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07KIGALI194 | RWANDA: NEXT STEPS ON BURUNDI [...] (C) Mission delivered reftel demarche on February 27 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary General Amandin Rugira. Rugira agreed that events in Burundi were at a sensitive juncture, and said that the GOR supported the recent changes in the composition of the CNDD-FDD and the GOR. Former [...] | 2007-02-28 06:26:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RW |
07KIGALI217 | RWANDA: REPEAL OF ARMS NOTIFICATION, CHILD [...] (C) Foreign Minister Charles Murigande requested Ambassador Arietti meet with him on March 2. In his office, Murigande sought U.S. support for repeal of the notification provision of UNSC resolution 1011 of 1995, which lifted the arms embargo on Rwanda, but left in place a notification pro [...] | 2007-03-05 05:56:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF RW |
07KIGALI238 | NO CASULTIES AFTER SALVO FIRED FROM DRC INTO RWANDA [...] (U) Summary. At approximately 21h00 local time on 3 March a barrage of direct and indirect fire was directed from North Kivu into a unoccupied area in Northwest Rwanda by an unknown unit suspected to be from the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR). No casualties were reported [...] | 2007-03-07 13:33:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL MONUC KPKO CG RW |
07KIGALI281 | KAGAME ON TRIPARTITE-PLUS, DARFUR, AND REFUGEE [...] (C) On March 16 AF DAS James Swan advised President Kagame on the principal successes of the just-completed Tripartite Plus conference, detailing progress on "active approaches" toward eliminating Negative Forces, and a common "Wanted List" to be circulated among the four nations by means of [...] | 2007-03-19 14:45:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF RW |
07KIGALI285 | MONUC COOPERATION WITH ICTR [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 4. 2. (C) On the margins of the Tripartite Plus meetings in Kigali March 15-16, ICTR Chief Prosecutor Hassan Bubacar Jallow met with SRSG for the DRC William Lacy Swing to discuss MONUC assistance to the ICTR, specifically the location of suspe [...] | 2007-03-21 07:13:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC RW |
07KIGALI291 | UGANDA HANDS RWANDA 10 MEMBERS OF DISSIDENT GROUP [...] (C) Summary. On March 12 Ugandan security forces transferred to Rwandan authorities ten members of the dissident organization RPR (Rassemblement du Peuple Rwandais). These individuals are now in the custody of military investigators, who are determining their personal identity and status wit [...] | 2007-03-21 16:00:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR RW |
07KIGALI373 | DEMARCHE ON REMOVAL OF 14TH BATTALION COMMANDER [...] (C) Per reftel dated March 22, the Embassy sent Note 040 to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on March 23, quoted in part as follows: "The United States requests that the Government of Rwanda advise it of the name of the replacement commander of the 14th battalion." In this note the Embassy re [...] | 2007-04-18 13:58:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS PHUM RW |
07KIGALI401 | PARTICIPATION IN THE IRAQ COALITION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-30 16:30:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS RW |
07KIGALI412 | RWANDA: TRIPARTITE PLUS DEFENSE CHIEFS MEETING [...] (SBU) Ambassador met with Ministry of Defense and armed forces officials on May 2 to discuss the recent chiefs of defense staff meeting in Bujumbura (Reftel). Ministry Secretary General Zac Nsenga, Generals Rutatina and SIPDIS Musemakweli, RDF Spokesman Rutaremara and Military Prosecutor [...] | 2007-05-03 15:19:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS RW |
07KIGALI446 | RWANDA ON BELARUS CANDIDACY FOR UNHRC [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-11 09:05:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM RW |
07KIGALI454 | REPORTS OF EXTRA-JUDICAL KILLINGS BY THE RWANDAN [...] (C) Summary. Dutch colleagues, the local representative of Human Rights Watch, and the Executive Secretary of LIPRODHOR (Rwanda's most well-known human rights organization) report 8 to 10 incidents of extrajudicial killings by Rwandan police since the new year, mostly in April. The major [...] | 2007-05-14 14:42:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI456 | RWANDA TO VOTE FOR SLOVENIA AND BOSNIA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-15 10:00:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM RW |
07KIGALI486 | RWANDA: REINFORCING UN COMMAND OF HYBRID FORCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-22 08:26:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO RW |
07KIGALI495 | RWANDA ON DARFUR PEACEKEEPING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-23 15:21:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM RW |
07KIGALI547 | LOCAL UNHCR OFFICE ON RECRUITMENT FROM RWANDAN [...] (C) Summary. Senior Protection Officer at the UNHCR office in Kigali reports 10 recent incidents of recruitment of child and adult combatants from refugee camps in Rwanda by agents by General Laurent Nkunda. The GOR denies any involvement, and says it is making efforts to prevent transit t [...] | 2007-06-08 09:38:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM RW |
07KIGALI562 | GOVERNMENT CLOSES INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER [...] (SBU) On June 6, Information Minister Laurent Nkusi canceled the registration to publish he had issued 20 days earlier to the Weekly Post, a new English-language publication. This cancellation occurred just days after the first issue of the Weekly post had appeared. The minister gave no re [...] | 2007-06-15 11:03:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM RW |
07KIGALI589 | THE FDLR -- READY TO FOLD IF PUSHED HARD ENOUGH? [...] (C) Summary. In a two-hour briefing before senior GOR military and civilian officials and representatives of the local diplomatic corps, MDRP researchers (hired by the Multi-lateral Demobilization and Reintegration Program) presented detailed information and analysis based upon months of fi [...] | 2007-06-25 07:25:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MOPS RW |
07KIGALI599 | RWANDA PRISON CONDITIONS: WORSENING STEADILY AS [...] (C) Polchief and visiting PRM officer called upon International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) Chief Pierre Wettach on June 26 to discuss prison conditions in Rwanda. Wettach described a worsening situation in the nation's 16 prisons, due exclusively to the ever-increasing number of geno [...] | 2007-06-27 15:02:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI668 | RWANDA: FEAR OF MILITARY SOLUTION TO KIVU CRISIS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met Minister of Foreign Affairs Charles Murigande on July 20 to discuss GOR concerns about the possibility of a military solution to the situation in the Kivus. Murigande expressed GOR worries that, if a military solution is pursued, DRC President Kabila will be unabl [...] | 2007-07-20 13:36:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RW |
07KIGALI669 | RWANDA: FEAR OF MILITARY SOLUTION TO KIVU CRISIS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met Minister of Foreign Affairs Charles Murigande on July 20 to discuss GOR concerns about the possibility of a military solution to the situation in the Kivus. Murigande expressed GOR worries that, if a military solution is pursued, DRC President Kabila will be unabl [...] | 2007-07-20 13:53:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RW |
07KIGALI73 | RWANDA WILL NOT SEND TROOPS TO SOMALIA [...] (C) On 24 January State Minister for Cooperation Rosemary Museminali told Ambassador that while the GOR might be willing to support the African Union (AU) mission to Somalia with training or civilian police (civpol) support, it is "disinclined" to send Rwandan Defense Forces (RDF) soldiers. A [...] | 2007-01-24 16:33:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL UNSC RW ET KE |
07KIGALI743 | BUSINESSMEN, GENERALS, AND GOVERNMENT MINISTERS: [...] (SBU) Summary. The recent case of prominent local businessman Assinapol Rwigara, sought by police after a construction-site accident, is an object lesson in Rwandan law enforcement in action, and the rumor-mill that attends the arrest of any public personality. Officials extended the opera [...] | 2007-08-20 05:47:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM RW |
07KIGALI746 | RWANDA: LEVELING THE POLITICAL PLAYING FIELD? [...] (SBU) Summary. With the advent of a new law on political parties on June 1, the two largest independent parties have begun organizational efforts at the grassroots level, and report renewed interest among average Rwandans in party politics. With just over a year to the 2008 parliamentary e [...] | 2007-08-20 15:17:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI747 | TWO ARRESTED GENERALS RELEASED ON BAIL [...] (SBU) Following two same-day sessions of a military court in Kigali, the presiding judge released Generals Frank Rusegara and Sam Kanyemera Kaka on bail on August 17. The court scheduled their next court session set for September 6. Both men stand accused of interfering with police officer [...] | 2007-08-20 16:10:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV RW |
07KIGALI754 | FOREIGN INVESTORS IN RWANDA: PERFORM OR GET OUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Accepting an offer they claim they could not refuse, the largest American investors in Rwanda sold their telecommunications company to the Government of Rwanda (GOR) on August 1. This represents the fourth time in the past year that the GOR has either nationalized a private c [...] | 2007-08-22 14:08:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | BEXP BTIO ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV RW |
07KIGALI755 | KIVUS STRATEGY DEMARCHE: RWANDA IN AGREEMENT [...] (C) On August 21, Ambassador delivered reftel demarche on the USG Kivus strategy to Minister of Foreign Affairs Charles Murigande. Ambassador asked that the GOR: 1) reiterate its previously declared opposition to any form of recruitment within Rwanda by General Nkunda and work to prevent s [...] | 2007-08-22 16:02:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI758 | RWANDA SNAPSHOT - CIVIL SOCIETY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Members of political parties, NGOs, and religious organizations in Rwanda described a challenging environment in a series of recent meetings in which resources are scarce and political will to reform on the part of the government of Rwanda (GOR) is insufficient to overcome conti [...] | 2007-08-23 14:23:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI759 | RWANDA - PRISONS, JUSTICE SECTOR REFORMS [...] (C) Embassy and visiting DRL officers met with International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Head of Office Pierre Wattach (protect) on July 10 to discuss prison conditions in Rwanda. Wattach gave a generally positive report, despite identifying some lingering problem areas. The serious ov [...] | 2007-08-23 14:31:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI762 | ALLEGATIONS AGAINST RWANDAN DEPUTY DARFUR [...] (C) A Brussels-based opposition group, FDU-Inkingi, recently accused Rwandan Major General Emmanuel Karenzi Karake - the newly appointed Deputy Commander of the UN-AU Hybrid Force in Darfur - of participation in various massacres and murders of political opponents in the years just before and [...] | 2007-08-24 12:57:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM RW |
07KIGALI77 | RWANDA DOES NOT SUPPORT SUDAN FOR AU CHAIRMANSHIP [...] (C) Minister of State at the Foreign Ministry Rosemary Museminali told Ambassador January 24 that Rwanda agrees that it would be "bad for the AU and Africa" if Sudan were selected for the AU chairmanship. Instead, Rwanda would work for a postponement of Sudan's candidacy for another year. Mus [...] | 2007-01-26 10:53:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM RW |
07KIGALI792 | AMBASSADOR SEZIBERA ON FOREIGN MINISTER TRIP TO [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met with Great Lakes Envoy Ambassador Richard Sezibera on September 6 to discuss the recent meeting in Kinshasa between the Rwandan and Congolese Foreign Ministers (which Sezibera attended). Sezibera described the interactions as "about what we expected," and said th [...] | 2007-09-06 15:52:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI793 | RWANDAN FOREIGN MINISTER ON MEETING IN KINSHASA [...] (SBU) On September 7 Rwandan Foreign Minister Charles Murigande briefed the local diplomatic corps on his recent visit to Kinshasa to discuss events in the Kivus with his Congolese counterpart. Murigande expressed satisfaction with the several joint mechanisms announced in the communique is [...] | 2007-09-07 11:09:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI822 | GOR TOUGHENS STANCE AGAINST "IRRESPONSIBLE" [...] (C) Summary. A panel of Government of Rwanda (GOR) officials, including four Ministers, on September 9 used a weekly call-in program broadcast by state-owned TV Rwanda and Radio Rwanda to launch verbal attacks against certain members of Rwanda's independent media, who they accused of cooperat [...] | 2007-09-17 08:00:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM RW |
07KIGALI849 | TWO GENERALS ACQUITTED OF OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE [...] (SBU) On September 21, a military court acquitted Generals Frank Rusegara and Sam Kanyemera Kaka of obstruction of justice charges. Rusegara, the head of a military training school, and Kaka, a retired officer now serving as a member of parliament for the ruling RPF, had been granted bail o [...] | 2007-09-25 08:13:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI865 | RWANDA'S LIBERAL PARTY IN TURMOIL [...] (C) Summary. Liberal Party (PL) leadership has been embroiled in a continuing leadership dispute, the losing faction in hotly contested national congress elections alleging corruption and general misuse of party funds by the winning side. First suspended by party leadership, five senior p [...] | 2007-10-01 12:07:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM RW |
07KIGALI882 | RWANDA: CREDIBLE VOICES IN THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-02 13:48:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV RW |
07KIGALI899 | FDLR FIRES INTO AND/OR FROM RWANDA [...] (C) According to Rwandan military sources, late on the evening of September 30, a small force of suspected Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) soldiers fired several hundred machine gun rounds into Rwanda from positions on the Congolese side of the border, in a remote area [...] | 2007-10-04 15:32:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PINR PREF MOPS RW |
07KIGALI954 | ICTR PROSECUTOR ASKS FOR HELP IN POTENTIAL CASES [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 7. 2. (C) International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Prosecutor Hassan Bubacar Jallow met with Charge and pol/econ chief on October 17 to discuss potential cases against Rwandan officials and the importance of witness protection. [...] | 2007-10-18 13:46:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KAWC PHUM PREL RW |
07KIGALI962 | PRESIDENT KAGAME HAS PRIVATE MEETING WITH PRESS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-22 14:02:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM RW |
07KIGALI966 | RWANDAN FOREIGN MINISTER DOWNPLAYS CONGOLESE FDLR [...] (C) Summary. On October 23 Foreign Minister Charles Murigande expressed considerable reservations about the Congolese "Ex-Far/Interahamwe Action Plan," regarding it as less detailed and less concrete than earlier plans, and in conflict with current planning by the Tripartite-Plus Chiefs of [...] | 2007-10-23 14:08:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL MOPS RW |
07KIGALI979 | RWANDA SUPPORTS RAPE RESOLUTION, MAY ABSTAIN ON [...] (C) In absence of the Foreign Minister and Minister of State, A/DCM called upon International Organizations Director Ben Rutsinga on October 26 to discuss the U.S.-sponsored rape resolution and the Cuba embargo resolution. On the rape resolution, Rutsinga reiterated Rwanda's strong support f [...] | 2007-10-26 10:03:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNGA RW |
07KIGALI989 | MONTHLY POLITICAL ROUNDUP [...] (SBU) Two Liberal Party parliamentarians lost their seats in the Chamber of Deputies after being expelled from their party. The government set up a Commission to investigate the shooting-down of the Habyarimana presidential jet in 1994. Two independent publishers temporarily suspended their [...] | 2007-10-30 14:51:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL RW |
07KINGSTON100 | JAMAICA: SECTION 1206 PROPOSAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-19 16:28:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MASS MARR JM XL |
07KINGSTON1012 | JAMAICA: "SHADOW" MINISTER FOR NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: NAS Director met with Derrick Smith, Shadow Minister for National Security, on June 26. Smith was confident that the opposition JLP party would win the next election. He expressed the JLP's disappointment that the U.S. has not come out in favor of a JLP administration, levie [...] | 2007-06-29 12:57:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PREL JM |
07KINGSTON1036 | JAMAICA: JLP'S GENERAL SECRETARY SPEAKS FRANKLY [...] (SBU) Deputy Director for WHA/CAR Karen Williams, DCM, and poloff recently met with Karl Samuda - MP and General Secretary for the Jamaican Labour Party (JLP). Samuda spoke SIPDIS frankly about the state of Jamaica and proposed changes to the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) should the JLP win. [...] | 2007-07-03 19:32:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG JM KCOR PGOV PINR PREL SOCI VE XL |
07KINGSTON1043 | JAMAICA: NEW HEAD OF POLICE ANTI-CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary: Mr. Justin Felice, current Senior Director of Investigations for the Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland, has accepted the Government of Jamaica's offer to become the head of a new Anti-Corruption Division within the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) beginning in September 2007. [...] | 2007-07-05 18:01:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PREL JM |
07KINGSTON1071 | JAMAICA: PRIME MINISTER ANNOUNCES ELECTION [...] (U) Ending months of speculation and prophecizing, Prime Minister (PM) Portia Simpson Miller (PSM) called faithful People's National Party (PNP) members to rally in Kingston on July 8 ostensibly to introduce the 60 PNP candidates running for election. After hours of standing and waiving PNP [...] | 2007-07-09 20:43:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG JM KCOR PGOV PINR PREL SOCI SNAR XL |
07KINGSTON110 | JAMAICA'S ELECTION-YEAR VIOLENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-23 14:18:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM SOCI PREL PGOV JM |
07KINGSTON111 | JAMAICA'S ELECTION-YEAR VIOLENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-23 14:18:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM SOCI PREL PGOV JM |
07KINGSTON1127 | JAMAICA'S "FINANCE MINISTER IN WAITING" ROLLS OUT [...] (C) In a private meeting with DCM and EMBOFFS, JLP Shadow Finance Minister and member of Parliament Audley Shaw outlined a slew of policies, including a new debt management program and tax reforms, to restructure the Jamaican economy. After 18 years in opposition, "Jamaica's Finance Minister in [...] | 2007-07-20 11:59:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PINR PREL XL JM |
07KINGSTON1131 | JAMAICA: TRAFFICKING CASE PROMPTS INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) The Government of Jamaica (GOJ) is pursuing a particularly egregious case of labor exploitation under the recently passed Trafficking in Persons (Prevention, Suppression and Punishment) Act, 2007 (reftel). GOJ officials have approached the International Organization of Migration (IOM),th [...] | 2007-07-20 16:09:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB JM XL |
07KINGSTON1237 | A MOUNTAIN VIEW OF JAMAICAS POLITICAL VIOLENCE [...] (U) Following an ebb in years of extreme election violence of the 1980's, many Jamaicans predict that the current ongoing national campaign may see an upturn in violence. Thus far, the political seems to be concentrated in constituencies of South East Saint Andrew, East Saint Andrew, and East [...] | 2007-08-09 21:25:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC ECON JM PGOV PREL SNAR SOCI XL KPAO |
07KINGSTON1247 | JAMAICA/BRAZIL: LULA OPENS ETHANOL PLANT, GIVES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-14 12:09:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EAGR EFIN EPET PGOV PREL EAIR JM |
07KINGSTON1250 | JAMAICA: CRIME STATISTICS TRENDING IN THE WRONG [...] (C) Summary: NAS Director and RSO met with Deputy Commissioner of Police Mark Shields on August 3 to discuss the current crime statistics and the Jamaica Constabulary Forces' preparations to prevent major politically motivated violence during the run up to the August 27 election. Shields agree [...] | 2007-08-14 19:17:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | SANR PREL ASEC JM |
07KINGSTON1270 | JAMAICA: POLITICAL RAMIFICATIONS OF HURRICANE DEAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-19 22:38:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR SOCI ASEC CASC JM |
07KINGSTON1307 | JAMAICA: OPPOSITION DRAWS EVEN WITH RULING PARTY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-30 12:35:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC PINR ECON SOCI ENRG KCOR JM |
07KINGSTON1317 | JAMAICA: KEY FIGURES PREDICT OPPOSITION LABOUR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-31 14:35:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC PINR ECON SOCI EFIN KCOR JM XL |
07KINGSTON133 | JAMAICA: FORMER PRIME MINISTER PATTERSON BELIEVES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-26 19:37:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EINV EIND ETRD ECON EWWT EFIN ECIN |
07KINGSTON1389 | JAMAICA: NEW PRIME MINISTER BRUCE GOLDING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-12 14:08:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR ASEC PREL PGOV SOCI ECON JM XL |
07KINGSTON1400 | JAMAICA: A SUGGESTED U.S. AGENDA WITH THE NEW [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-14 13:10:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON SNAR EFIN ETRD EAID MASS SOCI |
07KINGSTON1419 | JAMAICA: NEWLY INAUGURATED PRIME MINISTER BRUCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-17 20:48:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID PTER SOCI ASEC MARR OFDP UNDP |
07KINGSTON1423 | JAMAICA: THE FUTURE OF THE PEOPLE'S NATIONAL PARTY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-18 18:51:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR SOCI JM XL |
07KINGSTON1462 | JAMAICA: CRIME AND CORRUPTION CHALLENGES FACING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-25 16:14:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SOCI SNAR PHUM ASEC KCOR KCRM KJUS |
07KINGSTON1464 | JAMAICA: MINISTRY OF NATIONAL SECURITY, EXPECT FEW [...] (C) Summary: On September 19, NAS Director met with Anne-Marie Barnes, Senior Advisor on Policy to Minister of National Security Derrick Smith. Despite her earlier indications that she would not serve under a Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) lead Ministry, Ms. Barnes appears well-entrenched in her [...] | 2007-09-26 12:24:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR JM |
07KINGSTON158 | JAMAICA: LOOKING AHEAD-- WHY THE POST-ELECTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-01 11:51:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR SOCI EINV ENRG ECON EFIN |
07KINGSTON1585 | JAMAICA: APPOINTMENT OF WELL KNOWN ANTI-CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary: As anticipated, on October 22, the Jamaican Minister of Finance, Audley Shaw, appointed Col. Trevor MacMillan as a Special Advisor on Revenue and Corruption. The Prime Minister asked the Finance Minister to appoint MacMillan as a Special Advisor to provide him with an official sta [...] | 2007-10-24 19:12:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PREL ASEC TRSY JM |
07KINGSTON1641 | JAMAICA: "CASH PLUS" -- A TICKING FINANCIAL TIME [...] (U) Irrational exuberance abounds among Jamaica's less experienced investors, many of whom deposit their fortunes with Cash Plus Limited in exchange for promised annual returns of 120 percent. Through a series of advertising campaigns over the last five years, Carlos Hill, the principal owne [...] | 2007-11-07 15:23:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV PINR SOCI SNAR KCOR JM XL |
07KINGSTON1681 | JAMAICA: BEGINNING TO CLEAN THE AUGEAN STABLES? [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-19 20:07:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SOCI ENRG ECON EFIN ASEC KCOR |
07KINGSTON1730 | JAMAICA: RESPONSE TO CUBA LIBERTAD ACT TITLE III [...] (C) Post has provided responses to questions listed in reftel A. Post is unaware of any Jamaican investments in Cuba or any Jamaican firm with a commercial presence in Cuba. However, Jamaicans generally oppose U.S. policy towards Cuba, which hampers post's efforts to gather accurate investment [...] | 2007-11-30 16:25:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | TRAD ETTC PREL JM XL |
07KINGSTON1749 | JAMAICA: "CASH PLUS" UPDATE, GOJ GETTING WORRIED, [...] (C) The Government of Jamaica (GOJ) estimates there are two dozen alternative investment schemes in the country, although many are much smaller than Cash Plus and have different characteristics. Support for the schemes is driven by Jamaicans who feel they have been shut out from the services [...] | 2007-12-05 18:18:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV PINR SOCI SNAR KCOR JM XL |
07KINGSTON1805 | JAMAICA'S NEW COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, REAR ADMIRAL [...] Summary: (SBU) In just his first week in office Commissioner Hardley Lewin, a former Rear Admiral in the Jamaica Defence Force, has set a completely different tone for the office. Cognizant of record murder rates and escalating violent crime, he deliberately eschewed a formal change of comm [...] | 2007-12-20 21:41:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR ASEC PREL JM |
07KINGSTON1810 | JAMAICA WILL NOT ACCEPT DEPORTEE REINTEGRATION [...] Summary: (SBU) On December 20, the Jamaican Prime Minister rejected the U.S. offer of assistance for returning deportees through the pilot Deportee Reintegration Program. This decision was based on adherence to a reported collective decision by CARICOM Heads of Government to discuss the prog [...] | 2007-12-21 21:56:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PHUM JM |
07KINGSTON186 | JAMAICA: PRIME MINISTER'S POPULARITY FADES AMONG [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-07 16:52:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL SOCI ECON SNAR KCOR JM XL |
07KINGSTON215 | JAMAICA/VENEZUELA: FORMER PRIME MINISTER WARNS OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-13 11:50:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR ECON SOCI CARICOM KCOR JM |
07KINGSTON25 | JAMAICA: MALARIA UPDATE [...] (U) Malaria infections (refs A and B) continue to be detected with the latest number of confirmed cases standing at 192 as of January 3. The Ministry of Health (MOH) continues to fog and distribute mosquito netting to at-risk communities. In addition, the MOH has been assisted by USAID which [...] | 2007-01-05 18:15:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI TBIO CASC PGOV AID CDC JM XL |
07KINGSTON299 | JAPAN/CARIBBEAN: TOKYO CONSIDERS OPENING ANOTHER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-01 20:17:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR EAID OFDP JA CH TW |
07KINGSTON351 | JAMAICA: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON IRANIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-13 20:34:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP IR UNSC AORC ETRD TRGY JM |
07KINGSTON380 | ANTI-CORRUPTION STRATEGY: JAMAICA'S POLICE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-19 14:07:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KJUS PGOV KCOR JM |
07KINGSTON385 | CONTRABAND ENFORCEMENT TEAM DISCUSSED WITH CUSTOMS [...] (SBU) Summary: Acting NAS Director (NASDIR) followed up earlier conversations with Assistant Commissioner Cecil Brown and Contraband Enforcement Team (CET) Director Karl McKen (reftel) by meeting with Commissioner of Customs Hector Jones on March 9. The purpose was to get the Commissioner's [...] | 2007-03-20 15:16:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PGOV JM |
07KINGSTON393 | JAMAICA/VENEZUELA: OPPOSITION LEADER DEEPLY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-21 13:15:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG ECON EINV EPET MASS CARICOM JM |
07KINGSTON413 | MURDER MYSTERY TARNISHES JAMAICA'S CWC TRIUMPH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The death of Robert Woolmer, Pakistan's Cricket World Cup (CWC) coach and a British national, has been ruled a murder. At a press conference March 22, Jamaica Constabulary Force officials confirmed that Woolmer "died as a result of asphyxia due to manual strangulation." Publicly [...] | 2007-03-23 18:42:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM |
07KINGSTON434 | JAMAICA: "SISTER P" MARKS ONE YEAR AS PRIME [...] (C) SUMMARY: Portia Simpson Miller (PSM),the unelected Prime Minister of Jamaica, rose to the head of the ruling People's National Party (PNP) last February. As PNP leader, she replaced the retiring elected Prime Minister P.J. Patterson to become the country's first female Prime Minister on [...] | 2007-03-28 11:23:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL SOCI ECON ENRG KCOR JM XL |
07KINGSTON442 | JAMAICA: ELIMINATION OF FY-08 FMF WILL HAVE SEVERE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-29 20:54:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS PREL PTER SNAR ASEC CASC MOPS OMB VZ CH |
07KINGSTON544 | JAMAICA: MEETING WITH CRNM DIRECTOR GENERAL [...] (C) On April 11, DCM and Econ met with Ambassador Richard Bernal, Director General of the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM). Bernal said that regional leaders recognized that the upcoming Conference on the Caribbean presented an "historic opportunity," that can put the region on [...] | 2007-04-13 17:14:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON PREL ETRD USTR JM |
07KINGSTON57 | JAMAICA: CRICKET WORLD CUP (C-AL6-01777) [...] (U) This message responds to the information requested in ref. A; answers are keyed to paragraphs. A. (C) Econoff sent the updated Regional Security Plan (including threat and risk assessments) electronically to Michael Fortin (ref. B). To access, open the document, type 'rsplan', then sel [...] | 2007-01-12 19:46:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR CARICOM JM |
07KINGSTON588 | JAMAICA: MINISTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNED [...] (C) Summary: On Friday, April 20, Charge and NAS Director, along with the British and Canadian COMs, met with Peter Phillips, Minister of National Security at his request. In this session, one of an ongoing series of conversations with his international partners, (Reftels A and B) Phillips o [...] | 2007-04-24 12:58:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR KCRM PREL KFIN JM |
07KINGSTON589 | JAMAICA: MINISTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNED [...] (C) Summary: On Friday, April 20, Charge and NAS Director, along with the British and Canadian COMs, met with Peter Phillips, Minister of National Security at his request. In this session, one of an ongoing series of conversations with his international partners, (Reftels A and B) Phillips o [...] | 2007-04-24 12:58:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR KCRM PREL KFIN JM |
07KINGSTON624 | JAMAICA: NEW WAY FORWARD ON IRAQ [...] In Embassy's estimate, the Government of Jamaica (GoJ) has neither the will nor the ability to contribute military or civilian resources to Iraq. Given Jamaica's severe crime problem, the risk of violence in the run-up to impending national elections, and the country's heavy debt burden (app [...] | 2007-04-30 19:10:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER JM |
07KINGSTON637 | JAMAICA: ELECTION VIOLENCE AND POLITICAL PARTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a recent meeting with the Commissioner of Elections Danville Walker, the Commissioner noted that he believes the risk of political violence during elections is low. He also revealed his belief that Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller (PSM) did not call elections earlier in order [...] | 2007-05-02 17:48:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL SOCI ECON ENRG KCOR JM XL |
07KINGSTON69 | JAMAICA: APIS; POSSIBLE ELECTION VIOLENCE; CRIME & [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-16 19:11:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAIR PGOV SOCI SNAR PTER ASEC PHUM CASC |
07KINGSTON771 | JAMAICA: MINISTRY OF NATIONAL SECURITY REMAINS [...] (C) Summary: Despite the contrary view provided by the Jamaican Commissioner of Elections, (reftel),the Ministry of National Security remains very worried about violence prior to and on election day during the upcoming elections. High level Ministry staff have concluded that as both the curr [...] | 2007-05-21 15:04:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PREL PGOV JM |
07KINGSTON773 | JAMAICA: SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD [...] (C) Post is unaware of any Jamaican investments in Cuba. However, many Jamaicans, including businesspeople, oppose U.S. policy towards Cuba, which hampers post's efforts to gather accurate data. A contact at Jamaica Trade and Invest (JAMPRO) stated off-the-record that she felt that Jamaican b [...] | 2007-05-21 19:20:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL JM CU |
07KINGSTON803 | JAMAICA: OPPOSITION LEADER HOPES TO WIN AT LEAST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-24 16:30:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR ECON SOCI ENRG KCOR JM |
07KINGSTON820 | JAMAICA: GOJ OFFICIALS RAISE QUESTIONS/CONCERNS [...] (C) Deputy Director of WHA/CAR Karen Williams, DCM, and poloff visited Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT) Permanent Secretary Ambassador Douglas Saunders on May 22. Williams raised the issue of the Government of Venezuela's attempts to enlist OAS support in calling for the e [...] | 2007-05-25 14:51:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI OAS XM XL JM |
07KINGSTON887 | JAMAICA: PNP FACES INTERNAL PROBLEMS/LACK OF [...] (SBU) Poloff recently met with longtime People's National Party (PNP) activist and organizer Karen Cross to discuss recent media reports of problems within the PNP which could impact the outcome of the upcoming elections (due by October 2007). During the meeting, Cross confirmed that there is [...] | 2007-06-06 18:09:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG JM KCOR PGOV PINR PREL SOCI VE XL |
07KINGSTON89 | JAMAICA: OPPOSITION LEADER CLAIMS VENEZUELA GIVING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-18 18:04:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR SOCI ABLD AMGT ENRG KCOR KCRM |
07KINGSTON897 | JAMAICA: AIR JAMAICA SELLS LONDON ROUTES, WANTS TO [...] (C) Summary: Air Jamaica Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Michael Conway considers the recent sale of the airline's prestigious London-Kingston route essential to the airline's long-term viability. He also says he is willing to work with the USG however he can to combat the problem of drug smugg [...] | 2007-06-07 20:46:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON PGOV SNAR JM XL |
07KINGSTON91 | JAMAICA: CARIBBEAN MASS MIGRATION CONTINGENCY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-18 19:09:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF JM XL XR |
07KINGSTON927 | JAMAICA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON 7TH ANNUAL TIPS [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered the 7th Annual TIP country report on Jamaica to the Government of Jamaica's (GOJ) National Anti-Trafficking Task Force at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT) on June 11. The task force is headed by Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Justice Ca [...] | 2007-06-13 16:55:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB JM XL |
07KINGSTON953 | JAMAICA: MOUNTING POLITICAL TENSIONS WITH APPROACH [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-19 19:11:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SOCI SNAR ASEC KCOR KCRM JM XL |
07KINSHASA1032 | CONGO, ANGOLA ANNOUNCE PLANS TO DEMARCATE BORDER, [...] (C) Summary. Congo and Angola agreed in July 24-31 meetings in Luanda to refer a lingering border dispute to a committee of experts, and to share certain offshore oil revenues. Presidents Kabila and dos Santos met July 30-31 and finalized these and other agreements. The two sides plan to c [...] | 2007-08-30 13:20:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ECON PGOV EMIN CG AO |
07KINSHASA1040 | KIVU DEMARCHE DELIVERED IN KINSHASA [...] (C) Summary. Congolese Foreign Minister Mbusa Nyamwisi is generally receptive to U.S. views on the current situation in the Kivu provinces. He has been active in promoting diplomatic engagement with Uganda and Rwanda, and confirmed high-level meetings with each for September. He appreciates [...] | 2007-08-31 13:38:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR KDEM CG RW UG |
07KINSHASA1050 | KIVU DEMARCHE DELIVERED IN KINSHASA [...] (U) This is a corrected version of Kinshasa 1040. 2. (C) Summary. Congolese Foreign Minister Mbusa Nyamwisi received newly arrived Charge Sam Brock August 29. Charge used the meeting to present demarche as requested ref (A). Mbusa used it to publicize relations with the U.S., inviting l [...] | 2007-09-04 15:17:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR KDEM CG RW UG |
07KINSHASA1053 | NORTH KIVU GOVERNOR'S OUTLOOK ON NKUNDA AND FDLR [...] (C) Summary: North Kivu Governor Julien Paluku outlined his and the GDRC's emerging approach to dealing with the twin problems of dissident General Laurent Nkunda and FDLR fighters in the province. He said the central government wants to exhaust diplomatic and political options before pursuing [...] | 2007-09-05 06:31:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO ASEC MOPS RW CG |
07KINSHASA1056 | LOW-LEVEL FIGHTING ONGOING IN NORTH KIVU AS [...] (C) Summary: Low-level fighting and occasional skirmishes between troops loyal to dissident General Laurent Nkunda and pro-government forces continue in several areas of North Kivu. Integrated brigades of the Congolese military (FARDC) have been deployed into new positions in Rutshuru and Masis [...] | 2007-09-05 12:45:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO MOPS ASEC PHUM PREF CG |
07KINSHASA1063 | RWANDAN, DRC FOREIGN MINISTERS COMMIT [...] (C) Summary: Rwandan foreign minister Charles Murigande's official visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo from September 2-4, the first by a Rwandan official to the DRC since the end of the second Congo war in 2004, is a potentially significant step in a slow process of reconciliation [...] | 2007-09-05 17:24:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CG RW KPKO |
07KINSHASA1072 | NORTH KIVU UPDATE (9/7/07 12:00 GMT): MONUC [...] (U) MONUC peacekeepers September 6 brokered a ceasefire between pro-government Congolese military (FARDC) units and troops loyal to dissident General Laurent Nkunda. The accord was reached after Nkunda's forces threatened to overrun the strategic North Kivu town of Sake about 20 miles west of t [...] | 2007-09-07 14:01:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS KPKO ASEC CG |
07KINSHASA1084 | FEWER ITURI COMBATANTS THAN EXPECTED DISARMING AS [...] (SBU) With three days remaining in the current Ituri District disarmament, demobilization and reinsertion (DDR) program, approximately 1,000 of an anticipated 4,600 combatants -- less than one quarter -- have handed over their weapons. According to UNDP officials running the initiative, as of [...] | 2007-09-11 10:13:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO MOPS CG |
07KINSHASA1100 | SHORTLEY AND CHARGE DISCUSS EASTERN CONGO [...] (C) SUMMARY. On September 14, 2007, Senior Adviser to Assistant Secretary Frazer for Conflict Resolution, Timothy Shortley and Charge d'Affaires, Sam Brock met with President Kabila at his residence for one hour to deliver the following messages from A/S Frazer. Kabila outlined his three pha [...] | 2007-09-14 16:09:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO CG |
07KINSHASA1101 | MONUC: FARDC OVER ITS HEAD IN NKUNDA FIGHT [...] (C) Summary. Senior MONUC officials reviewed the current security situation in the eastern DRC September 11-12 in discussions with AF Senior Adviser Shortley following cessation of hostilities between government troops and forces loyal to renegade General Nkunda. The operation appears to hav [...] | 2007-09-14 16:13:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO CG RW |
07KINSHASA1102 | SHORTLEY OFFERS ASSISTANCE PROPOSAL TO FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: Timothy Shortley, Senior Advisor for Conflict Resolution to Jendayi Frazer, AF A/S, met with Congolese Foreign Minister Mbusa Nyamwisi on September 12 to discuss efforts to resolve the ongoing crisis in eastern Congo. Charge Sam Brock and PolCouns also participated. Shortley de [...] | 2007-09-14 16:19:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO CG |
07KINSHASA1103 | MILITARY ATTACHES DISCUSS CONGOLESE SECURITY SECTOR [...] (C) Summary: Military attaches and representatives from EUSEC, the UK, France, and the US met with the Charge and Timothy Shortley, Senior Advisor to the A/S for African Affairs, to discuss insecurity in North Kivu and the DRC's security sector limitations on September 13. All participants c [...] | 2007-09-14 16:27:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO CG |
07KINSHASA1126 | KABILA TO P-3 PLUS 2: ONLY OPTIONS FOR NKUNDA'S [...] (C) Summary: President Joseph Kabila met September 13 with ambassadors/charges of the P-3 (France, UK, U.S.) plus 2 (Belgium and South Africa) countries in Kinshasa. SRSG William Swing also participated. Swing had requested the meeting on behalf of the P-3 plus 2 because of growing concern [...] | 2007-09-19 16:22:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CG |
07KINSHASA1151 | NORTH KIVU UPDATE (9/25/07, 18:00 GMT): LIMITED [...] (U) Limited skirmishes broke out in several locations in North Kivu in the early morning of September 24 between Congolese military (FARDC) troops and elements of renegade General Laurent Nkunda's forces, but had died down by midday. No casualty figures were available. 2. (SBU) FARDC De [...] | 2007-09-25 17:04:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV ASEC CG |
07KINSHASA117 | FARDC GENERAL DISMISSIVE OF CONCESSIONS FOR [...] (C) Summary. Major General Bulenda Padiri, Commander of the DRC's Ninth Military Region, does not agree with the GDRC's negotiated concessions to Laurent Nkunda's troops in North Kivu. He believes that real integration and eventual redeployment outside of the Kivus are necessary for these f [...] | 2007-01-31 13:16:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO MOPS CG |
07KINSHASA1213 | DRC NATIONAL SECURITY COUNSELOR ON JOINT PLANNING [...] (C) Summary. Cesar Fwani (protect),the DRC's National Security Council (CNS) expert on Tripartite Plus issues, is unimpressed with the concept of grafting a Joint Planning Cell (JPC) onto the existing Tripartite Plus Intelligence Fusion Cell (TFC) but very enthusiastic about the renewal of [...] | 2007-10-19 11:54:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MOPS CG |
07KINSHASA1215 | CHARGE'S OCTOBER 18 MEETING WITH THE FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister displayed little knowledge of the objectives and aspirations of President Kabila's upcoming official visit to the U.S. He even wondered aloud if he would remain in the government after the long-expected cabinet reshuffle, which many observers believe will come [...] | 2007-10-19 20:42:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN ETRD KPAO MOPS PGOV PREL KPKO KWMN PHUM |
07KINSHASA125 | GDRC DIAMOND SECTOR UPDATE - IT'S NOT GOOD NEWS [...] (SBU) Summary. The DRC's 2006 diamond export revenues will likely be well below 2005 levels, largely due to a drop in production by the diamond mining parastatal, MIBA. Not only have production, export quantities, and export values decreased compared with 2005 figures, but hoped-for export re [...] | 2007-02-01 13:07:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN ECON EINV ETRD CG |
07KINSHASA1251 | SENIOR ADVISOR SHORTLEY'S MEETINGS WITH FARDC [...] (C) Summary: In a November 2 courtesy call on the 8th Military Region Commander, Senior Advisor for Conflict Resolution Tim Shortley briefed Brigadier General Mayala Kiama on his findings from a four-day visit in North Kivu. Both the Commander and his deputy vehemently denied collaborating w [...] | 2007-11-05 16:20:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO PHUM CG |
07KINSHASA126 | FIGHTING ERUPTS BETWEEN BANYAMULENGE TROOPS IN [...] (C) Summary: Limited fighting between Banyamulenge (Congolese Tutsi) troops of non-integrated brigades of the Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) and of dissident armed forces broke out in the Minembwe region of South Kivu province January 25 and continued sporadically through January 29. Details c [...] | 2007-02-01 13:24:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO MOPS CG |
07KINSHASA1260 | SENIOR ADVISOR SHORTLEY'S NOVEMBER 3 MEETINGS IN [...] (C) Summary: Senior Advisor Tim Shortley met with close advisors to the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (RDC) on November 3 to discuss Shortley's just-ended trip to the eastern Congo, which included meetings with senior officers of the Congolese Armed forces (FARDC),the UN [...] | 2007-11-06 16:58:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PREL KPKO CG |
07KINSHASA1270 | MONUC'S INDIAN BATTALION BRIEFS SHORTLEY ON [...] (C) Summary: During his October 30-November 3 tour of North Kivu, an Indian Battalion from MONUC provided security for the AF Senior Adviser Shortley. Upon arrival in Goma on 30 October, Shortley was briefed by the commander of North Kivu Brigade who transmitted what was mostly MONUC,s party [...] | 2007-11-13 14:08:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL KPKO CG |
07KINSHASA128 | WORLD BANK IN LISTENING MODE, GEARING UP FOR [...] (C) Summary. World Bank representatives, in Kinshasa to talk with donors about the Bank's program for 2007, expressed particular interest in and concern over Security Sector Reform issues. They agreed with the Ambassador that the handing over of the fully drafted Governance Compact to the GDR [...] | 2007-02-01 14:23:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EAID KCOR PGOV CG |
07KINSHASA1283 | INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY NOT PREPARED FOR WORST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senior Advisor to Assistant Secretary Frazer for Conflict Resolution, Timothy Shortley met with the DRC Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Country Team (UNCT) and separately with other NGO and UN officials on October 29 prior to traveling to North Kivu. Common [...] | 2007-11-15 09:13:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF MOPS PINS PREL KPKO RW CG |
07KINSHASA1329 | AF SPECIAL ADVISOR TIM SHORTLEY'S NOVEMBER 30 [...] (C) Summary: Shortley called Tshibanda to provide information on his latest conversations with dissident General Laurent Nkunda, and to discuss a possible Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) military offensive against Nkunda. Shortley told Tshibanda that A/S Frazer agreed that military pressure w [...] | 2007-12-03 14:49:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PREF PREL KPKO CG |
07KINSHASA1361 | PRESIDENT KABILA'S DECEMBER 11 MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary. At President Kabila's request, Ambassador William Garvelink and Tim Shortley, Senior Adviser for Assistant Secretary Frazer for Conflict Resolution met with Kabila in his residence on December 11, 2007. Kabila agreed to stick to his agreement with President Museveni and to keep [...] | 2007-12-12 15:56:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PREF PREL KPKO CG |
07KINSHASA1373 | SENIOR ADVISOR SHORTLEY'S MEETINGS IN NORTH KIVU [...] (C) Summary: Senior Adviser to Assistant Secretary Frazer for Conflict Resolution, Tim Shortley, met Laurent Nkunda at his headquarters near Kirolirwe late December 14. Shortley found Nkunda amenable to compromise, apparently worried that his sweeping military victory had within it the seeds [...] | 2007-12-17 14:05:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PREF PREL KPKO CG |
07KINSHASA175 | MONUC, UNSC MEMBERS CONSULTATION IN KINSHASA [...] (SBU) In follow-up to informal discussions among several Chiefs of Mission in Kinshasa, SRSG Swing invited the Ambassadors and Charges from all UNSC members with resident diplomatic representation in the DRC to a "consultation" session on Saturday, February 10. Ten of the fifteen UNSC members [...] | 2007-02-14 13:28:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UNSC CG |
07KINSHASA176 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT HOSTS AMBASSADORS [...] (SBU) Summary: National Assembly President Kamerhe and the Assembly executive officers hosted a group of Ambassadors February 12 for what was billed as the first of regular sessions to exchange views. Kamerhe briefed regarding a "moratorium" regarding controversial "double nationality" enforc [...] | 2007-02-14 13:35:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM CG |
07KINSHASA178 | TRIAL OPENS IN ANVIL MINING CASE [...] (U) Summary. The criminal trial of three civilians and several FARDC soldiers in a Katanga military court is increasing attention on the DRC's extractive industries. A GDRC military court in Lubumbashi, Katanga province is hearing preliminary matters in the case, which arises from the widely- [...] | 2007-02-14 14:55:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN EINV KHUM PGOV CG |
07KINSHASA180 | NORTH KIVU'S SECURITY STILL TENUOUS TWO MONTHS [...] (C) Summary: The security situation in the DRC's volatile North Kivu province remains tenuous. Two months after fighting erupted between government forces and dissident troops loyal to renegade General Laurent Nkunda, North Kivu officials consider the province to be over-militarized and are pe [...] | 2007-02-14 17:18:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC KPKO CG |
07KINSHASA184 | MINEMBWE UPDATE: MANSUNZU SENDS 200 TROOPS FOR [...] (C) General Patrick Masunzu, commander of the Congolese army's (FARDC) non-integrated 112th Brigade in South Kivu, has reportedly sent approximately 200 of his troops for military integration. MONUC officials in the provincial capital of Bukavu confirm the soldiers left Minembwe in the High Pl [...] | 2007-02-15 15:30:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO ASEC CG |
07KINSHASA207 | THE NKUNDA VIEW ON "MIXAGE" AND NORTH KIVU'S [...] (C) Summary: While the GDRC has portrayed North Kivu's military "mixage" as an interim solution to the region's security problems, dissident General Laurent Nkunda and his advisers view the process much differently. They see Nkunda's December 2006 agreement with the GDRC as an opportunity to a [...] | 2007-02-21 11:25:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO ASEC MOPS PTER CG |
07KINSHASA214 | CONGOLESE MIXED BRIGADES CLASH WITH FDLR IN NORTH [...] (C) Summary: Elements of the Congolese military's "mixed" brigades clashed February 19-20 with suspected FDLR and Mayi-Mayi forces in North Kivu province. The fighting does not appear to be part of planned operations, although skirmishes have been ongoing since the beginning of February. The a [...] | 2007-02-21 16:22:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO MOPS ASEC PREF CG |
07KINSHASA219 | ZIMBABWEAN DIAMOND TRADE DEMONSTRATES POROUS DRC [...] (C) Summary. The recent illegal movement of Zimbabwean diamonds through the DRC demonstrates the GDRC's lack of control over its borders. For several weeks, reports have circulated in Kinshasa about the smuggling of unique Zimbabwean diamonds, setting off a flurry of interest in the Zimbabwean [...] | 2007-02-22 14:42:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN ETRD PGOV ZI CG |
07KINSHASA221 | NEW NORTH KIVU GOVERNOR'S PRIORITIES: SECURITY, [...] (SBU) Summary: Julien Paluku, governor-elect of the DRC's North Kivu province, has three main priorities for his first months in office: security, ethnic reconciliation, and economic development. Paluku admits he faces a difficult challenge but contends the province and its political leaders a [...] | 2007-02-23 08:08:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR KPKO CG |
07KINSHASA225 | DRC, UGANDA AND SOUTHERN SUDAN AGREE TO SHARE [...] (C) Outgoing DRC Vice Minister of Defense Bernard Mena told us February 22 that the governments of the DRC, Uganda and Southern Sudan have agreed to share information regarding the activities and movements of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Mena said the agreement was reached after DRC Presi [...] | 2007-02-23 15:24:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO MOPS UG SU CG |
07KINSHASA227 | DRC, UGANDA AND SOUTHERN SUDAN AGREE TO SHARE [...] (C) Outgoing DRC Vice Minister of Defense Bernard Mena told us February 22 that the governments of the DRC, Uganda and Southern Sudan have agreed to share information regarding the activities and movements of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Mena said the agreement was reached after DRC Presi [...] | 2007-02-23 15:24:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO MOPS UG SU CG |
07KINSHASA233 | KARIM AGAIN MAKES PROMISES AFTER MILITARY SETBACKS [...] (C) Summary: Peter Karim, leader of the Front for National Integration (FNI) militia in the DRC's northeastern Ituri District, has promised to surrender a number of his fighters following several weeks of successful operations by the Congolese military (FARDC) which have left the FNI isolated [...] | 2007-02-26 13:55:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO MOPS CG |
07KINSHASA252 | A FEW EUROPEAN SECURITY MISFIRES [...] (SBU) A couple of misfires from Brussels regarding DRC security issues underscores the considerable political maneuvering going on relative to the DRC's post-Transition future. The first issue appears to reflect internal Belgian lapses, as newspaper articles confirmed by Kinshasa diplomats re [...] | 2007-03-01 12:33:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BE CG |
07KINSHASA281 | ITURI UPDATE: KARIM PREPARES TO SURRENDER, BUT [...] (C) Summary: Ituri District militia leader Peter Karim made good on his promise to surrender nearly 200 members of his Front for National Integration (FNI) February 27, and has pledged to send another 200, including himself, for integration into the Congolese military (FARDC) March 10. Karim h [...] | 2007-03-08 15:04:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO CG |
07KINSHASA282 | DRC'S ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSIONER ARRESTED [...] (C) The GDRC arrested the top official of the DRC's Atomic Energy Commission (CGEA) on March 6, but thus far specific charges have not been made public. According to media reports, Professor Fortunat Lumu Badimbayi-Matu, the CGEA Commissioner and director of Kinshasa's Nuclear Research Center (CREN [...] | 2007-03-08 16:05:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EMIN ETRD PGOV IAEA CG |
07KINSHASA284 | CHARGES AGAINST ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSIONER STILL [...] (C) Pursuant to the arrest of the DRC's Atomic Energy Commission (CGEA) head and his assistant (reftel),there has still been no public release of the charges. Professor Fortunat Lumu, the CGEA Commissioner and director of Kinshasa's Nuclear Research Center (CREN-K) told EconOff late afternoo [...] | 2007-03-09 11:55:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EMIN ETRD PGOV KGIT IAEA CG |
07KINSHASA290 | CONGOLESE AND ANGOLAN MINISTERS TO ATTEMPT RESOLUTION TO REMOTE BORDER DISPUTE [...] (C) Summary: Senior Congolese and Angolan officials plan to meet in Kinshasa this week to discuss a disputed frontier in a remote diamond-bearing area at the intersection of the provinces of Bandundu in the DRC and Lunda Norte in Angola. Angolan troops reportedly entered the area on January 2 [...] | 2007-03-13 10:29:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS AG CG EMIN |
07KINSHASA291 | EXAMINING BAS-CONGO'S FEBRUARY VIOLENCE [...] (C) Summary: A poorly-planned search by police sparked the January 31-February 1 violence between security forces and members of the ethnic separatist group Bundu dia Kongo (BDK) which left dozens dead in the DRC's Bas-Congo province. Provincial political and security officials claim BDK leader [...] | 2007-03-13 10:51:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO PHUM MOPS CG |
07KINSHASA292 | ITURI UPDATE: KARIM SURRENDERS ADDITIONAL 131 [...] (C) Front for National Integration (FNI) leader Peter Karim surrendered an additional 131 militia members March 10 in Doi, approximately 55 miles northeast of the Ituri District capital of Bunia. Karim had promised Congolese military (FARDC) officials he would surrender an additional 200 milit [...] | 2007-03-13 10:51:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO ASEC CG |
07KINSHASA310 | NORTH KIVU FIGHTING CREATES NEW WAVE OF IDP'S, [...] (SBU) Summary: Fighting between the Congolese military (FARDC) and FDLR troops in North Kivu March 10-12 has resulted in an estimated 10,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs). Humanitarian officials in the province say assisting these IDPs will be difficult because of continuing insecurity. [...] | 2007-03-15 15:02:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO CG |
07KINSHASA313 | LUMU SET FREE, FUTURE OF URANIUM INVESTIGATION [...] (C) Summary. Professor Fortunat Lumu, arrested March 6 on suspicion of trafficking in uranium, was released from detention on March 11 (refs A,B). There is no evidence to suggest that any uranium or radioactive material changed hands. Minister of Scientific Research Sylvanus Mushi Bonane, wh [...] | 2007-03-15 15:59:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EMIN ETRD PGOV IAEA CG |
07KINSHASA319 | CHILD SOLDIER RECRUITMENT A DIMINISHING PROBLEM IN [...] (C) Summary: A senior UN official proclaimed the DRC's child soldier problem is "essentially over," but charged that dissident general Laurent Nkunda is recruiting child soldiers from refugee camps in Rwanda. Humanitarian officials report more than 100 child soldiers have been separated from N [...] | 2007-03-16 10:28:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO RW CG |
07KINSHASA330 | KATANGA'S NEW GOVERNOR: MAN WITH A BOLD PLAN [...] (C) Summary. Katanga Governor Moise Katumbi is an ambitious political newcomer with bold plans for Katangan revival. His stated priorities for the province include increasing provincial revenue and supporting social development, and he has indicated his tactics will not necessarily be orthodo [...] | 2007-03-19 15:25:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EMIN ZA CG |
07KINSHASA336 | UNSC DR CONGO SANCTIONS DEMARCHE IN KINSHASA [...] (C) Ambassador presented the list of entities and individuals proposed reftel for sanctions under UN Security Council resolutions 1596 and 1649 during the course of his first official call on Foreign Minister Mbusa Nyamwisi March 20 (septel). The Ambassador emphasized the importance of comba [...] | 2007-03-21 10:49:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC CG |
07KINSHASA337 | MINEMBWE UPDATE: DISSIDENT GROUPS PREPARING FOR [...] (C) Summary: Two dissident ethnic Banyamulenge commanders have agreed to integrate their troops with other Congolese military (FARDC) units following weeks of controversial negotiations with former associates of renegade General Laurent Nkunda and FARDC commanders. MONUC officials report there [...] | 2007-03-21 12:25:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO ASEC CG |
07KINSHASA339 | COAST GUARD FINDS DRC PORTS STILL NOT SECURE [...] Summary. The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) has determined the DRC's international maritime ports do not comply with U.S. or international security requirements. The main causes are inadequate funding and political will, and upper-level mismanagement. The USG will re-introduce restrictions on ships [...] | 2007-03-21 12:26:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT ECON PTER ASEC CG |
07KINSHASA345 | DRC'S NEW MINISTER OF DEFENSE TARGETS CORRUPTION, [...] (C) Summary. New DRC Minister of Defense Chikez Diemu's immediate priorities include combating corruption, dismantling the guard forces maintained by the former transitional vice presidents, and finalizing disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programs (DDR) to streamline and profess [...] | 2007-03-21 16:57:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR KDEM PINR CG |
07KINSHASA346 | KATANGA'S ORE EXPORT SUSPENSION CONTINUES [...] (SBU) Katanga Governor Moise Katumbi's recent order suspending the export of unprocessed ore from the province remains in place (reftel) and has created noticeable impact. The suspension is pursuant to Katumbi's March 6 communique stating that the suspension's purpose is to combat the loss of [...] | 2007-03-21 16:57:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN ETRD ECON ZA CG |
07KINSHASA350 | BUNDU DIA KONGO: A DANGEROUS INSURRECTIONIST [...] (C) Summary: The Bundu dia Kongo (BDK) claims to defend the cultural and economic interests of the indigenous people of DRC's Bas-Congo province. The group is in reality a separatist sect with a long history of often violent confrontation with state security forces. End summary. ------------ [...] | 2007-03-22 13:48:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ASEC CG |
07KINSHASA367 | NKUNDA ATTENDS FORMATION CEREMONIES FOR TWO NEW [...] (C) Summary: Renegade General Laurent Nkunda attended formation ceremonies for the last two "mixed" brigades March 22 and 23 in North Kivu with several prominent political and military leaders. Nkunda said in local interviews he was pleased with the "mixage" process and promised that any soldi [...] | 2007-03-27 12:24:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO MOPS CG |
07KINSHASA375 | IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE FIGHTING [...] (C) Summary: Forces loyal to former Vice President Bemba were defeated in March 22 - 23 violence, and no longer constitute a fighting force. There is a general consensus that numerous political options were not exhausted prior to the fighting, with many in the Kabila camp spoiling for a fight [...] | 2007-03-28 16:23:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO ASEC MOPS CG |
07KINSHASA377 | CONGO'S DDR AGENCY -- AND ITS DIRECTOR -- FACE [...] (C) Summary. Daniel Kawata, director of the DRC's National Commission for Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reinsertion (CONADER),is facing serious questions about both his agency's future and his own. The World Bank, which has provided $200 million for the DRC's disarmament, demobilization [...] | 2007-03-29 12:26:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM MARR CG |
07KINSHASA378 | MINEMBWE UPDATE: DISCUSSIONS STALLED OVER [...] (C) Summary: GDRC negotiations with dissident Banyamulenge commanders in South Kivu have stalled in confusion and disagreement over how their forces are to be integrated into the Congolese military (FARDC). The stalemate has blocked the anticipated disarmament and integration of more than 200 o [...] | 2007-03-29 16:29:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO PREF MOPS BU CG |
07KINSHASA381 | POLITICAL VIEWS FROM BOTH SIDES [...] (C) Summary: Following the March 22-23 violence, political feelings are running high. Reflecting Prime Minister Gizenga's views, his de facto chief of staff, Minister Godefroid Mayobo, strongly reaffirmed the need for a full trial of former Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba. While fully acc [...] | 2007-03-30 17:15:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO PGOV MOPS CG PO SF |
07KINSHASA385 | BEMBA DEPARTURE DELAYED [...] (C) The departure for Portugal of former Vice President Bemba has been delayed from the original hoped-for date of Saturday, March 31, but the initiative still appears on track. Per telcons with UN SRSG Bill Swing and South African Charge Kenneth Pedro, discussions headed by National Assembly [...] | 2007-04-02 09:58:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO ASEC PO SF CG |
07KINSHASA387 | UPDATE ON KATANGA SUSPENSION OF UNPROCESSED ORE [...] (SBU) Summary. Katanga Governor Moise Katumbi has permanently banned the export of non-refined metal from the province. All major exporters but one have a six-month grace period within which they may continue to export certified ore concentrate. Export traffic has begun to normalize, although [...] | 2007-04-02 11:27:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN ETRD ECON PGOV CG |
07KINSHASA388 | PM GIZENGA OUTLINES CHALLENGES OF NEW GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Antoine Gizenga acknowledges that the DRC confronts great challenges, and wants to send a strong signal that things have changed. He is especially concerned about widespread corruption and impunity, and the lack of a culture of work. He looks forward to a product [...] | 2007-04-03 13:43:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KCOR KPKO CG |
07KINSHASA389 | BEMBA WEAPONS CACHE SEIZED IN EQUATEUR [...] (C) Summary: MONUC and Congolese military (FARDC) officials have seized an estimated 200 tons of weapons and ammunition belonging to the forces of Jean-Pierre Bemba in Equateur province. The cache, located in an abandoned soft drink factory in Gbadolite, near the border with the CAR, contained [...] | 2007-04-03 15:34:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO MOPS PINR PINS UG TZ LY CG |
07KINSHASA396 | NEW CONGOLESE FOREIGN MINISTER UPBEAT, BUT STILL [...] (C) Summary. During the Ambassador's first official call March 20 (Note: two days prior to the outbreak of violence in Kinshasa. End note.),new Foreign Minister Mbusa appeared in an upbeat mood. He spoke positively of the March 16 Tripartite Plus talks in Kigali, calling them "the best e [...] | 2007-04-04 12:19:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO KDEM CG RW |
07KINSHASA411 | ITURI UPDATE: KARIM SURRENDERS, RECEIVES [...] (C) Summary: Ituri militia leader Peter Karim surrendered with six of his senior officers April 6 to Congolese military (FARDC) authorities in Kpandroma. All were subsequently awarded officers' commissions, including the rank of colonel for Karim. Karim pledged he would not return to the bush a [...] | 2007-04-10 12:20:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO MOPS CG |
07KINSHASA414 | MONUC INVESTIGATION ASSIGNS BLAME TO BOTH SIDES [...] (C) Summary: A MONUC investigation into Bas-Congo's January 31-February 1 fighting between security forces and the separatist sect Bundu dia Kongo (BDK) assigns responsibility to both sides for the violence and estimates 105 died. MONUC found that BDK has demonstrated a strong propensity for v [...] | 2007-04-10 12:32:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KPKO MOPS CG |
07KINSHASA417 | CONGOLESE, MONUC OFFICIALS DISCOUNT THREAT OF [...] (C) Summary: Congolese and MONUC military officials claim elements of the Allied Democratic Forces and National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (ADF-NALU) operating in the DRC no longer pose a significant security threat. They contend ADF-NALU numbers have been greatly reduced since joint FA [...] | 2007-04-11 09:21:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UG CG |
07KINSHASA425 | DRC MINING SECTOR - THE MAJOR ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary. The mining sector has traditionally been the key driver of the DRC's economy, but it will need substantial reform before it can realize its full potential. Key issues facing the sector include: 1) ensuring the transparency and fairness of existing and future mining contracts; 2) [...] | 2007-04-12 17:21:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN EINV ETRD ECIN CG |
07KINSHASA434 | DRC FINANCE MINISTER ADMITS ECONOMIC SITUATION [...] (C) Summary. The new Minister of Finance said that the DRC economy is "not good" but was optimistic that the situation could be turned around by the new government. He cited hopeful signs regarding increased GDRC revenues and blamed overspending on the defense and security sectors. The mini [...] | 2007-04-16 11:51:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV CG |
07KINSHASA435 | BELGIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AN INCOVENIENT GUEST IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Belgian Foreign Minister Karel de Gucht had frank criticism for both sides involved in the March 22-23 violence in Kinshasa during his April 10-12 visit to the DRC. He reiterated Belgium's desire for a post-CIAT mechanism for political dialogue and discussed governance issues [...] | 2007-04-16 11:51:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM BE CG |
07KINSHASA440 | CITING INSECURITY, OPPOSITION WALKS OUT OF [...] (U) Summary: Opposition deputies, including all members of Jean-Pierre Bemba's Movement for the Liberation of the Congo (MLC),walked out of the April 13 National Assembly plenary, citing concerns for security for themselves and party facilities. They announced that they would not return unt [...] | 2007-04-16 16:10:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG |
07KINSHASA452 | CONGOLESE MILITARY PROPOSES REDEPLOYMENT, RENAMING [...] (C) Summary: Congolese military (FARDC) officials have proposed the redeployment and renaming of the army's Integrated Brigades (IBs). Most IBs will remain concentrated in eastern DRC where the biggest security risks remain, although the proposal suggests moving two brigades currently statione [...] | 2007-04-19 15:01:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO MOPS CG |
07KINSHASA487 | CONGOLESE "MIXED BRIGADES" CONDUCT OFFENSIVES [...] (C) Summary: Three "mixed" brigades of the Congolese military (FARDC) in North Kivu province have launched limited offensives against suspected FDLR forces. Initial reports indicate the FARDC has had moderate success in the operations, re-establishing control of several main roads in the Rutsh [...] | 2007-04-30 15:45:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO MOPS PREF CG |
07KINSHASA501 | KISEMPIA "EXPLAINS" DRC POSITION ON CHOD MEETING [...] (C) Defense Attache and PolOff met with Congolese Chief of Defense Forces Lt. Gen. Kisempia Sungilanga Lombe May 3 to discuss the April 16-18 meeting of Tripartite Plus Chiefs of Defense Forces (CHOD) meeting in Bujumbura, per reftel. Kisempia said he had indeed signed the agreement outlining [...] | 2007-05-03 16:36:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO CG RW UG |
07KINSHASA523 | KISEMPIA'S OUTLOOK ON SECURITY THREATS IN EASTERN [...] (C) Summary: Congolese Chief of Defense Forces Lt. Gen. Kisempia Sungilanga Lombe characterized the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) as his biggest security concern in eastern DRC. During a May 3 meeting with DATT and PolOff in his the Ministry of Defense offices, he claime [...] | 2007-05-11 11:38:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO MOPS SU RW UG CG |
07KINSHASA524 | PROGRESS MADE ON ITURI MILITIA DEMOBILIZATION [...] (C) Summary: Some 500 militia members from Peter Karim's Front for National Integration (FNI) in Ituri District have surrendered to military authorities in the past month, bringing the total number disarmed since the beginning of the year to more than 800. Demobilizing fighters, however, conti [...] | 2007-05-11 12:12:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO PHUM CG |
07KINSHASA534 | CONGOLESE MILITARY REPLACES COMMANDER IN NORTH KIVU [...] (C) The Congolese military (FARDC) is replacing its regional commander in North Kivu with the current chief of operations in Ituri District. FARDC officials confirmed that Brigadier General Vainqueur Mayala will be promoted to Major General and will replace General Louis Ngizo as the commander [...] | 2007-05-16 11:23:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO MOPS CG |
07KINSHASA546 | PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSION BLAMES BOTH SIDES FOR [...] (C) Summary: A parliamentary commission of inquiry into the January 31-February 1 violence in Bas-Congo submitted its report to the National Assembly May 18. Its findings lay relatively equal blame both on the separatist group Bundu dia Kongo (BDK) and on Congolese security forces. BDK and its [...] | 2007-05-21 16:30:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KPKO CG |
07KINSHASA579 | DRC'S REVIEW OF MINING CONTRACTS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Ministry of Mines has established an intragovernmental commission to review 60 joint-venture mining contracts. The commission expects to begin its work in early June, although it must first establish a work plan and internal rules, find funding and select experts. There has [...] | 2007-05-29 14:18:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN EINV ECON PGOV CG |
07KINSHASA590 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT OUTLINES LEGISLATIVE [...] (SBU) Summary. In a wide-ranging meeting with the Ambassador on May 29, National Assembly president Vital Kamerhe outlined his legislative goals for the remainder of the ordinary session and for an additional, already-scheduled extraordinary session. He highlighted six significant pieces of [...] | 2007-05-31 16:06:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO ASEC CG |
07KINSHASA593 | SIX CONGOLESE KIDNAPPED IN CONTINUING VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) At least six additional Congolese civilians were reported kidnapped from a village in Kabere district, about 19 miles northwest of Bukavu, on May 31. In related violence in the Kanyola area southwest of Bukavu on May 26 (reftel),after another civilian died of his wounds, nineteen civil [...] | 2007-06-01 11:06:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM MOPS KPKO ASEC CG |
07KINSHASA594 | TSHISEKEDI QUIETLY RETURNS TO DRC IN APPARENT ILL [...] (C) Summary: Etienne Tshisekedi, president of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS),quietly returned to Kinshasa May 28 after an extended stay in South Africa for medical treatment. UDPS officials acknowledge Tshisekedi, age 74, is in ill health and has been given strict orders fr [...] | 2007-06-01 11:18:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM CG |
07KINSHASA6 | NORTH KIVU IMPASSE CONTINUES; CIVILIANS TAKE OUT [...] (C) Following December 28 clashes between the FARDC and troops allied with renegade General Laurent Nkunda (reftel),FARDC 8th Military Region (MR) Commander General Ngizo met with Nkunda loyalist representatives of the 81st and 83rd Brigades. During the December 29 meeting, Ngizo reiterated [...] | 2007-01-03 16:25:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS KPKO CG |
07KINSHASA604 | TENSIONS HIGH, RUMORS RAMPANT IN SOUTH KIVU [...] (SBU) Summary: Tensions are high in South Kivu province following warnings from leading political and religious figures warning of alleged foreign plots to launch a "new war" in the region. The recent arrests of purported foreign nationals in the province has added to a growing chorus of rumor [...] | 2007-06-04 11:48:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO ASEC CG |
07KINSHASA621 | UNDP LAUNCHES NEW DEMOBILIZATION PROGRAM FOR ITURI [...] (U) Summary: The UN Development Program (UNDP) signed an accord with GDRC officials June 1 to launch a new demobilization, disarmament and reinsertion (DDR) program for militias in the DRC's northeastern Ituri District. The three million USD project, partially co-financed by USAID, aims to dem [...] | 2007-06-05 14:22:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO CG |
07KINSHASA624 | BEMBA NOT PLANNING TO RETURN TO KINSHASA SOON [...] (C) Summary: Close aides to Senator Jean-Pierre Bemba said the former Transitional Vice President and MLC President will remain in Portugal and not return to the DRC anytime soon. A 60-day leave of absence granted Bemba by the Senate ends June 11. Bemba and his advisers say he will not come ba [...] | 2007-06-06 14:53:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PO CG |
07KINSHASA628 | MINEMBWE TALKS STALLED AS PATIENCE WITH DISSIDENTS [...] (C) Summary: Discussions with armed Banyamulenge dissidents in South Kivu's Minembwe region remain stalled, and the group's leaders refuse to meet with provincial or MONUC officials. The dissidents are now allegedly recruiting, rearming, and committing violence against rival ethnic groups and [...] | 2007-06-07 09:50:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KPKO ASEC MOPS CG |
07KINSHASA644 | DRC'S OPPOSITION LAW NEARLY READY FOR PLENARY [...] (C) Summary: National Assembly deputies working on the DRC's draft law on the rights and status of the political opposition have nearly completed work on the document, according to several parliamentarians. The law seeks to establish a legal and operational framework for a "positive and constr [...] | 2007-06-11 16:30:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG |
07KINSHASA65 | NKUNDA LOYALISTS "MIXING" WITH REGULAR CONGOLESE [...] (C) Summary: There is as yet no confirmation of reports that renegade General Laurent Nkunda will be granted asylum in another country as part of an agreement with the GDRC. The Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) has begun mixing pro-Nkunda soldiers in North Kivu province with other, "loyal" non- [...] | 2007-01-22 10:13:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO MOPS CG |
07KINSHASA658 | BRAZZAVILLE/CONGO: "WALK IN THE WOODS" WITH [...] (U) DCM represented Embassy Brazzaville at the June 8 closing ceremony for the two-day "concertation" which took place in the former ex-Ninja rebel stronghold of Kinkala in the heart of the Pool region. Unlike the high-profile, security-charged environment witnessed the preceding day by th [...] | 2007-06-13 13:41:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PINS CF |
07KINSHASA659 | MILITARY INTEGRATION DIFFICULTIES ON DISPLAY AT [...] (C) Summary: A recent tour of the DRC's military training and integration facility in Luberizi, South Kivu, highlighted the challenges facing GDRC officials charged with reforming the country's security sector. A lack of equipment and logistical support hamper efforts to create a unified and p [...] | 2007-06-13 15:22:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO MOPS ASEC CG |
07KINSHASA667 | SENATE PRESIDENT LAYS OUT HIS LEGISLATIVE AGENDA [...] (U) Summary: Leon Kengo wa Dondo, the newly-elected president of the Senate, highlighted his legislative priorities in his first formal meeting with the Ambassador. His priorities include the draft budget, the law on the opposition, the judicial sector law creating the governing body for mag [...] | 2007-06-14 15:35:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG |
07KINSHASA680 | THREE KILLED, AT LEAST 52 INJURED AFTER WEAPONS [...] (C) Summary: Three people were killed and at least 52 injured after several tons of munitions caught fire and exploded early on the morning of June 17 at the Congolese military (FARDC) base in the provincial capital of Mbandaka, Equateur. No cause has been established for the fire,. Damage has [...] | 2007-06-19 14:24:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO ASEC MOPS CG |
07KINSHASA704 | ITURI UPDATE: KARIM SURRENDERS MORE MILITIA [...] (C) Front for National Integration (FNI) militia leader Peter Karim has turned over an additional 177 militia fighters to Congolese military (FARDC) authorities in Ituri District. A first group of 141 surrendered June 15 in Doi, approximately 50 miles northeast of Bunia. The other 36 turned th [...] | 2007-06-25 06:19:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO PHUM CG |
07KINSHASA712 | UN INVESTIGATING ALLEGATIONS OF BEATINGS AND [...] (SBU) MONUC announced May 26 that the UN would conduct a full investigation into allegations of beatings and killings of detainees by MONUC peacekeepers in Ituri in 2005. A previous MONUC investigation had found the peacekeepers used excessive force, but the results were not sent to the UN in [...] | 2007-06-25 15:07:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KPKO CG |
07KINSHASA744 | 200 CHILD SOLDIERS REMAIN IN MIXED BRIGADES [...] (SBU) Summary: UN child protection officials and the NGO Caritas have demobilized 251 child soldiers from the Congolese military's (FARDC) six "mixed" brigades in North Kivu but estimate that another 200 remain in their ranks. End summary. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (SBU) UN c [...] | 2007-07-03 14:15:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM MOPS PGOV KPKO CG |
07KINSHASA745 | MBANDAKA ARMS DEPOT EXPLOSION: OFFICIALS CLAIM [...] (C) Summary: Congolese officials have not determined the cause of the June 17 explosion at a military weapons depot in Equateur province, but claim it was the result of sabotage. Experts with the USG-funded NGO Mines Advisory Group (MAG) say it was more likely due to the accidental spread of a [...] | 2007-07-03 14:18:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO ASEC MOPS MARR CG |
07KINSHASA746 | EQUATEUR'S SECURITY PROBLEMS REST MOSTLY WITH [...] (C) Summary: Northwestern Equateur province's primary security concerns center on the estimated 7,000 demobilized soldiers throughout the province who often attack police forces and civilians, loot and steal, and commit other crimes. Provincial officials say another pervasive problem is the mi [...] | 2007-07-03 14:27:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO ASEC CG |
07KINSHASA754 | FACTORS DRIVING NORTH KIVU'S SECURITY CONCERNS [...] (C) Summary: The growing sense of insecurity in North Kivu is being driven by a variety of military and political factors. The GDRC has failed to follow through on the integration of the so-called "mixed" brigades, whose presence has contributed to rising tensions since the beginning of the ye [...] | 2007-07-05 15:47:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO ASEC MOPS CG |
07KINSHASA792 | NORTH KIVU TENSION CONTINUE TO MOUNT [...] (C) P3 2 Ambassadors (France, U.K., U.S., Belgium, and South Africa) met with UN SRSG Swing July 9 to review the situation in North Kivu. As of the meeting, there had been no follow-up from President Kabila to the P3 2 letter given to Kabila June 30. Moreover, contrary to Kabila,s statements [...] | 2007-07-11 09:29:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS KPKO ASEC CG |
07KINSHASA799 | BEMBA SIGNALS HARDER LINE TO EU [...] (C) European Chiefs of Mission have told us that former Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba recently spoke with EU Special Envoy Van de Geer regarding his potential return to the DRC. Bemba, still in Portugal ostensibly for medical treatment but in reality living in temporary self-exile, reporte [...] | 2007-07-11 13:28:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PO CG |
07KINSHASA81 | ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT KAMERHE PLANS AMBITIOUS AGENDA [...] (C) Summary. National Assembly President Vital Kamerhe has plans for an ambitious legislative agenda, close oversight of the other branches of the government, professionalization of the Assembly's work and a program of parliamentary diplomacy. He plans to call a special session in late Janu [...] | 2007-01-24 17:52:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM CG |
07KINSHASA814 | PROPOSALS TO SHUT DOWN THE CREN-K NUCLEAR REACTOR [...] (C) Econoff met June 7 with Professor Fortunat Lumu Badimabayi-Matu, the recently dismissed Director of the Kinshasa Nuclear Research Center (CREN-K) and the DRC Atomic Energy Commission (CGEA). (Note: Per reftel A, Lumu was fired in March by the new Minister of Scientific Research, Sylvanus [...] | 2007-07-13 10:50:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG KNNP PGOV PINR IAEA CG |
07KINSHASA840 | ANVIL TRIAL VERDICT QUESTIONED [...] (SBU) The June 28 military court verdict finding Anvil Mining employees and several Congolese soldiers not guilty in the FARDC's killing of dozens of villagers in Kilwa (Katanga province) in October 2004 has drawn criticism from UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour. Arbour said [...] | 2007-07-18 13:38:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN PHUM PGOV CG |
07KINSHASA844 | KABILA DISMISSES MINISTER OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH [...] (C) Summary. President Kabila fired Minister Sylvanus Mushi July 12 for "improper conduct." Speculation as to the reason for the action has centered on corruption. Kinshasa newspapers have focused on dealings involving a company owned by Mushi's family and OFIDA, the state customs and excis [...] | 2007-07-19 16:29:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ENRG EMIN KDEM CG |
07KINSHASA846 | CONCERNS ABOUT INSECURITY IN NORTH KIVU [...] (C) Summary. Some MONUC civilian officials have expressed growing concerns about the possibility of a government offensive against renegade General Laurent Nkunda in North Kivu. Two of its key officials believe that the Kabila government has made a decision to mobilize for an attack on Nkun [...] | 2007-07-19 17:02:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS KPKO KDEM CG RW |
07KINSHASA86 | ITURI UPDATE: KARIM STILL A HOLD-OUT FOR DISARMING [...] (C) Summary: Front for National Integration (FNI) leader Peter Karim refuses to disarm his Ituri-based militia despite a series of deadlines imposed by the GDRC. While other militias have disbanded and sent their members to demobilization sites, Karim and the FNI are instead massing forces nor [...] | 2007-01-25 12:48:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO CG |
07KINSHASA88 | ITURI UPDATE: FRPI, MRC MILITIAS STILL AWAITING [...] (C) Summary: Mathieu Ngudjolo's Congolese Revolutionary Movement (MRC) and Cobra Matata's Front for Patriotic Resistance in Ituri (FRPI) militias have largely disarmed, although the number of militia members who have surrendered to date is far lower than earlier expectations. Ex-FRPI combatant [...] | 2007-01-25 13:57:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO CG |
07KINSHASA882 | KABILA, OTHER LEADERS AGREE ON POLITICAL AND [...] (C) Summary. President Kabila, Prime Minister Gizenga and the presidents of the National Assembly, Senate and Supreme Court met July 23 in an initial inter-institutional meeting. They agreed to Kamerhe's proposal for political and diplomatic strategies to reduce tensions in the east and re- [...] | 2007-07-25 15:54:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM CG RW |
07KINSHASA887 | MONUC LAUNCHES MINEMBWE PEACE EFFORT IN WAKE OF [...] (C) Summary. MONUC officials have launched a new initiative in South Kivu's High Plateau region following a week of renewed fighting between the Congolese military (FARDC) and armed ethnic Banyamulenge dissident forces. Their efforts have not produced a ceasefire, though the level of fighting [...] | 2007-07-26 14:45:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PHUM PREF PGOV CG |
07KINSHASA895 | SENATE PRESIDENT KENGO REVIEWS STATE OF PLAY AT [...] (C) Summary. Senate President Leon Kengo wa Dondo highlighted decentralization as the most contentious issue facing the Congolese parliament when it returns for its fall session September 15. He expressed skepticism about budget figures which came from the National Assembly. He is in favor [...] | 2007-07-30 13:35:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM CG |
07KINSHASA900 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT KAMERHE JUGGLES [...] (C) Summary. National Assembly President Vital Kamerhe will confront a crowded legislative agenda this fall while also attempting to help defuse an increasingly tense situation in his home region in eastern Congo. He sees decentralization as the key issue ahead for the Assembly. His proposa [...] | 2007-07-30 16:23:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM CG RW |
07KINSHASA926 | KABILA SECURITY ADVISER DIES UNEXPECTEDLY IN SOUTH [...] (C) Presidential adviser Samba Kaputo, a key figure in Kabila-era politics, died in Johannesburg August 1, reportedly of kidney failure. He was Kabila's national security adviser during the Transition and a member of his trusted inner circle. He had close connections with the military and i [...] | 2007-08-03 12:27:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG ZA |
07KINSHASA949 | CONGOLESE MILITARY RELEASES FOUR UGANDAN SOLDIERS [...] (C) Summary: Talks between Congolese and Ugandan military representatives led to the release August 6 of four Ugandan People's Defense Force (UPDF) soldiers who had been held by the Congolese military (FARDC) in Ituri District since July 29. The meeting also led to an agreement to establish c [...] | 2007-08-08 14:03:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS ASEC PINS PHUM PGOV PREL EPET UG CG |
07KINSHASA956 | DEMARCHE ON MODIFYING THE ARMS EMBARGO UNDER UNSC [...] (U) The perception of a general arms embargo directed at the DRC, including armed forces operating under central government command authority, has become a major source of irritation to President Kabila and senior GDRC officials generally. These concerns have been expressed frequently and st [...] | 2007-08-09 12:49:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CG UN |
07KINSHASA98 | SECOND "MIXED" BRIGADE FORMED IN NORTH KIVU [...] (U) The Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) in North Kivu have formed a second new "mixed" brigade composed of soldiers allied with renegade General Laurent Nkunda and of other non-integrated FARDC soldiers who have no ties to Nkunda. The "Bravo" Brigade combines members of the pro-Nkunda 81st and [...] | 2007-01-26 16:38:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO MOPS CG |
07KINSHASA991 | KABILA RELAXED AND UPBEAT IN FAREWELL MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary. During Ambassador Meeece,s August 14 farewell call, President Kabila asked for greater USG involvement in building democratic institutions and reforming the security sector. Kabila believes the border dispute with Uganda can be resolved. He cited a date certain (September 3) f [...] | 2007-08-21 13:00:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MARR CG UG RW |
07KOLKATA69 | LEFT OBJECTS TO CONSUL GENERAL'S MEETING WITH JAMIAT-E-ULEMA [...] (C) Summary: On February 24, ConGen met with West Bengal Jamiat-e-Ulema Hind (JUH) General Secretary Siddiqullah Chowdhury at the JUH offices to discuss Muslim issues and concerns in West Bengal. Chowdhury has come to local prominence recently in leading Muslim opposition to development of [...] | 2007-02-26 14:21:00 | Consulate Kolkata | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ASEC PREL ECON SOCI IN |
07KUALALUMPUR1001 | GENERAL PACE'S JUNE 4 MEETINGS WITH PM ABDULLAH [...] (C) Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi and Deputy Prime Minister/Defense Minister Najib Tun Razak endorsed current military-to-military cooperation with the U.S. in their separate meetings on June 4 with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace and the Ambassador. DPM Na [...] | 2007-06-08 05:37:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER KISL OVIP MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1049 | YOUNG PROGRESSIVES RETAIN INFLUENCE IN PAS PARTY [...] (SBU) Summary: Malaysia's Islamist opposition party, the Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS),held its annual general meeting and biennial party elections June 1-3 in Kota Bharu, Kelantan, the only state controlled by PAS. As expected, party president Abdul Hadi Awang ran unopposed and retained [...] | 2007-06-19 00:05:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL KDEM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1071 | CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR 1206 FUNDING -- MALAYSIA [...] (C) Post has reviewed the FY 2007 section 1206 proposals for the Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) program in support of Eyes in the Sky. Post reiterates its support for the proposed 1206 funding for MDA and requests that it be notified to Congress. 2. (C) Post also renews its support for ad [...] | 2007-06-22 08:43:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL MARR MASS MOPS MCAP MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1137 | DARFUR PEACEKEEPING: DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER SAYS [...] (C) In the course of the July 13 meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Najib, the Ambassador asked him if Malaysia planned to send peacekeepers to Darfur. Najib replied that the Government of Malaysia (GOM) was considering this seriously, that they had been in touch with the UN, and that the GO [...] | 2007-07-13 10:47:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO UNSC MASS SU MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1145 | EMBASSY SENIOR-LEVEL ENGAGEMENT ON TRAFFICKING IN [...] (C) Summary: Senior Malaysian officials are still smarting over the U.S. decision to rank Malaysia in TIP Tier 3 but they have expressed much more willingness to discuss the issue quietly than they did in the immediate aftermath of the USG decision of June 12. We have engaged with senior off [...] | 2007-07-16 01:38:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV ELAB KCRM KWMN MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1154 | ANWAR IBRAHIM PROJECTS OPPOSITION GAINS, DECRIES [...] (C) Former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim told the Ambassador during their July 11 discussion that he believed opposition parties could capture some 40 parliament seats or more in the next general election, projecting from results of the April Ijok by-election. Anwar's People's Justice P [...] | 2007-07-16 10:21:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECON KDEM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1166 | MALAYSIA ENCOURAGED BY U.S. OIC ENVOY DECISION; [...] (C) Malaysia's senior OIC diplomat Ibrahim Abdullah, speaking with us on July 13, reiterated that Malaysia welcomed the U.S. decision to appoint a special envoy to the OIC, and he encouraged the envoy to visit Malaysia as the OIC chair. The OIC Secretary General asked Malaysia to identify an [...] | 2007-07-18 09:09:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KISL KPKO MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1172 | KHAIRY AND UMNO YOUTH FOCUS ON FTA, PALESTINE IN [...] (C) Khairy Jamaluddin, influential son-in-law of PM Abdullah, underscored his oft-publicized concerns about the FTA, in particular regarding agriculture and government procurement, during the Ambassador's July 18 lunch for leaders of UMNO Youth, an important component of the dominant United M [...] | 2007-07-20 07:27:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECON ETRD EAGR EINV MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1174 | NAJIB'S "ISLAMIC STATE" REMARK DRAWS THE IRE OF [...] (C) Summary: Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Abdul Razak set off a fire storm on July 17 when, in response to a reporter's question, he stated that Malaysia is and has always been an "Islamic state." Malaysia's minorities and opposition parties attacked the DPM's comments as viola [...] | 2007-07-20 09:05:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PINR SOCI KISL MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1205 | MALAYSIA'S NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL DESCRIBED BY [...] (C) Malaysia's National Security Council Secretary Muhammad Hatta outlined the NSC structure during a July 23 lunch with DCM and polchief. We include bio notes on Hatta. End Summary. NSC Structure ------------- 2. (C) During a July 23 lunch with DCM and polchief, Malaysia's National [...] | 2007-07-26 06:16:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1218 | VIRTUAL LIMITS: MALAYSIA ATTEMPTS TO REIN IN BLOGGERS [...] (C) Bloggers fear the recent police actions against two prominent online political commentators, Nathaniel Tan and Raja Petra Kamaruddin, presage a Government of Malaysia (GOM) crackdown on the freedoms of speech and the press in cyberspace. GOM leaders and officials from the dominant United [...] | 2007-07-30 11:09:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI KPAO MY |
07KUALALUMPUR122 | 1206 FUNDING FINAL REVIEW -- MALAYSIA [...] (SBU) Post has reviewed the FY 2007 section 1206 proposals to install radar facilities in Eastern Sabah and CENTRIX stations (reftel). We approve the proposals and recommend that they be notified to Congress. 2. (C) Post proposed the radar facilities project based on our understanding dir [...] | 2007-01-19 09:02:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL MARR MASS MOPS MCAP MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1257 | CHINESE VOTERS DISSATISFIED WITH RULING COALITION, [...] (C) Corruption, crime and vernacular education remain among the top electoral priorities for Malaysia's ethnic Chinese community, and in the run-up to the next national election Chinese dissatisfaction with the ruling Coalition's handling of such issues appears on the rise. To explore ethnic [...] | 2007-08-07 07:38:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR127 | MALAYSIA CONFIRMS PARTICIPATION IN IRAN NUCLEAR [...] (C) The Ambassador raised our concerns over Malaysia's participation in the visit to Iranian nuclear sites (reftel) with Foreign Ministry Secretary General Rastam Mohammed Isa on January 19. The Ambassador, noting that he was under instruction, urged Malaysia not to accept Iran's invitation [...] | 2007-01-19 10:10:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL AORC KNNP IAEA TRGY MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1278 | PM CHIMES IN ON "ISLAMIC STATE" DEBATE [...] (C) The debate over whether Malaysia is an "Islamic state" continued with Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi's August 4 comments that Malaysia is neither a theocratic state nor a secular one. These remarks came as Minister Bernard Dompok broke ranks and stated his disagreement with the descriptio [...] | 2007-08-13 09:06:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SOCI KISL MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1290 | REASSESSING MALAYSIA'S EFFORTS TO COMBAT [...] (C) The Malaysians have made significant progress in implementing items contained in the action plan we provided them in 2006, and we should return them from Tier 3 to the Tier 2 Watch List in connection with the September review. We recognize that trafficking in Malaysia remains serious. We [...] | 2007-08-15 10:27:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KCRM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1362 | UNHCR OVERVIEW OF REFUGEE OPERATIONS IN MALAYSIA [...] (C) The UNHCR Representative in Malaysia presented on August 23 a "confidential" briefing to diplomatic missions monitoring the status of refugees in Malaysia. After the Government of Malaysia (GOM) denied access to detention facilities earlier this year, the UNHCR regained limited access to [...] | 2007-09-05 23:41:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PREL CVIS SMIG BM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1363 | MALAYSIA: IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUALS FOR ISLAM AND [...] (C) Post recommends one Malaysian scholar and one influential Islamic cleric as possible candidates for ref A events. -- Professor Emeritus Osman Bakar, of the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC),is an outstanding scholar of Islam who has published art [...] | 2007-09-05 23:41:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1375 | AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL DISCUSSIONS WITH FOREIGN [...] (C) The Ambassador and Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar, in farewell discussions September 3-4, agreed that U.S.-Malaysia bilateral relations had strengthened over the past three years. The Ambassador raised Iran, export controls, trafficking in persons (TIP)),Free Trade Agreement [...] | 2007-09-10 05:25:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ETRD KNNP KISL ASEAN IR BU MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1377 | POLICE BREAK UP OPPOSITION RALLY IN TERENGGANU, [...] (C) Summary: Malaysian police efforts to forcibly prevent an opposition rally from proceeding without a police permit in Kuala Terengganu on September 8 turned into a four-hour long riot, during which the police used tear gas and a water-cannon to break-up a crowd of some 500 opposition supp [...] | 2007-09-10 13:32:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL KDEM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1386 | BURMA: MALAYSIA SUPPORTIVE OF GAMBARI, BUT NOT [...] (C) The Malaysian Foreign Ministry's Under Secretary for Multilateral Political Affairs Division Shahrul Ikram, who oversees UN matters, stated September 13 that Malaysia supported Special Envoy Gambari's role, but did not agree that his travel to Burma should be so closely tied to another me [...] | 2007-09-13 07:10:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BU MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1439 | BURMA: MALAYSIA DOES NOT LINK GAMBARI TRAVEL TO [...] (C) Embassy continues to raise the Burma issue with Malaysia's Foreign Ministry subsequent to presentation of the latest demarche (refs A, B). Polchief spoke with the MFA's Southeast Asia and Pacific (II) Director Under Secretary Rahimi Harun on September 14, using the occasion to emphasize [...] | 2007-09-20 09:33:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1446 | VIDEO OF JUDGE FIXING ROCKS MALAYSIA'S JUDICIARY [...] (C) Former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim rocked Malaysia's legal establishment on September 19 when he held a press conference to release an eight minute videotaped conversation purportedly showing a phone conversation between a famously corrupt Malaysian attorney and the current Chief J [...] | 2007-09-21 09:15:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KJUS MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1458 | MALAYSIA'S LAWYERS TAKE TO THE STREETS OVER [...] (C) With limited government response to the September 19 allegations of corruption and judge fixing (ref A),the Malaysian Bar Council announced its intent to march on the Prime Minister's office and demand the establishment of a royal commission of inquiry. Malaysia's law minister quickly de [...] | 2007-09-26 12:10:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KJUS MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1470 | BURMA: PM ABDULLAH SAYS CONSTRUCTIVE ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Following the release of the tough September 27 ASEAN statement on Burma, both Prime Minister Abdullah and Foreign Minister Hamid hardened their tone and concluded that ASEAN would have to rethink its demands and expectations vis--vis Burma, with the PM stating that ASEAN's "constructive [...] | 2007-09-28 10:43:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1475 | MALAYSIA'S FOREIGN MINISTRY REFUTES IRANIAN PRESS [...] (C) Polchief called on the Malaysian Foreign Ministry's Undersecretary for the Americas, Ambassador Ramlan Ibrahim, at short notice on September 28 to raise the issue of the September 26 meeting in New York between Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Polc [...] | 2007-10-01 10:08:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP KISL IR MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1476 | BURMA: UMNO YOUTH PARTCIPATE IN RALLY; POLITICIANS [...] (C) Summary: The Malaysian Prime Minister's son-in-law Khairy Jamaluddin and the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) Youth wing joined the cause of promoting democratic reform in Burma and participated in a peaceful rally in front of the Burmese Embassy on October 1. Approximately 200 [...] | 2007-10-01 10:10:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1484 | BURMA: MALAYSIA WAITING ON GAMBARI, NOT FOCUSED ON [...] (C) Summary: The Malaysian government is awaiting the outcome of Gambari's mission and the return of PM Abdullah before considering next steps on Burma, according to MFA Secretary General Rastam, who predictably gave no hint of SIPDIS support for sanctions in response to our demarche. A [...] | 2007-10-02 10:20:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1492 | AMBASSADOR KEITH'S OCTOBER 4 MEETING WITH MFA [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Keith raised Burma during his initial courtesy call on MFA SecGen Rastam, urging that ASEAN support an October 5 UNSC meeting and a prospective Presidential Statement from the Council on Burma. Sidestepping the issue of a statement, Rastam reiterated Malaysian frustra [...] | 2007-10-04 10:04:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1497 | MALAYSIA'S INTERNAL SECURITY ACT (ISA) DETAINEES, [...] (SBU) Malaysia held eighty-seven persons under Internal Security Act (ISA) detention in the Kamunting prison as of September, according to a normally reliable source. Fifty-four of those held are terrorist suspects. The Malaysian government commonly releases a number of ISA detainees each ye [...] | 2007-10-05 08:52:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV PINR KISL KJUS ASEC MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1506 | MILF TALKS: OTHMAN USES IMT THREAT AND PREVIOUS [...] (C) Malaysian facilitator for the Philippines (GRP)/Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace talks Othman Abdul Razak employed previous GRP negotiator Silvestre Afable and the threat of Malaysia's pull-out from the International Monitoring Team (IMT) to push Manila during a September 25-26 [...] | 2007-10-10 07:45:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PTER MOPS EAID KISL RP MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1513 | BURMA: MALAYSIA RECEIVES DEMARCHE ON ASEAN [...] (C) Charge delivered ref A demarche on October 11 to Malaysian Foreign Ministry Secretary General Rastam Mohamed Isa. Charge expressed appreciation for Foreign Minister Syed Hamid's statements October 7 urging the Burmese regime to begin a dialogue without preconditions with ASSK and the pro [...] | 2007-10-11 09:50:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1534 | BURMA: GAMBARI'S VISIT TO MALAYSIA [...] (SBU) UN Special Envoy to Burma Ibrahim Gambari held talks in Kuala Lumpur with Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar and Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi on October 16 - 17. FM Hamid announced Malaysia and ASEAN would never suspend Burma or agree to sanctions against the military regime. Hamid co [...] | 2007-10-17 13:41:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1541 | MALAYSIA'S CENTRAL BANK: LET'S MAKE A DEAL! [...] (C) Summary: A number of U.S. financial services firms operating in Malaysia have described various informal practices undertaken by staff at Bank Negara Malaysia, the Central Bank, designed to encourage US firms to shift investment and jobs to Malaysia in return for regulatory approvals. I [...] | 2007-10-18 09:02:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1551 | ABBAS VISITS MALAYSIA, PM ABDULLAH WELCOMES CHANCE [...] (C) Summary: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited Kuala Lumpur October 20 - 21, accompanied by Information Minister Riyad al Maliki and two other senior Palestinian officials as part of a tour of Muslim countries to seek support ahead of the U.S.-sponsored Middle East peace conference [...] | 2007-10-22 10:53:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IS MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1552 | ABBAS VISITS MALAYSIA, PM ABDULLAH WELCOMES CHANCE [...] (C) Summary: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited Kuala Lumpur October 20 - 21, accompanied by Information Minister Riyad al Maliki and two other senior Palestinian officials as part of a tour of Muslim countries to seek support ahead of the U.S.-sponsored Middle East peace conference [...] | 2007-10-22 23:53:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IS MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1563 | MALAYSIA SUPPORTS BURMA'S FULL PARTICIPATION AT [...] (C) Summary: Malaysia appears satisfied that Gambari is making some progress, and consequently Malaysia is not prepared to support a high-pressured ASEAN approach to Burma at the upcoming summit, per our October 24 meeting with a senior Foreign Ministry official to deliver the demarche on th [...] | 2007-10-24 10:18:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM BM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1567 | MALAYSIA BACKS MEPP, EXPECTS INVITE TO U.S.-HOSTED [...] (C) Summary: Palestinian President Abbas sought Malaysia's general backing in future peace talks with Israel and discussed Malaysian aid to Palestine during his October 20 meeting with Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, according to the Foreign Ministry. Malaysia understands that the [...] | 2007-10-25 09:25:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL IS MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1580 | EAP DAS CHRISTENSEN'S OCTOBER 17 MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: Prime Ministerial Political Secretary Vincent Lim told visiting EAP DAS Christensen on October 17 that there is a perception in Malaysia and ASEAN that the United States is not heavily engaged in the region. He further commented that U.S. actions in Iraq and Afghanistan have neg [...] | 2007-11-02 00:37:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON CH MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1594 | BAR COUNCIL, PRIME MINISTER FACE OFF DURING LAW [...] (C) The Malaysian Bar Council's October 29-31 law conference drew national attention as respected Sultan of Perak Azlan Shah and Bar Council President Ambiga Sreenevasan, in the wake of recent judicial scandals, delivered speeches critical of the government, calling for reforms to strengthen [...] | 2007-11-05 12:11:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KDEM KJUS MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1604 | OPPOSITION AND POLICE HEADED FOR SHOWDOWN OVER [...] (C) Opposition parties and the election NGO Bersih are organizing a major rally in Kuala Lumpur for November 10, despite police warnings not to proceed without a permit. Organizers optimistically hope for 10,000 demonstrators to participate in the rally, and expect the event to culminate in a [...] | 2007-11-07 10:50:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL KDEM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1610 | BURMA: MALAYSIA MFA WANTS GAMBARI TO PLAY ROLE IN [...] (C) Polchief spoke with the Malaysian Foreign Ministry's Southeast Asia and South Pacific Division chief Rahimi Harun on November 9, and conveyed ref A points on Burma welcoming Aung San Suu Kyi's call for meaningful dialogue and raising concern over the regime's rejection of UN Special Adviso [...] | 2007-11-09 09:39:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM BM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1613 | MALAYSIA'S OPPOSITION DRAWS TENS OF THOUSANDS TO [...] (C) Malaysia's major opposition parties operating under the election-reform umbrella organization BERSIH on November 10 carried out possibly the country's largest opposition demonstration since 1998, gathering 20,000 or more demonstrators to present an election reform petition to the National [...] | 2007-11-13 11:41:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KISL KDEM ASEC MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1624 | CHALLENGES TO MALAYSIA'S STATUS QUO: WINDS OF [...] (C) Subtle as well as more abrupt challenges to Malaysia's political status quo have emerged over the past few months, further signifying that times have changed since Mahathir's era of tight control. The Sultans quietly reasserted a claim to a measure of constitutional authority, which they [...] | 2007-11-16 12:15:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM KJUS MY |
07KUALALUMPUR163 | UPDATE ON 1206 FUNDING -- MALAYSIA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-26 08:24:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL MARR MASS MOPS MCAP MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1640 | ALLEGED SEX TRAFFICKING ON LABUAN ISLAND [...] (C) Poloff visited Labuan in October in light of reports of some Filipinas trafficking into brothels on the island. We found that prostitution takes place under cover of legitimate business fronts and most Filipinas employed there have temporary work visas as "guest relations officers." Labua [...] | 2007-11-21 11:25:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV KJUS KWMN SMIG MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1646 | MALAYSIAN POLICE ARREST ETHNIC INDIAN ACTIVIST [...] (C) Summary: Police arrested an ethnic Indian lawyer serving as legal advisor to the Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF) on charges of sedition ahead of a planned demonstration on November 25. HINDRAF had applied to the Kuala Lumpur Police for a permit to hold an assembly in front of the Bri [...] | 2007-11-23 08:46:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1647 | POLICE BREAK UP ETHNIC INDIAN PROTEST IN KUALA [...] (C) Thousands of ethnic Indian Malaysians took to the streets of Kuala Lumpur in protest on November 25, the second major anti-government demonstration in two weeks. Despite police warnings, early arrests (ref A) and heavy police presence on the streets of Kuala Lumpur, approximately 20,000 e [...] | 2007-11-26 11:08:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ASEC KDEM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1657 | UNHCR WARY OF NEW ROLE FOR "RELA" AUXILIARIES IN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-29 05:39:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV PREL PHUM PINS MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1659 | UNHCR WARY OF NEW ROLE FOR "RELA" AUXILIARIES IN [...] (C) United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Representative in Malaysia Volker Turk briefed Ambassador Keith on November 23 regarding UNHCR operations in Malaysia, and UNHCR's central role in U.S. resettlement processing for Burmese refugees. Turk expressed his concern with the [...] | 2007-11-30 01:13:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV PREL PHUM PINS MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1663 | GOVERNMENT WARNS ON FUTURE PROTESTS, TAKES LEGAL [...] (C) In the aftermath of the November 25 ethnic Indian street demonstration, which police forcibly dispersed, the Malaysian government has raised the stakes for its critics who proceed with public rallies in defiance of government bans. Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi warned the nation on Novem [...] | 2007-11-30 10:42:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1664 | GOVERNMENT WARNS ON FUTURE PROTESTS, TAKES LEGAL [...] (C) In the aftermath of the November 25 ethnic Indian street demonstration, which police forcibly dispersed, the Malaysian government has raised the stakes for its critics who proceed with public rallies in defiance of government bans. Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi warned the nation on Novem [...] | 2007-11-30 10:44:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1675 | IRAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED; SENIOR IRAN ENVOY LOBBIES [...] (C) Polchief on December 4 delivered reftel demarche regarding the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear program to Wan Yusri, Principal Assistant Secretary in the Multilateral Political Division of Malaysia's Foreign Ministry. Yusri thanked polchief for the timely information [...] | 2007-12-04 10:51:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KNNP MNUC IR MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1684 | INDIAN GRIEVANCES AND RACIAL TENSIONS; GOM TRIES [...] (C) The ethnic Indian protest on November 25 and the government's strong law enforcement response have increased domestic and international attention on Malaysia's Indian community. Despite constituting nearly 8 per cent of Malaysia's population, ethnic Indians hold only 1.2 per cent of the n [...] | 2007-12-06 16:19:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM ASEC MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1691 | POLICE ARREST HUMAN RIGHTS DAY MARCHERS; ANOTHER [...] (C) Malaysian police on December 9 arrested organizers of an attempted march in Kuala Lumpur by lawyers, activists and opposition party officials in support of freedom of assembly. The short-lived march involved some 100 participants and took place after the Bar Council, under police pressure [...] | 2007-12-10 11:54:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM ASEC MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1694 | EMBASSY RAISES CONCERNS OVER FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY, [...] (C) Summary: Embassy raised concerns over freedom of assembly with two senior Malaysian officials on December 6 and December 11, respectively, in light of the continued arrests of opposition and civil society organizers of rallies critical of the government. An advisor to the Prime Minister [...] | 2007-12-11 09:33:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1695 | POLICE ARREST OPPOSITION LEADERS ATTEMPTING [...] (SBU) Summary: Malaysian police on December 11 arrested 24 opposition party and NGO activists, organized under the Bersih electoral reform coalition, in connection with a planned rally at Parliament. Police released at least seven of the activists later in the day. Those arrested included f [...] | 2007-12-11 10:46:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM ASEC MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1702 | BURMA: MALAYSIA NOT INCLINED TO CONSIDER CHARTER [...] (C) Polchief delivered reftel demarche on ASEAN measures to keep pressure on the Burmese regime to the Malaysian Foreign Ministry's Parliamentary Secretary Shabery Cheek on December 12. Polchief emphasized the regime's lack of concrete steps toward a dialogue, despite the efforts of UN Speci [...] | 2007-12-12 08:54:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1710 | HINDRAF LEADERS DETAINED UNDER INTERNAL SECURITY [...] (C) The Malaysian government on December 13 arrested five ethnic Indian leaders of the small NGO HINDRAF using the Internal Security Act (ISA),which provides for detention without trial, and indicated they would be help for two years. Senior Malaysian officials, including Prime Minister Abd [...] | 2007-12-13 11:59:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PHUM KDEM ASEC MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1711 | HINDRAF LEADERS DETAINED UNDER INTERNAL SECURITY [...] (C) The Malaysian government on December 13 arrested five ethnic Indian leaders of the small NGO HINDRAF using the Internal Security Act (ISA),which provides for detention without trial, and indicated they would be held for two years. Senior Malaysian officials, including Prime Minister Abd [...] | 2007-12-13 12:25:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM ASEC MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1721 | AMBASSADOR RAISES ISA CONCERNS WITH LAW MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met on December 14 with de facto Law Minister Nazri Aziz and raised U.S. concerns over Malaysia's use of the Internal Security Act (ISA) in light of the December 13 detention of five ethnic Indian activists. Minister Nazri vigorously defended use of ISA as necessar [...] | 2007-12-14 11:02:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KDEM KJUS MY |
07KUALALUMPUR173 | MALAYSIA'S OTHMAN APPEARS SUPPORTIVE OF U.S.-MILF [...] (C) Malaysian facilitator for the GRP-MILF peace talks Othman Abdul Razak appeared supportive of another U.S. Mission Manila meeting in February with MILF leaders (ref A),in response to polchief's explanation of the mission on January 29. Othman wished the American team success in its meeti [...] | 2007-01-29 11:01:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS MOPS KISL RP MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1732 | JUDICIAL REFORM ELUSIVE, DESPITE ROYAL COMMISSION [...] (C) Following months of inconclusive investigations into a major judge-fixing scandal (ref A),Malaysia's King confirmed on December 12 the government's appointment of a royal commission of inquiry. The King tasked the royal commission to investigate the origin and veracity of the now infamous [...] | 2007-12-21 00:30:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KJUS MY |
07KUALALUMPUR1733 | 2007 UMNO GENERAL ASSEMBLY FIZZLES, BUT KHAIRY [...] (C) Summary: The United Malays National Organization (UMNO) held its 58th Annual General Assembly in Kuala Lumpur from November 5 - 9 and despite the usual fanfare proved to be little more than a pep rally for the upcoming general election. Although party elections remain a year away, chang [...] | 2007-12-21 01:11:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KISL MY |
07KUALALUMPUR209 | AMBASSADOR'S JANUARY 29 MEETING WITH EDUCATION MINISTER HISHAMMUDDIN [...] (C) Education Minister and UMNO Youth chief Hishammuddin responded favorably to the Ambassador's call to expand dialogue between the Embassy and Muslim Malay youth during their January 29 meeting. Hishammuddin described the Malaysian political scene as "volatile" due to the increased racial [...] | 2007-02-07 08:12:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KISL KPAO MY |
07KUALALUMPUR232 | NON-MUSLIM LEADERS VOICE CONCERN OVER ISLAMIZATION [...] (C) Eight senior non-Muslim religious leaders grouped under the Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Sikhs and Taoists (MCCBCHST) expressed their individual and collective concerns about the state of religious freedom and civil rights for non-Muslims in Malaysia dur [...] | 2007-02-07 08:29:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KISL MY |
07KUALALUMPUR268 | MALAYSIA'S HOME AFFAIRS MINISTER CRITICIZES UNHCR, [...] (C) Home Affairs Minister Radzi Sheikh Ahmad recently launched a salvo of criticism at the local UNHCR office, threatening a crackdown on refugees and highlighting the UNHCR's difficult status in a country that has yet to sign the UN Convention on Refugees. The UNHCR appears to be weathering [...] | 2007-02-14 10:42:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF SMIG PREL PGOV UNHCR MY |
07KUALALUMPUR352 | PAS AND UMNO EYE KELANTAN ELECTION; KEDAH AND [...] (C) The Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS) and the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) in PAS-controlled Kelantan state are positioning themselves for a tough fight in the next national election. During polchief's February 5-9 visit to the northern Malaysian states, PAS leaders in Kelant [...] | 2007-02-23 08:42:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM KISL MY |
07KUALALUMPUR381 | MALAYSIA SEES PAKISTAN INITIATIVE AS CONTINUATION [...] (C) Malaysia views the Pakistan-led Middle East peace initiative as largely a continuation of earlier Arab peace proposals, the Foreign Ministry's Under Secretary for Multilateral Political Affairs Shahrul Ikram told polchief February 28. Shahrul, who had just returned from the Islamabad meet [...] | 2007-02-28 09:29:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL PK MY |
07KUALALUMPUR382 | MALAYSIA'S POSITION ON IRAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM [...] (C) Malaysia's position on Iran's nuclear program remains unchanged following the latest IAEA report, the Foreign Ministry's Under Secretary for Multilateral Political Affairs Shahrul Ikram told polchief February 28 in response to reftel demarche. Shahrul avoided the issue of Iranian non-com [...] | 2007-02-28 09:38:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP IR MY |
07KUALALUMPUR396 | BURMA: MALAYSIA NOT FOCUSED ON NEXT STEPS [...] (C) Malaysia has "no new initiative" in mind for Burma and appears unfocused on next steps, according to our meetings with several Malaysian Foreign Ministry officials and a prominent government-linked think tank. One official in charge of UN matters questioned whether Malaysia would activel [...] | 2007-03-02 09:20:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR40 | MALAYSIA STILL WAVERING ON BURMA RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-08 08:45:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC XC BM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR417 | ABDULLAH MEETS WITH HAMAS, FAILS TO INFORM ABBAS [...] (U) Summary: Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah received a senior Hamas delegation on March 3, apparently without President Abbas' prior knowledge. Abdullah used the occasion to call for lifting of international sanctions and to reiterate that Malaysian support for the Palestinian government [...] | 2007-03-05 07:30:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IS MY |
07KUALALUMPUR419 | IRAQ: MALAYSIA FOREIGN MINISTER CONSIDERS VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary: Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah asked his Foreign Minister, Syed Hamid Albar, to visit Baghdad, according to the Iraqi embassy. The Iraqi charge hoped the U.S. quietly would encourage his government to respond quickly with a formal invitation. The Iraqi charge advised Baghd [...] | 2007-03-05 10:22:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL IZ MY |
07KUALALUMPUR436 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON USG PRIORITIES FOR HUMAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-07 08:34:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNHRC HUMAN MY |
07KUALALUMPUR448 | UNHCR IN MALAYSIA: THE HONEYMOON IS OVER [...] (C) The UNHCR representative in Malaysia, meeting with the Ambassador March 2, described difficulties with the Home Affairs Ministry and raised the prospect the GOM might restrict the UNHCR's ability to operate in country. The Home Affairs Ministry recently eliminated the UNHCR's access to cu [...] | 2007-03-09 00:30:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF SMIG PREL PGOV UNHCR MY |
07KUALALUMPUR458 | TRILATERAL COUNTERTERRORISM MEETING WITH AUSTRALIA [...] (SBU) The Australian High Commission hosted a trilateral meeting with U.S. and Japanese embassies on January 17 to discuss CT cooperation and assistance issues in Malaysia. Each mission was represented at the DCM level and included representatives from political, economic, defense, and securi [...] | 2007-03-09 09:39:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL MY |
07KUALALUMPUR467 | MALAYSIAN OIC DIPLOMAT ON HAMAS VISIT, PAKISTAN, [...] (C) The March 3 visit of a senior Hamas leader was in line with Prime Minister Abdullah's desire to engage directly and in more detail on Middle East issues, Malaysia's senior OIC diplomat Ambassador Ibrahim Abdullah told polchief March 9. The Pakistan initiative represents a "repackaging" o [...] | 2007-03-12 11:07:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC KISL KNNP OIC IS PK IR MY |
07KUALALUMPUR495 | MALAYSIA'S MOST PROMINENT THINK TANKS (C-AL7-00170) [...] (C) Summary: Malaysia's most prominent think tanks all have historical ties to and receive substantial funding and material support from the Government of Malaysia. The Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS),the Malaysian Institute for Economic Research (MIER),and the Asia [...] | 2007-03-15 09:06:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV ECON MY |
07KUALALUMPUR506 | ELECTORAL REFORM NOT ON THE HORIZON [...] (C) As Malaysia moves closer to its next national elections, electoral reform faces a very steep uphill battle, a conclusion highlighted during our recent meetings with Election Commission (EC) officials, NGO leaders and several academics. The UMNO-led Barisan Nasional (BN) governing coalition ret [...] | 2007-03-16 08:18:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR540 | IRAN: AMBASSADOR URGES FM HAMID NOT TO UNDERCUT UN [...] (C) The Ambassador called on Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar March 22 to urge Malaysia to discourage major new investments in Iran, such as SKS Ventures. He underlined the importance of Malaysians not appearing to undercut UNSC efforts. The Ambassador also highlighted the Iran S [...] | 2007-03-23 08:22:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL KNNP IR MY |
07KUALALUMPUR618 | SENIOR MOFA OFFICIAL SEEKS BACKGROUND ON IRAN [...] (C) Charge' and Economic Counselor met April 4 with Malaysian Ambassador-at-large Ghazzali S.A. Khalid at his request to brief him on the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA). Ghazzali, formerly Malaysia's Ambassador in Washington, maintains a watching brief on U.S. affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Aff [...] | 2007-04-04 08:46:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC EINV ETRD MY IR |
07KUALALUMPUR629 | AMBASSADOR BACKS UNHCR IN MEETING WITH FM HAMID [...] (C) The Ambassador highlighted the important role played by the UNHCR in Malaysia as part of his March 22 call on Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar (ref A). The UNHCR's work remains essential to protecting refugees, the Ambassador noted. The U.S. is helping Malaysia with the refugee burden [...] | 2007-04-09 04:10:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM BM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR653 | MALAYSIA'S CABINET APPROVES DRAFT TIP LAW [...] (SBU) Ambassador-at-Large Ghazzali S.A. Khalid telephoned the Ambassador on April 11 in order to inform him that the Malaysian Cabinet, in its meeting earlier in the day, had approved the draft anti-trafficking in persons law. Ghazzali said the Malaysian Government intended to present the bil [...] | 2007-04-11 09:31:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KCRM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR70 | BURMA/ASEAN DEMARCHE; MALAYSIAN FM OPPOSES [...] (C) A/DCM delivered ref A demarche seeking Malaysian and ASEAN backing for the draft UNSCR on Burma to the Foreign Ministry's desk officer in charge of UN political affairs on January 11. Recalling our demarche on January 8, A/DCM reiterated the U.S. call for Malaysia's support, as well as A [...] | 2007-01-11 09:39:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC XC BM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR705 | HONEY, I CONVERTED THE KIDS: MALAYSIA'S APPEALS [...] (C) In the latest high-profile legal battle between a Muslim and non-Muslim involving civil law, Malaysia's secular Court of Appeal reached a decision that supports Shari'a court jurisdiction over a non-Muslim. On March 13, the Court of Appeal upheld a High Court ruling that would allow a Mus [...] | 2007-04-18 10:06:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM KWMN PINR SOCI KISL MY |
07KUALALUMPUR719 | MALAYSIA COMMENTS ON U.S.-ASEAN RELATIONS AND TAC [...] (C) In a discussion of U.S.-ASEAN relations, Malaysia's senior diplomat charged with ASEAN affairs said he believed U.S. accession to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation (TAC) would be warmly welcomed by ASEAN members, signal increased U.S. attention to the region, and boost the U.S.-ASEAN di [...] | 2007-04-20 08:51:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEAN MY |
07KUALALUMPUR758 | IRAQ: MALAYSIA WILL NOT CONTRIBUTE TO COALITION, [...] (C) Summary: Although Malaysia clearly would reject any approach to provide military resources to support the Iraq Coalition, it might consider a request by the Iraqi government for modest civilian assistance if this were made directly to the GOM by the Iraqi government itself. End Summary. [...] | 2007-04-25 09:20:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MARR MASS MOPS EAID KISL IZ MY |
07KUALALUMPUR811 | IRAQ: MALAYSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER TO VISIT BAGHDAD [...] (C) Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar plans to visit Baghdad on May 12. FM Hamid has requested meetings with Iraq's senior political leaders during his 12-hour stop. The Iraqi embassy in Kuala Lumpur is not aware of any Malaysian deliverables; however, FM Hamid's visit represents [...] | 2007-05-04 11:01:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS MOPS EAID KISL IZ MY |
07KUALALUMPUR812 | AFGHANISTAN: MALAYSIAN PRIME MINISTER TO VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi plans to visit Kabul on June 3-4 at the invitation of the Aga Khan to attend an Enabling Environment Conference on Enhancing Private Investment and Development. Abdullah is expected to spend one over-night in Kabul on his 36 hour visit. A delegat [...] | 2007-05-07 09:11:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS MOPS EAID KISL AF MY |
07KUALALUMPUR818 | IRAQ: MALAYSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER'S VISIT CANCELED [...] (SBU) Malaysia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) West Asia desk advised us on May 7 that Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar has canceled his planned May 12 trip to Baghdad which we previously reported in ref A. Foreign Ministry officials commented that although the intent was to postpone th [...] | 2007-05-08 08:42:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS MOPS EAID KISL IZ MY |
07KUALALUMPUR835 | MALAYSIA NON-COMMITTAL ON HRC VOTE, MIGHT STRIKE [...] (C) We engaged with the Malaysian Foreign Ministry at senior and working levels again May 10 to convince Malaysia to support Bosnia and Slovenia instead of Belarus in the UNHRC vote. In addition, the Canadians delivered a high-level demarche yesterday. The Ministry's Deputy Secretary Genera [...] | 2007-05-10 09:58:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC MY |
07KUALALUMPUR878 | TRILATERAL COUNTERTERRORISM MEETING, APRIL 18 [...] (C) DCM chaired an April 18 meeting with Japanese and Australian counterparts on trilateral counterterrorism cooperation, the second such meeting in Kuala Lumpur. The delegations discussed the potential for trilateral cooperation in Malaysia and possible recommendations to be presented for co [...] | 2007-05-17 07:01:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL MY |
07KUALALUMPUR880 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON IMPLEMENTING UNSCR 1747 [...] (SBU) On May 17, we delivered reftel demarche to Mr. Bala Chandran Tharman, Principal Assistant Secretary in the Malaysian Foreign Ministry's Multilateral Political Affairs Division. He stated there was "no question" that Malaysia was committed to enforcement of all UN Security Council Resolu [...] | 2007-05-17 08:38:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM ETTC UNSC IR MY |
07KUALALUMPUR901 | MALAYSIA NOTIFIED OF FINAL DISPOSITION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-22 00:39:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PTER PINR MY |
07KUALALUMPUR904 | UMNO QUESTIONS ANWAR IBRAHIM OVER "FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE" ROLE [...] (C) Summary: Prime Ministerial son-in-law and UMNO youth leader Khairy Jamaluddin has publicly called on opposition figure Anwar Ibrahim to explain his role in the Foundation for the Future and his connections with outgoing World Bank President Wolfowitz. Anwar, as Foundation chairman, issued a s [...] | 2007-05-22 09:59:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO MY |
07KUALALUMPUR905 | ANWAR IBRAHIM TAKES CENTER STAGE AT PAS DEDICATION [...] (C) Summary: Former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim was the center of attention at the grand opening and dedication ceremony for the new party headquarters building for the Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS). Despite the attendance of all the party's senior leadership, both the media and PA [...] | 2007-05-22 10:05:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL KDEM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR949 | MALAYSIA'S HIGHEST COURT RULES AGAINST APOSTATE [...] (C) Malaysia's apex court ruled on May 30 that Muslims who seek to apostatize may not do so outside the Shari'a court system. In a 2-1 decision in the case of apostate Lina Joy, the Federal Court ruled that the National Registration Department (NRD) may only change a Malaysian Muslim's offici [...] | 2007-05-31 10:48:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM KWMN SOCI KISL MY |
07KUALALUMPUR950 | ANWAR'S RECENT STRUGGLES FOR RELEVANCE [...] (C) Leaders throughout the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) heralded the results of the Ijok by-election in late April as a personal defeat for Anwar Ibrahim and declared him irrelevant in Malaysian politics. Anwar, on the other hand, touted the local Ijok contest as a moral victory [...] | 2007-05-31 10:49:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL KDEM MY |
07KUALALUMPUR984 | PM ABDULLAH URGES NEW APPROACH TO DARFUR, SEEKS [...] (C) Summary: Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, in a June 4 meeting with visiting General Peter Pace, described his "new approach" to Darfur focused on returning IDPs to their homes with security guarantees from Khartoum. Abdullah has asked wealthy OIC countries to contribute to a new [...] | 2007-06-06 12:14:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PREF MARR KISL UN SU MY |
07KUWAIT1006 | FOREIGN MINISTER TAKES INTEREST IN EMBASSY [...] (SBU) At a June 26 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah inquired about why Kuwait had been listed lower than the United Arab Emirates on the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. Ambassador said that he did not know, but the UAE had apparent [...] | 2007-06-27 13:43:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV ELAB AE KU TIP |
07KUWAIT1024 | PARLIAMENT SPEAKER PREDICTS PASSAGE OF KATRINA AND [...] (SBU) Speaker of Parliament Jassem Al-Khorafi told the Ambassador June 30 he expected Parliament would pass the remaining $400 million of the $500 million aid package Kuwait pledged in September 2005 to assist victims of hurricane Katrina (ref C) before it goes into summer recess sometime mid [...] | 2007-06-30 13:20:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID LE KU KATRINA AID |
07KUWAIT1062 | AMBASSADOR STRESSES CUTTING OFF FOREIGN FIGHTERS [...] (C) The Ambassador met 3 July with MFA Under Secretary Khalid Al-Jarallah to emphasize the importance of cutting off foreign fighters going to Iraq. The Ambassador emphasized that the foreign fighters make up a majority of the suicide bombers and thus have a disproportionate destabilizing in [...] | 2007-07-03 14:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN IZ KU PREL PTER |
07KUWAIT1063 | KUWAITI DEPUTY PM SAYS KUWAITI DEMOCRACY SETTING [...] (C) During a July 4 meeting with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Faisal Moahammed Al-Hajji Boukhadour, the Minister commented that the recent performance of the Kuwaiti parliament was leading others in the region to question the efficacy of democracy. Coming of [...] | 2007-07-04 08:06:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | KU PGOV PINR PREL GCC |
07KUWAIT1070 | TIP REPORT FOLLOWUP: GOK TARGETS 60-DAY REVIEW, [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Kuwait's placement on Tier Three of the TIP report has generated a great deal of interest in the three weeks since the report's release. The newspapers have devoted significant space to the report. Many of the stories have been critical, but many have also used the [...] | 2007-07-07 11:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV ELAB KU TIP |
07KUWAIT1072 | GCC MINISTERS FOCUS ON IRAN-RELATED SECURITY [...] (C) During the Ambassador's brief farewell call July 7 with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, the Minister described the GCC ministers meeting in Riyadh July 3 as "pessimistic" about current events in the region, and preparing f [...] | 2007-07-07 14:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | IR IZ KU PREL GCC |
07KUWAIT1097 | MINISTER SAYS GCC CRISIS MANAGEMENT CENTER TO BE [...] (C) Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Shaykh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah told the Ambassador on July 9 that agreement had been reached at the recent GCC meeting of defense and foreign ministers and national security chiefs on establishing a GCC crisis management center in Kuwait. He credite [...] | 2007-07-10 09:28:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC LE QA SA IR IZ IS KU |
07KUWAIT1099 | LABOR MINISTER TO TAKE "TIP" BULL BY THE HORNS [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Shaykh Sabah Al-Khalid told the Ambassador on July 9 that the Cabinet had focused its attention on trafficking and had given him full authorization to take decisive steps on fighting trafficking in persons. The Minister hinted th [...] | 2007-07-10 13:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB KU TIP |
07KUWAIT111 | DONOR COORDINATION CONFERENCE: WHERE IS THE USG? [...] (C/NF) I am extremely disappointed by the lack of high-level Washington-based USG representation at the donor coordination conference the Arab Fund is hosting in Kuwait on February 4. It is difficult for me to accept that we cannot offer at least one senior representative from Washington, fr [...] | 2007-01-27 10:52:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID KU XF |
07KUWAIT1284 | OSD TASK FORCE ENCOURAGES KUWAITIS TO INVEST IN [...] (C) Summary: Bob Love, Director of Operations for the OSD Task Force to Improve Business and Stability Operations in Iraq, visited Kuwait on August 12-15 to encourage Kuwait-based companies to do business with Iraq and to lay a foundation for a proposed September meeting between Iraqi Minister [...] | 2007-08-22 14:47:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV IZ KU |
07KUWAIT1286 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE CHECK ON [...] (SBU) In response to Ref A, on 23 July, Econoff and Econ Specialist met with Abdullah Al-Muzayan at the Al-Muzayan International (AMI) store. Abdullah Al-Muzayan said he took over the business from his father in 1987 and plans to pass it on to his son. He has a license allowing him to import [...] | 2007-08-22 15:09:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | KU KOMC ETTC |
07KUWAIT130 | KUWAIT MAY HOST SOMALI PM [...] (C/NF) In a 1/30 meeting with PolCouns, MFA First Secretary for Arab Affairs Abdel Nasir Al-Rasheedi said SIPDIS Kuwait has agreed to host a visit by Somali PM Ghedi as soon as travel schedules can be worked out. He said PM Ghedi had originally requested a late January date, but with the [...] | 2007-01-30 14:01:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID KU |
07KUWAIT1304 | ARABIAN ANTI-PIRACY ALLIANCE AND KUWAIT CUSTOMS DG [...] (SBU) On August 22, Commercial Counselor and Econoff met with Scott Butler, CEO of the Dubai-headquartered Arabian Anti-Piracy Alliance (AAA). Butler was accompanied by Albert Marshall, Legal and Business Affairs Manager for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, who was making a tour of the Gul [...] | 2007-08-29 05:40:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON KIPR KU |
07KUWAIT1308 | KUWAIT INVESTMENT AUTHORITY NOT WORRIED ABOUT USD [...] (C) Summary: On 28 August, Charge d'Affaires met with Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA) Managing Director Bader Al-Sa'ad and his Executive Director Ahmad Bastaki to discuss the growing public interest in sovereign wealth funds (SWFs). Taking a long-term view, Al-Sa'ad said KIA was not worried [...] | 2007-08-29 12:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL KU |
07KUWAIT131 | LEBANON AID: NOTHING NEW IN PARIS, BUT ADDITIONAL [...] (SBU) Econcouns spoke with the Kuwait Fund's Regional Manager for Arab Countries Marwan Al-Ghanem on January 30 to review Paris III and possible next steps on Kuwait aid to Lebanon. Al-Ghanem said that Kuwait had not offered any new assistance to Lebanon in Paris but had pledged undetermined [...] | 2007-01-30 15:13:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID KU |
07KUWAIT1312 | TERRORISM FINANCE: DOMESTIC USG DESIGNATION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-29 12:56:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | IS KTFN EFIN PREL PTER DEMARCHE KU |
07KUWAIT1337 | COMMUNICATIONS MINISTRY ON BLOCKING ARABSAT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-04 10:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KU SA IZ |
07KUWAIT1344 | CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR: IRAN-GCC FREE TRADE [...] (C) In a 5 September meeting with CDA, Kuwait Central Bank Governor Shaykh Salem Abdulaziz Al-Sabah said he had seen recent press reports suggesting that the GCC was considering negotiations with Iran to create a free trade area, but he had no information as to the specifics or the seriousness [...] | 2007-09-05 13:34:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL IR KU |
07KUWAIT1393 | KUWAIT AIRWAYS BOARD RESIGNS; ORDERS CANCELED FOR [...] (U) On 10 September, the Government of Kuwait announced that it had accepted the resignation of the board of directors of Kuwait Airways Corporation (KAC). The board, headed by ruling family member Shaykh Talal Mubarak Al Sabah, submitted its resignation on 9 September citing differences with [...] | 2007-09-13 10:29:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR BEXP ECON KU |
07KUWAIT1400 | COURTESY CALL ON MOD'S SHAYKH SABAH AL-NASSER AL [...] (C) Summary. On September 6, Charg and Chief, OMC-K paid a courtesy call on Kuwaiti Ministry of Defense Under Secretary Shaykh Sabah Al-Nasser Al Sabah. The Under Secretary offered his thoughts on an ongoing investigation of aircraft engine sales to Iran, his dreams of upgrading the Kuwaiti [...] | 2007-09-16 11:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KU PINR PM |
07KUWAIT1412 | NATIONAL BANK NOT OPTIMISTIC ABOUT PROSPECTS OF [...] (SBU) In a September 16 courtesy call with the National Bank of Kuwait (NBK),CDA met with Bank CEO Ibrahim Dabdoub and Chief Economist Randa Azar-Khoury. (NBK is the largest bank in Kuwait and the fifth largest Arab Bank with 2006 net profits of USD 875.8 million and USD 27.32 billion in asse [...] | 2007-09-19 11:54:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KU |
07KUWAIT1413 | MFA U/S SUPPORTS U.S. IN IRAQ, IRAN AND TIP [...] (C) On September 17, Charge met with Kuwait Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Khaled Suliman Al-Jarallah to deliver reftel demarche and discuss the positive role of the U.S. in Iraq, the French FM's remarks on Iran and how trafficking in persons is damaging Kuwait's image. End summ [...] | 2007-09-19 11:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KU PINR TIP |
07KUWAIT1422 | TREASURY DAS SAEED DISCUSSES SOVEREIGN WEALTH [...] (C) Summary: On September 17, a U.S. Treasury delegation led by Middle East DAS Ahmed Saeed and International Monetary Policy Director Robert Kaproth met with the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA),the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK),the Finance Ministry, and the Public Institution for Social S [...] | 2007-09-20 09:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL KU |
07KUWAIT1473 | AMIR MAKES IMPASSIONED APPEAL FOR COOPERATION IN [...] (U) Amir Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al Sabah appealed to the National Assembly and the media on October 3 to end the bickering and partisan sniping that has dominated Kuwaiti politics since the Amir assumed power in January 2006. In a televised address to the nation on the occasion of the final [...] | 2007-10-04 13:58:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PREL KPAO |
07KUWAIT1474 | MFA U/S AL-JARALLAH'S MEETING ON AMCIT, UNGA, AND [...] (C) On October 2, Charge met with Kuwait Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Khaled Suliman Al-Jarallah to deliver and follow-up on septel demarches and to discuss the Foreign Minister's UNGA meetings, Critical Energy Infrastructure Protection (CEIP) and other issues. U/S Al-Jarallah [...] | 2007-10-04 14:07:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KU CONS KCIP ASEC |
07KUWAIT1476 | GOK CONSIDERING REQUEST TO OPEN ADDITIONAL BORDER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-04 14:13:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS IZ KU |
07KUWAIT1489 | KUWAIT'S DOMESTIC WORKER SHELTER OPERATIONAL; GOK [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Mark Lagon, Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP),visited Kuwait on September 26 to review Kuwait's progress on its 60-day action plan and to engage high-level GOK officials on combating TIP. The highlight of the trip was a tour o [...] | 2007-10-09 05:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ELAB PHUM KU TIP |
07KUWAIT1510 | GOK SAYS KUWAIT AIR WILL PRIVATIZE BEFORE BUYING [...] (C) Summary and Comment: CDA paid a courtesy call on the Acting Communications Minister Abdul Wahid Al-Awadi on October 11. Al-Awadi said that GOK is eager to purchase two Boeing 777s and one 787 Dreamliner for the Amir but timing and price are holding up the deal. Al-Awadi expects Kuwait A [...] | 2007-10-11 15:39:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ETRD KU BA |
07KUWAIT1511 | KUWAIT PETROLEUM TO CLOSE WASHINGTON OFFICE FOR [...] (SBU) Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) General Counsel and erstwhile Director of KPC's Washington Office Shaykh Nawaf Saud Nasir Al-Sabah confirmed to econoff on 11 October that KPC will close its Washington office by the end of November. He explained that the Washington office had initiall [...] | 2007-10-13 07:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV KU |
07KUWAIT1530 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-17 14:13:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KTIA CWC GR NO SP TU KU |
07KUWAIT1535 | CHEVRON AND KNPC SEEKING COMPROMISE ON NEUTRAL [...] (C/NF) In an 8 October meeting with CDA, Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) Chairman and Managing Director Sami Al-Rushaid said discussions on the proposed location for a 615,000 bpd KNPC refinery in the Partitioned Neutral Zone next to the Saudi Arabian Chevron (SAC) compound were back [...] | 2007-10-18 11:29:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV ECON KU SA |
07KUWAIT1539 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE CHECK ON [...] (C) In response to reftel, econoff visited Al-Hadaf Hunting and Equestrian Equipment on 4 October and met with the company's sole proprietor, Ali Al-Sanea, a retired protocol officer from the Amiri Diwan (the office of Kuwait's Head of State). Al-Sanea said the Al-Hadaf company, established b [...] | 2007-10-21 13:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | KU KOMC ETTC |
07KUWAIT1541 | FOREIGN AFFAIRS MP SOUNDS ALARM BELL ON IRAN [...] (C) On October 3, in separate conversations with Post, Kuwaiti MP Mohammad Jassem Al-Sager and MFA Director of Arab World Department Ambassador Jassem Al Mubaraki relayed their grave concerns that Iran is leading the region towards conflict. Though they acknowledged that the removal of Sadda [...] | 2007-10-21 14:46:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS |
07KUWAIT1562 | GOVERNMENT REMOVES CONTROVERSIAL MINISTERS IN NEW [...] (C) On October 28, the Kuwaiti Government announced the formation of a new 16-person cabinet. The new ministers took the oath of office before the Amir earlier the same day and assumed their new positions immediately. Seven ministers, including FM Shaykh Dr. Mohammad Al Sabah and Prime Mini [...] | 2007-10-29 09:58:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
07KUWAIT1564 | IRAQI ELECTRICITY MINISTER GETS GOK COMMITMENT TO [...] (C/NF) Summary: Iraqi Electricity Minister Dr. Karim Wahid Hasan visited Kuwait from 27-29 October for meetings with the Prime Minister, Acting Oil Minister, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) CEO, and the Speaker of the National Assembly to facilitate Kuwaiti fuel shipments to Iraq for power [...] | 2007-10-30 08:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG EPET ECON KU IZ |
07KUWAIT1567 | KUWAITI ELECTRICITY MINISTER PLEDGES SUPPORT TO [...] (C) In a courtesy call to congratulate Mohammed Al-Elaim on his reappointment as Minister of Electricity and Water (Ref A),CDA thanked Al-Elaim for receiving Iraqi Electricity Minister Dr. Karim Wahid Hasan during his 27-29 October visit to Kuwait (Ref B). Al-Elaim answered, "Whatever is good [...] | 2007-11-01 06:20:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG EPET KU IZ |
07KUWAIT1571 | KUWAITI POLICE WELCOME TIP TRAINING; REQUEST U.S. [...] (U) This is an Action Request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) PolOff met on October 28 with Brigadier General Dr. Hassan Hussayn Al-Abdulsalam, Director of Kuwait's Police Academy, to stress the importance of training police officers to identify potential TIP victims and to handle poten [...] | 2007-11-01 09:41:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB KU TIP |
07KUWAIT1573 | MPS ATTACK GOVERNMENT DURING OPENING SESSION OF [...] (SBU) Parliament began its 2007-08 session on October 30 amid great tension. MPs ignored the Amir and Prime Minister's opening speeches, which at times warned and at other times pleaded with the Parliament to de-escalate the conflict with the Government and give the recently reformed cabine [...] | 2007-11-01 13:18:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
07KUWAIT1588 | TERROR FINANCE: REPORTED PROGRESS IN DOMESTIC [...] (C) Summary: A/DCM and Econoff met recently with Nasser Al-Ammar, Director of the Charities and Philanthropic Department at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor (MOSAL) to discuss GOK efforts to strengthen oversight of Kuwaiti charity organizations. Al-Ammar was encouraged by the progres [...] | 2007-11-05 10:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KU PGOV PREL PTER KTFN |
07KUWAIT1590 | OIL MINISTER RESIGNS AS GOVERNMENT TRIES TO DEFUSE [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Shaykh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al Sabah accepted the resignation of Oil Minister Bader Al-Humaidhi on November 5. The resignation should end the state of tension between the Government and Parliament in the short term, but the ultimate sources of contention between t [...] | 2007-11-05 15:06:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
07KUWAIT1598 | TREASURY U/S MCCORMICK DISCUSSES SOVEREIGN WEALTH [...] (C) Summary: On October 28, a U.S. Treasury delegation led by Under Secretary for International Affairs David H. McCormick met with the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA),the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK),the Finance Minister, and the Public Institution for Social Security (PIFSS) to discuss t [...] | 2007-11-07 09:20:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EPET EINV KU IR |
07KUWAIT1599 | TREASURY U/S MCCORMICK DISCUSSES SOVEREIGN WEALTH [...] (C) Summary: On October 28, a U.S. Treasury delegation led by Under Secretary for International Affairs David H. McCormick met with the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA),the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK),the Finance Minister, and the Public Institution for Social Security (PIFSS) to discuss t [...] | 2007-11-07 09:20:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EPET EINV KU IR |
07KUWAIT1600 | TREASURY U/S MCCORMICK DISCUSSES SOVEREIGN WEALTH [...] (C) Summary: On October 28, a U.S. Treasury delegation led by Under Secretary for International Affairs David H. McCormick met with the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA),the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK),the Finance Minister, and the Public Institution for Social Security (PIFSS) to discuss t [...] | 2007-11-07 09:20:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EPET EINV KU IR |
07KUWAIT1605 | AMB. CROCKER'S MEETING WITH KUWAITI AMIR [...] (C) On October 29, U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker met with Kuwaiti Amir Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al Sabah to discuss developments in Iraq since the U.S. military surge began and United States policy following the September Crocker/Petraeus testimony. Crocker underlined the need for renew [...] | 2007-11-08 10:03:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ KU PGOV PREL UN |
07KUWAIT1623 | KUWAIT'S TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. Following the very positive development of establishing a shelter for domestic workers, Kuwait has not taken addditional actions to improve its efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) since Ambassador Lagon's September 26 visit and the subsequent October 18 Tier placem [...] | 2007-11-15 15:22:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV ELAB KU TIP |
07KUWAIT1626 | RESOURCE NATIONALISM: NOT THE MAIN OBSTACLE TO [...] (C) While resource nationalism was a factor leading to the nationalization of Kuwait's oil industry in the mid-70s, and populist and or Islamist MPs still use nationalist language in public comments on Kuwait's oil sector, resource nationalism is not the biggest obstacle to opening Kuwait's oi [...] | 2007-11-15 16:04:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV |
07KUWAIT1656 | IRANIAN FM TO VISIT KUWAIT [...] (C) In a November 20 meeting (issues raised reported septel),Kuwaiti MFA U/S Khaled Suliman Al-Jarallah informed CDA that on or around November 30, Iranian FM Manoucher Mottaki is scheduled to visit Kuwait to meet with senior GOK officials. 2. (C) Al-Jarallah said that in his upcoming me [...] | 2007-11-22 07:23:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINR IZ IR KU |
07KUWAIT1657 | PARLIAMENT PRESSURES GOVERNMENT AS AVIATION [...] (C) Summary and Comment: The Kuwaiti Government has departed from its usual practice of backing down to Parliamentary pressure by resisting calls for higher wages for government employees. The GOK was not able to prevent the formation of committees to investigate several former ministers, [...] | 2007-11-23 17:28:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB ECON KU |
07KUWAIT1674 | IRAQ/KUWAIT: TALABANI VISIT; FUEL; BORDER [...] (C) On November 20, CDA met with U/S Al-Jarallah to discuss Ref A points, Ambassador Crocker's October 29 visit and other related issues. The U/S demonstrated no objection, in principle, to USG requests for an additional border crossing, but expressed concern at the close proximity of Camp B [...] | 2007-11-29 07:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINR EAID IPET IZ IR TU KU |
07KUWAIT1683 | KUWAIT RESPONSE FOR COUNTRY BY COUNTRY REVIEW OF [...] (U) The following is post's response to reftel on implementation of Title III of the LIBERTAD Act. 2. (C) Cuba has a diplomatic presence in Kuwait, but the GOK does not maintain a mission in Cuba. Relations between the two countries have been strained since the 1990-91 Gulf War when Cuba [...] | 2007-11-29 13:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU KU |
07KUWAIT1692 | MONGOLIAN PRESIDENT VISITS KUWAIT [...] (U) On November 26th, Mongolian President Nambaryn Enkhbayar arrived in Kuwait for a four-day official visit at the invitation of Kuwait,s Amir, Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al Sabah. The stated objective of the visit was to strengthen the bilateral relationship between Kuwait and Mongolia, specific [...] | 2007-12-03 13:42:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EINV ECIN EPET KU |
07KUWAIT1701 | TREASURY DEPSEC KIMMITT ADVOCATES SWF [...] (C) During a dinner meeting with Amiri Economic Adviser and former Finance Minister Dr. Yousef al-Ebraheem on December 2, Treasury Deputy Secretary Robert Kimmitt strongly urged the GOK to engage positively in the international effort to develop voluntary best practices for sovereign wealth f [...] | 2007-12-05 13:02:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EINV PTER KTFN KU IZ |
07KUWAIT1706 | MOI CASTS DOUBT ON OPENING ADDITIONAL BORDER [...] (C) Summary: In a December 4 meeting with MNF-I DCG LTG William Rollo, MOI Undersecretary LTG Nasser al-Othman noted the security progress being made in Iraq and predicted significant progress in the next two years. In stark contrast from what Post has heard from Kuwait Customs and the Kuwai [...] | 2007-12-06 13:29:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL ETRD EPET KU IZ |
07KUWAIT1707 | READOUT OF IRAN FM MOTTAKI VISIT TO KUWAIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 25, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki visited Kuwait as part of his tour of Arabian Gulf States. According to the Kuwaiti media, FM Mottaki discussed the Kuwait-Iran maritime border, bilateral energy issues, foreign relations, Iraq and the Iranian nuclear pr [...] | 2007-12-06 17:14:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET PBTS PINR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS |
07KUWAIT1711 | GOK HOSTS AML/CTF CONFERENCE, DISCUSSES DRAFT [...] (C/NF) Summary and Comment: Several recent events in Kuwait have given some impetus to Kuwait's anti-money laundering capabilities. The Central Bank of Kuwait hosted a conference on anti-money-laundering and terror finance on December 2-3 attended by over 400 professionals from government, l [...] | 2007-12-11 08:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC KCRM PREL PTER KTFN KU |
07KUWAIT1717 | DEPUTY CHIEF OF KUWAIT NATIONAL GUARD ON CURRENT [...] (C) On December 10, Charge d'Affaires, Defense Attache and Poloff met with Shaykh Mish'al Al-Ahmed Al Sabah, Deputy Chief of the Kuwait National Guard (KNG). Shaykh Mish'al is the half-brother of both the current and former Amirs as well as the Crown Prince, and is considered to be one of the [...] | 2007-12-13 07:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC EPET KCIP KU PGOV PINR PTER |
07KUWAIT1718 | KUWAITI PARTICIPATION IN PARIS DONORS CONFERENCE [...] (C) Summary: CDA and emboffs delivered reftel points to the Arab Fund and various GOK interlocutors in the Amiri Diwan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),and the Kuwait Fund. MFA confirmed that Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al Sabah will lead the Kuwaiti delegation to Paris but said [...] | 2007-12-13 09:15:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KPAL KWBG PGOV PREL IS KU |
07KUWAIT1742 | INTERIOR MINISTER NONCOMMITTAL ON ADDITIONAL [...] (C) In a December 13 meeting with CDA, Interior Minister Shaykh Jaber Al-Khaled Al Sabah said he was deeply concerned about the smuggling of contraband (including drugs, alcohol, munitions, and chemicals) into Kuwait from Iraq at both the Abdali-Safwan commercial border crossing and the militar [...] | 2007-12-18 11:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL ETRD KU IZ |
07KUWAIT1744 | MAJOR POWER OUTAGES BARELY AVERTED IN 2007, MAY BE [...] (C) Despite widespread predictions of major power outages (reftel),Kuwait made it through the summer without any significant blackouts or load shedding. In meetings with Minister of Electricity and Water Mohammed Al-Elaim on 31 October and MEW Director of Studies and Research Suhaila Al-Mara [...] | 2007-12-18 13:08:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EINV KU |
07KUWAIT1746 | LORD PADDY ASHDOWN MEETS HAMID KARZAI IN KUWAIT TO [...] (C) On December 12, CDA met with British Lord Jeremy (AKA Paddy) Ashdown for a readout on an earlier meeting that day between Ashdown and Afghanistan President Karzai to discuss the possibility of Ashdown becoming the UN Envoy to Afghanistan. Ashdown assessed that the terms of reference he r [...] | 2007-12-18 13:10:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KU PINR AF |
07KUWAIT1747 | ADDITIONAL BORDER CROSSING REQUEST GAINS TRACTION [...] (C) Following contacts reported reftels, CDA on December 17 had multiple telcons on the border crossing request with GEN Saleh Al-Humaydhi in absence of Defense Minister Shaykh Jaber Mubarak Al Sabah. At Al-Humaydhi,s request, he subsequently had two telcons with GEN Khaled Al-Jarrah (J2). [...] | 2007-12-18 13:15:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL KU IZ |
07KUWAIT1756 | AMIRI DIWAN MINISTER ON GOVERNMENT-PARLIAMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA met with Minister of Amiri Diwan Affairs and eldest son of the Amir, Shaykh Nasser Al Sabah, on December 11 and discussed a range of issues including Kuwait's participation and contribution at the Paris Donor Conference (Ref. A),Kuwaiti domestic politics and Critical Energy [...] | 2007-12-26 13:04:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC EPET KCIP KU PGOV PREL PTER |
07KUWAIT1757 | AMIRI DIWAN MINISTER ON GOVERNMENT-PARLIAMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA met with Minister of Amiri Diwan Affairs and eldest son of the Amir, Shaykh Nasser Al Sabah, on December 11 and discussed a range of issues including Kuwait's participation and contribution at the Paris Donor Conference (Ref. A),Kuwaiti domestic politics and Critical Energy [...] | 2007-12-26 13:04:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC EPET KCIP KU PGOV PREL PTER |
07KUWAIT1760 | PARLIAMENTARY CRISIS CONTINUES - ASSEMBLY WILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 24, Islamist MP Saad Al-Shraye filed a motion to "grill" Minister of Education (and the only remaining female minister) Nouriya Al-Sabeeh. The grilling comes in response to a well-publicized sexual assault at a Kuwaiti primary school, but is more accurately a reflectio [...] | 2007-12-27 15:40:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI KISL KWMN KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
07KUWAIT1769 | NEW MINISTER OF SOCIAL AFFAIRS AND LABOR ON TIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 13, CDA met with MoSAL/Justice Minister Jamal Ahmed Al-Shihab. The Minister said that the GOK was appreciative of external pressure (up to a point) to resolve TIP issues and promised to partner with the Embassy to make further progress on TIP. Minister Al-Shihab was [...] | 2007-12-31 04:52:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELAB KIPR KU PGOV PHUM PREL KTFN TIP |
07KUWAIT180 | KUWAIT NATIONAL SECURITY BUREAU DEPUTY ON IRAQI [...] (C) In a February 7 discussion with PolCouns, National Security Bureau Deputy Chief Shaykh Thamer Ali Al-Sabah said visits this week by former Iraqi PM Ibrahim Al-Jaafari and Vice President Tariq Al-Hashemi had gone "very well." Shaykh Thamer noted Kuwait's long-standing relationship with Ir [...] | 2007-02-07 14:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KU IZ IR |
07KUWAIT182 | DEMARCHE: SEEKING ARAB SUPPORT FOR SOMALIA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-07 15:01:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MOPS SO KU |
07KUWAIT183 | KUWAITI - IRANIAN TRADE RELATIONS: AN OVERVIEW [...] (U) This is the first in a series of cables reporting on the economic relationship between Kuwait and Iran. 2. (SBU) Summary: Since the 1991 Gulf War, Kuwait and Iran have enjoyed an expanding trade relationship. Kuwaiti imports of Iranian products - mostly food, live animals and househ [...] | 2007-02-07 15:03:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ETRD IR KU |
07KUWAIT192 | DEMARCHE: SEEKING ASIA GROUP CANDIDATES FOR THE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-12 14:47:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC |
07KUWAIT195 | PARLIAMENT UNLIKELY TO PASS NO CONFIDENCE MOTION [...] (C) Summary: Islamist MP Khudair Al-Enezi told Poloffs that a no confidence motion on the Minister of Health was likely to be submitted after his February 19 grilling, but was unlikely to pass. Al-Enezi said that while he personally opposed the grilling, he would support it in Parliament as [...] | 2007-02-13 10:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL KPAL KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
07KUWAIT218 | KUWAITIS KEEN TO INVEST IN IRAQ, BUT SECURITY AND [...] (C) Summary and Comment: On February 11, Director of the OSD Task Force to Support Business and Stability Operations in Iraq Robert Love met separately with prominent Kuwaiti investors to enlist their support for revitalizing the Iraqi economy through investment and facilitating access to ex [...] | 2007-02-14 13:25:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON BEXP ETRD PREL PGOV KU IZ |
07KUWAIT241 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ARABSAT AND NILESAT BROADCAST [...] (C) During a February 11 meeting with Shaykh Ali Abdullah, the Acting Director of the Americas Department at the MFA, the Charge d'Affaires and visiting NEA/ARP Office Director Alan Misenheimer reiterated U.S. concerns about the continued broadcast of Al Manar Television and the potential broad [...] | 2007-02-19 13:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC ETTC KPAL KPAO PTER KU DEMARCHE |
07KUWAIT251 | EMBASSY COUNTERPUNCHES ON GMO MISINFORMATION [...] (C) Summary: On February 5, local Arabic-language daily Al-Rai published a story about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in foods and quoted an unnamed "U.S. Embassy official" as saying, "if you refrain from consuming these products you will die starving." The article appears to have bee [...] | 2007-02-20 13:01:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR EIND ETRD TBIO KU |
07KUWAIT271 | LIBERAL KUWAITI WOMEN SEE NEW LAW AS MEANS TO KEEP [...] (SBU) Aisha Al-Reshaid, a women's activist, journalist, and former candidate for parliament, told PolOff on February 19 that the proposed new law on women's social and civil rights (reftel) is an Islamist project to buy women's support while at the same time keeping them out of public life. [...] | 2007-02-21 14:27:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KHUM KWMN KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS |
07KUWAIT292 | CABINET RESHUFFLE LIKELY PRIOR TO MARCH 5 NO [...] (C) Our contacts almost unanimously agree that there will be a Cabinet reshuffle prior to the March 5 no confidence vote on Minister of Health Shaykh Ahmed Abdullah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah. The Minister, who is also the Amir's nephew, was brought before Parliament February 19 for questioning over [...] | 2007-02-28 14:06:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
07KUWAIT317 | KUWAIT CABINET RESIGNS UNDER PRESSURE FROM [...] (SBU) Kuwait's Cabinet resigned en masse March 4 on the eve of a scheduled parliamentary vote of no confidence on Health Minister Shaykh Ahmed Abdullah Al-Sabah. The Cabinet, the 23rd since Kuwait gained independence in 1961, lasted only eight months. The Amir will now begin the customary c [...] | 2007-03-04 13:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FREEDOM AGENDA |
07KUWAIT358 | DEPUTY NATIONAL GUARD CHIEF ON DEFENSE ISSUES, [...] Summary: Deputy National Guard Chief Shaykh Mish'al said the Kuwait National Guard (KNG) has expanded by 3000 personnel and plans substantial further expansion in the next year. The KNG continues to work successfully with U.S. contractors Lockheed Martin and MPRI, and will explore FMS optio [...] | 2007-03-11 13:05:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KU |
07KUWAIT382 | TIP UPDATE: KUWAIT'S DOMESTIC LABOR AWARENESS [...] (SBU) Saad Al-Hajji and Eqbal Mallallah, the Director and Assistant Director of the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs' National Project to Raise Awareness of Domestic Workers (the project is also known as "Barirah," after one of the prophet's wife Aisha's female servants),met with PolOf [...] | 2007-03-14 13:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB KU TIP |
07KUWAIT383 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES CEIP VISIT, KUWAIT'S FOURTH [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met March 11 with Chairman of the Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) Sami Al-Reshaid to discuss current issues in the oil sector. The Ambassador briefed Al-Reshaid on the March 13-22 multi-agency USG critical energy infrastructure visit, to which Al-Reshaid [...] | 2007-03-16 13:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ECON BEXP KU |
07KUWAIT401 | SOMALI PRESIDENT, AWQAF MINISTER VISIT KUWAIT [...] (C) Summary: In a March 3-6 visit to Kuwait, Somali President Abdullahi Yusef asked the Amir for humanitarian assistance and support for an upcoming reconciliation conference. The Amir agreed to send humanitarian support, but did not commit to other assistance. Somali Ambassador Abu Bakr [...] | 2007-03-18 13:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KTFN SO KU |
07KUWAIT430 | NEW CABINET FORMED: SIX NEW MINISTERS, TWO WOMEN, [...] (C) Summary and comment: After three weeks of consultations, the Prime Minister announced March 25 the formation of a new Cabinet, which includes six new ministers and, for the first time in Kuwait's history, two women. The Cabinet reshuffle is unlikely to affect significantly any key U.S.-K [...] | 2007-03-26 13:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
07KUWAIT447 | INCREASING PESSIMISM ABOUT NEW CABINET, LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Summary: Reactions to the new Cabinet have been muted, an indication of Kuwaitis' frustration with the political leadership in both the government and Parliament. Few Kuwaitis expect the new Cabinet to resolve the tensions that characterized the previous government's relations with Parlia [...] | 2007-03-28 14:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
07KUWAIT508 | READOUT OF NDI MEETINGS WITH KUWAITI POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Senior NDI representative for Kuwait Kelley Jones briefed PolOffs on her April 3-7 meetings with Kuwaiti political associations. She said the organizations were open to receiving NDI training and assistance, but liberal groups expressed concerns about being viewed as too closely [...] | 2007-04-08 13:28:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KMPI MEPI KU FREEDOM AGENDA |
07KUWAIT513 | A VIEW FROM THE CHICKEN COOP: KUWAITI POULTRY [...] (C) Summary. On April 9, Econoff met with Meshal Al-Bazie, Deputy General Manager of Naif Poultry, one of the largest poultry producers in Kuwait, to discuss the ongoing avian influenza (AI) outbreak. Al-Bazie said only one of Naif's egg farms has been affected by the virus, but that 640,00 [...] | 2007-04-09 12:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | AMED CASC KSCA SENV TBIO ECON ETRD KU |
07KUWAIT594 | ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-23 12:15:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV KU TERRORISM |
07KUWAIT595 | NOTIFICATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW BOARD [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-23 12:15:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINR PHUM KU |
07KUWAIT608 | MALIKI STRESSES DEBT RELIEF, ARAB IDENTITY ON [...] (C) Summary and Comment: In April 24 discussions with Kuwaiti officials and in press statements, visiting Iraqi PM Nouri Al-Maliki stressed the importance of debt relief and Iraq's desire for "bridge building" based on Kuwait's close family and tribal ties to Iraq, and a common Arab identity [...] | 2007-04-25 10:45:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
07KUWAIT661 | KUWAITIS TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR SOMALI [...] (C) PolChief delivered reftel points to MFA Arab Affairs Deputy Director Ahmed Al-Baqer May 2. Al-Baqer said Kuwait has not considered the question of direct support for AMISOM. He added that the question did not come up at the March 28 Arab League Summit in Riyadh, the most likely context [...] | 2007-05-02 11:09:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SO MOPS XF AL GCC KU DEMARCHE |
07KUWAIT662 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ZIMBABWE'S UNCSD CANDIDACY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-02 11:22:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNCSD AORC SENV ZI KU DEMARCHE |
07KUWAIT663 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: BELARUS UNHRC CANDIDACY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-02 11:27:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC BO KU DEMARCHE |
07KUWAIT728 | DECISION ON LOUISIANA REFINERY INVESTMENT STILL IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Kuwait Petroleum International's Chief Planning Officer told Econoff May 8 that in the 6 months following the visit of the Governor of Louisiana to Kuwait for the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, no decision has been reached on whether Kuwait should invest in a major [...] | 2007-05-09 12:58:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV PREL KU |
07KUWAIT729 | MOSAL MINISTER ON TERROR FINANCE, ENERGY [...] (C) Summary: MOSAL Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Khaled told Ambassador May 9 that recent Saudi investigations underscore the shared concerns of Kuwait and the U.S. about terrorist financing, though the GOK needs more evidence to move against RIHS. He is pleased with recent cooperation between K [...] | 2007-05-09 13:40:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER EFIN KU |
07KUWAIT731 | UN COORDINATOR VORONTSOV FOCUSED ON MISSING [...] (C) Ambassador met May 8 with UN High-Level Coordinator Yuli Vorontsov. Vorontsov was visiting Kuwait in preparation for his next report to the Security Council on missing Kuwaiti persons and property, due June 6. (He was accompanied by UN Political Affairs officer Victor Poliakov.) Voron [...] | 2007-05-10 08:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KU IZ |
07KUWAIT732 | CABINET AFFAIRS MINISTER ON LEGISLATIVE AGENDA, [...] (C) Summary: Minister for Cabinet Affairs Faisal Al-Hajji told Ambassador May 9 that while the Parliament had been moderately effective over the past weeks, budget negotiations would likely dominate the agenda between now and the summer recess making it unlikely that there will be significa [...] | 2007-05-12 03:43:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KU |
07KUWAIT751 | KUWAITIS PLEDGE CONTINUED SUPPORT TO VISITING [...] (C) Summary: During his May 5-6 visit to Kuwait, Afghan Foreign Minister Spanta sought additional support for reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan. Kuwaiti officials made no new commitments, but promised to continue their current level of assistance, estimated at more than $1.4 billion sinc [...] | 2007-05-13 12:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID AF KU |
07KUWAIT752 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: TRAVEL OF UNSC-DESIGNATED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-13 12:38:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP IR KU DEMARCHES |
07KUWAIT753 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNHRC ELECTION ASSESSMENT [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche May 12 to Dr. Hamad Bou Rahamah, the Acting Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' International Organizations Department. Bou Rahamah agreed that Belarus' human rights record was an obstacle to its candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) a [...] | 2007-05-13 12:41:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNHRC BO BK SI KU |
07KUWAIT780 | KUWAIT RESPONSES FOR COUNTRY BY COUNTRY REVIEW OF [...] (C) The following is post's response to reftel on implementation of Title III of the LIBERTAD Act. 2. (C) Cuba has a diplomatic presence in Kuwait, but the GOK does not maintain a mission in Cuba. Relations between the two countries have been strained since the 1990-91 Gulf War when Cuba [...] | 2007-05-16 14:30:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU KU |
07KUWAIT781 | FOREIGN AFFAIRS CHAIRMAN ON RECENT VISIT TO IRAN, [...] (C) Summary: On May 13, Foreign Affairs Chairman and Inter-Arab Parliament (IAP) Speaker Mohammed Al-Sager gave PolOffs a read-out of his recent visit to Iran. Al-Sager said Iranian officials he met, including Rafsanjani, asked for Kuwaiti mediation with the U.S. and called on Kuwait to play [...] | 2007-05-16 14:47:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS |
07KUWAIT796 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: REQUEST TO REJECT IRAN'S [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-20 11:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS |
07KUWAIT870 | NATO VISITS LAY GROUNDWORK FOR EXPANDED [...] (C) On June 2, the Polish Embassy, the NATO Contact Point Embassy in Kuwait, briefed resident NATO member embassies on recent NATO visits to Kuwait. From May 6-7, NATO officials conducted a workshop on Civil Emergency Planning and Crisis Management in Kuwait. The team emphasized radiological [...] | 2007-06-04 12:07:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO KU |
07KUWAIT919 | PARLIAMENT FORCES OIL MINISTER TO TESTIFY ON [...] (U) Three opposition MPs formally submitted on June 10 a request to "grill" Kuwait's Oil Minister, Shaykh Ali Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah. The grilling will require Shaykh Ali Al-Jarrah to go before parliament on June 25 to answer questions related to accusations of financial and administrative impr [...] | 2007-06-13 13:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KISL KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
07KUWAIT938 | KUWAITIS DEFENSIVE ABOUT TIER 3 TIP RANKING, [...] (SBU) Summary: The demotion of Kuwait to Tier 3 in the 2007 TIP report garnered a great deal of attention. Kuwaiti officials criticized the TIP report as inaccurate, but pledged to continue working with the U.S. on anti-TIP efforts. Officials and a number of columnists attacked the U.S. h [...] | 2007-06-18 11:10:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV ELAB BG RP KU TIP |
07KUWAIT952 | UN LABOR CONFERENCE IN KUWAIT IN DOUBT, MAY MOVE [...] (C) The Ambassador spoke with UN Resident Representative Valerie Cliff by telephone on June 16. He urged the ILO (International Labor Organization) positions on TIP and the labor situation in the region be made clear, since local officials are claiming that the ILO has not criticized local [...] | 2007-06-19 13:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ELAB AE SA QA KU TIP |
07KUWAIT953 | FOLLOW-UP DEMARCHE REGARDING CONTINUED ARABSAT [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Information Assistant Under Secretary for Technical Affairs Nasser Al-Safar on 18 June. Al-Safar said the points would be forwarded to the Information Minister prior to his departure for the meeting of Arab League Ministers of Information in Cairo [...] | 2007-06-19 14:03:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | SA KU TC KPAL KPAO ETTC PREL PTER |
07KUWAIT964 | KUWAITIS SEE INTIMIDATION, RETRIBUTION BEHIND [...] (U) Unknown assailants attacked Mohammad Al-Zo'bi, a low ranking diplomat at the Kuwaiti Embassy in Tehran, as he was leaving work on June 19. The Kuwait cabinet convened an emergency session the same day to discuss the event and the MFA called Iranian Ambassador Ali Jennati in immediately t [...] | 2007-06-23 12:56:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS |
07KUWAIT97 | (C) SENIOR KUWAITI SHI'A CLERIC: RAFSANJANI [...] (C) Summary: A senior Kuwaiti Shi'a cleric told Poloff January 22 that Rafsanjani believes Iranian public opinion is shifting away from Ahmadinejad and towards Iranian "moderates." Sayed Mohammed Baqer Al-Mohri, who met privately with Rafsanjani January 17, said Rafsanjani attributed this sh [...] | 2007-01-24 09:30:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS |
07KUWAIT979 | KUWAITI FIRMS ASK OSD TASK FORCE FOR HELP IN [...] (C) Summary: On June 21, Robert Love of OSD's Task Force to Support Business and Stability Operations (TFBSO) in Iraq met with several Kuwaiti firms to encourage ongoing and new business ventures in Iraq. United International Holding, which owns two banks in Iraq and has built at least one h [...] | 2007-06-26 04:58:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV IZ KU |
07KUWAIT989 | OIL MINISTER TORCHED IN GRILLING; FACES NO [...] (C) Summary and comment: On June 25, ten MPs submitted a no confidence motion on the Oil Minister following a nine-hour "grilling" by three opposition MPs on corruption-related charges. The motion was supported by MPs from all four parliamentary blocs, suggesting it will get the 25 votes nee [...] | 2007-06-26 13:30:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EPET KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
07KYIV1023 | UKRAINE: CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 4. 2. (C) We met April 20 with MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Deputy Director Pokotilo to discuss the May 15 next session of the UN Conference on Disarmament (CD) at MFA's request. Counselor Oleksandr Bondarenko and a [...] | 2007-04-27 13:02:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL UNGA CDG UP |
07KYIV1027 | UKRAINE: LITTLE POLITICAL OR LEGAL PROGRESS, BOTH [...] (C) Summary. With President Yushchenko on a one-day trip to Poland April 27 and the ruling coalition trying to decide on its strategy in the face of the new decree ordering Rada elections for June 24, little progress was made on April 27 toward resolving the political crisis. The Constitutiona [...] | 2007-04-27 15:26:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV1036 | UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO PUSHING, REGIONS NOT BACKING [...] (C) Summary. During what normally would have been a quiet, five-day holiday weekend, the presidential and Rada/government teams were hard at work upping the ante in the current political crisis, with neither side appearing ready yet to relinquish hardball tactics and return to negotiations. [...] | 2007-05-03 14:37:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV1051 | UKRAINE: PRESIDENT AND PM REACH GENERAL AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yanukovych on May 4 finally reached a preliminary agreement to hold early Rada elections, after more than a week when the two leaders did not speak. At a press conference after the meeting, Yushchenko announced that a working group would [...] | 2007-05-04 14:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV1066 | UKRAINE/AUSTRALIA GROUP: PLENARY INFO EXCHANGE AND [...] (C) We transmitted reftel points May 4 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselor Oleh Belokolos. Belokolos, who is directly responsible for MTCR and the Wassenaar Arrangement, thanked us for the information and said he would provide our non-paper to his collea [...] | 2007-05-07 14:35:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL CBW UP |
07KYIV1088 | UKRAINE: ELECTION DATE HOLDING UP COMPROMISE [...] (C) Summary. Negotiations may be almost complete on the "small package" of laws considered necessary to resolve Ukraine's six-week political crisis, but continued wrangling over whether the elections should be held in the summer or fall have slowed the pace of compromise. The working group n [...] | 2007-05-08 14:53:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV1107 | UKRAINE: BELARUS UN HRC CANDIDACY - AMBASSADOR'S [...] (C) Our soundings with the Ukrainian MFA, detailed below, indicate the Ukrainians are on the razor's edge regarding whether to support Belarus' candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council (HRC). Their concern is to ensure that this year's vote not result in keeping Slovenia off the Council (Slov [...] | 2007-05-10 14:37:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC BO UP |
07KYIV1117 | UKRAINE: NEGOTIATIONS ON EARLY ELECTIONS STALL, [...] (C) Summary. Continued disagreement over the date of elections has paralyzed what initially seemed like a breakthrough agreement on May 4 between President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yanukovych to hold early parliamentary elections. The working group Yushchenko and Yanukovych named May 4 [...] | 2007-05-11 10:10:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV1133 | UKRAINE: SEPTEMBER ELECTIONS IN THE WIND? HAYDUK [...] (C) Summary: President Yushchenko and PM Yanukovych resumed meetings to resolve the political impasse May 12 after Yanukovych returned to Ukraine from his Spanish knee surgery; Yushchenko said afterwards that the two would meet again May 16 to agree on the date for early elections. Presidentia [...] | 2007-05-15 03:21:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM UP |
07KYIV1180 | UKRAINE: NEGOTIATIONS STALLING OUT AGAIN? [...] (C) Summary. Despite talk over the weekend that President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yanukovych would finalize a political compromise that included early parliamentary elections on May 16, talks between the two leaders fizzled out as disagreements over the date of a new vote and what the le [...] | 2007-05-16 15:17:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV1195 | UKRAINE: BALOHA SUGGESTS THAT TIME RUNNING OUT FOR [...] (C) Summary. Head of the Presidential Secretariat Baloha told the Ambassador that there were now two options on the table for a political compromise: either on Monday, May 21, the President, PM and their teams would announce the date for early elections and the contents of the legislative pack [...] | 2007-05-18 15:12:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV123 | UKRAINE: GRAIN EXPORTS BLOCKED; TRADERS SUFFERING [...] (SBU) Summary: Exports of wheat, barley, corn, and rye from Ukraine remain completely blocked as the GOU has not yet implemented the export quota system it authorized on December 8, 2006. Traders estimate that there are over 1.5 million tons of grain in storage at ports, where it is beginning [...] | 2007-01-19 05:02:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EAGR ECON PREL UP |
07KYIV124 | UKRAINE: GRAIN EXPORTS BLOCKED; TRADERS SUFFERING [...] (SBU) Summary: Exports of wheat, barley, corn, and rye from Ukraine remain completely blocked as the GOU has not yet implemented the export quota system it authorized on December 8, 2006. Traders estimate that there are over 1.5 million tons of grain in storage at ports, where it is beginning [...] | 2007-01-19 05:03:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EAGR ECON PREL UP |
07KYIV1243 | UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR UNDERSECRETARY SEGA [...] (SBU) Undersecretary Sega: We look forward to welcoming you to Kyiv. For more than seven weeks Ukraine has been in political turmoil and paralysis as the President and Prime Minister search for ways to reach agreement on a date for pre-term parliamentary elections and a way forward on resol [...] | 2007-05-24 14:01:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
07KYIV1244 | UKRAINE: DAS KRAMER VISIT: POSSIBLE WAY FORWARD ON [...] (C) Summary. Visiting DAS Kramer met with all the key players in the Ukrainian political crisis May 23-24: President Yushchenko, PM Yanukovych, opposition leaders Yuliya Tymoshenko and Yuriy Lutsenko; National Security and Defense Council Secretary Plyushch; and FM Yatsenyuk. Amidst backgrou [...] | 2007-05-25 03:25:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV1245 | UKRAINE: DAS KRAMER VISIT: POSSIBLE WAY FORWARD ON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-25 03:25:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV1246 | UKRAINE: MODERATE MUSLIM LEADER ACCUSES ARRAID [...] (C) Summary: Tensions are increasing within Ukraine's small Muslim population, with the head of the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims in Ukraine (SDMU) Sheikh Tamin accusing the Muslim Association of Civic Organizations - Arraid of promoting Islamic extremism. Tamim, who is known for his mod [...] | 2007-05-25 06:26:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL UP |
07KYIV1300 | UKRAINE:SCENESETTER FOR COMMANDER, U.S. ARMY [...] (SBU) General MacKiernan: We look forward to welcoming you to Kyiv. The past couple of months have been marked by political turmoil as the President and Prime Minister search for ways to reach agreement on a date for pre-term parliamentary elections and a way forward on resolving contradictio [...] | 2007-05-25 15:02:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR MOPS UP |
07KYIV1305 | UKRAINE: DEAL FOR SEPTEMBER 30 ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: After all night discussions, President Yushchenko, PM Yanukovych, and Rada Speaker Moroz emerged after 4 a.m. May 27 to issue a seven-point joint statement that set early elections for September 30 and aimed to resolve the ongoing political crisis. Reactions ranged from relief [...] | 2007-05-29 10:55:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UP |
07KYIV131 | UKRAINE/GUAM: NEW MFA TEAM IN CHARGE, TIMING OF [...] (SBU) Summary. The Ukrainian MFA team overseeing GUAM issues told us they anticipate approval of the GUAM Charter bill in the Rada session that starts February 6. However Rada Foreign Policy Committee Chairman Vitaliy Shybko, a Socialist Party member, was more pessimistic. He noted the oppo [...] | 2007-01-19 12:09:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM MARR RS AZ GG MD UP |
07KYIV1324 | UKRAINE: GUAM AS A REGIONAL ORGANIZATION -- A TWO [...] (C) Summary: Executive Director of the GUAM Information Office Heorhiy Nazarov acknowledged that the impasse over scheduling early parliamentary elections had made it unlikely that the parliament (Rada) would vote on the GUAM Charter anytime soon. He said Ukraine's failure to ratify the GUAM [...] | 2007-05-31 13:17:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM MARR RS AZ GG MD UP |
07KYIV1326 | UKRAINE: RADA CONTINUES TO DRAG HEELS WHILE [...] (C) Summary. Despite frequent meetings between President Yushchenko, PM Yanukovych, Speaker Moroz, and opposition leader Tymoshenko, the Rada has so far failed to approve the legislation needed to enable early elections on September 30, as agreed to in the May 27 compromise. Many MPs attribut [...] | 2007-05-31 14:21:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV1327 | UKRAINE: CFE EXTRAORDINARY CONFERENCE: REQUEST FOR [...] (U) This is a guidance request. See para 6. 2. (U) We met May 31 with MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Director Volodymyr Belashov at his request to discuss the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Extraordinary Conference called by Russia for June 12-15. Bela [...] | 2007-05-31 14:24:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KCFE OSCE UP |
07KYIV133 | UKRAINE: KOSOVO STATUS PROCESS TIMELINE: DEMARCHE [...] (C) Summary/comment: In view of Ukrainian officials' previous concerns about the impact of Kosovo independence on "frozen conflicts" in Moldova and elsewhere, acting DCM drew on ref A background to brief DFM Veselovsky January 18 on the Kosovo settlement process. While underscoring that Ukrain [...] | 2007-01-19 14:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS OPDC UNMIK UN YI MD RS UP |
07KYIV1340 | UKRAINE: RADA WORKS FOR ANOTHER "ONE MORE DAY" - [...] (SBU) Summary. President Yushchenko relented again and extended authorization for the Rada to convene again June 1 in the hope that it would finish all its election-related business. Yushchenko, arriving back in Kyiv from his trip to Zagreb at 3 a.m., held morning meetings separately with PM [...] | 2007-06-01 14:02:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV135 | UKRAINE: ONE VICTOR? CABINET OF MINISTERS LAW [...] (C) Summary. A landmark Cabinet of Ministers law passed January 12 via a presidential veto override (ref A) will remake the Ukrainian political landscape once it comes into effect, although President Yushchenko cited a technicality to issue a renewed veto January 19 and returned the bill to t [...] | 2007-01-19 15:09:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV1354 | UKRAINE: JUNE 4 UPDATE - KYIV QUIET AS POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Actions by key political players June 1-2 gave greater cause for optimism that the political compromise announced May 27 is being implemented, although public statements from Prime Minister Yanukovych and Speaker Moroz on June 3-4 suggested that progress may continue to be slow [...] | 2007-06-04 13:06:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV1396 | UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO DECREE FOR SEPT 30 ELECTIONS, [...] (SBU) Summary: President Yushchenko issued a June 5 decree which established pre-term elections September 30 in accordance with the May 27 joint statement between Yushchenko, PM Yanukovych, and Speaker Moroz. Yushchenko delivered a 55-minute address to the diplomatic corps June 6 summarizing [...] | 2007-06-06 13:17:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM UP |
07KYIV1418 | UKRAINE: CRIMEA UPDATE - LESS TENSE THAN IN 2006; [...] (C) Summary: During Ambassador's May 29-30 visit to Simferopol, Crimea and an earlier poloff visit May 17-18, all of our interlocutors agreed that the situation in Crimea appears less tense than it did six months ago (reftels). The primary issues in play remain control/ownership of land; the [...] | 2007-06-08 08:50:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI KDEM PREL UP |
07KYIV1425 | UKRAINE: MILITARY EXERCISE LEGISLATION PASSES, SEA [...] (C) Summary and Comment: President Yushchenko signed the annual military exercise authorization bill June 6 and Rada (parliament) passage on May 29. Despite support from PM Yanukovych and most of the Party of Regions (the Rada's largest faction),Socialist and Communist party opposition remai [...] | 2007-06-08 11:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS MASS PREL PGOV UP |
07KYIV1458 | UKRAINE: ELECTIONS PROCESS STILL BUMPY [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Yanukovych and Party of Regions members are now openly talking about their election preparations and have told us that June 15 will be the last day the Rada is in session. The Rada must still acknowledge the resignations of at least another 72 members of the oppos [...] | 2007-06-13 12:55:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV1459 | UKRAINE: MISSILE DEFENSE TALKING POINTS DELIVERED: [...] (U) This is a request for guidance. See para 6. 2. (U) Ambassador, accompanied by Army Attache and poloff, met with Defense Minister Anatoliy Hrytsenko June 11 to deliver the response to Ukrainian missile defense questions (ref B). We provided written talking points, a Ukrainian courtesy [...] | 2007-06-13 13:07:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MCAP PARM OPRC PREL RS AZ US UP |
07KYIV1469 | UKRAINE: RADA LOSES QUORUM, BUT HURDLES MAY REMAIN [...] (C) Summary. After weeks of stalling by the coalition, and especially by Speaker Moroz, Deputy Speaker Martynyuk on June 15 read aloud from the Rada rostrum the final group of names of opposition deputies who have resigned from their Rada factions, reaching the total of 156 and formally depri [...] | 2007-06-15 12:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV1507 | UKRAINE: OLIGARCH AKHMETOV CONSIDERS STAYING OUT [...] (C) Summary: During a June 14 dinner, oligarch and Party of Regions financier Rinat Akhmetov said he was considering making a graceful exit from Parliament. He was disappointed and frustrated with his role as a Parliamentary Deputy and preferred to focus his efforts on his business activity a [...] | 2007-06-21 06:41:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR UP |
07KYIV1515 | UKRAINE: RADA SPUTTERS TO A CLOSE AS ATTENTION [...] (C) Summary. Speaker Moroz closed the Rada's aimless plenary sessions on June 19, clearly under some pressure by Party of Regions leaders and despite earlier vows by Socialists and Communists to continue sessions into July. Moroz read a letter to the Rada written by PM Yanukovych in which the [...] | 2007-06-21 14:03:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV1516 | UKRAINE: DNIPROPETROVSK LUKEWARM ON RADA [...] (C) Summary. On an early June trip to Dnipropetrovsk city, the capital of a major industrial center in the East, poloff found a wealthy city more blue than orange, but with a great deal of distrust of both Donetsk-based Party of Regions and Dnipro-native Tymoshenko, leaving an opening for othe [...] | 2007-06-21 14:16:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV1544 | RUSSIA USES GAS HIKE TALK TO TURN HEAT UP ON [...] (C) Summary. Russian President Vladimir Putin reawakened Ukraine's anxieties about future natural gas prices in his speech at the G8 summit on June 4, asserting Russia would no longer subsidize Ukraine's gas purchases. During the same week, Ukrainian Minister of Fuel and Energy Yuriy Boyko s [...] | 2007-06-26 10:14:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET PGOV PREL RS UP |
07KYIV1560 | UKRAINE: U.S.-RUSSIAN MISSILE DEFENSE DISCUSSION: [...] (U) EUR/PRA Director and head of delegation to the U.S.-Ukraine non-proliferation Working Group (NPWG) talks Anita Friedt delivered ref A's notification June 26 to Ukrainian MFA Arms Control and Military-Technical Cooperation Department Director General Volodymyr Belashov on the margins of NPW [...] | 2007-06-27 11:38:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MCAP PARM OPRC PREL RS AZ US UP |
07KYIV1563 | UKRAINE: JUNE 27 DOMESTIC POLITICAL SCENE UPDATE - [...] (SBU) Summary: In advance of the long (June 28 Constitution Day) weekend, Ukraine's political scene sputtered slowly forward towards summer holidays and election campaigns. President Yushchenko and PM Yanukovych spent significant time out of Kyiv, meeting twice at Boryspil airport to discuss [...] | 2007-06-27 12:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UP |
07KYIV1722 | UKRAINE: FLAWED LOCAL ELECTION REVEAL POTENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: Contentious repeat mayoral elections June 17 in Irpin, a town of 40,000 people located one hour northwest of Kyiv, underscored the potential for problems in the upcoming September 30 national Rada elections as a highstakes fight for land and power brought troublesome irregularitie [...] | 2007-07-17 12:11:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM UP |
07KYIV1761 | UKRAINE: CFE POSITION PARALLELS U.S. [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 5. 2. (U) During a July 18 press conference with his visiting Canadian counterpart, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk expressed a position that closely tracked Department's July 14 statement on Russia's announcement that it would su [...] | 2007-07-19 12:15:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KCFE OSCE UP |
07KYIV1808 | UKRAINE: POLITICAL WILL, NOT LAWS, WILL DETERMINE [...] (C) Summary. Parliament (Rada) adopted a number of amendments to the law on parliamentary elections June 1 as part of the compromise to hold early parliamentary elections on September 30. Some changes were needed, but a number of others reintroduced loopholes that contributed to election frau [...] | 2007-07-24 14:16:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
07KYIV1825 | UKRAINE: SHIPMENT OF WEAPONS FROM UKRAINIAN PORT [...] (C) We delivered ref A inquiry regarding the destination of the St. Vincent-flagged vessel Slavyanin July 27 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Director Volodymyr Belashov. When doing so, we emphasized the urgency of the request. Belashov said he would immediat [...] | 2007-07-27 12:59:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL EWWT MARR UP TU IZ |
07KYIV1826 | UKRAINE: HUNGARY LENDS QUIET SUPPORT TO UKRAINE'S [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-27 13:32:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD EINV HU UP |
07KYIV1837 | UKRAINE: MOROZ BLUFFING ON NEW RADA SESSION [...] (C) Summary: The Ukrainian media was abuzz over the July 28-29 weekend with Rada Speaker Moroz's announcement that he would call an extraordinary Rada session July 31. Moroz said he was responding to a request from 179 deputies to hold the session, but Party of Regions leaders immediately res [...] | 2007-07-30 11:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV1843 | UKRAINE: AKHMETOV WING OF REGIONS GEARS UP FOR [...] (C) Summary. In meetings with Party of Regions leaders Raisa Bohatyreva and Borys Kolesnikov--both members of the business-oriented wing of Regions dominated by oligarch Rinat Akhmetov--it was clear that there was an ongoing and heated debate within the party over strategies for the election, [...] | 2007-07-30 13:19:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
07KYIV186 | UKRAINE: TURKMEN OPPOSITION VISA SCANDAL REALLY [...] (C) Summary. The scandal that has erupted over Socialist Transportation Minister Mykola Rudkovskiy pressuring Ukrainian ambassadors to issue visas to Turkmen opposition figures to travel to Kyiv in late December in the wake of former Turkmen President Niyazov's death is, at its heart, the lat [...] | 2007-01-25 15:21:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EPET TX UP |
07KYIV1862 | UKRAINE: POLITICAL CLASH HIGHLIGHTS CORRUPTION IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOU attempted to push through a controversial amendment to the government procurement law, causing indignation among political opponents and spurring claims that the Party of Regions was trying to grab public funds for their election coffers. Opposition by President Viktor [...] | 2007-08-01 05:08:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EIND EFIN EINV PGOV UP |
07KYIV1897 | UKRAINE: MISSILE DEFENSE COOPERATION AND CFE; [...] (C) Visiting EUR Deputy Assistant Secretary David Kramer briefed Foreign Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk August 2 on the results of the July 30 U.S.-Russia experts' meeting on missile defense cooperation as requested reftel, as well as on parallel Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) discussions. Ya [...] | 2007-08-03 11:54:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO AJ CZ PL RS UP |
07KYIV1916 | UKRAINE: NATO SEA BREEZE EXERCISE AN "UNQUALIFIED [...] (C) Summary: Sea Breeze 2007, the largest ever multinational exercise in the Black Sea, concluded July 22. Over two weeks, exercise participants from 13 NATO PfP member countries enhanced interoperability through peacekeeping operations, search and rescue, and communications training. Despite [...] | 2007-08-06 13:02:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UP |
07KYIV1932 | UKRAINE: PRESIDENTIAL SECRETARIAT ON VOTING AND [...] (C) Summary. Roman Bezsmertniy, deputy head of the Presidential Secretariat for information policy and political tactician, told Ambassador July 27 that there was no truly good outcome for the upcoming elections, but he was focused on making sure Party of Regions stays committed to participat [...] | 2007-08-07 12:32:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
07KYIV1940 | UKRAINE: REGIONS'S PARTY CONGRESS: A HANDSHAKE, A [...] (C) Summary. The Party of Regions August 4 party congress was the least predictable of the major party congresses, featuring both moderate speeches by Prime Minister Yanukovych and faction leader Raisa Bohatyreva and well-received speeches from Communist Party leader Symonenko and a representa [...] | 2007-08-08 09:27:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV196 | UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR EUR DAS GRAFFY'S FEB 7-12 [...] (C) Summary: Your visit to Ukraine comes at a time when the struggle between President Yushchenko and PM Yanukovych for political dominance and the right to define national security, defense, and foreign policy has intensified. Recent legislation passed by Yanukovych's majority in the Rada (p [...] | 2007-01-26 12:53:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UP |
07KYIV1968 | UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH, OTHERS ANALYZE PRE- AND [...] (C) Summary: Key GoU leaders varied on their assessment of the upcoming pre-term elections in their August 1-2 meetings with EUR DAS Kramer but all acknowledged the importance of free and fair elections and the need to resolve tensions that have dominated the domestic political scene since A [...] | 2007-08-10 10:43:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
07KYIV1971 | UKRAINE: THE ORANGE REVOLUTION AND UNEASY [...] (C) Summary. The nine parties of the democratic megabloc came together August 7 to formally become the Our Ukraine-People's Self Defense (OU-PSD) election bloc, with a youth-oriented message and an attempt to rekindle the fervor of the Orange Revolution. The bloc consists of People's Union O [...] | 2007-08-10 12:51:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV1972 | UKRAINE: REQUEST FOR USG SUPPORT FOR UKRAINIAN AS [...] (U) This is an action request - please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) PolCouns was called in August 9 by Acting Director of the MFA's Second Territorial Department Larisa Myronenko to receive a request for U.S. support for Ukraine's candidate to be the next OSCE Head of Mission in Kosovo, Ambas [...] | 2007-08-10 13:24:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM OSCE UP |
07KYIV1986 | UKRAINE: CENTRAL ELECTION COMMISSION DELAYS BYUT [...] (C) Summary. Leaders of the Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) on August 10 accused the coalition-dominated Central Election Commission (CEC) of refusing to register its candidates for the September 30 parliamentary election in order to keep the largest opposition force in Ukraine out of the election and [...] | 2007-08-13 13:11:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV2001 | UKRAINE: TEN YEARS AFTER THE SIGNING OF THE [...] (C) Summary: Ten years after the signing of the NATO-Ukraine Charter and two and a half years after the Orange Revolution, many policy makers and experts in Ukraine and in the West hoped that Ukraine would jump on a fast track to NATO membership. However, today public support for NATO members [...] | 2007-08-15 07:35:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UP |
07KYIV2010 | UKRAINE: BYUT REGISTERED FOR ELECTION [...] (C) Summary and comment. After a court ruled August 14 that the Central Election Commission (CEC) needed to review BYuT's candidates list within one day, the CEC complied and finally approved all 450 candidates of the bloc late in the day August 15. Tymoshenko herself attended the August 14 [...] | 2007-08-15 13:26:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV2075 | UKRAINE: BYUT CONGRESS--NATIONALIST WRAPPINGS, BUT [...] (C) Summary. In a congress that emphasized Ukrainian nationalism and loyalty to Tymoshenko, the diminutive opposition leader presented her detailed program for the country's future, "the Ukrainian Breakthrough." In a 75-minute speech, Tymoshenko laid out her ideas for everything from increasi [...] | 2007-08-17 12:26:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV211 | UKRAINE: NATO REFERENDUM ON HOLD AFTER [...] (C) Summary. President Yushchenko's January 26 decision to refer two constitutional articles on holding a referendum to the Constitutional Court for clarification effectively pushes down the road the need to decide whether there will be a referendum on membership in NATO and the Single Economi [...] | 2007-01-29 15:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NATO UP |
07KYIV2114 | UKRAINE: U.S. NON-PAPER ON CFE DELIVERED; [...] This is an action request. See paragraph 5. 2. (C) As agreed ref email, PolCouns met with MFA Director for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control Volodymr Belashov August 23, to follow up on Acting EUR A/S Volker's meeting with the Ukrainian Charge and Moldovan Ambassador August 22 in Washin [...] | 2007-08-23 12:47:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KCFE NATO OSCE RS UP |
07KYIV214 | UKRAINE: UNCERTAIN FUTURE FOR COMMUNITY OF [...] (C) Summary. The Community of Democratic Choice (CDC),as described in an August 2005 joint statement by Ukrainian President Yushchenko and Georgian President Saakashvili, was to be a continuing dialogue and series of meetings to promote democracy, human rights, and civil society in former Sov [...] | 2007-01-30 14:10:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM GG UP |
07KYIV2165 | UKRAINE: LITTLE PROGRESS IN INVESTIGATION OF [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Journalist Artem Skoropadiskiy, who claimed that an August 13 assault on him by two assailants was because of a critical story he wrote on Kyiv Mayor Leonid Chernovetskiy, told PolOff on August 21 that there had been no progress in the police investigation. Althoug [...] | 2007-08-29 11:57:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV UP |
07KYIV2185 | UKRAINE: U.S. REACTION TO CFE NON-PAPER DELIVERED [...] (U) We delivered U.S. comments contained ref A on the Ukrainian Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) non-paper (ref B) to MFA Arms Control Director Volodymyr Belashov August 31. Belashov thanked us for the speedy U.S. response and welcomed the information that the U.S. had briefed Georgia and [...] | 2007-08-31 13:06:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KCFE OSCE NATO RS UP |
07KYIV2202 | UKRAINE: PORA CONTROVERSY ANOTHER TEST OF ELECTION [...] (C) Summary. The sudden appearance of a "second" Pora political party, its quick registration by the Central Election Commission (CEC) and the CEC's deregistration of eight representatives of the "real" Pora on the OU-PSD list at worst raised questions about the use of dirty tricks, and at a [...] | 2007-09-04 13:06:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
07KYIV2204 | UKRAINE: PERSONALITIES, NOT PROGRAMS, [...] (C) Summary. The conscious decision of the three main parties in Ukraine to focus their campaigns on the same themes -- populist social and economic promises and anti-corruption slogans -- means that the vote will come down once again to personalities and perceived leadership types. The offic [...] | 2007-09-04 13:13:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV2206 | UKRAINE: EXTRAORDINARY RADA SESSION TAKES AIM AT [...] (U) Summary: The Rada's majority coalition held an extraordinary parliamentary session on September 4, at Speaker Moroz's behest. With 269 MP's registered as present, they voted to amend two clauses of the constitution in order to eliminate parliamentary and presidential immunity, thereby pr [...] | 2007-09-04 13:50:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL UP |
07KYIV223 | UKRAINE: TARASYUK RESIGNS AS FOREIGN MINISTER, [...] (SBU) Summary. Borys Tarasyuk ended two months of uncertainty and political confrontation over his lame-duck tenure as Ukraine's Foreign Minister by offering his resignation to President Yushchenko January 30, after a district court deferred a decision on his legal challenge to the Rada's Dec [...] | 2007-01-31 16:34:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RU UP |
07KYIV2239 | UKRAINE: ELECTIONS IN ODESA HEAVILY FAVOR REGIONS [...] (C) Summary. During the Ambassador's August 31 meetings in Odesa with leaders from Party of Regions (POR),Bloc of Yuliya Tymoshenko (BYuT),and Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense (OU-PSD),all agreed that POR remained the overwhelming favorite in the predominately blue region -- in 2006, Regio [...] | 2007-09-07 12:17:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UP |
07KYIV224 | UKRAINE: REACTION TO MISSILE DEFENSE MEDIA REPORTS [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 9. 2. (C) Summary: Defense Minister Hrytsenko told Ambassador January 29 that the U.S. announcement about its preparedness to locate missile defense facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic had the unintended consequence in Ukraine of reinforcing [...] | 2007-01-31 16:40:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MCAP PREL PINR US UP |
07KYIV2245 | UKRAINE: APPEAL FOR USG FORBEARANCE ON INDIA SPACE [...] (C) This is a request for guidance. Request that the Department provide the U.S. position regarding Ukraine company Yuzhnoye's contract to prepare blueprints for a semi-cryogenic, liquid-oxygen/kerosene-fueled rocket engine for the Indian Space Research Organization, as detailed below, and es [...] | 2007-09-07 13:31:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM ETTC MTCRE TSPA PREL IN UP |
07KYIV2247 | UKRAINE: EVEN SMALL ELECTION ABUSES COULD [...] Summary. As the campaign heats up for Ukraine's September 30 preterm parliamentary elections, few anticipate there will be massive election fraud. However, in what is expected to be a very tight race, even abuses on the margins could influence the outcome. Greater transparency in the electio [...] | 2007-09-07 13:50:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
07KYIV225 | UKRAINE: MOROZ, REGIONS PLAYING GAMES WITH THE [...] (C) Summary. Rada Speaker Moroz and the Yanukovych government have used "creative" interpretations of the constitution and the Rada rules of procedure to try to bring into force the controversial law on the Cabinet of Ministers, despite presidential claims that the law was vetoed (reftel). T [...] | 2007-01-31 16:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV2256 | UKRAINE: ACTING FM URGES USG SUPPORT FOR UKRAINIAN [...] (C) The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry continues to press for U.S. support for Ukraine's candidate to be the next OSCE Head of Mission in Kosovo, Ambassador Anatoliy Oliynyk, currently Ukraine's Ambassador to both Serbia and Montenegro. During an August 31 meeting with the Ambassador, Acting Fo [...] | 2007-09-10 11:42:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
07KYIV2266 | UKRAINE: PREVIEW OF SEPTEMBER 14 SUMMIT WITH EU [...] (C) Summary: An EU delegation of Portuguese Prime Minister Socrates, EU Council Secretary General Solana, European Commission President Barroso, and Commissioner Ferrero-Waldner will participate in the EU-Ukraine summit September 14 in Kyiv. In their private meetings, the EU delegation will [...] | 2007-09-11 12:18:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECIN ETRD ENRG EUN PO UP |
07KYIV2286 | UKRAINE: IUD'S TARUTA ON REGIONS, ELECTIONS, AND [...] (C) Summary. In a marathon three-hour meeting, reclusive Industrial Union Donbas (IUD) owner Serhiy Taruta and his more politically-active partner Vitaliy Haiduk gave the Ambassador their views on the elections, Regions party leaders, and the current gas deal with Russia, especially their conc [...] | 2007-09-13 10:05:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EPET PINR UP |
07KYIV2290 | UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE DISCOURAGED FROM THE TOP DOWN [...] (C) Summary. Conversations with Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense (OU-PSD) Leader Yuriy Lutsenko, First Lady Kateryna Yushchenko, and members of the bloc's regional headquarters show a political movement struggling to keep pace with the more aggressive Tymoshenko Bloc. Lutsenko and Mrs. Yushc [...] | 2007-09-13 10:34:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
07KYIV235 | UKRAINE: SHCHERBAN CASE BEING SWEPT UNDER RUG [...] (C) Summary. It appears increasingly unlikely that former Sumy governor Volodymyr Shcherban, accused of election rigging and a number of other serious charges, will end up in court. Shcherban, who fled to the U.S. in the spring of 2005 to avoid arrest in Ukraine, was detained for overstaying h [...] | 2007-02-01 12:43:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM UP |
07KYIV2383 | GOU RAISES THE STAKES AGAINST IATA, AND BACKS DOWN [...] (C) On August 30 the GOU suspended all cross border activities of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) in its latest move against the world airline industry's trade group. In a subsequent meeting with the Ambassador, however, Minister of Economy Anatoly Kinakh agreed to stop imp [...] | 2007-09-14 11:28:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ETRD KTIA PREL UP |
07KYIV2392 | UKRAINE'S WTO NEGOTIATOR WANTS TO WRAP UP [...] (C) Summary: During a September 17 meeting, Ukraine's lead WTO negotiator Valeriy Pyatnytskiy complained that talks with Kyrgyzstan on a WTO bilateral agreement had stalled. Kyrgyzstan had rejected Ukraine's most recent proposal, and Pyatnytskiy believed that "one or more third parties" were [...] | 2007-09-18 04:38:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD WTRO KG UP |
07KYIV2401 | UKRAINE: COALITION SCENARIOS IN A CLOSE RACE [...] (C) Summary and comment. With reliable polling suggesting that no one party will win an outright majority on its own in the September 30 elections, a coalition will have to be formed either based on an orange variant, a broad coalition that in some way joins the Party of Regions and Our Ukrai [...] | 2007-09-18 13:14:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
07KYIV2402 | UKRAINE: KIROVOHRAD: IT'S A TWO PARTY RACE, [...] (SBU) Summary: In conversations with Kirovohrad's Communist mayor, Our Ukraine Governor, and various campaign workers regarding preparations for the September 30 elections, opinion across the spectrum was that Regions and BYuT will be the top two vote getters with about 25-30 percent each, w [...] | 2007-09-18 13:25:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL UP |
07KYIV2417 | UKRAINE: NATO, RUSSIAN LANGUAGE ISSUES ENTER [...] (C) Summary. Party of Regions' recent decision to call for a referendum on neutrality (local shorthand for no NATO membership),and an official status for the Russian language resurrects divisive election themes, present in 2004 and 2006, that the major parties had tried to keep quiet so far [...] | 2007-09-19 12:58:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV NATO PREL PINR UP |
07KYIV2479 | UKRAINE: SEPTEMBER 30 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS A [...] (C) Summary. Ukrainians will go to the polls on September 30 -- for the fifth time in the past three years -- to elect a new parliament, and attempt to end the political deadlock that has gripped this country since President Yushchenko's April 2 decree dissolving the Rada. With the polls show [...] | 2007-09-27 14:30:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
07KYIV2481 | UKRAINE: REGIONS FOCUSES ON CAMPAIGN; PUTS ASIDE [...] (C) Summary. Pouring money and manpower into its campaign effort, Party of Regions leaders have put aside their differences to aim for another win in the September 30 Rada election -- as all polls show them doing -- but squabbles over policy direction and coalition formation could resurface in [...] | 2007-09-28 02:34:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
07KYIV2489 | UKRAINE/MTCR: SECURING SUPPORT FOR MODIFIED U.S. [...] (C) We relayed ref A points September 27 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselor Oleh Belokolos. Belokolos, who was at the Oslo meeting, said he would have the U.S. UAV/cruise missile proposal translated as soon as possible, distribute it to the relevant Uk [...] | 2007-09-28 10:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC KSCA TSPA UP |
07KYIV2496 | UKRAINE: MYKOLAYIV -- RUNNING ON ISSUES BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: The southern industrial city of Mykolayiv wrestles with a number of local issues revolving around the question of who will control the city's economic assets. Controversy centers in particular on ownership of the Black Sea Shipyard, currently in the hands of Russian businessmen, [...] | 2007-09-28 12:54:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EIND EINV PREL RS UP |
07KYIV2498 | UKRAINE: PARTIES LAY OUT CONCERNS, PLANS ON EVE OF [...] (C) Summary. As the campaign comes to a halt September 28 at midnight, all three major parties -- Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense, BYuT, and Party of Regions -- have laid out their final positions, telling international observers that they will abide by any election results that the internat [...] | 2007-09-28 13:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
07KYIV2501 | UKRAINIAN ELECTIONS: A NEW ORANGE COALITION COULD [...] (C) Summary: A renewed "orange coalition" could potentially capture enough Rada seats to form the new government, according to several nationwide exit polls. As of noon October 1, counting continues and the Central Election Commission (CEC) has posted about 54% of the results, although there [...] | 2007-10-01 07:07:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
07KYIV2505 | UKRAINE: CABINET OF MINISTERS APPROVES VANCO PSA [...] THIS INFORMATION IS COMMERCIALLY SENSITIVE AND SHOULD NOT BE SHARED OUTSIDE OF THE USG. 2. (C) Summary. On September 26 the Cabinet of Ministers approved the production sharing agreement (PSA) for oil and gas exploration in the Black Sea with Houston-based Vanco. Vanco told the GOU it woul [...] | 2007-10-02 11:12:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PINR EINV UP |
07KYIV2508 | UKRAINE: ALL SIDES WAIT WHILE ELECTIONS SLOWLY [...] (C) Summary. As votes continued to trickle into the Central Election Commission on October 2, parties remained for the most part constrained, holding off on both court challenges and coalition negotiations until the final count is announced. With more than 97 percent of the vote counted by 5 [...] | 2007-10-02 12:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV2515 | UKRAINE: MILITARY HELICOPTERS FOR UNAMID REQUESTED [...] (U) Per input received ref A, we joined UK Embassy Head of Political Section Duncan Allan on a joint demarche October 3 to MFA UN Directorate head Petro Datsenko to request that Ukraine consider providing six to twelve military utility helicopters (ref C) for UNAMID (United Nations-African Unio [...] | 2007-10-03 12:15:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KPKO SU UK UP |
07KYIV2517 | UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO CALLS FOR PARTIES TO BEGIN [...] (C) Summary. With less than one half of one percent of the vote still uncounted, the political parties are starting to slowly extend feelers on various coalition formations. President Yushchenko made the biggest stir of the day by holding a press conference in which he called on all the parti [...] | 2007-10-03 13:32:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV2522 | UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH SUGGESTS REGIONS WON'T ACCEPT [...] (C) Summary: PM Yanukovych told the Ambassador October 3 that Regions had the right to form the government as the party with the most votes and was willing to negotiate with all of the parties to form a coalition, but that it could not accept an orange coalition and government. According to Y [...] | 2007-10-04 13:12:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
07KYIV2533 | UKRAINE: FRUSTRATION UP IN ORANGE CAMP AS [...] (C) Summary. Key players in the past two days have told us that they believe President Yushchenko is leaning towards a broad coalition, although BYuT and part of Our Ukraine-People's Self Defense are fighting hard for an orange government. An ebullient Presidential Administration head Baloha [...] | 2007-10-05 13:47:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV2546 | UKRAINE: PRESIDENT PUSHES FOR QUICK COALITION [...] (C) Summary. President Yushchenko has tried to jump start negotiations on forming a new governing coalition by calling all five political forces represented in the new Rada to a meeting October 8 and instructing them to submit proposals on the prime minister and coalition within five days. He [...] | 2007-10-09 14:07:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV2555 | UKRAINE: NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE, BALL IN BALOHA'S [...] (C) Summary. Conversations on October 10 with key advisers for Yuliya Tymoshenko and PM Viktor Yanukovych, Hryhoriy Nemyria and Serhiy Lyovochkin respectively, underscore what we have been hearing for the past week -- the ball on coalition formation is in Yushchenko's court, but it may be Pre [...] | 2007-10-10 13:43:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV2566 | UKRAINE: DASD CAGAN REQUESTS PLUS-UP IN IRAQ [...] (U) Action Request: See paragraph 13. 2. (C) Summary. In consecutive meetings with Ukrainian Chief of Defense, General of the Army Serhiy Kyrychenko, Minister of Defense Anatoliy Hrytsenko, and Deputy Foreign Minister Andriy Veselovsky on October 8, visiting Deputy Assistant Secretary of [...] | 2007-10-12 02:18:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS IZ UP US |
07KYIV2575 | UKRAINE: COALITION SOUNDING ORANGE--FOR TODAY [...] (C) Summary. As the five-day timeline President Yushchenko gave to the parties to submit coalition proposals draws to a close, BYuT and Our Ukraine-People's Self Defense took public steps intended to demonstrate that the orange coalition is close to becoming a reality. Tymoshenko and three re [...] | 2007-10-12 12:53:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV2588 | UKRAINE: CLOCK TICKING ON RADA AND COALITION [...] (SBU) Summary. The Central Election Commission announced the official election results late on October 15, which triggers the next steps in seating the new Rada and then the formation of a government. The CEC must promulgate the results within 5 days, the Rada must open within 30 days after [...] | 2007-10-16 12:36:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV2634 | UKRAINE: PRESIDENTIAL SECRETARIAT AND OU-PSD [...] (C) Summary. Leader of Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense Bloc Yuriy Lutsenko and Deputy Head of the Presidential Secretariat Roman Bezsmertniy told the Ambassador in separate SIPDIS meetings October 16 that OU-PSD and President Yushchenko would support an orange coalition and Tymoshenko to [...] | 2007-10-17 12:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV2653 | UKRAINE: REGIONS AND SOME IN OU OPPOSE TYMOSHENKO, [...] (C) Summary. As they await the official promulgation of the election results, which has been slowed by court appeals, the major parties are clarifying their positions on coalition formation. Prime Minister Yanukovych rejected the idea of the technocratic government outlined by members of the [...] | 2007-10-19 12:03:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV2671 | UKRAINE:TALK OF REMOVING RUE FROM GAS DEAL [...] (C) Summary: Local reaction to Gazprom Chairman Medvedev's comments (ref b) about removing RosUkrEnergo (RUE) from the gas deal have ranged from positive to muted. Minister of Fuels and Energy Boyko told Ambassador he had heard nothing from the Russians about possibly removing RUE from the ga [...] | 2007-10-23 12:34:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ETRD PREL RS UP |
07KYIV2672 | UKRAINE: MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR) [...] (C) We provided ref A report October 23 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Director Volodymyr Belashov. At the same time, we provided information copies of U.S. papers and positions contained refs B-E (on space launch vehicles and ballistic missiles, U.S. propos [...] | 2007-10-23 12:53:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC KSCA TSPA UP |
07KYIV2673 | UKRAINE: READ-OUT OF MOSCOW TWO-PLUS-TWO MEETING [...] (U) We drew on ref A October 23 to brief MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Director Volodymyr Belashov and Counselor Rustam Rustamov on the results of the U.S.-Russia "2-plus-2" discussions held October 12-13 in Moscow. Belashov, who was on his way the same aftern [...] | 2007-10-23 13:04:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS KPAO NATO EU EZ PL RS UP |
07KYIV2678 | UKRAINE: FORMER PM YEKHANUROV ON TYMOSHENKO, [...] (C) Summary. Our Ukraine-People's Self Defense Rada deputy and former Prime Minister Yekhanurov told the Ambassador October 24 that he did not believe Tymoshenko would be a good prime minister, but he will vote for her if that is the decision his bloc makes. He added, however, that his conti [...] | 2007-10-24 12:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV2713 | UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH AND TYMOSHENKO WAIT FOR [...] (C) Summary and Comment: PM Yanukovych and his potential successor, Yuliya Tymoshenko, met separately October 24-26 with Colin Powell and Richard Holbrooke, both of whom were in Kyiv to deliver speeches at the invitation of the Pinchuk Foundation, established by businessman and Kuchma son-in-la [...] | 2007-10-26 12:40:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV2720 | UKRAINE: MILITARY HELICOPTERS FOR UNAMID -- UPDATE [...] (SBU) As noted ref A, DCM had a follow-up meeting October 26 with MFA Second Territorial Department Director Ihor Hrushko concerning ref B request for Ukraine to consider contributing helicopters or other critical force multipliers/enablers required for the UN/African Union hybrid peacekeeping [...] | 2007-10-29 13:29:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KPKO SU UP |
07KYIV2744 | UKRAINE: RADA PREPARATIONS SLOWLY ADVANCING [...] (C) Summary. The process of preparing to seat the new Rada is moving forward slowly, while fissures in the orange coalition continue to appear even before it has officially become a coalition. As required by law, the Central Election Commission is now registering MPs and all five factions h [...] | 2007-11-02 13:28:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV2748 | UKRAINE: YOUNG DEPUTIES UNDERSCORE PARTY DIVIDES [...] (C) Summary. A lunch with three young MPs, all under 35 years old, underscored the fact that the three main factions share common policy ideas, but have such strained relations that any cooperation in the next year or two could be situational and uneven. Olena Bondarenko (Regions),Yuriy Pav [...] | 2007-11-05 11:36:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
07KYIV2752 | UKRAINE: PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO FINALLY TO VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Israeli Embassy DCM Shahar Arieli confirmed that President Victor Yushchenko plans to visit Israel in mid-November and that he would also visit Ramallah and meet with Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, although he noted that previous planned visits did not m [...] | 2007-11-06 08:20:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL IS UP |
07KYIV2759 | UKRAINE: IRAQ DEPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS [...] (C) With regard to all the scenarios contained in reftel, Ukraine's parliament must approve the deployment of Ukrainian military units in peacekeeping operations (PKO),while the President can authorize the participation of individual members of the military in PKOs by the issuance of a Presid [...] | 2007-11-06 11:07:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL IZ UP |
07KYIV2766 | UKRAINE: COALITION POSSIBILITIES - READING THE [...] (C) Summary: With the opening of the Rada on the horizon and after five weeks of coalition discussions between representatives of all of the major parties and President Yushchenko, we have boiled down the main number of possibilities for the next government to four -- an orange coalition led [...] | 2007-11-07 14:59:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
07KYIV2806 | UKRAINE: PRESIDENT'S DEMANDS STRAIN OU; REGIONS [...] (C) Summary. While the parties are slowly going through the procedures to prepare for a new Rada, the orange coalition is either close to completion or teetering on the edge of self-destruction, reportedly pushed by President Yushchenko, his Chief of Staff Baloha, and NSDC Secretary Plyushch. [...] | 2007-11-09 14:05:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
07KYIV2813 | UKRAINE: KYIV MAYOR ONCE AGAIN UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT [...] (C) Summary. Many consider the Mayor of Kyiv to be the fourth most powerful political post in the country, after the President, PM, and Speaker of the Parliament. Both the Yuliya Tymoshenko (BYuT) Bloc and Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense (OU-PSD) made the dismissal of Kyiv mayor Leonid Che [...] | 2007-11-13 13:58:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
07KYIV282 | UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO POISONING CASE REMAINS [...] (SBU) Summary. More than two years after his inauguration as President, Viktor Yushchenko's face no longer has the huge chloracne bumps and pallid grey color resulting from his poisoning by dioxin in September 2004, and his Swiss doctors claim that 80 percent of the dioxin has left his syste [...] | 2007-02-02 15:06:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM UP |
07KYIV2820 | UKRAINE: RESOURCE NATIONALISM REPORT [...] (C) Summary: Ukraine has relatively small reserves of oil and natural gas, but is the world's largest hydrocarbon transit country, moving 75.8% of Russia's natural gas to Europe. Ukraine imports 77% of its natural gas and 79% of its oil needs almost exclusively from Russia. As a legacy of S [...] | 2007-11-14 12:55:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ETRD PREL UP |
07KYIV283 | UKRAINE: OLD FACES, PRACTICES RETURN TO MINISTRY [...] (C) Summary. Since the ouster of outspoken "orange" Interior Minister Yuri Lutsenko December 1 and the appointment of compliant Vasyl Tsushko in his place, some old faces and practices from the pre-Orange Revolution era have returned to the Ministry and police. Of note were the appointments [...] | 2007-02-02 15:20:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UP |
07KYIV2831 | UKRAINE: PEACEKEEPERS AND KOSOVO POST-INDEPENDENCE [...] (U) This is a request for Department guidance. Please advise on how we should respond to Ukrainian Defense Minister Hrytsenko's inquiry on contingency planning for possible Kosovo independence. 2. (C) During a November 15 meeting with EUR DAS David Kramer, Defense Minister Hrytsenko inquir [...] | 2007-11-16 12:42:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS KDEM UNMIK OSCE YI MD RS UP |
07KYIV2832 | UKRAINE: 2008 GAS NEGOTIATIONS UNDERWAY--NOTHING [...] (SBU) Summary. 2008 Gas Negotiations between Ukraine and Russia continued in Moscow this week. Ukrainian Minister of Fuel and Energy Yuriy Boyko announced in the press that natural gas pricing negotiations with Russia's state-owned gas company, Gazprom, that Ukraine would pay close to $160 p [...] | 2007-11-16 13:15:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ETRD PREL PINR UP |
07KYIV2833 | UKRAINE: ODDS MOUNTING AGAINST A TYMOSHENKO [...] (C) Summary: After visiting EUR DAS Kramer's series of meetings with top Ukrainian political figures, it is clear that the path to the premiership for Yuliya Tymoshenko will be difficult and is still far from certain. Presidential Administration head Baloha said that he was "101%" certain tha [...] | 2007-11-16 14:59:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
07KYIV2858 | UKRAINE: PREPARING FOR THE NATO BUCHAREST SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary. We need to engage now with Ukraine to craft a role for this important partner at the April 2008 NATO Summit in Bucharest even as Ukrainian political forces are focused on building a coalition and forming a new government. While President Yushchenko, FM Yatsenyuk, and Minister of [...] | 2007-11-21 13:05:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL UP |
07KYIV2902 | UKRAINE: U.S.-IRAQ BILATERAL RELATIONS -- DEMARCHE [...] (C) We delivered ref A talking points and text of the U.S.-Iraq Statement of Principles November 27 to Third Territorial Department Middle East Division Acting Director Mykola Leshchenko and U.S. and Canada Desk Director Yuriy Nykytiuk. We emphasized the U.S. desire to consult on the best pos [...] | 2007-11-27 13:55:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL PGOV IZ UP |
07KYIV2923 | UKRAINE: ORANGE COALITION ANNOUNCED, BUT NO [...] (C) Summary: Yuliya Tymoshenko's bloc (BYuT) and Our Ukraine-People's Self Defense (OU-PSD) announced the successful conclusion of a coalition agreement in the Rada November 29, bringing the renewed "orange" coalition one step closer to forming a government. However, the new coalition was un [...] | 2007-11-29 14:00:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
07KYIV2932 | UKRAINE: ARMS SALES TO BURMA - DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) We delivered reftel talking points urging termination of arms deals with Burma on November 30 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Counselor Oleh Belokolos. Belokolos noted that, while conventional arms sales were not in his direct portfolio, MFA was aware of the general n [...] | 2007-11-30 12:22:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PHUM BM UP |
07KYIV296 | UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO NOMINATES OHRYZKO AS FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary. President Yushchenko nominated First Deputy (and currently Acting) Foreign Minister Volodymyr Ohryzko February 5 to replace former FM Tarasyuk, defying general expectations that Deputy Head of the Presidential Secretariat Oleksandr Chaliy would be nominated. Ohryzko's nomination [...] | 2007-02-05 15:56:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV2967 | UKRAINE: GETTING TO GOVERNMENT - ORANGE COALITION [...] (C) Summary: After a day of parliamentary maneuvering, the orange coalition parties of Yuliya Tymoshenko and President Yushchenko mustered a slim-227 majority vote to elect 33-year old Foreign Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk as the Speaker of the Rada. The successful vote showed that the coalition i [...] | 2007-12-05 13:30:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
07KYIV2973 | UKRAINE: RADA PREPARES TO VOTE ON TYMOSHENKO'S PM [...] (C) Summary: In a move that surprised many, especially the parliamentary opposition, on December 6, President Yushchenko submitted the nomination of Yuliya Tymoshenko to the Rada for a vote, just hours after receiving her nomination from the orange coalition via newly-elected Rada Speaker Yatse [...] | 2007-12-06 10:31:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
07KYIV2977 | UKRAINE: RADA SCHEDULES PM VOTE FOR DECEMBER 11 [...] (C) Summary. Rada Speaker Yatsenyuk ended another day of finger-pointing and delaying tactics in the Rada by announcing that the parliament would hold the confirmation vote on Tymoshenko as Prime Minister on Tuesday December 11 -- the end of the five-day deadline for considering a prime minis [...] | 2007-12-07 12:04:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV3034 | UKRAINE: MOI AND MFA DISCUSS PLANS TO FIGHT [...] (C) Summary and Comment. The Ukrainian Government is taking steps to combat the increase in racially-motivated crimes in Ukraine this year. Acting Minister of Interior Korniyenko highlighted to the Ambassador several initiatives undertaken by the Ministry including increased security for di [...] | 2007-12-10 13:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV UP |
07KYIV3035 | UKRAINE: TYMOSHENKO PM VOTE COMES DOWN TO THE WIRE [...] (C) Summary. The December 11 vote on Tymoshenko's candidacy is shaping up to be a nail-biter, with three members of OU-PSD reportedly now in the hospital for various medical problems, Regions still threatening to block the rostrum, and disputes over Cabinet positions straining the coalition. [...] | 2007-12-10 13:39:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV3036 | UKRAINE: COALITION AGREEMENT TOO BROAD TO BE [...] (C) Summary. Should Yuliya Tymoshenko be confirmed as Prime Minister -- a vote is scheduled for December 11 -- her government program would be based on the coalition agreement, a wide-ranging 81-page document that promises sweeping reforms across the board with an emphasis on social programs, [...] | 2007-12-10 14:04:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
07KYIV3048 | UKRAINE: PM GRIDLOCK ILLUSTRATES DYSFUNCTION OF [...] (C) Summary. Disorganization and infighting within the orange coalition, particularly within the President's Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense party, and continued intransigence by the Party of Regions have stymied the confirmation of Yuliya Tymoshenko as Prime Minister. The December 11 vote [...] | 2007-12-12 12:05:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV3066 | UKRAINE: PM VOTE SCHEDULED FOR DECEMBER 18 [...] (C) Summary. The Rada approved an agenda for the December 18 session that will include a vote on the PM, the Government, deputy speakers, and the distribution of committee chairmanships. In spite of their best efforts, Rada Speaker Yatsenyuk and the orange coalition were unsuccessful Decembe [...] | 2007-12-14 10:58:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV3074 | UKRAINE: DRAFT UNSCR IRAQ TEXT PROVIDED [...] (C) We delivered ref A talking points and text of the draft UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) on Iraq December 14 to Third Territorial Department Middle East Division Acting Director Mykola Leshchenko, Iraq Desk Officer Mykola Radchenko, and UN and Other International Organizations UN des [...] | 2007-12-17 12:47:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR EFIN PARM UNSC IZ UP |
07KYIV3086 | UKRAINE: TYMOSHENKO ELECTED AS PM; NEW GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: After several weeks of debate and uncertainty, the orange coalition came together and confirmed Yuliya Tymoshenko as the new prime minister of Ukraine on December 18. Tymoshenko was confirmed with 226 votes, the minimum number of votes necessary in the 450-member Rada. Only MPs f [...] | 2007-12-18 13:49:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
07KYIV3102 | UKRAINE: WHO'S WHO IN THE TYMOSHENKO GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary. The new Tymoshenko government, confirmed by the Rada December 18, is an interesting mix of PM Tymoshenko loyalists and President Yushchenko loyalists, and of experienced politicians and technocratic newcomers. Disagreements over Our Ukraine-People's Self Defense slots between the [...] | 2007-12-20 05:55:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
07KYIV315 | UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR SECDEF'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: Secretary Gates, your meeting with President Yushchenko at Wehrkunde next week comes at a time when the struggle between Yushchenko and PM Yanukovych for political dominance and the right to define national security, defense, and foreign policy has intensified. Recent legislation [...] | 2007-02-07 15:59:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR UP |
07KYIV3154 | UKRAINE: BOHATYREVA APPOINTMENT MUDDIES REGIONS [...] (C) Summary. With Regions finally settling into its role as the opposition, and both Prime Minister Tymoshenko and Regions leader Yanukovych making efforts to be constructive, President Yushchenko's decision to name deputy leader of Party of Regions Raisa Bohatyreva Secretary of the National [...] | 2007-12-27 09:30:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
07KYIV3157 | UKRAINE: SHAPING OUR MESSAGE [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Prime Minister Tymoshenko's government has begun delineating its internal setup/workflow and the structures and processes for interacting with the President's team and parliamentary opposition. In turn, President Yushchenko is pushing forward his own initiatives aime [...] | 2007-12-27 11:50:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL UP |
07KYIV331 | 2/9 UKRAINE WTO UPDATE: KYRGYZ BILAT [...] (C) Summary: Ukraine must sign one more bilateral Market Access Agreement, with Kyrgyzstan, as part of its accession to the WTO. Erkin Mamkulov, Kyrgyz Ambassador to Ukraine, told us that resolution of USD 27 million worth of debt, owed by Ukraine to Kyrgyzstan, is the critical remaining issue [...] | 2007-02-09 15:55:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP KG |
07KYIV332 | UKRAINE: EU TROIKA MEETING LAUNCHES ENHANCED [...] (C) Summary: A February 6 EU Troika meeting in Kyiv marked the launch of a new enhanced Partnership and Cooperative Agreement intended to strengthen economic and political ties - responding to a Ukrainian push for a new kind of partnership and closer ties to the EU. The first meeting of a Wor [...] | 2007-02-09 16:11:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM UP |
07KYIV361 | UKRAINE: COALITION PUBLISHES, SEEKS TO AMEND, [...] (SBU) Summary. The controversial Law on the Cabinet of Ministers, which tips the balance of power toward the Prime Minister at the President's expense, continues to be a political football on Kyiv playing fields. The February 2 decision by the Rada (parliament) and Government to officially p [...] | 2007-02-15 15:36:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV452 | UKRAINE: RADA REJECTS FM/SBU NOMINEES IN ANOTHER [...] (C) Summary. The Party of Regions-led Rada majority on February 22 rejected presidential nominees for Foreign Minister and Security Service (SBU) Chief in what appears to be the latest skirmish between the President and Prime Minister in the long-running struggle for power. Presidential Secre [...] | 2007-02-22 16:37:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV466 | UKRAINE: SHALL WE DANCE? TYMOSHENKO AND YUSHCHENKO [...] (C) Summary. Opposition leader Yuliya Tymoshenko and Presidential Secretariat Head Viktor Baloha separately told the Ambassador February 20-21 that there was a new, deeper cooperation agreement between Our Ukraine (OU) and the Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) in the works; both were guardedly optimisti [...] | 2007-02-23 15:29:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV467 | UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR OPPOSITION LEADER [...] (C) Summary: Opposition leader Yuliya Tymoshenko arrives in the U.S. at a time when the feuding and deal-making between Ukraine's three major political forces is hamstringing policy-making and legislating. The struggle between President Yushchenko and PM Yanukovych for political dominance an [...] | 2007-02-23 15:48:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV478 | UKRAINE: THINKING OF ENGAGING BELARUS PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: On February 16, the Ukrainians floated a proposal to extend an overture to Belarusan President Lukashenko in the hope of obtaining progress on Ukraine-Belarus border issues and cooperation in forming a united front against Russian on energy issues. The initial proposal included [...] | 2007-02-26 16:04:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS MNUC PINR BO UP |
07KYIV540 | UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH LOBBIES EUROPE VIA BERLIN [...] (C) Summary: Seeking to gain public support from Germany for his government's goal of promoting Ukraine's integration with Europe, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych made a one-day working visit February 28 to Berlin, meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and addressing a group of German [...] | 2007-03-06 15:34:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN ETRD ENRG EUN GM UP |
07KYIV546 | UKRAINE: ENGAGING UKRAINE ON MISSILE DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary: We passed reftel points and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Director LTG Obering's powerpoint presentation to MOD and MFA officials February 26-28. Ambassador's February 21 conversation with Presidential adviser, preeminent Ukrainian strategic thinker, and former rocket scientist Vo [...] | 2007-03-07 09:14:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PL EZ UP |
07KYIV552 | UKRAINE/MTCR: SECURING SUPPORT FOR U.S. UAV/CRUISE [...] (C) We relayed ref A points March 7 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselor Igor Kyzym. We alerted Kyzym that the U.S. had submitted a revised proposal on Modifications to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)/Cruise Missile Criteria as MTCR POC DOC 9. Kyzym said [...] | 2007-03-07 12:54:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC KSCA TSPA UP |
07KYIV642 | UKRAINE: LUTSENKO RAIDED, INTERROGATED BY [...] (SBU) Summary: On a busy political day that heralded a potential tectonic shift in the basic blue-orange divide in Ukrainian politics, which has existed since the November-December 2004 Orange Revolution (septel),a Prosecutor General Office (PGO) investigative team launched a seven- hour se [...] | 2007-03-20 17:44:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
07KYIV643 | UKRAINE: ALLIANCE SHIFTS - BROAD COALITION IN THE [...] (C) Summary: Internal friction inside both the opposition and the majority coalition came to a head March 20 with the latest failed vote to approve a foreign minister seeming to spark a realignment of political forces in Ukrainian politics. The morning began with parts of the coalition seemin [...] | 2007-03-20 17:49:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UP |
07KYIV646 | UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO IN BRUSSELS -- THE "EU [...] (U) Summary: Ukrainian leaders continued their tours of European capitals with President Yushchenko making Ukraine's case for EU membership during a March 8 visit to Brussels and a March 15-16 visit to Copenhagen, echoing the points Prime Minister Yanukovych made during his February 28 working [...] | 2007-03-21 14:22:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN ETRD ENRG UP |
07KYIV654 | UKRAINE/BELARUS SUMMIT STILL PLANNED FOR MARCH [...] (C) Summary: Plans are still proceeding for a Kyiv summit between President Yushchenko and Belarusan President Lukashenko, according to Deputy Foreign Minister Veselovsky during a meeting with EUR DAS Kramer, NSC Director Sterling, and the Ambassador. Kramer warned Veselovsky that such a mee [...] | 2007-03-22 08:57:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PHUM ENRG EPET BO UP |
07KYIV656 | UKRAINE ACTION REQUEST: UNHCR CONCERNED ABOUT DROP [...] (SBU) Note: This is an action request for Moscow DHS/CIS, Mission Geneva and PRM, retransmitting the text of reftel, slightly modified. Post requests a response to the UNHCR-Kyiv claim that U.S. refusal rates of UNHCR-Kyiv referrals in 2006 jumped by 20 percent; see para 9. 2. (C) Summar [...] | 2007-03-22 13:25:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL UP UNHCR |
07KYIV663 | UKRAINE: DAS KRAMER DISCUSSES NATO/SECURITY ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: EUR DAS David Kramer and NSC Director Adam Sterling discussed Ukraine-NATO relations and security issues with a range of Ukrainian officials March 18-20, in addition to energy, domestic politics, Belarus, and Transnistria (septels). Presidential adviser Oleh Rybachuk described his [...] | 2007-03-22 15:22:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO UP |
07KYIV665 | UKRAINE/MOLDOVA: TRANSNISTRIA AND BILATERAL [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Foreign Minister Veselovsky told EUR DAS Kramer, NSC Director Sterling, and Ambassador March 19 that he would continue to hold the concurrent duty as Ukrainian special negotiator for Transnistria, despite rumors to the contrary. National Security and Defense Council (NSDC [...] | 2007-03-22 15:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS OSCE PINR RO MD UP |
07KYIV666 | UKRAINE: RAIDS AIMED AT LUTSENKO WIDEN TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Following the March 20 Prosecutor General Office (PGO) early morning raid on former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko's apartment (ref A),on March 21, police allegedly broke into the Kyiv office of the Anti-Criminal Choice NGO (without a warrant) headed by Lutsenko's brother S [...] | 2007-03-22 15:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR UP |
07KYIV686 | UKRAINE: DAS KRAMER'S DISCUSSIONS OF DOMESTIC [...] (C) Summary: In a wide range of conversations EUR DAS David Kramer and NSC Director Adam Sterling conducted with Ukrainian officials and commentators March 18-20, the overriding theme in domestic politics was that all branches of the government were consumed with the ongoing struggle for polit [...] | 2007-03-23 15:31:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV687 | UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH DECRIES OPPOSITION'S [...] (C) Summary. Although disappointed by President Yushchenko's continued rebuffs to his invitations to work together, PM Yanukovych told visiting EUR DAS David Kramer, NSC Director Adam Sterling and the Ambassador that he remained open to a broad coalition in parliament and cooperation. Yanu [...] | 2007-03-23 15:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
07KYIV693 | UKRAINE: NEW ECONOMY MINISTER ONBOARD FOR WTO [...] (C) Summary: At a March 23 meeting with Ambassador, new Minister of Economy Anatoliy Kinakh described Ukraine's integration with Europe as "irreversible." Ambassador encouraged Kinakh to help find a solution to the OPIC/Alliant issue, as well as a laundry list of other important bilateral iss [...] | 2007-03-27 07:14:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV EINV WTRO UP |
07KYIV702 | UKRAINE: THE STRUGGLE FOR SEVASTOPOL [...] (C) Summary: Sevastopol continues to be in the middle of a tug-of-war between Ukraine and Russian for the hearts and minds of its residents. Moscow Mayor Luzhkov visited Sevastopol February 21, to open a renovated Moscow-funded Russian Culture and Information Center, to visit the Russian Bla [...] | 2007-03-29 08:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RS UP |
07KYIV705 | UKRAINE: AMBASSADOR ADDRESSES PARLIAMENT COMMITTEE [...] (C) Ambassador had a discussion on U.S. missile defense plans March 26 with parliament (Verkhovna Rada) Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Vitaly Shybko. Shybko said his Committee on Foreign Affairs and the other committee of jurisdiction, the Committee on National Security and Defense, had e [...] | 2007-03-29 09:36:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MCAP PINR RS PL EZ US UP |
07KYIV746 | UKRAINE: NEW ELECTIONS OR BROAD COALITION? ALL [...] (C) President Yushchenko, who has increasingly few options in his losing struggle with Prime Minister Yanukovych, is being pushed hard by his team to disband the Rada, but the President has not yet abandoned hope of reaching accommodation with Yanukovych. At the urging of opposition leader Ty [...] | 2007-03-29 15:26:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
07KYIV756 | CREATION OF A GUAM SECRETARIAT CENTRAL TO GUAM'S [...] (C) Summary. First Deputy Minister of Georgia and GUAM National Coordinator Valery Chechelashvili sounded an optimistic note during our conversation with him after the March 15-16 GUAM Council of National Coordinators (CNC) meeting. Chechelashvili, slated to be GUAM's new Secretary General o [...] | 2007-03-30 14:13:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM MARR RS AZ GG MD UP |
07KYIV757 | UKRAINE: PRESIDENT-PM NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE; [...] (C) Summary. President Yushchenko and PM Yanukovych's late-night March 29 meeting ended without agreement, with the PM's team pushing for a "gentleman's agreement" and the President's advisors arguing for a written, negotiated "rules of the game" to resolve the political conflict over the c [...] | 2007-03-30 14:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
07KYIV764 | UKRAINE: AN AD HOC ISRAEL POLICY -- BALANCING [...] (C) Summary: Israel is home to a half million Ukrainian immigrants and the two countries had $372 million in bilateral trade in 2006. Despite Ukraine's remaining Jewish population and the large diaspora in Israel, Ukraine's relations with the Jewish State were characterized as "ad hoc" by se [...] | 2007-04-02 03:34:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS UP |
07KYIV779 | UKRAINE: MISSILE DEFENSE QUESTIONS FOR U.S.; [...] (U) This is an action request for missile defense related information. See para 5. 2. (SBU) We met with MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Director General Volodymyr Belashov at his request March 30. Belashov expressed his appreciation for Missile Defense Agenc [...] | 2007-04-02 15:06:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MCAP PINR RS EZ PL US UP |
07KYIV784 | UKRAINE: CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS OVER RADA DISMISSAL [...] (C) Summary: Justifying his April 2 decree dismissing the Rada (parliament) and calling pre-term elections for May 27, President Yushchenko told G-7 ambassadors April 3 that new elections were a democratic instrument to resolve a political crisis that stemmed from a parliamentary crisis. The [...] | 2007-04-03 13:53:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PHUM PINR UP |
07KYIV789 | UKRAINE: INTERPRETING THE CONSTITUTION: NO CLEAR [...] Summary and Comment. As Ukraine's political crisis proceeds, both sides argue that they have the constitutional and legal upperhand and are acting in support of democracy and the rule of law. President Yushchenko has dismissed the Rada, and his team maintains the Rada's powers have been curt [...] | 2007-04-04 15:54:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
07KYIV790 | UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO'S CALL FOR MAY 27 PRE-TERM [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 2, after several days of tense negotiations and peaceful street demonstrations, President Yushchenko announced his intention to dissolve the Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) and set May 27 as the date for new elections; his decree was officially promulgated April 3. On Ap [...] | 2007-04-04 16:32:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV804 | UKRAINE: PRESSURE ON PECHERSK COURT INCREASES, [...] (SBU) Summary: The Pechersk District Court became involved in the struggle over President Yushchenko's decree dismissing the Rada and setting new elections April 3 after it threw out an April 2 Rada resolution to replace the current Central Election Commission (CEC) with the previous one led [...] | 2007-04-05 14:59:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL UP |
07KYIV823 | UKRAINE: RADA PASSES ANNUAL MILITARY EXERCISE [...] (SBU) The Ukrainian parliament (Rada) passed the annual exercise authorization legislation April 6, two days after rejecting it. Two U.S. exercises -- Rapid Trident and Sea Breeze -- are included in the authorization, as is one Ukrainian-Russian exercise. Yushchenko now has 15 days to sign [...] | 2007-04-06 14:06:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS MASS PREL UP |
07KYIV824 | UKRAINE: POWER MINISTERS GIVE ASSURANCES THAT [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with Defense Minister Hrytsenko, Minister of Interior Tsushko, and acting head of the Security Service (SBU) Nalyvaichenko April 6 to discuss the security situation during the ongoing political crisis. Hrytsenko was the most optimistic of the three, giving assurance [...] | 2007-04-06 15:09:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM MOPS UP |
07KYIV841 | UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH, YUSHCHENKO SEEKING [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador's separate conversations with Prime Minister Yanukovych and President Yushchenko on April 9 and 10, respectively, indicated both sides expressed preference for resolving the current crisis via a political compromise instead of a Constitutional Court (CC) ruling or goin [...] | 2007-04-10 15:56:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV853 | UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH AND YUSHCHENKO AGREE EU [...] (C) Summary: During his March 27 visit to Brussels, PM Yanukovych said he wanted Ukraine to adopt a long-term strategy for EU membership and thanked his interlocutors for their help so far. Echoing President Yushchenko's earlier comments, Yanukovych urged the incorporation of a reference to U [...] | 2007-04-11 15:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN ETRD ENRG EUN UP |
07KYIV871 | UKRAINE: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT TAKES UP [...] (SBU) Summary. As President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yanukovych meet daily to try to reach a political compromise to end the crisis sparked by Yushchenko's April 2 decree to dismiss the Rada and call new elections and the coalition/Rada's refusal to accept the decree, attention has focuse [...] | 2007-04-12 07:39:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
07KYIV88 | UKRAINE: AIRCRAFT ENGINE BUILDER MOTOR SICH AND [...] (C) Summary/comment: Ukraine's aircraft engine and industrial gas turbine producer Motor Sich occupies a dominant position in both Ukraine and Russia's aviation industries. The venerable company, which began producing aircraft engines in 1915, remains dependent on Russia for 41 percent of it [...] | 2007-01-12 15:05:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM ETTC EAIR EIND PINR PREL RS UP |
07KYIV89 | UKRAINE: POWER PLAY - PM YANUKOVYCH DROPS [...] (C) Summary. After a pleasant January 10 meeting between President Yushchenko, Prime Minister Yanukovych, and Rada Speaker Moroz aimed at starting 2007 on a more cooperative note, Ukraine's political dynamics took another unexpected turn January 12, with Regions abandoning cooperation with Yu [...] | 2007-01-12 16:36:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV906 | UKRAINE: POLITICIANS CALCULATING ON [...] (C) Summary. While President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yanukovych continue to negotiate over whether there will be new Rada elections at some point this year, political playmakers from all parties are angling for best outcomes in the face of possible political compromise or snap elections. [...] | 2007-04-13 15:36:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV922 | UKRAINE: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT BEGINS HEARINGS ON [...] (SBU) Summary. The Constitutional Court began full court hearings on April 17 into the constitutionality of Yushchenko's April 2 decree dismissing the Rada and calling new elections, while accusations of bribery, threats, and political pressure swirled around the proceedings. Despite earlier [...] | 2007-04-17 15:52:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM UP |
07KYIV924 | UKRAINE: NEW FOREIGN MINISTER YATSENYUK -- A [...] (SBU) Summary: Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukraine's newest and youngest foreign minister, is extremely bright and, although he has no previous experience at MFA, will pick up the full scope of his new responsibilities quickly. He puts an emphasis on the economic side of his new duties, since he has [...] | 2007-04-18 05:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ETRD PREL PINR UP |
07KYIV929 | UKRAINE: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT PROCEEDINGS RESUME [...] (SBU) Summary. Constitutional Court deliberations of the constitutionality of President Yushchenko's April 2 decree dismissing the Rada and calling new elections resumed April 18 after a brief delay caused by opposition efforts to impede access to the court. Opposition leaders Tymoshenko, Ky [...] | 2007-04-18 14:49:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
07KYIV939 | UKRAINE: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT HEARINGS, DAY THREE: [...] (SBU) Summary. The Constitutional Court's hearings on Yushchenko's April 2 decree went more smoothly April 19 than the previous day, as Presidential Court representative Shapoval concluded his presentation and fielded questions. Shapoval, a former Constitutional Court judge and one of Ukraine [...] | 2007-04-19 15:00:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM UP |
07KYIV960 | UKRAINE: POLITICAL COMPROMISE SOUGHT AS COURT [...] (C) Summary. As President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yanukovych appeared to inch closer to a political compromise, proceedings in the Constitutional Court (CC) April 20-23 indicated that the hearings will probably continue right up to the May 1 holiday. Following a lengthy closed-door Apri [...] | 2007-04-23 14:13:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
07KYIV973 | UKRAINE: YATSENYUK'S FIRST VISIT TO WASHINGTON AS [...] (C) Summary: Arseniy Yatsenyuk is familiar with Washington as a former Economics Minister and acting and deputy head of the Ukrainian National Bank, but his visit at the end of April will be his first opportunity to discuss the full range of foreign policy issues. With respect to the bilateral [...] | 2007-04-24 14:49:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL PGOV ETRD US UP |
07KYIV975 | UKRAINE: COURT CASE MOVING ALONG SLOWLY, KYIV QUIET [...] (C) Summary. Major political forces in Kyiv were relatively quiet on April 24 with all eyes still on the Constitutional Court where the Cabinet of Ministers representative Nimchenko continued to present the coalition's case. Echoing the presentation of Rada representatives, Nimchenko argued t [...] | 2007-04-24 15:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
07KYIV976 | UKRAINE: DEFMIN HRYTSENKO OPTIMISTIC ON POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador and DATT met with Minister of Defense Anatoliy Hrytsenko on April 23, 2007 to discuss command and control of military forces, potential uses of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Interior in times of crisis, Hrytsenko,s inclusion on the party list of Our Ukraine (OU) [...] | 2007-04-25 03:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS UP |
07KYIV988 | UKRAINE: COURT WRAPPING UP OPEN HEARINGS AS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Constitutional Court moved into the closed deliberation phase late on April 25, amid rumors that a judgment was expected by the end of Friday April 27 (although others predict a later decision after the May 1-9 holidays). Court deliberations April 24 had concluded late in [...] | 2007-04-25 14:47:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
07KYIV998 | UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO DECREES NEW ELECTION DATE TO [...] (SBU) Summary. President Yushchenko issued a new decree on early parliamentary elections late on April 25 in response to increasing indications that Constitutional Court was ready to deliver a quick ruling against the decree which would have bolstered the coalition's side in ongoing President- [...] | 2007-04-26 15:05:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
07LAGOS100 | SITREP 12 & NIGER DELTA ROUNDUP: 31 IN CAPTIVITY, [...] (C) Summary. This is an update on kidnappings and militant attacks in southern Nigeria in 2007. Approximately 31 hostages are currently being held in the Niger Delta. American citizen Bill Graham remains a captive and is the only American currently being held. Roughly sixty individuals hav [...] | 2007-02-09 15:39:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS103 | ONDO STATE'S OIL REVENUE BRINGS GREAT EXPECTATIONS [...] (C) Summary: People's Democratic Party (PDP) Governor Olusegun Agagu will run for a second term in Ondo State. While his supporters tout his achievements, critics note the State's poor roads and infrastructure, wondering why, with Ondo's handsome oil revenues, more people have not benefited fr [...] | 2007-02-12 07:11:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM EPET NI |
07LAGOS105 | SITREP 13: NO CHANGE TO HOSTAGE CASE; OIL MAJOR [...] (C) Summary. There has been no contact with Amcit Bill Graham or Nigerian national Ezekiel Akwa or their captors since the release of British national Neil Mirrlees on February 7. A recent spate of incidents in Port Harcourt caused Shell to encourage expatriate staff to work from their resi [...] | 2007-02-12 17:01:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS11 | LAGOS GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS: A POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Gubernatorial elections in Lagos are shaping up to be a tough fight. Govrnor Tinubu's AC has been shaken by internal dissent and several key defections due to his attempt to impose his loyal but unpopular chief of staff as the party's gubernatorial candidate. Meanwhile, the PDP has [...] | 2007-01-08 15:37:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS110 | SITREP 14: SSS CONFIRMS HOSTAGES UNHARMED [...] (C) Rivers State Security Service (SSS) confirmed to John Walker of Control Risks Group on February 12 that American citizen Bill Graham and Nigerian national Ezekiel Akwa are "fine." Walker reported to the Pivot-GIS Hostage Crisis Group on February 13 there has been no progress toward the h [...] | 2007-02-13 16:46:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS116 | SITREP 15: NO SSS CONTACT WITH AMCIT; FILIPINO [...] (C) John Walker of Control Risks Group told the February 14 Pivot-GIS Hostage Crisis Group that he was unable to speak to Rivers State Security Service (SSS) on February 13. Walker speculated SSS may have been working on the February 13 release of 24 Filipino hostages. American citizen Bill [...] | 2007-02-14 16:34:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS117 | PRESIDENT OBASANJO AVERTS OIL SECTOR STRIKE [...] (C) Summary: President Obasanjo averted an oil sector strike on February 8 by assuring unions the GON would seek to improve security in the Niger Delta, according to Executive Secretary of Nigeria's Ministry of Labor and Productivity, SIPDIS Timiebi Koripamo-Agary. Peter Akpatason, Preside [...] | 2007-02-14 16:40:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB EPET PTER ENERG NI |
07LAGOS12 | LAGOS PDP ELECTS GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE AMID [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-08 15:52:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS123 | TRADITIONAL RULER SUPPORTS YAR'ADUA; CALLS BUHARI [...] (C) Summary: In a February 5 meeting with the Consul General, Yoruba traditional leader the Ooni of Ife, Okunade Sijuade, suggested presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari was a religious "fanatic" who would sow discord if elected. PDP candidate Umaru Yar'Adua, on the other hand, would maintai [...] | 2007-02-15 14:11:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS124 | SITREP 16: SSS OPENS NEW LINE OF COMMUNICATION [...] (C) Pivot-GIS employees American Bill Graham and Nigerian Ezekiel Akwa remain hostages. John Walker of Control Risks Group told the February 15 Pivot-GIS Hostage Crisis Group he met the Director of Rivers State Security Service (SSS),Alhaji Kola Adeshina, on February 14. Adeshina informed [...] | 2007-02-15 14:49:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS128 | SITREP 17: GRAHAM & AKWA STILL HOSTAGE; SSS AWAITS [...] (C) John Walker of Control Risks Group told the February 16 Pivot-GIS Hostage Crisis Group American Bill Graham and Nigerian Ezekiel Akwa remain hostages. The State Security Service (SSS) told Walker on February 15 they will wait for the return from the creek area of the tribal elder who is n [...] | 2007-02-16 15:52:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS13 | JONATHAN'S MEDIA ADVISOR: CANDIDATE TAKING NOTHING [...] (C) Summary: Francis Sheen, media manager for Bayelsa State Governor Goodluck Jonathan's 2007 People's Democratic Party (PDP) vice presidential campaign (strictly protect),told Pol/Econ Chief and Poloff on December 28 that the PDP must still court the military's support for the Yar'Adua-Jona [...] | 2007-01-09 07:32:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS134 | NGOS TO RECLAIM THE NIGER DELTA STRUGGLE; PUSH FOR [...] (C) Summary. On January 25 Niger Delta experts described to AF/W Deputy Director Don Heflin a pan-Delta manifesto to be presented to presidential candidates in an effort to begin serious national dialogue on the Niger Delta. Similarly, the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) has brought si [...] | 2007-02-21 16:16:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | NI PGOV PREL PTER |
07LAGOS136 | SITREP 18: HOSTAGES RELEASED; 3 EXPATS KIDNAPPED, [...] (C) Pivot employees American citizen Bill Graham and Nigerian national Ezekiel Akwa were released from captivity on February 17. Once State Security Service (SSS) had established some leverage in their communications with the kidnappers and once Rivers State Governor Peter Odili lent the mat [...] | 2007-02-22 08:10:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS142 | PDP LEGACY CAMPAIGN: TARGET GRASSROOTS & NEW [...] (C) Summary: According to Francis Sheen, Director of Communications for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) 2007 Presidential Legacy Campaign to be launched in late February, the PDP faces challenges by Igbos from within the party, "bluebloods" outside the party, and former party members who [...] | 2007-02-23 11:31:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM NI |
07LAGOS15 | LAGOS PDP ELECTS GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE AMID [...] (C) Summary: Amid irregularities, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro emerged as the Lagos State People's Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate on December 14. Obanikoro beat Hilda Williams, widow of slain gubernatorial aspirant Funso Williams. Obanikoro's success came in spite of the political [...] | 2007-01-10 12:45:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS152 | ELECTION YEAR PORK BARREL POLITICS IN OSUN STATE [...] (C) Summary: To improve his heretofore tepid and scattered support, Osun State Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola has actively distributed patronage in the run up to the April 2007 election. His main opponent is Action Congress (AC) candidate Rauf Aregbesola, whose campaign theme is Oyinlola has m [...] | 2007-03-01 10:35:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS160 | DISSECTION OF A 25 DAY KIDNAPPING [...] (C) Summary. Pivot employees American citizen Bill Graham and British national Neil Mirrlees were under surveillance for five days by their captors and abducted when they were boxed-in by vehicles on their way to work. Though the Nigerian Government does not admit officially to paying a rans [...] | 2007-03-05 10:57:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS162 | GOVERNOR IBORI BACKS PDP TICKET & ATIKU'S BID TO [...] (C) Summary. Despite his pro-Vice President Atiku antecedents, Governor James Ibori of Delta State has pledged strong financial support for the People's Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential ticket. Yar'Adua will win the Presidency "one way or another," according to Governor James Ibori. Vice [...] | 2007-03-06 11:18:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS163 | PARTY CHAIR WARNS OF DETERIORATING SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: In a February 21 meeting with Econoff, Democratic People,s Alliance (DPA) Chairman Chief Supo Shonibare said security in Lagos was getting worse as the political season progressed. He identified polling areas likely to be fraught with irregularities and marred by violence. Speakin [...] | 2007-03-07 15:29:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS168 | APRIL ELECTIONS UNLIKELY, SAYS PROMINENT ECONOMIST [...] (C) Summary: In a February 22 conversation with the Consul General, Financial Derivatives Managing Director Bismarck Rewane said the brinkmanship between President Obasanjo and Vice President Atiku was approaching its climax, with Atiku sure to go to court to enjoin Obasanjo and the Electoral [...] | 2007-03-09 10:54:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS170 | TRANSCORP IPO: CAVEAT EMPTOR [...] (C) Summary: Transnational Corporation's (Transcorp),recent initial public offering (IPO) exemplifies how finance and electoral politics merge to create an ambivalent situation for investors. The 60 billion naira ($462 million) IPO has been greeted with mixed reactions. Transcorp is the brain [...] | 2007-03-09 13:36:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ECPS ECON EINV EIND PGOV PREL NI KCOR ENRG |
07LAGOS172 | MILITANT THREATS, BUNKERING & INSECURITY PLAGUE [...] (C) Summary. Managing Directors (MDs) of American oil majors Chevron and ExxonMobil both received a similar email threat purportedly from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). The threat listed the names of the company's rigs as potential targets for militant activity. [...] | 2007-03-12 11:11:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | NI PGOV PREL PTER |
07LAGOS183 | CITIBANK SUFFERS WHIMS OF THE WELL-CONNECTED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-13 14:37:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ECPS ECON EINV EIND PGOV PREL NI |
07LAGOS188 | OYO FORECAST: VIOLENCE AND VOTING MANIPULATION [...] (C) Summary: A January visit by Poloff to Oyo State showed the return of Rashidi Ladoja to the governor's seat had further complicated the political climate of the State. People's Democratic Party (PDP) strongman Lamidi Adedibu and his ally Deputy Governor Christopher Alao-Akala continue to de [...] | 2007-03-14 14:55:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS192 | GOVERNOR KALU VOWS TO FIGHT OBASANJO TO THE END [...] (C) Summary: In a late February conversation with the Consul General, Progressive People's Alliance (PPA) presidential candidate Governor Orji Kalu said President Obasanjo hoped to so rankle the opposition that members of the opposition would react dramatically. Obasanjo would use that drama [...] | 2007-03-15 11:35:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS197 | DELTA ACTIVISTS PREDICT ELECTORAL UNREST [...] (C) Summary: Ledum Mitee, President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP),told AF/W Director Phillip Carter that free and fair elections are unlikely. Both the People's Democratic Party Governorship candidates in Rivers and Delta states are unpopular with the large Ija [...] | 2007-03-15 14:28:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | NI PGOV PREL PTER |
07LAGOS198 | FIVE EUROPEAN HOSTAGES AND ONE FILIPINO RELEASED; [...] (SBU) Summary: Two Italian Agip employees held hostage since December 7 were released March 14; two Croatians and one Montenegrin working for oil service company Hydrodrive International were released March 12 after 22 days in captivity; and a Filipino Shell employee abducted February 6 was r [...] | 2007-03-15 14:46:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS199 | TRIP REPORT: AKWA IBOM INVESTS IN INFRASTRUCTURE, [...] (SBU) Summary. Akwa Ibom, an oil-producing state in the Niger Delta, is building an airport, an independent power plant, underground water channels, and a tourism sector to develop the state and attract private investment. The People's Democratic Party politically dominates Akwa Ibom. PDP s [...] | 2007-03-15 14:53:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NI |
07LAGOS20 | HOSTAGES TO BE RELEASED, BUT DELTA "ALMOST IN [...] (C) Summary: Bayelsa State Secretary Godknows Igali said January 11 that the hostage takers agreed in negotiations to release the three Italian and one Lebanese employees of Agip kidnapped December 7. This group claims disinterest in money and that they committed the kidnappings due to polit [...] | 2007-01-11 19:16:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG ASEC PTER NI |
07LAGOS215 | CHINESE BUSINESS CHANGES THE PLAYING FIELD [...] (C) Summary: U.S. firms face "stiff and unfair" competition from Chinese competitors in Nigeria. In a March 12 meeting, Motorola Managing Director Raphael Udeogu (protect) said Chinese firms offered a combination of flexible financing and low product costs, as well as financial "inducements" i [...] | 2007-03-21 15:02:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ECPS ECON EINV EIND PGOV PREL NI |
07LAGOS216 | CITIBANK SUFFERS WHIMS OF THE WELL-CONNECTED [...] (C) Summary: Doing business in Nigeria has its special challenges, even for a well-known international bank such as Citibank. In this instance, a loan gone bad has turned into a criminal case with Citibank and its top officials as defendants. Although Citibank received a civil court judgment a [...] | 2007-03-21 15:02:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ECPS ECON EINV EIND PGOV PREL NI |
07LAGOS217 | EXPECT POLITICIANS TO HIRE ARMED GROUPS [...] (C) Summary: Some armed groups in Rivers State are for hire this election season; Ateke Tom's group will be employed by Governor Peter Odili while Soboma George will be employed by opposition groups, says Miabiye Kuromiema, Rivers indigene and former Secretary General of the Ijaw Youth Counci [...] | 2007-03-22 11:30:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | NI PGOV PREL PTER |
07LAGOS22 | ELECTION 2007: SOUTHERN PDP GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARIES [...] (SBU) Summary. This is a survey of the results of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial primaries in southern states, which took place December 9. Most candidates chosen were those who had pledged fealty to state governors or, where the governors were weak, to the PDP national lea [...] | 2007-01-12 11:24:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM NI |
07LAGOS222 | ENUGU STATE: AN EMERGING MODEL FOR PDP DOMINANCE [...] (C) Summary: A March 5 visit by Poloffs to Enugu State showed the People's Democratic Party (PDP) dominating the political scene and building towards the future. Controlling the PDP primary, Governor Chimaroke Nnamani chose protege Sullivan Chime as his successor. Opposition parties are wea [...] | 2007-03-23 11:06:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS223 | DESPERATION MARKS LAGOS ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: In two March 15 meetings, a Progressive Peoples Alliance and a People's Democratic Party candidate gave opposing views on the likelihood of timely elections. They agreed that Lagos State would be the site of fiercely-disputed elections and thus sporadic, unpredictable violence wou [...] | 2007-03-23 11:58:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS226 | PARTY CHAIR SPEAKS OF ALLIANCES, SECURITY IN LAGOS [...] (C) Summary: In a March 19 meeting with Econoff, Democratic Peoples Alliance (DPA) Chairman Supo Shonibare described an alliance with the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) at the state level. This alliance, intended to capitalize on rifts within the Action Congress (AC) and People's Democratic [...] | 2007-03-23 15:19:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS227 | ANAMBRA STATE ELECTIONS: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR [...] (C) Summary: A visit by Poloffs to Anambra State on March 6 showed the political scene remains volatile but People's Democratic Party (PDP) candidate and Special Presidential Advisor Andy Uba has the upper hand in the race for the gubernatorial ticket. To bolster his chances, he likely has [...] | 2007-03-26 06:46:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM NI |
07LAGOS24 | APGA REGROUPS, SEEKING TO REMAIN A FACTOR IN IGBO [...] (C) Summary: Visits with All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) officials in Enugu and Abia States reveal a bruised party looking to regain support and goodwill lost during the intraparty fighting of the last two years. A predominantly Igbo party, APGA saw apparent electoral success in the 20 [...] | 2007-01-16 07:21:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM NI |
07LAGOS240 | EDO: CLOSE GUBERNATORIAL RACE SPARKS VIOLENCE [...] (C) Summary: Adams Oshiomole, the Edo State Action Congress (AC) governorship candidate, told Poloffs the People's Democratic Party (PDP) orchestrated an attack on the Edo State AC Chairman, who lost an eye, during a recent rally in Edo Central, his opponent's home territory. Professor Oser [...] | 2007-03-30 14:28:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER NI |
07LAGOS248 | PDP MONOPOLY SET TO CONTINUE IN EBONYI STATE [...] (C) Summary: A March 28 visit by Poloff to Ebonyi State showed the People's Democratic Party's (PDP) dominance had no signs of abating. Ebonyi State Governor Sam Egwu has used patronage to make himself the dominant political figure in the State. Egwu chose previously unheralded Martin Elechi [...] | 2007-04-10 10:32:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS252 | INTERNECINE PDP POLITICS IN IMO STATE [...] (C) Summary: A March 29 visit by Poloff to Imo State showed the feuding People's Democratic Party (PDP) still trying to determine its candidate for Governor. The April 5 Supreme Court ruling in favor of Senator Ifeanyi Araraume makes him the favorite to make the ballot. Whoever takes the PD [...] | 2007-04-10 15:38:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS254 | ABIA STATE GOVERNOR RACE HAS NATIONAL IMPLICATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Poloff's visit to Abia State on March 29 showed a tight gubernatorial race. Obasanjo adversary Governor Orji Kalu steered the the Progressive People's Alliance (PPA) nomination to his Chief of Staff Theodore Orji, but Orji faces a tough challenge from People's Democratic Party ( [...] | 2007-04-11 06:35:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS256 | NOBEL LAUREATE SEES ELECTION TROUBLES, DELAYED [...] (C) Summary: In a discussion with the Consul General, political activist Wole Soyinka and leading democracy advocate Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin said a group of opposition parties, coupled with civic organizations, had planned to publicly protest the Independent National Electoral Commission's (INEC [...] | 2007-04-11 12:02:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS259 | LAGOS GOVERNOR SAYS ELECTIONS PREPARATION IS [...] (C) Summary: In an April 9 meeting with the Consul General, Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu said the Independent Electoral Commission's (INEC) preparations for the April 14 gubernatorial elections in Lagos State were essentially non-existent. He claimed the People's Democratic Party (PDP) pla [...] | 2007-04-12 11:11:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS260 | FORGET FREE & FAIR ELECTIONS; SMALL STEPS TO [...] (C) Summary: The People's Democratic Party (PDP) would take the presidency and most governorships as a result of the elections while the Action Congress (AC) would take the majority of the legislature, predicted Francis Sheen, a Bayelsa State official working on the PDP's presidential campai [...] | 2007-04-13 09:26:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | NI PGOV PREL PTER |
07LAGOS261 | SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHEAST NIGERIAN POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Political violence in the South has been connected to acrimonious local races. The police have been biased against the opposition, and the opposition anticipates the military will show similar bias. The violence has concentrated in the Southwest because of the tight races betwee [...] | 2007-04-13 11:33:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM NI |
07LAGOS262 | AD CALLS FOR ELECTION POSTPONEMENT; QUESTIONS [...] (C) Summary: In a March 31 meeting with Consul General, Chief Reuben Fasoranti, chairman of the pre-eminent Yoruba social Qganization Afenifere, said there have been no election preparations in Ondo State, and he proposed that the Independent National Election Commission's (INEC) failure coul [...] | 2007-04-13 11:42:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM NI ELECTIONS |
07LAGOS264 | LACK OF ELECTION PREPARATION RAISES QUESTIONS IN [...] (C) Summary: Election preparations in Oyo, a key southwestern state, have been scant. Neither Governor Rashidi Ladoja nor Action Congress (AC) gubernatorial candidate Taoheed Adedoja have seen voter registration lists, prototype ballots, ballot boxes, nor the hiring of sufficient numbers of [...] | 2007-04-13 12:26:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM NI ELECTIONS |
07LAGOS265 | SOUTHERN GOVERNORS SEE LITTLE INEC PREPARATIONS [...] (C) Summary: In recent separate conversations with the Consul General, Governors of Cross River, Akwa Ibom and Imo criticized the lack of electoral preparation in their states just 10 days before the gubernatorial elections. While the People's Democratic Party (PDP) will likely carry these s [...] | 2007-04-13 12:44:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | NI PGOV PREL PHUM |
07LAGOS266 | THE "CORE" NIGER DELTA: THE DAY BEFORE THE ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: On the eve of the start of Nigeria's two-tiered election season, it appears that the People's Democratic Party (PDP) will recapture the gubernatorial seats of the three major states of the oil rich Niger Delta. Rivers State Governor Odili, Although still smarting from being pres [...] | 2007-04-13 14:50:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET NI PGOV |
07LAGOS267 | LAGOS VIOLENCE TO CONTINUE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-13 15:06:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM NI ELECTIONS |
07LAGOS269 | ELECTION 2007: THE OUTLOOK FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: For the current elections, Southern Nigeria appears to follow the dictum that all politics are local. Greater attention will focus on the state gubernatorial races than on the presidential race. Few people expect a credible exercise. Most expect the People's Democratic Party (PDP [...] | 2007-04-13 15:55:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM NI |
07LAGOS271 | SOUTHEAST PERSPECTIVE ON THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE [...] (C) SUMMARY: A visit to the Southeast by Poloffs to discuss the up-coming April elections with political leaders, nongovernmental organizations, and journalists indicated most Nigerians in the southeast were apathetic. Our interlocutors agreed there were only three major candidates for presid [...] | 2007-04-16 07:49:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS274 | SOUTHEAST PERSPECTIVE ON THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE, [...] (C) Summary: A visit to the Southeast states of Ebonyi, Abia, and Imo on March 28-29 showed the essential presidential calculation had not changed. People's Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Umaru Yar'Adua was expected to win all five states in the presidential vote. However, People's Progres [...] | 2007-04-17 06:05:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS28 | UTOMI BELIEVES HE MAY BE A VICE-PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: African Democratic Congress (ADC) Presidential candidate Pat Utomi told the Consul General his candidacy has resonated within segments of the electorate tired of traditional Nigerian politics, which is more personality-oriented than issue-based. Utomi plans to reach out to voters [...] | 2007-01-16 15:09:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM NI |
07LAGOS29 | TRADITIONAL RULERS KILLED IN NIGER DELTA; OIL [...] (C) Summary: Armed militants attacked the Ekuonoma flowstation owned by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in Rivers State on January 16. Expatriate and local staff from that station had already been evacuated; there has been no decline in production as of yet. The attack on the flows [...] | 2007-01-16 16:00:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG ASEC PTER CASC NI |
07LAGOS291 | PDP DISSONANCE ON GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: In an April 21 conversation with the Consul General, Special Advisor to the Foreign Minister, Aminu Wisdom (STRICTLY PROTECT) said the People,s Democratic Party (PDP) was split between two camps with conflicting views of the April 14 gubernatorial elections. Which view ultimately [...] | 2007-04-26 11:11:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM NI |
07LAGOS3 | BAYELSA GOVERNOR WINS VICE PRESIDENTIAL BID [...] (C) Summary: Oronto Douglas, a confidant of Bayelsa State Governor Goodluck Jonathan, told Poloff early December 18 that Jonathan was chosen to be PDP presidential aspirant Umaru Yar'Adua's running mate because he is well respected among Ijaw leaders such as Chief Edwin Clark, because he has [...] | 2007-01-04 15:55:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS30 | LAGOS INCREDULOUS OVER CENSUS RESULTS [...] (SBU) Summary: For a moment shunting aside the partisan bickering of the election season, Lagosians of all stripes and religious persuasions collectively uttered a hue and cry at the recent national census results. They reject the notion that Kano State is more populous than Lagos. Feeling [...] | 2007-01-17 08:46:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM SOCI ECON EAID NI CENSUS |
07LAGOS302 | UNIONS: ELECTION PROTEST ON THE TABLE BUT NOT IN [...] (C) Summary: The Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC),in conjunction with the Labor and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO) will celebrate the Nigerian Labor Day on May 1 with rallies in Abuja, Lagos and Benin City and with signs protesting the recent elections. As of Apr [...] | 2007-04-30 15:42:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB KDEM NI PGOV PHUM |
07LAGOS307 | SITREP 2: COMMANDER AFRICA AND MCGUYVER MAY BE [...] (C) Summary: In addition to American citizen John Stapleton, Italian nationals Raffele Pascsariello, Alfonso Frawza, Ignazio Gugliota, Mario Celetano and Croatian national Juricha Ruic were abducted May 1 from a ship owned by a supply company working for Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL). Chevr [...] | 2007-05-02 14:45:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS309 | SITREP 3: APPROXIMATELY 24 KIDNAPPED SINCE MAY 1 [...] (C) Summary: American citizen John Stapleton, four Italians and one Croatian remain hostages after being abducted on May 1. Stapleton takes medication daily and without it, is susceptible to seizures. The Secretary to Bayelsa State Government Dr. Godknows Igali is aware of Stapleton's need [...] | 2007-05-03 14:41:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS31 | TWO INCIDENTS IN THE NIGER DELTA [...] (C) Summary: Security sources reported two separate incidents in the Niger Delta, occurring on January 16 and 17. The first incident was an attack by militants on a boat carrying Hyundai employees. One Dutch expatriate and one Joint Task Force (JTF) officer were killed and four others on the [...] | 2007-01-17 13:23:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG ASEC PTER CASC NI |
07LAGOS310 | NIGER DELTA DEVELOPMENT IN YAR'ADUA'S HANDS; [...] (C) Summary: Dimieari Von Kemedi, Program Head of the NGO Our Niger Delta and informal adviser to Vice-President-elect Goodluck Jonathan, told Poloffs that prospects for peace in the Niger Delta region hinge on whether the incoming administration has the political will to spend the time and [...] | 2007-05-03 14:50:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER NI |
07LAGOS312 | POST-ELECTION MILITANT ACTIVITY ON THE UPSWING [...] Summary: Human rights activist Patrick Naagbanton told Poloff on April 24 militant leaders Soboma George and Ateke Tom reportedly met April 18 to discuss shifting from criminal to politically-motivated attacks. Naagbanton believed Rivers Governor Peter Odili bribed Soboma George and Ateke Tom [...] | 2007-05-04 13:22:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM PGOV PREL NI |
07LAGOS313 | SITREP 4: BAYELSA TAKES THE LEAD; 6 AGIP HOSTAGES [...] (C) Summary: American citizen John Stapleton, four Italians and one Croatian remain hostages after being abducted on May 1. Chevron is following Bayelsa State Government's lead in securing the hostages release and has passed to the government Stapleton's medication. Bayelsa Secretary to the [...] | 2007-05-04 14:31:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS318 | SITREP 5: AMCIT STILL HOSTAGE; NO PROOF OF LIFE [...] (C) Summary: American citizen John Stapleton, four Italians and one Croatian started their seventh day as hostages. The State Security Service (SSS) could not confirm delivery of Stapleton's medication (Ref A) over the weekend and, as of May 7, had not received photos of the hostages. Chevro [...] | 2007-05-07 14:47:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS321 | SITREP 6: AMCIT REMAINS HOSTAGE; 3 PIPELINES [...] (C) Summary: After being abducted May 1, six expatriates, including American citizen John Stapleton, four Italians and one Croatian remain in captivity. Chevron has not received proof of life for any of the hostages. Chevron planned to pass a third care package containing food, water, clothe [...] | 2007-05-08 15:12:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS322 | SITREP 7: 5 AMCITS HELD HOSTAGE IN 2 DIFFERENT [...] (C) Summary: Four American citizen oil service workers were kidnapped May 8 from a Global Industries barge offshore Delta State. The kidnappers are presumably Bayelsa state-based. The Bayelsa State Government and Chevron have received information suggestive of proof of life for American cit [...] | 2007-05-09 16:46:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS323 | OONI OF IFE CALLS YAR'ADUA "RIGHT MAN FOR THE JOB" [...] (C) Summary: A close supporter of President Obasanjo, the Ooni of Ife, believes Yar'Adua is "the right man for the job" of President. The Ooni believes opposition criticisms of the election, although strident, will yield little concrete action and will dissipate quickly. The Ooni was collabor [...] | 2007-05-09 16:46:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS325 | PDP INSIDER: LISTS MENU OF OPTIONS FOR PACIFYING [...] (C) Summary: The People's Democratic Party (PDP) should seek new elections in some areas to appease the political opposition rather than allow the opposition to challenge the party's candidates in court. Judicial challenges would expose the depth of election rigging, Francis Sheen, PDP insi [...] | 2007-05-10 07:32:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER NI |
07LAGOS33 | NIGER DELTA: 1 ITALIAN, 5 CHINESE RELEASED [...] (C) Italian Consul General Maurizio Bungaro confirmed the January 17 release of Italian Agip employee Roberto Dieghi after 41 days in captivity. One Lebanese and two Italian employees of Agip remain in captivity. According to security sources, Dieghi was released because he was in poor healt [...] | 2007-01-18 14:39:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG ASEC PTER CASC NI |
07LAGOS331 | SITREP 8: FIVE AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES; MILITANTS [...] (C) Summary: Four American citizens abducted from Global Industries' Cheyenne barge on May 8 near Delta State were allowed to call their families the following day, thereby providing proof of life. The kidnappers of the four Americans purportedly demanded all expatriates depart Nigeria, Chev [...] | 2007-05-10 15:08:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS332 | VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT'S EVOLVING PLANS FOR [...] (C) Summary: Vice President-elect Goodluck Jonathan told Consul General the new administration would immediately address the Niger Delta crisis and the problems of inadequate electrical power generation. Secretary of Bayelsa State Government Dr. Godknows Igali envisions providing militants a [...] | 2007-05-10 16:37:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS336 | SITREP 9: FIVE AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES; COMPANY [...] (C) Summary: Four American citizens abducted from Global Industries' Cheyenne barge on May 8 remain hostages. Company representatives planned to meet Delta State Secretary and Governor-elect Emmanuel Uduaghan later today, May 11. One hostage, Amcit Faller, told his wife via cell phone the ca [...] | 2007-05-11 15:47:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS338 | SITREP 10: FIVE AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES; ITALIANS [...] (C) Summary: American citizens Kevin Faller, Christopher Gay, Michael Rousell, and Larry Plake, abducted May 8 remain hostages. The hostages' employer, Global Industries, has not met Delta State officials despite several attempts. American citizen John Stapleton, four Italians, and one Croat [...] | 2007-05-14 15:44:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS339 | CHEVRON DRAWS DOWN NON-ESSENTIAL WORKERS THROUGH [...] (C) On May 11, Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) drew down non-essential staff on three rigs operating offshore in the Niger Delta. According to Femi Odumabo, Chevron General Manager for Government and Public Affairs, the drawdown includes both expatriate and Nigerian staff. It includes both e [...] | 2007-05-14 17:28:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ASEC PREL PTER NI |
07LAGOS344 | SITREP 11: 5 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES; POOR DELTA [...] (C) Summary: Four American citizens employed by Global Industries (GI) abducted May 8 remain hostages. Telephone calls from the four Americans have escalated their families' anxieties. GI plans to send representatives to meet Delta State government officials. Chevron's six employees, inclu [...] | 2007-05-15 16:02:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS347 | SITREP 12: PROOF OF LIFE FOR AMCIT STAPLETON; [...] (C) Summary: Amcit John Stapleton called Chevron representatives May 16 to say that he and the other five captives are well, and have received the medicines sent to them. The militants are demanding a generator and a source of potable water in exchange for release of the hostages. Four Ameri [...] | 2007-05-16 16:19:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS348 | IJAW RULER: ATTACKS WILL CONTINUE 2-3 MONTHS AS [...] (C) Summary: A paramount Ijaw Ruler from Warri, Delta State, described the recent spate of militant attacks as a "send off" gift for President Obasanjo and a warning to the incoming Administration that Niger Delta Ijaws would not abide the status quo. "Jomo Gbomo" and "Cynthia White" are sp [...] | 2007-05-16 16:45:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER NI |
07LAGOS355 | SITREP 13: 5 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES; GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: Amcit John Stapleton, four Italians, and one Croatian remain hostages. Despite the May 16 attack on Bayelsa Governor Goodluck Jonathan's house, Chevron has decided not to alter its release plan. Secretary to the State Government Dr. Godknows Igali said he was actively pursuing [...] | 2007-05-17 15:40:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS359 | SITREP 14: 5 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES; MEDS [...] (C) Summary: Chevron's six expatriate employees, American citizen John Stapleton, one Croatian and four Italians, begin their eighteenth day as hostages. Dr. Godknows Igali, Secretary to the Bayelsa State Government, continues to use SIPDIS other militant groups to pressure Victor Ebikabow [...] | 2007-05-18 15:18:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS362 | SITREP 15: 5 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES; KIDNAPPERS [...] (C) Summary: Chevron's six expatriate employees, American citizen John Stapleton, one Croatian and four Italians, kidnapped May 1 remain hostages. The abductors have complained Chevron's welfare packages are too small; the company plans to deliver another package of medication, water, and a [...] | 2007-05-21 16:07:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS367 | SITREP 16: 5 AMCITS, 2 INDIANS, 1 LEBANESE, 1 [...] (C) Summary: Six expatriates employed by Chevron, including American citizen John Stapleton, begin their twenty-second day in captivity. Bayelsa Secretary to the State Government Dr. Igali and Chevron suspect the hostages will be released by May 29. Four American citizens held captive in De [...] | 2007-05-22 15:43:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS372 | SITREP 17: FIVE AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES [...] (C) American citizen John Stapleton, four Italians, and one Croatian remain hostages after being kidnapped off the shore of Bayelsa State on May 1. As of May 23, the State Security Service (SSS) emissary had not delivered Chevron's welfare package containing water, soft drinks, food and naira [...] | 2007-05-23 16:45:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS376 | SITREP 18: FIVE AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES; 22 EXPATS [...] (C) Summary: On May 23, a welfare package was reportedly delivered to Chevron's six expatriate employees, including American citizen John Stapleton, who are being held hostage in Bayelsa State. The State Security Service (SSS) emissary told Chevron that the Bayelsa State Government had promis [...] | 2007-05-24 14:44:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS38 | 6 FILIPINOS KIDNAPPED, AMCITS & BRITS NEXT, [...] (C) Summary. Six Filipino nationals were taken hostage from a vessel near Okerenkoko in Delta State on January 20. The following day, militants met in Okerenkoko and agreed to target American and British citizens for kidnapping, a security source and local newspapers reported. Governor Jame [...] | 2007-01-22 17:32:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG ASEC PTER CASC NI |
07LAGOS388 | WITH EVIDENT FRUSTRATION, OYO STATE OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: During a May 9 visit by Poloff to Ibadan, interlocutors expressed their consternation over how the recent elections were conducted while the opposition discussed their support for the electoral tribunals. All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP) gubernatorial candidate Abiola Ajimobi pl [...] | 2007-05-25 12:29:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS389 | SITREP 19: EIGHT AMCITS HOSTAGE MAY 25 IN THREE [...] (C) Summary: On May 25, nine expatriates, including American citizens Bobbie Tyner, Shane McMorris, and Richard Moore employed by TransCoastal, were abducted from three vessels in the riverine area near Sangana, Bayelsa State. May 25 was the twenty-fifth day of captivity for Chevron employees [...] | 2007-05-25 13:48:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS392 | CIVIL SOCIETY SEEKS TO ENGAGE THE POPULACE TO JOIN [...] (C) Summary: In a May 21 meeting with Poloff, Chairman of the Coalition for Democracy and Rule of Law (CODERL) and Pronaco Media and Publicity Director Wale Okunniyi discussed the election, Pronaco's proposed new constitution, and plans for future protests. Civil society organizations will pa [...] | 2007-05-25 16:22:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM NI |
07LAGOS393 | A TRAGECOMEDY ON THE STAGE OF NIGERIAN AVIATION [...] (C) Summary: Virgin Nigeria (Virgin) and British Airways (BA) have recently faced a number of obstacles to their operation in Nigeria. Airline insiders claim Virgin and BA have been subjected to a series of arbitrary and inconsistent politically motivated attacks by the Minister of Aviation, F [...] | 2007-05-25 16:34:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR EINV PREL NI |
07LAGOS394 | SITREP 20: 3 AMCIT LIVES THREATENED; 8 AMCITS [...] (C) Summary: On May 27, a news source reported the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND),"Bayelsa State Chapter," issued Nigeria's Federal Government a May 29 deadline to release jailed militant leader Dokubo Asari or "risk the death of seven expatriate oil workers", includ [...] | 2007-05-27 20:22:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS395 | SITREP 21: 8 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES, GON RECEIVED [...] (C) Summary: According to the Minister of Information, the GON had not received any ultimatum to release jailed militant leader Dokubo Asari or risk the death of seven expatriates, including three American hostages, as reported in the press on May 27 (Ref A). On the eve of the May 29 inaugur [...] | 2007-05-28 12:50:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS399 | SITREP 22: MEND ATTACKS KIDNAPPERS; 8 AMCITS [...] (C) Summary: Global Industries (GI) believes its four American employees are now under militant leader Tom Polo's custody and there could be a May 30 release. Three American citizens kidnapped off the shore of Bayelsa State on May 25 remain hostage but are well, Amcit Shane McMorris said on M [...] | 2007-05-30 15:45:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS403 | SITREP 23: 4 AMCITS RELEASED MAY 30, 4 REMAIN [...] (C) Summary: Four American citizens, Kevin Faller, Christopher Gay, Michael Rousell and Larry Plake, employed by Global Industries (GI) and taken hostage on May 8, offshore Delta State, were released on May 30. Three American citizens employed by TransCoastal and seven other individuals begi [...] | 2007-05-31 11:09:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS412 | SITREP 24: 4 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGES, WOMEN & [...] (C) Summary: Three American citizens, four British nationals, one South African, one Filipino and one Nigerian employed by TransCoastal and kidnapped on May 25 remain hostages. Six Chevron employees, including American citizen John Stapleton, begin their second month in captivity. On May 31 [...] | 2007-06-01 15:18:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS419 | SITREP 26: 3 AMCITS, 33 EXPATRIATES REMAIN HOSTAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: Approximately 36 expatriates are being held hostage in the Niger Delta, including three American citizens kidnapped May 25 off the shore of Bayelsa State. Since June 1, 12 expatriates, no American citizens, have been abducted in Rivers and Akwa Ibom states. Twelve Indian nati [...] | 2007-06-04 12:56:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS422 | SITREP 27: 3 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGE IN BAYELSA STATE [...] (SBU) Three American TransCoastal employees (Bobbie Tyner, Shane McMorris, and Richard Moore),four British nationals, one South African, one Filipino, and one Nigerian begin their eleventh day in captivity. The ten individuals were kidnapped off the shore of Bayelsa State on May 25. ----- [...] | 2007-06-05 13:38:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS427 | SITREP 28: 3 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGE; TRANSCOASTAL [...] (C) American nationals Bobbie Tyner, Shane McMorris, and Richard Moore, four British nationals, one South African, one Filipino, and one Nigerian remain hostages. TransCoastal believes the 10 hostages have been divided into two groups; one group of four and one group of six. According to Tr [...] | 2007-06-06 15:14:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS434 | SITREP 29: 3 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGE [...] (C) Three American citizens, Bobbie Tyner, Shane McMorris, and Richard Moore, four British nationals, one South African, one Filipino, and one Nigerian remain hostages after being kidnapped off the shore of Bayelsa State on May 25. TransCoastal (TCO) said they last had contact with the host [...] | 2007-06-07 11:24:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET PGOV PREL KDEM NI |
07LAGOS436 | FORMER DELTA STATE OFFICIAL APPLAUDS GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: In a recent meeting with Poloff, Chief Evance O. Ivwurie, former Commissioner for Special Duties (Project Monitoring) under Governor James Ibori's administration in Delta State, lauded the state government's efforts to provide potable water and education and blamed the federal an [...] | 2007-06-07 13:41:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER NI |
07LAGOS437 | SITREP 30: 3 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGE; UK ENGAGING GON [...] (C) On June 8, ten hostages kidnapped off the shore of Bayelsa State on May 25 begin their third week in captivity. TransCoastal (TCO) representatives told us on June 7 that they believe Amcit Bobbie Tyner, two British nationals, and the South African hostage are being held by "The General," [...] | 2007-06-08 12:06:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET PGOV PREL KDEM NI |
07LAGOS439 | ELECTION TRIBUNALS GET UNDERWAY IN SOUTHERN NIGERIA [...] (SBU) Summary: In several states of Southern Nigeria, the election tribunals are underway. The expectation is the tribunals will begin deciding cases in the next few months. The opposition hopes the recent independent decisions by the judiciary will continue in the election tribunals, and ov [...] | 2007-06-08 16:48:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM NI |
07LAGOS44 | DELTA STATE: IJAWS' FRUSTRATION INCREASES [...] (C) Summary: In a January 6 conversation with Consul General, Ijaw businessman Joseph Penawou warned of the feud starting to percolate between Delta State Governor Ibori and the Ijaw community in Warri. According to Penawou, the lack of political concessions to the Ijaw community has embittered [...] | 2007-01-23 11:12:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS442 | SITREP 31: 3 AMCITS REMAIN HOSTAGE; GOVERNOR [...] (C) American citizens Bobbie Tyner, Shane McMorris and Richard Moore, four British nationals, one South African, one Filipino and one Nigerian national kidnapped offshore Bayelsa State on May 25 remain hostage. On June 11, TransCoastal (TCO) reported there has been "no real change" to the si [...] | 2007-06-11 15:35:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET PGOV PREL KDEM NI |
07LAGOS445 | SITREP 32: 13 HOSTAGES, INCLUDING 3 AMCITS, [...] (C) Bayelsa Governor Timipre Sylva and TransCoastal (TCO) representatives confirmed the June 11 release of American citizens Bobbie Tyner, Shane McMorris and Richard Moore, four British nationals, one South African, one Filipino and one Nigerian national, who were kidnapped offshore Bayelsa St [...] | 2007-06-12 14:09:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET PGOV PREL KDEM NI |
07LAGOS447 | OGUN STATE: PDP SUGGESTS TRY HARDER NEXT TIME, AS [...] (C) Summary: In Ogun State, the bitter aftermath of the elections brought garlands for the victors and disappointment for supporters of free and fair elections. The ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) believe they have ushered in a new wave of reform in the state and argue the opposition f [...] | 2007-06-13 15:28:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS452 | DELTA STATE GOVERNOR TO SEEK AMNESTY FOR MILITANTS [...] (C) Summary: On June 4, Amaju Melvin Pinnick, a Delta State government official, told Poloff that Ijaw militants in Delta State offered their support to current Delta State Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan when he was campaigning in the state in April. Many militants want to leave the creeks and r [...] | 2007-06-15 14:19:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER NI |
07LAGOS459 | ASARI'S RELEASE IS NOT A PANACEA FOR THE NIGER [...] (C) Summary: Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force (NDPVF) leader, Dokubo Asari, was released on bail by the Abuja High Court on June 14. Despite the release of 10 Indian national hostages on June 15, militants have warned the federal government and multinational companies that Asari's release [...] | 2007-06-20 13:59:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER NI |
07LAGOS47 | 1 AMERICAN, 1 BRITON TAKEN HOSTAGE IN PORT HARCOURT [...] (C) Summary: American citizen Billy Ray Graham and Briton Neil Robert Mirrlees were kidnapped going to work at approximately 7:00 AM on January 23 in Port Harcourt. Graham and Mirrlees work for Pivot Engineering Company Ltd., a small oil service firm. A Port Harcourt police contact said a g [...] | 2007-01-23 16:24:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG ASEC PTER CASC NI |
07LAGOS48 | SELECTION OF PDP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE CAUSES RIFT [...] (C) Summary: Many influential PDP members were stunned by President Obasanjo,s unalloyed, convention-eve endorsement of Katsina Governor Umaru Yar,Adua as PDP presidential candidate, presidential advisor Lawal Batagarawa told Consul General. Obasanjo,s somewhat Delphic selection of Yar,Adua, a [...] | 2007-01-24 09:47:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS480 | YAR'ADUA & LABOR RELATIONS MAY IMPROVE [...] (C) Summary: It was not until President Yar'Adua directly negotiated with the NLC and TUC labor leaders in a closed-door session that the 2007 national labor strike was resolved, according to Denja Yaqub, Assistant Secretary to the Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC). Yar'Adua reportedly told the l [...] | 2007-06-28 11:48:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV PHUM PTER KDEM NI |
07LAGOS481 | EDO STATE ELECTION TRIBUNAL POSSIBLY BRIBED BY PDP [...] (U) Adams Oshiomole, Action Congress (AC) governorship candidate and former President of the Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC),has challenged recently-elected Governor Oserheimen Osunbor of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in the Edo State Election Tribunal. Oshiomole was largely viewed as one [...] | 2007-06-28 11:50:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER NI |
07LAGOS485 | VP JONATHAN MEETS MILITANT & COMMUNITY LEADERS IN [...] (C) Summary: On June 28, Vice President Goodluck Jonathan visited the Gbaramatu riverine community in Delta State and discussed ways forward with militant and traditional leaders. An Ijaw youth leader from Delta State offered prescriptive efforts the government could take to bring peace to th [...] | 2007-07-02 15:22:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER NI |
07LAGOS493 | POLITICAL INSIDER ON NIGER DELTA & EFCC [...] (C) Summary: On July 1, Oronto Douglas, human rights lawyer and confidant of Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, said Jonathan will continue to meet with Delta and Bayelsa state militants throughout July in order to gain community input on how to improve the Niger Delta. The Niger Delta Develo [...] | 2007-07-10 11:39:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER NI |
07LAGOS502 | IJAW MILITANTS ANNOUNCE CEASEFIRE; DESOPADEC BOARD [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 6, Ijaw militant leaders agreed to a 90-day ceasefire during which government could address their interests, which focus on gaining greater control over local government areas and resources. However, Rivers State criminal/militant leaders Ateke Tom and Soboma George did [...] | 2007-07-13 09:49:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC NI |
07LAGOS506 | SOUTHERN NIGERIA POLITICAL TIDBITS FOR JUNE 2007 [...] (U) Summary: This cable is a summary of recent political events in the Southern Nigeria political region. End summary. -------------------------------------- Popular South East Party Conspicuously Absent from Unity Government Proposal -------------------------------------- 2. (C) Cons [...] | 2007-07-17 12:11:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS514 | MILITANT DELEGATION TO ASO ROCK JULY 19, RIVERS [...] (C) Summary: On July 14, Niger Delta militants again met in Delta State and agreed to send a delegation to Aso Rock on July 19 to meet President Yar'Adua and Vice President Jonathan. In a separate but related move, Rivers militant/criminal leaders publicly renounced violence. The militants [...] | 2007-07-19 10:01:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC NI |
07LAGOS525 | OYO STATE FACES A SUMMER OF DISCONTENT [...] (C) Summary: Poloff's visit to Oyo State showed Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala enjoying no political honeymoon following his election in the controversial April poll. The civil service is on strike and after an outburst of violence between strikers and transport workers loyal to Akala, attempts [...] | 2007-07-26 13:04:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS526 | MASSOB PRESSES FOR UWAZURUIKE'S RELEASE [...] (C) Summary: Representatives of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) explained to Poloff the case of their detained leader, Ralph Uwazuruike, in prison on treason charges. MASSOB claimed President Umaru Yar'Adua should release Uwazuruike as he has rele [...] | 2007-07-26 13:26:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS53 | SITREP #2: FIRST PIVOT HOSTAGE CRISIS MANAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Representatives of Pivot-GIS, executives of the Honeywell Group Limited (Pivot's parent organization; not affiliated with the U.S.-based Honeywell Company),representatives of the U.S. and British Embassies and a representative of Control Risks Group (CRG) met January 23 regardi [...] | 2007-01-26 10:28:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG ASEC PTER NI |
07LAGOS54 | SHOUTING IN THE EAR OF A DEAF GOVERNMENT: [...] (C) Summary: Bunkerers tapping into crude oil pipelines, vandalized refineries too costly and dangerous to repair or maintain, organized looting of downstream pipelines, complicated import procedures that encourage corruption and force importers to bear the costs of the fuel price subsidy, c [...] | 2007-01-26 12:41:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG ASEC PTER NI |
07LAGOS540 | FORMER BAYELSA GOVERNOR PLEADS GUILTY TO [...] (U) On July 26, the Lagos High Court sentenced former Bayelsa State Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha to two years in prison for corruption. Alamieyeseigha pleaded guilty to six of the thirty-three counts of corruption, with each count carrying a two-year sentence. However, the judge declared [...] | 2007-07-27 14:03:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS565 | CIVIL SOCIETY REPRESENTATIVE ARGUES MASS VOTER [...] (C) Summary: Civil society activist Abiodun Aremu of the United Action for Democracy (UAD) told Poloff there was a failure to protest the April elections because of sparse voter education and widespread apathy toward the elections and politics in general. Aremu contended that civil society s [...] | 2007-08-09 10:15:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM NI |
07LAGOS566 | ARIK AIR BUYS BOEING FLEET [...] (U) Summary: Arik Air, a wholly Nigerian-owned airline, recently purchased a new Boeing 737-700 and announced USD 3 billion of orders for a Boeing 777, 787 Dreamliner, 15 737-800s; and four Q400 Bombardier aircraft. Arik's capitalization is unprecedented for a fully-owned Nigerian airline, how [...] | 2007-08-10 10:04:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR EINV PREL NI |
07LAGOS567 | NIGER DELTA: HOSTAGE TAKING & DEATH, PORT HARCOURT [...] (C) Summary: On August 12, a foreign hostage of an unidentified nationality reportedly died in Bayelsa State en route to a hospital. On August 10, a British National was kidnapped in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on his way to work. On August 8, the son of a Bayelsa State legislator was report [...] | 2007-08-13 12:48:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC NI |
07LAGOS57 | SITREP #3: PROOF OF LIFE FOR KIDNAPPED PIVOT [...] (C) Summary: Control Risks Group representative told the Pivot-GIS Crisis Management Group (CMG) that the number and kinds of contacts between Amcit Bill Graham and individuals who know him well can be considered to meet the criteria for proof of life. End Summary. 2. (C) The Crisis Man [...] | 2007-01-29 16:10:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG ASEC PTER NI |
07LAGOS571 | DOE A/S HARBERT'S DAY IN LAGOS: GAS, OIL, POWER, [...] (C) Summary: On July 18, Department of Energy Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs Karen Harbert SIPDIS met with Lagos business representatives from the power, gas, oil, and oil services sectors to assess the situation and hear energy companies' concerns. International [...] | 2007-08-14 11:48:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL NI |
07LAGOS575 | GOVERNOR OBI'S SUMMER OF OPTIMISM IN ANAMBRA STATE [...] (C) Summary: In a July 30 visit by Pol-econ chief to Anambra State, Governor Peter Obi optimistically believed with the court cases finally resolved in his favor, now was the time for Anambra State to be the "Light of the Nation". Political observers agree that Obi has an opening to transform [...] | 2007-08-15 11:54:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS578 | PORT HARCOURT VIOLENCE RESUMES; ATTACKERS IDENTITY [...] (C) Despite the increased deployment of military troops to Port Harcourt, Rivers State following the August 6-12 violence (Reftel),post has confirmed reports that serious fighting and the possible use of explosives broke out throughout the city on August 16. Fighting and violence has been r [...] | 2007-08-16 14:56:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL NI |
07LAGOS58 | TRAFFIC STOP OF FUGITIVE SOBOMA GEORGE LEADS TO [...] (C) Summary: After the inadvertent arrest of their leader, Soboma George, a band of armed criminal militants attacked at least one police station in Port Harcourt. Details are sketchy and we have in hand conflicting reports whether George escaped. Apparently, the melee resulted in some casu [...] | 2007-01-29 16:47:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG ASEC PTER KCRM NI |
07LAGOS580 | EBONYI STATE EXPERIENCES A SEAMLESS TRANSITION [...] (C) Summary: In a July 31 visit by Pol-econ chief to Ebonyi State, Governor Martin Elechi praised U.S. involvement in Nigeria and cited his top priorities as reforming the civil service and promoting development. Some observers contended Elechi's bureaucratic experience and acumen would bene [...] | 2007-08-17 14:03:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS594 | NIGER DELTA PRESCRIPTIONS BY COMMUNITY LEADERS [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 20, Niger Delta community leaders told the Acting Consul General cultist groups were responsible for recent violence in Port Harcourt, Rivers State and said these groups hijacked the Niger Delta struggle. These leaders each offered different prescriptions for improvi [...] | 2007-08-24 14:47:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC NI |
07LAGOS60 | SHELL'S BAD DAY: NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT PULLS OIL [...] (C) Summary: Shell Managing Director Ann Pickard told visiting Deputy Director for West African Affairs Don Heflin the Government of Nigeria (GON) has notified the company that one of its oil blocks will be given to a Nigerian company. Unless the GON pays USD 1.2 billion in arrears Shell beli [...] | 2007-01-30 15:48:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG ASEC PTER NI |
07LAGOS601 | OSHIOMHOLE DISCUSSES TRIBUNAL, ECONOMICS, YAR'ADUA [...] (C) Summary: Adams Oshiomhole was granted access to voting materials by the Edo State Election Tribunal; he expressed interest in hiring foreign forensic analysts to examine the ballots to prepare his case. Oshiomhole predicted the Tribunal would decide his claim to have won the April guberna [...] | 2007-08-29 10:29:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER NI |
07LAGOS602 | NIGERIA ANNOUNCES REORGANIZATION OF ENERGY SECTOR [...] (C) Summary: On August 29, the Government of Nigeria announced the decision to "unbundle" the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and to create five new independent agencies. International oil companies (IOCs) were aware of the plan to restructure, but did not expect it to take p [...] | 2007-08-30 15:35:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG PGOV NI |
07LAGOS605 | A POLITICAL NOVICE TAKES OVER IN ENUGU STATE [...] (C) Summary: Enugu state has continued to live up to its reputation for political intrigue. After an election fraught with violence and controversy, newly-inaugurated Enugu State People's Democratic Party (PDP) Governor Sullivan Chime distanced himself from his political patron, former Governo [...] | 2007-09-05 10:35:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS609 | A LOOK BACK: OBASANJO REVIEWS HIS PRESIDENCY WITH [...] (C) Summary: In an August 21 meeting with HIRC Africa Subcommittee Chair Donald Payne, former President Olusegun Obasanjo said he would attend former President Clinton's Global Institute from September 26-28, dates which coincide with the second week of plenary sessions of the U.N. General Ass [...] | 2007-09-05 10:39:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KPKO NI |
07LAGOS61 | SITREP #4: PROOF OF LIFE SOUGHT FOR THIRD PIVOT [...] (C) The Pivot-GIS Hostage Crisis Group met January 26. There had been no contact with the hostages in the last 24 hours. A third hostage, Ezekial Akwa, a Nigerian national employed as a driver by Pivot, has not been mentioned by either the kidnappers or the hostages in conversations; proof o [...] | 2007-01-30 15:51:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG CASC ASEC PTER NI |
07LAGOS62 | SITREP #5: SSS INVOLVEMENT IN NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) The Pivot-GIS Hostage Crisis Group met January 29. The Nigerian State Security Services (SSS) had been in contact with the kidnappers and reported that all three hostages were well. The Director of the SSS Alhaji Kola Adeshina, has been personally involved in the release negotiations and [...] | 2007-01-31 16:30:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CASC KCRM NI |
07LAGOS621 | NIGER DELTA NGOS WARN FG ON IJAW FOCUS; CARMEN [...] (C) Summary: While Niger Delta militants have been in dialogue with the Federal and state governments, non-violent and non-Ijaw groups said they feel left out and have threatened to turn to violence to make their voices heard. In Delta State, a U.S. company leads a private-public venture inte [...] | 2007-09-11 10:05:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC NI |
07LAGOS622 | MILITANTS SEIZE PDP CHIEFTAINS IN ONDO STATE; MEND [...] (U) On September 9, militants claiming to be members of Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) seized 11 chieftains of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State, a state which had previously been unscathed by kidnapping activity. However, a MEND spokesperson disclaimed [...] | 2007-09-11 14:03:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM NI |
07LAGOS624 | SOUTHERN NIGERIA POLITICAL TIDBITS FOR JULY/AUGUST [...] (SBU) Summary: Musings on the national political scene. Imo State Governor appoints Iwu family members. MASSOB leaders dismiss Yar'Adua's promise to pay Biafran pensions as propaganda. Some biographical tidbits on the new ministers. End summary. --------------------------------- Musings o [...] | 2007-09-12 08:58:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR NI |
07LAGOS628 | NDDC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SCHEME; NGO SEEKS LOCAL [...] (C) Summary: The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) told international oil companies (IOCs) it would pursue community-driven development in pilot communities in 2008, and if successful, in all nine NDDC states by 2009. Bill Knight, Executive Director of Pro-Natura International, though [...] | 2007-09-17 14:35:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC NI |
07LAGOS63 | SITREP #6: AMCIT & BRITISH NATIONAL REMAIN IN [...] (C) The Pivot-GIS Hostage Crisis Group met February 1. Wole Osinupebi of Pivot and John Walker of Control Risks traveled to Port Harcourt January 31 and met with Director of the State Security Services (SSS) Alhaji Kola Adeshina. Osinupebi and Walker spoke to American citizen Billy Graham and [...] | 2007-02-01 15:57:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG CASC ASEC PTER NI |
07LAGOS638 | ND SPOT REPORT: OKAH ARRESTED, MILITARY PRESENCE [...] (C) Security sources reported on September 18 that criminal arms dealer Henry Okah, known to work in South Africa, Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria (Reftel),had been arrested in Angola. According to a press report, Okah is awaiting extradition to Equatorial Guinea where he will face criminal c [...] | 2007-09-20 11:46:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC NI |
07LAGOS640 | WHO WILL GET NIGERIA'S NATURAL GAS? (CORRECTED [...] (C) Summary: Godwin Billy Agha, Deputy Director, Gas Division, Department of Petroleum Resources told Pol-Econ Chief that the Government of Nigeria (GON) has shifted its priorities from gas to export to gas for domestic use. Currently, there is not enough gas to feed into export projects awai [...] | 2007-09-20 15:46:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG PGOV NI |
07LAGOS642 | YAR'ADUA RELEASES EXCESS CRUDE FUNDS; SYLVA [...] (C) Summary: Bayelsa State received USD 64 million from the Federal excess crude account; the state rarely received allocations from the account under former President Obasanjo. Bayelsa Governor Timipre Sylva, an outsider foisted on the state from Abuja, is slowly working his way through gov [...] | 2007-09-21 13:42:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC NI |
07LAGOS644 | RUMORS SURFACE ABOUT FUTURE OF NIGERIAN LNG PROJECT [...] (C) Summary: The head of a major gas project in Nigeria says there are indications that plans for the OK liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant will not proceed. He also said new gas tax legislation could cripple future gas exploration and production in Nigeria. A Shell managing director reports [...] | 2007-09-24 15:20:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PGOV NI |
07LAGOS645 | CHEVRON CONTEMPLATES BYPASSING ELP TO LINK TO WEST [...] (C) Summary: The West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP),originally scheduled for completion in December 2006, has stalled repeatedly. Vandalism to the Escravos to Lagos Pipeline (ELP) is slowing the flow of gas to existing facilities and threatens Nigeria's ability to supply gas to the WAGP. Che [...] | 2007-09-24 16:32:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENERG PGOV NI |
07LAGOS647 | SENATOR SEES OIL COMPANY MALFEASANCE, PROMISES [...] (C) Summary: The Chairman of the Nigerian Senate's Upstream Petroleum Committee said Chevron had grossly inflated the cost of building its Escravos gas to liquids (GTL) plant. He accused Shell of the same in the construction of its Bonga offshore facility and said Nigeria should use Shell's [...] | 2007-09-25 07:12:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PGOV NI |
07LAGOS652 | IJAW YOUTH LEADER: GON TAKING POSITIVE STEPS; IOCS [...] (C) Summary: According to Chris Ekiyor, recently-elected President of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC),the Ijaw youth delegation meeting with the Federal Government went well as Yar'Adua's administration has expressed much interest in including Niger Delta indigenes in talks to lower regional un [...] | 2007-09-26 10:47:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC NI |
07LAGOS663 | NIGERIA SEEKS ADVICE FROM PRESTIGIOUS ECONOMIC, [...] (C) Summary: In meetings with Theodore Craig, Office of Policy Planning, U.S. Department of State, Mansur Ahmed, Managing Director of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) and Wole Olanipekun, former president of the Nigerian Bar Association, said President Yar'Adua has asked advice from [...] | 2007-10-05 10:55:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PGOV NI |
07LAGOS664 | NIGERIAN SHRIMPING INDUSTRY DECRIES PIRATE ATTACKS [...] (SBU) Summary: During a recent Turtle Excluder Device (TED) inspection visit, many Nigerian shrimp companies told the Poloff that pirates have boarded their boats, robbed their crew and equipment, and confiscated their catches. Eight Nigerian shrimp companies operate approximately 150 boats i [...] | 2007-10-05 10:59:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV OES PREL ASEC NI |
07LAGOS67 | SITREP 7: PROOF OF LIFE FOR NIGERIAN HOSTAGE [...] (C) The Pivot-GIS Hostage Crisis Group met February 2. American citizen Bill Graham and British National Neil Mirrlees remain in captivity. Proof of life was established for the third hostage, Ezekiel Akwa, who is a Nigerian employed as a driver by Pivot, when he spoke to Pivot's Wole Osinu [...] | 2007-02-02 14:08:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS690 | MOSOP PRESIDENT: EFCC MUST CHARGE CORRUPT [...] (C) Summary: The relative calm in Port Harcourt, Rivers State is misleading as state government officials have contributed to the violence, rather than decreased it. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) must hold government officials responsible for corruption and complicity i [...] | 2007-10-22 13:45:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM NI |
07LAGOS697 | NIGERIA'S OIL REGULATOR ON SECTOR REFORM [...] (C) Summary: Nigeria's petroleum regulatory chief said the government will give its interests in oil production joint ventures to a newly formed national oil company. Costs for building the OK liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant have increased significantly and he said the plant's future is in [...] | 2007-10-24 12:24:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PGOV NI |
07LAGOS704 | NIGERIA: DELTA'S AMBITIOUS INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT [...] (C) Summary: The Delta State Integrated Development Project has created an ambitious development plan for the state focused on establishing an industrial base, developing infrastructure, and privatizing some government functions to boost citizens' earning power. Two of the plan's larger proj [...] | 2007-10-26 10:54:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAGR EPET PREL ASEC NI |
07LAGOS710 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FBI DEPTUY DIRECTOR, [...] (C)U.S. Mission Nigeria warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to FBI Debuty Director John S. Pistole, his delegation (Tracey A. North, J. Donaldson Shamwell, Alan W. Sosebee, Kenneth W. Kaiser, Arther M. Cummings, Welsely D. Lacy, Leonard C. Parker, Russell J. Atanasio and Timothy Sobu [...] | 2007-10-30 09:22:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | OTRA AMGT PREL NI |
07LAGOS711 | NIGER DELTA: 6 EXPATS RELEASED, GOVERNMENTS [...] (C) Summary: Four Indian and two Polish nationals kidnapped offshore Rivers State on October 26 were released on October 29. Despite being swindled by the Rivers and Lagos state governments, the Foundation for Ethnic Harmony in Nigeria (FEHN) will host a high level Global Conference on Nonvi [...] | 2007-10-30 14:55:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC NI |
07LAGOS712 | MILITANT LEADER DOKUBO ASARI EXPOSES OKAH AS A [...] (C) In mid-October militant leader Dokubo Asari circulated a letter exposing Henry Okah's arms trafficking activities and connections in a self-proclaimed effort to separate criminality from the Niger Delta struggle. (Note: According to security sources, this letter was intended only for Ija [...] | 2007-10-30 14:58:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM NI |
07LAGOS719 | NIGERIA: NEW RIVERS GOVERNOR REINVENTS HIMSELF BUT [...] (C) Summary: Recently inaugurated Governor Amaechi of Rivers State has pledged to fight corruption and promised to pressent a bill creating a Due Process and Public Procurement Commission to the legislature. After having been sidelined by the People's Democratic Party for six months, Amaechi [...] | 2007-11-01 13:58:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC NI |
07LAGOS73 | WILLBROS PLANS TO LEAVE NIGERIA, LABOR DISPUTE [...] (C) Summary: Due to myriad challenges, ranging from labor difficulties to diminution of business caused by militant activity in the Delta, U.S. oil service contractor Willbros plans to exit Nigeria by March. The company executives hope to sell its Nigerian subsidiary to Ascot Drilling. The [...] | 2007-02-05 10:44:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ELAB ASEC PTER CASC NI |
07LAGOS740 | RESOURCE NATIONALISM IN NIGERIA [...] (C) Summary: Resource nationalism is not a significant movement in Nigeria. GON officials publicly and privately express a desire to attract more foreign investment in the petroleum sector. However, tough new local content requirements are in practice nationalistic and could hamper petroleu [...] | 2007-11-13 15:37:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PGOV NI |
07LAGOS741 | NIGER DELTA MILITANTS HIT QUA IBOE TERMINAL [...] (C) Around 07:00 AM on November 12, six to seven militant boats were spotted shooting into the air offshore Exxon Mobil's Qua Iboe Terminal (QIT) in Akwa Ibom State. According to security sources, the military Joint Task Force (JTF) repelled the militants around 10:30 AM after a firefight whi [...] | 2007-11-13 15:59:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM NI |
07LAGOS750 | A POSSIBLE STRUCTURE FOR A NEW NIGERIAN OIL SECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary: This cable provides an initial view of plans by the government of Nigeria (GON) to reorganize its petroleum sector and national oil company. No official plan has been announced publicly. Clarification may come in February 2008, but the actual implementation is expected to take [...] | 2007-11-21 10:27:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PGOV NI |
07LAGOS759 | NIGER DELTA TIDBITS: SECURITY, POLITICS, [...] (C) This cable provides updates to security and political developments in the Niger Delta. These events occurred in November and were not previously reported: --Bonny Island Labor Skirmish Results in 3 Fatalities --Delta: Joint Task Force-Uduaghan Prevent Itsekiri Attack on Chevron --Sena [...] | 2007-11-29 16:11:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NI |
07LAGOS76 | SIT REP #8: DIFFICULT COMMUNICATION WITH SSS [...] (C) The Pivot-GIS Hostage Crisis Group has not met since February 2, however Control Risk Group (CRG) provided the following information. On February 3, Director of State Security Services (SSS) Alhaji Kola Adeshina told CRG that the Oral Rehydration Treatment (ORT) sachets had not been passe [...] | 2007-02-05 15:34:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM CASC NI |
07LAGOS769 | NIGERIA: ITSEKIRI TAKE UP ARMS; MILITANTS SEEK TO [...] (C) Summary: The Itsekiri in Delta State have created the Niger Delta Survival Front, a militant body through which they reportedly hope to exert pressure on Chevron; however, an Ijaw contact believes this body will remain weak due to limited resources and the small geographic territory inhab [...] | 2007-12-03 14:07:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC NI |
07LAGOS778 | NIGERIA: ADEDIBU LOSES GROUND [...] (C) Summary: Signs point to the slow decline of Lamidi Adedibu's influence in Oyo State politics. His recent court appearance in Abuja and struggles with NAFDAC show his weakened position. Traditional ruler Gbola Adesiyan says Adedibu's "godson" Governor Adebayo Akala anticipates that the t [...] | 2007-12-12 14:46:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM NI |
07LAGOS792 | EXXONMOBIL PREPARES FOR NIGERIA'S GAS FLARING [...] (C) Summary: ExxonMobil (EM) will not meet Nigeria's January 1, 2008 deadline to end natural gas flaring (Ref). EM has a multi-billion dollar plan in progress to reinject gas into near offshore fields, but will continue to flare some "routine" gas until at least 2011 unless it is forced to sh [...] | 2007-12-28 11:08:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PGOV NI |
07LAGOS8 | NGO ACTIVIST: OGONI SYMPATHY FOR VIOLENT APPROACH [...] (C) Summary: Violence as a vehicle to express frustration at the lack of economic development in Rivers State is gaining sympathy within the Ogoni community and will be compounded by a likely upsurge in political violence surrounding the 2007 elections, warned environmental and human rights a [...] | 2007-01-08 14:14:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC ELAB EPET PGOV PINR NI |
07LAGOS87 | SITREP 9: HOSTAGES REMAIN CAPTIVE; GOVERNMENT [...] (C) On February 5, American citizen Bill Graham told Pivot employee Wole Osinupebi the negotiation process should conclude as soon as possible because British national Neil Mirrlees's condition is very weak. John Walker of Control Risks Group could not confirm delivery of the Oral Rehydratio [...] | 2007-02-06 15:37:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS89 | TINUBU CHARTS THE AC'S COURSE IN THE ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: In a January 29 conversation with the Consul General, Lagos Governor Bola Tinubu stated he would suggest to his old friend Vice-President Atiku Abubakar to step down from the presidential race. Tinubu thinks his friend's chances are nil given the strength of presidential enmity [...] | 2007-02-07 15:17:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM NI |
07LAGOS90 | 10,000 ARMED CRIMINALS, NIGER DELTA APPROACHING [...] (C) Summary. Secretary of Bayelsa State Government Dr. Godknows Igali believes that the release on bail of four jailed militant youths will result in the release of two Italian employees of Agip held hostage since December 7; kidnappers are willing to release the Lebanese hostage. Igali sees [...] | 2007-02-07 15:52:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NI |
07LAGOS91 | SITREP 10: BRITISH NATIONAL MIRRLEES RELEASED; [...] (C) Around 7:30 AM on February 7, militants released British national Neil Mirrlees due to the noticeable decline in his health since being held hostage. Mirrlees has been taken to a health clinic in Port Harcourt. Pivot will fly Mirrlees, a long time resident of Port Harcourt, to Lagos Feb [...] | 2007-02-07 16:03:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS94 | SITREP 11: HOSTAGES REMAIN CAPTIVE; FILIPINO FOUND [...] (C) Summary. John Walker of Control Risks Group told the Pivot-GIS Hostage Crisis Group on February 8 American citizen Bill Graham and Nigerian national Ezekiel Akwa remain in captivity. Security contacts confirmed to Regional Security Officer (RSO) a Filipino woman abducted on February 7 in [...] | 2007-02-08 14:30:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
07LAGOS95 | STATE OF EMERGENCY BRINGS SOME CALM TO EKITI STATE [...] (C) Summary. Although controversial, President Obasanjo's declaration in October 2006 of a state of emergency in Ekiti State has provided citizens a respite from the State's tumultuous political climate. Special Administrator Tunji Olurin has brought some order to Ekiti. However, the party [...] | 2007-02-09 07:07:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM NI |
07LAHORE707 | NAWAZ SHARIF TOUCHES DOWN AT LAHORE [...] (C) Summary: Pakistani authorities permitted exiled former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif to enter Pakistan on Sunday November 25th, arriving at Lahore's Allama Iqbal International Airport at approximately 6:30 p.m. local time via a personal aircraft of the [...] | 2007-11-25 16:42:00 | Consulate Lahore | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PINR AMGT PK |
07LAHORE722 | PML-N TO COMPETE IN SPITE OF ADPM ANNOUNCEMENT [...] (C) Summary: The nephews of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Nawaz Sharif indicated November 30 that PML-N will participate in January 8 elections regardless of recent press coverage and public statements. We would not be surprised, however, if Nawaz milks the threat of a boycott a b [...] | 2007-11-30 17:08:00 | Consulate Lahore | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PINR AMGT PK |
07LAPAZ1032 | NEW GOB PROPOSAL FOR DIP NOTE EXCHANGE ON MIL [...] (SBU) This message contains an urgent action request (paragraph 8). --------- SUMMARY --------- 2. (SBU) As part of Embassy La Paz's continuing efforts to work with the GOB towards a permanent Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) (see reftels),we have been negotiating with the Bolivian [...] | 2007-04-13 18:03:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIA PGOV PREL MARR MASS MOPS BL |
07LAPAZ1038 | NATIONAL ELECTORAL COURT ON POSSIBLE ELECTIONS [...] (C) In a April 10 meeting with the Ambassador, National Electoral Court (CNE) President Salvador Romero said there is "complete uncertainty" regarding possible electoral events related to the Constituent Assembly (CA),including referendums on controversial constitutional changes and a final r [...] | 2007-04-13 19:20:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ1060 | CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY: A LONG "TO DO" LIST [...] (SBU) Bolivia's Constituent Assembly (CA) wrapped up its national tour over the weekend of April 14-15 and will resume work in commissions April 16. Press reports estimate that the new constitution may have as many as 300 articles (the current constitution has 234),and that the Assembly has [...] | 2007-04-17 11:20:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ1068 | COCHABAMBA: AN UNEASY CALM [...] (C) During a April 13 trip to Cochabamba, the Ambassador met separately with Prefect Manfred Reyes Villa, the directors of the Private Business Federation, and the directors of the Civic Committee. All expressed their concern that violence could again break out when the new draft constituti [...] | 2007-04-17 18:20:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ1083 | SOFA NEGOTIATIONS UPDATE [...] (C) This message contains an urgent action request (paragraph 4). 2. (C) Poloff and Milgroup Commander met with the MFA's Director of Special Affairs Unit Mireya Duran and U.S. desk officer April 18 to convey that the United States cannot accept any changes to the terms of the diplomatic no [...] | 2007-04-18 18:43:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIA PGOV PREL MARR MASS MOPS BL |
07LAPAZ1085 | OPPOSITION PREFECTS SIGN AUTONOMY PACT [...] (C) The opposition prefects of Beni, Cochabamba, Pando, Santa Cruz, and Tarija met on April 15 and all except Cochabamba signed a pact to defend departmental autonomy. The pact calls for respect for existing departmental borders, endorses moving the executive and legislative branches from La [...] | 2007-04-18 19:00:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON BL |
07LAPAZ1150 | NEGATIVE PR MAY BLOCK COMMUNITARIAN JUSTICE [...] (C) Summary: On January 1, President Morales proposed a law to create a formal, legally binding communitarian justice system (reftel). The Constituent Assembly has yet to debate the communitarian justice law, but there is already significant opposition to the proposal. Although the death pen [...] | 2007-04-25 18:30:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ1167 | DCM TRIP TO POTOSI AND SUCRE [...] (C) The DCM traveled to Potosi and Sucre April 23-25 to inaugurate USAID projects and meet with key political figures. Potosi Mayor Rene Joaquino (often touted as a potential rival to President Morales) told the DCM that although the economy is booming, the city receives no mining revenues, [...] | 2007-04-26 17:28:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ1203 | SPECIAL 301 DEMARCHE DELIVERED; VICE MINISTER [...] (C) Emboff delivered ref A demarche to Vice Minister of Trade Rabczuk and to the National Service of Intellectual Property (SENAPI) on April 27. SENAPI representatives expressed interest in the recommendations and noted that they had proposed changes to update the 1992 copyright law, which ar [...] | 2007-04-30 19:20:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON ETRD KIPR TBIO BL |
07LAPAZ1213 | SCENESETTER FOR DAS COULTER [...] (SBU) Embassy La Paz warmly welcomes Political-Military Affairs Deputy Assistant Secretary Michael Coulter to Bolivia May 8-10. Your visit comes at a critical juncture in Bolivian-American relations, with the GOB still defining its role in Bolivia's "revolution." With indigenous coca leader [...] | 2007-05-03 12:25:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PGOV PREL MARR MASS MOPS PHUM BL |
07LAPAZ1223 | BOLIVIA FIRMLY AGAINST U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-03 16:33:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER IZ BL |
07LAPAZ123 | IFI'S CONCERNED ABOUT POLITICAL TRENDS IN BOLIVIA [...] (C) World Bank Resident Representative Connie Luff told the Ambassador on January 12 that the Bank has maintained a good relationship with the GOB, although the Bank is concerned about the government's increasing interference in key economic sectors. In a January 17 meeting with Econoff, repr [...] | 2007-01-18 20:14:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN BL |
07LAPAZ1235 | EDUCATION PROPOSAL PASSES COMMITTEE [...] (C) Summary: The GOB's education proposal was approved by committee on April 10, but has yet to appear before the full congress (reftel). The Catholic Church fears the proposal is an effort to stifle religious education, and private schools believe the GOB is exerting unprecedented control ove [...] | 2007-05-04 14:31:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ1280 | GOB TAKES OFF THE GLOVES WITH PETROBRAS [...] (U) On May 6, the GOB issued, and on May 7, officially published, decree number 29122 giving state-owned oil company YPFB majority control over residual crude oil exportation from two refineries owned by Brazil's Petrobras, the largest investor in Bolivia's hydrocarbons sector. Press reports [...] | 2007-05-09 10:20:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ1337 | BOLIVIA ON BELARUS' HRC CANDIDACY: PART II [...] (C) On May 10, Poloff delivered (reftel A) demarche to the MFA's director of international organizations. According to the director, the GOB still has not made a decision regarding Belarus' candidacy. In a May 3 (reftel B) meeting on this issue, the director mentioned that Belarus had approac [...] | 2007-05-15 08:31:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM RPEL UNHRC BL |
07LAPAZ1351 | AMBASSADOR AND PRESIDENT MORALES INAUGURATE TUNNEL [...] (C) President Evo Morales and the Ambassador inaugurated a USAID-sponsored tunnel illumination system along the Cochabamba - Santa Cruz road on May 10. President Morales thanked the United States for its assistance while underscoring his oft-repeated insistence that "any assistance be uncon [...] | 2007-05-16 12:52:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ1366 | PM DAS COULTER VISIT TO BOLIVIA [...] (C) Deputy Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs Michael Coulter, as well as WHA/FO Sr. Advisor Giovanni Snidle, PM desk officer Jeff Burnett, and Lt. Col. Daniel McDonald of the Office of the Secretary of Defense visited Bolivia May 9-10 in response to the positive overtures made [...] | 2007-05-16 19:20:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR MASS MOPS PHUM BL |
07LAPAZ1380 | BOLIVIA: INPUT FOR REVIEW OF TITLE III OF THE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-18 10:56:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL BL |
07LAPAZ1386 | BOLIVIAN COURTS UNDER MAS FIRE [...] (C) On May 15, President Morales presented to Congress impeachment charges of judicial malpractice against four of five the Constitutional Tribunal (CT) justices. Once the lower house approves the charges, the four justices will be suspended, leaving only one justice on the bench. Poloff met [...] | 2007-05-18 18:48:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ1394 | DCM'S MEETING WITH DEFENSE MINISTER [...] (SBU) At a ninety minute lunch at the DCM's residence on May 14, Minister of Defense (MOD) Walker San Miguel expressed confidence that the GOB would make its 5,000-8,000 hectare eradication target this year. He suggested that the USG and GOB negotiate an agreement regarding transport via DEA [...] | 2007-05-22 15:26:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON SNAR MARR MASS MOPS PHUM BL |
07LAPAZ1396 | AMBASSADOR MEETS PREFECT, JOURNALISTS, AND [...] (C) On May 17, Santa Cruz Prefect Costas told the Ambassador that he predicts a poor outcome for the Constituent Assembly (CA),and suggested that the opposition's strategy would be to seek redress before the Constitutional Tribunal if the MAS violated the terms of the Assembly's convening leg [...] | 2007-05-22 17:07:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID ECON EAGR BL |
07LAPAZ1401 | GOB INSISTS VENEZUELAN ASSISTANCE IS NOT [...] (U) In a meeting between the Bolivian and Venezuelan militaries May 21, Venezuelan Ambassador Julio Montes announced that his country donated $30 million last year to Bolivia, part of which the GOB will use to improve military barracks. Montes suggested revamping the Bolivian military to defe [...] | 2007-05-22 18:19:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON MARR MASS MOPS BL VE |
07LAPAZ1403 | FENCOMIN CONSIDERING FORMING OWN POLITICAL PARTY [...] (C) At the request of the National Federation of Cooperative Miners of Bolivia (FENCOMIN),Emboffs met with FENCOMIN President Andres Villca Daza and Press Relations Coordinator Jose Antonio Condori on May 18. This is the first time in some time that FENCOMIN has approached the Embassy, and [...] | 2007-05-22 18:50:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ1428 | BOLIVIAN RESPONSE ON RCTV CLOSURE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-24 12:11:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SCUL VE BL |
07LAPAZ1467 | GOB STEPS UP ATTACKS ON INDEPENDENT JUDICIARY [...] (C) On May 15, President Morales presented to congress impeachment charges against four of five the constitutional tribunal justices (REFTEL A). The GOB and Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) officials followed with a full-blown public campaign against the judiciary, calls for the closQe of the [...] | 2007-05-30 07:08:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ1571 | BOLIVIAN JUDICIARY GOES ON FIRST STRIKE EVER [...] (C) Summary: On Tuesday June 5, in the first known strike to affect Bolivia's court system, 2,900 judicial branch employees stayed home. The strike was a response to President Evo Morales' repeated rhetorical attacks on the judiciary. The stoppage provoked mixed reactions among Bolivia's publi [...] | 2007-06-06 20:37:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ1589 | ANDEAN COMMUNITY SUMMIT PREPARATIONS AND EU [...] (C) Preparations for the 17th Presidential Summit of the Andean Community (CAN),to be held in Tarija June 12-14, are going slowly as the CAN deals with internal divisions, especially in regard to negotiating a trade agreement with the EU. As of June 8, only President Correa of Ecuador and [...] | 2007-06-08 20:04:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ1618 | COUER D'ALENE'A SAN BARTOLOME MINE SLATED TO BEGIN [...] (C) In conjunction with an Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) due-diligence visit, Emboff received a briefing on the status of the San Bartolome project at the La Paz offices of Manquiri (Idaho-based Couer D'Alene's Bolivian subsidiary) on June 1 and visited the San Bartolome site [...] | 2007-06-12 08:14:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EMIN SENV BL |
07LAPAZ1619 | MAS STEAMROLLS CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY COMMISSIONS [...] (SBU) The Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) appears to have adopted a new strategy to steamroll their proposals through the Constituent Assembly's (CA) twenty-one commissions, violating the voting rules agreed upon on February 14, 2007 (reftel). The strategy is aimed at preventing PODEMOS, the [...] | 2007-06-12 08:14:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ1661 | CUBAN DOCTOR PREVENTED FROM DEPARTING BOLIVIA [...] (SBU) On June 14, Cuban doctor Ruber Rodriguez Cruz was detained by Bolivian immigration authorities in Santa Cruz after boarding an American Airlines flight bound for Miami. Dr. Rodriguez Cruz eventually managed to leave the airport and found a "safe place" to avoid Bolivian authorities. We [...] | 2007-06-15 10:04:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL BL CU |
07LAPAZ1664 | IMPEACHMENT OF CONSTITUTIONAL JUDGES: THE PROCESS [...] (C) The GOB's impeachment case against four of five of the constitutional tribunal justices (REFTEL A) will be a protracted process. Nonetheless the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) is trying expedite the case. On June 12, two MAS lower house deputies, who are members of a preliminary inves [...] | 2007-06-15 14:08:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON BL |
07LAPAZ1669 | CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY: FISTS FLY, MILITARY ANGRY [...] (C) On June 14, a small group of opposition (PODEMOS party) constituent assembly (CA) delegates was involved in a confrontation with police within the Colegio Junin, the site where the CA's twenty-one commissions are working. An opposition delegate told poloff on June 15, that the incident beg [...] | 2007-06-15 18:49:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ1675 | TARIJA LEADERS PESSIMISTIC ABOUT STATE OF AFFAIRS [...] (C) Tarija political and business leaders expressed pessimism and a growing concern about the state of Bolivian affairs in a June 14 meeting with Emboff. The president of the Tarija Civic Committee, president of the Tarija Chamber of Commerce, and the governor's chief of staff all predicted [...] | 2007-06-18 20:28:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ1702 | "MEDIA LUNA" TO DECIDE CIVIL RESISTANCE MEASURES [...] (C) A June 18 manifesto released by the Democratic Autonomous Board of Bolivia, which is comprised of the prefectural governments and civic committees of Santa Cruz, Tarija, Beni, and Pando states, calls for "democratic civil resistance" and a "national encounter for a democratic and united [...] | 2007-06-20 21:25:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ1811 | PRESIDENT MORALES' "SUCCESSFUL" TRIP TO SWITZERLAND [...] (C) SUMMARY: While President Morales has publicly claimed that his trip to Switzerland was a success, post has learned from the Swiss delegation in La Paz that he may have alienated more people than he befriended and even put at risk future Swiss assistance with his delegations' disorganization [...] | 2007-07-02 15:55:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ1812 | COCHABAMBA CIVIC COMMITTEE ASKS FOR HELP [...] (C) On June 28, members of the Cochabamba civic committee met with the Ambassador and DCM to voice their fears over what they call the MAS' "anti-democratic" agenda. The committee's Cochabamba-specific concerns include GOB budget cuts, failure of the GOB to deliver on infrastructure projects, [...] | 2007-07-02 16:25:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ1833 | AMBASSADOR GOLDBERG'S MEETING WITH VP ALVARO [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 28 Ambassador Goldberg met with Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera. The meeting was scheduled before the detention of the AmCit friend of MilGroup commander's son on June 27 (Reftel A). While the Vice President agreed with the Ambassador that the case should not [...] | 2007-07-03 14:40:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ1840 | TIME TO INVEST IN BOLIVIAN MINING? NOT LIKELY [...] (C) In the past week emboff has fielded calls from three U.S. companies seeking information about the investment climate for Bolivia's mining sector. U.S. mining companies have also contacted U.S. congressional representatives with their views of the investment climate in Bolivia (in connecti [...] | 2007-07-05 12:09:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EMIN EINV BL |
07LAPAZ1847 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETINGS WITH U.S. MINING EXECUTIVES [...] (C) Although representatives from the three major U.S. mining companies in Bolivia listed specific concerns regarding GOB proposed changes to the mining code and taxes (ref B describes proposals),their basic request to the Ambassador was that the Embassy encourage the GOB to open a dialogue [...] | 2007-07-05 16:04:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EMIN EINV BL |
07LAPAZ1862 | DINH AFFAIR FALL-OUT UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador's Fourth of July reception was marked by a lower turnout of high-level Bolivian officials compared to last year's. This appears to have been the result of a conscious GOB decision after the Donna Dinh affair (reftels). The most senior current GOB official to atten [...] | 2007-07-06 12:01:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ188 | A NEW YEAR, A NEW CABINET [...] (C) Despite recent public statements that he would not make any cabinet changes, President Morales announced a shake-up late January 23, replacing seven ministers (government, education, agriculture, justice, public works, planning, and labor). The announcement came as a surprise for many, ex [...] | 2007-01-25 15:52:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ1949 | OPPOSITION POLITICIAN PHYSICALLY ATTACKS [...] (C) On July 10, Adolfo Chavez, president of the Confederation of Indigenous and Original Peoples of Bolivia (CIDOB, an umbrella group of lowland indigenous groups, see reftel) was attacked by Podemos assembly member Fernando Morales. Chavez had flown in to Sucre and was stopped in the airport [...] | 2007-07-13 22:14:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ1950 | OPPOSITION POLITICIAN PHYSICALLY ATTACKS [...] (C) On July 10, Adolfo Chavez, president of the Confederation of Indigenous and Original Peoples of Bolivia (CIDOB, an umbrella group of lowland indigenous groups, see reftel) was attacked by Podemos assembly member Fernando Morales. Chavez had flown in to Sucre and was stopped in the airport [...] | 2007-07-17 11:50:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ198 | THE OPPOSITION WINS THE SENATE PRESIDENCY [...] (C) On January 24, after five days of intense negotiations and four rounds of voting, National Unity (UN) Senator Jose Villavicencio was elected president of the senate for the 2007 session, replacing Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) Senator Santos Ramirez. The three opposition parties succ [...] | 2007-01-25 21:05:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BL PINR |
07LAPAZ1992 | MARCH FOR PROVINCIAL AUTONOMY, SANTA CRUZ INVITES [...] (U) Some five thousand people peacefully marched in Montero, Santa Cruz on July 17th in favor of provincial and indigenous autonomy within the department of Santa Cruz. A commission was named to draw up a provincial autonomy proposal. On the same day, Santa Cruz Civic Committee President B [...] | 2007-07-19 14:27:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ1993 | AMBASSADOR GOLDBERG'S AND PDAS SHAPIRO'S MEETING [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a one-day visit to La Paz July 11, PDAS Charles Shapiro and Ambassador Goldberg met with Foreign Minister Choquehuanca and Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera to review bilateral relations. Shapiro laid down a strong marker that better bilateral relations require rhetorical [...] | 2007-07-19 14:58:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ2020 | LA PAZ "UNITY" DEMONSTRATION [...] (SBU) Local press and opinion makers are touting the July 20th demonstration (cabildo) in El Alto as a complete success. Logistically the event was a success, with no violence and only a few minor injuries. Numerically the event was a success: over a million people attended, with some esti [...] | 2007-07-23 22:44:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM BL |
07LAPAZ2031 | GOB CREATES NEW "INCIDENT" TO DISCREDIT USG [...] (C) On July 24, the Vice Minister of Culture Pablo Groux and Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Hugo Fernandez held a news conference alleging an Emboff had attempted to illegally export Bolivian cultural patrimony. The facts do not reflect the accusations. Graham Alexander, Deputy for the Offic [...] | 2007-07-25 00:20:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON BL |
07LAPAZ2063 | SUCRE HOLDS RALLY FOR RETURN TO FULL CAPITAL STATUS [...] (SBU) On July 25, over 100,000 (perhaps over 200,000) people rallied in Sucre calling for the executive and legislative branches to return to Bolivia's historical (and still constitutional) capital. This rally followed La Paz's demonstration on July 20 where over a million "pacenos" gathered [...] | 2007-07-26 22:30:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON BL |
07LAPAZ2085 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNIVERSAL ADOPTION OF NTC [...] (SBU) On July 25, Poloff met with the Ministry of Foreign Affair's director of international organizations and delivered reftel demarche. The director responded that the GOB was reviewing the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (NTC) but could not explain [...] | 2007-07-30 17:40:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL BL PTER |
07LAPAZ2090 | MUTUN IRON MINE DEAL: JACKPOT OR JINXED? [...] (C) On July 18 President Morales announced a contract with Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (India's third largest stainless steel producer) to develop the massive Mutun iron deposit, which straddles the border with Brazil. (Note: reportedly the contract allows Jindal to develop 50 percent of the B [...] | 2007-07-30 21:32:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN EINV BL |
07LAPAZ2098 | FOUR VIEWS OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY AND BEYOND [...] (C) From July 18-24, Emboff met with four Constituent Assembly (CA) members representing different political parties. PODEMOS delegate Gamal Serhan Jaldin of Cochabamba argued that there is a real threat that the eastern (lowland) departments will seek separation from the western (altiplano) [...] | 2007-08-01 11:59:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL PINR BL |
07LAPAZ21 | CORRECTED COPY-AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) The Ambassador met separately with Vice Foreign Minister Maurico Dorfler and Vice President Garcia Linera (Septel) on January 3 to discuss the GOB's presidential decrees requiring all American citizens to obtain Bolivian visas. The Ambassador acknowledged that the GOB is within its righ [...] | 2007-01-05 15:44:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ2129 | TENSIONS HIGH AHEAD OF AUGUST 6 INDEPENDENCE DAY [...] (C) Tensions are high ahead of Bolivian Independence Day on August 6 and Armed Forces Day on August 7. Seven of nine departmental civic committees issued a declaration on August 1 calling for the resignation of five ministers, a two-thirds majority vote for the new constitution, and departme [...] | 2007-08-02 21:08:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ2141 | MILITARY-INDIGENOUS PARADE PREPARATIONS IN FINAL [...] (C) The Bolivian Armed Forces are in the final stages of preparing for the August 7 Armed Forces Day military-indigenous parade in Santa Cruz. Eighth Division Joint Chief of Staff Colonel Cueto told Post that the armed forces will only protect El Trompillo military airport, implying the nat [...] | 2007-08-03 20:58:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ2156 | BOLIVIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATIONS BAD FOR [...] (C) President Morales's public image took an unexpected hit during the Bolivian Independence Day celebrations August 6 in Sucre, when he received jeers and insults from the crowd and negative press following the event. President Morales's nearly four-hour-long speech included aspersions again [...] | 2007-08-08 15:01:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ2186 | MILITARY-INDIGENOUS PARADE NON-VIOLENT [...] (U) The August 7 Armed Forces Day parade held at El Trompillo military airport in Santa Cruz went off peacefully (Reftel A). Approximately 6,000 spectators watched thirty indigenous groups (including the poncho rojos) march with the Bolivian Armed Forces. President Morales, Vice President [...] | 2007-08-09 22:10:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ2205 | CHAVEZ VISITS BOLIVIA [...] (C) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in Bolivia August 9 for an official visit. President Morales and Chavez signed documents creating Petroandina, a joint venture between the Bolivian state energy company YPFB and Venezuelan state energy company PDVSA. On August 10, President Moral [...] | 2007-08-10 22:18:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ2217 | TAX CHANGES POSE SERIOUS PROBLEMS FOR U.S. MINE [...] (C) On August 1, Ambassador Goldberg met with executives from Apex Silver, Sumitomo Corporation, and San Cristobal mine (which is jointly owned by Apex and Sumitomo) to discuss the future of the mine and the impact of the proposed changes to Bolivia's mining code and tax regime. The outlook is [...] | 2007-08-13 19:46:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EMIN EINV BL |
07LAPAZ2223 | MORALES THREATENS TO RULE BY PRESIDENTIAL DECREE [...] (C) Presidents Morales and Chavez, on the last stop of Chavez' official visit to Bolivia, announced the construction of a 100 megawatt hydro-electic plant in the Chapare on August 10. President Chavez told the crowd of several hundred hardcore Morales supporters that "the hour to liberate t [...] | 2007-08-13 22:18:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ2234 | INDIGENOUS "FOURTH POWER" POWERLESS [...] (SBU) On August 10, Emboffs met with members of the "National Mechanism for Social Control" to receive a briefing on their operations. The group, composed of leaders of national civic organizations and unions, is trying to position itself as a "fourth power" on level with the legislative, exe [...] | 2007-08-14 21:59:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM BL |
07LAPAZ2243 | EVO'S DRAFT CONSTITUTION [...] (C) Government party Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) advisors and consultants, including Spanish and Venezuelan advisors, submitted a draft constitution to the Constituent Assembly on August 14. This draft represents only the MAS government's wish-list, including unlimited reelection of the P [...] | 2007-08-15 19:29:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ2244 | EVO'S DRAFT CONSTITUTION [...] (C) Government party Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) advisors and consultants, including Spanish and Venezuelan advisors, submitted a draft constitution to the Constituent Assembly on August 14. This draft represents only the MAS government's wish-list, including unlimited reelection of the P [...] | 2007-08-15 19:39:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ2270 | PETROANDINA: A STILL BIRTH? [...] (C) The birth of Petroandina took place with great fanfare during the August 9-10 visit of President Chavez to Bolivia. Petroandina was one of a myriad of announced projects, donations, and associations that were portrayed as the answer to Bolivia's energy puzzle. Detailed plans, however, [...] | 2007-08-17 21:23:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL EPET VE BL |
07LAPAZ2333 | PUNCHES AND PROTESTS IN CONGRESS AND SUCRE [...] (C) Fisticuffs in Congress forced the opposition and ruling party Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) delegates to retreat to separate buildings on August 22. The MAS delegates were later reconvened in the Vice Presidential offices and voted by "majority of those present" (that is, the majority [...] | 2007-08-23 19:07:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ2355 | MAS' LATEST DRAFT CONSTITUTION: RADICAL RUMORS [...] (C) On August 15, national newspaper La Razon published a draft constitution purportedly written by the ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party and President Evo Morales' Venezuelan and Spanish advisors. In the days following the publication, some MAS officials repudiated the draft while [...] | 2007-08-27 16:06:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ2385 | DEPSEC'S UPCOMING MEETING WITH BOLIVIAN VP [...] (C) Although the Morales government states it wants good relations with the United States, officials often use anti-U.S. rhetoric to distract from domestic problems, as when the Bolivian government recently groundlessly accused the United States of financing opposition groups. The key areas of [...] | 2007-08-29 21:09:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EINV EMIN SNAR BL |
07LAPAZ2386 | TWO THIRDS OF BOLIVIA STRIKES AGAINST EVO [...] (C) The departments of Cochabamba and Chuquisaca joined Bolivia's media-luna (Pando, Beni, Tarija and Santa Cruz) and held a 24-hour general strike (paro civico) on August 28. The opposition is calling the strike an overwhelming success, since it paralyzed the six departments and demonstrated [...] | 2007-08-29 21:15:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL PHUM BL |
07LAPAZ2387 | GOVERNMENT MINISTER SLAMS USAID [...] (C) Minister of the Presidency Juan Ramon Quintana made an unannounced press briefing, on August 29, in which he leveled untrue charges against USAID. Quintana presented his briefing as the government's evidence to substantiate President Evo Morales' and Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera' [...] | 2007-08-29 21:48:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ240 | BOLIVIA NOT TO VISIT IRANIAN NUCLEAR SITES [...] (C) On January 29, poloff met with MFA's Director of International Organizations and delivered reftel demarche regarding Iran's invitation to Bolivia (as G-77 President) to visit its nuclear facilities. The director stated "off-the-record" that the Foreign Ministry was not sending its Ambass [...] | 2007-01-30 18:48:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY BL |
07LAPAZ2400 | OPPOSITION, OTHERS DEFEND US AID [...] (U) Following Minister of the Presidency Quintana's August 29 attacks on USAID in which he accused the USG of supporting the opposition and told USAID to get in line with government policies or leave the country, the opposition, NGOs and pundits are defending USAID and criticizing the governmen [...] | 2007-08-30 21:18:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL PHUM EAID BL |
07LAPAZ2406 | SUCRE SLIPPING TOWARD THE EDGE [...] (C) The city of Sucre is inching closer to a potential confrontation as both the government and opposition have asked their partisans to take to the streets. Saying he does not want to be responsible for any confrontation and placing the blame squarely on President Evo Morales, Governor Davi [...] | 2007-08-31 19:55:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ2442 | MORALES CHECKED AS JUSTICES REINSTATED [...] (C) The opposition-controlled senate voted on September 5 to reinstate the four Constitutional Tribunal judges that the government MAS party controlled lower house had suspended on August 22. The suspension of the judges had ceated a void that could have enabled Morales' MAS party to ram thr [...] | 2007-09-05 22:06:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ2467 | BOLIVIAN GAS: THE PRESSURE IS BUILDING [...] (SBU) The first signs of an emerging crisis in the Bolivian gas sector are becoming apparent. Gas supply can no longer meet current contractual obligations. Production has fallen to 38.3MMm3/d and contractual obligations are up to 39.4MMm3/d. Moreover, investment in the sector is tentative [...] | 2007-09-10 12:54:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL EPET BL |
07LAPAZ2500 | BOLIVIA ANNOUNCES FORMAL TIES WITH IRAN [...] (C) Summary. Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca dropped the other shoe September 11 after both he and President Evo Morales hinted at pursuing formal diplomatic relations with Iran the previous week (reftel). Choquehuanca announced diplomatic relations with Iran at the end of a pre [...] | 2007-09-11 23:31:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON BL |
07LAPAZ2510 | BOLIVIA'S MIXED MESSAGE ON IAEA-IRANIAN ACTION PLAN [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Acting Foreign Minister Hugo Fernandez on September 7, 2007. Fernandez told the Ambassador that the French, German and British Ambassadors had covered the same topic with him several days earlier. Fernandez claimed that the European Ambassador [...] | 2007-09-12 21:48:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KNNP MNUC IR IAEA AORC BO |
07LAPAZ2524 | BOLIVIAN GAS: SHORTAGES OF LPG TO COME? [...] (U) The Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) market in Bolivia is a good test case of what is happening in the overall hydrocarbon sector. Prices are held artificially low, demand is stimulated, supply and investment decrease, and the growing threat of shortages presage possible political turmoi [...] | 2007-09-14 05:31:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL EPET BL |
07LAPAZ2525 | DOMESTIC BACKLASH TO IRAN/VISA ISSUES BEGINS [...] (C) Although not as massive, immediate, or united as Bolivian domestic defense of USAID after the Bolivian Government attacked it in August, public opinion is beginning to come out against the Bolivian Government's September 11 announcements on establishing diplomatic ties with Iran and implem [...] | 2007-09-14 11:41:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON BL |
07LAPAZ2526 | DOMESTIC BACKLASH TO IRAN/VISA ISSUES BEGINS [...] (C) Although not as massive, immediate, or united as Bolivian domestic defense of USAID after the Bolivian Government attacked it in August, public opinion is beginning to come out against the Bolivian Government's September 11 announcements on establishing diplomatic ties with Iran and implem [...] | 2007-09-14 11:41:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON BL |
07LAPAZ2587 | BOLIVIANS MUTE ON IAEA PLAN [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to the Ruben Vidaurre, Director of Multilateral Affairs, September 20. Despite prior assurances that Bolivia would act to hold Iran to it's "international commitments" and UN resolutions (ref b),Vidaurre explained Bolivia's Vienna delegation was called dur [...] | 2007-09-21 17:42:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KNNP IR IAEA MNUC PARM EUN BL |
07LAPAZ259 | MOD MEETING READOUT, COUNTERRORISM CONFERENCE [...] (C) The National Defense University (NDU),via its Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies (CHDS),co-sponsored a January 23-25 security and defense workshop which focused on counter-terrorism (CT) in La Paz with the Ministry of Defense. Participants identified the top four threats to Bolivian [...] | 2007-02-01 21:15:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL PINR MARR MASS MOPS BL |
07LAPAZ2607 | POTOSI MAYOR: A POTENTIAL CHALLENGER TO EVO? [...] (C) On September 18, Emboffs visited Potosi Mayor Rene Juaquino who is emerging as a potential (albeit long-shot for now) alternative to President Evo Morales. Juaquino who is Quechua, the largest indigenous group in Bolivia, is considered by most observers a very effective politician and c [...] | 2007-09-26 14:08:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ2626 | BOLIVIA'S NEW "PEACEFUL" RELATIONS WITH IRAN/LIBYA [...] (C) Summary: With the visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and signing of $1.1 billion in cooperation agreements September 27, Bolivia and Iran have fundamentally deepened both their commercial and political relationship. In his signing ceremony speech, Morales emphasized Bolivia's r [...] | 2007-09-27 23:16:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PARM PGOV PREL KNNP MNUC IAEA UN IR BL |
07LAPAZ2647 | SUCRE'S STATUS COULD KILL CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Emboffs recently held separate meetings with three of Sucre city and Chuquisaca department's leading figures; discussions focused on: the fate of the Constituent Assembly, the likelihood of a referendum on returning Sucre to full capital status, and the Prefect's surprise reversal of his [...] | 2007-10-01 20:12:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL PINR BL |
07LAPAZ2648 | EVO TO UN: CHANGE OF ADDRESS REQUESTED [...] (U) Building on President Evo Morales' September 26 suggestion to move the UN Headquarters out of New York, the Bolivian Government September 30 launched a "global campaign" to persuade nations to move the UN. Presidential Minister Juan Quintana said the proposal was prompted by the poor and [...] | 2007-10-01 20:51:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN BL |
07LAPAZ2658 | STUDENT DEAD IN POSSIBLE NEW HUMAN RIGHTS CASE [...] (SBU) A September 28 clash between student protesters and security forces left one student dead (Osmar Flores Torres) and four others wounded in the Arani province of Cochabamba. The students (or normalistas) were threatening to disrupt a gas pipeline if their demand for a new school was [...] | 2007-10-02 20:11:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | BL PGOV PHUM PINR PREL |
07LAPAZ2663 | FM CHOQUEHUANCA: SEX, ROCKS, AND CHILD LABOR [...] (U) In an interview with the Spanish press agency EFE on October 1, Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca made several curious comments on a variety of subjects from the imperialist tendencies of the West, to the sexual activity of rocks. Though the interview offered several critiques [...] | 2007-10-03 13:22:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON BL ELAB PINR |
07LAPAZ2674 | BOLIVIA UNDERMINING MINING: MORE STATE INVOLVEMENT? [...] (C) In the "exposition of motives" of the draft mining code that is circulating in the Bolivian mining sector but has not been formally submitted to Congress, mining companies are given one year from the promulgation of the new code to sign joint-venture contracts with the state-owned Bolivian [...] | 2007-10-03 20:21:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EMIN EINV BL |
07LAPAZ2686 | LA PAZ ON IRANIAN NUKES: SEE NO EVIL [...] (U) Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca defended Iran's nuclear program October 3, contrasting Iran's development of "peaceful" nuclear technology with countries like France, Russia, Israel, and the United States that use the technology to make "atomic bombs." He also lumped Iran in [...] | 2007-10-04 20:28:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PGOV PREL KNNP MNUC IAEA UN IR BL |
07LAPAZ2689 | CONSTITUTIONAL TRIBUNAL IN LIMBO [...] (C) On October 3, the Superior Court of La Paz, ruled against the opposition-led senate's September 5 decision to "shelve" (not proceed with) impeachment proceedings against four of five constitutional tribunal magistrates, leaving the tribunal in limbo. The superior court's decision, if fo [...] | 2007-10-04 22:34:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ2700 | BOLIVIA: LATEST FLAP DEFUSED [...] (C) Following a series of continuing verbal attacks on the United States over the past few weeks, including President Morales's UNGA speech asking that the UN be taken out of the United States, the Ambassador when asked what he made of a campaign to move the U.N., said that after all these a [...] | 2007-10-06 00:18:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BL |
07LAPAZ2712 | EVO CELEBRATES CHE DAY; NO TO U.S. BASES [...] (U) Summary. During his remarks at an October 8 event honoring the 40th anniversary of Che Guevara's death in Bolivia, President Evo Morales unleashed a torrent of anti-U.S. rhetoric, said a new Bolivian Constitution would not permit U.S. military bases in Bolivia, and urged other Latin Ameri [...] | 2007-10-09 21:26:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON BL |
07LAPAZ2714 | DFM INVOKES IRAN-CONTRA TO JUSTIFY VISA ON AMCITS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-09 22:52:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS PGOV PREL PINR BL |
07LAPAZ2716 | DFM INVOKES IRAN-CONTRA TO JUSTIFY VISA ON AMCITS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-10 10:56:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS PGOV PREL PINR BL |
07LAPAZ2725 | EVO JUST SAYS NO TO U.S. ANTI-DRUG FORCES [...] (U) Following on comments he made October 8 about implementing a constitutional ban on U.S. bases (reftel),Bolivian President Evo Morales unveiled plans October 9 to end cooperation "soon" with U.S. military elements providing support to Bolivian counter-narcotics forces. He said it was a q [...] | 2007-10-10 21:13:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON BL |
07LAPAZ2726 | EVO JUST SAYS NO TO U.S. ANTI-DRUG FORCES [...] (U) Following on comments he made October 8 about implementing a constitutional ban on U.S. bases (reftel),Bolivian President Evo Morales unveiled plans October 9 to end cooperation "soon" with U.S. military elements providing support to Bolivian counter-narcotics forces. He said it was a q [...] | 2007-10-10 21:23:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON BL |
07LAPAZ2758 | POTOSI: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE PERIPHERY [...] (U) Potosi, Bolivia's south-western department (or state),with Argentina to the south and Chile to the west, is focused on mining and tourism as its best options for escaping the poverty that afflicts most of its population. Despite the historic wealth of the mining sector in Potosi, prospec [...] | 2007-10-15 15:04:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EMIN EINV EIND PINR PGOV KCRM KIPR BL |
07LAPAZ2764 | BOLIVIA: MORALES RAISES THE RHETORIC [...] (U) President Evo Morales, in a speech given to an indigenous gathering (attended by Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu) in the Chapare on October 12, continued to ratchet up his anti-American rhetoric. Morales opened the speech by yelling "long live coca, death to the Yank [...] | 2007-10-15 20:44:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ2777 | GOVERNMENT UPS THE ANTE WITH NEW SOCIAL PROGRAM [...] (U) In the face of considerable regional resistance to diverting over $100 million in hydrocarbons taxes (IDH) from the prefects, municipalities and universities to a national pension system (Bonosol),President Morales announced over the weekend that he would seek to dissolve Bonosol and [...] | 2007-10-17 12:39:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ2778 | INDIGENOUS COHESION CRACKING IN BOLIVIA [...] (C) Summary: On October 15, Emboffs met with Fabio Colquechuima, the international relations officer of CONAMAQ (National Council of Ayllus and Markas of Qollasuyu),a group consisting of 16 indigenous groups from across Bolivia, mostly concentrated in the highlands to the west. In what is [...] | 2007-10-17 16:14:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM BL |
07LAPAZ2792 | AMERICAN AIRLINES FORCED TO SUSPEND FLIGHTS [...] (C) American Airlines was forced to cancel its flights into/out of Bolivia on October 16 and is scheduled to resume normal operations on October 19. A dispute over transfers of funds from the national office of airport services (AASANA) to the Santa Cruz office of AASANA led to AASANA Santa [...] | 2007-10-17 22:06:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | BL CASC EAIR ECON PGOV PREL |
07LAPAZ2817 | BROTHELS, BARS, AND ANGRY EL ALTO PARENTS [...] (U) Summary. Angry parents burned more than 50 bars and brothels in the city of El Alto October 15-17. The apparently impromptu protests started as a peaceful march protesting lack of funding for school classrooms, but grew into violent reaction to the proximity of schools to bars, which par [...] | 2007-10-18 19:48:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ASEC BL |
07LAPAZ2824 | CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY SCENARIO I: DEAL AVERTS CRISIS [...] (C) The Constituent Assembly is officially on recess until October 22 but risks total collapse if the government's Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party and the opposition cannot reach agreement on key issues. This cable lays out the first of two most likely scenarios regarding the Constitu [...] | 2007-10-19 12:41:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ2827 | CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY SCENARIO II: NO DEAL = CRISIS [...] (C) The Constituent Assembly is in recess until October 22 but is in danger of complete collapse if the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party and opposition cannot reach agreement on key issues. This cable lays out the second of two likely scenarios regarding the Constituent Assembly's futu [...] | 2007-10-19 13:30:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ2854 | BOLIVIA'S PRESS INCREASINGLY UNDER PRESSURE [...] (C) Reporters Without Borders (RSF) recently released its annual press freedom index and Bolivia dropped from 16 to 68. RSF's report stated, "(Bolivia) has fallen many places because of serious press freedom violations." While RSF cites many physical attacks on reporters, perhaps the most [...] | 2007-10-23 12:30:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM BL |
07LAPAZ2856 | THREATS TO KICK OUT DEA/MIL: REAL OR RHETORIC? [...] (C) Bolivian President Evo Morales caused a stir with his confused calls to kick out foreign forces and barbs at U.S. counter-narcotics efforts October 8 and 9 (reftels). The cable is our assessment and effort to provide some context for the Washington audience to help navigate the "revoluti [...] | 2007-10-23 16:45:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ2873 | WINE AND GAS IN TARIJA: ONE FLOWS FREELY [...] (SBU) The Department of Tarija forms the southern base of the so-called half moon, a grouping of departments resistant to the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) agenda. It is home to both vineyards and almost all of the major Bolivian gas fields. As a result, Tarija may be the wealthiest of [...] | 2007-10-24 21:43:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV AGR PREL EPET BL |
07LAPAZ2897 | NO SILVER LINING YET FOR APEX'S SAN CRISTOBAL MINE [...] (C) Apex's local executives continue to report difficulty in arranging meetings with Bolivian government officials. The draft bill which would increase mining taxes by 12.5 percent has passed the lower house of congress, so San Cristobal is focusing their efforts to arrange a modification on [...] | 2007-10-26 22:13:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EMIN EINV BL |
07LAPAZ290 | RIC, RESIGNED, SEES BOLIVIA MOVING LEFT [...] (C) Former Minister of Public works Salvador Ric told Emboffs on February 1 that he resigned in January because of the tight, central control exercised over the ministries by President Morales and his inner circle, which took away Ric's voice. He expressed concern over the government's involv [...] | 2007-02-06 12:48:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON BL |
07LAPAZ2902 | MAS DISMANTLING OF CONSTITUTIONAL TRIBUNAL [...] (C) Two of five magistrates of Bolivia's Constitutional Tribunal resigned on October 26 declaring that government's "permanent aggression" against the court made it impossible to continue their "normal activities." The Tribunal's President Elizabeth Iniguez and it's deacon Martha Rojas each [...] | 2007-10-29 19:34:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ2928 | READY TO GAMBLE ON BIOFUELS IN BOLIVIA? [...] (C) The potential for biofuel development in Bolivia is significant: land is abundant, fertile, and cheap; labor is plentiful (and employment demands great); and there is even an under-used pipeline to carry the fuel to a pacific port. Government rhetoric, lack of legal definitions, and pote [...] | 2007-10-31 20:18:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV AGR FAO FAS IFAD IICA PREL EPET BL |
07LAPAZ2929 | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY WRONGS IN BOLIVIA [...] (C) Summary: Emboffs met with officials of Bolivia's National Intellectual Property Service (SENAPI) on October 16 as part of a series of meetings with IPR stakeholders including former SENAPI head Perla Koziner. SENAPI's current director, Claudia Solares, who had worked for former-director [...] | 2007-11-01 18:20:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EINV KIPR PINR BL |
07LAPAZ2949 | EVO ACCUSES AMBASSADOR OF COUP PLOTTING AND [...] (C) President Evo Morales used his recent trip to Italy and the Dominican Republic to level new conspiracy charges against the USG, and specifically Ambassador Goldberg. In an October 31 interview with Italian newspaper Il Manifesto de Italia, Morales accused the Ambassador of meeting with a [...] | 2007-11-05 19:53:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL NO BO |
07LAPAZ2954 | EVO BACKS HUGO THREAT TO TURN BOLIVIA INTO VIETNAM [...] (C) Summary: In an interview released November 4, Bolivian President Evo Morales supported Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's threat to turn Bolivia into another Vietnam for forces that might attempt a coup against Morales. Media pundits and opposition leaders vehemently criticized the state [...] | 2007-11-06 14:06:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BL VN |
07LAPAZ2956 | MCC SCORECARD DELIVERED, DONOR RESTRICTIONS [...] (U) On October 31, we delivered the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) indicator scorecard to Graciela Toro, General MCC Coordinator in Bolivia and Ramiro Foronda, Economic Development Technician. Despite remaining eligible for a MCC Compact, Toro was puzzled by Bolivia's failure to rec [...] | 2007-11-06 20:40:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL EAID BL |
07LAPAZ2960 | EVO'S VAGUE CONDITIONS FOR "CONDITIONLESS" AID [...] (C) Summary: Bolivian President Evo Morales issued a decree October 11 presenting foreign assistance donors with a variety of new requirements to register projects with the Bolivian government and strengthen its oversight. The most potentially troublesome articles require that aid not/not imp [...] | 2007-11-07 18:46:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON BL |
07LAPAZ2963 | BOLIVIA: AMBASSADOR CALLS FM ABOUT PHOTO ACCUSATION [...] (C) The Ambassador phoned Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca on November 7 to discuss recent public accusations that the Embassy was conspiring with Bolivian oligarchs and Colombian paramilitary against Evo Morales based on a photograph released on November 5. Although FM Choquehuanca publ [...] | 2007-11-07 20:27:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ2964 | CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY: TENSIONS BOILING OVER [...] (C) Summary: The afternoon of November 6, Vice President Garcia Linera publicly eliminated the possibility of compromise with the opposition and declared that the Constituent Assembly is now in the hands of the people, who "will find a mechanism to liberate the Assembly from this ultraconserv [...] | 2007-11-07 22:27:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ2971 | BOLIVIAN VP'S LATE NIGHT TRY AT CONSTITUTION DEAL [...] (C) In a private lunch on November 6, Branko Marinkovic, President of the Santa Cruz Civic Committee and owner of extensive land holdings and a large cooking oil factory, told the Ambassador that Vice President Garcia Linera had offered him a deal on the constitution about a month ago. Brank [...] | 2007-11-08 21:09:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ2974 | EVO'S DIPLOMATS: AFRAID, IRRELEVANT, ENDANGERED [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Ministry contacts complain career diplomats are increasingly ignored in foreign policy decisions, citing the decision to advance diplomatic relations with Iran as a prime example. They consistently described a battle over foreign policy between the MFA and advisors at th [...] | 2007-11-08 21:56:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ2981 | RESOURCE NATIONALISM IN BOLIVIA [...] (C) The Morales administration believes that the state should be more involved in all aspects of the Bolivian economy. In that context, resource nationalism does not stand alone; control of natural resources just happens to be the most valuable for the administration both financially and sy [...] | 2007-11-09 13:49:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV EPET EMIN EINV EB BL |
07LAPAZ3002 | "CONSPIRACY" PHOTO WORTH 1000 WORDS TO EVO [...] (C) President Evo Morales used his speech at the seventeenth Ibero-American Summit as another opportunity to accuse the USG of conspiracy against Evo's government. As "evidence", Evo again displayed a copy of a photo taken a a trade fair in September, showing the Ambassador with the head of [...] | 2007-11-13 22:46:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ3003 | WEEK'S FORECAST: SPORADIC CLASHES & STORMY STRIKES [...] (C) Despite the strong possibility for clashes between pro-ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) demonstrators and local Sucre opposition protesters, Constituent Assembly President Silvia Lazarte has announced that the entire assembly will reconvene in Sucre on November 14. Most observers, [...] | 2007-11-13 22:50:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC BL ECON PGOV PREL |
07LAPAZ3013 | CHAVEZ'S BOLIVIAN MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR [...] (U) Summary. Two layovers in Trinidad, Bolivia by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez continue to stir controversy here. President Chavez made the November 9 and 11 stopovers en route to and returning from the Ibero-American Summit in Santiago, Chile, where he reiterated controversial pledges to [...] | 2007-11-14 21:02:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON BL |
07LAPAZ3029 | U.S. IN EVO'S CROSSHAIRS: WHAT NEXT? [...] (C) In a closed Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party meeting on November 12 that was taped and leaked to the press, Minister of the Presidency Juan Ramon Quintana repeated his outrageous conspiracy charges against USAID while upping the ante by threatening USAID's expulsion from Bolivia. Th [...] | 2007-11-15 23:13:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL EAID SNAR BL |
07LAPAZ3038 | EVO: OPPOSITION WAGING ECONOMIC WAR [...] (C) President Evo Morales declared in a November 15 speech that opposition forces are trying to sabotage his administration through economic means. As a defensive measure in this "economic war", Morales temporarily eliminated the tariff on key agricultural imports, prohibited the exportatio [...] | 2007-11-16 21:38:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL AGR AADP FAO FAS IFAD IICA BL |
07LAPAZ3039 | BOLIVIAN DRUG CHIEF DEFENDS U.S. [...] (C) Summary: Felipe Caceres, Vice-Minister of Social Defense in charge of Bolivia's counter-narcotics efforts, told DEAOffs November 16 that he complained to Bolivian President Evo Morales about the anti-U.S. rhetoric erupting from Presidency Ministry Juan Quintana. He also defended U.S. anti [...] | 2007-11-16 22:17:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON BL |
07LAPAZ3045 | EVO TO USAID: "YOU HAVE THE RIGHT NOT TO HELP US" [...] (C) During a November 19 press conference President Evo Morales again criticized USAID for putting "conditions" on its help and claimed that the majority of USG aid is funneled back to the U.S. Evo opened the door for USAID to leave Bolivia, stating that "this (conditional) aid program has t [...] | 2007-11-19 21:18:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ3053 | BOLIVIA ON UN 3RD COMMITTEE HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) DCM contacted Bolivian Vice Foreign Minister Hugo Fernandez on November 19 regarding reftel. Fernandez mentioned that Bolivia would take different positions on each of the four human rights resolutions before the UN Third Commission. Only in the case of Burma is Bolivia prepared to fully [...] | 2007-11-20 12:02:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KTIA UN BL |
07LAPAZ3062 | CLONE WARS: MAS "PARALLELISM" IN ACTION [...] (C) At many levels of social organization, Bolivia's ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party is creating parallel organizations when confronted by civic groups that will not fall in line with the MAS agenda. By creating parallel organizations and then acting as if they are the original [...] | 2007-11-20 20:51:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ELAB BL |
07LAPAZ3066 | BOLIVIA'S JUDICIAL IMPASSE: RECESS APPOINTMENTS? [...] (C) A leading opposition senator accused the ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party of purposefully blocking Congressional debate over judicial nominations so that President Evo Morales can issue interim appointments during Congress' upcoming recess. MAS Congressional representatives v [...] | 2007-11-20 21:04:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ3075 | PROTESTS TESTING BOLIVIA'S BOILING POINT [...] (C) Summary: Protests and counter-protests threaten to dominate Bolivia for at least the coming week. Although the Bolivian government said it asked pro-government farmers surrounding the headquarters of the Constituent Assembly to back off, they remain mobilized in the city, as do opposition [...] | 2007-11-22 00:11:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV BL |
07LAPAZ3077 | OPPOSITION CLOSED OUT OF MAS CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY [...] (SBU) Constituent Assembly leadership from the ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) moved the Assembly to a military facility outside of Sucre without the vast majority of the opposition. As of 4:00 PM November 23, the MAS had successfully pulled together a 145 delegate quorum at La Glori [...] | 2007-11-23 22:39:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ3078 | AMIDST VIOLENCE EVO'S MAS APPROVES CONSTITUTION [...] (C) Following a tumultuous session on November 23 (ref A),that excluded all but a handful of opposition members, the ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) reconvened the Constituent Assembly on November 24 at a military school outside of Sucre amidst thousands of protesters calling for its [...] | 2007-11-25 23:06:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ3079 | AMIDST VIOLENCE EVO'S MAS APPROVES CONSTITUTION [...] (C) Following a tumultuous session on November 23 (ref A),that excluded all but a handful of opposition members, the ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) reconvened the Constituent Assembly on November 24 at a military school outside of Sucre amidst thousands of protesters calling for its [...] | 2007-11-25 23:06:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ3091 | BOLIVIA: EVO'S SUCRE SPIN BEGINS [...] (C) Summary. Bolivian President Evo Morales waited almost three days after protests turned violent in the city of Sucre to address Bolivians. He asked for calm, as have other government and opposition leaders. Morales also accused "groups of oligarchs and neoliberals" of manipulating the vi [...] | 2007-11-26 23:13:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM BL |
07LAPAZ3092 | BOLIVIA: SUCRE, WITHOUT ANY POLICE, ON THE EDGE [...] (C) Sucre returned to relative calm on November 26 after three days of turmoil, which left at least three dead, 200 people hospitalized and many public buildings (mostly police and prefecture) looted and burned. There are no reports of U.S. citizens among the injured. Police forces have fle [...] | 2007-11-26 23:26:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC PGOV PHUM PREL BL |
07LAPAZ3098 | CAN BRAZIL SAVE THE BOLIVIAN GAS SECTOR? [...] (C) The Bolivia gas sector appears headed for crisis. Currently out of compliance with 3 out of 4 major international contracts, the industry faces increasing commitments to the Argentine market and growing demand at home. The government realizes it needs investment and, after over a year o [...] | 2007-11-27 21:51:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ENRG EPET EINV EMIN BL |
07LAPAZ3099 | BOLIVIA: DRAFT CONSTITUTION--THE STATE RULES [...] (C) Ruling party Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) constituent assembly members pushed through "en grande" the MAS draft constitution with only a handful of opposition members present on November 26. The draft constitution has not been officially released: we obtained a copy from a contact (in a [...] | 2007-11-27 22:10:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL EPET EMIN EINV BL |
07LAPAZ3100 | BOLIVIAN PRESS ATTACKED [...] (SBU) Summary: The past weeks have been marked by government rhetoric against press bias. On November 26, following a large rally where President Morales and several social sector leaders verbally attacked the media, violence erupted against both journalists and media headquarters. After Ev [...] | 2007-11-27 22:26:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM BL |
07LAPAZ3118 | DEMOCRACY IN BOLIVIA: EVO'S WAY OR THE HIGHWAY [...] (C) Pro-MAS groups physically prevented opposition members from entering Congress November 27. Without the opposition's presence the ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) convened a session of Congress and passed new legislation regarding the functioning of the Constituent Assembly and "Re [...] | 2007-11-28 22:51:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ3120 | SANTA CRUZ OPPOSITION: PACIFIST MEASURES FIRST [...] (C) During separate meetings with the president of the Santa Cruz Civic Committee, the secretary general of the Santa Cruz prefectural government, and the president of the Santa Cruz Business Federation (CAINCO),all expressed their intention to encourage peaceful means of protest against the [...] | 2007-11-28 23:01:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC BL ECON PGOV PREL |
07LAPAZ3136 | BOLIVIA DEMARCHE REPLY: OPPOSING UNGA RESOLUTIONS [...] (U) PolOff delivered reftel demarche November 28 to MFA Director of Multilateral Affairs Rubin Viduarre. Viduarre said matters pertaining to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are typically discussed with Latin American counterparts at the United Nations (Grupo Latina America). Although Bolivi [...] | 2007-11-29 21:14:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA UN IS BL |
07LAPAZ3138 | MAS MEMBER: "EARLY ELECTIONS IS THE SOLUTION" [...] (C) In a meeting with Santa Cruz ruling MAS party City Councilman Osvaldo "Chato" Peredo in Santa Cruz, Peredo told Emboffs he is fearful of a civil war and is trying to do his part to keep the peace. Peredo, who claims to talk on the phone with President Evo Morales about every ten days, p [...] | 2007-11-29 22:30:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ3141 | CONFLICT IN BOLIVIA: NO END IN SIGHT [...] (C) With the ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) poised to reconvene the Constituent Assembly perhaps as early as November 30 in the La Paz area or other friendly terrain, and the opposition stronghold of Santa Cruz stating it will declare defacto autonomy December 15, a cessation in Boli [...] | 2007-11-29 23:47:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ3150 | GAS, GOVERNMENT, AND TAKEOVERS: ELECTRICAL [...] (C) Summer rains and resulting hydroelectric production will provide a seasonal buffer for Bolivian electricity supplies, but come June or July the country will likely suffer shortages, brownouts, and possible blackouts. Demand should continue to grow over the following year, but supply wil [...] | 2007-11-30 21:45:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ENRG EPET EINV BL |
07LAPAZ3152 | BOLIVIA-CUBAN RELATIONS: REVIEW FOR LIBERTAD ACT [...] (U) The following responses are keyed to the questions in ref A: --Bolivian Investment: Bolivia has no significant investments in Cuba. 2. (U) Bilateral Trade Agreements: Bolivia and Cuba signed a limited Economic Cooperation Agreement in May 1995. The accord offers preferential tariff [...] | 2007-11-30 22:24:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL ECON CU BL |
07LAPAZ3187 | BOLIVIA: MINING SECTOR THREATENED [...] (C) In the controversy following the ruling Movement Toward Socialism's (MAS) possibly-illegal initial approval of a draft constitution on November 26, there has been little attention given to the passage through Congress of a new mining tax bill on November 23. Neither the draft constitution [...] | 2007-12-05 21:02:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EMIN EINV ETRD BL |
07LAPAZ3188 | EVO TO INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY: OPPOSITION TO BLAME [...] (C) Summary: President Evo Morales and his Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) government is actively trying to project to the international community that the opposition is to blame for the violent political situation in Bolivia. The government is seeking to discredit the visit of four oppositi [...] | 2007-12-05 22:02:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ3189 | MEDIA LUNA MASISTAS: CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE [...] (C) Summary: Moderate ruling-party MAS members complain that they are labeled as traitors by President Evo Morales. They also lament an increasingly hostile environment in the Congress as Morales has decided to take a tougher line with the legislative branch. Nevertheless, MAS Senator Guido G [...] | 2007-12-06 13:08:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ3196 | EVO'S RECALL PLOY MASKS TRUE INTENTIONS [...] (C) Summary: International and domestic press have greeted President Evo Morales' call for a recall referendum for himself and Bolivia's nine prefects (state governors) as an important conciliatory step. Meanwhile, significantly less attention is being paid to the decision to reconvene the [...] | 2007-12-06 22:22:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ASEC BL |
07LAPAZ3208 | FOREIGN MINISTRY DEFENDS MAS' HARDLINE [...] (C) MFA Director General (DG) Jean Paul Guevarra convoked the diplomatic corps representing Western Hemisphere countries to explain the government's perspective on the Constituent Assembly process and its overall program for "change." Guevarra explained that the Movement Toward Socialism (M [...] | 2007-12-10 13:10:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ3209 | EVO PUSHES DEMOCRACY'S EDGES, APPROVES CONSTITUTION [...] (C) In a process largely devoid of democratic and legal procedure, President Evo Morales' ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) pulled together a quorum of the Constituent Assembly at about 7:00 PM December 8 in the heavily pro-MAS city of Oruro (three hours outside of La Paz). By 11:30 AM [...] | 2007-12-10 13:20:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC BL PGOV PHUM PREL |
07LAPAZ3215 | OPPOSITION REELS AT EVO'S CONSTITUTION [...] (C) The December 9 passage of President Evo Morales' MAS party constitution has left regional opposition reeling. In a nationwide address carried by private television networks Sunday, Santa Cruz Prefect (governor) Ruben Costas publicly rejected the proposed constitution and announced that S [...] | 2007-12-10 20:01:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC BL ECON PGOV PHUM PREL |
07LAPAZ3216 | EVO'S EXCLUSIONARY REVOLUTIONARY CONSTITUTION [...] (C) The Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) constitution that was passed in a surprise session of the Constituent Assembly without most opposition assembly members has not yet been published. According to press reports, state involvement in the economy and control over natural resources continues [...] | 2007-12-10 20:39:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL ECON BL |
07LAPAZ3220 | VENEZUELAN PLANE CONTROVERSY GOES INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: Although facts are emerging, rumors continue to run rampant concerning the aborted landing of a Venezuelan C-130 Hercules airplane. Forced to leave one Bolivian town by a rock-wielding mob, the plane was unable to land at another Bolivian town as protesters blocked the runway. A [...] | 2007-12-10 22:13:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL MARR BL VN |
07LAPAZ3230 | PL-480: WE CAN'T GIVE MONEY AWAY. [...] (C) Institutional incompetence, politicking, and resistance to any cooperation with the United States is hamstringing USDA programs in Bolivia. At the end of the Title I wheat monetization program in 2005, a committee within the PL-480 Secretariat was set up to administer the approximately [...] | 2007-12-11 19:38:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV AGR FAO FAS IFAD IICA BL |
07LAPAZ3236 | PL-480: WE CAN'T GIVE MONEY AWAY [...] (C) Institutional incompetence, politicking, and resistance to cooperation with the United States is hampering USDA programs in Bolivia. At the end of the Title I wheat monetization program in 2005, a committee within the PL-480 Secretariat was set up to administer the approximately US$6 [...] | 2007-12-12 15:04:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV AGR FAO FAS IFAD IICA BL |
07LAPAZ3240 | EVO'S MINISTER SANCTIONED; BLAMES OUR AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) Minister of the Government Alfredo Rada blamed the Ambassador for the three deaths that occurred during violent protests in Sucre November 22-25 when the ruling MAS party convoked the Constituent Assembly at a military installation. During his two hours of testimony to the Bolivian Senat [...] | 2007-12-12 23:05:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ3241 | AUTONOMIA! SCENARIOS FOR SANTA CRUZ [...] (C) Summary: When Santa Cruz leaders declare "autonomy" on December 15, they will be meeting their citizens' demands for more local control of regional resources, and at the same time rejecting outright the new ruling MAS party constitution. Although they insist they are not calling for indep [...] | 2007-12-12 23:06:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON ASEC BL |
07LAPAZ3242 | EVO'S "HARD HAND" PUSHES CHUQUISACA AWAY [...] (C) Chuquisaca, Bolivia's third smallest department was firmly in the ruling Movement Toward Socialism's (MAS) camp in recent (2005 and 2006) elections. However, the MAS' hard-line toward Sucre's proposal to be restored as the nation's full capital and the tragic events of November 23-25, i [...] | 2007-12-12 23:11:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ3243 | EVO BLASTS U.S. TO RALLY INCREASINGLY CRITICAL BASE [...] (C) Summary: Continuing his now nearly daily attacks on the United States, President Evo Morales told an El Alto crowd December 12 that "the U.S. Embassy is here to organize a conspiracy" against Morales' government. Harkening back to his days fighting "gringos" as a coca grower union leader, [...] | 2007-12-12 23:18:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PHUM PREL VN BL |
07LAPAZ3244 | FEARS OF OPPOSITION ROUND-UP [...] (C) In separate meetings with Senate President Jose Villavicencio (UN - Pando),Senator Fernando Romero (MNR - Beni),and Erick Reyes Villa (brother of Cochabamba governor Manfred Reyes Villa),all warned of a government plan to round-up opposition leaders (governors and civic committee presi [...] | 2007-12-12 23:38:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ3258 | BOLIVIA'S JUSTICE SYSTEM ON LIFE SUPPORT [...] (C) Constitutional Tribunal Magistrate Dr. Walter Alfredo Rana Arana submitted his resignation leaving the court without a quorum and Bolivia without a judicial body to rule on constitutional matters including the extra-legal maneuvers President Morales' ruling Movement Toward Socialism (M [...] | 2007-12-14 18:38:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ3259 | DIESEL SHORTAGES: EXCUSES, BLAME, AND INFLATION [...] (SBU) Over the past four months, Bolivia has suffered repeated shortages of diesel, especially in the eastern, agricultural powerhouse of Santa Cruz where the concurrent winter harvest and summer planting seasons are hampered by fuel shortages. Logistical problems appear to be principally t [...] | 2007-12-14 18:41:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL FAS IICA AGR FAO IFAD BL |
07LAPAZ3261 | BOLIVIA: WHAT NEXT? [...] (C) Tensions are running high in the wake of the ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party's extra-legal maneuverings to achieve a draft constitution and with the opposition departments poised to declare their autonomy this weekend. While President Evo Morales has spoken of a Christmas tru [...] | 2007-12-14 23:12:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC BL PGOV PREL |
07LAPAZ3268 | EU OBSERVED TALKS UNLIKELY TO PRODUCE DEAL [...] (C) Both the European Union (EU) and the Organization of American States (OAS) have expressed a willingness to send observers to talks between President Evo Morales and the prefects of Bolivia's opposition-led departments (states). OAS representative Raul Alconada, in a meeting with local am [...] | 2007-12-17 22:04:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC BL |
07LAPAZ3269 | BOLIVIA: CALM AFTER AUTONOMIES ANNOUNCED [...] (C) Summary: As expected, the four opposition departments of Pando, Beni, Santa Cruz and Tarija took the first steps toward autonomy December 15, and the ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) government's response was restrained. The opposition's efforts to keep autonomy declarations peaceful [...] | 2007-12-17 22:06:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ASEC PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ3270 | BOLIVIA CALM FOR PRODUCTIVE BRAZIL/CHILE SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary. Bolivian President Evo Morales joined his Brazilian and Chilean counterparts December 16 to sign a $900 million road project to link South America's Pacific and Atlantic coasts via Bolivia. He also received a $750 million commitment for natural gas investments from Brazil the next [...] | 2007-12-17 22:52:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | BL ECON PBTS PGOV PREL CI VE BR |
07LAPAZ3290 | BOLIVIA: EU BROKERED DIALOGUE FAILS TO MATERIALIZE [...] (C) The publicly announced dialogue between opposition prefects and President Evo Morales brokered by the European Union (EU) has failed to materialize and most likely will not happen until after the holiday season, if at all. German Charge Johannes Lehne expressed his frustration at the lac [...] | 2007-12-19 20:42:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC BL PGOV PHUM PREL |
07LAPAZ3292 | SANTA CRUZ TAKING NO CHANCES WITH EVO [...] (C) After the peaceful celebration announcing the referendum drive for Santa Cruz autonomy on December 15, opposition leaders are taking no chances with Evo Morales and preparing for a difficult 2008. Santa Cruz leaders are under no illusion that Evo or the MAS will cede on any issue and th [...] | 2007-12-19 21:28:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC BL ECON PGOV PHUM PREL |
07LAPAZ3315 | DIALOGUE, FIG LEAVES, AND THE MAS MIND [...] (C) Summary: Ruling MAS party leaders including President Morales are making dialogue overtures to the opposition. In contrast to the "unreasonable" opposition, MAS congressional representatives told PolOffs that Morales is reaching out for dialogue and even considering changing the draft cons [...] | 2007-12-20 22:40:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR VE BL |
07LAPAZ3329 | HOLIDAY CALLS FOR REBELLIONS, WAR, AND DIALOGUE [...] (U) Despite the four day Christmas break, the political rhetoric in Bolivia was anything but a message of peace for the holiday. President Morales predicted that a rebellion similar to El Alto's 2003 violence would take place in Santa Cruz, warned the opposition that the only way he will lea [...] | 2007-12-26 21:42:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC BL PGOV PHUM PINR PREL |
07LAPAZ3330 | BOLIVIA: EVO'S 2007 REPORT CARD [...] (C) Bolivian President Evo Morales's second year in office has been even more contentious than his first. On the international front, this year has included diplomatic scuffles with neighbors and increasing attacks against the United States and our mission in Bolivia. Domestically, conflict [...] | 2007-12-26 22:08:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ENRG EPET EMIN PINR MNUC BL |
07LAPAZ357 | FORMER PRESIDENT SEES DEMOCRACY AS MAJOR CHALLENGE [...] (C) The Ambassador met February 6 with former president Jaime Paz Zamora, his son, Congressman Rodrigo Paz Pereyra, and Zamora's longtime advisor, Oscar Eid Franco. Paz Zamora described Evo Morales' presidency as a "phase in Bolivian democracy." While the former president said it is import [...] | 2007-02-08 20:27:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ38 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH ELECTORAL COURT [...] (C) The Ambassador met with Bolivian Electoral Court President Salvador Romero Ballivian on January 5. President Romero sought the meeting to express his concern about attempts by the GOB to co-opt the independent court. President Morales, in a December 22 meeting, suggested that Romero, wh [...] | 2007-01-08 16:52:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ382 | PODEMOS PARTY SHOWS SOME CONFIDENCE [...] (C) The Ambassador met with Podemos party Chairman and former President Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga, Senate Vice President Carlos Bohrt, Podemos senate leader Oscar Ortiz, and Podemos congressional leader Lourdes Millares on February 9. The group expressed satisfaction with the opposition's recent [...] | 2007-02-12 21:11:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ384 | GOB NATIONALIZES SWISS-OWNED TIN SMELTER [...] (C) President Morales nationalized a Swiss-owned tin smelter February 9, reportedly sending troops to occupy the facility while publicly announcing it would refuse to provide compensation. The GOB cited "grave illegalities" in the sale of the state-owned enterprise as justification, later ann [...] | 2007-02-13 11:34:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL SZ |
07LAPAZ386 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH NEW EDUCATION MINISTER [...] (C) On February 8, the Ambassador made his first call on new Education Minister Victor Caceres. Unlike meetings with former Minister Patzi, the meeting with Caceres was friendly, with the new minister stating that he would maintain an "open door" and expressing his desire for a regular dialo [...] | 2007-02-13 12:30:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ASCH PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ387 | HYDROCARBONS: YPFB IN DISARRAY, NEW CONTRACTS [...] (C) Hydrocarbons Minister Villegas has proposed changes to the May 2005 hydrocarbons law to resolve inconsistencies with the May 2006 nationalization decree and the operation contracts signed last October. Bolivia's state-owned oil company YPFB continues to lack the structural and human capac [...] | 2007-02-13 15:02:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ENRG EPET BL |
07LAPAZ436 | ACCORD REACHED ON CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY VOTING RULES [...] (U) After MAS delegates approved their own proposal for the Constituent Assembly's voting system on February 13, MAS leadership allowed its delegates to return to the negotiating table and to compromise on their position late February 14. Under the modified agreement, constitutional changes wil [...] | 2007-02-16 12:48:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON BL |
07LAPAZ444 | SUCRE: CONTINUED CONCERNS ABOUT BOLIVIA'S JUDICIARY [...] (C) Summary: On his first trip to Sucre February 14-15, Ambassador Goldberg made courtesy calls on the Constituent Assembly's (CA) MAS leadership and the opposition, MAS Governor David Sanchez, the Supreme Court, the Constitutional Tribunal, and civic leaders and media analysts. In his meeti [...] | 2007-02-16 20:48:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ500 | TERRORISM FINANCE: FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT [...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarches to Bolivia's Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) on February 1. The UIF conducted a search of its database and told Econoff on February 23 that it had discovered no information on the names and organizations mentioned in refs A and B. (Note: The UIF's databa [...] | 2007-02-23 20:06:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KTFN PREL PTER SNAR BL |
07LAPAZ523 | CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY: TIME IS NOT ON ITS SIDE [...] (C) Summary: Opposition Constituent Assembly (CA) member Carlos Goitia told poloff February 23 that although the CA is not likely to complete its work within its one year mandate, he thinks President Morales' Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party will oppose an extension. Press reports from F [...] | 2007-02-27 16:17:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ54 | MASISTAS TURN VIOLENT, COCHABAMBA PREFECT ATTACKED [...] (C) On January 8, Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) militants protesting for the resignation of Cochabamba's prefect (governor) attacked the prefect's building, resulting in at least twenty-two people injured, assaults on several journalists, significant damage to the prefecture's property, an [...] | 2007-01-09 21:03:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PHUM BL |
07LAPAZ55 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Foreign Minister Choquehuanca met the Ambassador January 8 to discuss the GOB's January 1 decree to require visas of U.S. citizen tourists. The Ambassador lamented the political nature of the decision. Choquehuanca defended the move on the grounds of national dignity, arguing that Boliv [...] | 2007-01-09 21:15:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ559 | GLENCORE GETS THE SILENT TREATMENT [...] (C) The GOB appears to have adopted the silent treatment after its February 9 nationalization of the Vinto tin smelter (reftel),ignoring overtures from Swiss-owned Glencore International and refusing to answer requests for dialogue. A Glencore representative said February 26 that executives e [...] | 2007-03-01 14:18:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL SZ |
07LAPAZ597 | MORALES TO TOBIAS: THANKS FOR THE ASSISTANCE [...] (C) As part of Director of Foreign Assistance and USAID Administrator Randall Tobias' visit to Bolivia, President Morales met with Tobias, WHA PDAS Charles Shapiro, and Ambassador Goldberg early March 2. Morales thanked Ambassador Tobias for U.S. natural disaster assistance, saying that this y [...] | 2007-03-02 20:38:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL SNAR BL |
07LAPAZ673 | GOB PRAISES POTUS LATAM TOUR; PREPARES FOR CHAVEZ [...] (C) Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera announced March 8 that President Morales will not travel to Buenos Aires to join Hugo Chavez at his anti-American party. The VP added that President Bush's trip to the region "is a good signal that President Bush is more concerned about the South and i [...] | 2007-03-09 20:23:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BL VZ AR |
07LAPAZ679 | A MIXED RECEPTION FOR CHAVEZ IN BOLIVIA [...] (C) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visited Bolivia March 10-11 to show solidarity with Bolivia's flooding victims. In the Beni department on March 10 before a trucked-in crowd of several thousand Bolivians, Chavez donated disaster assistance, including two helicopters and 40 tractors, and u [...] | 2007-03-12 19:04:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON BL VE |
07LAPAZ688 | TOBIAS MEETING WITH JUSTICE SECTOR [...] (C) Visiting Director of Foreign Assistance and USAID Administrator Randall Tobias and visiting WHA PDAS Charles Shapiro met March 2 with senior judicial officials who expressed concerns about GOB threats to the courts' independence. The judges argued that the Morales administration would use [...] | 2007-03-13 14:29:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ707 | HYDROCARBONS PROBLEMS ABOUND [...] (C) While hydrocarbons "nationalization" remains intensely popular, GOB mismanagement of the process has taken some of the bloom off the rose in recent weeks. Erroneous versions of the new operating contracts signed in October 2006, sent by the executive to congress, were approved by congress [...] | 2007-03-14 16:20:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ENRG EPET BL |
07LAPAZ769 | RESPONSE TO DIP NOTE EXCHANGE ON MIL ACTIVITIES [...] (C) This message contains an urgent action request (paragraph 4). 2. (C) Following Post's receipt of reftel A in October 2006, Emboffs began working to obtain a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) for U.S. military activities in Bolivia. However, the GOB was not willing to sign a SOFA given [...] | 2007-03-20 20:24:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIA PGOV PREL MARR MASS MOPS BL |
07LAPAZ793 | BANK OF THE SOUTH: FREE LUNCH FOR BOLIVIA? [...] (C) President Morales announced on March 11 that Bolivia would join the Bank of the South. Central Bank President Raul Garron told the Ambassador that the Central Bank has not committed to providing any contributions to the Bank of the South. Inter-American Development Bank Resrep Joel Bransk [...] | 2007-03-22 14:39:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN EINV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ795 | CHANGE IN MORALES' RE-ELECTION STRATEGY [...] (SBU) President Morales' Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party is now openly signaling that a changed constitution will restart the electoral clock from zero, opening the door to a new Morales mandate in 2008. MAS leaders say that following approval of Bolivia's new constitution, the yet-to-b [...] | 2007-03-22 17:20:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON BL |
07LAPAZ83 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH COCHABAMBA PREFECT REGARDING [...] (C) Cochabamba Prefect Manfred Reyes Villa met with the Ambassador January 11 to discuss orchestrated political violence occurring in Cochabamba. Reyes told the Ambassador he would not resign from the governorship and expressed his strong concerns about the state of Bolivian democracy, sayin [...] | 2007-01-11 21:14:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ865 | BOLIVIA SLIDES TOWARDS ELECTIONS? [...] (C) Summary: With national elections generally expected to take place in late 2008 (reftel),there are rumors in the indigenous community that President Morales could choose Constituent Assembly President Silvia Lazarte as his running mate. As with the December 2005 and July 2006 elections, th [...] | 2007-03-30 17:08:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
07LAPAZ903 | COOPERATIVE MINERS "TAKE" CERRO RICO [...] (U) Press reports indicate that approximately 16,000 cooperative miners "took" Cerro Rico, the mountain that supplies much of Bolivia's silver, April 2, demanding that the GOB retreat from a proposed decree suspending surface mining activity above 4,400 meters. The GOB has argued that mining [...] | 2007-04-03 19:36:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN EINV ECON PREL PGOV BL |
07LAPAZ919 | REGIONAL DELEGATES- GOVERNMENT COORDINATORS OR [...] (C) Summary: On April 2, President Morales appointed eight regional delegates to coordinate GOB activities in their respective departments. According to Morales, the role of the delegates is to act as an intermediary between the national government and regional prefects, mayors, and social se [...] | 2007-04-05 19:45:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL BL |
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