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Identifier	Subject	Date	Office	Classification	Tags
07ABIDJAN594	COTE D'IVOIRE DEMARCHED ON NEW WORLD BANK [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-06 10:11:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN IV

07ABIDJAN595	COTE D'IVOIRE DEMARCHED ON UNSCR 1747 (IRAN) [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-06 10:12:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP EFIN IR UNSC AORC ETRD TRGY IV
07ABIDJAN615	OUAGA ACCORD AT 90 DAYS - ASSESSING ITS [...] (C) Summary. Since the signature of the Ouaga Accord on March 4, Cote d'Ivoire has seen both successes and shortcomings in its implementation. At the 90 day mark, several key tasks remain undone, while a number of others have been accomplished (even if incompletely). The overall report ca [...]	2007-06-12 11:38:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IV
07ABIDJAN633	COMPAORE CHAIRS OUAGA ACCORD'S FIRST "PERMANENT [...] (C) Summary. OPA facilitator Compaore hosted the first Permanent Consultative Mechanism (CPC) on June 12, bringing together Gbagbo, Soro, Ouattara and Bedie. Members issued a brief, harmonious press statement that touched on key questions of DDR and dismantlement of the militias, as well a [...]	2007-06-18 18:59:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNSC IV
07ABIDJAN689	COTE D'IVOIRE, WB AND IMF STAFF CONCLUDE [...] (C) Summary. The World Bank and IMF, working in tandem, finalized a deal on June 27 that would provide financing packages for the post-conflict transition (WB) and emergency budget support (IMF) in exchange for the GoCI paying 50 percent of its WB arrears and adoption of strict fiscal contr [...]	2007-06-28 13:29:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL PGOV IMF IBRD IV
07ABIDJAN691	END OF JUNE ASSESSMENT OF OUAGA ACCORD [...] (C) Summary. Implementation of the Ouaga Accord has not moved substantially since the Yamoussoukro CPC (reftel B). The Integrated Command Center is not functioning, the question of military ranks continues to bedevil efforts to begin integrating the militaries and the process of DDR, while [...]	2007-06-29 09:17:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IV
07ABIDJAN705	THREE KILLED BUT PRIME MINISTER SORO UNHURT AFTER [...] (C) Multiple sources confirm Prime Minister and New Forces leader Guillaume Soro is alive and well after an RPG attack on an airplane in which he was traveling at Bouake airport on the morning of June 29. ONUCI Acting SRSG Abu Moussa told us that, according to UN Air Ops personnel who witnesse [...]	2007-06-29 16:39:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PREL KPKO IV
07ABIDJAN719	WHO TRIED TO KILL SORO? THE SPECULATION IS WELL [...] (C) Summary. Since the June 29 attack on Prime Minister Soro, the rumor mill has gone into overdrive. The facts remain scarce, adding fuel to the unending speculation. The suspects are numerous, ranging from the most obvious (disaffected members of the Forces Nouvelles) to the absurd (ONU [...]	2007-07-03 11:01:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO IV
07ABIDJAN753	COTE D'IVOIRE ON EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES [...] (C) Emboff met with Presidential diplomatic advisor Ambassador Ottra Toure on July 10 to follow up a June 19 delivery of reftel letter and points to President Gbagbo by the U.K.'s DFID. During the conversation, Ambassador Ottra Toure appeared siezed with the issue, although she said that ne [...]	2007-07-11 16:30:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	EMIN ENRG EPET PGOV PREL ECON IBRD IV
07ABIDJAN755	PRESIDENT GBAGBO AGREES TO INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador on July 11, President Gbagbo stated that he had agreed to an international investigation of the attempt on PM Soro's life "in order to make the Prime Minister happy." To have objected to the investigation would have encouraged unnecessary suspicion in th [...]	2007-07-12 11:02:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	IV PGOV PREL
07ABIDJAN764	COTE D'IVOIRE'S GOVERNMENT DRIFTS AFTER ATTACK ON [...] (C) Summary. Since the March 29 attack on the aircraft carrying Prime Minister Soro, the peace process implementation has been at a near-standstill. Soro and his small team appear knocked off stride (although he could be "playing possum" and proceeding cautiously while recovering his footi [...]	2007-07-13 15:38:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IV
07ABIDJAN765	IMF PRESSURES COTE D'IVOIRE TO ABANDON JP MORGAN [...] (C) In a somewhat abrupt denouement to the monthlong negotiations around the debt securitization deal between JP Morgan and the Ivorian pension fund CNPS (reftel),the local IMF representative convinced the Minister of Finance Charles Diby during a July 10 videoconference to abandon the proje [...]	2007-07-16 12:50:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN IMF PGOV PREL IBRD IV
07ABIDJAN781	MOROCCAN CONTINGENT IN ONUCI ACCUSED OF SEXUAL [...] (C) The United Nations Operations in Cote d'Ivoire (ONUCI) made a surprise announcement on Friday, July 20 that the entire 732-strong Moroccan battalion would be confined to barracks due to a number of allegations of sexual misconduct with minors by Moroccan troops. The announcement did not [...]	2007-07-24 16:22:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO PREL UNSC IV
07ABIDJAN8	PM BANNY: POLITICAL GRIDLOCK [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador on January 3, Prime Minister Banny stated that Cote d'Ivoire is basically in political gridlock. All the political actors are waiting to see what will happen next. He characterized President Gbagbo's five proposals for dealing with the crisis as non-pro [...]	2007-01-04 14:11:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	IV PGOV
07ABIDJAN802	MOROCCO BATTALION APPEARS TO REMAIN ON DUTY; SORO [...] (C) Emboff's security detail during a recent trip to Bouake (septel) was from the Moroccan battalion, recently the subject of controversy relating to allegations of sexual misconduct (reftel A). The security detail was professional, courteous, and well-disciplined. Emboff traveled around th [...]	2007-07-31 17:51:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO UNSC PREL IV
07ABIDJAN812	DEMARCHE TO COTE D'IVOIRE ON ROBUST [...] (SBU) July 26, Emboff demarched Ambassador Tanoh Boutchoue, MFA Director of International Organizations and UN Affairs, on action points mentioned in reftel, stressing the mandatory nature of a UNSC 1737 report and leaving a translated version of unclassified paragraph six points as a non-pa [...]	2007-08-01 16:56:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM IR IV
07ABIDJAN831	COTE D'IVOIRE LIGHTS FLAME OF PEACE [...] (C) Summary. The Government of Cote d'Ivoire held a July 30 "flame of peace" symbolic disarmament ceremony in the Forces Nouvelles stronghold of Bouake. While the ceremony was attended by 7 African heads of state or government, Ivorian opposition leaders Henri Konan Bedie, Alassane Ouattara a [...]	2007-08-09 17:23:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IC
07ABIDJAN832	COTE D'IVOIRE: UNOCI A/SRSG ANALYZES POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary. Acting United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Abou Moussa underscored to Charge d'Affaires and Poloff August 9 the importance of the "balance" that the U.S. provides on the Ivorian political scene. Moussa said UNOC [...]	2007-08-09 17:28:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IV
07ABIDJAN856	COTE D'IVOIRE: UPDATE ON DEMOBILIZATION, [...] (C) Summary. Alain Michel Lobognon, Communications Director at the Prime Minister's Office, and Jean-Luc Stalon, Chief of the United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) Unit, told Poloff that agreement on the ranks of the Forces Nouv [...]	2007-08-16 12:11:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS IV
07ABIDJAN863	COTE D'IVOIRE: VISIT OF STAFFDELS SMITH AND CLACK [...] (C) Summary. Shannon Smith, Majority Professional Staff Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Mark Clack, Foreign Relations Staff Member for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, visited Cote d'Ivoire August 10-15. Smith and Clack conducted a review of programs under the Presi [...]	2007-08-17 09:33:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV KDEM IV
07ABIDJAN864	COTE D'IVOIRE: PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES IDENTIFICATION, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a televised address to the nation on August 6, the eve of Cote d'Ivoire's anniversary of independence, President Gbagbo announced the resumption of the public identification hearings ("audiences foraines"),pledged his commitment to fair, transparent and open elections, and cal [...]	2007-08-17 10:26:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IV KDEM
07ABIDJAN865	COTE D'IVOIRE: UNHCR REPRESENTATIVE'S OVERVIEW [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-17 16:25:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF IV LI
07ABIDJAN88	COTE D'IVOIRE: GBAGBO CONTINUES TO PUSH HIS OWN [...] (U) On January 22 President Gbagbo met with the diplomatic corps to receive their New Year,s greetings. In his speech for the occasion, Gbagbo reiterated the proposals for resolving Cote d,Ivoire,s crisis that he had first put forward December 19 (reftel). Once again, he called for direct di [...]	2007-01-25 14:56:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ASEC IV
07ABIDJAN880	ASSESSING THE STRENGTH OF THE FORCES NOUVELLES, [...] (C) Summary. An Embassy team composed of Charge Vicki Huddleston and Econ Chief Ervin Massinga to the Bouake and Korhogo regions, both under Forces Nouvelles (FN) control, and spoke to United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (ONUCI),non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and Rassamblement [...]	2007-08-21 16:55:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPKO IV
07ABIDJAN892	COTE D'IVOIRE: MINISTRY OF DEFENSE SEEKS U.S. [...] (C) Summary. Henri Ettien Amoikon, Director of the Minister of Defense's Cabinet, told Poloff August 21 that President Gbagbo told members of the Armed Forces (FANCI - Forces Armees Nationales de Cote d'Ivoire) August 14 that the Ivorian state will pay its year-long arrears of soldiers' bonus [...]	2007-08-23 15:02:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR MASS IV
07ABIDJAN895	ASSESSING THE POLITICAL IMPACT OF THE ONGOING [...] (C) Summary. World Food Program, UNited Nations Operations in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) and private business leaders in the "Greater West" region, which straddles the "Green Line" and encompasses the extreme western portion of the former "Zone of Confidence," concur that the situation remains v [...]	2007-08-24 12:01:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF EAID PREL PHUM IV
07ABIDJAN900	COTE D'IVOIRE: VIEWS ON ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary. Deputy Director of the Presidential Cabinet Sarata Ottro Toure told Poloff August 23 that President Laurent Gbagbo is committed to holding elections and that it is possible to hold elections by December 2007 or January 2008. Toure said that, since the 2000 elections were the most [...]	2007-08-24 17:29:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IV
07ABIDJAN906	COTE D'IVOIRE: UDPCI SECGEN FORECASTS VIOLENCE IF [...] (C) Summary. Alassane Salif N'Diaye, Secretary General of the opposition political party Union for Democracy and Peace in Cote d'Ivoire (Union Pour la Democratie et pour la Paix en Cote d'Ivoire - UDPCI),told Poloffs August 24 that the UDPCI supports the Ouagadougou Political Accord (OPA),but [...]	2007-08-28 13:59:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IV
07ABIDJAN909	COTE D'IVOIRE: EXPRESSED HOPE, ANXIETY FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: At an August 18 ceremony in his honor in the far northern city of Ferkessedougou, Prime Minister Guillaume Soro announced that the audiences foraines (tribunals that will issue replacement birth certificates) will resume the beginning of September after the government's recess. [...]	2007-08-29 10:53:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UN IV
07ABIDJAN913	WORLD BANK, EU LEAD DONORS' POST CONFLICT EFFORTS; [...] (C) Summary. The World Bank, European Union (EU) and the United National Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) held two closely-related meetings in the past 10 days on post-crisis coordination, where participants were unanimous in their frustration at the slow pace of progress. Identification [...]	2007-08-29 16:54:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN IDB IV PREL
07ABIDJAN935	ELECTIONS PLANNING IN COTE D'IVOIRE: WHO'S IN [...] (C) Summary: The composition and responsibilities of the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI),the main body responsible for organizing elections in Cote d'Ivoire, has been highly politicized and subject to contentious infighting since the crisis erupted in 2002. The CEI is composed of memb [...]	2007-09-05 16:49:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM UN IV
07ABIDJAN95	INCREASING U.S. SUPPORT FOR COTE D'IVOIRE'S [...] (U) Post strongly supports the IFES proposal for a two-year project to expand U.S. support for the electoral process in Cote d,Ivoire. 2. (U) IFES has done excellent work in the first phase of this project. In particular, the Prime Minister,s Secretary General wrote to us that the roundtab [...]	2007-01-26 14:34:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PHUM PREL PGOV IV
07ABIDJAN955	COTE D'IVOIRE: FPI THINKS ELECTIONS WILL SOLVE [...] (C) Summary. Ivorian Popular Front (Front Populaire Ivoirien - FPI) Secretary General Sylvain Miaka Ouretto told Poloff September 7 that the FPI is not "against France," but that France should treat Cote d'Ivoire as a partner. Ouretto said elections are the solution to Cote d'Ivoire's crisis [...]	2007-09-11 16:54:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IV
07ABIDJAN962	COTE D'IVOIRE: FRANCE'S VIEW [...] (C) Summary. French Deputy Chief of Mission Sebastien Minot told Poloff September 11 that the differences in the positions of the Ivorian government and the Forces Nouvelles on disarmament and identification may be difficult to reconcile and could derail the Ouagadougou Political Accord (OPA) [...]	2007-09-13 16:41:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IV FR
07ABIDJAN995	COTE D'IVOIRE: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS BY OCTOBER [...] (SBU) Summary: Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) President Robert Mambe announced September 13 that Cote d'Ivoire will be ready for presidential elections by October 2008. Mambe has always asserted that it would take 10-12 months to complete the identification and voter registration pro [...]	2007-09-25 15:28:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UN IV
07ABUDHABI1007	FOLLOW UP DEMARCHE REGARDING CONTINUED ARABSAT [...] (C) On June 18, Econchief expressed the USG's serious concern about the continued operation of Iraqi insurgent television "Al Zawraa" on ArabSat to MFA Acting U/S Tariq Al-Haidan. Econchief stressed the need for immediate action to remove it from the air in Iraq. Econchief also underscored U [...]	2007-06-18 11:40:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL KPAO ETTC PREL PTER AE
07ABUDHABI1021	WILL UAE ENERGY NEEDS PROMPT IRAN-UAE GAS DEAL? [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Iran has expressed interest in improving energy cooperation with the UAE and has had "on again off again" discussions with the Emirate of Abu Dhabi about gas purchase agreements. However, Abu Dhabi authorities are skeptical about the reliability of the Iranians [...]	2007-06-20 10:12:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG PREL ECON IR AE
07ABUDHABI1123	DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO UAE FOR DELAY OR WITHDRAWAL [...] (C) On July 4, Ambassador contacted UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mohammed Hussein Al-Shaali to inform him of USG concerns related to the UAEG's notification to the UNSC 1737 Sanctions committee to unfreeze certain Sepah-related funds. Ambassador asked that the UAEG delay or with [...]	2007-07-04 09:15:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM AADP IR AE
07ABUDHABI1126	EMIRATES FOUNDATION: PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS [...] (C) On June 28 Emboffs met with Peter Cleaves, Emirates Foundation CEO, to discuss the Foundation,s plans to advance intellectual and social growth in the UAE. The Emirates Foundation, launched in 2005 by Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ),has an endowment of over USD 100 [...]	2007-07-05 12:28:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID SOCI SCUL AE
07ABUDHABI1127	ABU DHABI MOVING FORWARD ON SOVEREIGN BOND ISSUE [...] (C) Summary: Fitch and Standard & Poor's have both given the Emirate of Abu Dhabi the highest sovereign rating (AA) in the region. They have noted the emirate's strong financial situation, but have expressed concern about regional political risks and the general lack of fiscal transparency i [...]	2007-07-05 12:29:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EINV AE
07ABUDHABI1159	UAEG TO STUDY U.S., GERMAN TEMPORARY WORKER PROGRAMS [...] (C) Summary: On July 4, Econoff met with Alex Zalamy, Advisor to the UAE Minister of Labor, to discuss guest workers and the changes being made to the current labor law to help protect foreign workers. Zalamy explained that foreign workers are "temporary" workers, not "immigrant" workers and [...]	2007-07-12 07:59:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PHUM PREL ETRD AE
07ABUDHABI1162	UAE CONCERNS ABOUT "NOPEC" AND LAW SUITS [...] (C) On July 10, Econchief met with Ministry of Energy Director of Economic Affairs Hamdan Al-Akbari to discuss NOPEC legislation and oil market issues. Econchief explained administration opposition to "NOPEC," but also stressed the context underlying Congressional consideration of the legisla [...]	2007-07-12 11:22:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV AE
07ABUDHABI1163	DOLPHIN GAS ARRIVES IN UAE & ABU DHABI CONSIDERS [...] (SBU) Dolphin Energy announced on July 10 that it was now sending natural gas from its production wells in Qatar's North field to the UAE. According to the press release, Dolphin Energy is now processing the gas at its "dedicated gas processing plant in Qatar's Ras Laffan Industrial City - th [...]	2007-07-12 14:45:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON AE
07ABUDHABI1177	FOREIGN MINISTER ABDULLAH ON GCC +2, SYRIA, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador spoke with Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) on July 14 evening to discuss the planned GCC 2 meeting (Ref A),his upcoming trip to Syria with UAE President Khalifa, and Pakistan. END SUMMARY. GCC 2; Israeli-Palestinian Issue ----------------------- [...]	2007-07-16 12:29:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ IS SY PK AE
07ABUDHABI1191	UAE REACTION TO POTUS 7/16 REMARKS [...] (C) Reactions from UAE political contacts on President Bush's July 16 call for an international coference on the Middle East have been generally positive, although UAE media reaction has been skeptical. Ambassador spoke with UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed twice on 7/17 evening v [...]	2007-07-18 09:26:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL AE
07ABUDHABI1306	OMV AND THE UAE [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-06 14:25:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ETTC PREL IR AU AE
07ABUDHABI1323	ASSISTANCE FOR THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY GOVERNMENT [...] (C) On August 9, CDA conveyed points on UAE financial assistance to the PA to MFA Assistant Under Secretary for International Cooperation, Mohammad Abdul Rahim Abdul Jalil, temporarily the ranking official present at the Ministry. After first remonstrating that the UAE has "already done a lot [...]	2007-08-09 12:42:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID KPAL XF AE
07ABUDHABI1324	ASSISTANCE FOR THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY GOVERNMENT [...] (C) On August 9, CDA conveyed points on UAE financial assistance to the PA to MFA Assistant Under Secretary for International Cooperation, Mohammad Abdul Rahim Abdul Jalil, temporarily the ranking official present at the Ministry. After first remonstrating that the UAE has "already done a lot [...]	2007-08-09 12:43:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID KPAL XF AE
07ABUDHABI1338	ABU DHABI GOVERNMENT UNVEILS ITS "POLICY AGENDA 2007-2008" [...] (U) Ambassadors and Charges of foreign embassies in Abu Dhabi were called to a meeting on August 6 at the Emirates Palace Hotel for a roll-out on its new "Emirate of Abu Dhabi Policy Agenda 2007-2008." Diplomats were given a half-hour powerpoint presentation followed by brief Q&A on the Abu Dha [...]	2007-08-09 14:23:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SCUL SOCI AE
07ABUDHABI1377	ABU DHABI CROWN PRINCE SENIOR ADVISOR REVIEWS [...] (C) CODEL Graham (Sen. Lindsey Graham, Rep. Henry Wood, and Rep. Robert Ingilis -- all R-SC) discussed Iran, Iraq, and economic issues August 12 with Yousef al-Otaiba, International Affairs Director for Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ). Citing the mutual benefits of UAE invest [...]	2007-08-16 15:00:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF ETRD IZ AE
07ABUDHABI1453	UAE RESPONSE TO IRAQI LEADERS AGREEMENT [...] (C) Charge urged a supportive UAE public statement on the Iraqi Leaders Agreement with MFA Acting U/S Tariq Al Haidan on August 28, 29 and again on August 30. Al Haidan initially offered his frank opinion that it would be difficult ("Do we always have to make public statements?"),but after C [...]	2007-08-30 12:59:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU IZ AL XF AE
07ABUDHABI1454	IPIC SHARES CONCERN ABOUT IRAN [...] (C) Summary: International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) Managing Director told Econchief that he shared USG concerns about Iranian nuclear ambitions and the problems with oil and gas deals with Iran. He said that he had raised these concerns with the board of the Austrian company OMV a [...]	2007-08-30 13:11:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ETTC PREL IR AU AE
07ABUDHABI1512	CODEL JACKSON-LEE HEARS OF DUBAI'S AMBITIONS TO BE [...] (C) Summary: Representatives Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) and Adrian Smith (R-NE) reviewed Dubai priorities with Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Mohammed al-Gergawi (Chairman of para-statal Dubai Holdings and key aide to Dubai Ruler and UAE VP and PM Mohammed bin Rashid) on September 3. T [...]	2007-09-10 14:02:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD MARR SCUL OVIP MO SU TS AE
07ABUDHABI1517	PUTIN PAYS A CALL ON UAE LEADERSHIP [...] (SBU) Russian President Vladimir Putin made a six-hour stop in Abu Dhabi September 10, on his return from the APEC Summit in Australia. The visit was the first by a Russian head of state since the UAE gained independence in 1971. Putin lunched with UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed and [...]	2007-09-11 13:35:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD RS AE
07ABUDHABI1539	MIXED PICTURE FROM ACTIVISTS ON UAE ANTI-TIP [...] (C) Summary: Recent conversations with Ansar Burney (head of a Pakistani trust who focuses on the camel jockey issue in the UAE) and Sharla Musabih (who runs a shelter for abused women in Dubai),highlight the complex nature of the TIP problem in the UAE, as well as positive yet limited offi [...]	2007-09-13 13:14:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KCRM ELAB UN AE
07ABUDHABI1567	UAE DISMISSES ACADEMICS WITH PRESUMED ISLAMIST [...] (C) Summary: Reports of educators removed from the classroom for alleged "Islamist" tendencies are circulating in the UAE, with estimates of the number of those dismissed reaching as high as 92. One English teacher well known to the PA Section was told not to report to work when the new sem [...]	2007-09-20 05:51:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER SCUL AE
07ABUDHABI1568	UNICEF FOCUSED ON "PHASE TWO" OF CAMEL JOCKEY [...] (C) Summary: UNICEF's new Chief of Child Protection in Abu Dhabi has ambitious goals regarding the implementation of "phase two" of the camel jockey repatriation program, which he hopes will involve mapping of the camel farms and better tracking of victims. He commended the UAEG for the suc [...]	2007-09-20 05:51:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KCRM ELAB UN AE
07ABUDHABI157	SEEKING ARAB SUPPORT FOR SOMALIA - UAE [...] (C) DCM discussed reftel demarche with Acting MFA Under Secretary Tareq Al-Haidan, urging the UAE to provide SIPDIS immediate financial assistance via the African Union to support the AU Mission in Somalia. Al-Haidan replied that the UAE has received a number of requests for assistance to [...]	2007-02-01 13:09:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PHUM PREL SO AE
07ABUDHABI1656	SHEIKH KHALIFA EXPRESSES "KEEN SUPPORT" FOR LEBANESE [...] (SBU) On October 1 Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora met with UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan to discuss UAE support for Lebanon's stabilization, reconstruction, and security. Siniora's visit is part of a regional tour with a first stop in the UAE. Among topics discussed w [...]	2007-10-02 14:10:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAD LE AE
07ABUDHABI1687	AMABASSADOR LAGON'S VISIT TO UAE KEEPS SHARP FOCUS [...] (C) During a September 24 through 25 visit to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, Ambassador Mark Lagon, Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP),addressed USG concerns regarding UAEG's progress in combating trafficking in persons (TIP) with both Federal and Emirate level [...]	2007-10-10 05:33:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KCRM ELAB UN AE
07ABUDHABI1688	PACING THE UAE'S POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT [...] (C) Minister of State for Federal National Council (FNC) Affairs Anwar Gargash told a USG delegation (including Ambassador-at-large for Trafficking-in-Persons Lagon, NEA/ARP Director Steinfeld, Ambassador Sison, and Dubai Consul General Sutphin) that political development naturally lagged beh [...]	2007-10-10 05:47:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM KMPI AE
07ABUDHABI1822	UAE RECEIVES ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT DEMARCHE [...] (C) On November 1, Econchief raised the issue of the Arab League Boycott with Ministry of Economy Under Secretary Abdullah Al-Salah and stressed the USG view that the Arab League Boycott was an obstacle to peace and a barrier to participating in the global economy. Al-Salah reiterated the UAE [...]	2007-11-01 13:23:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PREL KBCT AE
07ABUDHABI1827	INCREASED COSTS AND DELAYS FACTORED IN TO U.S. [...] (C) Summary. On 25 October 2007, Treasury Attach Matthew Epstein and Econ Chief Oliver John met with Mubadala Chief Operating Officer (COO) Walid al Mokarrab and Executive Affairs Authority Director of Strategic Communications Simon Pearce. Treasury Attach and Econ Chief stressed USG commitme [...]	2007-11-04 10:04:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV AE
07ABUDHABI1838	UAE: FOLLOW-UP ACTION REQUEST ON ILLICIT CASH [...] (C) Summary: Post has worked with the UAEG to have it focus on the issue of bulk cash smuggling. DHS/ICE has twice provided training to customs officials and DOJ/OPDAT will be providing money laundering prosecutorial training this December (which will have a bulk cash smuggling component). The USG [...]	2007-11-05 10:25:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER KCRM PREL AE
07ABUDHABI1859	RESOURCE NATIONALISM IN THE UAE [...] (C) The question of resource nationalism in the UAE is complicated by the federal nature of the country. Constitutionally, natural resources belong to the individual emirates rather than the UAE Federal Government. Each emirate, therefore, sets its own policies with regard to oil and gas deve [...]	2007-11-07 09:46:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV PGOV AE
07ABUDHABI1869	KEEPING THE FOCUS ON FREEDOM -- UAE DEMOCRATIC [...] (C) Summary: This message reflects priorities in the U.S. Mission to the UAE's Democracy Strategy, originally designed in 2005 (ref J) and substantially updated in July, 2007 (ref F). It is designed to guide the practical application of resources, both programmatic and diplomatic, in pursui [...]	2007-11-08 13:48:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM KMPI PGOV ELAB PHUM KPAO AE
07ABUDHABI1881	ABU DHABI COMMERCIAL BANK REDUCING IRAN EXPOSURE; [...] (C) Summary. Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank sees dirham revaluation as inevitable. Subprime fallout starting to affect regional banks. CEO announces "no new Iran activity -- zero." End Summary. 2. (C) On 13 November 2007, Treasury Attach Matthew Epstein met with Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) [...]	2007-11-14 10:49:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	AE ECON IR KTFN PREL PTER
07ABUDHABI1898	UAE SKEPTICISM ON SOVEREIGN WEALTH INITIATIVES; [...] (C) Summary. UAE government and finance officials remain skeptical over U.S. and international sovereign wealth fund initiatives, but eagerly await additional details to further evaluate. UAE-based investment firms cite increased political risk surrounding foreign investment in the U.S., and ar [...]	2007-11-19 11:53:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	AE ECON EFIN KTFN PREL PTER EINV
07ABUDHABI1899	ADIA APPROVES SWF TRILATERAL GROUP; NO DECISION [...] (C) Summary. Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) Managing Director Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed al Nahyan green lighted UAE's participation in a sovereign wealth fund (SWF) trilateral group proposed by Treasury U/S McCormick (ref). The proposed consultative group will include ADIA, the Government [...]	2007-11-19 12:16:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	AE ECON
07ABUDHABI1914	MINISTER FOR PRESIDENTIAL AFFAIRS TO HEAD NEW UAE [...] (U) On November 21, the UAE cabinet approved the appointment of Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, Minster of Presidential Affairs, as chairman of the Emirates Investment Authority (EIA). The UAE established the EIA on November 13 to invest funds on behalf of the federal government. Accordin [...]	2007-11-21 13:46:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EINV ECON AE
07ABUDHABI1922	UAE ENERGY MINISTER ON OPEC AND OIL PRODUCTION [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador, accompanied by Econchief, met with UAE Energy Minister Mohammed bin Dha'en Al-Hamili on November 25. Al-Hamili argued that OPEC was not setting prices and that there was a USD 15-20 per barrel "political" premium on oil prices. He stated that price volatility complic [...]	2007-11-26 05:25:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON AE
07ABUDHABI1927	UAE ENERGY MINISTER ON GUARDIAN INDUSTRIES AND [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 25, Ambassador pressed UAE Energy Minister Mohammed bin Dha'en Al-Hamili to try and resolve a critical lack of electricity for Michigan-based Guardian Industry's USD 150 million investment in Ras Al-Khaimah. Al-Hamili expressed his sympathy, but explained that devel [...]	2007-11-26 11:26:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EINV IR AE
07ABUDHABI1942	DEMARCHE ON U.S.-IRAQ BILATERAL RELATIONS [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-28 13:25:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL PGOV AE
07ABUDHABI195	ABU DHABI FUND FOR DEVELOPMENT: PROJECTS IN LEBANON, [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-07 11:45:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL EAID PHUM LE AF YM AE
07ABUDHABI1954	UAE REVIEW OF LIBERTAD ACT [...] (SBU) The UAE maintains diplomatic relations with Cuba, but neither country has an embassy present in the other country. The Cuban Embassy in Cairo handles diplomatic communications and -- according to the UAE MFA -- the UAE Ambassador in Brazil is accredited to Cuba. 2. (C) Embassy respon [...]	2007-11-30 13:15:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL CU AE
07ABUDHABI197	ABU DHABI FUND FOR DEVELOPMENT: PROJECTS IN LEBANON, [...] (C) On February 6, Econoff met with Ahmed Hussain Al Baker, Acting Director General of the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (Fund) to discuss the Fund's assistance to Lebanon and Afghanistan. The UAEG pledged $300 million in soft loans to Lebanon during the Paris Donors' conference. Al Baker sa [...]	2007-02-07 12:51:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL EAID PHUM LE AF YM AE
07ABUDHABI1999	UAE Foreign Minister on Paris Donors' Conference, Iran, and [...] (C) In a one-on-one meeting with Ambassador December 13 afternoon, Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) covered regional issues, including support for the Palestinian Authority, the Iranian President's appearance at the recent GCC Summit, the NIE, and the need to encourage rapid Lebanese p [...]	2007-12-13 13:40:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG KPAL PARM MNUC KNNP IS IR AE
07ABUDHABI2002	UAE Human Rights Association fractures while former [...] (C) Four out of seven board members of the only human rights association in the UAE resigned December 4, putting into effect a public welfare law that forced closure of the Emirates Human Rights Association (EHRA). Disgruntled board members cited lack of transparency and intolerance for oppo [...]	2007-12-13 15:36:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ELAB KPMI PREL PGOV AE
07ABUDHABI209	DEMARCHE ON ARABSAT BROADCASTING OF AL-ZAWRAA TV [...] (C) On February 8 DCM expressed U.S. deep concern about "Al Zawraa" to MFA Acting U/S Tariq Al Haidan, who was already well informed on the Iraqi pro-insurgency station's activity. Al Haidan took points on board but said the U.S. must deal with station owner Misha'an Al Juburi, member of Ira [...]	2007-02-11 06:24:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC KPAL KPAO ETTC AE
07ABUDHABI228	HAMAS AND FATAH AGREE IN PRINCIPLE TO NATIONAL UNITY [...] (C) Ambassador spoke to Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) on February 11 to relay reftel themes on the Hamas-Fatah agreement in principle for a National Unity Govenrment (NUG). The UAEG has issued two press releases regarding the Hamas-Fatah Agreement, and Abu Mazen has spoken t [...]	2007-02-12 12:54:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL KPAL PREL IS AE
07ABUDHABI229	SLOW MOVEMENT ON NATIONAL-LEVEL CRISIS MANAGEMENT [...] (C) During a February 8 call on Interior Minister Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, Ambassador inquired about the UAE's national crisis management system -- the planning for which began in early 2005 but which has not seen any progress other than the establishment of a National Security Council [...]	2007-02-12 13:08:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER KCIP ASEC AE
07ABUDHABI230	UAE INTERIOR MINISTER TROUBLED BY TIP REPORT [...] (C) Ambassador called on Interior Minister Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al-Nahayan on February 8 and requested his assistance in preparing for the 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report. Ambassador informed him of the reporting deadlines and requested his ministry's assistance in providing statistics reg [...]	2007-02-12 13:13:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ELAB KCRM KWMN SMIG AE
07ABUDHABI275	UAE CREATES "COMMODITY CONTROL COMMITTEE" [...] (C) SUMMARY: On 14 February, the UAE provided a letter outlining the creation of a federal "Executive Committee on Commodity Control Procedures" to manage and oversee UAE export controls. The committee shares most of its objectives and many of its members with the existing Counterproliferatio [...]	2007-02-15 14:50:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETTC IR AE
07ABUDHABI302	UAE ACTIONS ON 1737 ENFORCEMENT [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (C) On February 19, MFA Acting U/S Tariq Al-Haidan told Ambassador that Director Dubai General Department of State Security (and Chair of the UAE's non proliferation and commodity control committees) BG Mohammed Al-Qamzi had chaired a UN [...]	2007-02-21 13:34:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM ETTC PREL MNUC IR AE
07ABUDHABI324	UAE OFFICIALS SIGN AGREEMENT FOR $300 MILLION LOAN TO [...] (U) On February 20, 2007, the UAE signed an agreement to extend a $300 million "easy-term" loan to Lebanon, which the UAE pledged at the January 25 Paris donors' conference. According to local press reports, the loan will be repayable in 20 years at a 2.5 percent interest rate plus 0.5 percent [...]	2007-02-25 14:13:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PHUM LE AE
07ABUDHABI35	FM ABDULLAH VISITS TEHRAN [...] (C) Summary: During a January 9 visit to Tehran, Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (AbZ) met with Iranian President Ahmadinejad and Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki to discuss "regional cooperation and stability." AbZ told Ambassador that he made a "forceful" argument to [...]	2007-01-10 14:45:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP IR AE
07ABUDHABI361	UAE RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON ARAB LEAGUE FOREIGN [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-02 11:45:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AE
07ABUDHABI383	UAE BREAKS-UP DRUG MONEY LAUNDERING RING [...] (C) In a move widely reported by the UAE press on February 26, Dubai police broke up an international money laundering ring using the UAE's financial system. Ahmed Al-Qamzi, Head of the Central Bank's Anti Money Laundering and Suspicious Cases Unit's International Division told econchief that [...]	2007-03-08 06:47:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR KCRM EFIN CASC AE
07ABUDHABI387	UAE OFFICIALS DISCUSS GCC MONETARY UNION WITH [...] (C) Summary. On January 21 and 22, UAEG officials and local economists discussed perspective on challenges to the planned 2010 GCC currency union and the peg to the dollar. UAEG officials, while acknowledging the difficulties facing the currency union argued that its benefits outweighed the c [...]	2007-03-08 10:42:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EINV ETRD ECON AE
07ABUDHABI421	MINSTER OF ECONOMY SEEKS U.S. ASSISTANCE TO [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-13 13:02:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC ETRD PREL PGOV PARM IR AE
07ABUDHABI465	ASSESSMENT OF TAQA AND BOARD MEMBERS FOR OPIC [...] (SBU) Embassy offers the following comments about the Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (Taqa),the Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA),the Farmers' Fund, and board members in response to ref a request for information. We do not have any information on the entities or individual [...]	2007-03-19 09:46:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ENRG EFIN AE
07ABUDHABI467	ABU DHABI PLANS BOND ISSUANCE [...] (C) On March 4, Abu Dhabi Department of Finance Under Secretary (and Executive Council member) Hamad Al-Hurr SIPDIS Al-Suwaidi told econchief and Treasury Regional Debt Advisor that the Emirate of Abu Dhabi was approaching investment banks about issuing dollar denominated bonds for general [...]	2007-03-19 10:21:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EINV AE
07ABUDHABI486	SUPPORT FOR UAE TRANSFER OF HUMVEES TO YEMEN [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-21 13:14:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS MOPS YE AE
07ABUDHABI507	ARAB LEAGUE MINISTERIAL AND SUMMIT IN RIYADH -- UAE [...] (C) On March 25 DCM discussed reftel points with MFA Acting U/S Tariq Al Haidan. On Iraq, Al Haidan predicted the Arab League meeting in Riyadh would issue a communique based on the following four principles: (1) Unity of Iraq for all Iraqis; (2) Dissolution of all Iraqi militias includin [...]	2007-03-26 11:56:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PREL AE
07ABUDHABI510	INFORMATION REGARDING THE ADOPTION OF UNSCR 1747 [...] (C) On March 25, DCM delivered reftel non-paper and copy of the resolution to MFA Acting U/S Tariq Al Haidan who opined that while it was a good thing that the sanctions presented a unified approach from the world community, he very much doubted that Iran would be moved in a positive direction [...]	2007-03-26 13:11:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP EFIN PARM MNUC TRGY AORC AE
07ABUDHABI620	FEDERAL NATIONAL COUNCIL (FNC) SPEAKER DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary: On April 12 Ambassador and PolOff called on the Speaker of the Federal National Council (FNC),Abdul Aziz Al-Ghurair, who is also the CEO of the largest private bank in the UAE, at his offices in Dubai. The Speaker described the UAE's path to democracy and full elections of the FN [...]	2007-04-16 10:49:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ETTC AE
07ABUDHABI635	UAE VICE-PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER UNVEILS NEW [...] (C) Summary: On April 17, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (MbR),Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, presented a new government strategy to UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The plan, developed by the UAE Cabinet, covered six areas: 1) soci [...]	2007-04-17 14:09:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB ECON PREL PHUM EINV SCUL AE
07ABUDHABI683	INTERNATIONAL COMPACT ON IRAQ (ICI) - UAE ATTENDANCE AND [...] (C) On April 19 Ambassador spoke to UAE FM Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) to press for high level attendance at the May 3 International Compact on Iraq, preferably AbZ himself. Ambassador also raised the issue of UAE's forgiveness of Iraqi debt (Paris Club terms, following Saudi Arabia's April 17 ann [...]	2007-04-24 15:48:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID EFIN IR PGOV PREL IZ AE
07ABUDHABI69	UAE AVOIDS USING AIR ROUTES OVER DISPUTED UAE-IRANIAN [...] (C) Summary. In an apparent reaction to disagreements between the UAE and Iran regarding jurisdiction over air routes passing near the disputed island of Abu Musa, the UAEG has reportedly ceased using a major air corridor over the Gulf. The change adds pressure to an already congested air cor [...]	2007-01-18 13:17:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR PREL ECON IR AE

07ABUDHABI70	UAE AVOIDS USING AIR ROUTES OVER DISPUTED UAE-IRANIAN [...] (C) Summary. In an apparent reaction to disagreements between the UAE and Iran regarding jurisdiction over air routes passing near the disputed island of Abu Musa, the UAEG has reportedly ceased using a major air corridor over the Gulf. The change adds pressure to an already congested air cor [...]	2007-01-18 13:17:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR PREL ECON IR AE
07ABUDHABI718	INTERNATIONAL COMPACT FOR IRAQ -- NO UAE DEBT [...] (C) Summary: The UAE will be represented by Minister for Governmental Sector Development Sultan Al-Mansouri at the ICI signing ceremony. He will not have authorization to make any public commitment to Iraqi debt relief. However, the UAE is not asking Iraq to service its debt, nor is interest [...]	2007-05-01 13:25:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID EFIN ECON PREL IZ AE
07ABUDHABI737	IRANIAN FM MOTTAKI VISITS UAE [...] (U) Summary: On May 2, UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan received Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki at his palace in Al Ain. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ) and Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) also attended. AbZ told Ambassador that the meetings focused [...]	2007-05-03 13:31:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR AE
07ABUDHABI766	ASSSESMENT OF UAE POSITION ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-10 10:51:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC AE
07ABUDHABI818	EXERCISING STRONGER VIGILANCE AND RESTRAINT WHEN [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-20 07:58:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM AE
07ABUDHABI839	ACTION REQUEST: CUBA:COUNTRY REVIEW FOR TITLE III [...] (C) UAE maintains diplomatic relations with Cuba. The Cuban Embassy in Cairo is accredited to the UAE, and the UAE Embassy in Cairo handles diplomatic communications. According to the UAE MFA's senior Americas, Desk Officer Rowda Al-Otaiba, the Deputy Director of the Department of Middle East [...]	2007-05-21 13:08:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL
07ABUDHABI857	UAE RESPONSE TO URGENT REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE TO [...] (U) ACTION REQUEST -- See para 4. 2. (SBU) On May 23 we stressed the urgency of assistance to the LAF with both Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) and the Crown Prince's office. Ambassador spoke first with Col. (Ret.) Jack McGuinness, Military Advisor to Abu Dhabi Crown Prince/Dep [...]	2007-05-23 14:14:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MASS LE AE
07ABUDHABI858	UAE RESPONSE TO SUPPORT FOR UNSC ACTION ON SPECIAL [...] (C) Ambassador spoke to Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) via telephone on May 23 to ask that the UAE urge Qatar to support immediate UNSC action to establish the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. Ambassador encouraged the UAEG to support publicly UN Security Council action to esta [...]	2007-05-23 15:12:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER LE AE
07ABUDHABI876	FOLLOW-UP ON UAE RESPONSE TO LEBANESE REQUEST FOR [...] (U) Action request. Please see paras 9 and 10. 2. (C) On May 24, Col. Jack McGuinness (Ret.),Military Advisor to Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ),provided Embassy with the text of a message he sent to UAE Director Military Intelligence Brigadier Eissa Saif al Mazrouie an [...]	2007-05-24 14:03:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS LE AE
07ABUDHABI949	THE NEW MOHAMMAD BIN RASHID FOUNDATION: A $10 BILLION [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: This is a joint Embassy-ConGen Dubai message. Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al-Maktoum (MbR),UAE Vice President, Prime Minister, and Ruler of Dubai, on May 19 announced the establishment of the USD 10 billion Mohammed Bin Rashid Foundation (MbRF) to improve education, cr [...]	2007-06-07 14:33:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON SOCI SCUL AE
07ABUDHABI979	ABU DHABI CROWN PRINCE REACHES OUT ON CT PLANNING [...] (C) Summary. Senior advisors to Mohamed bin Zayed al Nahyan (MbZ),Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, met with Embassy representatives on two recent occasions to seek information related to USG capability and response to a terrorist incident in the UAE in [...]	2007-06-14 11:21:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC AE
07ABUJA1012	NIGERIA ELECTION AFTERMATH: FURTHER SUGGESTIONS [...] (C) As both international and domestic observers reported, the April elections took place in a political environment of manipulation, bribery, intimidation and outright fraud. Independent observers (including IRI and NDI) have been clear in their assessments of the shortcomings of the electi [...]	2007-05-22 15:41:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM NI
07ABUJA102	ECOWAS ELECTIONS ACTIVITIES [...] (U) Summary: ECOWAS has established an Electoral Assistance Unit within its Commission for Political Affairs, Defense, and Security. The unit is preparing to field assesment teams to seven presidential and legislative elections in the subregion in 2007, including Nigeria's April polls. Form [...]	2007-01-18 13:26:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA1020	A/S FRAZER VISIT UPDATE [...] (U) U.S. Embassy Abuja warmly welcomes Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer and AF SIPDIS Special Assistant Fatuma Sanneh, who will visit Nigeria May 28-30 for the Presidential Inauguration. Country clearance information and a scenesetter will be transmitted sep [...]	2007-05-23 13:08:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	OTRA OVIP NI
07ABUJA1056	NIGERIA: SCENESETTER FOR A/S FRAZER'S MAY 28-30 [...] (C) U.S. Embassy Abuja warmly welcomes Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer and SIPDIS Special Assistant Fatuma Sanneh, who will visit Nigeria for the May 29 presidential inauguration. Your trip comes during a time of political tension and confusion. The April 1 [...]	2007-05-25 13:41:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NI
07ABUJA1057	IMAM ATTACKED BY WORSHIPPERS AT KADUNA MOSQUE [...] (U) BBC radio reported that the Imam at the Suleiman Bello Mosque in Kaduna, one of the city's prominent mosques, was attacked and beaten by worshippers at the Friday prayers on May 18. 2. (C) A contact from Kaduna who was at the mosque described the incident to PolCouns as politically [...]	2007-05-25 13:43:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA1065	PDP POLICY RALLY FOR THE NEWLY ELECTED [...] (C) On May 19, Poloff attended the PDP Policy Retreat for the newly elected members of the PDP held in Abuja at the International Conference Center. The Keynote speaker was former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and current lobbyist/chairman of Goodworks International Andrew Young. The [...]	2007-05-30 13:07:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM NI PGOV ELECTIONS
07ABUJA112	CHIEFS OF MISSION ON ELECTIONS, DELTA SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY. On January 17, the Ambassador met with a small group of Chiefs of Mission (COMs) to discuss preparations and outlook for the April elections and the security situation in the Delta. All present agreed that preparation for a credible April election is deficient, though it was no [...]	2007-01-18 16:13:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA1155	NIGERIA: LABOR LEADERS EXPLAIN POST-ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY. President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Adulwaheed Ibrahim Omar and President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) Peter Esele told Poloff they had made a conscious decision not to call their union members into the street following the April elections. The labor leaders soug [...]	2007-06-07 13:22:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL KDEM NI
07ABUJA1157	NIGERIA: SENATOR NELSON MEETS WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. On June 2, Senator Bill Nelson met with Nigerian newly-elected President Umaru Musa Yar'adua. Yar'adua said that poverty alleviation is a priority in his administration in order to stop the spread of Islamic fundamentalism. He looked forward to greater intelligence cooperation b [...]	2007-06-08 07:02:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EPET ENGR PTER NI
07ABUJA1162	AMBASSADORIAL MEETING WITH NSA MUKHTAR ON HOSTAGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to their request, Nigerian National Security Advisor General Abdullahi Mukhtar convened a meeting of Ambassadors from countries currently affected by hostage taking in the Niger Delta. He stressed that the GON knows the identities of the expatriates in captivity and [...]	2007-06-08 11:00:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC EPET PGOV PTER NI
07ABUJA1169	A/S FRAZER'S MAY 29 MEETING WITH NIGERIAN CIVIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: A/S Frazer met on May 29 with representatives of civil society groups that had been involved in the 2007 elections. While the participants disagreed amongst themselves on many of the issues surrounding the elections, they agreed that the Nigerian electorate had been, in effect, [...]	2007-06-11 15:08:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA1170	SENATOR SARAKI OFFERS VIEWS ON YAR,ADUA, NATIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff met with Kwara Senator Gbemisola Saraki-Fowora of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) June 6 to discuss her views on the April elections, the Yar'adua administration, and the events leading up to the inaugural session of the Nigerian National Assembly (NASS). Senator Sara [...]	2007-06-11 15:27:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA123	NIGERIA: HALF OF ELIGIBLE VOTERS REGISTERED [...] (C) Summary: Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has registered 35 million voters as of January 18. However, IFES has serious concerns about data quality and the transfer of data from 40,000 registration machines into a central database to form the voters roll. [...]	2007-01-19 12:48:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07ABUJA1252	SIXTH NIGERIAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OPEN FOR BUSINESS [...] (C) Summary: Nigeria's National Assembly, which began its sixth session on June 5, faces high turnover in its ranks. NASS leadership elections held to the People's Democratic Party's (PDP) geopolitical zoning formula, with Benue Senator David Mark elected as Senate President and Osun Represent [...]	2007-06-15 11:01:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA1257	HRC: NIGERIA CONCURS IN THEORY [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-15 13:31:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNHRC NI
07ABUJA1263	NIGERIA: SEN. NELSON MEETS WITH OIL EXECS [...] (C) SUMMARY. During Senator Nelson's June 1 meeting with John Chaplin, Managing Director of ExxonMobil in Nigeria (EM) and Anne Pickard, Regional Executive Vice President for Shell Exploration and Production in Africa, the executives lamented that criminal gangs have slowed oil production and [...]	2007-06-18 09:05:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENGR EPET PREL PGOV PTER NI
07ABUJA1265	AF A/S FRAZER'S MAY 29 MEETING WITH NIGERIA PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: In a May 29 meeting with A/S Frazer, newly inaugurated President Yar'Adua said he would reform Nigeria's flawed electoral system and continue his predecessor's economic reforms. He has established peace and security in the Delta as a first priority of his administration. He in [...]	2007-06-18 11:30:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PTER NI
07ABUJA1281	THE BEAUTICIAN AND THE BRIGIDIER - NATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: This cable provides biographical details for selected Nigerian National Assembly (NASS) members. Top leaders of the sixth NASS include Senate President David Mark, Speaker of the House of Representatives Patricia Etteh, and Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu. They are all P [...]	2007-06-19 08:24:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR NI
07ABUJA1319	NIGERIA: STRIKE POSES CONCERN FOR GON AND LABOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. As the national labor strike finishes its second day, the GON appears to have dug in its heals on capitulating further to labor's demands. For its part, labor appears intransigent and may be changing its bottom line negotiating position (Ref. A). If so, the unions stand to lose [...]	2007-06-21 16:31:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB PREL PHUM ENRG ASEC NI
07ABUJA1327	NIGERIAN ISLAMIC LEADERSHIP RELUCTANTLY SUPPORTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: PolOff met on June 19 with the Secretary General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) Dr. Lateef Adegbite to discuss Nigerian Islamic leadership support for President Yar'Adua and Nigeria's participation in the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC),[...]	2007-06-22 13:55:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KISL NI
07ABUJA1350	NORTHERN UNION PUSHES UNITY GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Secretary General of the Northern Union (NU) Dr. Ibrahim Lame met with PolOff on June 22 to discuss NU pressure on recent presidential aspirants Muhammadu Buhari (ANPP) and Atiku Abubakar (AC) to join a proposed government of national unity with President Umaru Yar'Adua. While no [...]	2007-06-26 13:59:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NI
07ABUJA1366	NIGERIA: 2007 STRIKE INDICATIVE OF NEW PARADIGM? [...] (C) SUMMARY. The 2007 national labor strike (reftels) differed in some significant ways from other Nigerian national labor strikes. In particular, the 2007 strike was well-managed within the labor movement, was non-violent and resulted in a win-win agreement between the government and the la [...]	2007-06-27 15:23:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB PREL PHUM ENRG NI
07ABUJA1434	NIGERIA: YAR'ADUA'S INITIAL ANTI-CORRUPTION RECORD [...] (C) SUMMARY. With just over one month in office, President Umaru Musa Yar'adua made history when he released his declaration of assets to the public, gaining praise for his transparency and setting a high marker for other public officials. However, other of his decisions raise the question o [...]	2007-07-06 08:04:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR NI
07ABUJA1442	BRIDGEBUILDING: NIGERIAN CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM [...] (C) SUMMARY: PolOffs met on June 29 with Dr. Josiah Fearon, Anglican Archbishop of Kaduna Diocese, to discuss his work in brokering Christian-Muslim dialogue in Nigeria. Fearon decried politicians' use of faith as a campaigning tool and assessed that most inter-faith animosities in Nigeria ar [...]	2007-07-06 13:45:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF NI
07ABUJA1446	NIGERIAN SENATE RECEIVES LIST OF MINISTERIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Nigerian Senate received a list of 34 ministerial nominees from President Yar'adua on July 5 after weeks of public speculation and security vetting. The list, which does not include any reference to portfolios, is comprised predominantly of technocrats, politicians, and part [...]	2007-07-06 14:50:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR NI
07ABUJA1447	GNU STALLING AFTER PDP INTRIGUES [...] (C) Summary: The Yar'Adua government's attempt to reconcile with opposition parties and create a "government of national unity" seems to be faltering. Although representatives of the ANPP, AC, and PPA met with the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) on June 26 and 27 to negotiate terms a [...]	2007-07-06 14:54:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA1467	NIGERIA: ELECTION TRIBUNALS (PART III) - [...] (C) SUMMARY: PolOff met with a legal advisor to Buhari and Atiku, former Kaduna High Court Justice Usman Mohammed (strictly protect) who provided insight into the legal strategies Buhari and Atiku's counsels are employing as they head to the Presidential Election Tribunal, currently underway [...]	2007-07-11 11:50:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA1507	SARAKI ASSERTS YAR'ADUA'S INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) Summary: Parts of the traditional ruling circle are signaling to President Yar,adua that he must distance himself from former President Obasanjo. Some of them appear to be positioning themselves to supplant the former President,s influence. Kwara Governor Saraki on July 10 pitched the [...]	2007-07-13 11:37:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NI
07ABUJA1531	ONAIYEKAN WINS CAN ELECTION: CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) on June 19 elected Catholic Archbishop Onaiyekan as its new president, unseating incumbent Anglican Archbishop Peter Akinola. Akinola's many critics claim he was too close to former President Obasanjo to be an effective voice for Nigeri [...]	2007-07-18 09:47:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR NI KIRF
07ABUJA1533	CHIEF OJO MADUEKWE TO BE FOREIGN MINISTER? [...] (C) At a farewell dinner he hosted for the departing Israeli Ambassador and me, PDP General Secretary Ojo Maduekwe "let it be known" that he will be Nigeria's next Foreign Minister. I took the opportunity to underscore to him the importance of continued, indeed, increased Nigerian engagemen [...]	2007-07-18 11:11:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NI
07ABUJA1534	NIGERIAN JTF EXACERBATES CHEVRON'S OIL BUNKERING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Campbell on June 18 met with Chevron's Chief Nigeria Security manager Peter Williams (strictly protect) to discuss Chevron's operations in the Niger Delta region and security challenges facing oil production. Williams remarked many Nigerian security operators were not [...]	2007-07-18 12:39:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC EPET KJUS ENRG NI
07ABUJA154	AMBASSADOR MEETS TWO PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS [...] (C) The Ambassador met earlier this week with Governor Attahiru Bafarawa of Sokoto and Governor Orji Kalu of Abia. Both governors are contesting for the presidency in 2007 on the tickets of smaller political parties. Both expressed continued optimism about their chances of success in April, [...]	2007-01-24 13:10:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI
07ABUJA1544	NIGERIA: AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: On July 18 the Ambassador paid a farewell call on President Yar'Adua. The President reiterated his interest in USG assistance in electoral reform and resolving Niger Delta issues. On Darfur and Somalia, he reaffirmed that Nigeria will "shoulder its responsibilities for peace in [...]	2007-07-20 06:21:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NI
07ABUJA1545	NIGERIA: AMBASSADOR'S END OF TOUR OBSERVATIONS [...] (C) Summary: In Africa, Nigeria has been indispensable to the U.S. It supplies a growing percentage of our oil and gas, is the site of our second largest investment on the continent (albeit almost solely in oil and gas),and, with up to one-quarter of the population of sub-Saharan Africa, it [...]	2007-07-20 06:21:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NI
07ABUJA155	PDP LEADERS COMMIT TO APRIL POLLS [...] (C) Summary: Visiting AF/W Deputy Director Donald Heflin and Poloffs paid a courtesy call on People's Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman Dr. Amadu Ali, National Secretary Chief Ojo Maduekwe, and other party leaders January 23. The PDP leaders talked about the new party manifesto which [...]	2007-01-24 15:11:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA156	NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ON ELECTIONS, INEC [...] (C) At a January 23 reception, Chairman Hamisu Mu'azu Shira of the Nigerian House Committee on Electoral Matters told Poloffs the House is committed to smooth elections and a smooth transition of power this spring. Shira indicated he heard the Senate passed the first reading of a bill extendin [...]	2007-01-24 16:20:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA162	KANO GOVERNOR ON ELECTIONS, DELTA [...] (C) During a January 24 meeting with the Ambassador, Kano State Governor Ibrahim Shekarau expressed satisfaction with the voter registration exercise in his state. Despite a slow start due to lack of machines, the governor reported that as of last week, 3.2 million voters had been registered [...]	2007-01-25 15:10:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ECON NI
07ABUJA1630	SHIA LEADER ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH SUNNI [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 20, police and State Security Services (SSS) arrested and detained prominent Shia leader Kasimu Rimin Tawaye and several members of Sokoto's minority Shia community in connection with the July 18 killing of Sunni scholar Umaru Hamza Dan-Maishiya (reftel); neither Tawaye n [...]	2007-07-27 12:42:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KISL NI
07ABUJA1658	NORTHERN RULER ON YAR'ADUA'S INITIAL STRATEGIES [...] (C) SUMMARY. Northern tribal leader Bashani Aminu decribed Yar'adua's attempts to "disentangle" Obasanjo from the new administration. Aminu maintains Yar'adua succeeded in working behind the scenes to keep Bode Augusto, Obasanjo's lead supporter, out of the cabinet and that Yar'adua has plac [...]	2007-08-02 12:55:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON KDEM KCOR NI
07ABUJA1671	NORTHERN VIEWS ON YAR'ADUA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Influential northern Nigerians remain split over whether the May 29 inauguration of President Umaru Yar'Adua, a northern Hausa-Fulani Muslim from Katsina state, may portend a change of fortune for the North. His northern extraction is overshadowed for many by the manner in which [...]	2007-08-03 12:49:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM SOCI NI
07ABUJA1693	YAR'ADUA LAWYER ON PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION TRIBUNAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a conversation with PolOff that appeared at times incongruent and contradictory, Kabiru Turaki, a member of the legal team representing President Yar'Adua in the on-going Presidential Election Tribunal, averred that all petitions against the President would be jettisoned for la [...]	2007-08-07 14:56:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM KJUS NI
07ABUJA1739	NIGERIA: PRISON CONDITIONS IN MAKURDI [...] SUMMARY. Overcrowding, poor conditions, lack of transportation and inadequate materials for reform programs are just a few of the issues the Benue State Prison System is facing. During an August 7-8 trip to Benue State, PolOff visited Makurdi Prison and met with Controller of Prisons, O.Y. [...]	2007-08-14 10:35:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA1740	OFFICIALS MEET TO ADDRESS BENUE/TARABA BORDER [...] SUMMARY. An unidentified U.N. official was shot enroute to a peacekeeping meeting along the Benue / Taraba border on August 9. The meeting was called by Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswam in an effort to address the ongoing violence occurring between the ethnic tribes of Benue and Taraba S [...]	2007-08-14 10:35:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI
07ABUJA1741	ADMINISTRATION PLANS FOR EFCC UNCLEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Yar'Adua announced approval on August 6 of an Attorney General request to require the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent and Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) to seek the consent of and report to the Attorney General in their activitie [...]	2007-08-14 10:35:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR NI
07ABUJA1749	BUHARI LAWYER ON THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION TRIBUNAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Buhari's attorney Mike Ahamba (strictly protect) expressed displeasure at the pace of the Presidential Election Tribunal proceedings, averred that his case is solid, and maintained hope in the impartiality of the tribunal process. When the tribunal's substantive hearing begins in [...]	2007-08-14 15:57:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM KJUS NI
07ABUJA1750	SENATE PRESIDENT AT RISK OF LOSING SEAT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Senate President David Mark is at risk of losing his seat to the opposition candidate from the ANPP, Alhaji Usman Abubakar. Abubakar filed a petition to have Mark's victory annulled and based on the evidence submitted and the reputation of the presiding judge, there is a good po [...]	2007-08-14 16:07:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KCOR KJUS NI
07ABUJA179	MAKARFI ON YAR'ADUA, ELECTIONS [...] (C) Deputy Chief of Mission and visiting AF/W Deputy Director Donald Heflin paid a January 24 courtesy call on Kaduna State Governor Ahmed Makarfi. Although previously considered the leading contender for the PDP presidential nomination, Makarfi is now weighing his options with his eyes on t [...]	2007-01-26 10:56:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA182	ELECTIONS PARTNERS -- KEEPING PREPARATIONS ON TRACK [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Ambassador met with representatives of IFES, the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and PACT Nigeria on January 25 to discuss ongoing elections preparations efforts. INEC continues to register large numbers of voters in the final weeks of the registration exercise, claiming [...]	2007-01-26 11:08:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA1821	FORMER ASSEMBLY MEMBER ON PDP, AC, CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Usman Bugaje, former Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and political adviser to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, contended that PDP "apostates" like himself will refuse overtures to re-join the party so long as Obasanjo remains at the party's helm. Those who ha [...]	2007-08-22 10:08:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM KISL NI
07ABUJA1826	A STRATEGY FOR GETTING NIGERIAN TROOPS TO SOMALIA [...] (C) As indicated by our reporting on this subject (Reftel),including Congressman Payne's meetings with FM Maduekwe and President Yar'Adua on August 20, Nigeria is not moving forward at any speed to designate, train or deploy a battalion for AMISOM. Part of the issue is, we believe, the lack [...]	2007-08-22 13:47:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NI
07ABUJA1832	NIGERIA: CHANGES IN BENUE STATE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Poverty, and the lack of electricity and education are still rampant throughout Benue State, but new Governor Gabriel Suswam claims he is going to change that. Rural development, education and capacity building are the priorities Suswam says he will focus on during his tenure. S [...]	2007-08-23 14:05:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA1833	NIGERIA: ATIKU SPOKESMAN MEETS WITH CONGRESSMAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: At an August 20 meeting with HIRC Africa Subcommittee Chair Donald Payne, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar's spokesman Garba Shehu reproached the U.S. government for not stepping in to resolve Nigeria's electoral crisis and failing to censure Yar'Adua's administration for wha [...]	2007-08-23 14:34:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KDEM NI
07ABUJA1834	EFCC CHAIR ON ADMINISTRATION'S ANTI-CORRUPTION [...] (C) SUMMARY. EFCC Chairman Ribadu told Charge on August 16 that Yar'Adua is committed to investigating corrupt former officials to send a message that no one is above the law. Despite GON support, however, Ribadu maintains that the EFCC is dependent on international donors to fulfill basic nee [...]	2007-08-23 15:15:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON KCOR KCRIM SNAR NI
07ABUJA1854	NIGERIA: ATIKU SPOKESMAN MEETS WITH CONGRESSMAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: At an August 20 meeting with HIRC Africa Subcommittee Chair Donald Payne, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar's spokesman Garba Shehu reproached the U.S. government for not stepping in to resolve Nigeria's electoral crisis and failing to censure Yar'Adua's administration for wha [...]	2007-08-24 11:45:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM KJUS NI
07ABUJA189	BUHARI ON OBJ, ALLIANCES [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 24, Deputy Chief of Mission and visiting AF/W Deputy Director Donald Heflin met with All Nigeria Peoples' Party (ANPP) presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari at his Kaduna residence. Buhari opined about the current Obasanjo-Atiku impasse, characterizing it as another [...]	2007-01-26 13:22:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA1931	YAR'ADUA'S FIRST 100 DAYS - AN ASSESSMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. As President Yar'Adua's first 100 days in office draw to a close, his slow start organizing his government has substantively hampered his ability to formulate new policy. As a result, his record of accomplishments is thin, and the question of whether he is up to the task he face [...]	2007-09-06 10:41:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ECON KDEM NI
07ABUJA1932	NIGERIAN HOUSE SPEAKER EMBROILED IN SPENDING [...] (C) Summary: Patricia Etteh, the new Speaker of Nigeria's House of Representatives, has been implicated in a scandal involving unauthorized contracts allegedly totaling about USD 5 million to renovate her official residence and purchase several luxury cars. Etteh, who was elected Speaker larg [...]	2007-09-06 10:41:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KCOR NI
07ABUJA1948	GON CRITICIZES EMBASSIES FOR NOT GETTING OUT THE [...] (C) Summary. In a September 5 briefing for the Diplomatic Corps in Abuja, Foreign Minister Maduekwe and other senior officials described the GON's efforts to address the problems of the Niger Delta and improve the security situation there. The officials described the government's "holistic app [...]	2007-09-07 09:21:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA1949	BUHARI INSIDER ON ANPP INTRIGUES, POSSIBLE MASS [...] (C) SUMMARY: All-Nigeria People's Party (ANPP) presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari confidante retired Air Vice Marshal Mouktar Mohammed disclosed that Buhari's lingering distrust of the ANPP has been justified, in part, following the party's imminent withdrawal of its petition at the pres [...]	2007-09-07 09:36:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM KJUS NI
07ABUJA1976	MOSOP PRESIDENT'S VIEWS ON THE DELTA [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a September 12 meeting, Ledum Mitee, President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) discussed his views on the situation in the Niger Delta with the Charge, PolCouns, and PolOff. Although the Nigerian military Joint Task Force's presence has lessened g [...]	2007-09-13 12:18:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA200	CRITERIA TO EVALUATE NIGERIA'S 2007 ELECTIONS [...] (C) This cable suggests the criteria by which USG might evaluate the credibility of Nigeria's 2007 elections. The criteria take into account relevant international standards such as the ECOWAS Democracy Charter, SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections, and the Inter-Par [...]	2007-01-30 15:25:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA2020	NIGERIAN FOREIGN MINISTER'S WORLD VIEW [...] (C) Summary. Chief Ojo Maduekwe, the new Minister of Foreign Affairs for Nigeria, has a long history of involvement in politics, where he is a survivor, as well as some involvement with foreign relations. Since taking over the helm of the ministry in late July 2007, he has pontificated to the d [...]	2007-09-17 13:02:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR NI
07ABUJA2034	NIGERIAN VIEWS ON AFRICOM: WE'VE GOT OUR WORK CUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Articles in the September 14 and 17 editions of "This Day" quote unnamed Nigerian Defense establishment sources as being fundamentally opposed to AFRICOM. Privately, Embassy military contacts report far less hostility to the idea. Both the articles and Embassy contacts, however, [...]	2007-09-19 09:04:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA2082	EFCC-AG RIFT SPELLS TROUBLE FOR EFCC [...] (C) SUMMARY. Immediately following assurances by Secretary to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission SIPDIS (EFCC) Emmanuel Akomaye that the rift between the EFCC and the Attorney General (AG) is not a problem, Chief of the EFCC External Cooperation Unit Ibrahim Mohammed pulled Poloff [...]	2007-09-27 13:09:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KJUS NI
07ABUJA2096	PDP ASSEMBLY REPS URGE SPEAKER TO STEP DOWN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Chairmen of three House of Representatives Committees (all three representing the PDP) on September 27 told Poloffs they have urged House Speaker Patricia Etteh to step down voluntarily before she is removed from her position. The 9-man House Panel of Inquiry released its report [...]	2007-09-28 11:06:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM NI
07ABUJA212	SHOOTOUT IN PORT HARCOURT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The shootout in Port Harcourt January 28 occurred as policemen detained the leader of a group known as the "Outlaws" at his church on Sunday morning. His detention was soon communicated to both the state commander of the Mobile Police and to the detainee's supporters. The ensu [...]	2007-02-01 15:25:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM KCRM NI
07ABUJA217	NIGERIA: SHELL PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION [...] (C) Shell Managing Director Ann Pickard telephoned the Ambassador on February 2 to report that the Shell Petroleum Development Corporation (SPDC) is bankrupt because of the failure of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to pay arrears that Shell believes it is owed from their j [...]	2007-02-02 13:30:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENERG ASEC PTER NI
07ABUJA219	SECURITY OFFICIALS DISCUSS DELTA, HOSTAGES [...] (C) Summary: Nigerian officials including the National Security Advisor, Chief of Defense Staff, and Director of the State Security Service met with a select group of Ambassadors on February 2. The meeting was requested by the diplomats to express concern about their nationals who are at pre [...]	2007-02-02 13:42:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER CASC ASEC ENRG NI
07ABUJA220	CROSS RIVER GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE ON THE STATE [...] (C) Action Congress (AC) Gubernatorial candidate Emmanuel Ibeshi discussed his campaign and the state of Cross River with Polcouns on January 31, highlighting the need for local government initiatives to "rescue" the state. He outlined his proposal to build development "communities" based o [...]	2007-02-02 13:47:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KCRM NI
07ABUJA2200	NIGERIA: PANDEMONIUM IN THE HOUSE OF REPS [...] (U) Plans to reconvene the Nigerian House of Representatives October 16 after a two week recess were marred by two days of pandemonium, as opponents of House Speaker Patricia Etteh attempted to block her attempts to preside over a debate into an investigation of herself. The Idoku Panel looke [...]	2007-10-18 10:26:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA2229	NIGERIA: BUHARI CONFIDENT IN ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL [...] (C) All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP) presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, still believes that, given a fair judiciary with a just Chief Justice at its helm, the Presidential Electoral Tribunal will rule in Buhari's favor and overturn the April 21 election of President Umaru Yar'Adua. In [...]	2007-10-19 15:02:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM KJUS NI
07ABUJA2231	NIGERIA: SENATE PRESIDENT FACES SCANDAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Senate President David Mark (PDP - Benue state, and a member of former President Obasanjo's network of influence) has alleged that an aggrieved Senator is trying to oust him by spreading rumors that he renovated his official quarters to the tune of 400 million Naira (US$3.2 millio [...]	2007-10-19 16:37:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA2232	NIGERIA'S PDP - WHEN IS A PARTY NOT A PARTY? [...] (C) SUMMARY. The ruling Nigerian Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) cannot be viewed as a political party within the common western understanding. Like velveeta cheese, the labeling claims it is a party, but upon further inspection, it lacks key ingredients most political parties share. This i [...]	2007-10-19 16:50:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA2284	NIGERIA: ELECTION OF YAR'ADUA SON-IN-LAW NULLIFIED [...] (SBU) The Kebbi State Electoral Tribunal nullified the election of Saidu Usman Dakingari (Peoples' Democratic Party, PDP) as Governor on October 21. Dakingari is President Yar'Adua's son-in-law (his third wife is Yar'Adua's second eldest daughter Zainab). The tribunal, headed by Justice Aodo [...]	2007-10-26 13:49:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA2286	NIGERIA: IBORI CASE HAMPERED BY EFCC-AG RIFT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Attorney General (AG) Michael Aondoakaa continues his attempts to derail the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) investigation into former Delta State Governor James Ibori. Failure of the AG's office to respond in a timely manner to a request from the U.K. Crown Pros [...]	2007-10-26 14:09:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA2295	NIGERIA: HOUSE SHENANIGANS CONTINUE [...] SUMMARY: Speaker of the House of Representatives, Patricia Etteh (Peoples Democratic Party, PDP - Osun State) continues her battle to remain in control of the House, despite the ongoing scandal over contract awards for the renovation of her and her deputy's official residences. Etteh is accuse [...]	2007-10-29 15:10:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA2296	NIGERIA: PRESIDENTIAL TRIBUNAL UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Presidential Election Tribunal recently consolidated the petitions of Muhammadu Buhari (All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP) and Atiku Abubakar (Action Congress, AC) which has had a positive affect on the progress. Despite pressure, neither candidate is likely to withdraw from the [...]	2007-10-29 15:59:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA2303	ANTE UPPED IN NIGERIAN SENATE PRESIDENT BATTLE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: New allegations have emerged that Senate President David Mark misappropriated 2.5 billion naira (USD 20 million) to procure furniture for the new Senate building from the 2007 Supplementary Budget, and that 500 million naira (USD 4 million) was paid to television stations for the [...]	2007-10-31 13:12:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA2309	SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY NEGROPONTE [...] (C) Mr. Secretary, U.S. Mission Nigeria welcomes your November 11-13 visit to Abuja. Your visit comes during a period of relative political calm as President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua nears the end of his first six months in office. With his cabinet finally in place, Yar'Adua's new administration [...]	2007-10-31 16:40:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PMIL ECON EPET KDEM NI
07ABUJA231	FEAR AND LOATHING AT THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: With three months to go before elections, members of the Nigerian National Assembly are increasingly anxious about elections. This sentiment in the Assembly is rooted in a widely held skepticism about the intentions of President Obasanjo, coupled with the belief that INEC is woe [...]	2007-02-05 13:34:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA2310	WHAT NEXT FOR HOUSE OF REPS? [...] (U) As reported reftel, Representative Patricia Etteh (PDP, Osun State) stepped down from her position as Speaker of the House on October 30, ending weeks of confusion and stalemate in the legislature. Both Etteh and Babangida Nguroje (PDP, Taraba),who also stepped down from the Deputy Spea [...]	2007-10-31 17:18:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA232	INEC CHAIRMAN UPBEAT ON NIGERIA,S ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Maurice Iwu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is upbeat about the current voter registration process but also about preparations for polling. As in the past, he asked for no additional assistance from donor countries. He identified Sokoto, Anam [...]	2007-02-05 14:21:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA2320	NIGERIA: GOVT. PRACTICES - INFO COLLECTION, [...] (C) Below are responses to reftel information request on GON information collecting, screening and sharing. A. Watchlisting (C) The government of Nigeria (GON) maintains a watchlist which consists of binders with names and photographs of individuals of interest, coded by threat (terrorist [...]	2007-11-01 10:40:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	KVPR PTER PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC KHLS SNAR
07ABUJA233	ELECTION PARTNERS: SKEPTICISM OVER VOTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with representatives of IFES, the National Democratic Institute (NDI),the International Republican Institute (IRI) and PACT Nigeria on February 1 to discuss ongoing elections preparations efforts. Though INEC extended the voters registration exercise to Febru [...]	2007-02-05 15:28:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA2333	NIGERIAN PRESIDENT YAR'ADUA: "GO-SLOW" BY NATURE? [...] (C) Polcouns and Poloffs met November 2 with Kabiru Turaki (strictly protect),a distinguished private practice lawyer with the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and a member of the legal team handling President Yar'Adua's defense at the presidential election tribunal. Though Turaki p [...]	2007-11-05 12:51:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NI
07ABUJA2351	NEW SPEAKER'S REPUTATION INSTILLS HOPE FOR HOUSE [...] (SBU) Nigerians anticipate a more dynamic, purposeful and result-oriented leadership in the House of Representatives following the recent election of Dimeji Saburi Bankole as the Speaker. In public statements, the new Speaker promised Nigerians quality legislation that will impact directly on [...]	2007-11-07 17:16:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NI
07ABUJA2352	NIGERIA'S PRESIDENTIAL TRIBUNAL: AN END IN SIGHT? [...] (C) President Yar'Adua attorney Kabiru Turaki (strictly protect),expects a verdict in the case challenging the president's election by April 2008 and he is confident that President Yar'Adua will emerge victorious. Turaki anticipates that the hearings at the presidential election tribunal wil [...]	2007-11-07 17:35:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA2375	NIGERIAN SSS ARRESTS ALLEGED TERRORIST OPERATIVES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nigeria's domestic intelligence agency the State Security Service (SSS) officially acknowledged the arrests of militants with suspected terrorist links who possessed "explosive-making devices," confirming an earlier leaked, though not entirely accurate, press report. The announce [...]	2007-11-13 17:33:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV NI KDEM
07ABUJA2377	NIGERIA: INTEGRITY GROUP FOCUSES ON PDP, GODFATHERS [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Integrity Group (IG) plans to become dormant within the House of Representatives and promote House unity while working quietly within the Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) in an attempt to rid Nigeria of the godfather politics that are the root of corruption and governance prob [...]	2007-11-14 16:26:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI

07ABUJA2381	NIGERIA: DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH EFCC [...] (C) SUMMARY. In his meeting with Deputy Secretary Negroponte and AF A/S Frazer, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairman Malam Nuhu Ribadu expressed appreciation for USG backing for the EFCC and asked for continued public and material support. Ribadu expressed single-minded d [...]	2007-11-15 10:12:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EFIN KDEM KCOR KCRIM NI
07ABUJA2382	NIGERIA: DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a November 12 meeting at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Deputy Secretary of State Negroponte and Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua pledged to continue and deepen the U.S.-Nigerian bilateral partnership. The Deputy Secretary praised the Yar'Adua government's commitmen [...]	2007-11-15 13:15:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL MASS NI
07ABUJA2395	NIGERIA: DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH SPEAKER [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a November 13 meeting with the Deputy Secretary and AF A/S Frazer, Speaker of the House of SIPDIS Representatives, Dimeji Bankole (People's Democratic Party, PDP - Ogun State),said the members of the House are trying to build public confidence in the legislature by exam [...]	2007-11-16 08:06:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL NI
07ABUJA2398	NIGERIA: DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING AT MINISTRY OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a November 12, 2007 meeting at the Ministry of Defense, Deputy Secretary of State Negroponte and Minister of Defense Alhaji Mahmud Yayale Ahmed affirmed common goals on defense- and peacekeeping-related matters. Minister Ahmed indicated that the GON was moving forward on p [...]	2007-11-16 12:34:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM MASS PGOV PREL NI
07ABUJA2399	SNAPSHOT: NIGERIA ON AFRICOM [...] (C) During a November 15 meeting, Air Vice Marshal Christian Marizu of the Chief of Defense Staff's Policy and Planning Staff told Poloff that GON officials used Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's November 12-13 visit to Abuja to pressure her to no longer negotiate with the U.S. bilate [...]	2007-11-16 12:35:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PMIL NI
07ABUJA2422	ECOWAS COMMISSIONER TOURE ON AFRICOM [...] (C) During a November 20 meeting in which ECOWAS Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace, and Security Mahamane Toure told Poloff that the USG's approach to persuading African states to buy into Africom was wrong. Explaining his widely circulated comments following the November 7 ECOWAS Chie [...]	2007-11-21 15:00:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PMIL NI
07ABUJA2423	SCENESETTER FOR AMB YATES AND VICE ADMIRAL MOELLER [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-21 15:16:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PMIL KPKO NI
07ABUJA2428	ABUJA SCENESETTER FOR AMB. YATES AND VICE ADMIRAL [...] (C) U.S. Mission Nigeria warmly welcomes your November 27-29 visit to Abuja. Your visit comes at a pivotal time in West Africa's engagement with Africom. Popular and official misunderstanding of the Africom concept, regional pride, and colonial baggage have made Nigeria and other regional c [...]	2007-11-21 16:56:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PMIL KPKO NI
07ABUJA2437	NIGERIAN SENATE CHALLENGING BAKASSI HANDOVER [...] (U) On November 22, the Nigerian Senate debated and approved a resolution challenging the validity of the Green Tree Agreement reached last year between Nigeria and Cameroon returning the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroonian sovereignty. The agreement was intended to put into effect a 2002 ruling [...]	2007-11-23 11:19:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NI CM
07ABUJA2446	CANDIDATE FOR NIGERIAN RULING PARTY CHAIR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Anyim Pius Anyim, former Senate President and contender the Chairmanship of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) predicted the fall of current Senate President David Mark and affirmed his dedication to democratic principles at all levels of government, including within the P [...]	2007-11-27 14:01:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KCOR NI
07ABUJA2449	NIGERIA: DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a November 12 meeting with the Deputy Secretary and AF A/S Frazer, Foreign Minister (FM) Ojo SIPDIS Maduekwe praised the relationship between Nigeria and the United States and acknowledged shared interests such as peacekeeping. The FM was concerned, however, over travel [...]	2007-11-28 06:53:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL CVIS ECON MASS NI
07ABUJA2450	DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH NIGERIAN NATIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nigerian National Security Advisor Mukhtar welcomed Deputy Secretary Negroponte's November 12 visit as USG recognition of Nigeria's importance and the Yar'Adua government's efforts to correct problems associated with the April 2007 elections. Mukhtar described the GoN's efforts to [...]	2007-11-28 06:54:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PINR MASS EPET KPKO KCRIM NI
07ABUJA2464	NIGERIA: RULING PARTY CONVENTION DELAY - BUYING [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Assistant Director and Coordinator for Foreign Chapters Agape Kramer (strictly protect) told Poloff senior PDP leadership, including National Chairman Ahmadu Ali, are intent on implementing the recommendations of the Alex Ekwueme-led Reconcili [...]	2007-11-28 16:41:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA2476	NIGERIAN TERROR SUSPECTS DENIED BAIL, PLEAD NOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Five individuals charged with conspiracy to commit terrorist acts and possession of prohibited firearms and explosives, appeared in court, pled not guilty, and were denied bail. Two also face charges in connection with the attempted murder of one Bulama Mohammed Shuaibu. The trial [...]	2007-11-30 11:29:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINR NI
07ABUJA2479	ICPC'S ANTI-CORRUPTION BATTLE: OBSTACLES AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Commission (ICPC) Executive Member Uriah Angulu told PolCouns he believes Yar'Adua is "honest and sincere" in his fight against corruption. In a recent meeting with ICPC leadership, Angulu said Yar'Adua ordered the ICPC to [...]	2007-11-30 11:40:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KCOR NI
07ABUJA2481	BUHARI'S LAWYER REMAINS CONFIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mike Ahamba (strictly protect),lead counsel for General Buhari, remains confident that the presidential election will be annulled. He said INEC was "incredibly sloppy" and left a paper trail of fraudulent results sheets at all stages of vote tabulation. Ahamba believes that IN [...]	2007-11-30 13:46:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA2497	NIGERIA: AFRICOM LEADERSHIP VISIT ABUJA [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 28-29, Ambassador Mary Carlin Yates and Vice Admiral Robert Moeller visited Abuja to discuss AFRICOM with Nigerian government officials, ECOWAS Commission President Chambas, Gulf of Guinea Energy Security Strategy (GGESS) member representatives, and members of the Nige [...]	2007-12-03 16:54:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MASS NI
07ABUJA2513	CAMEROONIAN VICE PREMIER DISCUSSES BAKASSI WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 4 meeting, Cameroonian Vice Prime Minister Ali told Nigerian President Yar'Adua that the Nigerian Senate resolution condemning the ceding of Bakassi was an entirely internal affair, to which Cameroon would not react. Cameroonian High Commissioner told PolOffs Yar'Adua [...]	2007-12-06 16:00:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CM NI
07ABUJA2544	YAR'ADUA BEGINS MOVES ON GON MASTER PLAN ON NIGER [...] (C) Summary: The office of Nigerian Vice President Goodluck Jonathan plans a retreat to discuss the Niger Delta Master Plan December 13-14 in Geneva, Switzerland. Ministers, international experts on conflict resolution and others will focus on ways to promote accountability, gauge performanc [...]	2007-12-10 15:45:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA2578	NIGERIAN PRESIDENT SENDS GREENTREE AGREEMENT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nigerian President Yar'Adua has sent the Greentree Agreement to the Senate for ratification, while allegations have arisen that $40 million allocated to resettle Bakassi residents has disappeared. Deputy Senate Leader Victor Ndoma-Egba, who represents Cross Rivers State (where Bak [...]	2007-12-14 13:19:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS NI CM
07ABUJA2615	EFCC CHAIR RIBADU SENT BACK TO SCHOOL? [...] (C) Summary: Nuhu Ribadu, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been assigned to a one year course at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS). Speculation abounds that Ribadu's one year "study leave" is designed to remove him from the he [...]	2007-12-28 16:04:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR ECON NI
07ABUJA2617	NIGERIA: COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP & PROSPECT [...] (C) SUMMARY: American, British, Canadian and Australian political officers in Abuja have formed a counterterrorism (CT) working group to press the GON to pass CT legislation in 2008. Nigerian leaders have expressed interest in resubmitting CT legislation, perhaps based on a Commonwealth mode [...]	2007-12-28 16:04:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV NI
07ABUJA2618	EFCC CHAIR RIBADU SENT BACK TO SCHOOL? [...] (C) Summary: Nuhu Ribadu, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been assigned to a one year course at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS). Speculation abounds that Ribadu's one year "study leave" is designed to remove him from the he [...]	2007-12-28 16:28:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR ECON NI
07ABUJA2619	NIGERIA: COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP & PROSPECT [...] (C) SUMMARY: American, British, Canadian and Australian political officers in Abuja have formed a counterterrorism (CT) working group to press the GON to pass CT legislation in 2008. Nigerian leaders have expressed interest in resubmitting CT legislation, perhaps based on a Commonwealth mode [...]	2007-12-28 16:34:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV NI
07ABUJA263	DPP'S BAFARAWA ON CAMPAIGN, POLITICAL BASE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a February 4 meeting with the Ambassador, Sokoto State Governor Attahiru Bafarawa offered his take on the presidential race, his own campaign as the Democratic Peoples' Party (DPP) candidate, and widening his political base of support to include northern Christians. Bafarawa [...]	2007-02-12 11:02:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA264	WAMBAN KANO OFFERS PRAISE, ASSISTANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 6, Senior Counselor to the Kano Emirate Council, Wamban Kano, offered praise and assistance to the Ambassador for Embassy Abuja's Kano outreach efforts. As the most prominent traditional institution in Kano State, the Emir's Palace wields significant influence, which i [...]	2007-02-12 11:03:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR NI
07ABUJA267	VIEW FROM ZAMFARA DEPUTY GOVERNOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Zamfara State Deputy Governor Mahmud Aliyu Shinkafi, also the current ANPP gubernatorial candidate for Zamfara State, met with the Ambassador on February 5 at his Gusau residence. Shinkafi, speaking before State Commissioners and media, used the opportunity to highlight improvem [...]	2007-02-12 14:13:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NI
07ABUJA269	VP ATIKU ON UPCOMING ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: Vice President Atiku Abubakar expressed confidence in a meeting with the Ambassador on February 8, looking forward to the upcoming campaign. He said, though, that he had been worried about an attack or arrest a week earlier and had been obliged to move to an undisclosed location [...]	2007-02-12 15:52:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI
07ABUJA270	SULTAN PLEDGES TO TARGET POLIO, HIV/AIDS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador paid a February 4 courtesy call on the newly appointed Sultan of Sokoto, Mohammadu Sa'ad Abubakar. The Sultan praised USG efforts to reach out to the Muslim community in northern Nigeria and pledged to use his time in office to call on Muslims to combat the spread [...]	2007-02-12 16:00:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KISL NI
07ABUJA272	ELECTION PREPARATION: THE PAST AS PRELUDE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The run-up to the 2007 elections in Nigeria has been marked by political acrimony, technical mismanagement and a generalized air of distrust. Lack of transparency in the overall process and competence in its technical implementation has resulted in a lack of confidence about the [...]	2007-02-13 07:35:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM NI
07ABUJA321	FEUD BETWEEN OBASANJO AND ATIKU NEARS KNOCKOUT [...] (U) The protracted war between President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice President Atiku Abubakar has entered a critical phase as the finish line for the 2007 elections approaches. Both sides have turned up the rhetoric since Atiku's return to Nigeria in January. During the second week in February [...]	2007-02-16 12:41:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07ABUJA322	THE ELECTORAL PLAYING FIELD TILTS NOTICEABLY [...] (C) Summary: With less than two months to go before elections in Nigeria, the ordinary logistical and managerial confusion which has characterized previous elections is giving way to what appears to be political exclusion. Recent coordinated actions by several key government agencies and a s [...]	2007-02-16 13:12:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07ABUJA403	IWU: "ELECTION GOING ACCORDING TO PLAN" [...] (C) Summary: INEC Chairman Maurice Iwu said that election preparations are "going according to plan" and that he hopes the April 14 and 21 polls will be "hitch free." Sixty-one million voters have been registered, and according to Iwu, INEC is now in the process of checking each state's vote [...]	2007-03-02 10:56:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI
07ABUJA417	PTDF - EXPOSING NIGERIA'S EXECUTIVE MALFEASANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Senate report on the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) provides a detailed account of the non-transparent nature of the PTDF and, in particular, specific actions taken by both President Obasanjo and Vice President Atiku which fall outside the mandate of the fund an [...]	2007-03-06 14:45:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR NI
07ABUJA431	PDP CANDIDATE YAR'ADUA GRAVELY ILL, POSSIBLY DEAD [...] (C) SUMMARY: The PDP presidential candidate Umar Yar'Adua collapsed at a private residence in Abuja on March 6 and was subsequently taken by air ambulance to Germany. Unconfirmed reports from Embassy contacts March 7 indicate Yar'Adua has died. Trying to downplay the event, PDP National Se [...]	2007-03-07 11:38:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07ABUJA438	YAR'ADUA'S CONDITION REMAINS UNCLEAR [...] (C) The status of the ruling PDP party Presidential candidate Umaru Yar'Adua remains unclear. Rumors of his death have slowed, but the best confirmation of his status comes from a BBC telephonic interview conducted with him at a hospital in Germany. 2. (C) German sources report that Yar [...]	2007-03-07 16:04:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA449	PTDF - THE DISSENTING SENATE REPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY. In conjunction with the Senate report on the PTDF, Senator Titus Olapitan issued an independent report taking issue with the scope of the investigation, the Committee's impartiality, and several of the specific conclusions. Both houses of the National Assembly have established n [...]	2007-03-08 15:00:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA46	SENATE PRESIDENT KEN NNAMANI ON CURRENT [...] (C) Summary: Senate President Nnamani says he has been asked by Presidential candidates Katsina Governor Yar,Adua, former Chief of State Buhari and Vice President Atiku -- currently, the three leaders of the pack -- each to serve as his Vice Presidential running mate. However, Nnamani says [...]	2007-01-10 15:59:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI
07ABUJA460	BUGAJE: A BAD ELECTION BETTER THAN A DELAYED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Both external pressure from the international community and domestic activism are needed to ensure that the Nigerian Government sticks to its constitutionally mandated electoral calendar. Failure to adhere to the current calendar would plunge the country into a crisis of legitim [...]	2007-03-09 11:57:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07ABUJA461	AMBASSADOR VISIT TO EDO FINDS GREAT CONCERN ABOUT [...] (C) On a visit to Benin City, capital of Edo State and center of the historic Benin Kingdom, interlocutors from the Governor's office as well as the court of the Oba of Benin, the traditional leader, each expressed their concern about the upcoming elections in Nigeria and the danger presented [...]	2007-03-09 12:16:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07ABUJA462	ELECTION 2007 THIS WAY COMES [...] (C) Summary: Worries about election readiness from the technical and political perspectives dominated the Embassy's March 8 meeting with NDI, IRI, and IFES. Though INEC has finished drafting polling day procedures, IFES and UNDP experts are troubled by many of them and are negotiating for r [...]	2007-03-09 13:48:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI
07ABUJA463	NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER/HR ACTIVIST ESCAPES ATTACK [...] (C) Summary: The publisher of the Humanity,a critical new weekly newspaper (cir 3,000)printed in Port Harcourt and circulating in several Niger Delta States, barely escaped a violent attack by a group of armed thugs while leaving a social event on March 4. The publisher, Anyakwee Nsirimovu, [...]	2007-03-09 13:54:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07ABUJA465	MADUEKWE: PDP WILL WIN IN APRIL [...] (C) Summary: Ojo Maduekwe says that the Presidential contest is a "two-horse race" between Governor Yar'Adua and General Buhari and "barring any extraordinary eventuality" the PDP will win. He characterized the Nigerian opposition as "dysfunctional" and pledged that the ruling party will co [...]	2007-03-09 15:34:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA466	AF/W OFFICE DIRECTOR MEETS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES [...] (C) Summary: AF/W Office Director Philip Carter met with ANPP Presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari and AC Presidential candidate Vice President Atiku Abubakar during a visit to Nigeria the week of February 28. The PDP Presidential candidate was unavailable for a meeting despite repeate [...]	2007-03-09 15:42:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07ABUJA484	AMIN CHAIRMAN WARNS OF EXTREMISM, PLEDGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 6, Poloff met with Sheikh Sharif Ibrahim Saleh Al-Hussaini, Chairman of the Assembly of Muslims in Nigeria (AMIN),at his Abuja residence. Sheikh Al-Hussaini is also Chairman of the Fatwa Committee of both the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs in Nigeria and the Jama'a [...]	2007-03-13 13:45:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KISL PTER SOCI NI
07ABUJA491	ATIKU CONFIDENT COURTS WILL PUT HIM ON BALLOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Two important court victories -- including a decision on March 7 in which the Federal High Court in Abuja ruled that INEC does not have the right to disqualify candidates -- have boosted Vice-President Atiku Abubakar's chances of being on the ballot in April. Although a number of [...]	2007-03-14 13:30:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07ABUJA492	INEC CHAIRMAN TELLS WESTERN COMS HE IS "DETERMINED [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a March 8 meeting with Western diplomats, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman Maurice Iwu again exuded the optimistic tone he has shown in recent meetings about the state of preparations for forthcoming state and national elections (see reftel). He claim [...]	2007-03-14 15:56:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07ABUJA518	NIGERIA: DISSENTING SENATOR ON PTDF, ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Senator Titus Olupitan, author of the dissenting Senate report on PTDF activities, says he expects the Review Committee charged with completing the PTDF investigation and addressing unanswered questions will not fulfill its mandate. He held out hope that failure by the Review Co [...]	2007-03-15 16:10:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA52	JOURNALISTS IN NIGERIA: A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE [...] (U) SUMMARY. During the last two weeks a series of unfortunate events have struck journalists in Nigeria. On the evening of December 22, 2006, ThisDay newspaper's editorial board chairman Godwin Agbroko was shot and killed in Lagos. On December 24, 2006, Alhaji Bello Damagum of the Daily T [...]	2007-01-11 12:44:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM NI
07ABUJA522	NIGERIAN APPROVED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES LIST [...] (C) On March 15, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman Maurice Iwu announced the names of the 24 candidates who will be allowed to contest the Nigerian presidential elections scheduled for April 21. Presuming that INEC's exclusion of Vice President and Action Congress cand [...]	2007-03-16 09:18:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV
07ABUJA523	AS EXPECTED, ATIKU DISQUALIFIED [...] (C) The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has followed through on its threat and excluded Nigerian Vice-President Atiku Abubakar from next month's presidential race. INEC made its announcement at a March 15 press conference, in which it released a list of 24 approved president [...]	2007-03-16 11:05:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07ABUJA524	DEMOCRACY PARTNERS CONCERNED ELECTION CRISIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: With less than one month to go before elections the Nigeria-based U.S. election partners, NDI, IRI, PACT, and IFES, are strongly concerned that an election crisis is looming. The Nigerian Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has yet to begin basic election preparation [...]	2007-03-16 11:15:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07ABUJA564	SENATE PRESIDENT UNDER PRESSURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senate President Ken Nnamani says he is under immense pressure from President Obasanjo to manage sensitive debate at the National Assembly in the Executive's favor. Meanwhile, Nnamani continues to say that his objective is to remain neutral and ensure that elections happen on ti [...]	2007-03-22 16:10:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07ABUJA565	NIGERIA: SENATE COMMITTEE INDICTS PRESIDENT, V.P. [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Senate Review Committee looking into the activities of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund released its report recommending both President Obasanjo and Vice President Atiku be referred to the Code of Conduct Bureau for further action in relation to illegal approval of d [...]	2007-03-23 08:41:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR NI
07ABUJA580	SENATOR SAYS INDICTMENT A NOT SO VEILED THREAT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Deputy Senate President Jonathan Zwingina called the tabled indictment delivered against the President on March 7, an explicit message to President Obasanjo --- deliver an election as planned in April, or the Senate will reconvene on April 24 and begin legal proceedings again [...]	2007-03-23 14:09:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07ABUJA597	SUBJECT: EVALUATION OF NIGERIA'S 2007 ELECTION - [...] (U) Following is an assessment of the current state of Nigeria's election preparations, keyed to REF A approved criteria. This is the first of four initial responses and updates as required. A. Pre-Election Technical Preparations (1) (U) Is the revised electoral law considered to be [...]	2007-03-27 16:56:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA598	ELECTION PARTNERS CONCERNED OVER VOTERS ROLL [...] (C) Summary: A random spot check of the quality of the voter's register by an American elections partner has raised troubling questions about the quality of INEC's final product. The check revealed numerous duplicate registrants, obviously underage children registered as voters, and entries l [...]	2007-03-27 17:25:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI
07ABUJA60	SSS ARRESTS MORE JOURNALISTS AT ABUJA INQUIRER [...] (C) Post reported reftel that one Nigerian journalist was arrested by the State Security Service (SSS),another was murdered, and that the top floor of the corporate offices of Thisday newspaper was destroyed in a fire. In a new development, SSS agents on January 10, 2007 detained the entire [...]	2007-01-11 15:24:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
07ABUJA61	NIGERIA: PDP EDUCATES CANDIDATES ON PLATFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an attempt to communicate a unified party ideology in the campaigning for the 2007 elections, the PDP party held a three-day retreat for all its candidates. The retreat focused on educating the candidates on the PDP Manifesto, a fifty-page policy document outlining objectives [...]	2007-01-11 15:36:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA618	PROSPECTS FOR NIGERIA'S FORTHCOMING ELECTIONS [...] (C) Nigeria is only two-and-a-half weeks away from State Governor and Assembly elections, and three-and-a-half from Presidential and National Assembly elections. Despite the short timeframe, there is considerable disagreement among Nigerians about whether the elections will happen, what they [...]	2007-03-30 06:57:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NI
07ABUJA621	PRESIDENT LAUNCHES NIGER DELTA MASTER PLAN [...] (SBU) Summary: In a high-profile, media event, President Obasanjo on March 27 launched the Niger Delta Regional Development Master Plan. The following day, March 28, the Minister of External Affairs hosted a breakfast with the diplomatic corps focused on the Delta. The President, in a wide [...]	2007-03-30 08:21:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV EAID SOCI NI
07ABUJA628	NIGERIA'S ECONOMY ON THE EVE OF ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: On the eve of elections, from some angles Nigeria's economic performance looks impressive: low debt, high reserves, strong export earnings, stable inflation, GDP per capita up, strong non-oil sector growth, improved budget management, and increasingly modern banking all form the b [...]	2007-03-30 14:08:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV EFIN ENRG EAID SOCI NI
07ABUJA629	COULD CANDIDATE'S DEATH DELAY ELECTIONS? [...] (C) The March 29 death of Alliance for Democracy (AD) presidential candidate Chief Adebayo Adefarati raised serious legal and constitutional questions relating to the timing of the April 21 presidential elections. INEC's Director of Public Affairs made statements on March 29 that the death wo [...]	2007-03-30 15:33:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA632	IWU: INEC PREPARED, STEADY AND READY TO GO [...] (U) SUMMARY: INEC Chairman Maurice Iwu told a packed audience of diplomats in Abuja that INEC is prepared to conduct credible elections as scheduled. He said that INEC had no intention of delaying the elections because of the death of a presidential candidate, although he acknowledged that i [...]	2007-03-30 17:07:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07ABUJA666	APRIL ELECTIONS, A SHAM IN SHAMBLES [...] (C) Summary: American election partners to date have yet to see a template or ballot for next month's elections. Despite assurances from INEC chairman Professor Maurice Iwu, there is no evidence that any of the estimated 300 million ballots needed have been designed, printed or distributed. [...]	2007-04-10 14:37:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI
07ABUJA668	NIGERIAN ELECTIONS: CHAIRMAN IWU STILL BOBBING AND [...] (C) In a April 6 meeting with local Chiefs of Mission (COMs),Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman Maurice Iwu at first insisted that all international observers of the forthcoming Nigerian elections would need to attend an orientation conference in Abuja the week of April [...]	2007-04-10 18:07:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA681	BUGAJE: WE WALKED INTO A TRAP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Six weeks after arguing that a flawed election is better than a postponed election, Usman Bugaje, a key advisor to Vice President Atiku Abubakar, now says that the country's political opposition has walked into a trap by believing that it could out maneuver the ruling party on po [...]	2007-04-11 11:48:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07ABUJA682	EVALUATION OF NIGERIA'S 2007 ELECTION - PART B [...] (U) Following is an assessment of the current state of Nigeria's election preparations, keyed to approved criteria (Ref A). This is the second of a series of four responses to Ref A and an undetermined number of follow-up reports. Ref B is the first cable in the series. B. Political Is [...]	2007-04-11 13:29:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA697	SNAPSHOT OF KEY NORTHERN GUBERNATORIAL RACES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Similar to the Presidential contest, most Northern gubernatorial elections will be fought between the two major parties in Nigeria, the ruling Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Nigerian Peoples' Party (ANPP). The only formidable challenge the Action Congress (AC) presen [...]	2007-04-12 14:47:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA698	NIGERIAN ELECTION "HOLIDAY" DENOUNCED AS POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: President Obasanjo's sudden April 11 announcement of public holidays on April 12 and 13, supposedly to facilitate travel for the April 14 gubernatorial elections, has been widely denounced as a transparent political ploy intended to postpone the Supreme Court's hearing of Vice Pr [...]	2007-04-12 15:20:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA705	FCT MINISTER SHARES POLL DATA [...] (C) Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Nasir el-Rufai requested a meeting in order to brief on the latest political information from the Presidency. He did so under the guise of President Obasanjo's "promise to keep missions informed." He showed copies of polling data from throughout [...]	2007-04-13 14:36:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA716	NIGERIA'S ELECTIONS: HOPES TO HOLD ROUND TWO [...] (C) Nigeria's April 14 Gubernatorial and State elections were held amid much confusion and problems throughout the country. Across Nigeria, polls opened late, were staffed by inadequately trained officials who lacked enough and/or proper voting materials and possessed either incomplete or i [...]	2007-04-16 16:57:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA717	NNAMANI-- THE WORST ELECTION IN ENUGU'S HISTORY [...] (U) Summary: Senate President Ken Nnamani summoned Poloff to his Enugu home late in the afternoon April 14. He pronounced Saturday's poll to be "the worst election in the history of the state" and reported that most of the people of Enugu (including the Senator and his family) had been dise [...]	2007-04-16 16:59:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA726	ATIKU "OPEN" TO BOYCOTT; BUHARI SAYS "PEOPLE WILL [...] (C) Summary: Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who won a major victory at the Supreme Court on April 16 which compelled the Independent National Election Commission (INEC) to place his name on the ballot, is "open to a boycott" of this week's presidential election, according to one of his key a [...]	2007-04-17 16:53:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07ABUJA731	NIGERIAN ELECTIONS: KADUNA NUMBERS GAME [...] (C) Poloff and GSO formed one of two teams observing the April 14 Gubernatorial elections in Nigeria's Kaduna State. Poloff's team visited over 30 polling stations: some were in the cities of Kaduna and Zaria, a number along the road between them, and others off a side road to the North and We [...]	2007-04-18 08:57:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA748	NNAMANI PREDICTS FAILED ELECTIONS, INTERIM GOVT [...] (C) Summary: Senate President Ken Nnamani condemned Nigeria's April 14 elections as neither free, fair, nor credible and anticipated that the April 21 polls would be no better. He complained that the PDP had "gotten greedy" and dangerously attempted to fix the election results to win nearly [...]	2007-04-19 15:47:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA753	EL-RUFAI: INTERNATIONAL OBSERVERS DESTROYING [...] (C) SUMMARY: FCT Minister el-Rufai, depressed, complained about the greed of the PDP in the April 14 elections and acknowledged "some problems" with the elections. But, he said the failure of Nigeria's elections would be the "fault of the international community" for undermining Nigerians' [...]	2007-04-20 12:40:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA754	ATIKU HEADS TO ELECTIONS, BUT EXPECTS INTERIM [...] (C) Vice President Atiku Abubakar updated the Ambassador on his view of the state of the nation following the April 14 elections and his victory in the Supreme Court that ensured his place on the Presidential ballot on April 21. Recovering from knee surgery for a torn tendon, he arrived at t [...]	2007-04-20 14:47:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA766	NIGERIAN "ELECTION" A CHARADE [...] (C) Serious irregularities and blatant fraud were observed around the country during Nigeria's April 21 election. In many parts of Nigeria, especially in rural areas, no voting took place. Where voting did occur, it began several hours late, turnout was low, and the conduct of the polls was [...]	2007-04-23 14:46:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07ABUJA767	NIGERIA NUMBERS GAME [...] (C) Ref. A and septels will report on the shenanigans which marked Nigeria's April 21 Presidential and National Assembly elections. As we did last week for the vote in Kaduna state (ref. B),we wish here to focus on one particular statistic, overall voter turnout. As we will report in more d [...]	2007-04-23 16:26:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA77	FCT MINISTER'S UPDATE ON PDP ELECTION PREPARATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: FCT Minister el-Rufai called on Ambassador January 11 to provide a political update. He stressed the importance of the upcoming elections and said the PDP remained popular, but needed to exhibit "greater humility" to win voter support. He commented that PDP candidates Umaru Y [...]	2007-01-12 14:51:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
07ABUJA777	OJO MADUEKWE GIVES AMBASSADOR PDP SPIN ON ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: PDP Secretary General Ojo Maduekwe assured the Ambassador that the results of the 2007 election reflected the will of the Nigerian people, although he made no effort to defend the controversial election process or the announced results. The elections, Maduekwe argued, were the cu [...]	2007-04-25 07:37:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07ABUJA78	NIGERIA: ASSESSING PROGRESS ON ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY. With April elections drawing ever nearer and the deadline for voter registration at the end of January, USAID elections partners remain pessimistic, though IFES notes that completion of the voter registration exercise on time is not entirely impossible. INEC continues to maintain [...]	2007-01-12 15:04:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA79	FORMER GOVERNOR ON POLITICAL CLIMATE IN THE NORTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 31, former military governor serving under Sani Abacha, Retired Captain Rufa'i Garba, offered his take on the political climate in the North ahead of April's elections. An astute political observer, Garba averred that the arrest of Vice President Atiku Abubukar migh [...]	2007-01-12 15:07:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI
07ABUJA793	ELECTION RIGGING NIGERIAN STYLE [...] (C) Summary: Governor Yar'Adua of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) was pronounced by INEC to be the winner of Nigeria's April 21 presidential election. However, fraud and mismanagement plagued the poll at every stage, and it is therefore impossible to assert any meaningful relatio [...]	2007-04-26 14:48:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KCOR NI
07ABUJA80	SHARIA: POTENT, HERE TO STAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In December 30-31 meetings, Kano-based Bayero University academics Sani Zaharadeen and Zainab Kabir discussed training for Sharia court judges and public perceptions of Sharia implementation in the North. According to Islamic Studies Chair Sani Zaharadeen, the training given to [...]	2007-01-12 15:13:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL PHUM NI
07ABUJA804	VILLA DENIZENS SPIN THE ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 26, Ambassador met with Villa denizens Nasir el-Rufai, Femi Fani-Kayode and Akin Osuntokun to express disappointment with the flawed 2007 elections, to urge that election dispute mechanisms be credible, to reaffirm the unacceptability of violence, and to ask about dialo [...]	2007-04-27 13:57:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA805	OPPOSITION WORKING TO KEEP FAILED ELECTIONS STORY [...] (C) Summary: The political opposition is developing a three-pronged strategy in a bid to keep attention focused on the failures of the 2007 election. While key details are still to be worked out, according to Usman Bugaje (strictly protect) there is, in principle, agreement to proceed among th [...]	2007-04-27 14:45:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
07ABUJA809	BUHARI'S CHALLENGE "IN THE INTEREST OF DEMOCRACY" [...] (C) SUMMARY: ANPP Presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari discussed his view of Nigeria's future with the Ambassador on April 27 just before leaving for Kaduna. END SUMMARY. ELECTIONS AND THE PDP --------------------- 2. (C) Ambassador began the conversation by expressing concern [...]	2007-04-27 15:17:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA820	ACF UNHAPPILY ACCEPTS THE ELECTIONS [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY: PolOffs met with Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) Chairman Chief Sunday Awoniyi at his Abuja residence on April 26. The Kaduna-based ACF is an umbrella organization advocating the political, economic, and cultural interests of the 19 states constituting northern Nigeria. Wh [...]	2007-04-30 13:04:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA841	SUPREME COURT'S MOOD COLORED BY ELECTIONS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: In upcoming weeks, the mood of the Supreme Court may well be an important factor in determining how many of the recently concluded "elections" stand. In the past three weeks its rulings on the myriad lawsuits brought by President Obasanjo and Vice President Atiku in their poli [...]	2007-04-30 15:51:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA855	NIGERIA: YAR'ADUA SAYS REFORM WILL CONTINUE, [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting May 2, Nigeria President- elect Yar'adua affirmed that the reforms instituted under President Obasanjo will continue. He also said that election law and practice will be reviewed from the ground up. He criticized Nigerian political culture with its "winner take al [...]	2007-05-02 17:46:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
07ABUJA864	MARWA ON ELECTIONS, AIRLINES [...] (C) SUMMARY: General Buba Marwa (rtd.) discussed Nigeria's recent elections immediately following the official ceremony where INEC Chairman Iwu handed over the victory certificate to PDP Presidential candidate Yar'Adua. Marwa speculated that the "embarrassing" results of the Presidential po [...]	2007-05-03 14:00:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA865	KWARA GOVERNOR DEFENDS ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador met with the re-elected PDP Governor of Kwara state Bukola Saraki and stressed that the USG was concerned about the conduct of the elections, violence was not acceptable, and the tribunals were critical to the final phase of the electoral process. Saraki defended th [...]	2007-05-03 16:01:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA869	PRESIDENT-ELECT YAR'ADUA: BIO INFORMATION [...] (C) SUMMARY. Nigeria's president-elect Umaru Musa Yar'adua is relatively unknown both within and outside the country. Yar'adua (a soft-spoken, introvert) is now faced with the daunting task of uniting the country following elections termed as the worst in Nigerian history and disproving the po [...]	2007-05-04 09:17:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA884	NIGERIA: RUSSIA CONGRATULATES YAR'ADUA [...] (C) Summary. The Russian Ambassador delivered a message of congratulations to President-elect Yar'adua from Russian President Vladimir Putin on May 3. He said that Yar'adua has asked to be received in Moscow before the latter's inauguration as President of Nigeria on May 29 though not by Pu [...]	2007-05-07 12:31:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
07ABUJA886	NIGERIA: RUSSIA CONGRATULATES YAR'ADUA [...] (C) Summary. The Russian Ambassador delivered a message of congratulations to President-elect Yar'adua from Russian President Vladimir Putin on May 3. He said that Yar'adua has asked to be received in Moscow before the latter's inauguration as President of Nigeria on May 29 - though not by [...]	2007-05-07 14:29:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
07ABUJA903	YAR'ADUA'S AFRICAN TOUR [...] (U) Governor Musa Umaru Yar'Adua embarked on an African tour this week. In Benin, Yar'Adua called for stronger cooperation between the two countries and assured resident Nigerians that his administration will continue and consolidate the Obasanjo Administration's economic reforms. In Togo, [...]	2007-05-09 15:46:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NI
07ABUJA916	GENERAL AGWAI ON DARFUR, PERSONNEL CHANGES [...] (C) General Martin Luther Agwai met with the Ambassador and Defense Attach on May 11 to discuss his trip to the U.N. the week of May 14 and his next assignment as Force Commander for AMIS (African Union Mission in Sudan) and transition of this force to a U.N. peacekeeping force. Following his [...]	2007-05-11 10:46:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR MOPS KPKO NI
07ABUJA922	NIGERIA'S ELECTION TRIBUNALS - LAST HOPE OR CATCH [...] (C) SUMMARY. As international and domestic observers hang their hopes for redemption of Nigeria's electoral process on the electoral tribunals and their hearing of appeals, new concerns emerge regarding the timeliness of convening the tribunals and the ability of petitioners to meet the strin [...]	2007-05-11 13:41:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KREL NI ELECTIONS

07ABUJA945	YAR'ADUA VIEWED AS ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT, LEFT-LEANING [...] (C) SUMMARY. Professor Akin Mabogunje (strictly protect) told Poloff and Econoff that President Obasanjo chose Yar'adua as the PDP candidate and successor as president because of Yar'adua's ability to remain outside the political establishment. Mabogunje views Yar'adua as in the unique posit [...]	2007-05-15 14:55:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA946	BELARUS DEMARCHE [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Ms. Janet Odeka at the Nigerian Foreign Ministry's Second UN Division. Odeka could not tell poloff whether or not Nigeria would support Belarus' candidacy for the HRC. 2. (C) The Nigerian Foreign Ministry is virtually deserted at present as MFA of [...]	2007-05-15 15:34:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM UNHRC NI
07ABUJA955	ATTORNEY GENERAL BAYO OJO AND POLITICS AT NDLEA; [...] (C) According to NDLEA,s Director General, Lanre Ipinmisho, the forced &retirement8 earlier this year of 71 NDLEA officers for various offenses has not been finalized. Ipinmisho claims that several of the 71, including Vincent Ossai, have complained to Attorney General Bayo Ojo protesting the [...]	2007-05-16 13:20:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR KCRM PREL PGOV PINR NI
07ABUJA968	SHAYKH MINIMIZES MILITANCY PROSPECTS IN NORTH, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 10, PolOffs met with Kano State Government Senior Adviser on Religious Affairs and respected Islamic scholar Shaykh Aminudeed Abubakar who provided insight into the religious landscape of Kano. He minimized the potential for militancy in northern Nigeria, claiming that Ni [...]	2007-05-18 12:10:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KISL NI
07ABUJA969	KANO GOVERNOR DISCUSSES ELECTIONS, TERM AGENDA [...] (C) During a May 10 meeting with PolOffs, newly re-elected Kano State Governor Ibrahim Shekarau discussed the conduct and outcome of the April polls and provided insight into his agenda for the next term. Governor Shekarau expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the April 14 and 21 electio [...]	2007-05-18 12:37:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ABUJA970	LAWYERS PROTEST MAY 18 [...] (C) Summary: The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) urged its members to boycott the courts on May 18 as a nation-wide protest of conduct of the April 2007 elections. A legal contact told Poloff May 17 that lawyers were also planning a May 18 demonstration at the Abuja High Court, which he hope [...]	2007-05-18 12:39:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI
07ACCRA1029	GHANA ON NIGERIA'S ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: The GOG has largely remained quiet about the recent elections in Nigeria. President Kufuor urged &extreme restraint8 at one point but has said little else publicly. Most Ghanaian contacts want to accept the outcome and move on, hoping that elections will improve next time. Close p [...]	2007-05-09 12:58:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	GH NI PGOV PREL
07ACCRA1040	GHANA'S DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES THE AU [...] (C) As reported reftel, Ghana is preparing for the June 25-July 3 African Union (AU) Summit, whose focus will be planning for a "United States of Africa." In a May 3 meeting with the Ambassador, Deputy Foreign Minster Akwasi Osei-Adjei previewed the upcoming Summit. Osei-Adjei characterized th [...]	2007-05-10 17:05:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GH
07ACCRA1041	GHANA'S RULING NPP PREPARES FOR ELECTION 2008 [...] (C) Summary: In December, 2007, the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) will hold its national convention to select its candidate for the 2008 presidential election. There are currently 19 NPP aspirants (although none of them have formally registered with the party as a candidate),including t [...]	2007-05-10 17:05:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	GH PGOV PHUM
07ACCRA1062	GHANA ON SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOR LEBANON [...] (C) On May 11, Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Paul Essel, Supervisory Director of the MFA's Office of Legal, Multilateral Organizations, and Passport Affairs. Essel said that Ghana supported the establishment of a Special Tribunal for Lebanon, but believed the issue was delicate, as it [...]	2007-05-11 13:08:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	UNSC PREL PTER GH
07ACCRA1205	GHANA'S EXPATRIATE VOTING BILL: THE CONTROVERSY [...] (C) Summary: In a May 23 meeting with PolChief, Electoral Commission (EC) Deputy Chairman Kwadwo Sarfo-Kantanka said the Electoral Commission is preparing for eventual implementation of the controversial Representation of the People Amendment (ROPA) bill, which gives Ghanaian citizens livin [...]	2007-05-30 16:11:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	GH PGOV PHUM
07ACCRA1247	GHANA'S OPPOSITION NDC ON ELECTION 2008 AND [...] (C) Summary: Poloffs recently met separately with four leaders from the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) party. They expressed familiar concerns about implementation of a bill allowing expatriate Ghanaians to vote and were worried about the example set by the recent flawe [...]	2007-06-05 07:30:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	GH MOPS PGOV PREL
07ACCRA1412	GHANA'S PRESIDENT FORCES RESIGNATION OF KEY [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 23, President Kufuor gave all ministers aspiring to run for president until early July to resign. Four ministers have already submitted resignations, while five others (including the Foreign Minister and Minister of Trade and Industry) are expected to resign soon. The [...]	2007-06-25 17:44:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD GH PGOV PREL
07ACCRA1437	GHANAâ€™S NEW NARCOTICS DIRECTOR, GROWING [...] (C) Summary: On June 13, Polchief and Pol FSN met with Ben Botwe, who recently took over from Major General Richardson Baiden as the Acting Executive Director of Ghana's Narcotics Control Board (NCB). Botwe is preparing a budget for urgent funding priorities and wants to build a stronger relationsh [...]	2007-06-28 17:41:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	GH MOPS PGOV PINR PREL SNAR
07ACCRA1440	HIGH HOPES FOR LIQUID GOLD [...] (C) Summary: To much fanfare, Kosmos Energy, a Dallas-based oil company, announced that an exploration well in deep water about 30 miles offshore of Ghana's West coast had hit oil. While further exploration is required before the commercial viability of the find can be confirmed, the local [...]	2007-06-28 17:44:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG GH
07ACCRA1455	PDAS THOMAS-GREENFIELD MEETS WITH AFRICAN LEADERS [...] (SBU) Summary: PDAS Linda Thomas-Greenfield, head of the U.S. delegation to the 28-July 2 African Union Summit in Accra, held bilateral meetings on the margins of the Summit with the Foreign Ministers of Rwanda, Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Botswana, as well as with the Presidents of Lib [...]	2007-07-03 16:02:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	BF BO ER ET GH JA LI PREL RW SO SU TZ UG
07ACCRA1573	KUFUOR SUGGESTS MOROCCO AS POTENTIAL AFRICOM SITE [...] (C) Summary: On July 11, President Kufuor told Ambassador and General William E. Ward, Deputy Commander, US European Command that, in principle, AFRICOM is a &good8 thing. Kufuor then focused on the future placement of AFRICOM,s headquarters and urged the U.S. to work closely with the African [...]	2007-07-24 16:48:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS GH
07ACCRA1585	A/S FRAZER'S MEETINGS IN GHANA: SUDAN, SOMALIA, AU [...] (C) Summary: On the margins of the July 18-19 AGOA Forum in Accra, Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Jendayi Frazer and NSC Special Assistant to the President on African Affairs Bobby Pittman met with senior GOG officials, including outgoing Foreign Minister Akufo-Addo and President Kuf [...]	2007-07-25 17:09:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	AU GH PGOV PREL SO SU
07ACCRA1818	GENERAL WARD'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT KUFUOR [...] (C) Summary: On August 6, President Kufuor told General William E. Ward, Deputy Commander of European Command and the nominee to command Africa Command (AFRICOM) and Ambassador that the U.S. needs to conduct &lots of diplomacy8 concerning AFRICOM. Kufuor reiterated points reported in ref A say [...]	2007-08-29 16:44:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS MASS GH
07ACCRA1819	GEN WARD MEETS WITH NEW DEFENSE MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: On August 6, newly installed Minister of Defense Albert Kan-Dapaah told General William E. Ward, Deputy Commander of European Command and Presidential Designate for Commander of Africa Command (AFRICOM) that he looks forward to increased cooperation with the U.S. In a separate mee [...]	2007-08-29 16:45:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MASS PGOV PREL GH
07ACCRA1889	OPPOSITION PARTY OUTLINES CASE FOR CHANGE IN [...] (C) In an August 29 meeting with PolChief, the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC),Ghana's SIPDIS main opposition party, complained that the Electoral Commission (EC) failed to conduct its annual update of voter registration lists in 2007, which the NDC contends will [...]	2007-09-06 13:39:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM GH
07ACCRA1907	GHANA'S RESPONSE TO MINISTERIAL-LEVEL DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-10 15:03:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC AORC GH
07ACCRA2144	GHANA'S PRESIDENCY OF THE UNSC [...] (C) SUMMARY: As Ghana assumed the Presidency of the UN Security Council (UNSC) for the month of October, we expect its focus to be Africa centered, particularly as it relates to peace and security. According to Ghanaian officials, their agenda will likely include Sudan, Somalia, the Ethiopian [...]	2007-10-10 08:58:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC MOPS GH
07ACCRA2165	KUFUOR'S TRIP TO ADDIS ABABA [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 10, Chief of State Protocol Ambassador Kobina Wudu told poloff that on President Kufuor,s recent trip to Ethiopia, Kufuor met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and paid a courtesy call on German Chancellor Angela Merkel. While most of the trip focused on Africa [...]	2007-10-11 13:39:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC GH
07ACCRA2173	OPPOSITION ACTIVIST COMMENTS ON PRESIDENTIAL RACE [...] SUMMARY/COMMENT: National Democratic Party (NDC) activist Fiji Kwetey told PolChief during a October 5 meeting that his party would likely select NDC parliamentary foreign affairs spokesman John Mahama as its Vice Presidential candidate. He indicated that NDC insiders view former Trade Ministe [...]	2007-10-12 10:39:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GH
07ACCRA2227	GOG HAS LITTLE CONTROL OVER NARCOTICS FLOW THROUGH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff toured Kotoka International Airport on October 16 to survey GOG efforts to combat the transit of narcotics. The Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) has around seven overworked and underpaid officers patrolling the airport. Resources are scant and a NACOB official told poloff th [...]	2007-10-22 07:18:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PGOV PREL KCRM PINR GH
07ACCRA227	PRESIDENT KUFUOR AS AU CHAIR: A FIRST TAKE [...] (C) Summary: Ghanaians view President John Kufuor's selection as AU chair as a recognition of the country's African leadership role, democratic credentials, and status as the first independent country on the continent. Kufuor will use his low-key, positive leadership style to tackle Afric [...]	2007-02-01 16:45:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC GH PGOV PREL
07ACCRA2273	RECENT NARCOTICS ARREST HAS GHANAIAN DRUG BARONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ghanaian criminal community is reeling after the well-publicized October 22 arrest of two Afghan nationals for narcotics trafficking (reftel),according to police and other contacts. Contacts have said the drug "barons" were very surprised to learn that DEA was actively conduc [...]	2007-10-25 16:43:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC SNAR PREL PGOV PINR KCRM GH AF
07ACCRA2280	DEMARCHE ON UNGA RAPE RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-26 12:56:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNGA GH
07ACCRA2292	CUBA EMBARGO RESOLUTION AT UNGA [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-29 17:18:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	UNGA ETRD PHUM UN CU GH
07ACCRA234	MEETING WITH NDC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MILLS [...] (C) Summary: During a January 26 meeting with PolChief, former Vice President and NDC presidential candidate John Evans Atta Mills provided additional details on an alleged plot to assassinate former President Rawlings. He commented on his health, saying he had received radiation therapy fo [...]	2007-02-02 12:58:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	GH PGOV PINR
07ACCRA2356	U.S. EXPECTATIONS FOR MID-NOVEMBER IAEA REPORT ON [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-06 11:16:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM AORC
07ACCRA2402	UK DRAWS HARD LINE WITH GOG ON NARCOICS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 23-24, UK Foreign Office Minister of State Dr. Kim Howells visited Ghana and delivered a stern message on narcotics to President Kufuor, Minister of Interior Kwamena Bartels, and Attorney General Joe Ghartey. According to UK High Commission contacts, Howells told the GO [...]	2007-11-14 08:53:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SNAR PGOV KCRM GH
07ACCRA2403	NKRUMAH'S PARTY LOOKS FORWARD TO 2008 ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a recent conversation with poloffs, the Convention People's Party (CPP) Deputy Secretary said that the CPP has the potential to "create some surprises" in the 2008 Presidential campaign. The CPP is strongest in the Eastern and Central Regions but has a foothold in the Ashanti [...]	2007-11-14 08:54:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GH
07ACCRA2418	PRESIDENT KUFUOR UNHURT AFTER CAR ACCIDENT [...] (U) On November 14, as President Kufuor,s motorcade was traveling from his residence to "the Castle" (the presidential office building),a Mercedes Benz collided with Kufuor,s armored Mercedes Benz when the presidential motorcade sped through a major intersection. It appears that President Ku [...]	2007-11-15 17:24:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCRM GH
07ACCRA2420	FBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR MEETS WITH BNI, GHANA POLICE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate meetings on November 9 with the Director of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) and Ghana Police officials, FBI Deputy Director John Pistole emphasized the importance of mutual cooperation to more effectively combat transnational crime. The Director of BNI told [...]	2007-11-16 11:28:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KCRM PINR GH
07ACCRA2533	ONE YEAR LATER: NARCOTICS COMMITTEE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Just over a year ago, the GOG released the Georgina Wood Committee report in response to a public outcry after several embarrassing cocaine scandals in 2005. The GOG endorsed the report and pledged to quickly implement its proposals, but it has largely failed to do so. Most key [...]	2007-12-13 17:16:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR KCRM PGOV PREL GH
07ACCRA2534	TWO CONVICTED FOR ROLE IN 2005 COCAINE SCANDAL [...] (U) After a year long trial, an Accra court on November 28 sentenced both Kwabena Amaning, aka Tagor, and Alhaji Isaah Abass to 15 years hard labor in connection with the 2005 cocaine scandal involving the MV Benjamin. As reported in ref A, the 2005 cocaine scandal kicked off when five kilogr [...]	2007-12-13 17:16:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM SNAR PGOV PREL GH
07ACCRA2567	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON KOSOVO FINAL STATUS [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-17 16:12:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU GH
07ACCRA2590	GHANA RESPONSE TO EFFORTS TO COMBAT WEST AFRICAN [...] (U) Post provides the following information keyed to ref A request. GOG efforts to addresses narcotics trafficking --------------------------------------------- - 2. (C) Ghana is increasingly becoming a significant transshipment point for cocaine from South America and heroin from Southwest Asi [...]	2007-12-21 13:02:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PGOV PREL KCRM GH
07ACCRA263	GHANA ON COTE D'IVOIRE: GROWING FRUSTRATION [...] (C) On February 1, Ghana's Secretary to the President Ambassador D.K. Osei told Ambassador he was not very optimistic about the prospects for peace in Cote d'Ivoire. He did not discount the possibility that a deal could be struck with President Gbagbo and thought new ECOWAS Chair Blaise Camp [...]	2007-02-06 17:27:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	GH IV PGOV PREL
07ACCRA285	GHANA AT 50: SETTING THE SCENE - JUBILEE...NOT [...] (C) Summary: This is the first in a series of reports looking at Ghana at 50, intended to be scene setters for the official delegation which will be visiting this year. On March 6, Ghana will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary as Sub-Saharan Africa's first independent country. The mood so [...]	2007-02-08 15:22:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	GH MCAP PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SOCI
07ACCRA286	GHANA AT 50: DEMOCRACY TAKING ROOT [...] (SBU) Summary: This is the second in a series of cables looking at Ghana at 50. Ghana's 15-year-old democracy is taking root, with a strong civil society, lively free media, and a history of four free and fair national elections. Ghana scores reasonably well on various governance indices. [...]	2007-02-08 15:27:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	GH PGOV PHUM PREL
07ACCRA314	GHANA AT 50: SECURITY CHALLENGES [...] (C) Summary: This is the third in a series of cables on Ghana at 50. Ghana faces a host of security challenges. Narcotics trafficking is probably the most nefarious, with the potential to corrode democracy and stability over time. While in many ways Ghana is relatively safe, especially com [...]	2007-02-09 13:00:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC GH PGOV PREL PTER
07ACCRA464	REFUGEE REFERRAL FOR RICARDO ECUA-MBA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Accra hereby refers Ricardo Ecua-Mba to the U.S. Resettlement Program, together with his son, both of whom took refuge in Ghana in 2000. Ecua-Mba is the former Vice Minister of Education and Assistant Director General of the military cabinet of Equatorial Guinea. In 19 [...]	2007-02-27 16:00:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF GH EK
07ACCRA485	GHANA ON GUINEA: OSEI SAYS MUST FIND FACE-SAVING [...] (C) On February 22, Ambassador had a lengthy discussion with Secretary to the President Ambassador D.K. Osei about Guinea. Osei underscored the need to get trade unions into the negotiations to select a list of 3-4 potential candidates for prime minister that President Conte could accept. S [...]	2007-03-01 19:04:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	GH GV PGOV PREL
07ACCRA486	GHANA: DEFENSE MINISTER ASKS USG TO "DISCUSS [...] (C) Ghanaian Minister of Defense Kwame Addo Kufuor and Ambassador met one-on-one at the Minister,s request on February 26 at the Defense Ministry. Addo Kufuor recalled his strong and positive personal regard for the United States, and the positive and strong military to military relations our [...]	2007-03-01 19:08:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	GH MOPS PREL
07ACCRA497	CHINESE INFLUENCE IN GHANA - AN UPDATE [...] (U) Summary: Chinese involvement in Ghana, dating from the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1960, is strong and growing. After independence, President Kwame Nkrumah sought close ties with China, a relationship that continued throughout the Rawlings years. The bilateral friendship b [...]	2007-03-02 14:39:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	CH ECON EFIN ENRG PGOV PREL XA XE GH
07ACCRA568	REFUGEE REFERRAL FOR FRANCOIS NIYIBIZI [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Accra hereby refers Rwandan Francois Niyibizi, his wife and two children to the United States resettlement program. Francois Niyibizi fled with his wife in July 1994 towards Goma in former Zaire when the genocide started. He feared for their safety as his wife is Hutu- [...]	2007-03-13 17:14:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM GH CO
07ACCRA613	GHANA ON SOMALIA, SUDAN, ZIMBABWE [...] (C) Summary: On March 16, Ambassador met with Deputy Foreign Minister Akwasi Osei-Adjei (the Foreign Minister was out of the country) to discuss Somalia, Sudan and Zimbabwe. The Deputy Minister said Ghana would issue statements on Somalia and Zimbabwe by Mach 19 and was committed to resolvi [...]	2007-03-19 07:37:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	GH PHUM PREL UNHCR ZI KPKO CT CD UNSC AU
07ACCRA614	VIEWS OF AND ABOUT FORMER PRESIDENT RAWLINGS [...] (C) Summary: On March 8, Ambassador attended a meeting with Ghanaian President Kufuor arranged by Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr., who was visiting Ghana for the 50th anniversary Jubilee and had also recently met with former President Rawlings. Jackson said Ghana's political polarization was hu [...]	2007-03-19 07:37:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON GH PGOV PINR
07ACCRA651	REFUGEE REFERRAL FOR EMMANUEL MARIE DINDA [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Accra hereby refers Emmanuel Marie Dinda (DOB: 16 October 1966, POB: Mbuji-Mayi, DRC) to the U.S. resettlement program. Dinda took refuge in Ghana in February 2005. He previously served as Administrator of Presidential Affairs from 1993 to 1997 under former Congolese Pre [...]	2007-03-22 16:23:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM GH CO
07ACCRA654	REFUGEE REFERRAL FOR LIBERIAN REFUGEES WILMAH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Accra hereby refers Tetee Janjayamars Wilson and Wilmah Martha Jacobs to the U.S. Resettlement Program, together with Wilmah's son, Tetee's daughter, and four foster children whose mother was brutally murdered in June 2006. They have presented evidence of fear of persecu [...]	2007-03-22 17:05:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM GH LI
07ACCRA708	REFUGEE REFERRAL FOR SUSIE WEAH [...] (C) Embassy Accra hereby refers Susie Weah (DPOB: 15 JUL 1985, Harper, Liberia) to the U.S. resettlement program. In Liberia, Weah's father worked as a chauffeur for the school superintendent for Maryland County. After rebels threatened to kill Weah's entire family, Weah fled from Liberia to [...]	2007-03-29 16:53:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM GH LI
07ACCRA731	FOREIGN MINISTER ON GHANA AS AFRICAN UNION (AU) [...] (U) Summary: In a March 23 speech to parliament Ghanaian Foreign Minister Nana Akufo-Addo noted President Kufuor's busy agenda of upcoming meetings in his capacity as AU Chair. The centerpiece is the AU Summit in Accra on June 25-July 3, which he said would focus on how the Union should be [...]	2007-04-02 17:35:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC ECON GH IV PREL SO SU ZI
07ACCRA850	LIBERIAN GRACE MINOR WANTS OFF THE SANCTIONS LIST [...] (U) This is an action message - see para 5. 2. (C) On April 12, Ambassador met with former Liberian Senator and alleged former handler of Charles Taylor's investments Grace Minor at her request. Minor said she had come to Ghana four years ago because of an illness that could not be treated [...]	2007-04-19 12:49:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GH LI
07ADDISABABA104	ETHIOPIA: SEN. BROWNBACK CONFERS WITH PM MELES ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Meles briefed Sen. Brownback and his staff on Ethiopia's military operation in Somalia during a Jan. 12 meeting. Meles said that the GOE had learned from U.S. interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan that it was essential to place the burden for establishing security and political [...]	2007-01-16 07:03:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PREL MOPS ET
07ADDISABABA1061	USAU AMB COURVILLE MEETING W/UGANDAN AMB SSEMPALA [...] (C)SUMMARY: On 2 April 2007, USAU met with General Aronda, Chief of Defense of the Ugandan Peoples Defense Force and Ambassador Ssempala to discuss issues and concerns regarding the deployment of Ugandan troops in Somalia at the Ugandan Embassy in Addis Ababa. END SUMMARY 2. (U) Parti [...]	2007-04-10 11:20:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS AU
07ADDISABABA1062	USAU AMB COURVILLE MEETING W/UGANDAN AMB SSEMPALA [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 27, 2007, USAU met with BG Rusoke, Joint Chief of Staff of the Ugandan Peoples Defense Force and Ambassador Ssempala to discuss issues and concerns regarding the deployment of Ugandan troops in Somalia at the Ugandan Embassy in Addis Ababa. END SUMMARY 2. (U) Part [...]	2007-04-10 11:30:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS AU
07ADDISABABA1079	SOMALIA: TFG REACHES OUT TO HAWIYE, BUT PLANS FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. Somalia's Ambassador to Ethiopia and PermRep to the African Union, Abdulkarim Farah, disputed reports of inter-clan tensions between the Darood (President Abdullahi Yusuf's clan) and Hawiye who control Mogadishu, asserting they were exaggerated by disenchanted Hawiye/Habr-Gedir/Ay [...]	2007-04-11 08:02:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS EAID KDEM ET SO QA CA
07ADDISABABA1104	ETHIOPIA: BENCH RULES CUD LEADERS MUST ANSWER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a series of rulings between April 4-9, the High Court dismissed charges of "attempted" genocide and treason against all defendants in the nearly year-long trial of opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) leaders, independent journalists and civil society represent [...]	2007-04-12 15:04:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET
07ADDISABABA1222	ETHIOPIA: MFA HIGHLIGHTS COUNTER-TERRORISM AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an April 18 courtesy call, newly appointed Ethiopian MFA Counselor for Europe and America Tebege Berhe said conditions in Somalia had improved over the previous month, but that military operations remained "incomplete," having been curtailed due to concern about civilian casua [...]	2007-04-19 15:11:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID ET ER SO
07ADDISABABA1225	ETHIOPIA: MFA HIGHLIGHTS COUNTER-TERRORISM AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an April 18 courtesy call, newly appointed Ethiopian MFA Counselor for Europe and America Tebege Berhe said conditions in Somalia had improved over the previous month, but that military operations remained "incomplete," having been curtailed due to concern about civilian casua [...]	2007-04-20 04:35:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID ET ER SO
07ADDISABABA1234	SOMALIA: TFG PRESIDENT YUSUF HIGHLIGHTS ROLE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an April 20 meeting with Ambassador, visiting Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) President Abdullahi Yusuf said the security situation in Somalia was improving, but that Council of Islamic Court (CIC) remnants in Mogadishu continued to provoke the TFG. While the [...]	2007-04-20 13:27:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS KPKO SO ET DJ QA EG IR
07ADDISABABA1350	ETHIOPIA: EU MEMBERS NEGATIVE ON GOE ACTIONS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassadors from EU member states emerged angry and pessimistic from a 3-hour meeting with PM Meles April 18. They were reacting to the Prime Minister's comments on defeating the insurgency in Somalia as well as his remarks concerning upcoming local elections in Ethiopia, which [...]	2007-05-03 08:25:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID ASEC SO ET
07ADDISABABA1381	ETHIOPIA: GOE ADDRESSES RELIGIOUS CONFLICT IN JIMA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a three-day visit to the Jima area in Ethiopia's Oromiya Region, Poloff and FSN met with local government and religious leaders to better understand the causes of recurrent religious conflicts, including an October 2006 machete attack by Muslims that killed or injured 36 Chr [...]	2007-05-08 04:53:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER KISL KIRF ET
07ADDISABABA139	ETHIOPIA: THE STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OF THE CUD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Internal disputes over tactics and personal rivalries have continued over the last several months to weaken and divide the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) -- the strongest opposition movement in Ethiopia's landmark 2005 elections. While those who led the CUD to an impressi [...]	2007-01-18 03:52:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ET
07ADDISABABA1420	ETHIOPIA: IMPRISONED CUD LEADERS AND PRIME [...] (C) SUMMARY. On April 30, a signed admission by detained Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) Chairman Hailu Shawel and Addis Ababa mayor-elect Berhanu Nega, accepting collective responsibility for their membership's actions which led to loss of life and damage to property during the civil [...]	2007-05-09 16:38:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KJUS ET
07ADDISABABA1436	ETHIOPIA: DEFENDANTS PONDER DEFENSE IN CUD TRIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The 49 remaining defendants in the case against opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) leaders, independent journalists and civil society representatives are now contemplating whether to defend their case. The group had previously indicated that they "do not recogn [...]	2007-05-11 06:09:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET
07ADDISABABA1438	DEMARCHE ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL-CANDIDACY OF [...] (C) Poloff delivered ref B points on May 9 to MFA Director of Europe and the Americas Tebege Berhe and to desk officer for the U.S. Third Secretary Adam Tesfaye. Tesfaye inquired about the status of discussions with other Eastern European member states, and asked whether any additional candida [...]	2007-05-11 06:31:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC ET
07ADDISABABA1456	AF DAS SWAN CONSULTATIONS ON SOMALIA WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY. In May 11 consultations with AF DAS Swan and Ambassador Yates, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Tekeda Alemu agreed that the current success of military operations in Somalia afforded a short-term opportunity for Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) President Abdull [...]	2007-05-15 05:29:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER SO ET EG
07ADDISABABA1457	AF DAS SWAN CONSULTATIONS ON SOMALIA WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY. In May 11 consultations with AF DAS Swan and Ambassador Yates, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Tekeda Alemu agreed that the current success of military operations in Somalia afforded a short-term opportunity for Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) President Abdull [...]	2007-05-15 05:29:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER SO ET EG
07ADDISABABA1484	ETHIOPIA: DAS SWAN URGES GOE TO MOVE FORWARD ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: AF DAS Jim Swan urged Minister Bereket Simon, Public Relations advisor to Prime Minister Meles, to seize the opportunity presented by a written apology from detained CUD leaders to release them. Bereket clearly took the point on board, but offered the standard GOE reply that the [...]	2007-05-16 08:59:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ET ER
07ADDISABABA1500	SOMALIA: ETHIOPIAN STATE MINISTER TEKEDA PROPOSES [...] (C) SUMMARY. State Minister for Foreign Affairs Tekeda Alemu informed Ambassador on May 16 that the GOE believed that Mogadishu was the most effective venue for a joint U.S.-GOE approach to Somali President Yusuf on political engagement of Hawiye leaders, as it would provide an opportunity to [...]	2007-05-16 14:51:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM EAID ET SO
07ADDISABABA1507	SOMALI AMBASSADOR TO ETHIOPIA HIGHLIGHTS NEED FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a May 16 meeting with ORA analysts and deputy pol-econ counselor, Ambassador Abdulkarim Farah, the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia's (TFG) Ambassador to Ethiopia and PermRep to the African Union, offered his frank perspectives on TFG relations with the Hawiye clan, a [...]	2007-05-18 04:49:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR KPKO SO ET BY
07ADDISABABA1531	SOMALIA: ETHIOPIAN STATE MINISTER TEKEDA DISCUSSES [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a follow-up to May 11 consultations with AF DAS Swan, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Tekeda presented a GOE non-paper on May 15 to visiting Ambassador John Yates and Ambassador, expressing Ethiopia's shared concerns about the need for Transitional Federal Government of Som [...]	2007-05-21 13:52:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET
07ADDISABABA1549	SOMALIA: AF DAS SWAN CONSULTATIONS WITH EU ENVOY [...] (C) SUMMARY. On May 11, Jean-Christophe Belliard, Personal Envoy for Somalia of EU High Representative for Foreign and Defense Policy Javier Solana, informed visiting AF DAS Jim Swan and Special Envoy to Somalia-designate Ambassador John Yates of recent consultations held separately with Ethi [...]	2007-05-22 14:24:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KISL ET SO
07ADDISABABA1551	DEMARCHES ON DARFUR AND UN HYBRID FORCE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points on May 22 to MFA desk officer for the United States, Third Secretary Adam Tesfaye. Tesfaye inquired about the status of discussions with other AU member states, and asked whether any additional internal disagreements on the reinforcement efforts had occurred. [...]	2007-05-22 15:16:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO SU ET AU
07ADDISABABA1558	ETHIOPIA: MELES TELLS ADMIRAL FALLON "TIDE HAS [...] (C) SUMMARY. PM Meles told visiting CENTCOM Commander Admiral William J. Fallon on May 11 that after a "second round" of fighting in Somalia in mid-April, the "tide had turned" against "jihadist insurgents" and in favor of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG). Meles acknowledged that th [...]	2007-05-23 07:24:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PTER ET SO ER
07ADDISABABA1578	MINISTER DIRIR DISCUSSES ETHIOPIAN INTERESTS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. In May 15 consultations with visiting Special Envoy to Somalia-designate Ambassador John Yates and deputy pol-econ counselor (note-taker),Ethiopia's Minister for Culture and Tourism, Ambassador Mohamoud Dirir (the most prominent ethnic Ethiopian-Somali in Ethiopia's federal gove [...]	2007-05-23 12:25:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR SO ET DJ
07ADDISABABA1608	SOMALIA: SPEAKER OF TRANSITIONAL FEDERAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Sheikh Adan Mohammed Nur, Speaker of Somalia's Transitional Federal Parliament (TFP),led a 18-member parliamentary delegation to Addis Ababa this week to meet with Ethiopian MPs and GOE principals, including PM Meles and FM Seyoum. In a May 24 meeting with Ambassador, Nur said [...]	2007-05-25 08:27:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KPKO SO ET
07ADDISABABA161	SOMALIA: ETHIOPIA ON TFG INCLUSIVENESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In ongoing discussions with GOE principals, Ambassador has repeatedly raised ref B points on the need to, inter alia, encourage Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) leaders to not only reconcile with TFG Speaker Shariff Hassan, but also to reach out to all Somali stakehold [...]	2007-01-18 10:13:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SO ET
07ADDISABABA1684	ETHIOPIA: DETAINED CUD OPPOSITION LEADER UNDERGOES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 29, detained Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) chairman Hailu Shawel underwent eye surgery as a follow-up to treatment he received in February 2006 for a detached retina. As there are no properly trained ophthalmologic surgeons in Ethiopia, and there was a risk of [...]	2007-06-01 15:06:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET
07ADDISABABA173	SOMALIA: MSF PROTESTS ALLEGED ETHIOPIAN MILITARY [...] (C) SUMMARY. The humanitarian NGO, Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders),has protested the alleged December 26-27, 2006, occupation of its hospital in Dinsor, Somalia, by the Ethiopian military, asserting that Ethiopian troops harassed and intimidated MSF local staff and confisc [...]	2007-01-23 08:25:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PTER MOPS SO ET
07ADDISABABA1767	ETHIOPIA: AMBASSADOR AND SENIOR EPRDF OFFICIALS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 1 meeting, Minister Bereket Simon, Special Advisor to PM Meles, praised Ambassador for his work in strengthening bilateral ties, emphasizing that the relationship is currently stronger than it had been in years. Bereket said the GoE hoped to use this trajectory to enhan [...]	2007-06-06 11:52:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET
07ADDISABABA1787	PROPOSED PRST ON SOMALIA - ETHIOPIAN VIEWS [...] (C) Ethiopia fully supports the principles espoused by the proposed UN Security Council Presidential Statement (PRST) on Somalia (ref A). 2. (U) Ethiopia is a strong supporter of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM),both politically and militarily. As one of the 15 members of the [...]	2007-06-07 14:11:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO UNSC ET SO
07ADDISABABA181	SOMALIA: TFG AMBASSADOR-DESIGNATE TO GERMANY [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a January 22 meeting with deputy pol-econ counselor and German DCM, Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG) Embassy counselor Abdisalam Warsame Hassan reviewed recent developments in Somalia. TFG President Yusuf had not been harmed by the January 19 mortar attack on the [...]	2007-01-23 14:37:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS SO ET
07ADDISABABA1818	ETHIOPIA: CUD LEADERSHIP FOUND GUILTY OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 11, Ethiopia's High Court returned an unexpectedly sudden guilty verdict against 38 opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) leaders, independent journalists, and civil society representatives, detained since November 2005, including CUD Chairman Hailu Shawel and [...]	2007-06-11 16:32:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET
07ADDISABABA192	ETHIOPIA: PROSECUTION RESTS IN CUD TRIAL - A [...] (C) SUMMARY. On November 29, 2006, the prosecution rested its case against detained opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) leaders, independent journalists and civil society representatives, ending a 7-month presentation of evidence. The next court session will be on February 19, [...]	2007-01-24 04:43:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET
07ADDISABABA1983	ETHIOPIA REQUESTS POLICE PROTECTION FOR EMBASSY IN [...] (C) On June 25, Ambassador, accompanied by DCM, met Ethiopian State Minister of Foreign Affairs Tekeda Alemu concerning the "illegal" entry on June 18 of 40 protestors into the Ethiopian Embassy compound in Washington, D.C. Minister Tekeda expressed the GOE,s deep anguish at the lack of police [...]	2007-06-25 16:24:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEC OFDP ET
07ADDISABABA2005	ETHIOPIA: PRIME MINISTER MELES TO RELEASE [...] (C) SUMMARY. On June 22, the many months of shuttle diplomacy on the part of Professor Ephraim Isaac to secure release of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) political detainees reached an important milestone. Nearly two weeks after the High Court announced their conviction on crimin [...]	2007-06-26 15:04:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET
07ADDISABABA2027	ETHIOPIA ETHNIC INSURGENCY (C-AL7-01035): [...] (C) SUMMARY. In separate briefings to Embassy officers, representatives of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders),as well as USG-funded researchers conducting a regional assessment of Somali issues, have highlighted concerns that the Government of Ethiopia's ongoing counterinsurg [...]	2007-06-27 16:53:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM MOPS EAID ET
07ADDISABABA205	SOMALIA: ETHIOPIAN STATE MINISTER TO ANNOUNCE [...] (C) SUMMARY. State Minister for Foreign Affairs Tekeda informed Ambassador on January 23 that he was preparing a public statement on the Ethiopian military's withdrawal from Somalia, following consultations between Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) President Yusuf and Ethiopian [...]	2007-01-24 13:09:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS MASS SO ET KE KN
07ADDISABABA2110	ETHIOPIA: DIVIDED PARLIAMENT APPROVES NEW NATIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 26, in a divided vote, Parliament approved PM Meles' nominations for a new National Electoral Board (NEB). The selections for the nine-member board came from a pool of candidates proposed to the PM by the inter-party dialogue between the ruling and opposition parties. Ho [...]	2007-07-05 13:14:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PHUM KDEM ET
07ADDISABABA2117	ETHIOPIA: THE EFFECTIVENESS OF UN EFFORTS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. As in the previous year, neither host government officials nor Ethiopian media have reported significant sexual misconduct or trafficking in persons (TIP) attributable to UN peacekeeping personnel in Ethiopia. However, both NGOs and staff of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia [...]	2007-07-05 15:01:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO PHUM KCRM KWMN ET ER
07ADDISABABA2137	ETHIOPIA: PROSECUTION RECOMMENDS DEATH PENALTY FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. On July 9, the prosecution recommended the death penalty for the 38 opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) leaders and journalists found guilty on June 11 on charges of subversion. However, final sentencing has been postponed until July 16. Meanwhile, the negotiation [...]	2007-07-09 16:01:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET
07ADDISABABA2177	ETHIOPIA: PROSECUTION RECOMMENDS DEATH PENALTY FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. On July 9, the prosecution recommended the death penalty for the 38 opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) leaders and journalists found guilty on June 11 on charges of subversion. However, final sentencing has been postponed until July 16. Meanwhile, the negotiation [...]	2007-07-12 09:13:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET
07ADDISABABA2185	SOMALI TFG AMBASSADOR REVIEWS SOMALILAND, AMISOM, [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to Ambassador Abdulkarim Farah, the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia's (TFG) Ambassador to Ethiopia and PermRep to the African Union, African foreign ministers meeting in Accra unanimously rejected a Ghanaian motion to establish an AU committee to examine Soma [...]	2007-07-13 08:18:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS KPKO SO ET ER AU BN
07ADDISABABA2195	ETHIOPIA: ELDERS ANTICIPATE JULY 16 AMNESTY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Professor Ephraim Isaac, the lead negotiator from the team of Ethiopian Elders working on release of the CUD detainees, has returned to Addis Ababa for the conclusion of the trial, and the anticipated pardon announcement by the GoE. During a July 12 meeting with PM Meles, Ephraim [...]	2007-07-13 14:00:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET
07ADDISABABA2197	(C-AL7-01035) ETHIOPIA: WFP OFFICIAL DISCUSSES [...] (C) SUMMARY. An American security coordinator for the World Food Programme (WFP),who has traveled extensively in the Ogaden area of Ethiopia's Somali Region to coordinate WFP airdrops, assesses that the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) does not seek to target Americans or humanitarian [...]	2007-07-13 17:43:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PGOV MOPS EAID EAGR ET

07ADDISABABA2203	(C-AL7-01035) ETHIOPIA: SOMALI REGION SUPREME [...] (C/REL UK) SUMMARY. The acting President of the Supreme Court for Ethiopia's Somali Region, Abdurahman Rega, denies any increase in detentions resulting from the GOE's ongoing counterinsurgency campaign against suspected Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) rebels in the Ogaden. A former [...]	2007-07-16 04:44:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS PINS MOPS ET
07ADDISABABA2245	ETHIOPIA: CUD LEADERS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON; [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 16, in the final session of the trial of the CUD leaders, CUD members, and journalists convicted on June 11, 30 of the 38 defendants were sentenced to life in prison, with the remaining receiving sentences from one to 18 years. The High Court judges noted that while the [...]	2007-07-16 16:10:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET
07ADDISABABA2284	ETHIOPIA: CUD LEADERS FREED FROM PRISON [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 20, the 38 Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) leaders, CUD members and journalists that had been convicted on charges including "Outrages Against the Constitution," were granted a Presidential pardon and released from prison. The release is a result of months of neg [...]	2007-07-20 15:28:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET
07ADDISABABA2285	(C-AL7-01035) ETHIOPIA: UN AGENCIES ALLEGE [...] (C) SUMMARY. UN agencies and humanitarian NGOs report that Somali Region authorities have decided to allow the delivery of emergency food relief--presumably under military escort--to 5 zones in the Ogaden where military operations are ongoing. However, the UN and NGOs also note that the Ethi [...]	2007-07-20 17:29:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINS MOPS EAID EAGR ET
07ADDISABABA23	AMBASSADOR CINDY L. COURVILLE'S MEETING WITH AU [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 1, Ambassador Courville met with Peace and Security Commissioner Djinnit (PSC). He acknowledged that events on the ground in Somalia have overtaken the African Union (AU) strategy outlined in the AU communique issued on 27 December. Djinnit is chairing the AU troika on [...]	2007-01-04 12:33:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AU
07ADDISABABA232	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ETHIOPIAN VIEWS ON AU [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador delivered ref A points on January 23 to State Minister of Foreign Affairs Tekeda Alemu. Minister Tekeda highlighted that while Ethiopia believed selecting Sudanese President Bashir as African Union Assembly Chair was not desirable for the AU, Ethiopia could not openly [...]	2007-01-25 17:03:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AU SU ET ER
07ADDISABABA233	SOMALIA: PRIME MINISTER MELES URGES DIPLOMACY [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. Prime Minister Meles called the USG's AC-130 strike "terrific" in targeting extremists without any civilian casualties, but termed the Washington Post press report--less than 24 hours after the strike--as unacceptable. The leak comes as Meles hosts the African Union summit wit [...]	2007-01-25 17:46:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR MOPS MASS ET SO
07ADDISABABA2343	(C-AL7-01035) ETHIOPIA: EMERGENCY FOOD RELIEF [...] (C) SUMMARY. UNOCHA Head of Office Paul Hebert reported that government officials had decided on July 21 to allow emergency food relief to be delivered to the 5 zones in the Ogaden area of the Somali Region where military operations against the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) were ong [...]	2007-07-25 07:42:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV PINS PHUM EAGR EAID ET
07ADDISABABA2392	SOMALI TFG PRIME MINISTER GHEDI OPTIMISTIC ABOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi, accompanied by TFG Foreign Minister Hussein Elabe Fahiye, informed Ambassador on July 27 that earlier meetings with AU Commission Chairperson Konare and French FM Kouchner "went well," with Kouchne [...]	2007-07-30 15:50:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KPKO SO EG QA
07ADDISABABA2393	REQUEST FOR ADVISORY OPINION: PARDONED ETHIOPIAN [...] (C) ACTION REQUEST: Per 9FAM 40.21(a) N10 "Political Offenses," and Ref B, Post requests formal determination from CA/VO/L/A that the convictions of Berhanu Nega and Yacob Hailemariam constitute "political offenses." These individuals have applied for reinstatement of their LPR status, but f [...]	2007-07-30 16:04:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	CVIS PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET
07ADDISABABA2523	ETHIOPIA: (C-AL7-01035) SOME COMMERCIAL FOOD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On August 9, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) reported that World Food Program (WFP) emergency food relief is now finally en route to the Ogaden area of Ethiopia's Somali Region, with 4 trucks making deliveries, and 32 other trucks anticipated [...]	2007-08-10 12:22:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PGOV MOPS EAGR EAID ET
07ADDISABABA258	ETHIOPIAN POPULAR OPINION: INFLATION, POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY In an informal survey Post conducted of Addis Ababa residents, interviewees said that the current domestic political climate has yet to recover fully from the violence that marked the 2005 post-election period, and that a subdued anger continues to fester as a result. However, des [...]	2007-01-30 05:20:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM ET ER
07ADDISABABA263	USAU SUPPORT FOR AMISON DEPLOYMENT [...] (C) Background: The US Mission to the AU is in constant contact with: Peace and Security Commissioner Djinnit and the Director of Peace Support Operations Bereng Mtimkulu. As a result of six weeks of quiet diplomacy to AU planners, a dialogue and relationship has been established. (C) It [...]	2007-01-30 10:09:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS AU
07ADDISABABA2635	REQUEST FOR ADVISORY OPINION: PARDONED ETHIOPIAN [...] (C) ACTION REQUEST: Per 9FAM 40.21(a) N10 "Political Offenses," Post requests formal determination from CA/VO/L/A that the convictions of Birtukan Mideksa, Gizachew Shiferaw, Hailu Araya and Biruk Kebede constitute "political offenses." These individuals have applied for NIVs, but are pending [...]	2007-08-24 13:02:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	CVIS PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET
07ADDISABABA2691	MELES ON ERITREA, THE ONLF, AND THE OGADEN [...] (C) Summary: In an August 27 meeting with the Ambassador, Prime Minister Meles said that the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC) has no legal basis to demarcate the Ethio-Eritrean border by geographic coordinates. He argued that while Eritrean President Isaias may remove the UN Missio [...]	2007-08-30 10:02:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER ET ER
07ADDISABABA2694	MELES ON ERITREA, THE ONLF, AND THE OGADEN [...] (C) Summary: In an August 27 meeting with the Ambassador, Prime Minister Meles said that the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC) has no legal basis to demarcate the Ethio-Eritrean border by geographic coordinates. He argued that while Eritrean President Isaias may remove the UN Missio [...]	2007-08-30 14:10:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER ET ER
07ADDISABABA2697	ETHIOPIA: U/SYG PASCOE REPORTS ISAIAS AND MELES [...] (C) SUMMARY. Under Secretary General for Political Affairs Lynn B. Pascoe, accompanied by Acting Special Representative of the Secretary General for the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) Ambassador Azouz Ennifar, informed Ambassador and poloffs on August 29 That both Erit [...]	2007-08-31 05:41:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MOPS KPKO ET ER
07ADDISABABA2738	REQUEST FOR ADVISORY OPINION: PARDONED ETHIOPIAN [...] (C) ACTION REQUEST: Per 9FAM 40.21(a) N10 "Political Offenses," Post requests formal determination from CA/VO/L/A that the conviction of Kifle Tigneh constitutes "political offenses." This individual applied for an NIV on September 5. The applicant, a member of the Federal Parliament, is a [...]	2007-09-06 15:11:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	CVIS PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET
07ADDISABABA2771	ETHIOPIA: ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRAZER'S VISIT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi Frazer, National Security Council Senior Director for Africa Bobby Pittman, and Deputy Commander CJTF-HOA BG Holman visited Gode, Ethiopia on September 7 accompanied by the Ambassador, USAID Country Director, DATT, and POLOFFs to receive bri [...]	2007-09-10 11:25:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS SO ET PHUM
07ADDISABABA2805	UN ON OGADEN: POCKETS OF CRISIS, ALARMING HUMAN [...] (C) Deputy UN Humanitarian Coordinator and head of the UN Assessment Mission to the Ogaden, Paul Hebert (strictly protect),briefed Ambassador Yamamoto and Embassy and USAID staff on September 13 on the findings of the United Nations, August 30-September 6 Assessment Mission to the Ogaden. The [...]	2007-09-17 05:00:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM EAID EAGR PGOV PREF MOPS ET
07ADDISABABA2813	ETHIOPIA: CUD LEADERS EXPLORING FUTURE OF PARTY AT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since their pardon and release from prison in July and August, the members of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) Supreme Council have begun actively working to reestablish themselves as the recognized leadership of the CUD. After nearly two years in prison, the former lea [...]	2007-09-17 13:37:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET
07ADDISABABA2863	ETHIOPIA: MOVING FORWARD ON BORDER IMPASSE TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. This is an action request message see para 8. On September 17 Ambassador and Poloff attended a Friends of United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) meeting at UNMEE HQ. Acting Special Representative of the Secretary General Azouz Ennifar reported there had been no [...]	2007-09-20 06:45:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MOPS KPKO ET ER
07ADDISABABA2952	ETHIOPIA/ERITREA: UNMEE AND EPRDF OFFICIAL COMMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a September 21 meeting with poloffs, United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) Addis Ababa Head of Office Joseph Stephanides said that Eritrea's "fear" of being designated by the USG as a state sponsor of terror had prompted President Isaias to meet recently with [...]	2007-10-02 07:59:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS KPKO ET ER SO IR
07ADDISABABA2968	ETHIOPIA: UNMEE MILITARY OBSERVER REPORTS ETHIOPIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. On September 27 Poloff met with an Amcit United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) military observer (Milob) to discuss the military situation along the Ethiopian-Eritrean border and report on Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) activity. According to the milo [...]	2007-10-04 05:46:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MOPS KPKO ET ER
07ADDISABABA2978	SOMALIA: ETHIOPIAN OFFICIALS DISCUSS SOMALIA WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY. On September 25 US Special Envoy for Somalia Ambassador John Yates, Ambassador Yamamoto, and Poloffs met with State Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Tekeda Alemu and separately, with National Security Advisor Abay Tsehaye. On September 26 Ambassador Yates and Poloffs met SIPD [...]	2007-10-04 12:49:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET
07ADDISABABA3016	ERITREAN OPPOSITION GROUP SEEKING NEW OPPOSITION [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 3, Polcouns and Poloffs met with Eritrean National Salvation Front (ENSF) Chairman Amb. Abdella Adem and ENSF Foreign Relations Director Dr. Beyene Kidane to discuss issues related to the Eritrean political opposition. Both leaders emphasized that their priority was [...]	2007-10-10 10:50:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MOPS KPKO ET ER SU
07ADDISABABA302	ETHIOPIA'S MUSLIM COMMUNITY: FIGHTING TO PRESERVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ethiopia's recent military incursion into Muslim Somalia, combined with several widely-reported earlier incidents of Christian-Muslim violence in the rural areas, have prompted quiet discussions among Muslims and Christians alike about whether or not Ethiopia's much vaunted religi [...]	2007-01-31 13:57:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PGOV PREL ET
07ADDISABABA3059	SOMALIA: PUNTLAND PRESIDENT ON ELECTIONS, THE TFG, [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 4 Ambassador, PolCouns, and PolOff met with Puntland President Mohamed Muse Hersi Adde and Ministry of Fisheries, Ports, Transport and Marine Resources Said Mohamed Rage to discuss events in Somalia. Adde was accompanied by his son Mohamed and First Secretary Mahad F [...]	2007-10-16 14:42:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS SO ET
07ADDISABABA3068	GOE/PRC: CHINA SIGNALS WILLINGNESS TO COOPERATE [...] (C) China is willing to compare notes with the United States on demonstration agricultural projects in Ethiopia, to have its volunteers in Ethiopia participate in events hosted by other third-country volunteer programs, and to consider cooperation between Chinese and American telecommunication [...]	2007-10-17 08:56:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV EAID ET
07ADDISABABA3101	ERITREAN OPPOSITION LEADER SAYS NOT READY TO RULE [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 18 PolOff met with Chairman of the Eritrean Democratic Alliance (EDA) Bloc-1 Menghesteab Asmerom to discuss the state of the Eritrean political opposition. Menghesteab is also a member of the Eritrean Liberation Front-Revolutionary Council (ELF-RC) and serves as its [...]	2007-10-23 05:59:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MOPS KPKO ET ER SU
07ADDISABABA312	A/S FRAZER MEETING WITH UGANDAN PRESIDENT MUSEVENI [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Museveni confirmed that he had appointed a force commander to lead Ugandan peace-keeping troops who were ready to deploy to Somalia as soon as February 1, immediately after obtaining parliamentary approval. Their mission would be to support Somalia's Transitional Feder [...]	2007-02-01 16:18:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS KPKO KISL UG SO SU CD AU
07ADDISABABA3154	ETHIOPIA: PM'S SPECIAL ADVISOR LASHES OUT AT VOA, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Voice of America's Horn of Africa Service Chief Fred Cooper, former Information Minister and current Special Advisor to the Prime Minister Bereket Simon implied that local accreditation of VOA stringers may be another casualty (see ref A) among U.S. interests re [...]	2007-10-25 04:59:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO PHUM KDEM PGOV ET
07ADDISABABA3196	ETHIOPIA: CONCERNING POLITICAL CONDITIONS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an October 17-20 trip to Western Oromiya by Ethiopia Desk Officer John Wysham, Deputy Political-Economic Chief and Political Specialist, GoE/Oromo People's Democratic Organization (OPDO) interlocutors said there were no political tensions in their region and, while acknowle [...]	2007-10-30 10:22:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER ECON ET
07ADDISABABA3197	ETHIOPIA/ERITREA: "A SENSITIVE AND DANGEROUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ethiopia faces a "sensitive and dangerous time" with Eritrea, Tigray Regional President Tsegay Berhe told Ethiopia Desk Officer John Wysham, Deputy Political Counselor and Political Assistant (collectively, PolOffs) on October 24 in Mekele. Tsegay affirmed that Ethiopia will not [...]	2007-10-30 10:33:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS PINR PHUM
07ADDISABABA3217	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR GENERAL WARD AND TEAM - [...] Embassy Addis Ababa and the U.S. Mission to the African Union welcomes General Wlliam E. Ward and his Team to Ethiopia from November 6-9, 2007. Country clearance is granted subject to the actual security situation at the time of proposed travel. Travelers should re-confirm this clearance wit [...]	2007-11-01 10:19:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID MOPS AU
07ADDISABABA3218	CORRECTED COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR GENERAL WARD AND [...] Embassy Addis Ababa and the U.S. Mission to the African Union welcomes General William E. Ward and his Team to Ethiopia from November 6-9, 2007. Country clearance is granted subject to the actual security situation at the time of proposed travel. Travelers should re-confirm this clearance wi [...]	2007-11-01 10:28:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID MOPS AU
07ADDISABABA325	A/S FRAZER AND ETHIOPIAN PRIME MINISTER DISCUSS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Just prior to hosting the January 29-30 African Union Summit, at which the potential candidacy of Sudanese President Bashir to become AU Assembly Chairman likely dominated debate, Prime Minister Meles expressed concern about Sudan's future, particularly after authorities in south [...]	2007-02-03 09:51:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ET SU AU ER
07ADDISABABA326	A/F FRAZER AND EC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSIONER MICHEL [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a January 30 meeting with AF A/S Frazer on the margins of the African Union Summit, EC Development Commissioner Louis Michel said that he would recommend the release of EU peacekeeping funds earmarked for Somalia, as soon as the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) [...]	2007-02-03 09:51:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM SO SU EUN AU
07ADDISABABA3270	AS LOCAL ELECTIONS APPROACH, THREATS TO THE [...] (C) (Note: Following is an initial survey of the domestic political scene in the run-up to local elections, the first major elections since the historic May 2005 national elections and the violent aftermath. We will report developments as local elections are held next year. End Note) The ne [...]	2007-11-08 06:39:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM ET
07ADDISABABA3277	ETHIOPIA: DISCUSSIONS WITH MFA STATE MINISTER AND [...] (C) In keeping with agreement reached at the October 31 meeting of the NGOs, UN agencies and embassies on the Ogaden hosted by Ambassador Yamamoto (ref 3254),Ambassador and DCM met on November 1 with MFA State Minister Tekeda Alemu to review our concerns on the deteriorating situation in the [...]	2007-11-08 10:35:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PREL MOPS ET
07ADDISABABA3290	ETHIOPIA: DISCUSSION WITH PM ON BORDER, OGADEN, [...] (C) Summary: Following AFRICOM General Ward,s November 8 courtesy call on Prime Minister Meles, Ambassador and DCM stayed behind to raise with the PM several issues of interest. Meles said the departure of Somali Prime Minister Ghedi offered an opportunity for progress on reconciliation, but [...]	2007-11-09 14:20:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PREL MOPS PBTS KPKO ET ER
07ADDISABABA3354	USAU: AFRICOM COMMANDER GENERAL WARD MEETING WITH [...] This cable is from U.S. Mission to the African Union (USAU) Ambassador Dr. Cindy L. Courville. 2. (C) SUMMARY: On November 7 AFRICOM Commander General Ward met Ambassador Said Djinnit, Commissioner of Peace and Security at the African Union to discuss AFRICOM. General Ward described AFR [...]	2007-11-20 05:56:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL MARR MASS
07ADDISABABA3355	USAU: AFRICOM COMMANDER WARD MEETING WITH AFRICAN [...] This cable is from U.S. Mission to the African Union (USAU) Ambassador Dr. Cindy L. Courville. 2. (C) SUMMARY: AFRICOM Commander, General William Ward met with African Union Commission Chairman Alpha Oumar Konare on November 8. Their discussion focused on the status of standing up AFRIC [...]	2007-11-20 05:57:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL MARR MASS
07ADDISABABA3386	PRIME MINISTER TELLS ADMINISTRATOR FORE "WE WILL [...] (C) Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and USAID Administrator Fore questioned Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles on reports of imminent starvation of children and that only half of the necessary food assistance is reaching the afflicted area of the Ogaden. The Prime Minister stressed that he wo [...]	2007-11-24 17:20:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM EAID ET SU
07ADDISABABA3445	ETHIOPIA: POST ADVISES MFA ON ARB III PROCEEDINGS [...] (C) Ambassador and Pol/Econ Chief informed State Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr. Tekeda Alemu about the pending Administrative Review Board (ARB) proceeding for Ethiopian national Mohammed Ahmed BINYAM and requested that the Ethiopian Government (GoE) provide Post with written comments on Mr. [...]	2007-12-04 11:50:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINR PREL PTER ET
07ADDISABABA3453	ETHIOPIA SURPRISED BY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE [...] (C) Ambassador and Pol/Econ Chief provided Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi a copy of the reftel National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) key judgments and non-paper on Iran's Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities on December 4. Pol/Econ Chief detailed the major points from the NIE and the pote [...]	2007-12-05 06:24:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC IR PARM IAEA ET
07ADDISABABA3482	(C) OGADENI ELDERS DETAIL RAMPANT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) In a series of private discussions on the margins of a December 1-2 pastoralist conference held in Ethiopia's Somali region (reftel),reliable senior Ogadeni elders reported to Deputy Political Counselor and USAID Officer (EmbOffs) a disturbing pattern of widespread, systemic human rights [...]	2007-12-10 07:52:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM MOPS PGOV ET
07ADDISABABA3488	USAU: AMBASSADOR COURVILLE'S MEETING WITH AU [...] (U) This cable is from the U.S. Mission to the African Union (USAU) Dr. Cindy L. Courville. 2. (U) SUMMARY: On November 27, Ambassador Cindy L. Courville met with the African Union Deputy Chairman Patrick Mazimhaka to discuss the Democracy and Electoral Unit (DEAU),Preventive Diplomacy, [...]	2007-12-10 13:27:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR
07ADDISABABA3492	ETHIOPIA: INTER-PARTY TALKS CONTINUE WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: More than five months since wrapping up negotiations on a revised electoral law and election of a new National Election Board, the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Movement (EPRDF) party has finally restarted the inter-party dialogue with opposition parties. H [...]	2007-12-11 08:46:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM ET
07ADDISABABA3493	USAU: AFRICAN UNION APPOINTS SPECIAL [...] (U) This cable is from US Mission to the African Union (USAU) Ambassador Dr. Cindy L. Courville. 2. (U) SUMMARY: On November 28 the newly appointed African Union Special Representative for Somalia called on Ambassador Courville to introduce himself and to inform her of his vision for h [...]	2007-12-11 10:55:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR
07ADDISABABA3495	USAU: CODEL MEEK MEETING WITH AFRICAN UNION PEACE [...] (U) This cable is from US Mission to the African Union (USAU) Ambassador Cindy L. Courville. 2. (U) SUMMARY: On November 29 CODEL Meek met Ambassador Said Djinnit, Commissioner for Peace and Security at the African Union. The discussion focused on concerns about stability, particularl [...]	2007-12-11 10:55:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR OTRA KPKO
07ADDISABABA3601	ETHIOPIA: UN AND NGOS EXPRESS FRUSTRATION OVER [...] (C) SUMMARY. Key UN agencies and prominent international NGOs told Poloff in meetings on December 20 that, despite much of the progress discussed in the December 14 meeting at the Ambassador's residence (reftel),GoE bureaucratic challenges and deliberate interference at the local, regional a [...]	2007-12-21 11:21:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID PHUM SENV EAGR ET
07ADDISABABA408	STATE MINISTER TEKEDA DISCUSSES SOMALIA AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: State Minister of Foreign Affairs Tekeda informed Ambassador on February 5 that he would personally meet with Ayr sub-clan leaders from Somalia being hosted by the GOE in Addis Ababa. Tekeda reiterated previous remarks by Prime Minister Meles (reftel) that providing compensation [...]	2007-02-08 16:16:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS KPKO ET SO
07ADDISABABA409	USAU PARTICIPATES IN UNDPKO AND AU PLANNING FOR [...] (SBU) During the period 5-8 February 2007, COL Tim Rainey, Sr. Military Liaison Officer and CAPT (Ret.) Bob Cunningham, Logistics Advisor to the Africa Union (AU),Members of the US Mission to the African Union (USAU),participated in the AU planning for the deployment of the African Union Mi [...]	2007-02-08 19:03:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS KPKO AU
07ADDISABABA413	ETHIOPIA: PUBLIC RELATIONS ADVISOR BEREKET UPBEAT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-09 08:22:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM ET
07ADDISABABA420	SOMALILAND FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS UNSCR SHOULD [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a February 9 meeting with Ambassador, Somaliland Foreign Minister Abdillahi M. Duale underscored Somaliland's role in promoting regional stability, practicing democracy, and fighting terrorism, and announced that President Kahin would seek reelection. Duale expressed apprecia [...]	2007-02-09 13:59:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS KDEM EAID SO ET DJ KE UG EG SU
07ADDISABABA451	ETHIOPIA: CHURCH RIFT HIGHLIGHTS INTERNAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A recent decision by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC) in Addis Ababa to revoke the titles of former Patriarch Abuna Merkorios and four of his top bishops is the latest act in a widening feud between the church in Ethiopia and the "EOC in exile," based in the US. A long histor [...]	2007-02-13 11:43:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KREL ET ER
07ADDISABABA453	USAU PARTICIPATES IN AU MILITARY PLANNING WORKING [...] (SBU) Summary: As a result of discussions at the TCC(s)/International Donor/Partner Coordination meeting held at 0900hrs on 12 FEB 2007, Ambassador Said Djinnit, Commissioner, Peace and Security Commission thought it necessary to conduct a meeting of the &core of the core group8 for deployme [...]	2007-02-13 12:19:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO MOPS AU
07ADDISABABA467	USAU PARTICIPATES IN AU MILITARY PLANNING WORKING [...] (SBU) Summary: On 12 FEB, Mr. Bereng Mtimkulu, Head, Peace Support Department (PSOD) of the African Union, chaired a military planning meeting of the &core group8 of troop contributing countries and international donors/partners who have formally pledged troops or financial/logistical suppo [...]	2007-02-15 04:55:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO MOPS AU
07ADDISABABA484	DEMARCHE ON WFP EXECUTIVE BOARD SELECTION [...] (C) Pol/Econ Counselor and PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Dr. Abdulkadir Risku and Eyob Tekaliyn of the MFA's International Organizations Directorate on February 16th. PE Counselor emphasized the important stake that Ethiopia, a large recipient of WFP assistance, had in maintaining stron [...]	2007-02-16 10:10:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	WFP EAID AORC
07ADDISABABA60	SOMALILAND FOREIGN MINISTER APPEALS FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a December 14 meeting with Charge a.i. Wilgus and deputy pol-econ counselor, Somaliland Foreign Minister Abdillahi M. Duale expressed interest in establishing a closer strategic relationship with the United States, and appealed for both humanitarian and military assistance to [...]	2007-01-09 10:42:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PTER EAID KISL SO ET RW AU XA
07ADDISABABA654	ETHIOPIA: GENERAL WARD AND ETHIOPIAN PRIME [...] (C) In a brief courtesy call on Prime Minister Meles on February 26, General Ward described preparations being made to establish an Africa Command. The PM remarked that Ethiopia welcomed the move, noting that it will provide enhanced coordination and cooperation among all countries in Africa, [...]	2007-03-01 12:14:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC MOPS PREL ET
07ADDISABABA694	REVIEW OF OUTCOME OF FRENCH RECAMP V TRAINING [...] (U) Participants: USAU staff joined African and partner countries (what countries) there was no US participant at this meeting, with the exception of USAU observers. 2. (U) Background: The purpose of the February 21-22 meeting was for the participants to: (1) review outcomes of French R [...]	2007-03-06 06:12:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS AU
07ADDISABABA771	SOMALIA: DEMARCHE ON SUPPORT FOR AFRICAN UNION [...] (C) Ambassador delivered demarche for a public statement by Ethiopia supporting the African Union's condemnation of recent attacks on AU Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) troops (reftel) to State Minister of Foreign Affairs Takeda Alemu Takeda on March 12. Minister Tekeda noted that Ethiopia is als [...]	2007-03-13 14:07:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO MOPS AU ET SO
07ADDISABABA774	SUPPORT FOR UGANDA SEA AND AIR DEPLOYMENT TO [...] (U) Background: Meeting with Ethiopian Defense Minister Somora to discuss support for Ugandan air and sea deployments to Mogadishu for AMISOM. 2. (U) Participants: AMB Courville USAU Ethiopian Chief of Staff, General Samora Ugandan Ambassador Ssempala to Ethiopia Ugandan General Nkair [...]	2007-03-14 15:48:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS AU
07ADDISABABA78	PM MELES AND TFG PRESIDENT YUSUF DISCUSS NEXT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Prime Minister Meles stressed to Ambassador and DCM Jan. 9 that this was the best time for stabilizing and creating a new order in Somalia without warlords and extremists. He said the Somali clan system and Somalia practices must be respected and not circumvented in order to ens [...]	2007-01-10 16:01:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID KPKO MOPS ET SO ER KE
07ADDISABABA80	CORRECTED COPY - PM MELES AND TFG PRESIDENT YUSUF [...] (U) Revised to correct classification info in paragraph 6. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Prime Minister Meles stressed to Ambassador and DCM Jan. 9 that this was the best time for stabilizing and creating a new order in Somalia without warlords and extremists. He said the Somali clan system and Somalia [...]	2007-01-11 05:38:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID KPKO MOPS ET SO ER KE
07ADDISABABA853	ETHIOPIA SEEKS INTERNATIONAL CONDEMNATION OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ethiopian State Minister for Foreign Affairs Takeda Alemu called in P-5, EU, and other Ambassadors to seek support for Ethiopia's call of condemnation of Eritrea for orchestrating the hostage-taking of five British Embassy staff as well as thirteen Ethiopians. Takeda, referring t [...]	2007-03-19 14:42:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ET ER AU
07ADDISABABA854	UK SEEKS CONTINUED COLLABORATION TO EFFECT RELEASE [...] (C) DCM and poloff met with UK Ambassador to Ethiopia Robert Dewar on March 16 to discuss the recent release of five European hostages and their return to Addis Ababa. Dewar expressed deep appreciation for USG cooperation throughout the hostage ordeal, especially for providing information on t [...]	2007-03-19 16:27:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ASEC ET ER
07ADDISABABA87	ETHIOPIAN FM HAILS COOPERATION, BUT SEEKS LOWER [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a January 11 meeting with Ambassador, Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin expressed appreciation for U.S. military cooperation and U.S. political support of its intervention in Somalia, saying that Somalia was "a common challenge" that could not be addressed unilaterally. [...]	2007-01-11 14:53:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MOPS EAID ET SO KE ER
07ADDISABABA89	ETHIOPIAN FM HAILS COOPERATION, BUT SEEKS LOWER [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a January 11 meeting with Ambassador, Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin expressed appreciation for U.S. military cooperation and U.S. political support of its intervention in Somalia, saying that Somalia was "a common challenge" that could not be addressed unilaterally. [...]	2007-01-12 09:08:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MOPS EAID ET SO KE ER
07ADDISABABA895	UNMEE: ETHIOPIA-ERITREA BORDER CALM DESPITE TROOP [...] (C) SUMMARY. Acting UNMEE SRSG Ennifar said Eritrean troops continued to occupy the Temporary Security Zone and to establish defenses along the border with Ethiopia, but that the overall situation was "quiet," with "no sign of offensive action by either party." Despite UNSCR 1741, restriction [...]	2007-03-23 09:27:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MOPS KPKO MARR ET ER SO
07ADDISABABA92	FOREIGN MINISTER SEYOUM ON SOMALIA: INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Summary. Foreign Minister Seyoum briefed Addis Ababa-based Ambassadors Donor Group on Somalia on January 11, making two main points: 1) the dispatch of a stabilization force to Somalia, and especially Mogadishu, is urgent, and the international community should engage at all levels to mak [...]	2007-01-12 11:09:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	AU EAID MOPS PREL PTER ET SO
07ADDISABABA939	CHINESE CHARGE ZHANG YUEBANG MARCH 23 MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: At his request, Chinese Charge Zhang Yuebang called on Ambassador Courville on March 23 to discuss Darfur and hear Ambassador's views. He thought the Darfur situation was at critical point -- it could improve or deteriorate badly. Zhang was primarily interested in drawing us [...]	2007-03-28 12:53:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS AU
07ADDISABABA953	SOMALIA: HAWIYE CLAN MANEUVERS FOR ASCENDANCY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Contacts in Ethiopia remark that Hawiye dissident MPs, led by former Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) Speaker of Parliament Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan and journeying through Eritrea and Djibouti, are trying to secure support as a potential alternative leadership to [...]	2007-03-29 11:00:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KISL ET ER SO DJ
07ADDISABABA956	ETHIOPIA: VISIT TO WEST OROMIYA REVEALS POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: A four-day visit to Ethiopia's western Oromiya region to assess the political climate in anticipation of local elections scheduled for the end of the year found that tension between opposition parties and local government officials remains high. Recent clashes with security servi [...]	2007-03-29 15:40:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS ET
07ADDISABABA961	ETHIOPIA: PM MELES DISCUSSES TRAJECTORY OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Meles told visiting Assistant Secretary Lowenkron on March 15 that governance issues remain a priority for the GOE. While Meles admitted that the GOE made mistakes before the May 2005 national elections as well as in responding to June and November 2005 anti-government demons [...]	2007-03-30 09:30:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS ET
07AITTAIPEI1061	TAIWAN STRATEGY AT WHA [...] (C) SUMMARY. This is an action cable (see para 4). MOFA and DOH officials discussed Taiwan's strategy for the upcoming World Health Assembly (WHA) meeting in Geneva with AIT on May 9. MOFA officials stated Taiwan intends to ask its allies to introduce a Supplementary Item on Taiwan's WHO m [...]	2007-05-11 05:32:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	WHO TBIO PREL CH TW
07AITTAIPEI1121	TAIWAN REPLACES ATOMIC ENERGY CHAIRMAN [...] (SBU) News sources reported the sudden replacement of Atomic Energy Council (AEC) Minister Ouyang Min-shen on May 17. His position will be filled by Deputy Minister Su Shian-Jang. Su has a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and was Director of the Department [...]	2007-05-18 08:07:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG KNNP TW
07AITTAIPEI2494	ENVIRONMENTAL MINISTER WINSTON DANG ON TAIWAN'S [...] (C) SUMMARY. Taiwan Environmental Protection Agency (TEPA) Minister Winston Dang told the Director on November 14 that President Chen Shui-bian's outspokenness on Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) issues has caused problems for both the party and presidential candidate Frank Hsieh. Dang sa [...]	2007-11-16 09:36:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SENV CH TW
07AITTAIPEI719	TAIWAN CONCERNED ABOUT DIMINISHING PARTICIPATION [...] (C) SUMMARY. This is an action cable; see paras 3 and 7. AIT met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) and Department of Health (DOH) officials on March 27 to gauge Taiwan strategy going into the next World Health Assembly (WHA) meeting in Geneva mid-May. According to our interlocutors, [...]	2007-03-29 03:18:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	AMED CASC SENV TBIO PREL CH TW
07AITTAIPEI783	AIT DEMARCHES TAIWAN ON WHO [...] (C) SUMMARY. AIT Acting Director presented Ref A demarche conveying USG reaction to Taiwan's plan to pursue full membership in WHO to Presidential Secretary-General Chiou I-jen Chiou on April 9. Chiou responded by citing Taiwan's frustrations over ten years of non-progress in Taiwan's ques [...]	2007-04-09 09:42:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	TBIO PREL WHO CH TW
07AITTAIPEI805	TAIWAN APPEALS FOR FLEXIBILITY ON WHO INITIATIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Responding to AIT's demarche on April 9 (Taipei 783),Foreign Minister James Huang told AIT Acting Director on April 10 that Taiwan still intends to apply for WHO membership in the name of "Taiwan" this week but will adopt a "flexible" approach in consultations with its friends [...]	2007-04-11 10:22:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	TBIO PREL WHO CH TW
07AITTAIPEI948	CONSENSUS IN SUPPORT OF TAIWAN'S PARTICIPATION IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Canada convened a meeting April 11 of representatives from UK, Canada, EU, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and U.S. offices in Taipei to discuss next steps following Taiwan's abortive membership bid for the World Health Organization (WHO). All agreed that that Taiwan's membershi [...]	2007-04-27 08:26:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	WHO TBIO PREL CH TW
07ALGIERS1000	ANSAR AL-ISLAM IN THE MUSLIM SAHARA: NEW TERRORIST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Our Algerian contacts are witholding their final judgment about a new, little-known terrorist group that calls itself Ansar al-Islam in the Muslim Sahara (AIMS). The group publicly professed its allegiance to Algeria's premier terrorist group, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQ [...]	2007-07-12 14:47:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC PREL PINR AG
07ALGIERS1001	AQIM FUNDING SOURCES [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to European and Maghreb press reports, criminal activity if the traditional funding source for al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). It is widely reported in the Algerian press that AQIM smuggles contraband to and from neighboring countries. In addition, AQIM extort [...]	2007-07-12 14:48:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC CASC PINR AG
07ALGIERS1016	PERSPECTIVES ON NDI IN ALGERIA [...] (C) In conversations June 9 and 10 with DRL DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles, a cross-section of Algerian officials and civil society discussed the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and its work in Algeria. Farouk Ksentini, president of the Algerian government's National Commission for the Promotion [...]	2007-07-16 16:54:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM AG
07ALGIERS1078	TO BE ALGERIAN AND IN A WHEELCHAIR [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Algerian government does not adequately respond to the needs of the country's 3 million handicapped people, according to the officially recognized Algerian Federation of Wheelchair Associations. The group's president describes Algeria's handicapped as "living in isolation" at [...]	2007-07-29 06:51:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SOCI AG
07ALGIERS109	OPPOSITION MP DETAILS OBJECTIONS TO ALGERIA'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 22 Lakhdar Benkhellaf, a senior MP from the moderate Islamist opposition party Islah ("Reform"),outlined for PolEc Chief four technical elements of the Algerian electoral process that his party believes must be changed to bring about transparent, fair elections in Alg [...]	2007-01-30 16:53:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS1096	SONATRACH GOES GLOBAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As speculation mounts regarding the date of the next international licensing round for Algerian exploration blocks, Sonatrach has signaled that either downstream market access or partnership in foreign projects will be a precondition for foreign firms wishing to partake in Algeri [...]	2007-08-01 18:19:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV ECON PREL AG
07ALGIERS1099	CONTINUING TO ENGAGE GOA, MEDIA AND NGOS ON TIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the June 12 release of the 2007 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, we are continuing to engage the Algerian government and the media on TIP. The GOA still maintains that Algeria has been maligned and says that the government is addressing the TIP issue. The differenc [...]	2007-08-04 10:53:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KCRM KWMN PREL AG
07ALGIERS1114	CONTINUING TO ENGAGE GOA ON LEGAL REFORM AND TIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: As part of GOA efforts on legal reform, Justice Minister Belaiz supports ABA's work in Algeria, stressing the need to train judges. Further, the justice and foreign ministries, along with the Ministry of National Solidarity, now appear to be working on TIP-related issues, includ [...]	2007-08-07 11:34:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KWMN KCRM PREL AG
07ALGIERS1115	LONGSTANDING ACTIVIST'S VIEW ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: A societal respect for human rights is lacking in Algeria, according to prominent human rights activist and lawyer Ali Yahia Abdenour. Looking back over decades of his work, he commented that while some progress has been made in comparison to the low point of the 1990s, signific [...]	2007-08-07 12:53:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SOCI PGOV AG
07ALGIERS1118	AUGUST STARTS OUT BADLY FOR AQIM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Local newspapers reported August 2 that two Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) figures, Ali Dix and Haroun Ashashi, were killed in an ambush by security forces in the mountains around Djurdjura (Tizi Ouzou province) east of Algiers. Indications are that the two were close to [...]	2007-08-07 16:37:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC PREL MOPS KISL AG
07ALGIERS1140	AHMADINEJAD VISITS ALGIERS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinejad's August 6-7 visit to Algiers generated significant noise, but apparently little of substance. The press, responding to a pre-visit public relations effort by the Iranian embassy here, obligingly described the Ahmadinejad visit as part the "r [...]	2007-08-13 08:17:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER OPEC ENRG ETRD KISL KNNP IR AG
07ALGIERS1181	ALGERIA: PROMOTING THE PRESIDENT'S FREEDOM AGENDA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Advancing the President's Freedom Agenda has been an ongoing effort by Embassy Algiers since the arrival of the Ambassador in August 2006. The Ambassador and Embassy officers routinely meet with democracy and human rights activists, political parties, journalists, and other me [...]	2007-08-21 14:40:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM KPOA PHUM PREL AG
07ALGIERS1182	STEEL STRIKE AVERTED BUT POST-PRIVATIZATION [...] (U) Workers at the Al Hadjar steel plant in the eastern Algerian city of Annaba called off plans for an indefinite strike August 20 after reaching an agreement with the plant's management that forestalled layoffs slated for September. Luxembourg-based Arcelor-Mittal, which owns a controlling i [...]	2007-08-21 16:56:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV EIND ELAB WTO AG
07ALGIERS129	SKEPTICISM HAILS BEGINNING OF KHALIFA BANK TRIAL [...] (C) Summary: The trial stemming from the collapse of the Khalifa Bank empire started January 8 without the key defendant, bank founder Abdelmoumen Khalifa, who remains in exile in London. Some of Algeria's most powerful ministers and other economic luminaries have been called as witnesses, b [...]	2007-02-04 13:12:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV AG
07ALGIERS1323	FFS: THE SECULAR OPPOSITION STIRS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Algerian media has been buzzing with the return from Switzerland of liberation hero Hocine Ait Ahmed, founder of the opposition Front des Forces Socialistes (FFS),and his alliance with former FLN Secretary General Abdelhamid Mehri and former Prime Minister Mouloud Hamrouche. [...]	2007-09-17 17:15:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AG
07ALGIERS1336	ALGERIAN MFA: WE ARE WAITING FOR TOURE TO KEEP [...] (C) Summary: MFA Director General (A/S equivalent) for African Affairs Chergui told Ambassador on 9/17 that Malian President Toure must pull troops out of Kidal and take steps to start reintegrating Tuareg fighters back into their communities in order to end the fighting in northern Mali. [...]	2007-09-19 08:57:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	REL MARR AG ML

07ALGIERS1344	ALGIERS IN RAMADAN 2007: RICH BUT NOT HEALTHY [...] (C) Summary: Normally Ramadan is a festive time for Muslim communities but Algiers, at least, is grumpy. There is a prevailing sense that government economic policy is adrift and unable to cope even with relatively simple issues like food supplies. Bigger issues like pervasive unemployment [...]	2007-09-20 10:32:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS ECON AG
07ALGIERS1350	ALGIERS: SUMMARY OF RECENT SECURITY INCIDENTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since September 19, Algerian security and intelligence services have responded to the planned kidnapping of two French citizens in Algiers and the bombing of a joint French/Italian construction company convoy south of Lahkdaria, approximately 60km from Algiers. The bombing of t [...]	2007-09-24 10:48:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC PTER OSAC AG
07ALGIERS1352	EVOLVING AQIM TERROR HAS ALGERIANS CONCERNED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Meetings with GOA contacts following a recent bombing uptick in the Kabylie region reveal a government concerned and sober about its ability to keep up with an adaptive and increasingly sophisticated enemy. By reaching out for more technology and information, the GOA has demonstr [...]	2007-09-24 11:13:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PTER PGOV PINS CASC AG
07ALGIERS1468	ALGERIAN GOVERNMENT SCORE SHORT TERM VICTORY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Algerian press buzzed the past two days with news of the death of key AQIM emir Sofiane Fassila, proclaiming Fassila's killing at the hands of the security services as a major government victory against terrorism. Fassila was the commander of the most active and organized AQIM [...]	2007-10-10 11:19:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC AG
07ALGIERS1472	ALGERIA ANTI-EXTREMIST MESSAGING: BIG GOA ROLE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algerian communication efforts to counter Al-Qaeda and religious extremism are serious and based on the premise that greater state involvement in religious life will prevent a return to the turmoil of 1990s. GOA messaging tactics are focused primarily through the Ministry of Reli [...]	2007-10-10 13:49:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO PTER PREL AG
07ALGIERS1527	LOCAL ELECTIONS 2007: A CONFUSED AND UNEVEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The road to the November 29 elections for Algeria's city councils and provincial (state) legislatures is fraught with confusion, a lack of transparency and allegations of injustice surrounding the candidate lists proposed by the competing parties. Senior political leaders echo th [...]	2007-10-19 12:13:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPAO AG
07ALGIERS1550	ALGERIANS GRUMP AT U.S. DRAFT WESTERN SAHARA TEXT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algerian MFA summoned Ambassador on the afternoon of October 23 to receive a blunt message that paragraph 7 of the draft U.S. text on the MINURSO renewal resolution was "unacceptable," "unbalanced," and "unhelpful." Ambassador responded that describing the Moroccan plan as a ser [...]	2007-10-23 17:16:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	AG PREL UNSC WI
07ALGIERS1558	ANOTHER ALGERIAN FACES PRISON OVER DEFAMATION [...] (U) According to press reports on October 18, a local journalist for the Arabic paper el-Fadjr in Djelfa, Tallal Dhif, received a six-month prison sentence from a Djelfa court on defamation charges stemming from articles he wrote about corruption in Djelfa in 2004. Algerian press reports note [...]	2007-10-24 18:25:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM PGOV AG
07ALGIERS1559	LOCAL ELECTIONS 2007: THE HEAVY HAND OF THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: At the same time as Interior Minister Yazid Zerhouni is making public statements about the government's commitment to a fair and neutral electoral process to urge greater turnout, the role of his ministry in micro-managing slates of candidates from all parties has been significant. [...]	2007-10-25 10:58:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPAO AG
07ALGIERS1560	UPDATED ALGERIA DEMOCRATIC REFORM STRATEGY: [...] (C) SUMMARY: Securing a wider democratic opening in Algeria is a challenge. Many Algerian young people call the political leadership the "Jurassics" because so many leaders from the President down are entrenched politicos from the same generation that took over after independence in 1962. We [...]	2007-10-25 11:24:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM KMPI KPAO PGOV PREL AG
07ALGIERS1585	OPPOSITION PARTY ALLEGES INTIMIDATION, CONTAINMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In what he describes as an effort to confine his party's influence to its historical base in the Kabylie region, Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD) leader Said Sadi alleged privately to us that RCD activists have been intimidated, kidnapped and, in some cases, tortured. In the [...]	2007-10-30 10:24:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS1617	ALGERIAN HUMAN RIGHTS LEAGUE IMPLODING [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH),the country's best-known independent human rights organization, is in turmoil. Two camps have emerged and are struggling for control, one headed by Hocine Zehouane, LADDH president since 2005, and the other by Ali Yahi [...]	2007-11-05 17:26:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SOCI PGOV AG
07ALGIERS1618	HATTAB CASE SHOWS RECONCILIATION STILL AN OPEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Hassan Hattab, notorious for helping create the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) in 1998, has become a symbol of the unresolved debate over national reconciliation in Algeria. Although the details of his situation are shrouded in mystery, a disproportionate amount [...]	2007-11-06 07:41:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV KISL AG
07ALGIERS1633	ALGIERS BOOK FAIR: GRAPPLING WITH FREEDOM OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a very visible way, Algeria is wrestling with the parameters of its political space, attempting to find the balance between freedom of expression and protecting against extremist ideology. At this year's annual international book fair in Algiers, the government banned over a [...]	2007-11-07 16:41:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KPAO AG
07ALGIERS1648	LATEST AQIM VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS DROUKDAL AND A [...] (C) Summary: Although the latest AQIM web video, "The Battle of Akroun," displays use of some new tactics by the terrorist organization, the underlying message remains the same. Higher-quality video than in previous postings features the late AQIM field commander Sofiane Fassila and AQIM lea [...]	2007-11-12 10:14:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PINS ASEC AG
07ALGIERS1658	FLAGSHIP NATIONAL PARTY IN TURMOIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the run-up to the November 29 local elections, the National Liberation Front (FLN) is wrestling with a crisis of leadership and direction, as party national leaders battle for control over local candidate slates. Daily press reports feature repeated calls for Prime Minister Bel [...]	2007-11-14 09:55:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS1662	ELECTION MONITORING COMMISSION AWOL FOR LOCAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The campaign process for the November 29 local elections is well underway in Algeria, but without the official election monitoring commission that has been present in past elections. Newspaper accounts report both coalition and opposition political party discontent with Interior [...]	2007-11-14 14:04:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM AG
07ALGIERS1680	SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR SCHULTE'S ALGERIA VISIT [...] (U) Ambasssador Schulte, we are delighted you can visit Algiers this month. Algeria is a committed partner of the U.S. in the war on terrorism and the GoA has actively helped shut down ratlines funneling foreign fighters to Iraq. We also have big commercial interests in Algeria's energy sect [...]	2007-11-20 12:41:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP PTER ECON AG
07ALGIERS1694	RESOURCE NATIONALISM IN ALGERIA ON THE RISE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algerian official behavior since 2005, in terms of the country's hydrocarbons law, tax systems, contracting policies and customs enforcement, strongly suggests a growing sentiment of resource nationalism. Government actions indicate a conscious effort to gain greater control of h [...]	2007-11-21 10:18:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PGOV ECON EINV AG
07ALGIERS1695	POLITICAL PARTIES CITE PROBLEMS WITH ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The campaign process for the November 29 local elections is in full swing, but the process is not fully transparent. In a series of meetings November 7-14, we met to discuss the election process with representatives of major coalition and opposition political parties, including [...]	2007-11-21 11:28:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM AG
07ALGIERS1700	AMBASSADOR PUSHES ON ELECTION IRREGULARITIES WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: We got mixed reactions from Algerian government interlocutors when the Ambassador raised questions about the transparency of the local election process with the MFA Director General for the Americas and with the (government) human rights commission. The MFA official bristled and [...]	2007-11-21 16:34:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM AG
07ALGIERS171	FAMILIES OF ALGIRIA'S DISAPPEARED NOT YET RECONCILED [...] (C) In an animated January 27 meeting, members of the NGO community representing families of the disappeared and victims of terrorism spoke freely with the Ambassador about President Bouteflika's national reconciliation process and Algeria's need for greater political space. Attendees from D [...]	2007-02-07 12:13:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM AG
07ALGIERS1724	ALGERIAN MFA PRAISES NEGROPONTE REMARKS IN MALI, [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-28 12:48:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	AG MA PREL PTER
07ALGIERS1727	ALGERIAN LOCAL ELECTIONS NOVEMBER 29: WILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Local elections will be held in Algeria on November 29, but the big question is whether many Algerians will actually vote. Throughout the campaign season, elections' transparency and fairness have been called into repeated question because of irregularities in the pre-campaign p [...]	2007-11-28 14:56:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM AG
07ALGIERS1741	WORLD BANK OFFICE CHIEF LEAVING ALGERIA CITING [...] (C) Summary: The World Bank is withdrawing its resident office director (resrep) here, since the Algerian government appears uninterested in implementing new reform strategies. The resrep, a long-time observer of Algerian economic issues, told the Ambassador November 21, that President Boutef [...]	2007-12-04 11:25:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN IBRD AG
07ALGIERS1742	ALGERIAN MFA HAS NO INITIAL RESPONSE ON IRAN NIE [...] (C) As the two top officials of the Algerian MFA are consumed with the ongoing visit of French President Sarkozy to Algeria, Director General for Multilateral Affairs Bladehane received ref demarche on December 4. Ambassador highlighted that the NIE suggested Iran does respond to internationa [...]	2007-12-04 14:45:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC IR PARM AG
07ALGIERS1748	MAJOR ALGERIAN BANK PRIVATIZATION SUSPENDED [...] (C) SUMMARY: At the last moment, Algeria suspended indefinitely the privatization of Credit Populaire d'Algerie (CPA),which was to have been the flagship privatization exercise for the Algerian banking sector. Three of the six foreign banks bidding on the Algerian state bank withdrew their [...]	2007-12-06 10:35:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV EFIN PREL AG
07ALGIERS1749	LOCAL ELECTIONS MARRED BY IRREGULARITIES, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The November 29 local elections in Algeria, while publicly hailed by the Ministry of Interior and Prime Minister as a success, were marred by accusations of irregularities, fraud, controlled media access and charges of intimidation of opposition parties. The results were notewort [...]	2007-12-06 11:45:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM AG
07ALGIERS1764	AMBASSADOR SCHULTE DISCUSSES IRAN AND NUCLEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algerian officials told visiting UNVIE Amb. Schulte that they have encouraged Iran to cooperate with the international community regarding its nuclear programs, but they stopped short of agreeing to make a public statement that Iran has violated its commitments under the Non-Prol [...]	2007-12-09 15:11:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG KNNP PGOV IR AG
07ALGIERS1773	GOVERNMENT BLASTS INTERNATIONAL NGOS, DEFENDS [...] (U) The Algerian government used the occasion of World Human Rights Day on December 10 to justify President Bouteflika's National Reconciliation program while slamming international NGOs and domestic opponents for hiding behind victims of government abuses to launch political attacks against t [...]	2007-12-11 10:11:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM AG
07ALGIERS1775	CAR BOMBS IN ALGIERS TARGET U.N. AND SUPREME COURT [...] (U) On December 11, for the first time in exactly eight months, car bombs hit Algiers. The first explosion occurred near the building housing UN offices in the Algiers neighborhood of Hydra, and the second in front of the Algerian Supreme Court building in Ben Aknoun at or around 0945. Each [...]	2007-12-11 17:37:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC AG
07ALGIERS1777	POSITIVE ALGERIAN GOVERNMENT MOVEMENT ON TIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: After months of engaging the Algerian government and civil society on TIP, we are seeing evidence of incremental improvement. NGO SOS Femmes en Detresse reports that some illegal immigrants are now receiving medical care, with no harassment from authorities, although it is uncle [...]	2007-12-12 11:04:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KCRM KWMN PREL AG
07ALGIERS1782	AL-QAEDA IN THE MAGHREB CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR [...] (C) Summary: Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) officially claimed responsibility for the December 11 bombings of the UN and Supreme Court buildings in Algiers in a communique posted on its official website titled "Conquest for martyr Sufiane Abi Hydra". One expert on Islamist issues here [...]	2007-12-12 15:08:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC KISL AG
07ALGIERS1783	COMING UP SHORT: ALGERIA'S GLOOMY GAS OUTLOOK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algeria will likely be unable to meet its natural gas production goals or fulfill its contract supply obligations in the coming years. Expansion of Algeria's gas production has been hampered by delays in high-profile projects like the Medgaz undersea pipeline and the Gassi Touil [...]	2007-12-12 15:09:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PGOV ECON EINV AG
07ALGIERS1794	POSITIVE JUSTICE MINISTRY FEEDBACK ON MLAT [...] (SBU) In a December 9 meeting Mohamed Amara, Director General of Judicial and Legal Affairs at the Ministry of Justice, was enthusiastic about the November 19-21 expert-level discussions in Washington on a possible Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) (ref A). DCM delivered the points contai [...]	2007-12-16 10:52:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KTIA KCRM CJAN AG
07ALGIERS1804	U.S. OIL WONDERS ABOUT ITS FUTURE IN ALGERIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Several U.S. companies have signaled their growing dissatisfaction with Algeria's oil sector. Windfall profit taxes, burdensome customs fines and practices, hiring difficulties and a general lack of cooperation by the Algerians have caused several large American oil producers [...]	2007-12-19 10:17:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PGOV ECON EINV AG
07ALGIERS1810	WHERE HAVE ALL THE ISLAMISTS GONE? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Many observers here think Islamist parties suffered a significant defeat in the November 29 local elections (ref A). The moderate Islamist MSP, a member of the presidential coalition, received an official total of just 10.69 percent of the vote, while the opposition Islah party [...]	2007-12-21 10:14:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KISL AG
07ALGIERS1825	ALGERIAN GOVERNMENT BRISTLES AT WARDEN MESSAGE ... [...] (C) Ambassador was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on December 26 to meet with Fatiha Selmane, Director General of the MFA's Americas Division. Selmane said that she was instructed by her superiors to express Algerian "displeasure" with the latest warden message sent out by the Em [...]	2007-12-26 16:58:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PTER ASEC PREL AG
07ALGIERS185	MIXED SIGNALS ON RIGHTS OF FAMILIES OF THE [...] (U) In Paris on February 6, Algerian FM Bedjaoui signed the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, which was adopted in December by the UN General Assembly. According to Algerian press reports, one of the aims of the convention is to provide a [...]	2007-02-11 08:56:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM UNGA AG
07ALGIERS206	COMBINED ELECTIONS AND VOTER TURNOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The heads of two parties in the ruling coalition have publicly opposed Prime Minister Belkhadem's plan to hold simultaneous local and parliamentary elections. One opposition party told us Belkhadem's plan was aimed at maximizing the electoral success of his party, the FLN. No da [...]	2007-02-14 14:42:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS247	MAY 17 ELECTION TIMETABLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 15 President Bouteflika decreed that national elections will be held May 17 to replace the lower house of parliament, the National Popular Assembly. In doing so, Bouteflika pointedly did not take the public advice of his prime minister and schedule concurrent elections [...]	2007-02-27 09:35:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS249	ALGERIAN FOREIGN MINISTER BEDJAOUI CRITICIZES U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Bedjaoui and U/S Hughes agreed February 24 on the need to work in partnership with the U.S. in finding solutions to the problems of the region. While agreeing on the importance of fighting terrorism across borders, Bedjaoui and Hughes parted ways on how best to bring about vi [...]	2007-02-27 10:30:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SCUL KDEM AG
07ALGIERS252	NEA/MAG DIRECTOR'S MEETING WITH POLISARIO [...] (C) NEA/MAG Director Elizabeth Hopkins, accompanied by DCM and PolEc Chief, met February 24 with Polisario Ambassador to Algeria Mohamed Beissat. Beissat opened by expressing the Polisario's disappointment that it had not see any momentum generated out of its release of Moroccan prisoners as p [...]	2007-02-28 14:31:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHUM PREF WI AG
07ALGIERS282	LARGEST ALGERIAN OPPOSITION PARTY FACES EXCLUSION [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Algerian Ministry of Interior has disqualified the opposition Islamist party Islah ("Reform") from participating in the May 17 parliamentary elections on the ground that its leader was not elected in a recent party congress. Islah, which has the largest number of [...]	2007-03-07 06:06:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS30	FLN WINS SENATE IN CLOSER-THAN-EXPECTED ELECTION [...] (U) As expected (ref A),the National Liberation Front (FLN) wrested control of the Senate from the RND party in December 28 indirect elections. What was not expected was its slender margin of victory: the FLN took only 28 seats out of a possible 48. Since the majority of eligible electors in [...]	2007-01-09 16:48:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS410	OPPOSITION PARTIES TAKING DIFFERENT PATHS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The four major Algerian opposition parties -- the Socialist Workers' Party, the moderate Islamist Movement for National Reform (Islah),the Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD),and the Front of Socialist Forces (FFS) -- are taking very different approaches in the lead up to May [...]	2007-03-27 07:41:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS45	SENATE PRESIDENT RE-ELECTED [...] (C) Abdelkader Bensalah was re-elected, 129-0, as the President of the Conseil de la Nation (Senate) on January 12. Bensalah remains first in line to succeed President Bouteflika in the event that he is unable to complete his current term. Bensalah's re-election became a foregone conclusion wh [...]	2007-01-16 17:07:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS46	ALGERIA UNYIELDING ON HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL AND [...] (C) A top Algerian MFA official was adamant that the Human Rights Council (HRC) should send a mission composed of ambassadors to study the situation in Darfur during his January 15 meeting with Ambassador. Ambassador reviewed with MFA Director General for International Organizations Bouguerra [...]	2007-01-16 17:17:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM SU AG
07ALGIERS465	ALGERIAN JOURNALISTS GUILTY OF DEFAMING QADHAFI [...] (U) Ruling after a rehearing of the case, on April 4 an Algiers court found editor Ali Fodil and reporter Naila Berahal of the Arabic-language daily Echourouk El-Youmi guilty of defaming Libyan President Moammar Qadhafi and gave each a six-month suspended sentence. The court also fined the ne [...]	2007-04-04 17:38:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KPAO AG LY
07ALGIERS47	NEA DAS CARPENTER'S REVIEW OF MEPI PROGRAMS WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a January 9 meeting with MFA Director General for the Americas Selmane, NEA DAS Carpenter expressed satisfaction with the interest of various ministries in expanding MEPI programming in Algeria. Selmane undertook to coordinate the prioritization of the various requests and [...]	2007-01-17 07:38:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KMPI KDEM AG
07ALGIERS52	POLISARIO AMBASSADOR HOSTILE TO AUTONOMY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Polisario Ambassador Beissat told us January 14 that the Polisario had perceived a marked recent shift in U.S. policy on the Western Sahara. The Polisario now viewed the U.S. as doing France's bidding and supporting the Moroccan position. Beissat insisted that any discussions w [...]	2007-01-17 16:05:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHUM MO AG WI
07ALGIERS526	ALGERIAN ELECTION PROCESS UNDERWAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algeria's major political parties, except Islah, have submitted voter lists in all 48 wilayas for the May 17 national parliamentary elections. According to FLN sources, its candidates are older and more conservative than expected, and the number of women figuring on its lists bas [...]	2007-04-17 15:57:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS568	FM BEDJAOUI CAUTIONS ON CONSULAR WARDEN MESSAGES, [...] (C) In an April 21 meeting with S/WCI Ambassador at Large J. Clint Williamson in which Guantanamo detainee issues were discussed (septel),FM Bedjaoui said the U.S. and Algeria were "in the same boat" with respect to global terrorism and that it was important to work together on Iraq policy an [...]	2007-04-25 10:29:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CASC MARR AG
07ALGIERS618	THE RISE OF THE FLN OLD GUARD AND FALL OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The old guard of the ruling National Liberation Front (FLN),based on a report from a well respected parliamentarian, overruled local FLN officials and stacked FLN party lists with their friends and associates in advance of the May 17 legislative elections. One result is that on [...]	2007-05-03 09:28:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM AG
07ALGIERS619	OFFICIAL ELECTION PERIOD UNDERWAY BUT DOES ANYONE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In advance of the May 17 legislative elections, free electronic media access is now available to qualified Algerian political parties and independent candidates, signaling that the official national legislative election has begun. The parties generally express satisfaction with [...]	2007-05-03 11:38:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM AG
07ALGIERS628	FOREIGN COMPANIES LAMENT IMPEDIMENTS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Representatives of foreign oil companies operating in Algeria are increasingly voicing concern about the ambiguously worded -- and apparently hastily drafted -- amendments to Algeria's hydrocarbon legislation in effect since the beginning of the year. Although Sonatrach has begu [...]	2007-05-07 08:31:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET EINV ECON AG
07ALGIERS637	POLISARIO AMBASSADOR ON TALKS WITH MOROCCO [...] (C) The Polisario was generally satisfied with UNSCR 1754, Polisario Ambassador to Algeria Mohamed Beissat told DCM May 7, but took issue with the resolution's praise for Morocco's "serious and credible" autonomy proposal. Such language would embolden Morocco, Beissat said, to approach the ne [...]	2007-05-08 16:08:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHUM AG MO WI
07ALGIERS647	BEYOND POLITICAL PARTIES, LITTLE INTEREST IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Going into the last week before the May 17 Algerian legislative elections, our sense is that political parties are flailing amidst widespread public disinterest. The head of the national election commission here told a government newspaper on May 9 that his commission is neither [...]	2007-05-10 12:45:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS66	FRIENDSHIP TREATY WITH FRANCE ON INDEFINITE HOLD [...] (C) French Political Counselor Francois Penguilly told PolEc Chief over lunch January 19 that it was doubtful France and Algeria would agree to sign the long-pending Friendship Treaty between them any time soon. Penguilly said the first obstacle to overcome was the French presidential election [...]	2007-01-23 11:04:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR AG
07ALGIERS666	ALGERIAN ELECTION CAMPAIGN TRAIL: INFORMATION IN [...] (C) Summary: The Algerian legislative election, which will conclude with nationwide voting on May 17, has not been much focused on issues. The two major Algerian political parties, FLN and RND, form a presidential coalition with the Islamist MSP party. All three parties in their campaignin [...]	2007-05-15 12:00:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ECON AG
07ALGIERS678	ON THE EVE OF ALGERIA'S ELECTIONS: WILL THEY VOTE? [...] (C) The period of free media access for political parties qualified to participate in the May 17 national parliamentary elections has ended. On the eve of the elections, media reports indicated that two bombs (one carried out by a suicide bomber) exploded in Constantine on May 16, killing on [...]	2007-05-16 16:12:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM AG
07ALGIERS680	GOVERNMENT COALITION PARTIES RETURN IN LEGISLATIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algerians went to the polls in low numbers under heavy security Thursday to elect representatives to Algeria's largely powerless 389-seat parliament for five-year terms. The parties of the current government coalition claimed the day, led by President Bouteflika's FLN, the secu [...]	2007-05-19 09:08:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS708	ENERGY MINISTER UNMOVED BY CRITICISM OF CHANGES TO [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Energy and Mines Chakib Khelil told Ambassador May 19 that the new hydrocarbon amendments were intended to slow oil development to maintain natural resources for future generations while redressing "unfair gains" made by foreign partners on certain contracts. He si [...]	2007-05-23 08:45:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON EINV AG
07ALGIERS710	ENERGY MINISTER DETAILS DIFFICULTIES WITH SPAIN [...] (C) Minister of Energy and Mines Chakib Khelil told the Ambassador May 21 about the difficulties Algeria was experiencing with Spain regarding European market access. He described how the Spanish gas authority CNE (Comision Nacional de Energia) had decided to limit the amount of gas Sonatrach [...]	2007-05-23 09:02:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET EINV ETRD ECON AG
07ALGIERS716	CONTROVERSY ON VOTE COUNT LINGERS FOLLOWING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Said Bouchair, the president of the independent election commission, and Noureddine Zerhouni, the minister of interior, are engaged in a very public battle on the transparency of the May 17 vote for national parliament. After Zerhouni said Bouchair's letter to President Bouteflika [...]	2007-05-24 11:33:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS746	SMALL SECULAR OPPOSITION BLOC SAYS 2007 ELECTION [...] (C) Former Prime Minister Reda Malek, now head of the small secular opposition party the National Republican Alliance (ANR) political party, and his director of communications, Lakhdar Neddaf, invited us May 28 to ANR party headquarters for a discussion of the May 17 legislative elections and [...]	2007-05-30 09:04:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
07ALGIERS747	FLN LOYALIST SELECTED AS NEW PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL [...] (U) PM Abdelaziz Belkhadem announced May 28 that the National Liberation Front (FLN),National Rally for Democracy (RND),and Movement for a Society at Peace (MSP) had agreed to support FLN MP-elect Abdelaziz Ziari in the balloting for president of the national assembly. MSP leader Bouguerra [...]	2007-05-30 09:04:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM INRB AG
07ALGIERS789	ALGERIAN PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER SHARE VIEWS [...] (C) In separate meetings with Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) on June 3, Prime Minister Belkhadem and President Bouteflika made remarks on Iran, primarily in the context of Iranian Foreign Minister Mottaki's June 2 visit to Algiers. Belkhadem observed with respect to Iranian involvement in Iraq tha [...]	2007-06-05 16:17:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MNUC IR AG IZ
07ALGIERS790	BOUTEFLIKA ANNOUNCES MINOR CABINET RESHUFFLE [...] (U) President Bouteflika made minor changes to the cabinet on June 4 as a culmination of the May 17 national elections and the May 31 installation of the new parliament. The six ministerial changes did not live up to public speculation about a major reshuffle. As was widely expected by the pr [...]	2007-06-05 16:17:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM INRB AG
07ALGIERS791	SENATOR NELSON HEARS ALGERIAN VIEWS ON IRAQ AND [...] (C) In separate June 3 meetings with Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL),Prime Minister Belkhadem and President Bouteflika reviewed Algerian thinking on Iran (septel),Iraq, and bilateral relations. Belkhadem encouraged Nelson to spread the word that U.S. non-hydrocarbon investment in Algeria was wel [...]	2007-06-05 16:23:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM AG
07ALGIERS829	ALGERIAN NEGOTIATOR SKEPTICAL ABOUT UPCOMING [...] (C) Abdallah Bali, former Algerian ambassador to the UN and now counselor to the Foreign Minister, told Ambassador and visiting NEA DAS Gray on June 10 that he would be part of the Algerian delegation attending the June 18-19 talks on the Western Sahara organized by UN Special Representative Va [...]	2007-06-12 10:00:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AG MO WS
07ALGIERS842	ALGERIANS CAUTIOUSLY WELCOME AFRICOM BRIEFING [...] (C) Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Ryan Henry, accompanied by his delegation, consulted with newly installed Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci, Minister Delegate for National Defense Abdelmalek Guenaizia and senior representatives of the foreign and defense ministries and intellige [...]	2007-06-13 10:15:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS PREL AG
07ALGIERS859	MFA REACTION TO TIP TIER 3 RATING [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche June 16 to MFA Director General for the Americas Fatiha Selmane, who expressed surprise and discomfort that the 2007 Trafficking in Persons report placed Algeria in Tier 3 status. Selmane complained that Algeria had been pooled with countries that did [...]	2007-06-18 09:38:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KCRM KWMN PREL AG
07ALGIERS861	MFA'S BOUGUERRA DISCUSSES HRC BUSINESS [...] (C) SUMMARY. On June 9 visiting DRL DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles met with the MFA Director General for Multilateral Affairs Madjid Bouguerra to discuss special procedures used by the Human Rights Council (HRC) to monitor and publicly report on human rights situations. Bouguerra indicated that Alg [...]	2007-06-18 12:29:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM PGOV UNHRC AG
07ALGIERS892	LAWYERS' SIT-IN PAYS OFF [...] (C) SUMMARY: After organizing a 400-lawyer sit-in at the National Courts on June 18, the Algerian National Bar Association (BNA) was able to secure a meeting with the justice ministry to air its grievances. On June 20, BNA President Abdelmajid Sellini met with the ministry's secretary genera [...]	2007-06-25 09:02:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM KJUS PGOV AG
07ALGIERS896	AL-QAEDA IN THE MAGHREB IS NOT MUCH UNITED [...] (C) SUMMARY. Algerian contacts who closely follow Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) sense the organization is grappling with ideological splits and command problems in the wake of the spectacular April 11 bombings in Algiers. On June 10, well-connected Echourouk el-Youmi editor Mohammed [...]	2007-06-26 12:04:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC PTER AG
07ALGIERS904	MOKHTAR BELMOKHTAR AND AQIM: IS ONE-EYE ON HIS [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combats (GSPC) transition to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) aggravated existing leadership splits within the organization (ref). Recent Algerian press reports claimed that GSPC southern region leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar was seeking a dea [...]	2007-06-27 10:08:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC PTER AG
07ALGIERS910	ALGERIAN SENIOR MFA OFFICIAL UPBEAT ON WESTERN [...] (C) MFA Secretary General (number two) Lamamra told Ambassador June 27 that he was hopeful the nascent UN-sponsored talks between Morocco and the Polisario might actually lead to real progress. Ambassador underlined that we hoped both Morocco and the Polisario would be realistic in the Augu [...]	2007-06-28 07:39:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AG MO WI
07ALGIERS912	HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYERS AND GOA DISCUSS LEGAL ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY. In separate meetings with DRL DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles, four prominent human rights lawyers and Messaoud Boufercha, Secretary General of the Ministry of Justice (MOJ),discussed legal issues and opportunities for increased bilateral cooperation. Lawyers, who were coincidentally i [...]	2007-06-28 09:45:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI AG
07ALGIERS913	MEDIA, POLITICAL PARTIES, LAWYERS AND OFFICIALS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a series of meetings June 9-10 with DRL DAS Barks-Ruggles, Algerian media, government and political party representatives and members of the legal community gave their views on press freedom and Algeria's defamation laws. Journalists and lawyers said freedom of expression in Al [...]	2007-06-28 09:48:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI AG
07ALGIERS929	MINISTRY OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS COUNTERS EXTREMISM [...] (C) Algeria's Religious Affairs ministry has mounted a campaign to reign in extremist imams. The campaign promotes a unified, anti-violence version of Islam and will result in important staffing changes in schools and mosques. On June 23, Minister of Religious Affairs M. Boualem Ghoulamallah [...]	2007-07-02 06:51:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER KISL SCUL SOCI AG
07ALGIERS930	ALGERIAN MFA COUNSELOR URGES U.S. WALK FINE LINE [...] (C) Algerian MFA Counselor Baali cautioned that outside pressure on the Polisario to accept even a modified Moroccan autonomy plan would likely lead the Polisario to quit the nascent negotiation process started in New York. Baali, who was part of the Algerian delegation in New York, opined th [...]	2007-07-02 07:52:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AG WI
07ALGIERS931	CONTINUING TO ENGAGE NGOS AND MFA ON TIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the June 12 release of the 2007 Trafficking in Persons report, we are continuing to engage NGOs and the Algerian government on TIP. The GOA feels it has been unfairly lumped into Tier 3 status with countries whose TIP problem it considers to be more severe. The GOA in [...]	2007-07-02 08:00:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KCRM KWMN PREL AG
07ALGIERS944	RIOTS BREAK OUT IN ORAN AND BOUSSAADA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Riots erupted in recent days in two parts of Algeria for two very different reasons. In response to the downgrading of a local soccer team, two days of riots broke out in the desert city of Boussaada. Four days of rioting broke out in the westerm port city of Oran after the GOA [...]	2007-07-02 16:48:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ASEC AG
07ALGIERS950	AQIM SEEKING RECRUITS IN ALGERIA AND BEYOND [...] (C) SUMMARY. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) incorporates several recruiting methods that include imams trawling prisons, upscale internet videos and capitalizing on festering local resentment of America and the West. Over a period of four weeks, AQIM's newly launched website has rece [...]	2007-07-03 10:13:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC PTER AG
07ALGIERS958	TO BE ALGERIAN AND GAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Articles 333 and 338 of Algeria's penal code criminalize public homosexual behavior and there is no specific legal protection of homosexuals in the country. In a July 2 meeting held at the headquarters of Algerian NGO AIDS Algerie, five young members of Algeria's male homosexual [...]	2007-07-05 13:56:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SOCI SCUL AG
07ALGIERS966	FORWARD WITH MEPI IN ALGERIA: FEWER BUT DEEPER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Middle East Partnership Initiative programming is the best tool we have to undermine support for extremism in Algeria. We reported in ref A the activities and progress we are making on the education, media, political and economic tracks. It is an uneven picture. Understanding [...]	2007-07-07 16:52:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KMPI KDEM KJUS AG
07ALGIERS992	JUST PASSING THROUGH? NIGERIA, ALGERIA AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Nigerian diplomat in Algiers confirms that Nigerians are being trafficked through Algeria, with Europe their expected final destination. The diplomat says that traffickers in Nigeria convince fellow citizens to make the journey, luring them with promises of a brighter future in [...]	2007-07-10 16:48:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PREF SMIG AG
07ALGIERS997	AQIM WEBSITE UPDATE - SHADOWS OF THE SWORD SERIES, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 3, AQIM released a new video on its website www.qmaghreb.org. Entitled "Shadows of the Sword, Part II," the video features AQIM leader Abdelmalek Droukdal calling on viewers to repent and support AQIM with money, weapons and by spreading the word. The video shows a Januar [...]	2007-07-11 16:39:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC PTER AG
07AMMAN1005	NEA DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY BUTLER,S MEETINGS [...] (C) In separate meetings in Amman with the Jordanian Foreign Minister and the Amman-based Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General, DAS Butler discussed perceptions of the Iraqi government, the Baghdad Security Plan, the International Compact for Iraq, and displaced Iraqis. [...]	2007-03-06 06:24:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PREF JO IZ
07AMMAN1022	PARLIAMENT MOVING, DELIBERATELY, ON REFORM BILLS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With three weeks remaining in the current parliamentary session, Parliament will be hard pressed to pass all of the government bills still before it. Reform of political parties and municipal government, both cited as priorities by King Abdullah in his speech opening this ses [...]	2007-03-06 15:04:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL JO
07AMMAN1027	ADDITIONAL DETAINEE INFORMATION PASSED TO FOREIGN [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-07 11:12:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL JO
07AMMAN1028	UPDATE ON MAJID TALAT HAJBEH [...] (C) In response to Washington requests for a written Jordanian government statement concerning the legal standing of Majid Talat Hajbeh, a Jordanian citizen facing deportation from the U.S., Legatt met with GID officials in December 2006, and several times in January and February 2007. GID of [...]	2007-03-07 11:12:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL JO
07AMMAN1038	THREE JORDANIANS CHARGED WITH SECURITY OFFENSES, [...] (SBU) Arab media reported that during an open session of Jordan's state security court March 7, a prosecutor announced that three men charged with possessing illegal weapons and attempting to set fire to a liquor store had also discussed among themselves the idea of assassinating the President [...]	2007-03-07 15:30:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV JO
07AMMAN1068	INFORMING GOVERNMENTS ABOUT IRAQ NEIGHBORS [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-08 12:38:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ JO
07AMMAN11	AN UNHAPPY EID; REACTIONS TO SADDAM,S EXECUTION [...] (SBU) Summary: Many Jordanians we hear from are disturbed and resentful after Saddam's hanging. Opposition political parties and the professional associations staged a non-violent demonstration, while a number of condolence events took place in Kerak, Salt, and the Baq'a and Wihdat Palestini [...]	2007-01-03 14:29:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ JO
07AMMAN1163	PM DISCUSSES ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING LAW'S PROSPECTS [...] (C) Summary: Jordanian Prime Minister Marouf Bakhit told Ambassador March 13 that while the draft Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Law currently before Parliament is a top legislative priority, its passage during this parliamentary session is unlikely due to imminent adjournment. End Summary. 2 [...]	2007-03-14 14:46:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PTER KTFN JO PGOV
07AMMAN1183	LOWER HOUSE ENDORSES REFORM OF POLITICAL PARTIES [...] (SBU) The Chamber of Deputies endorsed the government's bill to reform the political parties law with little substantive amendment. We expect the appointed upper house to endorse the bill quickly. The bill will simplify registration procedures for new parties and provide a mechanism for som [...]	2007-03-15 11:47:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KMCC KISL JO
07AMMAN1217	UN REFORM DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-18 14:49:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	ACABQ PREL UNGA JO
07AMMAN1218	TREASURY UNDER SECRETARY LEVEY'S MEETINGS IN AMMAN [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings with Jordan's Deputy Prime Minister/Finance Minister Ziad Fariz and Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) Governor Umayya Toukan during his March 5th visit to Amman, Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey discussed Jordan's draft [...]	2007-03-19 05:28:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PTER KTFN PREL ECON JO

07AMMAN1309	RESPONSE TO HAJBEH INFORMATION REQUEST [...] (U) This is a joint Legatt Amman ) Embassy Amman message. 2. (C) In response to REF A request for information regarding Majid Talat Hajbeh, Legatt and Embassy note that Legatt's attempt to determine Hajbeh's legal status was made in coordination with DOS and DHS/ICE. Post is unaware if Haj [...]	2007-03-22 14:32:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL JO
07AMMAN1312	AMBASSADOR DELIVERS DEMARCHE AHEAD OF ARAB LEAGUE [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-25 03:14:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL JO XF IS IZ IR LE SU KWBG
07AMMAN1384	CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR DISCUSSES ANTI-MONEY [...] (C) Summary: Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) Governor Umayya Toukan told the Ambassador March 27 that the draft Anti-Money Laundering (AML) law did not pass during the just-concluded session of Parliament because of inadequate government lobbying, a recalcitrant Parliament, and a lingering belief [...]	2007-03-29 05:23:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PGOV KDEM KTFN JO
07AMMAN139	INITIAL RESPONSE TO THE PRESIDENT'S POLICY ADDRESS [...] (C) Summary: King Abdullah conveyed to Ambassador his support for the effort the President announced in his Iraq policy address. The Palace will encourage objective media commentary on the strategy. Many Jordanians, however, had taken a skeptical attitude to any U.S. Iraq policy changes ev [...]	2007-01-11 15:10:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ JO
07AMMAN1410	PARLIAMENT PASSES THREE KEY REFORM BILLS, AND [...] (C) Summary: Before ending their spring session March 28, Jordan's two houses of parliament hurriedly enacted three political reform bills on political parties, municipal government, and press and publications; all were high priorities for the government (refs A and B). They also passed imp [...]	2007-03-29 13:38:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EFIN KDEM KISL KPAL JO
07AMMAN1413	CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC) - JORDAN/U.S. [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-29 16:01:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL CWC OPCW MARR MASS MOPS KTIA JO
07AMMAN1479	LIBERALIZATION OF FUEL PRICES POSTPONED [...] (C) Summary: As it prepares for municipal and parliamentary elections in the summer and fall of this year, the GOJ has deferred its earlier plan to completely eliminate oil subsidies and liberalize all fuel prices by March 2007. The Secretary General of the Finance Ministry privately lamented [...]	2007-04-04 14:54:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EFIN ECON PGOV SOCI JO
07AMMAN1508	KING AND SENIOR OFFICIALS GREET [...] (C) Summary: The King and senior GOJ officials told a Jordanian-sponsored staffdel that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was the core issue in the Middle East. They described the burden large numbers of Iraqis impose on Jordan. The Minister of Labor explained the GOJ's plan to address repo [...]	2007-04-09 14:22:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL ELAB IS JO IZ IR SY
07AMMAN1509	JORDAN TO AVOID NATANZ RIBBON-CUTTING CEREMONY [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-09 14:51:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP IAEA MNUC TRGY AORC UNSC PARM IR JO
07AMMAN1655	GOJ AGREES TO JIPTC EXTENSION, WITH CHANGES [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 7. 2. (SBU) JIPTC Director and polmiloff met with Public Security Directorate (PSD) Deputy Director for Operations BG Tawfiq Al-Halalmeh on April 15 to discuss the extension of U.S. use of the Jordan International Police Training Center [...]	2007-04-18 07:06:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PREL JO IZ
07AMMAN1672	GOJ RECEIVES SENIOR ISRAELI VISITORS [...] (C) Summary: The back-to-back visits to Jordan this week of Israel's Foreign Minister and a Knesset delegation are the first such visits since 2005 that the GOJ publicly acknowledged. Senior GOJ-GOI consultation, while frequent, has been mostly behind the scenes in recent years. The GOJ hop [...]	2007-04-18 13:43:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IS JO
07AMMAN1704	GOJ CALLS FOR JUDICIAL REQUEST FOR INFORMATION [...] (C) Post received on April 18 a diplomatic note which stated the GOJ would not be able to comply with ref A request for written information regarding the legal status of Majed Talat Hajbeh. 2. (SBU) Translation of the relevant portion of the diplomatic note follows below. "The Ministry o [...]	2007-04-19 13:50:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL JO
07AMMAN1822	UPDATE ON IRAQIS IN JORDAN [...] (C) Post remains engaged with the GOJ at the most senior levels seeking GOJ cooperation in moving toward the goals outlined ref a, including continued availability of first asylum; education, and other assistance. King Abdullah has made clear to Ambassador, however, that he regards the issue [...]	2007-04-30 13:06:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF IZ JO
07AMMAN1936	ISLAMISTS, GOVERNMENT MANEUVERING IN ADVANCE OF [...] (C) Summary: As elections approach, the Jordanian government is preparing to help candidates opposing the Islamists, while the Islamists are debating candidate selection. They will be well-placed to exploit populist domestic issues and the unpopularity of GOJ alignment with U.S. policies. [...]	2007-05-06 14:32:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL JO
07AMMAN1959	JORDAN'S LOWER HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT ENDORSES AML LAW [...] (SBU) Summary: After nearly six years since the subject first arose in Jordan's Parliament, the Lower House endorsed the Anti-Money Laundering Law on May 6. The law, which still requires Senate approval (expected May 9),criminalizes money laundering and provides the legal basis for the Gover [...]	2007-05-07 12:43:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN EFIN PGOV KDEM JO
07AMMAN1962	FORMER DEPUTY JAILED FOR INSULTING THE STATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Former MP Dr. Ahmed Oweidi al-Abbadi published an open letter vilifying the GoJ and accusing the royal family of corruption. Al-Abbadi was detained on May 2 for 15 days while he is investigated. The case was filed by Minister of Interior Eid al-Fayez in his personal capacity b [...]	2007-05-07 14:50:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM JO
07AMMAN1998	AMBASSADOR'S ASSESSMENT ON UNHRC ELECTION: JORDAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-10 14:19:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC JO
07AMMAN2178	UPDATE ON IRAQIS IN JORDAN - MAY 22 [...] (C) Ambassador discussed Iraqi refugees on May 16 and again on May 20 with Lt. Gen. Mohammad Dahabi, the chief of Jordan's General Intelligence Directorate (GID),who has the lead for Jordan on this issue. Ambassador obtained Dahabi's agreement to permit the International Organization for Mi [...]	2007-05-22 13:36:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF IZ JO
07AMMAN2211	BANGLADESHI DEATH IN JORDAN'S QIZ UNDER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 8, a Bangladeshi worker in one of Jordan's QIZ factories died in his sleep after working a 22-hour shift. The cause of death listed on police records was acute pneumonia. Operations managers at the factory claim that in an attempt to complete a newly placed monthly orde [...]	2007-05-24 08:19:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ETRD GTIP KTEX BG JO
07AMMAN2240	JAF TO TRANSFER MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO LEBANON [...] (U) Action request - see paragraph 3. 2. (C) The Jordanian Armed Forces (JAF) has identified the following items for transfer to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF): 2 million rounds of 5.56 mm ammunition, 1 million rounds of 7.62 mm ammunition, and 500,000 rounds of .50 caliber ammunition. [...]	2007-05-24 13:23:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS PREL JO LE
07AMMAN2241	GOJ DEFENDS MOVE ON GREEK PATRIARCH [...] (C) In conversations May 22 and May 24, the director of FM Khatib's private office, Thamer Adwan, stressed to Polcouns that the GOJ was carrying out its responsibilities under the Jordan-Israel peace treaty and Greek church law when it withdrew its recognition of Theophilos III, the Greek Ort [...]	2007-05-24 13:45:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI JO
07AMMAN2255	UPDATE ON JORDANIAN REFORM INITIATIVES [...] (C) Summary: Jordan has actively advanced the political and social reform agendas laid out at the July 2006 national unity conference (ref A). Since that time Parliament passed reform bills dealing with municipal government, political parties, press and publications, access to government in [...]	2007-05-24 15:30:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KMCC SOCI JO
07AMMAN2267	GOJ REPUDIATES FEDERATION PROPOSALS [...] (C) SUMMARY: KING ABDULLAH AND JORDANIAN OFFICIALS ARE ATTEMPTING TO DISTANCE THE GOJ FROM A JORDANIAN SENATOR'S SUGGESTION TO ISRAELI POLITICIANS THAT IT IS WORTH EXPLORING A JORDANIAN-PALESTINIAN FEDERATION BEFORE PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD. HOWEVER, THE KING'S RECENT ENGAGEMENT WITH PROMINENT [...]	2007-05-28 12:44:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL PBTS KWBG IS JO
07AMMAN2301	NDI AND IRI HELPING ALL PARTIES PREPARE FOR [...] (U) The National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Republican Institute (IRI) are implementing USAID democracy and governance programs in preparation for municipal elections July 31 and parliamentary elections expected later in 2007. NDI and IRI are training individual candida [...]	2007-05-30 15:18:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL JO
07AMMAN2305	GOJ ELABORATES ON ITS WITHDRAWAL OF RECOGNITION OF [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: JORDAN'S RATIONALE FOR WITHDRAWING RECOGNITION OF GREEK ORTHODOX PATRIARCH THEOPHILOS III IS BASED ON UNFULFILLED PROMISES REGARDING THE RECLAMATION OF CHURCH LANDS AND INCREASING THE ROLE OF ARAB MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH MADE TO THE GOJ WHEN THEOPHILOS ASCENDED TO THE PATRIARCHY [...]	2007-05-31 07:25:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI JO KWBG IS
07AMMAN2341	UPDATE ON IRAQIS IN JORDAN - MAY 31 [...] (C) On May 29, Poloff met with a counterpart from the Norwegian Embassy, which is funding the FAFO study to assess the numbers and conditions of Iraqis currently living in Jordan. The Norwegian Embassy expects FAFO to be ready to brief at least preliminary findings to interested governments i [...]	2007-05-31 14:40:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF IZ JO
07AMMAN2392	LABOR MINISTRY CALLS LATEST NLC REPORT "OLD NEWS"; [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 1, the New York-based National Labor Committee (NLC) released a third report on labor violations at five factories in Jordan. Jordan's Ministry of Labor (MOL) responded in a press release that MOL welcomed the NLC's efforts to help identify labor violations, but had re [...]	2007-06-05 15:41:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ETRD GTIP KTEX BG JO
07AMMAN2458	UPDATE ON IRAQIS IN JORDAN - JUNE 7 [...] (C) Jordanian Minister of Education Khalid Touqan told the Ambassador June 7 the GoJ was comfortable with the issuance of Requests For Proposals for summer-readiness programs targeted at school-age Iraqi children before the regular August 19 start of classes in Jordan's public school. Touqan [...]	2007-06-07 14:55:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF IZ JO
07AMMAN2482	MINOR CLASH ERUPTS AS JORDAN RECLAIMS STATE-OWNED [...] (C) Summary: Jordanian police killed a gunman in the Jordan Valley in connection with a GOJ program to reclaim state-owned property throughout the country. Jordanian police consider the incident a criminal matter. The restoration of the state's rights in face of longstanding illicit use by [...]	2007-06-10 14:24:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI JO
07AMMAN251	OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR JORDAN IN 2007 [...] (C) Summary and introduction: Both the GOJ and oppositionists view the two elections expected in 2007 as the chief challenges - and opportunities - of the coming year. Both camps are already framing their positions on foreign and domestic issues with an eye toward the polls. Islamists and o [...]	2007-01-21 16:14:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM JO
07AMMAN2564	UPDATE ON IRAQIS IN JORDAN - JUNE 14 [...] (C) FAFO researcher Kristin Dalen, who oversees the Norwegian NGO's survey of Iraqis in Jordan now underway, told poloff that many people will be surprised by the low number of Iraqis in Jordan, and implied that FAFO's estimate might be as low as 250,000. Dalen recognizes the potentially cont [...]	2007-06-14 14:09:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV IZ JO
07AMMAN2629	AL-ZAWRAA AND AL-MANAR DEMARCHE: JORDAN PROPOSES [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-19 15:08:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL PTER KPAL JO
07AMMAN2640	UPDATE ON EFFORTS TO EDUCATE ADDITIONAL IRAQIS IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Amman remains actively engaged with the GOJ, UNICEF, UNHCR, and key NGOs in preparing programs that will enable Jordanian public schools to accept additional Iraqi students. While all parties await the results of the FAFO survey (ref a) on the demographics of Iraqis in [...]	2007-06-20 14:05:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV SOCI EAID IZ JO
07AMMAN2697	UNRWA ADVISORY COMMISSION MEETING READOUT [...] (SBU) Summary: UNRWA's Advisory Commission met June 17-18 at the Dead Sea in Jordan. Representatives from over 20 refugee host and UNRWA donor countries and senior UNRWA staff participated in the meeting. PRM/ANE Office Director Richard Albright accompanied by Acting Regional RefCoord an [...]	2007-06-25 09:38:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF KPAL PREL IS KWBG JO IZ LE
07AMMAN27	IRAQIS IN JORDAN [...] (C) Summary: Iraqis in Jordan generally remain integrated into Jordan's economy, and many continue to travel frequently between the two countries. UNHCR is optimistic that the GOJ will respond positively to its request to carry out a socio-economic survey of Iraqis who are in Jordan but perm [...]	2007-01-04 16:02:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF ECON SMIG SOCI IZ JO
07AMMAN2826	DARFUR MESSAGE RELAYED TO JORDAN PRIOR TO KING'S [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-01 14:56:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO UNSC MASS SU JO
07AMMAN2839	GOJ PROPOSES ARAB LEAGUE INFORMATION MINISTERS [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-02 15:07:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL PTER KPAL JO
07AMMAN2964	IRAQIS IN JORDAN - JULY 10 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOJ is still planning for an Iraq Neighbors conference on refugee issues July 22, although concerns about Syrian and Iranian participation seem to be slowing the decision-making. Meanwhile, the GOJ is working to clarify its policy on enrollment of Iraqi children in schools, [...]	2007-07-10 10:12:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PHUM SOCI EAID IZ JO
07AMMAN2980	STAFFDEL SOCHA TOLD THAT PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI [...] (C) Summary: In a series of meetings with Christopher Socha, Senior Policy Advisor to Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC),Jordanian interlocutors stressed the urgency for movement toward a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and that Jordan was not able to further accommodate Iraqi [...]	2007-07-11 14:20:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL JO
07AMMAN2981	PRIVATE SCHOOL ENROLLMENT RESTRICTIONS AFFECT [...] (U) On June 26, Jordan's Ministry of Education (MoE) issued its annual letter to Jordanian private school principals advising them which students would be permitted to enroll in private schools for the 2007/2008 academic year. The letter stated that non-Jordanian students could register for sc [...]	2007-07-11 14:31:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV SOCI EAID IZ JO
07AMMAN2985	JORDANIAN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS: A PRIMER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Jordan is gearing up for municipal elections on July 31, with potential candidates reaching out to their constituencies as they and their backers engage in pre-electoral alliances and maneuvering. While the campaigns are hard-fought local events, the competition between the Is [...]	2007-07-12 10:35:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KWMN JO
07AMMAN3004	JORDANIAN FM LIKELY TO ATTEND GCC+2 [...] (SBU) Polcouns delivered reftel demarche on 7/14 to Thamer Adwan, Director of the Foreign Minister,s private office. (Note: FM Al-Khatib was in transit in Europe on his way back from King Abdullah,s visit to Canada. End note.) 2. (C) Adwan expressed satisfaction at the senior level of USG r [...]	2007-07-15 09:52:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BA EG JO KU MU QA SA AE
07AMMAN3005	ISLAMISTS AND OPPOSITION PARTIES, WAR OF WORDS [...] (C) Summary. In the run-up to municipal elections, pro-government editorialists and smaller opposition parties continue to take swings at the Islamic Action Front (IAF) for its perceived backing of Hamas, mid-June takeover in Gaza. The degree of IAF backpedaling is in the eye of the beholder, [...]	2007-07-15 10:17:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL KPAL KWBG JO
07AMMAN3009	IRAQ NEIGHBORS CONFERENCE ON REFUGEES TO OCCUR [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-15 14:24:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF JO IZ
07AMMAN3043	GENERALLY POSITIVE JORDANIAN REACTION TO POTUS [...] (C) Summary. Jordanian reaction to the President,s speech among political contacts has been generally positive, with a strong emphasis on the call for an international conference. Those we canvassed were hopeful, although with a definite "wait-and-see" approach on the parts of some and outri [...]	2007-07-17 13:55:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL JO
07AMMAN3085	UPDATE ON IRAQIS IN JORDAN - JULY 19 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Government of Jordan decision this week that Iraqi children - regardless of legal residency status - will be permitted to enroll in school for the coming academic year is a major breakthrough (ref A),but still unannounced and closely held. Although GOJ border tightening has [...]	2007-07-19 15:02:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF SOCI IZ JO
07AMMAN3126	JORDANIAN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS: THE BATTLE FOR ZARQA [...] (SBU) Election fever is building in Zarqa, the third largest city in Jordan and hometown of the infamous former leader of Al Qa'ida-in-Iraq Abu Musab al Zarqawi. Zarqa is Jordan's industrial heartland, a bedroom community for many workers in Amman, and houses significant military facilities. [...]	2007-07-24 07:30:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL JO
07AMMAN3162	JORDANIAN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS: THE ISLAMIST - [...] (SBU) Municipal election campaigning is in full swing across Jordan with an explosion of posters, rallies, and spontaneous political salons throughout the country. (The political environment in Amman itself, by contrast, remains subdued, given that the mayor and half the municipal council are [...]	2007-07-26 07:33:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL JO
07AMMAN3204	JORDANIAN REACTION TO DRAFT GCC+2 JOINT STATEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-30 13:14:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV JO
07AMMAN3207	JORDANIAN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS: WOMEN READY TO LEAD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Women candidates and their supporters have been eagerly awaiting Jordan's July 31 municipal elections. The municipalities reform law endorsed by Parliament in April established a 20 percent quota for women in municipal councils (ref A),engendering extensive interest among poten [...]	2007-07-30 13:43:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL KWMN JO
07AMMAN3208	MODEST PROGRESS ACHIEVED AT JULY 26 RWG IN AMMAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Modest progress was achieved during the July 26 Jordanian-Iraqi co-chaired Refugee Working Group (RWG) in Amman. In a significant breakthrough, the Government of Jordan announced the opening of its public and private schools to displaced Iraqis living in Jordan, regardless of t [...]	2007-07-30 13:53:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF SOCI EAID IZ JO SY EG IR TU
07AMMAN3215	KING ACCEPTS RESIGNATIONS OF HEALTH AND WATER [...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Bakhit announced on July 29 the resignations of Minister of Water and Irrigation Alem and Health Minister Kharabsheh. The two offered their resignations following parasitic contamination of water supplies in northeastern Jordan that infected hundreds. New ministers have not [...]	2007-07-30 14:52:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SENV EAID EAGR JO
07AMMAN3240	JORDAN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS: ISLAMIST BOYCOTT: [...] (C) Summary. The Islamic Action Front,s (IAF) withdrawal from July 31 municipal elections is being read as a pre-meditated step to undermine the legitimacy of the polling, employed after a last-minute realization that GOJ boosting of nationalist candidates was succeeding beyond IAF expectatio [...]	2007-08-01 15:58:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL JO
07AMMAN3242	REGENT TELLS STAFFDEL GROVE: NEED UNITED FRONT [...] (C) Summary: Jordan's Regent stressed to STAFFDEL Grove the need for urgent movement toward a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in order to enable a united front against Iran to emerge. Discussions with interlocutors during the STAFFDEL's visit also focused on U.S. financi [...]	2007-08-01 16:05:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF JO KPAL IS IZ IR
07AMMAN3288	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CO-SPONSORSHIP OF SUBMISSIONS [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-02 15:03:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KTFN PTER PREL UNSC JO
07AMMAN330	GOJ TO TAP NORWEGIAN NGO TO CONDUCT STUDY ON [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-24 13:49:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL JO
07AMMAN3352	UPDATE ON IRAQIS IN JORDAN - AUGUST 8 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the wake of the July 26 Refugee Working Group (RWG),local press discussed the burden of assistance to Iraqis, suggesting the U.S. and its allies should pick up the tab, but also supporting the King's decision to allow all Iraqi children here access to public schools. Meanwhi [...]	2007-08-08 13:34:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV IZ JO
07AMMAN3476	IRAQI PARLIAMENTARIANS TELL CODEL BAIRD PM MALIKI [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an August 10 visit to Jordan, Representatives Baird (D-WA) and Shays (R-CT) met with three Iraqi Sunni deputies resident in Amman; the Iraqi Ambassador to Jordan; and Vice President al-Hashimi. The deputies shared the view that progress in Iraq could only be achieved th [...]	2007-08-20 08:43:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MARR JO
07AMMAN3579	SLOW BUT STEADY PROGRESS ON QIZ LABOR ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary: Since the Ministry of Labor (MOL) published a Plan of Action in March 2007, Jordan has been making slow but steady progress on labor issues in the Qualifying Industrial Zones (QIZs). For the first time, a Jordanian court found supervisors in one factory guilty of physical abu [...]	2007-08-26 13:05:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ETRD EAID JO QIZ
07AMMAN3582	IRAQIS IN JORDAN TELL CODEL LEVIN - DUMP MALIKI, [...] (C) In multiple meetings with prominent Iraqis living or transiting Jordan, CODEL Levin was told that the U.S. should stop supporting the Maliki government and should support a parliamentary move by moderate, non-sectarian forces in the Iraqi parliament to bring about a new government, likely t [...]	2007-08-26 14:55:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER JO IZ
07AMMAN3583	IRAQIS IN JORDAN TELL CODEL LEVIN - DUMP MALIKI, [...] (C) In multiple meetings with prominent Iraqis living or transiting Jordan, CODEL Levin was told that the U.S. should stop supporting the Maliki government and should support a parliamentary move by moderate, non-sectarian forces in the Iraqi parliament to bring about a new government, likely t [...]	2007-08-26 15:23:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER JO IZ
07AMMAN3598	JORDANIAN PRISONERS INJURE THEMSELVES PRIOR TO [...] (U) According to Jordanian media reports, during an August 26 visit by a Human Rights Watch (HRW) delegation to Swaqa correctional facility, approximately 100 prisoners injured themselves. A Public Security Directorate (PSD) spokesperson said that prisoners used ceramic and wood objects broken [...]	2007-08-27 14:36:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM JO
07AMMAN3618	IRAQ NEIGHBORS PROCESS: GOJ TO TAKE DECISION SOON [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-28 06:23:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL JO IZ
07AMMAN3624	JORDAN TO MAKE SUPPORTIVE STATEMENT IRAQI LEADERS [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-28 12:07:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU IZ AL XF
07AMMAN3626	RESIGNATION OF FINANCE MINISTER SETS BACK [...] (SBU) Summary: The resignation of Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Ziad Fariz and the government's decision to postpone liberalization of fuel prices do not bode well for the future plans of the Jordan Petroleum Refinery Company (JPRC),according to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr. [...]	2007-08-28 12:52:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON JO
07AMMAN3656	JORDAN WELCOMES MOU ON NUCLEAR ENERGY AND PROPOSES [...] (U) This is an Action Request. See para 4. 2. (SBU) Summary: Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Dr. Khaled Touqan will represent the Government of Jordan (GOJ) at the September 16 Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) Ministerial, and has proposed signing the Memora [...]	2007-08-30 11:26:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PGOV EPET JO
07AMMAN3657	ICRC CLAIMS IT CONVINCED GOJ TO ALLOW TWO IRANIAN [...] (SBU) ICRC Deputy Director Kim Gordon-Bates told poloff and PRM Project Management Specialist on August 16 that ICRC succeeded in convincing the Jordanian Ministry of Interior to permit two Iranian Kurds to transit Jordan to receive medical treatment: a critically-ill woman in her 40's and her [...]	2007-08-30 12:32:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF IZ JO
07AMMAN3732	SHAKR AL-ABSI'S DEATH BARELY NOTED IN JORDAN [...] (SBU) The reported death of Fatah Al-Islam (FAI) leader and Jordanian national Shakr al-Absi in the fighting at Nahr al-Barid camp in Lebanon (ref A) has prompted a limited degree of media attention in Jordan, but with the focus on familial reaction rather than any political implications. 2 [...]	2007-09-05 14:11:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL JO
07AMMAN3752	A/S SAUERBREY CONGRATULATES GOJ ON PROVIDING [...] (U) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary Ellen Sauerbrey congratulated the GOJ for its recent decision to expand enrollment of Iraqi schoolchildren, and focused local and international media attention on the broader needs of Iraqi refugees in the region during her August 26-29 visit. Her announceme [...]	2007-09-09 05:35:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF KPAL IZ JO
07AMMAN380	MFA DELIVERS LAST RESPONSES TO LONG-PENDING [...] (C) The legal office of the Jordanian Foreign Ministry delivered to LEGATT January 28 the final outstanding tranche of documents responding to pending Department of Justice requests for judicial cooperation. 2. (C) LEGATT obtained custody of 15 binders of certified documents. The majorit [...]	2007-01-29 13:10:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KTFN PREL SNAR JO
07AMMAN3811	JORDAN'S PRINCE GHAZI STRIVES TO PROMOTE MODERATE [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador on September 10, Prince Ghazi Bin Muhammad, Special Advisor to King Abdullah and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, stressed that the King is committed to supporting forces of moderate Islam. Jordan, he said, ac [...]	2007-09-13 14:19:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL PINR JO
07AMMAN386	BURST OF PROGRESS AHEAD OF DEMINING MEETING [...] (C) Jordan cleared in 2006 nearly one-half of its minefields. However, the GOJ is concerned about conventional and terrorist threats from Syria, and may delay plans to remove mines along its northern border. Jordan will host the 2007 Meeting of States Parties to the demining treaty, at whic [...]	2007-01-30 11:26:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS MCAP JO
07AMMAN3889	JORDANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER TO ATTEND AHLC [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-19 11:30:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID KPAL KWBG XF EUN
07AMMAN3903	JORDANIAN MORAL SUPPORT FOR SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOR [...] (C) PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to the Director of the Foreign Minister's Office, Thamer Al-Adwan, on Steptember 18. Adwan noted that the GOJ supports the Tribunal, but because of regional sensitivities, is taking a wait and see attitude and wants its support to be as "neutral" as poss [...]	2007-09-20 10:46:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	UNSC LE PTER JO
07AMMAN3907	IRAQI ENROLLMENT IN JORDANIAN SCHOOLS [...] (SBU) In response to lower-than-expected enrollment of Iraqis and anecdotal reports of stumbling blocks to Iraqi registration in Jordanian public schools (ref A),UNCHR and UNICEF convened a standing-room only meeting of NGOs and donors on September 18 to identify outstanding obstacles to Iraq [...]	2007-09-20 14:24:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF SOCI EAID IZ JO
07AMMAN3989	MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SAYS IT WILL TAKE PART IN [...] (C) The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Jordan announced on September 25 that its political wing, the Islamic Action Front (IAF),will take part in parliamentary elections scheduled to be held on November 20. Yesterday's announcement followed months of IAF threats to boycott the parliamentary poll [...]	2007-09-26 14:59:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL JO
07AMMAN4019	JIPTC RETURNED TO GOJ, WILL CONTINUE AS JIPTC [...] (C) The Ambassador and Jordan's Public Security Directorate Chief took part in a ceremony returning control of the Jordan International Police Training Center to the GOJ. The PSD Chief said that JIPTC would continue its mission as an international police training center, and that Jordan was i [...]	2007-09-27 14:13:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SNAR MASS KPAL JO IZ
07AMMAN4045	JORDANIAN COMMENTS ON RAPE AS POLICY RESOLUTION [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to the Foreign Ministry's International Organizations Chief Ayman al-Aamiry and his deputy Hussam al-Husseini on September 27. Aamiry predicted the resolution would garner wide backing, though neither made an explicit commitment to support it. Both noted [...]	2007-10-01 10:57:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI JO
07AMMAN4109	JORDANIAN FM SEEKS DEPARTMENT "STATEMENT OF [...] (C) Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdelelah al-Khatib on October 4 formally requested that the Ambassador convey the GOJ's desire that the USG file a "Statement of Interest" to the relevant U.S. court in response to Ahmad Chalabi's appeal of the August 2007 dismissal of his lawsuit against Jordan. [...]	2007-10-08 10:33:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ JO
07AMMAN4129	JORDAN: DEMOCRATIC REFORM STRATEGY UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: Since the development of our initial democratic reform strategy for Jordan (REF A),the GOJ has made progress on a wide variety of the goals set out. Post made substantial contributions to democratic reforms in Jordan through focused, well-funded programming efforts, advocacy w [...]	2007-10-09 13:53:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	JO KDEM PGOV PREL
07AMMAN4158	FORMER MP ABBADI SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS FOR [...] (U) On October 9, Jordan's State Security Court sentenced former MP Ahmed Oweidi Al-Abbadi to a two-year prison sentence and a fine of 30 JD (USD 42) for undermining the country's reputation. Abbadi has been in custody for five months, since his publication (purportedly; see paragraph 3) of a [...]	2007-10-10 13:50:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM JO
07AMMAN4166	STRIKES OF BENGALI WORKERS CONTINUE IN JORDAN'S [...] (SBU) Representatives from Jordan's Ministry of Labor (MOL) and the Bangladeshi Embassy in Jordan tried to facilitate October 8 negotiations between management at the Cotton Craft factory in al-Tajamouat Qualifying Industrial Zone (QIZ) and Bengali workers who have been on strike since mid-Se [...]	2007-10-11 09:32:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON PGOV JO
07AMMAN4217	OVER 40 TRUCKS OF IRAQI OIL HAVE ARRIVED AT [...] (SBU) During October 17 meetings with Econoff, senior officials at the Jordanian Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR) confirmed that 40 trucks carrying approximately 1,200 metric tons of Iraqi crude oil had reached the Jordan Petroleum Refinery Company (JPRC) in Zarka as of Septemb [...]	2007-10-17 14:51:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PGOV JO IZ
07AMMAN4294	JORDAN: PARTIAL SOLUTION EMERGING FOR ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: On October 19, Prime Minister Marouf Bakhit issued a long-awaited statement on the ability of civil society organizations to monitor the upcoming November 20 election. While Bakhit effectively annulled earlier vague Interior Ministry prohibitions, by announcing that some form of [...]	2007-10-22 14:58:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	JO KDEM PGOV
07AMMAN4320	JORDAN: WHY VOTE? [...] (C) Summary. Contacts across the political spectrum are showing apathy towards the November 20 parliamentary elections in Jordan. Reasons include: mistrust of the government following claims of improprieties during July's municipal elections, a perception that the parliament has no power t [...]	2007-10-24 14:09:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	JO KDEM PGOV
07AMMAN434	GOJ COMMITED TO RESOLVING LABOR PROBLEM; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: GoJ officials continue to pledge their commitment to resolving labor issues in Jordan. In response to Ambassador's warnings that congressional and U.S. investor concern is deepening, the labor minister highlighted positive steps taken to date and plans for the coming months, pa [...]	2007-02-01 10:15:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ETRD GTIP KTEX BG JO
07AMMAN4392	JORDANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER WELCOMES ISTANBUL SIDE [...] (C) Thamer Adwan, Director of Foreign Minister Khatib's private office, reported on October 30 that the FM (currently in China with King Abdullah) welcomes the opportunity to participate in the proposed Istanbul side meeting on Lebanon (reftel). 2. (U) Adwan noted that Khatib's schedule in [...]	2007-10-30 14:50:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	LE PGOV PREL PTER SY
07AMMAN4393	JORDANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER WELCOMES ISTANBUL SIDE [...] (C) Thamer Adwan, Director of Foreign Minister Khatib's private office, reported on October 30 that the FM (currently in China with King Abdullah) welcomes the opportunity to participate in the proposed Istanbul side meeting on Lebanon (reftel). 2. (U) Adwan noted that Khatib's schedule in [...]	2007-10-30 15:41:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	LE PGOV PREL PTER SY JO
07AMMAN4395	JORDANIAN COMMENTS ON REVISED RAPE AS POLICY [...] (C) Poloff delivered demarche (Ref A) to the Foreign Ministry's International Organizations Deputy Director, Hussam al-Husseini, on October 30. Husseini said he had yet to be briefed on the initial intra-GOJ consultations on the original text, but would follow up with his colleagues and consu [...]	2007-10-31 08:52:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNGA JO
07AMMAN4430	FROM THE TRIBES TO THE STREET: THE ANATOMY OF A [...] (C) Summary: Jordan's campaign season is in full swing. Many candidates start their campaigns on the tribal level, where they compete for endorsements and the support of a unified tribe. Not all receive a unanimous verdict, but most can count on some form of tribal base. Campaign teams (both [...]	2007-11-01 12:03:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	JO PGOV KDEM
07AMMAN4439	EMBASSY WELCOMES VISIT OF MG STONE TO DISCUSS [...] (C) Embassy Amman welcomes the upcoming visit to Jordan of Multi-national Force Iraq (MNF-I) Deputy Commanding General for Detainee Operations MG Stone (ref A). Post strongly supports MNF-I's efforts to rehabilitate young Iraqis detained for insurgent activities. 2. (C) As noted ref B and [...]	2007-11-01 15:40:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PHUM PINS PREF PREL SMIG IZ JO
07AMMAN445	KING AND FM ON DISPLACED IRAQIS: A NATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: King Abdullah and FM Khatib spoke recently of the movements of displaced Iraqis as a national security concern. If the USG seeks GOJ cooperation in addressing the issue of displaced Iraqis, we should factor in Jordanian sensitivity toward refugee flows, and be careful not to har [...]	2007-02-01 13:46:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PREF CVIS IZ JO
07AMMAN446	GOJ VIEWS ON NATO COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary: A mid-level MFA official said the GoJ was "positive" on the concept of a NATO security cooperation center, but Jordan will "let the concept evolve." The GoJ continues to view NATO financing as essential. The GoJ welcomes NATO's offer to establish a Partnership for Peace Trust [...]	2007-02-01 14:44:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR JO
07AMMAN4464	JORDAN RESPONSE TO FATF STATEMENT ON IRAN AND U.S. [...] (C) EconCouns discussed the mid-October Financial Action Task Force (FATF) statement on deficiencies in Iran's anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing regime and also delivered ref B demarche on U.S. domestic designation of Iranian entities and individuals to Acting Ministry of [...]	2007-11-04 14:52:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN PARM KNNP IR JO
07AMMAN447	FOREIGN MINSTER SAYS GOJ IS WORKING TO RELEASE [...] (C) Recent public statements imply that the GoJ is ready and willing to receive Jordanian detainees from Guantanamo, but privately GOJ officials insist they need more information from the USG. According to press reports on January 31, Foreign Minister Khatib told two members of parliament that [...]	2007-02-01 15:02:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV JO
07AMMAN4477	JORDAN WILL ATTEND INTERPOL GENERAL ASSEMBLY, [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-06 14:40:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IR JO
07AMMAN448	ALLEGATIONS THAT GOJ TORTURES, AND RUNS SECRET [...] (C) SUMMARY: UN RAPPORTEUR MANFRED NOWAK AGAIN PUBLICLY ACCUSED THE GOJ OF TORTURING. HIS REPORT MAY ALSO INCLUDE CHARGES THAT THE GOJ COLLABORATES WITH THE USG IN RUNNING SECRET PRISONS. MEANWHILE, A MAN ON TRIAL FOR PLOTTING TO SIPDIS KILL AMERICANS ACCUSED JORDAN,S INTELLIGENCE SERVICE [...]	2007-02-02 11:16:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV UN JO
07AMMAN4547	JORDANIAN ELECTIONS: WOMEN CAMPAIGN HARD FOR [...] (C) Summary. In the November 20 parliamentary elections, voters will select the six seats (out of 110) in Jordan's lower house that are reserved for women. Activists and the NGO community failed to secure six additional quota seats they petitioned for, and as a result competition is fierce [...]	2007-11-13 10:46:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM JO
07AMMAN4558	JORDAN TO BACK RESOLUTION ON RAPE AS POLITICAL, [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-13 16:31:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC KWMN SOCI UNGA JO
07AMMAN4559	JORDAN ELECTIONS: ECONOMY THE MAIN ISSUE, BUT [...] (C) Summary. The economy seems to be the number one issue on the minds of voters and candidates in the thick of Jordan's campaign season. Despite real economic growth, rising prices and unemployment numbers show that popular perceptions of economic difficulties have some foundation. As a re [...]	2007-11-13 16:34:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	JO ECON KDEM PGOV

07AMMAN4561	CAMPAIGN DIRTY TRICKS: VOTE BUYING, MUD SLINGING, [...] (C) Summary. Campaigning for the November 20 parliamentary elections is in full swing, with candidate tents springing up like mushrooms, posters and banners blanketing the traffic circles, and numerous newspaper editorials devoted to the big questions of representation, benefits of participa [...]	2007-11-14 06:08:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	JO PGOV KDEM
07AMMAN4571	CAMPAIGN DIRTY TRICKS: VOTE BUYING, MUD SLINGING, [...] (C) Summary. Campaigning for the November 20 parliamentary elections is in full swing, with candidate tents springing up like mushrooms, posters and banners blanketing the traffic circles, and numerous newspaper editorials devoted to the big questions of representation, benefits of participa [...]	2007-11-14 13:02:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	JO PGOV KDEM
07AMMAN4578	CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC) MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) From 2005 through 2007, the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has held a series of meetings with Iraqi officials to assist them in preparing for accession to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) (Ref A). The Technical Secretariat (TS) hosted the fourth and final me [...]	2007-11-15 12:13:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL CWC OPCW CBW BWC IZ JO
07AMMAN4584	JORDAN ELECTIONS: PALESTINIANS AND THEIR [...] (C) Summary. Jordanians of Palestinian origin face difficult choices in the November 20 elections for Jordan's lower house of parliament. Candidates of Palestinian origin talk about unfairness in Jordan's electoral system and within Jordanian society, both of which lead to under-representati [...]	2007-11-15 13:43:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	JO PGOV PREL
07AMMAN4592	JORDAN ELECTIONS: CHRISTIAN CANDIDATES CAMPAIGN [...] (C) Summary. With nine designated seats in Jordan's parliament, Christian candidates are competing for votes within their own communities and among Muslim voters as well. This causes many to run a broad campaign focused on a national agenda rather than local or Christian specific concerns. [...]	2007-11-15 15:09:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	JO PGOV KDEM
07AMMAN4604	JORDAN'S RESPONSE TO FOLLOW-UP DEMARCHE ON [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Jordanian Foreign Abdelelah al-Khatib November 18. The FM told Ambassador that the GOJ is moving to post an ambassador in Baghdad, and is currently drafting its agrement request for retired Jordanian Armed Forces General Zuhair Damour to be the next [...]	2007-11-18 16:11:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ JO
07AMMAN4612	JORDAN ELECTIONS: ON ELECTION EVE, POLITICS IN AN [...] (C) Summary. In the stretch of slums and refugee camps that lies to the south and east of Amman, the campaign for Jordan's November 20 elections has a markedly different flavor than elsewhere in the country. Candidates here speak frankly about the issues that matter to their constituents: p [...]	2007-11-19 11:00:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	JO PGOV KDEM ECON SENV KPAL
07AMMAN4621	JORDAN ELECTIONS: "STACKED" DISTRICTS CREATE [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Candidates and voters are gearing up for election day after a smooth campaign season. The alleged transfer of voter registrations from one district to another has emerged as a major issue in the campaign leading up to Jordan's parliamentary elections on November 20. [...]	2007-11-19 13:27:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	JO KDEM PGOV
07AMMAN4623	MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ELECTION STRATEGY PUT TO THE [...] (C) Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is fielding 22 candidates in the November 20 election for the 110-seat lower house of parliament under the banner of its political party, the Islamic Action Front (IAF),with the slogan, "Islam is the Solution." IAF successes or failures in the polls will [...]	2007-11-19 14:16:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL KDEM JO
07AMMAN4625	JORDAN ELECTIONS: THE BIG PICTURE - A STEP FORWARD [...] (C) More than two million Jordanians have the chance to vote in the election for Jordan's next parliament on November 20 (refs F and G). As the campaign season ends and voting begins, Jordanian democracy has taken significant steps forward in terms of the role of women candidates and civil so [...]	2007-11-19 17:06:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL KDEM JO
07AMMAN4638	JORDANIAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION INITIAL RESULTS: [...] (C) SUMMARY: Preliminary - but unofficial - election results released the day after Jordan's November 20 parliamentary election saw decisive victories for independent candidates, and a crushing defeat for candidates from the Muslim Brotherhood's party, the Islamic Action Front, which failed to [...]	2007-11-21 11:41:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL KDEM JO
07AMMAN4663	ON ANNAPOLIS, FLEETING HOPE LEAVENS LOW [...] (C) Summary: As the Annapolis conference approaches, we have been pulsing our Jordanian contacts on their expectations for the event, speaking to a broad range of Palestinians and East Bankers. While few of our contacts evinced optimism about the meeting, neither complaints about its expecte [...]	2007-11-21 16:20:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL JO IS
07AMMAN4676	JORDAN'S NEW FOREIGN MINISTER: SALAH BASHIR [...] (C) Summary. Jordan's new, young, U.S.-educated Foreign Minister, Salah Bashir, is one of Jordan's leading reformists, and therefore a controversial figure among traditionalists threatened by change. As a dynamic, reforming Justice Minister, Bashir suffered a backlash against his merit-based [...]	2007-11-25 14:00:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR JO
07AMMAN4692	JORDAN'S NEW KAMIKAZE CABINET [...] (C) Summary. Jordan's new, technocratic cabinet is led by a Prime Minister with a track record of delivering on the King's economic reform agenda. His cabinet colleagues include some of Jordan's best-known reformists, among them four women. The poor showing of the King's main opposition, t [...]	2007-11-26 16:50:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR JO
07AMMAN4712	DEMARCHE ON U.S.-IRAQ BILATERAL RELATIONS [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-27 15:43:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL PGOV IZ JO
07AMMAN4733	WHY JORDAN'S ISLAMISTS LOST GROUND IN [...] (C) Summary: The Muslim Brotherhood's Islamic Action Front (IAF) party suffered a crippling defeat in the November 20 parliamentary elections. As Jordan's political landscape realigns, the IAF is spinning its defeat several ways in the media. It is joined by the chattering classes, who have [...]	2007-11-29 16:34:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	JO PGOV KDEM KISL
07AMMAN4737	JORDAN'S OLD NEW PARLIAMENT [...] (C) Summary: As Jordan's new parliament convenes, early indications are that experienced members will at least initially guide the large numbers of newcomers. Five members will return as key players in the new parliament, and the race for speaker is not quite a done deal, but previous speake [...]	2007-11-29 17:02:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV JO
07AMMAN4738	IRAQIS IN JORDAN UPDATE - NOVEMBER 28 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Hale urged new Jordanian Prime Minister Nader Dahabi, Minister of Planning Suhair al-Ali, and Chief of Royal Court Bassem Awadallah to regularize the status of Iraqis in Jordan. The Ambassador attended an Iraqi Chaldean mass on November 25 and offered continued embassy [...]	2007-11-29 17:49:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF SOCI IZ JO
07AMMAN4762	CODEL ROHRABACHER MEETS WITH JORDANIAN ROYAL COURT [...] (C) Summary. In November 29 meetings with Chief of the Royal Court Bassem Awadallah and NGOs who work with Iraqi refugees, Codel Rohrabacher heard about Jordan's struggle to cope with increased demands on its overburdened infrastructure. While describing Jordan's economic direction as posit [...]	2007-12-03 12:15:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	JO PGOV KPAL SENV
07AMMAN4764	JORDANIANS ON ANNAPOLIS: WE WANT TO BELIEVE [...] (C) Jordanian reaction to Annapolis has been marked by the same mix of positive official comments and private cynicism and hope that was on display in the run-up to the conference (ref a). 2. (C) Public, official commentary has been positive, reflecting King Abdullah's strong public support [...]	2007-12-03 15:05:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS JO
07AMMAN4772	KING RAISES THE BAR IN OPENING SPEECH TO PARLIAMENT [...] (C) Summary. King Abdullah opened the first session of Jordan's newly elected parliament on December 2. His top issue was the economy and the imperative to improve the standard of living, followed closely by political reform. On both issues, the King challenged legislators in both houses t [...]	2007-12-04 15:09:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON KISL JO KDEM
07AMMAN4808	JORDAN SUPPORTS IMMEDIATE LEBANESE PRESIDENTIAL [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-06 13:04:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM LE SY JO
07AMMAN4816	STAFFDEL WELLS EXAMINES CONDITIONS OF IRAQIS AND [...] (SBU) Summary: During their five-day visit to Jordan, Staffdel Wells spoke with senior GOJ officials, refugee processing agencies, and NGOs in an effort to (1) better understanding the socioeconomic situation of Iraqi refugees in Jordan; (2) review refugee processing efforts and outcomes; and [...]	2007-12-06 15:44:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV SOCI EAID JO IZ SY
07AMMAN4820	TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT APPLAUDS GOJ [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a December 5 visit to Jordan, Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt emphasized that Jordan's economic reform program made it possible for the U.S. to support the GOJ proposal to the Paris Club to buy back some of its debt. He encouraged continued reforms, especially eliminat [...]	2007-12-09 11:57:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EAID JO IZ
07AMMAN4884	IRAQIS IN JORDAN UPDATE - DECEMBER 10 [...] (SBU) Summary: UNHCR signed a USD 11 million agreement with the Jordanian Ministry of Health to assist the GOJ in providing primary care services to Iraqis at equivalent costs to non-insured Jordanians. UNHCR hopes that increased Iraqi usage of Jordanian primary care facilities will allow the [...]	2007-12-11 16:37:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF SOCI IZ JO
07AMMAN4885	CAN NATIONALISM FILL JORDAN'S POLITICAL VOID? [...] (C) Summary: Throughout the recently concluded election season, Post was exposed to an undercurrent of discontent with the structure of Jordan's political system. Urban elites and tribal notables alike recognized that the current fractured, incoherent political discourse prevents progress o [...]	2007-12-12 06:43:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL KPAL JO
07AMMAN4961	GOVERNMENT GETS RESOUNDING VOTE OF CONFIDENCE AS [...] (C) Summary. After presenting its platform to the newly elected parliament, the Dahabi government had its vote of confidence - by a historically high margin. Pledged to phase-out fuel and fodder subsidies early in 2008, the government is already facing skepticism in some quarters about its [...]	2007-12-17 15:52:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ECON JO
07AMMAN4971	WHO'S YOUR DAHABI? [...] (C) Summary. There are now two Dahabis at the center of Jordanian political life. Nader Dahabi is the Prime Minister, and his brother Mohammed is entering his third year as director of the General Intelligence Directorate (GID). While there is little public conversation on the subject, it i [...]	2007-12-18 07:44:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM JO
07AMMAN5061	JORDAN'S ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION NOT YET READY [...] (C) Summary. Passed as part of a raft of reforms in October 2006, Jordan's Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is still trying to get on its feet. A seven-member body protected by limited immunities, the ACC has the power to investigate claims and assemble cases for transfer to the Ministry of [...]	2007-12-31 12:09:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV JO
07AMMAN51	FURTHER REACTION TO SADDAM'S EXECUTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Demonstrations against the execution of Saddam Hussein took place in several cities after Friday prayers, January 5. Editorials continued to criticize the execution, the Iraqi government, and the USG, but also fired a number of salvos in Iran's direction. END SUMMARY. ---- [...]	2007-01-07 15:53:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ IR JO
07AMMAN519	GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE SECTOR RESPOND POSITIVELY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USTR Middle East Director met with the Ministers of Industry and Trade, Justice, and Labor and with private-sector representatives to discuss labor conditions in Jordan's garment sector during a visit January 31-February 1. With government officials, USTR emphasized three key po [...]	2007-02-05 13:45:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ETRD GTIP KTEX BG JO
07AMMAN52	FURTHER REACTION TO SADDAM'S EXECUTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Demonstrations against the execution of Saddam Hussein took place in several cities after Friday prayers, January 5. Editorials continued to criticize the execution, the Iraqi government, and the USG, but also fired a number of salvos in Iran's direction. END SUMMARY. ---- [...]	2007-01-07 16:49:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ IR JO
07AMMAN543	NEW CENTRIST PARTY TO COUNTER ISLAMISTS [...] ( C ) SUMMARY: Establishment politicians are planning a new party to counter the Islamic Action Front (IAF) in 2007's elections. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Chamber of Deputies speaker Abdel Hadi al Majali told Ambassador January 31 that he was organizing with other establishment politicians [...]	2007-02-06 16:06:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM JO
07AMMAN586	SOMALIA SUPPORT DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-07 13:51:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS SO JO XF
07AMMAN611	KING REAFFIRMS INTENT TO HOLD PARLIAMENTARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: KING ABDULLAH SAID HE REMAINS DETERMINED TO HOLD PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS ON SCHEDULE IN 2007. BUT THE ELECTIONS WILL TAKE PLACE UNDER THE SAME STATUTE THAT GOVERNED THE LAST PARLIAMENTARY POLL, IN 2003. END SUMMARY. BACKGROUND: ADVOCATES FOR DIVERGENT COURSES ------------ [...]	2007-02-08 16:27:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL PTER JO
07AMMAN648	DETAINEE INFORMATION PASSED TO FOREIGN MINISTRY [...] (C) Poloff passed ref A biographic data to Mahmoud al-Hamoud, head of the Foreign Ministry's legal office, and Thamer Adwan, head of the Foreign Minister's private office on February 11. Hamoud thanked Poloff for the data. Adwan added that it would be useful to have photos or copies of the [...]	2007-02-12 11:38:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL JO
07AMMAN669	ARABSAT AND AL-ZAWRAA TV [...] (C) Polcouns made ref B points February 12 to Thamer Adwan, the Foreign Minister's office director. Adwan, although not familiar with Al-Zawraa, agreed that the Al-Zawraa's broadcasts polcouns described were harmful to both the U.S. and to moderate Arab states like Jordan. He noted that Jord [...]	2007-02-13 07:17:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC IZ JO
07AMMAN676	SCENESETTER FOR THE SECRETARY'S VISIT TO JORDAN [...] (C) King Abdullah and Embassy Amman look forward to your return to Jordan. He welcomes your personal engagement on Israeli-Palestinian issues. He is also looking forward to his upcoming visit to the U.S., which will include an address to a joint session of Congress March 7. 2. (C) Since y [...]	2007-02-13 14:06:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF KPAL IS IR JO
07AMMAN687	KING'S TOP ADVISORS AGREE PREMATURE ENGAGEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-14 08:30:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KWBG IS JO
07AMMAN701	FURTHER RESPONSE FROM GOJ ON UNSCR 1727, IRAN AND [...] (C) Elaborating on the GOJ's response (ref a) to ref B demarche, Bassem Awadallah, the director of the King's office, told Ambassador February 14 that the King made it "quite clear" to visiting Russian President Putin that Iran was a threat to the region and not to be trusted. Putin reportedl [...]	2007-02-14 13:53:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR RU JO
07AMMAN702	REACTION TO PUTIN'S VISIT TO JORDAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN MET WITH KING ABDULLAH ON REGIONAL ISSUES AND ON ECONOMIC COOPERATION DURING HIS VISIT FEBRUARY 12-13. PUTIN ALSO MET SEPARATELY WITH PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) SEE SEPTEL FOR AN INITIAL READOUT ON PRESIDENT PUT [...]	2007-02-14 13:54:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR KPAL IS RS JO
07AMMAN873	APHSCT TOWNSEND'S VISIT TO JORDAN, FEBRUARY 3-5 [...] (C) SUMMARY: ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR HOMELAND SECURITY AND COUNTERTERRORISM (APHSCT) FRANCES FRAGOS TOWNSEND AND HER DELEGATION MET SEPARATELY WITH PRIME MINISTER BAKHIT, PRINCE FAISAL, GENERAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTOR DAHABI, MAJOR GENERAL JAMAL SHAWABKAH (COMMANDER OF SPECIAL OPERATIONS [...]	2007-02-26 12:51:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IR JO IS KPAL
07AMMAN888	UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1737 - JORDAN [...] (C) Per ref's A and B, Ambassador and other senior embassy officers have engaged the director of the Office of King Abdullah, the director of Jordan's General Intelligence Directorate, the Foreign Minister, and the director of the private office of the Foreign Minister on ensuring effective i [...]	2007-02-27 11:00:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP EFIN PREL JO IR
07AMMAN898	SCENESETTER FOR JORDANIAN KING ABDULLAH'S VISIT [...] (C) King Abdullah left Amman February 27 for London. He will arrive in Boston February 28, and in Washington March 4. He is scheduled to address a joint session of Congress March 7. He met with Secretary Rice February 20. 2. (C) The Israeli-Palestinian conflict will again be at the top [...]	2007-02-27 13:42:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS IR IZ JO
07AMMAN944	DEMARCHE IN ADVANCE OF ARAB LEAGUE FOREIGN [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-02 11:13:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL JO
07AMMAN971	KING REAFFIRMS 2007 ELECTIONS CALENDAR [...] (SBU) King Abdullah publicly reiterated his support for GOJ plans to hold parliamentary elections late this year, preceded by municipal elections in mid-2007. In an interview with Jordanian television March 2, the King repeated previous statements of his desire to see the two elections take pl [...]	2007-03-05 05:25:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL JO
07AMMAN98	JORDANIAN SECURITY FORCES KILL ONE, CAPTURE [...] (U) Jordanian security forces engaged in a three-hour gun-battle with two gunmen early on January 9 in Irbid, Jordan's second largest city, 52 miles north of Amman. According to media, Sulayman Ghayyad al-Anjadi - a Jordanian of Palestinian origin - was killed, and another Jordanian, Ramadan [...]	2007-01-09 15:49:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC JO
07ANKARA100	NEW KURDISH POLITICAL PARTY ADOPTS PROGRESSIVE BUT [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-19 10:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA1003	TURKEY'S PRESIDENTIAL VOTE: OPPOSITION DEMANDS [...] (U) Turkey's Constitutional Court will now decide the course of the country's presidential election. A total of 361 MPs voted in the April 27 first round, with 357 votes going to ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) candidate Abdullah Gul. The total number of votes cast fell six short [...]	2007-04-27 14:53:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1004	TURKISH MFA COMMENTS ON LARIJANI-SOLANA MEETING [...] (C) Summary: MFA Deputy U/S Rafet Akgunay told Ambassador on April 27 that EU Foreign Policy Chief Solana told the Turks that the gap between the EU and Iranian positions was very wide. Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Larijani complained to FM Gul that the EU was not SIP [...]	2007-04-27 16:01:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM TU IR
07ANKARA1005	TURKEY HOLDS FIRM AGAINST CYPRUS IN THE GLOBAL [...] (C) Summary: MFA Deputy U/S Rafet Akgunay told the Ambassador on April 27 that Turkey is re-evaluating its participation in the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GI) now that Cyprus is joining. While the issue is still under discussion at the highest levels of the MFA, Akgunay s [...]	2007-04-27 16:09:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KNNP KGIC PARM TU CY
07ANKARA1006	TURKEY: TGS STATEMENT SUPPORTS SECULARISTS; GOT [...] (SBU) Summary: At approximately 11:30 pm on April 27, the Turkish General Staff issued a strongly worded statement, warning of the dangers of "fundamentalism", identifying as enemies of the State those who do not ascribe to Ataturk's statement, "How happy is he who can say he is a Turk," and d [...]	2007-04-28 13:09:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR ECON TU
07ANKARA1031	TURKISH CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR CALM BUT VIGILANT ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Meeting with Ambassador May 1, Central Bank Governor Durmus Yilmaz seemed calm but vigilant. While wary of the potential for political tension to hurt financial markets, the Bank found the Monday morning sell-off less severe than expected and had not intervened. Looking ahead, [...]	2007-05-02 14:35:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PGOV TU
07ANKARA1034	TURKEY AND SOMO TALK - BUT FUEL TRADE STILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi SOMO and Turkish officials met in Ankara on April 16-18 and reached agreement to move forward in reinstating blocked fuel trade, albeit in a reduced amount, but next action steps lie with SOMO. Turkish suppliers are not optimistic about new contracts and question SOMO's i [...]	2007-05-02 14:53:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ETRD PREL IZ TU
07ANKARA1035	TURKISH POLITICAL STAND-OFF TRIGGERS MIXED [...] (C) Summary. Turks across the spectrum agree that early parliamentary elections are the only way out of the current stand-off. That, and PM Erdogan's miscalculation in nominating FM Gul, may be the only things on which they do agree. Many see the May 1 Constitutional Court decision as posit [...]	2007-05-02 17:06:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON TU
07ANKARA1037	IRAQ: TURKISH MFA ALLEGES KURDISH MISCONDUCT ON [...] (SBU) After a spell of relative public silence on the Kirkuk issue, the Turkish MFA released a statement May 2 complaining that a key decision on implementing the Article 140 process -- namely compensation for relocation of "new Arab" families who were moved to Kirkuk under Saddam Hussein's re [...]	2007-05-03 11:55:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA1038	TURKEY: OPPOSITION ELBOWING FOR ELECTION PARTNERS [...] (C) With early general elections looming, Turkey,s opposition parties are scrambling to make hay. All manner of electoral alliances are under discussion. On the nominal center-left, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) is in a strong position, with others drawn to the flame. Altho [...]	2007-05-03 12:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA1043	TURKEY TAKES ITS PKK PROBLEM TO THE UNITED NATIONS [...] (C) On instructions from MFA Undersecretary (D-equivalent) Apakan, Head of Section for Iraq Aydin Selcen provided to us May 2 a copy of a letter dated April 27 from the Turkish UN Perm Rep, Baki Ilkin, to UNSYG Moon. The letter (full text in para. 4) reiterates Turkey's commitment to help Iraq [...]	2007-05-03 14:25:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER AORC TU IZ
07ANKARA1052	TURKEY PRESSING FOR SEAT AT ESDP TABLE [...] (C) Foreign Ministry Deputy Director General for NATO Affairs Serdar Kilic told us May 4 that Turkey is awaiting the EU's answer on its request for increased participation in ESDP, inclusion in the European Defense Agency (EDA),and progress on the Security Agreement between Turkey and the EU. [...]	2007-05-04 16:08:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO EU TU
07ANKARA1053	TURKISH POLITICAL TURMOIL: VIEWS FROM THE [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-04 16:17:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA1054	TURKISH PARLIAMENT TO REPEAT PRESIDENTIAL VOTE ON [...] (C) Summary and comment. Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has scheduled a repeat of the first round of voting for their presidential candidate, FM Abdullah Gul, for May 6. If they are unable to muster a 367 member quorum, as required by a May 1 Constitutional Court decision [...]	2007-05-04 16:22:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1056	TURKISH PARLIAMENT STALLED ON PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary and comment. On May 6, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) was unable to muster the 367 quorum required for parliament to repeat the first round of voting on FM Gul's controversial presidential candidacy. While Gul announced before the session began that he would w [...]	2007-05-06 13:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1070	PERSPECTIVES ON THE TURKISH MILITARY'S POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: The effects of the Turkish General Staff's (TGS) April 27 "midnight memo" continue to be debated in Ankara. Universally regarded as a stern warning targeting an Abdullah Gul presidency, the military's message was justified in the view of our secular establishment contacts who do n [...]	2007-05-07 15:04:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS TU
07ANKARA1071	TURKEY: TURKS OF TWO MINDS ON THE MILITARY'S [...] (C) SUMMARY and COMMENT. Two main streams of thought assess the current political crisis in Turkey: one, that the ruling party's behavior compelled the military to take action; and two, that (even if the party's behavior or perceived agenda caused profound concerns) military intervention was [...]	2007-05-07 15:26:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL TU
07ANKARA1072	TURKISH YOUTH PARTY MANEUVERING FOR MERGER [...] (C) As the constitutional crisis over the presidency begins to wind down and general elections for parliament move into gear, political parties across the partisan spectrum are maneuvering for advantage. The recent decision by the center-right True Path and Motherland parties to unite has bee [...]	2007-05-07 15:31:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR TU
07ANKARA1084	TURKEY: BUSINESS INCREASINGLY WORRIED BY POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary. Turkish markets and businesses remain hopeful that a resolution will be found to the ongoing political turmoil. Market movements are subdued and direct investment continues to flow in. But more fundamentally, businesspeople worry that prospects for a political outcome that wo [...]	2007-05-08 14:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV TU
07ANKARA1085	TURKEY PLEASED WITH SHARM MINISTERIAL, SEEKS INPUT [...] (C) Summary: Turkey is generally happy with the Sharm ministerial but seeks clarification ASAP on Iraq's plans for follow-on working groups (WGs),GOT Special Envoy for Iraq Celikkol told the Ambassador May 8. Celikkol asked for U.S. assistance in ascertaining what Iraq wants for the WGs -- e [...]	2007-05-08 14:55:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG PREF PTER UN TU IZ SY
07ANKARA1091	TURKEY: FM GUL AS THE BEHIND-THE-SCENES MASTER [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-09 11:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR TU
07ANKARA1095	TURKEY: DETAINEE RESETTLEMENT FOLLOW-UP [...] (C) Turkey has very small communities of some of the ethnic groups listed in ref a, including a group of ethnic Uighurs in Istanbul which is estimated to number about 5,000. There are also very small communities of ethnic Uzbeks, Somalis, and Sudanese, most of whom are economic migrants or pol [...]	2007-05-09 16:11:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PINR TU
07ANKARA1096	TURKISH REACTIONS TO POLITICAL CRISIS [...] (C) Summary. Conversations with two advisors to PM Erdogan, two former leaders on the left, an influential Ankara business figure, and three key journalists portray a range of views regarding Turkey's ongoing political turmoil and where it may lead. -- The ruling Justice and Development Par [...]	2007-05-10 05:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU US
07ANKARA11	TURKEY: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CONTROVERSY GATHERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The opposition's effort to prevent Prime Minister Erdogan from becoming Turkey's next president in May is underway; following the January 1-3 national holiday, skirmishes look set to intensify. Attempts to find a constitutional basis for calling early elections (reftel A) or neut [...]	2007-01-04 14:20:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA1104	TURKISH UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' VIEWS ON ELECTION [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-10 11:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA1108	TURKEY'S GOVERNING BIG TENT PARTY -- SPLITS IN THE [...] (C) Summary: The political crisis sparked by Foreign Minister Gul's failed bid for the presidency has exacerbated pre-existing divisions within the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). While AKP has always been a "big tent" coalition of the devout, the moderate, the nationalists and t [...]	2007-05-10 13:29:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA111	TURKISH PARTICIPATION AT PARIS DONOR'S CONFERENCE [...] (C) Ambassador Koray Turgay, the Turkish MFA official responsible for assistance issues, confirmed that Foreign Minister Gul will represent Turkey at the "Paris III" donor's conference January 25. Turgay said the Minister had not made a final decision on how much Turkey would pledge but it wo [...]	2007-01-19 15:43:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EAID LE TU
07ANKARA1111	UNHRC ELECTION: TURKISH MFA SIGNALS INTENT TO VOTE [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-10 13:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC TU BO BK SI
07ANKARA1112	TURKEY: COURT PRESIDENT ISSUES WARNING TO [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. The President of the Council of State (Danistay, Turkey's highest administrative court),Sumru Cortoglu, used her remarks on the court's anniversary to issue a thinly veiled warning to the government. She held PM Erdogan's government accountable for the 2006 attack th [...]	2007-05-10 15:26:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1113	YOUR MAY 14 VISIT TO ANKARA [...] (C) Admiral, I look forward to your visit, the first to Turkey by a Chief of Naval Operations in two decades. It fits into work we have been engaged in for over two years to revive mil-mil cooperation that declined sharply after March 2003 and to restore high-level dialogue generally that has [...]	2007-05-10 15:58:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR MOPS TU
07ANKARA1121	SOUTHERN CORRIDOR: MOVING ON TRANSIT AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary. In a May 9 meeting, Energy Minister Hilmi Guler agreed with Ambassador that setting a legal framework for transiting Shah Deniz production is the next step in developing Caspian gas exports to Europe via the soon to be completed Turkey-Greece Interconnector (TGI) and the Nabucco [...]	2007-05-11 09:11:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG BEXP GR AJ TU
07ANKARA1126	IRAQ: TURKEY'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COALITION [...] (C) Summary: Turkey provides significant logistical support for the coalition in Iraq, supports U.S. policy goals and the Iraqi government, and has tried to play a useful diplomatic role. At the same time, its concerns about the future of Iraq -- and in particular its discomfort about Kirkuk [...]	2007-05-11 10:54:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER IZ TU
07ANKARA1131	TURKEY REACTS MORE IN SORROW THAN ANGER TO [...] (C) We discussed the Armenian government's refusal to allow a team of Turkish OSCE election observers into the country with MFA Acting Deputy Director General Suleyman Gokce on several occasions this week, most recently on May 10. Gokce emphasized that Turkey had good intentions in sending o [...]	2007-05-11 12:47:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM TU AM
07ANKARA1137	TURKEY INFORMED THAT CYPRUS HAS JOINED THE GI; MFA [...] (C) We confirmed for MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Head of Section Serhan Yigit on May 10 that the U.S. had received a diplomatic note from the Government of Cyprus advising of Cyprus' intent to join the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism, Cyprus' support for the Global Initiativ [...]	2007-05-11 14:50:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KGIC KNNP PINR PINS PARM PREL TU
07ANKARA1138	CENTER-RIGHT MERGER STILL A WILD CARD IN TURKISH [...] (C) Summary and comment. The recent center-right merger throws a wild card into the line-up for Turkey's July 22 parliamentary elections. True Path Party (DYP) and Motherland Party (Anavatan) leaders announced the alliance on May 6, after prolonged negotiations. Supporters will approve the [...]	2007-05-11 15:30:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1139	HOW TURKISH POLITICS REACHED ITS CURRENT IMPASSE - [...] (SBU) The following is a somewhat speculative appraisal of how Turkey -- its ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP),the opposition and the military -- reached its current level of political turmoil. 2. (C) Power centers across the board made wrong-headed, if typically Turkish, decisi [...]	2007-05-11 15:37:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1147	TURKEY: IZMIR "REPUBLIC RALLY" ECLIPSES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Sunday's enormous demonstration in Izmir caps a series of "Republic Rallies," in which pro-secular Turks turned out to demonstrate against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). The massive crowds and stunning visuals of red Turkish flags against the blue Aegean Sea ec [...]	2007-05-14 14:21:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA115	U/S BURNS' MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER ERDOGAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-22 10:13:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU
07ANKARA1151	UNHRC - CANDIDACY OF BELARUS DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-15 08:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC BO SI TU
07ANKARA116	TURKISH DEFMIN GONUL'S VISIT: SECURITY COOPERATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Defense Gonul's January 25-26 visit, preceding the February visits of Foreign Minister Gul and Chief of the General Staff GEN Buyukanit, provides an opportunity to reaffirm the US commitment on Iraq; urge a measured Turkish response to a possible Congressional Armenian [...]	2007-01-22 11:01:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL PGOV TU IZ AR
07ANKARA1172	KAYSERI BOOMING; AKP MAY BE SLIPPING [...] (SBU) Summary. Visiting the Central Anatolian city of Kayseri on May 14, we found local business leaders and politicians unperturbed by the political dramas in Ankara. Members of the business community, famed for their entrepreneurial talents and "family values," seemed more interested in e [...]	2007-05-16 12:40:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV TU
07ANKARA1173	TURKEY: PARTIES ON THE "LEFT" AT LOOSE ENDS [...] (C) SUMMARY. A cloud of pessimism hangs over the proposed electoral alliance between the center-left Republican People's Party (CHP) and Democratic Left Party (DSP). Tiny, impotent DSP has already squandered much of its waning political capital, while CHP leader Baykal, playing to a public cr [...]	2007-05-16 12:47:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA1177	ATOMIC ENERGY HEAD SEEKS COOPERATION -- UNDER A [...] (C) Turkish Atomic Energy Authority head Okay Cakiroglu told us May 16 that U.S. ratification of the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy (PUNE) treaty is key to deeper bilateral cooperation on the entire range of nuclear energy issues. He confirmed Turkey's intention to develop nuclear power for [...]	2007-05-16 15:00:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KNUC ENRG ETTC IR TU
07ANKARA1180	TURKEY: AKP CONTINUES TO PUSH DIRECT PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary and comment. Unable to elect FM Abdullah Gul president through the existing parliamentary election process because of the newly enunciated quorum requirement, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has pushed through parliament a package of controversial constitutional ame [...]	2007-05-16 16:00:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1181	UNHRC ELECTION: MFA UNDERSECRETARY SIGNALS TURKEY [...] (C) Ambassador raised the UN Human Rights Council election issue (ref a) during a May 15 meeting covering various topics with MFA Undersecretary (D-equivalent) Apakan. Ambassador noted that the candidacies of Slovenia and Bosnia should simplify Turkey's decision on whom to vote for and reitera [...]	2007-05-17 07:50:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC TU BO BK SI
07ANKARA1188	TURKEY/KOSOVO: GOT CONTINUES TO SUPPORT AHTISAARI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkey continues to support the Ahtisaari process and his report, and is concerned about Russian objectives and veto threats. The GOT has reached out to some UNSC member states to urge support for Ahtisaari's plan, including both Indonesia and Qatar in the context of the Organiza [...]	2007-05-17 13:03:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV YI TU
07ANKARA1191	TURKEY: KURDISH ACTIVIST ON CONTEMPORARY POLITICS, [...] (C) Summary and comment: A long-time Kurdish activist offered us a window into her tense, confused post-April 27 world. We have no way to judge the validity of her observations, but she conveyed a greater level of concern than usual. She described an unusually heavy military presence in Hak [...]	2007-05-17 15:21:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS PTER PHUM TU
07ANKARA1192	MFA U/S APAKAN ON TURKEY'S ESDP COMPLAINTS, [...] (C) Summary: MFA U/S Ertugrul Apakan told Ambassador on May 15 that Turkey's complaints about its role within the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) have not been resolved, but stated that Turkey was committed to a positive transition in Kosovo. Ambassador urged a rapid resolution of [...]	2007-05-17 16:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO TU
07ANKARA1195	ECONOMY MINISTER BABACAN: NEED FOR DEMOCRACY, [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Economy and EU negotiator Ali Babacan told Ambassador May 16 that the AKP government takes a strong economic record into the upcoming elections, but worried that the credibility the AKP Government had worked so hard to build for Turkey could be quickly destroyed. He t [...]	2007-05-18 07:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PGOV TU
07ANKARA1198	TURKEY: PRO-KURDISH PARTY'S NEW STRATEGY TO ENTER [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-18 09:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA1199	TURKEY STILL SEEKS CLARITY ON POST-SHARM WORKING [...] (C) MFA Undersecretary (D-equivalent) Apakan told the Ambassador May 15 that GOT Special Envoy Celikkol will soon travel to Baghdad. Celikkol hopes to finalize arrangements with the Iraqis on the Neighbors-plus working groups agreed at Sharm el-Sheikh and also consult with Amb. Crocker. Apaka [...]	2007-05-18 10:26:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID ENRG EPET TU IZ
07ANKARA1205	TURKEY: TGS ON KOSOVO/ESDP DISPUTE: HARD LINE ON [...] (U) This is an action request -- please see para 5. 2. (C) Turkish D/CHOD Saygun called in DCM May 18 to discuss NATO deliberations on the Transition Directive for Kosovo. Saygun noted that SACEUR had called Turkish CHOD Buyukanit May 17 to urge that Turkey set aside its objections and [...]	2007-05-18 14:05:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO EU TU
07ANKARA1206	TURKISH COURT OVERTURNS CONVICTIONS OF TWO ACCUSED [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Turkish appeals court on May 16 overturned the convictions of two jandarma non-commissioned officers (NCO) indicted for their role in the November 2005 bombing of a bookstore in the southeastern city of Semdinli and ruled that the case should have been tried by a military court. [...]	2007-05-18 14:15:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MOPS TU

07ANKARA1207	TURKEY ASKS FOR ASSISTANCE ON TURKMEN GAS [...] (C) Summary: MFA U/S Apakan expressed concern about the Turkmenistan-Kazakhstan-Russia gas deal and told Ambassador that Turkey wants closer collaboration with the US on access to Turkmen gas. Ambassador offered to provide what information we have about the Russian agreement and encouraged Ap [...]	2007-05-18 14:16:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ECIN PREL AJ TX KZ RS TU
07ANKARA1210	MFA U/S APAKAN ON TURKISH IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCRS [...] (C) In a meeting with Ambassador May 15, U/S Ertugrul Apakan confirmed that the GOT sanctions decree against Iran called for under UNSCR 1737 is still with the Prime Ministry and had not been approved by the Council of Ministers. Apakan told Ambassador that Council of Ministers' approval was e [...]	2007-05-18 14:23:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PREL PARM UNSCR IR TU
07ANKARA1215	TURKEY-RUSSIA RELATIONS: INTO THE BEAR'S DEN? [...] (C) Summary: Deepening economic and political ties between Russia and Turkey bear watching, but they do not signal a fundamental shift in Ankara's foreign policy orientation. Contacts believe Russia offers Turkey a sympathetic ear as both feel buffeted by a critical west. However, on key Turk [...]	2007-05-21 07:35:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG EPET TU RS
07ANKARA1216	U/S APAKAN'S POINTS ON CYPRUS [...] (C) MFA U/S Ertugrul Apakan told Ambassador on May 15 that Turkey hopes the UN report on Cyprus will contain a reference to the May 28, 2004 UN report. Apakan complained that the buffer zone was being extended at the expense of Turkish Cypriots. He provided Ambassador with a paper containin [...]	2007-05-21 08:44:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CY TU
07ANKARA1220	TURKEY: ADVOCATING A BROAD DEFINITION OF ARMS AND [...] (C) We delivered ref a demarche to MFA Iran Desk Officer Aziz Sevi on May 18, emphasizing the comprehensive US interpretation of the definition of arms and related materiel that we believe applies to paragraph 5 of UNSCR 1747. We noted that this definition includes all items listed on the Was [...]	2007-05-21 10:54:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PREL PARM ETTC UNSC IR TU
07ANKARA1223	TURKEY'S PARTICIPATION IN THE MAY 31-JUNE 1 OSCE [...] (C) We delivered reftel talking points and conference agenda May 16 jointly with Russian Embassy First Secretary Dmitri Zykov to Ceylan Oskiper, Head of Department for OSCE, MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department, urging a high-level, mulit-sectoral Turkish delegation. Oskipper thanked u [...]	2007-05-21 11:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PREL PTER ABUD AFIN TU
07ANKARA1232	TURKEY: MFA ON KOSOVO/ESDP DISPUTE [...] (C) We followed up on the possibility of compromise language on the Kosovo Transitional Directive mentioned by D/CHOD Saygun (ref a) with MFA NATO Deputy Director General Serdar Kilic on May 21. Aware of our May 18 conversation with Saygun, Kilic provided a copy of NATO document MCM-0118-200 [...]	2007-05-21 14:54:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO EU TU
07ANKARA1233	GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM: [...] (C) MFA Arms Control Deputy Director General Ahmet Gun called us and Russian polcouns Dimitri Zykov in on May 21 to notify us officially of the Turkish government's decision to lower its level of participation in the Global Initiative based on Cyprus' admission as a partner. Speaking on instr [...]	2007-05-21 14:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KNNP ETTC CY TU
07ANKARA1246	TURKEY AGREES WITH U.S. POSITION ON CLUSTER [...] (C) We delivered ref a points on May 18 to Dr. Selcuk Sancar in the MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department, emphasizing that the U.S. does not support a total ban on cluster munitions (CM) and hopes the Oslo process does not result in a document calling for a virtual ban on all such munit [...]	2007-05-22 14:15:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PARM PREL NATO TU
07ANKARA1249	TURKEY: ANKARA EXPLOSION: POLICE CONCLUDE [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-23 08:40:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC CMGT PGOV TU
07ANKARA1250	GOT ON IRANIAN ASYLUM SEEKER PEJMAN: UNLIKELY TO [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-23 08:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE IR TU
07ANKARA1259	TURKEY REVIEWING REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE TO [...] (C) Per reftel request, we approached MFA Middle East Head of Department Sedat Onal on May 23 with the urgent request for a donation of ammunition to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and for continued public statements by the Turkish government in support of the Lebanese government and the LAF [...]	2007-05-23 14:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER TU LE
07ANKARA1260	TURKISH FM GUL ON BASER DISMISSAL [...] (c) During a meeting May 22 on various subjects, Turkish FM Gul commented to Ambassador on the government's dismissal May 21 of special envoy for combating the PKK Gen. Edip Baser. Gul said the government has gotten fed up with Baser's public comments. He had criticized the government and it [...]	2007-05-23 14:49:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER US IZ TU
07ANKARA1261	BRITISH REPORT ON TURKEY/EU DISCUSSIONS WITH FRANCE [...] (C) According to the British ambassador in Ankara, PM Blair and Chancellor Merkel made little progress with French President Sarkozy in recent discussions regarding Turkey and the EU. 2. (C) Blair reportedly talked at length with Sarkozy regarding Turkey during their meeting in early May. [...]	2007-05-23 14:49:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER EUN TU
07ANKARA1264	TURKEY'S PRESIDENT SEZER NOT A NEUTRAL PLAYER [...] (C) Summary and comment. President Ahmet Necdet Sezer remains in office indefinitely after Turkey's abortive presidential election, at least until a new parliament convenes after July 22 elections and attempts to elect his successor. Some give Sezer high marks as the last defense against th [...]	2007-05-24 05:45:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR TU
07ANKARA1281	TURKEY: ANKARA BOMBING, MINE INCIDENT RAISING [...] (U) Summary: The May 22 Ankara bombing combined with a PKK landmine/IED that killed six Turkish soldiers and wounded numerous others May 24 in Sirnak province, have raised the temperature on a possible cross-border operation (CBO). The PM has put the ball in the Turkish General Staff's (TGS) [...]	2007-05-25 10:45:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL TU IZ
07ANKARA1282	TURKEY: DIRECT LEBANESE REQUEST FOR AMMUNITION [...] (C) On May 24, DCM and visiting TRANSCOM Commander Gen. Schwartz raised the LAF ammunition request with Deputy Chief of Staff GEN Ergin Saygun and J-4 Logistics Chief LTG Arslan. We also notified the MFA Middle East Department and the Turkish General Staff (TGS) of the specific request for 105 [...]	2007-05-25 11:11:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL PTER TU LE
07ANKARA1286	TURKEY - PUSHING ON THE SOUTHERN GAS CORRIDOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkish officials express concern about the announced Russia-Turkmenistan-Kazakhstan gas agreement, worried that momentum is shifting away from the "southern gas corridor" and Turkey's transit role. Turkish officials want to redouble efforts to work with Turkmenistan, Iraq, Aze [...]	2007-05-25 11:20:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL TU AJ RS IZ TX KZ
07ANKARA1288	TURKEY: ALEVI GROUPS WEIGHING ELECTION OPTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-25 13:21:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA1300	F-16 VIOLATION OF TURKISH AIRSPACE: PRESS [...] (C) The Turks first contacted us on May 24 to raise what they described as an obvious unintended violation of their airspace earlier in the day (ref a). In that discussion, D/CHOD Saygun told DCM that he was bringing the issue to our attention simply to avoid accidents in the future. We subs [...]	2007-05-29 12:28:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS TU IZ
07ANKARA131	IRAN EXPORT CREDIT DEMARCHE -- TURKEY [...] (C) Summary: Turkish Eximbank is open only for short-term trade credit to Iran. Its total volume of transactions in 2006 was only $72 million. The MFA official to whom we delivered ref a demarche expressed doubt that Turkey would take actions that go beyond UN sanctions on Iran. End Summary [...]	2007-01-23 16:12:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PREL ETTC TU IR
07ANKARA1317	UN COUNTERTERRORISM COMMITTEE REINFORCES U.S. [...] (C) Summary: A group of experts from the UN counter-terrorism committee's Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) visited Turkey May 11-21 to consult on Turkey's counter-terrorism regime, write a report, and identify training needs and other follow-up. The UN group honed in on [...]	2007-05-30 15:25:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KTFN TU
07ANKARA1318	TURKEY WORRIED ABOUT TRANSFER OF SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: Senior Turkish officials and MPs have expressed deep concern about the May 30 handover of security responsibility in northern Iraq from MNF-I to the KRG. The Turks' main concerns appear to be about control of the Iraq-Turkey border, but also extend to an apparent expansion of wha [...]	2007-05-30 15:50:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA1319	TURKEY: U/S APAKAN'S EMOTIONAL APPEAL ON [...] (C) Summary: MFA Undersecretary Apakan told Ambassador on May 29 that the Turkish government and military are irritated with NAC deliberations on NATO-EU cooperation in the Kosovo transition and oppose NATO's subordination to the EU. He repeated Turkish frustration with EU resistance to its [...]	2007-05-30 16:04:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO EU TU
07ANKARA132	U/S BURNS MEETING WITH TURKISH MFA U/S APAKAN -- [...] (C) Summary: In a January 19 meeting in Ankara, Turkish U/S Ertugrul Apakan told U/S Burns that Turkey supports the U.S. strategy of reinforcing Iraq with additional troops. He appealed for U.S. help on the PKK and for a delay in Kirkuk referendum. Apakan expressed concern about Iranian infl [...]	2007-01-24 08:16:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS TU IZ IR
07ANKARA1324	TURKEY: ANTI-PKK ENVOY AKGUNAY WANTS CONCRETE [...] (C) Summary: On May 29, Ambassador reviewed the state of play on anti-PKK efforts with Deputy Undersecretary Rafet Akgunay, who replaced retired General Edip Baser as Turkey's envoy for combating PKK terrorism following Baser's May 21 dismissal (ref b). Ambassador noted progress on U.S.-Turke [...]	2007-05-31 08:14:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MOPS IZ TU
07ANKARA133	U/S BURNS' MEETING WITH TURKISH NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (C) Turkish National Security Council President Yigit Alpogan told U/S Burns January 19 that 2007 would be a challenging year for bilateral relations. The Turkish government hopes passage of an Armenian genocide resolution in the U.S. Congress can be averted, fears relations with the U.S. wil [...]	2007-01-24 08:20:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER NATO IZ IR KPAL EPET ENRG ZK
07ANKARA1331	TURKEY: STILL CONSIDERING AMMUNITION FOR LEBANESE [...] (C) WE CONTINUE TO PRESS THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT TO CONSIDER PROVIDING EXCESS AMMUNITION, ESPECIALLY 105MM TANK ROUNDS, TO THE LEBANESE ARMED FORCES (LAF) ON AN URGENT BASIS (REFTELS). AMBASSADOR RAISED THE ISSUE IN THE COURSE OF A MAY 29 MEETING WITH MFA UNDERSECRETARY APAKAN. APAKAN REPORTE [...]	2007-05-31 13:57:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MOPS LE TU
07ANKARA1335	TURKEY: SANCTIONS ON SUDAN HIGHLY UNLIKELY [...] (C) According to Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials, Turkey is highly unlikely to implement unilateral economic sanctions against Sudan. Raif Karaca, MFA Department Head for Africa, told us May 31 that the GOT would not get out front on economic or other sanctions against Khartoum, [...]	2007-05-31 15:00:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ETTC UN SU TU
07ANKARA1336	TURKEY: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT CHIEF JUSTICE BERATES [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Responding to comments Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan made on NTV May 29, Constitutional Court President Tulay Tugcu issued a forceful press statement the afternoon of May 30, asserting that the PM had insulted the court, sought to put the executive above the judiciary, [...]	2007-05-31 15:03:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA134	U/S BURNS' LUNCH WITH TURKISH MFA U/S APAKAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: U/S for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns and Turkish MFA U/S Ertugrul Apakan exchanged views on Afghanistan, Kosovo, Cyprus, the Halki Seminary, the possibility of an Armenian genocide resolution in the US Congress, and Central Asia at a working lunch January 19 that followed a m [...]	2007-01-24 10:34:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU
07ANKARA1344	TURKEY ALARMED ABOUT AFGHANISTAN; ASKS FOR U.S. [...] (C) MFA Undersecretary Apakan contacted Ambassador on May 31 to register Turkey's concern about developments in northern Afghanistan and to seek U.S. intercession. He said that conditions have deteriorated, especially in the north. Tension is rising and clashes have occurred between the cent [...]	2007-06-01 11:24:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PREL AF TU
07ANKARA1346	TURKEY: CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PACKAGE GOES BACK [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. On May 31st, Parliament re-passed the constitutional amendment package that would, i.a., provide for direct popular election of the president, over President Sezer's initial veto. The package now bounces back to Sezer. After 15 days, Sezer can either approve it or se [...]	2007-06-01 11:57:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA1348	THE U.S. AS POLITICAL FOOTBALL IN TURKEY'S [...] (C) Summary and comment: As Turkey's parliamentary election campaign heats up, all players will use any hook to drag the US into the campaign. The name of the game is to embarrass, trip up or sideline PM Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP). The context includes an overheated polit [...]	2007-06-01 13:09:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU US
07ANKARA1349	DANCING ON KNIFE'S EDGE: GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY [...] (C) Summary: Amidst the charged environment of renewed PKK violence and the current political crisis, the AKP government and military continue to publicly debate by whom and how a cross-border operation (CBO) against PKK camps in northern Iraq would be ordered. This high-stakes game -- combine [...]	2007-06-01 13:13:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL MOPS IZ TU
07ANKARA135	TURKEY REQUESTS CONTINGENCY SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS [...] (U) This is an action request -- please see para. 8. 2. (C) Summary: The Turkish Consul General to Mosul, H. Avni Botsali, plans to deploy permanently in early February. Botsali told us that -- despite some tense moments -- he has a good relationship with Ninewah Governor Kashmoula, though [...]	2007-01-24 11:22:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PGOV TU IZ US
07ANKARA1351	TURKEY/NATO/ESDP: UK NATO PERMREP MAKES LITTLE [...] (C) Summary: UK NATO PermRep Stewart Eldon made little headway with the Turks during May 30 ESDP/Kosovo discussions in Ankara. The UK plans to encourage NATO SYG Solana to offer proposals prior to the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) Summit in Istanbul, June 24-25. In meetings with MFA [...]	2007-06-01 15:36:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO EU TU
07ANKARA1352	SULEYMANIYAH INCIDENT HITS RAW NERVE; TURKISH [...] (C) Summary: The encounter between Turkish Special Forces and Peshmerga security units in Suleymaniyah on June 1 sparked a reaction throughout the Turkish government. The Turkish General Staff issued a public statement about the encounter which included a warning that another such incident w [...]	2007-06-02 16:09:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS IZ TU
07ANKARA137	TURKEY PROPOSES IRAQI RECONCILIATION CONFERENCE, [...] (C) Summary: Turkey supports the U.S.'s strategy for Iraq but remains deeply concerned about the lack of political consensus in Baghdad or the PKK and Kirkuk issues, GOT Special Envoy for Iraq Celikkol told visiting PDAS James Jeffrey on Jan. 19. Jeffrey explained the thinking behind the Pres [...]	2007-01-24 12:49:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER TU IZ IR
07ANKARA1370	TURKEY ON RUSSIA'S CFE CONCERNS AND HLTF [...] (C) We shared reftel points with MFA Deputy Director General for Arms Control and Disarmament Ahmet Muhtar Gun on June 1. Gun subsequently called us in on June 4 to provide MFA feedback in advance of the HLTF meeting. Gun reported that the Russians had circulated a second, more focused paper [...]	2007-06-04 13:53:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE NATO PARM PREL TU
07ANKARA1374	GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM: [...] (C) We pressed ref a points June 4 with MFA Deputy Director General for Arms Control Ahmet Muhtar Gun, urging Turkey to consider sending a higher level delegation to the GI meeting in Astana and stressing our efforts to ensure all partners understand the GI is not an appropriate forum for airi [...]	2007-06-04 14:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KGIC KNNP PREL CY TU
07ANKARA1376	TURKISH MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CHIEF DISMISSES US [...] (C) GEN Aslan Guner, Chief of the Turkish General Staff (TGS) Intelligence branch (J-2) informed us on June 1 that TGS is not upset about the May 24 incident in which a US F-16 crossed over into Turkish airspace for several minutes, stating that the Turkish media had overblown the situation. G [...]	2007-06-04 14:14:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS TU IZ
07ANKARA1381	TURKEY'S CENTER-RIGHT: A HOUSE DIVIDED [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. The eagerly anticipated merger of two center-right parties fizzled out over the weekend of June 2, running aground over mismanagement, mistrust, and massive egos. By bungling the merger, the two parties squandered the advantage they had to offer a viable alternative [...]	2007-06-04 15:52:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA1393	STATUS OF TURKISH ACTION ON IRAN SANCTIONS, BANK [...] (C) Summary: Turkish MFA officials claim that Turkey is on the verge of implementing UNSCR 1737, and will then implement 1747. Turkey will report to the Security Council on the status of its implementation of 1747 once it can confirm to the UN that it has implemented 1737. In the meantime, MF [...]	2007-06-05 14:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP TU IR
07ANKARA1396	TURKEY COMPLAINS ABOUT US C-130 CHAFF/FLARE [...] (SBU) We received a diplomatic note from the Foreign Ministry on June 4 registering a complaint that on May 20 a US C-130 transiting Turkish airspace en route from Iraq to Romania released chaff and flares just over the Iraqi border in Cizre, Turkey, and requesting the Embassy urge relevant US [...]	2007-06-05 15:00:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS TU IZ
07ANKARA1397	TURKEY: HOPE TO HAVE DECISION ON AMMUNITION FOR [...] (C) DURING A JUNE 6 MEETING FOCUSED PRIMARILY ON EVENTS IN AFGHANISTAN (REPORTED SEPTEL) AMBASSADOR PRESSED MFA DEPUTY UNDER SECRETARY FOR MIDDLE EAST AND SOUTH ASIA FERIDUN SINIRLIOGLU FOR A DECISION ON WHETHER TURKEY CAN PROVIDE EXCESS AMMUNITION, ESPECIALLY 105MM TANK ROUNDS, TO THE LEBANES [...]	2007-06-05 15:03:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MOPS LE TU
07ANKARA1398	TURKISH ALARM ABOUT AFGHANISTAN ABATES; PRESSING [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE GOT BELIEVES THE JUNE 3 FIRING OF JOWZJAN PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR JUMA KHAN HAMDARD HAS TEMPORARILY ALLEVIATED TURKEY'S MOST IMMEDIATE CONCERN THAT TENSIONS BETWEEN AFGHANI PRESIDENT KARZAI AND WARLORD GENERAL ABDUL RASHID DOSTUM WOULD BUBBLE OVER. ACCORDING TO MFA OFFICIALS, KAR [...]	2007-06-05 15:04:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS AF TU
07ANKARA1412	TURKEY-IRAN ADVANCE ENERGY DISCUSSIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although negotiations have been long and difficult, Turkey continues to dally with Iran on energy cooperation. The visit of the Iranian Energy Minister (who is responsible for energy and electricity, but not oil and gas, issues) and a possible reciprocating visit by Guler to Ira [...]	2007-06-06 12:58:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL TU IR
07ANKARA1416	TURKEY: MURDERS OF CHRISTIANS IN MALATYA: [...] (C) Summary. Malatya residents are still trying to make sense of the brutal April 18 slaying of three Christians by a group of young men. The prosecutor told us he has not yet found any evidence that the killers were acting with outside support or inspiration, though some believe dark forces [...]	2007-06-07 05:05:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV TU
07ANKARA1417	TURKISH MFA DETAILS IRANIAN ARMS FOUND ON TRAIN; [...] (C) Summary: MFA South Asia Department Director Ahmet Murat Yoruk listed for us on June 6 the arms recovered from a Turkish freight train derailed in a PKK terrorist attack in eastern Turkey May 25, including mortar shells, RPG barrels, rifle rounds, and smoke bombs. Yoruk said the MFA has de [...]	2007-06-07 06:14:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PARM IZ SY TU
07ANKARA1427	UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (MAY 16-31, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary sources for these reports are mainstream Turkish press services, such as the Anatolian News Agency, and international wire services. While these are more reliable than most Turkish press sources, they [...]	2007-06-07 07:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC PREL PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA143	TURKEY/AFGHANISTAN: NO NEW CONTRIBUTIONS FOR [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-24 15:45:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PINS PREL MARR MOPS AF PK TU
07ANKARA1433	ICRC SEEKS TO ESTABLISH ROLE IN TURKEY AND IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: ICRC is working to establish a permanent presence in Turkey and to bring the Turkish Red Crescent into conformity with Geneva standards, according to the ICRC's new Turkey representative. ICRC also hopes to be able to establish contact with PKK detainees and to use Turkey as a co [...]	2007-06-07 10:51:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM TU IZ
07ANKARA1437	TURKEY: GOVERNING AKP MOVES TO CENTER, PURGES [...] (C) Summary and comment: The biggest story of Turkey's just published election lists is the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) overhaul of its roster, boosting the party's centrist bona fides and purging much of the specifically Islamist wing and those who voted "no" on March 1, 200 [...]	2007-06-07 13:51:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PREL TU
07ANKARA1439	TURKEY: ELECTION LISTS GIVE GLIMPSE OF OPPOSITION [...] (C) SUMMARY. The recently published unofficial election lists signal hidden messages and give clues to opposition parties' campaign plans. Nominally center-left opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) oriented itself as a party opposed to threats to the state, with ruling Justice and Devel [...]	2007-06-07 14:18:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA144	DINK ASSASSINATION LEADS TO NATIONAL SOUL-SEARCHING [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-24 15:46:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE AM TU
07ANKARA1442	UNAMI CONSULTS IN TURKEY FOCUS ON KIRKUK: TURKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: UN Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) Deputy Schulenburg used meetings with GOT officials in Ankara to push for greater realism and a more coherent policy on Kirkuk. He emphasized that the issue of Kirkuk's future status is an emotional problem, not a rational one, and posited th [...]	2007-06-07 15:11:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UN IZ TU
07ANKARA1449	TURKISH MILITARY CALLS FOR PUBLIC OPPOSITION TO [...] (SBU) The Turkish General Staff (TGS) posted on its website (www.tsk.mil.tr) late in the evening of June 7 a press announcement regarding the recent (PKK) terrorist incidents in Turkey. The statement noted that Chief of Staff Buyukanit had predicted a rise in terrorist attacks; criticized tho [...]	2007-06-08 10:31:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PTER TU
07ANKARA1451	TURKEY: ONE OF THE NEW BREED OF AKP CANDIDATES - [...] (C) Mehmet Simsek is an unknown in Turkish politics. But he now has the #1 slot on the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) election list in Gaziantep, virtually ensuring him entry to parliament after the July 22 election - and his possible elevation as minister. Who is Simsek and why [...]	2007-06-08 11:52:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PINR TU
07ANKARA1454	TURKEY-EU TROIKA CONSULTATIONS: FOCUS ON EU-NATO [...] (C) During June 4 EU Troika-Turkey consultations in Ankara, headed for the Turks by FM Abdullah Gul and State Minister/lead EU negotiator Ali Babacan and on the EU side by German FM Steinmeier, Turkey-EU-NATO relations was one of many topics discussed. According to German DCM Pruegel, FM Gul [...]	2007-06-08 14:32:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV EUN NATO TU
07ANKARA1455	STAFFDEL ASHWORTH HEARS TURKISH VIEWS ON IRAQ, NATO [...] (C) Summary: Turkey's Special Representative for Iraq Ahmet Oguz Celikkol told Staffdel Ashworth May 29 that reluctance from Baghdad is preventing Turkey from doing more for Iraq, including assistance with restructuring its Defense and Interior Ministries. The GOT fears most the breakup of I [...]	2007-06-08 14:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	OREP PREL MARR MOPS NATO IZ TU
07ANKARA1456	TURKEY UNLIKELY TO MAKE MORE ISAF CONTRIBUTIONS IN [...] (C) We presented to MFA NATO Affairs Head of Department Ihsan Kiziltan on June 6 reftel request on critical ISAF shortfalls and the urgent need for more allied contributions of troops and equipment. Drawing on background points provided, we emphasized the current gaps in the Regional Command [...]	2007-06-08 14:53:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PINS PREL MOPS MARR AF TU
07ANKARA1457	AMBASSADOR'S TOUR D'HORIZON WITH MFA; PRESSES GOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador pressed MFA U/S Apakan in a June 8 meeting on Iran issues, including implementation of UNSC Resolutions 1737 and 1747 and on reporting the May 25 train incident involving Iranian arms bound for Syria to the Security Council. On the train incident, Apakan noted Deputy [...]	2007-06-08 15:13:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON MOPS PARM MARR KNNP ETRD TSPL EU
07ANKARA146	TURKEY AGREES WITH U.S. POSITION ON CLUSTER [...] (C) The GOT shares U.S. concerns about efforts to restrict cluster munitions (CM) outside of the framework of existing weapons conventions, according Dr. Selcuk Sancar, Advisor, MFA Department of Arms Control and Disarmament. In response to our explanation of the U.S. position and inquiries c [...]	2007-01-25 13:59:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PARM PREL NATO TU
07ANKARA1464	TURKISH MILITARY RAISES CONCERNS WITH US WEAPONS [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Turkey has complained about a proposed large-scale arms transfer to Iraq that officials here fear will lead to more leakage of arms, munitions and explosives to terrorist groups in that country, including the PKK. Large-scale [...]	2007-06-11 07:54:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PTER TU IZ
07ANKARA1476	TURKEY: MISSING/DETAINED AMCITS IN IRAN [...] (C) We delivered reftel points on June 11 to MFA Head of Department for South Asia Ahmet Yoruk and South Asia Desk Officer Ilhan Sener. MFA was familiar with the cases of Dr. Esfandiari and of Robert Levinson. Yoruk said he understood the importance of this issue to the United States and re [...]	2007-06-11 14:31:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM IR TU
07ANKARA1477	TURKEY ELECTION LISTS POSTSCRIPT: CONVICTS [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. The Supreme Election Board's (SEB) scrub of proposed candidates for the election has cut out some would-be candidates for parliament and prompted one minor party to withdraw from the election altogether. The SEB's ruling that 131 of parliamentary candidate-applicants f [...]	2007-06-11 15:37:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA1481	TURKEY - COVERING OLD GROUND ON TRANSIT TO EUROPE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador and Energy Minister Hilmi Guler covered familiar ground on gas transit in a June 9 meeting. Ambassador pushed for Turkey and Azerbaijan to meet to resolve issues on the current gas contract, and even more importantly to establish the transit approach for future gas to [...]	2007-06-12 08:14:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL TU AJ RS IZ TX KZ IR
07ANKARA1482	TURKEY: PRESSURE MOUNTING FOR MILITARY TO ACT [...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Erdogan called for a special security meeting today to discuss the latest PKK attacks and Turkey's response. Press reports characterize the meeting as an opportunity to get interagency consensus on the way forward to combat the PKK and pave the way for a possible decision at t [...]	2007-06-12 09:49:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PTER PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA149	TURKEY: DEMOCRATIC LEFT PARTY'S ZEKI SEZER: WHOLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador met with the chairman of the Democratic Left Party (DSP),heir to Bulent Ecevit, Zeki Sezer. DSP has played an historically important role in Turkey (ref A),but won less that two percent in the 2002 elections. It continues to poll poorly and would only cross the 10 [...]	2007-01-25 15:30:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1494	NOT PROTESTING TOO MUCH? IRAQI MFA CALLS IN [...] (C) Following up on press reports that the Iraqi MFA had handed an official note of protest to the Turkish Embassy in Baghdad on June 9, we called June 12 on MFA Head of Department for Iraq Fazli Corman. Corman confirmed that Iraq's MFA Undersecretary Mahmoud had indeed called in the Charge a [...]	2007-06-12 12:41:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA1498	TURKEY'S CONSTITUTIONAL COURT PRESIDENT RETIRES: [...] (U) Summary. Turkey's Constitutional Court President Tulay Tugcu will retire on June 12, opening the way for President Sezer to appoint a new justice to the high court. Sezer will fill the vacancy by choosing from among three nominees yet to be selected by the Council of State (Danistay). Cu [...]	2007-06-12 15:53:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA150	TURKEY OFERS TO HOST MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: TURKEY HAS OFFERED TO HOST A PROSPECTIVE PAGE 02 RUEHAKA0150 C O N F I D E N T I A L ANKARA 000150 ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN SUMMIT AND/OR TRILATERAL MEETING INVOLVING SECRETARY RICE SHOULD SUCH A MEETING INVOLVING PM OLMERT AND ABU MAZEN TAKE PLACE. CONTINUING PM ERDOGAN'S ELECT [...]	2007-01-25 15:35:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL TU IS
07ANKARA1505	TURKISH-GEORGIAN RELATIONS: DEEPER AND DEEPER [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Turkish MFA Deputy Undersecretary Unal Cevikoz (a former Ambassador to Baku) visits Washington from June 18-20 for consultations on South Caucasus and Central Asia. Cevikoz is likely to identify the strengthening relationship between Turkey and Georgia as a major co [...]	2007-06-13 14:13:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAIR ECIN ETRD SMIG NATO AJ AM GG TU
07ANKARA1506	MFA DEPUTY U/S CEVIKOZ ASKS FOR U.S. HELP GETTING [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 5. 2. (C) MFA Deputy Undersecretary for Africa, Asia and Pacific Affairs Unal Cevikoz told Ambassador on June 12 that he is very pleased with the comprehensive program planned for his Washington visit next week. Cevikoz greatly appreciates US [...]	2007-06-13 14:21:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO OSCE AM TU
07ANKARA1515	TURKEY-EU TROIKA MEETINGS: TURKEY'S EU ACCESSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkey-EU Troika consultations held June 4 in Ankara were constructive and served to underscore the continued mutual commitment to pursuing eventual Turkish EU membership, according to GOT and EU officials. Turkey's membership aspirations continue, and the technical process, thou [...]	2007-06-14 13:27:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EU TU
07ANKARA1524	TURKEY EXPANDS POLICE AUTHORITY [...] (U) Summary. President Sezer approved on June 13 amendments to Turkey's police power law that expand authority to stop and search, fingerprint and photograph and use force. Human rights lawyers, NGO's and intellectuals are concerned the amendments will unduly augment police authority. In a [...]	2007-06-15 09:11:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TBIO TU
07ANKARA1527	TURKEY: DEPUTY DEFENSE CHIEF DISMISSES RUMORS OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Chief of Staff (DCHOD) GEN Ergin Saygun claimed on June 14 that, contrary to rampant press speculation, the Turkish military is not planning to impose a security buffer zone in northern Iraqi territory along the shared border. At the same time, he emphasized there must be [...]	2007-06-15 11:30:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PTER TU IZ
07ANKARA1528	TURKEY: SENIOR OFFICIALS APPROACHED FOR HELP WITH [...] (C) After an initial approach at working levels regarding the issue of missing/detained Amcits in Iran (ref b),we have used more senior-level meetings to elicit Turkish assistance. In addition to the points in ref a, we have noted Turkey,s helpful role when UK service personnel were detained [...]	2007-06-15 12:12:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PHUM PREL IR TU
07ANKARA153	IS TURKEY CONSIDERING A NEW PATH ON IRAQ POLICY? [...] (C) We met Jan. 23 with the new GOT Deputy Special Envoy for Iraq, Murat Ozcelik. Ozcelik (please protect),who had been slated to become the MFA's spokesman but at the last minute moved into this position, told us that FonMin Gul had asked him to pursue some new policy directions on Iraq with [...]	2007-01-25 16:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ETRD ECON ENRG TU IZ
07ANKARA1530	UNSCR 1747/OECD: TURKEY NOT EXTENDING EXPORT [...] (C) We delivered refs a and b points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Bilateral Economic Relations Chief of Section Mustafa Sarnic June 15. Sarnic reported that the Turkish export credit agency (Turkish Eximbank) extends no credit to the Iranian public sector. Sarnic expressed Turkish support [...]	2007-06-15 12:28:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP EFIN EXIM OECD UN IR TU
07ANKARA1531	ACTION REQUEST: U.S. DEFENSE ARTICLES IN CYPRUS [...] (U) Action Request. See Para 5. 2. (C) During a June 14 meeting with EUR DAS Matt Bryza on broader Cyprus issues (reported septel),MFA Deputy Under Secretary for Northeast Mediterranean and Americas Haydar SIPDIS Berk reiterated GOT concerns about perceived USG non-enforcement of the A [...]	2007-06-15 12:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL CY GR TU
07ANKARA1532	ACTION REQUEST: TURKS SEEK USG HELP TO FACILITATE [...] (U) This is an action request. See paras 6 and 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY: PM Erdogan is inviting Iraqi PM Maliki to visit Turkey later this month to discuss bilateral issues, including security and energy, and the Turks have asked for USG support in convincing Maliki to accept the invitation. The G [...]	2007-06-15 12:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG PGOV PTER TU IZ
07ANKARA1533	TURKISH FM TRAVELING TO DAMASCUS AND BEIRUT [...] (C) MFA Deputy Undersecretary for the Middle East and South Asia Feridun Sinirlioglu told Ambassador June 15 that FM Gul will travel to Damascus on June 21 and on to Beirut on June 22. Sinirlioglu said that in Damascus, Gul will seek to moderate Syria's reaction to the establishment of the [...]	2007-06-15 12:50:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OVIP SY LE TU
07ANKARA1538	TURKISH MFA U/S APAKAN INSISTS ON "AGREED [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA U/S Ertugrul Apakan told Ambassador June 13 that Turkey will continue to insist that Agreed Framework language must be included in Kosovo transition documents. Turkey,s goal is to prevent the participation of Cyprus in EU operations with NATO; the other issues Turkey has raised [...]	2007-06-15 13:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR EU NATO TU
07ANKARA1540	TURKEY CONCERNED ABOUT UNSCR DRAFT LANGUAGE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: GOT officials have raised concerns with us regarding language in the draft UN Security Council resolution on UNFICYP mandate renewal. The GOT believes the resolution, as it stands, fails to portray fully and objectively the situation in Cyprus. In particular, GOT officials regre [...]	2007-06-15 14:41:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN CY TU
07ANKARA1541	UPATE ON TURKISH PROSECUTION OF AQ KHAN NETWORK [...] (C) Summary: The prosecution of individuals accused of being part of the AQ Khan network (reftel) continues. During a visit to the Bakirkoy Court in Istanbul on June 8, 2007, we obtained information that cases against the four surviving defendants from the Techno-Electric company present in T [...]	2007-06-15 14:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM PREL TU
07ANKARA1554	THE GUAM ORGANIZATION: PRE-SUMMIT DEMARCHE [...] (C) We delivered reftel points to MFA South Caucasus Desk Officer Yavuz Kul. Kul noted that Turkey follows the group, and said that member countries have solicited Turkey's more active involvement, believing it will strengthen the organization. Turkey, however, is only represented by its Am [...]	2007-06-18 14:26:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID AJ GG MD UP TU
07ANKARA1555	SENIOR MFA OFFICIAL LAMENTS MILITARY'S "CONTROL" [...] (C) Summary: A senior MFA official who works on Iraqi issues (not the same official cited reftel) lamented to us June 15 that the military is using the PKK issue to direct both Turkey's Iraq policy and the domestic political situation. He believes the usual balance between civilian and milita [...]	2007-06-18 14:28:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER TU IZ IR
07ANKARA1556	TURKISH MFA CONSULTATIONS WITH IRAN [...] (C) Summary: MFA Deputy Undersecretary for the Middle East and South Asia Feridun Sinirlioglu used his consultations in Tehran June 10-14 to review developments in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Lebanon. In debriefing Ambassador June 15, Sinirlioglu said he pressed for but did not get an explanation [...]	2007-06-18 15:21:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PGOV IZ AF IR TX TU
07ANKARA1560	TURKEY: PROMINENT KURDISH INTELLECTUAL URGES U.S. SUPPORT FOR TURKISH DEMOCRATIZATION, RAPPROCHEMENT WITH NORTHERN IRAQ [...] Summary: (C) In a meeting with Adana PO, prominent Kurdish author Mehmet Uzun urged the U.S. to establish a permanent military presence in Northern Iraq to protect the democratic advances of the KRG, which he believes will catalyze liberalization elsewhere in the region. He discounted the pro [...]	2007-06-19 09:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER TU IZ
07ANKARA1577	ONE VIEW ON TURKEY'S IRANIAN DIASPORA (C-TN7-00225) [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to one expert at a leading Turkish think tank, the Iranian population in Turkey numbers no more than fifty thousand, most of whom are students or other short-term economic migrants. Due to a fear of Iran's intelligence services, the Iranian community in Turkey maintai [...]	2007-06-21 06:54:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL SCUL AJ IR TU
07ANKARA1581	TURKEY: PRE-ELECTION TENSIONS HIGH IN THE SOUTHEAST [...] (C) Summary: Kurds in southeastern Turkey feel increasingly squeezed by a lethal combination of political, economic and geopolitical factors. In addition to pre-election political pressure, an increase in PKK violence and continued economic stagnation, community leaders believe Kurds in the [...]	2007-06-21 08:27:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER TU
07ANKARA159	TURKISH MFA MEETS ARMENIAN DFM: PROGRESS BUT NO [...] (C) Summary: The January 24 meeting in Istanbul between Turkish MFA DG Resit Uman and Armenian DFM Kirakossian, which MFA undertook on FM Gul's instruction, appears to have made some progress in the countries' ongoing discussion about establishing commissions to look at both the events of 1915 [...]	2007-01-26 09:29:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU AM
07ANKARA1590	TURKEY: ONE VOICE FROM VAN - WE ARE AT THE TIPPING [...] (C) Summary and comment: Lamenting that he had to focus on politics instead of economics, the Chamber of Commerce president in the eastern city of Van expressed serious concern over Turkey's current political-military conjuncture, predicting that if all parties do not engage in dialogue, the [...]	2007-06-21 14:05:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER TU
07ANKARA1591	NATIONALIST GROUP REQUESTS PROSECUTION OF KRG [...] (C) Summary: A nationalist group in Diyarbakir has filed a petition with the provincial prosecutor's office requesting that charges be brought against KRG President Barzani and members of his family. The petition accuses the Barzanis of providing support and safe-haven for PKK terrorists in Ir [...]	2007-06-21 14:32:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER PREL TU IZ
07ANKARA1598	DAS BRYZA'S MEETINGS WITH MFA CAUCASUS DG UMAN AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. DAS Matt Bryza met in Ankara on June 14 with MFA Director General for Caucasus and Central Asia Resit Uman and MFA Director General for Policy Planning Altay Cengizer. DAS Bryza shared his views on the previous week's disappointing meeting of the Azeri and Armenian Presidents on [...]	2007-06-22 07:02:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PGOV NATO OSCE AJ AM GG RU TU ZJ
07ANKARA1605	TURKEY CONFIRMS INTENT TO NOTIFY UNSC ABOUT [...] (C) MFA South Asia Head of Department Murat Yoruk confirmed on June 22 that Turkey fully intends to fulfill its obligations under UNSCRs 1737 and 1747 and notify the Security Council about the discovery of an Iranian weapons cache on board the train that derailed on May 25 in the Genc district [...]	2007-06-22 13:49:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PARM IZ SY TU
07ANKARA1606	TURKEY: POLLSTERS PREDICT AKP WIN, LONG-TERM [...] (C) SUMMARY. A cross section of leading pollsters from Ankara and Istanbul agreed that public opinion in Turkey shows deep polarization, disaffection and fear about the future. Most significantly, all agree that under today's conditions and barring unforeseen interventions, the ruling Justice [...]	2007-06-22 13:53:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA1608	TURKEY - ENTHUSIASM FOR TURKENISTAN AND IRAQ GAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 13 meeting with EUR DAS Matt Bryza, Turkish Energy Minister Hilmi Guler gave a positive and enthusiastic read-out of his recent trip to Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. Guler was confident that an off-shore Turkmenistan-Azerbaijan connection was workable and wants Turkey [...]	2007-06-25 09:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL TU AJ RS IZ TX KZ

07ANKARA1628	TURKEY/NATO: TURKISH GENERAL STAFF VIEWS ON NATO [...] (C) Turkish Chief of Defense Buyukanit told visiting USAFE Commander Gen Hobbins June 22 that Turkey supports the NATO Response Force (NRF) concept and has earmarked forces for it. However, he claimed, there has been an effort to change the NRF concept from that of a "first-in/first-out" force [...]	2007-06-26 07:29:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO EUN
07ANKARA1633	TURKEY: MFA U/S APAKAN - MILD OPTIMISM ON [...] (C) Summary. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Under Secretary (U/S) Apakan reviewed for Ambassador June 21 SIPDIS Turkey's dialogue with the European Union (EU) and France on accession and bilateral relations issues. Turkey views both discussions with cautious optimism. Apakan also updat [...]	2007-06-26 12:14:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU FR
07ANKARA1651	PKK VIOLENCE -- AND PRESSURE FOR CROSS-BORDER [...] (C) Summary: Ongoing PKK violence has made terrorism a top issue in campaigning for July 22 parliamentary elections. PM Erdogan faces pressure from nearly all sides to authorize a cross-border operation into northern Iraq -- and that pressure will inevitably increase in the days ahead. End s [...]	2007-06-27 13:14:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL TU IZ
07ANKARA1652	TURKEY: ANGER TOWARD THE US IN SMALL-TOWN ANATOLIA [...] (U) SUMMARY. A visit to an Anatolian village and its nearby subprovincial capital provided a window into the deep anger many small-town citizens currently feel toward the United States. Preoccupied by daily reports of "our sons" being killed by Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorists in th [...]	2007-06-27 13:17:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA1660	TURKEY UNSATISFIED WITH CURRENT STATE OF EU [...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkey received the June 26 EU decision to open only two negotiating chapters rather than three with calm frustration. Turkish negotiators and business representatives reject the EU's technical justifications presented for not opening the economic and monetary union chapter, ar [...]	2007-06-27 16:36:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN ECIN ETRD EUN FR TU
07ANKARA1670	GENERAL STAFF SPEAKS OUT -- AGAIN -- ON PKK TERROR [...] (C) Summary: Senior commanders briefing journalists at a commando training area in western Turkey June 26 rejected press allegations that Turkish troops are not properly trained to fight PKK terrorists, reiterated the military's belief that a cross-border operation (CBO) into northern Iraq is [...]	2007-06-28 10:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL MOPS IZ TU
07ANKARA1672	TURKISH IMPLEMENTATION OF IRAN SANCTIONS INCHING [...] (C) Summary: Turkish officials informed us that the Council of Ministers has signed the decree implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1737. The decree now is awaiting the Prime Minister's and President's signatures before coming into effect. End Summary. 2. (C) MFA Iran desk checked w [...]	2007-06-28 13:06:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP TU IR
07ANKARA1674	TURKEY SUPPORTIVE OF AFGHAN RULE OF LAW CONFERENCE [...] (C) Summary: In keeping with the high priority it attaches to Afghanistan, the Turkish Government plans to send Under Secretary Apakan (D equivalent) to the Rome Conference. Although Turkey will be supportive of Rule of Law initiatives it will not be in a position to pledge additional monies f [...]	2007-06-28 14:00:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS EAID AF TU
07ANKARA1676	IRAQ DEBT TO TURKEY -- INTERIM RESPONSE [...] (C) We flagged to Turkish Treasury Under Secretary Ibrahim Canakci that the U.S. would be approaching Turkey again on the Iraq debt issue once a new government is formed. Canakci noted that Turkey continues to meet with Iraq's outside advisors to reconcile Turkish claims on Iraq, now including [...]	2007-06-28 14:55:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN IZ TU
07ANKARA1679	TURKEY: A TALE OF TWO (SUB-PROVINCIAL) CITIES - [...] (C) SUMMARY. Two sub-provincial capitals and several villages in Ankara province provide a window into parties' election preparations. Rival parties delivered the same angry message on US policies on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK),Iraq, and Israel. The visits also gave us a glimpse int [...]	2007-06-29 09:46:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA1685	TURKEY'S BSEC BILATERALS: ARMENIA, GREECE, GEORGIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkey held 38 bilaterals on the margins of the 15th Black Sea Economic Cooperation Commission (BSEC) June 25 summit (SEPTEL) in Istanbul. Key among those were FM Gul's meeting with Armenian Foreign Minister Oskanian and PM Erdogan's meetings with Greek PM Karamanlis, and Georgi [...]	2007-06-29 14:25:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM GG GR TU
07ANKARA1695	TURKEY: CONTINUED SUPPORT TO STOP FLOW OF FOREIGN [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche to Turkish MFA Special Iraq Coordinator Oguz Celikkol July 2. Celikkol, who is well informed on the issue, responded that the Turks have repeatedly told Damascus that for the sake of the entire region, they need to take the necessary measures to cut the flow o [...]	2007-07-03 04:55:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER SY IZ TU
07ANKARA1699	TURKEY TO CONSIDER CONTRIBUTION TO UN/AU OPERATION [...] (U) Per reftel request, we met with MFA Head of Department for Africa and East Asia Raif Karaca on July 3 to request Turkey consider a contribution of military troops and/or police officers to the UN/AU Hybrid Operation to be stood up in Darfur, Sudan. Karaca was familiar with the mission and [...]	2007-07-03 10:55:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO UNSC MASS TU SU
07ANKARA1703	TURKEY STILL UNDECIDED ON AMMUNITION CONTRIBUTION [...] (C) Summary: We followed up with MFA Head of Department for Middle East Affairs Sedat Onal on July 2 to press for a contribution of 105MM and 155MM ammunition to the Lebanese Armed Forces to assist in their continuing battle against Fatah al-Islam. Onal said that, with national elections two [...]	2007-07-03 12:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PTER PREL PGOV TU LE
07ANKARA1714	CHP'S PLATFORM - FEARMONGERING AND HANDOUTS [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Combining fear-mongering and saber-rattling with promises of handouts, the nominally center-left Republican People's Party (CHP) has crafted a platform so audacious it might actually work. The party devotes most of the platform to condemning the ruling Justice and De [...]	2007-07-05 08:29:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA173	DINK KILLING BRINGS DARK SIDE OF TRABZON INTO THE [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-26 15:58:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA1732	STAFFDEL MAKOVSKY'S MEETINGS WITH MFA OFFICIALS [...] (C) SUMMARY. In separate July 2 meetings, HCFA Senior Staff Member Alan Makovsky discussed the Armenian Genocide Resolution (AGR),Middle East and regional issues and Cyprus with MFA U/S Apakan, Deputy U/S Cevikoz and Deputy U/S Berk. Apakan reviewed his recent consultations in Israel, noting [...]	2007-07-06 14:39:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	OREP PREL PBTS PGOV PINS PTER AJ AM IR IS
07ANKARA1733	TURKEY: AKP IN THE PROVINCES - TOP DOWN IS THE [...] (C) Summary and comment: A series of trips to Turkey's provinces have made it clear that PM Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) has turned into the top-down Erdogan machine. He picked the candidate lists, he set the priorities and the platform. If AKP returns to government, all wi [...]	2007-07-06 14:39:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1738	TURKEY WORRIED ABOUT MALIKI "CONCESSIONS" TO KURDS [...] (C) Summary. Turkey's Iraq Special Envoy Oguz Celikkol is worried that PM Maliki, under siege from Sunni and other groups, is making political concessions to Kurdish politicians -- including on Kirkuk -- in order to maintain his grip on power. Celikkol's effort to work through Maliki spoke [...]	2007-07-06 15:12:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ TU
07ANKARA1739	DEPARTMENT RESPONSE TO GOT REGARDING US DFENSE [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel points regarding US defense articles in Cyprus to MFA Deputy U/S Haydar Berk on July 6. Ambassador emphasized our desire to be transparent, noted previous discussions with the Turkish General Staff on the problem of Greek-supplied US defense articles in Cyprus [...]	2007-07-09 08:01:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL CY GR TU
07ANKARA174	SOMO STOPS FUEL PURCHASES FROM TURKEY [...] (C) Summary. Iraq's state oil company SOMO cut off without warning all imports of fuel products via Turkey at the start of 2007. About 200 fuel tankers are stuck in the Iraqi border town of Zakho since December 28 while SOMO refuses to accept delivery of their loads. Efforts of Turkish tra [...]	2007-01-26 16:04:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EPET PREL TU IZ
07ANKARA1742	TURKEY: AKP PLATFORM: "DON'T LEAVE THE JOB [...] (C) Summary. Unveiling his party's platform, PM Erdogan stressed stability and security if voters return his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to power in Turkey's July 22 general election. Their focus is on accomplishments to date, with a call to voters, in their words, not to leave [...]	2007-07-09 09:47:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1749	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES CYPRUS WITH TURKISH MFA [...] (c) Summary: Ambassador encouraged Turkey, in conversations with MFA U/S Apakan and Deputy U/S Berk July 6 and 7, to look for ways to avoid the appearance of intransigence on Cyprus and take advantage of Papadopoulos' vulnerability at home and in some EU capitals. He also urged a forthcomin [...]	2007-07-09 16:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CY TU
07ANKARA175	TURKEY OBJECTS TO NGO GENEVA CALL CONSULTATIVE [...] (C) MFA Deputy Director General for Arms Control Ahmet Muhtar Gun convened Pol-Mil Counselor January 26 to register the Turkish government's strong objection to the request of the NGO "Geneva Call" to establish consultative status with ECOSOC. He asserted that Geneva Call has signed a so-calle [...]	2007-01-26 16:45:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER UN
07ANKARA1769	ONE MAN'S VOICE - YUSUF ALATAS, HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary and Comment: In a recent conversation, Yusuf Alatas, a long-time Embassy contact, independent thinker and outgoing president of Turkey's Human Rights Association (IHD),was pessimistic about the current political situation and enormously skeptical as to whether the pro-Kurdish Dem [...]	2007-07-11 14:16:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER TU
07ANKARA1771	TURKEY: OPPOSITION LEADER BAYKAL CALLS FOR [...] (C) Summary and comment: In separate meetings with Ambassador and Staffdel Makovsky, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) chairman Deniz Baykal and CHP vice chair Onur Oymen outlined the party's election platform and plans. In both meetings, Baykal was focused and responsive. He re [...]	2007-07-11 14:26:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PTER PREL TU US
07ANKARA1778	TURKEY: THE PRO-KURDISH DTP - ITS ELECTION AND [...] (C) Summary: The largest and most influential pro-Kurdish political party, the Democratic Society Party (DTP),running candidates as independents, seems set to take some two dozen seats in the July 22 parliamentary election. This is enough seats to form a parliamentary group and -- if DTPers s [...]	2007-07-12 08:19:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER TU
07ANKARA1781	TURKEY: KURDS ARE NOT A MONOLITH [...] (U) This is a message from Consulate Adana. 2. (C) Summary: In the Western media, Turkey's Kurds -- about 15 percent of the total population -- are frequently described as "restive," implying that members of this minority are all disaffected and favor separating from Turkey. This misperc [...]	2007-07-12 08:52:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PTER TU
07ANKARA1782	TURKISH UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: WORRIED ABOUT JOBS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Separate discussions with Turkish students bound for America and several American English Language Fellows (ELFs) assigned to universities across Turkey for the past year provided insights on anti-Americanism, Turkey's secular-religious divide, election concerns, and the impact o [...]	2007-07-12 11:28:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA1784	TURKEY: OPPOSITION PARTIES PLAYING TO TEN: MHP, [...] (C) Summary and comment. The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP),Youth Party (GP),and Democrat Party (DP) -- all significantly weaker than the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) -- are scrambling to garner votes in the July 22 general [...]	2007-07-12 14:02:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA1787	TURKEY U/S FOR ENERGY SAMI DEMIRBILEK BLAMES [...] (C) Summary: Turkey's Under Secretary for Energy Sami Demirbilek discussed stalled negotiations with Greece and Italy for Turkish transit of Azeri gas. Demirbilek voiced frustration with the Greek position, which insists on excluding Greek gas distributors from the requirement of 15 percent " [...]	2007-07-13 05:15:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET EINV TU
07ANKARA1792	TURKEY: PRE-ELECTION ENVIRONMENT IS PEACEFUL, [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a political environment lately caught up in existential questions, the normalcy of the current election environment provides a reassuring contrast. Debates are lively but treading familiar paths. While the parties are seized with election fervor, Turkey isn't getting carried [...]	2007-07-13 12:21:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA1793	PAKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN: CONSTRUCTIVE START TO [...] (U) SUMMARY. On July 6, Ankara hosted the first meeting of the Afghanistan-Pakistan-Turkey Joint Working Group (JWG),established by the leaders of the three counties at their April 2007 summit meeting in Ankara. The deputy foreign minister-level meeting identified various confidence buildin [...]	2007-07-13 12:46:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PREF PBTS SNAR AF PK TU
07ANKARA1796	TURKISH AMMUNITION CONTRIBUTION TO LEBANESE ARMED [...] (C) We followed up with MFA Head of Department for Middle East Affairs Sedat Onal on July 10 to press for a contribution of 105MM and 155MM ammunition to the Lebanese Armed Forces to assist in their continuing battle against Fatah al-Islam. Onal repeated pre-election political concerns repor [...]	2007-07-13 14:40:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PTER PREL PGOV TU LE
07ANKARA1797	DEMOCRAT PARTY LEADER AGAR BETS ON THE POWER OF [...] (C) Summary and comment. In a July 13 meeting, Democrat Party (DP) leader Mehmet Agar told the Ambassador he is optimistic that DP can win enough votes to cross Turkey's ten percent threshold and secure parliamentary seats in the July 22 general elections. Agar is counting on solid media co [...]	2007-07-16 06:08:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA180	CFE: TURKEY MAKES NEW FLANK ENTITLEMENT OFFER [...] (C) MFA Arms Control Deputy Director General Ahmet Muhtar Gun told us January 29 that the Turkish government is now prepared to offer 35 (thirty-five) tank and 20 (twenty) ACV flank entitlements from its headroom vice the original offer of 63 tank entitlements. He said this offer has been clea [...]	2007-01-29 12:00:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE PARM PREL NATO TU
07ANKARA1803	TURKEY ELECTION SCENESETTER AND NEXT STEPS [...] (C) Summary: PM Erdogan's governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) will likely come out on top July 22, winning fewer seats than in 2002, but enough to form a government. At least two other parties will surmount the 10% threshold, and parliament seems likely to be more fractious than it [...]	2007-07-16 12:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER ECON TU
07ANKARA1809	IRAN-TURKEY NATURAL GAS MOU [...] (C) Summary: Turkish MFA officials MFA confirm that Energy Minister Hilmi Guler signed a preliminary MOU with Iranian Oil Minister Kazem Variri-Hamaneh that, after further study, may involve (1) construction of pipelines and the transit of gas from Turkmenistan through Iran to Turkey, (2) devel [...]	2007-07-16 16:39:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL TU IR
07ANKARA1816	TURKISH AMBIVALENCE ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM [...] (C) Summary: Two Embassy-organized videoconferences and a recent Turkish roundtable reveal continued ambivalence about Iran's nuclear program among Turkey's non-governmental policy elites, including academics, think-tankers, and columnists. Turkish opinion-makers do not want to see Iran, a nei [...]	2007-07-17 10:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM IR TU
07ANKARA1820	TURKEY: LONG ODDS IN SUNDAY'S ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY. Opinion polls appear to have coalesced around the idea that only three parties will enter parliament in the wake of Turkey's July 22 general election. However, given the notorious unreliability of opinion polls here, several long-shot parties taking a "hail Mary" pass could do b [...]	2007-07-18 06:39:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL TU
07ANKARA1822	TURKEY: ALEVI GROUPS DEEM CHP "LEAST BAD" OPTION [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-18 08:38:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA1832	TURKISH ELECTION: SOUTHEAST KURDISH VOTERS WILL [...] (C) SUMMARY. In Turkey's southeastern provinces the Kurdish issue will be the main determinant of voting patterns on July 22, giving the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and independent candidates endorsed by the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) the bulk of the seats. Many [...]	2007-07-18 14:08:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PTER TU
07ANKARA1833	TURKEY: ESKISEHIR AMBIVALENT TOWARD AKP [...] (C) SUMMARY. Two and a half hours west of Ankara, the prosperous industrial city of Eskisehir, population 750,000, is preparing for elections with mixed feelings for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). The home of dwindling reserves of soft Meerschaum mineral used for carving pipes [...]	2007-07-18 15:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA1842	TURKISH ELECTIONS: ANALYSTS ASSESS MILITARY [...] (C) Summary: Experts on civil-military relations in Ankara contend the Turkish General Staff (TGS) is satisfied with the process set in motion by its April 27 warning and the Constitutional Court's subsequent decision on the presidency vote which brought Turkey to early elections. Analysts cla [...]	2007-07-19 11:39:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA1843	TURKEY: AMBASSADOR URGES GOT ACTION ON ARTICLE [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-19 11:45:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA1850	TURKEY-IRAN GAS MOU: AMBASSADOR RAISES U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador conveyed Washington's serious concern over the Turkey-Iran gas MOU with MFA U/S Apakan (D equivalent) on July 18. Apakan urged the U.S. not to over-interpret, saying there is a real question whether the MOU will be implemented and stressing that Turkey's Iran policy h [...]	2007-07-19 14:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL TU IR
07ANKARA1852	ON THE EVE OF TURKEY'S ELECTION - PKK VIOLENCE [...] (C) As Turks prepare to vote this Sunday, July 22, they do so following a campaign dominated in part by the ongoing terrorist activities of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK),coupled with claims by the nationalist opposition that ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) efforts to counter th [...]	2007-07-19 14:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL TU IZ
07ANKARA1859	TURKEY AND US-TURKISH RELATIONS AFTER THE ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: Turkey's July 22 election will not quell, and may aggravate, the polarizing battles here over secularism, fundamentalism, nationalism, and minority (Kurdish) rights, and between the old elite and a rising new one. Ditto civil-military tensions, which will continue to express th [...]	2007-07-20 10:52:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL US TU
07ANKARA1876	TURKEY'S ELECTIONS: AKP EMERGES WITH MANDATE; [...] (C) Voters across Turkey handed PM Erdogan and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) a resounding vote of confidence in July 22 parliamentary elections (reftel). Turks rewarded AKP for five years of effective governance, strong economic growth and relative political stability. FM Gul's de [...]	2007-07-23 10:00:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA1891	TURKEY: DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN AZERBAIJAN [...] (C) We delivered reftel A points to MFA South Caucasus Desk Officer Yavuz Kul July 20. Kul expressed the GOT's appreciation for the careful approach adopted by the United States towards Azerbaijan, and pledged to convey our points to his principals and to the Turkish Embassy in Baku. 2. [...]	2007-07-24 14:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM OSCE PHUM AJ TU
07ANKARA1892	TURKEY: ENGAGEMENT WITH IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOT is open to the possibility of the next ministerial meeting of Iraq's expanded neighbors process taking place in the first half of September, but believes it should be held in Istanbul as agreed to by participants in the first meeting at Sharm-el-Sheikh. Turkish MFA Iraq C [...]	2007-07-25 06:41:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA19	MINISTER BABACAN COMMITS TO SOCIAL SECURITY AND [...] (C) Summary: Economy Minister Babacan told the Ambassador December 22 the AKP Government was committed to the Social Security Reform despite the recent adverse court ruling and would move ahead, albeit with a delay. Babacan agreed that the business community was concerned about the upcoming e [...]	2007-01-05 13:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ENRG EINV TU
07ANKARA1901	TURKEY: AKP VICTORY A "MEMORANDUM" TO THE GENERALS [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. As the magnitude of the Justice and Development Party's (AKP) win in the July 22 election sinks in, many credit AKP's track record, successful economic policies, and issue-based election campaign with boosting AKP to over 46 percent. AKP -- far better than its party r [...]	2007-07-26 08:04:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA1902	TURKEY: CHP LEADERSHIP IN DENIAL, AGITATION FROM [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) is in deep denial and disarray after a lacklustre showing in the July 22 general election. CHP leadership is pointing the finger everywhere but at itself, going so far as to hint that the ruling Justice and Dev [...]	2007-07-26 08:36:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1904	TURKEY: TIMING FOR NEW PARLIAMENT, NEW GOVERNMENT, [...] (C) Summary and comment. Official results of Turkey's July 22 general election are expected July 26, starting the clock for setting up the new parliament, forming a new government and electing the next president. If all goes smoothly -- a big "if" -- parliament could complete the process by [...]	2007-07-26 12:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1907	TURKEY: HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE RESOLUTION AT UNESCO [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-26 12:18:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC BO SI TU
07ANKARA1908	TURKEY: IOM DG CANDIDATE [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-26 12:19:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC UNESCO
07ANKARA1913	TURKS CONCERNED ABOUT IRAQ-BOUND ANTITANK MISSILES [...] (C) A shipment of FAGOT guided antitank missiles, along with other arms (nfi),is being transported aboard a St. Vincent-flagged vessel, the Slavyanin, which departed the port of Oktyabrsk in Ukraine and transited the Bosphorus 21-23 July, bound for the port of Umm-Qasr in Iraq, according to T [...]	2007-07-26 13:57:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MARR PREL IZ TU
07ANKARA1915	TURKISH U/S APAKAN ON AGENDA FOR TALKS WITH U/S [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA U/S Apakan told Ambassador July 24 that he plans to pursue a broad agenda during his late August bilateral consultations with U/S Burns and others in Washington. Apakan expressed interest in the U.S. internal debate over Iraq and medium-long term U.S. plans and expectations t [...]	2007-07-26 14:08:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU US
07ANKARA1927	TURKEY: MEK IRANIAN REFUGEES NOT WELCOME [...] (C) We have been contacted informally by MNF-I representatives with a request to press the Government of Turkey to accept MEK (Mujahideen-e-Khalq) Iranians currently located in Camp Ashraf in Iraq. UNHCR officials have also told us that their representatives in Jordan have received similar qu [...]	2007-07-27 12:54:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL TU IZ
07ANKARA1928	TURKISH PM ADVISOR ON ELECTIONS, REGIONAL ISSUES [...] (C) Turkish PM/FM foreign affairs advisor Ahmet Davutoglu said the AKP's July 22 electoral showing was a big victory that effectively puts the party in Turkey's political center. In a July 24 conversation with the Ambassador, Davutoglu expressed uncertainty about how PM Erdogan will handle th [...]	2007-07-27 13:30:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL US TU
07ANKARA1938	TURKEY: CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) Summary: Although Turkey remains committed to resolving Kosovo,s final status, the GOT has expressed apprehension about moving forward without the legal mandate of a UNSCR. The GOT maintains that, in the absence of a UN resolution, any multilateral or unilateral action would establish a p [...]	2007-07-30 12:04:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA1945	TURKISH ENERGY MINISTER ON GAS TRANSIT AND [...] (C) Summary: On July 24, Energy Minister Hilmi Guler met with Ambassador to discuss gas transit, energy security, and the preliminary Iran-Turkey gas memorandum of understanding (MOU). Guler expressed frustration with negotiations with Azerbaijan about gas purchase and transit. Guler defended [...]	2007-07-31 03:49:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG TU
07ANKARA1957	TURKISH GENERAL STAFF VIEWS ON IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: Turkish General Staff (TGS) J-3 Chief of Plans and Operations MG Kenan Kocak told a visiting Senate Appropriations Sucommittee on Foreign Operations (SACFO) staff delegation led by Paul Grove on July 26 that TGS is not optimistic about a decrease in the level of violence in Iraq a [...]	2007-07-31 10:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PTER OREP IZ TU
07ANKARA1960	STAFFDEL GROVE'S MEETINGS WITH TURKISH MFA [...] (C) SUMMARY. A Senate Appropriations Committee staffdel led by Paul Grove discussed Russia, Iraq and Iran with Turkish MFA officials on July 26. Emphasizing the importance of Turkey's strategic partnership with the United States, the Turks stressed the damage to bilateral relations if the Ho [...]	2007-07-31 13:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER OREP AJ AM IZ IR RS TU
07ANKARA1970	TURKEY: NEW AIR FORCE AND NAVY COMMANDERS TO BE [...] (C) Summary: The Supreme Military Council (YAS) will meet August 1-4 and is expected to name new Turkish Air Force and Navy commanders. In all, five three-star officers will be promoted to four stars to replace officers retiring this year. Chief of Turkish General Staff (CHOD) GEN Yasar Buyu [...]	2007-08-01 11:21:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS MARR TU
07ANKARA1975	TURKEY: A GUL PRESIDENCY: DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN? [...] (C) Summary and comment. Turkish MPs are readying for the next major contest: electing a new president. So far, it is deja vu all over again, with FM Abdullah Gul still the front runner despite his failed attempt in April. Gul supporters -- and even some opposition -- contend the Justice and [...]	2007-08-01 15:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1976	TURKEY REQUESTS VERIFICATION OF MILITARY CARGO [...] (U) Action request at para 4. 2. (C) Pol-Mil Counselor was summoned to the Foreign Ministry on August 1 by Deputy Director General for Security Affairs Sakir Torunlar, who requested information on the vessel MV Slavyanin and verification that its military cargo, reportedly destined for the [...]	2007-08-01 16:24:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL EWWT MARR UP TU IZ CY
07ANKARA1981	TURKEY: OPPOSITION CHP BLAMES ELECTION RESULTS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. Incoming opposition deputies on the center-left shared their views with Ambassador that the July 22 election result -- a soaring win for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and a piddling increase for so-called center-left Republican People's Party (CHP) -- was due to [...]	2007-08-02 07:32:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA1985	TURKEY: PUSHING FOR DIALOGUE WITH THE KRG [...] (C) Charge told Iraq Coordinator Celikkol August 1 that Turkey needed to expand its contacts with the GOI and to establish dialogue with the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG). She noted that KRG authorities possess the capability to take action against the PKK and continuing to refuse contact [...]	2007-08-02 10:25:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IZ TU
07ANKARA1990	TURKEY/IRAQ: MULLING THE WAY FORWARD ON PKK [...] (C) As the pressure for a CBO into northern Iraq has diminished somewhat in the post-election period (ref B),the GOT is considering next steps in its dialogue with Iraq on the PKK issue. GOT Iraq Coordinator Celikkol told Charge on August 1 that the PKK will figure prominently in discussions [...]	2007-08-02 14:48:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL IZ TU
07ANKARA1998	TURKEY-IRAQ: GOT PREPARES FOR PM MALIKI VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkey's primary focus during PM Maliki's August 7 Ankara visit will be on security-related issues. The GOT hopes to make progress on a bilateral security agreement, but does not expect to sign the agreement during the visit. The GOT will also devote attention to economic coopera [...]	2007-08-03 11:23:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ECON ENRG IZ TU
07ANKARA2014	TURKEY'S NATIONALIST ACTION PARTY DEPUTIES: FRESH SOPHISTICATES COVER UP OLD-LINE BRUISERS [...] (C) Summary and Comment. The far-right Nationalist Action Party (MHP) is returning to parliament after five years on the sidelines, having carried 14.4 percent of the vote in Turkey's July 22 elections (septel). Since its coalition government with the Motherland Party (ANAP) and Democratic [...]	2007-08-07 09:26:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PBIO PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA2021	TURKEY: ANNUAL MILITARY PROMOTIONS AND DISMISSALS [...] (C) Summary: Results of the 2007 Supreme Military Council (YAS) meeting, announced August 4, included the promotion of 34 generals and admirals and the extension of service for 40 general officers. As expected, General Aydogan Babaoglu was named Air Force Commander, and Admiral Muzaafer Metin [...]	2007-08-08 09:35:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR TU
07ANKARA2024	TURKEY: ENERGY AND NON-PROLIFERATION COOPERATION [...] (U) Action request at para 5. 2. (C) Summary: The Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy (123) Agreement was initialed by the US and GOT in July 2000. The GOT ratified this agreement in January 2005. To date, the USG has not submitted this agreement to Congress for ratification. Senior GOT o [...]	2007-08-08 13:28:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG KNNP PARM PREL TRGY TU
07ANKARA2028	TURKEY/IRAQ: MALIKI VISIT FOCUSED ON SUNNI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi PM Maliki's August 7 visit to Ankara achieved the Turks' principal objective of sending a positive signal about the overall bilateral relationship. Coming at a moment of intense domestic crisis in Iraq, the Turks explicitly intended the visit to show support for Maliki and [...]	2007-08-08 14:16:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IZ TU
07ANKARA2035	TURKISH GENERAL STAFF PROVIDES LIST OF SERIAL [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-09 13:01:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MARR KCRM IZ TU
07ANKARA2036	TURKEY'S NEW SPEAKER TOPTAN A SOLID CHOICE; [...] (C) Summary and comment. Turkey's parliament elected Koksal Toptan, a widely respected moderate, its new Speaker in condensed voting on August 9. Toptan, the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) Zonguldak deputy, is a former True Path Party (DYP) member with 30 years in government. Vi [...]	2007-08-09 13:24:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA2037	TURKS EXPRESS CONCERN OVER AUGUST 4 CHECKPOINT [...] (C) MFA Undersecretary Apakan and D/CHOD Saygun have contacted Charge to discuss an August 4 incident near Kabul during which a U.S. patrol fired on a vehicle carrying Turkish ISAF soldiers. The Turks expressed concern about the encounter and noted a strong desire for closer coordination to [...]	2007-08-09 13:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS NATO AF TU
07ANKARA2038	TURKEY: KURDISH POLITICAL PARTY ENTERS PARLIAMENT [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-09 14:43:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PTER OSCE TU
07ANKARA2041	TURKEY: MHP SUCCESS TEMPERED BY HIGHER EXPECTATIONS [...] (C) Summary and comment. Right-wing Nationalist Action Party (MHP) is reflecting on its shortcomings after winning only 14.4 percent of the vote in Turkey's July 22 general election. Their tally was enough to surmount the ten percent election threshold and score 71 seats in parliament (one MH [...]	2007-08-09 16:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA2061	TURKISH HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-13 10:54:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA2062	CODEL SHAYS: GOT UNDERSCORES SUPPORT FOR MALIKI; [...] (C) SUMMARY: Rep. Chris Shays told Turkish officials on August 8 that a reduction of U.S. forces in Iraq is inevitable, predicting that it would take place gradually. The Turks stressed that Iraq's disintegration would de-stabilize the region for decades. They called PM Maliki's August 7-8 An [...]	2007-08-13 13:39:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM OREP AM IZ TU
07ANKARA2072	TURKEY: FM GUL LINING UP AS SOLE AKP PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary. FM Abdullah Gul will lobby opposition party leaders today before making what most expect will be a formal announcement of his presidential candidacy. At an August 13 executive board meeting, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) apparently decided to back Gul as the part [...]	2007-08-14 09:28:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA2077	TURKEY PRESSING FOR CONSTRUCTIVE FOLLOW-UP TO [...] (C) The GOT is committed to a quick and constructive effort to build on the progress achieved during the August 7 visit to Ankara by Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki (ref). The Turks' top priority now is to ensure that the promised follow-up visit by the Iraqi National Security Advisor and Interio [...]	2007-08-14 10:52:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IZ TU
07ANKARA2085	TURKEY VIEWS KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE AS INEVITABLE [...] (C) We delivered REF A points to MFA Deputy Director General for the Balkans and Western Europe Hasan Asan. Asan reiterated that Turkey remains committed to resolving Kosovo's final status and acknowledged that Kosovo independence is inevitable. Furthermore, Turkey strongly supports the prin [...]	2007-08-14 15:25:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EU PGOV PREL KV YI UN
07ANKARA2092	TURKEY WARY BUT CALM ON TERRORIST PKK ANNIVERSARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: August 15 marks the 23rd anniversary of the PKK's first attacks against the Turkish state in 1984. While GOT security forces are on alert today, violence remains at a lower level than last year and domestic pressure to conduct a cross border operation into northern Iraq has droppe [...]	2007-08-15 10:34:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL IZ TU
07ANKARA21	MINISTER BABACAN SEES NEW, UNCERTAIN ERA IN [...] (C) Summary: EU negotiator Ali Babacan told the Ambassador December 22 that Turkey's relations with the EU have entered a new, uncertain era, with progress depending more on political considerations than technical progress in meeting the EU acquis. Without clear targets and timelines to open [...]	2007-01-08 06:48:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ECIN PREL EUN
07ANKARA2112	TURKISH POLICE SEIZE EQUIPMENT ALLEGED FOR PKK AND [...] (C) On August 14, MFA Deputy Director General for Security Affairs Sakir Torunlar requested US assistance with an investigation of a truck seized by Turkish police in the Mediterranean Sea port of Mersin on August 2. The truck contained portable radios and first aid supplies which, according [...]	2007-08-15 15:18:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER GM TU
07ANKARA2118	TURKEY: GUL'S CANDIDACY MET WITH RESIGNATION AND [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Most Turks have accepted FM Abdullah's Gul's presidential candidacy (reftel) with either enthusiasm or resignation. The military is silently absorbing the blow that their earlier efforts to derail a Gul presidency crashed and burned. Leftist parties are in disarray, [...]	2007-08-16 13:35:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON TU
07ANKARA2128	TURKEY: NEXT STEPS ON IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOT is looking at ways to increase engagement with PM Maliki and the GOI. It is already committed to hosting the next Expanded Neighbors group ministerial in Istanbul, and hopes to focus the GOI, USG, and others on committing to specific dates for the meeting. The Turks als [...]	2007-08-17 10:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IZ TU
07ANKARA2133	TURKEY'S PRESIDENT LEAVES NEW CABINET'S APPROVAL [...] (C) Summary and comment. In what many saw as a final insult and others called a gracious gesture, President Sezer told PM Erdogan to present his new cabinet to the next president for approval. Erdogan, who admitted being surprised by the move, played it as an outgoing president deferring to h [...]	2007-08-17 13:03:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA2134	TURKEY: GOT CONCERNED ABOUT PAKISTAN, [...] (C) SUMMARY. The GOT is following developments in Pakistan with concern. It is encouraging President Musharraf to compromise with his political opponents and broaden his base. Though not enamored of Musharraf, the GOT fears his departure would herald much greater instability and is looking [...]	2007-08-17 14:05:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV AF PK TU
07ANKARA2135	TURKEY'S RECENT ENERGY DIPLOMACY WITH IRAN, [...] (U) Summary: GOT officials say that Turkey intends to continue its energy cooperation with Iran, Iraq, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan as potential future sources of gas to meet Turkey,s growing domestic needs and supply European markets. We have on several occasions firmly reiterated U.S. polic [...]	2007-08-17 14:22:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ ENRG EPET IR IZ KZ RS TU
07ANKARA2145	TURKEY: GUL PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY OPENS A NEW ERA [...] (C) Summary. Turkey's long tradition of tumultuous politics has entered a new phase with FM Gul's renomination for president. The once all-powerful military, who tried to derail Gul's earlier bid with dire warnings of Islamic fundamentalism, have been knocked down a notch, and the "bedrock" p [...]	2007-08-20 12:46:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA2150	TURKEY: COUNCIL OF EUROPE INVESTIGATES CRACKDOWN [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-20 15:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA218	TURKEY-IRAQ: SOMO CRISIS ABATES, FOR NOW [...] (C) SUMMARY: The trade crisis unleashed when SOMO advised Turkish fuel product suppliers seeking to renew 2006 contracts to deal with the KRG (as opposed to the central GOI) seems to have abated. Contacts confirm press accounts that the GOI has assured the GOT that its suppliers should conti [...]	2007-02-01 16:38:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EPET PREL TU IZ
07ANKARA2185	TURKEY/IRAQ: GOT TO PRESS HASHIMI ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOT is bringing GOI VP Tariq al-Hashimi to Ankara August 23 for meetings with PM Erdogan and FM Gul to press for reconciliation as Turkish officials promised PM Maliki during his August 7-8 visit here. The Turks will use the visit to urge dialogue and constructive participatio [...]	2007-08-23 13:53:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV IZ TU
07ANKARA2192	KRG LOOKING FOR DIALOGUE WITH GOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) wants to establish a senior-level dialogue with the GOT, according to Safeen Dizayee, foreign policy advisor to KRG President Massoud Barzani. Iraqi Kurds are encouraged by a perceived slight increase in GOT flexibility to engage directly with [...]	2007-08-24 14:08:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER IZ TU
07ANKARA2193	TURKEY SHOCKED BY ADL REVERSAL [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. The Anti-Defamation League's reversal in describing the events of 1915 as genocide has shocked Turkey. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs blasted the ADL statement and rejected ADL National Director Foxman's concern that passage of an Armenian genocide resolution (AGR) [...]	2007-08-24 14:13:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AM IS TU

07ANKARA2194	TURKEY: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION GOES TO DECISIVE [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Turkey remains on track to election FM Abdullah Gul as its new president on Tuesday, August 28. The swearing in will take place at parliament the same evening at 6 pm local. Assuming nothing derails the presidential process, Justice and Development Party (AKP) cha [...]	2007-08-24 14:30:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU

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