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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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09NOUAKCHOTT246 | INCONSISTENT FRENCH TRANSLATION OF NATO STATEMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Mauritanians, who are prone to glom onto the slightest international statement as a sign of policy signals, are now focused on NATO's Strasbourg/Kehl Summit Declaration released April 4 The official French translation of the Declaration has caused consternation/excitement be [...] | 2009-04-05 18:01:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT247 | SENEGALESE STILL PUSHING FOR MEDIATION ROLE [...] (C) President Abdallahi's "Foreign Minister" Mohammed Ould Maouloud told Charge April 5 that Senegalese Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio has returned to Mauritania intent on getting President Abdallahi and opposition leader Ahmed Ould Daddah to accept a bilateral Senegalese political med [...] | 2009-04-05 18:17:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SG MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT250 | ANTI-COUP PROTESTS IN NOUAKCHOTT VIOLENTLY [...] (C) Summary: Two anti-coup protests in Nouakchott were violently dispersed by police on April 2 and April 3. In both cases, police used tear gas and batons to break up the protests, injuring several people in the process. EmbOffs obtained first-hand accounts from some prominent figures who [...] | 2009-04-07 16:42:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KPAO KDEM ASEC MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT251 | JUNTA UNILATERALLY APPOINTS ELECTORAL COMMISSION [...] (C) The junta took another step towards elections with the April 6 designation of the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) president and members. Professor Cheikh Saad Bouh Camara, reputed Afro-Mauritanian sociologist, was appointed president while Hamdy Ould Mahjoub, former depu [...] | 2009-04-07 17:18:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT253 | WHILE PM WAGHEF AND OTHERS LANGUISH IN PRISON, [...] (C) Summary: Despite General Aziz's repeated claims that there are no political prisoners in Mauritania, the selective targeting of prominent anti-coup individuals indicates otherwise. Four people, Prime Minister Waghef among them, remain in prison charged with corruption and mismanagement [...] | 2009-04-08 13:54:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT255 | FROM CHILD BRIDE TO SEX SLAVE: HOW MAURITANIAN [...] (C) Summary: Reports of trafficking of Mauritanian child brides to Saudi Arabia are on the rise. The girls, usually between 5 and 12 years of age, are married off to wealthy Saudi men in exchange for hefty bride prices. Once they arrive in Saudi Arabia, they become sex slaves to their hus [...] | 2009-04-08 15:11:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM MR PGOV PHUM |
09NOUAKCHOTT257 | MAURITANIA'S NEIGHBORS -- ABDALLAHI LOSING MALIAN [...] (C) Summary: Charge did the rounds April 5 of neighboring country embassies to check on evolving views following the failed Qadhafi mediation. Morocco and Algeria remain fixed on two sides of the fence -- Morocco urging acceptance of the status quo based on stability concerns (and discounti [...] | 2009-04-08 16:53:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV USAU AG ML MO SG MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT260 | MAURITANIAN ECONOMY DETERIORATING AND LIKELY TO [...] (C) Summary: The foreign exchange market in Mauritania has stopped functioning and the Central Bank has been rationing foreign currency since November 2008. The difference between the parallel and official exchange rates has grown from zero to 10%. While large companies with connections abroa [...] | 2009-04-12 09:31:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EMIN PGOV MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT261 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (SBU) Summary: For the week of April 5-9, anti-coup sentiment was visible in several venues. The EU suspended cooperation with Mauritania for two years, while an unfortunate translation of a NATO statement sowed confusion. The national electoral commission was finally appointed, while forme [...] | 2009-04-12 09:31:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPAO KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT266 | CONSTITUTIONAL CONSIDERATIONS IN AZIZ' [...] (C) Summary: Efforts to mediate a solution to the Mauritanian crisis continue. AU Commissioner for Security and Peace Ramdane Lamamra and Libyan Secretary of African Affairs Abdessalam Triky arrived in Nouakchott April 11 to discreetly continue the negotiations started by Senegalese Foreig [...] | 2009-04-13 12:26:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT268 | RENEWED AU-LIBYAN MEDIATION EFFORTS [...] (C) Summary: The African Union and Libya have started a renewed mediation effort aimed at avoiding the need to apply sanctions. The African Union questions whether the three main Mauritanian protagonists can ever come up with a consensual plan if left to their own devices, and suggests the [...] | 2009-04-14 11:12:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV USAU MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT271 | THE CONTRADICTIONS OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE [...] (C) Summary: The first person to officially announce his candidacy in the upcoming June 6 elections, Ibrahima Sarr is a study in contradictions. A long-time advocate for Afro-Mauritanians, many of his own supporters and peers now accuse him of selling out by working with the military. Recog [...] | 2009-04-15 13:21:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT276 | MEETING WITH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT OULD [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-16 10:41:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT277 | THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: ETHNIC RELATIONS AFTER [...] (C) Summary: Mauritania's political crisis keeps stirring longstanding ethnic rivalries. The media talks about a "war" between junta leader General Abdel Aziz and anti-coup Haratine political leaders. Some of the leaders themselves describe it as the regime's "permanent" war with anyone re [...] | 2009-04-16 13:12:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM |
09NOUAKCHOTT278 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (SBU) Summary: For the week of April 12-16, the RFD party was on the verge of collapse, and Ahmed Ould Daddah had his strongest words yet for General Aziz. Ibrahima Sarr announced his candidacy for president, and renewed AU-Libyan and Senegalese mediation efforts failed to generate enthusia [...] | 2009-04-16 13:47:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT28 | ANTI-ISRAELI DEMONSTRATIONS REACH NEW LEVEL OF [...] (SBU) Friday prayers in Nouakchott January 9 ended with people taking to the streets to protest continuing Israeli military action in the Gaza Strip. Accurate crowd numbers are hard to obtain -- some press reports placed the crowd at 10,000 or even 13,000 people. A more realistic number may [...] | 2009-01-12 10:32:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT282 | DADDAH STILL IN THE ANTI-COUP CAMP; WANTS MORE US [...] (C) Summary: In an April 19 meeting RFD President Ahmed Ould Daddah maintained his anti-coup stance, suggested the Senegalese mediation effort might be acceptable, and called for increased USG involvement. He tried to brush off the recent divisions within his party, and he still maintains t [...] | 2009-04-20 10:45:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT284 | CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL DODGES JUDICIAL [...] Summary: In a speedy and little published decision, Mauritania's Constitutional Council declared April 15 -- the same day General Aziz resigned -- a "de facto" presidential vacancy which, in keeping with the constitution, opened the way for a transitional period led by President of the Senate [...] | 2009-04-21 11:13:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV |
09NOUAKCHOTT287 | ELECTORAL COMMISSION MEMBER RESIGNS FROM "MAFIA [...] (C) Summary: Sid'Ahmed Ould Habott, a prestigious member of the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI),resigned April 20 as he believes the CENI's objective is not to organize free and fair elections but to certify Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz's electoral victory. For Ould Habott, or [...] | 2009-04-22 17:31:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT288 | ACCORDING TO VALL, PRO AND ANTI-COUP PARTIES WANT [...] (C) Summary: According to Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, political actors are ready for a consensual solution but Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz remains the main obstacle to an agreement. Vall believes the time before the election is crucial to finding a solution. Once the election takes place, [...] | 2009-04-23 12:50:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT289 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (SBU) Summary: For the week of April 19-23, women protesting against the junta were dispersed by the police. Election planning continued apace, while the number of declared presidential candidates grew to six. Anti-coup parliamentarians staged a sit-in at the National Assembly, while the n [...] | 2009-04-23 14:05:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM KPAO |
09NOUAKCHOTT290 | CONSIDERING THE SENEGALESE MEDIATION [...] (C) Summary: Democratically elected president Abdallahi intends to travel to Senegal on Sunday, April 26, accepting an invitation from President Wade. The FNDD and RFD remain open to participation in a Senegalese/African Union mediation subject to several large reservations. They believe (p [...] | 2009-04-23 16:32:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV USAU MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT306 | FNDD LOSES FAITH IN SENEGALESE MEDIATION AS IT [...] (C) Summary: The FNDD sees less and less utility in a Senegalese mediation. Despite initial positive signs from Senegalese Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, the FNDD thinks President Wade was steered away by Aziz. The FNDD was upset that Wade accepted the regime Ambassador's credentia [...] | 2009-04-29 15:38:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT31 | "NATIONAL DIALOGUE ON DEMOCRACY" RESULTS APPROVED [...] (SBU) On January 9 the junta-designated "Prime Minister" Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf presided over a special session at the National Assembly where the final report of the "National Dialogue on Democracy" was officially approved. Seventy of the 95 parliamentarians were present, with 63 membe [...] | 2009-01-12 17:19:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT312 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (SBU) Summary: This week in Nouakchott, anti-coup protests multiplied and the FNDD, labor unions, and civil society joined forces through the signature of NDI's CFD Charter, which earned them criticism from Ould Daddah for accepting foreign money and interference. Deputy Sid'Ahmed Ould Ahme [...] | 2009-04-30 14:26:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO PHUM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT313 | MAURITANIANS REPATRIATED FROM SENEGAL SURPASS [...] (U) Summary: The cumulative number of Mauritanian refugees repatriated from Senegal surpassed 10,000 people in April. There are approximately 10,000 more refugees that remain in Senegal that have expressed their intent to return to Mauritania. To date, all of the refugees have returned to the [...] | 2009-04-30 16:26:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF SOCI ECON MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT315 | SENEGALESE STILL WANT TO PURSUE MEDIATION [...] (C) During an April 30 meeting, Senegalese Ambassador to Mauritania Mahmoudou Kane downplayed President Abdallahi's decision to "delay" a visit to Senegal indicating that Senegalese Foreign Minister Gadio would return to Mauritania the week of May 3 to revive the mediation initiative. 2. [...] | 2009-05-03 09:33:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SG MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT32 | PRESIDENT ABDALLAHI TO TRAVEL ABROAD, NAME SPECIAL [...] (C) President Abdallahi's Chief of Staff, Mohamed Kaber Ould Hammoudi, told Charge that President Abdallahi would be returning to Nouakchott "in a few days" and plans to take a trip abroad after a few days of political and diplomatic consultations in the capital. The President has asked the [...] | 2009-01-12 17:21:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OVIP MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT321 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF MAY [...] (C) Summary: This week in Nouakchott the authorities surprised everybody by authorizing protests. Demonstrations were overall peaceful except for two incidents of violence by FNDD and RFD supporters against the journalist who published the Ould Daddah interview and an Aziz supporter. Mauri [...] | 2009-05-10 07:52:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM |
09NOUAKCHOTT323 | AMBASSADOR'S LUNCHEON WITH ANTI-COUP POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: During a lunch with the Ambassador, RFD and FNDD political leaders talked about repression of demonstrations, President of the Senate Ba M'Bare's "presidency," and the role played in the political crisis by Mauritania's neighbors. The FNDD and RFD asked the U.S. to pressure Fra [...] | 2009-05-11 16:12:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KHUM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT327 | THE FNDD'S EVER-CHANGING ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE [...] (C) Summary: The FNDD, while suspicious of Senegalese President Wade's intentions, is again looking at the Senegalese mediation as a method to derail the regime's election agenda. The FNDD has multiple conditions, but sees the Senegalese proposal as the basis to start talking about talking [...] | 2009-05-12 17:18:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL USAU SG MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT328 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH PRESIDENT ABDALLAHI IN LEMDEN [...] (C) Summary: President Abdallahi, still determined to fight the coup and very much active in the opposition, declared himself open to concessions as long as proposed solutions respected the constitution. The president thinks the Senegalese, rather than coming to the negotiation table with [...] | 2009-05-13 17:01:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT330 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF MAY [...] (C) Summary: For the week of May 10-14, there were rumors of possible arms from Iran. An embassy travel notification to the MFA was rejected, and Taqadoumy touched off another sensation in the media. There was a sit-in at the National Assembly, and the Ambassador traveled to Lemden to visi [...] | 2009-05-14 12:23:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPAO KDEM PHUM CVIS ASEC PTER MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT332 | MEETINGS WITH NEW PRO-COUP POLITICAL PARTIES [...] (C) Summary: PolOff and PolAsst met with two different breeds of new pro-coup political parties. Union Pour la Republique (UPR),intimately connected with coup leader and now presidential candidate Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, sees the June 6 election as an opportunity to return to constitution [...] | 2009-05-17 08:26:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT336 | SENEGALESE MEDIATION: FNDD AND RFD STILL COMMITTED [...] (C) Summary: FNDD and RFD emissaries told Ambassador that they remain committed to the Senegalese mediation, which they described as the "last opportunity" to reach a consensual agreement. Nevertheless, Aziz has sent discouraging signs by not responding to their calls to suspend the electi [...] | 2009-05-18 09:25:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT342 | CONTRARY TO SENEGALESE CLAIMS, FNDD AND AZIZ HAVE [...] (C) Summary: Contrary to what Senegalese Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio apparently implied to U.S. Ambassador to Senegal Marcia S. Bernicat, the FNDD has not struck a deal with Aziz. According to the Senegalese, all the elements are in place for an agreement but RFD President Ahmed [...] | 2009-05-20 13:00:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MR KDEM |
09NOUAKCHOTT343 | THE FIRST LADY: NOT THE PRIMA DONNA DETRACTORS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Boulware's wife and EconOff spent the day with First Lady Khatou Mint El Boukhary while Ambassador met with President Abdallahi. Boukhary, portrayed by many as controlling and demanding, was warm and down to earth and clearly pleased by Mrs. Boulware's visit. She than [...] | 2009-05-21 09:02:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT344 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF MAY [...] (C) Summary: Senegalese mediation efforts dominated the political scene for the week of May 17-21. The anti-US media campaign continued, while the FNDD and RFD held a large march to protest General Aziz's election plans. Despite rumors of the imminent release of the "FNDD four" (arrested fo [...] | 2009-05-21 17:09:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM MR PHUM KPAO |
09NOUAKCHOTT345 | OULD DADDAH'S RESERVATIONS: THE SENEGALESE WANT A [...] (C) Summary: According to RFD President Ahmed Ould Daddah, anti-coup forces are currently on standby following a May 20 meeting with Senegalese mediators. The opposition has still not received a firm response regarding pre-conditions for continued negotiations. If the response to their dem [...] | 2009-05-22 14:57:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT346 | SENEGALESE OPEN THE DOOR [...] (C) Summary. Senegalese Foreign Minister Gadio and fellow mediators convoked on May 21 representatives of members of the International Contact Group on Mauritania to announce agreement in principle between major protagonists to end Mauritania,s political crisis. The deal, to be announced a [...] | 2009-05-22 14:59:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM MR PGOV |
09NOUAKCHOTT352 | ABDALLAHI'S EMISSARIES' CONCERNS ABOUT MEDIATION [...] (C) Summary: Sidney Sokhna, Diplomatic Advisor to President Abdallahi, called on Ambassador to provide background on the Senegalese mediation and seek clarification of the USG position. Sokhna said that pro-democracy forces in the FNDD and RFD suspected the impartiality of mediators and we [...] | 2009-05-26 12:21:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT354 | FNDD AND RFD FEEL THEY ARE NEGOTIATING "UNDER THE [...] (C) Summary: The FNDD and RFD have accepted Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade's invitation to travel to Dakar on May 28 for a last negotiation. They stated they are accepting "in good faith" but reiterated their distrust of the Senegalese and the Libyans. According to FNDD and RFD emiss [...] | 2009-05-26 18:40:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MR KDEM PHUM |
09NOUAKCHOTT356 | ROSSO'S TOWN HALL: AGREEING TO DISAGREE [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting at the town hall in Rosso, EmbOffs witnessed spirited but respectful political debates between the Secretary General, who expressed support for General Aziz, and a Deputy Mayor, who advocated constitutional order. Such free debate indicates a willingness to coe [...] | 2009-05-28 09:42:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT357 | THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION: AN EMPTY SHELL [...] (C) Summary: PolOff and PolAsst visited Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) representatives in the Trarza, Mauritania's second largest administrative and electoral region after Nouakchott. The visit took EmbOffs to two contrasting places: the regional capital of Rosso and the [...] | 2009-05-28 13:33:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MR KDEM PHUM |
09NOUAKCHOTT358 | PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SGHAIR OULD M'BARECK: "I [...] (C) Summary: Sghair Ould M'Bareck is a Haratine (Black Moor) with extensive experience in Mauritanian government, and says he will strengthen democracy in Mauritania if elected. He accused the United States of encouraging a "radical" opposition, and maintains the June 6 elections are the so [...] | 2009-05-28 15:29:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT360 | PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE HAMIDOU BABA KANE: "YES WE [...] (C) Summary: Hamidou Baba Kane is one of two Afro-Mauritanian candidates in the upcoming June 6 presidential elections. The Vice President of the National Assembly (and former Vice President in Ahmed Ould Daddah's RFD party),Kane claims he is still a member of RFD, even though Daddah expel [...] | 2009-05-28 16:53:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT361 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF MAY [...] (C) Summary: The electoral campaign has started without much participation or enthusiasm. General Aziz's campaigning has taken over Nouakchott, giving the not-so-mistaken impression that there is only one candidate in this presidential race. Nevertheless, the campaign's empty tents make it [...] | 2009-05-28 16:57:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPAO KDEM MR PHUM |
09NOUAKCHOTT363 | ELECTORAL COMMISSION PRESIDENT: CARTE BLANCHE AND [...] (C) Summary: Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) President Cheikh Saad Bouh Camara believes that the June 6 elections are the only way out of the crisis. Camara, not a friend of the FNDD or President Abdallahi's, is convinced that moving forward with the June 6 election has ma [...] | 2009-05-31 12:19:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MR KDEM PHUM |
09NOUAKCHOTT364 | TFFLU01: MAURITANIA NOT PREPARED FOR H1N1 INFLUENZA [...] (SBU) Summary: Although there have been no reported cases of H1N1 influenza in Mauritania, authorities are not prepared for an outbreak should one occur. The Government of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (GIRM) had no Tamiflu on hand until the World Health Organization recently provided it [...] | 2009-05-31 17:08:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR ASEC AMED CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT |
09NOUAKCHOTT366 | JUNTA GIVING AWAY FOOD IN FINAL EFFORT TO GAIN [...] (C) Summary: In a thinly veiled attempt to gain public support, the junta is once again giving away food and land. Local mayors are distributing free fish to their constitutents, likely on behalf of the junta. The "Prime Minister" and "Food Security Commissioner" oversaw the distribution of 2 [...] | 2009-06-02 13:50:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIS PGOV PREL SOCI MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT368 | NOUADHIBOU CENI: FINGERS CROSSED FOR CONSENSUS BUT [...] (C) Summary: In a visit to Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) headquarters in Nouadhibou, EmbOffs saw comparable conditions to those found in the Trarza CENI (Ref A). Like their Trarza colleagues, Nouadhibou CENI representatives wished there would be a consensus but keep prep [...] | 2009-06-03 09:30:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT369 | TENTATIVE AGREEMENT REACHED IN DAKAR, BUT NO [...] (SBU) The agreement: Representatives of the three main parties to the Mauritanian crisis -- General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Ahmed Ould Daddah and his RFD party, and the anti-coup FNDD group -- tentatively reached an agreement the evening of June 2 in Dakar, after six days of intense negotia [...] | 2009-06-03 12:19:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT37 | EUROPEANS ON NEXT STEPS IN MAURITANIA [...] (C) Summary: The EC Representative in Nouakchott says no position has yet been taken on the significance of the National Dialogue on Democracy but does not believe the regime's actions will be sufficient to avoid negative European actions under Article 96 proceedings. European ambassadors a [...] | 2009-01-13 16:59:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT370 | ON THE EVE OF AN AGREEMENT, NOUADHIBOU "MOROSE AND [...] (C) Summary: A day before a tentative agreement to the ongoing political crisis was reached in Dakar (Ref A),EmbOffs traveled to the economic capital of Nouadhibou to assess the mood and political situation ahead of elections. In meetings with both anti-coup and pro-coup political actors, t [...] | 2009-06-03 17:22:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT374 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF MAY [...] (C) Summary: Once again, the Senegalese mediation dominated the political scene in Mauritania for the week of May 31 to June 4. To the surprise of many, a tentative agreement was reached in Dakar June 2. President Wade and the parties to the crisis are scheduled to officially sign the agr [...] | 2009-06-04 15:20:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT378 | HERDING CATS: IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DAKAR [...] (C) Summary: The tentative agreement reached in Dakar was signed June 4 in Nouakchott by the three major sides to the crisis in a sometimes raucous ceremony. After a meeting with President Abdallahi in Lemden on June 6, International Contact Group members and representatives of the three po [...] | 2009-06-08 16:13:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT379 | LONG DETENTION PERIODS AND POOR CONDITIONS AT THE [...] (C) Summary: Much has been said about the Nouadhibou illegal migrant detention center, also known popularly as "little Guantanamo" or "Guantanamito." The detention center -- or "welcome center" as Mauritanian authorities refer to it -- houses illegal migrants intercepted at sea on their way [...] | 2009-06-08 16:41:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MR PHUM SMIG |
09NOUAKCHOTT385 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE [...] (C) Summary: In Nouakchott for the week of June 7-11, the horse trading for ministerial posts according to the Dakar agreement took center stage. As of June 11, though, a national unity government had not yet been finalized. Prime Minister Waghef and other detainees deemed political prison [...] | 2009-06-11 11:55:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM KPAO MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT386 | MAURITANIA: A NEW DRUG-TRAFFICKING HUB IN THE [...] (C) Summary: Drug-trafficking in Mauritania is on the rise and becoming a concern not only for the country but also the region. Mauritania is a transit country for hashish resin and cocaine, two highly profitable drugs. Hashish resin is trafficked from Morocco to the Gulf States through t [...] | 2009-06-11 12:20:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MR SNAR PTER |
09NOUAKCHOTT411 | FNDD REMAINS IN SOLIDARITY WITH ABDALLAHI [...] (C) Summary: FNDD co-President Mohamed Ould Maouloud denied Senegalese and European statements that the Front National pour la Defense de la Democratie (FNDD) and the Rassemblement des Forces Democratiques (RFD) were ready to accept implementation of the Dakar Accord without President Abdal [...] | 2009-06-24 18:21:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT414 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE [...] (C) Summary: This week, the parties to the crisis traveled to Dakar to negotiate the future of the High State Council (HSC),an issue that has been blocking the implementation of the Accord for the past two weeks. The parties were unable to reach a consensus, obliging President Wade to rus [...] | 2009-06-25 10:51:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT420 | MAURITANIAN ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JUNE 28 -- A [...] (C) One day into the new and internationally recognized transitional Government of National Unity, the inherent distrust of all the parties are already threatening collapse. The International Contact Group, that has agreed to meet twice daily into the foreseeable future, has its own division [...] | 2009-06-28 23:34:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT423 | MAURITANIAN ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JUNE 29 -- [...] (SBU) June 29 saw the opposition parties' protest to the Constitutional Council dismissed, with the Council's decision to uphold the election schedule decreed by Prime Minister Laghdaf on June 28 despite the lack of consensus. The Constitutional Council's decision clears the way for the mult [...] | 2009-06-29 15:48:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT428 | MAURITANIAN ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JUNE 30: [...] (C) The Contact Group met the afternoon of June 29. AU Ambassador Annadif said that, despite previous confidence expressed by Prime Minister Laghdaf, the three parties had not yet been able to reach agreement concerning the civil society members of the National Independent Electoral Commiss [...] | 2009-07-01 09:56:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT431 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE [...] (SBU) Summary: This week in Nouakchott, the August 6 coup d'etat came to an official end with the formation of a Transitional Government of National Unity and President Abdallahi's resignation, in accordance with the Dakar Accord. The new government is up and running but maintaining consens [...] | 2009-07-02 14:24:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL SNAR PHUM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT433 | MAURITANIAN ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JULY 2 -- ON [...] (C) Maouloud complains about electoral list revision timeframe: On June 30, Maouloud complained to Annadif and the ICG that the original ten-day extraordinary electoral list revision had been shortened to four days. The revision, a crucial step towards transparency and confidence building, [...] | 2009-07-02 15:53:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT436 | MAURITANIAN ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JULY 5 -- THE [...] (SBU) Minister of the Interior satisfied: The International Contact Group (ICG) met with the Transitional Government of National Unity's Minister of the Interior Mohamed Ould Rzeizime (from the anti-coup FNDD political alliance) on July 2. Rzeizime stated election planning was on track and [...] | 2009-07-06 16:52:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT440 | MAURITANIAN ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JULY 6-7 -- [...] (C) Electoral campaign kicks off (again): Almost overnight, Nouakchott has become a tent city with hundreds of "khaimas" erected one next to the other in honor of the main presidential candidates. Compared to the dull, one-man campaign leading to the canceled June 6 elections, this preside [...] | 2009-07-07 17:25:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT443 | MAURITANIAN ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JULY 8 -- [...] (U) The OIF will send observers: The Organisation internationale de la francophonie (OIF) confirmed on July 8 it will send an observer mission headed by former President of Burundi Pierre Buyoya. 2. (U) Aziz comes forward as the real author of the 2005 coup: During a political rally i [...] | 2009-07-08 15:22:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT45 | A BEATEN SENATE PRESIDENT [...] (C) Charge visited a dejected President of the Senate Ba M'Bare on January 14. During Charge's previous meeting in November (REFTEL),M'Bare opposed the regime despite extreme pressure from the new Central Bank Governor who had cut his check signing privileges and a commission of inquiry set [...] | 2009-01-14 14:44:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT451 | MAURITANIA ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JULY 12 -- [...] (SBU) Aziz organizes massive political rally: As promised last week on the campaign trail, presidential candidate Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz held a political rally in the Nouakchott neighborhood of Arafat on July 11. The event was widely publicized and Mattel cell phone users received an unso [...] | 2009-07-12 17:21:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MR PHUM |
09NOUAKCHOTT453 | ARAB MAGHREB DIRECTOR TIGHT LIPPED ABOUT WESTERN [...] (C) PolOff paid a courtesy visit on July 12 to Arab Maghreb Director Mohamed Ould Mekhale to inquire after UN SRSG for Western Sahara Chris Ross's visit to Mauritania on June 27. PolOff wanted to ask if the Secretary of State in charge of the Arab Maghreb had met with Ross, how the Mauritan [...] | 2009-07-13 15:30:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV WI MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT455 | MAURITANIAN ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JULY 13 -- THE [...] (C) AU pressures Prime Minister to address complaints: The Ambassador attended an International Contact Group (ICG) meeting July 12 which discussed persistent complaints by the main three opposition candidates about Aziz's disregard for main Dakar Accord points (Ref A and B),African Union r [...] | 2009-07-13 16:42:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT46 | IRAN URGES/ENTICES MAURITANIA TO CUT TIES WITH [...] (SBU) Iranian Vice President Mohamed Ridha Rahimi came to Nouakchott January 13 and met with military junta leader General Aziz to discuss primarily Gaza. Press reports in the official media said the Iranian welcomed the Mauritanian decision to recall their ambassador. Independent press and [...] | 2009-01-15 13:37:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL IR MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT460 | MAURITANIAN ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JULY 15 - 16 [...] (C) Ministry of Foreign Affairs declines US help: The US Embassy offer of aircraft support for the transportation of AU/OIF observer missions to the faraway cities of Zouerate, Selibaby and Nema was declined by the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on July 16. In a telep [...] | 2009-07-16 14:09:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT461 | THE RISE OF THE OULED BISBAA [...] (SBU) Summary: It is extremely difficult for Westerners to gain an understanding of the complex and opaque world of Mauritanian tribes. Mauritanians tend to be tight lipped about tribal issues and rarely unveil tribal details or the dynamics of tribal politics. The Ouled Bisbaa, a traditi [...] | 2009-07-16 14:14:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT462 | MAURITANIA: DEFINING -- BUT UNPREDICTABLE -- [...] (C) Summary: As we approach the July 18 Presidential elections in Mauritania, there are too many unknowns to make any credible prediction about the outcome. Although Mauritania's elites have been enmeshed by over ten months of intense political struggle since the August 6, 2008, coup, the [...] | 2009-07-16 16:41:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT47 | FREEZING OF MAURITANIAN - ISRAELI RELATIONS [...] (C) The Mauritanian regime's decision, as announced by General Aziz at the Doha Summit on January 16, to "freeze relations" with Israel has little practical effect for the time being. The Israeli Ambassador received a diplomatic note January 17 announcing that Mauritania had decided to freez [...] | 2009-01-18 15:28:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL IS MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT480 | THE MAURITANIANS DISAPPOINT -- AZIZ ELECTED [...] (C) Summary: The Mauritanian people appear to have selected General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz as their next duly elected president. Although there are isolated reports of inappropriate efforts to influence voters, the election itself proceeded reasonably well offering the population a chance [...] | 2009-07-20 11:29:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT486 | MINISTRY OF JUSTICE WOULD WELCOME USG HELP IN [...] Summary: The Ministry of Justice has been informed of Mauritania's reclassification to Tier 3 in the annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report and has been briefed about the process and potential consequences for future USG- Government of Mauritania engagement. Dr. Haimoud Ould Ramadhane, [...] | 2009-07-22 13:53:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR ELAB KTIP PHUM |
09NOUAKCHOTT490 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF JULY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-23 15:32:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR PHUM PTER |
09NOUAKCHOTT491 | IT'S OFFICIAL -- CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL CONFIRMS [...] (U) The Mauritanian Constitutional Council on July 23 issued its ruling ratifying the results of Mauritania's July 18 presidential elections definitively establishing General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz as president elect. Prior to ratifying the election, the Constitutional Council addressed the [...] | 2009-07-24 12:08:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT492 | MAURITANIA -- ENDING U.S. SANCTIONS [...] (C) In light of the certification of Mauritania's July 18 presidential elections, Post recommends the discontinuation of the legislative and policy-driven sanctions imposed on Mauritania following the August 6, 2008, coup d'etat. Post believes that Mauritania has returned to constitutional [...] | 2009-07-26 16:37:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC MASS EAID CVIS MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT493 | NOUAKCHOTT WARDEN MEETING DISCUSSES GENERAL [...] (SBU) Following up on the last Mission EAC (REFTEL),the Ambassador hosted a July 23 Consular Wardens Meeting to discuss general security concerns shared by Nouakchott's American citizen (AmCit) community. The invitation was extended to official and unofficial AmCits, as well as those associa [...] | 2009-07-27 23:30:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CASC ASEC MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT496 | AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON PRESIDENT-ELECT AZIZ [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Boulware called on President-elect Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to say that the USG accepted the Constitutional Council,s determination that Aziz had been elected and was not persuaded that opposition complaints of major electoral irregularities were convincingly supported [...] | 2009-07-29 09:19:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT5 | AGGRESSIVE EVOLUTION OF NOUAKCHOTT ANTI-ISRAELI [...] (U) Summary: Sporadic Anti-Israeli demonstrations have grown in size and aggressiveness. Pre and post prayer marches on Friday, January 2, numbered several hundred; active but handily turned back from Israeli, Egyptian, and other Mission precincts by riot police. The January 4th return of [...] | 2009-01-05 15:16:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC KPAL KPAO MR PREL |
09NOUAKCHOTT500 | MAURITANIA -- ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY WITH THE AZIZ [...] (C) New Environment Needs New Strategy: Mission Country Team (including visiting Rabat-based LEGAT) held an off-site July 27 to consider revisions of the Mission Strategic Plan in light of the July 18 election of President-elect Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz and the June 23 killing of Christopher [...] | 2009-08-02 23:28:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID MASS ASEC PTER AMGT MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT503 | MAURITANIA -- ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY WITH THE AZIZ [...] (C) New Environment Needs New Strategy: Mission Country Team (including visiting Rabat-based LEGAT) held an off-site July 27 to consider revisions of the Mission Strategic Plan in light of the July 18 election of President-elect Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz and the June 23 killing of Christopher [...] | 2009-08-03 08:17:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID MASS ASEC PTER AMGT MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT504 | ON IRAN, ISRAEL AND US-MAURITANIA RELATIONS: HEADS [...] (C) Summary: According to Mohamed Aly Cherif, Parliamentarian Majority President and leader of President-elect Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz's party Union Pour la Republique (UPR),the new government is willing to work with the opposition but the ball is now on the opposition's court. Cherif doe [...] | 2009-08-03 09:10:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT505 | MODERATE ISLAMIST JEMIL MANSOUR ON THE ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: Tawassoul president and presidential candidate Jemil Ould Mansour -- who was among the first to accept President-elect Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz's victory -- believes the election was fair despite a number of irregularities. For Mansour, Tawassoul comes out of the crisis in a wi [...] | 2009-08-03 17:11:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT506 | OPPOSITION LEADERS ON THE FUTURE OF THE FNDD [...] (C) Summary: The Front National pour la Defense de la Democratie (FNDD) is still active despite its electoral defeat and the defection of founding party Tawassoul. Leaders Mohamed Ould Maouloud and Abdel Koudouss Abeidna believe the FNDD has a future as an umbrella organization for oppositi [...] | 2009-08-04 15:04:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT510 | MAURITANIA: LEADER OF OPPOSITION OULD DADDAH SEES [...] (C) Summary: Opposition leader Ahmed Ould Daddah continues to see fraud in the July 18 presidential elections even as he remains at a loss to explain how. He regrets that the U.S. -- "the last hope for Mauritania" -- has accepted a mechanical definition of democracy and opted for security o [...] | 2009-08-11 15:21:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT512 | MAURITANIA: TIER 3 REASSESSMENT [...] (C) Summary: In response to Ref A, please note that due to a prolonged political crisis, Mauritania has made limited progress in addressing the recommendations outlined in the 2009 Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP). The Transitional Government of National Unity stemming from the Dakar Acc [...] | 2009-08-12 16:28:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIP PGOV PHUM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT513 | JAPAN TO MOVE FORWARD ON ESTABLISHING EMBASSY IN [...] (C) The head of the "Japanese Preparatory Office" in Nouakchott, Miyamoto Musayuk, told DCM August 12 that Tokyo was moving forward on the establishment of an embassy in Mauritania. As discussed in REFTELs, the Japanese had been well advanced in their planning for an embassy but had to put e [...] | 2009-08-12 17:14:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV JA MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT514 | AZIZ' NEW GOVERNMENT "NOT BAD" [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-13 12:58:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT515 | THE "FIRST" FEMALE ARAB MUSLIM FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Newly appointed Foreign Minister Naha Mint Mouknass emphasized the importance for women in the Arab world that she not fail as the "first Arab Muslim" foreign minister. She welcomed renewed cooperation with the United States in all areas of counter-terrorism but emphasized devel [...] | 2009-08-17 17:36:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KWMN MR IS |
09NOUAKCHOTT538 | BIO INFO FOR MAURITANIA'S NEW GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) On August 11, President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz named his cabinet, composed of 29 positions (24 ministers, 3 deputy ministers, 2 minister secretary generals and one minister counselor) (Ref A). 2. (SBU) Prime Minister Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf: Laghdaf was first appointed prime [...] | 2009-08-20 11:33:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM MR PINR |
09NOUAKCHOTT546 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH PRIME MINISTER LAGHDAF - [...] (C) Summary: The Mauritanian relationship with the U.S. has "turned a page," and the newly (re)appointed Prime Minister looks forward to a broad and strong revitalized relationship. Counter-terrorism is of extreme importance -- the withdrawal of Peace Corps following the killing of an Ameri [...] | 2009-08-25 15:09:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT549 | JOURNALIST SENTENCED TO SIX MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT [...] (C) Summary: Journalist and Taqadoumy Website Director Hanevy Ould Deha, detained on June 18 on charges of defamation against presidential candidate Ibrahima Moktar Sarr, was sentenced on August 19 to six months in prison, a 30,000 UM ($111 USD) fine and 230,000 UM ($851 USD) in legal fees [...] | 2009-08-26 16:09:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PHUM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT568 | MAURITANIA - POTUS LUNCH WITH SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN [...] (C) Ambassador conveyed to Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on September 8 President Obama's invitation to participate in a September 22 lunch of sub-Saharan African Heads of State. While the Ambassador noted we had been notified he was not planning on going to UNGA, President Az [...] | 2009-09-08 15:27:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GA MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT569 | PRESIDENT AZIZ ON MAURITANIAN RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL [...] (C) Ambassador met with President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on September 8 ostensibly to deliver President Obama's invitation for a luncheon with sub-Saharan Heads of State on the margins of UNGA (SEPTEL) and to deliver REFTEL demarche on the eve of the Arab League summit. Ambassador expanded [...] | 2009-09-08 16:32:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT575 | MAURITANIA: LAYERED SECURITY STRATEGY [...] (C) The Way Forward: On September 2-3, Post hosted a Trans-Sahara Counter-terrorism Partnership (TSCTP) country-specific conference to develop a coordinated "hard" and "soft" counter-terrorism re-engagement strategy for FY09 and FY10. Conference participants included Country Team members, [...] | 2009-09-09 16:34:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PREL PTER EAID MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT577 | GLOBAL FUND INVESTIGATION IN MAURITANIA: FUNDS GO [...] (C) Summary: After widespread reports of mismanagement of aid granted to Mauritania through the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, a Global Fund financial investigation uncovered that nearly 74% of all aid funds to Mauritania were either spent improperly, or were not sufficie [...] | 2009-09-14 09:09:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID TBIO SOCI MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT578 | RESUMPTION OF PEACE CORPS OPERATIONS IN MAURITANIA [...] (C) Summary: Mission recommends the return of Peace Corps volunteers in areas of lesser terrorist risk defined as locations west of the Mission-designated "frontier zone." Peace Corps volunteers in Nouakchott, if any, would have to be placed in housing that meets USG standards for direct hi [...] | 2009-09-14 09:19:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC AMGT MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT580 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR AUGUST 2009 [...] (U) Summary: The month of August saw Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, author of the August 6, 2008 coup d'etat, become the legitimately elected President of Mauritania. Aziz also received a visit from the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs and traveled to Libya on his first official visit. Taqado [...] | 2009-09-14 13:39:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL MR SNAR |
09NOUAKCHOTT593 | MAURITANIA: PRESIDENT AZIZ ON TERRORISM AND [...] (C) During the Ambassador's August 8 call on President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on other matters, Aziz spoke about the terrorist and extremist threats facing Mauritania. Aziz focused first on the internal drivers of extremism, telling the Ambassador that disgruntled youth were driven to extre [...] | 2009-09-15 12:40:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MASS EAID PTER MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT607 | MAURITANIA: INTERNATIONAL CONTACT GROUP DOES A [...] (U) The International Contact Group on Mauritania convened on September 10, 2009 in Nouakchott to consider developments in Mauritania since the finalization of the Dakar Accord's laying out the steps for a consensual return to constitutional order leading to new elections to resolve Mauritan [...] | 2009-09-17 17:22:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT611 | IMF AGREES TO A NEW THREE YEAR PROGRAM WITH [...] (C) Summary. A delegation of IMF advisors visited Mauritania to mark the resumption of GIRM and IMF relations following the 2008 coup d'etat. The IMF announced a Special Drawing Right loan valued at USD 80 million for Mauritania, as well as plans for a three-year IMF aid plan to begin in 201 [...] | 2009-09-22 16:19:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IMF MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT613 | C-CI9-01825 RUSSIAN BUSINESS PRESENCE IN MAURITANIA [...] (C). As requested in REFTEL, Embassy Nouakchott reviewed current Russian business interests in Mauritania: A. Russia does not have a trade representative or office in Mauritania, and has no plans to establish such an office in the near future. There is an agreement between the Russian agen [...] | 2009-09-27 11:41:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | BBSR ECON EINV MR PINR |
09NOUAKCHOTT623 | FORMER PRESIDENT ABDALLAHI - "I UNDERESTIMATED THE [...] (C) A Man Content With Himself: Charge met with former President Abdallahi on September 24 at his simple home in the village of Lemden (three hours southeast of Nouakchott). This was the first meeting with Abdallahi since he resigned his office on June 24 as his part of the Dakar Accords. Ab [...] | 2009-09-29 13:41:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PINR MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT635 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ROUNDUP FOR [...] (C) Summary: In the month of September, the International Contact Group visited Mauritania to take stock of the post-election political situation. Delegations from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank also visited and renewed programs with Mauritania. President Aziz travel [...] | 2009-10-01 12:22:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER MR KDEM |
09NOUAKCHOTT639 | TURKEY TO OPEN EMBASSY IN MAURITANIA [...] (U) According to press reports published on October 1, Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister Ahmed Davat Ogloo announced his country's intention to open an embassy in Nouakchott to strengthen Turkish-Mauritanian cooperation. This declaration followed Ogloo's meeting with Mauritanian Foreign Affai [...] | 2009-10-06 13:08:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR TU |
09NOUAKCHOTT655 | OFFICIAL AND UNOFFICIAL MAURITANIAN VIEWS ON GUINEA [...] (C) Summary: On October 8, African Affairs Director for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Mohamed Habib Ball shared with PolOff Mauritania's official position on the Guinean crisis as well as his personal insights. According to Ball, Mauritanians, who have not yet issued an officia [...] | 2009-10-12 14:56:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV MR GV |
09NOUAKCHOTT657 | A PESSIMISTIC ALGERIAN OUTLOOK ON MAURITANIA [...] (C) Departing Algerian Ambassador Rachid Chakib Kaid (protect throughout) provided Charge a pessimistic outlook on Mauritania's political prospects in the coming year. Kaid, who has served in Mauritania for five years, said he had witnessed the roller-coaster of recurring coups. He had hope [...] | 2009-10-12 15:12:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MR AG |
09NOUAKCHOTT659 | MAURITANIA: OPPOSITION SLOWLY ADJUSTING TO NEW [...] (C) Summary: Opposition leaders continue to absorb the results of the July presidential elections with a mix of disillusionment and anger. While they struggle to maintain some of the political unity that marked opposition resistance to the coup, they are preparing to assume the role of a peac [...] | 2009-10-13 15:53:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT663 | GUINEA: MAURITANIA SUPPORTS A UN INVESTIGATION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-19 08:08:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR GV |
09NOUAKCHOTT676 | POSSIBLE APPROACH BY PRESIDENT AZIZ TO CAPTAIN [...] (C) In a call on President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on October 21, Ambassador Boulware explained that the U.S. was extremely preoccupied with the situation in Guinea. He noted that during recent consultations in Washington he had been asked to explore with Aziz the possibility of his approachin [...] | 2009-10-22 07:24:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GV MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT697 | MAURITANIAN MINISTERS ON COUNTER-EXTREMISM [...] (SBU) DCM met October 21 in separate meetings with the Minister of Islamic Affairs, The Minister of Communication, and the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports to discuss the efforts of these ministries to combat extremism and to discuss how the DOD Media Information Support Team (MIST),USA [...] | 2009-10-28 14:24:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER EAID MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT698 | TAWASSOUL: PUSH TO STRENGTHEN POLITICAL PRESENCE [...] (C) Moderate Islamist party Tawassoul has been one of the few winners in the past year of political crisis -- successfully establishing itself as a credible political movement and poised to expand its influence. This political party, affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, which Taya's gove [...] | 2009-10-29 13:54:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT7 | GAZA: MAURITANIANS INDIRECTLY LINK RECALL OF [...] (C) Israeli Ambassador Michael Arbel confirmed with junta Foreign Minister Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou the Mauritanian authorities have recalled their Ambassador in Israel "for consultations" in response to tremendous domestic and foreign pressure. Ould Mohamedou told the Ambassador that [...] | 2009-01-05 19:00:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL ASEC IS MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT705 | MAURITANIA: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ROUNDUP FOR THE [...] (U) Summary: This month in Mauritania, President Aziz's government took important first steps towards fighting corruption while a poll financed by the World Bank found that 82.9 percent of Mauritanians think the government is corrupt. The Spanish and the French sent high level emissaries to [...] | 2009-11-02 07:45:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF EMIN EAIR EAID MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT707 | MAURITANIA TO SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDACY TO [...] In response to reftel please note that on November 3, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed PolOff that Mauritania will instruct its delegation to support Lucretia Myers' candidacy to the International Service Commission. BOULWARE [...] | 2009-11-03 09:22:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | UNGA PREL MR KAWC KUNR |
09NOUAKCHOTT708 | MAURITANIA: AZIZ' 1ST QUARTER REPORT CARD -- A LOW [...] (C) Summary -- Three months into the democratically elected Aziz government, the new President has begun to change opinions of some of his critics with very strong performance in addressing corruption and terrorism and a good effort in addressing humanitarian/social emergencies. Foreign polic [...] | 2009-11-03 11:35:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PHUM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT711 | SLAVERY IN MAURITANIA: AN OVERVIEW AND ACTION PLAN [...] (C) Summary: A deeply entrenched social, cultural and economic phenomenon, slavery is present in both the Moor and Afro-Mauritanian communities and is linked to a caste system rather than exclusively racial considerations. Slavery practices still exist in many forms -- from the most tradit [...] | 2009-11-03 16:10:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM TIP PGOV KDEM MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT718 | SOMEBODY'S PROPERTY: SLAVE VICTIMS TALK ABOUT [...] (C) On November 5, PolOff had the rare opportunity to meet with nine "runaway slaves" from the Eastern city of Bassikounou in the Hodh Echargui region. These slavery victims traveled to Nouakchott at SOS Esclaves' invitation to tell their stories to UN Special Rapporteur for Contemporary Fo [...] | 2009-11-05 15:37:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MR KDEM TIP |
09NOUAKCHOTT72 | EAC MEETS TO DISCUSS PRESIDENT ABDALLAHI'S [...] (SBU) President Abdallahi, who was "released without condition" by General Aziz on December 21, is being prevented today from returning to Nouakchott with his supporters. Abdallahi's spokesmen have announced that the President intends to make a policy announcement laying out an alternative ex [...] | 2009-01-22 13:11:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC CASC MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT728 | OPPOSITION DENOUNCES CORRUPT ELECTORAL SYSTEM [...] (C) Summary: For opposition leaders Ahmed Ould Daddah and Mohamed Ould Maouloud, the outcome of the November 8 senatorial elections is the living proof that Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz intends to squash all dissenting voices through widespread electoral fraud and intimidation. According to the [...] | 2009-11-13 03:57:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SNAR MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT73 | ABDALLAHI'S POLITICAL STRATEGY [...] (C) Summary: President Abdallahi's political base see the blockage of the President's return to Nouakchott on January 22 as evidence he is still under effective house arrest and prohibited from engaging in the political process. There are fears for his physical security if he tries to leave [...] | 2009-01-23 16:52:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT798 | MAURITANIA: 2009 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] (U) Al-Qa'ida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) represented the primary terrorist threat to Mauritania. After two attacks in late December 2007 and two others in 2008, including the February attack against the Israeli embassy and the September Tourine attack that cost the lives of 11 soldiers a [...] | 2009-12-14 07:44:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT818 | MAURITANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SEES ALGERIA AS [...] (C) Summary: The Mauritanian Foreign Minister sees Algeria as hindering a regional response to the AQIM threat -- both by seeking to exclude some regional countries (presumably Morocco) from the conversation and dissuading neighbors from cooperating with external partners like AFRICOM. The [...] | 2009-12-28 14:17:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER EPET MR AG |
09NOUAKCHOTT823 | AMBASSADOR RAISES HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS WITH [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador conveyed concerns that lack of respect for due process in the prosecution of corruption and slander cases -- regardless of the merits of the case -- will negatively affect Mauritania's human rights image which, in turn, may inhibit the expansion of partnerships wit [...] | 2009-12-30 08:26:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT83 | MAYOR OF NEMA FIGHTS ON WHILE PRO-COUP PARTISANS [...] (C) Summary: The mayor of the remote southeastern town of Nema continues to try to improve the living conditions of his residents, despite ongoing attempts by pro-coup politicians to unseat him from his post. The economic situation remains as precarious as ever, exacerbated by the pullout o [...] | 2009-01-28 09:14:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD KDEM MR PGOV PREL PTER |
09NOUAKCHOTT9 | ALLEGED MAURITANIAN SUPPORT TO MALIAN TUAREG REBELS [...] (C) During a January 6 meeting with President Abdallahi's effective Foreign Minister and FNDD leader Mohamed Ould Maouloud on internal political issues (SEPTEL),Maouloud raised the FNDD's concern about increasing Mauritanian military support to Malian Tuareg rebels. Maouloud alleged that abo [...] | 2009-01-06 17:07:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS ML MR |
09NOUAKCHOTT94 | SENATORS PRESS FOR CLEAR EUROPEAN STANCE AGAINST [...] (C) Summary: In separate discussions with two senators representing different factions, both underlined concerns that European ambiguity and concessions to the Junta allow General Aziz to consolidate power. This is, they intimated, an economic, human rights and political disaster. Senator Mo [...] | 2009-01-30 03:42:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR |
09NOUKKCHOTT514 | AZIZ' EW GOVERNMENT "NOT BAD" [...] (C) Summary: President elect Mohamed Ould AbdelAAziz appointed a new cabinet on August 11. Led by former Prime Minister Moulaye Ould Mohamed Lagha f, the cabinet has 29 positions (24 ministers, deputy ministers, 2 minister secretary generalsa nd one minister counselor). Aziz set a posit [...] | 2009-08-13 12:58:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR |
09OSLO10 | NORWAY PLEASED WITH ARCTIC POLICY BRIEFING [...] (C) In a January 7 meeting with MFA North American Coordinator Morten Aasland, High North Coordinator Jostein Mickleton, and officers from the Arctic Council and High North sections, P/E Counselor delivered reftel points. The MFA officials were pleased to receive the information, and also ve [...] | 2009-01-07 14:41:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KGCC PBTS PHSA PREL SENV EWWT |
09OSLO113 | NORWEGIANS UNHELPFUL ON CARTAGENA PROTOCOL [...] (C) Poloff had a friendly discussion with the GON official, Birthe Ivars, who will represent Norway in Mexico City on 23-27 February to negotiate the text of proposed rules on liability and redress for damage resulting from cross-border movement of living modified organisms. The Norwegian pos [...] | 2009-02-13 14:46:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON ETRD TBIO KPAO |
09OSLO114 | PART II: RISING NORWEGIAN ANTI-SEMITISM AFFECTING [...] (C) Summary: Anti-Semitism in Norway, and the expression of anti-Semitic comments, has increased since the Gaza war. The small Norwegian Jewish community is wary of being targeted, and "Jew" has become more popular as an epithet. While the issue of anti-Semitism is frequently debated in the me [...] | 2009-02-13 14:48:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF KWBG SOCI PREL PGOV PINR IS NO |
09OSLO115 | PART I: CONSTRAINTS ON NORWAY'S MIDDLE EAST ROLE? [...] (C) Summary: Norway aspires to be a leader in Middle East peace negotiations and could be a genuine asset in bringing peace to the region. Norway's diplomatic principles, focus on dialogue, and mediation history have helped raise Norway's profile as a peacemaker. Its tense relationship with I [...] | 2009-02-13 14:48:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL PGOV PINR IS NO |
09OSLO116 | PART III: NORWEGIAN FM STOERE: THE WORLD AT HIS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-13 14:49:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KPAL IS NO |
09OSLO123 | NORWAY LOOKING TO ACCELERATE AFGHANIZATION [...] (SBU) Summary: The GON told visiting SCA DAS for Afghanistan Patrick Moon on February 13 that Norway's main priorities for Afghanistan are: -- a greater UN role, -- an increased role for the Afghans (even at the cost of increases in corruption),-- regional dialogue, -- a gradual move to a [...] | 2009-02-19 13:51:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM EAID NATO AF PK NO |
09OSLO128 | NORWAY: BLADERUNNER DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-26 06:09:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | ISN AF EUR NEA NO |
09OSLO132 | ENGAGING NORWAY ON AFGHANISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-27 13:16:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MOPS MARR NO |
09OSLO133 | NORWEGIANS SAY SECURITY AID TO SOMALIA CRUCIAL, [...] (C) SUMMARY: While agreeing with all our views of the security situation in Somalia, the GON feels its hands are tied when it comes to direct support of security forces in Somalia. Despite being the third largest humanitarian aid donor in the country, Norway will have to seek to contribute to [...] | 2009-02-27 13:16:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO SO NO |
09OSLO139 | NORWEGIAN NGOS WANT ANSWERS ON GUANTANAMO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Amnesty International and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee want to meet with US embassy officers to clarify when they can expect the USG to ask Norway for help in resettling Guantanamo detainees who cannot be sent back to their home countries. Post requests guidance for what to [...] | 2009-03-04 06:48:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PTER PHUM |
09OSLO140 | FAMILY OF TURKMEN POLITICAL PRISONER REQUESTS USG [...] (C) SUMMARY: The family of jailed Turkmen civil rights activist Gulgeldy Annaniyazov, living in Norway, has contacted the Norwegian Helsinki Committee and requested that the US Embassy in Turkmenistan do what it can to determine his welfare and lobby for his release. Actions by the Norwegian M [...] | 2009-03-04 07:55:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF TX NO |
09OSLO143 | NORWAY COMMITTED TO DURBAN II ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Despite discussion of the issue in the Norwegian press, the GON refuses to disclose its "red lines"--what would be completely unacceptable for Norway--in the context of the Durban II conference in Geneva. While Norway can be counted on to support freedom of expression, its prefer [...] | 2009-03-05 13:12:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC |
09OSLO146 | DREAMS IN POLAR FOG: PROPOSED NORDIC EFENSE AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-06 11:29:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PNR PGOV PREL MARR MCAP MOPS DA IC FI SW |
09OSLO148 | AFGHAN IMMIGRANTS IN NORWAY [...] (U) SUMMARY. Afghans represent one of Norway,s newest immigrant communities with 72% having been in Norway less than five years. The 8,000 registered Afghans currently living in Norway (including Norwegian-born to immigrant parents),are comprised primarily of refugees and asylum seekers. T [...] | 2009-03-09 07:30:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PTER PGOV PINR KCRM AF NO |
09OSLO159 | NORWAY RELUCTANT TO APPROVE GAZA SMUGGLING [...] (C) The GON has not yet decided if they can accept the program of action or even if they will attend the March 13 London meeting. The GON's stated concern is the need under Norwegian law for a legal basis for the actions outlined in the program of action. This may be a uniquely Norwegian con [...] | 2009-03-10 13:44:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | EG KPAL MARR PREL NO |
09OSLO169 | NORWAY GIVES $2.3M FOR PAKISTAN IDPS, HAPPY TO [...] (C) Summary: Last week Norway announced $2.3 million of aid that will go to UNICEF and the ICRC to help the northwest frontier provinces. While thrilled to be included in the Friends of Pakistan (FOP) group, as well as being asked to join the upcoming Tokyo Donor's conference, the GON sees it [...] | 2009-03-16 14:51:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PHUM PREF EFIN IBRD IMF PK NO |
09OSLO171 | (C) NORWAY'S MORE POSITIVE IRAQ POLICY [...] (C) Summary. Recognizing the improved situation in Iraq and wishing to support President Obama, Norway decided to "even further normalize relations" with Iraq and to consider a possible political level visit. Despite this positive direction, the GON continues to be skeptical to engagement w [...] | 2009-03-17 08:34:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PREL PGOV IZ NO |
09OSLO174 | HOLD THE LINE: NORWAY'S SPECIAL 301 DESIGNATION [...] (C) Summary. As Washington agencies consider the Special 301 Watchlist, Post wishes to strongly emphasize its earlier recommendation (Reftel B) that the GON should remain on the list. Norway was first listed in 2008 (Reftels C,D). Per Ref B, Post is aware that there is an internal USG discus [...] | 2009-03-17 13:34:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON KIPR NO |
09OSLO179 | NORWEGIANS HAPPY WITH SHARM EL-SHEIK INROADS, [...] (C) Summary: The GON found the conference in Sharm el-Sheik both constructive and surprisingly positive in tone, and hopes it will help bring Arab and Gulf donors deeper into the AHLC framework. Norway continues to emphasize the structural importance of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Gaza, [...] | 2009-03-19 10:48:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EUN KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM PTER NO |
09OSLO187 | NORWAY SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON KFOR [...] (C) Norway shares U.S. concerns over possible changes in KFOR's force structure. Norway plans to continue its minimal contribution to KFOR (six to seven officers assigned to KFOR HQ in Pristina) although it did withdraw approximately fifteen intelligence specialists during the last half of 2 [...] | 2009-03-23 13:32:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO KPKO KV NO |
09OSLO199 | JAGLAND'S CANDIDACY FOR NEXT COE SECRETARY GENERAL [...] (C) Summary. Thorbjorn Jagland is a leading Norwegian politician whose thoughtful comments often crystallize debates and support US positions. While he was the subject of some controversy while he was Prime Minister, he is now a seasoned elder statesman who would be a strong candidate to hea [...] | 2009-03-26 12:17:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM COE NO |
09OSLO216 | LAVROV AND STOERE TRADE TOUGH WORDS OVER NATO, BUSINESS DISPUTE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-31 14:43:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL EINV RU NO |
09OSLO220 | NORWAY SUPPORTIVE OF AFGHAN POLICY IN PRINCIPLE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Norway's special envoy for Afghanistan, Janis Kanavin, welcomed the conclusions of the U.S. Afghanistan Pakistan Strategic Review and stated that Norway was in broad agreement with the U.S. approach, particularly the need for increased civilian assistance and the implementation of [...] | 2009-04-01 09:39:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO MARR MOPS AF NO |
09OSLO225 | DINNER WITH MUGABE--THE NORWEGIAN REPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following Minister Solheim's visit to Harare, the Norwegians believe that President Mugabe is looking for a graceful exit, and that ZANU-PF forces are plotting to derail the unity government. The Norwegians believe, however, that the March 30 SADC meeting's strong stand on Madagas [...] | 2009-04-02 13:37:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PHUM PREF PGOV PREL ZI NO |
09OSLO230 | NORWEGIANS HAPPY WITH OBAMA'S DISARMAMENT SPEECH, [...] (C) GON Ambassador for Disarmament Affairs, Knut Langeland, told poloff that the contents of Obama's Prague speech were "in line what Norway has argued for," including a follow up to START, and helpful reinforcing language on the CTBT, the NPT, and a verifiable FMCT. He noted that Norway has [...] | 2009-04-06 11:33:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM NO |
09OSLO233 | PAKISTAN DONOR CONFERENCE: NO NEW MONEY FROM NORWAY [...] (C) Summary. Although Norway considers itself a strategic donor to Pakistan, it will not be able to pledge new monies at the upcoming donor conference. Norway will be represented by its Deputy Development Minister and welcomes the conference discussions, especially if they promote coordinatio [...] | 2009-04-07 14:25:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN IBRD IMF PK NO |
09OSLO262 | ESTA APPROVED FOR APPLICANT WITH TERRORIST CLASS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-08 13:36:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS PTER KVPR ASEC NO |
09OSLO268 | NORWAY CONTINUES MADAGASCAR AID SUSPENSION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-15 09:36:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC EAID PGOV SZ MA NO |
09OSLO270 | NORWAY SHOULD SUPPORT KOSOVO IMF/WORLD BANK [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-15 13:53:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL NO |
09OSLO3 | NORWEGIANS PLEDGE AID FOR GAZA, BUT STRESS ACCESS [...] (C) Poloff met with Ingrid Schoyen, Assistant Director General of the Middle East Section of the MFA to deliver reftel demarche on aid to Gaza. Norway pledged 30 million kroner (approx $4.3 million) of aid to Gaza on December 30, actually taking the decision prior to the flash appeal by the U [...] | 2009-01-05 14:27:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PREL PHUM LE UNRWA NO |
09OSLO315 | NORWEGIAN LAWYERS SUE ISRAEL FOR WAR CRIMES ABUSES [...] (U) As widely reported in the international press, a group of Norwegian attorneys filed with the Public Prosecutor's Office a request for the Government of Norway to pursue a war crimes case against Israeli officials for actions in Gaza. The lead attorney pressing the matter is a well know huma [...] | 2009-04-27 12:55:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PHUM IS NO |
09OSLO341 | NORWEGIANS LIKELY TO FOLLOW EU ON SUU KYI ISSUE [...] (C) Poloff spoke with Senior Advisor Vegard Wennesland in the MFA East Asia section and discussed reftel points. Wennesland, after consulting within the MFA, said that no final decision had been taken on how to react to the May 30 milestone in Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest. Wennesland said [...] | 2009-05-11 14:09:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL BM NO |
09OSLO352 | NORWAY'S LIBERTAD ACT REVIEW, MAY 2009 [...] (C) The paragraphs in this cable are keyed to questions in reftel (A),paragraph 5. Poloff met with Kjersti Rodsmoen, MFA Latin America section director, to discuss Cuba policy. Norway continues to pursue a strategy of limited engagement toward Cuba in order to advance human rights, and, indi [...] | 2009-05-18 16:01:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU NO |
09OSLO381 | NORWAY'S INPUT ON INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-08 12:42:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | KSCA EFIS PREL SENV NO |
09OSLO383 | NORWAY'S FM REQUESTS HELP TO FACILIATE BAGHDAD [...] (C) SUMMARY After four years of only minimal contact with the Iraqi government, Norway's Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere is planning a day-long visit to Baghdad on June 17. This visit comes in response to a direct request from Secretary Clinton to FM Stoere during their bilateral meeting in [...] | 2009-06-09 14:07:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PREL IZ NO |
09OSLO386 | NORWAY IS GOOD: NORWEGIAN EXCEPTIONALISM [...] (C) SUMMARY. Norway's sense of exceptionalism, while under some pressure due to some significant policy failures, still is a central part of the national culture and has an outsized impact on Norwegian foreign policy. Norwegians truly believe that there is something inherently good about being [...] | 2009-06-10 13:07:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL NO |
09OSLO387 | NORWEGIANS HAVE NO POSITION YET ON ICSC CANDIDATE [...] (C) Poloff spoke with Assistant Director General Lars Henie of the MFA UN section regarding reftel demarche, and provided Henie with the included biographical information. Henie said that he had forwarded the information to the Norwegian UN mission in New York, and received a response that th [...] | 2009-06-10 14:19:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA NO |
09OSLO388 | NORWEGIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO COUNTER-PIRACY [...] (C) Poloff met with Deputy Director General Anita Nergard of the Global Security section of the MFA to discuss reftel demarche. Nergard said that current Norwegian military contributions to counter-piracy operations in the horn of Africa consist of a single frigate that will be deployed start [...] | 2009-06-10 14:20:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR NATO PGOV PREL NO |
09OSLO389 | NORWAY AGREES PIRACY COURT A BAD IDEA [...] (C) Poloff discussed reftel demarche with Deputy Director Anita Nergard of the MFA Section for Global Security on June 10. Nergard said that Norway agreed with the US that the idea of an international tribunal to prosecute piracy suspects was a bad idea for the reasons we listed in reftel no [...] | 2009-06-10 14:21:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL |
09OSLO391 | NORWAY WILLING TO CONSIDER EXPORT LICENSING [...] (C) Poloff spoke with Kristine Hansen, senior advisor in the MFA WTO section on June 10. Hansen said that Norway was well aware of the proposal, and does not have a problem with its content, but must engage in a consultative process with ministries and industry, and is not fully aware of the [...] | 2009-06-11 14:34:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD |
09OSLO392 | NORWAY AND IRENA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-15 14:28:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG KGHG SENV NO |
09OSLO399 | NORWAY'S RUSSIA POLICY: WISHFUL THINKING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-18 07:44:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PINS PREL RS NO |
09OSLO403 | BHATTI RELEASED FROM PRISON [...] (SBU) Summary. Norway's Appeals Court ruled June 19 to release Arfan Bhatti, ringleader of an alleged plot to attack the US Embassy in Oslo, pending his re-trial in August, 2009. Bhatti had been convicted of vandalism and attempted murder in February 2009 but Norway's Supreme Court June 12 [...] | 2009-06-22 06:57:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC KCRM PREL PTER NO |
09OSLO407 | NORWEGIAN ENERGY: AND A-ROUND WE GO! [...] (C) Summary. US hydrocarbon giants were largely pleased with the GON's 20th licensing round results. These rounds involve opportunities on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). The 20th round drew record numbers of participants. Critics assert that an increased number of small to mid-sized [...] | 2009-06-22 13:36:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET PGOV SENV NO |
09OSLO412 | SUPPORT FOR PAROLE OF SHARPUDI ELFIROVICH ISRAILOV [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-24 12:13:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | NO PHUM RU |
09OSLO416 | NORWEGIANS WILL IMPLEMENT NORTH KOREA RESOLUTIONS [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarches to Jo Hovik, Senior Advisor in the MFA Legal Section. Hovik said that UNSCR 1718 was already fully implemented into Norwegian law, and UNSCR 1874 is being worked on by the MFA in concert with other ministries. Norway has a law which automatically incorpo [...] | 2009-06-26 14:06:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MNUC MTCRE KN ECON EFIN KNNP |
09OSLO424 | NORWEGIANS MUSE ON CGPCS AND ASPIRANT COUNTRIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a wide ranging discussion, Norway's representative to the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS),Carl Salicath, expressed reticence about admitting flag-of-convenience states to membership. He also discussed Cyprus's membership, Egypt's "odd" behavior with r [...] | 2009-06-30 11:13:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL |
09OSLO433 | NORWAY WILL SUPPORT US NGOS AT ECOSOC, AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a surprisingly frank interview, the Assistant Director General of UN Affairs at the Norwegian MFA stated his support for our NGO initiatives at the ECOSOC meeting, and mused on perceptions of the Obama administration's operations at the UN, and our differing definitions of "UN [...] | 2009-07-07 06:17:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KUNR NO |
09OSLO456 | US-NORWAY PARTNERSHIP ON SUDAN ADVANCED BY SE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In two days of meetings on July 11 and 13, Special Envoy Gration had productive and informative bilateral and trilateral meetings with high-level Norwegian and British counterparts, as well as a session with Foreign Minister Stoere. Post expects that the visit will result in in [...] | 2009-07-21 13:06:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC AU SU NO |
09OSLO459 | NORWAY'S RESPONSE: ASSISTING AFGHANISTAN BEYOND [...] (C) Summary: In meetings with A/DCM and PolOff July 21, MOD and MFA Officials described on-going military and civilian contributions and outlined previously announced 2010 pledges to the UN's Law and Order Trust Fund and the expanded NATO ANA Trust Fund. The MFA is reviewing an option to co- [...] | 2009-07-24 06:08:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MOPS MARR |
09OSLO465 | HISTORIC MEETING BETWEEN CHECHEN ADVERSARIES IN [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 23 and 24, the London-based "Chechnya Peace Forum" convened a meeting in Oslo between Dukhvakha Abdurakhmanov (Chairman of the Chechen parliament and representative of the Kadyrov government) and Akhmed Zakaev (representative of the Maskhadov continuation government). [...] | 2009-07-29 11:51:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PINR PGOV PREL PTER NO RU |
09OSLO486 | (C) NORWAY FRUSTRATED WITH OTHER SOMALIA DONORS' [...] (C) In response to reftel, poloff discussed Somalia with the Chief of the East Africa section of the Norwegian MFA, Hans Jacob Frydenlund. Frydenlund excused his reticence to fully evaluate the situation on the ground in Somalia because his deputy, Kjell Harald Dalen, who manages the Somalia [...] | 2009-08-05 15:20:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER SO EAID KPKO NO |
09OSLO494 | THE NORWAY HAMSUN YEAR CONTROVERSY [...] (C) SUMMARY: August 5 marked the official opening of the Hamsun Center in Hamaroy, Norway, and the continued celebration of the "Hamsun Year," a commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Nobel Prize winning author and Nazi sympathizer Knut Hamsun. The "Hamsun Year" has brought co [...] | 2009-08-07 14:58:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SCUL KIRF NO |
09OSLO504 | NORWEGIAN OPINIONS ON THE SUU KYI VERDICT AND BURMA [...] (C) Summary: The GON shares our reaction to the Suu Kyi verdict, and Foreign Minister Stoere has made forceful statements condemning the trial as "political" and "a farce," while also stating that an international boycott of Burma is of limited effectiveness without India and China on board. T [...] | 2009-08-14 07:01:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BM NO EAID |
09OSLO511 | NORWAY'S NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION NARRATIVE [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to reftel A, poloff held extensive discussions on August 14 with Knut Langeland, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Ambassador for Disarmament Affairs. Langeland spelled out Norway's position on nonproliferation and disarmament issues in response to our pro [...] | 2009-08-17 16:01:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09OSLO513 | NORWAY COUNSELS THE NEED TO PROMOTE THE IAEA [...] (C) Summary: In discussions about the Nuclear Fuel Bank with Norway's Ambassador for Disarmament Affairs, the official emphasized the hesitance of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) countries and offered his counsel that Fuel Bank supporters such as the U.S. and Norway must present the proposal "attra [...] | 2009-08-18 14:30:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG UEU KNNP IAEA KU NO AE SW |
09OSLO526 | USNATO AMBASSADOR DAALDER'S DISCUSSION WITH [...] (C) Summary: In discussions with visiting USNATO Ambassador Ivo Daalder in Oslo August 17, Norwegian Deputy Minister of Defense Espen Barth-Eide and Director for Security Policy Svein Efjestad said they looked forward to reviewing the new COMISAF Strategic requirements this fall; suggested tha [...] | 2009-08-26 13:44:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PBTS MCAP MOPS AF RU NO |
09OSLO527 | USNATO AMBASSADOR DAALDER'S MEETING WITH NORWEGIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In discussions August 17 with visiting USNATO Ambassador Ivo Daalder, Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Stoere and MFA DG for North America and Security Policy Steffen Kongstad said the GON would welcome a new U.S. Missile Defense strategy that emphasized a multilat [...] | 2009-08-26 13:45:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS PARM RU NO |
09OSLO533 | AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON MEETS WITH GON AND NGOS ON [...] (C) Summary: In a productive series of meetings on August 24 in Oslo, S/WCI Ambassador Clint Williamson met with Minister for International Development Erik Solheim, a variety of high level Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) officials, and two NGOs to discuss the recent conflict in Sri Lanka, s [...] | 2009-08-31 08:35:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM SL NO |
09OSLO534 | NORWEGIANS WON'T COMMIT NOW TO INCREASED FOOD [...] (C) Summary: In line with expectations based on reftel conversations with the Norwegian Embassy in Washington, Norway is at this time unwilling to commit to an increase in its aid budget devoted to agricultural development and food security, due to the upcoming Norwegian election. The Minist [...] | 2009-09-01 12:57:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR EAID ETRD NO |
09OSLO536 | NORWEGIANS COMBATIVE ON ISRAEL UNRWA SPEAKING ROLE [...] (C) Summary: The Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Middle-East Section, Jorn Gjelstad, was surprisingly engaged, sensitized, and generally combative upon presentation of reftel demarche concerning a speaking role for Israel at the upcoming "UNRWA at 60" event (UNRWA is the UN Relie [...] | 2009-09-01 15:32:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL UNGA IS KPAL NO |
09OSLO537 | NORWAY WILL NOT OPPOSE ISRAEL JUSCANZ MEMBERSHIP [...] (C) On September 2, Poloff delivered reftel points to Vebjorn Heines, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Coordinator for Human Rights Council (HRC) issues in the MFA Humanitarian Issues section. Heines was the person referred to in reftel paragraph 10 as the former "Norwegian PolCouns in Geneva [...] | 2009-09-03 12:11:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS PHUM NO |
09OSLO538 | NORWAY'S RESPONSE: SEEKING ORAL STATEMENTS FOR [...] (C) Norwegian MFA Legal Advisor Rolf Fife told PolOff September 2 that Norway submitted its request on July 13 to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to make an oral statement on Kosovo in December 2009. He added that representatives from the legal offices of the UK, Germany, France, an [...] | 2009-09-03 12:38:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC ICJ KV PREL NO |
09OSLO540 | NORWEGIAN MFA AF/PAK DIRECTOR VIEW'S ON [...] Summary: (C) CDA James Heg, PolCouns, and PolOff held wide-ranging discussions August 31 with Ambassador Bjorn Janis Kanavin, the MFA's Af/Pak Director and previously Ambassador to Pakistan and Afghanistan. Kanavin said the GON's contribution to Afghanistan would likely be strengthened after [...] | 2009-09-04 07:10:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF NO |
09OSLO543 | NORWAY'S RESPONSE ON CFE: GON WILL ADVOCATE FOR [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel points September 9 to Norwegian MFA Director for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Affairs Inga Nyhamar and Senior Advisor Lars Loken. Nyhamar said that Norway would like to join what she referred to as the Supporting Group of NATO Allies, the proposed small group [...] | 2009-09-09 12:07:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE PARM PREL NATO |
09OSLO547 | NORWAY (ALMOST) FULLY ON BOARD WITH USG HRC [...] (C) Summary: The Norwegian Coordinator for Human Rights Council (HRC) issues at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),Vebjorn Heines, pronounced reftel demache's talking points "more or less completely consistent with Norway's priorities." Heines put special emphasis on Norway's "procedural [...] | 2009-09-10 13:40:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN UNHRC |
09OSLO552 | NORWAY AGREES WITH USG APPROACH ON SRI LANKA IDP [...] (C) Norway's response to reftel demarche was uniformly positive. Poloff met with Tone Allers, Sri Lanka Desk officer at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Allers, after having two days to digest the information in the demarche and share it with the Norwegian embassy in Colombo, [...] | 2009-09-11 12:33:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF PTER MASS SOCI EAID EUN |
09OSLO560 | NORWAY SHARES USG GOALS ON IAEA MIDDLE EAST ISSUES [...] (C) Political/Economic Counselor Cherrie Daniels met with Inga Nyhamar, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Section Chief for Disaramament and Nonproliferation, September 14 to deliver ref A points. Nyhamar stated that Norway was "not difficult to convince on this issue," as Norway shares our g [...] | 2009-09-14 14:43:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PARM PREL KNNP IAEA EG IS NO |
09OSLO561 | PM STOLTENBERG COMES OUT STRENGTHENED: FOUR MORE [...] (SBU) Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg (Labor Party - AP) and his two coalition partners, the Socialist Left (SV) and Center Party (SP) held on to their parliamentary majority in nationwide elections September 14, winning 86 of 169 seats in Parliament. Stoltenberg himself, as well as [...] | 2009-09-15 10:45:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | NO PGOV PINR PREL |
09OSLO568 | NORWAY'S MESSAGE FOR THE AHLC SEPT 22 MEETING: [...] (C) Poloff met with Signe Gilen Guro, Senior Advisor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Middle East Section September 17 on receipt of reftel to deliver reftel points and solicit Norway's intentions for the September 22 AHLC meeting. Guro said that Norway's priority for the AHLC meeting [...] | 2009-09-17 11:53:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KPAL PGOV WBG IS NO |
09OSLO569 | DEMARCHES TO NORWAY ON MISSING/DETAINED AMCIT [...] (C) Summary: In a September 16 meeting, Deputy Polecon Counselor delivered demarches on missing/detained Amcit cases (Ref A) and Iran's nuclear program (Ref B) to Deputy Director Torunn Viste and Iran Desk Officer Mai Tonheim in the Norwegian MFA's Middle East section. Tonheim outlined Norwa [...] | 2009-09-17 12:42:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA IR PREL AORC PGOV PHUM |
09OSLO572 | SE WOLPE HAS PRODUCTIVE TALKS WITH GON AND NGOS IN [...] (C) Summary: Special Envoy Howard Wolpe had a day of productive meetings on September 4 in Oslo with representatives of the Norwegian government (GON),the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC),Norwegian Church Aid (NCA),and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). The GON agreed t [...] | 2009-09-18 08:52:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL KPKO KWMN SOCI NO |
09OSLO576 | FRANK NORWEGIAN OPINIONS ON OUR UNGA PRIORITIES [...] (C) Summary: Poloff met on September 18 with Lars Petter Henie, Deputy Chief of the UN Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to discuss reftel A on our UNGA priorities and reftel B on FAO zero nominal growth. Henie was very frank in the discussion. He found the food security confe [...] | 2009-09-18 14:00:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA FAO EFIN AORC EAGR EAID KUNR KPKO |
09OSLO578 | NORWAY'S MIXED RESPONSE ON UNGA WALKOUT REDLINES; [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-21 14:41:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | NO PREL UNGA |
09OSLO592 | NORWAY RESPONDS CONSTRUCTIVELY TO GOLDSTONE [...] (C) Summary: The Norwegian MFA responded positively September 24 to our demarche on engaging the Human Rights Council (HRC) in a constructive manner on the Goldstone report. The officials we met said Norway would want to "welcome" the Goldstone report in any HRC resolution on the matter, but c [...] | 2009-09-25 07:14:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER KISL KPAL IS NO |
09OSLO593 | NORWEGIAN HORN OF AFRICA EMERGENCY AID: HOLDING [...] (C) Summary: Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA officials on September 24. After the Government of Norway (GON)'s announcement September 9 that it would dedicate about $8.7 million to emergency food aid for the Horn of Africa region, the MFA emphasized that Norway has only about that amo [...] | 2009-09-25 12:08:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREF EAGR ET KE SO EUN |
09OSLO598 | NORWEGIAN REACTION TO IRAN ENRICHMENT FACILITY NEWS [...] (C) Poloff delivered points in reftel demarche to Mai Tonheim, Iran Desk Officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),on the afternoon of September 25 upon receipt of reftel. Tonheim said that the MFA would have to "digest" the information contained in the demarche, but said that the No [...] | 2009-09-29 13:14:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | IR KNNP MNUC PARM |
09OSLO601 | NORWAY PESSIMISTIC ON HRC GOLDSTONE RESOLUTION [...] (C) Summary: Charge d'affaires, a.i., met with Anne Merchant, Senior Advisor and coordinator ad interim for UN Human Rights Council (HRC) issues for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),on October 1 to discuss emailed points both on the Goldstone Report and Freedom of Expression resolutions [...] | 2009-10-01 14:34:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KPAL IS NO |
09OSLO609 | IRAN NUCLEAR FACILITY DEMARCHE REDUX, THIS TIME [...] (C) Summary: Then-Charge d'affaires Daniels (now A/DCM upon the return of Post's charge later on October 2) followed up post's initial Iran nuclear facility demarche of September 25 with an additional demarche October 2 to the acting head of the Norwegian MFA's Disarmament and Non-Proliferation [...] | 2009-10-05 10:03:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | IR MNUC NO PARM PREL |
09OSLO623 | P5+1 DEBRIEF: "TOTAL CONVERGENCE" OF NORWEGIAN, [...] (C) Charge Heg met on October 7 with the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Middle East Section, Jorn Gjelstad, as well as with the Norwegian Special Representative to the Middle East, Jon Hanssen-Bauer. The discussion covered reftel demarche points on Iran, as well as the Israel- [...] | 2009-10-08 15:03:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM IR NO |
09OSLO624 | NORWAY'S TUNE ON ISRAEL, THE PEACE PROCESS, AND [...] (C) Summary: On October 7, Charge Heg had a constructive discussion about overall U.S. Norway cooperation in the Middle East with senior Norwegian diplomats Jorn Gjelstad, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Middle East Section, and Special Envoy to the Middle East Jon Hanssen-Bauer. [...] | 2009-10-08 15:09:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PTER KPAL IS IQ NO |
09OSLO634 | NORWAY: "EVEN WE MIGHT HAVE TO VOTE AGAINST NEW [...] (C) A/DCM (PolEconcouns) delivered Ref A demarche to head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Middle East Section, Jorn Gjelstad, on October 14 prior to the open UNSC meeting on the Middle East in New York. Generally, Gjelstad was very positive and emphasized the congruencies between U.S. and [...] | 2009-10-15 11:48:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER IS KPAL NO |
09OSLO637 | NORWAY DEPUTY FM ON HIGH NORTH DIALOGUE, [...] (C) Charge d'Affaires a.i. James Heg, Acting DCM Cherrie Daniels, and Norway/Sweden Desk Officer Thomas Selinger met on October 16 with MFA State Secretary (Deputy Foreign Minister-equivalent) Elisabeth Walaas to discuss U.S.-Norway cooperation on a range of foreign policy issues. Walaas' port [...] | 2009-10-19 12:00:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS AF NO |
09OSLO644 | NORWAY: AGREEMENT REACHED ON HSPD-6 TEXT [...] (SBU) In a meeting October 21, 2009 at the Norwegian Police Security Service Headquarters (PST) in Oslo, a team from the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC),the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism (S/CT),and the US Embassy reached an agreement with the PST on the text of a HSPD-6 ter [...] | 2009-10-22 12:42:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS CMGT PTER PBTS PREL NO |
09OSLO646 | NORWAY: FOOD SECURITY MOVED UP AGENDA DUE TO U.S. [...] (C) Summary: The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) responded positively to our initiative on food security, while being wary about potentially developing new institutions or trust funds to address the issue, and expressing curiosity about how we would address challenges of "country-l [...] | 2009-10-22 13:08:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR EAID ETRD PREL NO |
09OSLO647 | NORWAY'S VIEWS ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: Poloff discussed reftel priorities with Anne Merchant, the coordinator of Norway's UNGA Third Committee matters in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). While the meeting contained no surprises, Merchant shared her views on how to diminish bloc-voting in the Third Committee. In [...] | 2009-10-26 10:26:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PREF NO UN |
09OSLO65 | NORWAY REFUSES TO OPPOSE IRANIAN PRESIDENCY OF [...] (C) Poloff spoke re reftel with Lars Henie, Deputy Section Head of the UN section of the MFA. Henie had been "expecting" poloff's call on this, and had been "coordinating and clarifying" a response to our expected request for cooperation. Henie had the following to say: --The GON "does not [...] | 2009-01-08 15:19:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF IR UN EAID NO |
09OSLO654 | NORWAY WILL SUPPORT MYERS FOR UN ICSC BOARD [...] (C) Poloff met October 28 with Per Selvaag, acting head of the the UN section at Norway's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Selvaag had checked with Norway's UN delegation and they reported that Norway had promised to support one of the three other candidates, but supporting Ms. Myers candidacy for [...] | 2009-10-29 11:57:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA NO |
09OSLO658 | NORWAY WELCOMES SUDAN STRATEGY, GIVES PROGNOSIS [...] (C) Summary: Norway welcomes our Sudan strategy rollout, and, given Norway's already close cooperation with us within the U.S.-U.K.-Norway Troika, the MFA was not surprised at all by its content. Commenting on the situation in Sudan, GON officials said that although there seems to be forward [...] | 2009-10-30 13:27:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU NO |
09OSLO679 | NORWAY GENERALLY RECEPTIVE TO U.S. REDLINES FOR [...] (C) Summary: Polcouns delivered reftel points to Jorn Gjelstad, head of the Middle East Section of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on November 3. Gjelstad commented favorably on our position opposing the various unacceptable elements currently under discussion for inclusion in [...] | 2009-11-03 16:17:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER IS KPAL NO |
09OSLO692 | NORWEGIANS RECEPTIVE ON BHUTAN REFUGEES AND CORE [...] (C) Poloff met on November 6 with Lasse Bjorn Johannessen, Senior Advisor in the Asia Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),to deliver reftel points. Johannessen recently returned from a tour as the Deputy Chief of Mission for the Norwegian Embassy in New Delhi. Johannessen said th [...] | 2009-11-06 15:31:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | BT IN NP PGOV PREF PREL NO |
09OSLO720 | NORWEGIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY ON NATO, RUSSIA, [...] (C) Summary: MoD Security Policy Director Svein Efjestad told EUR/NB Director, DCM, PolCouns, A/DATT and PolMil Officer November 12 that the recent NATO-Russia Council meeting held in Oslo on nuclear policy was a useful discussion, particularly as it addressed sub-strategic weapons, which re [...] | 2009-11-18 13:47:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR OVIP NO |
09OSLO722 | NORWAY STILL DECIDING HOW TO VOTE ON ISRAEL - [...] (C) Summary: As of the morning of November 19, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) was still undecided as to how to vote on the three UNGA resolutions into which Goldstone report language has been inserted; the Middle East section was consulting with the MFA legal department to con [...] | 2009-11-19 10:30:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA KPAL IS SY LE NO |
09OSLO725 | NORWAY'S MFA ON POTUS VISIT, IRAN, HIGH NORTH [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings November 12, MFA Political Director Vegard Ellefsen and MFA Security Policy Director Rune Resaland and senior members of his staff outlined their views on topics of current interest, including their thoughts on deliverables during the upcoming POTUS visit, to [...] | 2009-11-20 15:49:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL NATO PARM NO |
09OSLO732 | NORWEGIAN VIEWS ON IRAN NEXT STEPS [...] (C) Summary: In response to reftel demarche points, the senior Norwegian MFA official we spoke to said Norway is distressed at Iran's recent spurning of the P5 1 proposal. The Norwegian government recommends that new sanctions be fine tuned so as not to exhaust the political option all at once [...] | 2009-11-25 08:06:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | IAEA IR NO PREL |
09OSLO733 | NORWEGIANS REPORT ON AID TO PA, RESPOND TO [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche November 24, along with S's letter for Foreign Minister Stoere, to Signe Guro, Senior Advisor in the Middle East Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The letter was received appreciatively, and Guro discussed Norway's efforts to secure additional fun [...] | 2009-11-25 08:12:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | OPDC PREL EAID PGOV WBG EU IS NO |
09OSLO764 | NORWAY'S MOD ON AFGHANISTAN DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) Summary: During a December 3 Bilateral Study Group meeting, Ministry of Defense Director of Security Policy Svein Efjestad focused on civilian coordination in Afghanistan, in particular UNAMA's key role, and said Norway's Minister of Defense would have to manage public expectations follo [...] | 2009-12-09 10:26:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MARR AF NO |
09OSLO77 | TERRORISM FINANCE: NORWAY'S RESPONSE TO UPCOMING [...] (C) Embassy Oslo delivered points in reftels to Norway's Foreign Ministry. The Foreign Ministry will ensure that the names in both reftels will be forwarded to their financial enforcement agency, immigration and welfare authorities and to the Finance Ministry. WHITNEY [...] | 2009-01-16 09:34:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KTFN PTER PINR PREL NO |
09OSLO773 | NORWAY ON MULLAH KREKAR EXTRADITION: IRAQ ON HOLD, [...] (C) Summary: In discussions on December 7, our interlocutor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) legal section stated that Norway is not/not actively pursuing obtaining a guarantee of humane treatment for Ansar al-Islam figure Mullah Krekar (aka Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad) from the Government o [...] | 2009-12-15 09:37:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM IQ NO |
09OSLO776 | NORWAY FULLY SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON DJIBOUTI [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-16 14:37:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SO NO |
09OSLO782 | NORWAY WANTS TO WORK WITH U.S. ON DEFEATING [...] (C) In response to Ref A, which was primarily directed to posts in countries which support the "Defamation of Religion" resolutions problematic to the USG, poloff contacted Colleen Neville in IO/HR to determine next steps specific to the Government of Norway. Neville informed poloff (Ref B) t [...] | 2009-12-21 14:14:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KISL KDEM PGOV OPDC |
09OSLO794 | NORWAY RESPONDS TO AMCIT DEMARCHE; ASSESSES IRAN [...] (C) On December 29, Deputy Chief of Mission James T. Heg, accompanied by Poleconoff, met with Aud-Marit Wiig, Director General of Geographic Bureaus and International Development, as well as Torunn Viste, Assistant Director General in charge of Mid-East Affairs, both at the Norwegian Ministry o [...] | 2009-12-30 12:25:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC IR PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP PTER NO |
09OSLO8 | NORWAY PROMISES BUDGET SUPPORT FOR PA WITHIN THE [...] (C) Ingrid Schoyen, Assistant Director General of the Mid-East Section of the MFA told poloff, in response to reftel demarche, that Norway would, within this week, release the 228 million kroner (approx $33 million) Norway pledged to the Palestinian Authority at the Paris donors' conference. S [...] | 2009-01-06 14:46:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAL KWBG EFIN PGOV PTER PHUM NO |
09OSLO83 | NORWAY HESITATING TO COMMIT TO GAZA INTERDICTION [...] (C) The GON is struggling to make up its mind regarding the request to participate in the Gaza Interdiction Effort. The MFA is aware of the January 23 deadline in responding and promised to send their embassy in Washington their final decision today, but the hesitation and uncertainty is tell [...] | 2009-01-26 06:25:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | EG KPAL MARR MOPS PREL XG NO |
09OSLO9 | NORWAY REACTS TO GEORGIA AND GAZA [...] (C) Summary. Shari... C O N F I D E N T I A L OSLO 000009 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/07/2019 TAGS: PREL GG [...] | 2009-01-07 13:43:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GG |
09OSLO90 | MINORITY ANGER IN NORWAY RISES [...] (SBU) Summary: A series of anti-Israel demonstrations on January 8 and January 10 erupted into violence in central Oslo as some demonstrators, primarily young Muslim-background youth, clashed with police. The damages, police action and extent of the violence were the worst in Norway since the [...] | 2009-02-03 06:02:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KIRF PTER ASEC KPAO KCRM KISL NO |
09OTTAWA1 | "NEVER APOLOGIZE": PM HARPER'S GOVERNING STYLE [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Stephen Harper's reputation as a master political strategist is somewhat tattered in the wake of November's stunning near-fatal mis-step to abolish public financing for all political parties. However, at least on the surface, he remains unbowed and unapologetic. Relyin [...] | 2009-01-02 13:20:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CA |
09OTTAWA109 | CANADA'S "NEW" CHINA STRATEGY EMPHASIZES INCREASED [...] (C) Summary: The Canadian government recently rolled out a "new" China strategy that will emphasize more high level ministerial visits and dialogue. Prime Minister Harper has yet to visit Beijing during his three year tenure, but may later in 2009. Canada's engagement with China seeks first [...] | 2009-02-11 13:58:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ETRD CH CA |
09OTTAWA126 | INITIAL CANADIAN RESPONSE TO U.S. [...] (C) Summary and comment: Canada welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the U.S. Afghanistan/Pakistan policy review and has provided initial thinking in a non-paper (see para 5). Canada believes strongly that the reconstruction and development process must be Afghan-led and that strong and [...] | 2009-02-20 21:13:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM NATO EAID AF PK CA |
09OTTAWA132 | CANADIAN FM LIKELY AT SHARM AL-SHEIKH CONFERENCE [...] (C) According to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Director General for the Middle East and Magreb Kerry Buck, Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon is likely to participate in the March 2 conference in Sharm al-Sheik but has not made a final decision. She indicated t [...] | 2009-02-23 19:16:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID KPAL KWBG CA EG |
09OTTAWA139 | CANADA TO MAKE FIRM NATIONAL STATEMENTS, SUPPORT [...] (C) In response to reftel points, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Nuclear Policy Officer Ryan Hewer confirmed to pol/miloff on February 25 that the Canadian delegation will "be prepared to make suitably firm" national statements on Iran and Syria, as well [...] | 2009-02-26 13:10:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM IAEA KNNP MNUC IR SY CA KN |
09OTTAWA147 | CANADIAN NPT PRIORITIES [...] (C) Summary: Canada wants the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) 2009 PrepCom and 2010 RevCon to advance NPT legitimacy by making concrete progress towards a consensus document that confirms the treaty's three pillars -- disarmament, non-proliferation, and peaceful uses -- and acknowledge [...] | 2009-02-27 13:23:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MNUC ENRG UNGA IAEA CA |
09OTTAWA152 | CANADA WELCOMES U.S. DURBAN WITHDRAWAL AND UN HRC [...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for Human Rights Policy Chantale Walker on February 27 welcomed the U.S. decision to discontinue negotiations on the current text of the Durban Review Conference (reftel). Walker noted that Canada shares the U.S [...] | 2009-02-27 22:01:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV UNHRC CA |
09OTTAWA153 | CANADA WELCOMES U.S. DURBAN WITHDRAWAL AND UN HRC [...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for Human Rights Policy Chantale Walker on February 27 welcomed the U.S. decision to discontinue negotiations on the current text of the Durban Review Conference (reftel). Walker noted that Canada shares the U.S [...] | 2009-02-27 22:01:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV UNHRC CA |
09OTTAWA16 | CANADA TO DOWNPLAY ROLE OF UNDP CHAIR IF IRAN WINS [...] (C) Canada will not openly oppose Iran's candidacy for the chair of the UNDP executive board, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) International Organization Deputy Director Shannon-Marie Soni. Instead, Canada will seek to downplay the importance of the ro [...] | 2009-01-08 21:19:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID IR UN CA |
09OTTAWA167 | CANADA UPHOLDS NEED FOR TOUGH ZIMBABWE BENCHMARKS [...] (C) Ahead of the March 20 informal meeting in Washington of like-minded countries on Zimbabwe, Canada believes the previously agreed benchmarks on political reconciliation and reform remain valid. Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Director for Eastern and Southern [...] | 2009-03-05 20:19:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM EAID ZI CA |
09OTTAWA177 | CANADIANS POSITIVE ABOUT AFGHANISTAN CONFERENCE, [...] This is an action request -- see para seven. 2. (C) Summary: Canadian officials hope to coordinate with U.S. counterparts in advance of the upcoming Dutch-hosted Conference on Afghanistan. They are concerned about both the need to manage disruptive delegations and the risk that some tra [...] | 2009-03-09 13:58:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS NATO PK AF CA |
09OTTAWA179 | PARLIAMENTARY REPORT ON KANDAHAR SHOWS FEW GAINS, [...] (C) Summary: As required under a March 2008 House of Commons motion, the government has issued its third report to Parliament tracking progress on key benchmarks. The report cited modest continued progress in training of the Afghan National Security Forces, improvements to Sarpoza prison, [...] | 2009-03-09 18:27:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS EAID AF CA |
09OTTAWA180 | CANADA SUPPORTS GAZA ACTION PROGRAM [...] (C) Canada supports the program of action (ref a) to combat Gaza arms smuggling and is identifying resources and confirming legal authority to assist the effort, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Israel/Gaza/West Bank Deputy Director Gregory Lemermeyer. [...] | 2009-03-09 18:38:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS NATO EUN CA |
09OTTAWA194 | CANADIAN SUPPORT FOR MEXICAN POLICE AND JUDICIAL [...] (C) Summary: An inter-agency Canadian team will meet with counterparts in Mexico City on March 12 and 13 to see how Canada might better support President Calderon's efforts to reform the police, corrections, and judicial sectors. The mission, which National Security Advisor Marie-Lucie Morin [...] | 2009-03-11 20:15:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCRM KJUS KCOR SNAR MX CA |
09OTTAWA196 | CHALLENGES TO THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CANADIAN [...] (C) Summary: Despite the recurrent pledges by PM Harper's government to re-build the capabilities of the Canadian Forces, the Canadian Army still faces serious funding, recruitment, and procurement challenges as it seeks to meet pressing requirements in Afghanistan while also transforming itself in [...] | 2009-03-12 15:14:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS NATO AF CA |
09OTTAWA217 | (C) CANADA TO MINIMIZE PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF MANAS [...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Defence and Security Senior Policy Advisor Amy Galigan on March 16 characterized the U.S. approach regarding Manas Air Base in Kyrgyzstan (reftel) as "eminently reasonable." Galigan assured polmiloff that she would advise senior Canadi [...] | 2009-03-17 16:01:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO MOPS AF CA |
09OTTAWA22 | WHAT ABOUT US? CANADA SEEKS INVITATION TO CONTACT [...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 4. 2. (C) On January 9, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Advisor for defense and security relations Sarah Robertson called in pol/mil officer to emphasize Canada's extensive, positive engagement on anti-piracy i [...] | 2009-01-09 20:54:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS KCRM EWWT XW SO CA |
09OTTAWA220 | ABOUSFIAN ABDELRAZIK IS WELCOME TO RETURN TO [...] (C) On March 17, Katherine Burke, Senior Policy Advisor, International Crime and Terrorism, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade told Econoff that Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Canadian and Sudanese dual citizen currently living in the Canadian Embassy in Khartoum, has not run afoul [...] | 2009-03-17 21:04:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC CA SU |
09OTTAWA228 | CANADIAN INTERIM REPLY ON KFOR TROOP REDUCTIONS [...] (C) According to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade NATO Deputy Director Anne Burgess, Canada is not likely to have a strong policy stance on the recent controversy over a possible drawdown in NATO's Kosovo Force (KFOR). She noted that Canada has only five Canadian Forces p [...] | 2009-03-19 21:57:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO KPKO KV CA |
09OTTAWA231 | LITTLE LOVE LEFT - THE CONSERVATIVES AND QUEBEC [...] (C) Summary: The 2008 federal election damaged Prime Minister Harper's political standing in Quebec. Rather than heal campaign rifts over Conservative juvenile crime proposals and cuts to arts funding, PM Harper's subsequent attacks in December against the "separatist" Bloc Quebec's support [...] | 2009-03-23 17:15:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON CA |
09OTTAWA234 | CANADA ON AFGHAN RECONCILIATION: PERHAPS A MEETING [...] (U) This is an action request for SCA/A -- see para 4. 2. (C) As promised in reftel, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Afghanistan Task Force (FTAG) Desk Officer Samantha Pass gave pol/miloff a copy of the reconciliation non-paper that FTAG Assistant Deputy Minister Y [...] | 2009-03-24 18:49:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS NATO AF CA |
09OTTAWA249 | TOWARD A CANADIAN DEMOCRACY PROMOTION AGENCY [...] (C) Summary. The Conservative Party and the Harper government have championed the creation of a non-partisan Canadian democracy promotion agency. Details are still few and may not emerge with any clarity until fall 2009. So far, the government appears not to have included any new funding i [...] | 2009-03-27 21:03:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM CA |
09OTTAWA256 | NO ICJ BRIEF FROM CANADA ON KOSOVO [...] (C) The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Director General for Europe Robert Hage confirmed to PolMinCouns on March 31 that Canada had decided against filing a brief with the International Court of Justice in support of Kosovo (reftel). He commented that lingering sens [...] | 2009-03-31 19:09:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ICJ KV CA |
09OTTAWA257 | CANADA TO PARTICIPATE IN GICNT EVENT, SEEKS ADVICE [...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 5. 2. (C) In response to reftel, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Policy Officer David MacDuff said he, or perhaps one of his Seoul-based colleagues, would represent Canada at the Global Initiative to Combat N [...] | 2009-03-31 21:08:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINS KGIC PARM PREL CA |
09OTTAWA262 | CANADA SUPPORTS U.S. CANDIDACY FOR UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Human Rights Policy Director Gwyn Kutz confirmed to poloff on April 1 that Canada will support the U.S. candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Separately, DFAIT Deputy Director for Hu [...] | 2009-04-02 17:10:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL CA |
09OTTAWA263 | CANADIAN CAPACITY ISSUES SHAPE MEXICAN SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following a successful visit to Mexico (reftel),Canadian officials are now analyzing how best to help Mexico reform its police and corrections sectors. Canada will likely focus its assistance on revamping police recruit education, strengthening witness security programs, and buil [...] | 2009-04-02 17:39:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCRM KJUS KCOR SNAR MX CA |
09OTTAWA265 | CANADA-MEXICO SECURITY DIALOGUE SHARES BEST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Canada's and Mexico's bilateral security working group, established in February 2007, focuses on increasing cooperation and information exchange in the areas of migration, emergency management, marine security, and law enforcement. Public Safety Canada and Mexico's Center for Inv [...] | 2009-04-02 21:50:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCRM KJUS KCOR SNAR MX CA |
09OTTAWA266 | CANADA'S INITIAL REACTION TO SPECIFIC REQUESTS TO [...] (C) Summary: The Prime Minister will have personally to decide whether to extend Canada's politically fraught combat mission in southern Afghanistan beyond its scheduled 2011 end of operations and subsequent troop withdrawal. The European response to the President's engagement on ISAF at the [...] | 2009-04-03 13:34:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS NATO AF CA |
09OTTAWA267 | UPDATE ON DUBAI PROCESS ACTION PLAN FOR [...] (C) Summary and comment. The Dubai process for enhancing Pakistan-Afghanistan cooperation, under Canada's facilitation, continues to move forward, as a March 27-29 workshop in Dubai underscored. There will be four new working groups -- on counternarcotics, managing the movement of people, [...] | 2009-04-03 13:40:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID SNAR ETRD PK AF CA |
09OTTAWA268 | CANADA SEEKS U.S. ADVICE TO REINVIGORATE ITS [...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 4. 2. (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Policy Officer David MacDuff noted on April 1 that the government had extended the deadline from mid-December 2008 to early June 2009 for senior officials to brief the [...] | 2009-04-03 13:57:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP PINR CA |
09OTTAWA281 | SEARCHING A MODEL FOR A NEW CANADIAN DEMOCRACY [...] (SBU) Summary: Minister of State for Democratic Reform Steven Fletcher is examining other models for a new Canadian democracy promotion agency (reftel),with an intended focus on aiding like-minded political parties worldwide to help fill a gap in Canadian International Development Agency ( [...] | 2009-04-08 12:16:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV KDEM CA |
09OTTAWA291 | CANADA AND THE AMERICAS [...] (C) Summary: Under Prime Minister Harper, Canada has devoted more of its diplomatic and aid attention to the Americas, notably a 2007 high-profile Latin America trip by the PM, as well as other high level visits. The government has apparently abandoned an initial effort to develop a strategic [...] | 2009-04-15 20:23:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD EAID XM BR CA |
09OTTAWA305 | CANADA SEEKING U.S. VIEWS ON RENEWED [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) Prime Minister Harper and his cabinet will decide at the end of April whether to explore some form of renewed air link between Montreal and Beirut, according to a Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) cont [...] | 2009-04-20 20:28:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EAIR ASEC CA |
09OTTAWA309 | CANADA IP UPDATE: GOC OFFICIAL REPORTS NO PROGRESS [...] (SBU) Summary. Senior Canadian officials have privately told the Embassy that the federal government plans to hold public consultations on potential copyright legislation this summer. The government hopes to introduce a new copyright bill in the fall of 2009. Industry representatives are co [...] | 2009-04-22 15:49:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD KIPR CA |
09OTTAWA311 | TOUJOURS EN PLACE: THE BLOC QUEBECOIS [...] (C) Summary. The Bloc Quebecois, a federal political party exclusively devoted to promoting Quebec's interests in Parliament, emphasizes that Quebec's values -- including the primacy of French, the "crucial" role of culture, and Quebec's immigration policy -- differ from the rest of Canada. [...] | 2009-04-22 21:28:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CA |
09OTTAWA33 | CONVENTION ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS COULD LIMIT CANUS [...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 6. 2. (C) Summary: Canada's decision to sign the (Oslo) Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) could limit the interoperability of Canadian Forces (CF) exchange pilots and artillery officers embedded in the U.S. armed forces. Embassy recommends Sta [...] | 2009-01-13 20:37:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MOPS MARR CA |
09OTTAWA348 | PERSISTENT ABUSES IN REFUGEE SYSTEM PROVOKE [...] (C) Summary. Canada is increasingly concerned about "wide-scale and almost systematic abuse" of its generous immigration, citizenship, and refugee policies. According to a recent report by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),the number of asylum seekers to Canada in 2008 increa [...] | 2009-05-12 20:39:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV PREL SMIG CVIS KFRD MX EZ CA |
09OTTAWA358 | CANADA STRONGLY BACKS AMANO FOR IAEA DG [...] (C) Acting Pol/C delivered ref points to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Deputy Director for Non-Proliferation Shawn Caza on May 8. Caza confirmed that Canada "stands strongly behind" Ambassador Amano in the upcoming election for Director General of the International Ato [...] | 2009-05-14 19:59:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP IAEA AORC |
09OTTAWA379 | CANADA AND SABERI [...] (SBU) This is an action request -- see para 4. 2. (C) In response to reftel demarche points, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Iran desk officer Alistair Wallbaum said that Canada was pleased to be of assistance in the Saberi case. He added that Foreign Ministe [...] | 2009-05-21 19:53:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM CASC IR CA |
09OTTAWA384 | CANADA TO ATTEND MAY 29 SOMALIA PIRACY CONTACT [...] (C) Canada will attend the May 29 meeting of the Somali Piracy Contact Group (reftel),according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) senior policy advisor Sarah Robertson, who expressed Canada's appreciation to USG for its efforts to include Canada in the contact g [...] | 2009-05-22 20:38:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCRM MARR CA |
09OTTAWA394 | SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY LEW'S VISIT [...] (SBU) Mr. Secretary, Mission Canada warmly welcomes you to Toronto and hopes that you will soon be able to visit Ottawa and our other six constituent posts as well. Canada remains one of if not the closest partners we have around the world, and there are few foreign policy priorities and pr [...] | 2009-05-27 19:17:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON CA |
09OTTAWA398 | COULD THERE BE A SUMMER ELECTION IN CANADA? [...] (C) Summary. The Conservatives appear increasingly to favor a summer election, but so far the other opposition parties -- all of whom must vote together to bring down the government -- may not be willing to play along. Usually, summer elections are anathema to Canadian electors, but the Co [...] | 2009-05-28 21:37:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CA |
09OTTAWA413 | CANADA APPRECIATES COUNTER-PROLIFERATION FEEDBACK, [...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Senior Policy Officer Che van Haastrcht expressed appreciation on June 2 for ref a, noting that it had "significantly influenced" the interagency effort underway to reinvigorate Canada's counter-proliferation regime. In part due to ne [...] | 2009-06-03 11:45:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KNNP PINR CA |
09OTTAWA430 | CANADA DECLINES UIGHUR DETAINEES [...] (U) Prime Minister Stephen Harper's spokesman Kory Teneycke on June 4 confirmed to the media that Canada had declined requests from the Obama and Bush Administrations to take any Uighur detainees from Guantanamo Bay, noting "given that these detainees have no link with Canada...I do not see [...] | 2009-06-05 16:34:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM CA |
09OTTAWA443 | CANADIAN AND U.S. ANTI-PIRACY PRESCRIPTIONS ALIGN [...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Policy Advisor for Defence and Security Sarah Robertson confirmed to polmiloff on June 9 that Canadian and U.S. policy prescriptions on the best way to prosecute suspected pirates off the Horn of Africa (ref a),and elsewhere, [...] | 2009-06-09 18:38:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EWWT KCRM PTER MARR CA |
09OTTAWA448 | SCENESETTER FOR THE SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) Mission Canada warmly welcomes the Secretary to the International Joint Commission centennial celebration on June 13 and to the bilateral meeting with Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon. I along with Consul General John Nay and his staff from Toronto will be on hand to welcome you. 2 [...] | 2009-06-09 20:45:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD CA |
09OTTAWA455 | CANADA IN STEP WITH U.S. IN ADVANCE OF OSCE CORFU [...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade OSCE Senior Policy Advisor Jude Pecora expressed appreciation for reftel demarche on June 10 and noted that it "looks like the points (he) prepared for senior officials and the foreign minister." Pecora specified that Canadian and U.S. [...] | 2009-06-11 17:59:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO OSCE PGOV MARR CA |
09OTTAWA466 | LIBERAL BRINKSMANSHIP MAY FORCE SUMMER ELECTION [...] (C) Summary. The Liberals have demanded greater accountability in the government's June budget update and on its handling of a growing medical isotope shortage in exchange for their votes in favor of the June budget estimates, a confidence vote. The 77-person Liberal caucus appears united [...] | 2009-06-15 18:49:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON CA |
09OTTAWA470 | LIBERALS BEGIN TO BLINK? [...] (C) Summary. Chances for a snap election over the summer dimmed on June 16 in the wake of unusual meetings between the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Official Opposition. The public appears overwhelmingly against a summer election. Some Liberals privately question the wisdom of thei [...] | 2009-06-16 20:12:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CA |
09OTTAWA486 | CANADA ON RECONCILIATION OF AFGHAN INSURGENTS [...] (C) Summary: Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) officials want to coordinate with State Department counterparts on the development of a plan for the reconciliation of Afghan insurgents. In particular, the Canadians would like to hear current U.S. thinking on secu [...] | 2009-06-23 15:25:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS NATO AF CA |
09OTTAWA488 | CANADA: DUTY OF CARE, ROE'S FOR CIVILIANS ASSIGNED [...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 5. 2. (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Afghanistan Task Force Deputy Director for Counterinsurgency and Security Niall Cronin made an urgent request to pol/mil officer on June 23 for information on U.S. "duty of c [...] | 2009-06-24 15:55:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS NATO AF CA |
09OTTAWA492 | CANADA REACTS OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE TO [...] (U) Summary: Across Canada the reaction to President Obama,s June 4 speech in Cairo was overwhelmingly positive. Canadian Muslim leaders, national and local politicians and journalists described the speech as inspirational, respectful, and empowering. Many remarked it was a turning point in U [...] | 2009-06-25 14:57:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV PINR PTER SCUL KPAO CA |
09OTTAWA501 | CANADA PROTESTS IRAN ELECTION IRREGULARITIES AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Across Canada government officials and the public continue to express condemnation for the Iranian regime's use of violence against dissent following the disputed June 12 presidential election. A day after President Obama rescinded July Fourth invitations to Iranian officials, [...] | 2009-06-26 20:04:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM IR CA |
09OTTAWA540 | CANADA EMBRACES ENHANCED MEASURES TO DETER URANIUM [...] (C) Senior Canadian leaders are seeking enhanced measures to block Iran's nuclear proliferation ambitions, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Senior Policy Officer Ryan Hewer. He called the U.S. initiative (ref a) "very [...] | 2009-07-14 20:39:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MNUC KNNP IR CA |
09OTTAWA569 | SLEEPY SUMMER FOR CANADIAN POLITICS [...] (C) Summary. Even by Canadian standards, political life in Canada in summer 2009 is remarkably comatose, at least on the surface. Neither the Prime Minister nor the Liberal Party leader has even been in the public eye for over ten days. They may both genuinely be on vacation or, like boxe [...] | 2009-07-22 19:40:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON CA |
09OTTAWA575 | CANADA IN SYNC WITH U.S. ON AFGHAN ASSISTANCE [...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 8. 2. (C) Summary: Canadian policy in Afghanistan is "very much on the same page" as that of the U.S. Canada has tripled its civilian presence in Afghanistan in the last 15 months and will have 50 civilian police advisors by December 2009. In Jun [...] | 2009-07-23 15:51:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MARR NATO AF CA |
09OTTAWA596 | DETERMINED PRO-MEK DEMONSTRATORS PROTEST OUTSIDE [...] (SBU) Approximately 95 supporters of the Mujahadeen-e-Khalq (Mek) gathered again across the street from the chancery on July 30 to condemn the recent attack on the Ashraf camp in Iraq by Iraqi military and police forces (reftel). The protest began on July 29 at 09:14 with approximately 80 pro [...] | 2009-07-30 21:26:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PHUM IZ IR CA |
09OTTAWA610 | CANADA IN THE UNHRC: A CHAMPION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary. Canada closed its three year term on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) with an enhanced reputation as a strong advocate for human rights protection and democracy promotion worldwide. During its term, Canada was a spirited advocate -- condemning human rights abuses, standing alon [...] | 2009-08-06 20:43:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM UNHCR CA |
09OTTAWA615 | CANADA UNABLE TO OFFER ADDITIONAL SUPPORT TO [...] (C) Canada concurs that "now is the right time" for U.S. and other like-minded countries to marshal support for the Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG),according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Director for Eastern and Southern Africa Lisa Stadelbauer [...] | 2009-08-07 20:08:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER EAID KPKO SO CA |
09OTTAWA616 | MTCR: CANADA ON-BOARD FOR ONE OR MORE [...] (C) Canada will pleased to offer "at least one but perhaps more presentations" at the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Rio Plenary Information Exchange in November, according to Phillip Baines, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Deputy Director for Missiles, Space Se [...] | 2009-08-07 21:01:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MNUC MTCRE ETTC KSCA TSPA CA |
09OTTAWA622 | FURTHER PROGRESS ON DUBAI PROCESS [...] (C) Summary: According to Canadian officials, there was some -- but not much -- "concrete progress" at the most recent Dubai Process meetings, notably in that Afghanistan and Pakistan had agreed to call on international experts to assist them in drafting action plans, MOUs, and assessments for [...] | 2009-08-11 21:27:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID SNAR ETRD PK AF CA |
09OTTAWA636 | CANADIAN-SOMALIS FEAR AL-SHABAB STRENGTHENING [...] (C) Rumors continue to circulate within the Somali Diaspora in Canada of increasing Ethiopian and Kenyan meddling in Somalia, according to Farah Aw-Osman, Executive Director of the Canadian Friends of Somalia. Aw-Osman expressed worry that these rumors might fuel Somali-Canadian youth to retu [...] | 2009-08-19 17:26:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EAID SO CA |
09OTTAWA639 | CANADA IMPOSES 45-DAY HOLD ON FORSYS URANIUM SALE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-19 20:56:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MNUC KNNP EINV IR NA CA |
09OTTAWA64 | SCENESETTER FOR THE PRESIDENT'S TRIP TO OTTAWA [...] (C) Mr. President, Mission Canada warmly welcomes you and the First Lady to Ottawa. We and Canadians alike are thrilled that your first foreign trip as President will be to Canada, which Canadians claim as a long-standing tradition reflecting the vital importance of this bilateral relationship b [...] | 2009-01-22 16:35:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ECON MARR SENV AF CA |
09OTTAWA649 | GOVERNMENT TO APPEAL COURT DECISION ON KHADR [...] (C) On August 24, Christian Rousseau, Director of Operations for Defence and International Security Policy at the Privy Council Office, informed PolMinCouns that the Canadian government would appeal to the Supreme Court the August 14 decision (ref a) of the Federal Court of Appeals upholding [...] | 2009-08-24 17:02:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PHUM PREL CU CA |
09OTTAWA65 | CANADA: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON REMOTE SENSING [...] (C) Pol/miloff delivered reftel text to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Director for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament James Junke on January 22. Junke expressed appreciation for the U.S. responses to the Canadian demarche of July 9 and inquiries raised at the De [...] | 2009-01-22 16:44:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ISN CA |
09OTTAWA67 | ITALIAN AMBASSADOR SEEKS UNESCO DIRECTOR GENERAL [...] (C) Italian Ambassador to Canada Gabriele Sardo met with Charge d'Affaires on January 21 to sound out the U.S. response to himself as a candidate for Director-General of UNESCO. Ambassador Sardo, who noted he had served as Italy's Ambassador to UNESCO from 1998 to 2002 and as First Counselor [...] | 2009-01-23 16:25:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SCUL UNESCO CA IT |
09OTTAWA68 | NEW LIBERAL LEADER MICHAEL IGNATIEFF [...] (C) Summary: An intellectual, historian, and award-winning author and journalist, Michael Ignatieff is the new interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada (pending formal confirmation at a party conference in May). Harvard-educated and a former U.S. resident, the would-be prime minister is [...] | 2009-01-23 19:54:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CA |
09OTTAWA689 | JOHN WILLIAMSON: NEW DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS [...] (C) Summary: In an August 27 shake-up of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) senior political staff, Prime Minister Stephen Harper named John Williamson as the new Director of Communications, the fourth in as many years. A strong fiscal conservative, Williamson does not have a high public profi [...] | 2009-09-04 17:29:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KPAO CA |
09OTTAWA695 | TIP: BC PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS A SUCCESSFUL [...] (C) Summary: Increased collaboration among the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP),British Colombia (BC) government officials, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has strengthened the province's capacity to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). Advocacy groups and police continue to d [...] | 2009-09-08 19:32:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KTIP KCRM CA |
09OTTAWA700 | CANADA WELCOMES U.S. OUTREACH ON MISSILE TECHNOLOGY [...] (C) Summary: Canadian nonproliferation and enforcement officers told visiting U.S. officials that Canada is in broad agreement with U.S. goals for the upcoming plenary session of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR). Canadian political leaders are likely to support U.S. efforts to sin [...] | 2009-09-09 20:19:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MNUC MTCRE ETTC KSCA TSPA CA |
09OTTAWA708 | CANADA SUPPORTIVE OF SRI LANKA FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT [...] (C) Canada is supportive of the U.S. strategy to promote freedom of movement in Sri Lanka (reftel),according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) South Asia Deputy Director Jonathan Yendall. He cautioned that he was still seeking to coordinate a "whole of governme [...] | 2009-09-11 19:34:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF PTER MASS SOCI EAID EUN |
09OTTAWA716 | CANADA: RESPONSE TO AUSTRALIA GROUP NON-PAPERS [...] (C) Summary: Canada sees no immediate problem with the proposals contained in the non-papers drawn from reftel, but is concerned about the system for classification of AG documents, given that there are now 41 members. Canada sees no advantage in inviting Russia to join the AG, but foresees [...] | 2009-09-15 15:02:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL ETTC CA |
09OTTAWA717 | CANADA READY TO HELP ON MISSING/DETAINED AMCITS IN [...] (C) Canadian Foreign Minister Cannon and other senior officials will be seeking meetings with Iranian counterparts on the margins of the upcoming UN General Assembly in New York to raise the issue of detained Canadians in Iran, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade [...] | 2009-09-15 15:13:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PINR PROP PTER CASC IR CA |
09OTTAWA732 | CANADA SHARES OUR CONCERNS ON IRAN [...] (C) CDA, accompanied by PolMinCouns, delivered ref a Iran demarche on September 17 to Assistant Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Political Director Yves Brodeur. CDA highlighted the need to use all public and private avenues, including bilaterally and with other nations, to try to inf [...] | 2009-09-17 20:07:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP MNUC IAEA CASC IR CA |
09OTTAWA736 | CANADA; WEIGHING IN ON VIKTOR BOUT [...] (C) Charge on September 18 discussed Victor Bout case (reftel) with Yves Brodeur, Assistant Deputy Minister for International Security Affairs and Political Director of Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT). Brodeur was already familiar with the case. Charge [...] | 2009-09-18 19:51:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM PETER CO RS TH CA |
09OTTAWA739 | CANADA EAGER TO JOIN INFORMAL MEETING OF CTBT [...] (SBU) Summary: Canada is enthusiastic about participating in the informal meeting on the margins of the Article XIV Conference. Foreign Minister Cannon will deliver Canada's national statement at the conference, and the Assistant Deputy Minister for International Security is expected to att [...] | 2009-09-21 17:34:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL CA |
09OTTAWA743 | CANADA TO SKIP IRAN SPEECH AT UNGA, NO FORMAL [...] (C) According to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's United Nations and Commonwealth Affairs Division Director Patrick Wittmann, Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon has instructed the Canadian delegation not to send a representative to the speech by Iran at the UN General [...] | 2009-09-22 20:47:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA IR CA |
09OTTAWA769 | CANADA CONFIRMS LIKE-MINDED MEETING DELEGATES [...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Middle East and Maghreb Director General John Holmes will lead the Canadian delegation to the October 7 Like-Minded Meeting in Washington, DC (ref b),according to DFAIT's Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and Qatar Deputy Director Gallit Dob [...] | 2009-10-02 20:36:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP MNUC UNSC ETTC IR CA |
09OTTAWA772 | CANADA TO DEMARCHE RTG ON VIKTOR BOUT [...] (C) Director General for South, Southeast Asia & Oceania Kenneth Macartney of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade confirmed to PolMinCouns on October 3 that the Canadian Embassy in Bangkok would demarche the Royal Thai Government on the extradition of Viktor Bout, as Emb [...] | 2009-10-05 11:59:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KCRM TH CA RS CO |
09OTTAWA778 | CANADA: BRIEFING ON P5+1 IRAN TALKS IN GENEVA [...] (C) Canada has "done its homework" for the upcoming Like-Minded Meeting in Washington on October 7 (ref b),according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and Qatar Deputy Director Gallit Dobner, and looks forward to participating in the discussi [...] | 2009-10-05 21:10:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM KNNP MNUC IR CA |
09OTTAWA791 | CANADA DEMARCHES RTG ON VIKTOR BOUT [...] (C) Assistant Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Political Director Yves Brodeur confirmed to DCM on October 14 that the Canadian Ambassador in Bangkok had on October 6 made a demarche supporting the extradition of Viktor Bout to the Thai Ministry of Justice's Permanent Secretary. The A [...] | 2009-10-14 20:02:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KRCM PTER TH CA RS CO |
09OTTAWA795 | BLUE DAYS FOR LIBERAL LEADER MICHAEL IGNATIEFF [...] (C) Summary. Liberal Party poll numbers continue to decline, while the Conservatives appear in their strongest position in at least a year. Fundraising has also slowed down noticeably. Leader Michael Ignatieff is clearly on the defensive, but has vowed to do a better job in shaping the po [...] | 2009-10-15 21:24:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CA |
09OTTAWA8 | CANADA ON SEPARATIST REGIONS OF GEORGIA [...] (C) In a meeting with PolMinCouns on January 7 to discuss our way forward on the separatist regions of Georgia (reftel),Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Director General for Europe Robert Hage confirmed that Canada remains concerned about Abkhazia and South Ossetia and [...] | 2009-01-07 20:07:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID GG RS CA |
09OTTAWA811 | Ambassador meets with Liberal Party leadership [...] (C) Summary. In a luncheon on October 23, Ambassador discussed key bilateral issues, notably ""Buy America"" and climate change policies, with Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff and key staff. Ignatieff reiterated that Canadians do not want an election now, but said that he could not be [...] | 2009-10-23 20:23:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD SENV PGOV CA |
09OTTAWA821 | Canada to vote against UNGA Goldstone Report motion [...] (C) Canada "will vote against" the Goldstone Report resolution during the November 4 UN General Assembly discussion and shares U.S. concerns against transmitting the matter to the Security Council or to the International Criminal Court, according to Greg Lemermeyer, Deputy Director of the Isr [...] | 2009-11-03 21:11:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER KPAL UN IS CA |
09OTTAWA827 | Canada Broadly Support U.S. Strategy for NATO Enlargement [...] (C) Summary. Canada broadly supports U.S. goals with respect to NATO enlargement, including strong support for Ukraine's NATO aspirations, although Canada wants to see more evidence of reform. Bosnia represents the one area of divergence, as Canada supports the Membership Action Plan (MAP) p [...] | 2009-11-06 16:24:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO PARM MARR KTIA BK GG MK MW UP CA |
09OTTAWA829 | Canada Supports U.S. Sudan Strategy, See Little New [...] (C) Canada sees the new Sudan strategy as "basically a continuation of General Gration's strategy for the past year" and praises it as a "flexible, pragmatic step forward," according to Jeremy Bryan, Multilateral Affairs Officer, Sudan Task Force in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Interna [...] | 2009-11-06 17:33:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU CA |
09OTTAWA835 | Canadian Response to UK Decision to Ban the Provision of [...] (C) ECONOFF demarched Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT) Iran Deputy Director Gallit Dobner regarding referenced cable. She expressed surprise that the UK was moving forward with this action given that it is one of a suite of actions the Like-Minded Countries have considere [...] | 2009-11-13 22:12:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC KNNP XF ZP ZR IR UK CA |
09OTTAWA837 | CANADA: ENGAGING AFGHAN GOVERNMENT ON APPOINTMENTS AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Canada strongly supports U.S. efforts to ensure the new Afghan administration is committed to the fight against corruption. The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister have both made statements calling on President Karzai to address corruption, and the announcement of future aid [...] | 2009-11-13 22:55:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO AF CA |
09OTTAWA839 | SEARCH FOR NEXT HEAD OF UN OFFICE OF INTERNAL OVERSIGHT [...] (C) Sheila Frazer has been a very high profile and well respected Auditor General of Canada since 2001. She has assumed a much more activist stance in this office than her predecessors, sometimes to the discomfort of the government, which she has not been shy to criticize when she has encou [...] | 2009-11-16 21:05:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC AMGT UN CA |
09OTTAWA841 | Deputy Secretary Steinberg's Meeting with Canadian Foreign [...] (U) October 22, 2009, 11:15 a.m., Ottawa, Canada. 2. (U) Participants: United States James Steinberg, Deputy Secretary David Jacobson, U.S. Ambassador to Canada Lourdes Cue, Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary Kurt van der Walde, notetaker Canada Claude C [...] | 2009-11-17 21:36:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS KGHG UNRWA IR AF PK CU CA |
09OTTAWA843 | WHA Assistant Secretary's Meeting with Canadian Trade [...] (U) October 22, 2009, 8:45 a.m., Ottawa, Canada. 2. (U) Participants: United States Arturo Valenzuela, Assistant Secretary for Western Hemispheric Affairs David Jacobson, U.S. Ambassador to Canada Eric Benjaminson, Economic Minister-Counselor, notetaker Kurt van der Wal [...] | 2009-11-23 20:51:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL ECON CA |
09OUAGADOUGOU1022 | BURKINA FASO: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNGA COUNTRY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-13 09:33:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNGA UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU1038 | BURKINABE STILL CONFIDENT OF PROGRESS ON GUINEA - BUT NOT TOO QUICKLY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-18 12:43:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GV UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU1045 | BURKINA FASO - OPPOSING UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-19 16:10:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA KPAL IS SY LE UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU1048 | GUINEA - A NEGOTIATING DEBACLE IN OUAGADOUGOU [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-21 10:16:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GV UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU1052 | GUINEA - BURKINABE MEDIATION TO CONTINUE NEGOTIATING PROCESS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-23 16:22:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GV UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU1078 | BURKINA FASO: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON DECEMBER [...] (C) On December 1, Pol/Mil Officer delivered reftel demarche to Mr. Der Kogda, Director of Multilateral Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Pol/Mil explained that the USG is concerned about the deeply problematic "combating defamation of religions" resolution, which seeks to undermine [...] | 2009-12-02 08:11:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNGA UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU1136 | BURKINA FASO: MOD DISCUSSES WIDE RANGE OF REGIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Charge d'Affaires met with Minister of Defense (MOD) on December 3 to officially handover the Letter of Agreement (LOA) pertaining to the training and equipping of a Burkinabe Gendarmerie Battalion (COESPU) scheduled to deploy to Darfur under UNAMID leadership. Engaging in a wide [...] | 2009-12-08 12:45:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO MASS PTER SNAR UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU1141 | BURKINABE MEDIATION EFFORTS IN GUINEA, COTE D'IVOIRE, AND TOGO [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-08 13:04:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GV UV GO IV |
09OUAGADOUGOU1158 | GUINEA - U.S./FRENCH MEETING WITH PRESIDENT COMPAORE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-14 16:19:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GV UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU1159 | GUINEA TALKS - 9th ICG-G IN OUAGADOUGOU [...] SUMMARY: The 9th meeting of the International Contact Group on Guinea (ICG-G) held December 13 in Ouagadougou was marked by a unified international community and capable leadership from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS),the African Union (AU),and the UN Representative for [...] | 2009-12-15 07:12:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM GV UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU1173 | BURKINA FASO: STRATEGY TO COUNTER THE "DEFAMATION [...] (C) Burkina Faso has regularly abstained on "Defamation of Religion" votes. It will be a challenge to get Burkina Faso to change its position to align more closely with ours and will require direct interventions with President Compaore. Burkina Faso's membership in the OIC and the fact that [...] | 2009-12-18 11:34:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL KDEM PHUM PREL PGOV OPDC UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU138 | BURKINA FASO's MANDATE ON THE UNSC [...] (C) Summary: During the first year of its mandate on the UN Security Council (UNSC),Burkina Faso has produced a voting record that has been a balancing act between support for U.S. initiatives, tempered by respect for the country's traditional friends and allies. On several occasions, such a [...] | 2009-03-05 08:25:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC AF UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU145 | AMBASSADOR'S REFLECTIONS ON BURKINA FASO'S [...] (C) The future of Burkina Faso is firmly in the hands of two men: President Blaise Compaore and Prime Minister Tertius Zongo. As I prepare to leave post after three years, it is my assessment that this leadership team is generally moving the country in the right direction, but we will need t [...] | 2009-03-06 10:46:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU187 | DEMOCRATIC PROGRESS IN BURKINA FASO IN 2010 AND BEYOND [...] (C) Summary: In the next three to five years, Burkina Faso's fledgling democracy has the potential to make significant progress. Priority areas include: merging and strengthening the numerous weak and fragmented opposition parties; increasing the capacity of political parties to conduct campaig [...] | 2009-03-18 17:03:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU200 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: POST-QADHAFI NEGOTIATIONS IN [...] (C) On March 18, Charge delivered reftel demarche to Mr. Vincent Zakane, Chief of Staff at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Zakane said he completely agreed with the USG position and analysis of the situation. He offered that, from the start, Burkina Faso had supported and continues to suppo [...] | 2009-03-19 17:02:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU202 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: HCOC "INREACH" - ENCOURAGING SUBSCRIBING STATES TO SUBMIT THEIR ANNUAL DECLARATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-19 17:03:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | KSCA PREL MNUC ETTC UG TSPA |
09OUAGADOUGOU227 | POVERTY AMONG BURKINABE TUAREGS COULD LEAD TO INSECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: Minority Tuareg communities in northern Burkina Faso are racked by extreme poverty, which is exacerbated by often refusing to send their children to school, a lack of consistent access to water, and decreasing reserves of livestock, which are their main source of income. Burkina [...] | 2009-03-24 16:27:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PREL PHUM ML NG UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU259 | DEMARCHE TO BURKINA FASO ON NORTH KOREAN [...] (C) On April 13, Pol/Mil Officer delivered reftel demarche to Mr. Der Kogda, Director of Multilateral Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Pol/Mil officer explained that the USG was seeking the support of Burkina Faso and of its UN Mission for a draft presidential statement (PRST) abo [...] | 2009-04-13 09:33:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM NK PREL KNNP UNSC UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU305 | CODEL SMITH MEETS WITH BURKINA FASO PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: A Congressional delegation led by Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA) met separately on April 15th with Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore and Prime Minister Tertius Zongo. Meetings were friendly, open, and frank and focused mainly on development issues rather than on security or [...] | 2009-04-28 15:30:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EAID OVIP OREP EIND ETRD ECON UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU394 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED UN SECURITY COUNCIL ACTION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-18 15:02:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC BM UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU45 | BURKINA FASO: RESPONSE TO U.S. PRIORITIES AT THE AU SUMMIT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-30 12:21:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AF UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU451 | BURKINA FASO WILL SUPPORT AU CONSENSUS ON SUDAN SPECIAL [...] (C) Summary: Burkina Faso looks to play a "positive" role in the debate on the renewal of the Sudan Special Rapporteur at the Human Rights Council. However, the GOBF feels strongly that compromise is the best course of action and will support a joint AU position. As of today, the AU has not [...] | 2009-06-05 12:06:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PHUM PREL SU UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU465 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RENEWING THE SUDAN SPECIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-11 11:12:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU475 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RENEWING THE SUDAN SPECIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-15 11:29:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU544 | BURKINA FASO - TWO IMET GRADUATES PROMOTED TO CHOD AND ARMY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The President of Burkina Faso announced on July 8 that he was reshuffling his Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Chief of Defense (CHOD),Brigadier General Ali Traore was promoted to Major General and rotated out of his CHOD responsibilities, while the Chief of Staff of the Army was n [...] | 2009-07-10 11:25:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS MCAPS PREL UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU601 | BURKINA FASO: WHY DID COMPAORE SKIP THE AFRICAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Neither the President nor the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso attended the recent African (AU) Summit in Libya, sending instead the relatively insignificant Minister of Foreign Affairs (MFA). While scheduling conflicts were given as the official justification for their absence, [...] | 2009-07-28 10:47:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LY UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU605 | BURKINA FASO: BASIC TRAINING ACADEMY GRADUATES [...] (U) On July 24, the instruction Group for Armed Forces (GIFA) graduated a class of 890 soldiers. Originally 900 recruits enlisted in late 2008, and an additional 30 were added to the class roster in early 2009. Only 40 recruits dropped out or were dismissed, bringing the total to 890 gradu [...] | 2009-07-29 20:03:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MCAP MASS UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU645 | BURKINA FASO: DISSENTION IN THE RULING PARTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 17th, a key powerbroker in the ruling political party was suspended indefinitely. Salif Diallo, an important player on the Burkinabe political scene and formerly a close ally of President Compaore, was disciplined by the party after he publicly criticized the State inst [...] | 2009-08-14 08:56:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU665 | COMPAORE: ARBITRATOR OF REGIONAL CONFLICTS. [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-21 10:26:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU683 | REFURBISHMENT OF BURKINA FASO'S MI-17 HELICOPTERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Burkina Faso's two MI-17 helicopters which were sent to the Republic of Georgia the Ukraine for refurbishment in November 2008, have been returned. These helicopters will be available for future missions once they are reassembled and tested. END SUMMARY. 2.(C) The Government of [...] | 2009-08-27 15:19:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO MCAP PREL UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU706 | RUSSIAN BUSINESS PRESENCE - BURKINA FASO RESPONSE [...] (C) The Embassy sees little evidence of Russian economic interest in Burkina Faso. To the best of our knowledge, there is no large-scale Russian business presence, no significant Russian investment, and very few Russian citizens currently residing in Burkina Faso. Responses to Washington's [...] | 2009-09-04 11:23:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR UV RS ECON EINV |
09OUAGADOUGOU816 | BURKINA FASO: DAS FITZGERALD MEETS WITH PRIME [...] (C) Summary. In separate meetings with AF DAS Fitzgerald, Burkina Faso's Prime Minister and Minister of Defense asked for assistance in coping with the aftermath of the September 1st flooding. They also highlighted President Compaore's regional mediation efforts and elaborated on the GOBF's vi [...] | 2009-09-25 10:08:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PINR PGOV MASS UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU869 | BURKINA FASO: URGENT HOSPITAL RELOCATION [...] Summary. (U) The Government of Burkina Faso has requested U.S. assistance in providing temporary relocation facilities for the country's primary hospital. Post recommends the Department, USAID and the U.S. Africa Command give serious consideration to the request. End Summary. 2. (C) Durin [...] | 2009-10-01 14:29:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EAGR PGOV MASS PHUM MCAP PREL UV |
09OUAGADOUGOU938 | BURKINA FASO: PKO TROOP DEPLOYMENT TO DARFUR RUNS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Burkina Faso's initial peacekeeping detachment in Darfur has run into several obstacles and thus is behind schedule on further troop deployment. The first troops departed Ouagadougou in August 2009, but since then meteorological conditions, issues with the transportation contract [...] | 2009-10-22 08:25:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP KPKO MASS PREL UV |
09PANAMA115 | PANAMA: BALBINA'S PLATFORM UNDERSCORES CONTINUITY [...] (C) Governing Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) presidential candidate Balbina Herrera and her party in January released their electoral platform that stresses continuity, particularly with respect to current president Martin Torrijos's economic and social welfare policies. Interestingly th [...] | 2009-02-06 20:37:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PM ECON PREL |
09PANAMA119 | PANAMA: SENAN SEIZES 2.5 TONS OF COCAINE IN GAME [...] (C) Panama's National Aero-Naval Service (SENAN) police seized 2.46 tons of cocaine in a mangrove swamp February 1 that had been off-loaded from a go-fast vessel. The vessel had been hiding in the Lavaina river since January 28 after being trapped by SENAN vessels acting on information gener [...] | 2009-02-10 13:45:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR PM |
09PANAMA122 | PANAMA: REFINERY ON HOLD DUE TO WORLD ECONOMIC [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive proprietary business information concerning on-going negotiations. Please handle accordingly. SUMMARY 2. (C) Occidental Petroleum (OXY) and Qatar Petroleum (QP) representatives privately informed the Ambassador their firms are putting on hold (not cance [...] | 2009-02-10 18:33:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EINV ECON EIND EPET PM |
09PANAMA149 | PANAMA: GLOBAL INITIATIVE FOLLOW-ON WORKSHOP [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-18 21:48:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM |
09PANAMA153 | PANAMA: NEW THINK TANK AIMING HIGH [...] (C) Panama's newest think tank, the Foundation for the Economic and Social Development of Panama (FUDESPA) on January 15 presented its brain-child, a document entitled "Public Policy Proposals: Popular Elections, May 2009" that is designed to influence the government plans of candidates runnin [...] | 2009-02-23 15:31:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PM PREL |
09PANAMA182 | PANAMA: NEW THINK TANK AIMING HIGH [...] (C) Panama's newest think tank, the Foundation for the Economic and Social Development of Panama (FUDESPA) on January 15 presented its brain-child, a document entitled "Public Policy Proposals: Popular Elections, May 2009" that is designed to influence the government plans of candidates runnin [...] | 2009-03-04 21:46:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PM PREL |
09PANAMA184 | PANAMA: MARTINELLI'S "GOVERNMENT PLAN FOR CHANGE" [...] (C) Leading presidential candidate Ricardo Martinelli of the Alliance for Change on February 11 released his "Government Plan for Change," that lays out 179 proposals designed to "make a better Panama reach everyone" (que un mejor Panama llegue a todos). The document is flashy, includes big c [...] | 2009-03-06 15:38:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PM PREL |
09PANAMA194 | PANAMA: TORRIJOS TRUMPETS ACHIEVEMENTS IN FINAL [...] (C) In his final address to the National Assembly before the end of his term, President Martin Torrijos touted his administration's greatest achievements, acknowledged the cooperation of the Assembly, and called on the next government to build upon these successes. (Note: Constitutionally, Pa [...] | 2009-03-10 13:43:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PM PREL |
09PANAMA195 | PANAMA CANAL EXPANSION BIDS SUBMITTED [...] (U) Under the lights of TV cameras in a packed auditorium, three consortia, including one led by American firm Bechtel, submitted bids to the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) on March 3 to build the 3.3 billion USD set of locks for the already under-construction third lane of the Panama Canal. The bid [...] | 2009-03-10 15:14:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD MARR PM EWWT |
09PANAMA196 | PANAMA: PLANS FOR NORMALIZATION FOR COLOMBIANS [...] (C) The GOP planned to offer legal immigrant status to individuals living in the Darien region under Temporary Humanitarian Protection (THP) status, said MFA DG of Exterior Policy Javier Bonagas told POLOFF on February 20. The official census of THP persons taken in 2004 counted 542 Colombia [...] | 2009-03-10 15:52:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTBS SOCI PM |
09PANAMA21 | EMBASSY ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING OUTREACH [...] (C) Summary: Spearheading Mission Panama's anti-money laundering outreach, Ambassador Stephenson met with Colon Free Zone (CFZ) General Manager Nilda Quijano during a December 17 visit to Colon. Quijano described the competitive advantages of the CFZ for legitimate businesses and the steps be [...] | 2009-01-08 21:03:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN SNAR KTFN PM |
09PANAMA216 | VP/FM LEWIS TRAVEL TO CUBA FOR TRADE AGREEMENT [...] (C) Ambassador met with Vice President/Foreign Minister Samuel Lewis on March 13 and inquired about Lewis' upcoming trip to Havana on March 16. Lewis said that he and Vice Minister of Trade Severo Sousa will sign a trade agreement entitled "acuerdo de alcance parcial." Lewis said that Panama [...] | 2009-03-13 22:27:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PM |
09PANAMA227 | PANAMA TO SIGN FTA WITH CANADA; SIGNING AT SOTA [...] (C) Panama will conclude negotiations on a free trade treaty with Canada this week, Minister of Commerce and Industry Gisela Alvarez de Porras told the Ambassador on March 17. The GOP hopes to sign the treaty with Canada during the Summit of the Americas, continued Porras. 2. (U) Panama [...] | 2009-03-18 17:03:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PM PREL |
09PANAMA237 | PANAMA: AMBASSADOR VISITS THE DARIEN [...] (SBU) The Ambassador and several members of her Country Team visited the Darien province March 10-11. During the first day of her visit she received a briefing on the security situation from Director of the National Frontier Service (SENAFRONT) Frank Abrego and met with Darien Governor Juan [...] | 2009-03-20 19:28:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPAO PM |
09PANAMA242 | PANAMA: MURCIA ACCUSATIONS UNLEASH POLITICAL [...] (C) The Panamanian Electoral Tribunal (TE) suspended the legal immunity of the leading presidential candidates Ricardo Martinelli and Balbina Herrera March 19, in addition to the front-running candidate for Mayor of Panama City, Roberto "Bobby" Velasquez and Martinelli's attorney, Alma Cortez [...] | 2009-03-20 20:29:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR PM |
09PANAMA255 | LAWYERS VS. EVERYONE ELSE - GOP STRIVES TO PREEMPT [...] (C) Summary. The Government of Panama intends to announce financial transparency measures before the April 2 G20 Meeting to ensure that Panama is not placed on the OECD Blacklist of "tax havens." In a March 25 letter to the OECD, the GOP acknowledged that it does not want its financial center [...] | 2009-03-26 20:14:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PM PREL SNAR |
09PANAMA290 | PANAMA: AMP SUB-ADMINISTRATOR RESIGNS, CRITICIZES [...] (C) The Maritime Authority of Panama (AMP) is in the headlines following the resignation of sub-administrator Carlos Raul Moreno, who, as he headed out the door, denounced "questionable" practices designed to generate extra revenue from maritime flagging procedures at some Panamanian consulate [...] | 2009-04-06 21:21:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PM PREL EWWT |
09PANAMA316 | PANAMA: MARTINELLI PLAYS PRESIDENT TO FRIENDLY [...] (C) The Foundation for the Development of Citizen Liberty, Panama's Transparency International (TI) chapter, hosted an untelevised "Presidential Candidates Forum" on April 14. Though dubbed as a forum for both leading candidates, only Alliance for Change presidential candidate Ricardo Martinell [...] | 2009-04-20 15:36:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PM PREL |
09PANAMA322 | PANAMA: DEMARCHE ON KOSOVO'S IMF AND WORLD BANK [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-21 21:32:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL KV |
09PANAMA332 | PANAMA: THREE FARC MEMBERS HANDED OVER ON MATERIAL [...] (C) The GOP handed over three alleged FARC members to the U.S. April 17 for prosecution on charges of providing material support to a terrorist organization, the first time the GOP has ever agreed to material support charges as grounds for a hand-over. This precedent setting step is part of [...] | 2009-04-24 22:51:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER SNAR PM |
09PANAMA338 | PANAMA: FINAL POLL RESULTS: MARTINELLI HOLDING [...] (U) With Panama's May 3 elections just nine days away, Alliance for Change opposition presidential candidate Ricardo Martinelli holds a twelve to sixteen point lead over Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) candidate Balbina Herrera, according to the final presidential polling data from Dich [...] | 2009-04-27 19:42:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PM |
09PANAMA339 | PANAMA: TORRIJOS SOCIAL PROGRAMS TO CONTINUE UNDER [...] (C) Both leading presidential candidates have acknowledged the success of some social programs initiated during President Martin Torrijos' term, and have agreed to continue certain programs after the next administration is sworn in on July 1. Programs earmarked for continuity by ruling Revolu [...] | 2009-04-27 20:32:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV SOCI PM |
09PANAMA347 | PANAMA: POLITICAL COMMENTATOR PROVIDES INSIGHT ON [...] (C) Ricardo Martinelli's Alliance for Change movement will perform well in next weekend's elections, and the PRD will be weakened but will regain strength and prepare for 2014, political commentator Alfredo Castillero told POLOFFS during lunch on April 23. Castillero noted that a Martinelli [...] | 2009-04-29 21:51:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PM PREL |
09PANAMA348 | PANAMA: MARTINELLI ADVISER WEIGHS IN ON ELECTION [...] (C) Dennis Allen, former Electoral Tribune (TE) magistrate and current "electoral process adviser" to Alliance for Change presidential candidate Ricardo Martinelli ran down for the Political Section his vision of how Panama's May 3 elections will play out. Although the election would probably [...] | 2009-04-30 15:10:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PM PREL |
09PANAMA349 | PANAMA: POLITICAL COMMENTATOR PROVIDES INSIGHT ON [...] (C) Ricardo Martinelli's Alliance for Change movement will perform well in next weekend's elections, and the PRD will be weakened but will regain strength and prepare for 2014, political commentator Alfredo Castillero told POLOFFS during lunch on April 23. Castillero noted that a Martinelli [...] | 2009-04-30 15:10:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PM PREL |
09PANAMA357 | PANAMA: MARTINELLI WINS BIG [...] (SBU) The opposition's Alliance for Change presidential candidate Ricardo Martinelli defeated governing Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) candidate by over twenty points and more than 300,000 votes on May 3. Martinelli also appears to have wrested gained control of the 71-seat National Asse [...] | 2009-05-05 13:16:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM |
09PANAMA366 | PANAMA: FARC MEMBER DEMOBILIZES IN DARIEN: SIXTH [...] (U) Reports indicate that a member of the FARC's 57th FRONT surrendered to members of Panama's National Frontier Service (SENAFRONT) on May 2. The event took place at the newly established SENAFRONT position in the village of Sobia Quiro, near the Colombian boarder. The temporary position was [...] | 2009-05-06 22:44:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM |
09PANAMA37 | PANAMA HOSTS QUADRILATERAL SECURITY TALKS WITH [...] (C) "We are trying to put in place information sharing and coordination mechanisms to expedite quick deportations, expulsions, and extradition of organized crime figures," First VP and FM Samuel Lewis told Ambassador on January 15 in laying out his vision for the quadrilateral Panama-Colombia- [...] | 2009-01-15 19:37:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS SNAR PM |
09PANAMA372 | PANAMA: MARTINELLI MAKING PROGRESS ON CABINET [...] (C) Four days after his May 3 landslide electoral victory, Panamanian President-elect Ricardo Martinelli has made significant progress naming his cabinet. On the evening of May 6, Panama's Electoral Tribunal (TE) formally declared Martinelli the victor in the May 3 after analyzing every vote [...] | 2009-05-07 22:30:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD PM |
09PANAMA381 | PANAMA: PRD SCRAMBLING AFTER SWEEPING ELECTORAL [...] (SBU) The Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) - Panama's largest and traditionally best organized political party - is suffering immensely from its resounding May 3 electoral defeat. "Alliance for Change" candidate Ricardo Martinelli's overwhelming victory over the PRD has caused the ruling p [...] | 2009-05-12 20:34:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PM PREL |
09PANAMA417 | PANAMA: GOP SAYS USCG DID NOT FOLLOW SALAS-BECKER [...] (C) The GOP protested in a diplomatic note from the MFA on May 20, 2009 that the U.S. Coast Guard did not follow agreed upon procedures during the search of Panamanian flagged vessel, M/V Pollux A on April 27. Specifically, the note protested that the USCG did not share information with the [...] | 2009-05-22 22:19:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM |
09PANAMA435 | PANAMA LAUNCHES CONTROVERSIAL FTA MEASURES AMID [...] (C) Encouraged by front-page coverage of U.S. officials noting progress on the U.S.-Panama Free Trade Agreement (FTA) early in the week of May 18, the current (Torrijos) and in-coming (Martinelli) governments of Panama took actions on May 20 designed to pave the way for U.S. Congressional appr [...] | 2009-06-01 17:37:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EFTA ELAB ETRD PGOV PM PREL SNAR |
09PANAMA454 | PANAMA LAUNCHES CONTROVERSIAL FTA MEASURES AMID [...] (C) Encouraged by front-page coverage of U.S. officials noting progress on the U.S.-Panama Free Trade Agreement (FTA) early in the week of May 18, the current (Torrijos) and in-coming (Martinelli) governments of Panama took actions on May 20 designed to pave the way for U.S. Congressional appr [...] | 2009-06-05 18:45:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EFTA ELAB ETRD PGOV PM PREL SNAR |
09PANAMA490 | PANAMA FTA LABOR REFORMS: TIME IS TICKING AWAY. [...] (C) President Torrijos issued four executive decrees on June 5 to bring the Panamanian labor code into alignment with International Labor Organization (ILO) standards, as he continues his attempt to fulfill his Free Trade Agreement (FTA)-related promises to the Obama Administration. However, [...] | 2009-06-18 18:24:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EFTA ELAB ETRD PGOV PM PREL |
09PANAMA518 | --CORRECTED COPY--DIPLOMATIC CLEARANCE REQUESTS DURING [...] (C) Panama's next President, Ricardo Martinelli, and his cabinet will be sworn in on 01 July 2009. The current government is not approving any diplomatic clearance requests for ships or aircraft that occur on or after 01 July. Beginning on 01 July a new group of officials will be sworn in a [...] | 2009-06-29 17:13:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM |
09PANAMA519 | PRIMARY PANAMA CANAL CONTRACT TO BE AWARDED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-30 17:05:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD MARR PM EWWT |
09PANAMA527 | CORRECTED COPY DIPLOMATIC CLEARANCE REQUESTS [...] (C) Panama's next President, Ricardo Martinelli, and his cabinet will be sworn in on 01 July 2009. The current government is not approving any diplomatic clearance requests for ships or aircraft that occur on or after 01 July. Beginning on 01 July a new group of officials will be sworn in a [...] | 2009-07-02 15:20:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM |
09PANAMA539 | SACYR WINS CANAL CONTRACT, SIGNALING BROADER [...] (C) In an elaborate ceremony attended by President Martinelli and most of the Cabinet, the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) announced that the consortium led by Spanish firm Sacyr had won the $3.2 billion contract to build the third set of locks, centerpiece of the once-in-a-century Canal Expansion pro [...] | 2009-07-08 19:20:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EWWT PGOV PM PREL |
09PANAMA568 | PANAMA: GREATER COORDINATION NEEDED ON TDN NOTES [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 4. ------------------------------ Late Dipnotes Causing Problems ------------------------------ 2. (C) The process of obtaining privileges for U.S. military forces operating on training or high value transit (HVT) missions in Panama is not f [...] | 2009-07-16 21:45:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM |
09PANAMA571 | PANAMA: EMBASSY BRIEFS INCOMING GOVERNMENT ON [...] (C) "You have saved us six months time getting started," Panama's Vice President and Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Varela told the Ambassador June 23, following a security briefing by the Embassy Law Enforcement and Security Working Group (LESWG) for the incoming GOP security leadership. Vare [...] | 2009-07-17 20:25:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM |
09PANAMA58 | PANAMA: LEFT WING DON QUIJOTE TILTS AT CLOSED [...] (C) A "symbolic" effort to open the Panamanian Political system is how Juan Jovane described his independent campaign for president. Jovane told POLOFF on November 25 that while he did not expect to be allowed to run, he wanted to open the system up to independent candidates who could mount p [...] | 2009-01-21 14:02:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM |
09PANAMA61 | PANAMA POST: THE SHAKE-UP EDITION [...] (SBU) Welcome to the third edition of the Panama Post, a collaborative effort between Embassy Panama's Political Section and the Open Source Center (OSC). Having last left our readers before the holiday season lull, the Panama Post is happy to report that the politicians and those who care [...] | 2009-01-21 15:39:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PM |
09PANAMA68 | MARTINELLI SECURES 12 POINT LEAD OVER RULING PARTY [...] (C) Opposition candidate Ricardo Martinelli of Democratic Change (CD) has been declared the "absolute favorite" by the Panamanian media after gaining a 12 point lead over ruling Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) candidate Balbina Herrera, according to a recent Dichter and Neira presidential [...] | 2009-01-22 19:40:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PM |
09PANAMA680 | PRD IN CRISIS [...] (C) After suffering a humiliating electoral defeat in the May presidential elections, leaders of the Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) have been publicly lambasting one another and fighting for control of the party amidst serious corruption allegations. President Martinelli, like a shark s [...] | 2009-09-11 13:32:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PM |
09PANAMA702 | PANAMA'S LONG FAREWELL TO PARLACEN [...] (SBU) The Government of Panama (GOP) is attempting to withdraw from the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN),a decision based exclusively on domestic politics. The departure is an easy way for President Ricardo Martinelli to make good on his campaign promise to reform Panamanian institutio [...] | 2009-09-21 11:47:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM |
09PANAMA710 | VENEZUELA DETAINS COPA AIRLINES PLANE [...] (C) Vice President and Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Varela told Ambassador September 21 that Venezuela had recently detained a COPA Airlines 737 in Maracaibo for two days, evidently in retaliation for the GOP having permitted anti-Chavez protests in Panama earlier this month. 2. (C) Varela [...] | 2009-09-22 22:41:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAIR PM VE |
09PANAMA756 | MOUNTING OPPOSITION TO MARTINELLI'S LIKELY SUPREME [...] (C) Rumors that President Martinelli intends to nominate Electoral Tribunal Magistrate Gerardo Solis and former drug prosecutor Jose Almengor to the Supreme Court this fall have been poorly received by Panamanian opinion makers. Several leading newspaper editors told the Ambassador and DCM th [...] | 2009-10-07 17:31:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM |
09PANAMA757 | MARTINELLI NOT MEETING PRO-BUSINESS RHETORIC OR [...] (C) Summary: The distinguishing feature of the Martinelli Administration's economic policy has been that there does not appear to be a coherent or consistent policy. It has made one major positive decision, which is to maintain sound macro economic policies. It has made one major negative de [...] | 2009-10-07 20:21:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL PGOV PM |
09PANAMA776 | ATTORNEY GENERAL UNDER PRESSURE [...] (C) Summary: Attorney General Ana Matilde Gomez has reported both publicly and privately that she is receiving pressure from the GOP to prosecute former government officials, and she vows to resist the pressure and defend the independence of the AG's office. President Martinelli, frustrated b [...] | 2009-10-19 21:14:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PHUM PINR PM |
09PANAMA829 | PLANS TO ESTABLISH FOUR MARITIME OPERATIONS CENTERS [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Government and Justice Jose Raul Mulino announced in late October that the GOP intended to establish four maritime operating centers to interdict narcotics and other illegal items transiting Panamanian waters. The operation centers would be jointly manned by security f [...] | 2009-11-09 23:28:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MASS PINR ASEC SNAR PM |
09PANAMA837 | Demarche Delivered, Panama Thanked for UNGA Votes on No [...] (C) Poloff delivered a message of thanks to the Office Director of International Organization and Conferences in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ms. Delia Villamonte, for Panama's recent vote against no action motions and "yes" vote on country-specific human rights motions in the UN Gene [...] | 2009-11-16 16:58:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN PM |
09PANAMA839 | PANAMA RELUCTANT TO PROSECUTE PIRATES [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Director General for Treaty and Legal Affairs Vladimir Franco October 29, following up on an informal approach on September 22, which in turn followed up on a discussion between USCG lawyers and MFA officials in September 2008. Franco said that he u [...] | 2009-11-16 19:06:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PM KPIR EWWT |
09PANAMA859 | PANAMA CONSIDERING HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CANDIDACY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-07 21:10:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | UNGA PGOV PREL |
09PANAMA861 | THANKS DELIVERED TO PANAMA FOR UNGA VOTE ON DEFAMATION OF [...] (C) Per reftel, on November 30, POLOFF delivered a message of thanks to Jonattan Del Rosario, Assistant Director General of Foreign Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Relations. POLOFF expressed gratitude for Panama's vote at the UN General Assembly against the resolution on defamation of reli [...] | 2009-12-07 21:11:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | UNGA PGOV PREL PM |
09PANAMA873 | ILLEGAL AFRICAN MIGRATION POSES CHALLENGE TO PANAMA [...] (U) The number of illegal African migrants smuggled through Panama has grown six-fold in 2009. Somali and other Horn of Africa migrants are a particular concern for Panama, which has shown no inclination to accept them as refugees, yet is struggling to find a humane response to the increase. [...] | 2009-12-10 20:17:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PM SO SMIG PREF |
09PANAMA879 | Ambassador's November 25 Meetings with President, Vice [...] (C) Summary/Introduction: The Ambassador and DCM spent six hours in meetings with top government officials on November 25 to persuade them that neglecting to focus attention and resources on Panama's burgeoning crime and gang problems would be disastrous. The Martinelli Administration has taken [...] | 2009-12-15 14:48:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID MASS ECON SNAR ASEC PINR PM |
09PANAMA88 | PANAMA TO REQUIRE NO DEATH PENALTY/LIFE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Embassy received a dip note from the Panamanian MFA on January 7 stating that the Attorney General's Office had decided to require a declaration of certificate in extradition cases on charges that might lead to a sentence of death or life imprisonment that these penalties [...] | 2009-01-29 21:37:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM |
09PANAMA89 | PANAMA: COMMENT ON DOL DRAFT LIST FOR TVPRA [...] (SBU) This is an action request; see para 3. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) Regarding REFTEL A, Embassy Panama concurs with DOL's assessment that coffee is a good for which there is reason to believe is produced by child labor in violation of international standards. Indeed, there is [...] | 2009-01-29 21:39:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | EIND ELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI KTIP |
09PANAMA891 | Ambassador's November 25 Meetings with President, Vice [...] (C) Summary/Introduction: The Ambassador and DCM spent six hours in meetings with top government officials on November 25 to work through a number of specific security issues, as well as to agree on a structure for better coordination on security issues. End summary/ introduction. The U [...] | 2009-12-17 18:43:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID MASS SNAR ASEC PINR PM |
09PANAMA97 | PANAMA: MEXICAN TAKE ON QUADRILATERAL MEETING [...] (C) While Mexico was pleased with the results of the January 16 Colombia-Guatemala-Mexico-Panama quadrilateral security talks, the Mexican delegation had also been very frustrated with the GOP's simplistic tendency to blame all its internal criminal problems on the presence of Colombians and [...] | 2009-02-03 15:05:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM |
09PARAMARIBO145 | SURINAME: CUBA, COUNTRY BY COUNTRY REVIEW FOR [...] (C) Embassy Paramaribo recommends the continued suspension of Title III for Suriname. The Government of Suriname has made no significant effort to promote the advancement of democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms in Cuba. In December 2008, Suriname opened a diplomatic mission in Cub [...] | 2009-05-18 18:49:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU NS |
09PARAMARIBO327 | Suriname: Cuba, Country by Country Review for Suspension of [...] C) Embassy Paramaribo recommends continued suspension of Title III for Suriname. The Government of Suriname has made no significant effort to promote the advancement of democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms in Cuba. In December 2008, Suriname opened a diplomatic mission in Cuba; t [...] | 2009-11-12 20:20:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC CU NS |
09PARIS1007 | MIDDLE EAST: SARKOZY AND MUBARAK CONFER ON NEXT [...] (C) Summary: Mubarak and Sarkozy reportedly are in agreement on the need to move quickly on the Israel-Palestinian front, following their meeting in Paris July 21. According to one of Sarkozy,s key advisors, Mubarak shares Sarkozy,s interest in convening an international conference as a mea [...] | 2009-07-24 15:55:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL FR |
09PARIS102 | RECENT FRENCH THINKING ABOUT RUSSIA, GEORGIA, AND [...] (C) Summary: French presidency and MFA officials shared a unified view that amplified current French thinking on dealing with Russia, whether with respect to Georgia or in terms of the ongoing gas crisis involving the Ukraine. Bottom line: Sustaining the Geneva process on Georgia will be a [...] | 2009-01-22 16:39:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET FR RS UP GG |
09PARIS1040 | WEST AFRICA: FRENCH MFA OFFICIAL'S JULY 30 [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA AF Deputy DAS-equivalent Laurent Bigot on July 30 commented on a range of West Africa issues: -- Cote d'Ivoire: Bigot thought elections were still possible, if not likely, on November 29. -- Niger: He feared that President Tandja's quest for a third term not only re [...] | 2009-07-31 09:04:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL XY IV NG GV CM MR FR |
09PARIS1051 | SOMALIA: FRANCE UNABLE TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-03 12:19:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER SO EAID KPKO FR |
09PARIS107 | FRENCH OVERVIEW OF GAERC TALKS ON GAZA, GUANTANAMO [...] (C) Summary. On January 23, MFA Chief of EU Common Foreign and Security Policy Patrick Maisonnave provided an overview of the two primary topics for discussion at the January 26-27 GAERC. Foremost, the Foreign Ministers will discuss a way ahead on the Gaza crisis, starting with a non-paper [...] | 2009-01-23 17:38:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN PGOV PHUM KPAL IS FR |
09PARIS1084 | UNSC SOMALIA SANCTIONS: GOF SAYS IT WILL SEARCH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-10 12:16:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER XW UNSC FR |
09PARIS1102 | GULF COUNTRIES A GROWING PRIORITY FOR FRANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Taking a cue from President Sarkozy's personal interest in the region, the French MFA has devoted increasing attention and staff to their bilateral relations with Gulf countries since 2007, according to the MFA's three Gulf Country Desk Officers. Qatar still maintains a privilege [...] | 2009-08-13 13:33:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL FR |
09PARIS1154 | FRENCH FRUSTRATION WITH SLOW PACE OF EUROPEAN [...] (C) Summary. In recent meetings, French officials have expressed significant frustration with the delays in launching the European Gendarmerie Force (EGF) police training mission to Afghanistan, attributing much of the problem to Italian intransigence. While the August meetings at NATO to s [...] | 2009-08-21 15:17:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS NATO AF FR IT |
09PARIS1155 | BMENA: FRANCE UNDECIDED ON LEVEL OF PARTICATION [...] (C) Poloffs delivered reftel demarche August 18 to MFA North Africa DAS Cyrille Rogeau, Special Assistant to the MFA Middle East Director Michel Roche, and MFA Morocco Desk Officer Marie Buscail. Rogeau said the MFA strongly supports the aims and ideals of the November BMENA Forum for the Fu [...] | 2009-08-21 16:10:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL FR |
09PARIS1170 | FRANCE SUPPORTS MIDDLE EAST CONSENSUS RESOLUTION [...] (C) During an August 25 meeting, IAEA desk officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Disarmament and Non-proliferation Department Francois Revardeaux said France was in full agreement on the need to return to consensus on Middle East issues at the IAEA, both for the sake of the important wor [...] | 2009-08-26 15:31:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PREL PARM KNNP IAEA EG IS UK FR |
09PARIS1193 | FRANCE-IRAN: MAGAZINE ARTICLE RE-IGNITES POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary. A series of Iranian and French actions in Paris seem to have decreased the likelihood that accused French citizen Clotilde Reiss will be acquitted in the immediate future. After Iranian authorities conditionally released Reiss from prison on August 16, it appeared that she coul [...] | 2009-09-01 10:32:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM IR FR |
09PARIS1195 | UNRWA AT 60 DEMARCHE [...] (C) On August 31, poloff delivered talking points to MFA Deputy Middle East DAS Frederic Bereyziat, per reftel. Bereyziat was confident France would approve the Government of Israel's (GOI) request to speak at the UNRWA meeting on September 24. He was adamant that Israel needed to re-engage [...] | 2009-09-01 13:05:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL UNGA KPAL FR |
09PARIS1198 | GREAT LAKES; SE WOLPE'S AUGUST 28 CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: French officials at the Presidency and MFA were in general agreement with Great Lakes Special Envoy Howard Wolpe during his August 28 meetings in Paris. The French agreed on the need to encourage continued cooperation between the DRC and Rwanda, and between Presidents Kabila an [...] | 2009-09-02 08:37:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINR PHUM ZF RW CG FR |
09PARIS1206 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES FM KOUCHNER ON UNESCO DG RACE [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Embassy Paris continued its on-going engagement with France on the UNESCO Director General race. The Ambassador raised it forcefully in a September 2 meeting with FM Kouchner, in which he urged the French to actively engage on preventing the election of Hosni and to help build [...] | 2009-09-03 15:31:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR AORC APER KAWC UNGA FR |
09PARIS1207 | FRENCH EXPECTATIONS FOR SEPTEMBER GYMNICH [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Acting Chief of EU Common Foreign and Security Policy Mathieu Carmona previewed on September 3 French expectations and priorities for the September 4-5 Gymnich. Discussions of all subjects, which will include Middle East peace, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Turkey and A [...] | 2009-09-03 15:31:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN IS GZ WE SY IR AF PK TU EG FR |
09PARIS1213 | NEW CONCERNS ABOUT COTE D'IVOIRE ELECTIONS FROM [...] (C) Summary: Africa Advisor at the Elysee, Romain Serman, told Poloffs he believed Cote d'Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo was taking new steps to further delay elections, including asking France to help in making "disarmament of rebels" a precondition. Serman asserted he told Gbagbo's repre [...] | 2009-09-04 08:58:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV IV FR |
09PARIS1218 | FRANCE-IAEA: TOTAL SUPPORT ON IRAN, MORE NUANCED [...] (C) SUMMARY: GOF contacts at the MFA and the Elysee all expressed strong agreement with U.S. views of the IAEA report on Iran (reftel),but gave a slightly more nuanced reaction to the Syria report. The French view on the Syria report tracks with ours and our interlocutors expressed serious c [...] | 2009-09-04 16:08:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM IAEA MNUC IR SY TRGY PREL FR |
09PARIS1222 | FRANCE'S APPROACH TO SOMALILAND AND PUNTLAND [...] (C) Summary: France has diplomatic engagements with Somaliland at a number of levels, including visits to Hargeisa by the French Ambassador and others based in Djibouti. France is helping Somaliland establish a representational "bureau" in Paris. France provides some developmental and huma [...] | 2009-09-08 15:14:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PHUM EAID PGOV SO FR |
09PARIS1228 | FRANCE-IRAN: JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE AT THE ROOT OF [...] (C) We met with Elysee strategic affairs advisor Richier September 4 to follow up on reports that a French judge had released Iranian national Majid Kakavand on bail and subject to determination of a pending U.S. extradition request. In previous conversations about the fate of French citizen C [...] | 2009-09-09 10:27:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR FR |
09PARIS1242 | SIGNIFICANT HURDLES FACE THE FRENCH SOCIALIST [...] (C) Summary: A Socialist Party (PS) identity crisis continues. Efforts to unify the party have failed so far to stem the feud between those who want to move the PS toward the center and those who cling to hard left views. Perhaps too comfortable in their control over the majority of regiona [...] | 2009-09-11 15:15:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV FR |
09PARIS1266 | AMBASSADOR URGES FRANCE TO SUPPORT CONSENSUS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: As negotiations on the draft resolution for the UN Security Council Summit on Nonproliferation and Disarmament continue in New York, Post is strongly emphasizing to the French the importance of reaching P5 consensus. So far, the GOF message remains one of concern that a resolutio [...] | 2009-09-16 15:43:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL FR |
09PARIS1275 | FRENCH RESPONSE TO THE PRESIDENT'S ANNOUNCEMENT ON [...] (C) On September 17, Post forwarded the points provided in reftel A as instructed to select French contacts in the MFA and Elysee, just prior to President Obama's announcement on missile defense. We then followed up with Patrick Maisonnave, the new Director of Strategic Affairs at the MFA (A/ [...] | 2009-09-18 12:16:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL NATO FR |
09PARIS1277 | URGING IRAN TO RESOLVE MISSING/DETAINED AMCIT CASES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-18 14:56:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP PTER CASC IR FR |
09PARIS128 | DRC/RWANDA: ENTERING A POSITIVE NEW PHASE? [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Great Lakes desk officer Laurent Chevallier on January 26 said that recent developments in the DRC and Rwanda (Nkunda's arrest, GOR pursuit of the FDLR in the DRC, Uganda's operations in the DRC against the Lord's Resistance Army/LRA) were very positive signs that the broad [...] | 2009-01-28 15:58:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PHUM MOPS CG RW FR |
09PARIS1290 | DEMARCHE: EXPANDING THE CHORUS ON IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-22 15:13:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC KNNP MNUC PARM PREL IAEA IR FR |
09PARIS1292 | FRENCH RESPONSE TO U.S. MTCR PLENARY PROPOSALS [...] (C) French Missile Technology Control Regime Point of Contact (MTCR POC) Florent Aydalot responded on September 22 to the proposals contained in reftel, as follows: - Information Exchange and Technical Experts Meeting (IE-TEM) Working Group: Aydalot said he wondered whether introducing a new [...] | 2009-09-22 15:17:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE ETTC KSCA PARM PREL FR |
09PARIS1293 | FRANCE LOOKS FORWARD TO P3 CONSULTATIONS ON NPT [...] (SBU) France looks forward to the P3 consultations on the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Fissile Materials Cutoff Treaty (FMCT) on October 9, confirmed MFA NPT officer Celine Jurgensen September 22. Jurgensen said the French delegation was yet to be confirmed, but would probably [...] | 2009-09-23 11:17:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09PARIS1294 | FRENCH OFFICIALS DISCUSS WEST AFRICA WITH DAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: French officials at the MFA, Presidency, and MOD on September 17 expressed general agreement with AF DAS William Fitzgerald on a range of West African issues, including Togo (need to keep pressing for proper presidential elections),Benin (a success story but with serious corru [...] | 2009-09-23 11:17:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PINR PGOV KCOR SNAR XY FR |
09PARIS1296 | FRANCE APPOINTS SPECIAL ENVOY TO NORTH KOREA [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 22, the French MFA hosted a hastily arranged briefing for the Ambassadors of China, South Korea, Japan, and the U.S. on a mission President Sarkozy has asked former French Culture Minister Jack Lang to undertake regarding North Korea. The French explained Sarkozy took [...] | 2009-09-23 15:48:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP KN KS XB FR |
09PARIS1300 | CONSTRUCTIVE OUTCOME FROM THE GOLDSTONE REPORT [...] (C) On September 23, poloff met with French MFA Deputy Middle East DAS Frederick Bereyziat to deliver talking points per reftel. Bereyziat said the Government of France (GOF) had been debating the findings of the Goldstone Report for the past three days to finalize its position. Although a [...] | 2009-09-23 17:01:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL KPAL PHUM PREL PTER IS FR |
09PARIS1309 | FRANCE SUPPORTS UNSC CONFLICT-RELATED SEXUAL VIOLENCE RESOLUTION [...] (C) On September 16, poloff delivered reftel talking points on the Security Council resolution on conflict-related sexual violence to MFA Assistant Director for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs Cecile Vigneau. The French requested additional time to review the demarche and responded on Se [...] | 2009-09-24 16:32:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PHUM PREL CG FR KWMN |
09PARIS1311 | FRANCE/AFRICA - PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR ON NIGER, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foremost among the issues keeping Presidential Africa Advisor Remi Marechaux occupied is the AQIM threat, particularly to Niger, which will not allow France to suspend military cooperation despite unhappiness with Tandja's political maneuverings -- he hopes the U.S. will act lik [...] | 2009-09-25 09:44:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KDEM PGOV KCOR PINR AU NG MA SF |
09PARIS1335 | FRENCH MFA ON YEMEN, SYRIA, IRAQ AND QATAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: French MFA Middle East Director (A/S equivalent) Patrice Paoli told DAS Janet Sanderson September 11 that the French have grown very concerned about the increasingly precarious political and security situation in Yemen. As part of a bid to help re-stabilize Yemen, they plan to boost th [...] | 2009-09-29 15:35:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SY QA YM LE IZ FR |
09PARIS134 | LONG-TERM IMPLICATIONS OF THE FRENCH EU PRESIDENCY [...] (SBU) Summary. France's EU presidency ended amidst much French acclaim and a boost for President Sarkozy, who is widely viewed to have maximized the opportunities and reaped the domestic benefits presented by the EU leadership role. To many observers, the French EU presidency confirmed what [...] | 2009-01-29 18:07:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN FR |
09PARIS1340 | HORN OF AFRICA/PIRACY: FRENCH OFFICIAL DISCUSSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The French will attend the October 6-8 Maritime Security Sector Reform (MSSR) meeting in Brussels but may also want a USG team to visit Paris to discuss Horn of Africa piracy on a broad inter-agency basis. France favors taking action to block ports used by pirates and against [...] | 2009-09-30 10:04:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT KCRM PHSA PHUM PREL SO XA XW FR |
09PARIS1341 | FRENCH CLAIM FRANCE-ALGERIA RELATIONS "NOT [...] (C) French-Algerian relations are "not strained," despite recent press reports to the contrary and despite repeated delays of the state visit of Algerian President Bouteflika, insisted MFA Algeria Desk Officer Anne-Claire Legendre on September 29. Legendre told poloff that internal political [...] | 2009-09-30 11:04:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AG FR |
09PARIS1349 | RWANDA: FRENCH JUDGE ENDS QUESTIONING OF ROSE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The French judge investigating events concerning the 1994 Rwandan genocide has dismissed the first Rwandan official questioned in the case. Rose Kabuye was granted freedom of movement when the judge on September 25 lifted the international arrest warrant that was used to compel he [...] | 2009-10-01 14:43:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINR KCRM KJUS RW FR |
09PARIS1357 | TOGO: AMBASSADOR HAWKINS'S PARIS CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: French officials at the MFA, Presidency, and MOD generally agreed with U.S. Ambassador to Togo Patricia Hawkins's assessment of the situation in Togo concerning the importance of the presidential election in 2010, the weakness of the opposition, and the tensions that might arise [...] | 2009-10-02 17:42:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM SNAR PINR TO FR |
09PARIS1369 | GUINEA: MFA PROVIDES OVERVIEW TO DIPLOMATIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: The MFA provided on October 8 a briefing on Guinea to Paris diplomats, stressing the need for Dadis Camara to step down or otherwise be replaced as Guinea's leader, with elections to follow. French officials said that any military intervention force would have to be led by Afr [...] | 2009-10-08 15:08:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM PINS GV FR |
09PARIS1389 | FRENCH ENVOY ON INFORMATIONAL MISSION TO NORTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: French officials, including senior presidency staff, confirmed that newly appointed Special Envoy to North Korea Jack Lang is going on an information gathering mission to Six-Party capitals to provide President Sarkozy a more comprehensive "snapshot" of the DPRK denuclearization is [...] | 2009-10-14 15:14:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PHUM MNUC KN KS CH JA RU FR |
09PARIS1393 | FRENCH MFA ON RUSSIA, BOSNIA, KARABAKH, KAZAKHSTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Government of France is "reflecting" on ways to improve the strategic relationship between Russia and the West, and may consider the potential value of entering into new negotiations on the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, according to Roland Galharague [...] | 2009-10-14 16:35:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS BK KZ AM AJ FR |
09PARIS1394 | FRENCH RESPONSE TO GOLDSTONE REPORT DEMARCHE [...] (C) Poloffs discussed Ref A demarche on October 14 with MFA UN/IO officers Jean-Luc Delvert (human rights) and Frederic Jung (UNSC Middle East issues) who confirmed that France shares most of the U.S. perspective on the handling of the Goldstone report. Jung confirmed that France would likel [...] | 2009-10-14 16:41:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER KPAL IS FR |
09PARIS1396 | FRANCE AGREES KENYA SHOULD INCREASE ASSISTANCE TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOF agrees with the U.S. that Kenya should do more to assist refugees from Somalia in Kenya. MFA staff is considering how to approach Kenya; one possibility would be for FM Kouchner to raise the issue with Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga during the latter's October 20-2 [...] | 2009-10-15 08:27:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL UNHCR KE FR |
09PARIS1405 | SYRIAN AMBASSADOR TOUTS BETTER RELATIONS WITH U.S, [...] (C) Summary. The Syrian Ambassador to France Lamia Chakkour discussed a wide variety of topics with PolMinCouns and poloffs October 13. The Ambassador praised France's rapprochement with Syria and said her country had been helpful in educating the Government of France (GOF) about regional is [...] | 2009-10-16 16:02:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SY FR |
09PARIS1415 | CHAD: PRESIDENT DEBY'S OCTOBER 16 MEETING WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chad's President Deby told France's President Sarkozy on October 16 that he would continue to build political dialogue and reconciliation in Chad, that Chad's relations with Sudan were improving after the recent high-level Sudanese delegation's visit to N'Djamena, that Chad nee [...] | 2009-10-21 14:40:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR MOPS CD SU FR |
09PARIS1416 | MARCH 2010 REGIONAL ELECTIONS PREVIEW SARKOZY'S [...] (C) Summary: French regional elections scheduled for March 2010 are shaping up as a measurement of President Nicolas Sarkozy's strength at the mid-point of his term. Despite rumors of malaise and dogged by a series of internal political tempests including the Clearstream trial, rumors of his Cultu [...] | 2009-10-21 15:09:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR |
09PARIS1426 | FRANCE: SCENESETTER FOR FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER,S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Paris welcomes the visit of FBI Director Mueller. The timing of this first trip is ideal, with our bilateral relationship at its highest point in fifty years. You will find your interlocutors energized by the President,s visits to Paris and Normandy and they look forward t [...] | 2009-10-22 15:58:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV FR |
09PARIS1427 | FRENCH EXPECTATIONS FOR OCTOBER 26-27 GAERC [...] (SBU) On October 23, Mathieu Carmona, Deputy Director for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy, provided the following preview for the October 26-27 GAERC meeting of EU foreign ministers: ---- IRAN ---- 2. (C) Carmona said much of an October 26 dinner would be devoted to a discussion [...] | 2009-10-23 12:57:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN IR BK AL MK GR AF PK GV CE MD UZ |
09PARIS1438 | FRENCH ACTIVITIES IN THE GULF [...] (C) The French Presidency's Counselor for North Africa and the Middle East, Nicolas Galey, discussed French activities in the Arabian Gulf with PolMinCouns and poloff on October 22. Galey said President Sarkozy will visit Saudi Arabia November 17 to 19 to highlight the importance of this bil [...] | 2009-10-26 17:13:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PGOV PINS PREL SA KU AEC FR |
09PARIS1442 | MUSLIM-JEWISH RELATIONS IN FRANCE FOLLOWING GAZA [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: During a series of recent meetings, French officials responsible for developing and implementing GOF policy toward organized religion told poloff that the January 2009 conflict in Gaza continues to strain institutional and communal relations between France's two large [...] | 2009-10-28 09:23:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL FR |
09PARIS1459 | AMBASSADOR KNIGHT'S DISCUSSIONS WITH FRENCH [...] (C) SUMMARY: New U.S. Ambassador to Benin, James Knight, on October 23 received from French officials a mixed assessment of the current social, political, and economic situation in the country. France hopes that President Yayi can display a more results-oriented leadership style but are con [...] | 2009-10-29 15:38:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV KCOR PINR BN FR |
09PARIS1464 | FRANCE WELCOMES NEW U.S. SUDAN STRATEGY, WANTS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: France's assessment of the new U.S. Sudan strategy is positive, viewing it as a more "holistic" approach to Sudan's many challenges, according to the MFA's Desk Officer for Sudan. France appreciates the U.S. willingness to engage with a broad range of interlocutors and partners [...] | 2009-10-30 14:24:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU FR |
09PARIS1465 | GUINEA: AMBASSADOR MOLLER'S CONSULTATIONS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: French officials generally agreed with U.S. Ambassador to Guinea Patricia Moller on the need for the international community to develop a visible process or framework on Guinea that could lead to a transition to a democratic government, with Burkina Faso President Campaore's inter [...] | 2009-10-30 17:21:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINR KDEM GV FR |
09PARIS1471 | TOGO'S UFC LEADER GILCHRIST OLYMPIO CONTINUES HIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Meeting with us on October 26, Togolese opposition leader Gilchrist Olympio was relaxed and at ease as he discussed his electoral prospects. He said he had overcome several procedural obstacles and was ready to campaign actively for the presidency. He asked that the U.S., alon [...] | 2009-11-02 17:39:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCOR EINV TO CH GH FR |
09PARIS1479 | FRANCE/GOLDSTONE: FRANCE SHARES MANY U.S. REDLINES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff discussed Ref. A demarche on November 3 with MFA UN/IO officer Frederic Jung, who covers UNSC Middle East issues, and who found nothing unexpected in the U.S. position. France is working with other EU members to secure agreement on significant changes to the current draf [...] | 2009-11-04 16:07:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER KPAL EUN IS FR |
09PARIS1494 | FRANCE SUPPORTIVE BUT FLEXIBLE ON BELARUS SANCTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: France supports the EU rolling over both sanctions and their suspension at the November GAERC meeting, but remains flexible as to the exact form of the rollover. Although the GOF does not believe that the Belarusian government has earned the reward of lifted sanctions, the French [...] | 2009-11-06 14:44:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN BO FR |
09PARIS1495 | FRENCH RESPONSE TO THE 2009 IRF REPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Press and public reaction to the 2009 International Religious Freedom (IRF) report in France has been largely muted since its public release on October 26. However, in a follow up meeting, the MFA offered a more critical response to the report, characterizing the Scientology case [...] | 2009-11-06 15:03:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KDEM PGOV KIRF KISL FR |
09PARIS1508 | (S) REACTION TO IRANIAN BANK SUBSIDIARY DESIGNATION [...] (C) On November 12, Embassy delivered demarche on subject designation to MFA DAS-equivalent for non-proliferation Martin Briens. He said he expects more Iranian banks to try to open foreign subsidiaries to ease some of the pressure of UN sanctions, including in countries at Europe's doorstep s [...] | 2009-11-13 11:05:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP EFIN IR MY FR |
09PARIS1510 | (C) REACTION TO IRANIAN BANK SUBSIDIARY DESIGNATION [...] (C) On November 12, Embassy delivered demarche on subject designation to MFA DAS-equivalent for non-proliferation Martin Briens. He said he expects more Iranian banks to try to open foreign subsidiaries to ease some of the pressure of UN sanctions, including in countries at Europe's doorstep s [...] | 2009-11-13 17:13:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP EFIN IR MY FR |
09PARIS1511 | FRENCH EXPECTATIONS FOR NOVEMBER 16-17 GAERC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 13, Deputy Chief of the MFA's Common Foreign and Security Policy office Mathieu Carmona previewed French expectations for the November 16-17 GAERC. Foreign ministers will prepare for the upcoming EU-Russia summit by reviewing the Corfu process, the situation in the N [...] | 2009-11-13 17:33:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN RS UP SO BK AF BO FR |
09PARIS1512 | SRAP HOLBROOKE CONSULTATIONS WITH DIPLOMATIC [...] (C) Summary. During a visit to Paris on November 13, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (SRAP) Richard Holbrooke consulted with Jean-David Levitte, Diplomatic Advisor to President Sarkozy, on proposals to improve the coordination of the SRAP collective and to improve overal [...] | 2009-11-14 10:33:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO FR AF GM |
09PARIS1521 | FRENCH-GERMAN RELATIONS SOLID, DESPITE GERMAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the formation of the new German coalition and final ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, the French government has made a series of proposals designed to promote French-German unity and further strengthen bilateral ties. In large part, this is a means to emphasize shared pri [...] | 2009-11-17 09:08:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GM FR |
09PARIS1526 | FRANCE AND BRAZIL: THE START OF A LOVE AFFAIR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Considered "a love fest" by the MFA, the growing Franco-Brazilian relationship under Presidents Sarkozy and Lula is likely to result in more political, diplomatic, economic, and military engagement in the next three years and throughout Sarkozy's time in office. Committed to exp [...] | 2009-11-17 15:21:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MASS BR FR |
09PARIS1532 | GUINEA: DAS FITZGERALD'S CONSULTATIONS IN PARIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: French officials at the MFA and Presidency were in general agreement with AF DAS William Fitzgerald November 16 on the need for a change in leadership in Guinea, but they also agreed that effecting change, making sure Dadis steps down, and identifying a suitable replacement gover [...] | 2009-11-19 08:39:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GV FR |
09PARIS1533 | FRENCH RESPONSE TO U.S. PRIORITIES ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche outlining U.S. priorities for Afghanistan on November 17 to Francois Delmas, a specialist assigned to the French MFA's Af-Pak cell. Delmas responded that most of the priorities outlined in the demarche were similar to French objectives, particularly the focu [...] | 2009-11-19 09:08:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AF FR |
09PARIS1534 | "FRANCAFRIQUE" -- MFA DISPUTES REPORTS ON A RETURN [...] (C) Summary: MFA's AF Assistant Secretary-equivalent Stephan Gompertz denied that France's approach to Africa is backsliding into the patterns of previous administrations' "francafrique." He insisted that France is not interfering in African countries' internal politics. He said that in the re [...] | 2009-11-19 09:37:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV KCOR PTER PINR FR |
09PARIS1540 | FRANCE'S APPROACH TO UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH [...] (C) Poloff discussed Reftel demarche on November 19 with MFA UN/IO officer Frederic Jung, who covers UNSC and UNGA Middle East issues. Jung noted that France's approach on these types of country-specific resolutions follows EU policy in that the 27 members consult internally for a consensus [...] | 2009-11-19 15:34:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER KPAL EUN IS FR |
09PARIS1541 | FRANCE CONCERNED ABOUT LACK OF SUBSTANCE FOR [...] (U) This is an action request - please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) Summary. During a November 19 meeting with the Political Counselor, Patrick Maisonnave, Director for Strategic Affairs at the MFA, expressed concern that preparations for the December OSCE ministerial in Athens were not going [...] | 2009-11-19 15:36:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OSCE FR |
09PARIS1542 | MARITIME SECURITY SECTOR REFORM AND HORN OF AFRICA [...] (C) SUMMARY: A French inter-agency team expressed keen interest in USG ideas on piracy and Maritime Security Sector Reform (MSSR) during PM/PPA Donna Hopkins's November 13 consultations in Paris. The French agreed to provide constructive feedback on the MSSR matrix under development by Sta [...] | 2009-11-19 15:37:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR ETTC PREL PGOV KPIR XO SO FR |
09PARIS1544 | FRENCH VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF THE NATO MINISTERIAL [...] (C) Summary. Two weeks out from the NATO summit, post met with French officials to discuss leading issues in advance of the December 3-4 NATO ministerial meeting. Our French interlocutors included Patrick Maisonnave, Strategic Affairs Director at the MFA; Muriel Domenech, MFA DAS-equivalen [...] | 2009-11-20 11:25:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO MOPS FR AF |
09PARIS1548 | FRANCO-CUBAN RELATIONS: RESPONSE TO REVIEW FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: France advocates democratic advancement and the protection of fundamental human rights in conjunction with the joint EU position on Cuba. Although diplomatic ties have been frayed since 2003, the GOF supports continued dialogue with Havana on democratization and the release of p [...] | 2009-11-23 12:47:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC EFIN EINV PREL PHUM FR CU |
09PARIS1552 | SOMALIA SANCTIONS: FRENCH IN GENERAL AGREEMENT [...] (C) MFA IO desk officer Teymouraz Gorjestani on November 20 said that the GOF was in general agreement with the USG approach to Somalia sanctions outlined in reftel. He said that France supported sanctions Against those individuals listed by the UN Sanctions Committee's Monitoring Group. ( [...] | 2009-11-23 16:36:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PGOV PHUM PREL PTER XW UNSC FR |
09PARIS1553 | FRANCE/BRAZIL: THE ECONOMIC AGENDA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Behind the cultural exchanges and warm diplomatic relations with Brazil (Ref A),France is embarking on a long-term strategy to court a country it sees as a resource-rich future global powerhouse and foothold in Latin America. Since the 2005 "Year of Brazil in France," commercial tie [...] | 2009-11-23 16:52:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL EINV BEXP ETRD EAID SENV FR BR |
09PARIS1554 | SUDAN: RECENT SUDANESE VISITS AND CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ghazi Salaheddin's recent consultations in Paris went well, according to MFA Sudan desk officer Thierry Caboche. Both sides "agreed to disagree" on ICC issues and focused on promoting Sudan-Chad reconciliation by trying to reduce Chadian and Sudanese support for their respectiv [...] | 2009-11-23 16:53:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS SU FR |
09PARIS1565 | FRANCE: TOTAL SA LEADS THE NORTH CASPIAN OPERATING COMPANY [...] (C) Summary. The North Caspian Operating Company (NCOC) will oversee planning and development of Kazakhstan's rich North Caspian petroleum resources, but the seven NCOC partner companies are on their own to get the crude to the market. NCOC faces numerous challenges: a harsh climate, sensit [...] | 2009-11-24 16:55:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG BEXP FR KZ ETRD PREL |
09PARIS1566 | FRANCE FULLY SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON SUBSIDIARY [...] (C) MFA NPT Officer Celine Jurgensen said November 24 that France entirely shares the U.S. position detailed in reftel on subsidiary bodies at the 2Q0 NPT Review Conference (RevCon). Stressing the need to ensure states withdrawing from the NPT remain accountable for any violations committed w [...] | 2009-11-25 11:25:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09PARIS1588 | PRELIMINARY FRENCH RESPONSE TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) During November 25 meetings with Patrick Maisonnave, Strategic Affairs Director at the MFA, and Francois Richier, Strategic Affairs Advisor to President Sarkozy, the Political Minister-Counselor delivered reftel points while stressing the importance of strong Allied support for our strateg [...] | 2009-11-25 17:05:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF FR |
09PARIS1589 | CJCS MULLEN OUTLINES STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: CJCS Admiral Mike Mullen met with French Chief of Defense(CHOD)General Jean-Louis Georgelin to discuss the possibility of increasing the number of French troops committed to Afghanistan, in advance of the December 3-4 NATO Ministerial meetings. This discussion was precipitated by [...] | 2009-11-25 18:37:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MASS AF FR |
09PARIS1592 | CHAD/C.A.R.: FRENCH BELIEVE INSECURITY RISING IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Chad/C.A.R. desk officer Vincent Alexandre, just returned from a week in Chad, told us on November 25 that insecurity seemed to be rising in eastern Chad and eastern C.A.R. He said that MINURCAT was much less effective than it could be and was operating with serious manpow [...] | 2009-11-27 11:41:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINR KDEM CD CT FR |
09PARIS1600 | CONGO-B'S PARIS-BASED "GOVERNMENT IN EXILE" [...] (C) SUMMARY: Self-styled Prime Minister of the Government in Exile of the Republic of Congo, Tony Gilbert Moudilou, insisted that President Sassou Nguesso Nguesso "has to go." Moudilou asserted that Sassou Nguesso is physically and mentally ill, and that the President's goal is to pave the [...] | 2009-11-30 16:56:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCOR CF FR |
09PARIS1609 | FRANCE-RUSSIA MISTRAL CLASS SHIP SALE: VIEW FROM THE SHIPYARD [...] (SBU) This message is based on reporting by American Presence Post Rennes. 2. (C) Summary. Observers in the French shipbuilding industry (strictly protect) provided background information on prospects for the sale of Mistral-class helicopter carrier/amphibious assault ships to Russia. They [...] | 2009-12-01 17:32:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EIND ETRD RU MASS PARM PREL FR GG |
09PARIS1610 | GABON: PRESIDENT ALI BONGO'S VISIT TO FRANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Ali Bongo of Gabon enjoyed a successful visit to France November 18-20, according to MFA DAS-equivalent Stephane Gruenberg. The visit marked for both sides Bongo's assumption of the presidency and his initial steps to develop his own identity as national leader apart [...] | 2009-12-02 08:24:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SENV GB FR |
09PARIS1653 | FRENCH PREVIEW OF DECEMBER FOREIGN AFFAIRS COUNCIL [...] (SBU) On December 7, Mathieu Carmona, MFA Deputy Director for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy, provided the following preview for the December 7-8 Foreign Affairs Council meeting of EU foreign ministers: ----------------------- DINNER WITH LADY ASHTON ----------------------- 2. (S [...] | 2009-12-07 14:41:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN SO BK MK IS WE IR UP BO MD GG AM |
09PARIS1669 | MONUC RENEWAL: FRENCH STILL PREFER 6-MONTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The French continue to prefer a 6-month extension of the MONUC mandate and do not think either a 12-month mandate with an initial 4-month review process or a 4-month mandate to be followed by a 12-month mandate are practical. The French are willing to continue discussion of th [...] | 2009-12-09 16:14:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKP KPKO UNSC PREL CG FR |
09PARIS1671 | FRANCE: TOTAL'S INVESTMENTS IN IRAN [...] (C) Summary. Total SA stresses that its activities in Iran consist of safeguarding the company's remaining property interests. Total is recouping funds, in the form of reimbursements, from years-old investments in the development of Iran's oil and gas blocks. During a November 16 conversatio [...] | 2009-12-10 12:03:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET ETTC IR FR |
09PARIS1686 | FRENCH SUPPORT UN SANCTIONS ON ERITREA [...] (C) MFA IO desk officer Teymouraz Gorjestani on December 11 told us that the GOF had agreed to support the Ugandan draft UNSC resolution that contained provisions for imposing targeted sanctions on Eritrea (reftel). He mentioned that the GOF preferred that one individual, whom he described as [...] | 2009-12-14 15:04:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PGOV ER FR |
09PARIS1687 | MICHEL BARNIER: WHO IS THE NEW EU COMMISSIONER FOR INTERNAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Michel Barnier's selection as European Commissioner for the Internal Markets is the culmination of years of maneuvering for a senior EC post. As Foreign Minister, Barnier called for a strong Europe based on a "Franco-German" rather than "Anglo-Saxon" model, and as Agriculture Mi [...] | 2009-12-15 09:58:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EFIN ECON PREL PINR FR EU |
09PARIS1706 | FRANCE FULLY SUPPORTS U.S. POLICY ON BURMA [...] (C) France fully supports current U.S. policy on Burma and wants to work closely with the U.S. to insure a coordinated approach, according to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Southeast Asia DAS-equivalent Charles-Henri Brosseau, who spoke to POLCOUNS on December 10, 2009. Brosseau noted that the F [...] | 2009-12-16 16:39:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BM FR |
09PARIS1709 | SOMALIA/DJIBOUTI PEACE PROCESS: FRANCE FULLY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-17 10:35:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SO FR |
09PARIS1714 | FRENCH MINORITIES AND NATIONAL IDENTITY -- AN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In early November 2009, President Sarkozy launched a national debate on what it means to be French -- that is, the French "national identity." Confronting an increasingly globalized world and struggling with self-identity issues, including whether Muslim "burqas" should be bann [...] | 2009-12-17 12:46:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KIRF FR |
09PARIS1716 | FRANCE QUERIES ON IRANIAN INVESTMENTS [...] (C) Summary. French MFA official note increased activity in Iran's energy sector by Chinese and Indian companies but no new investments by French industrial firms. The MFA confirms that it has contacted Sofregaz, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Italian company Maire Technimont, to discourage [...] | 2009-12-17 13:37:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ETTC ECON ENRG IR FR |
09PARIS1720 | FRANCE'S "YEAR OF" PROGRAM FINDS CULTURAL AND COMMERCIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY Cultural exchanges serve as a vehicle for French commercial diplomacy and a key feature in its foreign affairs strategy. Through the semi-public agency CulturesFrance, France dedicates a calendar year or a shorter "season" to cultural cooperation with a chosen country in order to b [...] | 2009-12-17 16:26:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL EINV ETRD SCUL FR |
09PARIS1731 | S/WCI RAPP'S CONSULTATIONS IN FRANCE (DECEMBER 14) [...] (C) SUBJECT: French officials on December 14 told S/WCI Ambassador Stephen J. Rapp that they would advise consideration of a French contribution to support the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) but cautioned that GOF budgetary resources were quite limited and that a contribution might n [...] | 2009-12-21 09:38:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS KCRM PHUM YI RW SL FR |
09PARIS1744 | FRANCE: SPECIAL ENVOY MORNINGSTAR'S ENERGY CONSULTATIONS [...] (C/NF) Summary. French officials and industry leaders support diversifying energy supply/routes in Central Asia, market competition, an Azerbaijan-Turkey agreement for gas supply and transit issues. GDF-Suez joined Nord Stream and is interested in Nabucco and the Shtokman project. Total SA e [...] | 2009-12-23 10:10:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ZK ZJ RS FR ECON |
09PARIS1750 | DEMARCHE: URGING IRAN TO RESOLVE AMCIT CASES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-23 16:26:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP PTER IR FR |
09PARIS1754 | SARKOZY'S AF ADVISOR FRUSTRATED BY GUINEA, [...] (C) Summary: During a December 22 meeting with Pol Minister Counselor, Deputy Diplomatic Counselor and Chief Africa Advisor to President Sarkozy, Andre Parant, was worried that Guinea junta leader Dadis Camara could return to Conakry very soon. Parant expressed frustration with "all the par [...] | 2009-12-24 12:39:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGREV ETRD PHUM PINR GV MA NG MO |
09PARIS177 | FRENCH TRADE POLICY - PROTECTIONISM REDUX? [...] (C) Summary: The February 9 visit to Washington of French Agriculture Minister Michel Barnier comes just before he leaves his post to head-up President Sarkozy's UMP slate of candidates for the European Parliament. His departure may provide an opening to re-engage with the French, who are in [...] | 2009-02-05 10:58:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EAGR PREL EU FR |
09PARIS193 | FRENCH DOMESTIC CONCERNS DRIVE TIMELINE ON NATO [...] (C) Summary. Elysee Strategic Affairs Advisor Francois Richier outlined on February 3 some of the French domestic hurdles that will drive developments in the next couple of months on the announcement of French reintegration into NATO, possible authorization of troop reinforcements in Afghanis [...] | 2009-02-06 08:25:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO MOPS PREL FR AF |
09PARIS204 | P-3 SHARE UNSC, UNESCO, HRC AND DURBAN CONCERNS [...] (C) Summary: Acting IO A/S Jim Warlick joined French IO A/S-Equivalent Sylvie Bermann and UK IO Director Paul Johnston, along with MFA IO PDAS-Equivalent Marc Giacomini, IO DAS-Equivalent Fabien Penone, and Pol M/C for a P-3 exchange of views on February 6. Among topics of note, France led t [...] | 2009-02-10 15:23:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO UNSC SO FR |
09PARIS217 | FRENCH FEEDBACK ON KOSOVO RECOGNITION STRATEGY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-12 12:07:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC ICJ KV FR |
09PARIS223 | A/DAS WYCOFF'S FEBRUARY 5 CONSULTATIONS IN PARIS: [...] (C) SUMMARY: During February 5 meetings with AF Acting DAS Karl Wycoff, French officials: -- (on Chad) expressed skepticism about a role for the Francophonie organization in Chad; wanted "free and fair" elections yet seemed ready to welcome Deby's remaining in power as the best alternativ [...] | 2009-02-12 15:53:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PHUM PINS CD CG RW SO FR |
09PARIS236 | IS THE FRENCH MODEL REALLY BACK? [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-13 17:12:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PGOV FR |
09PARIS238 | PRUDENCE RULES IN ADVANCE OF ICC ACTION ON BASHIR [...] (C) Summary: Impending ICC action against Sudanese President Bashir dominated U.S., UK, and French consultations on February 11 as well as consultations with a broader informal group including Presidential Envoy for Sudan Mikhail V. Margelov. In a pre-meeting, U.S., UK and French officials [...] | 2009-02-17 11:47:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC RU SU FR |
09PARIS242 | MAURITANIA: FRENCH IN AGREEMENT WITH USG POSITION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-18 14:52:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EUN MR PHUM PREL FR |
09PARIS260 | FRENCH FEEDBACK ON NPT GOALS [...] (C) Summary. On February 18, MFA desk officer for nuclear nonproliferation Celine Jurgensen said France's goal for the third Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) PrepCom is concrete progress in all three pillars of the nonproliferation regime, looking ahead to the 2010 Review Conference. A [...] | 2009-02-20 13:19:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09PARIS265 | FRENCH PREVIEW OF GAERC: AFGHANISTAN, MIDDLE [...] (C) Summary. On February 20, French MFA Deputy Chief for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) Mathieu Carmona previewed four agenda items for the February General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting: Afghanistan, the Middle East peace process, the Western Balkans, [...] | 2009-02-20 16:55:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN KPAL KWBG IS BK MW SR AF KV FR |
09PARIS275 | MAURITANIA: INTERNATIONAL CONTACT GROUP MEETING [...] (C) SUMMARY: The International Contact Group on Mauritania (ICG-M) met in Paris February 20. The European Union, France, and the United Nations joined the United States in expressing continued strong support for the African Union's opposition to the August 6 coup, but the Arab delegations [...] | 2009-02-26 07:58:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MR FR |
09PARIS276 | GENERAL PETRAEUS DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN [...] (C) Summary: In meetings with PM Fillon, NSA Levitte, FM Kouchner, MinDef Morin and military chief Georgelin February 9 and 10, CENTCOM Commander General Petraeus discussed the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan, noting the administration's strategic review now underway and emphasizing t [...] | 2009-02-26 07:59:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PGOV NATO KPAL AF IR IS IZ PK FR |
09PARIS298 | INDIA/MONUC: FRANCE STUDYING WAYS TO TAKE ACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-02 12:26:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PREL PHUM UNSC CG IN FR |
09PARIS301 | SOMALIA: FRANCE INTENDS TO CONTRIBUTE TO SSR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-02 14:54:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO SO FR |
09PARIS303 | MADAGASCAR/COMOROS/ZIMBABWE: FRANCE TAKING [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA AF DAS-equivalent Francois Barateau on February 27 said that France was taking a low-profile with respect to Madagascar, Comoros, and Zimbabwe. On Madagascar, the French are supporting the UN and the international community's efforts to promote dialogue between President R [...] | 2009-03-02 15:30:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PHUM MA CN ZI FR |
09PARIS324 | GUINEA-BISSAU: FRANCE THINKS ELECTIONS ARE THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: France believes that it is imperative that presidential elections be held in Guinea-Bissau within the 60-day time-frame specified in the Guinea-Bissau constitution, MFA deskoff Ann'laure Hare said on March 4. The GOF is considering ways France can assist with elections but the [...] | 2009-03-05 12:07:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL SNAR PU FR |
09PARIS339 | FOR FRANCE, TAC ACCESSION A POSITIVE SYMBOL FOR [...] (C) France's January 2007 accession to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation (TAC) with ASEAN has had positive symbolic value but little policy impact, Florent Aydalot, the MFA's Special Advisor on ASEAN affairs, told us March 9. Signing on to the treaty sent a clear signal that France has a [...] | 2009-03-10 09:48:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KTIA ASEAN FR |
09PARIS343 | SUDAN/DARFUR: FRANCE REBUFFED IN LOBBYING FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: A range of countries rebuffed a French attempt to lobby support for new humanitarian assistance programs in Sudan/Darfur following Khartoum's recent expulsion of NGOs, MFA Sudan deskoff Frederic Bouvier said on March 9. These included Libya, Russia, China, Ethiopia, Egypt, Ken [...] | 2009-03-10 16:00:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EAID KJUS SU FR |
09PARIS362 | EUFOR/MINURCAT: FRENCH PLEASED WITH TRANSITION TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: France is pleased with the transition from EUFOR/MINURCAT to the UN's MINURCAT successor operation in Chad and C.A.R., MFA Chad/C.A.R. deskoff Vincent Alexandre reported on March 11. The transition was going smoothly mainly because force generation problems had been overcome. [...] | 2009-03-12 13:56:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PHUM PREF CD CT FR |
09PARIS367 | SARKOZY SUPPORTS NATO INTEGRATION; FORMAL [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: A think tank seminar held March 11 on "France, European Defense and NATO in the 21st Century" was the setting for an all-star line-up of French Ministers and political elite to promote France,s reintegration into the military command of NATO. President Sarkozy ca [...] | 2009-03-12 16:35:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO MARR PGOV FR |
09PARIS373 | BW/CW ALLIED CONSULTATIONS, PARIS, MARCH 4-5, [...] (SBU) The Close Allies (U.S., UK, France, Germany) met in Paris on March 4-5 to discuss issues related to chemical and biological weapons nonproliferation/arms control. The meeting focused on priorities, strategy and tactics on near-term issues, longer-term goals for the BWC and CWC, includin [...] | 2009-03-13 14:21:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL CWC OPCW CBW |
09PARIS374 | MADAGASCAR: FRENCH UNCERTAIN HOW EVENTS WILL [...] (C) French MFA Madagascar desk officer Beatrice Lederle on March 13 said that the GOF was having trouble evaluating events in Madagascar and developing a clear notion of where the crisis was heading. She said that the involvement of the military surprised the French. The situation on one le [...] | 2009-03-13 15:17:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PGOV CASC FR MA |
09PARIS375 | FRENCH PREVIEW OF GAERC: BALKANS, BELARUS, SUDAN [...] (C) Summary: The EU's March 16-17 General Affairs Council will focus on economic stimulus measures and preparation for the March 19-20 European Council rather than external relations, according to Mathieu Carmona, Deputy Head of the MFA's Common Foreign and Security Policy Office. In a Marc [...] | 2009-03-13 15:30:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KPAL KWBG EUN FR BK MW BO SU IS |
09PARIS399 | DRC/ROC/NIGER: PRESIDENCY PREVIEWS SARKOZY'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: The centerpiece of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's March 26-27 visit to the DRC, the ROC, and Niger will be a speech in Kinshasa urging the DRC to take charge of its destiny and fulfill its potential as a key African player, according Presidential AF advisor Romain Serman's [...] | 2009-03-18 17:01:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER ECON EAID CG CF NG FR |
09PARIS400 | YOUR MEETING WITH FRENCH PRIME MINISTER [...] (C) Mr. Vice President: Prime Minister Fillon will focus on the economy, the financial crisis, and the G20 Summit during his March 22-23 visit to New York and Washington. The French are looking for assurance that the U.S. will continue to seek common ground in the G20 and avoid scoring dome [...] | 2009-03-18 17:08:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON OVIP FR |
09PARIS403 | FRANCE PLEDGES CAUTION ON CUBA, LAMENTS MISFIRE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Sarkozy appointed former Socialist Minister Jack Lang to be Special Envoy on Cuba in order to drive forward French and EU dialogue with Cuba but also, on the domestic front, as outreach to a prominent French opposition party member, according to French Presidential Advis [...] | 2009-03-19 13:30:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM CU MX BR FR |
09PARIS406 | FRENCH RESPONSE ON DOWNSIZING KFOR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-19 17:50:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MARR NATO FR |
09PARIS407 | FRENCH OUTREACH TO TURKS ON NATO REINTEGRATION [...] (C) Senior French officials have contacted their Turkish counterparts to assuage possible concerns about the modalities of French reintegration back into the military command of NATO (reftel). Following General Jones' recent request to initiate outreach, both Jean-David Levitte, NSA-equivale [...] | 2009-03-20 13:17:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO FR TU |
09PARIS408 | AMISOM/SOMALIA: FRANCE TRAINING UGANDAN MILITARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: France is in the process of training a Ugandan military unit in Uganda for eventual deployment to AMISOM in Somalia. This is the fifth training operation of this nature the French have conducted; the four previous ones involved Uganda (three units) and Burundi (one unit). The [...] | 2009-03-20 15:27:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO MARR FR SO UG BY |
09PARIS415 | FRENCH UNLIKELY TO OFFER MUCH AT PAKISTAN TOKYO [...] (C) Embassy delivered points in reftel to French MFA officer Jasmine Zerinini deputy director of the newly created office of France's special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan on March 16. She had no information when we spoke to her about French intentions with respect to new financial pled [...] | 2009-03-20 17:55:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID ECON EFIN IBRD IMF PK FR |
09PARIS424 | DJIBOUTI: REVELATIONS IN THE BORREL CASE SPARK [...] (C) SUMMARY: The French daily "Liberation" on March 18 published an extensive article on the Borrel Case (Djibouti) that could prove damaging to the GOF. Djibouti has lost its suit at the ICJ where it sought French investigative files on Borrel and the circumstances of his death. Mrs. Borr [...] | 2009-03-23 14:07:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PHUM DJ FR |
09PARIS454 | FRENCH ENGAGEMENT WITH IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: Amid a flurry of high level visits, relations between France and Iraq continue to improve. Although the GOF is eager to see French companies participate in the reconstruction of Iraq's infrastructure, French enterprises have been cautious due to their lingering security concerns. [...] | 2009-03-27 11:28:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL FR IZ |
09PARIS463 | THE FRENCH ON PALESTINIAN RECONCILIATION: [...] (C) Key points: -- President Sarkozy and FM Kouchner see no alternative to Palestinian reconciliation. France will likely find a way to engage with a Palestinian unity government even if that means breaking consensus within the EU; -- In the French view, demanding that Hamas formally acc [...] | 2009-03-27 16:51:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KPAL KWBG EUN FR IS |
09PARIS465 | FRENCH RESPOND POSITIVELY TO ANNOUNCEMENT OF U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: France welcomes the announcement of the report on U.S. policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan in Ref A, MFA A/S-equivalent for Strategic, Security, and Disarmament Affairs Jacques Audibert told Pol M/C on March 27. In doing its part, France is working with Europeans engaged in [...] | 2009-03-27 18:26:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PINS EAID NATO FR AF PK |
09PARIS475 | FRENCH MFA ON AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN [...] (C) For the record, the French have responded positively to the outline of U.S. policy on Afghanistan and Pakistan presented by President Obama. We have shared the information in reftels requesting additional assistance on a number of fronts in Afghanistan and Pakistan with senior MFA and Ely [...] | 2009-03-31 10:12:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PINS EAID NATO FR AF PK |
09PARIS483 | MAURITANIA/FRANCE: WORRIES OVER AQIM TRUMP SEARCH [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA DAS-equivalent Christine Fages on April 1 said that options had dwindled with respect to Mauritania and that the best course would be to ensure free and fair elections in June within a framework that would allow participation by RFD opposition leader Ahmed Ould Daddah. Str [...] | 2009-04-02 12:24:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PINS KDEM FR MR |
09PARIS490 | FRANCE SUPPORTS USG CANDIDACY FOR UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) France supports the U.S. candidacy for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC),as announced in Ref A, French MFA IO DAS-equivalent for Human Rights Jacques Pellet told Poloff on April 2. The GOF is "very pleased" by the USG candidacy and pledges its support "without conditions." Pel [...] | 2009-04-02 16:35:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL FR |
09PARIS50 | THE AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON PM FILLON [...] (C) The U.S.-France relationship has enjoyed positive progress over the past four years, PM Francois Fillon judged during the Ambassador's January 12 farewell call; the Ambassador also presented a positive assessment. Substantive planning for the April 2-3 NATO summit in Strasbourg and Kehl [...] | 2009-01-15 08:01:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON FR |
09PARIS504 | DRC/ROC/NIGER: FRENCH PRESIDENCY'S READOUT OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Sarkozy's March 26-27 visits to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),Republic of Congo (ROC),and Niger were intended to promote democratic principles, shared business interests, and, more generally, Sarkozy's policy of moving away from the "France-Afrique" model of m [...] | 2009-04-07 10:11:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR CG CF NG XA |
09PARIS505 | MAURITANIA/MADAGASCAR: FRENCH VIEW ELECTIONS AS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Elections in Mauritania and Madagascar could be the way to end the political impasses in both countries, Presidential Deputy Diplomatic Advisor Bruno Joubert said on April 3. He added that in both places, those who organize the elections should not be candidates and those who [...] | 2009-04-07 10:21:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM FR MR MA |
09PARIS512 | FRANCE FOCUSED ON BURMA PRISONER RELEASE, [...] (C) France remains focused on prisoner release and launching a legitimate political dialogue in Burma and sees no reason to ease sanctions against the Junta at this time, Burma desk officer Jeremie Petit told us April 8. Responding to ref A points, Petit said the EU decided to keep the Commo [...] | 2009-04-08 14:24:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD FR BM |
09PARIS518 | EXPECTED FRENCH CONTRIBUTIONS IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary. On April 10, Francois Richier, President Sarkozy's strategic affairs advisor, provided a review of expected French contributions to Afghanistan for 2009. Due to economic difficulties, the GOF expects to provide relatively modest French civilian assistance of approximately USD 4 [...] | 2009-04-10 15:35:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS NATO FR AF |
09PARIS530 | MADAGASCAR: FRANCE SEES NEED TO MOVE FORWARD [...] (C) SUMMARY: France's priority in Madagascar is to encourage a consensus among the Malagasy parties on a political solution, involving early and credible elections, that will permit the country to end the current crisis and enable a return to constitutional governance, MFA DAS-equivalent Fr [...] | 2009-04-16 13:29:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC EAID PGOV SZ NO MA FR |
09PARIS543 | HIGH-LEVEL SUDANESE DELEGATION IN PARIS FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-20 15:56:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UK SU FR |
09PARIS553 | TOGO: FRENCH LACK INFORMATION ON POSSIBLE COUP [...] (C) SUMMARY: France shares the USG's uncertainty about the nature of the action Togo President Faure Gnassingbe took on April 12 against his half-brother Kpatcha Gnassingbe, MFA Togo desk officer Daniel Westerink said on April 22. The Faure-Kpatcha face-off has not changed GOF policy toward [...] | 2009-04-23 14:59:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR KDEM TO FR |
09PARIS563 | FRANCE LIKES TURKEY... JUST WHERE IT IS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-24 11:54:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN TU FR |
09PARIS57 | DRC/RWANDA: FRANCE SUPPORTS USG APPROACH ON UNSC [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-15 14:49:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER ZF UNSC FR |
09PARIS585 | CORRECTED COPY: FRANCE LIKES TURKEY... JUST WHERE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the leadup to June European Parliamentary elections, French-Turkish relations are in the media spotlight. Several senior French government officials have vocally underscored their opposition to the Turkish bid for European Union (EU) membership (amid grumbling -- in high pla [...] | 2009-04-24 15:52:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN TU FR |
09PARIS586 | FRENCH PREVIEW OF GAERC: CROATIA, BURMA, MIDDLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 24, French MFA Deputy Chief for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) Mathieu Carmona previewed the April General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting's discussions on Croatia, Burma, the Middle East, Sri Lanka, follow-up from the U.S.-EU Summit [...] | 2009-04-24 16:07:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN KPAL KWBG HR BM IS GZ WE CE UP MD |
09PARIS623 | SRI LANKA IMF ARRANGEMENT: RESERVATIONS BUT NO FINAL [...] (C) In response to USG concerns regarding an IMF Stand-By Arrangement to stabilize the Sri Lankan economy (reftel),the French Economics Ministry and Ministry of Foreign Affairs told us on April 30 and May 5, respectively, that the GOF has not yet taken a final position. Economics Ministry Off [...] | 2009-05-05 14:58:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN ECON KDEM PHUM CE FR |
09PARIS63 | MFA REGREST GABON'S OVERREACTION TO CRITICISM [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Gabonese are overreacting to criticism expressed by dissidents and centered on alleged corruption on the part of GOG officials, MFA desk officer Claude Blevin said on January 14. The Gabonese have been quick to see a French hand in support of the dissidents but this was not [...] | 2009-01-16 17:13:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GB FR |
09PARIS657 | SAHEL AND GREAT LAKES: FRENCH OFFICIALS DISCUSS [...] (C) SUMMARY: French officials at the MFA and Presidency stressed the importance France is placing on the Sahel and the GOF's efforts to promote stability in the region, during meetings on May 7 with INR/AF Director Don Koran and analyst Rick Ehrenreich. The MFA is leading a GOF-wide effort [...] | 2009-05-15 07:38:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV PTER EAID XY ZF ML MR NG CG |
09PARIS664 | FRENCH GAERC PREVIEW: GEORGIA, BOSNIA, SOMALIA, [...] (C) SUMMARY. On May 15, French MFA Deputy Chief for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) Mathieu Carmona previewed the May General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC). Overall, this General Affairs Council will be largely devoted to preparation of the June European Counc [...] | 2009-05-15 15:29:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN BK BM MD SO CE IR RS GG FR |
09PARIS67 | GRANDE COMORE PRESIDENT CRITICIZES UNION PRESIDENT [...] (U) This is an action message -- see para 9. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Grande Comore President Mohamed Abdouloihabi strongly criticized Union of the Comoros President Sambi during a January 15 meeting with AF-assistant, stating that Sambi was trying to weaken the political power of the islands f [...] | 2009-01-16 17:26:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR PTER CN IR FR |
09PARIS679 | FRANCE AND CUBA: RESPONSE TO REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION [...] (C) The following paragraphs are responses to the request for information on the relationship between France and the Cuban government and the implementation of Title III of the LIBERTAD Act (ref a): 2. (C) Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democr [...] | 2009-05-19 16:40:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU FR |
09PARIS68 | GUINEA: FRANCE BELIEVES JOYANDET MISSION SECURED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOF believes that it obtained firm commitments on key issues from coup leader Camara during Secretary of State (Cooperation and Francophonie) Joyandet's January 3-4 visit to Conakry. These commitments include holding elections before the end of 2009, no running for office [...] | 2009-01-16 17:31:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM GV FR |
09PARIS681 | NO NEW BIO-INFO ON PIRATES, BUT FRANCE WANTS TO [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-20 09:06:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER XW UNSC FR |
09PARIS696 | FRANCE BACKS AMANO FOR IAEA POST [...] (C) France squarely backs Yukiya Amano of Japan to be the next IAEA Director-General (DG),post heard May 20 from MFA IO PDAS-Equivalent Marc Giacomini and again on May 26 from MFA Strategic Affairs PDAS-Equivalent Jean-Hugue Simon-Michel. 2. (C/NF) Simon-Michel, surprised at the repeat d [...] | 2009-05-26 17:18:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC KNNP IAEA PREL FR |
09PARIS722 | INPUT ON PROPOSED IRAN RELATED NSG PRESENTATIONS [...] (C) Poloffs delivered reftel demarche May 28 to Arnaud Mentre, action officer for Iran in the MFA's Directorate of Strategic Affairs, and his replacement, Florent Aydalot. (Mentre is transitioning this summer to a new assignment at the French embassy in Moscow.) Mentre noted that the E3 woul [...] | 2009-05-29 14:12:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL FR |
09PARIS726 | IO/RHS KESHAP DISCUSSES UNHRC, SECURITY COUNCIL, [...] (C) Summary: IO/RHS Director Atul Keshap met on May 14 with French MFA IO DAS-equivalent for Human Rights Jacques Pellet and desk officers Cecile Vigneau and Emanuel Pineda to discuss several issues affecting UN agencies and regional issues in Sri Lanka and Sudan, in advance of a May 15 MFA-led [...] | 2009-06-02 10:27:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KAWC UN FR |
09PARIS738 | SE GRATION AND FRENCH REVIEW SUDAN STATE OF PLAY [...] (C) Summary: Special Envoy Gration's exchanges with senior French officials on May 30 focused on next steps on the Doha peace process, principally whether Paris-based SLM leader Abdulwahid el-Nur (AW) would relax his opposition and take part. Gration and the French agreed on the possible val [...] | 2009-06-04 13:09:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU FR |
09PARIS742 | SUDAN PRESIDENT AT UNGA -- WOULD USG ENFORCE ICC [...] (C) Romain Serman, AF-advisor at the French Presidency, asked us on June 5 how the USG would react if Sudan President Bashir tried to attend the UNGA in New York later this year. Serman wondered whether the U.S. would be compelled to take action, i.e. arrest Bashir pursuant to the ICC warrant [...] | 2009-06-05 14:02:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PHUM PREL UNGA SU FR |
09PARIS785 | MAURITANIA/NIGER/COTE D'IVOIRE/TOGO: MFA DAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA DAS Christine Fages on June 12 urged the U.S. to pressure deposed Mauritanian President Abdallahi to sign and work to implement the recently brokered political accord, an issue that Senegal's FM Gadio would likely raise during his June 12 meetings in Washington. Fages respo [...] | 2009-06-12 14:08:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PINS XY MR NG IV TO FR |
09PARIS786 | FRENCH GAERC PREVIEW: MIDDLE EAST, BALKANS, CUBA, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 12, French MFA Deputy Chief for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy Mathieu Carmona previewed the June General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC). Themes to be discussed at next week's GAERC include Cuba, Israel/Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and the Western Bal [...] | 2009-06-12 14:50:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN CU WE GZ IS LE SY YI BK HR SI GG |
09PARIS814 | PIRACY: FRANCE SHARES OPPOSITION TO INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Chantal Poiret, MFA Coordinator for Anti-Piracy Policy, said on June 17 that France was opposed to the creation of an international tribunal that would try suspected pirates. France plans to send a representative to the expert-level meeting that the Dutch have propo [...] | 2009-06-18 13:37:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL NATO SO FR |
09PARIS821 | FRANCE MFA MID-EAST DIRECTOR ON IRAN: WATCHING AND [...] (C) MFA Middle East Director (Assistant Secretary-equivalent) Patrice Paoli told Political Minister Counselor June 18 that despite initial worries over the weekend about the election results in Iran, the GOF has now committed to watching events unfold before deciding their policy approach tow [...] | 2009-06-19 16:18:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL FR |
09PARIS846 | TURKISH CULTURAL SEASON STILL ON IN FRANCE DESPITE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkish Embassy Counselor Engin Solakoglu said June 19 that the "Turkish Cultural Season" in France - a series of events throughout France highlighting Turkish culture - is still on, despite Prime Minister Erdogan's recent threats during a television interview to cancel the events [...] | 2009-06-23 14:03:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SCUL TU FR |
09PARIS864 | DARFUR: JUNE 23/25 MEETINGS WITH JEM AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Darfur Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) representatives said on June 23 that JEM was absorbing other Darfur rebel elements and was becoming the strongest Darfur group best able to represent Darfur's interests. JEM was continuing to seek Khartoum's implementation of the Febru [...] | 2009-06-26 06:59:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINS PINR SU FR |
09PARIS909 | MAURITANIA: FRENCH OFFICIALS RELIEVED POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania Mark Boulware on June 30, French officials at the Presidency (Romain Serman) and MFA (Christine Fages) supported the political deal brokered over the June 26-28 weekend and underscored the need for elections to take place on July 18. T [...] | 2009-07-06 09:18:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV MR FR |
09PARIS911 | PRE G8 MEETING: FRANCE HARDENS POSITION ON IRAN [...] (C) President Sarkozy's Middle East Advisor Boris Boillon told Political Minister Counselor July 3 that the French believe there is "no longer any possibility of dialogue" with the government of Iran. "Sanctions are the only weapon now," Boillon insisted. He said that the current sanctions r [...] | 2009-07-06 14:41:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL FR |
09PARIS946 | FRENCH SENATE LEADERS ON MIDDLE EAST: YEMEN, PEACE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After visiting over 250 dignitaries in every country in the Middle East (except Oman),two French Senate Foreign Affairs Committee members stated July 9 that French foreign policy in the Middle East should set three priorities: 1) advance the Israeli-Palestinian peace process; 2) pre [...] | 2009-07-13 08:43:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL FR |
09PARIS956 | GOF HAS LIMITED INFORMATION ON ALLEGATIONS OF WAR [...] (C) Summary: In July 10 discussions with Ambassador Williamson, GOF officials highlighted FM Kouchner's efforts to secure a ceasefire in Sri Lanka and his personal concern over the status of IDPs there. While the GOF is concerned by allegations of violations of international humanitarian law [...] | 2009-07-16 09:16:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | BG CB CE IN JA PGOV PREL KAWC FR |
09PARIS961 | IO A/S BRIMMER REVIEWS UN AGENDA WITH FRANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: IO Assistant Secretary Dr. Esther Brimmer discussed the campaign to select a new UNESCO Director General, the Human Rights Council (HRC),UNSC Reform, and Peacekeeping/Peacebuilding operations with her MFA counterpart Sylvie Bermann and separately with MFA Special Advisor Eric Ch [...] | 2009-07-17 06:56:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHUM UNESCO FR |
09PARIS963 | HORN OF AFRICA PIRACY: FRENCH FAVOR INCLUSIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: France favors broad participation in anti-piracy activities off the Horn of Africa as outlined reftel, but would prefer that a mechanism, "based on objective criteria," be established that would allow current participants to reject "problem states" such as Iran from participati [...] | 2009-07-17 13:00:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL SO IR FR |
09PARIS969 | FRENCH MFA EXPECTS EU-SYRIA ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: MFA Middle East Director (Assistant Secretary equivalent) Patrice Paoli confidently predicted to WE Office Director Maureen Cormack July 16 that the EU will approve an Association Agreement with Syria at the September 14-15 meeting of EU foreign ministers (GAERC). Whil [...] | 2009-07-17 13:53:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL FR |
09PARIS971 | EUMM: FRANCE SUPPORTS U.S. INVOLVEMENT, SPECIFICS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Patrick Maisonnave, office director-equivalent for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' European Community External Relations, said France is strongly in favor of U.S. involvement in the EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM) in Georgia, but he did not specify how the United States could best p [...] | 2009-07-17 16:13:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL GG RS EU FR |
09PARIS982 | UNSC LIBERIA AND DRC SANCTIONS: FRENCH HAVE NO [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-21 14:18:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC CG LI FR |
09PARIS993 | MFA AFRICA DIRECTOR'S JULY 21 DISCUSSION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-23 09:26:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PGOV KDEM NG MA MR IV FR |
09PARIS996 | FRANCE WANTS REVIEW OF IAEA PRIORITIES BEFORE [...] (C) Summary. On July 21, during a meeting with Martin Briens, DAS-equivalent for Disarmament and Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Special Advisor for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control, Robert Einhorn advocated strongly for a "significant" increase in the IAEA budget for 2010 to strengthen safeg [...] | 2009-07-23 15:40:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM UN FR |
09PARIS997 | MFA AFRICA DIRECTOR'S JULY 21 DISCUSSION OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA AF A/S-equivalent Stephane Gompertz on July 21 expressed frustration with the political impasse in Madagascar; relief that elections had transpired relatively well in Mauritania, offering a possible conclusion to the long political crisis there; exasperation with Niger Pres [...] | 2009-07-23 15:44:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PGOV KDEM NG MA MR IV FR |
09PARISFR211 | MUGHRABI GATE UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: Tension over Middle East issues is high at UNESCO, due in part to the emotions aroused by the Gaza conflict. Deputy Director General Barbosa feels this will make it all the harder to manage the Mughrabi Gate issue (reftel). There has been no change in the situation since the is [...] | 2009-02-11 14:55:00 | Mission UNESCO | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNESCO KWBG JO IS |
09PARISFR319 | JERUSALEM TAKES DECISION ON MUGHRABI GATE [...] (C) Summary: The Jerusalem Planning Commission has taken a decision approving design plans for the reconstruction of the Mughrabi Gate, according to Israel's Ambassador to UNESCO. While appeals to the High Court in Israel are possible, the decision, once made public, will guarantee the start [...] | 2009-03-04 17:09:00 | Mission UNESCO | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNESCO KWBG JO IS |
09PARISFR766 | MUGHRABI GATE: FROM UNESCO'S EXECUTIVE BOARD TO THE SEVILLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: ARAB STATES ARE LIKELY TO RAISE ONCE AGAIN AT THE JUNE 22-30 WORLD HERITAGE COMMITTEE MEETING IN SEVILLE ISRAEL'S PLAN TO RECONSTRUCT THE ASCENT TO THE MUGHRABI GATE ON JERUSLAEM'S TEMPLE MOUNT. THE DECISION ADOPTED AT UNESCO'S APRIL 2009 EXECUTIVE BOARD REQUESTS THAT THE DESIGN [...] | 2009-06-09 13:06:00 | Mission UNESCO | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNESCO KWBG JO IS |
09PARTO112705 | (U) Secretary Clinton's November 9, 2009, [...] (U) Classified by: Kin Moy, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4.(d). 2. (SBU) November 9, 2009; 12:30 - 14:00; Berlin, Germany. 3. (SBU) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Ambassador Philip D. Murphy Assistant Secretary Philip Gordon, EUR Jeff Hov [...] | 2009-11-27 22:03:00 | US Delegation, Secretary | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP CLINTON HILLARY |
09PARTO112706 | (C) Secretary Clinton's November 14, 2009, [...] (U) Classified by: Kin Moy, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4.(d). 2. (U) November 14, 2009; 10:15 a.m.; Singapore. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Charge Dan Shields Lieutenant General Paul Selva DAS Scot Marciel Deputy Chief of Staff [...] | 2009-11-27 22:16:00 | US Delegation, Secretary | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP CLINTON HILLARY PREL PGOV PARM KNNP |
09PARTO113007 | (U) Secretary Clinton's November 12, 2009, [...] (U) Classified by: Kin W. Moy, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (U) November 12, 2009; 1:30 p.m.; Manila, Philippines. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Ambassador Kristie A. Kenney Ambassador Scot Marciel, EAP DAS Deputy Chief of [...] | 2009-11-30 16:51:00 | US Delegation, Secretary | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP CLINTON HILLARY PREL PGOV PTER PHUM |
09PARTO12 | (U) Secretary Clinton's July 22, 2009 [...] (U) Classified by: Paul Wohlers, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4.(d) 2. (U) July 22, 2009; 3:10 PM Phuket, Thailand 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary EAP Assistant Secretary Kurt Campbell NSC Senior Director Jeff Bader Deputy Chief of St [...] | 2009-08-03 14:53:00 | US Delegation, Secretary | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP CLINTON HILLARY PREL JA KN CH |
09PARTO13 | (U) Secretary Clinton's July 23, 2009 Meeting [...] (U) Classified by: Paul Wohlers, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4.(d) 2. (U) July 23, 2009; Phuket, Thailand 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Deputy Chief of Staff Jacob Sullivan Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin Lt. Gen. Paul Selva DA [...] | 2009-08-04 14:57:00 | US Delegation, Secretary | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP CLINTON HILLARY PREL PK |
09PARTO22610 | (U) Secretary Clinton's February 18, 2009 [...] (U) Classified by: Paul Wohlers, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4.(d). 2. (U) Thursday, February 18, 2009; 4:15 p.m.; Jakarta, Indonesia. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Ambassador Cameron R. Hume A/S Christopher R. Hill, EAP Lt. Gen. Paul J [...] | 2009-02-26 19:16:00 | US Delegation, Secretary | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OVIP CLINTON HILLARY KGHG ID |
09PARTO32028 | (C) SECRETARY CLINTON'S MARCH 5, 2009, MEETING [...] (U) Classified by: Kenneth Merten, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4.(d) 2. (U) March 5, 2009; 9:00 a.m.; Brussels, Belgium. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Ambassador Kurt Volker EUR A/S Dan Fried NSC Senior Director Liz Sherwood-Randall Lie [...] | 2009-03-20 23:54:00 | US Delegation, Secretary | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP CLINTON HILLARY MOPS NATO PGOV PREL |
09PARTO40301 | (U) Secretary Clinton's March 25 Conversation [...] (U) Classified by Uzra Zeya, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (U) 03/25/09, 1 p.m., Mexico City, Mexico 3. (U) Participants U.S. The Secretary Charge Bassett A/S Shannon Laura Pena, Senior Advisor to the Secretary Dan Restrepo, Senior [...] | 2009-04-03 17:28:00 | US Delegation, Secretary | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP CLINTON HILLARY PREL SNAR MX |
09PARTO41304 | Secretary Clinton's March 31, 2009 conversation [...] (U) Classified by: Paul Wohlers, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4(b,d). 2. (U) March 31, 2009; 10:25 a.m.; The Hague, Netherlands. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Deputy Secretary Lew SRAP Holbrooke A/S Fried Ms. Abedin, Deputy Chief of Sta [...] | 2009-04-13 19:31:00 | US Delegation, Secretary | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL PHUM NL AF |
09PARTO42301 | (U) Secretary Clinton's April 17, 2009 Meeting [...] (U) Classified by: Paul Wohlers, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4 (d) 2. (U) April 17, 2009; 9:45 a.m.; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Charge d'Affaires Roland Bullen A/S Thomas Shannon, WHA Cheryl Mills, [...] | 2009-04-23 02:36:00 | US Delegation, Secretary | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP CLINTON HILLARY PREL SNAR ETRD EAID |
09PARTO42805 | (C) Secretary Clinton's April 18, 2009, [...] (C) Classified by: Paul D. Wohlers, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4.(d) 2. (C) April 18, 2009; 3:00 p.m.; Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. 3. (C) Participants: U.S. The Secretary A/S Thomas A. Shannon, WHA Amb. Hector Morales, USOAS Deput [...] | 2009-04-28 22:51:00 | US Delegation, Secretary | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP CLINTON HILLARY PGOV PREL ECON EAID |
09PARTO6 | SECRETARY AND IRISH FM MEETING [...] (U) October 11, 2009, Dublin, Ireland 2. (U) Participants United States The Secretary Ambassador Daniel Rooney A/S Philip Gordon NSC Elisabeth Sherwood-Randall DCOS Jake Sullivan Spokesman Ian Kelly Lt. Gen. Paul Selva Ireland Foreign Minister Michael Martin David Cooney, Secre [...] | 2009-10-27 02:29:00 | US Delegation, Secretary | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EUN EI |
09PERTH19 | WA MINERS WELCOME STEPPED-UP CHINESE INVESTMENT [...] (C) Summary: The proposed acquisition by Chinese company Chinalco of a significant stake in Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto (ref A) has sparked widespread debate in the Western Australia (WA) mining sector over the prospects for increased Chinese investment in the state's iron ore and [...] | 2009-03-19 07:43:00 | Consulate Perth | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN EINV ECON PREL CH AS |
09PERTH24 | WA PINS IRON ORE HOPES ON CHINA [...] (SBU) Summary: Iron ore miners in Western Australia (WA) are expecting to take a big hit on prices in this year's annual contract negotiations, but they remain optimistic about economic recovery in the state's key export market, China. Miners' representatives told the Consul General they expe [...] | 2009-04-08 09:03:00 | Consulate Perth | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN EINV ECON PREL CH AS |
09PERTH30 | WESTERN AUSTRALIA POLITICS: THE RUDD-BARNETT DUET [...] (C) Summary: Western Australia (WA) looms large on the federal radar as talk escalates about the state's importance in the next federal election. With Labor currently holding only four of 15 WA federal seats, analysts view WA as a potential pivot for federal Labor to retain power by offering [...] | 2009-05-13 08:42:00 | Consulate Perth | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV AS |
09PERTH36 | WA PREMIER SOOTHES CHINA, COURTS INVESTMENT [...] (C) Summary: Western Australia (WA) State Premier Barnett used a previously-scheduled eight-day China visit to turn down the heat after the collapse of a bid by the state-owned Chinese Chinalco firm to boost its share in Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto and the subsequent arrest of Rio [...] | 2009-08-05 09:46:00 | Consulate Perth | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EINV EMIN CH AS |
09PESHAWAR1 | SECURITY OPERATIONS IN KHYBER IMPOSE SHORT TERM CURFEW ON [...] (C) On January 2, the Torkham Highway crossing point into Afghanistan reopened to truck traffic, including trucks supplying NATO/ISAF, after being closed December 30 due to military security operations. Operation "Daralam" or "Here I Come" was launched to increase security for convoys and to r [...] | 2009-01-03 09:01:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PREL PTER PK |
09PESHAWAR10 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JANUARY [...] (SBU) Fighting continued at a slow pace in Bajaur during the first week of the year, with three militants reported killed and a local militant leader claiming that his supporters would not resist if government forces entered Mamond area. 2. (SBU) In Swat, at least 32 people were r [...] | 2009-01-14 10:47:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR100 | MALAKAND DIVISION: SWAT OPERATION CONTINUES [...] (C) Summary. From May 8, the Pakistani army has stepped up its operations in Swat, concentrating its efforts on the areas south of the central Khwazakhela region. A relaxation of the curfew in Swat on May 10 allowed large numbers of residents to flee lower Swat. According to initial estimate [...] | 2009-05-11 11:55:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREF PTER PGOV EAID PK |
09PESHAWAR101 | MALAKAND DIVISION: SWAT OPERATION UNDERWAY [...] (C) Summary. From May 12-14, the Pakistani army continued intensified operations in Swat. There appeared to be an increase of forces on the ground, and a helicopter-borne commando raid into the militant headquarters in central Swat's Peochar valley dominated headlines. Militants in Swat cont [...] | 2009-05-14 12:30:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREF PTER EAID PK |
09PESHAWAR103 | IDP CRISIS UPDATE: UN AGENCIES AND ICRC CONVEY IDP NEEDS IN [...] (C) Summary: A group of four Peshawar-based representatives from United Nations agencies and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) told the Ambassador the rising number of internally displaced people (IDPs) is swamping the capacity of the Pakistani government. The group agr [...] | 2009-05-21 10:43:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PHUM EAID PGOV PTER PK |
09PESHAWAR105 | INDIGENOUS FUNDING FOR SWAT MILITANTS [...] (C) As major operations against militants once again commence in Swat district in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP),press reports and Consulate contacts provide insight into the methods of funding that Swat militants have realized from their effective control over large parts of the distr [...] | 2009-05-22 11:36:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV ECON PK |
09PESHAWAR106 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, APRIL 25 [...] (C) Military operations in the Lower Dir and Buner districts of the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) dominated headlines during the final week of April. By April 30, GOP officials declared both operations successful, but stated that cleanup operations could last days or weeks. (Refs. A, B) [...] | 2009-05-22 11:47:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR107 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MAY 1 - [...] (C) Events in northwest Pakistan made international headlines throughout the first week in May, coinciding with President Zardari's visit to the United States, while Prime Minister Gilani appeared on national television the evening of May 7 to declare "all out war" against the Taliban. (Ref. A [...] | 2009-05-22 11:55:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR108 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MAY 8 - [...] (C) Heavy fighting in Swat, Buner and Dir characterized the second week in May, underscored by a May 12 airborne assault on Maulana Fazlullah's stronghold in Peochar valley in Swat. The government claimed to have killed over 750 militants in the course of its operation in the three districts. [...] | 2009-05-22 12:04:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR109 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FRONTIER CORPS COMMANDER [...] (C) Frontier Corps Commander General Tariq Khan sees operations in Dir and Buner winding down although Sultanwas in northern Buner is targeted for an operation o/a May 20. People are returning, particularly to lower Buner, and Khan cautioned that the IDP emergency should not obscure the need t [...] | 2009-05-23 07:54:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PTER PGOV PREF EAID PK |
09PESHAWAR11 | CEASEFIRE ENDS 2-DAY SECTARIAN BATTLE IN HANGU [...] (C) The district administration of Hangu, along with rival Sunni and Shi'a groups, signed a ceasefire agreement on January 11, putting a tenuous end to two days of sectarian fighting that killed 40 and injured more than 60 according to Ghulam Qadir, the FATA Secretary for Law and Order. The fi [...] | 2009-01-14 10:48:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK PHUM |
09PESHAWAR110 | MALAKAND UPDATE AND WAZIRISTAN PLANNING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-25 06:50:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID MOPS PK PREF PTER |
09PESHAWAR111 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MAY 15 - [...] (C) Pakistan's security forces appeared to seize the initiative in Malakand during the third week of May, but militants responded by launching mass-casualty bombing attacks inside Peshawar for the first time since March. In Swat, government troops encircled Mingora and appeared to achieve dom [...] | 2009-05-25 10:29:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR116 | PESHAWAR UNHCR CHIEF ON UNHCR ACTIVITIES IN NWFP [...] (C) UNHCR Peshawar told Peshawar PO on May 28 that the IDP population stands at 2.5 million with many in "transit" and "spontaneous" camps still not registered. UNHCR Peshawar is increasingly focusing on assisting IDP populations in these unofficial camps and schools. Most outflows from South [...] | 2009-05-29 13:08:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF EAID PGOV PK PREL |
09PESHAWAR119 | FATA: ABDUCTED NORTH WAZIRISTAN PREP SCHOOL STUDENTS [...] (C) A kidnapping attempt on June 1 against students evacuating a prestigious preparatory school in North Waziristan Agency (NWA) appears to have been resolved without casualties among the captives. The Pakistani government claims that all have been recovered. According to the government, the [...] | 2009-06-02 11:14:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV ASEC PK |
09PESHAWAR120 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MAY 22 - [...] (C) Pakistan's security forces continued to capture key locations in Swat during the fourth week of May. However, continuing last week's trend, the Taliban struck back by targeting security forces and civilians in four mass-casualty bombing attacks in Peshawar and one in Dera Ismail Khan, bes [...] | 2009-06-04 04:12:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR124 | UPPER DIR BOMBING RESPONSE SHOWS EFFECTIVENESS AND [...] (C) Summary: The June 5 mass-casualty bombing of a mosque in Upper Dir and resulting June 7-9 punitive action by a tribal lashkar have highlighted the long-standing tension in Upper Dir district over militant activity there and its recent exacerbation by the military operations in neighboring S [...] | 2009-06-09 14:31:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PTER PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR127 | THREE COMPLEX ATTACKS IN NINE HOURS IN PESHAWAR ENVIRONS [...] (C) Summary: Three complex attacks in and near Peshawar, occurring between 16:30 PM on June 11 and 01:00 AM on June 12, killed approximately six and wounded dozens more, including the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Minister for Prisons. The attacks included the ambush of an armed convoy, [...] | 2009-06-12 11:12:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC PGOV MOPS PK |
09PESHAWAR130 | BOLD TTP-CLAIMED ATTACKS SIGNAL A TEST OF WILLS WITH THE [...] (C) Summary: Baitullah Mehsud's Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed a series of bold attacks undertaken over June 9-12. These attacks highlight the TTP's increasing willingness to attack and claim credit for violence within military cantonments, in the Punjab, and against politica [...] | 2009-06-16 10:25:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV KISL PK |
09PESHAWAR131 | MILITARY ACTION IN FR BANNU: OPENING MOVE FOR WAZIRISTAN? [...] (C) Summary: A Pakistani military operation in Frontier Region Bannu, on the border of North Waziristan Agency (NWA),has resulted in over two hundred deaths and significant displacement. The operation, launched two weeks after the kidnapping of 120 students and staff from Razmak Cadet [...] | 2009-06-16 12:52:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PTER PGOV PREF PK |
09PESHAWAR135 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MAY 29 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-22 08:27:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR138 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JUNE 5 - [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-29 16:00:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR142 | FRONTIER CORPS COMMANDER'S CONCERNS FOR COUNTER-INSURGENCY [...] (C) Frontier Corps (FC) Commander General Tariq Khan expressed concerns in a July 1 conversation with Peshawar Principal Officer (PO) about the competing and inefficient authorities between the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) that hampers prompt [...] | 2009-07-07 11:44:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV EAID PTER PK |
09PESHAWAR143 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JUNE 19 [...] (C) The intensity of Pakistani military operations accelerated in South Waziristan during the fourth week in June, with the government conducting intensive airstrikes into Mehsud territory and sending ground troops to secure key locations along the critical Wana-Jandola road in preparation [...] | 2009-07-08 04:18:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR146 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JUNE 26 [...] (C) In North Waziristan agency (NWA),a series of escalating militant ambushes of Pakistan military convoys foreshadowed a declaration by NWA's principal indigenous militant commander that the February 2008 NWA peace agreement was no longer in effect (reftel). Fighting in South Waziristan Agen [...] | 2009-07-09 13:06:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR157 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JULY 17 [...] (C) Over this reporting period, fighting in the on-going Pakistani military operation in Swat continued at levels similar to those of the previous week. Revenge killings against militants, the first of which occurred during the previous reporting period, became a definite trend, with four furt [...] | 2009-08-03 14:34:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS ASEC PK |
09PESHAWAR158 | NWFP: TWO WEEKS AFTER SWAT'S OPERATION DECLARED OVER, [...] (C) Summary: Two weeks after the government of Pakistan declared the end of its military operation in Swat and invited the return of internally displaced Swatis, the picture of security in Swat is mixed. Around half of Swat's IDPs have returned, but the distribution of the returns is skew [...] | 2009-08-03 14:45:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF EAID MOPS PTER PK |
09PESHAWAR161 | NWFP: CENTRAL SWAT KHANS HAVE LOST AUTHORITY, COMPLICATING [...] (C) Summary: Central Swat's prominent landowning "khan" families, who have long formed the backbone of Swat's political leadership, have seen their position seriously undermined by the rise of militancy in Swat and their flight from the district. Now, they are attempting to rebuild their p [...] | 2009-08-04 11:54:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER MOPS EAID PK |
09PESHAWAR168 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JULY 24 [...] (C) Over this reporting period, fighting in the on-going Pakistani military operation in Swat continued at levels similar to those of the previous week, with a few notable events. The militants decapitated a policeman in Mingora and left his body to be found as a sign that the militants were [...] | 2009-08-13 08:49:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS ASEC PK |
09PESHAWAR169 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JULY 31 [...] (C) Conflict continued in the Malakand division - particularly in Swat, where the number of apparent revenge killings of militants doubled in relation to the previous reporting period. The Pakistani government obtained considerable favorable publicity for the activities of two small lashkars [...] | 2009-08-13 09:05:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS ASEC PK |
09PESHAWAR17 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JANUARY [...] (C) Fighting subsided in Bajaur during the third week of January, but militants switched to "patrolling" Khar at night and launching targeted killings. With military operations now moving south to Mohmand Agency, an additional challenge for the Pakistani military is balancing operations in Moh [...] | 2009-01-30 10:48:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR176 | TTP SUCCESSION: CONTINUED CONFUSION AND FRAGMENTATION [...] (C) Summary: Almost three weeks after the death of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud, an apparent joint media statement August 25 by Hakimullah Mehsud and Waliur Rehman Mehsud may mark a truce in the battle for succession. However, Pakistani military officials believe t [...] | 2009-08-26 12:45:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR18 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JANUARY [...] (C) Security forces continued their operations in Bajaur during the fourth week of January, targeting militant hideouts in various areas of the agency. In Bajaur, militants blew up a girls' school on January 27. Consulate contacts report that residents of Bajaur complain of shortages in [...] | 2009-02-02 11:40:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR183 | AS KHYBER FIGHTING MOVES INTO PESHAWAR, FC LAUNCHES [...] (C) Summary: Two months of fighting in Khyber Agency, FATA, between two rival militias--Lashkar-i-Islam and Ansarul Islam--spilled over into the outskirts of Peshawar, culminating in bombings on August 22 and 23. The fighting has more to do with control over lucrative criminal activity t [...] | 2009-09-03 10:55:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR184 | NWFP PLANS TO FINANCE SECURITY AND RECONSTRUCTION [...] (C) Summary: The Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) government finally has received the first tranche of a 24 billion rupees (USD 291 million) revenue transfer from the Pakistani federal government; it will spend half of this to support the planned 2,500 Elite NWFP Police force and doubl [...] | 2009-09-03 11:09:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PTER EAID PK |
09PESHAWAR197 | FATA MNAS CLOSE TO AGREEMENT WITH GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary. FATA Caucus leader Munir Orakzai told PO October 4 that Prime Minister Gilani had agreed to satisfy key grievances that had prompted the FATA ministers' resignation from the government (ref A). The government, which Orakzai said had reneged on promises of increased development f [...] | 2009-10-07 03:54:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PK |
09PESHAWAR20 | AMBASSADOR VISITS IDP CAMP [...] (C) During a meeting with Vice President Elect Biden during a recent visit, Chief of Army Staff General Kayani raised his concern about the effect of poor treatment of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) on his counter-insurgency campaign in Pakistan's tribal areas. As part of the continuing M [...] | 2009-02-04 12:29:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PINR PK |
09PESHAWAR203 | ADMINISTRATIVE NORMALIZATION OF THE MALAKAND DIVISION MOVES [...] (C) Summary: Over the past week, Pakistan's government took several significant steps to normalize administration in the Malakand division after the April-August military operations against militants there. On October 3, the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) government appointed executive mag [...] | 2009-10-12 11:22:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER ECON MOPS PK |
09PESHAWAR208 | RC-EAST MG SCAPPAROTTI DISCUSSES BORDER COORDINATION WITH PAKISTANI ARMY/FRONTIER CORPS [...] (C) Summary. In an October 13 meeting with RC-East Commander MG Scapparotti, Pakistan' 11th Corps Commander Masood and Frontier Corps commander Tariq Khan discussed ongoing operations and venues for cross-border cooperation. The Pakistanis requested U.S./ISAF assistance in blocking militant [...] | 2009-10-14 14:18:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PTER PK |
09PESHAWAR21 | MILITARY RENEWS OPERATIONS AS SWAT GOES FROM BAD TO WORSE [...] (C) Army units led by 11th Corps and supported by Frontier Corps restarted operations in Swat on February 1 with the Northwest Frontier government's acknowledgment that it has lost effective control of the district to local taliban. As many as 70 militants have reportedly been killed in clashe [...] | 2009-02-06 16:27:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PTER EAID PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR211 | ANP LIKELY TO ABSTAIN ON NATIONAL RECONCILIATION ORDINANCE [...] (C) Summary. Awami National Party leader Asfundyar Wali Khan indicated to PO October 22 that his party likely will abstain in the upcoming parliamentary vote on the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) that provides President Zardari and other politicians immunity from prosecution on corru [...] | 2009-10-23 03:28:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS PTER PREL |
09PESHAWAR216 | GOVERNMENT HOLDS JIRGAS AROUND WAZIRISTAN TO ISOLATE TTP [...] (C) Summary. As fighting continues in South Waziristan, the Pakistani government has expanded its historic divide and conquer strategy with the Wazir and Mehsud tribes of the North and South Waziristan Agencies (NWA and SWA) to include military and civilian leaders and public relations initia [...] | 2009-11-05 12:03:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PTER PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR22 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH 11TH CORPS COMMANDER [...] (C) On January 26, Ambassador met with 11th Corps Commander, Lieutenant General Masood Aslam and Chief of Staff Brigadier Aamer to discuss internally displaced persons (IDPs) and the situation in Swat. General Masood advocated a mixed approach to IDP assistance -- encourage some to go home whe [...] | 2009-02-07 15:03:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PTER EAID PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR23 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH INSPECTOR GENERAL OF FRONTIER CORPS [...] (U) Ambassador and Peshawar Principal Officer met with Inspector General Frontier Corps Tariq Khan during a January 26 visit to the Warsak Training Center to formally hand over the latest U.S. assistance of security and communications equipment valued at one and a half million dollars. 2. ( [...] | 2009-02-09 09:01:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PTER EAID PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR24 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH NORTHWEST FRONTIER PROVINCE GOVERNOR [...] (C) Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Governor Owais Ghani met with Ambassador and Peshawar Principal Officer on January 27. Ghani said that "while major military operations are over in Bajaur and Mohmand, the problems are not." Each agency would have one to three Quick Reaction Forces (QRF [...] | 2009-02-09 09:05:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PTER EAID PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR25 | ANNUAL CRIME EVALUATION QUESTIONNAIRE (ACEQ) PESHAWAR [...] (SBU) Crime Mobility (Into Consulate Neighborhoods): Criminal elements operate throughout Peshawar and consistently enter the Consulate's residential neighborhoods, as these are affluent areas. U.S. Consulate Peshawar personnel living among the local population have experienced no burglaries [...] | 2009-02-10 09:49:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC |
09PESHAWAR28 | NFWP GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES IMPLEMENTATION PLAN OF SHARI'A LAW [...] (C) On February 16, the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) government announced a commitment to implement Shari'a law in Swat following negotiations with the banned terrorist group Tehrik Nifaz-i-Shariat Muhammadi (TNSM). The provincial government is forwarding proposed amendments to the "Shar [...] | 2009-02-17 13:20:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER MOPS EAID PK |
09PESHAWAR29 | IMPROVING RESPONSES TO MILITANT ATTACKS NEAR PESHAWAR [...] (C) Recent attacks in Khyber Agency and Peshawar, including the destruction of a bridge, indicate that militants are still trying to disrupt U.S./NATO supply routes through Pakistn to Afghanistan. In contrast to late last year, when security forces were slow or failed to respond to attac [...] | 2009-02-18 12:13:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR3 | SECTARIAN VIOLENCE INCREASES IN PAKISTAN'S NORTHWEST IN RUN [...] (C) Pakistan's northwest has been hit with a string of attacks targeting Shi'a Muslims in the November and December run up to Muharram, (January 7-8),the Shi'a holiday mourning the martyrdom of Imam Hussain Ali. Militants have launched suicide bomb attacks on Shi'a processions in Peshawar for [...] | 2009-01-03 09:05:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS ASEC PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR31 | MILITANTS KILL PESHAWAR MPA [...] (C) In the first attack on a Member of the Provincial Assembly (MPA) in Peshawar, Alam Zeb Khan was killed on February 11 when militants detonated a remote-controlled improvised explosive devise (IED) as his car passed a market area. Khan's murder continues a trend of militant attacks on [...] | 2009-02-19 11:51:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR33 | NWFP: LOCAL PERCEPTIONS OF THE SWAT DEAL [...] (C) According to Swat-based contacts, the ceasefire and the agreement to implement Shari'a law are welcomed by most residents but not expected to last. The army caused a great deal of damage, failed to take advantage of the intelligence provided by the local population who they did not trust a [...] | 2009-02-21 14:39:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER MOPS EAID PK |
09PESHAWAR35 | MILITANT BOMBING OF BRIDGE IN KHYBER FAILS [...] (C) Militants placed three bombs at a bridge on the Peshawar-Torkham Highway on February 20, one of which exploded at approximately 6:30 am local time, causing no death or significant damage. Traffic flow resumed by 8:30 am. Militants also fired a rocket at a fuel tanker 11 km from the T [...] | 2009-02-24 15:06:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR36 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JANUARY [...] (SBU) No fighting was reported in Bajaur during the first week of February, but militants blew up two government schools in the Pashat area on February 2, following the destruction of schools in Bajaur on January 27-28 (Ref B). Members of the Salarzai tribe vowed to continue fighting militants [...] | 2009-02-25 11:45:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR37 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, FEBRUARY [...] (C) The pace of fighting increased in Bajaur during the second week of February, with government forces reportedly killing over 44 militants in fighting around Mahmoond tehsil and militants firing rockets on Khar, the agency capital. Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP) threatened on February 11 to destroy a [...] | 2009-02-25 11:46:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR38 | NWFP: MULLAH FAZLULLAH'S UNILATERAL CEASEFIRE [...] (C) Tehrik-i Taliban (TTP) leader Mullah Fazlullah announced a unilateral, indefinite ceasefire on February 24 with conditions that Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) officials tell us have not been accepted. Fazlullah's demands include release of TTP supporters in custody, observance of stric [...] | 2009-02-25 14:54:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR4 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, DECEMBER [...] (U) Fighting continued in Bajaur through the end of December, with around 15 militants reported killed. 2. (SBU) Pakistani security forces, backed by helicopter gunships, tanks and heavy artillery, launched an attack on December 30, targeting criminals and militants in the Jamrud are [...] | 2009-01-05 03:27:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR42 | NWFP: SWAT'S CEASEFIRE FRACTURING? [...] (C) While Swat's principal city Mingora appears to be "calm," the fragile ceasefire is showing further cracks with an attack on a military convoy, the kidnapping of six Frontier Corps personnel north of Mingora, and militant interference with humanitarian relief. Tehrik-i Nifaz-i Shariat-i Muh [...] | 2009-03-02 10:24:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER MOPS EAID PK |
09PESHAWAR43 | FATA: "VICTORY" IN BAJAUR? [...] (C) Frontier Corps Commander General Tariq Khan announced that FC forces had "secured" the Bajaur agency on February 28. While Frontier Corps certainly appears to have made important progress, Tariq's reference to "secured" likely refers primarily to the lines of communications, particularly ro [...] | 2009-03-04 04:13:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PTER PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR44 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, FEBRUARY [...] (C) Tehrik-i Taliban (TTP) deputy Faqir Mohammad announced a unilateral ceasefire in Bajaur on February 23. Inspector General Frontier Corps Tariq Khan told consulate on February 25 that no ceasefire had been agreed to and that Bajaur operations would continue (Ref A). 2. (C) Tehrik-i [...] | 2009-03-04 04:33:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR48 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, FEBRUARY [...] (C) In Bajaur, Frontier Corps appears to be shifting its focus to post-kinetic operations in the agency. We remain concerned, however, about the ability of Bajaur's militants to stage attacks. In Swat, although President Zadari has yet to sign the order, the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) [...] | 2009-03-12 05:27:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER MOPS PK |
09PESHAWAR5 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, DECEMBER [...] (C) The third week of December brought more fighting in Bajaur. But with fewer than ten militants reported killed, the tempo of fighting seems to have slowed considerably compared with the magnitude of fighting over the past several months. 2. (C) The situation in Swat continued to d [...] | 2009-01-06 11:21:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR51 | PROPOSED NIZAM-E-ADL (SHARI'A) REGULATION 2009 [...] (C) The proposed Nizam-e-Adl (literally, "system of justice" but widely viewed as Shari'a) Regulation 2009 if signed by President Zardari will replace two regulations in hopes of providing speedy justice in accordance with Shari'a law. One of the most visible changes will be the re-establishme [...] | 2009-03-16 12:32:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR52 | SEVEN QAZI (SHARIA) JUDGES INSTALLED IN SWAT [...] (C) In the latest step towards implementing shari'a in Swat the first seven Qazis (judges) were installed in their new offices on March 12. The Qazis arrived in a procession led by Tehrik Nifaz-i-Shariat Mohammadi (TNSM) chief, Sufi Mohammad, Malakand division commissioner, Mohammad Javed and [...] | 2009-03-16 12:41:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR55 | SWAT UPDATE: SUFI MUHAMMAD'S PRESS CONFERENCE - QAZI JUDGES [...] (C) Tehrik Nifaz-i-Shariat Mohammadi (TNSM) chief, Sufi Mohammad announced in a press conference March 16, the (previous) judges should stop going to their offices as their continued presence would be considered a violation of the peace accord. Provincial authorities have stated the new Qazis [...] | 2009-03-18 14:24:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER MOPS PK |
09PESHAWAR59 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MARCH 7 [...] (C) The release of 12 militant prisoners March 7, the appointment of Qazi judges in Swat March 12 and the repositioning of army forces were some of the first tangible steps taken by the government to implement the peace agreement and the Nizam-e-Adl "system of justice" widely viewed as Shari'a [...] | 2009-03-23 10:34:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR61 | SWAT UPDATE: ADDITIONAL MILITANTS RELEASED - ARMY RETURNING [...] (C) The release of three militants by the government March 21, brings the total set free since March 6 to 30. According to one post contact a closed factory on the edge of Mingora that until March 19 had been guarded by the army was occupied by militants when the soldiers returned to their bar [...] | 2009-03-25 11:26:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR63 | INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS DEMONSTRATE FOR COMPENSATION [...] (C) Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) of Jalozai Camp near Nowshera led by Sahibzada Haroon Rashid, deputy chief of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI),conducted a demonstration that left at least one person dead, 10 more injured, including four police officers, shops and vehicles burned and 22 arrested Mar [...] | 2009-03-28 12:01:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR64 | SUICIDE BOMBER ATTACK AT A MOSQUE FREQUENTED BY SECURITY [...] (C) A Suicide bomber attack killed at least 40, including security forces personnel and injured more than 100 at a mosque during Friday prayers March 27. While no claim of responsibility for the attack has been made, the mosque is near a security check post in Khyber Agency, along the coalitio [...] | 2009-03-30 11:33:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR65 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MARCH 14 [...] (SBU) In accordance with the Nizam-e-Adl "system of justice," widely viewed as Shari'a law, Qazi judges began presiding over cases in Swat March 17, displacing the role of civil judges. Tehrik Nefaz-i-Shariat Muhammadi (TNSM) Chief Sufi Mohammad asked civil judges to stop coming to court on Mar [...] | 2009-03-30 11:34:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR67 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MARCH 21 [...] (U) A suicide bomber killed at least 40 people at a mosque in Khyber Agency on March 27 in one of the bloodiest attacks of the year. (Ref. A) 2. (C) Consulate contacts report that the implementation of Nizam-i-Adl Regulation in Swat has had two residual impacts, first, permitting militants [...] | 2009-04-01 11:01:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR69 | NWFP: MILITANT ATTACK ON CARGO TERMINAL CAUSES MINIMAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-07 08:57:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR71 | NWFP: SWAT DEAL GOING OFF THE RAILS? [...] (C) Tehrik Nifaz-e-Shariat Muhammadi (TNSM) leader Sufi Mohammad closed down his "peace camp" in Swat on April 9 to protest President Zardari's delay in signing the Nizam-e-Adl (Shari'a) Regulation. Sufi also announced, however, that "the peace deal with the government is intact." Northwest F [...] | 2009-04-10 13:57:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV MOPS PHUM PK |
09PESHAWAR73 | FATA: BAJAUR CONDITIONS UPDATE [...] (C) Bajaur-based officials are reporting significant numbers of returnees within the past two months (approximately 211,000). While at odds with numbers reported by UN agencies, fraud (double dipping on benefits, people from areas other than Bajaur seeking benefits, etc.) may be contributing t [...] | 2009-04-20 13:29:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV PTER MOPS EAID PK |
09PESHAWAR76 | NWFP: SWAT UPDATE - MILITANTS GAINING GROUND WITH NEW [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Following the signing of the Nizam-e-Adl regulation by President Asif Zardari on April 13, the residents of Swat District in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) expected to experience a new sense of peace in their region. While targeted, high profile violence has co [...] | 2009-04-22 10:40:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV EAID PK |
09PESHAWAR79 | NWFP: HANGU TENSIONS INCREASING [...] (C) Summary. Following the April 18 suicide attack on a military checkpoint in Hangu District (Kohat Division, Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP)) and in the wake of the military operations in neighboring Orakzai Agency (Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)),Post contacts report the situ [...] | 2009-04-25 13:42:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV EAID PK |
09PESHAWAR8 | ENERGY CRISIS IN NWFP; REGIONAL ECONOMY AT A "STAND-STILL [...] (C) The economy of Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) is at a "stand-still," according to Sharafat Ali Mubarak, president of the Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI). Citing up to 20 hours per day of electrical loadshedding and drastic shortages of natural gas, Mubara [...] | 2009-01-13 12:22:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS ASEC PGOV PK ECON ENRG |
09PESHAWAR80 | ICRC COMMENTS ON NWFP AND FATA [...] (C) Principal Officer met on April 23 with Benno Kocher, International Committee of the Red Cross's (ICRC) Head of Sub-Delegation. In Swat, Kocher said that IDP camps are "empty," and ICRC is re-orienting its focus to basic services such as health. Numbers in the IDP camps in lower Dir are h [...] | 2009-04-25 14:10:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID PTER MOPS PK |
09PESHAWAR85 | FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, APRIL 18 [...] (C) Pakistanis from political and military quarters expressed alarm when taliban fighters advanced from Swat into neighboring Shangla and Buner Districts of Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) without resistance during the third week of April. The government began to deploy some troops to Buner [...] | 2009-04-27 08:41:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR87 | POST CONVENES EAC MEETING ON MOTORWAY ATTACK [...] (C) PO convened an Emergency Action Committee (EAC) meeting on April 29 to review an attack on a Pakistani security forces convoy on the Peshawar-Islamabad motorway. RSO, RAO, MGT, CONS, PD, USAID, and ODRP attended the meeting. 2. (C) On April 29 at approximately 0400 (local) hours a Fron [...] | 2009-04-29 13:22:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PTER CASC PGOV MOPS PK |
09PESHAWAR89 | CODEL KERRY DISCUSSES "LAW AND ORDER" AND SWAT SHARI'A LAW WITH NWFP CHIEF MINISTER [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-30 14:44:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID MOPS PGOV PK PTER |
09PESHAWAR9 | NWFP: ATTACK ON PAKISTAN SECURITY FORCES IN MOHMAND BY [...] (C) In an unprecedented move by militants, at least 200 fighters crossed the border from Afghanistan into Mohmand Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and attacked a paramilitary base of the Frontier Corps the evening of January 10. Government forces responded to the assau [...] | 2009-01-13 12:24:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS SNAR PGOV PK |
09PESHAWAR97 | MALAKAND DIVISION: FIGHTING IN SWAT BUT "NO OPERATION" YET [...] (C) During May 4-6, militants in Swat acting on the previously announced withdrawal (Ref A) from the Swat peace accord, attacked security forces throughout Swat and seized government buildings before apparently being evicted from at least some of these by security forces. Despite this action, [...] | 2009-05-07 12:28:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREF PTER PGOV EAID PK |
09PHNOMPENH101 | DPM SOK AN IS FIRM BUT PATIENT ON THAI BORDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an initial courtesy call on Deputy Prime Minister Sok An February 12, the Ambassador emphasized the U.S. commitment to a re-invigorated and growing relationship with Cambodia and support for the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. Sok An outlined mixed developments in negotiations with the [...] | 2009-02-13 07:34:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG KJUS KTIA EPET PINR SCUL TH CB |
09PHNOMPENH143 | AMBASSADOR MARCIEL URGES CONTINUED DIALOGUE ON [...] (C) Summary: During a March 3 discussion with Deputy Prime Minister Sok An, EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary and Ambassador for ASEAN Affairs Scot Marciel praised the Cambodian government for working bilaterally with the Thais to find a long-term solution to the Preah Vihear area border disput [...] | 2009-03-04 10:26:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KJUS KTIA SCUL TH CB |
09PHNOMPENH168 | DONORS URGE RESUMED FUNDING, MORE NEGOTIATION ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nearly on the eve of the opening of the first Khmer Rouge trial on March 30, ambassadors from seven major donor nations to the hybrid Khmer Rouge Tribunal (KRT) reviewed March 17 a looming crisis in the funding of the court and a March 23 deadline for resolution by a joint UN-Ca [...] | 2009-03-17 10:15:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KJUS EAID PGOV KTIA CB |
09PHNOMPENH221 | APRIL 3 MORNING CLASH ON THAI-CAMBODIAN BORDER AT [...] (C) A clash between Thai and Cambodian infantry erupted at 7:20 a.m. April 3 inside the disputed border area near the Cambodian Preah Vihear UNESCO World Heritage Site according to Council of Ministers Secretary of State Phay Siphan. Fighting erupted in an area called the Field of Eagles, the [...] | 2009-04-03 02:07:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PGOV TH CB |
09PHNOMPENH224 | CAMBODIA HOLDS ITS POSITION IN PREAH VIHEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Late-morning negotiations between Thai and Cambodian military field commanders broke down and resulted in resumed fighting at about 1:55 p.m. on April 3, according to multiple Cambodian sources. Council of Ministers Secretary of State Phay Siphan stated that Thai artillery ope [...] | 2009-04-03 12:07:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PGOV TH CB |
09PHNOMPENH297 | DEFAMATION SUITS CONTINUE; GOVERNMENT ADHERES TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The government and Hun Sen's lawyer are taking a low-key approach to the case against opposition parliamentarian Mu Sochua. Deputy Prime Minister Sok An told Charge May 6 that the case against Mu would be carried out within Cambodia's legal framework and according to the rule of [...] | 2009-05-07 11:34:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KJUS CB |
09PHNOMPENH316 | KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL "FRIENDS GROUP" MEETS FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In its first meeting in a year, the "Friends Group" of donors at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) focused May 6 on the substantive work of the court and the array of administrative challenges the court faces to meet external problems. The judicial pro [...] | 2009-05-14 14:07:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS PHUM CB |
09PHNOMPENH333 | KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL: S/WCI AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Sok An May 20 warmly welcomed Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson's proposal to mediate differences between Sok An and UN Office of Legal Affairs (UN/OLA) Assistant Secretary General Peter Taksoe-Jensen over an anti-corruption mechanism [...] | 2009-05-22 09:43:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS PHUM CB |
09PHNOMPENH343 | KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL: SOK AN ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a palpably relaxed meeting May 22 with Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson, Deputy Prime Minister Sok An reiterated his strong support for a proposed new anti-corruption mechanism at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Ref A). Within minutes of reviewing desired [...] | 2009-05-28 15:29:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS EAID PHUM CB |
09PHNOMPENH394 | AMBASSADOR REAFFIRMS CONCERNS ABOUT CORRUPTION, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador June 11 called on Senior Minister and National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC) Deputy Director Om Yentieng to restate her concern about corruption in Cambodia and to express regret for any misunderstanding about her intentions or the content of remarks at a May 30 [...] | 2009-06-12 10:33:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID KJUS CB |
09PHNOMPENH406 | CAMBODIA PREPARES PREAH VIHEAR PLAN FOR UNESCO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In advance of his participation in the 33rd session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Seville, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Council of Ministers Sok An asked to see the Ambassador June 16 to outline progress by the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) in develo [...] | 2009-06-17 10:53:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SCUL KTIA KJUS UNESCO EAID TH CB |
09PHNOMPENH410 | SOK AN ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND RULE OF LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 12 meeting to deliver a UN proposal on an anti-corruption mechanism at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Council of Ministers Sok An (Ref B),the Ambassador repeated earlier remarks on her duty to speak out against corruption on behalf [...] | 2009-06-19 10:15:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KJUS PTER CB |
09PHNOMPENH416 | CAMBODIA SUPPORTIVE OF STRONG ASEAN STATEMENT ON [...] (C) Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary of State for ASEAN Affairs Kao Kim Hourn told Pol/Ec Chief June 23 that Cambodia was supportive of a strong ASEAN statement on UNSCR 1874 and North Korea, and would lean toward supporting even stronger language than the ASEAN's joint press statement wi [...] | 2009-06-23 11:39:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MNUC MTCRE KN CB |
09PHNOMPENH438 | CAMBODIA RESPONSE: KANG NAM 1 DEMARCHE [...] (C) Acting Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel demarch and talking points June 30 to Hos Sereythong, Director, Asia 1 Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs an International Cooperation. He noted that while he was familiar with press reports regarding the vessel in question, he had not yet recei [...] | 2009-07-02 04:06:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM CB BM NK |
09PHNOMPENH469 | WHIRLWIND DEFAMATION CASE DISMISSAL SHOWS [...] (C) SUMMARY: A new defamation/incitement case filed July 8 against leading opposition party newspaper publisher Dam Sith was quickly negotiated into the withdrawal of the complaint when Dam Sith publicly apologized to Prime Minister Hun Sen. Parliamentarian and Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) leader [...] | 2009-07-09 12:17:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KJUS PREL CB |
09PHNOMPENH489 | WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE HARD-EARNED POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The wider political space seen in Cambodia during the run-up to the 2008 National Assembly elections last July is undergoing an autocratic nip-and-tuck as the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) exerts one of its periodic reining-in exercises in the name of greater social orde [...] | 2009-07-14 11:44:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS PREL EAID CB |
09PHNOMPENH492 | MU SOCHUA TO DEFEND HERSELF AT DEFAMATION HEARING [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 14 meeting with the Ambassador, Mu Sochua discussed the impending defamation trial, her long term goals should her immunity be reinstated, and a potential U.S. Congressional hearing on human rights in Cambodia. Claiming that she does not want to put another lawyer at ris [...] | 2009-07-15 10:24:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KJUS CB |
09PHNOMPENH555 | MINISTER OF COMMERCE DENIES DEFAMATION SUITS ARE [...] SUMMARY: During an August 4 meeting with Senior Minister and Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh, the Ambassador expressed serious USG concerns about the recent attacks on freedom of speech and the constricting of political space in Cambodia, highlighting the resulting damage to Cambodia's int [...] | 2009-08-05 10:57:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM CB |
09PHNOMPENH564 | KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL: SOK AN SIGNS AGREEMENT ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Using modern-day electronic shuttle diplomacy along with the classic variety, Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson persuaded Deputy Prime Minister Sok An to sign an agreement with the United Nations on an anti-corruption mechanism at the Extraordinary Chambe [...] | 2009-08-07 11:16:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS PHUM CB |
09PHNOMPENH578 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES CLINTON NORTH KOREA VISIT WITH FM HOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an August 10 meeting with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Hor Namhong, the Ambassador conveyed reftel demarche on former President Clinton's visit to North Korea. Ambassador relayed that Clinton's visit was strictly a private mission and that U.S. pol [...] | 2009-08-12 09:04:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CB |
09PHNOMPENH579 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH DPM AND FM HOR NAMHONG [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an August 10 meeting, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Hor Namhong expressed to the Ambassador Cambodia's deep appreciation for recent initiatives with the USG such as the Lower Mekong Ministerial, concurred that an anti-corruption mechanism for the Khm [...] | 2009-08-12 09:09:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CB |
09PHNOMPENH602 | SENATOR WEBB MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER HUN SEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senator Jim Webb concluded a successful one-day visit to Cambodia August 18 on a positive note during a meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen in which there was general agreement on new ways to approach Burma. Webb detailed his interest in the region and in stronger relations with [...] | 2009-08-19 11:23:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD EAID PTER MASS KJUS PHUM BM CB |
09PHNOMPENH648 | KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL: FIVE MORE FOR PROSECUTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Pre-Trial Chamber at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (KRT) will announce this week that five more high-level Khmer Rouge cadres will be prosecuted, although a small number of the proposed charges against some of the accused may be set aside for lack of evidence. The decision on an [...] | 2009-09-01 10:44:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KJUS PHUM KTIA PINR PGOV CB |
09PHNOMPENH765 | FRIENDS OF THE ECCC DISCUSS STAFFING CHALLENGES, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The "Friends of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)" met October 7 to discuss the judicial and administrative progress and challenges of the court. The judicial proceedings were reported to be running smoothly, with the substantive portion of the first tria [...] | 2009-10-16 08:17:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS PHUM CB |
09PHNOMPENH79 | AMBASSADOR'S INITIAL MEETING WITH CAMBODIAN PRIME [...] (C) Summary: In the Ambassador's first call on Prime Minister Hun Sen since presenting credentials, the PM took the opportunity to renew his personal relationship with the Ambassador and review the evolution of U.S.-Cambodian relations over the past several years, highlighting several areas [...] | 2009-01-30 10:07:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER KDEM ECON EAID CB |
09PHNOMPENH80 | OHCHR CAMBODIA OFFICE BLAZES COOPERATIVE TRAIL ON [...] (C) Summary: In a country where the government's human rights record has remained "poor," as assessed by Department Human Rights Reports, the UNOHCHR Cambodia Office has a positive impact on the Cambodian government adherence to human rights standards. The Office can claim concrete successe [...] | 2009-01-30 11:42:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL |
09PHNOMPENH811 | EAP/MLS DEPUTY DIRECTOR PALMER SEES UP CLOSE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: EAP/MLS Deputy Director Matthew Palmer visited Cambodia October 20-26 to take part in a Conference on the Lower Mekong Initiative (septel),meet key counterparts in the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC),address human rights issues, visit bilateral assistance program sites, a [...] | 2009-10-30 05:59:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS PHUM EAID CB |
09PHNOMPENH815 | HUN SEN MANEUVERS OVER POSSIBLE THAKSIN VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Cambodian officials cite personal relations as justification for a possible visit by former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in November. Some also cite the Preah Vihear situation, which has seen no diplomatic movement since April. Prime Minister Hun Sen appears to be taki [...] | 2009-10-30 09:09:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS CB |
09PHNOMPENH831 | CAMBODIA RECALLS AMBASSADOR TO THAILAND BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) recalled its Ambassador to Thailand You Ay on November 5, emphasizing reciprocity in response to Thailand's earlier removal of the Thai Ambassador to Cambodia -- noting specifically that Cambodia was willing to restore full relations as soo [...] | 2009-11-06 10:57:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KTIA MOPS ELAB CB |
09PHNOMPENH832 | PRIME MINISTER HUN SEN PREVIEWS THAKSIN VISIT [...] (C) Summary: The diplomatic spat between Cambodia and Thailand took center stage during the Ambassador's meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen November 8. Hun Sen confirmed that former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra would arrive in Cambodia on November 10 and would deliver a speech to [...] | 2009-11-10 11:42:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS TH CB |
09PHNOMPENH847 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY LIFTS SAM RAINSY'S IMMUNITY IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The National Assembly voted November 16 to lift opposition party leader Sam Rainsy's immunity to pursue allegations that he destroyed state property and incited national/racial hatred against the Vietnamese during an October 25 incident on the Cambodia-Vietnam border. To respond [...] | 2009-11-16 11:14:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KTIA KJUS CB |
09PHNOMPENH890 | CAMBODIA AGREES TO PRESS FOR DIALOGUE IN BURMA; [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador demarched the RGC on the need for the Government of Burma (GOB) to engage Burma's democratic opposition and to move forward with democratic reform and out of isolation. RGC officials agreed that the 2010 elections indeed represented an "open door" for Burma and wer [...] | 2009-12-04 10:51:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KIRF BM CB |
09PHNOMPENH913 | (C) AMBASSADOR MEETS UNHCR TO DISCUSS UIGHURS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a meeting December 14 with Ambassador Rodley, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) officials recounted a "very positive" discussion with Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) officials regarding the 22 Uighur asylum-seekers in Cambodia. According to UNHCR, the [...] | 2009-12-14 10:53:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PGOV PHUM CB |
09PHNOMPENH925 | (C) UPDATE ON UIGHUR ASYLUM-SEEKERS IN CAMBODIA [...] (C) Representatives of the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) and the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) are close to finding a new location for the Uighur asylum-seekers in Phnom Penh that would offer improved protection. According to UNHCR, the goal is to house the Uighurs [...] | 2009-12-16 09:18:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PGOV PHUM CB |
09PHNOMPENH926 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES UIGHURS AND DRUG [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Rodley met December 17 with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior (DPM) Sar Kheng to discuss the Uighur asylum seekers in Phnom Penh. The DPM expressed disappointment at an initial lack of cooperation by the local United Nations High Commission for Refugees ( [...] | 2009-12-17 07:24:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR CB |
09PHNOMPENH934 | (C) UIGHURS MOVE AGAIN; UPDATES ON SITUATION [...] (C) Officials from UNHCR confirmed that the group of 20 Uighurs relocated for a second time the evening of December 17, to a single-family dwelling rented by UNHCR. Cambodian police officers are assisting in providing security at the site; UNHCR said the officers have received explicit prote [...] | 2009-12-18 07:39:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PGOV PHUM |
09PHNOMPENH954 | CORRECTED COPY - DEPORTATION SCENARIO FOR 20 UIGHUR [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 19 at 9:15 p.m., the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) deported 20 Uighur asylum-seekers back to China. Police removed the Uighurs from their safe house on December 18 around 6:00 p.m., and held them in a detention facility inside the Ministry of Interior compound [...] | 2009-12-21 11:23:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PGOV PHUM CB |
09PHNOMPENH956 | A GRATEFUL CHINA REWARDS CAMBODIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Just forty-eight hours after the Royal Government of Cambodia's (RGC) December 19 forced deportation of 20 Uighur asylum seekers to China (reftel),Cambodia is already benefiting from Chinese gratitude and generosity. During the official visit of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping [...] | 2009-12-22 10:11:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID CB |
09PHNOMPENH957 | CAMBODIA, UNHCR, AND THE UIGHURS: THE MADNESS OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a joint demarche on Deputy Foreign Minister Long Visalo December 21, Ambassadors and Charge strongly protested the deportation of 20 Uighur asylum seekers on December 19, noted that the deportation had occurred despite repeated assurances by senior Cambodian officials that it [...] | 2009-12-22 10:20:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PGOV PHUM CB |
09PHNOMPENH960 | CAMBODIA, UNHCR, AND THE UIGHURS: THE MADNESS OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a December 21 meeting with Charge and other diplomatic representatives to discuss the Royal Government of Cambodia's (RGC) refoulement of 20 Uighur asylum seekers December 19 (Ref A),UNHCR Regional Representative Raymond Hall stated that although Cambodia had tried hard o [...] | 2009-12-22 10:47:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM PGOV CB |
09PORTAUPRINCE103 | HAITIAN AUTHORITIES ACCUSED OF MISAPPROPRIATING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-30 18:45:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HA SNAR KCRM |
09PORTAUPRINCE104 | HAITI: ARISTIDE'S PARTY, STILL IN DISARRAY, [...] (C) Summary: Hard line and moderate factions of the Fanmi Lavalas (FL) political party have registered competing lists of candidates for the partial senatorial elections scheduled for April 19. The hard liners' list included a number of close associates of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, some probabl [...] | 2009-01-30 19:00:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE109 | PRESIDENT PREVAL'S TRIP TO WASHINGTON [...] (C) Rene Preval's hasty decision to attend the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington February 5 is an effort to keep Haiti high on the new Administration's international agenda as it takes office. Although no encounters with USG principals have been confirmed, he hopes that his presence in W [...] | 2009-02-02 15:51:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID HA OVIP RENE PREVAL |
09PORTAUPRINCE117 | HAITI'S ELECTORAL AUTHORITY TO EXCLUDE LAVALAS [...] (C) Summary: Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) has decided to exclude all Fanmis Lavalas candidates from the upcoming Senate elections, based on a what Embassy and others believe is a strained reading of the electoral law, and the fact that two FL factions submitted competing candida [...] | 2009-02-04 20:14:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE119 | RISING TENSIONS OVER LOOMING EXCLUSION OF LAVALAS [...] Summary: (SBU) The publication of the list of approved candidates for the April Senate elections is imminent. In anticipation that the list will exclude all Fanmi Lavalas (FL) candidates, MINUSTAH is taking security precautions, Fanmi Lavalas leaders are beginning to protest, and the electio [...] | 2009-02-05 18:11:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE122 | HAITI: ELECTORAL COUNCIL BARS LAVALAS, GUY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) announced late February 5 the exclusion of 40 of the 105 prospective candidates that had registered to compete in the April senatorial elections, including all 16 candidates representing Fanmi Lavalas. Leaders of Lavalas, the party of ou [...] | 2009-02-06 18:31:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC SNAR HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE14 | NAS HAITIAN NATIONAL POLICE AND COAST GUARD [...] (SBU) Summary: With a new Minister of Justice in place, there is new attention to corrections issues and control of the Haitian National Police (HNP). NAS infrastructure projects continue to encounter delays but are slowly progressing. Many of the delays result from slow action by the Gove [...] | 2009-01-07 17:15:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PGOV PHUM HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE157 | HAITI: PRESSURE MOUNTS ON ELECTORAL COUNCIL TO RECONSIDER LAVALAS EXCLUSION [...] (C) Summary: The U.S., Canadians, French, the European Commission and the OAS have issued statements in the last few days regarding the exclusion of Fanmi Lavalas from the upcoming Senate elections (reftel),stating that credible elections must be inclusive. A milder statement by MINUSTAH un [...] | 2009-02-11 13:51:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE159 | HAITIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION URGES CEP TO [...] (C) Summary: Haiti's leading human rights organization criticized the electoral authority's decision to exclude Fanmi Lavalas from competing in partial Senate elections planned for April as politically motivated. The National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) fears the decision, if not re [...] | 2009-02-11 19:51:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAID HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE166 | HAITIAN ELECTORAL COUNCIL DEFENDS EXCLUSION OF [...] (C) Summary: Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) President Frantz-Gerard Verret told the Ambassador on February 11 that the CEP had never considered accepting any Lavalas (FL) candidates for the Senate elections because no Lavalas leader in Haiti had a documented mandate from party leader and [...] | 2009-02-13 19:46:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE169 | CORE GROUP REPS MEET WITH PREVAL ON SENATE [...] (C) Summary. Representing the Core Group, the UNSRSG and the ambassadors of Brazil, Canada, Germany (as EU president),and the United States met with President Preval February 13 for 90 minutes to discuss the current Senatorial election issue. The group urged Preval to ensure that the election [...] | 2009-02-16 18:18:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE172 | CORE GROUP REPS MEET WITH PREVAL ON SENATE [...] (C) Summary. Representing the Core Group, the UNSRSG and the ambassadors of Brazil, Canada, Germany (as EU president),and the United States met with President Preval February 13 for 90 minutes to discuss the current Senatorial election issue. The group urged Preval to ensure that the election [...] | 2009-02-17 13:25:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE177 | HAITIAN ELECTORAL AUTHORITY REAFFIRMS EXCLUSION OF [...] (SBU) Summary: The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) released February 16 the definitive list of candidates for the April senatorial elections, reaffirming the exclusion of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas (FL) party. The CEP list included thirteen previously excluded [...] | 2009-02-17 18:19:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE202 | REJECTED HAITIAN SENATE CANDIDATES PROTEST THEIR [...] (C) Summary: Supporters of Fanmi Lavalas continue to protest their exclusion from the upcoming Senate elections. Several dozen people gathered in Les Cayes February 18 to demand the return of party leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and two of the party's lawmakers called for ''peaceful resistance [...] | 2009-02-20 19:04:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE233 | HAITI: FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF ARISTIDE'S DEPARTURE [...] (C) Summary: The fifth anniversary of then-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's departure from Haiti passed with minimal comment and one small demonstration. Several hundred Fanmi Lavalas activists marched on February 28 to protest the exclusion of their party from the April Senate elections, to [...] | 2009-03-03 15:55:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE270 | HAITI: ELECTORAL COUNCIL MAY DISREGARD COURT [...] (C) Summary: The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) has rejected a March 9 court ruling enjoining electoral authorities to include representatives of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas party in the upcoming senatorial elections. The CEP and its supporters say that the co [...] | 2009-03-11 19:42:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE317 | HAITI: LEGISLATORS STEP UP CRITICISM OF PRIME [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis defended her government's response to the devastating 2008 hurricanes in a noisy session of parliament March 17. Sensing political opportunity, a number of Haiti's legislators have criticized PM Pierre-Louis over her government's handling of hur [...] | 2009-03-20 19:27:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE318 | LEAKING LIKE A SIEVE: HAITI'S NORTHERN COASTLINE [...] Summary (C) A UN Police technical advisor working in Cap Haitien believes that clandestine boat migration is a highly-organized business and that intercepted passengers almost always try to shield captains and trip organizers from detection and capture by maritime authorities. He also repor [...] | 2009-03-20 19:35:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE320 | HAITI: U.S. UN PERMREP AMBASSADOR RICE'S MEETING [...] (C) Summary: President Preval emphasized to visiting U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Susan Rice his government's commitment to reform. Reduced tax revenues caused by last year's storm damage had forced Haiti to cut its budget, but it was still left with a large gap that Ha [...] | 2009-03-23 15:45:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE346 | HAITIAN CRIMINAL DEPORTEES (PART ONE): THE NUTS [...] (C) Summary: Embassy inquiries about criminals the U.S. deports to Haiti reveal that: 1.) Haitian officials and media periodically blame criminal deportees for increases in crime, 2.) deportees face a degree of social discrimination and prejudice, and 3.) deportees who resume a life of crime i [...] | 2009-03-31 16:12:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM HA ORA INL IOM PRM |
09PORTAUPRINCE348 | HAITIAN CRIMINAL DEPORTEES (PART TWO): [...] (SBU) Summary. The International Office for Migration (IOM) administers the only reintegration program for deportees in Haiti, a program partially funded by the USG. Current funding levels cover only one-quarter of the total number of annual Haitian deportees. Criminal deportees claim that I [...] | 2009-03-31 16:13:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE386 | AMBASSADOR VISITS LES CAYES [...] (SBU) The Ambassador visited Les Cayes March 26. The mayor portrayed his city as calm and relatively free of drug trafficking but lacking sufficient funding from the central government. The head of MINUSTAH's regional office emphasized that political instability and drug trafficking were con [...] | 2009-04-08 15:34:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR ECON USAID HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE399 | HAITI: LUKEWARM INTEREST IN SENATE ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: Campaigning is relatively low-key as Haiti moves toward the first round of partial Senate elections April 19. Although campaign posters and radio commercials have begun to appear, most parties -- with the exception of the ruling Lespwa coalition -- seem to lack the financing to p [...] | 2009-04-13 15:08:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE404 | THE SECRETARY'S VISIT TO HAITI [...] (C) Summary. As the first Secretary of State to travel to Port-au-Prince since 2005, your visit on Thursday sends Haitians a clear signal of continued, indeed intensified, U.S. support for a neighbor and friend in need. Haitians, both within the government and without, will respond positively [...] | 2009-04-14 20:41:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PREL OVIP CLINTON HILLARY HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE411 | HAITI: CAMPAIGNING CONCLUDES FOR FIRST ROUND OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Field observations and a local poll suggest that the April 19 elections for 12 vacant Senate seats (reftels) will likely send only a modest number of Lespwa candidates to the second round of voting. This result comes despite the fact that candidates representing Lespwa, the coa [...] | 2009-04-17 18:18:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE419 | FIRST ROUND OF HAITI'S PARTIAL SENATE ELECTIONS [...] (C) Voting in the first round of partial Senate elections (reftel) took place April 19 in Haiti's ten departments with only one major incident. The Embassy's 29 observers saw that voting materials had generally been delivered to polling stations on time, trained poll workers effectively oversa [...] | 2009-04-20 18:27:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE431 | HAITI ELECTIONS: CANDIDATES POSTURE AS RESULTS [...] (SBU) Summary. Haiti's April 19 partial senate elections were generally well-organized. Isolated incidents of violence, intimidation and theft of voting materials, which led to cancellation of the vote in one department and demands to annul the vote in parts of another were reported. Voter [...] | 2009-04-24 19:06:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE463 | HAITIAN LYNCHING IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC STOKES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The murder-decapitation of a young Haitian national in the Dominican Republic (DR) has stoked anger toward Dominicans and criticism from Haitians against their government, perceived as lackadaisical in responding appropriately to human rights violations against Haitians in the DR. [...] | 2009-05-07 17:22:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV HA PREL PHUM |
09PORTAUPRINCE47 | HAITIAN PRESIDENT ADDRESSES OPENING SESSION OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Haitian President Rene Preval addressed Parliament January 12 in the opening ceremony of the first National Assembly session of the new year. Preval reiterated his administration's central theme of reinforcing domestic peace and security as the precondition of sustained develop [...] | 2009-01-14 17:19:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE475 | HAITI: PRESIDENT PREVAL ON ELECTIONS, CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE [...] (C) President Preval says that the April 19 Senate elections were well organized. He claims to have expected the low turnout, but admitted that the Fanmis Lavalas boycott, associated threats, and the ban on public transportation deterred many voters. The President was pleased at the strong s [...] | 2009-05-12 17:39:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM SNAR HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE493 | HAITI: REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Haiti values the assistance it receives from Cuba and never criticizes Cuba's democracy or human rights record. Haiti and Cuba, along with Venezuela, are parties to a tripartite agreement that facilitates technical assistance to Haiti in the areas of electricit [...] | 2009-05-20 18:08:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETIC PREL PGOV HA CU |
09PORTAUPRINCE506 | EMBASSY OBTAINS RESUMPTION OF CRIMINAL DEPORTEE [...] (C) Summary: Following determined Embassy intervention, the Government of Haiti has resumed accepting criminal deportee flights from the U.S. that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had suspended for several months. Once DHS decided to resume the flights, the GOH resisted accepting them, [...] | 2009-05-27 17:00:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV HA PREL PHUM |
09PORTAUPRINCE511 | HAITI: ELECTORAL COUNCIL ANNOUNCES APPEAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Haiti's electoral authority announced May 22 the results of ten appeals filed by candidates disputing the provisional results of the April 19 partial Senate elections (reftels). Appeals panels threw out several thousand votes in the Artibonite, West, and North departments based [...] | 2009-05-29 17:29:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE512 | HAITI: FISSURES IN ARISTIDE'S LAVALAS PARTY LIKELY [...] (C) Summary: Two dueling factions of Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas party are pushing competing plans to reform the FL charter as they jockey for a claim to leadership of the party in advance of the late 2010 presidential elections. Neither group looks likely to win over the other sid [...] | 2009-05-29 17:39:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE517 | HAITI'S ELECTORAL COUNCIL DETAILS INQUIRIES INTO [...] (C) Summary: Leaders of Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) told the Ambassador and other international community representatives May 28 that results of an inquiry into election-day fraud and irregularities in the Center Department April 19 would soon be published. A similar inquiry i [...] | 2009-06-01 13:26:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE53 | HAITI: MAJORITY COALITION OUSTS CHAMBER OF [...] (U) Summary: The informal grouping called the "Coalition of Progressive Parliamentarians" (CPP) swept all five positions in the annual Chamber of Deputies leadership elections January 14, dealing a decisive defeat to former Chamber President Eric Jean-Jacques and his allies. Levaillant Louis- [...] | 2009-01-16 20:03:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE530 | HAITI: STUDENTS AND POLICE FACE-OFF OVER MINIMUM [...] (SBU) Summary: Students from two faculties of the State University of Haiti (Universite d'Etat Haiti/UEH) faced off with police the afternoon of June 3 during a student-led protest to pressure the government to increase the minimum wage. Students pelted vehicles and businesses with rocks and [...] | 2009-06-04 18:22:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE538 | STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS CONTINUE IN PORT-AU-PRINCE [...] (U) This message covers incidents reported on June 4 to 1300 local time on June 5. 2. (C) An unconfirmed number of students from several State University faculties violently protested in downtown Port-au-Prince reportedly to pressure President Preval to sign the minimum wage law. Students assaul [...] | 2009-06-05 19:27:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE553 | HAITI ANXIOUSLY AWAITS DECISION ON MINIMUM WAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: Parliament's decision to raise daily minimum wages in the commercial and industrial sectors continues to strain relations between President Preval and members of Parliament. Since mid-May, President Preval has encouraged dialogue between members of Parliament and the private sector [...] | 2009-06-10 20:15:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EAID ETRD EINV HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE575 | DECONSTRUCTING PREVAL [...] (C) Haitian President Rene Preval has now completed three years of his five year presidential mandate. Widely touted as the "transitional president" poised to lead Haiti into a new era of democracy and economic prosperity, he has had only modest success thus far. Haiti's problems are indeed dauntin [...] | 2009-06-16 18:02:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV HA KBIO |
09PORTAUPRINCE583 | HAITIAN PRESIDENT'S DECISION ON MINIMUM WAGE LAW [...] (SBU) Summary: Haitian President Rene Preval, after intensive discussion with private sector and parliamentary representatives, plans to return the minimum wage law to Parliament with a proposal to modify the bill with a phased-in wage increase for the assembly sector. A 200 Haitian gourde (HTG) [...] | 2009-06-17 19:26:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EAID ETRD EINV HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE589 | HAITI SENATE ELECTIONS: TEPID CAMPAIGNING, SOME [...] (SBU) Campaigning in the lead-up to the June 21 second round of voting in Haiti's partial Senate elections has been lukewarm, as candidates lack money and voters remain apathetic. Four days before the vote, the government announced state campaign financing for candidates -- too late to revive [...] | 2009-06-19 18:32:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE591 | HAITI PLEASED WITH PETROCARIBE AND SUMMIT [...] (SBU) Summary: The Sixth PetroCaribe Summit in St. Kitts on June 12 congratulated Haiti as the ''best payer'' out of 13 countries, having paid approximately USD 220 million to Venezuela. GOH sources confirm that Venezuela announced plans to finance and construct an oil refinery in Haiti proje [...] | 2009-06-19 19:21:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG EPET ECON POL EAID HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE592 | MINIMUM WAGE DEMONSTRATIONS BECOME VIOLENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Demonstrators confronting Haitian National Police and MINUSTAH units that began June 3 have become violent and taken on an anti-government and anti-MINUSTAH character. Initial demands by university students for changes in the curriculum and improvement of conditions at the State Uni [...] | 2009-06-19 19:24:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV HA PREL |
09PORTAUPRINCE601 | HAITI: FEW IRREGULARITIES, LOW TURNOUT IN SECOND [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy observers noted low turnout but few irregularities, better organization, and greater security in the second round of voting in Haiti's partial Senate elections June 21. UN peacekeepers and Haitian police deployed more effectively than in the first round, acting quickly to qu [...] | 2009-06-23 19:19:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE607 | CODEL MEEK DISCUSSES MINIMUM WAGE, JUDICIAL REFORM AND CUBA WITH PRESIDENT RENE PREVAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-25 17:39:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | CU ECON HA PGOV PREL |
09PORTAUPRINCE623 | HAITI: PREVAL'S ALLIES FARE WELL IN SENATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Candidates of the pro-government Lespwa coalition and other allies of President Rene Preval won seven of the eleven vacant Senate seats in play during the June 21 second round of elections, according to preliminary results. Only eleven percent of eligible voters participated in t [...] | 2009-07-01 18:26:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE643 | HNP DIRECTOR GENERAL'S MANDATE RENEWED BY [...] (U) On July 14, President Preval forwarded to the Haitian Senate the letter to renew the mandate of the Haitian National Police (HNP) Director General Mario Andresol for an additional three years. Andresol has already tasked his advisors (two of whom are funded by NAS) to begin preparing a t [...] | 2009-07-15 16:46:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PGOV PHUM KPKO HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE65 | HAITI: ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN BEARS LITTLE FRUIT [...] (SBU) Government of Haiti investigation and prosecution of corruption under President Preval is haphazard and has failed to bring a single major case to trial. President Preval announced in mid 2007 a major effort against corruption. Suspects in several cases, in the public and private sector, [...] | 2009-01-21 17:21:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCRM PHUM HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE659 | LAVALAS MARCH FOR ARISTIDE'S BIRTHDAY DRAWS MODEST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A July 15 Fanmi Lavalas Demonstration to mark Jean Bertrand Aristide's birthday was peaceful and attended by at most a few thousand supporters. Fanmi Lavalas ability to bring people into the streets is declining. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU) Fanmi Lavalas (FL) supporters marched p [...] | 2009-07-21 11:59:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA SA |
09PORTAUPRINCE667 | HAITI: PARTIAL SENATE ELECTIONS NOW OVER, LESPWA [...] (SBU) Summary: With the results of Haiti's partial Senate elections now final, the pro-government party Lespwa won six of the eleven seats being contested, which will give them 13 out of 29 Senate seats. A controversial appeals decision to reverse the initial result in the South Department in [...] | 2009-07-24 14:01:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC EAID HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE73 | YOU CAN GO HOME AGAIN: CANADIAN GOVERNOR GENERAL SHINES IN HAITI [...] (U) During her four day working visit to Haiti January 15-19, Canadian Governor General Michaelle Jean once again charmed her former countrymen. The Governor General, accompanied by her husband, met with senior government officials, including president Rene Preval and Prime Minister Michele P [...] | 2009-01-23 18:36:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL HA CA |
09PORTAUPRINCE731 | HAITIAN NATIONAL POLICE - PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE [...] (U) Summary: The following is a brief overview of progress made by the Haitian National Police in the past two years and a summary of various perspectives on where the HNP should go in the future. This report represents the recommendations and analysis of the first full-time NAS Director, at [...] | 2009-08-13 17:44:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR ASEC PGOV PREL KCRM HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE767 | HAITIAN JUSTICE MINISTER CONCERNED ABOUT DRUGS AND [...] (C) Summary. The Haitian Justice Minister echoed the President's and PM's pleas for increased U.S. counter-narcotics measures in Haiti as well as increased flow of information back to Haiti gleaned from trials of Haitians in the U.S. He also requested assistance to resolve an acute shortage [...] | 2009-09-01 17:34:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE768 | HAITI: VALIDATION OF NEWLY-ELECTED SENATORS STILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senate President Kely Bastien publicly announced that the validation of 11 newly-elected Senators will happen on Friday September 4. There is still confusion as to whether a quorum of the Senate will be needed for the validation session. Bastien has claimed that a quorum of the Se [...] | 2009-09-01 19:00:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE788 | HAITI: ELECTED SENATORS TAKE OFFICE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Senate leadership validated the 11 newly-elected Senators on September 4 through a coup de force. Senate President Kely Bastien resigned to allow the Bureau d'Age to validate the Senators, and he was re-elected unanimously on September 9. New officers at the Senate were also el [...] | 2009-09-11 17:32:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA KBIO |
09PORTAUPRINCE837 | HAITIAN CRIMINAL ALIEN BACKLOG ELIMINATED: RESULTS [...] (SBU) Summary: The arrival of twenty-eight Haitian criminal aliens via flight(JPAT) to Port-au-Prince on September signaled the successful elimination of the ''backlog'' of individuals with criminal convictions awaiting deportation to Haiti. Inadequate technological capacity, unreliable acce [...] | 2009-09-28 12:44:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV PHUM HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE841 | HAITI APPROVES NEW PARLIAMENTARY POLICE UNIT [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 11, the Haitian Legislature approved a law which proposes to establish an additional security unit within the Haitian National Police (PNH). This initiative was not consulted with PNH leadership or MINUSTAH. At best, this is an effort to formalize existing police [...] | 2009-09-28 15:28:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV PHUM HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE888 | SUSPECTED TRAFFICKER AND NOTED JUDICIAL REFORMER LOSES SENATE LEADERSHIP POSITION [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Haitian Senate's Justice and Security Commission elected a new president and vice-president on October 19, tossing out the controversial chairman Youri Latortue. Although an opposition member was selected as the new president of the commission, the new vice-president is likely to [...] | 2009-10-23 12:48:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EAID HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE895 | PREVAL CONSOLIDATING POWER [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Senate convocation of Prime Minister Pierre-Louis and her government for a probable vote of no confidence is the latest of a series of moves (reported in reftels) by the Senate with the suspected approval - tacit or active - of President Preval. This will consolidate his powe [...] | 2009-10-26 20:57:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE903 | DEMARCHE UN INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION [...] (U) Post delivered the International Civil Service Commission Demarche to Azad Belfort, Director of International Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on October 23. Belfort indicated that Haiti was inclined to vote for the US candidate, Ms. Myers, but would not confirm. He noted that U [...] | 2009-10-27 15:15:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | APER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA HA AORC |
09PORTAUPRINCE936 | PROSPECTS FOR FANMI LAVALAS IN THE 2010 ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The two main factions of Fanmi Lavalas, the political party of ousted former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, are collaborating to mitigate the risk of their exclusion from legislative and presidential elections in 2010. Although a united Lavalas would be the largest party in H [...] | 2009-11-10 10:42:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC KINR HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE96 | HAITI'S INTERIOR MINISTER WORRIED ABOUT ELECTIONS, [...] (C) During the Ambassador's January 21 call, Minister of Interior Paul-Antoine Bien-Aime informed that Haiti is creating an intelligence coordination body. He admitted that Haiti is vulnerable to movements of nationals from countries of concern. The country needs not an army but a national s [...] | 2009-01-29 17:26:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE975 | President Preval Defends Election Antics Before Diplomatic [...] (C) Summary: At a 10 December meeting with the diplomatic corps, President Preval outlined his priorities for his last year in office and responded to criticisms about manipulation of the electoral process. Preval said that in his remaining 14 months he will dedicate his energies to consolid [...] | 2009-12-14 18:34:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR EAID HA |
09PORTAUPRINCE977 | Preval Seeks International Donor Support for Elections [...] (SBU) Summary: President Preval convoked the diplomatic corps, the board of the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) and several members of his Cabinet to a 16 December meeting at the Palace to discuss arrangements for the upcoming parliamentary elections. He asked potential donors to confirm [...] | 2009-12-17 17:49:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR EAID HA |
09PORTLOUIS101 | GOS REQUEST FOR U.S. ASSISTANCE AGAINST PIRATES [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 30, Post received a GOS diplomatic note requesting more frequent surveillance patrols by U.S. forces in Seychellois waters to help deter piracy. The diplomatic note was a follow-up to an earlier telephone call between the Acting Foreign Minister (A/FM) and the Charge. Cha [...] | 2009-04-02 06:01:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL MASS MOPS SE |
09PORTLOUIS109 | DEMARCHE: COUNTER-PIRACY COOPERATION WITH MAURITIUS [...] (SBU) On April 13, CDA met with Mauritian Foreign Minister (FM) Arvin Boolell to discuss ref A points regarding Mauritian willingness in the future to prosecute piracy suspects. In order to obtain a legal opinion of Mauritian laws on piracy, the FM said he would to send the technical points t [...] | 2009-04-13 11:32:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT MOPS PHSA PREL KJUS XW MP |
09PORTLOUIS118 | MAURITIUS ON RETURN TO CONSTITUTIONAL RULE IN MADAGASCAR [...] (C) On April 13, CDA met with Mauritian Foreign Minister (FM),Arvin Boollel, to discuss reftel points. The FM commented that while Mauritius concurs with the need to push for new elections in Madagascar, the GOM prefers working under the IOC model and plan, even while noting that it is "known [...] | 2009-04-15 13:30:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC EAID PGOV PREL MA MP |
09PORTLOUIS132 | SEYCHELLES ARRESTS NINE SUSPECTED PIRATES, BUT [...] (C) Summary. As reported in the press, the Seychelles Coast Guard recently brought into the country for prosecution nine suspected pirates captured by a Spanish warship in Seychelles waters. The suspects are thought to have attacked an Italian cruise ship, the MSC Melody, before the Melody r [...] | 2009-04-30 10:34:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL MASS MOPPS SE |
09PORTLOUIS14 | AMBASSADOR'S DEPARTURE CALL ON MAURITIAN PRIME [...] (C) Summary: On January 12, Ambassador Cabrera (with DCM as note taker) conducted his final official meeting with Mauritian Prime Minister Ramgoolam. The 90-minute meeting reinforced the close US-Mauritian ties, and provided Ramgoolam an opportunity to thank the Ambassador for his service to b [...] | 2009-01-13 11:07:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ABLD KREC ZI MP |
09PORTLOUIS143 | PROBLEMS WITH PIRACY TRIALS IN SEYCHELLES - LACK [...] (C) As of 7 May, the Seychelles had 23 suspected Somali pirates in detention on the main island of Mahe. These arrests were largely a result of international partners providing surveillance and pursuit capabilities. GOS legal and political leaders voice no consistent analysis on how to succe [...] | 2009-05-12 09:20:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL MASS MOPPS SE |
09PORTLOUIS144 | WILL SEYCHELLES SWAP PIRATES FOR HOSTAGES? [...] (C) Pressure is mounting on the President of Seychelles to take measures to secure the release of the ten Seychellois being held hostage in Somalia by pirates. The leader of the opposition in the Seychelles claims to be in direct contact with both of the two Somali groups holding the Seychelloi [...] | 2009-05-12 12:11:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL MASS MOPPS SE |
09PORTLOUIS147 | TIFA DELEGATION MEETS MAURITIAN PRIME MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Africa Florizelle Liser, accompanied by CDA and other USG officials, called on Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam April 20. Ramgoolam claimed some credit for efforts to diversify Mauritius exports and the resulting resiliency of his country in [...] | 2009-05-13 07:43:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EINV ECON PGOV USTR MP |
09PORTLOUIS168 | MAURITIUS TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVO, PRIME MINISTER SAYS [...] (C) On 4 June, Prime Minister Ramgoolam called CDA to report that he had decided Mauritius would recognize Kosovo on or soon after 17 July. When asked the reason for the complete shift of GOM position (see refs),the PM said that he had been swayed by the series of talking points delivered o [...] | 2009-06-05 08:02:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL KV MP |
09PORTLOUIS169 | SEYCHELLES PRISON SYSTEM: BAD ENOUGH WITHOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Incidents of piracy have threatened the economic livelihood of the Seychelles, yet the small and troubled island nation lacks the infrastructure to house a potential influx of pirates, and is barely capable of detaining the alleged pirates in custody now. A recent preliminary re [...] | 2009-06-05 08:27:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM MARR PREL MASS MOPPS KCRM SE |
09PORTLOUIS181 | MAURITIUS' EMERGENCY PIRACY MEETING: A TENTATIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: A public outcry from the fisheries and shipping sector, coupled with fishing ships fleeing the Indian Ocean for safer waters and a 20 percent drop in fish suppliers for Mauritius since January, prompted Foreign Minister (FORMIN) Arvin Boolell and Attorney General (AG) Rama Valayde [...] | 2009-06-17 08:30:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PHSA PBTS EWWT MARR MOPS MP |
09PORTLOUIS183 | MAURITIUS CONSIDERS NEW EU PROPOSED INDEPENDENT [...] (C) On June 17, CDA, accompanied by POLOFF as notetaker, used reftel demarche to push the GOM for a decision on the UN Special Rapporteur mandate renewal. The MFA delegation, which included First Secretary Nivedita Sohawon and First Secretary Martine Young Kim Fat, confirmed that despite rece [...] | 2009-06-17 12:55:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL SU MP |
09PORTLOUIS205 | SEYCHELLES SOFA IN THE FINAL STRETCH [...] (C) A U.S. inter-agency delegation met with Government of Seychelles (GoS) stakeholders in early July to discuss issues associated with the proposed Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). The discussions, which were built on multi-level country team lobbying efforts over the past two years, led to [...] | 2009-07-07 09:43:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL MASS MOPS SE |
09PORTLOUIS218 | SEYCHELLES SEEKS GREATER US TIES IN CDA MEETING [...] (SBU) Charge D'Affaires Virginia Blaser's June 30 courtesy call on President James Michel celebrated the U.S. - Seychelles bilateral relationship and addressed cooperative efforts to combat piracy and secure the seas. Set against the festive backdrop of the first July 4th celebration the Embas [...] | 2009-07-14 06:06:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PHSA PBTS MARR MOPS EWWT SE |
09PORTLOUIS22 | AMBASSADOR'S DEPARTURE CALL ON MAURITIAN FOREIGN [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ambassador Cabrera's departure call on Mauritian Foreign Minister Arvind Boolell ran the gambit of Economic and Political issues. From Bilateral Investment Treaty remarks to questions about trafficking in persons, the friendly, one-hour meeting brought key issues forward. END SU [...] | 2009-01-20 10:54:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ETRD EAIR SOCI MP |
09PORTLOUIS265 | MAURITIUS: GENERAL WARD/U.S. AFRICA COMMAND VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: General William Ward, Commander, United States Africa Command, visited Mauritius from 17 to 18 August 2009. During his visit to Mauritius, he met with Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam, Minister of Foreign Affairs Arvin Boolell, and Police Commissioner Dhun Iswar Rampersad. [...] | 2009-09-04 06:50:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL MASS MP |
09PORTLOUIS280 | MAURITIAN IDEAS CONCERNING THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) A/DCM delivered reftel demarche to Ambassador Patrice Cure, Head of the Multilateral Division at the Mauritian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Cure noted that the Mauritian mission to the Human Rights Council had sent him some suggestions and proposals, which he was considering. The reelect [...] | 2009-09-11 04:30:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL MP |
09PORTLOUIS290 | MAURITIUS DIFFIDENT ON EXPANDING THE CHORUS ON IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-17 05:53:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA PREL AORC MP |
09PORTLOUIS313 | MAURITIUS SENDS MIXED SIGNALS ON SOFA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since receiving ref A Status of Forces boilerplate to present to the GOM in July 2008, Emboffs of all levels have engaged the Mauritians repeatedly for comments or reactions. Over the past year, the issue has been raised with the Prime Minister, the Foreign Minister, the Minister [...] | 2009-10-08 11:36:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL MASS MOPS MP |
09PORTLOUIS327 | MAURITIUS DOWNBEAT ON PROGRESS IN AFGHANISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-22 11:59:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAO MP AF IR |
09PORTLOUIS334 | MAURITIUS DISTANT FROM U.S. POSITION ON THE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-22 12:22:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER KISL KPAL IS MP |
09PORTLOUIS335 | MAURITIUS: A COOL RESPONSE TO U.S. BRIEFING ON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-22 12:34:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM IR MP |
09PORTLOUIS349 | SEYCHELLES: REQUEST FOR CLARIFICATION OF SOFA'S [...] (C) The Seychelles' SOFA negotiations were successfully completed in July of 2009. The GOS sent a diplomatic note to the U.S. Embassy in Port Louis on July 22, 2009, confirming that the SOFA was approved by the GOS and was active as soon as receipt was confirmed by the Embassy. The Embassy [...] | 2009-10-26 10:22:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | OPDC MARR PREL SE |
09PORTLOUIS350 | SEYCHELLES: REQUEST FOR CLARIFICATION OF SOFA'S [...] (C) The Seychelles' SOFA negotiations were successfully completed in July of 2009. The GOS sent a diplomatic note to the U.S. Embassy in Port Louis on July 22, 2009, confirming that the SOFA was approved by the GOS and was active as soon as receipt was confirmed by the Embassy. The Embassy [...] | 2009-10-26 10:48:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | OPDC MARR PREL SE |
09PORTLOUIS366 | CHARGE'S QUARTERLY CALL ON MAURITIAN PRIME [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 11, Charge d'Affaires (CDA) enjoyed a cordial one and a half hour meeting with Mauritian Prime Minister Ramgoolam to discuss a variety of issues, including the PM's position on counter-piracy cooperation, peacekeeping deployments, the pending Status of Forces Agreement [...] | 2009-11-16 11:42:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MP |
09PORTLOUIS378 | MAURITIUS SOFA DISCUSSION: SMALL STEPS [...] (C) This is an action message. Please see para 10 below. 2. SUMMARY: On November 17, in a meeting arranged at the Prime Minister's request, Embassy officials met with the Mauritian Foreign Minister and officials from his ministry, the Prime Minister's office, and the State Law Office. The [...] | 2009-11-24 06:52:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PGOV MP SE |
09PORTLOUIS384 | MAURITIUS UNAWARE OF IAEA REPORT ON SYRIA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-25 12:17:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM IAEA KKNP SYR MP |
09PORTLOUIS394 | SEYCHELLES PRESIDENT VISITS CUBA, DISCUSSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Seychelles President James Michel visited Cuba November 29-30 to discuss additional Cuban medical assistance. At the request of the Cubans, Michel provided a briefing on ways his country has pursued economic reform. Michel believes that Raul Castro recognizes that economic chang [...] | 2009-12-04 07:49:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON CU SE |
09PORTLOUIS397 | SEYCHELLES REQUESTS CONTINUED DEPLOYMENT OF US AIR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 02 meeting with the Charge, Seychelles President James Michel praised US assistance in combating Somali piracy, supported the presence of US UAVs and requested the continued deployment of P-3s (currently scheduled to conclude December 22). Secretary-of-State Jean P [...] | 2009-12-07 11:22:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHSA PBTS MARR SO SE |
09PORTLOUIS403 | SEYCHELLES OPPOSITION BOYCOTTS OPENING OF [...] (SBU) On December 4, The Seychelles National Party (SNP),the main opposition party in the Seychelles, boycotted the inauguration of the new Chinese-built Seychelles National Assembly building. The official inauguration ceremony was attended by President Michel, former President James Mancham [...] | 2009-12-09 10:50:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID CH SE |
09PORTLOUIS404 | PRIME MINISTER BRIEFED ON PIRATE TRANSFER AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: UNODC representative Alan Cole briefed Mauritian Prime Minister Ramgoolam December 8 on the UN program to assist the transfer and prosecution of suspected pirates captured in the Indian Ocean region. Ramgoolam was receptive to the programs and ideas but raised concerns regarding [...] | 2009-12-10 12:18:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | KPIR PREL MARR PHSA EWWT PBTS MP |
09PORTLOUIS410 | MAURITIUS AND PIRATE TRANSFERS/PROSECUTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: To contribute to the international anti-piracy effort, Prime Minister Rangoolam seeks a formal "understanding" with UNODC which would authorize the transfer to Mauritius and prosecution in Mauritius courts of a number (unspecified) of suspected pirates seized by international forc [...] | 2009-12-21 12:33:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EWWT PHSA PBTS KPIR MARR MP |
09PORTLOUIS411 | SEYCHELLES SERIOUS ABOUT PIRACY PROSECUTIONS; [...] (C) SUMMARY: Seychelles will charge the eleven recently-captured Somalis with piracy, but arraignment has been delayed for two weeks. Seychelles has accepted an offer from UNODC and the EU to construct a 40-bed maximum-security wing at the country's only prison to house pirates and other high [...] | 2009-12-22 12:07:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPIR MARR PHSA EWWT PBTS SE |
09PORTLOUIS412 | SEYCHELLES TO DROP CASE AGAINST LXE SOLAR AND JIE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a U.S. District Court, LXE Solar and Jie (George) Xiao have charged Seychelles with seizing an 8.5 million dollar bank account; the suit seeks the return of the funds plus 30 million dollars in damages. Seychelles has denied the allegations, stating that the account was legally [...] | 2009-12-23 11:00:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV EFIN SE |
09PORTLOUIS413 | SEYCHELLES APATHETIC ON "DEFAMATION OF RELIGION" [...] (C) The Permanent Representative of Seychelles to the UN, Ambassador Ronald (Ronny)Jumeau, was present for only one of the 88 votes at the 63rd UN General Assembly in 2008, and Jumeau was also absent at the 64th 3rd Committee vote on the resolution on "defamation of religion." Given, that the [...] | 2009-12-24 07:50:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KISL KDEM PGOV OPDC SE |
09PORTLOUIS414 | MAURITIUS AND THE "DEFAMATION OF RELIGION" ISSUE [...] (C) After initially voting in favor of a resolution on defamation of religions, Mauritius -- thanks in part to U.S. initiatives -- has since 2008 changed its vote to an abstention. Post believes that it will be extremely difficult at this point to convince Mauritius to be more active on the [...] | 2009-12-24 08:32:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KISL KDEM PGOV OPDC MP |
09PORTLOUIS5 | AIR MAURITIUS CAN'T FLY OVER THIS HEDGE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Air Mauritius made a very bad bet. After increasing its hedge ratio to 80 percent of its projected fuel requirements until mid-2010 at an average price of USD 105 per barrel, the airline is losing about USD 8.4 million per month. These severe self-inflicted losses have led to st [...] | 2009-01-07 12:41:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR EFIN ECON ETRD OPIC USTR MP |
09PORTLOUIS55 | MAURITIUS NO ON KOSOVO REMAINS LINKED TO CHAGOS [...] (U) On February 12, POLOFF made ref A points to Brinda Trilok, U.S. Desk Officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Interestingly enough, Ms. Trilok was just rotated back into the position after working on Eastern European issues, including Kosovo, for several months. While acknowledging the [...] | 2009-02-17 04:30:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC ICJ UNGA MP |
09PORTLOUIS63 | NO CRITICAL FOREIGN DEPENDENCIES IN MAURITIUS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-19 12:32:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG MP |
09PORTLOUIS64 | CHINESE PRESIDENT SPREADS LARGESSE AND BRUISES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although diplomatic relations between China and Mauritius date back to 1972, the first visit to Mauritius of a Chinese President took place this week from February 16- 17. President Hu Jintao visited Mauritius as part of a four- leg African tour that also included Senegal, Mali, [...] | 2009-02-20 08:51:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAGR EFIN MARR PREL SENV TRGY CH MP |
09PORTLOUIS66 | CHARGE'S QUARTERLY CALL ON MAURITIAN PRIME [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-24 07:00:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ZI MP |
09PORTLOUIS67 | NO CRITICAL FOREIGN DEPENDENCIES IN SEYCHELLES [...] (C) Seychelles is a small, developing island nation without significant mineral or other natural wealth. Post does not believe Seychelles possesses critical infrastructure or key resources the loss of which would have a critical impact on the public health, economic security, or national secur [...] | 2009-02-24 09:44:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG SY |
09PORTLOUIS93 | PRIME MINISTER OFFICIAL REQUEST TO MEET WITH [...] (SBU) On March 17, Post received a courtesy copy of a letter dated March 13 addressed to President Barack Obama from Mauritian Prime Minister, Navinchandra Ramgoolam. Post was informed by the Prime Minister's Private Secretary that the letter already had been provided to the Department by Kai [...] | 2009-03-24 11:22:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | OPDC PREL OVIP MP |
09PORTMORESBY13 | PACIFIC ISLAND FORUM LEADERS TAKE STRONG ACTION ON FIJI [...] (C) Summary: Despite early indications that Forum leaders would adhere to the conciliatory "Pacific Way" of dealing with Bainimarama, they instead issued a strong statement (Reftel A) on January 27 calling on the Interim Government to take action to hold elections and restore democracy in Fiji [...] | 2009-01-28 07:44:00 | Embassy Port Moresby | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PP FJ |
09PORTMORESBY180 | PAPUA NEW GUINEA: FORMER PM FEARS 'SOCIAL IMPLOSION' IF LNG [...] Summary. Leader of the Opposition and former Prime Minister Sir Mekere Morauta told us he fears a `social implosion' if Government proceeds from Exxon Mobil's LNG project flowing into Government-supervised trust accounts is misspent. He said current PM Somare, who served briefly as Foreign Mi [...] | 2009-09-21 07:56:00 | Embassy Port Moresby | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID PP |
09PORTMORESBY30 | SOLOMON ISLANDS FEELING THE ECONOMIC CRISIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Solomon Islands (SI) is beginning to feel the effects of the current global economic crisis. Donors view the situation as serious. SI leaders are looking for options to replace logging revenues that are quickly disappearing due to a drop in demand caused by the current economic c [...] | 2009-03-06 08:06:00 | Embassy Port Moresby | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BP |
09PORTMORESBY60 | PNG DEFENSE FORCE COMMANDER PREDICTS PASSAGE OF PEACEKEEPING [...] (C) Summary: Papua New Guinea (PNG) Defence Force Commander Ilau told Ambassador April 15 there is now agreement within the Government on introduction and passage of the International Obligations Bill allowing PNG armed forces to participate in international peacekeeping operations. Secretary [...] | 2009-04-15 07:49:00 | Embassy Port Moresby | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KPKO MARR MCAP MOPS PP FJ |
09PORTOFSPAIN119 | SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS: PRIME MINISTER MANNING [...] (C) Prime Minister Patrick Manning met CDA Charles Shapiro March 16 to discuss Summit of the Americas issues. Manning envisions a major role for the President, including an event in Port of Spain's main park (the Savannah) for 100,000s. The PM will make a quick March 18-21 trip to six natio [...] | 2009-03-17 10:33:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KSUM MASS TD |
09PORTOFSPAIN121 | RESPONSE FOR INFORMATION ON ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING [...] (C) Summary: Trinidad and Tobago's lack of compliance with the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) anti-money laundering and counter terrorism finance (AML/CTF) recommendations jeopardizes its role as a regional financial leader. CFATF's executive director is calling on the GOTT to [...] | 2009-03-17 17:09:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PINR KTFN TD |
09PORTOFSPAIN175 | MANNING HIGH ON OBAMA, WANTS TO DEEPEN [...] (C) I met with Prime Minister Patrick Manning the morning of April 21 to discuss the Summit and to take my leave of him. Also participating were the PM's Special Assistant Kirt St. Bernard and two aides; DCM Kusnitz was with me. I thanked Manning, on behalf of the President, for hosting a succe [...] | 2009-04-21 19:42:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KSUM TD |
09PORTOFSPAIN230 | TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO - LIBERTAD ACT REVIEW [...] (C) QUESTION: Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? ANSWER: Post is not aware of any GOTT initiatives promoting democracy and human rights in Cuba. 2. (C) QUESTION: Has the host country made public statements or [...] | 2009-05-22 23:04:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL |
09PORTOFSPAIN423 | Libertad Act Review: Trinidad and Tobago [...] (U) This message responds to reftel questions. 2. (C) QUESTION: Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? ANSWER: Post is not aware of any GOTT initiatives promoting democracy and human rights in Cuba. [...] | 2009-11-23 19:34:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU TD |
09PRAGUE103 | CZECH EU PRESIDENCY: COMMENTS ON UPCOMING FEBRUARY [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 20 emboff spoke with Magdalena Janesova of the Czech MFA Department of Common Foreign and Security Policy in advance of the February 23-24 EU General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC). Of note were her comments on: Gaza, Afghanistan, the Western Balkans, [...] | 2009-02-20 18:45:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN EZ PGOV PREL IS SU HR XG |
09PRAGUE109 | CZECH FINANCE MINISTER KALOUSEK ON EU, G-20 [...] (C) Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek stressed to Charge February 25 the importance of global coordination of financial market regulatory reform and noted the Czech Republic favored evolutionary rather than revolutionary changes. The February 22 informal G-5 meeting in Berlin had discussed s [...] | 2009-02-27 06:11:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL EUN EZ |
09PRAGUE112 | EUR PDAS RIES MEETINGS WITH CZECH OFFICIALS [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 25 PDAS Marcie Ries met with Czech officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister Alexandr Vondra's Department for European Policy Coordination. The Czechs welcomed our "consultative approach," particularly with respect to Afghanistan. They a [...] | 2009-03-02 06:36:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN EZ EG PGOV PREL AF PK NATO |
09PRAGUE120 | CZECH REPUBLIC: INFORMATION REQUEST IN ADVANCE OF [...] (SBU) Summary: The Czech Government (GoCR) views the EU response to the financial crisis as an important test of its EU presidency. Within EU fora, the GoCR has consistently warned against protectionism and beggar-thy-neighbor policies, as well as revolutionary changes to regulation and overs [...] | 2009-03-04 15:42:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV EUN EZ |
09PRAGUE121 | CZECH DPM VONDRA ON UPCOMING VISIT OF PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a March 3 meeting which included DFM Tomas Pojar and other key Czech officials, Czech DPM Alexandr Vondra reiterated the Czech government's appreciation for and excitement over the April 4-5 visit to Prague by President Obama. He expressed the Czech government's full commitme [...] | 2009-03-04 16:27:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EZ OVIP PGOV PREL |
09PRAGUE128 | CZECH REPUBLIC: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHES ON IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-06 15:22:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS NATO PREL IZ EZ |
09PRAGUE134 | CZECH SOCIAL DEMOCRATS SEEK TO MAINTAIN MOMENTUM [...] (C) SUMMARY: In less than two weeks, the Czech Social Democrats (CSSD) will hold their national party congress, which comes at a time when the party has much to celebrate, but also faces several challenges. Following their sweeping victories in the October 2008 regional and senate elections, [...] | 2009-03-10 15:02:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EZ |
09PRAGUE138 | CZECH EU PRESIDENCY: VISIT BY INTERIOR MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 6 Acting DCM Stuart Hatcher and emboffs met with Czech Ministry of Interior officials at the request of the Czechs to discuss the upcoming visit of Minister of Interior Ivan Langer to the United States March 15-17. While the EU Justice and Interior Ministers, like the [...] | 2009-03-11 15:32:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN EZ EG PGOV PREL PHUM |
09PRAGUE147 | DEFENSE PROCUREMENT IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC: SHADY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-16 15:04:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARR EZ KCOR MARR MCAPP |
09PRAGUE15 | CZECH GOVERNMENT'S DOMESTIC CHALLENGES WEIGH ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Czech government's January 1 assumption of the EU Presidency comes at a time when the Topolanek coalition is at the most precarious position in its two years of existence. The coalition government, which has always been shaky at best, never fully recovered from the sweeping [...] | 2009-01-09 14:32:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EZ |
09PRAGUE153 | SCENESETTER FOR THE PRESIDENT'S PRAGUE VISIT [...] (C) Summary/overview: We warmly welcome your visit to Prague. Twenty years after the Velvet Revolution, ten years after joining NATO, and five years after joining the European Union, your visit during the Czech Republic,s EU presidency symbolizes this country's remarkable journey from communis [...] | 2009-03-19 12:02:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP OBAMA PREL PGOV ECON ENRG EUN MARR SENV |
09PRAGUE155 | SCENESETTER FOR DPM VONDRA'S VISIT TO DC TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Alexandr Vondra will visit Washington on March 23-24, at the same time that his government faces a critical March 24 no-confidence vote, the result of which is unclear. Despite this uncertainty, Vondra's chief goal is to set the agenda and settle outstandin [...] | 2009-03-19 17:39:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN EZ OVIP PGOV PREL |
09PRAGUE159 | CZECH GOVERNMENT FACES A CRITICAL VOTE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 24, the embattled government of PM Mirek Topolanek will likely face a critical vote of no-confidence. PM Topolanek has faced down four previous attempts to unseat him. However, the current situation is probably the most significant threat to his government, in a large [...] | 2009-03-23 06:08:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EZ |
09PRAGUE160 | CZECH SOCIAL DEMOCRATS OFFER FEW SURPRISES AT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The March 20-22 congress of the Czech Social Democrats (CSSD) was relatively uneventful, despite the charged political atmosphere before the planned March 24 vote of no confidence. All but one candidate for the party's top posts ran unopposed and were elected, although CSSD cha [...] | 2009-03-24 09:55:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EZ |
09PRAGUE165 | CZECH GOVERNMENT FALLS, UNCERTAINTY AHEAD [...] (C) SUMMARY: After 26 months in power, the embattled Topolanek government lost a vote of no-confidence in the Lower Chamber of the parliament on March 24. The vote's result was uncertain until the very end, but 101 lawmakers, the minimum required by the Czech constitution, finally voted aft [...] | 2009-03-25 10:32:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EZ |
09PRAGUE166 | CZECH REPUBLIC: REPLY TO DEMARCHE ON NATO MISSION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-26 12:08:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EZ PREL MARR NATO KPKO KV |
09PRAGUE167 | CZECH REPUBLIC: REPLY TO DEMARCHE ON NATO MISSION [...] (C) Embassy Officer delivered the reftel a demarche to Veronika Kuchynova-Smigolova, the Czech MFA's Director of Security Policy, and her deputy, Petr Chalupecky on March 25. They appreciated receiving our points, agreed with our position and said that the Czech Republic is fully committed to [...] | 2009-03-26 12:09:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EZ PREL MARR NATO KPKO KV |
09PRAGUE168 | CZECH REPUBLIC: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON INFORMING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-26 13:12:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EZ MOPS MARR |
09PRAGUE169 | CZECH REPUBLIC: DEMARCHE RESPONSE ON RUSSIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-26 13:12:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS EZ |
09PRAGUE170 | CZECH REPUBLIC TO ATTEND AFGHANISTAN CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-26 13:13:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EZ AF IR PK UN |
09PRAGUE171 | CZECH REPUBLIC: DEMARCHE RESPONSE -- U.S. [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-26 13:13:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EZ PREL EU SY |
09PRAGUE174 | CZECH EU PRESIDENCY: HALFWAY POINT, BUT TO WHERE? [...] (SBU) Summary: As noted in Reftels, the March 24 no-confidence vote in the Czech Parliament has placed the Czech government in the awkward position of leading the EU, while in a state of flux on the domestic political front. Czech MFA officials nonetheless recognize that they are still respons [...] | 2009-03-26 16:19:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN EZ EG PGOV PREL |
09PRAGUE175 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY CLINTON'S VISIT WITH THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Prague warmly welcomes the President's and your April 4-5 visit and participation in the U.S.-EU Summit. You will arrive at an extremely tense time in Czech domestic politics. The government of Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek was toppled on March 24, but he continues to [...] | 2009-03-26 18:24:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EG EUN EZ OVIP PGOV PREL |
09PRAGUE176 | CZECH REPUBLIC: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-27 08:33:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MOPS MARR PK AF EZ |
09PRAGUE179 | CZECH REPUBLIC: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON HCOC [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-31 13:10:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | KSCA PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA EZ |
09PRAGUE180 | CZECH REPUBLIC WILL NOT ATTEND APRIL KOREAN GLOBAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-31 13:13:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PREL PTER EZ |
09PRAGUE204 | CZECH REPUBLIC: CONCLUSIONS OF [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-10 13:44:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO MARR MOPS EZ AF PK |
09PRAGUE222 | CZECH REPUBLIC: FOREIGN POLICY DRIFT EXPECTED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The March 24 downfall of the Czech Government and the subsequent political upheaval, as well as the planned Czech parliamentary elections in the fall, will affect a range of Czech foreign and security policy priorities. In this cable we focus on three of the most visible and sign [...] | 2009-04-24 15:25:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EZ MARR NATO PGOV PREL |
09PRAGUE239 | A/S FRIED MEETS WITH CZECH POLDIR ON U.S.-EU [...] (C) Summary: In an April 28 meeting, A/S Fried and Czech MFA Political Director Martin Povejsil agreed that we explore developing a non-binding joint U.S.-EU statement on accepting Guantanamo detainees cleared for release to complement an internal EU framework document on the subject. Both ag [...] | 2009-04-30 14:32:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN EZ EG PGOV PREL PHUM |
09PRAGUE24 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRIED DISCUSSES GAS CRISIS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The ongoing Russian-Ukrainian gas crisis dominated Assistant Secretary Fried's meetings with EU and Czech officials during his visit to Prague January 8-10. The Czechs agreed with A/S Fried on the need to diversify both routes and sources of Europe's energy imports, as well as o [...] | 2009-01-13 11:13:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EZ |
09PRAGUE258 | CZECH REPUBLIC: REVIEW FOR WAIVER OF TITLE III OF [...] (U) The Czech Republic has a strong record of active engagement and support for democracy, human rights and fundamental freedoms in Cuba. Former Czech President Vaclav Havel established the Czech government's principled position on Cuba during his administration, following the Czech Republic' [...] | 2009-05-15 10:20:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | CU ETRD ETTC EZ PREL XG |
09PRAGUE263 | CZECH EU PRESIDENCY: COMMENTS ON UPCOMING MAY GAERC [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 14 emboff spoke with Magdalena Janesova of the Czech MFA Department of Common Foreign and Security Policy in advance of the May 18-19 EU General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC). Of note were her comments on: the EU's Anti-Piracy efforts, Georgia, the EU-Ru [...] | 2009-05-15 15:46:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN EZ EG PGOV PREL CE XF ZJ XA |
09PRAGUE269 | SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL PETRAEUS MAY 23-25 VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Prague warmly welcomes you to the Czech Republic May 23-25. Nearly 20 years after the 1989 "Velvet Revolution," the Czech Republic today boasts a relatively strong market economy, a lively democratic tradition, and close links with the United States. The Czech Republic h [...] | 2009-05-19 15:24:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN EZ OVIP PGOV PREL |
09PRAGUE27 | A/S FRIED AND EU POLITICAL DIRECTORS' TROIKA [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 9 Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried met in troika format (Czech EU Presidency and following Swedish Presidency, European Commission, and European Council Secretariat) at the Political Director level. The discussion primarily focused on the Middle East and the Western B [...] | 2009-01-14 16:12:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN EZ EG PGOV PREL ZI SO SU CD |
09PRAGUE271 | MAY 8 EU SOUTHERN CORRIDOR -- NEW SILK ROAD SUMMIT [...] (SBU) Summary: At the May 8 EU Southern Corridor ) New Silk Road Summit in Prague, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Egypt, and the EU signed a political declaration that, among other things, underscores the EU and Turkey's intent to sign the Nabucco Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) "in Turkey by [...] | 2009-05-20 09:26:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET EINV ECON PREL PGOV EUN EZ |
09PRAGUE276 | INTERIM GOVERNMENT WITH A WEAK MANDATE TAKES POWER [...] (C) Summary: On May 8, President Vaclav Klaus appointed the interim technocratic government of Prime Minister Jan Fischer, after Prime Minister Topolanek,s government fell in a vote of no confidence on March 24. The Fischer government is the result of a compromise among the Civic Democratic [...] | 2009-05-22 11:27:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EZ |
09PRAGUE281 | EU-CHINA SUMMIT - A RELATIONSHIP BACK ON TRACK? [...] (U) Summary: Emboffs called on MFA Asia Pacific Director Jiri Sitler and Human Rights and Transformation Policy Director Gabriela Dlouha for debriefs of the May 20 EU)China summit and the 27th EU-China human rights dialogue. Sitler said that there were few surprises during the summit discuss [...] | 2009-05-22 15:20:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EZ EUN CH |
09PRAGUE292 | GENERAL PETRAEUS MAY 22-24 VISIT TO THEQCZECH [...] (C) Summary: USCENTCOM Commander General David Petraeus visited the Czech Republic May 22-24 May 2009 at the invitation of the Czech Ministry of Defense. General Petraeus met with senior Ministry of Defense, General Staff, and Foreign Ministry officials, conducted several press interviews, [...] | 2009-05-28 14:57:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | AF EZ MARR OVIP PGOV PREL |
09PRAGUE300 | CZECH RESPONSE: U.S. POSITION ON IRAN AS A SOURCE [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche May 28 to MFA Energy Envoy Vaclav Bartuska and MFA North and East Europe Director Daniel Kostoval. Kostoval reported that since the Nabucco pipeline would not flow through the Czech Republic, the Czechs were not directly involved in negotiating the Nabucco In [...] | 2009-06-01 15:24:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL EUN EZ |
09PRAGUE306 | CZECH EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS CAMPAIGN MIRED [...] (C) Summary. The Czech Republic,s two dominant parties, former PM Topolanek,s right-of-center Civic Democratic Party (ODS) and Jiri Paroubek,s left-of-center Social Democratic Party (CSSD),have turned the European Parliamentary (EP) election into a bare-knuckled mudslinging campaign dominated [...] | 2009-06-02 15:23:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN EZ PGOV PREL |
09PRAGUE313 | CZECH CHRISTIAN DEMOCRAT PARTY CONGRESS ELECTS NEW [...] (C) Summary: On May 30, the Czech Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) held their party congress and elected a new chairman, Cyril Svoboda, a seasoned, pro-U.S. KDU leader. Svoboda,s chairmanship represents a shift to the left for the party and his major task is party unification, fundraising and p [...] | 2009-06-04 14:26:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EZ |
09PRAGUE314 | CZECH CHRISTIAN DEMOCRAT PARTY CONGRESS ELECTS NEW [...] (C) Summary: On May 30, the Czech Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) held their party congress and elected a new chairman, Cyril Svoboda, a seasoned, pro-U.S. KDU leader. Svoboda,s chairmanship represents a shift to the left for the party and his major task is party unification, fundraising and p [...] | 2009-06-04 15:31:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EZ |
09PRAGUE316 | CZECH REPUBLIC: POSITIVE SIGNALS ON MI-17S FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-05 12:22:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SMIG PARM PK EZ |
09PRAGUE318 | CZECHS TO SUPPORT PAKISTAN IDPS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-10 15:33:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EC PGOV PHUM PK EZ EUN PREF |
09PRAGUE321 | ODS WINS CZECH EP ELECTIONS DUE TO LOW VOTER [...] (C) Summary: Four of the Czech Republic's parliamentary parties: the right-of-center Civic Democratic Party (ODS),the left-of-center Social Democratic Party (CSSD),the Communist Party (KSCM) and the Christian Democratic Party (KDU-CSL) obtained seats in the June 5-6 European Parliamentary [...] | 2009-06-11 08:20:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EUN EZ |
09PRAGUE324 | CZECH EU PRESIDENCY: COMMENTS ON UPCOMING JUNE [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 11 emboff spoke with Magdalena Janesova of the Czech MFA Department of Common Foreign and Security Policy in advance of the June 15-16 EU General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC). Of note were her comments on: the Middle East, Lebanon, the Western Balkans, [...] | 2009-06-11 15:59:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN EZ EG PGOV PREL SU LE CU BM |
09PRAGUE332 | CZECH DEPUTY MINISTER OF INTERIOR LAYS OUT PLAN TO [...] (C) Summary: One of the few issues the interim technocratic government of Prime Minister Jan Fischer will address is extremism. Interior Minister Martin Pecina named former police official Jiri Komorous as his First Deputy Minister and assigned him to lead the Interior Ministry's new anti-ex [...] | 2009-06-15 13:09:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EZ |
09PRAGUE340 | FOREIGN DEPLOYMENTS PROPOSAL PASSES CZECH LOWER [...] (C) Summary: On June 16, the Czech parliament's lower house approved a 2010 troop deployment proposal that, among other deployments, includes 535 Czech troops for Afghanistan. Senate approval should follow. This smooth approval is a stark contrast to the contentiousness of the 2009 deployme [...] | 2009-06-17 14:47:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR EZ AF |
09PRAGUE383 | CHARGE'S JULY 1 MEETING WITH CZECH FM KOHOUT [...] (C) Summary: In a July 1 meeting, Charge congratulated Czech FM Kohout on the just-completed Czech EU presidency and thanked him for Czech support in various areas, including for the Holocaust Assets Conference. Kohout thought the presidency had made the Czech Republic more "EU-involved" and [...] | 2009-07-01 16:38:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EZ |
09PRAGUE41 | MISSILE DEFENSE: CZECHS LOOKING FOR A POSITIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the November 27 Czech Senate approval of the two missile defense (MD) agreements, the Czechs have been unable to advance the MD agreements in the Lower Chamber, where ratification has been temporarily put on hold due to domestic political problems and questions about the f [...] | 2009-01-22 09:27:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EZ |
09PRAGUE418 | CZECHS POSITIVE ON U.S. EUMM PARTICIPATION [...] (C) Embassy Prague Political-Economic Counselor delivered ref e-mail points on the Georgia EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM) to Czech MFA Security Policy Department Director Veronika Kuchynova-Simgolova and Deputy Director Petr Chalupecky on July 17. They said the Czech Republic would welcome and [...] | 2009-07-17 12:10:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL EU GG EZ |
09PRAGUE432 | RELEASE OF MISSILE DEFENSE POLICY REVIEW: TIMING [...] (SBU) Summary: Senior Czech officials have consistently raised their concerns that any announcement of the results of the U.S. strategic policy review before the October 9-10 national elections could make this a campaign issue and might even affect the outcome of the elections themselves. Defe [...] | 2009-07-24 15:31:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EZ EUN |
09PRAGUE44 | CZECH CABINET RESHUFFLE COMPLETED [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 23, the Czech President swore in new ministers who will be taking over the health, transportation, regional development, human rights, and legislative affairs portfolios. The Prague castle ceremony completed a protracted and mismanaged cabinet reshuffle, which began [...] | 2009-01-23 16:22:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EZ |
09PRAGUE453 | TOP 09: THE CZECH REPUBLIC'S NEWEST POLITICAL PARTY [...] (C) Summary: Former Czech Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek split from the Christian Democratic Party (KDU-CSL) shortly after the fall of PM Topolanek's government in March, ostensibly because of its shift to the left. After the European Parliament elections in early June, Kalousek launche [...] | 2009-08-04 14:32:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EZ |
09PRAGUE463 | CZECHS PLAN TO ATTEND MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-12 12:41:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MTCR PARM MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA EZ EUN |
09PRAGUE465 | CZECH CARDINAL DISCUSSES POPE'S VISIT AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-12 14:12:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EZ |
09PRAGUE475 | OPEN LETTER REACTION PART II: CZECH POLITICAL AND [...] (SBU) Summary: The Czechs have a multi-faceted relationship with Russia which varies according to the issue, as well as the fora involved (whether NATO, the EU, or on a bilateral basis). As the July 16 open letter to President Obama from Central European leaders illustrates, many in this reg [...] | 2009-08-14 13:38:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PREL ENRG EPET EUN EZ RU |
09PRAGUE495 | TURBULENCE AHEAD FOR CSA PRIVATIZATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Conditions for Czech Airlines (CSA) privatization worsen by the day. The Unimex-Travel Service consortium is the only remaining bidder in the tender and CSA's reported losses soar. Czech officials say they are past the point of no return in the privatization process, but at the [...] | 2009-08-25 12:27:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR PGOV EZ |
09PRAGUE496 | CZECH SPECIAL OPERATIONS GROUP IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: The Czech Special Operations Group (SOG),composed of 50-100 military police, was investigated by Czech authorities for alleged wrongdoing in Afghanistan, including wrongful deaths of Afghan civilians during its deployment, and irregularities in operations, procurement and chain [...] | 2009-08-25 14:25:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM MOPS EZ AF |
09PRAGUE5 | SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRIED'S VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary Fried, Embassy Prague looks forward to welcoming you to the Czech Republic. Your visit will underscore the importance of our strong transatlantic partnership, which received a boost from the Czech Republic's entry into the Visa Waiver Program, but which also [...] | 2009-01-05 17:14:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL PGOV EZ EUN |
09PRAGUE503 | UNREFORMED COMMUNISTS COURT SOCIAL DEMOCRATS [...] (C) Summary. Despite declining membership, the unreformed Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM) has a stable and loyal voter base that consistently garners 12 to 15 percent of the vote and makes them the Czech Republic's third largest party. KSCM currently has 26 seats in the Chamber [...] | 2009-08-27 09:19:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EZ |
09PRAGUE518 | UNRWA AT 60: SPEAKING ROLE FOR ISRAEL: CZECH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-01 13:58:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL UNGA IS KPAL EZ |
09PRAGUE523 | SURPRISE CZECH COURT RULING CASTS DOUBT ON EARLY [...] (C) Summary: In a surprise ruling, the Czech Republic's Constitutional Court announced September 1 it will consider a challenge to a law passed in May and signed by President Klaus in June shortening the current term of the Chamber of Deputies, Parliament's lower house. The court ruling ind [...] | 2009-09-02 14:01:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EZ |
09PRAGUE526 | CZECH COMMENTS IN ADVANCE OF EU FOREIGN MINISTERS' [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 2 emboff spoke with Czech MFA Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) Department Deputy Director Magdalena Janesova in advance of the September 4 EU Foreign Ministers' informal meeting (Gymnich). She offered comments on Afghanistan, Iran sanctions, and the non-pap [...] | 2009-09-03 15:19:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN EZ EG PGOV PREL |
09PRAGUE527 | TWO TRACKS UNDERWAY TO RESOLVE CZECH ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: The fallout from the Czech Constitutional Court's decision to review the law setting early parliamentary elections is branching in two directions. The Court will convene on September 10, and could dismiss the complaint filed by MP Milos Melcak, invalidate the law, or defer a dec [...] | 2009-09-03 15:34:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EZ |
09PRAGUE532 | CZECH ELECTION TURMOIL: WHAT CAUSED THIS MESS? [...] (C) Summary: The turmoil surrounding the date of Czech elections was generated by a legal complaint alleging that the law Parliament passed to call early elections is unconstitutional. The Czech Constitution provides four procedures for dissolving the Chamber of Deputies and calling early el [...] | 2009-09-09 15:23:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EZ |
09PRAGUE553 | NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY REVIEW CONFERENCE [...] (C) Summary: The Czech government and Czech political parties have historically backed strong non-proliferation measures and their universal application. As an EU member, the Czech government's public position is consistent with the EU position. The Czech government and public support U.S. [...] | 2009-09-15 14:58:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA IAEA NPT |
09PRAGUE560 | EARLY ELECTIONS SCRAPPED, INTERIM GOVERNMENT FOR [...] (C) Summary. Early parliamentary elections have been halted and it appears the interim government of Prime Minister Jan Fischer will continue to govern until the regular parliamentary elections in May 2010, although early elections are still possible. Fischer is focused on the economic cris [...] | 2009-09-21 07:32:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EZ |
09PRAGUE563 | CORRECTED COPY: EARLY ELECTIONS SCRAPPED, INTERIM [...] (C) Summary. Early parliamentary elections have been halted and it appears the interim government of Prime Minister Jan Fischer will continue to govern until the regular parliamentary elections in May 2010, although early elections are still possible. Fischer is focused on the economic cris [...] | 2009-09-21 15:19:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EZ |
09PRAGUE564 | CZECH GOVERNMENT DELEGATION REACTS CONSTRUCTIVELY [...] (C) Summary: In a September 17 meeting with Czech officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defense, and Prime Minister's Office, a USG delegation headed by USD/P Flournoy briefed on President Obama's decision regarding missile defense (MD) in Europe. Overall the Czech off [...] | 2009-09-22 10:30:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL EZ PL RS |
09PRAGUE57 | CZECH COMMENTS ON GAZA AND ARMS INTERDICTION EFFORT [...] (SBU) Summary: Emboffs met with Czech MFA Middle East and North Africa Department Director Josef Rychtar on January 28. Noting that Palestinian President Abbas would be in Prague on February 2, he stated that getting things right on humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians would be a key el [...] | 2009-01-28 17:29:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EG IR IS KPAL MARR MOPS PREL EZ XG PHSA |
09PRAGUE589 | CZECH COMMENTS ON U.S.-CZECH STRATEGIC COOPERATION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-02 14:44:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL EZ EUN |
09PRAGUE591 | SCENESETTER: THE VICE PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO THE [...] (C) Mr. Vice President: Your visit to the Czech Republic comes at a key moment to shape a vision for the future of our partnership. While Czech transatlanticists have expressed disappointment about the results of our missile defense policy review, they have constructively engaged with us and [...] | 2009-10-05 14:27:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PGOV PREL EUN EZ |
09PRAGUE601 | PART II: CZECH COMMENTS ON FURTHERING U.S.-CZECH [...] (SBU) Summary: Czech MFA Political Director Ivo Sramek, accompanied by MFA Security Policy Director Ivan Pocuch and MOD Director of Strategic and Defense Planning Division Ivan Dvorak provided emboffs on October 9 with two papers: "Specific Ideas for Further Strategic Cooperation between the [...] | 2009-10-09 15:24:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL EZ EUN |
09PRAGUE605 | CZECHING RATIFICATION OF LISBON TREATY? [...] (SBU) Summary: With the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty in Poland on October 10, European eyes now have turned to the Czech Republic - the last country remaining to ratify. While the treaty has been approved by both chambers of Czech Parliament, it is now before the Czech Constitutional Cour [...] | 2009-10-14 11:26:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EZ EUN |
09PRAGUE622 | CZECH MOD ASKS ABOUT SUPERSONICS, C-130, AND L-159 [...] (SBU) On October 20, 2009, Deputy Minister of Defense for Foreign Affairs Jan Fulik requested a meeting with the Charge d'Affaires. Fulik will represent the MoD during Prime Minister Fischer's meeting with Vice President Biden on October 23, because Minister Bartak will be in Bratislava for [...] | 2009-10-20 15:59:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS PGOV PREL EZ |
09PRAGUE649 | SCENESETTER FOR THE PRAGUE HIGH-LEVEL DEFENSE [...] (C) Assistant Secretary Vershbow: Your visit to the Czech Republic comes as we move forward from Vice President Biden's October 23 visit and Secretary Gates participation at the NATO Ministerial toward shaping a vision for the future of our partnership. While Czech transatlanticists expresse [...] | 2009-11-02 16:26:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS AF EZ |
09PRAGUE657 | HOW TO SUCCEED IN LAW SCHOOL WITHOUT REALLY TRYING [...] (SBU) Summary: A scandal at the Plzen-based University of West Bohemia law school, where a number of graduates allegedly received degrees on a fast-track basis, has several elements of a classic corruption story: potentially undue influence on state tenders, lack of transparency in school pro [...] | 2009-11-06 17:27:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EZ |
09PRAGUE661 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT TO PRAGUE OF UNDER SECRETARY [...] (C) Under Secretary Tauscher: Your visit to the Czech Republic comes as we move forward from Vice President Biden's October 23 visit and the November 6 High Level Defense Group (HLDG) meeting toward shaping a vision for the future of our partnership. While Czech transatlanticists expressed i [...] | 2009-11-09 16:59:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN EZ OVIP PGOV PREL |
09PRAGUE664 | CZECHS SHARE USG GOALS REGARDING NATO ENLARGEMENT [...] (C) On November 6 Emboff provided USG perspective on NATO Enlargement to MFA Security Policy Deputy Director Petr Chalupecky contained in Ref B. Chalupecky thanked emboff for points and noted that the Czechs think very similarly to the USG on Montenegro and Bosnia, while noting that Montenegro [...] | 2009-11-12 15:31:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO PARM MARR KTIA EZ EG |
09PRAGUE666 | CZECH COMMENTS ON UPCOMING NOVEMBER GAERC [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 12 emboff spoke with Czech MFA Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) Department Deputy Director Magdalena Janesova in advance of the November 15-16 EU Foreign Ministers' meeting (GAERC). She noted that this is the "jumbo" GAERC as the Defense and Development Mini [...] | 2009-11-12 18:03:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN EZ EG PGOV PREL AF SO |
09PRAGUE668 | FIRST U.S.-CZECH HIGH LEVEL DEFENSE GROUP: CZECHS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The first-ever U.S.-Czech High Level Defense Group (HLDG) meeting on November 6 in Prague, led by Assistant Secretary of Defense (ASD) for International Security Affairs Alexander Vershbow, was productive and cordial, covering: NATO issues, U.S.-Russia relations, the new Phased [...] | 2009-11-13 12:50:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MASS MOPS EZ |
09PRAGUE670 | CZECH REPUBLIC: REVIEW FOR WAIVER OF TITLE III OF [...] (U) The Czech Republic has a strong record of active engagement and support for democracy, human rights and fundamental freedoms in Cuba. Former Czech President Vaclav Havel established the Czech government's principled position on Cuba during his administration, following the Czech Republic' [...] | 2009-11-13 15:27:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | CU ETRD ETTC EZ PREF XG |
09PRAGUE672 | WHAT LISBON REMINDS US ABOUT PRESIDENT KLAUS [...] (C) SUMMARY. With no more excuses or options for delay, euroskeptic Czech President Klaus signed the Lisbon Treaty on November 3, the same day as the Czech Constitutional Court ruling. His signature eliminated a major distraction within the EU, allowing the U.S. and EU to refocus on important [...] | 2009-11-13 15:42:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EZ |
09PRAGUE676 | 20 YEARS AFTER THE VELVET REVOLUTION: POLITICS NOT [...] (C) Summary: On the evening of November 17, 1989, an officially sanctioned student commemoration on the fiftieth anniversary of Jan Opletal's burial (he was killed by the Nazis during a student demonstration in 1939),sparked a violent confrontation with the Czechoslovak state security serv [...] | 2009-11-19 13:02:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EZ |
09PRAGUE677 | 20 YEARS AFTER THE VELVET REVOLUTION: POLITICS NOT [...] (C) Summary: On the evening of November 17, 1989, an officially sanctioned student commemoration on the fiftieth anniversary of Jan Opletal's burial (he was killed by the Nazis during a student demonstration in 1939),sparked a violent confrontation with the Czechoslovak state security serv [...] | 2009-11-19 13:02:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EZ |
09PRAGUE681 | CZECH INTERIM GOVERNMENT EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS [...] (C) Summary: The interim, technocratic government of Jan Fischer was appointed on May 8, 2009 by President Klaus, after Mirek Topolanek's ODS-led coalition government lost a vote of confidence on March 24. Topolanek and CSSD leader Jiri Paroubek agreed on Fischer, a previous unknown who he [...] | 2009-11-20 13:43:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EZ |
09PRAGUE687 | TOPOLANEK SURVIVES ODS CONGRESS [...] (C) Summary. Despite calls from some party leaders for the center-right Civic Democrat Party (ODS) platform congress to also include a vote on Mirek Topolanek's (age 53) leadership of the party, Topolanek was able to vanquish his detractors (for now) and retain the party chairmanship. There [...] | 2009-11-23 16:05:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EZ |
09PRAGUE69 | SCENESETTER FOR CZECH FOREIGN MINISTER'S VISIT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a year when the Czech Republic will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its Velvet Revolution, nothing symbolizes better the truly remarkable journey this country has traveled since 1989 than the Czech Foreign Minister's arrival in Washington as the representative of the Europea [...] | 2009-02-04 15:47:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EZ |
09PRAGUE695 | CZECH REACTION TO ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS IN [...] (C) We presented reftel points to Czech MFA Security Policy Department Director Ivan Pocuch on November 25. Pocuch was already working on a response to the President's expected announcement and said that the Czech government would give its full political support to the President's decision. [...] | 2009-11-25 15:34:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF EZ |
09PRAGUE696 | CZECHS HOST NATIONAL SEMINAR ON NATO STRATEGIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 24, the Czech MFA hosted a seminar, "Seeking a New NATO Strategic Concept: The Czech Perspective", attended by Group of Experts member Ambassador Hans-Friedrich von Ploetz, NATO Assistant Secretary General Jiri Sedivy, parliamentarians, MFA and MOD representatives, [...] | 2009-11-25 16:18:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MARR MOPS MCAP EZ RU |
09PRAGUE700 | CZECHS PLANNING TO ANNOUNCE MODEST CONTRIBUTION [...] (SBU) We presented reftel points to Czech MFA Security Policy Department Deputy Director Petr Chalupecky on December  [...] | 2009-12-01 16:13:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PK AF NATO EZ EUN |
09PRAGUE708 | CZECH REPUBLIC PLANNING TO RUN IN 2011 FOR UN [...] (SBU) In a conversation covering several Human Rights Council matters, such as the upcoming DPRK Universal Periodic Review (Ref A),Czech MFA Human Rights and Transition Policy officer Jan Kaminek commented in depth on the Spring 2010 Human Rights Council elections. Kaminek indicated that the [...] | 2009-12-04 15:45:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM EZ EUN PREL |
09PRAGUE711 | NO SURPRISES AS TWO SMALLER PARTIES ELECT LEADERS [...] (C) There were no surprises during the recent TOP 09 and the Green Party congresses. TOP 09 delegates unanimously chose Karel Schwarzenberg as their party chairman, and the Green Party elected Ondrej Liska as its leader. Polls have consistently shown TOP 09 gaining votes (at the expense of [...] | 2009-12-07 14:55:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EZ |
09PRAGUE722 | CZECH VIEWS ON THE VISEGRAD FOUR (C-RE9-02125) [...] (SBU) In response to reftel, Poloff met on December 14 with Jiri Cistecky, Director of the Czech MFA's Central European Department, and Petr Maryska, a member of the Central European Department's Visegrad 4 (V-4) working group, to discuss Czech perceptions of the current state of V-4 cooperat [...] | 2009-12-15 12:58:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PREL EZ PL HU LO |
09PRAGUE82 | CZECHS TO ENCOURAGE DG AGRI ON INTERIM BEEF [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) Summary: A key Czech EU Presidency staffer told us February 6 that Agriculture Minister Gandalovic will encourage Agriculture Commissioner Fischer Boel to take immediate steps to resolve the U.S.-EU beef hormone conflict during [...] | 2009-02-10 15:59:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ETRD ECON PREL EZ EUN |
09PRAGUE88 | CZECH REPUBLIC: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON DISCUSSION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-12 13:04:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PINS PREL EZ NATO OSCE |
09PRAGUE91 | CZECH EU PRESIDENCY: COMMENTS ON GUANTANAMO [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 12 S/WCI Ambassador Clint Williamson met with Czech Minister of Interior Ivan Langer, MFA Political Director Martin Povejsil and MFA Common Foreign and Security Policy Department Director (European Correspondent) Vaclav Balek. They discussed Guantanamo detainees and [...] | 2009-02-13 18:00:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN EZ EG PGOV PREL PTER |
09PRAIA25 | CAPE VERDE: LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING NEEDS [...] (U) Responses are keyed to questions contained reftel. 2. (C) Cape Verde's greatest law enforcement challenge is the broad territorial waters under its jurisdiction and its very limited capacity to exert rule of law over those waters. Sitting astride major smuggling routes from South Americ [...] | 2009-02-18 13:42:00 | Embassy Praia | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR MASS MARR PREL KJUS CV |
09PRAIA39 | (C) HELPING CAPE VERDE MOVE FROM DATA TO INTELLIGENCE IN THE [...] (C) Summary: Post has engaged the GOCV in a sweeping dialogue on the future of GOCV interagency collaboration in interdicting drug smuggling, combating illegal fishing, and countering arms smuggling and related terrorist activities. At the heart of this dialogue is a two phase USG proposal to [...] | 2009-03-03 11:45:00 | Embassy Praia | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS SNAR PREL ETRD KJUS CV |
09PRAIA63 | CAPE VERDE TO HOST ECOWAS GUINEA BISSAU ROUND TABLE; INVITES [...] (C) Summary. Cape Verde Foreign Minister Jose Brito convoked Ambassador on 27 March for a briefing on the results of the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) that took place in Praia on Wednesday 25 March. According to Brito, the CPLP count [...] | 2009-04-02 18:48:00 | Embassy Praia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO SNAR PU CV |
09PRETORIA1004 | GOSS REPRESENTATIVES TALK POLITICS AND SOUTH [...] (C) Summary: Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) Southern Africa Liaison Office representatives delivered a message to Poloff intended to "counteract Khartoum's propaganda." They discussed the political situation in Sudan and South Africa's role. They are optimistic about South Africa's engag [...] | 2009-05-18 15:57:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SF SU |
09PRETORIA1005 | A/S CARSON DISCUSSES ZIMBABWE WITH TSVANGIRAI AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-18 17:19:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SF |
09PRETORIA1018 | CUBA: SOUTH AFRICA REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-20 08:31:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU SF |
09PRETORIA1031 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: URGENT NEED TO PROMOTE SOMALIA [...] (C) Summary: Poloff delivered reftel points on Somalia and Eritrea to Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRC) Deputy Director Phindile Xaba on May 20, 2009. Xaba acknowledged that Eritrea's public actions, including not recognizing Somalia's Transitional Federal Governme [...] | 2009-05-20 15:52:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PTER EAID ER SO SF |
09PRETORIA1129 | ZUMA'S CABINET IS BRILLIANT POLITICALLY, BUT WILL [...] (C) Newly elected President Jacob Zuma's Cabinet is settling in following the swearing in ceremony on May 11. Most political analysts and pundits have praised Zuma's selections -- lauding some for their managerial skills, some for their willingness to bring new ideas to government, and some f [...] | 2009-06-04 15:20:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM ASEC SF PGOV |
09PRETORIA1190 | SOUTH AFRICA LIKELY TO RAISE SOME TARIFFS IN [...] (C) Summary: South Africa is likely to raise "a few" tariffs to WTO-bound levels in response to the global economic crisis, according to an official at the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). Industrial policy will have greater prominence under President Jacob Zuma, as Trade and Industr [...] | 2009-06-12 14:26:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PGOV SF |
09PRETORIA1246 | SOUTH AFRICA'S RESPONSE TO 2009 TIP REPORT [...] (C) Summary: PolCouns and Poloffs met with the Department of International Cooperation's (DICO) Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs Chief Director Pitso Montwedi and Deputy Director Raymond Sithole on June 15 to deliver the final text of the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report on South [...] | 2009-06-19 14:49:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIP ELAB KCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG |
09PRETORIA1330 | HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH CRITICIZES SOUTH AFRICA'S [...] (C) SUMMARY. On 24 June, the Institute for Security Studies hosted a debate on the role of human rights in South Africa's foreign policy under newly elected President Jacob Zuma. Keynote speakers included Ken Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch in New York, who described South Afr [...] | 2009-07-02 11:45:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ZIM NI SF |
09PRETORIA1392 | HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH CRITICIZES SOUTH AFRICA'S [...] (C) SUMMARY. On 24 June, the Institute for Security Studies hosted a debate on the role of human rights in South Africa's foreign policy under newly elected President Jacob Zuma. Keynote speakers included Ken Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch in New York, who described South Afr [...] | 2009-07-09 14:00:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ZIM NI SF |
09PRETORIA1450 | A DIASPORA PERSPECTIVE ON ZIMBABWE POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Poloff on July 15, 2009, George Sibotshiwe, former spokesman for Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) President Morgan Tsvangirai and a Zimbabwean national residing in South Africa, provided his analysis of changing political dynamics in Zimbabwe. He said Tsvang [...] | 2009-07-17 15:36:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL ZANU SF ZM |
09PRETORIA1613 | ZUMA HANDLING SOME ISSUES BETTER THAN OTHERS AFTER [...] (SBU) President Jacob Zuma, barely in office 90 days, has faced a multitude of challenges so far in his tenure. He so far has been confronted with making tricky Cabinet and diplomatic appointments, dealing with striking doctors and municipal workers, and settling protests across the country [...] | 2009-08-07 13:14:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PGOV KDEM SF |
09PRETORIA173 | NRC DISCUSSES 2007 PELINDABA SECURITY INCIDENT [...] (C) Summary: South African officials attribute the November 2007 Pelindaba break-in to criminal - rather than terrorist - intent. The police have not arrested the culprits. Officials stress that facilities containing nuclear materials were not threatened or impacted by the attack. Official [...] | 2009-01-29 13:23:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG TRGY KNNP PREL BEXP IAEA SF |
09PRETORIA1737 | ZUMA'S FIRST STATE VISIT INTENDS TO IMPROVE [...] (C) Summary: South African President Jacob Zuma made a strategic choice to go to Angola for his first state visit August 19-21. At the top of Zuma's agenda were economics and cooperation on regional issues. The bilateral relationship suffered due to personal conflicts between former South Af [...] | 2009-08-26 16:02:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SF AO |
09PRETORIA1739 | BIG BUSINESS PLEASED WITH ZUMA BUT UNCERTAIN OF [...] (C) Summary: South Africa's business community believes that Jacob Zuma has put together a good team of economic ministers, according to Business Unity South Africa (BUSA). Business is also gratified that the new government is accessible and eager to get input from business. However, BUSA s [...] | 2009-08-27 07:27:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV SF |
09PRETORIA1760 | THREE YEARS UNTIL PARTY CONGRESS, BUT ANC [...] (C) Barely five months into the Jacob Zuma administration, the race to replace him -- or retain him -- at the 2012 African National Congress (ANC) party congress is heating up. With so much time to go, and so much work to accomplish even before the 2011 municipal elections, it seems prematur [...] | 2009-09-01 08:56:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM ASEC SF PGOV |
09PRETORIA177 | MOTOROLA CONCERNED ABOUT LACK OF DUE PROCESS IN [...] (C) Summary. Motorola is concerned that a South African Police Service (SAPS) tender for the acquisition of a provincial radio network system did not follow due process. The company has solicited USG support to seek clarification of the process to ensure transparency in future tenders. End S [...] | 2009-01-30 07:03:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | ECPS EIND EINT SF |
09PRETORIA1823 | NUCLEAR FUEL BANKS -- LAUNCHING A LISTENING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-08 15:12:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY SF |
09PRETORIA1824 | SOUTH AFRICA PLANNING NEW ASSISTANCE TO ZIMBABWE [...] (C) Summary: South Africa has given R300 million ($40 million) of budget support to Zimbabwe's Finance Ministry since the formation of the Government of National Unity in Harare. Pretoria is now weighing a Finance Ministry request for additional support of R1,000 million ($134 million). The [...] | 2009-09-08 15:20:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN PGOV SF |
09PRETORIA1859 | DIPLOMATS STILL WAITING TO SEE CHANGE IN SAG'S [...] (C) SUMMARY. On 8 September, Institute for Security Studies (ISS) Senior Researcher Takawira Musavengana spoke at a roundtable with western diplomats, admonishing diplomats for believing that Zimbabwe would be discussed during the 7-8 September SADC summit, downplayed Zuma's willingness to tak [...] | 2009-09-11 12:27:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SF ZI |
09PRETORIA1928 | SOUTH AFRICAN VIEWS ON G-20 SUMMIT [...] (C) Reftel talking points on the Pittsburgh G-20 Summit were delivered to Director Pebetsa Maleka and Senior Economist Mukondi Mpeiwa of National Treasury's International Finance and Development division on September 21. Maleka and Mpeiwa made the following points in response: -- Reforming [...] | 2009-09-21 12:52:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN SF |
09PRETORIA1944 | SOUTH AFRICA TOUGHENS ANTITRUST LAW [...] (SBU) Summary: South Africa has enacted a law to criminalize cartel activity and regulate abusive oligopolies. The law is largely a reaction to the disclosure of pervasive cartel activity in South Africa. However, the law could complicate the work of the Competition Commission. The Commis [...] | 2009-09-25 06:43:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EIND AID SF |
09PRETORIA1949 | TOUR D'HORIZON OF PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS IN AFRICA [...] (C) SUMMARY. On 18 September, EmbOff met with members of the Institute for Security Studies' (ISS) Security Sector Governance Programme to discuss the state of peacekeeping operations on the African continent. The ISS team lamented the AU's lack of capacity, the international community's pie [...] | 2009-09-25 10:05:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PKO MCAP AU AO NI RW SF SU |
09PRETORIA1977 | SOUTH AFRICA - EU SUMMIT AIMS TO STRENGTHEN [...] (C) Summary: On September 11, President Jacob Zuma met with European Union (EU) head of delegation Swedish Prime Minister Frederick Reinfeldt, EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana and other EU leaders at the second South Africa - EU Summit in Kleinmond [...] | 2009-09-30 16:14:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SF EU |
09PRETORIA2018 | SOUTH AFRICA: EXPANDING THE CHORUS ON IRAN; [...] (C) Summary: Embassy delivered REF A message on Iran's covert uranium enrichment facility at Qom jointly with the UK High Commission and the Embassy of France to the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO). In light of the September 27 - October 1 visit of South African [...] | 2009-10-06 12:31:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA PREL AORC IR SF |
09PRETORIA2020 | ANC OFFICIAL RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT STATE OF THE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-06 13:11:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AU GV |
09PRETORIA2030 | TREVOR MANUEL OFFERS NEW APPROACH TO GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Minister in the Presidency for National Planning Trevor Manuel's "National Strategic Planning" paper (often referred to here as the "Green Paper") offers a new approach to the way South Africa does government business. The paper suggests that greater planning and coordination will lead to [...] | 2009-10-07 14:43:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AU GV |
09PRETORIA21 | MONTHS SINCE PIETERMARITZBURG COURT DECISION TEST [...] (C) The months since Pietermaritzburg High Court Judge Chris Nicholson handed down his verdict declaring the state's case against African National Congress (ANC) President Jacob Zuma invalid have been among the toughest times in the ruling party's history. The split between rival ANC factions [...] | 2009-01-07 15:33:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PGOV KDEM SF |
09PRETORIA2141 | COURT SELECTIONS SHOW HOW CONCERNS ABOUT JUDICIAL [...] (C) President Jacob Zuma finalized his appointment of five new justices to the Constitutional Court, the nation's highest legal body, on October 11. For most of the past year, and particularly during the election campaign period ahead of the national election in April, opposition leaders and [...] | 2009-10-21 16:25:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PINR SF |
09PRETORIA2142 | LEADING POLICY STRATEGIST WALKS AWAY FROM [...] (SBU) Joel Netshitenzhe, Director-General of Policy and Coordination Services (PCAS) in the South African Presidency, and the government's chief policy strategist, announced his resignation on October 19. Netshittenzhe had served in the post since 1994. There is speculation that he resigned [...] | 2009-10-21 16:49:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SF |
09PRETORIA2169 | RECONFIGURED MINISTERIAL CLUSTERS LEAD TO [...] (C) The South African Government on October 19 announced plans to reconfigure ministerial clusters (committees within the Cabinet intended to improve coordination within government). The announcement set off immediate speculation by political analysts and economists over whether the reconfig [...] | 2009-10-23 17:45:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SF ECON EFIN EINV |
09PRETORIA22 | SOUTHERN AFRICAN COUNTRIES EXPECTED TO SIGN [...] (SBU) Summary: Several members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) (Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Swaziland, Mozambique and Angola) are expected to sign the interim EU-SADC Economic Partnership Agreement when the EU Trade Commissioner visits Southern Africa in February. Tariff [...] | 2009-01-07 15:36:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD SF |
09PRETORIA2207 | POSSIBLE UN CONVENTION ENDANGERING FREEDOM OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 29 Poloffs met with Pitso Montwedi, Chief Director for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at the South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO),to deliver the demarche (ref A) urging support for a U.S. "draft action plan" of proposals ( [...] | 2009-10-29 16:57:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SF |
09PRETORIA2245 | AMBASSADOR’S COURTESY CALL ON FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador's first official call with Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Maite Nkoana-Mashabane was warm and frank. Mashabane thanked the USG for its partnership and support through PEPFAR and acknowledged past mistakes in HIV/AIDS policies. The Ambassador thanked [...] | 2009-11-03 15:52:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ASEC KHIV SF ZI |
09PRETORIA2251 | MBEKI SHYS AWAY FROM IDEA OF POLITICAL LEGACY [...] (SBU) Summary: Former President Thabo Mbeki gave his first extended press interview since being removed from the presidency in September 2008 by the African National Congress (ANC). In the interview with the "Sunday Independent," Mbeki sought to distance himself from some of the more contro [...] | 2009-11-04 10:02:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SF |
09PRETORIA2254 | COMMENTS FROM COPE SENIOR LEADERS SHOW DIVISIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Congress of the People (COPE),which marked its first anniversary on November 1, remains divided between competing factions who support either Mosiuoa Lekota or Mbhazima Shilowa. Competing newspaper stories in "City Press" and the "Sunday Independent" recently underscored [...] | 2009-11-04 11:49:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SF |
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