08CARACAS1298 | CHAVEZ UNSHAKEN AS COUP ACCUSATIONS BROADEN AND [...] (C) Summary: Despite his earlier bluster of U.S. F-16's coming to bomb the presidential palace, President Hugo Chavez told supporters on September 14 that the coup attempt "revealed" three days prior was "no threat," to him. A National Assembly (AN) Deputy claimed several prominent business [...] | 2008-09-17 19:42:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PINR PREL VE |
08CARACAS1299 | REACTION TO AMBASSADOR'S EXPULSION [...] (C) Summary. Local reaction to the September 11 expulsion of Ambassador Duddy has largely been split along pro-Chavez and opposition lines. For the opposition and independent opinion-makers, the expulsion reinforces their view that an increasingly erratic Chavez is undermining the nation's i [...] | 2008-09-17 20:03:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV VE |
08CARACAS1307 | BRV "REJECTS" USG DESIGNATION OF BRV AS MAJOR DRUG [...] (C) Summary: Senior Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) officials publicly "rejected" the USG designation of the BRV as one of the countries that failed to carry out its international counternarcotics obligations. Minister of Justice and Interior Tarek al Aissami and National Anti-Drug Age [...] | 2008-09-18 22:06:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PREL PGOV VE |
08CARACAS1312 | BRV EXPELS HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH DIRECTOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On the evening of September 18, the BRV expelled Jose Miguel Vivanco, the Americas Director of Human Rights Watch (HRW),on the grounds of allegedly involving himself illegally in the internal affairs of Venezuela, attacking its democratic institutions, and violating the Venez [...] | 2008-09-19 19:05:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL VE |
08CARACAS1316 | REACTION TO AMBASSADOR'S EXPULSION [...] (C) Summary. Local reaction to the September 11 expulsion of Ambassador Duddy has largely been split along pro-Chavez and opposition lines. For the opposition and independent opinion-makers, the expulsion reinforces their view that an increasingly erratic Chavez is undermining the nation's i [...] | 2008-09-19 19:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV VE |
08CARACAS1320 | VENEZUELAN ASSOCIATION BELIEVES GOVERNMENT WILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 18, the Executive Director of the Venezuelan Air Transport Chamber (Ceveta) William Bracho told Econoffs he does not believe the Venezuelan Civil Aviation Authority (INAC) will follow through on its threat to cut U.S. carrier flights as market demand is extremely high [...] | 2008-09-22 14:21:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | VE CASC ASEC MARR PGOV ECON EAIR |
08CARACAS1324 | CHARGE DISCUSSES BILATERAL RELATION WITH BRV [...] (C) SUMMARY. Charge met September 19 with Rene Arreaza, an unofficial high-level contact of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV),to discuss bilateral relations. The Charge urged the BRV to work more closely with the Embassy to resolve pending and future operational issues including vi [...] | 2008-09-22 17:31:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC VE |
08CARACAS1328 | INVESTIGATION INTO FINANCIAL FRAUD SHOWS BRV'S [...] (C) Summary: The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) has opened an investigation into financial fraud associated with four bond issuances in late 2006 and 2007. This investigation included a public, high-profile raid of one of Venezuela's largest brokerage houses in July 2008 during whic [...] | 2008-09-22 19:40:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
08CARACAS1332 | CHARGE DISCUSSES BILATERAL RELATIONS, EXPULSION [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Charge met September 19 with MFA Director for Multilateral and North American Affairs Yaneth Arocha to discuss bilateral relations. This was the Charge's first meeting with MFA officials, and it followed President Chavez's expulsion of the Ambassador on September 11. Arocha [...] | 2008-09-23 12:29:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC VE |
08CARACAS1333 | CHARGE DISCUSSES BILATERAL RELATIONS, EXPULSION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-23 12:29:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC VE |
08CARACAS1334 | FEW NEW FACES AMONG OPPOSITION CANDIDATES [...] (C) Summary: The opposition, beset by parochial interests, appears to be relying on well-established politicians in November's gubernatorial and mayoral elections rather than cultivating "new faces" with broad public appeal. Moreover, the older and previously discredited parties, Copei and D [...] | 2008-09-23 12:31:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC VE |
08CARACAS1337 | ANNUAL INFLATION NEARS 35 PERCENT [...] (U) According to figures recently released by the Central Bank (BCV) and the National Statistics Institute, annual (August 08/August 07) inflation in metropolitan Caracas has reached 34.5 percent, the highest in Latin American and up from 32.2 percent through June (ref A). Some local economi [...] | 2008-09-23 18:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON VE |
08CARACAS1338 | BRV NOT IMMUNE TO INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL TURMOIL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuelan (BRV) has not escaped recent problems in the US financial sector unscathed. The government holds about USD 300 million and private banks an additional USD 400 million in structured debt notes issued by the bankrupt Lehman Brothers. The fi [...] | 2008-09-23 18:40:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
08CARACAS1340 | BRV DOING DAMAGE CONTROL WITH USG [...] (C) Summary. Prior to departing September 21 for Cuba, Portugal, France, Russia, and China, President Chavez continued to temper his anti-U.S. rhetoric (Ref A). The BRV reportedly moved a signing ceremony involving Chevron up to September 19, presumably to underscore continuity in the U.S.-V [...] | 2008-09-23 21:25:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV VE |
08CARACAS1341 | VENEZUELA: CHEVRON SIGNS LNG FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Chevron will participate in the planned development of the first of three liquefied natural gas (LNG) trains planned by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV). The company will have a 10 percent share in the joint venture formed to develop the first train; the gas will come f [...] | 2008-09-23 21:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
08CARACAS1351 | DIVISIONS WITHIN CHAVEZ'S "PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE" [...] (C) Summary: Several former and current members of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) have broken ranks with the party to pursue their own political ambitions in the November 23 gubernatorial and municipal elections. Moreover, small pro-Chavez parties, such as Patria Para Todos (P [...] | 2008-09-25 22:06:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC VE |
08CARACAS136 | REVISED INDEX SHOWS CONTINUED HIGH INFLATION IN [...] (SBU) According to the newly revised official consumer price index (CPI),inflation rose to 3.4 percent in January 2008. This figure, which works out to 50 percent on an annual basis, is slightly higher than the 3.3 percent inflation figure from December 2007, and will put additional pressu [...] | 2008-02-01 20:57:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
08CARACAS1365 | STRUCTURED NOTE DEADLINE PASSES, ISSUE FIZZLES [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 24 the deadline for Venezuelan banks to sell their holdings of bolivar-denominated structured notes passed with little apparent effect on the banking sector. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) showed an unusual amount of flexibility in its implementation o [...] | 2008-09-29 14:30:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE |
08CARACAS1374 | CHURCH CALLS FOR CLEAN ELECTIONS; CLASHES WITH BRV [...] (C) Summary: The Catholic Church is increasingly taking an active role in defense of democracy and human rights. In a September 24 press conference, Catholic Church leaders publicly urged all political actors to avoid any actions that might allow for the postponement of the November 23 state a [...] | 2008-09-30 15:16:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF VT VE |
08CARACAS1375 | CHAVEZ SUPPORTERS ERECT STATUE OF FARC LEADER [...] (C) Summary. Radical Chavistas unveiled a bust of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) founder Manuel Marulanda in an poor eastern Caracas neighborhood on September 26. The Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) was the principal force behind the public ceremony honoring Marulanda, alth [...] | 2008-09-30 15:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV VE CO |
08CARACAS1380 | OPPOSITION ELECTS CONSENSUS CANDIDATES IN TACHIRA [...] (C) Summary: The Christian Democratic Party of Venezuela (Copei) won a decisive victory in the September 28 opposition primary in the western state of Tachira to determine the consensus candidates for the November 23 state and local elections. The opposition now claims that it has 20 consens [...] | 2008-09-30 20:26:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC VE |
08CARACAS1381 | NOVEMBER STATE AND LOCAL ELECTIONS: WHAT'S AT STAKE [...] (C) Summary. Venezuelan voters are slated to elect 22 governors, state legislative assemblies, and 328 mayors on November 23. These state and local elections will be a key indicator of the future of Venezuela's fragile democracy, and the Embassy is actively promoting free and fair elections [...] | 2008-09-30 20:28:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM SNAR VE |
08CARACAS1382 | AS ELECTION APPROACHES, WHERE'S THE SPENDING? [...] (C) Summary: An anticipated jump in spending prior to the November 23 state and local elections by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) does not appear to have materialized. Local analysts primarily attribute this surprising failure to boost spending significantly to increasing incomp [...] | 2008-09-30 20:33:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV EFIN VE |
08CARACAS1383 | IMMIGRATION, DISIP OFFICIALS STEP-UP HARASSMENT OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) is stepping up its harassment of outspoken as well as perceived critics of the regime. In September, four persons reported being pressured by immigration and intelligence police (DISIP) officials at the Caracas airport to surrender thei [...] | 2008-09-30 22:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV VE |
08CARACAS1388 | COMMUNAL ECONOMY CENTER [...] (SBU) Summary. EmbOffs visited a newly inaugurated communal economic center near Caracas. The center, extremely modern by Venezuelan standards, offers a space for communal cooperatives to sell local goods. However, many of the cooperatives did not sell locally produced goods or sold cheap [...] | 2008-10-01 15:10:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL EINV PGOV VE |
08CARACAS1390 | VENEZUELA: AMERICAN AIRLINES CREW DETAINED AT [...] (C) The evening of September 30, American Airlines Country Manager Omar Nottaro (strictly protect throughout) called Econoff to report that the captain and crew of American Airlines flight 903 were being held at the airport. He explained that upon landing a crew member said "Welcome to Venezuela. L [...] | 2008-10-01 16:25:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC ASEC MARR PGOV ECON EAIR VE |
08CARACAS1393 | VENEZUELAN CEMENT PRODUCTION DROPPING FOLLOWING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mexican Ambassador to Venezuela Mario Chacon informed Econoffs that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) has not budged from its initial, USD 500 million offer for Mexico's Cemex that, in effect, represents an expropriation of Cemex assets in Venezuela. Chacon believes the [...] | 2008-10-01 20:20:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD EIND PGOV VE |
08CARACAS14 | CHAVEZ RESHUFFLES CABINET BUT KEEPS LOYALISTS CLOSE [...] (C) Summary. During a call-in to Venezolana de Television (VTV) on January 3 President Chavez announced the first of a series of thirteen cabinet changes. Chavez replaced former Vice President Jorge Rodriguez, Telecommunications Minister Jesse Chacon, and Communications Minister William Lara w [...] | 2008-01-04 20:50:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE |
08CARACAS1404 | ZULIA STUDENT LEADER MURDERED IN HAIL OF BULLETS [...] (C) Unknown gunmen shot and killed Julian Soto, a 31-year old undergraduate and president of the Federation of University Centers (FCU) for the autonomous University of Zulia (LUZ) on October 1 as he drove to lunch. The University Centers are influential student bodies in Venezuela's five au [...] | 2008-10-03 13:00:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM VE |
08CARACAS1406 | WARNING: VENEZUELA'S NEW LABELING LAW HAZARDOUS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Venezuela's new food labeling law requires that original food product packaging be printed in Spanish, and prohibits the use of add-on Spanish-language stickers for imported goods. This requirement is contained in the set of 26 new decrees issued at the end of July, and came as [...] | 2008-10-03 13:02:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EAGR PGOV VE |
08CARACAS1413 | GENERAL ARRESTED IN ANOTHER ALLEGED COUP PLOT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Mario Isea, president of the National Assembly special committee investigating the attempt to overthrow/assassinate President Hugo Chavez, announced the arrest of Air Force Inspector General Jose Felix Caraballo Gomez on September 26. The arrest is based on a tape recording bet [...] | 2008-10-03 21:43:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM VE |
08CARACAS1414 | EARLY ELECTORAL POLLS: CHAVEZ STILL STRONG BUT NOT [...] (C) Summary: According to recent independent polls shared with the Embassy, Venezuelans are chiefly concerned with the rise in crime, and secondarily by inflation, unemployment, and traffic. The scarcity of basic goods is much less of an issue than it was in the run-up to the December 2007 fa [...] | 2008-10-03 21:44:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL VE |
08CARACAS1422 | GENERAL BADUEL ARRESTED [...] (SBU) Agents of the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DIM),on October 3 unceremoniously pulled former Defense Minister General Raul Baduel off of the city streets of Maracay. General Ernesto Cedeno of the Judge Advocate General told the press that Baduel had to account for 31 billion Bs [...] | 2008-10-07 22:16:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM VE |
08CARACAS1427 | IPR CHANGES FOR PHARMACEUTICALS [...] (C) Summary. On September 12, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) agency responsible for intellectual property protection issued a press release resurrecting the Industrial Property Law of 1955, which expressly prohibits intellectual property rights for pharmaceuticals and other produc [...] | 2008-10-08 20:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD ECIN PREL PGOV VE |
08CARACAS1428 | FALLING OIL PRICES: CLEAR BUT NOT PRESENT DANGER [...] (C) Summary: Venezuela's economic model is dependent on ever-rising oil prices. As such, the economy is clearly vulnerable to reduced global demand for oil, an increasingly likely consequence of the current global financial crisis. With oil prices already down 25 percent from their historic [...] | 2008-10-08 21:18:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EPET VE |
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